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The Washington times., 1904-12-25
WAGES PAID TO
DISTRICT EMPLOYEES
Disbursing Officer Hands
Out Christmas Money.
EVERYBODY is HAPPY
Negro Snow Shoveler Tries to Repeat
on Collecting Money for
Job.

Disbursing Officer Rogers has found a
new way of paying laborers-
That official has had troubles enough
during the past week in trying to pay
Off District employees before Christmas
instead of at the end of the month A
has been a negro who has spent the
last week trying to collect money due
him from the District for work done in
shoveling snow off the street crossings.
A Repeater.
Every day this son Of Africa has pre-
sented himself in the long line of labor
ers awaiting their pay, and every day
his complacent countenance has peered
through the narrow window at the
genial Mr. Rogers. Every day he has
presented well-worn card showing the
amount due him, and every day he has
been turned away without the coin For
his card bore a stamped receipt showing
he had received the money due him
last week
fects Of too much indulgence in whisky
and gin, but he insisted he had never
been paid
Friends Do It.
How do you manage to keep drunk
every day if you haven't had any
money! he was asked.
My friends does that fer me, boss
Charley Rogers patience was stretched
to the breaking point. He saw his daily
visitor slouch into the doorway. Before
he had closed it behind him, the long
suffering official had coached his deputy
Mr.. Jones, in their line of attack. Thar
unfinching officeholder charged toward
the door clapped his hand on the shoul
der of the frightened white wing and
howled in his ear:
do you mean to say you didn't ge
that money!"
Indeed I did, boss, of course I did
] jrst come in today to glib yo' dis care
as a receipt, boss, dat's all
He lifted two horny hands of toll i,
The Washington times., 1904-12-25
S0utherner in Cabinet;
Yerkes Should Be 1t
pointmcnt 10 the Presidents
Official Family.

there is not only a very strong feeling
in the South for a Cabinet officer, but
there is also belief that Commissioner
Yerkes should be the man
Mr. BrownIow VIII call at the White
House shortly after the holidays and
tell the President the South should have
a place in the Cabinet. and Yerkes
should get 1t 1t is. OF course, known
that the Cabinet as it will go into the
Senate or March T. is determined upon,
but It is realized that before many
months have passed away there may be
a change and it is for one of these places
that Mr. Brownlew is working.
The Washington times., 1904-12-25

four trips each day, and the average
amoun'. of mail collected vas lis bags
per day. The wagons collected nothing
but packages.
A bag OF mail of this character viii
average fifty pounds per bag. Thus it
District of Columbia have been send
ing out each day for two weeks IN the
neighborhood of three tons OF presents.
packages, etc.
incoming Christmas packages The
bags are emptied in a heap for assort-
meut, and these piles remind one of an
oid-tirne hay stack. The carriers and
ceedingly busy until Tuesday or Wed
nesday before they are anyways near
through
The Washington residents have also
During the ten days which closed
Thursday night. 21s9 money orders
were issued. This shows an increase OF
355 orders during this Christmas season.
There has been an average OF over
200 money orders issued each day for
ten days. The total value of the Christ
mas money orders issued this year for
the ten days mentioned was S22 3o5 18 as
compared with s0D. l5a 53 for the same
period in 1903 The increase in the value
of money orders this year, II viii be
seen, is A. .S52.65-
Money From Home.
While the Washingtonians have beer
busy sending OUT money orders, the
people at home have not been Idle The
number of money orders paid during the
ten days referred to was u, 92S, having
an aggregate value OF $50. ..S4.73 This Is
an increase in value OF IS 32S-75 over the
| ten days during 1So3A
| It will be seen from the foregoing facts
that more money IS being circulated
this Christmas tha n ever before The
| figures, Of course, are merely for post.
office money orders, but il is fair &c
presume that the same facts maintain
| IN the city banks
| We also see that more Christmas
| packages have been sent and received
than during any Christmas season h.s
| fore. There seems TO be an increased
desire to make joyful the hearts of 9th
ers, and the result has been prosper
| GUS season for the merchants and 4
busy one for the postofhces and banks
The Washington times., 1904-12-25

to France. The larger part of the
French mail is addressed to Paris
The Greeian peddlers and bootblacks
have not forgotten their loved ones in
the. land of Bozzaris. Almost every
Green fruit yender and shoe sinner In
the city has been saving fndustriously
Tor months In order to send some money
home.
A little black-eyed son of Sparta told
Times reporter today that he had just
sent SO 70 his mother in che little Gree
IN a shoe shining parior on Ninth
Street, and said he had been saving for
ten months.
Postohice Orders.
Money is principally sent by postofice
orders. A great deal of money, however.
is sent through banks in the city. There
the city banks this week and sent
to foreign branches for payment.
Most OF the money sent in this way
goes TO Ireland and England.
Many Money Orders.
The money order division in the city
postoffice has been quite busy making
out international money orders during
the last two weeks. For the ten days
which ended Thursday afternoon a total
of 5e1 international money orders were
made out, aggregating total value OF
| S, ,1S.SS This is an increase of $o62. Il
over the same period in 1865.
According 10 the postoffice officials
there has been an increase o. about Il
per cent in the amount of domestic
mail matter handled this Christmas
There has been a noticeable relief@sroul
| the congested condition OF the haIiEays
| in the city postoffice this year.
The fact is entirely due TO the use OF
| the substations. Last year the subSta-
| tions were not used to as great an ex-
tent as they have been this year. This
year packages were mailed mostly al
the substations.
City Divided Up.
/ Postmaster Merritt divided the city
/ into three circuit routes, with a wagor
/ for each. Each of these circuits ha:
about six stations. For the last two
| weeks the wagons have been making
The Washington times., 1904-12-25
MORE THAN SILLY.

Mrs. Green-WilIiam, what objection
have you to that young man who is
calling on our daughter?
.Green-He Is silly. Mary.
Mrs Green-Oh. that's because he is in
love I remember the time when you
were q silly young man
Green-SiIIy isn't the proper name for
it, Mary / was a measIy idiot-Shat's
what I was.-London Tid-Bits.
The Washington times., 1904-12-25
MONEY PLENTIFUL
THIS CHRIST MAS
Marked Increase Shown in
the Mail Going Abroad.
LOCAL POsTOFFIcE BUSY
Foreigners Remember Loved Ones at
Home-Lots of Money
Orders.

Each year as Christmas rolls around
there is a great drift of feeling toward
home
To the man or woman away from the
place of his birth there is but one beau
tiful spot in the universe at this par
ticular time. Although the heart and
mind may have been satisfied with the
surroundings all the rest of the year.
there is flight of the sentimental ma
ture toward the old home at Christmas
time.
The result of this feeling is that tons
upon tons Of presents and letters pass
through the mails TO add their cheer
to the Christmas joy at the home fire
side.
America Takes Lead.
In this respect the United States
nations Of the world. There is no coun-
try where Christmas is SO widely cele-
hrated and where so many gifts are be-
slowed as tokens of love and friend
ship.
The American believes in showing his
love or friendship by giving the best
he may have to his relative or friend
However. il would not do for mo-
ment to think or belieye that other peo-
pie fail to respond to the generous i'm
pulses which lay hold upon the heart at
Christmas There has been a great In
crease this year in the amount Of mall
matter sent to foreign countries
The foreigners Of this country do not
forget their distant homes. and money
and presents have been sent abroad as
MESA geS of love AMI comfort from
across the waters.
Mail Goes Abroad.
The superintendent of mails in the
city postoffice said to a Times reporter
yesterday that he had noticed a marked
increase in the Christmas mail going
abroad this year.
The increase has been fully Is per cent
| over that of 1903
! The majority of the letters and pack
! ages addressed to foreign countries have
gone TO Great Britain and Germany,
more to Germany, perhaps, than any
/ other
| The fact that the United States has q
post parcels treaty with Germany per
| rnits the shipment of many things which
! would not be allowed TO enter the mails
| for other countries
/ Many hundreds of packages have gone
The oasis., 1904-04-16
Military Ord CTS.

FIRST CAVALRY TROOP, NA- /
 TIoNAL GUARD OF ARIZONA,
 MORALES, Arizona,
 April 11th, 1904. Orders
 No. 5.
 1. In compliance with instruc- tions resulting from Inspection, Subject to approval) the folio wing changes in the formation of this Troop are hereby made.
 Sergeant F. J. Duffy, warrant re- voked. Cause, record of non-atten- dance and absence from Inspection. Trooper W. A. O'Connor, pro- secution ordered under Sec; IS Article TX Military Code of Ari- zona. Cause, fragrant neglect to attend Inspection when duly noti- fled.
 Lieutenant Herold, complaint ordered made and Court Martial requested. Cause, fragrant neglect to attend Inspection.
 ?. Subject to approval, Trooper E. w. Amsden is now appointed Sergeant.
 8. The good attendance record of those banned below was noted: Lieutenant Chalfant, 1st Ser geant. Noon.
 Sergcants-Griswold, Curtis, Bris- tol.
The oasis., 1904-04-16

had voted the vote buyer escorted him to the back door of the gate, and spoke to the guard the word "five.r or "tenn or "fifteen,' as the case might be. Or it was varied and the word was "one" or 1.-two" or three" The guard took the voter to the door. repeated the word to the man there, and re- turned to his post. The guard at the back door took the purchased voter to the door of the cardroom, and there repeated the financial password, and in turn returned to his post outside The third guard took the corrupted elector inside the cardroom, and there repeated the cabalistic number, whereupon the banker handed the "incorrupt- ible freeman" one, or two or three five dollars coins out from the drawer; and the transaction was completed. A vote had been bought, delivered and paid for, but there had been skilfully covered all connection between the pur- chaser and the payer. When the polls closed the one thousand five dollar pieces in the drawer had been all transferred to the pockets of free and independent voters;" and the legislative ticket in that county was elected by an over whelming majority. That was in a town of but 5000 people, and the same method was pursued all over California. Of course such methods resulted in the election of strongly democratic legislature, which sent George Hearst to the
 United States senate. Now here's the rub" No democratic news paper was ever known to publish a line, or was a democratic senator ever known to breathe a word, of denunciation against so high handed corruption of the elective franchise, because it added de- mocratic vote in the United States senate, where they needed votes.
 But now to have the Hearst tactics brought right into their own organ ization to buy votes in the prim aries is too much. They cannot stand taking good democratic
 medicine. It turns their gorge" ]
The oasis., 1904-04-16
TURNS THE GORGE"

To one with long memory
 there is much that is amusing in
 the Hearst canvass for the demo- cratic nomination for the presi- dency and the way in which it is considered in certain quarters. The unblushing and open use of money to secure delegates instructed
 for Hearst is viewed with great alarm by the anti-Hearst faction
 of the Democratic party. Yet if they know anything they are we'll aware that money has been the sole and only passport to political preferment ever used by the Hearsts. In 1886 the election of a
 democratic legislature in Califor- mia was an unblushing and open purchase of votes with Hearst money. and hundreds of thousands of dollars were expended in direct bribery of voters. Of course the legislature elected returned George Hearst Gather of Vim. Randolph Hearst) to the United States senate In every county seat and all the larger towns the agents of Hearst appeared openly on the streets soliciting votes for the de- mocratic legislative ticket-and paying for them. When the election was over and a democratic legisla- ture was assured they boasted of their work and described how they did it. They made no secret of 1t, but seemed to think they had done something smart. The price paid for each vote varied from five to fifteen dollars, according to the valuation placed by the voter The modus Operdndi, as described by one of the vote buyers to the writer was this: With the opening of the polls a we'll known demo- cratic leader Ca banker) seated himself in the card room of a saloon, with one thousand five dollar gold coins in the drawer of the table. The saloon was closed, as provided by law, and no one could enter except at the back door, which was guarded, as were also the door of the cardroom, and the gate of the back yard. The vote buyers were industriously working
 and when one of them made a deal with Ia freeborn elector" tC vote the democratic legislative ticket, the voter was escorted tc the polls and his ticket fixed fol him. Chat was before the day ot the Australian ballot). After he
The oasis., 1904-04-16
Brick

Corporals - Cummings, Brick wood.
 Trumpeters-Chase, Hills. Troopers-Amsden, Cook, Evans, Gildea, Sr, Gildea, Jr., Hannah, Manning, McInnes, Reud, Rafael. f. At his own request the war rant of Sergeant J B. Bristol is hereby revoked Subject to appro- val).
 (Signed) { CHAs. PERKINS,
 Capt. Commanding.
The oasis., 1904-04-16
SUBSCRIPTIONS.

ONE YEAR s2 50 SIX MONTHS SO SINGLE COsY 10 CTS. STRICTLY iN ADVANCE.
 Payable in American Money or it's Equivs- lent
 Advertising Rates made known on applica- ton to the business office.
 Unless otherwise specified all subscriptions advertisements and Job printing are payable in American Money.
 Address all communications to THE OASIS Nogales. Santa Cruz county. Arizona
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-06-09

Corn bread is the bread of sub
stance and sustonance. If the COM
pany that is introducing this water
ground meal in New York would adj
vertise it literally many thousands of
people, rich and poor, would learn Of
an article absolutely new to them,
and a tremendous revolution would be
worked. Flour would have to take Il
back seat in numberess homes, and
that terrible pain in the pit of the
stomach that doubles so many of us
mp would disappear Ten pounds for
thirty -three cents! 1t makes the month
water to think of hoe cakes, ash cakes,
pone, egg-bread, crackling.bread,
griddle cakes--all made Of corn meal.
l lived for year on corn bread and
buttermilk, never worked harder in
my life, never was so healthy, never
so happy. The world would be better
II every one ate corn bread made OF
slow'ground. underground meal, from
which all authoritative, nutrient quail
ties have not been removed by pa
tented processes. Victor Smith, in the
New York Press. p. "E. h'..'''' .e
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-06-09

The taste Of the people Of the United
States for cacaO and chocolate appears
to be developing with rapidly. Fig
ures compiled by the Department Of
Commerce and labor show that the
importation OF cacao has grown from
nine million pounds in 1883 to twenty
four million pounds in. 1893, and sixty
three million pounds in 1903, Cacao,
as is well understood, is the product
Of the cacao tree, which grows wild IN
tropical America, and is also much
cultivated there, and to some extent in
Asia and Africa. The fruit of this
tree, a pear-shaped pod from five to
ten inches in length, contains numer-
Gus large seeds from which the choco-
late of commerce is produced, while
the shells are also utilized for the de-
coctlon known as cacao, or cocoa, used
as a substitute for tea or coffee. 1t
is the crude cacao, leaves and shells
which form the large and rapidly
growing importation above referred
to- which has increased from nine
million pounds in 1883 to slxty-three
million pounds in 1903. The value Of
importation Of cacao in this crude form
has grown from one million dollars
in 1888 to four million dollars in 1898,
and nearly eight million dollars in
19O3-Harper's Weekly.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-06-09
.SlS>t&>LStSt>s.St.Sl,At-A1[S<
! Farm Topics


WARNED GRAIN FOR POULTRY.
Mention has been made in this de-
partment Of the plan Of the writer in
feeding whole corn to fowls at night
and having it almost hot. This winter
we have made it a practice to feed all
whole grain only after warming 1t
was found that the nights the fowls
were given the hot corn they were
happy and warm, while on other
nights, when other grains were fed in
their rotation in the ration, the fowls
We're more or less restless and did not
settle down to sleep so soon.
A little though. made it apparent
that the birds missed the warm food.
just as a human would miss 1t, and
that their stomachs were no more
pleased with a cold supper on cold
night than the stomach Of the feeder
would be. This plan Of feeding to-
gether, with the plan of having all wa.
ter given the fowls warmed, nearly
hot. works nicely, as any one will see
who will try it.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-06-09
Pnper From Many sonrces.

New materials from which paper can
be made are continually found. Re-
Gently in our Southern States yellow
pine waste has been successfully
manufactured into that universal SUBJ
stance without which so many fea-
lures Of modern civilization could
hardly survive. Fine paper can be
made of corn stalks and Of rice straw.
In addition to spruce, whose useful
ness in paper-makins has caused great
uncasiness concerning the ultimate
fate Of the beautiful White Mountain
forests, marsh pine, fir, aspen. birch,
sweet-gum, cottonwood, maple, cyprus
and willow trees all contain fibre suit
able for the manufacture of paper.
Hemp, cotton, jute, Indian lnlllet and
other fibrous plants can also be used
for this purpose, so that there seems 10
be 20 danger Of dearth Of paper.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-06-09

looking for, and were totally UMPIRE.
pared, to receive, a torpedo attack. If
this is the case. what has been proved
is that If the torpedo boat can get I'M
molested within easy range, the tor
pedo is fairly sure of its MARYLAND
this we all knew well enough before
the war began.
The Whitehead torpedo is undergo
ing constant development the latest
Improvement being the introduction
Of the gyroscope for the purpose Of
keeping the torpedo more accurately
upon its true course. The latest pat
terms include this device and are gem
orally Of larger diameter and greater
length than the earlier types.
The torpedo here shown consists Of
a cigar-shaped body Of phosphor-
bronze or steel, divided into six separ-
ate compartments, as follows: 1, the
magazine; ., the secret chamber; 3,
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-06-09
TWO HANDY TOOLS.

The illustration shows two tools
which will be found useful on any
farm where fruits and vegetables are
grown. The rakellke tool is an onion
row marker and will save an immense
amount Of time in setting onions If
used as directed. Take a piece Of
material three feet long and about two
inches square and, after boring suit
able holes -four inches apart, set in and
fasten pins Of wood so that they will
project about two inches, These pins
should be about one-half inch square
and bluntly pointed Attach a short
handle as shown and the tool is ready.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-06-09
Old Family Record.

A. o. Cummins, of Montpelier, VI.
has perhaps the oldest family record
in the New England States. He re-
Gently secured small piece Of paper
on which was written the immediate
descendants of Joseph Cummings, who
died in 1929, in the latter's own hand
writing. II is thought the account
was made some time between 1T26
and 1929, MS the last entry recorded
an event In the history of tie family
that occurred IN 172G.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-06-09

ingenious part Of this most ingenious
piece Of mechanism. Its piston, PEN
dulum, and springs perform the inn
portant work of regulating the hori-
zontal rudders which keep the torpe-
do at the proper depth Immediately
in front Of the secret chamber is a
narrow compartment perforated on its
walls to allow the outside water to
enter. The front wall of the secret
chamber carries a piston, which can
move in the direction Of the axis Of
the torpedo, The pressure Of the wa
ter is resisted by three coiled springs.
At certain predetermined depth, ac-
cording to the tension on the springs,
the springs and water pressure will
be in equilibrium; below that depth
the piston will be driven In by the wa
ter pressure, and above it the springs
will push forward the piston. To pre-
vent too sudden oscillation in this ac-
tion, the piston is connected to the rod
of a swinging pendulum. The mo-
ton of the piston is communicated
by rods, which pass through the hoI-
low stay rods of the air chamber to the
horizontal or diving rudders. IL the
torpedo goes too deep, the piston moves
back, the pendulum swings forward,
and the rudders are elevated, the re.
verse movements taking place If the
immersion Is not sufficient. When a
torpedo dives into the water the first
part of its run is made on wave line
which crosses and recrosses the de-
sired and ultimate level of immersion,
the piston and the pendulum gradual
ly bringing the torpedo to true
course. The reservoir forms the CEN
trail body Of the fish" 1t is made of
forged cast steel and is tested up to
seventy atmospheres. A tuyere at its
after end feeds the air to the engine.
The torpedo is driven by three-cyl-
inder engine, with cylinders 100 de-
grees apart, acting on common
crank. The engine is started by
means of valve which is opened by
a lever striking a projecting lug on
the launching tube, when the torpedo
is fired
The buoyancy chamber is an air.
tight compartment, the purpose of
which is to afford the proper buoyan-
cy to the torpedo 1t carries a piece of
lead ballast, by shifting which the
trim can be controlled. The tubes carry
the connecting rods for controlling the
horizontal diving rudders.
Next comes the bevel gear chamber,
where Is located the gear for caus-
ing the propellers to rotate In OPP
pOslte directions. The after propeller
is keyed to the main shaft; the forward
propeller is keyed to sleeve which
rotates freely upon the main shaft
and the motion is reversed by means
of two bevel-wheel gears which turn
on a spindle mt right angles to the
main shaft. The "tail' consists of
stock with vertical vanes, which act
as the vertical rudder, and two frames
which. carry the horizontal rudders.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-06-09

To use set the marker on the line
laid out for the row and, with the
foot, press lightly down so as to make
a shallow hole to indicate where the
onion set is to go. The other tool is
a tree pruner and is made by taking
a hardwood pole six feet long and
one and one.quarter inches in diam
eter and rounding it, An old fork
handle viii do nicely for the purpose.
Buy a good one and one-quarter inch
chisel and fit one end OF the pole to
the socket. Of this chisel. If this tool
is kept sharp it win easily cut a limb
a half inch in diameter and It viii be
found very useful in working where
1t would be very troublesome to place
q knife or a handsaw.