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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

Gas. tar floating on the Potomac has
a champion who claims that it prevents
the breeding Of mosquitoes. In the caea
OF two evils always choose the one vo,,
have not got Consequently, give ms the
mosquitoes, though we know fur uyoI1
that having the mosquitoes we shan cr,,
aloud for the gas tar.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

der meeting an enemy trained 10 take
cover as rabbit takes its burrow.
Apparently the japanese have
learned as much from their own ex-
perience. and with characteristic
adaptability have changed their tao
tics to conform with the changed
conditions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13
MISS ROOSEVELT
GOING TO CAMP
Will Join Party at Home
of Judge Hale.
MRS. HANNA AT A RESORT
German Ambassador Guest. of Honor
at Dinner Given by Mrs.
John Z. Parsons.

Miss Roosevelt will temporarily com
plete her visit to Bar Harbor tomorrow,
and. accompanied by Mrs. Harriet
Blaine BeaI and Miss Lily Potter. will
join a party to be given at camp, own
ed near Portland. b. Judge Hale.
Mrs. Marcus A. Hanna and Miss
Phelps are now guests 1T the cot
tage Of Prof. James Ford Rhodes, of
Northeast Harbor. and yesterday drove
over for luncheon at the Louisburg, Bar
Harbor.
The German ambassador and Baroness
Won Sternburg were guests of honor at
a dinner at Lenox last night, when
Mrs. John E. Parsons was hostess.
Mrs. stuyvesant Fish gave the largest
dinner party of the season at Newport,
entertaining last night sixty guests
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Henry c. Corbin
are the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. William
Grosvenor. at Newport. who viii enter
tain large dinner party In their honor
tonight.
Bishop Potter at Wild Cliff, Seal Har-
w. NAAC mainly olAAiAl4o SIAAiAAlIA AAtAALNs
Mrs. J. Eakin Gadsby has gone to
Capon Springs for the rest of the sum
mer, and IS a popular partner in all
the card games and foremost in other
amusements at the hotel
Col. and Mrs. George NJ. Dunn. who
are now stationed at Denver. Col. en-
tertained a dinner party last week
having among their guests, Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. 8, s. Sumner. Prof. Emmons,
Of the Geological Survey. and Colonel
MeCauley. chief Quartermaster. L. S. A.
Master Irwin Cosgrove. the famous
boy singer and fancy dancer OF Wash
ington, and his sister Mabel, are at
Manhattan Beach for the summer.
Mrs w S. Jones and daughter, of
1858 Tenth Street northwest, and Mrs
Jones sister. Mrs. Ryan. are at SOmers'
Point, near Atlantic City. for a three
weeks outing.
Miss Lulu Mobley, OF 524 z Street
northeast, and her sisters, Mrs. Scnsu-
erTnan and Mrs. Lille Quirk. have just
returned from a pleasant visit 10 rela-
tives IN Pennsylvania and Baltimore
Mrs w Torrense and Mrs. NJ. stat
ford, accompanied by the Misses Dolores
Burns and Blanche Harmon. are a At
lantic City. the guests OF Miss Isabelle
Irving at the Berkeley.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13
MONUMENT TO ELI WHITNEY.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. Aug. 1S.-The
Southern States, where the cotton gin
has been Of great Industrial benefit. will
be invited TO aid by subscriptions for n
memorial to Eli Whitney, the inventor
The monument will be erected IN Whit
NEVILLE. a suburb OF this city where
Whlnty's shoDs were located
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13
MlKADO WANTS ROOSEVELT
TO FIGHT THE RUSSIANS

PARIS, Aug. IA Paris newspaper
says:
I'VE have 1t from trustworthy source
that the Mikado will ask President
Roosevelt in the event of his defeat at
the coming election TO become com
mander-in-chief OF the Japanese armies
in the field"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13
TWO COMPANIES OF TROOPS
MAKING A LONG TRIP

Major General Corbin, commanding
the Atlantic division. has advised the
War Department of the departure OF
Companies A and D of the Ninth In
fantry from Fort Niagara for Madison
Barracks, under the command OF LLeEk,
Col. Edgar B. Robertson.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13
FINDINGS OF THE COLLINS
C0URT-MARTIAL RECEIVED

The findings OF a court-martiaI in the
Philippines in the case Of First Lieut..
Perry ]. Collins. Twenty-eighth Infan-
try, charged with financial irregularities.
have been received by Judge Advocate
General Davis
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

William Jennings Bryan has lost for
the third time IN his endeavor TO get
the $4,000 alleged to have been left hin,
by p. s. Bennett. Of New York. PLAIN
~ case Of three times and out legally
as well as politically.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

A Washington man committed suicide
IN baltimore because he imagined the
baltimore police were after him. Some
times suicide, while never to be com
mended. Is quite understandable
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

There is no confirmation of the r1mor
that Prince Henry OF Prussia will visit
the fair at st. Louis. Probably he has
not yet finished figuring how much
money he will be able to save for his
vacation
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13
Points in Paragraphs.

No news from the Far East may or
may not be good news. It depends upon
the viewpoint
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

Mr.. and Mrs Martin Hotel. Of +
Street left the city today for Boston
and various points on the coast Of Maine.
their trip consuming several weeks
time
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

President Roosevelt announces posi-
lively that he win make no speeches
during the campaign. That hits. another
critical nail squarely on the head
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

The Fertilizer Company is stiu behind
on garbage, but the garbage itself is
very much to the fore in the nostriIs
Of Wellington househoIders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

Mr.. and Mrs. James A Hoover will
leave the city tomorrow for Boston and
Maine. On their return they viii stop
in New York and Atlantic City.
+. z. Cunningham. OF the clerks Office
Of the District Supreme Court, will leave
the city tomorrow for "a visit Of two
weeks at his home in Westminster, Car
roll county. Md. where his family is
spending the summer
Mr. and Mrs. Leo F. ZwissIer viii
leave the city this evening for Louis
Vile. KY. St Louis, Chicago, and Gin
cinnau. for an extended trip.
James Richard Young and Charles ].
Allen VIII leave town Monday for the
st. Louis Fair. where they viii remain
for a week, after which they will make
an extended trip through several Of the
Northwestern States. returning about
September i.
Mrs Susie R Jacobs and Miss Rena
Herbert viii leave Washington Sunday
morning on Grand Army special from
Baltimore and Ohio depot for Boston,
Mass. Returning, they will stop at
New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
DR.. J. c. Exner has left the city for
a brief vacation.
J. c. Hornblower. Of this city. was a
passenger on the Baltic, sailing Wednes-
day for a trip abroad.
Mrs Koenig has joined her friends
Prof. and Mrs. Carl Hau, at the Aurora
House, Aurora W. Va. where they viii
remain the rest Of the season.
Miss Margaret Fox is slowly recover
ing from the injuries received in a
street car accident Of last week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13
PAYNES WILL VISIT
WISCONSIN HOME
viii Leave Washington in
About Ten Days.
H0OvERS OFF FOR MAINE
Many Leaving Town to Spend Hot
August Days in Rest and
Recuperatiou.

Postmaster General and Mrs. Payne
contemplate a visit to Wisconsin in
about ten days
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

Mr.. and Mrs James A. Hoover Will
leave the city tomorrow for Boston and
Maine On their return they will stop
in New York and Atlantic City.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

Mrs. Marcus A. Hanna and Miss
Phelps are now guests at the cot
tage Of Prof. James Ford Rhodes, Of
Northeast Harbor. and yesterday drove
over for luncheon at the Louisburg, Bar
HarbOr.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

Miss Roosevelt will temporarily com
plete her visit to Bar Harbor tomorrow,
and. accompanied by Mrs. Harriet
Blaine BeaI and Miss Lily Potter. will
join a party TO be given at a camp, own
ed near Portland, b. Judge Hale.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

The German ambassador and Baroness
Won Sternburg were guests of honor At
a dinner at LenoX last night, when
Mrs. John Z. Parsons was hostess.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

Mrs. StuyveSant Fish gave the largest
dinner party of the season at Newport,
entertaining last night sixty guests.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Leo F. Zwissler viii
leave the city this evening for Louis
Vile. KY. St Louis, Chicago, and Gin
clnnau for an extended trip.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-13

Maj. Gen. and Mrs Henry c. Corbin
are the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. William
Grosvenor. at Newport who viii enter
tain large dinner party In their honor
tonight
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16

agreed that a man who knew all of us should telephone to Governors Island that he had found the men intoxicated near the cunard line pier and had brought them to my saloon
 Hold them until we send over. Dont's let them go under any circum- stances was the answer from Cover nor's Island.
 " That's all right said the soldier when the answer was repeated. Nod i'll us up good. old man, until the fel- lows from the island come over. It'll be our last chance for a long time. And when this fellow (handing me a name written on piece of paper) comes around give him our portion of the re- ward
 Tn three hours those men were iden- tified by two soldiers and taken away in patrol wagon. My friend gave a cir cumstantial account of how he had found them without money. and set up the drinks so as to hold them in my sa- loon. The reward was paid, just as they said it would be. Two weeks ,af- terward man came in with a counter part of the signature held, described the men, and promised to get their share of the money to them. I took his receipts. and that is all know of the matter New York Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16
ROOSEVELT at WORKERS
 METHODS.

President Roosevelt usually rises at s and gets to his office by half past g. He is then busy with hs secretary. MT. Loeb, or with a stenographer, until ten, when he receives callers who have made previous engagements. His morn- ing, except on Tuesdays and Fridays, which are the regular days for cabinet meetings. is occupied with visitors until
 half-past or a quarter of 2, when he goes to luncheon. Then he often has as
 his guest some man of national proni- |nence with whom he discusses questions of state. MT. Roosevelt Is one of the
 most accessible of Presidents, and sees,
 on business of importance, an average
 of at least 40 people a day, In addition
 are the visitors to town who come to
 pay their respects" and whom he al ways makes point of seeing, if time
 permits, greeting them gladly and mak- ing them feel most welcome.
 In the afternoon the President is in
 his office from a quarter to until 5.
 Then, too, he sees those who have im- portant matters to discuss with him.
 and often members of the press, who are anxious to be set right on some
 matter prominent in the public eye. Every morning, except Sunday, the
 President, must receive many callers,
 who come on every imaginable errand
 He is asked a question by prominent
 legislator, political leader, influential citizen, or moulder of public opinion.
 A reply is imperative. The subject may
 be entirely new, but answer may make
 or break the administration. A nega-
 tive response to a request may bitter
 enemy. But he cannot hesitate. Favors are sought without end He is soon tempted to think that everybody who comes has an ulterior motive. If it were not for his enthusiastic and hopeful view of life he would be threatened
 with severe attack of pessimism. When the President remains standing
 during an interview is a polite hint to the visitor to be brief. When he desires
 to discuss a question at length he sits
 down
 President Roosevelt works hard when he works, and he plays hard when he plays. He craves exercise that is rough. | rides hard, walks vigorously, plays tennis when eagerness and skill, and fences progressively. When the weather permits he seeks to be out doors from 5 to '. When, in the Winter, this is i'm possible he exercises at home. Dining at
 half-past z, he generally has callers i later with whom he discusses public affairs, and he frequently has a steno- cryo nh to fa1 an important subject. For him there is always the heavy care of his office and the eNeverpresant unsolved problem dem- anding earnest and careful considera- ] ton.
 It is hard, earnest, responsible life this administrator of the affairs of 80 100000 people, especially in the months preceding a presidential campaign. but Theodore Roosevelt seems to enjoy it. Albert Halstead in Leslie's Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16
A. MARVEL OF NATURE.

There are few things in nature more wonderful than the common impulse which seizes these millions of undeve- loped insects living in dark tunnels underneath. the ground and urges them to cut their way upward, that they may complete their appointed life in the upper air. Stirred by this strange un- rested, the mighty host begins to move. What engineering skill directs their course aloft? What instinct guides their movements and enables them with un- erring accuracy to burrow to the sun light? If we suppose that a pupa reach es the surface before it is quite prepar- ed to tranform, or when the surface is reached that weather or other condi- tions retard the change to the winged form, we have the influnces that require it to build a shelter. It's maner of pro- ceeding is interesting and ingenious. It brings up from it's burrow little ball of mud which 1t carries between it's mouth and strong forepaws. The latter are admirably designed for digging. The pellets are placed atop of one
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16

You've got to see a specialist about it or do something. You're getting down to mere rack of bones, with not more than 200 pounds of flesh on 'em You're as pale as a boiled lobster and you haven't any more appetite than hired man at a thrashing dinner. Say. bet you managed to get in your eight hours of sweet oblivion all right, if you did wake up at the thunderstorm for a brief space. I'd risk a ten that you don't know how long it lasted
 T didn't time it. if that's what you mean"
 T know you didn't. You see, there wasn't any to time. Now, you're up against it, aren't you? You don't just know whether there was or wasn't. Now. honest, Billy, how long were you awake? If you tell the truth about it won't say a word to your wife. I can make allowances for you because I've succumbed to temptation myself, but you've got to own up''
 The robust-looking man hesitated a moment. Then he said: Well, there was thunderstorm it didn't occur be- tween ten o'clock and midnight-or per- haDs I'd better say between 10 and 11:3O. If it must have just snoozed off a little. Chicago News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16
UNCLE SAM PAID THE BILL.
Settled Up When Deserters Went on a
 Spree.

Settled Up When Deserters Went on a Spree.
 'The only debt I ever collected from
 Uncle Sam" said a saloonkeeper in Charles street, was one that he never owed me. Two soldiers came in sone morning and sat down in the rear room to a game of cards. They paid for one or two rounds of drinks. but I let the others run on. When the sum amount ed to $2 one of the soldiers called me over.
 We are deserters, he said, and we haven't the money about us to pay for these drinks
 T showed signs of anger. Hold up bit, continued the sol- dier. I have proposition to make that will pay you and two other saloonkeep- |ers around here who have trusted us just as you have. We want to give ourselves up. Here, producing a news paper, is reward advertised for our arrest. It will more than settle up our scores around here. The rest of the money we want for ourselves. We trust you to send it to us after we are in jail. Is it a go?'
 We run across queer characters in our business, continued the saloon keeper, but it occurred to me these men might be telling the truth. made inquiries at the saloons the soldier men, toned, and found they were. It was
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16
MICROBES AND MONEY.
We Must Have Bills. So We Chance
 the Bacili.


 1 We Must Have Bills, So We Chance the Bacili.
 The fear of contagion from diseased microbes which our ancestors never relt because Ignorance was bliss" to them
 seems to be putting it's ban upon one thing after another. One may not in dulge longer in clans, oyster, water lcress. spinach, lettuce, shaving, kissing, public library, books, feather clusters and numerous everyday necessities
 without taking antiseptic precautions Now comes a chemist at Washington who has found greenback which was the favrite resort of IA different kinds of the disease microbes. Startled by the announcement, some brokers all ready are moving to protect cashiers and tellers by disinfecting all currency. One Boston chemist has suggested the placing of cotton waste, saturated with formaldehyde, in the safe or money drawer, and another the pouring of a spoonful of it in vault each night, which boards of health say will destroy
 millions of germs. Some bankers are inclined to sniff at the precautions. They rightly affirm that the microbe,. though comparatively new discovery, lis as old as time; that paper money is nearly as old as time; that cashiers and tellers have been handling the microbe and the currency without destroying the one or sterilizing the other, and that they were healthy and long-lived, leven though they directly exposed themselves by putting money, which Icahsiers and tellers no longer do.
 The microbe and money matter, if it Ishould occasion any widespread appre-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16
FATE OF A BIG OHIO TREE.

Size of This Great Sycamore Was the Cause of it's Destruction. The greatest tree ever seen by white men in Ohio is believed to have been lthe enormous sycamore, or, more
 properly, buttonwood, which stood in what is now Valley township, Scioto county, in the rich bottom land of the Scioto River.
 It was so prodigious in bulk that as early as 1910 1t was described in the Cincinnati Almanac as one of the na- tural wonders of Ohio. In June, 1908, according to what seems reliable testi- mony, a party of thirteen persons, all lon horseback. rode into the hollow trunk of this scyamore, and found that room enough remained for two more horses and their riders. The tree forked about eight feet from the ground, and lit was hollow when first seen by the white settlers. The circumference of the trunk was about 63 feet at the base, and five feet from the earth 1t was 42 feet in girth. These figures remind the reader of the famous big trees of Cali fornia. The opening into the cavity
 WllillIa tHe lTullk was lV rect Wlue at the bottom 91z feet high, and the hollow
 was about 14 feet in diameter.
 The account which has been pre- served of the fate of this enormous tree lis very odd. It is claimed that the giant buttonwood was kept uninjured Ias a great curiosity, until the farm on
 which it stood was used as stock farm by one Thomas Dugan. This stock breeder turned several valuable bulls into the fields where the huge tree stood and two of them fought inside it's trunk. In that small space, for a bull ring, the victor was able to prevent the escape of his rival and the weaker was killed. This affair convinced Dugan that the largest tree in Ohio was a menace to his stock, and he cut it down. Later hogs. kept in the same field were attacked by cholera, and the owner reasoned that their habit of lying inside the hollow stump was bad for their health, and so he had the stump re- moved! It may well be doubted wheth- CT any other immense tree was ever de- stroyed because of a fight between two
 bulls.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16

TO PUT AN EGG INTO A BOTTLE. l "If you were to see an egg enclosed 1 in bottle with a neck so narrow that lit would scarcely admit of the passage of an object one-half the size of the egg, 1t would give you just cause for won- der and amazement, wouldn't it?' MT. R. w. Brandon said to me.
 "And yet it is an exceedingly simple and easy trick to perfom. In order to accomplish it with entire success, an le egg of any size may be taken and placed in a quantity of vinegar. enough to cover the egg completely, and in the vinegar it should be allowed to stand for three or four days. During this time the vinegar will gradually absorb all the lime in the shell, thus rendering l if as soft and pilable as a piece of cloth but without altering it's appearance i'll the least. The egg may then be taken and forced through the neck of bottle one not too small, however, but due care should be observed in this, for any punching or scratching with the fingers
 will be apt to perforate the shell. Ihe best way to get it through is to roll il out. slightly between the, palms of the hands. The bottle should also be held so that the egg will slide easily down
 the sides and not drop. Once the egg is inside fill the bottle half full of lime water and let it stand thus several ldays.
 l The shell will absorb the lime and in this way resume its former hard and brittle condition, after which the water lmay be poured off, and in the perfect leeg in a. narrow-necked bottle one has a decidely curious object. ."-St. Louis
 Globe Democrat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16
HIS INSOMNIA.

l T had dickens of night said the
 robust-looking man, who got on the
 train at Park Ridge, signing as he took
 his seat.
 "Infant?" inquired his friend,
 Infant nothing,' replied the TO-
 bust-looking man. My youngest in | fant is sixteen years of age.'' | Waiting downtown for extras on the Iconvention ?''
 You make me tired. Don't you sup pose that man may lie awake for anything but baby or politics? No, I ljust had one of my bad nights. Got nervous and couldn't sleep" Too bad! Country's beginning to look pretty green, isn't it?" | T hardly closed my eyes from the time went to bed until six o'clock this
 morning. I just naturally couldn't sleep. I lay there and listened to the clocks ticking. We've got four or five clock in the house and I could dis tinguish the peculiar tick of every one lof them"
 news this morning?"
 ] ''I'll bet you don't. tell you man who can just go to bed and roll over ! and be snoring inside of two minutes ! doesn't know the misery of lying awake and turning pillows over to get the cool side and punching 'em into forty -leven different shapes. He doesn't know what it is to count up to thousand or | ten times in succession and hear dog eo,,r ,,,;Ioe off to,lxipo al irraoI1lor in Itervals. I'd have given hundred dol-
 lars for just five minutes of sleep last night. I'm a martyr to insomnia
 And I'm martyr to hearing about it. said the mans friend. T tell you | if you're expecting any sympathy from
 me you won't get it. know all about l you fellows who have bad nights. If
 you do happen to lie awake an hour you | asS if you'd beaten half an hour you swell as if you'd beaten the world re cord. I could tell the minute l saw you that you were bursting with pride about 1 isomething.'
 I'm not proud of it." said the mar ltyr. q don't attribute it to any par ticular merit that I possess. It's a gift"
 I'm sorry for your wife" confined
 the other. T can just hear you telling
 her about it at the breakfast table-how you tumbled and tossed and kicked the covers off and then got cold and pulled
 'em on again and how you hated to dis turb her or you would have lit the gas and tried to read yourself to sleep" | The robust-looking citizen looked guilty.
 Gracious. but you had time.