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The Washington times., 1904-11-06
MINT NOW MAKING
MONEY FOR PANAMA
United States Beat France
for Contract.
HAS ALL WORK ON CURRENCY
Monetary System of New Republic Is
on a Gold Basis-Loss to
France.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 5-Work has
begun az the mint on coins for the new
republic OF Panama. the United States
having secured the contract for coinage
In competition with France
That the monetary system of the re-
public is on a gold basis is indicated by
the value that is placed on each unit.
In the coin which win pass for an
American 55-cent piece there; are 3S5
grains OF silver while in the American
silver dollar, supposed 10 be double IN
value, there are 412la grains. The Pan
ana 50-Ce1t piece is worth 90 cents In
gold. intrinsicaIIy.
Besides the 5O-ceut piece the coins in
clude the equivalent denominations OF
-. l21z, 8, and "a cents.
Special Machinery.
The sketches were drawn by Designer
Barber, of the mint, and the special
dies and machinery We're constructed in
the machine shop attached TO the big
Federal plant in Spring Garden Street
On one side OF the coins is the head OF
Balboa and on the other the coat of
arms OF the republic.
On each OF the half-dollars is stamped
the guarantee, 200 fine" so that it
stable currency OF other South Amer
lean countries
Loss TO France.
The mint OF the French government
at Paris heretofore has enjoyed a vir-
tual monopoly In the making of South
American coins. bur with the building
of the new mint IN this city, with its
great facilities for turning out money
tions in this work.
A large contract was recently com
pleJed for Venezuela. The republic 0l
Panama is just year old, and the new
coins viii come into use during the
building OF the great canal Spanish
currency has been in use there, but was
so unsatisfactory that IL was decided 20
establish a monetary standard about
which there could be no question.
The Washington times., 1904-11-06

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First Floor.
The Washington times., 1904-11-06
CAMERON
CALLS ON PRESIDENT

Ex-senator Don Cameron, who has been
absent from Washington for six years
and who has taken the Mark Hanna resi-
deuce on Lafayette Square, called on
the President yesterday To- pay MS re-
fngton hereafter. his family having corae
with him
The Washington times., 1904-11-06
- southwest Braneh 90.

Residents of South Washington will
be pleased to know that The Times has
established "a branch agency at Y. Hugo
Eiseubeiss. Pharmacy corner Seventh
and j Streets southwest, where want
advertisements and subscriptions Tor
The Evening and Sunday Times VIII be
received at regular office rates.
The Washington times., 1904-11-06
A Rambling Letter.

The letter was so Incorporate and
rambling that no notice would have
been taken OF it had Gaines been "a man
of less prominence.
Gaines served with the volunteer army
In the war with Spain, and was later
first lieutenant i'm the artillery arm He
resigned from the service in 1902. Gaines
made q fIue record in the Philippines
The Washington times., 1904-11-06
STUDENTS AND FACULTY
MAY GO HOME TO VOTE

The classes in the several departments
OF The George Washington University
viii bee suspended next Monday and
Tuesday 20 enable the students and fac
ulties 10 go TO their homes and vote
for Lhe next President.
DR. NeEdlam, the president or the uli-
VeTsIIy. has gone 10 his home lu Rhode
island TO cast his vote for President
Roosevelt
The Washington times., 1904-11-06
GUIDES New stoTe-IaI4 F

Is pronounced one Of the hauds0mast.
besL-equIUped flower shops iu the C5uu-
Try. Drop in and see the flowers.
The Washington times., 1904-11-06

G6-iuch Shadow Silks. iu all
ColOTs and fast black. Special
a Farls r-.-.,,...sr.- s.r--r....r..
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
THE MYSTERY OF MEMORY.
\ Postal Clerks Wonderful Feat- No Adequate Scientific Exp1ana.
 ton of tho Wonder.

The newspapers are telling of tho re- narkable feat of postal clerk who. in . civil service examination, did not make a single error in properly sorting t2,000 test postal cards. each represent Ing post office in certain territory as- signed. This was done at the rate of B 1-3 cards minute. Far more note- worthy is the memory of an expert pi- ano player. who will play an entire sea- yon's concerts without note of printed
 music before him. His memory is so perfect that hundreds of thousands of notes must be at the orderly and instant disposal of the will. And this Is com- bined with multiplicity of synchronous recollections of timbre, tempo, express sion, etc.
 The mystery Is at present past tho limiting of any explanation, and this fact is as beautiful as it is appalling. It shows us, declares American Medicine, how far we are from any real science of psychology. Physicians note the strange thrusting of disease among the of memory, the morbid ef- fects of some neoplasm or injury to parts of the convolutions of the brain where by some memories are lost temporarily of permanently, in part or completely, while others are unaffected. Even this leAves us in amazement at the inscruta- ble complexity and methods of the sellu- laA machine.
 But through these morbid injuries wd catch tantalizing glimpses which sorAe day, properly studied and followed up, may bring some psychologist physi- cian to an unraveling of the mystery.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
Paraguay Tea.

There comes from Paraguay to the Journal of Tropical Medicine news of m apparently harmless beverage which Is the sole stay and stimulant of the working classes in Paraguay and the Argentine Republic. It is often known as Paraguay tea or mate, and an at- tempt made to introduce 1t into this country some years ago failed because as we may guess-there were more potent competitors in the field. It is usually drunk as hot infusion, through . metal tube, but may be taken like tea, with milk and sugar. Workmen take fl with them wherever they go and sip it occasionally. Wood cutters will work on it for five or six hours before break fast. and the writer declares that, taken at night, 1t makes nursing. study or what doctors call might work" real pleasure. Analysis does not explain these results, and lifelong and persistent use appears to have no evil consequences. This would be good substitute for the num- berless patent medicines which supply alcohol to women, or even, in at least one familiar case, cocaine.-London Chronicle.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
MARRIAGE REFORMS.
Advocated by University Professor
 in Book Recently Issued.
Plans Include State Supervision of All Contracts and Liberal Divorce Laws-Evtls in the Social
 Structure.

State supervision of all marriage contracts, uniform and liberal divorce laws. the abolition of the common law marriage and the education of the young in sex problems are few of the reforms advocated in a new book about to be issued at the University of Chicago.
 The work, in three large volumes. represents 12 years research work on the part of Dr. George Elliot Howard former head of the department of his- tory at the University of Nebraska. and until recently occupying similar post ~ Leland Stanford, Jr.. univer- sity. Prof. Howard is the most recent addition to the staff of the lecture division of the University of Ch1ca4n
 "Our present dual system by whicf marriages may be solemnized by eth. or civil officers or clergymen, is not the ideal plan," says Prof. Howard. "It is too complex and is an obstacle in the way of the development of an effective system of matrimonial legis- lation. It is awkward and thoroughly illogical to intrust the execution of the laws to two classes of persons; one civil officers created by the state, the other completely beyond such control, The license system is also uncertain and complex in many of its features.
 Radical reform in the administra. ton of matrimonial islation is : task for future ,--Aators. Every county should be divided into districts, for each of which registrar should be appointed to license, solemnize and register all marriages civilly contract ed therein and to license, register and attend all religious celebrations of marriage.
 "The lawmaker cannot reach tho root of the divorce evil. It is planted deeply in the social structure and is in a great measurs due to false senti- ment regarding marriage and the fam- lily, sentiment which can only be removed by more rational education. Carefully drawn and uniform statutes can, however, render conditions favor able for the operation of this needed social reform. We need new education Il tu0 pTOUlC1uS Ol oSA dAO IhlS In struction should be given to tho young, not prudishly. but frankly, and perhaps while the child is still in high school.
 "The fact that four of our states New York, Utah. California and Mis- sissippi-have liberated themselves by statutory enactments' from tho common law marriage within tho past ten years is of vast social import and from 1t reformers may take courage. In such legislation lies our hope of be- Ing able to free America from the evils of the common law marriage.
 "The trouble in nutshell is that there is less care exercised in the mat ing of human beings than there Is in the breeding of fat stock. By exerc1s- lng care in contracting unions we shall solve the so-called divorce problem !"
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
NEGROES SANG AT WORK.
And Entertained French Opera Sing CTS in the Streets of New
 Orleans.

The French opera singers were specta- tors of picturesque street scene night or two ago in the vicinity of the old French opera house, says the New Or leans Times Democrat. Bourbon street was being paved with asphalt, and tho work was being hastened so as to have that portion of the street near the opera house accessible for carriages by th< time of the opening of the French Op era season.
 On this account an unusually large force of workmen were engaged, and in order to push the work to an early com- pletion the men worked at night, huge torches being used. In one block. be- tween St. Louis and Toulouse streets, nore than 100 men were working.
 Every one familiar with the negro knows that, in so far as he is able, he sets his work to music. It is fact often marveled at that the negro. when he is singing or chanting in sort of rhythmic mood, works with more ardor than under different conditions. And if an extra de- mand is made on the negro workman he sings or chants the louder.
 The members of the French opera, or at least many of them, heard for the first time the real melody of the negro voice that night. It was that swishful. poetic thing caricatured in the ragtime of tho stage, a certain subtle, indefinable some thing which no composer has ever been able to fit to the well-measured octaves of musical arrangements. It was the tuneful, heaving call of the levee, the The faring torch, the bustling hither and thither, the heavy fall of the implements of toil-all those things gave exquisite tone to the setting.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
Schools open at Night.

Twenty schoolhouses in New Yors have been opened this fall as recreation centers for the neiehborhoods In which uoy are situated
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
[No Time for sickness.

WheI the -four day. Atlantic steam ar com% s the voyage across the ocean will be bver before the tourist has had time to recover from his seasicknsss and beg b to enjoy the trip
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
GOVERNMENT I BEES.
DGsy Insects Belonging to the Agrs- cultural Department Swarm
 to Market.

Doubtless the only members of tho governments gigantic force of em- ployes who goto work before nine o'clock a. m and continue toiling until sun down are the Italian bees kept by the de- partment of agriculture. These, the smallest of our domestic animals, are kept by the department for experimental purposes and for stocking its various substations, says the Washington Post Some time ago these government bees discovered that Center maket was . far better pasture than the flower beds and vegetable gardens of the depart ment, and there they resort every day, to no small discomfort and annoyance of commission dealers, hucksters, gard ners and restaurant proprietors, whose stock in trade the industrious little in- sects prey upon.
 In some cities the rats and mice arc troublesome, and in others crickets. grain insects, and various other bugs prey upon the perishables. but Center market Is the only market in the United States where the most serious pest Is the insects which belong to the government They eat holes in the peaches, poach on the grapes, gather honey from cante- loupes, and are the first to find the soft spots in pineapples' and bananas. What Is more, there are about Center market A number of open-air eating booths, te which the bees resort in large numbers to collect honey from various sweet dishes, particularly apricot, apples, peach, prune and huckleberry pie. The funny part of 1t all is that the commits sion dealers, fruit handlers and res taurant keepers are afraid to offer any opposition to their intrusion for fear the plucky little insects will resent 1t.
 Hardly 8 week passes that some one does not get stung by the governmen: bees. who object to rough handling and treatment. With the juice and wax which they collect from apples, melons peaches, oranges, pineapples, grapes. bananas and pies in the market, they lay up their store of winter honey. The only time the restaurant keepers are able to even up with these little pests is when they have batch of hot pies or bread pudding on hand. They it hap pens occasionally that some over-hasty government bee gets his feet scorched. In such cases they hover about the pies until they have cooled off, now and then alighting on the crust to test the tom perature of the tempting bait.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
Ihnger fin Second Childhood.

Noah Robey. of Plainfeld. N. J. who dlaims to be 132 years old, is down with the measles. This second childhbod business, says the Chicago Record Herald, appears to be danger ous> If It Is carried too far.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
GROWTH OF INSANITY.
ln the Large Cities It Is IncreRslAa and Experts Demand a
 Change.

What change can be made in city life to stop its enormous production of in- sanity, yearly increasing?
 Here is question which is yet to bs solved. says the New York World. The medical fraternity is at loss for gen. eral remedy; puzzled to find means of overcoming the baneful effects of a city's activity on the general medical condition.
 London produces 70 lunatics week and New York is almost as bad, and its increase Is greater approximately. Ex- perts say that if it were not for the fact that nature steps in and generally re- fuses to grant children after the fourth or fifth generation conditions would bs far worse than they are.
 "The outlook for the future Is not bright according to medical opinion. un- less the minds of the city people are bet ter able within the next few generations to adjust themselves to their progressive complicated environment, unless bal ancing interests and mental habits ara developed to overcome the unnatural nervous tension of city life.
 So complicated is the environment of those who live in great towns, so many end so varied are the calls upon the self-control and upon their effort-mak- ing powers, that their mental machin- cry Is apt to become more complex, its parts require more construction and ad- justment, and the whole machine is more apt to get out of gear and to suftsr derangement than in the more primi- tive aud less emotional life of even half a century ago. It is not overwork that IS the determining cause of the disturb ance or mental equilibrium, but carking care, worry and anxiety.
 To the rich insanity is brought by in- dulgence in sensuous luxuries. To the poor, who are at the mercy of every economic crisis, whose financial circum- stances spell indifferent nutrition, over crowding and immoral surroundings. the condition of modern life bring de- pression and despair. The natural re- cult is that they attempt to drown their sorrows In the flowing bowl. Alcohol is the cause of one-ffth of the insanity in males and of more than half of that in the weaker sex.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
THROUGH TOURIST CAR SER
 VICE TO CALEDONIA.

Commencing Saturday Septem- Der 17th, the Iron Mountain Route will inaugurate through car service to Los Angeles, Cali fornia. This is the 'True South ern Route" via Texarkana and Fl Paso. Special low rate colo nfsts' tickets to California points will be on sale September 18th to October 18th, via Iron Mountain Route. For tickets and reserva- tion apply to local agent.
 H. c. TOWNSEND,
 G. P. 6 T. A.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
JOhnStOn'S
 TONIC Capsules

is the grand specific for this great American dis- sass because it goes straight to the source of the wsakness, building up health and strength by supplying rich, abundant food and pure blood ts the wern-out tissues, rousing tho liver to activity and regulating all the organs of tho body. "Ths Michigan Drug c., - Detroit, Mich.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
REMARKABLE WEAPON.
1lowpipe Used by the Indian sharp shooters of Guiana Nicely
 Constructed.

There are two kinds of blowpipes in age among the Indians of Guiana The drst, called the poocoona, is made of the oorah reed. This remarkable reed Is found in the Orinoco river only. and then only at certain spots. The oorah grows to height of at least 30 feet, and the basal joint, of which the blowpipe is made, is IA or 15 feet long. straight as an arrow and without a knot. says Longman's Magazine
 The inside of the reed Is as smooth as glass, hence the facility with which the dart traverses It. Very little of the reed is cut away, so that the pipe is about 12 feet long, and is so strong that when held horizontally there is not the least bend in it.
 / The reed, having been carefully se- lected, cut and prepared, is inclosed In small, thin palm trunk, which is split open for the purpose, scraped thin as a wafer, and then rejoined with the reed in the center. This palm, for length, straightness and lightness, is as remarkable as the reed. The whole pipe, when finished, never weighSmore than 1H or 1A pounds. Both the mouth, or muzzle, and the breech are bell mouthed, the bell pieces being fixed on.
 There are front and back sights the latter formed of the curved teeth of the dasyprocta acouchi, species of rodent somewhat larger in size than a wild rabbit. Two of the insicors of this animal are fixed on the breech of the pipe by means of wax. The teeth being placed parallel to each other and very close together, the sight is taken between them. Sometimes the fore- sight is made in the same way, but it more often consists of the single sharp tooth of fish. It is placed about a foot back from the muzzle. the back sight being affixed four feet along the tube, so that it is considerable dis tance from the eye when aiming.
 The missile used with this tube is Mtsnamed an arrow. It is really dart, scarcely larger than large darning needle, and with point quite as fine. The dart is made of the rib of the coocooreete palm leaf. and is so heavy that it will sink in water It is about seven inches in length, not thicker than large needle, and the usual number that an Indian carries with him when shooting is from $50 to 500, ready poisoned, but not pre- pared with the necessary cotton plugs.
 These darts are strung together something like the reeds on which soft cheeses are placed, and then rolled on a stick and carried in a quiver, points uppnost, 1t being requisite to protect them from every chance of being broken or dulled. To protect the hand when handling them the top of the stick is furnished with small, wheel-like shield.
 The fine points are given to the darts by means of the teeth of the devilfish ,serrasalmus pivava), and the cotton with which they are plugged before use is found growing wild. It Is bound to the base of dart with thread made of silk grass; this thread. with wax obtained from several trees. being largely used also in making the blowpipe.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
Cause for Alarm.

Anxious Mother-Doctor. am uneasy about my boy.
 Doctor-What seems to be the trou- ble, madam?
 q don't know. It's his symptoms that scare me. He has lost his appetite. He only wants three meals a day nowl"- Chicago Tribuna
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
COACH EXCURSIONS TO ST. LOUIS, MO-, VIA THE IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE.

Coach Excursion tickets will be on sale aily-September 14th to September 30th inclusive. Rate S5.6 round trip; childen under 12 and over 5 years of age S4.V, return limit on these tickeS ' seven days from date of sale. '
 THos. H. REAMEY, Agent.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
Justification.

1o the minds of the majority of tho col ntry Jersey justice was strangely bl (ded when it punished the Newark vi han who threw pieces of coal at an or In grinder for persisting in playing wd bout ragtime tunes, remarks the Bal Bmore American. Unless. indeed for he waste of good coal in bad causA
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
Nervousness
 AN AMERICAN DISEASE

pr. .. Weir Mitchell is authority for the state. neat that nervousness is the characteristic malady sf the American nation, and statistics show that nsrvs deaths number one fourth of all deathi recorded, the mortality being mainly among young people.
Newport daily independent., 1904-09-16
New Variety of Pheasant.

The European pheasant Is being crossed with the Asiatic variety. The result is larger bird, much quicker and stronger on the wing. and more prettily marked.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-03-10

About the rankest imitation Of
a paper that is allowed to go
through the mails in the state is
the 500 Critic, a rag that is ground
out at Sioux Falls. What excuse
its editor has for inficting it upon
the people is difficult to appre-
bend, unless it be that he loves to
exhibit his coarseness at lying.
The first move of the sheet was
to lambast a lot Of the state s
most promenent politicians; it's
next was to malign Sioux Falls
citizens, and now it is dabbling in
the capital contest matter in it's
own clever and inimitable
style. =
Here is a sample paragraph tax
EN- from recent issue:
"But another and more i'm
portant reason is because of Nit
chell's accessibility and hotel ac-
commodations. With one pea
vine railroad, a train once day
on week days, barring snow storms
and cold weather, it is practically
an impossibility to reach Pierre.
When you get there, the hotel ac-
commodations are bum and in
adequate. During the time Of the
legislature there is "a little business
for a hotel man, but during all
the rest of the time there ism t
enough hotel business to keep a
spotted cat and three bob-tailed
kittens from starving. OF course
no live hotel man is going to start
up there. With Mitchell it is diff
ferent. It is a good town, every
body says so, and the hotel ac-
commodations are good and as
soon as the new Widman is COM
pleted, which is now up to the
fourth story, the hotel accomoda-
tions will be all that could be de-
sired.
Pierre supports can look with a
great deal Of equanim;ty upon
arguments like the above. If the
Critic man would say three trains
a day instead Of one, and would