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Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
MAKING OF OXYGEN,
Few Professional Men and No a < s. Ordinary Mortals.

The manufacture of oxygen-or moro properly it's separation from the atmos- phere we breathe-is m intensely in- teresting process known to but few professional men and scarcely known It all by tho ordinary mortal, says a scientific paper. A plant for tho manu- fracture of oxygen to be used in charg- ing its distilled water was put in opera ton recently at an ice plant ID Los An geles, Cal. ~
 Oxygenated water is now being pre- scribed by physicians in certain dis cases, and hence cheap and simple method of separating the oxygen in the atmosphere becomes a matter of im- portance. The process employed Dy the Los Angeles company is based on tho principle that certain chemical com- pound-manganate of soda-readilv parts with the oxygen it contains wheP subjected to the action of . Jet oe steam. A blast of air on the residuum reforms 1t into manganate O. soda, this chemical possessing the peculiar p1op- erty of absorbing oxygen from the at- mosphere, parting with 1t when ex- posed to steam and being reformed again upon exposure to the air. The process may be continued indefinitely. when the ingredients arc placed in the retort and proper connections for air and steam made. No more chemicals are required. It may be fikened tovdip- ping a sponge in water. squeezing 1t dry, and then repeating the operation indefinitely.
 Oxygen made by this process, 1t is claimed, contains no gas other than oxy- zen and no clements of any descrip- ton other than slight traces of atmos- pheric nitrogen Hence it requires no washing to free it from chlorine nor any puriflcation whatever. The product Is oxygen-and nothing else. The oxygen, direct from the retorts, Is stored in gasometers, and then forced into distilled water by means of a Twitchell carbonating machine, which pumps the water and oxygen at tho same time, thoroughly agitating both before bottling. The bottling Is done under a pressure of 60 pounds.
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
WORLDS FAIR RATES.

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, April 30th to Decem- Der 1, 1904. Rate for ten day excursion ticket will be one fare and one-fifth for the round trip. Tickets on sale daily April 27th to November 30, 1904. Rate for sixty day excursion ticket one fare and one-third for the round trip. Tickets on sale April 18th to Nov. 20th. Rate for season EXCURSION TICKETS eighty per cent. of double the standard one way fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale daily April 18th to Nov. 18th, Final return limit Dec 15, 1904.
 THOS. H. REAMEY. Agt.
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
PORTLAND1AND
 NORTHWEST.

Without change via Union Ps- cific. This route gives you 200 miles along the matchless Colum- bia River, a great part of the distance the trains running so close to the river that one can look from the car window almost directly into the water. Two through trains daily with accom- modations for all classes of pas sengers. This will be the popu- lar route to the Lewis and Clark Exposition 1905. Inquire of
 J. H. LoTHRoP, G. A.,
 9O3 Olive Street,
 St. Louis, Mo.
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
Magnificent Distancee,

The diocese of Kia watin, in hG pert's Land, is one of magnificent distances. Bishop Lofthouse once walked 200 miles to fetch a doctor for his wife. Many of the Indians walk 25 miles to church, and the bishop has baptized scores of ba- bies which had been carried 150 miles on their mothers backs over hard-frOzen snoW. At night the family sleep, wrapped in the deer skins, on branches laid upoD the snow.
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
COACH EXCURSIONS TO. ST. LOUIS, MO, VIA THE IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE.

Coach Excursion tickets will be on sale daily, except. on. Friday. and Saturday September 14th to September Both inclusive. Pate $5.60 round trip; childen under 12 and over 5 years of age S400, return limit on these tickets seven days from date of sale.
 THOS. H. REAMEY, Agent.
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
LIVERYMEN FARMERS .RAYMEN

And all users of axle grease that want the best grease on the arket and that recognize a good ing when shown it's merits, we commend our Golden and Cas- Dr. Oil brands of Axle Grease. is put up in 1 pound tin boxes A 3 pound tin buckets. For
 by all up-to-date merchants.
 for it and take no substitute. vs guaranteed to have no equal br quality on the market. i.~
 WATERS-PIERCE
 OIL COMPANY. H
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
PRIZES EVERY WEEK.

For the best scores made at Millions bowling alley during each week, the following prizes are awarded every Saturday night: $500 ticket in ten pins; $2.5 50 ticket in five back" $2.50 ticket in cooked hat. 41dtf
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
'NATURE NEVER GIVES UP.'
4 Phrase That h Full of Meaning fol the Sick In Either Body
 or Mind.

Aphrase from a arecent magazine article is so suggestive and so full of encouragement that it seems worth while to make it the text for one of our small sermons, eays Woman's Home Companion. The phrase is: Mature never gives up." You may with profit say this over carefully and thoughtfully and let its full meaning come to you: Mature never gives up." Nature is on the side of health, and sanity, and consequent happi- ness. Hard as your case may be, the great Mother is lighting the battle with you. Has disease got into your bones? Nature has mar shaled her forces to combat it, and with marvellous strategy has set engines to work which are en- deavoring to circumvent the en- emy. Nature is working in con- junction with the physician. and yourself. That is thought which ought to cheer you. You have been imprudent, possibly have done and left undone. You have taken such ill-care of your God-given body that your friends have set you do VII as hopeless or worse. You have told yourself that there is no hope for you. Ma. ture has not given you up. She wants you to live and work and be healthy and happy and in the event of your neglect of yourself. she is still fighting for you. She has no moral idea in doing this. She just does it. Perhaps you de- serve to be given up. Many of us do, it sometimes seems. But Na- ture is blind to that. Of course, she is not all-powerful. She can be overcome. She fails often. But you will do we'll to remember that in every case while there is a spark of life left, she is trying. Let that thought brace you. Buck up, and give Nature some help.
 I should like to think that we could carry the analogy into the moral world as we'll. Do you not believe that there are forces as yet unvalued which are fighting the fight for good in the souls of men? Bad a man or woman may be-there is exterior pressure to make him or her better. There Is law; there is education; there are all the societies and institutions whose object is to help the down fallen and the unfortunate, But are there not other forces, too? Does not the great Mother of Souls fight continually for the spiritual health and sanity of all people? The thought is comfort. ing, stimulating, encouraging. It Is the business of every individual to add all his personal strength to all encounters with evil, physic- al or spiritual. He can do so more heartily and with better faith for success if he remembers that Una ture never gives up"
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
COLONY OF SEA SQUIRTS.
Curious Form of Life with Which
 Bathers and Small Boys Have ~ Much Amusement, ts

Most of the tanks in the aquari- um have now been refined with rockwork, says the New York Sun. An advantage of rockwork for this purpose is that it affords places of lodgment for various forms of marine life, both vegetable and animal, which may be introduced into the tank either by accident or by design, to make further addi. tion to the tanks attractiveness.
 Already in some of the tanks here these lesser forms, either planted or of accidental growth, are beginning to appear; a notable example of the last-named kind being found in the salmon rock. fish tanks, in which there may now be seen, attached to the rocky lin. ing of the tank, great colony, some thousands in number, of the familiar ascidian commonly known as the sea squirt.
 Everybody that has been much about the water knows the sea squirt, a leathery creature some what resembling rubber water bottle in shape, with two siphon tubes like stubby little slightly curved bottle necks projecting from it's top. The sea squirt takes it's nourishment as the clam does. It absorbs minute forms of ani- nal life of various sorts, along with quantities of water, through one of it's siphon tubes, and after extracting the nutriment it expels the water through the other.
 The sea squirt clings to the rocks along shore, and to sea grass, and it is found in many wa" ters. It may be of dingy white or gray in color, like those now at the aquarium, though some sea squirts are of dark rich brown, and there are others of brilliant red. The largest of those here are about an inch and a half in length. Sea squirts attain a length of two or three inches or more.
 Fathers who know about them pick sea squirts from the rocks and play tricks with them by collaps- ing them and so squirting the wa ter on fellow bathers. Boys liv. ing by the water as in fishing towns, carry sea squirts to school with them, in their pockets, and there squeeze the water out of them. To collapse one in that man. ner means the end of the sea squirt. et
 A sea squirt left out of water by the receding tide might lie col lapsed and flat, but it would be more likely to have taken in wa. ter enough to carry it until the tide covered it again, and it would be most likely to be found, be. tween tides, in places where it would get more or less moisture. If one should be left exposed for . longer time than usual on some bare rock, as it might be by an un,. usually low tide, 1t would be burned and shriveled and de stroyed by the suns hot rays. -
 They were probably introduced Into this tank with shrimp put into it as food for the rockfsh.
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
THROUGH TOURISTCAR 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 El Paso. Special low rate colo nists' 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. & T. A.
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
A. Imnroxement,

A new typewriting machine returns he carriage automatically when the end of line is reached. 70 that tho e. uutH4 h not compsllsl ta DAuae
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
TO THE FAIR.

Tickets on sale to St. Louis daily via the Iron Mountain route. $9.55 for the round trip; return limit fifteen days from date of sale. T.,H. REAMEY, Agt.
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18
New York City.

New York city now contains moro irish than Dublin; more Italians than Florence; more Poles than Warsaw; more Jews than Jerusalem. -............
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-18

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The Washington times., 1904-01-14

England folk were not men of title.
Il Is true that some of the descendants
OF Charles the Second have put them
selves to trouble to organize society
for ancestor worship, and it will be
remembered that some years ago the
Holland Danes chose lady with an
Irish name to be their queen, but these
outbreaks of enthusiasm may be called
sporadic. 1t is truly rather absurd
for people of a republic TO plume
themselves on being better than their
neighbors. on account of being de
scended from kings and noblemen, be-
cause some of the kings and noblemen
at about the time America was settled
were far from being the sort of an
cestors one would order for the Amer
lean trade. if one controlled those
things.
But it does no harm to know The
history of ones family, and in some
WAYS it is an exceedingly good thing.
Many a boy has been stimulated to
higher ideals and more worthy actions
by hearing that his father, and grand
father. and all the men of his family
were brave and honorable gentlemen,
and that he must do nothing, what
ever happens, to disgrace the name.
Such ancestor-Yorship is good, as
anything is good which tends to put
restraint on much-tempted human
nature and keep it out of the ditch.
Moreover, genealogical research Is d
necessary part of local history, and
the knowledge of the way in which a
town developed is often of use in com
pretending the present conditions OF
that town. The people of town
which has taken important part in the
affairs of the country may be excused
for being a bit proud Of the fact, and
if they feel that this record makes II
important for them to be patriotic
and public-spirited, ard well-trained
in the duties of life, so much the bet
Ger for the town.
The Washington times., 1904-01-14
Foolish Comments.
An Anecdote Illustrating the Futility
of Some Sympathy.

AT the time of the recent ice car
nival in this city-a carnival with no
costume and color, but with much ac-
ton and some language ex-senator
Mason happened to be here on bust
ness. One day he> slipped and sat
down with the usual emphasis, on the
ice. An officlous friend rushed up as
fast as circumstances would permit.
and eagerly asked, "Oh, Mr.. Mason,
did you hurt yourself7"
"Now said the sufferer, with per-
haps little unnecessary force, ''they
make the asphalt nice and soft and
springy, so it won't hurt people when
they fall"
This is a fair example of the idioc1
of the forms of sympathy employed
by some people. We all have acquain-
tGnces, some of us, alas! have rela-
tives, who never fail to ask, when we
come in from a walk in the pouring
rain, having forgotten our umbrellas,
Did you get wetq' We all know
that they invariably ask, if they hap
pen to be around at the time of a
catastrophe. if we hurt ourselves
There have been souls so devoid Of ali
proper sense of consideration as to
ask, while the victim yet sat on the
treacherous bit of ice, did you fall
dcwn2" As if one would drop into
profanity that way for pleasure.
There has been too much talk about
excusing tactless people because they
mean well. Some of them would be
have better if they were treated to d
good sharp retort once in a while. II
ought to be done, for the comfort OF
suffering humanity.
The Washington times., 1904-01-14
The Hearst Boom.
Characteristic Action on the Part of
the Millionaire.

The Hearst boom seems likely to be
one of the things most in evidence in
the political situation of the next few
months. 1t may not only contribute
TO the gayety of nations. as it certain
~ has done already, but assume such
solid proportions as to cause some
sleeplessness among the more conserv-
alive leaders. The supplementary
consequence, TO coin a phrase, of Mr.
Hearst and his boom, Is somewhat re-
markable. 1t has already caused the
changing of the plans of the party III
regard to the place for the convention.
There IS not much doubt that If It had
rot been for Hearst and his mega
phone. Chicago would have been
chosen for the convention; but wish
ing to hear themselves think during
the proceedings, the leaders chose ST.
Louis. Fifteen minutes afterward
Hearst was warming the wires with
orders for the establishment of a "St.
Louis American" A man who blows
his own horn can make a good deal
of noise if his lungs are sound.
1t is also foreseen that if Bryan
should recognize in Hearst kindred
spirit. and throw his strength over to
that enterprising youth, more trouble
would De imminent. The combined
strength of the two might not be
enough TO do anything in an election,
but it would be big boulder in the
way of the Democratic train, and il
would take time to move it off the
track. Suppose they should combine
Hearst and Bryant How does that
sound7
The Washington times., 1904-01-14
Mr.. RIIS' INVESTIGATION
OF WASHINGTON SLUMS
Careful Study of Conditions and Long Experience Gives
Weight to His Opinion

been. Nor was Riis gifted with ex-
travagance in preparing his stories
his very task Of pushing an agate
pencil hard enough TO write through
eighteen sheets of .hysue paper inter-
Ieaved with carbon. taught him to be
concise-to state only facts and yet
cover the ground
Everyone who ever worked with Riis
had nothing but the greatest admira-
ton for his faithful. hustling. tireless
and honest efforts to do his share of
the work and at the same time better
the conditions of the lOwly. the unfor-
tunate. the G0~sl-trOdden poor. No
society or organization supplied him
with funds to repay him for his investi-
cations. He did II because he felt It
was a duty. Why, then. in the name OF
ali that's righteous, should he prevari-
cater Why misrepresent when he had
nothing to gain Sv it? The whole truth
of the matter is only too plain Riis
has told the Washington people some
truths that are hard Pills TO fwaiioW
and they are washing them down with
attacks on his integrity
Rfis went through alleys and byWays
that are never frequented by those who
deny the existence of novels. They look
o,,er the mortality record and draw con-
clusicns.
Riis takes up the crippled child. and
asks II how 1t came so He sits oy the
sick bed and learns the story OF power
" from the emaciated mother OF
brood of hungry little ones lie heaIs
the idle workman's story OF how ne mas
walked his feet sore to find work that
he NAV support his family He talks 70
the outcast that others scorn and tries
to prevail upon her to return TO the
paths OF rectitude. He knows Of exist
ing conditions that others think only ex-
ist in other cities. The title to his book.
THE other Half" is a good one One
saIf the world does not know how the
other ha,f lives. Look IL up. you who
doubt. Don't theorize. for facts are STUD
born thil,gs- HANDY ANIL
Washington, D. C. Jan II. 1904
The Washington times., 1904-01-14
To The Editor Of The Washington Times:

To the Editor OF Inc Washington llmes:
As an associate of Jake Riis in news
paper work at the time when the 'tene-
ment house" microbe was an infant in
his brain. ! feel called upon TO say a
word in refutstion of some OF the at
lacks made upon him by those whose
toes have been bruised through his
statement regarding the conditions OF
things in Washington.
/ don't know a blessed thing about the
mortality of Washington compared with
other cities. or whether the whites or
blacks live longer in filthy alleys than
they do on Connecticut Avenue. but If
Jake Riis says that the squalor that
exists in certain portions of Washing
ton exceeds that of any other place. II S
dollars to doushnuts that it's mighty
near true. I've known Mr.. Riis a
long time. 1 worked with him in
Mulberry Street for five or six years,
and during that time was with him
daily. at fires. suicides, murders. and all
other kinds of reportorial work which a
police headquarters man has to do. and
never knew him TO overestimate the
news value OF any happening, or to miss
a single feature or fact of any assign
nent.
- OOui - WI. inns ''''''' - -
with the poor. perhaps more so than
most OF us. and occasionally he sneaked
in a little editorial comment while pre-
pairing his story. IL seldom got into
print, for most editors abhor news
stories that suggest relief from condi-
tons which brought about the incident
or accident chronicled.
II from no other motive than desire
to hold his place, Jake Riis' early train
ing compelled him to tell the truth. for
he worked Ser news bureau-''a fiimsy
factory we called it-that furnished
manifold stories of police happenings
to each newspaper. If these yarns fail
ed in the essentials supplied by the
newspapers regular Mulberry Street re-
porter. he would not have been re-
tanned at this post as long as he has
The Washington times., 1904-01-14
THE
PERSONAL
SIDE
ARCHIE RooSEvELT's SPORT

Archie Roosevelt. the Presidents third
son. is revealing in sport since the last
fan Of snow. Visitors to the White
House yesterday were surprised to catch
occasional glimpses of a small bow loel,-
Ing out from a deep cave he had dug n
a huge snowbank a little to the MOTH
west OF the Offices. Into this retreat
Archie hurried for protection once or
twice when the fire Of snowballs from
some of the employees about the White
Hopse got too hot for him. The FIRST
day OF the heavy snowfall, Archie on
returning from school. came into the
lobby with his arms loaded with snow
balls. and proceeded TO make Il livelv
for Captain Loefier. Arthur Simmons
and one or two Of the Secret Service
men. Yesterday. there was a repetition
OF The same thing. with tho exception
that one OF the snowballs caught Door
keeper Simmons in the left eye. Archie
was finally chased out Of doors and took
refuge In his cave. first letting fly a
SNOWFALL that missed it's aim and came
near wrecking a White House window.
Boys will be boys" said a White
House habitue. who saw what was GO
ing on Il like 10 see real live BOY
any time. But II the President ever
catches that young man snowbaliinE
around here. there'H be something do
ing
The Washington times., 1904-01-14
VIGOROUS YOUNG LAwYERs.

among the youngest OF the many As
sistant District Attorneys 10 Morgan II
Beach are Alexander r. MulIowny and
Ralph Given, who have met with such
success as prosecutors in the local Po-
lice Courts throughout their assign
ment there as to commend them 70 the
favor and admiration Of everyone ac-
quainted with the workings of the trib-
unal at which they practice
They are In the bloom ard full vigoz
Of manhood. and work earnestly and
faithfully in the case with which they
are Identified.
Mr.. Mullowny is the senior Assistan:
District Attorney at this court, having
been assigned there FOR twelve years.
Twelve years ago Ralph Given. then but
mere lad, was a clerk in the District
Attorneys Office. and was sent TO the
Police Court TO help Mr.. Mullowny.
While acting as clerk he studied law
at Georgetown University. graduate
with high honors, and was admitted 10
the bar four years ago and then made
Assistant District Attorney. holding ths
same Office now as Mr.. Mullowny.
The Washington times., 1904-01-14
THINKS ENGLAND WILL
AGREE TO ARBITRATION
Thomas Barclay Says New Treaty
Should Resemble That With France.

Thomas Barclay. a prominent barrfs-
ter of London. England, who Is at the
New Willard. thinks Great Britain will
receive the movement to form a treaty
with the United States begun by the In
ternational Arbitration Conference here
In a most friedly spirit.
Mr. Barclay played an important part
In causing the recently signed treaty
between Great Britain and France to
be drawn The new treaty. he thinks
should be on similar lines. Mr.. Bar.
clay visited the British ambassador.
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, yesterday.
and IL is supposed that he outlined In
detail 10 the ambassador the general
purpose Of the convention held here.
From Washington Mr.. Barclay goes
to Canada, where he has been inVfted
TO make addresses before certain pub
lie bodies interested in the cause arbi-
tration. Mr. Barclay said he was In
correspondence with several Canadians
of prominence. and that they have not
lost faith in arbitration because they
failed TO win their claims in the Alas
kan boundary dispute.