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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-14
Janan Decides on $3.50. 600 900 Loan.

The japanese government has decided to
Immediately issue a new foreign loan OF
$3.50, 600 600 at per cent, according to a
cablegram from London. which will be
used partly for converting the external
per cent loan and partly for the redemption
of the international loans. 1t is unders TODD
that France will participate to a consider
able amount, the RothschIlds' Paris house
being the Issuing house there.
The exact date of the issue has not yet
been decided upon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-14
PAINTING THE FIREFIGHTER.
Boat and Quarters Of It's Crew Being
Put In Good Condition.

The District f1reboat 10 putting on her
war paint and is ready to do battle with
the flames whenever Il may b necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-14
Proposed Rival to Panama Canal.

A cablegram from Mexico City last night
says: The Mexican Herald has been in
formed that the governments Of Great Bril-
tain and Japan have practically decided TO
construct ship canal of their own across
Nicaragua, practically on the lines OF the
plan rejected by the American govern
ment Great Britain will furnish the capi-
tai and Japan the labor. British and Japa-
nese engineers regard the Nicaragua route
as the only one really practicable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-14
Ranssck the Carrot.

You will doubtless find pieces Of furni-
ture draperies ETC., that you are not using
that you can exchange for something you
can use. Advertise your offer In the
Trade" column of Sundays Star. 1c. q
word.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-14

WI Ting Fang. formerly Chinese minis
ter to the United States in this city, is re-
ported to have become totally deaf as a
result of the explosion of a bomb thrown
by a fanatic when the Chinese commits
sioners were leaving Picking TO visit for
eign countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-14
MUST BE EXAMINED
FORCE OF RECORDER OF DEEDS
NOW IN CLASSIFIED SERVICE.

Recorder Of Deeds Dancy was today
notified by the civil service commission
that the President has placed the Office OF
recorder of deeds of the District in the
classified service, subject to the rules and
regulations Of the commission, and that
hereafter competitive examinations will be
held for testing the qualifications of APP
plicants for appointment in a clerical
capacity in that office. The receipt of this
notice was very gratifying to Recorder
Dancy who is understood to have sug
gested or recommended such a course.
1t is understood that the commission of
which the assistant secretary of the treas
ury, Mr.. C. H. Keep, is chairman. recently
reached the recorder Of deeds office in the
course OF its investigation Of the various
departments and bureaus of the govern
ment, with the result that the commission
recommended to the President that the
clerical force Of the office, including the
coypists employed therein, be placed in the
classified service. The matter was re-
ferred to the civil service commission, who
reported to the President that 1t was clear
ly in his power to SO direct Accordingly
the President on October 81, 1908, issued
the following order:
The Presidents Order.
TT is deemed desirable that competitive
examinations shall be held for testing the
QuallncatlonS OF applcants dor appoint
ment In clerical capacity In the office of
the recorder Of deeds at Washington, such
examinations to be confined to actual bona
fide residents OF the District of Columbia.
The United States civil service commits
sion Is therefore directed to render such
assistance as may be practicable to the
recorder for the establishment and main
tenance of a system of examinations to
precede such appointments, to be open to
all citizens of the District of Columbia
qualified in respect to aSe, character, edu-
cation and experience; and for that pur-
pose to conduct examinations upon the re-
quest of the recorder under such regula-
tons as may be agreed upon by him and
the commission
When Recorder Dancy took charge of the
Office the force of copyists was larger by
eight or ten than 1t is today, ii then being
larger in his opinion than either the re-
uuirements of the office or good admlnlstra-
ton demanded He has. therefore, reduced
the force whenever 1t became possible Tor
him to do so without injury to the work
of the office. In this course, pursued De
spite great and persistent pressure brought
to bear on him by those seeking employ
ment, it is understood that he has had the
approval of the President. Recorder Dancy
will at the earliest opportunity confer with
Chief Examiner F. NJ. Higgins of the civil
service commission with the view or con-
Quoting the examinations contemplated by
the Presidents order
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-14
What Do You Wantp

And what will you trade in for it? Adver-
tse your proposition in the Trade coI-
umn Of Sundays Star. lie. word. Mini
mum charge. 15c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-14

Secretary Winslow f. Ames OF the Ameri-
can legation at Santiago. Chile. is depart
ing from Santiago on leave Of absence.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10

floor. 1t will have a truss roof and around
the sides will be a gallery for visitors
Congressman Hull says that it is his
intention to ask the War department for
light battery to be stationed here. and as
he always gets what he wants from the
War department il is all but assured. This
will call for the erection of more buildings
to quarter the $50 officers and men, the six
gun caissons and horses.
Tentative plans have also been made to
secure 200 acres of land adjoining the post
and erect quarters for a battalion of in
fantry, this combining the three branches
of the service for the purpose of admin
istratlon and drill. This has been done at
but two other places: at Fort Ethan Allen,
Vermont, end Fort William Mckinley.
near Manila, p. l. If this is done, and il
is more than probable, Fort Des Moines
is likely to grow into a brigade command
with brigadier general and stan.
Value to the City.
Colonel Thomas, commanding Fort Des
Moines, in speaking of the value of the
post &c Des Moines. said THE pay roll
OF the post is now over $4,000 and will be
increased to nearly a quarter of a million
when the other squadron comes. In addi-
sistance departments spend about 100000
annually. this in addition to the work OF
construction.
Horse breeders and the producers Of
grain and feed should look to Fort Des
Moines as a good market. Roughly speak
ing, the post WILL in the future, consume
annually over 100000 pounds of oats,
over 100000 pounds of corn, over 10000
hounds of bran over 2 600 tons of hav and
500 tons of straw. costing in all about
$4,000. About fifty new horses are re-
quired as remounts each year.
Fort Des Moines will be great show
place. The city is preparing to build
viaduct over the railroad tracks and a
boulevard to the. post making a beautiful
drive. Already 1t is a great attraction and
bids fair TO rival Fort Smelling at st.
Paul or Fort Leavenworth,- near Kansas
City, for the favors of the people"
Buildings at the Post.
One can visit the post by the electric
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10

over them The fire is started and the ore
gradually burns away day after day for a
period of two months or more. This roasts
out Is or 20 per cent OF the sulphur.
The smoke which comes up from these
vast windows of roasting metal is of
light yellow. color 1t smells like burnt
matches, and it is almost pure sulphur.
Added 10 the sulphur fumes from the fur
naces, it fills the air about Copper Gin
to such an extent that no vegetation will
grow. Before the mines were discovered
the country was a green forest, and you
may here and there see the charred stumps
standing out on the barren landscape. In
the town itself, which has, 1 judge, over
1900 people, there is not a, green
leaf nor a blade of grass. bush nor
flower to be seen throughout the year. The
country around the smelters is as arid as
the Desert of Sahara. 1t makes me think
of the nitrate fields about Iquiqui, in
northern Chile, where there is no fresh
water for hundreds of miles and all is
sand and rock. Indeed, nature here has
been blasted by the birthstone damnat!ca
coming out of the ore.
There are In the neighborhood OF
1000 miners employed here by the
Canadian Copper company, One might sup
pose that they would be injured by these
sulphur fumes. They are, on the contrary,
as healthy as any people in the world. The
children have rosy cheeks and the miners
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10
The NIekeI Trust.

For all practical purposes there is only
one nickel company operating here today.
This is the International Nickel company,
which is a combination OF the Canadian
Copper company which operates here, and
It's associate companies Of the United
states which reduce the matt and handle
the product. The company has a capital
ization running high into the millions, and
l understand that il pays good dividends.
The Canadian Copper company was the
first TO mine nickel in large quantities II
was organized by Ohio parties in 1850 the
chief incorporators being Cleveland men.
among whom were Judge Stevenson Burk,
Senator Henry B. Payne ana others. The
Canadian Pacific road had made hare the
nickel deposits several years before; but no
one had looked upon the ore as nickel. and
Il was considered valuable only for the cop
per it contained The Ohio company sub
scribed S2.5000Oo to its enterprise aud began
60 work mines at Copper Clin for the cop
per in them. They sent part or their cop
per TO New Jersey and another part 10
Wales. The reduction works at New Jer-
sey looked upon the nickel as OF no account
ana let II run on with the slag. while the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10

Even after this roasting there is 10 per
cent of sulphur left In the ore. The most
of this is roasted out in the smelling. The
air about the furnaces is loaded with brim-
stone to such an extent that the men use
rubber nose caps. for all the world like
the nipples on babies nursing bottles. save
that they are as big as your fist and each
has a sponge inside It soaked with car
Donate of ammonia, Whis counteracts the
effects of the sulphur in the air breathed
through 1t and makes 1t possible for the
men to work. had one Of these nipples
on my nose when l went through the works
to keep out the fumes. Notwithstanding
this my lungs became flied with sulphur.
coughed and coughed until the tears
rolled down my cheeks; and as did so
/ thought that if some of the preachers
could really taste the birthstone here their
word pictures OF the lower regions would
lie more persuasive.
shall not attempt to describe the pro-
cess of reducing the ore in the furnace.
The smelter covers many acres and its
machinery is all of the most modern make
Everything is arranged to save manual
labor and the ores are reduced at the min
imum cost. At present the company IL
constructing new works in addition to
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10

belong to the Canadian Copper company.
This is a branch of the international Nickel
company, or Nickel trust, which owns 90
900 acres of nickel lands here, and which
has a monopoly of the nickel business OF
this continent. Indeed, might say that it
has almost monopoly of the nickel of the
world, the output of the French mines
being much less than that of Canada. II
shirs between IA, 100000 and 1900, 600 pounds
of nickel matte annually, and its product
last year was worth more than 100000
1t has the biggest nickel smelter on earth.
and 1t has about the only process that
is successfully used for getting the nickel
out of the matte after 1t comes from the
smelter. 1t is this process which gives the
International Nickel company the monopoly
Of the business. Men with small capital
cannot compete although there are. great
areas of nickel lands outside those belong
ing to the trust. Such miners would have
TO build shelters and at the same time
invent a process for getting the nickel out
of the matte. Indeed. am told that more
than half the nickel ore now available
is outside the mines of the Canadian Cop
per company. Valuable deposits are owned
by the Lake Superior corporation, origin
ated by the Clergue syndicate Of Sault
Sainte Marie. This company has shelters
at its mines and It has been turning out
matte which It hopes to reduce by mAsns
Of electricity generated by the water power
Of the St. Marys river. The Vivians of
Wales own the Murray mines. but they
have. l am told. lost more than $4,000 in
working them. There are other mines
whose product is reduced by the Mond
process the matte being shipped to Eng
land. and there are vast deposits I'm the
'hands OF private parties with no end OF
country yet to prospect Indeed. II a
cheaper method of getting the nickel out
of the copper, sulphur and iron can be
invented the other mines here will be rap
idly opened and nickel may become a
comparatively cheap metal At the time
these mines were discovered II was worth
81 a pound. II is now worth 90 cents, and
no one can tell what it will be worth in
the .uture.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10

took the case into court and appealed for
a separation.
Justice would seem to require. of course,
that Judgment upon the husband be sus-
pended pending an examination of the
jokes. 1t is to be hoped that the Des
Moines court did not return his decision,
which was favorable to the plaintiff, until
she had presented a few sample wit
ticisms for judicial inspection. There are
jokes which would make even the most
amiable husband sad. Whether or not the
Des Moines husband. was at fault would
depend chiefly upon the, character of the
humor to which he was treated. If a court
sitting upon such a case should call for
samples and find that exhibit A was an
ancient conundrum. exhibit b a pun and
exhibit C a hoary Joe Miller, he plainly
would be justified in returning decision
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10

Talk About Nickel.


Is During my stay at Copper Cliff / had
chat with Mr.. David II. Browne, the metal
lurgist of the international Nickel company,
abut nickel and the new uses for it. Mr..
Browne has been connected with the Can
adian Copper company for the last fifteen
years. He has been working successfully
in nickel all the time, and he knows as
much, perhaps. about II as any man in the
country. In speaking of the similarity of
nickel steel to meteorites, Mr. Browne re-
marked that 1t had practically the same
composition as the latter "A meteorite,"
said he, might be called a part Of a burst
world which has shot of through space
and fallen to earth. The discovery of the
process of making nickel steel was by an
Englishman named Riley, who got the sug-
gestion from a meteor found In Greenland.
This meteor was an immense mass which
had fallen from the skies long ago and
was venerated by the Greenlanders as a
god The natives were wont to hammer
splinters from it, and make them into spear
heads and hammer heads. They accom-
panied their work by prayers to the god,
and found that their spear heads were finer
than any that they could get elsewhere.
A few years ago Peary, the explorer,
brought one of these meteorites TO New
York. and 1t is now In the center of the
arch Of the Museum Of Natural History on
ENCOURAGEMENT street. That meteOrite lie
pure nickel steel and the splinters and the
hammer heads of the Greenlanders were
nickel steel Riley heard of these discov-
cries and this gave him the idea which
ended in the new metal. / think 4 was
Tyndal who first made Il publicly known
that the meteorites contained nickel steel.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10
Domestic Trouble Caused by Joking Habit

favorable to the long-suffering defendant.
On the other hand, a few specimens OF
sparkling, offhand humor, freshly minted
and sufficiently effective to move the court
to mirth. would constitute plain case for
the wife.
Regardless of the merits of this particu-
lar suit. the incident holds out a lesson for
all husbands whose wives are Of a humor-
Gus bent. When a married man has reason
to suspect his wife is joking he should
laugh and thus promote harmony and
his own happiness. If he has any doubts
on the subject ne should ask her, and, on
being confirmed in his suspicious, should
laugh anyhow. 1t is the loyal husbands
business to respond with proper apprecia-
ton when his wife is merry. II he fails
to do so he deserves the domestic troubles
which must follow.-Chicago News.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10
NiekeI-steeI boz Gunhoat..

II suppose the chief use OF nickel Is for
making such steel. il II not?''
yes. although there are many other
manufactures into which nickel enters. The
beauty about nickel steel is that It com
bines exceeding toughness with great
strength. Copper wire has great toughness,
A needle or a penknife has great strength.
But. 1t is only nickel steel that has tough
ness and strength combined. This makes
IL especially valuable for armor plate A
war vessel with hull covered with steel
or iron would be shattered TO pieces II one
OF our modern shells should strike H. II
the armOr plate Is made OF nickel steel Il
does not break. The great projectile makes
only a dimple in IL, as you would In a pat
of butter II you stuck in your finger. This
property OF tOughness is added TO the steel
by putting in Sii per cent OF nickel while Il
is making. All the war vessels OF today
ara plated with that composition. They
have an armOr plate OF nickel steel about
eighteen inches thick. Such were the plates
on the hulls OF the battleships OF both
countries In the Russian-Japanese war,
and the shot which was employed in the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10

those now in use, and a waterfall twenty
eight miles away is being equipped with
machinery which will give the company
10000 horsepower. The output at this
writing is about 700 tons OF nickel matte
per day, which, at 800 working days in the
year. would make something like 100000
tons of matte annually. All this matte is
sent to Constable Hook, N. j., where its
various elements are separated by the
oxford process. and the nickel of commerce
is made.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10
Prattle OF the Youngsters

How do you know, that you have
soul?" asked the Sunday school teacher.
"Cause," answered the small boy in
whose mind souls and hearts were the
same, II can hear IL tick"
d
Teacher-You've been a very good boy
for the last day or two, Bobbie. haven't
seen you fighting with the other boys or
romping in the school room
Bobbie-Yesm. got a stiff neck.
%
Teacher-How many senses have we,
Harry?
Teacher-That's right. Now. Johnny. tell
me how we may use them.
Johnny-To buy candy with.
"Gee but I got a cinchT'
what is it, Tommy
81 do anything I want ter, an then I
tell ma th't pa said could. An tell pa
tht ma said / could"
But don't they get wise when they ask
each other7"
Nav. Pa an ma don't speak"
-
Augustus Thomas the playwright, In
vented a fine plan whereby he keeps his
6-year-old son from shocking his mamma
by repeating swear words. For every new
word that the little chap whispers to him
privately Mr.. Thomas gives him a quarter.
on condition that he shall never repeat it
again. He had great faith in the prophy-
Tactic power of the system until one day
last week, when he was chatting with
dozen guests before dinner.
Little Gus. who had been out walking
near the golf links with his nurse, burst
into the drawing room his blue eyes
dancing with enthusiasm, his fair ourls
flying, his pink cheeks extended IN
triumphant smile.
"oh, papa, pspar' he cried. I've Just
heard a now one that's worth dollarv'
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10


The nickel of this Lake Superior region
lies in the earth somewhat like iron ore
II looks like iron, or rather like the brass
stun you sometimes find in coal. II is
combination of nickel, copper, sulphur and
iron, and II is found in mighty beds or
pockets going down nobody knows how
deep. There are nickel mines at Copper
Gin, about four miles from here, which
are now 100 feet deep and the ore is stiu
rich and plentiful. The Creighton mine is
apparently inexhaustible. The vast Dit
from which the ore has been quarried dur
ing the last two or three years is about 80
feet wide and 500 feet long. II looks like
the mouth Of a volcano and makes me think
OF the Bona volcano which l visited In the
mountains of eastern Java.
The ore here lies between great walls
OF rock. on one side Of II is granite and
on the other a black formation known as
diorite. The excavation has already been
made 10 a depth equal. 10 the height OF
one OF the New York skyscrapers, and all
the way down btween these rocks there
has been nothing but ore. The company
has sunk shaft down through the granite,
and the vast body of nickel ! have mem
toned has been taken out by running tun-
nels at different levels into the ore aud
bringing IL down from above
While l was at the mine hundreds OF
wOrkmen were drilling and blasting. They
were loading the ore upon cars. raising IL
TO the surface and shipping It of 20 the
great smelters at Copper CHI. where il is
reduced to nickel matte, which is sent to
the rehneries at Constable Hook. N j.
Standing on the edge Of the great hole
! could SEQ the diamond drills working more
than thousand feet away testing the ore
body in that direction. 1t seems 10 be
equally large and rich, and Il is. / am told
one OF the most valuable bodies OF ore In
existence
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10
Uncle SANS Profit from NiokeIs.

How about our nickel coins. Mr..
Browne?' / asked. Are they made OF the
nickel that comes from here?"
Partly So" was the reply. IAN the
nickel they contain is from our mines They
are only one-quarter nickel. however, the
remainder being pure copper. Indeed, there
is only about one-fifth of a cents worth OF
nickel in a scent piece Nickel is worth
about 40 cents a pound. while copper IL
worth only about 10 cents so you see there
is a nice little profit in money OF such com
position.
There are few countries which use
pure nickel for their coinage" continued
the metaIiurgist. "and among them are
Belgium and Switzerland. The smaller OF
the Belgian coins are of nickel with hole
through the center, in order that they may
not he taken for silver coins of a higher de-
nomination. Nickel looks like silver, but it
does not tarnish and does not got black.
The East Indian government r. now con-
sldering the use Of nickel for its coinage,
and few blanks with holes in the center
like the Belgian coins have been made.
These coins. however have not been put
into circulation. because King Edwards
head is 10 go on the coin. and his majesty
naturally objects 10 having a hole punched
through his face. For this reason the new
Indian coins will probably be solid"
How about nickel-plating. Mr.. Browne?'
THAT was one OF the first uses of nickel.
The metal does not rust and a thin coating
is often put over other metals on that ac-
count. This is done by hanging the things
TO be plated in "a solution OF nickel. ia
which a slab OF pure nickel metal Is hung
current OF electricity is sent through the
solution In such a way that a small amount
of the nickel coats the other metal hanging
in the solution. making Il rustless."
FRANK q. CARPENTER
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-10

TOO gloomy disposition. Des MoInes Ia,
now reports case in which a household
was broken up because the wife was too
humorous.
She was of a mirthful disposition
and made jokes on all possible occa-
sions These took well with the other
members Of the household, but the husband
declined to laugh at them. When his better
half produced neat conundrum or cracked
a joke at the dinner table he gave her a
cold unappreciative stare. After submit
ting to this humiliating treatment for
years and seeing some of her best jokes
treated with disdainful indifference she