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The Washington times., 1905-04-30
Use BOTH HANDS.

That both hands were made TO use
one is apt 10 realize in later years when
the hand that has carried the burden o.
labor through life begins to grow lame
and more or less unserviceable.
If people would use both hands more
they would be surprised in how few
months they might attain to fair am
bideXterity.
The best exercise is said to be in writ
ing with both hands. II is surprising how
soon the neglected hand will respond If
freely used
II is said that nature never made any
right-handed people IF a man learns
to write with his left han,F ali the othef
manual gIaces are soon aC lei unto him
Carrying an umbrella in the left hand.
fencing. using a spoon. parting the hair.
and other unimanual exercises are high
ly recomme nded 10 develop beth hands
equally.-Boston Globe.
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A Committee of Three
IS Selected to Witness
Destruction.
Elaborate Precautions
Adopted to Prevent
Dishonesty.
Fiery Liquid Is Nodded
Into Armament for
the Navy.

AT 7:15 each morning the ponderous
doors swing open, and at 7:30 the dis
tribution OF the 1900 plates used each
day is begun Every piece handed out
TO a printer is checked, the system OF
recording being something remarkable.
The system works like a machine. and
each employee is a part of that machine.
with Custodian Ralph as the engineer.
AT 3 o'clock the plates begin to re-
turn, and by 4 O'Clock they are all in
their places. cleaned and ready for use
again on the next day. or when their
turn comes.
One of the most interesting pieces OF
work done at the bureau IS the engrav-
ing and printing of stamps. Millions OF
stamps are turned out each day. Among
the plates destroyed recently there were
1877 stamp plates. which had done
marvellous work. Custodian Ralph says
that these plates have produced enough
stamps to make a ribbon long enough
to girdle the earth three times.
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member of the Legislature or Cons
gresham in the matter of appointment,
or that in its opinion a mana dreamy
bookworm-who does not know enough to
come in out of the rain. save Dy the
principles of psychological deduction. is
better qualified to conduct q rural Iouta
than one who is able to curry a horse, or,
in a pinch. help patron farmer TO stack
hay or spray his pigs. or preach an up
lifting and helpful sermon at the rural
chapel while the regular pastor is away
on his vacation.
81 do not ask you to take up this mat
ter in an official sense, but If you can
in any way help these two gentlemen
to show the Government what they can
do. and how well they can do it. You will
oblige me. AT any rate, will appre-
eiate it if you viii tell me whether va
cancies exist, and how near they are TO
the top of the eligible list"
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Fate of Steel Plates in
Bureau of Engraving
and Printing.
Number of Impressions
They Make Measures
Their Lives.
Having Served Their Day.
They Are Melted at
Navy Yard.
HHE hIztory Of a unitkd states gold

II HE history of United States gold
or silver note would make inter-
! esting reading. Just before its
final destruction Al the Treasury
Department. it might tell some wonder
ful things; of how many purses it had
occupied; how many strange cities it
had visited, and other peculiar things,
but like all paper, It becomes worn out
and IS DESTROYED
This IS not the case with the steel
plates from which the paper notes are
printed, They never become useless
after serving one purpose. they are
CHANGED into other forms and continue
to do work for Uncle Sam. The History
OF Steel Money Plaie' would make
far more interesting reading than the
little story of a Drop OF INK"
When you hold crisp. new note in
your hand, Hia you ever sto- TO think
OF how that note was made? Did you
ever slap TO think that the plate upon
which that note is printed Is more val
liable and important than the money
itself?
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18th a Last Angry Gurgle."
Ais Well in Kansas---No Longer '"Bleeding -

T is no longer bleeding Kansas. -
4 whereof ii was written that the
I farmers raised too little corn and
4 too much hell On the contrary. airs
well in Kansas. despite the blight of~the
Standard Oil Trust.
Assurances to this effect were received
by Po4 master General Cortelyou in the
followiI g letter from prominent Re-
pubucas of the SEnhower State, who IS
seeking % land two of his young fellow
citizens on the Government pay roll:
"a blue of sunshine is nursing the
buds and giving courage to everything
that liv-s in Kansas today. The birds
are sinSi-C in the caves and talking to
one an.the- of love. The pigeons are re-
hearst ig those springtime capers by
which they win their mates. and those
fowls of Shanghai ancestry that have
playts such a noble part in the pros
perity OF Kansas are CLOSING their
feathers for a season that may again
inspire the muse of Coburn TO give US
another poetic volume on the Kansas
hen
The COWS, forgetfuI and forgiving of
the Beef trust have their noses buried
deep in the luXuriant alfalfa, where
dwelIs potentially many dollar for the
refrigerator outfit and many a healthy
coTpuscle for the blood OF the An-eri-
can workman-God bless him.
THE man with the noe is busy in his
garden, bent on proving that the seeds
sent him by our Congressman ere the
choicest selections of the Scotch genius
of the Very Honorable Secretary OF
Agriculture and the very perfection of
the experimentation of Government; the
man with the hammer is knocking on
nothing but nails, and the music he
makes sounds swceter in the pink ears
of the little wife who has nspired to a
little nest of her own nan the tones
that come bounding and thrilling from
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Protected From Counterfeiters.

4 great deal of care and watchfuiness
is exerted by the committee in taking
the plates from the boxes. Each box
is split open by a laborer. and then
DR.. Young counts the plates TO see if
every one is there. and checks it off on
his books Mr.. Morris or Mr.. Ogden
keeps his eyes on the plates while they
are carried TO the furnace door.
While there is no possibility of the
plates being used again. owing to the
emery wheel marks on the face, ii would
be an easy matter to copy the engraV-
ing. One of these plates in the hands Of
a counterfeiter would bring about q
world of trouble. 1t would be an easy
task to produce a perfect plate from the
old one. even though it was defaced
However, there never has been an at
tempt 10 get a plate at the Navy Yard
and not a single piece of engraving mat
ter has ever been lost.
When the furnace IS full Of metal, the
doors Al the tcp are closed. and "a, ire
mendous draft is directed upon the fire,
and in a remarkably short time the
melted iron and steel are gusgIing al the
bottom, seeking an outlet.
The mechanic who is charged with
opening and closing the hole through
which the liquid pours, takes his iron
rod, and bores through the temporary
nlling. and with a squirt the transforma-
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for work with your Uncle Samuel, One
OF them Is Jack -, of -. Jack IS
a young man who seeks a humble share
in the glory of the AdministTa ton. He
does not want to go to St. James or St
Petersburg. nor to the Philippines nor
to Panama To- pull his weight of the
burden of national service. He is TOO
good q Kansan for that. and its
charming enVirons have more attrac-
lions for him than the ivy-mautled tow
ers of London, the mosques and minarets
of the Muscovite capital. the cathedral
domes of Manila or the palm shades of
the isthmus.
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generosity Of smiling nature in that sec
ton. of the corn belt you would not
blame him.
Neither of these gentlemen knows
aught of the impotence Of a Congress
man before civil service commission.
They rightly estimate our Representa-
tive in Congress to be a great man. but
when they hold him to be omnIp0tent 1
grieve for their innGcence-s,nd envy
them, too. In a vague, dreamy sort CT
way the gcod people of Kansas have g
knowledge of the Civil Service Con, mis-
sion. but they do not suspect its icy ma
ture.
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again lifted by the cranes and poised
over the mold. An expert mechanic tips
it over at the proper angie, and the
liquid plates with a last gurgIe of anger
disappear in the dark mold
After their anger has been cooled, the
m1olds are taken apart, the dirt sweep
away, and there we see the money
makers converted into an instrument of
warfare. The gun yokes, ETC., are whisk-
ed away by the cranes to other build
ings, where the rough edges are smooth
ed out, and finally the undergraduate
rnoneymakers lake a trip down the Po-
tomac river on RATS TO Norfolk, there to
be sent out wherever they are needed
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THE CONDUCTOR.

Johnny was at the opera for The first
time. and the celebrated soprano was in
his his, mother, referrfng to the CONDUCTOR
of the orchestra: Why does that man
hit at the woman with his stick?
HE is not hitting al ner replied his
mother; keep quiet"
We'll, then, what is she rowling scr? %
Birmingham (Englandl Post.
The Washington times., 1905-04-30
EARTH FORTIFICATIONS.

Military engineers are agreed that no
material for fertilization is superior TO
earth. When clay is not obtainable, as
on the seashore. sand is collected into
bags and these are laid in regular
heaps along the line of the proposed
fertilization. In such a fertilization the
balls from the enemy's cannon sink
without doing any damage. and shells
ey Mode harm eSSlV
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have become alleged. 1t becomes neces-
sary to purify the liquid so the huge
ladle or vessel is hoisted by means of
moving cranes in the roof. and carried
over to the great converter" The liquid
is poured into this pipe-shaped vessel,
and tremendous air pressure is
brought to bear upon the fiery metal.
The Washington times., 1905-04-30

This blows all of the carbon and i'm
purities up through the roof. and with a
final mixture Of certain chemicals and
metals, the plates are returned TO steel,
ready for the last Transformation.
Molds for gun yokes, gun carriages,
and other equipment for battleships are
close at hand. The ladle full of steel is
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the magic technique of Paderewski or
from the siIveTy throat of Susanna
Adams; the men of law and of com
merce and of science and of politics
are all happy and eontented, and the
efforts Of none are unyieIding of re-
ward. save those of the devil and the
docf orS
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They Do Not Understand.

cit would take them long me 20
really understand that the said commits
sion is not eager to be guided by the
wisdom of a county commissioner,
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ton Of the money plates bursts out and
splashes and roars into the ladIe placed
underneath to receive 1t.
:. ~
With a Last Angry Gurgle."
Now on account of the other metal
mixed III with them. the steel :iates
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
DANIEL LAMONT DEAD
HEART DISEASE BRINGS CAREER
OF FORMER SECRETARY OF
WAR TO SUDDEN END.

Milbrook, N. Y, July 24.-An at
tack of heart trouble has caused the
sudden death of Colonel Daniel S. La
mont, first private secretary to Presi-
dent Cleveland, later secretary OF war
and afterward vice president of the
Northern Pacific railroad The fatal
Illness was so brief that 1t startled
even the medical men attending him.
Colonel and Mrs. Lamont were out
driving during the afternoon and Colo
mel Lamont appeared to be enjoying
the best Of health. After dinner he
complained of feeling ill and DR.. Stew
art of New York, who was guest at
the house, Immediately went to his
aid. The physician diagnosed the case
as an attack of heart failure and ID
snite of the heroic treatment Mr. La
mont passed away within half an hour.
AZ his deathbed were Mrs. Lamont
and two daughters, Frances and Bes-
sic Several guests at the Lamont
home were also present when the END
came. oro
Colonel Lamont was fifty-four years
of age. ..,--......r.. -.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
LONG STRIKE ENDED
CHICAGO TRANSFERS suRREN
DER UNcoNDITloNALLY AND
SEEK OLD PLACES.

Chicago, July 21.-The teamsters
strike that has so greatly disturbed
business conditions in this city for
the past three months, is at an end
The strikers have made a complete
surrender and Will at once seek their
old positions without an agreement of
any kind with the employers.
The first break in the ranks of the
strikers came Thursday afternoon
when the lumber teamsters voted to
return to work, regardless of what ac.
tion might be taken by any other
union. At night the department store
drivers and the railway express driv.
ers voted to call off the strike and
seek their old positions in the morn.
Ing. 1t is expected that about 60 per
cent Of the department store drivers
will be reinstated and the express
drivers declared they believed that
about 100 of their number would be
taken back by the express companies.
The express companies have declared
all through the strike, however, that
not one of the men who struck would
ever be reinstated.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
UNION STILL EXISTS
SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF swEp
IsH RIksDAG so DECLARES
IN ITS REPORT.

Stockholm. July 26.-The special
committee appointed by the riksdag
to deal with the crisis which created
the revolution in Norway has deltv.
cred its report.
The committee declares the union
was not dissolved by the storthing's
action, holding that contract cannot
be broken by one party's parliament,
and that it is for Sweden to decide
what action is necessary.
The committee emphatically disap-
proves of any action by Sweden either
In the direction of a dissolution of the
union or recognition of Norways inde-
pendence until the Norwegians have
had an opportunity through elections
or plebiscite of expressing their
wishes. If the vote favors q dissolu-
tion the storthing must legally ap-
proach Sweden to this end and If q
satisfactory agreement can be reached
the committee recommends Swedens
assent.
The committee, in conclusion, re-
fuses to recommend that the riksdag
authorize the cabinet to negotiate with
Norway as demanded by the govern
ment bill, but says that If Norway
legally approaches Sweden in accord
ance with the committees proposal
negotiations may be opened.
AS result Of the committees report
the entire cabinet has resigned.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
N san DIEGO HARBDR
Gunboat Bennington Torn From
Stem to Stern by Terrific
Explosion
Over Sixty Dead and Many In.
jured as Result of Faulty
Boilers

Berlin, July 25.-The foreign oflce
here is advised that meeting be-
tween Emperor William and the cxar
took place early in the day off the
Swedish coast near the island of Bioer-
koe.
Emperor Nicholas wrote to Emperor
William several days ago that If, dur
ing the latter's yachting in the Baltic.
he should approach the Russian shore
he emperor Nicholas) would be
pleased to meet him. The German
emperor replied that he would be glad
to cruise to any convenient point and
the island of Bjoerkoe was suggested.
It was understood that the converse
tion was to be entirely personal and
Intimate and therefore no minister
from either government was to be
present, although the Russian minister
of marine is IN Emperor Nicholas
suite. The meeting is sequence to
the correspondence that has been 60
ing on between the two emperors con-
cerning peace, in which Emperor Will
lam urged Emperor Nicholas to take
steps toward peace. Emperor William
was then cooperating with President
Roosevelt in seeking to bring the bel
ligerents to discussion of the terms
of peace and in the present meeting
the Associated Press Is authoritatively
Informed Emperor William will con
tinue to advise peace should the Rus.
sian emperor ask for his further views,
and it would be very natural that EN-
peror Nicholas should do so as q de-
velopment of the correspondence which
has already taken place. Emperor
William went. to the meeting, as the
Associated Press Is officially informed.
prepared to say If he were asked that
he thought Emperor Nicholas could at
tain full understanding and recon
ciliation with the discontented por-
tions of his people only through re-
forms.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
Saturday, July %.

Georgetown, Ind, was almost
washed away Friday by a cloudburst.
No lives were lost.
Rev. DIR. Dean Richmond Babbitt,
rector of the Church of the Epiphany,
Brooklyn, is dead, aged hfty-four years.
Andy ]. Gilligan, prominent Elk
and widely known among the theatri-
cal profession, died at Cincinnati Fri
day of kidney disease.
E. A. Drake. secretary and treasurer
Of the Panama Railroad company, has
been appointed assistant to President
Shonts. Mr. Drake will exercise all
the functions Of president of the Pan
anna company during the absence OF
Mr.. Shonts.
Captain H. Clay Evans, Jr, U. s.
A., retired. is dead, aged thirty-two
years. Captain Evans served in the
Philippines and was retired some time
ago on account of poor health. He
was the only son Of H. Clay Evans
ex-pension commissioner.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
BODY LIES ON AMERICAN SOIL,
Remains Of Paul Jones In Vault on
Naval Academy Grounds,

Remains Of Paul Jones In Vault on
Naval Academy Grounds.
Annapolis, Nd, July 24.-In sim.
pie vault in the grounds of the naval
academy lie the remains of John Paul
Jones. With the simple ceremony at
tending the landing of the body from
the cruiser Brooklyn the naval expedi-
ton authorized to accomplish it's
transfer from the Paris cemetery
which has been it's place of repose for
more than century is completed. The
formal national reception of the body
with appropriate exercises is reserved
until 1t shall be placed in the splendid
naval chapel now being erected near
the site of the temporary vault.
The work of the day consisted of the
removal of the body from the Brook
lyn to the naval tug Standish and from
that to float moored to the shore.
where stalwart jackies placed it in 4
hearse. which was escorted by an i'm
posing cortege Of marines, jackies and
midsh1pmen, in which the French ma
tion participated with a landing party
OF officers and men from the French
cruiser Jurien de la Craviere.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
MISSES THE SULTAN
BOMB THROWN At rURkEY's
RULER KILLS OR INJUREs
HIS ATTENDANTS.

Washington, July %. - Minister
Leishman, at Constantinople. has ca
bled the state department a report Of
the attempt made on the life of the
sultan during the zelamik ceremony.
Mr.. Leishman states that a large bomb
was exploded just as the sultan was
leaving the mosque. He escaped in
jury and at once drove back to the
palace in the customary manner. Be-
tween thirty and forty persons were
killed or wounded and a number Of
carriages were wrecked. The perpe-
traitors of the outrage have not been
detected.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
Monday, July "a.

Lord Curzon, viceroy Of India, who
has been In Ill health for some time.
is now confined to his bed.
Jean Jacques Benner, the distin'
guished painter, who has been serious
ly III for some time, died at Paris
Sunday.
A landslide at Naples. Italy. de-
stroyed the dry basin which was built
in 1900 at cost OF 100000 and other
wise caused great damage.
It is rumored that John F. Wallace
formerly chief engineer of the Panama
canal. is to be made president OF the
Seaboard Air Line railroad.
Edward w. Nash, president of the
American Smelling and Refining com
pany, is dead at Omaha from the ef
fects of q stroke Of paralysis sustained
May %.
IN saving the lives Of an unknown
woman and her baby William J. NC
Donald. 1agman Of the Long Island
railway. died martyr at his post IN
Long Island City.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28

state university died suddenly ar ans
tin of heart failure.
me elections to the Servian parlia.
ment resulted in an absolute ma iority
for the government.
seven persons killed and fifty-four
injured is the record made so far this
year by automobilists in Chicago.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota hoe
made formal appeal to the people of
the state for aid in behalf Of the flood
sufferers of Aitkin county.
Solomon G. Enos, aged lightweight
years, an old time newspaper man and
tne oldest member of Wolcott post, G.
A. r., is dead at Milwaukee.
An investigation of the leakage of
the cotton reports of the department Of
agriculture has been begun by the fed.
eral grand jury at Washington.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
ty Crop Census
sand Bushels Of
d Other Fruit
| in Black Hills
|, Bad River Better
Through Hill

fifteen counties of the
ate auditor for assess
show a total valuation
The same counties last
valuation Of $4S,9S6.-
/ approximately $4,000
r. The state t~"d in
eturns last year 10 $780,
the net gain ON the
Eing about s250,000. At
| for the other counties
ke gain for the year on
Twill be about $7,0O0,0 900,
Bin over the figures as
tie board last year will
|s1,O0O,000 increase for
ke, which will not give
bunt of relief so far as
b the state general fund
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
GETS A LIGHT SENTENCE.
Senator Mitchell Of Oregon Draws Six
Months and Fine Of $1,000.

Portland. Ore. July 26.-United
States Senator Mitchell, convicted Of
using his position to further the law
practice of the firm of Mitchell &
Tanner of this city, has been SEN
fenced to pay a fine of 81 900 and six
months penal servitude.
Pending review of the case by the
supreme court of the United States
execution Of the sentence will be de-
ferred In the meantime Senator Nit
chell will be placed under bail to tho
amount Of $4,000.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28

an negroes VINO were employed in try
lng to prevent the spread of the
flames.
Forty-three mules are known to
nave perished. The managers of the
Iexas company state that the tanks
contained approximately 100000 bar
rels OF oil, which was valued at about
70 cents per barrel, and that none of
the oil will be saved. In addition
they say that the big pumping plant
At the tanks was entirely destroyed.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
TWELVE DIE BY FIRE
NEGROES WHO WERE TRYING TO
STOP SPREAD OF FLAMES At
HUMBLE, TEX. PERISH.

Houston, Tex, July 25.-The fire in
the Humble oil fields, which started
Sunday night, is still burning fiercely,
but it remains confined to the tanks
of the Texas company. While no
names are ascertainable, it is believed
that twelve persons lost their lives.
So far as can be learned these were
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
BY LEGISLATIVE INQUIRY.
Investigation Of Life Insurance Busi
ness In New York.

Albany, N. Y, July 21.-There will
be legislative investigation Of the
life insurance business as carried on
in this state, both by New York state
corporations and by those of other
states doing business within this
state. This investigation will be
made by a special joint committee
with ample powers, of which the chair
man will be Senator William Arm
strong Of Rochester, Republican.
The institution of the committee fol-
lowed hard upon a message from
Governor Higgins to the legislature,
which came as complete surprise.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-07-28
and as some of the families are quite
large the total in some cases will
reach a snug sum.
Arrested by Federal Officers.

o. V. Lamb, deputy United States
marshal, has arrested John Kimball at
Doland on the charge of sending OBJ.
1eetionable matter through the mails
at Manito, ILL.,. where Kimball was a
real estate dealer. He was working
as farmland on farm near Doland
kimball will be turned over to the
United States authorities Of Illinois.