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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-04

GrcstSr.
Along the Pacific Coast the army
transport service in operation with me
Philippines aud intermediate points. ID
not REGARDED with favor. Private
steamship companies covet the bust
ness which is now being done oy the
dozen and n half vessels making up the
transport fleet.
During tbs. last fiscal year the Shcri-
dan. sherman. Thomas. LoE1n All
DIX carried 90 Honolulu. Guam AMI
Manila $1,000 passengers. llrtan tons
/ OF freight S6o ~tsl pounds ~ ln.tel
4 States mail. and Se.tts.o,o in United
/ states money. besides n cons'tera nle
lamount % philippine pesos coined in
the san Francisco mint. and in Jan
luary. 1906. the schedule was doubled.
That ls. instead % one sailing month
there are now two.
The army prefers 90 So lts own
frci ht and passenger business on
Pacific Tor the following reasons
Primarily. private companies secur
| Ing contracts could not furnish the ser
vice desired without specially con
structed vessels. an expense which
Though demonstrated absolutely neccs
sarv hy experience. they wouid no
undertake owing % the uncertainty %
tho traffic.
Secondly. the present service 9
found more economical the co~t %
operation last year amounted 90 $50
COO less than the lowest estimate or,
scented hv any % the private cox
Germs bidding Tor tho huS.-r~N
Lastly. the cxlrcncics az tno srrv. c
which m Eht NJ any moment dfman
the rapid transportation 81 large shl'
mcnts ~ troops and supplies won'
ncccsSitatp the holding in reserve
n considerable number 10 vessels.
impossihlty 90 a private stcomsh
company which is fo0ced hy compe'
ton 20 operate with strictcst cconom
CONFINED COMFORT AID
CAPACITY.
a In explanation 90 the f-st 90 the
POO reasons the average transport is
'u type - marine construction peculiar
le individual While eXfrr'orIv 10 has
-n- the appointments of a modern ocrn
id going steamer. Dc differs essentially
- lts interior orrnnErwent. Tho tr1'
ly portaflon 81 iarge number ef troo
d.. across an ocean distance 20 a.
- miles. the greater part 90 this m.iea
re- wing within The tropics. demands
best possible ventilation and SAINT
ton The sleeping arcommotatl'
for soldiers are between decks. and
entire space allotted for This purp.
'~- is often from erl o. enl Ne
herths iu tiers 80 three. ONE above
E other. make tle place resemble
-ilnt honrNcomh. shower baths, rc
INK nul recreation rooms are 8
vilca. aud regularly equipped P
.rIral with Isolation w0 rds Is ln chm
or a surgeon AMI assistants d-a
from fle army Medical Corps and
Hospital Corps. These quarters
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-04
THE ARMY TRANSPORT.
PACIFIC SQUADRON Is 4 MODEL
FOX HANDLING The GOTERN-
NENT'S TROOPS.

Private Steamship Companies Said
TO DC CneqUss 10 tnc I aSN % Trans
porting soldier boSs- hc Cost ~
SrGatCr.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-04

moisture. BUT the big farms arc nor
rroSuerous They are largely cnlt-
waited Dy tenants and are strangely
devoid ~ features which make th"
trua southwestern farm one ~ The
MOST delightful home spots in the
world The mem on TIE land SOIL aA
they produce and buy nearly all theF
consume. AuI SD they pay tribute
| so others "-o.u- and com .n--
| have hecn visiting farm In inc
/ Sacramento Valley which consists or
ono SINGLE acre of irrigated land and
which makes bother homo and larger
re- income for it's owner than many
| 20 his nei-hhorS enjoy on places ot
/ thousands OF acres each. The Nfte
farm is at Orland. in Glen County .
and IS the property 81 man nAn'c'.
samuel Cheeks. who has grown OH
land gray while tillnE it Tor the pa@l
thirty years.
/ Nlr. Checks tolls me- that he has no
tVWcu'rv whatever i'm making n COM
Portable LIVING from this ono acre "i
| --ri,atef land. Not only So hut he i-
able 10 save on average ~ -FOUR hun
ll-ed dollars q year beside lie mas
lnor,v to loan. as well as fruit. Ne-r
tables and poultry products to SOIL g
l-ho~a who are getting poorer ever
wear I'm clrrylng on Dig forms WliA'l
| irrigation I was SD curious 20 SNOW
how he could Cet such good result
from 50 SNAIL ON area that l asAe'
lhim 70 give me- list ~ what IN
l,lace contained Here it is-
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-04

TRANS SPORT
THOMAS"
ABOUT To
SAIL FOR THE
ORIENT
FREIGHT
TRAN PORT
DIX LOADING
ANIMALS FDR
PHILIPPINES
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-04

French Ambassador at Washington
Given Position Largely on Account
Of NAifc's NatiVity-Ne~ Embassy
Building Projected.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
RECESSION OF THE FALLS.
Rate at Which the Niagara Cataract
Has Worn It's Way
Backward.

The only reliable data that can form
a basis for speculation as to the prog
ress of Niagara Falls from Lake On
tario to the present site Is found by
comparing the two surveys that have
been made of the falls, one in 1912
and the other in 1886, writes Archer
Butler Hubert, in Four-Track News.
The first of these was a trigonometri-
cal survey made by DR.. John Hall,
nestor of the New York State geologi-
cal survey. At the suggestion of Sir
Charles Lyell, who visited the falls
with him. monuments were erected at
the points at which the angles were
taken in order that some later sur
veyor would be able to find with ac-
curacy the exact extent of the changes.
The second survey was made in 1886
by r. S. Woodward, of the United
States geological survey, now director
Of the Carnegie institute at Washing
ton. The result surprised the world.
Woodwards survey showed
that the falls had moved 900 feet since
1912: the rate at the center had been,
therefore, five feet per annum; Wood
ward proved that the tremendous area
Of five acres of rock had been precipi-
tated from the face of the fall in the
hall century.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
POINTS ABOUT FRANKINO.
Had It's Birth Honestly Enough, in
1860, But Has Come TO
Be Abused.

American legislators are not the
privileges. Recent history In England
has caused the London Chronicle to
say: "Franking had its birth, honest
ly enough. In 1860, in the desire TO re-
lisve members of parliament of the
expense incurred in the discharge Of
their national duties; but the practics
rapidly widened until 1t became pos
sible for members TO transmit their
household goods at the public charge,
as the following extract from old post
Office records testifes: Fifteen couple
of hounds going to the king of Romans
with free passive maid servants
going as laundresses TO my Lord Am
bassador Methuen-Dr. Crichton, car
rying with him a COW and divers neces-
saries-three suits of clothes for some
nobleman's lady at the court of Por-
tugal-two bales of stockings for the
use OF the ambassador TO the crown OF
PORTUGAL deal case, with four
bitches of bacon, for Mr.. Pennington
of Rotterdam
This form of abuse died when the
post office stable underwent purifica-
ton, but IL speedily gave place to an
other variety. Members signed pack
cts OF letters wholesale, gave them
away to their friends, and sometimes
paid their servants wages in franked
envelopes; in fact, they became a val
liable form OF currency, subject to the
art OF the forger, who did a roaring
trade. In 1715 G24,0O0 ($12O OOO)
worth OF free correspondence passed
through the post Office.
Fifty years later the nation was
staggered to discover that the amount
had increased to 9170,000 $3.50, 00O),
and stringent laws were passed to
mitigate the immoral tendencies of the
houses Of parliament. But all was in
vain, until Sir Rowland Hill managed
in 1889 to abrogate the privileges alto
gether."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
EARLY HISTORY OF SAHARA
There Are Evidences of the Deserts
Having Been Fertile and
Populated.

Ia studying the geological history of
this region, Gautier found evidence
that it was once rainless and was truly
desert, the gradual desiccation adj
vancing from the Sudan, writes Cyrus
&. Adams, in the American Monthly
Review of Reviews. Then the era of
permanent drought and complete des-
ert conditions gradually came to an
end. To-day rain belt is creeping up
from the Sudan and is extending
farther and farther north into the
desert. This new epoch may continue
for hundreds OF years.
But the most startling testimony
which Gautier found was absolute
proof that long before the present age
of rainfall, in what is known as the
neolithic or later stone age, very
large population inhabited this part of
the Sahara. He found there graves
scattered over the grassy plain; be
found many hundreds of their draw
ings on the rocks, where they had pic
tured animal forms and other objects.
He discovered the fiattened stones
which they had used for grinding
grain.
These millstones show that agricul-
ture was then developed in that region
and that the grinding of grain into
flour indicates considerable advance OF
civilization. Here and there were
many arrow points, axes of polished
stone and other indictments II was
many hundreds of years ago that hui
man beings inhabited this region, but.
as time is reckoned in geological
epochs, thousands of farmers were till
ing this part of the Sahara at a COM
paratively recent period. They were
finally driven back into the Sudan by
the increasing drought and the world
forgot that this region had ever been
inhabited by man.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
WAYS OF ALASKAN DOGS.
Fed at the Close Of Days
Journey.

"A fair average days journey with g
dog team In our country is 20 miles,
said T. V. Nicks, of Alaska, reports
the Washington Post. If pushed, the
dogs will go a good bit further than
this, but this Is about the usual daily
distance. They are cheerful worker
these Alaskan CANNES, but one must
know how to treat them
1T will not do to give them more
than one meal day, and that always
when camp is struck after the days
travel. The usual feed is lot of rice
or meal that has been we'll boiled, with
some fat meat thrown in for season
ing. This they eat with great avidity,
nor do they expect any more rations
until the next days close. If they
were given breakfast the next morning
it would be almost impossible to get
any work out of them during the day.
These native dogs have so much of
their wild brother the wolf in their
makeup that they show but little af-
lection toward their master. They
will serve him, but apparently purely
on a business basis, and they ignore
batting"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
APPRECIATED PERFORMANCE
Looked Like the Real Thing and the
Company Had to Do 1t
All Over.

The late Joseph Jefferson used to say
that his career came very near being
nipped in the bud in small western
town. relates Success Magazine. He at
that time was a member of a small pio-
neer company which progressed by
means of three bull teams from one
mining camp 10 another They were
always heartily received by the miners
and cowboys, who readily paid the tive
dollars in gold required to witness
their performance. Mr.. Jefferson was
the traditional melodramatic villain,
and in the third act was supposed to
kidnap the child The supposed
mother, hearing its cries, rushes upon
the scene just as he is about to escape,
and fires fruitless shot from re-
volver.
Upon this particular occasion all had
gone well until this scene was reached,
and the audience, many of whom had
never before seen any kind OF theatre
cal performance, sat as If spellbound.
At the crack of the mothers revolver,
however, the spell was rudely broken.
by heaven, she missed him." red
shirted miner in the front row shouted,
drawing his own "siXshooter' and
leaping TO his feet. Round to the
back door and head him of fore he
can git a boss, boys!" he yelled, and
following him. half the audience SIAM
peded for the exit
The excitement was finally allayed
bv the mother" and the villains APP
pearing nand in hand before the cur
tain, and the managers explanation or
the situation When the performance
had been concluded, the audience in
sisted on paying another admission
price and having an immediate repeti-
ton from beginning 10 end
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
REMODEllNC THE NOSE.
Deformities of the Organ Remedied
with Great Success by Eng
lish Surgeon.

II is not more than five years since
a physician of Vienna hit upon the
idea of injecting parafine into the flesh
as substitute for the fibrous tissue ir
the living body. Because of an acct
dent, says the New York Herald, the
treatment was for a while most unpOp-
ular. but previous TO this a number OF
remarkable operations were performed.
The physician published the history OF
more than 30 successful cases treated
In this way, in which "clefts and fistu-
lac were narrowed, cavities here and
there were filled up, smallpox marks
were taken out, sunken noses were re-
modelled. the falling in of the cheeks
after removal of the upper jaw was re-
paired and a nerve divided for the re-
lief of neuralgia was prevented from
growing together again"
An eminent English surgeon who has
had much success in the same line Of
work. in an address which he gave be-
fore the Medical Graduates college not
long ago, gave his experience with AZ
cases of sunken nose and three pro-
lapses. Among these cases there were
no deaths, no sloughing Of the skin.
and the results we're permanent and
good. Some cases which seemed hope
less were eminently successful, and
some which looked easy were found to
be insuperably hard 1t Is anxious
work and heavy responsibility altering
the shape OF peoples noses, and the
surgeon must be content IL he succeeds
in making a nose that shall be mere
ly unnoticeable
1t is no small matter to accomplish
this mucn, for the patients have sad
stories to tell of the ridicule, the star
ing in the streets and the ill-natured
laughter which make their lives bur-
den. and by supplying nose which, II
not Q Greek model, will at least permit
the owner to go through life unnoticed
and free from contempt the surgeon
has earned eternal gratitude.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
misunderstood SIGNAL.
Baby's Initials According to National
Code Represented Sign of
Distress.

Lighthouse keepers always possess
flag signals, which are hoiseted when
occasion arises. BY these flags long
messages can be formed In connec-
ton with these signals an amusing
story was recently told
A steamer sailed into a Jamaica
port with the news that the light
house of an island miles away was
flying the signal NJ This signal, in
the international code, means Il
am attacked, want assistance"
But the steamer was carrying mails,
and could not be delayed. Only one
explanation was possible to the port
officials who thought that the negro
population Of the island bad risen,
and the white men were making a
last desperate stand within the light
house.
So a vessel, armed to the teeth, set
out to the rescue. But another ship
that had passed the lighthouse arrived
at port before the rescue party came
back
The captain of this vessel told the
officials who asked him for tidings
that he, too, had seen the signal. He
armed a boat with all the weapons he
could muster and rowed for the light
house. Instead Of enemies, he met
the lighthouse keeper. whose name
was Jones. who told him that he had
had a son. whom he christened Ma
thaniel, and the flags were the baby's
initials, hoisted to announce the
event
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
SHIPLOAD LINE IN NORWAY
Stringent Regulations Enforced for
the Preservation of Life and
Property.

Norway has decided to follow the ex-
ample of England and adopt a load
line for her shipping. Subject to an
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bic proportion of Norwegian shipping
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tificate of nationality shall be issued
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than 20 years old, or of iron (steeD
and more than 30 years old, unless
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in the Norske Veritas or other survey
ing institutions recognized by the
king" Even if allowed TO registry un-
der these conditions she will have to
pass thorough survey before being
allowed to proceed to sea. British ship
owners have long contended that the
same regulations which are enforced
on British ships should be equally en-
forced on foreign ships, and in fairness
the contention Is irrefutahle
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
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1.-THE FRUIT BELT Line. y

TIME TABLE IN EFFECT MAY 'O6.
Trains leave Paw Paw for Lawton,
Mattawan, Oshtemo and Kalamazoo at
Sl5 a. M, l:l5* p. m. and 5:l0 p. M.
Trains leave Kalamazoo for Oshtemo,
Mattawan, Lawton and Paw Paw at 700
a. M, IL O0# a. m. and 400 p. IN.
All trains daily except Sunday.
Connections with NJ. G.. railroad at
Lawton; Lake Shore 4 Michigan South
ern, Michigan Central, Grand Rapids Il
Indiana, Chicago, Kalamazoo Il Saginaw
and Michigan Traction Co. at Kalama-
ZOO; Pere Marquette at Paw Paw.
*Mixed train.
w. M. SToUGHToN, Agent,
Paw Paw
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
New Korean Port.

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70 call for the regular liners plying
between San Francisco and the orr
ent. Fusan Is a coming port on the
Asiatic coast, being now the terminus
of the new Korean railway, soon to be
connected at L:aoyans with the China
Eastern and the Siberian system.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-05-11
japanese After Australia.

Many Australians have an idea
that Japan is looking GENEROUSLY on
their island continent Their suspi.
by the discovery in the baggage of
two Japanese who were travelling in
Australia as merchants of complete
set of the secret plans of the Sydney
Notifications