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Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
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lected those models of historic value, which will
be placed in some of the national museums 9th.
ers will be shipped to such educational institu-
tions in different parts of the country as might
desire them Other models will be disposed of
to inventors or their heirs at small sums and
the remainder will be destroyed
1t is estimated that only about ten per cent.
of the collection of models are worth keeping by
the government. For instance there are two
large cases of sewing machine models represent.
ing Improvements and different stages Of the
development of the machine None of these can
ever be of any service, such as was contemplat.
ed when the model room was established and
probably only one has historical interest enough
to warrant its preservation. That is the origi-
nal machine of Howe. One or two other mod.
els might be of some value in~tracing the his.
tory and evolution of the machine but it ia
questionable, for the machine is practically the
same today when the first one was patented.
The improvement which it has undergone has
been Of the nature of minor conveniences which
have been added from time to time, but the
original principle has practically remained un.
changed.
LINCOLN'S WORTHLESS INVENTION.
Among the models which will be preserved
are that Of the Whitney cotton gin, which, by
the way, occupies the same unique position as
the sewing machine in having remained practic-
ally unchanged through many years It's con
struction and operation was so complete from
the start that there has not been the oppor-
tunity for any great improvement.
| The original telegraph instrument of s. B. Il.
Morse is also among the treasures of the estab.
lishment
| In the historical works of the life of Lincoln
there is not much space devoted to Lincoln as
an inventor, but he was responsible for pat
ented method of lifting boats over shoal places
in rivers by means of combination of air pres
sure and stills. Those who have looked the de-
vice over carefully say that it is as impractical
as perpetual motion The model is a very eIab-
crate one and of itself is operative. but It is
said when applied under the conditions Of an
actual test it would be utterly worthless. There
is no record of the invention ever having gone
further than the Patent Office. There are thou
sands of others around it which have shared
the same fate.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

sounded, and the priests raised their hands to
heaven.
AT sign the multitude turned their backs to
the lake, for the common people might. not wit
ness the actual sacrifice. A moment later there
was great splash. Gilded king, gold and jew
els, were all plunged into the sacred waters.
The gilded monarch swan in the lake. leaving
a glittering wake behind him, while the people,
with renewed clamor, threw their personal of
ferings of gold over their heads into the pool.
Then king and people, believing their sins for
the past six months had been expiated, joined
in n great festivity."
1t is believed that this ceremony had been
taking place for centuries before the arrival OF
the Spaniards who were drawn to Bogota by
legends of "E Dorado Quesada, the leader
of the Spanish band first to arrive there, be
haved, as many other cruel adventurers did in
other parts of the country. First he treated
the unsuspecting Chibchas as friends, then he
seized Sajipa, their cacique, and by threats en-
deavored to extort from him the secret of the
hiding-place of the Chibchas' treasure. The
Indian monarch laughed at the Spaniards'
threats. He was fearfully tortured and finally
roasted to death. But, many of his noble
fellow -chieftains did, he defed his tormentors,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
New Bridge Over tbe Type

The remainder of the design comprises viaducts
of arching and grder bridges of smaller span.
The bridge has length of no less than 115O
feet. The foundations of the river piers are
SO feet below high-water, and built on caissons.
The sinking of the river piers constituted the
most delicate and difficult portion of the un-
dertaking. The caissons used on the Tyne
Bridge works were larger than any others hith-
erto employed. They each consisted of cham
ber built of steel plates and open below, into
which air was pumped so to raise the at
mospheric pressure in it to height necessary
to prevent the entrance of water. Previous to
sinking the caissons built wooden piles,
driven into the river bed on the site of the de-
sired foundation, and lowered little by little by
saving away the wooden supports, the cylinder
of the caisson being at the same time added to
above until the river bed was reached.
WORKING loft. UNDER WATER.
When completed the caisson was closed above,
except for two air locks, one for the use of the
men, and the other for the removal of the ma
terial resulting from the excavations, and for
which last-named purpose buckets were en-
ployed. In the air locks, by the means of which
the men entered the caisson, the atmospheric
pressure was gradually raised until it equalled
that in the caissons themselves and then the
doors between them were opened, and the cais-
sons entered. On leaving the caissons the re-
verse process was gone through.
In a regular way, no fewer than thirty-fve
men were engaged in excavating in each cham
ber. About 100 yards of earth were removed
daily. After coming up the shaft the "spoil"
was dropped straight into barges, and taken out
to sea. AS the earth was removed from the
river bed the caissons sank by their own
weight until the desired depth was reached.
Finally, the large steel cylinders constituting
the caissons were filed up with concrete and
served as the foundation for the superstructure.
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and died without betraying the secret. Quesada
tortured other chiefs of the tribe, and in his
agony one of them jeered at the conqueror, and
told him that Sajipa had caused the whole of
the treasure of the nation to be cast into the
sacred lake to keep the previous offerings com
pany.
The Chibchas believed the lake bottomless,
and thought the treasure could never be recov-
cred. The Spaniards plumbed it, and, according
to their writings, found it in some places 214
feet deep. They determined to drain it, and to
that end made cutting through the surround
ing hills. The waters away, until the lake
was only fifteen feet Deep and in the parts of
the bed exposed the workers found many treas
ures, among them being golden ornaments and
magnificent emerald which was sent to Philip
II. of Spain. But the Indians had prophesied
that the Golden One" would guard his own,
and that the Spaniards would never succeed,
and their prophecy was fulfilled. For the sides
of the lake and the cutting fell in, springs rap
idly filled the hollow again, and the workers
had to retire baffed.
A TREASURE OF $5OO,0O0OOO.
Other attempts were made to recover the
treasure but all were in vain. 1t seemed as
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

- HE new high-level bridge over the Riv'
er Tyne at Newcastle, which was
- opened by his Majesty King Edward
IAEaEsMl on July TO- represents the greatest
contract executed in Great Brit
ain since the completion OF the celebrated
Forth Bridge which was also opened by his
Majesty (then the heir apparently March 4,
1890 Like that over the Forth, the new Tyne
Bridge owes its initiation to railway enterprise.
The day is not yet when any provincial city Is
able to challenge, in point of engineering In
terest, the three remarkable, bridges which are
now among the sights of the pride of the
North"
The new "high-lever" has, however, little in
common with the two existing bridges which
connect Newcastle and Gateshead. That world
famous structure "the old high-evel," designed
and built by Robert Stephenson and 1. =.
Harrison, and opened by Queen Victoria on
September %, 1S49, carries three lines of rail.
way over the Tyne, and below a roadway and
pathways for pedestrians. The Redheugh Bridge
some distance further up the river, is for We
hicuar and pedestrian traffic only. The new
high-leve is destined for railway traffic only,
and will have four tracks-two for passenger
and two for freight trains
5000 TONS OF STEEL USED.
It has been built midway between the two
bridges previously alluded to, and its compile.
ton will bring about complete revolution in
the railway facilities of the busy Tyneside area,
as it will obviate the very perplexing and in
convenient arrangement whereby trains going
across the River Tyne into the Newcastle Cen
tral Station have had to be drawn out Of the
station on resuming their journey northward,
by an engine coupled to what was-previous to
Newcastle being reached-the rear of the train.
A similar method of working has been necessary
for trains from the north for the south side of
the Tyne
There are four spans of steelwork, supported
on piers Of granite, and to give an idea Of the
solidity and strength of the structure, which it
would seem has been built for "all time" no
fewer than 5000 tons of steelworlk have been
used in the spans, and 135,0O0 cubic feet of
granite in the north and south river piers, and
195,O00 cubic feet of granite in the centre
pier. One Of the granite piers is in the middle
of the river, where the bed is at a depth of
2s feet On either side there is span Of 300
feet, this consisting of five steel girders, con-
structed on the lattice system and resting again
on granite piers. The other spans are 231 feet
on the north and 191 feet on the south side.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

/ - NCHAlANllA is d place away down IN
O South America. and hardly man,
90 woman or child in all London has not
@ heard of Guatavita and its now famous
mountain.
Scattered all over the greatest of cities are
persons who own stock in what is known az
Ihe Contractors Company, Limited, COM
pany organized to gain possession of treasure
variousy estimated to be worth from half to
three-quarters of billion of dollars
Ihe first efforts of this company were Sue
cessfu up to certain point, then Nature
went back on them and their only hope is that
Nature may see fit to make still another change
and give to Guatavita a real old d-fashioned rain
storm, hummer that will flood the very lake
whicn the company spent many thousands in
draining Before this lake was drained it rained
half the time, since then it hasn't rained one
half-good rain.
lhe amazing story of this hunt for treasure
dates from the time when precious stones and
gold were SO plentiful in South America that
many thousands of Spaniards migrated there
and practically devastated that then marvellous
country.
The facts in the case appear to be without
doubt, since they are fully recorded in Spanish
documents of the time and, one Spaniard who
attempted to recover the treasure succeeded in
getting splendid emerald and some golden
ornaments valued at something like $3.50, 900
before the downfall of earth came and pre-
vented his pursuing the search.
Prior to the Spanish conquest of northern
South America, race known as the Chibchas
occupied the district around Bogota, which is
few hundred miles north of the Equator, in
Columbia. Gold and precious stones were then
plentiful in this country-so plentiful that
many of the weapons and common utensils of
the people were made of the precious metal.
The wealth Of the Chibchas, estimated by
modern valuation, was enormous. They were
race of brave fighters with an army of 10000,
and in addition to the treasure they dug from
the soil, they exacted heavy tributes from the
surrounding tribes Now these Chibchas re-
garded the Lake of Guatavita, a little pool in
the crater OF an extinct volcano, some nine
thousand feet above the level, as sacred.
They believed their protecting deity lived in it.
This deity was known as Ell Dorado, which
means, not as is generally believed the golden
city, but "The Golden One" To this Gold
en- One the Chibchas offered up every six
months a sacrifice which would make even the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

enough it is also true that, gwen certain broao
types. one may lay down certain broad lines re-
garding them.
1t is only right that a woman should wish to
find out if mans attentions to her serious.
If she decides they are, then she is prepared how
to act either if she loves him or if she does not.
If she decides that his attentions to her mean
nothing, then, whether she loves him not she
will be wise in putting him out of her thoughts.
1t is of little use trying to win" him-the time
thus spent will, in nine cases out of ten, be
thrown away. He has had his opportunity-he
has decided against itand she will be wise if she
thinks no more about him.
That women realize how advantageous it is TO
know something of mans Intentions" may be
seen from the correspondence columns of the
newspapers "Can Will really care?" writes one.
He carries his letters to for days in his pockets,
forgetting to mail them. Percy held my hand
in the garden last night" writes another, "and
when drew it away he tried to kiss me. Do
you think he is in love with me?"
Now, by answering the first question we come
upon one of the broad rules by which a girl may
tell if man is in love with her If he really
cares he doesn't forget where she is concerned
He is too anxious to get her to his letters
to allow them to repose in his pocket unmailed
He may be selfish, inconsiderate, and thoughtless
in many little ways but he doesn't forget to write
to her promptly. He may forget that she had on
a blue gown last night, but he will remember
that she liked his gray suit-and he will wear
that gray suit next time he calls So that's one
aign--he doesn't forget where the winning" OF
her is at stake
In answering the next question about Percy
and his audacious behavior in the garden, il
may be stated as broad rule that when man is
in love he doesn't take iberties-he is afraid Of
spelling his chances. If man really cares for a
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

7T the time of the establishment of the
IAI American Patent Office system in
szzss 1870, it was deemed necessary to
I@1&SI have a model of every invention reg
stered with the government Every
inventor who applied for a patent was required
to furnish a working model before the grant
could be finally made. The result was that
after a few years the government found itself
the custodian of an aggregation of models, few
of them valuable and others utterly worthless,
for the reason that the devices were impractical
BILE in operation. In order to avoid further en-
barrassment by the rapidly growing accumula-
ton, the regulation requiring the models was
revoked and they were thereafter requested
where the Patent Office authorities deemed them
desirable.
This served to prevent the mass from accu-
muIating SO rapidly, but those hand have
been regarded as a burden for a great many
years The practical value of the collection was
not regarded as of sufficient value to warrant
the constant expense The total number oi
models was found few years ago to be $4,000,
for the proper housing of which, it was neces-
sary to rent large building and maintain some
sort of supervision over the collection.
The last Congress decided to scatter the col
lection and the model department OF the Pat
ent Office is about to be put out of business A
commission has gone over the material and Sc
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
A Big Mouse in Church

During morning service at Marlborough
Church, Lecestershire, big rat walked up the
aisle, and entering a pew in which two ladies
were sitting took refuge in parasol which was
on the kneeling mat. A churchwarden who had
noticed the incident persuaded a man to carry
the parasol outside the church, where terrier
killed the rat
Now the only interesting thing connected
with this event is the department of the two
ladies' But not word is said Of that.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
swore by His Salary

Amelia: "Swear not by the moon the incon-
tant moon" %,
Augustus "Then what shall swear by?"
0Swear by that which you hold invaluable;
something which is dearer to you than all things
else; something that you cannot live without.
HThen, Amelia, love you'll swear it by my
salary"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

THE JAcRED
LAKE OF THE
|chlBcHA5, A
so. AMERICAN
TRIBE, INTO
WHICH THEY
ARE BELIEVED TO
HAVE THRoWf
GOLD AID GEMS
NORTH
. 5ooooo,ooo
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consMteney

Dressmaker- And would you have leg-Ofmuttor
sleeves, madam?
Customer certainly notl am vege
tarianl"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
ExpIalned

First Grill never see you with Jack. Have
you quarreledg
second Girl-oh, mol We're married.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
EFFORTS AT RECOVERY.

modest one of $5Oo,oooooo. Yet even this is
worth seeking
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
Signs by Which WomaD Cap
Tell State Of Maps Mipd

isn't always easy to tell when man
really is in earnest-but it isn't by any
means impossible. Of course it is easy
enough to say it all depends on the in
dividual man, and though this is true
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26

new high-level bridge over the Riv-
er Tyne at Newcastle, which was
opened by his Majesty King Edward
eggMI on July 10, represents the greatest
...no,,tnd IL, Great Rrit-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
toUJES OF THE EnGlhEERJ
WHO APE .hoW WAITING
FOR RAIN.

- 0UATAVITA is place away down in
" South America. and hardly man,
@sS7z woman or child in all London has not
J heard of Guatavita and its now famous
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-20
TERMS:
The Warriors Death.

"What is his bridge to Heaven?" the,
cried,
And the warriors held their breath,
AS the grizzled king of hundred
fights
Went down to the river of death.
what is his bridge to Heaven" they
cried.
rs it Fashioned with bucklers and
spears
And girdled with iron blades
or battles of bygone years?
And what are the voices he hears IN
dreams?
Are they the clamors of fight
S or the echoes of splendid victories tha'
come
AS he stands by the river at night:
.Nay, nay" and they stand by in
wonder and awe:
For all that he builds on there
Are a withered blossom, BABY shoe'
And lock of a woman's hair
4 And the only voices he hears in his
dreams,
AZ the world dies out in his ears,
Z Are an old love-ballad, babys laugh
And the sob of dead wife's tears.
-Pearson's Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-20

finance would cease to revolve. And
yet his heart would be in Iowa. He
would not be happy. His health
might even suffer from clogging and
congestion of the thought ducts and
word passages. So it was an act of
kindness to bid him go in peace. No
longer a candidate, seeing himself in
the future a simple banker in Iowa, he
can speak without being suspected of
ambitious motives. He will speak not
as Il candidate, not as a member of the
administration but as a plain tho
handsome Iowan, who is homesick
when a political canvass is going on
and he is far away.
But il ever the time comes when the
eyes Of the blind are opened to see the
full beauty and nobility of the Shavian
theory. THE more you pay for things
the happier you are" then the name of
Leslie Mortimer Shaw will move in
hearts all rocky now the late remorse
of love: and Cumminsite and Perkins,
lite will fall in tears together upon that
beneficent bosom.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-20

sides normal schools for teachers a;
points where it may be advisable. The
Chinese classics are largely displaced
in the interest OF "the 3 RS" and his
tory, geography, science, etc. Minister
WI taught us to apprehend that after
the Chinese get on TO all our educa-
tional curves we shall no longer be able
to hold our own in wit and sarcasm II
in other things.
King Edward carefully preserves
programs of the proceedings in which
he has taken part. These souvenirs,
several thousand in number, are pre-
served in the library of Buckingham
palace In the same way the king has
kept all his theater programs since his
earliest playgong days. The bill of the
play placed in the royal box used to be
printed on silk or satin, with a heavy
fringe. 1t is now, as a rule. of less
elaborate nature, but not for that rea-
son any the less artistic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-20
Why Shaw Came To Iowa.

NEW I Ork ouI.J
Iowa furnishes new melancholy
example Of the essential wickedness
and cussedness of human nature prone
to think evil. The Hon. Leslie Nor
timer Shaw wanted to go to his "home
state" in order to relieve his mind of
it's thick coming and congested
thoughts. He asked Mr.. Roosevelt if
he should 60 Mr.. Roosevelt said yes.
The fact that the great apostle of high
prices was to instruct his fellow citi-
zens at home is telegraphed thither.
Wild fluttering I'M the flock of the
Cumminists, the faithful followers of
Gov. Albert Baird Cumnins and his
Iowa ideas. Was Mr.. Shaw coming in
war. a standpatter. to fight revision
lists? Was the administration Inter
Iowao Was he to bring his powerful
intellect to the side of Mr.. Cummins'
republican rival, the Hon. George Dou-
glas Perkins, of Sioux City? Indigna-
ton sent telegram. Mr. Roosevelt
had to deny any intention of interfer-
ing The telegram had to be pub
lished to calm the fevered souls of the
Cumminsites.
Is there so little knowledge in Iowa
of the intimate psychology of Mr..
Shaw? He had message to deliver, a
gospel to preach. solemn thoughts that
boil and burn for utterance. If Mr.
Roosevelt had impeded the secretarys
free circulation and forbidden his exo-
dus from Washington, the secretary
would have obeyed He might even
have been t1attered by the implication
that without his presence at the capt.
tai the machinery of government could
not go on and that the giant wheels of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-20

convent on An active handful of men,
conspicu ously in the minority in the
party irt Scott county, possibly have
disfranchised all the republicans of
Scott county in the convention at Des
Moines so far as pa 'ticipating in the
temporary organization is concerned.
No one acre fears the ultimate result,
and no one expects that the delegation
named by the railroa led methods will
be seated, no matter who controls the
committee on credentials.
To the honor of Scott county repub-
leans it may be pointed out that OF
the contesting Perkir" delegates pres
ent at the convention Saturday, those
from the Second ward, Davenport, and
from all the county precincts except
one, remained in the hall, recognized
Mr. Gale erwood as the temporary
chairman of the convention, and abid-
ed by the| decision of the committee
on credentials, which consisted of
three Cummins men and three Perkins
men. ExiMayor II. w. Phillips, of the
Second ward, was too much of re-
publican TO take any part in the paper
convention under the direction of Let's
and his followers. and altho an intense
Perkins N an recognized that the ma
jority has right to rule and that if
a man is fair he will receive fair treat
ment NJ. Phillips delegation was
seated. III was made member of the
delega ton to the state convention. He
did what lie had a right to do as a. re-
publican believing in expressing opin-
ions but ir majority ru e-called for a
vote upon instructions. The vote was
1875 to 80 in favor of Instructions, and