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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
UNCLESAM'SNEWYEAR
MAY STILL BE CELEBRATED THE
SAME DAY.

The Day Beginning at Greenwich Terminates
in the Pacific Ocean on That Mythical Line
Where the Old Day Ends and the New Be.
gins. Not Far From Hawaii and Guam-It
Will Be Only Three Hours and Forty Min
utes That II Will be New Year All Over His
Possessions at the Same Time.
If the people OF the greater United
States and Territories want to cele-
brale New Years all on the same day
they would better get up early and
stop celebrating early in some parts
thereof. There will be about three
hours and forty minutes only when it
will be Tuesday, Jan. l, over all the
United States possession. This does
not take into consideration the Aleu-.
tian islands. Even that international
date line in the middle of the Pacific,
where days are lost and gained, is
twisted and turned about when it gets
up among the Aleutians.
Singularly enough, those possessions
in the Pacific, Hawaii and Guam,
which lie comparatively near each 9TH
er. will have to be more careful not to
celebrate New Years on two different
days than will Porto Rico and the
Philippines. That is because they lie
the one on the one side and the other
on the other of the mystical line in
Pacific, the place where the day begins.
That line is the antipodes of the me.
ridian OF Greenwich and is taken BY
common consent of the nations as the
birthplace OF the new day and the bur.
ial place of the old one.
When it is noon at Greenwich it is
midnight on that line. If We stand
looking toward the north the old day
is ending on our left and the new day
is beginning on our right. There east
and west meet. Miles across the seas
is Hawaii, our far western possession,
and away in the other direction is
Guam, our far eastern possession. Now,
three hours and forty minutes after
the midnight of Monday strikes from
the church towers of Honolulu and
Tuesday. Jan. /, begins, the watchman
in the streets of Guam Cif there is a
watchman) will cry out the midnight
hour, and Jan. 2 will begin for Guam.
Meantime here in the United States
we have q considerable margin of
safety. Until recently the most east.
ern town in the United States was
Eastport, Me. But now, even leaving
out far Guam and the Philippines, we
have. right on the Atlantic coast, a
more eastern city than Eastport in
San Juan, Porto Rico, through which
passes the sixty-sixth meridian west
from Greenwich.
So, starting from San Juan and 90.
ing west until our west becomes east,
in order that the Porto Ricans, the
" down casters" the New Yorkers, the
Chicagoites, the San Franciscans, the
Hawaiians and the people of Guam
may drink a glass with Governor Gen.
eral Smith at Manila, we will fix the
time of drinking the toast in San
Juan at thirty-six minutes past 7 in
the morning. 1t is then high noon at
Green wich. and we have q margin of
safety for the United States in getting
in celebration Of New Years on the
same day. At noon, Greenwich, Jan.
], the following will be the times of
day at the places named below:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
II Anybody Doubts These Statements he Can
Figure for Himself.

The average cigar will burn for thirty
minutes. While q man is smoking it
he can walk two miles at top speed.
If a man started to walk to the moon,
and smoked cigars all the way, he
would use 100000 boxes of matches
to light them. The stubs he would
cast aside would make a heap 5000
miles in height and 1900 miles in
diameter. This proves that if you
would stop smoking you could pay the
dressmaker's bills and never notice the
absence of the money.
Light travels at the rate OF seventy
thousands miles per minute. II a
messenger boy travelled as rapidly as
light does he could deliver the message,
bring back the reply and have spare
time enough to read a library of 49,
OOO,O 600 dime novels during his natural
life.
A horse fourteen hands high can lift
weight of 5000 pounds two feet in
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
An Irrepresslble Visitor.

Once upon q time rich man sat at
his banquet board, surrounded BY
obsequious servants, and fronted by
the choicest of viands and the raresi
OF vintages. Suddenly there came q
knock At the door.
who's there?" queried the rich
man.
"This is Care" was the reply.
Away with youw shouted the rich
man contemptuously, as he continued
his feast.
A little later there was another
knock at the door.
"Who's there?" queried the rich
man.
"This is Want"
"You have no place here" shouted
the rich man. Away with you'll"
Brighter flashed the wines and
louder rang the laughter OF the rict
man. Suddenly there came another
knock at the door.
"Who's there?" asked the rich man.
"This is Misery" was the wailine
reply.
"Away with you," shouted the rich
man. az never knew you, and have
no place for you"
Up went the cleaning goblet. and
the rich man quaffed the rare wine Al
he laughed at the idea of Care snC
Want and Misery invading the portals
OF his mansion.
But suddenly the door flew open
and in stalked a gaunt form, unan
nounced and unheralded.
Who are your" gaspsd the af
frightened rich msn. that dare enter
my house without permission"
"I am DEATH" was the calm re-
ponse.
And the rich man made neither
motion nor reply.
Co.uxr,Dp 20 roa m NV Nf the hoaPk
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
THE DEPARTING YEAR,

Orphan hours. the year is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weep
Merry hours smile instead,
For the year is but asleep.
See it smiles as it is sleeping.
Mocking your untimely weeping.
As an earthquake rocks a corpse
In its coffin in the clay,
So wild Winter, that rough nurse,
Rocks the deathcold year to-day;
Solemn hours wait aloud
For your mother in her shroud.
As the wild air stirs and swavs
The tree swung cradle of child,
So the breath of these rude days
Rocks the year-be calm and mild,
Trembling hours, she will arise
With new love within her eyes.
January grey is near,
Like sexton by her grave;
February bears the bier,
March with her grief doth howl ant
And April weeps-but o We hours,
Follow with Mays fairest flowers!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
Fourteen Thousand Years at Tea.

Fourteen thousand years at tea,
strikes one as being remarkable, even
for New Years party, yet at Scar
borough. England, on the lst of jan
uary last there was such an assembly
in the Aquarium OF that town. For
upward of q dozen years it has been
the custom of the Mayor to enter
tain q number of the poorest old
ladies OF Scarborough at tea on New
Years day. Last January the mum.
Der was 200, each OF the guests being
sixty years of age or upward. The
total ages OF the venerable guests
reached nearly H. 600 years. or 1887
to be precise. This yielded the re.
markable average Of almost 70 years.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
POULTRY PICKING.
A stale egg will sink in water.

A stale egg will sink in water.
Stale eggs are CLASSY and smooth of
shell.
A fresh eggs has limelike surface
to its shell.
The boiled eggs which adhere to the
shell are fresh laid.
Eggs packed in bran for long time
smell and taste musty.
Poultry in orchards destroy insects
and keep the trees in good condition.
Thin ehells are caused by lack of
gravel and lime smoug the hens laying
eggs.
After an egg has been laid a d dsy or
more the shell comes off easily when
boiled.
A boiled egg which is done will dry
quickly on tho shell when taken from
the kettle.
Guard against vermin by fumigating
the hen house and keeping everything
spotlessly clean.
If an egg is clean and golden in ap.
pearauce when held to the light il is
good; if dark or spotted, it is bad.
When skim milk is available give
your birds plenty, 40 it is rich in flesh
succ ulence to the meat.
Fresh eggs are always at . premium.
Wipe the eggs free from dirt with o
moist woolen rag; washing spoils the
keeping qualities.
The ducks drinking trough should
have Stats nailed across the top to
prevent them from getting in il and
making the water filthy. The duck
needs constant watching.
A dozen good fowls will furnish more
eggs than the average family requires,
and will leave . surplus for pin money.
Think what it costs 10 buy absolutely
fresh eggs all the year round!
Never have . fear that there is a
danger of the poultry business being
overdone, for the large country Of ours
consumes more and more of eggs and
poultry every year. Our supplies fall
short and eggs are imported into our
cities by the millions Of dozens every
season.
To determine the age OF an egg
notice the size Of its air space, which
can easily be seen through the shell
by exposing the egg to the light in a
dark room. In new laid eggs this air
space 10 very small, but as the egg gets
older it gradually enlsrges. At three
weeks old it will occupy one-eighth
Of the contents of the egg.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
An "Old Maids 4" PARTY.

A we'll known New York society
girl celebrated last New Years with a
charming "Old Maids'" party. He,
girl guests we're all arrayed in the
appropriate spinster costume, with
mittens, caps and in several instances
with spectacles also. The effect pro.
duced was very odd indeed, the fresh
and laughing young faces seeming
decidedly out of keeping with such
surroundings. All the sweetmeats
and, indeed, oil the eatables that could
be so fashioned were served in the
shapes OF parrots. cats and dogs. Each
guest tthad q separate teapot to herself,
In which she brewed the tea to her
own individual liking in true spinster
fashion. The girls voted this the best
New Years party they had ever had.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
A Thought for the New Year.

Each one of US 10 bound to make
the little circle in which he lives bet.
ter and happier; each Of Us is bound
to SEQ that out of that small circle the
widest good may flow; each of US
may have fixed in his mind the
thought that out of a single house.
hold may flow influence which shall
stimulate the whole common wealth
and the whole civilized world.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
How . Girl Nav Become Irresistible.

The girl who makes herself crown
OF holly and wears it ct . Christmas
dinner weaves Q charm which makes
her irresistible both then and there.
after. The aucients believed it pos.
sessed charm to drive sorrows away.
It is go very becoming that it is q
wonder all girls do not make and
wear holly wreaths at the Christmas
HOLIDAYS.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
How to Place the Mistletoe.

The general plan is to hang the mis-
iletoe on the chandelier in the parlor.
but Cupid suggests that it is better
to plan to hang bunch over each hall
door, especially those leading to cozy
corners and conservatories.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28

A LITTLE girl out for her afternoon
walk. saw q pompous.looking man
strutting down Main street. With
child-like simplicity the little thing
ran up to him and said: Excuse,
sir, are you anybody in partic'l 'lar!"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28

A GEORGIA farmer uses q model
fertilizer. He kills snakes. lays them
10 the furrow, and then plants corn on
them. These snakes are made to
produce corn. which produces whisk y,
which in turn produces snakes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28

WOMEN are not naturally funny.
They range above or below it. They
may be keen and witty, but not humor-
GUS. Nevertheless they are good crea.
tures-some OF them.
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Young man. in q walking match
you Ego - you please" but in court
ing match you please as you 60.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28

If one little mouse in the plural is mice,
The plural OF house should certainly be
hice.
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II THINK. wife. that you have g
great many ways of calling me fool. >
81 think, husband, that you have 9
great many ways OF being one"
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A PRETTY woman seldom conceals
her beauty with q veil.
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GRATITUDE is memory Of the heart.
New-York tribune., 1906-08-07

Nsf 4ild every important question which Is likely
20 arise. This action OF the British government
IN making systematic survey Of the field and
discovering where the interests of the country
lie Is more Significant than NJ Ia Fontaine's So
callea peace budget. Mr.. Bryan's amendment
Tor charging the scope Of arbitration so as TO
include questions of honor and vital interest, or
any OF the eloquent speeches respecting nmita-
uons OF ornaments. Like President Rooseyelt's
decisive step in proposing the reassembling of
the Peace Congress- IL points 70 practical re-
suits for the benefit Of mankind. Not COM
pulsory arbitration. for that is impracticable;
nor disarmament. for Germany will not reverse
It's military history but possibly the adoption Of
the American principle OF absolute security Of
private property at sea. and certainly measures
for limiting and diminishing the horrors Of war.
Governments and ministers are in the right atti-
tude toward great International reforms be-
cause there is progress in the world. and nations
swayed by moral forces are feeling their way
from darkness 20 light Nj.
New-York tribune., 1906-08-07
A W. W. AsTOR IN COURT.
Men Who Claimed Relationship with Well
Known Family in Trouble.

On charges OF assault, William Waldorf Astor
and Karl Frederic Astor tanltors. of No Is west
SSth street. were arTaigned before Magistrate Mayo
IN the West Side court. yesterday charged with
assault by Max Oppenheimer. OF the same address.
When their names were called every IN the
court room looked toward the bridge expecting TO
see the well known of wealth.
According TO the complainant he went 20 the
basement OF the house and asked the Astors. who
are janitors, 70 do some work. The father. Karl.
he alleged then struck him. and the son, who has
only one leg. followed him the street and struck
him with crutch. cutting his hand.
The Astors said that Oppenheimer struck Mrs.
Astor, and they protected her The magistrate dis
charged the two on their promise 20 leave the
house within week.
The son lost his leg about two years ago. and
while in the hospital said that he connected
with the well known family OF the name.
Investigation. however, ii is alleged, showed that
his assertion was unfounded.
New-York tribune., 1906-08-07
OBITUARY.
DIR. WILLIAM c. STEELE.

years Methodist clergyman. member for thirty
seven years Of the New York East Conference,
died on Sunday. DR. Steele was born in Virginia
in 1927. and educated in Baltimore and Washing
Barbour Of Virginia, the late Thomas B. Bryan.
Of Chicago vice-president Of the worlds fair;
Charles Page Bryan, present Minister to Portu-
gal, and the late Judge Andrew Wylie. Of the SU-
prerne Court.
He raised several volunteer companies during the
Civil War, and worked his way through the fighting
lines TO bring home wounded cOmrade who was
member OF his church. He counted among his
friends General Grant, General 0. o. Howard. RoS-
coe Conkng. Alonzo B. Cornell Henry Ward
Beecher, Henry Clay, Edward Everett Hale, Canon
Farrar. Charles Spurgeon and Bishop Horato
BOnar.
For thirteen years he was chaplain at Randall 5
Island. His character was singuarly gentle. and in
all his churches he was known as the children S
friend" DR.. Steele a minister in the largest
OF the word.
New-York tribune., 1906-08-07
WOMAN PINNED UNDER AUTOMOBILE
Wife of East Orange Business Man Only
One of Party Badly Hurt.

East Orange. N. j., Aug. 6 (specaD.-9Irs Clar-
ence A Westervelt. wife Of business man Of this
place. living at No. S6 Vernon Terrace. is suffer
ing from internal injuries received by being pinned
under her husbands automobile when it upset
in lonely part of South Orange Township early
last evening. Mr.. Westervelt. and Gaugh-
ter escaped with slight injuries
The automobile was going at a moderate speed
when. at South Prospect street and Tuscan Road
something happened to the steering gear and the
machine dived into dve-foot gully at the side OF
the road and turned over All stunned Mr.
WesterVelt and the boy were the first 20 recover
and they managed to get out. The machine had
pinned Mrs. WeSterVett TO the ground. The girl
was sheltered by the seat. Mr.. Westervet and the
boy were not strong enough to raise the machine
themselves. but after awhile some more auto
mObilists came along. Mrs. WesrerveIt was freed
and placed in one OF the automobiles, which took
iar hcrrnAa
New-York tribune., 1906-08-07
YOUTH browns WHILE BATHING.
by Telegraph to The Tribune.


AIorristown. N J., Aug. 6. Frank Vanderhoof.
eighteen years old of ROckaway Valley, was
drowned in the Rockaway River near penville,
while bathing to-day. The young man. accompa-
MED by two younger brothers. rowed in boat
from Boonton TO a bend ii the stream unar Charles
Minard's farm. AT that point the stream is twenty
feet deep, the channel being washed out by the
swift current and the high water. Not knowing
this and thinking the river as shallow there as
elsewhere in that section. Vanderhoof threw off his
clothing and dove into the water. The lad could
swim and, being in a perspiratiol from row.
ing was seized with cramps and went 10 the hot
tom His brothers made valiant efforts 70 rescue
him hut did not succeed in bringing his body to
the surface until it too late.
New-York tribune., 1906-08-07
sUTRo cHAUFFEuR FlNED.

John Edwards. chauffeur for Lionel Sutro a
banker. at No. A Pine street. was fined SIS yes
terday in New Rochelle for speeding an auto
mobile. Edwards arrested yesterday af-
ternoon and Mr. Sutro and his wife and daughter
in the auto the time. The case came before
Judge F. A. Marshall. Mr.. Sutro placed his wife
and daughter the stand TO testify that the ma
chine was not going faster than fifteen miles an
hour. Mr.. Sutro himself testified that the machine
could make only twenty miles hour under the
best conditions. and that Of its four cylinders
out Of order.
New-York tribune., 1906-08-07
LOWERED TO AMBULANCE BY PULLEY.

Jacob Jones. an engineer OF the steamship To-
ronto, lying at 4Sd street Brooklyn, was stricken
early yesterday with appendicitis. There was much
confusion aboard the steamer for time as
there gangplank down. and it with
much difficulty that of the sailors finally
let down. He sent in a call to the Norwegian Hos
pital. When the doctor arrived there way
for him get at the patient Atter few min
utes sailor who in the call suggested that
an animal crate which standing near by, be
used. Jones placed In this and let down to
the pier with block and tackle. He hurried to
the hospital where il was said last night that he
was resting comfortably.
New-York tribune., 1906-08-07

TThe Tribune Fresh Air Fund was the first move
1nent OF the kind in the country. Every other one
here or elsewhere. has been started imitation OF
this pioneer. The Tribune cordially welcomes all
co-laboreTs in the field. but without wishing 20
depreciate the least the work OF others thinks IL
It's duty remind readers that the Tribune Fresh
AIR Fund IS. so Tar as known. the only one in
which absolutely every dollar contributed by the
public goes directly to the work OF sending poor
child the country. keeping il there for two weeks
and bringing 1t back again No collectors are ever
employed. and all collections made for the fund ara
purely voluntary. All expenses for the organiza-
tion. agents and general machinery OF the charity
are privately betrayed By The Tribune itself and BY
the trustees OF the fund There are no percentages
20 collectors to come out Of the contributions Or
the public, and no payments TO agents. managers,
secretary others Every dollar goes Straight 20
the benefit os q chid.l
New-York tribune., 1906-08-07
RINeHAM's CHAUFFEUR TRANSFERRED.

Acting Police Commissioner Waldo yesterday
transferred Patrolman Bernard Doyle from the post
of handy man Commissioner Bingham 20 patrol
duty in Brownsville or the 65th Precinct. Doyle's
transfer came as a result OF an escapade on sun
day afternoon. when he and q party OF friends out
riding in the Commissioners automobile were in
collision with z sightseeing automobile at s5th
street and West End avenue Efforts were made
by the police of the West l0lth street station TO
keep the affair quiet Commissioner Waldo intf-
in the
New-York tribune., 1906-08-07
CLERK AND $500 GONE.
Trusted Man Of Agent at Ellis Island Dis
appears on Way to Bank.

Matthew Brandon, who has been confidential
clerk and messenger for the last eight years in the
employ OF Thomas Faulkner the agent for the COM
bined railroad lines of the United States at Ellis
Island, has not been since last Thursday,
when he left Ellis Island 10 deposit 5000 in checks
and 1.l0O in cash in the Corn Exchange Bank at
Beaver and William streets.
The checks and money were given the clerk by
Mr. Faulkner, who sent William Fallon, another
employe. 10 accompany him to New York. When
the two reached the Battery Fallon says Brandon
sent him errand and told him wait at the
Barge Office till he returned from the bank.
When Brandon failed 10 appear the next day
Faulkner made inquiries at the bank, and learned
that neither the checks nor the money mad been
deposited on the previous day by Brandon. Mr..
Faulkner then sent 10 Brandons home, at Corona,
Long Island, ana when his wife was acquainted
We're married only last September, The police were
informed.