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The National tribune., 1907-10-31
A WESTERN fLAFBoAT.

rivers. Everything in those days was
fleated down the river to New Orleans,
and his first regular employment was
to go to New Orleans on a fiatboat for
SIS for the whole trip, which would
take nearly all Winter. In doing this,
however, he learned the river. and the
next Winter got s37 and his board for
being navigator of a fiatboat to New
Orleans. He had learned enough of
the river by this time to be an assistant
pilot on steamboat. But he was am
bilious to be in business for himself,
and with no other tools than an ak and
ripsaw he went into the woods to
cut oak and poplar lumber enough to
build two fatboats. In his evenings
and on rainy days he spun tow for
calking and made wooden pins for
planiSing. He succeeded in having one
boat ready by the time the crops were
harvested. He loaded this with corn,
potatoes and flour, and fioated down the
Muskingum to the Ohio, down the Mis-
sissippi to Cairo and then to New Or
leans, a distance of 1000 miles. He
made a handsome little sum upon this
venture, and the next Winter had two
boats ready, which he loaded with po-
tatoes, apples and flour, and again made
a handsome profit. He bought other
boats, so he had quite fleet. The price
of boat was SO a foot in length. They
were usually from 80 to 100 feet long,
Is feet wide, eight feet high inside and
would draw, loaded, about four feet of
water. They carried 1900 barrels of
tfiour-264, 900 pounds-or equal to the
load of 10 cars. Each boat had eight
men for a crew, and was managed. by
one steering oar 80 feet long, with a
blade three by seven feet. This oar
was placed on the stern post, and on
each side of the boat was an oar 36 feet
long, and one on the bow to help in
steering in extreme cases. such as pass
ing the falls of the Ohio at Louisville
and I'm storms. The boat, foated with
the current, bat made remarkably good
time, as the distance (2,O00 miles)
would usually be made in about 20
days, or at the rate of about four miles
an hour. In 1852 Gen. Devol made a
quick trip with a boatload of flour
which he delivered TO a ship to take to
Boston, and netted for himself 500 as
his fee for plotting and managing the
boat. He continued taking boats down
the river every year. until the breaking
out of the war. One Of his profitable
ventures was to buy live hogs, fatten
| them. and, after slaughtering, taking
! their carcasses to New Orleans to mar.
ket. In the Winter of 1S60-1S61 he
took down two heavy boatloads, and
while closing out the cargoes in New
Orleans saw the dear old Stars and
Stripes lowered from the custom-house
and the Pelican flag go up in it's place
It was getting very hot there for North.
ern men, and they had to be quite dis
Greet in what they said and did Gen
Devol was one of the last In getting
away, and did not stop to buy sugar
and molasses to take North, as had
been his custom.
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
The I'd XIV.

Editor National Tribune:SPlease give
me some information regarding the I'd
KY. I am anxious to know something
of it's service, as I belonged to it
James Smith. 1928 Lamont Ave, Bal
timore, Md.
The I'd KY. was organized near Gin
cinnati in May and June, 1851, and
mustered out June 10, 1864, with the
veterans and recruits transferred to the
18th KY. Col. William E. Woodruff-re-
signed, and Col. Thomas d. 7Sedgewick
commanded the regiment from Jan.
81, 1862, until mustered out 1t be-
longed to Stanley's Division, Fourth
Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and
lost II killed and 8S died from disease.
National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
MAKING A HARD ROAD OF CLAY.

very interesting experiment is being
dried in Missouri, the results of which
will be eagerly watched for. The idea
is to make hard, firm roads out of clay
alone by densely compacting it. and the
operation is thus described:
A stretch of road half mile or moro
in length was excavated to a depth of
20 inches to two feet. and the earth
thrown out at the side. Ths7 ~ cnor-
nous steam roller was put intn th@s eX-
cavation, which is about 20 Let wide,
and the bottom rolled down as solid as
1t could be made Then the ezeavated
earth was thrown in by degrees. drcnch-
ed with water and rolled thoroly. and
so on. till the excavated earth was put
back This rolling process is 50 rigid
that the earth thrown out will not near
ly fill the excavation. and to complete
the filling up ample bitches are cut at
the sides of the road, the earth thrown
into the excavation and thoroly com
pacted with the roller. The excavation
is filled up to the hight desired for the
roadway, and thus the road consists of
ii pOus VI tcil III bcuiis VI iuieS wv 49,
thick, compacted as firmly as it is pos
sble for a roller to compact it.
The intention is to make clay so hard
that water will not penetrate it, and
then keep it in order by carefully scrap
ing it at regular intervals. so as to get
rid of the ruts. OF course. such a road
as this must be started by thoro under
drainage. since if there is water any
where near the frost line the road will
heave, and its last condition be worse
than its first.
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
VALUE OF WATERWAYS.
Produce to Market in the
Old DAYS.

Apropos of the general interest in
the development of the waterways in
this country are some interesting mat
ters in the biographical sketch of Brig
Gen. H f. Devol, formerly Colonel of
the 36th Ohio. This book, which is
charmingly illustrated by the authors
daughter. Florence w. Devol, is un-
usually interesting from its description
of the lives led by the hardy pioneers
of the "Ohio Country" Gen. Devols
father,.and mother were early settlers
on the beautiful Muskingum River,
where they took up land, cleared off
the virgin forests and developed a
charming and comfortable home. In
those. days everybody had to do some
thing, and the General tells about his
labor as child,in helping his mother
spool yarn and prepare weaving. She
wove all the clothes the family wore.
AS soon as young Devol became able to
do a boys work away from home he
put in his time between school terms in
working for the. State on locks and
dams to improve the navigation Of the
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
Colorado Game Laws.

Colorado is moving for a more eff
cient execution Of the game laws and
the punishment Of the hunters who
kill fawns and does. 1t is said that men
can. be, seen coming into the stations
with carcasses of fawns carried In -four
sacks. These little animals are so tame
that they will eat out of ones hands,
and there Is absolutely no sport" in
killing them. Fortunately. there is a
way to reach these men, which is by in
specting them at the station where they
bring their game in, and hereafter the
law will be rigtdly enforced against
them.
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
The Old Bugle.
(By T. C. Harbaugh. Casstown. o.

(By T. C. Harbaugh, Casstown. o.
can hear the olden bugle
AS it sounded 'mong the pines,
Where beneath the skies of Summer
Stretched the endless battle lines;
1t is calling. calling, calling,
In region far away,
Where the dews of night are falling
On the Blue and on the Gray.
can hear its ghostly echoes
In the ng-deserted camps,
Where above the fields of glory
Nightly fit the freely lamps;
1t is blowing, blowing, blowing.
Where the crimson rivers ran,
And its notes are sweetly minglinS
With the rushing Rapidan.
Oh, the music of the buglei go
1t will never pass away, a-+
Tho the bugler slumbers sweetly
Where the sunbeams love to play: -
1t is trilling, trilling, trilling,
Musically as of yore,
When it gaily woke the echoes
? OF Potomac's guarded shore.
1 can see the bugler standing
On the pile-encircied mill,
And his never silent bugle-
How he blew It with a viii,
1t is sounding. sounding, sounding,
Ger the cleaning bayonet.
And its thrilling call to battle
In my old heart fingers yet
Eager sprang. we to its summons,
We were $4,000 strong,
And We often cheered its echoes
AS we proudly marched along;
1t is calling. calling, calling,
Oh, my comrades, don't you heart
And it's notes are falling, falling
On the even soft and clear.
From the Yinelands ard the pineiands
q Where Wes fearless met the foe.
Comes the. thrilling al the bffgie -zSsss
That we heard so long ags;: vsssss 4.
1t is blowing, blowing. blowing, -!
BY the haunted rivers shore;
May its echoes stir the woodlands
When the old ranks are; no more
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
The Prophet Nahum and the Motor Car.

A German humorist quotes Nahum L.
V. 4. in support of his contention that
the appearance of the motor car is
prophesied in the Bible. The verse in
question runs as follows: '''rhe chariots
snail rage in the streets; they shall jos
tie one against the other in the broad
ways; they shall seem like torches; they
shall run like lightnings." There seems
to be a touch of motorphobism about
the Elkoshite, judging by the former
part of his prophecy, but he gets home
tolerably well in the latter half
The National tribune., 1907-10-31

The oyster raisers are very much
troubled by the depEa,ls Ions OF the star
fish These are 50 :,,-T1:r,:,rs IS - some
times cover the bottom q ne sea to a
depth of IS or % i! r:,-s fea-n9!etely ex-
Terminating tir - H. = has been
found that lime is 5-aeoi;li"e of the
invasion Of the st@'.is::, a:id lime put in
4 paper bag and allowed to settle to the
bottom of the wafer will make bar
rier which the starfish will not cross.
They are now seeking some way to more
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
Rined Better Than smooth Pipe Line.

To distribute oil along its route for
locomotive fuel railroad in California
is building a pipe line $50 miles in
length. The new feature of the pipe is
that 1t is rif1ed like a gun barrel instead
of being smooth. This form gives to
the moving oil swirling motion, with
less resistance, hence the pumping sta
tons can be placed 25 miles apart,
which is much greater than would 9TH
erwise be necessary. The rifled pipe line
will carry 10000 barrels of oil each "a
hours -
The National tribune., 1907-10-31

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The National tribune., 1907-10-31

The engineers have found out that
the French machinery on the Isthmus
is far from being worthless pile of
junk. One of the dredges which has
been lying idle for 20 years has been
repaired at slight cost, and now is ex-
cavating 10000 cubic yards per month,
or as much as four of the 95-ton steam
ShoyelS
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
The SSth Ohio.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short history of the 10th Ohio.-A. D.
Daily, Brockport, N. Y.
The 10th Ohio was organized at Camp
Sherman from Oct. 5, 1861, and finally
mustered out July Is, 1855. Its first
Colonel was Charles r. Woods, of the
Regular Army, who was promoted to
acknowledgements and succeeded by Col
William b. Woods, who also was pro-
NOTED to Brigadier-G General. Lieut. Col
Willard Warner was promoted to Colo
mel of the ls0th Ohio, and Lieut. Col
Edward Briggs was in command when
the regiment was mustered out. 1t be-
!onaed to the Fifteenth Corps. Army of
the Tennessee, and lost nine officers and
81 men killed and 270 who died from
diSease.-Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1907-10-31

The Canal Record, published on the
Isthmus, mentions a new feature in
tropical life. During a thunder storm
some palm trees were struck by light
ming, and the oil in the trees caught
fire and made such fierce blaze that
it was hard work preventing the build
ings near by from catching fire. This
is an explanation of forest fires in the
tropics that the scientists have not yet
learned Of
The National tribune., 1907-10-31

found that the suction dredge will work
clay and even coral. At Galveston it
has raised clay at cost of IA cents
per cubic yard, where the cost by dip
per dredge was 35 cents per cubic yard.
1t brings up a chunk of clay from six to
eight inches in size with apparent ease.
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
Alphabetical List Of Battles
With Dates from 1854 to 190O.>
Or Encyclopedia of the Wars. !
FROM OFFICIAL RECORDS.

The PENSION BUREAU uses it to de
termine dates of battles and incidentss OF
Any one of the s.22O battles, sktr-
mishes, and other incidents of the Chill
War, or of the 1881 engagements of the
Spanish War. with losses in each, can
be referred to az easily as to word in \
the dictionary.
1t condenses into one book, of 252
pages, practically all the knowledge Of
She various wars.
All principal events are given as they
occurred from day TO day,-this is worth
the price of the book.
1t gives a list of Pension ratings, u.
S. Pension Agencies, Soldiers Homes.
Camps. National Cemeteries. and Number
of Troops furnished by States: in fact,
IL is Dictionary of Information of the
WAYS.
Cloth binding. s1.00, sent prepaid
If you are not pleased with the book.
return it and get your money.
Address: N. A. STRAIT,
2l7 "F- Street N. W., washinEton, ID. q
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
WORK OF THE STEAM SHOVEL.

On tae canal they have now 60 steam
shovels of the 70-ton and 95-ton type.
The 70-tvn have buckets of two and
one-faif to three and one-ialf cubic
yards capacity, and the 95-ton raise
five cubic yards. Some of these shovels
have loaded as high as 2,1T5 cubic yards
of rock and dirt in eight hours. 1t
would be good work for a man to load
six cubic yards in the same time, so
that one of these shoyels will do as
much work as Ia men, and the Al
shovels actively at work did the work
of 5,456 laborers. From this should be
deducted 29S laborers employed about
the shovels. Another advantage is that
they will handle rock much larger than
men can. A man can handle a piece
of rock weighing from $50 to 200
pounds, whereas the shovel will lift a
rock weighing 21,o0o pounds. .ao
Everywhere the engineers have put
on the Isthmus much heavier and
stronger machinery than the French
employ. The French locomotives would
haul 10 to IL cars, carrying about As
cubic yards, whereas the American en-
gines haul 240 yards on II cars. 1t
would take 666 French trains to carry
the daily output, where 104 American
trains do the work.
The National tribune., 1907-10-31
SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

Creating.

now it has turned to its original color,
which would seem to point to a use that
may be made of it.
The National tribune., 1907-10-31

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The National tribune., 1907-10-31
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The National tribune., 1907-10-31

The Western papers are having much
to say over an exhibition of an electro
chemical process" which is being made
in some parts of the country. The ex-
hibitor claims to have machine which
will cost only $1,000, and by which all
sorts of waste material can be made
into chemicaliy-pure sugar. In the ex-
hibition he takes an armful of pine
wood, corncobs, a piece of old buggy
and barrel hoop, all of which he re-
duces to charcoal. The charcoal he
puts into boiler and starts a fire un-
der it. The steam is superheated, the
electricity is turned on, and 80 minutes
dered sugar of about 20 pounds as the
net result He claims that he can
manufacture sugar in this way at one
cent a pound, and that his process is
that of making sugar by synthesis,
which has long been a dream of chem
other one of those fakes like the cream
cry, cannery and sorghum sugar hum
bugs by which farmers were deluded
of their money by taking stock in COM
panies. While it is possible to syn
thetically make sugar out of charcoal,
oxygen and hydrogen, ut has not yet
been accomplished by the most skilful
chemists, and If they ever succeed in
doing so they will not probably pro-
duce sugar as cheaply as it can be made
from beets or cane. In many things
natures methods are far the most eco-
nomical, and sugar-making seems to
be one of them.
The National tribune., 1907-10-31

It is rather late in the season to talk
about it, but we might as well get our
minds in order for the stories of sulphur
showers which will be current next
Spring. Every man will then be ready
to talk about the showers of sulphur,
make affidavits as to what he has seen,
and be willing to point out to you yellow
rims around pools of water, mud holes
end on the sidewalks which look exactly
and there is no sulphur In them. They
are the yellow pollen grains of tree
flowers, most of them coming from pine
forests. The pollen of pine trees is sin
gularly fitted to be carried great dis
tances, since II consists Of a pollen bag
in the center, with a little balloonlike
cell on either side to make it float In
the wind. When these get in the higher
currents of air they may be carried
many hundred miles, as was demon
trated few years ago in Washington,
when there was a shower Of pollen
which must have come from Alabama
and Georgia, where were the only pine
trees then in bloom.
Tho the furore about radium has dis
appeared, scientists are working upon
1t steadily, and are discovering many
new things Two Paris physicians have
been using it with great success in re-
moving birthmarks from adults and
children. It is found that the birthmarks
which are most highly colored yield
IS painless. and may be applied to an
infant during sleep. Another thing about
II is its annoying propensities to pro-
duce warts. Warts trouble the hands
OF all those who are steadily engaged
with It. They have to be on their guard
to prevent producing severe and long
continuing ulcers. One professor says
that when he began working with ra-
Hium his hair was perfectly white, but
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-05-01
Richest Man.

1t is generally agreed that John
d. Rockefeller is the richest man in
the world today, but that he is the
richest man in history is far from
certain, says the Baltimore Sun.
Hundreds and thousandsof years ago
there lived men whose wealth, judg-
ing by its purchasing power in
their time, probably exceeded his.
Croesus, king of Lydia, to whom
Mr.. Rockefeller is often compared,
owned awhole empire-and incident.
ly died dead broke: There were
plutocrats in ancient Egypt and
Rome whose riches were SO vast that
they had to employ armies of men
to collect their revenues. Some OF
these antique billionairs were high
livers and one of them once gave q
dinner which cost more than ST.
100000. Besides that, the ex.
travagances Of John D. pale.
Nearer our own time was Patiom-
kin, favorite of the Empress Cath.
crime III. of Russia, and the mos
famous spendthrift of modern times.
Patiomkin began life as lieutenant
in the Russian Imperial Guards, anc
on the day that Catherine seized the
throne from her drunken HUSBAND
had the good fortune to encounter
her. She was in uniform at the
time, but lacked the plume which
Russian officers then always wore il
their helmets. Patiomkin pluckec
out his own plume and handed it tt
the empress. She smiled, placed i
in her hair-and Patiomkin's for
tune was made.
Catherine in her day was much
married lady and most of her morga
natic husbands were Apollos, bu
Patiomkin, who had the honor of be
ing one of them, was man of ugl,
and forbidding appearance. Ii
was fat, misshappen and bald, an,
had lost an eye, and his manner wa
gruff and uncouth. But all tn
same he was man of splendi,
imagination and for many years al
ter Catherine deserted him for an
other he held post at the Russian
court comparable to that once hel,
by Mr.. Lehr in New York society
In brief, he was the official maste
the revels and superintendent Of en-
tertainments.
/ Patiomkin was most unscrur
ulous CRATER and made none
rapidly. Within q year after b
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-05-01
Success of a Young Farmer.

What a real good, safe, reliable
proposition an Iowa farm is, and
what an opportunity it offers to the
young man who is capable of doing
some thinking and is not afraid to
get right down to good hard work
when the occasion demands it. A
case in point: Grant Cole started
farming year ago ON so acres one
mile west of Independence, his only
capital $175, a robust constitution
and a fixed purpose to succeed
With that Sl75, and his credit, he
had to buy a team, farm tools, COWS,
seed and feed until he could raise a
crop. Most young men would have
thought it pretty discouraging
outlook, but Grant took another
hitch in his belt and went at it to
win out. He worked early and late,
and during the busy season the ap-
preaching shades of night often
found him in his field. Nature
smiled upon him and crowned his
labors with a bounteous harvest.
Today, an inventory of his assets
reads like this: Three good horses,
harness, the old wagon with which
he began business and new truck
wagon, two stirring plows. corn
plow, new disc pulverizer, harrow,
four cows, six yearling heifers, six
brood ,'sows, 100 chickens, the many
littlestools essential on a farm and
|ahs of-Wiiieh4 4costmoney. 800 bushels
of corn, and seed and feed enough
to carry him through to another
harvest. Figured right down to
what it would bring in cash, he has
gathered around him property of a
value of not less than $1,000. His
horses would sell for enough money
to pay all his Indebtedness, leaving
him as the result of his years work,
after deducting his original capital
of $l75, not less than 5000. He
paid cash rental of $275 for his
80, which is hardly up to the aver
age OF the land Of the county in
quality. There are hundreds of
just such opportunities awaiting
young men right here in Buchanan
county. Grant Cole has demon
strated that it is not necessary to go
West to get start-that if you are
made Of the right stuff there is no
better place in the world to start
than right here at home, among
friends, in good old Bulle-
tin-.Tonrna1
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-05-01
Denies Secret is Out.

The statement that John Gilmore,
the genius cobbler of Altoona, Pa,
who made discovery of com
pound which will make ashes burn
better than coal, has let the formula
become known is without founda-
ton. Gilmore is not in the least
concerned about the possibility OF
his secret compound becoming
known.
why" says he, "those sharks
who bounded me nearly to death in
Pittsburg when l was there making
experiments were taught a lesson
they won't soon forget. l fooled
them when they went triAing around
my satchel containing the process
by burning the satchel and all its
contents in the furnace of the Hote
Henry with my last public. expert
ment. A look of dissapsisment
passed over them as t6dsf fathel
satchel went up in smoky,
could take no chances, especial,
among strangers"