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The Washington herald., 1907-03-05
CARES FOR DISTRICT
Work of Congress Reviewed
by Commissioner.
MUCH LEFT TO WORK FOR
MaefarIand Says ia General ApprO-
PriatiOns of Session just Closed
Were satisfactory and Much Good
viii Come of Them-SeveraI Re-
quests, However, Not Granted.

While regretting the failure OF Congress
to bring the railroad locomotives under
the smoke law. the omission of the bill
giving the Commissioners supervision
over the street railway companies. and
the adverse action relating to several i'm
pOrtant appropriations. Commissioner
mcfarland yesterday stated that the
District appropriations in general were
satisfactory. and that much good viii
come of them. In reference to this he
said:
The Fifty-ninth Congress did good
work for the District of Columbia
Measures which the Commissioners and
the people had been pressing for years
were given by the Congress which ended
to-day. All our extraordinary projects
OF physical improvement begun during
the past six years have been or will be
completed with the appropriations OF
this Congress. including the District
government building, the hltration plant,
the sewage disposal system. the elmina-
tion of grade crossings and railway
terminal work. and good provision has
been made for the next large under
taking. that of providing proper sewer
facilities for the suburban portions of
the District. Congress has also provided
1900 for plans for the park treatment of
Rock Creek south Of Massachusetts ave
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14
. - - !.
"THIS IS MY s9TH BIRTHDAY,
Maxim Gorky.

Maxim Gorky, the well-known Rus
sian author and leader of the reform
party, was born at Mini Novgorod
March IA, 1865. When he was a lad
of five years he was left an orphan.
At the age Of nine he was apprenticed
to cobbler. Soon firing of this work,
he ran away and became a cooks boy
on Volga steamer The cook on this
boat encouraged him in learning to
read, and finally. with bare smatter-
ing of him own language, he tried to
enter the University of Kazan. The
learned men laughed at him and turned
him away. Barefooted, he wandered
through the streets of Kazan, and after
many privations secured a position in
bakery. Later he peddled apples
and was railroad porter. During the
latter part of his vicissitudes he at
tempted to commit suicide Through
out all his troubles Gorky wrote con-
stantly, and when he gained name
for himself these earlier stories were
eagerly seized upon. In 1904-5 Gorky
took a leading part in the popular up
rising in Russia, was imprisoned by
the car and finally freed through the
influence of the grand duke Constantin
Constantinovitch. Afterwards he fled
to Germany and has ever since re-
manned outside of Russia. 4 year ago
he spent several months in the United
States.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14
notable PHYSICIANS IN CONTROVERSY
OVER PHENOMENON FOLLOWING DEATH

be put into a sealed glass bottle like an
Edison light bulb alive to watch its dy-
ing. It must always be in an open
vessel, and therefore repeats the mouse
experiment with an open vessel. This
Is furthermore proved by the amount
in the Boston experiment, said to be
from one-half to one ounce. This tai
lies with that of the gases in the body.
The average body weighs $50 pounds,
or 2,400 Ocunces. The loss therefore
was about 10000. A mouse weighs
10000 to 10000 milligrams. The loss
was $4,000, or the same ratio for the
phenomenon.
Everybody can make the expert
ment with bottle of saltwater Let
him weigh carefully, weigh all glasses
carefully; then open it, and fill the
glasses, spilling as little as possible.
When he weighs all after he has poured
the glasses full he will find he has lost
half an ounce somewhere. 1t was the
weight of the escaping gas. At the mo-
ment of opening of the soda-water bot
tie loss of a fraction of an ounce is
Immediately observable.
Evidently the Boston physicians
were prejudiced; otherwise they would
not have rushed into print with such
an ill-digested observation, the expla-
nation Of which is so relatively simple,
making sensation out of natural
phenomenon"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14
Associated Press to The Evening Times.

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Chicago, March 14.-"If the soul has
weight" said an eminent physiological
chemist today, "it becomes an object
of physics. Years ago group of Ger
man students settled this point. If
mouse was allowed to die In hermet-
ically sealed bottle (sealed by fusion,
not merely stoppered), absolutely no
loss Of weight occurred, even using
scale easily showing one milligram
(1-446,0 00th of a pound). But If the
mouse died in an open vessel, clean,
clear loss within one-half- minute
after death of ten to twenty milligrams
was very noticeable. That proved that
a gas was given of, no weightless sub
stance. What was this gas? Evidently
the blood corpuscles and tissues fur
nished the solution. While alive, the
red blood corpuscles and tissues hold
oxygen gas, carbonic acid gas, etc., in
perfect solution. When in solution a
gas weighs just as much as salt in So
luton would weigh, but the moment
the body dies, the blood corpuscles die
with it; they can no longer hold the
oxygen, carbonic acid and probably
other less well-known gases in solu-
ton; they become microscopic gas bub-
bles and as such cease to weigh in an
open vessel; also in the intestines
gases are set free. This is the loss OBJ
served. A human body is too large to
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14

which Is thus living of Pittsburg cred
ulity sends agents to Pittsburg, who
stop at prominent hotels and spend
money freely, making acquaintances
among the younger set of "p!ungers."
A short business acquaintance and an
evening at the club is followed by
tale of the "sure thing" to be found
in a "gentlemen's game" at the me-
tropolis.
A trip to New York invariably so!-
lows. The Pittsburger returns in
about week, makes good on his bank
account with a few personal notes,
and keeps silent. 1t is said Il at for
more than month before he disap-
peared Hitchcock was in the grasp
of one of the ,"steerers" for this New
York syndicate. He spent the better
part of several weeks In New York
and always returned to raise more
money on his personal credit. He is
also known to have confi;led lii sew
eral personal friends that he had
prospect of making a large winning"
in the metropolis.
Suo pIOlulucuI UTOkST Is reported 10
have dropped nearly 100000 in a week;
a second was compelled to call on his
friends after losing a little more than
$4,000 odd cash-and there were stor-
les told yesterday OF still larger
"hauls" made by the New Workers.
A we'll known member of the Pitts
burg stock exchange declared yester-
day that the suicide of a prominent
Pittsburger within the past two years
could be traced direct to his losses in
the New York "gentleman's game"
One or two agents of the syndicate
were spotted at local hotels early the
present week. If they reappear they
will be asked by the police to leave
tho city.
THE gentleman's game in the me-
tropolis costs Pittsburg an easy half
million year." said a New York
broker who was in Pittsburg yestei-
day, "and most of it is dropped in
these sure thing resorts"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14

Men and women never seem to know
each other SO little that they are afraid
to marry, or have lived together SO
long ga man and wife that they may
not sue for divorce.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
March IA.

. .
1369-Peter Of CASTLE defeated at
Montiel.
1471-Edward Nv of England re-
turned from exile.
1555-Death Of John, Earl of Bed
ford.
1644-Charter granted Rhode Island
uniting it with Providence plantation.
1757-Admiral John Byng of the Eng
fish navy shot for failing to do his
duty.
17S0-Don Galvez, Spanish governor
of New Orleans, captured Mobile from
tho English.
1S31-Parliamentary reform bill in
troduced in the British house of COM
mons.
1S44-John Y. Mason of Virginia be-
came secretary of the navy.
1862-General Burnside attacked the
Confederate Notifications atNew Berne,
N. c.
1S75-Gold discovered in Deadwood
and Whitewood gulches, South Dakota.
1SS4-Osman Digna's forces began
their retreat before the English army
in the Soudan.
1S91-New Orleans mob lynched
eleven Italians accused of murder of
Chief of Police Hennessy.
1S95-Illinois supreme court de-
clared eight-hour law for women in
valid.
1900-President Mckinley signed the
GOLD OF 1ord hill
1904-U. s. supreme court decided
Northern Securities company was lille
gal.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14

There is little wolf and little rab.
bit in every man.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14

Are you one of the kind of people
who know 1t all? Then you may de-
pend upon it that you get it good and
proper behind your back.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14
CHANNEL PROBLEM
Is as Great An Undertaking in
Eyes of the Londoner as the
Panama Canal.

How to cross the English channel
without suffering the customary en-
barrassing discomfort is a problem
which has given rise to many ingeni-
GUS suggestions. To M. Matthew, a
Frenchman, credit must be given for
the first idea of the negotiation of
this passage otherwise than by boat.
His notion was to dig tunnel
through the channel bed, sort of
subterranean coaching road, which
he proposed to ventilate by shafts
rising above the level of the sea.
These, had they come into being,
would have presented the appearance
of chain of lighthouses extending
from the coast of France to that of
Britain. War, however, breaking out
at the time between the countries con-
cerned, all thought of the plan had
to be abandoned. But the idea itself,
once brought to attention, was not
allowed to drop.
In 1S49 bridge was first suggest.
ed for the purpose, and in 1889 the
model of second and improved
bridge was placed on view at the
Paris exhibition. That nothing came
of this last scheme-for the first one
never got beyond the paper stage
is scarcely to be wondered at, as, in
addition to some serious drawbacks
that 1t threatened in the working, it's
cost was estimated at the modest sum
of more than $170,000,0OO. Next there
was the proposition to lay on the
sea bed a tube which it was meant
to build out ring by ring from a div
Ing bell, the structure to be held in
position by screw piles. Through the
cylinder thus made trains were to be
driven by means of compressed air.
Akin to this was yet another tubular
idea for laying down in the same way,
but parallel to each other, two iron
tubes connected at intervals by trans
verse tubes. An attractive feature,
too, in this last plan was station
which it was proposed to erect in
mid-channel, where travellers might
alight and stretch their legs a bit
and fill their lungs with fresh sea
air.
Most homelike, though, of any
scheme was that of huge elevated
ferry boat. In this idea the intention
was to build up to within fifty feet
of the surface of the sea a bridge to
act as guide and mainstay, with steel
uprights rising to trolley platform,
which, standing high out of the water,
was to have accommodations on it
for four trains abreast. This, viewed
from a distance, would have looked
much like floating mouse-trap with
miniature trains on top of it. Finally,
there was the submarine boat scheme.
in which the boat was to run on rails
laid on the channel bed. Its inventor
promised that it would be completely
unaffected by the worst of storms rag
ing above water.
In summing up the various sugges-
lions, the tunnel is the only one which
promises in practice to be safe at all.
Yet English people, many of them,
think that it is best to let the thing
alone, and rest content with the Sc
curity bestowed by nature on an
island. Moreover, even where the
British lion processes to regard as
harmless such pathway to his lair,
the noble animal, If called upon,
might find it a. great bore to have to
squat and watch it.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14
DOES THE DAYS WORK,
President Roosevelt Keeps to View of
the Average Man.

u
the Average Man.
Roosevelt is not leading a double
life, as his enemies secretly believe.
He will not be found out, because there
is nothing to find out. He is merely
primitive. He has the gayety and op-
timism that belongs to youth and youth
Is not mere physical adolescence; 1t
is that state of soul which men keep
SO long as they have not smudged their
ideals and trifled with their con-
sciences.
One may be boy at 80 or man at
Is. But whoever has youth has faith,
and given wisdom with faith, strength
and courage are but the other side of
the shield. Perhaps that is the mean
ing of the prophecy, "And little child
shall lead them"
Indeed, Mr.. Roosevelt's whole ca
reer as president has revealed no new
or strange thing about the man. The
oldest thing about him is that he has
not been colored by the false atmos-
phere of politics, but has kept the av-
erage views of the average citizen and
has done as president not great, heroic
work, but the days work as the aver
age man would like to do it If he could
have the courage to meet the oppor-
tunities that President Roosevelt has
met.
Civic righteousness, whether in the
White House or at the ward caucus,
after all, is only the practical, efficient
use Of common sense, uncommon cour-
age and common honesty. Add to these
virtues great kindness, desire to
please. and q wish to serve others
rather than to advance himself, and
you have the clay of which Theodore
Roosevelt is made.
Net only are his feet Of clay, but his
whole being is of native mud, but it is
of the kind which under pressure and
heat easily turns to marble and be-
comes immortal. Washington, Lincoln
and Grant were made of similar stun.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14
HE LOST HIS ROLL.


Patrons of well-known Sixth ave-
nue. cafe of the all-night type in New
York were treated to a novel little
drama free of charge the other even
ing. It began when a well-dressed
young fellow, on receiving his check,
quickly arose and hurried to the cash
Ter.
1--WE dropped $50 in your place" he
said. Let no one out until a search
is made"
Where's your check?" he was asked.
Here it is. l had two twenties and
ten."
will you pay this $1.6O check?"
II can't till l find my roll"
Waiter, call an officer"
But what for?" asked the victim.
will you pay?"
I'll pay when / find my money.
had it when came in"
Call the cop, waiter"
Two minutes later bluecoat hustled
in, and the cashier was telling him that
he had deadbeat to be cared for,
when woman rose to leave. The $50
was found on the floor where it had
been covered by her skirts.
Didn't tell you so?" exclaimed the
outraged patron as he settled with the
cashier. Nice sort of people you are.
I'll sue YOU for damages as result of
this"
The cashier looked tired, but made
no reply. When the indignant GUS
timer had departed somebody re-
marked to the cashier:
Then he wasn't beat after all?"
1.-The slickest Sort" was asserted.
But he lost his money and it was
found"
Don't you believe it. The woman
was In the game and gave it up when
she saw that he would be arrested.
Your Uncle Hiram has been right here
for ten years and knows the ropes"
The grounding hasn't done very we'll
this year, but his forecasts average up
about the same as those of the human
weather prophets.
Are you one of the kind of people
who know it all? Then you may de-
pend upon it that you get it good and
proper behind your back.
Men and women never seem to know
each other so little that they are afraid
to marry, or have lived together SO
long ga man and wife that they may
not sue for divorce.
There Is little wolf and little rab.
bit in every man.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14
Pittsbur9 Plun9er Marked
Man for New Workers

The clearing up of the affairs of o.
B. Hitchcock, the missing real estate
broker, who is supposed to be short
about $4,000 in his accounts with
Pittsburg people, probably will devel-
on the story of the "sure-thing" prac-
tices of an organized gang of New
Workers who have been playing"
Pittsburgers for eighteen months or
longer and who are said to have all
but ruined several we'll known ag-
ures in the local business world.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14

From the stories Hitchcock told a
number of his friends when he was
last in the city the missing broker
is thought to be the latest victim Of
this gang of New Workers, whose tao
tics are almost as crude as those of
the traditional confidence men" Of
the old days-and who seem to have
won their way with usually shrewd
local business men by the vety SIM
plicity of their methods.
The syndicate of New Yorks crooks
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-14
EDNA GOODRICH, STAGE BEAUTY.

Mrs Evelyn Nesb 1haw Edna
Goodrich as the girl who
rich at that time long
h cnous as she possessed both ambition
ny ne De Miles called 1.-THE Genius and
up into the melght Of the footghts
try as leading for Nat pretty brunette
The Monte Vista journal., 1907-07-06

Reports from Summitville indi.
cate that there will be more act
ivity in that rich gold mining
camp this season than for many
years past Sidney Duval and
Martin Jones are driving the Gold
Crown tunnel to cut . promising
looking "blow -out" ON the Little
Nellie at . considerable depth. and
are now within thirty feet Of the
objective point. They are em.
ployed BY The Gold Grown Gold
Mining Co. Henry Reynolds and
partner are getting ont timbes
and preparing to sink shaft on
the Peterson Placer to cut q rich
vein supposed to cross that pro-
Rrty. It y reported that work
Viii bsgin on other propsrtiss -
soon - supplies can b freighted
into camp. The snow u still quito
deep and the roads are not yse in
condition for wagon travsl.-Pros-
pector.
The Monte Vista journal., 1907-07-06
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b>hs popuiss csy throughout European
seaatsiss; whils b Aosstoa, tbe ~ q
~ pssseet Aay , "Laag live Df. Kisgs
Ne Discovery. Kiag q Thsoss ssd
Laaa nsnsd,esi" a which Mn. Julls
npaw Palse. Truro, AasA. says: II
n6voe lalh v give loaed,eas relIse sod
>sSnskiy ssss . sssOh a. seld." Am
H11noh oplotoo b shssed b najoeitS
- ieAshieanae q sAk 6oustsy. Nsw
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49, o1)e ~ e1Aas seBodses have
fonk ~ - sou6Ae and epads ~ ths
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The Monte Vista journal., 1907-07-06
Per Sale at . Darsala.
Two new Champion Mowers.
Exchange Grocery.
MRS. O. A. BARNES
Has nov goods, latest styles, sell
ing very cheap.

The annual excursion over the
d. 4 X. g. road to Salt Lake will
be sometime the last Of July. The
dates and rates will be announced
iu due time. These Salt Lake OK
cursions are popular as no pains
are spared to give everybody q
good time.
The Monte Vista journal., 1907-07-06

Bishop N. @. Matz, who is pro-
curing the sisters to take charge
of the Del Norte Sxnltarium sends
word to the committee in charge
to secure the property and have it
OQdy for the sisters who are COM
ing soon.-Prospector.
The property referred to 10 the
beautiful residence owned by John
Il. Shaw.
The Monte Vista journal., 1907-07-06

0oeAo1los Episcopal OhoeeA.
RRAug ". 0ao5nAal. Pastor.
--Supday 0ees,oee--
essday School 1000 .. N.
2seaing 6es0oa ll0a. N.
Eewostls League 100 p. y.
Evooiag 0oeapea, 800 p y.
Wednesday evsoA0g Deasee Desting . %
lA1lss Asd 9esieey a,ssts ~ third
TAuss1Ay eflssnesa q saoh moath!
Tho We0Aae toesiga 0isAsooasy
Heeis4y assas Ne asss Thursday oe sash
The Monte Vista journal., 1907-07-06
OAssoslao 0hureh.
2. JALA01As, Pastor.

Sunday 6ehool st 10 .. N.
Preoehlng at II q. -. cd 9 p q.
rsayse osst,ng Wednesday at . p. y.
TAs Ladies' Union oeees with Mn.
Psstiss Wednesday at $50 p. y.
Regular nsetiag q The olBeial board
|nsdisesly sftss oosn,sg sssvioss. All
Dhhsn ass requested 70 b present.
The Monte Vista journal., 1907-07-06
KEEP THE YOUNG
FOLKS AT HOME

4 Tea saa d eAis by installing telephone.
10 ~ yssno lsaAs co ring up thsir friends any
time srsa tAss hoas, they will b. sss inclined 70
y est q at0At
Altss - hsus - TIVE q study. little chat With
fspd eves ~ tsspAoss asd thsy tel that the study
Aevs has ~ besa taspoooA
n u vua ~ to- IN thsls work BY keeping thsm
II oe0ounaaoteo NJ eeAoe friends os tAaohsrs Who
eaa as11s9. .t
Lev RaAsa n Oslssado Ts,spAoos Compaay
The Monte Vista journal., 1907-07-06

Droobyto9lao OAofeh
1Anusl b. N00ss. Pastoe.
Sunday School $50 .. n.
4oeniag Service ll:W .. a.
Evening 6ervics 7:3O p. N.
The Monte Vista journal., 1907-07-06

FIRST 0aptlot Ohueeh.
nsv. 2. L. nL0Wuns. Pastor.
4cening theae-A Place of Rest
Eveaiag theos-Chrise Lost 10 ~
Crowd.
wsdsssday evening meeting At 7:lA
The Monte Vista journal., 1907-07-06
Bier 1ot1sss
FoR SALE-A Riding Cultiv.tor.
j. F. FARNswoRrB.

G. B. Stutsmsn 4 Co carry the
best limo Of fish,ng tackle obtain
able.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-11-15
fFrom the Leader.)

Art Kycklehahn, the l7-year old son
Of A. r. kyokelhahn, had his collar
bone broken Wednesday. He was
wrestling at the livery barn and thrown
and the bone broken in three places.
VIM. Bauer is having an addition
built TO his house.
Haul s.. Dietrich, of Lincoln, state
Sunday school superintendent, was
here Sunday and gave talks at the
n. y. and Christian churches.
Peter Merten has rented the new
j. j. Martin building in the course of
erection and will occupy it with his
furniture stock as o o as completed
Mrs. A. G. Banks has been very i'll
for some weeks, but Is now slowly i'm
proving.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-11-15
The "Nagur" and the Fiddle.

Here is Il story that Frederick Doug.
lass used 10 tell about himself: Once
when he was in Dublin he felt very
lonesome. He was wandering about
the streets when he was attracted by
two violins in the window of Il second.
hand dealer. Frederick entered and
asked The price Of one of the instru-
mcnts.
give shilIings, Sor." said the Irish
dealer.
Frederick tuned the violin and began
10 play Rocky Road TO Dublin" Soon
The proprictOr's wife heard the music
and entered the rear door. Then Fred
crick started in on The Irish Washer.
woman" and the couple began Ia
dance for lear life. When the music
and dancing stopped Frederick ten
dered the dealer : shillings, but his
performance on the violin had greatly
enhanced its value in the mind OF the
storekccper. and rs he hurried away
to Il place OF security he exclaimed:
IF u black nagur can git such
chimes GU of that fiddle I'll never sell
il nj any price. beGorrah!'
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-11-15
lonq Men Wanted.

The records in the war department
In Washington are as n rule very dry.
but occasionally an entry is found that
IL humorous.
An officer OF engineers in charge Of
the construction Of n road hat was
10 De built through a swamp. being
energetic himself and used to sur
mounting obstacles. was surprised
when One Of his young licntenants
whom he had ordered ~ take twenty
men and enter the swamp said that he
could not do 1.-THE mud was too deep.
The colonel ordered him To- try. He
did so and returned with his men COW
cred with mud.
Colonel, the mud is over my mems
heads. I can't do It."
The colonel insisted and told him IA
make a requisition for anything that
was necessary for a safe passage.
The lieutenant made his requisition in
writing and on the spot. It was as
follows:
81 want twenty men eighteen feet
long to cross n swamp fifteen fee.
deep."-Harpcr's Weekly.