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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-11-29
Of MONEY
IN BENNING RING
ON THANKSGIVING
Good Racing and Big
Crowd for Holiday
Races.

1t was a rafting good Thanksgiving
card that the Bennlng people served
up yesterday with the Washington Cup
and couple of steeplechases as the
features.
The cross country events were partlcu-
larry interesting. and the selling steeple-
chase was voted by all hands the best
race over the jumps at BenninB Tor
many moons. Everybody was trying,
and it was a refreshing sight indeed
to see four steeplechase jocks coming
down the stretch whipping and slash
ing; every man riding for his life.
County Smiths valiant old chaser got
the dough in this struggle, and every
body was glad of IT, tor there is no
more consistent nor gamer jumper IMAM
this son OF Huron.
The Junior SJeeplechase. too, furnished
a rafting finish, Economy just getting
the verdict from Sandy Creeker. In the
drive down the stretch. however. Nc
lnerny rode Economy over against
Sandy Creeker and caused him 10 SUM
bic. Henderson claimed foul promptly
and the stewards disqualified Economy,
placing Sandy Creeker first.
There was the usual howl. OF course,
over the disqualification by those VINO
had bet on Colts entry. bit the kick
had no justice In II. The stewards were
clearly right in this case. McInern.' had
Creeker. he had the whole stretch 70
himself, and he may thank his lucky
stars that the stewards did not nne or
suspend him. 1t is about time that
some of these rough riders felt the
heavy hand OF the law.
The Washington Cup at two an one
quarter miles was perhaps the star
number Of tho Benning program The
people enjoy these long-distance races
when they have the horses so long in
view. passing the stand as they did in
this race three times II is a little pecu-
liar that Beauclere was 50 overlooked
i'm the betting This one has shown
himself particularly suited by a dis
lance Of ground. and with only ninety
four pounds I'D he looked very sweet
The public generally could see nothing
but Ironsides and Right Royal. and neg
lected the threc-year-Old In the betting
With only l0 up IrOnsides looked in
soft spot, but the Meddler gelding is
evidently not the horse he formerly was
and perhaps, after all, Mr.. Colt mad
better put him to jumping. for which
purpose ne bought him. As for Right
Royal. he ran a good race, but the track
WAS not exactly suited 20 his dlnky
legs: IL had dried out too much. Red
t'riar, who got some play, ran wretch
edly and must be set down as an IN
certain betting proposition
Gwynn Tompkins' stable seems to be
in pretty good shape at present, and
anything he starts Is worth attention.
Yesterday he put a no. one over the
plate in Loudoun light. which went TO
I the posi- at 10 20 1 an won Ike an
even money shot Loudoun Light was
, heavily backed at the 5iE tracks once
or twice this fall, hut f. lied to mate
rtalize. Since coming into TOmpkins'
hands he has improved and Is now quite
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Tony Bonero Is a speedy animal. but
n mile and a sixteenth seems 10 be a
little over his distance Yesterday he
ran Ike a Wild horse 10 thu stretch.
but right at the end he weakened and
Joe hotter. coming along with Fancy
Bird. beat him out tandily- There was
a heavy play Oh the winner, just AZ
post time and his odds were knocked
down from TO ! % 70 l.
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its tributaries back to the great impor-
lance that they had before the develop
ment Of railroads. The arguments all
appear irresistible that these natural
highways should be the peoples means
of reaching markets. and their surest
relief from the exactions of the roads.
On paper this is the easiest demon
strated thing imaginable. Any kind OF
goods or products can be sent down
the river from as far west as the yell
lowstone country and as far east as the
mountains of Pennsylvania by sheer
force of gravity. All that 1t is neces-
sary to do is to nail a few boards to-
gether, make a fiatboat, and load grain,
cattle, hogs or anything upon it and
let 1t float down to the sea. A steam
boat will carry several times as much
as a freight train, and cost far less.
The rivers are free for all and open to
every mans enterprise, where the rail-
roads are close corporations. On the
other hand, it is 1,150 miles by river
from Cairo to New Orleans. where it is
only 500 by rail. A passenger can go
in the cars in one day where it would
take him three, four or more by water.
Time is an important element in the
transportation of valuable products. as
interest upon the investment runs un-
ceasingly. What is, however, the
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Scientific Notes.

The great Assouan Dam, Egypt, will
be raised % feet at a cost of s7,500,000.
The Greenland whale is said to attain
an age of 400 years.
| The floating population of the world
| is 100000 This means the people
who follow the sea.
1t is said that tobacco users are rare
ly sufferers from cholera.
The mountain ranges of Europe lie
east and west. and those of America
north and south.
There are 48 different kinds of mate
rial entering into the construction of
piano. and they are gathered from 16
countries. -...s..
Ireland holds the record for centen-
arians.
The races of the world are numbered
at 20, making use of 1908 different
tongues. There are about 1000 reli
Sions. -l,-.q s,= -t5...-g r.-.
| The human hair crop is profitable,
and extensive industry. Five tons oflit
are annually imported by the mer-
chants of London. The center of the
trade is Paris, where 100000 pounds
are harvested annually. with a valua-
ton of 100000.
VI Tue SlcDc Is l,fVU--
000. 900. of whom 35,214,000 die every,
year. The births amount to 36.792,800
every year. or more than one a second.
Coal mining is the most dangerous
of all land employments. About IL out
of every 10000 miners are killed yearly
at their work
A dry dock of concrete and granite
is being constructed at Hunters Point,
on the Pacific Coast. which will hold
the record for size upon completion. 1t
will accommodate two of the largest
battleships at one time. 1t will be 1850
feet in length and will cost $1,250.000.
The largest concrete building in the
world is the Pacific Building, of San
Francisco. Cal, now under construc-
ton.
Not less than 37O,000,O5O pounds of
copper wire were in use on the numer-
Gus telephone lines of the Bell compa-
MES in America last year. This year
there Is expected an increase of 3d.
100000 pounds. In addition to wire,
considerable quantities of copper are
used in the manufacture of brass for
telephone instruments and for alloys
required in other branches of telephone
service.
1t has been calculated that there are
GO, 000, 900, 900 of atoms in one cubic
inch of copper.
1t is said that one pound of zirco-
mum will supply $4,000 filaments for
Prof Weddings chromium lamp. The
life of the lamp Is calculated at 700 to
loo hours
The scientific distinction between SOL
id and fluid may be derived from the
common idea of solid as that which
has a form of its own. while the fluid
takes the form of the containing vessel,
bounded by level surface on top.
Pearl fishers on the coast of Ceylon
find X-rays of great service. BY their
application it is possible to distinguish,
without opening the shells, the valuable
oysters from those containing no pearls.
The latter are thrown back into the
sea.
1t is estimated that the beehive coke
ovens in general use in the United
States waste yearly from $4,000 to
100000 tons of ammonium Sulphate,
which has high value as a fertilizer In
Germany most of this waste is avoided
by the use of the improved ovens, in
which the by-products of the coal are
saved
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NEED OF NICKEL RAILS.

Charles NJ Schwab, the ex-President
of the United States Steel Corporation,
gays that the greatest and most impera-
Give need of the railroads now is nick
ell steel rail to replace the Bessemer. In
the recent run of the 1S-hour flyer from
New York to Chicago 20 rails We're
broken by the weight and speed of the
train between the two terminals. Trains
cannot be made any heavier or run any
faster with the present rail, nor can
they be run as fast with any safety to
passengers. train crews and rolling
stock The rails must be made of open
hearth nickel steel. which will cost
from two to three times as much as the
present rail. but will after all be more
economical in obviating accidents.
There is something to be said against
the present shape of the rail, too. the
head is too heavy and the flange too
light, which, with the impurities that
are only too common, tend to the rup-
ture. of the rail. The heavy top is
largely responsible, for this, as it in
creases the difficulty of rolling and pre-
vents thoro work.
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The Highest Mountain in Maine.

The Geological Survey says that
Mount Katadin towers above all of the
high places in the State of Maine. and,
excepting the peaks of the White Noun
tains in New Hampshire, is the highest
point in New England. 1t is so miles
distant from Bangor, from which it ap-
pears to be an isolated peak, but on
nearer view it is seen to be highest of 4
number of mountain masses, and is it
self cut into four peaks. These all rise
above the timber line, and the only
vegetation on them are lichens and a
few dwarfed plants of the Alpinestype.
The mountain is composed of granite,
and the snow lies on it thru June. In
Midsummer it is likely to have freezing
weather. A careful survey determines
that the hight of the West Peak is 5,26S
feet East Peak is IS feet lower than
West Peak.
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STANDARD TIME FOR EUROPE.

The bigness of this country is illus
trated by the adoption of standard time
for the continent of Europe. In this
country We have to have four main
.meridians to divide the time required to
traverse the country; that is, meridians
Is degrees apart, so as to represent one
hour of time, are taken. The first or
Eastern section is that of the 18th
meridian, and includes the territory be-
tween the Atlantic coast and line
from Detroit to Charleston, S. c. The
second or Central Time is that of line
from Bismarck. N. D., to the mouth of
the Rio Grande. The third or Noun
tain Time includes the territory between
this line and the western borders of
Idaho, Utah and Arizona. The fourth
or Pacific Time covers the rest of the
country to the Pacific Coast. For all
of Europe only three time meridians
are necessary. The first or Western
Europe Time is that of Greenwich, and
is used in England, Holland. Belgium,
vanity France clings to the Paris time,
which is nine minutes faster than
Greenwich. The next meridian is that
of Central European Time, one hour
faster than Greenwich, and which is
used in Germany, Hungary,
Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway
and Sweden. East European time is
that of st. Petersburg. which is two
hours, one minute and 13 seconds fast
er than Greenwich, and is used in Euro
pean Russia, Turkey in Europe, Rou-
mania and Bulgaria.
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whirled Wolf About His Head.
(Oconto Correspondence st. Paul Pioneer
PreSS)

(Oconto Correspondence st. Paul Pioneer
PresS.)
Sixteen-year-old Louis Crosse has re-
ceived a check from the County Auditor
in payment of the bounty for the scalp
of a big timber wolf which he killed
near his fathers farm at Little Sua-
mico.
Crosse and his father had been out
hunting and their dog struck the trail
of a wolf. They followed 1T all day,
keeping the animal rapidly moving. To-
ward evening they came up to the wolf.
now thoroly tired, just as it was about
to crawl into hole. 1t was part way
in, but the older Crosse ran forward
and seized the animal by the tail 1t
tried to snap at him, but Crosse, who
is a strong man, hurled it rapidly about
until, losing his hold on it's caudal ap-
pendage, the wolf shot away for several
yards and lay on the ground apparently
dead.
Louis made certain of his prey by
putting a bullet into its head.
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Fifty Miles to the Neon.

Thanks to Mr.. John d. Hooker, a
philanthropist living at Los Angeles, We
may some day see photographs of the
moons surface distinguishing objects
100 feet apart. In other words, any
thing they have up there half as long
as the Capitol Building will be plainly
discernible. All this any many greater
wonders will be brought about by
means of a 100-inch mirror, which will
be mounted in the Carnegie 1nstitu-
TONS new solar observatory on Mount
Wilson, southern California. But it is
several years in the future. for first a
four and a half ton block of glass. 10
inches thick, must be cast without crack
or blemish, and then four years must
be consumed in just grinding and pol
ishing it,. The cost of the big mirror
and its smaller auxiliaries will be $45,-
900. A lens of equal size costs $1,000
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sI2,Oe0,OOO for n Short Cut.

There is no better illustration of the
modern business axiom that time is
money than the big project undertaken
by the Southern Pacific. In order to
shorten it's route across the Sierra Ne
vada and to avoid the steep grades, the
railroad will soon begin boring tunnel
thru a spur of the mountains which will
be $4,000 feet long. require three years
of hard work. and wipe out the tidy
sum of $12,000,000. 1t will be the big
gest and dearest thing in that line on
this side the world. The present route
will be left untouched, and after the
tunnel is finished will be reserved for
slow, light traffic.
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forefinger and the thumb, and the point
is slightly moistened on the end of the
patients tongue. Then that part which
is cut at an angle is held at right an
giles to the surface of the eye and
brought straight down over the eyeball
until it comes in contact with the sub
stance in the eye, which it invariably
moves at the first trial. If the point is
too sharp, bend it up little on the
thumb nail.
Tire.
James NJ. Shepard, Findlay, O., has
received a patent for a tire which has
a combination with a tread member of
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sea-going ships, great river steamers,
and fiat boats were crowded, in places
three and four deep. with busy gangs
of negroes driven to their limit by vo-
ciferous bosses, loading and unloading
the thousands of tons of products of the
most varied character. In was a scene
of activity of commerce in it's highest
forms, such as could hardly be found
elsewhere in the world crowded upon
Il similar area.
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The 18th N, j,

Editor National Tribune: VIII you
request some comrade to inform me
whether Col. Penrose, of the 18th N.
j., is living; and If so. where he can be
found? The widow of Lieut.. G. c. JUS
tice. Co. A. 18th N. J. is living at Phil
lipsburg, N. j.. and is anxious to learn
the whereabouts, of her husbands old
H. Griffith, 1877 Cham
bers St., Phillipsburg, N. ].
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Removing Cinders From the Eye.

As a safe and efficient means of re-
moving any foreign substance from the
eye, a correspondent of the American
Machinist submits a scheme successful
ly used by the eye doctor in his shop. A
piece of letter paper is folded and cut
with sharp knife to an angle of about
80 degrees, as shown by the sketch. The
folded paper is then held between the
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-06-06
Work of the Patent Office.

For the week ended May % the Pat
ent Office issued 100 patents s designs,
173 trademarks, IL labels, nine prints,
one reissue, making total of 945, of
which 6S6 patents and designs and 1SS
trademarks went to citizens of the
United States and So patents and de-
signs and II trademarks to citizens of
foreign countries.
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The 12th Iowa Mt shiloh.

Editor National Tribune: l noticed in
one of the recent issues of The National
Tribune where a member of some Mis-
souri, regiment claims that his regiment
relieved the 18th Iowa at the battle of
Shiloh. / think he has made a mistake
AS l remember il, we We're in the field
from a. m. till 6 p. M, when the en-
tire regiment was captured.-J. NJ.
Crosby, Schuyler, Neb.
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Disbarred,

Frank NJ White, of Petersburg, Ind,
was disbarred May 10, 1907, from prac-
Using before the Department or any
Bureau thereof
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Combined Fork and spoon.

The arrival of picnicing time is her.
aided by an invention of combined fork
and spoon for which John King, Oak
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The cures being made by this mhsic lotion every
day truly remarkable. have repeatedly restored
to sight persons nearly blind for years
Ulcers. wild hairs graduated lids disappear al
mcst instantly with the use of this magic remedy.
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Nnvies of the World.

Editor National Tribune: TO settle q
little dispute will you kindly tell me
whether or not Japan has any vessel
afoat as large or larger than the Dread
naught? What rank does the japanese
navy now occupy among the navies of
the world, and also that of :he United
States Navy?-Sarluel Pierson, Denver,
Colo.
Neither the Japanese nor any other
navy has war vessel as large as the
Dreadnaught, but several Nations are
planning such. and among them Japan.
The recent additions to our Navy aud
the vessels in course of construction will
place us third in strength. Great Britain
and France being the only cnes ahead
of us. The japanese will probably come
next if they succeed in putting the YES
sells they captured from Russia into
fighting shape. If not, they will fall
behind Germany.-Editor National
Tribune
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Bad?

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what it was when she became one Of
the foci of the rebellion. in 1860 she
had 22,623 Inhabitants. where she had
| in 1900 102,320. or nearly five times
as many and with much greater pro-
portionate wealth than when she
hoisted the flag of the Confederacy.
Grent Coal Chute.
Tho the magnificent floating pail
aces the lordly passenger steamers
with their towering white and gold
gingerbread work, their lofty CHM
neys, with their rolling volumes of dark
smoke. their imposing Captains, their
impressive changing of bells. hoarse
whistles, and exhibitions of intense
power and activity, have wholly disap-
peared; tho the prOduce-bearing fiat
| boats from thousand streams are seen
no more; tho the once unanimously
busy 1evees of ST. Louis, Cairo Mem
phis. Helena and Vicksburg are now
deserted and dilapidated. yet the actual
tonnage on the Mississippi is greater
than ever. This is because Of the i'm
mense quantities of coal brought down
from Western Pennsylvania. West Vir-
ginia and Eastern Ohio. This reaches
the inconceivable amount OF 100000
tons q year.
The great coal fleets are a sight
unique in the world. Great, strong
barges, each of which will contain sew
eral train, loads of coal, are loaded in
anticipation of coal boat rise" When
the gathered rainfall has filed the Ohio
River "bankfull," 20. 80, even 40 of
these are securely dashed together
about a powerful steamboat and
started down stream for New Orleans,
unless sooner discharged The swift
current furnishes the motive power All
that the steamboat does is to steer the
fleet. keep it off the sandbars and shall
low places, and hold it in the middle
of the current.
A cheaper method of transportation
can hardly be imagined. and the result
is, that the people for 1000 miles get
their fuel for an astonishfngly small
advance over the price at the mines.
The price of coal at New Orleans is
not much above that at Pittsburg, and
SO cheap that the Southern Pacific
Railroad. which has been burning
crude oil in its locomotives, has recently
changed to coal for one of its divisions.
and contracted for hundreds of thou
sands of bushels of Pittsburg coal.
Competition is the freest, for any dealer
who is dissatisfied with prices can go
to Pittsburg. buy a boat load of coal
and have it f1oated down to him upon
a current which works for nothing and
keeps up its own roadbed.
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SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
Work the Worlds Busy Brains in Discovering nventng and
Creating.

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which is quite as frightful as any of the
devices for the chaffeurs. 1t is intend
ed to fold, and when opened will cover
the eyes and face and protect them
from sand and pebbles.
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In addition to her cotton exports
New Orleans sent abroad immense
quantities of flour. wheat. cotton.
pork and whisky brought down the
river in fiatbOats from the most
remote parts of the Great Missis-
sippi Valley. Her levees were sight
for wonder and admiration. For miles
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Greatae.s. of. New Orleans.

New Orleans. rapidly rose to great
ness upon this trade. By 1850 she had
become the largest cotton exporting city
in the world; was the fifth in popula-
ton in the t;nited Safes and second only
to New York in the volume and value
of her exports"
The census of 1850 showed the prin-
o;nal o;tiae ranl, foI!ou,o.
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To Tell the Age Of nm Erx.

A fresh egg will sink when placed In
water and rest on its side; if three
weeks old it will incline slightly with