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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-08
Great Chiefs Coming

There viii be an unusually interest
ing meeting of the members of Chesa-
peake Tribe No. 80, /. O. X. NJ, at
Redmen's Hall, OF Francis street OH
Thursday night, March 81. At this
meeting the Great Chiefs OF Maryland
of the order OF Red Men will visit the
local tribe. All members have been
requested 10 be present at this Conn-
Gil Sleep.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-08
A Railroad To Be Sold.

Rookland Me-, March S.-This is
the date fixed oy the court for the
sale at public auction of the Rock
land, South Thomaston q Owl S
Head Railway. The road was pro-
NOTED by Boston parties and has
been in the hands of receivers for
some time.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-08
JUNCTION PERSONALS.
Special Correspondence From The Village 10
The Evening Capital.


The Evening Capital.
Miss Mabel Worthinton, of Balti-
more, visited her cousin, Miss Edith
Lee Dorsey, of Magnolia, recently.
Mr.. William Haden and son, of
Washington, spent Sunday with his
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfonso I.atchord.
90
'Fete Champetre. = given at the Ly-
ric. Baltimore, for the benefit of the
National Junior Republic, was a great
financial success, $13, 600 was taken
in and when $4,000 has been paid for
expenses, little over $40, 200 will go
to provide necessary comforts for the
little citizens of the Republic.
@
Services were held at All Saint S
Chapel Ash Wednesday afternoon.
Weekly services during Lent will be
as follows: March 20 and 27. Evening
Prayer at S p. M; Good Friday.
March ~. Evening Prayer at 3p. IN. ;
Easter Day. March 81, Morning Pray
er and Holy Communion, 7.45 a. m.
Childrcn's service at $50 p. m.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-08
MILLINERY OPENING.

On account Of the early date of
Easter this year. MIS-. j. NJ.
Strange, will hold her Easter
Millinery Opening at her store 205
Main street, on tuesday rand We'd
aesddy Of neat ,ceek, March I2th
and 18th.
This will give all patrons time
in which to make their selections
from an extensive assortment Of
Spring Styles, and have their or
ders executed in time for Easter. 8
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-08

The following movement Of naval
vessels have been reported TO the Blu
raau Of Navigation:
The Wilmington has arrived at
Woosung; the Hist At Newport, the
Hannibal at Philadelphia, the Rhode
Island at Hampton Roads.
The lncas has sailed from Key
West 10 Guantanamo, the Hist from
Boston for Newport, the-Georgia from
Tompknsville for Hampton Roads, the
Rocket from Washington fer Norfolk,
the ST. Louis from Hampton Roads
for Southern drill grounds, the Preblo
from Mare Island for San Diego, the
scorpion from Santiago de Cuba for
san pominog city, the Rhode Island
from l.ynnhayen bay for Hampton
Roads.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-08
AT The Hospital

Daisy Docket. colored. is patient
at the Emergency Hospital, to which
institution she was admitted yester-
day The patient is suffering from
endocardius.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-08

Mrs. Baird and daughter, Miss Cor
nelia Baird, who have been spending
several weeks ia the West. have re-
turned TO their home in Annapolis.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-08
NAVAL MATTERS.

Orders issued BY Navy Department Move.
ment of Naval Vessels.
tieutenaaut J. 3. Cay is commits
stoned a lieutenant in the navy from
June E. 1906.
Lieutenant W. ID. Leahy has been
ordered to duty at the Naval Academy.
Pavmaster W. H. Wilson is ordered
Is the Naval Medical School Hospital,
W qshington. for treatment.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-08
Resigned.

Midshipman Carl W. Made, of
Hadensville, KY, member Of tho
fourth class, has resigned.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-03-08
GENERAL TELEGRAPH NEWS.
SOME CURRENT EVENTS FROM
FAR AND NEAR.
Maine Railroad TO Be SOId-Big Colleges
In Debate "A MaYOraIty Fight
Justice Holmes
Birthday.

Special To Evening Capital From bulletin
Press Association.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
LIZARD GUARDS sLEEPERS.
Animal Kills Flies While Trainmen
Are Sumbering.

In the caboose of freight train
which makes daily trips to New Hav-
en-, Conn, is a pet lizard, which the
train crew declares is substitute for
screens and blinds. When the ca
boose is laid by at the terminals or
other stopping places and the crew
lie down for a siesta they say the
lizard stands watch on the breasts
of the sleepers. Coolly waiting its
chance it snaps up flies or insects
which try to disturb the crew. The
lizard is said to be such favorite
with the men they would fight any
one who said word against it.
The same crew say they have rem
edy for bedbugs which infest their ca
boose after hoboes have paid it visit.
They get a jar of black ants, which
they turn loose in the sleeping quar-
tiers. The ants seek out and destroy
the bedbugs industriously.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
To Balance.

For more than week the teacher
had been giving lessons on the dog,
and so when the inspector came
down and chose that very subject
there seemed every prospect of the
class distinguishing itself on brilliant
essays about our canine friend.
Things were progressing quite salts
factorily, and the master was con-
graduating himself on the trouble he
had taken, when, alas! a question was
asked which made him tremble for
the reputation of his scholars.
why does a dog hang his tongue
out of his mouth?" asked the in
spector.
Yes, my boy?' he said, to a bright
looking lad who held up his hand,
while the light of genius was in his
eye.
Please, sir" cried the pupil, its
to balance his tail!'
And the teacher groaned in an.
guish.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
Newest Railroad Ties.

The latest Improvement in railroad
ties is combination of wood and
metal which, it is claimed, solves the
present difficulties. The amount of
wood employed is quite small as COM
pared with that entering into full
tie, and yet it is said to be sufficient
to impart the same elasticity to the
roadbed as is experienced when the
wooden ties are used. In addition to
this, the wood used in the combina-
ton is so protected that its life is
greatly prolonged. This steel tie is
of the same length as the wooden one,
eight feet, and consists of steel chan
nels five inches deep. The wood made
use of is in the shape of bearings,
which are two feet long, eight feet
wide and six feet deep, and these
form a solid foundation for the rails.
The tracks are spiked in the usual
manner. The wooden bearings beconl
ing damaged by use or otherwise may
be replaced by the removal of one
bolt without disturbing the tie Its
increased length of life as compared
with the tie is due to the fact that
it does not come in contact with the
ground.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
BIG SUIT OVER SMALL SUM.
Frenchman Piles Up Costs Against
Railroad for an Overcharqe.

A wealthy Frenchman recently
bought ticket at Paris railway
terminus but missed the train he in
tended to take. While waiting for
the next train, which left two hours
later, he studied the company's tariff
to pass away the time.
He then found, says the Railway
and Engineering Review, that he had
been charged IA francs As centimes,
whereas the proper fare was only IA
francs AZ centimes. He asked for his
money back at the office, but without
result. An interview with the station
master was also unsuccessful. He
afterward wrote a number of letters
to the company but received no an
swer. He then commenced an action
to recover the three confines.
He won the action in the lower
court, but the company took it to the
appeal court afterward to the Cour
de Cessation. Both courts dismissed
the appeal and the company was
ordered to pay the plaintiff the three
centimes.
The cost of the company amounted
to $3.50 francs, or $1,650.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
The Future Railway Track.
Design for permanent way, by w. j. Schaub.

the tie receives a firm bearing; and all
track shows, more or less, the effect of
the lack of continuity in the rail by
the dip of the rail at every joint. This
happens in an instant, when the opera
ton is repeated by the next wheel,
and so on
The remedy, the author is sure, lies
in going back to the system of longi-
tudinal support embodied in the cid
fashioned lengthwise sleeper" but
this must be combined with the cross
tie, not substituted for it. Steel sleep
ers without crossties are being tried
eXperimentally on the Pennsylvania
road, and, according to Mr.. Schaub,
they are not successful, it being found
impossible to keep the track in sur
face. The system of longitudinal sup
port will never prevail" he asserts,
unless combined with some trans
verse support" The writer proposes
to accomplish this result by strength
ening the present form of track with
longitudinal steel beams and timbers,
between which the ballast is confined
so that an arch action can take place,
with the thrust of the arch taken up
by tie-rods.-Literary Digest.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
Survivors of Seminole Mar

The Seminole war was put down 70
years ago. At Watrous. N NJ, there
is venerable and worthy patriarch
named Madison Horn, whose neigh
bors boast that he is the sole survivor
of the Florida war. He is S8 and as
spry as a cricket. At West Palm
Beach, Fla. there is a certain Judge
Andrew Jackson Lewis-born in
South Carolina, by the way-who
bears honorable scars as the result of
wounds received while he was fight
ing as private in the ranks of a
South Carolina regiment against the
Seminoles. Judge Lewis is 80, and
although he fought four years in the
confederate army he looks strong and
active enough to shoulder his gun
again and keep step to the drums
tap.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22

by depressing the track Immediately
under the engine, but the track i'm
mediately in front is actually lifted,
thereby forming a true wave motion.
If the train is moving at high rate
of speed as it passes, you will be i'm
pressed by the noise and the lack OF
rigidity of the whole structure. The
dynamic action of the moving load
must be absorbed by the rails, the
ties, and the substructure underneath.
This tends to push the entire track in
front of the wave, and this yielding of
the track accounts largely for the
creeping of the rails. If the ballast
is hard and frozen, as we'll as the sub
structure. underneath the rails must
absorb the puIk of this energy; and
If the conditions are such as to pro-
duce an uneven hardness, such as a
sudden frost in earth full of moisture,
when combined, perhaps, with low
Joint, the chances are that broken
rail will result
The trouble cannot be remedied
solely by strengthening the rail, Mr..
Schaub thinks. Increasing the weight
Of the rail in a track, he says, does
not necessarily make better track
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22

than lighter rail does. Something
must be left for ties, ballast and sub
structure to do. He writes:
IF the original form of railway
track, with its strap rails laid on longi-
tudinal timbers resting on crossties,
had been developed along these lines
to its logical conclusion, the present
form of railway track would have been
unknown. Let us see what are some
of the defects of the present crosstie
system of rail support: In the first
place it is not mechanical Given a
line of rails which have to carry NOV
ing loads reaching 10000 or 10000
pounds more per wheel, the loads
which they carry must be distributed
over large areas. The crosstie system
accomplishes this by inserting 16 to
20 Independent supports under each
80 feet of rail, and upon the track de-
partment is placed the impossible task
of so adjusting these supports that
each shall bear an equal part of the
load. This is the real secret of the
enorous amount of labor spent on sur
facing track, in order to carry trains
at high speed, and it is a work that
goes on forever. Moreover, assuming
a joint has not been kept up to sur
face, what happens when a wheel
passes over it? Within certain limits
the ends of the rail will defect until
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
VILLAGE In ITSELF
OF RICH MANS
COUNTRY HOME.
All the Necessities and Most Of the
Luxuries of Life Are Afforded
Him Within His Own
Domain.

In buying land for a city house the
millionaire deals with square feet;
but for country mansion he pur-
chases tract of SO many square
miles. This extensive scale is car
ried through in all the arrangements.
When the estate is ready for occu-
pancy the owner finds himself lord
of beautiful acreage, contributing
to his ever luxurious want-all from
its own resources.
To plan country house is almost
like planning to build village. The
large estate is very complete af-
fair, indeed. It's center is the house,
which must be large enough to not
only properly accommodate the own
er and his family, but it must contain
suites of rooms for the numerous
guests with which it will be filled for
the weekends and for longer periods.
The stable and the .carriage-house are,
in their way, quite as necessary as
the dwelling. Many a great stable
vies with the residence in size and
elegance of equipment. If the estate
is large one, covering many acres,
there is a farmhouse for the farmer,
a farmbarn and outbuildings in which
each particular industry of the farm
will have it's own headquarters. If
the owner is addicted to polo, there
is a third and complete stable for the
ponies. There is a chicken-house for
the chickens and other fowls, and,
if this feature is sufficiently devel-
oped, special residence for the per
son having this matter in charge
Dogs, If kept in ample variety, will
have well appointed kennels and
caretaker's house in close proximity
There is dairy, with perhaps
springhouse and cooling room for the
milk, and tiled-lined rooms in which
the butter will be made. The mar
ket garden has it's array of hot beds,
and the Conservatives in which rare
plants are raised for the decoration
of the house are as extensive as those
in which plants are propagated for
the outdoor gardens. Nor should the
automobile house be overlooked, since
this popular vehicle completes with
the horse in meeting the needs of the
house transportation; and, as likely
as not repair shop forms neces-
sary adjunct to it.
Buildings that minister to the phys
ical necessities of the estate are also
numerous. Every sequestrated es-
tate-and almost all country estates
are sequestrated, since that is an
item of value in living in the country
requires its own water supply. 1t
is needless to say that it is often a
most expensive feature, calling not
only for steam pumps and elaborate
piping, but for special reservoirs
which in their developed form will be
lined with enameled brick.-Broad-
way Magazine.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
A Railroad University.

More than 10000 men are in daily
attendance upon the largest railroad
university in the United States, which
is conducted by the Pennsylvania rail
road at Altoona, Pa. Altoona is busy
little city of $4,000 persons, and for
the month of December, 1906, $4,000
men received at that point pay checks
aggregating $S25,000 from the one cor
poration which practically controls the
destinies of the municipal population.
First of all, as Frederic Blount War
rem points out in the Engineering
Magazine, Altoona is a railroad city,
where the industries, clubs, churches
and society exist in railroad atmos-
phere. 1t is the home of the largest
freight yard in the world, this being
seven miles long and from end to
end accommodating a total of 221
miles of track. In one month last
year 154,442 cars passed through the
town. The total movement of freight
cars through the Altoona yards in one
year was 2,004,603; the average a day
is about 5000 cars Ninety-nine freight
trains have been known to come in
from the west in a single day of "a
hours
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
FAULT In ROADBEDS
TOO FLEXIBLE AND YIELDING,
SAYS ENGINEER.
]. w. Schaub, of Chicago, Has Plan
Which He Thinks Will Remedy
This Defect-Outlne of Fu-
ture Railway Track.

That modern railway tracks, espe-
cially in this country, are much too
flexible and yielding, and that i'm
provement lies in the direction of
making the roadbed as rigid and I'M
yielding as possible, are the assertions
made by ]. w. Schaub in a paper read
recently before the Western Society of
Engineers in Chicago. To quote an
abstract printed in The Railway Age
(Chicago) Mr.. Schaub says:
IF yoQ have ever noticed the ap-
proaeh ut heavy train on a modern
railway, by keeping your eye down
near the track, you could not have
failed to notice the extraordinary
wave in the track which is formed in
front of the engine. This wave ap-
pears to be about twice the height
It actually is, as it is formed not only
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22

walking shoes with which he hopes
to cross the English channel some
time during the present summer. Each
shoe consists of beechwood box four
feet in length, Is inches in depth, and
one foot in width. In order that the
shoes may skim easily over the sur
face, five planes are secured to the
bottom of each shoe. The shoes are
fastened to the foot by means of
clamps such as those used on roller
skates, the foot being inserted through
hole in the top of the shoe, and the
ordinary leather boot being clamped
in place. A covering of rubber around
the opening protects the wearer of the
shoe from splashing of water. The
shoes weigh five pounds each.
Mr.. Oldfield has just completed a
trip from Cincinnati to New Orleans,
which consumed Al days, "a more than
the time in which he expected to full
fill the task. In the photographs here
presented, Mr. Oldfield is pictured in
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
LEFT 1T TO THE OLD HEMo
Amateur Fancier THOUGHT ~,
sponsibiIty Had Ended "e'

An Indiana man tells of +bo ~
OF an author belonging to the Hnao, Is
school OF historical novelists to '' n'l
in his leisure time as a "bo, put
er" in that state. The literarn '"lll'
sons venture afforded his aericT,t, per
nelghbors no end of amusement "l
During the first year the amo.
farmer discovered that all bis ,;t.,
chickens, which were conenoa
coops, were languishing at tho III. IL
OF death. The novelist went ovo rO ~.
hen literature" to locate the cansa s
the trouble, but to no avail VI
Finally he called upon an. old a..
named Rawlins, to whom he. mt 10y
question: Tue
What do you suppose is the mo.
ter with those chickens?" N"
well, 1 dunno" said Bau,.
What do you feed 'em?"
Feed them!" exclaimed tbo 49,,
ist.farmer. why, 1 don't feed -tbem
anything!" 'A'n
Then, how'd you SUPPOSE thou
was a-goin' to live?"
L presumed replied the lter.rr
person, that the old hens had min.
enough for them now."-Linninon.4'a
Magazine.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
A USEFUL NEW METAL.
Makes the Production of Hydrogen an
Easy Matter.

Chemical substances known hither-
to only as scientific curiosities are dali
ly being put to uses sufficiently valua-
BILE to warrant their preparation in
commercial quantities. In this sense
the metal calcium is new" for al
though long registered among the
elements, its uses in the arts have
only recently been discovered. A re-
cent article by j. Escard in LEclai,
rage Electrique says:
This curious metal, light, combus-
tible, silver-colered, and forming ordi-
nary lime by oxidation, is now obtained
by divers chemical processes, common
ly electrolysis of its melted salts.
Moissan, on the one hand, and Mes
srs. Gin and Leleux on the other, have
also prepared metallic calcium from
the CALCIUM carbid that is used to
make acetylene gas. The high tenn
perature of the electric furnace, which
is utilized to make the carbid by syn
thesis, may also associate this com
pound; the carbon alone remains in
the crucible, while the calcium distils
off and is condensed.
Calcium, either pure or in combina-
ton, is certainly destined to brilliant
future. More tractable than sodium
and less violent in its reactions, it
would appear to be specifically adapt
ed to applications in metallurgy that
require the use of reducing substances
to purify molten metals at the moment
of casting.
AS found in commerce, this metal
is sold in the form of small bars con-
sisting of 50 per cent pure calcium.
Its mean density is 172; that is it is
almost twice as light as aluminium 1t
alters slowly in dry air, but very rap
idly in moisture. 1t burns with a very
bright white flame. Its hardness is
greater than that of sodium, lead, or
tin, and is comparable to that of alu-
minum, though slightly less than that
of zinc or magnesium.
Calcium hybrid was shown to the
academy last year by George Jau-
bert, under the name of hydrolith (hy.
drogen-stone). =. Under the &C
llOH Oh NdlGT DIT ordinary IeHpSTd
lures, the hybrid decomposes like cal
cium carbid, giving off, not acetylene
but hydrogen.
ITO make the new product indus
trially, metallic calcium is heated in
horizontal retorts, kept at high tenn
perature, in which current of case
GUS hydrogen circulates; after some
hours all the calcium is changed into
hybrid. The hydrolith then appears
as irregular, porous, white or gray
fragments, of considerable hardness
| insoluble in ordinary solvents, but in
stantly decomposed by cold water II
contains go per cent. of the pure com
| pound; in these conditions kilogram
| e Is pounds) of hydrolith gives off q
cubic meter of pure hydrogen. The
Importance of the new product for the
preparation of gas in aeronautics has
been noted; the process has already
been utilized in the imitation of bal
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
Used ink fer RIi1inn

"One can never be too careful aho..
apparently harmless articles SETH"
about the house" said a housewife tbo
other day. Not long ago my HUSBAND
brought home one of those big tall hot t
ties Of ink from the Office. 1t had pot
to be such a nuisance buying ono ~
the small fiVe-cent bottles every time
we ran out of ink, that he said bo
would bring home supply.
About a week after that | got
new maid, and when she did the wash.
ing she took the big bottle of ink for
bluing. Of course every stitch of our
white clothes in the washing was
ruined"
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
Was in a Quandary.

The following letter was recently
received by the trouble department
of the NJ, K & T. Railway company
from a section foreman:
Dear Sir-In Reply to your letter of
Alt in Regard to that Old Black Bob
tail Cow that Cow Has lived on the
Right Way for the last Six years &
She Walks Right over the Cattle CARDS
Just as there Was none there & there
is no guard that Will Stop Her. She
is in on the Rite of Way Every Day
& there is no train that Will Hit Hur
Have notified the owner and he Says
She Will take car of Herself So 1
Don't no What to Doc With Her. Yours
truly.-Law Notes.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22

CT the simplest slope indicators re-
Gently invented in France has a YER
teal tube fixed on the front of
graduated scale like a thermometer.
and containing a column of liquid,
which is so adjusted as to stand at
zero, in the middle Of the tube, when
the road is level, and to indicate either
an upward or downward slope by its
rise or fall along the scale. The
liquid in the tube is connected with
reservoir placed behind the scale,
and rises or falls as the automobile
ascends or descends slope, showing
both the fact and the degree of in
clination.