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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07
GREATER THAN TOGO.
Children Vote for Wash
ingtOn or Lincoln.


According to the Kobe Herald. George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln rank
even Admiral Togo as popular heroes in
Japan. The Herald says that Dr. Va
makawa. formerly president Of Tokyo
University. offered TO present Il picture or
a famous man OF woman TO the Iriye
primary school Ifiog0. and asked that
vote OF the children be taken TO choose
the subject of the portrait. The 3l3 boys
and girls of the school We're asked to
write down the name of their favorite
great man or woman. Washington and
Lincoln came out at the head of the list
with CO and SO votes. respectively, while
Togo came third with only 3, and NinO-
miya S0ntoku, a famous ancient Japanese
philanthropist. came next The dfth man
chosen was another American. Benjamin
Franklin, who received 81 votes. then fol-
lowed after him, with one exception,
Florence Nightingale, four other jap
anese, then Admiral Nelson, then six Jap
anese, then Bismarck, with five votes,
then two more japanese, and Napoleon.
with four votes. Among the scattering
were President Roosevelt, Calico, Co
lumbus. Socrates. and. strange TO relate,
Peter the Great and Admiral Makharoff,
Of Russia.
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MILLIONS By REFINING WASTE
Sawdust, Coal Refuse, and Abattoir
By-produets Valuable.
Half the Profits of Standard OIL
said TO Come of Utilizing
Once Useless Things.

A statistician who has been computing
the wealth in waste by whose utilization
in recent years many millions of dollars
has been added to the wealth OF the ma
ton. points out a few Of the materials
formerly thrown on the dump heap that
now yield q substantial sum annually in
profits, says the St Louis Republic.
For many years bituminous coal opera
tors threw away slack as waste. Now it
commands at the mines 20 cents a ton.
The increase is largely due to the de-
mand coming from makers Of cement
Formerly they bought lump coal and pull
verified it. Now they use slack. The
anthracite coal operator has found an
even greater source of wealth in the culm
banks, upon which are to be found not
only the accumulated deposits Of rock and
other mine refuse of half a century, but
coal. At one time the smallest market
able size was nut. All below that was
dumped on the culm bank. Later on,
within the last two decades. 1t was dis
covered that very fine coal was just as
effective if not more so, for use IN manu-
featuring plants. and then come in pea
buckwheat, and rice sizes. Then some
operators conceived the idea Of retaining
the vast wealth of coal from the cL'm
heaps, and washeries were established all
over the anthracite field, by means of
which the coal is washed from these
banks and broken over screens into the
sizes desired
During the long continued anthracite
strike in 1902, when coal was bringing as
high rs $50 a ton in Philadelphia. wiki a
supply unequal TO the demand. even at
that price. tons were reclaimed from the
rivers in the hard-coal field, where Il had
been washed for years from the mines
lying along the many small tributaries
emptying into them.
Quartz rock, et one time considered
worthless, is now worked over into glass.
and sawdust, under hydraulic pressure
and intense neat. is formed into a solid
mass capable of being nodded into any
shape and of receiving high polish. Imi-
tation marble Is produced By a mixture OF
sawdust with ivory waste glass. and glue,
while in Norway sawdust is made to yit ii
acetc acid. wood naphtha. tar. and
alcohol
Packing Establishments have long list
of bv-pr0ducts The former waste of thu
abattoir now yields an annual valuation
of approxima toly S20o. C00.000 while cotton
seed by-products We're valued in 1890 at
$i2e0CG0. which amount is probably dou-
bled by this time. The vice president OF
the Standard OH Company is authority
for the statement that for the last ten
years more than one-half of the profits
Of TIE company have been made out OF
the manufac ture of by-Droducts.
Factories have been erected in this
country and in Europe for converting
pine needles into forest wool. This Is used
for mattresses and furniture. for nlanu-
facturc into hy6ienio articles such as IN
dervests and chest protectors.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07
Sc Nc onnosed to sIanE.

ZION the Boston Herald
While teaching the district school az
Carolina, r. L.. Miss Eva MattesOn. now
with a Providence school, received the
following interesting Instruction from a
certain fond mother.
This lady was more remarkable for her
egodsm taan for the old school genuHty
sac profcssed 10 have
She nad moved into the village from
the city and was most s0iicitOus that tie
well-brcd manners Of ber little daughter
Muriei should not be contaminated by
contact with the couatry children.
Always sec that she has youF best at
tention." said she. and be very careful
that she associates with no little child
that uses slang. which aiuTiel has never
heard Above all. DO Tot have her sit
near that Williams boy. knew his
father in Providence and (conhdentiallyl
they're a bum lot the whole push OF
them
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RURAL PLUT0CRATs.
Disappointed Banker Found No Notes
10 Shave

7 went out TO an auction sale to
shave few notes the other day" said
a Kansas banker TO a correspondent Of
the Commercial West. but II was a
very lonesome proceeding.
II had been letting the clerks Of the
bank do Il before. and this was my
first trip in five years. noticed the
buyers bidding of the cattle and i'm
plements at high prices and thought
there would be a fine days business.
Then came the time Of settlement
and I got out my fountain pen and pre-
pared to write the notes and mortgages.
The first farmer gave his check for his
purchase The next paid Ia cash; the
next three with checks-n0t on my
bank as Il happened. grew discour-
aged and sat back and watched those
plutocrats put up their money.
"Out Of that sale OF more than 81 500
worth OF material just $50 was not
paid in cash or check, and the owner
was mean enough to allow the buyer
10 take that purchase without giving
a note. The farmers laughed at me and
asked what I came out for"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07
REACHING A SERIOUS STAGE.
The Growth of sIyseraper CoRstrue-
ton in New York,


tioa ia New York,
from The Engineering News
With an enormously rapid growth in
number OF tall buildings ia all districts
Of the city, residential. commercial, and
financial the downward recession Of the
streets from the level of free light and
air is reaching a serious stage. In
Europe. with vastly less pressing eondi-
tions, there is already a distinct reeognl-
ton Of the fact thatthe welfare of the
community requires restrictive measures
20 protect against this. The question OF
Interpreting Of buildings and proportion
of free ground area are Of ,mewhat dii-
ferent character, yet related. In some
sections New York City IS already APP
proximatlng a state where it has contact
with the atmosphere only along the
house fronts and the roofs.
The worst feature Of this is not the
restriction of light or air, because the
buildings must be made attractive to ten
ants. and self-interest, therefore, watches
over these desiderata in measure. The
serious thing is the transit question
Great assemblages OF people are IhasSeu
along narrow streets, with usually only
one tributary street. a street utterly IN
adequate TO give passage to all ia an
emergency, and badly congested even by
the normally distributed traffic. May II
not be feasible TO secure by the general
building regulations such provision OF
passages. courts. and lanes in the sky
scraper regions as would give more elbow
room in the streets. at the same time
insuring more healthful condition as
regaros light and air distribution, and
greater opportunity for esthetic develop
ment Of the city?
The subject Of encrOachment Of build
ings on street and sidewalk space, both
at the surface and overhead, Is related
matter for careful study. The unfortu-
nate. injurious conditions existing in most
cities are so patent. and have so often
forced themselves on the attention Of
nearly every thinking citizen, that no de-
tailed reference to them is required here.
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the chafinches out Of St James Park.
They are driving other small birds out Of
Hertfordshire gardens: they are helping
TO drive the agricultural labor TO the
towns. Against them a iehad, so often
preached, ought 10 be practleed. and win
ter is the season for the campaign. With
a sparrow net half the sparrows in a
garden may be caught IN an evening, n
there Is any convenient foOsting ground,
and the free use Of it may be recon-
mended even on the higher humanitarian
ground The gradual decrease OF the spar
row clubs. once very general and popu-
lar, has been almost a national calamity.
The sparrow has his place; he is de-
lightful TO watch, always interesting and
full OF character, but-tonjours moineauxi
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07

loaded gravel train passed every ten min
utes All of which proves that canal dirt
Is flying, and flying at a tremendous rate
already.
Mr. Stevens told me that to-day the
soil was being eXcavated at rate twice
as great as on the very busiest month OF
the French occupation, Their record
month was $40, coo cubic yards of exoava-
ton. In March 10000 yards will be eXea-
waited, and even now the expected limit
has not been reached by any means.
Thirty thousand men are now employed
in different capacities; 1900 carpenters
and builders; 5000 are digging drains
and laying pipes for sanitary purposes,
&c. These figures are difficult to cOmpre-
bend. but when one goes up and down
the lines as / have done more than once.
he sees that this enormous army OF
knights of the spade and hammer are
actually az work bringing things TO pass.
The difficulty now is not to dig out the
soil and rock, but to dispose of It after
ward. but this is being overcome, though
it means the laying Of miles and miles
Of new track and the vast enlargement OF
all the railway rolling stock.
Energy on All Sides.
All these preparations and accomplish
ments impress the beholder with the ire
mendous energy and determination with
which the big job has been undertaken,
and give him confidence that it viii be
successfully completed. 1t seems as if
the energy of our strenuous President, 20
whom the canal project is so dear, had
been infused into the managers and heals
of departments all along the line.
AS most Of my readers know. the prob
lem now is not to dig a wide. deep ditch,
but TO form two great lakes more than
thirty miles long and eighty feet deep In
the deepest part, and how TO build dams
strong enough 10 retain this enormous
body of water, so that we must adjust
ourselves to another contradiction Of old
time ideas. and try to imagine that canal
making in the Zone Is not so much ditch
digging as lake making, with two COM
paratlvely short canals at either end.
There is no more interesting place in
the world to-day than the Canal Zone;
there are few healthier places there are
good steamers TO bring visitors here and
one good hotel at least at the Panama
end where they may stay. and there is no
reason why thousands of Americans
should not come and see for themselves
how Uncle sam spends their money in
making the canal, to which every man,
woman, ana child IN the Union will have
to contribute at least So before the first
steamer goes through.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07
Seeing EIysiunl.

EillA A'HCh
We encountered many celebrities in the
course OF our journey, and among them
Petrarch.
OF course the fellow with the mega
phone would have his joke.
The melancholy gentleman to your
right he said, is Petrarch. the poet who
loved Laura. Some say Laura did not
love him. bat / don't believe that. Al am
events, she must have liked him. If he
wasn't the poet Laura liked. how came he
10 be the poet laurestee"
I The sally provoked no little merriment
for number of our party were from She
country There was especially a new,
bride, who thought IT perfectly killing.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07
CATULLUs ODE y.

Vivimus et vivemus.
Lesbia, let us live and love,
Needing net the words Of sagcs
WHY should we be thinking Of
Things that won't be solved foT agesf
Needing net the words of sages,
Suns may rise aud SIT and rise.
Things that won't be solved IN ages
Don't affect Paradise.
Suns mag rise and set and rise.
So en-. 20 the milhonth power,
Don't affect a Paradise
Where my Lesbia is a flower,
So. on to the millionth power
Kiss me. and forget to count.
Where ms Iesbia IS a flower
Bees .eck not Of the amount
kiss me and forget to count
We wire never good at summing,
Bees reek not Of the amount,
Thty Just sip ana keep on humming.
We were never good ar summing
Let us initiate the bees
They inst sip and keep On hummiug;
Let US do just as We please.
let's be Ike the busy bees.
What's the use 20 bouuW trouble?
Let US do Just as We please.
Lifas-its but a rainbow bubble!
What's the use 10 borrow tFouble9
Why should we be thinking Of
Lisel It's a rainbow bubble
Lespia--let Us i've and love-
-New York Mail
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07
,JudiciaI Axxumntion

From the Philadelphia Ledger
DO / understand, your honor that
a commission of lunacy is TO pass on
this defendant"
Such is the decision of the court"
Then, your honor. 1 move a second
commission in lunacy to determine the
mental condition of the first and
third for
Rut the court interrupted Despite
the attitude of the attorney" il re-
marked we must assume the exist
ence OF some sanity.
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Sarcasm.

From the Catholic Standard.
shorty I'm sho late. m'dear. began
Dingle. ALPHABETICALLY. "but shome fresh
jokers stopped me an wouldn't lemme
go"
"Indeed?' interrupted his wife. why
didn't you take the brick out OF your hat
and hit them with it?"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07

From. the Loadm Chronicle
4 young woman named Boyd. Of Parton.
Cumberland, was picking flowers for .
funeral wreath when she slipped and the
stalk Ct a Michaelmas daisy entered her
wrist. A piece Of the stalk remained in
the wound for eleven days, set up lock-
jaw, and death ensued.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07
He COULDN'T Tell.

From Harp1rs Weekly.
did I get your fare?1 demanded the
conductor. gruffiy.
4 gave it to you" replied the pas
senser, meekly, but ] don't know
whether you or the company got il.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07
TWO VIEWS OF CANAL
Much Depends on Tempera-
ment Of Observer.
IMPRESSIONS OF ONE VISITOR

Optimist Sees Canal GIoriousIy Conn
picted; Pessimist sure II Won't BE
Finished-sudden Transformations
Going on All the Time-NO Reason
Why Americans should Not Visit.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-07
LONDON'S
Old Prisons Successor Is
Candy Structure.
ARRANGEMENT INVOLVEMENT

Seats for Only Five Newspaper Men.
"0Id Bailey Made Memorable by
Charles Dickens, who Treated OF
Its Environment in Three OF HIS
Best known Novels.
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On the Grand Scale.

by the hundred. are ordered. stores Of ali
kinds by the million dollars worth:
cranes, derTicks. dredging machines.
steam shovels that can dig away a small
mountain in a month. are some Of the
equipment which one sees on every side
Everything is on the biggest and NEST
powerful scale. The puny little French
engines that one sees, some Of them in
use and some cast aside, look like chnd's
toys compared with the great moguIs that
are now hauling the dirt away
on our journey from Colon TO Panama I
passed gravel train after gravel train
carrying the dirt 10 the dump 3 friend
told me that he stood al one station for
three hours and. during that time, d long,
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-18
Women and Cards.

1t seems that the passion for card
playing among Jewish women is not Of
recent date. More than century ago
Miss Rebecca Franks wrote:
'sThe ladies Of Philadelphia have
more cleverness in the turn Of an eye
than those of New York have in their
whole composition. With what ease
have / seen Chew, a Penn, an Os-
wald or an Allen and a thousand 9TH
ers entertain large circle Of both
sexes, the conversation without the
aid of cards never tagging nor seem
ing In the least strained or stupid.
Here in New York you enter room
with a formal set courtesy, and after
the how-dos things are finished. All il
dead calm until the cards are intro.
duced, when you see pleasure dancing
in the eyes of all the matrons, and
they seem to gain new life."-Hebrew
Standard
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Buy property in Meyerdale S.
down S. per month. See Union Trust
company's ad.
Will d. Wallace, a Moscow level.
Ter, was in the city yesterday.
Buy lot for $40 from the Ameri
can Trust company. See ad.
Lillian Waters. a sister Of our fell
low townsmen, W. @. Waters, is visit.
ling at the latter's home 1907 Eighth
street. Miss Waters is q prominent
teacher of Seattle, having her salary
much increased through her industry
and energy.
Slab wood and edgings, s2.25 per
cord by carload Of II or 20 cords r.
0. B. Occur d'Alene. Woods Lumber
Co., Phone SIS Red.
Frank Lemmer, the Undertaken
was in Spokane on business today.
The pile driving on the lake front
parking is nearly completed.
Bjorklund the Sherman street
clothier is selling out his summer
hats, including straw and panama.
He has the best assortment in north
ern Idaho and to sell these goods fast
he offers this line for the next few
days at cost.
Try the new market, ''The Metro
pole" prompt service. All United
States States inspected meats.
1t is reported that Edith Hall ha
gone to Moscow, Idaho, instead o
Standpoint as was stated yesterday il
the Press. Dame Rumor also state
she wall likely become Mrs. Lille
of Lane, in the near future.
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"Sir," said the tramp, "I have not
tasted food for seven days. Another
half an hour of fasting and l must
dieg"
"Then," exclaimed the philanthrOpist,
you shall live. Take this ticket. 1t
will admit you In my stead to stump
tuous banquet, course after course,
meats, wines and dessert-a feast three
hours longs glorious company-Mr.
TaIkforhOurs. Mr.. Toofew, Mr.. Long
yarn and other eminent men,"
"Wnl there be any after dinner
speeches?" asked the starving one.
Columns of EN-" said the philan-
thropist
Then the tramp handed back the
ticket and crawled YEARLY away into
a silent timber yard to die.-London
Globe.
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NIhr aseeIana,a 81 J ~.

why @eoetahaS 8oH 10 F@da
An English golfer on q Scc1fah links
hit the turf ten times for every once
that he struck the bali. HIS caddAe
ventured on q sarcastic remchstTance.
''Ha' peety on auld Scotland. sir."
said he. shes suffered over eneuch
at the haunds o. yer counfrymsn In
the past that ye sud treat her sac sair
the day. Hit the ba'. man. an let the
grun' alane."
"Confound Seotlandr' shouted the
exasperated golfer, fiinginR down his
club In a rage. "It's just what DR..
johnson described it-'stone. water
and little EARTH"
+Sae the docther said that. did heT'
inquired the caddIe.
HE did. and he was q very wise
man. let me tell you," snapped the
Englishman
II believe ye," retorted the eaddie
mae boot the docther was q vera
wise man. for there is muckle o. stRns
| an waiter In Scotland-oor mountains
| an lochs that We come sac far tae see
an it's a sair truth that the soil IL N
vera deep. Ye see, there's sic han
| tie o. English bodies comes tae Scot
land tae play gawf."-Glasgow Times,
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There are two sides to almost any
thing, and the national game IL far
from being an exception. From the
standpoint of the baseball enthusiast
''our town has q club In the league"
From the standpoint Of the profession
al player the league has a club in each
city. In the heart OF the baseball pa
triot our club Is band of heroes, going
out to conquer other cities and uphold
our honor. In the mind Of the man
with soul so dead they are stock COM
panies- properly financed. To the ex-
cited partisans at a game each player
Is an earnest contestant for his side.
To the man who is from foreign parts
it would be an important fact that
they are hired men, employees with
salaries set by companies that all be
long to the same corporation, and that
they get their pay for playing and moi
for winning. To the public It lie q
game. To the president OF the com
pany 1t may be good or bad per
Torrance. Century.
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FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
Injured Man will Recover.

The funeral of Hiram Stevens and
Sam Vessar, the two victims of yes
tel days fire, will be held tomorrow
at the Presbyterian church at 10 a.
m., Rev. John p. Barker officiating
in both cases. 1t is expected there
will be large congregation In at
tendance. Interment will occur at
Forest cemetery.
Edwin Crockett, the man severely
bIuned when the others lost their
lives, is reported to be injured worse
than anticipated. His hands and
forearms are badly blistered and II
is thought his left hand will be more
or less contracted, remaining stiff
No fatal results are anticipated.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Following is list of real estate
transfers for Kootenai county as fur
nished by the Panhandle Abstract
company.
F. W. Robertson to MIS-. r. A.
White, lots 6, block T, city of Occur
d'Alene, $110.
w. L. Hanna ct al, to William
Durmon, 20 feet of lot 5, IS feet
of lot A, block Y, town of Occur
d'Alene.
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Not So Daft After AL

Daft Tam, as he was called, wander.
ing through the village one day, got Sc
verely bitten by the village inn dog.
Proceeding to the inn, he showed the
mistress what her "dawg" had done.
She was much alarmed and, putting a
half crown into Tam's hand, said:
AVA tae the doctor moo an pay him
WI the hauf crown"
Tam eyed the coin, saying:
st dinna think I'll bother WI the
doctor, but jist keep the siller."
''For my sake gang tae him, or else
ye'1l gang daft"
'sHoots, wumman; ye're bletherin
DAFT folk Gamma gang daft twice
D,rndss Advertiser.
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Must Haus Loved Him.

Many stories have been told of a
Manchester man who is supposed to be
the-well. to put 1t humanely-plainest
man in England. But we think the fol-
lowing is the funniest;
Mamma" a child was heard to say
In an awestruek whisper after a pro-
Ionged survey of the peculiar features
of the guest, that gentlemans mann
ma must have loved children very,
very much"
"Why so. my dear?" inquired the I'M
suspecting parent.
oh" returned the child In the same
audible whisper, "'cause she brought
him up."-Strand Magazine.
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ssThat house l have taken from you"
said the dissatisfied tenant, lis horri-
bly, drafty When | am sitting In the
middle of the room my hair blows all
over my head Can't you do something
for the windowsY
Don't you think, SIR" replied the
house agent suavely, ut would be
easier and cheaper for you to get your
hair cutY'-Philadeiphia Inquirer.
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The Difference.

"Waiter." protested a commercial
traveller. with indignation, I'm both
cred If | can ever see any difference
between your roast mutton and your
roast lamb
..Oh, sir" the waiter rejoined, there
Is a diferencel The roast mutton IS q
shilling and the roast lamb Is one and
sixpence. Mail.