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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
stiii Asleep After 81 Days.

Los Angeles. Cal.-Mrs. Benlat
Hawkins has completed the sixty
first day Of a sleep that has baf.
fled the many physicians who havo
investigated her case. She shows no
sign OF awakening, and there IL little
hope for her recovery. She has re
gained all but three pounds OF the
weight Abe lost after going into the
trance. II IL believed that Mrs. Haw.
kins IL at times conscious Of what IL
going on about her.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

II has been supposed that smoking
makes such slaves Of its victims that
they rarely seek 10 tighten the yoke.
National figures In regard to the To.
bacco Industry indicate the contrary.
When the financial panic OF last Octo
Der appeared. the production Of cigars
decreased 146.OOO.00 In q single
month. and IN December dropped OF
IL tho extent u another !oo. 9ee. 600
The manufacture Of cigarettes was
also greatly lessensd. There was evi
IDENTIFY q desire to ee0n0mixe. II not 10
break OF the habit. Or perhaps II wal
q tm ming " the seductive pipe.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
news OF CONGRESS
ooINos OF PEOPLES REPREsEN.
TATivEs At WASHINGTON.
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS PRESENTER
Concise Report Of Measures Intro.
dueed and What Action 10
Taken on Them.
House Passes Liability Act.

WashingtOn-BeyOnd forcing roll
calls on the approval of the journal
and on adjournment. the Democrats
OF the house Of representatives Mon.
day offered no obstruction Of the or
derby transaction of business. Being
suspension day. several important
bills were put through by practically
an unanimous vote. Among these was
the Sterling employers liability bill.
only n vote being recorded against
1t, that OF Mr.. Littlefield OF Maine, and
the bill establishing a naval station
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, against
which Mr.. Sherwood Of Ohio, stood
alone.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
Finds Gold on His Farm.

WATERFOWL, s. D.-Four nuggets OF
gold about the size Of q bean were
brought into town by A. J. kidder.
who picked them up on his farm ten
miles northeast OF Watcrt0wn. That
rec gold existed east Of here has been
known for Il long time. but these were
the largest specimens ever brought
to the notice Of local experts.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
Inquest Over stevens Death.

San Francisco, Cal.-An inquest
was held Tuesday afternoon In the
death Of Durham White Stevens, the
diplomat, who was shot by the Korean.
In Whan Chang. Coroner Leland
asked Chang II he cared to make any
statement: Certainly not" replied
the assassin's lawyer. The jury re.
turned a verdict formally charging
Chang with murder.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
Soldiers Greet TAFT In Omaha.

Omaha. Neb.-Secretary OF Wal
Taft arrived In Omaha at $3.50
a. m. Monday. He was received at
Union station by Gen. Gardner. com.
manding the department OF Missouri.
and his entire stan In fulldress uni.
form and by q local reception com.
mittee, The secretary was taken to
the Rome hotel for breakfast. He
held AN informal reception on the sta.
ton platform.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
Ianoisa With Live Wire.

~Chickasha. Okla.--Le Roy Maxey.
assistant cashier OF the Citizens Ma
tiona, bank here. had another mirup
with "A live wire. While driving
through an alley q wire fell on the
horse, but the wire was insulated and
no damage wal done. A few months
ago Mr.. Maxey had Q horse killed
and received q severe shock himself
BY an electric wire.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
Aldrich Measure Doomed.

Washington. April G.--The presi-
dent was informed Monday by Rep.
resentative Hill that a poll which he
has Just made shows that the Aldrich
bill will fail OF passage. Hin told the
president there " a strong sentiment
for the creation Of a financial commits.
sion which shall work during the re-
cess OF congress and submit q report
next session.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

The mayor Of Cincinnati wants won.
en- In that city debarred from operst
ing automobiles. He says that the
only machines women should run are
sewing machines. To this. remarks
the Baltimore American. the women
will retort that II IL Just like a NEAR
man to leave them the work. while he
takes all the fun.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
MOB TEARS UP PAvEMENTs FOR
MISSILES TO hURL At
TROOPS.
MANY KILLED AND INJURED
Republican,, Convinced They Were
Cheated at Polls, Wage Reient.
less Warfare-Whoie King.
dom Aroused.

LisbOn--Fferce election riots are
raging here. The mob IL tear
Ing up the pavements for missiles
with which 10 fight the troops. There
has already been considerable shoot.
Ing and man. casualties. though the
number Of dead and wounded is a..
yet uncertain. More than 100 ar
rests have been made.
The riOting broke out In many quar-.
tiers Sunday night and o reached
such proportions that II was neces-
sary to call out the troops and fire
ON the mobs.
Becomes More Serious.
Indications are that the situation
will become even more serious by
Monday night. Reports from the
country districts indicate that the
troubles Is general throughout tho
kingdom, though the outside news Is
too meager to furnish a basis for any
definite conclusion.
The disorders are apparently the
result Of the Republicans conviction
that they were cheated at the polls
and would have won but for the al.
legged government frauds. clergyman
dering. repeating. the ~disfranchise
ment Of many qualified voters by Jug.
glery Of the voting lists. and In some
cases cvc ballot box stuffing are
charged by the radical leaders.
Vote Was Heavy.
The vote was 80 heavy and commu-
nicatlon with the rural districts Is so
slow that II may be several days be-
fore fun returns are received at tho
capital. IL IL certain. however, that
the government and its allied parties
will have at least twO thirds OF the
members Of the COrtes.
Supporters Of the e.ilCd cx.Premicr
Franco are well represented. and the
belief Is growing that II will not be
many months before he will again be
In Portugal. at the head OF the gov
eminent, and perhaps welding his old
dictatDrial power.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

In q recent bulletin from The Uni
versity OF California Is given q sum
mary Of the evidence prepared by
Prof. J. ID. Whitney to show that the
famous C%alaverss skull. found In a
miners shaft In Bald Hill. near Alta
vile. probably came from q cave used
by the Indians. for burial purposes.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
Gov. Guild. Condition improves.

Boston, Mass.-The news from
the sick chamber Of Gov. Curtis
Guild. Jr.. IL encouraging. While no
marked change had taken place. his
condition has improved since Satur'
day.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

Warren. O.-Aifred Kinsman, broth
or Of Senator Thomas Kinsman. was
pronounced insane here by a Jury In
the common pleas court. He was
charged with tho murder OF George
8irrell.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

The hei .eHses who married titles
and went abroad to live In the splen.
dor OF old world aristOcracy are com
ing home. They seem TO have lost all
their desire for the aristOcracy. and.
incidentally. a good many Of their dol
lars,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
Naval Station In Hawaii.

MISUNDERSTANDING the bills that
were passed by the house Monday, UNI
der suspension OF the rules, was ono
appropriating $G50.O00 for a naval
station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

Philadelphia Is beginning 20 talk
about celebrating the two hundred and
twenty.ffth anniversary Of her found
ipg next October. and Mayor Keyburn
idea be hdOLtcd.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

After all tho cncOmiums handed TO
"thc man behind the gun" II IL a shock
to learn that our naval Workmanship
at Santiago was bad. Still. II an
ewered every purpose.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

The question ".iiall army officers
g corssts?" will not down. and fat
ones are becoming alarmed at the
prospect. Possibly some OF them
wouldn't be 30 cOrpulent had they
been str ight laced" early In life.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

That IN. Archbishop Ireland does not
believe In war. but if there must be
war he thinks It wise and proper to
be prepared 10 knock the tar out OF
the other fellow. Any fallacy In the
dOCtrine2
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

The discovery Of an angle worm In q
glass OF milk might have been a com.
fOrting reminder to that Detroit man
that II Will sOon be time to go fishing.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

q A New YorA man wandered away
from home and forgot where he lived
Not every New Yorker. however. says
tho Chicago Daily News. has such a
pleasant experience.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

CHANCELLOR WILL RECEIVE THE
OFFER FROM EDWARD.
An ACTUAL MEETING IS NEEDED
King Embarrassed by Failure OF
ampbeII-Bannerma to Retire
Earlier.

LDndOn-IIerbert II. Asquith, the
chancellor Of the %cxchequer. left
Monday for IiiarritZ. Southern
France, to receive from King Edward
the offer Of the British premiership.
tn accept II and to hurry back to
London, rcsnrninR at ono" the duties
he has been performing during the
long illness Of his predecessor, Sir
Henry Campbcll.Iiannrrm
An actual meeting with his majesty
Is Il necessary preliminary to the pro-
motion, and as the entire cabinet al
ways goes out With the premier, Eng
and, technically, Is without "a govern.
mcnt, though the present holders Of
portfolios viii 20 on with their work.
King Edwards abscnc" from the
country makes the situation some
what awkward A premier ncve be-
fore resigned with the King away
from England. This was just what
Edward feared when he left on his
present vacation.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

Mitzel MOrok. the lo%op.the.looD girl.
heroine OF a thousand thrilling whirls,
has been killed while In the domestic
act Of pouring a cup Of tea. thus again
proving how dangerous 1t ig to be
alive
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

II IL proposed in Denmark to send
or expedition to teach the Eskimos to
fish. Are they az hopeless as that?
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

Tho az ton Of the New York maj
who asked to be chlorofOrmed. admit
ting hat he has outlived his useful.
ness. seems ar admission that he is
too lazy to do the Job himself.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

Why does the average person put
the stocking on the left foot first?
Probably for the same eason that
most people remove the right boot
first. Habit.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

As a hazardous occupation, sitting
on a keg Of powder while smoking Q
pipe isn't to be compared with raising
tobacco In Kentucky.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

II has been discovered that Pharaoh
had tOOthache and the govt. No won
der the ~Israelites fed from him.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

Persons who do the lOudcst com.
planning against the length Of the win
ter and the cold weather In general
are usually those who had hay fever
last fall and prayed for an early frost.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

Wellesley colleges professor OF
rhetoric says playing bridge whist Is a
mental chewing gum for girls. This
Involves some stretch Of the imagina'
ton.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

by the time China has armed and
drilled IA few hundred thousand more
men perhaps II will be able to talk
the language Of modern diplomacy
fiuently.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

II In addition to enacting new laws
We we're TO enforce those we have al
ready II might help materially.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
viii Hold Both Posts.

Asquith will continue o serve Tor a
time as premier and chancellor. He
probably will soon name President
Lloyd George Of the board Of trade to
succeed him as chancellor, and VIII
accept II cabinet sinecure-of neces-
city, since the premiership IL an IN
saiaricd post-in which he will be left
free to devote himself to the party
and administration leadership.
Winston Churchill almost certainly
will get a cabinet place. Those said
to be scheduled for retirement are the
Marquis OF Rlpon AZ lord of the priVy
seal: the early Of Aberdeen AZ Irish
viceroy, and Lord Tweedmouth. first
lord Of the admiralty.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

You can hire house builders. bu,
must marry home builders.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09
King Wanted Resignation.

II Is no secret that his majesty hint
ID strongly before his departure that
he wished Sir Henry would retire
then. The aged premier believed, how
ever. that he would recover.
Arrangements have been made for
the postponcment OF debates In the
house of commons while the new pre-
mier reorganizcs his cabinet.
Many believe the substitution OF his
aggressive policy for Sir llenry's con
ciliatory attitude will result In a
change OF administration within a
few weeks.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-04-09

Anybody could match w soul mates
II neither side was particular.
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taken together means some $1,000 square
feet. an amount worth mentioning. Gen.
Washingtons old home. Mt. Vernon. the
shrine to which thousands OF good Amer
leans turn their eyes each year. is only
ninety-six feet long by thirty feet wide.
which. by the way. is not bad for any
mans house, but is small compared to
laundry.
Tine good ladies who years ago by their
faithful labor succeeded in so arousing
sentiment that Mt. Vernon has become
the property, so to speak, of the women
of the nation might very easily cover
that historic mansion with a roof Of shirt
waists. This could be done. not merely
once day. but more than twenty-one
times a day, so that the covering could
be changed once each hour, almost.
Women's Wash Skirts.
Last on the list are women's wash
skirts. which are also of that uncertain
quantity which brings despair to orderly
people. About 300 are handled during
one week. it is estimated, the weather.
wet and dry. cool and hot, having much
to do with the number.
Taken at the popular figure-popular
because IT is the lowest on the list Of the
laundryman-the skirts cost some one 80
cents each for cleaning, or $3.50 for the
whole lot.
Skirts are much harder to reduce into
square feet than anything else that has
been tackled by this typewriter during
the progress of this story, but fair
average of estimates bring the number of
square feet in an ordinary, common.
white or tan washable skirt. marked down
and purchased at bargain sale. d,wn
to about thirty-six.
Even at that the skirts of the men
of Washington will cover as much 81 ound
as the Smithsonian Institution, which is
some AT by 100 feet while about g. 900
square feet would be left. which is almost
enough to cover that great building full
of the curious things Of the world over
again.
Taking all Washington's weekly laun-
dry together it would undoubtedly take
monster wash boiler. such as the dome
of the Capitol would make. to get away,
with it at one time. and 1t would take
some rods many yards long to stir the
bottom of such boiling mass of gar
ments.
Spread out this weekly wash over the
landscape and 1t would make an impos-
ing sight from an airship or other point
of vantage. To dispose of it all would
take thousands of people. If 1t were not
for the labor-saying devices Of the mod
ern laundry.
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might be decorated in keeping with the
floor
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, an impos-
ing structure. as the guides will tell you.
II you can't see 1t for Yourself. is
dwarfed into a small potato when
stacked against the cuffs of our fair city.
The great building dedicated to art is
only ITO feet by 80.
The cuffs would therefore cover. it en-
tirely four times, with two-thirds of a
cover left over to be hung about the
walls for coming generations to see how
their ancestors dressed, and what man
ner of strange adornments they found
were suitable to their peculiar style Of
beauty.
Possibly you have met quite an appre-
ciable number of persons who do not use
handkerchiefs, who choose rather to
well. they choose rather at any rate
but you haven't noticed. 1t seems GER
tain. that the number of square feet in
all the handkerchiefs that are sent to
Washington laundries each week is
somewhat imposing. running in compari-
son to the other personal articles already
given ahead of the cuffs.
But $4,000 handkerchiefs. figured at 3
cents each. make the really respectable
total of $3.50. which is enough to buy
one automobile and pay for ten arrests
for violation Of the speed law.
Handkerchiefs vary greatly in size as
any one knows who has bought his own
and has received others from some friend
of the other sex. Taking an ordinary
size as the basis of computation-say
twenty inches by twenty inches-the
total area in square feet of the 1000 Is
found to be almost 600.
Would Cover Treasury.
The United States Treasury building,
which contains more money than most
people ever will get. is $50 feet long by
$50 feet wide. This gives an area of only
1880 square feet. considerably less than
that of the handkerchiefs the Washing
tonians use or have Numbered in one
average week. There would be enough
cloth left to build a walk ten feet wide
from the building to the White House
and then little more.
The laundries get some sort Of waists
all through the year. but even in summer
the quantity is variable, so that a true
estimate is hard to make.
However. it seems that about 5000 of
these garments, ranging from a simple
peekaboo to one of lace Or silk or such
things, are sent in to the cleaners each
week. It is evident that somebody gets
busy ON the washing of shirt waists at
home.
In truth, the area of these shirt waists
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ITS very likely that even if you hap
pen to be of statistical turn OF
mind YOU wouldn't figure it out that
the shirts that are Numbered in
WASHINGTON in one week would cover
the Potomac from this city to Alexandria.
but the things that the shirts-just the
ordinary. common or garden variety of
mems shirts that come at any price from
% cents to So per-which Washington
laundries clean each week would cover
are legion. the only limitation now being
a multitude of sins, and that probably
could be taken care of. If the statlst1c1an
were able to determine upon the relative
dimensions of sins.
If the figures of a dozen big laundry
men may be taken as basis OF COM
parison, each inhabitant of the city
should pay each week. for the washing
Of but six articles. about 10 cents. while
It would require to really square the bill
an additional dime for the people of Alex
andria and Annapolis.
For shirts. collars. cuffs shirt waists.
wash skirts and handkerchiefs alone. ac-
cordng to the estimates of laundrymen,
Washington spends each week about $780,
GlO. which. at a rough calculation. would
require that dime from each of the resi-
dents of these three communities
This $4,000 doesn't account for all the
hundreds of other garments which are
not to be described here, but which go to
the wash frequently.
Figured for one whole year, the citys
laundry bill will run around the $4,000. 900
mark the washers of garments think,
and they also agree that this is tidy
sum. but we'll spent.
Washington, along with other cities
might be supposed to do it's best in the
laundry line or the clothes line, if home
work is considered. in the summer
months. when the asphalt sizzles like the
griddle cake department of a quick lunch
place.
But this statement isn't carried out by
the laundrymen at all. In fact it's quite
the other way about. and in spite of the
way In which the thermometer hits only
the high places and scorches them with
great accuracy, the laundry business of
just about % per cent during the hot
months. That is, the business of the big
laundries falls off that much compared
with the winter months.
Despite Summer Business Decreases.
OF course. there are more garments per
person sent to the laundries in summer.
but the exodus from the Capital city
makes more than enough decrease to ac-
count for the falling off in the total, so
that the laundries here find themselves
operating in this respect in opposite fash
ion from those of the more northern cit
les, where the greatest cleaning business
Is done between May and October.
According to the figures of the laundry
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men there are are about 1GO.WD shirts
which wander into the various Washing
ton esta adjustments for the humiliation of
dirt each week. which same number being
multiplied by l. cents, fair average Tor
the removal of said dirt from one shirt.
gives the fair round total of $4,000 which
Washingtonians pay each seven days for
having their shirts cleaned.
This good1y sum or count includes. or
course the work done by all the steam.
electric hand or other kind of laundries,
excepting only the river laundry and the
others aforementioned of that same gen.
eral type.
If each of this army of 1907 900 shirts is
taken to be size 16. or even 1914. it will be
found by some pencil work, combined with
a little brain manipulation, that each SHIRT
contains something like ten square feet,
the dimensions of shirt of this size being
"a inches by 30 inches. and there being
two sides to all well regulated shirts.
Now, with a million square feet of shirt
flying through nobody knows how many
machines each week. and getting differ
ent degree of the water cure at different
prices. it is Immediately seen that the
prominent architects who have labored so
long to make the capital beautiful have
overlooked at least one bet.
Over 5000 Feet of Avenue.
Perhaps you wouldn't think it, but with
these simple shirts, which rest so close to
the hearts of the American people. would
dress many a shabby building which the
government paints but infrequently with
fresh and many colored costume which
could be replaced many times each week
or each month, and which would be
rivaled only by the beauties of spring
day on F street.
For instance. If you carefully split all
these 100000 shirts up one seam and then
lay them out fiat along Pennsylvania ave-
nue., side by side. and end to end. you
would find that they would reach over
just about 5000 feet of that great thor
oughfare it being 100 feet wide and there
being consequently just 100000 square feet
of it in 5000 feet of distance
This would mean that you could stretch
an overcoat of white, red, blue and every
other color that men wear from the Capt.
tol to the Treasury. or possibly just about
to the corner of 18th street. Such a COW
ering should prove quite a novelty on in
auguration days or other festive occasions.
Every one knows that the new Union
station is a large building. even if every
one has not walked through it. But when
you figure out that it covers something
see how insignificant it becomes beside
this great area of shirts
If the disposer of shirts were not willing
to pave Pennsylvania avenue with their
many colored backs and fronts it would
be an easy matter to drop blanket over
the new station, say four times a week.
the last time. however, not covering 1t
entirely but leaving a little fringe around
the edges where the marble might show.
Philadelphia, the home of Represent tive
]. Hampton Moore, the enemy of all