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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
Special Correspondence to The Press

special correspondence TO Tne EreS0
NEW YORK, Feb. I'm the
presence of a large party of the
leading scientists of America as
tronomy's remarkable pendulum
experiment, to show that the earth
turns on it's axis. was made today
in the chapel Of Columbia univer-
Sity.
This rare and interesting test Of
a basic law of the universe was
first tried in Paris in 1851 by the
celebrated astronomer Foucault.
Today's experiment was in
charge of Prof S. A. Mitchell. A
sphere was suspended by a wire
from the dome of the chapel, 80
feet above the floor, and secured
at one side of the building by a
cord When it had come to a state
of absolute rest the cord was burn.
ed, thus allowing the pendulum to
swing.
On the floor, in the center of the
chapel, where the point of the pen
uuluIll JOuCltu Ill us course, COll-
cave surface of sand was placed,
and upon this the swaying pendant
left the marks of it's track at each
succeeding swing.
The pendulum was started
swinging from north to south, and
has changed the plane of it's swing
slowly but regularly. until at the
end of IL hours it will be swinging
from east to west. This gradual
change will be continued until to-
morrow at the hour of starting it
will be swinging again from north
to south.
The experiment proves again the
fallacy of the old argument that
the earth could not be moving be-
cause We do not feel it move, and
that the starry dome could not be
fixed because we see it move The
pendulum does not really change
its direction. 1t remains in a state
OF uniform motion and the appar-
ent twisting is produced by the
building and the earth turning
while the pendulum marks out it's
invariable line.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
LIVED ONE WEEK
WITH BROKEN NECK

PORTLAND, Feb. Ernest
Hempel, the acrobat who broke his
neck at Fritz theatre last week,
died last night at the Good Samari-
tan hospital.
Hempel was % years of age and
in the prime of health and physi-
cal condition and it was this alone
that prolonged his life for the
long. restless days that he lay on
his cot in the hospital with a
board strapped from his head
down his back which prevented
any movement of the head or neck,
that was broken at the second
serial yertibrae,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
ELKS MlNSTRELS
ALL STAR CAST

Barring a few slips that merely
helped the fun along. the Elks'
Ministries last night flowed in a
swift current of genuine entertain
ment. There was plenty of gen.
uine talent on tap, most of it the
Spokane article, and consequently
of good quality. The program got
bit ragged just once, when the
familiar eXpedient of projecting an
interruption from the audience got
mixed and some of the listeners
felt like making roughhouse sub
ject out of the luckless disturber
Had the slip been understood it
would have added much to the
gaiety of the occasion.
A change in the song and joke
program will be introduced this
evening and IS good a performance
as the opening is promised, with all
bearings better fabricated.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
CANNON QUITS SWEARING
TO CATCH CHURCH VOTES
Special Correspondence to The Press

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. T.
Uncle Joe Cannon has reformed.
He no longer uses profane or i'm
proper language. "Tarnation" is his
seyerest adjective and "geewhili-
KEN his most excited expletive.
The wickedness of sin was borne
In upon Uncle Joe, according to the
stories told in Washington by a
visit from Rev. Mr.. Clark of the
Christian Endeavor society. He Wis
tied the speaker and talked to him
about an interview which Congress.
man Green of Massachusetts had
given out in Boston. Green said he
thought the profanity of Uncle Joe
would hurt his canvass for the
presidency. The ministers of the
gospel and church people general
ly, Green said, would feel that
man OF profane habits of speech
ought not to be sc. up Of 20 con.
f@@.3Saous a pedestal as the pdesi-
dency OF the United States.
/, IL was then Uncle Joe resolved
20 mend his way. He told Rey.
Clark that he would no longer saw
damn to even mosquito that
BIZ him,
Members OF tho house are much
inteiested In the conversion OF
<heir Uncle Joe. A pool has been
formed and Jim Tawney has be.
eome stakeholder for a. bet OF a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
THINKS DEAN
WAS HIS son

John Dean, of Toronto, Canada,
believes he is the father of
Dusty" Dean who was killeded in
a saloon brawl with George w.
Ragsdale and for which Ragsdale
has been convicted by a jury for
manslaughter. Mr. Dean writes
that he believes Dusty" to have
been his son, George. He desires
further information with descrip-
ton and photograph. These will
be supplied.
If the corpse is that of Deans
son he will have it sent to him
for burial in the family plot in
Toronto.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
PRESIDENTIAL PRESS AGENTS
ALL WORKING OVERTIME NOW

, 1907" A great fortune was repre-
sented by the money expended in
advertising an article attacking the
president which was printed in a
magazine. An antiRoosevelt mag
azine is being issued. The Stand
ard Oil Co. has filled newspapers
with a defense of itself which is
of course, an attack on all that the
president represents.
Friends of Speaker Cannon also
adopted the book method to further
his candidacy. The volume is en-
titled with Cannon Through the
Tropics, and was written by Con-
gresham J. H. Moore. 1t is rec
ord of jaunt made by a party of
congressman, and has many COM
plimentary illusions to Cannon.
Congressman Mckinley, of Illinois,
a millionaire Cannon boomer, f.
nanced the book.
The Taft organization has the
largest press bureau. 1t is charged
with the duty of keeping some hun
dreds of newspapers that have de-
clared for Taft posted on the devel-
opments of the movement in his
behalf. The main bureau is located
at the headquarters in Columbus.
Some brilliant genius introduced
sky-colored picture postcards as a
feature of the Taft ganda.
Some of them were intended to be
humorous and many contained
playful or boastful remarks relat.
ing to the secretary and the White
House. The output of these cards
stopped with painful suddenness
just after Taft returned from his
trip around the world.
Fairbanks wrought history Of
his life and some more in book
form. One addition to his life his.
tory is the picture of log cabin
birthplace which crept in by some
typographical, pictorial or other err
ror the aforesaid cabin having
been constructed some years after
the Indiana statesman came into
the world.
All the candidates have arrange
ments here whereby information
helpful to them is placed in the
hands of Washington correspond
ents likely to use it. This sort of
work is done by the correspondent
of some paper friendly to the can
didate.
Pamphlets in the interest OF sew.
eral of the candidates have been
issued. In support of Knox there
has been printed speech deliver
ed by Congressman Burke. 1t de-
scribes KnoX's trust busting rec
ord as attorney general and the
praise for his work bestowed upon
him by Pres. Roosevelt and others.
While Hughes entered the race
only a short time ago, friends who
insisted that he should be can
didate have for many months OPP
Grated press bureau in his behalf
There has so far been little of
the letter writing that ordinarily
forms such an important part in
the press work of campaigns. Let
ters are often resorted to as a
means for permitting a candidate
to express his opinion on some dis
puted issue, and the epistle is
usually sent to a more or less OBJ
scure individual in some distant
part of the country, who quickly
gives it out to the newspapers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
GO TO ANNEX
ALL CALIFORNIA

California will be hearing things
about Spokane and the Inland EN-
pire for the next 60 days at least
as the result of the chamber of
commerce excursion that leaves for
the south tonight at $50 over the
o. r. & N. The tickets are good
for three months and the eXpedi-
ton will break up and come home
as it suits the individual members
after the arrival and reception in
Los Angeles next Friday. There are
side trips and receptions enough
already planned along the route to
keep the Washingtonians busy
from Portland to Los Angeles.
Nearly 200 will leave this city for
the trip.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
Dpsciai Correspondence to rhs Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. Pub
licity is as important to presiden-
tial booms as it is to actresses or
breakfast foods. None of them
could arrive without it. So highly
do the campaign managers and
candidates regard it that the
brightest minds of the various pop
ular movements give attention to
what shall be published, and when
and how. Clever use of story in
the interest of candidate or
against his opponent is equivalent
to sharp maneuver in battle.
The result is that when the lit
erary agent prepares an article of
importance, men as high in rank as
senators and cabinet officers find
1t worth while to forget national
questions long enough to figure out
how the aforesaid article will
strike Mr.. Common People when
he reads it in the family paper.
AS a result of the work of these
press agents a few novel ideas
have been presented. but not many.
The Wall st. interests introduced
q ne wfeature last fall when they
undertook far reaching advertis-
ing campaign to influence the
voters against Roosevelt, and, of
course, against any candidate ia
voring his policies 1t is known
that several hundred thousand dol
lars was SDenf in that venture.
Copies of Chancellor Days book,
THE Raid on Prosperity an as
sault upon Roosevelt, was sent
free to every senator, representa-
tive and newspaper correspondent
in Washington, and tot many in
fluential men elsewhere.
The Systems" publicity agents
gave wide circulation to book en-
titled The Roosevelt Panic of
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
LEGISLATION COMES HIGH

COLUMBUS, Feb. 1.-THE legis-
lature of Ohio costs $500 an hour
for the time that it sits in actual
consideration of laws. Every min
ute that the men elected as the
representative of the people waste
in fighting for party advantage
marks the passing of S14 from the
fat pocketboOk of the state, kept
filled by the taxpayers.
These figures are based on a
four months session.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

ton of Sir Oliver Lodge, that he
has definitely proved the existence
of a future world by spirit COM
munications from friends long
dead. Sir Oliver is principal of
the University of Birmingham, one
of the foremost scientists in Eng
land and the author of numerous
books upon psychical research.
Edmund Quincy, Richard Hodg-
son and F. w. H. Meyers. all for
merly prominent in England, were
communicated with. The results
were wholly convincing, Sir Oliver
says, adding: I'VE were by no
means convinced of their identity
until crucial proof, difficult even to
imagine, had been supplied
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
FALLING PLATE SMITES
PREACHER AT PRAYER

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. T.
Rev. Frank Bristol, pastor of the
Metropolitan eMthodist Episcopal
church, was nearly killed while of
fering prayer in church. A heavy
plate ornament, weighing 10
pounds, fell from the ceiling, a dis
lance of so feet, striking him a
glancing blow upon the head. The
first impression of the congrega-
ton was that a bomb had been
thrown.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
PLUMB FULL OF PLAQUES

ST. LOUIS, Feb. THE police
have notified interns at the city
hospital to hold themselves in
readiness to receive a man who
probably might be brought to that
haven suffering will II diseases.
He stole II rabbits from the Mar
tina Parsons hospital. Each of the
rabbits was inoculated with a diff
ferent disease and were owned by
DR.. Nathaniel Allison
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
FLORIDA CONVENTION SPLITS

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. T.
The republican state convention, a
majority of which was composed
of negroes, split in two and ended
last night with one wing endorsing
Taft and Roosevelt policy, and the
other denouncing this policy. A
double set of delegates was elect
ed, each claiming to be the regu-
lar party representation. Fights
were frequent all day long.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
SEATTLE GETS MORE
CARNEGIE COIN

SEATTLE, Feb. 7.-Andrew
Carnegie has offered to provide
$105,000 for the construction of
three branch libraries in Seattle
in addition to his former gift of
100000 for the library building
now occupied at Fourth av and
Madison st. Mr.. Carnegies offer
was accepted by the library board.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
COLUMBIA FULL OF ICE

WENATCHEE, Feb. steam
boat communication between Wen
atchee and the upper country is
closed down on account of the
great bodies of floating ice com.
ing down the great stream.
Stages have been on the run be-
tween this city and upriver points
so that passenger traffic may be
carried on.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
SUES ACTOR FOR
HOSPITAL BILL

Mrs. Alice A. Johnson, of the
Home sanitarium, this morning
brought suit against Frank Nc
Quarrie, of the Shirley Co, for
$133, said to be due for hospita,
charges against Mrs. McQuarrie,
who was taken to the sanitalium
Nov. "a and kept until Dec. 81.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
cHINK BREAKS RECORD

HONOLULU, Feb. T. The
American record for the so yard
dash has been broken by a China
man, En- Sue, during a Chinese field
meet. His time, :05 is, is one
fifth of a second faster than the
record established by Victor Rice
Feb. 20. 1904. /,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
BOYS GRIP SAVES LIFE

MASSILON, o., Feb. while
crossing a railroad track in a
buggy, l.. S. Morris. age IA, was
struck by a locomotive. Although
the horse was killed and the buggy
demolished, the boy chung to the
pilot of the engine for half a mile
before the train came to stop.
He was not seriously injured.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
ADMITS 500 ROBBERlES

SEATTLE, Feb. John Storm
professional robber, arrested yes.
terday in Portland at the instance
of local authorities, is believed to
be responsible for a great number
of thefts in this city. He modestly
admits to 500 rObberies.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
Native Fishermen
.Scorn NeU Method

MANILA, Feb. 7.-Fishing is a
rapidly growing industry in the
Philippines, engaging at present
more than 5000 natives, who
gradually are adopting modern
methods. Some of them cling to the
primitive methods of century
ago, spearing still being much in
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
NATIVE CATCHING EELS

vogue. In the shallow lagoons ma
tives catch hundreds of cells with
forked sticks.
instead of seines the natives
make traps, called corrals, of bam-
boo and rattan, and take tons daily
in this manner, the corrals being
set where the fish are known to
run. Last year the consumption of
fish in the islands exceeded half a
million tons.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

fires the outfit into the waste bask-
ct or passes it over to amuse some.
child. There is no justification for
this kind of merchandising and the
postal authorities probably will put
an end to it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
Talks With Spooks

Special Correspondence to The Press
LONDON, Feb. All England
is succumbing to a wave of the
keenest interest in spiritualism, in
duced by the remarkable declara.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07

thousand of the best cigars to be
bought for any member catching
Cannon in 9 curse.
The accompanying photograph OF
Uncle Joe shows how he looks
since he ceased to swear. Those
who know him say there is a hum
BILE and chastened look that no
previous photograph ever had
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
THE WANDERING JEW

will be presented in 10 different
characters at Apollo Hall, 810A
Riverside av., Sunday evening at
$3.50 by l.. Saken, the famous inn
personator and baritone singer.
Tickets SOC.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-07
Slaughter Sale of
Fine Watches

If there ever was a chance to
buy watch cheap it's right now
during the slaughter sale of
jewelry at Sturges'. If you can
duplicate the following prices any
where in the city we don't expect
your trade. Everything in stock
reduced from quarter to one half.
eXcept diamonds.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-02-15
Good Idea for street Names.

Street names spelled out in bright
colors or figures and imbedded In CO.
ment walks are one of the most recent
Innovations in American city architec-
ture. The plan has been tried in KaD
sas City on all the large boulevards.
the main idea being not to disfgure
the street and houses by the usual
printed signs that are placed on the
walls of corner houses or fastened to
the lamp posts at the intersections OF
the streets. The name Of each boule-
ward Is spelled out in letters from six
to eight inches high, formed with
stones about one-half inch square laid
In the cement sidewalk. similar to the
tile or ceramic mosaic work which 10
now so frequently seen In the vestt-
bules Of buildings.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-02-15
MORE WOMEN REAoERs IN Cars.
Change In Recent Years Noted BY
New York Writer.

The increase in the proportion OF
women who read in elevated and sur
face cars in the past ten years Is
striking. says the New York Press.
A rough computation shows at least
one in every five occupies herself with
book OF magazine and about one in
ten with newspaper. The reason for
the difference Is that the average
woman prefers to do her newspaper
reading at home. Just why must be
sought in the grand answer TO the
eternal feminine. unless the eXplana-
ton be that il is harder for woman
to hold paper steady than book.
Another reason may be that, what
with purse and parasol or umbrella,
woman passenger seldom has both
hands free. But the percentage OF
readers among women in cars has
grown steadily in decade. Ten
years ago the proportion was about
one In fifty, to make another rough
calculation from memory. And this
Is tai.ing them in bulk. shoppers and
callers as well as women who work
The proportion of car readers among
working women alone is much greater
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-02-15
Tobacco at Vale.

OF 331 men in the present freshmen
classes at Yale, 1852 use tobacco In
some form. DR.. F. ]. Born. medical as.
sistant In the university gymnasium.
compiled the figures.
He found that "a freshmen use a
pipe only, seven smoke cigarettes only
five nothing but cigars. rs use pipes
and cigarettes, nine smoke pipes and
cigars. and SO use pipes, cigarettes and
cigars.
OF the 152 men, lib began at pre-
paratory school to smoke and IL
others began before then. so that 81
per cent. of the smokers started be.
fore they went to college.
Last year in the freshmen classes at
Yale there were 147 smokers, of whom
II per cent. began at preparatory
school. From these figures DIR. Born
feels himself justified in making the
statement that the majority OF smokers
begin before entering college. in spite
Of popular opinion. There is no men.
ton Of chewers.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-02-15
CHICAGO ON A JUNE NIGHT.
!" Masser Of Love Windy City VIII Not
Take Back Seat.

Mrs. Ehnor Glyn. the English novel
ist. IS trying 10 tell US that We Ameri-
cans are selling platers in the love
making steeplechase She says II
takes an Englishman to make love
The Engl!shman may be all right at
the love business and Elinor may
know what she is talking about; but
when II comes TO the real dope on this
matter, take 1t from me, Chicago has
them all beat long city block. It's
a little dull in the winter time, but
just bring Elinor to Chicago in the
summer Take her to Lincoln park
some evening, then on a trip on the
lake to 81. Joe. Or. let her have =
peep into some West Side parlor while
George is making a June evening call
Or. let her stroll around the neishbor-
hood and watch healthy Chicago
couple hang on the gatepost few
hours. II few of these things don't
put her right, III give it up.-Chicago
American.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-02-15
SURELY LIMIT OF MEANNEss.
Husband Got Photographic Record Of
Wife's Snoring.

Lincoln Beachy, the well-known bal
loonist, was talking In Toledo about
Henry Farmau's recent marvellous
flight with his aeroplane in Paris.
The aeroplane will some day rule
the air, he said. Modern invention
makes this probable, particularly the
invention OF motors that are at once
very light and very powerful. What
a useful thing modern invention is."
said Mr., Beachey. with laugh. X
know, for instance, Toledo man who
started the phonograph going sudden
ly the other night. His wife looked
up from her book
What kind OF a record Is that?'
she cried. 1t sounds like dog fight
in q saWmill'
1t is your own record said the
husband, trumphantly. 1 set the ma
chine on you last night In your sleep.
Now, maybe. you'll believe that you
snore.'"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-02-15
Temperance Societies ILLEGAL.

The clergyman recorded compla-
Gently the twenty seventh New Year
pledge taking.
Excellent work A glorious day"
he said. And yet do you know that
there was once time when all this
sort OF thing was criminal"
No"
Yes. 1t was In India, at the begin
ming OF the English occupation. Med
ical men believed in those days that .
white man could not live in India with
out drinking. They thought he needed
a half pint OF whisky, or its equivalent.
every day. And they insisted on bis
taking It.
Temperance societies, total ab-
stinence and the signing Of the pledge
were things forbidden In India. Such
things were thought injurious to the
white mans health out there. Hence.
to go In for them was to be arrested.
fined. imprisoned. banished.
But to-day in India total abstinence
Is encouraged, for 1t has been found
that the abstainer stands the heat
far better than does the man who
drinks"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-02-15
HAD FUN WITH THE INSPECTOR
Swedish Girl Was No Smus9ler. but
She Made Trouble.

A girl who has just returned from
studying sloid in Sweden got even
with the New York customs inspector
who was too inquisitive regarding her
purchases on the other side. Al
though she was mild and innocent
appearing person, yet the customs in
spector seemed to suspect deceit in
her appealing glance.
So when he came across what the
girl told him was a nest of Swedish
baskets he seemed to think he had
surely caught his victim red handed.
He opened the basket and somewhat
to his surprise discovered another.
He opened 1t and kept on opening
baskets until the seventeenth was
reached. Here" his triumphant
glance seemed to say. "is where
make good" The seventeenth and
last basket. not much larger than q
silver dollar. was opened and-discov'
cred empty. Then he had the pleas.
ure of replacing them all, while the
girl took malicious pleasure In look,
ing on.