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1000.
DIAMOND.

1. The letter d. 2. (scot.) Sweet
hearts of either sex 8. A drink COM
posed usually OF brandy OF whiskey,
sugar, cracked ice and some iavoring.
commonly fresh green mint A. Legal
tender notes, either greenbacks or sill
yer certificates. 5. Having or showing
seams, as on the wrong side Of a gar
ment. 6. To peer. Z. The letter S.
NEWARKUS.
1904.
DIAMOND.
1. The letter y. 2. prefix Before, as
in time, place, or rank. 3. Former
Austrian units of weight, from 30S
to 939 pounds avoirdupois (Obs.).
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A GREAT CLOCK.

Perhaps the boys and girls know that
correct time for all Europe is furnished
by the Observatory at Greenwich. Eng
land, which is also the place from
which longitude is reckoned. 1t Is nat
ural, therefore, that the Observatory
clock should be tended with the utmost
care, m that 1t should never be al
lowed to get either too fast or too
slow. But no piece of mechanism Is
perfect, and this great clock, If allowed
to run on INTENDED, would soon wan
der far enough away from sun-time to
cause a good deal of confusion and
trouble. Az 1t Is, they never permit 1t
to get more than one-tenth of a sec
pnd too fast or too slow, q fraction of
time that Is almost inappreciable. OF
course 80 small an error could not be
corrected by moving the hands of tho
clock, so an electromagnetic is made
use of to do It. The magnet is near the
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LAUNCHING A SHIP.

1t was the custom among the ancients
to make a solemn pouring out of wine
on the altar or the victim at a sacri-
flee; this they called a libation. From
that old g practise, no doubt. we
get the custom of breaking a bottle
of wine over the prov of a vessel when
it is launched for good luck But
our Acknowledged friends, the Japanese,
have a prettier and more significant
custom when they launch a vessel. AS
it glides into the water. they ope a
cage of birds of several kinds, and the
birds fly in different directions, thus
typifying the spirit of commerce., which
sends its agents into all countries.
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GREEDY LITTLE SALMON.

Little creatures may be very greedy
and yet not be able to eat much be-
cause of their size, as was illustrated
in New York, in the cas- of a batch
of about 1000 little Chinook salmon
that were Matched out at the aquarium
recently. These young fishes, each
about two inches long, would eat SO
much that their little stomachs fairly
stuck out, and yet to feed the whole
20, 900 took daily only pound OF
liver and a quart of herring roe, both
chopped fine.
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THE PRIZE WINNERS
q, N aNaxN

The correct answer to last Saturdays
rebus puzzle wa Jack and Jill. The
following children were the prize-win-
ners:
MARY FITZ GERALD, aged 9, 459
Washington street, Newark (book);
FLORENCE WOLLMAN, aged 10, 1877
Court street, Newark (book); JACK
MARTIN, aged II, 80 Maryland street,
Orange (box of paints).
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ANSWERS TO NO. z86.

Cosby o. N. E. ONE.
HOSE-SHOE.
2,6S3-BY PARK.
A T o NJ
T o N E
o N C E
M E E K
2.6s4-BY FLORA.
(a) SHUT-HUTS.
(b) TAN-ANT.
(c) TRINGLE-RINGLET.
Cd HEART-EARTH.
Cosby REyLOS.
J o S
J o c K o
D o C T o Z S
S X 0 F F
o R f
S
2,6S6-BY N. P. C.
(a) SYSTEMATICAL-STEM.
(b)
(c) COMMUNICATING.
2,6S7-BY MUSICUS.
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4 FOR THE LITTLE FOLK i
Interesting Items to Please the Children. !
Y EDITED BY UNCLE JACK Y


pendulum, which it attracts the least
bit when the current of electricity Is
turned on. The current Is 80 timed that
it delays the pendulum when the clock
is fast, and quickens 1t when the clock
Is slow. In this way, a few thousand
swings of the pendulum will correct
the error of one-tenth of a second.
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DOLLS.

My dolls are very good,
Obedient and kind;
No little mother could
Hope better ones to find.
But, Oh, so dumb and still they lie!
I wish that they would scream or cry
My dolls. are very sweet,
Some say they look like me;
With dresses nice and neat,
All trimmed so prettily.
I'd wish them SCARED and ragged to-
day
If they could come alive and play!
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THE E CONTEST.

SEra WO prizes of 81 each will be
awarded It's week for two Sc
a Iected complete lists of nswers
to New Puzzles No. 2SS. Standard DC
tionary is used for definitions: COM
pound WORDS are shown by ~, and
words out of dictionary order by ~.
Address replies to puzzle Editor.
EVENING STAR" and have same
reach his office within ten days
Answers will appear in two weeks.
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AN ILLUSTRATED STORY REBUS.

VIZ hw all read the story about the oyoa monarch who called for %h@hbb bow. his pip and his n@dM"' three
w you find the answer fill out the cwn on this page and send it to Uncle Jack EVENING STAR New
ark NJ
S G a% % % nn winner TnG care hm d him a photograph Tnhrep ms eno enMd
to avoid delays the potne The names of the rhewhnmww will be announced on saturday October IT.
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81 Argyle place.
Navarro NJ :

Dear Uncle Jack: I am going to try
and win another prize, and l think I
would like another book. Every one
who sees my prize thinks 1t is very
nice and say that they wish they
could win one, too. I will close, hoping
to win q prize. | remain,
BEATRICE TOWER.
1876 Bergen street.
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NEW PUZZLES NO. 288.
1852.
CHARADE.

CHARADE.
To terminate or finish is the ONE,
And yet you must observe I'm not half
done;
Smaller, as in capacity is TWO,
And TOTAL is eternal; now I'm
through.
A
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ABEL EMS PRIZES.

The two prizes of 81 each for two
selected complete lists of answers TO
New Puzzles No. 2S6 were awarded to
Rex, Pittsburg, Pa.
May b. New York CITY
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FROM THE POSTWAR.

IDA DERREvERE Uncle Jack
would be very glad indeed to receive
your original story if you will send 1t
to him.
Arlington, N. ].
Dear Uncle Jack-The answer of to-
days puzzle is the story of Jack and
Jill Went Up the HILL" If winner, I
like a story-book as nice as my friend
Elsa Clark got from the dear Uncle
Jack. 1t is a perfectly lovely book, and
we have the incest time reading 1.-THE
Light Princess" From another of
Uncle Jacks little friends,
JEANETTE RUSSELL MURRAY,
1O1A years old.
AZ Argyle Mace.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-07
BUILDING coLLAPsEs.
Two Men Buried in Runs-Rescued
BY Knights Of Pythias.

Boston, Aug. 1.-TWO laborers were
more or less seriously injured today by
the collapse of three-stOry wooden
house under construction on Greenock
street, near Blue Hill avenue, in the
Mattapan section of the city There
were about 20 persons working on the
building when the collapse came. First
there was "A tremor, then the front wall
went out into the street, and the two
side walls fell over leaving only the
rear wall standing. With the exception
of two laborers all of the workmen es-
capped without injury. 1t is understood
that the ether two men We're not dan
gerously hurt. The cause of the collapse
has not yet been determined.
The crash when the structure fell
was heard at the Knights of Pythias
camp, about a quarter of mile away.
A hugle call was sounded and a detail
of about 20 Knights did doubleqdick
march to the scene. Upon their arrival
they took charge of the situation until
the police arrived. They brought the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-07
ANNIE HERIVEL, DETROIT
May Be Victim in Brooklyn's Mystic
rious Murder Case.

New York, August 6.-That the char
red body Of a young woman found on
half burned mattress on q refuse
heap in Greenpoint more than week
ago may be that of q Detroit, Mich,
girl who came to New York in search
of employment, is the latest police
theory. Miss Annie Herivel, aged u,
stenographer who came from Detroit
to this city a few days before the dis
covery of the body on July 30, is the
missing woman.
According to the information fur
nlshed by the parents of the missing
Detroit woman she had an appoint
ment to meet c. F. Swensen of ia
Chambers street. this city. Swensen.
VINO is a fireman, went to police head
quarters today and made statement
in which he said that he had met Miss
Hcrivel while on a steamer returning
from Denmark, but that his only con-
verSatIons with her were over the din
ing saloon table. Miss Herivel asked
him to send her a postal card, which
he did, and he also received one from
her at Detroit On July % he received
letter from Miss Herivel asking him
to write to her, which he did but this
letter was returned to him on July 81
by T. J. Heriye1 Of Detroit, brother
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bering. The building is located in a
shady spot near the bank, is nearly
100 feet long and of corresponding
width. The berths or sleeping quarters
are On the chamber floor. On the first
| floor is large airy cooks kitchen
where Gabriel Michue mixes things
which the men enjoy. When your cor
respondent called recently beef-stew
was on the bill. The beef was of the
very best and the cook has the art OF
seasoning down to a fine point. Dough-
nuts and gingerbread were served and
they We're certainly good enough for
anybody but shades of the. departed
timber tumbcrs of the long ago. Ga
briel set on mince pie" and pudding.
Gabriel blows his horn four times q
day for luncheon and the boys are all
ways willing to respond, and no Won
der
y large dining room, the tables laid
with crockery and not the old style tin
plates, iron forks and knives, cups
and SaucerS and not the tin cup of
long ago; large sitting room, read
ing room and the boom boss headquar-
terS where he receives visitors, smokes
and chats, make up the rest of the
first floor. Water for the kitchen IS
brought from spring on the hillside
by means of a lead pipe. A commodi-
Gus Ice house is located just outside the
kitchen and Gabriel has one of the
largest refrigerators in the section.
From twenty-five to forty men are en-
ployed on the boom during the season
and Gabriel with a smart looking
young fellow as cookie takes care of
the hungry Stomachs of all. The men
are never ill. No well regulated river
driver ever is when working on the
stuff. AS the logs float past and under
them, the men breathe the aroma of
the spruce and pine and the atmos-
phere for considerable distance over
the river is laden with the healthy per-
fume Of the timber, .-,,., g.. =. ,.,,
N For, sixteen years the Winslow boom
has been in charge of G.. A. and c. A..
Warren. They catch the logs of the
company by the stick, hire their own
crew, buy their own supplies and pro-
vide the equippage necessary to the
good conduct of the crew and BOOM
house. The company provides the ma
terial for the boom. the house and pay
once each week by the log counters
tally sheet. For sixteen, years the
Warren brothers have sorted logs and
have won the respect of every man
who has shouldered cant-dog or thrown
a pole for them in that time. Your
correspondent was royalty entertained.
met again his old friend, the veteran
timber tumbler John Walker who is q
sort of first lieutenant to the Warrens
and was cordially invited to call again
and the next time to he on bean day
for the. Warrens are proud of Gabriel's
beans.
Monday. July 20 was the banner day
at the .Winslow boom and it is also
known to be the record breaker in tho
collection of logs at any boom In this
State. on that day 1888 sticks were
sorted, checked, tailed and sent down
the inside boom to the pliers. When
night came the rollers and checkers
didn't feel a bit like visiting their
friends down in, the city proper hut on,
the contrary hunted the blankets early
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Grange Social Tonight at
West Winthrop Hall.
More Stores Added to the List
OF Fine Decorations.
Town Assuming Gala Appearance
For Old Home Week. .

A. H. Railey's shoe store, Reeds shoe
store. lacEson's drug store, j. q. Dono.
vans and the American Express Office
Fave been added to the list of decorated
buildings. Jackson's has novel touch in
q picture of George Washington sun ound-
ed by the American flag and eagle c. T.
Hannaford and c. +. Rowell have very
pretty window decorations.
Harry Wiltshire of Winthrop, Mass, is
visiting relatives III town
II. r. i:lch ana family of Winthrop.
Mass, have arrived in town and are at
their summer home.
MIS-. Fred White and Homer White of
Me'rose, Mass, are guests of Mrs. Aman-
da Putnam.
Mrs II. X. Knowiton. who has been
visiting her brother, Charming Frost, has
returned to her home in Upton.
Mrs. Annie Wing Smith and daughter of
Chelsea, Mass, are the guests of MIS-.
Wings sister, Mrs. Carrie Osborne
Ffar; Iates is visitin" his brother. r.
ID. Gates, III Danvcrs, Mass.
Miss Florence Kinds. who has been
visiting Mrs. y. l.. Lcech, has returned
to her home in LivCrmorc.
The youa" people of the Grange will
hold a social at the Grange hall in West
lnthi"r this evening. Refreshments
will he served
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A $4,000, 900 BLAZE.
47,5o0 Barrels Of Whiskey in Bonded
Warehouse Destroyed. z"

Lexington, KY, Aug. ga fire be-
licved to have been of incendiary origin
which ragged from 10 O'Clock last night
until nearly daylight this morning, de-
stroyed six large bonded warehouses
of the Grecnbaum Distillery at Mid
way, Woodford county, containing A.
800 barrels of whiskey, burned severai
negro cottages, the Southern Railway
trestle and the county bridges The ac-
tual property loss was at least $780,
900, partly insured The loss to the gov
eminent in the destruction of whiskey
in bond, amounting to 100000 gallons,
the tax of course unpaiD, will be
nearly $9,50O,0O0. The main iistfilery
was saved. The plant has been closed
several months. 800
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POLICE COURT.
Vashon Liquor Cases Have Attention
of Court Thursday.

Frank NaShOn, who was arrested at
his home on Carrean street yesterday
morning Ivy City Marshal Harrington
and Officer Samuel Lufkin, was ar
ra1gncd in the municipal court yester-
day morning charged with illegal
transportation of liquor, obstructing
and resisting an officer and single sale
He was found guilty and received sen
fences amounting to $50 or six months
in Jail.
1t VIII be remembered that NaShOn
was stopped by the officers at the Cen
trail Maine fair grounds on circus day
and liquor found in his wagon. He es-
capped the officers by running into the
woods. The officers armed with the nee
essary warrants visited his home again
yesterday morning. City Marshal Far
rlnSton entered the rear of the house
and stationed Lufkin i'll the street
\aShOn was notified of the arrival of
the officers and started to escape over
a rear fence leading back of the house
He was seen by the officer in the street
and WAS chased He was caught q short
distance from his home and gave the
officers considerable resistance when
they attempted to take him to the sta
ton. He kicked both officers about the
legs and the tWisterS' were used.
He was placed aboard an electric
car and brought to the station.
He Was first arraigned Oh the charge
OF ill>.' transportation and WAS found
guilty Che court. He was sentenced
To TO-, Il, fine Of $500 and costs or four
months in Jail. He appealed and was
ordered 10 furnish bonds to the amount
of $500.
On the charge of obStructing an Of
fccr he pleaded not guilty and Officers
Harrington and Lufkin were placed Oh
the stand against him. Both testified
as to what took place at his home on
the morning of the 9Th. Vashon took
the stand and stated that he did not
want to he taken by the officers as he
was going to the station to give him.
self up. He stated that he had been
drinking, but was not drunk at the
time He did not remember kicking
the officers and if so did not mean it.
The court again found him guilty and
sentenced him to fine of $50 and costs
or two months in Jail He appealed ana
was ordered to furnish bonds to the
amount of 5000. He was represented in
both cases by Hon. s. S. Brown.
Vashon was unable to get the re-
uuired bonds at the afternoon session
and decided to take the four months
on the two charges. The single sale
case against him was not heard and
he was taken to Augusta on the after
noon train.
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Coming down from Jackman YES
tcrday," said c. A. Wood, a well-known
farmer in that section, Il saw a large
number Of deer at different times In
close proximity to the railroad tracks.
They did not fear the noise of the
tram to any great extent other than
get Il safe distance from the track. In
the vicinity in which l live there have
been times when the deer during the
past season have been troublesome and
several large gardens have been de-
stroycd," Mr.. Wood was in the city on
business and returned on the late
train.
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uppermost and easily in sight of tho
roller, but when q log comes along
with the mark under water, the rca
business Of the roller begins. He
sprirn$ il with his foot ana il the log
be a bit crooked and refuses to turn
under one foot, the roller gets on with
both feet and turns the mark up.
There are no soft-snaD Jobs on a
boom ard particularly OH the ii. IL w
boom at Winslow. The roller must use
the lnuscles OF his hips, legs and ankles
and not infrcuuently do severe strains
come to the shank and inStcp of the
foot. At the Ii. & w. boom there are
eight rollers. They Work in pairs or
by thrcta as the day may. require and
they work in shifts OF ninety minutes
When it is considered that the II. &
w. co. cut last winter nearly fifty mill
lirn feet ot lumber and that this means
nearly unc-half million sticks. it can
easily be understood that from 5000 to
90r0 sticks are sorted at the Winslow
each day and it can also be readily
understood why the rollers require
shifts and are not worked steadily on
the gap throughout the day.
The checker is the man who cap
lures the floating stick named or told
off by the roller, works it out from the
rest Of the floaters. Tails it around
the end of the tram, calls its mark to
the counter and sends it down river
inside the sheer boom to the pliers.
The work of the checker differs from
that of the roller in that his arms and
shoulders, accompanied by the neces-
sary strain On the small of the back is
and pulls, sends this log down a bit,
holds back another little and finally
worms his catch in between the ends
of tho other two and has thus created
q clear path to the inside boom. The
counter sits under a shade of boards
and takes the mark. puts it down in
it's proper column of his lists and in
half an hour after the days work is
done can tell the boom boss how many
logs have been caught that day. The
counter reports to the office of the
company once each week.
Two log watchers are kept at the
boom during the season to prevent the
logs of other companies becoming
ullNCu With tIlOSc OIL the II. q w. 70.
AS accidents will happen to the best
of families. so will a log now and then
get into that inside boom when it
should be sailing off down river. When
q checker. who is sometimes called %
"Snubber," has number of logs in
hand at one time, a log bound for sAu-
gusta or Hall6weH may become so
closely identified with the II. & w. logs
floating under the long pole of the
checker, as to be overlooked until it
has nearly reached the log piles down
near tLc mill. From the man who
breaks Gown to the man who snubs
the catches. the day is filed with bust
ness.
Tho best boonhousc or quarters for
the boom men, in this state is certain
ly that at the Winslow boom. 1t is a
palace when compared with some Of
the others now in existence ana certain
a mansion when compared with some
which existed III the older days of lum-
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drives aud then begins Il float of seven
ty miles to the boom at WinslGw. On
the way the logs pass through Il boom
at Scion and over Carratunl falls.
Through another boom ut Madison ana
over NorridScWocn falls. through Il
boom at SkrwhcCan and over the
Sllowhcsan falls, and through booms
| at Pish"H's Ferry and Fairfield.
Tit first III. & w. boom, in the river
at WINSTON, is nearly one-third of n
mile in length in the early part of the
spring but as the freshct pitch reccdes.
the sorting gap is moved further up
the BOOM and an inside or sheer boom
Is used to guide the logs down to the
point where the great piles are to be
made on the shore near the mills OF
the company. At times, particularly
in the carly part Of the spring, the ac-
emulation of logs in the boom be
comes a serious and difficult problem.
The great sticks pile high on the boom
piers and, under the great water pres
sur" drop down to the 3river bottom
This always entails great expense in
the removing Of the jam. The break
| ing down crew, each man with can't
high ones and thus work until water
sufficient between the jam and the
piers is secured and then donkey en-
SilcS, set upon Il large float and the
latter moOred to pier or by shore
hold, wind out great gluts of tangled
logs to the open water. The breaking
down crew attack these gluts and
loosen them so the logs will all lay
level with the water when they reach
the sorting gap where the rollers go
over them in searching for the catch
ing mark. Possibly a short description
of the sorting gap of boom where SO
much business is done every day as
at the Winslow point, may be Of inter-
est to the readers Of the Journal.
Along one shore is arranged a raft
of logs which are bound together by
planlls and which form a solid walk
works by some, 'Tram" or "Trip"
by others From one of the piers is
hung Il string of logs, joined at the
ends Ivy stout cable in the form of a
timber hitch. making a close blight
over which is driven an iron staple.
This string of logs or the gap-boom,
is hauled to the shore or hcadWorks
at the lower end and fastened to a
mohring point of some sort, in such a
manner that the warp can be paid out
at will and in perfect safety under the
strain which comes against the boom
when it is closed. AS the boom or
sorting gap opens, the men with the
aid of long poles, push the logs through
the gap where they are taken in hand
by the rollers as soon as the logs get
into loose water.
The roller, wearing heavy calked
boots, starts from the hcadworks and
the trip on shore and works back and
forth over the loose logs. When a log
b1aring the mark of the company is
seen the roller announces the fact by
speaking to a, checker and indicating
the log by keeping his foot on it or
saving '"This one or "That one" in the
latter case indicating with his pole.
Probably fifty per cent. of the logs
pass through the boom with the mark