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The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-09-16
BUILDING a mile high!

"A BUILDING mile high!
.HS. That was the recent pre-
NAM diction of New York con-
XEK tractors when figuring out
possibilities for the re-
sumption of building op-
erations next spring.
But our geologist friends say no.
They declare that II such a structure
should be raised over the fragile strata
Of rock upon which the city is built
the whole would give way to the strain
and a catastrophe would result.
Therefore measures nave been taken
which will prevent any such ideas be-
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-09-16

the bias SO that 1t will fit around the
curves, or else cut out Of larger
piece of material and shaped with pre-
cision. The medallions are appliqued
before the bretelles are fastened in
position. There is no definite place
for them to go through. When oval
ornaments are selected and they are
fairly large, three will be found
enough to use on each half of a bre-
telle.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-09-16

In the crowded portions of Greater
New York the largest lot is about 200
feet square, that being probably the
biggest plot of precious ground OBJ
tainable in the downtown district of
Gotham. Placing a building 1000
feet high upon this piece of Mother
Earth. the cost would be in the neigh
borhood of $6O.OOO,0OO. 1t would
weigh $4,000 tons, according to esti
mates which have been furnished the
New York board of aldermen by some
of the greatest engineering experts in
the world.
The tonnage of the American navy !
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-09-16

Some men treat their wives well, and
some wives help themselves.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24
A Maine Fish planter.

A novelty OF some interest has been
invented by Superintendent Floyd OF
the Sebago Lake hatchery which has
proven itself extremely practical and
economical in the cost Of transporta-
ting the two-year-old salmon from the
hatchery to points about Sebago Lake.
1t has been the custom at the hatchery
to keep as many salmon as possible
until two years old in order that they
may be able to protect themselves from
cusk and other large fSi. The ordinary
fish cans were too small, holding but
few each, and 1t was expen'
sive to thus transport them. Sup
erintendent Floyd has constructed
big fish car, after the s.yle of the old
Rangeley fish cars, to be dragged after
the launch. II is Is feet long and
feet wide and 31-2 feet deep, water
tight in front and bottom, with q rear
end CRATE. Plank wings 4 by inches
balance the car, which is Of sufficient
buoyancy to support two men. From
this car $4,000 salmon were distributed
one day recently, which was formerly
busy weeks work.-Kennebec jour
nal.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

"Our hours" said a nature student,
ARE nothing to the birds. Why, some
birds work in the summer nineteen
hours day. Indefatigably they clear
the crops of insects.
The thrush gets up at 2.30 every
summer morning. He rolls up his
sleeves and falls to work at once. And
he never stops till $50 at night-a
clean nine.Asn hours. During that
time he feeds his voracious young 2Qs
times.
THE blackbird starts work at the
same time as the thrush, but he lays
on earlier. His whistle blows at 730.
and during bis seyenteen-hour day he
sets about 100 meals before his kid
dies.
THE titmouse is up and about BY 3
In the morning, and his stopping time
is 8 at night. A fast worker. the tit
mouse is said to feed his young All
meals-meals Of caterpillar mainly
in the long, hard. hot day."-New Or.
leans Times-Democrat.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

lustration, the casingis of sheet metal,
the lower portion having openings
Tor the admission of air. The casing
Is bottomless. A partition having an
opening in the centre divides the up
per and lower sections, lamp being
placed below this opening when the
heater is in use. Supported above
the opening is DETECTING cone, the
point of the cone being directly over
the lamp. Near the top of the upper
fared section are a number OF holes.
The sides of the bread pan are fiared,
the edges of the pan neatly resting
and fitting on the edge of the casing.
The suposition is that the hot air
from the lamp rises and is DETECTED
by the cone, so that it reaches the
sides of the bread pan and escapes
through the holes at the top, prevent
ing excess Of heat around the pan.
The time saved by the use of this
heater will be instantly recognized.
Washington Star.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24
GREED.

You envy che man who climbs to fame
And little you care for the man who lost.
You dream OF a great and glowing name
And LITTLE you care what shall be the
cost
You struggle and strive in hall and mart,
Forgetting the weakened souls you
passed
No thought have you OF a longing heart
So long as you reach your goal at last.
Low to the shrine of the great god gold
You bend and worship its glitter and
clink-
Little you care what the fates unfold
So long as you're safe from the dang
'rous brink
OF adversely. And you only care
To reap the fruits where your seeds
were cast
Cold and grim on the road you fare,
With thoughts OF naught but the goal at
last.
Little you heed TO the outstretched hand
That asks for a crumb or a friendly lift,
And it's little you know or understand
The value of sunshine through the rift
When the clouds are low, and a heart
in pain
Beats for the hope and the dream long
past
You only strive for the spoil and gain
Needless OF all but the goal at last
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

color carried by the brushes insur-
ing the wash being more even in
color, as the entire surface can be
covered before one part dries. Wher
the latter is the case it is almost
impossible to get the color to lie
evenly. Two colors can also be car
ried on the brushes-one on each
which would materially assist the
artist where two colors are being ap
piled at the same time.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24
4 Womsn's Long Service.

Mrs. Margaret Ash of the miscel-
laneous division of the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing on Saturday
celebrated the forty-fourth anniversary
of her entering the service Of the
government During the Civil war
Mrs. Ash was appointed printers
assistant in the bureau. which was
then located in the Treasury Depart
rent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Post
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24
Double Color Brush.

Artists and wielders of the bursh
will instantly recognize the advan-
tages of the double color brush
shown in the illustration below, the
invention of a New Jersey man.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

Hang the proved liberler" is the
counsel Of e. Benjamin Andrews.
lat. declares the Boston Transcript.
is as near profanity as the doctor
ever gets.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

Ups and downs OF finance make the
fame of tie Millionaire even more un-
certain than that of the statesman, in
sists the Washington Star.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

1t cost The Hague conference $1,000
600, notes the New York American, to
find out that the dove of peace and
the olive branch are not on intimate
terms.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

The Fisheries bureau at Washington
Iroclaims that its scientists have dis
covered the fact that the dogfsh IS
good to eat. This is no discovery,
asserts the Boston Post. The name
of the dogfish is against him, to be
sure. 1t has kept him off the mar
ket list. He is usually killed and
tossed back into the sea with bad Ian
guage when the cod-fisher brings him
up On the line.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

Secretary Roots advocacy Of the
development of international private
law at his reception by the Academy
Of Jurisprudence in Mexico, suggests
the Providence Tribune, was possibly
inspired by desire to enable Amer
lean heiresses who form foreign al
liances to save something more than
their titles from the wreck.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

In some parts of Switzerland al,
the dead re buried by the govern
ment, without respect to wealth o.
position.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24
DouQh-Raiser.

A heater especially intended to
raise bred by means of the heat of
lamp has been recently patented by
a Wisconsin man. AS shown in the IL
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

II New York would take the surest
aid the quickest 'emedy for abandoned
farms suggests the Duluth News-Trib-
une, 1t should establish farm school
near its metropolis where practical
agriculture would be taught to young
and old for ~ months every year. This
should be used as a medium for grad
ua.ing people from the city back to
the land. 1t should be worked in har-
mony with an extensive system Of va
cant lot gardening, and there should
be fund to help the poorer classes to
secure land.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

Professor Jaffa's discovery that ten
cents worth of peanuts contain twice
as much protein and six times as much
energy as several pounds of steak. says
the Philadelphia Record, should be
communicated to the people who are
Loycotting the meat shops.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

The bungalow, the camp or what
ever ones retreat in the wilderness or
by the shore is called is said to be in
fiuencing INTELLECTUALLY the building
Of an occasional all-the-year-round
house In suburban and nearby coun-
try places, opines the Boston Tran
script. One big living room running
the length and nearly the breadth of
the house, with small kitchen tucked
in an out-of-the-way corner, three or
four sleeping rooms overhead, and a
porch suitably screened to allow out
door sleeping quarters make up the
ideal residence.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

One OF the eloquent poetical writ
ers who report the costumes and ETH
quette at Washington, reports the Ar
gonaut, penned this in his, or her,
account Of presidential reception:
Mrs. X. wore nothing in the way of
a dress that was remarkable" The
slipshod English was handsomely cor
rected by the pedantic but unhumor-
Gus printer thus: Mrs. X. wore moth.
Ing in the way Of a dress. That was
remarkable"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

80 Lieutenant Shackleton
equally well
this
sedge expeditions a
specially built the the Aoohnson Paisley The
constructed Withstand
which will it
expeditions
Of omon The of Siberian ponies in the Antarctic in the
a
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

Canoeing, 1t will be protested, is per-
fectly safe IL proper care is exercised.
So is ballooning. But there is this
essential difference, that it is only by
the grossest carelessness that one can
fall from the basket of a balloon,
while 1t requires eternal vigilance and
a good measure of skill to remain In
q canoe. And the medium over which
a canoe passes is as fatal as a plunge
from the clouds. This is fact that
people seem determined not to real
ize. The water affords the most de-
lightful and healthy of recreations. All
who are fond of II should begin by
learning to swim. Then IL endowed
with wisdom they will choose the skin
in preference to the canoe. They will
thus expend little more muscle, trav-
Ell little slower, cover a little less
distanc, and take infinitely fewer
chances with death.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24

It is dificult for people not in the
naval service to understand and ap-
preciate this craving for some other
form Of uniform but the picturesque
and handsome garb which character
ICES the sailor the world over, pro-
ties the New Orleans Picayune. II is
said that the men are so insistent for
q change in their clothing that they
attribute much OF the discomfort and
much OF the desertion In the navy to
this one matter Of clothes. 1t Is fur
Their reported that the navy depart
ment has appointed a board OF off,
GERS to look into the matter and con-
slider the advisability of a chance In
the form OF uniform. II Is to be
hoped that this special board will have
the good sense to reject the notion
that sailors should be CARRIED as SOL
diers and that the form OF uniform in
use in every navy of the world should
be discarded in our service merely to
crafty the whims of lot of young
men recruited from the western plains.
II we should be guilty OF garbing our
enlisted men of the navy in soldiers
or nondesmript clothing we should
promptly become the laughing stock of
the world.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
MAYBE TEDDY CAN
FIND THIS COUNTESS

LOS ANGELES, Oct 7-Countess
C. De Mehrer De ST. Pierre of st.
Brienne, France, famous all over
the world for her exploits as a
huntress, is lost in the wilds of
Africa.
Six months ago. the countess
sent c. A. Montgomery, former
government scout, $500 to defray
the expense of a hunting trip in
Mexico which she proposed to take.
The money has been held for her,
but not another word from her has
Montgomery received. Wednesday
he cabled the countess father, and
Thursday received reply that
she is lost somewhere in central
Africa.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
AN ARMY OF MEN,
MILLION OF
DOLLARS
Special Correspondence to The Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
NEW YORK, Oct. Twill it &C.
cur to you as you stand at the
bulletin boards on election night
or read the paper over your coffee
the following morning what it costs
to gather those figures and put
them before you that you may go
to bed or wake up satisfied that
the country has been saved?"
Will you wonder how many men
worked Tuesday and Tuesday
night under a pressure and strain
of feverish excitement and inten-
sity that you cannot conceive of,
that you might know few hours
after the polls close whether "Bill''
Taft, the weight ex-secretary of
war, or Bill" Bryan, the common
err from the windy plains of Ne
braska, has been elevated by 1.-The
sovereign power and will of the
people" to be the head of this great
nation for the next four years?
To gather the returns of a ma
tional election from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, from Canaan on the
north to Key West on the south, to
compute them and distribute the
figures from Maine to Manila and
Alaska to Porto Rico, all within
few hours, involves gigantic task
requiring splendid generalship and
calling for tremendous energy.
An army of not less than $4,000
men, in which the press CORE
spondent and the telegraph oper
ator are the principal factors, will
be employed in the work of col
lecting, computing and distributing
the returns at cost estimated at
from 100000 upwards.
The principal newspapers of
the country, perhaps 1000, are con-
nected with a network of leased
wire systems of the two great
press associations-the United
Press and the Associated Press
which aggregate a mileage of
about $4,000 miles, employing
hundreds of telegraph operators
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
LIFE
Of CHILDREN

The flying automobiles and We
-hicles en- route to and from the
fair grounds endanger the lives OF
school children attending the Nc
Kinley school.
So great is the menace at times
when school is out at noon and in
the afternoon, that Police Chief
Rice this morning issued special
instructions to Patrolman Hogan
to station himself at the school
during the hours the children are
out and arrest any reckless drivers
he sees.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
BUT COST OF EXTENSIONS
WILL PROBABLY CREATE A
DEFICIT OF $4,000 FROM
PRESENT PROSPECTS.

In a statement of the financial
operations of the city water plant
for the present year, submitted to
the city council last night, Mayor
Moore estimates that the munich.
pal system will show net earn.
ing of s144, 400 for the year.
The mayors estimate of expense
for operation and repairs, however,
is based on the cost of running the
plant for the year ending June 80,
1908.
If the cost of operation and re-
pairs for the six months ending
January / next do not show any
increase over the total for the
same period last year in all proba-
bilty the mayors figures will
prove correct. But, taking the
estimate of the water department
for this class of expense for 1909
as criterion, the chances are that
the item for operating and repair
charges for the last six months of
this year will be larger than during
the same period last year. For
operating and repairs the water
system during the year ending
June 80 last expended $4,000. For
this purpose the department ASKS
sl12,700 for the coming year, or an
increase of S31 900 which was not
cut dollar by the mayor in his
recommendation filed with the
council last night.
The mayor estimates the total
receipts for the present year at
S315,000. He estimates that the
operating expense, expense of
water collection, retiring warrants
and the payment of interest there
on and interest on the water
bonds. Will make a total of S170,-
GOO, leaving the net revenue S144,-
400.
This calculation by Mayor Moore
does not mention water extensions
which, being considered in the
light of betterments. are not made
fixed charge against the earnings
of the plant. but are added to the
original investment For this pur
pose there has already been ex
pended this year s250,000, and the
last regular meeting of the city
council appropriated for the same
purpose $4,000, making the tota'
for water extensions for the yeal
1924. 900.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
HIGH FINANCE
HITS TACOMA

TACOMA, Oct. I'm 1911 this
city will have s550,000 bonds to
pay and it will be up to the city
council to provide funds by taxa
ton. Past councils have been over
riding the law and neglecting this,
but the matter will be called to the
attention of the present solons.
Section 1858 of Pierce's code
provides that city councils shall
five years previous to the coming
due of municipal bonds, levy taxes
for the sinking fund to pay the OBJ
legations. The law does not say
the council may do it, but says it
shall.
The councilmen last year in
stead of levying for this purpose
at all stuck their hands into the
treasury and actually robbed the
sinking fund of what had accum-
ulated, and used it for current ex-
penditures. Offices have been
multiplied, expenses have been
run up recklessly and the money
has gone in a hurry. Now there
is not enough money in the inter
est fund to pay the interest on
bonds that will be due this month
and next.
From present indications the
council will soon be humping up
against the shoals of bankruptcy
in some of the funds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
WI7ATH COSTS TO
TELL WHICH WINS

graph tells as II rells of the fig
ures.
In the New York, Chicago, st.
Louis, Kansas City, San Francisco
and other big Offices of the press
associations, scores Aof expert ac-
countants from the banks are at
work with adding machines. Men
expert at percentages, with the fig
ures of the last three or four cleo
tons before them, are figuring out
the ratio and percentages for the
candidates.
All eyes are on New York, where
in one Office more than 200 mer
are at work on the figures.
LAS New York goes, SO goes the
election is a saying that has held
good many times. In the national
democrat and republican headquar
tiers thousands of kilograms are be
ing exchanged with the headquar
tiers of the various states. At his
home Judge Taft is taking a keen
interest in the figures that come
over his private wire, while the
special wire that has been run tt
the Fairview farm of Mr.. Bryan is
piling up the figures in way that
will soon tell him whether or not
he will occupy the White House. II
is not a new sensation for the
"commoner" to watch that clicking
instrument with GREATNESS sus
pense. Twice before he has seer
these figures in parallel columns.
The telegraph offices in Chicago
and New York, in each of which
perhaps 1000 telegraphers are al
work, sending figures, figures, fig
ures, a never ending. stream of nu
merals, are fairly swamped with re
turns and press matter. The noise
is like the din of great factory
Midnight is at hand. The experts
in the general offices of the press
! associations, from the returns be
fore them compared with the fig
ures of previous elections, have fig
ured out the result.
For a second there is silence il
the tremendous din as the hun
dreds of telegraph instruments
pause as if for a breath, and ther
with a crash they respond to the
touch of the keys as the flash
- is elected" goes fortf
on every wire and within a few
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
WATER SYSTEM SHOWS
$I44,40o NET EARNING

Add the expense of operation
and fixed charges to the cost of
extension and it gives a total prob.
able disbursements on account of
the water plant for the year of
$494, 900, as against estimated earn
ings of $315,000, leaving a probable
deficit of $4,000 in water finances
for the year. In the past these
deficits because of water extern
sions have been paid by issuing
water extension warrants drawing
6 per cent interest. There are at
the present time s312,02S of these
warrants outstanding.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07

seconds is known in every city
and town.
The people have spoken. Their
verdict has been declared.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07

and many thousands of correspon-
dents, editors and writer's. This
telegraphic spinal column Of our
country, exclusively used for news,
runs from Boston to New York, to
Washington, to Chicago, to ST.
Louis, to Kansas City, to Denver,
to Salt Lake City, to San Francis
co. Hundreds of smaller circuits
north and south from this
main telegraphic artery.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
TO LAY FINANCE PLOT

The republican finance commit
tee will formulate plans for rails.
ing money at a luncheon in the
Hunters room, Hotel Spokane,
next Monday noon.
The city is to be divided into IL
financial districts and the commit.
tee will set out to hustle sufficient
money to conduct the county and
district campaign.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
Burma, however. The closed skirt
is coming into popularity.
CHAMPION GAS GRAFT

. NEW YORK, Oct. T.
. Here at last Is the champion
. gas company grab. The 4
= Baum music hall on Broome
. street was destroyed by fire
. Feb. %. In July the pro-
. prietors received a bill for
= $71.30 for 1890 feet of gas
= consumed between Feb. Is
. and July 5. OF course, they
. refused to pay. The gas I
. company then had the nerve I
. to sue for the amount of the Z
, bill. Testimony was given to
. show that the gas meter Z
. was destroyed in the fire, Z
, but still the company in 4
, sisted that exactly 1890 Z
, feet of gas had been burned. 4
. The concern was given 4
, short shrift in court. Judg- 4
, ment was given in favor Of 4
, the music hall men and the Z
= grabbing gas company Or 4
: dered to pay the costs. I
D . q q q 80 . 30 q 49,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
SCORING FRUIT EXHIBIT

The scoring of fruit exhibits Is go
ing on today at the Interstate fair.
The attendants have big under
taking, as the exhibit this year is
larger and more varied than ever
before. Awards will be announced
this afternoon probably. Il. l.
Stewart of the Hazelwood ranch Is
Sunerintendent
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07

A meeting of creditors is seldom
for the purpose of expressing con-
fldence in the man who can't pay
10 cents on the dollar.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-07
Directoire Only 800
Years Behind Time

Who said the directoire gown
was new?
It's about three centuries old, to
be conservative.
1t now develops the Parisians