The National tribune., 1909-04-29

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of 40 day. The killing Of these strays
Is advisable. as they are a menace to chit
dren at all times, but there are people III
the District who howl about it and would
like an appropriation from Congress for
a cat and dog farm. And this when there
are more than 1000 children in the Dis
trict w..o probably never have enough to
eat, or sufficient clothes to keep them
warm in Winter.
Advice from Germany.
All YOU need to do in order to ex.
tinguish petroleum or gasoline lire is
to put foam on it. This simple remedy
for a class of flames that has bafded
firemen for years comes in report from
Consul Thomas Nj. Norton, of Chemnltz
Germany.
The use of water has only served to
spread such fires, and, as a rule, the
firemen have been obliged to stand by
helplessly until the flames exhausted
themselves from lack of fuel. In very
few cases the use of steam has been ef
fective, but usually an oil fire burns itself
out.
Now it appears that the Germans have
perfected IA scheme for killing oil fires
with foam. The apparatus employed
|
vided with long spout and divided
into two chambers. One chamber is
charged with an aqueous solution OF
potash-alum and sodium sulphate, the
other with a similar solution of sodium
bi-carbonate, sodium sulphate, and lie,
Oriceroot extract.
The cylinder is so arranged that on
being reversed the two solutions mingle
as they issue from the spout. The re-
suit is prompt evolution of carbon
dioxide, which, in contact with the lie
orice solution. forms an exceedingly stifl
and persistent foam.
| Heads of fire departments have tested
this scheme aud pronounced the foam fire
extinguisher success. They say it, will
where combustible liquids are stored
such as groceries, drug stores, automo
bile garages, and. motor yachts.
Likes 1t.
President Taft attended the Masonic
| ceremony of comforting the Master Ma
sons degree at Masonic Temple the other
night. 1t was the second time he Was
ever inside Masonic lodge, the other
| time being when he was made Mason AT
sight in Cincinnati. Notwithstanding the
publicity OF that performance and his high
official position, President Taft had to be
youched for by some one who had sat in
the lodge room with him. This recogni-
tion was given by Grand Master Simp-
son, of the District, who was present At
the Cincinnati ceremony. The President
was escorted in by Worshipful Master
| Thomas G. NOyeS. who. in plain everyday
English, is mighty good newspaper man
and one of the editors of the Evening
Star, and Clifford Bergman, who is
probably known to more people in the civ
ilized world than any other man living
today. Cliff" Bergman, as he is known
to his friends. is simply the Teddy Bear
man" to the world, and there isn't a
! child in the world who owns q picture
book who has not seen the Teddy Bea!
with his dear little expressive face. and
who isn't glad. too. that Bergman didn't
send the poor little fellow OFF TO Africa.
But this was to be about the President
The Secret Service men who trail the
President got lost in the mazes that night
sure. They were never stopped before
not in all the his.orf of the Secret Service
were they ever detained from the side OF
the President by bolts and bars. signs and
countersigns. but at the door of Temple
Lodge the doughty detectives were turned
| fiat down. and remained outside the
vail" The President said he had hea.
of fun and would go again.
The Census Enumeration.
1 Director North, of the Bureau Of
Census. says that about GJ.0G0 enuInera
tors will be employed in the work ol
| taking the next census 1t is now planned
to have this work begin April 10, 1910
Plans for counting noses all over the
| United States have been completed and
the work Is being held up only because
of the failure of Congress to pass tho
census and the census appropriation bills
Mr.. North will appoint so super
visors who will have charge of the work
throughout the country.
The supervisors will receive a salary
of $500. in addition to which they viii
have on allowance of 81 for each 1.OOi
persons enumerated Each enumeratoi
will be paid 2 cents per capita. Pennsyl
vapa will have. approximately, 1000 emu
merators and % supervisors. Massactu
sets will have one supervisor and 2.SD'
enumerators. Maryland will have abon
|, In New York State 5000 enumerator
land % supervisors will be employed.
The supervisors will be named by TIL
President. subject to confirmation by tn
Senate In theory the enumerators vii
be named by the supervisors. but IN fac
: they constitute the legitimate patronage
of members of Congress. aud Mr.. Nortl
already has been deluged with recommcn
dations by Senators and Representatives
and the supervisors will appoint enJ5ner
ators as per directions from Washington
j Not Success.
The incubator has not proven pro
i. nounced success in the Matching o
chicks, according to the results of an ex
tended series of experiments carried o.
by the Department of Agriculture.
At the Oregon station it was demon
strated that, Notwithstanding the fac
that hens sometimes break eggs and tina
they sometimes quit their jobs and z
off to women's club meetings-things tn
incubator is never guilty of-still the he
is a better brooder than the incubator
The incubators used hatched $50 per cen'
of eggs. and the hens 96.5 per cent.
But the most vital point is that tn
; chicks Matched out under hens weishe
heavier than those Matched in incuba
tors. The mortality Of the hen-hatche
E chicks was but 1913 per cent, while tn
mortality of incubator chicks was 81.
. per cent. Hen-hatcled chicks made
: greater gain in weight than incubator
Matched chicks whether brooded by hen
or brooders All experiments Shove
K that the hen-hatched chick is stronge
e and better than the other.
c Former Senator Stewart Dead.
The political world was shocked n
: Hess than the world of friends he ha
to hear last Friday of the death Q