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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18
One-Armed Golfers.
From Baily's Magazine.

From Baily's Magazine.
w. Park Of Troon and J. Scott Of Sill
10th. both one.armed golfers. played the
second half Of their seventy -two-hole-
Homeland home match for EOS side on
the Silloth links. Park. who started with
the lead Of ten holes, which he gained
at Troon. eventually won by II up and II
to play.
d. r. Anderson recently made a drive
OF 800 yards at the Joliet Country Club.
United States Of America. Anderson is
one armed and this shot is probably the
record distance for ope-artned golfers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18
Killing.
From Puck.

From PUCK.
Paris. son Of Priam. King Of Troy, was
among the very first lady-killers to be
mentioned in literature. Yet he was NO
primitive bungler at that
Indeed. such was his skill and finesse
that there became current in the polite
circles Of antiquity a saying which has
endured to our own day: See Paris and
die.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18

ed the York" From that date forward
the railroad was on a substantial footing
in the United States, and Yankee in
genuity began to realize what might be
done to improve this method of trans
portation.
Rumsey, Fitch and Fulton long before
had been working on the question OF
steam navigation Before the dawn Of the
nineteenth century George Washington
had written letter certifying that he
had witnessed trials of the Rumsey boat,
and that, although he formerly had but
little faith in it. he was then convinced
that Rumsey had discovered the art OF
working boats by mechanism. He was
called Crazy Rumsey' at home, exhibit
ed working boat abroad, and died in
1893. He had a controversy before his
death with Fitch, whom he accused of
coming pottering around his shop. In
letters to London friends he told Of
visit of young American engineer by
the name of Fulton, who betrayed q
sympathetic and intelligent interest in his
experiments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18
Nothing inferior was found

From the standpoint of the naval au-
thorities it is unfortunate that the typhoid
situation has been made SO much Of They
feel that an unnecessary scare has been
caused locally. as well as elsewhere, Great
ing anxiety among the parents OF the
midshipmen In all sections of the coun-
try. It is stated that the slim attend
ance at the midshipmen's hop last Satur-
day night was because Of this.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18

safety without the telegraph. AS news
carrier and as means of prompt busi-
ness intercourse the telegraph and the
telephone may have their greatest useful
ness, but experiences during icy storms
and severe weather demonstrate how de-
pendent modern transportation is upon
these two instruments.
* =
The beginning of the automobile is
somewhat involved in doubt, but many
award the credit
Doubt as to Origin to Oliver Evans
Of the Automobile who brought out
his famous auto-boat-locomotive at the
very beginning Of the nineteenth century.
But that he had a railroad in mind is
shown by the fact that he predicted such
a road, running on such schedule as
would permit a passenger Ito leave
Washington at sunrise, breakfast in Bal
timore. lunch In Philadelphia and dine in
New York" Europe has been ahead of
the United States in making automobiles
available for agricultural purposes. al
though in the production Of a pleasure
car for the millions American inventors
have stood in the forefront.
It is In the perfection of railroad trans
portation facilities that the American in
ventor has distinguished himself. The air
brake. the sleeping and parlor car, the
refrigerator car, the stock car, safety
couplers, block systems, automatic train
controls. interloclxing systems. the bag
gage checking system-innumerable i'm
provements for the safe and satisfactory
handling of passengers and freight are
to be credited to American inventors.
1t is generally agreed that the mono
rail train and the gyroscope car are yet
to be made commercially as useful as
the automobile and the regulation loco
motive. Unless the flying machine de-
velops too rapidly they will continue In
general use for some time before land
transportation yields first place to aerial
transportation.
MISUNDERSTANDING INVENTIONS.
III-AGRICULTURE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18

newspapers announcing that
1T he Steam
First Patent for boat would
Paddle Wheel Boat. n ns, Ss us tro M
the Arch street ferry to carry passen-
gers to Trenton and intermediate points.
returning the next day. His boat ran
between 1000 and 5000 miles, and then
was laid up for want of patronage. The
first United States patent for paddle
wheel steamboat was applied for by Ma
than Read Of Salem. Mass. in l79O. Later
he read Of q French experiment with
paddle wheels made some years before.
and. supposing this would debar him from
securing patent. withdrew his applica
ton. This was twenty years before Fui.
ton obtained his patent on such wheels.
United States Consul Vail, stationed at
Fftch's plans to Fulton, who visited him
before perfecting his steamboat From all
this 1t will be seen that Rumsey, Fitch,
Read and Fulton all claim the credit Of
inventing the steamboat, but Gen. Wash
.neton's certificate seems to award to
Runisey priority, while the world awards
Fulton the credit.
The first steamboat to cross the Attain
tic was the Savannah, in 1919. When of
the Irish cost British revenue cutter
elshecu heF anu save CHASE, tnlhhinS Snc
was either on fire or q most suspicious
craft. The logs OF a number of trans
atlantic sailing vessels at that time indi-
cate that they sighted and tried to over
haul her. thinking she was on FIRE. 1t
was widely believed that she was a spe-
cially designed vessel to bring about the
escape Of Napoleon from St. Helena.
When Morse perfected the telegraph he
did as much to make modern Transports
ton conditions possible as any one else.
1t would be a most difficult matter to
operate . modern railroad system with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18
been issued for flying machines and their
al tachments..
Thousands of Patents The rise of
the science of

for Flying Machines. air air n 9 On
promises to establish as great a field for
inventors as the rise Of the automobile
two decades ago. Motors, fixtures, speed
registers, wind gauges. altitude record
ers and balancing appliances, are only
few of the hundreds of things which will
be required from the brain of the in
ventor. AS there has been no more fruit
full field Of invention in the past decade
than supplying the wants of the automo-
bislist, so all the signs at the patnet
Office Indicate that the flying machine
business will have first call during the
next decade.
One might trace the art of transporta-
ton back to the time when mothers
strapped their babies to their backs, when
men made animal skin soles for their feet
and when humanity bore off It's dead In
sings attached to poles resting on the
shoulders of the bodybearers But Ameri-
ca first became prominently identified
with its development when Oliver Evans
built his amphibious steam carriage In
Philade phia about the same time that
Richard Trevithick harneSsed steam to
transportation in England. One of Trevi-
thick's engines was known as 1.-The Puff
fling Devil In 1908 he built circular
railroad to London. and installed on it
the Catch Me Who Cam" charging a
shilling a ride. StevenSon's several early
locomotives followed in the twentieS, and
his Rocket took the first prize of 1900 In
a contest for the best engine. 1t was this
engine which killed the first man who
ever lost his life in railroad accident.
x *
The first locomotive ever run in Ameri-
ca, If we except Oliver Evans cross be-
tween boat,
First Locomotive an automobile
in America in 1929. t a~e was ,u.' the
Stourbridge Lion, on the Delaware and
Hudson, In May, 1929. The famous John
Bull ran on the Camden and Amboy in
1881 and though it occupies place OF
honor in the National Museum it still is
fit for duty IL ever called upon. 1t trav-
eled to the Chicago worlds fair under is
own power and carried $4,000 people
while there. The Baltimore and Ohio
first was built with the idea that horses
would pull the trains. Then Peter Coop
er wanted them to try his engine. which
had keg-iike boiler and flues made Of
gun barrels. He raced q horse and won.
The Baltimore and Ohio then concluded
to offer q ur-thousand-dollar prize for
the best engine, and one of $500 for the
second best engine, superiority to be de-
terminated by contest similar TO those
held for flying machines today. 1t was
won by Pennsylvania-buiit engine CALI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18

the water and held the egg in his hand,
has his name connected with the earliest
and the latest efforts at transportation by
artificial means. At one time he be-
lieved that the reacting power of escaping
steam would drive q vehicle. At another
time he worked out, to his complete salts
faction, law of air-resistance to NOV
ing bodies. For generations the whole
scientific world accepted this theory, al
though II the scientists had stopped to
calculate the speed of a swallow they
would have found that. according to the
Newton an law, fast flying swallow
would need the strength Of a human be-
ing to make such speed In the air.
y
\ X
1t remained for an American genius to
discover the falsity of the Newtonian
law. and after he
Experiments Made succeeded in dis
by Prof. Langley. a etma, i eu uas.
ments It was only a question of time
until the heavier than-air flying machine
should become a realized dream. That
man was the late Prof Langley. He de-
termined to find out by actual experiment
how much horsepower was needed to sus-
tain surface of given weight by means
of its motion through the air.
To do this he erected a huge whirling
table in the open air at Allegheny. Pa.
driven by a steam engine. The outer end
Of its revolving arm swept through q cir
conference of two hundred feet and could
be made to travel as fast as seventy miles
an hour. At the end Of this arm was
placed the apparatus to be tested, includ-
ing surfaces deposed like wings 1t soon
was discovered that the faster q thing
travelled the less weight was required to
sustain 1t. A brass plate Weighing a
pound at rest was found to weigh only
an ounce when carried around by q fast
motion, and the faster the table whirled
move. Here, then, was the basic princi-
pie Of heavier-than-air aeronautics solved,
and the Newton.an law proved to be
twenty-fold removed from the truth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18

Since then thousands of patent. have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-18

OVERWHELMINGLY INVENTIONS
III-AGRICULTURE
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18

many-Sided Washington Is emphasized
by some of the memorials which. by
their character, call to mind, reSpec-
lively. his invaluable services as a cit
1Zen, as a soldier n as a states
man.
Ranking first, not only among the
tributes to the new world Iiberator,
but also in all probability, among all
personal memorials throughout the
world is the great Washington Ma
tfonal mOnument-that imposing shaft
of white marble rising on the banks
of the Potomac river to bespeak the
gratitude Of the whole American
people. This monument, which is the
highes masonry structure In the
world. and dOubly impressive In its
simplicity, is an obelisk and has a
height of 555 feet. The foundation
Is 30 feet deep and the walls of the
colossal structure are Is feet in thick
ness at the bottom. gradually tapering
to a thickness of Is inches at the ton
In the huge pile are stones contrib
uted by 40 different states of the union
and 10 American cities, as we'll as
beautifully carved blocks of marble
from Italy, Egypt. Greece, Switzer-
land, Japan. China, Siam. Brazil and
other nations which took onnortrni+y
to pay tribute to the greatest patriot
OF all time.
Gen. Washington was yet living
when there first originated he nlaD
for providing this supreme testimonial
to his military Il political services.
As early as 1888 the congress of the
United States resolved to erect a mar
Die monument to the nations idol. and
II Is said that Washington himself Sc
Iected a site the spot where the monu-
ment now stands. The project was re-
VlVed from time to time after the
death of Washington, but it was not
until 1888 that practical steps were
taken to carry out the undertaking.
Funds were raised by popular SUBJ
scription. and in 1S4S the corner stone
OF the towering structure was laid
with due ceremony. In 1855 the funds
which had been contributed were ex-
hausted, the shaft having at that time
attained a height OF 1872 feet Work
ceased and the project was at a stand
still for more than a score of years.
Or until 1878, when the national legis-
lature appropriated money to COM
plete the masonry masterpiece. The
completed monument, which repre-
sents an expenditure of more than
81, 300, 600. was dedicated a quarter of
a century ago. on February 81, 1885.
One of TIC most famous of the me-
MORALS and one which has had a most
remarkable history is Horatio Green
ough's heroic statue in marble of
George Washington. This statue for
year occupied the most conspicuous
place on the plaza of the United States
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18

r. HE English sparrow is the pirate of
i the air, just as the rat is the free
booter of the earth, and ought to be
exterminated. So rules the depart
ment of agriculture in a bulletin just
published, which also tells how to get
rid of the pest.
This declaration Of war by the gov
eminent is in striking contrast to re-
lief movements started in certain cit
les recently to a v these birds from
starvation because of the severe win
ter.
This sparrow studiously, says the
department bulletin, hunts and eats
insects that are beneficial to plant life,
while 1t passes over more or less those
that are harmful. The only good thing
it does is to eat the seed of weeds and
prevent their spread. Aside from that
there is nothing to be said in it's favor.
More than that, it is murderous. 1t
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18
BOYS WELL-MEANT WARNING
Nautical Call Somewhat Out of Place
When Saying Grace Was
in Order.

There is a Trenton boy who spends
his with an uncle, who is an
enthusiastic sailor. Last summer the
lad was particularly impressed by his
uncle's manne of singing out Hard
a-lee!" as a signal for all hands to put
their heads down whenever, in lacking
or coming about the boom, such pro-
ceeding was necessary.
Shortly after his return from his
uncle's place on the coast, the boy was
taken by his parents to visit his grand
father in the south of the state.
Now it appears that the grandfather
is a devout churchman, never failing
to say grace at meals. 1t being the
lads first visit. he gazed upon the I'M
usual preliminary with some wonder;
and accordingly, after leaving the Ia
bic, was rebuked for not having bowed
his head like the others.
The next morning the boy showed
the effects of his rebuke. When all
were seated at table and his grand
father inclined his head preparatory to
asking the blessing. the yOungster
caused the utmost CONSERVATION by
piping out in a shrill voice:
"Hard-a-lee, everybOdy!"-Sunday
Magazine of the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18

VIZ ASHINGTON.-Do the onerOus du-
W ties Of the job Of secretary of war
put cobwebs on the brain of Jacob
NJ. Dickinson of Tennessee and Chi
cago? They do not, chorus all the
members of the Tennessee society of
New York, who sat in front of their
crumpled napkins at the end of the
annual dinner of their organization at
the Waldorf recently and listened to
some new ones that we're uncorked
to pop and sizzle by the genial Ten
~nesseean and Chicagoan who holds
down the portfolio of war In the Taft
cabinet.
when l heard that this was a rep
resentatative body of Tennesseeans."
said the secretary after he had arisen
from his place at the speakers table
and cast his eyes around on the fem
mime products Of that heralded state
where the bluegrass grows in fiction
and song, when l heard this 1 could
not believe it."
Here there was a slight gasp of an
ticipation and doubt from the fair
mes.
Because" the secretary hurried to
0OO Al q LOuCA VI 60AAdAIAy L III
to myself, If any state turns out all
this galaxy Of fair ONE there CAM
be enough left within it's borders tx
make it a real state"
That set Jacob M. Dickinson solid
with about one-half the 800 Tennes-
seeans gathered about the tables, and
he proceeded in a mellow vein of rem
iniscence.
"You know a fellow from Tennessee
came to New York a few years ago
and before he came he told the peo-
pie down home that he intended to
show those New Workers they didn't
know it all. He reckoned there were
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18
Women Of BrusaAIa

The length of life Of an average
woman, in Brussels, at least, is super
iOr to man. Statistics show tina dur
ing the last two years the feminine
element has predominated in the
Brussels population. In 1908 there
were only 7,848 boys in the Belgian
capital between the ages Of 10 and
Is, and 1908 girls of the same age.
After 20 years the difference increases
in favor of the and while
Brussels only possessed 1888 males
of 20 to % years and 9,181 of 25 to
80 the fairer half of the human race
was represented by 11,7O1 and TO- 49,
respectively. The supremacy the
feminine element keeps positively to
the end, as far as Brussels is con-
cerned. While Brussels has only 65
men Of So or 80 years M ten mona
genarians only, she can count 184
ONE between the ages of 85 and
90, 35 of 95 years, and six Of more
than 95 years.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18

A NEWSPAPER man, recently come
n to Washington and new to the SEN
ate press gallery, hustles into the out
er room.
"What-what?" asked Charley Mann,
superintendent of the gallery.
"Oh, I'm on the Blank News" said
the correspondent.
Mann looked him over very care
fully. He'll know him next time, just
as he knows all the correspondents.
Mann is always on the job. He takes
great care of all kilograms from the
home Offices that come for any mem
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18
Government Declares War on Sparrows

hunts the nesting places and destroys
eggs and young blue birds, house
wrens, tree swallows and barn swal-
lows. The robin, the catbird and the
hooking bird it attacks and drives out
of parks and shade trees. 1t has no
song, but drives out the song birds
and brings only noise in return.
After having learned all this about
the sparrow, after an extensive in
vestigation, the department Of agricul-
ture shows a way to destroy the
bird. First, whenever sparrows roost
around your house, destroy their nests.
If they roost at night on your caves
trough, drive them away with a long
pole. By destroying nests wherever
they are seen the increase can be pre-
vented.
The sparrows likes to nest in cavi-
ties and can be trapped through this
preference. 1t will roost in boxes
that may be put up to make it's cap
ture easy 1t may be lured to spread
grain and shot and killed in other
ways, or may be poisoned.
Wheat soaked in strychnin is said
to be preferable. This method has
been adopted in California, where it
was necessary to protect ripening
fruit.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18
Charley Mann Discovers a Taxpayer

Der of the gang and he carefully
notes all telephone calls. So all you
have to do, in the rush and hustle, is
to keep in touch with Mann, n the
managing editor will never have cause
to complain of delay.
A stranger came bustling into
Mann's room one day.
"What-what?" said Mann.
"Oh, 1 guess 1 can stay here" said
the stranger. I'm a taxpayer. l want
to see what my representative is do
ing"
Mann at first was for having him put
out. Time he changed his mind.
You say you're a taxpayer" he
asked.
Yes, I'm a taxpayer"
Well, you come with me-" said
Mann. You're a dodo bird-or al
most. Your kind is pretty nearly en-
tinct-"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18
Canadian Snowshoes.

The Canadian snowshoe consists OF
q fat frame of lanceolate form, from
one to two fee in width n from
three to five feet in length. 1t is wholly
of wood, or is a long, narrow frame Of
pliable hickory, placed on edge, bent
double with oval front and the two
ends firmly fastened behind, filed with
wicker work or thongs and with cross
straps on the upper surface to attach
it to the foot. The broad surface pre-
vents the foot from sinking In the
snow. The Norwegian snowshoe is a
thin board from Ave to ten feet long
and three inches wide, with the fore
end slightly curved upward.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18

A WASHINGTONIAN decided he
"A would cut it out. He went to a
doctor and told him all abOut it. The
doctor looked him over.
"Oom hoom," the doctor said a cou-
pie of times. Then he asked: Got
any relatives in town."
Nope. All live up north"
do you write to them?"
Nope. Never write letters"
"How's your appetite? Eat much?"
Nope. Haven't any appetite"
Well" said the doctor, you do
three things. Stop dissipating. Eat
regularly. Get into touch with your
relatives. That's all the mental and
physical recipes you need"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18
Orders a Lunch at the Stamp Window

The man gave the doctor two dollars
and went away.
That night he toiled painfully up
the stone steps Of the post office. He
had resolved, though he had dis
obeyed Injunction No. 1 that day, he
would at least keep two and three.
He presently found himself in front
of a square, open window. Behind
the window stood a man-several,
mayhap.
"Well?" the man asked.
The would-be purchaser braced
himself with hands. He wanted to
remember just what two and three
were and which was which.
"Well?" the nan asked, his tone a
little sharper.
The situation vas becoming some
what embarrassing. Why couldn't he
remember? What-what-his mind
CROPPED back through his visit to the
doctor. Quit-eat-Write home. His
face frightened. He beamed upon the
mar back of the window.
"Ah, yes',' he murmured. "Sof' boil
eggs, toas' an coffee"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18
Good Health Habits.

Put the heaviest meal after the close
of the days work, and your ill health
will not be traceable to your habits of
eating nor to your food, provided you
limit yourself to moderate meals.
By eating a portion Of meat with che
Of bread, and adding fresh vegetables
and water, every need Of the body can
be supplied without overlooking the
stomach.
Meals, to do good and maintain the
body, must be eaten deliberately and
thoroughly maaicated. On this &C
count it would be well to use more
extensively than is common in this
country the plan of serving meals In
courses.