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HOMELESS.
BY PRIVATE DALZELL.

Maybe you know what that word
homeless" means; maybe you do not.
II IS only when experience defines and
emphasizes the significance Of the simple
words descriptive Of the emotions that
we come 10 know. as some one has said,
that words are living powers and real,
not mere sound and echo" Take the
word love" a short, familiar word. in
deed; but who except the lover ever
fathomed its portent?
If YOU always had happy home, from
the time you lay a helpless babe in your
mothers arms, on through the many
years when a loving wife and happy chill
dren sat around you. till old age crept
on and all were gone but yourself, some
10 the grave, the rest scattered about the
earth. until you sat alone al seventy. far
from the old house at home, at a strSn-
gers fireside, you know something OF
what it is TO be homeless, and as the
latter years roll swiftly by the sad ex-
perience will deepen and intensity the
meaning OF homeless" II you live on
YOU will know more OF il yet, but its
full Specification you will never define.
Homeless" II strikes down into the
lonely heart like the tolllng of a knell at
midnight. Only the Christian. left so alone,
who is a stranger and a sojourner, as
his fathers were" and who seeks a
house not made with hands," can find
any comfort or happiness in this world
once he realizes that all he ever called
home has passed away from him forever.
| Perhaps nowhere in all the range OF
literature is this desolate feeling so well
| expressed as in the pathetic lines Of
| Sweet Home" where the homeless
wanderer signs for his lowly matched
cottage again Marius. in the ruins Of
Carthage. banished, abandoned. and pur-
sued by assassins, is a vivid picture Of
the lonely and hopeless condition. Yet
neither of these spectacles Of homeless
solitude fully represents the conscious
! knowledge that one has no home The
| poet says, in mournful lines
feel like one who walks alone
some banquet-hall deserted.
Whose lights are fed and memories dead.
And all but me departed
| And still its despair and crushing
pathos are not fully portrayed. and never
can be.
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PROGRESS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

during his lifetime, and after his death
to his wifo and daughters. and upon the
death OF the last survivor any sum and
the securities I'm which It might be In
vested are to be delivered 20 the Academy
OF Sciences, under the name and title
OF the Joseph Henry fund" The last
bequest comes from the late foreign sec
rotary Of the academy. Alexander Agas-
siz, under conditions that have not yet
been announced. The academy has also
the awarding Of the Henry Draper and
the Barnard medals The first is given
for important discoveries in astronomy,
the second for meritorious service to
science
The academy holds its annual meetings
in Washington on the third Tuesday in
April. and the one that has just come to
a close has been interesting and instTuc-
tive even TO laymen. The present officers
Of the academy are Ira Remsen. the
president OF Johns Hopkins University,
president; Charles D walcott. secretary
OF the Smithsonian Institution, vice pres
ident: Arnold Hague. home secretary. and
s. r. Emmons, treasurer. George +.
Hale, Of the Mount Wilson Solar Observ-
atory. who was one Of the youngest i'm
mortals when he was elected 70 member
ship in the academy in 1902. has been
made foreign secretary IN place Of Alex
ander Agassiz. and Henry Fairfield Os-
born, of the American Museum OF Nat
ural History. and Russell Henry Chitten-
den OF the Sheffield Scientific School,
have been elected 10 the council All OF
these men have been so much in the pub
lie eye that no account Of them is neces-
sary. and their appointment 10 the offices
they hold is an earnest that the Academy
Of Sciences is maintaining the same high
standard Instituted by is founders.
Gen. Abbot Present
Among those present at the meetings
OF the academy last week was the ven
cradle Gen. Henry LarcOm Abbot, who
was graduated from West Point in 1874,
served from the beginning 20 the end Of
the civil war in the Engineer Corps, and
had passed through all grades from sec
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were appointed: At the request Of the
Hon. s. P. Chase, Secretary Of the Treas
ury, a committee on weights. measures,
and coinage: at the request Of the Navy
Department through Rear Admiral Da-
Wis, a committee on the subject Of pro-
tecting the bottoms OF iron ships from
injury by salt water; by the same de-
partment and through the same authority
a committee to report on the subject of
magnetic deviations in iron ships: at the
request OF A. D. Bache. committee to
investigate and report on Saxton's alco-
holometer.
Other committees appointed were on
wind and current charts, and sailing d.
rectIons; national currency; on the ques-
tion of tests for the purity OF whisky; on
the expansion OF steam; on cent coinage.
and on the explosion Of the u. S. S.
Chenango. SO. from its very beginning
the academy's work for the government
started. and il went on undertaking the
investigation OF such subjects as the
sorghum industry, and the forestry con-
servation question, which latter work ul-
timately resulted in the founding Of the
Forestry Survey. The necessities Of the
government for scientific research and
advice brought about the gradual devel-
opment of scientific bureaus in all OF the
departments, and as these were estab-
lished the occupation Of the academy in
this direction declined. so that nowadays
it is rarely called upon 20 give facts and
counsel TO the government
The Academy OF Sciences Is not, and
has never been, a wealthy institution. For
the first few years Of it's existence lt5 only
financial resources were the dues Of its
members and the Alexander Dallas Bache
fund of $4,000, which. however. was left
for specific purpose. the prosecution
Of researches I'm physical and natural SCI
ences. by assisting experimenters and OBJ
servers in such manner as shall be agreed
upon by trofs. Henry, Agassiz. and
Pierce. or by their successors" IN later
years II has received numerous requests.
but, like the Bache fund. they have been
left for specific purposes.
James Craig Watson. the astronomer.
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Men Widely Famed Devote Time to Achieve
mentS for Which They Rarely
Receive Credit.

years old, and since then ne has been one
OF its most faithful members. crossing
the continent 10 attend its meetings. Mr.
Hale is the inventor Of the spectrohelta-
graph, and his principal researches have
been in solar AMI stellar specuoscopy, and
he has been awarded medals by the
French Academy OF Sciences. the Royal
Astronomical Society OF London. and the
Draper and Rumford medals for his
work on this subject. He is, too, an
associate member Of the Royal Astro-
nOmical Society. and an honorary men,
Der Of the Societa degi Specuoscopisti
Italiani. and OF the Swedish Asronom-
zeal Society; in fact. he has been honored
by his colleagues all over the world, and
has as many "chiffons" 20 display as a
general who has seen many campaigns.
Prof. Pickering Present.
Another eminent astronomer present
AT the meeting Of the academy was Prof
Edward Pickering. Of Harvard Univer-
sity, who read a paper on the 16-inch
Metcaf Doublet Prof. Pickering has
been director Of the Harvard observatory
since 1876, and under his management It
/ has reached its present important posi-
ton among the great observatories OF tho
world. The first physical laboratory es-
/ tablshed in this country was the one
installed by Prof Pickering. and he es-
/ tablished an auxiliary observatory IN
Peru for observation OF the southern
stars. so that his work in the heavens
extends from pole to pole.
A meeting OF the academy would hardly
be complete without the presence q DR..
Weir Mitchell, who IS its nestor. having
/ been elected 70 membership in 1856. before
/ some Of his present associates were born.
I but he was only Jhirty-fve when he at
tanned that honor and now he has cele-
brated his eighteth birthday. His inter
est in the academy and its work is as
fresh as ever. and ones own work and
interest in the work OF others IS really
the fountain Of perpetual youth that
the philosophers sought.
I A colleague Of DR.. Mitchell who has
found this fountain is Prof Edward
Morse, who made the wonderful collection
Of japanese ceramics for the Boston Mu-
scum Of Fine Arts. and wrote the Won
derfuI catalogue for II. which IS said 10
be the best arranged and most compre-
hensive one on this subject in existence.
But Prof Morse IS a mere youth COM
pared with some OF his colleagues, for
his seventy-second birthday does not
come until next June. yet he has writ
ten and done other things enough to I'LL
a half dozen lives full. His profession
- ~.
but he has worked in all Of the sciences.
; made pastime OF astronomy. written in
J terestingly OF his life in the Orient. and
r he is stiu hard at work.
, The foreign associates OF the academy
- include nearly all Of the leading scien-
? fists in Europe, but. strange TO say. no
Oriental has, as yet, been admitted 10
} this distinguished company.
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low the Shenandoah. comprises a descent
OF more than 50 feet being from % 70
go feet above the tide or sea level.
Seven miles below the Seneca Fail.
which is at Seneca creek, are the Great
Falls. about Il miles above Georgetown
and the head Of tidewater having a
sharp descent Of 81 or 40 feet in 100 or
80 yards. and in a mile or a mile and a
half q total fan Of SO or 90 feet from
about 40 10 60 or 20 feet above tide level.
The top Of the Little Falls. miles above
Georgetown, is noted as 81 feet above
tide
As early as I749, 3 years before Wash
ingtons trip. the Ohio Company had
taken boats up the Potomac from the
head OF the Great Falls; and I'm I7jo
they established an Indian trading pos;
az Wits creek. far beyond the boundaries
Of white settlements About half a year
after Washington's examination Of the
river. il was again examined by Cover
nor Horatio Sharpe Of Maryland and
Sir John St. Clair, going IN a small boat
from Fort Cumberland TO Alexandria,
! their start being on or about January Is,
100.
Washington at the time OF this Journey
was % years old. Less than a year after
ward on July 9. 175J. he was In the
disastrous battle of Braddock's defeat
| Twenty years later was the beginning Of
! the American Revolution.
Much information of the life Of Colonel
/ lines is given by Saunders in his pre-
/ fatory notes of Volume V. Colonial
| Records of North Carolina. II appears
/ that lines was born not later than 1900.
being a native Of Scotland, probably Of
! Cannlsbay in Caithness. He came to
| North Carolina before 1875. and after l,50
he was member Of the Council Of that
colony His military service at Fort
! Cumberland ended in August, 1755, whel
he returned to North Carolina. He died
at Wilmington, n. c.. September 5. 1913.
The survey narrated in this letter was
one Of the seeds which long afterWard
fruited in the unremunerative rock hewc
! canal and locks constructed past the
| Great Falls on their Virginia side. ard
still later i'm the successful Chesapeo he
| and Ohio canal adjoining the Mary anc
side OF the Potomac. In the national
!
| canal. Washington's notes of this river
survey in 1874 were used, an abstract of
them being published, with other data
and observations by many later surveys.
in a report 70 Congress Q9th Congress
list Session. II. r. Report No. 22S. p. %,
May %. 1920 Thus the descriptive letter
hUrriedy written by w ashington, amid
many distractions and heavy cares as q
young patriot for protection Of the
colonies against French aggression. has
a place in the foundations and begin
nings of all the work of this nation for
internal improvements and the CONNER
cial and industrial development Of our
country
II time could turn backward so far,
many living in the wider America OF
to-day would gladly give much to see
the youthful Washington. skilled in from
tier and forest surveying, and recently
led to take up his great life work as a
brave and tactful soldier and a lofty
statesman. when on a midsummer day
he sped in a canoe probably log dug
out, down the dangerous rapids and falls
of the Potomac near the mouth of ,he
] Shenandoah. Some painter and seer
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By cHARLorrE Nj. CoNGER.

At recent dinner given IN a certain
American metropolis. where nearly all
Of the diners we're captains OF industry
with fortunes representing many millions
OF dollars, the announcement was made
that the National Academy Of Sciences
would hold its annual meeting in Wash
inGton on April 49, Whereupon every
body at the table looked wise. and every
body devoted themselves 20 their mutton,
save one bold person. who demanded 10
know. What IS tine National Academy Of
Sciences. anyway" The ice being thus
broken. some OF the other convives fol-
lowed the example of their fellow-guest.
and said: Yes. what is the Academy Of
Sciences. anyway" SO is a prophet, or
an assembly Of prophets. without honor
in their own country.
The origin Of the word academy" that
It came from the public park outside Of
Athens where Pinto and Socrates lee
tured 70 their following, which took its
name. from its one-time owner, Academus,
is known 20 every schoolboy, and he can
glibly give the present definition as "A
society OF learned men. established for the
improvement Of science. literature. or
art" but ask the ordinary passer-by OF
the National Academy OF Sciences and
no knows nothing OF ii.
In utilltarian America the noney-seeker
has no time to devote to science. unap-
piled science. at least and. as nearly every
American is a seeker after money, and
has little ambition 20 hear or know Of
anything else. science has a small audi
ence. So. year after year. the National
Academy Of Sciences holds it's annual
meetings IN Washington. and. save In a
general way. informed by brief telegraph
&c dispatches, the world outside knows
nothing Of what takes place at is SYM
posiums; yet it is an authorized branch
OF the government.
Members Are Responsible.
It's members themselves. however. ar,
in measure responsible for the popular
ignorance regarding the academy's work
since they are so occupied with their IN
VestgatiOns. so absorbed in their expert
ments, that they have neither the time MOI
inclination 10 interest the unsympathetit
lay world in subjects Il Is unlikely to un
derstand; nor does their limited resource,
permit them 10 publish and circulate tn,
results OF their Investigations and expert
ments. Yet Il Is not TO be doubted bu
that wider knowledge OF the academy.
work. scope. and aims would induce be
quests and endowments, for that is tn
history OF every similar Institution. an,
some OF the most valuable discoverie
have been made through money suppleu
by unlettered laymen.
The National Academy Of Science
passed its forty-seventh birthday on tn
Sd Of last month. for OF that day In lS6
the act OF Congress establishing it as
body corporate was approved by Presi
dent Lincoln. The act OF incorporation
provided that, whenever called upon b,
any department Of the government to in
vesugate. examine. experiment and re
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ond lieutenant TO colonel when he was re-
tired by law in 1895 His war record alone
would have entitled him 10 a seat in the
Hall Of Fame, but he has also won recog-
milton in the world OF science. Gen. ABB
bot designed the system Of submarine de-
lenses adopted by the United States. He
designed, too, its system OF mortar bat
teries, and, while he Is no longer the
gallant young officer who commanded the
artillery OF the armies operating against
Richmond. and his eightieth birthday is
fast approaching. he has as keen an in
terest in the scientific questions Of the
day as ever, and HIS paper on the NY
draulics Of the Chagres River" read at
the session Wednesday was listened to
with interest
Prof. Theodore y. Gil. who has been
working in Uncle Sans laboratories FOR
nearly half a century. Prof GIL has
never missed an annual meeting OF the
academy since he was elected 70 Il. and
he rarely fails 70 read a paper. His cult
is fishes, and his contributions this year
were on The structural characteristics
L
/ discoveries Of the early history Of the
common eel" Mr.. walcott read a paper
on HIS beloved trilobites, "The develop
ment Of Olenellus." while his colleague.
William 3. Scott, whose chief work has
/ been done in Patagonia, read a paper on
Progress in the study Of NIocene IN
| gulates Of Patagonia"
Interested I'm AnthropoIogy.
! But geology IS not for the layman. An
thropology appeals 20 him more. for even
the most superficial Of students has Dip
ped into IL 70 some extent The mono
graph OF Franz Boas. on THE influence
OF environment upon human types" was,
/ therefore. one OF the most popular pa
pers read. especially as he treated It with
real German thOroUghness. DR.. Boas, by
the way, was born on the other side
and comes from WestphaHa He was ed
ucated at Bonn. Heidelberg. and Kiel
and from the latter university holds the
! degree Of Phi. d.
The Royal chronological Museum lr
Berlin was his workshop for a time, and
he was decent OF geography in the uni.
versity there In fact he was we'll OF
his way IN his career and had already
made an international reputation wher
he was invited 10 establish himself II
this country, which he had already Wis
TIED for the purpose Of studying III,
American Esquimo in his native environ
| ment
George E. Hale. the new foreign sec
rotary Of the academy. IS always in
teresting, and always sure Of an attentlv,
audience. FOR he has a way of stating n,
dryest scientific facts hat makes IT seen
interesting; but then astronomy has eve
| appealed 10 men, and there are, perhaps
more amateur astronomers than anna
tours in any other science. Mr.. Hal
was elected a member Of the Academy o
Sciences when he was only thirty-tw
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who conducted the expedition 10 China 10
witness the transit Of Venus, made the
academy his residuary leSatee, but his
viii provided that the money so acquired
should be used for the promotion OF
astronomical research. and his colleague.
Benjamin Apthorp Gould. requested $4,000
TO the academy for the same purpose. J.
Lawrence Smith gave $500 for the inves-
tiGatlon Of meteoric bodies. and there Is
the Comstock trust fund for researches
tn magnetism and radiant energy. the
Marsh fund for promoting original re-
searches in the natural sciences. and :he
Joseph Henry fund OF $4,000. which was
contributed by Fairman Rogers. Joseph
Patterson George w. Chi!ds, and others.
as an expression OF their respect and
esteem for the first secretary Of the
Smithsonian Institution. The income Of
this fund was to be paid TO Prof. Henry
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should look back TO that day and scene
and its hero. and should portray them
with essential historic truth for the less
gifted common people 20 receive from the
picture a lesson Of courage and fidelity.
81. Paul MINI. WARREN UPHAM
The head q these rapids and falls about two
miles above che mouth Of TIE Shenarhoah River.
a. the letter shows by the writer's going back and
making am iuterline4r addition q three lines wit
ing thence continuously onward
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raised, but it is felt by the society and
the arctic club that the expedition should
not be started until the entire amount is
on hand.
Capt Robert +. Scott, the British ex-
plorer, will start for the antarctic regions
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ANTARCTIC TRIP POSTPONED.
Joint south Polar Expedition Has
Been Definitely Abandoned.

Until one year hence further plans OF
the Peary Arctic Club and the National
Geographic Society for the joint south
polar expedition will not be considered.
It was learned on good authority yes
terday that the expedition Will not take
place. and the two organizations have
notified Commander Peary they will be
unable to participate this year.
About one-half the required amounts
S5OO00-to finance the expedition has been
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June I. If he fails, an American expedi-
ton probably will be sent out next year.
While you think OF Il, telephone your
Want Ad. TO The Washington Herald. and
bin viii be sent you at l cent a word
The Monte Vista journal., 1910-08-20
TURNED DOWN

Col. Theodore Roosevelt's name
was presented for the Office of tenn
porary chairman Of the republican
state convention at the meeting of
the republican state committee
Tuesday, but his selection for that
honor was lost by a vote of 20 to
Is.
Up to date nobody knows where
Mr.. Roosevelt stands as between
the insurgents and stand pats.
Until he declares himself, he must
take back seat and look on. Thus
far, since his return from the
jungles, every political move made
by the ex-president in New York
has been turned down by the
machine.
The Monte Vista journal., 1910-08-20
IN RECITAL

Miss Ethelyn Cochran of Cordell,
Okla, will give a recital in the NJ.
E. church Friday evening, Aug.
26, at S:15, under the auspices Of
Junior League.
Her readings will be both hu.
morous and pathetic, and all who
attend are promised a most enjoy
able time. The following compli-
mentary notices have been shown
US:
Miss Ethylyn Cochran is a
charming entertainer. Her i'm.
presentations IRE quite above the
average, an evening with her is an
evening Of mirth and laughter,
with now and then ear."-Elean.
or Davidson, Denver, Colo.
"The recital Civ en- by Miss
Ethelyn Cochran at the NJ. E.
church last Friday evening was n
decided success. All report it as
having been one Of the best enter.
tainments ever heard in this city,
The Republican, Langdon, n. D.
The Monte Vista journal., 1910-08-20
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Among the real estate transac-
tons that have taken place during
the past week may be mentioned:
First the contamination Of a deal
by J. NJ. Cochran has changed bis
Francisco Creek property for
Boulier property on n basis Of
about $1,000. Guy Wood is now
the owner Of the entire property
on Francisco Greek, and will take
possession Nov. l. Second, John
NJ. and Anna E. Cochran have
sold their residence in Del Norte
to John George Bauer for $11OO.
Possession Sept. l.
Third. John George Bauer and
George Bauer sold their 400 acre
home ranch, to Sands o. Cook, for
consideration of about 81, 600.
5000 down and balance 5 yrs. at
six per cent, possession TO be CIV
en- Mar. l, 19ll.-Del Norte Pros
pectOr.
The Monte Vista journal., 1910-08-20
FATAL ACCIDENT

Running into an open culvert
caused by washout near Esp.
nola on the Santa Fe branch OF
the Rio Grande road q freight
train was derailed Sunday night,
and Frank Good, the fireman, no
csived injuries that caused his
death. Good fell under the engine,
both legs and one arm being brok.
en-.
Jack Law, the engineer, jumped
from the cab window, saving him.
self from q similar fate. The On
gine was badly wrecked.
F. q. Humphrey and wife, Of
Crapsey, Illinois, arrived here
Wednesday morning on . two
weeks visit. Mrs. Humphry 10 an
aunt Of Mn. B. F. Ayers.
Dr.. Tilton, wife and little son u
Denver, who were visiton In town
several weeks, left for home Mon
day night. Mn. Tilton u . daugh.
" a John Kramer.
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The Pioneers' meeting at Del
Norte. September 10 and II,
promises 70 be . hummer.
The Monte Vista journal., 1910-08-20

Del Norte il soon to have new
depot. The specifications call for
a building 22xlO0 feet, containing
the Office rooms, u large and COM
modious waiting room. baggage
aud freight rooms. 1t will be con-
structed Of concrete on metal lath
with cement outside. Both the
exterior and interior will BE- nicely
finished.
John G. O'Laughlin, Of Detroit,
Michigan, says: "The average
man cannot b. convinced that
there was no crookedness in the
operations Of the Guggenheims in
Alaska. He believed that they,
aided and abetted by Ballinger,
sought to exploit the territory TO
the injury Of the peoples interests"
Frank h. Haigler left for
Kansas City Tuesday night. where
he goes to finish his Inst year in
the University Medical college.
When he returns TO Monte Vista
he will be an n. D.
The Pioneers' meeting at Del
Norte. septsmbsr 10 and II.