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Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-11-02

J. d. Landsborough. Deputy
Mildred Bargcr clerk Assess ''''''
or, .... 9. 49,. .... 255.Oo
SCISSOR. $780,. 49,. . . E. 300
ent. 49,. 49,. =. ..... =. 2i999
Bessie Burnside. Clerk Supt. 225.0O
'. r. killen. Coroner. =. 81 80
Edw. :. Smith. Engineer. =. 800
JAS. Il. Boutwell,. Attorney. 30O.0
Jas. h. Boutwell,, Stenogra-
pher, .... 5000
Jas. l.. Fuller, Probate judge. 2i9.99
W. VI. Massey. Treasurer. 225.00
q. T. Massey, Clerk Probate
Ct.... &c.. 49,. e. &C.,. e.. 300
Ralph 7. Bickell. Clerk Au-
Agnes Holman, Clerk Assess
Earl NJ. Walker, clerk As ~
SCISSOR 49,. 49,. .... 2SS.4o
The following Road Overseers'
reports were examined and approx
ed.
Glen r. Stone, District No. ii
+. q. Wilson, District No. %
Ii appearing to the Board that
the huilcing at he County Poor
Farm is now completed, it is
therefore ordered that all county
charges now being cared for by
The county be removed to said
County Farm on Saturday. Oct. ii.
In the matter of the Road Poll
Taxes due from persons within
he county it is hereby ordered
that on or before the 18th day of
NoNeml er the Clerk Of this Board
be authorized to transmit to the
LaX CONNECTION q list OF all persons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26
CRUSHING AND QUARTEklNc
SAMPLE COAL

determinations as to moisture, heat units
and ash content. In this way the price
to be paid for the coal Is ascertained.
Director tlolmes of the bureau Of mines
said that during the first month of Janu-
airy, 1911, there had been nearly a thou.
sand samples of coal tested at the labora-
tory at Washington.
In some cases." he said, 1.-The bureau
has found that certain buildings could be
supplied with cheaper coal than they
were using and yet get the same results.
The government printing office. for In
stance. has certainly profited by the ex-
animation of coal, for at that building
there Is a present saving of $500 month
by using a cheaper grade of coal, and the
results are just as satisfactory.
Although such an extensive inspection
of sample coal is made from coal actually
delivered to the government. the work
of inspection is even more comprehensive.
at no time be at loss to know where
to buy great quantities of coal I'm an
emergency, the bureau Of mines makes
inspection of Goals in various mines
throughout the country. The values OF
these Goals are then sent to the Navy
Department, so its patronage may be dis
tributed in an open market and espe-
cially that 1t may have a basis upon
which to place large orders for the sud
den coaling of its battleships. Even In
these deals fairness between contractor
and government is the keynote of the
trade. Many contractors rather than
few already have emergency bids accept
ed for supplying the battleships, for
Uncle Sam would expect these firms to
stand by him In case OF war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

OF the established standard. According to
table Of standards. egg and furnace
coal may be expected to contain about 10
per cent ASH and ytove coal about II per
cent. while In smaller Goals the percent
age is larger. FOR the several sizes of
anthracite coal are different stand
ards of ash contA When there is more
ash present in the coal than the maxi
mum amount of the contract standard, q
certain amount is deducted from the con-
tract price Tor every l per cent of ash
in excess Of the maximum standard.
When the coal contains less ash than the
contract standard, the government pays
an additional price at the same rate for
every / per cent Of ash lower than the
contract standard.
In order to compute the amount OF ash
in the coal, one gram Of the powdered
fuel is put into a small cup and placed
in furnace, where it is allowed to burn
for certain length of time. Then the
ashes, which CO not burn. but remain in
the tiny cup, are weighed on the labora-
tory scales. II 4 per cent OF the gram
of coal remains as ash, then the coal put
into the furnace was 4 per cent ash.
After the moisture. the heat units and
the ash content Of the coal have been
computed from the gram sample OF coal
from the large seventy-pound can. then
the final standard of coal is determined.
This is computed by combining the con-
tract price with the results of all three
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26
King Georges 0ratory
Charms His Countrymen

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, February IS, 1911.
LING GEORGES speech from the
H throne, with which he has just OPEN
ed his first parliament, placed him on the
level of his late fatherIn the forefront
Of public speakers in England The pres
ent king followed his predecessors ex-
ample in rewriting from beginning to
end the draft OF the speech handed to
him by the prime minister. and. while
retaining the sentiments and recommen-
dations Of the original, clothing 1t in the
telling and gracious phraseology that has
long marked him as an accomplished
orator.
Lord Rosebery. who is recognized as
one Of the greatest speakers OF the pres
ent day, once declared that to prepare
the speeches of an English king. rang
ing as they do from art to agriculture
and from chemistry to cattle-breeding.
one would require the eloquence OF a
Demosthenes and the varied erudition Of
an encyclopedia. This raises the inter-
esting question Of how King Georges
speeches are prepared.
1t may be said in a general way that
in the majority Of cases the words OF
his speeches are his own: but he has
neither the knowledge nor the time to
gather his facts himself. In q case such
as the opening OF q public building the
facts OF LIB history the men connected
with its building. its work and 50 on, are
prepared by a committee and set down in
the form Of q speech covering not more
than quarter Of an hour. Typewriter
copies are then submitted to one Of his
majesty's private secretaries, who makes
some suggestions for alterations. and re-
turns them to the committee. The re-
vised speech then is submitted to the
king, who often rewrites 1t to suit his
taste. Then it is returned again to the
committee and by it sent to the print
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placed on 4 strictly competitive basis with
all other bidders. Such a procedure
broadens the field for both bidder and
purchaser. It makes the bidders pro-
posal. when accepted. contract that
specifies an established standard of quail
ity, and 1t furnishes basis for settling
disputes regarding the quality of coal
delivered and the price to be paid In case
the fuel actually delivered should be
either better or poorer than that guaran-
teed.
II the quality Is uniformly poorer
than the standard grade specified there
Is a good basis for cancellation Of the
contract. AS a rule, however, the coal
is usually kept. but paid for at a re-
duced price. II the coal proves Of bet
ter quality than that contracted for the
government pays accordingly.
Each year the purchasing agents OF
the various governmental departments
receive these coal contracts from deal
ers, who specify not only the kind of
coal they wish to supply, but certain
additional facts. They state the kind
Of coal they are to furnish its CONNER
cfal name, the name Of the mine from
which the coal shall come, and even the
coal bed. The heating value Of the
coal must also be shown on the esti-
mate as we'll as the percentage of ash
In 1t and the price Of the fuel per ton.
In order to estimate the value OF the
coal supplied by any contract the gov
eminent first provides for the taking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26
DETERMINING CENT
Or MOISTURE
In COAL SAMPLES

OF samples and then for their analyses.
This important work is all done under
the supervision Of the bureau of mines.
DR.. Joseph A. Holmes, director, has his
Office in the building where the work
of fuel testing is actually performed.
George 8. Pope, engineer in charge OF
fuel inspection, reports on all contract
coal delivered throughout the country.
Just how the coal samples fall into the
hands of the inspectors at Washington
is an interesting story.
When large contract OF q certain
number Of loads or cars Of coal Is de-
livered to the government there IL al
ways an inspector on the ground. It
is his business to remain during the
unloading Of the coal and to take sam
pies according to certain instructions
furnished him. AS trained inspectors
have found that there is sometimes 8
per cent more ash in the coal at the
inspector Is careful to take a fair sam
pie OF coal by selecting q number Of
shovelfuls from different parts Of the
car. For 100 tons there are usually
two cans of sample coal taken. In a
cargo delivery of 5000 to $4,000 tons IS
pounds, or one can. Of sample coal is
taken from every third car when un-
loaded. When samples are taken at
buildings where the coal Is delivered
by the load the inspectors take shovel
fuls from every wagOnload or from
every third or fifth load. BY this plan
the samples represent the entire con-
signment.
AS moisture in coal deteriorates It's
value the inspector is also careful to
take samples Of the coal Just as 1t is
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made in public. It is kept for the Louis
Quinze salons The public champion is
a certain DIR. Hubert. who cunningly says
nothing at all about the offended digni-
tarfes' claims, but roundly attacks the
kaiser for his craze for granting titles,
orders and stars to undistnguished men.
Never before Wilhelm II came to the
throne" says Hubert. was the craze
for distinctions so great, and never were
earn them. Greedy as they are for ad-
vancement and gold. our .bureaucrats
nevertheless would willingly serve as Of
fee boys, II only they were granted a
glittering star. or the rank Of privy coun-
cilor, or the title Of count. The same is
true in the army and navy. Under the
universal decoration system Of Wilhelm
II the ambition of every soldier and
sailor Is to catch the kaisers eye and
get something glittering for his chest"
~
The kaiser, says this critic, has de-
graded the value of military rank by ad-
vancing every one. Thirty years ago the
rank Of field marshal was never granted
except when won on tho battlefield.
Kaiser Wilhelm I, the victor Of Sadowa
and Sedan, never advanced himself past
the rank Of general: and Moltke. the or
ganizer Of victory in three campaigns. did
not become q field marshal until the last
OF them was carried through success
fully. But Kaiser Wilhelm began by
making himself field marshal and by
scattering the title on men who had
never seen a skirmish. Still worse was
his acceptance of the rank of an Aus
trian field marshal. In defiance Of the
tradition that no one who has not won a
battle shall ever gain that rank. The
same thing happened in the navy. The
rank of admiral was not sonorOus enough
10 please the kaiser's ear, and he created
the novel rank OF grand admiral, and be-
slowed the title on himself. on his broth
er Prince Henry. on Admiral Rooster and
on several other officers. And now.
says Hubert, ''the rank OF grand admiral
has got so cheap that we shall soon have
the still higher rank of grand high ad-
miral, or something equally absurd"
Hubert's next charge is that all sorts
Of inducements are held out to both off,
GERS and civil servants to marry women
Of wealth or title. Since the kaiser came
to the throne more and more branches OF
the services have been bound down by
rules under which men may not marry
without their superiors' consent. As q
fact. the newspapers daily publish cases
OF officials being officially forbidden, a,
the cost of dismissal, to marry women
they love, because neither has enough
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.'feilows who have no right. They are
incensed with Kaiser Wilhelm for max
ing a fellow who has no right into
royal highness,' while they. his equals
and betters, remain mere one-horse Sc
rene highnesses. But. In truth. there is
nothing serene about them. Their tenn
pers are ruffied. their faces are flushed
and IL only the Louis Quinze salons be-
longed to some one else they would make
the gliding fly.
Ard Justice would be on their side. For
Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern. whom the
kaiser recently made royal hiEancss, Is
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princely serene highness." And now these
angry dignitaries complain that the
kaiser. fond as he is of titles, is intoler-
ant of all save those he makes himself.
Look at the Battenberg case" they
exclaim. wrathfully., 1.-THE kaiser made
trouble there. When the English Princess
Beatrice married Henry of Battenberg,
morganatic son of Prince Alexander of
Hesse and Of the Polish Countess Julie
Hauke, Queen Victoria made him q
royal highness and announced that even
the children would be highnesses. But
Kaiser Wilhelm objected to this. and
openly called the bridegroom Herr Bat
tenberg.'' A child Of this marriage. the
future Queen of Spain, the kaiser claimed
was only a young lady of the inferior
nobility. and when King Edward got over
the trouble by making the princess a
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Uncle SIM Phys
69Ei4kt Million Dollars
sA Year FOR Coal.

NEW Bureau of Mines
IN Sees That He Gets a
Dollars Worth of Coal for
Every Dollar Expended-1n-
tricate System of Testing
Coal Values at Infant Bureau
Samples From All Parts Of
Country Must Pass 1nspec-
ton Before Contracts Are
Binding-Corps of Inspectors
Collect Samples and Forward
Them to Washington for
Analysis - The Bureau at
Work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

THE BOYCOTTED ROYAL HIGHNESs.
Prince wilhelm Of Hohensollern, whose
elevation In rank has caused q storm
among his fellow German princes,
hut " no doesn't care himself II every
German baby were born with an
equal title.
long-named races royal The Hohenzol-
n-Sigmaringens once ruled q tiny prin-
cipality of their own, which they coded
to Prussia In 1910. on condition that they
got the titles "highness" for themselves
and serene highness'' for their younger
sons.
Hardly was the deal done with when
they asked to be royal highnesses." To
the disgust Of other German princes who
had lost their principalities the then
King Of Prussia gave way. The condition
was made that the enhanced title was
only personal and would not be inherited.
That being 50. the present Prince Of Ho-
henzollern was born a mere "highness."
and for the last five years (since he sue
ceeded his papa every one said he would
remain So Kaiser Wilhelm. 1t was rea-
soned, would not offend his faithful media
tized mobiles. who are just as royal as Mr..
William Of Hohenzollern-Sigmari
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the German who has 1t until the day of
his death.
But with the exception Of elderly P>tn-
cess Pauline Mathilde Of Wurttemberg,
atty or serenity has ,et surrendered a
title. and the mediatized princes in the
Louis Quinze salons will fight many a
famous battle over 'highness," royal
nighnesses and unserene serene high
nesses" before the world grows old
Copyright in the United States and Great Britain
by Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reserveA.)
ers. In fits final form 1t appears printed
in purple letters on vellum. and 1t Is Gus
tomary for the king to present il to the
institution after the opening ceremony.
Lord Rosebery regarded the late king
as one OF the best informal speakers in
England.
king Edwards happiest efforts" he
said recently. Were those which were
quite innocent of any preparation. In
cacy Of humor and dignity OF utterance.
the late kings impromptu speaking might
well have challenged comparison with
that of any after-dinner speaker have
ever heard"
Many regard King George as an even
better public speaker than his father. He
has had a long and excellent training,
and evidently set out years ago to make
hlmSel1 master OF the art or expression.
There was q time when he thought 1t
necessary to learn his speeches by heart.
OF late years, however, he has contented
himself with mastering only the facts and
figures Of his subject and has trusted to
the inspiration of the moment for his
exact language. OF course that would
not be true Of an occasion such as the
opening OF parliament. when the kings
speech Is not his own except In the
phrasing. the sentiments and the declara-
tons being the governments.
The general impression Of King George
as a rather cold. unsympathetic and I'm.
approachable character hardly fits In
with the story which is told Of one OF his
early efforts at speechmaking. The CO.
casion was the opening OF bazaar. and
the king, who was then the Prince OF
Wales, began his address in the following
manner:
when I came here had q beautiful
speech prepared. so that I thought
could repeat It backward, II necessary.
But, alas! my charming surroundings
have driven every word Of 1t out OF my
head, and am as helpless as q ship
which has lost her rudder. However.
here goes"
And he delivered q speech that - re-
membered to this day. and which went .
long way toward establishing his reputa-
tion as an orator.
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south Germany. At a recent dinner IN
Munich 1t was announced that Prof.
Soergel had been offered the Prince Luit-
pold medal. The professor rose indig-
nantly and declared that he had refuse. 1t
as decorations had grown too cheap. This
affair caused considerable excitement, and
led TO Soergel receiving. congratulations
from all Germany on his stand against
1.-The humiliation Of science with gems
and colored rags" There have even of
late been a few cases of Germans drop
ping the participle ''von.' which Is a sign
of nobility, and is usually cherished by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

HERE Is trouble
among the media
tized princes Of
Germany. They are
much incensed. and
all day long, in
their shiny Louis
Quinze salons, you
may hear q rum
bling, N u milling
m u r m ur q b out
"highnesses, roy
al highnesses" and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

HAT Uncle Sam
expends eight mill
lions of dollars
each year for coal
may seem to the
average household
err who growls and
grunbles when he
lays in his winter
supply at a cost
OF some fffty-odd
dollars, a woefut
extravaganza. But
when it is under
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not Of royal blood, and the kaiser has no
right, they say, to treat him as II he
were. He is merely chief Of the princely
representative of the consanguineous Ho-
henzollern- Hechingens. who died out in
1869. At no time was either Of these
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money. or because the rank Of the woman
Is not high enough. The lower officials
are practically all bound to wed only
women with money; and it is SO difficult
for men to find girls whom they will be
allowed to marry that the comic journal
Ulk lately published cartoon on the
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Angry a

EURIOUSLY Angry at
L the Kaiser for Cheapen-
ing Royalty by Conferrlng
It on Prince Wilhelm OF
Hohenzollern, Who, They
Declare, Has No Right to 1t,
There Is Much Muttering
Against Their Overload in
Princely Salons-Craze for
Titles and Decorations in
Germany Causing a Reac-
ton Among Sensible People,
Who Now Refuse Them,
While the Comic Papers
Even Poke Fun at the Sit
uation.
,actal rorraSnoudnpcp uf 4 lac Star
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And now the unstable kaiser has done It,
and the mediatized camp is mumbling
fiery imprecations and threatening-to
write pamphlets.
royal highness. for he hates giving
trouble. He is stout, forty six ear-old,
six-foot-guardsman with a Bourbon
Sicily wife, and he loves wine and his
if every pink-skinned baby was made a
full royal highness on the day of it's
birth. 1t is the seigneurs who represent
a hundred extinct sovereignties Of the
extinct holy Roman empire who are max
ing all the trouble. The Germanic diet
in 1926 gave these lofty gentlemen the
title Of 'urchlauch," which is translated
serene highness," and since then they
have cherished their dignity so warmly
They are fonder Of their titles than their
fathers were Of their territories" They
are mighty-named race Among them
are Arenbergs. Castell-Castells. Fuer-
enburgs. Ratibors. salms, e! soIms and
many others. A full list would be as
sonorous as Homers catalogue Of Gre
clan ships.
**
Some, like Fuerstenberg, are the
kaiser's intimate friends: others, like
RatibQr and Hohenlohe. are even his rela-
lives. <Alu do each u INolu InlukS he
is quite as good a man as Wilhelm Of
llern-Sigmaringen, they do not
see why this particular Wilhelm should
suddenly become a royalty. while they
remain Insignificant serenities-and ruff
fed ones at that
But It Is not only the mediatized
princes whose serenity is ruffied. Great
also 10 the wrath among the still SOW
ereign houses of Germany: Baden and
Hesse, Weimar. -Meiningen and even
Schaumburg-Lppe are mortally annoyed.
Some OF them are a great deal bigger
than Hohenzollern-Si gmaringen ever was.
and some. like Hesse, have given wives to
czars. but not one OF them has ever
been able to cadge a royalty for itself.
On q matter Of titles. Baden, Hesse.
Oldenburg and the two Mecklenburgs
have an ancient quarrel with the kaiser.
who allows their Junior princes only the
title serene highness." though they
claim to be "highnesses," which Is one
step higher up. At home the sovereigns
Of Sake Meiningen and Anhalt claim to
be highnesses. but II they come to Berlin
the kaiser calls them serene highnesses."
and for that reason they stay away. The
kaiser also offends with the title serene
highness" the princes OF Lippe and
Schaumburg Lippe, and refuses to recog-
nize their nobler local attribute, ''high-
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Of each sample Is put in rubber-stop-
pered bottle to be examined as to Its
moisture contents. The remainder Of the
quarter pound Of coal is powdered by
pulverizing machines until all of its par
ticles will pass through sixty to one
hundred mesh screen. At last two ounces
of this black powder are set aside for lab
oratory inspection. Although the last two
ounces of coal have had their moisture
dispelled, still the bulk Of the coal to be
tested from the samples sent In can be
accurately stated as to its moisture by
the first two-ounce sample set aside.
One might think that two-ounce sam
Pile Is q very small amount to test. but
actually that would be a large portion
compared to the small amount Of coal
really put through the testing process. In
tho laboratory there are scales Of such
delicate construction as to weigh per-
ceptibly one ten-thousandth of a gram.
These scales seem more suitable for
weighing diamonds than the final grams
Of precious black dust which the head
chemist says represent from fifty to five
hundred tons of coal. Since new penny
weighs about three grams, one can the
more readily realize what small amount
of coal is actually examined in the lab
oratory. Unless one can see the process
OIL uOWH Tile SdupIc VI Cooi ~
Is difficult to believe that a gram Of fuel
is a fair sample to be tested The gram
Of coal to be tested for Its moisture is
put into a small oven and baked an hour.
Then 1t is weighed on the finely balanced
scales again. If 1t has lost six one-hun-
dredths of its weight then the entire lot
of coal is per cent moisture.
In another room Of the fuel testing
laboratory the heat units are determined.
There 1t is. perhaps, that the most scruti-
MA 10 One nf
the finely pulverized sample Of coal. or as
much coal as can be piled on penny, is
put into a bomb calorimeter which is
charged with oxygen. Across the coal a
fine piece Of .latinum wire causes COM
bustion after a certain amount of oxygen
has circulated through the steel bomb.
This causes the coal to burn. The heat
units Of the burning coal are determined
by means of highly sensitive thermom-
eter which Is read through telescope.
The government, unlike the individual,
refuses to pay for the ash in coal If the
percentage Of ash content exceeds that