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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-25
THEIR CONSPIRACY

Very we'll. thank you. Oh. 1 must
tell you. dear. We have q guest
hope You don't mind" apologized
Agatha / know you wanted n per-
feet rest and to be quite alone with
us but I'm sure he wont's bother you
because he doesn't care for women
any way. and especially the woman
with vocation. You mustn't mind Il
he doesn't notice you much"
Dear me, l shan't mind particle
unless it's some one 1 care especially
about, laughed Rosamond Pray
who is the horribly unpleasant
man7"
Peter Howard---a friend of Tom'ss
"oh!" said Rosamond, and for d
while she sat very quiet. III he Is az
unpleasant as you say I'm sure thera
is no danger that we shall bore each
other very much"
I know you don't care for men,"
went on Agatha
II don't--for many admitted
Rosamond.
I'm sure you won't care for Peter
Howard-he's dear. and we think a
lot of him. and he's handsome as a
picture. but he's crusty."
'Crusty?" Rosamond was laughing.
You mean disagreeable?"
Yes. not the sort one would want
to marry. you know" chartered
Agatha, thankful to see the doorway
OF their apartment house.
OH" rpeatsd Rosmand In q
puzzled tone.
When they reached the Downings'
apartment Tom and Peter Howard
We're talking In the guests room.
Agatha rushed Rosamond down the
hall into the pretty room prepared
for her. and as the girl removed the
traces OF travel and dressed for din.
ner they talked animatedly.
just as the gong in the hall an
nounced that the meal was served
the four met inthe parior. and MrA
Downing performed the necessary
introductions
The conversation became general
as tho meal progressed. but it was
Peter Towards observation-disclosures
that exploded bomb Of surprise
upon hts matchmaking host and
hostess.
"Rosamond will remember" said
Peter in response to some question
of Toms
"Rosamond," repeated Agatha with
quick glance At the girls foveiy,
flushed face.
"RoHmond---our Rosamond?"
doomed Tom, amaxedly looking from
sheeptsh countenance.
Nay" said Peter firmly. mot
your Rosamond-but mine! Mime
since o'clock this afternoon. when
we were quietly married in st.
Stephens chapel He reached out
q hand and Rosamond placed her
pretty left hand within 1t. Peter
lifted the third finger ana showed
where a wedding ring shone below
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-25
THE GATEWAY TO THE SOUTH.

The Virginia Railway and Power Company
so designates that section OF Virginia OF which
Rinlmands Petersburg, Norfolk, Portsmouth and
suffolk are the chief cities in page advertise
ment in the Manufacturers Record. So con-
fdent Is this company of the future OF this
State that it has spent and is spending vast
sums of money in the construction and develop
rAert of public utilities Every other week for
a year this advertisement OF the advantages of
these cities win appear in the Record and the
virginia Railway and Power Company will pay
the bills.
They will profit by the advertisement to the
extent that ii attracts enterprises and inhabi-
tants. Every industry possible pur-
chaser of power and every inhabtant prob
able patron OF the street railways. But though
this company will profit indirectly the fact that
il believes in the future Of this section is
splendid tribute and the confession Of its
faith a fine thing TO do. 1t demonstrates a deal
OF public spirit united with a measure Of priv
ate enterprise.
We are TO be congratulated, first, upon the
fact that We are favored with such rich re-
sources and face so great future and, second
because there are in our midst corporations
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-25

Fourteen hundred guests, at banquet given
by the Economic Club in New York. heard
speakers tell OF the failure OF the Sherman law.
TO be enforced. For years II was in operative
in the hands OF qnjescent officials while the
stupendous trusts being developed But
when an awakened people called for its enforce
mert II suddenly becomes a failure.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-25

The Staunton Leader has a front page three
column article on why the Augusta Military
Academy has severed athletic relations with
the Staunton Military Academy. Our profound
sympathy that such castrophy should have
befalen stanton And so soon after the town
went wet Truly misfortune never comes
sngy.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-25

That New York man who committed suicide
by jumping from the 2eth story OF a skvscraper
could have saved himself this climb Of peveral
flights. The tenth story would have served his
purpose Just well But maybe he took the
elevator.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-25

The knston Free Press seems to feel that
there should be some consistency between
preaching and practice 1t says Somehow a
sermon on the editorial page falls fat when
one finds whiskey advertisement in the ad-
vertising columns"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-25

Uncle John D. has come back with denial.
What did YOU expect, a confession
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-14
which. for practically half its length,

which, for practically hnlf its length,
was blasted from the preclpitous walls
OF the canyon. The construction Of
the road In itself is considered a mar
Vicious feat of engineering and was a
s%tupendous task. The laborers who
built the road were mostly Apache In
dams. The trip to the dam WIN be
made By the x-President,s party over
this road from Phoenix.
Tonic basin, now deeply buried by
the waters of The dam, was for years
known as the rendezvous OF outlaws
and Indian thieves of the famous Gen.
onimo's. band.
Ohcials OF the Reclamation Service.
are elated over the success OF this en-.
gineering feat, The result, they say,
will soon be apparent In astransforma.
ton OF conditions unprecedented in.
the history Of irrigation. AS II by a
sweep of a magician's wand, flourish.
ing crops will rise from Arfzonn's de.
sert land, villages. hamlels and thirty.
ing cities will dot the surface? Scien.
tifc agriculturists will claim these
former arid lands as their own through
Uncle Sans beneAcencc, and inciden.
tally through the Reclamation Service.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-14
wAsH1MeroNilErrgR.

IN-"".-H 49, arHLN.L" ~ aH1ssA.. 80 HE.WEr.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE last
stone has been laid in the parapet
walls OF the Roosevelt dam and prep.
arations are now under way for IT'S
formal opening On March 10. Elk.
President Roosevelt, for whom the
massive structure has been named, ac-
companied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Archie.
and Ethel, will participate IN the three
day celebration.
Located in an almost inaccessible
canyon, sixty miles from a railroad.
the rapid and successful construction
OF the dam has been watched with in.
terest by engineers all over the world.
The, massive walls rise two hundred
and eighty.four feet from foundation
TO parapet. lis lene III, or. top, is one.
thousand eighty feet and across it
runs a roadway twenty feet in width.
Juts below the point where the Ton.
to Creek cmpties into 1t the Salt Lake
river enters one Of the most magnin.
cent canyons Of the west, forming an
ideal dam site. Behind the structure
The waters Of the turbulent stream
Will form a reservoir twenty-five miles
long and more ;han two hundred feet
deep. Its capacity Is approximately
G,G2S, 000, 900 cubic feet. or of sutIl.
,ctent quantity To cover the entire cta1c
OF Delaware wi:hIa Sheet OF water one
foot deep.
The waters held back by the dam
will be used for the irrigation OF more
than two hundred thousand acres of
land in the vicinity Of Phoenix, Ari.
iona, and the power created at the
dam will be transmitted electrically
for more than Ii hundred miles down
the valley to operate pumps. These
pumps will raise underground water
to supplement the surface supply and
INCREASE the irrigable acreage. 1t Is
estimated by the Reclamation ser:'
vice that about sixty thousand acres
will be irrigated by subterranean wa.
ters, available for irrigation purposes
only through the operation Of such
pumps.
The building OF the dam was pre-.
81
ceded by the construction Of a wagon,
road nearly one hundred miles long,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-14
PAUPERisM DECREASING.

w. H-#- - ~ ~ .AE 90
LONDON, Feb. H,-Flgures Just
made public SHOW there has been in
London a striking decrease in pauper.
ism since the adoption Of the old.age
pension system two years ago.
Paupers are divided into two class.
es-"indoor" Inmates Of infirmaries)
and Outdoor" Until recently a per-
son who had ever mad Indoor" relief
was not entitled 10 the old age PEN
sion. This law has been changed. with
the result that seveiatT lindre infirm.
airy inmates have left the institutions
and are now drawing pensions.
The decrease in pauperlsm has been
chiefly in the 1ohtdoor" class. In
1908 47,420 Londoners received out
door relief: in 1910 only 32,495-a
falling off OF 1895.
In 1908, in London, 81 persons out
of every 1000 received relief; In 1910
there were only 2S.1 perl. 900. "a
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-14
night, February Sth.

night, February Sth. 4.
Elopements seem to be In order in
our little city at present. Miss jamie
Tenant decided TO join the trolley
line gang and left the city with one Of
the employees.
How much better it would be for
young girls II they would obey their
parents and seek a good education
and fit themselves for a useful life.
Mr.. Glen Sears was in town on last
Thursday and attended X, of P. Lodge.
Mrs. John Green has gone to her ma.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-14

The Sunday schoplsfaf Puwpaw. dis;
trIet will hold assdistrict convention in.
the Trinity Church in Amos on Sat.
urday. February 25.
Miss Graham Organized a teachers
training class. Quite a number OF
teachers and Sunday school cho,ars
will join the class.
Mrs, al. Reeder was chosen secre.
tary Of the class, but the teacher has
not yet been selected.
Rev. stradcr begins his revival ser.
vices in Amos on next "Wednesday
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-14
lAt ItfE7nrras :
AMOS.

The three Sunday schools here held
q Sunday school rally in the Baptist
Church on last Sunday and It was a
very interesting aud profitable ser.
vice.
Mr.. HE. Barb, Of Warrington, and
Miss N. v. Graham, of Wheeling, who
1s the State elementary superintendent
had charge Of The convention.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-14
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-14

tive State 81 Penn sylyania 10 visit
friends and relatives.
Mrs. Jacob Reeder, who has been
seriously ~ for some timeiis now con
yalescent.
W.T.. Martin has rented his restau-
rant to Mr.. Homer the, druggist.
Miss Bertha Wilt, who has been Wis.
lting at her home In Amiboy. ". Va,
has returned to resume her work in
the Mercantile store.
Subscribe to the West virginlan.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-14

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-04
SOUTH

star, with bright lines in the spectrum
signifying a conf1agration. This star
was found ION Photographic plates
taken by professor Barnard as early as
1893, when 1t was of the 14th magni-
tude- A catastrophe of some kind has
caused a sudden flaringup to star
brighter than the eighth magnitude,
an increase of brightness more than a
hundred fold.
The Planets
At the beginning of the month Venus
sets due west at 80 p. m. At the end
of the month 1t sets more than half an
hour later. It is slowly increasing its
angle from the sun, becoming more
readily visible each night. In the tele-
score it appears gibbous, showing 90
percent Of the whole surface. Even at
the end Of March, Venus is but one
third as bright as it viii be early in
August
Mars is separating itself from the
line of the sun with great slowness.
and it is still difficult to, see. 1t is q
moving star and throughout the month
of. March does not rise till long after
o'clock It's great southern declina-
ton causes it to rise about % deg.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-04
RENE BACHES BUDGET.
PUTTING BACK The FORESTS
TWENTY TONS OF PINE SEED FOR REPI.ANTING
BURNED AREAS.
Developing New Branch of Forest Work Which Requires
The Use of Complex Machinery Contrivances for
Picking the Seeds Out of Pine Cones, Cleaning
Them and Removing Their Wings"
100000 Tree Seeds to Ton.

out of the cones-a task originally per-
formed by hand picking This was
found exceedingly laborious, however,
and very hard on the hands. According
ly, the eNpedient was adopted OF spread
ing the cones on sheets in the open air
and exposing them to sunshine, when,
after a while, they would open, and the
seeds would fall QUITO be afterwards
separated by sitting. This method,
indeed, is still practiced to some extent
an important feature of it being the
covering of the cones with cloths at
night, to prevent them from shutting
their capsules again.
But better way to accomplish the re-
suit, as experience has proved, is by hot
air drying, recent improvements in which
are part of the development of a COM
pick system of labor saving machinery
for the separation and cleaning OF the
tree seeds One machine, newly put
into use at Custer, is a belt bucket
handles 100 bushels of cones in 15 min
utes, carrying them TO the top of a
building, and dumping them through a
hole in the roof into a loft, whence they
are transferred to screen bOttomed trays
in drying rooms. Big stoves furnish the
requisite dry heat.
Another CONTINUANCE used is 4 huge
cylindrical sieve. which Is made to re-
volve while the cones previously opened
by hot air. are poured into it through
a hopper at one end. The cylinder be-
ing inclined from the hopper downward,
the seeds fall out through the sieve
meshes while the cones are passing along
at. As might be expected, this process
does not get all the seeds out of the
cones, and so the latter are finally put
through a sort of bhreshing machine to
separate the remainder.
Removing the Wings.
Even when this has been accom-
plished, however, it is still necessary TO
remove the wings" from the seeds.
For, as most of us have noticed, thought
full nature has provided each pine seed
with a wing hike appepdange which is
obviously intended to enable it to fly,
in falling, some distance away from the
parent tree. To oet rid of these appen-
dages, the seeds are either kneaded in
sacks and afterwards sifted, or put
through a tanning mill. They must be
] cleaned, as a final operation, and the
tanning mill accomplishes this part of
the work better than any other con-
trivance.
Curious Nature Story.
! The most difficult cones to treat by
far, are those of the lodgspole pine /;
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-04

south of east, and it is not very high
above the horizon when the streaks OF
dawn come along. It gives little prom
Use now Of the brilliant object 1T will
be in the autumn.
On the first OF March, Jupiter be-
comes stationary in the sky. and then
begins its retrograde motion toward
the west among the stars. At the first
of the month it rises about II o'clock
over Is degrees south of east, and 80
days later it will rise two hours earlier.
To those ardent amateurs who do not
object to remaining up late at night, 1t
presents a fine object in the tele-
scope
Saturn is still well visible in the
evening sky to the west shortly after
sunset. 1t is about 10 o'clock when 1t
sets on the first of the month. 1t sets
a little after at the end Of the
month Users of telescopes had best
make the most of their opportunities
this month
Neptune may be found with small
telescope from the position given in the
map. It shaws as an eighth magnitude
star in right ascension 7h 21m and
declination 81 deg. 80 min. north
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-04

and thereby hangs very curious nature
story. In the forests, the cones OF TINS
species of pine hang on the trees Tor
wears. and, as a rule, do not seem TO
open at all, unless~a big fire comes along
Then the heat of the flames melts the
pitch that seals the capsules, and tie
seeds drop out 1t is as il. natures IN
tention was to hold them in reserve Tor
replanting purposes when tie woods
should chance to be burned
To extract the lodgef,ole pine seeds
BIZ artificial means y a troublesome
problem. Steam has been tried, to IN
seal the capsules but it is liable to cook
the seeds Incidentally, thus interfering
with the prospect of terminating. Up
TO date.,the best method discovered seems
to be-fto soak cones in warm water.
which partly dissolves the pitch, and
then to expose them to dry heat
Twenty-fOur Nurseries.
There are now "a national forest
nurseries, with an annual producing
capacity of over 100000 Seeding
trees. But it costs a good deal of mon
ey to raise and plant such seedlings,
and a quicker and cheaper method is
demanded for replanting extensive
burned areas. With this idea in view.
the forest service is now making ex-
periments on quite large scale. The
broadcasting of tree seed Gas wheat
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-04

~ UR CID MOTHER EARTH Is
the most perfect running mech
arisEn that we know or It turns
on its axis without friction, and SO
uniform Is its rate Of speed that as
tronomers with their most refined OBJ
servationS. stretching over about 5000
Years have not been able to detect
change in the length of the day OF as
small an amount as the one-hundredth
of a second. Our meridian might be
likened to the minute hand OF an Or
binary clock which passes over the dial
OF the celestial clock, whose numerals
are the brilliant stars, glorious suns
set in the vast armament.
The syn in its apparent motion
among tie stars might be likened to
the hour hand Of the celestial clock.
which passes over the numerals OF
Gods dial with mystic slowness, taking
,-one year to make a complete circuit,
instead of y hours as in the ordinary
clock Each time that the minute hand
on the clock comes to XII new hour
begins: each time the meridian comes
70 the vernal equinox in the sky a new
sidercal. day begins The minute hand
passes the figures XII on the dial u
times in Z hours; 1t catches up to the
hour hand only eleven times or one
time less. In the celestial clock, the
meridian passes the vernal equipox $50
times but overtakes the sun one time
less. or Se5 times. Hence sideral time
gains enc day in a year, or two hours
every month. On March q the sun is
at the vernal equinox. and as a result
clocks which keep star time and sun
time agree in registering the same
hours.
To have the sun good time-keeper,
IT would be necessary. for it to move
in a plane perpendicular toe the earth s
axis of rotation which is called the
celestial equator. The sun, however,
moves IN the ecliptic inclined az an
angle 23h degrees to the equator Il
the sun moved uniformly in the .eclip-
tic il is readily seen that it would not
give uniform time. for In March and
September its motion is much inclined
to the equator, while in June and Sep
TENDER 1t moves parallel to the equator
But the sun does not move uniformly
In the ecIiptic On January l, in spite
of the cold weather, the sun is three
million miles closer to the earth than
Il is on July J. and as a consequence
Of this nearress il moves quicker in
its orbit. Az = takes the meridian
more than tle average time 10 catch
mp TO the Sun. Hence. the Intervals of
time elaps:ng between successive re-
turns OF the sun to The meridian are
not constant. and as a matter of fact
this interval (Which we call solar
day. is 81 seconds longer on December
% than II is on September 10.
SUN Poor Time Keeper.
Thus, since solar days are All Of
unequal lengths, the sun is q poor
tirne-keeper. The average length OF all
the days of the year is called mean
solar day, and this time being uniform
may be kept by clocks and. watches. II
the ordinary almanacs we read, Sun
is fast or Sun is slow" On Novem-
Der the sun is fast, and reaches the
meridian Ism 20s. before u o'clock On
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-04

" WENTY tons of tree seeds! 1t
seems a fabulous quantity; but all
of it and more too will be required
10 replant the great areas which were
strinped of their forest cover by the
frigheflIl conflagrations OF last autumn
in Idaho, Montana, and neighbor1ng
states.
The forest service is making ready to
tackle the job of replacing the burned
trees. and fog this< purpose, its agents
/ have recently collected, in the Black
Hills of South Dakota. the largest supply
of pine cones ever got together. 1t has
paid for them an average price of about
| rs cents a blIslel, large share of the
money being earned by the women OF
Custer, Hill City, and other towns in
that region, who, eager to take advan-
tage of such a chance to gain hin money,
! have gone into the forests on horseback,
filling sacks with the cones, and deliver
ing them at central points.
Boys and Girls Help.
Bows and girls have had their own
share in the work, doing much of the
necessary and often arduous climbing;
ladders and sharp hooks on the ends Of
| long rsoles have been brought into requi-
sition; and, wherever numbering was go
ing on, the pickers have followed the
sawvers and taken the cones from the
newly -felled trees. Meanwhile, the men
have made use of wagons and tall boxes,
receiving from $50 to $40 load.
Squirrels nests yield quantities of the
finest and most desirable pine seeds, be-
cause these are found in the cones which
ripen near the ends of the tOpmost
boughs, where it is difficult even for the
most expert climbers to reach them.
Occasionally a single such hoard will
Weld from SIS to So worth of cones-a
prize indeed to the finder. One bushel
of cones is expected, on an average, to
Weld one pound of seeds, which run
about 100000 to the ton. Thus it
may be Judged on what a wholesale
scale the forest service is prosecuting
this undertaking.
The gathering of the cones, however,
is only the beginning of the business.
When they are delivered by the collectors,
they have to be examined and sorted
carefully. many of them being infested
bv injurious insects. These and all dam
aged ones are thrown out and not
accepted. For the good ones a somewhat
| elaborate process of treatment Is neces-
sary before the seeds can be used for
planting. 1t is not very difficult, but
| demands labor.
Extracting the Seed.
First it is requisite to get the seeds