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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06
Digestion and Assimilation.

It is not the quantity of food taken,
hut the amount. digested andassimiIat
ed that gives strength and vitality tc
the system. Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets invigorate the stom-
ach and liver and enable them to per
form their functions naturally. Fol-
sale by w. F. Creighton and Richard
Gibson. advf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06
Arlington Institute
A school for girls

2l5 n. Washington Street, Alexandra
Va.
The schoo, will reopen September q
1911. Typewriting and Stenography
taught in addition to the regular schoo
course. Catalogues had at Leadbeaters
and.Allen' s Drug storet, and after Sep
TENDER at the school.
s MISS Am. CHANDLER, principal:
augl7 6w
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06
Washington Southern Ry

Schedule in effect July 3, 1911.
Trains leave Union Station for Wash.
ington and points north at S 0S, S 23
81, 50 and 1901 a. M, II Oh, 80. s or,
IS and II 60 p. M, daily.
For Fredericksburg, Richmond aud
points south at 4 81, I So (locaD and 10 80
a. m, Il 1G, 4 q, . II QocaD 6 80, 8 30 and
81 p. m. daily.
Accommodation fol Fredericksburg at
II Is 4. M, daily. On week days this
train runs through to Milford.
NoTE-Time ofarriva!s aud departures
and connections not guaranteed.
". p. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager,
Richmond, Va
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06
.,1aryIand Delaware and vir-
GINA Railway Company.

SPRING SCHEDULE.
Steamers OF this line leave Alexandria
on and after May 10, 1910,
Every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and
SATURDAY at 4:30 p. m.
FOR BALTIMORE AND ALL. TILE
USUAL RIVER LANDINGS.
Cuisine and appointments unexcelled,
Freight for Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York solicited and handled
with care, Through rates and bills of
lading issued.
Single fare TO Baltimore, $3.50; round
trip, $3.50; staterooms, one way. Sl.sN
Meals, SOC. %
REAEDON & GRIMES, Agents,
Foot of Cameron stree /.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06
Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Co.

Every day in the year for Fort Mon.
roe, Norfolk, Newport News and points
south, via superb, powerful steel palace
steamers.
Leave Washington ,6.45 p. N.
Leave Alexandria 100 p. m.
Arrive TT. Monroes 7.00a. M.
Arrive Norfolk 500 a. IN.
Arrive Portsmouth 500 a. II.
Leave Portsmouth 500 p. m.
Leave Norfolk 600 p. m. -
Leave F.. Monroe 100 p. m.
Arrive Alexandria $50 a. ma
Arrive Washington 100 4. M.
ough.connections made at Norloik
with steamers Of the Old Dominion
Steamship Company for New York and
MSrcbants' and Miners Steamships for
Boston.
General Ticket Office, 20 18th St.N. w.
Bond Building, Washington, DC.
aone Main 1920.
Seventh street wharf. Phone Main 37eO.
Alexandria wharf foot OF Prince street.
w. III. CALLAHAN.
laprl ly General Passenger Agent.G
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06
aug21- sept20

Mems fine Oxfords, ST. so. $500 and
5000 grades. Clearing Sale Price $3.50
J. A. Marshall & Bro. 422 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06
Washington-Virginia
Railway.
I'm effect November /, 1910.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

$1,000 >AACsA FhNbnlAs
For Washington, from corner Prince
and Royal streets, week days, atisi
6 05, ~, ?1, 6 40, IS, 7 05, 7 Is, 50, z 40;
so, SEQ, 10, -, 8 IS, 8 80, 9 10, 30, 9 So
10 10, 10 80 10 80, II 10, II %, IL %, IL SO al
M, Il 10, y ., II 30. II 50, 10, %, 1896
50, , 10, 2 IS, 80, . so, 3 o5, Is, s., 8 5Os
10, 4 25, 80, 40, IS, 5 10, S IS, S IS, S so;
s 05, 20, 6 30, As, 90, I Is, IS, 500 $40
9 90, 93n, 10 90, 10 30, IL 10 and ii IS D. m;
Sundays-700, 30, s 10, $50, S 40, 8 Oh
20, 40, 10 90, 10 20, 10 40, II 90, II 2o.I
II 10 q. M, L. 90 M, y 20, l. 10, Loo, Ii
40, . 90, 2 20, 40, 3 DO, 20, 2 40, 400, 4 On
40 8 90, s 20. 40, 6 %, q %, 6 10, 50, 20,
TAO, s 90. $50. 900, $50, 1000 10 80 and
HOP. m.
FOB MOUNT vRRNoN.
Leave Alexandria for Mount Vernon
week days, at As, 6 IS, So, s5l, 10a.
II % a. M, l. %, %, 2 %, 3 30, 40, s.
80, So, s 80, 80. 10 80 and II so p. MI:
Sundays co, s 80, 8 80, 10 80, II So
a., u 30, 80, . 80, 8 80, 30, 80, 6 80,
$40 and 10 l6 p. m.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06

INVESTIGATE the bargains offer in small dwellings,
them good 10per cent
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06
Real Estate + or Sale

bargain Home Investment call
inspection attractive list
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06

INVESTIGATE the bargains offer residential We
desirable Homes the
to
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06

INVESTIGATE the bargains offer desirable residential
Columbus Streets We
these them the improved north Washington
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06

INVESTIGATE the bargains offer in country beautiful
and country homes, farms and suburban lots
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06

INVESTIGATE bargains Office property have
ably located and attractive Office buildings Price ranging 600
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06

INVESTIGATE the bargains offer King street Business Proper
buildings Price ranging from 81, 900 up.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06

II desire Loan INSURANCE
Surety Bond the that accommodate aud
lbe glad have call Office notify call
atns etc
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
Care-Free Neighbors of Death
MEN WHO WORK IN POWDER MILLS HAVE NO FEAR OF BEING
BLOWN UP "

percentage. o nearly so large as Of
railroad men or men who work in
foundries.
IAN insurance company will no
place a risk on q man-who works in a
powder mill but It. will insure a loco.
motive engineer or a man who rides
IN an automobile. yet the actual fig
SO great IN a powder mill as in a NOV
ing automobile. You select at random
fifty men who ride every day in auto
mobiles and then take fifty men who
work in a powder mill and you will
find that the automobiles will kill and
MAIN four times as many in a given
time as the powder mill will And
you must not forget that the man rides
IN his automobile only a short time
each day. while the man is, in the
powder mill all of every day.
You seldom hear Of an accident in
9 powder mill, while the papers are
full of accidents to automobiles and
trains. AS far as the danger is ION.
cerned. I would rather ten times over
work in a powder mill than be a loco
motive engineer"
1t was suggested to MI. Miller that
It was not SO much the number f acct
dents that do occur al the constant
danger Of what might occur to a man
in a powder mill.
You get used to it," he said. you
get SO you forget the danger. You
become a fatalist. You will not die
until your time comes anyway. and if
you are to die in a powder mill ex-
plosion you might go to the uttermost
ends of h earth to avoid it, but it
would surely get you On the other
hand, If you are to die in some other
place n from some other cause, you
may work in a powder mill all your
life with absolute safety. So why
worry about it?"
Mr. Miller was asked II it was not
difficult to get men to work in a pow
der mill.
Not at ALL" he replied. I'VE have
as many applicants for work as the
usual factory. I suppose. We pay bet
ter wages than the average workman
gets. and we have no trouble in getting
men. OF course. we hire men Of SUI
perior intelligence. We cannot take
any man who comes along. We select
reliable n cautious men who will
observe the rules and precautions laid
down for the safety Of us all. Our
we pay the railroads about 800, 900
a year in freights. So you can see
we are quite a Kansas City industry"
The n thing to guard against in a
powder mill is a spark of fire. To
avoid that the utmost precautions are
taken. In the first place the plant is
located SO far from a railway track
that a spark from a passing locomo-
tive can never reach 1t. The grass
and weeds are not permitted to grow
high enough around It so that when
they become dry a fire could reach the
plant by that means. Strangers are
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
fKansas CITY star.)

- koA
Two accidents and three deaths
from explosives in this city last week
call attention to h dangers that men
face who work in powder mills and
who handle dynamite and, other :ex-
plosives here.
Tuesday morning two men who were
tamping powder in a drilled hole on
the new union depot site were hurled
upward of hundred feet In the air
by an explosion. and both were killed.
The same night a tramp crawled into
one of the factory houses of the Ex-
celsior Powder Mills at Holmes Park.
south of Kansas City and struck a
match to hunt for a soft place on
which to sleep. The floor Of the build
ing was covered with nitrate of soda.
a highly inflammable material used in
making powder. It went up in a
great puff of flame and the tramp was
burned to death.
And yet the men who work In pow
der mills and who handle high ex-
plosives say: There is little danger If
you are careful. All the accidents are
due to car~e]essness."
In the powder mills at Holmes Park
about fifty men work. and n would
think they were in constant fear Of
death. They say this is not so. There
are men in that mill who have worked
all their lives in powder mills. and
they look as contented and as free
from care as If they were making sau-
sage instead Of an explosive that
would blow them TO instant death If a
spark should touch it.
l.. A. Miller, auditor of the COM
pany, has worked in powder mills
nineteen years. II think Of the
danger" he said. There really is not
nearly so much danger here as the
average run Of people think. This mill
has beer in operation here ven years
and we have had only two or three
accidents. and they were not disas-
trous ones. Only two OF three per-
sons have been killed here in the last
seven years. That Is a pretty small
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
Sand Glass Was Sea Clock
EAvORITE METHOD OF RECKONING TIME IN DAYS OF THE Old
SAILING VESSELS -

A demand for q more satisfactory
device for estimating time at sea was
responsible for eape4ments being
made with pendulum clocks Of very
rude design. though with little sue
cess. The interest Of inventors was
aroused when the English govern
ment in 1714 offered the sun Of TO-
method Of reckoning longitude to
within a degree. or go miles: $4,000
pounds II within 40 miles, and 10000
pounds II within 80 miles.
John Harrison. an obscure York.
shire carpenter. who had achieved
a local reputation by repairing and
cleaning clocks. came forward with
a c~hronometer which Mt once at
tracted attention. Through the in
fluence Of DR.. HALEY he was enabled
to make a voyage In a government
vessel to Lisbon. where he succeeded
in determining the longitude to within
1 degree. 80 minutes.
For this achievement he was grant,
ed a sum Of 500 pounds to enable him
to proceed with his invention. After
thirty years hard toll he produced
a chronometer on which the present
marine chronometer is based. His in
vention was shaped like a large watch
and in 1851 Harrison's son embarked
" 49, w $3.50 ~As
tests. On the voyage out 1t was dis
covered that the chronometer was
only 81 seconds In error. and during
the whole trip from Portsmouth to
Jamaica and back the variation was
only 1 minute. 54.5 seconds.
The accuracy Of the chronometer
thus enabled the longitude to be de-
termined within eighteen miles. a re-
suit which exceeded the admiralty's
va10t corONN{No AVnANtof{nna Altar
further demonstrations al act Of par
lament was passed in 1865 awarding
Harrison 10000 pounds. half Of the
money to be paid as soon as ne ex-
planned how his timekeeper was con-
structed and the remainder when the
government was convinced that these
timekeepers could be made by 9TH
ers. Despite the fulfllment OF these
conditions Harrison had to wait sew
eral years before the money was paid
over.
Larcum Kendall. who had been Har-
rison's apprentice and who was ulti-
mately his successor, followed on the
lines laid down by his master and
produced a chronometer which was
used by Captain Cook during his dar-
ing voyage In the Resolution.
OF this chronometer Cook wrote:
"Our longitude car never be enron
eOuS White we nave 80 eOOu d SuluC
as MIR. Kendal's watch" 1t was not
until some twenty years after Trafal-
gar that the admiralty considered 1t
a duty to supply chronometers to
ships of the royal navy.
Various horologists have introduced
50 many improvements that little
trace Of Harrison's model is to be dis
cerned in the modern chronometer,
though to him must be assigned the
credit Of pointing out the way.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31

kept OF the grounds. Smoking. 10 not
permitted In or neal the plant. The
workmen are not permitted to carry
matches. They are not allowed to
wear shoes with pegs or nails in them.
They wear powder boots" made with
IN them. an iron nail in a boot sole
might strike a spark on the floor. Iron
Is not permitted to touch iron on the
plant. This Is one infiexible law OF all
powder mills. The hammers that are
used are all Of wood or brass or cop.
per which cannot strike a spark. The
cog wheels that run together are OF
The Journals Of the wheels are Of
copper or brass.
But in spite Of all these precautions
EXPLOSIONS do occur. and. realizing
this. further precautions are taken to
minimize the effect of an explosion II
It should happen. To do this the dit
terent operations of powder making
that are placed so far from each other
that II one should explode it would not
harm any OF the others. Thus the site
for the Fill was selected along the
steep sides Of q winding valley that
made a succession of hills Into the
side Of one OF those hills a hole was
dug. and into that hole. half protrud-
" ~ q oAsiolA Oul1u1Il8 was plACs
ed. In which n process Of manufac-
ture was carried on. On the opposite
side Of the hill was another building.
and so on. No one of the buildings
face another. and any one of the If
teen buildings might be shattered by
an explosion and it would not jar
another one. And for the same reason
the amount Of powder collected in any
one building IL kept as small as pos
sib!e. so II there is an explosion it
Will not be very violent.
The only place where a large guam.
tity OF powder is stored is in the maya
Zine or ~storehouse. But powder there
Is IN steel kegs where a spark could
touch 1t.
1t would be impossible for an ex-
plosion to occur at this plant that
would have force enough to destroy
more than the small building in which
It occurred or to damage property in
Kansas City.
The law prohibits the storing Of
powder In large quantities within the
CITY,. and so 1t became necessary re-
Gently for the Dupont Powder COM
paniy to abandon a powder magazine
It mad near Leeds ana to move 1t
across h Kaw river into Kansas far
enough from the city~to prevent dan
ger II 1t should blow up. Even at that
distince from the city the law limits
the amount of explosives that can be
stored in the magazine.
There USED to be q powder magazine
IN Harlem. but the flood of 1903 came
into 1t and ruined the powder stored
there the companies abandoned It.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31

The ruling Of Garrick has been re-
versed. The cherished beliefs Of mil
lions have been put to rout. The
Hammond high school of Chicago,
having an idle moment to spare, has
settled the question for all time. L,
rejects Shakespeare. He is licentious.
unclean, and objectionable. The de-
cision of these seasoned literary crit
les meets the full approval Of their
superiors. Beebon Amoss. upon
whose devoted person the associated
literary societies OF Chicago converge.
adds a tiger. The Bard OF Avon. says
Beebon Amoss-and the name itself
is indicative of 10 than human
prescience-is "a cheap grandstand
player and an immoralist." To make
his contention good, Mr.. Amoss asks
that 1bsen and Shaw he the accepted
standards toward which the youthful
mind be taught to aim.
Chicago is doubtless right. Shakes
peare is bald. trite, archaic, a back
number. impossible, and a few other
things. If for no other reason he is
Objectionable on the grounds advanc-
ed by another qualified critic. in that
h quotes so much" What we want
Is more Of Ibsen. more Of the presen-
tatton Of the social canker, without
hope Of cure. Or more Of Shaw. the
international iokist and universal buff
|foon. Men and women. kings and
subjects. forests and groves and run
ming brooks are entirely too common
place. Lear was a punk old ruler,
and his heartbroken cry over his "pel-
lean daughters a subject Of laughter
The scenes in Venus and Adonis," In
which there is neither musk nor am
bergris. but the lost odors Of a young
world. are Immoral and licentious.
The ultimate outburst Of outraged
womanhood in "Ldcrece" is "un.
clean"
So be it . Chicago has spoke. And
Shakespeare takes the chute to the
slaughter house Of oblivion.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
CLondon Globe.)

\1tOlluOll 1lOUc.J
To ascertain the time when at sea
is now a matter of the utmost sim
plicity, and both passengers and crew
can learn the hour Of the day at a
glance. But such was not the case
in the old sailing days. and in order
to acquire even the Vaguest idea of
longitude and the time the seaman
had recourse to curious devices.
Crude as the devices appear COM
pared with present-day instruments.
they saved the mariner from chaos
not name the hour with any degree
of certainty he at least knew the day
of the week. which must have been
no small comfort when on the high
seas.
Eclipses Of the moon and the posi-
tons Of the stars afforded 4. little
guide to the skipper. who was never
theless greatly handicapped by his
lack Of astronomical knowledge and
Moreover. -eclipses could not be ar
ranged for every night in the week,
and there were dark nights when the
stars could not be e so various
devices had to be pressed into serv.
ice.
The most popular form Of old sea
clock was h ~sandglass, which great
~ resembled the present-day egg
boiler. Many Of these glasses were
timed to run twenty-four hours. and
prior to the ship leaving land the
glass was set exactly at noon. II 1t
We're carefully watched and turned
as 500 as the sand al down the
skipper could reckon the days with
fair accuracy.
Side by side with the large glass
were placed half-hour n minute
glasses !. The MAJ at the helm care
fully watched this old sea clock and
announced the time at regular inter-
walls by striking IL bell. 1t was Gus
tomary to estimate the duration OF
n incident by SO many glasses. ITO
fog the glass" was IN operation very
congenial to lazy 1t consist
ed in turning h glass before all the
sand had run down. so that the watch
was appreciably shortened.
When the twenty-four-hour glass
was employed a little juggling was
the longitude. The difference be-
the time by the sun was estimated.
and this difference was held to repre-
sent the longitude east or west, ac-
cording as the suns time might be
before or after the time returned by
the glass.
Taking the sum" was a weird and
wonderful operation. Clumsy quad
rants were utilized. and toward mid
day the captain appeared on deck to
perform his solemn duty. After many
screwing Of eyes and wagging Of the
quadrant the captain would bawl out
to the mate in omniscient tone.
Make it - BELLS" the number
varying according to personal idiosyn-
cracies.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
Z

Ottawa. Ont, Oct. 30.-A split in
the conservative ranks Is threatened
yer the naval policy Of the new min
istry. While most of the politicians
and a part of the party press favor
direct contribution to the imperial
navy, there is a heavy weight Of opin-
ion which advocates a distinct Cana
dian naval service. The most note
worthy pronouncement on the ques-
ton from the new government is made
by L. G. Pelletier. postmaster general.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
PROVISION.

Fort Worth, Tex. Oct. 30.-Any-
n knowing a comely widow whose
husband was hanged should notify
John B. Randall of Mangum. Okla.
Randall. who placed an advertisement
in the papers here for a wife. says he
insists on the hanging" provision to
prevent his wife from remarking
what a fine fellow her first hus-
band had been. He owns a large
ranch near Mangum.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
CHICAGO sLAUGHTERs SHAKES.
PEARE.

A man cannot hide himself. Though
the applause of the tickle mob laud
him ever 80 high. he is doomed event.
ually to find his level. Nor can the
followers Of conventional belief hope
always to hold their idol up to public
acclaim, cry loudly as they will,
"Great is Diana Of the Ephesians!"
One William Shakespeare has been
much touted as a poet Of parts. To
him has been allowed the high merit
OF having held the mirror up to ma
ture. When old Samuel johnson
wrote his tragedy of IRENE" 1t met
what in these vulgar and calumnious
days is denominated a frost" The
actor Garrick essayed to account for
the failure. when johnson writes.
defamation rants and passion roars:
but Shakespeare dipped his pen into
his heart!!"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
BOOSTING THE STATE.

TUESDAY, OCT. 81. 1911.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
RIPS" CRIB BURNS.

on the mountainside near where le-
gend says Rip Van Wrinkle took his
20-year nap : ablaze today. Many
acres have been burned over but a
large force of farmers 10 lighting the
fire and apparently have It under con-
troll.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
ADJUSTMENTS

X 4 = $: !. X X X !: :.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-31
who has declared in favor Of a party
referendum on the subject.
WILL NOT PARTIc1pA

DEWEY Will NOT PARTICIPATE.
Washington, Oct. 3O.-Admirai
Dewey. ranking officer Of the Ameri-
can navy, will not participate in the
coming naval pageant in the Hudson
river. owing he says. to advancing
and the fact that he does not feel he
should take chances Of exposure
which the review would require Of