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The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-16
Washington's Coat-of-Arms

Regarding the Washington coat-of-arms some odd discoveries have come to light Quite con- trary to our American belief the Washington shield does not contain stars and stripes not withstanding that more than a thousand books and as many more published articles proclaim it. The facts are that the Washington shield contain "bars and mulets (spurs of the knights boots)" The earliest reference which l have been able to find which announces the Washing ton shield bazoned with stars and stripes, relates to a public banquet at Baltimore, Md, in 1S51 where the ideas of English poet-Martin Tup- per by name-were voiced, procaim1ng that the American flag, with it's heraldic notions, was bor- rowed from the Washington shield, which possess ed stars and stripes. Ever since this banquet American authors and orators have without fur ther investigation, accepted the statement as correct. The English poet was misled by his fervid fancy, for the Heralds' college at London. the highest authority British heraldry writes as follows:
 "A Washington shield with stars and stripes (pales) has never been of record"
 It is altogether probable that Tupper. well as others deceived by the shape of the "mullets." These spurs, by the knights of old, were round in form, resembling modern cog-wheels somewhat, and their bristling points possibly suggested the stars" of whick Tupper spoke.
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day, thirteen months ago, when he woman who asked him if his name was Ed" He answered in the negative. and, to prove his assertion, he showed her his handbook which bore his name. While the woman was holding MT. Krueger's attention MT. Comstock stood on the opposite side of the street, and after MT. Krueger and the woman separated MT. Comstock fol- lowed MT. Krueger to the Bowery Say ings bank, where he learned his ad dress. A few days later MT. Krueger was arrested and after a speedy trial convicted and sent to Atlanta.
 q was daZed," said Krueger. q knew I was innocent and I could not understand why that court and jury did not think so, too. When the doors of the prison closed behind me weeks passed before was able to realize the horror of my position. I wrote my wife and assured her of my innocence but she had faith in me and needed no assurance of mine. So she began to plan my freedom. She and my sister took up my fight and an investigation of my case was made by order of the Department of Justice at Washington. My innocence was established and regained my freedom
 Krueger was convicted on the charge of using the mails for improper purposes.
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can Institute of Architects, The nations nrst chief magistrate laid off the ground in this V1cin ity and prepared the original plans for the man. sion, although, as in the case of two of the man sons above mentioned, it was left to others 10 carry out the plans thus formulated
 Octagon House which Is of added interest be- cause it was temporarily used as the Presidential Mansion after the British soldiers burned the White House in 1914 derives it's name from it's octagonal form. Indeed, buildings of unusual out line seem to have been something of fad with Architect George Washington He built a six teen-sided barn at Mount Vernon and the mill he constructed on that estate was likewise many sided. Almost under the shadow of the capitol at Washington is a substantial brick building which George Washington built just before his last illness overlook him and which he had de- signed as a winter residence Indeed, owing to delays the last details of construction were not completed until after Washington's death and none of his family ever occupied the structure
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Fortunes Spent in Trousseaux.

The elaborate trousseaux of mem- bers of the smart set wolSd have made a queen bride of century ago open her eyes with amazement. It is an ordinary thing for the daughter of a millionaire on getting her bridal tin- cry ready to order 20 or 30 hats, trimmed with ostrich and other feath- CTS, to harmonize with as many gowns. Every gown needs distinct hat. The equipment of a rich bride is looked on as incomplete if 1t does not contain at least 30 gowns and such a trousseau does not mean the bride will get no more dresses for a year. When lingerie and little orna- ments also are taken into considera- tion, it is plain a young girl in New York's smart set must spend many thousands of dollars for her outfit and several women have spent $S0,0OO to $100000.
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Colonial mansion which stands to this day Tn an excellent state of preservation and IS eeheIaly accounted, next to Mount Vernon, the most sig nifcant Of all the buildings that bear the impress of Washingtons individuality General Wasn- ington built Woodlawn as wedding gllt TOT HIS favorite Nelly Custis, the adopted daughter upon whom centered the affections of hls later He. The main building at Woodlawn, which is Of pure Colonial design is forty by sixty feet 1n size AS in all such structures there are wings connected by corridors with the main structure and these wings are little more than one story in height, while the central portion has height Of two stories.
 Likewise located at great distance from Mount Vernon is Arlington Mansion, which is, in almost the same degree as the manor house just mentioned a monument to the architectural abil- ity of George Washington The mansion at Ari- ington, to be sure was not erected until after the death of Washington. but the builder was Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of George Washington, who had lived for years at Mount Vernon and who was not only thoroughly familiar with Washingtons architectural ideas. but had talked with him the requirements of the site at Arlington. Yet other houses for the design and construction of which George Wash ington responsible located in the pie turesque Shenandoah Valley-a region with which he particularly familiar by reason of the fact that as young he made the original sur veys of all this land for Lord Fairfax.
 George Washington induced his three brothers to select this promising region for their homes and he personally built, for his eldest brother, Samuel the famous Harewood Mansion on com mandng site facing the Blue Ridge Mountains. Two miles from Harewood is Claymount, which Is generally accounted George Washington's archi- tectural masterpiece. He drew the plans for this mansion, but did not supervise it's construction. which carried on by relative. The manor house consists of central building of brick with two commodious wings and on each side sep arate twostory building connected with the long rectangular building by a brck-walled court yard thirty feet square. The connected buildings, which are all constructed almost wholly of yellow brick, have aggregate length of two hundred and fifty feet. On the north front of this expansive structure a stone portico relieves the rather se- were outlines.
 However. Washingtons ability designer of
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Expedition Camp in Patagonia.

built mountain wagon and it's com plete scientific equipment, penetrated to the valleys of the Chubut and the! Rio Chico and traversed the almost barren tableland that stretches be- tween. Living trees are so rare in this country of the pampas that throughout the settled portions of the territory the inhabitants build their dwellings of corrugated iron imported from abroad. Practically the only veg citation which is common is stunted growth resembling the sagebrush of the American desert.
 While the college men often found water scarce luxury, they have had an abundance of buzzards' and os- trich eggs. One of the latter makes a huge omelet and the shells are worth $5 apiece in the United States. Under date of October last Professor Loom is writes
 T have not yet so many fossils as I would like, but can already see that we will be able to revise pretty thor oughly the geology. have for mount ing the skin of a guanaco, which Shumway shot and which we are eat ing. It is three hundred pound bucl and we got one hundred ipounds or good meat from it. Then later I ran into an ostrich nest, with fifteen good eggs. Each night I blow two and we have a big scrambled egIg dish for breakfast"
 In the Chico valley the American scientists came across an| interesting colony of Boer ranchers. With the same spirit that led theHr forebears to trek back into the hin1erland from Cape Colony, when the 15ritish ocGu- pied it almost a century lago, some of them have emigrated to this new country rather than livde under Eng fish domination in the Tlransvaal In Patagonia they have foulnd a country not unlike that of theIir old South African homes They hre all sheep growers, for the shrut bbery, sparse though 1t is, seems to supply sufficient sustenance to make that industry profitable. In some localities, MT. Turner writes, the BIoers form so large a proportion of ]the population that Boer phrases and words are be coming a part of the colloquial Ian guage, the hills being designated "kop jes" and journeying lfrom point tc point being commonly spoken of as "trekking."
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FIND MANY RELICS
Amherst Men Make Many Dis-
 coveries in Patagonia.
Biological Expedition Now on It's Way Home With Many Scientific Treas ures and After Finding Col
 ony of Prosperous Boers.

New York.-After having passed six months devoted to scientific explora- tion in the wilds of interior Patagonia, the members of the Amherst college biological expedition are homewardI bound from Buenos Ayres to New York by way of London bringing with them many important contributions toI science and fund of interesting ex-i periences.
 The expedition, which left for Pata-' gonia on July last is in charge of Prof. F. B. Loomis of the chair of biology in Amherst college. His asso- ciates are Waldo Shumway, Amherst, 1911; Layton Turner, Amherst, 1912, and William Stein.
 Letters recently received from Pro- lessor Loomis by his associates in Amherst and from MT. Turner by his mother report that the expedition has discovered some entirely new biolog- ical specimens and gathered much val uable geological data. It has shipped to the college four more or less com plete prehistoric skeletons, 15 skulls and a large number of jaws, which in- clude fine specimens of the Eocene- horse, elephant, rodent. primate, notostylopus and large variety of other specimens taken from the bone beds discovered by the party Pro- lessor Loomis reports that many of the specimens are entirely new to this country and suggest several new scientific ideas.
 Some of the most valuable additionsl to geological knowledge are the rich marine deposits which the Amherst men discovered, in some instances at levels thousand feet above the sea-. Amongs these are specimens of petri- fled trees, some six feet in diameter,l which are supposed to have been driven in by Atlantic storms of the prehistoric ages. In one spot they found what appeared like an entire raft of these huge trees. Members of the party also collected the fossil remains of marine life, such as sharks teeth, alligators and turtles,I from beds hundreds of feet above the present sea level Shells of bivalves SlHlldf lO lue oyster, Dut d Ioot oE. more in diameter, were found in thet same locality.
 The present expedition is the third of a series which has been financedI by the Amherst class of 1896. of whichi Professor Loomis was a member.
 Striking inland from Rawson, a. small town on the Chubut coast, thel little party, with its tents, specially
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-16
Birds Home Insti vet.

Spectators at a fire witnessed an interesting, if tragic, example of the actions of bird which was guided only by the instinct that It's home was in danger. The flames had be- gun to creep along the edge of the tower and every shingle on the roof was puffing little jet of flame, when down wheeled a pigeon which had been dislodged from the tower and lit in the midst of the fire and smoke. Picking it's way along, utter obiivious to the flames that must have been singeing it's feathers, the pigeon went straight for it's nest A tongue of flame leaped out and the pigeon scared into the air. Then, as If irresistibly drawn into it, the bird dived into the furnace beneath and disappeared from sight.-Pasadena News.
The Green Forest tribune., 1912-02-16
SEEMED TO NEED A DOCTOR
Varied Ailments of the Somewhat Afflicted Family as cataIoeued
 by the Mother.

"Yes, Doc" said the mother of a family of nine to the young doctor who had ridden 16 miles into the backWoods in the dead of night, i've are somewhat afflicted family, an, as home doctorin' don't seem to do no good, I thought I'd send for you an see if you could straighten us out. Janey here, she's got something wrong with her bronieal tubes so she don't breathe like she should. I been keepin' a rag spread with goose grease an sprinkled with red pepper an mustard on her front chist, but it seems to add to her ag'ny Jake, he's got a mis'ry all up an down his spinal bone, an I been usin' ker-sene done him no good. Lizzie Belle, she's about ready to give up with plum bago, an her sister Nancy has been feelin' mean for a week. I think that it's skiatic roomatiz that ails Nancy, but she's afraid it's the new disease they calls appendeshetus. The old man has been turrible slimsy for some days an Rube, our oldest boy, is all broke out with rash that shows his blood ain't all right. He had a tur- rible spell las night, an I thought he was in for cholery infantum He's had 1t off an on ever since he was Is years old. I reckoned he'd outgrown it, but 1t grabs him as hard now that he's "A as it did when he was young CT Wisht, Doc, that you'd just turn yourself loose an see if you kin sort O straighten us out. ut.'-Judge.
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CHARACTER SHOWS IN BACKS
Straight and Upright Carriage Means You Are Determined, Energetic
 and Reliable.

If your back is straight and upright you are correspondingly straight in your conduct. You will hold your head up, for you are not afraid to look the world in the face.
 Even when you're sitting you keep your back straight. There is an air of real strength about you-both physical and mental. In short, you have plenty of backbone. You are determined, en- ergetic and to be relied upon.
 If your back is stopping and round ed you are creature as weak as you look, you are prone to lolling about and too lazy or too feeble to take a front rank in the battle of life. The tramp is an excellent example.
 If you are a criminal, your back is stopped or round, but the scholarly stoop of the bookworm must not be confounded with the foregoing. There is difference which Is difficult to de- scribe, but it is readily recognized by the close observer
 If you are mean and covetous your back is narrow and rounded and your shoulders are high. You are sly very sly. You generally have the ap- pearance of drawing yourself up into as small compass as possible You are always yourself, so to speak, and people should give you the cold shoulder.
 Are you too straight backed? That is, do you hold your head so high that there is preposterous fall in the small of your back? Then you are so puffed up with self-esteem that you carry your chest out so far it's ab- surd
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building and rebuilding to be done on such a do- main On the other hand, George Washington, in later life the leading official of a new public and the founder of a new capital, had thrust upon him tnnumerable questions of archt- tectural policy and selection which. perorce, requisitioned all his ability in this line
 That Washington should have developed such ability a practical and consulting architect is by no means strange when take into account his early experience as a surveyor. This occupa- tion which he followed during much of his young manhood gave him splendid judgment to the relative qualifications of sites for both private and public buildings, and his discernment re- decteS in the advice he gave to the sites for the p{blic buildings at the national capital and the character of the buildings to be erected thereot
 Ac96rding to tradition, George Washington, seat9d on the Veranda of elevated country house, with the panorama of the present District of Columbia spread out before him, chose what is now known as Capitol Hill the site of the iegs- latiye headquarters of the government He also not only chose 'She site of the White House or Presidential Mansion but personally conducted the negotiations for the purchase of the needed land The work of actually designing the vari- ous public buildings and laying out the streets and parks of the new Federal City was left by Wash tngton in other hands, but up to the time of his last illness he exercised general supervision Of all creative work and his architectural ideas embodied in most of the plans drawn
 But while Washington acted as consulting arc ftectr with reference to many of our most notable public buildings he actually and directly sponsible for the plans of many private resi- dences and these are consequently of even great CT interest than the public buildings evidence of his architectural ideals The structures To- cated not only his estate at Mount Yer the Potomac, but at various other points in Virginia and what is West Virginia. The mansion at Mount Vernon not the original conception of George Washington, having been built by his half-brother, Lawrence Washington, some dozen years ere it came into the possession of George Washington through inheritance. How ever, George Washington enlarged the original residence by increasing its length and height and he added various notable Improvements to the manor house well erecting from his own architectural designs number of supplementary
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Easement of Old Roman House.


 ners of the room or the passages of the house.
 In one of the houses of Great Ches- ters there is a beautiful example of hypocaust, the name of the Roman heating apparatus. Great Chesters was the site of an important Roman military station along the great wall which the Emperor Hadrian built to keep back the barbarians, descending on Britain from Scotland. The house was that of the Roman military com mander.
 d. Hot air was generated by circular furnace, which heated water and gave out streams of hot air into the hypo- caust, which was chamber under the ground floor of the house, containing arrangements of hollow tile pillars called "suspensurae."
 From the hypocaust the hot air was distributed throughout the building by series of wall and floor flues, giving an even temperature throughout the house.
 This system was invented shortly before the time of the Emperor Aug. ustus, who reigned from 27 B. c. to IA A. D., and was soon adopted not only in public baths, but in private houses
 It is surely wonderful fact that those ancient Romans nearly 2,00O years ago, on the very confines of the habitable world, in northern England introduced this scientific system ot house heating,s which the modern in. habitants of the island have not been able to approximate even remotely.
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ment tile buried IA inches under ground, in the inner walls of which is a metallic electric conductor running the whole length of the system. The tile is brought to the surface by an elbow joint, and about two feet above the ground Is capped with copper head, porous, to let air pass freely.
 The copper head connects with the electric wires. and acts. according to Anson, As collector of an atmospheric wave of electricity of which he claims the normal supply in the air Is 14.000 volts.-Los Angeles correspondence
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INNOCENT MAN IS PARDoNED
New Yorker Serves Year in Federal Prison for Crime He Did
 Not Commit.

New York-Pardoned by President Taft after serving one year in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta for a crime he did not commit, Oscar Krue. ger, a decorator, rejoined his wife and flve-year-old son in their home, at No. 312 East 125th street, the other day. MT. Krueger, upon whom the disgrace of his conviction, although innocent, had weighed heavily throughout the period of his imprisonment, is in i'll health, due to nervous collapse.
 MT. Krueger says that his convic- tion was partly, if not wholly, due to the activity of Anthony Comstock, sec retary of the Society of the Suppress, sion of Vice. MT. Krueger rehearsed the story of his unhappiness from the
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HEAT FOR ANCIENT ROME
House Heating Apparatus Just Found Demonstrates How People Kept
 Warm 2,ooo Years Ago.

London.-The discovery of exten- sive Roman remains at Great Ches- ters, on the Tyne, has demonstrated that the Romans 1000 years ago en- joyed much better system of heat ing houses than Englishmen do at the present time.
 By the Roman system the heat was distributed evenly throughout the walls and floors of the house, where as the usual British system is an open fire at which your face roasts while your back freezes, and you are liable to die of cold if you go into the cor
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Friday Dickens Lucky Day.

Charles Dickens was not one of those who are superstitious concern ing Friday. It was on Friday that many of the good things came to him, and it was on that day that he enter ed upon, paid the price and took pos session of Gads Hill, the one thing he cherished more than all of his oth- CT possessions. It was Gads Hill that he had gazed upon when a wee bit of a boy, with hope then giving little signs of fruition, that he might live to own it some day. and 1t was Gads Hill whose walls he covered with mir TOTS in almost Oriental magnificence. Boston Record.
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Treatment of Wet Shoes.

If you get caught in the rain with good pair of shoes on, remove them as soon as you enter the house, and if you do not possess pair of trees, stuff them tight and hard with tissue paper squeezing it well into shape Wipe off all the mud with soft rag Place the shoes in draught, soles upward, and let them dry slowly. On no account put them to dry by the fire.
 Never forget to place your shoes on trees or to stuff them with paper when they are not in wear
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residences was not by any means limited to country homes. There are in the city of Wash ington several build ings which attest his talent in this direction with reference to dwell ings In urban surround ings. Perhaps the most interesting and certain ly the most historic in this category is "Oc- tagon House" " which Is located only a few blocks from the White House and is today one of the show places of the capital, having served in later years as the permanent head quarters of the Ameri-
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Worlds Laroest Crab.

The largest crab in the world, . specimen of the giant spider crab from Japan, is now at the Museum of Nat ural History, New York. The spread of the two largest legs, or arms, hay ing sawlike teeth, called "pincers," is nearly twelve feet, and the body DOT tion is over one foot in diameter and about the size of large dinner plate. The monster crab inhabits the sea and islands of Japan.. and Is known to oc- cur at depth of over two thousand feet.-October St. Nicholas.
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Desert Soon To Be No More

wastes of the Mojave into a bower of roses.
 By means of his electric system he claims to create a miniature thunder storm in the subsoil among the roots of the plants. furnishing moisture. aer- ating the ground and providing stfrn- ulant of ozone to hasten the chemical activities of the process of growth and cell formation.
 Anson uses a line of sixinch ce-
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That Is, if Present Plans of a Call fornian Do Not Leave the
 Track Somewhere.

w. J. Anson purposes to dc away with water reservoirs and ditches and to irrigate with underground thunder storms, making farms in the desert as luxurious as the gardens of the Sul- tan h Sxeet waters of the Eu- phra converting the arid