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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-06
Moose Dance Tonight.

All members of the Moose and their
families and all persons receiving in
vltations are requested to be present
TO join in the Grand March at 0 o'clock
ID, m,
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
CLERKS FLED INTO VAULT
Breaking Trolley Sounded like Earth
quake In Atlantic City and Work
ers Are Panic Striker.

Atlantic City. N. J.--Half dozen
clerks were standing near the big
vault in the Chelsea National bank In
this city. discussing the earthquake.
Their backs were turned toward the
street. Suddenly there came a blind
ing flash. as though from a huge ball
OF fire, followed by a rumbling noise.
The clerks, terror-stricken, and with
out waiting to investigate. took 1t for
granted that another earthquake had
visited the city, and they considered
the safest place was the big vault.
Into this they jumped. and, pulling
the door shut, awaited Developments.
They waited for a long while. but
seemingly nothing happened. Then
they tried to open the vault door, but
could not. II was some time later
when the cashier. missing the clerks
and noticing that the vault door was
closed, opened 1t, and found the young
fellows nearly smothered.
A big campaign banner, water
soaked from the rain. had fallen across
the trolley feed wire. breaking the
wire and causing the fash and explo-
sion which the clerks noticed The
breaking OF the feed wire tied up troll.
ley traffic on the lines for nearly two
hours.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08

Most Of Them Due to Parasites That
Live In Oysters sheIl--Poetlo
Fancy Shattered.

| (By DIR. HUGH M. SMITH in the Ma
tonal Geographic Magaxine.)
For many centuries. even until COM
paratively recent times. 1t was the
common belief that pearls were drops
Of dew that gained entrance into the
shell Of an oyster. and were there
transformed into lustrous gems. Arab
and Indian divers still believe that at
certain seasons oysters come to the
surface and suck In the rain-drops
that later become pearls. Science.
however. has rudely shattered this
poetic fancy. and discovered the real
origin to be worm
We know that almost any foreign
body--a grain OF sand. bit OF mud
or shell. piece of ragweed or small
animal-may by Its irritation cause
the mollusk to cover 1t with nacre
and make 1t the nucleus OF pearl
but the largest part OF the annual
pearl crop Of the world Is due to para
sites that normally pass part OF
their life-cycle within the shell Of the
pearl-oyster.
Minute spherical larvae OF marine
worms known as cestodes become en-
bedded in the soft tissues, as many
as forty having been found in one
Ceylon oyster AS the result OF irri-
tation, the oyster forms protecting
sac about the intruder. and then II the
larva dies. its body ia gradually con-
verted into carbonate of lime. and the
pearly mass proceeds to grow with
the shell.
II the larva lives, It may pass into
the body of the strengthened trig-
ger-fishes which prey on the pearl
oysters. there undergoing further de-
velopment. Ultimately 1t reaches the
body OF the great rays which in turn
eat the trigger-fishes. In the rays the
worms attain full development, and
produce larvae that are cast into the
sea and find Judgment In the pearl
oysters. Thus the cycle is begun once
more
We may literally accept the saying
of celebrated French investigator,
that 'the most beautiful pearl is In
reality only the brilliant sarcophagus
OF worm"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
WHAT INVENTION HAS DONE
Among Other Things In Manufacture
Of Agricultural Implements Much
Manual Labor Is Saved.

In leather manufacture modern
methods have reduced the necessary
number of workers from FIVE to fifty
per cent *
A carpet measuring and brushing
machine with one operator will do the
work Of fifteen men by the old meth.
DDS.
in the manufacture of flour modern
improvements save rs per cent. of the
manual labor that once was neces.
sary.
In making tin cans one man and a
boy, with modern appliances, can do
the work of ten workers by the old
process.
One boy. by machinery, in turning
wood work and materials for musical
instruments, performs the work Of
twenty-five men by the old methods.
In the manufacture of boots and
shoes the work of 500 operatives is
now done by 100, displacement of
wage earners of 80 per cent. by aid OF
machinery.
In the cotton mills the manual Ia
Dor has been reduced about fifty per
cent. Now one weaver manages from
two to ten looms, where one loom
was formerly tended by one worker.
In the manufacture of brick i'm
proved devices save one-tenth of the
labor. and in the manufacturing of
fire brick 40 per cent. Of the manual
labor is displaced.
In the manufacture OF agricultural
supplements COO operatives, with ma
chinery including eighteen classes OF
wage earners, do the work OF 2,145
wage earners without machinery, dis
placing 1,545 workers.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
BABY is HELD BY SNAKE
Reptile, Attacked In Time, Seems to
Grow Anerler as Little Victim
Struggles for Freedom.

San Gregoria, Cal.-Trapped In the
coils of huge gopher snake. which
stole upon her as she lay asleep In q
hay field in Wild Goose canyon. five
year-old Charlotte Newman, daughter
of farmer who resides near Daven.
port. was held captive by the reptile
for a half an hour, while frantic chill
dren who had discovered her plight
summoned help from distant farm
house.
The little girl. who is visiting rela-
tives in the canyon, fell asleep while
at play with her Juvenile companions
in the new mown hay. She was not
missed until her cries of terror were
heard by the boys and girls. When
they ran to her the snake had wrapped
itself about her ankles and she was
powerless to escape.
Frightened at the snake. which
semed to be enraged at the struggles
of the child. the children FASTENED to
the farmhouse. half mile distant, to
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
MANY TERRAPIN ARE MATCHED
Georgia Man Finds Way to Keep
Species From Becoming
Extinct.

Philadelphia. AT the Hotel Hanover
Is A. M. Barbee of Savannah, Ca.
who is Matching diamond back terra
pin these days. and proving that the
tasty reptile can be conserved and a
supply arranged for generations to
come. This will be good news to the
bon vivant, for 1t has been proclaimed
that the finest favored member OF the
terrapin family will soon be extinct
Barbee, who has been in the busi-
ness OF catching and selling terrapin
for twenty-three years, began to study
the matter of establishing hatcheries.
He has succeeded. The female terra
pin has habit of depositing about
ten eggs a month. She spreads them
out on the sand and gets away, having
no further interest in her offspring.
But the crows, who are as fond Of
terrapin ss Is a millionaire. swoop
down upon them.
Barbee established farm where
this year he will hatch 10000 little
diamond backs.
At this farm. which in on the Isle OF
Hope. about nine miles from Savan-
nah. the terrapin go to him when he
calls. When he feeds them he floods
the sand piles on which they live, and
when they have fed the water is drawn
on He hopes to interest the govern
ment In his plan.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
- NOTES ON +.
~ SCIENCE Ri
nm AND 81
y lNVENT1ON1

A pocket typewriter has been In
vented. 1t is not much larger than q
watch.
In Iceland a bread is made by
beating the flesh of dried Goldfish to
a powder.
The per capita consumption of pota-
toes in this country at the last GEN.
sus was four bushels.
Moving pictures of animals form
targets in an English rife gallery. the
shots being automatically recorded.
A patent has been granted for a
parachute specially designed to help
person escape from burning build
ing.
tablet weighing four ounces COM
prises an entire meal in the United
States army's newest emergency ra-
ton.
We are not eating more, but there
are more of us eating. which ac-
counts for the increased demand for
food products,
An Ohio inventors flying machine
iS DrOpell6u ny WluBS uliFCh up anu
down by shafts connected to its en-
CINE.
The Argentine government plans to
place one of the most powerful tele-
scopes in the world in its National
observatory.
In this country $4,000 patents
have been issued covering the manu-
facture Of shoes and leather goods.
and about half OF them are now in
force.
In the congested area of a town a
common fly can harbor from 100000
TO 500. 100000 bacteria. while In the
suburbs 1t carries only upward Of
10000
That animals have been distributed
over the world by the oscillation Of
Its axis. which has changed the ell
mate of various lands. Is theory
&dvanced by German scientist
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
cavE-INs ADD zEsT TO GOLF
Extra Hazards Break Into Games on
Unique Links at Scranton,
Pa.

Scranton, Pa.-While playing golf
on the links OF the Scranton Country
club Rev. J. ii. Odell and Valentine
Bliss discovered that the course
passed the unique character, that in
addition to the regular hazards, new
ones are appearing daily. Doctor
Odsl was preparing for a long drive
and approached his ball with we'll
delivered stroke. The ball assembled
and after long trajectory descended
into mine cave thirty feet In depth.
1t was hazard that could not be
approached and the game ended.
A bell mine cave in the Cathedral
cemetery. one hundred feet from the
Hoban Memorial chapel, wrecked Ave
graves, Four rough boxes we're up
tilted and one casket broken In half.
exposing the corpse. The cave was
thirty feet in diameter and about the
same depth.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08

bile-engine radiator from freezing
when the car is in an unheated pri.
vate garage during the cold winter
months, has been placed on the mar
ket by a Philadelphia concern, says
the Popular Mechanics. The device
consists of small gas heater. and
an inlet and outlet water pipe con-
nected, respectively, with the drain
cock and filling cap of the cars radia-
tor The heat generated by the gas
burner sets up an automatic circula-
ton of the water through the radia-
tor and cooling system Of the engine,
thus keeping 1t above the freezing
point.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
CANINE AS SPONSOR

on to the American resorts In sum
mer, to the European In winter. in
the hope that they will find the social
crust there less glacial.
Through this avenue a few-a very
few-find the coveted entrance and
many fail The pensions OF Naples,
Florence. Rome, Vienna, Paris and
Munich are filled with the wives and
daughters of wealthy American men
who have settled in New York from
elsewhere
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
|0LD DUTCH HOUSE
Dwelling in Staten Island Was
Built About 1854. y


New York,--The Oldest mansion and
colonial house on Staten Island lie at
Willow Brook, a secluded and pictur-
esdue place, mile from Port Rich
mond. It Is supposed to have been
built shortly after the arrival OF the
first Dutch settlers on Staten Island
in 1894.
The old mansion has ten rooms.
The walls OF field stone, gathered near
by, are two feet thick. keeping out the
cold In winter and the heat In sum-
mer. The flooring in the bedrooms
is two feet wide and two inches thick,
and, like the rafters in the roof, were
hewn with an ak. The other parts of
the building that decayed were re-
placed with modern lumber.
An old Dutch oven, wherein q
weeks baking for the family was done
at one time, is In the same state Of
neatness and order as when the good
Dutch hausfrau left It. In readiness for
her next baking day.
There are beautiful rosewood ta-
bles. chairs and other pieces of an
tique and colonial furniture In the
mansion that would Ill the heart OF
an antiquarian with Joy.
! The present owner and occupant.
Samuel w. Standring, now seventy
two. has lived In 1t since he was
seven years old. In 1S4s the 20 acres
of land and the mansion were pur-
chased by his father. Samuel w.
standring. for $4,000. Part OF the man.
sion Is rented to a young couple.
II was born in Lepwich, Yorkshire,
England. and came to Staten Island
with my parents when seven years OF
age" said Mr.. Standrlng. Il had two
sisters. Ore died young. and the other
is married to my. neighbor. Joseph
Sykes. l am steel comb maker by
trade. and began work when was
twelve years old in my fathers mill.
which Is now run by me.
Il come from asfamily OF steel comb
makers. My father. my grandfather
and my great-grandfather were steel
comb makers.
in 1889. my father. then seventy
seven. began to fail in health. and
wishing to be buried with his kin in
Lepwich churchyard. he tried to get
my mother to return to England with
him. She refused and he started alone.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
LOSES HIS CAR AND LIBERT,
st. Paul Man In Auto Wreck Jailed
for Reckless Driving by
judge.

Minneapolis. = j. B. Lawrence,
wealthy business man OF ST. Paul and
a member OF an automobile firm there,
not only is out $1,000 for damages to
his automobile. but also must spend 20
days in the Hennepin county work
house for reckless driving. according
to the ruling Of Judge C. L. Smith OF
the municipal court. Lawrence. who
was found In the wreckage OF his au-
tomobile, was given three days to ar.
range his business for the enforced
vacation.
Judge Smith, In pronouncing sen.
tence. declared that after investiga.
ton he was convinced the only rea.
son Lawrence did not kill some one
was because there was no pedes.
TRANS near him to be killed.
The arrest OF Lawrence is In line
with the campaign being waged by po
lice and court against speeding.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
Admission to Society in New York
Declared to Be Easier Now.
Woman With Social Aspirations May
Obtain Entree by Possessing Dog
Routes Are Open to
the Climbers.

New York-Time was when break
ing into New York society was sim
pie matter You merely waited. Event
ually, In the course of several genera
tions. you stood a chance OF being
invited to the very best houses.
1t was three generations before the
Actors amounted to anything as so
cial beings In this community. writes
a New York correspondent. The Van
derbilts made the extraordinary leap
in better time-in two generations
thanks to the mental resources and
determination of dorChty social war
rior whom the family a quired by mar
rage, and later lost by divorce.
People "get in" New York society
now in few years; sometimes In q
single season.
Now a multiplicity OF avenues OF ap
proach have been discovered. Here
are ten: Dogs, women's clubs. pub
licity, charity, summer resorts, graft
the opera, first nights, travel (for-
eign) woman suffrage.
The avenue of dogs alone Indicates
the advance we have made. Some Gym
les may call 1t retrogression. How
cruel when one can thus lessen the
years necessary for a social entree!
Children used to be the avenue OF
approach, which has been usurped by
the later pets.
One of the first moves OF the so
cially ambitious woman in New York
these days is the requirement Of dog.
If the proper beginning is made, II
the right sort of dog is secured, the
next step Is to enter him at the first
exclusive dog show. This may be
done the very first year. And there
the woman has her first social oppor-
tunity
There are dog luncheons, dog din
ners, dog receptions to which her
canine will be invited, and no canine
can go alone. The mistress must be
included. Some day she may event
ually be invited on her own account.
Another avenue for the social climb
er is the summer resort and foreign
travel. In itself. New York Is a
glacial city, socially. Its surfaces are
SO rounded that it must be a hardy
climber who can secure hold. Thus
many have resolved to bring into the
strategy of their campaign flank as
sault on the citadel of caste.
They remove their artillery to a
distance. They pay outrageous prices
to the hotels In the fashionable re-
sorts in summer and to the stopping
places on the grand tour to Europe in
the hope of thue scraping valuable
acquaintance.
Most of them fail. The average ten
ure OF residence in New York OF
the wealthy women who come from
elsewhere is seven years-the life OF
the chorus, girl. Of the yellow re-
porter and Of the bounder tenant
at Newport.
First they wear out the novelty OF
the theaters and the opera. Then.
having been ignored. or, II too per
sistent. snubhed repeatedly. they move
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
WHALES ARE ANED'
Captain Of Blubber Bark De-
scribes Eruption Of Volcano.
Portuguese Sailors Pray to the Saints
and Every Form Of Life In Sea
or Air NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Hits Ship.

San Francigco. The whaling bark
Gayhead, Captain Wing. which left
here seven months ago on blufber
expedition In the frozen north. re-
turned with $50 barrels Of sperm oil,
the product of eight whales. and an
account OF the volcanic eruption at
Katmai In June. The Gayhead was
400 miles from the volcano and $50
miles of shore at the time OF the
eruption. Whales were plentiful. sea
birds were visible In all directions
and fish. large and small, could be
seen in the clear. green water.
A whale had been cut out OF the
school that was spouting not far from
the bark. had been killed and made
fast aIongsid,- the vessel. Fires had
been started under the blubber kettles
and the work of cutting up the whale
was In full blast when muffled ex-
plosion that seemed to shake the uni
verse was heard 1t was followed by
six more explosions.
A few minutes later there appeared
on the horizon small. black cloud
that assumed leviathan proportions as
1t rushed toward the Gayhead There
was wind with 1t, and 1t struck the
vessel with the violence of a hurricane
squall. AS It hit the bark the air was
filled with fine white dust. that soon
covered the decks.
The blackness was on both sides Of
the vessel. BLACK as the darkest
night" Is the way Captain Wing de-
scribes It. Between the two strata Of
black was a column OF fiery yellow,
bright as gold. Captain Wing. who
has passed many years In the arctic
and who recognized the explosions as
Of volcanic origin. says that the COM
bination Of black and yellow was the
strangest sight he had ever seen.
Tho Portuguese whalemen quit
work. dropped to their knees and IN
voked the aid OF every saint on the
calendar. They were satisfied that
the day of judgment had arrived. The
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08

bottle. How the ring got there is an.
other chapter. unless it may be as
sumed that the bottle was built around
It, The chain is long enough to per-
init the stopper being taken entirely
out of the neck Of the flask and OF
course the ring presents no obstacle
either to the filling or emptying of
the receptacle. This may be. a little
thing. but it is big enough to save
many people the price of new wa
ter bottle. which is what the loss of
the old stopper means.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
Flying Machine.

burg, S. D.. the Scientific American
says:
An object of this inventor is to pro-
vide a flying machine with plural
sty of wings adapted to be swung
through the air, to simultaneously
raise and propel the machine A
still further object is to provide a
machine with propelling means. and
with mechanism for driving the same.
the mechanism having an auxiliary
driving connection whereby an acct
dental breakage may happen with
ont destroying the flight of the aero-
p,ane. The machine is shown hete-
with In front end view in elevation.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
SCIENCE
INVENTION
STOPPER FOR WATER BOTTLE
Ring Attached to Bottom Prevents Il
From Being Lost--No Obstacle
to Filling Gag.

Water bottle shoppers, like collar
buttons. have mania for getting
lost. and without a stopper the bot
tie Is about as much use as it would
be without water. 1t took the COM
bined intellects OF New York man
and a New Jersey man to invent some
thing that would keep the stopper
where Il belonged and the result is
shown here. Attached to the bottom
OF the stopper by a chain several
Inches long is ring that is just too
long to pass through the neck OF the
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
Failed to Get a wife.

Lima, O.-Dale Cary, forty, rura
bachelor Of Ada. was disappointe,
when he appeared at a newspaper OF
fee here and found no answers Il
an advertisement he inserted askip.
for wife, brunette preferred. on siA
months probation. Cary admitted
reading the story of Mile. Olga Pc
trova. who sought husband for SIX
months only. Cary has hopes OF ye,
securing bride on trial.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
HEIRS SETTLE BACK TAXES
6avarlan Government Collects on
Property Which Was Under
valued by Owner.

Munich.-The Bayarian government
has discovered one way of recovering
taxes where a man has under APP
praised his property and income, and
that Is. after his death. to collect from
the heirs. The heirs OF the late Herr
Won Clomm, formerly president OF the
diet, or parliament. have had to pay
over $4,000 back taxes upon the
estate.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08

shower of ashes and the accompanying
darkness lasted for forty-eight hours.
"As the squall approached" said
Captain Wing, 81 noticed the whales
skedaddle. They hooked on at full
speed. When the air cleared. two days
later, there was not whale in sight,
nor fish nor fowl. nor sign OF any
kind of life. 1t was not until the Gay
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08

but died on shipboard in sight OF land.
His body was carried ashore, however.
and buried in Lepwlch churchyard.
Il have never married; never
loved a woman. There we're times
when | felt lonely. and thought
might marry II | could meet good.
gentle, kindly. home-loying woman. I
never met one. and It is too late now.
l have this consolation. though;
never made the mistake OF marrying a
woman without love and then break.
ing her heart because was disap-
pointed"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
PrehIstorIc Cave.

In German East Africa has beer
Siscoyered a huge cave in chalk
mountain containing prehistoric re
!, ~s ord rrt'Gnitie, or great vaIne
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
LATEST IN FLYING MACHINES
South Dakota Man Invents Apparatus
With Plurality Of Wings, to
Propel and Raise It.

In describing a flying machine, in
vented by M. NJ Renster of Gettys-
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08

obtain help from their elders When
men armed with pitchforks came to
the assistance OF the girl the snake still
held her fast. The reptile was soon
killed. and when measured was more
than six feet In length
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08
TO PREVENT WATER COOLING
Device for Keeping Water In Auto
mobile Radiator From Freezing
During Severe Weather.

A simple deyice intended to pre-
vent the cooling water OF an automo-
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-08

head had cruised many miles and had
winged its way far out OF the track OF
the volcanic dust that as much as a
bird was seen. That cussed squall
queered our cruise all right"
1t was more than a month later
that the people on the Gayhead
learned that Katmai had been N erup-
ton.