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The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
Lishon,s lime Sianals.

Correct time is announced every
even hour in the port Of Lisbon,
Portugal, by means of two lanterns
placed on iron columns 100 feet
high. The lanterns each have three
faces, measuring G.5 by s feet. At
exactly five minutes before the hour
horizontal line Of light appears on
each face, and on the tick Of the
hour this light is cztinyuished. The
signals may be seen even in the
daytime at a distance Of a mile and
l half. At night the position Of the
lanterns is indicated by three red
lights. The signals arc worked cleo
t%rically under the control Of a clock
n the Obseryatorio Astronomical de
I.isboa.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
THE STARS BY DAY.
Why They Cannot Be Seen From the
Surface Of the Earth.

Not only have the astronomers
devised a means whereby they may
observe the stars in the daytime,
but any one may, if he choose, sec
them at such time if he will 20 to
sufficient trouble to do so. At the
bottom Of a deep we'll an observer
on looking up will see the stars if
the sky is clear and the sun does
not happen to be shining directly
into the well.
Why cannot the stars be seen
from the surface of the ground !?
They certainly give out their usual
amount of light, and it will be re-
mcmbcrcd that the moon is fire.
qucntly seen during the day.
The question resolves itself into
the capacity Of the human eye.
During the day the sun shines on
particles suspended in the atmos-
plcrc and on the atmosphere itself,
and its rays are reflected in every
direction from the different parti-
clcs. We thus have diffused light
by means of which n can see OBJ
.jccts not directly in the sunlight.
If it wcre not for this diffusion of
light, or irregular rcfraction, as it is
called. we could not possibly see
anything not in direct sunlight.
Now, these rays irrcgularly re-
Elected enter the eye in enormous
numbers, St the intensity is COM
paratively great with starlight. But
to a person in a deep we'll or mine
shaft only the pcrpcndicularlv re-
Elected rays enter the eve and from
only those. particles directly over
the mouth Of tho shaft. Thus com
paratively little light enters the eye,
and any starlight that comes down
at that time is easily perceived, and
the presence Of the star is rccog-
nizcd.
The astronomer applies this rule
to his telescope and places long
black tubes called shields on the
ond Of his glass. Ficldglasses to be
used at night also have these tubes,
They r absolutely necessary for
good work with heavenly bodies
even at night, when the obscrva-
tory is near a large city of many
Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
MYSTERIES OF EXISTENCE.
Consider tho Case Of the Apple, the Pc.
tato and the Sponge,

There is life here on this earth
that is immortal, that never dies, so
biologists tell us. A book by Pro-
fcssor G. NJ. Child of the University
of Chicago tells of observations and
experiments of the immortal life Of
sponges, potatoes and apples.
Take the potato, for instance.
You wish to grow a new crop of po-
tatoes, and you do not plant a seed;
you simply split the living potato,
you divide its substance and place
the different pieces of itself into
different holes in the earth, and the
living potato becomes it's own an
cestor. The potato you cat today
at dinner may be Il part of the very
potato your great-grandfather ate
100 years ago.
And SO with the apple. It is per-
petuated by grating a piece Of the
tree upon a Seeding, and that graft
ed twig, a part Of the very body of
the parent tree, grows on into a
large tree, and a limb Of it, again,
is grated on to another Seeding,
and so on and on for limitless thou
sands Of years, the original tree liv-
ing always.
The sponge cell splits itself in
two and grows two sponges instead
of one, and those two redivide again
and produce four sponges.
The biologists scraped a small
sponge from a wooden pile of Mar
ragansett Pier, cut it into small
pieces, squeezed the sponge cells
from each piece, strained them
through fine cloth and put them all
into a basin of water. Within an
hour the minute cells had collected
themselves together again and be-
gan Immediately to build an entire
ly new sponge like the mother
sponge, of which they were original
]y a part.
These and kindred facts, as they
arc accumulated, may throw light
on the great mysteries of life and
death. Just how it is impossible to
sec. But the great discoveries have
followed the painstaking collecting
and comparing of facts that in
themselves seemed unrelated and
often trivial.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
WHEN LIFE IS LEAVING.
Physical Signs That ForeteII the Ap-
proach of Death.

There arc certain symptoms which
arc universally recognized as fore
casting death. Most of these were
recognized by Hippocratcs, and it
seems strange that very few signs
have been added since his day,
though millions upon millions of
persons have observed others dy-
ing.
The Journal of the American
Medical Association deyotcs four
pages to an address read by DR..
Thomas +. Reilly, professor of APP
piled therapeutics, Fordham Uni
versity College of Medicine, before
the Harlem Medical association.
Space is lacking here for even a
summary Of this address, but a few
points made by DR.. Reilly ought
generally to be known.
So long as there is life left in the
body in typhoid fever and cholera
no doctor can predict a fatal end
ing.
In acute diseases a pulse that
steadily increases in frequency hour
by hour generally means early DEATH,
if other signs Of serious illness are
present, in an adult.
Other almost sure indications Of
approaching death are refusal Of
the pupils to react to light, glazed
pupils, temperature of los +. Tex
cept in heat stroke) and of 107 last
ing more than two hours; persistent
and uncomfortable hiccups in any
serious illness, the loss Of moro than
half the body weight, gritting Of
the teeth in the course Of fever in
adults.
There are other signs which DR..
Reilly classes as folklore, but says
are generally true. Among these
are tense and shiny forehead, desire
Of a patient to go home OF go to
green fields, constant changing Of
position in bed, picking at the bed
clothes Except in typhoid and
GOODNESS Of the feet and knees.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
The humble Seven.

Seven is frequently used as a
mystical and symbolical number in
the Bible, as we'll as among the
principal nations Of antiquity, such
as the Pcrsians, Egyptians, Greeks,
Romans, etc.
In the Bible we have the creation
completed in seven days, every sew
enth year was the Sabbatic year,
and seven times seven years usher
ed in the jubilee. We have the
seven affairs, seven green withcs,
sever locks, seven angels, seven
eyes which are the seven spirits Of
God.
In light We have the seven pris-
matte %colors, which make the pure
white light.
We have the even slccpcrs, seven
wise masters, seven wise men Of
Greece-Bias, Clcobulus, Chic, Pit
ticus, Fernandez, Scion, Thales.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
Puxxjes,

Not alone are the so called Maya
Inscriptions, found on the ruins in
Yucatan, a puzzle to scientists, for
those two great nations, the Etrus-
cans and the Utilities, went out of
the world leaving archaeologists in
a maze. The Etruscans occupied a
part of Italy corresponding roughly
to what is now known as Tuscany.
The Hittitcs at one time occupied
Il part of Palestine and united with
the Ca%naanites to resist the inva-
sion by the Israelites under Joshua.
The Etruscan and Hittite inscrip-
tlons have thus far resisted the at
tcmpts of scholars to decipher them.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
A Touch Meal.

It was a pcrilous honor to be a
tradcsnan to tho court Of Philip III.
of Spain. His son, Don Carlos (of
whose eccentricitics DR.. A. S. Rap
poport tells in his chad Majcstics')
a one supplied by the royal shoe
maker with an i'll fitting pair Of
boots. Thcreupon Don Carlos went
into a fit of fury, "ordered the boots
to be cut up into small pieces, cook
ed and sent over to the shoemaker
for him to cat" According to some
accounts, the latter was actually
forced to swallow lis own boots.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
Powdering Soap.

If powdered soap is needed in a
hurry and there is none at hand,
says a writer in the Farm and Homo.
just run bath soap or common yell
low or white laundry soap through
the food chopper, using the fine
blade, and the soap powder will be
as fine as any n can wish. Save
all scraps of soap and powder it in
this way and use it in the boiler on
wash days. Scraps of toilet soap are
powdered and used with oatmeal in
the bath bags.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
His Aduantane.

A bachelor, tall, lean and djstin-
guished looking, approached a care
worn fat man and held out his hand.
"Hello, Smith," he said cordially.
How glad am to see you!,
But Smith frowncd and said in a
worried, cold voice:
"Beg pardon, you have the ad-
vantage Of me-"
eyes, l know | have said the
stranger. "That's why I'm so pleas
ID. We were rivals for Minnie
Madden's hand, don't you rrmcm
Der? And she married you."-Phil-
adelphia Bulletin.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
A Milk White Sea.

Occasionally and for some cause
IS yet undiscovered great areas of
the ocean turn milk white. In
March, 1904, the passengers and
crew of a Japanese merchant vessel
,tcaming at night between Hong
kong and Yokohama ran into a
mow white sea, not an opaque,
phosphorcsccnt surface, but an cx-
panse Of pure snow white, having a
1azzling effect upon the eyes. The
phenomenon lasted for six hours
md alarmed the passengers so great
ly that not one slept at all that
night.-London Answers.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
The Storage Battery.


The correct technical term for
the fluid in a storage battery, which
is often called acid, is electrolyte.
This fluid is a mixture of four and
a half parts by volume of distilled
water to n part of pure concen-
trated sulphuric acid. Should it be-
come necessary to replace it on ac-
count of loss by spilling or leakage
the strength above indicated should
be used, but evaporation loss should
be made up with a more dilute acid,
consisting of ten parts of water to
n of pure concentrated sulphuric
acid.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
Call of the Country.

81 shall be ready to answer if my
country calls" remarked the gentle
man who poses.
"Of course you will,' replied Sen
ator Sorghum. $50 would anybody
But countries don't act that way
Anybody who waits for his country
to 60 around like IA bcllhop paging
him through the corridors Of time is
going to find all the jobs fllcd."-
Washington Star.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
Il Journalists "Copy,"

The late Mr.. Levy of the London
Telegraph oncc asked G. A. Sala if
he had any objection to his copy be-
ing edited in the office. "Nr. Levy"
he replied, 81 am like a butcher. |
sell YOU so much meat. To nc it is
a matter of profound Indifference
whether you servo it fried, boiled
or roasted of Mrs.
r p. O'Connor."
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-17
The Probable Reason,

Among the letters received by the
editor Of a "hcart to heart column
in a certain paper was the follow
ing, written by a young man:
"Pleasc can you tell me why a
girl always closes her eyes whom Il
fellow kisses her."
In a moment of fiendish frank
ness the man Of the pen inditcd the
following reply:
"send me your photograph and
(rhaps | can tell YOU"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11

was arrested by the police, placed on
board in irons and kept prisoner be-
low decks until we went to sea.
three days out from shore 1 was
released, brought on deck before
Capt. Williams and told by him to do
my work. I did as ordered and on
September 20 we arrived at Liver
pool, where / was taken before the
board Of trade and placed on record
as British subject who is trying to
avoid H. M. S. service. All my pro
testations that 1 was an American
citizen proved fruitless and after US
ing up all the money had and trying
to get a ship to the United States,
went back to the board of trade
and was told by them to go to work
on the India, a commercial ship
bound for the west coast of South
America. I made the round trip
voyage with this ship, though I tried
to escape at a South American port.
TorpedOed in the North Sea.
"a ten-day leave Of absence was
granted the crew when we returned
to England, and when / came back to
the ship after this period 1 found that
she had been equipped with six
twelve-inch and two three-inch guns.
/ tried to get away, but could not,
and we left London on the 18th of
October, took on stores at Glasgow
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11

and sailed out under sealed orders.
1.-THE North sea was our destina-
ton, and for forty-two days we did
patrol duty, in the course of which
we sank one submarine and sighted
two which got away. We also sighted
the Annie M. Reed, flying the Amer
lean flag, bark bound for New York
city, which was fired upon and then
ordered to stop. / protested against
firing, was locked up in irons and not
released until we returned to Glas-
gov, December 1S.
"On Christmas eve we went out
again to the North sea patrol duty.
Twelve days out we were sighted by
two submarines, torpedoed and were
sunk in latitude Sc north II west
southwest. / was one of the twenty
one saved out of a total crew of 249
souls We were picked up by a
trawler and taken by her to England,
where was paid $50 for the loss of
my belongings. Once more insisted
that was an American citizen, and
this time was pronounced a lunatic.
l went to the American ambassador
seeking assistance and was referred
by him to the consul at Liverpool.
Left to His Fate in London.
''This representative of the United
States informed me he could not help
me. Seated in a saloon with some
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11
ENORMOUS WASTE
BY SAW MILLS
THIRTY-SIx MILLION CORDS
LOST IN SCRAP, ETC.-EX-
PENSE OF DESTROYING 1T
LARGE.
SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL.


Washington, June 10.-There are
more than $4,000 sawmills in the
United States, and their output in
the form of sawdust, shavings, slabs,
and other wood refuse is estimated
as 36 million cords per year. This
is equal to over four and one-haf
billion cubic feet of waste, which is
the capacity of bin one-half mile
high with base covering forty
acre lot. Or, considering each cord
to contain eighty cubic feet of solid
wood with all the cracks and air
spaces taken out, these SO million
cords would make z block of wood
more than quarter Of mile on
each edge.
Perhaps one half of this so-called
waste product is not strictly speak
ing, wasted, but serves a useful pur-
pose as fuel under the boilers. Much
of the remaining Is million cords not
only serves no useful purpose, but in
most cases is source of inconven-
fence and danger, and costs the mill
time and money.
Sawnill waste is disposed of in
various ways. Some goes to the local
fuel market, some to pulp mills or to
wood distillation plants. Shavings
and hog cuttings, as well as other
mill waste, are sometimes used to
fill low places in the yard. However,
the most common method of getting
rid of waste is by burning either in
a fire-pit having an open fire which
sometimes has a protecting wall on
the side towards the mill, or in a
burner enclosed on all sides and hav-
ing embarrassing screen at the
top ard fire gate near the bottom.
In both cases some kind of a con-
veyor is necessary to bear the waste
from the mill to the fire. This is
usually sort of trough with a metal
bottom along which a slowly moving
chain or cable, equipped with cleats
or buckets, carries the waste to the
fire.
A closed burner and conveyor casts
about $4,000 for mill of a hundred
thousand feet daily, capacity. Forty
per cent of the larger mills, cutting
more than $4,000 board feet daily
are equipped with closed burners
Forty-five per cent have fire pits
The remainder have neither and dis.
pose of their waste in some Other
way.
1t is estimated that for mill Of
one hundred thousand feet capacity
the cost of conveying the wastC
from the machine where it is made
and destroying it in a closed burne,
is ~ cents per cord, or $10.O5 pc,
day. Burners seldom bring in an
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11
HONOR THE FLAG
ON JUNE 14TH
OPEN LETTER FROM VIM. T.
SHERMAN POST ENDORSES
JOURNALS STAND AND IN
VOKES PATRIOTISM.

The Pensacola Journal in an editor
ial, calls our attention to President
Wilson's proclamation, urging this
nation to observe the both anniyer-
sary of Flag Day, June 14th, the day
the continental congress adopted the
Stars and Stripes as the emblem of
America. VIM. T. Sherman Post, G.
A. R., asks that patriotic exercises
and patriotic music be played on that
day and evening. The Stars and
Stripes is not the emblem of the
northland nor the southland, with a
dividing line between them, but the
flag of a united .nation that all Eu-
rope must respect. One day in each
year our flag should float from the
flag staff of every school house, and
from the masthead of every ship,
from every public building and from
every cottage in the land. Let the
color-guard from every school house
be ordered out for duty on that day
True devotion to the flag will make
the boys of today better citizens and
better voters for the morrow. Hang
out the old flag and have your neigh
bors do the same. If you do not owr
a flag secure one before the 14tE
and on that day hoist it to the breeze
You will say to yourself and to YOU
neighbor, that is Old Glory, my Flag
and yours. Take off your hat al
you pass it by.
Ole Glory, a rainbow in the sky
a star for every state and a state
for every star.
VIM. T. Sherman Post,
Grand Army of the Republic
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11

sailor friends, 1 was despairing Of
ever getting back to America, when
a British officer came in and referred
to all Americans in violent profa1e
language. l knocked him down and
was forthwith arrested and NAL
treated by the police. asked that
the American consul be sent to me
and was refused. / was tried, and
when I told the Judge that if he or
the King of England used similar
terms in reference to Americans as
were employed by the British officer
I would attempt to stop them in the
same way / was knocked senseless by
a court attendant standing behind
me.
"When l came to found that had
been sentenced to three months hard
labor for striking an officer. l again
demanded to see the American con-
sui and was refused. 1 served out
my three months, was discharged,
went to the consul az Liverpool to
express doubt as to whether I was
an American or not, and he told me
he had no jurisdiction in my case. l
convinced him was an American and
demanded my rights. l was then or
dered out Of the Office as a nuisance
and threatened with arrest.
81 slowed away on tramp steam
er bound for Norfolk, Va, and ar
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11

rived in that port on the 22d Of May.
I then came to Washington to see
Senator Taggart of Indiana and also
Senator Kern, and asked them wheth-
er had received my rights as an
American citizen.
II have seen Senator Taggart, who
has promised to take the matter up.
He says he does not think / did get
my rights. What do you Think"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11

revenue, although in a few cases
ashes are sold for fertilizer, and in
a number of others the burner fur
nishes hot feed water for the boilers.
Both burners and fire pits add to
the insurance rates on lumber, and
in the case of the pit on the mill it.
self. In order to reduce the fire
hazard to zero, in the case of the
burners, it is necessary to keep all
lumber piles at least one hundred
and fifty feet away from the burner.
The matter is much worse in the case
of pits, especially the open ones which
must be kept three hundred feet
away from the mill and five hundred
feet away from any lumber piles.
When nearer than these distances
from the mill and yard respectively,
the insurance rates mount up rapid
ly with closer proximity until they
become practically prohibit've when
the fire Fit is nearer than one hum
dred feet.
No we'll managed m II would rro-
duce waste if it could b avoided. This
however, is not possible, so the next
lest thinr is to seel, oct some method
OF utilization of the waste so it viii
pay for its disposition. The forest
servl' is working en- this problem
but has not yet foTa a satisfa: .,sy
solution.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11
SUMMER FOOTWEAR

The July DELINEATOR,
also BUTTERICK Patterns
may be secured at the Pat
tern Section. Every new
pretty summer style is repre-
scented in the patter7E
July. Come in and see the
new fashions.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11

SPECIAL FOR MoNDAY-self-
stripe lowered Organdy. Yard
wide and a very soft and dainty
quality. Various colored flow
ers, some with tinted back
ground. May be seen In our
North Window. Sell for IS
cents yard. SPECIAL NON
DAY Is cents I'd.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-11

Specials for Monday:
Dresses, $3.9S; Vol Waists,
CSC. We will credit you.
Just say the word. Gains,
26 S. Palafox.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1916-09-20
BROOKSyILLE.

Mrs. Gilman Blake is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Lura circuit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cresmer. OF Washington,
D, C., are guests at the Oakland house.
Mrs. Hattie Pinkhan, OF Somerville,
Mass, is visiting her sister, Mrs. j. E..
Bowden.
Miss Jennie Gray, who is attending
school in Camden, returned home Friday,
and is very ILL.,
Fred w. circuit and wife have returned
from waItham, Mass. where they have
been visiting their sisters.
Arlene, infant daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Everett Bowden, died Sept. i3, of acute in
digestion. The funeral was held AT the
Baptist church Friday afternoon. The
bearers were Berwin and John Bah
son, Ira Closson and Herbert Roberts.
Rev. MIR. Pierce oficiated. Interment
was at Lakeside cemetery.
Sept. IS. A.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1916-09-20

To all persons interested In either OF the es-
tates hereinafter named:
At probate court held at Ellsworth. in and
for the county Of Hancock. on the nineteenth
day of September, being An adjourned ses-
sion Of the September a. d. 1916 term OF sAid
court. x
THE following matter having been pre-
i scented for the action thereupon herein
after indicated. 1t 10 hereby ordered; That
notice thereof be given to al persons inter-
ested. by causing copy Of this order TO be
published three weeks successfully in the
Ellsworth American. newspaper published
at Ellsworth. in said county. that they may
appear 1T probate court to be held ~ Els
worth, in said county. on the tenth day OF
October. .. d. 1916. at ten OF the clock In the
forenoon, and be heard thereon II they see
cause.
Elizabeth NJ. Burial. late OF Bluehiii, in
said county. deceased. A certain instrument
purportins to be the ! u will and testament
Of said deceased, together with petition for
probate thereof and tor the appointment Of
the executor without giving bonds presented
by Henry B. Anderson. the executor therein
named
BERTRAND z. CLARK, Judge OF said Court
A.trpe copy Of the original,
Attest:-E. 4. CHASE, Register.