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c. Who built the Old Stone Mill at
Newport, r. I?-I. c.
A. This has always been the subject
OF controversy. Many think it was orig
inally sacred edifice built by the
Norsemen and was afterWard ada pied for
use as a mill Others claim that it was
built originally for mill purposes in the
seventeenth century.
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O. How many men are now in the
c. C. C. camps?-T. T.
A. About 1926 900. If they were all to
join hands, they could form q chain
which would extend from Washington,
D. c., to Charleston, w. Va.
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TOleratiOn.

Jud Tunkins says even man who
is looking for trouble stands a better
chance than the one who insists on
keeping his eyes closed to the future.
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@. What was the name of the famous
singer whose voice changed from bari
tone to tenor?-L. K. F.
A. Jean de Reszke was originally
baritone, but his voice developed into
one of the greatest tenors of the nine
teenth century.
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ones that are chiefly alloyed with
nickel and other substances; the IRON
stone, and the stone
Most of the falls are stone. If ex-
posed to weather these soon disin-
tegrate and lose their identity as
meteors, hence the largest meteorites
found in the museums are of the all
metal class. The largest in any
museum In this country, the 361a-ton
Cape York meteorite, was brought to
the United States from Greenland by
Admiral Peary. The largest in the
world known at present is the Groot-
fontein meteorite, which lies where
1t fell in Southwest Africa. No one
knows when either Of these meteor
ties fell.
Detonations accompany the fall of
some of the larger meteorites, for as
they spin through the air they leave
cylindrical vacuum behind them,
and the molecules of the air rushing
in to fill this vacuum produces a
noise like thunder. Reverberations
of an 820-pound stone that fell near
Paragould, Ark, on February is,
1880, were heard so miles distant.
Meteors that fall in the evening
must overtake the earth. while those
that fall in the morning meet the
earth; consequently, more meteors
can be seen in the early morning
hours than Ia the evening.
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fireban that burst near Vandalis, ILL.,,
on December 8, 1880. 1t was sesn in
eight different States from Wisconsin
to Mississippi. But no one ever wstches
for hreballs, for no one knows when
they will appear, nor from which d.
rection they will come.
Celestial visitors have been known
from remote antiquity. Our ancestors
regarded the fall Of . meteorite as a
supernatural event. One of the earliest
forms of idolatry appears to have been
the worship of meteoric stones, some of
which have been found carefully in
tered in Indian burial mounds. One
has been found in an Aztec temple,
and there is reason for thinking that
the Palladium at Troy, the Sacred
Shield of Numa at Rome and the
image of Venus at Cypress were me-
teorites. Chinese records tell of the
fall of many meteorites, the earliest
being of fall in GA BIC. Their rec
ords do not, however, state whether or
not the stones were regarded as sacred
in China.
Ancient Greeks believed in the cos
mical origin of n1eteorites, but with the
revival Of learning in Europe the opin-
ion that stones could not fall from
heaven gradually gained ground. Those
who declared that they saw such stones
fall were ridiculed, Stones continued
TO fall, nevertheless, and people con-
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tinued to say they saw them fall. In
the beginning Of the 18th century the
French Academy of Sciences investi-
gated a fall near ,L'Aigle, in France,
and the result Of this established the
cosn1ic origin Of meteorites.
Luminous trails of meteors are an
afterglow caused by the intense heat
developed and the ionization of the
rarified air. The smaller the meteor,
the greater its retardation by the atmo-
sphere" he explained, "and the more
rapidly is it consumed by the intense
heat developed"
CHOULD meteor weighing thou
sands of tons come in, it would be
retarded very little by the atmosphere,
and would strike the earth with high
velocity. If it should strike at IL
miles per second, the pressure would
be sufficient to make the material
OF the meteorite flow like gas. Both
the meteorite and the material it en-
countered would be vaporized-an ex-
plosion would occur, and a crater
would be the result. Fortunately,
such large meteors come In very sell
dom.
At the present time there are more
than 1000 meteorites In the museums
over the world. These give q fair
example Of their composition. They
may b classed into the au-nstal
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METEORIC showers occur on April
20, August IL, November 16 and
December II. Leonids (November 16)
hold the first place; next in i'm
portance are the Pereids, which comes
from the constellation Perseus, and
appear August IL. The larger me-
teors favor these two months.
Most of the larger meteors We see
burst" says DR.. Wylie, disappear at
heights Of from Is to 80 miles up
and the smaller ones at an even
greater height"
Meteors travel around the sun in
great numbers, much as swarm of
bees travel together in going to new
hive. On the dates given, the earth
reaches the point in its orbit closest
to the orbits of these meteor swarms.
Orbits of several meteoric swarms
have been computed, and it has been
discovered that in some cases they are
identical with the orbits of known
comets, or comets that have disinte-
grated
In 1866, Schiaparelli published his
conclusion that, because Of the SIM
ilarity of their orbits, there must be
a connection between the Perseid
meteors and Tuttle's comet Of 1862.
The next year Leverrier showed that
the Leonid meteors moved in the path
Of Temples comet Of 1855. Shortly
Astss xevsrrtes discovered this Weiss
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and on June 2, 1912. this reminder of
the Poet of the Sieras" was removed
to the park.
A BOUT the most extraordinary per-
son to come to Washington was
Benjamin Banneker. This marvellous
colored man came here from Howard
County, Md. to assist Mai. Andrew
Ellicott in running the lines for the
District of Columbia, and surveying
and laying off the streets, squares and
lots of the city. He was, to say the
least. wizard at figures and an as
tronomer such as drew laudatory COM
mendation from President Jefferson
after he had read a manuscript copy
of Banneker's first compilation of an
almanac sent the President by this
genius, with this introduction:
Although you may have the oppor-
tunity of perusing it after its publica-
tion. yet I chose to send it to you in
manuscript previous thereto, that you
might not only have an earlier in
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when she sprang to her feet, screamed,
You impudent scoundrel,' and dealt
the colored man blow in the eye that
staggered him. She drew of to give
him another from the shoulder, when
the colored man, thinking that under
the circumstances retreat was ad-
visable. dropped the hat and retired in
haste. The doctor regained possession
of her hat, and departed ntriumph.
The whole proceeding was regarded by
the witnesses as one highly creditable
to the spunky doctor"
The doctor was the only woman
allowed to appear in male attire by
an act Of Congress. She died at her
home on Bunker Hill, near Oswego,
N. Y, February 81, 1919, aged 81. In
her frequent visits to Washington she
usually stopped with Mrs. Belva
Lockwood.
A ND this reference to Mrs. Lock-
wood reminds the writer that
she was the only woman ever regu-
larly nominated for the presidency,
and she was then bona fide resident
of the District. This occurred not
only in 1884, but again in 1888, when
she was nominated by the Equal
Rights party, which put full ticket
ir the field.
The daughter of poor upstate
New York farmer named Bennett,
Mrs. Lockwood early began teaching
school, marrying when 18 years of
age Mr.. McNall, promising farmer,
who soon thereafter contracted tuber-
culosis and died ave years later, leav-
ing widow with an infant daughter,
Lura. Necessity compelled her again
to seek employment. and she returned
to teaching school for a living, mean
while graduating from Genesee Col
lege in June, 1857. 1nstructing classes
was never to her liking. Her heart
and mind were continually set upon
getting thorough knowledge of the
law with view toward practscing be-
fore the courts, and it was this ardent
desire that brought her to Wishing
tol, where she could see the Nation s
chief legislative body making, shaping
and debating bills covering the great
problems Of the day.
She arrived in Washington in
February, 1866. from Owego. IN. Y,
with few dollars and only her per-
sonality and her education to tecom-
mend her. She soon found itsneces-
sary to obtain employment, (which
she did in instructing in sladies'
school. Shc was not manShater,
and twice proved she was not for in
1868 she again was married, tbs time
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to Rev. Ezekiel Lockwood Of this city,
who was for some years afterward an
invalid upon her hands, and died in
1877.
WHEN Mrs. Lockwood came here
the law schools of the city were
closed to women, but she forthwith
proceeded to try to matriculate, but
without avail. Finally, in 1870, when
well-known law school opened its
doors here to mixed classes, Mrs.
Lockwood and IA other women took
advantage Of the unusual opportunity
and matriculated. Only two of these
finished the course, Mrs. Lockwood
and Miss Lydia S. Hall.
In the meantime the sentiment of
the students had changed to such an
extent that the faculty would not per-
NIT the woman graduates to receive
their diplomas, and, indeed, it was
not until more than year later
that our presidential candidate was
able to obtain her much-coveted sheep
skin. The names of these women
today do not appear in the list of
graduates as printed at the time. How
strange it seems and yet how humanity
natural that in reading over the names
OF the graduates AS given only one
person, so far as known is living to-
day, and that one is Judge Hosea B.
Moulton, the only living survivor of
the Arsenal explosion of 1864.
On being admitted to the bar of
the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia the clerk is said to have
remarked: You went through today,
Mrs. Lockwood. like a knife You see,
the world moves in our day."
Justice David K. Cartier upon this
occasion Is recorded as having said:
Madame. if you come into this court
We shall treat you like a man."
Justice Arthur Macarthur was not
quite so generous or complimentary.
He said: Bring on as many woman
lawyers as you choose. I do not be-
lieve they will be a success"
The Court of Claims and the United
States Supreme Court turned her down
fiat; the former, first because she was
a woman" and subsequently because
she was a married woman"
After repeated efforts to lobby
bill through Congress having for its
purpose the admission of women to
practice before the United States Su-
preme Court, such bill finally became
law in February, 1879, and on March
3, 1879, on motion of A. G. Riddle,
Mrs. Lockwood was the first woman
admitted to practice before that court.
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leonids, Meteors of This
Month, Become Active on
18th After Midnight.
By Ruth EveIyn Fleming.

V"LIGHT into interplanetary
- space and visiting other
worlds-th HI adventurous
u dream of many-will likely
never be realized, for the difficulty of
overcoming the earth's gravitative pull
would seem to be insurmountable," says
Dr.. Lloyd R. Wylie.
DR.. Wylie, former member of the
faculty at Eastern Illinois State Teach
ers' College, where he taught mathe-
mates and astronomy, left that post
18 months ago to become member of
the staff of astronomers at the United
States Naval Observatory in this city.
"Out beyond the earth's atmosphere,
the problem of navigation, and of
coming gently to rest on the surface of
some far distant planet would seem to
be equally formidable" he continues.
You may, however Join the hum
dreds of others who will form recep-
ton committee to welcome visitors
from interplanetary space, for shortly
after midnight, on the 18th of this
month, Leonids-the shooting stars of
November-will stage a show These
November meteors come from the con-
stellation Leo, hence their name.
"Hovering in the air" is the meaning
of the Greek word from which is de-
rived the word meteor"
DR.. Wylie brings us much of in
terest, especially about the conduct of
meteors.
Many meteors," he says, explode
at the end of their paths. These are
called bolides. while the fragments
that fall to earth are called meteor
ties" Meteors, or shooting stars, are
invisible when in outer space. flashing
out for brief interval of time when
they enter the earth's atmosphere and
reach the surface of the earth. These
fragments that reach the earth are not
pieces of the moon or other planet, he
tells us, though 1t is probable that
they are similar to the materials out
of which these heavenly bodies are
made.
METEORS as bright as the planet
Venus are not uncommon, and
occasionally one as bright as the full
moon may be seen. Such a meteor
would illuminate an area of approxi-
mately 100000 square miles with a
brilliant light that would be visible
over much larger area. Meteors
ranging from the brightness of the
planet Venus upward are called fire.
balls.
Fireballs are often seen In the day
time. There Is record Of one daytime
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No story Of people who did things
In an unusual way would be complete
without something being said about
the Man in the Tree" or the Bird
Man"-otherwise known as A. B. Hay
wood, who erected house in the tree
tops, just beyond the south bank Of
Piney Branch, on the west side of Six
teenth street. After leaving this loca-
ton, Mr.. Haywood, who was a Civil
War veteran and clerk in the PEN
sion Once, moved to Forest Glen,
where he built another house in the
trees. and in which locality he probably
died number of years ago.
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DIVING STARS TO lSTAGE EXHIBITION FOR EARTH JEWELLERS
All Sizes and Types Seen
in History and Many of
Relics Are Saved.

found a like case in Andromedes and
Bielas comet that broke up in 1886
and disappeared in 1882 In 1872, and
again in 1892, when this comet should
have been near the earth, fine meteor
showers were seen. Possibly the
meteors were remnants of the comet"
says DR.. Wylie.
1t has since been established that
the Aquarid meteors seen early in
May and Halley's comet form another
case in kind. Altogether there are
seven where connections between
'meteors and comets seem to be cer-
tainty. It should not be construed,
however, that all meteors move in
known orbits and are associated with
comets.
SPECTACULAR showers have oc-
CURED from time to time. The
one last visible occurred on the even
ing of october 9, 1888, and was fur
nished by Draconid meteor stream
DuXing the maximum activity on that
occasion about 10000 shooting stars
were recorded each hour This was
seen in Europe; unfortunately, when
the shower came. it was cloudy in
Eastern United States. 1t was clear
in Central United States, but by the
time darkness fell the shower was
over. A few meteors were seen by
observers In the Western States, but
they saw only the outlying stragglers
from the main swarm that furnished
the shower.
"A peculiar feature of the Draconid
meteors seen on that evening is that
they came in pairs," remarked DR..
Wylie. This feature has never been
explained"
Several brilliant showers have been
furnished by Leonid meteor stream
since 902 A. D. The famous shower
of November IL, 1888, is the most
memorable, for the stars fell like
rain" Those who saw, and were not
acquainted with the facts, thought
that the end Of the world had come.
Leonids have not, since 1899, put on
a grand spectacle such as that seen
In 1888. Jupiter, flguratively speak
ing, may have stolen the show says
this eminent authority, mot by put
ting on a better one, but by per-
turbing and diverting the main stream
of Leonids away from the earth"
Nevertheless, the show on November
l6, If viewed in the absence Of city
lights, will be fascinating-heavenly
visitors worthy of our attention and
exciting our admiration.
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Back in the eighties, Mrs. Lockwood
rode the first tricycle. brought to this
city and for awhile her appearance on
the machine created a sensation
wherever she went, even more so, If
possible, than did the sight of DR..
Mary Walker in her frock coat, panta-
looms and stove-pipe hat.
Mrs. Lockwood died at the age of s6
in George Washington University Hos
pital, May l9, 1917. and her body rests
in Congressional Cemetery.
JOAQUIN MILLER, whose cabin is
in Rock Creek Park. had a pecu-
liarity all his own. When he came
here early in the sos he wrote for one
of the daily papers and had much to
do toward having the old-time spit
toons removed from the floors of the
House and Senate. Being a poet OF
considerable ability he thought log
cabin would be in keeping with his
talent and this prompted him to build
small log house on Meridian Hill,
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spection, but that you might also view
it in my own handwriting"
To this Mr.. Jefferson replied:

spection, but that you might also view
1t in my own handwriting"
To this Mr.. Jefferson replied:
II thank you sincerely for your
letter OF the 10th instant, and for the
Almanac 1t contained. Nobody wishes
more than I do to see such proofs as
you exhibit, that nature has given to
our black brethren talents equal to
those Of the other colours Of men, and
that the appearance of a want Of them
Is owing only to the degraded condi-
ton of their existence both in Africa
and America. can add with truth
that no one wishes more ardently to
see good system commenced for
raising the condition both of their
body and mind to what it ought to be,
as fast as the imbicility Of their present
existence, and other circumstances
which cannot be neglected, will admit
have taken the liberty of sending
your Almanac to Monsieur de Con-
dorcet, secretary Of the Academy Of
Sciences at Paris, and a member of
the Philanthropic Society, because I
considered it a document to which
your whole colour had right for their
justification against the doubts which
have been entertained Of them.
Il am. with great esteem, sir, your
most obedient servant.
THO. JEFFERSON"
RANNEKER was born in Baltimore
County, near the village of
Ellicotts Mills, in the year 1892. His
father was a native African, and his
mother probably partly white
woman. His father was a slave when
he married; but his wife. who was
free woman and possessed of great
energy and industry, very soon after
ward purchased his freedom. Ban
neker's mother was named Morton
before her marriage. and belonged to
family remarkable for its intelligence.
When upward of 10, she was still very
active
When Benjamin was old enough he
was employed to assist his parents in
their labor
In the intervals of toll, when he was
approaching, or had attained man
hood, he was sent to an obscure and
distant country school, which he at
tended until he had acquired knowl-
edge of reading and writing and had
advanced in arithmetic as far as 'Dou-
Bile Position" In all matters beyond
these rudiments of learning he was his
own instructor. On leaving school he
was obliged to labor for years, almost
uninterruptedly, for his support, but
his memory being retentive, he lost
nothing of the little education he had
acquired.
Banneker died in 1904 in the sew
enty-second year of his age, and his
grave, which was dug near the dwell
ing which he occupied during his
lifetime, was not marked However, a
public school in this city and SWIM
ming pool for colored persons bear his
name.
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Storm Sits Soil.

THE windstorms which swept the
drought areas Of the Middle West
and darkened the skies of the East
proved to be giant sieves which strained
out the fertile top soil, carrying it
away and leaving coarse and largely
sterile sand behind to gather In dunes
and destroy the farms affected.
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Va lNSlbSiAu oOiAii SfdhlNy <hNoiiios oAA
the banks of the Potomac, when that
distinguished gentleman was taking
his morning dip, and refused to leave
until Mr.. Adams consented to an in
tervieW.
But Mrs. Royale had her enemies,
and upon one occasion she was tried
and convicted in the Circuit Court be-
fore Judge Cranch for being COM
mon scold. The penalty in this case,
according to the old English law which
was then declared still to be in force
In the District of Columbia, was that
she be ducked in the water in duck
ing stool. 1t was an obsolete law even
In England and though 1t applied here
at the time, yet 1t had never been en-
forced, and for this reason the Judge
imposed a fine, which was quickly
paid.
This noted woman. regardless Of any
faults she might have had, was cer-
tainly not without her many vir-
tues, and the greatest of these was
her intense loyalty to her country, and
the last prayer she offered, as pritned
in her paper. was that the Union Of
the States might be eternal.
The injustice that was heaped upon
Ann Royale reminds the writer Of
another woman, who in 1885 met with
an accident which might bear re-
peating, although there is no con-
nection whatever with Mrs. Royale's
case.
It seems that this old woman, while
under the influence Of rum. procured
. swapping turtle. and having kissed
It several times, the turtle fastened
itself upon her tongue. A physician
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
Families Entertained
By Wednesday Club

MELOLAND. - SiXty-seven were
present at the schoolhouse Satur-
day night when Meloland Wednes-
day club ladies entertained their
families with a chicken pie supper.
For the evenings entertainment
the group were divided, the young
people playing games outdoors while
the adults enjoyed games and stunts
directed by Mrs Lawrence Rich
ards, Mrs. Charles ForSberg and
Mrs. Earl Maddox. Recipients of
prizes included Mesdames Dan
Scott, II. A. Wells, Merle Hartsock.
Arthur Farley, Alex Meyer; and
Messrs w. II. Palmer, Alex Meyer,
Arthur Farley, Dan Scott and Ward
McGreW. Those present included
Messrs and Mesdames Arthur Far
ley, L. G.. Goar, Henry Havekorst,
w. G.. Heriman, Merle Hartsock,
j. r. Kinnaird, Ebert Newton, Jesse
Mcbride, Isaac Mcbride, Ward Nc
Grew, Alex Meyer, Hardy Odell, w.
H. Palmer, G. G. Richards, Law
renee Richards, Dan Scott, Fred
Waterman, G.. D. WoolSey; Miss
Helen Rumsey; Mesdames Ralph
Engebretson, Charles Forsberg, H. A.
Wells, S. L. Bettis, Earl Maddox; Mr..
A. c.. Mcintosh and a number OF
| yOun9 people.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
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