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ONLY A RIVER WHITEFISH.
Story • t Mas Who Xmv Fiah Whoa
He Saw Them, Also a Bail
road “Ad.”
William C. Harris, angling ed
< itor of Outing, and rightly called
the Izaak Walton of America, is a
man who can come pretty near to
telling exactly what fish you will
find in Blank brook, in Blank
township of Blank connty, Idaho,
Texas or Rhode Island. New Ash
es and new facts about them, he
lores as a miser lores gold, only
lie does not hoard them, but gath
ers them to give out again.
One day Harris chanced to be in
8t. Paul. He was talking with
General Passenger Agent Charley
Fee, who said Harris should go te
Montana to catch grayling in' n
stream at that time much adver*
tised.
Harris said there were no gray
ling in the stream. The railroad
man laughed at him as a New
Yorker who pretended to know
more about a certain Montana
river than a man who had Ashed it.
The dispute waxed warm. Har
ris was due ia New York oa a
certain day, and by taking the flret
train west he could have six hours
on the stream and still keep his en
gagement. In 36 hours he was on
the stream with a local represen
tative of the railroad. He waded
In, made one cast, nnd was fast to
a eilvery thing that tore about
mightily like that of a grayling.
It came to the net, and the local
representative of the railroad
fairly shouted:
•There, there; it s a grayling.
“Pack this carefrilly in moss,"
•aid Harris. “Send it to yonr gen
eral passenger agent." Then he
walked to the telegraph office and
wired that official:
“Am sending one of yonr gray
ling. It’s an infernal old rirer
whiteflsh.”
Then he took the train for New
York and kept his engagement
A MAN AND HIS SHOES.
|>k( Thicker the Boles He Wears the
Larger the City from Which
He Halls.
“You can almost tell from
what country a man comes by ths
weight of his shoes," said J. W.
Davy, of Chicago, who represents
a shoe company, to a Milwaukee
I Sentinel reporter. “You might
net believe it,” he continued, “but
the thicker the soles of his shoes
the larger the city from whitit be
comes. In New York it is almost
a fad, and the soles of the shoes
there are exceedingly heavy.
I They are almost as heavy in Chico
go. Men there wear shoes to pro
I tect their feet. They have not
; time enough, it seems, to bother
with rubbers. So they make on#
pair of shoes do the work for all
kinds of weather. Here in Mil
waukee and in other cities of this
size, I notice, the men wear light
shoes and rubbers. I suppose
they have time enough to wear the
overshoes. Up in the country 1
find that in many places leather
boots are not worn at all for sew
. ... • a ..._ii_ mi._
erai OI llie Wiuicr mumuu. A ucj
wear heavy Books and then pul
rubber overshoes over these.”
Gannan “Sunday Schools."
In England the term “Sunday
school” has a definite meaning,
and is exclusively used to denote
a place of religious teaching. In
Germany, however, the race for
commercial supremacy haa led ta
the establishment of Sunday
sehools at which mechanics am
given practical instruction in
their trades. There is, for exam
pie, a school for masons, at which
the students, many of them m*
ehanios who work ‘during the
week, spend several hours on Sun
day morning in learning the high
er branches of thear craft. Sim
ilarly there are Sunday schools fos
tailors, ironmongers, bookbind
ers, and followers of other trade#
-even barbers and blacksmiths.
Gold in Mow South Walw.
Preliminary returns issued by
the department of mines, New
South Wales, show a big increase
In the gold production of that
state for 1903, as compared with
the output for 1902. The yield for
1903 is valued at £1,080,029, which
represents an increase of £395,069
ovev the total of the previous year.
Tho Adjutant.
The adjutant, or marabout, ta
4 tall bird of India, about aix feet
high. The wings expanded mean
jre about 15 feet from tip to tip.
It readily swallow* a cat or a Imps
STARTLING PROJECT.
ENGLISHMAN WOULD DIG HOLE
TWELVE MILES DEEP.
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Would Solve Manj Questions Un
known to the Scientific World
Estimated Cost $25,000,000
and to Take 85 Tears.
Experiments to be tried in the Wash
ington monument by officers of the geo
logical survey to try to determine ths
compressiveness of the earth's mass,
has awakened widespread interest in
scientific circles. Coming as it does on
the heels of a project broached by
Charles Algernon Parsons, of England,
to bore a hole 12 miles into the earth,
the scientific world has much food for
■peculation.
Prof. Parsons estimates that to sink
a shaft 12 miles deep would cost $25,000,
000, and that it would require 85 years
to accomplish it. This shaft, cut down
into the earth, would represent the
aquivalent of a hole one foot deep in a
mass 666 feet thick. It would solve
many questions that the scientific knowl
edge of the world has left unanswered,
yet It would investigate only the crust
and leave thousands of miles of the in
terior mass still untouched.
The amount of compression at the
globe’s center should, to some extent at
least, define the character of the mass
of which it is formed. It is argued that
the great mass of the interior of the earth
Is solid. Against the contention that
the planet, under a crust 25 miles thick.
Is a mass of fiery liquid is arrayed thv
fact of the known density of the globe
That density In the earth’s entirety U
about 5.5 times the density of the water
that covers three-quarters of the sur
face.
The assumption of a comparatively
thin crust requires, according to Sir
William Thompson, that this crust
should have a rigidity possessed by no
, known substance. The sun exerts such a
strain upon the substance of the earth
that the planet could not maintain its
snape as itaoes, nemaintains, unless tna
supposed crust were at least 2,000 or
2,500 miles in thickness.
There is a gradual increase in the tem
perature while penetrating the surface
of the crust. This increase in some lo
calities is as rapid as one degree for each
56 feet of descent; in others one degree
for 75 to 85 feet.
In the Comstock silver mines of Ne
vada, at a depth of 3,065 feet, water has
a temperature of 170 degrees, Fahren
heit. The deepest excavations in the
earth are at the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mines in Michigan, where thelongest
perpendicular shaft goes down 4,900
feet, while one of the. standing shafts
is more than 85)00 feet in length.
There are in these mines 250 miles ot
lateral galleries. Colossal engines are
required to ventilate the immense sub
terranean city and to keep the tempera
ture endurable in the lower levels. All
deep mine borings prove how stupend
ously difficult would be the task of de
scending below the mile level. ^ .
At the lowest rate of increase in the
temperature in penetratingtheearth.the
heat at the depth suggested by Mr. Par
sons. 12 miles down, would be 800 de
grees Fahrenheit. This heat, though far
from the fusing point of wrought iron,
(3,280 degrees), would render the use
of tools, even if the lower borings of the
shaft were constructed as they are In oil
wells, a difficult process. It would defy
the most colossal scheme of artificial re
frigeration to render such depths avail
ible for entrance by human beings.
No considerations of commercial ben
efit enter into the plans of Mr. Parsons
in suggesting the 12-mile boring into the
crust of the earth. It is a scheme purely
is the Interest of scientific knowledge.
ODD WILL OF RICH MAN.
Nephew Will Inherit Fortune from
Uncle After Serving Three
Years as a Soldier. v
‘‘That he shall serve at least one full
term of not less than three years in
the ranks of the United States army,
at the expiration of which, if his dis
Luai5C ouau »cau. om ykic uuucdi auw
faithful, character excellent,’ and shall
have reached the grade of a noncommis
sioned officer and bring to the executors
I herewith appoint a letter of com
mendation from the officer under whom
he served, I bequeath to the said George
0. Travis the sum of $130,000, knowing
that, after such service, he will have
had enough experience of the world and
disciplinary training to insure the
proper disposal of what has taken me a
lifetime to accumulate.’*
Such are the terms of the will of the
late S. Houston, a wealthy mga of Chi
cago, made to his nephew, George Q.
Travis, a telegraph operator of Okla
homa. The other day the youpg man
became of age and appeared at the Unit
ed States army recruiting office and en-1
listed for the purpose of carrying out
the dying request of his uncle.
Mr. Houston was an old soldier, hav
ing served in the civil war in the Fourth
United States artillery. Unable to con
tinue an army career, Houston, having
no sons of his own, was determined that
his next of kin, his nephew, should be
come a soldier.
Young Travis said it was not neces
sary for his uncle to make that clause
In his will which makes service in the
United States army compulsory for him,
as he had always intended to enter the
army as soon as he was 21.
A Hole with a Future.
An English engineer proposes to And
out what is in the interior of the earth.
He will do this by digging a hole 12 miles
deep, provided with air locks and cool
ing apparatus. The work will require
85 years and cost $5,000,000. What pa
tience and effort those foreigners do ex
hibit, remarks the Chicago Record-Her
ald, in getting at the bottom of thing*.
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MRS. ALEXANDER WILSON,
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TOR’S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as
ancdlary administrator of the estate of Isaac
Scott deceased, will offer for sale at public auction
to the highest bidder on a credit until October 15,
1905, at the front door of the Courthouse in New
port, Jackson county, Arkansas, between the
hours of ten o’clock in the forenoon and three
o’clock ih the afternoon, on
SATURDAY, THE 1HTH DAY OF MARCH 1905
all the lands belonging to the estate of Isaac Scott
deceased, lying in Jackson County, Arkansas, to
wit: The s e 1-4 of the s e 1-4 of sec. 12, the n w
1-4 of the n e 1-4 of sec. 13. all in Township 12
north range 3 west; also thirty acres off the north
side of lot 2 of the n w 1-4 and ten acres off north
side of the e 1-2 of lot 3 and the w 1-2 of lot 3 all
in the n w 1-4 of section 7 and the w 1-2 of lot 3 of
the s w 1-4 of sec. 7, all in Township 12 north
range 2 west.
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the Probate Court of Jackson County, Arkansas.
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the land to secure the payment thereof.
Possession will be given January 1st, 1906.
Given this 16th day of February. 1906.
J. R. COX,
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Scott, deceased.
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