Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1917, Page 7

THE CASPER DAILY TRIBU FIN TNE TLR TLGiTTTT |FRACING LosTcaRS HOW HOWARD LEARNED BUGS No bug, or insect, or worm, is so lowly or humble that Dr. L. E. How- ard cannot call it by its first name. He gives a bug or a ivere insect a e glance and knows its family his- hereditary traits, and minor vices, is the government's chief ento- ist, or, to use a lay term, bug- st. For more than 50 years he s been studying about all manner of creeping things, and these days, while house flies and bol! weevils and winged bats and June and a lot of things like that are a good deal of a nnisance yet they are nothing lke the pest they would be if it were not for Doctor Howard, When Howard was a youngster aged seven, in Ithaca, N. Y., his moth- took him on « trip to a point-on Howard fell in with a aymates who amused them- ves hunting cocoons and watching ch butterflies. He grew so sin tory, He When it came time to enter colle; serious, ty and began to take d and gay, all except Howard. was making a mechanical engineer ciating himself with strange insects and becomir was time he was quitting his butter She persuaded him to study engine to his mother, he switched over into the scienti interested in that sort of thing that when he got back home he intely entered into the cocoon-gathering business on his own account. , Howard's mother, a widow, told him ly chasing and thinking about some- ing. Without saying : department of the all the courses they had which dealt In any way | umencement day came and members of the graduating class were light- He knew that he would have to confess ast to his mother about the wicked way in which he ad let her belie’ was merely asso- a scientist. of himself, when h Today he probably knows more about combating bad Insects and mother- good Insects than any man alive. What may be d the “hureau- cratic smile” is p: ularly distaste- ful to Secretary of the Interior Lane. This is the smile of the government official who dislikes change or sugges- tion of change above anything und everything else. The secretary encountered this smile early in his career, and stood for it for many moons. Finally he broke out against it, and in no uncertain terms. According to a colleague, it hap- pened something like this: A subor- dinate official was summoned to the secretarial office for a conference. Mr. Lane outlined a plan which involved cutting through some particularly tangled red tape. As soon as he perceived his super- lor’s drift, the bureaucrat began smil- ing the typical bureaucratic smile, Mr. Lane kept on talking, apparently unconcerned. Then he came out with this: “I do not-object to your finding fault with miy 1déas. In fact, I ike honest criticism, and I am always ready to be shown. “But don’t sit there and smile that way. way gets fired.” And so the next man didn’t. The next man who smiles that Kathleen Scott, widow of the British explorer » lost his life In the Antarctic after r hing the South pole, is working in ndon munition factor She took work that she might overcome neliness and that she might do re toward England's defense. his tall, sad-faced woman, who has entry even to Buckingham palace, both right of birth and by right ef her nd's exploits, toils each*day be- cockney girls and women—Tom- s wives and sisters. And she likes work, too, rhe zest I have found in my work has not waned,” she said. “Partly I Suppose because I have made friends; were new to me as I was to them, but we liked each other. In short, I found real comradeship. And, most of all, there is eseape from those moments which come to any self-respecting Eng- lshwoman when she asks herself Lady Captain Scott, wh af Ye. whether it is right or fair or decent that she should be having a good time while the men folk are facing and suffering untold things. It is no small moral comfort in these days to feel oneself clear of the disgrace of leisure.” And it is suspected that the explorer’s widow does not find unwelcome the money that she recelves for her work in the munition plant. Captain Scott left no estate of any consequence. Lady Scott is a sculptor of rare talent and was one of Rodin’s few Pupils. She also was one of the first woman aviators in England and always has been noted as a woman who “did things.” z PROTECTS INDIAN HEIRS When a red man dies in these modern days, as likely as not he leaves an estate, and full as likely as his white brother, he leaves a will declar- ing how the estate shall be devised. Not so easily as his white brother's can the red man’s will be carried out, however. Before his heirs receive the}~ due the will must pass through the hands of a little woman who sits in the office of Poor Lo’s guardian, other- wise the bureau of Indian affairs. / To see that justice is done the heirs of deceased Indians is th. partic- ular work-of Miss Florence Etheridge, a college, a member ¢” the bar of the! District of Columbia, as well as of that” | power | ploy car | fact that j war the trans-Siberian was a one-rall SHERLOCK HOLMES TASK FUK A RAILROAD COMPANY. For Some Unexplained Reason Cars Frequently Disappear and the Jeb of Finding Them Is Most Difficult. At times when the scarcity of freight cars causes the railroads to place an embargo upon certain classes of goods, the problem of keeping track of its cars to see that they do not run away and become wanderers upon the face of the earth is a stupendous one tor each. company. When a freight given 2 nur shop, and car is built, Iz Is before it leaves the thereafter it is always | known by that number until it is worn yut and scrapped. When a new car receives its number, and starts out upon its business career, it is entered in the record book, and a careful ac- count of its wanderings and earning are kept there. This record k is a history of the car, and by consulting it, one can learn how many trips it has made, what cities it has visited, how muny times it has been to the repair shop, and also where it is supposed to be at any given time. But in spite of all this «: in keep- ng a record of each car, now 1 then for some unexplained r on, one dis- appears from sight—literally running away. Some of the big companies em- ers, but as a rule a print- ed tracer is first sent after the car to bring it back home, This printed tracer in a blue envelope, Is sent to the person in whose jurisdiction the car was last supposed to be, and if it had passed out of his district the tracer is sent on to the next one to whom the car was assigned. This lit- tle printed tracer failing to bring the car home In a reasonable length of time a man known as a tr r is sent after it. The tracer is really a rail- road car detective. And sometimes it is more difficult to track a runaway freight car than a criminal, There are tens of thousands of miles of railways, and hundreds of thousands of freight cars, and to find the one carrying a certain number is often like hunting a needle in a hay- stack, The tracer may arrive In a city, where the runaway car is sup- posed to be, at the very moment when the car is leaving it in the opposite di- rection. .It may cross his track on a parallel line, or dodge around him on a short line. It tcuy be headed north, or rolling merrily toward the Pacific, while he is going toward the Atlantic. A runaway car apparently is as de- praved as any criminal. It hides on a lonely siding, or gets lost in a short swamp line. One such runaway rested nearly a year on a siding in southers Texas simply because it got lost, and | no one seemed to know just what to dg | The nearest freight agent had | no record of {t, and no tracer had re- | with it. quested Its return. Going on the prin- ciple that what is ve! »dy's busi- ness is nobody's busin this local agent made no effort to hint up the owners. If the order had been re- ceived by him to return it he would have obe 1, but lacking such orders be left it on the siding. In the course of time, it was occupled by a famil) of squatters, who Hved quite com ably in it for six months, and we routed out only when quite »by ac lent, the car tracer discovered it.— Popular Mechanics Magazijue. Double-Tracking the Trans-Siberian. News has been received in Tokyo reporting the completion of the double- tracking of the Siberian railway. The news, says the Far Mast, still lacks of- ficial confirmation, but if It is well founded, it is bound to prove a wel- come relief to the prescnt congestion of traffic on that line. It recnlls the during the Russo-Japanese road, the best the Russian engineers could do being the construction of fre- quent switches, so that trains could pass in either direction. And yet by Spartan regulations they managed to feed and carry munitions for over five hundred thousand men over that “double strip of rust.” A Stage Episode. Miss Margaret Illington, the well- known actress, tells a story of an amusing unrehearsed effect that oc- curred one night when she was act- ing in the comedy, “Mrs. Dane's De- fense.” Miss [lington- was playing the part of Mrs. Bulsome Porter and in one scene she had to make a very serious and dignified exit. On the night in question, just as she was go- ing off, Miss Illington unfortunately tripped. and fell full length upon the stage. This was bad enough, but, as luck would have it, the next line in the piece, which was immediately spoken by another character, war: “Mrs. Bulsome Porter seems very much upset!”—Lonsdale (Pa.) Re- porter. Putting Euripides In His Place. That Euripides might be styled a “lowbrow” in the language of today is the opinion of Dr. Paul Shorey of the University of Chicago, and one of the best-known professors in the United States, who spoke recently at of the Supreme court of the United Stanford. “Buripides dragged the States. The will of no Indian may,go te F stately four beat anapestic verse of Sophicles down to the level! of the fry- signatures of both ing pan and the bourgeois,” said the doctor. He added that “Whatever Bu- thought, he had to say, and his Were as plentiful as mi- Chronicle. GOCD JOKE ON A RAILROAD Eastern Company Unwittingly Giver Away More Than 500,000 Tons of Coal. A million-dollar joke on tle Dela- ware & Hudson Railroad company, perpetrated away back in 1906, when the railroad g rously deeded 1,200 acres of mountain land to the com- monwealth of Pennsylvania as a site for the State Hospital for Criminal other day when a coal dealer tried to make a contract with the hospital to }furnish its coal. The dealer ment that learned the to his amaze- hospital has on grounds more than 500,000 tons of chestnut, pea, buckwheat and other steam sizes of coal, all within easy hauling distance of its powerhouse. Upon inquiry he discovered that the hospital its got the coal along with the land without paying a cent. The explanation is that when the land was deeded to the institution coal mines threw away every year thou- sands of tons of coal in the culm dumps, then thought to be useless, but } which are now yielding large returns. In 1906 the world had not rned to use small steam of coal. The mines were yielding so plentifully then that grades of coal as large us chest- nut were frequently dumped into the culm bank, Before the Delaware & Hudson turned over the land to the state, it used the mountain on which the hos pital is now situate’ as a dump, The 1 to line to ¢ at Carbone road had a gravity from its mines le Honesdale, In 1905 this line was aban- doned and a steam road bul't, and this made the mountain useless to the .rall road company. But in the nine years that the gravity road was in use the road had filled two large ravines with culm, The thought that this might be valu- able never entered the heads of the railroad officials, nor even of the state otticlalawho accepted the grant of land for Pennsylvania. But a few years later, when the hospital was con- structed, a marked change had taken place in the value of culm. The hos- pital authorities found that they had enough fuel in the two ravines to ls them, at the lowest estimate, fully £ years, CATTLE PASSES OF CONCRETE Western Railroad Makes New and Val- uable Use of Its Cul- vert Pipes. Instead of using culvert pipes for drainage only, a railway has Installed mn number of such pipes on its line between Minneapolis and Superior, Vis., which are large enough to serve as cattle passes. These new culverts One of Several Large Culverts, Made of Oval Conrete Pipe, Which Serve as Cattle Passes Under a Railway. are of re-enforced concrete and are in sections five feet six Inches ch section is oval in shape, being 7 t 5 inches In height #94 7 feet wide. A flat space, 2 feet wide, serves as the bottom of the passage- way. These pipes have been found fully as satisfactory as the arched or bexlike culverts which are common- ly built where a pass for stock must be provided beneath an elevated track. The various sections of the pipe, after being placed, were cemented together. —Popular Mechanics Magazine. long. New Use for X-Ray. In Switzerland recently the Roent+ gen rays have been made use of with great success for the examination of re-enforced concrete work about which any question may have arisen. The advantage of being able to make an examination of the condition of such- re-enforcements or the proper disposi- tion and situation thereof without de- stroying the concrete structure are self-evident, as well as the desirabil- ity of being able to make an inspec- tion of the position of the re-enforc- ing iron rods upon the completion of the cement parts of a new building or a new structure. Alaskan Progress. A generation ago men would have recoiled from the idea that the Klon- dike gold fidds, even if they existed, would ever be developed. The very possibility of carrying civilization into such a country, building cities, creating industries. operating mines, would have been doubted. But the thing has been done; now we are looking to Alaska as a country that ere long will not only produce metal and mineral wealth, but will make itself agriculturally self-supporting. Chose an Appropriate Hymn. A correspondent of the Yorkshire (England) Post writes: “Even, a night Zeppelin may have {ts humor. On a recent Sunday evening air-rafd alarm signals were given just as the er came to light at Fairview the | The Smart Thing in Blouses If you ask the world-famous style designers how it happens that a cer- tain new idea 1s launched by several establishments at one and the same time, you may depend upon o definite answer. They will tell you that that particular style Idea “is in the air.” This is as near to an explanation as anyone can get of the lution of styles. This volution brings along incidental olutions, which are also “in the alr” and we are left to pond once more the everchanging fashions. A new blouse made {ts unheralded and unobstructive entry on fashion’s stage. By way of adding a little something new to the familiar role of the blouse, a short skirt was attached to Its belt—and discovered itself wel- comed with a glad acclaim. This skirt ‘Nhen Spring and Winter Meet The wearer of the springtime hat and bag shown in the picture intends to go south very soon. She has been there before and believes in prepared- ness; hence the warm coat, This one has a summery look, but is equal to fortifying its wearer against a cold spell in regions where the inhabitants never recall anything like it in the past. The coat is a famtliar type of gray and white striped chinchilla. It has a big adjustable collar and flap pockets that will keep the hands warm, and it has, besides these very practical prop- Qtles, much style and becomingness. rhere are coats in colors of the same materials made for the same sort of lengthened and featured—is meeting with a single-hearted feminine «pprov- al and therefore the peplum blouse, in numberless variations, is here and is the smart thing in blouses. It is the business of new blouses to be original and they are fastened here, there and everywhere, or not at all. Some of them slip over the head and are drawn up with tles about the neck. In the blouse pictured, of georgette crepe, the sleeves provide the original touch with shirrings that shape them over the shoulder In the fashion of the ragiun sleeve. ‘fhe round neek Is bordered with fur, the ‘seams outlined with fancy needlework, Hand embroidery, in self-color, is used for decoration and the peplum falls to the thigh. It has all the earmarks of the smart thing in blouses. brim and paves the way into the acci- dent for the most oriental of tassels. It. 18 of beads and silk and over the right ear. It is the that makes the hat important. ture