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ME AS WRIJSG O VR GLO'BE United States Geodetic Sur veying Corps Finishes Its Work. The civil engineers employed by the United States government have Just completed the measurement of this globe of ours. The task has been a hard one. For over thirty years it has )een In progress and it has cost the taxpayers the neat little sum of >509, <100, more or less. The coast and geodetic survey corps have had the matter In charge and they have ar rived at absolute accuracy. One result attained has been the determination of the fact that this earth is not as great a ball as has been commonly supposed. Our old mother’s diameter through her great waistbanJ, or equator, is discovered te be 7,926 miles; her height, from pole to pole, 7,899 miles. In other words, she is broader than she is tall. Laymen will wonder how Uncle Sam’s engineers could have accomplished such a seemingly impossible task as the ac tual measurement of the earth's dimen sions. In order to determine the great sphere’s girth or circumference, for in stance. it would at first blush appear necessary to circumnavigate it over the equator and across the poles, making careful measurements step by step The equator was not touched, however, during the measurements, and needless Is It to state that the poles were not crossed. The measurement of a moun tain’s height does not require that its summit be climbed. If so we would as yet be in ignorance of the Insurmounta ble altitutudes of our loftiest peaks. Trigonometry, employed In mountain measurements, was utilized also in this difficult computation of the earth’s di mensions. The greatest task of the coaat and geodetic survey, beside which all others paled into insignificance, was the meas urement of the great arc’s precise length in miles from ocean to ocean. Not until after twenty-seven years of constant field work was tt proved that a chalk line stretched from Cape May to Point Arena and snapped against .'id earth's crust would leave a white mark 2,625.6 miles long. And, by the way, It is along this very line that our center of population seems to have wended its course westward. The distance was measured, not along a straight tape, but along a narrow network of trian gles, such as the surveyor traces in his measurements of great distance*. It may be difficult of belief that the num ber of localities whose latitudes and longitudes were precisely established within this network exceeded the num ber of stars visible to the naked eye in the heavens above. Were all of the fnes forming these yriangles placed end to end they would extend 10,000 miles or more. The tri angulating work ■was begun at the two ends and near the center of the great arc. the sur veyors gradually moving toward each other. Infants in (twaddling clothes had become parents and youths had grown to be gray haired men before two parties met. some two years ago, to close the last gap of the survey which remained in Colo rado. High attove the clouds were some of these Impor tant measurements made. Four stations containing the sur veyors' instruments were 14.000 and twenty were 10.000 feet above the sea level. Her# the ex p e r t measurers worked amid per petual ice and snow, breathing only half the usual supply of air meted out to human beings. The water In thelrramp kettles boiled at 1S9 degrees Yet they performed the feat of measuring over alngle spsns with instruments from 100 to iso mile* apart. This high mountain work waa dona In C>dorado and thence westward across the IWhiea an I Sierras lo California tilant algnal tower* elevated tko aur* vejrort' InatrumienU sbu«e Iho Dal eastern nmnlrjf where nature had not supplied mountain peeks for aid la aueh feats of m« laomuaut aa )*ei described The highest romMaeiloa of tower* was erected across Ohio ladtane an I IlllaoU Manjr of these structure* were m»rw than Id* Nl la height Oae at Ureen. lad. held aa taatru peat IU feet ahw»* the earth s «|h fa • IU«'h of «!».■».< l*»f• I ml a re peered lo be o*e bugs *la4mi|| towrf erected witbie aaotber doeem*ate of the stgaaler at obaaeeee ataad ag PM the lap of lha water etrw tore ltd not disturb the target or telescope mounted upon the platform of the Inner, In windy weather canvas screens covered the windward sides of the outer towers, and thus prevented the vibration of the instruments' sup ports. As further protection against exceptionally high winds, the towers were guyed on all sides with wire ca bles. In the Kansas cyclone belt screens of thin drilling, such as would tear In the face of a fierce wind, were substituted for those of canvas, which latter were liable to carry the entire skeleton structure of a becycloned tower to the ground before giving away. At Still Pond. Md., was erect ed a curious tower 120 feet tall, which supported a target to the height of 275 feet. This target was the highest above ground of all these employed. Between such towers the surveyors signaled over distances varying be tween ten and forty miles. We seldom hear of an American mirage. Yet during thlB signaling it often occurred that one tower, abso lutely invisible from another through out the entire course of the day, would suddenly and most weirdly rise above the distant horizon just at sunset, thus effecting a much longer line of vision than could ordinarily be utilized By actually laying bars of metal end to end the surveyors in the course of this stupendous measurement marked off the base lines essential to their triangulation work. Thus carefully measuring these base lines and later measuring the angles from either end to a common point, they, by applying a simple formula, could estimate how far away that point might be. The temperature of each bar was carefully measured by thermometers Inside and its effect upon the length of the bar was taken into strict account. A sin gle pair of these complicated bars cost Uncle Sam $1,500. Stretched across the country they were not rested upon the ground, but upon tripods carefully leveled. One style of measuring bar utilized In this delicate work was truly a wonder. It was carried in a trough filled with melting Ice and was thus kept at the zero point. Being always at the same temperature its length never varied. Can the Imagination be strained to picture a degree of hair splitting care exceeding this? Arbitration Mu-tl He Compel'ed The Illinois state board of arbltra always as a mode of settling disputes of this character. The attempt to make the voluntary mode work ought to have been abandoned long ago. Failure to recognize this fact and to provide for stoppinig the wars and insurrections against the laws of tne land whicn are continually occurring under the name of labor disputes and strikes is not creditable to any coun try whose people call themselves civil ized. ‘Reform in ManV Attire. West Haven, Conn., Is in a whirl of excitement over the extraordinary conduct of John Merwin Hubbard, one I of its hitherto most respected resi dents. who has taken to appearing in costumes radically different from the prevailing mode in male attire. Mr. Hubbard’s departure from established rule in the matter of personal apparel is all the more unaccountable to his neighbors when they remember that so far as they have any knowledge he la I_ I JOHN M. HUBBARD, by no means a crank. Summer visit ors to that section set him down as an eccentric of the extreme kind, but this idea was soon disposed of when Mr. Hubbard's fellow citizens were consulted. As a matter of fact, they had always been rather proud of him —college-bred man, poet, philosopher and war veteran as he is. The inventor of this new sartorial cult bases his crusade on his alleged discovery that modern ideas of male attire are entirely opposed to the con sistency and teaching of the scriptures THE 8IGNAL TOW EH AT 8TIU • Ion reports taal aratiration «• a mode of aauJinn dtaputee between tabor and , <*i>iut ta gatnlna In favor, (hat the llllaola law i» better (ban that ot any other elate and that It m imwytlM* ot Improvement, the reader of the report will And that In the opinion of I he board the law la effective aul •u part or to that of other etatee Hmt la proportion aa It la >«a pa lam y la .ha ret-ter aad that the pr» poawl math.eta ot mahtn* It more ot fe«tlaa nra methoda af mahlni It morn eumptitemy, Ta apeak more tor really. Ida law la effective la propot. tom aa H ran tea to prartde for volaa* Ury arMimltan and prevtdee for rum poiaury ad/ado-etioa The troth w Idnl rolantary ertMretlea la a failure It daa prated a failure every a km and . I"QNI>. MAH VI.ANIi Tberafora. ha baa lavaalad aaverai na« am! alarlllng urlriaal toaluiuaa, a bleb ba paralata la waarlnc. to tba «r*at aatuiiiahni* at and annoyance of bta aclcbbora. On Monday* ha vlo laivs all rulaa of court form by m»lu* •bout arrayatl In n wblta roba Tb* Urand l*uba llraaa baa a rurtoua taata for a mai Ilia royal blfbaana la wot aalllful a.lb bta uaadla. amt bla -ntbrtn.iary la aatnadlufllr baoutlful lla la baa tba |raataal Ialarval In bia a >rh ami la fmrti< ularly rtavar la Iba •rranaamant t*f rotor* lla baa a vavy •rtiafv uatura. aa ba la 4a«»tad to aiual< lamina aad artiaa oblla ba loaa md car# mak about n*wra m lira p irauiu. tbouab ba butb abuwta aaJ i ri.taa Tfir TICKETS IN NEBRASKA. Th* M»m»« of Thoae Who Wilt Appnr on lb. Hnllots. LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. i5.—Since the state conventions were held there have been quite a numoer of changes In the various tickets anu now the fol lowing is a corrected list of the can didates: For presidential electois: John F. Nesblt, Tekamah; Robert B. Wynd ham, Plattsmouth; Edward Rovse, Broken Bow; John L. Jacobsen. Om aha; John L. Kennedy, Omaha; Jo seph Kanger. Wilber; Andrew C. Christensen, Mlnden, and Wallace R. Barton, Tecumseh, republicans; C. O. Lobeck, Omaha. John H. Felber, Har tlngton; William A. Garrett, Hold rege; W. C. Swan, Tecumseh; Peter Ebbeson, St. Paul; Robert Oberfeld er, Sidney; L. N. Wente, Lincoln, and James Hlghes, Schuyler, fusionlsts; Charles E. Smith, Falls City; John Dale, Omaha: Charles L. Carpenter, Creighton: Frank A. Burt, Aurora: William Timmins, Orleans; George Hornby, Valentine; Joel Warner. Creston, and D. A. Shaffer. St. Ed wards, prohibition; Jerome Shamp, Lincoln; A. A. Perry, Omaha; D. W. Pierson, Auburn; O, W. Raworths, South Omaha; Dewitt Eager, Beaver Crossing; W. O. Woolmun. Fairfield: James Stockham, Broken Bow, and James Brooks, Stanton, populists; Henry Huckins, Lincoln: F. H. Alex ander, Omaha; C. Fredericks. Ponca: L. W. Sharp. GUtner; John Tollett. Wilcox; J. Chism, Kearney; J. Ja cobsen, Plattsmouth. an.l T. A. Ed wards, Omaha, socialists. For governor: Charles H. Dietrich. Hastings, republican; William A. Po.vnter, Albion, fusion; Lucius Jones. Lincoln, prohibition; Taylor Flick, Broken Bow, populist; Theodore Kha ras, Omaha, rociallst. For lieutenant governor: E. P. Sav age, Sargent, republican; Edward A. Gilbert, York, fusionist, Charles R. I-awson, Santee agency, prohibition: H. G. Reiter, Prairie Center, popu list; David McKibben, Glltner, social ist. For secretary of state’ George \V. Marsh. St. Paul, republican; C. V. Svoboda. St. Paul, fusionist; Dewey L. Whitney, Beatrice, prohibition; W C. Starkey, Violet, populist; Frank Neuman, Plattsmouth, socialist. For Auditor of public accounts: Charles Weston, Hay Springs; repub lican; Theodore Griegs, Clay Center, fusion; Wilson Brodie, Brodie. pro hibition; C. V'. Ault, Indianola, social ist. For treasurer: William Steuffer West Point, republican; Samuel B. Howard. O'Neill, fusion; C. C. Crow ell. Blair, prohibition. Absolom Tip ton, Nebraska City, populist; F. S. Johns, Nebraska City, socialist. For superintendent of public In struction: William K. Fowler, Blair, republican; Charles F. Berk. Lyons, fusion; Bartley Bain, Page, prohibi tion; Mrs. T. J. Kellie. Hartwell, dod ulist; Miss Burla Wilkie Brock so cial 1st For attorney general; Frank N. Prout, Beatrice, republican; Willis D. Oldham, Kearney, fusion: Dunham M. Strong. North Bend, pronlbitlon; John Stevens, Arapahoe, populist; Michael Presler, Trumhall, socialist. For commissioner of public lands and buildings: George L. Follmer. Oak, republican; P. J. Carey, Wahoo, fusion; Erastug Hickman. Seward, prohibition; James Salmon, South Omaha, populist; W. H. Nye, Pender, socialist. Prowfdlnri to Bn (’onrnnnftd. LINCOLN. Neb., Oct. 15.—As a >e suit of a conference be'ween Audi tor Cornell and Deputy Attorney General Oldham, legal proceedings will be commenced in the name of the state against the officers of the Grain Growers' Mutual Hail Insurance com pany of Omaha, the object being to collect penalties for transacting in surance business without a license. Found (iullty of tilgniny. BLAIR. Neb., Oct. 15—The jury in the case against Rev. J. Rowland Hills, charged with bigamy, after be ing out twenty-four hours returned a verdict of guilty. Mr Hills, when he heard the verdict announced, did not manifest the least apparent concern. He stared into space with an indiffer ent expression the same as he had throughout the trial. Judge Baxter will pass sentence in a day or two. which may be from one to seven years' imprisonment. RANDOLPH. Neb.. Oct. 15—Dr Charles C. Crawl of this city, who was injured in a runaway accident Septem ber 28, di“d from the effects of in juries received I)ortor All'son of Omaha and his family physician ilid all they could for the suBerer. but at no time since the injury did he re gain entire consciousness. He sustained a contusion of the brain. WnrlmMn Drowni In River NEBRASKA CITY Nrb . Oct. 15.— Marshall C. Little, a young man of 24 years, was drowned In tne river here He was employed by the government upon the river work and 'n some wav fell from the flutboat unon which he was working The body was not re covered. The young man's parents re slils In Hamburg, la Injured In Thiohrr, DONIPHAN, Neb. Oct 15-Harry Wilson of this place, while threshing was attempting to oil the engine when he slipped and f*H Into a fly wheel. breaking hl« arm and shoulder In three plu<>* and cutt'r.g two Iona gashes In bis head He I* thought not to tur In a dangerous roudlltou tt ARMNOTON Neh, th • 15- |. C Wrier 41 Co's Jewelry and drug store w >« robbed last night llurglaas •« tered by prying «ian a t*> s window The safe wa« drilled »p< n by an eg pert About 11TA In ncu.ey nil their | watches rbalne and rings that nr* I locked In the safe eve* y night were • taken, bewldea flnedrews good* «ad mh I er goods In ihe store There U ns I elite only Severn! stranger* wwr* * nround town for a few ln»* and thev In re nil g**n« i*l»» '*ild Men k« Is here working <m Ike rare g $50 Wheel Bonglit Dlrectfrom Our Factory Costs Too Put $22.95 Tins Guaranteed One Year. Highest EtyiipaeBl Send Us One Dollar And state whether LADIES* oe J OK MTS' bl.-ycle, Oner end Color wanted. net we will rend yen our »ew I9CU. regular *60.00 model AKROM KINO BICYCLE by ea prraaC. O. 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