DAKOTA CITY HERALD
DAKOTA CITY, NEB.
JOHN H. REAM,
Publisher
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SHOPPING IN MIDOCEAN.
The wireless message pulsing otr?
the sea hag put the voyaging financier
in daily communication with the
bourses of New York, Ixindon and
Taria. Even In mldocean tho capital
st may buy or sell, with a view to
a nrotecflon nr Ihn nrnfit of his
purse. Hut It wore vain for mere man
to imagine that he could reserve this
instrumentality' to his exclusive use
tt tho wireless can be utilized to
make or to conserve money, It fol
lows as the night tho day that It Is
available, for upending money. The
enterprising merchant could not fall
to be alert to this opportunity to In
crease the debit side of a fair client's
account, says Washington Tost. Fath
ers, husbands, brothers have cherished
the thought that when their dear ones
were safely at sea In swift and luxur
ious palaces, the item of shopping was
In a state of at leant temporary de
suetude. But not so; tho ribbon coun
ter and the showcases have been ex
tended, flgurately speaking, across tho
sea. The lady fair may now indulge
aer penchant for shopping even In
tnldocean. Every department store In
great cities near tho Atlantic const
will be topped with Its tall electric
mast and maintain an operator at Us
foot. Bulletins of bargains may .be
'published on shipboard. Moreover, If
the lady la on her way home with a
depleted puna, she can make an aerial
draft to meet every Up of every stew
ard on board and make sure that some
of her men-folk meet her with more
supplies promptly on arrival at the
pier.
London's bad season, with dull
pray skies and chill winds, Is partly
compensated for by the promise .of
good grouse shooting. Parliament has
risen In time for the sport, and that
part of society which Is not already
"on the continent" Is bound northward
for the moors. Suminerless Englaod
is exchanged for Scotland, which.
when tho grouse are plentiful and fu
good condition, is a good place to "bo,
even if the weather Is wet. Hrtfcht
skies over the moors transform tho
sportsman's part of Scotland Into a
Eemblance of paradise. To be sure,
he serpent Is there. The guns crack
and the birds are slaughtered by tho
thousands. Hut they have fulfilled
their destiny. Who can do more?
And mighty good eating Is a well
cooked grouse from the Grampian
hills.
' In East Haddam, about sixteen
miles north from the mouth of the
Connecticut river, hanging In the bel
fry of St. Stephen's church and In use
today. Is a bell that was cast In Spain
over 1,000 years ago. The Spanish in
scription stating that the bell was
cast in Spain In 815 and tho name of
the priest who blessed it are all very
distinct. Those who have Interested
themselves In this valuable old rello
claim the church In Spain where It
originally hung wad destroyed by Na
poleon, this bell and many others be
ing sent to America, where there wan
a good market. It Is 28 Inches high
and 84 Inches In diameter at the bajfj,
Nearly one million new farms have
been created In the United States du
ring the last ten years. In the last,
ten years the total number of farmat
haa Increased 18 per cent., says Ameri
can Agriculturist. In the older states,
from Ohio eastward, there has been
going on for twenty years a tendency
poward the amalgamation of farms dls-i
tant from market Into larger hoKUrig-sj
On the other hand, thfa section haa
witnessed the cutting up Into smaller
sixes of many farms nearer to mar
ket. There are now almost throd
times as many farms as In 1870, and!
Vx unprecedented increase In the
Value of farm lands and lire stock.
There Is one boat on the Hudson
river that refuses to be Oslerlsed. Al
though the word fast is not usually,
relished when applied to tho femtnfnd
gender, the Mary Powell glories in
the epithet and has made friends by
It. This boat will complete this sea
son fifty years of service, and the
semi-centennial anniversary will be
appropriately celebrated. Captain
Anderson has served on the boat forty
years In various capacities. The Mary
Powell Is still In dally use by the Hud
son River Day Line, and cuts the wa
ter between New York and Kingston
not only like a thing of life but like
a thing of very lively life.
A passenger has been' carried on a
monoplane across the English channel.
A majority of the people who have to
cross the channel will continue for a
while, however, to risk tbe danger of
being shaken up In the old-fashioned
way.
Esperanto Is attracting as much at
tention now as the puzzle pictures
did a short time ago and has as many
'disciples as simplified spelling ever
achieved.
An Indiana mulo kicked a motor
cyclist and his machine across the
Iroad tbe other day. A kicking mule1
'never stops to count a hundred before
imaklng up bis mind what ought to b
done.
A New York man has won a cham
pionship and a 8100 watcb by eating
sixty-four lamina In a given time.
(Still we dec Ine :o !eo!i on this con-
test as o..u i" t.)' uay involved
the honor of the v. l.Ue race.
CZAR UNVEILS
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St. Petersburg. Two hundred years ao Peter tr . Great wrested
Livonia and Kigu from tho Swedes and added them f' Russia. The an
niversary of this conquest has Just been celebrated at Riga where the
czar unveiled an equestrian statue of Peter and also planted an oak In
Peter's park In that city.
ARE HIGH
IVomen and Athletes Lead Other
Students at University.
Co-eds Rank 4 Per Cent Higher Than
Men and Average Work of Frater
f'ty and Sorority Members
Not Up to Standard.
Champaign, 111. That athletes of
the I'niverslty of Illinois rank higher
than inn averago young men stialents
in their class work is the Interesting
fact discovered bv Professor T. A.
Clark, doan of men, after reviewing
an averago of the grades of every
student at tho Champalen-Urbaua
branch of tho university. ThlH same
Investigation shows that the co-eds
rank 4 per cent higher In their studies
than men and further that the average
work of the fraternity and sorority
members Is not quite up to the stand
ard. To got this information Dean Clark
sot a number of clerks at work. Each
student's grades for both semesters
was averaged according to the num
ber of hours taken in tho subjects.
Thus a record of more than 3,700 stu
dents was obtained, an averago In
general made and then the special
classes of students considered were
compared with this general average.
For the general average of the three
thousand men students the figures
were 81.11 for tho first semester and
81.31 for the second semester, or n
general average of 81.21 for the year.
The seven hundred or more co-eds
averaged 86.04 tho first semester and
85.02 the second semester, or 85.53 for
the entire year
All the members of the foot hull.
baseball, track, swimming and basket-
Dan squads were counted in tho list
of athletes. The two hundred or more
considered had an average of 82.74
for the first Bemester and 81.78 the
second semester, or 82.26 for the year.
The track squad had the high aver
age or 83.07 for the year and the bas
ketball players a low average. An-
NEW VERSION OF CINDERELLA
Wealthy New York Manufacturer
Finds Stenographer's Slipper
Engagement Announced.
New York. The story of Cinderella.
the shoe and the Prince has come true
in New York City, with variations.
Miss Mildred MermelHteln was any
thing but a Cinderella Id her home In
East One Hundred and Thirteenth
street. She was a bright, little sten
ographer. Nor was tbe slipper made
of glHPS. It was a real American girl s
slipper, tiny and elegant. The lover
was not a prince, either, but a wealthy
shoe manufacturer. He Is Samuel
Newman.
On her way home in a Madison ave
nue car the slipper slipped oft Miss
Mildred's foot. She didn't miss it un
til she put her silk-stockinged toes to
the cold, hard pavement. Mr. Newman
saw the slipper on the car and has
tened back, hoping to return It to Its
owner, but Miss Mildred had limped
away. Next day the "Prince" adver
tlsed for the maiden whom the slipper
would fit. Miss Mildred answeivd.
And, just as In tho Btory, too, the
Prince found that the owner of the
slipper was fair to gaze upon and
charming in her ways. That was two
months ago. The announcement of
their engagement was made tho other
day. The sllsper wiw a No. 2.
Large Cotton Crop In Egypt.
Washington. Egypt's cotton crop
this year, it is estimated, will exceed
700,000,000 pounds, and Consul Plrch
at Alexandria reports that probably It
will be tho largest crop ever yielded
by Egyptian fields.
STRAY CATS FOR COLLECTOR
Railroad Men From All Along Line
Drop Decrepit Tabbies of All
Kinds and Sizes.
New York. As some men collect
coins, Corots or coupons, Ponjamin
Haker, assistant yard master of the
Pennsylvania railroad at Weat Morris
vllln, N. J., collerts cats. Announce
ment was mado that through tho un
selfish devotion of countless tralumen
on the line Mr. Haker Is now In pos
session of one of tho largest collec
tions of cats extant.
Mr. Daker likes cats, but he likes
them within reason. Ho has no use
for all the cats that have been thrust
upon him, and bu has no place to keep
them. The reason that tho supply of
cats In Mr. Uaker's back yard in so
much In excess of tho demand Is that
almost everybody along the right of
way who has a cut for w hlch he has
do further use gives the animal to a
trainman with Instructions to drop It
gently off a train miles away and lose
it. Ins,d of obeying these Instruc
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oIIht Interesting discovery Is that the
utlili'tes did 4 per cent better work
the semester they were most aclively
engaged In athletics than during the
semester In which they were not. An
exception In this, however, was found
In the baseball squad, which on nc
'ount of numerous trips, as well as
long practice periods, naturally fell
down In their class work.
Commenting on this, Dean Clark
says: "You can't quite say that an
athlete necessarily breaks down in
his college studies. This may bo true
of other colleges, because I really
think we look after things more care
fully than they do at some institu
tions." Fraternity men were discovered to
bo slightly lower than the average
young man's ranking, and the liter
ary society members much higher
than the average. It was also discov
ered that the fraternity men who took
the most Interest In the general uni
versity affairs had the highest aver
ages, and that the fraternity men
least Interested In general college
matters were the poorest fraternity
students, thus disproving the general
claim made by somo fraternity men
that they have too many other Inter
est besides their class work.
The sorority young women, gener
ally speaking, were found to compare
In about the same proportion to the
grand total as did tho men. The local
clubs and sororities showed about tho
samo as the fraternities and sorori
ties. Willi these figures as a basis it is
probable tho fraternity men will be
asked to adopt a rule that pledgers
must pass at least 12 hours of uni
versity work before they can be Ini
tiated. If they do not, th-- university
authorities probably will. The sorori
ties have already taken action In this
matter.
The figures further show that the
fraternity men from larger cities, such
as from Chicago, are the poorer schol
ars, and the same can also be said
of some of rhe members chosen be
cause of appearance and first Impres
sion. WHEAT PAYS
Interesting Story of How New York
er's Massachusetts Farm Raised
Big Crop.
Springfield, Mass. Although the
wheat fields of tho far west are gen
erally supposed to be very large, the
department of agriculture has issued
an estimate that in states whero the
fields are the largest their size av
erages little more than 100 acres. New
England has the smallest wheat fields,
the averago in Vermont being only
three. That wheat Is Indigenous to
the soil of Massachusetts Is declared
In the reports of the Massachusetts
Agricultural college and that it can
be grown profitably in Iterkslrfre
county Is uBserted by experts who
have made an examination of tho soil
of the hill towns.
A Lenox farmer, Georgo W. Fer
guson, haa this year harvested 417
bushels of winter wheat from ten and
soven-tenths acres of land and sold
the wheat in a Plttsfleld market for
$2.50 a bushel. Tho wbeut is to be
used as seed wheat, so clean and per
fect was tho product. Mr. Ferguson
has for 10 years managed Pine Croft
farm, a typical country farm In Lenox
owned by Frederick Augustus Seher
merhorn of New York. Besides over
seeing a farm of 335 acres, Mr. Fer
guson has served Lenox as a select
man for several years and laBt year
was chairman of the board. Pine
Croft comes up to one's Idea of a
country farm. It Is not a city lot,
such as some farms of Lenox million
aires become, but Is tho nearest to na
ture that its owner can mako It. One
tions the trainmen have hurried to
Mr. Paker with the cats. He Is now
trying to find homes for his charges,
but has discovered that many of the
persons to whom be has applied for
permission to leave a cat on trial
would bo as willing to have scarlet
fever In tho house as such a pet.
The management of a cut circu;
wrote to Mr. Haker not long ago -.
pressing a willingness to take off his
hands a couple of tho cats that had
been wished on him. Mr. Haker packed
two cats out of the multitude in the
back yard and sent them to the circus
man. The latter either never got
them or did not think mueh of them
after ho did get them, fi r lie lias nev
er written a line In acknowledgment
of Mr. linker's kindness.
If the assailant yard master could
only get a day ofT and if the railroad
company would only lend him a
couplo of freight car.; i.e could brlns
some of tho excess to the Hid - a Wee
home In New York. But he cannot
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HE WAS HEIR TO MILLIONS
Mystery of Daniel Sneridan's Disap
pearance Is Cleared Away After
Many Years.
London. The mystery of the disap
pearance of Daniel Sheridan, the
American claimant of the "Iilake
Millions," has been solved at last. It
Is some months since the Star print
ed a story about the pathetic struggle
of this Iilsh-American farmer to ob
tain the fortune loft by Mrs. Helen
Wake, who died Intestate In London,
In 1876. Her property, then $700,000,
has been In the hands of the crown
ever Rlnce, and, counting the accumu
lated interest, Is now estimated to be
nearly $2,500,000.
A letter Just received by that news
paper from Daniel Sheridan's son, Jo
seph, who lives In Qulncy, 111., reveals
the fact that an old, homeless, name
less man, who died in Iambeth in
firmary on December 19, 1896, was
tho lost claimant for tho "millions."
Mrs. Blako was Helen Sheridan, a
beautiful Irish girl, when she was
married to Capt. Robert Dudley Ulake,
a young officer of dragoons stations
In Dublin. He later became a gen
eral. Daniel Sheridan nsserted ho was
Mrs. Plake's cousin, the son of her
father's elder brother, and ho came
to London to prosecute his claim from
Kankakee county, Illinois, In 1885, be
ing then a man of seventy. Ho could
not, however, obtain the necessary ev
idence to satisfy the treasury that he
was the next of kin. Ills money
dwindled away, he was heavily In
debt for board and lodging, and all
the while his family were writing to
him from America upon the Idea that
ho had obtained tho fortune and re
proaching bint for deserting them.
For a time he was an Inmate of a
workhouse. On hi discharge from
there he wrote to his son that he was
going to Ireland to find some one who
knew him nfa boy. That was the
last his family ever heard of him. He
seems to have wandered about help
less, hopeless, a broken man, until ou
December 6, ISI'fi, he was onco mere
admitted to the Iamberth infirmary.
He gave no address, and three days
Inter he died.
WELL IN FAST
of the few groves of primeval forests
In western Massachusetts are on this
property. Farmer Ferguson began
raising wheat to feed his poultry be
cause wheat was high. For several
years he produced enough wheat for
home consumption, using the straw
for bedding purposes. Its return in
value a&tonlshod him. He found it
of a good profit and determined upon
an experiment.
On the ten acre lot grew sections of
quack grass. He wanted to get rid of
this growth and plowed the lot and
sowed It entirely to buckwheat. This
hardy grain successfully killed out
tho quack grass. Its heavy body shut
out the sun from the soil beneath
Its bulky growth and the foreign
grass died from tho want of sunshine
With the buckwheat well along last
year Mr. Ferguson had it plowed un
der and fertilized the lot with some
fertilizer left over from the spring
planting. Possibly two tons of com
mercial fertilizer was used in pre
paring the field of over te acres for
red winter wheat, which was sown,
From this experimental lot Mr. Fer
guson lias Just reniKit a bumper crop
of wheat. Not mly was the wheat
perfect In head, every kernel being
filled out, but the body of straw was
excellent.
What an Absurd Question)
The Sceptical Aunt "What does he
do, Dolly, for a living?" Dolly (great
ly surprised) "Why, auntie, he does
not have time to earn n living while
we are engaged." Stray Stories
get the day off. to say nothing of me
rolling st'ek, and it begins to look as
if lie will be an island in a sea of cats
for a long tltn
He wrld net mind It so much, he
thinks, if all his cats were in a good
t ite of i r"serv:tion. but misiy of
them, either Ik cinse of their own mis-
'ale:- or t hi' mlsbehalor of others,
have loft parts, ears and tails. A
grand review or the tabbies would dis
ci. ..-o a re-.iiue'it if badly damaged
f. i;.i''s, few of ulne'.i are complete. At
pin t every train that rolls into West
Morrisville bring -s additions to the
home for the friendless, and unless
something is done about this high
cost ef living th'-.g very soon Mr. Ha
ki r will not lie able to buy enough
milk "iil (atr ip to go around.
Microbe Foe of Farmers.
Shclhclil, Kngland. At u meeting,
the ott.r day of the Hritlsh associa
tion Dr. Ku-sell and Dr. Hutchinson,
who have long been experimenting In
i-oil KTtility. announced theliscovsry
of the micro-organism which destroys
the bacteria esit'Utlal to the fortuity
of the soil.
MADE THIS BRAKEMAN ILL
Touching Devotion Exhibited by New
' lywed Causes Grouchy Trainman
to Lose His Temper.
"Are you comfortable, darling?" the
man asked, bending over the lady on
the train. The brakeman passing
through the aisle, hurried along until
ho reached the platform, where ho
grated his teeth together like a cof
fee mill.
"O-r-r-r-r-r!" said the brakeman.
"What's the matter with u?" de
manded the conductor, emerging from
Hie forward car with a solid slam of
the door. He straddled the swa;. Ing
crack between the two platforms and
stared at his nsslstant.
"Sick?" he nsked.
"O-r-r-r-r-r:" remarked the brake-
man. Of course, I'm sick! There's
a new married couple back in there."
The conductor stared through the
glass of the door.
"Where?" he asked, interestedly.
The brakeman pushed him to one side
and pointed a gnarled finger.
"In the fifth seat there," ho sattl.
Ilsgustedly; "there's a dough-faced
mutt there with a woman. She looks
ike a canary bird. Vgh!"
The conductor pushed through the
door and strolled down tho aisle, cast
ing sharp glances from side to side.
as he nuircd the fifth seat the man
was in the act of poking pillows back
of the lady, murmuring gentle noth
ings In her ear. The conductor re
turned to where the brakeman was
leaning against the vestibule.
"That's right," he said, "they've Just
been married.
"G-r-r-r-rumph!" said tho brakeman
In disgust.
"Well," said the conductor, "you
might as well go to work. What you
going to do about it? They got a
right to ride, ain't they?"
"No, they ain't!" snapped tho brake-
man. "They got no more right to
tide on a train than a mule's got to
learn dominoes. Where do they get
off?" Tbe conductor laughed.
"They go clear through," he said.
Cheer up. son. They won't always
be like that."
"You Just bet they wouldn't If I
had anything to do with It," growled
the brakeman, ticking up his lantern
and slamming the door behind him.
So Near and Yet So Far.
She was one of those very gtishing,
effusive ladles who occasionally infest
newspaper offices, and she had been
admitted Into the sanctum of tho man
aging editor of the paper on which
Homer Davenport was cartoonist. Mr.
Davenport was In the room at the
time. When the time came for her
departure she first grasped the hand
of the managing editor, saying: "Good
by, Mr. Rich, goodby!"
Then, turning to the assistant man
aging editor, she also shook him ef
fusively by the hand, exclaiming:
"Goodby, Mr. Hllss, goodby!"
Davenport camo next. There was no
escape for him. "Dear Mr. Davenport,
goodby!" she cried with all the deli
cate shading of a tragedy oieen.
There was silence for a moment
after she had gone. "Where Is she go
ing?" he asked.
"Up to Ninety-third street," replied
the assistant managing editor.
"Suffering cats!" drwled Davenport.
"What would have happened If she
had been going to One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street?" Saturday Eve
ning Post.
The Retort Courteous.
While a bitterly waged war was In
progress In Washington among the
women of a well known organization,
in which there were two militant
camps, many cruel, biting things were
said by the one of the ofhor. A gra
cious matron, noted for her consum
mate tact and the skill with which
she handles difficult situations, es
sayed the part of peacemaker, with
the result that, being a person of nice
discernment, she at once abandoned
tho plan.
She called on Mrs. nrown, who was
the candidate against Mrs. Jones. Mrs.
Hrown complained bitterly that her
opponent had wilfully misrepresented
facts and showed certain infirmities of
taste and temper, for which there
could be no excuse.
"Well," said the ambassadress, who
was frleniVly with both leaders, "you
should not let the passion of politics
narrow your horizon, my dear. You
should be broad vlsioned enough to
make reasonable allowances for what
you consider unlovely harshness. You
fall to reason that Mrs. Jones' age
may be telling on her."
"What ingratitude!" ejaculated Mrs.
Brown. And the tactful woman knew
that her mission was futile.
Soapsuds on the Sea.
It Is In order to vary the phrase
"Pouring oil on troubled waters" by
substituting the word "soapsuds" for
oil Experiments have shown that
soapsuds will reduce a sea almost as
well as oil.
The first trial was made on a
freighter In a storm on the Atlantic.
A large quantity of soap and water
was discharged over the bow, and Its
effect was nearly Instantaneous, the
hlght of the waves being so dlmln
ished that the vessel could be man
aged without difficulty.
The steamer Senegal, struck by a
squall in the Atlantic, used soap and
water with the same result. SI
pounds of soap were dissolved In two
barrels of water; this solution when
dripped over the bow made a quiet
space about 10 yards wide, preventing
the sea from breaking over the ve.isel
to any considerable extent.
Thoughts for the Housewife.
When you say of your husband,
"his brow Is of brass, and his nook
an Iron sinew," perhaps he can say of
yourself: "Her wants are as numer
ous as flies In August, and her tongue
is as a gontle ax that eieaveth
through a man's understanding down
to the last layer of sentiment."
Victor Hugo said that great misery
is the alchemy by which men are
changed Into gods or villains; every
woman should say that she can tern
per the misery of a man and at least
mako hi m stay a man.
The house that is built ou s.ind la
often ruled by a woman who has
sand In her eyes, or at least can't seo
straight. When there is too much
mirr.ge of automobile and opera par
ties In your !lne of vision, the house
muy full-
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Mr. William A. Hndfnrd will nnswor
fpicsi lens and K've advice KltKK OV
C'OHT on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building for the readers of
this paper. Un account of his wide expe
rience an r.uunr, wiunor unci wnnuim:
tnrer, he Is, wtthnut dmibt, tho highest
authority on all thesn SJtiJerts. Address
all Inquiries to Willlnm A. lta.lford. No.
194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., nnd only en
close two-cent stamp for reply.
It has been said it Is a very com
mendable fact that rapid advancement
has been made by all connected with
building operations toward better and
improved construction methods, but
at that there are certain types which
are not given the amount of attention
that they should receive. The ele
ment of the coat of materials Is en
tering more and more Into tbe prob
lem. Lumber ,1s growing scarcer by
the proceK8 of natural consumption,
and lately we have witnessed the
enormous destruction of thousands of
square miles of forests by fire. This
does not tend to lower prices for ma
terials. Cement stucco as a finish for the
exterior seems to be the salvation of
the home builder. There have been
some failures with stucco, but not
through the fault of tbe material, but
because of Ignorance in the proper
manner ef handling It. So much de
pends upon the selection of proper
materials, thorough mixing, the proper
amount of water and the proper ap
plication that only skilled mechanics
should be employed. There has been
the whole trouble. A novice cannot
do good cement work. The material
Involves chemical action that only the
mechanic with an understanding of it
can handle. This truth should not be
forgotten by anyone who is going to
have a stucco house.
A stucco house costs about tbe same
as a frame house now and certainly
Is much more imposing and substan
tial In appearance. Some trouble has
arisen from a lack of uniformity In
the color of Portland cement finishes.
This Is due also to ignorance on the
part of the workman. He does not
use the same amount of water in each
batch. Tbe result will be a variation
in the color, or a mottled appearance.
Trouble arises also from tbe uae of
dirty sand. Clean sand will make a
uniform color with thorough mixing
and a uniformity in the amount of wa
ter in the batches. If there is any
loam In tbe sand or other foreign
substance there will be trouble. The
use of asbestos fiber and rock to take
tbe place of sand Is meeting with
Dining Rm. Vitchem
First Floor Plan.
much success. The asbestos fiber has
a tendency to hold tbe water which
is used to mix the concrete mass
longer, thus giving the Portland ce
ment amplo opportunity to set. In
this way stucco mixes are possible
that are more unlfotm In color and
less liable to crack, as the fiber fur
nishes additional bond. There Is one
point which Is frequently lost sight
of and that Is that It Is possible to
make cement slabs that can be ex
posed to the elements for an lnr
definite time without discoloration.
Therefore, should cracks develop In
a well-constructed stucco work It can
be Invariably traced to a settling of
the building or the shrinking of the
frame. Hy Insisting on thicker stuc
co walls the liability of cracks is re
duced to a minimum. The price of
lumber Is steadily advancing and the
desire for fireproof exteriors, espe
cially In the suburban districts, as
well as artistic effects that may be
obtained from stucco, are creating a
universal demand for this type of
house. Tbe additional feature that a
stucco bouse requires no painting ex
cept on the trim adds to its advan
tages. Tbe house ws show here is a stueoo
bouse to be finished with Portland.
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cement mortal. It Is 20 feet six
Inches wide and 1b 30 feet long. The
design ia simple and well adapted to
tho man of moderate means. This
house should be constructed on a
large lot that will admit of lawn
decorations, shrubs and trees and pos
Second Floor Plan.
slbly a formal garden. One of the
attractions of this bouse 1b the living;
room, which takes the place of the
parlor of the old style bouse. There
Is a window seat In the front and a
similar attraction is provided In the
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dining room. The kitchen Is of ample
size and the pantry is arranged so
that the refrigerator can be filled
without coming Into the house.
Every woman will be pleased with
the second floor, and her eye will
light on the sewing room the first
thing. When this room not In use, It
can be used as a play room for the
children. There are two bedrooms,
each provided witu a closet, and a
bathroom. There is also a linen clos
et in the hall.
Real Conservation.
A farmer at Ohasey, N. Y., whost
extensive acreage made It a dtffioult
problem to find help enough to do the
necessary work, has met the situation
by some real conservation of natural
resources. There were a number of
streams on bis place. Two of these
were dammed and the resulting water
power was harnessed to electric gen
erators, A 60-horsepower current is
distributed to various points on the
farm and the new hired help, elec
tricity, cuts the hay and fodder, pumps
water, does the churning, turns tbe
grindstone, makes sausage and does
most of the drudfsery on the place.
This is one instance of what intel
ligent observation can mako of th
means science and invention have
added to our present-day equipment
This man looked for help when others
had seen only waste water.
Small Weather Prophet.
Several of the schoolgirl friends oi
little Miss Elinor Farnham were at 8
party one afternoon not long ago.
Some plans were being talked over for
the evening.
"No use planning anything for out
of doors," said little Miss Fiirnham,
"for it's going to rain."
girls in chorus. "How do you know?"
"Because this fudge won't fudge,"
was the reply as she bent over tbe
boiling sweetness.
The other girls laughed, but their
teacher, who was present as a guest,
said: "Elinor is right. There is no
surer sign of rain than the refusal ol
fudge to fudge."
And that night thero was a hart
downpour lasting an hour.
An Omnivorous Insect.
There ia a little, shaggy, black-and-tan
Insect, about an eighth of an Inch
lonj, that eats everything under the
sun which Is not disturbed every day.
It has to be surprised at its work like
a burglar. In most countries ivory
brushes are pretty safe from insocts;
in Egypt this littlo terror eats the
Ivory and eats the bristles; It eats
your toothbrush and eats your tooth
pick; it eats the wool with which you
are going to mend your husband'H
socks the cards as well as the wool;
It eats the handles oft your knives and
forks; It rejects nothing but glass and
china and metal.
A Smart Man.
"Wombat Is a man cf unusual intel
ligence." Think so?"
"I do. His views In r : are.
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