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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1907)
m'' THE TWO (SOUKS PUZZLE. It Seems Simple But It Is Hard - to Do. Take two corks nntl hold thorn hb shown, viz., each' laid IriuiHverHoly ncrosH tho fork of tho thiinjl). Now with tho thumb and hccoikI finger of the right hand (ono on oach end) take hold of tho cork In tho left hand, and, at tho same time, with tho thumb and Bccpnd linger of tho loft hand take hold of tho cork In tho right hand and draw them npnrt. Tlio above Bounds simple enough, hut tho novice will find that tho corks are brought crofiswino, as shown In tho lower section of our Illustration. How the Corks Are Held. Tho nuzsilo is to avoid thland enable them to part freely. Solution: Tho secret lies In tho po sition of the hands as they aro brought together. Tho uninitiated brings them together with the palms of both turned toward tho body, with the consequence wo have deacribod. To solvo tho puzzle, turn tho palm of the right hand inward, and that of tho loft hand outward, In tho act of seiz ing tho corks. They will then, says tho Montreal Herald, not get in each othor's way, but may bo separated without tho least difficulty. STEVENSON'S AUTOGRAPH. How the Author Rewarded Thought fulness of a Collector. Robert Louis Stevenson, whoso Treasure Island, Master of Ballantrao and other stories aro dear tq every boy's heart, had a great dlBllko for seeing his name misspelled, In such forms as Stophonson, otc. Following is tho letter ho wroto to ono of tho numerous persons , who asked tho favor of his autograph: "Vftlllmu, Upliolu, Samoa, "you linvo sent mp a slip to wrlto on; you liavo sent mo an nddrcsned cnvolopo; you liuvo sent It to mo Htnmpud: many liavo dono as much be fore. Vou liavo spelled my name rlKbt, and Homo liavo dono that. In one ?olnt you stand alone you have Bont ino he stamps for1 my post ofllco, not tho Mtumps for yours, what Is asked with so much consideration I take a plousuro to Krant. lloro, since you value it, ami have been at tho pains to earn It by such unusual attentions-hero Is tho signature of , "ROBERT LOUIS STKVKNSON, "For tho ono civil autograph collector, C R . , Don't yon suspect that "C. R." must have been a stamp enthusiast as well Me an .autograph, collector? For It Would occur to few others than phila telists to inclose. Samoan stamps for ' roply: from' Vallima. , - Not After That. Little Forest had just started to , school, says the Chicago Tribune, .His father was accosted on his way homo one evening by a neighbor, who said; "So your little boy Is .a great fighter at school?" On ar 'riving homo tho fathor summoned the boy at once. "Forest, is It so jUiai you agm wiia ino uoyB ai A 4 A A. A . scbooiy un, wen, 1 ngnt every thing up to the fourth grado!" Umbrella Without Handle. The umbrella of a Vienna architect is a covering of silk or othor mate rial supported on, the shoulders by means 01 two inin roas ana a nana across the chest. Whon not In use jU folds Into a very small spaco. Tho hands are. left free, and the device Is especially recommended for per "sons' who sometimes work in rain, like architects, engineers and art ists. A Great Favorite. The Gorman ambassador, Speck von Sternberg, has won tho hearts of tho Roosevelt boys by teaching them horseback riding and jumping. The baron was a private in the Franco Gorman war. To Improve Canned Fruits. A chemlBt advises that canned fruits bo opened an hour or two be fore being eaten. Th oxygen of the air Is then restored abd the taste is improved. Real Philosopher's Stone. Franklin; If you know how to spend less than you get you have the jpbMoKopher's stone. THE HEIGHT OF THE THEE. You Can Tell It Without the Aid of an Instrument. To know how ono may without in struments and with approximate nc curacy obtnin tho height of trees, buddings, and similar lofty objects which aro Inaccessible to measure ment "by hand," Is a bit of slrnplo knowledge that may sometimes bo of groat value and is always sure to bo amusing and Instructive. For tho purpose of Illustration tako any tall tree that stands upon fairly lovol ground. Make a rough guess at tho height of tho tree, and mark a point that dis tance away, and on as near a lovel with tho foot of tho treo as possible. Accuracy depends Inrgoly upon this. At tho point solcctcd sot firmly up right a rod of known height for con venience call it seven feet above the ground. Tho operator must now ob tnin, if ho does not already know it, tho height of his eyes abovo tho ground. For a man of flvo feet ton and n half Inches, let ua say, this measurement Is likely to bo flvo feet six Inches that Is, four and a half inches less than tho height. But, says Youth'a Companion, if a tapo is con veniently nt hand, it is better to mako an Individual and accurate mcasuro mont. Now lot tho "aurveyor" He flat on his back with his heels close against fho bottom of tho pole. Dy "sighting" over fho top of It, ho must bring tho top of tho treo In direct lino. In ordor lo do this, it may bo necea sary to make one or two experiments Diagram of the Method. by setting tho -polo forward or back ward. Care must be taken, howevor, not to force tho alignment by any stretch ing or "scrouchlng".in order to bring the eye into tho desired plane. When the propor point Is found, as Indicated in tho figure, the surveyor will see that he has furnished himself with the two similar triangles AI3C and ADE. The length of the side AB is known to be In this, case live feet and six Inches; the side DC is seven feet; tho Bldo AD is quickly measured, and found to be, lot us say, CO feet. Tho geometry student will turn naturally to tho proposition about sim ilar triangles and their homologous Bides when he reaches this point. But for tho general convenience, tho sim ple arithmetical process is given. Write out tho proportion or carry it in your head if you can AB is to AE as BC is to DB. Putting this in fig ures: Five and a half is to 60 a: seven is to bo unknown quantity th height of tho tree. Multiply AD (60) by BC (7) and divide the result by AB (5), and the result is approxi mately 76 feet four inches, the de sired measure of the tree. With thlB formula firmly In mind the surveyor may secure the same re sult by a simpler method on the srfmo principle. Drive the pole into tho ground until the top is just at tho Ievol of the eyesj then lie down and "sight" as before. Since the lines AB and CB thus secured aro equal, tho lines AD and DE will also be equal, and it is only necessary to measure tho lino AD in ordor to obtain tho height of' (he tree. If tho Burvoyor knows the length of his stop, ho can pace the distance, and thus measure tho tall tree pretty accurately without the use of..foot-rule, tape or anything of tho kind. The Ant. Dr. Flagg tolls an interesting Btory of aoine ants ho observed: "A pie wbb placed on a shelf in a cupboard, with a wide ring of molnssea encircling it, and, wanting tho pie for breakfast, they sot out to get it Thoy first marchod about thoing, leaving an ant here and there at places which wore seen to be loss wide than the rost of tho ring. Thon thoy carefully selected the narrowost place; and, go ing to nn old nail hole in tho wall, thoy formed an endloss stream of por ters, each bringing a grain of plaster. They built a causeway through the molasses of those bits of lime, and in three hours from tho time of discov ery, they wero eating the pie. Self-Made Men. Everybody llkeB and respects self made men. It is a groat deal, better to be mndo in that way than not to be made at all. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Proof of Heart-Freedom. Whon you seo a girl sit down to dinner and tackle a juicy steak smoth ered in onions it's u siga tsht isa't worrying over love affairs. COMMERCIAL CLUBS CAN BE MADE IMPORTANT FAC TORS IN TOWN BUILDING. BEST FIELD FOR THEIR WORK Their Efforts Should Be Put Forth to Keep the Dollars In "the Home Town Protecting Busi ness Interests. During the past few yenrs there has been moro than ordinary activity in tho organization of so-called commer cial clubs, business men's leagues and similar associations In the agricultural sections of the country. Somo had mushroom growth, and like some flow ers, bloomod and blossomed, withered and decnyed In an hour. Others strug gled along indifferently and succeeded In spending much of the people's money without assisting tho town to greatness, while a very few succeeded In doing things that were of boneflt to the community. Thero is little use In trying to make a suit of clothes for a man out of a pattern of cloth that has only suffi cient goods for a child's siit. Thero is little use in trying 'to build up a groat town in a locality where there is not the material to sustain it, and whore there nro only resources for the support of a hamlet. Towns of Im portance exist only whero thoro aro certain natural advantages, resources that can be utilized in manufacturing, territory sufficiently large to command extensive trade, or some other favor able condition. In the west manufac turing must by the economy of things be confined to such lines as can be advantageously produced. In manufac turing thero are many factors.. There must bo considered the cost of fuel, the raw material, the labor and highly important are the transportation facil ities. Ono of the noticeable things about commercial clubs Is the optimistic tendencies of their members. Business men of a strictly agricultural town will form nn association. Perhaps tho leaders aro interested in the real es tate business. They want tho town to boojn. Somo of them may have a few acres of land worthless unless for a "factory" site. Meetings aro held, plans are made for the bringing in of some manufacturing plant that per haps may give employment to half a dozen or a dozen hands. Correspond ence is started with a vlow of getting some outsider interested. The right man, apparently makes his' appear ance. He wants" a bonus of a few thousand dollars. His proposition is seriously considered. Tho subscription' paper Is passed around, tho amount secured, and the real estate man sells his "factory" site at a good price. The factory is started. It runs about a year and there is a vacant factory building for ront, or for sale. How many towns in the southwest have had this experience? Even had tho enterprise been a suc cess, it remains thnt thero is a field moro productive of" good for the town that tho "club" overlooked. Say that a factory bo Btarted in a Bmall town. It may give employment to a dozen men. The pay roll amountB to $30 a day. The output of the concern may reach a total of from $25,000 to $35,000 a .year. "Every little helps," and all other things in harmony, this adds to the importance of the place. But let us do a little "estimating." y Suppose that there is about the town 'a territory ot 150 square miles. Supposo that each square milo represents four families farmers' families. This would make 600 families who should do their trad ing in tho town. The reports of tho bureau of statistics of tho United States department of labor and com merce, assures us that tho .average ex penditure of tho farmer each year for all tho supplios ho requires In the way of agricultural machinery, carriages, GET-RICH-QUICK GAMES. Government Investigating the Opera tors of Bucket 8hops That Do Business Through the Mails. In tlmeB of prosperity thero aro al ways chances for tho grafter. During tho past ten years has boon tho era of the got-rlch-qulck man. No soonor dooa one scheme play out than an othor tnkcB Its place. Thanks to the ever diligent postal Inspectors, and an unrolontlng government, tho schemers nro not so plentiful as a few years ago. For somo years a number of supposed legitimate grain and stock brokers thrived in both eastorn and western cities, Thoso wero actlvo In soliciting through tho malls, and through local offices the business of small investors, Tho millions of money gained from tho unsuspecting pcoplo.will nover be known. In New York, Chicago, St. Louis and other cltios largo and ex pensively conducted offices wero main tained. Oneo tho government got on the right trail, thoro wero irregulari ties dlBcovored that resulted In fraud orders being Issued ugalnst a number wagons, clothing, and food, Is $627. Cnreful estimates of tho amount of the farmers' t ratio that goes to tho mail order house and is In othor ways di verted from his homo town, shows that It Is more than 25 per cent, of all ho spends. Thus wo And that from tho territory of the town thoro is annually diverted in trade the nice sum of Wore than $79,000. This umount goes from the town, ceases to bo a factor in its upbuilding. It means that every day the town loses nbout $132 In trade. Now would it not be much better if tho commercial club took up tho mat ter of devising means of protecting the business Interests of the enterprises In the mercantile lines already estab lished, than to bring In a new enter prise of uncertain success? It is evident that there Is a wido fiold for commercial club effort in tho keoplng In the town the dollars that are earned and devising means of pro tecting trade. UNITY OF INTEREST8. Relationship of Residents of Rural Communities to the Home Town. "Live and let live," is a policy that has come down through the ages and is an expression, of the Golden Rule only In different words. There is in born in man a desire for self-preservation. It is a law of life, and to this desire can be attributed that which is considered selfishness within us. Sav age man has little regard for the rights and properties of others. Ho lacks tho sense of equity and justice and is guided solely by the brutal in stincts. Intelligent man realizes that all his fellow creatures aro entitled to the same rights he would enjoy himself. Thorefore where the Chris tian spirit Is found, there can be look ed for such equity as gives all an equal chance to gain a livelihood and to enjoy the products of their labor. There should be the greatest har mony among the citizens of every community. The interest of all, the classes comprising a city, or a district should be considered Identical. It has been noted that the most prosperous towns have been, built up by har monious and united effort of all. the people composing It. In these days Wi.en there are evils to combat, when oppressive trusts exist that are fac tors In unequal distribution of wealth, It is all Important thnt the masses in each and every community unite and work in harmony for the protection and betterment ot local conditions. It it to be regretted that in many agri cultural communities there is a lack of harmony between what is called the business Interests and the produc ers of crops. Different reasons may bo advanced for this condition, but the most -common cause is a misunder standing on the nart of tke citizens t" na fn thn t-nln HnnViIrt tlmf atimi1? or. 1st between them.. It is wrong for tho teachings that go forth that- the farmers' interests aro different from those of tho merchant, or that tho merchants' interests differ from farmers' of the community. It Is also an erroneous idea that the town is alone for the townspeople and the country districts for the farm er. Is it not true that the merchant is dependent upon the farmer for his support? And it is equally true that tho town is an important thing to the farmer. It is a convenience to him and he is as deeply interested in all that pertains to it, to Its advancement and the betterment of its public insti tutions, its streets, its parks and all, .as are the people- who reside within the town. The merchants should real ize how important the farmer is to them, and the farmer should be brought to a realization that the town Is for him as well as for those who re side within its limits, and, that the less antagonism between the resi dents on the farms and the residents of tho town the better It will be for the whole community. There is a unity of interests that cannot be ignored,' and thero Is a common field wherein all can work for mutual bene fit. of tho concerns. The end Is not yet, and the work of extermination will bo kept up till thero 1b none in operation. Buying stocks in a fair market is a risky business, but when there aro schemers to stack the cards against the Investor, there is not a ghost of a show. Many a bank clork and busi ness man can trace his downfall to speculating in tho bucket shops. Trade is the life of the agricultural town. Any system that diverts this trade Is injurious to the community. Here lies tho evils of the mail order system. By drawing tho trade from tho townB, tho principal support goes, and with its going disappears the em ployment for tho people, tho school system, and tho churches and all the advantages that tho town affords to tho pcoplo of tho community. Not alone this but homo markets aro de stroyed and tho farmer finds the value of his land reduced. Have tho impor tance of home trading and homo sup port instilled Into the minds of the farmers in general, and there will be a rapid falling oft of th catalogue house patronage. MRS. DE PASSE OF NEW YORK CITY . , . , I Consulted Several Physicians, but they Did Md No Good. Pt-ru-na and Man-a-lin Helped Me." SVsVIsHbBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBhBSb''' MRS. ALINE DoPASSE. Mrs. Alino DoPas90, 770 E. 165th St., Now York, N. Y., writes: ,lIt gives mo pleasure to testify to Ihe urativo qualities of Pcnuia and Mana lin. 4,I was afflicted for over seven years with catarrh of the head, throat and digest ive organs. I consulted many physicians, but thoy did mo no good. 'Ono day I happoned to rend somo tes timonials In your Pcruua almanac. I decided to try Peruna and Manalin. I bought a bottlo of each, mid artor taking thom for a week I noticed a change for tho hotter. So I kept it up, and aftor using twclvo bottles I was perfectly cured. "I also gave the medicine to my chil dren and thoy had tho sanio beneficial result. I would never bo without these remedies in tho house. ' 3 " J w w v wm V 1 U U W U4IU Manalin to all my friends, and in fact to everybody." Miss Mildred Grey, 110 Weimar St., Apploton, Wis., writes: "It gives me pleasure to recommend Peruna for catarrh of the stomach. I had this disease for a number of years, and could not enjoy a mouthful of food that I ato, It was indeed a great rollof when J hit upon Peruna, and obtained decided results from the lirst. 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