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WORKING WITH GLASS
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FREAKS OF THE BLOWPIPE
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fects Are Produced
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Quaint Specimen Shapes Thet Are
Sometimes Dropped From tho Puntil
How Bottles Aro Mado by tho Clever
and Dexterous Workmen
If u stranger enters the glass works
on a dark night lie will find not only
beauty in the blowing operations but
a great deal of humor with an uncan
ny weirdncss in flame and shadow that
must affect his Imagination to some
extent The building is circular with
a chimney sticking through the mid
dle of it from tho top of which a pe
culiar intermittent light is flickering
In the center of this building under
neath the chimney stands a conical
furnace of brick containing perhaps no
fewer than eight holes which are like
fiercely glaring suns and from which
pour expanding broad rays of orange
colored light If your eyes are strong
enough to look through lite holes from
which the orange beams of light
emerge you see several hundredweight
of molten metal shining silvery green
In as many earthen dome shaped melt
ing pots
The nature of different kinds of glass
Is dependent upon the quality of the
raw material called batch put into
the melting pots Batch is a mixture
of such materials as Calnis sand or
common river sand abounding in silica
salt cake or sodium carbonate and
much lime Blue colors may be ob
tained by adding oxide of cobalt green
by means of a chrome black by man
ganese and amber The mass of molten
metal got from this opaque earthy
looking batch lias frequently to be
skimmed of impurities but it is never
theless a problem whence conies that
wonderful and enduring transparency
which everybody likes to see in glass
Until the hour strikes for the work
men to commence operations you may
find them experimenting for amuse
ment or profit with the blowpipe You
will see many an enormity produced in
glass the like of which can scarcely
ever have been dropped from a puntil
before Specimens are blown out to
the thinness of a tissue paper bag
which another puff of wind explodes
with a crack or a glowing glass pear
Is for very wantonness knocked off the
puntil so that it may vanish with a re
port on the floor its hue and beat be
ing extinguished immediately The floor
all around the furnace chamber is cov
ered with brittle shining splinters and
particles of glass which crackle under
foot at every step One of the men
may bring you a mass of metal on a
blowpipe and ask you to expend a few
cheekfuls of wind upon it The pipe
takes no more blowing than a trom
bone though it lacks a mouthpiece
and you may expand the bubble until
it is black and cold so fragile that it
will break into a myriad pieces if
you touch it The molten glass is so
ductile that it may be spun out into a
thread and the men often vie with
each other to see who can make the
longest and thinnest strand
At the signal to commence work the
men already partly stripped to the
waist poke their four foot blowpipe
through the hole of the crucible oppo
site to which they work twisting it
round until it has taken up sufficient of
the ropy and viscid glass for one bot
tle The man who is clever at his work
will of course gather up neither too
much nor too little for the thickness of
the bottle required He can tell with
out looking through the furnace holes
when he has enough by the weight
added to his pipe Thus all around the
fiery furnace there are figures moviug
continually across the lurid light most
of them dexterously wielding their
blowpipes and balancing at the end of
each one the exact quantity of vitrified
matter to make a bottle The amateur
would find it difficult to balance the
molten mass The chances are that it
would drop on the floor never to be
picked up again
At the same moment you will see bot
tles in all stages of growth some glit
tering gold others cooling down to
orange or red some in the forms of
plummets or dazzling pears others as
incandescent bosses threatening to be
come fragile bladders It is all as
charming as a pyrotechnic display You
will see the black blowpipe twirled
round blown down held up like a gun
barrel then in the form of an incan
descent lamp globe turned round on a
beeswaxed cast iron implement called
a marler on whose edge the bottle
neck is formed It is held up once
more blown into then shut up in a
cast iron mold placed at the oparntors
feet somewhat below the level of the
ground This mold is opened and closed
by a wire spring which the opera
tor presses with his feet and directly
the red hot bottle is inclosed he blows
down the pipe once more so as to fill it
completely
A man goes round from mold to mold
inserting a rod into the neck of each
bottle and collecting a trayful to go to
the annealing chamber Here the bot
tles are stacked up for a gradual cool
ing process which may possibly last
thirty six hours This gives them the
desired strength The annealing proc
ess is a cure for their natural fragility
and enables them to stand the test of
boiling water London Globe
Still Possible
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Clara When Tom proposed to me he
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than brains
Maude Well Ive no reason to doubt
It although I understand he hasnt a
dollar to his name Pittsburg Post
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AN ERRATIC PHILOSOPHER
Georgo Bernard Shaw and His Satir
ical Remarks
George Bernard Shaw gave an exam
ple of his satire at the time of the re
cent big pioccssloii of suffragettes In
Hyde park London A photographer
caught him standing with hands in
pockets looking at the parade as it
passed along and a friend who chanced
to see him ascertained that his wife
was in the procession The acquaint
ance asked the brilliant but erratic
critic and philosopher If he too had
been parading and Mr Shaw promptly
replied
No I was not In the procession be
cause it was a procession of women
and thank God Im not n woman I
offered to parade If my wife would
drive me in a wheelbarrow but like a
sensible woman she refused
It was really a fine procession 1
saw it But while the women had an
unusual average of good looks tho po
licemens horses were much better
looking I suppose that was because
Jljpi 3Sr Sir
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
the horses were better cared for Thats
right for horses are really valuable
creatures
It was in Hyde park that Mr Shaw
first became noted as an advocate of
socialistic ideas for he used to join the
groups of orators there on Sundays
and express his original views and lie
had usually a large following Shaw
furnished a biographical sketch of him
self for an English journal some years
ago and it is said to be still correct
except as to his bachelorhood It ran
thus I am a bachelor an Irishman a
vegetarian an atheist a teetotaler a
fanatic a humorist a fluent liar a So
cial Democrat a lecturer and debater
a lover of music a fierce opponent of
the present status of women and an
insister on the serious in art
CHAIRMAN J T LLOYD
Congressman Who Heads Democratic
Congressional Committee
Representative James Tighlman
Lloyd chairman of the Democratic
congressional campaign committee
was elected to the Fiftieth congress
from Missouri to fill a vacancy and
has now seen about ten years of con
tinuous service in the house He was
bom in Canton Lewis county Mo in
1S3T was graduated from Christian
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REPRESENTATIVE JAMES T XiLOTD
university at the same place in 1S7S
taught school a few years then stud
led law and was admitted to the bar
From 1ST9 to 1SS3 he was deputy
circuit clerk and deputy sheriff of
Lewis county and in ISSo he re
moved to Shelbyviile which has
since been his home From 1SS9 to
1S93 he was prosecuting attorney of
Shelby county He married Miss
Molly Graves in 1SS1 and has several
children Chairman Lloyd is promi
nent in the Odd Fellows and Knights
of Pythias and is a Methodist having
served as delegate to the general con
ference of that denomination lie was
for several years Democratic whip
in the house of representatives
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THE PILLORY
Titus Oatcs and Daniel Defoe Both
Suffered In It
In the year 1S37 the British parlia
ment passed an act that put an end to
punishment by pillory Previous to
the conquest this particular Instrument
of correction was in use in England
and went by the name of the stretch
neck It consisted of a wooden frame
erected on a stool in which were three
holes for the head and arms For
days together offenders against the
common law were thus exposed to pub
lic view From historic accounts it ap
pears that this particular form of pun
ishment was meted out to those coll
ected of frauds of every description
not only In England but in nearly
every country in Europe In the days
of the star chamber when religious
feeling ran high the pillory was the
ordinary punishment meted out to
those who offended against the church
In 1CS5 Titus Oates was sentenced to
be pilloried for five days in every year
during the rest of his life Another
famous sufferer was Daniel Defoe the
author of Robinson Crusoe who
stood for three days in the pillory In
Cheapside It happened on occasions
that the offender died while under
going his sentence During the time of
exposure the condemned man was not
allowed to receive food of any sort or
description The last occasion on
which a pillory sentence was passed
was in 1S14 London Globe
A KINGS HOBBY
The Mania of Frederick William I
For Collecting Giants
Of all the manias that afflict man
kind the most ancient and curious is
probably that for collecting The vic
tims collect pretty nearly everything
from books to shoe buckles and from
pots to postage stamps but giant col
lecting was the hobby of Frederick
William I king of Prussia
Nature designed him for a recruit
ing officer destiny made him a mon
arch All were fish who came to his
net Saxons Austrians nessians
Turks Swedes Englishmen Irishmen
Africans provided they were at least
two yards long Some of his speci
mens were seven feet loug Now and
then he obtained one still more pro
digious
The Saxon cabinet minister Wack
erbarth foreseeing the possible ad
vantages of standing well with so near
a neighbor in 1713 dispatched to Ber
lin a recognition of his Prussian maj
estys birthday Aug 14 no less flat
tering than unique since it consisted
of a large bundle of tobacco leaves
two handsome Turkish pipes and a
bagful of fragrant Latakia all com
mitted to the hands of seven foot pas
sengers with a missive imploring the
kings gracious acceptance of these
trifles and the Cupid who bore them
St Louis Post Dispatch
A Smile From a Stranger
Most of us owe debts of gratitude to
strangers whose kindly smile has sent
sunshine into our aching hearts and
has given us courage when we were
disheartened
It is a great thing to go through life
with a smiling face It costs little but
who can ever estimate its value
Think how the pleasure of life would
be increased if we met smiling faces
everywhere faces which radiate hope
sunshine and cheer What a joy it
would be to travel in a gallery of liv
ing pictures radiating hope and cour
age
Who can estimate what beautiful
smiling faces mean to the wretched
and the downcast those whose life
burdens are crushing them
Many of us carry precious memories
of smiling faces which we glimpsed
but once but whose sweet uplifting
expression will remain with us forever
Success Magazine
She Was Deliberate
It is said that Dinah Mulock Craik
the famous author of John nalifax
Gentleman made a habit of leaving
at her bank the manuscript of each of
her stories as soon as it was completed
It would remain there perhaps six
months and then she would call it
and see how the story uffeted hci
after that lapse of lime If it pleased
her the manuscript was sent to the
publisher Otherwise it was rewritten
or thrown a wav
Ear Vcinfj
Only animals with - and droopiua
ears are able to urg tl2 i A rabbit
for instance rn Cj It it likes with
its ear drepii or buti and lay
ing them tU nlom is- Uat k when
dashing through tliu I t over Hares
are still more brik r e ir movements
But short care 1 beasts like weasels
and sto its are uualle to wag their
ears in any degve altlioi they have
enoush eir to tg if tJey had the
power
Accurate
See hen- Iaiullurtl said an angry
tenant after he had Igried the contract
for a year this hotso is full of sewer
gas
Yes thats what I told you
Told me
Yes You asked me if there was
gas in every room and I said there
was London Answers
His Right Hand
My husband said the fair bride
says I am his right hand
I hope rejoined her mother that
he isnt like that man who never lets
his right hand know what his left
hand does Chicago News
Easy to Suit
Mrs Eastend Youll not find me dif
ficult to suit Nora Nora the new
maid Im sure not maam I saw
your husband as I came in maam
Pittsburg Observer
SEA BATHING
The Effects of Salt Air and Water on
tbe Human Body
There Is a reason why parents have
In all times and in all ages endeavored
to give their children the benefit of sea
air and sea bathing An Italian physi
cian Gerosa tells about it
It Is agreed lie pays that all living
organisms began their first existence in
salt water and that as a result the hu
man body and indeed every animal
body is largely made up of salt If
you taste your blood or your tears
which are the extract of blood you
will find that both are quite salt In
flavor More than this however every
living being possesses within his body
in the cellular stage all those strange
marine organisms which we study so
curiously in museums And seeing
says Gerosa that the amount of sea
water contained in every body is equal
to one third of that bodys weight it Is
clear that in the iufinitesimally rudi
mentary form all known marine life
must be present in the blood The re
sult is that when we bathe in the sea
or breathe the sea air we replace the
amount of essential salt which is con
stantly decreasing in the system and
all unconsciously to ourselves weak
ening it Salt water says Gerosa is
really the main principle of life since
it is the first condition of existence
which the living organisms knew It
is therefore always good for tho body
whether it lie enjoyed at tho seaside or
brought in bottles from the sea In
particular is it very valuable in the
case of weakling children and there is
no bodily stimulant so invigorating to
tho very young as sea water
THE VOODOO IN HAITI
Human Sacrifices to the God of tho
Serpent
There Is ample proof that human be
ings have been offered as sacrifices to
the god of the serpent in Haiti A
French archbishop of the island de
scribes a visit made by one of the
priests to a voodoo assembly The
man had disguised himself as a negro
and he was thus able to mingle unde
tected with the crowd in the obscurity
outside the sacred circle After the
white cock and white goat had been
slain and offered up and their blood
had been sprinkled on the company a
burly young negro came forward and
prostrated himself before the priestess
Then still kneeling he made his
prayer
0 maman I have a favor to ask of
thee
What is it my son said the
negress encouragingly
Wilt thou not give us to complete
the sacrifice the goat without horns
The priestess gave a sign of assent
The crowd roundabout separated and
there was revealed a child sitting with
its feet bound The French priest
rushed away in search of assistance in
preventing the unholy rite but the
authorities on whom he called were
strangely slothful When finally on
the day following they arrived at the
place of assembly they found the
grewsome remains of a sacrifice and a
feast among them the boiled skull of
the child Marvin Dana in Metropoli
tan Magazine
When Men Hurry
Singular said a man waiting for a
train on an elevated railroad platform
and looking down a street to where a
hundred men and boys had gathered
around two wagons that had come to
gether in collision there are a hun
dred men standing around those two
wagons just standing there gawping
apparently with nothing else to do
and not in a bit of a hurry but let any
one of those men come up the stairs
to this platform when there is a train
coming in and hed rush and hurry and
tear himself apart to catch that train
and get glum if he missed it though
he knew very well that thered be an
other train here in a minute Let him
miss a train by a second and he
thinks the world is coming to an end
let him see somebody hoisting a safe
up the outside of a building and he
will stop and waste half an hour
How do you account for that
New York Sun
IW me do Struves Wit
Secretary Blaine had said of Mme
de Struve that she was the brightest
woman he had ever met and every
body who knew her agreed with this
verdict Her knowledge of English
was remarkable even for a Russian
and her sallies were famous For in
stance the day when Secretary Bay
ard was made head of the American
diplomatic service his daughter Miss
Kale Bayard said laughingly to a
young secretary of legation Remem
ber I am now daughter of your chief
to which came quick as a flash the
retort from Mme de Struves lips
Oh we all know that you are miss
chief Army and Navy Life
His Terms Varied
I give a little reception next Thurs
day evening and I should like some
music piano solos particularly What
would be your terms Thus a lady
to a professional instrumentalist
Eef I go zere simply as a musician
was the reply und blay my selections
und leave I gharge fife guineas but
eef I must go as a guest und spend ze
whole evenings talking to von pack of
fools I gharge den guineas London
Graphic
A Sure Thing
She id father say anything about
you being too young He Well yes
but he said Id age pretty rapidly after
we were married and I found I had to
pay your bills Illustrated Bits
A happiness that is quite undis
turbed becomes tiresome we must
have tips and downs Moliere
MACARONI IN ITALY
To the Working Peoplo This Food Is
a Luxury
Every one pictures the Italian as
eating macaroni What If I tell
you that the Italians taking them us a
people do not eat macaroni and yet
this is virtually true Macaroni in Italy
costs 4 to 8 cents a pound and It is
too costly for common use It Is about
as accurate to say that the Italians
ive on macaroni as that the Ameri
cans live on turkey Macaroni to the
working Italian is a luxury You often
see young fellows on a holiday In
dulging iu a dish in a restaurant or
before a street cook stand about as
Americans would eat ice cream A
customary workmans dinner Is a hunk
of bread broken apart and buttered
with a few traces of tomato sauce As
for meat It Is the greatest rarity and
the only drink they can afford is wa
ter which has the advantage of being
cheap and filling The Italians at
home are not only temperate but ab
stemious Wine and beer and even
tea coffee and chocolate are forbidden
to them on account of the expense In
all Italy we saw no one under the in
fluence of liquor So also there is
practically no smoking The govern
ment has a monopoly of the tobacco
business buys its supplies in quanti
ties direct in America and elsewhere
and charges three prices for every
thing The few tobacco shops keep a
piece of smoldering tow tied at the
doorpost so that patrons and passers
may light their cigars by it Los An
geles Times
WOMANS WIT UNCERTAIN
As When This Wife Failed to Ap
preciate Hubbys Pleasantry
Dont always rely upon the ready
wit of a woman said the man who
is sometimes pleased to consider him
self an oracle That ready wit busi
ness is sometimes prone to get way off
For example my wife and children
had been staying in the country for
several weeks and I was regular with
my letters as every loving husband
should be Finally on the day before
my wife was to start for home I con
cluded my letter to her with these
words
This will be the last letter I will
write to you for a long long time
When I got down to my office the
next morning I found a telegram from
my wife waiting for me What on
earth do you mean read the dispatch
Later a registered letter came from
her She had blotted almost every line
with tears What it was all about 1
could not imagine
Then my telephone bell rang and
when I answered I heard my wifes
voice speaking over the long distance
phone
0h John said she Is that really
you I thought you had committed
suicide Washington Post
Remedy For Choking
Raising the left arm as high as you
can will relieve choking much more
rapidly than the act of thumping ones
back said a physician and it is
well that every one should know it
for often a person gets choked while
eating where there is no one near to
thump him Very frequently at meals
and when they are at play children
get choked while eating and the cus
tomary manner of relieving them is to
slap them sharply on the back The
effect of this is to set the obstruction
free The same thing can be brought
about by raising the left hand of the
child as high as possible and the re
lief comes much more quickly In
happenings of this kind there should
be no alarm for if the child sees that
older persons or parents get excited
the effect is bad The best thing is
to tell the child to raise its left arm
and immediately the difficulty passes
away
The Popping Stone
Tho popping stone marks the spot
where Sir Walter Scott asked Miss
Carpenter to marry him It is situated
in the beautiful valley of the Irthing
at Gilsland an inland watering place
near Carlisle The popping stone is
visited by many thousands during the
summer months and it is said many a
laggard lover has had his courage
screwed up to popping point at this ro
mantic spot In the immediate neigh
borhood may also be seen Mumps
Ha which Scott immortalized in
Guy Manuering while a little far
ther afield the Roman wall and Laner
cost priory prove attractions to vis
itors to Gilsland London Chronicle
Hardships of the Very Poor
Little Marion having few real play
mates has supplied herself with sev
eral imaginary ones with whom she
has many surprising experiences Her
mother recently overheard her playing
with her large family of dolls and en
tertaining a visionary caller
Yes Mrs Smif she said heaving
a deep sigh we are poor terribiy
poor We are so poor that I have to
spank my babies to keep them warm
Womans Home Companion
Costs Sometimes
Theres no use talking about it a
chronic disease is an expensive thing
to have
That depends Mine never cost me
anything
Whats your trouble
Kleptomania Cleveland Leader
The Biter Bit
Hewitt Who was that fellow who
in a fit of absentmindedness tried to
light his cigar from the electric light
Jewett Hes a joke writer who makes
a specialty of jokes about countrymen
blowing out the gas New York Press
As soon as a man acquires fairly
good sense it is said that he is an old
J fogy Atchison Globe
NOTICK TO CHKDIT0K9
In tho count court of Iff Mow cotthIk
In tho uiftttt r of the estnto of G
ritd ietinan Ifcviw I
You arc notified that I will lt at rim
county court room in 3Ieok in nu roiutpim
tho 2Uth dny of March HW at tiinn ocW ftu
in to receive and examine all claims ant iv
mnndg iiKtiiuxt mi id oxtate uitii n view totfiinr
adjuttmcut and allowance The timo ftnfltefi
for the -indentation of dm in- ek nlnnl 34t
tato i mix mouth from the lltl day if SrjiWr
ber Iios mid anyelhim not lp Hmm
timo shall bo fnreter burred Vttw
fHUAtl 1 Mooiu utility Juliu
J J helley attorney
LEQAL NOTICE
Ju jubtict court before If H lierryliiutioe
the T 58 J -7
1 H Iratt defendant will lake nuilco time
on tho 3rd day or AiiKii t IS II H 1 ii
justice of tho peaco of ited Willow countyN
braskn issued mi order of attnclmient Uv tin
sum of tsl in in act ion peiidimc before lam
wherein Ueorj e S i cott 1 tdaintilT nini 1 JI
Pratt is defendant and that iiro iertynf Wie
defendant cousistiiiK of miu j due mid owinr
in tho linndt of the hicatro Iturlim toii A
Quiucy itailroad Comtmuy tririihee list wutnrj
for work and labor iterfoniH d by wiid lefetbi
uut for said Railroad oiiiuij him been ntr
taciied under Miid order of nu huieiit ShM
cau e hn been co itiuned for lu anm to thatiU
day of September 1V0S at oclock aim
itONOB S SOOiTC
ORDKIt OF HEVKIMi
State of Nebraska Ited Willow county m Iu
tiie county court
To all imtmiiis interested iu th otnto of An
drew It liammeli late of -aid comity W
ceaed Ymi aro hereby notified that 011 Mo
IJthdaj of iiKiit lHM Edit Fowler flta
her petition in the count court of mi id coaaliF
for the appointment of John it Ilamuiefl i
the administrator of the Andrew U
llaninicll late id said count- diccaed mtd
that the Mlid petition will be hf ard atthe coun
ty court room iu tho cit id Mi Cook iu tuttf
comity 1111 the 1 tfi day of IMfkni
the hour of one oclock p in It onlcrrd llm1
notice id -aid hourimr n u to all mtsoc
interested iu said estate by puhlicntiMt4jf
ibis noticet for three week- in The
MeCook Tribune a now paiter piiblinbaA
printed and circulated in smil r unity
Dated this 1Jth day or Amriist UiS SJUtts
siaiI J C Moork County Judge
Cordon fc McCarl attorney-
NOTICE OF SUIT
Charles G Wallace defemlant will Mle
uolico that Marie Wallnie plaintiff Ink
filed her petition in tho lJistru r Court of liefi
Willow county state or Nebra ka the object
anil prayer of which are to obtain a divtxwe
from him on the grounds that although ti
siillieient ability- to do he lias without jmtt
caiiH or provocation trros dy vautouly anit
cruelly failed ami refused to support or Ion
any manner contribute to the of plw
t i II for more than four mouths last pist
that her maiden name Marie WandlxTS tit
restored tolier Mrf
You an- required to answer said petition am
or before Monday tho 2Jst day of Septetfftiat
A- Its
M iib Wai E Plaintiff
Hy J E Kelley her attorney
NOTICE OF SUIT
Elizabeth Kilgore V Kilgooe
Sarah Kilgore Florinda J Ber
George L lierger Emma lohnstyir
Arrilla Vandenort Sila Vamlervarf
Mary Kimerling Marion Kinierling Ol
iver P Whitted Margnn t 7 WhifctetL
James A Whitted Mrs James A Wbik
ted his wife Arthur ESume Santb1
Jones Saniantha Potts and James Pott
defendants will take notice that Geoegt
E Evertson plaintiff herein has iilf
his petition against tiie above named de
fendants in the district court of litA
Willow county Nebraska the object
and prayer of which an- to quiet the
title of the plaintiff in the East half asj
the East half of the We d half of Sec
tion thirty three Township tlmtti
CI Rangetwenty eight CN Ked Wiliaar
county Nebraska and for a decree that
the defendants and each and all of tbs
be decreed to have no interest in or aaf
claim lien or title to said premises or
any part thereof and that they may bs
barred and excluded from making at
claim thereto 8ri3X
You are required to answer said ti
tion on or before Mondav the 28th daj
of September 1008 Z
Dated this 21st day of August 1901
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