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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD.
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DAKOTA CITY NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1914.
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BRYAN ORDERS DICTATOR OF
MEXICO TO PUNISH SLAYERS
OF U. 8. RANCHER.
TOPIC AT CABINET SESSION
President's Advisers Believe Act Com
mitted by Federals Shocked the
American People Mondell Assails
Policy Vergara Reported Shot.
City of Mexico, March 2. Swift pun
ishment will bo administered If any
ono is found guilty of killing Clemonto
Vergara; an inquiry has been ordered.
Such was tho reply made by President
Huerta's foreign minister on Friday
to Charge O'Skaughnossy's demand
that tho hanging be avenged.
Washington, March 2. Secretary
Bryan announced on Friday that a de
mand for tho punishment of those rc
nponsiblo for tho killing of Clemente
Vorgara, on American citizen, had
been sent by tho United States to
tho Huerta government.
That tho American government re
gards tho hanging of Clomcnto Vor
gara, an American citizen, near Hi
dalgo, Mexico, as a subject for repara
tion by tho Huerta government be
came known hero nfter the cabinet
meeting. Tho cabinet discussed prac
tically nothing except Mexican af
fairs, dispatches being read from
Consul Letcher saying General Villa
would givo permission for a complete
medical examination of tho body of
William S. Benton, British subject, at
Chlh'uahua.
While tho Benton incident was dis
cussed in detail, members of the cab
inet wore concerned especially over
tho hanging of Vergara. That act,
they believed, had shocked tho Ameri
can people and should not go unpun
ished. So far as could bo learned, tho
cabinet was not inclined to condone
the killing of Benton, but In discuss
ing responsibility for tho .act some
members were Inclined to think Ben
ton was indiscreet in going into tho
camp of a military commander with
whom ho was not on friendly terms
and entering into an argument with
him. Final Judgment was not reached
as to tho merits of tho Benton case.
Ropresontativo Mondell, Republic
an, of Wyoming, In a vigorous attack
on tho Moxlcan policy in tho house,
predicted that if the constitutionalists
ovorthrew Huerta there would follow
a.i;roign of rapine, jpluncjer and mur
der" that would spread over Mexico.
In a speech attacking tho pension
pollcyjof the government Representa
tive Dies, Democrat, of Texas, warned
against Mexican intervention.
Representative Alney's resolution
calling upon President Wilson for in
formation regarding tho snfety of for
eigners in Mexico was considered with
out action by tho house forolgn affairs
committee.
Representative vAlney told tho com
mittee that danger to foreigners
threatened to involve tho United
States in international complications
"because of tho lack of a dellnlto pol
icy in Mexico."
Consul Letcher telegraphed Secre
tary Bryan that Villa would permit
two Americans, two British represent
atives and two members 'Of the fam
ily of William S. Benton to view the
body of tho dead ranchman. It is as
sumed that the body is at Chihuahua
city. '
Austin, Tex., Feb. 28. That Vergara
was shot and not hanged by tho fed
erals was disclosed In a detailed re
port received by Governor Colquitt
from Ranger Captain Sanders at La
redo. BORAH SAYS KILL MONOPOLY
Republican Senator Tells Ohio Lead
ers Reasons Why Ho Never Could
Join tho Progressives.
Columbus, 0 Fob, 28. Open war
on monopoly was advocated by United
Stages Senator Borah of Idaho in an
addreos hero beforo the Republicans
of Ohio at a "got together" luncheon
on Thursday. Tho tirno has come for
"remedies, not palliatives," in dealing
with industrial monopolies, ho said,
and urged -vigorous policy on tho part
of tho Republican party.
At tho same tlmo ho assailed tho
attitude on this issuo of such leaders
of tho Progressive party as former
Senator Boveridgo of Indiana and
Georgo W. Perkins of Now York, who,
ho, asserted, maintained that monop
olies "woro tbp proper thing and all
they need is a llttlo regulation."
' Pleading for all men who boliovo in
the principles of tho Republican party
to aid in its rejuvenation as a genu
inely progressive party, Senator Borah
declared that "oven if tho Republic
an party was at an end, I could never
Join tho third party, so long as It
stands as it now stands, if I correctly
understand its loaders on this ques
tion of monopoly," continued tho
speaker.
Well Known Smelting Man Dies.
Caluraot, Mich., March 2. J. B.
Cooper of Hubbell, one of tho fore
most smoking men in tho world and
superintendent of tho Calumet & Hocla
Mining company's copper smolting
plants, died hero of cancer.
Two Guilty of Land Frauds.
Kansas City, Mo., March 2. R, I J.
Martin and J, Borders, agents of Flor
ida Fruit Lands company, plondod
guilty in the fodera'i court to charge
of conspiracy In the sale of lands in
tha Everglades of Florida.
HURT
SCENE OF CASTILLO'S HORRIBLE CRIME
This Is tho south entrance ot tho
Mexican bandit, set afire, causing the
photograph an engine Is seen drawing
ran into tho blazing tunnel.
PALI WIS RAGE
VICTOR OF VANDERBILT CONTEST
AT SANTA MONICA, CAL., MAKES
76.5 MILES AN HOUR.
OLDFIELD IS CLOSE SECOND
Daring Driver Perll3 Mechanician and
Hlm6elf When He Plows Ahead of
Italian at "Death Curve" Crowd
Gives Him an Ovation.
Santa Monica Race Course, Cal.,
Feb. 28. Tho Vanderbilt cup automo
bllo classic was won by Ralph de
Palma on Thursday when he sent his
Mercedes car 294.035 mlle3 in 3 hours
51 minutes and 41 seconds. This Is
an averago of 75.5 mileo an hour. Bar
ney Oldfleld, driving a Mercer car,
was second in 3 hours 55 minutes and
1 second.
At tho beginning of tho thirtieth lap
Do Palma was 30 seconds behind Old
field, but tho latter started 85 seconds
ahead of Do Palma and would have to
gain CO seconds In tho remaining five
laps to defeat the winner of tho last
Vanderbilt cup race.
Oldfleld went into tho lead at tho
end of tho twenty-third lap, with De
Palma a close second. The crowd
went wild when tho announcement
was made that Georgo Joermann, pilot
of the Touraine, an entry that was be
lieved without a possible chance of
running more than a fow laps, was the
surpriso of tho classic. At tho end of
his nineteenth lap Joermann was
driving a clover raco and holding a
tight grip on fifth place. Whon Old
field had completed 25 laps ho was still
In tho lead, followed in ordor by Do
Palma, Carlson, Cooper, Joermann and
Janetto.
As Oldfleld passed Do Palma ho en
acted a pleco of tho most daring driv
ing ever witnessed on any Vanderbilt
cup raco course. The two machines
had passed the grand stand with only
fow seconds separating them. As they
approached "death curve," a rlght
auglo turn, Oldfleld put on all powor
and overtook Do Palma. With death
for himself and his mechanician a cor
talnty if ho sent his car ono inch out
of tho path, Oldfleld dashed onto tho
curvo and swung around Do Palma's
Mercedes.
Ho kept the load on the straight
away nnd passed tho grand stand 100
feet ahead of Do Palma. Tho shouting
of tho crowd was thunderous.
Car No. l wes sent away by Starter
Wugnor at 10:05 o'clock.
Sponcer Wishart, in No. 2, made tho
first lap at 80. miles an hour, although
a soft spot developed by tho recent
rains caused tho cars to skid danger
ously at one of tho turns.
Tho distance Is 294.035 mlleo, or 3G
laps of tho 8.401-mllo course, which
ought to bo covered by tho winners in
less than four hours, It is said.
Nun Is Killed by Explosion.
Washington, Feb. 26. Sister Mary
Borgia Campbell of tho Visitation con
vent In Georgetown died following in
juries suffered when a boiler exploded
in tho kitchen. Tho water In tho bollor
had frozen and when she went to light
a flro tho sudden heat mado it explode.
New Counterfeit $10 Bill Out.
Washington, Feb. 28. -"D4C792035"
Is the number of a now counterfoil $10
note, tho secrot sorvlco announces In
a clrculur Tho noto is of tho serieB
of 1901, It is a fairly good imitation.
Cumbro tunnel which Castillo, tho
death of u number of men. In the
out tho wreckago of the train that
TAFT UPHOLDS WILSON
SAYS INTERVENTION MEANS
UNLESS LOSS OF LIFE.
Former President Expresses His Views
on Mexico Problem In Ad-
dress at Capital.
Washington. - Mnrcb 2, Former
President Taft took n hand in tho
Mexican problem Friday. In a speech
before the National Geographic so
ciety he warned tho administration
against Intervention. Tho cost in
enormU"Uand tho .IUof dbtW
benefit. j
"Tho situation 13 In such a condl-'
tion," Mr. Taft said, "that it would bo ,
improper for mo to comment on it, ex
cept to say this: That thoso who
lightly look forward to Intervention
aro either utterly regardless of tho
loss of life and tho expendituro of im
mense treasure, or elso they don't un
derstand what armed intervention on
tho part of this government in Mexico
will mean.
"Thoso of us who havo had experi
ence in tho trausqulllzlng of a tropical
country with a people not very differ
ent from tho Mexicans, who take
naturally to guerrilla wnrfaro and
would rather fight and run than work,
know tho dlfllcultles that an army
would havo to meet to accomplish tho
only purpose that wo would havo In
going in the bringing about of law
and order.
"It would Involve tho garrisoning
with a sufllciont forco o every town.
It would Jnvolvo tho organization of
columns to chase tho guerrillas into
their mountain fastnesses and across
trackless desert plains and tho subju
gation of 15,000,000 of people.
"I don't know when wo would got
through, I don't know how many lives
it would Involve, 1 don't know how
much It would cost, but I do know It
would bo a drag upon us, and then
when wo got the thing dono tho future
would still bo a charge and a burden
on our government and on our
treasury."
Profossor Taft afterward was tho
guost of Prosldont Wilson a luncheon
at tho Whlto House Mr. Taft's calls
at tho Whlto Uouso havo been fro
quent slnco ho loft, March 4 last.
Noted Cartoonist Is Dead.
London, Kngland, Feb. 28. Sir John
Tonnlel, for many docades tho lead
ing British cartoonist, died at tho age
of nlnoty-four years. Sir John was tho
famous English cartoonist who so
mercilessly caricatured Abraham Lin
coln during tho Civil war. Ho wns tho
dean of the world's great political car
toonists. Tenniol held tho record for
continuous service. Fifty years woro
passed, with scarcoly a holiday, as
cartoonist. On Lincoln's death Ten
nlel'a bitternees against him disap
peared. Fifteen Men Killed.
Berlin, Fob. 27. Fifteen men woro
killed and four othors seriously In
jured In an explosion which destroyed
an aniline factory In Rummelsburg, a
suburb. Nino bodies woro lecovered
by rescuers.
Ten-Pound Boy for Doctor Wiley.
Washington, Fob. 28, Tlioro arrived
ut tho homo of "Puro Food" Doctor
Harvoy W. Wiley a ten-pound boy on
Thursday. Tho scion ot tho houso of
Wlloy will bo known as John Preston
I Wiley.
FLEE SCARLET FEVER
8TUDENT8 LEAVE FOR HOME8 AF.
TER TWO DEATH8 IN DAY.
Miss Ona Reno, Heroic, Young Nurse,
Dies After Taking Care of
i Many Patients.
Champaign. 111., Feb 27. Despite
i Btntomonts by the state board of health
and local authorities that tho scarlot
fever situation at tho University ol
Illinois was woll in hand, 300 students
fled to their homes Wednesday, many
obeying tho requests of anxious par
ents. Although no now cases woro re
ported in the student body, two deaths
carried panic to tho university, Cham
paign and Urbana. Miss Ona Reno, a
young uurso in tho Julia E. Burnham
Training school, died a martyr to her
work. Mrs. Honry L, Llngren of Ur
bana, n brido of six months, was tho
other victim.
Warned that service In tho Isolation
was not mandatory and also was
dangerous, MIbs Reno responded by
doclarln'g that sho wanted to volunteer.
Sho was assigned to tho caro of S. II.
Cater, a student from Princeton, who
died last weok.
Champaign physicians passed reso
lutions reciting tho heroic sacrifice ot
tho young woman.
E. A. Hardt, representing tho state
board of health, said tho board had
nnt nvnn considered tho Idea of auar-
I antlnlng tho twin cltlos, tho situation
being well in hand. Dean Clark, chain
man of tho university health commit
too, Issued n statement advising stu
dents to go to clnsscs and not to go
homo.
DYNAMITER FOUND GUILTY
George Koocak Convicted by Jury ol
Transporting Explosive to Blow
Houus In Wisconsin.
Kenosha, Wis., Feb. 27. George
Koscak, tried in tho circuit court on
a charge of transporting dynamito from
Raclno to Kenosha to bo used In the
obstruction of tho homo of Jerry W,
Dccou, a member of tho Kenosha board
of health and factory manager of the
plant of tho Thomas B. Jeffery com
pany, was found guilty of the charges
by a Jury in tho circuit court on
Wednesday. The jury was out 22
hours. Tho case has been tho most
bitter tried In this county. Koscak, a
poor Austrian laborer, has had the
most elaborato defenso ovpr offered to
a man for any crime committed here
In recent years. Uuute' we Wisconsin
law he may be sent to tho state prison
for from three to ten years.
WOMAN GUILTY OF MURDER
! ""' BrU!l
N.
Y., Convicted of Killing
Husband and Babe.
Llttlo Valley, N. Y., March 2. Mrs.
Cynthia Buffum was found guilty ot
tho murder in tho first degroo ot her
husband and daughter on Friday. The
verdict not only stunned Uio woman
and her counsol, but caubed a demon
stration of astonishment in tho little
courtroom. The Jury was out five
hours and twenty minutes. Mrs.
Buffum wa3 confident, oven smiling,
at tho end of tho trial. For tho first
time since her arrest last October the
woman accused of murdering her hus
band, Willis; her baby son, Norrls;
her daughter, Laura, and of poisoning,
her threo other children had un
quailed. Mrs. Buffum's attorncylmmo
dlatoly will ask a now trial.
TELEGRAPHIC
NOTES
Evansvlllo, Ind., Feb. 2C Hans
Rohr, a Hpuston (Tex.) Athlote, who
was preparing to tako part in tho in
ternational swimming moot, dipd hore
following nn operation. , Ho recently
camq to Evansvlllo to' attend the
funeral of his mother.
Philadelphia, Fob. 2C With a fierce
flro raging In hor forward hold, the
freight steamer Rapldan hound from
Lolth, Scotland, to Philadelphia, was
reported to bo lighting her way up tho
lco-lllled Dolawaio rlvor to hor dock.
Evansvllle, Ind., Feb. 2C Mayor
Bosso received a threatening lotter
telling him ho had better stop his In
vestigation of local vico conditions.
Upper Sandusky, O., Feb. 2C Great
distress was reported in all parts ol
this city when tho morcury sank ta
13 dogros below zoro.
London, Fob. 28. Tho nlua labor
leaders, who woro deported from Soutb
Africa several weeks ago, wero guest
ot honor at a dinner given by the labor
members of parliament on Thursday.
Waterloo, la., Feb. 28, Ten thou
sand fivo hundred dollars has been
raised by Waterloo citizens for tho
Iowa building to bo erected by this
city for the Panama-Pacific exposition
at Sun Francisco.
To Namo U. 3. Bank Body In April.
Washington, Fob. 28. Bocauso tho
committee which will put tho cur
rency law into effect will not roport
beforo April 1 tho president does not
oxpect to announce tho membership
of tho federal resorvo board until then.
Glynn Not a Candidate.
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 28. "I am not
a candidato for any olllco," said Gov
ernor Glynn when his attention was
called to ropc-ts that D. F. Malono,
collertor of tho port at Now York,
bud named him tor senator.
SECRETARIES OF
COUNTY FAIRS
BUSINESS METHODS IN FARMING
ARE WINNING OUT.
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
Items of Interest Gathered from Re
liable Sources and Presented In
Condensed Form to Our
Readers.
Western Neunpapcr Union News Service.
Tho board ot agriculture has re
ceived the dutcs of a number of tho
county fairs over tho state, but a
great many are still lacking. Tho fol
lowing nro tho dates so far as known,
together with tho namo and address
of tho secretary:
Antelope Sept. 1-3, W. W. Cole, XciIkIi.
Ilox Butte , J. C. Vaughn, Alli
ance. Itoyd-Sept. 3-G, II. H. Story, Butto.
lloone Sept. IB-IS. David CialR. Albion.
Urown Sipt. '16-19, Geo. lleynolds,
Ahmnorth.
Butler Sept. 22-25, W. II. Mcdanin, Jr.,
Diviil City.
IlufTnlo Sept. 22-25, O. O. Smith, Kear
ney.
Chase
Clioyonno
W. C. Mill. Imperial.
- , C. P. Chambers,
sinney.
Clay Aug. 25-28, It. A. Byrklt. Clay
Center.
Cuming . C. S. Dolly. Wlsner.
Custer Hept. 15-18, Ktncry l- Hush,
Broken How.
Dawes , Geo. C. Snow. Chmlron.
Diw son Sept. 15-1S, K. C. Van Horn,
Lexington.
Dorign , Henry Boll. Scrlbnor.
Dodgo Sept. 15-17, P. II. .Mftrjott,
noopor.
Douglns
Dundy
man.
Kill moro
KrnnUHn
Franklin.
Ft on tier
vllle
Furnas
City
(luge
Greeley -
ley.
Hnll
Island.
, J. r. McArdlo. Omaha,
, J. Hobldoux, llenUcl-
, II. P. Wilson, Oenevn.
, Jes.Ho 11. Nation,
' , L. II. Cheney, Stock-
, 11. C. Lumley, llca- cr
, J, C. Emery. Ileatrlce.
, M. J. Harruhlll. Gn-e-
, A. M. Connors, Grand
Hamilton Sept. 1-4, S. B. Otto, Aurora.
Harlan Sept. 22-24, C. B. Alter, Alma.
Hnycs , I,. W. Knyeart, Haes
Center.
Hitchcock , J. A. Kirk, Cul-
bertson.
Holt Sept, 15-17, J. W. Ilolden, Cham
be i a.
JcJTerson Oct. 13-17, O. II. Sollonbcr
ger, Kiilrbury.
Johnson Sept. 14-17, II. S. Vlllars, Tc
cumsoh. Kearney Sept. 22-24, K. II. Trough,
Mlnrion.
Keith Sent. 23-23. I. I,. Woodward,
Ognlall.i. , , .
Knox , It. M. I'oyton. Crelghton.
Lancaster Sept. 7-11, A. II. Smith, Lin
coln. Lincoln , M. H. Crosby, North
Platte.
aiddlxin , S. C. Clackman,
Mudlaon.
JIerflclt"8rtt l-3r-W,D. Ab,l..Clarhs.
Nemaha Sept. 22-25, D. H. C. Iong,
Auburn,
NiickolW Sent
21-24, Geoige Jackson,
JSeison.
Pierce Sept. 1-3. Daniel Duff, I'lerce.
l'latte Sept. 23-25, Jerry Carrlg. Co
lumhiiH. Pawnee Sept. 13-1S, C. A. S,chappel,
Pawnee City.
Polk Sept. 1-4, F. H. Ball, Osceola.
Saunders , Heniy Pickett, Wa-
hoo. .
Scotts Bluff , A. B. Wood, Gor
ing. Howard , Wm, II. Smith, Sow-
nrd.
Shurldan Sept. 1-4, N. Cochran, Gor
don. Sherman Sept. 22-25, A. V. Chaao, Loup
City
Stanton Sept. 1-4, A. II. Loobc, Stan
ton.
lied "Willow Aub. 23-28, C. S. .Thomp
bon. Indlanola. .. .
Tlmjcr Sept. 14. E. J. Mitchell, Desh-
1 Valley Sept. 1-4, AWIn BlesMlnB, Ord.
Webster , O. L. Llndsrcn, Bla
den. Business Methods on the Farm,
"Tho farmer who uses business
methods is coming to tho front. Tho
other fellows nro being weeded out,"
according to F. A. Sherzlngor ot Nel
son, who is both nn editor and a
farmor, For twenty-flvo years ho has
been a cloao student of agricultural
conditions In Nuckolls county. After
admitting that lio was a "crank on
businesslike farming," Mr. Sherzlngor
continued:
"Men who use their heads make
money In tho farming gumo nnd this
state cannot bo beaten. Tho shiftless,
the unobsorvlng nnd tho unprogresslvo
aro bolng lost In tho shuffle. This ap
plies to both landowners and tenants.
"When a tenant does not got re
sults noondays ho is soon Informed
that the owner wants possession on
tho first day of March. Land has in
creased in value from tho old fixed
price of ?20 an acre to $100 and ovor.
It Is hard to pot n limit for now meth
ods, and now markets and now crops
will Increaso values."
Dr. Bossoy of tho stato university
has gono to Arizona for a few wcoks
for the purpose of studying plant life
In tho desort regions of that district,
Prcscnco of a widespread scourge
of hog choleia was discovered by tbp
Btato veterinarian on a trip to St.
Llbory. It Is said that fully $50,000
worth of hogs havo beon lost thero
In tho past threo or four months and
that many farmers havo lost their en
tire hords. Lossons drawn from the
affair, according to Dr. Klgln, aro that
hogs should bo vaccinated with chol
era Borum whllo they nro healthy and
that it tho disease gains headway in
a neighborhood termors should tako
enro tc attond to sanitary conditions
of their hog pons.
Industrial Building at Asylum.
With tho completion of tho new in
dustrial building at tho Nebraska hoB
pltnl for tho insano, Superintendent
B. i Williams expects to start a sort
of a now epoch In tho llfp of that in
stitution. The Industrial building, to
gether with tho two modern buildings
occupied for tho first tlmo last sum
mo r, will provldo for tho Institution
up-to-dato Rclentiflo ruratlvn facilities.
Tho buildings occupied Inst summer
havo beon fitted with oquipmont for
tho use ot hydropathy as a curatlvo
piothod.
GASOLINE SUPPLY IS FAILING
Growing Neceealty for Substitute Dem
onstrated by Big Increaso In
Consumption of Fuel.
Up to tho tlmo ot tho introduction ot
tho motor car tho distillation of crudo'
petrolouu was conductod with the ob
ject mainly of getting kerosene or il
luminating oil and tho lubricating oil
fractions, and tho lighter fractions
from tho distillation coming over be
low 150 dogroes C. wero practically a
wasto producL When, however, tho
rapid riso ot tho motor car began to
crcato a demand for gasollno, tho
lighter pontlon of this fraction proved
ltsolt to bo a perfect fuel, and from
being a dlstlllato ot almost no'valuo
It has boconio tho roflner's most pay
ing product, remarks tho London
Times.
A study of tho returns ot tho im
ports ot gasollno into this country for
tho past eight years shows that tho
consumption has Increased to a mar
velous extent In 1005 18,000,000 gal
lons woro imported; in 1911, 70,000,000
gallons, and in 1912, 80,000,000 gallons
woro noeded to satisfy tho demand,
which had moro than quadrupled In
soven years. Tho Hguros for tho first
llrst half of 1913 point to a still fur
ther Increase, and It is probable that
tho complete figures for tho year will
show an Importation of 100,000,000 gal
lons. Tho samo enormous rato of con
sumption Is found In nearly ovory civ
ilized country, and In America, Franco
and several other countrlos tho in
creaso has been ovon greater.
Tho production of crudo oil, how
over, tins not increased in tho oarao
ratio; tho 2S.500.000 tons obtalnod in
190G had grown to 50,000,000 tons in
1912, so that tho crudo material has
been less than doublod in quantity.
Moreover, tho most prolific of tho now
fields, such as thoso ot California,
ylolded an oil faij poorer In tho light
fractions than tho older sources. Thcro
is ovory- probability, thorofore, that
tho demand for gasollno will overrun
tho supply, nnd with tho prico of 'tho
crudo oil at the oilfields touching un
precedented figures, thero Is llttlo like
lihood that tho cost of gasollno will
rail, ,. w -. 4 r fc
VACUUM PUMP IS VALVELESS
Water or Other Liquid Is Lifted by
Two Three-Lobe Propellers Which
Are Worked Together.
In tho valvoless vacuum pump water
or othor liquid is lifted by two three
lobo impellers, which work together
Valveless Vacuum Pump.
like tho parts of a gear, says tho Pop
ular Mechanics. Theso impollors, how
over, aro not in coutact with each
other or with tho sides of tho cham
ber, tho return water, lying on tho
tops of tho impollors, acting as a suf
ficient seal. Tho courso of tho liquid
In passing through the pump is shown
by tho arrows.
t
Fully one-third of tho coal consumed
In Berlin is in briquet form. '
Loss quicksilver was produced in
tho United States last year than in
any yoar since 18G0.
Arizona last year mado now high
records for tho production ot gold, sil
ver, copper, lead and zinc.
9
"" Bolivia is tho world's socond largest
producer ot tin, tho main supply com
ing from tho Malay straits.
Granulated glass is being tried ns a
preservative for tho surface of wood in
England with much success.
Shafts sunk into a coal field In Ger
many, which has been burning soveral
years, revoaled 13 veins of blazing
coal.
Utah, which had a record production
of copper in 1912, excoodod that year's
figures and made a still higher record
last year.
Designing, etching and engraving of
fine book plates is a thriving profes
sion In Vienna. Somo of tho. greatest
artists aro engaged in tho 'production
of theso works. -r
VIM ()
SPIRAL HINGE CLOSES DOOR
Law of Gravity Is Taken Advantage of
by Washington Man In Perfecting .
'Appliance for Building.
By taking advantago of tho law of
gravity, a Washington (D. C ) man haa
lnventcd a hlngo which also acts as a
spring. Spiral metal strips are scrowed
at top and bottom and middlo ot the
door casing. Other metal strips, with,
slots for tho spiral to ptfso through,
aro fastened to tho door at corre
sponding distances and form the
hinges. When door is opened it rides up
on tho spirals, clearing rugs, carpftfl..
mats, or whatever olso may bo at.
tho bottom. Then, when thb pressure
on the door is released it settles of
its own weight and closes slowly ami
gently as tho enclosing strips slid
down tho spiral. Thero is no nccos-.
Novel Door Spring.
slty to havo A pneumatic device at
tached to provent tho door from clos
ing with a bang, as is tho caso with,
many other spring doors. Theso spiral
springs aro mado of strong metal
that will not rust or break, and as
they ate kept lubricated automat
ically, thero is no squeaking or grat
ing noise.
COATING FOR STEEL SURFACE
Machine Oil Brushed Over Surface of
Plowshare, Saw Blade or Other
Tool, Will Keep It Bright
Ordinary machine oil is useful in
another way than that ot preventing
friction botween tho bearings of work
ing machinery. A coating ot It quick- v
ly brushed over tho bright surface ot
a plowshare, a saw blade, or any ateel
tool, will keep. that surface bright for
many days wien not-Mn Use. This
practice will of,ten prevent tho begin
ning of tho rusting process.
When theso tools and tho farm ma"- "
chlnory aro stored away for several
weeks or months, a heavier nnd mora
lasting coating will bo needed to pro
tect such surfaces well. We givo here
an old tried rcclpo for a mixture ot
this kind which will givo the requirud
protection;
Molt together ono pound of fresh
lard and a lump ot, resin the size of a
walnut. Tho lard should bo first heat
ed tho resin powdored and then add
ed. Any surface coatqd with this mix
ture will bo protected from moisture
nnd rusting for months to comd, and It
is so slmplo a preventive that a sup
ply ought to bo on hand in tho corner
of every tool shed.
NEW DRILL FOR EXCAVATING
Especially Adaptable for Use In Con
nection With Rock and Earth For
mations Cutters Detachable.
Tho Scientific American in describ
ing a drill invented by F. R. Weathers
by of Houston, Tex., Bays;
"Tho Inveution relates to drllli for
goneral uso nnd moro particularly to
drills especially adapted for uso in
connection with rock and earth forma
tions. Tho moro particular purpose is
to provide a drill in which thero aro
a number of soparato cutters detavn
ably secured upon a head. Tho vari
ous cutters aro removable and replace
able independently ot ono another.
In operation, tho parts being arranged
nnd assembled, tho shank is connected,
with tho operating mechanism ot tho
drill and being forced against tho
Excavating Drill.
earth is caused to rotate Tho cutters
aro thus caused to revolve, tho teeth
being brought into operative engage
ment witli tho earth, rock or other ma
terial to bo cut"
New Fam Tractor.
A new form of farm tractor, built
to travel over the softest soils, con
sists ot a pair ot board spiked wheels
on a framo to bo fastened under an
nutomobllo'fl driving wheels and taka
powor from Its motor.
Iron Oro Deposits.
At tho present rato ot consumption
and with modern methods ot produc
tion tho world's known Iron ore, de
posits aro estimated by experts l&
supply tho demand tor 380 yar.
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