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EXPAIeiCI 6F TXE KettnXICK W8RKS.
Owing to the unprecedented demand
for MoConnlck machines, the McCor-
mlek Harvesting Machine Co., Chi
cago, has found It necessary to erect
a number of new buildings to secure
the larger capacity needed to meet the
Increased requirement. Following are
the dimensions of the more Important
additions made to the mammoth Works
during 1801: Tempering room, Z8xIO
feet, one story high; press room, 28x40
feet, one storyr high; oil tanks, 33x57
feet, one story high; foundry, 64x23$
feet, on story high; blacksmith shop,
83x180 feet, one story high; malleable
works, 200x320 feet, two stories high;
paint and packing room, 83 x60 feet.
Ave stories high; paint niill.SOxl.'O feet,
Ave stories high; warehouse, 84x160
feet, five stories high: twine mill ad
dition, IC-OsXth) ft, ix stories high.
These buildings furnish upward of
twelve acres of additional floor space
which materially Increases the capac
ity of the plant; and forty-eight acres
of ground have been recently purchas
ed for the purpose of further expand
ing the great McCormick Works.
During 1901 more than 360,000 McCor
mick machines were made and sold,
but this enormous output was Insuffi
cient to meet the demand of the
world's agriculturists. With the add!
Hons enumerated above, the capacity
of the McCormick works now is one
complete machine every twenty sec
onds, or three machines a minute-
such Is the marvellous rapidity with
which .McCormlck machines are manu
factured for 1JW2. It requires this im
mense output from the world-centre
works to supply the agriculturists
with machines for harvesting the grata
and grass crops of the world.
Brooklyn Life: "I wonder who this
man Is who wants to know whether
or not life Is worth living." "Oh, prob
ably some fellow who has more money
than he knows what to do with."
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The readers of this paper will be
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one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all Its stages,
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known to the medical fiaternBS'. Ca
tarrh being a constitutional dfsnuse, re
quires a constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, there
by destroying the foundation of the
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Rev. W. A. BartUtt ef Okicag.
under d4strlknted among Ms oengrs
gatiee a In. sat of half-tone picttares
vktek .re te Hlnstrate a series ef ser
mons ke will preach. The flrat peture
was n rspresenUtlen ef the palatine
by W. A. Bougvertsu, entitled "The
Mother and Child."
"Leslie 'U. Iksw," stirs a friend ef
tke new cabinet official, "will he the
Dsrld Harum of ftooserctt's avdmlnkv
tratlon. What I mean Is that Mr.
haw is k natural born man of affairs
sad tlx prsoll)cjsUo sf shrswdoest,
The Food Value of Potatoes.
U
NCLB SAM has been prying into
the Inner life of the humble po- i
tato and after a most thorough
nd rigid investigation declares In the
year book of the department of agri
culture that the potato is a deserving
and extremely valuable member of the
community.
Scientific investigation has shown
that the practice, which has become
so general, of serving potatoes with
meat and other similar foods which
contain liberal amounts of protein ls
based upon correct principles, one food
supplying the deficiences of the other.
Potatoes and other foods containing
carbohydrates are sometimes object
ed to on the ground that they are
starchy foods and do not supply much
nitrogenous matter. It should be re
membered, however, that the potato
does contain a by no means Inconsid
erable amount of protein and further
that earbo-hydrstes are an essential
part of a well regulated diet. The
digestion experiment referred to shows
that potatoes properly cooked furnish
much material in a digestible form.
They have been a staple article of diet
for many years without harmful re
sults and therefore the conclusion that
under ordinary circumstances they are
other than a useful and wholesome
food seems unwarranted.
POTATO AN AMERICAN PRODUCT.
The potato, called in different re
gions white potato, Irlxh potato, Eng-
llsh potato, or round potato, was first
introduced into Europe between Ksj
and 1585 by the Spaniards and after-
ward b ythe KngllHh ahout the time of
KaJelKh's vovuges to Virginia. H i
cotmnonly believed to be a native of
Chill. Wild potato plants closely re
sembling those cultivated toduy are
still found there, though It Is a fact
w orthy of mention I hat as the potato
has been modified by cultivation It
has largely lost the p..wer of produc
ing seeds, and the cultivated potato
differs from the wild in seldom pro
ducing seed-bearing fruits.
When first visited by Europeans the
aborigines In Chili and adjacent re
gions cultivated the potato for its
edible tubers and had -apparently long
done so. It was probably introduced
Into the United States, especially Vir
ginia and North Carolina, toward tile
end of tbe sixteenth century. It is
not surprising that the new foodstuff
should Lave grown rapidly into public
favor, when we remember lis prolific
yield, superior keeping qusilities, ease
of propagation and agreeable flavor..
The potato tuber is ia reality a
inoditW stem, being shortened lid
thickened to serve as a storehouse
fur reserve materal for the propaga
tion of new plants. The outer skin,
which Is dry In appearance and asual-
17 gray -or brown In roler, correspond
to tne bark of the rest of the .plant
The portion underneath the skis when
exposed to the sunligbt turns green
and gives the plant an unrJ-asitnt
aavcir. The outer aixtt Snner skin are
usually removed wh n the pouito Is
peeled. The flesh makes -up the bulk
of the potato.
ITS VALUE KWCOQXIZKD.
The valuable qualities of th! -potato
wer speedily recognised and. there
ore .early records of attempts :o de
termine Its food value by .weans of
chemical analysis. Im 17. Pearson :re
ported "experiments .and observations
on the constituent starts of :the potato
root." Klnhof In S5 published an
alyses of the potate, -as did julao Vau
queltn In 1817. In America analyses
of the potato were reported some fif
ty years ago by Emmoni. These in
vestigations were trseful at tbe time,
although they were nrt -made 'by the
method usually fotled today- This
was .necessarily the .case, as !tbe sub
ject r the chemistry of nutrition is of
comparatively recent growth.
In later years many studies f -the
composition and fodo Talue of the po
tato have been made In this aid other
countries. As shown ey recent analy
ses, the skin of the pwtato constitutes
on an average 2.5 per cent nf the
bland Inhabited By Cranes,
WHO ever heard of a piece f
laod ded to animal or fowl
y .ni h has been done by
,.n..lr consent. In Minnesota there
is a picturesque Island that Is unin
habited by man and given up to
cranes. When the Indians held full
sway these birds decided upon this
spot for a summer resort. As time
went on and no white msn had th;
temerity to disturb them they became
note owners, until now this Island Is
pointed out from passing boats na one
of in. curiosities of the country.
It Is estimated that three thousand
cranes make their home there In the
earnmer season, and they oan be seen
wading out In the water, dunking tk.lr
long nerks, end heard emitting a p
eulktr .peek lo warn eff Intruder.. .
The nests are sMde ef very large
Mleks. .re eften tke sise ef a bushel
kasket. and ark ueualty btitlt en some
ubeuaual tree. In the years that
kava peaeed si he. this region wse first
settled by whHs men only ene er two
attempts ha to been made te mwa en
the island, and these have resulted dte
aetrowaly. On. men, more venturesome then
the rest, eeptured with dlffleuhy s
young crane end carried home. When
exhlbltlnf his trophy to the family th.
Indignant bird thrust out Its long
beak, and before Its csptor guessed
Its Intention plucked out bis eyes.
These birds guard thslr property so
lealousty that though elegant summer
WOW wf t11 erected all around
whole and the cortical layer 8.5 per
cent.
It Is difficult to peel potatoes so that
the skin only is removed. Whether
both skin and cortical layer or only
the former should be called refuse In
our current sense of the word is per
haps a question. As potatoes are com
monly eaten a good deal of the flesh,
or edible portion, Is rejected with the
skins. When they are baked with
the skins on the amount of edible pec
tlon thus thrown away may be smalts
When they are pared for boiling the
amount wasted may be much larger.
When they are rough from defects In
growth or from shrinking of shrivel
ing after keeping over winter the
amount of flesh cut off in peeling Is
still larger. Just how much this loss of
the edible portion of potatoes will av
erage In the ordinary household no one
can say exactly. It may be estimat
ed at 20 per cent of the whole.
ITS CHEMICAL, PROPBKTlrai.
The edible portion of the potato Is
made up of 78.3 per cent water, 2.2 per
cent protein (total nitrogenous matter)
1 per cent fat, 18.4 per cent carbo
hydrates (principally starch) and 1 per
cent ash or mineral matter. Of the
carbohydrates .4 per cent is made up
of crude fiber and materials, which
in some of their modifications consti
tute the cell walls of plants and gives
them a rigid structure. These figures,
like others for composition of food ma
Iterials, represent general averages,
from which theer are wide variations
In individual specimens. Though the
skin, cortical layer and flesh differ
i somewhat In composition, they al lre-
semble more or less closely that of the
whole tuber. .
When potatoes are Rtored they un
dergo a shrinkage. According to tests
made at the Michigan agricultural ex
periment station, this amounted to 11.5
per cent when they were kept In stor
age from September 30 to May 1. This
shrinkage is probably due to a loss
of water by evaporation.
Tbe potato contains some protein, but
as the principal Ingredient in it Is
starch it may be properly classed as
carbohydrate food. As in the case
with all carbohydrate foods, it is chief
ly valuable In the diet to supply the
body with energy. The potato has a
fuel value of 3S5 calorics to the pound
that is, when burned in the body, as
all foods must be to be utilized, it
yields energy equal to the a-mount
named.
COOKING THK TUBERS.
The principal ways of cooking pota
toes are baking, boiling and frying, or
some modification of these processes
The objects sought are principally to
soften the tissues and render them
more susceptible to the action of the
dlgestic ejuices and e Improve the
flavor.
Just why cooking changes the flavor
as It does has apparently never been
made the subject f investigation. In
potatoes, as In other foods, the cooked
starch Is more agreeable to the taste
than raw. Ir the raw pocato tn
separate starch grains are inclosed
In cells with walls composed of crude
liber, a matciial .resistant to digestive
juices. If potatoes were eaten raw the
digestive Juices would not 'reach tha
starch as easily unless the cell walls
happened to be ruptured mechanically,
as In mastication.
To obtain the highest food value po
tatoes should tiot be peeled before
cooking. When potatoes are peeled be
fore cooking and placed directly In
hot water and boiled rapidly less loss
of material Is -sustained than when
they are cookfd iu water cold at the
start. The wbolesomeness of potatoes
cook-d In different ways is largey a
matter which each must decide for
himself, the general experience being
that for men in health most of the
methods followed are satisfactory.
Congressman F.ddy of Minnesota
says that a congressman does not earn
15,000 a 'year. He ought to know, as
he is serving his fourth term.
on the adjacent islands Crane Island
i will go down to posteiity as one spot
on earth to sacred to the crane and
nts progeny
'Do you really think one commits a
sin to ride a bicycle?" "Well, I've seen
bicycle riders who were far from up
right." Father What Is that soft, scratchy
noise in the next romo, which sounds
like something tipping? Mother Oh,
that's Maria learning toa acrateh a
match on her bloomers.
' After th ball Is over, ,
After the dance Js through.
Came dresamaker bills,
And doutor'e pills,
JDnough for a yr er twe.
"Women," began the eernfed phil
osopher. In Ma genersHslsg way, "is
ereatsre of many moods." "My wifh
tint." vsntwred N. Perk. "Bh.'s al
ways In the Imperative."
"Wkleh would yen rather do, Jar
ley, kiss a girl on her lips or on her
eyesf "Her eyes, of course. Tew
hsvs te do It twice to eover the
ground."
Professor (to new student) Ton may
tak. that chair. Student Plesse, sir,
where do you wish me to take k?
"That's our church. It's orful 'Igh.
sW 'as matins." "Hor, thst ain't nuf-
flnk. Ws 'ss carpets."
Thin la aural the latent wrinkle "
said Miss B as ah. pat some com.
plosion saivs to a new since on bey
cheek.
j McKinley's Last
I HE mound where the body of
William McKinley will eventual-
ly lie and above which will be
reared the memorial of the people of
the United States Is In the farthest
section of West Lawn cemetery, at
Canton, O,
Without question It is the most
beautiful spot in the cemetery. Sen
ator Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana,
one o fthe trustees of the Mck'inlev
National Memorial Association, which
is raising the funds for the memorial
tomb, said when he first beheld It
that it was "the finest spot out of
doors In all the world."
Lying there William McKinley can
look with a spiritual eye upon the
town of Canton, whose chief glory he
was; he can see from the eyrie of his
monument the house where he was so
happy and within whose stricken walla
rests his devoted widow. And as he
turns his gaze over the country, it
will light on the giarefiil little mar
ble figure a boy with a basket of
flowers that keeps watch and ward
over the tiny graves at its feet. -There
is a long stretch of years between
these little mounds and the great one
that looks down upon them, but in all
the time that elapsed from the day
that he first turned and left his ba
bies In their , graves to the glad on?
when he lay in the same cemetery be
side them, William McKinley's heart
was ever asking for these little girls.
Back of these pathetic little graves
lie those of his father and mother and
sister. Butween them a link in death
as In life William McKinley would
have reposed himself had not the love
and the honor of the nation willed
otherwise.
Until the memorial tomb is built the
body of William McKnley will lie In
the public receiving vault, where it
was placed in September, encircled
by the folds of the Stars and Stripes.
This vault is a simple but effective!
bit of mortuary architecture. It was
a gift to Westlawn Cemetery a num
ber of years ago by Mrs. Frank Ma
son Werts of Canton in honor of her
husband, it is of Romanesque design,
constructed of rock-faced and dressed
Masslllon sandstone, at a cost of $5,000,
and is built into the hillside. Night
and day it Is guarded by a detail of
United States soldiers, forty-five in
number.
These soldiers find their principal
occupation in warding off relic hunt
ers. Every day and all hours of the
Some Queer
THK most persistent superstitions
in the world are those that are
based upon the habits of ani
mals. In this country Maryland is, per
haps, the most credulous state with
regard to animal portends and be
liefs. If one Is walking at night ami
a spider web brushes the face it is
supposed to mean that a ghost is
following, but in the daytime It teiis
that a stranger Is coming. It is wide
ly believed in Maryland that a horse
has the power of seeing ghosts.
A black'cat crossing one's path fore
tells disaster, but a cat coming to the
house is an omen of good import.
The Delgh of a horse is a portent of
drain, which will come from the quar
ter to which his head is pointing
when he neighs.
A curious and Inexplicable proverb
says: "it is good lurk to see Mr. K!"
phant swing on Mr. Ftabblt's eyelooth
the 'Three Night's Ball.' "
The hair of a dog, the skin of a
snake and the pelt of a black cat are
believed to possess medicinal qualities,
while the handling of a toad is saM
to give war ts.
German-Canadians are full of su
perstition. A white spider, crawling
toward one, the howling of a dog, the
neighing of a horse, the sight of a
snake are the portents of death. The
killing of a toad or the crowing of n
hen foretells rain. "If the wild geese
fly nigh look uut-for a gz'.c."
To kill a spider on one's person
means ill luck.
If the cat waHhes her face It means
that visitors are coming.
"If a bee sting kills him, the wound
will not swell."
The back tooth of a hog and the
blood of a black hen have curative
powers.
In New Kngland the sailors carry
as a talisman a bone taken from a
living turtle, a pebble from a llsh
hawk's nest, or a small bone from tht
head of a cod.
In Newfoundland and Labrador
cramps are said to be guarded against
by sarrylng a sod's head er a bone
from a" haddock, .aught without
touching the boat.
In Teaas superstitious people earry
a small bene from a neh's heed, but
the luok only eesaes sfier the charm
has been lost.
In MasMobUewtt tke most common
talisman, .r. the clsw ef a erab an
tbe left bind elaw from s srew's feet.
fl.perstttl.us New Yorker earry a
mail round veal bene for geed luok.
M.ntueky negroes believe thst the
eaterpMnr brings fever.
Perhsps Asia Minor la more rich In,
these srude and Interesting fancies
than any other country, When chil
dren hear an owl booting from the
cypress groves they cry, "Good news
for us; good messages for you." If
they etch an owl they hold It up by
the beak and chant, "Palm Sunday
owl, how does your mother dance?"
Ths meaning of the rite is lost, but
the hsblt lingers.
The crow Is kers looked upon as.
Resting Place, j
day, there Is a stream of visitor's te
the vault.
West Lawn cemetery Is practically
on the outskirts of Canton, though an
active man or an athletic girl of the
day could walk it in twenty minutex.
Should one care to ride the electric
cars take him within five minutes of
the gates, and when the memorial
tomb is built and the national liegira.
be&rins. there will be a line
to the
cemetery Itself.
Wpat fjiwn Is a. fjne bit of rolling
country, comprising some sixty-five
acres of well diversified ground. Na
ture has done much for it, and, in the
muin, nature has been let wisely alone
Where are has stepped In, it ha3 beea
complement, not to contradict, as it
so often the case. Its hills atul val
leys retain their first curving;? 8'vl
are still coveted with native oaks,
some of giant size and all imprest. e
with the dignity of age and flt:i"fs.
The character and size of th? me
morial tomb cannot be deterra:.. 1. of
course, until all the money h-i been
collected, it will, however, be archi
tecturally worthy the great dead' it
honors and the still greater natlois
that honors him. It will typify the
strength and grandeur of both; it wilt
teach, with the enduring eloquence of
stone, the lespon of good citizenship
and stalwart Americanism he live!
and preached, and it will show to aB
the countries of the earth how well
this nation loves a man who loved Si-
The McKinley National Memorial
association, which has its headquar
ters at Cleveland, in raising funds for
this memorial tomb at Canton, Q,
seeks the offerings of the many rather
than the gifts of the few. William
McKinley was the people's president
and his memorial should come from
them.
The officers of the McKinley .Na
tional Memorial association are: Wil
liam R. Day, Canton, O., president;
Marcus A. Hanna, Washington, vice
president; Myron T. Herftck, Cleve
land, treasurer, and Ryerson Ritchie.
Cleveland, secretary.
Seven thousand negroes In the Creek
nation own 1,120.000 acres of land. Un
der any form of government which
would permit of improvements being
made this land would sell in the open
market for an average of J20 an acre.
The wealth of those 7,000 negroes can,
therefore, be safely estimated at
000,000.
Superstitions
unlucky, and the children cry svben
they hear him cawing, "Eat your
head whole!" The crow," in fact, has
the distinction of being almost tb
only member of the animal kingdom
who has a sinister reputation in all
lands. Even the snake fares better.
In Tur key the partridge :is 'detested
because once it betrayed the prophet
to his enemies, and its legs are refi
because they were dipped In thfc
blood of Hassan. If a man kills a
panther he is imprisoned for 21 Jtours
and then is handsomely rewar4ed.
The crane is respected, and it is a
cr ime to kill it.
Poland has a vve ilth of animal su
perstitions. The goat is there consid
ered the best har binger of luck, trlite
the wolf, crow and pigeon are looked
upon as unlucky. The skin -of a cat,
worn on the chest, is alleged to cuius
consumption. "To cure catar act In rt.be
eye, take a black cock, make him look
at the sun, look at It yourself, then
throw the cock on the ground, jump
on a fence and crow three times."
In Lincolnshire the belief Is current
that the wealing of a toad's breast
bone commands the obedience of all
animals. To keep witches away they
stick an animal's heart full of. pins
and keep It in the house as a talis
man. HE HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT.
Our ranking In the world, depends on
what we do, not on what can do, and
so a shabbily dressed young man dis
covered when he applied to the man
ager of a large department store for
employment.
"What can you do?" asked the man
ager abruptly,
"'Most anything," answered the ap
plicant. "Can you dust?"
"Yes, indeed."
"Then why don't you begin on your
hat?"
The young man fasda't thought 4
that.
"Can you clean leather gxds?"
"O, yes."
"Th nit's rareVvesneee on your put
that your .hers are not clean."
The young man hadn't thought Cf
that, either. .
"Well, ean yeu scrub?"
"Yes. Indeed, was ths rpts."f ;
"Then I can kiva yeu iinwukliij te
do. e out and try yenr strength sn
'that eellar yen have ea. But don't
cam. back."
American delegates who repreeewted
ue st the Methodist sumenteni Con
ference In faondon wer Missed to And
how for the British Westerans are
behind ewr Church on the sues t ton of
drinking and selling Intoiloants. Tkere
are English ministers who kar. beer
and wine on their tables, local preach
ers who keep "public hounea,' or sa
loons, and young Church members ef
both sexes who "tend bar."
If your religion does not sanctify
your life your life will seoularlsc your
religion.