Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
“Can ladies smoke in automobiles?”
queries an exchange. They can; but
they don’t.
Hops have gone up, but they will
go down just as steadily as if nothing
had happened.
For wearing a dress with a low
neck on the street Mrs. Pat Campbell
was annoyed by a lot of rubbernecks.
Churches are uniting at a great
rate. Is the religious world becoming
superdenominationalistically inclined ?
Whew!
A blue book of the cat aristocrats
of America has been published. Ail
cats look alike trwim the bedroom
window.
The college young man, if desired,
w'iil cheerfully look after the coeds.
—Chicago Tribune.
Rubber?
Dr. Gunsaulus says that ti e day of
the boy orator is gone. Sure. The
boy orator has grown to a man and
-tuit the habit.
The world’s fair air ship race was a
fizzle. Still, It is worthy of praise for
one thing. It didn't result in the kill
ing of anybody.
Those lamas who pray even for the
microbes they swallow might save
time by following our example and
boiling the water.
The Parisians are now engaging in
falconry in automobiles. By my hali
dom, messieurs, mediaevalism up to
date is really hot stuff.
In his new novel entitled “Automo
bolisme” it is thought that Jules
Verne will considerably lower his for
mer record of eighty days.
The loss sustained by the University
of Minnesota by reason of the recent
fire is not so great as at first report
ed. They saved the gridiron.
How would it do, for instance, to try
the recently discovered and much
talked of sour milk elixir of life on the
frequently slaughtered Kurds.
There is nothing to show, however,
that the Harry Lehr dogs try to un
dog themselves, so to speak, whe>
they attend one of his parties.
William Waldorf Astor is still sbla
to tolerate America as a financial in
vestment, but nothing more than that,
mark you, must be expected of him.
The Radcliffe girls have been cau
tioned not “to look at the boys” in
their travels in Cambridge. It’s a slow
girl that can’t see the boys without
locking.
Mr. Harry Lehr, whose latest flash
of genius is the invention of tea par
ties for dogs, is said to object to
newspaper notoriety. We should think
le would.
An Asheville hen scratched up in
-he poultry yard a diamond worth $2,
t/00 that had been lost two years. Be
kind and considerate to your hens; it
aay be worth while.
President Butler wants $2,000,000
or Columbia university. Dr. Harper
.nay be able to furnish him with a
i rescription, but he will have to looii
!or his own apothecary.
The small stockholders In the $2,
)00,000 New Jersey corporation which
has been sold out for $200 hereafter
trill believe just one ten-thousandth
vf what prospectuses say.
Wu Ting-fang, who is to revisit the
United States, will be surprised on
I is return to find out how well this
country has managed to worry along
•without his counsel and advice.
Surgeons lately relieved an Ohio
.’’oung woman of fifty-one needles mat
were scattered through various parts
,?f her anatomy. She must have been
a girl with many fine points about her.
Chicago teachers are going to make
» careful study of that city. Incident
ally the hospitals are preparing to in
crease their facilities for caring for
persons suffering from nervous pros
tration.
The Senate committee finds that the
Chickasaw and Creek Indians are sell
ing their valuable lands for a song.
The worst of it is that they immedi
ately pass the bars of music over the
other kind.
Experts are discussing the question
a3 to wiiat shall be done with our
idiots. Really it isn't necessary to
do anything with them so long as
they do nothing worse than *ak«
straw votes.
Mr. Joseph Jefforscn has announced
his purpose to retire forever and en
joy that long vacation to which he has
looked forward for so many years.
Everybody hopes that he will have
plenty of time and opportunity to act
the part.
The house of an editor in Shelbina,
Mo., was struck by lightning three
times in one night during a recent
storm. But his house may have been
so large and palatial that the light
ning struck it in three different
places.—Exchange.
An Omaha waiter who was attacked
by a guest on account of the quality
or pie served for dinner shot and seri
ously wounded his assailant. It does
seem, however, that pies that have
to be served with a revolver should
be withdrawn from circulation.
Apropos of the light breakfast, when
a glib waiter asked Eugene Field one
morning whether he would have a
beefsteak, chop, ham, or omelet, or
what, that genial humorist replied:
“An orange, please, and a few kinc
words." He didn’t die of dyspepsia.
IS BUILT OF FOSSILS
PECULIAR CONSTRUCTION OF
NEW YORK CHURCH.
Walls a Mass of Petrified Twigs and
Leaves—Material Taken from the
Bed of a Prehistoric Lake—Hard as
Granite.
There Is a church building in Mum
ford, N. Y., which is built of fossils.
Architecturally it is of modern type,
with long, slim window's and a ground
plan like that of Trinity in Boston.
At first glance the walls appear to
be constructed of rough sandstone
smeared with an uneven coating of
gritty, coarse plaster; but a closer
view reveals the error of this first
conclusion. Instead of plaster the
eyes behold traceries of delicate
leaves, lacework of interwoven twigs,
bits of broken branches, fragments of
mossy bark, splinters of wood, all
preserved against the wasting of time
and decay by being turned into the
hardest of flinty limestone.
As a matter of fact, every block of
stone in the four walls is a closely ce
mented mass of dainty fossils. There
is no basic rock at all, but only fossil
fibers, which give the rock cohesion
and strength. The blocks were hewn
from the petrified depths of a nearby
cedar swamp.
Mumford is situated in the heart of
the great area of rock once in the bed
of an ocean, known to geologists as
the Niagara limestone.
Northeast of the village is a dense
grove of cedars. As one approaches
it the clean lime rocks dip suddenly
and give way to a wide and long level
of dark, blueish-gray muck, once be
yond doubt the bottom of a prehistoric
lake.
The whole grove and undoubtedly
the muck land are on a bed of thick
white rock, which looks, more than
anything else, like immense slices of
Roquefort cheese. Its coloration is
much the same, and it has a similar
tendency to crumble when taken fresh
from the quarry depths into the upper
air.
A close examination shows why this
is so. Every particle of the rock’s
mass is made up of the petrified cedar
leaves, branches, twigs, broken bark
and even whole stumps and knots,
welded and knit together into one
dense tangle.
As these parts of the trees fell, one
layer upon another, they were saturat
ed with the dampness of the swamp
and with the lime held in solution.
As the vegetable matter decayed and
the water evaporated, every line, fiber
and grain was preserved by the lime
sediment.
When this rock was first quarried
some doubt existed as to its avail
ability, for it came to the surface soft
and crumbling. A few short hours
in the sun and wind proved the error
of any such fears, for the rock rap
idly hardened to a flintlike consist
ency not excelled by the toughest
granite.
The rock was sawed in blocks suit
able for the masons’ use, with one
surface rough and broken as it came
from the quarry. This rough surface
was laid outside by the builders, so
that the walls of the church exhibit
this ancient vegetation in rough and
bold relief.
In many places whole stumps set
out, all of them perfectly preserved
in their minutest details. One, in par
ticular, on the south wrall, is attached
to the rest of the block by its two
ends, and between it and the under
surface there is an inch of daylight.—
New York Tribune.
Bees Remove Their Dead After a Fire.
Over 100,000 honey bees were killed
during the fire at the Eureka Paper
Mills here the other day. As soon
as the smoke had rolled away and the
charred remnants of their homes had
cooled, the little insects, humanlike,
set to work cleaning up.
Apparently, an ambulance corps
was formed, numbering several hun
dred bees. These began getting out
of the way their dead comrades, many
of them killed by stung firemen, and
the way they worked suggested the
work that must be going on daily on
the Russo-Jap battlefields. Each bee
tackled a dead one and struggled
away with it, and as the field was
strewn with thousands they have been
employed the past few days.—Bridge
port correspondence Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Usual Way.
Little Willie—“Say, pa. I’ll be aw
ful glad when I get old enough to do
as I please.”
Pa—“Naturally, my son; and when
you reach that age it’s doughnuts to
fudge you’ll get married and not do
It,”
Doubting Thomas.
“Whisky,” roared the temperance
lecturer, “has filled more graves than
anything else in the world.”
“What’s the matter with the doc
tors?” queried a small voice from the
gallery.
Must Have Been Interesting.
Richard Mansfield was dining with
a friend, a story writer, the other
evening. The writer took from his
pocket a letter and tapped it with his
finger.
“I’ve heard curious requests,” he
said, "but I never heard or imagined
such a one as this fellow makes. He’s
a consumptive out in Arizona, and
evidently doesn’t expect to live much
longer. Listen to this:
“ ‘Dear Mr. Blank—I’ve read the
first chapters of your serial story in
Barker’s Magazine. Can you send me
a manuscript copy of the whole thing?
Pardon this unusual request, but I’ve
got to see the finish of that tale be
fore I pass out.’ ”—New York Times.
Catholic Church Music.
A joint pastoral will be issued short
ly by the Roman Catholic bishops of
England, dealing with church music.
The pastoral will prohibit entirely cer
tain masses belonging to what may be
called the operatic school, and will
deprecate strongly further employ
ment of women singers in church
choirs.
ADMIRAL SCHLEY IN YOUTH
.Two Important Incidents in Life of
American Sailor.
During the civil war Capt. Schley,
then in command of the Monoagahela,
was sent up to bombard one of the
works at Port Hudson. While firing
on the fort signals were hoisted on
the flagship to recall him, but he could
not read them and kept on firing un
til the fort was silenced. When he
reported on board the flagship Farra
gut said sternly: “Captain, you began
early in life to disobey orders”; and
when Schley tried to explain about
the signals that were seen but could
net be read, the admiral said he
“wanted none of this Nelson business
in his squadron about seeing signals.”
Afterward, however, when in the cab
in, the admiral said to him: “Do it
again, whenever in your judgment it ,
is necessary to carry out your concep
tion of duty.”
Shortly before the opening of the
civil war Schley was ordered to the
steam frigate Niagara, which was
detailed to carr;: back to Japan the
Japanese embassy to the United
States, after Commodore Perry had
opened the island kingdom. In her
return home the Niagara left Cape
Town in March, 1S61, and she reached
Cape Cod early in May, where a pilot
named Dolliver came on board with
his pockets full of newspapers. The
captain asked for the new’s with such
eager anxiety that the pilot stopped
to ask where the Niagara had come
irom. Then he said bluntly: “Why,
captain, the country’s all busted to
h-.”
It was the first they knew that civil
war was on. The officers of the Ni
agara were called upon to decide
whether they would stand by the old
flag or not. A new’ oath of allegiance
was presented to all the crew. Schley
was from Maryland. A number of the
officers refused to take the new oath,
but he, with a look at the ship's en
sign, which he could see through a
hatch, decided for the Union.
SEES WIT IN OTHERS.
Cne Professional Humorist Not Jeal
ous of His Rival’s Work.
Few would suspect, when reading
Henry Wallace Phillips’ virile stories
of the WTest, that he is an Easterner
born and bred. Yet such is the case
After years of roughing it in the far
West Mr. Phillips recently returned
to his old home at Richmond, Staten
Island, married his next-door neighbor
and is living in the house occupied by
his father and grandfather before
him—a peaceful and prosaic climax
to the “wild life’’ of his early youth.
It is often said that professional hu
morists are deeply serious people in
private life and never read one an*
other’s work. This is not the case with
Mr. Phillips. Discussing current lit
erature with a friend recently, he
said:
“How deadly tiresome, flat and in
ane the serious effort seems! I’ve just
finished reading ’Lady Rose's Daugh
ter,’ and what do I care? There isn't
anything in the book that most of us
haven't thought as much about as we
wanted to. When I read ‘Mr. Doo
ley,’ or ‘O, Henry.’ my heart is lifted
up. I am a better and a wiser man
When I read the other stuff I quarrel
with my wife.”
A Painful Obituary.
It is always sad to see the taking
off of a strong, valuable life in its
early vigor. If the untimely end is
due, either wholly or in part, to the
use of tobacco and alcohol, we nat
urally feel still more sorry to see such
an unworthy snipping out of a useful
and potentially great life. We note
that Noah Raby, of Eatontown, N. J.
recently died, and under circura
stances that make his death particu
larly sad. Mr. Raby, according to his1
own statements, which seem to be
pretty well confirmed, was but 13t>
years old, and there can be little
doubt that his untimely death was
due to his consumption of liqnor dur
ing 120 years of that time. He was a
constant user of alcoholic beverages
and tobacco, and had it not been foi
the deadly effect of these poisons upon
his strong and vigorous system, Mr.
Raby might have lived to a good old j
age. Too bad!—California Journal ol
Medicine.
To Mary.
If I bad thought thou couldst have died,
I might not weep for thee;
But I forgot, when by thy side.
That thou couldst mortal be;
It never through my mind had passed
The time would e'er be o’er.
And I on thee should look my last,
And thou shouldst smile no more!
And still upon that face I look.
And think 'twill smile again:
And still the thought I will not brook,
That I must look in vain!
But when 1 speak, thou dost not say
What thou ne'er left unsaid;
And now I feel, as well I may,
Sweet Mary! thou art dead!
If thou wouldst stay, e'en as thou art.
All cold and all serene—
I still might press thy silent heart,
And where thy smiles have been!
While e’en thy chill, bleak corpse I have,
Thou seemest still mine own;
But they lay thee in thy grave—
And I am now alone!
I do not think, where'er thou art,
Thou hast forgotten me;
And I. perhaps, may soothe this heart.
In thinking too of thee:
Yet there was round thee such a dawn,
Of light ne'er seen before..
As fancy never could have drawn,
And never can restore!
—Charles Wolfe.
A Matter of Pride.
“I'll give you $50 for that bit of
canvas,” announced the man ol
wealth. “Couldn’t think of accepting
it,” answered the poor artist. “It is
not that I don’t need the money, but
ray professional reputation would suf
fer if I let anything go at that price.”
“Ah,” said the man of wealth .“Well,
in that case I will give you $10 for
it, and agree to tell all my friends
that I paid $500.”
“Now you are making a proposition
that I can afford to consider,” said
the artist. “Hand over the ten.”
Only Synagogue in Japan.
There is no organized community
of Jews anywhere in Japan excepting
at Nagasaki. The synagogue there
was built by a Japanese woman who
had married a Jew. When he died she
built the synagogue in his memory.
United Kingdom Railway Companies.
There are about 200 railway com*
panies in England and Wales alone,
and about 25 each in Scotland and Ire*
land, making a total of fully 250 sop*
irately constituted companies.
GIVEN GOOD OBJECT LESSON
Amateur Musician Convinced There
Were Limitations to Liberty.
Timothy L. Woodruff, in discussing
New York state politics privately with
i friend some time ago, and referring
to the Platt-Qdell feud, told the fol
lowing story:
“There was a young man,” he said,
“who lived in a Harlem flat. He was
always blowing his own horn. He was
trying to master the blows and stops
of a cornet, much to the annoyance
of his mrtghbors. Out of patience
one night, from loss of sleep, the man
in the flat above him rushed down in
his nightrobe and, knocking on his
loor, exclaimed:
“ ‘For heaven’s sake, man. don’t you
know that you are destroying the
peace of the neighborhood.”
“ ‘None of your business,’ came the
voice from within. ‘I pay for this flat
ind I am going to do as I choose in
it.’
“His infuriated neighbor went up
stairs, resolving to get square. He (
stuffed all the stops in the basins and
bathrooms, turned on the water full
force, and then went to bed. It was
but a short time before the half
drowned cornetist banged at his door.
“ ‘Come in,’ replied the man higher
ip. And the enthusiastic bugler saw
a figure in the bed attired in its
nightshirt, with a flshpole in his hand,
i line floating in a foot of water on
the floor.
“‘Good heavens, man! Don’t you
know that you are flooding the
house?’ he shouted.
“ ‘None of your business,’ said the
man reclining against the brace of
pillows. ‘It’s my flat, and I can do
just as I choose in it.’ ”—New York
Times.
Uninteresting People.
They live in a quiet sort of a way
In a quiet sort of street;
They don't meet a great many people,
nor
Impress the people they meet.
The newspapers never mention their
names.
The world doesn't care what they do.
They never go in for anything much.
And their intimate friends are few.
He never S*s had a favorite club.
Though somebody said he might.
For a flat little nose on the window pane
Awaits him every night;
And eight little Angers and two little
thumbs
Undo all the work of the comb.
As he sits in the quietest sort of a way
In his quietest sort of a home.
She doesn't belong to a woman’s club,
She hasn't a single fad.
She plays with the "kids” and works all
day.
And most of the time she sings.
He isn’t like most other husbands at all.
She isn't like most other wives.
And they never attempt to make a
change
In the course of their quiet lives;
But once in a while they dress the
“kids.”
And go to spend the day
In a nice quiet country spot,
In a nice little quiet way.
—Maurice Brown Kirby in Collier’s
Weekly.
Not His Line of Business.
Col. “Bob” Townsend, one of Dis
trict Attorney Jerome’s assistants,
who is soon to blossom forth as the
author of a book on his experiences
in the criminal courts, added a new
one to his fund of stories in trying a
burglar case last week. A Hebrew
tailor of the east side had testified
that the young defendant on trial had
awakened him at night by picking the
lock on his door ,and afterward break
ing the chain which was fastened on
the inside. On cross-examination the
defendant's lawyer asked the witness:
“How did the defendant manage to
break the chain which was fastened
on the inside of your door?”
“Ask him,” was the quick response.
“That’s his business. I’m a tailor.
He’s a t'ief.”—New York Times.
Doctors as Book Buyers.
“The largest part of a doctor’s
equipment is his books,” said A. D.
Patten. “Physicians usually keep
more closely up with the procession
from the viewpoint of books than law
yers. The doctors have to do it, be
cause of their reputation among their
associates depends upon the accuracy
and the modern finish of their knowl
edge.
“A lawyer can more easily dispense
with new law books than a doctor with
the late medical books. An up-to-date
doctor has a much more expensive
library, as a rule, than a minister, and
it is almost as expensive, I judge, as a
lawyer’s, the difference being that a
lawyer’s whole equipment is books,
while a doctor must have a laboratory
and a full complement of instru
ments.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Obstinate Boer Prisoners.
Great Britain’s camp in Ceylon for
Boer prisoners of war was broken
up some months ago. Five men out
if the 5,000 originally interned in the
island refused to take the oath or
Jeclaration of allegiance and at the
same time refused to proceed else
where than to South Africa. They
were released in the island, but in
formed that the government was al
any time ready to provide them with
* passage to any place except South
Africa er to South Africa if they
would declare allegiance. Two of the
five subsequently complied with the
condition and were repatriated. One
of the last three has died on the
island.
Dog’s Service Recognized.
But for the presence of a faithful
shepherd dog the little daughter ol
Sam Rex, a farmer at Zion Station,
Ky., would have been ground to pieces
under the wheels of a fast train.
The child was playing on the track
as the train came dashing along. The
dog seized the child in his teeth and
dragged her from the track in time
to miss the wheels of the engine.
When he found out what had hap
pened Rex came to Williamstown and
listed the dog as property, fixing his
value at $500, and said he wanted to
pay taxes on him as long as he lived.
Solve the Tramp Problem.
Out in Colby a remedy for the
tramp nuisance has been found. The
city council had 1,000 meal tickets
printed and distributed them among
the women. When a tramp knocks
at a kitchen door and asks for a
“handout” he gets one of these tick
ets, which is good for a meal when
signed by the city marshal. When the
marshal gets hold of the tramp he
compels him to work a couple ox
hours in payment for the men*
Tramps are scarce in Colb£
Magnetic Manganese Alloy.
The production of magnetic alloys
from non-magnetic metals is a matter
of recent successful experimentation,
particularly with respect to the pro
duction of manganese steel. With
the same manganese that obtained a
practically non-magnetic iron alloy a
magnetic copper alloy may be pro
duced. The non-magnetic metals, cop
per, aluminum and manganese, com
bined in certain proportions, produce
an alloy having considerable magnetic
properties. No combination of copper
and aluminum produces a magnetic al
loy; hence the presence of magnetic
properties must be ascribed to the
manganese. The manganese was sub
mitted to the temperature of liquid
air, but no change was found to oc
cur, the metal remaining non-mag
netic. This was found to be the case
with the copper and aluminum. A
curious point was that reversibility
was brought about by aluminum. The
magnetization of the alloy increased
with the increase of aluminum, the
maximum being attained when the al
loy contained equal proportions of
aluminum and manganese. The alloy
was extremely brittle and resisted all
attempts to forge it cold or hot at
various temperatures, even at full red
heat. With an ordinary horse shoe
magnet the magnetization is distinctly
apparent
Electricity Runs This Plane.
In nearly every trade the introduc
tion of electricity as a motive power
has wrought great changes in the
amount of manual labor performed,
serving to operate automatic machin
ery or to drive tools with which the
work is done. Thus the former la
borer now guides the implements,
without exerting his muscular power,
or else watches the machine and
Planing Mill in Miniature
keeps it in running order. Even the
carpenter is now to be provided with
an electric tool, designed to replace
one which required no little exertion
on the part of the operator. Here
after, instead of pushing his plane
several times over the surface to be
smoothed, the carpenter will simply
slide it over the board once, using
only a fraction of the strength former
ly necessary.
This new plane is fitted with an
electric motor, which may be run
with tcurrent taken from an incan
descent lamp socket. The plane pro
per consists of a series of blades ar
ranged on a rapidly revolving shaft,
after the manner of the knives on a
large power planer. Provision is made
for adjusting the height of the knives
to cut either a thick or thin shaving,
thus doing away with the necessity
of running the tool over the board
more than once. The only disadvan
tage seems to be that the plane is not
practicable in all localities, owing to
a lack of electric current; but this ob
jection is rapidly disappearing, in the
cities, at least, and nearly every car
penter shop has already made some
use of the electric current, either for
lighting or power purposes.
William E. Lee, of Weymouth,
Mass., is the inventor..
Artificial Gutta-percha Cables.
Scientists, as is generally known,
have long been seeking h substitute
for rubber and gutta-percha. These
two products, which are a necessity
to the electrical industry, are becom
ing each year more difficult to pro
cure and consequently more expen
sive. The substitutes so far brought
out have usually left much to be de
sired after being subjected to a time
test, and it is therefore interesting
to note, according to Engineering,
London, that the German telegrapn
department has for nearly two years
had some cables of artificial gutta
percha in use which, it is claimed,
have so far given every satisfaction.
The material is the invention of
Adolf Gentzsch of Vienna, and is de
scribed as a mixture of rubber and a
palm wax of the same melting point
as the rubber. Electrically the prod
uct is considered equal to the natural
gutta-percha, and it softens only above
60 degrees Centigrade, the mixture
remaining homogeneous at these tem
peratures. The cable in question is
six miles in length and connects the
Island of Fohr with Schleswig. The
Gentzsch gutta-percha cables are 30
per cent cheaper than gutta-percha
cables.
An Electrical Chronometer.
An electrical chronometer, which
gives the time of an automobile race
to the one-hundredth of a second, has
been invented in Paris. An instrument
is placed at the starting point and an
other at the finish, the two being con
nected by a charged wire. When the
start is made a current is sent
through the line, which deflects a nee
dle, making a dot upon a paper on a
revolving drum. At the finish another
dot is made upon the paper. A scale
on the paper shows the exact time.
Rubber Saw Handle.
Among the newest ideas for the
purpose of increasing the comfort of
the workingman is a saw handle made
of rubber. The advantage is that, be
ing elastic, it prevents vibration and
jarring of the operator’s hand. More
over, as it is non-breakable, it may be
detached from one blade and put on
another, and is, therefore, practically
Indestructible. In shape and appear
ance, with the exception of the color,
the handle is the same as the wooden
one now in common use.
Passing of the Gondola.
The gondola is doomed. The muni
pipality of Venice has resolved to pur
chase electric motor boats.
TO TRANSPLANT LARGE TREES
Successful Method of Moving Kingt
of the Forest.
W. J. A.—Could one transplant a
large tree? What is the safest method
of doing this work?
In order to transplant a large tree
successfully it must be removed with
a large ball of soil adhering to the
roots, in order to protect the tiny root
lets from being destroyed. This is
best done when the ground is frozen
deep enough to hold the ball together.
Cutting through the frozen ground is
hard work and takes much time and
to avoid this before the ground is fro
zen dig a trench around the tree and
far enough from it to leave the proper
sized ball. Dig down and under the
ball all around toward the center, but
leave the center undisturbed and the
tree in its natural position. This will
give the ball the shape of a bowl
standing on fiat bottom as shown by
the sketch. Now fill in the trench
with coarse manure or anything that
will prevent the frost from penetrat
ing to the bottom of the trench, but
A Large Tree Ready for Moving.
do not cover the ball. The object
is to let the ball freeze solid or
enough to stand moving without fall
ing to pieces. After they are frozen
and cannot all be moved through the
winter and work would be delayed
until spring, the balls can longer be
kept frozen by covering them well
with straw or coarse hay.
When ready to remove the tree,
clear the trench of the litter, fasten
a rope to top, pull the tree over and
cut loose the remaining part under
center and bring the tree flat to the
ground. To get the ball out of the
hole throw some dirt in center ol
the hole, say six inches or more, then
raise the tree and pull it over and
down to the ground on the opposite
side. Then throw more dirt in center
and bring the tree back and down .o
its first position again. Every time
this is done the ball is raised in the
hole and in a short time the hole will
be filled and tree and ball will lie
on level ground.
To roll on to low down wagon or
sled wind a rope or chain around the
ball the same way as rolling a log and
a steady team will do the rest.
Holes to receive the trees should
also be dug before the ground is frt>
zen. In setting be careful to fill In
solid around the ball, using tamper i;
pack the ground. The diameter or
the ball is governed by the size of the
tree, say thirty inches for a four tc
five inch, five to seven feet foi
tree:; eight to ten inches in diameter
The depth of ball varies from sixteen
to thirty-two inches in the center
which on account of conical shape, is
always the thickest. Plant about the
same depth as the tree stood before
removing.
Fall and Pipe for Water Flow.
A. H.—How much fall is required
to bring water 1,150 feet up and
down hill; the first 550 feet would
have a fall of about sixty feet and
then there is about sixty feet of a
rise? The flow of water would sup
ply a village. What sized pipe would
be required?
This question Is quite too indefinite
to be answered satisfactorily. A lit
eral answer would be that a foot oi
fall would be sufficient to bring
water this distance, but the amount
of water brought would not be enough
to supply a village. If the corre.
spondent stated how much water he
wanted, then the question could be
definitely answered. However, 1
have figured out for three different
sizes of pipe, the amount of water ap
proximately which would be brought
in twenty-four hours in these circum
stances. With a four-inch pipe about
12d,000 gallons per day would be sup
plied, with a six-inch pipe about 340,
000 gallons, and with a twelve-inch
pipe about 2,000,000 gallons.—J. B. R.
Mice Attacking Grain in Barns.
X. Y. Z.—What can be placed
around the sills of barns and in thf
straw to keep mice from destroying
the grain.
The remedy is the use of the ordi
nary caustic potash, or even caustic
soda, which is so generally sold ir
tins as concentrated lye. When this
is placed in the openings it will drive
away rats for a long time. The ma
terial, after having absorbed the mois
ture from the air, adheres to theii
feet, blisters them and makes them
very sore. The animals are thus driv
en away from the place. A rather
barbarous remedy which has alsc
been suggested is to mix freshly made
plaster of Paris with dry food such
as flour, oatmeal or bread, and pul
this where these animals can get
it. A dish of water is placed near the
food, and the animals drink eagerly
on account of the thirst which the dry
powder induces. The plaster then
sets inside them and kills them.
Filtering Cider.
G. W.—How may the sediment in
apple cider be removed? I wish to
make vinegar.
The sediment in cider may be quite
thoroughly removed by filtering the
liquid through two or three thick
nesses of new cotton flannel. Cotton
batting is also a very effective filter
ing material. To use the batting bore
holes in the bottom of a bucket, and
lay three or four inches of new bat
ting in the bottom, hold it down with
three or four inches of clean pebbles,
the size of a pigeon’s egg. Cider
poured into the bucket will slowly
filter through free of sediment.
WASitf BLUE
Costs to cents and equals 20 cents
worth oS any ether kind of bluing.
Won’t Freezs, Spill, Break
Nop Spot Clothes
DIRECTIONS FOR USES
Ground in the fc?afer.
At fcll irlio Grocers.
Man’s Place in the Universe.
What is man but the great musi
cian of the universe? The univ' . j3
a great organ with migh;y ,
Space, time, eternity, are like »
throats cf this great organ; ami !.
a little creature, puts his fingers 1
the keys, and wakes the universe >
thunders of harmony, stirring up the
whole creation to mightiest acclama
tions of praise.—Charles Spurgeon.
Peacemaker Is Stabbed.
Seeing two men fighting in front of
his house, M. Dujardin, of the Con
servatoire of Music, Paris, took his
violin and began to play in order to
soothe the combatants by Its music.
But one of the men ar once turnde on
him and stabbed him, and he was
taken in a dying condition to a hos
pital.
The Swiss engineers have worked
out plans for tapping the Lake of Siis
in the Engndine and letting the water
drop down the mountain side, thus
creating a fail that would yield *
horse power. During the tourist sea
son the lake would resume its normal
appearance, owing to the necessity of
storing the water.
Could Get No Rest.
Freeborn, Minn., October IT (3p?*
cial)—Mr. R. E. Goward, a well known
man here is rejoicing in the relief
from suffering he has obtained
through using Dodd’s Kidney rills.
His experience is '4*11 worth repeating
as it should point the road to health
to many another in a similar condi
tion.
“1 had an aggravating case of KL -
ney Trouble,” says Mr. Goward, ’’that
gave me no rest day or night but
using a few boxes of Dodd’s Kidney
Pills put new life in me and I feel like
a new man.
“I am happy to state I have received
great and wonderful benefit from
Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I would heartily
recommend all sufferers from Kidney
Trouble to give Dodd s Kidney Pills a
fair trial as I have every reason to be
lieve it would never be regretted.”
Dodd's Kidney Pills make you feel
like a new man or woman because
they cure the kidneys. Cured kidneys
mean pure blood and pure blood
means bounding health and energy In
every part of the body.
Japanese ‘Tea Ceremony."
No servant is ever permitted to
serve tea in a Japanese house. It is
the privilege of the daughter to make
the beverage, while the guest who
has last arrived serves it. The tea is
made fresh for each guest in thf* same
bowl, which has to be washed and
dried each time, and so the “tea cere
mony” is apt to be a long one. It is
probably for this reason that strict
etiquette forbids the presence of more
than five at such tea parties.
Many Children Are Sickly.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children,
used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children’s
Home, New York, euro Summer Complaint,
Feverishness,Headache,Stomach Troubles,
Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At
til Druggists’, 25c. Sample mai'ed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy. N. Y.
Affections Are Not All.
Women are always in danger of liv
ing too exclusively in the affections;
and though our affections are perhaps
the best gifts we have, we ought also
to have our share of the more inde
pendent life—some joy in things for
their own shake.—George Eliot.
Simple and Cheap Disinfectant.
The simplest and cheapest disinfec
tant, and one, too, having no odor, is
copperas. Two pounds will make a
gallon of saturate solution. A portion
should frequently be poured down
each pipe which carries waste and
water.
Spiders Invade Music Hall.
At a recent concert in Warsaw’ the
hall was suddenl** >vaded by spiders,
which, attracted by the sound of a
violin, came from cracks and crannies
in the building. The other lovers of
music left.
Definition of Coquette.
To give you nothing, and to make
you expect everything; to dawdle on
the threshold of love while the doors
are closed—this is all the science of a
coquette.—T. Bernard.
Phonographs for Sweat Box.
In Vienna the answers made by
prisoners in the “sweat box” will be
recorded by a phonograph, so that
there can not be subsequent doubt of
the statements made.
Traces of Ancient Villa.
There have been unearthed at Bury
St Edmunds, England, traces of a
Roman villa, yielding fragments of
Samian and Romano-British pottery.
A Cincinnati man recently went to
sleep in a dental chair while the den
tist was repairing his teeth. They
were false teeth.
David Revised.
After listening patienaly to a lot of
has-beens telling what they used to
be, David said in his haste, “All mea
are firshermen.”
Says the Misanthrope.
If girls cultivated their dispositions
as assiduously as they do their com
plexions there would be fewer old
bachelors.
Bachelors were once taxed in Eng*
land.