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Imp City Northwestern
j. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
IX>UP CITY, - . NEBRASKA.
A New Typhoid Terror.
Although the discovery of new
sources of danger to health, new car
riers of disease germs, should be an
encouragement to the scientific worker
as tending toward the more accurate
application of preventive measures,
the knowledge that the typhoid infec
:tion is being carried about in scores
of supposedly healthy persons will
prove rather alarming. To the medical
profession it is well known, of course,
'that the typhoid bacillus sometimes
persists for years in certain portions
of the human anatomy, and that it is
always to be found for a time during
convalescence, but the possibility that
healthy and apparently robust indi
viduals may be carriers of the deadly
germs, and that the arrest and isola
tion of such “carriers” may come to
be a part of the public campaign
against the disease, is a comparatively
recent aspect of the question. The
discovery of this added danger should
serve to emphasize the importance of
scrupulous care in ascertaining the
health and antecedents of household
servants, says Philadelphia Ledger. In
a particular case that led to the dis
covery of one aggravated instance of
typhoid “carrier” six persons in a
single family developed the disease
within a few days after the arrival of
'a new cook. After every other possi
ble source of contamination had been
investigated and found guiltless, an
inquiry as to the cook revealed the
startling fact that during the five
years previous at least 26 cases of
typhoid were associated with her serv
ice in seven different families. She
was detained, and a bacteriological ex
amination revealed her to be a chronic
typhoid fever producer.
Recreation for Working People.
Turning from the more substantial
features of industrial betterment to
•what may be called its lighter, though
inot less important side, there are all
Isorts of opportunities for recreation. A
jlarge factory or department store has
!a social life all its own; there are
clubs, athletic, social, literary and
i musical. The sensible outdoor life of
ithe English leads to open-air match
games, tennis, bowling, cricket and
swimming for the men, croquet and
tennis for the women. Compulsory
! gymnastic exercises are given in the
company’s time by physical directors.
!Whdre there is a piano in the.recrea
tion rooms a dance or concert bright
'ens the noon hour, says Mary R. Cran
ston, in the Reader. Picnics and vaca
ition camping parties in summer
take the place of dances and match
ball games in winter. The saloons
ihave found a powerful rival in the
latter, for practice at noon leaves little
time and less inclination for beer or
other stimulants. Dublin, Ireland,
Pittsburg and New York may boast
the distinction of roof gardens for em
ployes. It is queer that roofs are not
more frequently used in cities where
it is so difficult to make any kind of
improvement without great expense.
For very little the roof of the average
factory could be made a joy forever
and a great safeguard by keeping
young people from idling in the streets
at noon.
A Hindoo editor has gone to jail for
(printing a large section of his mind in
ihls paper. If the British government
Insists on making a popular hero out
of this editor doubtless he can stand
it. A jail sentence is nothing, says
Chicago Daily News, if the populace
outside is standing around shouting
for the prisoner and during lulls is
making faces at the British govern
ment. That editor may get his name
in history long after the impetuous of
ficial who caused his arrest has been
forgotten. This may be some consola
tion to him. Then again he may get
better grub in jail than he was able to
rustle outside. On the whole, the
British government has done him a
great kindness, but that isn’t saying
that he appreciates it.
The glass eye crop comes from
Thuringia. As Newfoundlers are fish
ermen, or as Cubans are tobacco
growers, so the typical Thuringian is
a maker of glass eyes. Almost every
Thuringian house is a little eye fac
:tory. Four men sit at a table, each
with a gas jet before him, and the
eyes are blown from plates and mold
ed into shape by hand. The colors
are traced in with small needles, and
as no set rule is observed in the col
oring, no two eyes are exactly alike.
It has been decreed by the manufac
turers of those articles of feminine at
tire that next year skirts shall be
worn longer and so loose-fitting as to
hide all suggestions of curves. Maybe
so, but history goes to prove that it
all depends.
ST;,' ! Miss Robb, who has died in Edin
|| {burgh at the age of 94, has been a
naval pensioner for 93 years. She was
•the posthumous child of Capt. Robb
of the royal navy, and was put on the
state pension roll at birth.
f When the new racetrack is estab
p? dished in the air doubtless the enter
prising gentlemen who affect check
■j ered suits will build a commodious
g balloon and establish a poolroom on
thigh beyond the three-mile limit to
l. pfiaitn books on the races.
The city council of Lexington, Ky.,
fe. has passed an ordinance forbidding
|| dogr to sleep all day and bark all
Bt * As the penalty for violation is
■fe .'death, the regulation is not as foolish
Hp as it looks.
America’s Foremoat Humorist.
From stereograph, copyright, by Underwood A Undr-wTod, N. Y.
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) as seen by his close friends. Mr.
Clemens wears a white serge suit always while in the house and is sometimes
seen so attired on the street.
EXTINCT BIRD FOUND
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SKELETON OF CAHAW IS LOCAT
ED IN DEEP CAVE.
Bermuda Man Makes Discovery—Has
Beak Similar To a Hawk—Will
Be Sent to Smithsonian
Institute.
New York.—Louis L. Mawbray,
curator of the Bermuda Museum of
Natural History, recently visited the
Smithsonian institution, in Washing
ton, for the purpose of exhibiting to
the experts there several skeletons of
an extinct bird, which he had the
good fortune to find in a recently dis
covered cave in Bermuda.
This bird, that has failed to get a
place in the "Who’s Who” of feath
ered folk of modern times, was many
hundred years ago known as the
cahaw, from the peculiar noise it
made, and, while it was web-footed,
it had a beak very similar to that
of the hawk. It was supposed to be a
cave dweller and had the habits of an
owl, inasmuch as it was never Seen
or heard except at night.
When white men first set foot on
Bermuda there were traditions among
the natives of the cahaw, that had
disappeared many generations before
the time of the hoariest inhabitant,
and for more than 100 years scientists
have been disputing among them
selves as to whether such a bird ever
existed. Mr. Mawbray believes he
has settled the question.
To all except expert ornithologists
there is quite as much interest in the
cave where the skeletons were found
as in the bones themselves. The
cave was discovered last January by
some negro boys, who by means of
ropes let themselves-down into a hole
they found in a spot of waste land
and came upon a great chamber with
gleaming white walls and a lake of
Ice water. They were in search of
stalactite crystals and reported that
they had found them in great abund
ance.
Mr. Mawbray became interested in
the stories of the wonderful cave and
explored it himself. He Was obliged
to swim across the lake, and on the
crystal' shore on one side he found
several skeletons of the long lost
bird. In one spot he found several
feathers completely encased in cal
cite, which, so far as he knows, are
t.he only specimens of the kind in the
world. Many of the bones were en
crusted in the calcite and all were in
a good state of preservation. The
bird, according to the feathers found,
was white below and its back
and wings were of a russet color.
These colors, he says, correspond per
fectly with the best descriptions ob
tainable of the ancient bird. The
cahaw was about the size of a
pigeon.
The cave, which is riiidway be
tween Hamilton and St. George and in
the east end of old Bermuda, is about
three miles from the ocean, but it is
the belief of Mr. Mawbray that in
the time of the cahaw it had an open
ing to the sea, and that the birds
came in that way. He said the pres
ent entrance to the cave is a jagged
almost perpendicular hole down
through the rock, and that the im
mense chamber and lake were 150
feet below the surface. He was sure
that the birds never entered the cave
through that hole. The lake is about
350 feet long by 150 wide, and the
cavern is dome shaped and a place
of dazzling beauty when the crystal
walls are revealed by a strong light.
An entrance is being made to the
cave, and it is to be one of the show
places of the island.
WILL EXCAVATE ALONG NILE.
California Professor Is Given Impor
ftant Archaeological Work.
University of California. — Dr.
George A. Reisner, formerly in charge
of the University of California explor
ation work in Egypt, has been ap
pointed archaeologist in charge of ex
cavations for the Egyptian govern
ment in Nubia.
The work about to be undertaken
is of great importance, involving the
continuous excavation of both sides
of the Nile from Kalabsche to Derr,
a distance of 150 kilometers. This is
rendered necessary by the decision
to raise the Assouan dam another
eight meters.
Prof. Maspero, head of the depart
ment of antiquities, is to have charge
of the restoration of the known tem
ples and the copying of their inscrip
tions. To Dr. Reisner has been as
signed the task of excavating monu
ments at present buried under the
soil, and the recording and publishing
of these excavations. The work is
expected to take five years.
EXPORTS ARE GROWING FAST.
Shipment of Manufactured Articles In
creases—Crude Material Lessens.
Washington.—Great as has been
the growth in the volume of the manu
facturing products of the United
States since 1850, the bureau of statis
tics has issued a statement showing
that the proportion of these products
which have been exported has grown
steadily. While in 1860 the exports
were 6.4 per cent, of the entire prod
uct, they had increased in 1905 to
9.1 per cent
Taking the articles which have un
dergone a process of manufacture and
comparing the exportations withthoBe
of all articles the bure' i finds that it
formed 32 per cent, of the total ex
ports in 1850 and 60 per cent, in 1905,
while articles in a crude condition
formed 6S per cent, of the exports in
1850 and but 40 per cent in 1905.
Articles which have undergone a
process of manufacture increased
twenty-three-fold during the period,
while those exported in a crude state
increased less than seven-fold, lndi9at
ing a growing tendency to turn the
product into a finished state by Ameri
can labor before offering it for sale
abroad.
On the other hand, articles which
have undergone a process of manufac
ture formed in 1850 82% per cent, of
the imports, and in 1906 but 54% per
cent.; while these in a crude state,
chiefly used in manufacturing, formed
but 17% per cent, of the imports in
1850 and 45% per cent, in 1906. This
shows a tendency to bring the foreign
article into the United States in its
crude state to be transformed here
into the finished product by American
labor.
War on Moving Pictures.
Berlin.—The police of Berlin are
making war against cinematograph
exhibits from a medical standpoint, as
they are injurious to the eyes. It 1b
declared the restless movement of the
films is harmful, particularly to the
eyes of children. There are 200
cinematograph theaters in Berlin and
suburbs.
The Slaughter of Seals.
*
"* The United 8tates are now guarding their seal-preserves, on 8t. Paul i*
land in the Behring straits, by artillery against the raids of Japanese and
other poachers. Sometimes 250,000 seals are found in one herd, or "patch.”
The great slaughter of young seals is held between March 12 and 24, when the
"pups” are too feeble to move. The mothers make a fierce fight for their
offspring. The club brings swift death, fortunately. St. Paul island, the larg
est of the preserves in the Pribyloff Group, has a shore-line of forty-five and
a half miles and a population of 168. Sand and basaltic boulders compose the
geological formation. In the autumn the seals leave the breeding-ground and
proceed to the Pacific Ocean.
Plows Up $900; Looking for Mora.
Indianapolis.—Wilbur Walter of
Little Blue, Ind., while plowing in a
field, unearthed a box which con
tained $900 in gold. The money bad
been concealed by his father many
years ago, and Wilber had looked
the farm over in an effort to find the
hiding place, and had dug at the roots
of numerous trees.
The tree, however, under which the
box was concealed, had been cut
down, and in time the stump rotted
and was broken up. In this way the
treasure was uncovered.
The coins are in tens and twenties
Mr. Walter thinks there is still more
money concealed on the farm, and he
will continue his search. His fathei
was an economical man, And just
before death he sold 40 acres for $80
an acre, with horses and cattle, the
latter bringing $500. All this money
is supposed to be still hidden on the
farm.
Philadelphia to Have Biggest Water
Wheel in the World.
Philadelphia.—What is claimed to
be the largest water turbine ever con
structed haB been made in Philadel
phia for use at Niagara Falls. The
machine is one of four similar units,
two of which are now in operation,
while the other two are being rapidly
erected. Each turbine will develop
13,500-horsepower when operating un
der a head of 135 feet of water, and
when running at a speed o:’ 250 revo
lutions per minute. This turbine is a
double unit of the vertical type, the
water flowing down onto the upper
wheel and from below up through the
lower wheeL The thrust of the two
wheels is thus balanced, ,and the
vthrust bearing has to cam' only the
weight of the wheels and shafting.
The waste water is discharged
through a draft tube nine feet in
dldmeter. The water enteju through
two elbows by a pens toe):, U feet in
diameter. The wheel casing was cast
in eight seconds, four of which weigh
about 160,000 pounds, and the other
four 120,000 pounds. The two el
bows weigh approximately 100,000
pounds. The revolving portions, in
cluding the turbine runners and the
shaft, weigh about 240,000 pounds.
Each unit will d^ive a 10,000-kilowatt
three-phase, 25-cycle generator.
8ktdoo Post Office Discontinued.
Franklin, Pa.—The post office au
thorities have given heed to protests
of the indignant patrons of Skldoo
post office, Venango county, and have
discontinued that name and substi
tuted Cherrybrook. The name was
formerly Cherry Tree, which was
taken away a few months ago and
given to Grant, Indiana county, where
stood the cherry tree marking the
boundary line of lands bought by Wil
liam Penn from the Indians. 8kldoo
was suggested by the postmaster’s lit
tle daughter.
-Hlfw.
The Cave Man.
The cave man was complaining ol
his surroundings.
“The neighborhood is, 'Wholly unlie
sirable,” he said. "No congenial so
ciety, no privacy, no anything! 1
might as well live in a modern fiat
at once and be done with it!”
Picking up a stone Implement and
braining a cave bear that had in
vadtd his apartments, he supplied
himself with food and clothifig for his
immediate wants and proceeded tc
whip his wife for letting the chU
dren play with the young anthropoid
apes in the next block.
Indian’s Old Birch Bucket.
Rumford Falls, Me.—A birch bark
sap bucket, over 108 years old, is at
tracting great attention at Strong,
where it is believed to be a relic of
the historic Indian chief, Pierpole,
who disappeared forever from the
Sandy river valley over a century ago.
The , bucket is made of heavy birch
bark. The same is carefui.y sewed
and made tight by a smearing of
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AT A WAY8IDE HOSTELRY.
Darky Servitor Moat Obliging Under
the Circumstances.
A traveling- man stopped recently at
a little country hamlet some miles
from a Texas city to sell a merchant
a bill of goods. There was only one
hotel in the place, and this had an un
savory reputation. He had only one
hight to stay, however, so he con
cluded to make the best of a bad bar
gain.
He went to his room early, and,
feeling the need of some hot water
to remove the stains of his journey,
cast his eye about the wall for an
electric button, which, of course, waa
conspicuous by its absence.
He happened to think that he had
seen a negro porter below, and, stick
ing his head out of the door, he yelled
lustily:
“Hey, you black rascal, come up
here!”
“Yas’r, yas’r, I’s cornin’,” was the
quick response, and a moment later
the old darkey appeared before the
drummer, bowing obsequiously, cap in
hand.
“I want some hot water, and I want
It quick,” said the drummer.
“I’s pow’ful sorry, boss, pow’ful
sorry,” replied the negro, his voice
trembling. “We ain’t got no hot
watah, but I kin hot yuh some.”
PURIFIED LIFE INSURANCE.
benefits from New Law, Which Re
mains Substantially Unchanged.
Through the influence of Gov.
Hughes, the New York Legislature de
cided to make no radical changes in
the new insurance law. It was pointed
out by Gov. Hughes that the New York
law has already accomplished wide
spread reforms, with proportionate
benefits to policyholders, and that It
should be given a thorough trial be
fore any amendments were seriously
considered. It is estimated that the
cost of the mismanagement of the past
did not average more than 20 cents to
each policyholder, while the benefits
to present and future policyholders
will amount to many times more and
be cumulative besides. The speed
craze of the big companies and the ex
cessive cost of securing new business
was the most extravagant evil of the
old managements. Under the new
regime the cost of new business has
already been greatly reduced, along
with other economies.
The showing made by the Equitable
Life Assurance Society in its report
for 1906 was a strong argument
against meddling with the new law.
In the Equitable alone there was a
saving of over $2,000,000 in expenses,
besides an increase in the income
from the Society’s assets amounting
to as much more. The ratios of the
Equitable’s total expensed to its total
Income was 19.42% in 1904, 17.38% in
1905, and only 14.48% in 1906. The
dividends paid to Equitable policy
holders in 1906 amounted to $7,289,734,
which was an increase of more than
9% over 1905.
While the Equitable made a better
showing than any other big company,
all reported radical economies and un
der such conditions the Legislature
wisely decided to leave the law sub
stantially as it stands.
Hit Idea of a Good Time.
The retired contractor sighed as he
got into his dress suit and thought of
the elaborate dinner and the opera
that were to come.
“Some day,” he said, “I’ll git real
desp’rit, an’ then do you know what
I'll do?”
“Something terrible, no doubt,” re
plied his ambitious wife.
“I suppose it wouldn’t look well in
print,” he admitted, “but I can’t help
that. What I’ll do will be to throw
away these high-priced cigars, put on
some old clothes, go out an’ come in
by the back way an’ smoke a quarter
pound of cut-up chewin’ tobacco in a
cob pipe while I’m talkin’ things over
with the coachman in the barn.”—The
Bohemian.
Prizes for Tanned Faces.
With the object of encouraging the
pupils of the Farnham grammar school
to spend their recent holiday in the
open air as much as possible, the Rev.
S. Priestley, the head-master, offered a
prize to the boy who returned to
school with the brownest face. On the
pupils reassembling for the summer
term 12 were- picked out as being the
most tanned, and it was announced
that the judges had awarded the prize
to Foster, the captain of the school.
It is understood that Foster declines
to divulge to the other boyB the secret
of his preparation, if any.—London
Globe.
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Quaker Wit.
A Quaker riding in a carriage with
a fashionable woman decked with a
profusion of Jewelry, as a substitute,
perhaps, for her scantiness of clothes,
heard her complaining of the cold.
Shivering in her lace bonnet and
shawl, she exclaimed, “What shall I
do to get warm?”
"I really don’t know,” replied the
Quaker solemnly, “unless thou put on
another breastpin.”—Sunday Maga
zine. _
WENT TO TEA
And It Wound Her Bobbin.
Tea drinking frequently affects peo
ple as badly as coffee. A lady In Salis
bury, Md„ says that she was com
pelled to abandon the use of coffee a
good many years ago, because it
threatened to ruin her health and that
she went over to tea drinking, but
finally, she had dyspepsia so bad that
she had lost twenty-five pounds and
no food seemed to agree with her.
She further says: “As this time I
was induced to take up the famous
food drink, Postum, and'was so much
pleased with the results that I have
never -been without it since. I com
menced to improve at once, regained
my twenty-five pouudB of flesh and
went some beyond my usual weight.
“I know Postum to be good, pure,
and healthful, and there never was an
article, and never will be, I believe,
that does so surely take the place of
coffee, as Pestum Food Coffee. The
beauty of it all is that it is satisfying
and wonderfully nourishing. I feel as
if I could not sing its praises too loud.”
1WP.
Washington Day by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital
MANY PETTICOATS AMONG
RURAL MAIL CARRIERS
WASHINGTON.—Barred from be
coming letter carriers by a tech
nicality In the* postal regulations,
women are rapidly invading the ranks
of the rural carriers, where there are
no restrictions against them. An ex
amination of the records of the post
office department shows that there
are 257 carriers in the rural communi
ties who are women, and 1,000 substi
tute carriers are of the same sex. This
would not be a very significant show
ing were it not for the fact that the
advent of women in this capacity is a
comparatively recent innovation. For
several years after the service was
established it was not contemplated
by post office officials that the posi
tion of carrier was one which would
be sought by members of the weaker
sex. But somehow they crept in;
the department had no way of distin
guishing them from men except by
their names as they appeared on the
applications, and this, it was found, is
,no criterion.
Who was the first woman rural car
rita' is something that is unknown by
'the post office department. Several
have claimed that honor. Women were
delivering mail matter in the farming
communities for Uncle Sam long be
ifore his officials who have charge of
that branch of the postal service knew
anything about it.
There is another way in which they
have made inroads into the service.
When a man is appointed a rural car
rier he is allowed to name his substi
tute, and many name their wives,
daughters, or other members of their
families for this place. The depart
ment encourages such appointments,
of some one living in the same house
with the carrier, because if the regu
lar carrier is sick or unable to serve
his route there is some one in the
same house to act as substitute and he
is not obliged to send out and notify
his substitute that he must serve the
mails that day.
When a woman has served six
months as a substitute, that is, as a
bonded substitute, she will be eligible
to appointment as regular carrier, and
should there be a vacancy the depart
ment will give her the preference for
appointment as regular carrier in the
rural service.
While the regulations of the postal
service make no specific provisions
against women as letter carriers in
cities, there is a provision which has
the effect of barring them from these
positions. A uniform which must be
worn by city carriers, consisting of
coat and trousers and cap of a certain
color, is prescribed, and no woman has
been bra\e enough to make applica
tion in the face of this.
The records of the department show
that the women carriers in the rural
free delivery service have made most
excellent officers. They have shown
pluck, perseverance and ability to per
form their duties in all sorts of weath
er, and some of them hold higher rec
ords for efficiency than hundreds of
men in the service.
DON’T CHEW YOUR MEAT,
SAYS CHEMIST WILEY
DON’T chew meat. Gulp it in
chunks.
5 Mastication has no part in the di
gestion of meat. There is some reason
for believing that chewing will make
.meat indigestible. The saliva is an
alkali. Acids are needed for the con
version of flesh into the elements that
nourish the human body.
Too much chewing may raise the
alkalinity of flesh used for food to
such an extent as to seriously ham
per the work of the stomach, which,
hlone, has to do with the disposal
of animal matter.
( This, in brief, is the. gospel of Dr.
Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of
the department of agriculture. His
views were called forth by a report
by Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale on
the relative value of animal and vege
table foods.
I Aside from knowledge gained by
him as a chemist, Dr. Wiley has noted
V
that the carnivorous animals do not
chew their food. They tear it from
the bones and swallow it in chunks.
Therefore the learned chief chemist
holds that if a man can get a chunk
of meat down into his stomach, no
matter how big it may be, he has
done all that nature requires of him.
“Mastication is good for the devel
opment of the muscles,” says Dr.
Wiley, “but chewing of meat is un
necessary, if not positively harmful.
With vegetables, however, it is impos
sible to do too much grinding. Every
body knows, or ought to know, that
all the digestion of vegetables is ac
complished in the mouth and small in
testines. If there is not enough mas
tication the work cannot be done aft
erward.
“But Fisher is a faddist; all of us
are a bit afflicted in that way. He is
trying to make over man so that he
will not eat. He ought to know bet
ter than that.”
SURGEON GENERAL RIXEY
WANTS NURSES IN NAVY
SURGEON GENERAL RIXEY is pre
paring to make a strong appeal to
congress at its next session to correct
a lamentable deficiency in the medical
branch of the naval service. The sur
geon general points out that the Amer
ican navy is without a single trained
nurse. No matter how severe the ill
ness of the oflicers and sailors, nor
how grave the injury or wound re
ceived in the line of duty, the Amer
ican bluejacket must rely for his care
in time of trouble upon a hospital
steward and an apprentice.
In ordinary times the ships’ sur
geons are often taxed to care properly
for the normal number of sick and in
jured aboard ship. When there is an
epidemic of fever or measles (the lat
ter often a serious malady among
male adults), such as occurred not
long ago on the battleship Connecticut,
it has been found impossible to give
the Invalids the necessary scientific
and careful nursing required.
Surgeon General Rixey Has,'there
fore, worked out the details of a plan
for the organization of a corps of
trained nurses, such as the army has.
Afloat these nurses will necessarily
be men, but in the navy hospitals
ashore, where the more difficult, lin
gering and dangerous cases are treat
ed, women nurses will be employed.
For $45,000 Admiral Rixey feels that
he can make a respectable beginning
in the organization of such a corps,
and he is seeking support from the
secretary of the navy and the presi
dent in securing the necessary ap
propriations by congress.
The first official suggestion of the
employment of women in the project
ed naval nurse Corps was broached
by the surgeon general in an address ’
delivered by him on the occasion of
the graduation of the nurses’ class at
the Garfield hospital in this city re
cently.
FIGHT ON TRUSTS COSTS
UNCLE SAM ROUND SUM
KTRUST busting” comes high and
1 the taxpayers foot the bills. Spe
cial investigations of the Standard Oil,
beef, harvester, tobacco, powder, fer
tilizer, and other combinations have
cost enormous sums. Inquiries now
being prosecuted into the lumber,
watch and other trusts will draw heav
ily upon the federal treasury.
In the last four years the govern
ment has paid out nearly $300,000 in
fees for special counsel. These are
some of the largest items;
Beef case, $48,000.
Standard Oil (in court), $45,000.
Tobacco cases (under investigation),
$42,000.
' Paper case (concluded), $20,000.
Harvester Case (under investiga
tion), $30,000.
Fertilizer case (in court), $15,000.
Coal and oil carrying railroads (un
der investigation), $10,000.
Powder case (under investigation),
$V,000.
Turpentine case, $25,000.
Total, $242,000.
Fines paid the government, $30,
000.
There are almost a dozen other In
vestigations, which have cost a good
ly price, but they are of lesBer impor
tance.
Kellogg and Morrison are paid $12,
000 a year each. Judge McReynolds
gets $16,000 a year.
New Bound-Proof Books.
Various methods of making sound
proof building bricks or plates are
noticed by German authorities. The
chief constituent is calcined gypsum,
and it appears that in the simplest
process the mass is filled with fine
pores by adding a small proportion
of such substances as the bicarbon
ates of the alkalies, the chemical ac
tion thus set up causing a slow anti
steady evolution of carbonic acid gt,s
as the gypsum sets and hardens.
Though the plates become somewhat
lighter their strength is retained.
The porous texture makeB the ma
terial a good nonconductor of sound,
there is no loss of durability, and the
plates can be fastened by nailing. The
sound deadening ffect can be in
creased by adding sawdust, coke dust
or ashes.
The pulp—such as a mixture by
weight of 20 jarts of sawdust, 40 of
gypsum, 40 of water and one of
sodium bicarbonate—is poured into
moulds and ca® be left to harden
without further attention.
When a man’s wife nina away
can find a new one easier thaw be
look the old one up.
