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The Commoner.
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VOLUME 3, NUMBER jj,
'.A Cooling Machine.
A wonderful contrivance which
turns air o a temperature o 100 de
grees in an instant to a temperature
which Is below the freezing point, and
is operated by no other power save the
air itsolf, stands in a room at the
headquarters of the United States
weather bureau in Washington.
There is nothing complicated and
awe-inspiring about the machine, as
it Is taken in at a glanco by the spec
tator. Indeed, tho observer at first
luvoluntarlly experiences a feeling of
disappointment in not seeing nome
thing more wonderful-looking and im
posing than a plain round cylinder
connected with tho outside air by a
pipe of generous diameter and having
a similar pipe extending from beneath.
This is probably due to the surprise
that immediately makes itself felt
vpon stepping into a room where tho
machine is stationed. To pass .sud
denly from an atmosphere registering
ninety dogrees in the shade to a room
registering in its warmest corner but
B)xty-flvo degrees and through an or
dinary door at that is bound to cause
eomo wonderment.
The machino is charged once t day,
end Prof. Moore, tho inventor, says
that tho dost of cooling a certain area
In excessively hot weather will be but
a trifle in excess of tho cost of heat In
tho same space by a furnace or a
stove in tho extremely cold weather.
Within a short time the gravity cool
er, will be In possession of the public,
and probably not until then will the
greater number of Its uses bo discov
ered. At present it is easy to picture
a number of them. They will be made
in sizes suitable for cooling rooms, at
home; fever patients tossing on the
couches in the hospitals will be cooled
liy them; cold-storage pantries ill be
built in every now house and equipped
with gravity coolers; hotels, in spite
of not being situated near the sea, can
furnish coolness to their guests. Cool
railway trains and cool theatres, cool
factories and cool churches they all
come in the list. Pearson's Magazine.
f The Printer.
Men mav write and write and men
may think and think, but without the.
printer their thoughts would be or. lit
tle value to the world. Among all the
trades there is not one more honorable
or important than that of the printer.
the man who edges up tne metallic
iuessongors of thought with nimble
fingers or who manipulates with dex
trous hand tho keyboard of that mar
velous invention which continually ex
cites intelligent wonder and a.lmira
tjon, tlie linotype, that monument to
Ctto Mergenthaler's genius which tho
wisest man should be proud to claim.
Ihe composing and press rooms of a
great modern daily newspaper never
cease to be impressive to the thought
ful man, even though his days and
nights may be spent therein. The
world cannot do without the printer.
Washington Post.
. France's Dwindling Power.
M. Plot is a senator, who, like Mr.
Roosevelt, has been laying down tho
law on the subjoct of depopulation.
j He has already suggested that
young fathers should bo exempted
from military service. He proposes,
too, that ladies responsible for large
families should be given tobacco
censes by a grateful country.
His latest idea, which he has sol
emnly presented to M. Combes, is that
M. Loubet should decorate prolific
mothers. Ho asks with rare eloquence
why firemen and policemen should be
allowed to wear medals, when moth
ers, whose service to the state is at
least as signal, are not?
M. Plot stands and waits, but no
body replies. Paris Cablegram to
London Leader.
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Founded 1828. McKendree Hypes Chamber
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Splendid Surroundings
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FULTON, MO.
Founded 1853. John Henry McOrackon, A. M.,
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