THE DYNAMITER
He Slant Dc a Mnn of Many Part
With Nerve and CooIiicmk
In an article on Dynamite the Pow
er Untamable Samuel Hopkins Ad
ams thus describes the man who han
dles the explosive and his ways
The finished type of the dynamiter
Is the man who has had the ability to
rise and the luck to survive long
enough to graduate from the plant and
become an agent In his best embodi
ment the explosive agent Is something
of a chemist something of a quarry
man something of an electrician a
good deal of n mineralogist and above
all a man of resource and coolness It
Is he who does the exploding The fac
tory gets notice from a railroad that a
contract Is open for the destruction of
a ledge of rock which blocks their lino
of advance Away goes the agent with
his gripsack full of ready made de
struction to look the thing over First
he draws upon his mineralogic lore to
determine the nature of the rock If it
Is very hard he uses a high grade of
his explosive which delivers a quick
shattering blow In case of soft rock
the lower grade supplies a blast which
will produce a wider effect although it
will not break the dislodged rock into
such small pieces Next as a quarry
man he considers the nature of the
ledge and the indicated fissures or
veins and plans his drilling according
ly Then he must attend to the drilling
of the holes the tamping of the charge
and here his electrical knowledge is
called for the arrangement of the bat
teries After a few blasts he gives the
railroad company his estimate and if
it is accepted he may oversee the job
himself
Often he meets his rivals on the
ground Then comes the tug of war
Tricks of the trade are many and not
all of them scrupulous Where many
agents are gathered together it seems
to he a point of honor with every man
to handle his particular article with
the utmost apparent carelessness
while he manifests a shrinking timid
ity toward the products of his com
petitors This is to impress the out
sider So the agent will toss about a
twenty five pound package of dyna
mite like so much meal kick it drop
it over fences or down ledges and gen
erally maltreat it If the dynamite is
fresh this is all right but occasionally
something goes wrong and theory to
gether with the theorist is blown to
atoms in practice Theoretically a
high explosive should detonate only
Tvhnn set off by means of a fulminate
of mercury cap and some of the safe
ty explosives apparently live up to
tills But anything with nitroglycerin
in it is best treated with considera
tion for nitro is a very uncertain
quantity
STAIN REMOVERS
Grass Stams Alcohol or molasses
Blood Stains Soak in cold soapsuds
to which a little kerosene has been
added
Fresh Paint Try kerosene vaseline
or machine oil then wash with soap
and cold water
Ink Stains Dip into boiling water
pread over a basin rub well with
alts of sorrel then rinse thoroughly
Wine Stains Sprinkle thickly with
salt while still wet If dried wet with
boiling water rub thoroughly with salt
and pour btfiling water through
Rust Wet in cold water spread on
the grass then apply to each spot ordi
nary table -salt wet with lemon juice
As fast as it dries renew the applica
tion As soon as the stain is removed
rinse thoroughly
Indelible Ink Soak in a solution of
common salt then wash with diluted
ammonia Rinse well Javelle water
and a solution of oxalic acid will also
remove indelible ink Rinsing must
follow immediately and thoroughly
For American Citizens
When the visitor approached the
diplomatic gallery of the senate cham
ber the doorkeeper informed him says
a writer in the Philadelphia Ledger
that the gallery was reserved for for
eign representatives
It is hey said the visitor Well
I want to tell you right now that this
Is a free country and this is the sen
ate of the United States and I de
mand admission in the name of Ameri
can citizenship
Oh said the doorkeeper Why
didnt you say at first that you were
an American citizen Just step around
to the second door from here That
gallery is reserved for American citi
zens
With chest puffed up the stranger
betook himself to the door Indicated
and was at once admitted to the pub
lic gallery
Only London Hnnior Gcnnlne
All the best humor that exists in
our language is cockney humor Chau
cer was a cockney He had his house
close to the abbey Dickens was a
cockney he said he could not think
without the London streets The Lon
don taverns heard always the quaintest
conversation whether it was Ben Jon
sons at the Mermaid or Sam Johnsons
at the Cock Even in our time it may
be noted that the most vital and genu
ine humor Is still written about Lon
don Illustrated London News
Gentlemanly Kind
First Burglar Howd you happen to
break into Smiths house last night
Second Burglar I was going past there
yesterday and I heard Mrs Smith tell
in some one that she waked up three
times the night before llstenln for a
burglar but nobody come You know
I never like to disappoint a woman
Detroit Free Press
They May Recover
When a couple is engaged it doesnt
necessarily follow that they will never
have any sense New York Press
Tlio Public In Speculation
The public as a body never buys any
thing when it Is cheap There are nu
merous reaspus for this To begin
with the point of view of the success
ful speculator and that of the public
trader are entirely different The first
named operates on deductions on care
fully erected theories of what condi
tions will be a year two years hence
The unsophisticated trader acts upon
whatever of the future Is already ap
parent It is again a platitude to say
I that Wall street discounts everything
Ood w fead but how many people
who mouth this axiom extract its full
meaning They do not realize that this
discounting means not the gauging of
the known but of the wholly unknown
The man who acts today on the proba
ble conditions of the long unseen fu
ture is the man who makes money In
Wall street or In any other enterprises
for that matter and the man whose
mind goes farthest ahead makes the
most money If I could only see tho
tape a month ahead cries the tyro
There are many men who see it a year
ahead not in its flurries and fractions
but in its great and important entirety
Thomas Gibson in Moodys Maga
zine
Fnrs Not Always What They Seem
Does the average fur buyer know
that the far eastern mink is simply a
dyed marmot with the black stripes
painted in with a toothbrush Does
the buyer know that the low priced
black lynx sets are nothing but com
mon wildcats or Roumanian cats or
in some cases soft Chinese wolf skin
Does he know that the white ermine
pillow muffs selling for a song are
really weasels and yellow weasels at
that since a white weasel commands
almost as high a price as its dear rela
tive the ermine Then the sable lynx
scarfs and muffs that sell for a few
dollars are of course nothing but coney
or hare while the cheaper caracal sets
are simply kid astrakhan which is
something entirely different from cara
calas different indeed as ordinary
Persian is from broadtail The beau
tiful imitation white fox sets that ap
pear also are generally mouflon or in
some cases combed white tibet Nu
gents Bulletin
A Daring Bishop
A story of the great Bishop Selwyn
of New Zealand is told by Commander
Gambier of the British navy in his
book The bishops missionary yacht
the Southern Cross touched a coral
reef when entering the harbor Port of
France New Caledonia It became
necessary to examine her bottom but
the sharks were so numerous and so
daring that nobody would venture Into
the water So the bishop who held
that if a man showed a bold front to a
shark he would sheer off went over
board himself with a long sharp knife
in his mouth for defense and diving
under his vessel ascertained the dam
age He then came on board our ship
and we arranged to careen the yacht
sufficiently to enable him to nail on
some copper sheets which he did him
self again spending a long time in the
water For some curious reason not a
single shark hove in sight all the time
Many a Slip For the Farmer
Raising wheat is no easy task re
marked a farmer One year I had
000 acres of as beautiful wheat as ever
lay out of doors It stood breast high
and it seemed good for forty bushels
to the acre That meant to me a
profit of 7000 I had the teams and
harvest hands engaged and expected
to begin cutting on Monday On Fri
day afternoon there came out of the
northwest a greenish gray cloud Fol
lowing a heavy rain the hail fell In
ten minutes the wheat was flattened to
six inches from the ground We cut a
little of it for hay The remainder rot
ted on the ground The mortgage on
the farm was foreclosed and I hired
out by the day to support my family
Do you wonder that the wheat farmer
is not boastful of his crop until he has
it in the granary Outlook
The Oldest Tunnel
The oldest known tunnel in the world
is that of Siloah near Jerusalem It
was used as an aqueduct The famous
inscription discovered some years ago
celebrates the first meeting of the dig
gers from both sides Newspapers did
not appear in those days and so the
event cannot be exactly dated but it
most probably took place under King
Hezekiah about 700 B C and is an
interesting testimony to the high state
of civilization among the Jews at a
time when Europe was Inhabited by
savages American Israelite
Shocking Mortality
The crowded ship gave a sudden
lurch
There was a splash
Oh wailed the young woman who
had been sitting near the rail reading
a book think of all those lives being
lost
But nothing could be done and she
gazed sadly at her copy of Plutarch
dancing merrily on the waves far
astern Chicago Tribune
A Kaffir Story
This Kaffir story is true A Christian
Zulu Kaffir was heard recounting to an
other Kaffir a vision of heaven of which
he had had a dream And saw you
any Kaffirs there Inquired his listen
er The teller of the story pondered
awhile and then No said he for
I did not look Into the kitchen
The Silver liinlnsr
Mrs Suburbs after the crash There
Is another of my china dishes gone
Suburbs Never mind dear it has stop
ped the cooks singing
At one time during the life of John
Bright there were no fewer than seven
members of his family with seats In l
the house of commons
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The City ol Great Britain
Unless wo command the sea we can
not heep open the roads by which our
people are fed Britain has in effect
ceased to be a country She is now
considered from the political and mili
tary point of view a city though a
city with very large parks and pleas
aunces and kitchen gardens in which
to grow her flowers fruits and vege
tables A city from the point of view
of war may be described as a place
which If besieged long enough must
fall since supplies once consumed can
not be replenished Britain answers to
this description The moment the sea
roads to her are closed by an enemy
she Is Ipso facto In a state of siege
Faco to face with a need so imminent
it would be madness for us to give
any consideration to what we hope or
believe are the Intentions of this or
that foreign power All that we can
rightly do in considering how to secure
our national safety and independence
is to count ships and guns and to com
pute the units of naval efficiency
London Spectator
A Shooting Gallery Secret
Do you see this glass ball said
the shooting gallery man It was a
ball of hollow glass an airy glass soap
bubble that had swung all season at
the end of a thread in the foreground
of the clay pipes bells and what not
that had made up the gallerys targets
This glass ball the man went on is
my great money maker All seon
long people tried to hit this 1 11 it
was bigger and nearer than any other
target and everybody failed Thou
sands of bullets were fired at the ball
thousands of nickels were spent on it
yet here it is still untouched my best
breadwinner All wise shooting gal
lery men have a glass ball like this It
makes such a tempting target yet it is
never hit It is never hit because the
air that precedes a gun charge is suf
ficient to blow the ball aside out of
the way You might fire a hundred
shots at it but like a living thing like
a timid soldier for instance it would
dodge each shot
31ary Andersons Voice
Miss Andersons voice was always
her predominant charm Certain tones
in it so thrilling so full of wild pas
sion and inexpressible melancholy
went straight to the heart and brought
tears into the eyes- The voice is the
exponent of the soul You can paint
your face you can pad your person
you can wear a wig you can walk in
shoes that augment your height you
can in various ways change your body
but your voice will sooner or later re
veal you as you are Just as the style
of the writer discloses his character
so the quality of the voice discloses
the actors nature It seems unlikely
that Miss Andersons melting tragic
tones were uttered in any of her girl
ish impartments but the copious love
ly voice was there and it gained her
first victory William Winter in Sat
urday Evening Post
Running as Exercise
The fact that a person is capable of
doing the best running and speed
walking before the thirtieth year need
not lead those who have passed the
third decade to think that they are on
the down grade of life says an author
ity These exercises call for elasticity
of the arteries and that lessens soon
after the thirtieth year but powers of
endurance Increase in the well pre
served man or woman up to fifty or
fifty five or even later Soldiers of fif
ty are like leather and can perform
feats of endurance that would kill the
stripling and the same is true of
women
Blue Eyes
That the color of the eyes should af
fect their strength may seem strange
yet that such is the case need not at
this time of day be doubted and those
whose eyes are brown or dark colored
should be informed that they are
weaker and more susceptible to in
jury from various causes than gray
or blue eyes Light blue eyes are gen
erally the most powerful and next to
those are gray The lighter the pupil
the greater and longer continued is
the degree of tension the eye can sus
tain
A Brave Singer
I tell you said one man to another
as they emerged from the dimly light
ed corridor of a concert hall I envy
that fellow who was singing
Envy him echoed the other Well
If I were going to envy a singer Id
select somebody with a better voice
His was about the poorest I ever
heard
Its not his voice I envy man was
the reply Its his tremendous cour
age
Shes the It
The Lancashire clergyman who re
cently left the word obey out of the
marriage service gives as his reason
that he does not wish women to start
married life at a disadvantage But it
really matters little in practice It has
long been understood that though a
man and his wife are one the wife Is
that one London Globe
A Good Laugh
Every hearty laugh tends to prolong
life as it makes the blood flow more
rapidly and gives a new and different
stimulus to all the organs of the body
from what Is in force at the other
times The saying Laugh and grow
fat has therefore a foundation in
fact
Withered
Caller You call this garden scene
June but the leaves are all on the
ground Instead of on the trees DAub
er They were on the trees but tho
picture got such a withering criticism
from the committee that they curled
op and fell off London Tit Bits
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invested in a package of
Sscuit
teaches you many truths
That soda crackers are the best of all food made from flour
That Uneeda Biscuit are by far the best of all soda crackers
That Uneeda Biscuit are always fresh always crisp always
nutritious
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
BARTLEY
The young friends of Miss Mary
Gunther surprised her at her
home last Friday evening The
party was a very pleasant affair
Miss Bernice Stilgebouer and
Miss Ruby Robison were given a
pleasant party at the home of
Mr and Mrs F G Stilgebouer
last Saturday it being the anni
versary of their twelfth birth day
They received many presents as
tokens of friendship
Mr Blair gave the children a
free ride on his merrygoround
Saturday
E S Byfield Editor of the
Indianola Reporter was a busi
ness caller here Friday
Harry L Brown made a bus
iness trip to Cambridge Tuesday
and to McCook Wednesday
W S Minnick will have a
large line of stock in Bartley
November 8
Dr Brown pleasantly passed
the 65th anniversary of his birth
Tuesday October 30th
Mr Malmberg has purchased
another quarter section of land
which join his home place on the
west This makes for Mr Mal
mberg one of the best farms in
this vicenity
Mr and Mrs Charles Rawson
are entertaining Mr Rawsons
mother who is visiting here
Robert Fischer went to Mc
Cook Friday evening to play the
violen for the orchestra there
Oliver and Luther Busch were
were here a few days last week
Elder Clark preached in the
Christian church here morning
and evening last Sunday There
is a prospect of engaging him as
minister for the coming year
If this arrangement is made he
will locate here with his family
Mr Clegg of Greenwood has
purchased the Rich Correll
stock of merchandise and took
possession Monday
Mrs Flints mother is here on
a visit from Dundy county
Mr and Mrs Frank Saunders
of Stockville were here this
week visiting relatives
Mr Talcott of Crete is here
looking after his farm interests
Mr Rouse has purchased of
Miss Maud Miller her business
building formerly occupied as
Post Office
Mrs W F Miller and daugh
ters Miss Maud and Blanch will
visit in the eastern part of the
state for two or three months
when they will return and put
up a new business building to be
used for millinery store
Will Hanson of Benkelman
formerly B M agent here was
in town Monday and Tuesday
shaking hands with old friends
He was the guest of Mr and Mrs
J R Sipe
Mrs Ed Sullivan is visiting
with her parents Mr and Mrs
Probasco this week
Dr J E Hawthorn is having
an Acetylen lighting plant put
into his residence
M D Hobbs was a business
visitor here Wednesday His
daughter Mrs H L Brown and
children returned with him for a
few days visit
E E Shoemaker is erecting a
new slaughter house John Jones
is the carptner
The past ten days has been the
busiest ever had in the lumber
yard here Improvements are
going on all around here
Jones Finnegan Crammer
are building an addition to their
store room in which to put their
furniture
INDIANOLA
Miss Lois Bosworth of McCook
visited with Theresa Lehn this
week
Miss May Moore arrived home
Tuesday evening from her visit
that extended over eighteen
weeks in West Virginia Ken
tucky and Ohio
Young Stotherd and Mrs Fin
ney were married last week and
have gone to Alliance where Mr
Stotherd will work at his trade
Mrs Rose Free went to Mc
Cook last Saturday evening for a
few days visit with acquaintances
Miss Russell who has been vis
iting relatives in Indianola de
parted for her home in Chicago
Friday night
Fred Flannigan and Stella
Crocker were married at the
Catholic church Wednesday morn
ing
Miss Melissa Dean and Will
Harlum of Cambridge were the
guests of Miss Mamie Mann last
week
Mayor Puckett Ernest Crab
tree Frank Hardesty and J R
Lyons drove up to McCook
Wednesday evening to attend the
M W A exercises at that place
Quite a number of relatives
came up from Bennet to attend
the funeral of Mrs D Schoen
thal on Tuesday last
Mrs Don Quigleys babe is
very sick at this time
Archie McNeil has moved out
to the farm and will henceforth
be a tiller of the soil
Mrs Jackson of Sidney Iowa
is here for a visit with her sister
Mrs Arch Mann
Mrs Conrod Miller is quite
poorly but it is hoped that with
careful nursing she may regain
her wanted health
Several accessions to the M E
church were made last Sunday
evening
R E Smith and William Tay
lor have finished painting the
Catholic church
Mrs Tillie Bobbs and little
daughter of Denver Colorado
are visitors in the home of her
father C A Hotze
Protracted meetings are in ses
sion at the Congregational church
this week The pastor N H
Hawkins is assisted by Reverends
Hawkes of McCook and Noyce
of Trenton
Mr and Mrs James Ryan had
the misfortune to lose by death
their little two months old baby
The child died Saturday and was
buried Sunday
Mr and Mrs Wm Colling left
last week for a sojourn in Colo
rado in hopes the change may
be of benefit to Mrs Colling
whose health is poor
Miss Emma Lang and Martin
Rink were married at the Cath
olic church Tuesday morning by
Father Kelley They left on 12
for a short wedding trip Plenty
of young people were in waiting
at the train and the young
couple were showered with rice
and old shoes
In a recent letter from Edison
to a friend at this place Mrs
John Balding writes that they
have not yet gone to housekeep
ing but are making their home
for the present with Mr and Mrs
L B Simmons
A large crowd of youngsters
went out to the home of Andy
Lambert Tuesday evening and
had a Holloween party Every
body had a lovely time Re
freshments were served during
the evening
Mrs D W Schoenthol who
has been ailing for sometime
died at her home two miles north
of town Sunday afternoon
Thus has another home been
made desolate A husband and
three small children are left to
mourn for one who was al
together lovely and who will be
missed by the whole community
in which she lived The funeral
sermon was preached by Rev E
Smith assisted by Rev Hawkins
of the Congregational church
A very large concourse of people
followed the remains to their last
resting place
Be not afraid Tis but a pang
and a thrill a fever fit an ague
chill and then an end to human
ill For thou art dead
LIBRARY NOTES
We have added about fifty vol
umes of bound magazines to the
collection at the library this
makes us about three hundred in
all
We have also subscribed for
three new periodicals The Sat
urday Evening Post St
olas and The Supplement to
The Scientific American
A number of new books have
been ordered and we expect same
some time this week
Library hours mornings from
1030 to 12 oclock afternoons
130 to 6 oclock evenings from
7 to 9 oclock Sunday afternoons
from 2 to 5 oclock
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