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J WORKING WITH GLASS i The Wav the Different Color Ef FREAKS OF THE BLOWPIPE 1 0 I fects Are Produced J Quaint Specimen Shapes Thet Are Sometimes Dropped From tho Puntil How Bottles Aro Mado by tho Clever and Dexterous Workmen If u stranger enters the glass works on a dark night lie will find not only beauty in the blowing operations but a great deal of humor with an uncan ny weirdncss in flame and shadow that must affect his Imagination to some extent The building is circular with a chimney sticking through the mid dle of it from tho top of which a pe culiar intermittent light is flickering In the center of this building under neath the chimney stands a conical furnace of brick containing perhaps no fewer than eight holes which are like fiercely glaring suns and from which pour expanding broad rays of orange colored light If your eyes are strong enough to look through lite holes from which the orange beams of light emerge you see several hundredweight of molten metal shining silvery green In as many earthen dome shaped melt ing pots The nature of different kinds of glass Is dependent upon the quality of the raw material called batch put into the melting pots Batch is a mixture of such materials as Calnis sand or common river sand abounding in silica salt cake or sodium carbonate and much lime Blue colors may be ob tained by adding oxide of cobalt green by means of a chrome black by man ganese and amber The mass of molten metal got from this opaque earthy looking batch lias frequently to be skimmed of impurities but it is never theless a problem whence conies that wonderful and enduring transparency which everybody likes to see in glass Until the hour strikes for the work men to commence operations you may find them experimenting for amuse ment or profit with the blowpipe You will see many an enormity produced in glass the like of which can scarcely ever have been dropped from a puntil before Specimens are blown out to the thinness of a tissue paper bag which another puff of wind explodes with a crack or a glowing glass pear Is for very wantonness knocked off the puntil so that it may vanish with a re port on the floor its hue and beat be ing extinguished immediately The floor all around the furnace chamber is cov ered with brittle shining splinters and particles of glass which crackle under foot at every step One of the men may bring you a mass of metal on a blowpipe and ask you to expend a few cheekfuls of wind upon it The pipe takes no more blowing than a trom bone though it lacks a mouthpiece and you may expand the bubble until it is black and cold so fragile that it will break into a myriad pieces if you touch it The molten glass is so ductile that it may be spun out into a thread and the men often vie with each other to see who can make the longest and thinnest strand At the signal to commence work the men already partly stripped to the waist poke their four foot blowpipe through the hole of the crucible oppo site to which they work twisting it round until it has taken up sufficient of the ropy and viscid glass for one bot tle The man who is clever at his work will of course gather up neither too much nor too little for the thickness of the bottle required He can tell with out looking through the furnace holes when he has enough by the weight added to his pipe Thus all around the fiery furnace there are figures moviug continually across the lurid light most of them dexterously wielding their blowpipes and balancing at the end of each one the exact quantity of vitrified matter to make a bottle The amateur would find it difficult to balance the molten mass The chances are that it would drop on the floor never to be picked up again At the same moment you will see bot tles in all stages of growth some glit tering gold others cooling down to orange or red some in the forms of plummets or dazzling pears others as incandescent bosses threatening to be come fragile bladders It is all as charming as a pyrotechnic display You will see the black blowpipe twirled round blown down held up like a gun barrel then in the form of an incan descent lamp globe turned round on a beeswaxed cast iron implement called a marler on whose edge the bottle neck is formed It is held up once more blown into then shut up in a cast iron mold placed at the oparntors feet somewhat below the level of the ground This mold is opened and closed by a wire spring which the opera tor presses with his feet and directly the red hot bottle is inclosed he blows down the pipe once more so as to fill it completely A man goes round from mold to mold inserting a rod into the neck of each bottle and collecting a trayful to go to the annealing chamber Here the bot tles are stacked up for a gradual cool ing process which may possibly last thirty six hours This gives them the desired strength The annealing proc ess is a cure for their natural fragility and enables them to stand the test of boiling water London Globe Still Possible K Clara When Tom proposed to me he - nMtUAil hnf Via Yru mnra than brains Maude Well Ive no reason to doubt It although I understand he hasnt a dollar to his name Pittsburg Post Ht ey AN ERRATIC PHILOSOPHER Georgo Bernard Shaw and His Satir ical Remarks George Bernard Shaw gave an exam ple of his satire at the time of the re cent big pioccssloii of suffragettes In Hyde park London A photographer caught him standing with hands in pockets looking at the parade as it passed along and a friend who chanced to see him ascertained that his wife was in the procession The acquaint ance asked the brilliant but erratic critic and philosopher If he too had been parading and Mr Shaw promptly replied No I was not In the procession be cause it was a procession of women and thank God Im not n woman I offered to parade If my wife would drive me in a wheelbarrow but like a sensible woman she refused It was really a fine procession 1 saw it But while the women had an unusual average of good looks tho po licemens horses were much better looking I suppose that was because Jljpi 3Sr Sir GEORGE BERNARD SHAW the horses were better cared for Thats right for horses are really valuable creatures It was in Hyde park that Mr Shaw first became noted as an advocate of socialistic ideas for he used to join the groups of orators there on Sundays and express his original views and lie had usually a large following Shaw furnished a biographical sketch of him self for an English journal some years ago and it is said to be still correct except as to his bachelorhood It ran thus I am a bachelor an Irishman a vegetarian an atheist a teetotaler a fanatic a humorist a fluent liar a So cial Democrat a lecturer and debater a lover of music a fierce opponent of the present status of women and an insister on the serious in art CHAIRMAN J T LLOYD Congressman Who Heads Democratic Congressional Committee Representative James Tighlman Lloyd chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee was elected to the Fiftieth congress from Missouri to fill a vacancy and has now seen about ten years of con tinuous service in the house He was bom in Canton Lewis county Mo in 1S3T was graduated from Christian v lllP llllllill m 71 Y sMrnt A M jmmmw j AV o v - REPRESENTATIVE JAMES T XiLOTD university at the same place in 1S7S taught school a few years then stud led law and was admitted to the bar From 1ST9 to 1SS3 he was deputy circuit clerk and deputy sheriff of Lewis county and in ISSo he re moved to Shelbyviile which has since been his home From 1SS9 to 1S93 he was prosecuting attorney of Shelby county He married Miss Molly Graves in 1SS1 and has several children Chairman Lloyd is promi nent in the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias and is a Methodist having served as delegate to the general con ference of that denomination lie was for several years Democratic whip in the house of representatives TrrfsW THE PILLORY Titus Oatcs and Daniel Defoe Both Suffered In It In the year 1S37 the British parlia ment passed an act that put an end to punishment by pillory Previous to the conquest this particular Instrument of correction was in use in England and went by the name of the stretch neck It consisted of a wooden frame erected on a stool in which were three holes for the head and arms For days together offenders against the common law were thus exposed to pub lic view From historic accounts it ap pears that this particular form of pun ishment was meted out to those coll ected of frauds of every description not only In England but in nearly every country in Europe In the days of the star chamber when religious feeling ran high the pillory was the ordinary punishment meted out to those who offended against the church In 1CS5 Titus Oates was sentenced to be pilloried for five days in every year during the rest of his life Another famous sufferer was Daniel Defoe the author of Robinson Crusoe who stood for three days in the pillory In Cheapside It happened on occasions that the offender died while under going his sentence During the time of exposure the condemned man was not allowed to receive food of any sort or description The last occasion on which a pillory sentence was passed was in 1S14 London Globe A KINGS HOBBY The Mania of Frederick William I For Collecting Giants Of all the manias that afflict man kind the most ancient and curious is probably that for collecting The vic tims collect pretty nearly everything from books to shoe buckles and from pots to postage stamps but giant col lecting was the hobby of Frederick William I king of Prussia Nature designed him for a recruit ing officer destiny made him a mon arch All were fish who came to his net Saxons Austrians nessians Turks Swedes Englishmen Irishmen Africans provided they were at least two yards long Some of his speci mens were seven feet loug Now and then he obtained one still more pro digious The Saxon cabinet minister Wack erbarth foreseeing the possible ad vantages of standing well with so near a neighbor in 1713 dispatched to Ber lin a recognition of his Prussian maj estys birthday Aug 14 no less flat tering than unique since it consisted of a large bundle of tobacco leaves two handsome Turkish pipes and a bagful of fragrant Latakia all com mitted to the hands of seven foot pas sengers with a missive imploring the kings gracious acceptance of these trifles and the Cupid who bore them St Louis Post Dispatch A Smile From a Stranger Most of us owe debts of gratitude to strangers whose kindly smile has sent sunshine into our aching hearts and has given us courage when we were disheartened It is a great thing to go through life with a smiling face It costs little but who can ever estimate its value Think how the pleasure of life would be increased if we met smiling faces everywhere faces which radiate hope sunshine and cheer What a joy it would be to travel in a gallery of liv ing pictures radiating hope and cour age Who can estimate what beautiful smiling faces mean to the wretched and the downcast those whose life burdens are crushing them Many of us carry precious memories of smiling faces which we glimpsed but once but whose sweet uplifting expression will remain with us forever Success Magazine She Was Deliberate It is said that Dinah Mulock Craik the famous author of John nalifax Gentleman made a habit of leaving at her bank the manuscript of each of her stories as soon as it was completed It would remain there perhaps six months and then she would call it and see how the story uffeted hci after that lapse of lime If it pleased her the manuscript was sent to the publisher Otherwise it was rewritten or thrown a wav Ear Vcinfj Only animals with - and droopiua ears are able to urg tl2 i A rabbit for instance rn Cj It it likes with its ear drepii or buti and lay ing them tU nlom is- Uat k when dashing through tliu I t over Hares are still more brik r e ir movements But short care 1 beasts like weasels and sto its are uualle to wag their ears in any degve altlioi they have enoush eir to tg if tJey had the power Accurate See hen- Iaiullurtl said an angry tenant after he had Igried the contract for a year this hotso is full of sewer gas Yes thats what I told you Told me Yes You asked me if there was gas in every room and I said there was London Answers His Right Hand My husband said the fair bride says I am his right hand I hope rejoined her mother that he isnt like that man who never lets his right hand know what his left hand does Chicago News Easy to Suit Mrs Eastend Youll not find me dif ficult to suit Nora Nora the new maid Im sure not maam I saw your husband as I came in maam Pittsburg Observer SEA BATHING The Effects of Salt Air and Water on tbe Human Body There Is a reason why parents have In all times and in all ages endeavored to give their children the benefit of sea air and sea bathing An Italian physi cian Gerosa tells about it It Is agreed lie pays that all living organisms began their first existence in salt water and that as a result the hu man body and indeed every animal body is largely made up of salt If you taste your blood or your tears which are the extract of blood you will find that both are quite salt In flavor More than this however every living being possesses within his body in the cellular stage all those strange marine organisms which we study so curiously in museums And seeing says Gerosa that the amount of sea water contained in every body is equal to one third of that bodys weight it Is clear that in the iufinitesimally rudi mentary form all known marine life must be present in the blood The re sult is that when we bathe in the sea or breathe the sea air we replace the amount of essential salt which is con stantly decreasing in the system and all unconsciously to ourselves weak ening it Salt water says Gerosa is really the main principle of life since it is the first condition of existence which the living organisms knew It is therefore always good for tho body whether it lie enjoyed at tho seaside or brought in bottles from the sea In particular is it very valuable in the case of weakling children and there is no bodily stimulant so invigorating to tho very young as sea water THE VOODOO IN HAITI Human Sacrifices to the God of tho Serpent There Is ample proof that human be ings have been offered as sacrifices to the god of the serpent in Haiti A French archbishop of the island de scribes a visit made by one of the priests to a voodoo assembly The man had disguised himself as a negro and he was thus able to mingle unde tected with the crowd in the obscurity outside the sacred circle After the white cock and white goat had been slain and offered up and their blood had been sprinkled on the company a burly young negro came forward and prostrated himself before the priestess Then still kneeling he made his prayer 0 maman I have a favor to ask of thee What is it my son said the negress encouragingly Wilt thou not give us to complete the sacrifice the goat without horns The priestess gave a sign of assent The crowd roundabout separated and there was revealed a child sitting with its feet bound The French priest rushed away in search of assistance in preventing the unholy rite but the authorities on whom he called were strangely slothful When finally on the day following they arrived at the place of assembly they found the grewsome remains of a sacrifice and a feast among them the boiled skull of the child Marvin Dana in Metropoli tan Magazine When Men Hurry Singular said a man waiting for a train on an elevated railroad platform and looking down a street to where a hundred men and boys had gathered around two wagons that had come to gether in collision there are a hun dred men standing around those two wagons just standing there gawping apparently with nothing else to do and not in a bit of a hurry but let any one of those men come up the stairs to this platform when there is a train coming in and hed rush and hurry and tear himself apart to catch that train and get glum if he missed it though he knew very well that thered be an other train here in a minute Let him miss a train by a second and he thinks the world is coming to an end let him see somebody hoisting a safe up the outside of a building and he will stop and waste half an hour How do you account for that New York Sun IW me do Struves Wit Secretary Blaine had said of Mme de Struve that she was the brightest woman he had ever met and every body who knew her agreed with this verdict Her knowledge of English was remarkable even for a Russian and her sallies were famous For in stance the day when Secretary Bay ard was made head of the American diplomatic service his daughter Miss Kale Bayard said laughingly to a young secretary of legation Remem ber I am now daughter of your chief to which came quick as a flash the retort from Mme de Struves lips Oh we all know that you are miss chief Army and Navy Life His Terms Varied I give a little reception next Thurs day evening and I should like some music piano solos particularly What would be your terms Thus a lady to a professional instrumentalist Eef I go zere simply as a musician was the reply und blay my selections und leave I gharge fife guineas but eef I must go as a guest und spend ze whole evenings talking to von pack of fools I gharge den guineas London Graphic A Sure Thing She id father say anything about you being too young He Well yes but he said Id age pretty rapidly after we were married and I found I had to pay your bills Illustrated Bits A happiness that is quite undis turbed becomes tiresome we must have tips and downs Moliere MACARONI IN ITALY To the Working Peoplo This Food Is a Luxury Every one pictures the Italian as eating macaroni What If I tell you that the Italians taking them us a people do not eat macaroni and yet this is virtually true Macaroni in Italy costs 4 to 8 cents a pound and It is too costly for common use It Is about as accurate to say that the Italians ive on macaroni as that the Ameri cans live on turkey Macaroni to the working Italian is a luxury You often see young fellows on a holiday In dulging iu a dish in a restaurant or before a street cook stand about as Americans would eat ice cream A customary workmans dinner Is a hunk of bread broken apart and buttered with a few traces of tomato sauce As for meat It Is the greatest rarity and the only drink they can afford is wa ter which has the advantage of being cheap and filling The Italians at home are not only temperate but ab stemious Wine and beer and even tea coffee and chocolate are forbidden to them on account of the expense In all Italy we saw no one under the in fluence of liquor So also there is practically no smoking The govern ment has a monopoly of the tobacco business buys its supplies in quanti ties direct in America and elsewhere and charges three prices for every thing The few tobacco shops keep a piece of smoldering tow tied at the doorpost so that patrons and passers may light their cigars by it Los An geles Times WOMANS WIT UNCERTAIN As When This Wife Failed to Ap preciate Hubbys Pleasantry Dont always rely upon the ready wit of a woman said the man who is sometimes pleased to consider him self an oracle That ready wit busi ness is sometimes prone to get way off For example my wife and children had been staying in the country for several weeks and I was regular with my letters as every loving husband should be Finally on the day before my wife was to start for home I con cluded my letter to her with these words This will be the last letter I will write to you for a long long time When I got down to my office the next morning I found a telegram from my wife waiting for me What on earth do you mean read the dispatch Later a registered letter came from her She had blotted almost every line with tears What it was all about 1 could not imagine Then my telephone bell rang and when I answered I heard my wifes voice speaking over the long distance phone 0h John said she Is that really you I thought you had committed suicide Washington Post Remedy For Choking Raising the left arm as high as you can will relieve choking much more rapidly than the act of thumping ones back said a physician and it is well that every one should know it for often a person gets choked while eating where there is no one near to thump him Very frequently at meals and when they are at play children get choked while eating and the cus tomary manner of relieving them is to slap them sharply on the back The effect of this is to set the obstruction free The same thing can be brought about by raising the left hand of the child as high as possible and the re lief comes much more quickly In happenings of this kind there should be no alarm for if the child sees that older persons or parents get excited the effect is bad The best thing is to tell the child to raise its left arm and immediately the difficulty passes away The Popping Stone Tho popping stone marks the spot where Sir Walter Scott asked Miss Carpenter to marry him It is situated in the beautiful valley of the Irthing at Gilsland an inland watering place near Carlisle The popping stone is visited by many thousands during the summer months and it is said many a laggard lover has had his courage screwed up to popping point at this ro mantic spot In the immediate neigh borhood may also be seen Mumps Ha which Scott immortalized in Guy Manuering while a little far ther afield the Roman wall and Laner cost priory prove attractions to vis itors to Gilsland London Chronicle Hardships of the Very Poor Little Marion having few real play mates has supplied herself with sev eral imaginary ones with whom she has many surprising experiences Her mother recently overheard her playing with her large family of dolls and en tertaining a visionary caller Yes Mrs Smif she said heaving a deep sigh we are poor terribiy poor We are so poor that I have to spank my babies to keep them warm Womans Home Companion Costs Sometimes Theres no use talking about it a chronic disease is an expensive thing to have That depends Mine never cost me anything Whats your trouble Kleptomania Cleveland Leader The Biter Bit Hewitt Who was that fellow who in a fit of absentmindedness tried to light his cigar from the electric light Jewett Hes a joke writer who makes a specialty of jokes about countrymen blowing out the gas New York Press As soon as a man acquires fairly good sense it is said that he is an old J fogy Atchison Globe NOTICK TO CHKDIT0K9 In tho count court of Iff Mow cotthIk In tho uiftttt r of the estnto of G ritd ietinan Ifcviw I You arc notified that I will lt at rim county court room in 3Ieok in nu roiutpim tho 2Uth dny of March HW at tiinn ocW ftu in to receive and examine all claims ant iv mnndg iiKtiiuxt mi id oxtate uitii n view totfiinr adjuttmcut and allowance The timo ftnfltefi for the -indentation of dm in- ek nlnnl 34t tato i mix mouth from the lltl day if SrjiWr ber Iios mid anyelhim not lp Hmm timo shall bo fnreter burred Vttw fHUAtl 1 Mooiu utility Juliu J J helley attorney LEQAL NOTICE Ju jubtict court before If H lierryliiutioe the T 58 J -7 1 H Iratt defendant will lake nuilco time on tho 3rd day or AiiKii t IS II H 1 ii justice of tho peaco of ited Willow countyN braskn issued mi order of attnclmient Uv tin sum of tsl in in act ion peiidimc before lam wherein Ueorj e S i cott 1 tdaintilT nini 1 JI Pratt is defendant and that iiro iertynf Wie defendant cousistiiiK of miu j due mid owinr in tho linndt of the hicatro Iturlim toii A Quiucy itailroad Comtmuy tririihee list wutnrj for work and labor iterfoniH d by wiid lefetbi uut for said Railroad oiiiuij him been ntr taciied under Miid order of nu huieiit ShM cau e hn been co itiuned for lu anm to thatiU day of September 1V0S at oclock aim itONOB S SOOiTC ORDKIt OF HEVKIMi State of Nebraska Ited Willow county m Iu tiie county court To all imtmiiis interested iu th otnto of An drew It liammeli late of -aid comity W ceaed Ymi aro hereby notified that 011 Mo IJthdaj of iiKiit lHM Edit Fowler flta her petition in the count court of mi id coaaliF for the appointment of John it Ilamuiefl i the administrator of the Andrew U llaninicll late id said count- diccaed mtd that the Mlid petition will be hf ard atthe coun ty court room iu tho cit id Mi Cook iu tuttf comity 1111 the 1 tfi day of IMfkni the hour of one oclock p in It onlcrrd llm1 notice id -aid hourimr n u to all mtsoc interested iu said estate by puhlicntiMt4jf ibis noticet for three week- in The MeCook Tribune a now paiter piiblinbaA printed and circulated in smil r unity Dated this 1Jth day or Amriist UiS SJUtts siaiI J C Moork County Judge Cordon fc McCarl attorney- NOTICE OF SUIT Charles G Wallace defemlant will Mle uolico that Marie Wallnie plaintiff Ink filed her petition in tho lJistru r Court of liefi Willow county state or Nebra ka the object anil prayer of which are to obtain a divtxwe from him on the grounds that although ti siillieient ability- to do he lias without jmtt caiiH or provocation trros dy vautouly anit cruelly failed ami refused to support or Ion any manner contribute to the of plw t i II for more than four mouths last pist that her maiden name Marie WandlxTS tit restored tolier Mrf You an- required to answer said petition am or before Monday tho 2Jst day of Septetfftiat A- Its M iib Wai E Plaintiff Hy J E Kelley her attorney NOTICE OF SUIT Elizabeth Kilgore V Kilgooe Sarah Kilgore Florinda J Ber George L lierger Emma lohnstyir Arrilla Vandenort Sila Vamlervarf Mary Kimerling Marion Kinierling Ol iver P Whitted Margnn t 7 WhifctetL James A Whitted Mrs James A Wbik ted his wife Arthur ESume Santb1 Jones Saniantha Potts and James Pott defendants will take notice that Geoegt E Evertson plaintiff herein has iilf his petition against tiie above named de fendants in the district court of litA Willow county Nebraska the object and prayer of which an- to quiet the title of the plaintiff in the East half asj the East half of the We d half of Sec tion thirty three Township tlmtti CI Rangetwenty eight CN Ked Wiliaar county Nebraska and for a decree that the defendants and each and all of tbs be decreed to have no interest in or aaf claim lien or title to said premises or any part thereof and that they may bs barred and excluded from making at claim thereto 8ri3X You are required to answer said ti tion on or before Mondav the 28th daj of September 1008 Z Dated this 21st day of August 1901 Gkokce E Ev FirrsoN By Boyle it Eldred Plaintiff his Attornev s ib2l 4t 100000 A substance in- fjk 1 found in food W le use of K t ig etij SSJME ler JH 3nS3 Dr J A Colfer DENTIST Room 4 Postoffich Buildinc McCOOK NEBRASKA NEILL BROS Contractors andBuilders gg J Estimates gf y Furnished Free Phones Shop Black 324 Re dence Blacks Farmers bring your wfcettt to the MILL We will pay yoit a premium above the marv for ail gooi milling what All Goods at LowePossibIe Markec Price Whole Wheat Rye and Graham 1 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