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HOW TO MAKE A SAIL WAGON
Does Not Take Average Boy Long to
Arrange One to Suit Himself
General Description
In Fig 1 the sail wagon is shown
complete with an end view at a
showing the steering arrangement A
board about 3 feet 6 inches in length
by 18 inches across and about one
half or three quarters inch thick is
cut into p shape something like an
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Ironing board narrower at one end
than at the other A one inch piece
of board is secured to the front end to
give strength for the mast and steer
ing gear
One pair of large wheels and one
pair of small ones must be procured
or made as described further on The
large wheels and axle can be secured
to the bottom board by means of two
blocks of wood as shown in Fig 1 and
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m 2
Fig 2 the latter being a view of the
tinder side of the wagon
The two small wheels must be
rigged up a little differently A board
about the same thickness as the axle
is shaped at one end into a round
handle which should fit loosely Into
a bored hole In the front end of the
wagon The broad end of this board
rests on the axle and is bolted to two
pieoes of board the same width which
come down on the front and rear
sides of the axle and are bolted to it
Fig 2 A A The fifth wheel bearing
Is made out of tough wood and placed
so that the steering wheel turns easi
ly Fig a A round stick is put
through the stern of the piece to
press the feet against when steering
Fig 1 b
Some boys make a rail Fig 1 c
around the end that they sit on
The mast can be made from a round
stick about 4 feet G inches long A
broom handle will do for the cross
arm to which the sail is attached
The sail should be so arranged that
It can be very quickly lowered should
the wind get the best of the wagon
Should it be found inconvenient
readily to procure a set of discarded
baby buggy or express wagon wheels
they can easily be made by an in-
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genious boy as shown In Fig 3 A
hub is made from a round block of
wood as shown at c and round
sticks cut from light curtain poles
or broom handles made into spokes
as at b care being taken to get
them all the same length The rim
Is made from barrel hoops although
some boys make them of thin wood
well soaked in warm water and bent
Into shape A nail or screw is put
through the rim at each spoke as
shown at a the completed wheel
While this is a general description
of a sail wagon it does not take the
average boy long to make one to suit
himself out of almost any old thing he
Is sure to find about the place It Is
interesting to notice the many and dif
ferent designs of wagons and sails
when once the craze is started
Smooth roads an open space and
plenty of wind is all that Is necessary
for a successful sail wagon race
The Truth
Father and son were walking the
streets and passed a large park in
Which were many statues One of
them the largest of all was of a
woman
Father what is that asked the
son pointing to this particular one
which was inscribed Woman
That is not a statue my son an
swered the father It is but a figure
of sneech Life
A GOLDEN WORLD
ll Vnv
I feel liko a second Columbus
For I have discovered you see
A world in the shape of an orange
Which grandma has given to me
Tls covered with wrinkles and creases
Which represent mountains and seas
Deep caverns large islands and rivers
I trace on its surface with ease
And way down belbw this tough covet
Gold juices are rolling around
Like lava beneath the earths surface
Just see what a treasure Ive found
Ti3 a valuable world I am certain
All golden without as within
And people who live on my orange
Can never commit any sin
I wish that the world of Columbus
America home of the free
Were as good as the gold of my orange
Perhaps it depends uponme
For looking for good I can find it
And trying to love every one
Ill And them more gentle and loving
Than ever before I have done
AIR CUSHIONS AID SWIMMER
Apparatus Designed by German Mas
ter Enables Person to Move
About in Water Freely
The swimming apparatus designed
by a German swimming master is
both for trained swimmers and those
ignorant of the art When out of use
this apparatus is readily carried in
the pocket says the Popular Mechan
ics It consists of two oblong air
cushions each subdivided into five
J compartments which are connected
together by transversal straps Be
fore putting on the apparatus which
consists of thin caoutchouc lined with
a dense fabric it is inflated through
a valve within a few seconds by a
few strong breaths
Being arranged on both sides of the
body the apparatus leaves the head
and neck perfectly free thus doing
away with any pendulating motions
characteristic of most salvage
New Swimming Apparatus
paratus The person equipped Tilth
the apparatus moves about in the wa
ter with remarkable safety and sta
bility A special advantage of the ap
paratus is its allowing the swimmer
at will to take up a vertical or hori
zontal position thus enabling him to
remain in the water for hours with
out fatigue
BEE IS GREATEST ENGINEER
Little Honey Gatherer Has Solved
Problem of Room of Lightest Ma
terial and Strength
Probably King Solomon has been
most criticised in his judgment for
sending the sluggard to the ant
there to consider her ways and be
wise We cant say but it may have
been that in Solomons time they didnt
have the present day Italian honey
bee turning jout comb honey in the
commercial square pound frames But
we are assured just now that taking
up a pound of honey in an ordinary
frame the average engineer ought to
feel immensely incompetent and un
wise as to ordinary ways and means to
engineering results
In the construction of the hexagon
honey cell of material from her own
body the working bee at once has
solved the problem of economy of
room of the lightest possible mate
rial of greatest strength while the
dividing wall In each honey case al
lows the greatest number of work
ers to continue on the job A H
Godard writing of the engineering ca
pacity of the honey beo says I have
seen strips of comb a foot wide and
four feet long sustaining a weight of
30 or 40 pounds of honey while the
comb itself would probably not weigh
more than five or six ounces We
need not hesitate to say that such a
structure compares favorably with
some of the best achievements of the
modern engineering skill of man
The Home Team
Can I get off this afternoon to go
to a funeral asked the office boy
Whose funeral asked the man
with a cynical smile
I guess Its goin to be the home
teams -Yonkers Statesman
STATE CAPITAL GHAT
NEW LAWS EFFECTIVE IN NE
BRASKA JULY 7
Friday July 7 a large number of
laws enacted at the late session of
the state legislature will become ef
fective and many laws by which the
people have been governed in the past
will be repealed at that time
The new closed primary law the
automobile regulation act the reap
portionment measures several re
forms attempted in the line of the con
duct of the states business the trust
company act and the law providing for
the commission form of government
for cities over 5000 in population lead
the others in general importance and
ire among those which will be opera
tive statutes
Among those measures which were
enacted at the 1911 session and which
are of moment to the people of the
state at large are the following
H R 433 Requiring the registra
tion of stallions v-
H R 177 Mlelating to the control
and suppression of infectious diseases
of domestic animals
S F 115 The Ollis stock yards bill
S F 273 The Placek senatorial re
apportionment
S F 200 The Alberts judicial re
apportionment
S F 314 The county attorneys sal
ary act
S F 342 The Banning bill provid
ing for the commission form of gov
ernment for cities
H R 5 Providing for the incorpo
ration of religious societies
S F 171 The Tibbets Jansen trust
company act
S F S4 Relating to the payment
of jurors
H R 389 Making judges ineligible
to election to other offices while still
holding the office for which they were
elected
S F 173 The Bartling bill chang
ing the method of teaching at the
Omaha school for the deaf
H R 309 Providing for the ap
pointment of legislators in cases of
vacancies
II R 17G The act relating to the
salaries of clerks of the district
court
H R CO The county commission
ers salary bill
H R 572 Relating to the fees paid
lusumnce examiners
H R 21G A fire escape act
II R 243 The game season meas
ure
H R 219 The Hardin Sanborn
pure seed act
H R 53 The service letter act
H R 360 The Bulla hotel commis
sion act
S F 240 Relating to the sanita
tion of factories
H R 481 The printing commis
sioner bill
H R 197 Provides for the con
struction of storm sheds on railroad
right-of-way for use of shippers
S F 319 Railroads to furnish men
to protect freight
H R 158 Relating to the releases
md assignments of mortgages
S F 271 The Smith mortgage tax
act
H R 274 The state aid to bridges
over streams more than 175 feet wile
H R352 The McArdle automobile
act
H R 703 Creating a department
for the inspection and supervision of
construction of state buildings
H R 590 AH state buildings to be
constructed within the appropriation
made for same
H R 98 Creating an advisory
board of pardons
H R 2 The Eastman agricultural
school act
- HNR 257 Telephone booths to bo
constructed in depots for the use of
patrons
H R 71 Relating to the hours of
trainmens service
H R 2SG Relating to the testing of
grain in wagons
H R 109 Relating to the carrying
of concealed weapons
S F 55 Relating to the hauling of
voters to the polls
S F 318 The anti bucket shop act
H R 107 The Housh anti free gift
act
H R 313 Prohibiting minors under
eighteen from using tobacco
H R 215 Prohibiting hypnotic ex
hibitions
S F 175 The Hoagland indeterm
inate sentence act
H R 538 The Crossman medical
college hill
State Fire Commissioner Randall is
In the western part of the state inves
tigating the causes of some recent dis
astrous fires He is looking into the
conflagration in McCookt which gave
the fire department so hard a fight to
save the town also into a supposedly
Incendiary fire in Hastings
Potatoes are too high for use in the
state instiutions according to the de
cision made by the state board of pur
chase and supplies Until the pres
ent price of 3 per bushel Is reduced
the board will not buy tubers
The state board of agriculture has
Inspected the work in progress and
just completed at the state tiir
grounds Two sections of the steel
framework for the new grandstand are
up and the whee superstructure will
be in place within two weeks The
board looked over the diking which
has been lone on the west and north
west six feet in height for a distance
of 1500 feet and about three feet for
another l500 The embankment is in
tended to prevent overflows from Salt
rreek
AGED WOMAN CLOTH WEAVEE
Mrs Hodgdon at 75 Says She Could
Not Live Without Sound of
Looms
Saco Me Save one the onlj
American in a vast room among thou
sands of those who speak no word oJ
English and where the stridor df ma
chinery dins her ears from daylight
to dark Mrs Melissa Hodgdon at
seventy fivo the oldest weaver of
cloth in America has just completed
her fifty fifth year of work in the cot
ton mill of the York Manufacturing
company here
Although Mrs Hodgdon has out
lived all but one of the many thou-
Mrs Amelissa Hodgdon
sands who have worked In the Yorfe
mills since 1856 and has even seen
the original owners of the great con
cern pass into their graves she is
still as capable a worker as the aver
age young French girl of nineteen
and her fingers will comb out a pick
out or mend a thread or throw In a
new shuttle with all the deftness and
precision of the loom itself
Mrs Hodgdon has seen the cotton
business change from a struggling lit
tle industry hampered by poor ma
chinery and even by a dearth of cot
ton caused by the Civil war to per
haps the greatest activity of New
England and one of the greatest in
the United States When she began
her work the cotton loom was little
different from the hand loom which
had been in use since antiquity At
that time there were many hand
looms still in use Mrs Hodgdon
says she does not remember whether
she ever used a hand loom but says
she knew weavers in Canada who
were then using them
ANCIENT CHEST OF DRAWERS
School Teacher to Receive Heirloom
In Form of Old Fashioned Ar
ticle of Furniture
South Paris Me Being next In
line of family descendants Frank
Farrar a native of this place now a
school teacher In Dallas Tex is to
receive a valuable heirloom in the
form of a chest of drawers an old
fashioned seldom seen article of fur
inlture The old relic hand made 160
years old is seven feet high and has
eight large drawers and three small
ones Four boards which make the
aides are each 36 inches long by 27
Inches wide and of an Inch thick of
solid mahogany There are 38 feet of
this rare wood used in the finished
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Chest Is 150 Years Old
form all of which is of an inch
thick The chest was built for David
Bemls whose son brought the case to
Paris with him In 1796
Oklahoma Indians
Muskogee Okla There are man
Indians in the West prominent in pub
lic life Charles D Carter lof the
Fourth congressional district of Okla
homa is a Chickasaw Indian with
some Cherokee blood Carter was
born and brought up among the In
dians was educated in an Indian
school and has been associated with
Indians all his life Senator Owen of
Oklahoma is a quarter breed W A
Durand speaker of the Oklahoma
house of representatives is a Chick
asaw and Benjamin F Harrison sec
retary of state of Oklahoma Is a
Choctaw born and educated in the
Choctaw nation In the eastern half
of Oklahoma in proportion to the pop
ulatipn more Indians are holding
state district county and municipal
offices than white people and they are
equally successful which demon
strates conclusively that they are com
petent for self government Governor
Cruce of Oklahoma while not an In
dian is married into the race his wife
now dead having been an Indian
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TOOK A CHANGE
10 BECAME HERO
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER RUSHES
A BURNING TRESTLE AND
SAVES 100 LIVES
PASSENGERS IN GREAT PERIL
With Quick Decision and a Jerk of
the Throttle Engine Driver Snatch
es His Train From the Jaws of Cer
tain Disaster
Los Angeles Cal Philosophers
might find a nice problem of ethics in
this emergency A man is confront
ed Avith a situation in which he can
with certainty save his own life and
the lives of a hundred others by
abandoning another hundred persona
to deadly peril or by risking his own
life and the lives of those whom he
might have left in security take a
desperate chance of saving all or
none
Such a crises recently leaped up on
a sudden before George A Smith of
Los Angeles who has been for nearly
30 years a locomotive engineer for
the Southern Pacific railroad In an
instant he decided to stake every
thing upon one throw to rescue all
or none
Mountain mogul engine No 307
with Smith at the throttle straining
against the leash of its brakes wa3
grinding and slipping down the steep
side of the Coast range in Soledad
canyon one of the worst stretches on
the Fresno Los Angeles division of
the railroad Behind it was the mo
mentum of its own weight and of
seven coaches well filled with passen
gers
Suddenly Smith with distended nos
trils drew back into the cab I
think I smell smoke he shouted A
moment later as the flanges of the
wheels screeched around a curve thQ
fireman yelled a warning In another
moment the engine shot out upon tho
big trestle over Santa Clara creek
The bridge was in flames
The airbrakes brought the mogul
to a halt its wheels showering sparks
a third of the way across the blazing
structure Half of the coaches re-
Saved From Disaster
malned out of danger on terra flrma
and Smith and his fireman by run
ning back over the roofs of the cars
could reach safety in a few minutes
To remain on the bridge meant death
Because of the steep grade he could
not back the train out of peril Tho
only chance to save the lives of all
was to dash across the 200 foot tres
tle trusting to luck that the structure
would not crumble down before the
last of the seven coaches had crossed
it
Smith released the brakes and
threw the throttle wide open The en
gine sprang forward and thrust its
nose into the aisle of flames At
every turn of the wjieels the trestle
swayed groaned and cracked Cut
ting a passage through the fire and
smoke the train raced across The
passengers finding themselves sud
denly within an envelope of Are
placed there by one mans belief in
his luck screamed cowered and
fainted
In the tender behind the engine
were 3000 gallons of oil fuel for the
locomotive Smith knew that a loose
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valve a tiny leak or an open feed
pipe into which a jet of fire might be
sucked would mean an explosion that
would wreck the trestle and send the
entire train In fragments to the bot
ton However as grim as Jim Bled
soe he urged his iron horse forward
Now the front trucks of the engine
clattered off the bridge and now the
engine itself was free With head out
of the window the engineer looked
back anxiously as coach after coach
all on fire drew off the trestle When
the last had won free he brought the
train to a standstill
Out sprang the passengers white
faced and trembling They turned to
the bridge which they pelted in vain
with the extinguishers Ten minutes
after the last car left the trestle it
thundered down
I just took a chance said Smith
as the passengers surged admiringly
about him I staked my chances on
luck and wa went through
Ice Cream Killed Him
Charlotte Mich P M Thomas
aged sixtjjffour a traveling man if
dead of ptomaine poisoning from
eating ice cream
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LOST C1 POUNDS
Another Terrible Case of Gravel Cured
by Doans Kidney Pills
Charles Understein 50 W 44th St
Chicago 111 says Kidney trouble
ran me down from 196 to 136 pound3
and I was a shadow of my former self
Oh howl suffered
I became so bad
the doctors said
my left side was
paralyzed I could
not walk without
assistance I grew
worse and went to
a hospital but was
not helped My
friends all thought
I would die Three
weeks after I be
gan taking Doans Kidney Pills I
passed a gravel stone as big as a pea
At intervals the stones kept passing
from me I passed eleven in one day
Doans Kidney Pills finally cured me
My health returned and I have had
no kidney trouble since
Remember the name Doans
For ale by druggists and general
storekeepers everywhere- Price 50c
Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y
HADNT SEEN IT SINCE
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She You ought to sea that man
In evening clothes
He Id like to he borrowed my
dress suit three months ago
BABYS HAIR ALL CAME OUT
When my first baby was six
months old he broke out on his head
I A POOR
I APPETITE
QUICKLY
REGULATED
Loss of Appetite always
means stomach weak
ness and this requires
Hostellers
StomacS Bitiers
immediately It tones
strengthens and invig
orates the entire diges
tive system Try it and
see for yourself
YOULL FIND IT EXCELLENT
GRAIN TANKS
For Storing Grain
Tanks of all Kinds
Write for Catalogue
Columbian Steal Task Cf
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with little bumps They would dry
up and leave a scale Then it would
break out again and it spread all over
his head All the hair came out and
his head was scaly all over Then his
face broke out all over in red bumps
and It kept spreading until it was on
his hands and arms I bought several
boxes of ointment gave him blood
medicine and had two doctors to treat
him but he got worse all the time He
had it about six months when a friend
told me about Cuticura I sent and
got a bottle of Cuticura Resolvent a
cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of
Cuticura Ointment In three days
after using them he began to Improve
He began to take long naps and to
stop scratching his head After taking
two bottles of Resolvent two boxes of
Ointment and three cakes of Soap ha
was sound and well and never had
any breaking out of any kind His
hair came out in little curls all over
his head I dont think anything elsa
would have cured him except Cuticura
I have bought Cuticura Ointment
and Soap several times since to use
for cuts and sores and have neves
known them to fail to cure what I pw
them on I think Cuticura is a great
remedy and would advise any one to
use it Cuticura Soap is the best that
I have ever used for toilet purposes
Signed Mrs F E Harmon R F D
2 Atoka Tenn Sept 10 1910
Religion which was once an institu
tion of the state is becoming more
and more the faith and ideal of the
individual soul
Smokers find Lewis Single Binder 5a
cigar better quality than most 10c cigars
If a girl is in love with a young man
she cant see any one else in a crowd
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