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EXPANSION OF THE McCORMiCK WORKS.
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for McCormick machines , the McCor-
mick Harvesting Machine Co. , Chi
cago , has found it necessary to erect
a number of new buildings to secure
the larger capacity needed to meet the
increased requirement. Following are
the dimensions of the more important
additions made to the mammoth works
during 1901 : Tempering room , 28x30
feet , one story high ; press room , 28x40
feet , one story high ; oil tanks , 33x57
feet , one story high ; foundry , 54x283
feet , one story high ; blacksmith shop ,
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paint and packing room , 83x60 feet ,
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dition , 150x200 feet , six stories high.
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twelve acres of additional floor space ,
which materially increases the capac
ity of the plant ; and forty-eight acres
of ground have been "recently purchas
ed for the purpose of further expand
ing the great McCormick Works.
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mick machines were made and sold ,
but this enormous output was insuffi
cient to meet the demand of the
world's agriculturists. With the addi
tions enumerated above , the capacity
of the McCormick works now is one
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onds , or three machines a minute
such is the marvellous rapidity with
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mense output from the world-centre
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Chicago Tribune : The irritable mas-
: ter of the house , waking from a
troubled nap and hearing no noise
downstairs , called out to his daughter :
"Melissa , I wonder if that snobbish
young squire of a Caddleigh who
comes here ffve or six evenings in the
week , knows what I think of him ? "
"Yes , sir , " answered the cheerful voice
of a young man in the hall below. "I
think he does. "
"When you have learned to "be a true
saint in your home7 heaven "will take
care of itself , .
Rev. W. A. Bartlett of Chicago on
Sunday distributed among his congre li
gation a fine set of hair-tone pictures
which are to illustrate a series of ser
mons he will preach. The first pcture
was a representation of the painting
by W. A. Bouguereau , entitled "The
Mother and Child. " c
ct cI I
"Leslie M. Shaw , " says a friend of t
the new cabinet official , "will be the i
David Harum of Roosevelt's adminis a
tration. What I mean is-that Mr. , i
Shaw is a natural born man of affairs
and the personification of shrewdness. '
The Food Value of Potatoes *
1
SAM has been prying Into
UNCLE
the Inner life of the humble po
tato and after a most thorough
and rigid investigation declares in the
year book of the department of agri
culture that the potato Is a deserving
and extremely valuable member of the
community.
Scientific investigation has shown
that the practice , which has become
so general , of serving potatoes with
meat and other similar foods which
contain liberal amounts of protein is
based upon correct principles , one food
supplying the deficiences of the other.
Potatoes and other foods containing
carbohydrates are sometimes object
ed to on the ground that they are
starchy foods and do not supply much
nitrogenous matter. It should be re
membered , however , that the potato
does contain a by no means inconsid
erable amount of protein and further
that carbo-hydrates are an essential
part of a well regulated diet. The
digestion experiment referred to shows
that potatoes properly cooked furnish
much material in a digestible form.
They have been a staple article of diet
for many years without harmful re
sults and therefore the conclusion that
under ordinary circumstances they are
other than a useful and wholesome
food seems unwarranted.
POTATO AN AMERICAN PRODUCT.
The potato , called in different re
gions white potato , Irish potato , Eng
lishpcJtato ; or round potato , was first
introduced into. Europe between 15SO
and 1585 by the Spaniards and after
ward b ythe English about the time of
-Raleigh's voyages to Virginia. It is I
commonly believed to be a native of
Chili. Wild potato plants closely re
sembling those cultivated today are
still found there , 'though it is a fact
worthy of mention that as the potato
has been modified by cultivation it
has largely lost the p.ver of produc
ing seeds , and the cultivated potato
differs from the wild in seldom pro
ducing seed-bearing fruits.
When first visited by Europeans the
aborigines in Chili and adjacent re
gions cultivated the potato for its
edible tubers and had apparently long
done so. It was probably introduced
into the United States , especially Vir
ginia and North Carolina , toward the
end of the sixteenth century. It is
not surprising "that the new foodstuff
should have grown rapidly into public
favor , when we remember its prolific
yield , superior keeping qualities , ease
of propagation and agreeable flavor.
The potato tuber is in reality a
modified stem , being shortened and
thickened to serve as a storehouse
for reserve materal for the propaga
tion of new plants. The outer skin ,
which is dry in appearance and usual-
] y gray or brown in color , corresponds
to the bark of the rest of the plant.
The portion underneath the skin when
exposed to the sunlight turns green
and gives the plant an unpleasant
flavor. The outer and inner skin are
usually removed when the potato is
peeled. The flesh makes up the bulk
of the potato.
ITS VALUE RECOGNIZED. . .
The valuable qualities of the potato
were speedily recognized and there
are early records of attempts to de
termine its food value by means of
chemical analysis. In 1795 Pearson re
ported "experiments and observations ,
on the constituent paits of the potato
root. " Einhof in 1S05 published an
alyses of the potato , as did also Vau-
quelin in 1817. In America analyses
of the potato were reported some fif
ty years ago by Emuions. These in
vestigations we e useful at the time ,
although they were not made by the
method usually followed today. This
was necessarily the case , as the sub
ject of the chemistry of nutrition is of i
comparatively recent growth. 1
In later years many studies of the
composition and fodor value of the po
tato have been made in this and other
countries. As shown by recent analy
ses , the skin of the potato constitutes
on an v average 2.5 per cent of the
sland Inhabited 'By Cranes
. . . , . . .
* - * - - - - - - - - * - - - - - - - - - < * - - * - - - - - - ' - - - - * - - ' - * - + - - - * - - * - - *
ever heard of a piece of
WHO deed to animal or fowl ?
* Yet such has been done by
popular consent. In Minnesota there
is a picturesque island .that is unin
habited by man and given up to
cranes. When the Indians held full
sway these birds decided upon this
spot for a summer resort. As time
went on and no white man had the
temerity to disturb them they became
sole owners , until now this island'is
pointed out from passing boats as ono
"
of the curiosities of the country.
It is estimated that three thousand
cranes make their home there in the
summer season , and they can be seen
wading out in the water , ducking their
long necks , and heard emitting a pe
culiar speak to warn off intruders.
The nests are macle .of very large
sticks , are often the size of a bushel
basket , and are usually built on some
substantial tree. In the years that
have passed since this region was first
settled by white men only one or two
ittempts have been made to land on
: he island , and these have resulted dis
astrously.
One man , more venturesome than
: he rest , captured with diificulty a
, -oung crane and carried home. When
exhibiting his trophy to the family the
ndighant .bird thrust out its long
> eak , and before its captor guessed
ts intention plucked out his eyes.
Fhese birds guard tlieir property so
ealously that , though elegant summer
lomes have been erected all around
whole and the cortical layer 8.5 per
cent.
It is difficult to peel potatoes so that
the skin only Is removed. Whether
both skin and cortical layer or only
the former should be called refuse in
our current sense of the word is per
haps a question. As potatoes are com
monly eaten a good deal o % the flesh ,
or edible portion , is rejected with the
skins ! When they are baked with
the skins on the amount of edible por
tion thus thrown away may be small.
When they are pared for boiling the
amount wasted may be much larger.
When they are rough from defects in
growth or from shrinking or shrivel
ing after keeping over winter the
amount of flesh cut off in peeling is
still larger. Just how much this loss of
the edible portion of potatoes will av
erage in the ordinary household no one
can say exactly. It may be estimat
ed at 20 per cent of the whole.
ITS CHEMICAL PROPERTIES.
The edible portion of the potato is
made up of 78.3 per cent water , 2.2 per
cent protein ( total nitrogenous matter )
1 per cent fat , 18.4 per cent carbo
hydrates ( principally starch ) and. 1 per
cent ash or mineral matter. Of the
carbohydrates .4 per cent is made up
of crude fiber and materials , which
in some of their modifications consti
tute the cell walls of plants and gives
them a rigid structure. These figures ,
like others for composition of food ma
terials , represent general averages ,
from which theer are wide variations
in individual specimens. Though the
skin , cortical layer and flesh differ
I somewhat in composition , they al Ire-
semble more or less closely that of the
whole tuber.
When potatoes are stored they un
dergo a shrinkage. According to tests
made at the Michigan agricultural ex
periment station , this amounted to 11.5
per cent when they were kept in stor
age from September 30 to May 1. This
shrinkage is probably due to a loss
of water by evaporation.
The potato contains some protein.but
as the principal ingredient in it is
starch it may be properly classed as
carbohydrate food. As in the case
with all carbohydrate foods , it is chief
ly valuable in the diet to supply the
body with energy. The potato has a
fuel value of 385 calorics to the pound
that is , when burned in the body , as
all foods must be to be utilized , it
yields energy equal to the amount
named.
COOKING THE TUBERS.
The principalways of cooking pota
toes are baking , boiling and frying , or
some modification of these processes.
The objects sought are principally to
soften the tissues and render them
more susceptible to the action of the
digestic ejuices and < o Improve the
flavor.
Just why cooking changes the flavor
as it does has apparently never been
made the subject of investigation. In
p6tatoes , as in other foods , the cooked
starch is more agreeable to the taste
than raw. In the raw potato tn
separate starch grains are inclosed
in cells with walls composed of crude
fiber , a material resistant to digestive
juices. If potatoes were eaten raw the
digestive juices would not reach the
starch as easily unless the cell walir
happened to be ruptured mechanically ,
as In mastication.
To obtain the highest food value po
tatoes should not be peeled before-
cooking. When potatoes are peeled be
fore cooking and placed directly in
hot water and boiled rapidly less loss
of material is sustained than when
they are cooked in water cold at the
start. The wholescmeness of potatoes
cooked in different ways is largey a
matter which each must decide for
himself , the general experience being
that for men in health most of the
methods followed are satisfactory.
Congressman Eddy of Minnesota
says that a congressman does not earn
$5,000 a year. He ought to knowas
he is serving his fourth term.
on the adjacent islands Crane Island
. will go down to posterity as one spot
, on earth to sacred to the crane and
his progeny.
"Do you really think one commits a
sin to ride a bicycle ? " "Well , I've seen
bicycle riders who were" far from up
right. "
Father What is that soft , scratchy
I noisein the next romo , which sounds
like something ripping ? Mother Oh ,
| that's Maria learning to scratch a
match on her bloomers. .
After the ball is over ,
After the dance is through ,
Come dressmaker bills ,
And doctor's pills ,
Enough for a year or two.
"Woman , " began the cornfed'phil
osopher , in his generalizing way , "Is
a creature of many moods. " "My wife
tin'tv ventured N. Peck. "She's al
ways in the imperative. "
"Which would you rather do , Jar-
ley , kiss a girl on her lips or on her
eyes ? " "Her eyes , of course. You
have to do it twice to coyer the
ground. "
Professor ( to new student ) You may t
take that chair. Student Please , sir ,
where do you wish me to take it ?
"That's our church. It's orful 'igh.
eW 'as matins. " "Hor , that ain't nuf-
fink. We 'as carpets. "
"This is surely the latest wrinkle , "
said Miss B as she put some com
plexion salve to a new place-on her
cheek.
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McKinley s Last Resting Place *
mound where the body of
THE
" William McKinley will eventual
ly lie and above which .will be
reared the memorial of the people of
the United' States is in the farthest
section of West Lawn cemetery , at
Canton , O.
Without question it is the most
beautiful spot in the cemetery. Sen
ator Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana ,
one o fthe trustees of the McKinley
National Memorial Association , which
is raising the funds for the memorial
tomb , said when he first beheld it
that it was "the finest spot out of
doors in all the world. "
Lying there William McKinley can
look with a spiritual eye upon the
town of Canton , whose chief glory he
was ; he can see from the eyrie of his
monument the house where he was so
happy and within whose stricken walls
rests his devoted widow. And as he
turns his gaze over the country , it
will light on the graceful little mar-
bfefigure a boy with a basket of
flowers that keeps watch and ward
over the tiny graves at Its feet. There
is a long stretch of years between
these little mounds and the great one
that looks down upon them , but in all
the time that elapsed from the day
that he first turned and left his ba
bies in their graves to the glad 0112
when he lay in the same cemetery be
side them , William McKInley's heart
was ever asking for these little girls.
Back of these pathetic little graves
lie those of his father and mother and
sister. Butween them a link in death
as in life William McKinley would
have reposed himself had not the love
and' the honor of the nation willed
otherwise.
Until the memorial tomb is built the
body of William McKnley will lie in
the public receiving vault , where it
was placed in September , encircled
by the folds of the Stars arid Stripes.
This vault is a simple but effective
bit of mortuary architecture. It was
a gift to Westlawn Cemetery a num
ber of years ago by Mrs. Frank Ma
son Werts of Canton in honor of her
husband. It is of Romanesque design ,
constructed of rock-faced and dressed
Massillon sandstone , at a cost of $5,000 ,
and is built into the hillside. Night
and day it is guarded by a detail of
United States soldiers , forty-five in
number.
These soldiers find their principal
occupation in warding off relic hunt
ers. Every day and all hours of the
day , there is a stream of visitors to
the vault.
West Lawn cemetery is practically
on the outskirts of Canton , though an
active man or an athletic girl of tho
day could walk it in twenty minutes.
Should one care to ride the electric
cars take him within five minutes of
the gates , and when the memorial
tomb Is built and the national heglro.
begins , there will be a line to the-
cemetery Itself.
West Lawn is a fine bit of rolling
countrj't comprising some sixty-five
acres of well diversified ground. Na
ture has done much for it , and , in the
main , nature has been let wisely alone.
Where are has stepped in. It has been
complement , not to contradict , as is
so often the case. Its hills and val
leys retain their first curvings and
are still covered with native onks ,
some of giant size and all Impress ! vs
with the dignity of age and fitness.
The character and size of tfc * me
morial tomb cannot be determined , of
course , until nil the money has been
collected. It will , however , be archi
tecturally worthy the great dead it
honors and the still greater nation
that honors him. It will typify the
strength and grandeur of both ; it will
teach , with the enduring eloquence of.
stone , the lesson of good citizenship
and stalwart Americanism he lived
and preached , and it will show to all
the countries of the earth how well
this nation loves a man who loved it.
The McKinley National Memorial
association , which has its headquar
ters at Cleveland , in raising funds for
this memorial tomb at Canton , 'O. ,
seeks the offerings of the many rather
than the gifts of the few. William
McKinley was the people's president
and his memorial should come from
them.
The officers of the McKinley Na
tional Memorial association are : Wil
liam R. Day , Canton , O. , president ;
Marcus A. Hanna , Washington , vice
president ; Myron T. Herrick , Cleve- '
land , treasurer , and Ryerson Ritchie , .
Cleveland , secretary-
Seven thousand negroes In the Creek
nation own 1,120,000 acres of land. Un
der any form of government which
would permit of improvements being-
made this land would sell in the open
market for an average of $20 an acre.
The wealth of those 7,000 negroes can ,
therefore , be safely estimated at $22-
000,000.
Some Queer Superstitions *
most persistent superstitions
THE the world are those that are
based upon the habits of ani
mals.
In this country Maryland is , per
haps , the most credulous state with
regard to animal portends and be
liefs. If one is walking at night ami
a spider web brushes the face it ia
supposed to mean that a ghost is
following , but in the daytime it tells
that a stranger is coming. It is wide
ly believed in Maryland that a horse
has the power of seeing ghosts.
A black cat crossing one's path fore
tells disaster , but a cat coming- the
aouse is an omen of good import.
The neigh of a horse is a portent of
death , which will come from the quar
ter to which his head is pointing
when he neighs.
A curious and inexplicable proverb
< ? ays : "It is good luck to see Mr. Ele
phant swing on Mr. .Rabbit's eyetootii
the 'Three Xight's Ball. ' "
The hair of a dog , the skin of a
snhke and the pelt of a black c-at an
believed to possess medicinal qualities ,
while the handling of a toad is sai < i
to give warts.
German-Canadians are full of su
perstition. A white spider , crawling
toward one , the howling of a dog , the
neighing of a hoi.se. the sight of a
*
snake are the portents of death. Tb < >
killing of a toad or the crowing of a
hen foretells rain. "If the wild geese
fly high look out for a gale. "
To kill a spider on one's person
means ill luck.
If the cat washes her face it means
that visitors are coining.
"If a , bee sting kills him , the woun.l
v.-ill not swell. "
The back tooth of ahog and the
blood of a black hen have curative
powers.
In New England' the sailors carry
is a talisman a bone taken from a
living turtle , a pebble from a fish-
hawk's nest , or a small bone from the
bead of a cod.
In Newfoundland and Labrador
zramps are said t'o be guarded against
by carrying a cod's head or a bone
irom a haddock ? caught without
touching the boat.
In Texas superstitious people carry
i small bone from a fish's head , but
he luck only comes after the charm
las been lost.
In Massachusetts the most common
alismans are the claw of a crab ano
he left hind claw from a crow's foot.
Superstitious Xew Yorkers carry a
small round veal bone for good luck.
Kentuckynegroes believe that the
caterpillar brings fever. .
Perhaps Asia Minor is more rich in
hese crude and interesting fancies :
ban any other country. "When chil-
Iren hear an owl hooting from the
typress groves they cry , "Good new ?
or us ; good messages for you. " If
hey catch an owl they hold it up by
he beak and chant , "Palm Sunday
iwl , how does your mother dance ? "
? he meaning of the rite is lost , but
he habit lingers.
The crow is here looked upon as. ,
I unlucky , and the children cry whea
'they ' hear him cawing , "Eat your
head whole ! " The crow , in fact , has
the distinction of being almost tie
only member of the animal kingdom
who has a sinister reputation in all
lands. Even the snake fares better.
In Turkey the partridge is detested
because once it betrayed the prophet
to his enemies , and its legs are red
because they were dipped in ths
blood of Hassan. If a man kills a
panther he is imprisoned for 24 hours
and then is handsomely rewarded.
The crane is respected , and it is &
crime to kill it.
Poland has a weilth of animal su
perstitions. The goat is there consid
ered the best harbinger of luck , while
the wolf , crow and pigeon are looked
upon as unlucky. The skin of a eat ,
worn on the chest , is alleged to cure
consumption. "To cure cataract in the
eye , take a black cock , make him look
at the sun , look at it yourself , then
throw the cock on the ground , jump
on a fence and crow three times. "
In Lincolnshire the belief is current
that the wearing of a toad's breast
bone commands the obedience of all
animals. To keep witches away they
stick an animal's heart full of pins
and keep it in the house as a talis
man.
HE HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT.
Our ranking in the world depends on
what we do , not on what can do , and
so a shabbily dressed young man dis
covered when he applied to the man
ager of a large department store for
employment.
"What can you do ? " asked the man
ager abruptly.
" 'Most anything , " answered the ap-
plicant. . _ > '
"
'
"Can you dust ? " t - ' - V '
"Yes indeed. " . ,
, - - * , Vi
"Then why don't you begin on ybu
hat ? "
The young man hadn't thouffbt oC-
that. - ' . , . .
"Can clean leather "
you goods ? -
"O , yes. " , j
"The nit's carelessness on your part
that your shoes are not clean.- ' - - „
The young man hadn't thought'-ct
that , either.- - - .
"Well , can you scrub ? "
"Yes , indeed , was the reply. "
"Then I can give you something-to
lo. Go out and try your strength oa
that collar you have on. But don't
come back. "
American delegates v/ho represented
us at the Methodist Ecumenical Con
ference in London were amazed to find
ow far the British "Wesleyans are
behind our Church on the question\of
drinking and selling intoxicants. There
are English ministers who have beer '
and wine on their tables , local preach-
2rs who keep "public houses , " or sa-
oons , and young Church members of-
both sexes who "tend bar. "
If your religion does not : sanctifr
your life your life will secularize your'
religion.