The Cook County Herald from Grand Marais, Minnesota • Page 2

Cbe mrald. GRAND MA.RAIS, MINNESOTA. "The wages of sin is death And sooner or later every man collects his pay. Chefu does not. guarantee the ity of its war news, but it makes good on quantity.

A Pennsylvania woman has been killed by henpeck, which looks like a turning the table. Dancing masters have decided that the two-step must go. The side-step will continue to be popular. Commander Peary feels that he has a few more toes to sacrifice in the great cause of arctic exploration. Game is reported plenty in the woods.

A pinch of salt sprinkled on the bird's tail adds to its edible ity. Editor Bok says every woman 6hould wear a beauty spot. The en, no doubt, will accept the advice on the Spot. How queer it must look to a iard to read in the American papers about a flood on "the Rio Grande The Guatemalan have not done much so far beyond providing the tectives with another mysterious appearance case. The Vancouver Indian who bought a coffin and a keg of gunpowder sequently discovered that he really didn't need the coffin.

Dr. Wiley says that Scotch whisky is an imitation. Hoot, mon! You will next be telling us that the Scotch pipe is full of hot air. They haven't got through ing out in the Cream City yet why the battleship Milwaukee was ened" with champagne. Tobacco is smuggled across the Canadian bordr in bales of hay.

Some antidote will have to be ered for that tobacco habit. An Indiana man has invented a ing chair that will go into the hip pocket. Wonder what he thinks a hip pocket is made for, anyhow? The news that alcohol is made from honey may lead some gentlemen of leisure to revise their adverse opinion of the little busy bee. At the last battle of Bull Run 10,000 militiamen got blistered feet. As Gen.

Sherman might have said, but didn't, sham war is a blistering shame. An African potentate, the alake of Abeakuta, is on his way to this try. Our native smart alakes will, of course, receive him with due honor. Japan is all ready to dictate terms of peace to Russia, but, like the typewriter with the toothache, Russia isn't taking dictation just at present. Chicago reports a growing tendency toward vegetarianism.

That is not surprising. Corn and rye products have always had a wide vogue in cago. So "New York crowds stare at liam Waldorf Astor." No wonder. They want to see the eccentric person for whom "little old N'York" is not good enough. The scientists say there'll be no Niagara falls 3,500 years hence.

We're very glad now we didn't miss our chance to see fails on our last vacation. Gen. Corbin is opposed to army cers marrying without the consent of the war department. This may be all right, but what does Gen. Ma say on the subject? Before accepting Prof.

Metchnikoff's theory that sour milk is the elixir of lite, will s.ome one kindly ascertain whether the professor is interested in any dairy enterprise. Mr. Chesty Gullett is running for office in one of the southern states. he doesn't get it In the neck it will be -safe to assume that there is absolutely nothing in a name. The war department has rightly decided that the bow-legged man is as much out of place in military service as lie would be as a though not exactly in those words.

It is said that tobacco hidden, in hay -is being smuggled into the United States from Canada. We have long suspected that most of the campaign cigars we have been smoking were largely composed of hay. The eminent bacteriologists' germkilling bees convince all gentlemen with copper-lined stomachs that they may drink any kind of water with periect safety. But the trouble is they don't want to pay such a price for safety. A Utah preacher having sued a widow for $150 for preaching her funeral sermon obtained ment.

Perhaps her disinclination to pay was due to a too strenuous ance that the dead man had entered a happier state. Thirty-two years ago the world saw the ISrst fruits of international tration, in the award of the high mission which settled the so-called Alabama claims of the United States against England. The world has made a strong vance toward the settlement of national disputes by the judicial ods of arbitration since the days of the Alabama award. Differences that before then plunged nations into war are now considered, as a matter of course, fit subjects for the deliberative methods of settlement embraced by arbitration. The high court which settled the Alabama claims was the first of its kind.

The parties to the disputed claims had long been subject to tensely bitter feelings of resentment against each other. The United States charged to England practically all the damage done her shipping by confederate ships in the civil war, while England refused, until this mission sat, to recognize the right of any nation to question her methods of maintaining her proclaimed ity. After months of deliberation on the part of the arbitrators a settlement was reached, however, in which the principal of international arbitration was imperishably perpetuated, while the United States government ceived in settlement of its claims the substantial sum of $15,500,000. Russians Drop Alexander. It has been a tradition since the time of Nicholas I.

to name the vitches alternately Alexander and Nicholas. But the murder of der II. caused his name to be sidered unlucky, so YEARS SINCE THE FIRST 1 Long and delicate diplomatic tiations were necessary to pave the way, step by step, for the formation of the court which was to settle these claims. Even after the sessions began it appeared for a time as if they, would come to an abrupt and fruitless ing. there will be no more Alexanders on the Russian throne, as there will be no more Pauls or Peters.

The czarevitch was fore named Alexis, after the father of Peter the Great. He was a powerful and successful ruler. DEVICE NOT IN DEMAND. Some Objections to Proposed phone Attachment. A maia in Portland, has vented a telephone attachment that will enable the person at one end of the wire to see the face of the one at the other.

He calls this an ment, and seems to think it fills a long-felt want. If this fiendish device should find Its way into general use the telephone would become a thing of How could you express your opinion of Central with her scornful eyes ing into yours. How could you tell a dun that you had gone to Boston if he could look at your face while you said It? How could you escape a bore in the recesses of your club if he could catch you face to face on a wire? The world owes something to ern science, but the inventors of less telegraphs and portrait telephones are overdoing things. In the interest of the disappearing right of privacy they ought to be kindly but ly York World. Prof.

Rontgen Is Modest. One of the least of self-advertised of great men is Prof. Rontgen, who discovered the marvelous rays which now bear his name. The professor has never been interviewed, never been banqueted, and he has even fused immense sums of money ed him by, American publishers for a book on. what he himself modestly styled "a new kind of ray." Though 60, he carries his years gallantly and looks more like a man who has led a healthy outdoor life than one who has spent the whole of his manhood in investigating strange physical lems.

CASE ARBITRATION Have been deposited vriththeTi of the United States OOO AthiTpft NEW USE FOR THE CAMERA. Fitting of Clothes by Tailors Done With Aid of Pictures. A new method of measuring for ors has been patented in Paris, cording to the St. James Gazette. The person to be measured is placed fore a camera, and between them is introduced a network that is photo-, graphed at the same time and serves as a standard.

Certain artifices are necessary a complete result thus, the armpits, must be cated by objects visible from without and, finally, several views must be taken from various standpoints. The subject is also fitted with a sort of harness which indicates points of comparison. These points may, ever, be marked directly on the son instead. The relative positions of the camera, the network and the subject are carefully adjusted so that the subject appears always on the same scale, and then the photograph is taken from the various necessary standpoints. Helps Distinguished Husband.

The of Camille Flammarion, the astronomer, never allows anyone to cut her husband's hair but herself, and she uses the shorn locks for lows. Her home in Paris is full of pillows stuffed with such clippings. Telescopes, heliometers, sextants, trolabes and other astronomical struments are scattered all about among them. The Flammafions were married thirty years ago, taking their bridal tour in a balloon. In all the time since then the wife has a veritable helpmeet to her husband.

She not only taiakes observations and calculations, but measures' the tances of stars for him. At the servatory of Juvisy, which she-helped him establish, she made studies of the planet Mars. their order MEEK TILL SCRIPTURE ENDED. Parson Turned the Other Cheek and Then Grew Belligerent. Rev.

John Smith, Avho lately died in Mexico, was nearly a rian. He was the confere and chief captian of Rev. Alexander Campbell in the establishment of the Reform or Cnristian, or "Campbellite" church. He was a pioneer preacher far back in the history of Kentucky. In his voung manhood he wore a coonskin cap, which he retained so long after it had gone out of style that he was nicknamed "Raccoon John Smith.

The parson was of that class of cular Christians who are eminently capable of taking care of themselves, even in a strenuously belligerent vironment. A country bully one time picked a quarrel with Parson Smitn and slapped the parson on the side of the face. "Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also," quoted the parson from the pel according to St. Matthew, and suited his action to the text. The bully, thinking he had a over," so to speak, smote the parson on the other cheek also.

"Right thar the scripture stops," exclaimed the parson, and "lit in" and gave the bully the drubbing that he deserved. New. Coal Field in Mexico. A company composed principally of British and German capitalists has been formed for the purpose of ing a recently discovered coal field near Sabinas, in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. The principal vein is from seven to eight feet wide, and underlies an area of 15,000 acres.

The new coal field is about miles from the can International railway. 1 Automatic Punip of Great Power. C. Arnsberger. an engineer of Rudy, Idaho, lias just' received ent letters for an invention that he has been working on for years, and which promises to revolutionize tain features of mining and irrigating operations, it consists of an matic quadruple action force pump that increases the outflow of water by four times that of the ordinary force pump requiring the same motive power.

Some of the great advantages claimed for this pump are that it can be operated at any speed that it can be made up in any size that it works on a central pivot and i3 at all times on an even balance regardless of the depth of the well or the volume of water being raised. There is no lost motion. It throws just as much water when the lever is going up as it does when it is going down. It is able to raise water at great height without inuch additional power, for the reason that it both pushes and pulls at the column of water. It can be adapted StvtWt Suction Uoiwe Diagram of the Pump.

When plunger bdx is down as shewn in the Illustration, the water enters as indicated by the arrows. As the plunger box ascends, the lever pushes the plunger valve in closing the same and preventing the escape of the water, which is forced up through the shut-off valve into the pipe D. As the pipe scends. a vacuum is created in the tion valve above, thus causing a uous flow of water upward whether the pipe and plunger box are going up or down. The movable section of the pipe above the suction valve is operated in a ball and socket joint, thus giving free movement at' all times when the pipe approaches or recedes fi-om the central upright standard.

The main pipe can be extended to any height desired. to all uses to which any force pump can be put, such as raising water from wells, mines, ponds or lakes, with any kind of power that is used in ing other pumps. Protection for X-Ray Operators. Mrs. E.

Fleischman-Aschheim of San Francisco is said to be the first radiographer to use a glass screen in X-ray practice. She says a double plate glass screen is the most iceable device for preventing injury to the operator and that it can be plied equally to radiotherapy and ography. After s.ome experimenting she ordered the construction after her own plans of a vertical plate glass screen, 2 feet in width and reaching to a height of five and one-half feet from the floor. During the last four months the screen has been in stant use in her laboratory. While operating she keeps it between her body and the tube whenever it is possible, her exposed hand being protected by the usual rubber glove.

She has found that the heavy plate glass screen possesses all of the advantages of lead plates in preventing the passI age of the rays, with the important addition of permitting an unobstructed view of the subject and of the X-ray tube in order to judge of the intensity of the ray. Glass is opaque to the X-rays in greater or less degree cording to its thickness. Lead, inium, iron and copper resist the rays to a great extent. Even the clothing has a slight protective effect. Measurement of Dew.

The measurement of dew has always been difficult because of the fact that no method heretofore has given exact results. In Das Wetter, M. Ferb scribes a new sort of drosometer, which has given satisfactory results, and which is composed of a piece of paper which has been put through a I special preparation and dipped in a chemical solution. This paper is exposed in a box placed during the night 1 on the ground, the quantity of dew ing indicated by the discoloration of paper. A of tints is deterI mined experimentally, which is used for the purpose of comparison, there being further used three sorts of p4- 1 per, the first for small quantities of I dew, the second for large quantities, and the third for very heavy dews.

Claims a Perfect Vacuum. Prof. Elmer Gates of Chevy. Chase, claims to have produced a fect vacuum by introducing molten glass of a hard glass and then ing the tube for thirty hours with a suction piston in the mouth of the tube. When this piston is withdrawn the molten-glass automatically rises seals the tube.

The space thus Jeft is claimed to be a perfect vacuum. I Such a tube has been used in X-ray experiments with remarkable results. FCR EARN WITH SILO. Ample Accommodation fcr Three COAVS and Fifteen Horses. S.

C. give a plan of a barn with silo suitable for three horses and' fifteen cows. I would like the stable to have a cement floor, and be built as cheaply as possible. The plan shown is for a barn 36 by 50 feet. The framework above the basement consists of an eighteen-foot bent above the horse stable, then a twelve-foot driveway, then a twenty-, foot bent.

In order to have room for a team to be taken out beside a loaded wagon there should be an overlay of six feet in the mow over the cattle this will give plenty of room on the thrash floor. The stairway to the basement goes down from the drive floor into the feed-mixing room. The Floor Plan of Stock Barn. mixing room B. horse stable feed alleys cow stalls E.

box stall r. passage behind cattle manger roothouse undei driveway: I. silo. hay or feed rrom above is put down through a swinging door beside the stairway. The basement consists of sixteen single cow stalls, box-stall and four horse stalls, with feed rooms.

sion is made for a concrete root-house, arched over with concrete, under the driveway. The silo is on the outside of the barn, beside the driveway, and can. be made any size desired one fifteen feet in diameter and thirty feet high would be about the size required for the amount of stock the basement would contain. Drying a Cellar. M.

cellar partially fills with water every spring. Would it be ter to remedy this by drainage or the use of cement? The cellar is in two parts, 40 by 24 and 27 by 24 feet. The water seems to come up from the tom. The soil is sandy loam and soon absorbs all the water when dry weather sets in. If you would drain your cellar you would have a better job than by ing to keep the water out with cement, for if the water comes in to the depth of two feet it will be impossible to keep the cellar dry.

If you laid the cellar bottom with concrete, Portland cement should be used and should be not less than four inches thick, the first three inches to be composed of one of cement to nine of gravel, and the top inch one of cement to two of screened gravel. Gravel is as good as broken stones. If the rock is not too far below the surface of the ground and the level of water from the rock does not come above cellar bottom, a well can be drilled and the cellar drained into it. This would be less expensive than digging a long drain. Transmitting Power from Windmill.

D. windmill must stand fifty yards from the well in order to get wind. We are now using two wires running from the cross sticks of T-shaped elbows, the longer arms of which engage the rods of the mill and pump respectively. This has not been very satisfactory. Can you suggest a better method? I do not see how this arrangement can be improved without altering the plan completely.

It occurs to me that if the pupip were placed immediately under the windmill in an excavation deep enough for the purpose and the water brought from the well to the pump by means of a pipe, it would work satisfactorily. I may stand the circumstances, but it pears to me that this, at any rate, would work satisfactorily. J. B. R.

Foundation for a Building. J. W. wish to put a foundation underneath a building 20 by 50 feet, two stories high. The ground has a hard stony subsoil under a foot or more of black loam.

There is a fall of about one foot across the building. Would it be necessary to dig below the frost and put in a drain? How should it be done? All foundations are better if they are drained, unless in sandy or ly soil. In a stony subsoil a good foundation may be made by excavating deep enough so that the walls will be below frost. If a drain is put In do not put it under the wall the proper place is just outside the wall, the top of tile coming level with the tom of the wall this will carry off all the water and not allow it to stand under wall. Round Silo With Wooden Hoops.

J. W. a satisfactory lar silo be built with two thicknesses of inch lumber with tar paper between them, using half-inch elm lumber fcr hoops to which the boards would be nailed. How many piles would be quired for the hoops and how wide should they be cut? Silos with wooden hoops have been built, but with what success in bility has not been learned. If a silo such as described were well constructedit would be inexpensive and should give service for a number of years..