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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1888-09-19

Parlor Suits, Patent Rockers, Easy Chairs, Stu
dents Chairs, Diyans, Turkish Lounges, Bed
lounges, Carpet Lounges, Raw Silk Lounges,
~ Chamber Suits, Ash Chamber Suits, Maple
Chamber Suits, Side Boards, Chefioners, Hall
Racks, Library Tables, Library Chairs, Piller Ex-
tension Tables, Fell Leaf Extension Tables Square
Extension Tables, Walnut Dining Chairs, Oak
Dining Chairs, Mahogany Dining Chairs, Wal
nut Wardrobes, Walnut Cupboards, Oak Center
Tables, Brass Center Tables, Marble Tables Rattan
Chairs, Rattan Rockers, Mantle Glasses, Pier
GLASSES, Brass Curtain Poles, Copper Curtain Poles
tension Brackets, Brass Curtain Chains, Brass Blu.
reau Handles, Oak Franc Mouldings, Gold Frams
Mouldings Bronze Frame Mouldings Etching Pic
lures, Engraving Pictures, Artotypes Pictures.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1888-09-19
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
Frank limerick il. Potter
Hon Andrew Harshaw, G. w, Berteb
IL. H. Wittelshofer, /. Il. Clark.
D. ID. Dunlop, NJ. D., o. L. Partridge,
j. ID. Potter.
bb- +. S.-Moncy loaned on second Tuesdav
evening OF each month, at secretary's office.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1888-09-19
HERE We co.
Look out for
Low PRICES.

The goods must move to make room
for the car loads constantly arriving
by every train and every boat. We
quote few of the articles just re-
ceived, very latest styles, very lowest
prices:
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1888-09-19
q ALPENA n
Loan and Building
ASSOCIATION.
Authorized Capital, 100000

This association offers the cheapest and most
practicable plan for improving or building home
Members OF the association who own lots or have
the purchase price Of a lot can build and have a
home Of their own, build TO suit themselves cost
ing from $500 TO $500, by paying back tho money
IN lnstalments Of g. $40 or ego per month"; accord
ing 70 cost OF building. Do not pay rent, when by
paying so small an amount-monthly-you can
IN 80 snort time have home of your own free
from iincumbranee Many of our own shrewdest
anu most enterprising business men are members
a IN taxing advantage OF the opportunities thus
oneISu. FOR working men and women nothing
s3uas ,he building Association for a safe prohta-
anu convenient savings bank Pay in so cents
a month ana IN eight years or less take out 400
10y IN wv month and IN the same time draw out
f<ioOO' ana so on, according 10 amount of stock
uken. oioekholders, however, can draw All ar a
Poruoh OF thelr money at any time, after being
members SIX months, with interest at six DER cent
For further particulars npDlv nj Omoa
OF secretary, I23 Chisholm ST., HospitaI
OFFICERS,
Pres idont
- ~ n; puhiop' NJ D..,,,. Vice. Presiden
Attorney
T. Treasurer
W ~ i"IiiuBe'.... ........... Secretary
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
ALL ABOUT MUSTARD.
How the Seed Is Made to Furnish OH and


How the Seed Is Made to Furnish OIL and
Flour.
"Where does mustard come from?''
replied wholesale spice dealer to a
reporters inquiry. "Most everywhere.
1t is of two varieties. One is white
and the other is black. The first is
called English, and the other masque-
rades under score of other titles.
The English is full of flour, lacks pun
gency and is seldom used alone. The
other kind contains large amount of
oil, said to average 25 to so per cent.
The best variety comes from Italy and
is known as Trieste. There are many
varieties of this kind grown in Califor-
MIA, of every shade of quality; also in
other States. That known as Kentucky
is very pungent.
''Do farmers generally raise it?''
.'if they don't it is their own fault.
They can. 1t requires little or no cul-
handling"
How is it prepared"
Usually by COMPRISING the seed to
extract the oil because the seed is
much more easily worked when the oil
is out, and because there is now a
ready market for the oil as salad oil, it
being in many respects equal to the
| best olive oil. To extract the oil re-
| quires very powerful hydraulic pressure,
and suitable press would cost from
| 81, 800 to $4,000. Large dealers in the
principal cities operate in the seed or
crude stock and press it and supply the
| trade with what is known as mustard
cake, formed by the process of ex-
tracing the oil. and which contains
every thing except the oil-the same
precisely as linseed cake. After this
the pressed seed is separated from the
bran to extract the -four. Pure mus
tard can not be ground in mills, and
unless it is very much adulterated it
can not be ground at all, on account OF
| the oil retained in the cake. The
usual process, therefore. is to take say
! 100 pounds and put quantity of the
broken cake in pot or mortar and
| pound and sift it so as to extract
about so per cent The machinery
used for pounding the mustard is a
simple continuance, called sometimes a
stamp mill, being battery of Founders
ranging in number from two up to
sixteen. The process is slow but very
simple. After passing through the
FOUNDERS the mustard cake-now re-
'luced to the consistency of soft mid
| ilings-is transferred to a series of
sleeves, the fine falling into recepta-
Gle below. This bolted flour of mustard
is strictly pure. and is as pure as it is
possible to make it from the stock you
have used, whether it is good or
bad.
Now you know the whole secret
When are you going to start in bust
nessP"-M !. Mail and Express.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31

was ihipeied 10 put one Oh tnat NOM
~ the biihd faith that nobody w.nld
remember IL.
y. well, that hour went nv 7
promised to do all could to saya her
IRON open Disgrace and so lon ber
Ionhd II note vt my room telling ma NJ
Colonel Wilson and went at once T.,
nun. II may be that he apprec;,iaJ
now l sun red At all events. he
as.eea not TO pr"sec tie Miss Mason or
pnn'lsh the facts of the recovery of tho
! weis provided she would return them
h' was even kind enough to consent
10 my acting for Miss Mas IN.
Tho following morning called on
MISS Mason and told her what Colone,
Wnson had agreed to do. Without /,
word in reply she left the room. I
didn't know whether or not she would
return. My own reputation was in
her hands. and for nearly an hour |
remained alone in that parlor where |
mad first thrust myself as false
friend.
She came back to me, carving a
package which supposed cont aimed
the wells. couldn't speak, nor
would l, after one glance at her face.
nave opened that package in her pres
ence even to save my life.
Il took the parcel to Colonel Will
son. Not jewel was missing"
And tho woman?"
Miss Mason's departure was an
noanced in the society columns of the
newspapers a few days later If s i'll
alive. she is visiting friends at the
East, l believe --(hica1o Tribune
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
THE PRACTICAL MAN.
n Being w no is Silver In the Bare Toe
OF Humanity.

- -O ." . s'AhNoF iu tuo bare Toe
OF Humanity.
The intensely practical man in SO.
cleiy is like hedgehog among kit
tens. A yellow primrose by the brim
yellow primrose is to him, and it is
nothing more. H, worships dollars,
and plain bread. and wooden cloth,
and cares nothing about roses and
rainbows and the rigmarole of the
poets. He has as much Imagination
IS an OK. and is as fanciful az a bear.
II takes every thing as literally as the
multiplication table. Q uote to him
E nerson's saying, Hitch your
wagon to STAR and he will go on
o demonstrate toyou its utter impos-
'iblity. 9Th absurdity of the idea!
You can't hitch wagon to a star!
Surprising Mr. Emerson should
succeed in hItching on his
wagon. it would take two hum
dred and ninety seven million mi es
of harness. and ninety thousand, three
hundred and one years of time, and
he wagon would be smashed into
smithereens the minute he got it
htched." Of course, Emerson and
poetry can stand no such ma,hemat-
ical onslaught as this.
But the practical man is upright
and downright, and wants folks to say
what they mean. H, will deny the
inspiration of the Scriptures. because
'hey say: Cast thy bread upon the
waters. and thou shalt find it after
many days" "Tain't So" says the
practical man; Il tried it and found
out threw loaf of brea into the
river when Twas boy. and have never
seen hide nor hair of it since. | tell
you the chances are twelve billion.
Line hundred and forty-four million,
lree hundred and twenty thou
sand, nine hundred and thirteen to
one, that if you throw bread into the
water you will ever find it again"
What Scripture can stand such an at
tack as that?
The practical man can never see a
joke. All humorists are idiots to him.
all wit is an idle expenditure Of
breath. He rea Is Mark Twain
books aud says they are not true,
Blrdette doesn't prove any thing, and
B Il Nye is full of inaccuracies.
The man who is intensely practical
rests as easily in the bosom of society
as cinder in a mans eye. H. is a
silver in the bare toe of humanity.
As Il social element he is Hyde with
out Jekyl. Ali men hate him as
they do the gates of death. We Won
der if his wife really adores him. We
wonder if his mother really loves him.
- Yankee Blade.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
An Austrian has patented process

An Austrian has patented Il process
for getting thread that can be spun
and bleached from wood, which is cut
in long lengths and boiled till it will
cleave apart in tibrous punches by
shaking in water. 1t is then shredded
by hand or by machinery, and spun lii'
hemp. This gives a very fine thread,
and less boiling gives coarser one.
The remarkable finish of American
papers places them ahead of any made
elsewhere in the world. The excellent:
properties of The paper are impaired by
the addition of mineral called agallth.
1t is a silicate of magnesia, and Is
fibrous, resembling i'll this respect
asbestos Large amounts OF 1t are
found in the United States. This sub
stance does not seem to be found as yet
in other countries.
1t is estimated that the amount OF
petroleum produced in Pennsylvania
since brakes well was drilled in 1899
to the year 1887 was $50. 100000 barrels
of forty-two gallons each. This amount
of oil would be sufficient to make a
cood-sized river or lake if collected in
one body. 1t would make stream ten
feet deep, 100 feet wide and about got
miles long. or lake or rectangular
pond about three miles long. two miles
wide and ten feet deep. Still the supply
is not exhausted.
BY means of high box attached to
the wall of house, the outside OF the
box being made of slate or corrugated
iron to absorb the heat, and so con
nected with openings in the wall as &c
act rs a flue. the heat of the sun can De
called in to assist in warming room
A heater forty-two feet long ana SIN
feet wide was formerly attached to the
Athennum in Boston, the work uohe
by it being estimated to be equal to tna'
obtained from the consumption Oh hitS
hounds of coal day.
A n,ner that resists the action OF
both fire and water has. it is SAID oeeo
recently invented in Germany by a
Herr Ladewigg. The manufacture Is
accomplished by mixing twenty-five
narts of asbestos fiber with from twenty
five to thirty parts of aluminium sui,
pbate, and the mixture is moisseneo
With chloride of zinc and thoroughly
washed in water. 1t is then treated
with solution of one part of resin SOAP
in eight to ten parts OF a solution o. .,
nure aluminium sulphate, after which Il
Is manufactured into paper like ordi'
nary pulp.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
BEFORE. The CAMERA.
How to Be Photographed to the Best Pos
slbfe Advantages.

How to Be Photographed to the Best Pos.
ssbie Advantage.
"Only one person should go with .
child when it is to be photographed"
said camera artist. .instead, several
people are apt to accompany it, he
continued. 1.-The younger it is the
more go to see the little dear when its
picture is taken. If it's baby all the
female relatives handy constitute them
selves into body guard for the infant
on its important trip to the photograph
er's. Even its proud papa will
neglect his business to be present at
the ceremony. They all have to in
spect the child, comment upon it. and,
even if il is too young to understand
what is said, manage to get it into
state of nervous fidgets before the
operator ever lays eyes upon it. Ii
the entire family think it is imperative
to come to the studio with the subject.
but one individual should be permitted
to enter the operating room with it.
Three or four persons in the room only
serve to attract the youngsters atten.
ton and lessen the chances of obtain
ing good picture.
''No attempt should be made to get
a child photographed in any but bright
weather. The middle of the day is the
best time for a sitting. Children
should always wear light-colored
frocks when sitting for pictures.
Light tones harmonic with their
compilations and photograph in
less time than darker hues. Navy blue,
seal brown, dark green, wine color.
maroon and cardinal all take dark.
Light green. brown, scarlet, gray and
purple take light Rose color, laven-
der. yellow and pale blue nearly white.
In white material the cream tint is
more desirable than pure white. Black
silk or velvet take as dark as ink.
ut is as easy to get good pictures of
children as of grown folk if people
would attire the little ones in suitable
colors and simple style. not make them
nervous before they reach the studio
and leave them entirely to the opera
tor after they are there. Grown peo-
pie would secure more satisfactory pie
lures of themselves, too, if they'd trust
more to the operators judgment and
less to their own. People ought to
think about the details of their dress
and hair arrangement before they come
in front of the camera AS a rule the
more simple the attire and couture the
more pleasing and natural the picture.
Proofs should never be examined in
bright light, AS they fade SO rapidly.
It's no guide to the photographer to
send back two or three proofs with the
message finish from the darkest one,'
or, the lightest one. for they are all
liable to be of the same shade when
they reach him. ~ Chicago NeaUs.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
SULLIVAN BLUFFED.
How an Old Man Completely Backed
Down the Great Slugger.

How an Old Man Completely Backed
Down the Great Slugger.
There were fifty passengers in the
waiting-room of the ID. and M. depot
yesterday, when an old man who had
been warming his coat tails at the radi-
ator for half an hour went over and sat
down beside a middle-aged man with a
satchel between his feet and asked:
Have they taken any steps to reduce
the surplus YETI"
No answer
"Have they taken any steps to reduce
the surplus yet?a repeated the old man.
in higher key.
Look here, old man, replied the
other, as he turned on him, do you
know who / am?"
mo, sir"
I'm John L. Sullivan, the slugger!"
"Noar'
Yes, ami
wall. declare! I've told the boys
in our town more II fifty times that
knew l could lick you in one round if
ever l got the chance. and now the
chance has come! Come out doors and
put up your dukes, Mr.. SullivanP'
The champion refused to go and
the old man peeled off his coat and
would have had it out with him right
there if he had not been restrained.
YES. I'll keep quiet of course l
will" he replied to the officer. .but
want you to witness that backed him
right down and bluffed him off Law!
but wouldn't have walloped him if
he'd come out doors"' Detroit Free
Press
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
a Fair Exchange All Around.

Mrs. Jones (who has just moved into
the house lately occupied by Mrs.
Smith, Dear, dear! l never saw
such a dirty house in my life. should
think those Smiths never cleaned house
while they lived here. And the yard
is full of their old rubbish. too. 1t will
take month to clean up after them. ="
Mrs Smith (who has just moved into
the house lately occupied by Mrs.
Jones)-'Dirt! Don't talk to me of
dirt I've counted ten different kinds
of finger marks on the parlor walls
And to think we moved on purpose so
we wouldn' have TO clean house! It's
positively disgraceful to live the way
those Joneses do. I'd as lief be saw
age. Detroit Free Press
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
VALUABLE ADVICE.
An Experienced Detective Offers q Sug-
gestion to Housekeepers.

gestion to Housekeepers.
There are only ten persons in
thousand who. when they hear strange
noises in their house, do not immedi-
ately make light to find out the cause"
said one of the detectives of 4 private
agency. This is the most absolute
piece of folly sane person can COM
nit, and yet it only seems natural. But
let me tell you that when you hear any
noise that indicates the presence in
your house of Il person who has no
business there, first take the precaution
to put out the light. Then. if you want
to search do so in the dark. OF course
you know the house better than any
intruder. and the chances are that if
YOU keep quiet the intruder will expose
himself either by showing a light or
stumbling over something Then you
have the advantage of knowing his po-
sition without his knowing yours.
There is many murdered man in
in his grave to-day who would have
been alive had this advice been fol-
lowed. What can be more preposter-
Gus than the idea of man in his right
mind (knowing that if burglar is in
his house and is discovered he will take
desperate meansl actually offering him.
self as target by appearing with a
light in his hand, which does no more
good than to betray his presence, as it
is only natural that he can not see three
feet beyond the rays of the light. Take
The record of murders committed where
only burglary was intended, and YOU
will find that three-quarters of them
are due to the folly of searching for the
burglar with light. ~ Y. Sun
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A German physician has traced
ninety-two distinct diseases in womea
to the use of the corset.
Men and monkeys are the only
animals possessing eyelashes on both
eyelids; other animals have them only
on the lower lid, or else have none on
either.
A commission of the Paris Academy
of Medicines finds that hydrofuoric
acid, which is highly antiseptic, has
therapeutis action when inhaled. 1t
dissents. however, from the opinion OF
glass workers that the limitations
cure consumption. but considers that
they may be useful in diphtheria.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
The borax deposits near my

The boraN deposits near inyo.
Col, are apparently inexhausti lie.
They are usually but n few inch.s in
thickness where tir t opened, but get
tn ckeras they are penetrated, till they
at ain depth of two feet or more.
Thousands of acres re covered by the
deposit Adjoining the boraN deposits
are vast beds of soda and salt Great
mounds of salt lie around, glitterin q
white. that contain thousands of tons
T. e salt is fit for use rs mi ed. The
pro ortion of pure boraN ranges from
so TO 80 pr cent From the works it
is hauled in wagons to Mojave. dis
lance of 100 mileA
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
The Boots Gave Him Away.

Omaha Dame-Do you know what
time it was when you got in last night?
Extraordinarily one O'Clock. L
guess. 1t was after midnight when
got through balancing my books. Well,
WE'LL This is curious; here's my hat
under the bed. | must have hung it
on this chair and it fell down.
Probably"
"Where are my boots?'
'.On the hat rack. n-Omdtd World
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
rug FARMERS WIFE.

I'm farmers wife,
win a happy life,
And heart that
is glad and free;
FOR the many cares
Thnt nv good man shares
Are made light by
His love for me.
IN. the music sweet
or the growing wheat,
And the corn, when
The winds pass byl
listen long
IA the tender song,
For farmers wife
Am l.
obi the teeming fields,
with their generous yieldsl
Oh the acres
Broad and grand
With the browsing herds
And the gayest birds.
All here from the
Sweet south land.
Oh, the music sweet
or the growing wheat.
And the corn, as
The winds pass by!
I I listen long
To the tender song,
For a farmers wife
Am l.
Then love the peace
And the glad release
have from the
Cty's toll;
With a hope above,
And my good mans love,
take pride in
The honest soil.
Oh! the music sweet
OF the growing wheat,
Anu the corn, when
The winds pass byi
listt n long
To the tender song,
For a farmers wife
Am l.
Mrs. N. Il. hidder, In ". r Ledger.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31

Inc Japanese students at Cornell
University have a way of cooking Eng
fish sparrows so that they make very
palatable dish. aud the Japs like them
so much that they make a standing of
fer of three cents apiece for all the
sparrows brought to them.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Paper is now used in the construc-
ton of chimneys. 1t is made into blocks,
which are joined with cement.
One of the new industries in Maine
which are springing up over the State
is the extraction of oil from cedar
boughs.
A German paper says that COM
pany has been formed to manufacture
watches to be run by electricity instead
of a spring.
Vermont derives a large income
from her sugar naples. One hundred
trees will on an average yield twenty
five gallons of syrup.
"A new attachment to the micro
scope has been devised, the object of
which is to oh erve the melting points
of minerals while under the process of
examination.
Chinese firms doing business in
New York City during the last year paid
the government $3.50. 600 in customs
duties. The celestial merchants com
plain because there is no one i'll the
custom house who can talk with them
properly either in pigeon English" or
Chinese.
Chloride of zinc. so much used in
soldering iron. has the drawback of be
ing unwholesome when employed for
soldering the iron tins for canning
fruit. vegetables, etc. A soldering
mixture, free from such defects is now
made by mixing one pound of Tactic
acid with one pound of glycerine and
eight pounds of water
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31

Wife (pleadingly) - I'm afraid.
George, you do not love me as we'll as
you used to. Husband-WhyP W
Because you always let me get up to
light the fire. H.-Nonseuse. my love.
Your getting up to light the fire makes
me love you all the more.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31

And now electricity is to be added
to the defensive features of the barbed
wire-fence. Electricity is the only
thing posse ;sing the power to make the
barbed wire-fence more shocking
affair than it is at present-N y
World
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-31

You sketch with free hand.
Miss Back Bay" remarked the pro-
fessor, who had been critically exam
ing her portfolio Entirely free"
said the Boston young lady, as she
cast down her eyes in soft confusion
and waited for the professor to follow
up the opening. Chicago Tribune.