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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20
Binder TWine.

The binder Irvine is used by the
wheat-growers all through the Western
country to bind up the wheat, and from
sixty-fve thousand to seventy-fve
thousands are used every year in this
way. The binding is done by ma
chinery, and it is said that Mccormick,
of Chicago, the Walter Wood Com
pany, of Hoosac Falls, and other con-
Germs turn out 100000 binders every
year. Wire was once used for binding,
but pieces would get in between the
mill stones and the millers naturally
opposed it's further use and opposed it
successfully. Our wheat crops this
year are SO large that many thousand
more tons Of binder Irvine will be used
for binding wheat than ever before.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20
ELECTRICITY AS a MOTOR.
Wonderful Progress Made in the Past Ten
Years in Railroad Service.

Wonderful Progress Made in the Past Ten
Years in Railroad Service.
The marvellous progress made in the
development Of electricity as motor
in the past ten years was shown at the
hearing before the New York Rarid
Transit Commission recently. The
first Sc ious proposal in this country
for the operation of an electric railway
motor by current through the rails was
made about twelve years ago by Field.
One of the earliest private experiments
was made in Menlo Park, in 1880, by
Edison. In 1886 SPrague and johnson
experimental on branch of the ele-
waited railway. A year later Splagde
started street railway works in New
York. Boston and st. Joseph. It was
no. till 1887 aud 1888 that the move
ment took place which was the pre-
cursor of the present development of
electric railways. and which makes the
application of electricity to the future
ia pid transit system of New York and
other cities feasible This was the
opening in February, 1883, of the Rich
mond Union Passenger Railway by the
Sprague Company on the lines of mo-
tor development shown by the expert
ments on the elevated road in 1886.
The difficulties and problems there
overcome forever settled the supre-
macy of electricity as motive power.
The development which followed was
unprecedented. There are now under
operation or under contract on the
lines laid down at Richmond not less
than 325 roads in the United States,
England, Germany, Australia and ia
pan, requiring over 1900 cars and
1000 motors, with 2.GOO miles of track,
with daily mileage of not less than
400 900 miles, and carrying three
quarters Of billion passengers annu-
ally. Grades of ID and IA per cent.
distances of six miles or more from the
central stations, speeds as high as from
% to 30 miles per hour for single cars,
trains of from two to four cars charac-
terize their operation. Not less than
10000 persons represent the number
employed on these roads Fifty mill
lions of capital invested in this country
alone, and present annual business
of not less than eight to ten millions
of dollars on the part of the manufac-
turing and contracting electrical COM
panies, show the present standing of
the street railway work.
AS an earnest of his confidence in
the capacity of electricity, Frank J.
Sprague offered to guarantee his opin-
ion to the commission in this way:
Il am ready, if rapid transit sys-
tenn be adopted requiring the use Of
the electric motor, to undertake the
entire contract for the necessary steam
and electric equipment for not less
than fifty way and express trains oper-
ated as have outlined, under satisfac-
tory guarantee; Of efficiency aud cost
of operation as compared with steam
practice"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20

For heavy teaming q road rising ten in
one hundred is supposed to be injurious
Near the highest point the grade should
either be decrease or the plan adopted
by Telford practiced. Where the ex-
pense of making d piece OF road mile
long on a less grade than five in one
hundred was too great, he provided for
the increased fatigue of the horses by
building mile Of much smoother and
better road than that of the first part of
the ascent. There are few localities
which are not provided with some suit
able material for building or repairing.
yet in localities where such material
abounds may often be found the worst
Y e~ess,le rods The loss by wear aud
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20

course there can be no arbitrary rule in
regard to width, but many country roads
are inco1veniently narrow l have often
~driven over long stretches of road in the
State of Illinois, where to meet team
meant certain collision, and have sew
eral times seen a light buggy lose its
balance and women, children, and
numerous b indies Of dry goods and gro
ceries roll in general confusion down
the enbankment simply because of too
narrow road bed. A bed amply wide
enough for the meeting ard passing Of
vehicles, with a strip of sod five or six
feet wide on either side, would be much
more satisfactory, and its construction
would require but little moro labor or
expense.
For country roads the greatest in
clination should not exceed a rise of
from five to seven feet in one hundred.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20
100000 MILES A MINUTE.
An Electric Current Gird1es the Globe in
Three seconds.

AN Electric Current GirdleS the Globe in
Three seconds.
Philadelphia scientists are prepar-
ing to find out how fast an electric
current travels. An experiment. will
be made, probably from the Franklin
Institute, by connections over the At
la1tic sable to Liverpool and return.
A recent test appeared to show that an
electric current is a slow coach as COM
pared to light, being only able to get
over to Europe and back in something
like second, or at the rate of only
some four hundred thousand miles
minute, while light ambles along at
million mile-a minute gait. The Phila-
delphia scientists who are proposing to
make further Investigation are not
satisfied to give up the record to sun
light, and hope to prove that the cleo
trio current, if not handicapped, is the
swifter element. The most recent ex-
pertinent was tried at McGil College,
Montreal, says the Philadelphia
Record The current was transmitted
in Montreal, was transferred to the
cable at the Newfoundland cable sta
ton by means of Thomson's mirror
galvanometer, sent across to the sta
ton at Liverpool, and returned to
Montreal by the same method. The
distance traversed, partly by overhead
wire and partly By cable, was 5000
miles. From the time the current left
the key in Montreal until it returned
to the receiver in the same Office just
/ second and 1-2Oth of second had
elapsed; but the conditions were not
as good as they might have been,
hence the further experiment to be
made here. The rapidity with which
the current travels over short wires
with no delay indicated unlimited pos
sibilities in the direction of practical
tests. Prof. Marks, of the Edison
Electric Light Company, is authority
for the assertion that if the globe was
encircled with continuous cable a
current would travel the entire dis
tance in title over three seconds.
At this rate current would travel to
the sun, covering the entire distance of
96,000,000 miles in three and half
hours. I'm this age Of science" said
one of the gentlemen who will partici-
pate in the experiments, people have
an idea that we know so much now
there is nothing more to be discovered.
Why, we are yet in our infancy as far
as electricity goes. New discoveries
will vet be made, and we will live to
see them put into practical use, which
will revolutionize the entire world.
The experiment which we are about to
make in telegraphy is only fee1er
which will lead to other and more
startling experiments. The establish
ment of telephone communications be-
tween the hemispheres is already be-
ing seriously discussed"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20
Heathenish !!

A couple who did not move in the
most exalted social circles of River
mouth, Mass, were united in the holy
bonds of matrimony upon the day
which followed the funeral of the first
wife of the groom. The conventional
sense of propriety in the neighborhood
was shocked by this haste, and upon
the night of the wedding there was a
gathering to serenade the pair. The
charivari was at it's height. when the
bride appeared darklv at the window.
Amt you ashamed she cried, in
hot Indignation, /" to come here making
disturbance like this, when we had q
funeral only Yesterday 2"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20

but in building and maintaining good
roads. In sandy country it pays to haul
clay and gravel a distance of four or five
miles.
The town of Allegan, Mich, village
OF 1900 people, situated in the center of
trade for over 5000 people. is in the
worst possible location for building even
fair roads. But all the roads leading
out from Allegan are clayed, graded,
turnpiked and drained for distance Of
eight miles in every direction.
The clay and gravel were hauled in
many instances four miles. The result
of this outlay of money and labor is
that these naturally bad roads are good
at all seasons of the year, and the farm
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20

WOMAN suffrage has been rejected
by the Michigan Legislature, and vot-
ing in the State will be confined to
Michiganders instead of being extend
ed TO Michipeese.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20

WHAT people often Ocean inmate sea
of trouble, is frequently notion of
dyspeptic ideas.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20

Mr.. SNoBALL-"What I KANT under
stand about these yere doctors is, what's
de use oh desc yere post mawtem Fam
nations. Whut does yo t'ink oh dem.
Eph ~ Mr.. Lilywhite-" Pears to me-
dey must be fools. Dey might know it
wouldn't be no use to cut pusson up
arter he dead. Dey nebber cure him
den. - atnsey's lTeekgu.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20

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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-20

Englishman has invested in perfect and
permanent roads what the American
eNpends in perishable horses which re-
Qurc to be fed
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06
A Hint to Teachers.

Don't give up the boy who sits in the
back seat and wears his coat collarless,
his hair non La Pompadour, and his
finger nails in mourning, who won't
learn his lessons and who will get into
mischief knew teacher who had
pupil just like him. She showed inter
est in him: she visited his parents. and
didn't act as if their language and man
ners made them devoid of all fine feel
ing She asked him to help her about
some work after school one night, and
said: by the way, John, we know each
other pretty well now. like you and
hope you like me. 1 want you to do
something for me, will your
''If can. was the answer.
Come to school tomorrow with a col
lar, comb your hair nicely and pare your
finger nails You See / like you as you
are now. but want other people to like
you too. and they won't if You are care
less about your appearance"
81 Do you think the boy hated herr No.
He was never seen untidy after that
evening; He graduated from the high
school with honors, and is today filing
Q responsible position in society. He
swears by that teacher She made q
man of him.-d1ucy Agnes Hayes. in
Journal Of Education.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06
4 ROSE.

found a rose on the stones today
This midwinter day, with its low'ring sky
And miry Streets yet the white rose lay
In its whiteness starting to meet my eye.
And wherefore, o Rose, with your faint
breath sweet.
And your fairness, lying meath careless
feetf
Dropped from the breast of Il bride, my fair.
As they brought her home from the hoIJ
shrine:
The bridal music haunting the air,
Deep thrilling the soul with rhythm divine
Till her full heart throbbed with a new joy
sweet.
And you left its warmth for the wintry
street?
Dropped from the bier of the blessed dead,
Do your folded leaves hold the dew of tearsI
In your fragrance prayer, soft murmured
By some pleading soul for the finished yearsi
Was the sullen chill of the crossing stone
Less cold than that pulseless heart, my own;
Howe'er it be, . you white, white Rose,
will lay you down on a girlish breast
That has never thrilled meath bridal SHOWS,
Nor yearncd for the peace of unbroken rest
You shall linger there till your bright, brief
day
OF beauty and bloom breathes itself away.
-G E.gar Benet in Kate Fields Washington.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06
Wide Streets AS Health Promoters.

DIR. Anders has been investigating the
influence of the width of streets in cities
ON the mortality from phthisis, and as
the results of examining into the locali-
zation of 800 deaths he has arrived at
the conclusion that the number of deaths
from phthisis is smaller in proportion to
the population in the wide than in the
narrow ones, and that in narrow streets,
the mortality is greatest where they are
long or where they form a cul-de-sac.
In other words, complete movement of
air about dwellings is point of prime
Importance in connection with the ques-
tion of pulmonary phthisis.
1t is on this principle that all modern
bylaws as to open space about houses are
based, and it is as important to have
wide open spaces behind houses as in
front, so as to secure a proper through
current of air. The existing tendency
to put up an undue limit on the needed
area behind dwelling houses is strongly
condemned, as constituting a distinct
violation of one of the most vital es-
sentials to the promotion of health and
prevention of certain class of diseases.
New York Telegram.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06
EIopements in London.

A careful newspaper reader, resident
in London, who has given much atten-
ton to elopement statistics, states that
ON an average four elopelnents take
place in London every week. This would
give total for the year in round num-
bers of 200 in population of something
like 5.OOO.OO0 Presuming that the num-
Der of elopements all over the country is
Ia the same proportion we have a total
elopement list of about 1.500 per year
Now that Gretna Green marriage is
u thing of the past elopements seem to
be on the wane. 1t is stated that at
Gretna Green toll house alone 200 cou-
pies were sometimes united in year
London Tit-Bits
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06

he returned TO
Texas in 1858 and joined the Thirty third
Texas cavalry as private, and served un
til the war ended.
''After the war;" says Mr.. Sweet, ~
practiced law, but not with any bewilder-
ing degree of success. drifted into Jour
nalsm, and for several years furnished a
column of San Antonio siftings for the
Galveston News These items were much
copied, and l started Texas Siftings in 1881
in Austin. My life has been com paratively
blameless, except for a short time when
was learning to play on the flute" In re-
gard to his methods of work Mr. Sweet
once remarked:
Unlike other alleged humorists, can
not recall my first downward step. be
gan going down from my cradle, believe
The propensity to write funny things was
contemporaneous with my first successful
strugglewith the alphabet, and has accom-
panied me through life, bringing with it
my career and made me the pensive Great
nre you behold. How do build my jokest
think my jokes build themselves. They
even get into my business correspondence
Of the different styles of humorous writing
the brief paragraph is the most difficult
A column of such paragraphs daily would
put any man under the sod in twelve
months, whereas humorous sketches, es-
pecially if they are in series, are the east
est work professional humorist can do.
/ can write a couple of columns of sketches
without any great mental wear and tear,
but u half column of paragraphs makes me
long to be n popular preacher"
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06
EDWARD, EVERETT HALE.
a Boston Preacher Who Has Gained
Wide Fame.


Boston is particularly we'll provided with
clergymen who are celebrated in their pro-
fession, or literature. the cause of ed
ucation. No one sect or denomination can
claim them, for they vary in faith from
Episcopal to Unitarian. Some of them
have written books that have become fa-
nous, and have started more than one
train of thought toward the uplifting of
the race.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale is probably
one of the most famous of Boston clergy
men, His fame is by no means local, and
his name is respected over wide range of
territory He was born in Boston, April 8,
1922. He is sprung from an old New Eng
land family that have figured largely in
the history of the country. An ancestor of
his was the martyred Captain Nathan
Hale, whose last words were wish that
he had more lives to offer on his country's
altar.
The early education of Mr.. Hale was
under the most favorable circumstances.
From the Boston Latin school he went to
Harvard, and graduated from that cele-
brated university in 1899. He then became
usher in the Latin school. During this
time he read theology and church history,
and in 1912 he was licensed to preach by
the Boston Association of Congregational
Ministers. His first regular charge was
the Church of the Unity, in Worcester
He remained pastor of this church from
1916 to 1885, when he became pastor of the
South Congregational (Unitarian) church,
in Boston, where he still remains.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06
New York Hnrsex.

do you know what l consider the
most remarkable thing in New York;,
asked a man fr0n the west who had
been spending week in the city.
His metropolitan friend suggested the
Brooklyn bridge. the hurrying crowds
on Broadway, the Stock exchange, the
German opera and other stock marvels,
but each time the countryman shook his
head.
NO" he said finally, you haven't
hit what mean, though you see it-or
could see it if you looked-a hundred
times every day. To me, now, the most
amazing thing in the whole big town is
the wonderful indifference the horses
show to the elevated trains. Why, if
one of those things should go roaring
over the heads of my plow horses they'd
simply have Mysteries. AS for my little
mare Kitty, she wouldn't stop running
tall she got into the next state Your
horses. however, don't even look up
when train passes. l really can't un-
aerstand it."-New York Times
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06
PacnliarFate.

The supporters of the much disputed
theory Of spontaneous combustion have
received fresh grounds of belief from the
case of Milton Hardcastle. of Baltimore,
whose remains were found nearly con-
sumed in his shanty on the outskirts OF
that city.
HardcasIle was an old negro of un-
known age, enjoying a small monthly
income left him some years ago by his
former owner, Colonel Eustace Hard
castle.
Itsis said that the negro consumed a
gallon and a half of whisky day, and
would often buy and drink the pure
alcohol in large quantities, often for
days at a time partahng of no other
nourishment.
He lived alone. being of singular,
taciturn disposition, so that it was some
days before he was missed, but his
shanty was observed to remain closed,
and search being Instituted he was found
in his bed burned nearly TO crisp, while
the mattress and clothes were only slight
ly scorched.
The room was in perfect order, and no
trace of fire was found on the hearth.
which was swept clean, and as Hard
castle was known to have been unique
among negroes in never smoking the
whole affair seemed shrouded in mystery
DR.. Everhardt was called upon by the
authorities to make an investigation
and gave as his opinion that it was case
of spontaneous combustion In this he
has been supported by several other
prominent physicians, who agree in de-
claring the circumstances admit of no
other explanation. n.-Exchange
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06
FIorioulture in the United States.

A recent bulletin issued by the census
bureau gives some timely statistics regard
ing Horticulture, which has been carried on
a business for upward of century, and
which in the last twenty-five years has as
sumed large proportions. Out of a total
of. 4, $50 establishments. 2, 795 were started
between 1870 and 1890, and of these 1,797 be-
= tween 1880 and 1890 There are 312 COM
mercial Horticulture establishments owned
and managed by women. These 1859 es-
tablishmerts.had muse in, the census year
3S,S23, ,247 square feet of glass, covering a
space of more than 691 acres of grounds
The establishments. including fixtures and
cheating apparatus, were valued at s3S, ,855
243; tools and implelnents, 81 ,5s7, ,693, 93,
rand gave Employment to- l6.s47 men and
1883 women. who earned lin the year IS,
4ss.6S7 Fuel for heating c6st b, ,f6o, f5s.. &C.
The products for the year were 49,056, ,253
I rose bnshes.< 90, ,8s0s72 hardy plants and
: shrubs, while all other plants amounted to
-t50s sea5 202, reaching total value Of $12, ,OS6,
ga. .76 for plants Cut flowers brought an
addfti6hat income OF s1<17b, ,a9s.ol.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06
A New Way to Shell Eggs.

At a meeting of the Royal Meteorolog
ical society Mr.. R. H. Scott, F. R. s..
frew attention to a curious case of light
ning stroke which had occurred at Bally.
glass, County Mayo. The eggs were in
basket on the floor of room when the
house was struck by the discharge Ii
was found that their shells fell off when
they were put into hot water. leaving
the inner membrane unbroken On be-
ing cooked they tasted quite well.
Casselrs Magazine
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06
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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-06

During his pastoral work in Boston he
has been identified with many charitable
bodies and movements. A book published
by him in 1870, ''Ten Times One Is Ten,
led to movement which now exists in a
club or series of clubs with over 50, 900
members. Another society due to his eff
forts, the Look Up Legion. numbers some
5000 members. Several magazines are
under his charge. He is a thorough news
paper man, having served in every capac
ity on the Boston Daily Advertiser from
reporter to editor-in-chief