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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-03
Compound Engine. In Mills.

The tendency In the change from
single to compound engines in manufac-
turing establishments has become very
marked, but it Is not yet quite clear
whether two cylinder engines or the
three will preponderate. Many cotton
mills have put in triple expansion en-
gines, but In the majority Of new in
s~tallations the two-cylinder type has
been chosen. Probably the reason Is
to some extent that Of lower first cost,
but the result recently shown by a
mill at North Grosvenordale, Conn,
indicate that there are other explana-
tons. The new compound engine re-
ferred to has given, on repeated test,
q consumption Of 12.45 pounds Of dry
steam per horsepower per hour at its
best, and 1879 at its worst The engine
takes steam from horizontal tubular
boilers at $50 pounds pressure, and
runs at sixty revolutions per minute.
The main popularity of the design lies
In n large ratio Of volume between the
cylinders. The high pressure cylinder
Is Is inches In diameter; the low Is
A sic, both having a stroke Of 9
Ieet. usually an lo-lncn ylnue Wouiu
have but a 2-inch low, but In this IN
stance the difference gives a ratio Of
volume between them of GA to 1, with
n ratio of expansion Of about %. The
theory of the designers Is that IL a COM
pound engine be made with a bw
pressure cylinder of the same ratio a
volume to high pressure rs would be
used were 1t the third cylinder of a
triple engine, as good economy could be
obtained,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-03
Wood Going ont OF Use.

The enormous increase In the ca
pacity Of iron and steel works has Its
justification and warrant In the wide
variety Of new employments found for
those metals as substitutes for wood.
The German Iron Trade Association
has lately taken the pains to point out,
at great expense, for the benefit Of
all concerned, the mary advantages
to be gained by the resort to steel,
and II would seem that there is barely
a single use left for wood In construc-
tive detail and not much In ornamen-
tai finish, except genuine carving.
The modern edifice Is nearest perfec-
ton In point Of durability and safety
according to the proportion in which
metal has excluded wood. 1t Is now
proposed that wood shall be dispensed
with entirely In the framework of rail-
way rolling stock, and this means
something when we remember that
there are about $500 COO railway We
hicles exclusive Of locomotives. In
mines metal Is doing away with wood
and the use Of iron pit props In France
has shown that they need to be re-
newed only half as often rs those Of
wood. At the same time, metal has
Its own special risks, and 1t Is suggest
ed, for example that unless carefully
insulated, q large building full Of steel
and iron might be as susceptible to
electrolytic action By stray currents
eating 1t up as though 1t were rail,
forming part Of IN electric circuit,
or gas or water pipes, adjacent there
to. II this new danger exists, its
remedy should be readily d~iscoverable.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-03

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tends to \
rightly used
Ter than oth|
less expend
adapting tn
the needs OF
the value I'd
laxative pr
remedy, Syr
Its excelld
In the form
ant to the Ia
beneficial p
alive; effect
dispelling q
and perman
It has given
met with II
profession, b
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ening them
every object
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-03

Borrow money of q man to help yen In
your business troubles, and you give him
the right to ask how you get along with
your wife.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-03
SCIENTIFIC MATTERS.


4Ae Orowth OF Observation-Disclosures
w1lanents Obsolete-Water supply
Uilteration-Ths value Of Canals
ocPsp HeaD.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-03

blehead Neck, Mass, has given the
electrical press the encouraging re-
suits obtained with his windmill cleo
trio lighting plant ut the family resi-
dence there. In the spring of 1892 he
Installed a small steam lighting plant,
supplemented by storage batteries,
and got his lights at about lie per
lamp per hour, exclusive Of attendance
depreciation and interest. This spring
he put In a windmill plant, which con-
sists Of a 20-foot windmill mounted on
q hard pine tower, IS feet to center
OF the wheel from the ground and co
feet to platform. Power Is tsnsmit-
ted by means Of bevel gears and shaft
Ing to q house built at the base Of the
tower, which Is IS feet 6 inches square
at that point This power drives a
small dynamo, which In turn charges
q set Of forty-six storage batteries,
and these supply currents to No fewer
than 131 lights. All the lights are not
burned at once, but there was always
plenty Of current throughout the sum-
mer. At times when there was q brisk
CAkVo6h ~ W AcCp CuG U0tleTlcO
well charged, current was used also
to drive an electric motor for running
the machinery In q tool shop. The
windmill has thus furnished all the
lights from May I to November 8,
when the house was closed for the
winter. The cost OF the entire plant
which stands ready to start up any mo-
ment, and which In winter would also
furnish current for heating, b put up
at about $500. It was found that q
teu-mile breeze yielded from tn ZEE to
I'VE amperes of current at no volts,
while a twenty-mile breeze gave eigh-
teen to twenty-five amperes ut 10 to
112 volts. The plant was not able 10
store all the current that q twenty
I'VE mile breeze would develop.
Bamboo Filaments Obsolete.
The great Edison incandescent lamp
works are no longer turning out lamps
with bamboo flaments. This simple
fact coyers q whole period without
parallel for indefctigable research and
ceaseless II vention. When the art Of
making ~incandesccr. lamps began.
some fifteen years ag0s al kinds Of
carbonised substances were diligently
experimental wildwood, paper silk,
hair putty-and Hdi6en has stated mat
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-03
water supply FILTRATION.

DR.. ). s. Billings the well known
sanitary expert Of Washington, said
recently that no large city in this
try has at the present time q thorough
y safe and entirely satisfactory water
supply. Probably Philadelphia Is the
worst OF, while Baltimore and New
York are among the best. or the water
supply Of the national capital he spoke
In d~iscouraging terms, suggesting an ex-
penditure OF S., 900 to enlarge and
purify it. DIR. Billings states that the
old methods Of sand filtration for large
water supplies, although obsolete and
In disrepute, has been unreliable
against pathogenic, or disease, germs,
are coming rapidly into favor again,
as the result Of very careful and pro
l0nged tests made ut Lawrence, Mass,
ut Hamburg, In Germany, and else
where. The rate at which the water
Ii filtered has an important bearing on
the subject. When a filter Is cleaned
and new sand placed on top, It Is four
or i've days before the water going
through Ia sufficiently free from micro
organisms to be safe; and such water
should be wasted rather than consumed
by the public. Engineers are now seek
ing a method Of filtration that win be
more rapid and continuous while giving
a pure water. The latest thing is that
being tried In the old German town Of
Worms. where the water In forced un-
der pressure through the walls of large
cylinders made of q kind Of artificial
stone, resembling that In a Pasteur fl
ter. At Antwerp, the impure water Is
also passed through revolving cylinders
that contains fragments Of iron, which
will, Of course, kill many Of the micro
organisms.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-03

Not q little trouble Il experienced to-
Gay by sven the most thorough cleo
ericians in keeping up with the ad-
vance Of the art and its theory, and
nany Of them complain Of the made
Quacy Of their time to master the cur
sent literature Of electricity, that Is
sf value. Various schemes Of indexing
and digesting are proposed but they
ell fail dismally when brought to bear
On what was written and done In
the time when electricity raj really
On Its infancy. In other publications
of value on electricity since the begin
alng Of the century, would make some
10000 titles, and 1t Is claimed, with
some record Is more worthy of index
dng than that which is now being put
together In current electrical books
and journals. One Of the most COM
mon and annoying things In electrical
Invention Is the digging-up Of some
enc who has done 1t before. Every
late electrical discovery and apparatus
has been more OF less anticipated, It
would sometimes seem; but 1t Is not
until the inventors and hackers have
spent large sums of money and much
dime that they find how narrow
and limited Is the patent they can Sc
cure. Often, too, a line Of inyestiga-
zion II engaged In at great expense,
which some other unfortunate has al
ready ~traversed, leaving behind him n
copiOus, though buried, story Of his
failures. Hence 1t Is asserted that IL
the electrical literature Of the past
dfty or seventy-ive years were digest
ed, millions Of money and much time
would be saved, several regulations
would be lowered and others made;
and that there would be revealed
delds Of work deserving to be followed
up from the point at which the eff
tort was abandoned when conditions
less favorable.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-03
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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
He Had Been There.

"Sir!' called q lady passenger on a
Baker street car as she signaled the
conductor to stop, didn't 1 tell you I
wanted to get out at Seventh stret?"
"Y-yes'm, 1 remember that you did, -
stammered the bellcord man.
"And you have carried me three or
four squares beyond! Is this the way
YOU attend to businessw
IL beg!"-
81 shall send my complaint to the
otfice!." she observed as she made ready
to step off.
Madam, let me explain. Every one
II the car was admiring your beautiful
bonnet and wrap, and l was so charmed
myself that really forgot lily duty. If
,uti would overlook
WAS that the reason? All? ! see!
Conductor, your duties arc very exact
ing and o%nerous, and | shall not add to
hem ly any cOmplLint.'-Detroit Free
Press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
How She Won the Cowboys.

HOSr enc won the d
Those who may have imagined that
the woman politicians OF the country
would not prove resourcerul in practi-
cal electioneering will be interested. in
knowing how Miss Estelle Heel, form
erly Of Ohio, carried the State Of wy
oming in her canvass for state superin-
tendens of public instruction. Miss
Reel is not only young (twenty-seven),
but charming. Being nominated upon
the Republican ticket, she determined
to lead the same and did so.
In Wyoming the voting places are
few and far between, SO the woman
candidate adopted an original plan OF
bringing cowboys to the front. IN
procured a list Of addresses and an i'm
mense stock Of the daintiest stationery
and corresponding supply Of photo
graphs of herself. Inclosing the pict-
ure with a grateful personal appeal to
every known and unknown friend, she
Induced the rough riders OF the state
to travel In many cases, as much as
fifty miles to vote for the pretty girl
who thus honored them.
Miss Reel is said to be. the. most de-
nghtful kind Of a woman and has de-
signs on still higher positions within
the gift of the people.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06

The envelope contains tickets, with
minute direction as to their use; and
the manuscript, the itinerary of the
journey. When in doubt on any point,
reference to this sets one firmly in the
right path; every possible difficulty and
contingency she has calculated for and
fully explained. Her remuneration is
gagged by the length of the journey
and the amount of the time and trouble
she needs to expend on each patroness.
In the spring she Is busy sending off
mothers with their children to the
various resorts. The mothers explain
to her that they can expend so much
on the summers outing, and her care
is to make the money do its best duty.
From July to September she. takes her
holiday by playing courier to somebody
who wishes to take a .iaunt through
Europe. 1t is needless to say she is
the most delightful travelling compan-
ion in the wOrld.-"Society Fads' in
Demorest's Magazine.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
$500 FOR A NAME.

This is the sum we hear the Salzel
seed Co. offer for a suitable name for
their wonderful new oats. The United
States department Of agriculture says
Salzer's oats is the best of 800 varieties
tested. A great many farmers report
a test yield of 200 bushels per acre last
year, and are sure this can be grown
and even more during 1895. One thing
we know and that is that Salzer is tho
largest Farm Seed grower in the world
and sells potatoes at 50. so per barrel.
Just the kind that do well in Texas
and the great South. Thirty-fve
packages, earliest vegetables, 81 post
paid.
Off You Will Cut This Out and Send 1t
with 10c postage to the John A. Salzer
Seed Co., Lacrosse, Wis, you get free
his mammoth catalogue and a pack
age of above $500 Prize Oats. WIN U.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
Household Hints.

The fiat end of a cork is the handi-
est thing one can use for securing
knives and forks. The cork should be
dampened slightly and dipped in the
powdered bathbrick or fine ashes, and
the securing will be quickly accom-
plished.
Cottage pudding is made more at
tractive by baking in gem or popover
pans, thus giving to each person an
individual pudding, than when baked
in n pan and cut into a number OF
pieces. Serve with a sauce in the
usual way.
Dress material vary greatly in their
capacity for retaining odors; silk al
lows almost all odors to pass through
without leaving any smell behind;
linen holds them fast; wool, though 1t
lets many smells pass through, retains
tie odors of decay.
The creases can be taken out Of
velvet and the pile raised by drawing
it across a hot iron over which a wet
cloth has been spread. If there r
pin marks over which the pile refuses
to rise brush it up with a stiff brush
and steam it, repeating the operation
several times.
ON buying cheese for an ordinary
family of six" say Mrs. Rorer, "buy
either a pineapple or an Edam; they
will keep all wiLter if necessary. Then
buy a pot of Roquefort and n tumbler
of club house cheese. keep them in a
cool dry place, and they will last I'M
til used. In this wav you may have n.
variety at a little expense.
Black rope is often used to embroid-
or the designs stamped on pillows and
table spreads of colored linen or den
inns, 1t is particularly effective. on old
pink or shades of olive. and if the ar
ticles are to, ba used In n sitting room
is often preferred to Whine embroidery
silk or linen floss: Outlining the de-
sign thus worked In black. Il fine gold
cord or thread Is sometimes added TO
brighten the work.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06

If there is an open fire place in the
house and it is the delight of either
the head of the house or the small
ones in the family to sit before it and
watch the flames play, don't let them
do so too long. The flashing flames are
fascinating, but they are rough on the
eyes and burn the sight so that many
a painful pair of eyes may be traced
to too earnest devotion to an open fire.
Keep plenty of hand screens ready, or
else have long-handled paper fans
hanging beside the fireplace.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
Advantages of Education.

Little Brother-What you studyil' so
hard?
Little Sister-Synonyms.
Whats theIn?'
"All sorts o words that mean the
same thing"
what good is they? One word ought
to be enough"
'fIuh! Wait till you get into society.
Yesterday Mrs. Newcomer showed me
a picture of a baby, and | said 1t was
sweet. and lovely, and cunning, and
cute, and | don't know what all. After
that she said that wasn't her baby, but
somebody clsc's. Then she showed me
a picture ct her oWn Lady. And then
1 had to think up a lot more nice words
50 she wouldn't feel Tended. If I
hadn't studied synonyms I'd a JUS
died.'-Street & Smiths Good News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06

C%asaque with Lose Vatican PIeats
A Pleasant Occupation for Women.
Here is a novel profession one of the
daughters of a reduced millionaire has
thought out all for herself, and she
makes money and pleasure enough
from it to insure a pleasant life for
herself. In the days of her fathers
glory she travelled far and wide; and
now. being turned of thirty-fiye, and
with no calling to depend upon, she
decided to become a courier for lonely
or helpless women travellers. This is
what she will do: If you have q notion
for a change of air and scene, but are
an ignorant, timid, helpless body, she
will drop around with maps, guide
books and a railroad schedule and talk
routes and resorts. Everything is just
at her fingers ends, from Alaska to the
Argentine Republic. She knows time
tables like Il train dispatcher, prices
like a ticket agent, and a lot more than
they know. Scenery, climate, human
comforts and discomfOrts, the efficacy
of all springs and airs. the rates and
capacities of hotels, everything is care
fully stored for use in that busy brain.
You think you would like to go to Cali
fornia; in an hour she has figured out
every line by which you could possibly
reach the Pacific coast, with all the ad-
vantages in scenery, comforts, time and
cost by every route. Then she gives
advice as to proper dress, the best sea-
son for going, where to- go when you
get there. what to see. how. to see it;
and then, having from all this perfect
ly understandable data made your
choice, she will procure, for. you, a fin
ished travelling maid. Or, if you wish
to go alone, shs puts into your hand,
the day of departure, a little roll of
typewriter manuscript and al envelop.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06

IF I live long enough" he said,
moodily, 81 hope I'll get over being a
natural mark for any bunco steerer
that happens to be loose"
whats the mattery"
Il concluded I'd have to economize,
so I sent so cents to a mar who said
that was all he'd charge to tell me
how to make a little money 60 a long
way"
And what did he tell your
Fl simply wrote, Send 5 cents by
express to San Francisco ."-Washing-
ton Star.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
Dot Thinks 1t Out.

Little Dot-I couldn't make out what
the preacher was talkin' about.
Little Dick-Jt was a queer sort Of a
story, about a man what prepared a
big dinner for a lot Of company. but
nobody came, and SO he sent out into
the highways and byways, and got
strangers and beggarS to come.
Little Dot thoughtfully)-I s'pose
they had no ice in those days, and
things wouldn't kept.-Street l. Smiths
Good News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
Her Defense of Him.

do you think your sister likes me,
Tor,ny?"
eyes; she stood up for you at dinner"
STOOD up for me-! Was anybody say
ing anything against me?"
mo: nothing much. Father said he
thought you were rather a donkey, but
sis got up and said you weren't, and
told father he ought to know better
than to judge a man by his looks."-
Tid-BitS.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
Ventilation in Winter,

Now the double windows are in, and
the furnace Is started, you will be
obliged to take special pains in order
to have plenty of fresh air in the lxouse.
Half the dangers of Il winters is
is in o%verheated and oxygen-drain-
ed houses. We stay in them until we
become weakened, and then some sud
den exposure, which we should not have
minded had we been in our best con-
'dition, is too much for us. Give the
whole house a thorough airing every
morning and do not keep it too hot
through the day. Study ventilation.
Air is cheap.-Jenness Miller Monthly.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
A Little Cynfc.

Little Dick-You can say what you
please bout boys, but mems is nolite.
anyhow. Mems always gives up their
seatse to ladies.
Little Dot-That's cause sittin' down
makes their trousers bag at the knees
Street & Smiths Good News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
On Duty.

He in the Brass Buttons-Kindly
throw up both your hands. 1 see you
have got to have a thorough clubbing.
Indignant Citizen-What do you
mean, you rascal?
He in the Brass Buttons-No harm
intended, 1 assur you. I've been as
signed to write a page story on the
sensations of a policeman who lives in
fear of the LeXow committee.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
The Bike in Hades.

"You get off here" said Charon, as
he warped his boat into the slip at
the bottomless pit.
Dear mel" exclaimed the cyclist:
81 am disappointed. I did so want to
try those gold pavements; but l SUD,
pose there are worse things than Gin
ders after ALL"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
4 Youthful Stufexist

Two little New York girls were heard
they said:
Mamie-I caught sister Fanny ergag-
ing herself to another young man last
night, and she hasn't sent off the 9th
er two yet.
Jennie-Ain't that nice! Did you tell
on her?
NO. she buyed Ela off"
Did she give you candyT
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
Long Distance.

Lady Inside front entrance of Bloom
e,dale liats)-Who in the world is ring
in" ""v he'll like that?
Bell hangers boy-It's lis. mum.
We re a-nXln' Of 'rm.
Lady-Why didn't you tell me so,
and not bring me trapesing down from
the fifth floor?
Bell-hanger's boy-HOw could we tell
you when you wasn't here! These
amt no telefoams!-Judge.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
In d Times

People overlooked the Importance Of per-
manently beneficial effects and were salts
fled with transient action; but now tina 1t
is generally known that Syrup of Figs will
permanently cure habitat constipation, well
informed people will not buy other laxa-
tives, which act for a time, but finally in.
jure the system.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
Split the Century in Three Parts,

And about one and a third Of the last of
these represents the term of popularity of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the most high
ly sanctioned and widely known remedy in
existence for dyspepsia, lack Of stamina,
liver complaint, constipation, nervousness,
incipient rheumatism and inactivity of the
kidneys. Neither spurious imitation or IN
derhand competition has affected the sale Of
this genuine remedy.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
Would Feel HOmel1ke.

"And now" said the Fiji chief to the
Boston missionary, have you anything
to request before we proceed with the
ceremony"
"Only this" replied the missionary,
please put a few Deans in the pot with
me."-London Talk.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-04-06
A Tribute to the Sex.

The PrOfessor-There is evidence to
show that one of the most famous edi-
fees of antiquity was constructed prin-
cipally by ome
His Wife-Which one?
The Professor-The Tower of Babel.
Town Talk.