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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
A CHANGE OF VIEW.

used to think I'd like to be
A great big robin, bold and free;
To wear a splendid crimson vest
Like English soldiers when they're dressed;
To spend my. day upon the wing,
About the lawns to hop and spring.
Twas once my hearts most sweet desire
To soar as high as our church-spire,
And then swoop downward through the air
Without a single thought Of care;
To twitter In the leafy trees;
To sample all the strawberries;
To perk my head and blink my eyes
AS though l were so very wise;
To skim along the garden path
And In the fountain take bath;
To stay out in the pattering rain
Without fear of all the pain
That little lads and lasses get
Each time their feet are soaking wet,
That's what used to think, but now
! wouldn't change a bit, vow.
Although I'd like indeed to fly
And pirouette about the sky.
For tother day out on the mall
! found robins feather, small,
And 1t was pointed like pin
Down at the end where It goes in;
And then I saw that robins vest
Must prick the poor old bfrdy's breast;
And would rather be rat
Than have my clothes stuck on like that!
John Kendrick Bangs, in Youths Com
panion.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
THE sTEAR1c MOTOR.

ton of the candle while it is in opera
ton, it may be connected by thin
iron wire with small figures cut out
of cardboard and jointed, to which it
will give to and fro motion. 1t may
be considered as the walking beam of
a Watt engine and to each extremity
may be connected small piston NOV
ing in vertical cylinder Finally, and
more simply there may be fixed to the
axis, by means of pins (Which will keep
it at distance, in order to prevent the
contact of the fames), strip of light
cardboard representing plank, to the
extremities of which may be glued two
figures that will play at see-saw and
thus render the experiment still more
attractive to the young.-Waterbury
Magazine.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
oscILLArlNc CANDLE.
Amusing Experiment Which Any
YOungster Can Perform.

YOungster Can Perform.
The little motor represented herewith
operates not by steam nor by electricity
nor by compressed air. 1t possesses no
boiler, no cylinder, no piston, and con-
sists simply of stearine candle. Let
the reader take a candle and perform
the experiment for himself. Insert in
the center of the candle and at right
angles with it, the heads of two pins
previously heated. These pins will con-
stitute the axis of the motor and arc
to be placed upon the edge of two wine
glasses. If the two ends of the candles
are lighted they will burn and drop
of stearine will fall into one of the
plates placed beneath in order to re-
ceive it. The equilibrium of the scale
beam will be broken and the other end
of the candle will descend, causing the
end that has just lost the first drop Of
stearine to rise. This oscillatory mo-
ton will cause several drops to fall
from the end that has just descended
and which, in its turn, becomes the
lighter and will, therefore, rise while
the other descends and the oscillatory
motion, slight at first, will take on a
greater and greater amplitude, the can
die, slightly inclined upon the hori-
zon at first, finally taking nearly ver-
tical position. There is nothing more
interesting than to watch this oscil-
latory motion, which does not cease
unless one blows out the two flames or
the two candles are entirely consumed;
that is to say, at the end of half an hour.
If, now, it is desired to utilize the mo-
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
BATTERY FOR BOYS.

Capable for Use in Many Interesting
Electrical Experiments.
Any boy who is interested in electrici-
ty can make working battery at total
cost of only few cents. II he be in
ventive he can wire house with door
bells and call bells, using homemade
batteries for providing the necessary
electricity. Or the battery will sue
cessfully operate an electric magnet or
any of the clever little electrical toys
now on sale almost everywhere.
Provide yourself, in the first place,
with glass jar eight inches high by
six inches in diameter. 1t can be had
at any department or electrical supply
store for 1S cents. You will need three
zines and IL arc-light carbons. The
zines may be purchased for about two
cents each and the carbons, which are
of the kind used in arc lights, can be
obtained from any electrical-lighting
company. Or If you are of an economi-
cal turn of mind you can gather up the
short pieces of carbon thrown away
every morning from the electric arc
lamps. Several of these pieces may be
bound together with wire, making a
carbon stick of proper length-about
seven inches.
Now get smooth piece of board seven
inches square. Draw circle in the mid
die AK inches in diameter. Bore 12
holes the size of your carbons, using
the circle as the middle of each hole. At
the center of the board make three holes
for the zines.
About quarter of an inch from the
end of each carbon drill small hole.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
Return of an Ared Turtle.

A land turtle walked into Pennsyl-
vania farmyard, recently, and made it.
self at home. In fact, it was at home,
because on its backwas deeply engraved
u. K. S. 1922 The farmer did NOT
recognize the turtles face or form, so
to speak, but he knew his fathers ini.
tials, and he was glad to welcome a
member of the family that had run
away rs years ago. 1t had not grown
very much in that time, nor does any
one know where it has been wandering,
but it is being treated with the respect
due to old age. When il makes it's next
trip 1t may not be so fortunate.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10

A novel parcel for delivery by ex-
press post was lately handed in at .
Birmingham post Office. A working
man, who had been out of town with
his three-year-old child, arrived at Bir-
mingham in time to reach his place Of
business, but not in sufficient time to
take his child home. He, therefore,
walked into the nearest post Office and
rendered the youngster as an express
parcel. The authorities, under the rule
regulating the delivery of live animals,
accepted the child and delivered it, at a
charge of ninepence.-St. James Ga.
zette.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
worId,s Oldest Rosebu.h.

The oldest rosebush in the world is
found at Hildesheim, small city Of
Hanover, where it emerges from the
subsoil of the church of the cemetery.
Its roots are found in the subsoil, and
the primitive stem has been dead for a
long time, but the new stems have made
passage through crevice in the wall,
and cover almost the entire church
with their branches for width and
height of 40 feet. The age Of this tree
is interesting to both botanists and gar
deners. According to tradition, the
Hildesheim rosebush was planted by
Charlemagne in s33, and though the
church was burned in the eleventh CEN
tury, the roots continued to grow in the
subsoil. Mr.. Rainer has recently pub
lished book upon this venerable plant,
in which he proves that it is at least
three centuries of age. 1t is mentioned
in poem written in 1890, and also in
the work of a Jesuit, who died in 1878.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
DEEP HOLES IN THE OCEAN,.
They Are Not Found in the Center, bui
Always Near Land.

They Are Not Found in the Center, but
Always Near Land.
The deepest spots SO far sounded in
the ocean were found year or two
ago by the surveying ship Penguin
while returning from the Tonga group
to New Zealand. In three places a
depth exceeding 5000 fathoms was
found. Till these soundings were
made the deepest water found was to
the northeast Of Japan, where in 1874
the United States steamer Tuscarora
obtained cast of 4,655 fathoms.
The Penguin's soundings are 5,O22,
6,147 and 5,155 fathoms. The increase
is therefore 500 fathoms, or 5000 feet
The soundings are separated from
one another by water much less deep,
and the holes may not be connected.
The distance from the two extreme
soundings is 450 miles Specimens OF
the bottom were recovered from the
two deeper soundings, and prove to be
the usual red clay found in all the
deepest parts of the ocean.
These soundings afford additional
evidence of the observed fact that the
deepest holes are not in the centers OF
the ocean, but are near land, as two OF
them are within 100 miles of islands OF
the Hernandez group, and the other
not far from shoal.
Doubtless deeper depressions in the
bed of the sea are yet to be found, but
the fact that this sounding of 80, $50
feet shows that the ocean contains de-
pressions below the surface greater
than the elevation of the highest
known mountains is worthy of record.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
The LAST OF CORES E ! ISLAND.
The Sea Has Nearly Destroyed n Beloved
Resort on the Virginia Coast.


The Sea Has Nearly Destroyed Beloved
Resort ON the Virginia Coast
Slowly but surely the sea is sweep
ing Cobb's island from the map of Vir-
ginia. Only pitiful little sand spit
remains, with few struggling houses
lighting with the fckle sand. Uncle
Nathan Cobb, the sturdy noble Roman
OF the beach, has moved his last out
house of, and only goes down every
day or SO to look for his heart that he
has lost somewhere on that beautiful
beach, and then comes wandering
back with the tide, glancing over his
shoulder through eyes that are wet
with the dew of great love.
They had the sale of all that is left
OF the hotel property down at the
landing few days ago and they sold
for a trife to white and black the
beds that have brought sleep to thou
sands of this old worlds tired travel
ers who from far-off steaming cities
have come to its shining shores
to breathe the sweet breath of
the sea and feel the pulse of its
mighty tides Uncle Nathan only
stopped moment at the sale as he
came up the creek from his days pill
grimage to the island. AS his eye
caught the sight OF the auctioneer cry
ing off piece of furniture and the
joking, jostling crowd he turned and
said, with voice full of pathos:
well, it looks like the old islands
gone this time. We can look on and
long and hope, but the old ocean is un-
conquerable. She has her way. All!
man, but it's hard for me-" His eyes
filed with tears and he pushed his
little boat on up the creek to get away
from the sound of the auctioneer's
voice.
Uncle Nathan is not alone in his
great sorrow The hearts of thousands
who love nature and who with him
have felt the thrill of her close touch
on those white sands and beautiful
waters mourn their great loss also.
They will dream of its cool breezes, its
solemn marshes, its sands, its tides, its
birds and fish, and wake in the worlds
fevered life with sigh and tears at
the realization of their loss. The earth
is poorer for the ruin of that bit Of
sand. d.-Cape Charles Light.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
A BOYS BATTERY.

Care will have to be taken in this work
to prevent breaking the carbon, A drill
of scroll saw may be used to good ad-
vantage. Push the carbons through
the holes provided for them in the
board, so that the holes come just above
the upper surface. Insert piece of
bare copper wire in each hole in the
carbons and give it one turn around
the top. Connect all of the carbons on
one wire. Now draw the three zines
up through the three middle holes, and
connect them with piece of heavy cop
per wire, extending through the small
holes provided for that purpose.
Be careful that the carbons and zines
do not swing near enough together to
touch. Provide the bottom of the zines
with small rubber disk.
To charge the jar buy two or three
pounds of sal ammoniac and dissolve it.,
using half pound to every pint of
water. Mix in a separate jar, and then
pour the fluid into the battery jar, fill
ing it about fve-sixths of the way up.
Or if you wish stronger battery you
can get can of voltak at supply or
department store for 1S cents. One-half
of the contents should be dissolved in
little more than half the jar full of
water.
When you have sunk the carbons and
zines in the solution Of your battery is
finished and you are ready to expert
lnent with it. If you wish to generate
still stronger current you can make
more of the "cells" or batteries and link
them together in series, connecting
the wire from the carbons of one cell
with the wire from the zines in the next
and so on until all the batteries have
been connected-leaving unattached the
wires from the first battery zinc and
the last battery carbon. To tell whether
your battery is generating electricity
as 1t should touch the two wires, one to
each side of your tongue. If they taste
sharp and sour when the carbons and
zines are in the solution you may know
that your work is successful.
When not in use the zines should be
removed to prevent their corrosion and
to save the strength Of the solution.
This will be found to be very good
battery, capable of use in many inter-
esting experiments. Chicago Record.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
The PHoNoGRAPh.
How Thomas A. Edison Discovered
This Wonderful Instrument.

HOW ThOmnA A. Edison Uncovered
This Wonderful Instrument.
Possibly the most widely-known of all
Edison's inventions are the telephone
and phonograph, and the latter was dis
covered by the merest accident-name-
ly, an accident happening to the right
man.
II was singing" says Mr.. Edison, Ito
the mouthpiece of a telephone, when the
vibration of the voice sent the fine steel
point into my finger. That set me think.
ing. If l could record the actions of the
point and send the point over. the same
surface afterward | saw no reason why
the thing would not talk. tried the
experiment first on strip of telegraph
paper, and found that the point made
an alphabet. l shouted the words,
'Halloa! halloa!' into the mouthpiece,
ran the paper back over the steel point,
and heard faint 'Halloa! halloa!' in
return. 1 determined to make ma
chine that would work accurately, and
gave my assistants instructions, telling
them what 1 had discovered. They
laughed at me. That's the whole story.
The phonograph is the result of the
pricking of finger"
All this sounds remarkably simple,
and Mr.. Edison has habit of speaking
of his inventions as though they had
dropped from the clouds; but needless
to say, after the principle of the phono-
graph had been discovered, there were
days and nights of anxious thought and
experiment before the famous talking
machine, with which even the nursery
is familiar to-day, had reached its pres
ent perfection.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
Fast Running.

1t was in a negligence case, recently,
and good-humored Irishman was a
witness.
The judge, lawyers and everybody
else were trying their best to extract
from the lrishman something about
the speed of train.
WAS tgoing fast?" asked the Judge
saw, yis, it were, answered the wit
ness.
How fast?"
"oh, purity fasht, your honor"
well, how fast?"
Jaw, purity fasht"
WAS it as fast Us man can run?"
"Aw, yis," glad that the basis for an
analogy was supplied. "As fasht as two
min kin run. buffalo Enquirer.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10

1t takes a cheerful man to be thankful
that he is bald-headed, thereby saving \
barber bill.-Washington Democrat.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
seven Miles I'm.

The highest point ever attained by
man was that reached by Cox and
Glaisher, aeronauts, in 1852, being 81
600 feet above the sea,
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10

The old storage battery-St. Jacobs
Oil has power to cure Sciatica.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10

It is not always wise to tell all ono
knows, but it is well to know all one tells.
Chicago News.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10

Marrying for money is an expensive IN.
vestment.- t.-Ram's Horn.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10

A window crack; result lameback.
Use st. Jacobs Oil; result, cures attack.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10

Almost anybody can own horse and
buggy Washington Democrat.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10

There is a foe to pain; that's
Sure. st. Jacobs Oil will cure.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-10
NEGLECT rs SUICIDE.
Plain Words From Mrs Pinkha Coroborated
Dunmore, That Ought to Bring Suffering
Women to Their Senses

drowning showed plank Won and
refused it, you would be committing suicde
YET that precisely what doing they
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-05

THERE is one young man, an em-
plOye at the RefOrOrmatory, whom the
News seems to be especially bent on
prosecuting. 1t IS Mr.. Hubbard, the
new school superintendent A week
or two ago it came out with big
spread about his teaching in the Sun
day school lesson where Christ broke
the law of the Jewish Sabbath, that
there were laws that should be broken.
1t greatly exaggerated what ne said
then, and of course the other republi-
can papers OF the State took it up and
enlarged on it again. Last Mondays
News again attacked him and charged
that he taught socialism in the lesson
last Sunday, aud that h. told the boys
that 1t was due to present conditions
where the rich we're robbing the poor
OF their just earnings that they we're
confined in the RefOrmat0ry. Mr.. Hib-
bard informs rs that that this is abso-
lu:ely false; that he said nothing of
the kind; that he told them their evil
course and consequent confinement
was due to bad company in nine cases
out of ten. Nov the News may have
been innocently or wilfully misin-
formed. but it IS doing Mr.. Hubbard a
great injustice in publishing such
Things, and the appearances are that
it is done to procure political capital.
For such reports are considered rare
morsels by the political scavengers all
over the State who like to copy them.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-05

WHEN President Mckinley sent in
his message asking for power to ap-
point commission of men unbiased
in their opinions, to secure infOrma
ton and arrange system Of finance
for our Uncle Samuel, he established a
peculiar pre- edent. He seemed to
presume some hing that no man since
the founders of the constitution dare
do beforehand the people were not
competent to select men to legislste
for them. This may be true but it is
not likely that President Mckinley
would select men any better capable.
AS tor information the public archives
are full of it and all any congressman
or yeOman need do is to exercise his
brain function. 1t il without money
and without plice. The president
seems to be blown full of the idea that
if he appoints half dozen sleeF pated
chuffs to sit in cwlish dignity and
spend the peoples money, it will give
such luster to their persons, as to
radiate halo that will cause all
hands to accept their sage opinions,
without question or mental doubt.
Operating on this line. why would it
not be pretty good thing for the old
m in striped breeches to lock up the
halls of Congress and let the president
appoint few representatives from the
trusts according to their fitness and
quality to do the legislating. Appoint
representative of the sugar trust to
look after the sugar schedule. They
have the information necessary. Ap.
point representatives Of the iron trust
to look after iron schedules. They
have the information. 1t would be as
sensible as appointing few represent.
atives of the money trust to fix up the
money laws.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-05

claimed that this ruling Of the board
would virtually nullify the clause r.
lating to exchanges But the fact ia
that the board only ruled that the
books must have both covers and con-
tain ali the lessons. This is only rea-
sonable and it is the same ruling that
is usually made where uniformity is
adopted. It is the same ruling that
was made some years ago, we are told,
when the county adopted uniformity
We are very glad to note that our
county superintendent, even though he
Is a republican, is not among the
kickers and squallers. tie says the
text book law is a good one, aud he is
somewhat out of patience with those
who appear to be trying to work up
prejudice against it, He also COM
plains that any who are Grumbling
about the law are not sufficiently well
informed to complain Of anything in
telligently and do so from mistaken
ideas and wrong understand ng.
Reading republican newspapers does
not help them to a right understanding
either, it may be added.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-05

THERE has been a great deal of crit
icism of the populist board of regents
ut Manhattan for removing Professor
Fairchild. We maintained at the time
it was justiiable and so believe still. .
But in the meantime, is it not we'll to
inquire whether the republicans are so
immaculate and we'll protected that
they can afford to throw stones? In
answer we will only quote from a re-
cent issue of the Lawrence World, a
good republican daily: "rhe World
does not endorse the action of the pop.
ulist regents Of the State Agricultural
College in making a political spawn
ing station out of the school, but the
letter recently published by Regent
Daughters in the Topeka Capital
throws a matter open to criticism.
Mr. Daughters complains bitterly be-
cause the pnpulists regents have taken
things III their own hands and refused
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-05

THE News last week, after so long a
time, attempted to answer a part of
what the GAZETTE had to say in regard
to the last legislature. 1t misconstrued
our defense as might be expected and
answered very little. AS an example
of its misconstruction we quote: IF
these pOpulist legislators we're bought
by republicans the blame is on the re-
publican party, and these statesmen
should again be elected to power"
Now we say that it is just as reasona-
bic to blame the whole republican
party for the work of its boOdle-p ped
ding members as it is to blame the
whole populist party for few Of its
bOOdle-taking members. And as to
eleCting these statesmen again, there
is not one Of them that can get his
name into township caucus now.
The News names a list of men sup
posed to be pOOulists, charged with
peddhng Doodle, but it does not name
Cyrus Leland, CubbisOn, and the
other republicans accused, all of whom
are still in good repute and unre-
preached as leaders of the party But
while our contemporary has undertaken
the task of answering the GAZETTE,
we wonder why il didn't answer the
questions we asked. And for fear that
it Inadvertently missed them, we will
ask them again: First, can you point
to any former republican legislature Of
this State or the record of any repub-
licsn branch of the legislature that
passed as many bills in the interest of
The people as the last Kansas legisla-
turep If so, name the bills. In the
second place, can you name any repub
lican legislature of any other State last
winter that did any better, or as we'll,
in this line as the populist legislature,
all Doodle and attempts at bribery to
the contrary Notwithstanding If so,
tell what they did.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-05
PoPuLIsT CONVENTION.

A delegate convention of the PEG
ple's party of Reno county is hereby
called to assemble.at the court house
in the city of Hutchinson at II
a. m. Saturday, August 81, 1897,
to nominate candidates for the follow.
ing county officers: Sheriff, county
clerk, county treasurer, register OF
deeds, surveyor and coroner.
The primaries will be held on Tues
day August the nth at the usual places,
in the country precincts at o'clock
p. m. and in the cities and towns at
o'clock p. 10.
The basis Of representation will be
one delegate for each township or ward
and one for each twenty votes or ma
jor fraction thereof cast for Governor
Leedy. Upon this basis the appOr-
tlOnment will be as follows.