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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-30
HOW THEY HUNT
THE FESTIVE RAT
BACK INsOHIO.

a There is work for Pied Piper of
Hamlin out near Washington Court
House, Ohio, or perhaps 1t would be
more truthful to say there was work
OF that sort. So great a pest did the
rats make of themselves that 300
men banded themselves together and
devoted 10 entire days to the slaughter
of the rodents.
And a slaughter it was with a ven
geance, for when the hunt was over
and the results were all tailed up. it
was found that LISP rats had come to
q sudden end. They were hunted In
the highways and byways, driven out
of barns and from hiding places in the
fields. Many was the hand-fought bat
tie and many hunter learned to his
sorrow exactly how it feels to be bitten
by rat.
Tremendous rats many of them.
some as large as an ordinary cat if
the hunters are to be believed while
the sizes decreased until the wee baby
rat, no larger than mouse, was killed.
largely because it could not run fast
enough. 1t may be thought that the
best aids to the rat hunter would be
the cats, but the famous cat of Bubas-
ties himself would have hardly been a
match for some of the y-whiskered,
yellow-toothed rodents that snarled de-
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WEARS $50, 900
IN DIAMONDS
HABITuALLg :"

The investigation of the curious case
OF Mrs. Isaac Z. Emerson-and her
damonds-nominally continues, though
nothing will ever be done about It, The
facts are sufficiently remarkable to
stand review
Mr.. Emerson is the bromo seltzer
millionaire and he inhabits a mansion
in Baltimore. Not great while ago a
burglar broke into this abode of wealth
and luxury and stole about SIS, 900
worth of diamonds. This was no
theatrical diamond case, either; the
jewels were real sparklers and worth
the money. Moreover, the burglar
might have had a far richer haul il he
had exercised ordinary prudence in the
practice of his profession. He missed
$4,000 of diamonds that were right
under his nose
In telling the story to a newspaper
man. Mr. Emerson mentioned this fact.
abiding to the $4,000 worth of Jewels
as "a small bunch of diamonds"
Naturally this Indifferent reference to
a fortune made some stir in Baltimore;
and it resulted in the appeal tax judges
looking up the records and discovery
that the Emersons We're taxed for
household effects to the value of
$6,450.
Mrs. Emerson was at once requested
to explain. Why, asked the authorities.
ulu she declare only $6,450 worth of
goods when she had $4,000 in dia-
monds? And this resulted in one of
the most remarkable statements ever
made to a court. Mr.. Emerson, appear
ing in his wife's behalf, pleaded that
the jewelry was exempt because 1t was
in regular and ordinary daily use as
wearing apparel, or to employ the
phrase of the law, Mrs. Emerson wore
$4,000 worth of diamonds "habitualIy."
Though the judges nearly fell off the
bench, they were inclined to believe,
when they recovered from the shock,
that the plea could be made good.
Among the little trif1es which Mrs
Emerson habitually wears are a sun
burst composed of 40 good big dia-
monds; a watch, from Paris, so COM
pletely covered with diamonds that
almost nothing of the gold can be seen:
a pair of earrings of rubies, surrounded
by pearls, and another pair of enor-
nous solitaire diamonds; a diamond
dagger containing 70 stones and worth
$4,000, and a lorgnette containing a
brown diamond-a most unique jewel.
the like of which is probably not to be
found in this country. Beside these.
she has more solitaire rings than her
fingers will conveniently carry.
If she really wears all these things
habitually, the members of her house
hold must carry pieces of smoked glass
for the benefit of their eyes.
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limit and from time to time Mr.. Larow
broke off an inch or so until the present
proportions We're reached.
I The beard Is by no means bristly, but
soft and silky even to the ends. Mr..
Larow has no idea why he is thus made
the object of natures peculiar generos-
ity, but ever since the day, memorable
to him. or rather his friends, in 1853.
when he was born, he has been noted
for the same characteristics by which
mature distinguished Esau.
Up to the time he was % years old
Mr.. Larow shaved every day, but even
the most steadfast shaving failed to
keep his face clear of all sign of beard
and so in despair he made up his mind
to let 1t grow and see what it would do
The green bay tree was as nothing be-
side II, and it has grown and grown as
his years increased until il is more than
a foot taller than he is. He is far from
being proud of his beard, but says it
would be such a nuisance to shave that
he has not the courage to cut it off, al
though ne does not think it of any bene-
fit TO him whatever so far as his exist
ence is concerned.
In the accompanying illustration the
beard appears in full, but this is not
the way it's owner wears it. Under ordi-
nary circumstances he braids it care
fully each day and then winds it about
his body beneath his waistcoat. Mr.
Iarow's one amusement is to COM
municate with any person he hears of
with an unusually long beard in the
hope, he says, that he can find some
one who can boast of even a greater
growth than himself. Thus far his in
quiry has been fruitless.
This remarkable beard is an eXempli-
fication of one of the strange freaks of
nature which no one has ever been able
to explain. 1t used to be said that such
a growth was abnormal and indicated
an unhealthful development of those
properties of the body which force the
growth of hair Physicians have care
fully investigated this matter in the
case of Mr.. Larow and there is nothing
about his skin to show that it is differ
ent from that of any other man whose
growth of beard Is purely normal
Mr.. Larow himself says that aside
from the discomfort of his luxuriant
whiskers has has never been able to OBJ
serve that the growth affected him one
way or the other Why nature has thus |
been generous in this strange fashion no |
one can tell. 1t is a puzzle to medical |
science.
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WHERE CuRFEW
RINGS THE
YEAR ROUND.

Within the last two years a series of
experiments has been on trial in the
United States which at first excited
any amount of ridicule and then ceased
to attract attention. THESE consisted
of the passage in a number of large
towns of what were called curfew or
dinances, providing that after, say .
o'clock at night, persons of certain
age, generally less than II, should not
be upon the streets under penalty of
arrest.
Investigation as To the effect of the
passage of these ordinances has shown
without a single exception that the re-
suit has been beneficial in nigh degree.
1t is doubtful If ii would be possible
now to repeal the ordinances which at
the time of their passage caused so
tremendous an uDroar
In order to demonstrate exactly how
these ordinances were liked in towns
where they had been given "a fair trial
the chiefs of police in several of the
more notable places We're asked To give
their opinions of the laws working
This is what they said:
Lincoln, Neb.-The curfew ordinance
passed by the city council Feb B. 1863
has given satisfaction in every respect
The only opposition comes from the
criminal class, so TO speak. Cities and
towns in almost every state in the
Union have applied for a copy of our
ordinance. j. ID. PARKER,
Chief of Police.
Des Moines. Iowa-The curfew ordi-
nance, so far as this city is concerned.
is a success. 1t is certainly an inn
provement over the old and results in a
great deal less trouble for the police
The general sentiment of our people J
heartily endorses it. There is no oppo-
sition from any quarters The eurfew
ordinance is strictly enforced The
mayor is very emphatic upon the sub |
1ect and sees that the law is carried
out. FRED JOHNSON
Chief Of Police. /
st. Joseph, Mo.-The curfew became
one of the ordinances of this city on the
18th of May 1896. and has fully justified
the expectation of its most sanguine
friends. / beg leave 10 say that ii has f
proven an unqualified success. and at I
the present time | am also safe in saw
ing that at least seven-eighths of the |
people of this city give II their sincere |
and cordial approval and support 1t |
has been instrumental i'm keeping hum |
dreds of children off the streets and
away from public places at night who /
previous to the passage and enforce
ment of the curfew We're accustomed to +
run at viii at all hours of the night +
There has been "A rduction of fully so
per cent in commitments To the reform
school of both sexes. II has been in |
strumental in breaking up several |
gangs Of Juvenile thieves with which |
the city was infested previous 10 the |
ourfew. II lessons crime. reduces tax
es and is also a blessing to narents
who have children who defy home re-
straint. JOHN RR0nFR
Chief OF Police.
Denver Colour curfew ordinance
IS but recent enactment, but We have t
every reason 70 believe that Ii will /
work very satisfactorily
]. r. FARLEY.
Chief Of Police.
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Morals and Sex.

3 Whatever the Turveydrops of the
moral world may have to say about
the necessity for elevating moral de-
pertinent on the part of woman, be-
witching woman" 1 have never been
able to see any indubitable intent in
nature herself toward binding them
over to any higher moral standards
than she does men. Both men and wo-
men seem to me to be compounded of
the same average morality, though with
certain unlike manifestations, largely
the result of circumstances and oppor-
tunities / see no special cause for be-
lfeving that the average woman under
like temptation would do very differ
emily from the average mana belief
which is not lessened by Bishop Pot
ter's recent accusation before the
women's auxiliary of the Civil Service
Reform association, that they put their
relatives into office whenever they got
the chance, without any evidence that
they are fitted to fill the places they
applied for" Possibly women were in
tended by their Creator to stand for the
reformatory interests of life but
think there is not, as yet, sufficient evil
dence thereto either in the nature of
things or of women to warrant any
special abrogation of other distinct and
more familiar duties in favor of inter
ests mainly moral.-From Women and
Reforms" by Helen Watterson Moody,
in the January Scribner's.
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A QUEER OLD MILL
DOWN IN KANSAS.

The hand of man is about to remove
the last memorial of the old days when
the grain of Kansas was ground
through the influence of sails. The an
Client windmill at Lawrence will soon
be only memory.
When this mill was first erected, it
bore about the same relation to the
public mind as did the "deacon's one
boss shay" and that ii would for a
century TO come ever give place to
other ways of milling was never
dreamed of. So for 20 odd years its
huge sails swung about in the wind
and gave the power to grind all the
wheat which the Kansas farmers
brought to it.
The building itself is octagon in
shape and five stories high, the base
ment story being of stone 40 feet across
with four-foot walls. The revolving
dome is 20 feet in diameter. The re-
NolVing dome is 20 feet in diameter. All
the superstructure was of hard native
wood. even the shingles having been
steamed and split in Lawrence.
a large driveway through the base
ment rendered the handling of the
grain. the flour and meal. wonderfully
convenient for the time in which the
mill began to operate. in the early Cos.
\ cord attached To a bell announced TO
the miller at work I'M the third or
fourth story that a customer was wait
ing below. \ speaking tube-think of
a speaking tube in Il acknowledgement
the latter TO make known his wants, a
table of current market prices and
charges for grinding enabled him TO tell
at a glance how much cash or grain he
must ray and how much Erlst he would
get in exchange. 4 large elevator was
lowered to the farmers wagon upon
which he unloaded his grain and from
which he received his flour. meal or
bran.
While the cid mill itself has led a
comparatively calm existence IL Wit
messed The occupation of Lawrence by
Ouantrejrs euSrrillas and its huge
arms have looked down upen cyclones
that swept away adjacent building
but left il uut3rmed II was originally
built by Swedish workmeu imported di-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-30

How many people know that one
quarter of all the locomotives built in
the United States are shipped TO other
countries? When you stop to think and
investigate YOU also find out that for 40
years we have been constructing engines
for use in other lands. Australia uses
the American locomotive, and so do
spain, Japan, China, New Zealand,
America through which the railroad has
ever penetrated, and lot of other places
beside.
Whether You are i'm the Orient or the
Oocident You are quite as likely to ride
behind an American made locomotive as
any other. In the land of the car or
IN the dominions Of the queen, under
the flag of freedom or where slavery
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would be but a short ride. A steam
launch would find room enough to
steam back and forth and possibly
turn around. The passengers might
refresh themselves with a quality of
wine that comes high after it leaves
California, and as for n wine bath il is
a big swimming tank indeed that can
boast OF the size of this contrvance or
give equal opportunity for a plunge.
The owners of this lake guard it with
exceeding care. In the first place they
built II in the most careful manner
Nature gave no aid. for the lake is an
excavation. cement lined. SO perfectly
has its interior been glazed that the
properties of glass are all there. This
might not seem so important to one
who knew little of wines, but as a mat
ter of fact, the wine blends and reaches
a higher standard far more easily if
such conditions exist.
This is how the tank was really built.
First an excavation was made in the
rocky hill side. Next a wall of con-
crete two feet in thickness was put in
the door and sides Then came the
laying and glazing of the cement. This
was not all. Had the lake been left
open at the top. impurities must have
found their way into il. not to mention
the deluge that comes in what Califor-
mia knows as the rainy season.
All around the sides big steel girders
We're put in place and ON these rests
the sectional cover of the lake. This
Is 50 constructed that not a ray Of light
can penetrate into This vast quantity Of
VINE, and II melloMs and ripens Just as
II IL were in the most deep down vault
That can he found anywhere.
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The NEWEST BICYCLE GIVES C.NCERTS FOR THE
DElECTATI0N OF The RIDER WHILE He SC0RCHES

The musical bicycle has become an
accomplished fact. 1t is to German
genius that we owe it and 1t is as curl
Gus as many other of those strange in
Ventions which have come out of the
iand OF the Kaiser. It is something on
the principle of the music box and yet
unlike It. 1t plays by the grace of the
front wheel of the bike.
The first of these inventions to cross
the ocean has just arrived in the
United States, and an inspection of it
causes one to marvel at the ingenuity
displayed. The works" are attached
to the handle bar. From them down.
ward to the edge of the front wheel
extends series of rubber shod and
tiny bars of steel 1t is the action of
the wheel upon these bars that com
municates the vibrations to the works
above. and the time in which the tune
Is played is regulated by the speed of
the wheel.
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still exists, there are engines that il
they lived could vow allegiance to
Uncle Sam.
The improvements in locomotives
nave been very great within the last
Few years. The accompanying illustra-
ton indicates this. The regulation en-
CINE that is seen coming eastward from
China is reproduced from n photograph
taken of machine" that has Just been
stripped to the Orient with eight COM
panions. The other affair which plays
the opposite part to the locomotive is
combination engine and car of brand
new design. 1t also is reproduced from
photograph.
The first locomotive mentioned is of
the type known as the Mogul and with
IN few weeks will be running on the
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HORT STORIES OF SINGULAR AND INTERESTING FACTS
A REAL
RACE-TRACK
NOVELTY.

one of the greatest problems with
Whlch the racing world has been forced
TO wrestle is how to be able to con-
tinue racing to a convenient hour when
the darkness gathers fast in the early
afternoon. An Omaha man. +. G.. Sol
ONION, claims to have solved the prob
lem and has just patented a plan the
trial Of which will be among the inter-
estlng features of the coming trans
Mississippi exposition at Omaha.
The object of the invention is the
lighting of race-tracks and other tracks
in manner that will plainly show any
object that may be on any part of the
track at night. The searchlights are
on pole in the center of each turn
OF the track, high enough up, prefer
ably so feet. so as to be out of the way
and observation of the spectators.
throwing steady light all around the
track to within 100 feet of the grand
stand.
The focus is so arranged that the
light covers the track and the whitened
walls erected on the outer edge of the
track. Lights are also hung directly
over the stretch and up so high that
with the shade reflector adjusted, the
rays OF the light will not come within
range OF the spectators -ings the grand
stand.
The principal object is to make the
track as light as day and at the same
time have the lights 50 arranged that
they will not be seen by the spectators;
that is, so that the spectators will not
he bothered by the light shining on
their eyes. Throwing the light against
white surface doubles the amount
thereof, and causes no strain on the eyes
of the spectators. Again in the case of
horses trotting, pacing and running,
there are no shadows to bother the
horses, because 1t is a steady light sim
liar to sunlight
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fiance as the yelping dogs bore down
upon them.
So far as records show. this is the
only rat hunt ever inaugurated any
where in such fashion. There are in
the cities professional rat catchers, and
the huge gray shapes that whisk in
and about the piers along the coast
line and are called wharf rats are, as
rule, considered beyond the power of
the rat catcher to drive away or ami
hilate. In this Ohio hunt, however, the
big brother of the wharf rat or a rat
that was big enough to be that, was
very largely in evidence.
AS to the actual size of the rats the
story is told that the biggest of them
all measured IA inches from tip to tip
The total weight of the entire catch
was between $4,000 and 60,00 pounds.
Think of $4,000 pounds of rats being
killed in 10 days. and an idea of what
the granaries and grain ofAthe farmers
around about Washington Court
House suffered will be aptly conceived.
curious fact in connection with
this conflict is that never until within
the last two seasons have the rats be-
come so great pest as to require ac-
ton of the nature just described to
successfully cope with them. Why
they should SO suddenly increase in
numbers seems mystery, Rats breed
very rapidly to be sure, but when they
almost triple in number in single year
it would indicate an extraordinary birth
rate or wholesale rat immigration
from some less favored locality.
AS matter of fact a rat of Ohio and
Jack rabbit of Missouri may well be
placed in the same class so far as their
relative positions toward the farmer
are concerned. Both have become such
nuisances that it seems very likely
hereafter that the annual rat hunt will
be quite as much the vogue in Ohio as
the jack rabbit hunt is in the state
whose eastern shores are washed by the
placid Mississippi.
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For instance. the particular musical
Dixie which has come to the United
states plays only German tunes, and
OF course includes among the number
Die Wacht am Rhein." The musical
machinery Is set to the required tune
something after the fashion of hand
organ This done all that is necessary
to do is to mount and ride. One has
no idea what a difference time makes
in the national tune of the fatherland
until he hears the musical bike reel
it off.
Perhaps the most striking of the
bikes accomplishments is it's render
ing of I'm Tiefen Keller 1t almost
seems as if the wheel itself entered
into the spirit of this famous German
melody and the way the music rolls out
under the influence of a 10-miie-an-h
gait is as exhilarating in its influence
as the riding itself The genius who
arranged the compositions for the
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wheel in question evidently thought,
too, that variety was the spice of life,
for the third of the compositions which
it renders is that highly interesting
little Munich ballad. the finale of which
'Yater, Yater. Yater-Yater, Yater,"
has caused many a student cheer.
The musical bike will give a concert
of an hours duration without read
justment, playing it's programme over
and over and over until the limit has
been reached, when it is necessary to
infuse new life by means of a new ar
rangement. Thus far only one of these
strange contrivances has come to us,
but it is quite likely that before an
other quarter of a year has elapsed,
there will be more. In fact. the dealers
say that this bike is likely to come into
public notice with the flowers of May,
though it may not prove as welcome an
acquisition to the public pleasure.
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STATE OF ONO, Cry OF TOLEDO, :.
LUCAS COUNTY Do

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner Of the firm of L. ]. CHENEY & Co.,
DING business in the City Of Toledo County ana
State afo esad nm fltai said firm W II pay TIA
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLL Rs for each ans
We y case Of CATARRH that cannot be cured by
the use of HALLS CATARRH IRE,
FRANK j. CHENEY.
sworn to before and subscribed in m
presence, this 9th dry of December A. d. 1856
A. W GLEASON,
( ~ Nota Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, an
acts directly on the blood and mleous surface
OF the system. send for testimonials free.
j. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o
Sold by druggists 75c.
'sl S Family Pills are the best
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respect as much n wonder as in point
of quantity and place of keeping.
Ii is another proof also that necessity
is the mother Of invention, for if it had
not been that the colonists could find
no way to dispose of their wine in
a profitable manner owing to it's album
dance, IL is probable the lake would
never have been created and another
wonder thus lost To the world The H.
iustration accompanying is a renroduc-
ton of the photograph taken expressly
that the readers of this article might
see for themselves just exactly what
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stay in the United States, is intended as
a practical means of meeting the en-
croachments of the electric roads upon
what the railroad men call the local
and short trip business, meaning that
where people used to ride on the steam
cars from suburban places in, they now,
when possible, take the trolley.
Really it is a steam motor car. Water
is carried in long tanks under the car
body The fuel used is coke or anthra-
cite and the car will run so miles with
out replenshing its stock of fuel The
car seats so persons and two men can
easily operate it.
Before very long this car is to be
given thorough trial and If successful
may prove a formidable enemy to the
electric locomotive.