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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-24
HE WAS BORN IN MAssACHU-
SETTS.

Chicago, Dec. 23.-Edward f. Law
renee, one of the most prominent CAPT
talists of Chicago, died today, after a
short illness. He was born in Massa-
chusetts in 1885
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-24

We lead for bargains, as heretofore
We can give you more for your money
than any house in the city We carry a
big line of unset diamonds, opals, rubies
ting and have them set any style You de-
sire, as we have a full line of new Il X /.
mountings.
FLAGG BROTHERS. 1898 Main st.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-24
EDUCATIONAL
Why
Be Idle

Thousands Of young people are out Of
employment, in straitened circumstan-
ces, or a burden to their friends, be-
cause they cannot earn their living.
A thorough knowledge of business
and shorthand would guarantee them
employment. They spend more for rec
reaton annually than would secure
them first class business training.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
EDUCATE THE CALF.
That 1t VIII Develop Into
Good, Dairy Cow.

In his address at the Indiana State
Dairy association, says Farm News,
Mr.. Goodrich stated that educating an
animal to become good dairy COW
must begin with the young calf. Mus
cle-forming food should be fed, such as
bran, oil meal, skim milk, etc. Educate
the calf to eat muscle-forming food
as much as possible. Begin to feed the
calf with skim milk and spoonful or
two Of oil meal, then give few whole
oats to follow. Nice clover hay should
be available. Feed skim milk six
months or so. He wants an animal to
come in milk at two years. Give the
heifer good box stall and plenty of
straw to calve in. After calving give
her warm water-not cold. Take calf
away gradually, say in two or three
days. After calving feed for awhile
only a little grain, and then depend
mostly on bran. After two weeks you
can begin to feed to full capacity.
Feed variety. 1t is desirable to have
a balanced ration as nearly as can be.
Quotations were given from the Wis
consin bulletin of 100 feeding rations,
showing how some so-called success
full feeders combined dairy cattle foods.
Mr.. Goodrich has found production Of
two pounds of coarse food to one of con-
centrated as most satisfactory. Succu-
lent foods are important. Of Woll's 100
feeders, 65 fed ensilage and two roots.
If we cannot have green grass, we
should feed either ensilage or roots. 1t
has paid Mr.. Goodrich to feed little
bran or corn meal in summer. His cows
produced so pounds more of butter per
animal the summer when fed grain
than they did the summer before when
no grain was fed. His grain cost five
dollars, and $13 was derived from the
butter, showing good balance in favor
Of the grain. Do not feed every COW
alike. Mr.. Goodrich's standard feed is
80 pounds silage, five pounds clover
hay, five pounds corn stover, eight
pounds wheat bran and two pounds
cotton seed meal. Tighten up on the
feed of some COWS and increase on 9th
ers. If she gives more milk by more
feeding, increase.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28

ed to give the tread suitable pitch.
Under one edge place friction roller
.(c); section of log may be used, con-
nected to tumbling rod (d). This rod
may be geared to the machinery at
will. Lead horse, cow, goat, sheep or
other animal onto the platform and
as it walks leisurely on the platform
just over the friction roller, power is
developed. In one described to me as
running two-man and four-girl wood
working shop in Massachusetts, 70years
ago, the edge of the platform only
projected into the shop. On this edge,
inside the shop, stall was built. A lit
tie black COW, hitched to the manger,
contentedly trudged and munched her
hay with cheerful heart. The girls
divided their MONDAY lunch with
''bossy," who divided her milk with
them; the little shop throve, and all
went merrily in them good Of days"
Farm and Home.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
ORCHARD AND GAR.NEN.

Vigorous, thrifty, but low, s.. at trees
are preferable to tall, slender ones for
transplanting.
Examine newly-set trees and see that
the lands left on them are not so tight
as to injure the trees.
In the fall is good time to set out
rhubarb and asparagus plants. Every
garden should have good bed
If there is too much top, the tree
overbears, the tree is small and de-
fective and the crop difficult to gather.
Pears to do their best must be fed and
the soil we'll drained, strong and reten-
tive. Locality should determine the va
riety.
Peach stocks, which continue to grow
freely may be budded as long as tho
bark peels freely for the insertion of the
buds. ..-
A good mulch keeps down weeds and
renders the soil loose and moist at all
times, and lessons the labor of cultiva-
ton.
While old trees are often made more
fruitful by severe pruning, young,
thrifty trees are often injured by the
same treatment.
Prune out all the useless shoots in
young fruit trees the growth of which
is about completed. No injurious check
will be given the trees.
All wood that is more than two years
old should be cut out from the currants
and gooseberries, They will produce
more fruit if the vines are not so large
In sending fruit of good quality to
market sort carefully and put it up in
neat, attractive packages and in such
shape that it will arrive in good con-
dition.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
Tertiliuins the Orchard.

There is reason for believing that
the orchard needs fertilizing even
more than the ordinary field crops. A
part of the fertilizing element of the
latter is returned to the soil each
year. The plant food that is taken up
in the orchard is taken away from
the soil forever. None is returned to
it. 1t is estimated that in single
season an acre of apple trees will draw
from the soil 40 pounds Of nitrogen, 3s
pounds of phosphoric acid and 72
pounds of potash. These must be re-
turned or the productiveness of the
orchard will be lost.-Farmers' Re-
view.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
Practical Knowledge Needed.

A thorough knowledge of soils.
chemically and physictlly, will enable
the possessor of it to, in great meas
ure, overcome the effect of drought;
how many of our farmers have
this knowledge? Not one in ten thou
sand. And yet every child in our coun-
try school might easily be taught, by
illustration and experiment, howwater
passes downward through soils by
gravity and rises by capillarity and ad-
hesion, and a multitude of other
facts which are the basis of physical
science, and which would be just as
useful to the child whether he became
in after years civil engineer or a
farmer.-Rural World.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
THE LAKE OF INK.
Most Unnatural of Natural Wonders
Which Exists in Southern
California.

Without doubt the most remarkable
body of water in the world lies in the
vicinity ot the Colorado river, in south
ern California. In this region of ugly
volcanoes, desolate wastes and Shiny
swamps, the strangest phenomenon of
all is what the naturalists call lake
of ink" No other description fits so
well.
The strange black fluid that forms
the lake bears no resemblance to
water. 1t must some day have been
a "lake of fire." and even now it tall
lies excellently with the familiar de-
scription of the Internal regions.
Thick and viscous and foul-smelling, it
seems altogether unfit that it should
deface the surface of the earth.
The pool of ink is situated about
half a mile from volcano. 1t is
about an acre in area. The surface is
coated with gray ashes from the vol
canoes to the thickness of about six
inches, thus concealing its real ma
ture. A traveller not prepared to avoid
it's treacherous depths might easily
walk into it.
Experiment has proved that the
black fluid of the lake is not poisonous.
1t acts as a dye, and cotton goods
soaked in it keep their color for
months, even when exposed to the
the sun. They also acquire stiffness
similar to that produced by weak
starch. The fluid has been analyzed,
but its component parts have not been
made known. AS to the source of the
supply of the lake nothing definite has
been ascertained. 1t is undoubtedly
of volcanic origin, but nothing more
definite is known.
Naturally this remarkable phenome-
non has afforded the Indians abundant
material for legend. Scores of bad
red men, they claim, have gone to
death beneath the ashes of the lake,
which is 300 yards deep. The lake it.
self, say the Indians, is composed OF
the blood of their bad brothers, who
are suffering in their hell amid the
volcanoes. And more impressive he'll
it would be impossible to conceive. In
This rock-hemmed basin are active and
dead volcanoes, spouting geysers, boil
ing springs, lake of some black
sticky substance resembling ink, era
ters that blow out only dry ashes
others that send forth stones anG
gravel, and still others that belcf
liquid and blazing streams of mud
There are other holes which emit only
Indifferent puffs of smoke or steam
while from all issues burning odor O
birthstone.
This is a bad land that has never beer
traversed Human beings have triet
it, but they never return to tell theil
experience or their discoveries. Littl,
heaps of bleaching bones can be seer
scattered about here and there ovel
the lavastrewn surface of the ground
Salt Lake Herald.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
BUILDING UP A HERD.
How 1t Was Done, and Most Success
fully, Too, by n Dairyman
In Ireland.

An instructive illustration of the
manner in which the milk and butter
yielding capacities of dairy cows may
be developed by careful selection is
afforded by some details recently given
publicity to in connection with prom
inent herd on the other side of the
channel. About dozen years ago the
milk of all the cows comprised in this
herd-over 60 in number-was careful
ly analyzed. Nine of the cows were
found to be yielding milk showing over
5 per cent. of butter fat, % were
yielding over Az per cent, IA were
yielding over per cent. and 23 were
yielding under per cent. From this
date onward calves were only kept
off the COWS which yielded milk show
ing over Az per cent. of butter fat,
and the tribes of the others were grad
ually weeded out. BY the aid of
regularly kept milk record the prod
uct of every COW is known, and mono
is kept for any length of time which
does not yield over 600 gallons per an
NUN. BY combining what is learned
from the analysis and the milking rec
ord and only keeping calves from COWS
whose produce is up to the standard,
alike in quantity and quality, the
milking properties of the cows have
been SO improved that at present over
go per cent. of its members are yield
ing milk showing over per cent. and
rs per cent. are yielding milk showing
over 41a per cent. of butter fat. This
result has only been attained by the
exercise OF great care and scrupulous
attention in the selection of bulls, and
no sire is used without every inquiry
being made as to the milking records
of his female ancestry.-Dublin (Irs-
land) Farmers Gazette.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
NEW INSOMNIA CURE.
1t Is So Simple That Everyone Can
Give 1t n Trial, Even Though
1t Should Fail.

A New York physician has new
treatment for insomnia. Those who
find themselves eluded by sleep will
do well to try it, and for their benefit
it is here given:
The method is essentially one of
self-asphyxiation; nevertheless, there
is no reason to fear, for there is no
risk. Indeed, it is impossible to asphyx-
late ones self by this means. The
first thing you have to do is to take
long and deep inspiration, as much
air being drawn into the lungs as can
be borne with comfort. This air is
retained until positive discomfort is
felt, when it must be slowly exhaled.
Repeat this process two or three times,
and the chances are you will forget all
else until you wake up from your
sleep the next morning.
The explanation of this is simple
enough. Sleep is due to hyperaemia of
the brain. During sleep there is flow
of nutrition to the cerebrum; conse-
quently an increase of blood to supply
its deficiencies. The semi-asphyxia-
ton brought about by holding the
breath keeps a quantity of blood in
the head, with consequent increased
cerebral circulation. That this is the
case can easily be proved by the in
creased throbbing and pulsating of the
arteries of the head.
Another point also to which the doc
tor calls attention is the habit of
sleeping with the head too high. If
the head is kept low more refreshing
sleep is obtained. He raises the foot
of the bed, so that it forms an in
clined plane, but recommends that this
be done gradually, as sudden change
is likely to have an effect the reverse
of that desired. The sleep thus OBJ
tanned is more beneficial, and one
awakens with clearer head and a
wider mental horizon. The neck in7
creases in size, the cerebral circular
tion is improved and the influence
upon the lungs is SO great that it will
lessen the tendency to consumption.
A few more facts relating TO in
somnia may be useful. Physicians are
more and more arriving at the conclu-
sion that in the case of this disease
drugs are of little value, and many
times are worse than useless. Gen
orally some simple thing brings about
relief. If there are noises Within the
house or outside, cotton in the ears
will often be all that is required. One
should feign not to want to sleep, as
it is often a fear of not being. able to
sleep that keeps person awake. Then
the mind should not be allowed to con-
centrate upon a subject, and the stom-
ach should be treated to light re-
past before retiring, for the night.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
FRONT ELEVATION.

of the dead wall, which extends entire
ly through from front to rear. This
would save the expense of an extra
wall, as one wall would be the party
wall, and the expense of building two
buildings at the same time, to occupy
80 feet of ground, would be about $1OO
less on the two buildings, in wood, and
$500 il built of brick. The parlor is
10 feet 6 inches by 10 feet; library,
feet inches by 10 feet six inches;
dining-room, 10 feet inches by 14feet;
kitchen,10 feet by 10 feet six inches,
and chambers 12 by Is feet, 8 feet
inches by 10 feet 6 inches, 8 by nine
feet and 10 feet by 10 feet 6 inches;
bath, feet by Z feet.
The parlor is an octagon room, hav-
ing wood mantel in one corner.
One side of the octagon opens
into a vestibule, and the other two
open into the staircase hall and IL
brary. n4l
The library has one side of the room
opening into the staircase hall and also
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28

mentioned, placed together so as to
form stepladder or truss, either side
or both of which can be used at the
same time. By the use of two of the
combinations with board extending
from one TO the other, perfect scaffold
is formed with ladder at each end to
reach it.
Fig. shows four sections put to-
gether for the purpose of forming a
double stepladder twice the height of
No. 2. Fig. represents the lower end
of the ladder, while Fig. represents
the end of section. The two are
joined together by pushing No. 4 down
outside of No. until the rounds en-
gage in the slots. The advantage Of
this sectional ladder in picking fruit
can be readily seen.-C. II. Hickox, in
Ohio Farmer.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28

This very well arranged fat build
ing can be used for one family or for
two small families.
There are four rooms upon each
floor, and the cost of the building built
Of wood upon post foundation, will be
$1,1OO Same building can be built of
brick with stone foundation for
$1,000.
The building is intended for 16-foot
lot and any person wishing to build a
double building can do so on account
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
A ReprehennibIe Practice.

It will surprise good many people
to know that there are poultrymen
who send to market infertile eggs that
have been incubated by hens or in the
incubator from five to nine days, at
which time those growing poultry
usually test for fertility. There is
nothing very honest about this, but
many man who makes a row because
he did not get hatch of IA chicks out
of sitting Of 10 eggs will do it. In
fertile eggs do not become rotten when
incubated foR the time named.-Da-
kota Field and Farm.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
FLOOR PLANS.

q small closet, as shown on plans. The
dining-room is nicely balanced with
bay opening out into court. This
room is large and is fitted with china
closet.
The small pantry is between the
kitchen and dining-room.
The kitchen is supplied with sink,
stairs leading to basement, etc.
All chambers have large closets, the
the finish throughout is of Georgia
pine for oil finish. The studding are
2x4, joists, 2x1O; rafters, 2xS All
floors are double, having one layer
of tar paper between floors. The two
chambers upon second floor have bay
windows. The floors throughout will
have finished floor of pine, except par
lor, vestibule and hallway. These
hors will be of Georgia pine. The
kitchen floor is maple. All rooms are
plastered, two-coat work. The roof is
fat, h ing a pitch of 21a inches in
every loot, and is made with felt, tar
and gravel. All glass throughout is
American double thick, free from de-
fects of all kinds. The height of first
story is feet inches, second story,
feet All exterior woodwork will
have three coats of paint.
Make all cutters, downspouts, flush
ing, ETC., of heavy tin. The sink is
cast iron, porcelain lined. All parti-
tions are inches wide.
Chimneys showing above the roof
are press brick. The entire house
is piped for gas and furnace. The
stairs lead to the basement from the
kitchen. The basement is divided off
into furnace-room, coal rooms, fruit
rooms and storage room The carv-
ing showing is of composition.
The doors, except the front door,
are feet 8 inches by z feet high, 1A
inches thick.
The entire exterior of the house is
sheathed with fence flooring, having
tar paper between this and the finished
siding. The front of the building is
finished with 3-inch narrow siding
The stairway is of Georgia pine fin
ished in oil.
The wood mantels are of neat de-
sign, having tile hearth and facing.
The closets have shelves and drawers.
The pantry is between the kitchen and
dining-room, and is 4 by 8 feet, having
cupboard in one end.
The entire basement floor is ce-
mented. The front and vestibule doors
have plate glass sash.
All material and work throughout
The building is to be the best.
,sssG 7s GEORGE a.. w. KINTZ.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
SECTIONAL LADDERS.
Can BE Readily Seen by Any
Observing Man.

This ladder is so made that the vari-
Gus sections are interchangeable, SO
that by the use of four lengths, s feet
each, numerous combinations may be
made. Four sections of the ladder
weigh 60 pounds, and occupy space
feet long, 2S inches wide, and 10 inches
deep. Fig. 1 represents section of
the ladder feet in length. Fig. 2
shows two sections each of the length
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
TURNTABLE POWER.
Just the Thing for Farms Where
More or Less stock Is Kept
in Idleness.

Make a suitable frame work al
shown al a, on which to rest platform
(b.) The platform is of plank, circular
and so built and placed on the frame
work (a) as to turn freely on pin or
pivot at the center. Place the power
where desired, to pump water, cut
feed, grain, etc, with one edge elevat-
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-09-28
Small Tires Passing out.

The small tire fad seems to have had
its day. Jolting along ON an inflated
whip string, just because the bike looks
well, is suffering considerably for one'a
vanity A bicycle tire is cushion TO
relieve jolts, not convey them. h ~
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23
coburn vii Accept b Nominated

There are people and newspapers
which are unable to understand Secre-
tary Coburn's position with reference TO
his candidacy for Governor. 1t will be
remembered that he said to the Kansas
editors at Kansas City that II am not
candidate for Governor. / do not ex-
pect to be a candidate; l do not wish to
be Governor"
To number OF friends at later day
he said in response to their urgent re-
quests for him to continue in the race,
that he would make no effort to secure
the nomination, but that he would run If
the nomination were given him. This
apparent change brought out demands
for an explanation as to the meaning
and sincerity Of his Kansas City speech.
Del Valentine, Of the Clay Center
Times, who Is chief Of the department of
publicity for the Coburn boom, and
whose equal for the work in hand would
be hard to find, gives the following ex-
planatiOn of the matter:
"If Coburn had not tried to escape
the honor and responsibility which ap-
parently seeks him, Hessin would not
be in the field, Stanley would not be In
the field, Funston would not be in the
field, but all would be practically unani-
nous right now for Coburn. That happy
state Of affairs Is shadowed again and all
who anXiously look and read may see 1t
before the convention meets. Coburn was
honest when he made that announcement
in Kansas City, he is honest now. He
simply said had rather not, my ambi-
tions are in other directions. He did not
then understand the force, direction and
extent Of the popular demand, now he
sees partially and seeing bows obedient.
He will do nothing before the conven-
ton, but, fellow citizens, how he would
roll up votes at the polls!"
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23

to a firm which did not bid at all at
the regular letting; that this firm was
afterwards paid $6,060.74 for the job,
being $2,46O.74 in excess Of the contract
price and 81 ,55474 more than the low
est regular bidder.
H. That March l, 1896, contract was
made for concreting the corridors OF the
first and second stories for $1,0S5; that
specifications provided for use Of rub
blsh and brickbats which had accumulated
about the building, and that concrete
should be at least two inches thick; that
concrete so made is Of no Vaue; that
the total number Of feet provided for in
the contract was 21,777, or 145 cubic
yards, which at fair price $3.50 per
cubic yard) would cost $60750; that in
this transaction the State paid out
s577.5O more than the work was reason
ably worth, not considering that poor
material was used.
18. That a contract was let for steam
heating and plumbing; that boiler set
I'D complete was eliminated from the
contract at $3.50; that the Executive
Council then instructed the State house
engineer to buy boiler and have it
set up; that the cost of such boiler was
S1,07O; that the work was so poorly done
that it has already been necessary for the
present Executive Council to have the
same reset. q
19. That in a certain State house con-
tract, let in July, 1895, provision for ce-
menting the floors of the air shafts was
made; that afterward this provision was
eliminated and a deduction Of $25 was
made from the contract; that afterward
this same firm did the eliminated work
and was paid $261.SO therefor.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23
A RepubIIcan Paper TeIIs the Truth

This talk about the brutal treatment
Of Wade Thomas at Hutchinson gets
pretty wearisome after 1t has been
hashed and rehashed by Republican pa
pers every day for weeks, and espe-
cially in view of the fact that there, Is
nothing in the charges. The Nickerson
Argosy, which is a strong Republican
paper published within nine miles Of
Hutchinson, gives the following truth
full statement of the case:
Friday, while at Hutchinson, we saw
Wade Thomas, the inmate of the re-
formatory that was reported to have
been 80 badly burned. He had a slight
burn on one hand. He was well dressed
and from his movements any one could
tell that his body was not burned. Why
any one not a Pop should write such
pack of lies as was published in the
Wellington Mail and copied in nearly all
of the dailies we cannot tell. The truth
about the Pop party and it's manage
ment of public affairs Is bad enough
without lying about them. Thomas was
being returned to the penitentiary. He
ought to be put in the coal mine and
kept there his natural life. He is hu-
man brute"