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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-21
bring Kilgrow to my office in AlIacoo-

Chez"
Duncan's solemn face gave go intima-
ton of the strife stirred up within him
by the lawyers shameless proposal
furious struggle between cautious
shrewdness and righteous Indignation.
For the first, and perhaps the last, time
in his life, wrath got the better of pru-
dence, and he burst out in storm OF
broad Scotch invective that put a sharp
conclusion to the interview.
"Ye'll bride auld Jamie Duncan, will
We? Yell tilt yerser back in yer chair
in a mans ain hoose an pit price Oil
the held o his frien': Lat me tell We.
ance for a, Master Attorney, ye didna
bid high eneuch - there's Ma gowd
eneuch amang the hale scram lin o ye
to buy ane hair o Johnnie Keelgrow's
held. d. We ken that, We auld smooth
faced dell? TAX yer dour face DOT O
the hoose, before I'm forgettin' I'm Il
man O. peace an Chreestian!
Sharpless was shrewd enough to see
that he had hopelessly ruined his case
with the irate Scot. and he was wise
enough to know that he would prob
ably make matters worse by attempt
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-21
"SHALL NEVER SEE DEATH"

Strong are his arms, tender and sure his
hold,
The trusty servant whom the Father
sends
To bring His child safe home. He doth
enfold
1t carefully in his stout grasp, and bends
His footsteps swiftly to the welcome door
From which its feet shall never wander
more.
Feeble and faint what need the weary
know
Who carries him? what need has he to
see
The servants face. whose careful feet do
Right onward with him. homeward.
steadily?
He will not wallen till in endless peace
He wakes at home. and so his wanderngs
cease.
Then pain is over: and forever past
The former things. sin, sorrow, cares and
tears.
The ''house of many mansions" reached at
last,
Bliss overswceps all sadness, peace all
fears;
Gone are they with his last faint mortal
breath:
Death brought him home! but he did not
see Death.
Margaret c. Hodenpyl, in N. Y. OBJ
server.
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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-21

1t is said that one of the first cheese
factories in the United States was es
tablished at Rome, N. Y. by Jesse VIII
liams, in 1859. Nine years later there
were II factories in operation.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-21
SAFETY In Numbers.

"No, sab; you doan' cotch dis yer
darby liben in town whar dar's no
other co,ored folks"
why so. Uncle Benz?
"Caze when dar's any chickens stole
dey knows right whar to cum."-Co-
lumbus (O) Journal.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-21
R..,,.h Who Rent Houses

In England 233 families live in houses
which pay more than $4,000 year rent.
while 3,6a5. eco pay less than 500 year
for their houses.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12
AN UNDERGROUND MONSTER.

careful and accurate description of its
capture.
The animal referred to is a species
of the salamander, but it is much diff
ferent from the little red lizard-like
animals that are often found in mud
puddles after hard rain. Indeed, it
could not live for any length of time
in the open light and air like the sala-
manders with which we are acquaint-
ed. The bottom of an artesian we'll
181 feet deep which was recently
bored at San Marcos. Texas, seems to
be the only place where the little
creature has been able to exist; at
least, the only place where it has ever
been found.
The three specimens of this won
derful little animal, which has been
christened with the scientific name of
Typhlomologe-the name seems as
strange as the animal-were given to the
Cornell University Museum by Hector
Won Bayer, architect and engineer of
the United States Fish Commission.
It is said that only six of the species
have ever been found, and that these
have all come from the same artesian
well. AS it has several peculiar char
acteristics heretofore entirely unknown
to scientists to have existed in living
animals, the typhlomologe is the most
important and interesting of all the
remarkable tailed bactrachians.
The illustration gives the reader
good idea of the appearance of the ami
NAL in general way, but close ex-
animation shows the most striking
peculiarities. It's skin is pure white
in color, and there is no external eye
whatever. It's legs are unusually long
for such a small animal, the proper
ton being greater than ever before
known among tailed batrachians.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12
X-Rays in War Hospitals.

A Milwaukee man, one Lynde
Bradley, appears to be the first man
to use the X-ray in the war hospitals
in case of hosti tiles with Spain. The
great ease with which bullet or splin-
ter could be found in the hu nan
body with this strange light commends
its use at once. 1t would seem that
the Government officials would ap-
prove of its adoption According to
Mr.. Bradley, it would be very sim
pie matter to provide for the ray on
war vessel, but the introduction of a
machine on the field would be attend
ed with considerable difficulty. For
instance, small engine, boiler and
dynamo and the machine itself would
have to be put on wheels for field
service. This outfit, however, would
be much lighter and more easily
transported than would lie imagined,
and the one Mr.. Bradley has designed
could be built in week Mr.. Brad
ley has long been an enthusiast in
the use of the X-ray and has done
some excellent work with it. In case
of war he proposes to build machine
and offer his services to the Govern
ment
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12

out jar, are running at full speed.
When clear of the boat few yards, a
safety device drops from the nose and
leaves the plunger barred to detonate
the fighting charge within. Striking
a ship from ten OF fourteen feet below
the water line, it will tear a wound
with such awful force that the heavi-
est of armor must yield.
In the hands of either the ignorant
or needless, the modern torpedo is a
menace to friend or foe; but in the
hands of the skilled and resolute, it is
the wickedest implement of warfare
wicked in threat..and wicked in deed.
1t is to bear the modest burden of a
half dozen such ''babies' that the
largest of our torpedo boats are built.
The torpedo boat or the destroyer is
anything but thing of beauty. Their
sea-green hulls, the absence of bright
work, the presence of those torpedoes,
and knowledge of their somber mis-
sion of stealth and destruction, stamp
with them the impress of something
akin to official piracy. There are no
odds offered the enemy. 1t is not a
struggle between equal powers where
skill and facility of handling may win
with open honors. Instead, it is case
of giant and pigmy armed alike
with one common implement capable
of running either. The weaker, though
many times more agile, cannot take
the chances of equality; but. instead,
must creep upon the adversary and
compel his surrender only when the
sense of his dying condition is borne
in upon him with the force of that one
conclusive blow. What are the chances
of succor offered in return? The tor
pedo boat has done her frightful work,
and now is too small to bear or save
the hundreds she has doomed. She
has not only subdued, but she has
poisoned her victory with the venom
of desertion. In turn, she faces the
promise of absolute destruction in case
of prompt detection; but the blow
falls with reasonable hope of relief
for the wounded and the living from
the larger craft.
Death lies precious close at all
times on board torpedo boat in war
times. The crew must face death by
the destruction of the boat; death by
laundering; death by the bursting of
the throbbing boilers or pulsing steam
pipes; death by collision; or death by
the premature bursting of their own
petards. She must face the storm of
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Astronomers tell us that in our solar
systems there are at least 1000, 900
co.iets of all sizes.
There is enough salt in the sea to
cover 1000, 600 square miles of land
with layer one mile in thickness.
In Germany peroxide of hydrogen
is said to be mixed with various drinks,
in order to give them the mellow flavor
of age.
The hydra fusca, sort of polypus,
may be turned inside out like glove,
and will continue to live and eat as
heartily as ever.
It has been proposed to equip Lon
don policemen with portable electric
batteries to feed electric lights on
their helmets.
A curiosity of the Stockholm expo
sition is pine tree section four feet
in diameter from 60 OF 20 miles north
of the Arctic circle.
The worlds useful fibers number
1918, according to catalogue by the
department of agriculture, about 80
being used in the United States.
In French trails, mixture of ten
parts of air and one part of acetylene
has proven suitable for ordinary gas
engines, giving three times the energy
of ordinary Illuminating gas.
A single bell is made by German
manufacturer to give more than one
note. A number of dents divide tie
bell into sections of different sizes,
and each section, when struck, emits
tone corresponding to it's size.
The fact is stated that in a single
one of the standard locomotives en-
ployed by a leading railroad of America
there are, counting individual rivets
and bolts, though not nails in the cab
and tender, over twenty thousand
pieces.
The gradual cooling of France is
proven by its vegetation. The Ital-
ian poplar, common in early French
etchings, is now seldom seen in the
country, while the lemon has disap-
peared from Languedoc and the orange
from Roussillon, and the northern
limit of many plant species has shifted
far to the southwark.
A noiseless and more efficient flame
for incandescent gas burners is pro.
duced by giving the air and gas a
rotary motion to thoroughly mix them
as they are admitted to the bottom of
the burner, the mixed air and gas then
being heated by means of corrugated
rings in the burner, which draw heat
from the fame above.
Sunken iron ships which are too
deeply submerged to permit of the
descent of divers to make connections
for raising them can be lifted by means
of powerful electro magnets attached
to lifting ropes, the magnets being
lowered until they strike the wreck,
when an electric current is applied
through wires to cause them to grip
the boat.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12

glare OF the white-hot furnaces, feed
the ceaseless voracity of those blis-
tered mouths with endless shovelings
of coal. that the pressure may be kept
up to supply the greed of those driv-
ing engines lying just behind in the
next compartment. The air is full of
dust and CRIME, and ones head swims
because of the heat In the engine
room the roar is laundering, and the
parts move back and forth, up and
down with the velocity of 800 changes
minute. A stray shot in there, we'll
placed, may burst a cylinder teeming
with the pressure of more than 200
pounds of scalding steam or liberate
the hammering weight of driving
piston and send it tearing through
every neighboring part with the stun
ming violence of many tons Of rending,
ripping force. Such are the odds
that must be faced for the safe car
riage of those other forces she has at
her command; and to the youngest
officer in the service may fall the
honor of that accomplishment. before
which even battleship might hesi-
tate. The work cut out for the tor
pedo boat is quite akin to that of
leading forlorn hope; but when the
time comes good men and cool in
plenty will be found ready to forget
themselves and laugh at death in even
this dread service for our flags de-
fense.
Torpedo warfare began during the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12
a Very Old Violin.

Mr.. Taylor Buttrill of Jackson has
a violin that is 1873 years old. 1t has
been in his possession some twenty
years, and is considered by first-class
musicians to be valuable and high
toned instrument. 1t was manufac
tured in 1715, and is perhaps one
among the oldest OF its kind in the
south. Mr.. Butrill prizes his violin
very highly, and as he is one of those
''back date" musicians himself he
sometimes takes the bow in hand and
knocks off ''The Arkansas Traveller
and "The Old Cow Crossed the Road
with degree of satisfaction that coulC
hardly be obtained from a violin of {
later date than 1715. While he is not
what would be considered an exper
he can knock tune out of that old
violin that would surprise the natives
jackson GA. Argus.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12
Don't Cross Your Legs.

Don't cross your legs! Not only Is
it bad form, but is one of the worst
things in the world for man or
woman. 1t is particularly injurious
for women to sit with one leg swung
over the knee of the other.
Many have often wondered how in
the world they have contracted
splitting headache, or why their feet
get so cold at times. These two
troubles and a score of others are due
solely in many cases to the common
habit of seeking comfort by crossing
the legs.
Cold feet, yaricose veins, headache,
ulcers and countless other troubles
from the improper circulation of the
blood in the lower limbs are caused by
the pernicious habit of crossing the
legs.
If you cross your right leg over the
left knee you will notice that the
whole weight of the suspended right
leg is sustained by the left knee,
which places all of the pressure
against that under part of your right
leg between the calf and the kneecap.
Now, any school text book on physi-
ology will show that just in the very
spot where all the pressure is placed
there is large number Of large veins,
nerves and arteries.
The mere fact of putting undue
pressure agains. this spot in either
leg has the effect of crowding all these
tissues together, and the circulation
of the lifegiving fluid is materially in.
terfered with. OF course, the absence
of plentiful supply of blood to the
legs and feet causes them to become
so susceptible to the cold air that the
least draft csuses the feet to become
annoyingly cold. journal of Good
Health.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12
A PERFECT TYPE OF THE TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER

American civil war, but so crude were
the early torpedoes and so little op-
portunity has there since been to study
the action of modern torpedoes in ac-
tual war that naval officers all over
Europe have looked forward eagerly to
war between the United States and
Spain as an object lesson. That the
torpedo years ago passed the expert
mental stage and stands to-day as the
most wonderful and terrible of mod
ern engines of war is not to be doubted,
but it has had no real test of its power.
Not one torpedo has been fired in war
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12
TERRORs OF THE OCEAN.
Torpedo Boats and Torpedo Boat Destroyers.

against. Besides the boiler compart-
ment and the engine compar tment,
there are four other subdivisions.
One for the carriage Of that murder
GUS load of 22O pounds of gun cotton
at the head, and the others for regu-
lating the air supply to the engines
and for maintaining the torpedo at
any determined depth of submerg-
ence.
When attacking vessels at anchor
and likely to be protected with tor
pedo nets. the nose of the torpedo is
fitted with cutter; and no ordinary
fabrication of steel rope and chain
could Withstand the ripping force OF
that instrument backed by the rush
ing force of nearly 1900 pounds. The
torpedo is elected from the tube by
the discharge of about four ounces of
powder. In passing out, o little
trigger OF clip turns on the power for
the engines, and, by the the time the
torpedo has dived, the engines, with
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12

In prolonged conflict, that type
will survive that can be easiest re-
placed or repaired, and from all we
know now of the complicated nature
and time demanded in building ar
mored ships, it is easy to see the po-
sition torpedo vessels of all sorts will
fill. They may be called the mo-
ment's most effective fighting machine,
but can hardly be confused with the
greater defensive qualities OF the
battleship.
The whitehead torpedo is no longer
the secret mechanism it was some
wears ago, owing principally to its
general adoption by nearly all naval
powers, aud it's inside workings are
commonly understood by all well
versed military and naval men. A
knowledge how to work it, though, is
another matter, and, briefly, it may be
said that every torpedo of the White
head type has it's own individuality,
its own idosyncrasies; and it is the
duty of every qualified torpedo officer
to learn the characteristics of those
''steel babies" that some day may win
him glory.
The largest of our torpedoes, the
eighteen-inch, so known because that at
its greatest diameter, is blunt-head-
ed, cigar shaped body of steel trifie
over sixteen feet long. propelled by
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12
Good Things Made of Cheese.

Cheese is iustlya highly appreciated
food. 1t has many possibilities. At
dinner, the cheese course is usually
served just before the dessert. 1t
often is pleasant accompaniment to
chicken salad. In London, cucumbers
are served with cheese. An appetiz-
ing dish at little chatting dish supper
was made of cheese crumbled. One
recognized seasoning of mustard,
pepper, salt and vinegar.
Cheese Tarts-Ordinary puff paste
tarts are filled with creamed cheese,
the recipe for which is given below.
Cheese Omelet-Melt two table
spoonfuls of butter, four beaten eggs,
four tablespoonfuls of cream, pepper,
celery salt and nearly cupful of
grated cheese; fry, fold and serve.
Fried Bread and Melted Cheese
Dip Slices of bread into two beaten
eggs and four tablespoonfuls of milk; !;
fry carefully in butter. Slice (thin)
cheese and place on the bread. Stand
in the oven until cheese melts.
Cheese Straws-Four tablespoon.
fuls of grated dairy or Parmesan
cheese, four tablespoonfuls -four, pep
per, salt, two teaspoonfuls of water,
the yolk of one egg, roll out. The
straws must be cut in narrow strips,
bake on creased letter paper.
Scalloped Cheese-Butter small
baking dish. Use alternate layers OF
breadcrumbs and thinly sliced cheese.
Dot the former with bits of butter and
chopped celery, pepper and salt. Add
cupful of cream and beaten egg.
Bake in hot oven.
Cheese Cakes-Cook one half pint
of milk curd, one cupful of cream,
one cupful sugar, one-half pint
measure of cocoanut, and the yolks
of four eggs, until thick. When cold,
add one teaspoonful vanilla or almond
extract. Fill patty shells and bake.
Creamed Cheese Melt one-hali
pound of rich dairy cheese and one
tablespoonful of butter, then add the
yolks of two eggs and six tablespoon
fuls of cream. we'll beaten, celery salt.
and dash CT white pepper. To be
served on dainty squares of hot but.
tered toast.
Cheese Sandwiches-Mi thorough.
ly one teaspoonful of mayonnaise, one
cupful OF grated cheese, the yolks OF
three hard-boiled eggs; butter the
bread very thinly, and spread ditto.
fold or roll the sandwiches. Slice
brown bread very thinly, lightly but
tered. For the filliag, mix chopped
olives and cottage cheese, or dairy
cheese and salted almonds. In other
sandwiches the bread is first spread
with sauce Tartare and next with
cheese. Very delicious are those
made of cheese and walnuts. One.
half cupful of English walnut meats,
one cupful of cheese, dash of red
pepper, little salt, chopped, "a little
mayonnaise dressing mixed with it,
Spread on thinly sliced bread. An
other combination filling consists of
Neuchatel cheese, lettuce and mayon-
naise
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12

fare by any of the leading naval pow
ers in more than twenty years, and so
great has been the advance in torpedo
construction within this time that the
early tests are of little value to the
present student of naval affairs.
Since the torpedo became a machine
of precision it has been used in war
fare only by insurrectionists and weak
Nations. The war between China and
Japan three years ago gave some idea
of the value of the torpedo, but neither
its full value nor its place could be de-
termined in that short and unequal
contest between two half-civilized Ma
tions.
Thirty-seven torpedo attacks have
been made thus far, sinking dozen
ships and damaging one other. Six
assailant boats have been lost.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12
A Good Remedy for Burns.

If our readers are not familiar with
the fact that common baking soda
(bicarbonate of soda) is particularly
good application to any comparatively
slight burn or scald, then, if used
when such an accident occurs, they
will probably receive the full value of
years subscription to our paper.
The way to use it is to sprinkle the
burn as well as the cloth to be ap-
piled, freely with the soda, wrapping
the injured part with the cloth and
keeping it well soaked with cold wa
ter. 1t may be well to repeat the ap-
plication, as the water washes the
soda away. By this treatment scalds
that are pretty severe are relieved
from pain in the course of six to ten
hours. 1t gives relief at once.
Paste this up in the kitchen, if you
are forgetful, and be sure to have
some soda on hand for burns only.
When you need it you will want it
very badly. The writer knows from
experience. Farm, Field and Fire
side
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12

OF the torpedo boat the public has
q fairlv accurate notion, and knows
that her chief purpose is to plant one
or more fatal stings against the sides
of an enemy, but the torpedo boat de-
stroyer ranges, in imagination. all the
way from counter mining machine
to something just short of good-sized
cruiser. The torpedo boat destroyer
is really magnificent torpedo boat OF
great speed, better sea-keeping quail
ties and with battery of rapid-firing
guns of from five to eight six-pounders.
She is built purposely with an out
ward appearance closely akin to her
natural quarry, that she may the better
approach unsupported within striking
distance. She also carries torpedo
outfit. and in her the battleshIp and
the cruiser have even a more danger
ous enemy than in the simple torpedo
boat, for where the small craft, by
stress of weather, limited speed, or
restricted endurance must halt, the
destroyer may continue with all the
more certainty of carrying out its
murderous mission.
VI tuc clcVou UOdtS VI WhNh WO
may count in short while, two of
them may be classed as destroyers,
the Farragut and the Rowan; two of
them as thirty-knot torpedo boats, the
Craven and the Dahlgren, and the
rest as torpedo boats of ordinary
speed.
The Farragut, Rowan, Davis and
Fox are building on the Pacific coast;
the first by the Union Iron Works, of
San Francisco; the second by Moran
Brothers, of Seattle, and the last two
by Wolff & Zwicker, of Portland, Ore
gon. The Dahlgren and Craven are
building at the Bath Iron Works,
Bath, Me. the Morris, Talbot and
Gwin at Herreshoff's, Bristol; the
Mackenzie at Charles Hillman's yard.
Philadelphia, and the Mckee at the
Columbian Iron Works, of Baltimore;
and it is of interest to note that these
last two boats are of the type recon-
mended by the chief constructor and
engineer-in-ch as the most readily
susceptible of rapid duplication in
event of need.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-12
Facts to Be Remembered.

All dry materials should be sifted
before measuring.
A cup holding just half pint is the
standard measuring cup.
A cupful is all the cup will hold
without running over-full to the
brim. A scant cupful is within q
fourth of an inch of the top.
A tablespoonful of -four, sugar or
butter is rounded tablespoonful.
A teaspoonful of salt, pepper and
spice is level teaspoonful.
A heaped spoonful is all the spoon
will hold.
Half spoonful is measured by di-
viding through the middle length
wise.
A speck is what you can take on
thu tip OF penknife.