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Morris tribune., 1900-10-27
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!, Much Of this includes double-track-
ling on the roads already built, the
traffic between the East and West. and
between the Southwest states and the
I, Gulf ports having grown SO fast that
more trackage is needed. The building
of 60 900 miles of track means millions
INF dollars to American wageworkers,
who, il turn, expend the greater pro-
Norton of their earnings, directly OF
ir6ireetly. among the farming element.
The prosperity brought about by
Ran,,5lican ideas and policies has
caused this revival of railroad con-
struction
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06
rrenIsI.hne.. Of noer pulIet..

The freakish performances of the
Mauser bullets, as reported by sur
geons from South Africa, are almost
unbelievable. Letters received from
Mr.. Frederick Treves, the eminent
London surgeon now at the front,
speak of one bullet which entered the
top of the head, passed down through
the brain into the mouth and finally
out at the side of the neck. A little
headache and a slight squint in one eye
were the only perceptible effects, and
recovery was complete and rapid. In
many cases the abdomen, bowels and
liver have been penetrated almost
without inconvenience. Wounds pierre
ing the lungs often give rise to nothing
more than a little blood-stained expec-
grafton. In one phenomenal instance a
bullet entered just below the collar
bone, traversed the whole length of the
chest and body, emerging from the
inner side of the left thigh, without
effecting more than little temporary
shock.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

JLc average loss by fire in the United
States has been reduced in ten years
from $6,922 to S1,S60. The insurance
loss in the same period was reduced
from 1898 to $1,O56. The prevailing
use of electricity has Unexpectedly
brought about large increase in fires,
owing to crossed wires. Ten years ago
there were only sixty-six such fires and
last year there was 95S. Defective
flues are responsible for over II per
cent of the fires and incendiarism is
next as a cause. Last year 6,S91 in
cendiary fires occurred. Lightning
caused 3,479, spontaneous combustion,
1,179. friction in machinery 295, nat
ural gas "a. dust explosions IA, and five
were caused by the suns rays passing
through window glass. There was no
assignable cause for 12,204 fires of last
year.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

Weather terms are elastic. Havana
was full of shivering people, and the
visitation was called cold wave, when
the temperature lately fell to SO de-
grees. The Cuban style of wintry
blasts would be popular in regions
where boreal gales have no inclination
to mercy. The West Indian cold wave
is almost matched by the London hot
wave, reported each summer, when
the mercury has risen only to a point
indicative to Americans of seasonable
warmth.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

Some of the experiments with wire
less telegraph apparatus for the use
of the British army in South Africa
are said to indicate that the operation
of the instruments is interrupted by
veins of iron ore in the hills. This
recalls the recent report of the United
States Naval Board on Marconi's sys-
TEN, to the effect that communication
might be entirely interrupted when
tall buildings with an iron framework
interviewed between the transmitting
and receiving stations.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

A writer in a medical publication Of
the Johns Hopkins University de-
scribes a case which, he says, sis in
teresting because it suggests a new OPP
eration-hepaticoch olecystostochol cy-
stenterostomy, or hepaticocholecystos
tenterostomy. Every one will be re-
lieved to know that the treatment so
eloquently described is only an ad-
vanced method of dealing with collie,
by which it will be seen that science
In its march is encountered by the bag
gage 1t carries. Caesar called it i'm
pedimenta, which has taken a modern
sense that seems appropriate in this
case.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

Gov. Roosevelt expressed a great
truth and urged a much-needed lesson
when he said, in a recent speech, that
while the commandment, Thou shalt
not STEAL" should be enforced upon
politicians, another commandment,
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour" should in equal
measure be enforced upon the critics
of politicians.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

There are forty George Washingtons
in Baltimore, of whom thirty-nine are
colored and one is white. This recalls
the story of the aged colored man who
remarked, on hearing his son read
from ancient history of Pompey and
Caesar, that all the great men of an
tiquity must have been negroes, as
those names were not commonly borne
by white people.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

If there's a right thing to be done,
and we seem to pass through a wrong
thing on our way to it, depend upon
it there's another way to it, and a
better one, and it is our own fault, and
not Gods, that we do not find it.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06
Words of Peace.

/ speak to you again of Jesus as the
night son. Job speaks of Him who
gi1eth songs in the night. John Welch,
the old Scotch minister, used to put
plaid across his bed on cold nights,
and some one asked him why he put
that there. He said, "Oh, sometimes
in the night | want to Sing the praise
of Jesus and to get down and pray.
Then l just take that plaid and wrap
1t around me to keep myself from the
cold" Songs in the night! Night Of
trouble has come down upon many of
you. Commercial losses put out one
star, slanderous abuse puts out another
star, domestic bereavement has put out
1000 lights, and gloom has been added
to gloom and chill to chill and sting
to sting, and one midnight has seemed
to borrow the fold from another mid
night to wrap itself in more unbeara-
bic darkness. but Christ has spoken
peace to your heart. and you sing:
Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly,
While the pillows near me roll,
While the tempest still is high.
Hide me, o my Saviour! Hide
Till the storm of life is passed,
Safe into the haven guide;
Oh. receive my soul. at last.
Songs in the night! Songs in the
night For the sick. who have no one
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

Power sometimes forgets itself SO
far as to imagine that it exists for it.
self, and not for the service of hui
mainly.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
HARMONY AND MELODY LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
Strong Influence In After Years of
Hymns Heard and Committed to
Memory In Early LIfe-rhe Old FASH
Toned Pulpit.
Copyright. 1900. by Louis Klopseh.l

copyright. 1000. by Louis <lopsch.l
Text, Fsaim cXylli, IA: The Lord is
my strength and song"
The most fascinating theme for
heart properly attuned is the Saviour.
There is something in the morning
light to suggest Him and something in
the evening shadow to speak His
praise. The flower breathes Him, the
stars shine on Him, the cascade pro-
claims Him, all the voices of nature
chant Him. Whatever is grand, bright
and beautiful, if you only listen to it,
will speak His praise. So when in the
summer time l pluck a flower | think
of Him who is "the Rose of Sharon
and the Lily of the Valley" When l
see in the fields a lamb, l say, "Be-
hold the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sin of the world" When in
very hot weather | come under a pro-
jecting cliff, l say:
Rock of ages. cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee!
Over the old-fashioned pulpits there
was a sounding board. The voice of
the minister rose 20 the sounding
board and then was struck back again
upon the ears of the people. And so
the 10000 voices of earth rising up
find the heavens a sounding board
which strikes back to the ear of all
nations the praises of Christ. The
heavens tell His glory, and the earth
shows His EandiWork. The Bible
thrills with one great story Of redemp-
ton. Upon a blasted and faded para
disc it poured light of glorious re-
storation. 1t looked upon Abraham
from the ram caught in the thicket 1t
spoke in the bleating CT the herds
driven down to Jerusalem for sacrifice.
1t put infinite pathos into the speech
of uncouth fishermen. 1t lifted Paul
into the third heaven, and it broke
upon the ear of ST. John with the
brazen trumpets and the doxology OF
the elders and the rushing wings Of
the seraphim.
Instead of waiting until you get sick
and worn out before you sing the
praise of Christ. while your heart is
+NppiSSb anu yOul Slep 10 llSuleSL anu
your fortunes smile and your pathway
blossoms and the overarching heavens
drop upon you their benediction. speak
the praises of Jesus.
The old Greek orators, when they
saw their audiences inattentivc and
slumbering, had one word with which
they would rouse them up to the
greatest enthusiasm. In the midst of
their orations they would stop and cry
out Marathon" and the peoples en-
thusiasm would be unbounded. My
hearers, though you may have been
borne down with sin, and though trou-
BILE and trials and temptation may
have come upon you, and you feel to-
day hardly like looking up, methinks
there is one grand, royal imperial
word that ought to rouse your soul to
infinite rejoicing, and that word is
Jesus"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

If the government wants any armor
plate Carnegie and Prick are once
more in the field.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

The worlds noblest work is in re-
claiming the fallen, in strengthening
the weak, in gaining victory over
temptation and in creating virtue.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

There is visible in the night sky, un-
der favorable circumstances, a faint
light, rounded in outline, and situated
always exactly opposite to the place OF
the sun. 1t is called "gegenschein, "
and is one of the most inexplicable
objects known to astronomers. Re-
Gently Prof. w. II. Pickering has sug-
gested new explanation of the gegen-
scheln. According to him it may be
"a sort of cometary or meteoric
satellite" attending the earth. He sup
poses it to be composed of a cloud of
meteors, situated about 100000 miles
from the earth, and revolving round it
in period of just one year, so that
the sun and the meteors are always
on opposite sides of the earth. He es-
Inmates that the size of this ghostly
satellite may be nearly the same as
that of the planet Jupiter, viz, about
$4,000 miles in diameter.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

A convict is extremely familiar with
the stripes and bars.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06

The regular soldier is expected to be
a model of obedience. patience, cour-
age; but it appears he is also a pat
tern as regards thrift. The statement
is credited to the chief paymaster OF
the forces in the Philippines that G5
per cent of all the money sent there
to pay the regulars is either deposited
with the paymaster, to be kept until
the end Of the soldiers enlistment, or
is sent back to the United States in the
form of paymaster's checks. Our Tom
my Atkins is clearly not absent-mind
ed. He does not forget home connec-
lions and obligations.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06
Power of tho Hymn.

l remark, in the first place, that Christ
ought to be the cradle song. What our
mothers sang to us when they put us
to sleep is singing yet. We may have
forgotten the words; but they went
into the fiber of our soul and will for
ever be a part of it. 1t is not so
much what you formally teach your
children as what you sing to them. A
hymn has wings and can fly every
whittier. One hundred and fifty years
after you are dead and "Old Mortal
ity" has worn out his chisel recut-
ting your name on the tombstone your
great-grandchildren will be singing the
song which last night you sang to your
little ones gathered about your knee.
There is place in Switzerland, where
if you distinctly utter your voice,
there come back ten or fifteen distinct
echoes, and every Christian song sung
by a mother in the ear of her child
shall have 10000 echoes coming back
from all the gates of heaven. Oh, if
mothers only knew the power of this
sacred SPELL how much oftener the
little ones would be gathered, and all
our homes would chime with the songs
of Jesusi
We want some counteracting infiu-
ence upon our children. The very mo-
ment your child steps into the street
he steps into the path of temptation.
There are foul-mouthed children who
would like to besoil your little ones.
xtyf1 10 30 nj
girls in the house and make them
house plants. They must have fresh
air and recreation. God save your
children from the scathing, blasting,
damning influence of the street!
know of no counteracting influence but
the power of Christian culture and ex
ample. Hold before your little ones
the pure life of Jesus. Let that name
be the word that shall exercise evil
from their hearts. Give to your in
struction all the fascination of music
morning, noon and night. Let 1t be
Jesus, the cradle song. This is i'm
portant If your children grow up, but
perhaps they may not. Their pathway
may be short. Jesus may be wanting
that child. Then there will be a sound
less step in the dwelling and the
youthful pulse will begin to flutter and
little hands will be lifted for help. You
cannot help. And a great agony will
pinch at your heart, and the cradle
will be empty, and the nursery will
be empty, and your soul will be empty.
No little feet standing on the stairs.
No toys scattered on the carpet. No
quick following from room to room. No
strange and wondering questions. No
upturned face with laughing blue eyes
come for kiss. but only a grave and
q wreath of white blossoms on the top
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
To Move a ss,ooo-ron Building.

An interesting engineering problem
is being discussed in Pittsburg, Pa,
where it is proposed to move the Car
negie library, a structure weighing
about $4,000 tons, distance of 1000
feet. The library is steel and stone
building, 1872 feet in length by 14S
feet in width, and three stories in
height. The director of public works
of the city of Pittsburg believes that it
could be raised on jacks and placed
on car-trucks which would run on
rails. In the trip to the new site a
ravine 100 feet in depth and 200 feet
in width must be crossed, and this
would either have to be filled or tim
Der falsework erected. Improvements
being made about the present location,
at the entrance to Schenley park, will
take away from the appearance of the
building, SO it's removal to new loca-
ton is being considered.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Steering by ELECTRICITY.

The principle of wireless telegraphy
has been applied to the steering of tor
pedoes, and tests made in England re-
Gently appear to show that the system
is practicable. Starting with the fact
that torpedoes can be steered by cleo
tro-magnets acting upon their helms
and connected by wire with the shore,
Mr.. Valicas, the inventor .of the new
system, undertook to get rid of the
wires by substituting for them the
Marconi electric impulses. In the ex-
periments made near Weymouth, a
model torpedo, four feet long, was en-
ployed in swimming bath, and the
Marconi apparatus was set up at the
ends of the bath, which is 500 feet
long. The mode. also carried pro-
jecting wire to receive the electric
waves. 1t was steered in every direc-
ton successfully.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Liquid Air at Low Pressure.

By the new process invented by
Prof. Raoul Pictet of Geneva, air can
be liquefied in large quantities at
pressure of only fifteen pounds to the
square inch. An initial supply of
liquid air, produced at much higher
pressure, is required to put the appa-
ratus in action. EXperimentally, the
process can be shown by means of
glass bulb containing air previously
liquefied, in which is immersed
glass-worm, connected at one end with
a rubber tube through which air is
driven, and at the other end with a
stop-cock. When air is forced through
the worm it liquefies in consequence
of the intense cold, and flows out in
stream when the stop-cock is opened.
With 500-horse power plant to fur
nish the initial supply of liquid air,
Prof. Pictet claims that he can pro-
duce 100000 cubic feet of oxygen and
100000 of nitrogen. besides one short
ton of solid carbon dioxide, in twenty
four hours. The chief object of the
process is the production of oxygen
and nitrogen at a cheap rate for indus
trial uses.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Largest Watch Made.

There is now in course of construc-
ton the largest watch that the world
has ever held. So enormous will this
timepiece be that room will be found
within it for spacious galleries where
In number of people will be able to
perambulate at case. and it is further
stated that small restaurant, equip
ped with walters, cooks, and other
paraphernalia, will form one of the at
fractions of the watch's interior.
The diameter ofsthis gigantic article
will be nearly seventy-five feet, while
its height will exceed forty feet. Tiny
staircases will be scattered through
out the watch and the wheels will be
SO protected that no person can be in
jured thereby or even sustain damage
or soil his clothing. The wheel known
as the balance wheel" will actually
weigh ton, while the so-called hair
spring" will be considerably thicker
than rolling pin. Approximately two
minutes will be consumed by the
swinging backward and forward Of the
wheel aforementioned, which will be
pivoted on two huge agate blocks.
Needless to say, the handspring of
this extraordinary watch will be en-
ormous. Three hundred feet will hard
ly cover its length and it will be made
OF ten spring steel bands, two inches
thick. bound together, as it would be
impossible to roll SO large a piece,
either in thickness or length.
Finally, it may be said that the
watch when concluded will recline on
its back and will possess polished
metal case similar to ordinary
watches of smaller dimensions. Peo-
pie will be able to walk between the
moving wheels and thus enjoy an en-
tirely novel sensation. This attrac-
ton, certainly unique in the worlds
history, will form one of the principal
| side shows at the forthcoming st.
Louis exhibition in 1903.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
ScIentiGc lettings.

Electricity is to be used to convey
passengers to the top OF the Washing
ton monument, Washington, d. G.
Madras is the only city in India
where electricity is used as the power
for street service. The tramways of
Bombay are run by horse power, and
the streets are lighted by gas Flee
tricity is used only in limited way.
India would seem to afford an excel
lent opportunity for trade in electrical
machinery and appliances. An Ameri-
can company is trying to get the priv
ilege of converting the Bombay tram
ways into an electrically operated sys-
TEN.
The electric fan bids fair to super
sede the punkah coolies of India. The
regular price for four coolies to divide
up the twenty-four hours is six cents
each With electrical fans the work
can be done for one-third of the cost
and considerable inconvenience NAV
be avoided. A writer in the Electrical
World states that the day shifts of
coolies do reliable work, but the night
gang is not SO satisfactory. Their duty
is to pull the punkah over the bed,
getting rid of mosquitoes and vermin.
but the coolies attempt to get as much
sleep as possible and it is rather diff
cult to create activity among them.
The electric fan, on the contrary,
would give reliable all night service
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
HANDY PACKAGE CARRIER.

Here is an arrangement which will
be much appreciated by errand boys
who are provided withabicycles, as it
enables the rider to detsch his carrier
at will, leaving the machine free for
pleasure purposes when desired. The
carrier is composed of light frame,
mounted on two wheels and provided
with a box or basket to receive the
packages. To attach the carrier to a
bicycle a leather or rubber collar is
provided. which is wrapped around
the seat post or frame, and a metallic
clamp grips the collar in place, the
clamp being provided with an eyelet
through which the tongue of the car
rier is inserted. The collar is used to
prevent the clamp from marring the
frame of the bicycle, and the method
of attachment is so simple that it takes
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

teeth to correspond with the numbers
on the dial, with spindle actuated by
the knob at the side to rotate the
wheel one notch every time the knob
is depressed by the waiter. When the
hand reaches the highest number on
the dial it locks. and it is necessary
to reverse it with key carried by the
waiter, which prevents the customer
from resetting the counter to show a
lower number of drinks than he has
actually had
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

Six Inches long. made of fine
quality steel: evenly tempered
and will give the best of satisfac-
ton. Sent postpaid on receipt Of
= &c. postage stamp and 10
"McLs" cut from the face of
XXXX coffee wra pptrs.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

Deemler
Of the
father 1t then into the of Captain Edward
T. R.
the in
andsw o
sas
satisfaction
many e to.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Lawyers would undoubtedly make
good soldiers. Their charges would
discourage the enemy.


If you have a weak, nervous, debil-
itated wife, do not scold or become
impatient with her. Give her kind
treatment, loving words and Morley's
vate, regulate and strengthen her
system, and she will soon be your
healthy, happy best half. Price 81.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
KEEPS TABS ON THE DRINKS.

The registering saucer for drinks,
shown below, has just been patented in
this country by a German, Wilhelm
Hoffman, OF Bramsche, Germany. The
device serves as a checking system to
register the number Of the customers
Dill. The dial in the center covers the
registering mechanism, and felt pad
around the dial absorbs the liquid
which drips from the glass. Below the
dial is ratchet wheel, provided with
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Important Discovery.

At Grafton, N. H., crystal of beryl
has been found which weighs 1900
pounds, and another from the same
locality measuring 45 by "a inches
weighed by calculation about two and
one-half tons. In Utah crystals OF
gypsum over four feet long have been
found. A crystal of spodumene-lith-
ium, aluminium silicate-thirty feet
long has been discovered in South
Dakota.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

that one of these. the brilliant Cano-
pus, can be said, with confidence, to
be thousands of times brighter than
the sun. Whether we should say
10000, 10000 or 5000, no one can de-
eide" The first magnitude stars, Ri
gel and Spica, also are at an immeas-
urable distance, and must, in view of
their actual brightness, enormously
outshine the sun.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
No. 2. BUTCHERS KNIFE.
No. 4. BREAD KNIFE.
GaszsSs aA

DO not be without our combination bread knife and
paw. Suitable tor slicing bread. cutting meats and
liam. The back be used for saving the bone Blade
Is inches long. made of crucbc steel. Sent post
paid on receipt OF a &c postage stamp and IL "McLs"
cut from the face of XXX cofce wrappers
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Ba.r for the Dowel..

No matter what ails you, headache
to cancer, you will never get well
until your bowels are put right.
CASCARETS help nature, cure you
without grippe or pain, produce easy
natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back
CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the
genuine, put up in metal boxes, every
tablet has G. G. G. stamped on it. Be-
ware of limitations.