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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-05-26

F. A. Reed came over from
Milan last Thursday to look after
the business interests Of Hopkins
IL Reed, formerly in business here.
Nj. Reed is now managing a mill
at Milan for the Washington Lum-
Der Co. He returned home this
morning.
Owing to the low stage of
water in the Kootenai, Mr.. J. P.
Beeler will not wait for water 10
float out his tie on the North Side,
but is hauling them across on the
ferry with teams.
Mr.. L. P. Hummer left for the
Goat River mining district this
morning. He has deal on hand
for a very promising mining claim
in which he owns half interest.
Mrs. e. L. Whitney AID
daughter, Miss Stella, leave
Wednesday for California, where
they will visit relatives during the
summer, returning home in yhe
fall. They take the N. P. from
Spokane to Portland, and thence
go by boat to san Francisco. Mrs.
Whitney hopes to benefit her health
by the trip,
Mr. VIM. Eaton hal made a
decided improvementin the appear
ance of his store since the addition
was added on. He nowf3has the
second hand goods in back rooms
while the main store room is devo-
ted more exclusively to new goods.
He has all very neatly and handily
arranged.
None so nice at twi,e the price
AS the Brunswick cigar. Sold
by all dealers.
The new post office at Copelard
is now an established fact, the first
mail being received last Tuesday
with Mrs. G. w. Dawson as post
mistress
The little daughter of Mr.. w,
II. Humphreys, the purchaser OF
the Ball ranch, has an attack of the
measles The child is supposed tc
have been exposed to the disease
while Mrs. Humphreys and her
daughter were travelling, on their
way here.
DIR. G. e. Barker made a pro
fessional trip to Elmira Thurday
to attend John Bussey, since de-
ceased. Mrs. Barker accompanied
him. The doctor was thrown from
bucking horse on his way home
and received such shaking up tina
ne took the train, Mrs. Barkel
bringing the horses home.
Co. Supt. VanDuzer visited tn,
Boomers Ferry school during tn,
week. The superintendent com
plimented Miss Miller and Mis-
Mozart very highly on theil
work. Mr.. VanDuzer visited tn,
Port Hill school, Tuesday, which
he also found in good condition.
Mr.. Chas. O'Callaghan is build
ing very nice residence. He hal
joined his two cottages togethe
with large addition, and will bav
very commodious home.
Mr.. w. L. Kinnear and famil,
J are moving into the Bush cottag
| owned by them, to reside ther
/ while the carpenters are workin
, on tneiI other house.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-05-26
On Every Bottle

OfShi,oh's Consumption Cure is the
guarant "All we ask of you is to
use two-thirds of the bottle faith
fully, then if you can say you Was
not benefited return the bottle to
your Druggist and he will refund
at the price paid" Price 25cts.,
'5Otcs. and $1.O0. For sale by J. F.
Cook, Druggist.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-06
reached by those who engaged in consider
ing these questions.
DIET .4ND TUBERCULOSIS
EFFECTS OF ONE UPON THE OTHER
VALUE OF AMPLE FEEDING.

An important feature of the fresh air sys
TEN of treating tuberculosis, most readers of
The Tribune are already aware. is ample feed
ing. The sanatorum at Nordach is famous for
its requirement that the patients shall eat
certain amount Of food at each meal and take
their repasts in the presence Of medical super
visor.
Fresh illustrations of the benefits to be de
rived from abundant diet by persons who
suffer from tuberculosis are 2fforded 10y DR.. Jane
H. Walker physician the New Hospital. in
London and superintendent of the East Anglican
Sanatorium \ particularly striking was
that of a houSemaid who was under DI. W ak
er's care time. Tie maid exhibited some
unusual symptoms. Her temperature would run
up to 105 or even 10 degrees without apparent
cause. and then drop down to the normal level.
The girl was exceedingly obstinate and difficult
to manage, too She 50 determined to pre-
serve her figure that she would not at first com
ply with the demand that she either relax or
abandon her stays. However, she lost weight
steadily for six weeks, and in other respects ap-
peared to be losing ground. She then became
alarmed. and consented to obey the doctors
orders. She left off her stays began to eat
heartily. and at the end of a single week had
gained twenty-three pounds Suspectlng that
there was some mistake, the physician caused
the patient to be weighed on three different sets
of scales These figures were fully verified,
however During the next week she gained only
six pounds. She improved in other ways also,
and was afterward discharged. The girl is
alive and we'll to-day, and hard at work in her
old place
DR.. Walker expresses the opinion that the per
ceptible falling off in mortality from tubercu-
loSis in England of late years is due to the fact
that the working classes there better paid,
and consequently better rOurished than for
merly. 1t is probable, however that they are
also housed more comfortably and amid better
sanitary surroundings. Possibly more than one
cause operates 10 produce the observed effect
New-York tribune., 1900-05-06

goal, therefore. With every fresh success in
liquefying gases the chemists have kept getting
nearer and nearer to it, and each time they have
INDUCED in conjectureS to what would hap
pen if they went much further. Would il
be possible to reach and pass absolute zero? If
90 a general revision of theories regarding the
properties of gases, well the temperature
of space, would be necessary.
a difficulty has been encountered that
may remain insurmountabe for some time.
The general plan of procedure heretofore has
been to employ the cold Of evaporation obtained
by one gas to liquefy more volatile substance
Carbonic acid was used to liquefy air at one
time A way has now been found to make air
liquefy itself Air used to Iiquefy hydrogen,
and it is possible that the Lnde- -Hampson-Trip-
Ter system can be applied to hydrogen, and the
latter compelled to liquefy itself But hydrogen
is the most volatile substance known, and hence
the bottom of the scale is reached. So long as it
would remain in liquid state one could hope to
creep lower and lower along the temperature
scale by getting nearer to a vacuum III the air
pump The greater the exhaustion there the
greater the cold. But when the stuff
freezes evaporation ceases. and for the moment
any further reduction of temperature seems i'm
possible.
1t was hoped when helium was discovered a
few years ago that it might prove lighter and
more volatile gas than hydrogen. That posi-
biIity has not been realized. Helium appears to
be heavier and probably liquefes at higher
point. No new resource is to be found in that
quarter. The element known as coronium. whose
presence in the solar corona is revealed by the
spectroscope may some day be discovered in
terrestrial minerals just as helium was. In the
suns atmosphere CorOnium lies at a greater ele-
walton than hydrogen. There is reason to sup
pose that il is lighter Were cOronium TO be OBJ
tanned from terrestrial source, therefore, and
were il to prove appreciably lighter and more
volatile than hydrogen new agent would be
placed in the hands of the chemist who is work.
ing to secure low temperature by evapora ton
How much lower than Dewar has gone it would
be practica BILE to go with coron!um cannot be
guessed. This be determined only by actual
experiment. And if coronium is not found in the
near future or being found should disappoint
the expectations of the chemists, then some al
together new method of attacking the problem
will undoubtedly be discovered 1t is hard to
imagine that the limit Of ingenuity has been
New-York tribune., 1900-05-06
MAY DAY AT BRYN MAWR.
ELIZA BE,THAN CHARACTERS IN OLD
TIME GAMES AND DANCES
OUT OF DOORS

Bryn Mawr, Penn, May 1.-The "NIerrie May
Games, as they are given by ye Scolers of Bryn
Mawr on ye Coedge Greene" We're favored to-
day by sky and earth. The campus in it's fresh
spring green made a perfect background The
gray stone halls, where the ivy is just leaving
out hung with gorgeous banners of Eliza
beths day. Above the shone but not too
brightly-enough to give the full effect to the
purple gold emerald. orange silver and scarlet
of the decorations. yet not enough to dazzle
the eyes Of the spectators of of door sports
Before 3 o'clock there was nineteenth century
thrOng on the campus, but only a stray figure
or two from the sixteenth. Suddenly a blast
from trumHets announced that the festivities
were to begin. and through the great gray stone
arch Of Pembroke Hall marched the twelve her
aids. three abreast They were clad in white
and gold, with a heradc device in red and blue
This was repeated on the pennants of their
trumpets Four slow footed oxen followed them
dragging the gayly decked maypole, while W.
age lads and lassies in their holiday attire sur
rounded the whole Then came the Nine Wo:-
thies who played a prominent part in EIizabethan
crowds-David, Joshua and Judas Maccabaeus
Hector. Alexander and julius Caesar Charlie
magne, Godfrey Of BOuillOn and King Arthur.
They were riding on ponies or donkeys. and made
a brilliant spot of color-or Of many coOrs. The
chinneysweeps, who We're never lacking
May Day, hourished their brooms behind them.
and then a long float showed Winter with his
snowballs battling against Spring and her roses.
1t is hardly necessary to say that lovely Spring
and her maidens buried old Winter deep with
their flowers.
But all eyes turned to Robin Hood and Maid
Marian, who, mounted on horses. led the band
of furesters. Robin Hood in Lincoln green set
off noby the brilliant costume of Maid Marian,
with its blue and gold and scarlet and its purple
velvet cap. With her arms full Of flowers. she
bowed right and left TO the appaudng crowd.
while Robin Hood doffed his feathered cap to
acknowledge their salute. VIII Scarlet by
his masters side. but Iittlejohn and Allan-a-
Dale rode after the others good steeds. Tha
New-York tribune., 1900-05-06
FROZEN HYDROGEN.
SuI. IT EVER BE EXTENDED TO AND BEYOND
"ABsOLITE ZERO"7 PROFESSOR De
WARS INVESTIGATIONS

Several months have elapsed since Professor
pewar first announced that he had succeeded in
reducing hydrogen TO a solid form But the ac-
counts of his work, which were published in
England last fall. obscured that il was
difficult 10 obtain an accurate idea regarding his
achievement. Moreover. unfortunate contro-
persy arose last year in regard to his having
been anticipated in this work by the Polish
chemist Olzewsk There is now no longer any
question as To priority however and in ad-
dress delivered before the Royal Institution
few weeks ago Professor Dewar gave a more
lucid statement If his methods and results than
has hitherto been presented to the public.
In Nav 1895 Professor Dewar Iquefied
enough hydrogen to be able to conduct a con-
siderable number of experiments with it, At
that time in the process Of manufacture he sub
tected the gas TO q pressure Of 200 pounds to
the square inch. and maintained around the re-
ceptacle containing ii a temperature Of -201
Centgrade. Not more than ] per cent of his gas
nquefe3 He has since found that the critical
temperature" that at which under a pressure
of 225 pounds il will assume liquid form, is
about e23 below zero
The boiling point depends upon the pressure
under which the gas is evaporated. At ordinary
atmospheric pr ssure hydrogen will boil at
about --,3S -2f0, but by reducing, by means
Of an air pump. the pressure under which it is
volatilzed, make it boil at 25o or 251
below This however. is not the most
treme cold produced by hydrogen under Profes
Bor Dewar's manipulation. BY reducing the
pressure still further he reached a point which
be estimates to he -2:Is or -2J9 Here his liquid
became solid, The substance froth, not a
compact mass. out it sufficiently rigid for
him to feel justified in calling it frozen.
The absolute zero Of the physicists, a con-
$ectural affair. although ii has more or less of
O rational basis. is -273. Professor Dewar be
beses that in solidifying hydrogen he has
come within il or II degrees Centigrade Of alb
soiHte zero. He is tantaIzingly close that
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

. The test of equality. such as should
exist between man and wife, must be
applied to character, to intellect. and
to taste. For example, it is quite con-
ceivable that a woman may be more
fortunately placed than the man with
whom she falls in love, that her mode
of life when under her fathers roof
may be considerably more comforta-
BILE, or even luxurious. than the life
she can hope to live during the earlier
years of the married state. and that
her pecuniary resources as her fathers
daughter may seem to dwarf the in
come of her husband, and vet the real
inequality between the pair, in later
years, may take the form of wifely in
feriority. The husband, by his type of
character, his energy, his force of
mind, his adaptability to work that
carries personal distinction, may rise to
a position which his wife may fail to
adorn, to even to passably sustain. The
advance Of the man may carry him be
yond the woman, and so difficulties
may grow with the years. The only
safeguards against such results are to
be found in power and adaptability of
character, intelligence, fine and recep-
tive taste. and general good sense.
Where these exist husband and wife
will develop together. Woe to them if
they do not! For love in a somewhat
inferior person is sensitive, Jealous, re-
sentful of its position and rights, and
the continual assertion of. these pro-
duces continual pickering and final un-
happiness.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Would Not Change N1ernods.

The intense conservatism of the Brit
ish character is illustrated in the story
of a young Englishman who came to
America to seek his fortune and found
it in new process for manufacturing
lamp black. The principal market for
his product was Germany, but he found
that the German buyers, in turn, sold
1t in England. So he conceived the log
ical idea Of going to England and sell
ing the lamp black direct, which ap-
peared to be certain of success, for he
was able to say to the English firms:
Instead of buying my lamp black
through Germany and paying for un-
necessary transportation, to say moth
ing of the middleman's profit, let me
send you the product direct. You can
then buy even cheaper than the Ger
mans, to whom you now pay a profit"
The head of one of the largest houses
replied:
Really, Mr.. Smith, our house has al
ways found the goods bought in Ger
many satisfactory. This house has
been In existence 200 years, and we can
see no reason for changing satisfactory
methods, you know"
Poor Mr.. Smith got this reply on all
sides and his trip was failure.-Kan-
sas City Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
picturesque Havana.

Havana Is dilapidated and pictur
esque, and the traveller will find as
much of the bizarre and unique in
stroll up the Prado and about the lesser
streets as he has perhaps ever encoun-
tered In q like distance anywhere. TO
me the most interesting hour in the
day in one Of those antique towns is
in the very early morning, when the
place is just getting awake and the
'hucksters are coming in.
These country people arrive in all
sorts of ways for the daily market.
One group comes afoot, with tremen-
dously heavy loads of fruits and veg
etables carelessly balanced on their
heads or swung on their backs. Here
is swarthy fellow leading a horse
bearing capacious reeded panniers of
fruits and stalks of sugar-cane.
LAUNDERING wains come straining into
town, drawn by heavy-necked yokes
with restraining nose-hitches. A four
team Of these cattle and their great
cart will alone block the average side
street, so the country ox-carts rarel.
get very far into town. When two of
them meet there Is an ably conducted
debate on road rights and considerable
native profanity. An ambulating hay
stack adds a picturesque touch to the
scene and breath from the fields. AS
the diminutive horse under the load
swings down the way the grass often
brushes the houses on either side and
crowds the footmen to the extremity
of the eighteen-inch sidewalks.-Wo
mans Home Companion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Cultivating Peanuts.

If any one desires to grow his own
peanuts they can do so by giving to any
dry soil thorough pulverization and
fertilization with decomposed stable
manure. Have the surface even. and
plant about the time of planting beans,
getting fresh unbaked nuts. which
should be removed from the shell. Plant
in hills from 211a to feet apart, with
two kernels to hill, so as to insure
at least one plant to every hill. The
surplus can be transplanted. When
they come up keep the land clean by
hoeing. When they begin to run and
show blossoms the vines and blossoms
should be covered with earth, to a
depth of about an inch, leaving the ends
of the vines just out Of the ground.
With good cultivation the vines will
grow rapidly and the earthing process
must be continued. They will continue
to grow until frost comes. and then they
should be lifted from the ground. Leave
the nuts clinging to the vines. In which
condition they must be thoroughly
dried. Do not let them mold. With
good culture and luck a quart may be
gathered from a single plant. If the
farmers boys prefer to grow their own
peanuts, either for use, or as a curios-
ity, there is no great difficulty attend
ing the operation.-Clifford Ebert,
Plantsville, Conn.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Future Wheat Crops.

And now Sir William Crookes of En-
gland is figuring out future scarcity
of food, or at least of the wheat sup
ply. He says that in 1S97=9S the wheat
crop of the United States was 100000
600 bushels, and with less than 75,OOO,-
600 population, we were able to export
217,OOO,OOO bushels to Europe. But by
1881 we shall have 10000, 900 people to
feed in the United States and will have
no surplus to export, and the millions
in Europe must go hungry if there is
not some other source of supply, which
he secs no prospect of there being. We
are not worried, because we do not ex-
pect to be here in 1881, but some Of our
readers of to-day probably will be, and
they will probably see a much larger
surplus of wheat for export than there
is now. If no larger area Is sown then
than now, we have little doubt that
better methods of selecting seeds, fer
tilizing the land and caring for the
crops will before that time give us a
crop which will be double the average
amount per acre grown in 1897. If
from 54O,OOO,OO0 bushels we could sell
217, 100000, besides feeding 100000
people at home and seeding our land,
from 1,OsO, 100000 bushels we can feed
15O,OOO,OOO people at home and then
have about 4OO, 100000 bushels to sell,
Nor will it do to leave the great north
west of British America, or the broad
steppes of Russia now lately opened
up by the railroad to China, out of the
calculation. Their productive capacity
is almost incalculable, and we think no
one living now will ever see the time
when the worlds supply of wheat will
not be sufficient to feed the worlds pop
ulation, if it can be properly distrib-
uted.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
BETS THAT ARE SURE THINGS.
Feats. that Are Seemingly Easy, bu
Impossible of Performance.

Feats that Are Seemingly Easy, but
Impossible of Performance.
Bets to be avoided by those who are
cock-sure they can do all things are
those relating to athletic feats. 1t
would seem that a good runner could
easily give start of fifty yards in 100
to a man who was doing the fifty yards
by hopping on one leg. But few run
ners, If any, can afford to give that
amount of start to any man who Is at
all strong on his legs. For the first five
yards or so they go at practically the
same pace, so that to run ninety-five
yards while his opponent is hopping
forty-five he has to go more than twice
as fast, and it is a weak man indeed
who cannot hop fifty yards in ten sec
onds. >. ->
An ordinary wooden match is easily
broken in the fingers, but. although
do it, none succeeds in accomplishing
the task if the match is laid across the
nail of the middle finger of either hand
and pressed upon by the first and third
fingers of that hand. despite its seem
ing SO easy at first sight. No one can
crush an egg placed lengthwise be-
tween his clasped hands-that is. If tie
egg be sound and has the ordinary
shell of hens egg. 1t is safe to bet
man that he cannet get out of chair
without bending his body forward. or
putting his feet under it IL he is sitting
on it, not at the edge of it. Another
equally certain wager is that man
cannot stand at the side of room with
both Of his feet touching the wainscot-
ing lengthwise. 1t is safe to bet any
man. save one who is blind, that he
cannot stand for five minutes without
moving if he is blindfolded.-New York
Press. - @
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Couldn't Be Done.

At one Of the gatherings in an elec-
toral campaign Sir Ellis Ashmead
Bartlett was frequently interrupted by
a man in the body of the hall who re-
sented his uncompromising remarks
upon political opponents. The knight
bore his trial with admirable good hu-
NOR, till, seeing an opening for scoring
a point, he said:
"Now, 1 am going to tell you some
thing about the late Liberal Govern
ment that will make my friends hair
stand on end" indicating, with smil-
ing nod, the vigorous critic in the body
of the hall. '--l --
Wrong againv'' shouted the irrepres-
sible one, removing his cap and display
ing a head as smooth as billiard ball.
sTt can't be DONE"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
UnsIacked Lime for Rats.

A correspondent Of the Country Cen
tleman says that to keep rodents out
of oats, take unslacked lime, just
sprinkle it over the floor or platform
on which one will put his grain, then a
layer of sheaves and another liberal
spread of lime. Continue in like man.
ner, lining each layer of grain to the
last, not smothering the last layer, and
that is all there is to 1t. keep rats
and mice out Of my corn cribs in the
same way and it is invariably sue
cess. also keep large quantities OF
unthreshed oats in barn free from rats
and mice the same way. One barrel of
unslacked lime is enough for 1000 or
1900 bushels Of corn or eight tons OF
sheaf oats" -~' '.'
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

his fowls clean with the least expendi-
ture of labor The kind Of coop used
is Of the greatest Importance. Of
course it must be of such kind as will
secure dryness, cleanliness and safety.
ALI these are attached to the two kinds
of coop here shown; the first is in every
respect desirable, and if kept in dry
spot from which the water will flow off
in all directions, as the top of small
knoll, it will satisfy every need of the
chicks. Indeed this kind Of coop makes
an excellent nesting place for fowls,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10
Country Grain WeiRhts.

Because of the lack of uniformity IN
legal weights of the measured bushel,
farmers often fail to get all that il due
them in selling to country buyers. For
example, in some Instances a shipper
at country elevator will require 50 to
81 pounds barley to the bushel in buy
ing from the farmer, while weighing
out only 4S pounds to the bushel In
selling it on the Chicago market. The
same is true of oats and other cereals.
Of onions, etc. The difference may not
be much on a single wagon load, but in
the crops of a year means many dol
lars. Farmers should understand what
is the legal weight and refuse to de-
liver more in selling to the local dealer.