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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-12
WORLDS BIGGEST HARVESTER
II Cuts n Thirty-Foot swath and Per-
forms the Different Details
of the Work.

What is said to be the largest auto
mobile in the world, and the largesi
combined harvester as wen, is ON
big ranch in central California, where
It is used in cutting 10000 acres Of
barley, reports the Los Angeles Her
aid.
The big machine consists Of trae
ton engine capable Of handling Z,
tons, and which takes the places Of
60 horses; a header or moving ma
chine, which cuts a swath SO feet, and
thrashing machine, all complete
The thrashing machine and header
are run by a 30-horse power engine,
entirely separate from the traction
machine, save that they both get
steam rom the same boiler.
The apparatus moves over the
ground at different speeds, according
to the thickness of the crop, while
all the time the header and thrasher
are going at full speed, whether the
grain be thick or thin.
The average speed made is three and
one-half miles an hour, and 100 acres
day can be thrashed by the ma
chine.
The drive wheels of this monster
traction engine are eight feet in di-
ameter, and have tires As inches
wide, on which are ridges an inch and
a half high.
Eight men are employed on the
thrasher Half a minute after the
header starts to work the thrashed
grain begins 20 fall into the sacks at
the other side from where it is cut,
while the straw falls into a cart be
hind.
The heads are carried away from
the header by a draper, or moving
belt, IS inches wide. They are car
ried through colander. which breaks
the beard from the barley and shells
it at the same time, then BY a narrow
belt through two cleaners, and fin
ally to a bin, from which Il is sacked,
The sacks are sewed and set aside as
fast as filed
When 2 sacks have been filled they
are allowed 20 slide of the cart on
which they are stacked to the ground.
Likewise, when the straw cart is fun
il is dumped
This giant automobile is &c feet
ong, and half as wide, weighing over
! hundred tons.
1t uses oil as fuel, necessitating the
use of four horses TO haul oil and the
water for the boiler as it travels
around large areas.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-12

There are comparatively few people
who cake their daily drives in their
highly polished and elegantly fin.
ished carriages and road wagons who
realize or even give thought to the
number of coats it takes to make
carriages so beautifully shiny. There
is, first of all, a coat of OILY stuff
called whiting, which is used to 6l
in the grain in the wood. Then seven
or eight coats of rough material. and
each Of these coats is rubbed down
with pumice stone, each having to dry
before the other is put on. Then
come two coats of crude colorin,r
then two fue powdered pumice. The
last coat, Cue black paint. which is
followed by coat Of mixed color
and varnish. Then comes more rpb.
bling down, three coats Of rubbing
varnish, each polished of with fine
powdered pumice. The last coat !.
one Of the finest varnish. That makes
p to p coats, and it takes five -
six weeks to do the uork.-Cleyeland
Plain Dealer.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-12
H E@O REV ARD
S)<&$ FOR WOMEN
WHO CANNOT BE CURED.

Backed up by ever a third Of century
Of remarkable and uniform cures, record
such as no other remedy for the diseases
and weaknesses peculiar TO women ever
attained. the proprietors and makers Of
DR. Pierce Favofite Prescription now feel
fully warranted IN offering to pay $500 in
legal money Of the United States, for any
case Of I,eucorrhea Female Weakness,
Prolapsus or Falling Of Womb which they
can not cure. All they ask is fair and
reasonable trial Of their means Of cure.
Their financial responsibility IS well
known 20 every newspaper publisher and
druggist in the United States. with most
Of whom they have done business for over
third Of a century From this fact Il will
readily be seen how utterly foolish i would
be fof them TO make the above unprece
dented and remarkable Offer if they were
not basing their offer on curative means
having an unparalleled record No other
medicine than Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription could possibly win out, As the
saying goes, on such a proposition. But
they know whereof they speak. They have
the most remarkable record Of cures made
by this w6rld famed remedy ever placed to
the credit of any preparation especially
designed for the cure Of womans peculiar
ailments This wonderful remedy, there
fore stands absolutely alone as the only
one possessed Of such remarkable curative
properties as would warrant its makers IN
publishing such a marvellous offer as is
shove made in the utmost good faith
81 want to tell YOU Of the great Improvement
in my health since taking your Favorite Pre-
scription says Mrs. II s. Jones, Of Forest
N G uwhen ] began ts use / was physical
wreck and had despaired Of ever having any
health again Could not Sit up all day. noted
q great improvement before the first bottle
was used Was suffering with almost every pain
that a woman Is subject to; had Inflammation
Of ovaries painful and suppressed periods, and
other symptoms Of female disease. After taking
six bottles Of Favoritc Prescription ] felt like
a new person Can ride horseback and take all
kinds OF exercise and not feel tired.1
II you are led to the purchase Of Favor /
ite Prescription because of its remarkable /
cures, do not accept a substitute which has |
none Of these cures 10 its credit
n you are looking for perfect laxative 1
try Or. pierce's Pleasant Pellets
WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL AssOcG-
ALTON, Projectors 663 Main Street Buff
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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-12
lloA1 nousE Anp wnIsrLINe.

The sea-saud 6rifts about my feet an
whitens on the dunes,
While. suu complaining 10 The say. IN
rocking water cro0ns.
The salt, salt spray blows IN by day, by
night the breakers roar;
The white sea-hOrses toss their names, al
trampling on the shore.
All hours I hear the whisting-buoy across
the long tides cry.
And watch the smoke Of steamships trail
along the doWn-beut sky.
And see the fog-bank mountains build, OF
doze and dream all day,
or count the sails Of hsher-boats, or watch
the porpoise play.
But night at last steals down the sky, and
be Il late or soon.
And be the ocean inky black, or whitening
10 the moon,
or ruhling 10 a quiet wind. or, storm
lashed, breaking high.
All night on all its changing moods keep
q watchful eye.
And coastw4se throw a steady beam, by
which the good ships steer.
And meanwhile sounds the whistling- buoy
20 bid them come not near.
We have the trade Of states TO guard, and
lives Of sailor-men,
And sleep not till the screaming gulls call
up the day again.
And when the little fisher-boats come beat
ing up the bay
We cal them IN by pier and port, or bid
them steer away.
So up and down our coasts they ply, and
fear its reefs no more
While Whistiing-buoy and lighthouse keep
their watch along the shore
MARY Austin, IN st. Nicholas.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-12
NURSES UNRoMANTIc LIVES.
or Patients whom They Have
Aided aud Attended.

1t is generally supposed that there
is a good deal of romance about the
| life of a professional nurse, and that
large hospitals are matrimonial bu-
reaus where men and women fall
in love with incessant regularity. Ex-
actly the opposite is true. Nurses,
as rule, do not marry men whom
they have nursed as patients, nor do
they select for husbands the physi-
clans with whom they come in con-
tact n professional way, says the
Chicago Tribune
In the last year and a half but
one engagement among the nurses
at the Chicago hospital has been an
nounced, and the incident was so I'M
usual that il created no end of com
ment. The affair was. in fact. an
extreme novelty, although the female
attaches of the institution are I'M
usually good looking.
This proves that nurses do not
lead The romantic lives that they are
credited with by the outside world. 3"
heard it said that men who have been
seriously III often married the
trained nurses who had taken care
of them. This is nonsense. | have
employed hundreds of these women
nurses in the course of my practice,
and have yet TO hear of a match re.
sulting from one of them. As a gen
eral thing the patient takes an aver
sion to the nurse who has cared for
him, and the better she has looked
after him, and the more strictly she
has enforced the doctors instruc-
lions the less he has cared for her.
Physicians sometimes fall in love
with the nurses they meet in their
practice, but such affairs. instead OF
being common, are rare. If any girl
enters the profession with the idea
of capturing a husband. she is ant
to find herself sadly sold"
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-12
"A Bargain
IN Kisses *
BY TOM MASON.

! THERE was a hutter of expectancy
as the minister's daughter came
into the little back meeting room off
the main floor Of the church, where
members Of the committee, the ma ior-
ity Of them young and pretty, stood
talking az once.
J Something was going on In through
the half open door could be heard a
buzz Of people, and an expert in such
matters, If he passed by and even cas-
ually looked within, would have known
that church fair was in progress.
1t was, indeed, the annual church
fair. held under the auspices of the
Young Women's Guild, and this year
the minister's daughter was in charge
of the proceedings. Her father. away
on his vacation, had called her into his
study before his departure and APP
pealed TO her very strongly TO do
her share" And SO she had suddenly
announced her determine ton to take
an active part, much TO the surprise
Of everyone, as up to the present time
she had been more interested in play
ing golf than in spiritual matters, and
had even been called regular tom
boy" by certain recslcitrant beings in
old-fashioned bonnets
"She will make a failure Of it,"
announced Mrs. Mintby, the official
critic of the minister's family. THAT
girl is too hairbrained, and besides,
what does she know about such mat
tiers? She wouldn't be seen in church |
half the time if common decency didn't |
make her 60"
That's So" assented Mrs, Dickster. |
"All she cares about are the men and |
outdoor sports, anyhow"
And now, when the fair was half |
over, it began to seem as il these pre-
dictions were to be fulfilled The
booths combined had taken in barely |
fifty dollars, and TO send these poor
children away for the summer-for |
the minister's daughter, with fine
scorn Of foreign missions, had insisted |
that charity should begin at home
seemed desperate chance, and at this
particular moment it seemed as If |
nothing short of a miracle would swell
the receipts for the next two hours.
The minister's daughter stepped to
the table where the chairman usu-
ally presided. There was a sudden
hush. She looked over her auditors a
moment with a calm, penetrating
gaze.
Girls" she said, I'VE have got to be
kissed"
A chorus Of COS" and feminine
screams and protests was her answer.
There is no help for it." she con-
inued. 1--WE must raise lot of
money before this night is over.
Now my plan IS this: We win an
stand up and be kissed at auction.
one at time, to the highest bidder.
Now, girls, don't go back on me.
Remember, it's in good cause. How
many can l count on?''
There was a pause: a hand was
raised--another, and then another.
In ten minutes more eight exceed
Ingly pretty girls. headed b. one who
was prettier than all Of them. filed
INTO the main room and grouped
themselves about chair. one Of
hem stood up in the chair, to which
his legend was attached:
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-12

Little Red Riding Hood is to be mt
on the stage, says the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald. Somebody viii be dramat-
ling the mouse that ran up the clock
next.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-31
JUDICIAL APpoRTIoNMENr BILL
Gives Republican aIajorities on All Cir
cults Except the Fourth.

cults Except the Fourth.
Springfield. Ills, Jan. 31.-A bill for
the judicial apportionment of the
southern portion of the state has been
prepared for Introduction in the house
as soon as the committees are an
nounced. The bill is the joint product
of number of representatives from
the southern part of the state. 1t is
not expected that it will meet with the
approval of all the assemblymen in the
territory affected, and it may be neces-
sary to make some changes in it before
it is presented TO the Republican eau
Gus.
Under the plan proposed the districts
are made up as follows:
First circuit - Alexander. Pulaski
Union. Williamson. Jackson, Franklin,
Perry and Randolph.
Second circuit-Massac Pope, John
son. Hardin, Saline. Gallatin, Hamil-
ton. White, Wayne. Edwards and Clay.
Third circuit-Pond. Madison, Mon
roe. Washington and st. Clair.
Fourth circuit Marion. Clinton.
Fayette, Montgomery, Christian, Eff
ingham, Jasper. Richland, Lawrence
Wabash and Jefferson.
Fifth circuit - Vermlion. Edgar.
Clark. Crawford, Cumberland and
Coles.
Sixth circuit-Champaig Douglas,
Moultrie, Macon, Dewitt, Piatt and
Shelby.
All the proposed circuits. with the
exception of the Fourth, will be Re
publican under the proposed bill. The
vote in the five Republican circuits
for the years 1000 and 1902 is as fol-
lows:
First: Vote in 1900 Republican.
24,GO4: Democrat. 23.37T; Republican
majority, 1,227. Vote in 1902-Repub-
lican. 21.414; Democrat, 1912; Repub-
lican majority, 2.942.
Second: Vote in 1900 - Republic
an. 22.O50: Democrat. 19.T9S; Republic
an majority. 2.252. Vote in 1902-Re-
publican, 1856; Democrat, 16,4J0; Re
publican majority, 1876
Third: Vote in 1900 - Republican.
23.337: Democrat. 22O4T: Republican
majority. $50. Vote in 19O2-Repub-
lican. 81 ,533; Democrat. 1864; Repub-
lican majority. $3.50.
Fifth: Vote i'm 190O-Republican, o.
424: Democrat. 21.152; Republican ma
jority. 1912 Vote in 1902-Republic-
an. 1901: Democrat, 16,53S; Republic
an majority. 3.443.
Sixth: Vote in 1900 - Republican.
25.S95; Democrat. 21.S4O; Republican
majority. 4.05l. Vote in 19O2-Repub-
lican. 2O.59S; Democrat, 1885; Repub-
lican majority, 4,063.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-31
AIMED AT THE BETTING MAN
Bill That Proposes to Abolish Bookmak.
ing and PoOlseIling.

ing and PoOlseIling.
Springfield. Ills, Jan. 31.-Repre.
sentative $. e. Erickson has prepared
bill which he will introduce next
week prohibiting bookmaking and pool
selling. The provisions of the bill are
as follows:
That any person who keeps any
room, shed, tenement. tent, booth or
building, or any part thereof. or who
occupies any place upon any public or
private grounds within the state, with
any book instrument or device for the
purpose of recording or registering
bets or wagers, or of selling pools; or
any person whorecords or registers bets
or wagers or sells pools upon the result
of any trial or contest of skill, speed
or power of endurance of man or
beast, or upon the result of any politi-
cal nomination. appointment or cleo
ton 20 being the owner, lessee. or oc-
cupant of any room, shed, tenement,
tent. booth or building, or part thereof,
knowingly permits the same to be
used or occupied for any of these pur-
poses, or therein keeps, exhibits or en-
ploys any device or apparatus for the
purposeof recording or registering such
bets or wagers, or of selling suchpools--
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-31
WOULD DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD
Has n Financial Effect, Also. and weakens
the Teachers' Meetings

Has n Financial Effect, Also. and weakens
| the Teachers' Meetings
Van Dorm then proceeds TO show a
! financial aspect of the matter. He says:
The system of granting state GER
tificates to normal graduates, making
them Independent of the county super
indendent would do to the schools of
the state more harm than the normal
schools do good. and that is saying Il
good deal. As stated before, it is i'm
possible for the state superintendent
TO know what all those thousands of
teachers are doing, neither is il posi-
bic for normal schools to know, even
if each had supervision over them. If Il
county superintendent is not permitted
TO know, then the only one authorized
TO judge of the work of these teachers
is the school board. Are they more
competent to judge i'm the matter than
the county superintendent?
This proposition weakens the instl-
tute as now provided by law. If there
were 1000 state certificates issued it
would take $1,000 annually from these
teachers meetings. If these certificates
are to run five years it would deprive
the institute fund OF SlO,OOO. III all the
teachers held state certificates there
would not be Il single dollar to pay the
expenses of the various beneficial teach
ers' institutes.
1T is, therefore, apparent that the
passage of the proposed law would
soon call for amendments by way of
appropriations to meet the crippled
condition of the county institute, or
abolish the institute. If these institutes
are not beneficial why did the law
create them, and why are teachers
paid for attending them five days each
year?" Van Dorm fortifies his argu-
ment with quotations from Superin-
tendent Albert G.. Lane, of Chicago,
former president of the Illinois State
Teachers association, and Professor
Alfred Bayliss, state superintendent of
public instruction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-31

services for Hon. Hale Johnson. The
following resolutions were introduced
by Representative Sunderland, of
Wayne county. Mr.. Johnson's home
district. and were unanimously adopt
ed by standing vite:
whereas. Hon. Hale johnson, of
Wayne county. ILL.,. was suddenly re-
moved from this life. Tuesday. Nov.
1, 1902. by the hand of an assassin;
and.
Whereas, He was one of the we'll
known and honored citizens of this
state. having been mayor of Newton,
ILL.,. the candidate of his party for the
vice presidency of the United States
in 1896. chairman of its state central
committee and member of the nation
al committee for many years; and.
Whereas. We deplore the sad loss
suffered by his family and the state
of Illinois;
"Resolved. That we extend to his
widow and children our sympathy in
their bereavement and to the people
of the state of Illinois and the nation
our regret i'm their loss; and.
Resolved, That Il copy of these
resolutions be spread upon the rec
ordS of this house and that another
copy properly engrOssed he presented
to the family; and,
'ResoIved. That. as further mark
of appreciation of his worth, the use
of representatives, hall be allowed on
the evening of Wednesday,, Feb. 4,
1903. for Hale Johnson memorial
meeting, to be arranged and presided
over by Oliver W. Stewart
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-31
RETAIL CLERKS HAVE PLANS
They Want a Bill Passed Requiring stores
To Bs Closed on Sundays.

Springfield. Ills, Jan. 81. - Retail
clerks in Chicago and throughout the
state have plans perfected for their
fight for compulsory Sunday closing.
a bill is 10 be introduced i'm the legis
lature early next week embOdying the
reforms favored by the clerks in their
organization, the Illinois Retail Clerks
Protective association. If they are re
ceived by the legislature in a spirit
that indicates ultimate victory they
will follow up their initial move with
a second bill or amendments TO the first
providing for early closing on week
days in order to afford relief to thou
sands of their members i'll Chicago who
now work from fourteen to eighteen
hours daily.
The bill of the clerks is to he present
ed by Representative Wheeler. of
SangamOn county, and by senator
yet to be selected. 1t is to have the
official Endorsement of the state organ
ization of clerks which now has n leg
islative committee. headed by George
S. Babcock, of Springfield. at work
on the legislators. They will also
have the assistance of the state Fed
Grafton of Labor and other representa-
tives of the working classes III the
lobby. Representative Frank II. Land
messer. of Chicago. is the principal
representative of the clerks from that
city and he will make a fight for the
amendments desired by Chicago clerks.
The bill was prepared by Assistant At
torney General Smith and has been
approved by prominent legal lights in
the legislature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-31
HOUSE LIST OF COMMITTEES
Speaker Miller Putting the Final Touches
Thereon, with Assistance.

Springfield. Ills, Jan. 31.-Speaker
Miller. David +. Shanahan, Cicero j.
Indy and one or two more of the
leading members of the house are at
work yesterday on the final touches
on the house list of committees. 1t
is probable that they will be able to
report the list to the house Wednesday
or Thursday of next week, which will
be as early as they have ever been
announced in recent years. The report
of the rules committee will be present
ed on Wednesday. formal notice to
this effect having been served on the
Shermanites and Democrats.
1t is now announced by several or
the leading Shermanites that they
have abandoned all idea of making Il
fight on the rules or joining with the
Democrats to fight the speaker and
the house organization, but there is
still chance for them to change their
minds and take the trouble for the
house majority.
Memorial to Hale johnson.
The Illinois legislature has set apart
Feb. as day for special memorial
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-31
Executors Notice.
Estate of John Biehl. deceased.

The undersigned having been appointed
executor of the last will and testament of
John Biehl. late of the county of Rock Is
land state of Illinois. hereby gives notice
that he will appear before the county court
of Rock Island COUNTY at the county court
room in the city of Rock Island, at the
April term on tn first Monday n April next.
at which time all perSNns having claims
against said estate arr notified and request
ed tn attend for the purpose of having the
same adjusted.
All persons indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make immediate payment to the
undersigned.
dated this s3d day of January, A. D. 1913.
GEORGE BIEHI. Executor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-31
AS TO NORMALs
Supt. Van Dorm Opposes Their
Certification as Teachers
Without Examination.
aIs OBJECTIONS STATED IN FULL
Law to Kill Betting New Judicial
Apportionment-Sunday Clos
ing Legislation.

Springfield, Ills, Jan. 31.-Charles
CANON county schools, has inaugu-
rated warfare upon the proposed law
providing that graduates of the state
normal schools shall be granted state
certificates without examination. He
has addressed circular letter to the
presidents of the several normal
schools, and within few days will
send out another letter to the teachers
of the state. In the circular already
issued he says that there has been
tendency of late to rob the county SUI
perintendent of his authority. and that
the proposedlaw is a movement i'll that
direction. He says further:
Why TheH Don't Attend Institutes.
There are very few state certifi-
cate teachers who make any effort to-
ward working with superintendent
and teachers organizations. If you
would take the trouble to visit Il
teachers institute in any large county
where there are IL large number of
state certificate teachers you would
not find % per cent. of them at the
meeting. They are the people who. by
virtue of a superior scholarship, ought
to be present and lead in educational
matters. Why this lack of interest
and co-opera ton? Because they are
under thejurisdiction of nobody. When
they are licensed by the state super
intendent they are turned loose 10 run
at large, and the state superintendent
cannot know where they are, much
less TO know what they are doing.
Multiplicity of Systems" Certain.
These teachers neither pay a cent
toward the support of institutes nor
help to support them by their inspiring
presence. You might fill county
with state certificate teachers-as the
state certificate is now contrOlled-and
you will have in that county as many
school systems us teachers. At that
rate. if all the $1,000 teachers in ILL
nois held state certificates there would
be about 27,O00 school systems" =