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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27

ritory taken quite by itself. And
the value of the maps made on these
summer outings" as many persons
might imagine them, to other than stu
dents has resulted directly from the
care with which the surveys have been
conducted and the practically profess
sional value of the maps, plans, draw
ings and reports that have been made
in the course of them.
The survey made this summer at
East Machias, like those that have
preceded it at other points along the
Maine COAST as well as in the Adiron-
dack and Catskill mountains, had four
main objects: the making of a large
typographical map on the scale Of one
foot to mile Of the district i'm
mediately around the town; the max
ing of a smaller map covering larger
area but reduced to smaller scale and
therefore emitting many of the less
important details; an investigation of
the water power represented by the
East Machias river; and a general ex-
animation Of the geology of the region.
Measurement of large areas of land al e
made by an arithmetical calculation,
taking one carefully measured line as a
starting point, and with that line as a
base and the surveyors instruments
as means of locating and mapping
other points visible from the ends of
it, constructing a series of triangles
from which the exact distance between
any of the points determined may be
automatically computed. In its sys-
TEN of base line measurement-the es-
adjustment of the exact length of the
first, or base, line from which all the
other points are subsequently deter
mined-the United States coast and
geo6etic survey had indeed practically
adopted one of the details first used on
the institute student surveys. So far
as any country has been mapped with
final accuracy, therefore, one may
imagine its surface covered with a net
work of these imaginery triangles, and
the student work at East Machias is
so done that it fits Immediately into
the system of triangles already in
existence
III its daily operations the school
consisted of several squads of student
surveyors, each squad being under
the immediate charge of a regular in
structor. Meeting at s o'clock each
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27
Facts for Our Farmers.

Why not SOW cover crops at any
time. when the land is not being used
for a harvest crop? Even rye, sown
in the fall and plowed under in May,
furnishes a vast amount of humus,
especially through its roots. How
ever, it is well, if climate and condi-
TORS will permit, to SOW some of the
legumes. Winter vetch started in
July, August or September, may be
Just the plant you want, notwithstand-
ing the high price of the seed, as it
will furnish not only humus but nitro
gen as well. Keep the land covered
with plants so far as possible, and
thus follow Natures mode of filing
the soil with humus.
1t will be far better to pillow under
some green crop before attempting to
seed this land, since the readily avail.
able plant food will have been large.
ly drawn On by the crop of corn and
the crop of oats, and the land would
hardly be in a condition to seed to the
best advantage. Then too. it is not
usually economy to try to get a seed
ing or crop by means of excessive
dressings of farm manures or fer
, tilizers. To keep up productivity to
high standard, it is wisest to depend
upon superior tillage and cover ant
green manure crops rather than on eA
pensive fertilizers.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27

] morning, the parties separated and
spread themselves over the small hills,
along the seashore and beside the lit
tie East Machias river, covering all
told an area of from IL to 20 square
miles. No one IN connection with the
work had any previous familiarity with
the topography of the region, and the
days instruction was therefore as
much problem to the instructors
themselves as it would be to any other
expert assuming charge of similar
survey, either for the national govern
ment or in the interest of a commercial
company seeking to exploit local re-
sources. The only difference lay in
the fact that the groups of surveyors
were constantly changing, SO that
while each piece of work was con-
stantly in charge of the same in
structor each student, as fast as he
had mastered the use Of the instru-
ments belonging to one division of the
work, was transferred to another
group and began familiarizing himself
with another set of instruments. The
men did not camp together but lived
in different places in the town, report
ing for duty at eight in the morning
and leaving off at six in the evening.
Part of the work included the study of
meteorological conditions and the
preparation of such reports as would
be daily occurrence if East Machias
were ever made a station of the
weather bureau; and study of the
stars was also necessary to fix the true
north and south line, for which future
local surveyors will be grateful to the
band of students, who, to tell the
truth, were something of a revelation
to many of the townspeople.
East Machias is a seaport town of
about 900 inhabitants, with a small
river, considerable variety in its i'm
mediate topography and a good work
ing climate-conditions taken alto
gether, that make it especially practi-
cable for what is really an outdoor la
/ boratory for future surveyors, meteoro-
ogists, and biologists. Under the
usual plan for conducting summer
i schools of surveying or other branches
Of modern engineering, it would make
an excellent pe--.anent station The
Institute of Technology. however
? considers each place that it selects for
its summer work as an individual
problem, to be solved with no other
date than the points already estab-
lished by the men of the United
States coast and geodetic survey. The
data gathered by the summer school
is intended to be as final as any pro-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27
STUDENT SURVEYS
PROVE VALUABLE
INTERESTING WORK ACCOM-
PLISHED AT MASSACHUSETTS.
ON THE COAST OF MAINE
labors That Produce Results Accept
able to United States Government
Experts-Several Miles of Ter
ritory Added to the Federal Map
Valuable Data Gathered.

Boston. August 23.-When the
United States government, in the
course of the typographical survey that
will eventually cover the whole coun.
try, finishes The details of that corner
represented by the state of Maine, it
will include many small bits of terri.
tory, scattered along the coast be.
tween the Kennebunk river and the lit.
tie town of PASSPORT, already surveyed
with equal exactness by students and
instructors of the Massachusetts In.
stitute Of Technology. During some
three weeks of the present summer the
town of East Machias has been added
to the various other sections thus sur.
veyed and mapped by students, the re,
suits of whose summer labors are
afterward turned over to the United
States Geological survey at Washing.
ton, pending the final government sur.
veys. Although at first glance chiefly
interesting as unique type of modern
summer instruction, in that it actually
surveys and lays out a new region
every summer, these student surveys
produce results of real and permanent
value to the town chosen as the base
of operations and to the regular gov
eminent surveyors. AS they are con
Quoted yearly, and are connected with
points already established by the
United States coast and geodetic sur
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27
THREE APPLE DAINTlES.

Apple omelet-Separate four eggs
beat the whites to stiff froth, add yolks
and beat again, add gradually two
tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar
Have ready an omlet pan in which you
have melted a tablespoonful of butter
put in the mixture, when it begins to
thicken; spread over layer of apple
sauce. Fold, turn out, and serve al
once with powdered sugar.
Floating Apple-Pare two good sized
tart apples, beat the whites of -four
eggs to stiff froth, add four table,
sPoonfuls of powdered sugar, beat
into this mixture, little at a time
beating all the while. Have ready a
good sized glass dish, partly filled
with whipped cream. Heap the float
by tablespoonfuls over the surface
and dot here and there with candied
cherries.
Apple charlotte-Cover half a cup of
gelatine with a half a cupful of cold
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27
JAPANES A Willy PEOPLE.
Take to Frauds on Insurance Com
panies With Great Readiness.

We have been spouting these ten
years about the cleverness of the
japanese. Our smart Alexis went
into Mysteries over them. Our mer.
chants have gone to extremes in So
liciting japanese trade, and our graer
insurance companies have sent agents
broadcast over the islands of the
rising sun to write policies. In no
ether country on the globe is the work
of the insurance solicitor so easy. In
one month s1O,000,0O0 of life insurance
has been placed by one New York
company. Every measly little dwarf
OF Jap wants to insure. An agent
has just discovered that in medical ex-
aminations he has been badly duped,
one healthy Jap standing the test for
many hundreds of his fellow country
men. All Japs look alike, the doctors
did not detect the fraud until about
s5,000,000 in policies had been written.
Local insurance men are exercised
about it.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27

fessional work would be and is pre-
scented to the township in which it has
been conducted and the government
with whose own work it is SO closely
connected. Sometimes, indeed, the
work OF these student surveys becomes
the basis of later commercial exploita-
ton, as occurred some years ago in the
case of the excellent water power
which the students proved to exist at
Ellsworth, Maine; but in all such cases
the institute reserves its maps, plans
and reports, and does not permit the
results obtained during the student
surveys to be used commercially and
in competition with professional sur
veyors. The necessity of such dis
tinction is an interesting proof of the
thOrutghness of the work accom-
plished by typical modern students in
what many persons would consider
moe or less of a holiday outing In
fact, the surprise of many persons
who see these surveys for the first
time is like that of the townsman who
told the young man who preceded last
summers party that he could put the
instruments in the wOodshed," little
realizing, as he discovered afterwaru,
that the instruments in question con-
sisted of nearly a railroad freight car
load
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27

vey, the work accomplished is prac-
teal continuation of what the govern
ment experts have already done in the
same district, and the results are &C.
cepted as a real addition to exact
geographical knowledge.
Naturally, however, the large
party of student surveyors cover a
given ,n,trict quickly as we'll as eff
ficiently. During the three weeks
that the students of the Tech were
busily mapping and measuring at East
Machias, for example, about as much
work was accomplished as would have
been done by an ordinary, but natural
ly much smaller, body Of surveyors
in three or four months. The men,
of course, were all advanced students,
young men who are almost ready to
take up their profession on their own
account. and so much interested in the
success of their work that in three
weeks not a single man reported late
for duty; and time was found not only
for completing the work of the survey
but for attending several dances, or
ganized by the hospitable townspeo-
pie for the entertainment of their Wis
itors. and even for the development of
an incidental ball nine. The idea that
all men who give up part of their vaca-
ton to a further pursuit of knowledge
cannot find time to combine business
and pleasure would hardly be admitted
by the present inhabitants of East
Machias.
Few persons. outside of the modern
technical schools, realize the direct
bearing of these summer excursions on
practical problems. East Machiasr
for example, had never been actually
surveyed except directly along the
water front, where the United States
coast and geodetic survey had already
examined the coast line and estab-
lisned certain points as basis for fu-
ture measurements. Starting from
these points and continuing the work
inland. exactly as the government sur
yeyors will some day continue it, the
work of the summer school has added
some inches-which means several
miles of actual country-to the govern
ment map, accurately defining the ele-
walton of different points, the working
mower of the, water courses. the
geological character Of the country and
its more detailed geographical fea'
lures. Maps, as we usually know
them. are exact enough for ordinary
purposes but are far from being the
accurately detailed statements OF
fact that can only be based upon close
observation Of small section OF ter
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27
CITY POLLUTES WATER.
PhiIadelphians in a Bad Way and
Want to Get Out Of a Scrape.

Philadelphia, Pa.-The new ad-
minstration is not satisfied with the.
present method of disposing of the
city's sewage.
1T is inconsistent for us TO com
plain of the towns above us polIuting
sewage into the Delaware and pollute
that river for the places below u.s.
said Director of Public Works Costeis
10.
1.-THE intercepting sewer system Is a
splendid method of disposing of sew
age. In Boston the sewage is carried
nine miles out into the bay. We have
an intercepting sewer in the city but
the sewage is discharged into the
Schuylkill river below the city and it
flows into the Delaware and pollutes
the source from which the towns be
low us get their water supply.
"The suggestion has been made Thar
two new intercepting sewers be built,
one along the Delaware and one along
the west bank of the Schuylkjil.
These two sewers could converge
somewhere down in the 1owlands,
known as the neck" AS to the dis
position Of the sewage there are
number Of methods employed in vari-
Gus cities The hard substances
could be separated from the watery
and burned. and the latter could be-
allowed to settle in the soil, or the
wateIy part could be rendered harm
less by chemical charge. The prob
lem is hard one and would necess.-
tate great outlay Of money"
Director Costello intimated that the
question would be taken up by the va.
rious city officials in the near future.
and that probably the bureau Of SUR
veys would be directed to investigate
the best means for the disposal of the
city's sewage and be called upon 20
prepare plans upon which the cost
could be estimated.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27

the greatest things to warm up hens,
taking the place of pepper and other
stimulants. The hot, pungent quais-
ties of winter radishes and their rapid
growth makes them an exceedingly
cheap adjunct to the poultry ration.
He considers them invaluable, if not
used too freely. The seed can be
broadcasted or drilled in any spare
piece of ground, even as late as Sep
TENDER, and gives good crop.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27

water and allow it to soak for half an
hour. Whip one pint of cream, turn
this into basin, and place in another
of cracked ice; add half a cupful OF
powdered sugar, a tablespoonful of
lemon juice, and two good sized APP
pies grated Dissolve the gelatine
over hot water, strain into the mix.
ture, stir quickly but carefully until
thoroughly mixed. Turn into a mold
and stand away until cold.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27
1T DoDGES THE BAT.
The Making of a Baseball Very Care
full and Painstaking Process

Ihl anu TaifiStaNii9 FiSSSsS-
New York Mail and Express.-The
making of the league ball is a very
careful and painstaking process. 1t
begins as a small globe of India rub
Der about one inch in diameter. A.
few layers of coarse yarn are wound
around this, and then it goes to the
winding machines. The ball is then
wound with four-ply blue yarn about
as thick as ordinary coarse twine. AT
frequent intervals ii is soaked in a
cement solution and put aside 70 dry.
This preserves the shape of the ball
and the solution holds it more firmly
together
In the course of winding the bali
goes through many different hands.
and each workman tests it for size and,
weight before passing it along. The
machines are necessary to make the
winding even and tight, and there are
different machines, according to the
size Of the yarn used and the size
which the ball has attained. These
machines insure tight, firm, regular
winding and a perfect and symmetri-
cal shape. Care is also taken that the
i ball be wound to just the proper size.
! The process by these machines is CON
Quoted in secret in locked room by
trusty wo kmen.
After toe ball has received it's wind
ing of bhe and white yarn, its treat
ment in the cement solution and it's
drying out, it is wound again, and this,
, time with three-ely blue and two-ply
white, and again it is dipped in Co.
ment. The purpose Is to lay rough,
! strong foundation and then build up
ca it, filing IN the uneven places ano
gradually making the perfect saM
ready for the market.
/ The ball is completed, so far as it's
shape and form are concerned, when
the winding is finished. But next
comes the delicate work of putting on
the cover The best of horsehide is
used, and it comes to the factory az
nearly perfect as it can be procured.
Covers of every grade are cut from a
single hide, and the man that can cux
the most high grade covers from the
hides is considered the best man. They
are cut out by hand one at a time and
all thrown into a box together to be
sorted out afterward. Before they
are cut the hide is stretched, and be
fore the cover is put on the hide it is
dampened and stretched again. This
prevents the ball from losing its shape
and the cover from becoming loose.
The ball is then put in clamps and
the cover sewed on. Cotton thread
is used, for its fractional strength is
greater than silk or linen, and there
fore it will stand the wear and tear
better. Each ball is sewed by hand.
and then it is put into a machine
which irons down tho rough edges
Then it is taken to another machine,
! ironed again and polished, and after it
| is stamped and wrapped up in tissue
paper and tinfoil 1t is ready for the
market.
I The ball when finished must weigh
| just five ounces. be nine inches in cir
conference and three inches in dame
I ter. 1t is weighed and measured five
| times in the process of construction.
| The cheaper ball is made in much
the same way, but inferior material is
, used and not nearly so much care is
! taken in the process.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27
Time to Stop.

For many years we have given TIL
question of shoes and stockings much
serious thought, and we can no longer
be reproached with want of care for
the shape of our boots. Today We
not only wear the finest of Chantilly
hose with black shoes, but every
change of costume requires its com
Elementary changes Of shoe leather
and stocking. We have gray doeskin
scarlet leather. white glace kid ard
the palest of glace champagne. kic
with stockings to match. But we are
not content and the latest advices
speak of striped footwear in com
bination of black and white.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27
Roup KILLING Cows.


A strange epidemic has broken ous
among the crows that kills whole
roosts. Upper New York state re-
ports the death of crows by hundreds
and thousands from the strange dis
ease called roup, about which little is
known. The pathological section of
the department of agriculture has be,
gun an investigations Roup attacks
the eyes, according to the New York
Mail and Express. these swell to the
size of hickory nuts and become COW
cred with veillike film. Then the
crow dies, the victim placing its beall
downward and spreading out the wings
just as life departs. Until the atten-
ton of experts was called it was sup
posed that the eyeballs of the birds
were frozen. Death was laid to ensu-
ing starvation. The exact nature of
roup as described by Elon Howard
Elton, who made a careful study of the
epidemic in a crow roost at Canaan
daigua, n. Y, is an acute Inflammation
of the pharynx and anterior portion
of the head, Including the nostrils and
eyes, 1t is prevalent only in winter.
In very mild cases the bird survives
with at least one blind eye Roup
has been reported in the District of
Columbia, New Jersey and New York.
In Ontario county N. Y, over 1000
birds died of the disease. Though gen.
orally regarded as a pest the useful.
ness of the crow in destroying insects
is declared to more than Offset his DIS,
structiOn to crops. For this reason
the department at Washington Is
anxious that cure for roup be found
How to make apples bear during the
off years was brought up at the re.
cent meeting of the Massachusetts
fruit growers association. S. H.
Warren recommended picking off all
blossoms On young trees during the
bearing year and allowing the trees
to bear the odd year. He said that if
one started with young trees and fta-
lowed this plan up for five years, it
would prove successful in changing
the bearing period. w. d. Kinds
told of some men who sprayed their
trees to kill the canker worm, while
their neighbors. who did not spray,
lost all their fruit, but the next year
had 81 900 worth of fruit, while those
who sprayed had none. Prof. May
nard said that thinning, with good
culture and fertilization, would In
duce annual bearing.
The large winter radishes are excel
lent for poultry thinks a Homestead
correspondent in Nova Scotia He
has found that when stored in winter
and one or two boiled and mixed In
the morning mash for fowls, they are
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-27

One kind word to the living is great
er than the grandest shaft ever erect
ed to the dead.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-01
THE TYPICAL EDITOR.

What qualities We associate with the typical editor. the representative publicist of the press? He may be, of course, that rare man who not only possess certain qualities necessary to journalistic success such as foresight of what will be interesting and signifi- cant instinctive appreciation of the kind of news and news treatment which will attract, the administrative an1 organizing faculty which will get the most out of a staff, the business faculty which will make the most out of d plant; but who besides all these, pos sesses through personal gift and train ing the power to grasp great issues and the art to express great thoughts. But this equipment, and properly under modern conditions. comes last of all ?nd is the least esteemed. Those who do the pen work of the press are for the most part unknown by name, pro- fessionally, beyond the immediate cir cle of their associates. Only the small CT provincial cities, and even in these to surprisingly small degree, is the understudy of the 'publicist." the con trolling and directing manager who Is responsible for what is printed, known by. or identified with. his work. And the great public cares as little as it knows. Yet the qualities of compre- hension of issues and expression of views are those which first of all T school of Journalism is founded to de- velop in so far as it is to reaize it's pur- pose of training young men to be pub licists. and thus of raising the pro fession of journalism.-Arthur F. Kim ball in the December Atlantic
Arizona republican., 1903-12-01
A New Fuel.

Edward Atkinson who claims to have produced a high grade fuel from mud. has rival in James Dennis of Rich mond, Indiana, who insists that he has hit upon "a combination of common clay and certain chemicals that pro- duce a first-class fuel" Both At kinson and Dennis turn out the new product in the form of bricks, and it is claimed that the clay or mud. as the case may be. will furnish steady. lasting heat at a nominal cost. But there will be no depreciation in the value of coal mines. right away. NJ. Dennis is unknown, but it is suspected that his name will continue to be what it is. As for MT. Atkinson, while he poses as scientist and economist. he finds the public but little inclined to take up with the fads that possess him from time to time.