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WI tIz s:eslT 7T4E SAP RUNS.
xncOnstant Spring Brings the Maple
Sap Flow In Vermont,

Sap Flow In Vermont.
1t begins to warm up bit along late
in March in Vermont. The nights are
still frosty, but the sunny days are
genial. and there is a suggestion in the
air of the coming of the spring. If at
this time the trunk of the sugar maple
is tapped by boring into it for a depth
Of three inches or less and a "sap
spout or spigot is inserted the sap
exudes and falls, drop by drop, quick
~ or slowly. according to the weather
and tie time of day. The flow is err
ratio and is governed by a multitude of
conditions
The sap at first is a water clear and
slightly sweet liquid. but as the sea-
son progresses the flow tends to lessen,
and the sap is apt to thicken and to be-
come cloudy or even somewhat Shiny
at times. The duration of the sap flow
is dependent upon weather conditions.
1t may be fairly continuous for some
time, but is commonly broken up into
distinct periods known as runs"
The swelling of the leaf buds prepar-
atory to bursting marks the end of the
flow or season" Moreover sap flows
mostly in the daytime. occasionally at
night and to any extent only on what
are known as good sap days A good
sap day" or "a good run of sap" oc-
ours only after the air temperature has
remained below o degrees c. $50 de-
grees F. for some time. If, following
this, the temperature rises materially
above that point the sap flows. If the
day be too bright, warm and sunny
the flow is apt to start up briskly and
soon lessen or cease, or If winds be
high the flow is soon checked If the
sky be overcast and the air has warm
ed up little satisfactory run is like
~ to ensue. Alternate freezing and
thawing, moderately warm days fol-
lowed by freezing nights. are the ideal
meteorological conditions which pro-
mote the flow. So lol- l-e air TEN.
peratures remain constant, whether
warm or cold, there is little or no SAP
dOW
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NOVEL POWER WINDMILL.
A Plan Designed to Give an Idea of
the Working Parts.

In response to many inquiries for a
working plan of novel power wind
mill recently illustrated a writer in
Rural New Yorker sends that journal
plan which he hopes will give clear
idea of the principle and working parts
of the mill. The mill should be built on
the center of the building and as near
where power is required as possible.
For u by u foot wheel giving about
eight horsepower would require by 6
inch corner posts, by inch braces,
2 by 10 inch plates, 2 by inch rafters,
either fiat or four sided roof. In the
cut the part marked A shows the floor
and ceiling plan. The floor is a little
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Saves Two From Death.

"Our little daughter had an almost
fatal attack of whooping cough and
bronchitis" writes Mrs. w. X. Havi-
land, of Armonk, N. Y, "but when all
other remedies failed, we saved her
life with DR.. Kings New Discovery.
Our niece, who had consumption in
an advanced stage, also used this Won
derful medicine and to-day she is per
fectly WE'LL" Desperate throat and
lung diseases yield to DR.. Kings New
Discovery as to no other medicine on
earth. Infallible for Coughs and
Colds. SOC and S1.OO bottles guaran-
teed by Beat N. Weldon. Trial
bottles free. %"
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Where She Had Felt

"See here" exclaimed Mr.. Clubb up
on discovering next morning that all
his Change" was gone. During your
talk to me when l came in late last
night l believe you remarked among
other things that woman feels where
man Thinks"
81 did" replied his wife. You have
no feeling, and
well. merely want to say you're
mistaken if you suppose l do nv
thinking in my pockets."-Catholic
Standard and Times.
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sleeve and lever is given. The iron
ring, which is in halves, marked Y.
works in the groove marked X. One
END OF the lever is fastened in the roof;
the other has a rope reaching the floor
below. The shaft should be one and
one-quarter inch for this size wheel
ana rests in an iron shoe, which should
be Kept filled with oil. Boxes on the
main shaft are placed above and below
the wheel and at proper distances be-
low. Power is obtained by bevel gears
and a horizontal shaft in any direction
and any reasonable length.
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II.
The American Royal live stock show
is announced for Oct. II to %. inclu-
sive' at the Kansas City stockyards.
The range car lot is to be a prominent
feature, with attractive premiums. and
the total of premiums for exhibits will
be $4,000. 1t is believed that mapv
OF the fine exhibits made at the worlds
ra1r will be repeated here. C. R. Thorn.
as, Kansas City, is general manager
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this wheel and
the lower wheel
and hold the
cups open in the
wind. The plan
also shows the
chains passing
from the loose
wheel over two
pulleys on each
side and down
through the roof
and fastening to
a loose sleeve on
the shaft, from
whioh n Iovou
opens and shuts
the wheel. A
OlaO of tbie
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Electric Farming by Day and Might.

Electric Farming by Day and Night.
The attempts of the big western farm.
ers to replace horsepower with mechan.
ical motors have been many. Steam
tractors are now by no means unfamil-
lar, but with them there is always dan
ger to the crops by fire in very dry
weather. Electricity is a source of in.
terest in these schemes. An exchange
states that Dakota farmer is expert
menting, with prospect of success. with
an electrical motor. The power is gen
Grated far away from the field and
transmitted in the usual way to a now
er mast set up in the field. A double
cable connects this with the motor.
which is mounted on a carriage. Gang
pillow, cultivator or harvester is then at.
tached to the motor. The area TO he
worked is extended by setting I'D DOW
er masts at intervals, and the crownine
touch to the scheme is to mount arc
lights on the masts, so that during
wheat planting time the work NAV go
on by night as well as day.
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Are You Using Allen. ROOt.Es..,

snake INTO your shoes Aliens Foot Ease
a powder. 1t cures Corns, Bunions. Pai,
I I, Smarting. Hot. Swollen feet A. ali
druggists and Shoe Stores, Csc. o.
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two explorers who have penetrated far
ther north than Peary. The latter spent
the winter of 1901-02 at Payer Harbor,
near Cape Sabine. On March 3, 1902, an
advance party of six sledges, under the
command of Mr.. Peary's colored serv-
ant, Matt Henson, started to transport
provisions to Fort Conger, and on the
sixth Is more sledges left Cape Sabine.
From Fort Conger it was necessary to
carry supplies to the edge of the ocean
at Cape Hecla, and thus difficult pre-
llminary journey of more than 400 miles
had to be accomplished before the ex-
petition could leave the land-a jour
ney that would have been unnecessary
had the expedition carried party
strong enough to establish a headquar-
tiers at the limit of solid land.
On April 1, with Henson, four Es-
quimos and six sledges, the leader set
forth over the rough ice of the Polar sea.
After Is days, confronted by small foes,
of which the edges were crumpled into
mounds sometimes so feet high by the
pressure of the pack, he was forced to
abandon further advance. He reached
Cape Hecla on April "a and continued
to Cape Sabine, where he arrived on
April 29. The auxiliary steamer Wind
ward. bearing Mrs. Peary and her daugh-
ter, Marie Anneghito. who was born in
the frozen north during the expedition
of 1898, reached Payer Harbor on Au-
gust 8, took off the explorer and his
party and made towards home.
The plans to reach the pole in the flu
ture, as announced by Mr.. Peary, are an
evolution of schemes put forward at diff
ferent times by various explorers, name
ly: A headquarters on the furthest at
tainable land, supported by a line of
caches down to the limit of regular nav
igation; a large supporting party to re-
plenish the supplies of the caches and
of the headquarters; and a dash with
light party over the ice foes. The new
features of Mr.. Peary's plan are light
pioneer party to go in advance of the
main party. for the purpose of mapping
out route, and the use of EsquimauS
in the preliminary work In fact, the
expedition has in mind the redistribution
CT the entire tribe of Whale sound Es-
quimaux in series of settlements ex.
tending from Cape Sabine in the south
to Cape Hecla, the proposed point OF
departure of the dash for the pole"
With plans carefully laid, and Com
mander Peary's long experience in arc,
tic exploration to overcome the diff.
culties, there is reason to hope and ex-
pect that he will reach the goal of his
ambition, if it is possible for man to
reach the pole at all.
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splendid arctic work which Mr.. Peary
was to do later. The first expedition was
made in 1892, and consumed IL
months, spent in northern Greenland.
A 1.20O-sledge journey was made across
the ice cap of Greenland, and the crown
ing success of the expedition was the
determination of the insularity Of
Greeland.
One year later, in 1893, Commander
Peary again penetrated to north Green
land. and made 25-months' stay there.
He again covered 200 miles by dog
sledges, crossed the ice cap again, COM
pleted the study of the Whale sound ma
tiyes. and made detail survey of that
region. In addition to this, the explorer
made the discovery of the great Cape
York meteorites.
The third trip, or rather trips, for
1896 and 1897 saw Commander Peary
making summer trips to Meteorite
island, was devoted to the securing of
the meteorites previously discovered
One meteorite called the Woman"
and weighing $500 pounds. and an
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Turks were SO taken by surprise by
the act of England that they did not
seriously oppose the entrance OF the
naval fleet, but when, at the end of
week, the feet was forced to repass
the forts it was only at great loss
TO the English.
There is nothing in Turkey upon
which money is so lavishly expended
as upon the Notifications on both sides
of these straits. Gen. Miles inspected
these Notifications at the time of his
visit to Turkey during the Greco-Turk-
ish war. and says of the Notifications
along the Dardanelles:
For several miles after entering the
straits (from Constantinople) there are
no forts, the channel being wide and
the banks high; but about ten miles
from the mouth the stream narrows and
there is a sharp bend. Here are the
most formidable works defending Con-
stantinople, consisting of ten forts on
the European side and five on the Ash
attic All of these forts have been mod
ernized and mount the heaviest Of re-
cent guns. After passing this point or
the Dardanelles the straits widen again
and there are no more Notifications
until the mouth is reached. Here again
the banks bristle with guns"
From the Black sea COnstantinople
is protected by the Notifications along
the Bosphoros. Should the Black sea
feet attempt to pass into the AEGEAN
these are the first Notifications they
would encounter. Along either bank
of this 20 miles of narrow waterway
are stretched II forts. Some of these
are so antiquated as to be comparative
ly useless, but many of them are mod
ern and mount heavy ordnance. Some
of the older ones date back as far as
the fourteenth century. The pictur-
esque Roumelia Hissar, or Castle OF
Europe is among the most interesting
of all the forts along the Bosphoros,
but it is comparatively useless. The
Bosphoros, like the Dardanelles, is fa-
nous in history Darius with his 700,-
900 men crossed here, as did also Keno
phon with his 10000 men on their re-
turn to Europe.
The fleet which the various interna-
tional treaties, and the Turkish fortifi-
cations have locked in the Black sea
number among it's ships some of the
best in the Russian navy. The fleet is
also comparatively modern, as it has all
been built since 1886, when the first
three ships were laid down. The fleet
consists of three first and five second
class battleships, and while not large,
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freed the Bear.

A large black bear was tracked to his
lair in a tree between Minneapolis and
st. Paul.
A large number of people noting the
large tracks in the snow joined in the
chase, which proved exciting, as it was
conducted entirely without the aid of
firearms.
A local museum was moving a part
of the menagerie, consisting of four
wolves, two coyotes, two bears, etc,
from their quarters in Minneapolis to
the museum at Harriet island in st.
Paul. On the way over one of the two
bears got loose and made immediate
tracks for the woods.
The keepers followed on the run and
finally brought bruin to bay, when he
took refuge in tree. He was at last
coaxed down by libations of honey and
other sweets
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THE CONDITION OF BUSINESS
IMPROVEMENT SHOWN IN SPITE
OF BAD WEATHER.
Retailers Making Extensive Prepare
tons for Spring Trade-The
Future Trade.

New York, March 7.-R. G. Dun e.
Co.'S weekly review OF trade says:
Business continued, to improve, de-
spite the difficulty of low temperature
and high prices. Weather conditions
have been singularly unpropitious,
deep snow retarding distribution of
merchandise and excessive cold delay
ing the opening of spring trade and
structural work. Yet retailers are MAX
ing extensive preparations and plans
are submitted for numerous building
operations. Prospects have improved
on the Pacific coast. where much
needed rain has fallen. and reports
prosperity. Buyers continue to arrive
at the leading markets. but the vol
ume of trade is restricted by high
prices, particularly for Gotten goods.
1t may be said with some degree of
assurance that the iron and steel H.
dustry has made further progress in
the right direction and the prospect is
brighter than it has been at any time
during the winter.
Failures this week in the United
States are 236 against 24O last week,
2S7 the preceding week and 229 the
corresponding week last year. Fail
ures in Canada number q, against %
last week, 20 the preceding week anil
16 las; year"
Bradstreet's says: Trade and in
dustry are still irregular. being &C,
tive in favored sections, but hampered
IN others by the rrolongation of win
ter weather, with it's concomitants of
delayed transportation, car shortages
or floods. Southern trade advices. as
heretofore, reveal sustained activity;
southwestern reports show improve
ment, and western dispatches are
rather more optimistic. though the vol
ume of business is noS equal to a year
ago in that part Of the country, nor
in the east. where wholesale and re
tail trade is backward. Among the
industries reports indicate an activ
ity in iron and steel, and prices OF
some grades of iron Ermer. hut tht
iron ore situation is not yet settled
the coke supply is Insufficient and a
soft coal strike overhangs western in
dustry generally. The agricultural sit
uation on the whole is one of grea;
strength, and a record. breaking acre
age will go into cotton."
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Chased by Wolves.

To be chased across the ice a dis
lance of five miles with pack of mad
wolves in hot pursuit. and burning his
clothing to keep the animals off, was
the adventure which Otto Bremner ex-
perienced
Bremner is employed at the Schroed-
err lumber camp in Cook county and
while going to Tafte, postoffice down
the shore, for supplies, he noticed a
pack of wolves a short distance out on
the ice feeding on the carcass of deer
they had run down, He tried to sneak
by without being noticed, but their
sharp eyes viewed him, and they were
soon in full chase He had pack up
on his shoulders, and reaching for a
garment therein, set it afire. and ran
with a flame streaming behind him.
When one garment was consumed he
lighted another, and finally the pack
sack itself itself was used as torch
and before he reached Tafte he strip
ped off his macintosh and consigned
it to the flames.
The wolves were in hot pursuit, but
kept at a considerable distance from
the blaze. Bremner was completely
exhausted from his race for life, but
barring a few burns upon his hands
and face. he was little the worse for
adventure
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scribing his first Journeys into the po-
lar regions when he says: 1.-The con-
slant incentive in my work has been
an ineradicable feeling that l saw
something before. me worthy and posi-
bic of accomplishment, and that could
never have content until it was done,
or that had satisfied myself that was
not the one to do it." And the prepara-
lions which Peary is making for fifth
try for the pole is proof that he still be-
lieves that the pole can be reached and
that there is no good reason that he
should not be the one to win the prize
In fact, every successive expedition
which the commander has made has
strengthened his convictions that the
pole can be reached, and that conditions
being favorable, he is the one who can
reach it.
In 1886 Peary made summer voyage
and reconnaissance of the Greenland in
land ice, and it was preliminary to the
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this time as to threaten war upon Rus
STA unless these demands were COM
piled with, and for a time it seemed as
though all Europe would become en-
tangled in one great contest Russia,
seeing herself far outclassed in fight
ing strength by the combinations
formed against her, finally consented
to the calling of congress, and it met
at Berlin on June Is, 1873, with Prince
Bismarck as president. The congress
settled the many vexed problems con-
fronting Europe at that time, and
among other things left the Darda-
nelles closed. 1t was during the ses-
sions of this congress that the compile
ton of a treaty of alliance between
England and Turkey was announced,
an announcement which played
prominent part in the settlement of the
Dardanelles question before the con-
greSS.
AS this congress was participated in
by all of the great powers OF Europe
and as all were parties to the treaty
concluded there, the passage of the
Black Sea feet through the Dardanelles
even with the consent of Turkey would
be an affront to every nation of Europe
if they wished to consider it such. That
England would oppose it, even to the
extent of a declaration Of war, there
can be but little doubt, for it would
confront her with a new danger for
her possessions in India and the Medi
terranean.
The narrow straits which connect the
Mediterranean with the Sea of Mar
mora and the Black sea have played
a prominent part in the history of Eu-
rope from the earliest times. Xerxes
with an army estimated by historians
at more than 5000, 900, including camp
followers, crossed the straits on a
bridge of boats at the time of his dis
astrous campaign against the Greeks,
4SO B. C. All the land invasions of Eu-
rope by the Asiatics necessarily fol-
lowed the same route.
The straits were not fortified until
the reign of Mohomet ". in 1863, un-
der whose direction there was. built the
castles of Sestos and Abydos on oppo-
site shores. The building of these cas-
ties virtually marked the closing of
the straits to the commerce and the
navies of the world, excepting at the
will of Turkey, until the treaty of Paris
of 1856 opened them again to the
unrestricted passage of merchant YES
sells.
England felt the strength of the
Turkish Notifications in 1907 when she
sent fleet of warships past them to
compel the sultan to renounce an al
lance he had made with Napoleon, and
renew an alliance with England. The
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SIX TRAINMEN DROWNED.
Bridge Couapses Near Irondale, o.,
and Two Engines Are Thrown
Into the River.

Cleveland, O., March six men
were drowned and four others injured
as result of the collapse of bridge
spanning Yellow creek, near Irondale.
on the Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad,
Saturday. Ten men were on two loco
motives that attempted to cross the
bridge close together.
The dead: j. F. Mas, engineman;
J. j. Henderson, fireman; George Phil
lips, conductor; Thomas Kerr, fire
mans apprentice; T. j. Coontz, brake
man; A. ]. King, fagman.
Most of the men lived at Wellsville,
O. Of the IL men making up the crews
of the two engines all went down ex-
cept one man left at one end of the
bridge as flagman.
The bridge had been weakened by a
cloudburst that occurred Thursday.
The engines had hauled out two work
trains and were returning to Wells
vile for water when the accident oc-
Cured.
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other the Dog" somewhat smaller,
Kite and brought back home. Peary,
in the following year Q89O, returned
and, after tremendous and marvellous
skill. succeeded in bringing down to the
shore and placing upon the Hope the
Cotton meteorite called the Tent" be-
cause of it's peculiar shape.
Peary returned from his fourth ex-
petition to Greenland and his attempt
to reach the pole in 1902, and still be-
lieves in the Smith sound route There
are two routes, the Franz Josef Land
route and the Behring strait route, and
although in 1902 there were various
polar expeditions from the different
routes, the vexed question as to the best
route was not settled. Mr.. Evelyn B.
Baldwin, whose deliberately equipped
and expensive expedition set out to gain
the pole by way of Franz Josef Land,
failed, it is said, because of bad ma
terial in the party and owing to in
sufficient equipment. The trouble
growing out of the abortive attempt,
and the dissatisfaction of Mr. Zeigler,
who furnished the funds for the expedi-
ton, are still fresh in the public mind.
The only explorer who returned in
1902 with valuable discoveries was Capt.
Otto Sverdrup, who was commander
of the Fran during Nansen's drift across
the Arctic ocean in 1895, and who had
set forth in the same vessel in 1898 to
make explorations in Greenland waters.
Peary, as we have said, still believes in
the Smith sound route. and will try for
the pole again from that direction. In
his dash for the pole" in 1902 he found
himself unable to proceed beyond lati-
tude "a degrees and II minutes, mainly
because of men and delay in starting
across the sea ice, due to the fact that
his headquarters were too far south of
the Polar ocean. hansen had previ-
ously reached sc degrees and ID min
utes north latitude, and Duke of Abruzzi
Sc degrees, 81 minutes. so that there are
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as modern fleets go, it would give Rus
if it could be added to the Baltic feet
and what is left of the Pacific feet
The three first class battleships, Cath
crime H., Tchesme and Sinope are mon
sters of their kind. Their measure
ments are as follows: Displacement.
10,1S0 tons; length between the peJpen-
diculars, 800 feet; beam, 60 feet;
draught, 25 feet. The compound armor
belt has a maximum thickness of Is
inches, and the triangular rebout is
plated with ten inches. This rcdoubt.
or citadel, is special feature 1t pre-
sents it's base to the bows, and, mas
much as two 12-inch Sc ton guns are
coupled en- barbette at each of the an
giles, the bow fire is exceedingly power
full. The six heavy guns are mounted
on the disappearing guns principle, and
only show over the top of the redoubt
when about to fire. OF the seven six
inch guns, four are also disposed for
bow fire and three directed astern.
Another remarkable vessel in this
fleet is the Trisuititelia, which is the
heaviest protected ship in the world.
Some of the vessels of this fleet are
speedy, running from 16 to 10 knots an
hour. The Rostislav burns oil for fuel
and made Is knots on her trial trip.
Whether or not this fleet will sue
coed in getting out of the trap in which
it is caught by International complica-
tons is a question that only time can
answer, but if it does it should give
good account of itself in the far east.
or it will at least prove whether or not
the Russians are adopts at naval con-
struction, for the entire fleet is neces-
sarily of Russian build.
DANIEL CLEVERTON.