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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-02-04
FEATURE OF THE FAIR.
Plans For Good Roads Exhibits at
the st. Louis ExpositiOn.

i Plans For GOOD ROADS EXl1D1tS at
the st. Louis Exposition.
President D. r. Francis Of the st.
Louis exposition committee is an en-
thusiasti: advocate Of improving the
common roads of the country. He is
planning to give good roads a promi-
nent feature of the exposition. In re
cent interview he said:
1T is the desire of the management
to discover the best material from
which roads can be made. We shall
permit those interested in the different
kinds of roadmaking material and the
different designers of plans for coun-
try roads to display their materials and
plans in order that people Of all sec
lions may determine which are the best
materials and methods for making pub
lie highways.
"We hope also by having great in
ternational good roads convention in
connection with the exposition to in
crease the interest which is felt in this
country and throughout the world in
the making Of good roads. Any one
who has been in countries where there
are good roads knows how much easier
life is there. I can remember when
was living on farm myself. The farm
was not on turnpike, but three miles
away from it, and if we had been able
to devote to filling the soil and looking
after the stock the energy and time
wasted in traversing those three miles
of dirt road we would have been able
to pay fifty times over the interest on
the money required to build three miles
Of good roads.
I'm travelling through Europe about
two months ago in pursuance of official
duties I was impressed with the very
superior roadways of that continent
Ours cannot be classed with them. It
is a very ordinary circumstance in
France or Germany or Belgium to hear
OF Americans who are starting out on
a tour Of fifty or hundred miles in
parties Of three or four vehicles and
twenty to fifty people. They spend
large amounts Of money in the country
through which these tours are taken.
What is left there by the tourists who
take advantage Of these good roads is
itself sufficient to pay the interest up
on the cost of those roads.
ut is not only desirable from the
selfish standpoint of material interest
to have good roads regardless of their
cost, but from the standpoint of our
own pleasure, the culture of a commu-
nifty and the enlightenment Of the indi-
viduals who traverse these roads. It is
not only wise, but it is a duty to re-
move an obstacle to advancement
which can be so easily removed as bad
roads,"
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-02-04
NATIONAL AID.
How to Get Uncle Sans Help In
Building Good Roads,

How to Get Uncle Sans Help In
Building Good Roads.
Colonel J. Fl. Brigham, assistant sec
rotary Of agriculture at Washington,
In recent speech at a good roads con-
vention said some things that every
body ought to read. Among other good
things he said:
Il see no reason why the general
government should not appropriate q
certain sum Of money to be expended
in this great work. OF course the
states, counties and local communities
should be expected to cooperate. A
little aid from the general government
would be wonderful encouragement
to all the people. .-. ~ l
81 hear number Of speakers here
saying that we must stir up congress.
Now, I want to impress you with the
idea that we must first educate the
people. When the people are in favor
Of national aid in building good roads
congressman will be in favor of it and
not until then. They are not going
ahead of the people. s
II see no reason why the general
government should not reach out it's
strong arm and help the people of this
country get better means Of communi-
cation. I want to see this movement
pushed with all the energy that is char
facteristic of the American people, When
we undertake to do anything in this
country we do it and do it we'll. We
have started out for better roads, and
we are going forward on this line till
we have as good roads as can be found
anywhere in the world
In these remarks Colonel Brigham
has sounded the keynote of the good
roads campaign The masses Of the
people must be aroused and educated.
Organization is the principal means to
be employed. Conventions should be
held and associations should be organ
lied in all sections Of the country. It
is not enough to get out crowd Of
professional road reformers to make
speeches and pass resolutions. The OBJ
ject in view is to interest practical and
progressive men in all walks of life, to
arouse the Indifferent, to convince the
DIRECTORS and to get up wave Of popu-
lar enthusiasm for better roads, Until
this is done no important results will
be accomplished.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-02-04
HEARING OF FISH.
Harvard ZooloEist shows That New
.4 England IKillifiah Have Ears


AS long ago as the seventeenth cen
fury it was noticed that fish have what
appeared to be ears, and from that
time till we'll in the nineteenth century
nobody doubted that the fish were able
to hear with them. Then European
scientist, experimenting with goldfish,
surprised his fellows by declaring that
the goldfish Of his experiments had
proved that they responded to sound by
feeling rather than by hearing" as
human beings ordinarily understand it,
anu an English scientist discovered
that several kinds Of fish, evidently dis
turbed by any land conclusion that vi
brated the water, were apparently deaf
to inner sounds that didn't vibrate it.
From that time the hearing of fishes
has been one of the mooted questions
of science.
One of the latest investigators, Pro
lessor G. 81. Parker of Harvard uni.
versity, has lately shown by yet an
other series of experiments that a GER
tain fish, the little New England min
now, or ''killifish," does hear, and the
result Of the experiments so far con
Quoted seems to show that some fish
hear sounds as men and women do
while others are genuinely deaf, liv.
ing in perpetual silence and feeling
a sound impression simply as the vibra-
ton which it produces in water is com.
municated to their sensitive bodies.
Many fish, however, although they dc
not use their ears to hear with, find
them of the greatest value in maintain
ing their equilibrium in the water
Without their ears these fishes would
be no more able to swim straight than
an intoxicated man is able to keep q
direct path on his way home from the
club. The ears, in other words, are an
important part in the nervous mechan
ism by which the fish keeps a straight
and upright course through it's native
element.
Hearing itself, as has been pointed
out in the long series of scientific in
vestigatiOns that have been centereC
about fishes ears during the past dec
ade, was probably the last of the five
senses to- be developed. Frogs, toads
and the like, for example, have a very
deficient sense Of hearing as compared
with birds and particularly with dogs
and cats. The natural conclusion is
therefore that the more highly devel
oped fish have a distinct sense of hear
ing, as shown by Professor Parker's
experiments, while others less devel
oped are entirely deaf. Izaac Walton
who knew so much about fish from the
anglers point of view, may in the light
of present knowledge have been giving
moral rather than practical advice
when he warned fishermen Ito be pa
tent and forbear swearing u.
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Only One Gas Yet to Be so1idiied,

Professors Moissan and Dewar have
lately succeeded with the aid of liquid
hydrogen in solidifying fuorin, and
they remark that helium is now the
only gas which has not been obtained
in the solid state. An interesting re-
suit of the experiments was the demon
stration that, although chemical activ-
ity tends to cease at extremely low
temperatures, yet fuorin, which is
known to possess more powerful affini-
ties than any other element, is capable,
even when reduced to the solid state,
of combining with liquid hydrogen
Such a combination, accompanied with
violent explosion, was produced when
the solid fuorin and liquid hydrogen
were kept at temperature of 1925 de.
grees c., equivalent to 1925 degrees F.
below zero. ,.-5 t* e.
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SAVE THE PIECES.
Decorative Possibilities OF Bits al
Broken Glass and China.

Broken Glass and China.
~ Few people realize the really decora
\ tive. possibilities Of the broken china
and stained glass that are usually
j thrown into the rubbish heap as worth
less. Very effective jardinieres, table
tops, vases and fern dishes may be
evolved from the most ordinary materi-
ais, such as unglazed stone Jars or com
mon center tables, by the application Of
putty and bits Of stained glass and bro
ken china
For instance, beautiful jardiniere
may be made with bits Of broken china.
The most suitable foundation for this
purpose is an unglazed jar. This should
be first painted and then covered with
putty one-fourth of an inch deep. The
broken pieces of china Should be
pressed into place and the jar set away
to dry. When dry paint gild and var
nish any putty that may remain visi-
BILE. Vases of oriental or odd designs
eighteen or more inches high are also
handsome when inlaid with broken
bits. If a sufficient quantity is not to
be had at home-a although in the aver
age home where the average twentieth
century servant is employed there will
be no difficulty in this respect-a good
quantity may be secured from a china
store by asking the merchant to save
you the broken pieces when unpacking
goods. OF course you will be expected
to pay him for his trouble. Deep red,
blue. green. brown and yellow shades
form pleasing contrasts with the light
er shades Of tinted ard figured china.
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wonders Of Modoc Couutv

y Probably no other part Of the world,
excepting perhaps the Yellowstone
park, contains so many natural curios-
titles as Modoc county, N. NJ The first.
from a historical point Of view, is the
famous lava beds, scene of the dodoc
war. country Of rocks so full Of caves
that lakes and rivers are swallowed up,
leaving nothing but faint murmur to
show their course through the bowels
OF the earth. In many Of the caverns
an army Of men could hide, and in some
places the intense heat of the rocks is
evidence that internal fires are raging.
In all parts Of the county can be found
mammoth hot springs belching forth
water strongly impregnated with min
erals, and often close BY will be caves
OF the purest ice.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-02-04
Planning q Dinner.

Just as the materials are arranged In
q room, just so should a dinner be plan
ned. Nothing should crowd, nothing
jar. Harmony in choice and in set
ting should be displayed. A well Sc
lected dinner leaves no one with a
sense Of fullness. Hygiene gives to the
one who selects it, be it housewife or
professional caterer, a knowledge of
the illnesses and requirements. Weight
and lightness are nicely balanced, sub
stance and fluff well combined, acids
cut the sweets, and the drinkables
assist a. What to Eat
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-02-04
The Meat Safe.

See that the sides or walls Of your
meat safes are occasionally secured
with soap or soap and slaked quick
lime All places where provisions are
kept should be so constructed that a
brisk current Of cool air can be made
~ pass through them at win. S58ss
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-02-04
Floral SaChet Bags.

Dainty little sachet bags that are
easily made by. nimble fingers present
the flower Of the sachet powder with
which they are filed. For instance, a
violet sachet IS made of piece Of
mauve silk and has a hand painted de
sign Of violets 5.on it, roses, hyacinths
and other flowers being treated in the
same Wav IA S@a@sE 5# s.s
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-02-04
How to Become thin.

Those who suffer from stoutness
should take plenty Of exercise, never
eat potatoes or bread, no suet or fat
and never eat and drink at the same
time tim Thin biscuits or toast may Be
taken, and never touch milk or beer
.If this is persevered with. satisfac-
tory result will follow.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-02-04
Waters Service In Fertilizinr.

The mechanical effect of blowing in
green crops is not in the plant food
they add to the soil so much as in the
mechanical effect the vegetable matter
has upon the soil, making it more por-
GUS and enabling it to retain more
moisture and hold it longer All Of
our richest virgin soils are made so
by the successive growths of grass or
other plants that have been Incorporate
ed with the soil annually for long peri
DDS of time. Our bottom lands are
more fertile than any other They have
been fed by annual crops of forest
leaves and fallen timber and also by
repeated freshets that leave, as often as
they occur, thin stratum of sediment
rich in both mineral and vegetable sub
stances that help plants to grow Veg
etable matter, being specifically light,
readily rides on floating water, and
when this water flows over the level
expanse and eyaporates or soaks into
the soil the mineral plant food held in
solution and the vegetable matter com
b1ned with the water are left to enrich
the land for future generations Of
farmers. Water is the great vehicle Of
fertilizing elements.-Farm and Ranch.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-02-04

Government Collects and Sells Eggs.
In connection with the system of
government creameries the Canadian
department of agriculture has adopted
the plan Of collecting eggs from the
farmers Of the territories and holding
them in storage. 1t worked well the
first season and has improved ever
since. The plan adopted is as fol-
lows: Each creamery patron has num-
Der. He is required to mark his num-
Der in pencil on all the eggs he sup.
plies. No driver will accept the eggs
without the number being on. These
eggs are sent from the creamery in
Refrigerator cars with the butter to the
storage at Calgary, where the eggs are
examined and classified BY an expert. Il
The department advances Is cents
per dozen on the eggs at the time they.
are received, and later the farmer gets
the remainder according to the classifi-.
cation. This year the average price to-
the farmer will be about 20 cents per
dozen for the season, yor fully double
what could have been btained locally. 4
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-02-04

1854 Oscar BOSNIAN, board of en-
5sy Slueef - 4,
$3.50 o L Hamery, engineers ser
vices and expenses -. >. I!
1902 Warrants paid in 1908
1858 John Il. Ostrom, partial pay
ment on contract -. -. &
4004 X Wood, IL days team
hire and expenses -. ....
4346 VIM Harris, one. days service
as rOdman $500. 49,.
4347 Oscar BOSNIAN, board of en-
III gineer and crew -. 49,. -.
4349 J + Graham, livery hire for
.@ engineer 80. 80. 49,.
1850 r e Strassburger, 5 days as
rodman and making plats :.
1880 l. Henderson, bondsman, full
paymnt on Rhinehart bridge
ss contract SO. 80. -. ;. .
&441O John e OStrom, partial pay
ment on contract -. IL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-18
ROCKFORD.
Games. Biting.
DUST FROM THE DIAMOND.

The knocker is having his innings
once more in Rock Island.
Shame on Springfield. That was like
taking candy from baby at Rockford
yesterday.
Scotty Bankers team defeated Ted
dy's Colts in Harder's pasture yester-
day afternoon by a score of 10 to 10.
There were two games at the Moline
Athletic park Saturday afternoon. the
Sechlers defeating the Velies to 3,
and the Plow company's trimming the
Deere & Co.'S 10 to 4.
Misfortune never deters the Rock
Island management. More new play
ers, with a view TO strengthening the
team. are on the string. Hessler, the
catcher formerly with Rockford, was
signed today. He was ordered to join
the club at Rockford tomorrow.
1t is stated that Jesse Ruby. the for
mer idol of the Davenport fans, has
jumped the team. At any rate he was
not playing Saturday or yesterday.
Saturday he told a friend that he
would never play with Davenport
again. The knocker has disguised
Ruby.
President Ed Holland has had an
other lapse of memory. Two weeks
ago he refused a request of Rock Isl
and to play a double-header with
Bloomington. He said that all double
headers would be postponed to the last
series. Still there was one at Rock
ford yesterday.
Dennison left Saturday evening for
Cedar Rapids to join the Rock Island
| team in answer to a telegram from
| Manager Miller. who stated that Hill
| bad been taken sick and was leaving
| for his home in Chicago. Dennison
| covered short yesterday. Hill had
been playing with the Spaldings OF
| Chicago, taking part in an average OF
one game a week, and IL is supposed
working every day on the ball field
proved too strenuous for him, and be
will have to rest up after his first
| week.
Peoria is once moro without a pro
| fessional ball team. The city has sur
| rendered the Central franchise. ant
the club will wander about homeless
the remainder of the season. Here is
a chance for the Thrce-Eye to- tie uI
with city that wonld be a great i'm
provement over some OF the weak sis
tiers that have been dragging along Oh
q day today existence since the open
ing of the season. Peoria vas asso
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-18

ciated with Rock Island in the West
ern association. 1t was good base
ball town in those days. 1t is now,
if the right article is furnished.
Davenport has a convenient way of
getting rid of a regular umpire when
conditions grow so desperate on that
side that Il game must be had whether
or no. Rock Island fell victim to
this Capcr the morning of the Fourth,
and Decatur suffered similarly ycster-
day, but got away with it Saturday in
spite of the cards that were played
against that team by the local umpire
scheme.
Rock Island is not in the least dis
heartened. There may have been mis-
takes made by yielding too much TO
public clamOr as is invariably the case.
But Rock Island is still in the game,
and regardless of results or other cir
cumstances will maintain it's team,
weed out the poor material and get to.
gether once more "A winning aggrega-
| ton of players. Rock Island is not one of
| those towns that must have everything
| its own way in order TO keep a ball
team going
Kohley Miller is the best second
baseman in the league. and it is hoped
will see the error of bis way IN dis
putting the umpire so strenUOusly
and yet prove a first rate manager
| While there can be no excuse for his
action Yesterday. stjll Umpire Milan S
conduct against the Rock Island team
at Bloomington. when without provoca
/ ton he ran Thornton out Of the
| grounds and openly threatened Miller
with the same treatment, must be re
/ membered.
Umpire Joe Lobeck came over tc
| Rock Island Saturday afternoon To en-
/ JOY the scenery OF n modern city and
| made way for Butch Eggers. the sub
stitute at Davenport, in the Davenport
| Decatur game. No explanation for In
heck not officiating was given, but il
was apparent 70 any one that was al
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-18
GAME STORMY ONE
Manager kohIey Miller and Umpire
Milan Come to Blows on the
Cedar Rapids Diamond.
PLAYER PUT OUT OF eRouHDs
After Having n % Fine PIastered on
HIm-ROck Island Is shut Ont
-I2 Scores on 10 Hits.

Cedar Rapids. July 18.-The opening
came in the series with Rock Island
yesterday was about the most sensa
tional that has been Witnessed on the
local grounds for year or more. The
visitors were outplayed at all points.
The Rabbits were in fine fettle and
played in their old-time form, giving
Ficne faultless support, and running
bases like deer. Manager Kohley
Miller, of Rock Island. grew huffy in
the seventh inning on account of a de
cision and threw the ball over the
fence. Umpire Milan fined him s. for
profanity. and then Miller struck the
official There was a lively mixup be-
tween the two until the other players
and the police interfeTed. Miller was
then put out of the grounds. The
score:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-18

the park on the other side on that day
that Eggers was doing his best, for
the home team. 1t was the most flag
rant piece of Partially ever seen in a
professional game, but at that he could
not get away with it, No mercy was
shown the Decatur boys, but they
played TO win, and they came out on
top. though it took y innings to do il.
With a fair umpire there would have
been nine innings and the score would
have been to in favor of the visit
ing team. Davenport wanted the game
Saturday to help draw a crowd yes
terday, when there was a big falling
off in attendance, not more than one
thousand people being there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-18
BrutaIIy Tortured.

A case came to light that for per-
sistent and unmerciful torture has
perhaps never been equaled. Joe Col
Obick, Of COlusa, Cal, writes: For -
years | endured insufferablc pain from
rheumatism and nothing relieved me.
though / tried everything known.
came across Electric Bitters, and it's
the greatest medicine on earth for
that trouble. A few bottles OF it com
pletely relieved and cured me" Just
as good for liver and kidney troubles
and general debility. Only 80 cents.
Satisfaction guaranteed by Hartz &
Ullemeyer, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-18
BEAT ORION AGAIN
Rock Island independents Put it Over
the Henry County Team at
the Local Park.
LOCALS PLAY WITHOUT ERROR
Thirteen Hits Gathered on C. Wilson.
the TUIster Passer for the
Visitors.

Orion played a return engagement
crack amateur baseball team, yester-
day, and received a drubbing that will
go down in history as the most severe
reversal that the team from the coun-
ty that boasts of its Catcher Maurice
Smith and Pitcher Arthur Lundin has
suffered these many years. The score
was II to o.
The game took place at the Twelfth
street park, and there were nearly as
many people there as there were at
the league contest at the park in Dav-
export. The Independents have not
lost a game this season. and they have
not turned down a challenge from any
amateur team that they have heard
from thus far. Will Carse was the
only member of the team missing from
the lineup. He has a lame foot and
Clyde Horne, of Peoria, was secured
to play the position.
The Independents played without an
error. while the boys from Orion miss
cd a dozen just by one. Swanson, the
center fielder. had a serious time of it.
missing six flies that were knocked to
his territory. Wilson, the Independ-
ent's pitcher, allowed only four hits.
There was a Wilson on the slab for
Orion also. but he was touched up for
Is safeties, Mckinley having the hit
ting hOnors for the day. In four times
up he got four hits, one of them a
homer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-18
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
New York. 8; Detroit, /.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Chicago. 9; Philadelphia, 6.
st. Louis, 6; Boston, 3.
Cincinnati, 2; Brooklyn, f.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Kansas City. 5; Columbus, 6.
Minneapolis. IL; Indianapolis. 4.
St Paul. 4; Toledo. 2.
Milwaukee, 2; Louisville, 8.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Omaha. 2; Des Moines. 1.
Colorado Springs. 6; st. Joseph. ..
Denver, 2r10; Sioux City, 1-G.
THREE-EYE LEAGUE
Cedar Rapids. u; Rock Island. o.
Davenport, 3: Decatur, 0.
Rockford. 2-1; Springfield. All.
Dubuque. 2; Bloomington. ..
CENTRAL. LEAGUE
Fort Wayne. q; Wheeling. =
South Bend, 4 Terre Haute. 2.
Grand Rapids. / E.. Evansville. l.
Dayton, SO; Peoria. 20.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-18

Summary: Bases on balls-Off c.
Wilson. 3; off G. Wilson, 3 Two base
hits-Benson, Sellmer. Home run
Mckinley. Hit by pitcher-McGinley
Struck out-By G. Wilson. 10; by G.
Wilson, Q. Double plays-Hanson to
Horne to Sellmer; Benson to Sellmer
Umpire-CIyde Porter