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Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
A GUARDIAN NEEDED.
Campaign IL Being Sadly Muddled
at Sycamore Hill.

Campaign IL Being Sadly Mudd1eu
at Sycamore Hill.
It is quite an honor to be private Sec
retary to the president, and If the in
eumbent is discreet there are vast po-
lNical possibilities open to him. At
least two private secretaries became
cabinet officers, Lamont and Cortelyou,
but they did,not make the mistake Of
taking the presidents they served too
literally. Poor Loeb is different, good
fellow, anxious and willing. but not
equal to the task of being good buff
fer for such strenuous soul as Presi-
dent Roosevelt. When President Roose-
welt told Secretary Loeb he did not
want to receive the delegation of Penn
sylvania miners, to plead the cause Of
their Colorado brethren, he did not ex-
pect the delegation would be so persist
ent. He evidently thought that Private
Secretary Loeb would have the political
instinct strongly enough developed to
smooth over matters.
The coal miners have been led to be-
lieve that President Roosevelt could, if
he wished, stop the horrors that the
Republican governor of Colorado and
his militia colonel have committed.
They thought such cruelty as banishing
husbands and leaving wives and chill
dren to starve would rapidly be right
ed, when "knighthood was in flower
again under the generous impulses of
Roosevelt. The miners. poor fellows,
did not understand that Colorado was a
redhot poker at white heat at both
ends, especially when a presidential
election was approaching. President
Roosevelt knew it and had so Informed
Loeb, and he was obdurate. He would
himself lay the matter before the presi-
dent, or the miners could confer with
Mr.. Cortelyou, the chairman Of the ma
tional Republican committee.
The miners went home disgusted and
angry. The president was excited when
he saw the morning papers. His friends
telegraphed him he had made a great
mistake. He turned tail and threw all
the blame on poor Loeb.
Loeb's visions Of glory and power
and sitting at the cabinet board have
vanished, and the presidents expecta-
ton of getting rid Of a difficult job has
failed.
There ought to be political guar
dian appointed for Loeb-and the presi-
dent.
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
For coehrane's Unexpired Term.

For cochrane's Unexpired Term.
Governor White is said to have
finally consented to the appointment
of Edward Engerud as Justice of the
supreme court to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Justice Coch-
rane. The Republican state conven-
tion nominated Engerud as the success
sor to Cochrane, and as he has been
indorsed by the Democrats and the
Prohibitionists and Socialists named
no candidate, Engerud is certain to
be elected.
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
Lightning Kills Three Horses.

During an electric storm lightning
struck and killed three horses and a
dog belonging to P. A. Schumacher, a
farmer near Reynolds. Mr.. Schu-
macher and two men had gone haying
with four horses, and took refuge be.
side haystack. The men were un-
der the wagon and all were stunned,
but not seriously injured. Some hail
fell at Bartlett with slight damage and
at Newberry considerable damage was
done.
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
Sheriff Moody Acquitted.

The jury at Wahpeton brought in a
verdict Of not guilty in the matter of
the removal of George E. Moody from
his Office as sheriff of Richland county,
on charges of malfeasance. The ac-
tion was tried with great warmth both
by the state and the defense. The
jury was out less than one hour.
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
items or 4 WEEK FROM vARl Gus
PARTS or THE STATE.
state Board Of Equalization Has Com.
pleted lts Work Upon Real
Property-Asks for
Receiver.

The state board of equalization has
completed the equalization of real
property, and has begun work UPON
the assessment of personal property. j.
From figures so far completed the to-
tai valuation Of all property in the
state this year will be about $156, ,00O,-
900. an increase Of nearly $10,000,0vo
over last year. The tax rete this yeat
will probably be about $3,50O.0O0 10:
general purposes, a reduction Of 3-10las
Of mill from last year. The follo"-
ing percentages of increase in real ss.
tate valuation were ordered by the
board: Bottineau, s; Cavalier. Is;
Eddy, S; Logan. Is, McHenry. 10;
Mclean, Is; Morton, 10; Pembina, 10;
Ramsey, 10; Richland. 16; Sargent, Is;
Stark. 10; Towner, IL; Traill, 90;
Walsh. 20; Wells, s. The following
decreases we're ordered: Dickey, 90:
Ward, 20; Williams, Is.
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
Fireman will Die.

Engineer Matt Devoix, who had his
leg badly crushed in the wreck on the
500 line last week. suffered the ampu.
tation Of the limb at the hospital in
was broken. is still lingering. but his
case is hopeless.
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
Gasoline Enalne Explode..

S. M. Mclean was probably fatally
injured by the explosion Of gasoline
engine in his confectionery store at
Fargo last week. Fargo's new fire de-
partment had its first experience.
Later 1t was called to respond to
barn fire in another part Of the city.
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
Right In It.

Republicans always right in finance,
says Mr.. Shaw. And right in with
''frenxied finance" Eh, Mr.. Secretary?
New York World. AZ
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
Professor LllIey Dead.

Icy was reported recently at Portland,
Ore. He established the North Da-
kota Agricultural college and was its
6rst president.
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
For eoston Encampment.

The North Dakota veterans will 60
10 the national encampment at Boston
over the 500. starting from Valley
City.
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
Aeeuaed Of train Robberx.

Sheriff Pepper arrested John Chris
tie at Casselton. He Is accused Of
being implicated In holdup On the
Northern Pacific in Montana In June.
Courier Democrat., 1904-08-11
Present nay Trust Busting.

8Fe0e0e LAY VToSt 00ot108.
It now looks as IL George B. Cortel-
you as campaign fund raiser will
come lots nearer busting the trusts
than did Philander Knox as attorney
general.-Atlanta Journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
RADIATEs FROM WOOD
Curious Action Of Section Of Fir Tree
Branch on a Photographic
Plate.

A curious property of wood, whereby
il is able to photograph itself in the
dark, is described by DR.. William ]. Rus
sell, in a paper read before the London
Royal society, and printed in Nature.
Says DR.. Russell:
1T has been shown in former papers
that many substances are capable OF act
ing on a Photographic plate in the dark
and producing a picture OF themselves.
Further investigation shows that this
property belongs probably to all woods,
some, however, being much more active
than others.
ITO obtain a picture, the wood has to
be in contact with, or at a. little dis
lance above, the Photographic plate, and
has to remain there for times varying
from half an hour to Is hours, and to
be at a temperature not higher than
SIS degrees G. (131 FL.
THE wood of the conifers is very act
i've, and gives pictures which are very
definite. The illustration is a picture
of a section of a branch of a Scotch fir,
and shows well the rings of spring and
autumn growth. 1t is remarkable that
the former are very active, producing
in this picture the dark rings, and SO
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
FARM NOTES.

Last year the country raised 1,250,-
900 bushels of cranberries, but this
year the crop is Is to 20 per cent.
smaller.
An Illinois farmer has husked 1913
bushels and AZ pounds, by actual
weight, of corn from n acre. Other
acres are yielding 100 bushels or bet
ter.-Farm and Fireside.
Have you gone over the barn lots
and about the old straw stacks for a
last load or two of manure? If not,
we are sure that it will pay you to
do so, as there are several places on
the farm that need it.-Farmers' Voice.
If stable manure is spread with a
manure spreader on the meadow, 1T
will show very good results for a very
thin coat, and what the hay crop does
not use will be in the soil for the sue
ceeding corn crop.-Farmers' Voice.
A good rotation for mixed farming
is wheat, clover, meadow n year,
cow pasture for one year, corn, oats.
This makes a six-year rotation.
Where there are permanent pastures
on the farm, one year can be cut out
by not pasturing the clover the sec
ond year.-Farmers' Voice.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
PHOTO OF SECTION OF FIR TREE.
(Taken in Dark by Its Own Radiation.)

with the other pictures, the part which
is active in the original is dark in the
picture. The rings seen in the wood
are very sharp and strongly pronounced
in the picture. If the action eXerted on
the plate be owing to the presence OF
hydrogen peroxide. as has been pre-
viously suggested, no doubt it is pro-
duced by the %resinous bodies present
in the wood, but it is remarkable that
there is no action from the dark autumn
wood. Experiments described in the
full paper show that resin exists in the
dark rings, but apparently under such
conditions that it cannot escape. Other
members of the pine group have been
experimental with and have been found
to behave in the same way as the
Scotch fir.
with the spruces the action on the
plate is not SO definite and well marked;
the white wood is always active, but
in some cases the dark rings are also
active, and the pictures are not so sharp
as with the frs. hardwood gives a
very interesting result, for the picture
is the reverse of that of the Scotch fir,
that is, the dark rings in the wood are
the active rings and the light rings are
inactive.
with regard to woods other than
conifers, oak and beech are both active
and give very good pictures, so also does
acacia (Robinia), Spanish chestnut, and
sycamore; on the other hand, ash, elm,
horse chestnut, plane are comparative
ly but slightly active.
Many foreign woods are very active,
but as the annual rings are often not
well developed. the pictures they give
are of a somewhat different character.
The African blackwood, rosewood, CO.
cobola, and many others are very active.
Several of the foreign woods have a
ring of white wood which is quite in
active.
Knots in a wood generally, but not
always. give a good picture. Some OF
the resin in immediate contact with the
knot is in some cases but little active.
The marked difference in properties OF
resins from different sources is de-
scribed, and it is shown how difficult it
is to remove it SO that the wood shall
be no longer active. Boards that have
been exposed to the air for a long time,
as oak boxes 100 or more years old.
rotten wood from the stump of a tree.
and even bog wood have all been found
to be still active. .
in certain cases the picture obtained
on the plate does not resemble the
markings which are visible OF the wood.
With some woods this more commonly
occurs than with others. That this
picture is persistent in the wood is
shown by fresh sections giving the
same result. The true bark of a wood
is apparently quite without action on
a Photographic plate, SO is the internal
pith of a plant"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
WINTER STRAWBERRY BEDS.
The Covering Which Should Be Pro-
vided for Their Protection Dur
ing Cold Weather.

Strawberries are the only small
fruits I am growing. These l cover
nicely from sight toward winter, with
straw or %barnyard manure, says E. l..
Collar, in Orange Judd Farmer. The
latter l find more satisfactory, as it
furnishes plant food as well as cover
ing, and is not blown off by the wind.
| practice cultivation and covering
only the first season after planting.
Afterward, when the picking season
is over, the fields are moved close to
the ground. The after-growth of
plants and weeds furnishes all the
winter protection necessary. With a
dressing of stable manure, a field of
Warfield and Wood will last five and
six years, yielding from 1000 to 5000
quarts per acre each season.
In the spring, when plants begin to
start, the field is well narrowed to get
the weeds and grass packed on the
ground SO the plants can grow through
them. If the covering is too heavy
for this, it is raked off.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23

a. c; males at b. d.; a, b, natural size; C, d.
enlarged.
though rarely numerous enough to kill
those of any size. There is no sign OF
tae San Jose scale, Aspidiotus per-
niciosus Comst., and the turning yell
low of the foliage and death of the
trees would indicate some other cause
for the trouble. We observed condi-
tons somewhat similar to this at the
latter end of the season in western New
York, and there it was due in all prob
ability to excessively wet weather.
The scurfy bark louise may easily be
recognized by its elongated. somewhat
pear-shaped form, the smaller end bear
ing a minute yellow particle, the cast
skin of an early stage. The male scales
are elongated, with a small yelloWlsh
pellicle at one end of a much larger,
three-ridged white scale. They are fire.
quently crowded together in masses n
give an almost snowy-white appearance
to infested twigs. The female scales,
when recent, are almost pure White, but
as they g dust and dirt collect upon
them and they soon become graylsh.
The common name of scurfy bark louise
is bestowed on this species because or
the scurfy, scale-like masses it forms
upon infested trees. The insect passes
the winter as purplish eggs under the
protecting mother scale, the young
appearing in this latitude the latter part
of May or early in June, and in Pennsyl-
vania probably about the middle of May.
Thorough spraying at the time the
young appear with a whale-oil soap
solution or kerosene emulsion, using
one pound of the former to four gallons
of water, or one part of the standard
emulsion to about seven gallons of wa
ter. should destroy most of the insects.
The San Jose scale is very different,
and may be at once distinguished from
the bark louise by its circular outline,
and also smaller size. The full-grown
female scale of the scurfy bark louise
is about one-tenth of an inch in length,
whereas that of the San Jose scale is
only o~ne-sixteenth of an inch in dame
ter. The young scales of the latter spe-
tlCo dlC uoih stay. oOLIctiihCo oiAiOo
black, with a distinct central nipple and
a erayish ring. A most characteristic
feature of this latter species, and n
which distinguishes it from other bark
lice having a circular scale, is that the
green tissues of fruit, foliage and twigs
are usually stained a deep red or purple
in the immediate vicinity of the insect.
This species, unlike the scurfy bark
louise, passes the winter in a partly
grown condition, and does not begin
breeding until about the middle or lat
ter part of June, and continues %produc-
ing young throughout the remainder
of the growing season. 1t is most sue
cessfully controlled therefore by the
application of winter sprays-materials
which are strong enough to kill the in
sects while still under the protecting
scales. Lime-sulphur washes appear to
be the most effectual of anything hith-
erto used for the destruction of this pest.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
vAcCINATE AGAINST RABIES
Pasteur's Latest Method for the Pre-
vention of Hydrophobia in Peo-
pie Bitten by Mad Dogs.

Pasteur's vaccination method for the
prevention of hydrophobia in people
bitten by mad dogs is employed at the
institute for infectious diseases at Ber-
lin. The ''~cultus" ministry has just
published a statement with reference
to the cases of persons bitten by mad
dogs which have come to the knowl-
edge of the authorities during 1908, and
which permit a judgment on the merits
of such vaccination based upon authen-
tic facts.
In the year 1903, 307 persons were Bit
ten by 1874 mad dogs, or dogs suspected
of madness; in 140 OF these dogs hydro
phobia was afterward proved beyond a
doubt, while 13 were found to be
healthy; the rest could not be exam
ined. The 307 persons lived in eight
different provinces-226 of them in east
ern Prussia, western East Prussia, and
Silesia. which are close to Russia.
Thus Russia is again shown to be the
breeding place of this plague. OF those
bitten, 281 proceeded to the institute
for infectious diseases and were vac
,inated. -Four of them died of hydro
phobia and one recovered after a slight
attack. Deaths took place on the thir-
.~y-eighth, ffty-siXth, one hundred and
tenth, and one hundred and ~thirty-fifth
day. respectively, after the bite.
Vaccination has not proved an abso-
lutely certain remedy, even when ap-
piled right after the bite, says Scientific
American. The statistics show, how
ever, that of PSI persons vaccinated only
four died, that is, one and one-half per
cent; while of those not ~vaccinated but
treated medically six per cent. died, and
of those neither v%accinated nor treated
II per cent, died.
in view of these figures" the state
ment proceeds, lit is earnestly to be
recommended that all persons having
the misfortune to be bitten by dogs
either mad or suspected of madness at
once submit to vaccination. The value
of such vaccination is being more and
more recognized. During the last six
years the percentages of persons bitten
who submitted to vaccination were 20,
so. 50, rs, 80 and go, respectively, and
it is to be hoped that in the future every
bitten person will avail ones self of il"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
HAD FINE EYE FOR HAIRS.
Professor Of Natural History Was Too
Keen for Mischievous
Students.

An eminent naturalist who holds-and
fills, as well-a chair in a university, an
nounced to the members of his class one
morning that he had something Of un-
usual interest to show them, relates
Youths Companion.
II lave here, gentlemen" he said,
some hairs from the skin of a young
crested seal, and we will proceed to study
their peculiaEities."
Unfolding the small piece of paper that
contained them, he spread the hairs out
on a sheet of white cardboard and turned
to get his microscope, which was on a
desk behind him.
While his back was turned a roguish
student quickly swept the hairs off the
desk into his hand. and substituted others
very closely resembling them.
Young gentlemen" said the professor,
severely, a moment later, as he glanced
at the sheet of cardboard, there has
been some underground work here. These
are mole hairs"
They never attempted to fool the pro-
fessor again.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
HOW THE ALARM is SET.

each morning in order to get to his own
business on time each day.
It will be seer that this clock differs
in some respect from the familiar time
piece. The method of adjusting the
alarm is entirely from the face of the
timepiece, and is accomplished by the
movement of a secondary dial in the
center of the clock face. In the smaller
dial the figures of the larger n are
duplicated and the smaller disk is turned
until the hour at which it is desired to
be called is covered by an auxiliary
pointer attached to the hour hand. Ifit
is desired that the call be for one morn
ing, it can be arranged in that manner,
but if the signal bell is wanted at the
same hour each morning the clock can
be adjusted SO as to perform this func-
ton.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
Doing Great Work.

Horisant, Mo-, Dec. l9th.-(Special.)-
That Dodd's Kidney Pills are doing, a
great work in curing the more terrible
forms of Kidney Disease, such as Brights
Disease, Dropsy and Diabetes, everybody
knows. But it must also be noted that
they are doing a still greater work in wip-
ing out thousands of cases of the earlier
stages of Kidney Disease. Take for in
stance Mrs. Peter Barteau, OF this place.
She says
Il have been subject to pains in my
back and knees for about three years. but
since / have been taking Dodd,s Kidney
Pills I nave been entirely cured"
Others here tell similar stories. In fact,
in this part of Missouri there are scores
of people who have cured the early symp-
toms of Kidney Disease with Dodd's Kid
ney Pills. The use of the great American
Kidney Remedy thus saved not only the
lives of Kidney Disease victims, but thou
sands of other Americans from years of
sufferings.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
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PROTECTING WATER PIPES.
How Winter Time Annoyances May
Be Overcome by a Simple
Device.

I am speaking from actual expe-
rience with a 60-foot stand-pipe under
a tank. and also with another tank
only 80 feet high. Both of these
pipes are one and one-half inch diam
eter. We tried several methods, and
found the present plan entirely salts
factory. 1t may seem rather eXpen-
sive. but such a job to be improperly
done is much more expensive, as we
have found by experience. The dia-
gram will show just how we do 1t,
a y the Rural New Yorker. Make a
four-inch pipe of heavy galvanized
iron in sections like stovepipe, each
made to slip over the next. Every
second section should have four cop
per wires run through holes IN the
pipe on four sides and opposite to each
other. and the wire soldered on the
outside. also solder the holes up
tight. AS you put each section on,
fasten these wires so the water pipe
is in the middle of the galvanized pipe.
Ii announcement to disconnect your
water pipe to slip these pipes over the
top. then crimp and fasten at top and
bottom with small short stove bolts.
Screw heads on the outside. Then
put the boards on as shown in dia-
gram. Be sure always to break joints.
Do not wrap pipes with anything;
leave them bare; paper and asbestos
get wet in summer and freeze in Win
ter. Do not try to keep the water
from freezing in the pipes by letting
water run through them; it will not
work under most conditions. Unless
the water is very warm in the tank,
it will form ice and freeze quicker run
ming than if noa running. If you
have a windmill to supply the water
by letting the water run and also the
mill, you will be all right, but any
other kind of a supply will not be
satisfactory. l use a gasoline engine
and pump every night just before go
ing to bed a few minutes, and had no
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
Chance Radish Into Potato.

Experts of the Pasteur inst1-
tuse. at Paris, nave just accomplished
the seeming miracle of transmitting a
radish into a potato. Their report,
which has just been made to the
Academy of Sciences, says this was
done by cultivating the humble rad
ish in a special solution of glucose, a
quasi radish at first fiourishing, and
then later when submitted to hem
ical tests was found to be distin-
~grishable in no way from a potato.
Just what use can be made OF this
roundabout method of potato culture
Is not set forth.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
Cultivation of the Orchard.

When the orchard is set is the time
to begin the treatment that is to be
continued from year to year. If the
cultivation of the orchard is begun
early the roots will seek the depths Of
the soil from the first, and the culti-
vator can run over them year after
year without doing them injury. If the
land is not cultivated at all the surface
soil becomes filled with roots and in
the course of years and the ground will
be then plowed with difficulty
Farmers Review
The Tupelo journal., 1904-12-23
Effects of Electric Currents.

The physiological effects of electric
currents nave been investigated by
Prof. Nernst, at Bonn. The safety OF
the human body when exposed to a pow
erful high-frequency electric. current
has been explained as due to passage
of the current over the surface of the
body only, but Prof. Nernst finds the
reason of the currents harmlessness to
be probably that it does not have time
to effect a change in the cellular tissue
before the reversal of the current takes
place. Experiments on frogs have con
firmed the new theory.