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The Cook County herald., 1905-10-28
To Win in Life.

Do we not pay so much attention
to mere material success that we ex
clude from mind and heart other
things more precious? 1 am anxious
(says Albert j. Beveridge) that every
young man should win in all the con.
flicts of life-win in college and in
buslness-but am even more anxious
that. through all of his triumphs he
should. grow ever broader, sweete1
and" more kindly. After all, we are
human beings. We do not want to be
mere machines of success, do we?.
That is carrying our mechanical age
little too far. We want to keep that
within us which makes our victory
worth having after we have won it.
What matter your mountains OF
wealth, or your network of political
poyer, or those secrets which, in your
laboratory, you have wrung from Ma.
ture- what matter all, and everything
that the world calls Success" if the
human quality has been dried up in
you? 4 'si" 4..=,= n, .-
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A Pre-Revoiutionary Relic.

lieve in Cracked wheat" and -four
which includes the brown silicated
husk Of the grain can make their store
of meal of different sorts for the dark
er kinds of bread.
It is said that in Mexico, in Ireland
and Scotland, the low cost of ma
chine-refined flour is putting white
bread within the means of the poor
est classes who are now eating less
nutritious loaf than heretofore For
what says the German proverb?
BLACK bread , makes red ! cheeks"
Many people are convinced that the
boiling Of meal so thoroughly as to
obtain very white flour, not to speak
of the alum used by bakers to give
= brilliant appearance to the loaf, is
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/ Iell: /: History

ssed 53$.sA Aeesuixote de Ia Mancha leyeled
20 is. s.st$5:a. s Sails5in fact are these can
/" vas i ca tchers which the long fans
@ssaab'y ~ 81 e. he'd along their frames,
ana the" principle of their action is
eiase@.#&o} that of sails. .=ss All this end
If xc1::a; J s1and has been for two CEN
<t11iaas.::SslaSs, nome of whalers and men
hrz,ngfit. II, n sailboats. Small won
T Z 2s" vi1ssgf:fc;,,, that the talent to make
/ the vitae wc;k for them in other ways
\ :4a:s II RaSa existed here. If, the gale
|. .frRs:S1aE2s .flie captain Of the station
I ary coaiea snip must reef, and If. the
I etttat3 fall8&sght the windmill also gets
arsElts caa Ha] drums, the vans move
{ &s}o1fe1 ssa*!. slower, and the captain
<$sera ;cf1 ~. Avn I'D and whistles for a
g. g. W,,,&a nrn Long Island was first
=#occnpi"': y = as by .Kentishmen and
offers " IL. ::ftsc armed off from the Eng
t5sEa lstN2 II onnecticut, but at that
t!ata, 49, n $50, there were no wind
/ mills sang t,le early settlers. Grain
was ;e44nlel in the most primitive
SlasII:,2a ..>sf.s5tone or wooden mortars.
i hfn .s,;;s1ide the turn of mills turned
by cattle like coffee mills on a gigan-
tic scale; then the use of water power
near Southampton, where the name of
the pleasant summer colony of Water
mill testifies that even in this fiat
country there was enough fall to the
land to operate a dripping water
wheel, and finally the windmill that
seems SO odd and old. Doubtless the
windmill for grinding corn was per-
fected in Holland through the need of
mills to pump water, a need unknown
over here; wherefore the slowness of
it's introduction.
Southampton was settled first, and
some years later, Maidstone" which
is now East Hampton. From East
Hampton as center Amagansett, to
the east, and Wainscott, to the west,
were formed, hamlets rather than viii
lagos. It is East Hampton which re.
tains most windmills, no less than
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-28
A Typical Patriarch.

side; others are stationary in the
main, have only the conical cap piv-
oted, while the mechanism to adjust
cap and vans works from inside. Many
are dismantled, and, clad in ivy, form
picturesque bits on the, greensward of
some comparatively modern villa.
Others have been brought from their
original location and incorporated in
cottages; or, deprived of their vans
and cleared Of most of the rude ma
chinery, are the summer studios of
artists. But at East Hampton, ANA
gansett, Wainscott and Bridgehamp-
ton there are windmills owned by the
old families of Suffolk county which
play their part to-day in the farm
economy as they did a century and a
half ago. The iron windmills that
pump water increase in number all
about them, raising their giant skel-
etons on every side, but these grind
on at their bucolic tasks to the sat-
isfaction of their owners and delight
Of searchers after the picturesque.
One does not see them in ranks and
rows, as in Holland, where they are
used as cheap means of draining low
lying spots of water. But their com.
parative rarity only endears them and
stamps that value on them which COL
lectors recognize when they pay
roundly for antiques.
If there is fascination in the sight
Of the slowly turning vans somewhat
akin to that of the regular success
sion OF waves as they turn to white
flour on the beach, there is no less
in the sights and sounds within these
antique machines. The white flour
OF corn and wheat sitting from the
hopper, the smell of the dust-laden
air, the particles of flour dancing in
the sunlight as it falls solid through
the door, the dull clatter of the old
wooden works, the croak of the big
wheel, and the regular flash Of the
sail-clad arms as they fit past the
square window on the windward side,
these odors, sights and sounds are
like concentration of country life.
In the eastern part of Long Island
winds sweep freely from all points
of the compass; a slight elevation
looms high and affords the proper
vantage for guiding breeze, unless
indeed the villas of summer folk
have invaded the old mound and plant
ed out the winds of summer with or
namental trees. It is not in summer,
however, that much call is made on
the creaking oaken works. Autumn
sees the big wheel busy at last with
the results of the harvest, and all
through the winter, well on into the
windy months of March and April,
when the townsfolk are only begin
ming to think of sea bathing and
ocean breezes, the slender sails are
dipping and the grist is raining down.
Then it is that rough feed is broken
for the live stock and those who be-
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Fig. l..

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floor, while upstairs are two cham.
bers, respectively Is by Is feet and
9 feet inches by 10 feet inches. :
A $500 Addition.-The plan pro-
vides for further addition when
necessity for enlargement of the
house arises and the financial condi-
ton of the owner permits This addi-
ton will be 16 by % feet, providing on
the first floor a living room and
Kitchen, and on the second floor a bed
chamber. The kitchen will be II by
II feet inches, with a pantry and
stairway to cellar. The walls of the
main building are IA feet and those
OF the addition IL feet, the lower cell.
ing OF the bed chamber over the liv-
ing room proving no serions detri-
ment in so large a room The house,
as completed, should have also a
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-28
Dust Catchers in Berlin.

Health officials of Berlin have been
experimenting with a curious looking
device to ascertain if the street dust
contains microbes calculated to spread
infectious diseases among the resi-
dents. The apparatus, which is af-
fixed to pillars in the most freQuented
streets, looks like tin chimney top,
with a scoop-shaped opening at the
top.
1t is watched all day long by one of
the street cleaners, who climbs up
and claps on cover whenever there
is the least possibility of rain falling.
The dust arrested by the scoop as
it is driven past in the atmosphere
falls on to a specially prepared glass
plate, which is renewed at stated in
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ance of the great cogged wheel in
side which rotates the central grind
ing shaft as the vans revolve with
out; despite the rude apparatus for
checking the speed of the mill, there
has been play here for the inventive
mind. In one Of our illustrations ap-
pears smaller wheel over against
the big one; it is a rudder that ad-
justs the rotating cap Of the mill to
the shifting wind. Observe the angle
Of the separate arms to the general
plane of the wheel of four spokes and
the inclination of the whole set of
four arms to the body of the mill.
These be matters of prime Importance
to the right swinging of those fails
of, the air against which the hot-heart-
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four being found in or near the broad
village street, and they give character
and charm to the place as perhaps no
other piece of mans handiwprk,
church or town hall, flagstaff or man.
sion of village magnate. It will be
a mournful day when the sails are
furled forever on the Gardiner and
the Dominy mills, and one comes no
longer. suddenly Oh the silently NOV
ing arms.
Long Island windmills have the dis
tinction of starting a fashion in cot
tage architecture, as one can see at
South and East Hampton. Originally
an old mill was bought and number
of rooms tackled on to it, the mill
forming the elevated and picturesque
portion of the whole. But windmills
are not built for residence, not in this
country at least, and neither wind nor
rain has much respect for it's thin
walls. The next~ step was to build a.
cottage with a windmill tower as an
integral part, and so it happens that
the windmill has become the founda-
ton for style-limited, it is true, to
villas few and far between, but yet in
sufficient number to attract attention
from those who are. observant.
What is more interesting, perhaps,
to architect and archaeologist is the
fact that in these windmills we have
a survival Of one of the most primi-
tive styles of architecture in Europe,
the circular hut and tower to; which
belong such far-apart buildings as the
Pantheon at Rome, the tomb of Theo-
doric at Ravenna, the round towers
and beehive huts of Ireland, the snow
igloos of the Eskimos. In the twelfth
century, when windmills are first
heard of, the wood and waffle round
house and tower we're still common
in Western Europe. It was easy, to
find among country people builders of
such simple structure-one that
could be rotated to make the vans
catch the breeze at the necessary an
gle, yet strong enough to stand the
jar of the wings. These quaint struc-
lures and the Old Stone Mill at. New.
port are. almost the sole examples in
America of an archaic style Of build
ing, which has noarly ceased to ex-
list IN Europe =, vi: = VI III.
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N llIlC
Chimney to the Clouds.

| SttISt1tSy ~ StSS NSs00Noe: %,,,-
New York is soon to have the odd
est amusement enterprise on the face
OF the earth, in the shape of tower
taller than any structure, in the world
and equipped with a larger variety OF
combined entertainments and utili-
ties than anything that hts ever ex-
listed" for the edification of the mil
lions who are constantly and hungrily
seeking new pleasures.
Called "the Weber tower" after it's
designer, Carl Weber, one of the best
known experts in the matter of tall
steel-concrete constructions, the build
ing will be unique in many ways, and
when it has been erected, either in
one of the parks of Manhattan Or in
some equally prominent spot, will un.
questionably be one of the foremost
attractions of the metropolis.
In the first place it will reach the
enormous height of 1850 feet, just 25S
feet taller than the Eiffel tower in
Paris and more than twice as tall as
the Washington monument, which,
with 555 feet, is at present the highest
permanent structure in the world. It
will so far overtop everything in New
York that comparison is idle, the Park
Row building, which now holds pre-
eminence, being. only 1872 feet high,
and the st. Paul building, ranking
second, having but 308 feet In Eu-
rope, after the Eiffel tower, there is
only the Ulm cathedral, with 528 feet,
but this is excelled by the city hall
in Philadelphia.
Height alone, however, will not be
the chief recommendation of the
Weber tower. It will be a sky scraper
of universal invitation. If you are a
business man you will be able to rent
offices inside the lean but lofty
stretches. If you want an evenings
frolic you will be escorted to the
highest roof garden in the world,
1,10O feet above the sidewalk, which
is so high that every other roof gar
den will look like pigmy patch of
light without form or substance. If
you are an astronomer you will find
all the paraphernalia for the study
of the heavens at such close range
that you will hardly need a telescope.
And above all there will be the neces-
sary precautions to prevent you jump
ing Off it you are one of those persons
who get that impulse whenever they
reach the top of a high place.
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Venerable Windmills 81 Eastern Lon y,
| Quaint Old Structure

81 Scattered over the eastern end 81
Long Island, surviyals of the period
before and following the Revolution,
are winamills .of the type common in
Holland and the southern counties Of
England, mills with four long whips"
or arms, with inner works made of
huge timbers of oak rough,hewn by
the ak, and outwardly clothed with.
boards or shingles trimmed by hand.
Some are Of an older type than 9TH
ers, and are rotated as a whole to.
the right direction. of the wind by
moving a long lever that extends out
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graveyards at the end of the village
street. In each case the old grave
yard runs up steepish hill and be-
yond one sees against the eky the
arms of the wheel. Grass covers those
who can no longer live on the fruit
of grass. One thinks of those quaint
grayestones in Holland, on which are
carved skulls with wheat stalks grow
ing up through them. One thinks of
Quarles, his Emblems-the mill of
life-the mills of the gods-the staff
Of life-the wonder mill" of Finnish
myth.
And despite the primitive appear
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porch s by 16 feet, large enough to
prove not only an ornament, but a
great convenience during the warmer
portion of the year.
Possible largement-Should ad-
ditional room even be required, one or
two bedrooms can be added to the
right of the kitchen. A simple exten.
sion similar to the kitchen across the
back of the main building, would
give room opening off the kitchen
II by Is feet, which might be used as
bedroom or divided into store room,
milk room. etc.
An equally feasible enlargement
could be obtained by extending the
main building II feet back. This
would give the room already de-
scribed off the kitchen and a chamber
Of equal size above, to be reached by
providing short stairway leading up
from the first landing of the original
staircase. The window in the back
room on the first floor is placed in the
SIDE wall to allow of just such an
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a distinc { #det triment to health. I5sl II.sI !: I
me thatsas it may, tie country 5m} i
iersi about Newport and throughons
EasternaLong Island ale oftee1na ,csaaillet7
UPON for the homely flour Of Colontxs
days, though this j source cannot bc
said to play much part in the demann i
which keeps the vans at work. Befor
and long after the Revolution wine
mill was apt to be joint-stock ver:
ture of knot of farmers and lane
owners, the. proprietors having spe
cial privileges as to price: But Of
course these partnerships suffered
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HINTS FOR BUILDlkti.

Farm House Of Moderate 4 Cost.
Il The following plans provide ineachI
case for an inexpensive main building
capable s5of considerable enlargement
and development without the undoing'
or alteration Of practically any Of the
original work and the gradual erec-.
ton Of convenient and commodious
home: s= .f:@f " S|'
A $500 House. The plan Gigs. !,
2 and g., provides a main building
with a living room Is by Is feet, a
back room 0 feet 6 inches by 10 feet
6 inches, with commodious closet
off,. with a staircase from the first
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extension. Two chimneys built from
the ground permit of heating every
room except the last two suggested
and should that addition be antici
pated when the original structure is
erected in an additional flue for thai
purpose could be added to the large
chimney in the. living room, the extra
flew to project into the corner of the
kitchen.
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Milk Lime for Mine Fires.

The use of milk Of lime for quickly
and effectively extinguishing fires in
cool mines is recommended by In
spector. Wolfgang Hummer, German.
The suggestion is not new, but has
been newly tested with satisfactory
results. The emulsion-which can be
used with hand or power pumps
runs into and fills the crevies of the
coal or mineral.
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tervals. The used plate is Immediate
ly placed in an air-tight box and taken
to the laboratory of the city's sanitary
specialists. There it is examined and
a record kept of the nature of the
dust found on it.
From the material thus collected
the authorities hope to be able to
judge whether infectious diseases are
disseminated by means of the dust
blown up from crowded streets. t
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-28

A huckleberry pie that had been
baked without any air holes in the top
crust exploded when it was placed on
the table in Paterson, N. j., board
ing house few days ago, and several
people were badly injured. There
should be drastic legislation provid-
ing for air holes in boarding house
pies.
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change, and windmill was certain
to become in time the property of one
family. Necessarily the mill to which
all the farms about resorted was
closely knit to the habits of the CON-
munity and only second in impor-
tance to the blacksmith's forge.
The close connection of windmill
and hamlet is seen very clearly at
East Hampton, where the two active
mills surviving are close to the two
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1T is the awful isolation and sense
Of no resources within reach that
takes the heart out of men in the Arc
tic regions" says Anthony Fiala. Did
you ever feel like that financially?
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Her Opinion.

"The automobile,'' remarked Mrs.
Malaprop, "will undoubtedly prove a
great blessing to poor people"
why do you think so?" queried
her next doorkneighbor.
= BECAUSE" explained Mrs. NJ. "only
few of them can afford to keep a
horse.'' g..
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A New York dentist is alleged to
have fifty wives scattered throughout
the United States. He probably isn't
worrying over the question of a uni
form divorce law.
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1t seems a pity that the New York
dentist who married fifty women nev-
sr met up with and married the COY
Philadelphia lady who took unto her.
self ten husky husbands before the
men began to suspect anything.
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No, that squabble between Curzon
and Kitchener did not "originate with
their wives" Kitchener is a bache-
lor, and is suspected of what Ma
caulay calls "a Turkish contempt for
women"
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Roy Knabenshue is going to offer
the president the services of his air
ship. Barney Oldfeld need not SPEAK
up and say "Next!"
The Cook County herald., 1905-10-28

AS one motorist suggests, a great
deal of trouble would be avoided by
abolishing the speed regulations.
Then it would not be necessary to ar
rest a scorcher until he had killed
somebody.
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One of the grounds assigned for a
new trial was, the lawyer prejudiced
the jury by quoting scripture. AS the
man was convicted Of manslaughter
for killing his wife, the prejudice
didn't sink very deep.
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Boston is all excitement over the
prospective opening of a department
store. Next summer Boston hopes to
attract the attention of a travelling
circus.
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"How shall regain my husbands
love?" asks woman who writes to
one of the St. Louis papers. She
might try going away for a few
months and letting him live at a
boarding house.
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When Hoch reads about the New
York dentist who married fifty wives
he will realize how little he improv-
ed each shining hour while he was out
of jail.
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After the question as to where all
the rain comes from has been an
swered will somebody kindly tell an
anxious country where all the crickets
come from?
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These people who are always trying
to swim the English channel should
reflect that the only reason they want
to do it is to be able to say they have
done it. and that it is just as easy
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A Chicago man said he couldn't
stop drinking and then proved that he
could by committing suicide. Some
men are so contradictory.
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That advance CT per cent. in the
price of rough diamonds can be borne
complacently. What worries most
persons is the regular monthly ad.
vance in the price of black diamonds.
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Boston will have to give up the
effort to be famous for it's baseball
club and pin it's faith to what Tom
Lawson can do for it.
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A $50 bank clerk in Paris has
robbed the bank of million francs.
Paris isn't Milwaukee, but it is up
and coming.
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Costa Rica has had an election and.
according to a time-honored custom
in that country, the party with the
most guns won.
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An explicit contemporary notes that
a boy has had "his head decapitated."
That appears to settle the character
of the injury.
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The emperor of Korea, too, has
'omitted to send congratulatory mes.
sage to the president. He hasn't made
up his mind yet just where he comes
in
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The man who is in the wrong is
more jealous than careful in collect
ing proofs to sustain his position.
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Let us keep the straw hat with us
as long as possible. It will be a long
time till next summer.
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Barney Oldfeld ought to give up au-
tomobila racing for awhile and try
airships. They are safer.
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Whenever the ''time is ripe for the
great American play" you will hear
something drop.
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A Pittsburg paper asks: "Do vaca-
tions pay?" The summer resort ad-
vertisements indicate that they do.
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An insinuation.

Braggs-'I killed bear during my
hunting trip in Montana !.
= Wages $50? How far did he
chase you before he dropped?" #s'
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"A camel can go seven days with
out a drink. but who wants to be a
camel?"
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There are Indications that it will
be very cold winter on Sakhalin is
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
p A p a
By Frank Putnam

My folks have set off for the country
And left me to go it alone;
With score of last words and of kisses
From several car windows thrown;
And a hundred and one last instructions
Concerning the house and the yard;
With final grand family chorus:
Be careful, and don't work too hard "
I'm to look after Jimmy's pet rabbit
And to trim Helen's roses with care;
And to tend Wills tomatoes; and daily
To flood every room with fresh air.
And to take in the milk every morning;
And to keep the ice covered; and not
To forget to make sure to be certain
To-to-humph! I've already forgot.
Well well, they in Ohio,
And speeding on into the West;
While a strange and unusual quiet
Is lulling my senses to rest
With breath that is foggy and chill,
And only the tops of the pine trees
Loom out of the mist on the hill;
But in Morris chair here by the fire
That crackles and glows the crate
I'm taking my ease, with book on my knees
AS l haven't done often. of late.