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The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28

outside wood. which will be cut .~ and thus avoid marring the pieces win nail holes.
 Patterns.
 When several pieces are to he s.r. to the same shape a pattern ia frs, o,,. from a thin piece of soft board. or som. times of cardboard or very heavy d,.w ing paper. This pattern can be usea '. mark out any number of pieces of ths same kind, and saves much time ana labor, besides giving greater uniforni,~
 Alter the sides are sawed to shane ,ns edges must be carefully filed and s,na papered smooth, holding the paper m sandpaper stick, such as is shown ., in Fig. 57, and lastly sandn.ner ,s sides and all the other parts of inc rack. The three front strips may bavs tneir two front corners rounded .s shown in the cross section at in r,. 67, and while this is not necessary ,. VIII add greatly to the appearance ., the front of the rack. At R ia sbou side view, illustrating the method o, construction and of connecting the sev. eral parts.
 When assembling the pieces. the ,vo sides must first be screwed to the sha,. piece or the rack. For this purpose fop, round head brass screws one and on. half-inch No. 8will be needed. and forth. three front strips six round.h head hr.s. screws three-fourths inch No 6. The screws used for the back strips are ,ho common hat-head, three e-fourtbs i,o, No. 6. the heads of which must he conn- tersunk into the strips so as to he e,s, or just little below the surface of th. back. V. 'Ne
 when boring the two side pieces for the larger screws, and also the ends ot the strips for their screws. do not fou to pore the holes through them slipbt,v larger than the diameter of the stew or the screw, just below the head or q, such size that the screws will naes through easily and without binding in any way.
 Then, after placing the piece in pos,. ton, carefully mark, with any pointed instrument, through these larger holes for the smaller holes, which must in all cases be bored in the second piece for the threaded part of the screw. Tn tbis way only can strong and firm conner. tlons be made. These directions regard. ing screws must be applied to all our future work, but will not be repeated II the wood is hard use beeswax on inc screw threads
 This rack is hung on the wall by two brass screw eyes, such as is shown at D in Fig. 67. These screw eyes are screwed into the edge of the upper strin near to it's ends as shown in Fig. S6.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
FIRE AT HUMBLE, TEX, OUT
Twelve Lives and a Million and . Half of Dollars Lost-A
 Blackened Country.

Houston, Tex, July 26.-After many hours of burning with volcanic fury, causing the destruction of 5000 900 barrels of crude oil, the loss of twelve lives and million and a half dollars, the Humble oil fields confagration has about spent its fury.
 For miles about the country is black ened as if greasy soot had been sifted over it.
 There were two fatalities of a par ticuiar shocking nature. The men ventured close to great burning tank to save team, when the tank exploded sending burning oil in a wide circle about them. They were on an island surrounded by sea of fire and were roasted to death without the flames actually touching them.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
USED ENTRENCHlNC TOOLS
Their Value Was Practically Demon.
 strated by the Japanese i
 in Battle.

American military attaches with the Japanese and Russian armies are much impressed by the importance which entrenching tools have had in the far-eastern war. In recent report 10 the war department Capt. P. c. March writes: 'On October 15 1904, during the battle of the Shabo, wit. messed a practical exhibition of the Japanese use of the entrenching tools carried by the men. The Fortieth regiment of the tenth division, Fourth Japanese army, took a position along the crest of a hill near the River Sha, which marked the farthest position of the Japanese advance at that time and on the front of the Fourth army. The Russians were visible in force imme- diately in front of us and an attack was expected. The companies detailS4 to construct the trenches came er without arms and squatted on their launches under cover on the reverse slope of the hill. Noncommissioned officers stepped forward from the com panies and threw themselves on their faces on the crest of the hill. They then worked themselves forward by their hands and feet until they ar rived at point where they could see all the ground in the immediate front no dead space-and put peg in the ground at thct point. The pegs thus established were joined by marking line on the ground with the point of pick.
 Then the men came forward, work ing parties alternating with DICK ana entrenching spade. the files taking h. tervals from each other by extending hands at full length. each man cover ing that much of the line of the trench While one relief was working the otn- CT men of the company remained De- low the rest, sQuatting on tneiI launches. and after the first batch hau worked about five minutes, reiieVeo them. The soil had not been uncer cultivation. and apparently was Virsin and hard. The trench was finished III 20 minutes
 To Capt. March's testimony CT lhe value of entrenching tools Capt. oaii ReiohmaEn. military attache wlSh tbs with the RusSan army. gives ms uIi- qualified support saying: "l eertalni' was powerfully impressed by the nio' bility of the Japanese and by the hus- sian heayiness, and l realized the ter rible power given an army by mobility So far as l am concerned. l shall cef- tainly leave nothing undone to pro mote mobility in our infantry, ana she adoption of a spade that is spade
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
JAPANESE ARE GRATEFUL
Tenor of sa Article In the ToLto Hocbt Welcoming Secretary Taft
 and Party to Japan.

Tokio, July 25.-The Hochi. Count Okuma's newspaper organ. publishes a leading article welcoming the Taft party and gratefully recalling what the United States has been to the Japanese since the time of Commodore Perry an unerring guide and friend. The policy of the United States toward Japan, the article says, has been an unbroken record of kindly assistance, politically and commercially. Tn fact, in all departments of the progress of modern Japan, Americas help is clear ly traceable. Especially President Roosevelt's successful endeavoring in bringing the peace plenipotentiaries to- gether adds memorable chapter to the already magnificent record of Americas s invaluable aid to Japan.
 The paper regrets that the short ness of the party's stay will not admit of an adequate manifestation of the general feeling of gratitude and appre- citation toward the government and people to which the distinguished par ty belongs
 The Hoch leader is typical of the feeling throughout the empire.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
Crazy Sport


 Score . great triumph for the auto 0obile. The international cup race the chief event of the motoring year has just been run in France withou . fatality. True. motorlst was kille, while going to the race, but he was | mere spectator, and does not count. h the race itself IS cars were started or ehe run of 341 miles, and all the oper, afors are alive, with their assistants % tell the tale of minor accidents. de- lays, disappointments and achieve ments. This is really a notable record. What is demonstrated by this competi- Hon? asks the Washington Star, and then replies: Chiefly that the motor car is capable of enduring a terrific strain while being rushed at railroad speed over highway with many twists and turns and dangerous declivities, a race oouree passing through many towns and villages. Another fact shown is that the French people are WbuIy oNti thNot NNH''i lions of speed mania; another that the government is entirely willing that the roads should be given over to the use of the motorists for the better part of an entire day, checking all traffic and endangering life, and finally that the entire enterprise is a scheme to adver- tise the different makes of motor cars, whose builders go to great expense to secure representation in the contests. This speed mania is beyond analysis. Where will it end? The mile-a minute car will soon be too slow for the mo- tormaniac. He must have two-mile- a-minute machine. He must beat the 1S-hour New Chicago trains. He must beat the wind if possible. He must be the fastest known means of propulsion, short of ride on can non ball, a la Munchausen. In this country he is somewhat hampered by stubborn public sentiment against scorching on the public roads, and by the lack of private race courses coyer- ing long distances He does, indeed, laugh at laws, and pays his petty fines with a cheerful heart when he lets out his machine for spurt and is identi- fed and caught. But he keeps on ex- perimenting with new cars, and seems to hope eventually to break down op- position and gain command of the highways for his cray sport
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28

sawed. mark each piece ne-quarter inch wider and one inch longer than the above net sizes. This is the extra allow ance for saving and for blaming to di- mensions. However we'll the lumber may have been planed by machine in the blaming mill, it must be replaned by hand to remove the marks of the reVoly- ing cutters of the planer.
 Having sawed out the nine pieces nee essary for this rack, with plane dress each piece 10 the sizes given in tho stock list, then cut off each niece to tho
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
A SHOCKING SUSPICION.
Police Theory to the Cause of the Death of Mary GOrham
 Carlton.

New York, July 26.-That F. F. Carl ton or McCandlass. which is now be- lieved to be his real name. caused the death of Mary Gorham Carlton by in oculating her with lockjaw germs is the belief of the police. This theory is the result of a post mortem examina- tion of the exhumed corpse of the woman.
 Women are turning up all over the country who claim to have either bean smitten at one time or another by this man. whom they term another Johan Hoeh or to have at least received his affectionate advances
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
Girls Beat the Boys.

Coeducation is resulting in the intel lectual humiliation of men. In the class rooms of almost every college and university where the joint instruction of both sexes is permanent feature the feminine students have been excelling their masculine rivals, and at majority of the commencement day ceremonies which are now close at hand the girl graduate will practically monopolize the honors in scholarship. The superi- ority of the young woman student over her athletic brother in the duties for which colleges are endowed seems now to be an established fact. In order that the question might not be considered from any limited local point of view or Judged by isolated instances, the Chi eago Record Herald has collected statis- tics relating to the comparative scholar ship of men and women in the under graduate liberal arts departments of 16 prominent coeducational institutions, north, south, east and west. The result is truly surprising. In one graduating clas3 alone. have the men eXcelled the women-and this event caused gener- al surprise among the faculty of that particular university. In two or three of the others the data were not yet avail able, but everything pointed toward the usual victory of the women. In all oth- CTS the eternal feminine was overwhelm- jngly triumphant.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28

paper will give the necessary finish to the surface, provided the plane is sharp and if, when the surface is nearly com pleted, it is set so as to cut only very thin shavings. If guartered oak or other hard wood is used the grain is often torn out and roughened by the plane, owing to the cross grained and curly character of nearly all these woods. This crossing and interlocking of the fibers adds greatly to the beauty as we'll as to the value of the wood for furniture or decorative purposes.
 When blaming such woods the blaming bit must be kept very sharp - much sharper than for softer woods-and the cap ilon must be set down to within q hair line of the cutting edge to break off the gnarled fibers and prevent them from tearing out below the surface be- ing planed. But even with this precau. tion the plane will tear and slightly roughen up all the fibers which lie at an angle, contrary to the direction in which the plane is moving
 Take careful notice of the fact that no amount of sandpapering will ever 1 smooth torn surface, and before using it finer cutting tool is necessary-the cabinet scraper. This tool is made of thin plate steel and should be about to inches long and to 31a inches wide.
 To sharpen the scraper, the two long edges are first fled flat and square, or at right angles to the sides. This is best accomplished by placing the scraper edge up in the bench wise and, while holding the file squarely across the scraper push and draw it steadily side wise from end to end of the edge. This motion will produce drawing cut which will give a very smooth square edge. After filing the edge true and slightly rounding from end to end 10 prevent the corners from tearing. rub the edge smooth with an oil stone. not only on the edge. but also on both sides until perfectly smooth angle is pro- duced. Then with "scraper burnish- er"-shown at A, in Fig 65, or any very hard smooth steel implement, held fiat on the side of the scraper-as shown at B, force the edge down until it looks as shown at C. Return the scraper to the wise, and, holding the burnisher as al D by both hands lone end of the bur nisher in each hand). turn this edge back until it can be felt and appears as shown at E.
 How to Use the Scraper.
 To use the scraper hold it up a, an an. gle of about thirty degrees iron,
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or until the edge Is worn very rounding. as at r. then it will again need filing and repoishiDg with the oil stone as at first.
 Never use sandpaper on any surface on which it will afterwards be neces- sary to use plane or scraper. The open grain or pores of the wood will be filled with the fine particles of sand loosened from the paper. and these hard, fiinty grains will destroy the keen edge of the scraper or other sharp tool. See to it that the surface is first planed and scraped smooth, and then, at the last, only polish with sandpaper.
 Sandpaper.
 Sandpaper is made in many grades. from No. GOO very fine, to No. 3. which is very coarse. For wood work Nos co, o, 11, l. 1lz and 2 are the only grades used. Sandpaper is made very cheaply by macbinery-a roll of strong paper passing over a revolving brush, on a large glue pot which coats its surface with glue, after which it is carried by rollers under a distributing box of fine sharp sand of the required grade. The sand adheres to the glued surface and the paper is next dried by passing over heated rollers. It is then cut into sheets or made up in rolls for the sandpaper machines.
 Magazine Rack.
 In Fig 66 is given an illustration of a magazine rack. which, as was directed for former articles, should be made first of pine, so that it's construction will be understood and some practice gained in the use of the bow saw and cabinet file. before making it of quartered oak. As magazines are about seven inches wide. the rack may be made 22 inches or % inches between the sides, or even longer if desired.
 Having decided on the length of the rack. stock bill, or list of the pieces required, should be written out. This will prevent many mistakes and enable the worker to use greater economy in laying out and in cutting up his lumber The projection of the front and back strips over the two sides, as shown in Fig. 66, is one-quarter inch. and the thickness of the sides and of the shelf is one-half inch. If the rack is to be 29 inches long inside. our stock list will read as follows-all sizes being net. and always in inches:
 2 pieces 21 by 31axh-sides.
 piece 29x31axh-shef
 3 pieces 301ax111x3s-strips for back.
 3 pieces 3012x1x5-16 or 14-front strips.
 When marking off the above pieces on the board from which they are to be
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
DESTRUCTIVE WIND STORM
The Worst Ever Experienced in Ne. vadn, Destroying Everything
 in It's Course.

Elko. New, July o6.-The most de- tructive wind storm ever known to have occurred in Nevada has swept over the country just west of Seattle mountain. It destroyed everything in its course. Trees, sage brush and fences were swept away, and 52 tele- graph poles of the Southern Pacific and Western Union Telegraph cop,pa- nies were twisted into spllnters. It's north end touched the town of Battle Mountain, carried away chimneys and porches and violently shook buildings. No persons injured, but much stock is reported to have been killed.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
ESCAPED THE JAPANESE
The Russian Transport Anadyr nt Algiers on Tier Way Back
 to Russia.

Algiers, July 26.-The Russian trans- port Anadyr, which escaped capture by the Japanese after the battle of the Sea of Japan, has arrived here on her voyage to Libau and is taking on coal.
 On board the Anadyr are some sur vivors of the Russian battleship Orel, which was captured by the Japanese after a desperate fight. during which, according to one story, BOO men were killed or wounded. and those m ortally wounded were thrown overheard.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
A THOUSAND SHEEP KILLED
Oregon Miners Take Heroic Neas. ures to Rid Their NeiGhborhO
 of UnwelcOme FlOcks.

Baker City, Ore, July c6-One thou sand head of sheep. the property of Lux X Miller, of San Francisco, were shot in the Granite mining district of eastern Grant county. Sheep own CTS had been warned to keep off certain mining property because of damage to the water supply and to the forage the miners wanted for their horses. The herders persisted and the miners destroyed a large part of the band.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
A LESSON IN
 MANUAL TRAINING
PRACTICAL POINTS FOR BOYS WITH AMBITION AND
 GENIUS.
The Cabinet Scraper and How to Use It - Sandpaper - Directions for Making Magazine Rack-The Stock Required-Makinga and As sembling the Parts-Patterns.
BY JAMES RITCHEY.

Onstructor in Woodworking and Pattern
 making, Armour Institute of Tech
 nology, Chicago)
 Copyright. 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles)
 While describing the construction of the hall glass in our last article direc- tions were given to smooth of the face of the frame with sandpaper in order to prepare it for the shellac or other varnish with which it would be coated If the frame is made of pine or other soft and straight grained wood, sand
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
o,est;on That Troubled Him.

Biddeford man who had been LOOK ing on the wine when it was red Was making Q serpentine effort to reach hi' home about midnight. when a frieho' seeing his plight, volunteered to heip him. The Good Samaritan saw ms charge safely home, and just as he Was leaving the tipsy fellow asked:
 "Whash yo' name?"
 "Oh. Paul" was the eyasive reply.
 Well. shay, Paul, dyer ever get a' answer ter that long pistle yo' wrote 'o tn Corinth 'ans?"
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Ter length and plane and smooth the ehas of the pieces. Should any surface DC cross-grained and rough. 1t must be scraped smooth
 The two sides must next be laid ont as snown at A in Fig. 67. In this design We have purposely made all the curves of circular arcs, and as all distances of centers and lengths of radii are given. the pattern, if studied carefully, can be easily reproduced full size If hand bow saw Gig. 26) is used each piece must be marked out and sawed sep- arately. but if scroll saw, such as shown in Fig. 27. is used, the two pieces can be lacked together and both sawed as single piece. Always uail in the
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28

Most of the progressive towns and cities of the country have at various periods of their history exploited their advantages. real and imaginary, each of them periodically insisting. and of fering to prove it, that it was just the finest place in the wide, wide world for business or for ideal private life. Most of them have offered inducements of substantial nature for railroads and manufactures. All have benefited by effort, all have been in some way re- warded munifeently for every activity put forth.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
ONE MAN LOST HIS LIFE
Dan ID. Taylor. Stereotyper. Was Burned to Death in the Arr
 kansas Democrat Fire

Little Rock. Ark, July 25.-]he esti- mate of the losses by fire, Sunday night, in the destruction of the Arkansas Democrat Co.'S three-story building and printing plant shows an aggregate less of slso.ooo, With insurance of sioo'00o. Dan D. Taylor. stereotyper, who slept in the third story Of the building. was burned to death, his oharred remains being found in the ruins.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28

vertical, and while pushing it forward press hard and firmly to the surface of the wood. Never run the scraper lightly over the wood. tor this will destroy the keen, sharp edge, but press firmly and compel it to cut like plane. If it has been well sharpened it will cut perfectly smooth and in 10 way tear or roughen the cross fibers of the surface. When dull resharpen with the burnisber bv first turning the cutting edges forward again as at c. and then as before turn- ing them back, as at E.
 If the burnisher is always used with care, so ss not 10 cut or break off thesa cutting edges. the soraper may be re- eharpened in this manner several times
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28

New York. July 26.-Cardinal Gib- bons celebrated his seventy-first birth day at Southampton. There was a per petual stream to his house of people of all denominations, who extended congratulations. The cardinal is en- toying excellent health.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
Saved Girl From Dro,vniuc

Atlantic City, N. |. July 25.-J. c. Punch. of St. Louis. saved the life of Miss Grace Walton, of Altoona. Pa. The girl was drowning when he went 10 her help. The rescue thrilled a big crowd that has assembled near Mary land aYenue
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
From a Long SIeep.

New York. July 26.-Charles Canepi, the six-year-old son of James Canepi, Jr.. fonkers contractor, who has lain In trance-like stupor fer 100 days, is apparently awakening from his long sleep
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
Former Venezuelan President.

Caracas. Venezuela, July 26.-Dr Juan Pablo Rojas Paul. former presi- dent of Venezuela. is dead. He was born in 1s45. pr. Rojas Paul was pres ident of Venezuela from February 20 1888, to February 20, 1890
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
The Rush for Wealth.

If people could learn not to care ior wealth it would come easy.-ChieaSo Record Herald.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
Crisis In Norway
Gibbons. Celebrate. Bir,hday.

Stockholm. July 26.-The cabinet has resigned.
The Forrest City times., 1905-07-28
How to Use the Scraper

To use the scraper hold it up at an an gle of about thirty degrees from