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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16

molasses is thrown out through the
holes in the sides, leaving the sugar
sticking -to the gauze. The sugar is
washed by spraying cold water and air
against it as it whirls, little bluing
being added to give it brilliancy. The
machine is stopped and the sugar now
white and moist, is dropped from the
bottom Of the machine and conveyed
to the granulator, where it is dried
This granulator is large. horizontal,
revolving cylinder, heated by steam
While drying is in process, the fine
dust Of sugar Is drawn out by a sue
ton blower. The sugar passes out of
the ,granulator through screens at the
end, which removes the Jumps. The
sugar is now placed in bags ready for
shipment.
The molasses which has been
thrown from the centrifugals, is either
mixed with fresh syrup and boiled
again, or is boiled alone and once more
passed through the machines. The
brown sugar resulting, is refined by
mixing with fresh syrup.
In all beet factories, chemicals play
| an important part, and the laboratory
might be called the heart of the fac
tory, as it Is through the agency of
chemicals that the sugar is extracted
from the beet All beets, juice, syrups
and boiled sugars, are tested, and the
analysis Of every pound Of sugar is
known, and every loss located and ac-
| counted for The values of different
soils and fertilizers for beet growing
are tested, as are also all coal, coke
| and limestone used.
At Rocky Ford, in Southeastern Col
| orado is located one Of the largest beet
sugar factories in the country. The
buildings are built Of brick. and are
| surrounded by fine grounds and fine
residences, where some Of the officers
of the company live. Like all other
| factories, this one runs day and night
seven days in week, and only stops
in case of an accident or to clean up
| This factory, on an average, converts
| LOO tons of beets into sugar every
| twenty-four hours. One ton Of beets
will make 260 to 275 pounds of sugar
and from LOO tons, this means abou
$50 tons Of sugar each day.-Williams
| port (Pa.1 Grit.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16
Labor Notes.

The teaching of typewrfting viii be
begun IN the normal school at Zaeatecas,
Mexico. The government of the State
has has bought number of machines Of
the most modern and best types for the
school
Chicago aud Alton employees have been
Instructed not only to give up drinking
Intoxicating liquors, but to stay away
from gambling places and dance halls.
The company says it means 70 keep its
men UP to as high physical and mental
standard as possible
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16

horse and cultvates two rows at
time. 1t is mounted on two wheels,
each about 80 inches in diameter. Be
hind these wheels are two horizontal
bars, connected by two other bars to
the axle, on which they have free up
and down motion. There is also
pivot which allows side motion, con-
rolled with handles by the operator.
With the cultivator are several sets Of
knives, shovels, ETC., any of which can
be fastened to the horizontal bars, the
grower using whatever kind Is adapt
ed for the kind Of cultivation he wish
eS
When plants are couple Of inches
high they are thinned out, leaving
plants six to ten inches apart. This
work is usually done by contract, the
price paid averaging from Sc to 81
per acre.
In removing beets from the ground,
large plow or litter is used. This
plow has a depth of IS inches or more,
made necessary by the great depth to
which the beet penetrates the soil. 1t
is drawn by three or four horses, and
raises the beet partly out Of the
ground, SO that it can be picked up by
the topper.
The beets are taken by local freight
to the factory, where they are dumped
into long bitches, which have a stream
of water flowing through them. These
bitches, which are lined with cement
slope toward the factory building, near
which they converge into one large
one. The water In these bitches serve
partially cleaning the beets. At the
end of this large ditch, the beets are
raised from the water by an elevating
apparatus, which deposits them in a
large washing machine. This consists
Of an immense spiral revolving in 8
round iron box. placed in a horizontal
position, and with stream of clear
water flowing through it. The beets
rolling and tumbling, are pushed for
ward through this water, and coming
out free from dirt, are deposited in s
screw elevator and carried to the toI
of the factory, Here they find theil
way into an automatic weighing ma
Chine, then dumped into the slice
where they are cut in small pieces.
/ On the next floor below the slicer i
llocated the diffusion battery, which il
composed of a number Of iron tanks
placed in a group. The tanks are con
nected with each other by large pipes
and each tank is capable of holdinl
three or four thousand pounds of tn
Slices. The first tank is filed wit,
slices, and has water turned into II
This Is allowed to stand while tn
second tank is filing with slices. The
the valve connecting the first tan
with the second is opened, and th
water in the first tank, having Absorb
ed some sugar from the slices,
forced into the second by fresh waite
being pumped into the first. Thi
water passes from tank to tank al
sorbing little more sugar from eac
tank, until it has gone through thei
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16
IN. The first lot OF water turned IN

all. The first lot Of water turned In
takes out 30 per cent Of the sugar, and
the second lot takes 30 per cent Of the
remainder. This Is repeated ten times,
and in the end has exhausted all the
sugar from the slices to within one
tenth Of one per cent. The slices re-
naming after this process are dropped
from the tanks and run through large
presses, and the partly dried pulp is
deposited in cars and wagons to be
used for feeding cattle, it being q
great milk and flesh producer.
The juice remaining Is Of a dark
brown color, containing much organic
matter not sugar. 1t is run into tall
tanks holding couple thousand gal
Ions, and here the lime solution which
takes out the organic matter, Is add
ed. It now goes through series of
boilings, f1ltering and clarifying pro-
cesses, which leave the fluid a moder-
ately thick syrup, ready to be boiled
down to sugar. The syrup Is pumped
up into large round vacuum pans. In
side these pans are coiled large copper
steam pipes, ana large air pump
produces a high vacuum and, removes
the evaporated water SO that the syrup
boils very rapidly and at very low
temperature. This boiling mass is
watched through glass windows in the
sides of the pans, and when small
grains begin to appear they are fed by
adding fresh syrup until they reach the
required SIZE When the size Is right
| and the water evaporated sufficiently
the steam is turned off, the pump
stopped, and the mass is allowed to
run into the tanks below, by opening
a valve at the outlet in the bottom OF
the pan.
The syrup at this stage has the ap
pearance of dark molasses, thickened
with granulated sugar, and Is SO thicl
that it will barely run. This is put in
to the "centrifugals," large whirlins
drums having their sides perforated
and lined with gauze. AS these ma
chimes whirl around. the sugar rises
along the sides of the drum, and tht
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16
CHAPTER XIV.

The Pamir, or Bam-i-Douniah, is COM
monty called the Roof of the World"
From it radiate the mighty chains of the
Than Shan, of the Kuen Lun, of the
Kara Korum. of the Himalaya, of the
Hindoo Koosh. This geographic system,
four hundred kilometers across, which
| remained for SO many years an impassa-
bic barrier, has been surmounted by Rus
sian tenacity. The Slav race and the
yellow race have come into contact.
The travellers of the Aryan people have
| all attempted to explore the plateau of
the Pamir. Without going back to
Marco Polo in the thirteenth century,
what do we find? The English with For
syth, Douglas, Biddulph, Younghusband,
and the celebrated Gordon, who died on
the Upper Nile; the Russians with Fend-
chenko, Skobeleff, Prjevalsky, Grombt-
chexsky, General Pevitzoff, Prince Galit-
zin. the brothers Groun- Grjimailo: the
French with Auvergne, Vonvalot, Capus
Papin, Breteuil de Rhins, Joseph Martin,
Grenard, Edouard Blanc; the Swedes
with Doctor Sven Hedin.
This roof of the world, one would say,
! is lifted up in magic hand to let us see its
mysteries. We know now that it con-
sists of an inextricable ENHANCEMENT of
valleys, the mean altitude of which ex-
ceeds three thousand meters; we know
that it is dominated by the peaks of
Gouroundi and Kaufman. twenty-five
thousand feet high, and the peak Of Ia
garma, which is twenty-seven thousand
| feet; we know that it sends off to the
west the Oxus and the Amou-Radia, and
to the east the Tarim; we know that 1t
chiefly consists of primary rocks, IN
which are patches of schlst and quartz,
red sands of secondary age, and the
clayey, sandy loess of the quaternary
period which is SO abundant in Central
Asia.
The difficulties the Grand Transasiatie
had in crossing this psateau were en-.
traordinary. It was challenge from
, the genius of man to nature, and the
) victory remained with genius Through
! the gently slopina passes which the Kirk
, hizes call ''be1s," viaducts, bridges, en-
bankments, cuttings, tunnels had 10 b
) made to carry the line. Here are sharI
4 curves, gradients, which require the mos
powerful locomotives, here and there sta
9 tion@ry engines to haul up the train wifi
t cables; in word, hercuiean labor, sn
i perior to the works of the American en-
r gineers In the defias Of the Sierra he
ed vada and the Rocky monntaina
: The deso1ate aspect of these terri
: tories makes deep imression On th'
;. imagination. As the train gains the high
e er aititndes this impression Is al t1t
8 more vivid. There are no towns, n
n villages but few seattere,
ehuts, in which the Pamirian lives soil
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16
A Biographical Dictionary.

One of the most helpful books to
keep upon your table, ready to be con-
suited as you read other books, is a
biographical dictionary. Then, when
you come to some historical character
about whom your knowledge is little
faded, 1t will require but moment to
refresh your memory and make your
reading more Intelligent. You have a
right to the acquaintance of these dis.
tinguished men and women, and should
keep up at least friendly relations
with them, II for no other reason than
in gratitude for what they have done
to make your life pleasant st Mich.
olas.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16
wAereof He Smoke

"One-haH the werld," remarked the
party with the quotation habit.
doesn't know how the ether half
hves''
It guess that's right" reJotned the
married man, "but the feminine half
works overtime trying to find out"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16
Better than Antifat.

Woggins- -Blowitz, the pugilist, lost
1870 pounds of flesh while training for
his last fight
Snoossm- out! What are you
trying to give me, anyway?
Woggins- goods. His wife
eloped with one OF his trainers.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16
CHAPTER XIII.

Kokhan, two hours to. stop. 1t is
night. The majority of the travellers
have already taken up their sleeping
quarters in the car, and do not care to
alight.
Here am on the platform. This is
rather an important station, and from
the engine house comes a more powerful
locomotive than those which have
brought the train along since we left
Uzun Ada. These early engines were, all
very well as long as the line lay over
an almost horizontal plain, but now we
are among the gorges Of the Panair pla-
teau, there are gradients Of such steep
ness as to require more engine power.
watch the proceedings, and when the
locomotive has been detached with its
tender, the baggage van-with Kinko In
it's at the head of the train.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16

The worth Of state. In the long
run, Is the worth Of the Individuals
composing TT. s. MIL
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16

Some mems ideas of reciprocity are
rather one-sided.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16

Expansion seems still to be the ma
taonal watchword- The general staff
of the army has decided 10 lengthen
the United States bayonet by four
inches StiIl, 1t was ffctum of Oliver
Wendell Holmes that as nations
lengthen their weapons they narrow
their boundaries.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16
The Special Correspondent

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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-07-07

passing was 1926 o'clock in the morn
ing. The last moments of the states
man were peaceful and the end came
almost without a struggle.
The suddenness of it all was stag
gering. AT the hour of II all was
quiet In another moment nurses and
physicians found themselves sum-
moned to the bedside. There had been
collapse. Twenty-Five minutes later
all was over. So swiftly had the end
come that the dying man passed away
unattended by all Of the members of
his family. save his wife. The others,
a son and a daughter, were sum-
moned, but they reached the bedside
only to find their distinguished parent
dead.
The secretary had passed the most
comfortable day since his illness be-
gan a week ago. The patient had bid
den his wife and physicians good
night at 10 o'clock at night An hour
later he was sleeping quietly. Almost
at the stroke of II the secretary was
seized with turn. He called feebly
anu 81 nurse IcSpOlueu. lie SICK man
was breathing with great difficulty.
DR.. Scudder was speedily summoned
and it required but glance for him
to determine that the end was but
minutes away The household was
aroused. The wife reached her hus-
band as he was breathing his last.
The son, Clarence Hay, and the daugh-
ter, Mrs. James A. Wadsworth, of
GeneseO, n. Y, hurried into the sick
room. but they were too late.
Death was caused by pulmonary
embolsm, according to Dr. Scudder.
The patient did not suffer greatly in
his last moments. Aside from great
difficulty in breathing there was no
struggle. Stimulants were ineffective
The secretary lapsed into unconscious
ness and seemed to fall asleep at last
Cleveland, O., July 3.-The body Of
Secretary of State John Hay arrived
here. The special car was detached
from the regular train at Chenille,
suburb, and remained there until 10
o'clock, when it was brought to the
city and the body escorted to the
chamber of commerce, where it will
lie. but not in state, until Wednesday.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-07-07
Calumet
Baking
Powder
Perfect In quality.
Moderate In price.
CAUSES OF MILK FEVER.
Trouble Is Frequently Due to Vanity
of the Farmer.
Perfect In quality.
Moderate in price.

ArouDAe Is frequently Due to Vanity
of the Farmer.
A correspondent of Wallace's Farm
er writes as follows to that journal
concerning milk fever and it's causes:
| noticed your article in a recent is
sue in regard to an instrument for
using simply sterilized air; also HI. w.
Knowles article on the same subject.
and how grateful he seemed to feel
when his veterinarian raised his cow
from an unconscious state and put her
on her feet again as we'll as ever.
He speaks of the large amount of
milk "Molly' gave at 6 o'clock of the
evening Of the same day she calved:
also of finding her near deaths door
the next morning. Now this is fair
sample of the history of all or most all
milk fever cases-cows that the own
ers can brag about for giving such an
abundant flow, especially at the first
milking. That is, think, just where
the trouble begins
Let me give you my experience in
one case, which will be sufficient |
was called late one evening to attend
a COW that was down, unable to raise
her head. gave her the air treatment,
and the next morning word came over
the phone that she looked as if moth
ing had ever been wrong. The next
evening | received word that she was
down again, the same as before. She
was treated again, and she got up as
hnfOrn h11f thn fnIloxriyo no
the same experience, and at each visit
the owner was talking about the large
flow of milk he was getting. 1t now
came to me that his taking such a
large amount of milk at one time was
where the trouble lay, so he was or
dered not to milk her out clean again
for some days, but simply do as nature
suggested, and that was, to take a
small amount from each teat, and that
frequently, according to the flow, say
four to six or eight times a day There
was no more trouble in the above case,
and I have given the above orders to
owners many times since and never
have l been called to see like case or
known Of a fine cow having milk fever
when the above directions were fol-
lowed.
I would also suggest that the owner
of heavy mixer shrink his cow be-
fore She calves, take away the rich
feed for a few days and put her in a
dry lot. 1t will tend to prevent her
udder from becoming so distended and
perhaps inf1amed. Begin taking small
quantities from each teat as soon as
the udder becomes we'll filled, no mat
ter if it is several days before she
calves; it will do no harm either to the
mother or offspring.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-07-07

Of all known methods of treating
milk FEVER the injection Of sterile at
mospheric air into the udder is by far
the most simple and practicable as well
as the most efficacious and harmless
one at our disposal.
For considerable length of time the
entire value of Schmidts treatment
was considered to be the antitoxic ac-
ton of potassium iodide, and soon nu-
merous investigators began injecting
various other antiseptics, with equally
good results. Sterile water was tried
with no increase in the mortality. and
it was therefore considered that the
diStension of the udder was as impor-
tant a factor as the antitoxic action of
the iodide of potash.
Continuing along these lines, Kort-
man used antiseptic gases (etheriZed
air. with beneficial results. Oxygen
was then tried by Knusel with increas-
ing success and the mortality in the
experimental cases virtually disappear
ed. The apparatus for treating with
oxygen and etherized air, however, are
expensive and cumbersome, and this
greatly limits their use by the average
practitioner.
10 Anderson of Skanderbog belongs
the credit of first having made use of
plain atmospheric air. He first inject
ed it along with sterile water and then
by itself. The results We're astonishing
ly successful. Thus Schmidt reports
that out of GA cases treated in Den
mark 1884, or 96.7 per cent, were re-
stored to health. The record of 14O of
these animals shows that recovery oc-
Cured in the average time Of 6 %
hours.-Circular 40, Bureau of Animal
Industry.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-07-07
Catarrh Cannot BE Cured

with Local Applications. as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh
is blood or constitutional disease, and
in order to cure it you must take inter
nal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure is
taken internally and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure is not quack medicine. It
was prescribed by one of the best physi-
clans In this country for years, and is a
regular prescription. 1t is composed of
the best tones known, combined with
the best blood purifiers, acting directly
on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients is
what produces such wonderful results in
curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials
free. FL. CHENEY & CO.. Props.
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by all drug gists. price IS cents.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-07-07
Ran the Hole Out of Town.

A lecturer recently told of Russian
whose methods of achieving results
were not according to the usual CODE
The Russian had a we'll in his front
yard which he concluded to fill up.
He began digging a hole by the side
Of the we'll, throwing the dirt from the
new excavation into the well.
"In the course Of time" said the
speaker, 1.-THE old well was filled, but
there was hole alongside as big as
the first. The Russian went farther
away and dug another hole to fill the
second He continued this process Of
digging one hole to fill the other until
he literally ran the hole out Of town."
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-07-07
WASW ROTHAT WALLA
HIS RESIGNATION REQUESTED
Facts About the Retirement of the Chief
Engineer of the Pana-
ma Canal.

Washington, June so. - Charging
him with changing his position over
night ''for mere lucre" and with be-
ing Influenced ''solely by personal adj
vantage" Secretary Taft in his confer
ence in New York on June 26 with
John +. Wallace, chief engineer of the
Panama canal, after administering a
severe rebuke to him requested his
resignation ON the ground that public
interest requires that you tender your
resignation at this moment, and turn
over the records Of your office to the
chairman of the commission"
This fact is disclosed in an official
secretary of war, which reviews the
relations Of Wallace with the war de-
partment and the commission since the
latter body's reorganization last spring,
quoting the several expressions of the
chief engineer of his satisfaction with
the entire arrangement, and then gives
practically a verbatim account of the
conference between Secretary Taft and
Wallace in New York, which conclud-
ed with the submission to Secretary
Taft of Wallace's resignation.
The statement issued concludes with
the presidents letter to Wallace, dated
Cambridge, Mass, June %, which
reads: Your resignation as member
and chief engineer of the isthmian
canal commission, rendered in accord
ance with the request of Secretary
Taft, which request under the circum-
stances has my entire approval, is here
by accepted to take effect Immediate
Iy."
Washington, July John F. Stew
ems, of Chicago. formerly second vice
president of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railway. has been selected
as chief engineer of the Panama canal
commission TO succeed John F. Wal
lace. Mr.. Stevens salary will be $780,
600 per year and he is not to be a mem
Der of the Isthmian canal commission.
His proposed trip to the Philippines
with SECRETARY Taft as government
railway expert has been abandoned.