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The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-01-21

their constituents 10
say goodby to Wash
ington. Some lost
their seats to Demo
Gratis, others to Re-
publicans. Among
those who must step
aside for younger
men of their own
party are Repre-
sentative Charles
Henry Grosvenor OF
Ohio. who was de-
feated for renomt
nation, and Repre-
.n-k-Ag-. Tawaaa Nc
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-01-21

gress is a short one,
doubt Is expressed
whether the time
would be sufficient
for adequate treat.
ment of the subject
Of revising the tar
III. but Senator Shell
by NJ. Cullom of IL
linois, a leading Re
publican revisionist,
has aYDNagSad tho
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-01-21
Washington

Wbat COM6rsss Nay Do During tAs
Gaming SessiOn-c0mpAian Goa
,r;bation Legislation = Philippine
T.riff-InL Labor IaisFests-FArswell
farm For Many Well known Raoa
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
TO DIG INTO A LIVE VOLCANO,
And Build a Breakwater With the
Foaming Molten Lava at Hawaii.

Volcanoes have ever been consid.
cred sources Of tremendous destruct-
i've force, uncomfortable in their &C
ton and of no useful purpose to man.
The unusual and daring proposition
Is now made to make at least one
active volcano perform constructive
work of positive commercial value.
The idea seems to have been adapted
from the familiar one of drawing
molten iron from a furnace and CON
Quoting it along the earthen floor
through shallow open trenches into
nodded spaces, where 1t cools and
becomes the pig iron of trade.
Hilo is the important seaport on the
east coast Of the Island Of Hawaii,
in the Sandwich Islands group. Its
harbor. facilities are insufficient to
meet the demands Of present day com.
merce, and in order to provide suit
able shelter, great breakwaters must
be constructed at large cost. Con.
gress has been petitioned to make the
necessary appropriation, but SO. far
has not advanced beyond an order
for a preliminary survey. The peo-
pie Of Hilo evidently realize that Con-
gress is a long way off and, unless ac-
ton is secured soon, propose to tap
an active volcano on the island and
make it furnish the material and do
the work OF construction at the same
time. II the plan works a great sea
wall will have been built, OF greater
extent and weight than any ever be-
fore constructed by human skill.
The idea is to construct q big
trench from Mount Kilaueau to the
shore and then tunnel into the pit OF
n of the craters and release the
molten lava, Just as q furnaceman
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12

4 Word About ! Favorits Thscry aa
to Short Crops.

In the bottom OF its heart . good
part Of the financial community cher,
ishes the suspicion that financial
crises, especially when caused or ac-
companied by bad harvests, have
something to do with sun spots"
says the New York Post. The argu-
ment is that these years Of intense
solar activity come somewhere ear
once In ten years and so do panics;
that "sun spots" very probably cause
abnormal seasons on our own planet
and that abnormal seasons crop
failures and trouble In the stock ex-
change, Nobody would need to take
this seriously but for the fact that, 80
years ago, a very eminent English
economist frankly asserted his belief
in the theory. Prof. Jevons was so
confident of its applicability that In
1875 he predicted a European panic in
1879. because the 's~un-spot" activity
would then be again approaching q
maximum.
But how about the facts? The year
1887 was n of sun-spot maximum
and also a year of commercial panic.
Sun spots were very active In 1871,
1872 and 1873 and we know what hap
pened in the markets. In 1883 a vio-
lent maximum was reached: Europe
had a stock-exchange panic in 1882
and the United States one in 1884,
There was a famous ''sun-spot year"
in 1893 and, what is more to the point,
we are still in a period of solar activi-
ty and disordered markets.
So far, this is all very well; but let
US be thorough. The panic of 1857
was one Of the worst on the list, and
1857 came in a period Of sun-spot
minimum. In 1866, when one of the
worst of England's financial crises oe-
Cured, solar activity was at the low
est level in a decade. A period Of
sun-spot minimum began in 1889 and
continued into the Barring year."
1890. Evidently sun spots do not al.
ways have the same effect.
Prof. Jevons thought that the effect
was brought about through crop fail
ures. The astronomers tell us, how
ever, that so far as there is any CORE
spondenee, cold years, rains and in
undations appear to correspond to
those when the sun is quiet; dry and
warn years to epochs of great solar
aa+tyttr-v Nrnm n ]r,t tyno~ y,axr univ
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
Limit of Human Strenuth,

Experiments upon a number of men
have shown that a man five feet high
and weighing 1876 pounds will lift on
an average l56 pounds through a YER
teal distance of eight inches, or 217
pounds through a height Of IL inches.
Others 81 feet high and weighing 1873
pounds could lift the 1856 pounds to a
height of thirteen inches, or 217
pounds to a height Of six inches. 9th.
er men six feet three inches high and
weighing 1888 pounds could lift 15C
pounds to a height of sixteen inches,
or III pounds to a height of nine
inches. BY a great variety Of expert.
ments 1t was shown that the average
human strength is equivalent to rails
ing thirty pounds through a distance
OF two and one-half feet in n sec.
ond.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12

a
Wnetner 70 seed the irst year or ,he
second year, II there IS no humus In
the SOIL It VIII pay to cover It thick
with coarse manure and plow 1t under.
Ihls again leads to complications In
the moisture problem, but IL you have
a hose attachment you can easily Keep
the ground moist. The top two or
tnree inches OF earth must be repeat
eddy worked with a disc harrow, Or
some such implement, every other day
for a week Or two to kill the weeds
as they sprout, then II the top is well
I mixed with a good commercial fer
tilizer the grass seed may be sown
and you have a lawn that viii last
as long as you want IT, a lawn that
will be green when others are parched
with sun, a lawn that will look velvety
and add ten Or 20 per cent to the
value OF the property.
This is a secret that not many
householders understand. 1t is not
the house itself that makes the home
desirable. l have seen cheap little
houses made so attractive that
strangers passing would stop to ad-
mire.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12

The British Association of Mechan-
zeal Engineers has a committee whose
business Is research concerning the
properties Of various alloys, which
are now coming sc rapidly into use.
A recent report deals with alloys Of
aluminium and copper, Various ex.
periments have shown that such al
Toys are erfatic In behavior, especially
under tests for ''yield-point' and at
high temperatures. Copper alleged
with Z per cent Of aluminium was
shown in some of the experiments to
give disastrous results when EN-.
ployed for s%tay.bolts in locomotives.
On the contrary, these alloys show
good results in other ways. 1t has been
shown that copper alloyed with from
| to 10 per cent of aluminium becomes
practically incorrodible in sea-water.
But this does not hold for tank.water.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
His 'CIjnic" Portrait.

"That," remarked the artist casu-
ally, is my clinic portrait"
Clinic" exclaimed the visitor.
"Why drag in your fathers profess
sion?"
The paister grinned. well, that
Just describes it." he declared. Il call
1t that because four ladies came to
call on me one afternoon, and after
I had showed some Of my work one
Of them asked me II ! wouldn't show
them Just how I painted a portrait.
/ asked one Of them to pose for me
ana sat down and did that sketch for
them in an hour. And that is why
i call it my clinic That Is what 1t
was you know"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12

WARNING IN SHOE SOLE.
Lookout Man Wears Copper Plate to
Start Electric Buzzer.

Some of the dives about town that
are under the ban Of the police have
ingenious co~ntrivances for warning
occupants and patrons of the APP
proach Of a "bull' or any ether sus'
pected person. BY the way, these
places are never referred 70 in the
y~ernacular as dives" or Joints" for
the vocabulary of the inventors of
slang. changes as quickly as a word
comes into general use, sc a suspected
place is now always referred to as a
dump"
Warning Of the approach of a police
man or detective is given by means OF
an electric buzzer. Formerly the push
button connected with the buzzer was
concealed under the edge of the bar
in front of or behind a water pipe.
This device, however, vas discovered
by the police, who thereafter on en-
tering a suspected place kept a close
watch on the %barkeeper and gave him
no chance to press the button.
Then came the prong device. This
consisted Of two small metal prongs
projecting from the edge of the wall.
When a man suspected to be a limb OF
the law entered the door the barkeep-
err carelessly placed a coin across the
two prongs, thus making a circuit and
causing the buzzer to sound in the
ear.
This device was discovered, too, so
now a lookout is stationed outside the
door of a dive. He apparently Is a
lounger, but he scans closely by a
quick glance the face of every person
who enters. If a mar doesn't look
"all right the lookout presses his
foot, which has a copper plate nailed
to the sole, to another small plate af-
fixed to the surface Of a cellar door
way outside. This makes the circuit
and causes the buzzer to get busy, so
that by the time the "bull' throws
open the door the occupants who are
wanted by the police have had time
to make their escape and those who
remain are seated at tables harmless.
ly drinking beer or engaged In a
friendly game Of pinochle or whist.
Everything is apparently ION the
level" and the bull is forced to
withdraw without having been able to
obtain any evidence.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
PRIVILEGES OF A GENTLEMAN.
youngster Probably VIII Change Ideas
in couree Of Time.

There Is 4 small boy In this town,
says the Baltimore American, the
son Of a rather distinguished lawyer,
who has decided opinions IN what
constitutes true ~aristocracy. One day
recently a friend called upon his
mother, and, while waiting for the
hostess, was entertained by the small
boy.
what are you going to do when
you grow up2" a the stereotyped
question she ~propounded In the effort
to start the o nversation.
"oh, / am going to smoke"
"Yes?"
"And chew"
"Oh!"
"And gamble"
Indeed"
"And swear"
Really"
"And drink corn whisky"
"And why are you going to do such
things?" asked the visitor aghast.
"Oh, all southern gentlemen do
them"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
wheels. cut thls along the wave lime

wheels. Cut this along the wav line
Alb and rivet the two pieces to the
two driving wheels as shown at AA,
Fig. 2. These should be riveted to the
wheels in a position such that the
crest on one side will be opposite
the trough on the other.
The frame B is made of wood. also
the handle. c. The piece ID can be
made of either wood or iron, and is
fitted with a roller at each end to re.
duce the friction against the cams,
AA. Two wheels, ZEE, about six inches
In diameter and threeinch face, are
fastened TO the front of the machine
In order to prevent the cutters from
striking the ground.
The driving wheel must be In the
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
SAFE LAMP FOR MINERS.
Inventor Proposes to Make Use Of
Liquid Electricity"

Tests have been conducted recently
with a lamp that may prove a great
advance on the miners lamps now in
use in the coal fields of the United
States. While the inventor has not
fully described his lamp in his demon
STATIONS, practical men have thor
oughly investigated 1t and term 1t "the
liquid electricity lamp" The lamp
weighs five and one-half pounds and
is not intended to hook on the miners
cap. Instead of the cap hook, 1t has a
large metal hook, which is to be
caught on the mine wall and the heavy
glasses sighted toward the point where
the miner is working.
At a distance of ten feet 1t Is posi-.
BILE to read a newspaper by 1t, and two
lamps In one room make 1t as bright
as day. BY two sockets the lamps are
charged from a 110-volt dynamo 10.
Gated in a separate room in the mine.
The lamps are intended to be placed
In this room after every working day
and are in charge of a special work
man, familiar with charging them, the
charge lasting eight hours. The lamps
are expensive. costing in the neighbor.
hood of SIS each. One of the features
that is most expensive 10 the small
tubes and film that meet at a point
where the light is projected. The
breakage OF these adds materially to
the cost of the lamp. The miners are
somewhat divided as to the value OF
the lamp, many Of them directing to
the weight in carrying 1t in and out OF
the mine, while all believe that It gives
a more perfect and satisfactory light.
The officials believe that the men will
overcome this dislike as they become
more familiar with the lamp.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
WHY SHE WAS THANKFUL.
Little One Had Reason to Approve
Fathers Choice.

or she sisters Of a well.known New
York family one Is married. She has
one little girl greatly petted by all the
aunts and subject to much advice
from all OF them. OF this last the lit
tie lady sometimes wearies, which
WEAKNESS on a certain occasion made
itself shown in tbs following reply
from her small ladyship:
Said one aunt: III you were my
child | should have you do thus and
thus" Said another aunt: Were you
my child | would do so and So The
remaining aunt made a similar re.
mark.
The little lady thought It high time
to express her own feelings. But !
have" she said, always been so
thankful that papa married the sister
he did,"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
Mi. wlllIam a. Radford win answel

Mr.. william A. Radford win answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to tho
subject OF building for the readers Of this
Fence as Editor, Aethor and Manufac-
turer. he is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all Inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
1874 Fifth Ave, Chicago, Ill.,. and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
A little house we've got, on a flower
powered lot, in a hustling, breezy busy
little city; it's big enough for two, for
our wants are very few, there's only
Just myself and little Kitty.
A simple little house like this is
very much like going back to first
principles, but 1t furnishes accommo-
dation for two just as well as a more
elaborate affair, We all have acquaint-
ances, especially among our older
friends, who commenced life as simply
as this and who are now enjoying
the accumulations resulting from fru-
gality and good management.
If a yonng couple forms the habit
of paying rent they are very likely to
pay rent as long as they live. We
often hear the remark that it is
cheaper to pay rent than to own your
property. There never was a more
foolish or misleading statement. The
man who lives in a rented house sell
dom gets ahead financially. This
holds good whether he is working on
salary or is conducting a business on
his own account. 1t would be difficult
to say why, but it probably is because
In the majority Of cases a renter fails
to give attention to the advancing
value of real estate.
| knew a man, a clerk In a lubricat-
ing oil factory, who rented a new
house on a pleasant street about 20
years ago. At first he paid $40 per
month, but In seven Or eight years
time the rent was raised to S25. He
is still living in the same house and is
row paying $35 per month. The
house has not improved with age, and
he is continually looking about to bet
ter his condition. but can find no other
property that suits him SO well or that
he can rent at a cheaper rate in pro-
portion to the advantages he now has.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
Cheated the GalIows.

With q remark to Sheriff Owen Of Tut
MICA county that he was not going to
accompany him back to that county
for the purpose of being hung, George
jenkins, the noted negro globe-trotter
desperate, deliberately cut his throat
with a ragged and almost harmless.
looking razor blade, This took placs
in the cell in the Kinds county jail
and was prompted by the entry inta
the cell of Sheriff Owen and jailer j.
w, Cain for the purpose of starting on
the trip to Tunica.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
Artificial Vegetables.

Prof. d'Arsonval exhibited before
the Academy Of Sciences at Paris re-
Gently artificial vegetables which he
produced by the methods of Prof. lie.
due, Of the Nantes Medical College.
The method Is to form tiny seeds from
one part sulphate OF. copper and two
parts glucose, which are then depos-
tied In a gelatine boulllon, to which
is added a little ferro-cyanide Of potas.
SUM and sea salt. The seed developers
into plants resembling seaweed and
other marine growth. They appear to
have the same properties as the plants
they resemble, being influenced SINH.
larly by heat and light.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
Harvesting Waters In India.

Engineers are Harvesting many of
the waters of the world to the use
Of man. A great project Is under way
TO catch the foods which rush down
the western Chats, near Bombay, and
to use the water-power in cotton mills
and other factories. The valleys are
of rocky formation, and with dams at
the lower end a be made into tight
reservoirs. Three valleys will be
closed in by dams respectively half
a mile, a mile, and a mile and a half
long.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
aNississippi
Nrws
County Fairs.

There will be the usual number Of
local and neighborhood fairs in addition
to the State Fair and Exposition, which
viii very appropriately wind up tho
series in the fall, and quite a number
Of the county and local fairs will oc-
eur between the nominating primary
and regular election days. But there
will be also a number of midsummer
and dog day events, as usual, and
among them the historic Neshoha Fair,
which the people of Neshoba county and
the country around Philadelphia have
made famous over the state. This fair
will be held about n week earlier this
year than last,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12

opens a cupola when making pig iron.
One difference will be that when the
founder uses a long iron rod to poke
a hole, the volcano is to be opened
by letting off a big charge of high
explosives.
Notwithstanding the somewhat fshy
nature of the story, it Is stated ZEN
gineers VINO have been considering
the scheme are strongly inclined to
the opinion that it Is not impracti'
cable One thing Is certain, Popu.
lar Mechanics says, there will be
plenty of Yankee engineers who will
not hesitate to undertake 80 difficult
and dangerous a venture, II the neces.
sary funds are provided.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
Legislative Apportionment.

The Thirty.sixth senatorial district,
composed of the five counties of Ben
ton, Tate, Union, Marshall and Tippah,
with n total in 1905 OF something over
$4,000 polls, has three senators, and
gives in u total assessment of S1a,24a,'
900, The Second senatorial district,
composed of four counties, Perry, Jones,
Wayne and Green, shows over 10000
polls and an assessment roll Of SEA-
100000 and over, has but one sena'
torial representative.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12

He has paid enough rent to buy the
house, to pay all street improvements,
city taxes, insurance and repairs. He
tells me he was offered the property
years ago for 1880, which he thought
was too much money. The lot itself
Is worth more than that to-day. This
is n instance in a great many sim
liar one that have come to my notice.
1t is not always that a neighborhood
improves so rapidly and substantially,
but generally speaking all property in
American towns advances in value.
There is another very great advan-
tage in owning a home, and that is
the comfortable feeling you have Of
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
Portraits for Hail Of Fame.

DR.. Dunbar Rowland, director Of tho
department Of archives and history, has
just placed in position in the hall OF
fame, three portraits of men whose
names are interviewer with the history
of past days of Mississippi, and whose
days of activity were n decade prior
to the war between the states. They
are the portraits Of Cows. John j. Pet.
tus and Joseph w. Matthews and OF
Judge William Ycrger.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12

'AhRHMR
LAWN OR WEED MOWER.
Convenient Machine Which Can Be
Made Out Of Old Field Mower.

Anyone having an old field mower
and a few Woodworking tools can
make a good lawn and weed mower.
The following parts of the old machine
will be needed: The driving wheels
and shaft, a portion of the cutter-bar,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
Made from an Old Field Mower.

including knives and fingers, bolts,
nuts, and any other part which can
be used, says Popular Mechanics, de-
pending on the make of the old ma
chine.
Procure a strip Of sheet steel, Fig.
1, 6 inches wide, about 1872 inches
thick, and long enough to go around
the circumference of the driving
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
Bible Conference.

The second annual session Of the Mis-.
sissippi D. Y. p. U. encampment and
Bible conference which began at Blus
Mountain, closed last week. The at
tendance and interest during the SEQ.
sion have been gratifying to tbs Off.
GERS Of the encampment, and the direct
ors are planning to make that Of next
summer the greatest in the history Of
the state. Blue Mountain has been
chosen as the permanent places Of
meeting, but the exact date Of the con
vention will be given out later by ths
executive committee.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12
Prison Expenses.

Secretary Brown Of the penitentiary
board of trustees, reports that the
monthly expense accounts are being
gradually reduced. The total allowed
for June, which includes salaries and
subsistence and other expenses, was
$o,4os,2s, as compared with $4,000 for
the month previous, and the expecta.
ton ia that IL will be still further
reduced, or down to a basis Of about
SO 5000 d month.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12

"soap Bubble Hanging from . Reed"
Our life is but a soap bubble hang.
ing from a reed; It is formed. expands
to its full size, clothes itself with the
loveliest colors Of the prism, and even
escapes at moments from the law Of
gravitation; but loon the black speck
appears In II and the globe Of emerald
and gold vanishes into space, leaving
behind 1t nothing but . simple drop
OF turbid water. All the poets have
made this comparison, 1t IL SO strik-
ing and so true. To appear, to shine,
70 disappear; to be born, to suffer and
to die; II It no. the whole sum Of
life, for q butterfly, for : nation. for .
star?-Henry Frederic Amiel.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-12

"A Berlin landlord thus advertises an
eligible nat: Mine large rooms, bath
and necessary ofices, hot and cold
water, gas and electric light, electric
lifts. vacuum cleaning. fur coat de-.
pository, safe deposit vaults, and in
every nat ID installed . carpetclean.
Ing machine, : large clock regulated
BY electricity from the Berlin Obser.
vatofy and ! hanging machine"