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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-05-18

crew. says Whlskers. waving VA
hands toward the rest DC his gang.
!. Hall right. skipper, says Ham
mond. Glad I'd see yer back hab0ard
Make yerselves well al 'ome f0w dye
lose FER Id the first placer
@.Ooman. senors.' says Whiskers in
half a whisper. CONAN, she here?
Hammond says /. what's n
oomanT
q. Edge says Hammond, - wants
TO know watts become OF Lobelia
'Ankins.'
mo. senor. says to the Teller
CONAN no here. CONAN thereT And
/ p'inted In the direction of our island
swell, sir, you oughter have seen
that Malay gangs faces light up. They
all bust out grinning and laffing. and
Whiskers fairly Rugged me and then
Hammond. Then ne made one Of the
Malays take the wheel instead OF me.
But I was curious. and says. pint
ing toward Lobelia's island:
"'Ooman your wifeY
"'No. no. no. says he, shaking his
head like it would come of. CONAN
no wife. Wife there and he p'inted
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-05-18

when we rounded the sand fhill we see
the race In the distance. Lonesome
had gained d pint or tWo,e and Todd
want more ii four pitchf orks In the
lead.
make for the launchw II whooped
between my hands.
The parson heard me- and come
about and broke for thet ashore. The
Creased Lightning had swung out
about the length Of her anchor rope,
and the water want deep. Todd
smashed in to his waist and climbed
aboard. He cut the roding just as
Lonesome reached tide mark. James,
he sees it's a close call, and he shins
back to the engine, reaching It exactly
at the time when the gent with the
pitchfork laid hands on the rail. Then
the parson throws over the switch-Pd
shown him how-and gives the start
ing wheel full turn.
We'll, you know the Creased Light
ming? She jumped like the cat that lit
on the hot stove. Lonesome, being bal
anced with his knees on the rail,
pitches head fust into the cockpit.
Todd, jumping out of his way, falls
overheard backward. Next thing any
body knew the launch was scooting
for blue water like a streak Of what
she was named for, and the hunting
chaplain was churning up foam like
mill wheel.
/ yelled more orders than second
mate on a coaster Todd dubbed and
belIered. Lonesome hung on to the
rail of the cockpit and let his hair
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-05-18


Herer says he. pointing to me. 'Looky
here, missis! Edge Edge-that's i'm.
Almond Almond that's me me-.
Now, 100 are your
'She ratified Off u name that had
more double Jints i'm IL than an eel.
'Lordyy says |. We never can
Farm that rigamaroIe. | tell you. She
looks for all the world like old Ant
Lobelia Fosdick at home down on
Cape Cod. Let's call her that
She looks to me like the mother
ef oysterman used TO know In Liv-
erpool. III name was 'Ankins. Let's
split the difference and call Ter Lo-
bella Atkins
$50 we done It.
"I reckon twas about the third day
that noticed she was getting sweet
on Hammond. She was giving him
the best or all the yittles and used TO
set at the table and look at him softer
and sWeeter n bucket or merlasses.
Edge, says he. i b'lieve that ere
chrome of Lobelia Atkins II getting
soft OH me-
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about directly opposite from my way.
CONAN he goes on, she no wife:
She
Just here a Malay come up from
the fo'castle. grinning like chessy
cat and hugging fat jug Of this here
palm wine that natives make. don't
know where he got 1t 'front.' thought
Hammond and me had rummaged that
fo'castle pretty well-but, anyhow,
there it was.
"Whiskers passed the jug to me. and
handed it over to Hammond. He
stood up to make a speech.
"'Feller citizens says he. i rise to
drink toast. 'Ere's to the beautchous
Lobelia Atkins, and may she long
Tournament the lovely island where she
now
'"The Malay at the wheel behind US
gave an awful screech. We all turnedj
sudden, and there. standing on the
companion ladder, was Lobelia 'Ankins,
as large as life and twice as natural.
Hammond dropped the jug. and it
smashed into flinders. We all stood
stock still for a minute, like folks in
tableau. The half breed skipper stood
next to me, and snum IL you couldn't
see him shrivel up like one of them
things they call sensitive plant.
1.-THE tableau lasted while a Teller
might count five; then things hap
pened. Hammond and me lodged
around the deck house. The Malays
broke and run. one up the main rig
ging, two down the fo'castle hatch and
one out on the jibboom. But the poor
skipper want satisfied with any of
them places. He started for the lee
rail. and Lobelia 'Ankins started after
him.
"She caught him as he was going to
jump overheard and yanked him back
like he was bag Of meal. She shook
him, she boxed his ears. she pulled his
hair. and all the time he was begging
and pleading and she was screeching
and jabbering at the top Of her lungs. J,
Hammond pulled me by the sleeve.
"Ttll be our turn next says he.
Get into the boat. Quickp
'"The little boat that the crew lad
schooner. We slid over the stern and
dropped into It. Hammond cut the
toWline and we laid to the oars. Long
as we was in the hearing of the
schooner the powwow and rumpus
kept up. but just as we was landing
on the little island that the Malays
had left she come about on the port
tack and stood Off to sea.
'Lobelia's running things again.
says Hammond.
Three days after this we was took
or by Dutch gunboat. Most Of the
time on the island we spent debating
how Lobelia come to be on the schoon-
er. Finally we decided that she must
have gone aboard to sleep that night.
suspecting that we'd try to run away
In the schooner just as we had tried
to. We talked about Whiskers and his
crew and guessed about how they
came to abandon their boat in the first
place. One thing we was sartin sure
of, and that was that they'd left Lo-
bella aboard on purpose. We knew
mighty well that's what we'd "a done.
What puzzled us most was what re-
lation Lobelia was to the skipper. She
want his wife, cause he'd said so.
and she didn't look enough like him to
be his mother or sister. But as we
was being took or I'm the Dutchman's
yawl Hammond thumps the thwart
with his fist and says he:
eve got itF he says; she's Is
mother-in-lawr
"Course she isP says l. We might
have known ttp
s# 3s~3s e.~ss ~
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the mouth or the lagoon she heeled
over on q new tack and sailed III be
tween the rocks a. pretty a. anything
ever You see. Then she run aground
On the beach just about quarter Of
mile from the shanty.
TWAS early morning when we
climbed aboard Of her. thought Lag
arus' schooner was dirty, but this one
was nothing but dirt-dirty sails. all
patches; dirty deck, dirty everything.
Wont get much salvage On this
bally tub says Hammond. She's one
of them niger fish boats; that's wat
she is.'
II was kind or skittish about going
below fraid there might be some dead
folks-but Hammond went In min
ute or % up he comes. looking scary.
There's something mighty queer
down there says he, kind or W'eez-
ing Like putting pig
/" Wheeling your grandmother says
I, but went and listened at the hatch.
Its snoring says /; somebody's
snoring
=. 'Eavensr says Hammond You
don't s'pose it's that ere cody come
backY
mo. mo-! says /. Where's your
common sense? The cook snored bass;
this critters snoring suppraner. and
mighty poor suppraner at that
"'Twas a woman, middling old. with
yeller face. all wrinkles. and chin
and nose like Punch. She was dressed
In a gaudy old calico gown and had
earrings In her ears. She give one
look round at the schooner and the
island. Then she see us and let out a
whoop like a steam whistle.
tMulligataWny sacrement0 mer-
lassesp she yells. Course that want
what she said, but that's what it
sounded like. Then fore Hammond
could stop her she run for him and
give him a rousing big hug. He was
the most surprised man you ever see
stood there like wooden image.
commenced to laff. but the next min
ute the woman come for me and hug
ged me too.
'Fectionate old gall says Ham
mond. grinning.
tThe critter in the calico gown was
going through the craziest pantomime
ever was. She p'inted over the side
and made motions like rowing. Their
she p'inted down the hatch and shut
her eyes and purtended to snore. After
that she rowed again, all the time get
ting madden and madden.
1.-The crew took to the boat and left
'er asleep below says Hammond
''Oly scissors. they're in for a lively
time Ii old Nutcrackers 'ere evel
catches 'em. 'ey?
'sWell, we went over the schooner
and examined everything, but there
want nothing Of any value nowheres
Twas reg'lar niger fishing boat
with dirt and cockroaches by the pail
full. We found she'd started a planE
running aground on the beach and tina
'twould take us a week to get he
afloat and water tight.
Pretty soon we see the woman 60
ing to the shanty with her arms full 81
bundles and truck. We didn't thinl
anything Of it then. but when we gol
home at noon there was the best din
ner, ever you see all ready for us
fried fish and some kind of beans
cooked up with peppers and tea-rea
store tea-and a lot more things. Land
how we did eat! We kept smackins
our lips and rubbing our vests to show
we was enjoying everything, and til,
old gal kept bobbing her head ant
grinning like one Of them dummies
you wind up with key.
"'Well.' says Hammond. we've 60
a cook at last. Amt we, oId-old-
Blimed If we've got name for 'er yet
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He didn't knoeU hosO to stop her.

lie GGdn'C k1l01D hO1D 10 stop heT.
stand up to grow Nobody was cool
but Clarissa. and she was an iceberg.
She had her good p'ints, that old maid
did, drat her!
James," she calls, "get out of that
water this minute and come here!
This instant mindw
James minded. He padded ashore
and hoped, dripping like dishcloth,
alongside the truck wagon.
Get iny' orders Skipper Clarissa.
He done it. Now" says the lady,
passing the reins over to me, drive
us home, Mr.. Wingate, before that In
toxicated lunatic can catch u.s."
1t seemed about the only thing to do.
knew twas no use explaining to
Lonesome for an hour or more yet,
even if you can talk finger signs,
which part of my college training has
been neglected. Twas murder he
wanted at the present time. When /
slapped the mare with the end of the
reins she took the bit in her teeth and
commenced to gallop. / hollered
"Whoar' and "Heave tor and "Be-
layY' and everything else could think
of, but she never took in reef. We
bumped over hummocks and ridges,
and every time we done it we spilled
something out of that wagon. First
twas a lot of huckleberry pals, then
a basket of groceries and such, then a
tin pan with some potatoes in it, then
jug done up in blanket. Out Of the
tail of my eye see Lonesome, well out
to sea. heading the Creased Lightning
for the beach.
When you drive down to Lonesome
pint you have to ford the Cut
Through. It's strip of water between
the bay and the ocean, and faint very
wide or deep at low tide. But the tide
was coming in now, and, more'n that
the mare want headed for the ford.
She was cuttin' cross lots on her OVID
hook and wouldn't answer the helm.
We struck that Cut Through about q
hundred yards east of the ford, and In
two shakes we was hub deep in salt
water. Fore the Todds could do any
thing but holler the wagon was afioat
and the mare was all but swimming.
But she kept right on. Bless her, you
couldn't stop her!
We crossed the first channel and
come out on fat where 'twasn't
more'n two foot deep then. COM
menced to feel better. There was an
other channel ahead OF us, but fig
ured we'd navigate that same as we
had the first one. And then the most
outrageous thing happened.
IL you'll b'lieve it, that pesky mare
baked and wouldn't stir another step.
Drive onv' says Clarissa, pretty
average vinegary. Haven't you made
trouble enough for US already, you
dreadful man? Drive onr'
Hadn't made trouble enoughl What
5o you think of that?
''You want to drown us!' says Miss
Todd. continuing her chatty remarks.
II see it ALL It's a plot between you
and that murderer, I give you warn
ing. If we reach the hotel my brother
and ] win commence suit for dam
ages"
MY temper's fairly long suffering.
but twas travelling some BY this time.
I'd about got Cd thirdly when James
give d screech and p'inted. And IL
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-18

twenty-eight tons. Each transformer oc-
cupied floor space of nine by five feet
and stood seventeen feet high; The core OF
each device contains more than four miles
of heavy copper wire by means of which
5000 horsepower of electrical energy is
raised TO a pressure of lSS,5OO volts Before
shipment each machine was tested with u
pressure of 2SO,OOO volts to prove the safety
of the insulation.
Without the transformer the millions Of
horsepower which are now being developed
from the various rivers and streams and
used in the cities and villages for manuiac-
turing and railroad work as well as Tor
heating and lighting, would be impossible.
The current could be generated. but it
could not be transmitted very far. 1t is
the big transformers which make il pos
sible to turn the water power OF Mas CARA
into electricity and to send il over the
slender wires as TAR as Syracuse, Toronto
aud Rochester with trifling cost
Among the larger cities, which receive
greater portion of their electricity from
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-18
Shooting Iron Designed to Fight Aeroplanes

man want to laugh. But l mean an aero
plane TO fight another aeroplane.
why, l, or any government arsenal, for
that matter, would make this Wright ma
chine here into a fighting craft in almost
a single day. Here's the equipment needed;
One light one-p FOUNDER gun, many OF which
are now in existence Weighing less than
100 pounds, plus 100 one-pOund shells thus
making a total fighting equipment weigh
ing less than 200 pounds and capable OF
adjustment that the firing could be done
by single driver in the aeroplane. The
load would be less than the aeroplane car
red with its one passenger.
"Aeroplanes can be built i'm numbers in
mighty short time, and their artillery
equipment can be put on them in equally
short time. The next warfare is going 70
be aloft, ana to the speediest aeroplane
will belong the greatest power TO effect
a victory.
Tea years ago I began experimenting
with a gun 10 fire at any angle in the
celestial concave. and l have now the gun
that will fire swinging on pivot equipped
to bring an aeroplane making 100 miles
hour into exact range, and using a pro
jectle which viii tear it ~ pieces"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-18

aS3g millions of horse power of dis
liant waterfalls could be transmitted over
mountains and deserts. land and water
to the industrial centers to turn the
wheels OF mills and factories, to light the
streets and houses, TO drive the electric
cars and do all the hard work about the
cities and towns was great boon to the
Industrial world.
Good shipping facilities make large in
dustrial centers and these industrial points
require vast quantities of cheap and reli-
able power, Only in few places was 1t
possible for an industry TO combine good
shipping with cheap water-power But
now, when man has discovered how to
bring the distant water-pow to any de-
sirable place Industrial centers are spring
ing up all over the country. No longer
is it necessary for the south to ship cot
ton to the New England water-power
cities TO be made into cloth. Southern
rivers are being harnessed and the work
is being done at home and only the fin
ished product shipped away.
II was the Invention and the subsequent
development of the electrical transformer
which brought about this modern miracle
The transformer is a device TO raise the
pressure Of electricity and to force it at
slender copper wire TO great distances with
little, If any, loss. The generators, driven
by water wheels. produce electricity al
about 1900 volts and the transformer in
creases the voltage or pressure TO as high
as 10000 volts for transmission.
Low voltage would require a large trans
mission line and a heavy loss In current.
by way OF explanation. II the water-power
itself were TO be transmitted any dis
lance at low pressure II would take a
large canal to carry the required amount
OF water; but II the water could be sent
under high pressure a small pipe would
carry a good many hundred horse power.
The transformers raise the voltage and
send the electrical current under high
pressure over very small wire, and so
great is this pressure that thousands OF
horsepower can be sent TO great dis
tanees over small wires with very little
loss.
In the last ten years the transformer
has grown from a few kilOwatts TO a few
thousand kiloWatts in output. and from
few thousand volts to 1850 volts. The
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-18

are in their. homes and safe in bed by 10
o'clock at night pay lighting taxes for
Others who. being of jovial turn of mind,
midnight and do not return home until the
early hours of the morning?
Manifestly 1t is unfair but in Germany
this question has now been answered in a
way which will please the earnest tax
payers, and probably prove a terror to the
late night birds. To the village of Zarkau
near Glogau, In Silesis, must be given the
honor Of installing system of automatic
electric lighting for the streets. The electric
lights burn every night from the outskirts
OF Glogau through the village OF Zarkau,
distance of about a kilometer until 10
o'clock at "a mutual cost to the community
I'm general. Then they are switched off
At each end of this kilometer stretch. on
an iron pillar, stands small iron cupboard
lighted by tiny electric light. Those per-
sons who are out after 10 o'clock wishing
to have their way lighted must insert a
ten pfennig piece into slot in the side of
the iron cupboard. Then the nine lamps
placed along this stretch burst forth into
twelve-minute life. thus enabling the pas
senger to find his way in lightness to his
or her house.
The scheme is working in a satisfactory
way and 1T seems quite probable that other
German villages and towns will follow the
example of Zarkau and install the auto
matte lighting system to be put into opera
tion after 10 O'Clock
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-18
The I<hedive In 1910.

AS l was thinking Of these things
stately official in dark clothes and red fez
cap entered and told me his highness was
ready to see me. He then led me out OF
the room and across the hall into another
parlor. (which was equally large. AS we
entered straight, stout young man. with
fair face and blond mustache. came
forward and offered me his hand. 1t was
the young khedive, whom / had met when
I;was in Egypt four years ago. He greeted
me with a welcome back to Egypt, saying
that he considered IL a compliment to his
country that the Americans who came
invariably returned. His highness led the
way to a sofa near the window. and mo-
toned me to a chair at his side. When
he sat down himself he put one foot un-
der him and sat upon that l remem-
bered that his father had sat the same
way. The khedive maintained this posi-
ton during the half hour of our audience.
As we talked / had an excellent oppor-
tunty to study the man. His highness is
about five feet eight tall, and he weighs
perhaps 10 pounds He is as straight as
an arrow, and the red fez cap which he
Invariably wears makes him look taller.
Many Americans think al! of the peo-
pie of this part of the world have dark
That of the khedive is fair,
and his bronze cheeks are rosy. He wore
today a black frock suit fashionable
necktie, and. with the exception of his fez,
his costume would not have been out Of
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-18
sive Activities and Developments in the Electrica

transformer has no moving parts. In
shape and outline II looks not unlike a
large oval boiler. The interior mechanism
consists of large coils of wire insulated
with oil.
1t was but fifteen years ago when the
first 10000 volt transmission line in this
country was opened in southern California
transmitting single-phase current from San
Antonio Canon to light Pomona and San
Bernardino, distant fourteen and twenty
eight miles. There were two banks OF small
transformers, raising the pressure from
1000 TO lO,CO0 volts. In all, there We're forty
six kilowatt ransformers-the largest Of
that day. A comparison of these insisnlfi-
cant machines with the six monster trans
formers being constructed by the General
Electric company at schenectady, y. ".
for the Great Western Power company of
California fully demonstrates the wonder
ful advancement of high tension transmits
sion.
When these worlds largest transformers
stood on the test floor ready for shipment
TO California, each unit weighed more than
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-18
TewfIk Vernua Ahh..

since then great changes have taken place
In Egypt The present khedive's father was
always afraid of assassination, and when
he suddenly died It was supposed that he
was carried off by poison. asked him
how he liked the life of khedive he re-
piled:
Il don't like it. / am told that many
people envy me and think that my lot
must be pleasant one They do not I'M
derstand the troubles that surround me I
nave seen many time when / should have
been glad TO have laid down ali the honors
i have for rest and peace. Ny ten wears
OF reisn have been equal to forty years OF
worry, and II life were matter of pleas
ure would be fool 10 remain on the
throne. l believe, however. that God put
man into the world for a purpose other
than pleasure 1t is duty that is mans
chief end. l am trying TO do what l can
Tor my country and people. and | am hap
piest when am working the hardest"
These words were uttered after the Eng
iish mad taken hold of the EgyAtian situa-
tlon' As you will remember. they came in
al the end of ARABIA Pasha's rebellion. and
after they had put down the revolution OF
the Mahdi. Tewfik was ground between
mo upper and neither millstones of the reb-
els md the English. and his bed was neves.
one OF roses.
IL Is different with the present khediye
he has practically nothing TO do with the
actual government. and the English relieve
MIN from most OF the troubles OF the ordi-
nary ruler.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-18

During his copversst ton his highness
spoke at length as TO some of his farms,
suggesting that / might find IL interesting
to visit them. lie has redeemed over 1000
acres not far from Cairo. The land was
poor and swampy and some OF it was des-
ert His highness drained and irrigated 1t
and now it brings in an enormous revenue.
He has another big farm pear Alexandria
and anothe: at Koubbeh. The latter es-
tate is MODEL plantation OF 800 acres. 1t
is equipped with the most scientific ma
chinery and implements and its buildings
comprise a model village, with which is
connected a school club, a mosque and an
up to-date fire station The khedive has
breeding establishments there, and he i'm
ports the finest cattle and poultry. He is
noted a horse lover, and has recently
inaugurated company to improve the
blood of the Egyptian horse. His position is
such that he can get the finest of the
Arabian sires and the best pure-blooded
stations from Nejd, Arabia, are sent to him
by the Bedouin sheil1s. He Ia also inter-
ested in camel and mule breeding, and has
some Of the swiftest OF dromedaries. Some
of his camels can travel seventy-five miles
day, and are worth as much as the finest
horse. His highness exhibits at many of
the agricultural shows and is often among
the prize winners there.
During our talk ! asked the khedive as
to his daily life. he replied that he had
all he could do from daylight to dark, but
that he believed in hard work and thrived
upon it. In addition to his official duties
which are many, he has the management
of his own estates and various enterprises.
He said that many of his days from
clock in the morning until o'clock at
night were taken up at the palace.
From other sources l learned that the
khedive is almost as strenuous Theo-