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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-06-08
kAena IL Wall.

Keeps Il Well.
Nell-Don't you think Miss Antique
keeps her age remarkably we'll? Belle
-Sure. She never gives it away
Philadelphia Record.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
ELECTRIC CHICKS IS LATEST
Brood Is Hatched by Placing Bulbs in
Ordinary Incubator-As Lively
as Any Others.

Towanda, Pa.-Not satisfied with
being first in butter production in the
north tier, Towanda has the first
brood of chickens ever Matched bv
electricity in the state, and perhaps
in the country. 1t all came about
through the ingenuity of Clarence
Braund, poultry expert. who is en-
ployed by local Illuminating CON-
pany.
He conceived the idea of SUBSTITUTE
ing the electric bulb for the uncertain
kerosene lamp, which causes so MANY
disasters because of the risk of it's
starting fire, overheating or going
out.
Taking common incubator. he sim
ply wired it and used electric bulbs
instead for heating, and the result was
very satisfactory. All of the eggs but
one Matched out The Temperature
was kept even night and day without
any attention on his part. and the
chicks are as lively as any ever
Matched.
So pleased is the illuminating com.
pany with the experiment that It has
the chicks in the display window Of
its office. 1t is likely that the old
method of using lamps for heat will
be RELOCATED and that chickens Of tho
future will be Matched by the steady
current from the main plant.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
Valuable AppIe Tree,

Thirty thousand dollars was the
sum recently offered an eastern
Washington nursery company for an
apple tree located near Lake Chelan
The proffer was made by syndicate
which desired to propagate the tree
1t was turned down by the nursery
company, which will develop the fruit
itself.
The tree is twenty years old and ia
called the Chelan. The fruit is gold.
en- yellow and is said to be different
from that Of any other apple grown in
Washington. 1t is also said to pos.
sess exceptional keeping qualities, q
box having been kept in storage in
Spokane for two years without any
marked deterioration.
Twenty years ago, the story runs,
an Indian planted a handful of apple
seeds, three of which grew. The
fruit of only one of the trees was good
for anything. The tree is now of great
size and prolific bearer. Last year
at the National Apple show at Spo-
kane fruit from the tree took first
prize for new varieties of apples
Pay Streak.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
PARROT DlSTURBS A CLASS
Bird Becomes Decidedly Profane Dur
ing Discussion Of English Spar
rows in Central Park

New York.-There will be only one
species of the bird family in any great
numbers in the parks Of the city this
year. according to Donald Burns. keep
or of the aviary in the Central Park
menagerie. He refers to the English
sparrows
When he told his class Of young.
sters from the nearby Fifth avenue
houses in his talk that all the best
birds would be scarcer than ever be
cause of the ever-increasing number Of
piratical sparrOws. the youngsters
were inspired with a desire to go out
and shoot all they could find. But it
remained for Dick, the parrot who has
recently celebrated his centenary, to
give voice to his feelings in a most de-
termined way.
We'll, I'll be DID,"
And when that damn" with a big
ID" came from the dignided parrot
Burns looked aghast.
II wonder who could ha' taught him
that?" exclaimed the keeper.
During the last week the window
beside Dicks cage has been open. and
it is believed his vocabulary was in
creased by some of the freQuenters OF
the nearby benches.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
GARDENS FOR BOYS

and the children of Woods Run are
looking forward to again growing
vegetables and flowers beside the pen
itentiary.
In addition to it's peach culture the
civic committee of the Congress Won
ems Clubs Of Western Pennsylvania
will plant several flower beds in the
city. The New Era club has two
beds in the grounds Of the Hancock
school,; the Council of Jewish WON
en- has u bed at the Hospital for Chill.
dren; the Saturday Afternoon club
has one at the Curtis Home; the
Women's CLUB of Pittsburg will have
one at the Pittsburg Home for Babies
in Center avenue, and the Travellers
club will plant flowers in front of the
Workshop for the Blind Several
flower gardens have also been plant
ed by the committee in Grafton and
Sheriden
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
PEAT DEPOSITS IN THE U. S.
Estimated That Is $4,000, 900 900
Worth Of Fuel in Section Extend
ing Across Country.

1t has been estimated that the
United States has $4,000, 100000
worth of peat deposits extending from
the far east of Maine to the far north
west of Minnesota and the Dakotas,
counting the dried peat at So ton.
Time and again the United States
geological survey has issued pamph-
let's upon the subject of peat deposits
Of the country, but it seems to be
characteristic of the American not to
bother about an artificially manufac-
tured fuel as long as he can buy mined
coal and devastate standing timber
which far better might be reserved for
ether purposes than fuel. Some of the
richest peat deposits in the world are
i'll the neighborhood of Black lake in
st. Lawrence county, New York.
A foreign exchange, commenting up
on this laXness of the American people
in regard to great natural resource,
says that for thirty years the Notla
Steel works in Sweden has been oper-
ated with peat fuel, consuming an av.
erage Of $1,000 cubic yards of dry
k1eaded peat yearly, and delivering
the heat i'll the form of gas. In many
other countries Of Europe gas from
peat is a commodity. In a general
way, however, it is pleaded for the
United States that manufacturing peat
is Improbable through the high cost
of labor and the competition with soft
coal from the mines. Several large
companies have made the attempt and
have failed.
In European experiments ton of
dried peat has been made to yield
forty-threc gallons of alcohol when
treated with sulphuric acid and a
yeast. AS a commercial alcohol 1t
costs about one-fourth that produced
from potatoes. Tar is another product
Of peat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
The jamaica FirefIy.

The Jamaica FREELY, species over
an inch in length, emits very bril-
liant light, which comes from the sides
of the head and beneath the thoray.
The light is a fluctuating one and not
the steady glow Of the glowworm. A
very remarkable fact Is that this fluct-
uating or pulsating light may continue
after the death of the animal. If we
suppose that the light of the living
insect is due to oxygen supplied I'm
der It's control to the luminous matter
we may conclude that after death the
oxygen Of the air might obtain &C
cess to it and produce a like effect.
1t is difficult, however, to account for
the pulsations in the light of the dead
freely.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
NOW GO TO MECCA BY TRAIN
Saved the Hitherto Necessary
Trip Across Desert.

The decision of the Turkish govern.
ment to extend the famous Hedjaz
railroad by carrying the metals Of
this line across the desert from Me.
dina to Mecca calls attention to what
Is undoubtedly one of the most daring
railroad enterprises of the age.
This railroad is unique in it's claim
Of being the only railroad built for the
purpose of carrying pilgrims. Indeed,
known as "The Railroad of the Pill
grims," it is being used for the trans
portation Of Mohammedan pilgrims to
Medina, the burial place of their
prophet. Starting from Damascus It
runs almost due south through wild
and sterile country for more than 800
miles to Medina. A short distance
from the terminus is Daraa, now quite
an imposing and important station,
where the line joins that coming up
from Haif1a round the southern shores
of the Sea of Galilee
From Daraa the line gradually as
cends the undulating slopes of a
plateau as far as Zerka, where it
drops into deep valley, and climbs
out again by winding belt. AS the
line proceeds southwards, signs Of
civilization become fewer and fewer,
and the sense of desolation more
pronounced. Pursuing course paral
lei to the River Jordan, and almost
identical with the old caravan route
the railroad traverses a district as
full of interest for the Christian az
for the Mohammedan. Decayed ruins
of past civilizations and silent monu
ments of long-departed prosperity arc
visible on all sides.
So the journey continues until E.
Ula is reached, 600 miles from Damas
Gus and 210 from Medina Beyond E5
Ula none but Mohammedans may 80,
even the engineer-in-chief, who is
German, had to relegate to a Moham-
medan assistant the carrying Of the
metals into Medina. The railroad IL
now to be extended to Mecca, tho
birthplace of Mohammed, but to a.
complish this, 2S5 miles of track Las
yet to be laid across the desert. This
is now being rapidly done and con-
struction trains carrying the neces
sary material have proceeded south
from Damascus with Turkish soldiers
who will build the line ~under the di.
rection of Mohammedan engineer.
It is interesting here to note that
when the Bagdad railroad has pro-
crossed another 200 miles and the
Bosphorus is spanned by bridge, tho
sacred city of Mecca will be in direct
railroad communication with Cen.
stantinople
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
PRINT PICTURES ON CALICO
Two German Scientists, Drs. Martens
and RoIffs Of Freiburg, Discover
Lone-Souqht Process.

Berlin.-By wonderful new process
of Photographic calico printing in col.
Ors 1t Is possible to have family por.
traits, landscapes and other pictures
on your sofa cushions, curtains or ia.
blecloths at reasonable price,
The new process has just been per.
fected at Freiburg by Drs. Martens
and Rolffs, two German scientists.
Hitherto artists have had to carve
out designs on series of wooden or
other rollers, one for each color. Some
times they put them on copper by
stipple work.
BY the new process the artist paints
his pattern on a piece of paper, which
is then copied with camera on a
transparent film. The film is wrapped
round a cylinder and a photograph OBJ
tanned on the cylinder.
This photograph is etched or en-
:ravcd in the usual way, and the cali
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
Planned by People of Pittsburq
and Surrounding Towns.
Peach Trees and Vegetable Seeds
Will Be Set Out by Youthful Farm
-FertiIizer and implements
Be Looked After,

Pittsburg, Pa.-Pittsburg promises
to become one large peach orchard
and vegetable garden If the plans of
several organizations meet their just
reward, and only the introduction of
poultry and dairy farming will be
needed to make it seem just like the
Old days on the farm.
Under the direction of Mrs. S. l..
Mccullough about four hundred peach
trees, raised from seeds planted by
children of the city last year, will be
set out in the yards of their homes.
Vegetable gardens for grownups of
Oakland is prospect of the Oakland
Board of Trade, which. expects to Sc
cure the use of a large tract of vacant
land to be divided into gardens. These
will be planted and tended by citizens
OF Oakland. whose names will be fur
nished the Board of Trade by the AS
sociated Charities and other civic
workers. Harvey H. Smith is chair
man of the committee in charge of
these gardens and the furnishing of
SCNuS, lSllIlLCI duu luplo lueulS VIII
be looked after by the committee.
The Young Mems Christian asso-
citation is planning to open gardens
for boys in three of it's centers of
work among the foreign population.
Its plots of ground will be divided in.
to small gardens, about 20 in one lot,
and the work will be superintendent
by a gardener employed by the asso-
citation.
This work will be done in connec.
ton with that of the Pittsburg Play
ground association, which is also plan.
ming five large garden plots for the
children at Arsenal Park, near the
Holmes school in Oakland,' at Ormsby
Park, in Mount Washington, near the
Hardwood station and in the West
End. The Playground association also
has fine greenhouse in Washington
Park. Each garden plot will be sur.
rounded by flowers planted by the
little gardeners.
The Playground and Vacation
School Association of Allegheny will
also have garden plots in the parks
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21

putting up telegraph and telephone
brackets, etc. The drill is loug
iron rod with bit at one end and a
hollow punch at the other. A ham
mer, shaped like dumbbell, slides
back and forth on he rod, meeting at
one end with a stop device and ut
the other end the outstanding head Of
the drill proper. To pierce brick or
mortar the bit is placed at the point
to be entered and the dumbbell-li1e
hammer driven rapidly back and forth
along the rod. The impetus of IFS
blows against the head of the drill
will force the latter through the brick
in less than no time. 1t is said that
hole can be drilled through brick N
one minute with this Implement
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21

Of war, and, with this showing Of an
awful waste of blood for his argument,
he passionately took up the cause to
which he gave the remainder of his
life and the last ounce of his energies.
He unconsciously initiated what has
become in this later day a general ma
tional movement for the conservation
of natural resources, movement that
fittingly began with the conservation
OF human beings.
He started alone, fearlessly facing
hostility or inertia on every hand;
but his unselfish enthusiasm and his
unwearied persistence slowly won the
interest and confidence of presidents
and congress.
He saw the safeguards grow year
by year and rate of slaughter on the
rail decrease. He fought on until he
saw the laws require every freight car
in the country to be made over for the
safety of the railroad workers,
equipped not only with automatic
couplers and brakes but with uniform
running boards and ladders and grab
irons. He saw the hours of service
on the trains limited by statute, and
peace between railway employers and
employees fortified by effective provi.
sions for mediation and arbitration.
His long task all but finished, he
sank down literally at his post OF
self-imposed duty, lamented by CRATE.
full thousands in cab, caboose and
switchboard all over the country, and
respected by those against whom he
had manfully striven. They knew best
of all that he was not battling for him
self. but for others, for the man in
overalls. BY the sheer force of his
generous enthusiasm and devotion,
tempered by practical common sense
and spirit of fairness, he had die
armed opposition Mt every encounter.
Moreover, while the cost of his
syatem of safety car appliances will
run high above $100,000,000, so dis
tinguished an authority as the late
E. H. Hartman commended 1t as a
means to increased economy and eff
cheney in operation. and the effect OF
the arbitration law in averting strikes
has saved the roads more than the
total expense entailed by the new car
equipment.
No honest interest ever loses by JUS
tice.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
INDUSTRY.
k AND;
hlfCnANl()
PIANO TRUCK WORKS EASILY
Heavy instrument Without Appa-
rent Effort-Worked by Lever.

One man, unaided, can move pi-
ano about with ease if he has one of
the piano trucks designed by a Wis
consin man. The truck comprises a
supporting frame with big roller
pivoted at the bottom. Handles ex-
tend from the top at right angles and
have braces to help bear the strain
upon them. Across the framework
are two roller pads and at the bottom
are two metal rests. The roller on
which the whole apparatus is moved
is itself movable on the frame, and is
adjusted by means of a lever operated
by a footpiece. To move a piano a
man rolls the truck up to the in
strument and inserts the metal rests
IN the small space between it and the
floor. He then shifts the bottom
roller to the point where it will test
support the weight and by pulling
hack on the truck lifts the other side
Of the piano clear Of the floor, the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
British Locomotives.

Although British locomotives, limit
ed as they are by the narrower clear
ances of tunnels, bridges, ETC., have
never reached the size of locomotives
in America, there has been a steady
growth in dimensions, and some of the
latest engines are extremely powerful.
Thus ten of the Atlantic type, built for
the East Coast Scottish Express use,
have q total heating surface of 1886
square feet, and crate area of II
square feet The barrel of the boil
er is five feet six inches In diameter,
and fifteen feet ten and one-half inches
in length. The tank has capacity of
4,125 gallons of water and five tons of
coal. The total weight of the engine
alone is nearly 80 tons.-Scientific
American
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
Uses for Potash Salts.

Potash salts of many kinds we're
imported into the United States from
Germany last year, and to the value
of 100000. Yet as far as the Ger
man supply is concerned, it is said
that at the present rate of demand
upon the great potash beds at Strass.
furt. the supply ought to last for Co.,.
900 years!
These potash salts are used for
many purposes in this country-in
gold mining, glass making, soap max
Ing, bleaching, dyeing, in photography
and medicine, in the manufacture of
explosives, and for fertilizers. In re-
cent Yeas there have been attempts
to discover potash in paying quaint.
ties in the western desert portions of
the United States. Quantities of the
mineral have been found in rocks and
In some of the dried beds of lakes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
Line Means Much to Brazil.

The line of the Northwestern rail
road of Brazil crosses the Panama
river at ltapura, where rapids divide
an upper from lower navigable
reach; then the Aquidauna and Mi
randa rivers, tributaries of the Para
quay and navigable to that stream
which the railway crosses at Espe-
ranca. 1t then runs up the further
bank Of Corumba and reaches tho
Bolivian frontier, five miles beyond,
after having run due west, along the
twentieth degree of latitude, across
an almost totally uninhabited country
with only three towns (by courtesy
to mark the line-Carpo Grande
Aquidauana and Miranda.
The Importance of this line is con
Siderable Politically, It unites the
furthermost state with the center OF
the republic, and diverts through Era.
Zil a considerable portion of the traf
fic for which the Argentine republic
has been catering. From a military
viewpoint it provides quick route to
the frontier, while considered DIS q
railway, it represents the building of {
line 915 miles long without any rail
way connection on the way, and that
in a remarkably short space of time
1t Is hard to realize the difficulties
Of all kinds that had to be met and
overcome across a country almos. as
unknown as Central Africa, where cpl
denies of malaria broke out fire.
Quently. and whose portion of the
hitherside of Itapura is still infested
with Red Indians, who keep on at.
lacking the works.-Lienel Wiener in
Casters magazine
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
SCIENCE IS LACKING
English People Make Exceptional
Man Shift for Himself.
Germans outstrippins eritons BE.
cause Are Willing to Back Their
Faith With Money-EmpIoy
Best Brains for Tests.

London, England.-Sir James Do
war, Britain's greatest chemist, 10
celebrating today the thirty-fourth an
niversary of his professorship in the
Royal institution.
I'VE are not scientific nation" he
said, las the people make the excep-
ticnal man shift for himself, and 1t Is
only faith and work almost super
human that can enable him to follow
to the end the true lines OF his genius.
Look at this institution and consider
the names of the men who held my
honored chair before me-Young,
Davy, Faraday and Tindall. To them
belongs the credit for discoveries OF
immea sura Bile benefit to mankind.
Here Davy f1rst showed the arc
lamp, Tyndall conducted his investl'
cations of radiant heat and magnetism
and Faraday made discoveries IN
magno-electric currents which form the
basis of electric lighting and the
transmission of power. Yet we have
an endowment of only 100000 ($30O.-
O0O) after 112 years. How do we go
on? Well, that question is puzzle 10
every savant that comes our way. A
foreigner seeing what we have and
knowing what we have done remarks:
Your endowment must be enormous.
When we say we have no endowment
to speak of he shrugs his shoulders
and exclaims: England is national
enigma
why is Germany outstripping us IN
science and its practical applications?
Because the Germans believe in SCI
ence and are willing to back their
faith with their money. Without any
trouble at all the kaiser raises 6 $780,
900 ($2,500,0OO for research alone.
The German firm of Bayer has estab-
lished a gigantic business on the fun
damental discoveries of British chem
lists In 1875 Bayer employed 119 peo-
pie. Now he employs 5000 workmen,
$50 clerks, 260 engineers and 40
chemists-mark, chemists! For all
this British research into coal tar
opened the path.
Germans employ the best brains IN
the universities for specialized ex-
periments In the commercial labora.
tories the results are financial
profits exceeding the widest dreams
of avarice. Do you know that the
Germans spent in a quarter of a cen
fury e1,o00,000 ($5,000,O0o) on syn
thetic indigo? They subdivide the ex-
pertinent and drive the inquiry to the
limits of conceivability
Our national failing is that we do
not provide chemists and other scien-
tiic students to carry on the lines Of
work developed by our outstanding
geniuses in discovery In this country
the exceptional man is the cheapest
OF natural products
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
Bridge Work Leaves Its Mark.

A man walked into the Office of
Thomas Riggs. assistant prosecuting
attorney. this morning.
Hello, bridge WORKER said another
man seated there.
'Howdy," answered the stranger.
How did you know | was a bridge
worker"
"No trouble to spot one of your
trade" was the answer. ''fou walk
with your head bowed and your eyes
looking about two feet in front of your
feet. Other persons may walk look
ing at the ground. but you fellows
have way all your own"
You win.' said the stranger. I'm
a bridge worker and I'm on the Ar
mour-Swift- Burlington job. l reckon
II you had been walking a tight wire
a hundred feet or so above the river
for eighteen years, as l have, your
head would be bowed, too."-Kansas
City Star.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-21
Proposed Arctic Railroad

A proposed Arctic railroad is the
latest development in railroad enei-
neering. A bill will shortly be in.
troduced in the Russian duma for the
establishment of reliable trade com.
munication between western Siberia
and western Europe by way of tho
Arctic ocean. The construction of
line from the Abb river to tha shore
Of the Arctic ocean has now been
planned. ..5.:-.