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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-13

For Sais-Single Comb Rhode Island
Red eggs from choice pens, 81 and
$3.50: exhibition prize winning pens 81
and $3.50. Mating List, or order from
this add. L. q. Johnson. Steamboat
Rock. Iowa.
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KEEP EGGS IN WATER GLASS
Can BE Kept Fresh In Solution for
Eight to. Twelve Months-An.
other Excellent Formula.

Water glass can be obtained Of
most druggists and Is heavy, almost
colorless liquid. costing from 10 to 30
cents a pound. Eggs will keep per-
fectly In this solution for eight to
twelve months, says the Agricultural
The other formula is to mix one
pound fresh stone lime and one-haf
pound table salt with four quarts boil
ing water. After stacking and settling
draw on the clear liquid and pour
over the eggs SO as to cover them.
This Is an old-fashioned method, but
is very effective. Eggs kept in water
glass may be taken out during fall
and winter and sold for packed eggs
at about five cents dozen less than
the price Of fresh eggs. Many fam
lilies can safely pack a few dozen to
use for cooking purposes in winter
but whether 1t is safe business ven
ture to put down several hundred
dozen is another question. The safest
method. and the only one available on
a large scale, is to use cold storage
where the eggs can be held at 20 to
80 degrees. A temperature below u
degrees Is required to freeze the egg
and split the shell.
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fish In the water Is the result of static
or of dynamic equilibrium.
1t is we'll known that dead fish float
belly up. but this fact Is insufficient to
prove the latter hypothesis except in
the case of fish observed the instant
after sudden death, for new elements.
such as the formation Of Intestinal gas.
might in very brief time change COM
pletely the conditions Of equilibrium.
To study the question these expert
mentors gave the swimming fish cleo
trio shocks sufficiently powerful to
paralyze them instantly without kill.
ing and to permit them to recover az
soon as the current was shut on.
At the turning on of the current the
fish suddenly turned over in an arc
Of 1870 degrees around their longitud-
inal axis and remained rigid. floating,
belly up AZ long az the current contin-
ued. Sometimes they sank gradually,
their density being slightly greater
than that Of water.
The instant the current was shut Oh
the fish with one swish Of their tails
righted themselves.
II seems impossible to object that
the electrocution might produce sud.
den perturbing effects upon organs
that might AFFECT the equilibrium a
the nsh. So It seems to be proven that
: nah has 70 exert constant muscu.
lar ol1ort to maintain itself 81 normal
seuaaa<4nm ~ fhA ~aHA~ "a
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-29
Russia ls Roadless.

Russia is roadless land. It is In
conceivable to the foreign visitor who
has ever left the beaten track of the
railways in Russia now a great empire
can have subsisted SO long and so sue
cessively amid the competition Of the
rival states beyond Its borders with
out even pretense at roads.
The secret, of course. lies In the
TACT that for i've or six months in the
year Nature herself provides roads
over the greater part of the expanse
Of all the Russians. admirable smooth,
CLASSY roadways over hardworn snow.
The traffic is further cheapened over
these roads by the substitution Of q
sledge runner for the wheel and axle.
This brings the cost Of land carriage
% near the cheapness Of water borne
freight a. possible, and It Il the prin.
|cipal reason why Russia. IN the TWEEN
|neth Century, II still = roadlees land.
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adopted In Chicago and Minneapolis.
The tents were placed on fiat roofs OF
tall buildings and vacant lots with
eight little cradles or cots in each
tent. When ali was ready mothers
of babies under two years were invited
to leave them at the nearest available
tent over night 80 that the youngsters,
in addition to enjoying the privilege Of
sleeping out Of doors could also receive
the attention Of trained nurses and
doctors free.
The Minneapolis tents have per
forated iron pipe extending along the
ridge pole and connected with the city
water supply. On very hot nights the
water was turned on and allowed to
stream down over the canvas. BY
evaporation it greatly reduced the tenn
perature inside the tents. The Chicago
tents were kept cool by the use OF
large blocks Of ice In tubs before the
entrance. Electric fans blew cold air
from the ice into the tents and lower
ed the temperature sufficiently to keep
the babies comfortably cool
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from the other Nature endowed these
insects with their leaf-like markings
for protective purposes. Few persons.
howevf may be aware that there Is .
leaf-nAee Hsh. known technically a.
Platax vespertilio.
Professor Wiley Of the McGill uni
versity, Montreal. who spent many
years in the tropics studying animal
life. describes this funny nature faker
in q volume on evolution which he
just completed. He says the fish has
the habit Of floating idly on its side.
and the details of its color and mark
ing, as well as the thinness Of body
implied by the floating habit. conspire
to produce the suggestion OF q leaf.
II must be said. however. that ma
ture has not displayed any especial
partially toward the little leaf fish in
her distribution Of self-preservation
favors. Even the humble founder 10
endowed with the means Of losing it,
identity on the muddy bottom Of the
channel where it rests and feeds. The
white underside Of the founder would
reveal its Whereabouts to larger hsh
seeking their prey. but the founder 10
wise enough to keep the white under
side down and hidden from sight
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Tracing Growth Of Iceberg.

Tracing Growth OF Iceberg.
When l was In the Arctic" once
said General A. w. Greedy, Il found
An aged hoe-berg in which the yearly
qualifications Of growth could be
raced with great accuracy. l meas.
nred them. and by careful calculation
was able to discover that the Oldest
layers Of that ice probably dated back
to the years when Solomon was build.
ing his temple! That temple, mas.
sive as it was. has utterly persisted,
and men differ as to its exact site.
But that Ice was still in existence
when ] was In the polar seas and II
may be is there yet. You see bit OF
tresh-water ice. once immersed in q
salt sea that has a constant tempera-
ture of about % degrees, cannot very
well perish. 1t is in a sort Of per-
petual cold storage plant, colder than
It's own melting point. And that &C
counts for the long endurance Of what,
In our climate. would have lasted per.
laps but few brief seconds"
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The Time to
Be Too Late
By LAVINA MAY BROWN

downright, 1910. by Associated Literary Press,
CHOW. whoever in the world
Mrs. Rose began.
sHer gossip Mrs. Brant checked with
a gesture.
Don't you say word, Sarah" she
interjected. You've got no room
not after what has happened right In
your own house."
III Phoebe did run away with old
Boyer it was in broad daylight" Mrs.
Rose retorted. Because nobody was
at home-and Ned might have come
and married her right in the parlor II
he'd a-had the spirit Of mouse"
Mrs. Brant flung back: "As for
Milly Gray and Jimmy Hinton. l say
it's a shame they got caught. Not
that l approve of runaway matches
but with daddy like the squire, It's
all the sort of match Milly ever can
make"
That's all you know-spite o
thinking you know everything" Mrs.
Rose said huff1ly. 'Milly can have the
biggest sort of wedding, and four new
silk dresses, any time she'll say yes
to Steve Murray. Squire thinks the
sun rises and sets in Steve
Because nobody else does, reck-
on" Mrs. Brant broke in, with spirit.
my land! If that's how the wind
blows" stopping as though furth-
er speech would be an impertinence.
You're wrong again." Mrs. Rose
said acidly. AT least, according to
my guess. Squire wants Milly to mar
ry Steve partly because Steve's so
driving and thriving, but more be-
cause he thinks. with Steve clean
out of the count, Widow McBee might
change her name to Grey-as it is,
she won't hear to it,
Wont, Ell? That is news" Mrs.
Brant chuckled. "She's a sight young
er than the squire-not SO much
moren Milly's age But there's no
fool like an old one-al of us know
that. I'm glad you told me, Sarah.
All along I've wanted to help Milly-
now I'm just bent and bound to do it
some way, somehow"
Mrs Brant was an ally worth hav-
tng-shrewd, bold, person of conse-
quence in the neighborhood, also a
person of substance and all powerful
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case you should happen to be at all
Interested in Mr.. So-and-So you will
be glad to know that there Is way in
which you can easily determine the
exact size Of his heart and find out
for yourself whether that particular
heart is above normal proportions or
not.
A German medical journal. the Zeit-
schrift fuer Klinische Medizin, pub
fishes q description Of a new heart
measuring method compiled by Profs
Levy-Dorn and s. Mailer OF Berlin
They have found two means. in fact.
of determining the length Of the heart
Following the first of these two
methods you must ask Mr.. So-and-So
to close his right hand like fist with
the first joint Of the thumb resting on
the first joint of the index finger. Now
measure with calipers the exact dis
lance from the outside of the bone at
the knuckle joint of the little finger to
the back Of the first joint Of the
thumb. This distance. multiplied by
one and a half, will give the exact
length of Mr.. So-and-So's heart
The second method consists in add
ing to the breadth of the hand, as
measured between the knuckle joint
of the index finger and that Of the lit
tie finger the length of the first. or
leading, bone of the middle finger
This sum gives the length Of the
heart.
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serve q place among the most curious
of all. Peru has rain tres which at
fords protection against drought This
tree Is supplied with large leaves
which have the property Of condsns.
ing the moisture Of the atmosphere
and precipitating 1t in the form Of
rain. When the rivers are ct thefH
lowest during the dry season. and the
heat Is intense. the condensing capaci-
ty Of the tree appears to attain it,
maximum. the water falling from the
leaves and oozing from the trunk in
a steady. continuous stream. flowing
over the surrounding soil and nourish-
ing the parched ground.
1t Is stated that single tree will
yield an average Of nine gallons OF
water per day. and 1t has been esti-
mated that If q plot Of ground .
kilometer square be planted with TO-
900 trees. daily yield Of about 10000
gallons would be available for irrigar
ton. after making all allowances for
evaporation. etc. The rain tree APP
pears to be Indifferent az to the soil
in which 1t grows, can Withstand ex-
treme fluctuations Of climate. needs
but little care In its cultivation and
grows rapidly. Under these circum-
Stances one is inclined to believe that
it would provide simple and eff
fective method Of retaining the des-
ert. and that the cost of widespread
cultivation OF the rain tree would be
amply repaid. inasmuch as there are
vast tracts Of country in all the five
continents which at present have no
economic value, owing to absence OF
water supplies for nourishing the soil.
which might easily be secured by the
systematic culture Of this tree. cou-
pied with careful irrigation by means
of bitches.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-29
THE MANUFACTURE OF SODA
Important Chemical Industry to Be
Exploited in East Africa
Protectorate.

The European powers have pretty
well divided Africa between them, and
it looks quite civilized on an up-to-date
map, but apparently there are still big
tracts which are terra incognita,
Judging from the announcement that a
company is being formed to exploit
a great lake of soda discovered last
year in the East Africa Protectorate.
If, as is said, it covers an area Of
some 10000 square miles, 1t Is by far
the biggest lake in Africa, exceeding
by $4,000 square miles the area Of the
Victoria Nyanza. and being capable
Of accommodating the whole of Scot
land within it as an island, with at
least 10000 square miles of soda to
spare.
The manufacture of soda Is one OF
the most important OF chemical indus
tries, and those engaged in it will
watch with interest the opening up of
this immense source Of supply. Time
was when ocean plants supplied the
raw material of soda, and it was the
French revolution which effected the
first great revolution in the making
OF that necessary article Of everyday
use.
| The national convention, seeing
France isolated from the rest of the
world, entreated patriotic scientists
to save the country from threatened
soda famine. and as result Leblanc
invented his process for the manufac-
ture Of soda from coal, lime. salt and
sulphuric acid. London Daily News.
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the mists Of eternity The latest cal.
culation is made by r. L. Strut, an
English physician. by a method that
he considers precise.
Studying the properties Of helium
has enabled him to calculate the
amount of this element that certain
rocks and minerals have contained
since the day they were formed.
Analysing samples or zireon from the
volcanic regions Of Europe, Africa and
America. Mr.. Strut finds that the
basaltic rocks Of Auvergne. which ara
Of the tertiary period. are only 6.270..
600 years old; that the syenites at
Norway are more than $4,000. 600
years old. and that the diamondiferoue
blue clay Of Kimberley. in South Afri.
ca. has the respectable age Of 400.
10000 years
But the record for old age 10 held
By the archaic LAureutian rocks a
the backbone of Canada, which vere
formed 1t least 613. 900, 900 years ~
From this Mr.. Strut figures that ~
earth cannot be less than about 700,
100000 years old.
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A creen-Food Rack,

A skillful device for furnishing
green feed to poultry consists OF a
frame made several inches high ana
covered with netting. Oats. or any pre-
ferred crop may be sowed and the
rack with netting placed over 1t when
of suitable size and the fowls then
turned loose. They seem to delignt
In walking about on the netting ana
shipping off the green blades WITHIN
reach. Yet, they cannot get at the
roots to scratch and the plants nave
a chance to renew their growth thus
pruned off. and the fowls are cont'n.
ually adding fertilizing material foi
poultry kept on close range as .
means Of furnishing food the pau
IL certainly commendable.
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with her husband. She went straight
to see Milly; thence on to the Widow
McBee, a person rather vague as to
everything save sense that she was
= entitled always to have her own way.
1T ought to be the minister, not
me, come to talk to you, Maria" Mrs.
Brant began without preamble as she
sat down in the second best McBee
rocker. "At your time of life, widow,
too, and church member, the idee
OF keeping two men dangling, not
knowing where they stand-I say it's
shameful"
Whatever do you mean?" Mrs. Nc
Bee demanded, bridling with delight.
She had married her only chance
his death had left her we'll endowed,
but so far she had so few beaux, the
imputation of coquetry was incense to
her starved vanity.
I'll name no names. right out"
Mrs. Brant said automatically. But
it's all over the neighborhood that
two of the best chances in it are Just
plum off their heads on account of
you. No. won't tell you who-but if
you ask my advice might say which
and let you guess the other"
"You always would tease, Julia
Brant," Mrs. McBee simpered. "Now.
! don't know one bit what you're driv-
ing at-but go ahead and pick out
good husband for me-seeing Won
make out can get one for the TAX
ing"
Asa Gray is as cranky as a rams
horn. most ways-but his wife was a
queen to him-what wouldn't a sec
ond wife be-" Mrs. Brant demanded
Nobody needn't hang back over the
daughter, -Milly's going into
a decline, if ever saw anybody that
way-this morning. when l went
there. she sat looking over her moth
er's jewelry-you know Mrs. GRAY
had diamonds and ruby ring, and
the cunningest watch. blue enamel ali
Overland she said to me right piti.
full: I hope daddy will get some nice
pretty woman to wear all these. He
must have somebody-when I'm
gone.'"
THE poor child" Mrs. McBee
calculated. How can her pa cross
her and she in such slater"
Men are cruel when they're Ieal
ous." Mrs. Brant pronounced oracular
~. Squire used to think Milly
couldn't do wrong thing-but since
No fell IN love-and you torment hin
90
Now. Julia. you're making ont : h,
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BACON HOGS ARE pRotI7.s, .


A swine grower who has tr..
attention to growing and ,s a'a
bacon hogs has this to saw ., lssdlns
perienee and results with this -, .s e.
feeding: A'nd Of
For ten years l have been ..,.,
bacon hogs. and l find that thsrs s'l y
money In them. l prefer to h.,. NV y
litters come about April 81 ~ -. =!
they can get on the grass with .s sus'
mothers BY May l. or about thai ~. sIea
according to the weather. Fror, '', :,
time they are able to eat ! b.,' 'ue
trough for them BY themselve. 49, :
Ing skinned milk and boiled n ,s.u'
toes. ! don't wean them unit, ~
are about eight weeks old. s'
After weaving they are kent q, ,..
ture. fed skim milk. potatoes and .
little shorts and wheat bran. eith.,
scalded or soaked for u hour,
have fed rape for many years but a.,
going to give it up, as I con.,ss.
peas and oats grown together ~.
parts peas and one part oats cut ,,...
and thrown into the pasture twics
day better food than rape. New Glow,
makes the best pasture, as the bos.
eat 1t OF clean. This feeding ia hon.
up till they are four mouths Old Ths,
are then fed crushed grain, such :.
the farmers of Prince Edward islans
generally grow for feeding purposes
barley. oats, pease. mixed with boiled
potatoes while hot, and made soft
enough to run out the pail.
Hogs fed this way will dress IN
pounds to 100 pounds at eight months
old. believe that a farmer who
keeps FIVE or six milk cows, BY mas.
turing his hogs in summer, feedin,
the skim milk and the unstable pota.
toes and mangels can raise pork for
four cents per pound. When using
potatoes always boil them. If feed.
ing mangels or turnips, pulping il
best mixing with middlings or cracked
grain.
l will give you the figures on two
lots OF pigs that / have raised. The
first pen of ten pigs was narrowed Au-
gust l, and killed when six months
old. When dressed they weighed
1902 pounds. and were sold at SX
cents pound for $157.67. They were
fed Is bushels of grain at a cost Of
$21.45; 145 bushels of potatoes, $3.50;
40 pounds of skim milk day, $3.50;
total cost of feed, $66.45-a profit Of
1922. The potatoes used were the
small ones. Labor was not counted,
as we considered that. the manure
paid for the work.
Lot No. 2 Of nine hogs was narrowed
October 2 and killed at four months
and two days old. They weighed
$50 pounds, sold at 81 cents pound,
for 1862. The feed consumed by
these hogs was IL bushels of mixed
grain, weighing 40 pounds to the
bushel at .$1.40 a hundredweight,
$6.72: 1000 pounds Of skim milk at
20 cents hundredweight, 81; 50
bushels Of potatoes and turnips at II
cents bushel (the unstable ones).
s.; nine pigs at 81 each, SIS; total
cost, $34.72-a profit of $3.50 on nine
pigs.
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pick up Fallen Fruit.

Keep all the fallen fruit picked up.
The best way to do this Is to nave
sheep or hogs In the orchard; tney
viii eat the fallen ones. These fallen
fruits contains the grubs Of insects
and ~ killing them you lessen neA'
years pests.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-09-29
II MAY BE NO BETTER
REGULATIONS ON QUALITIES or
RELIGION or FUTURE.
KlH 6e More Definite and DogmatIc
Than the Advanced" Faith Of
the Present, 10 Opinion
Of One Writer.

Theorists concerning the IeI18lOn o.
he future usually plant themselves
lpon one Of two assumptions: that the
eligion Of the future will necessarily
Se better than that Of the past: OF
hat It will be characterised by fuller
allegiance to certain views now held
" opponents Of so-called advanced
thought"
We see no reason for knuckling un.
Ter to either Of them. says the St
louis Republican. It does not neces'
,arily follow, because all things
:hange, that they must need change
or the better. Architecture In Paris
n the thirteenth century was 30 in
initely superior to the architecture Of
he present day a. to be impossible Of
comparison with It. Oratory In the
United States senate in 1920, just 81
1ears ago. was SO far beyond the ora
ory of today in form, finish and inner
spirit that it is difficult to realize that
he body is the same in function and
method Of selection Of membership.
The violins Antonius Stradivarius
made in Cremona In the early years Of
he eighteenth century are unmatch-
lble in the workshops Of today, either
lere or elsewhere. No present day
builder can equal the cement mixed by
Roman artisans In the time Of Con-
,tantine.
Now we make bold to prophecy that
he religion of the future" will have
more of definiteness than the lad
vanced faith" of the present 1t will
demand more of its votaries. It will
,e-inveigh II you will!-more dog
natic.
The religion Of advanced thought
suffers from too much width. like a
shallow river smothered among sand
bars. It has broken the shackles of
iogmatism." Very good; but it has
allied to substitute for them any
iefinite obligation or tie to anything
Else. 1t stands for "progress"-toward
what it cannot tell for the life of it, 1t
believes in 1.-The uplift of humanity"
But what is uplift? And what is the
hing that humanity ought to be up
lifted toward? It Is silent.
Advanced thought" goes on the as
sumption that with Wilderness of vision
comes necessarily happiness of spirit.
t has evidently never read the lives
If the philosophers. 1t goes on the as
sumption that the champion of adj
RANGED ideas will, in his age. be hon
bred of all men. It evidently has not
,ondered the history of the martyrs.
t ignores death, inherited disease, and
he apparent lack of connection in
his world between the service render
I'd by life and the reward returned by
.ts own age. whether In the form Of
gold, praise or love.
The religion Of the future will have
n 1t less of the spirit of revolt. It will
80 humber and have a keener sense
# its responsibilities. 1t will ask
ever questions, and strive to answer
more. A youth once told Charles G.
Ffnney that he did not need the formal
service of the church: he went forth
INTO the Ohio forests, and worshiped
here. Young man." demanded Fin
hey. what do you do when 1t rains?"
The religion of the future win concern
ITSELF with the devotional possibilities
II wet days more than has the lad
'anced thought" Of the present.
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i. TIE i.
S(<llAp
BOOK
EASY TO FIND SIZE OF HEART
German Medical Men Have, lt IL An.
nounesd, Brought Il Down to IN
Exact Science.

You have heard
somebody som g
time say: "Mr. So
and-So has a big
heart Perhaps he
has. and perhaps
closer . cquaint-
ance may prove
that he hasn't In
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Popularity,

Popularity.
Are they popular?"
II should say they are. They own
an automobile, Z summer cottage and
q naphtha launch"
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HOW FISH KEEP BALANCE
Experiments Seem to Prove That Con
siderable Muscular Action on lts
Part 10 Necessary.

Messrs. Alliaud
and vies nave
been making ex-
periments In the
ocean laboratory
at Roscon. France.
to as err L q l n
whether the nor
NAL position Of q