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The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19

WASHINGTON. - Some misguided " men in the United States have the Idea that their wives boss their in. romes, salaries or wages-dinereni words to use in proportion to the amount they receive. This money they receive in bills or coin. The per. son legally responsible for 1t is the secretary of the treasury of the United States, who is charged with making all of Uncle Sam's money. But, get ting down to real facts, it is somebody else who bosses all the money-Miss Margaret V. Kelly, Uncle Sam's high est paid womaan official.
 She gets $5,O00 year. She is as- sistant director of the mint. Actual ly the secretary of the treasury has little to do with our coin. Miss Kelly attends to that. There are but four persons between her and the secretary of the treasury, and in their absence he runs things.
 Miss Kelly is native of New Hamp- shire, producer of Boston education al institutions.
 As assistant director of the mint Miss Kelly holds such a high official position in the treasury department
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
RIuid Rules In eermanx.

Ignorance of, German opera regula, tions got a party of American vis- itors into trouble at the gala perform ance before the kaiser 9in Berlin on New Years night. One of the party was a girl of seventeen, who wore a high necked dress, as became her age.
 The regulations have for some five or six years past required all ladies at gala performances to wear decol- lete dresses, and all gentlemen white. not black, ties. The gendarme at the door of the opera stopped the party, and after short discussion produced . pair of scissors and was evidently about to effect the necessary change In the girls robe himself.
 The matter was finally settled by the woman in charge of the cloak room, who turned in the neck of the girls dress all round so as to give an appearance of conformity with decol- lete rule. The gendarme explained that when the kaiser looked round the house he liked to see all the ladies with bare necks.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19

New York.-They carried Joseph Ferrone, king of the Mafa, into court the other day, with his hands and feet strapped to a litter. While his eyes blaEed and he uttered curses, the wife murderer was sentenced by Judge Foster, in general sessions, to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing dur ing the week of February 26.
 It was one of the most thrilling scenes ever witnessed in a New York court.
 Ferrone was the terror of his peo- pie, and his life history a sheet of bloody crimes. In Italian sections of the city he was feared, and men and women paid tribute to his power lest they should pass through the valley of the shadow for their failure to acknowledge his dictatorship.
 During the trial witness after wit ness was noticed to turn pale, hesi- tate and stop in the course of their testimony. When once they stopped they refused to go on, saying they could not remember. The court was unable to account for their horror stricken faces until Captain Tanning, of the court squad, detected John Fer rone, the prisoners brother, giving the Mafia death sign. It was that which had stilled their tongues. John was then ordered from the room. for the remainder of the trial.
 When Ferrone was convicted he be- came like a fiend The nature that had gained the upper hand when he murdered his wife on October "A, and when he had tortured many a victim into submission to his will, came into power He fought to kill. He was not particular whom he wanted to kill. He just wanted to wreak his vengeance upon some one who had had something to do with his convic- tion.
 Only the strong arms of several po- licemen were able to keep him from committing another murder, and when he found that impossible to keep him from committing suicide by cutting his throat with a piece of glass.
 It was to prevent a repetition of such a scene that he was bound to- day when taken into court. He was unable to move a hand or foot But his body writhed, his eyes flashed and his mouth heaped curses on every one present, as he was propped up to hear the sentence of death.
 After sentence was pronounced. Ferrone was again carried by prison guards from the courtroom and to the prison pen. Here his three-year-old daughter Lizzie, in charge of Fer rone's sister, was admitted to the pen. and saw her father through the bars of the "cage."
 The child cried and had to be tax en from the inclosure. FerTone was then taken back to his cell in the Tombs.
 During the proceedings Sheriff Harberger sat on the bench with Judge Foster.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
Fraud Promoters Enriched by Millions

GCEROM the final reports submitted
 T by inspectors covering the ar rests for the fiscal year it has been as- certained that the promoters of fraud ulent schemes who have been put out of business during the past year have obtained approximately $77,000,000 from the public"
 This Is the astonishing statement made in the annual report of R. s. Sharp, chief postofice inspector. It will probably be incredible to the av- craze person that there are enough -easy marks" in the United States to contribute $77,00O,000 to operators of 'get-rieh-quick' projects, but, accord Ing to the chief inspector, this amount loes not represent nearly all that went nto the pockets of swindlers. The D77, ,oo0. 900 Is the profits of those who have been caught, and does not take h- those who are sti1 operating.
 These fraudulent schemes" said SAief Inspector Sharp, "cover Q wide Held and are of endless variety, from .he simplest business transaction to a gigantic project involving the sale Of
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19

ate few days last spring on Guber material appointment, prior to the as sembling of the legislature.
 Last elections in Maine dashed high hopes for another family succession iu the senate. The Maine voters under. stood pretty well that if Col. Fred Hale had not slipped up on his ambi- ton to get into congress from the First district he would speedily have gone into training for the senate, and had Maine stayed Republican the or ganization, of which his father, now ex-Senator Hale, was head, would have had a toga waiting for him.
 Similarly, over in Vermont, where for a season the late Senator Redfield Proctor held the state as in the hol- low of his hand, all the plans had been laid for a senatorial succession from father to son. It proceeded as far as the election of the son to be governor of Vermont, but no farther
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
Feed Lot wIsdom.

A few years ago steer feeden thought silage was too sour and slop- ipy to produce good beef. but they do not think so now.
 Steers that are being fattened in the winter need very little exercise. But if confined in small lots, where they can have fresh air every day and what sunshine there Is going during the winter months, they will make better gains than if confined in dark and foul barns or pens.
 A fact which many feeders do nca appreciate is that maturing cattle gen erally feed better than when fed grain once, or at most twice a day, with plenty of roughage always where they can get at it. Young animals should be fed three times per day.
 It Is never wise to put cattle on full feed at the start They should be led up to it gradually, else they will ~stall" and may be attacked by SCOUTS and other troubles.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
MANY ADVANTAGES OF sILo
Among Other Things lt WIII Add 70 Per Cent. to the Value of
 the Corn Crop.

A silo saves all the corn you grow in the hill, from the roots to the tas- gel It saves the part of the crop that evaporates, dries up and blowH away when you shock the corn It adds 40 per cent to the value of the crop over the old way of harvesting When corn is stored in a silo you can feed it at any time.
 A silo should be filled at @ time when the corn is at it's best and if left in the field longer would lessen its value You have your corn crop where it can be.fed this year, or next, or in three years from now. with no loss by age.
 The total cost of filling silo is only one-half the cost of shucking the corn crop. None of the silage is wasted or refused by the stock-they relish it every day in the year.
 A man with a silo is independent of wet and dry weather, poor pasture and late springs. And he will have an abundadce of good. succulent feed for the entire year.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
i. TIIT SCIlAp
 BOOK
FrIends That Never FaII.

FTtGuO8 nIG NGHGf alt
 Remarking on the human tendency to excuse faults In those persons who. are beloved or useful, Macaulay wrote:
 "Just such is the feeling which a man of liberal education naturally en- tertains toward the great of former ages. The debt which he owes to them is incalculable. They have guid- ed him to truth. They have filled his thoughts with noble and graceful im- ages. They have stood by him in all vicissitudes-comforters in sorrow, companions in solitude.
 "These friendships are exposed to no danger from the occurrences by which other attachments are weakened or dissolved. Time glides by; fortune Is inconstant; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can hold with the highest of human intel lects. That placid intercourse is dis turbed by no jealousies or resent ments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces; who are the same in wealth and in pot- erty, in glory and in obscurity. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opin- ion can alienate Cicero"
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
STABLE FIRE REVEALS HOARD
Mysterious Trunk With creenbaeks Sc Heavy It Took Three Men
 to Carry It.

Wilmington, Del-Firemen summon ed near midnight to fight a blaze in the stable of George Older, at Six teenth street and Marsh road, discov- cred 8 hoard of money hidden in a small frame shack adjoining the burn ing building and immediately in the rear of the home of William Agster, . baker.
 . William F1ncher, a member of h. dependence fire company, had gone into the shack to see if there was any fire there. He found old stockings, bags, boxes and bundles of rags con taining money in every denomination from . cent to a silver dollar. He no tiled Fire Chief Moran, who had the treasure carried into Agsters house.
 Look out for the paper money, it is in the trunk" shouted Agster to the hremen-
 The hremen found the trunk, and it required three to lift it. Agster re- fused to open it when 1t had been car ried into his home and refused to ex plain about the money stored in the old shack Chief Moran estimated the sum he saw to be at least g, 1000, to say nothing of what the trunk con tained.
 The stable was completely destroy ed. The police believe the fire was of incendiary origin.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19

A TENTATIVE design for the Perry "A memorial to be erected in 1913 at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, in memory of the one hundredth anniversary of Commo- dore Perry's battle on Lake Erie has been selected here by the joint board, composed of the state boards of nine states which are to participate in the erection of the memorial. The ar chitect has been employed and prep Rrations begun for celebration which Is to last from July 4, 1913, to October of the same year and is to be par Hcipated in by almost every city in the Great Lakes.
 J. Friedlander of New York was se- Iected for architect, his suggestion for the memorial being accepted as the most satisfactory of 54 submitted. It will be subject to modification, but in
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
Highest Paid Woman Official in U. S

that 1t can be truly said that therO has never been her equal in the sorv- ice.
 Fifteen years ago, fresh from the Boston schools, Miss Kelly tackled . and fourteen years ago entered the service of the mint bureau as 8 stenog- rapher. Since that time she has been successively private secretary to the director, adjuster of accounts, exam iner, assistant director, and now, when the director is absent from Washing ton, she signs herself acting direo- tor"
 To see her some day acting secre- tary of the treasury of the United States is no stretch of the imagination, for, if the secretary and the two as- sistant secretaries, the comptroller of the currency and the treasurer of the United States were to be absent them, selves at the same time, and Miss Kelly were then acting director of the mint, 1t would be Margaret " Kelly. Acting Secretary, Treasury Depart ment."
 While there are 1,4OO employees In the mint service and the responsibili- ties of the management are great, Miss Kelly held her own as acting direc- for the last few months.
 The salary that Miss Kelly receives, $3,O0O a year, is large pay as govern ment salaries go, for Uncle Sam does not believe in paying too well for any service rendered, no matter how val uable.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
WACHINE HALTS DEATH
WOMAN REVIVED BY VACUUM CLEANER AFTER LONG BATTLE
Doctor Arrive in the Nick Of Time tl UsO the Novel Method; See Aid to AsphyxIatIon and
 Drowning.

Chicago.-For twenty-nine hours. | Chicago father and mother stood by while Q machine kept the daughter alive. The machine was an ordinary vacuum cleaner, with some important mechanical additions.
 Operating 1t were, Dr. Harry M Richter of Northwestern Medical col lege. and Dr. F. A. Besley, also of the surgical faculty. With them were Dr. ". D. Herriman and pr. George B Dyche.
 The patient, the first human being on whom the machine ever has been used, had ceased to breathe before it was applied. In the twenty-nine hours that followed the adjustment of the machine the color came into the cheeks of the girl who had been scien- dhcally termed 'incompletely dead, {" the heart beat with approximate regu- larity, the pulse measured the flow and ebb of the blood stream, the res. piration was clocklike.
 Now and again the machine was re moved from the patient All signs oi life at once departed. Hastily the phy sicians attached the clocklike device again Life-in all it's physical aS pects, at least-returned In the thir. tieth hour of mingled hope and agony for the parents and actual awe for the attending physicians something stopped. The lungs continued theil forced respiration. but the heart ceas ed to respond. The suspense to which this put an end was a relief to both the doctors and the family.
 The name of the patient, her fath CT, and her mother have been careful ly protected by the attending phy gicians, but the truth of the expert ment is attested not only by the phy sicians but the attendants of Wesley Memorial hospital. It is believed the machine win make a difference be tween life and death in cases of as phyxiatioil. drowning, chloroform and morphine poisoning, shock, and opera, tions in which anaesthetics are used.
 The complete apparatus consists oi a vacuum cleaner, an electromagnetic valve for turning on and of the flow of
 
 seconds, and an ether vaporizer The valve is timed by clockwork. In op peration a tube connected with the ex haust port of the cleaner Is inserted in the windpipe of the patient and the motor which drives the vacuum pump is connected with an electric lighting circuit. The motor pumps the lungs of the patient full of air, the automatic valve shuts of the supply. the air rushe~ 't of the lungs, and one breath operation is complete. The process IS repeated eighteen or twenty times a minute.
 The inventor, who is assistant pro lessor of surgery at the Northwestern Medical college, has experimented on animals for several years.
 The first case. and so far the only case, of a human being was that of a young woman who was dying of an in, lection of the brain.
 When the patients heart finally ceased to beat, the worlds record for life by artificial means had been, it is believed, far exceeded.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
FIrnt pax on b "a Yearn..

New York@Daniel D. Whitney waa prepared to celebrate his ninety-third anniversary the other day by taking the first ''loaf'' he has had in seven ty-three years. 1 f
 Instead of going to his wholesale grocery store in Brooklyn. where he has labored every day since he bought It in 1899, MT. Whitney will make merry with his great-grandchildren in his home few blocks from his place of business.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
WHAT CAUSES MILK TO FOAM 0omstInss Dno to Fact That Liquid Is Too Warm or churn Too
 FulI-Also to 6aellIl.
By R. o. wEATHERsroNE.)


 When milk foams in the churn it ls sometimes due to the fact that 1t 1s too warm or the churn is too full, but occasionally it results from the presence of certain forms of bacilh.
 These do not occur very often, but when they once gain access to the milk or the pails or churn they are sure to cause trouble and 1t takes some time to get rid of them
 The COWS should be thoroughly washed and sprayed with an effective but harmless disinfectant and the barn should be sprayed and then thor oughly whiteWashed. Cover every inch of the interior of the barn including the stalls and managers.
 Next wash the udders of the COW thoroughly before each milking and mix with the water little disinfect- ant. Wipe the udder and teats and dry with a clean cloth
 The first milk should be milked into a separate vessel and thrown away for sometimes the bacili turks in the openings of the teats, and if this is allowed to enter the milk 1t may con taminate the entire supply.
 The milking pails and all vessels containing the milk should be thor oughly boiled in water containing a little concentrated lye for at least two hours and this sterilization should be repeated for three or four days. The room in which the milk is kept should also be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected. This is very impor- tant because no matter how clean your cows and barn and vessels may be. if there is the least contamination left in old milk or butter or in anything that is left in the room where milk is kept the baciln will continue to grow.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19

worthless stock in fake mining com panies and fictitious institutions exist ing only on paper or in the minds of the promoters.
 "The result of the years work has developed the fact that these fraud manipulators are. a distinct class of criminals. some moving in the highest social and business circles, but near. ly all having more or less affiliations and connection with or are advisors with schemes or enterprises of illegiti- mate character in which they are known as promoters" .-
 During the fiscal year 1911 522 in- dividuals were indicted on charges of using the mail in. furtheranos of schemes to defranA
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
HInt for snow shoveIeru.

To prevent the snow from sticking to an iron shovel. place the iron part of your shovel in a furnace fire to heat the same and take a cake of parafine which you have taken from your jelly glasses and rub 1t over the heated shovel side and on the outside.
 You can also take a tallow candle if you have not the parafine. When the shovel becomes cold the paraflne or tallow will harden, and the surface will be very smooth. and each shovel ful of snow will slip of the shovel with ease and not stick as heretofore
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
Rua-Power.

A man is considered strong if he can drag a mass weighing three or four times as much as himself, but the beetle will walk with 800 times his own weight If a man were placed under a wooden box with i've times his own weight on top to hold 1t down. he would remain there indefinitely, but to retain Q stag beetle prisoner h the same way one must pile on top of the box at least eighteen hum srsd times its weight-Exchange.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
ART PALACE FOR KAISER
German Emperor Plane a Monster Building to Be a Monument
 to Himself.

Paris.-Kaiser Wilhelm II. has ten. tatively offered France 6 place in the Palace of Art he intends building iu Berlin to commemorate the twenty. fifth anniversary of his succession te the throne. It1is said to be the sm. percTa VIII to hold s4world'ssart Ox
 hIbitaon in 1s1S. and no building in Germany being large enough to suit hirn, he wtshes . monster palace 4e ho constructed e . monument to hiH
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
peeIded.

~rd buy a car if it weren't for one IAing."
 ''What is that?"
 Having to look out for the other beIlow.
 ~But if you had car. the other fsl- bw would have to look out for you. Also.~
 -0soi never thought of thAsI I'll wv onA"-JudEe.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
Lev. Of JsweIH.

Reading that e red cheoueF homiA0 gagoon. wearing . blue enamel ring naEke6 1911 L-ss4s. had been found o1 Eweli, surrsy. an old lady rO- maEhOd, says London Punch. that iA Was terrible how the love of 5swslry appeared to be spreading among Al O1AsOoa-
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
ReDsIIes That Have Lono LIfe.

Some. of the sacred crocodiles of In- dia are said to be over hundred, and vast estimates have been made of the ages of the giant tortoises of Mada- gascar Certainly there was till re- gently (and may be sti11) a tortoise in Ehe garden of the Governor of Cape town which ~came there eighty years ago. and was believed to be 12o when it arrived.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
oat. asooo fer savIno LIf..

Champaign, n.-R Cecil wickes ci Champaign said the other day be had received notice that he had. beea Giv- Dn eB.000 for saving John Green. Aa Aged. Chicagoan, from being run over ht State and Van Buren strSsts- T~
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-19
MAFIA KING DEFIANT
TAKEN INTO COURT STRAPPED
 HAND AND FOOT TO LITTER.

Fsrrone, Wife Slayer, With curses oA He LIps and Blazing Eyes, Hears New York Judge Sentence HIm to Electric Chair.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-21
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