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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01
Lowest Note Fitted to Organ.

An organ stop which emits note
one full octave below any that has
ever been heard before has been in
stalled in an organ at Lowell, Mass.
This stop is 1913 feet long and it's
note is unsteady indicated as
CCCCCC.
ITO understand what this means"
says the Scientific American, ''it may
be said that 32-foot pipe vibrates 16
times a second at its lowest note
(CCCC), and this is very near the
point below which vibrations cease to
form a continuous sound, while 12S-
foot pipe vibrates but four times a
second when producing it's lowest
sound. 1t was found, however, that a
group of pipes giving overtones could
be arranged to produce, when sound
ed together, a synthetic tone, and by
this means stops producing the effect
of 64-foot pipe have been built with
out requiring the use of a pipe of
that length; and now in the same way
this monster 12S-foot stop has ap-
peared, which is described as a
mighty atmospheric throb of most
awesome majesty Indeed, it would
seem that it's tones must be rather
felt than heard.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01
Ready With Answer.

The prevalence of hog cholera in
central Kansas recalls the meeting OF
the state Y. M. G. A. which was held
in Salina a few months ago, and Is
giving Dave Bean, big ranchman,
merited distinction as a prophet. Eff
forts were being made to raise money
by subscription, and noted worker
from New York was telling the audi
ence what they should give. You
Kansas people spend your money for
farms to raise corn to feed more hogs,
to buy more farms to raise more corn
to feed more hogs" etc. After he had
gone over the rotation OF words a
dozen times he cried out at the top OF
his voice: And where is it all going
to end?" Mr.. Bean. in the center Of
the auditorium, who knew by expert
ence, spoke up quickly. More hog
cholera! "-Kaiisas City Star
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01

If men are just to each other they
will love each other without effort or
coaching, because of the justice they
receive. They will not need to be
taught to love each other Men are
taught that now because they find it
impossible to love the man who is ex-
plotting him or depriving him of his
due in any sense, either as exploiting,
slave-driving employer or competitor
in business or labor.
And that, by the way, is exactly the
reason why teaching men to love one
another as they love themselves, If not
a failure in 1000 years of trial, has not
been the success the teachers have
hoped. For, how can men love each
other when their principal business is
to cheat each other? It can't be done.
1t ought not to be expected. Men SIM
ply can't love each other under these
conditions.-Exchange.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01
Detecting Impurities In Honey.

Biological tests of money are de-
scribed by j. Thoni in the Schweizer-
ische Bienen-Zeitung. Such tests are
necessary for detecting artificial or
adulterated honey, when the natural
product is almost perfectly initiated
as to its physical and chemical prop
critics.
Two tests are described in detail
the diastase reaction, based on the
fact that honey contains a diastatic
ferment secreted by the bee, which
in contact with soluble starch, is cap
able of Transforming the latter into
sugar; and the precipitin reaction
based on the fact that honey contains
a special protein secreted by the bee
which, when inoculated into rabbits
causes the formation of antibodies in
the blood serum. These antibodies
when mixed with the honey under
examination. yield precipitate, and
the quantity of this precipitate indi-
Gates the kind and amount of the
adulteration
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01
Getting Lead From Radiurn.

A very interesting paper by K. Fa.
jams on the different atomic weights
of lead was read recently before the
Bunsen Gesellschaft fuer angewandte
physikalische Chemie at Leipzig. Ac-
cording to line of reasoning, stimuli
taneously developed by Fajans and
Soddy during the last few years, lead
derived from radium and lead derived
from thorium by the loss Of five and
six atoms of helium, respectively,
should be identical, except in atomic
weight.
Throughout the past year Doctor
Fajans' assistant, Doctor Lembert, has
been working in Richards laboratory
at Harvard, in order to obtain atomic
weights of as high degree of trust
worthiness as possible.
The differences established by the
series of determinations announced at
the meeting by Fajans amount to
about 0.3 per cent. In this connection
it Is interesting to note that Soddy
and Hymans read paper before the
London Chemical society early in the
spring, in which they likewise de-
scribed experiments which showed a
difference between thorite lead and
ordinary lead Of 0.5 per cent.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01
REALLY ODD SAVINGS BANK"
Most Curious Hiding Place for
Her Money.

With the coming of the pay enve-
lope for women has developed the
evolution of the broken-nosed teapot
as a savings bank. Many and varied
are the methods women have worked
out to save money, although it is only
within the last fifty years that the av.
erage woman has had to consider the
problem individually. With their go
ing to business" however, questions
of finance and investment have come
to them.
Many amusing incidents of the brok.
en-nosed teapot as a savings bank have
come to light. There is a story of
Pedro Alvaredo, the peon millionaire
of Parral, Mex, whose mines yield
ed silver so fast that he could not
spend it, though he bought pianos and
ponies by the carload, and all the
metal work in the palace that stood
where his old adobe hut had once been
built was of silver.
Alvaredo had no faith in banks and
kept great quantities of cash in his
house. Naturally, much of this came
into the hands of Sonora Alvaredo.
The sonora had a special bed quilt
which always covered her at night and
was never far away in the day time.
When the sonora died her maid went
to Alvaredo and asked for the quilt.
But Alvaredo was superstitious and
disliked to give away anything to
which his wife had been so much at
tached. He offered the woman money
instead and, though dollars we're no
longer flowing in at the rate Of 10000
day, he was generous in the matter.
But the girl insisted that she would
have no memorial of her mistress but
the quilt.
Finally Alvaredo's suspicious were
thoroughly aroused and he ripped the
quit to pieces. 1t contained $4,000
in $1,000 pieces. Among them was a
letter from the sonora saying that she
had saved the money for her two sons
and directed that it be put in the bank
to their credit. And now the young
men are being educated in an Ameri-
can college upon the interest of their
mothers savings.-From the Business
Woman's Magazine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01
lett GO WITH THE OLD YEAR

How many of us make our backs
ache CARRYING useless, foolish bur
dens, We carry luggage and rubbish
that are of no earthly use, but which
san our strength and keep us jaded
aud tired to no purpose. IL we could
only learn to hold on TO the things
worth while and drop the rubbish--let
90 the useless, the foolish. the silly,
the things that hinder-we should not
only make progress, but we should
keen happy and harmonious as we'll.
one of the secrets of right living is
letting that go which absoros our en-
argies and retards our progress. we
s.ouId let our unfortunate past ex-
neriences drop into the world OF OBJ
nvion. We should never recall dis
pgreeable memory or mistake unless
!, ha 70 arm ourselves against falllng
into further errors. II the past tor
nents and haunts you cut 1t on sharp
&c If with knife. Do not allow
1,s shadow TO darken your present or
-oh vour future of its possibilities.
profit nv the lessons it has taught but
A not morbidly brood over them.
no not hang on to the thinss that
.eep YOU back, that maxi you IN
SAMMY Let go of the worry, let 90 OF
me anxiety, let so of the scoiding,
natt,ng and tuning. let go OF criti-
ism let go of fear, let go OF anxious,
avar.strenuous life. let so of selfish
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01
Physical Facts.

The faculties of the mind are rem
dered active by heat. under whose in
fiuence thought, talkativeness, versa
tility are increased. Cold and phlegm
produce apathy OF mind and torpidity
in the members. So alleged the Syrian
author, who approved Hippocrates'
dictum, Excessive sleep and excess
sive wakefulness are equally bad
Pain in the brain is caused b. some
change in its composition, or in that
of the arteries leading to 1t, or by
increase OF moisture in the brain.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01

living, let go of the rubbish. the use4
less, the foolish, the silly; let go of
the shams, the shoddy, the false; let
go OF the straining to keep up appear
ances, let go of the superficial, let
go OF the vice that cripples, the false
thinking that demoralizes, and you
VIII be surprised to see how much
lighter and freer and truer you are to
run the race, and how much surer of
the goal
The American people do not know
how to let go. We keep our muscles
tense and our nerves up to such a
pitch that it is the hardest thing in
the world for US to drop things.
Why not resolve this coming year
that whatever you do or do not do,
You will not be haunted by skeletons,
that you will not cherish shadows +?
Determine that you will have nothing
to do with discords, that every one of
them must get out of your miad No
matter how formidable or persistent,
wipe them out. Forget them. Have
nothing to do with them. Do not let
the little enemies--worry and fear,
anxiety and regret-sap your energy,
for this is your capital for future
achievement.
Whatever is disagreeable, whatever
1rritates, nags, destroys your balance
OF mind, forget it-thrust it out. 1t
has nothing to do with you now. You
have better use for your time than
to waste it in regrets, in worry, in
useless trif1es. Make war upon de-
spondency, if you are subject to it.
Drive the "blues" out of your mind as
you would a thief out of your house.
Shut the door in the face of all your
enemies and keep it shut. Do not
wait for cheerfulness to come to you.
Go after it; entertain it; never let
it go.
If you have had an unfortunate ex-
perience forget it. If you have made
failure in your speech, your song,
you book, your article; if you have
been placed in an embarrassing posi-
ton; if you have fallen and hurt your
self by false step; if you have been
slandered and abused, do not dwell
upon it. There is not a single redeem
ing feature in these memories, and
the presence of their ghosts will rob
you of many a happy hour. If you
have been indiscreet, imprudent; if
your reputation has been injured so
that you fear you can never redeem it,
do not drag the hideous shadows, the
rafting skeletons about with you.
Rub them off the slate of memory.
Forget them. Start with clean slate
and spend all your energies in keeping
it clean for the future, and you will be
surprised at the transformation in
your life and its effect upon those
around you.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01

To keep an army personally clean is
one of the immense tasks that con-
front the commanders. The photo
graph shows a shower bath contrived
in the French trenches north of Sois-
sons, only hundred yards from the
German lines.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01
New Photograph.

A New Jersey inventor has adapted
a monograph for use with various
kinds of records, such as those in
which the groove is laterally undulat.
ing, and those in which thu undula.
lions are vertical, by supplying a plu.
rality of reproducers, any of which
may be brought into operative posi-
ton and communication with the i'll.
terror OF the sound conveyor.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01

What is undoubtedly the most novel
motor race course in the world is
found at Salduro. Utah, where natural
salt beds furnish the roadway. The
beds are on the line of the Western
Pacific railroad and are 65 miles in
length and eight miles in width, fur
nishing a smooth, unbroken surface,
level as a table, and are from two to
twenty feet in depth The salt is
crystalized. 9S per cent pure. and
white as snow. The surface is hard
and dry.-Kansas City Times.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01
Novel Means of Communication.

Wounded British soldiers in the
hands of the Germans have hit upon a
novel way of communicating with their
families and friends at home. They
subscribe small sums of money to the
German Red Cross society, but as few
of them have any cash they fill up a
draft or sign check to be sent to
London and honored. On the back Of
the draft the banker is requested to
communicate the news OF the drawers
safety to his home. Tommy Atkins
thinks it is well worth dollar sub
scription.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-01-01

The dark horses are the ones that so
to the war The only objection to the
gray horse is that to keep his coat
spick and span he needs twice as
rauch grooming as dark horse. Cur.
rying is not enough. He must have
soap and water no end" as an Eng
lish groom would say.-Youth's Com
panion.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-02-12

to see it," she wheedled Of Aunt Jose
phine.
Aunt Josephine nodded acquiescence,
and moment later we all entered the
building.
"You-you are very careful since
that last warning?" asked Elaine as
we approached our door.
More than ever-now," replied
Craig. II have made up my mind to
win"
Kennedy had started to unlock the
door, when he stopped short.
See" he said, this is a precaution
I have just installed. | almost forgot
in the excitement"
He pressed a panel and disclosed
the boXlike apparatus.
This is my kinograph, which tells
me whether have had any visitors in
my absence. If the pen traces a
straight line, it is all right; but if
hello-Walter, the line is wavy"
We exchanged a significant glance.
Would you Misunderstanding
down the hall just bit while | en-
teri" asked Craig.
BE careful" cautioned Elaine.
He unlocked the door, standing off
to one side. Then he extended his
hand across the doorway. Still moth
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-02-12

"a Package for You, Miss Dodge"
will come down stairs, will show it
you"
Puzzled, but interested, Elaine fol-
lowed her. In the library Jennings
pointed mutely at the new safe. Elaine
approached it. AS they stood about,
new beads of perspiration, as it were,
formed on it. Elaine touched it and
also quickly withdrew her hand.
81 can't imagine what's the matter"
she said. Notwithstanding, you
may go-and Marie, also"
When the servants had gone she still
regarded the safe with the same won
dering look, then turning out the
light, she followed.
She had scarcely disappeared when,
from the portiered doorway near by,
the Clutching Hand appeared, and,
after gazing out at them, took a quick
look at the safe.
Good" he muttered
Noiselessly Michael of the sinister
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-02-12

Copyright Company Rights Reserved
SYNOPSIS.

The New York police are mystified by a
series of murders of prominent men The
principal clue to the murderer is the warn
ing letter which is sent the victims signed
with "clutching hand" The latest vic
tim of the mysterious assassin Is Taylor
Dodge, the insurance president. His
daughter, Elaine, employs Craig Kennedy,
the famous scientific detective, to try to
iunravel the mystery. What Kennedy ac-
complishes is told by his friend. Jameson.
a newspaper man. Kennedy illustrates a
daring attempt to rob a jewelry store and
rescues Elaine from a boiler where she
had been imprisoned by the thugs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-02-12

Susie rose to go and Elaine followed
her to the door. No sooner had she
gone than the Clutching Hand came
out from behind the curtains. He gazed
about moment, then, moving over to
the safe about which the two girls had
been talking, stealthily examined it.
He must have heard someone COM
ing, for with a gesture of hate at the
safe itself. as though he personified It,
he slipped back of the curtains again.
Elaine had returned, and as she sat
down at the desk to go over some pa
pers which Bennett had left relative
to settling up the estate the masked
intruder stealthily and silently with
drew.
"A package for you, Miss Dodge"
announced Michael later in the eve
ming, as Elaine, in her dainty evening
gown, was still engaged in going over
the papers. He carried it in his hands
rather gingerly.
"Mr. Kennedy sent it, ma am. He
says it contains clues, and will you
please put it in the new safe for him. 3"
Elaine took the package eagerly and
examined it. Then she pulled open
the little round door of the globular
safe.
1T must be getting cold out, Mi
chael," she remarked. This package
Is as cold as ice"
tgIt ;c n ~, Mitchell
She closed the safe, and, with a
glance at her watch, set the time lock
and went upstairs to her room.
No sooner had Elaine disappeared
than Michael appeared again, catlike,
through the curtains from the drawing
room, and, after a glance about the
dimly lighted library, discovering that
the coast was clear, motioned to a fig
ure hiding behind the portieres.
A moment and Clutching Hand him
self came out
He moved over to the safe and
looked it over. Then he put out his
hand and touched it.
"Listen!" cautioned Michael
Someone was coming, and they
hastily skunk behind the protecting
portieres. 1t was Marie, Elaine's maid
She turned up the lights and went
over to the desk for a book for which
Elaine had evidently sent her. She
paused and appeared to be listening
Then she went to the door.
"Jennings!" she beckoned.
What is it, Marie?" he replied.
She said nothing, but as he came up
the hall led him to the center of the
room.
Listen! / heard signs and groans!"
Jennings looked at her a moment,
puzzled, then laughed. you girls"
he exclaimed. 81 suppose you'll always
think the library haunted now"
But, Jennings, listen" she per-
sisted.
Jennings did listen. Sure enough,
there were sounds, weird, uncanny. He
gazed about the room. 1t was eerie
Then he took few steps toward the
safe Marie put out her hand to it and
started back.
why, that safe is all covered with
cold sweat" she cried with bated
breath.
Sure enough, the face of the safe
was beaded with dampness. Jennings
put his hand on it and quickly drew it
away, leaving a mark on the damp
ness.
"W-what do you think of that?" he
gasped.
I'm going to tell Miss Dodge" cried
Marie, genuinely frightened.
A moment later she burst into
Elaines room.
What is the matter, Marie?" asked
Elaine, laying down her book. You
look as if you had seen q ghost"
"Ah, but mademoiselle-it ees just,
like that The safe-if mademoiselle
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-02-12

ing happened There was not a sound.
He looked cautiously into the room.
Apparently there was nothing.
1t had been about the middle of the
morning that an express wagon had
pulled up sharply before our apart
ment.
MIR. Kennedy live here" asked one
of the expressmen, descending with
his helper and approaching our janitor
Jens Jensen, a typical Swede, who
was coming up out of the basement.
Jens growled surly, "Yes-but Mr..
Kannady, he bane out"
TOO bad-we've got this large cab
met he ordered from Grand Rapids
We can't cart it around all day. Can't
you let us in so We can leave it?"
Jensen muttered: we'll guess It
bane all right"
They took the cabinet off the wagon
and carried it upstairs. Jensen opened
our door, still grumbling, and they
placed the heavy cabinet in the living
room.
Sign here"
"You fallers bane a nuisance" pro-
tested Jens, signing nevertheless.
Scarcely had the sound of their
footballs died away in the outside hall
way when the door of the cabinet
slowly opened and a masked face pro-
truded, gazing about the room.
uyac tho C1utohinp Iondf
From the cabinet he took a large
package wrapped in newspapers AS
he held it, looking keenly about, his
eye rested on Elaines picture. mo-
ment he looked at it, then quickly at
the fireplace opposite.
An idea seemed to occur to him.
He took the package to the fireplace,
removed the screen and laid the pack
age over the andirons with one end
pointing out into the room.
Next he took from the cabinet
couple of storage batteries and a coil
of wire. Deity and quickly he fixed
them on the package.
Meanwhile, before an alleyway
across the street and further down
the long block the express wagon had
stopped.
Having completed fixing the bat
teries and wires, Clutching Hand ran
the wires along the holding on the
wall overhead, from the fireplace un-
til he was directly over Elaine's pic
ture. Skillfully he managed to fix the
wires, using them in place of the pic
ture wires to support the framed pho
tograph until it hung very noticeably
askew on the wall.
The last wire Joined, he looked
about the room, then noiselessly moved
to the window and raised the Shade.
Quickly he raised his hand and
brought the fingers slowly together.
1t was the sign.
Off in the alley, the express driver
and his helper jumped into the wagon
and away Il ratified.
Jensen was smoking placidly as the
wagon pulled up the second time.
Sorry" said the driver sheepishly,
"but we delivered the cabinet to the
wrong Mr.. Kennedy"
He pulled out the inevitable book to
prove 1t.
wall, you bane fine fallers,"
growled Jensen, putting like a furnace,
in his fury. you cannot go up
agane."
We'll get fired for the mistake"
pleaded the helper.
"Just this once" urged the driver, az
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-05-06
High School Meet

The Southwest Kansas High
School Meet was held at Cimar.
ron or Friday of last week, and
Bucklin High School came out
winner with a total of 44H points.
Garden City was second and the
other schools came in as follows:
Fowler IN Dodge II; Lakin IA;
Meade II; Cimarron s; Kinsley
| 3; Syracuse ?.
The events IN which Meade
High school gained points we're:
50-yard dash Dougherty, Car
den City; Ferguson of Fowler;
Fee of Meade; Thorpe of Lakin.
Time 5 3.5 seconds.
Shot Weaver of Fowler;
Baker of Bucklin; Bocook; Meade
McBeth of Garden Clty.-Dis-
tance 3S feet 9 inches
DIscus-A. King of Bucklin;
Weaver of Fowler; Nicolet of
Kinsley; Wilson of Meade. Dis
tance 20 feet 8 inches.
Jayelin thrOw-EvanS of Dodge
White of Bncklin; Grim OF Meade
Houten of Distance
14S feet.
Relay, one-half /mile--Bucklin,
first; LakIn second; Meade third
Garden City, fourth Time one
minute ~ seconds.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-05-06
The Oil Well

Backers of the Miuneola well
secured pledges of $50 to sink
the hole down 10 1000 feet. p.
H. Sughrue, ]. w. Harshberger
and Otto Theis each agreed to
pledge cents for each foot from
5000 to 1000 feet. The pro-
moters are now taking subscrip'
tions on each 100 feet the we'll is
sunk, the engineers cost being
So. 40 foot in addition to over
head expenses. Experts pro.
nounce the hole one of the best
they have ever seen, and the
hackers of the enterprise want
to go 1000 feet before giving up.
Dodge City Globe.