The Kiel Press. (Kiel, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1904 Page: 4 of 6
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PLAN FOR CONCRETE HOUSE
THE KIEL PRESS
A II. C'AVETT. I «t ft Hub
KIKL,
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I.ord Francis Hope, newly married,
has large hopes ol being happy this
time.
Carnegie must think t !iat tr give
money away is a trick requiring spec-
lal ability.
The Hague tribunal is almost as
gr.vit a power for peace as an old la«ly
looking on at a dog fight.
Four hundred Rain) Daisies attend*
ed a club meeting in New York — most
of them in long skirts, as usual.
Oon. Pllug's picture shows Mm to
bo a v< ry handsome man. Ther had
to be some kind of compensation.
The new prune trust lias convert -el
the boarding house victims to a kind*
lier view of huge combinations of
capital.
The seeds of ldndness that fall 1 y
the wayside and on sterile ground
eventually blossom in the heart of
the sower.
The name Kouropatkin mean*? par
♦ ridge. It. remains to be soon whether
Kouropatkin will prove himself to be
a bird or a fizzle.
Pafti took $200,<K)0 away with her.
Yet sho wept. Well, it must be ad
milted that she didn't cone- anywhere
near getting It all.
A concern lias mamifa t tired a hot
tie which will hold eighty-four gal-
lons. For nimrods- this will supply a
long-experienced want.
It. is :i costly lesson. but the youth
who kills the girl who won't elope
with him proves by his act the cor-
rectness of her objections.
(len. Ma lias been warned by Russia
that if he doesn't watch out he may
wake up some night to learn that
there's a man under the bed.
A scientist over in France has dis-
covered that the average human hand
contains 84,000,Out) bacilli. No doubt
ho means the average French hand.
More monocles art* being worn in
Kngland than over before another
dignified tribute to the genius and
statesmanship of Sir Joseph Chamber-
lain.
Yale has a new machine with which
one can watch the brain at work.
Safeguard it, or Harvard and Prince-
ton will absorb all of Eli's football
strategy.
King Peter may have reasoned thil*
if he did not have regicide stopped by
legislative action he might be called
upon to make a personal tight against
it later on.
Sleeping with the mouth open has
long been preached against by the
doctors. Now a Sioux City man's
false teeth have been stolen on ac-
count of it.
How many of the umbrellas that
you have in your family now did you
have three years ago? A man claims
that ho has carried one umbrella
eighteen years.
Mr. Ilaron Silver, who hopes to
make Miss ixui Dillon a hasbeen, will
spend the spring in Columbus, lie
will bear watching, for his promises
to bo a fast life.
Mr. Jack Munroe will now have an
opportunity to demonstrate the dot-
trine on which he has long insisted,
namely, that his power is supreme on
the western continent.
It was George Washington Chillis
who said that there were but two
things in life that we should never
regret: the thlugs we can help and
the things we can't help.
Mrs. Nellie Whalen of New York
wants a divorce. Sho says her hus-
band forced her to move 110 times in
seven years. It would have been
cheaper to have paid rent.
\ Chicago man has been fined $2.1
for slapping an actress whose first
name is Ooldie. Only a real mean man
would slap a Goldie, for which reason
the judge did right in imposing the
fine.
Now that the news has gone forth
that Chicago is not to have "Parsifal"
this season what a thumbing there
will bo of the dictionaries of the
Windy City to see what "Parsifal"
means.
A New York woman visiting in
town calls her hostess old-fashioned,
and it seems that the reason is that
when the Atchison woman's husband
tells her he likes her she believes it.
—Atchison Globe.
The Kev. Mr. Con well of Boston
says the only reason a young man
goes to church nowadays is because
his best girl is there. The church
that "gits thar hist" with the most
girls will therefore have the congre-
gation.
It Is beginning to be feared in Eng-
land that in caso Japan whips Russia
the people of India will want to dis-
tinguish themselves by whipping some
white army. But lot England be
comforted. Germany is having
trouble with her blacks in Africa.
j SENATOR QUAY SAID TO
J THINK DEATH IS NEAR
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A close personal friend <.f Senator
Quay of Por.n \\ lva!ila, who has ju
arrived from Florida whoie he h:
been visiting the i; aator, says the
condition of the • 11:jt• :' health is ex-
tremely critical. He mi> ; he is suffer-
ing from Bright's disc a sc.
Senator Quay has been in Florida
since the early part, of the winter and
has he-en taking a regular course of
dieting and exercise with the hope of
building ui) his shattered health.
WANTS SONG FOR YALE.
Monetary Reward Offered for Poet
With True Inspiration.
John O. Heald of Orange, X. J., ha
offered a prize of $100 for the words
and music of a song that will best
exemplify the true Vale spirit. Mr.
Heald is a gradual-- of Yale university
and says he has long been impressed
with the fact that Yale has not a song
with the true ring of college lit" •. The
competition will close in A:>i*i 1 and
judges who have be-.Mi selected by Air.
Heald will go over the material sub-
mitted. Mr. lleald declares that he
wants to get a song that will stand the
test of years. Harvard, Correll and
other universities all have their
songs, ho says, and Princeton's "Old
Nassau" holds the palm anion;: them.
He is looking for somethii.a that a. ill
be to Yolo what "Old Nassau" was to
Princeton.
PLATT'S IDEA OF REFORMER.
Unkindly Comment by the Senator
From New York.
A friend was arguing with S nator
Piatt in behalf of a n«aa of m:riv ide::?«
and of unlimited activities, but who
never accomplished any apparent, re
suits. He was the ultra type of re-
former and often made himself ridi-
culous through what he proposed and
what he brilliantly failed to achieve.
His advocate after enumerating nil of
his excellences to the "Tioga K"ge"
said: "You may no agree with him.
senator, hut this man is an individual
force. In the activities of our social
life you cannot dory that he is an
engine of much power." Yes," as-
sented the senator drily, "a donkey
engine."
COMFORT HIS CHIEF THOUGHT.
French Statesman Troubles Little
About Personal Appcarancc.
Camille IVlletan. ti e French minis-
ter of marine. Iris a disregard for nice-
ties of dress which makes him a favor-
ite with cartoonists. His white hair j
and beard seem to 1. absolutely iinae- ,
qualnted with a comb, his trousers :
are nearly always too long, and he de- )
lights In frock co-its several si/.-s too !
large for him. Hugo boots, faded !
necktie and cuffs that are generally
on the verge of fringe are other parts 1
of his unique make-up. His friends i
remonstrate with him regarding his !
carelessness, but M. Pellet an re- j
sponds calmly: "What ivrt.ter so long
as l am comfortablo?"
In League for Fair Taxation.
Fourteen New Jersey mayors have !
formed an organization to wage war in j
the interest of fair taxation, tho chief i
object of attack being railroads, j
which are believed to have been escap-
ing payment in scandalous fashion.
"The New Jersey Mayors' Equal Tax-
ation league," as It is called, held a j
meeting a few days ago at Mayor Fa
gan's office in Jersey City and effected
permanent organization. The league-
is to carry on a campaign of « duca*
tion by means of public meetings
throughout the state and by circulation
of suitable literature.
New Arctic Expedition.
The St. Petersburg Physico-Chemi
cal society contemplates a new Arc-
tic expedition for the following ob-
jects: Observations of solar radia-
tion and atmospheric refraction of
cloud movements and of atmospl ric
electricity in connection with the ex-
tinction of ultraviolet light; deter-
mination of the phenomenon of terres-
trial magnetism and of electric cur-
rents In the ocean; chemical analyses
of ttie composition of the air and
water, anil examinations of the polar
iee.
Several time; he lias b# .1 reported
at the point of eieath. but thl> friend
says the senate r himi rtf realiz ■ i hi
precarious condition and has ex
prosiie.l the beli t' that he would not
I robably live more than two months
at the most.
Senator Q" y's pr nihtion recalls tin
fact that Senator Hanna declared,
hen taken ill the la t time, that he
you Id die.
CANNON ANl) THE SENATE.
Speaker of the House No Lover of
Upper Body.
Sp-viIter Camion seldom overlooks
an o; Sortunitv to show good-natured
contempt for the United States sen-
ate. The other day he heard that an-
other clock was to he put into th" sen-
ate el an 1st. Senator Fi ve, whom he
met on Pennsylvania explained:
"You see. our present clock is at the
rear of the ohamber. facing me. and
senators tre tired of turning around
to consult it. Pcsides, Cannon, we
don't wan you to be able to say
that the senate is always looking back-
ward." "Thank Cod for that," fer-
vently exc. limed Mr. Cannon. "I
as .-.♦'raid that if you got in two
eloci s you'd have too much time on
your ! m i ; .ii«1 Cod knows what 1 tint
means to tin country."
MEMORY OF HER FATHER.
Daughter's Description of Veteran Not
Satisfying to Department.
Representative Cowherd of Missouri
has a constituent who has for years
been trying to procure a pension a a
daugh.ter of a soldier. At first, she
asserted her father served in the Mex-
ican war, then in the Seminole war,
and fin/illy in the war of 1312. Sho
wrote Mr. Cowl ord that a man having
the same name as her father served in
the v, ar of 1M2 and he wrote h r that
it required something more than a
mere name to get a pension, and to
: : i so->.e additional faots. In reply
he received this: "My father was of
medium height had black hair,
couldn't shut one* eye without shutting
the other, and knew nothing about
music."— Chicago Chronicle.
WAS IN THEIR CLASS.
Statement in Supreme Court Inter
estcd William H. Crane.
William H. Crane, the come Han,
visited the United States supreme
court last week and came away smil-
ing. While lie was there a young
lawyer was arguing a case involving
some Indian claims. He declared that
the redmen interested were "very old
and very poor." adding "they will
average fully GO years of age." Mr.
Crane says he noticed the justices
nudge each other at this veaiy state-
ment. "In fact," he said later, "I
felt like doing a little nudging my-
self. I'm 59, you knew, and mighty
near in the same clrxn with the In-
dians."
Sir Thomas Lipton to Wed?
An amended report conies from Lon-
don that Sir Thomas I.ipton is about
to abandon his present state of single
bit ssedress. Some time ago it was
rumored that Lie was engaged to an
American widow. Now it Is asserted
that the future Lady Upton Is a
Scotchwoman v hose husband died
some years ago The lady Is not a
giddy young creature in widow's
weeds, but a well-preserved matron,
some ton years the junior of Sir
Thomas, who is now 54. She is said
to be the relict of a departed iron-
monger.
Who Wou.'d Be an Author?
Stanton Winslow wrote n novel, and
a Arm in San Francisco published it,
and this 1m how the literary editor of
the Sac amento Boo reviews it:
There are publications so devoid of
originality and literary merit as to
make them proof against criticism.
The reviewer is reminded of the old
colored nurse who was ordered to
spank the baby. She turned the
youngster over and exclaimed: *Fo'
de Lftwd, 1 kain't find no place hig
'miff to spank.'" Now what's the use
of trying to be an author?
Invention
•i t doll Of target prac-
tice r >ir on all over th c e.ntry at
i t ."-(ins of the year and iieouent'y
acciuents causing the death or lajury
'• : or;, or.e n: r< • ortcd thr . ;1 ♦lu.*
public i-r fa. Probably the majority
>f these a'n Merits happen to t lie
markers, whose duty it is to com* in
front of the targe, at. intervals and
mark out the spot made by the bul-
lets of the- gunners around the hulls-
eye. Throuah a misunderstood signal
;>r blunder it sou times happens that
the re. rk- makes his appearance
whJl.' the target is still in use, re-
ceiving in 1 own body the bullet
meant for ' • target.
There has roc-r ily been designed an
apparatus which makes it unneces-
sary to place? a man's life in jeopardy
in this manner the invention being
shown In the picture. The gun is
clamped in a movable frame, and yet
without binding it rigidly in any one
position. This mounting has prac-
tieal'y the salt.-- effect as would be
obtainable with a ball and socket
• and the latter might be utilized
for the purpose were it not fen* the
object sought to be attained by this
inve ntion namely, the actuating of an
auxiliary pointer, paralleling the rifle
barrel at all times. As the latter is
aimed by the4 marksman he moves
with it the pointer beneath, which in-
dicates on the little stationary target
just where the bullet will strike the
Directions for Building and Amount
c* Material Needed.
| I wi: h to build a concrete house i
xt iinim-r and require i-ome ad-'
"... ) v. • to build it 32 f wide ,
I fcH on tlie side, the walls ex- !
j tend i:< feet above tin e r liar.
I The c liar will occupy ti « whole v:.ac j
j beneath th«- house and have 7 - et ,
walls, i woul1 Jik< j ou to i ubllai a
; :jood l-lan for he uppe r st*.r> I:' • '"is
j at least six bedrooms, each having a
el-j'hsa closet. What thickm-sr. should !
i the outside, also the part item walls,
be? Whet quantity of gravel and |
Portland cement would be needed?
The accompanying plan of the upper
story provides six bedrooms and a
li'-Sl
Indicates Direction of Aim.
larg. ou . Of course, each gun used
on this mounting must first be tested
by actual practice, until the pointer is
adjusted to Indicate accurately the
work of the firearm. Then when the
gunner pulls the trigger the bullet
flies to the main target and the little
arrow beneath the gun springs for-
ward and punctures the paper target.
After the round is finished th^ gunner
has but tej detach this subtarget and
lie has a complete roe.orcl of his shots,
without waiting until the scorer has
summed them up with the aid of his
telescope; or field glass. As the use
ol the main target is simply some-
thing to give the marksman some-
thing to aim his gun at and all the
.•••coring is done on the% subtarget, it
matters little if the bullet marks re-
main on the main targe t indefinitely.
The inventor is Henry 13. Cunimings
of Maiden, Mass.
Fountain Blacking Brush.
There are son e men who need no
Inducement but the thought of per-
sonal appearance to ke p their clothes
brushed and their -hoe s polished anel
e ven should they fool that they are
unable to afford to patronize a hoot-
blacking establishment every time
their shoes require cleanii g. they pre-
sent themselvo3 with a brush anel
bo; of polish and do the work them-
selves. To others this task is so un-
pleasant that it more often goes un-
done. and if they cannot afford to pay
for a shine they must have some very
convenient method of applying the
polish if they are to be induced to
keep their shoes looking decent. So
it goes that the man who is careful
of his appearance deserves to have a
convenient outfit., and the man who is
careless must have one, and between
the two the invention of the brush
shown in the picture should not fare
poorly.
This arrangement is designed to
serve as a storage reservoir for the
liquid polish now in common use, and
to provide a convenient method of
applying it to the leather, ready for
the polishing brush. It will be noticed
that the bristles in the center are
slightly in advance of those forming
the surrounding portion of the dauber,
hi ing mounted on a sliding rod. which
extends into the reservoir. In the up-
per portion of the latter there is an
adjusting screw, which limits the
movement of the rod even to the
point of preventing it altogether. To
start the flow of the liquid it is only
necessary to turn the screw once or
twice and press the dauber on the
shoe, when the central portion of the
bristles will elevate the rod and open
the valve leading into the reservoir.
Edward R. King of East Oakland,
Cal., Ig the inventor.
A Hive Cover.
Sub.— Would a beehive cover made
by covering an inch board with gal-
vanized iron attract heat in summer,
make the hive too warm? 2. Would
packing be necessary ? If so, what
material would you use?
1. I have used galvanized iron paint-
ed white over wood for covers for
several years and I find them quite sat-
isfactory. 1 would advise painting
the hives some light color unless they
were to ho fully shaded during the hot
season. ". I do rot consider packing
necessary. If 1 tried any protection
from the heat 1 would make the covers
with a dead air space of three-fourth3
of an inch between the metal and the
wood. This would be quite as eflfec
tive as any packing and would leave
the cover much lighter to handle be-
sides being cheaper.
It is no use singing "sunshine"
your life is all moonshine.
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Ground Floor Plan of Concrete House,
34 By 34 Feet.
closet, for each. The front of the low-
er story has a window In the bedroom
and a large window in the dining-
room. The front deor in the center of
the front of the house may be eithe r
single or double. The upper story has
three windows in front, one for each
bedroom.
The cement walls of the lower story
should be ten inches thick, and of
the upper story eight inches thick;
the partition walls in the cellar should
be tern inches thick and the wall from
the center wall to the front, six inches
thick. Th0 concrete should be com-
posed of one part Portland cement and
six parts of gravel. The house would
require sixty barrels of Portland
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Upper Floor Plan of Concrete House.
cement, fifty-six yards of clean gravel
am! fourteen yarns of small stones fur
fillers.
Wild Mustard Seed.
Constant Header.—I know of no
use whatever for wild mustard seed.
| The plant itself might possibly, be
■: eel for green feed as a means of
I clearing land weedy with it; but it cer-
, tainly cannot compare1 as a green feed
j with whit.- mustard or any kind ol
j rape, which may be grown without
j risk of leaving the land infested. The
see d of wild mustard i : altogether too
acrid and pungent to mix with chop;
and screenings containing largo quan-
tities of .t had certanly bo better
burnt than used as feed. I do not
think it would even be wise to use it
as food for hens, nor is it likely that,
if ground, they would eat it, as the
see 1 is almost as pung nt as that of
the black mustard, from which the
table mustard used as ;t condiment is
prepared. Wild mustard has many
names, such as charlock, caduluck,
herrick, rough mustard. As this seed
contains a good deal of oil, it might
possibly be used for fuel for the en-
gine, when large quantities are noticed
in the screenings at threshing time.
Making Wires Do Double Duty.
The system of simultaneous tele-
graphing and telephoning on the
same wires by the apparatus invented
by Signori f'urchi and Bruno which
has been in operation for several
months on a section of line from Bo-
logna. has proved a thoroughly prac-
tical success and the Italian govern-
ment contemplates the installation of
the system on other sections. The
two inventors are now in Rome nego-
tiating with the minister of posts and
telegraphs the details for a working
agreement, which will probably ulti-
mately cover the whole country.
□affling Tricks of Magic.
The United States bureau of ethno-
logy recently has completed an inves- j
fixation into the magic of the Indians
and has been baffled by feats per-
formed by their wizards, which are
fully as wonderful as those of the
Oriental fakirs. Missionaries and
other reliable authorities have told
of plots of grass and century plants
made to spring up from the bare
ground in a few moments, and other
equally mystifying acts of sorcery.
Two of Them.
Towne—I met that fellow De Bates
to-day.
Browne—Yes, so he just told me.
Towne—Talk about a man who
won't listen to reason
Browne—Don't! That's what he's
just been talking about.
How It Got Its Name.
Teacher—Where did the desert
Gobi get its name?
The Dunce—'Cause people go by it
Instid of through it.
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Not His Usual Lina.
Mr. Stlph- Shi 1 he ugh; ! was rut! or
sever. . She said she didn't think
it was like nio talk of i<Miers - '
Mi s Hitter—And it wasn't like you,
eliher.
Mr. Soli h—Think not?
Mi s Bitter—No; you generally talk
about yourself.--Philadelphia Leuge-^
Too Early fcr Him.
"The eondiio:is seem to bo unfavor-
able," admitted the tranca medium. "1
.;:n unable to get any communication
from your late husband."
Well, I'm not at all surprised," re-
plieel the widow. "It's only 9 o'clock
now and John never did show up till
about a. m."
Fcr Remembrance.
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GIbbs—Hallo! You've got. a knot in
your handkerchief. What's that for?
Tibbs—Oh, my wife's gone to her
mother's for a few clays, and that knot
Is to remind me that sho told mo to
think of her in her absence. Pick Me-
Up.
The Main Thing.
Mr. Nervey- Miss Koxloy, I adore
you. Will yern be my wife?
Miss Roxley (haughtily)—The Idea
of your proposing to a girl in my sta-
tion! You should know better.
.Mr. Nervey- I do know better, but
no richer.
A Movable Feast.
Boarder Why in creation did you
ring the breakfast bell at 1 o'clock
this morning?
Cook—The mistress heard it thun
dering and told me to hurry up anil
serve breakfast before the milk
soured.—Now York Weekly.
How It Happened.
Brownovich—Eupeck's wife eloesn't
jaw him like she. formerly did.
Smithinski — The worm Anally
turned, eh?
Brownovich—No. it wasn't that: she
had some kind of throat trouble and
lost her voice.
His Point of View.
"But," protested the typewriter
boarder, "Adam wasn't contented
without a wife."
"Perhaps not," rejoined the old
bachelor, "but at that stage of the
game he didn't know anything of good
or ev i 1."
Tangles It All Up.
Towne—It's a fact that a person
with a strong imagination has abso-
lutely no head for figures.
Bowne—Don't you believe if. When
my wife gets her imagination to \Voi I.
upon her age she can make arithmetic
look sick.
Willing.
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"Why, my clear man," declared the
hypnotist, "by making a few sitnpie
passes before your eyes I can make
you forget that you are married."
"Go ahead," said the other. "I've
been trying to forget it for ten years."
An Easy Matter.
Giles—Congress could settle fhi«*
woman's suffrage business in short
order if it was to go about it in the
right way.
Miles- How?
Giles By enacting a law compel!
i.ig women to vote. Then they would
n't want to.
A Cautious Youth.
"Bobby, your father wants to • e
you."
The boy looked dubious.
"Do I want to see him?" he asked.
"How should I know?"
"You ought to be able to tell by the
look in his eye."
The First. Sufferer.
Diogenes was discovered with his
lantern.
"I use It," he explained, "to see the
gas after I have lighted it."
Hopelessly he continued his que*t
for an honest man or gas company -
Harper's Bazar.
A Church Sleeper
Parks—Do you know our minist
at all?
Lane—Oh. I have a noddlns
quatntance with him.—Exchange
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