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SODS GIVE NO PROTECTION
3foench Vine Growers Find They De
rive No Benefit From Metal
Rods They Erected.
5He vine-growing region of the Gl
'3®BHie, in France, has been quite ex
iSeswively equipped in recent years
W. E. Courty of the University of
"Snnieaux. The statistics presented
2tfto*v that numerous hailstorms have
•jwrarred in the vicinity of nearly all
rods. Moreover, according to M.
sElKsrty, there has been no obvious
aSfciige in the character of these
*6wmis since the erection of the rods.
.St» article points out some of the
'jpiatjlpnl reasons for the erroneous
-auKiusions that others have drawn In
.{terror of them for example, the fact
ifitet, normally, only one thunderstorm
.five is attended by hail that the
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over which hail falls is normally
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Taxation of the Citizens.
The city council of Reykjavik, Ice
jtasd. has now begun the baking of
3srwid in a special bakery In connec
'3bTO with the gas works, where mod
us* machinery has been installed in
e special building. The result was ex
ar'Jlent, in that the waste heat, from
tSar- cas works is being used in a prac
Cfinshf# and profitable manner, and in
•fit# course of a short time all the
Sttecfc bread which may be needed
"WJiT he baked in the new bread fac
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.tel ami think alike. Thus the vil
'hrv 'f rsa has even a dialect inark
wl/y different from its neighbors,
mij.'h is said to resemble the old
Sivivn more than Swedish. People of
Tifotees or 12 miles apart can be
iiMinguished by their distinctive dress.
—i"?/iligo Iail.v Xews.
sa\Wsi'ng them.
w&Qi tall metal rods, similar to light- which in the way of gift giving, feast
sfiig rods, known as paragreles or i ing and good will to man corresponds
•^Secrtric Niagaras," and alleged to af- to our Christmas. On that day every
Scd protection from hailstorms. A good Moslem kills a lamb, Its fleece
nawfcl study of the functioning of dyed a bright orange with gold or sll
41tes« rods has recently been published ver leaf, says the Christian Science
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-Sa/cfiess of the installation of hail-pro-
MAKE USE OF WASTE HEAT
awe red by the thunderstorm, and hail quaint custom—by a half-dozen led
Crois to occur in scattered patches or horses—beautiful, graceful Arabians.
/aarrow bands and. lastly, that a dls- The month-long fast of Ramazun
•SnvT in which hail has fallen for two js )leir] foy the Moslem to be a divine
asr iliree years in succession often re- institution. Its observance is strictly
.aaiiD.s free from hail for years, re- enjoined on all true believers over the
The idea was that of a young stu-
lit-
hest means of saving coal, time
emfl money. Three-pound loaves have
Iwn Completely baked in three hours
In considerable numbers.
Lake Siljan.
Hie forested district round about T.ake
IKjj.'iri is one of the niosl interesting
iif/~ of country in the world, in tho
aririirer of loon! culm- rtnil folk cus
30 V, rTi if have been preserved almost
u,n^ed from earlier times. Lake
•A'•jan lies in be heart of Sweden, in
ij fi-giori slill relatively isolated. The
is larL'e eimuvli to afford traflic
Air «iuall steamers, and the country
nits of the peasants are numerous.
Jn dress and eiisioms, the people
aff file villages that dot the shores
!»!•*e kept the variety and color that
aP--:iiii.'iiis|i-d eioMiiry districts before
Tn-.tt-rri means of transportation made
world a unit, forcing us all to dress
Think of Yourself. spine ivf them broke a valuable object
r«in cannot reach a high degree of of art—his study, by the way, was a
aKr^ss in anything without making curiosity shop—he seriously deliherat
•Bwsrnes.
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TURKS' "FEAST OF BAIRAM"
Day That Is Observed by Moslem Cor
responds With the Christmas
of the Christians.
The Turk takes his pleasures pretty
sadly about the only time he publicly
relaxes is during the feat of Balrana,
Monitor.
When the lamb has been sacrificed
on the morning of the festival, its
flesh Is divided into three portions, one
being given to the poor, another to rel
atives, the third being kept for the
household. On that day the sultan
goes to the mosque which is nearest
the Tildiz Kiosk—the vast assemblage
of buildings which go to make up the
imperial residence—thousands collect
to watch the bent, frock coated, yel
low faced, blackeyed, red fezzed little
man driven sadly by, in a plain black
barouche followed by regiments of
cavalry, infantry and marines also—a
age
acting devices. only excepted. Ramazan is held in the
ninth month of the Mohammedan year.
of fourteen, invalids and travelers
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dfc'jit there, and it is considered one of by conjoint labor render the pyramids
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Trrlitps your lack of success lias the man he had engaged came to re
ytfB rfiiisrii by this wry fooling that
flfsire to mulct* and retain your
Xi.tt 'might have improved your po- person to whom he fancied it bore re
-?Cf»fl many times, but vou feared the semblance, physical or otherwise. He
skiing 'engendered in certain cir- seldom wrote anything without a cat
tftoe* -*-ith your advancement. °1' two 'n his lap.t Maurice Mauris.
There are times in the lives of all
OHBi when they must each choose be- Arctic Circle Flower Garden.
-•wwmy what is for their own best in- dower garden in Spitsbergen
uwssst and their friends, and this does
things but dishonorable in lesser glacier and the sharp blue peaks of
•jp shown by the story told of Prince He mouniains separating glacier from
Sfcrrtes Kdward, the Pretender. After glacier while in another direction.
!SI*- Pretender's defeat at the battle "v,'r Ail vent point, coiled wreaths of
f'tilloden Moor in 174G, the prince ragged clouds. Added to it all was a
5so« refuge in the home of a Scottish carpet of flowers andromeda, saxa
jwasjint. There was' a reward of frages and dryas so the Flower tiar
330,000 for the capture of the fugitive, ^en
atoaffng being a capital offense in dates back to the ancient days of
gBos« days. Thrace, where the custom originated
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To Protect the Trees. stone and unlucky with a black one.
Bordeaux comes a description I" Its early youth Rome adopted the
oB ». n*w method of protecting fruit custom, and although chalk, not beijg
&9W-against late spring frosts. This indigenous, was chiefly known, as Its
cMMBStS1 of spraying them with a name, creta, implies, as an import
oiKtaical' mixture called agelarlne, from Crete, it was generally used for
sBV'tty its maker to be compounded *he marking of lucky days. Accord
ftmtc the juices of certain plants. It 'nB to Horace, the marking was done
Sfcarliquid, and may be handled In the chalk for good and-coal for bad
Mdbutry hand-spray pump, but after
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obnoxious pets, he relented
^nt him away. named each
one of them after some well-known
SOunds
SKfc mean that it I* a case of taking being within the arctic circle. A
is-EnTiiitnge of friends merely dis- pHI-ty
(ilp
f'crttaps it is a principle of busi- Flower !arde*\ ever after. It was in
involved—perfectly honest and nK, niueties of last century and the
IbUwocHtile, and to your financial credit party that of Sir Martin Conway.
—3nit what would your friends think landing in midsummer on one of the
If yott took the decisive step?
like an anomaly, Spitsbergen
0f
British travelers, struck with
heautv of a plateau, called it the
headlands by Dickinson bay, they
were impressed with the deep water.
Loyal, but Not Honest. ckear as crystal, the marvelous wealth
Hnv a man may be honorable in
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seaweed, the splendor ot a great
W!ls
actual after all.
'5ste», although the peasant knew this
3* aid not betray his royal guest. Throwing Chalk for Luck.
3ta£*r, this same peasant, who had jn throwing a piece of chalk after
am»rued to possess himself of great his men for luck as they poured into
-wmlitft by disloyal means, stole a cow, the enemy's trenches, the Irish colonel
aaar* was tried, convicted and hanged,
was
but reviving a superstition which
of marking lucky dnys with a white
,uck-
Sttrn been applied and exposed to
Or aSt It acquires a waxy consistency Its Class.
anft lots the appearance ot a sugared "bo you happen to hare an about
or resinous coating, which U not you?"
nnfeed off by rain and lasts for from "My dear fellow, that ia an unknown
to Are weeka effectively. quoutttjc with me."
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zan makes in the course of time
,, round of the seasons. But through
Seuncllors of Reykjavik, Iceland, Ap
ply System That Reduces the
the winter days, from sunrise to sun
i set, the pious Mohammedan does not
take a bit of food or sup of drink
he also abstains entirely from coffee,
tobacco and sweets. But the moment
the echoes of the sunset gun have
died he is at liberty to break his fast.
ATHLETES OF INSEGT WORLD
Compared With the Ant, Man Cannot
Be Considered a-s Other Than a
Puny Creature.
Ants are the athletes of the insect
world, easily carrying ten times their
own weight. Thc edifices they rear
ridiculous, for the common wood ant
will build structures as Iarjje as a
haycock, ail of mere fragments. If
others are content with small domiciles
it is because their needs are sufficed,
but all alike dwell beneath their under
ground galleries and halls with the or
der and activity of a busy, well-gov
erned city.
Nu nonsense is taken in ant land
about everybody being as good and
great as everybody else. They nurse
with infinite devotion the ant babies,
putting them in the warm upper gal
leries by day and at night tucking
them up in the snuggest lower cham
bers. They bring home stores of food
to the ant city, for those arc wrong
who say that the little creatures do
not lay up winter provisions.
Gautier and His Cats.
One of Haulier's peculiarities was
love for cats. As soon us he could
conveniently do so he afforded him
self the luxury of twelve of the hand
somest felines that money could pur
chase. It was an interesting sight to
behold this Hercules in liis writing
room playing with his regiment of
cats, whom he had taught to love one
another as they did himself. When
THE WASHBURN LEADER, WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA
LABOR DRIVEN TO ITS LIMIT
Hardest of Hard Work Demanded at
Boatmen in the Early Days
of the Country.
The high moral courage of the mis
sionaries who strove to convert the
Indians of the Canadian Northwest is
well illustrated by the life of Father
Lacombe, who dared to rebuke Chief
Factor Rowan of the Hudson Bay
company for heartlessness toward the
company's men. Katherine Hughe*
describes the incident in her biography
of Father Lacombe. The factor and
the priest were Journeying to Edmon
ton In a keel boat, towed by a com
pany of cordeliers.
Of the boatman's toil Father La
combe has written: "Imagine, If you
please, after resting a few hours on
the bare earth, to hear at 3 o'clock the
cry, 'Leve Leve Et puis, hurrah
to pull and pull on the lines drawing
the heavy boat up against the current,
walking In the mud, the rocks, the
swamp, along cliffs, and sometimes in
water to their armpits—and this under
a burning sun or beating rain from
eerly morning until darkness fell about
9 o'clock. Without lurving seen it one
can form no idea of the hardships,
the cruel fatigues, of these boatmen."
—Youth's Companion.
RANKED WITH GREAT POETS
John Greenleaf Whittier Has Written
His Name Among the Immortals
of the Earth.
•Tohn Greenleaf Whittier, one of the
best loved and most famous of Amer
ican poets, and, perhaps, the most ar
dent abolitionist known to United
States history, was born December 11
near Haverhill, Mass. He was appren
ticed to journalism and became an ed
itor at the early age of twenty-two,
He field various editorial positions, and
throughout his life devoted himself to
the writing of both prose and poetry,
having no doubt a deep inspiration in
that he belonged to the same age that
gave Emerson and Longfellow to Ainer-1
lea and Tennyson and the Brownings
to Kn^bmd. With such as his contem-•
poraries Whittier. being himself bless
ed with natural talents, could do no
less than what he did in literature.
Whittier, however, is better known!
to fame because of his poems. His
prose is not so exalted, though true.,
He wrote "My Psalm." "Barclay of
Dry." "Barbar-] Frietchie." "At Sun-!
down" and various other wonderful
poems. He lived to be eighty-five
years old. dying peacefully September'
7, 1892. I
Reading as a Narcotic.
The habit of reading for amusement
becomes with thousands of people ex
actly the same kind of habit as wine
drinking or opium smoking it is like
a narcotic, something that helps to
pass the time, something that keeps
i up a perpetual condition of dreaming,
something that eventually results in
destroying all capacity for thought,
giving exercise only to the surfae®
parts of the mini!, and leaving the.
deeper springs of feelin and the high
er faculties of perception unemployed.
The result of all 'his reading me-ins
nothing but a cloudiness in the mind.
That is the direct result. The indi
rect. result is that the mind has been
kept from developing itself. All de
velopment necessarily means some
pain, and such reading as I speak of
has been employed unconsciously as a
them may be selected the following:
Do not cover an electric globe with
paper or cloth. It may start a fire, i
Do not hang an ordinary lamp cord
over a nail or metal work. Do not
leave a cord connected when you are
through with It. Do not touch any
guy wire. In an emergency, remove
a wire with an instrument equipped
with a wooden handle, keeping the
full length of the handle between your
self and the r^ire.
What Did She Mean?
"My husband saved me from drown
ing."
"Tfoat was romantic."
"Yes, It was romantic at the time.
But Sometimes I have an idea he la
gazlpg at me with a speculative eye."
—Idinslville Courier-Journal.
At the .ocean."
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Royal
Cord'
Nobby
EARTH'S RICHEST RUBY
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means to avoid that pain, and the con
sequence is atrophy.—-Ltifcndio Heara.
Be Careful With Electricity.
Some safety hints for the wise,
which are intended to guard against
serious accidents avid a possible loss
of life, are beinfc sent out broadcast coveted gems, but they are recovered
by the electric light companies. From in such quantities as to enable her to
wire that Is down on the ground, thermore, the price increases with the
whether It Is on electric, telephone or
Discfrvery of Anthracite.
It Is onlj a little more than a hun
dred years- since anthracite coal has
been used as fuel, the first attempt to
burn It proving unsuccessful. Judge
Jesse Fell «f Fell house, Wilkes-Barre,
Pa., was convinced that "stone coal,"
as it was called, would burn, but his put of rubies from these min«s totals
arguments were laughed at. Finally, about $400,000.
convinced that what was necessary
was a strong draft, Judge Fell built a q*\»co WJKTAfiE OF LIGHT
fireplac* of brick with a bottom and ^AVCO WHOIHUC ur uiun i
front of iron grating. Piling the coal
in this, he built a wood fire under It. Device That Automatically Turns Off
Soon the coal was a red-hot mass,
and th'i neighbors flocked in to marvel
at this and revel in the grateful
warmth. That was In February, 1808!
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Chain
We have
Qallahan
Henricks
CARL
ROHRER 6c BENKER, Mannhaven,
MINtS
Center of World's Store of Precious
Stones Is Known to Be Located
in Upper Burma.
The world's ruby center is Mogok, In
upper Burma, some 70 miles north of
Mandalay. Here are the great ruby
mines, one of Burma's most valuable
monopolies, says the London Weekly
Telegraph. Indeed, not only iloes this
country produce the finest of these
dominate the market.
Few are aware that, weight for
weight, a ruby is more valuable than a
diamond. It is estimated that one the
color of pigeon's blood, weighing five
carats, will sell for ten times the value
of a diamond of the same weight. Fur-
sjze 0f
.jle
stone.
As the "byon," or earth containing
the coveted gems, is taken from the
ground it is placed In a great revolving
tub. Hero it is screened and all loose
earth removed by water. The residue
is then tippvd on the sorting table. A
white overseer carefully examines the
pile, uelecting Hie true jems from the
worthless.debiSs. If he's lucky he may
at one sorting find gems worch many
thousands of doJars, while on the oth
i
er hand the yieli! may be bile a hun
1 dred dollars or two. The yearly out-
Power Has Been Found to Be
of Real Value.
One of the considerable sources of
ftfel waste Is the unnecessary burning
of electric lights. A large percentage
of lights are used chiefly for Umlted
periods, as for Instance in cloak
rooms. They are turned on and then
heedlessly left burning. Thus we are
An invention designed to remedy
this condition is the work of J. E.
Lewis' of New York fty pushing a
Hla Feat button the light is turned on and glows
i The detective who arrested the for a predetermined period—say, five
fleeing criminal on the high seas1 or ten minutes—and then Is auto
trampled on the Impossible." matically cut off. The device has. been
"How so?" tested and found practical .and seems
"He landed bis man la the middle useful in the way of checking electric
constant^ recommended to shut off presented a remarkable discovery. The
needless lights as a matter of national wood was uncovered In excavating for
saving.
The Real Thing Right Through
Put United States Tires under your car and
you'll find them the real thing.
They're built to wear -to give you the kind
of economical service you want. And thats
just what they do.
Hundreds of thousands of regular users will
vouch for that—lots of them right around here.
There are five distinct types of United States
Tires—one for every need of price or use.
exactly
Marine Fireflies.
The bay of Toyaina, Japan, Is the
scene of a peculiar phenomenon that
occurs each year in April and May.
The cause of it is an almost limitless
swarm of cuttlefish that shine like
glowworms.
The fish are tiny, says a writer in
the Boston Transcript, and when they
meet with anything objectionable they
emit a wonderful display of phos
phi rcscence. Every spring the coasts
of Toyama swarm with these little
creatures, and fishermen go out with
special nets to catch them.
When caught in the meshes the fish
emit their light and cause the nets to
sparkle as if charged with electricity.
The people regard the sight as won
derful, and rush ia great excitement
to see it. Pleasure boats are in de
mand on those occasions, and it Is a
favorite courtesy to invite a friend
to an evening of entertainment in
watching the sparkling cuttleish.
Precious Salt.
•What Is known as "radium" Is a
radium salt, uglily either radium
bromide or radium chloride, some
times radium sulphate. Tiny grains
of these salts are extremely precious
and are usually sealed up in little glass
bulbs.
The radium In one of the first bulbs
that were received in London had a
curious history. A physician in Port
land place was applying the bulb to a
patient when he accidentally let it fall,
and a moment after crushed It under
his foot. The value of the radium to
the physician was very great. He re
moved his boots from his feet and cut
out a square of his valuable carpet.
He had boots and carpet burned, and
out of the ashes refined the original
radium salt
Log 20,000 Years Old.
Not so long ago a workman, 81 feet
below the surface of Broadway, near
Pine street, in New York city, found
a piece of cedar wood that certainly
the foundation of a big office building.
It was a part of the trunk of a large
cedar tree that grew at least 10,000
years ago, and 'more probably 20,000
years ago!
The wood was within a foot of bed
rock, and It was covered with 80 feet
•f bowlder clay and glacial drift, which
•bowed that the tree from which It
*ame must have flourished before the
last great age of Ice.
United States Tires
are Good Tires
Usco
the ones for your car.
We know United States Tires are good tires0 That's why we sell them.
Garage
Garage, Underwood
RENNICK.
Plain''
Washburn
Mercer
R.
F. SMITH, Sanger
tver "Catch a Tartar?"
"Catching a Tartar" does not refer
to the Tartars around Russia, or rath
er it does not mean that a Tartar
Is so very hard to catch. The
expression originated a century ago,
when the Russians and Tartars were
having u little war. A Russian soldier
called to his captain that he had
caught a Tartar. "Bring him along,"
replied the captain. The soldier called
back: "Yes, but he won't let me." It
came out that the Tartar had caught
the Russian soldier, and so to this
day when a man tries to catch some
body else and himself gets caught he
is said to have "caught a Tartar."
Handicap Can Be Overcome.
Misery besets the man who has
chosen his work unwisely. He Is un
happy for the reason that he knows
his blundering choice of a vocation Is
keeping him from making the most of
his talents for his own good and so
ciety's.
Even so, if he wiH but cultivate a
keener sense of the social value of
whatever work he is trying to do, he
may gain therefrom a stimulus en
abling him to a surprising extent to
overcome his vocational handicap, and
at the same time giving him the peace
of mind he has hitherto lacked.
Benefit From "Melting Pot."
The Alhambra, that exquisite Moor
ish palace at Granada, which our own
Washington Irving so graphically de
scribes, is still a silent witness to the
beauty and skill of Moorish architects
and sculptors. Out of all these alien
people who have come to us, who
seem so very foreign to us that as
similation seems almost Impossible, no
doubt we shall derive a benefit just
as other countries have benefited In
other days. History repeats Itself,
and America, the great melting pot of
the world nations, may bring forth
from the crucible men who in the fu
ture will do their part to nphold her
prestige on land and sea.
Wise Conclusion.
"Going to buy yourself a car now'
Why don't you wait until cars ere
cheaper?"
"Say, all my Ufe I've been waiting
for things. to get cheaper and look
what has happened to the price of
everything. I've come to the conclu
sion that the time to get a thing fai
when yoa want it if you're got the
money to pay for it."
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