The Sonora Sun. (Sonora, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 8, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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Song of the Cheery Man.
Tin' w irlil l.i dm oiul l.i 111. you way?
Tin'll l.t> yiinr hand to your work anil
right III
Tin' wind blows cold In the midst of
May "
Then but bm your coat with a laugh
and tight It!
The wir'd Is .id. uni the world Is old?
And yiit 'Us the one we re bound to live
in'
I'lie days f ill sink and the talcs arc told?
Mol" ; mni for i nlcndly hand to she
Til'' w ' ill i amiss, and the world Is sour?
Mni' no 'I of a gay heart’s wholesome
I 'rivenl
rii" mink r gnaws a the budding flower?
Vet t!io rose blows sweet to the face of
heaven!
—Westminster dinette.
In order to demonstrate that the
earth ro'ates on Its axis. Ur. Fou-
cault invented that, well-known mo-
chanical toy known as the gyroscope
top. Probably many of you boys have
seen it.
The iii‘> resting thine; about the
top is that when a string that has
been wound around It has been al-
lowed to unroll. Riving u rapid rotary
moilou to the top, the axis remains
horizontal, although supported only
at one end. so long as the rotary mo-
tion of the top lasts.
You tan make a similar experiment
with an ordinary top. Try it.
Take extremely fine, firm twine that
will no! tangle not' catch on anything.
Twist if as closely as possible, with-
out knotting it. and slip the end of
the twist, over the foot of the top.
Then wind the twisted t\vlne around
the top.
Now hold the top and the end of
the twine In your hand in your usual
manner, and giving the top a sudden,
vigorous downward release, causing a
rapid rotary motion.
When lit'- string hns entirely un-
wound. see if 'he top does not con-
tinue for some time to spin in a hori-
zontal position, although only sup-
ported at one end by the string.
To discorn Drawn Cards.
Turn unperceived the bottom card
of a pack face upward; then let sew-
eral of the company draw a card. Re-
verse the pack rapidly, so that the
bottom ii now the top card, and thus
nil the oil" r cards are turned face
upwards, unseen by the spectators.
Hold the pack firmly in your fin-
gers. and request those who have
drawn to replace their cards in the
pack. Thus all the drawn cards will
lit- with their laces downward, while
the other cards will lie with their
faces upward. Step aside, select the
drawn cards and show them to the
company. •
Handkerchief Trick.
One of the best si'.ght of-hand tricks
Is to produce a handkerchief from a
lighted candle, which has been pre-
viously examined. It is accomplished
as follows: The handkerchief (a small
silk one) Is concealed back of the
drawer of an ordinary matchbox,
which has the drawer half pulled out,
as If in readiness to get at the match-
es. The candle is given for examina-
tion, and you then place It in the can-
dlestick on the table and show your
hands empty. Pick up the matchbox,
take a match from it, and light, the
candle. Close the box, which pushes
the concealed handkerchief into your
hand. You then pretend to pluck the
handkerchief from the flame and let it
expand as you draw your hand back
from the flame.
The Magic Cone,
Did you ever hear of a ball that
would roll up hill? Of course It would
-oil up hill If It was thrown with
•nough force to drive it; but the ball
that we are talking about now Is one
that will roll up hill of Its own ac-
cord the minute you put It down.
How in the world, you ask. are we
going 'o reverse the law of gravita-
tion by doing this seemingly impossi-
ble thing? That is what we are now
ibont to tell you.
The object that we make use of to
illustrate the point we are making Is
not a ball, but a double cone. It has
this quality in common with a ball,
however that It will roll down hill if
put where no forre of any kind acts
on It. Now. we are going to show you
how you may cause it to roll up hill
without applying any force to It what-
ever, without even touching it.
Make two cones out of card board
and sew or glue them together at the
base. It is not important that you
make a neat joint; all you need Is to
have them fli rloai ly together, and
stay so.
Now. place two books on a table,
say two feet apart, one book being
larger than the other, and lay from
one to the other two walking sticks.
Ijelng careful that the sticks come to-
gether just beyond ihc small book, so
as to make an acute angle at this
end of the walking stick “railway.”
Now, if the sticks were the same dis-
tance apart all the way from one end
to the other, of course the cone would
roll down toward the smaller book,
for it must obey the law of gravita-
tion. but by placing tile sticks so that
they form the letter V, with the an-
gle at the smaller book, wv construct
a device that will make the cone roll
in the oilier direction.
Try it. place the cone on the sticks
near the smaller book, and it will at
once begin to roll toward the larger
book: tliui Is to say. it will apparently
move up bill, but In reality tt moves
down hill, for the reason that as the
space between the slick widens It al-
lows the center of gravity of the cone
to descend all the time.
Raphael.
In a cottage in VVibino, Italy, Ra-
phael Spi'.zlo was born. During his
early life h<> determined to be an
artist. His father undertook to teach
Raphael, hut he soon found that his
son was a better artist Ilian himself,
so he sent him to Pcrugino, a well-
known artist. His teacher, however,
discovered that he was not competent
to teach young Saiizio. Raphael paint-
ed many sacred pictures, among which
are "The Holy Family" and "The
Transfiguration of Christ.”
In ISOS he was directed by the Pope,
Julius H. t > pain' upon the walls of St.
I’eter s. which lie did very cleverly.
He died of fever in 152b, and the world
lost one of its greatest painters.
Don’t let the summer go by, boys
and girls, without having at least one
soap bubble contest. It is too much
fun for you to miss.
It Is a charming sight to see a doz-
en or so boys and girls on each side
of the lawn or tennis court blowing
bubbles against each other.
Provide I he players with clay
pipes tied with pretty ribbons, a dif-
ferent color for each side. Give each
side a table with a bowl of soapy
water placed on it. Add a tablespoon-
ful of glycerin to the water. It will
heighten the rainbow beauties of the
bubbles.
I.et the girls make the bubbles and
let the boys blow them over against
I he opposing side. The game is to see
how many they can blow into the
opponents’ territory, and how success-
fully they can prevent the opponents’
hubbies from entering tlieir own ter-
ritory.
Every bubble that roaches the oi<-
poslte side counts fifteen in favor of
those who blow it over.
Pretty prizes should be given to 1
the victors and pretty consolations !
to the vanquished.
Novel Paper Box.
Cut a seven-inch square from heavy j
paper and fold first—through the cen-
ter, corners to corners; next—fold
each corner to center line; thirdly—
fold each corner to line beyond cen-
ter. continue folding until you have a
square of squares us the dotted lines
In the cut indicate.
Now we are ready to do something, i
The three-cornered pieces marked X |
must come out. Then cut the slots I
marked C, allowing the smnll squares
to turn In, forming the corners of the
box.
The slits marked A aro rut in tho |
center of the points and those marked
B are cut from opposite sides of the
other two points ami then fold to tho
center of the point, making it possi-
ble to slip the one point through the
slit in the other point.
When both sides are carefully
closed you have a very pretty and
unique little souvenir box. When
filled with small candles, they make
nice bon-bon boxes for a children's
party.
The boxes may be made in many
sizes and different colors; a group of
them hung from ribbons are a pretty
ornament, ar.d the making of them
will help to pass away a rainy after-
noon.— People’s Home Journal.
What Would You Do?
Do you ever think, when studying
your history, what you would have
done had you been this person or
that? It is an easy thing to see where
certain persons made serious mis-
takes, and we naturally think we
would have done differently. If
Julius Caesar had stayed at home that
day Instead of going up to the eapl-
tol—If Napoleon hail been content
when he was ruler of France, Instead
of trying to eontrol all Europe—if
Benedict Arnold had remained loyal
to his country Instead of trying to be-
tray it to the enemy.
The Idea suggests a good game. Let
each player write for ten minutes on
tile subject, “Some Things I Would
Do If 1 Were President,” or "Some
Things I Would Do If l Wore Czar of
Russia.” In a similar way it may be
supposed that you are a school teach-
er, a policeman, a tramp, a dog chas-
ing a rabbit, a man with a hundred
million dollars and no relatives, a boy
in a runaway balloon drifting away
over the ocean, a sailor shipwrecked
on a very small desert Island, etc.
When all have written about a
character the fancies are read and
talked about.
NEW USE FOR DEAD DOLLS
1
Usually when your sister's dolls be-
gin to go to pieces their life is over,
and the chances are pretty good of
their ending their existence on a rub-
bish heap.
Bui here is a way by which yon
cannoi only prolong (heir life, but
also impart a most lifelike motion
which they may never have had—and
it around the neck, and carry It out at.
right angles each side of the body,
so that the ends of the wire are over
each cart wheel.
Twist the ends as shown and con-
nect each to the cart wheels by free-
ly turning cranks of wood or stiff
wire. You must not have your wheel
revolution any greater than the differ-
they will be really funny when per-
haps they were only stupid before.
Select a small doll with a china
head. Separate the head from the
rest of the body, and then procure a
spiral spring, the top of which can be
fitted around the china neck. Now
procure a little two-wheeled cart or
make one like that shown in the draw-
ing, fasten the spring firmly to the
bottom of the cart, and then cover it
with cheesecloth. After this fasten
the china h<ad to It as shown.
Now take a piece of stiff wire, loop
ence between the spring's height
when compressed and extended.
Weight the wagon body with lead
so the wagon will move forward more
steadily, and then note the result at
the first revolution of the wheels
(Fig. 2) and you will see the trans-
formed doll, now full of life, raising
and squatting with each turn of the
cranks.
The amusement you will get will
more than make up for your time and
trouble In bringing the dead doll to
life.
WARSAW’S BLOODY HISTORY
Massacre. Fire and Sword for Centuries Have
Marked Story of Polish Capital
Captured by the Swedes, taken and
retaken by the Poles, occupied twice
by- the Russians between 1764 and
1793, besieged by Prussians and also
by Russian forces, ceded to Prussia
In 1795, occupied by the French In
1866 and finally seized by the Rus-
sians in 1813—such is the war history
of Warsaw In modern times, if to
this were added various uprisings
from 1831 to 1863, in which hundreds
of lives were lost, It can be seen eas-
ily that the old Polish capital is a
Church of the Holy Cross dates from
1(195, and the old royal palace, that
centuries ago sheltered Polish rulers,
is now the residence of the alien Rus-
sian governor. The Lazienkl Palace
is an imposing structure, but is
coupled with associations repugnaut
to the feelings of patriotic Poles. It
is merely an elaborate memorial to
the Polish generals who tell in 1830
while fighting under Russian colors
against their country.
While it can be said that In the
<?ovcr~r.orjSener.j.U Palace, Warsaw'
town with a sanguluary record almost
unparalleled in the annals of Euro-
pean cities. Massacre, fire and sword
are the principal words In its records.
Warsa>v Is beautifully situated on
the left hank of the Vistula on a ter-
race that is 100 feet higher than the
navigable river. It now Is the capital
of the government of Warsaw, is 405
miles cast of Berlin and 050 mifes
southwest of St. Petersburg. The
city has two large suburbs. Praga and
New Prnga, and Is defended by a
score of detached forts. It continues
to be the gay and active metropolis
of Poland, whose literature and arts
it dominates. The newer part of the
town Is well built, but the older sec-
tion contains quaint, ancient houses
and narrow, sinuous thoroughfares.
Tho center of life is the Palace
square, near the river and the ter-
minal of Ihe Alexander bridge, an
imposing structure that spans Ihc
Vistula. Near by is Theater square,
with the town hail, the latter flanked
by the line Grand Theater, the prin-
cipal house of amusement In Warsaw.
There are well-kept boulevards and a
number of gardens, and along the
river in Praga stretches the magnifi-
cent Alexander Park.
The city Is rich in historical struc-
tures. All told, there are six Russian
and over thirty places of Roman
Catholic worship. The Roman Cath-
olic Cathedral of St. John was found-
ed in 1360, and a new Russian cathe-
dral has just been completed. The
matter of public Improvements, such
as waterworks, transit facilities, etc.,
Warsaw Is backward, it still remains
the great industrial and commercial
center of Poland. Us manufactures
are extensive. In the printing trade
alone there are over filly book print-
ing establishments. Leather, coal
and wheat are the leading commodi-
ties of trade, anil Russia Is the chief
consumer of these products. The ar-
tisans of Hie city are estimated to
number 65,000. Tho superior courts
of ihc disiriet are located In Warsaw,
and there reside also the principal
dignitaries of tlie leading religious
I faiths.
Willie I lie head of the rlty adminls
j trillion is a magistrate, over him al
I ways stands a Russian general, who
I virtually Is the chief of police.
The population of Warsaw is about
j 6'o.ono, of whom one-third are Jews
: There also are thousands of Germans
I A Russian garrison of 30,000 met
j is kept In barracks to awe the people
It lias a famous university, a noted
medical school and art and educa-
t tonal establishments of various
kinds, lull a draw buck to these Insll
lilt Ions Is that Instruction generally
is given In Russian.
Warsaw is first mentioned in 1224
II was the residence of Hie mediaeval
dukes of Masovla, and early In th*
sixteenth century it superseded Cra
coa as tlic capital of the* Polish king
dom. It was made a royal residence
In 1550.
MAP OF DISAFFECTED REGION
To Shelter Cows and Horace.
The accompanying plau la designet.
;o accommodate twenty cows and two
teams of horses, and to provide com-
fort and convenience in earing for
them.
The barn Is 36x56 feet, and the
liaHement walls are 8 feet high. To
build the basement walls 17 inches
dal ions, would require 27 cords of
stone. 27 yards of sand and 160 bush
cIb of lime. A concrete floor for the
basement would require 34 barrels of
Portland cement and 35 yards of grav-
thick, which should have good foun-
el. The wide passages are a great
convenience in cleaning out in order
that a horse and cart or both many
A—Box stall, 9x12 ft.; B—Horse stnlls
r.xs ft.; C— Passage S ft. wide hclilub
horses; D Feed room, also feed alley, )
ft wide; K Passage fi ft. wide hetilm
cows; I*' Cows' stalls It ft. 6 111. X 5 fl. f
In.: O Gutters 8 In. deep and 14 In. wide,
11 Mu infers 14 In. wide at bottom anil It
In. at the top.
driven through. It would he well to
board up the outside of the superstate
turc and put on buttons. •
A Concrete Well.
To build a concrete wall around a
spring first excavate at least three
feet deep to the size required, in or-
der to have the bottom of the wall
below the frost. In severe weather.
Then build the walls with a frost bat
ter on the outside next to Ihe earth,
this will prevent the walls from shov-
ing in and cracking. Make the wails
fourteen Inches thick at the bottom
and six inches thick at tho top, hav-
ing the inside of the waits plumb. The
concrete should be composed of six
parts clean gravel to one part Port-
land cement. Tho water can be let In
to the well twenty-four hours after It
is completed, but If It can be kept
out for a longer lime It would be bet-
ter. Portlund cement concrete will set
hard under water, so that us soon us
tlie walls are hard enough to allow
the moulds to be removed the water
will not Injure them.
Plan for Farm Stable.
The accompanying plan shows how
a stable 40x60 feet may be divided to
occommodute ten liorscs, ten cattle,
and have two additional box stalls.
The passages behind the animals are
wide enough to drive through for
cleaning out through doors at the
ends, which are 8 feet wide. In order
to have a roomy loft overhead It
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Nearly every Industrial city In Rus-
sia and Poland has been the scene of
bloodshed and revolt. The map shows
the wide area affected and the power-
ful Industrial centers. Lodz, the
scene of the latest carnage, has a
Partridges at Housebreakers.
Awakened by the crash of breaking
glass at 4 o’clock in the morning.
James Murphy of Jefferson, Mass.,
went on a burglar hunt. Softly de-
scending the stairs to the dining room,
he listened to the Intruder as he
scratched round In the dark. He could
get no answer to his demands for an
explanation of the invasion of the
Murphy domicile and finally lighted a
lamp. It was then seen that all the
noise came from a much frightened
partridge which was hugging close to
one corner of the room.
population of 325,000 and is called the
“Manchester of Poland.” This city
has n textile Industry whose annual
production is worth $45,000,000. There
are over 300 manufactories, 30,000
men being employed in the cotton
Malicious English Sparrow.
Farmers in the vicinity of Swanton
Center, Vt., are out with a new Indict-
ment agalnat the Knr'lsh sparrow
The corn was being pulled badly, It
was thought by the crows, but when
all the usual remdles used in dealing
with that bird failed to bring results
It was discovered that the work was
being done by the sparrows. Th#
blade Is pulled, up by the roots, but as
the kernel is not eaten or in any way
appropriated to the use of the tres-
passer, the charge Is simply “mali-
cious mischief."
A—Box stiiU, 10x14 ft.; B—Passage be-
lilnil rows, & ft. wide; C—Cow stalls, ;t
fl. (I In. x 5 ft. fi In; D- Mangers, 10 In.
deep x I ft. 4 In. wide; B Passage, :4 ft.
fi In. wide; K—Well: fl 8 In. deep x I ft.
2 In. wide: It Feed alley, fi ft. wide; J—
Passage, 4 ft wide; L— Harness room; M
Passage behind horses, 9 ft. wide; It—
Horse stalls, fixS ft.
would be; well to have the posts of tho
building 14 or 16 feet long and put on
a hipped roof.
Cement for Mortar; Draining Cellar.
In mixing cement, wllh lime inorlar,
add the cement to it and use Immedi-
ately as the cement will set If let
stund so long before It is usod. To
one bushel of cement use four bush-
els of lime and one yard of sand. If
cement mortar Is used the usual pro-
portions are one part of cement to
two parts of sand. i
For a cellar drain where a suitable
outlet is lo be had, use tile, covering
the mouth of the drain with a screen
to keep vermin out. Where there la a
good laii there will be no difficulty In
keeping (he drain open, as the tile
will drain out before freezing up.
Raising Water From a Lake.
To supply a small amount of water
,rom a lake to a small ranch, a wind-
mill would be the most economical
form of power, provided the surround-
ing conditions are favorable, that U
to say, provided the windmill ran be
exposed to secure sufficient force of
wind. In any event the power would
have to lie situated at or near the
lake, at any rate not more than 20 or
25 feet above the lake level. For this
distance. It would be well to lay a
large pipe, not less than or 1%
Inches. The pipe should be laid on a
slope, If possible, and sharp turni
should be avoided.
Dressing for Hardwood Floor.
If the floor Is birch or maple, use
.•qual parts of boiled linseed oil and
coal oil. Apply this about once a
month with a paint brush and wipe It
off with a cloth. If the floor la of oak
the grain should be filled with hard-
wood filler, then waxr>d with old Eng-
lish floor wax.
Removing Liens Wash.
The only way to remove lime white-
wash from walls, is to dampen tho
walls, and then scrape it off.
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