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cently the boys have built a modern milkhouse, with cement floor and center drain sink, equipped with electric lights, city water, engine and boiler, and steam bottle washer, and have replaced three of the original "scrub" cows with registered Holsteins, for which they paid seven hundred dollars. It is their intention to replace the entire herd with registered animals. They

THREE REGISTERED HOLSTEINS ARE Now A PART OF THE HERD, WHILE THE PUSHCART HAS BEEN SUPPLANTED BY A BUGGY AND TEAM

plan, this summer, to build a modern cow barn-with cement floors, sanitary stanchions, and flushing system-to accommodate twenty cows. Much of the carpenter work and all the cement work is done by the boys themselves.

During the vacation months the young dairymen handle their business alone; during school time they employ student help. Next year they will have two regular assistants. The business is not paid for, but the income from it pays the interest, the school and running expenses of the owners, and leaves each month a substantial surplus to be applied on the principal.

STEAM PLAYS PRANKS

RECENTLY a peculiar locomotive

boiler explosion took place on the Texas and Pacific Railroad, near Fort Worth. The train was at a standstill, when suddenly the boiler bounded off its pilot and truck, turned a dozen or more somersaults in the air and landed two hundred feet distant.

One of the most remarkable facts about the explosion was that the pilot and truck were not moved an inch. The engine proper was thrown about thirty feet in the same direction as the boiler. The engineer was killed, while the fireman, who was standing on the ground beside the boiler at the time of the accident, escaped with no more serious injuries than a broken arm and a few scalds.

dollars a year for fishing privilege, while the tax for citizens is only one dollar. It was rumored along the wharves where the fishermen mend their nets that a similar law was about to be passed in California; hence the sudden desire on the part of many to declare their allegiance to Uncle Sam.

Whether beneficial or not, the rumor certainly appears to have been effective.

ARREST BY AUTO

IN Fort Worth, Texas, a center for cattlemen, a policeman uses an automobile to traverse his beat. He is a

all his brother

officers.

It is even hinted that he is sometimes

guilty of exceeding the speed limit.

ALOFT AT THE
EXPOSITION

ONE of the many re

markable concessions

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at the PanamaPacific International Exposition to be held at San Francisco in 1915 will be the aeroscope, a machine which picks one up by a long iron arm that swings from a base pivot like the clutch of a linotype machine, lifts him two hundred and sixty feet into the air, and twirls him around before placing him gently on the ground again. It should provide thrill enough to please the most eager of "curdle seekers". The aeroscope is a steel tower 70 feet by 70 feet at the base, on which is mounted a counterbalanced arm two hundred and forty feet in length. This arm is built after the manner of a modern single-leaf bascule bridge, at the tapered end of which a car is suspended. The car is so controlled as to hang vertically at all times. By means of machinery in the base, and aided by a pair of propellers at the outer end of the arm, the car may be raised to a height of two hundred and sixty feet with a load of from thirty to fifty passengers.

THE AEROSCOPE Passengers get a birdseye view of the Exposi

tion.

TEACHING SALESMEN BY

PHONOGRAPH

INSTEAD of laboring with a

body of new salesmen, a western manager has discovered a method of instructing them perfectly by the use of a phonograph. The machine receives his instructions and records every point, after which the records are run, as many times as may be needed, before

EMBALMED SALESMANSHIP

A sales canvass delivered by phonograph.

groups of prospective salesmen until they are familiar familiar with the selling points. This method saves endless time and nerve strain for the sales manager, for one talk is sufficient by this method, whereas by the former system of personal talks, he was required to repeat his instructions many times before classes of salesmen until he was sure that all the details were understood.

The device is in use in a leading Los Angeles realty firm, but it could easily be adapted to many other lines of business. In this office, however, it is particularly valuable, as the company makes a practice of opening large subdivisions. on a set day, and advertising in a manner that brings thousands of people to the tract. This requires the help of scores. and even hundreds of salesmen, some of them needing very thorough instruction, while all must be informed as to the prices of the lots, terms of the contracts, and many other details. By turning over this instruction work to the machine, the manager's time is saved for

duties needing his attention.

The talking machine has the great advantage over instruction booklets

and other
other printed

matter that it cannot be ignored. Many agents will pocket a set of printed instructions, forget to read them, and try to "bluff it out" when engaged in making a sale. This may end in losing a customer, or cause even · greater trouble.

IN HONOR OF AVIATION

THREE workers in the field of aviation

were recently honored at Washington, when the Smithsonian Institution unveiled in its halls a handsome bronze tablet to Dr. Samuel Pierpont Langley, "Father of Aviation" and the first man to make a heavier-than-air machine fly by its own power. In addition, medals were presented to a Frenchman, Gustave Eiffel, and to the young American, Glenn H. Curtiss, who has perfected the hydroaeroplane.

Curtiss was present and received his medal from the hands of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, while that of the aged Eiffel, builder of the tower in Paris which bears his name, who was unable to be present, was received for him by Jules J. Jusserand, French Ambassador to this country. After the ceremonies at the

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Smithsonian Institution there was an open-air exhibition of aeroplane and hydroaeroplane flights at the Army War College on the Potomac.

The tablet represents Langley seated on a terrace watching the flight of birds, while at the same time he sees in his mind's eye his "aerodrome".

AUTOS KILL BUTTERFLIES

N the low country along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, millions of butterflies settle along the road in damp places, and when an automobile passes, they are killed by the thousand. The photograph shows the radiator of a car densely covered with butterflies. These prevent the air from cooling the engine.

MOTOR PARTS MIX CONCRETE INGREDIENTS for a successful concrete mixer: three auto wheels, onehalf of the chassis of an old runabout, two gears from almost any worn-out machinery, a section of a ship's funnel or, if that is not handy, a length of iron water main, a faucet, rope, and six-foot length of small pipe. Cost, about thirty dollars! Value, a couple of hundred! Worth about five dollars a day to the clever chap who built it out of junk!

The motive power is the contractor's two-cylinder runabout, which takes the machine to the building operations as a trailer, and then is raised from the ground to allow the rear wheel to revolve without moving the car. The belt is a length of rope, and this fits neatly

over one of the three auto wheels, which has a groove originally designed for a tire. A small wheel is bolted to the rear axle of the car to receive the improvised belt.

The interior of the ship's funnel (which forms the mixer) has a number of projections which throw the sand and cement about, as the device revolves, so that when it emerges from the lower end it is thoroughly mixed. The water sup ply comes from a garden hose extended to the most convenient faucet and joined to it at the upper end of the mixer, and is screwed to a length of water pipe that runs through the interior of the mixer, and delivers the water at the lower end as a spray.

The builder of this novel device selected his parts at a junk dealer's shop.