The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, June 22, 1911, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
\ TOM LKSIS MAKKS LOOD ON
PROMISE.
JU'fusctl Many litMHl OiIt-cm inn 1 it*
Now at Work in tiw Mine When
He Wok Vears A^?.
Bridgeport, O., June 1 tJ ? Tom
Lewis has made good his promise to
go "back to tne mines" the promise
he made when defeated tor reelection
as president of the 500,000
member* of the United Mine Workers
of America.
Lewis was offered big jobs?one
atf $10,000 a year as editor of a
journal ? but they didn't tempt
him. He took .Mrs. Lewis on a little
vacation trip and then- just a
few duys ago, shouldered his pick
and shovel?the miners' gift?and
set out for Wheeling Creek mine,
where he worked sixteen years ago.
He was given his check, "No.
162," and assigned to room "No.
13." He sought out his "buddy,"
Kiivl U-i... 1. ? 1 1 l v.
v m j . I *v.v, HI1U 1U1U ucru Ills JUl Tiller
in the old days. Together in j
mine car they shot into the mine s
-lack mouth. After 4 o'clock? at
itie end of the eight hour day that
Lewis had won for the miners?he
came again to the surface. It was
an average day for two good miners
and Lewis made at least $2.50.
"1 feel just as fit as when i
threw up my job sixteen ye.113 ago
to take my first official position
with the union," he said.
"Fit? Well, I should sa y so,"
interrupted Syl Price. "Tom is
just as good a man as when we
both worked together, and as good
as I ever wunt to work with."
"I'm not back here just to make
a bluff good," said Lewis. "I'm
here earning a living for myself and
family. I'm a miner and I'm proud
of it."
"Any blisters, Tom?" asked a 1
young fellow of giant physioue.
"Look at 'em,** retorted Lewis,
laughing and dropping his pick
and shovel against his leg, as he !
opened his grimy palms. "1 never 1
had a blister in my life." The on- 1
ly marks on his hands were a few (
scratches knocked off by the rough
edges of the coal. 1
At home it was an anxious day
for Mrs. l.ewis. Accidents occur
daily in the Belmont Company
mines, and she has seen her neigh- 1
bors' husbands carried home crush- 1
ed often enough. The girls could
not remember when their father
used to go to the mines every day,
but they' shared their mother's
fears.
When he walked home, smudged
with slack dust and dinner bucket
in hand, the three came out from
one of the prettiest houses on the
street and rushed to meet him.
"Tom ? Tom ? \re you tired,
Tom?"
"Only a little, sweetheart, and
feeling fit as a fiddle," he answered.
Then he went around to the
kitchen door so as not to track mud
through the house.
MYSTERY OF THK MASTODONS.
Siberia's Glaciers and Marshes Disgorging
Old Ivory.
Siberia furnishes a large quantity
of ivory to the markets of the
world, but the production of it helongs
to another age and to a 6peCi*s
of animol that Hhao
**- twists says Harper's Week *.
s The ivory is cut from the I'isks of
mastodons whose skeletons are
found frozen in masses of ice or
buried in tlie mud of Siberian rivers
and swamps. The northern portion
of the country abounds in extensive
bogs which are called iirmans.
In these are found the tusks
of the mastodon, from which it is
inferred that these animals lost
their lives by venturing upon a surface
that would not bear their
weight.
Even to wild animals these urmans
are forbidden ground. The
nimble reindeer can some times
cross them safely in the summer
time, but other large animals at- ,
tempting to do so would be engulfted.
In the museums at Tobolsk are ,
numerous specimens of mammoth,
which throughout this region are by
no means rare. When an ice pack
breaks down a river bank or the
summer thaw penetrates more deeply
than usual into the ground some
of these antediluvian monsters are (
very likely to be exposed.
In many cases their remains are
so fresh and well preserved, with
dark, shaggy hair and under wool
of reddish brown, their tufted ears
and long, curved tusks, that all
tho oVvorUrt " J ?
?? anu even some or me
Russian settlers persist in the belief
that they are speciments of animals
which still live, burrowing under
ground like moles, and die the
instant they are admitted to light.
The further the traveller goes
northward, it is said, the more
abundant do these remains become.
They are washed up with the
tides upon the Arctic shores, and
some extensive islands off the
coast contain great quantities of
fossil and bones.
Tusks which have been long or
repeatedly exposed to the air are
brittle and unserviceable, but those
which have remained buried in the
ice retain the qualities of recent ivory
and are a valuable article of
merchandise. There is a great market
for these mammoth tusks at
Yakutsk, on the I^ena, whence they
find their way into the workshops of
European Russia and to the ivory
carvers of Canton.
WASH INGTON INVESTIGATION.
"Red Buck" Takes the Measures of
Some of the Captains of Industry
Who Have Been Summoned There
Washington, June 17. ?Interest
ijik men are Demg brought here to
testify before the various investigating
committees of theHouse. The
average Congressman is as dull as
a frog pond, when oompared with
a citizen like John W. Gates, once
the wire king of this country, and
Elbert H. Gary, who draws more
salary than the nine members of the
House that interrogated him last
week.
I know some clever, entertaining
statesmen, but they are few in the
hill, by sonte hook or crook, or
cheap demagoguery, or a fight with
a negro, may bring some sad head
to Washington to represent Con-1
greesional district, but unless a man'
h;us gray matter in his head be can- J b
not run the United States Steel Cor- pi
poratiou or could not have organiz- it
ed and managed the American Wire
Company in its golden days. v<
John W. Gates was once a trav-1
cling man. He drifted into the1 H
hardware business, and fell head-!
long into the manufacture of steel!
products. Horses, pretty women,:
faro, and other games, and all sorts i
of spirited things appeal to hint.
Mr. Gates was the first important | tc
witness put on the stand by the e?
Stanley steel investigation commit-I ai
tee. He wanted to take a trip to ti
Scotland, and Perhaps Monte Carlo, w
and preferred to testify before quit- cl
ling the country. Chairman Suh?- ol
ley. Alio is an accomodating Ken- y?
tuckian, was willing. j ol
The former wire-maker is a fine-1 m
iooking piece of flesh. Clad in a si
nutty gray suit, with yellow shoes ci
and sox to match, and the best of ct
linen, lie appeared as neat and tt
fresh as a school girl graduate, the ei
day he told what he knew about In
Andy Carnegie and J. P. Morgan, to
smooth cheeks still have the bloom | in
of health in them and his mustache : oj
and hair are touched with frost, cc
but his eye is clear and bright, and hs
harbors u faint mischievous smile, w
which, when he talked about Mr.
Carnegie broadened into a laugh. ra
1 never listened to a more de- of
liglitful witness. He did not owe ce
l'terpont Morgan or anvbcwlv i-Isp a ?ii
cent that he could not pay the day J lo
he was here. Rich, independent, j n?
and free from ordinary cares, he ; w
dues not mind having a little fun lie se
threw brickbats for five hours, and! of
will take the officials of the Steel tit
Trust, if there be such a thing, th
years to sweep the dust from their ol
front steps. In the meantime J. W. st
Gates, the gay, the debonair aud lo
the cunning, is capering nimbly to w<
the tunes of a Scottish bag-pipe. fa
"Andy Carnegie was a queer olfl
soul" said Mr. Gates. "Nobody ever th
did understand him. If you hitch- of
ed him up lie would break loose, fa
Gentlemen's agreements did not su
bother him when it came to selling sk
goods. He was out for Andy." ex
In substance, that is what Mr. tit
Gates said of the Ironmaster. Thisjer
speech was not made in a spirit of j eo
criticism, but it was incidental to j of
other things. w<
The committee and the newspaper wi
men enjoyed Mr. Gates. He made
good copy. or
Mr. Gates was accompanied by w<
his son. Charlie, and his attorney, ot
Richard Jones, Jr. The younger hi
Gates sat at his father's elbow and w:
have him a hunch every now and ca
then. If the "Obi ?- -? ??
? w .-u? uiavir cx? ,,v
answer that seemed to Charlie to hit di
the bull's eye, Charlie smiled and se
winked at some of the busy scribes. 01
"Morgan told Jim Hill that he 111
and 1 were not on good terms," said ht
Mr. Gates. "Mr. Hill got us togeth- tb
er. 1 got Charlie Schwab, took hint so
to Morgan. We had an all night cl
session. The plans for the big ni
steel corporation were made." <>e
That is the way he put it. Judge a
Gary says that he is a dreamer. He P<
said that Mr. Carnegie was in a
pool to sell railroad rails at a cer- di
tain price, but he broke the agreentent
and soldto one of his cus- dt
tomers for less than the figures ac
fixed.
"We had hint up," declared the
witness, "but he slipped out. He de- w
nied the charge. The truth was, he P1
had thrown in nails, spikes and >s
everything else, and in that way Ci
et.i^ed the agreement. If you con- ai
victed hi:u and fined him, he would
not pay tr.e peuatly. That is all di
there is to it."
From Gates the Stanely commit- 111
tee went to the other extreme. P<
Judge Gary followed. No smoother of
witness ever appeared in Washing- te
ton. For three days the members of 'n
the investigating committee grilled ce
him, but when he left the stand he ar
was just as calm and as ready as
the day he went on w
Judge Gary has the advantage over
ninety-nine one-hundredths of
his fellow men. His maker started A!
him out with a head full of sense V
and a heart full of ice andcourage. sa
His first efforts at making money ki
were devoted to the practice of ve
law. He succeeded. He was the Pi
Judge in the second trial of the
Chicago anarchists. As a judge, he ?l
ranked well. Cool-headed, affable, st
educated and quick. Judge Gary is di
able to play with committees. He hi
told the Stanly committee many 8'
things, but could have told it more, th
Having heard him tell enough to di
fill a book, every page of which th
would make entertaining reading, Ti
I would like to hear some of the ot
things he did not tell. st
Judge Gary is a middle aged rf
man. He is younger than Mr. P<
Gates and of quite a different type, fl
Mfe is a serious matter with him. b<
He has worked, using hands, brain ti
and heart, all of his days. Hard a
labor has brought his success. The f'i
Stanley committee would adjourn at tl
6 o'clock to meet at 10 the follow- ?
ing morning. The witness was al- w
ways among the very first to ap- u
pear. The committee seldom got v<
a quorrum until 10:30 or later, r:
There is a difference that counts in
the every day world. Hhat half 31
hour gained by Judge Gary and b
last by the committee every d.ay a
makes a vast diffenence in the fin- o
al count. Some people would call o
\M - n
??r. v? ary s success "luck," but V
study the man and you will under- v
stand. o
I used to fox hunt. Every man si
can be likened to a foxhound. Be- is
ing fond of the old hound I can say t!
this without offence, in a pack of "
red fox killers you have one or two a
dogs that do the work. Old Bead, z
for instance, strikes before any tl
jother dog? Why? Because he cov- <'
era more ground and hunts longer o
and closer. When the fox is up, he n
may be the leader in the desperate n
life and death contest of the fox. h
All hunters know why he leads. He w
has the stuff to start with and im- a
proves every opportunity. Judge P
Gary is the leader of the steel pack, c
He is up early and late, and strikes ii
while the iron is hot. If the gov- e
ernment puts him in jail, a mighty v
good worker will be behind the g
bars a
Chairman Stanley and his asso- n
dates were impressed by the frank- a
n<es, whether feigned or genuine, p
of the steel magnate. I have no ci
doubt that the Steel Trust is gull- c<
ty of violating the Sherman law, it
9
ct of tipping brings theother com-1
urtmcut into position to be filled, i
'hen the bucket tips It forms a \
losed electric circuit with a record-.
ig pen attache'd and the number of
ucketsfuls discharged is automati- (
lly written down.
Another instrument used by the j
ureau is the sunshine recorder. ;
his consists o( a straight glass ,
ibe with bulbs at each end. These ;
ulbs are filled with dry air, the |
lumbers being separated by a small
uanity of mercuary and alcohol, j
latinuni wires are inserted in the
liddle section of the tube. The I
wer bulb is blacsened with lamp-!
lack and is always turned toward
le south. It is so mounted that
henever the sun shines it will start
ie recording pen to writing, and as
>on as the sun ceases to shine the
ut It will require smart lawvers to ai
rove it by Judge Gary's testi- pi
LOuy. X\
We ute loolcLiigg for Teddy Roose-; cl
elt and Pierpont Morgan. in
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OW TO FORECAST WEATHER. al
ot Impossible Xo? to Divine Some )>'
Time Ahead. ? Science Daily 1
Growing More Accurate. 11
The weather bureau at Washing- b
>11 and nearly all the other met-,u'
jrologicai institutions of the world. Q
re now eiigaged in taking observaons
of the temperature of the sun ni
ith a view to determine what It
lunges take place in the radiation PI
' heat from that luminary. Many **
jars ago Prof. Samuel P. Gang ley, w
' the Smithsonian institution, liav- **
ig observed that the appearance of st
>ots on the sun nearly always coin- 1M
ded with weather disturbances, P'
ime to the conclusion that perhaps u<
le law of the weather might bebas1
upon changes in the amount of Sl
sat given off by the sun from day
day. With this opinion as a work- *
g basis astronomers and meteorlo- "
;ists all over the world have be- P'
>nie interested in the matter and
ive resorted to all sorts of plans to
rest this secret from the sun. 1,1
It is believed that the changes ir. J1
idiation follow certain movements
the sun, and that they recur at ot
rtain well defined periods, just as
ie seasons change on earth. How
ng the periods are is not known. ?l
jither has anyone yet discovered
hat brings them about. There ta
ems to have been some foregleanis 111
this new iilesi nf '~ tv
an in the long range forecasts of ..
e past. Although modern meteor- _
ogy has decried the art of the
ill believe in the verity of the
ng forecasters, millions of people _
eather predictions of their old- ^
shioned almances.
The meteorological institutions ot (.>.t
e world have entered into a sort.1'
agreement to record upon every al
vorable day the radiation of the
in and the related polarization of
;y life. These observations are j1*
changed by the different institu- 111
>ns and when they have been tak- jV
l for a long term of years and are
mpared with the weather records (r
those years it is hoped that
eather forecasting at long range ('|
ill become a scientific reality.
The effect of such a discovery up- : al.
i the civilization of the world , 1
ould perhaps be greater than any JJ
her discovery made in the entire1 J
story of the human race. Blessed
ith the ability accurately to forest
the weather, no farmer would J:|
*ed to feel the pinch of destructive t
outh. With an unusually dry ?
ason ahead of him he would need ;
lly to plant such as required little x
oisture, and dry farming would
come a national institution. On
ie other hand, if a very wet sea>n
were in prospect he would
loose nnlv t-1... 1. ?
v mm m J OU*.ll IIUJJS US 110606(1
uch moisture for their most sue- _
sssful growth. The effect of such a'
discovery would be no less im-?r
irtant to men in other avenues of 11
fe than to the farmer. The in- \
vidual could plan his vacation, his! 00
sliing trip, and all other affairs'??
'pendent upon the weather, far in | (
Ivance, assured that there would 1,
; no disappointment thereafter. )ai
The instrument used by the jc<
eather bureau for the ascertain- j
ent of the changes in radiation
known as the pyreheliometer.
Dupled with an electrical resistlce
thermometer it is so sensi- al
ve to hear that it can register a
fference in the temperature mil-|n1
3ns of times more minute than p<
ay be recognized by the average ct
jrson. The pyrheliometer is made
two blackened discs fitted 011 a
ed pully fashion, and immersed
water. The sun's rays are conntrated
on these discs, and the
nount of radiation is determined w
r the varying temperature of the f?
ater at tlie different exposures. w
The pyrheliometer differs radical- OI
from the instrument used by the
itrophysical observatory in the in- *s
'stigation it is making to the 111
me end. This instrument is
lown as the bolometer, it was in nted
by Professor Langley and im oved
by Professor Abbott, who is
>w in charge of the Astropliysical
iservatory. As improved, this in- ~
rument is capable of recognizing a
fference of temperature up to tlie
mdr^edth-millionth part of a de- D
ee. One of its essentials is the
iread of a spider's ? web, a hun ed
times mmore delicate than any
iread ever spun by human hand,
he gazure of a fly's wing in an- m
her item called for in the con- Q1
ruction, to which is pasted a mir- C(
>r as small as a pinhead, but is
jrfectly ground as a $50,000 reector.
The ray whose heat is to k
s measured is thrown into the s'
ny reflector and from that "nnn ?
thread of spun glass. The gen- u
ral principle if the bolometer is
ie same as that of the little solar
lotors one sees in many jewelers'
indows. Pyrheliometers also are v<
sed by Professor Abbott in his in- f<
DStigation of the constancy of solar .
idiation.
These Investigations are only a C1
mall part of the weather studies n
eing made by the weather bureau ci
t Washington. Some years ago an
bservotory was erected on the top .
f the Blue Ridge mountains, iu ''
irginia, and here all sorts of in- si
estigation into the whys and whens e
f the weather are being made and t,
U kinds of ingeneous and delicate
istruments have been devised for a
tiene studies. One of these instru- e
iei,ts consists of a woman's hair t
iid pen which writer with unfree- t
able ink. The oil is extracted from
lie hair and in this way it becomes e
xtreniely sensitive to all variations 1
f moirlure in the air. Great care
lust be taken to prevent the accum1
illation of foreign matter on the
air. It must be washed once a
'eek with clean water applied with a
camel's brush, and many other i
recautions taken to assure the ac- t
uracy. Many automatic recording
istruments are used by the weathr
bureau in its meteorological in- k
estigations. One df these is a rain j
uage. It consists of a receiver and
little bucket with two couipartlents
in it, mounted on trunions in c
ct of tipping brings the other com- ?
artments is always under the re- t
elver. When a compartment beomes
full it tips over and empties
s contents into a tank, and in the 0
?n ceases to write. A chart is
laced upon a revolving roller oper:ed
by clockwork. By this means
le weather bureau is securing a
inshine and shadow.
The barometer used by the
eather bureau also makes a connuous
written record of the atmosliere
pleasure throughout the enre
year. The bureau likewise pos sses
instruments for accurately
ensuring and recording the velocy
ond direction of the wind. It
is been sent up into the air. with
her instruments, in free balloons
captive kites. With these it
is been able to learn new and l
irprising things about the weather, j
me of the kites frequently atin
an altitude of nearly three
iles. although the average is about I
*o miles.
The investigations made with the
ites and balloons have discovered |
inditions which have upset many |
cepted theories. It used to be be- ! T
?ved %iat the atmosphere grew JL
Kiler with altitude, but this rule1
ts many exceptions, a great layer j *
warm air being frequently found 1
oatiug upon a layer of cool air. It
so has been found that the wind
av be blowing from the east at the
ound, and from the southeast a
ilf mile above the ground and froi
e south a mile up. Cloud moveents
indicate that the wind direc3U
changes to the right with in
easing altitude, but kite and bal
on observations show that it fre-1
lently turns to the left. Changes
the surface of the earth and one
id two miles above, thus contracting
the former accepted theory
at high temperatures started from
e higher portions of the atmoslere
and gradually work down to
e surface of the earth. All this
formation is of much service to
e weather bureau in making its
recasts. Sometimes a storm passes
stward without being followed by
pected clear weather, because a
cond storm was developing off the
e middle and South Atlantic
last.
This new development is not incated
by surface observation, but
e Mount Weather flights show the
proach of the storm in the highregions
of the atmosphere before
arrives in the lower regions. It
ems that the majority of storm
nditions may be forcasted by the "
lf-registering instruments in the
Bather bureau kites and balloons _
least 24 hours before there is
iy appreciable indication of these
snditions on earth.
The Poor I>octors.
"When a man dies, is an inquest
ways held?"
"Oh, no! If a doctor has been in
:tendance the coroner is not supused
10 have inquired into the
iuse of the death."?Toledo Blade.
Soulless Contributors.
London is to have a dock that
ill accommodate vessels 1,100
et long. Of course Germany
ill have to proceed to construct
le for 1,100 foot vessels. But this
more sensible than the Dreadiiught
competition since the docks
ill be useful for other purposes
lan those of destrutcion.
Experimenters are developing the
.ingless bee.
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