The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 16, 1906, Image 6
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MODERN CHAIN CABLES.
Huge Links Made to Hold Giant
Ocean Liners.
Apropos of the massive chain cables
made for the new Cunard liners,
Shipping Illustrated gives some interesting
facts.
In the illustration is shown three
or tne nnKS or a nuge caDie maae iu
Wales for the Cunard Steamship
Company.
The iron is 3 % in. diameter at the
smallest part of the link. Each lini
measures about 22^4 in. in length,
and weighs, with the crucible cast
steel stud, about 160 pounds. Recently
the Cunard Company gave notice
that they required come links to
be tested to destruction, and three
links were cut off the cable as made
and sent to Lloyd's Proving House at
Netherton.
The sarr.de was first tested to the
British Admiralty proof strain of
189.8 tons, at which strain each link
elongated not quite one-quarter ol
an inch. V .o statutory breaking
strain of 265.' tons was next applied,
and the links were further elongated
about three-quarters of an Inch.
After this an attempt was made tc
test the sample "to destruction," but
the full power of the testing machine
at 350 tons failed to accomplish this
result; indeed, it is understood the
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"Sample T inks of a Modern Cable.
actual tension applied was over 370
tons. On a careful examination of
the links, no sign of fracture or defect
of any kind could be found. The
.strain applied was about ninety per
-cent, above the admiralty proof
.-strain. The two main cables for the
> new Cunarder consists of two lenghts,
- each 165 fathoms, i. e., a total length
"Of 330 fathoms, of 1980 feet, in fifHeen-fathom
lengths, joined together
vhy twenV .wo joining shackles, and
with anchor shackles for connecting
to the anchors. The weight of the
cable is 122 tons.
Chain that will stretch instead of
snap in a sudden strrin is necessary
.for cables.
Pish Story Hard to Beat.
"Here is a fish story told by a Britfist
nobleman: An Irishman nad
-caught a big pike. Noting a lump
in its stomach, he cut it open. "As
I cut it open there was a mighty rush
and a Japping of wings, and away
flew a wild duck; and when I looked
linside, there was a nest with four
*eggs, and she had been afther sitting
on the nest."
Interesting Toy.
The simple principle used to spin
a top has been applied to a new toy
hy a Texas inventor. He calls it the
NWhirllgig. As shown here, the frame
Ks open on all sides, the top and bob
^nincr onHH r?io^o<8 nf wnnd. Ex*
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tending through the centre is a shaft
vhich projects quite a distance above
the top of the frame. Within the
frame, secured to the shaft near the
end, is a circular platform, on whict
the figures are placed. Suspended
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.LES. AND HIS TUTOR, STROLLING
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from the top of the shaft are cords,
the ends of which are attached to a
: small bar. The operation is as follows:
The cord is wound around
the shaft, leaving only sufficient room
to press on the bar with two fingers,
' one on each side of the shaft.
The pressure starts the shaft in mo*
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[ Figures Revolve.
! tibn, which revolves the platform.
! The momentum unwinds the balance
of the cord and also rewinds it. The
bar is again depressed, and the operation
continued indefinitely. By
an arrangement of the mechanism,
the figures always rotate in the same
direction.
Mirrors to Help the Driver.
Drivers who are obliged to run
through heavy traffic to any extent
find it of considerable advantage to
affix a small bit of mirror plate to
the right stanchion of the canopy
just above the lash, so that the following
traffic may be observed without
turning the head. Such a device
may be very simple and easily
contrived, and serves to relieve the
driver of considerable anxiety and
twisting through closely crowded
streets.?Motor Worli.
New Idea in Ladders.
Ladders are such common, ordinary
articles that anybody can build
one, there being no secret in their
makeup. The disadvantage of the
ordinary ladder is that it cannot be
used in narrow and crowded places.
In manufacturing plants, where machinery
is placed together, with projecting
arms at every point, it Is impossible
to get a ladder into position.
For just this purpose a California
man cdhstructed the ladder shown in
the illustration, and in order that nobody
should steal the idea he applied
for and was granted a patent. By
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For Use in Close Quarters.
decreasing the size of the steps, making
the lower one very small, he has
devised a ladder that should prove
exceedingly useful in a great many
; instances.
High Prices For Fish.
, "In these days," said a fish dealer,
, "people pay for fish luxuries prices
. that they never used to dream of.
. The costliest fish in this market now
is English sole, which sells for
? sixty cents a pound, but there is a
) demand for it at that price. Striped
> bass brings as much as fifty cents a
l pound, and kingflsh from forty to
I fifty cents."?Detroit News Tribune.
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SEEDLESS ORANGES
Are Responsible For Millions of California's
Wealth.
The introduction of the seedless
navel orange has revolutionized the
orange industry of the United States.
It has drawn 13,000 men from other
pursuits and transformed vast areas
of sunbaked land in California into
orange groves.
It has been the prime factor in
i the growth of a dozen towns of 5000 !
and 10,000 persons in southern
California apd has added directly
! more than $43,000,000, and inj
directly $60,000,000 more to the taxable
wealth of the State.
The first seedless orange trees
were apparently freaks of nature
. and their counterparts have never I
been found. Early in the '70's Will
liam .Judson, United States consul
J -to Bahia, Brazil, heard an account
I from natives of a few trees in the
swamps on the banks of the Amazon,
some sixty miles away. He sent a
i native up the river to get some of
the fruit and to bring him some of
the shoots of the treeWhen
the native returned the consul
was delighted with the specimens
and sent six of the shoots,
carefully packed in moss and clay,
to the Department of Agriculture at
i Washington. The trees did not excite
much interest at the department.
Two which were planted in
the department grounds died for
, lack of care and others were forj
gotten for months.
J The crop of the first years netted
sixteen seedless oranges, and those
were exhibited all over California.
There were about a box of oranges
i in the second yield and they were
even better than the first crop. The
planting of groves of seedless
oranges propagated from the buds
from the two original trees began
in earnest in 1882. The following
year the demand for buds from the
Tibbet trees were so large that a.
dozen buds sold frequently for $5,
and some growers paid even as high
?,s $1 apiece for them.
Remarkable But True Statement.
Hon. Francis S. Hesseltine, of our
Boston Bar, sends to Our Dumb Animals
the folJowine. written to him
by Dr. J. Langdon Sullivan, a prominent
physician:
"The facts you ask for are as follows:
Twenty years ago a gentleman
brought to my office a large, very
handsome intelligent spaniel dog
whose right foreleg was badly
broken, the bone being grown out of
place. On the master's assurance
that the dog would not bite me I set
the leg. Drawing the bony fragments
into place caused severe unavoidable
pain. The animal whimpered,
but displayed no ang^r, and
allowed the dressing to remain undisturbed
until I removed it when
firm union had resulted. I saw no
more of my canine patient nor of his
? owner for two years. Then (again
on a summer's morning) I heard a
loud scratching at my office door.
I opene<j it and there stood my old
spaniel friend, wagging his tall. Beside
him stood a'fine black-and-tan
with a round French nail driven
clear through his right paw. I patted
the spaniel, called both dogs in, removed
the nail and sent both away
happy, trotting side by side as if
nothing had happened. I have never
seen anything of either since."
The Forest Giant.
The Gladwin Record gives a splendid
view of what it regards as probably
the last big log rollway on
Cedar River. The long stretch of
logs and handsome river scene make
a magnificent spectacle, yet it cannot
be contemplated without a feeling
of sadness in the breast of every
old lumberman who will behold in it
the passing of what once seemed a
serried and unconquerable army of
forest giants, capable of holding out,
with petty losses, for all time,
against civilization and the lumber
barons. A scene in camp, with old
a * r a i a vi- t
Angus xviacaunaiu auu ais nusay ox
team at the front, affords an Interesting
study. Grizzled Mack, now
verging on seventy, but still as hale
and hardy as an old buck, has spent
fifty-two winters in the lumber
woods, and it would not be strange
if with his love for the forest it will
] be his dying request to be allowed to
stand in the range of the last lumber
monarch to be felled on the Cedar
River, and in its crash meet a glorious
death beneath Its sturdy trunk}
, for what would there be left for rugged
"Old Mack" worth while living
for??Detroit News.
Cnr.ous Habits of Foxes.
The animals on which the fox
usually preys are often left untouched
round his home; and it is
even asserted that nothing is killed
on the side of the hill in which that
home is made.
In a small patch of nettles within
I a few feet of the mouth of the foxes'
| earth a partridge placed her nest and
1 brought off her brood. Round this
I nettle bed the cubs were constantly
to be seen, and in it they played
hide and seek. In another case the
entrance to an earth was surrounded
by five or six rabbit holes the tenants
of which were unmolested by their
next door neighbors.
In a third a litter of cubs was
placed in a large pit surrounded by
fencing, from which there was no escape
arod in which there were a number
of rabbits. None of these was
attacked by the cub3, though they
l would seize a dead rabbit in full of
| sight of the person who had shot
: and thrown it to them.?Native
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Agriculture in Kural Schools.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
F. A. Cotton, is enthusiastic
in his efforts to establish a theoretical
as well as a practical course
in agriculture in our rural schools.
In a bulletin just out he outlines the
plans for beginning this undertaking.
The publication is issued in reference
to the work to be taken up this
spring.
In substance, his scheme is this:
In the first three years the pupils
will be led gradually to understand
and appreciate the value of birds,
flowers, plants and animals, through
the medium of conversation and
written language lessons. The work
in the fourth and fifth grades will be
a combination of geography and outdoor
study, with the purpose of
quickening the observative powers of
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importance of the farmer in the
world's economy is dwelt upon. The
closer study of seeds and plants, such
as farmers grow, will be taken up;
also inquiry into the relation of the
plants to the soil, and the work of
insects and wind fn pollination, etc.,
will occupy an important part of the
time. Experimental work will be introduced
as far as possible. In the
seventh and eighth grades work#like
that of grafting, tree pruning and
planting will be in order. A more
advanced study of farm crops will
here be taken up, and the boys be induced
to try cultivation experiments
and report results the next year.
The work designed for the township
high school will be farther advanced,
of course, than that in the preceding
grades. ? T~r
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Don't Prune! < i
Most amateurs worry themselves
over,what they consider.the intricate
problem of pruning. My advice is
simply this: Don't prune! Avoid
the annual trimming that ruins so
many of our gardens. There are
more shrubs ruined by the pruning
mania than by any other one cause
and the worst part of it all is that
the damage is suffered by just those
people who would appreciate having
a few good shrubs. After the thinning
out of surplus specimens the
only attention that the shrubbery
needs is a thinning out of the old
growth to make room for the new
season's wood and of course the removal
of any dead or dying branches.
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the attention of the pruner to make
them grow; pruning is only meant
to make the garden look neater. And
remember this golden rule: "Prune
after flowering." This means that a
late flowering shrub like the hydrangea
can be pruned in the spring because
the flowers are produced on the
growths that it will make in the summer,
but It is just as satisfactory to
prune it in the winter time. The
early flowering shrubs that flower on
the growths of the previous season
may be pruned in the spring, but not
until after they have done flowering.
Therefore, spireas, lilacs, deutzias,
golden bells, and such like must not'
be cut back if you want to have flowers
the. same season. They will in
all probability require some reduction
of the top, but it must be done
by reducing the number of the
growths, rather than by shortening.
?Leonard Barron, in Garden Magazine.
Beginners and Varieties.
The beginner in strawberries
Jhould consult with. some experienced
grower before selecting the variety,
as the kinds used in some sections
and on certain soils may not be suitable
elsewhere. Some varieties will
thrive on heavy soils better than on
light soil, while others give the best
results on sandy soils. Some kinds
are very large, but not good in quality.
Never sacrifice flavor for size,
as flavor is everything in a strawberry.
Many growers prefer the varieties
that stand shipment to market;
hence, for a family supply, the
aim should be to select a variety suitable
for the soil, and of excellent
quality, in preference to size . and
firmness. Do not overlook the fact
that some varieties are both staminate
and pistillate, while others are
pistallate only. Should the variety
selected be pistillate, every fourth
row should be of some variety that is
both staminate and pistillate, and
which blossoms at the same time as
the other, in order that fertilization
may result, for if not there will be no
fruit. There is no variety which can
be said to be the best, as all varieties
will excel in some respect and be
lacking in other qualities. The prop- '
er method is to procure a variety
best adapted to the soil and give
good cultivation, with an abundance
of plant food, and satisfactory results
will usually follow. "Potted"
plants are the runners taken from"
old strawberry plants that have rooted
in small pots sunk in the ground,
in convenient places for the purpose.
These small pots are soon filled with
roots, the plants and balls, of earth
being easily turned out without disturbance,
and when transplanted
continue to grow, almost a full crop
of fruit next year being the result.
"Potted" plants are largely, in de-{
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mand in the fall season of the year.-*
Philadelphia Record.
Feeding Chicks.
It is quite the thing nowadays to
keep dry feed before chickens all the
while. Perhaps one of the best arguments
in its favor is the opportunity
it offers for the weaker or more
timid members of the flock to get
their share. Usually the "dry feed"
is composed of the smaller grains,
but eround feed is excellent served
in this way, so there is a reasonable
varietj'. A Pennsylvania man gives
a heap of advice in the following paragraph:
"We have tried all the different
methods of feeding and have found
the most successful is the dry feeding.
We don't feed the chicks for
from thirty-six to forty-eight hours
after hatching, and then feed the
dry chick feed, many different grains
being mixed together. We feed this
the first four weeks steadily. We
also keep a box of beef scraps before
them at all times after the
fifth day. We do not give them
water until the third day. By following
the above we can almost see
our chicks grow. Would also say
that we keep the chick feed before
our chicks at all times the first few
days, so they can eat as often and as
much as they want. By this way we
find the inactive chicks get more,
and in a short time they start off and
grow like the Test. As a rule it is
the inactive chicks starving to death
that runs the death rate up in brooder
chicks. In regard to skimmilk I
would not advise giving it to chicks
under four weeks of1 age. I think
after that it can be fed to chicks at
an advantage. No doubt there Are
other methods which are giving good
results for others, but the above has
proven to be the best for us $fter
+TTTrt?+t7 vo#wj' Mrnprlmentine. After
four weeks we vary the feed, dropping
the chick feed and feeding
cracked corn, whole wheat, oats, etc.,
feeding a mash (scalded) in morn*
ing, containing beef scraps."
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Rational Culture of Corn. ^
In order to grow a good crop of
corn, it is ^essential for the soil to be
well plowed and thoroughly pulverized.
For this work a disc harrow,
the spring-tooth and smoothing harrow
and a drag or roller make a
splendid combination; and that they
may be employed to the hest possi-'
ble advantage, says Fred O. Sibley,
in Eptomist, it is advisable to wait
until the ground is In proper condition
for tillage. The aim should
be to get the soil in thorough and
complete tilth before planting. A
thorough preliminary cultivation
aids in the formation of plant food
and by aerating or ventilating the
soil, influences the soil temperature
as well as, in a measure, controls the
..a Root rtf nil. It
supply U L XllUlSlUiC. UVUI,
kills out or retards weed growth,
which is very important because
weeds consume the plant food and to
that extent rob crops. By shading
the ground^ they also have a smothering
tendency and they take large
quantities of water from the soil. To
keep them back still more and at the
same time help the further pulverization
of the soil the field, if not
made too wet by rains, should be
gone over with a smoothing harrow
just before the corn plants begin to
show through the surface. If the
teeth of the harrow are set at the
proper slant or angle, sufficiently
over not to tear out the corn, this
method is really most effective in
destroying young weeds. And a
week later, or thereabouts, when the
corn is two inches above the ground
it will pay even to go over the field
a second time with the harrow. The
soil is thus left fine and mellow, the
field clean and active and the corn
plants not hurt a particle. This
should be followed up by cultivating
after every rain to break the crust,
for continued cultivation is as much
needed to conserve moisture as to
kill the weeds. Keep the cultivator
away from the corn roots, however,
and try to handle the implement so
as to leave the surface level and
even, not in ridges. If other conditions
are equal, such as requisite fertility
and a favorable season, a fine
growth of stalks and ears should
then be obtained.
FARM NOTES.
Always feed at regular hours.
A fat hen is queen on the market.
Old hens are not profitable on an
egg farm.
Plan for plenty of soiling crops.
Have an abundance of sweet corn to
follow the peas and oats.
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iNO pei'SUil W UU IS aucvt^u nivu h
cough or consumption should be allowed
to care for cows or milk.
Every milker should wear a clean
overall suit, kept for the purpose.
The hands should be washed before
milking, and the fingernails cut
short and kept clean.
We are all of us forgetful, so let
me whisper in your ear once more
that nobody ever invented a strainer
that would take impure matter out
of milk. You must keep it out, or
it never will be out.
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The Autumn season la coming
more and more to be recognised as a
most suitable time for house-paint- -
ing.
There is no frost deep in the wood ?-:j
to make trouble for even the best job
of painting, and the general season- ~v J
ing of the Summer has put the Wood* :**$m
into good condition in every way.
The weather, moreover, is more like- ,.>2j
ly to be settled for the necessary
length of time to allow all the coats
to thoroughly dry?a very important
precaution.
An old and successful painter laid
to the writer the other day:
"House owners would get more
for their money if they would allow
their painters to take more time, es- ' /
pecially between coats. Instead of . ^
allowine barelv time for the surface
to get dry enough not to be 'tacky/
several days (weeks would not bo
too much) should be allowed so that ' ^
the coat might set through and - ^
through. It is inconvenient, ot J&sj
course, but, if one would suffer this ~ Sc
slight inconvenience, it would add. V
two or three years to the life of thepaint
"All this is assuming, of course,
that the paint used is the very best
to be had?thef purest of white lead
and the purest of linseed oil, un- v
mixed with any cheapener. If the
cheap mixtures, often known as- .. .
'White Lead' and oil which has been
doctored with fish oiX benzine, corn*
oil, or other of the adulterants XVj
known to the trade, are used, all the y%
precautions of the skilled painter are
useless to prevent the cracking and .. ' v
peeling which make houses unsightly v- :<
in a year or so and, therefore, make %
painting bills too frequent and costly.
"The house owner should have hit j
painter bring the .ingredients to the ' M
premises separately?white lead of ; Z
some well-known, reliable brand and' %
linseed oil of equal quality ? and
mix the paint just before applying -J
it."
Painting need not be expensive and '. j-j
unsatisfactory if the old painter*#
suggestions are followed.
. Modes for Motorists.
It is suggestive of how swift is the "jS
evolution of fashions at the pres^gS^^?
time that even in such an exclusive
department of clothing as that of.
modes for the motor there seems to
be fdwavs some change to-record. . .
The cni'ef point worthy of note at- jfeS
the moment seems to be the generttt!.^^
waning of the popularity of leather.'
for coats, the general conclusion being
that it is too reminiscent of the ||| .
chauffeur. Apart from this, there ft
also the question of the way In which
it shows the dirt, and, although it is, ^
of course, quite possible to have such
a coat cleaned, this is an extensive '
and expensive business. J
As a lining, however, leather it '-V^
more to be desired than ever it .
and in this capacity it is very much " S
used. Under such circumstances K ^^if|
possible to employ the most deUcrtfe|||jX
tones, and champagne, pale blue, and
the palest green are among the shadetk^^P
most frequently employed.
vMiifa. no.t rsf tho matt
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lined is tweed, either self-colored* >33
which perhaps looks smarter, or
the mixtures in which green is, the-^JgV
dominant color; in fact, there is eveiy 4
sign that this is to" be a green season, . jj
?Philadelphia Record. J
TWO VIEWS OP THRIFT. AJJ
Rockefeller was delighted with the - '3
thrift of the French.
"Beautiful, beautiful," he murmured,
then added musingly: "Yet if my
countrymen were equally saving '4
where would I be?" . . ./ %
So serious was the train of thought
started by this reflection that he forgot
to tip the waiter.?Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
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SO IT DOES.'
"You ought to take a trip through ^
one o' them big shoe manufactories '
down East," remarked the old-fash- ^
ioned cobbler.
"I've been through one," replied the ';>
other. "What d'ye think of all that
modern machinery?"
"Well, it certainly does beat awl, v'
A WINNING START.
A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Make*
Nerve Force For the Day. J
Everything goes wrong if the
breakfast lies in yonr stomach like a / j|
mud pie. What, you eat does harm /t J
if you can't digest it?it turns to poiA
bright lady teacher found this
to be true, even of an ordiziary light
breakfast of eggs and toast She
says:
"Two years ago I contracted a
very annoying form of Indigestion. ;?||
My stomach was in such condition
that a simple breakfast of fruit toast ;v?r.r
and egg gave me great distress.
"I was slow to believe that trouble jSj
could come from such a simple diet, I
but finally had to give it-up, and SI
found a great change upon a cup of
hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with /;f?
cream, for my morning meal. For
more than a year I have held to this M
course, and have not suffered except
when injudiciously varying my diet.
"I have been a teacher for several ^
years and find that my easily digested
breakfast means a saving of ner- : f
vous force for the entire day. My
gain of ten pounds in weight also ^
causes me to want to testify to the \?h
value of Grape-Nuts. .
"Grape-Nuts holds first rank at * H:
our table." ;^3|
Name given by Postum Co., Battle \ 3
Creek, Mich. ^
"There's a reason." Read the lit- <&?
tie book, "The Road to*Wellville," in ' %
pkgs.