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WAY TO KEEP OVERSHOES ON Pennsylvania Woman Deelgne Band to Fit Around Ankle With Hook Fastened to Button. Adj person who baa ever bad an overshoe come off while crossing a muddy street will appreciate the faet oner device designed by a Pennsylva? nia woman to prsvent this annoying accident An elaatlc band raaters around the ankle and thla support* a suspender like arrangement at the hoel of the overshoe. Attached to ono aide of the gumahoe la another elaatlc eup porter, with a book which engages a hntton on a button ahoe, or a hook on a lace ahoo. It takss only a few eeo> pads t i fastsn ths overahoe on with these derlcas, and It la worth ths trouble. After a rubber hae once come Paetttned In s Twinkling. off In ths sod. snd it usually doe* this when you ars going somewhere yon want jo look your best, there It not much use In putting It on again. Ths attachments are made eo that they oan 1)? removed from the over? shoe whsn not needed and quickly put on again. THEORY OF EARTH MOVEMENT gdr Oeorgii Derwln, Noted English Sci? entist, Dellvera Interesting Address cn Tidsa. Sir Osorgs I; er win, the noted scien? tist, who ivas ths guest of the Authors' club In London recently, delivered an Interesting sddreea on bis theory of the tides. Everybody knows that the rides are due to the moon's attraction. In the tidal motion the movement of the water causes friction and a conse? quent slowing down of the motion or rotation of the earth, as a brske would do The effect, though almost Infin? itesimal, becomee appreciable lu time, Although It has not yst been meas? ured Hut It must exist, and thla slow? ing down being due principally to the gaoon It muet be accompanied by a re? action on it. with the reault that the moon will move further and further gway from the <*rth, owing to the yielding of the ayntem The opinion of many authorities la that the moon was shot off from the earth at the por? tion now filled by the Pacific ocean. As it la atlll moving further away and the rate of rotation of the earth dim? inishing the time win come when the length of the day and that of the lu? nar month will ho the aame. and the earth and moon will again revolve aa a rigid body When that occurs the 6a 7 will be 66 times aa long as our preset ' day Hut the aun also pro ducee tldea and similar effects, though on a emaller scale So the year, too, will be lengthened COMPASS FOR THE AVIATORS Device Invented by Englishmen Is Comhinattoa Known ae "Shadow Plate"?Olrscta Aeroplane A device, which la to direct an aoroplane In the same manner aa a com pan* direct* a ahlp. has l>een In vented by an Englishman It Is an lngenloua combination of the sundial and ttm compass, and la known aa a An Aviator'* Compeea. -ehado* ite" Its dial Is of cellu* lold, and In the renter la a small pin that hrowa a shadow as the light passes through, says the Popular Me gfcanlcs When 1t is fixed to the for? ward part of the upper plane of the aeroplane, the aviator ggg ? #d i tho course h" \<* taking by the variations of th? ahsdow. Disinfect Books. In gfSjgt psjf Hk libraries all hooka ars dlalnfected fflafl IfcCjJ am re? turned. They go Into all aorta of placoN a?.d ire read by kb k ptOpli In thelt homes and In hospitals II? nee the precaution Opals Eitpand With Meat. Opala expand with best to a greater degree than any other pro - w>u a ?tones The\ are frequently but be ?mute the expansion forces open the gold banda In which they are set SWEDISH RAPID FIRING GUN Eleven Hundred and Twenty-F'** 8hot? an Hour Fired From Weap? on That la Carried In Hand. Ever since r tfl began to kill encb other, which was very soon nftcr se./ Ish lnter?sts began to clash, a good ?hare of their leisure time has been devoted to the elevating of inventing Instruments for that killing. It In gartotM that crudities still ap? pear In the weapons which the geniuses of centuries h.ive labored to perfect and that our eye should be oi>ened at this late day to almost ludicrous imperfections in our most :herlshed killing machine, the rifle. Yet it is only a few years since the smoke of black powder was done away with and comparatively a mat? ter of days since Maxim produced his sound-choking flame-suppressing device. And now comes news from Sweden that an Inventor there has found means, at last, to stop the kick which haa made sore shoulders from the time the first blunderbuss was discharged, and has constructed a weapon that will drop men so fast that a slugle marksman may dispose of a regiment in an hour. Eleven hundred and twenty-five shots to the hour from a gun that is carried In the hand and fired from the shoulder is a high record. If that gun Is smokeless and klckleas. It Is convenient to handle and but little trouble to operate. The weapon has already taken rank with the most approved and will doubtless become a part of the arma? ment of many of the world'a armies. FIT AUTOMOBILE TO OWNER Nesrly All Large Faotorlea Do More or Leaa Custom Work In Ad Justing Machines. Nearly all of the large automobile factories do more or less custom work In fitting automobiles to their pros? pective users In very much the samt* way aa a clothier alters ready-made suits or overcoats to fit purchasers. The great difference In the length of arms, logs and body sometimes make < It more comfortable for the owner of a car If the position, distances, and angle of the seat, footboard, ani steering wheel are made accordingly. The framework shown In the Illus? tration Is the adjustable means by Measuring a Man for an Automobile. which one concern makes measure? ment* for such cases, says the Popu? lar Mechanics. The seat can be raised and lowered, the footboard tilts to different angles, and the steering wheel rod can be shortened or length? ened. INDUSTRIAL! MECHANICAL a notes m By the addition of pulverized mica concrete Is made to imitate granite. Tike Japanese make vegetable isin? glass from six varieties of seaweed. Soda will brighten china that has been burned or darkened by long use. The American shoe manufacturer la extending his sales 1n all parts of the world. Many shoes sold abroad as "Ameri? can-made" are not such In any par? ticular. Pulverized street rubbish and coal tar have been found to make good fuel briquettes in Amsterdam. A sash lock makes an effective sub? stitute for a bolt on a door if the door and casing are flush with each other. Interesting tests in Oermany have shown that pens made of tantalum outwear those made of steel or gold. Cement for Joining wood with me? tal can be made by mixing litharge with sufficient glycerin to forn a paste An ingenious Oerman baker util? ises a windmill to mix and knead his bread as well ns to grind his grain Into flour. Iron haa been smelted In Hweden for more thag 2.000 years and some of the ancient furnaces still are in existww e I Jai>nn's newest battleship also has bOCOnsi thi speediest by the installa? tion of American turbine engines nnd propellers If a little chalk be rubbed on a file before filing steel It will p-event chips Sticking to the file to sr-rnt'*h the work I a machine to hold a drill by which it may bi sharj*'nod by hand on an ordinary whetotone has been invent od In i'f gland. In driving keys for eaaMron pul? leys, drive lightly until the kev la tight, than give .bist one smart bio* with the hammer. Rngltsh englneera have succeeded In building a paper making machine thai will turn out SM foot of newi paper, '78 laches wide, a minute Depootti of copper ore have been discovered On the Vestmanna Islands south of Ireland. The deposits are un iefltOOd to he of considerable magnl Hit NAILING MACHINE IS HANDY Obviates Necessity of Holding Nails In the Mcuth and Prevents Bruised Fingers. This machine, which in specially de? signed for nailing shingles, relieves a workman from practically all trouble except that of hitting the nail on the head and of moving the machine Into the next position. The nails are dumped into the hopper, in the bottom of which are three parallel silts. The vibration of ihe machine in use causes the nails to crop point downwards into the slits and hang by their heads. Thence they pass into a similar slit in An Improved Nailing Machine. the incline, and slide, still hanging by their heads, down to the catch spring. This spring holds the nail under the plunger which seta the nail in the ma? terial. The machine can be used with the hands protected by gloves or mittens, and It obviates the necessity of hold? ing nails In the mouth, and prevents bruised fingers. WEIGHING SCOOP SAVES TIME Grocer Can See at Glance the Weight of Tea or Sugar Without Re? sorting to Scales. A weighing scoop that is scoop and scales In one has been designed by a Philadelphia man. At a glance the gro? cer can see the weight of the sugar or tea or whatever he may have in the scoop without resorting to the scales and losing that much time. The handle of the implement haa a downwardly projecting arm running parallel to the back of the scoop, which is hinged to the bottom of this arm and fastened by a spring to the upper portion. A tape with weight divisions on it con A Weighing Scoop. necta the handle and the scoop, and when the latter has anything in it the tape will he drawn out to the point which indicates the weight of its con? tents. With an implement of this kind the grocer can go ahead and fill bags by simply dipping the goods out of a bin and consulting the tape, Instead of first shoveling into the scales scoop and Juggling with a set of weights. INCREASED USE OF CEMENT More Used in the Year 1909 Tha in Any Other In History?Also Price Was Lower. More cement was used in the United States In 1909 than In any other one year in its history, and the price by , the barrel was lower. In 1908 the pro , duction waa 52,910.925 barrels, valued at $44,547,679; in 1909 the production I was 64,196,386 barrels, worth $51,232, 979 at the milla. In 1D08 tho average price of a barrel of Portland cement waa 85 cents; in 1909 the price aver? aged 81 centl produced at 103 plants In the country. Twenty-one plants Wait In Pennsylvania, twelve in Michi? gan, ten In Kansas, eight In Ohio, seven In Now York, six in Indiana, live in Illinois and five In California in 1880 ? barrel of Portland cement brought three dollars, due to the scar? city of the material whose production devolved upon hlcw, crude proceeses. Today it la manufactured to sell at 8o conti it barrel and show a profit, Moat of the cement produced Is consumed I in the United Btatoa, the export prod? uct ranging from one to thrt e per cent, annually. With the Immense natural rose ircei for its manufacture, how? ever it is anticipated by government authorities thai in the near future the foreign trade in cements will show largo in the sum of the nation's export t rnde. Ceptha of the Sea. The Kfci t( st ocean depth recorded is a Nero heep, In the north Paclflo? I 5.269 fathom: FAMOUS FRM SAUCES OLD RECIPES HANDED DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS. Many Have Been Patented and Ac? quired World-Wide Reputations Such as Originators Never Dreamed of?Tomato Mustard. Country farmhouses yean ago pos? sessed a good many ether treasures besides their tallboy chests and their carved oak presses, although mo6t of these treasures seem to have van? ished nowadays, In the day8 before every village market town had its city products, and itinerent peddlers were the chief salesmen, they thought, In tact, a great deal of their own old recipes for home-made sauces. They were made according to directions which were handed down through genera? tions, and formed the special pride of many a busy housekeeper. As a matter of fact, aany ot the old recipes have become patented, and the orig? inal has acquired a world wide repu? tation such a* its originators would never have foretold for it. Among tho forgotten recipes Is one for tomato mustard, which is worthy of the consideration of those whose stock of tomatoes is greate~ than can be used for cooking and salads. To two gallons of tomatoes three peppers should be added when minced, and these must be placed In a large preserving pan with a table spoonful of freshly ground black pep? per, an ounce of powdered ginger, a quarter of an ounce of cloves, half an ounce of mixed spice, two ounces of salt and the grated rind of a lem? on. These Ingredients should be well minced together and boiled for an hour to an hour and a half. At the end of that time the contents of the pan should be allowed to cool, and when cold an ounce of curry powder and an ounce of powdered mustard added, with a breakfast cupful of vinegar. This mustard mixture should be bottled and corked down tightly. Another sauce which is equally ex? cellent to eat with cold roast or boiled meat is also made of tomatoes. To a gallon of tomatoes a full breakfast cupful of minced red pep? pers and a large cupful of minced onion should be added, the tomatoes having been cut up very small. Hal! a pound of brown sugar, in half a tea cupful of salt?or les3 if this is con Bidered too much?a small teaspoon ful each of powdered ginger, cloves and cinnamon, can be worked in with half a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg and rather less of powdered mace. To all these should be added a pint and a half of vinegar, and tho Ingredients turned into a preserving pan and boiled for three hours. Hot and Cold Tartare Sauces. Cold?Put the yolk of one egg into ft bowl with one teaspoon of dry mu? tard, one level teaspoon of salt and Just a little bit of cayenne pepi>or. Stir with a wooden spoon until smooth; then add one-half cup of salad oil and three tablespons of lemon Juice or vinegar, a few drops at a time, stir ring quickly nil the time. When tho Baucc is thick and smooth add one ta? blespoon each of choped parsley, ca? pers and gherkins and one teaspoon of very finely chopped onions. Keep ?ool until wanted for use. Serve with :old fish. Sauce Tartar (hot)?One tablespoon rinegar, one teaspoon lemon Juice, one half teaspoon salt, one tablespoon of walnut catchup or table sauce, two tablespoons butter. Mix vinegar, lem Dn Juice, salt i*nd catchup together and heat over hot water. Brown butter :n another pan, and strain into tho oth? er mixture. Nice for broiled fish Baking Powder Biscuit. Sift together three times one quart if flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a teaspoonful of salt. Rub ,n quickly and thoroughly with tho tips 01 the fingers one tablespoonful Df lard and butter mixed. Add slowly Dne cupful and a half of milk. Mix lightly, with little handling. Turn out on the molding board, roll into a sheet a half-inch thick, cut out with a email round cutter, and lay in a greased bal lng pan, so they will not touch. Hake in a very hot oven for ibout twenty minutes. Clean Shelf Papers. Tho next^lme you are cleaning the pantry shelves, fold at least three newspapers the longest way of the full sheets. Place them on the shelf with the fold In front and fit snugly. The next time you want a clean paper slip the edge of a knife along the fold of the outer sheet and remove the soiled top. Tho remainder of tho sheets will be left Intact lor future uso, and much time and labor will be saved to tho housewife Chocolate Jumbles. One-half pound of chocolate, ona {?int of molasses, one cup of Bugar, one cup of butter, one teaapoon clove, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon all? spice, two teaspoons soda, one cup hot water three egga, flour enough to roll without sticking Cider Apple Sauce. Boll down tho eider. us<' newly dried apples, pared and quartered If sour, al low one-fourth their weight in sugar or use late sweet apples, pared and quartered very little or no sugar Cook alowly, and bo careful not to break the fruit *n stirring WAY OF DOCTORING MASONRY Germans Adopt Method That Entirely Obviates Necessity cf Tearing Down Cracked Walls. Ingenious Oermani of Han.burg re? cently have adopted a method of doc toring masonry that entirely obviates the necessity of tearing down csacked and decaying w alls. In the city of Harrburg two crumb? ling railway bridges were used in tlie experiments. They were 51 feet in the arch spans, ond^ cracks had apixared everywhere, bo that the structures barely hung together. Holes were bored through the masonry to get to the depths of the cracks and a watery cement mortar was pumped in under a pressure of five atmospheres until all the crevicea were filled. When thia had hardened it was found that the bridges were as firm under all testa as new masonry, and were not even dis? figured by the proceaa. To the antiquary aa well aa the practical engineer, this ahould appear as a boon, for ancient stone structurea with historical aaaociatlons, which be? come dangerously weak can be giver* a renewed youth without rebuilding or deatroying any of the marka of vener? able age. In thla country more bridges and other stone atructurea are torn away because they no longer accom? modate their needs, than beca-use they are outworn, but there may come a time in America when we shall have occasion to do a little patching, and the German methoda will serve ex cellently. PUTTY KNIFE IS IMPROVED Scraper Attachment Leaves Blade Free for Spreading? Advantage Over Old 9tyle. Painters and glaziers will find a great convenience in the improved putty knife designed by a New York man. The invention la a small one Improved Putty Knife. and the need It fills could scarcely be called a crying one, but it has distinct advantages over the old-style knife. The new knife has a slot running across It near the end and in the 6lot a scraper blade is yivoted on a hinge. When not In use the scraper lies flat along tho knife blade, but It can be opened to abut the blade at right an? gles. The putty Is placed on the end of tho knife and. with the thumb pressed against It, is laid along ;he edge of a window frame, or wherever It is to go, as in the old method In scraping off the superfluous putty, however, it Is not necessary to remove that from the knife blade and uee the edge of this blade, as was formerly the case. The scraper attachment on the new type does this work even more effectively and the end of the knife la kept clean. Age of Flah. Until within recent yeara there had been ascertained no truatworthy way of finding out the age of fish. It has been shown that mere size doea not Indicate the age. Heiblsch, Heincke and others have discovered that many of the bones, acales and otollths of fiahea have annual age rings, resem? bling those In tree trunks. LWUSTRIAL MECHANICS as NOTES as The art of manufacturing nalla by machinery was first practiced in 1790. The cotton induetry of Kngland employe many more women than men. Artificial wood for matches, made from straw, has been invented by a Frenchman. The Amsterdam diamond trade is in the hands of ten firms employing ten thousand workhmen. A species of stiff grass which grows abundantly in that country is used for match sticks In India. The value of the Rani gold Indus try to South Africa la estimated at half a million dollars a day. a room will look both larger and higher b) the use of wall paper con? taining designs iti vertical lines. Rubber boots are now made with < bather inner heel which greatly in creases the hoot's period of usefulness in Austria, where Ibe production of Kerosene is a great Induatry, a lame government refinery la under contem? plation. The manufacture of wood pulp pa? per involves ?8 separate opei itlons from cutting down the trees to sewing the product. Nova Beotln claims to have the largest gypsum deposits In the world. They vary from a fea feet to hundred! of feet In thick: Maj Be ? l a -1?11?I Ander? n Mail, a change ?: 2,575 .. lea would have made i . C. Featheretone toveraor. He n*as defeated largi iy y the blind tigers of Charleston end the dispea* aary people uf Alken, Georgetown and Uichland. At simple matter >>i arithmetic, therefore, ii n'ou .} appear that Judge Jonea haa u chance '?? i.lected by a alee anug majority. Mr. Peatheratone was without i>eraona| magnetlani, ha had no organisation. He was defeat* ed because be didn't know bow to run. He wouldn't even promise aar dons to some people in order to get their support. \v,. don't believe that Judge Jones frill d<> that either, but ha haa magnetlera, he has an organ iaatton and he knows the game and will fight a winning tight. Tr*\elii.g man Who go g|| over the State esti? mate his majority at !#,###? it win be a leaded Ida one way.or the other, it the people Rnd that Judge Jones is the man tiny want, they will give him the biggest vote a man aver received. If they learn that he is no Improvement on the pi t-sent conditions th, ir resentment against him for coming out and keep? ing others out of the race will he so strong that a ground swell will set in against him. But, considering the rare lroin a merely mathematical point of view, Mr. Featherstone received 51,050 votes, his opponent 56,200?in the Second primary Mr. IVatherstone was an avowed prohibitionist and in Charleston threw the red flag in the faces of the people there. The vote in Charleston was Featheretone 820. opposition :i,~>>>~>, majority against Featherstonei 1,741, As are said be? fore a ?bange of J..*.7."> votes would have ? lected Peatherstona. George towDj, another dispensary county, gave the present governor a majority of about 500 out of lot than 1.500 votes. This vote will be divided? even if Judge Jories fails to get a majority. In Rlchland there was nobody to bght Mr. Peatheratone's battles and he lost by a majority of 1.207. If Judge Jones does not carry Kieh land. he will not lose It by that heavy a majority. We have heard one man who took 65 votes t?? the polls de? clare that he could not vote for Mr. Peatheratone's prohibition platform and he threw his votes to the other man?and lost a little political job he bad after all. i In Alken Judge Jones will run far ahead of Mr. Featheretone who was beaten nearly 2 to 1, his opponent re? ceiving a majority of 1,071 and Mr. Peatheratone's total vote was but 1,076. The present governor's atti? tude on the new eounty light has got him a number of relentless enemies who are politically powerful. The governor s acta with reference to this new county may have been correct, probably were, hut he will be fought J ist the same. In these counting, Charleston. Oeorgetown, Alken and Uichland the present governor's combined ma? jority was 1,3ft, while his total ma? jority in the State was but .'.150. If Judge Joins ran hold Mr. Feather stone's light VOtS throughout the State and - an divide these 5.000 votes, ha will be running about even. Some of the other count lea Which gave ma? jorities to the present governor are: Abbeville 17, Anderson ?7?. narn Wel| 340. Hamberg It, Feaufort 53, Berkeley 4 2. Clarendon 151. Calhoun It, Colleton It, Dorchester 141 tout of a total of l,$tt), Hampton IS, , Horry 4 40. Kershaw 21G .l.aurens 280, l.ee 17<?, Lexington ?'.2.'. New berry lit, Plckens 14s), galaaa 650. Union 186. I We cannot but believe that Judge Jones will tun far ahead of Mr. i Featheretone in Xewberry. saiuda 'ami Lexington, for Judge Jones has 'many relatl%*es in those three ootav ! ties and Judge Thurmond, Ms cam? paign manager is als ? Strong there. in 1'nlon the governor is reported to have endorsed lor sheriff one candi? date, who is generously opposed, sad the numerous others are sat amity antagonistic. The Mt votes in rick ens and the 171 in Anderson weee4 I dm- to local conditions. We will ven? ture no predictions its to those coun? ties, rin 1.pp. of Andersen will I speak for themselves, _ I ' It will save you thinking by decid? ing tt once that we nui^t have Chamber ot Commerce organised along the proper lines, vvc are go* Ins to have it. so fall into line ami make the thing unanimous. ?Oar* lingtoit Ties--. M iyor C1.0 . hi i? 'a our I and com? mend.nu x,.ii on iti<< .1 pen >f bentsnV log |hc s|o| machines from your city, and too, for prohibiting th ? *;?Ie of whiskey after midnight or on Sun ' days. May y mi he lUCCesOfal in your llxed purpose,?Calhona Ad % a nee.