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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-9-6, Page 7A MODERN DAMASCUS, Ernest H. Helerichs writesto the Pitts. burg "Despatch" from Solingen, (lemony, as follower-. Oi all the places of industry in Germany there es not one whose very namo is se apt to make your blood ran cold, and make you think of murder and death, aa; the mention. of thislittle town on the Wupper, Wherever yen go knives, forks, daggers, and swords are Always confronting you. Whenever you talk to anybsxly you are alweye forcibly entertained with a voluble spasm about zn- etrnments of death. Aa I jumped off the train at the little station the guard et encs asked me did p want to Goethe man"ufa"cture of knives in Solingen, A few etepa further the hotel porter took hold of !rte and said: "Oar house is exactly opposite the great sword mannfactory, which you ht.Ye Un- doubtedly come to sea;" So it kept on._ WhomsoeverI addressed on nay way up the hill from thab Utrrle ata - tion to the town, the invariable addition of the direa:t answer to my question was: "1 sapposee you have come here to leek at our grand eutlere'establishments- Even the ehambermeid at the hotel, "Lasa aha handed me, the brilliantly blackened boota the next morning, volunteered the in- formation : Aline Herr, if yen want to go through, eomo of the knife or atabro factories,, I will send you eemebody to show you the way:" But I replied that if she could not gay with me herself I Weald not take at *eb- etitntee but ge aline. Axd I did. Von de not want a guide here. Jonitwalls out into the street, linen 10 the notaa of the hemmer which atrikee the anvil, the Ole when it goes over the steel er the ecrapiog which is predueed by the inetrururnt when it is held against the tin istons. Yon natant bo ins deaf tie a Feast if you do not hear quite rl meanie of such Poise before you have gone many yard?, Row rnsny factories there Are really ix Seliagen is herd Wittig, There are 2a,V00 iisliatlaireeter, and with they pxeeptioe of vita. Hien, iufaute, and old people, everybody ie engaged in making ',eine pert er other of eattery. Tide industry haeteeen going on in Dela place for nearly 1,000 y'eers. Teadetieu has its that Count Adolf IVs. of Berg, who was the owner of Solioger, went to the ere- asade with Emperor Frederick II, of Ger- many in tba eleveuth century, ared on bit travefe in tlta.Veleg. Lend cum; to Deuiaa:.i in Syria, Idere the noblemen otnerved the assert acturta cf all kirtls c.I weapons, and he lemma it there himself. Oa hie retettn he rpt ince started w, faettory in Selingeu, And armee them Seliiogeu weapons heave become Ito fameue thaw they are now meth/end to lee unequaled in the world. English manu- facture is not table to co;npote with the Ger. men any longer in Ibis perei tiler, Even the 1(ugliih Government order the finer *words in ;Mingeu, and the large weapon manufactory of Wierebaeh, Ritechbanm .h Cir„ in Solingen, is now occupied with the making of SAO rewords far Euglieh ofllsera, I lead tate opportunity of seeing one of theta weapon, and they ere certainly admfrairlo. Air. Koch, ono of the foreman, took one in his hand, and putting the point en rho ground, he bent it t4 sea to have the innate almost touch the ground without ,,break• ing alae blade. Ile then ',bowed it to me, and the weapon ttnl, au straight air a lino. The gentleman then took me into the yard, where* number of homy ssndstomps wore lying *bent, "ifero you are," he said. +a Seo if you sen knock a plooa out of that sword on, that stone." I took the handle in both handl, and *truck tho atone with all my might. But to my aatoniehment a piece flew off the atone, while the sword dial :not even ewer the least evidence of the blow. "Everyone of theta weapons has to stand that teat," I was informed, "or we do not put the mark of our firm on It, nor do we deliver it as a Brat -elan weapon.' I went all through this factory, which employs over 1,000 men exclusively in the manufacture of fine weapons, They aro now filling an order for tho Genian Govern- ment of u new bayonet. Eight hundred thousand aro to be made, and the firm de- livers 1,500 a day. The weapon is 12 in- ches long, and the Government pays 0 marks for each of them, when finished. 1fAKI 0 WEAPONS OP WAR. Before a piece of steel is converted into such an instrument of war it has to go through quite a process. To show me this Mr. Koch took me into a large apace at one end of the factory, where I at once noticed pieces of steel varying in length from 10 to 20 feet, standing all around the walls. In the centre of the room steed a large machine where one man and a boy were occupied. "This is where the ateel le cut before it has re:eived a stroke yet toward the shape of a sword, eo wo might call this the store- room for raw material." Thus my kind informant began bis explanation. "The Iong pieces of steel, which were about 2e inches wide, were then put under the ma- chine, and by the turning of a crink pieces of about 12 inches fell one after the other into a basket. The boy then banded the man another piece of steel, put en empty basket under the machine, and carried the short pieces into an adjoining apartment. We followed, and from the number of fires all around I guessed that we must have ar- rived at the forges. And so it was. Each one of these pieces of steel was put into the fire, and when it was white with heat a. man put it under a steam hammer, which atruok the heated steel in rapid auccesaion about 20 times on every particle of its surface. When it was pulled out, the piece was about 18 inches long. It was now thrown into a large barrel filled with water. Now the wonld.be•aword had gone through the hardening process, and a number of boys gathered them again into baskets to carry them to the rolling department. In the front of each of these rolls I had my atten• tion called to a big coke fire. This fire was stirred up to an enormous heat, and then the pieces of steel were one by one put into the fire. There are two men occupied at each roll, viz: the roller and his helper. As noon as the steel is hot again it comes under the roll, from were it emerges about one-eighth of an inch thick and the eventual shape of the sword stamped on it, Again the pieces of steel are carried off, and this time they go to the centre presses, where they are put under a contrivance which cuts the margins off the steel, and when they leave here a ou can see that the thing looks like a sword. Hitherto, however, you have seen nothing but a dark blue piece of dirty steel, while we now come into the departments where the metal is brightened. There is at first the " grind mill." This is a large place which looks like a barn. From one end of the room to the other I obeerved rows of inn- AS YOU LIKE T. menee grindstones acme of them eight feet a diameter. In f ec ory saw etonee and in the front of each sat a guider, He has a little wooden 'seat, wears a woollen shirt, no cap, and a pair of overalls. But over the latter up to hia knees he has wood- en gaiters, made out of four pieces of wood. His feet are Moo enclosed in wooden sheee. The stones aro turned by atom and watered automatically. in the front of this stone the wan sits from aix o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock at noon. Then he has an hour for dinner, when he site down again from one o'clock, until iia in the .evening, Ile has a boy who brines him the instruments as he wants them. The grinding covert meat is the meat important !a the entire factory, and the grinder has to be very sill. fat He be to have a keen. aye, he must know when toress the steel herd agaiust the et ane and when not. A single scraping or the atone too much spoils the whole weapon, and it hes to be thrown Away, Moat of the other work is mechanical, while here it is intelligence that does the work satisfactorily. From the grinding etone the piece of steel newest bright and sharp. It is now taken to the burnishing rooms„ Thin, pert et the work is chiefly performed by bays,. who vary in age from 12 to 10 years, Iia this piece the ° are a number of wheels, but they are very small. Sense of them are of stole, others are covered with leather, which, If the article has to receive a polish, is covered with a pawJer wluo4 lends the blade a high polio', The nob and the back of the beadle are now brilliantly burnished weed the weapon is *owlet very dangerous. Beet still it ie. npi'iuiehud. The dittereut holes which are mallein the lnaudle, the one which fastens the blade au the gnu and eel eral ()theta, axe Pow bored, Ibis to done, however, by macbiuory, and tekea lout A very *4974 Vale. Then the handle isi cevered with leather, stud now that the blade iteetf le thoroughly eurnpietetl it is taken to the ,controlling room. In this department We Reel, ae a rule, mother of old mei, who have been at work for the firm for long years. They area not ableto do actual herd work, but *till in this department their aservices are iudirp_ n - gable. Their duty is, in feet, to exsrtana the article and see whether there is a blcm- iwh :anywhere AN Cron AA he detecte aflew he kinews where itis done, whether , in the hurelehing, the grinding, the Telling. or any Other delisrtreent, egad the Mee wAafr found to ls..vo Inde the tuietake hes to melte it good, or, in other ward*, he 'bee to pay for Rta4 daiu go. Thing* of that laud very often lead to great Iinplentce►s, and Weep it not for the iron dieeipline which is everywhere maintained Sallegoo would 10 the saeone of bloody war every day. When the weapon twee the controlling department It la taken to the serrate where the sheath lute been read*, and after that the thing le peeked and .hipped. This pro• eeaa it gone through with every other article of cutlery scrsaors„ knives, ate. I was also for day in the celebrated knife factory of J. A. Iteuckios, the lfargast in the world. Tho firm makes its own ateel, and has machinery which itt;uninrpattwd. Their ppatent* for .hsrdoaiog steel are very valuable. aero I saw penknivoe made that were so emelt thea they .aro used se watch charm, and every blade in them m ',harpp, n as h wn knifesold et mark par dee a and. alsoa penknife whichcoot35 marks that had no less than 22 different Medea, 13eucklo'a factory employs 1,100 men. Baatdea the workman, however, who are occupied in the brm'a own building'', they give also employ. leant to a number of families who live in the vicinity of the tows. These people go ovary Saturday to the cfiloel, and deliver their finished work. Then they take other goods hone again. Tho Darning' of thoac people, who work day by day, morning, noon, and evening, are not very large. Tho boys make about 50 to GO oenta a day, and the men's wages vary from 75 cents to $1. But more than that gets no ono, and the men aeem to be satisfied—perhaps 'bee cause they know it is no neo to kick. Over -Reading, We aro partly bambotzned by tradition Prom our youth up wo are deafened on all sides by advice to ",read and improve our minds." The inference is that the mind is improved by reading. Bot that inference is open to serious question. For my part, I Should be willing to haxerd the atatement that twice as many minis have been injured by reading than have been benefitted by it, and not a amell proportion of the former have been made entirely worthless by the practice. Itis just like dram -drinking; it is intellectual dram-drinking—and "intel- lectual'' is scarcely the word to use in that connection. One reason is, no doubt, that the drams in question are, for the moat part, of very inferior stuff. But even if it were of the beat stuff imaginable, the detrimental effect would remain. The finest madeira, if swallowed in sufficiently copious doses, will produce delir'um tremens ; and the most un- exceptionable books, if they are also too numerous, will bring on mental dyspepsia. The mind becomes a mere sack to hold d other people's ideas, instead of a machine to gen- erate ideas of its own. And the ideas thus acquired are of no use to it. The mind has lost the power to work them up into fieeh. and blood of wisdom. They remain a hetero- geneous and incongruous mase, Foreign material, whether physical or intellectual, should be taken in with discrimination and moderation, and thoroughly assimilated. Unless you need it and like it, you cannot make it yours ; whether you swallow it or not, it really stays outside of you. Clinese Superstitions. A girl who is partaking of the last meal the is to eat in her father's houses previous to her marriage, sits at the table with her parents and brothers; but she must eat no more than half the bowl of rice set before her, else her departure will be' followed by continual scarcity in the domicile she is leaving. If a bride breaks the heel of her shoe in. going from her father's to her husband's house, it is ominous of unhappiness in her new relations. A piece of bacon and a parcel of sugar are hung on the back of a bride's sedan chair as a sop to the demons who might molest her while on her journey. 'The " Three Baneful Ones" are fond of salt and spices, and the " White Tiger" likes sweets. Tho sun attracts large bodies. That is why the biggest peaches always get on top of the basket. By the way, 5t might interest literary aspirants, applying for Ofniury recognition, to know tlta6 the number of manuscripts the Century per , r month IS'boat The compla!gt in Chlcago is that next to the woman with a baby carriage the little girl on ,a tricycle is making Ilte a burden and pedestrianism dangerous ou the streets. 1 have seldom seen much oetentatian and. much learning met together, The sun, tie- ing red declining, makes long shadows ; and at midday, when he i$ his b5ghrst, none at Thishas been a good season for bears in Maine. A Lewiston furrier *aye that he lies already bought 55 ski ns, end thinks the erop will lit het years, which was 314 pelta. Spidere, ante, ,all'}Bator e$ge, bard eggs, snakes and other thieve are eaten by the various tribes that: inhabit the earth. This serves to *how how far the people aro freta 'starvation. e„hooner hag brought to Beaton a lisle. weighing 175 pounds, caught in deep•aea fishing,. That no one can name. It iA almost as breast as long, bright red and covered with Weer spot*, A Cbicage dead heat las 'mid to be making' A henusome living new by advertising for a wife, and requiring all applfcante to rnotose stamp for reply" ilia mail ben to he sent up in a wrheeibereove. The exoeae set up ter W. A. >S.MO, de, faulting dieeenet vkrk in a I'pila3eifrhia bank, in that he wee eounpletoly nieetitntted by exeeiabre emoltitrgg, end that his down. fall was due to elite fact, S,1>#tp 000 ie always warding *pedal legis.' . Here C4012e4 a Ga.nneGticut mean' ;lug the p eeeege of a law eatapellieg aye restinfeent heepera to lanae their lea and eaedwiehea, peg fxera in thiap country put half aaa terey into their deity work as they auto playing boll, the young main of Lbw try Would lie melt enough to marry be. w eTe two years elder. The South baa t► now word "tnielonairea," and the Nese Orleans Pitter ae 0y.a that le applies only to the*e a' who ship the sista- lent axil mentons eirourbitateene Seetherro fruftaa to the Northern reetropolie. There aro two suudhwer etelke of mauvei growth at Roehelle, l;ir..,. one et which has 1,00E0 And the other 1,136 biennia end buds. Tisa stalks aro about tea fast bigb, witit brauebee reau hiegant ahem; nix feet. Gen, Boulanger bas had hialtatircut; dant and ntow bruiihos it rep in military fashion; A710 ng ae he was the idol of the maws he worn Ars heir long, dAubed it heavily with pereade, end parted it in the zrslddlo. While throe young men worep;Mug ball on the city lot thisnoon s dere lbw swiftly around a corner, was etre* by the ball witch had beery thrown before the bird was in sight, and was killed inatintly. A society hoe boon formed out in Oregon for the itnpnrtatlon of German sung birds, to be turned kose in the ceentry,'where it ie hoped they will !acreage, multiply and make music in the now ellen; woods. The cable tells un. that Ereperor Willlatn. kissed the, Ceerinee'1t.h tt When Europe bas had time to think over it Wil- liam will probably bo charged with giving her Majesty s kits and then taking it beak. The long distanoe telephone service bo tween New York And other tales connect- ed is inereesing sstisfaotorily. It is expect- ed that New York and .Bnffalp will be con noted by fall. This will he trio longest tele. phone in the country, The most splendid entertaitmenbgiven at Peterbor during the visit of Emperor Wil- liam was the State dinner on Sunday week, which tookk place at 7. and 190 oevers were laid. There were 3,000 roses on the tibiae. Pintos, epergnes, dishes, and covers were solid gold. 'Donald Dinnie, the noted ;Scotch athlete, has been posing as a model to a Melbourne sculptor. The sculptor has a commiaaion to produce a statue of Wallace, the hero of Scotland. for the Botanical Gardena of the City of 13aflarat, and the stalwart Donald Is the model, Ssya Sem Jones: "The best thing on this earth is a happy marriage, and the worst thing an unhappy marriage. Whom r God bath joined together let no man put asunder.' Bub whom the devil has joined let them go to Chicago." At latest advices Chicago was filling up quite rapidly. A restaurant keeper at the London Zoo ordered an employee to take two barrels of buns to the bear pit, meaning to the refreshment bar near the pit. The man took him at his word and dumped the buns to the bears. The animals were knee deep in them when the restaurant keeper found out what had been done, and ordered the employee to go down into the pit and get the buns back. The man handed in his rjeignation. A European keeper in gaol at Lahore, radia, heard knocks at his door at a late hour at night, and thinking there were tsievea about went out by a roundabout way to catch them. Seeing nothing, he returned and found a large baboon seated at his round table, warming himself by the lamp light. The animal attacked him and a desperate encounter resulted in the death of the baboon and the dangerous wounding of the warder. Mies Jessie Keyes, of Boston, has a re- markable record, and it is doubtful if there can be found a parallel to it. She entered a public school in that city at the age of seven and graduated at the high school commence- ment the other day at the age of eighteen. During the period of eleven years she neichor lost a day by absence nor a minute by tardi- ness, and she stood seventh in a close of forty-four. 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