HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-4-29, Page 6A Samaritan at the Wheel-
+ If the goed Samaritan a# today
\Weae going down the read from Jer-
;ttsalem to Jericho, he would not be
»ourneying en foot. He would be sit-
ting- at the wheel of his automobile,
whistlin.e on the way; but he would
have his oyes open, just the same, for
the man trudging along the road who
rteeds a lift.
Priests 'and Levites a plenty are out
on the road to -day, just as they were
2,000 years ago. You know them
when you see them. They scud along
smugly with four empty seats, leav-
ing the poor, the tired and the lonely
to travel along the best they can.
But the good Samaritan—ah! What
a blessing he and his car are to the
world! You know by the honk of his
Isom that a generous heart is beating
in Itis bosons. "I'nl coming," it says,
`•and I wouldn't run over you for the
world! Going down -town. aren't you?
°lir_sb eight in!" And away you go.
The whale day is made brighter by
the ida'-lle-trip by the side of the good
taama;tso of the friendly wheel.
Or, it may be the day's work is
over. Votes toad Samaritan is on the
way h:nne, rte i; iter than ever
tt:j sae yell when he ovc'rtalt,s yen. He
icnew^t'u i,_'sy p.m have been. The
dust ot the coed is,'e thick on your
rhouhiars. rise tt,g of the days work
is st;11. ecu hart. or the ?handle or•
the y t , may be growing heavier
1.5;1! t ten of tee way.
fee con forget .t all wl o h, draws'
:+-„t'; .lit(, I..:tli-:°.> y.,U ii?. YOU for -I
gel they. etc ,;red a nlor'ont ago.
;"one ;ie.a t k., lighter again. The'
sore :,': nee a'I I;,.' 1 up :i'o cur;,d
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titsles.. fire
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or xta-_r au; .la ,-_d 1t on
aline. It :; needless
o r. .fret s$ a result he lost his car
'•otud r,ge and was lucky to get out
of the aarnieg t,uild:ns ttltee.
('tai:% woes not taut out morning
gasoline; nee will it prevent its
.spread. Tit fact, It has a::wetly the
opposite are:t, •scattering the flames
everywhere and messing theist to burn
with graces' intensity. The worst
thing t::lt one eats do is to pour water
est hurni;sg gasoline.
To fight this kind of a fire effective -
'Pc forewarned and prepared for
reds an cmeegency. Iieep a bucketful
1 of wird handy, and at the first sign
of trouble smother the burning oil
I'w'th the sand,
A few= little precautions will serve
Ito eliminate all possibilities of fires
)lo the farm garage. The most potent
clanger, and one that is entirely un-
necessary, tames from the accomttla-
door, os' oils on the floor of the garage
doe to dr'pping from the engine.
:after a while, when atmospheric
coedit:eons are right, the oils become
ihighly inflammable and will often ig-
I nue on the slightest provocation.
There are two ways to get rid of this
;evil. One is to use a drip -pan which
twill catch all of the drippings, and
!then empty the pan. This plan will
`keep your cement clean and free of
oil,
A better way is to provide for a
'drip -pit in the floor at the time the
!floor is laid, Merely leave an open
! place 2 x 8 feet in the floor and fill
this with sand or ashes. It will catch
the drippings and absorb them so that
there will be no danger.
I Never fill the gas -tank inside the
garage. This should be done outside,
for gasoline vaporizes readily, and If
there is a spark of fire about, the
vaporized gasoline will surely explode,
unless it passes off quickly into the
air.
For this reason never fill your car
while the engine is running or when
the tail -light (if a kerosene lamp) is
lighted, provided you etre indoors. Bet-
ter make it a rule to stay outside.
Above all, remember to throw your
lighted cigar a long way off before
filling the gas -tank.
As a matter of personal protection,
never crank your car in the garage
while the outside doors are closed,
especially in cold weather. It gen-
erates a deadly poison -gas which has
instantly killed more than one ear
owner. Always have the outside doors
open in order to admit plenty of air
before working with the car. These
precautions are worth knowing, be-
cause they will save you money and
perhaps your life,
The Beginning of Steam
Power.
A recent centenary that passed vir-
tually without notice, at least in this
country, says a writer, was that of
the death of James Watt, the Scot-
tish inventor to whom the modern
world owes so much of its wonderful
material progress. James Watt set
out from Glasgow for London at the
age of nineteen to seek his fortune;
sad it is recorded that he travelled on
horseback and tock twelve days for
a journey that now, as a result of his
invention. can be accomplished in
le=e than eight hours.
Of course he was not the first man
• to experiment with steam power—
•?ro of Alexandria dud so about two
t:itraand years ago—but he was the
filet to build a real steam engine.
• The best previous effort was the so-
called atmospheric engine of Thomas
:;:t ;•ontrn that was used in the mid-
dle t,f tate eighteenth century to pump
[. r
out of coal nines. In 1764
Wet, was called on to repair one of
It c
primitive machines, and the Im-
;uc molt, that he invented took
Amp,! ,, y».r later in ti. Burliest Watt
salts. •
llie!::,rd Trevithiek, a Cornish min-
i. engineer, ilret need Watt's ideas
a propel cars. In 1804 Trevithick had
e steam locomotive. probably the first
railway engine in the world, that ten
on t colliery tramway at Peu-y--Dar-
ron in (Vales. The engine, however,
was found not to be econcnnicaIly
worth while, and the beginning of
. practical railroading had to watt near-
ly two decades for George Stephenson.
The steamboat developed more
rapidly. In 1805 Watt and his lt'trt-
ner, Matthew Boulton, supplied Robert
Fulton with an engine for the Cler-
monis The Charlotte Dundas, a small
pleasure boat, was already plying on
;the Forth and Clyde Canal at a speed
• of seven miles an hour, but the Cler-
mont was the first passenger steam-
ship, and her trip of one hundred and
fifty miles between Naw York and
Albany proved that she was reliable
and useful for commerce.
'We have travelled a long way Iu
engines since Watt's day, but it is in-
teresting to remember that he wrote
of his early triumphs: "The velocity,
violence, magnitude and horrible noise
of my engine give universal satisfac-
tion t0 all beholders.”
A New Monoplane.
The pet'feetiou of a small, simpli-
fied airplane with a purchase price
and upkeep within the reach of the
average man, has often been attempt-
ed in both Europe and America. One
of the latest American attempts has
resulted in the completion of a little
monoplane that measures ,
8 in. In span, weighs but 350 Ib. when
empty, yet is very satisfactory in per-
formance. The single -seat bodyonly25 to Itof
the monocoquo, shell type, with the
four struts of the pylon rising in front
of the cockpit. Braclug wires stretch
from the pylon to eight points on the
spars of the right and lett wing,
Ailerons are of the wing -tip, uubal.
aneed variety. A twin -cylinder, op.
posed engine drives the machine, giv-
ing it a maximum speed of 75 miles
an hour with a load 0f 350 pounds.
Flower Like Sea Worms.
Suttle wortu•+ are attnartivn and
evetl beautiful. If we fail to realise
that feet it le hnranxe eP I,telt of he t
t innate acqunintasseo. 1
One night not, it is Prue, steatite crr-
tain giant etuiltwortus of India wltirlt
attain a length of two feet anti a thick -
of nearly ty, irate). Nor do '5e
care much for tee, Its ,totue of which.
found in South America, are huge iu,
size—veritable vermicular vampire.;,
The leeches used by doctors for blood-
letting. by the way. are imported from
Europe. Our native species are not
llet'ce enough.
The really beautiful wormy lite lo
the sea. They are the most gorgeously
colored of animals, many 0f them te-
aembling the brightest blossoms of the
garden. Sotuo species of then dwell
in tubes, and one kind closes ite tube
with a stopper when it wishes to re-
tire from view. Another always
keeps a pair of live crabs in its house
as boarders.
One species of sea worm, the "sea
centipede," is covered with bristles.
Another, after seizing prey, swallows
it by turning inside out like a glove -
finger, the outer skin becoming for
the time being a stomach lining, Yet
another finds his home In a branch of
Doral, and obliges the coral polyps to
build a tube to inclose him as he
grows bigger. Still another lines its
house with an exquisite mosaic com-
posed of the prettiest gravel and peb-
bles it can find.
When seeking food these animals
wave about in the water brilliantly
tinted tentacles, vivid with all the
colors of the rainbow, and have the
appearance of the loveliest flowers.
Murder Will Out.
Dr, Smith, a well-known physician
and surgeon front central Ohio, corn•
plalned that he had not had a satis-
factory vacation for many years. No
matter where he went, sooner or
later he was called upon for profes-
sional services. "But I'll fool them
this year," he said. "I'm going so far
away that I'll forget where I am from,"
He crossed the prairies and the
mountains and finally alighted from
the stage at a little hotel far from his
native state.
The fishing was good, the woods
abounded with game, and the doctor
congratulated himself upon his good
fortune. The guests at the hotel
seemed to be. a jolly Iot of business
and professional men; no questions
were asked, and each went and came
to suit himself, yet there was a fine
spirit of goodfellowehip.
It was the evening of the fourth day
'after the arrival of the doctor, who
had registered as John Smith, Smith-
'U.S.A., that he was met in
the lobby by the old landlord. "We
have been looking for you, Dr. Smith,
A lady was thrown from a horse a few
minutes ago, and I think she has dis-
located her shoulder."
At the first words the doctor's fish-
ing tackle rattled to the floor, and he
threw up both hands in complete sur.
• render, "How? Where? Who on
earth told you I am a physician?" he
exclaimed.
The landlord's eyes twinned. "You
told us, sir, before you had been here
twenty-four hours; not only that you
are a physician, but that you are a
surgeon as well."
The doctor's face was a blank.
I "You seemed to enjoy our cakes,"
continued the hotel man. "and at
breakfast you called for a second or-
der."
"Wall?" snorted the doctor. "Do
only physicians and surgeons call for'
second orders of cakes?"
"No, many of our guests give second
orders for cakes. But when a guest
persists in addressing the waitress as
nurse, I suspect that he has spent
more time in a hospital operating
room than he has in a country hoteI."
1'
Will -o' -the -Wisp.
Mysterious spectral lights are some-
times seen at night hovering over
boggy places. They have misled many
a wayfarer, luring him into mud or
perhaps a stagnant pond,
"Will-o'-the-wisp" is the name given
by British folklore to this curious
phenomenon, which the French call
"feu follet," or fool fire. The ignor-
ant regard it as supernatural,
Not until very recent year's has it
come to be known that it is a lumines-
cence produced by marsh gas,
Use any left -over velvet in covering
coat hangers. The garments never
slip from coat hangers coveted ie this
manner.
Wanted—Ticks.
litany American manufacturers lose
trade- in foreign c❑untrlot because
they do not cater to the peculiarities
of their prospeetivu customers, bays
:.i r. George IV. llittegrahnut, whose
pure of business is lfougkeng, China,
where Ile handles the good, of many
holm, manufacturers. One emitted-
gocd;t company in the United Slates
lost many dollar's because they slid
not understand the Chinese abhor.
mite of changes, It 1s alnutot the
hardest thing in the world to get rho
average Chinese to buy something 5
new, though when ire once uses an
article and lauds it good it is just as
diMeltlt to got him to change to some-
thing else. In Hongkong a certain
ctuuted product beetuno very popular.
The natives recognized It by the de-
sign of the wrapper an -each can, and
many who could not .pronounce the
American name of the article would
point to the cans on the shelves of a
store. Then one day a large shipment
of the goods arrived with a slightly
altered label, In the interests of art,
the manufacturer had removed a large
,,tar from above the mermaid's head
In the picture.
It caused no end of trouble. With-
out the star, the Chinese, both cus-
tomers and shopkeepers, would have
nothing to do with the goods. If it
bad been the kind they liked, they
argued, there would have been a star
on the label.
"No star, no buy," was the flat die -
tum of a rich old dealer.
There was nothing for it but to'
cable to the United States for thous-
ands of old labels. When these were
placed on the taus the dealers bought
them eagerly.
On one occasion, Mr, Macgtaham
continues, I went to considerable ex-
pense to find out why the sales of a
certain alarm clock were falling off.
The Chinese for a long time would
not buy alarm clocks, and several
packing cases of them stood idle in
our warehouse. Then, unexpectedly,
there came a demand for the clocks
from a small city eighty miles inland.
For a month or two we watched the
growth of the sales with interest.
Then, for no apparent reason, the de-
mand stopped. Dealers back in the
country refused to have anything more
to do with our alarm clocks. Several
urgent letters elicited the reply that
they had found a better alarm clock.
I immediately set forth into the in-
terior, where I learned that one of my
competitors, who handled Germau
goods, had taken my trade from me.
But the greatest surprise awaited me.
On examining one of the clocks of the
German firm I found that it was a
cheap contraption, which cost a third
less to manufacture than the one
made in the United States. But not
only was my rival undoreelling my
goods; he was getting almost twice
as much for the cheap clocks as I had
got for a really serviceable and re.
liable clock.
The storekeepers are usually close-
mouthed, and they merely said there
was no sale any more for the Ameri-
can clocks; the German clocks had
pushed them off the market. For the
life of me, I could not understand it.
Not only was ours the better clock
from every standpoint; mortal ears
never listened to a louder, more dis-
agreeable ticking than that of the
German clock.
Entirely by accident I learned that
the ticking had caused the German
clock to sell. The Chinese were not
buying clocks to use as timepieces. A
Chinese had heard a sample clock
ticking in a store; he liked the noise
and bought the clock. Then along
came the, German clock, whish ticked
much more loudly. To confirm my
discovery, I went into a score of
homes and found many clocks were
turned face to the wall and that no
two were alike in time. As the re-
sult of a letter that I sent posthaste
to the United States, there arrived
soon a dozen large cases of nickel
cloaks that had been made to tick
loudly; besides that, a little bell rang
somewhere inside the clock every
half hour. My competitors sold never
another clock in that neighborhood,
Hastens Cement Hardening.
A uewly compounded substance of
white, powdery forth, which is practi-
cally au oxychloride of lime, has been
found to possess the property ot de-
creasing considerably the time re-
quired for hardening cement. When
5'/s per cent. of it is added to the
cement at the time of mixing, the cal-
cium chloride in it ie dissolved, and
calcium hydrate remains suspended in
the mixture tied improves its quality.
" REG'LAR FEI.1.F,RS"—By Gene Byrnes
Wonder Children and Longeva(y
:1 few weeks ago there appeared au
eemunt of the doings of Santui'l Ites-
ehev,14 It wonderful chess player,
eight years old, who Is confounding
Berlin 151111 itis uncanny knowledge
and skill.
These "inmate' children" always
arouse especial interest, aua. as Horny
explanations are put forward to tic,
count for their apparent genius, there
aro gloomy forebodings its to their
meeting with an early death.
There 114550 been many "wonder phi'.
dren" in the past, and it is strange,
thought true, that quite a large propor-
tion have lived to the average age.
in recent years there have betas a
number of child evangelists who flay,
startled the world by their eloquence
and theology. In the United States a
few year's ago a boy mete years old at-
tempted to convert the whole country,
and when ten years old he was actual-
ly appoluted minister of a church in
North Carolina.
In Great Britain there was a child
twelve years old who preached iu a
Baptist church at Porthcawl, and a
small boy who, at the tender age of
three, began preaching to crowded
audiences and continued to do so un-
til well after ten years old.
In the case of such prodigies, their
talents consist chiefly in an abnormal,
retentive memory, and, provided that
their temperaments are not emotional,
they stand the mental ,strata exceed-
ingly well, though there Is, of course;
the danger attached to the excessive
physical strain which they frequently
undergo.
To this type belong those children
who learn rapidly by heart such
things as the tunes, words, and num-
bers of all hymns its the ancient and
modern It ntu-hoof:. It le retell child•
ren, with n high dovclopmeta of one
faculty, wlt0 100st often meet with
early dtretie and maybe it is in auclh
cases that the old saying '"I'he wase
die young" hull its origin.
But the child chess player i!1 Merlin
beton s rather to the type of Intel-
lectual precoctties, Poch nth the Imam
ed child of Lubeck of the early pati of
the eighteenth century, This child
could recite the whole of the ()Id null
Now Teetitlnents before he was two
years, old, and e. little later he was
an authority on religious histiery and
dogma. He mustered also ancient and
modern geography and history and
several languages before hie death
at the age 01 four years.
A contemporary of this 5vondorful
child was fluent in five languages be-
fore Ito was five, and translated the
Hebrew Bible into Latin and French
at the ago of Dight. He survived until
he was nineteen,
Historical and eilaleel evidence are
both definite In showing that "won-
der -children" are no more liable than
other children to die young, nor is it
found that children who assimilate
knowledge readily and retain it show
any undue signs of fatigue.
The great point In the case of
children marked by special brilliance
is to avoid any attempt at making the
brilliance apply to everything, for in
so doing the existing brilliance in the
ono special direction may tend to dis-
appear. In the same way those, who
are intellectually brilliant must not
be forced t0 become industrious in a
Practical way, for such interference
invariably.hriugs on overstrain and
breakdown,
Palestine and the Jews
The future salvation and prosperity
of Palestine are dependent upon its
settlement with the true Zionist spirit,
1according to Lieutenant Colonel J. H.
Patterson, who knows the ardent
young Zionists of eastern Europe and
America probably better than any
other British officer, Colonel Patter-
son organized and commanded the
Zion Mule Corps which fought in the
Gallipoli campaign, and later organ-
ized the Jewish regiment in Palestine,
commanding its famous battalion, the
Thirty-eighth Royal Fusiliers, the
meet distinguished of all the Jewialt
legionnaires,
His views on the fnturo of Paleatine
are considered significant, not only
because of his familiarity with the
land and with Zionist hopes, but be-
cause he speaks as a non -Jew. In a
recent issue of the London Evening
Standard he said:
"I have journeyed from Dan to Beer-
sheba, from Gaza to Gilead. I have
seen the Holy Land in seedtime and
in harvest. I have felt the devouring
heat of its valleys and the bitter cold
of its mountain tops, Its rocky hills
have frowned despair upon me, yet I
have said in my heart it is a good
land, a land of promise, a land that
can be made once again to flow with
milk and honey.
"How are these things to be done?
First of all the Iand must be made
healthful. Some of the most fruitful
parts are virtually uninhabitable ow-
ing to the mosquito pest. Palestine
lends itself to drainage schemes, and
if the swamps are dried up and all
stagnant water is properly treated one
great curse of the Floly Land—malaria
—will be removed.
"Hand in hand with the drainage
schemes there must flow a steady
stream of selected Jewish immigrants
—men imbued with the true Zionist
spirit, a dogged determination to meet
discomfort and hardship in their zeal
to make the land of their fathers
flourish as it did In the days of old.
Thousands of such men are even now
in Palestine. The numerous Jewish
colonies scattered throughout the land
are a living testimony to the Zionist
spirit and prove what could be done
by Jaws even under the blighting
hand of Turkish domination, The
Jewisdl colonies of Palestine—all built
up in the last forty years—are the
only bright spots in a land which
Turktsh nsfal'ule has turned into a
wilderness.
"The hope of the Jew1s11 people
rests in the soil of Palestine; the bar-
ren hills must once again be terraced
and planted, the valleys must be
drained, tilled and irrigated. I doubt
if there is a soil in the world so Melt
as that of Palestine. I have watslted
a Bedouin cultivator scatter seeds hap-
hazard over a field which he lead
merely scratched with a wooden glee'
as in the days of Abraham. 1VIiLite
a couple of days some rain fell and
within a week a green field of corn
sprang sus.
"With suitable, farming in.t,iztn ut
seed, fertiliser and irrigation. 5sira
immense p,s: ibliities In t ,!:; t iclt
land! If the Jordan valley is made
habitable to tI1a European it ;!.._.1) re-
ward awaits the colonist. tt,e stel t,
wonderfully fruitful and every kind of
tropical product eats he grov,a."
With caul or fuel of any kind un-
available the Jordan can be 1larne -'. c i
and used in a thousand w,r,a'a to ec, fell
Palestine, according to Colonel Pat-
terson. •
Bored Stiff.
The latest story about the Prince of
Wales' American tour relates to a
Call he made on President Wilson
when the latter was ill to bed,
The President told the Prince that
the bed in. which he 5vas then confined
was the identical bed in which
H.R.H.'s grandfather, Edward Vila
slept when he was a guest at the
White House before the Civil War.
"And," said the President, "it was
from that -window over there that
your grandfather, bored to tears by
the unceasing round of formal enter-
talnmente, escaped one night down a
rope ladder and got out to frolic with
some friends."
The Prince walked across to the
window, looked out, and sighed, "I
wish I had put a rope ladder in my
luggage," he said.
What Worried Him.
One of the best stories told by Lady
Bonham -Carter, who helped her
father, Iter. Asquith, at the Paisley
election, concerns the days when Eng-
lish women were fighting for the vote,
"Why is 1t that you are so strongly
opposed to extending to woman tate
right to vote?" one man was asked.
"My wife has become a Suffragette."
"Well, what of it? Do yeti find that
she neglects the children or that she
isn't paying enough attention to the
business of running the house?"
"No, it's not that. She's become so
well-informed on public matters that
I have to peep busy reacting all the
thue in order to prevent her finding
out my ignorance conc'er'ning such
things"
Shay.:ng notes is a barber-ous way
of retaking a living.
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TRACKED BY
THE TYPEWR1T
MACHINES THAT
BETRAY CRIMINALS.
Methods of British Typewrite/
Company in Tracing Irr'e-
gular'ities in Manufacture.
With the blackmailer and imam
other types of criminal, the anony'
mous letter has always been a very
useful expedient,
1t is a common belief that a letter
written by it typewriter cannot lie
Identified. That, this idea is 111 -found-
ed was proved by the recent "$30 a
minute" case, which excited much in-
terest to England. It will be remember-
ed that this ca,111 co•llapaed with dratnu-
tic suddenness whoa certain anony-
mous typewritten fetters were traced
to a witness wlto had denied all
kuowledge of them,
This startling revelation was
bt'ought about by the managing direc-
tor of a well-known llrltlsll typewriter
company, who 1s an expert typewriter
detoetive.
"Despite the supposed standardiza-
tion of machines,"Nuys this unconven-
tional sleuth, "there are really no two
machines in the world which arc ex-
actly alike.
'The cause of this Individuality
among typewriters is that th.e type
is not engraven-_tehieh would be a
far too laborious ami costly task but
goes through a pro!:eas called 'rolling
up,' in which it is struck out by a.
revolving stamp. 'lids produces irre-
gularities obvious to aa expert eye.
Iu fact, when a typewriter leave: tllo
factory, a specitn"'i c•1 its 5rritln,tt is
always retained tool signed by the c,a
justcr. Should any c'omplaint at',.",
e. leiter written 00051 the? m:tcls G;c ::til
always enable ti's to trace it I,tl55 to
the. mechanic alto pal te'l it. •
f1 Dramatic Care.
"One typewriter will 5.5a ;1 t
expert to ijtrontple ,' 11
lu _y tr lies 11 t 'h,: I th
while .t few r t -t.:r t t t'•, .:,'y
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p.t+Nn1l•u• n,; l t a
t'\Y:: • to ,,.. ,0 t10,3cgwrtlot•!.'wstn ! ot�ylt h::: n;
her typing, 10 15 1 (.1,', ,,t
,Ln1^he ta, tt, tyi,: •t r.
t'ea't- i her'so!f In. h r ' ,
Ionia word; 051 a frr•;':
,r0.1,ling and .e.seeunl':., t6• a.
have never fail ,? 1. n. •u-
1', 0111 10 111i, C, -.1 1.1 1 °tin
it. Most p01,51.' wit., ,,,c 'lo• tocipt-
rats et uesiienc'1 lel nee ta a de enol•
Cary or bi.u..ta,s_, rr ' . b.,
E vogue 1(101, '10 t!, r:ll..lir.• i.:
j in investls•sing 55 5:85:. t.,Orreee. ,nr
first step is to secure tt .1,cciva:a of
:writing front a likely emehtr.',
I compare it with the el 'cuss; lot.,•a.
This leaves no &met 113 10 t11' fit-
nocence or guilt 01 the suspect,
"I once investigated a very drama.
tie case which tlelnonetrttted the oro-
trenaely tell-tale nature of the typo•
writer. A. man, wishing to bre' client
the death of a certain woman. wrote
on his typewriter an anonymous letter
to hor doctor. iu it he suggested b,
the physician that it would b0 warts
his while to po'son his patient.
"After a short time, however, he
learnt that the doctor, so far front
acting upon his dastardly suggestion,
was probing the matter. Crowing
alarmed as the net of investigation
vras closing around him, he tools a
potter and battered his typewriter, ex-
plaining on inquiry that ho had had au
accident and dropped tate machine.
"But in spite ot the rogue's attempt
to mask his guilt, rite dautagel types -
writer still retained enough evidence
to secure him a Weil-detorved sere
tenco."
Ventilating Device For
House Kitchens.
Though electric ventilating Inns
have been used for a number of years
by hotels anti rosttierants to expel im-
pure fir from kitchens,it was not ate
til comparatively recently that these
devices wore manufactured for instal-
lation in private home. Among the
new colitriveneer at this type is one
designed to be placed in the upper
sash of an ordinary window, and to
be supplied with current through a
plug.equipped cord, which can be at-
tached to any convenient light socket.
A notable feature et this fa.n is an
ingenious motor-cool:4g system, which
includes a curved pipe, extending from
the motor housing to the edea of the
fan guard, Outside air is drawn into
this duct, and passes over the motor
before being discharged through holes
in the front of the Housing,
Gold From River Beef.
Old -tante miners in California weft -
ed the gravels for gold vritit primitive
apparatus. To -day the same tiring is
done on a wholesale ; elle with
dreages.
A scow -built steamer fishers dors
to a river bank, and with nit endleae
chain of scoop broken literally gate
fie way into the latter, fetohtng the
grovel aboard and presently passing It
pverjtoard, after the gold has been
eepat'ated out of It by floating It with
quantities of wetter over a table with
many "riffles" that catch the heavy
yellow NOW, Mercury ("which hes art.
affinity for gold) is used to help.
By this moans 40 per cent,01 Cho
gold output of California le uov1adesoo