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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-08-22, Page 6Y • RIIGffI OF PURCH By ERNEST ELWOOD STANFORD. n'N I I "Sign that! 1 a1Ius get a receipt for Dorena Kellogg was thirty -some.' ny money." She would have admitted it. Kellogg I lllarcellus react: "Received from she had been born, and Kellogg she Dorena Ke:logg, this twentieth day of yet was. Just why, Siedder's Corner. nay, 1914, twelve dollars and eighty - didn't quite know, No beauty- prizes' four eonts, payment in full for twenty - of peripatetic medicine shotes decked: one hundred and forty pounds of hay her mantel, yet her spinsterhood was' ant' other matenizis to be delivered as hardly due to any fault of her clear,1 ordered by said Dorena Kellogg. well -cut features or her straight-: Why, Dorcny, I don't jest see— g=hnn 'cing, steelsgrey eyes. ``about them other materials? Now Perhaps a certain;l]i praeticty of' look Here, Mareellus Bradley! If you bearing, a certain almost masculine think I cant see goldenrod and swing of her tall. vigorous figure, held brambles and all manner of trash that aloof alike the diffident and those who ain't hay and never will be sticking might have been obligingly minded to out all over that load, you miss your rescue the fertile Kellogg farm lands I. guess a whole lot. If Pm willing to from the slipshod management of pay twelve dollars a ton for it, I don't hired men, had their owner been the' see's you've got any kick an what I sort of - cu`.nging vine that drapes un-; ca]1 it. Sign right here!" complainingly twelve hours a day over Mareellus opened his mouth briefly, a red-hot stove. but closed it soundlessly. In some If ever Dorena had felt the lack of, respects, as Gran'nia Tulkinghorn a sheltering oak. Sleddor's Corner, once said, he was almost as wise as didn't know: She lived alone but for: a married man. Marcellus signed. the daily visits of the hired man. Thej "Sam Loftus'll tell You where to traditional cat, for various masons,' put it," said Dorena, counting out the was replaced by an able-bodied bull-• money. dog What lMlarcellus thought as he drove T.i t now he was siting on Gran'ma on has not been recorded. But he is Tu1k'ncehorn's woodbine screened known to have driven past several verandah. "toeing off" vigorously- on, acquaintances unseeingly. A shrewd a gray "Beljum sock." and keeping a customer was 1M1arceiliT, and Si Hazell vigilant eye on the roadway and the! was fair game, but women-folks— store across th., road. I Mareellus certainly did not look quite Presently appeared a well -kept , happy.. farm team, drawing an empty hayrack' Dorena reached home as Mareellus upon which stood, swaying on thej and Sam Loftus backed the empty reins, in the manner of the country,' wagon out of the barn. a tall, loose-jointed but not wholly' "Come here a minute!" said Dorena unprepossessing, sandy -haired citizen briskly. "I want to ask you about my c'' some five and thirty. He drove up apple orchard." on the scales in front of the store, and' Mareellus came --dubiously. He had Ieaped briskly off. while the collarless,' been asked for advice by unattached bespectacled merchant puttered with; ladies before, and one never knew., the weights and finally inscribed the result. "You'll notice," remarked Dorent in a low voice, roadway of this per- formance, "that Mareellus Bradley's on the ground, and the wagon's do the scales." LAYING THE WORLD'S NEARLY ALL THE BY ENGLISH CAP C UUES 1,050 OWNED ITALISTG. This Informative Article Briefly Tells tha Wonderful Story of a Cable Ship's Cruise. 'When we reflect that the world is served by no less than 1,050 distinct telegraph cables, sunk beneath the waters, costing $600,000,000, and that nearly the whole were made in Lon- don and belong to English capitalists, it may be worth while to consider for a moment the operations involved. First, the route of the proposed cable must be determined. In most cases this can easily be done by re- ference to the existing charts. If, however, no reliable charts of the region exist, a special surveying ex- pedition is sent out to determine a path for the cable. The object is to secure, at the least possible depth below the surface, a fairly level platform, free from ridges, which alight chafe anti out the cable; and from hollows or ravines, across which the cable plight not be able to support its own weight. At the same time, it is of the utmost importance to have the cable route as short as pos- sible, fol• every extra mile means an expense in round numbers of $1,000. Making the Cable. Then the. cable has to be made. This is a very long business. 'First there are the copper wires—forming the conductor of electricity—which are covered with four distinct coatings of gutta-percha. Over this are wound two layers of tape—sometimes me- tallic tape is used where attacks from insects are feared. Then come two layers of Russian hemp. After this comes a covering of steel wire. And over all there are two coatings of very strong canvass ribbon, coated with a mixture of pitch and gutta-percha. The average rate of cable -making is three miles' a day from each set of ma- chines; or, say twenty miles a day from the whole factory. The cable near the shore is protected by addi- tional thicknesses of steel wire to prevent injury from anchors, etc. As fast as the cable is made it is coiled down in immense tanks of water and tested continually to see if its electrical condition is perfect. When complete the, cable is •coiled away on board the ship that is to lay it in its ocean bed. Cable ships are twin-screw steam- ers of very great size, with their holds occupied by immense circular tanks. A very large number of men are carried—fishermen and the like— at low rates of pay, for the rough, heavy work; while for the electrical and navigating work a large staff of highly -paid officers are carried. All being reedy, the cable ship pro- ceeds to the point where the laying of the cable is to begin. The shore end is landed, spliced on to the deep sea portion, and connected up to a set of instruments in a hut on the shore. Part of the electrical staff is left in this hut, and a series of signals is passed to and fro between the ship and the hut all the time that the cable is being paid out. As the cable often is two thousand miles long, it may be imagined what unremitting attention is necessary on the part of the elec- tricians. Landing the Shore -Ends. Meanwhile the ship is steadily pro- ceeding onward to her destination at the rate of five miles an hour. It is not possible to go faster, or else it would endanger the lives of the men in the cable tanks, who are handling the cable and seeing that it runs out freely. The work, of course, proceeds night and clay. Meanwhile the elec- what might happen. Midway of the orchard Dorena halted. "I've got to speak to Sam. I'll be right back." (To be continued.) "Why -y—" Sa' Jane's voice began JAPAN'S SUBMARINES. and ended in vagueness. Save for her needles, Gran'ma Tulkinghorn was one vast silence. After raising nine chil- dren and two mortgages,, and capping it is reported by the Tokyo News a successful life by becoming a min- Agency that Japan is preparing for a ister's mother-in-law. one does not great program of subinarine construe - risk a well-earned prestige by idle tion. While the details are not dis- curiosity. One waits, and all things closed, it is understood that the come. strength. of Japan's submarine fleet The sandy person resumed his form- will be increased to about forty by er standpoint and drove off. After the end of the present fiscal year, the half an hour or so he reappeared, this' credits for this building program com- tin:e perched upon a load of hay. This ing from funds voted at the fortieth he drove up on the platform. and forty-first sessions of the Japan - "You'll notice." said Dorena, as the ese Diet, storekeeper resumed his semi -active The far-reaching plans appear in ness, "that this time both Marcellus the statement that 300 experts and me• and the wagon are on the scales." chanics are sent to France and Italy "For the land's sa-ake!" Sa' Jane's by the Japanese naval authorities to voice trailed away before Dorena's study submarine construction. These silencing gaze. Gran'na Tulkinghorn men are now on their way back. At continued to emulate the Sphinx, if the same time the seven ex -German one can imagine the Sphinx knitting a submarines allotted to the Japanese sock. As the scale keeper handed out' empire are understood to have reach - the weigh bill Dorena stepped from ed Sasebo, the great naval base, on behind the screening woodbine. June 27, with experts who have stud- "Marcellus! Mareellus Bradley!" ied their mechanism. Statements to i. The hay driver looked up with a the effect that these submarines are start. to be destroyed with the other sur - "Bring the weigh bill right up rendered German vessels is denied. here!" eainnanded D crena. Japan having spent more than 3,000,- Iarcellus obeyed, with misgiving in 000 yen on them to date. his mind and ,questioning in his face, 41 Thirty-five bachelor years had made • him woman -wise, or at least woman- 8zinara's Liniment Cares c}arget in Cows shy. Dorena, apparently, had never ----'� had designs upon his peace of mind, but—she cetainly was a woman. He cast down his keen blue eyes and chewed the ragged ends of his mus- tache nervously as he stood before her. "That's the hay you sold Silas Ha- zell, isn't it?" Expects to Have Fleet of Forty Sub- mersibles Within Year. "Yep." "Well, I've bought it o' him. 'Stead o' puttin."it into his barn you put it into mine." "Why-ee—" Mareellus cast a strick- en glance at Dorena and then at the load of hay. "I didn't collate— " "Well," said Sopwith, "by means of "I don't suppose you did. But I a pedal attachment, a fuicrunned lever don't sec's it makes any diff'rence. converts a vertical reciprocating mo - I've fixed it with Si. You give me tion into circular movement. The the weigh =bill and I'll pay you right principal hart of the machine is a I now," stone disc that rotates in a vertical Marcellus thrust a desperate hand plane, Power is applied through the through a. tumbled thatch, but Dorena avis of the disc, work is done on the took the paper from his nerveless periphery, and the hardest steel by grasp. Dere impact may be reduced to any "Thirty-one hundred and eighty s no ,, pounds," read Dorena. "'rare, ten hundred and forty pounds. That makes one hundred and forty pounds rnere'n the ton I expected. Well, never mind." R., ers,sc;ihki,,j a moment on a ready writing tablet. Technical Talk. 11r. Sopwith, the well-known aero- plane manufacturer, cordially detests shop talk Once, at the Aero Club, after lis- tening to a lot of it, he slipped into the conversation by remarking: "This'mor•ning I went over to see a new machine we've got at our place at Kingston. It's wonderful how it works." "Anti how does it work?" demand- ed one of the talkers. .. 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Whether you are going for a family an the car, taking the family to church or visiting a neighbour, you cannot go with a day's growth of beard on your chin., The thought of shaving won't be irksome if you own a Gillette Safety Razor— rather, you think of five minutes' cool comfort with the highest type of shaving edge ever developed. No rrian in the world can command a keener blade than the one you slip into your Gillette. And if Gillette shaving gives you an added coy to your Sunday,whynot take five,yninutes ei erymorning for a cl can shave as the start for a better day's work. For $5.00—the price of the Gillette Safety Razor—you have your choice of the Standard Gillette sets, the Pocket Edition sets (just as perfect, but more compact), and the Bulldog Gillette with the stocky grip. Ask to see then: TODAY at the gewellers', druggists' or hardware dealers. 530 tricians take their turns of testing the electrical qualities of the cable, and. exchanging signals with those on the sl, ore. At last the farther shore is reached, and the second shore -end spliced on and landed. Landing these shore -ends is very disagreeable work. It may be that one has to strip and wade up to one's neck in water infected with sharks while carrying or dragging the heavy cables ashore. To keep the juice of deep pies from escaping, turn a cup upside down in the centre, piling the fruit around. it. Mfaard's Ifnimeat Cures Divlitheria All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS G. J. CLIFF - • TORONTO e=Cookcked m Are sellae s— ons but how seldom the beans are cooked right. Sometimes hard, sometimes mushy, sometimes too wet—or perhaps done to a crisp. And the hours of cooking they require and consequent waste of expensive fuel. Next time get "Clark's" Pork and Beans. They are always ready—just heat and serve, and note: Every bean of uniform size—every bean whole—yet every one cooked to perfection, They are sold with three kinds of sauce. 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RNMtl4 ,roe rMavW the taus amain lanalL,iiSiHsn tonem,lOAt M6 at Tq la)[fn1U6tUon,Phy,drJppls,ts7!ll,attOCn Aiil[n1ainoa CAW co,fsartcatetese eta weansU: tAaxana0 14R[11 ., CA! x Asit your Grocer or BleNSC6N'S Today! eel HOUSEWIVES are finding new and delicious uses for Corn Starch every day—in fact, for every"meal. • Not alone smooth, creamy gravies and. sauces, and simple puddings —but crisp, delicate pastries; flaky rolls, bread and biscuits; rich tender cakes and pie fillings; and desserts such as you never thought it possible to make in your own kitchen. Insist on BENSON'S—no other Coni Starch can guarantee such Purity and Delicacy. Recipes on the package: 224 t , 1'i A n', tf qp Mair sl t4P:,�q, jJ� t._„ AROUN T E WORLD NEXT AERIAL FEAT SOME INTREPID AVIATOR MAY EMULATE MAGELLAN.. Curious Means of Travel In Use In, Various Parts of the Globe -- The Wheelbarrow of China. "Now that the Atlantic has been 'crossed and there aro, plans afoot to fly over the Pacific, the day niay not be far distant when some aerial Ma- gellan will make an aeroplane tour. around the world," says a recent writer "There are still many corners of th.e world where aeroplane, automobile and even the horse would be curiosi- ties. And if a man set out to tour the globe and 'do as the Romans do' in respect to adopting • native convey- ances he would have to: "Resort to a donkey in Spitnish America and in the Holy Land. "Climb aboard a camel to traverse African deserts, "Cross some rivers of India on the inflated skins of bullocks, and others by a bridge of one rawhide rope. Using Elephant as Taxi. "Submit- to the sea -going motion of an elephant when he continued his journey on land, "Get lute a man -borne palanquin at Calcutta, - 11 "Jolt over Far Eastern roads in a non -shock absorbing cart drawn by oxen, "And in Chiva be prepared to climb into a jinrikisha, a sedan chair or a wheelbarrow." A few of these curious means of travel are described as follows: "In all parts of that great line of deserts, stretching from North Africa across Central Asia to Northwest China, the camel 'is everywhere in evi• dence; the total number in the world being estimated at about three mil lions: "Not only is the camel a valuablt freight carrier, but he serves as .t.ht travelling car of the Rockfellers, tit Carnegies, the Morgans and the Har- rimans of the desert. When he is chosen for this more pretentious ser- vice a light framework is .placed upon his hack and covered with cloths to screen the occupants from the sun and the observation of the passers, and decorated with pompons of var- MT—colors. ' In this gorgeous cam. partment, which may be not inaptly termed the 'palace car of the desert; the master of the camel train places his wife and children, his choicest merchandise, his cooking utensils and daily requirements, and travels in state, the observed of all observers, the envy of the wandering native of the desert. Craft on the Euphrates. "On the Euphrates and the Tigris are still retained the curious water transports of centuries ago—the raft of skins and the circular boats. These rafts are sustained by inflated skins, prepared for this especial purpose, and after the raft floats down the river to its destination the inflated skins are re- moved, the air permitted to escape, and the skins carefully folded and car- ried back to the upper waters, where they are again inflated and used as the support of another and still another raft. "Even more curious to the eyes of the traveller from other parts of the world are the circular boats, made of wickerwork and covered with skins, or made watertight with pitch, which are still in daily use on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. "The three principal methods of transportation of people in Central and Southern China are the sedan chair, the jinrikisha and the wheelbarrow. "Probably more freight and more passengers are transported in. China by the wheelbarrow than Wally other land method. The wheelbarrow there used differs from that used by us to tl?e fact that the wheel -is set 111 the centre and thus supports practically the entire load, while the handles aro supported in part by a strap or rope over the shoulders of the man who operates it. As a result, the wheels barrow coolie in China will transport nearly a half ton on his vehicle." A Sensitive ''Native Son." When the Calumet and Hecla mines were opened nearly all the miners were Cornishmen. Gradually, how- ever, immigrants from Central Europe began to find employment. The Cor- nishmen looked upon them with die- favor, and at last one of the older men went to Mr. Agasslz, the president of the company, and said that something 1 would have to be done; there were altogther too many "foreigners" eon' ing in. 112r. Agassiz, who was himself a Swiss by birth, listened sympathetical- ly, and eaid: "I think you're right, John, If this hind of thing col;tit.ties, you and I will have to go back to the old country."