The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-04-21

These were full OF pulp, slowly passing
along on one side, around the end of
the partition. and back ON the other
side. About the middle of this side.
part of the channel was covered over.
inside of which they heard q great
threshing and churning going ON. the
work, very evidently, of a whrliur
shaft that passed in at one side.
This shaft said Mr.. Crauch.
"turns a cylinder covered with iron
spikes, and the case i'm which 81 is en-
closed is spiked in the same way The
wet rags are put into the vat with
water. This machinery is put to work,
and the rags, rs they pass between the
spiked cylinder and the stationary
spikes, are of course torn to shreds, and
mixed all up into pulp with the
water. 1t passes slowly around, in one
continuous current, every part in turn
passing through the mill, and being
ground finer and finer, till it is re-
duced to a uniform pulp, loollinga good
deal like corn-starch pudding. Then
it is drawn off into a large tub just be-
low US, and is bleached by putting in
chemical preparation. Then the size is
added; if it is TO be writing-paper, the
ruling done, the edges trimmed, and
the mark of our firm stamped i'm each
corner. Let me take you now into the
| machine-rOOm.
The clatter Of the wheels and rafting
machinery almost deafened Susie and
her mother,W hen they entered the room
in question. Susie did not ask for any
information while in there, for she knew
she could not hear herself speak. The
room was long one, down tho
middle of which extended machine
with wheels and cylinder revolving
this way and that, and a strip Of paper
passing over and under and around the
moving parts till its careerwas cut short
mt one end by a bairof revolving shears
that shipped il off into great sheets. At
one end of the long machine was vat
| or tub, into which the pulp was pumped
up from below. In this tub n horizon
tai cylinder was revolving.
This cylinder" said Mr.. Cranch,
| coming close to Susie and speaking Every
loud, sis covered with very fine brass
wire-cloth. The pump drawing off the
| contents of this cylinder, the pulpis
sucked against its surface when the
water passes in, leaving on the cylinder
a sheet of the more solid part As the
! cylinder turns, this Keeps coming up
| above the liquid mass, and is imme-
diately taken of in one continuous strip
! by this endless belt, you see, of soft
cloth which this roller presses against
it. You see that the paper, only soft
| film at this period of its composition,
! passes over and under successive rollers,
and is pressed and dried as it goes, until
it runs of from the cloth and passes
around those three large cylinders
which are heated by steam inside From
these, you see, it comes off dry and com
plete, strip of paper about a yard
wide. Then it goes on and meets that
| little wheel, which splits it in the mid
die, and gives it to the shears to cutoff.
So, you see, while at one end this strip
of paper is being formed from thepulp,
ut the other it is being cut of into
sheets.
"These sheets are carried, i'm great
piles on barrow, into the wareroom,
where we count them out, fold them,
do them up in bundles, and leave them
all ready for ruling, marking and uim-
ming. H
Dear me, said Susie, with q sigh,
how much trouble about sheet of
paperl'
Her mother smiled
''Do you want TO see the vat into
which the pulp fallsP'' asked Mr.
Cranch, as they left the machine-room.
Eyes, sir, answered Susie; 81 am so
much interested that l want to see
everything s
They went below by flight of rath-
er dark stairs, and found themselves
again within the sound of machinery.
All was pitch dark, except on ono side
where a tallow candle fared dismally.
On the other side was a tremendous
roaring fire, which supplied steam for
drying and heating operations, and for
boiling the pulp. The sound OF ma
chinery came from another direction,
mingled with the dashiug noise of the
water falling from the great water
wheel slowly revolving and working the
machinery of the mill.
They went next into the room where
the paper was ruled. An endless band
of cloth, on which the sheets OF paper
were drawn along, one after the other,
ran under a set of pens, kept constantly
filled with blue ink, and fixed as far
apart as it was necessary for the lines
to be. This ruled a set Of parallel lines,
running the whole length Of the sheet
The pens were made of brass, all Joined
together by piece at the TOP, very
much like a coarse comb. In this top
piece ran little channel, into which the
Ink was poured and in each pen was a
little tube down which the ink flowed to
its point.
" How do you manage 70 foave the
fourth page Of a sheet of n0ta-psper
f blankP" asked Mrs, Harvey, who de
t sired that Susie should learn all that was