Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-09-01

although Gon cannot get old Father
Time to control your treasures as you
hoped.''
She pointed to all the surroundings
of her window. The gardener was
always ready to give Herbert such
help as he wished in carrying out his
floral fancies, and between the two
| nothing was wanting to make things
lovely. Pansies half hid themselves in
the shady corners, and verbenas and
other low growers frightened the
green turf which Herbert had the good
taste to leave undisturbed. Further
of were roses. geranjums and other
generous boomers, while vines hung
in graceful festoons from every sup
port which could be found for them.
And conspicuous among all was the
circle of rare plants which had so
failed in their duties as faithful time
keepers.
don't you think it is selfish" she
went on, Ito keep it all to ourselves?"
swell, mamma, We re always glad
to have other people come and see our
howers.''
Eyes, but there are so many who
cannot come and who never see any
thing sweet and lovely where they have
to stay. So many who are sick and
suffering without ever being cheered by
the sight of such as these''
IL like to carry flowers to sick peo-
ple,' said Herbert, ''but don't know
any one who is sick just now.''
''Mrs. Blake told me when she was
here the other day that number of
the neighbors are going to send load
of flowers to the railroad station to be
forwarded to the sick children in the
city hospi ais
Herbert clapped his hands.
''Oh, mamma: may help?"
eyes. That is how you can bring
your flowers to the Master. Have you
forgotten that he says: 'Inasmuch as
ye have done it unto the least of my
disciples, We did it unto me."'
Herbert was so much accustomed to
his mothers quiet talks aud her quiet
ways and suggestions that the idea
came to him with relish greater than
it would have borne to most boys. 1t
opened new activity before his rather
uneventful life, and he entered upon ii
with a keen zest. The baskets and
punches which he gathered with such
lavish hands were arranged with q
taste and care which could come only
of warm and loving desire to bring sc
sweet an offering. The plants seemed
to put forth their most profuse bloom
as if with consciousness of the PROUD
part they played in Herbert's mission
''They are all gone now" he said
as he brought in the last punches o.
chrysanthemums, upon which thu
frosty dew-drops still fingered.
''Ihey have done well,' said hi!
mother. Your flower clock has no
been very reliable as teller of tn
Herbert's love to his mother. And il
how many sweet voices it has carried
to others the assurance that the hear
of a stranger never to be known unit
the secrets Of eternity are unfolded ha
loved them for the Masters sake
=. The Great Iron Mills.
, Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette
How many people are there who know
that it requires the combined power 0
fifteen steam engines of several hun
derd horsepower each to operate tn
Black Diamond Steel Works, with
huge battery of forty-ive boiler
to furnish steamp Here there are ais
thirtythree steam hammers, from tn
| smallest to the largest in the world
There are so many furnaces under tn
acres Of roofing here that 306 pots Q
steel are used at one heat. The an
nual capacity is $4,000 net tons.
The largest crucible melting furnac
in the world is to be seen at the Ores
cent Steel Works. 1t has a capacity O
sixty pots. They have six trains o
the finest work in the country, some o
it being as fine as knitting-needles
: Their capacity is 5000 tons year.
There are nineteen nail, machine
rugged up at the Etna Iron-Work
5 ready for use, which have been idl
twelve years. At the Millvale Iron
Works forty-one other nail machine
t have not Turned wheel for fifteel
: years. It is said that grass grows il
the cogs of these machines.
With only two heating furnaces an
, four trains of rolls the Oliver 4
! Roberts Wire Company turns on
5000 tons of wire every year o
hundreds of thousands of miles of tn
: thin metal strings that have been tie'
around the world.
There used to De 1O7 pudding fur
, naces in all of the iron-mills of tn
nl;vn,. Rroe K, ph;ll;pe b,,+ tho nv,
ward march of steel has causet
eighteen of them to be abolished
They also have twenty-four heating
furnaces and fourteen trains of rolls
and every year this one firm turns GU
> $1,000 tons of finished iron.
The same tendency towards steel j
observed at the American Iron Works
, Formerly there were seventy-seve1
pudding furnaces there, but of these
eighteen were torn down to make room
for steel plant. Here there are
twenty-three trains of rolls, three
hammers, and sixty-three mai
machines. The annual capacity i!
$500 net tons and 10000 kegs O.
nails.
Thirty-two boilers furnish the steam
that operates the great Edgar Thorn
son Steel-Works. They have Corliss
engine there which has blowing cylin
ders 54x54 in size and steam cylinders
36x54. There are three ten gross-tor
, converters, six cupolas 40x8, four spie
gel cupOlas 4Ox2, and two twel>e-te1
cupola ladies. The daily output is 75(
gross tons of ingots and $50 gross tons
. of rails and billets.
Thirty-thousand tons of railroad
spikes, enough to build several trunk
!. lines of road, drop out of the fifteen
noisy spike-machines at the Glendal
Rolling-Mill on the South Side, while
just above. at the Anchor Tack-WO rks,
sixty five little tack-machines chop out
5000 tons If tacks each year. 1t lie.