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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

IL is well known that turbine engines
at much lower power than that for
which they are designed are not so
economical as ordinary engines. Up
to the highest speed at which the
King Edward had been driven they
found an always increasingly favor
able consumption of coal in relation to
the speed of the vessel, but the design
ers had no means for knowing how far
this tendency might reach
However, It was ascertained that It
would have been necessary to reduce
her speed to between seventeen and
eighteen knots, as on trial before ordi-
nary engines, under the same condi-
lions and the same speed, would burn
less per knot of speed. this seventeen
or eighteen knots speed corresponding
to about fifty per cent of the total
maximum power of the turbine en-
gines in the King Edward.
The turbine steamer King Edward
is, according to Capt. Williamson. the
largest vessel ever built for passenger
traffic on the Clyde. This steamship
has developed traffic beyond the ex.
pectations Of her builder, and it is ex.
pected that the Queen Alexandra will
greatly add to these developments.
II the Queen Alexandra turned out to
be as successful as the King Edward
has proven, 1t is certain that the doom
OF the reciprocating engine for ma.
rine purposes is sealed forever. and
this, of course, means nothing less
than a gigantic impetus for turbine
machinery.
Charles A. Parsons, the inventor of
the turbines used In these new TYNE
OF vessels, has given some interesting
data relating to the economy of tur-
bines at low powers. AS remarked
above, In this the reciprocating en-.
CINE has Its sole advantage-it NAV
run as slowly as desired, with a min
imum sacrifice of economy. The
Clyde steamships for carrying mas.
sengers are always run at or near suII
power, and so there is no need N
study the question of economy az low
powers, but when their application
was considered in reference To war
vessels, most of whose service was
performed at cruising speed, when
the power exerted was perhaps only
one-tenth of that at full speed then
this question of economy at lower
powers became one of vital import.
ance.
Arrangements have already been
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
The Window Nasner.

Just as l finished the City Sawmill
item | noticed a window washer on
the outside of another building.
He was cleaning the windows of
the fifth floor and he had no appli-
ances for his safety, such as straps or
ropes and hooks with rings in the
casing.
He certainly has nerve to do this.
but nerve without appliances is safer
than appliances without nerve.
While visiting farmer he took me
to two trees to show me how light
ming came down one tree to near the
ground, then went clear through the
big trunk of the other tree Just like
a cannon ball.
Soon after this that same farmer
lost his big barn by fire and the fire
was reported due to lightning and a
broken lightning rod; therefore is not
a broken rod worse than no rod? If
you have rod on your building see
that it is in good shape. But does
lightning ever strike a tin roof?
Years ago l read or heard that 1t does
not, and If you have a case In your
knowledge showing that it has /
would like to know about it.
The man is washing windows yet,
and seems to be just as much at ease
as IL he were on the ground.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
THE HARDNESS OF TREES.
Said to Depend Largely on Where
Seeds Come From.

said to Depend Largely on Where
Seeds Come From.
An expert nurseryman says the
hardness or nonhardiness of trees de.
ponds largely upon where the seeds
from which the trees in question
sprang came from. Satisfactory re.
suits are seldom experienced by
planting seed obtained from the
Sunny South, say. BY planting seeds
gradually further north, however.
trees may be at length hardened and
acclimated until seed from such a
tree may be reasonably expected to
thrive and mature its fruits.
Trees, like people, acquire their
habits from the climate in which they
live. The northern tree knows in
stinctively when the time has come
to ripen its fruit. The southern tree
follows the same instinct, being in no
hurry, as there is little likelihood of
real cold. With transplantings further
north its habits changes.
The great trouble with most people
is that they want to jump a tree
from South to North at one move.
This same idea is evident in the at
tempt to bring various fruit trees
from Russia to the northern United
States.
Apples and plums from the land OF
the Great White Gear have taken
kindly to. the below zero conditions
of the gentle Dakotas.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
Finish what you are
at before you let it get
away from you.

A publisher of a weekly religious
newspaper told me that one of the
most useful habits he had formed is
to finish what you are at while you
are at Incomplete it while it is up,
II possible, so that it will be forever
done.
A general manager recently told me
that he was helped by the way an
express agent-station agent-telegraph
operator at little town held his
three positions after the town got a
boom and grew into a big business
center. This agent was the only one
In the boom territory towns that held
his job.
The way he did it was to keep cool
and never let letter or order out of
his hand until attended to. Some peo.
pie do their best when they have to
crowd hours into minutes and some
others do their worst, as in one case
an order filler was a reliable worker
on two hundred orders a day. but
when he tried to do three hundred or.
ders day he went to pieces and
fumbled.
In some kinds of work when orders
are slow or business is dull. poor work
is done. Only when things are
hustling is the work done as it should
he. Exercises will help both condi-
tions. Poor work during dull spells
is due to lack of mental exercises,
and poor work during rush times is
due to low vitality and should be
overcome by physical exercises.
The manager who told me about the
station agent also told me about his
own work, which frequently came to
him in way to prevent closing up
subject while he had it up, and he
claimed that he was irritable on ac-
count of it.
Resourcefulness, which enables one
to influence for better methods the
beginners of poor methods, is in de.
mand, and obtainable. Irritation is a
signal to be up and doing something
to counterfeit it.
There are liquid colors which are
able to saturate a human body
through and through. There are in
dividualities which will benefit all
who are in any way connected with
the firm and all customers of the firm.
This individuality can be analysed
and cultivated if thoroughly desired.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

respects the two steamships would
have to be practically alike.
These specific requirements were
due to the fact that with steamships
there is no measurable amount of
work done, as there is in generating
electricity, and so relative compare
son of steam consumption in propell-
Ing both types of ships at the same
speed and equal draught displacement
becomes necessary.
The commissioners were enabled to
obtain two ideal vessels of the oppos-
lite types. built by Messrs. William
Denny & Brothers, the famous ship.
builders of Dumbarton, who placed at
their disposal the Arundel, twin
screw steamship, and the Brighton, a
turbine steamship.
In the Brighton the propelling ma.
chinery consists of three sets of tur-
bines, manufactured by the Parsons
Marine Steam Turbine company, sup.
piled with steam from boilers of the
Scotch type constructed by Messrs,
Denny & Co. The arrangement of the
turbines is similar to that of the King
Edward and the Queen Alexandra, con-
structed with so much success by this
firm; that is, three shafts with FIVE
propellers. the center shaft being
fitted with one propeller and the two
side shafts with two propellers each.
When maneuvering the vessel the
center shaft runs free and the two
side shafts take the place of the ordi-
nary twin screws, and, as has been
demonstrated in the Queen Alexandra,
the power of maneuvering is in every
respect as good as In ordinary twin
screws, while in going astern there is
none of that Objectionable vibration
which Is felt even in the most modern
twin screw arrangement.
The Arundel, on the other hand. Is
fitted with balanced twin triple ex.
pGnsion engines of the reciprocating
type, of the most improved design,
and of such size as to practically con-
sumo all the steam the existing boilers
can make, so that her displacement
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
She Got un.

The elevated car was full of men
and women when an old man in plain
clothes came in and stood up with
his hand in the strap.
woman with cheeks too fieshy
and red to appeal to an artist was
near the old man who was standing.
Before any of the men could or did
offer him their seats, she got up, mo
toned to him, and he sat down.
Her face was too highly colored.
but she gave the old man a chance
to sit down. Her hands were not very
graceful in proportions, but she gave
the old man a seat
She could have learned much of the
better dressed men and women sit
ting near her, but she gave all of them
good sermon when she gave the old
man seat.
Some of those near her knew the
latest hint from Paris, but she gave
them later hint from the heart when
she gave the old man seat.
IL her life here Is not heightened
by her letting the old man sit down,
may her joys in the next world be in.
creased by 1t.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

made to solve this difficult problem
In several different ways. For in
stance, the turbine equipment of a
war vessel might be made up of a
number Of small units and Mr.. Par
son is of the opinion that by this and
other means turbines may be oper-
ated as omicalJy-probably much
more ecoaomicaiiy-than ordinary re-
ciprocating engines at the same low
power, while at high speed the tur-
bines would have an advantage OF
from twenty to forty per cent.
While the Cunard commission was
doing its work in England a board of
experts had been appointed by the
government of this country to deter
mine the efficiency of the steam tur.
bine for the navy. The former COM
mission is still at work, while the
home board has already sent in its
recommendations Both the Parsons
and Curtis turbines were thoroughly
investigated, and, while the report
was favorable to the new engine, their
conclusions were automatically stated
in their reports and merely prescribed
trial of the turbine on a limited
number of vessels.
Up to the present time the United
States has led the world in the utili-
cation of the turbine for stationary
power plants and England has been
in the lead in the application of tur-
bines to the maritime service, now it
has taken another initiative and is
equipping a torpedo boat, the Anne
thyst with turbines capable of devel-
oping ninety-eight hundred horse
power.
Mr.. Westinghouse, whose company
controls the maritime as we'll as the
stationary turbine rights to manufac-
ture the Parsons invention in this
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
Profit in loss is worth
watching, as it may
We a Valua bic
thought mine.

+ The first of the year many book
keepers are studying on profit and
loss, but all of us all the year can de
vote time to profit in loss.
A passenger missed a train and In
waiting for the next train lost so
much time he decided to try to re-
gain some of 1t by branch car TO
save half-mile walk.
The next train came and he board
ed it. When the branch car station
was reached he left the train for the
car just in time to see the car go
without him.
This made him lose time, money.
and gave him a chance to lose his
head. In place of the latter he opened
his eyes to see how he could learn
something worthy of the trouble.
Had he lost his head he might not
have observed an old acquaintance
standing few yards away waiting
for car on a third line. He went
over, shook hands and secured useful
information.
Had he lost his head he might not
have noticed the bright little girl on
the branch car that finally came and
carried him to his appointment late.
But he did notice the little girl on
account of her executive ability. She
was with her mother and brother and
two sisters and she managed the
crowd. She found her mother a va
cant seat and got her the length of
the car to it. This little Miss Execu-
tive attracted attention so that a
man gave his seat to her larger sister
and lady moved enough to permit
her to sit on the edge of the seat by
her and remarked that she was the
conductor of the car She was the
conductor of the family and as happy
as lark in doing so. When near
their destination she saw a young
man by house watching for them
and notified her family that Jim was
there by the back door, Jim went in.
as soon as they began getting off the
car, it may be to notify the kitchen
to dish up the New Years feast. Miss
Executive was running through the
front gate as the family reached the
sidewalk from the car three rods
away.
The passenger who saw this as
compensation for lost time and money
reached his place late, but the other
person in the appointment was later
and all ended well. We all hone Miss
Executive did not eat too much din
ner, but such active people arc not
likely to.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

At the present moment the eyes OK
the engineering world are focused
on the steam turbine. The remarkable
interest manifested at this time is
due to the three recent developments
involving the turbine type of prime
mover, but all of which are. curiously
enough, commercial rather than me-
chanical.
The first of the series of events to
claim attention was the organization
of a number of British experts who
formed the Cunard Turbine commits
sion, the object of which was to de-
termine the economy and endurance
of the new system when compared
with the reciprocating engine. The
commission has just now entered upon
It's final duties, and is making exhaust
i've tests with the new mode of marine
propulsion.
Next to this the Importance and far
reaching utility of the turbine was
again brought out wildly when the
award was made by the New York
Central railroad to the General Elec-
trio company for a complete turbine
equipment with which to operate the
electric generators employed in the
traction system through the tunnel
and on the Mott Haven division. The
third instance was the announcement
that the Westinghouse company has
acquired the rights to manufacture in
the United States and Canada the Par
sons steam turbine.
To return to the Cunard Turbine
commission and its tests for securing
data upon which to base its findings,
favorable or derogatory, as the case
may be, 1t was necessary for it to
obtain two vessels, one equipped with
reciprocating engines and the other
with steam turbines, but in all other
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
EmpIoye VS.. Seller


Here is a gain have made durins
the first week of 1904.
In place of using the word emnlove
am using the word seller.
Buyer and seller mean emplover
employee and customer.
The words employer and emplove
do not wear well with me.
The so-called employer is a buvar
and the so-called employee is a seller
OF time, strength, skill, information
The ono who does the work sells
Just the same as the ose who has tbo
work done sells after it is done
So my new statement is that INV
Arcade Index library is a central hn-
reau for the collection, exchange and
promotion of information personally
useful to the individual, either buvey-
or seller, in mechanical, commercial
and professional lines.
The subjects are food. cloth,nv
recreation, reliable health. accuracY
forethought. useful originality ana
agreeable disagreeinE. The object ~
my plan is to reduce mutually ax
pensive blunders, mistakes. error
and accidents.
The information has boen ard a.
being gathered by means of invast,so
tons, experiments. researches con.
LESSONS, interviews, observations ex.
periences and original study. II Is for
you personally.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
The Steam TUrbne Is 1t 10 Be the
Marine Engine of the Near Future?

A. Frederick Collins in New York Herald.
Is slightly increased by carrying the
extra weight entailed by the heavier
triple engines as compared with tur-
bines.
Had the King Edward, another tur-
bine steamer, been equipped with
similar reciprocating engines as above
described Mr.. Dummy, her designer and
builder, declares that the best speed
they could possibly have obtained
would have been nineteen and seven.
tenths knots per hour, as against
twenty and half knots, which was
actually done by the King Edward.
The attempt to attain and main
tain this speed would have resulted
In an enormously increased first cost.
a ruinous expenditure of coal and
trightful wear and tear on the machin.
cry. Superficial tests have been made
between the Duchess of Hamilton. a
boat having compound engines, and
the turbine steamer King Edward.
From comparison 1t has been found
that the Duchess of Hamilton burned
sixteen tons of coal with a speed of
sixteen and a half knots an hour. The
King Edward made eighteen and a
half knots and consumed eighteen tons
of coal.
The Duchess of Hamilton, however,
had only compound engines. BY the
use of triple engines her consumption
could have been reduced. but even
with triple engines if she were to be
driven at eighteen and a half knots
on service her consumption would
have been over twenty-five tons, as
against eighteen tons in the King Ed
ward, which corresponds to a saving
of about twenty per cent in favor of
the latter.
There is another question regard
ing the coal consumption of turbines.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
t1appx Family Aflnat

IL there be any calling from which
1t might seem that the hand of woman
was by nature debarred, it is that of
clerk on a steamer. There is New
Orleans family which gives such a
theory as this the lie, however. Capt.
John Steckfus owns the packet in
question, and his clerk is his daughter
Lille now q pretty girl of FL. Two
more OF the captains daughters also
assist about the boat. 1t is a happy
family Rfioat.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
The Lost Ruo

A man decided to take his furni-
ture out of the storage warehouse and
keep house again. The day he did it
such a snow storm came up that he
is sure it cost him twice as much To
move as it would had the weather
been reasonable. Now this man likes
rugs and the extra expense he was
put to on account of the weather
would have bought rug. He blames
that snow storm rugs worth and tn.
him that is good deal He feels
ugly. In his mind the price of a rig.
IN rug is a great deal bigger than
the price of rug in the bank. Won
and are that way on some things If
! were to lose the price of a fine
blank book l would think less about
it than if it were a fine blank book or
If | thought of the money in a fine
blank book
The poor people do not know money
as money. We do not respect II &C
stored up energy. To love it and dis
respect it are both errors. We should
learn how to look at it in an intelr
gent manner, but while our personal
wants exceed our financial ability We
Will think of money in some desired
object.
While talking with furniture deal
er In Buffalo saw him shock himself
by thinking what the money he had
spent during the year for a certain
object would mean if represented Inv
furniture. Can you see value whether
in money, old iron or diamonds? II
may be dangerous for us to look nj
money through some special object
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

country, recently said that a great
marine turbine industry would be built
up in the United States for all class
es of ships.
The only field where it is likely the
steam turbine will not directly sue.
coed the reciprocating engine is on
the railroad, but electric motors op-
Grated by stationary turbo-generators
are SO rapidly taking the place of
steam locomotives that in another
generation the last railroad engine
may be coveted by the British Mu.
scum, to take its place by the side
Of Stephenson's famous old Rocket.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
The Really Clever Pos.

There is much more intellectual
cieverness among the girls of to-day
than there was fifty years ago. A
fippant cousin says: 1T does not pay
for girl to be clever; men are afraid
OF you If you are, and the other girls
hate YOU" The really clever women
are those who disguise their learn.
ing, and pose as amiable and charm.
ing idiots.-Ladies' Field
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

English scientists have discovered
new poison, one Whit OF which would
Kill a whole roomful Of people. Why
should scientists devote valuable time
to the making Of that kind of discov.
cry?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

Men representing four billions of
dollars inspected the New York sub.
way recently. Ii 1t had caved in. the
life insurance companies might have
had to go out of business.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

The husband of an actress assaulted
an eastern critic the other day for
saying she couldn't act. The husband
was justified. The lady being his sole
support he might have been compelled
TO work for a living II the critics
charge had not been disproved.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

One visiting scientist is of the opin-
ion that the boil weevil can be eradl-
Gated by more careful culture OF cot
ton. This is like trying to get every.
body to agree to go to church on Sun
day morning.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

Two men died OF heart disease In
New York the other day, after running
upstairs to catch elevated railway
trains. And the world is going on
just the same as IL they had made
connections and got there right on
time.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

President Loubet of France attrib.
utes his good health to taking long
walks every morning between and s
o'clock. But some people would rath.
err have poor health.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

II was an incident powerfully remi
niscent OF Dickens "Our Mutual
Friend" when in Cambridge, Mass. a
poor and friendless old woman died
Just as she was being taken up the
steps Of the poorhouse.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

President Wilson says "the typical
American is the man hundreds of
miles away from the big cities and
unspoiled by them" And we may add
that he II getting to be rather lone.
some.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

While it is proper that churches
should conform with the law in the
matter of exits, most ministers find
their greatest difhculty in getting men
to patronize the entrances.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

mo friendly Intervention" say the
Jap and the bear. Each has had
enough Of 1.-THE bear after whipping
the Turk and the Jap in the Chinese
affair.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

The New England milk producers
union is to be capitalized for 81 900, 600.
The capital stock would have been
larger. but the springs have been low
this winter
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

A Utica man has been arrested and
fined for snoring in church. People
who can't sleep noiselessly should
stay at home on Sunday.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22
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enemies Of easy errors and the
friends Of forethought, to re-
dNce mutually expensive mas
takes Of mechanical, CONNER
cia1 and professional people.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

A woman's idea of becoming hat
Is something that looks like flying
machine that has been struck by light
ming.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-22

The dove of peace can scarcely be
expected to nest in either the Russian
whiskers or the stewpan hat Of the
willy Jap.