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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
MOLD FOR CEMENT BLOCKS.

and sides are fastened to the base
with hinges, which permit them to be
turned down to take out the completed
block. On each end, explains Popular
Mechanics, is placed a fiat iron bar
with a bend or notch in it to hold
the sides together. These bars are
the same as hooks with the ends eX-
tended to form a handle for con-
venience. The end pieces have a thin
piece of board fastened in an upright
position on their inner surface to
form a key between the completed
blocks.
The bottom board, Fig. 2, is to be
fitted in the bottom of the mold loose
ly and can be blocked up from the bot
tom to make the right size block.
The plugs, Fig. 3, are made with a
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
THE OLD HUGLE.

As if sounded 'mong the pines,
Whore beneath the skies Of Sumner
Stretched tine endless battle lines;
IT is calling. calling. calling,
In region far away.
Where the dcws of night are falling
on the Blue and on the Gray.
I'm the loue-dcserted camps.
Where above the fields of glory
Nightly nit the hrc-av lamps;
It is blowing, blowing blowing,
Where the crimson rivers ran,
And its notes are swcctlv minglins
With the rushing Eapidau
on tho music Of the hu@lr.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
DIG AND BE HAPPY.
spadework Advocated as a Cure for
Ills.

Mr.. Stephen Gwynn, an English
member of parliament, claims to have
discovered an infallible recipe for
health.
Taking as his text an alleged die.
tum of President Roosevelt: Sweat
and be saved" he declared that if per.
spiration is the acme of physical cul,
ture, an analysis of the means by
which it may be obtained is not to be
sneeZed at.
The Frenchman perspires with eff.
fort. Germans are "even more ad.
mirably porous and your professor,
sitting TRANQUILITY beside his beer can
drip like laborer in a bayfield,"
Among English and Americans of
the higher class this result can
only be attained through elaborate
machinery, generally disguised as a
game"
The objection to salvation by games
is that they cost too much in time
and money. Fencing and golf are in
stances. A gymnasium is "a des.
perate eXpedient." Mr.. Gwynn had
rather break stones than beat the
air with heavy dumbbells or light
ones.
We must rule out running, because
man who made a habit of running
half a mile a day would be counted a
lunatic-"for he could not always pre-
tend to be catching a train"
But if you have only a plot of
ground in suburb you can dig. Mr..
Gwynn wonders that the doctors "have
never discovered digging" An enter
prising specialist should find that
newly turned-up soil has medicinal
quality in its eXhalations.
Those who reject fosso-therapeutics
might try wood chopping. Mr.. Gwynn
has visions of lean, athletic men in a
warm glow of health, bringing home
neat bundles of logs.
But Mr.. Gwynn's pet idea is digging,
which, he observes, has also an educa.
tional value. No one after two hours
spadework will be quite so pat with
denunciations of the idle working
man" who thinks two dollars little
enough for eight hours digging.
He stigmatizes as blasphemous the
idea that devotion to athletic rites
generate a kind of morbid craving to
perspire.' Man. he AYERS, has con
sttuton arranged on the assumption
that he will perspire daily. If he does
not the constitution viii go wrong in
ways familiar to ak brain workers.
Cornhill Magazine
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
BeIgium's New Coal Field.

The Belgian government has under
consideration the exploitation of the
new coal basin discovered in the
northern part of Belgium. The first
discovery of deposit of coal in this
region was made in 1901 by means of
borings extending to a depth of LOO
feet. Since then borings, some of
which are about 5000 feet deep, have
demonstrated the existence of a rich
zone of coal under the provinces of
Limbourg and Antwerp, having a
length of about Sc miles, and maxi
mum breadth of ten miles. The
great average depth of the deposit
naturally presents the chief difficulty
in the way of it's exploitation.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05

EXPLANATION.-T diagram shows
the wheel in the flume immersed to depth
of six feet. Wheel is 2S feet diameter;
lG paddles; space between each paddle
at the outer rim, five feet five inches.
The paddles are set at an angle to the
spoles and are thus seven feet long.
The inner rim, to which the inner end
of the paddles are attached, is 16 feet
in diameter, or slightly more than so feet
in circumference. The spece between the
inner ends of the paddles is three feet
one inch. The width of each paddle is
four feet At five revolutions per minute
952O cubic feet of water is raised, or 571,-
200 cubic feet per hour, or 1928 tons of
water per hour.
are 16 feet deep and "a feet wide at
the bottom. The building up of the
dixie and the digging of the ditch was
done by a dredge which, starting at
the river, dug its own channel around
the tract, the earth taken out in the
operation beng dumped on the outside
to form the dixie. Running straight
across the tract are five smaller
bitches, joining both ends with the
main ditch. At the corn"r of the tract
where the north and east sections eff
feet a junction, at the lowest point,
the power house was erected and the
water wheel and the machinery to op-
crate it installed. Under the power
house and cutting straight through
the dixie there is a sluiceway four feet
wide and so feet long by 16 feet deep,
constructed of concrete. In this flume
the water wheel Is set, it's shaft ad-
justed so that it's wood paddles are
within a quarter of an inch of the
smooth fiat walls and bottom of the
flume. On the outlet end, where the
wall is rounded to conform to the cir
cumference of the wheel for dis
tance of six feet from the bottom
the end of the paddles slip along the
surface and discharge the water into
the outer sluiceway.
The wheel is 2S feet in diameter and
four feet wide and constructed en-
tirely of steel. The wood paddles are
bolted on at decided angle to the
wheel spokas, in order to permit the
water to flow off more freely as the
wheel reyolyes and the paddles pass
the mouth of the sluiceway. This is
necessary because the water is not
raised as high as the wheel axis, at
which point the spokes would be
parallel to the surface of the stream.
There are 16 of the paddles and when
the wheel is in operation they are the
important factor in lifting the water
from the ditch to the river beyond
The great wheel is arousng much
intarpSt hpCaurn of its nOvaltv ond
large capacity, aEd as yet is the only
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
Asked Her Where She Was Staying.

enlisted; but she had learned that
she would not be allowed to go to
the army.
Major, let's send her down." said
Lincoln. Eckert replied that strict
orders had been issued not to let
women go to the front. Secretary
Stanton entered the Office at the time,
and seeing the evident sympathy OF
Lincoln for the woman in her trou-
BILE, said: why not give her husband
a leave of absence to allow him to
see his wife in Washington?
We'll, come, let's do that" replied
the president. Major, you write the
message"
But Eckert said the order must be
given officially. "All right major, let
Col Hardie write the message and
send it by telegraph SO the man can
come right up"
Col. Hardie wrote the message,
whisn was promptly telegraphed to
the Army of the Potomac, and when
the borrowing woman was informed of
what Rad been done, she came into
the office to express her gratitude to
ths president. Lincoln then asked
her where she was staying. She said
she had not yet found a place having
come direct from the railroad station
to the White House, and from there
to the war department. Lincoln then
directed Maj Eckert to obtain an or
der from Col Hardie to allow the
young mother and her baby to be
taken care of in Carver hospital until
her husband arrived.
This was done, and the soldier was
allowed to remain with his wife and
child for over week before return
ing to his regiment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
LINCOLN AND A SOLDIER.
Great-Hearted President Gave Latter
Chance to See His Wife and Child.

Instances Of President Lincoln's s
kindly thoughtfulness for the soldiers
are almost numberless; yet from time
to time new one is brought forth
from the recollection of those who
knew him in war days.
On his way to the telegraph office
early one morning, says Mr. David II.
Bates in the Century Magazine, Lin
coin observed in the hall a young
woman who seemed to be in great dis
tress. She carried baby in her arms,
and was pacing to and fro, and
crying.
The president asked Maj Eckert
TO go out and see the woman, and
learn the cause of her trouble This
was done, the major reporting that
the woman had come to Washington
thinking she could get a pass to the
front to enable her to visit her hus-
band. and let him see the child,
which had oeen born since the father
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
A LIVING MONUMENT.
Lumberman's Handspike Grew to Be
Tree After He Enlisted.

There is a river birch tree on the
banks of the Pond Fork branch of the
Little Coal river in Boone county,
West Virginia" said NJ. c. Eldred of
Madison, w. Va, to a New York Sun
reporter, "and it would go hard with
any man who put an AK to it. That
tree has a story.
when the Mexican war began, in
1916, a recruiting officer visited a
lumber camp in the vicinity of Madi-
son seeking enlistments from the
sturdy woodsmen who were at work
there Among them was a giant lum-
herman named Jim Martin.
He was using a handspike made
from a river birch sapling recently
cut and still green. Eager to go to the
front, he thrust his handspike deep into
the soft soil of the river bank and
went away with the recruiting officer.
THE handspike Jim Martin used
was too big and heavy for any of his
fellows to handle, and it was left
sticking where he had jabbed it into
the ground. The next spring it was
noticed that it was putting forth green
shoots, showing that it had rooted in
the ground.
1T was left undisturbed, and it
grew to be a great tree, and it stands
to-day on the spot where the patriotic
Jim Martin thrust it into the earth as
a battered handspille Gl years ago.
Jim Martin was killed in battle, and
his bones lie somewhere on Mexican
ground, but he has his monument in
this still sound and vigorous tree,
which is revered landmark in all
that couatry."
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05

taper on both sides so that in renlov-
ing them they win clear al the way
out. The pins in the bottom Of the
plugs are to fit in holes in The bottom
board which will hold them IN place
When the plugs are to be removed
take the board with the two square
holes, Fig. 4, and place over the top
Of the mold and with the handle OF
the tamper bar, which is run through
the rings in the top Of the plugs, lift
them upward, using the board, as a
guard to prevent the block from being
broken. This board should not be
used until the block is finished and
ready to take out Of the mold.
The tampcr, Fig. 5, is made of
piece Of iron rod about is inches
long with large nut threaded on one
end.
TO make the blocks use one part Of
Portland cement and three parts Of
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05

one so used in this country The
small expense of operation is it's chief
recommendation, and when one con-
siders that it has drained seven miles
OF 34-foot ditch, six to seven feet
deep, in less than ten hours, he has
some idea of what it could do in drain
ing swamps and marshes now covered
with water at all seasons of the year.
70 operate the wheel there is pro-
vided heavy continuous gearing with
flye-inch face, which is bolted securely
to the rim and which engages a pair
OF l2-inch spur-gears, mounted on a
counter-shaft, which in turn is con-
nected by betting to the engine shaft.
The engine is 125 horsepower of the
ordinary slide valve type, supplied
with steam from a fire-tube boiler.
When operated at it's full capacity the
wheel revolves five times a minute and
will take foot of water off an acre
OF land in six minutes
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05

good sharp sand. Mix well and put
enough water on to simply dampen the
whole mixture. Close up the mold and
put in the plugs, and then fill
the mold one-quarter full of the
mixture and tamp down hard. Repeat
this until the mold is filled and then
scrape off the surplus material, re-
move the plugs, turn down the sides
and lift out the finished block. The
block should remain on the bottom
board until it is hard enough to re-
move. 1t will be necessary to have
a number of bottom boards. The fin
ished blocks must be sprinkled with
water from day to day for a duration
of Is to 80 days to properly cure them
before using, A barrel of cement will
make about 80 blocks
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
A HUGE WATER WHEEL.
Marsh of 1000 Acres Is Reclaimed in
Novel Manner.

Two thousand acres of Michigan
marsh land have been reclaimed by a
system which is declared to be new.
The new drainage consists of two
principal factors, namely, monster
water wheel and a series of high and
wide dikes, with broad and deep
bitches within, writes James c. Mills,
in Popular Mechanics. The dikes are
20 feet high above the normal stage
of water in the river and the bitches
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
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CEMENT BLOCK MOLD.
How You Can Make 1t and Use II
Yourself.

The lumber necessary to make this
mold should be of selected white pine
or hardwood free from knots and sap.
The base board, A, Fig. 1, should be
ID inches wide by "a inches long, well
battened together The sides are
made as shown with clcat on each
end, which overlaps the end pieces and
holds them in place. Both the ends
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
Australia's Iron and Steel,

Australia is rapidly increasing her
imports of iron and steel manufac.
lures, steam and other engines, loco.
tives, electrical machinery and agri.
cultural implements, but most of the
orders are going to Great Britain.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
Government Builds Good Boat,

The goyernment-built ship Con
necticut" in her test trials proved her.
self better than her sister ship
Louisiana" built by the Newport
News company. The "Connecticut's"
average speed was 1873 knots for her
five best runs, and the "Louisiana's"
1859 knots
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
Making "Stick" Ice.

allowed to fall slowly over a series of
poles, where, by the natural process,
it freezes in the form of gigantic
icicles. These icicles are broken off
as fast as they are frozen and carted
away to storage quarters.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
Wind Stops Trains

Trains on the Scottish highlands
have been occasionally stopped by
the force of the wind
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
Quite a Difference.

The number of persons to the
square mile in this country is II,
while in England it is 4S0.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05
MANUFACTURING ICIcLES.
"Stick" Ice Commodity Much in Q,
mand in Austria.

stick" ice is a commodity much in
demand in upper Austria. Water is
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05

The church with a head for gold
usually has heart of wood.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15
Daily West
Hiring Native
Born Miners

PPrkCity, Nov l3.-Noticc- have
been p'stod around town asking all
meii mo wish employment at the
Italy West TO register their names
atthanIne before November Is, pa
that company may know how
manylh can rely ON when d. Is ready
tostWup. T.. H. Talbot, the fore
man, ~. small force ofmcu doing
preliminary work.
IN bring laborcr- preference will
be giwn TO married, with families
tosuurort, and Americans are pre-
ferred 10 foreigners. This arrange
nient j highly commended by many
Park City people, who have long
complained about the number OF
forelit speaking men In the employ
oftheDaly West
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

Mir. Geo. Beard is serving ON tue
grand jury n Salt Lake.
Born To thrwifo Of Lorenzo Marsh.
al, % girl yesterday All concerned
doing nicely except Rem, mud he Is
couyalcsr.ug
Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Jones Of
Newton, Cache county, are the
guests Of his brother, Joseph Jones
aud family. Mr.. Jones father Of the
same place, is also visiting here.
The Coop has taken out the petit
ton between the old aud new store,
and will one make room Of IT, when
completed the Coop will bc one OF
the largest institutions In this
county.
Thomas Moore, the blacksmith,
has moved the building formerly
occupied by W. J.. Hansen, as a
furniture store, to tho Gentry
ground ON Main street and will use
It for blacksmith shop. The build
ing was taken to pieces In moving II
aud men are busy putting 1t up.
\ small crowd witnessed "The
Girl OF the streets" az the Opera
II Pulse nstuight. II wasa good play,
full Of sensation, laughter aud times
one could hear the sobs aud signs
Of those who had become so interest
ed. The play was well presented,
each mombcrplaylng their part well
and deserved a much better house.
one Of our subscribers who Il
about to move away has some good
things for sale cheap; among them
u Browning Automatic shot guu,
with 30 assorted nitro shells thrown
In "a fine saddle and bride; also n
horse, all new except the horse,
which Is six years old. For further
particulars call q, Frank Evans a.
the County Court House. He will
be there Friday and Saturday oi
every other week. His Salt LAX,
address h ~ Atlas Block, and tolc,
phone, 2Gsi X.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15
CHURCH NOTES

Elders Of the Grass Creek and
Coalyille wards please take notice
that the 9th quorum Of elders will
hold their meetings ON the list and
lrl Friday Of each month nt 7:3n
o'clock p. m. Instead of the LIST and
}rd Saturdays.
j. =. CALDERwooD, Pres.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

"a Royal Slave" has been before
the theater-golng public for u num-
Der OF years and has been seen In
almost every state Of the Union. 1t
Is one Of those plays, which, like
old wine, becomes better with age.
Lavlshly mounted, gorgeously cos
TUNED, with u superb cast, the pro-
duction which comes 10 the Opera
Ho~-e, Nso,,. w. is ,sitlaou'-su ehual.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Evans will
move to salt Lake next Monday.
We hate to see them 20, but are
somewhat consoled to know that
Frank will be here every other week
TO attend TO his-clieuts.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15
The San Francisco
Weekly Examiner

Frank Gutter, travelling agent of
the san Francisco Weekly ENamln-
er will be- In this vicinity Tor the
next few days.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

J. T. Duiin has moved his family
hers tom ogden and are located In
thi hoorc house ON Main street. We
eNenda hearty WELDON.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

The G. w. Il VI. Co.'s. new ware
house q. finished aud they are now
filling up with wagons and mach
lnery. Their floor space covers
i75Xi7 feet and Is now one Of the big
stores OF the town.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

We do only good printing. Can
We do yours? Prices are right
j. Salisbury OF Rockport was In
the county seat ON business Tues
day.
VIM. Cromar, the prosperous
Henefer merchant was in town
Tuesday.
Mrs. J. +. Allen is visiting her
mother at Fillmore, Mrs. W. NJ
speakmnn.
Boyden's are putting In a new
show case in their drug store. It is
certainly beauty.
j. T.. Allen returned from a two
weeks visit IN Salt Lake and Provo
last Saturday evening.
Jos. Ball, the butcher at Calder
woods was OIL couple Of days dur
iug the week with u bad cold.
Miss May Lusty returned to her
home In Evanston, today, after %
pleasant visit with relatives and
friends here.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

Mr. and Mrs. -. y. Robinson are
visiting In Evanston.
For your WINTER HATS and
COATS go 10 VI. II. Salmou's.
Isn't e about tim, that the curfcw
blow at eight instead " rinc2
II. b. Thompson. l.. =. attorney,
was here ON business last Tuesday.
Goo. T'g'aud II sconcld Is visit
in- '- prrnfs MIR. aud Mrs. SAM
ur' England.
'ir,. !. WhonIon entertained u
number Of lri nG- at cards last Sat
urday evening
Attorney Daniel u. Harrington OF
Salt Lake wa, In Coalville last We'd
nesdny on business.
a=
W. l.. Hansen, travelling repre-
sentative ot the Hansen * Hayes
Triple Co., wa. IN town the forcpart
Of the week.
n. l.. Beech has completed u
cement walk from the front gate to
the back door Of his house. WIN.
Boyer has also made the same i'm
prevent at his home.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

Mir. Geo. Beard is serving ON tbo
grand jury Voc Salt Lake.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

'ir,. G.. !. WhouIon entertained u
number Of iri nl- at cards last Sat
urday ovan,u.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

Isn't e about tim, that the curfcw
blow at eight instead NJ nine?
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

Goo. T1g'and NJ Sconcld Il visit
In plrnnfs Mr.. aud Mrs. Sam
u'' England.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15

For your WINTER HATS and
COATS go 10 VI. r.. Salmou's.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-01-15

sion that already bard-pressed money
market would be called upon In the
near future to give up $20V00O, 900
more to the Pennsylvania. This Inn
preston, however, was erroneous. as
1t was subsequently learned that the
proposed issue will be convertible
bonds requiring the authorization of
an equal amount of stock for their
equalization.
Amalgamated copper lost 1 IL and
u. S. Steel per cent. The early
selling orders were exhausted during
the first hour. and the market then
began an irregular recovery. Money
conditions showed an Improvement,
call rates rising no higher than 5 1-2
per cent, while the known move
ments of money for the week indi-
Gated a cash gain by the banks of
more than $11,0O0,00O. Until late in
the day, however, all considerations
were ignored except the Pennsylvania
announcement but toward the end
the better money outlook began to
have its effect and prices experienced
pronounced recovery.
Government bonds unchanged; rail-
road and other bonds lower.