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Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-18
Good SIeighing In Franklin County.

Temple, Me, Nov. 17-Four inches
OF snow on a level have fallen here,
and sleighing is good
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-18

A 1,0O0-horsepower vertical gas en-
sine, said to be the largest of it's kind,
was recently put into operation at
Runcorn. England, driving an electric
Observation-Disclosures Free Press,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-18

A carload OF graVestones for the Ea-
ticnal Home went out over the Ken
nebec Central yesterday aftcrnnon
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-18
GARDINER,

The Fellow Craft degree was worked
Upon t"o candidates Tuesday evening
ny Hernlon Lodge, +. and A. NJ
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-18

Halifax, N. S., Nov. 1.-THE Asso-
ciated Press dispatch from Philadel-
phia announcing the loss of the bark
Osberga and the rescue of her crew by
the steamer ST Helena was the first
news to reach Halifax that the vessel
had been overtaken with disaster Tho
bark was owned by the late Capt
Thomas Douglas of Halifax, who died
in New York on Sunday last. He was
on his way to meet the bark when he
was suddenly stricken. The bark regis
tered IT'S tons and was built at Matt
land N. S., in 1894
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-18
RESCUES AT SEA.
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it went down. An hour more and
every one of us would have perished.'
Capt. Keller of the st. Helena said
he had never seen crew so complete
ly exhausted and in a more pitable
condition. The crew will leave here
tomorrow for Philadelphia.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-18

[ impossible, simply impossible, for any
Liner Pills
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n Then ow lis oIe Ayers Pills cid nature that's all Aye Co.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-18

The Bass High Cut Tan Hunting
shoes are selling with great demand
at prices $3.o0 to $o.oO
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-15
MAGIC OF THE ELECTRIC
FURNACE.

WnOle world OF new arts TO eXplOra-
ton. In particular the field of in
vestigation thus made accessible Of
fered opportunities for experiment
with various rare metals, regarded
hitherto as mere curiosities of the
laboratory, are now being turned to
account for many important indust-
rial uses.
1t is the electric furnace, capable
of producing temperature of sew
enty-two hundred degrees Fahren-
heit, that has made practicable the
reduction to metallic form of that
elusive element, tantalum-so called
by very reason of the difficulties
which were encountered in trying to
separate it from its ores. But it was
worth the trouble for it solved the
problem of the electric lamp, furnish
ing satisfactory substitute for the
carbon filament
The ordinary carbon incandescent
lamp is not economical. 1t consumes
a large amount of electrical energy.
relatively to the illumination afforded,
and its profitable life is short-only
about five hundred hours. After that
length of time it loses efficiency, ow-
ing to the blackening of the glass
bulb through dissiDation of the car.
bon flament; and, if the lamp is used
on voltage high enough to give
light approaching wilderness, its life
is much shorter.
Accordingly, efforts have been made
to construct a lamp that would give
4 better light with less consumption
of electrical energy, and this was
finally ACCOMPLISHED by substituting
osmium, and then tantalum, for car
bon as a material for the luminous
flament. Many tantalum lamps are
now in use. The light they give is
much whittier than that of the carbon
lamp, and more brilliant, because the
metal can be raised to higher tenn
lIdll llldlllCut.
The higher the temperature. the
brighter the light. 1t is steadier, too.
because less sensitive to changes of
current. The life of the lamp is no
longer than that of the carbon. bur
there is a considerable saving of cleo
trical energy, the tantalum consuming
only two watts per candle-power,
against three and a half watts for
the carbon. lamp.
The Hardest Metal Known.
A lump of tantalum heated to red
glow can be beaten easily into a
plate under a steam hammer, and,
after being thus heated and hammered
several times, it acquires hardness
equal to that of the diamond At
tempts to bore a hole through such
a sheet one-thrd of an inch thick
with diamond drill running at a
rate of five thousand revolutions a
minute for three days resulted in a
penetration only one-fourth of the
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-15

now used-their salts, that is to say
in pottery making. The latter gives
a fine blue color to glazes, and uran-
ium salts are employed also in the
manufacture of iridescent glass. Ur-
anum ores are very rare and hard
to find. Those of molybdenum are
associated with old crystalline and
metamorphic rocks in many parts of
the United States, but the problem
of extracting the metal is most diff
cult. Its salts are utilized as ger
micide, for fireproofing, and as a dis
infectant.
A new use for chromium has been
found in the manufacture of artifi-
cial rubies, which, produced in the
electric furnace, are now appearing
on the market. These synthetic
gems. like the natural ones, are cry
stallized corundum, and chromium
Gas in Nature) is employed 10 color
them. The metal-our principal sup
ply Of it comes from Asiatc Turkey,
though there are considerable depos
its in Yancey County, North Caro-
lina-is also utilized in making
Chrome brick" for building smelt
ing furnaces and open-hearth steel
furnaces. But its most important use
is in the production of chrome steel,
which is now considered the most
desirable thing for armor plates of
warships.
Measuring High Temperatures.
With the introduction of these new
arts, depending upon enormously
high temperatures, it has become ne
cessary to devise means for accurate
ly measuring such temperatures. For
this purpose manufacturers of steel.
porcelain, glass, etc, employ social
led promoters (the word, literally
translated, means fire-measurers),
which are in themselves very novel
contrivances. Where hearts so in
tense are concerned, it is not prac-
ticable to use mercury thermometers,
of course, because the mercury would
vaporize. Ingenious devices of other
kinds must be utilized. some of Them,
called "optical promoters" determ-
ming the temperature by measuring
the intensity of the light given on,
from the furnace.
1t is of utmost importance that the
promoters shall be accurate, in or
der that the manufacturing process
ses in connection with which they are
used may not go wrong. For ex-
ample, in a glass factory the sheets
of glass, rolled red-hot, PASS through
a series of annealing ovens while
their temperature is gradually low
cred. If the ovens are not heated
just right, the final product will he
unfit for use. 1t is the same wa,
with tie hardening of armor rlates;
for, unless the tenn erature is kept
uniform, strains will be set IN III
the material, rendering it brittle
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-15

The melting point of the stuff is so
high that it cannot be fused, and so
it is mixed with iron to make an al
10y, which is Put into steel 10 harden
the latter. When thus used, it multi
plies the efficiency of lathes and 9th
err cutting tools by fve-enabling
them, that is to say, - dc five times
as much work before wearing out
Tungsten--which, by the way, looks
somewhat like platinum, and takes a
high polish-has other valuable uses,
being employed largely in fireproof-
ing cloth for curtains, draperies, etc,
and as mordant in dyeing.
In Chester County, Pennsylvania,
the farmers blowing the fields fire.
quently pick up large crystals of a
substance known as "rutile." 1t is an
oxide of another interesting metal,
called titanium, and has a consider
able market value, being utilized by
manufacturers of dental supplies for
coloring artificial teeth. Also, it is
used to give to porcelain tile soft
and beautiful yellow tint.
AS to Titanium.
Though generally spoken of as one
of the rare elements, ttanium is, in
reality, one Of the most common.
According to the reckoning of Pro-
fessor F. W. Clarke, Chemist incl
of the United States Geological Sur
vey, it forms nearly one-half of one
per cent of the surface rocks of the
globe, being much more plentiful
than lead, zinc or copper. 1t occurs
in many kinds of rocks, and is al
most always found in cays in ap-
preciable quantities.
The melting point of titanum is so
high, however, that it cannot be OBJ
tanned from its ores in pure metallic
form without the help of the electric
furnace. Small quantities of it add
greatly to the strength of cast iron,
and likewise to the tensile strength
dilu CldotlIlly VI SlCCl.
are now being made with view to
utilize it as a material for filaments
in incandescent lamps, but the diff
Guilty of reducing it to a metal is so
great that only partical success has
thus far rewarded the effort.
Another rare and interesting metal,
found associated with sandstones in
Southwest Colorado, is vanadium. 1t
is used like tungsten and titanium 10
augment the hardness and tensile
strength of steel. Cutting tools Of
vanadium steel may become almost
red-hot without losing their temper
In addition, it has been discovered
recently that vanadic acid affords an
admirable and comparatively cheap
substitute for true gold bronze In
the form of fine light powder it is
easily mixed with gums or varnshes,
and gives handsome color and dur
able lustre to objects to which it is
applied.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-15

augmenting their capacity to do work.
Doubtless, many other uses will be
found for it, one to which it is al
ready applied being the manufacture
Of pens. These pens resist the chemi-
cal action of ink and the atmospher.
as well as gold pens, to which are
very superior in respect to elasticity
and hardness. 1t may be added that
the principal supply of tantalum now
comes from Western Australia, but
there is plenty of it in the Black Hills
Of South Dakota and in North Caro-
lima.
The superior efficiency of the tam
talum lamp, it will be understood, is
attributable primarily to the extra
ordinarily high melting point of the
metal-ffty-two hundred degrees
Fahrenheit But, although, in this
respect, il represented the first gain
over the carbon light, it is by no
means the best thing possible. Tung-
stem, another refractory metal, has an
even higher melting point (fifty-hve
hundred degrees), so that filament
made of it can be burned at a cor
respondingly higher temperature with
out being destroyed. Now, it happens
curiously enough, that an increase
of only two hundred degrees in the
temperature of the filament nearly
doubles the light A comparatively
slight increase in temperature aug
ments the light by fifteen per cent.
Thus the tungsten lamp, worked or
dinarily at forty-one hundred degrees
Fahrenheit (higher than is possible
for carbon), is much more brilliant
than the lamp with the carbon fila
ment.
Tungsten incandescent lamps are
now on the market at a reasonable
price, and are being introduced large
ly. Their light, instead of yellow, is
white and of very pleasing quality,
but its extreme brightness renders !,
frosted or colored globe desirable in
living-rooms or offices. With an ex-
penditure of one-third of the elcctri-
cal energy they will give the same
amount of illumination as carbon
lamps, and they have been burned
for as long as three thousand hours
without rerce0tible loss of brilliancy.
Tungsten Cutting Tools.
Boulder County, in Colorado, is the
only source in this country from which
any considerable quantity of tungsten
is now obtained. Its ores are asso-
ciated with GRANTEES, and one of them,
called "scheelite" calcium tungstate)
occurs in promising quantities near
the entrance of the Yellowstone Park,
in Montana, and five miles from
johannesburg, in the Mojave Desert
of California. This scheelite, when
dissolved in a mineral acid, precipi-
tates a yellow powder (tungstic OK
ide), which, when mixed with car
bon and heated in a crucible, comes
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

tique goblets and other treasures val ued at $10O,000. But the list of the Jeweled plate still exists, and 1t is known that not a little of these have been found. Still lying hidden there is famous emerald cup, the goblet fashioned from one great stone.
 In the lake, half imbedded In the mud, lie the two celebrated villa boats of Tiberius and Caligula, boats which contained hanging gardens, temples of marble, columns of porphyry, roofs of cedar, ornaments innumerable of bronze. The boats are still Intact, and Education Minister Rava has appointed a committee of inquiry on which are Boni, the famous archaeologist, and Carrado Ricci. These gentlemen have come to the conclusion that two courses are open to the government, one to lower the lake till the level of the wa ter touches the submerged boats, the other to drain the lake dry.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24
MAHOGANY IN WEST INDIES.
Smallest But Heaviest and Prettiest Wood Produced in These Islands.

The United States Is not a mahog' wood Its home is in Central America and In Cuba, Jamaica and Santa Do- mingo. These islands give the small est but heaviest and prettiest wood. British Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua give the most and Mexico, the largest timber.
 The richer, solid, heavy varieties come from the islands. These will not float. are susceptible of high polish, and the wood has a rich, wavy figure. The pretty figured pieces of wood are of great value. A six-foot piece (which included the crotch of a tree) in a cer- tain shipment will bring about $500 when cut Into veneers.
 No matter where a shipment of the wood comes from, or what variety 1t is, there are always more or less of the fine, faky sticks that make veneer. Mahogany is a phenomenal wood in that 1t does not warp under any condl- tions of weather, use or age; neither does 1t shrink It Is of great beauty, hardness and durability. In no other wood can these qualities be found coui- bined with large size, uniformity of grain and richness of color and figure.
 The island timbers are eight to ten feet In length by twelve inches In di- amter some from Cuba, however, reaching thirty-fye feet in length by two feet In diameter. Honduras squar ed timbers are as long as forty feet by two feet in diameter, and the three foot and four-foot timbers come from Mexico.
 The softer mahogany comes from the swampy lands. There are no mahogany forest the trees are not grouped that way, the individual trees being more or less widely separated. Like other trees, the core Is the poorest part, ofter being worthless.
 A schooner load represent an ex- pendlture of S13,OO0 That is not all for the timber, labor and freight. considerable part of 1t representing grease" to the Spanish customs officer, whose favor is not obtained by a smile. There are no sawmills In the mahogan growing countries.
 The trees when cut down are squar- ed by hand. An Indianapolis company Is going to have them hewn into octagon shape hereafter instead of squares, believing 1t will get 25 per cent more timber out of them this way.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

There cannot be 6 near woman ih fact, but imagination draws the pic ture of one for us now and then when a scientist or philosopher undertakes to tell woman what will happen If she keeps doing things said to have been unknown to her grandmother. A woman is always a woman, although she may not choose to hew to the line fixed by ancient custom. All men are men, even though some of them may be called mollycoddles. Women are taking away mems jobs, and 1t is said by observers that they are going to keep doing so and enlarge their hold ings In that line. The president of Bryn Mawr college for women says that women "are steadily taking pos session and driving men before them" and. furthermore, they will be com peled by economic causes beyond their control to stay in them after mar riage" Our grandmothers In their red checked days milked the COWS, and no one would have dared to hint that milkmaid was unwomanly because Of her skill. They husked corn, too, and when the good man was away fed the stock. American women have always taken up mans work from time to time and put 1t aside when the need was over. If for economic reasons they are better at typewriting, tele- phoning, telegraphing and bookkeep- ing than men, they are none the less true women when they do thls work.
 Professor Ross gives the most star ting picture of the near woman when he dips into the future and sees what industrial occupations will do for wom- en. He says there will be a rever- sion to the type of masculine women, squat, flat chested, broad backed, low browed creatures, working h the fields and factories side by side with men," We shall be compelled to admit that such creatures" would be near women," according to our modern ideals. On the other hand, President Elliott says, ''The higher education ought to it women for the single oc- cupation of bearing and educating chll- dren, and 1t Is the most intellectual occupation in the world" So the true woman has a chance to remain herself In spite of the education which makes her mans dangerous competitor. Per haps the industrial woman of Pro lessor Ross and of the president of Bryn Mawr will emulate the educated woman in the matter of attention sometimes to the bearing and educat- ing of children. In that case the jewel of womanhood need not depart from women who work, and the talked of "reversion to the type of masculine women" Is only bogy.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24
How God Provides.

MT. Spurgeon once said: My grand father was q very poor minister, and kept a COW, which was very great help .in the support of his children he had ten of them-and the COW took the 'staggers' and died.
 "'What will you do now? said my grandmother.
 1T cannot tell what we shall do now,' said he, but I know what God will do. God will provide for us. We must have milk for the children
 "The next morning there came f20 to him. He had never made applica- tion to the fund for the relief of min isters, but on that day there was f5 left when they had divided the money, and one said: There is poor MT. Spur geon down In Essex; suppose we send 1t to him? The chairman-a MT. Nor ley of this day-said: We had bet ter make it f1O, and I'll give f5.' An other f5 was offered by another mem- Der, If a like amount could be raised to bring it up to f20, which was done. They knew nothing about my grand fathers COW; but God did, you see ; and there was the new COW for him. And those gentlemen in London were not aware of the importance of the service which they had rendered"
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24
He Fore.talled Fate,

Josiah Quincy, assistant secretary of state under Cleveland, was famed for the energy he showed in getting jobs for his constituents.
 One day laborer in the employ of the Department of the Interior was drowned while bathing In the Potomac. A congressman who happened to be near when the body was taken from the water, hearing that the dead man worked for the government, rushed eff to the Department of the Interior to secure the job for one of his followers.
 When he reached the department, however, Hoke Smith, who was Secre- tary of the Interior, told him that the position had already been filled.
 "Filled" cried the congressman. "Why, the man hasn't been dead half an hour"
 q know that" replied Smith; Out Josiah Quincy heard the man was go- ing in bathing, so he put in an applica. ton for the job by telephone."-Satur. day Evening Post.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

'erd to preserve, give us courage ana cheer and the quiet mind, and perfect us In hope and trust through all the be, in all our unworthy endeavors, and fill us with the spirit of charity for all our fellow men. Help us to show forth more of the Christ-love in our daily living and to grow in the grace and knowledge of Him who Is the Way, the Truth and the Life, till we abide in eternal joy in the heavenly home.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24
Con straining Love.

God often does better by us than we want Him to. His love will not let us go, even when we wish 1t would. Many man purposes sin in his heart who is yet prevented from its doing by Gods watchful guarding care. Every life presents such experiences when the tendency was to evil, yet Satan's plans were frustrated. If we often cry out with Paul, "the good which l would, I do not" we may also eXclaim, In glad thankfulness, 'the evil which I would, cannot do" No one In thls life is ever abandoned by God to the unrestrained fulfilling Of his own sinful ends. Satan fights to, gain us, but God is all the time fighting on our side. We must batter down Gods opposition every time We break into wrong doing. What a blessing 1t is that He Is so much stronger than We are. It Is His all powerful and constraining love that holds us when we would leave the paths of right.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24
thousand pounds, Egypt 100000 pounds,

thousand pounds, Egypt 3OO,OOO pounds, and large part came from the Niger territories and Lagos.
 African ivory brings the highest prices In the markets. It Is superior to any other in the size of the tusks. I have seen some which are nine feet long, and there are some which weigh as much as POO pounds each. The average weight of tusk is much less than this and one of a hundred pounds Is quite valuable.
 In India the average tusk does not weigh fifty pounds, but that of the African elephant is much heavier. Many of the tusks are broken when they are brought into the market. The elephants use them for blowing up roots and tear ing down trees and also for fighting their enemies.
 The average tusk is strong and elas- tic: but It can be broken and the ends are sometimes snapped off. Ivory tusks are always sold by weight, and the traders tell me that In buying them of the natives they have to be careful to see that pieces of iron or b'ts of stone have not been driven into the hollows of the horns to make them weigh more.
 Many of you have been h the hands of dentist and have seen how he al most breaks your jaw in pulling a molar with long root. The tusks are really elephants teeth and 1t Is difh- galt to get them out of dead elephant
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

The statue of Gen. Francis E. Spin her, made under the direction of an as- soclation of women employees of the government, Is to be erected opposite the Spinner home in Herkimer, New York. General Spinner was treasurer of the United States from 1861 to 1875, and when the clerks of the Treasury Department resigned, during the Civil War. to enlist In the army, he recom- mended that their places be filled by women, He carried his point against considerable opposition, and thus opened the door to self-support for many women. He was notable also as the inventor of a peculiar signature which appeared on all the national pa per currency, and was the butt of the newspaper humorists for years. But he will be remembered longest as the man who called on the women to take the places left vacant by the men who vent to the front to fight.