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The San Francisco call., 1908-07-19
The Best Way to
Make Rag Carpets

" RAG carpet is usually the house
~ keepers delight. for it may be
washed with ease and always be
clean, while. as it is usually made
entirely of wooden materials. II
wears practically forever. says the
Pittsburg Dispatch. Bought in the
stores. it is really very expensive in
comparison to what it should be were
the materials taken into consideration
The most inexpensive way to obtain a
rag carpet is to make one out OF the
pieces left over from the dresses of the
family. for the weaving.costs very little
and, the result is a very serviceable
floor covering.
The only objection TO making rag
carpet at home, many women say. Is
that the rags must be sewn together.
which is a very tiresome occupation and
takes a great deal of time. That is
because the old fashioned method OF
sewing rags together was to first cut
them in strips. then sew each strip by
hand one to another. With the aid OF
a machine this work is reduced to a
minimum, and two methods may be
used
In the first way. the materials may
be sewn together-one piece Tapped
over the other-and, after they are
sewn, may be cut into strips In this
way it will be necessary only TO toin
together the very long strips formed
by the pieced materials.
The other way is to cut the ma
terials in the old fashioned manner
and sew the strips together on the ma
chine. II the machine is not one of the
chain stitch sort it will not be neces-
sary to break the thread after each two
are sewn together. When all the strips
are used up they may be cut one from
the other by shipping the thread which
joins them
Again. other women do not join the
rags by simply tapping them one over
the other, but they fold them together
so that no raveling may pull them
apart. 1t Is OF course not very secure
way but the weaving is not so strenu-
Gus an operation that this is necessary
In selecting rags for carpets all the
bright colors that may he found will
SD 10 Its beauty. ana Ss.o MANY dark
shades should not be joined together.
Red should always be nsed, and whtte
Is effective
Needless to say. only wooden mare
rfals can be used, for cotton RAGS yTorId
immediately pull the whole fabric out OF
shape, because they have not enough
elasticity to serve the purpose.
AS the rags are sewn together thew
should be rolled into balls. as one would
roll zephyr Each ball should be about
eight inches in diameter. or. in other
words, weighing about one pound.
Wnen the balls are made. unless there
Is hand loom In the house. which
there probably Is not, they may be sent
TO a weaver. who will make up the car
pet for about Is cents yard AS the
rags and the time for sewing cost no
money at all, even II weaving costs
more than the amount stated. ON the
whole carpet thus made would be
very cheap.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-19

price, turned 1t over to the trust COM
pany at $4,000. The white marble
building, built by Campion, cost $75,-
ooO and could have been built for soo,-
600 Fertig took his rakeoff out of the
stock.
Well, boys" said Fertig to his con-
Ireres, we've done pretty we'll with
500 acres of swamp land and credit
worth a thousand dollars, so far. Now
lshed We'll start in to develop that
swamp land for fair"
I've got to get my place completed
hrst" said Pantaneous
Mine. too" suggested Campion
). William Cadwalader was, as ne
mad said, threadman and nothing put
threadman. His father and grand
rather before him had been threadmen.
They had made money, good money
until the Universal thread concern
the trust had tried to freeze them
out Still they had held their own
ana Cadwalader now was holding ms
own He was rich, but every surplus
dollar went into his works. And tina I
meant good deal to the town OF CAD
walader. The Cadwalader thread works
was employing 1000 hands, aid OF
every two weeks. This involved the
support of 500 families there in town.
And j. William Cadwalader had been
the first man in the town up to the last
few months. But his wife began to
shake her head
Il don't know, Billy" she said to him
as she watched Campion's big motor
car speed past the homestead, If you
only had just little more progressive
ness in you. Look how these other
chaps forge ahead. Look at Peter
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-19

4 MASSACHUSETTS inventor has per
a fected a process of Transforming
Max straw into fiber that promises
to add millions to the revenue of the
: American farmer, and to make possible
for the first time the manufacture of
linen fiber in the United States, says
the Sunday Oregonian.
About 100000 acres of land are de-
voted to flax raising in the United
States. but only the seed is utilized.
and this. according to the census
reports, has an annual value of nearly
S2O,000,000. The flax straw from which
linen is made is burned. There is no
means of telling how many millions
of dollars have been wasted in this
way. but a late bulletin of the de-
partment OF agriculture says that Mil
lions of tons of straw have been burned
each year, most of which. in quality
and length for the production of
fiber, far excels the average straw from
which the Russian peasants make the
fiber which chiefly supplies the linen
fabrics of the world"
BY the laborious process followed
abroad, 1t takes from is to 80 weeks
to transform flax straw into linen.
There is first the 'rotting." which, in
Belgium is done by weighting down
posed to the sun until the wood or
"shive" is rotted away from the fiber.
Then comes the "scutching' or beating
of the dried straw. After this il is
"hackled" by pulling the straw through
the coarse teeth of combs for the pur-
pose of removing snarIs and tangles.
The softening and bleaching processes
number %, after all this has been done.
before the finished linen fabric is ready
for market.
Now comes Benjamin c. Nudge. a
graduate of the Massachusetts, Insti-
tute of Technology. with a combined
mechanical and chemical process that
makes linen out of straw in 12 hours.
In place of the European method.
which consists very largely of leaving
the natural rotting process to ae-
complish the disintegration OF straw.
Nudge goes at this work by machinery
until the raw flax fiber has been
wrested from the fax stalk. Then the
chemical process begins. and it can be
said from observation that, using three
or four chemical baths, Nudge first
degums. then bleaches, softens and.
in the end, makes a glossy. white and
exceedingly tough fiber out OF what In
the beginning looked like a mass OF
tangled horsehair.
The European method yields about
10 pounds Of hber from 1000 pounds
of fiber after the seed has been saved.
The Nudge process secures 250 pounds
OF straw after the seed has been saved.
1t converts the 'shiye," wasted blythe
European method. into a pulp for paper
making and also saves the tow"
The one reason why linen fiber has
never been made In this country is that
the European process would be i'm
possibly expensive unless carried out
by labor OF the very lowest cost. There
is no labor in the United States cheap
enough for this purpose. and for this
reason Americans have been sendinz
over s2o.ooo.ooo year to Europe for
linen.
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the Cadwalader trust company and saw
Campion. Cadwalader wanted to bor-
row $25,0e0 to build new building
and said as much.
'.Humph.' said Campion, II don't re-
member that you helped us much when
we needed help
But I've got credit" said Cadwala-
der. Campion called in Pantaneous,
and the two took a malicious pleasure
in refusing to Cadwalader the money.
I ITS all right" said Cadwalader. Il
can get it ina Morristown then" He
strolled to the cashiers window
handed in his check and withdrew his
1T with him. AS he went out Fertig
came in.
We turned down Cadwalader on a
$4,000 loan," said Campion, gleefully
Power intoxicated him. Fertig stormed.
You blamed idiots" he exclaimed, land
now he's left us. Why, confound it,
we need that mans account Here
we've been advertising to get every
blamed picayune account from 81 up.
And here's a man that's got to keep
$4,000 on deposit for emergency all
the time And you turn him down.
Well, commented Campion, my
wife says-well. hang 1t. Cadwalader
puts on too many airs. There amt
room enough in this town for me and
Cadwalader. Not on your lite
Fertig smiled. The more you feel
that way about it," he suggested, "the
more you ought to keep his money.
You ought to have made that loan.''
They didn't make it. They never
1t, and Morristown kept Cadwalader's
deposit In its vaults from that time on.
anyhow said Pantaneous, 1--WE need
that $4,000 that he wanted for our
scheme"
For the first time now the triumvir-
ate started to put the scheme into exc
cut1on. 1t has already been outlined.
1T was fair and square and legitimate
scheme for any man to put his money
into II he so desired. 1t involved the
development of 300 acres-and more,
since added--at the southern end of
town; the grading and laying out of
streets; the laying of sewer pipes,
water pipes. gas pipes; paving. patent
sidewalk, curb; the setting out of trees,
and the filling in of marshy ground,
the manufacture of we'll defined min
iature lake with an artificial island I;
the discoura cement of mosquitoes; the
eradication of malaria; and dotting the
whole eXpanse, to begin with, the erec-
ton of at least % small houses. with
six or seven rooms. purchasable on the
universal plan of payment by install
ments. There was money in It, big
money. Cadwalader, the town. had not
yet walked up. 1t lacked attractive
homes It's people were frugal. indus
trious, proud and good. At least one
half of them depended upon Cadwala-
der's thread works.
It's those people who are going to
buy and build" said Fertig, their
money is in this trust company. Their
money is going to develop that tract.
Their money is going to build houses.
And when their money has made it
worth something they'll turn around
and pay three prices for it. See if
they don't" EE
Wen have to be careful about this
said Campion, I'VE can't loan too much
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-19

why. it'll take 100000 to put that
through. where'll- you get 100000,
anyway"
From the State bank here in town."
smiled Fertig
The State bank won't let you have
a hundred thousand cents"
"Oh, yes it will. It will let US have
100000 just as soon as we get the
cash to buy it"
"Buy-what?"
ITO buy the State bank" resumed
Fertig. Why" he laughed, that's the
first thing we've got to do. When we've
done that
When we've done it," they jeered
They didn't jeer long. Fertig knew
his business. The next day Peter Cam
pion, the builder whose credit was
good for $1,000, went about town and
within the space of three hours bor-
rowed that identical amount from each
Of Is of his fellow townsmen and gave
his note to each for that amount His
credit, which had been good for $1,000
had procured for him $4,000. BY
nightfau his reputation was dragging
in the mud, but he had the $4,000.
A week later Birdsall, the town
surveyor, had completed for Pan
taneous an elaborate map setting forth
the proposed improvements of the 300
acres of swamp land, its division into
building lots and the concentration of
ha 70
center of the tract. Within another
week Walsh & Walsh, the architects,
had completed plans for dozen differ
ent styles of small houses to be erected
by Peter Campion on the tract. With
in another week the Morning Mail had
commented editorially upon the enter
prise of two public spirited Cadwalader
men, Campion and Pantaneous Things
on paper looked so very good.
Now said Fertig, well borrow
bit of money on these plans. We've
got fifteen thousand and we need
fifty"
They went first to CadwaIader-J.
William Cadwalader of the Cadwalader
thread works. there in town. Cadwala-
der shook his head. I'd like to go
into it," he admitted, .but-rm
threadman. And I've got thousand
hands to pay every two weeks. And
I've just built a new wing. l don't see
how
'Cadwalader.' they told him, this
town was named after your family.
It's your town. Come If we're doing
nothing else we're cleaning up malaria
and the mosquitoes. Come, let us have
ten thousand-twenty thousand. Do"
Cadwalader once more shook his
head I'm a threadman,p he returned,
and nothing else"
Wen remember. Cadwalader" said
Pantaneous darkly.
But Fertig only smiled, Don't be
too hard on Cadwalader," he said.
You're going to make your money out
of the people he employs. See if you
don't"
In another week the triumvirate had
procured its s5o.OOO-a far cry from the
bankruptcy court, to say the least.
Now" said Fertig, well buy the
state Dank, They did It. 1t was capi-
talized at only $4,000, and its stock
was barely worth two hundred. They
bought majority of the stock, held
an annual meeting, put in their own
board and their own off1cers-Campion
president, Pantaneous vice president
and Fertig secretary and treasurer.
Now" said Pantaneous and Cam
pion, I'VE can start right in TO work"
Sure" returned Fertig, now well
q a n Ir1s1
That's the next move, gents"
Buy the Cadwalader national." they
gasped. How can you do that? We
had hard enough work getting that
fifty thousand on bond and MORTGAGE
and notes and credit"
We'll" said Fertig, I'VE control the
State bank and the State bank is going
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-19
Linen May Be Made
in United States

Z MASSACHUSETTS, inventor has per-
a fected process of Transforming
Nhax straw into fiber that promises
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-19
State GeOlOgist Bl1fchley
Wants "B'Qr" Adventures
Will Incorporate Tales About Brum in His Report on
Mammals of the State

Indiana 'b'ar'' stories are in demand.
Not those relating to the practice of
law or to the more common bar prac-
tice, but those which have to do with
bruin and his days in the state. And
IL one does not know an authentic bear
story, any well founded story about
any mammal in Indiana will do.
The corner grocery tale that was told
by the aged hunter and topper until it
became familiar to the ears of the viii
layers, has at last come to its own and
is in demand. State Geologist Blatch-
ley wants it.
Mr.. Blatchley will issue in his re-
port for 1903 an account Of the mann
mails of the state. In this paper he
will aim to include all the species of
furred animals from mice and moles to
bear and bison, that have lived in the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-19
SENATOR KNOX
THE PREMIER or
TAFT CABINET
Continued From Page One.)

be postmasrer-general already has been
announced suthoritatively.
Reports that Secretary Root con-
templates resigning his seat in the cab
met in the immediate future because of
the trouble he is experiencing from
his knee, which was injured while he
was in the West making a speech in
behalf of Mr.. Taft, are denied in re-
sponsible quarters.
Secretary Root, acting on the advice
of his physician, is keeping off his feet
as much as possible, SO as to give his
injured knee all the rest he can. In
carrying out this program he is spend
ing considerable of his time at his
home, usually coming down to the
state department in the morning and
remaining home after lunch. This
serves a double purpose, for in addi-
ton to the rest it gives his knee he is
able to devote more attention to bust
ness than il he were at the depart
ment, where he is constantly inter
rupted by callers. At the same time,
he receives such callers at his house
as are absolutely necessary. The sec
retary's knee has not yielded to treat
ment as rapidly as was hoped for, but
his physicians assure him that it ulti-
mately will get all right
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-19
WANTS LITTLE SON
Mrs. John Doty Objects to
Having Child Sent to an
Orphans Home.
A CAMBRIDGE REFUGEE.

Mrs. John Doty, who resides in a
tent south of Cambridge City, since
her husband and his family were
City, appeared in the circuit court
room today. She said she came under
the impression there would be a hear
ing in the case brought against her by
the Board of Children's Guardians,
which seeks to take a five year old
boy from her and place him in an in.
stitution. Mrs. Doty objects. 1t is al.
legged the child would be cared for
better at an orphans home than it is
possible for his parents to do. At
present he is at the home of the
friendleSs.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-19
WILL Be SC0LDED
Three Greensboro Lads Will
Be Arraigned in the Ju-
VeniIe Court.
CHARGED WITH STEALING.

Recommendation that three Green's
fork lads be arraigned before Judge
Fox of the juvenile court and repri-
manded, is made by Mrs. Elizabeth
Gambler, probation officer. The boys
are Hobart and Herschel Pickett and
Samuel Boyd. They have confessed
to the theft of a quantity of tobacco
from the Panhandle depot at Green's
fork. Herschel Pickett and the Boyd
boy are eleven years old and the other
Pickett youngster is thirteen. 1t is
he, who Mrs. Gambler brands as the
leader of the group.
The boys have been referred to the
Juvenile court as the result of the
work Of Isaac Burns, Panhandle pa
trolman. The theft of the tobacco
from the company's property resulted
in Burns being assigned to the case.
He did not meet with any great diff
ficulty in learning the theft was the
work of the boys. After learning their
identity, Burns turned the case over to
the county authorities. Owing to their
extreme youth and the fact it is their
first offense, it is expected the boys
will be dealt with leniently.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-19

mittee that is visiting all the state in
situations for the purpose of ascer-
tanning their needs for the next two
years. 1t has been customary in the
past for the chairman of the visitation
committee to be chosen chairman of
the finance committee because the
latter committee has to pass on all OF
the recommendations of the visitation
committee for appropriations for the
institutions. Senator Fremont Good
wine served in that capacity at the
last session. The finance committee
is probably the most important from
all points of view in the entire list of
committees. Senator Hanna is a law
yer at Plainfield. He is one Of the
very careful and conservative mem
bers of the legislature. and IL he is
placed at the head of the finance COM
mittee there will be a mighty small
chance for anything that is not exact
ly straight and fair.
One of the big questions that the
railroad committee will have to deal
with at the coming session will be
the bills to broaden the powers of
the Indiana railroad commission, also
the bills to abolish the commission
entirely. 1t is expected that bills of
both kinds will be introduced, as well
as bill to make the railroad commits
sion public utilities commission in,
stead of what 1t is now. Probably
this accounts for the haste displayed
by some of the senators in trying to
land appointments on that committee.
1t is said that the Anti-Saloon lea
que will make an effort to save as
much as possible Of the local option
bill, even if they have to give up part
Of it. The plan now outlined is for
the league to propose an addition to
the present law so as to give town.
ship and ward local option, at the
same time retaining county local OPP
ton. Under such a system a ward, a
township or an entire county could
hold an election. But there Is not
much chance for such a proposition
to be taken seriously at the coming
session, for the liberals will claim to
see in it a mere sop. They will point
out that under such double-barrel
law the anti-saloon forces would con-
tinue to work for county local Option
and pay no attention to the demands
Of any ward or township. The liber-
ais want the present law repealed or
replaced with straight ward and
township statute.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-19
Light and Pain.

Light is good for toothache." said
the doctor. Darkness is bad for 1t,
II you are toothache sufferer. haven't
you often noticed how the pain in your
jaw increases when late at night you
turn of the lamp and try to sleepf
Light. you see. Is good for the tooth
ache. There are a number of diseases
It Is good for-asthma, cold in the
head. earache These diseases in the
dark all grow worse.
Darkness is good for a sick head.
ache and for neuralgia and for nausea
Haven't you noticed It? Light and
darkness-they are remedies recog,
nized at last. and today we prescribe
them the same as we do quin;ne or
nux."-New York Press.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-19

state in historic times, giving keys by
which they may be identified and &C
counts of their habits. Facts about
the relation of the more common spe-
cies to the farmer and the means of ex-
terminating the noxious kind will be
included in the work.
Mr.. Blatchley desires to make the
historical account as nearly complete
as possible and the cooperation of
hunters, trappers and the old settlers
who carried the gun or set the trap in
Indiana in days long gone by, is re-
quested. Any information as to the
date of disappearance of the larger an
imals, such as deer, wildcats, wolves,
beaver, otter. coyotes, bears or other
species in any county or section
of the state is desired as well as rec
ords of the less common kinds of mice
and other small species.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-19
PILES CURED IN 6 TO II DAYS

PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to
cure any case of Itching. Blind, Bleed
ing or Protruding Piles in 6 to IA days
or money refunded. soc.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-19

MARY ELLEN:
Gold Medal Flour Is the best for max
Ing everything. SABRISA
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-19
STREET LIGHTS.
How Throushfares Were Illuminated
In tho Seventeenth Century,

How Throushfares Were Illuminated
In tho Seventeenth Century.
Lighting the streets of a large city
in olden times was a far different
thing from the illumination Of our
thoroughfares now. In 1861 the streets
Of London were directed to be lighted
with candles or lanterns by every
householder fronting the main road
from nfghtfall to 8 o'clock, the hour Of
going to bed.
In the last year of King Charles IFS
reign one Edward Hening obtained the
right to light the streets with lanterns
o'clock on moonless evenings until
midnight between October and April.
During the reign of Queen Anne in
July. 1880. Mr.. Michael Coke intro
duced globular glass lamps with oil
burners instead Of the former glim-
mering lanterns. In 1716 an act was
passed which enjoined every house
holder to furnish a light before his
door from to IL O'Clock at night, ex-
cept on evenings between the seventh
night Of each moon and the third after
1t reached its full.
In few years company was FORM
ed to light the street from 6 o'clock
till midnight, each householder who
paid poor rates being required to con.
tribute for this purpose shillings a
year.
Gaslight, at its Introduction in the
beginning Of the last century. present
ed such a novel spectacle to the eves
of foreign ambassadors that they were
vain enough to imagine that the bril-
liant lamps were a part of general
illumination to celebrate their arrival
-Harper's.