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New-York tribune., 1909-09-12
ASKS AID FOR DESERVING COUPLE.

young married man. now az Ray Brook Sana-
torium for consumptives, needs five months more
Of treatment before he can resume the support OF
his wife and three young children. He has i'm
proved steadily thus far. His wife earns about 81
a week. but her health Will permit her 10 con-
finue this. The Brooklyn Bureau Of Charities asks
aid IN keeping mother and children together until
The man is more wage Garner. Heretofore
the couple has needed assistance. and former
employers speak highly of the
The amount needed for this emergency is sI2O
Contributions may be sent 20 the Brooklyn Bureau
OF Charities, No. O. schermerhorn street Brooklyn
marked H2. The bureau extends thanks FOR the
following sums sent in answer 10 previous appeal
for aeed couple
O. ~Frisns.' e; 81 p. s.. ! :. e IS g So
1iTE .. r. y. SO. ''Friend. s.. Mr s., r Si0
- L @. 81; Pocono 81 4 n s.. F .. slo
,,-i-, &, = y ~. " =, + sz MFs z . s2
asrr a l.. ss: '.Friend :, So z J, p so. \; s.
y q T.. 81 Friend 81 Friend. 81. II 4 " s.
q i Z. $50. anonynaous SIS. z s. s. 8 J. N sI
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JUST THE THING.

The poet took his silver mounted pistol from the
bureau drawer.
I'm going 10 use it to drive the wolf from the
door he answered.
Ten minutes later the pawnoroksr had advanced
81 on it.-Chieago News.
New-York tribune., 1909-09-12

Mr. and Mrs Thomas II Troy have left the New
Monmouth Spring Lake, N. j., for the BriarcHn
Lodge Briarcliff Manor N. Y
New-York tribune., 1909-09-12

Mr. and Mrs Sidney Y. Lowell have left Man
chester Vt for the Monomonock Inn. Caldwell
n ]. They made the trip by motor.
New-York tribune., 1909-09-12

Standish Arms. It has been taken by Edward
Hatch. who previously lived the Simeon B Chit
tendon house No. 212 Columbia Heights. The
Chittendens will occupy their house again this win
ter. They spent last year in Manhattan
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas H Troy have left the New
Monmouth, Spring Lake, N. J., for the BrarclH
Lodge. Briarclih Manor, n. Y.
Mr. and Mrs Sidney Y. Lowell have left Man
chester Vt, for the Monomonock Inn Caldwell
n. j. They made the trip by motor.
Miss Anna Ladd Cutter has had as her guest at
Wosthampton Beach, Long Island, Miss Fouike
Charles NJ Bull. jr., spent few days at West
hampton Beach last week.
News of Raymond CaIvIs marriage TO Miss FLOR
ence r,sdale VIII come as a surprise 10 many OF mis-
friends there having been no formal announcement
Of the engagement. The ceremony was performer
on Friday at ST Johns rectory by the Rev' FRANK
Page rector of the church. The bride is niece Oh
Professor Henry Fitzgerald Tisdaie of the College
of the City of New York Mr.. CalN is son OK
Mrs Paul Calvi Of No. S12 Garfield Place and Bays
water. Long Island.
Henry L. Brant aud his wife, Or. Cornela C.
I7rapt If No 81 Macon street have just returned
from an extensive tour Of the Pacihc coast anu
Alaska The visited Yellowstone Park, the Grand
Canyon OF Arizona and the principal cities OF the
West returning through the Canadian Rockies ana
the Great Lakes They were absent ten weeks
covering nearly fifteen thousand miles They VIII
srend septemher here at their cottage at Oak
Reach Long Island Miss Helen Brant starts the
middle of the month for Wellesley College. and Cliff
ford Brant returns to Cornell, where ne is junior
New-York tribune., 1909-09-12
Musical.
Musical.


F GENFaF fAEh WESF
I Eh Pres Eeut
New-York tribune., 1909-09-12

Miss Anna Ladd Cutter has had as her guest a
Wcsthampton Beach, Long Island, Miss Fouike
New-York tribune., 1909-09-12

Charles NJ Bull jr. spent few days at West
hampton Beach last week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
Romances Of Progress
Bv Albert Pavson Terhune
pETER coopER-And the Man VINO Put Harness on steam.

A curious and fearsome object, the
ight of which made women swoon
nd set children to screaming, plowed
Is way through the streets of London
IN day in 1903. 1t was called a
steam locomotive" and consisted of
q four-wheeled carriage bearing one
OF the then new high-pressure en-
gines; six-foot boiler, a single ga
inch cylinder and a great stack from
which gushed a torrent of black
smoke and fire. Guiding this weird
continuance was a gigantic, plain
featured man-Richard Trevithick.
When the practical use of steam
was still new thing, Sir Isaac New
ton had prophesied that some day this
odd power would propel wagons, TAX
ing the place of horses. But no one
took much stock in the forecast. Near
iy 100 years had passed before the
Idea was taken up. Then, in 1869, a
scientist, Cugnot by name, made a
road wagon, driven by steam. But it
was not practicable, and was regarded
merely as plaything. 1t frightened
horses so badly that a man with a red
nag was always sent on ahead of 1t to
warn riders and drivers. Fifteen years
later a British inventor, Murdoch,
made a second of these steam road
wagons. This. too, was failure. Both
Cugnot's and Murdocks devices were
more the ancestors of the automobile
than of the locomotive.
. 1t was not until 1900 that the real
father of the locomotive" made his
first test along this line. He was Ire
vithick, and he had already made a
reputation by adding important i'm
provements to Watts steam engine.
Trevithick, besides being a giant in
stature, was the strong man" of
c,,nt vvto Md. Cornwall. He was
Errs. roco,,o the champion box
tive. er' Wrestier ana
weight-lifter of the
district. Although he was too stupid
to acquire education, he was a me-
chanical genius. He perfected a high
pressure non-conducting steam engine
and made the first locomotive. This
was rickety, noisy, clumsy affair.
Nevertheless, IT. was the forerunner of
every locomotive since made. 1t could
carry, In q sort of chaise, Is passen-
gers. Trevithick described it in his
application for patent as "a steam
engine in a propelling carriage"
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Battlefield Cruise.

From every point Of view the round
the-world cruise of the battleship fleet
was a pronounced success. and the
GROWING Endorsement of all has been
the recent announcement of the as
sistant secretary of the navy that the
repairs to 13 of the Is battleships
that made the voyage have been COM
pleted at a total cost to the engineer
ing and the equipment bureaus of
S50. $50. or less than $4,000 per ship.
says the Scientific American. Many
were the predictions of trouble. dam
age, and even disaster. at the time OF
the starting of the fleet; but not one
has been fulfilled. On the contrary.
the benefit to the navy in the in
crease of its physical efficiency and
the Improvement OF its morale has
been invaluable.
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MI'pUsIIR!gY{aaSS)
-. AND ~
'@HECHANICy
USE OF CONCRETE PIPING.
waterfall is Now Being Used for
Buildings of All Kinds, Large
and Small.

While iron and steel men insist
.nat this is an age of steel, and cleo
.ricai engineers hold it is the cleo
trical age, concrete builders maintain
tnat 1t Is also the concrete age, and
everyone will agree that while con-
crete has been utilized for centuries
past, 1t has never been so universally
employed as at present Buildings of
ali kinds, large and small, vessels,
railroad ties. pavements, mine shafts,
walls, breakwaters. piers, piles, wa
ter and sewer pipe, tanks and wells,
as well as many other kinds of con-
struction are now being made of con-
crete.
AT Waukegan, ILL.,, line of 5000
feet OF such pipe is being laid. The
diameter of the pipe is As inches.
More than 1000 feet of pipe Sc inches
In diameter has been laid at Atlantic
City, and in still another city line of
pipe i2 inches in diameter has been
completed for a distance of 1000 feet.
Hydro-electric power plants are also
using reinforced concrete pipe.
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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
The Man Who Made Voice TroDeI
1000 Miles

A big, bearded, farmer-like youth of
"a found himself one day in 1871 the
hero of Brant county, Canada. He was
Alexander Graham Bell, Scot, who
had moved from Edinburgh to the
Dominion the previous year. He had
invented a continuance by which hui
man speech could be carried across a
single wire and transmitted with per-
feet distinctness for a considerable
distance. This telephone" as young
Bell called his invention, was regarded
as a wonderful and highly amusing
toy. Nothing more. The country folk
turned out by hundreds to witness the
FIRST experiment A wire had been
stretched from the house of Bells ia
Their in the suburbs to the telegraph
Office in the city of Brantford. two and
a half miles away. The test was sue
cessful. Bell was praised. though
some of the graver Canadian Scots
thought he might far better have
spent the time on something really
useful.
cept a professorship in the University
there. From boyhood he had devoted
himself to a system, devised by his
father, for teaching deaf mutes to
communicate with each other and
with the outer world This was his
intended life work, although as a boy
he had longed to be a musical com
poser. and had with difficulty been
persuaded by his father to give up
the ambition. Bell when a mere lad
conceived the idea of forming a sys-
TEN of harmonic telegraphy. He found
that sounds could be carried over
wires that were Joined to a galvanic
battery, and that by adjusting sci of
reeds at one end of the line of vibra-
ton with another at the opposite end
noises on one set could be reproduced
by the other. Thus, each could be
both a transmitter and receiver of
music notes. From this it was but a
step to applying the same idea to
tive .,a N. spoken words.
a1 and the telephone.
'e'epho"e in crude form, was
the result
Soon after Prof Bell moved to Bos-
ton wealthy Cambridge man.. Hub
bard by name. sent his deaf daughter
to him for vocal instruction. An en-
gagement between pupil and teacher
soon followed. Miss Hubbard and her
ia Ter became deeply interested in the
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learned at first attempt: but even a
novice, equipped with the currycomb
designed by an Ohio man will find the
job easier than an expert will find it
who uses the old-style comb. This
new device bases its advantage in the
fact that it has cleaning attachment
by means of which the comb may be
kept clear of dirt as the work goes
on. This consists of hammer head
SO adjusted at the edge of the comb
that slight Jar sets it in vibration
and the particles of dirt are shaken
out. Across the back of the instru-
ment are wires so bent as to engage
the hammer head and hold 1T loosely
in position. The hostler needs only
to strike the wires against the side
of stall and the hammer head is set
into vibration. Unless a currycomb
is kept clean 1t cannot be used eff
fectively, as the corrugations become
clogged and it passes over the horses
hide without any result.
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Lighting Niagara.

Plans for the permanent illumipa.
ton of Niagara Falls this summer have
been worked out by Engineer Ryan of
the General Electric company. The
details will be laid before a commit.
tee of interested citizens from
Niagara Falls, Ont, and Niagara
Falls. N. Y.
The plans, as outlined by Mr.. Rran,
call for two batteries of lights. one
to be known as the Cliff battery. the
other as the Gorge battery. It is
planned to excavate recess in the
canadian cliff opposite Goat island.
this shelf to be 12s feet long and u
feet wide, and height of the excava-
ton to be 10 feet Here will be in
stalled twenty projectors. each thirty
inches in diameter.
The previous illumination made
during the progress of the exposition
at Buffalo was of 100000 nominal
candlepower, whereas the proposed
illumination viii he 100000 nominal
candlepower.
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But after proving the practicability
of his discovery. Trevithick was COM
PEELED to give up the idea Of making II
popular The public at large sneered
at it, called it freak, and predicted
that it would come to nothing. Never
theless, during the next quarter CEN
fury other men added at times, little
by little, to the devices effectiveness;
and, in 1922, an English miner, George
Stephenson, succeeded in making the
first locomotive along modern lines.
In 1925 the first railroad. with one OF
his locomotives drawing train over
it's tracks. was opened. This was an
epoch-making event in the History OF
Progress The public was forced. re-
luctantly, to admit that the invention
had come to stay. To England belongs
the credit of this wonderful invention
Peter Cooper was a self-made New
Yorker, born in New York city in 1871.
He had little more education than did
Trevithick. AS a boy he worked for
his father at making hats. When II
he learned the coach-making trade.
This later requirement was destined
later to be of use to him along
broader line of endeavor. He, like
Trevithick, was a natural inventor.
cloth-shearing machine. a patent glue
and many other unique inventions
started him on the road to fortune. He
had already won fame as man of
original ideas when the question OF
the locomotives importation came up
Cooper, who had recently entered
the iron business ia Maryland, at once
set to work on plans of his own along
this line. His knowledge of coach
making, as we'll as his trend for orig
inality and natural dizziness. came to
his aid. In 1880 he built, from de-
signs of his own making, the first 10
"Tom Thumb" En-
s"e '"a' this country. The
Baltimore & Ohio
railroad was building. and the roads
promoters were in grave doubt as to
whether there would be a reasonable
profit on their investment. Cooper
demonstrated the possibility of build
ing railroads on small capital and
saved the Baltimore & Ohio from
bankruptcy. His first locomotive was
called the tom Thumb" and it led
the way for Americas supremacy In en-
CINE building.
(CopyrightedJ
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INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

North Carolina, South Dakota, Colo
RADIO, Alabama and Virginia. in the or
der named, lead in the production OF
mica.
Inxheir writings the Chinese use at
least 214 groups of signs. each con.
tanning from five to 1854 separate
characters.
An international moving picture ex-
hibition, including apparatus and at
tachmeDts of all sorts, is being held
in London.
France has followed the lead of the
United States in the establishment OF
laboratory for the investigation of
mine accidents.
New Mexico produced 2,467, 937
short tons of coal last year. de.
crease of a trifie more than six per
cent. from the output of 1907.
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telephone. and Bell was induced early
in 1876 to patent it.
Mr.. Hubbard was placed in charge
OF the Massachusetts, exhibit at the
Centennial exposition in PHILADELPHIA.
He wanted Bell to place before the
people in the Massachusetts building
his marvellous scientific toy.
But Bell did not care to do this,
probably failing to realize the import
ance of such a STEP Miss Hubbard
added her plea to her fathers. When
all other means failed she asked the
inventor to come to the station to see
her OF for Philadelphia. AS she was
about to board the train she burst into
tears and again begged her sweet
heart to come to the Quaker city with
her. He yielded; and the telephone
apparatus as well as his luggage was
shipped to him by the next train.I
But only half the battle was won.
Before the telephone could be exhib-
tied committee must pass on its
merits. 1t was late in the afternoon
when the tired committeeman reached
the Bell invention. They were on the
point of deciding such toy did not
deserve place in SO dignffied an ex-
position when Dom Pedro. emperor of
Brazil, CHANGED to wander into the
committee room. The emperor rushed
over to Bell. shook hands effusively
with him and asked number of cues
tons concerning the telephone. which
he had seen tested during recent
visit to Boston. He went on to insist
that Bell let him talk through il at
once.
The imperial approval had turned
the tide Of fortune for Alexander Bell.
The committee promptly decided that
a contrivance which could so delight
Emperor Turns rear I'VE emper.
Eo-trn.,e cal. or was worthy of
putting before the
public. The telephone was accepted
and attracted multitudes of eager Wis
itors throughout the course of the
Centennial. But before Bell could put
it to practical use a number of other
men claimed credit for similar inyen-
tions, and for years the fight waged
in the courts. At length Bell won.
1t was said at one time that he gave
Miss Hubbard, as wedding present
when she married him. the royalty
rights on the telephone. These rights.
OF course. have accumulated to a fabu
lous sum
Copyrighted,
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Tree Planting by Dynamite.

Holes for tree planting. according
to the Engineering Record, have been
excavated by the Long Island railway
by blasting with dynamite.
A hole about two feet deep was
first dug with post-hole auger at
an angle of about thirty-five degrees
with the surface. and loaded with
half a stick of so per cent dynamite.
This shot makes hole about two
feet deep and three feet in diameter,
'eaving the earth in the bottom pull
Tarized suitably for planting. II is
.cted that two men can thus excayate
20 holes in ten-hour day at cost
about IL cents a hole.
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parallel with the top of the can. The
cutter is then regulated on the
toothed bar so that it will cut either
the top of the can or the side. With
a firm pull on the handle the tin can
be easily severed. II will be noticed
that there are practically two cutters,
one for cutting the top of the can and
another for cutting the side of the
can. This will be found convenient
when it is desired to remove the con-
tents without disarrahging them.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
TRANSVERSE WAGON SPRING.
When Side Springs Are Sufficiently
Depressed They Come Into
Useful Action.

In addition to, the ordinary side
springs which support the body, a
heavy wagon is usually fitted with a
transverse spring which is not fixed
to the axle but rests one inch or IA
inches above it. The reason of this is
that when the wagon is running
empty or with light load the ordin-
airy springs are sufficient, but when it
is fully loaded, and the side springs
are sufficiently depressed. the trans
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
Vacation Days.

Old Father Tire was observed to
be seeking seclus'on
~vou don't make yourself pr,mi-
aent in tie summer season." re-
marked the friend.
No responded Father Time. With
a shake Jf his mead. 1t IS too Jan
gerous.
Dangerous
"Yss, N summer SO many people
arc irving to kill tine -
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CAN OPENER THAT is SIMPLE.
Every Housewife Would Welcome
One That Can Be Used Without
Fear of Cutting.

Every housewife would undoubtedly
welcome the invention of a really
simple and substantial can opener,
one that she could operate without
danger of cutting her hands. Sim
plicity and efficiency seem to be the
keynote of the one shown in the illus
tration below, designed and invented
by Detroit man. In opening a can
the point at the end is thrust into
the central portion of the top of the
can and the bar brought so that it lies
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
REMEDY FOR LOOSE SCREWS.

A convenient method of making
loose screw hold is illustrated here
with. Take a soft piece of copper
wire and wind ii around the threads
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-25
shIpwreeks in He'll Gate

More than 100000 year is lost
by shipwrecks in the Hell Gate chan
nels in the East river. although mil
ions have been spent on improving
the tortuous channels.
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Accommodates.

Accommodated.
a downheartea chap in my Office
a few minutes ago" remarked Stubs.
He kept saying. Give me rope.
Give me a rope,'"
Great Scott," exclaimed Penn. In
aiar:1. Z hope you didn't accOmmo
date hirl o.
lure th;=g"
Gave lin a roper
Yes. handed him ore Of those
cigars you gave NJ = day"
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illinois has the greatest number o.
electric plants Of any state. 3SS; New
York is second with sos. and Peansyl-
yanla third with SAG.
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A Remedy fer Loose Wood Screws.
of the screw as shown, thus in effect
increasing the diameter of the
threaded part. This will save plug
ging or using larger screw.-Scien-
tific American.
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ART OF cURRYcoMBING HORSE
Newly Invented Device Has Cleaning
Attachment, Keeping Comb
Free of Dirt.

The process of currycombing
horse is an art, and one not to be
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Real Estate Bargains

undersigned lots for sale in
splendid woodlands good farming purposes
' ane a farms for on s S
tom lands hill landon which the most liberal
Parties having timber for sale should place with
So bargain 522 acres Of pine wds land about 1--WE miles
at the low ags per acre land lies in two sol
at
years. cash. " per acre. cash. ana
Is level hill Is the bottom
good poultry
49, desirable colfax nve and com
mous galleries ceied and nicely painted and finished situated
Slnl25 feet each w0odshed ouhou
the town. will be sold for sa5oo
well branch with sa
two cotton houses and CRIB peach apple and trees price
Desirable h 10 miles Of cola1
with gallery. kitchen.
100 a na S
% a4o desirable home creek and hammock farm Z!
acres in cultivation lso acres black land 50 acres m IN
with gallery kitchen and outhouss 100
hickory timber $4,000 half
s 90 % sssss v .as 50 in
men fine 4nch pipe deep well supplying abundance Of good water
$3.50. l years
would be glad with citizens
the proposition a speculation.
hickory about
miles northeast Of Cox will be sold 225 $3.50 time
500 cash, balance
other M
and will 1t for
No sale charge, listing
will have no charges to unless properly Is sold.
II. G. GOODWIN
REAL ESTATE
COLFAx, LA.