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Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19
The Story of Aluminium
BY EMERSON BROOKS
Vice President of the IsOtta Import Co.

licate this laboratory process, and If
they succeed, any ordinary clay bank
will become an aluminium mine, and
fortune awaits the discoverer. Alum
mum may be cut with an ordinary
knife, but 1t cannot be machined with
any degree of mechanical success, and
other experts are seeking a possible
alloy, with aluminium as base, which
will give more tensile strength and be
more susceptible of being worked in
the lathe
A score of years ago aluminium was
a curiosity of the laboratory, while to-
day 1t is a necessity. Eight per cent
of the earth's crust Is aluminium, and
every cubic yard of ordinary clay con-
talns about 800 pounds of aluminium,
which can be extracted by the cleo
trical furnace process, but which, at
the present time, is too costly and
tedious to pay commercially. A French
inventor, who succeeded In extracting
aluminium from clay, heats the latter
with iron in an electric furnace, and
as a result the iron combines with
the silica in the clay to form ferro-
silicon, which, by the way, is used by
steel producers to remove oxygen from
the steel while II is In process of man
ufacture. The residue always contains
a considerable amount of aluminium
oxide, from which the metallic aluml-
mum is reduced by further electrolysis.
The inventor, and many others, are en-
deavoring to cheaper the cost of this
process, and when they succeed we
may look for an aluminium age. as the
metal will largely take the place of
wood In the manufacture of ships,
houses, bridges, airships, typewriters,
surgical instruments and various ar
ticles of common use.
Automobile body builders. such as
]. M. Quinby & Co., of Newark, have
long since adopted aluminium as the
most desirable material out of which
to construct bodies for pleasure We
hicles. The first effort in this line was
somewhat unsatisfactory, owing to a
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19

1T is a popular fallacy that alum
mum is the lightest metal known,
u as magnesium, which is obtained
from chloride of magnesium by cleo
trolysis, Is one and three-quarters
lighter than water, or one third lighter
than aluminium, but, at the present
time aluminium has the advantage OF
being a commercial proposition, while
magnesium is not.
most of the aluminium used In the
Industrial arts is derived from baux-
ite. which Is n pure oxide of aluminium.
found in only q few places in TINS
country; such deposit being limited In
quantity The principal concern In the
United States which has held a prac-
tical monopoly of the aluminium in
dustry since its inception, has been
able to do so owing to the possession
of patents on the process for the ex-
traction of the metal, and these are the
inventions of C. M. Hall, formerly
student of Oberlin college. In 1887, or
about the time when the Hall patents
were taken out, aluminium was selling
at about SIS per pound, and in the fol-
lowing two years the price dropped TO
81 per pound, and now the metal may
be purchased in large quantities at
about 20 cents per pound. 1t is very
probable that difficulty will be found IN
locating new deposits of bauxite In the
United States, although word has re-
Gently come from Georgia of such
discovery.
In the event of the American de-
posit giving out, then the lower grades
produced in western Australia and In
dia will have to be relied upon to sup
ply the ever increasing demand for the
material occasioned by the constantly
increasing manufacture of bodies for
automobile purposes. Bauxite is ex-
actly the same substance which chem
lists have produced from ordinary clay
in an electric furnace, known as arti-
ficial bauxte. In almost every part or
the civilized world chemists are seek
ing a cheap and successful way to dup
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19
JUST TO ANNOY


"In Lady Cardigan's new volume of
memoirs" says a Chicago publisher,
1.-THE virtue of one of the aristocratc
Tollemache ladies is assailed. The
lady herself has long been dead, but all
her descendants, to the third anf fourth
generation, are writing to the papers
denying the truth of Lady Cardig ms
attack.
'It all goes to show how sensitive we
are about the virtue of our ancestors.
This was understood by a Chicago
pro- suffragist who wrote to the papers
the other day:
" Senator Blanks shameful attacks
on the motives of the militant suffra-
gettes must cease. Before Senator
Blank traduces these minded
ladies he had better look after his
thieving, drunken old mother
"a friend to whom this letter was
shown said to the pro-suffragist:
THAT is all very trenchantly put.
It's libelous, of course. l suppose
you're quite sure of your ground?
Sure of my ground?' said the pro-
suffragist. mpatiently. I never heard
a word against the cd lady. All I
know u.s. if Senator Blank has the COM
mon feelings of a gentleman, he'll b.
verv much annoyed"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19

A waste of fuel will result from p
lack of synchronism in the action of
the valves of a gasoline motor. and not
only that, but a falling off in power
output as well. A careful adjustment
of the valve tappets to compensate
evenly for wear on the end of the valve
stems and tappet heads should at all
times be maintained. Another cause
of waste fuel is in leaky valves or pis-
ton rings, resulting directly in lost
compression.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19
A SIx-INcH APPETITE

IN. Escoffier, the famous chef, who
has just celebrated his fiftieth jubilee
in London, once entertained me with
some marvellous stories about big ap-
petites." said a New York hotel man.
81 think the best of these stories was
about an alderman. This chap said to
his neighbor at a Christmas banquet,
as he pushed his chair a little away
from the table:
"I'll give you a tip. It's one I've fol-
lowed for years. At the start of ban
quet sit six inches off the table and
keep on eating till I'm up to it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19

1t is well known that the English,
or many of them, are inveterate gam
blers, and that in connection with in
surance a form of gambling has ex-
listed for a long time. English insur-
ance companies, like the Lloyds, will
issue a policy on almost anything
even going to the extreme of insuring
shopkeepers against bad weather that
would interfere with some great public
function, such as the coronation of the
king 1t remained for an American
concern. however, to make PROPOSE
ton to Lloyds which even that ven
turesome concern baked at This was
nothing more or less than a PROPOSE
tion to issue a policy insuring the
holder of the Glidden trophy against
losing it in this years Glidden tour,
and another policy insuring the same
concern against the failure of its four
cars entered to make a perfect score.
This was too much for Lloyds, and
they declined the offer. Yet, as 1t
turned out, the insurance company
would not have had to pay a cent for
the car in question turned the trick in
both cases.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19
Wm Bosbyshell, the Duke of Olive Street

lack of knowledge of the degrees of
hardness producing the best results,
and also owing to the absolute lack
of any knowledge or experience on the
part of other manufacturers. After
years of persevering effort, all these
difficulties have been conquered, and
the aluminium is today the most SER
viceable and best wearing form of con-
struction known to the trade. The days
of split panels and open joints are past;
and, should the carriage business re-
vive, without question, aluminium
would figure largely in the construction
of carriage bodies of the best class
She-You were very late getting home
last night John.
He-Yes, dear.
'I hope there was nothing the mat
ter with you?"
mo, nothing wrong. Only since
they began decorating for Old Home
week all houses look alike to MEL
Yonkers Statesman.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
GOOD WORK is LOVED WORK
Ard Therein One Should Find the
contentnent That Is Chief
Part Of Life.

II q man doesn't love his work, he
had better get something else TO do
But the trouble is that such people
win hardly love any kind Of work
The trouble IL In them, They lack
intelligence. II they knew enough
to know good work, they would soon
learn 10 lore IT, The manuaEtrain-
ing scheme has this in vtew-to sur
round the JOB a man is doing with
such intelligence and taste as will
make it attractive TO him.
The nan who IL in love with his
job gets more contentment out Of life
than any other" say BrandeT Mat
thews; and he gets a great part Of his
contentment in doing his work right.
No man can love his work who shirks.
No man can be contented who Is dis
honest about his work. This is shirk-
ing OF doing it negIigentIy. So these
things always go togetheT-honest
work, contentment and love Of the Job.
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desert their posts and follow after
her.
Then Life cried unto the Lord with
a great voice:
Death seduces my servantslT
And the Lord said:
Deal with Death aE thou Wilt"
Therefore Life seized on Death and
U away her perfumsd LOCKS, and put
on her a painted mask, most hideous
TO behold. And be sealed the lips Of
Death, saying, BE thou dumb, and be
thou no longer known az a woman"
With this he cast oVer Deaths won
derful form a black mantle, like a pail,
and on # Life painted:
This is the King Of Terrors."
Then he sem Death forth, and there
after whenever she came near the
workers they fed from her and cried
aloud unto Life:
Matters not how hard thy tasks, oh
dear Life, If thou wilt but save US
from this frightfuI Death"
And Life said unto the Lord:
Have / not done welI?"
And he answered in exceeding sor-
row:
Needs must thy work on Death
stand. And this because Of the weak
ness Of men who were seduced by her
beauty and who needed not my an
gels voice. Yet very differently had
I planned for my people. Foa in the
beginning / set the loneliness Of Death
plainly before them, that they might
endure their tasks happily, knowing
how sweet the end would be. But
they have defeated my wisdom. On
their own heads be it,"
And Life went his way, satisfied.
Thereafter, when a child or man be-
came useless to him he cast it into
the arms OF Death, because its task
was finished.
And the soul of Death sang to the
soul of the mortal given her, though
her lips were dumb, and she blessed II
with an infinite blessing and bore it
away.
But the toilers mourned greatly that
Death should have dominion over one
of their number, and they turned the
more desperately to Life, who smiled
sternly and was content.
(Copyrighted.)
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
Stated in Cold Figures.

1t costs on an average about $3.50
to cure an incipient consumptiye or
to care for an advanced case of tubsr-
cuIosis until death. If he is left in des-
titute circumstances without proper
attention he will surely infect with
his disease at least two other persons,
and possibly ore Considering that
the average life is worth to society
in dollars and cents about 1880, the
net loss which would accrue to a COM
munity by not treating its poor con-
sumptiEes in proper institutions would
be, for each case, including those who
are unnecessarily infected, at the very
lowest figure, $3.50. On this basis, if
the poor consumptives in the United
States who are now sick were segre-
gated from their families, and either
Kept in institutions until they died, or
else cured of their disease, the saw
ing to the country would be the enoF-
nous sum Of s1,275.000 900.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits u~nconsciously Formed
and Hard to Break.

An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces-
sary to break a lifelong habit would.
If it could be transformed, lift a weight
of many tons.
It sometimes requires a higher de-
gree Of heroism to break the chains Of
a pernicious habit than to lead q for
lorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town:
From my earliest childhood I was a
lover of coffee. Before | was out of my
teens I was a miserable dyspeptic, suf.
fering terribly at times with my stom-
ach.
Il was convinced that ii was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
l could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast At the age of So l was in
very poor health, indeed. My sister
told me I was in danger of becoming
q coffee drunkard.
But l never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast. although it kept
me constantly i'll, until I tried Postum.
I learned to make it properly according
to directions, and now we can hardly
do without Postum for breakfast, and
r nothing for coffee.
Il am no longer troubled with dys.
pepsia. do not have spells Of suffering
with my stomach that used to trouble
me so when l drank coffee"
Look in pkgs. for the little book. The
Road to Wellvile." There's q Reason
Ever read the above Ierterg A new
one appears FROM tinae 70 time. They
are genuine, true, and fall OF human
tzteresx.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
A Christmas Hymn.

o Christ, upon whose natal morn
Rejoicing angels sang,
When Ger the blue Judean hills
Their heavenly anthems rang!
o Christ, to whom with gifts from fan
Came shepherd. sage and king, .
Our choicest gifts on this glad morn.
Our hearts, we humbly bring!
Grant US to follow Thee in love,
Nor from Thy path to stray,
Thy blessed feet ave gone before
And giorifed the way.
We join the angel ehoirs that sing
This happy morn again.
GLORY to God, the Lord Most High,
Goodwill and peace to e
Martha c. Howe.
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Nansen's Christmas Adventure.

The famous Norwegian navigator,
hansen, in his thrilling description Of
the expedition for the discovery of the
north pole, gives an account of the
first Christmas, when their vessel was
fast locked in Arctic ice. Outside, the
thermometer stood at So below zero.
but in the cabin all was merriment
and good cheer.
The menu of their dinner embraced
ox-taiI soup, fish pudding, roasted rein
deer, with cranberry jam, and the des-
sert included Christmas cakes, marsh
pain" coffee, figs, almonds and raisins.
He says: we could hardly have been
better off at home" Even the Arctic
cold and the faraway loneliness could
not chill the Christmas spirit.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
Knew His Business.

81 had always heard that New Eng
landers were smart" a young ply
stefan who had graduated" from a
village practice remarked the other
day, "but l hardly thought 1t deveI-
cped at such an early age"
lie smiled rem%iniscently, then con
tinued:
Just after l settled in Dobbs Cor
ners a twelve-year-old boy called on
me one evening.
Say, Doc. | guess I got measles
he remarked. but nobody knows #
'cept the folks al home. an they amt
the kind of folks that talk, if there's
any good reason to keep quiet
81 was puzzled, and I suppose I
looked It.
CAV, get wise, Doc my small Wis
itor suggested. What will you give
me to go to school an spread It among
all the kids in the village? '"-Z4ppin-
colts.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
ACCOUNTING ITCHING.
Eczema for a Year-Got No Relief
Even at Skin HospitaI-In Despair
Until cutlcura Cured Him.

II was troubled with a severe Itch
ing and dry, scrufy skin on my ankles,
feet, arms and scalp. Scratching made
1t worse. Thousands Of small red pim-
pies formed and these caused intense
itching. I was advised to go to the
hospital for diseases of the skin. l did
so, the chief surgeon saying: "Inever
saw such a bad case Of eczema" But I
got little or no relief. Then 1 tried many
so-called remedies, but I became so
bad that I almost gave up in despair.
After suffering agouies for twelve
months, I was relieved OF the almost
~unbearable itching after two or three
applications Of Cuticura Ointment. I
continued its use, combined with Cuti-
cur Soap and Pills, and I was COM
plete1y cured. Henry Searle, Little
Rock, Ark, Oct. 8 and 10, 1907"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
WHAT MOVED HIM

The extravagant hats which the
ladies' have been wearing this year
have little To recommend them, but
they hase at least proved a boon to
the comic artists and the funny men
II the newspapers. Here is a jeu
d,esprit taken from the Chicago
Tribune:
The rain, which had come suddenly
and une pectedly. was falling in tor
rents. Among the persons who had
taken ) eiter under a friendly avn
ing was a fashionably dressed wo-
men.
II beg your pardon, madam" said
q plainly attired man considerably
past middle age. stepping up to her
and lifting mis- hat, but | want to Of
fer you my sincere thanks"
What do you mean, sir?" she said.
'Thanks for What?'
Il never expected to see 1t again.
he went ON. 1T has been nearly thir-
ty years since
"since what. sir2 What are you
talking about?"
Pardon my emotion madam, but l
used to I've in Salt Lake City and"
4 have nothing to do with Salt
Lake City, sir. / never was there in
my life"
But / was. That was my home for
many years. And when l saw"
when you saw what?"
THAT hat Of yours, madam. 1t
brought back the old thrill. It's an
exact reproduction Of the great Nor
mon tabernacle, which my eyes have
been aching through all the weary
years t see once more before l die.
My longing has been satisfied at last,
and | thank you from the bottom of a
grateful hearth"
Again lifting his hat, he stepped
forth into the pouring rain and strobe
rapidly down the street.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
Deafh and Lite
R CLINTON DAscERErEtp
n Ti5ian al CArlmai

TN THE early days OF men the Lord
sent two powers or earth to have
dominion over them. One of these
was Death-the other Life,
The stern front OF Life showed
what he really was: unmerciful,
.exacting, swift to demand obedience
to a thousand laws, swift to punish
with the keen sword Of pain when
those laws were broken.
His eyes were the eyes Of a war
lord; his hand as cold as iron-and as
strong.
The tasks he set were many. Few
OF these were to the liking of the chill
r Of men, though some thinkers
perceived that out of these heavy
tasks came strength, also that If one
wrestled with them stoutly one might
even master Life himself and compel
him to graciousness.
Now the other power-Death-was
a woman
Tai she was, but SO perfectly
formed that her height was no blem-
lsh. Sleepy-eyed she was, but her
slow, sweet smile was so infinitely
tender and lovely that in the midst of
their tasks men stopped to gaze on
her as she passed.
At last one of the young men fol-
lowed her. She spoke to him-her
voice being that unspeakabIe music
which not even a violin can outsing-
and the young man returned into the
fields of Life no more.
Then a little child, weary of flower
gathering, pulled at her garments
hem, and all the workers held their
breath, waiting to see what Death
would do; for Life had painted her in
very evil colors.
But Death lifted the child and laid
her on her own deep bosom and sang
to her.
AS she sang the child slept, and an
exquisite smile fingered on its lips, as
though its visions were very fair.
Then Death held out the child that
the workers might see, and cried:
"Oh, ye who labor, beset with I'M
ending toll, see We how l have blessed
the child? Never more shall the heat
of summer vex her, nor the cold of
winter! have made her deaf to sor-
row and unmoYed by the vibrations ye
call joy. Forever shall her brow go
unwrinkled, and because she hath
chosen me l will give her the key to
Heavens immortal gates"
And a worker cried:
Eye have blessed the child because
she was your chosen one?"
The cry was a question.
Said Death dreamily:
"As 1 gave the child peace, so would
l give it to all who come to me
trusting me wholly"
Looking u across the blazing
fields she stretched her rounded arms
and cried: we are all minei Lover
of souls anu Il"
And with one accord they threw
down their tools and followed Ler into
a far land, beyond the domain of Life.
Now Life was yexed exceedingly by
the unfinished task. He went straight
way to the Lord and complained how
Death had led away part of his work
ers.
And the Lord SEN a great white
angel unto the remainder and forbade
them, through the angel, to hearken
unto Death until they could serve Life
no longer.
For the -Eord knew that the stern
dominion of Life must be, for the sake
of the men he hoped to complete.
But only a few, a very few, of the
children of men obeyed the angel. Let
Death but pass the t~oilers, and her
beauty was so great they continued to
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
The Execution.

In a home where the mother IS
somewhat aggressive and the father
gcod-natured and peace-Ioying, a
child's estimate of home conditions
was tersely expressed the other day
While dressing. the mother paused in
the act of putting on her shoes and
said: Il certainly am easy on shoes,
I have worn these for four months. l
don't know what you would do. John,
if l were not. / am easy on every
thing" The little girl looked up from
her dolls and remarked: Except
father."-Success.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
Mnman,s parfnn Deed.

In southern TUnis lies an extensive
salt marsh desert called the Shott
Jertd. of which the Arabs stand in ter
ror, for many a a has been lost
in the salt fncrusted morass, which,
according to De Lesseps Is as much
as 1900 feet deep in places. This
region has been crossed for the first
time in a small automobile by z
woman, Myriam Harry, a welI-known
French novelist,
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c-frcumstantIaI Evidence.

A witness in a railroad case at Fort
Worth, asked to tell in his W way
how the accident happened. said:
We'll, Ole and l was walking down
the track, and | heard g whistle, and
got off the track, and the train went
by, and I got back on the track, and
l didn't see Ole; but l walked along.
and pretty soon 1 seen Ole's hat, and
then l seen one of OIe's arms, and
then another leg, and then over one
side ole's head, and l says. My God!
Something muster happen to Ole!"-
EyerybOdy's Magazine,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
Detecfed-

The consul in London of a continen-
tai kingdom was informed by his gov
eminent that one of his country
women, supposed to be living in Great
Britain, had been left a million Of
money. After advertising without re-
suit, he applied to the police, and a
smart young detective was set to
work.
When a few weeks had gone by his
chief asked him how he was going on.
I've found the lady. sir"
Good! Where is she?"
AT my place. I got married to her
yesterday"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-17
TuIe Cake.

On Christmas night, if a maiden
place a piece of the Yule-cake under
her pillow she will dream Of her fu-
ture husband. Also a portion of the
cake should be kept for the next year,
as it brings luck in the house. The
plum pudding must always be kept
and again partaken Of on New Years
day if one would have a successful
wear.
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Of the bls d d 9 r
reached its climax
last spring and Isuf-
fered terribly. Ny
back ached and
panied 30 I could
hardly get around
and the secretions
were scauty, fire.
quent Of passage
and n1HAHzT