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The Arizona copper camp., 1919-05-03

agent wanted, with Ford or auto
mobile" is in Tuesdays want ads in
the Republican. We have heard that
one on the stage, but if man is
serious about it, he shouldn't make
fun of poor-hard- woikin silver They
get more abuse, and sell for more
money secondhand, and the extras
cost more than the original maquina,
But Henry is selling more every day!
The Arizona copper camp., 1919-05-03
A Column
Chronic1ing C0n11net

honest-togo goodness bawling out last
week, for having used the word
"Zowle" in a headline. Why should
we have to resort to outlandish terms
when the English language presents
unfounded possibilities? We confess
that our critic was in the right, but
we chuckled with glee when he used
the word "camouflage" in the next
breath-and we sure did hop his
frame for going outside of ell idioma
ingles. Oh boy! but that feller sure
needed a friend just then!
Bill had just come in, after a hard
days work underground "The boss
wants to see you, Bill" said one of
his fellow workmen 81 believe he is
going to give you a raise
Nothing daunted, and much elated,
Bill sauntered into the sanctum.
Here, Bill, put your name down on
this Victory Loan subscription card, -
said the boss, and all the wind went
out Of Bills sails. Now if Bill had
only stopped to consider, he would
have realized that he gets enough
raises in the mine every day.
The Arizona copper camp., 1919-05-03

A. P went down to Phoenix last
week, to enjoy the heat there. What's
the matter, can't we make it hot
enough for you?
The Arizona copper camp., 1919-05-03

We were the recipients of real
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Catching a Gator

'sWE were standing on the bank
and the gator dashed his tail
and swept sheets OF mud and water
over US, all the while the banging of
his terrifying jaws sounding like the
echoes Of a bass drum. To cap the
climax. rain began to fall in torrents.
twist Of the rope that was noosed
arounl his neck sent loop around
his snout, just as cowboy in cir
Gus binds a willing victim hand and
foot by whirling loop after loop around
arms and legs. Finally the gator was
hauled out on the bank. He kept
lashing his tail, but the action Of his
jaws was interfered with by the rope.
I picked favorable moment and
reached for his snout and while 1 held
his mouth closed Snyder muzzled him
securely with the rope Then with a
stout sapling secured to his head and
projecting few feet beyond his snout
we began to truss him up
I'VE dashed his body to the sapling.
Then we closed in on his tail and Sc
cured that. After that all he could
do was wiggle and roll his eyes. Sny-
der took hold Of one end Of the pole
and | took the other and we slid him
into the wagon. He weighed 210
pounds. Driving back, his head rested
on the floor of the wagon under the
seat between the feet Of myself and
Mrs. Ditmars. We caught another al
ligator that weighed eighty pounds.
Both Of these are on exhibition here at
the Zoo.
"But still we needed big diamond
back rattler, so finally we started out
IN the wagon especially to get them
They are to be found on the dry ham
mock land. We took two guides
Charles Horton and Sam Greaves.
/ They were mounted and riding ahead
of the wagons
abruptly their horses reared and
wheeled about in az effort to bolt. We
were almost on top of them and could
hear the buzz of big rather Snyder
jumped from the wagon and there
was the dismond-back coiled up in the
saw grass, head poised to strike. Sny-
der dropped a copper wire over his
head and drew it taut 1t didn't take
long after that to get him into a sack.
He was over five feet long.
eve had left the girls home that day
because their mother feared they
might be bitten. They used to run
and jump around in the saw grass and
scare us, for while they wore leg
gins they might have leaned over to
pick berry and been struck
"On the way back to camp Mrs Dit
mars said that she was very glad we
hadn't brought them with US. They
came running to meet us when we
reared the camp and Gladys shouted
We've caught the prize specimen
We've got big rattlesnake!'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
The cotton naOuthed ,cater moe
casin isn't the genslen.a,ly rep
tile that the rattlesnake is. He
strikes ,Cith0Lf suarn,aig

hurled more than yard away by the
ant lions.
Sometimes when food isn't pler:i.
full because the game has grown wary
the ant lions make trails or trenches
from crater to crater. Ants like to
walk in grooves. discovered that for
myself and so did the ant lion. BY
making these trails the lions increase
the prospect of bringing a victim to
the edge Of their craters. After that
the rest is easy. After tims the
lions spin cocoons and finally emerge
as form of dragon fly and depart for
brief period of romance.
II brought back with ME several
trunk trays filled with the proper kind
Of sand and number of lions. These
wasted no time about excavating their
craters, and l see that they are kept
supplied with ants by means of strings
rubbed with bacon grease. The ants
cross these strings and, hoping to find
the source of this enticing odor, trace
them into the trunk trays, where they
quickly come afoul of the lion pits.
plan to exhibit these little creatu res at
the Zoo also.
Cali the time we were getting these
kind Of specimens we were on the
lookout for rattlers, but without get
ting any.
eve discovered also that alligators
had retreated from the more accessible
streams to quiet lagoons where they
live like monarchs. One day we heard
an alligator believing and decided that
he must be a big fellow. We located
him in lagoon about seven miles from
our camp. We started after him With
horse and wagon, travelling through
the swamp over a corduroy road made
of cypress logs in splendid conli. on
1t had been laid by Sherman's engi-
neers during the Civil War.
"On either side of us were grove.
of great trees bearded with Spanish
moss. Rank vegetation grew all shout
Before we had gone far our horse wa.
in water up to his belly, for the river
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Daring Daughters

Ut THOUGHT they must have caught
little one, but to humor them
went to provision box turned upside
down near some bushes not far from
the cabin.
Gladys heard him buzz Beatrice
told me. and then we saw him almost
under the bushes. We called grand
father and l told him l had seen you
catch snakes often enough to know
how myself. I told him that if he'd
get ready to drop the box over him
I'd tease him until he coiled himself.
/ poked stick at him until he coiled.
Grandfather dropped the box and then
to make sure of him we pushed stakes
in the ground and nailed them to the
box
Il walked over to the box" continued
Mr.. Ditmars, "and kicked the box
over There he was, coiled and buzz
ing. l had expected little fellow, but
he was one of the biggest I'd ever
seen. We dropped the box back over
him and later noosed him and put him
in sack. Then I examined the box.
He had struck the side of it and there
were two big smears like varnish down
one side-enough poison to kill score
of men.
We've got him in an exhibition
case here in the reptile house now, but
I'll never see him without shivering to
think of my daughters adventure with
him"
Mr.. Ditmars walked over to the case
containing the two big rattlers caught
on the Southern trip. There were
several other smaller diamond-backs
in the same case, but the new arrivals
were twined about each other. A grour
of awe struck school children were
looking at them open mouthed. Mr.
Ditmars raped On the glass front o.
the case, which is size smaller thar
New York apartment bathroom.
The other rattlers ignored the rap
ping, but the strangers reared thei,
heads and began to shake their rattle.
menacingly.
"His fangs are about an inch long
If he struck you on the forearm.
boosted Mr.. Ditmars, you'd be dead i,
something like fifteen minutes. Blu
at that he is a gentleman compare,
with the silent. nk-without-warnin,
cotton mouth moccasin."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Southern Variety

ssWIE CAUGHT number of cotton
w mouth moccasns and copper
heads, both vcnomous species, besides
the non-poisonous king snakes, coach
whips, rat snakes, chicken snakes, black
snakes, scarlet snakes, hog nosed, ring
necked, red bellied water and black
water snakes. We got two big alliga-
tors, some small ones and about 15O liz
ards, frogs and toads. We also brought
back specimens Of the Venus flytrap,
or pitcher plant, which lives on insects
it traps in its tubular, hooded body
that grows as high as a mans waist.
In the base Of this odd plant there is a
sweet smelling substance that attracts
insects. 1t is watery fluid, and the in
sects lured inside are drowned in it
and then digested. Once inside the
hood the bugs or flies find they can't
crawl out because Of the ella or down.
ward pointing hairs on the inside of
the plant.
zone variety Of grub we found living
in most of the pitcher plants we
opened. 1t leads a semi. aquatic life in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

powder the time Of the burning Of the
charge would be something of the ma
ture of one twenty-afth of second.
"But the quality which caused the
discovery Of these gelatinized powders
to revolutionize tactics both by land
and sea was that they were smokeless
In gunpowder there is much that takes
no part in the combustion and is ex-
PEELED as fine dust 1t is this which
causes the smoke which always accom-
panies the use of gunpowder, and which
not only fouls the gun but made aim
ing an impossibility after the first VOL
ley in continued firing.
"The great feature of Admiral de
Saumarez, the local hero Of Guernsey,
was that he drove his frigate by night
between two French men-of-war that
were lying parallel to one another and
fired simultaneously both his broad
sides at them, and then sailed away,
leaving each to blow the other out of
the water in the belief that it was fir
ing at the adversary that had dared to
vented either discovering it's mistake.
"But in the new powder nothing is
left unconsumed. The whole is turned
into invisible gas. Aiming, therefore,
continues possible; indeed each shot is
sighting shot for the next This
makes it imperative that the position
of guns should not be altered by firing
in order that they may correct their
aim by past results, and they are there
fore mounted in cradles, with arrange
ments to take up the recoil and return
the gun to its original position after
firing. Quick-fring and machine guns
can be used with accuracy, and their
use is now the fundamental considera-
ton in much of our military tactics. 1t
would be hard to exaggerate the extent
to which military science has been
changed by this invention Of smokeless
powder"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Science and Inventi0n


year I had been unable to get any
worthwhile snakes from my usual
sources of supply. l learned why on
this trip. The severe winter of 1918
killed an immense amount of reptile
life, thereby offsetting in large de-
gree for the Southern planter the dam
age done his fruit groves.
Few of the snakes had gone below
the frost line, and consequently they
were frozen to death, countless thou
sands of them, and especially the dead
ly moccasin. But there is one species
too crafty to be caught by cold
winter. That is the diamond back
RATHER.
"The Southern RATHER goes down
deep for his winter nap; goes deep
enough to be below what would be the
frost line in the North Usually he
winters way down in the bottom of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

the fluid that traps the bugs the plant
feeds on. The grub eats it's share of
this easily gathered food, growing fat
on the unfortunate bugs Then it
crawls to the top Of the plant, spins it's
cocoon on the under side of the hood
and stays there until it is ready to
begin life in winged state. Then it
energies and, avoiding the treacherous
hairs that would entanglc it's wings,
flies away. Ny advice to lazy cntomol-
ogists is to get their specimens by cut
ting open pitcher plants. We found
all sorts of insects in those we opened.
"Another interesting creature we
found was the ant lion. We brought a
number of these North with us and
plan to put some of them on exhibition
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

at the Zoo. Ant lions are insects, but
in trapping their prey they display all
the military cunning of Won linden
burg. Maybe they are a little better
than he was
"The ant lion is perhaps half an
inch long. On the front of it's body
are powerful mandibles or pincers, and
it's first act after Matching is to use
these to dig crater.
ut does this By shooting the grain.
of sand away from it's body, using its
mandibles or pincers very much like
q boy shooting marbles with his first
finger and thumb. The mother Away,
lays her eggs in the shadow of scrul
oak trees, where the sand is loose ant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
The Hapjack turtle is consid-
cred a delicacy by the negroes
along the Savannah rirer

crevices at the root Of pine trees, in
natural caverns, filled with partly de-
composed pine needles, which generate
certain amount of heat.
"But there are plenty Of snakes if
one looks for them in the right place,
and plenty more even when you are
not looking for them. So you can bet
that we were glad when DR.. Gilbert
van der Smissen, of The Bronx, came
down to join us, bringing a complete
outfit for the treatment of snake bites,
including tubes of rattlesnake serum,
rubber ligatures and permanganate of
potassium. He had administered the
serum to persons bitten at the Zoo and
said he wanted to see how snakes were
caught. Knowing he was there, we
went about our work q lot more cheer
fully.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24

shifting. So when the crater is
finished it is a depression that locks
like the print of some cone shaped IN
strument. In the bottom partially
covered by sand is the ant lion. An
ant seeking food approaches the edge
Of the crater. The sand under it be-
gins to shift and the tiny insect begins
to slide into the crater. This arouses
the ant lion. Instead of rushing up
and grabbing its victim it then begins
to lombard it with sand, shooting a
grain at time with stunning force
and machine-g unlike rapidity until the
victim is helpless and rolls down the
declivity into the Jaws Of it's enemy.
The Anf Lion
ssWIHEN the lion has sucked the ant
dry it proceeds to shoos the
carcass away from the vicinity of The
crater so that the victims friends
and relatives won't be warned away
from the pit. have seen the carcasses
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Difference in Jackets

"Mr. Still does the same thing in
modified form, but he also attempts
more. In place of cold water jacket
he has hot water jacket. In fact, the
engine jacket is made into part of the
water space, or at least is IN free con-
nection with the water space of the
steam boiler, which is raising steam
from the exhaust gases. In this way
his boiler absorbs most of the heat
which otherwise passes away with the
jacket cooling water, as we'll as a con-
siderable part of the heat in the ex-
haust gases. In fact, in tests made by
Professor Hopkinson and Mr.. Boys 3.2S
pounds of steam were raised from the
jacket heat and 2.72 pounds from the
exhaust, six pounds in all, per hour per
effective horsepower developed by the
gas or oil engine proper. The steam
SO raised Mr.. Still utilizes not in q
separate engine, but in the same cyln-
der, but on the other side of the piston
that the gas or oil is burned in. He
claims that the additional effective
work thus obtained is 20 per cent when
the steam portion is operated non-con-
densing and 40 per cent when operated
condensng, which latter, of course, is
the normal steam engine practice.
~"There are many technical points
raised which cannot be fully dealt with
in this article, but it may serve use
full purpose to indicate q few lines Of
criticism Earlier it was pointed
out that gas Tor oily engine cylinders
are at present jacketed with cool water.
Practically no maker will consent to
higher outlet temperature than $50 de-
grees Fahrenheit-say, 40 Fahrenheit
average temperature in the jackets
and most makers of large engines pre-
fer not to exceed 1870 Fahrenheit at
most At higher temperatures the cool
ing is less effective, and deposits take
place in the jackets at the local hot
places. Mr.. Still, when using a steam
pressure of 1870 pounds per square inc..
must have his jackets at a temperature
OF 800 Fahrenheit. The jump from 1870
to $50 Fahrenheit may we'll be serious.
especially for the piston, which, it will
be remembered, is jacketed with hot
steam instead of cold water, and which
is always a danger point in gas and oil
engines. Another difficulty in many
cases arises from the fact that steam
is not raised, except by external means,
until some time after the engine has
been at work-a considerable drawback
for intermittent working.
Other points of a more technical
character relating to fabrication, piston
leakage, cylinder expansion, governing
and also questions of size Of unit, COM
plexity and capita cost, must also bs
considered; and it is clear that onlv
experience of large engines can finally
determine the utility of Mr.. Stills pro.
; posais. 1t is, however, fair to say tina,
) his claims are not based on experiments
with mere models. He has successful,
developed $50 horsepower (etfective) il
one cylinder of an adapted Diesel Of
engine and carried very heavy oyn
loads, which last he achieves by ad
hitting an additional and indenenden
supply of steam to the steam side O
the engine"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
A Steam En-
CINE That
Saves Fuel

CINE, claimed to be 25 to IS
- per cent more economical of
fuel thar any other engine
so far in use, is reported by an en-
cheering correspondent in "The
Manchester Guardian" who writes:
cat a meeting of the Royal Society
Of Arts in London F. E. D. Acland read
a paper describing a new engine de-
signed by Mr.. Still. 1t is claimed that
the new engine is between 25 and 80
per cent more economical of fuel than
any other engine in existence. Large
claims are not unusual in the mouths
of inventors and their friends, but Mr..
Still can show considerable expert
mental work on engines of large size
and tested by such competent authori-
ties as the late Professor Bertrsm
Hopkinson, of Cambridge, and c. "
DOyo. mOlCOFCb, VIC Sloaibo 2IoNC W
Mr.. Acland on behalf Of the Still engine
at the Royal Society Of Arts were
treated with respect by such acknowl-
edged experts as Sir Dougald Clerk,
Professor Watkinson and Sir Charles
A. Parsons. of turbine fame. Hence we
are entitled to think the Still engine
worthy Of attention, although it has yet
to demonstrate its complete commercial
fitness. Certainly a saving of about
one-third of the fuel consumed by gas
and oil engines and of about so or 90
per cent of the fuel consumed by steam
turbines and engines is an alluring
picture both for the user of power as
an individual and for the nation as a
whole.
Mr.. Stills engine is a combined
steam and gas or oil engine. In the
ordinary gas or oil engine the gas or
oil is burned in q cylinder, which, in
order that it may be kept in workable
condition, must be jacketed with cool
water. To this water the engine gives
up about 80 per cent Of the original
heat in the fuel. Another 40 per cent
is thrown away with the exhaust gases,
and the balance, say 80 per cent, is con-
verted into work. These figures vary
az little, Of course, but she variations
90 not substantially alter the figures
given. To improve the efficiency, it is
common practice with large engines to
utilize some of the heat thrown out
with the exhaust gases for raising
steam, which in turn is utilized for
power or other useful purpose.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-24
Blow Things
Up,UseCoal
andOxygen

q YITRO-GLYCERINE stands
N first among our violent en-
\ plosives, yet the power it
can generate is less than
one-sixth of that given by the com
bustion Of an equal weight of good
coal OF petroleum. In his Rede
lecture at Cambridge, Lord Moul-
ton touched on many scientific and
chemical developments Of the war.
As reproduced in "The London
Tines" he said:
take the subject of explosives, the
basis Of all modern warfare. An ex-
ulosive Is nothing other than a COM
bustible substance that can burn
npidly without needing to be in COM
munication with the external air. Peo-
uIs are prepared to credit such q SUBJ
hanes with secret stores of power
Wholly surprising those that are pos
used by other bodies. This is, how
ssr, far from being the case. 1t may
surprise many. yet It Is true. It may
,sfely be said that there will never
10 an explosive which can give out
nearly as much energy as an equal
weight of coal or petroleum. Nitro
g!ycerine stands first of our most vo-
lent explosives, and yet the power it
can generate is less than one-sixth of
that given by the combustion of an
equal weight of good coal. The diff
ference in the effects Of the two cases
Is due to the fact that the coal needs
the oxygen of the air for its combus-
ton. In nitro glycerine the oxygen is
10 be found in the explosive itself.
The explosive can therefore burn with
rapidity and within closed walls, and
the hot gases thus generated, which are
many hundred or even thousand times
the volume Of the explosive itself, give
he sudden pressure which bursts the
containing walls, or, in gun, drives
out the projectile