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The mirror., 1922-02-23
METALLURGY
By Mr.. H. H. NJ.

N former article on Metallurgy dealt
with one of the precious metals. In
this paper propose dealing with what
are known as the baser metals; or at least
with those that are used in Minnesota
Machines" because you as skilled me-
chanics, play an important part in their
production.
The first metal will take up is the one
that is SO frequently referred to in the
commercial world as the barometer of
trade. Of course you will istantly recog-
nize it from that phrase as "iron." In
order to arrive at an intelligent under
standing of iron we will start in at the
mine Iron ore as we get it out of the
mine is nothing more than rust. Do you
know what rust really is? 1t is simply the
combination of metallic iron, with the oxy-
gen of the air. Our great deposits of rust,
commonly known as iron mines, contain
no metallic iron. Nature converted it all
to rust centuries ago. Pure iron contains
nothing but iron and oxygen, but the ore
taken out of the mines is full of 'impuri-
ties such as sulphur, PHOSPHORUS, silica,
and traces of other substances. These i'm
purities spoil the iron, so the ores are
"smelted" to produce the iron in a purer
condition.
Smelling" iron ore isn't half as mysti-
flying a proceeding as it sounds. You re-
member how the old village blacksmith
used to pump his bellows to put pep" in
the fire. They use his system on a large
scale. Measured quantities of iron ore,
coke and limestone are dumped into big
vertical furnace, and the fire touched off.
A strong air blast soon brings the whole
mass to a white heat. This makes things
too warm for the oxygen in the ore, which
joins some of the carbon from the coke,
and skips out of the top of the furnace in
the form of gas. The iron, being deserted
by its pal of many centuries, oxygen, gets
hot about it, and descends as molten,
metallic iron into the bottom of the fur
mace in search of a means to- escape, alb
sorbing some carbon as it goes Most of
the sulphur, too, passes out of the top as a
gas, while the molten limestone absorbs a
whole family of impurities" which are
drawn off together as Stag.
When sufficient iron has collected at the
bottom, the furnace is tapped" and the
molten metal is run off and cooled in
rough moulds, forming "pigs"-just bars
of metallic iron. A modern blast furnace
producing 400 tons of pig iron day con-
sumes in twenty-four hours approximately
500 tons of ore, 500 tons of coke and 240
tons of limestone, total of 1,54O tons of
solid material. During the same period
about $500 tons of super-heated air must
be pumped into the furnace, something
over one and one-half tons of air to each
ton of solid material. Pig iron is like the
old folks-has to stand for all sorts of
abuse, yet furnishes the backbone for its
higher toned offsprings 1t is the inter
mediate or semi-raw material from which
practically all the other irons and steels
are made-a sort of half way product.
Pigs will melt exactly as snow will melt
with heat. They are thrown into another
furnace and plenty of heat page =. Oo, ~
The mirror., 1922-02-23
"THE STRANGER"
Selected


that there was a dog story recently
: in the Congressional Record. Well,
there was, just the same-amost two
pages of it, in fine type. Representative
Benjamin G. Humphreys of Mississippi
who is serving his tenth term, got permis-
sion to "extend his remarks" and extended
them by printing "The Stranger" as a
treat to his fellow members. By way of
introduction he said in brief that the story
was written by Judge Marcellus L. Davis
of Dardanelle, Ark, American consul gen.
eral to the British West Indies during the
Cleveland administration and at one time
judge of the fifth judicial circuit of
Arkansas. He has been fox-hunter for
the best part of 73 years. He maintained
pack of hounds. The fox has gone and
the pack is scattered now, but Judge Davis
and his big Hambletonian are still fami-
liar figures in Dardanelle. And the
memory of "The- Stranger" is green
throughout the countryside. And here are
the high lights of the story:
From where he hailed, no one knew;
and whittier he went, no one cared. He
was simply little shivering, wandering
waif, upon the vast world of dogly possi-
bilities, without home, without master,
without friend, and as forlorn beast,
as dismal of countenance, ana as ,iesofaic
to look upon as ever stood up in so much
tattered dog skin. He was probably ten
months or year old, not more.
The horses kicked him, the old hounds
snubbed him, and the young ones snapped
him and made his life miserable But
somehow he rustled living, such as it
was; at any rate, he lived, and more than
that never a horn footed for start for
fox chase without "The Stranger" Chats
what we had got to calling him) would
materialize and be on hand with military
punctuality.
But let us pause here to remark that
there is small similarity between the fox
chase of the South and that of the old
countries where the red fox furnishes the
sport and runs by daylight, with the pack
close followed by the hunters. Here the
chase is invariably by night, and the gray
fox is the game.
As the season progressed it was noted
that "The Stranger" was improving, i. e.,
from some mysterious source he had taken
on little flesh and a little courage, and
had begun to round up and to fill out that
his framework was fine, his ears long,
pendulous, and beautifully hung, his muz-
zle excellent, and his eyes big brown and
honest, and his color clearing up into fine
shades of indigo blue and chocolate tan;
but that cowed, whipped-out, humble look
still marked him as sneak and a
skulker
Well, one fine night in November, when
the moon rode high, we had assembled
at the haunt of an old dog-fox, about nine
miles distant in the foothills. We expected
nothing less than a nights work." for
this old fox in question had never failed
to show up in gallant style, and for sew
eral seasons he had tantalized the best
packs in the country with his unfaiing
certainty to challenge all corners with
good race and the equal certainty and
The mirror., 1922-02-23

facility with which he never failed to shed
his pursuers, send them to a cold trail,
and then to dead loss whenever he grew
worried with the entertainment. He was
called the "beater," in later years "the old
beater," and he had earned the title. Some
of the negroes of the neighborhood had
grown superstitious of him. They said
that he was not fox at all, that they had
seen him, and that he was kind of a
cross between big bat and a wildcat,
that he was winged and webfooted and
that he would run till he got tired and
then rise and fly to the mountains and
rest, then come down and run again, and
so on. But we knew better, for he had
been seen too often. He was just simply
an DID, seasoned "beater," and good one
too, and had given more horses the
thumps, more dogs hard fits, and more
men the headahe, and had inspired more
seedlings and sermons upon the subject of
breaking the Sabbath day by running a
fox chase past the meridian on Saturday
night into Sunday morning than all the
other foxes in our congressional district.
(Here the judge tells in detail how,
while they were dismounted, breathing the
horses and givingsthe hounds drink,
single hound was heard in the distance
and how they called the roll on the pack,
finding every hound there but "The
Stranger" to whom no one gave a fur
ther thought).
BY this time the running hound, to
whom we had been listening, had de-
scribed circle on the bench of the noun
tain above us and was now coming
straight down on US. 1t was splendid
voice that came rolling down the slope.
Sweet as flute, clear as clarion, bold
as bugle, and steady as church bell,
it poured its symphonous tide like roll
ing river, through the wide spreading val
ley, inundating the sleeping earth with its
mighty volume of mellow music. AT
signal each of us gathered as many hounds
as we could hold onto and we started a
runner to the crossing to see the chase and
who was the chaser, etc. In jiffy we
heard the hoofs of his bald-faced pony
Gathering back, and as he came he yelled
cut: Turn 'em loose; I'll be blankety
blank blanked if it amt the old beater
himself, and The Strangers making him
hump for his life, not so yards behind
him."
In less time than it takes to tell the en-
tire pack, released, was laundering on the
trail. We knew exactly where the chase
would lead and how he would swing a
circuit of some seven miles in circumfer-
ence, and just where he would cross the
stream that drained the valley, and the
precise spot where he would jump the road
on his way back to the mountain. A
sharp gallop of 10 minutes brought us to
the place.
A soft swish through the bushes, low
gray flash across the moon
lit road gray streak vanishing in the
gloom of the woods, and we knew that
the fox had passed. And then came the
pack; a forest of tails feathering the
mottled mass of long-eared,
rrushing hounds, all in full cry,
not hundred yards in the rear, below
ing forth a cataract of music so thunder
Gus as to rock the earth itself and shatter
the acorns from the trees hard by But
what was the matter with The Stran-
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ing by good dozen lengths, but he was
running mute, dumb as an oyster. Well,
all old fox hunters know how that was
1t often happens with timid dog in a
hostile pack. The poor fellow was just
afraid of the other dogs; afraid that it
might be wrong, and that they would re-
sent it if he gave tongue; but, bless your
heart, gentle reader when we stood up in
our stirrups and gave him the old yell and
halloed "Hurrah for The Stranger!'" he
came out most bravely, and thence to the
end the music rang perfect His vast
voice rose and domained all.
But the "old beater" was not done vet.
In fact, he thought that he had just fairly
begun. He swept another shorter circle
through the valley and yet another, still
shorter. However, "The Stranger" was
new feature of the chase that he had not
calculated on for he set him faster pace
and crowded him closer and closer all the
time. He could find no leisure on his dou-
bles in which to rest. The last time we
saw the "beater" cross the road on his
way to the mountains his plume was on
the drag, and his "hah-hah-hah" was
coming short and labored from his heav-
ing flank. Then he began to corkscrew
his way up into hills and cliffs Then
fell hush, save now and then whimper
from some discouraged hound or low
howl that made us all sad.
!. "Well," said one, Il guess the 'old
beater' has about got tired of the fun; we
may as well blow out and quit; but we
have had fine run all the same," and he
had raised his horn to his lips to blow
when, like the peal of trumpet, "The
Strangers" splendid voice came rolling
down the hillside in full cry and hot pur-
suit, followed in few minutes by all the
rest of the pack, and little later the
tired fox, with dropping tail and hot and
rapid hah-hah-hah, bounded across the
road with the hounds running free and
fast not so feet in the rear. Presently we
heard him squall, then confusion of
squalls and growls, and when we rode up
to the spot the "old beater," the wizard of
the woods, lay lifeless among his
enemies.
(Then came clambering down the hill
a possum hunter to tell how the "old
beater" had hitherto baffled the hounds
The cunning old rascal had used a slop-
ing ash tree to get up and down 4O-foot
clif).
When the fox had disappeared over the
bluff he had simply jumped upon this
leaning tree and ran down it. 1t was an
easy trick for fox, but a most hazardous
feat for dog to attempt, but "The Stran-
ger" did it gamely, and though it bunged
and bruised him and cost him broken
rib, it mad him the pride of the pack and
the prime favorite of every fox hunt in all
the country. There was no other place in
a quarter of mile of either side of the
ash tree where the cliff could be climbed
by anything, and the tactics of the "old
beater" heretofore had always been to run
his race gamely till he tired, then make
for his tree and climb up and sit on the
bluff till the hounds worked their way
round and slip down the tree and sit at
the bottom till they worked round again,
and then run up again and down, and so
on, and so on, till they were worried out
and entirely beaten.
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nation, and the warning / utter has
been made necessary by what took
place yesterday and today. Yesterday
morning, student In the junior class
enlisted as a private in the United
States regular army. Far be it from
me to depl0re his course in so doing ;
he spoke to me abott it, and in such
way that / felt l had no right to dis
suade him.. I told him that it would
be preferable for college men to wait
until they could go as officers, and,
aside from the fact of a greater pres
tige, / urged that men of education
could perhaps be more useful in that
capacity. He replied that If he were
useful enough as private commits
sion might in time come his way, and,
as I say, did not feel at liberty to at
tempt discussion. He left to join a
regiment to which he had been as
signed, and many of you were at the
station to bid him farewell.
"But enthusiasm may be too con-
tagious; even a great and inspiring
motive may work for harm, and the
university must not become desert.
In the twenty-fOur hours since that
young man went to join the army last
night, one hundred and eleven of our
young men students have left our
walls; eighty-four of them went off to-
gether at three o'clock to catch an
east-bound train at the junction and
enlist for the navy at Newport. We
are say, in danger of a stampede"
He spoke on, but Dora was not lis
tening; she had become obsessed by
an idea which seemed to be carrying
her to the border of tragedy. When
the crowd poured forth from the build
ing she went with it mechanically,
and paused In the dark outside. She
spoke to a girl whom she did not
know.
II beg your pardon"
"Yes?"
81 wanted to ask: Do you know
who was the student Doctor Crows
spoke of? / mean the one that was
the first to enlist, and that they were
cheering last night when he went away
to be q private in the United States
army. Did you happen to hear his
nameY'
Eyes, he was junior"
"Who was it?"
Ramsey Milholland."
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to run the earth by revolution and rep
resentatives of unskilled labor immi-
grants, nobody that can read or write
allowed to vote, except Linski. Tom
mie Hopper says he knows all about
Linski: he never did days work in
his life--too busy trying to get the
workingmen stirred up against the peo-
pie that exploit 'em! Tommie says he
had a big crowd to hear him, though,
and took up quite little money for
a cause or something. Well, let him
boiler! I guess we can attend to him
when we get back from over yonder.
By George, old Ram, I'm gettin' kind
of foppy In the gills!" He admins
tered resounding slap to his COM
rades shoulder. st certainly looks as
IL our big days were walking toward
usw
He was right. The portentous days
came on apace, and each one brought
q new and greater portent. The faces
Of men lost a driven look besetting
them in the days of badgered waiting,
and instead Of that heavy apprehen-
sion one saw the look mems faces must
have worn in 1776 and 1861, and the
history of the old days grew clearer
In the new. The President went to
the congress, and the true indictment
he made there reached scoffing Pots
dam with an unspoken prophecy some
what chilling even to Potsdam, one
guesse1and then through an April
night went almost quietly the steady
word: we were at war with Germany.
The bugles sounded across the CONT
nent; drums and flies played up and
down the city streets and in town and
village squares and through the coun-
trysides. Family in all ears there was
multitudinous noise like distant,
hoarse cheering and sound
like that was what Dora Yocum heard,
one night, as she sat lonely in her
room. The bugles and flies and drums
had been heard about the streets Of
the college town, that day, and she
thought she must die Of them, they
hurt her so, and now to be haunted by
this imaginary cheering
She started. Was 1t imaginary?
She went downstairs and stood upon
the steps Of the dormitory In the open
air. No; the cheering was real and
loud. 1t came from the direction Of
the railway station, and the night air
surged and beat with 1t.
Below her stood the aged janitor Of
the building, listening. whats the
cheering for?' she asked, remember
ing grimly that the janitor was one Of
her acquaintance who had not yet
stopped speaking" to her. whats
the matter?"
cts good matter" the old man
answered. II guess there must be
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STATE OF WISCONSIN, IN CIR
CUT COURT FOR RUSK COUNTY
In Re Descent of Lands of Joseph
Kazubowski, also known as Joseph
Kazuboski, Deceased.
regular term of the county court, to be
Notice is hereby given, that at the
held in and for said county, at the
county court room in the court house
in the city of Ladysmith, in said coun-
ty, on the first Tuesday of September,
1922, being the fifth day of Septem-
Der, the following matter will be
heard considered, examined and adj
justed;
The application of Joseph p. Kasu-
bowsEzi, to determine the heirship and
descent of lands of Joseph Kazubow-
ski, also known as Joseph Kazuboski,
late of Kewaunee, Illinois, said lands
being described as follows:
The East one-half of the Southeast
quarter of Section Eleven (11), Town
ship Thirty-four (34) North, of Range
Nine co. West, in Rusk county, Wis
consin.
Dated at Ladysmith, Wisconsin, this
fifteenth day of July, 1922.
By the Court,
d. w. MALONEY,
County Judge.
J. A. Nicholson, Attorney for Petit
toner. Residence: Ladysmith, Wis.
consin
First insertion July 81, 1922. 1910
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big crowd of 'em down there. One of
our students enlisted today, and
they're givin' him a send-off. Listen
to 'em, how they do cheer. He's the
first one to co.
She went back to her room, SILVER
ing, and spent the next day In bed
with an aching head. She rose in the
evening, however, handful had been
slid under her door at five o'clock, call
ing "Mass Meeting" of the univer-
sity at eight, and she felt it her duty
to go; but when she got to the great
hall she found seat in the dimmest
corner, farthest from the rostrum.
The president of the university adj
dressed the tumultuous many hundreds
before him, for tumultuous they were
until he quoted them. He talked to
them soberly of patriotism, and called
upon them for "deliberation and lit
tie patience" There was danger Of
stampede, he said, and he and the rest
Of the faculty were in measure re-
sponsible to their fathers and mothers
for them.
"You must keep your heads" he
said God knows, / do not seek to
judge your duty In this gravest mo-
ment Of your lives, nor assume to tell
you what you must or must not do.
But by hurrying into service now, with
out careful thought or consideration,
you may impair the extent Of your
possible usefulness to the very cause
you are SO anxious to serve. Hundreds
Of you are taking technical courses
which should be completed-at least
to the end Of the term in June. In
structors from the United States army
are already on the way here, and mill
tary training will be begun at once
for all who are physically eligible and
Of acceptable age. A special course
will be given In preparation for flying,
and those who wish to become aviators
may enroll themselves for the course
at once.
81 speak to you In crisis Of the
university's life, as well as that of the
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HOW'S THIS?

HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will
do what we claim for it-rid your system
of Catarrh or Deafness caused by
Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE con-
sists of an Ointment which Quickly
Relieves the catarrhal Inflammation, and
the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which
acts through the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces, thus assisting to restore nor
NAL conditions.
Sold by druggists for over 40 Years.
f. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
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Potato RECORDS BROKEN

Eau Claire, Wis.-Early Ohio pota-
toes 111a inches long were dug on the
farm of Wilcox and Luraas in the
town of Union, June 15 Late Rural
New Workers measuring S1a inches
were dug on July 3. These are be
lieved to break all records in this COM
munity.
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Getting back to nature would be fine
if one had about two more hands with
which to scratch insect bites.
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Legal blanks? The News-Budget.
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Continued next week.

Students seeking medical advice
made 32,792 visits last year to the
physicians of the free medical clinic
conducted by the University of Wis
consin.
The Washington times., 1922-07-03
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The Washington times., 1922-07-03
HOUSES FOR SALE

few good buys reduced to $1,000.
hot-water heat, a well constructed press
brick home. baths. excellent N. K.
location.
$40 00O0--In Petworth: s-room house.
hot-water heat, gas. electric lights;
bat this strictly modern In every way; a
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IS 900. reduced to 45oo-Six room
brick house near Pa. ave. y. f.. with
a. new double garage. Only $500 cash
payment. balance like rent.
CS Lexington pi. N. E-This Is one
OF the best modern homes in the city
and vacant and in perfect condition: 4
beautiful rooms on the one floor: for
sale by the owner.
$50 Md ave. ve.--Kennedy- built home for
sale by the owner. already richly fur
nished.
For cOIored--6-room frame in George
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payment.
$1.70O--Five-room frame house and Z
large lots along the Bladensburg car
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Homes for sale $l40O up. Business
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DISTRICT NATIONAL BANK BLDG
FRANkLlS Ss9S. MAIN 1929