The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1720, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1909 Page: 3 of 4
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DECOYS FOR SIGHT-SEEING
EXTENSION LEG ON LADDER
NEW BABIES MIXED
ECHANICS
Pretty Girls’ Smiles Attract Atten-
tion of Young Men and Business
Quickly Revives.
How Painter or Other Mechanic Catf
Arrange Support to Reach
Out-of-Way Places.
A painter or any other mechanic is
sometimes called upon to paint or re-
pair work which is very unhandy to
reach. Perhaps a ladder is to be sup-
ported in some manner upon a slant-
ing roof of a shed, or other building,
writes I. G. Bayley in Scientific Amer-
ican. Such a case happened very re-
cently, when the following scheme wa»
adopted by a mechanic with success:
A ladder, A, was supported from tho
peak of the shed roof by means of-
plate, B, bent in thd’ shape of a hook.
Two painter’s hooks would do just at?
well. The plate, B, was about eigh?
tering the dressing-room together.
"Which baby is which?’’ was the
question shot from frightened eyes.
“Mine-was in the right-hand crib,"
insisted the nurse with brown eyes
and set jaw. "I’m perfectly sure.”
"No, indeed, that was mine. I re-
member as thought it had been this
minute, you putting yours down
there.”
Neither was certain and both were
frightened over the mix, and the
toilet of the strangers was completed
in silence.
One mother—the woman of plenty
—lay white and still and smiled, from
her pillow and laces, angelic greeting
to her son when he was laid warm and
sweet and bawlingly indifferent in her
arms.
One penetrating look she gave
sonny, then:
"This is not my baby,” she cried.
“Where is he? "-What have you done
with my baby?”
In the other room the other moth-
er, her soft hair falling in two bi\aids
over the shoulders of her plain gown,
hugged close to her side the infant
she had gone into the "valley of the,
shadow” to bring forth.
"Isn’t he sweet?” whispered the
woman, “and he’s all mine. It doesn’t
seem real that he’s mine.”
“Is he hers?” That’s the question
that the frightened nurses are asking.
That’s the question that one prom-
inent physician insists is “piffle.”
It’s a question that the Lady of
Plenty broods over and insists on be-
ing answered right. For her maternal
instinct has failed to blaze by con-
tact with the infant placed in her
arms, because she insists that her
baby had a mark.
The other mother is content in her
possession and refuses to relinquish.
One Belongs to Rich Parent,
Other to Woman of Small
Means.
Washington.—When you come to
Washington and a pretty girl smiles
at you from one of the sight-seeing
cars don’t get puffed up with pride.
That is what she is there for, but
most young men don't find it out until
they have given up their dollar, mount-
ed the "Rubberneck Coach” and tried
to carry on the flirtation.
It is a result of the increasing num-
ber of sight-seeing cars apd the
growing competition. One enterprising
“spieler” found that his descriptions
of historical and contemporaneous
Washington failed to draw tl/e patron-
age. ,/
One day he gave a free'y ride to a
couple of friends—attractive young
women they were—and vvas pained
to observe that before thfi car got un-
der way half a dozen -young fellows,
evidently visitors, h^d come aboard
and were endeavoring to pick up an
acquaintance. The) “spieler” was
about to declare batAle when the situ-
ation struck him in/ another light.
Every day since)the young women
mount the car it waits for pas-
sengers and past ^alluring glances at
passers-by. After/the susceptible ones
get aboard they find the smiles still
working, but rfot for them.
Considering? that it is the dull sea-
son, business is remarkably good.
MACHINE FOR FILLING CANS
Weight Attachment Measures Out Ac-
curately Amount Desired Deposit-
ed in Receptacles.
Wealthy Mother Insists Infant Brought
to Her Is Not Her Child—Nurses,
Who Caused Tangle, Are
Frightened.
Pictured in the accompanying illus-
tration is a machine which is adapted
to fill cans or similar receptacles with
material such as ground or whole cof-
fee, breakfast cereals, and the like.
The machine is provided with a
weighing attachment, which will
weigh accurately a predetermined
amount and deposit this in packages
with no waste of material, and with-
out noise or dust, says Scientific
American. The machine comprises a
hopper A provided at its lower ends
with a circle of spouts B which are
adapted to feed the material from the
hopper into a set of pockets C. Be-
low these pockets is a shelf on which
a tray may be placed carrying the
receiving cans or receptacles D. The
lower end of each pocket is provided
with a door E, which is normally kept
in closed position by means of a
spring F. A. horizontal slide rod G
connects with each door E and it may
be operated whenever desired to open
the doors and permit the material in
the pockets to drop into the recep-
tacles below. In order to prevent the
material from choking the spouts B,
an agitator is provided in the hopper
A. This consists of a plate F to the
lower side of which a series of curved
blades J are affixed. The plate H is
secured to a vertical shaft K, which
by means of suitable gearing is driven
by a pulley L. A clutch is provided
by which the mechanism may be
coupled to the pulley L and this clutch
is operated by an arm M. The latter
may be connected with any suitable
weighing apparatus operated by the
shelf which supports the cans. The
Denver, Col.—Two very new babies
happened to make their entrance into
this vale of tears at exactly the same
moment of the same day at St. Luke’s
hospital. Such dear little babies never
were before as those who happened all
of a sudden as the chief figure in a
drama whose end may be ever
wrapped in doubt.
They were the plumpest, roundest,
reddest, wrinkledest, big-lunged ba-
bies that nurses or physicians ever
saw, and though one baby was born to
the purple, which means money in
magnificent heaps, the other came to
^share a humbler lot, yet their habits
"and motions are identical. y-
Being born in a civilized country,
the first decent thing for Daby to do
was to be swaddled. Simultaneously,
therefore, out of two rooms came
the nurses bearing infants toward the
dressing room.
"Isn’t he cute?” asked one nurse,
not given to emotions or excess
of praise.
“Yes, and isn’t he?” asked the other,
rolling back a corner of white flan-
nel from -what seemed to be a bundle
of the same material in r^d.
Just then uprose a clamor. Care-
fully the brand-new citizens were laid
in cradles while the nurses rushed to
meet an emergency.
Having met it, back they came, en-
yfeambiing in Prison.
St. Pe/tersburg.—It has been discov-
ered tlVat the rooms of Col. Varnavsky
of thejSS. Peter and Paul fortress, the
great/ island prison of St. Petersburg,
are k much-frequented gambling den,
in which many persons, including
ladi/s, have been ruined. The com-
mafider of the .fortress has been de-
tailed and the roulette and baccarat
tat/les have been seized.
Resting Ladder on Roof.
or ten inches wide and three feet six
inches long before being bent. Th#
grip on the roof peak should not be
less than six or eight inches. Tho
second or working ladder, C, was sup-
ported on the first ladder, A, by an ex-
tension leg, D, made of four by three*
timber of tough quality. The foot of
this leg, D, was shaped as shown in
detail to fit against the rounds of the*
ladder on the roof. A plate, E, fur-
nished with a number of holes for n
couple of U bolts, F, was screwett
down on the leg, D. The holes were
staggered, and spaced 2% inches part
on each side, allowing adjustment of
1% inch each way, to accommodate
different pitch of roofs. The distance
apart of each group of holes In the
plate, E, should equal the distance
apart of rounds of the ladder, usually
one foot, so that the rounds of the
ladder will bear on the U bolts, whiclu
should be drawn up tight when the-
proper adjustment has been made.
If the extension leg was made of
steel, of smaller dimension than the
timber one, furnished with a sharp
point, G, to stick in the shingles of
the roof, the ladder, A, and hook, B?
could be dispensed/'With.
IS GQAT-FEVERlN XHICA GO?
BIG MONEY ORDER PURCHASE
Roumanian Interpreter and Boarding
House Keeper Sends Home Six
Years’ Savings.
the goats.” j
Micrococus melfteasis is said, to be
one of the smallesY germs'in existence.
If Dr. Evans findVe) it in 'Igoat milk
he will start searctl for goat fever in
Chicago. T * <
It is estimated at the stock yards,
where gcyAts are sold, that \here are
about 2,($00 of them in Chicago, and
that goatis milk is extensively used,
much of it pjeing brought from outside
places. Many physicians are sam to
prescribe it infants and invalids.
Should the discovery be made that
the milk is infected with micrococus
•meliteasis the sale\may be restricted
and precautionary meS^sures ordered.
No case of the disease* has yet been
reported in Chicago, bVt physicians
will ba warned to be ojfi the looklut
for it. ^ g. I
Health Commissioner and Assistant
Lead in Effort to Find Germ
Causing Disease.
Chicago.—Danger of the spread of
goat fever, a disease recently discov-
ered in America, through the use of
goat milk is to be investigated by Dr.
W. A. Evans, city health commission-
er, and Dr. Karl Konrad Ivoessler of
Rush Medical college.
Reports from Salt Lake City that a
mysterious fever had appeared there
and that the Utah doctors were in
pursuit of an unknown germ under
suspicion of causing the epidemic were
brought to the attention of the two
doctors.
When informed that the germ was
supposed to be spread by goats, Dr.
Koessler said: “The disease is un-
doubtedly Malta fever. It is trans-
mitted by contact with goats, whose
milk in ten per cent, of cases con-
tains a pure culture of the fever
microbe, known as micrococus meli\
teasis.”
"I will look into ‘goat
cago,” said'“i3*^-'EYaftST“If wel
goats are spreading disease, we’ll®
Waynesboro, Pa.—John Padura, a
Roumanian, who is an employe in one
of the local shops, an interpreter and
the keeper of a large board-
ing house for’his fellow Roumanians
employed here, sent a postoffice money
order to Ared, Hungary, for $4,000.
To be exa,ct, he sent 41 mosey or-
ders, because the postoffice depart-
ment will not issue an order for more
than $100.
The Roumanian saved this money
and $500 more during six years here.
He made fairly good wages as inter-
preter and as a workman, but the
greater part of this sum he saved
from the boarding house operations,
sometimes having as many as 40
boarders.
The money was sent to Europe to
buy a farm, which Padura’s father and
mother will manage.
The money is the largest amount
ever put into a single money or*!er
purchase in this valley, it is said.
STORE SEVE
Joseph’s
rinses
me interior or the hopper,/leaving an
gnnularspace through)^ch the ma.
^riaiunj&Js into the cans
pass. 'AlHfhe agitator revolves,
^blades .1 will scrape the material
openings B. It will be ob-
§^m the upper sectional view
^KUts B are arranged in a
Ilira their lower ends are
p&o as to deliver the
arerB^UBHn parallel rows. From
time to time as the pockets become
filled with material the operator
throws the lever G, which permits
them to discharge into the recepta-
cles D.
Cost of Building in United States.
The total cost of the buildings erect-
ed in the principal cities of the United
States in-1907 was $661,076,286, a net
decrease of $17,634,683 from the fig-
ures of 1906, but an increase over
those for any previous year. The
unit cost of building, however, In-
creased in the past year, for there
were some 184*055 permits issued irs
1907, as against 1S1.174 in 1906. In
the cities showing a decrease' in build-
ing New York takes the lead, with a
falling off of $41,591,982, or 26.84 per
cent.
THE RESULT OF A BRIEF CIVIL WAR
IpP'
:ts loodsfuffs that
^^^sibic. by a combination
P§g^vithout war, practically to
nation out. Thfe only rem-
edy lay in the direction olf organized
agriculture as a national coL^ern>
Ben Tillet of the DockerW* union,
who opened the discussion, declared
that unless something was dc/Te in the
matter of the food supply/ this coun-
try w as bound to go dowj^ jjj propor-
tion as other countries developed. We
had 20,000,000 acres of J-ood land lying
idle, while other counifi-ies were devel-
o„ing. Our food suSuS^.
ger, and he declared the time had
come when we shofiia ask parliament
not to piffle so mucaboxrt~ unearned
ViLcrement. but int^eSt itself in those
thinesuSlfi^fi ‘ifiected th« p.vprvrlav
A New Root Parasite.
A new parasite which attacks the
vine at the root was discovered at the
Academie des Sciences by M. Guig-
hard, chief of the College of Phar-
macy. It is designated "clandestine,”
as it is quite invisible in general, so
that it is all the more dangerous. The
parasite is believed to be a fungus of
the phanerogam family. Experiments
upon it are being continued at the bi-
ological laboratory of Nantes.
Plucking Chickens by Electricity’.
One of the most unique tasks elec-
tricity is to be compelled to accom-
plish is the picking of chickens. An
electric fan for this purpose has been
devised for whosesale poultry dealers.
The fan is placed in a receptacle
through which it drives a blast of airr
claimed to be sufficient to remove alt
the feathers and down from a fowl i»
a few seconds.
METHOD OF PULLING A CORK
New High Pressure Engine.
A test was recently made in Eng-
If you own a corkscrew of the kind land of a steam engine designed to*
illustrated, you can easly remove the work at pressures of as high as 1,000
tightest cork without fear of soiling pounds per square inch, says Seien-
your clothes, says Scientific American tific American. According to our con-
After turning the screw well into the temporary, Engineering, the tests
cork, place the lip of the bottle under showed a steam economy of !3,£>
the edge of a tabie or shelf, then with pounds per brake horse-power per
the upper surface on the table as a hour. The engine is of the inverted-V
type, with eight cylinders, the high
pressure two inches, low pressure five
inches in diameter, each pair being ar-
^_____"I [V ranged in tandem or two cranks. Tire
‘ stroke is four inches; the speed, 800
revolutions per minute. Forced lubri-
cation is- used, the oil being pumped
into the steam on its way to the cyliu-
l£g| dersv In the test the steam pressure
’ ! gi was 500 pounds, temperature 720 de-
l fg grees, the revolutions 700 per minute,
) I J§1 and the brake horse-power developed
/ r 32.65.
mm m
I ne recent civil war in Barcelona, Spain, was shoijt but sharp. On Sun-
day, July 25, ail was quiet, and the bull-fight, theaters! and restaurants were
crowded from morning till night. On July 26, the revolutionists started work,
and, despite the number of troops summoned to the town/managed to do an
enormous amount of damage, their wrath being specially visited on everything
savoring of the clergy. Convents and seminaries were alike sacked and
8,000 children thus turned adrift have had to be succored by the government
On Sunday, August 1, the restaurants and cafes were again crowded and thp
frenzy had subsided—at least for the moment.
America’s Mica Yield.
The production of mica in this coun-
try for the past year was valued at a
little more than a quarter of a mil-
lion dollars. Nearly all of this is
used in the electrical industry, as
mica is one of the best insulating ’ma-
terials known.
To Keep from Catching Colei.
The best means of preventing &
“cold” are: Never sit in a room that
is not thoroughly ventilated, ana
avoid especially any room occupied by;
a person suffering from a “cold n
Method of Pulling a Cork.
rest, life up on the handle of the
plement, and the cort will fol
smoothly.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1720, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1909, newspaper, September 24, 1909; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth911047/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.