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INDUSTRY
AND
MATERIAL FOR HIP SHINGLE
No Necessity for Fancy Kinds as
Ordinary Shingles Last Long
Enough and Look Better.
(By A. O. STEIN, Minnesota.)
There are many fancy hip shingles
to be had. Some use tin or galvan
ized iron cut to suitable length and
(width.
Have you ever tried using ordinary
shingles cut to a level at the butt to
conform with course line? »
I use the hip shingles four and one
half inches wide on the roof of a
house; if lower down for window
hood, porch-roof, etc., I use the
shingles narrower —about two and a
half to three inches wide.
After laying the double course “a”
on both sides of the' hip, you lay
shingles “b” and “c.” The dotted
ft
Position of Hip Shingle.
lines above "a” indicate chalk lines,
(Which to make plain are not spaced
right, but too far apart.
You may shingle by straight edge.
I never do. The dots represent nails,
.which should be just_ fj»«!jliaugh up
on shingles^tgr-txT covered by the next
coursp : - "*
^-^■^he second course is laid over "c”
and "b” then “d” is laid on the sec
ond course; “b” shows ordinary
course cut to conform with hip.
Shingles laid along the hip with
the grain of wood nearly straight, do
not have the tendency to split like the
three-cornered pieces, but rather help
to hold down those underneath.
In trimming off the three-cornered
pieces of the regular courses, I use a
sharp chisel about one and one-half
inches wide, and to finish off, I use
a smooth plane with handle; having
iron set quite coarse is easier and
quicker than paring all with a chisel;
getting the edges of shingles straight
and a better fit.
As the hip shingles will be of the
same quality as the rest of the roof,
they ought to last as long and they
certainly look-right too.
MEASURING TOOL IS UNIQUE
Feature Is Series of Gauges of Vary
ing Thicknesses Pivoted Together
In an Encasing Handle.
An - unusual measuring tool has been
designed by a New York man. The
feature is a series of gauges of vary
ing thicknesses that are pivoted to
gether in an encasing handle. One
part of the handle is marked off into
an ordinary rule and the other has
perforations of varying diameters.
Each gauge is numbered according to
its thickness and one tapers and has
a graduated scale along its length.
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Measuring Tool.
As will be understood, this tool is
for ascertaining the depth of open
ings, such as slots and the like. One
or more of the gauges can be brought
together until a thickness is formed
that will just fit the cavity to be
measured. The device folds up.
Artificial Sponge.
It is said that the Germans have
recently succeeded in making arti
ficial sponge, which takes the place
of the genuine article in many re
spects. Pure cellulose and zinc chlo
ride make a pasty, viscuous mass,
which is mixed with coarse rock
salt. A quantity of this is then placed
in a mold and then pierced with
needles penetrating into the interior
In all directions. The salt is then re
moved by a prolonged washing, and
the result has the appearance and
qualities of sponge, absorbing water
in the same manner and drying when
its interior is freed of the water. It
may also be used for filtering pur
poses.
Excellent Whitewash,
Ten parts of slaked lime to one of
hydraulic cement, mixed with salt wa
ter, makes a whitewash that will not
easily wash or rub off.
FORTUNE IN WASTE PRODUCT
Process Discovered for Converting
Ore Dust, Formerly Thrown Away,
Into Briquettes.
As industries grow older the profits
get smaller and human ingenuity is
forced to do what it might have done
all along if it hadn’t been too lazy—
save the waste matter, or at least
1 make a great reduction in its total.
The French people are not more sav
ing than American because they are
brighter, but because they have been
forced by circumstances and neces
sity/ to be. Perhaps that explains
why the gre^t steel corporation has
just awakened to the fact that it has
been throwing away hundreds of thou
sands of dollars by letting the ore
dust from its steel making operations
go to the waste dump and lie there
neglected. A process has been discov
ered by which this ore dust can be
compressed into briquettes and util
ized for making pig iron. Tlfe dust
is bound together with a composition
composed principally of lime, which
acts as a flux in the smelting process.
Along the terminal railroads of the
Carnegie Steel company, just one
branch of the United States Steel cor
poration, are 200,000 tons of ore dust
piled into dumps. Iron ore is worth
$4 a ton, and pig iron, which is made
from the ore, is worth considerably
more.
FOR SAVING LIFE OF MINER
Apparatus Patented by Colorado Man
Has Mask Over Face, Shutting
Out All Impure Air.
An apparatus which may be the
means of saving many a miner’s life
has been patented by a Colorado man.
A mask .fits over the user’s face so
that no outside air can get into bls
nose or mouth. Below this mask is a .
ba^thTCUgh which fresh air. !s sup
plied from an oxygen chamber. In
addition to this, however, there is a
pressure equalizing reservoir connect-
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Miner’s Lifesaver.
ed with a water reservoir and with
tubes leading into the respirator.
When the air pressure in a mine be
comes dangerous this apparatus will
give the miner ample warning by
pumping water into his face and he
will then know that it is time to re
treat.
INDUSTRIAL
and
MECHANICAL
WsNOTES^
Two-thlrds of the tin used in the
world is supplied by the Malay states.
The reduction of milk to powder is
an established business in Switzer
land.
As a nonconductor of heat soot is
one of the most effective materials
known.
Glass may be fastened together with
a solder made from 95 parts of tin to
5 of copper.
The manufacture of cement has at
tained eighth rank for value among
the industries of the United States.
Alaska’s mineral output for 1911 has
been officially estimated at $20,370^
000, of which $17,150,000 is credited to
gold.
Rubber boots and overshoes are
now made with an inner heel of leath
er, which prolongs their period of use
fulness.
As a possible substitute for cotton,
German textile experts are experi
menting with the fiber of the Asiatic
1 silk cotton tree.
Equal parts of tin and zinc make a
1 nonshrinkable alloy and the addition
■ of a little bismuth makes it melt at a
1 lower temperature.
1 As it is 34 feet long by 12 high, a
motor truck used in New York to
move theatrical scenery is said to be
the largest ever built.
‘ During the years 1910-1911 28,000
■ new motor cars were registered in the
* United Kingdom, of which 18,000 were
• of British manufacture.
Well made canvas belts will out
• last two rubber belts in hot, damp
: places if occasionally rubbed with
I the dressing provided by the manu
i facturer.
■ The largest gold mine in the world
- is located in Hammonton, Yuba
1 county, California. The process is
1 dredge mining, which is expensive but
r immensely profitable.
i In return for the white pine, the
t Douglas fir and the black walnut, Eu
- rope has given North America the
Norway spruce and maple and the
Scotch and Austrian pine.
A German chemist claims to have
t melted metals in a vacuum by focus
- ing the sun’s rays upon them without
t necessitating the use of a container of
high heat resisting properties.
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WIILE the Chinese revolutionists were looting and killing in Canton, the foreign legations on Shameen isl
and, connected with the city by drawbridges, were protected by heavy detachments of American and Euro
pean troops. These soldiers are still on guard there, as the disorders are tar from being over.
CLEVER THIEF TAKEN
Europe’s Most Daring Swindler
Is Under Arrest
Robbed the Charitable, Posed as
Prince, Marquis and Monsignor of
Church, and His Loot
Totals Millions.
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Rome. —Nerve was what kept this
phenomenal rascal skating gracefully
over the thinnest kind of ice. And his
nerve has not deserted him, now that
the ice has broken under him and he
has sunk overhead in the muddy wa
ters of trouble.
Behind his prison bars he seems, in
deed —like most clever criminals —to
take a sort of professional pride in his
achievements. When he realized that
denial was henceforth futile he shrug
ged his shoulders and said:
“I congratulate the Roman police. I
have traveled all over the world and
got away with many hundreds of
thousands of lire.
“However, that which I stole I stole
from the rich. I never trimmed any
one for less than 100,000 lire ($20,000).
What a pity that the law must punish
me! I have helped an infinite number
of poor priests. Today I had an ap
pointment with another prelate; in
stead, I am in jail. What a pity!”
This unique scoundrel is a sort -of
combination of Tartufffe and Barry
Lyndon. He posed as a priest and
wore priestly garb, but he was not con
tent with that, for he wore purple at
his throat and a purple girdle, which
Indicated that he was a monsignor of
the church.
The bearer of these noble names and
ecclesiastical titles had no right to
any of them. He never was a priest.
He had no right to wear even a cas
sock, much less the purple of a pre
late. He is just plain Giovanni Bat
tista Gindri, son of a respectable Turin
hotelkeeper. He obtained his familiar-
SQUIRREL STOLE THE ACE
Card Game Mystery Solved—lt Hap
pened in Winsted, Conn.,
of Course.
Winsted, Cohn—On a pleasant day
last fall a spirited game of "set’ back”
—high, low, jack and the game—was
played in a grove on the shore of
Highland lake, between four men out
for a walk. When the final game of
a series was being played and Fred
Jacobs, who declared he had drawn
the ace of hearts, went to play the
card he discovered it was missing and
his "hand” was declared dead.
After the game the card could not
be found and a count of the deck
showed fifty-one instead of fifty-two
cards. The robber was discovered
the other day. A tame red squirrel,
which has made Its home In the grove
for two years, had carried the ace to
its nest in a high pine tree, where It
was found by a boy who climbed the
tree to see if the squirrel had survived
the winter.
Fattening Hogs on Prunes.
Palouse, Wash—M. V. Ewing, a
pioneer farmer living eight miles west
of here, has a twenty-five acre prune
orchard which he says has yielded
big returns for many years. In an
swer to suggestions that it would pay
to dig up his orchard and plant the
land to wheat, he replied. "If none
of the crop was marketed, the orchard
would pay if devoted entirely to hogs.
"Hogs would not only thrive and
grow well on prunes after they began
to fall from the trees, but they would
fatten on them alone without feeding
a Sound of grain.”
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, ity with church affairs while receiving
his education in an ecclesiastical sem
inary. His father probably hoped that
he would become a priest. But the
youth found his vocation along very
different lines.
It would be impossible and useless
to make a list of those he has swin
dled. It is believed he has got away
with several millions of francs in all.
The greater number of his victims
have made no formal complaint against
him, preferring to pocket their losses
rather than to suffer the chaffing of
their friends because of their gullibil
ity. But it is known that among the
sufferers are cardinals, archbishops,
abbots of monasteries, mother superi
ors and abbesses of convents and noble
men and women who are'“ charitably
disposed.
How did he do it? In many ways.
He forged letters of introduction from
one bishop to another. He ingratiated
himself here and there by conspicu
ous acts of charity and piety and so
got genuine letters-, of introduction
from prelates and nobles.
Among those upon-whom he imposed
was the dowager duchess of Genoa,
mother of Queen Margherita of Italy,
in whose private chapel at Novara he
said mass, and from whom he received
a present.
When caught in Rome he was about
to go to St. Peter’s to say mass, the
authorization so to do being signed by
Cardinal Respighi, which signature is
declared to be a forgery.
There was nothing new’ about his
swindles; they were the old, well-worn
devices, with which every one ought
to be familiar, but which work just
as effectively today as they worked in
the time of Gil Blas.
He is to be sent successively to
each of the cities where he is “want
ed;" in each of them he will be tried
and, if convicted, will be sentenced. So
he has the prospect of four or five
prison terms, one after another, in
different parts of Italy.
Says Science Holds Secret
‘ Study and Talk,” Says Wife, “I Don’t 1
Love You;” Judge Gives Man
Absolute Divorce. ‘
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New York. —Frederick W. Vroom, a
; mining engineer, was granted a final
decree of divorce from Maude M.
; Vroom by Supreme Court Justice New- ।
burger.
The record in the case shows that
Vroom appealed to his wife, after she
had separated from him, to return to
her home, and she told him that if I
he consulted a scientist he would soon 1
' be consoled to her absence. She is ;
now said to be living in Los Angeles, <
' Cal., as the wife of Emil Mouler Hein- I
1 escy^. a teacher of the French lan- t
’ guage. 1
1 “I asked you not to write,” she re- i
' plied to a particularly strong letter i
from her husband, “and knowing my
! dread and weakness, you did it just :
the same. When I analyze it myself i
it does seem to me right. 1
"The same feeling should prompt <
you to say to me, ‘Yes, go. I know 1 :
l you don’t love me.’ What do you '
: want with a woman without her heart
> and soul? 1
I "I am very, very sorry. But I am 1
■ determined to be true to myself, no 1
- matter what happens. I’ve never i
i been free before.
। “Go to a scientist, study and talk, i
1 In a month you will see how and why 1
. no one can really help us. We must
I work it out alone.”
i The chief witness in the divorce
1 proceeding was A. E. Lightener, attor
ney of the United States land office,
Bakersfield, Cal. He testified that '
FIGHTS SNAKES ALL NIGHT
When Rescued in the Morning the
Badly Bitten Cowboy’s Reason
Is Destroyed.
Galveston, Tex. —Fifteen hours’ bat
tling with a dozen or more snakes
forty feet below ground, in an aban
doned well, was the racking experi
ence of Charles Wellbourne, a cow
boy residing in Vallverde county.
When rescued in the morning after a
night in the well, Wellbourne had lost
his reason and his arms and legs
were literally covered with bites from
the snakes.
Eight dead reptiles, measuring in
length from two to four feet, were
taken out, but the details of his
frightful experience will not be known
unless he recovers, and his condition
is said to be serious.
Wellbourne was riding horseback
when seen in the neighborhood about
five o’clock in the evening, and his
horse returned to the Little Branch
about midnight. Shortly after a
search was instituted, and at nine
o’clock the next morning his maniacal
screams directed the searchers to the
well on the side of an old ranch. With
ropes the man was pulled out.
CAT ACQUITS MAN OF ARSON
Story of Overturned Lamp Dispels
“Black Hand” Theory and Jury
Frees Prisoners.
Pottsville, Pa.—Accused of setting
fire to a residence at Palo Atto at the
instigation of the “Black Hand,” Do
nato L. d’Angelo was acquitted In
court when he placed, the blame on a
cat which overturned a kerosene lamp.
The fire was begun shortly after
the midnight hour and several persons
had narrow escapes with their lives.
The police found gasoline cans ex
ploded near the place where the fire
started and became convinced that the
defendant; in company with a friend
from Philadelphia, committed the
crime, but the jury believed the cat
story.
Mrs. Vroom lived in Los Angeles as
“Mrs. Heinescy,” after she had taken
a long trip to Mazatlan, Mexico, with
the French instructor.
OLD MYSTERY IS K SOLVED
Messenger Buried Seven Years In the
Desert Sands, Committed Suicide
by Shooting.
Berlin. —After having been buried
for seven years in the desert, the
body of a German trooper named Rog
ge has been found in a shifting sand
dune near Kolmanskop, German
Southwest Africa. The unfortunate
trooper had been sent to convey the
mails from Luderitzbucht to some re
mote Inland station. He never ar
rived.
His route lay via the Ukama springs,
a small oasis, and from notes found in
a pocketbook on the body it appears
that he lost his bearings, owing to
desert mirages. He wandered about
aimlessly for days, without finding his
way.
His last note was to the effect that
he was suffering fearful torments
from thirst, and that he Intended to
blow out his brains befor^ his reason
gave away completely. The body
was found with a bullet hole in the
temple, and the packet of letters lay
beside it intact.
No Sale for Them.
The market price of wild oats is
pretty high for those who buy them,
but they won't sell for anything.—At
chison Globe.
MACON, DUBLIN AND SAVANNAH^:
RAILROAD COMPANY
LOCAL TIME TABL& «
. Effective July 2, 1911.
No.lß N 0.20 Stations. N 0.19 No.U -J
A.M. P.M. Lv. Ar. A.M. P.IE i
~7:ld 3:25 Macon 11:15 4730 $
7:22 3:37 Swiftcreek 11:03 4:20 3
7:30 3:45 Drybranch 10:55 4:12
7:34 3:49 Atlantic 10:51 4:09 -
7:38 3:53 Pike’s Peak 10:48 4:06 -
7:45 4:00 Fitzpatrick 10:42 4:00 3
7:50 4:04 Ripley 10:37 3:53 ।
8:00 4:14 Jeff’sonville 10:27 3:42 'I
8:10 4:23 Gallemore 10:15 3:30 |
8:20 4:33 Danvilel 10:07 3:22 2
8:25 4:38 Allentown 10:02 3:17
8:34 4:47 Montrose 9:53 3:08 jg
8:44' 4:57 Dudley 9:42 2:58'5
8:50 5:03 Shewmake 9:36 2:52
8:55 5:09 Moore 9:29 2:45 1
9:10 5:25 ar lv 9:15 2:30 I
Dublin
9:15 5:30 lv ar 9:10 2:25J
9:17 6:32 SouMD^.lct 9:08 2:241
9:21 5:36 NorMD&SJct 9:04 2:19 |
9:31 5:45 Catlin 8:54 2:09 i
9:40 5.54 Mlntor 8:47 2:01 J
9:50 6:05 Rockledge 8:36 1:50 ji
9:55 6:10 Orland 8:31 1:45 ]
10:08 6:23 Soporton 8:19 1:33
10:19 6:34 Tarrytown 8:07 1:21 4
10:26 6:41 Kibbee 8:00 1:15
10:40 6:55 Vidalia 7:45 1:00' .
CONNECTIONS. 7
At Dublin with the Wrightsville and
Tennille and the Dublin and South- A’
western for‘Eastman and Tennille
and intermediate points.
At Macon iwth Southern railway
from and to Cincinnati, Chattanooga,
Rome, Birmingham, Atlanta
termediate points. Also tlfi GftB^XTJF
of Georgia, G., S. & F. railway, Ma-^
son and Birmingham railway and the
Georgia railroad.
At Rockledge with the Millen and
Southwestern for Wadley and inter
mediate points.
At Vidalia with the Seaboard Air
Line for Savannah and intermediate
points, and with the Millen and South
western for Millen, Stillmore and in
termediate points.
J. A. STREYER, G. P. A.,
• Macon, Ga.
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