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OF SIXTIES
James Projectile Used During
Civil War.
Ar Old-Tir-e Artillery Missile Made of
Cast Iron, and of Most Peculiar
and Interesting Construc
tion.
Philadelphia. Pa. —Os the many
styles of artillery projectiles made
and used during the War for the
Union those constructed on General
James' place were among the most
interesting and useful. This inven
tion, however, was not one of those
springing directly out of the sudden
and intense study given by Americans
to military matters, the system hav
ing been devised and subjected to se
vere tests several years before the
opening of the Civil war.
Shot and shell on this principle
were elongated and, of course, were
intended for rifled cannon only. The
James missile was of cast iron, cylin
droconoidal, the whole forward por- I
lion —the point—being solid, if a shot,
and hollowed and provided with a
percussion fuse, if a bombshell. In
the base of the projectile there is a
central orifice extending into the cyl
inder and from this orifice (as seen
in the illustration) ten almost
rectangular openings diverge (like the
mortises for spokes in a wheel-hub)
through the body to the exterior. In
recesses on the outside of the pro
jectile is the "packing,” an envelope
of strong canvas, sheet-tin and lead,
suitably arranged for the peculiar
work assigned for it. On the outside
is the canvas, which is well-saturated
with a tallow lubricant. In making,
the heavy tin envelope is secured in
its place by an iron collar, and the
space between the tin and the body
of the cylinder is filled with molten
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lead, which, adhering to the tin and ,
do the iron, forms a compact mass
around the projectile. ,
When the gun is fired the povJer ,
gases are forced into a base of :i.9
projectile, and through the ten ape.’,
ihgs against the packing, and 1..._,
IteXpanded into the rifling of the gun,
Imparts to the shot or shell the te
quired rotation in flight. The “pack
ing" selected by this inventor was
carefully thought out; and, as the
lead, melted into its place, had an ex
ceedingly tenacious grip, and as the
force of the powder charge could ex
pand the “packing” no farther than
the grooves of the gur; there were
no complaints as to the packing be
ing blown off in fragments before the
missile had completed its journey.
The average weight of the James
.solid shot for a 42-pounder is 81% |
ipounds, or if a shell, 64% pouu's ot ■
which, in either case, 6% pounds is
the weight ot the “packing.”
'an intelligent
Incident Which Helps to Solve the
Much Discussed Problem, “Do
Animals Think?”
London. —Recently an Indian ele
phant has covered considerable terri
tory toward the solution of the much
discussed problem, “Do animals
hlnk?” Ordered to drag a tree, which
proved too heavy, urged and excited
to continue her efforts, the chain by
which the beast was fastened finally
broke and she made a dash for the
jungle.
It was supposed she would mix
with the wild elephants and be seen
no more, but in an hour back she
came bringing with her two other
Elephants Unite Their Strength.
elephants, and by their united strength
the tree was easily moved. After the
job was finished the two strange anl
imals disappeared, but the one
faithfully remained to go forward with
her higher education.
Wasps Enjoy Church Service.
Germantown, N. Y. —Because he al
lowed a swarm of wasps to build a
nest in the church, Sherman Likely,
sexton of the Dutch Reformed church,
is in danger of losing his position.
The wasps nearly broke up the serv
ices, and now a committee is investi
gating. The swarm made its home »n
the church during two weeks the
church was closed, and when the fires
were started Sunday the wasps de
scended upon the worshipers.
> SURE TO DESTROY WEEDS
Ingenious Implements Arranged to
Allow Injection of Liquid Around
Roots of Plants.
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A most ingenious implement for
destroying weeds has been invented
by a Washington man. A rod has
a sharp metal point at one end and
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Sure Weed Destroyer.
a reservoir extending out from it
just above this point, which is hol
low and has an opening at the bot
tom. The reservoir has a discharge
spout leading into the hollow point
and a rubber bulb, by means of pres
sure on which the contents of the
reservoir are discharged through the
spout. This reservoir is filled with
tobacco juice or some other liquid
that will kill plant life. The garden
er then inserts the point at the root
of a weed and presses on the rub
ber bulb with his foot. An injection
is thus squirted on the roots of the
weed, which soon kills it. Compare
this method with the laborious sys
tem of pulling weeds up, one by one,
and tearing up the turf into the bar
gain—to say nothing of the wear and
tear on the only back you’ll ever
have.
STACKING HAY FROM WAGONS
Trolley May Be Arranged to Do the
Work In Fields Where There
Is MueA Hay to Be Piled.
The accompanying illustration
shows how to make a trolley stacker
that will do service in the field wher®
there Is much hay to be stacked. In
constructing this a wire cable one
half inch thick Is required, says a
writer in the Farm and Home. It
may be made any length, according
to the requirements of the farm.
Trolley Hay Stacker. i I
This cable is attached to stakes In
the ground and is run up through a '
crotch made by two long poles at 1
either end of the stack. On this ca- |
ble is run an ordinary hay fork. A,
b and c show details of attaching the
cables to the poles.
Corn Fodder.
The chemist tells us that 70 per
cent, of the feeding value of corn
fodder is below the ear. If this be
true, how much do you lose by feed- |
Ing the fodder whole when put in the
silo the stalk is worth about as much '
as the ear, and the ear has least none
of Its value?
HOT WEATHER GARDEN WORK
' Pulling Up Weeds Whenever Found
Will Save Considerable Labor
Next Year —Care for Lilacs.
(By EBEN E. REXFORD.)
Weed, and weed and weed again.
In brief, pull up every weed as soon
as you see it. All the work of this
kind done this season will save a
great deal of labor next year, for
every plant allowed to go to seed
( will most likely be perpetuated by a
thousand seedlings.
Make a practice of going over the
garden beds and clipping away seed
vessels. The plants will at once set
about making good their loss and as
flowers are the first step toward the
formation of seed, they will soon pro
duce a new crop of blossoms.
In this way make almost constant
bloomers of kinds that won’t bloom
i but once during the season If al
lowed to follow out their own In
clinations.
Keep the ground about the lilac
bushes mowed or hoed closely. If
this is done the suckers about this
plant of which so much complaint is
made, will cause no more trouble
than ordinary weeds. It is when
they are allowed to grow for a sea
son that the trouble begins. There
fore, keep them down from the start
and you will have nothing to com
-1 plain of. A place without the lilacs
would be one that failed to live up
1 to the privileges warranted. I con
sider the lilac one of our very best
shrubs.
I!LUK LIA iHUKcDAx, GKUKMiStK /
KOTED EDITOR DEAD
Pulitzer One of America’s Fore
most Publishers.
Although Stricken Blind Over Twenty
Years Ago He Since Editorially
Directed His Two Big Daily
Newspapers.
Charleston, 3. C. —Joseph Pulitzer,
editor and proprietor of the Nett York
World and the St. Louis Post Dis
patch, died recently on board his
yacht. Liberty, in the harbor here. He
had been ill only about 48 hours and
until just before he died it was be
: lieved that the illness was only a
slight indisposition. His passing re
| moved one of the greatest newspa
pers publishers of the age.
Late one afternoon 22 years ago,
Joseph Pulitzer, then but forty-two
years old, was leaning on the rail of
a yacht as the boat was standing out
of the Bosphorus and into the Black
sea, looking toward the setting sun
I through eyes which for years had
been strained, when he was stricken
blind.
And for the last 20 years almost up
to the moment of his death —he has
been in constant touch with the morn
ing and evening editions of his New j
York World and his Post-Dispatch of
St. Louis, personally during his short
and infrequent visits to Manhattan
and by telegraph or cable while ,
cruising here and abroad on his I
yacht. J
Os late years he has spent most of
his days aboard his palatial yacht,
surrounded by a corps of readers and
secretaries, who read the newspapers
to him carefully and then carried out
his orders. It was an ordinary oc
currence for him to wake up his staff
aboard the yacht at two or three
o’clock in the morning to aid him in
some work he had suddenly thought
of.
Mr. Pulitzer was sixty-four years
old. Besides three sons, Mr. Pulitzer
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Joseph Pulitzer.
leaves two daughters, Miss Edith
Pulitzer and Miss Constance Pulitzer.
Mr. Pulitzer’s entry into New York
journalism occurred in 1883, when he
bought the World, then a paper of
small circulation.
Prior to his debut as a newspaper 1
man In 1870 Mr. Pulitzer had, for
five years, worked In various capaci
ties. Going to St. Louis at the close
of the Civil war, after having been
mustered out of the First New York
cavalry after a year’s service, he ob
tained his first employment as a
deckhand on a ferryboat. ’-y
Afterward he did manual work on
the levee, then became a hostler in
the Benton barracks, and later be
came a waiter in a case.
Fallowing this he -had a place as a
coachman, and through part of the
I cholera epidemic in the latter sixties
, he was a grave digger.
THIS LOUD EATER IS REBUKED
Pennsylvania Justice Roundly Lectures !
a Man on Hie Table
Deportment.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—After making so
much fuss while eating in a restau
rant that he had started a quarrel,
Walter Gordon of Duryear, was lec
tured severely by Aiderman John F.
Donohue of this city and told to return
home and learn better table manners.
| “There are a great many fellows
like you,’’ said the aiderman, “who
come to this city and make them
selves offensive to others by their lack
of table manners in public places.
. They drink their coffee as if they were
donkey pumps and eat their food with
a noise like a concrete mixer at an
asphalt plant.
"You ought to be sent to the county
jail, where you could eat your beans
with a knife and drink your soup with
a fork. Next time you come here
biTag a handout with you, put it in a
horse's nosebag and eat it on the river
bank.”
Train Cute Off Sleeper’e Hat.
Kewanee, Ill.—William McGregor, a
peddler, fell asleep in the railroad
yards and lay so close to the track
that a passing train cut off his hat
' and chopped a suitcase full of cloth
ing to bits. McGregor did not awaken.
Laughs at Show Till He Dies.
South Weymouth, Mass. —Literally
splitting bls sides with laughter while
,! witnessing a comic opera in a Bos
ton theater. Thomas M. Ryan of thia
. • p’ace. reptured a blood vessel near
the heart and died.
Odd Manners.
Mourning the loss of old-time mai.-
ners, an aged Englishman said the
other day: "Boys are not like they
1 used to be. If they do not like a
I schoolmaster they show it nowadays
i by treating him with studiously cold
politeness. Why, I remember when I
was at Eaton a lot of us getting hold
of a master who taught us mathemat
ics and whom we all cordially detest
ed. and holding him by his heels over
Barnes’ pool bridge until we saw in
the distance another master coming
in our direction, when we gently
loosed our victim and let him slide
headforemost into the water.”
A New York man writes: “I was
taught to offer my seat to ladles when
traveling. I foolishly did so a few days
ago in the subway. All I got in re-
I turn from the lady’ was a glassy
, stare, a devilish grin and ‘Oh, sit down,
my boy. I don’t want your seat.’ And
I am just thirty!”
In the Society Islands two persons
on meeting salute by rubbing the ends
of their noses together, and the saluta
tion is followed by each taking the
hand of the other and rubbing it upon
his own nose and mouth.
Moors of Morocco ride at full speed
toward a stranger, as if they Intended
to run him down, and as soon as they
have approached near they suddenly
stop and fire a pistol over his head.
No Use for Molly.
"Admiral Schley, as his own splen
did career showed, didn't believe In I
| automatons,” said a Washington vet
eran. “He didn’t believd in the sub- I
ordinate who lets his boss do all the
thinking for him. I once heard Ad
i miral Schley talking to a young An
! napolis student. He told the student
i that unreasoning and unquestioning
obedience to orders was, if the orders
were wrong, a foolish thing. He said ;
the navy had no more use for men
of that stamp than the Widow Black
had for her maid Molly.
“The widow, he explained, told Mol
ly one evening that if any one called
she was only at home to Mr. Munn. '
Then she retired to her room and
took a little nap. On toward ten
o’clock she awoke and, ringing for
Molly, she asked: ‘Did any one call?’
“ ‘Oh, yes, ma'am,’ said Molly. Mrs.
Plank called, and Miss Dash, and the
pastor.’
“ ‘And you told them what I told
you to?’
“ ‘Yes, ma’am. I said you was only
at home to Mr. Munn.’ ”
University Uses Experimental Cottage
So that the work of the housewife
may be reduced to the minimum, an
experimental cottage—not a “model”
cottage —has been fitted up by the de
partment of home economics under
Prof. Abby L. Marlatt of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin for laboratory work
in house management, dietetics, home
nursing and houSe decoration. Much
of the decoration is supplied from the
textile laboratory, so that the expense
lz somewhat similar to that of the
private home. The first floor bed
room of an ordinary cottage was
changed into a kitchenette, so that the
pantry now lies between the kitchen
ette and dining-room, which was the
old kitchen. The basement, freshly
concreted, is divided into a cold store
room, a laundry and a furnace room.
The man with his first siloful of
green feed now has a feeling of satis
faction and security that is new to
him.
Just a Word
to people who desire to purchase
GOOD WHISKIES.
iTrue bad whiskey is bad, but on the other
hand every household should te supplied
with a jug of good whiskey for medical pur- KI
poses.
We are now better equipped to take care of your orders than
ever before, and as we have thoroughly experienced men in charge
of our different departments, we do not hesitate to hack up each
and everypackage that leaves our premises by our good reputation jgy <
of FIFTEEN YEARS honest dealings in the WHISKEY R
BUSINESS /fJ
Below we quote a few of our leading brands: Wllllwßl
Gal. Bottle 4Qts. 8 Qts. 12 Qts.
Hagin’s Private Stock, Ryes3.7s $4.00 $7.75 11.00
Three Panseys, Rye 5.00 9.25 12.00 gjWiSKIR
Hagin’s Silver Leaf Corn 2.90 3.00 5.75 8.25 N
Hagin’s co 1 >? 0^1 , s o T^ r M ' , Corn 2.85 3.00 5.75 8.25 ■
GAL JUG
Roaring River White Corn $2.45 2.55 4.90 6.85
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY REFUNDE 0
A. T_* I will convince you we make no false or exaßS^’’ 3 d
I—l FIOI V-F ■ claims, and will ma foe you oneofourperma rlf
satisfied customers.
ALL ORDERS SHIPPED SAME DAY
AS RECEIVED, IN PLAIN PACKAGES
Brown & Hagin
P. O. BOX 48 and 38 CHATTANOOGA, It'
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Baking JP
I Where the finest biscuit,
if cake ’ h?*-breads, crusts V
» or puddings are required v
1 Royal is indispensable. $
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® Royal is equally valuable i
in the preparation of plain
1/ substantial, every-day
I foods, for all occasions. (
# The only baking powder made f
Irom Royal Grape Creai ioi Tartar S'
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Alum ~ No Unto Phosphates
Personal.
Mrs. Ina Johnstone and Mrs. R. A.
Johnstone are entertaining Mrs B.
Tyler and daughter Bettie at a spend
the-day porty.
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Miss Franklyn Chauncy returned
this morning from Chattanooga where
she has been the guest of her uncle,
Judge Moon.
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Miss Pearl Coyle spent yesterday
in Chattanooga. .
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Mr. Webber, of Tunnel Hill is in
tffwn today.
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Mr. Blevins of Chattanooga is spend
ing the day here.
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Miss Willie Moon, of Chattanooga,
is expected Monday to be the guest of
Miss Franklyn Chauncy.
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Friends of Mr. and Mrs. H. 0. Md
ord will regret to learn that they leave
today to make their future home in
Ashburn, Ga.
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Mrs. Drummond returned from Ash
ville, N. C. and will be the guest of
Mrs. L. M. Woodward for two weeks
before leaving for Eastman, Ga.
Mrs. H.C. Stafford,
on an extended visit to her son, R. H.
Stafford, Covington, La., and daughter
Mrs. C. H. Carmichiel at Hammond
La., will return to her Dalton home.
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Mr. Barrett Denton, and Mr. Lynn
Denton spent Thanksgiving in At
lanta. with their brother, Dr. Jhn
Denton.
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Mrs. Nora Smith, who has been the
guest of Mrs. W. C. Martin for sev
eral days days has returned to her
home in Rome today.
• • •
Miss Ruth Horne is expected home
this afternoon from Chickamauga,
where she has been the guest offriends
for several days.
• • •
Miss Miriam Steel, who has been
the guest of Miss Eugenia McWil
liams left last evening for her home
in LaFayette.
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Mrs. M. K. Horne and daughter,
Dorothy, left today for Chickamauga
to be the week-end guests of Mrs.
Tom Lee.
Mr. R. J. L. Richardson is spending
the day in Chattanooga.