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MODERN CHAIN CABLES.
Huge Links Made to Hold Giant
Ocean Liners. •
Apropos of the massive chain ca¬
bles made for the new Cunard liners,
Shipping Illustrated gives some In¬
teresting facts.
In the Illustration Is shown three
■of th- links of a huge cable made In
Wales for the Cunard Steamship
Company.
The iron is 3 % In. diameter at the
smallest part of the link. Each link
•measures about 22*4 In. in length,
:asid weighs, with the crucible cast
.steel stud, about 160 pounds. Re¬
cently the Cunard Company gave no¬
tice that they required come links to
be tested to destruction, and three
links were cut off the cable as made
and sent to Lloyd's Proving House at
Netherton.
The sair. le was first tested to the
British Admiralty proof strain of
189.8 tons, at which strain each link
elongated not quite one-quarter of.
.■an Inch. T o statutory breaking
^strain of 265 .' tons was next applied,
and the links were further elongated
about three-quarters of an Inch.
After this an attempt was made to
test the sample “to destruction,” but
the full power of the testing machine
at 350 tons failed to accomplish this
result; Indeed, tt Is understood the
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actual tension applied was over 370
tons. On a careful examination of
the links, no sign of fracture or de¬
fect of auy kind could be found. The
strain applied was about ninety per
cent, above the admiralty proof
strain. The two main cables for the
new Cunardor consists of two lenghts,
each 165 fi.thoms, 1. e., a total length
of 330 fathoms, of 1980 feet, In ftt
teemfathom lengths, joined together
by twee'., wo Joining shackles, and
with anchor shackles for connecting
to the anchors. The weight of the
cable is 122 tons.
Chain that will stretch Instead of
snap in a sudden strrln Is necessary
.for cables.
Fish Story Hard to Beat.
Here is a fish story told by a Brtt
:1st nobleman: An Irishman nad
caught a big pike. Noting a lump
In Its stomach, he cut it open. “As
I cut it open there was a mighty rush
and a Japping of wings, and eway
flew a wild duck: and when I looked
Inside, there was a nest with four
■eggs, and she had been afther sitting
on the nest,”
Interesting Toy.
Tho simple principle used to spin
a top has been applied to a new toy
by a Texas inventor. He calls it the
•whirligig. As shown here, the frame
Is open on all sides, the top and bot¬
tom being solid pieces of wood. Ex¬
tending through the centre is a shaft,
which projects quite a dtstance above
the top of the frame- Withir the
frame, secured to the shaft near the
-end, is a circular platform, on which
4he flgures are placed. Suspended
from the top of the shaft are cords,
the ends of which are attached to a
small bar. Tho operation is as fol¬
lows: The cord Is wound around
the shaft, leaving only sufficient room
to press on the bar with two fingers,
one on each side of the shaft.
Tho pressure starts the shaft In mo
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tlon, which .evolves the platform.
The momentum unwinds the
of the cord and also rewinds It.
bar Is again depressed, and the op¬
eration continued indefinitely,
an arrangement of the mechanism,
the figures always rotate in the same
direction.
Mirrors to Help the Driver,
Drivers who are obliged to run
through heavy traffic to any extent
find it of considerable advantage to
affix a small bit of mirror plate to
the right stanchion of the canopy
just above the lash, so that the fol¬
lowing traffic may be observed with¬
out turning the head. Such a de¬
vice may be very simple and easily
contrived. and serves to relieve the
driver of considerable anxiety and
twisting through closely crowded
streets.—Motor Worll.
New Idea in Ladders.
Ladders are such common, ordin¬
ary articles that anybody can build
one, there heiug no secret in their
makeup. The disadvantage of the
ordinary ladder is that it cannot be
used In narrow and crowded places.
In manufacturing plants, where ma¬
chinery is placed together, with pro¬
jecting arms at every point, it is im¬
pose ale to get a ladder into position.
For Just this purpose a California
man constructed the ladder shown In
the illustration, and in order that no¬
body should steal the Idea he applied
for and was granted a patent. By
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decreasing the size of the steps, mak¬
ing the lower one very small, he has
devised a ladder that should prove
exceedingly useful In a great many
Instances.
High Prices For Fish,
"In these days,” said a fish dealer,
"people pay for fish luxuries prices
that they never used to dream of.
The costliest fish in this market now
is English sole, which sells for
sixty cents a pound, but there is a
demand for it at that price. Striped
bass brings as much as fifty cents a
pound, and kingflsh from forty
fifty cents.”—Detroit News Tribune.
CHINKS AS
Uncle Sam to Employ Chi¬
nese on Canal Work.
PRESIDENT SO DECIDES
Present Quota of Workmen Entirely
Inadequate a.»i Agents Will Make
a Deal with the Chinese
Government.
A Washington special says: Chi
nose labor will be given a thorough
test on the Panama canal. Contracts
calling for 2,500 Chinamen for canal
work have been pi -pared, and adver¬
tisements will be issued by the Isth¬
mian Canal Commission In a few
days for proposals from labor agents.
If the initial 2,500 Chinamen prove
a success, it Is likely that many
more will be taken to the isthmus
to do the work which is too hard for
the Jamaicans, now employed there
hi large numbers.
Organized labor has offered much
opposition to the use of contract Chi¬
nese labor, but the Jamaican work¬
men have proven Inadequate, suffi¬
cient Spaniards cannot be had Im¬
mediately to rush the work, and the
Chinese are the last hope of the com¬
mission.
President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft,
Chairman Shonts of the Isthmian Ca¬
nal Commission and other men, prom¬
inently identified with the canal work,
are known to have delayed employing
Chinese until It became certain that
the other help available was not
equal to the demand .
The administration has taken tha
position that the canal must be dug
at any cost, and although the presi¬
dent urged that there be no haste
in employing Chinese he did not stanu
permanently In the way of the plan
to try the coolies.
It Is the Intention of the commis¬
sion to ask for bids from labor agents
who will arrange with the Chinese
government for the exportation of
labor, transport the Chinese to the
Isthmus under contract to work for
a fixed wage and ship them back to
China, thus relieving the commis
slon of all detail work and all re¬
sponsibility.
A bond wil be required of all con¬
tractors for a satisfactory fulfillment
of any contract they may enter Into
with the commission.
There are said to be about thirty
labor agencies which supply Chinese
to contractors In all parts of the
world. These agents are familiar with
all the Chinese laws, stand' ready to
pay money to the famtHes of the men
who are going Into their service and
are ready on short notice to meet
demands for an unlimited number of
coolies.
Leroy Park, a labor agent in the
employ of the commission, is still
in Spain negotiating with the Span¬
ish government for the employment
of a large number of peninsular Span¬
iards on the isthmus, His efforts
promise to be successful, and the
commission expects to recruit manv
hieh grade workingmen from Spain.
It is the desire of Chief Engineer Ste¬
vens to have several kinds of labor
#rs on the isthmus.
The employment of the Chinese will
not displace the Jamaicans who are
already there, but It is not likely
that many more West Indians will
he hired if the Chinese prove a suc¬
cess.
The negroes are paid only 80 cents
a day against $1.60 to the 'Spaniards,
who are said to he capable of doing
three times as much work.
If the contractors obtaining help
for the commission do not pay more
on the isthmus than the Chinese are
paid In other parts of the world, it
is believed the daily wage of the
coolies will be less than that of the
Jamaicans on the Isthmus.
MORE AMERICANS KILLED.
Pulajanes Engage Uncle Sam’s Sol¬
diers in Hand to Hand Fight.
A, Manila special says: First Lieu¬
tenant John F. James and two pri¬
vates of the eighth infantry with
C< ntract Surgeon Calvin Snyder and
Internal Revenue Collector Williams,
of Illinois, were killed Friday after¬
noon in a hand to hand fight with
a force of Pulajanes at Julita, Island
of Leyte. The detachment, which con¬
sisted of ten men, *as greatly out¬
numbered, but made a gallant fight.
ONLY ONE BULLET EFFECTIVE.
Bad Aim of Dobbins Saved Lives of
Wife and Baby.
At Jennings, La., Drew Dobbins,
while despondent, took a revolver,
containing three cai -ridges, fired the
first bulet at his wife and missed,
then deliberately aimed the second
it his baby, but again missed, and
sent the third bullet into his own
body, dying in a few seconds.
lyncher goes to pen.
Leader of Salisbury Mob is Quickly
Convicted and Given a Sentence
of Fifteen Years. ^
George Hall, a cotton mill opera¬
tive, was convicted Friday of con¬
spiracy in connection with the lynch¬
ing ol the three L^groes c.1 Salis
burg, X. C., and given a term of
fifteen years in the state peniten¬
tiary.
The hearing of the case began when
court opened at 10:30 o’clock Friday
morning. At 6:15 p. m., after hearing
several witnesses establishing Hall's
participation in the lynching, me
case was given to the jury. After
being out twenty mmutee, a verdict
of guilty was agreed upon, and the
maximum penalty for the offence
charged was imposed by Judge B. I-.
Long. Court adjourned for the day
at 7:10 p. m.
This is said to be the first convic¬
tion of the kind ever secured in the
state of North Carolina, although a
number of efforts have been mato
to bring members of mobs to justice.
The state sprung a surprise In the
trial when the offense against tha
prisoner was changed from murder
to conspiracy.
When the court was called to order,
lion. T. .1. Kluttz announced that
liis client would contend that the
court was unlawful. It was argued
that the governor could not sign a
commission for such a court unless
he was in the state, and it was claim¬
ed that he was at Atlantic City, N.
J. Mr. Kluttz asked that a. subpoena
be issued for Governor Glenn, and
have him brought to court ti? testify.
This was done and the chief exec¬
utive of the state was sworn and
questioned about his whereabouts on
the 17th of July, the day that the
call for the court was made. He said
that he was in Atlantic City, N. J., and
in order to do what he could to pre¬
vent a lynching, he wired his private
secretary to issue the commission and
sign his name to It. This he consider¬
ed the proper thing to do.
The objection of the defendant was
overruled and the trial proceeded.
A ROPE FOR FOLK.
Threats Made in Connection With the
Trial of Alleged Lynchers.
A dispatch from Springfield. Mo.,
says: After hearing from a city of¬
ficer of the threats against members
of the grand jury which indicted Hill
Gooch and Doss Galbraith, charged
with lynching three negroes on April
14, Assistant. Attorney General Ken*
nish left Friday for Jefferson City
to confer with Governor Folk on the
situation. The threat, as told to Mr.
Kennish follows:
“If one of those men who are on
trial for ‘negro killing’ is convicted,
there will be a rope hung to tho
light tower in the square for every
one of the members of the grand jury
that indicted them, and there'll be
another one for Governor Folk.”
REAL BULLETS WERE USED.
Sham Battle at Encampment Abrupt¬
ly Broken Up.
Real bullets were used at the encamps
ment at Chickamauga Friday by the
First Georgia regiment in its “bat¬
tle” with the seventeenth infantry reg¬
ulars.
Colonel Gordon's regiment was tha
main body of the “Blue” army. The
seventeenth regulars formed the main
body of the “Brown” army. The two
forces met, when contesting in the
crucial point of the day's program. A
hot fusilade ensued. During the heat
of the fight, bullets began to sing
above the heads and in the ranks
of the regulars. A rush was made
by the latter for cover. They sprang
behind trees, they lat flat upon the
ground, they did everything but turn
their backs and run. One private.
whose name is unknown to the au¬
thorities, was wounded.
Two companies of Colonel Gordon’s
regiment were ordered off the field
and the maneuvers abruptly ended.
Mystery seems to surround the sit¬
uation. An investigation may place
the responsibility.
HOPE FOR BANK VICTIMS.
Depositors of Wrecked Institution at
Chicago May Be Reimbursed.
Theodore Stensland, vice president
of the suspended Milwaukee Avenue
State Bank at Chicago, and son of
the missing president of that insti¬
tution, has come to the rescue of the
22,000 depositors, by announcing that
he would, with full authority, turn
over to- Receiver Fetzer all the real
estate and personal property or his
father. The son places a valuation of
$600,000 on this collateral.
TAX BILLS KNOCKED OUT.
Georgia Senate Votes Against Hail
and Candler Measures.
Representative Joe Hill Hall’s bill
providing for a state board of tax
assessors and that of Senator Cand¬
ler for creation of a board of tax
assessors in each county of the stai*.
were both lost In the Georgia senate
Tuesday. The vote on the former was,
ayes 19, nays 22; of the latter, ayes
16, nays 25.
B | C FLOO o in TEXAS
Takes Many Lives and Does
Enormous Damage.
TOWNS ARE DESOLATED
Tremendous Rainfall Causes Colorado
River and Other Streams to Over¬
flow—Reports Meagre, Ow.ng
to Break in Communication.
Ten lives were lost, 10,000 cattle
killed, property worth millions de¬
stroyed, and thousands of persons
rendered homeless as the result of a
flood in south Texas Tuesday, when
the Colorado river was forced out of
its banks by heavy rains.
It is believed that this is the worst
disaster since the Galveston flood vis¬
ited Texas several years ago. Relief
trains are cut off, telegraph an ^tel¬
ephone wires are down and dlQ
of the inhabitants of several isolated
towns is es yet unknown.
The flood on the Colorado cam#
without warning a„d inhabitants at
San Angelo and Ballinger were forced
to flee for safety .n their night cloth¬
ing. An entire family at Ballinger
named Cook were drowned as they
attempted to leave their homes ou au
improvised raft which struck an ob¬
struction. The river is from four to
six miles wide :n places and the trib¬
utaries south are out of their banks.
The Santa Fe track bridges were
washed out and traffic is at a stand
still.
At Brownwood five hundred people
are homeless. Tuesday night the wa¬
ter was standing at the high water
mar* of 1£00. A strip thirty miles
long and from two to four miles wide
is covered with from three to ten feet
of water. Railwqj' tracks have been
washed out for mils*. Telegraph and
phene wires are down and many lives
are reported lost.
Twelve inches of rain fell over the
southern section of the state Tuesday
night, causing all rivers to overflow
their banks. Heartrending scenes were
witnessed in towns where lost chil¬
dren were hunting parents.
Reports from the country say the
loss of life and damage are great.
Amarillo, Texas, in the Pan Handle,
reports a severe electrical storm and
has news that Canyon City, a small
town, was wiped out by a tornado
and several people killed.
The family cf a farmer named
Riggs, residing four miles south of
the town, were killed by lightning.
It is impossible to get even an
approximate estimate of the crop dam¬
age, but it is believed the loss will
reach hundreds of thousands of dol
lars.
A terrific rain, almost equal to a
cloudburst, fell iu the section about
Ardmore, I. T„ Tuesday night and
Wednesday. All streams are out of
their banks and the lowlands are
flooded. A portion of the Santa Fe
north of Paoli has been washed away
and the Frisco bridge, near Francis,
is reported washed out. All trams
are running behind scheduled time.
The Canadian and Wichita rivers are
the highest in years.
RECEIVER TAKES CHARGE
Of Wrecked Chicago Bask—Vice Pres¬
ident of institution Arrested.
Theodore Stensland, vice president
of the wrecked Milwaukee Avenue
State Bank at Chicago, was arrested
Tuesday afternoon on a charge of
violating the banking laws of tha
state. Earlier in the day the institu¬
tion was placed in the hands of a
receiver and Paul Stensland, presi¬
dent of the bank, and father of the
vice president, together with Cashier
Herlng, were officially declared fugi¬
tives from justice and their personal
descriptions placed in the hands of
the police throughout the country.
Besides the discovery of many irreg
utarities in the management of the
bank, tt was also found that even the
safety deposit boxes, owned and rent
ed by the bank, had been tampered
with ar.d rifled.
CANDIDATE UNDER ARREST.
InterruDted Speaking Jt Campaign
Meeting in Palmetto State.
A. C. Jones, candidate for governor,
was arrested at the s‘ ate campaign
meeting at Chester, S. C-, Tuesday,
by orders of Mavor Hardin, who was
seated on the platform. Jones had
made his speech along with the other
candidates for governor.
When J Fraser Lyon, candidate for
attorney general, was delivering his
speech. . Jones T interrupted . . . . him . with
a question. Lyon replied with a ques
tion. Jones then demanded to ne
heard, but the chairman refused th®
demand. Jones persisted.
FIVE CHUDREN CREMATED.
Father and Mother Also Badly
Scorched in Burning Home.
Five children of Thomas O’Daniels,
at Omaha. Neb., perished Wednesday
evenir.g in a fire, which destroyed the
family residence. Mrs. O’Daoiels was
seriously burned, and may not re¬
cover, and her husband was badly
burned in an effort to save his faru-
An Old Painter's Idea*.
The Autumn season Is com
more and more to be recognised a$
most suitable time for house-pai »
ing.
There is no frost deep in the wo
to make trouble for even the best i
of painting, and the general seasq
ing of the Summer has put the wo|
into good condition in every wa(
The weather, moreover, is more liki
ly to be settled for the necessaj
length of fine to allow all the coaj
to thoroughly dry—a very importa^
precaution.
An old and successful painter lail
to the writer the other day:
“House owners would get oor|
for their money if they would allon|
their painters to take more time, es-i
pecially between coats. Instead of
allowing barely time for the surface
to get dry enough not to be ‘tacky,’
several days (weeks would not be
too much) should be allowed so that
the coat might set through and
through. It is inconvenient, of
course, but, if one would suffer this
slight inconvenience, It would add
two or three years to the life of the
paint.
“All this is assuming, of course,
that the paint used is the very best
to be had—the purest of white lead
and the purest of linseed oil, un¬
mixed with any cheapener. If the
cheap mixtures, often known as
‘White Lead' and oil which has been
doctored with fish oil, benzine, corn
oil, or other of the adulterants
known to the trade, are used, all the
precautions of the skilled painter are
useless to prevent the cracking and
peeling which make houses unsightly;
in a year or so and, therefore, make
painting bills too frequent and costly.,
“The house owner should have his
painter bring the ingredients to the
premises separately—white lead of
some well-known, reliable brand and
linseed oil of equal quality — and
mix the paint just before applying
it.”
Painting need not be expensive and
unsatisfactory If the old painter’*
suggestions are followed. •
Modes for Motorists.
It is suggestive of how swlf*
evolution of fashions at the ‘preseffT
time that even in such an exclusive
department of clothing as that of
modes for the motor there seems to
be always some change to record.
The chief point worthy of note at
the moment seems tp be the general
waning of the popularity of leather
for coat3, the general conclusion Ije
ing that It Is too reminiscent of the
chauffeur. Apart from this, there is
also the question of the way in which
it shows the dirt, and, although It is,
of course, quite possible to have such
a coat cleaned, this Is an extensive
and expensive business.
As a lining, however, leather is
more to be desired than ever it was,
and in this capacity it is very much
used. Under such circumstances it is
possible to employ the most delicate
tones, and champagne, pale blue, and
the palest green are among the shades
most frequently employed.
The outer part of the coats thus
lined is tweed, either self-colored,
which perhaps looks smarter, or in
the mixtures in which green is the
dominant color: in fact, there is every
sign that this is to be a green season,
—Philadelphia Record.
TWO VIEWS OF THRIFT.
Rockefeller was delighted with the
thrift of the French.
“Beautiful, beautiful,” he murmur¬
ed, then added musingly: ‘‘Yet if my
countrymen were equally saving
where would I be?”
So serious was the train of thought
started by this reflection that he for¬
got to tip the waiter.—Philadelphia "
Public Ledger.
SO IT DOES.
“You ought to take a trip through
one o' them big shoe manufactories
down East," remarked the old-fash¬
ioned cobbler.
•'I've been through one,” replied_the
other, “What dye think of all that
modem machinery?"
“Well, it certainly does beat awi
A WINNING START.
A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Make*
Nerve Force For the Day.
Everything goes wrong If the
breakfast lies in your stomach like a
mud pie. What you eat does harm
if you can't digest it—it turns to poi
son.
A bright lady teacher found this
to he true, even of an ordinary light
breakfast of eggs and toast. She
says:
Two years ago I contracted a
very annoying form of indigestion,
My stomach was in such condition
«»at a simplebreakfast of fruit, toast
and egg gave me great distress,
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but finall > ^ had t t0 U P’ and '
found H a great change upon a cup of
hQt postum and Grape . Nuts witb
cream fo . my morning mea , For
more than a year I have held to this
course, and have not suffered except
when injudiciously varying my diet.
"I have been a teacher for several
years and find that my easily digest¬
ed breakfast means a saving of ner
vous force for the entire day. My
gain of ten pounds in weight also
causes me to want to testify to the
value of Grape-Nuts.
“Grape-Nuts holds first rank at
our table.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
“There’s a reason.” Read the lit¬
tle book, "The Road to Wellville,” in