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l)c (Chatham fteeorl. &)t Cbatljam uttoxb. H. A, LONDON, Editor and Proprietor, RATES OF . ADVERTISING One square, one Insertion $1.00 One" square, ttro insertion! 1.60 One square, one month 8.M. vv TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 Per Year. Strictly en Advance For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Con- VOL, XXVIII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTYv N. C, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28,1205. tfO. 7. J tracts will be made. WW LUKE HAMMOND, THE MISER.. r a - b i 1 y I I By Prof. Wm. Henry Peck, I Copyright 1896. II IB Author of the "TSe Stone-Cutter I by BB"1 BoyK''8 Sosay I L Of Usbon," Etc rights resertedj J CHAPTER XXIL ' i Continued. At midnight on. the 11th of March Henry Elgin awoke from a painful dream, and lay thinking of his unfor tunate child. To save her dear life his mind was slowly resolving to yield to the desires of Hammond. "But I am sure," thought Elgin, as he listened to the steady tramp of Daniel to and fro in the Ball, "that my yielding will be my speedy death. If by dying I could give my child life and security from the villain, I would cheerfully die. But I fear that by following Luke Ham mond's wishes, I shall hurry upon my daughter the dreadful fate of becom ing the wife of Jais son. The son must be like the father an unscrupulous villain. Oh, Eternal Father! have pity upon me, and direct me aright. James Greene, whom I wronged, is no more, if Luke Hammond did not lie; and his exulting eyes and cruel smile proved to me that he t spoke truly. May Heaven deliver us." He was thinking and desponding thus when a slight and irregular jar ring of his bed attracted his attention. His bed had been rolled against the wall so as to be immediately against the small fireplace, which was fitted . with a grate, and the head of the bed was nearest to the iron work. Henry Elgin had been so long an In valid that his nerves were painfully sensitive and acute. 'Had he been In fall and robust health, the scarcely per ceptible jarring or vibration would have failed to draw his mind to It. But now every sense and organ was instantly upon the alert. "What can be the cause of this strange vibration?" thought Elgin, as he listened for some clue to guide his reason. For more than an hour he listened in vain, and then he placed his ear against the chimney. The dull and heavy sound of pound ing then fell upon his ear. "Great Heavens!" he thought. "Some cne is digging or pounding far below me, and apparently at the base of the chimney. Let me think. This chim ney was built upon the base of an old stone chimney, which was part of a strong stone apartment of the old house I had torn down to erect this edifice. The foundations of the old house were so strong and durable that I left them standing, and made u&? of them. Some one is certainly pound ing against the chimney, but it may be somebody in the room below me, since Hammond is in entire possession cf the house. He-may be preparing a new prison for me, or for my poor child. He may be preparing a tomb for her. I will dismiss this terrible idea from my mind, and try to sleep. In sleep I gain forgetfulness of my misery. God help me!" And uttering a fervent prayer, Henry Elgin closed his eyes. Still the jarring continued, and after half an hour's vain effort to sleep, he again applied his ear to the chimney. He now heard the sound of blows distinctly, and once a clang, as if iron had struck iron. "The pounding Is slowly but-cer tainly coming upward," thought Elgin. "What can it mean?" 1 He waited half an hour, and heard a sound of thumping without placing his ear to the wall. "It comes nearer and nearer, thought he. "Great Heaven! some one is forcing a way upward through the chimney. In half an hour more, with this rate of progress, whoever it is will be at work immediately opposite to this fireplace. The chimney flue runs up behind this fire-escape, and grows very small about three feet above the throat of the flue of this chimney. A man might work his way from below until he reached where the flue of this chimney opens into the main chimney, but there he will find a strong iron work and a very narrow channel. But who can it be? Can it be any one wishing to effect my escape? I am dead to the world buried. If any of Hammond's villains have become re morseful, why not open that door and lead me out? Or why not lead the police hither? Let me at least -hope that it may result in my deliverance, and that if Hammond knows nothing of it, neither he nor any of his villains may enter this room until I shall have learned this mystery." The noise continued, but so subdued that had not Elgin's head been against the chimney, ' he could hardly have heard it, and finally the noise ceased, All was silent for ten minutes, and then it began again, and continued until Elgin knew the cause of it must have passed the level of his bed, and gone two "or three feet upward. "Ah!" thought Elgin. "He has met the iron work! He must stop there!" Another long pause, and then Elgin resolved to speak. He forced his face up the chimney as far as possible, and said:, " "In God's name, who and what are you?" ' ' . . . : . '. There was no reply. "If you are a man," continued Elgin, in the fervent tone of prayer, "if God has given you a heart to pity a most unfortunate being, in the name Of God, I pray you ansver me." Still no reply. "Hear me, whoever you are," con tinued Elgin, with his soul on his tongue, "and pity me! I am Henry Elgin, whom men suppose to have died more than a year ago, to have been buried and to lie in Greenwood. I am the prisoner of my brother-in-law, Luke Hammond. He also has imprisoned my only child, Catharine, to force her to marry his son. I am Henry Elgin, alive in the flesh; In Heaven's holiest name, who are you?" 'Are you alone?" was the reply, in a deep whisper from the dark and nar row flue. "I am, thank Heaven," said Elgin. "I am a man," said the voice, still in a deep whisper. "A man Luke .Ham mond deems dead; a man he tried to kill. I am James Greene!" For a moment Elgin was speechless with Joy and surprise, and while he utters his silent thanks to Heaven for its mercy, let us see Ijow James Greene reached the spot where he was to be more surprised than Henry Elgin, and to be as fully rejoiced. We left him at midnight beginning his work against the walled-up fireplace in the old stone kitchen, far below the crimson cham ber. He was not long in forcing an en trance into the old chimney and was glad to find It so large and rugged that he could mount upward several feet. Then he found another impediment in thick bars of iron laid closely to gether, and sustaining several layers of brick. After great labor, he loosened the ends of four of the bars from the bricks, and getting full possession of one bar, used it as a "crow" to pry aside the others. He then dislodged the bricks, and forcing his body through the aperture so made, found that he had entered another chimney, "I must go on up," said he. "I must reach the roof, and, then clamber along until I can drop from the eaves where they overhang the old and untenanted house adjacent to this. A leap of ten feet will take me to, the roof of the untenanted house, and then my escape thence will be easy." He looked upward, but all was dark "I might now cut from here into a room," said he, "but into whose room? Perhaps into Luke Hammond's kitchen. I know nothing of this house. I am so turned around that I do not know whether I am in the main house or in the wing. I must go up, and. in going up make as little noise as possible." Again he began to ascend. ' For a few feet all was easy work. Then an iron bar opposed his passage. This he removed by beating to pieces the bricks In which it was imbedded. Up again a few, feet, and he found the flue so narrow that it was Impossible to ascend without removing a layer of bricks all around the flue. A new fear arose in his mind. "The continual dropping of the bricks as I remove them may cause an alarm,", thought he. "Still it must be done. I see no help for it. - God has been with me so far. I will trust In Him for all." He again labored, and the bricks fell one after another, and, to his ear, with -a shunning noise. Somebody did hear them as they struck far down below. Old Fan, trembling in her bed, heard them; but she deemed the noise made by spirits or "by anything rather than mortal hands. She crept out of her bed into the kitchen, and crouching before the smouldering fire, trembled and stopped her ears. Greene continued his slow and toil some ascent until checked by the iron work Henry Elgin had thought of as 'he listened to the mysterious. noises in the chimney. Whenever Greene paused in his toil, he listened for alarm. But there was no alarm Tintll he heard Elgin's voice. Then he trembled indeed; for he did not recognize the voice, smothered as it was in the flue; and, as we have seen, Elgin was forced to speak three times before Greene replied. His astonish ment on learning that Henry Elgin was still alive was beyond expression Greene had been among those who had seen Elgin in his' coffin. James Greene had shed tears when the coffin was consigned to the tomb. When Elgin was again able to speak, he said: "James Greene, we have not time for many words. My jailers, or Ham mond himself, may enter this room at any moment. God be with you, my son, and may you escape. You are now opposed by a strong iron frame, placed In the main chimney to sustain the weight of this flue. If you can pvercome that obstacle, you will find much difficulty in going up, as the flue narrows and takes a turn some feet farther up. ."Would to Heaven I could aid you!" "I am nearly famished," said Greene, "Have you food and drink near you?" "I have," said Elgin. "But how can you reach it?" "Thrust your hand, up the flue as far as you can," said Greene. Elgin did so, and his hand was grasped by that of the brave young carpenter. "May we soon be able to grasp each other's hand face to face," said Greene, pressing Elgin's thin and skeleton hand. "God grant that we may, my son," said Elgin. "And now loose my hand. and I will give you food and drink." When his hand was free, Elgin took meat and bread from the small table near him, and passed it up the flue. "Water I must have water," JsaM Greene. . There was a half emptied bottle upon the table. This Elgin filled with water from a pitcher, and passed up the flue. "Hunger and thirst till now I never knew," thought Greene, as he ate and drank. - "Hasten, my son," said Elgin. "This room may be entered at any moment by our enemies." "Enough," said Greene, returning the bottle. "And now to work again. I shall escape by the roof. How far am I from it?" "You will have to pass through no less than thirty feet of flue," said Elgin. "I shall escape, never fe'ar," said Greene, as he struck the iron frame work. Then pausing, he said: "If any one is about to enter your prison, cry out boldly in the chimney." He had hardly uttered the words when Elgin shouted: "Silence." He had heard the lock of the hall door of the ante-chamber clash as some one turned the key. Greene suspended all work, and In a moment after Hammond threw open the door and entered the crimson cham ber. ' - CHAPTER XXIII. THE IMPOSTEB UNMASKEDU V Hammdnd had just left his library. having resolved to inform Elgin first that he was not his brother-in-law, and secondly, that he intended to make Catharine Elgin his wife. He entered the crimson chamber, and was followed by Nancy Harker. Elgin saw at once that Hammond had something of unusual "importance to sayr and noticed that he was paler and sterner than usual. "He has come to tell me to prepare for death," thought Elgin, as Ham mond drew a chair near the bed and seemed hesitating how to begin. After a pause of a long moment, Hammond turned to Nancy and said: "I might as well tell both at once; it will save time. Go and lead Catharine Elgin hither. But stay; where is Fan?" "She ia in her room, I suppose," re plied Nancy. "I have not seen her for several hours." "She cannot escape from the house remarked Luke. "She knows the dogs hate her, and will tear her to pieces If they can get at her. Go and lead Catharine Elgin hither." Nancy left the room, and then Ham mond's eye rested upon the empty plates and bottles on the table. "Ah!" said he, "I am glad to see your appetite has returned.' Your daughter still refuses to eat, and will drink nothing but water. She is afraid of poison." ' . "My poor, unfortunate child!" groaned Elgin. "For two days, then, you have starved her." "I? Oh, no!" laughed Luke. "She starves herself. But she will eat by and by. Hunger will, conquer fear." Silence then ensued, until Nancy re turned leading poor Kate. "Handcuffed!" exclaimed Elgin, half rising. "Oh, thou heartless villain!" "I do not care for It, dear father, said Kate. "I forget my own misfor tunes inseeing yours, dear father." "All very fine," sneered Hammond. "Miss Elgin, sit there not too near your father. So. Now, my friend, I have something very important to tell you. Mrs. Harker, oblige me by mov ing about the' house, as we must guard against unpleasant interruption." Nancy left the room, lamp in hand, to prowl about the house, while Ham mond locked the door, placed the key in his pocket, and with his keen, steel gray eyes flashing from -father to daughter, began as follows: "My friends, I must first Inform you that my son Charles has returned. I have seen him." "Then the completion of your vil lainous plots draw ner," said Elgin, while Kate started with alarm. "It does, Henry" Elgin," said Luke. "But not in the way ycu suppose. My son will not marry Kate Elgin." "Thank God for so much," said Elgin, while poor Kate closed her eyes in terror, as she anticipated -what Ham mond was about to reveal. "I have not asked him to marry Miss Elgin," pursued Hammond, "because I have learned that he is already in fatuated .with another woman. But, as my son will not now advance his suit for Catharine Elgin's hand, I am about to do so myself." "You! Her uncle! Her mother's brother! Inhuman, unnatural villain!' exclaimed Elgin. "You mistake. I am not her uncle. I am not-her mother's brother," said Luke, with great' coolness. "Then who are you? What Dew vil lainy is to be told?" . ' To be continued.- Sway of tbe Rural Paper, It Is the opinion of George W. Martin, Secretary of the Kansas Historical So ciety, that the country newspaper pub lisher is the most important of all the factors at the beginning of things. It is he who gets near the home, who is known and read in every household of his bailiwick.- Every linein a country newspaper is read by tbe grown folks .and children alike in each household where it enters, and is not merely skimmed over, or only headlines read, as in the ease with the city papers. Hence there Is co over-estimating the i sway of the rural newspaper. . Wide Tires. : ; Why is it that Florida farmers .will buy and use wagons with narrow tires? Almost nowhere in this country can there be found roads where wide tires are more necessary. The remedy is in their own hands - If they would refuse to buy a wagon with a narrow tire under any circum stances dealers would be obliged to re fuse to receive such wagons and man ufacturers would make them with wide tires. " ; The need and value of wide tires is much better understood in Europe than it is in. this country. There they tax narrow tires 'and pay a premium on the use of very wide ones, beyond a certain width. , A similar policy ought to be adopted in this country. Florida Agriculturist Bettering Illinois Roads. One of the-contradictions of our in dustrial civilization will be found in the road problem of the State of Illi nois. For, though our chief Interests are commercial, the demand for im provement of the public highways, es pecially in the northern portions of the commonwealth, arises from considera tions of amusement and pastime rather Jhan from the agricultural interests which would be most greatly benefited. It is the bicycle, now unfortunately in a moment of disuse as a reaction against the craze of a few years ago, find it ia tho nntnninhllo 4nef untorincr upon a long career of usefulness and J pleasure, that are stimulating the peo ple of Chicago to an Interest in coun try roads and when Chicago becomes Interested in affairs of this sort there is likely to be something done. Good roads, with automobiles ready to tear and snort down their long vis tas on the slightest promise of good going, are a source of many kinds of wealth to the intelligent dwellers with out the city. In some communities this has been developed into a source of public income for the relief of the local taxpayer by a system of speed ordi nances, judiciously enforced by the levying of fines. But it is not neces sarily limited to that. Wayside inns, where simple and wholesome food can be purchased at a fair price by the . automobile tourist and his guests, would add greatly to the income of many farmers with the ability to serve savory dishes. Coun try mechanics with a handiness for the repairing of the most delicate machin ery for its size that ever dragged an unwilling driver out upon the road way, there to gaze upward into the vi tals of -his engine, can profit exten sively. By all means better the roads of Illi nois. Let the authorities realize in a Lake to Cairo thoroughfare something finer and more promising than Cecil Rhodes dream of a Cape to Cairo rail way. And they will always have this consolation plainly before them in the process: Any change must be for the better. Chicago Journal. Drainage. Many town boards and highway com missioners are making a mistake in purchasing stone crushers under the impression that crushed stone given by the residents along the road, if placed upon the crown of the road, will make a dry, hard roadway Without any fur ther .work. Nothing could -be more false, and in many parts of'the State each town is learning the fact that it has thrown away its money in.the pur chase of a stone crusher, and that it has thrown away the material which it has received from the residents in the hopes of ' getting a good .road, and that this material once used, can never be obtained again, and similar mate rial may have to be bought at great expense from outside of the town when the next stone road is wanted. The secret of road construction' Is drainage. In the State of New York on a three-rod road there falls annu ally on a mile of highway fifty-three tons of water, and this is the greatest enemy that the highway commission er has to contend with. Horses' hoofs, narrow tires or heavy loads do not be gin to make the impression upon a roadway that this Immense volume of water does. The road surface is a roof, throwing the water on either side to the ditches. If this surface is properly crowned (not too high, or ruts will be created), say, on a sixteen-foot road, if the crown in the centre is feix inches higher than the sides, so that the water runs promptly to the ditches, the road will be good in all seasons. Crushed stone Jhrown upon the sur face of a road, with no provision made for drainage and ditches, simply goes out of sight in the mud, and the mud comes to the surface, and in a . few years you would never know that any work had been done on that road. The crushed stone is not worn out, but has sunk below the surface of the road. Many highway commissioners and tax payers speak in wonder of a mud hole in front of their bouse into which year after year they have put stone, earth and rubbish to fill it up, and which have constantly gone out of sight, r. If this mud hole had had a ditch made ffem its "bottom to the side of the road, so that the water could run into the main ditch, ana tnen naa been filled, it would stay filled and cause no further trouble. New York Tribune. v - '- ,' Department stores in New York are now arranging to take care of all night orders received by telephone. Exports of American-built automo biles have increased forty per cent, during the last twelve months, s, TRAINS MEN FOR PUBLIC LIFE. Hoi Mayor McClellan Profited by HIS Tears of Work on Newspapers. "My own experience in metropolitan Journalism extended over several years, and I can say truthfully that every day's Journalistic labor has been of subsequent value to me," "says Mayor George B. McClellan, of New. York, in the Sunday Magazine. "My work in side and outside the editorial rooms was of highly variegated character. "My efforts as a reporter were calcu lated to, rub; me 'hard against , the masses of my fellow-men engaged in the struggle for existence, but this at trition broadened my view of mankind, quickened a perception of motives j.for the acts of other people, made me more tolerant, and withal proved the best tart of my preliminary training for a awyer, and subsequently a public ser vant. "I was in Wall street for one year. as an assistant under 'Tom' Hamilton. It was one of the most valuable bits of training I enjoyed. I did interview ing, prepared tables of quotations, and was a general utility man. . In Mr. Hamilton's rare absence, responsibility for the,, financial integrity of a metro politan journal had to be shouldered. I never felt more sincerely the neces sity for a clean record. A Wall street reporter against whom is the slightest taint of suspicion is worthless to bis employer. "One day in 1888 I was made politi cal reporter. That campaign was an exceedingly active one. I was a Demo crat, of course, but I, wrote my politi cal 'news with absolute . regard for truth. Never, unless I was deceived or erred in judgment, did I color any information for one party or the other. "Of all the reporters 'doing' politics in that campaign Edward Riggs is the only one who did not take up a politi cal career. Nine men who I can name, all worthy members of the metropoli tan press, preceded or followed me into politics. They all have been success ful, as have many other public men who began as newspaper men, and tbs list is so long that two professions alone, journalism and the law, seem to be the training schools from which the great mass of our public men of the fu ture are to come." ... ! WORDS OF WISDOM. To live long it is necessary to live slowly. Cicero. -No one is more injured by wrong doing than the wrongdoer. As virtue is its own reward, o vice is itsi own punishment. . There's a vast difference between a poor man and a poor sort of a man. Observance of the laws of nature is the first principle of human .happiness. ..Death-bed repentance is poor atone ment for a lifetime of self-indulgence. Don't think you are an old man at sixty; that's all fudge! Keep your grip. Human nature is weak; that's why it's so easily intoxicated by the posses sion of power. ' ' Lies will" often stick of their own weight where bolts and rivets wouldn't hold the! truth. " In praising or loving a child we love and praise not that which is, but that .which we hope for. Goethe. If any of our folks are sick or in trouble they have our sympathy. Hope the clouds will' soon roll away. - Ths Wisdom of Sock Uatees. "f have found a new way to a man's hpart " said the girl who has had three proposals this early in the season. "It is through his socks, 'xne siom oh ns short cut to a man's affections is a regular continental railway route compared with the hosiery line oi travel. - "The modern young man is excessive ly proud of his socks. There may be things that he is vainer of, but I have not discovered them. He exercises his best taste in buying them, and he likes to have that taste appreciated. He gives you every, chance In the world to show youn appreciation. Invariably he manages to leave a hiatus between his shoe tops and his trousers, 'and then, if you have designs on that young man, alKyou have to do is to cast side long but admiring glances at the re vealed expanse of embroidered hosiery and murmur, 'What a pretty pattern? and the trick is accomplished. You don't need to go into particulars. He understands. Those socks are the pride of his heart, and the minute that he finds you admire them, too, he is yours for the summer season, at least." : '-'.. . Beneficial "Ifs." If love fills our hearts, our hands will do for ourselves.' If we dwell in peace, contentment and joy is our portion. If we guard our tongues, our thoughts will be of good only. If we live in sunshine, our souls will be 'filled with the light of eternal things. - x If we live in harmony, discord, strife and discouragement will vanish. If we live in activity, success is a continuation. If we are truthful, we are of God. If we rest in the All Power, we are perfection. . If we want to know the truth of our being atonement with God we must T-f6A from nrir slumbers and accept the "ifs" of the new. Washington News jjetier. tttwutm mm Shin (TIii-lteners. When a Japanese ship is about to be launched there is suspended from tne bow a huge cage, into which are crowded a score or more of birds. Just as the prow cuts the wateE-the side of the cage is thrown open and the vessel enters her native element with her prow crowned by a living garland of birds, whose free flight through space is emblematic of the spirit of the ship, Chicago Chronicle. " With the Funny I it i i i i r The Antidote. "Of all ead words of tongue or pen. The saddest are these: 'It might have been " . But one small phrase annuls the curse, And that is this: "It might have been worse." New York Sim. . Lacking la Experience. "Somebody who calls himself Profes sor Trent, claims that Daniel Defoe, who wrote 'Robinson Crusoe,' was the greatest liar that ever lived." ; "I guess the professor never met one of our expert campaign liars." Cleve land Plain Dealer. A Method of Selection. - "Where is your family going to spend the summer?" "It isn't decided yet," answered Mr. Cumrox, wearily. "Mother and the girls are still writing letters to find out which hotel charges the most." Washington Star. Mysterions. -' "So you have read your daughter's commencement essay?" "Yes," answered the matter-of-fact father. "I am dumbfounded. I can't understand how anybody who can write so sensibly and profoundly would chew gum and wear high-heeled shoes." Washington Star. Relentless. "What Is the "object in delaying the trial of that sensational case so long?" "I am trying to protect the public," answered the relentless prosecutor. "I want to give popular interest a chance to subside so that the prisoner will not be encouraged to go on the stage if acquitted." Washington Star, Wanted Some. "What are you doing, my lad?" whv t rpfld dis land wus worth $800 a foot, an' I need the money' New York Evening journal. Mamma's Mistake. Fond Mother "Nellie, the next time young Huggins calls ask him to bring his airship around some afternoon ani take us for a ride." Pretty Daughter "Why, mamma, he hasn't any airship." Fond Mother 'iOh, yes, he has. Mrs. Tattles told me only this morning that he was quite a high flyer." Chicago News. - Collywobs. "Yes, the party was a big success; plenty of eating and all that." "I suppose the 'table groaned with all the delicacies of the season."' "Yes, but that wasn't a circumstance to the way some of the delicacies made the guests groan cucumbers and ice cream, for instance." Philadelphia Press.' Taking No Chances. Grayce "George says that I satisfy his soul hunger so thoroughly that we need have no formal engagement He says that in spirit vCe are already one. What do you think of that?" Gladys "All very pretty. But Just the same I wouldn't let him talk me out of the engagement ring." Chicago Journal. Snbnrban Attractiveness. Scout (from the city) "Where is that beautiful view you advertise?" Farmer , Takemlnn "Why, ye Jest walk over ter Pokevllle an take th stage to Hen Lake an' th' steamer ter Moose Landing, an' then climb up Skeeter Mountain ter what they call Lover's Leap,' andtbar ye git th view, an It's a dandy." Puck. On the Boston Snbway. Superintendent (to conductor) "This gentleman complains that yon ordered him to step lively. What have you to say?" -, Conductor "Well, sir, you s we were behind and " Superintendent "That makes no dif ference at all, sir. You should have said, Pedetrianate precipitately Puck. Severe on the Poet, "Are you wearing your hair long be cause you fancy you are poetical?" "Suppose I am?" , - "Yes. And suppose I offered you thli twenty-flve-cent piece, to go to a b,p ber's and be shorn?" "I wouldn't go." "Then take this dollar and go to a dentist's." "What for?" "To have your nerve treated." Cleveland Plain Dealer, : . : A giant leatherback turtle weighing 716 pounds was sent to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, the other day. It was caught off Block Island, and is said to have been the first taken along the Atlantic Coast in fifteen years. After ' laborious ' examination of the sarcophagi of the fifth and sixth dynas tiesdating back to 3500 . B. C M. Berthelot has concluded that, the oil of the embalmers was simply castor oil, as is still used in Egypt. The oil has undergone some oxidation, but has retained its preservative qualities. ' The sewage disposal plant of Barr head, England, consists of two grit chambers, fpur septic tanks and eight filters, with a total filtration area ol 2540 square yards. It was designed to take the sewage of 10,000 people, with some roof drainage, and5" the first cost was $32,860, the running expenses in cluding an attendant being under ?100 a year. The new incandescent lamp with n filament of tantalum has been under experiment for two years and it is claimed to yield the name candle-power and useful life as the carbon lamps, with a consumption of half as much electricity. The filament is necessarily very long about twenty-six . inches and is mounted on a special support enclosed in the specially shaped bulb. The economy of nature is to be seen well illustrated at the present time at Church, Lancashire. On the sewage beds adjoining that town are to be seen myriads of small flies, whose presence attracts multitudes of spiders, which spin their webs over the flies, thus im. prisoning them and devouring them at their leisure. But the spiders do not have it all their own way, for recently flocks' of small birds have discovered their whereabouts, and dally take large toll of their numbers. , V -. With reference to the suggestion ad vanced by the Hon. C. A. Parson at the recent British Association meeting, that deep" borings should be made into the earth's crust for the purpose of in vestigation of the earth's interior, and that a 6haf t such as this might be sunk to a depth of twelve miles, an other scientist has pointed out that the pressure of the rock at such a depth represents some forty tons per square inch and would render the task impos sible, owing to the inward viscous flow of the rock material. ' . : ARTIFICIAL COTTON. - Process of Its Manufacture From Wood Fibre , : Some recent experiments have been made in Bavaria in regard to prepar ing artificial cotton from pine wood, and It is said that the new process al lows it to be made cheaply enough so that the artificial cotton, may compete with the natural product. In the method which has proved the most successful the wood, which has the bark removed, is cut into thin sticks or - fibers one-sixteenth of an inch or less in thickness. These are placed in a large horizontal copper, cylinder lined with lead, into which steam is passed. When the separating action of the steam on the wood fiber has been prolonged sufficiently, an acid so lution of sodium sulphite Is added and the cylinder is heated under a pressure of three atmospheres during thirty-six hours. The wood, which has become completely white, is washed and then passed through a crusher. After wash ing again, the fibers are further whit ened by a chloride of lime treatment." The matter which is thus obtained Is dried and constitutes a pure cellulose which is then heated under pressure with a mixture of nitric and- hydro chloric acids and chloride of zinc. The pasty mass thus formed is mixed with a little gelatine and castor oil, which give a certain resistance to the fiber. The'cellulose is then formed into fine threads by a spinning machine, and these are washed in a, carbonate of soda solution and drled These threads are said to form a very good fabric when woven, and can easily be dyed. Although the experiments have as yet been carried on only in the laboratory, there is no doubt that the process may be applied oh a large scale, thus com ing into the European market as a competitor for the Imported cotton. Scientific American. f Speeds Even Ills Sodas. Two women sat at the soda water counter In an Eighth avenue drug storp lazily disposing of an ice cream soda. In rushed a nervous little man, who ordered pineapple straight from the fruit.. He got it, swallowed it in two gulps and dashed, out again as hur riedly as he bad come in. "Gracious!" exclaimed one of the -women. "Has that man gone al ready?" "He's a wonder, he is," replied the soda dispenser. "That was a slow trip for him. He is a chauffeur in an auto mobile place across the street. He comes in here three or four times a day on the run, pours down a glass of soda water without taking a breath and hustles out again as though the devil was after him. I've often won dered how much time be takes to eat" New York Press. . Tree Tooth Brashes. Japanese inns lurnish fresh tooth brushes every morn iug Tree to every guest. The brush is of wood, shaped like a pencil, and frayed to a tufty brush of fiber at the. large cud. t
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Sept. 28, 1905, edition 1
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