BADIN BULLETIN
PAGI TEXBTnN
tion in the electrical department of the
Lancaster Light and Power Company,
and the Lancaster Cotton Mill Company.
Mr. Rogers, late of the United States
Army has accepted a position as operator
here. He will help Mr. Barnett cook
and eat “Ham and—”
Mrs. Charles Williams has returned
from a visit to Great Falls, South Caro
lina.
Miss 'Mamie Barnett of Fort Mill, S.
C., is visiting Mr.', and Mrs. Roberts.
Mrs. L. B. Shoemaker is visiting
friends in Hickory, N. C.
Mr. Tom JacksoYi is visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Williams.
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Rotary Station Equipment No. Z—Hook
A man takes the first step toward
knowledge when he recognizes that he
knows nothing.—Levi Schmidt.
These lessons were intended to cover
only Rotary Station Equipment, as Hook
is here and for the benefit of those who
don’t know what it is, its causes and
effects, we will try to explain it. Hook
is not an electrical apparatus, neither is
it wanted, but like the poor, “We have
it with us always.” Nearly all rotary
stations run continuously, that is they
run 24 hours a day, and would run 26
hours a day if only someone would
design a 26 hour day. To be sure the
rotaries would stop if the current from
the power house was cut off, but about
the only way to stop the power house
is for a fish to get in the water wheel
of one of the generators thereby con
taminating the water and causing it to
be useless to run a water wheel. To
offset this difficulty the engineers that
designed the water wheels * put fish
strainers over the intake to the water
wheels. These effectively catch all the
fish and throw them up on top of the
dam. Anyone wanting a nice mess of
fish can get (by going over to the dam
where they will be supplied gratis—
This is one way to help the fight on
old man H. C. L.
Now as the rotaries run all the time
it is necessary that operators, floormen,
water boys, and other attendants be on
duty at all times, but the night, or
“Graveyard” shift are the only ones that
are affected by Hook. It starts about
2.00 o”clock a. m., sometimes earlier,
that all depends. (Hook only affects
live beings not rotaries.) It starts
somewhere between the^ cerebrum and
pedal extremities, that is from the top
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PART OF THE TOWNSITE RENTING FORCE: MESSRS. BIZZELL, JACKSON, SMITH,
SHEPPARD AND WHITE
of your head to the bottom of your feet,
and gradually affects all parts of the
body, especially the eyes. (Hook is not
an electrical disease.) It is no respecter
of persons and lasts only a few hours,
but it makes you feel like the coming
of a hard winter while it lasts.
When first affected you feel tired and
sleepy, so you walk around a little bit
to keep awake, but Hook goes with you
and gets a little tighter hold. After a
little while you think you are sick (you
just think so), and wish you were in bed.
After a little more walking you get mad
and want to fight and wish someone
would come around and start something.
About 3.00 o’clock a. m. you feel worse—
about like you had been chewed up and
spit out. You try to think a little bit
but under these circumstances your
mind won’t work properly, and all you
can think about is fighting. How cruel
the world is! And what a hard time
you have! So you go and drink the dope
you have, or the coffee whichever you
happen to have. (If you haven t these
two supposed remedies you wonder why
your wife didn’t think to tell you to
get them, and you get sore at the wife
and decide to get a divorce, and alimony
if she can pay it.) Oh! but you are
sure going to organize the wife in the
morning. If you have no wife you are
going to straighten out the Landlady.
You will show her how to fix you bum
lunches and chow chow sandwiches, and
not have your bed made up when you
get there at 7.00 a. m. Take it from
you, you are some whistling engine of
destruction (Hook’s getting worse), and
would just as soon peddle peanuts in
a graveyard as monkey around this way.
So you go and wash your face in cold
water thinking it will help some, may
be it will but old man Hook has decided
to stay a while with you and collect be
cause you didn’t sleep enough yesterday.
Gee! but you wish you could get some
sleep, but you can’t you’ve got to pay
old man Hook, so you walk around some
more and feel worse and think who you
could get a fight out of. Oh, yes it was
those kids next door that kept you awake
• yesterday. Just wait till those kids make
any more noise and see if you don’t go
down and whip the whole family, includ
ing the old man and mother-in-law. Dad
blame! but you feel bad. That man
that relieves you had better be here on
time or it will be all off with him.
The clock has stopped now. No, it’s
running backwards and you can see lit
tle Devils jumping up and down in front
of you and you feel about like you had
been beat out of H— with a bag of soot
for stealing chickens, and you don’t care
whether you sink or swim, stand up or
fall down. Nothing matters now. (Old
man. Hook has got you right now.)
Wouldn’t you like to see a bed? Yes,
it's breaking day. You feel some better.
(Old man Hook’s leaving you now.) You