TURPENTINE THEE SAVED.
A Tar Beers' invention I any
V Cnp 1 for Catching Rosin Drip
pings Kevolatlonlzed a Great
Intfntlry No Lonoer la There a
Needless Waste of Vast Tracts
f Timber.
WahlBirtoa " Corresjondenw Charlotts Ob-
Mmr,
1 To " those who have traveled
through the turpentine belt of
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia with the ghostlike
faces of sapped turpentine trees
glaring at them through the
shadows, the recent invention of
another system of getting the
turpentine from the trees, with
out killingthem and without mak
ing them so unsightly and ghast
ly, is interesting.
Already 20,000,000 trees in the
South are equipped with small
galvanized iron gutters attached
to the trees, through whicbthe
turpentine is led into a little clay
cup. The trees are thus'Ve
served for future turpentine pro
duction or for timber and the
amount of turpentine from each
one of these trees has been in
creased and the price raised be
cause of the superior quality.
Just four or five years ago the
new method was introduced and
it has already worked noticeable
changes in the looks of the for
ests and promises, in a short
time, to revolutionize the turpen
tine industry, as well as the
naval stores industry The im
portance of this, aside from the
preservation 'of the pine forests
in the South, can be better un
derstood when it is known that,
according to the last complete
reports, , for the year 1902, there
were produced in the country
2,100,000 barrels of rosin and
600,000 barrels of turpentine,
worth together $17,000,000. ; -
To the country at large the tur
pentine is simply indispensable,
ior its industrial uses, xcv tur
pentining under the only meth
ods practiced up to a very few
years ago, and under the meth
ods still unhappily too common
-among the less progressive oper
ators, did and is still doing enor
nous damage to the South. In
fact until the cup system came
long, it threatened to destroy
itself, '
The cup system does away
with the "box, which is simply
a pocket chopped in the tree it
self, to catch the rosin, or crude
turpentine, which bleeds from
the face above It was a primi
tive device, but it had the merit
of cheapness and simplicity. It
meant early death to the trees
and devastation of the forest, be
ides being wasteful of the tur
pentine itself. It resulted in a
irtra if nnt & rnmnlfttA Iors of the
-r
timber, for the lumberman was
seldom able to follow close
enough upon the heels of the tur
pentine operator to be ahead of
the wind to which the weakened
trees easily succumbed and the
fires which fed on the fallen wood
and spread the destruction furth
er- Yet all this was for a long
time regarded as of little import
ance, since it was easy enough
to find new territory in which to
repeat the operation.
AN ECONOMICAL METHOD.
Nowadays, however, the own
-ers of Southern pine are grow
ing more particular. Many of
them refuse to allow turpentin
we on any terms, utners are
agreeing to it on condition that
the cup system be used. With
an intelligent, business-like man
agement in charge this system is
as much to the advantage of the
operator as to that of the timber
Ktslao from the Grnve.
A nrominent manufacturer. Wm
JL JTertwell, of Lucama, N. 6., re
lates a most remarkable experience.
He says : "After taking less than
three bottles of Electric .bitters, j
feel like one mine from the grave
Mf trouble is Brisht's disease, in
the Diabetes stage. I fully believe
Electric Bitters will cure me per
enanently,' fer it nas already stop
rvA the liver and bladder oomnli
cations which have , troubled me
: tot years.'"; Uuanntaed by al
aroggisis. rnce omy wo.
and owner, for it results In a
arge quantity of crude turpen
tine,' allows less of the spirits of
urpentine to be evaporated, pro
duces higher grade rosin, and
engthens the period during
which the same "crop" of trees
m m mm
can be wornea. tinaer a sup
shod, incapable management it
will fail to make good, because it
requires attention . to details and
intelligent oversight But for
the man who owns the trees, it
means a vast deal whether box
ing is permitted or not. This is
both because the box is wholly
needless and because with the
cup and gutter the harmful ef
fect of the chipping itself can be
greatly reduced.
But the box is being gradually
dispensed with, and a few miles
rom Chattanooga is a pottery
which runs night - and day
throughout the year tunning out
millions of these clay cups. They
are mucn nice a meaium-sizea
ower pot, and all are of exactly
the same size, and pattern. Each
cup has a small round hole in the
side and near the top. The
moulding is done by machines
which were invented for the pur
pose and which make them at the
rate of 18 a minute, or practically
one in every 3 seconds. Aud
with all this the pottery cannot
keep up with its orders. The
casual visitor finds it hard to
guess for what use this great
output of cheap cups, all invaria
bly alike, are intended and he is
interested to be told that into
each of the twenty million al
ready in use is slowly dripping
the rosin which oozes from a
'chipped" or scarred surface in
the trunk above into two shallow,
downward slanting galvanized
iron troughs or gutters. The in
ner edges of these gutters are
thrust into cups deeply made
with an upward stroke of a broad
ax at the lower edga of the chip
ped "face." Each gutter catch
es the drip from approximately
half the face. The two cuts slant
towards each other like the sides
of a greatly flattened V, but do
not meet, for they are at different
levels, and so placed that the
higher drips into the lower, which
in turn discharges into the cup.
, A TAR HEEL THE INVENTOR.
The credit for the new system
belongs to Dr. Charles H. Herty,
professor of chemistry at the
University of North Carolina. As
a southerner interested in the
welfare of his region he set out
to put a stop, if possible, to what
he felt to be a reckless and un
necessary impoverishment of a
great natural resource. He has
had many obstacles to meet and
surmount First came the diffi
culty in devising a method of
gathering the turpentine which
should be at once cheap, simple,
capable of being used by the kind
of labor available, not lively to be
interfered with by grazing cattle
and hogs and practical. A num
ber of devices had been brought
forward by earlier inventors, but
all had failed in one or another
of these requirements. Then
came the difficulty of prejudice
on the part of the negroes who
were to do the work. "They
were asnamed to be seen with
me," said Dr. Herty, with a grin,
in telling of his early experience
during a recent visit to Washing
ton. I had to pick them up out
side of town because they would
not ride in the wagon with me
through the streets. " Bui their
I will mail vnii free, tn nrAvc m.n't
am Dies of mr Dr. Khrmn'a T? Mtnro
and my book on either Dyspepsia, The
nn, or me rviuneys. Address me. Dr.
Shooo. Racine. Wu TmnhlM f
Stomach, Heart or Kjuneys, are merely
symptoms 01 a, weeper ailment. .Don't
mane we common error ot treating symp
toms onlV. Svmntom treatment T treat
ing the result of yonr ailment, and not
At T 1 r. .
me cause, weait oiomacn nerves the
umae nerves means stomach weakness.
Biwavs. aou me nearr. ann Kinnm
well, have their controlling or inside
ncrres. w eaicen inese nerves, and ) on
Inevitably have weak vital organs. Here
is where Dr. Shoop's Restorative has
made its fame. No other remedy even
claims to treat the "inside nerves." Also
for bloating, biliousness, bad breath or
complexion, use Dr. Shoop's Restorative.
Write me fr sample and free Book. " Dr
Snoop, Racine. Wis. The Restorative is
Qiqpy w dealers.
prejudice changed to enthusiasm
before they had i been long at
work. ; Now it would be hard to
find a turpentine, camp in which
there are not some hands who
have- used the'" cup' system.
Though it was only fire years
ago that the first experiments on
commercial scale were made,
a large fraction of the total pro
duct is gathered by the new
method and the number ot oper
ators who have adopted it is
steadily increasing.
FINDING A POTTER. , M
When every other obstacle had
been surmounted, after it had
been proved by actual experience
that the cup svstem was prac
ticable and could be profitable,
came the question of getting the
cups made. For some time no
pottery could be found with faith
enough in a demand for the cups
to prepare to make them. At
last Dr. Herty found a potter, an
old acquaintance, who was will
ing because of his personal in
terest in the young enthusiast
to undertake to make the cups.
"And how many could you make
a year?" asked Mr. Herty. "Why,
could make 100,000 ifneces-
-a a a w. .
sary.' liut tnis is a matter oi
millions of cups a year." That
ended the business. The potter
regarded himself as a practical
man. "You have been among
your college men too much; you
are dreaming." At last there
was no other way open for the
inventor but to organize a com
pany and buy a pottery to make
the cups.
It was planned at first to make
cups only during a part of the
year, but the time has never
come when the making of cups
could stop. Good judgment was
shown in choosing the location
of the pottery. The clay used in
making the cups is dug from the
hillside close at hand, coal comes
in wagons from the month of the
mine, and the point is central
for shipment to all parts of the
South. The cost of the cups has
been reduced from 4 cents to 1
6-10 cents apiece. A large part
of this reduction has been made
possible by the invention of a
machine which takes the place of
moulding- by hand. It is a for
tunate thing for the South and
the company that these cups are
being made and put to use in the
forests so greatly needed for
lumber and so rapidly diminish
ing.
Besides the clay cups metal
receptacles are being introduced
by many operators. These are
made of galvanized iron, and are
considerably more expensive
than the clay cups. On the other
hand, they are more durable.
They are, however, in some res
pects less easy to manipulate..
Yet large numbers of them are
in use with the same result as
that obtained from the clay cup,
in doing away with the evils of
boxing.
Ransom Godwin, a well-to-do
white farmer 65 years old, shot
and killed his wife on the night
of the 6th at his home near
Kenly, Johnston county. The
murder was apparently with
out cause. Godwin drank of:
ten and mistreated his wife, and
Monday night he came home
drunk and beat her with a
stick unmercifully. Tuesday
night he came home drunk
again and shot Mrs. Godwin in
cold blood. He immediately
disappeared in the woods.
Mrs. Godwin was about 35
j ears old. She is survived by
two children.
. AUGUSTUS ST. GAUDENS. '
America's Foremost ; Sealptor
Passe; Away Lincoln Statoe
la Chicago one of Hie Master
pieces Des!ancd New Ameri
can Gold Coins,
Cornish K.H., Dispatch Ir. yt"
' Augustus St. Gaudens, IX
P.t L. H. D. America's- fore
most sculptor.died at his home
in Cornish to-night after : a
long illness.4 Death' was 'due
to a general . breakdown
of the system ' caused in part
by a form of nervous dyspepsia
with which ; he liad long; been
troubled. Augustus St Gau-
dens was born in Dublin, Ire
land, March 1,1848, of a French
father and an Irish mother, and
was brought to New York when
six months" old. At 13 years lie
began work as a cameo cutter.
Hard work landed him in
Paris in 1867, the exposition
year, and there it became ap
parent to the young man that
his life work must be that of a
sculptor rather than cameo
worker. He began inodelingX
at the Ecole des Beaux art? 3
unaer r rancis jounrey ana ai-s-
ter three years of constant ap
plication, went to Rome, where
his first statue, that of Hiawa
tha, was created and the founda
tion of his fame was laid. Re
turning to this country in 1887
the master hand and mind is
best seen, artists declare,in the
Lincoln statuo in Chicago, the
Farragut, Sherman and Coop
er figures in New York, that of
Garfield, in Philadelphia, the
"Puritan" in Springfield, and
in the inspiring Shaw, memor
ial in Boston. These are gen
erally held to 'shed the best
light on the fame of StGaudens,
but the figure of Grief in the
Rock Creek Cemetery in
Washington, . the equestrian
statue in Chicago of Logan,the
figures of the facade of the
Boston -Public Library, and
Diana on the Madison Square
Garden tower are always call
ed to mind as sharing fin the
glory-shed byheTnaStef
pieces. .
DESIGNED NEW GOLD COINS.
New York, Aug. 3. Through
a letter from President Roose
velt made public today it was
learned that , Augustus St.
Gaudens, the famous Ameri
can sculptor, who died to-night,
had designed the new gold
coins which are now being
completed. This design is
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