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SALISBURY EVENING POST.
SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1912.
NEW ELECTRIC ROCK DRILL
Claimed, to Combine, Ruefledness of
Air or Steam Device With Flex
. i Iblllty and Efficiency.
A new electric rock drill, claimed to
combine the ruggedness of the air or
team drill with the efficiency, flexi
bility and economy of electrical pow
er, utilize compressed air as the me
dium transmitting the energy from
Clectrlo Rock Drill.
the motor to the plunger. This air
is not exhausted from the drill, but Is
retained to act continuously as a
cushion between the piston of the
plunger and the motor-driven recipro
cating cylinder la which it operates,
says the Popular Mechanics.
The cylinder la connected to the
motor through gearing and makes
about 600 strokes per minute. Flex
ibly connected, to this cylinder
through the compressible air cushion
at each end. Is the head of the piston,
which, of course, makes the same
number of strokes per minute. The
difference between this drill and the
ordinary air drill is that theCyllader
la which the air acta upon the piston
la movable instead of stationary, and
the compressed air. la retained to pro
tect the mechanism from shocks from
the plunger. Instead of being allowed
to escape after having performed its
work at the end of each stroke.
USEFUL IN CARRYING COILS
Description of Contrivance for Keep
ing Telephone Coils Safely
While In Tool Bag.
A writer m Teiepnony describes a
contrivance ' for carrying Induction
and ringer colls so as not to have
mem injured oy toois in me nag,
Take a piece of 2x4-lnch pine of any
desired length and, by using an ex
pansion bit, drill holes just the else
Telephone Coll Carrier.
of each coil, so as to prevent rattling
around. An additional coll may be
carried by drilling, a .hole In the end
of the block and plugging' with' eTcork.
A strip secured by two screws serves
as a cover.
Best Light for the Eye.
: ' According to scientists, the least In
jurlous of present-day Ulumlnanta la
the acetylene flame, for the reason
that it la the nearest approach to the
character of daylight For reading
or writing purpose the oil lamp or
candle Is the best, because of Its soft.
yellow lights Daylight; of course, is
the Meat It Is a mixture of all colors,
and, as far as the eye are concerned,
the green, yellowish rays predominate.
It la the Invisible and ultra-violet rays
that are so harmful, and In daylight
ithere are not enough of these to hurt
Of the various forms of electric light,
the violet la the most harmful.
. Electrle Signs for Churches.
Many churches are adopting electric
signs, says a writer in the National
(Magazine. Why should not more of
(them bring their location and voca-
jtion to the attention of the public by
this method? There are thousands of
strangers la our large cities each night
who would be glad to participate in
devotional service , if they were at
tracted by an electrto sign a few
blocks distant It would seem that
our churcfles can increase their use
fulness to the general public by pub
licity of this nature.
' Our Electrle Railways.
. There are 1.250 electric railways in
the United States. They operate 35,000
. miles of single track, 76,000 car and
carry 10,000,000,000 passengers a year.
The gross annual income of these
roads is $440,000,000, their capitalisa
tion is $4,000,000,000 and they employ
225.000 persons, whose pay amounts
to $160,000,000 a year. , -
Jaoanese Electrle Works.
Japan has 879 electric works, using
400,000 kilowatts of electric power, all
the progress or only twenty years
,The number of electric railways li
'thlrtv-one. with a trackage of 667
in ilea. Telephone subscribers number
iOS,7B2. -
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POOL AND BILLIARD TABLE
Frame Is Adjustable to Different Di
mensions and Has Provision for
Side Pockets.
A Pennsylvania man has invented
combination pool and billiard table
that is nothing less than startling In
Its mutability. The same article can
be used not only for bothpool and bil
liards, but It can be used on floor or
table and, finally, can, be , folded up
and stood In a closet when not wanted.
All these things are made possible
by the fact that the bed of the table
Is a single strip of heavy rubber that
when stretched taut along the bottom
of the frame provides a firm, level
surface. The frame is adjustable to
different dimensions and has corner
pieces that are inserted for billiards
and removed for pool, when pockets
are adjusted at the corners. There is
also provision for side pockets. Fur
thermore, the cue is adjustable to dif
ferent lengths. This table can , be
used In the house or out of doors, on
land or on water, and when not in
use can be stood up out of the way.
For floor playing a ball attachment is
.astened to the end of the cue.
COMBINED CROWBAR-TRUCK
Used In Set of Three for Moving
... Heavy Load About Quit
'"" Useful In Factories.
A combination crowbar and truck
has been Invented for moving heavy
articles about in workshops, factories
and warehouses. While the articles
can be used separately, they are us
ually .employed,; in, sets of;- three, as ,
they thus preserve a better balance
for the load and expedite its handling.
At the end of a long, strong handle
are two stout Iron rollers, covered
with an iron casing, with a spike set
near the tip. This spike prevents the
Crowbar Also Truck.
load from slipping, and yet is to short
to do any damage. . The truck-crow
bars are inserted' under the object
to be moved and by bearing down on
the handles the load is lifted clear, of
the noor and can be wheeled to any
point desired. Articles weighing three
or four tons can be trundled about on
these trucks aa easily as an ordinary
packing case. Even la shop equipped
with traveling - crane these ' imple
ments will be useful. . '
Dirty' Window Exclude Light
A German professor ha ascertained
that ia Industrial cities windows which
have not been washed for ten days ex
clude from 26 to 48 per cent of the
light If not washed for four weeks,
they may exclude as much as 80 per
cent of the light .
Buenos Aires ia the largest hide and
wool market la the world.
Nlnety-eeven American manufactur
ers havegePQles. in, Madrid, ,
Tokio, Japan, intends to spend near
ly $16,000,000 on drainage works.
Stoves burning alcohol are being
Introduced Into Canada by Germans.
Sandstone will absorb a gallon or
more of water to the cubic foot of
rock.
A large Hamburg restaurant i
housed in a building of compressed
paper.
A file may be kept from filling up
with lead by applying a coat of thin
oil just before filing.
At a recent gem exhibition In Lon
don there were shown blue, pink and
aquamarine diamonds.
Sheet aluminum makes better vise
jaws for handling soft metals than
either brass of copper. ,
So-called burglar proof. glass, made
in France, withstand revolver bullet
and blow from a mallet
Approximately one-third of the
world' supply of copra now Is be
ing produced in the Philippines.
lime was one of the earliest ma
terial used to Improve the soli, be
ing mentioned by Plato and Pliny.
For the first times la the history of
the industry in that state Ohio mined
more than 30,000,000 ton of coal last
year. '
In a stone arch bridge recently built
In France molten ' sine was used to
bind the stones together Instead of ce
ment Light but strong waterproof paper
that successfully imitates loatber and
rubber is made in Japan from vege
table fibers.
London requires taximetem to bo
connected to the front wheels of taxi
cabs because the rear wheels do the
most , slipping. , , ,
TuNDUSjpAL
MECHANICAL
IEB NOTES Pi
His Natural
Self
If anybody had given a party with.
a prize for the most helpless husband
there was not a bit of doubt that
Docklty would have gone home with
the prise under bis arm. This was an
indisputable fact, for his .wife said
so and she should have possessed ex
pert knowledge on the subject
"If you should turn James Docklty
loose in the middle of a desert," she
often said, "with an oasis in plain
sight that helpless man would turn
and walk the other way and die of
starvation. Here I am, wearing my
self to a shadow remembering to re
mind him of what he ought to do or
telling him where he put his pink
striped shirt or getting him more
towel when those in the bathroom
have slipped down back of the tub!
You'd think that the man never heard
of the back of the bathtub the way
he forgets to reach behind itl He's
more trouble than a family of ten
children! I declare, his helplessness
dooms me to become old before my
time."
He never knew where be had put
his umbrella when there was a rain
storm that he had to go out in. He
was petrified with a dismal sort of
horror if he had to hunt out hla own
apparel. It was on record that once
when they were dining , out and -Mrs:
Docklty had gone on ahead to spend
the day he didn't come. When finally
they telephoned him he told his ex
asperated wife with tears in his voice
that somehow he couldn't possibly get
a white tie on that looked right
"Where are you getting your dress
ties fromT" Mrs. Docklty inquired
with an awful premonition.
"From the little drawer to the left
in the top of the chiffonier," recited
Docklty, pathetically.
"Those," breathed Mrs. Docklty
over the phone, "are my white sum
mer belts! Look in the drawer be
low!" She often Bald with pathos that if
James would only reform she would
be the happiest woman on earth.
It was nothing short of tragic then
when Docklty had to go west on busi
ness and his return was delayed three
months. Mrs. Docklty worried inces
santly over him. "If he wasn't so
helpless," she said, "it wouldn't be
so bad, but he'll lose everything he
has and will come home with his cuffs
tied on with strings! He won't be
able to find a thing and nobody will
look out for him and hell leave a
pair of pajamas hanging in the closet
of every hotel room he's in! I'm
afraid he won't get enough to eat,
because he never knows what he
wants and always insists on my pick
ing out things on the bill of fstre." "
When at last Docklty returned
home his wife looked him over fear
fully. His coat was on right . side up
and his right shoe was not upon his
left foot He was wearing hla own
hat, his linen was presentable and
be was short only one pair of paja
mas. "Do you feel well, James T" Mrs.
Docklty asked, anxiously.
"If I felt any better," declared her
husband, "I'd be sick abed from it!"
At breakfast Docklty put sugar and
cream on' his berries as nonchalantly
as if he had always known how. He
picked up hla umbrella from behind
the door and produced hi gloves air
ily. When he had gone Mrs. Docklty
sat dowa and breathed hard. She
could not understand it
That evening it was still worse.
Docklty dressed without once asking
where anything was. When his wife
said that she had come to put in the
shirt studs Docklty looked surprised
and said they were already in. He
even got out his silk hat and brushed
it whistling cheerily, while ' Mr.
Docklty stood around making futile
effort, to help -Mm.
She was pale and not herself all
evening and persisted in trumping ber
partner's ace. When they started
home not only , did her husband find
hi own wraps, but he got her and
helped her into them.
She did not speak all the way home?
When Docklty turned out the hall
lights Instead of waiting for her to
do It she fled upstairs to hide ber
emotion.
Just when Mrs. Docklty had reached
the point where she decided that the
queer feeling which possessed her
meant that she was going to die Dock
lty came with hesitating steps into
the roomt :':-:.s, n
"Dear," he murmured, "I can't find
the soap it isn't in the soap disb
and where are my bedroom Uppers?''
It was then that his wife cast her
self upon his bosom and dissolved in
a flood of tears, "It It's p-p-probably
sl-lipped down on the fl-fl-floor!" she
sobbed. "They-they're in your closet
be-behind your g-g-golf shoes! y Oh,
James, you haven't seemed natural till
this minute! I th-thought I'd lost
you! I don't Mike to have you Hook
after your-yourself ! It doesn't seem
natural!" 1
"Well," grinned the enlightened
Docklty, "I wouldn't worry! , I guess
I havent reformed enough In three
months so yon'd really notice It! Say,
I wish'd you'd help me I cant get
thi3bamed tie loose!" Chicago Dai
ly News. .
8eli-Evinent
"Why do yuu call that lien by such
t name as nr?.euuft?" - - .
"Because I want her to lay on."
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HANDY RULER FOR PAINTERS
Of Much Assistance In Keeping
Straight Lin Whit Working
on Edge of Wood.
One of the most difficult parts of
the bouse painter's work Is to paint
the edge of woodwork abutting wall
paper, wlndowpane or floor. Hereto
fore they have had to work carefully
Ruler for Painters.
along the edge and fill In later. A
New York man has Invented a device
which he calls the painter's time
saver, and which is in reality a ruler
to guide the brush and prevent the
smearing of anything over the line to
be followed. The device is a piece of
metal with a wide, straight edge and
legs at the other end. The elevation
affords room to bold it in the hand.
The ruling edge is held along the edge
of window sash or door jamb and the
workman can paint along It, rapidly
without fear of consequences. The
Implement must be pressed down
tight, so no paint works Its way be
neath. For people who like to do
their own painting one of these rulers
is almost indispensable.
USE WOODEN STEAM BOILERS
Assertion Seems Incredible, Yet They
Were Made and Used as Recent
as 1817 on Boat.
Steam boilers made of wood! It
sounds incredible, and yet such boil
ers-.were formerly made and used.
Even as recently as 1817, a steamboat
plying between Norwich and New
Wooden Steam Boiler.
London, Conn., was equipped with
wooden boilers, and the reason that
they burst under "extreme" pressure
was attributed principally to the fact
that they bad no "condensers, safety
valves, or balance wheels " From 1801
to 1804 there was a wooden boiler in
service at the Center Square water
works, Philadelphia. A partial view
of this boiler is shown herewith. The
ash pit, fire box and flues were made
of iron, but the inclosing box, in
which the water waa contained and
the steam generated, was of wood.
The steam pressure used was very
little above that of the atmosphere,
but the difficulty of pro-entlng leaks
even with this small pressure led to
the early abandonment of wood a
material for steam boilers.
. Ticket Printing Machine.
Railway ticket printing machines
are shortly to be installed at a Birm
ingham (Eng.) station. The booking
clerk, when requiring to issue a ticket
to any station, takes a blank card,
places it lo a slot la, the sliding car
riage, and moves it along until the
pointer is opposite the alphabetically
arranged name of the required station.
He then depresses a handle, and the
ticket drops out printed' with the
names of the issuing and destination
stations, price, date,, consecutive num
ber, class, etc., while n automatic re
gister of the operation 1 made at the
same time. .... , v-
Coating With Metal.,'
A new method of coating various
substances with metals, the Invention
of a Swiss engineer, consist in ' re
ducing molten tin, sine, copper, lead,
aluminum, or other metal or alloy to
a state of pulverization by pressure
of an inert gas nitrogen or hydrogen
and In that state driving ft against
the surface to be covered from a flex
ible tube with a Up like that of a
larg vaporizer for liquids.
. Paper Mttls rn India.
Paper mills in India have not been
very profitable, as the raw material
has to be brought from long distance'
and the cost of freights eat up the
profits. India'B import of paper and
pasteboard In 1910 fiscal year was of
the value of $3,284,900. Bamboo for
paper making there I suggested.
JUNE WEDDINGS
Bdamchjta
GREEN'S - JEl'JELY - STORE
Tripp led His
Income With
a Motorcycle
Esrm
A boy carrying; "special
delivery" letter had been
earning $36 a month in the
Chicago postoffice.
He bought a motorcycle
and his earnings jumped to
$65 a month.
In the third month he
earned $100.
If swift, safe and sure
transportation is needed in
your business the motorcy
cle will do for you what it
did for the Chicago boy.
Let us show you how and
why. Come in or write
for details.
We sell Indian and Reading-Standard.
Arey Hardware
. Company.
We make a specialty of artistic
Floral Designs.
Prompt service and lowest pri
ces. PHONE 381.
Meet Your Friends at The
Davis White
Sulphur Springs
0 miles North West from Char
lotte, on Southern R. R., two
daily mail trains except Sunday.
Electric Lights, Sewerage, etc
The best of Fare, Service and Water,
160 acres ofland, dotted with
Springs and shady walks. Cool
nights ; pleasant days. Just the
Slace to rest, recreate and enjoy
le summer days. ' 100 rooms.
Outdoor Sports, Mountains to
climb; finest of scenery.
Wkb Rat., $9 to $9. July m4
Aummt 49 to SIO. Special rat to
clabs mmd famihma.
Writ for Boahlmt to
. The Davis Springs
HIDDENITE, C.
. Opan May iStk to OctoW 15th '
Willard C. florlburp
ARCHITECT
Rooms: 712, 713, 714
. Warcboria Fank and Trust Building ;
- Winston-Salem, N. C.
Salisbury
Greenhouses.
See our line of Pack
ard China and Gor-
ham Silverware for
Wedding Gifts.
We give white coupons
MORTGAGE SALE
Of Spencer Steam Laundry Fla
and Equipment.
In compliance with authority
given in two chattel mortgages,
both executed by J. N. Barringer
to Hicks & Smith, one, mortgage
executed May 5th, 191lj to secure
a note to said Hicks & Smith of
same date, which said note and
mortgage were due sud payable
September 5th, 1911, and another
note and mortgage executed by
J. N. Barringer to Hicks & Smith
and being dated July 26th, 1911,
which said note and mortgage
were due and payable January
26th, 1912, both of said mort
gages describing the same proper
ty and containing a power of sale
in case of non-payment, and being,
registered in the Register's office
of Rowan county, one mortgage
recorded in Book of Chattel Mort
gages No. 30. page 624, and the
other in the same book, page 814,
default having been made in the
payment of both notes;
.Now, Theretore, by virtue
the power given in said mor?"-
gages, the undersigned will ex
pose to public auction on the
premises of the Spencer Steam
Laundry at its plant in Spencer,
N. C, on
Thursday, the 8th day of June,
1912, at 12 M.,
the following articles of personal
property, described in both of
said mortgages as follows, towit :
The entire plant of the Spencer
Steam Laundry, including all
machinery, engine, boiler, wash
ers, all apparatus and fixtures;
also all wagons and horses- be
longing to said J. N. Barringer.
Terms of Sale Cash.
Dated this 16th day of May,
1912.
HICKS & SMITH,
Trustees.
liy wacnovia Bank & Trust uo.,
(Spencer Branch), Assignee of
said trustees.
Clement & Clement, Attys.
NOTICE
North Carolina, Kowan County.
In Rowan County Court.
Claude Correll, Plaintiff, t4
vs. .
Q T? flnnV Tint an A ant-
Summons for Relief and Warrant
of Attachment. ,
The defendant S. E. Cook will
take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in
Rowan County Court against him
by Claude Correll for the recovery
of the sum of $427.50 due to plain,
I tiff by defendant on account of
contract, and that the summons in
said action is returnable before
j Rowan County Court at Court
House in Salisbury, at 10 o'clock,
a. m., on the 3rd day of June,
1912, when and where the defend
ant is required to be and appear
and answer or demur to the com-
; plaint in said action. The defend
ant , will further take notice 'that
if he fail to answer said complaint
at said time and place, the plain
tiff will demand judgment for the
relief prayed therein. The . de
fendant will further take notice
that a Warrant of Attachment has t
been issued against him in said ac-'
tinn, and that said Attachment is
returnable at the time and place
mentioned above.
Given under my hand this Mary..
; 4, 1912. M.
J. F. McCUBBINS,
Clerk Rowan County Court:
Edwin C. Gregory, Atty for Plain
ts.
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