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" THE ;POLK COUNTY NEWff - - - n V 'Y"T'' "T-"t v- r ' ' " m rtwi . r - " - - 1 - , ., .. . , - - - ..,..-. -.wvw..'twr -vf wmt ar"T H N' n,T AT: y-i-. ,.v. .... 0 I 111 THEROM WORDS .....::.......: .v.v.v.vm'ji JACK. Cr3 3 7 "'rr; Bv-JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. I p- OXCEKNING Mme: Marie i ff Curie and her discovery H 'of radium, her recent f . visit to the United States her by American women of a gram of radiuln in recognition of her serv ices to science and hu manity the reading pub lic is sufficiently . In formed. Everybody knows that she was made much. of by our dignitaries; 'Ant ten degrees were conferred upon her by our universities; that Presi dent Harding himself made the pres entation to her in the White House with appropriate words in the pres ence of a brilliant gathering of nota bles, and that a tired and happy wom an finally sailed away with her precious gram of radium stored in a mahogany case lined with steel and lead he said she was going to take a real rest ind-tEat she hoped in September to go back to her work in the Curie in stitute in Paris now that she again has radium to work with;" The insti tute divides its work along two main lines. One has to do with the study of radium and radioactive substances purely from the viewpoint of the phys--iclst; the other deals with their appli cation to the treatment of human ail ments. She will also carry on an ex tensive Investigation of mesathorium, another radioactive subsfcance--enough of this was presented to her to bring the value of the combined gift to $165,- But where this American radium came from and how It was produced is another story, which may profitably be told in this connection.- It Is espe cially interesting, inasmuch as tbe to tal world's supply of radium Is esti mated at only 140 grams (a gram Is one twenty-eighth of an -ounce). The Illustration by comparison shows how small is this amount. The - lower sec tion represents that made by -the. prin cipal American radium refinery, the dark section that made by. other Amer ican, refineriesr and the upper layer that produced abroad. So, " though radium was not produced in the Uni ted States till 1913, this country now has made about five times as much as the rest of the world. , While Mme. Curie, by fiisc6vering radium, introduced a new 'conception into tlw fundamental problems of ex istence, she actually produced very lit tle radinm, since she was denied the ores with which to wort. Moreover, she gave it all away to tthe medical profession of Europe. A very small Portion found its way to New York. In Ml the late Joseph Si. Flannery of Pittsburgh, who had made a success ith vanadium as an alloy for steel, devoted his attention to the produc tion of radium. The ares of other countries being out of the question, he turned to the camofite deposits f southwestern Colorado. ' Prior to he World war this carootite ore had. heen shipped to French :and German Procters of radium. The mining and handling of carno tite ore in southwestern Colorado is . attended with difflnilMp Tho riHrtn desolat'p nnrl nrnftffTlTr nnlnhiiK. . f - " - ---"--j " iten. Vntf r Is scarce. FfaDnery had Ms troubles. . He had to train new He finally established headquar- ers at the only spring of clear water J"thin -loo miles; here the Standard ffi m!'1 ooniPany maintains all the offices for jts mining WOrk, transporta lln and supplies Eighteen miles Jy-tle company built the largest Mnim concentration mill , in the rld, throngii. which has passed the re from which has been refined more w-n half the world's supply , of radl Burros carry the ores from the es to tfc. min, and water and sup to the miners. : t "..;. 0rl n'e Cllr5; worked on European of ich stained about one . gram radium to every ..five, or six. tons. "Colorado ores there Is about POISONOUS FLOWERS; ' ' ' ' w odor uPopr)y is a common flower, whose this evit Properties. . Doubtless which y t t0 the amount of .opium f inm n lossom contains,; . Numbers of hieh l8, esPecIally young ladles plaltj 1 y strung temperament, , com lex thl 8 drowsy sensaUon after walk- St KKh a fleld f. these .flowers, nor, wtneadaches follow. In Asia Ml- Watitt!!6 pWes-are prown In vat ue. tourists frequently :ttf?ln- Mil 5 1 u jW.V.V.V ' V.'AvXX' v one gram to every 500 tons. More over, the carnotite miner is a pocket hunter. Sometimes the ore appears on the surface and along rim rocks; then extraction is easy. More fre quently the ore is found under a heavy overload of other material; then reg ular mining tunnels are run and dyna mite Is used to break the rock for transportation to the surface. The pockets vary widely;, some, contain only a few pounds, while exceptional pockets have contained 1,800 tons.. First, of course, the pocket must be found. Prospecting is done by drill ing in likely , spots with jack hammers and with diamond drills. Where the overlay is not more than 25 feet deep the jack hammer, operated by portable gasoline compressors anoV compressed air, is the cheapest method of work ing. . TJnder other conditions the dia mond drill Is used. v , Hamilton- Foley writes for the Pan American Union an Interesting ac count of the. operations of the com pany and of the production of the radium presented to Mme. Curie ; the pictures used herewith are among the illustrations. He says In one place : "Ijet us follow the various opera tions from the extraction of the ore to the final recovery of the radium. At the concentration mill in the wilds of Colorado 500 tons of ore are re duced to about 125 tons. In a pow dered form this ijoantity Is shipped in 100-pound sacks, by wagon and, wliere possible, by motor trucks, tbe 63 miles to PlacervTlle Colo. Here narrow-guage rallToad, takes it to.tfe transcontinental "railroad at Sallda,. Colo. From SalMa it travels the 200 miles to Canonsbrrrg, Pa., Just outside oT Pittsburgh, Where the. compasry maintains Its concentration plant, No.i 2. "' ' - i "It should be noted that at the mHl! in Colorado, and In the operations j pertaining to It, some 300 men are necessary to carry through all the de-S tailed work. Also, that when the orea Is- 'taken up Ty the Colorado mTll, there -Is only 1 part radium for every 400,000,000 parts of the ore; but when the ore reaches the mill at Canoim l)urg the proportion Is 1 part of radi um to 100,000,000 parts of the we. "The task of tfihe Canonsburg men Is to reduce thte" mass of, ore to less than a quarter of a ton, and In sw a way that whatever radium may have been in the greater mass will be fouafl tn the small residue, This Is done with regularity and precision, notwithstand ing that In the elimination or tne iw, 000,000 parts of midesirable material the Canonsburg plant has to use 10,- noo tons of distilled water, 1,000 ton nf coal, and 500 tons of chemicals. It should be noted in this connection that whatever small quantity or va nadium and uranium there may be in this material is saved while this final reduction Is being jenade. "The actual recovery of whatever radlnm there may be ta the tons of ma terial handled at These, two great con centration plants is made, elsewhere. When the 125 tons of material that reached Canonsburg from the mill in the West have , been reduced to ; less than "a .quarter of a ton,; this residue is sent to the raaium reseumi yy fUAo--f the comDany in, me form of radium ; barium chloride. By suc- capacitated for ' many hours after' In specting a Itoppy plantation. Death, have been traced to this cause. Tne Satatj rSSwW -who;ldly- plucks . nieces the petals of a' flower must be- the Duroose. Ulles, begonlasv rt" dend?oS and peonies are like.y to set. up festers. -; ; ?" "' r 7 :,;, . ;,'r t.z'y "f 1 1 , " . "-".. ; Avoid Stateness. Vulcan avoid ftalenes if.yon will power enough vt-nw. Like the fabled nero w r cesslve fractional crystallizations of the radium chloride and, at a later stage, of the bromide, most of the radium is obtained "to a salt contain ing over 95 per cent of pure radium bromide. By still further chemical treatment the bromide Is converted into the sulphate or the chloride, and in the therapeutic use of radium these two salts find the largest use." j Mme. Curie, several years ago by general request, fixed an International radium standard. This is deposited in Paris and the leading cities of the world have renltcas of it. So now radium preparations are measured , by comparing , the electrical energy car ried by their gamma rays with that of the international standard.. While radium has still many mysteries, It may be said for the benefit of the general public that its energy appears to be given off in three rays, which are known as the Alpha, Beta and Gamma ' rays. It is stated that the Alpha and, Beta rays are electrical and that the Gamma ray is rather a vibration than a ray. The "Alpha ray is believed to comprise 85 per cent of radium's activity; It travels with about the speed - of light and has no penetrative power. The Beta ray Is about 10 per cent of the "activity, travels with about 1-15 the speed of light and can penetrate about an Inch and one-fifth of lead. The Gamma ray can penetrate more than . three inches of lead; when It strikes a hard substance It breaks up Into two rays corresponding to the Alpha and Beta rays. j It is the'Gacoma ray that is used In bloodless' surgery. The Alpha ray does not burn. The Beta ray Is kept f pom the pattemt by a screen that ab sorbs It. The Gamma ray seems to fiave the pecniliar. quality of picking ut useless or liarmf ul tissues, for Its first attack; It will harm-Useful tis sues only after harmful tissues have een burnt away or dissolved. Radi um Is handled In glass tribes Incased in lead containers. Those who handle it constantly nisually get pretty badly burned sooner or later. Flesh burned oy radium cannot be healed; It slmplj disappears aaad Is gone. One of Mme. Curie's hawSs has been affected and her general Ihealth has teen under mined by Intensive wartime work with radium. A eram rtt radium makes a small thimblefuL Kts current price Is $120. 000. A grant Is divided into a thous and parts, each of whick Is called 'a milligram and sells for $120. Physi clans who use It have from 50 to 250 mlligrams. The state of New York has recently purchased 2 grams .for use in the treatment of cancer. j With radium worth $120,000 a thim bleful, how is It that the dials of even cheap watches an'be made luminous by itsMise? It's this way : The lum inous material m the dial is a 1 com bination of a most. minute portion of real radium and a" special' zinc sul phide. These atoms are so small that it, woijld take nunareas or minions of them to cover an inch. As each atom explodes, a projectile too small to be seen under a microscope flies off and strikes a crystal of the zinc ox ide. The heat generated by the im pact makes a flash visible to the eye. As these explosions occurat the rate of about 200,000 a second on the watch dial,' their combined flashes make the dial lumlribus. ' ' .. who grew -stronger every - time an ad- tersaryi threw him ' to the - ground you can- "come back' if you go to ; mother earth.Get out: Into the open, Go to the 1 strearSs where . the fishes plajC Clim,b i the Ellis, where you will be com pelled, to pant good alr into thfe lower lungs.; Chase the wild things ' of the forest and then try to outdo, the thun ders with unrestrained halloes and see what nature , will dptor xotJ; Tbei's something : in the . careless" abanddh- of nature that put fitness into the whofe man.-TJrit (vrvv. , -'" umimi C MEONE has said that Charles E. , V. Hughethe "secretary o state, did VrTnoveis.yerse. while; he was at the university' and :that he'was so L absorbed l'scienV Jjis to mlssv aU the poetry and romance of college life. io disprove this statement the IP brarian of the rohn iBtavihrflrv at the recent '' POrnnVAnrTnpnf : nf 'Rrnwn university Showed in a' glass case very books that Sir! Hughes had ta the Hughes nad taken OUt. Thev incindpd the rfinilnr nnvAl. ists that everybody Fis 5 supposed to read, and such; poetg 'as .Tennyson and Longfellow. "' ' -Vr v ' Variety in reading is. just as neces sary as variety. In "foodv. Some good ...people did - not under stand this when they objected to nov els on principle as ' f rlvilous and a waste of time. - -' .. A celebrated man 7 of science of the latter part of . the Nineteenth century used to find himself losing interest in his work every now -and then. When this took place ,he would : shut himself up with a great supply- of dime novels and read nothing else for a week. Then he would go back to his laboratory as fresh as ever. r " V On the other, hand, a certain French novelist, whenever he found , himself in need of a mental -rest used to read the Criminal Code. Charles Darwin as he grew older lost all Interest In poetry, but found recreation in novels with good lively plots that, held his attention. One reason why detective stories are so popular with all .sorts of readers Is because they appeal to the love of mystery which Is almost universal. It has been sald of Poe that he would have made a good detective be cause of his gift for fitting together a criminal mystery. The idea was -that he would have been able to take criminal puzzles to pieces as well as UlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUIlIIlimilllll THE GIRL ON THE JOB E How to Succeed How to Get EE " AL..J TJT xa. TkT 1-a f..A S g By JESSIE ROBERTS sriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiR rlltllllllllllllillllll III! Illlll 111 lllllllllllltlll TRAINING SALESWOMEN IT WAS a thriving little store in a small village in' New England. I had some chintz to Vet, and she was" a real j help in-finding something, though the stock was necessarily limited. But she 1 had taste, and a sense of color, and she was interested. " - I found that she had graduated that year from high school, and gone Into the store to earn money during the summer, and that, she meant to go to the city and try for the position of saleswoman in one of the large depart ment stores. 'She asked me what I thought of her chances. I advised her to go to the highest class store of thekind she wished to work for, t " "Take a lot of pains with your appearance.-Remember that you are not only applying for the job that is now open to you, when you are ignorant and untrained, but for the job in the future when you have got your traln- 9 4 MOTHER'S by ? COOKBOOK 4 This Is a difficult world Indeed And people are hard to suit The man .that plays the violin Lb a bore to the man with a flute. FAVORITE DISHES. w HEN it comes to .cooking for the family, the housemother does indeed have a hard time to suit all members, if they are not normal in their appetites. . - Honey Mousse. r Heat one v cupful of ; wel-flavored honey. Beat four eggs slightly' and pour the hot honey over them. Cook until smooth and thick; when cooked add a pint of cream, whipped. Put the" mixture into a mold, pack in salt, and ice. and let stand three or four hours. Carrots a la Poulette, Wash and scrape eight medium-sized carrots. . Cut them into thin slices, cook in a small amount of salted boiling water . witH one ; thinly, sliced onion ; .season. vwith - pepper. ' When tender 'add . two tablespobnfuls of hut ter ' mixed " with flour, stirring constant ly, and just before serving stir In the well-beaten yolks of two eggs. Serve as soon as the eggs are cooked. , :'...' ,-. a. -; ." : ' . . ; - ". . '- - -: s ' - - . - , -Tomatoes With Ham. ', . ',-XHut medium-sized tomatoes in halves, dip in seasoned flour and fry brpwii ton both sidesv'Fry 'ln another frying; pariTas many, small, round slices of. ham as; there are" halves of . toma toes Broil the ham until -.crisp. Place a sllqe.of.ham'jon, the tomato and pour over jme)iani ,gravy.'f "t- Serve sprinkled with cntpped .parsley. . ns -'V I)tt them together; "One side of' his work kept him Interested in the other. When a boy Is at school or colleee his reading is divided into two sorts ''voluntary" and "Involuntary." He reads for pleasure and he reads for business, i J' As nobody's education is ever fin ished the same division should mark later life, v v r .vV',' Mrs. Asquith in her celebrated "Autobiography" tells how the be longed to a sort of society the mem bers of which agreed to do an hour's serious reading every day. Doctor Johnson said that if a man read any subject for an hour daily he could not help becoming "learned.'? His own great difficulty was that'he was unsystematic. - " By reading certain things for recre ation and at the same time following a course laid down In advance, a per son gets the additional benefit of dis cipline. " " In the " Eighteenth century they thought nothing of reading through Homer, Virgil and Shakespeare once a" year.' No wonder they were able to think in those days. (Copyright) SCHOOL lino, nwajwifea ing and when you know your possibili ties." ' ... I . There are splendid opportunities for saleswomen nowadays. It is one of the big professions now open to wom en. But it is a difficult one, with much competition and an almost end less amount of training. It requires hard work and natural aptitude. I think the girl I met that day Is going to succeed. She had the right idea and the love for it, "too. But don't hlnk, when you hear of .the big salaries and wonderful opportunities in that pro fession, that you can get these without deserving them. (Copyright) vctSSL Apple and Banana Salad. Scoop out apple balls, -cover with lemon Juice, and prepare banana balls, using a small French potato cutter. Heap on head lettuce, sprinkle with paprika and serve with a highly sea soned French dressing or a rich may onnaise. , 1 ' String Beans With Beurre Noir. : Prepare a quart of beans cut into inch pieces. Cook In boiling, salted water ; drain and place on a hot dish. Pour over the following sauce: Melt one-fourth of a cupful, of butter until a delicate brown, add four tablespoon fuls of vinegar; when hofe-pour over the beans and serve, at once. Salt pork cut. In small dice and fried until brown may be used in place of butter for this dish. Pour the fat, with the bits of browned pork over, the beans. , Delmonico Peach : Pudding. Turn a plnt .can of peaches into a pudding dish. Scald two cupfuls of milk In a double boiler, . -Mix two and one-half tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with three jtabJtespoonfuh v;pf sugar and one-half teaspoonful. of r saU. r Stir Into' the hot milk :; cook stirring . until the - mixture . thickens, then cover and cook';. for fifteen minutes. . , Beat, the yolks, of ,tw6 eggs add a. tablespoon ful. of sugar and stir into the , hot mixture. ' When the egg is set . pour over the. peaches. Beat the whites of the eggs .very ; light, add,, four table spoonfuls; of sugar, spread over ,' the pudding."' Dre'dge with a teaspoonful iftf surar and bake In a moderate, oven to cook the merihgue. Serve .hot or oid;;v . HBl lfflrvr8tr Kv-nrspaoer Umloa.).- iiTJtr iiiaunniiMssiwi iir isrvt'c . h ink a. i Am iHifBU ir.iriA irn iuii iff riifl. t ri i'ir ' r W HUiB ' this fname ' Is, of course, thk diminutive of, John-Or, rar;:&o:: Angiidsed t form of ; the', rench jacquei- It appears in English in a num-- v ber of ways .whfch apparently ': 4- ennnf nn with ? ; thft l V w 0 name. Anng these may be men- j tloned boot-jack, -iackTknif e, Ium-; 0 ber-jack, black-jack, Unlon-jacfc $ and Jack-tar. ' p " - r.-' ' ! . The-reason tor this usage Is j because the proper name, or g, nickname, "Jack," has for many J years, past been applied In Eng- $ ' land to servants or .laborers as. t 0 a class. Jack is a handy and ' ' easy name for a waiter or a ' ' ; 1 caddy, or a groom, much as many J Americans apply the name I t George to any negro porter. For this reason, many appliances J which are subject to rough usage . or which perform the tasks of J a laborer are v. known ;by the ' J '"prefix "jack," with a noun 4which $ designates the use to which they J; i are put. The expression " "Jack $ ' . 0 of all trades"- is another' ex- ' 1 emplification of the same usage, I while the ' substitution ; of the i name "Jack" for the "kmnwff In a pack of cards is. an indication of the hard usage which this gen- J ' tleman undergoes at the hands $ ' of the queen, king and ace. .; : i ; t i (Copyright) . ' . . DAYS Qopyright LYRICS OF LIFE By DOUGLAS MALLOCH THE EASY CURE. YOU had a little hurt today, ' - I know It by your face, A hurt you hoped to hide away, And yet It left a trace. You tried to wear the usual smile, Yet futllely.you tried That little" trouble all tho while -' Was hurting you Inside. . .. . : , My, my, I wish that money, too, ' N "Would earn the Interest That ordinary troubles do - We carry in our breast! Inside ourselves deposited k They grow and grow and grow, But not In gold a load of lead Is all we ever know. Now, I've a simple little plan I've used with .little ills, I'm glad to tell to any man Who's blue around the gills: Just ask yourself: "This little ache,' This trouble, anyhow, : Just how much difference will it make A year or so from now?" What was It that you used to wantT What was it mado you sore? Your woes a -year ago you can't " ' Remember any more ! The thought of troubles you forgot - Will cut the new in half; ' And then, I bet, as like as not , . , You will not smile but laugh I v (Copyright.) :.'-. , Q ' .;.-: ,. THE CHEERFUL OWJb 'o rnv.ry tKm 3 tje crueer," 1 Upon tkt funny etrtK t when Lccsidcr'hidK- . Keeled sKoea I jU5t' could ikr&k WitK Mi rfMrxK::..t--. mi- 1 1 x r t ! h s i. f. F! H ;! u I il-lf i H l4 H i ! i I
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