| Show I SAYS HE IU CAN I Me James H II Duffy DutTy a n civil war tar pensioner of oC this t town says that 1 Ir h o bus hils discovered the tho lost art of ot HO tiO tempering tem copper that It will take and keep un an edge edse equal to that of ot steel Air Mr Duffy lives lIes on a n small farm torm arm on the therond road rand from Cram Machine to Gardners lake Fifteen years ago alto he set up a homo hem mode n a blacksmith shop and has hils since spent most of at his time experimenting with cooper metal In various ways rays ms About the tho time ho set Het up his shop he noticed that there thero was n a great waste alto o of ot f the t he soldering o It eals copper c a used In solder soldering lug ing In the th sardine tins tins Ina Inathe In the tho factory nt at Macula He lie thought t that It if two 10 old coppers could be bo welded together Into one on good ono one it would be worth some mme something something thing but hilt to weld copper required heat heM heatIng heMIng Ing which spoiled 1 tho the copper for tor sol sal soldering dering purposes Ho Ue began experimenting ho says with the tho result that a n few Cow years ago a o he ho surprised tho the factory owners by taking a 1 load 1 of castoff coppers hack book to 10 them nicely welded together anti and proved that they were better than before because the tho copper rOpper did not wear away so fast He Ue did not cease in his experiments Tho The result rt Is he lie says lIa that ho he h has discovered the tho process which It If not n t the ono one by which tho the an dents tempered copper at nt least lea d 1 the tho same work He lie has mails made 11 ni n r v hero here a n copper hatchet wit wt lr II edge cdS apparently ns as keen and str n i al steel also a Q stone chisel and su broadswords ls The hn has i sent rent to tho the Inn II a anti he ho Is making n a collection f r 11 n plea pIes to send end to the spine same place He Re JI s aunts that hi his discovery is very r MU u sad nud that every copper cOPler and brass brasil n L treads trends upon It dally dal y but hut falls to it It t Ho lie thinks that what ho has u r Is hIlt hat the beginning of ot a n t e II rb of les which must follow ti It Now t York ra Sun |
