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Show IU1LY VTA 11 STATE J0P1SXAL, NEW AND PltAdTICAL .so serve a ... fri, ,, tho (.olitilu, i oils a i it it the SOot which has le:i ium.-kmto receive T. The aii.ii:;-- a:v ,.und i a a r.iel and at each ,)f tlu. K.VtP new stamp U dUiomaiioally . SOME OF t.-.- i g Letter Sealing chine Benefit of Sunshine. Quick-Workin- jC23S Ma- Electric Harvesting Saw. With the advent of the electric current on the farm to run the mowers, reapers, threshing and grinding machines, churn the butter and do all the other farm work usually accomplished by hand or animal power. It has become necessary to design an electrical Implement which would take the place of the sickle and knife, which have for so long served to cut the stalks of corn, sugar cane and similar heavy The Implement Is already growths. at hand, and all that Is necessary is to connect it with the power conducting wire, turn on the current and set It to work. In our picture we show one of these new stalk cutters at work, this being the Invention of a man In far away Australia, who has, however, already taken the precaution to have It patented In the United States. As the work done by this saw is comparatively light, and the lost momentum can be quickly recovered, it Is only necessary to supply a very small motor to drive the cutter, and this Is located directly on the shaft on which the saw revolves. In this case the Held magnets are stationary and secured to the handle directly beneath the saw, while the armatures are clamped to the saw, and In their revolution under the action of the the ctm.-rJames N. Si.uthe Inventor. o h l'urtland. Ore., is Purifying Water by Czone. Slendid rcsim have recently been atttalned at Wiesbaden and Paderborn in tbe purification of water by ozonized air. au-of an inferior quality la turned into very good drinking water. The plant at Welsbaden s t ozonizers of the Siemens type, forming duplicate groups of twenty-fou- r each. Each set of eight ozonizers receives a current of S,000 volts from a transformer. One pole of the apparatus consists of the cooling water of the glass tube, and Is earthed, while the other pole, connected to the transformers, is placed in an Inaccessible position, and. therefore, causes no danger to the attendant The ozonizing tubes are inclosed In a cast Iron case consisting of three parts: A completely closed central portion, Into which are firmly screwed the eight ozone tubes; an upper part, acting as a reservoir and distributor of the air, and a lower part, forming the ozone collecting chamber In the upper chamber, removed from all possible touch of the attendant, are fixed the terminals from the transformers. On the floor of the lower compartment are placed the high potential cylinders with their Insulating glass rods, and in addition an automatic device to prevent a short circuit through any leakage of the cooling water. This consists pimply of a strip of filter paper stretched across a metal spring. If the filter paper get moist It tears, tbe spring opens out and automatically places the particular ozonlzer off 2223 0222 aagyfln r con-taln- . 7, 8, 9 and ' implement. . New Iron Hardening Process. Phosphorus, as is well known, has the property of Imparting a certain degree of surface hardening to Iron, but not without producing brittleness. The iron la made to assume a coarse structure, In which the crystals are comparatively loosely bound together. This effect of phosphorus of loosening the coherence of the molecules of the Iron greatly facilitates the absorption of carbon by the Iron. The carbon rapidly penetrate the Iron to a considerable depth, imparting great toughness to the core and nullifying the comparatively slight defect constituted by the Inconsiderable brittleness of the surface. Two Prussian Inventors Apply this principle In their process for hardening Iron by heating the same In a tempering powder consisting of organic nitrogenous substances containing a high percentage of fusible ash and employing phosphorus as the medium for the Introduction of carbon An Oklahoma Woman's Idea. into the iron. Without prejudicially affecting the welding properties of the clothes with the aid of the usual Iron, It Imparts such a degree of hard- amount of soap and elbow grease. Maria Holman of Waukomls, Oklaness thereto that It can neither be cut nor chipped by the best steel used. homa, Is the Inventor. Letter-8ealin- g Machines. It would surprise the majority of people to know the amount of mail which some of the large firms of this country send out every business day of the year, many of them outranking a large number of the minor postoffices In their purchase of stamps and paying at least one clerk to do nothing but look after the mall. To enlighten the labors of this clerk and possibly enable him to devote a portion of his time to the other Interests of the firm he Is working for, a western inventor has devised the and stamping machine shown in the drawing- Sealing and stamping a dozen or ao letters Is a small task but when this quantity Is multiplied until it reaches hundreds or thousands the utility of this apparatus can be better appreletter-sealin- g ciated. The machine comprises a flat moistened pad, partially covered with a shield to protect the flap of the envelope as the edge Is depressed on the Pad to dampen it for sealing, together with a smaller pad In such suspended a position that It will fall on the face Letters Automatically 8tamped. Learned by Scientists. We should think of shooting stars as solid shot about the size of a cherry, or cherry stone, each of them flying with 100 times the speed of a bullet as far as the orbit of Uranus and returning to the earths distance from the sun three times In a century, unless It strikes our atmosphere and burned up in a flash. Two students of Cornell university have discovered that by using higher temperature and electrical currents In the refining of copper the cost, which now 5 a ton, can he reduced by half. About f SO, 000, 000 worth of copper Is refined In this country annually and $12,000,000 worth of silver and $4,000,000 worth of gold Is recovered therefrom. There have been unearthed in by Flinders Petrie, ten successive temples ranging In age .from 500 to 5.000 years, which show the whole history of Egypt A globular vase of green glaze with Menes names inlaid in purple shows that polychrome glazing Is 1,000 years older than has been Delicate carvings In surmised. which rival In excelfound are ivory lence the finest Greek or Italian productions. More than 300 meteorites from outer space are seen In the National museum at Washington, their range In weight being from a few ounces to 6.000 pounds. The monster one is roughened from Its surface being melted by friction with the earths atmosphere. One weighing 1,400 pounds Is almost pure Iron. Precious metals ire not found In these aerial excursionists, but microscopic diamonds are sometimes formed by combustion with the earths atmosphere. They are made up from Iron, nickel, sulphur, carbon, phosphorus, oxygen, aluminum, and silicon, magnesium, of the envelope to moisten It for the Ump when the flap Is being moist-weAs soon as the first operation completed the flap la folded and the envelope la laid face upward on the shelf above the pads, where the depression of the lever seals the flap and calcium. d. Aby-do- a, 800 10 Wire TAPESTRY BRUSSELS GRANITES, COTTONS Amber, Smiths, Beattie, Stinson, 2 and 3 Ply Wilton WOOLS VELVETS and Other Kinds if You Cannot Be Acco and Lowell Suited With This BODY BRUSSELS Assortment Prices That Require No Comparison Patterns io Suit AIIoSee Our Window Display 6 gnaa emmissssm aEgsKssnasm fmsmsaig The Journal's Vatly Short Story j duty. Cuts 8ugar Cane and Stalks. current In the magnets they carry the saw around its central axis at a high rate of speed. The laborer has tyen but to connect the Implement with the switches provided at Intervals along the sides of the field, Btart the motor running and present the saw to the stalks, using little force to sever even the heaviest growths of cane or corn. Stephen J. Hylton Bravo of Hawthorn, Victoria, Is the Inventor of this UJtotA AXMINSTERS forty-eigh- New Washing Machine. There are several kinds of washing machines, but the best of all. If the woman who Invented It could he heard on the subject. Is the one which we show In the picture. It is easy to operate, dont get out of order, dont tear the clothes, etc., etc. Well, we wont argue the matter, but take her word for It, and tell how the mechanism Is operated. You simply put the clothes and hot water In the machine and turn the lever attached to the driving wheel. This wheel has a chain partially rirrounding It, the ends of which are connected with the top and bottom of a vertical plunger. It Is easy to understand how the movement of the lever will cause the plunger to rise and fall In its cylinder, and it la this movement which Is utilized to keep the water agitated and force It In small Jets In and out among the garments Immersed in the machine. The rapid movement of tbe water Is supposed to rlnBe the dirt out of the :GI32533D es3X222&DCC Moquettc, Saxony, Hartford, Middlesex, Savonerrie, Bigelow - Washing Machine an Oklahoma Woman's Idea Electric Harvesting 3w XOYEMHEK -- cI RECENT INVENTIONS PROVED MERIT. WKDNKMiAY, MY ROOMMATE was traveling one summer on business and had collected about $500 from a man who insisted on paying In gold. I stopped overnight nt a hotel so crowded that I was obliged to take a room with another man. He was in bed when I went to the room, and I did not see him, for while I was undressing he had a sheet drawn up over his face and was apparently Round asleep. I placed my money In my inside vest Iocket and, rolling up the vest, placed it under iny pillow. This being done, I locked the door, which was near my bed, lay down and went to sleep. I was awakened in the night by the sound of some metallic substance dropping on wood and by a light shining in the court saw the dim figure of a man near the window placing something in a drawer of the bureau. Then I heard him shut the drawer very cautiously so as to make the least possible sound. Instinctively I felt under my pillow for my vest It was gone! Surely I had been robbed, and It was evident that my gold had been deposited In the bureau drawer. But why had the robber not kept it on his person? And why had he not taken it away? He had only to unlock the door and pass out But he would have to pass very near to my bed. Indeed the lock was within a- few feet of my head, and I remembered that the bolt went Into the socket with some difficulty and noisily. Doubtless the man feared to awaken me? He would await his opportunity. Meanwhile it was not necessary that he should run the risk of being caught with the money on his per1 son. I lay awake a long while deliberating what to do. I had no arms with me; besides, I am not disposed to risk my life with one of those desperate fellows.- - One doesn't know when they may consider it to their Interest to kill. I must use artifice. Should I wait till I could hear the man drawing the heavy breath of a sleeper, then crawl to the bureau, open the drawer, take the money, crawl back to the door, open it and boll? I dismissed the plan at once. The man probably would not go to slep, and if he did the opening of the drawer might awaken him. No; the plan was not to be thought of. The next plan I considered was to get up and touch the electric button. But this would not work, for I did not know .where the button was located. Besides, the robber might finish me before I could accomplish the purpose. While I was ruminating I heard the man turning in bed. He was evidently not asleep. Then he got up. I heard him feeling about for something. The next sound was thot of his getting into his clothes. He was going to get up and deliberately wulk away with my money. A plan came to me. on which I acted at once. I groaned. The man stood still in a dark corner. Evidenly he had not calculated on my being awake. I . PfOVC It, Ladies! Some tiny just go shopping nrouinl town. Look at the S Best $3.50 Shoes for Women In a few moments the gas was lit and a tnnn in his nightshirt stood near the foot of my bed. What should be my next move? If I asked him to rouse the house he might expect to lose his plunder and Mould probably take It with him. Can't you go down stairs,'' I said, to the bar and bring nie up a stiff glass of brandy and Jamaica gin- you can find. Fit thorn on and sou how the fool. Thou oomo horo and lot us lit on a pair of ' ger'" He hextitnted, upNirenlly not certain of the best course for him to pursue. I began to groan ugnln, this time fairly shrieking with pain, at the same time sitting up in bed and staring straight at him. I did this that he might not take the contents of the drawer unless he did it before tny eyes. Stop your yelling, he salda 'Til get what you want. He put on some of his clothes and went out I listened till I could heur his footsteps no longer, then got up, went to the bureau and found my vest A coin had fallen from the pocket, and it was this that had awakened me. I put the gold in my trousers pocket and the vest back in the drawer. Should I get away or await his return? I had made up my mind tu hustle on my clothes and go and was 3 partly dressed when I heard the man returning. I tumbled Into bed and recommenced my groans. Tbe bar's closed, he said. it Is that so? I asked despairingly. Then I must get up and go out t; n drug store or die. He did not offer to go for me, and, getting out of bed, I put on my clothes, writhing all the while. When I needed my vest I looked aimlessly about for It, then put on my coat and In another moment was in the hall, skimming along for life and my money. Going below, I reported the circumstance. The police were telephoned for, the room was entered, but the bird hsd flown. Doubtless he had discovered that the money was missing and that I had outwitted him. WILLIS BRISTOL GREENE. Our 3.50 Shoes If our $.() Shoo isnt a hottor Shoo than any youve soon for four dollars or even four fifty if it isnt hottor fitting than any youvo soon at any price if it isnt the easiest Shoo you over triod on if it hasn't hottor stock in it and isnt more stylish and All Around the Best Shoe then well give up the Shoo business ami pay you for the time spoilt in looking. All sizes and widths. Dee-Stanfo- Shoe Co. rd Item. REDUCTION SALE STILL ON I 20 Per Cent Off on All Fancy Ware Do You Know Fourteen Different Patterns in DINNER SETS From which you can buy one piece or one hundred, all at the same rate, ami pay less than others ask? Even some' of our prices are lower this week. Our Special Offer This Week: A Cottage Set of 47 Pieces, enough for six people; pretty flowered design, with gold fracings; worth. $8.00; this week, $6.45 Asbestos Sad Irons Asbestos cannot be destroyed by fire. The handle on this groaned again, this time as though In is particular excruciating agony. Still the man stood lined with Asbestos. motionless and silent I say, I cried, you In the other Get the iron once hot and the bed! Call for help! I'm dying! Asbestos lining will retain lTm oh! What is it! In the tone the heat. of one' suddenly awakened. The result is you do half an ironing I want a doctor." with one heating. What's the matter with you? Wont it pay you to own them? At this point I was taken with such severe paroxysms that I could't anFor heaven's sake, swer at once. strike a light! I said as soon as I JOHN A. BOYLE, Mgr. could speak. Sad Iron Boyle Hardware Co. Richardson The Crockery People Grant 2419 Washington Ave. "J .AJSTDEiRSOlSr 22 Twenty-fift- 1 LfiC Til Tailor h Street ! |