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MACHINE FOR FILLING CANS
Weight Attachment Measures Out Ac
curately Amount Desired Deposit
ed In Receptaclea.
Pictured In the accompanying illus
tration is a machine which is adapted
to fill cans or similar receptacles with
material Buch as ground or whole cot-
fee, breakfast cereals, and the like.
The machine Is provided with a
weighing attachment, which will
weigh accurately a predetermined
amount and 'deposit this in packages
with no waste of material, and with
out noise or dust, says Scientific
American. The machine comprises a
hopper A provided at Its lower ends
.with a circle of spouts B -which are
adapted to feed the material from the
hopper Into a set of pockets C. Be
low these pockets Is a shelf on which
a tray may be placed carrying the
receiving cans or receptacles D. The
lower end of each pocket is provided
with a door E, which is normally kept
in closed position by means of a
spring F. A. horizontal slide rod G
connects with each door E and it may
be operated whenever desired to open
th doors and permit the material in
tfte pockets to drop into the recep
tacles below. In order to prevent the
material from choking the spouts B,
an agitator is provided in the hopper
A. This consists of a plate F to the
lower side of which a series of curved
blades J are affixed. The plate H Is
secured to a vertical shaft K, which
by means of suitable gearing is driven
by a pulley L. A clutch is provided
by which the mechanism may be
coupled to the pulley L and this clutch
is operated by an arm M. The latter
may be connected with any suitable
weighing apparatus operated by the
shelf which supports the cans. The
Can-Filling Machine.
Tplate H is of smaller diameter than
the interior of the hopper, leaving an
annular space through which the ma-
. terial that is to be fed into the cans
may pass. As the agitator revolves,
the blades J will scrape the material
into the openings B. It will be ob
served from the upper sectional view
that the spouts B are arranged in a
circle, but thta their lower ends are
bent Inward so as to deliver the
material into the pockets C which
are arranged in parallel rows. From
time to time as the pockets become
filled with material the operator
throws the lever G, which permits
them to discharge into the recepta
cles p.
A New Root Parasite.
A new parasite which attacks the
vine at the root was discovered at the
Academie des Sciences by M. Guig-
nard. chief of the College tf Phar
macy. It is designated "clandestine,"
as it is quite invisible in general, so
that it is all the more dangerous, The
parasite is believed to be a fungus of
the phanerogam family. Experiments
upon it are being continued at the bi
ological laboratory of Nantes.
METHOD OF PULLING A CORK
If yon own a corkscrew of the kind
illustrated, you can easly remove the
tightest cork without fear of soiling
your clothes, says Scientific American.
After turning the screw well into the
1 Lccrcr ''J wnj$l
"T-cork, place the Up of the bottle under
'the edge of a table or shelf, then with
the upper surface on the table as a
Method of Pulling a Cork.
rest, life up on the handle of the lav
piemen t, and the cork will follow
smoothly. . -
EXTENSION LEG ON LADDER
How Painter or Other Mechanio Can
Arrange 8upport to Reach
Out-of-Way Places.
A painter or any other mechanic is
sometimes called upon to paint or re
pair work which is very unhandy to
reach. Perhaps a ladder is to be sup
ported in Borne manner upon a slant
Ing roof of a shed, or other building,
writes L O. Bayley in Scientific Amer
ican. Such a case happened very re
cently, when the following scheme was
.adopted by a mechanic with success:
A ladder, A, was supported from the
peak of the shed roof by means of a
plate, B, bent in the shape of a hook.
Two painter's hooks would do Just as
welL The plate, B. was about eight
Retting Ladder on Roof.
or ten inches wide and three feet six
Inches long before being bent The
grip on the roof peak should not be
less than six or eight inches. The
second or working ladder, C, was sup
ported on the first ladder, A, by an ex
tension leg, D, made of four by three
timber of tough Quality. The foot of
this leg, D, was shaped as shown in
detail to fit against the rounds of the
ladder on the roof. A plate. E. fur
nished with a number of holes for
couple of U bolts, F, was screwed
down on the leg, D. The holes were
staggered, and spaced 2tf Inches part
on each side, allowing adjustment of
lVi inch each way. to accommodate
different pitch of roofs. The distance
apart of each group of holes in the
plate,- E, should equal the distance
apart of rounds of the ladder, usually
one foot, so that the rounds of the
ladder will bear on the U bolts, which
should be drawn up tight when the
proper adjustment has been made.
If the. extension leg was made of
steel, of smaller dimension than the
timber one, furnished with a sharp
point, G, to stick in the shingles of
the roof, the ladder, A, and hook, B,
could be dispensed with.
Cost of Bulling In United States.
The total cost of the buildings erect
ed in the principal cities of the United
StateB in 1907 was 1661,076,286, a net
decrease of $17,634,683 from the fig
ures of 1906, out an increase over
those for any previous year. The
unit cost of building, however, in
creased in the past year, for there
were some 184,055 permits Issued in
1907, as against 181,174 in 1906. In
the cities showing a decrease in build
ing New i orK taxes me ieaa, with a
falling off of 141,591,982, or 26.84 per
cent
Plucking Chickens by Electricity.
One of the most unique tasks elec
tricity is to be compelled to accom
plish is the picking of chickens. An
electric fan for this purpose has been
devised for whosesale poultry dealera
The fan is placed in a receptacle
through which it drives a blast of air,
claimed to be sufficient to remove all l
the feathers and down from a fowl in
a lew seconds.
New High. Pressure Engine.
- A test was recently made in Eng
land of a steam engine designed to
work at pressures of as high as 1,000
pounds per square inch, says Scien
tific American. According to our con
temporary, Engineering, the tests
showed a steam economy of 13.5
pounds per brake horse-power per
hour. The engine is of the Inverted-V
type, with eight cylinders, the hieb
pressure two inches.low pressure five
inches in diameter, each pair being ar
ranged in tandem or two cranks. The
stroke is four inches; the speed, S00
revolutions per minute. Forced lubri
cation is used, the oil being pumped
into the steam on its way to the .cylin
ders. In the test the steam pressure
was 500 pounds, temperature 720 J
trees, the revolutions 700 per minute,
and the brake horse-power developed
82.65. '
.To Keep from Catching Cold.
The best means of preventing, a
"cold' ar: Never alt in a room that
is not . thoroughly ventilated, and
avoid especially any room occupied by
a person suffering front a "cold." .
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fifiRYViQ rfioi mcoAtt&rR-zatiC
If the troubles that beset Spain on
the Mediterranean coast of Morocco
were not of her own making, there
would be a feeling of considerable
sympathy with a country almost the
last of whose foreign possessions is
so seriously threatened. UnfortuvJ
nately, Spain has brought the trou
ble upon her own head, or, to be more
accurate, the Ultramontane cabinet
that misgoverns the country has in
flicted them upon her. Most people
outside the Spanish cabinet do not re
quire to be told that the RIfflans who
inhabit the Moroccan highlands over
looking the Mediterranean are a
fierce, intractable, unconquered peo
ple. Even Muza'a Arabs could not re
duce them to submission, and the
troops of Cardinal Clsneros were
equally unsuccessful. It may be said
that the writ of the sultan himself
does not run far into the Riff coun
try, where the people follow the life
that was theirs before civilization vis
lted western Europe, having their own
code of honor, their blood-feuds and
their internecine strife. Great pi
rates in times past, they have long
given up piracy as a profession, and
practice is now merely as a pastime.
But they have never ceased to exer
cise themselves In the profession of
arms, and for many years the little
wealth they have acquired by their
labors on the land and In the field,
and by the sale of the herds and
flocks they rear, has been devoted to
the purchase" of guns. .
Guns and guns, and still more guns,
some coming from England, France,
or Germany, many coming from Bel-
glum, large quantities from Spain, and
not a few from the sultan's own
troops; for it is no secret that when
a Moor is tired of serving In the army
in return for pay that is always in
arrears, he deserts, carrying his be
loved gun with him, and sells it to
the nearest tribe that does not ac
knowledge the sultan's authority.
Even on the coast beyond Tangier uid
rund Ceuta, Tetuan and Melllla, gun
running has been carried on openly,
more than once within view of the
writer. The guards on the beach have
been squared or tricked, and convoys
have been waiting within a mile of the
landing-place to carry tae precious
weapons into the mountains. So it
happens that the Rifflans are well
armed, and they are fighting because
their territory has been violated. In
deed, if they had white skins and a
code of western morality, they would
be in serious danger of being called
patriots instead of rebels.
The position in which Spain finds
herself is one of extreme difficulty.
Senor Maura, the premier, is an obsti
nate reactionary. The country is in
censed against the war party. Span'
ish finances are in their chronic state
of weakness. The cost of subduing
the Riffs in money alone, to say noth
ing of blood, will be enormous. If the
government does not fall, if eastern
Spain can be pacified, if 60,000 troops
can be sent to Melllla and the other
presidios of Spain in Morocco, if the
-Riffs can be driven off and their moun
tain strongholds can be destroyed, it
is hard too see what Spain can hope
to gain beyond a measure of glory and
a till, that bear the same relation to
one another as the bread to the sack
fn FalstafTs famous tavern account
There is not enough money In all the
country the Riffs to pay the bill
that Spain has incurred already, and
though some attempt may be made
to saddle the sultan with responsibil
ity, it is well known that Mulai el
Hafld is no better able than Gen.
Marina to control the tribesmen. Nor
Is the country of the Riffs -calculated
to tempt sane men to conquer-It It
wild, rugged, inhospitable, and can
scarcely yield a living even to those
who have been brought up in it It
could only be kept at the point of the
bayonet' for even if Spain had a sur
plus population, there would be no
temptation for emigrants to settle in
such a wild and unproductive land.
Spain has no colonists, she needs
more population. - and consequently
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CZffSfiAL tMINA INTERVIEWING
there is absolutely no room for an
imperial policy in Africa.
If Senor Maura were less obstinate
and the rulers of Spain less proud,
one and all would see the advisabil
ity of retiring at once from an unten
able position before the wounds in
flicted upon the nation by the Cuban
troubles and the American war broke
out afresh. Nobody doubts the bravery
of the Spanish troops; they have, and
deserve a splendid reputation. But
mere bravery will do very little in
a campaign carried on under condi
tions with which" the Spaniards are
wholly unfamiliar. The veterans of
the Cuban campaign, who have been
sent to Melllla because the govern
ment is desirous of keeping its most
effective forces at home to deal with
popular discontent, have not fought
against mountain tribes. The season,
(oo, is against them: the Riff country
is passing' thrbugtftne hottest time of
the year, and though the Spaniard Is
well inured to heat, he can hardly be
expected to carry on an active cam
paign under the Intolerable glare of
the African sun ln'August To make
matters worse there are rumors that
the equipment of the soldiers is not as
good as it should be, and that the
preparations for a foreign campaign
are Inadequate. The suspension of
constitutional guarantees throughout
the country and the suppression of
news from the-seat of war are clear
signs of Senor Maura's intention to
rely upon bayonets at home and
abroad. It is in vain that those who
wish him well remind him publicly
and privately that he is "jugando con
el fuego" (playing with fire). He is
playing a gambler's game. If the
Spanish forces succeed in Morocco he
will be able to crush the republican
and labor parties in such a fashion
that Jthey will not be able to lift their
heads while he remains in office. He
knows now, if he did not know before.
who and where are the most deter
mined enemies of jls-absolutism. If,
on the other hand, the Spanish arm
meet with further severe reverses and
there is an insurrection in Spain, lie
will have lost nothing by holding out
to the last The whole tragedy of the
business lies in the fact tLat the Rif
flans did not wish to fight and the
Spaniards did not want to fight; but
tne central government in Madrid has
ignored the wishes of everybody, and
narviunged the country into the' ad
venture that may. result in a disas
ter of the first magnitude.
A Real Chuckle Head.
The late Congressman Cushman,"
said a Tacoman, "was Justly called the
'Wit of the House.' He never lacked
an anecdote wherewlU to point and
season his remarks.
"Once, In a Tacoina speech, he told
us not to be chuckle-headed, shallow
people, doing the wrong thing, deceiv
ing none but ourselves.
'Don't, be cried, be like the beefy
EngllBh officer!'
-JiThen he explained-that this officer,
being seated next to an elderly strang
er at a dinner, leaned over and said:
" "Who's that fat old hippopotamus
of a woman "opposite T
- That's my wife was the reply. ,
" Thanks. said the officer hastily.
Thanks. That's all I ' wanted to
know.
"And he turned to his neighbor on
the other side and whispered with a
chuckle:
"Got devilish well out of that I
think, ehr
' - eit up.-
Much rot has recently been writ,
and wags have rent their brains asun
der, in trying to make food for wit
this dreadnaught lid the girls hide un
der. What need have men to knock It
so? They do not have to sweat be
neath it Is it because the fellows
know the landscape has been robbed
to wreathe it? We are no Judge of
ladles' lids, and care not what your
choice or vote Is; it's not what's on
but in giris' heads that makes us sit
up and take notice. Bard of Benzie.
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