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fio tu the D a-iu irim eiii of tli« I n i w i o r
m> it nuiitsine o .u i ii v a lu a b le In f o r
m a tio n to ill« |>I m t i ii iiin i n i n i r ’ » n il
,ir o » |* c in i— a u n-l«l in » l . b ii C u rr y
« u tility 1» rie li:
Moat people are apt to think o f p lati
num a» preeminently adapted to netting*
for precious stones, but the metal is in
fact indispensable to many essential In-
P w st-W elL I'v e gut out I r a More of
to» poem already. M artha.
BIS W ife—And I'v e got out Sevan
Unse of my washing.—Bortoo Herald.
w ritin g , billing o r Statistical
a r e a c c o m p lis h e d fro m th e
r t g b t f ’ p a id
Mrs. Wltay.
" B e e n use I
know lb« JaBi
to t's d ls p o s t-
tten." answer- I
ad bar husband I
“ I f wo make i
b o a r d of th e lig h t ru n n in g ,
a d i o n M o d e l 1 0 ( V is ib le )
“You m e always complaining Shout
my singing, A rth u r, and elsim it makes
you nervous, while dear baby falls
asleep as soon as I begin • song.”
“Ob, baby is sm arter than you thin k.
He pretends to be asleep so th a t you
w ill atop singing."—Fliegende Blasttsr.
D r. U Manouvrlar, tbs most fam ow
anthropologist In Prance, having ob
served
and
studied
nnmistskable
marks on prehistoric skulls found la
the region of Parts, boldly declares
th a t the great twentieth century sur
geon Is merely treading la the wake
o f skilled praetltionere who. without
anaesthetics or intisepttes. with blades
o f flint Instead o f tem pered steel, par-
termed JA»O oi 1.003 years ago opera
tions requiring thorough knowledge
sad oonsum r.ate sLtllty.
“I t Is established beyond question.”
said Dr. Msnouvrier. “that trepanning,
•van to-day a delicate operation, was
not only known la prehistoric times
but was practiced far more sxler.alrely
than nowadays Before
trepanning
surgeons must have known of other
operations, the traces of which have
disappeared. Ilka the wooden tools and
arms which preceded stone. Amputa
tions and bona Betting required less
Im agination and certainly no more
skin than certain openings In skulls
whose perfection Is efmply amazing.
Men able to do such work could not be
disconcerted by email operations. Ar
tor dressing wounds, they must have
understood the a rt perfectly, for tre-
are abbolutoly needed in all chemical lab
oratories, and upon these laboratories all
great industries are dependent for guid
ance. Alloys have been devised fo r use
in the ignition systems of internal-com
bustion engines, but no substitue for
platinum has been found for certain
delicate parts o f these systems. Plati
num and allied rare metals are widely
a nployed in instruments of precision re
quired for making physical testa of ma
terials o f all kinds. Probably p u nure
is now moat valuable for its n t. in ti e
contact process o f making c^nert.
ud
sulphuric acid, which is esaential to a
great number o f industries th a t are vi
tally im portant nt all times, and partic
ularly in tim e o f w ar.
The United States alone annually uses
about 166,000 ounces o f fine platinum and
produces lees than 1,000 ounces of crude
platinum. Realising the urgent necessity
o f increasing the country’s production
o f the metals o f the platinum g loop, the
United States Geological Survey, lie
pertinent of the Interio r, has planned an
investigation in which L M Prindie and
J. I f H ill, geologists, wtU visit places
in this country where commercial depo3-
its o f these metals m a^be found.
N itlv s platinum, the metal, and sp v ry -
litle (platinum arsenide) have been tuund
n basic igneous recks at several places
i the world'Vut notineommercud quant?
ties. The search fo r platinum in rocks
is the: afore not likely to obtain an imme
diate supply of tbs mstol. Persons
searching for platinum ores should
remember, however, th a t the
as
say for platinum is difficult and appar
ently cannot bo successfully made by all
commercial asssyers. samples of sqp-
CSed platiuiferious ores should th e re
for« be sent only to the meet competent
asaayers. The United States Geological
Survey has received several reports o f
discoveries o f rich platinum ore in which,
as the reports state, “ the platinum coqid
not be detected by the ordinary methods
of assay.*', . Such Statem ents should ba
regarded w ith great caution, for any
platinum ore o f commercial grade w ill
by competent and reliable asssyers.
■■ The platinum supplies o f the w<
except • relatively small quantity, 1
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AVOID ALUM
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ran
DOCTORS
SI H l I SI Ml L s lO '
“I went over on one o f the Bed Star
une boat», and the flrat thing 1 did oo
binding a t Antw erp was to go to the
rnbu-office nnd send a n esesge to my
"
he^oU ^sni T h o ^ t ’ ^ ’ ^ o ri
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's S^amp-
, •“ J
Root, the greet Kidney remedy fulfills svsry about It until I got home, when among
wish in curing rheumatism, .taltt in the my m all I found a le tte r from the Ant-
tuck, kidneys, liver, t ladder and every part werp operator, addressed In care o f my
of the urinary passage. It sorrects Insbllltv mother, saying that through an error
to hold water and scalding pain In passing he had not charged me enough for my
it, or bad effects rollowlng use of liquor.
on each and such a
* * te' th* ’ be had been obliged to pay
da^snd t ^
up n J ? ttmm « - M ' ™ * * out o f hta own pocket
to think o f tasting i t
By the use o f so called cheap Baking
Powders you tak e this puckering, injurious Alum
right into your system— you injure digestion,
Ttoyai is made from pure, refined Grape Cream
than Alum but you have the profit o f quality, the
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pass It or pain la
the hock is also
esnvtaclng proof that the kidneys and Mad-
tararaeutof order.
There I . c o ™ in £
knowledge re
and look in the glass— you will see the effect—
Y o u can't help puckering— it make» you pucker
and
uahtaltky eondi- a young man svho recently returned
fro®’ • brtof European tour. “One am
pects to be held up for a ll sort» s f tips.
"klr hut when the beggar» follow yen horns
toe F o a c M ’th r ip f n d to g u r o r iw f fu d a a lw
frequent desire to I Uou for their Ingenuity.
irtar—Cost s more
Nothing h a t ever equalled i t
N o th in g c a n e v e r enrpase i t
New Discovery
r«O«giKa-^Y.
S W IF T &. C O . , ^ ' 1 * 2 »
•»p. g.S.r<t»stensa, Wssahglin, B.B
* » : . < the night. The mild and the antra- »«> »» «"• ~ 1* ry
small and
orumary effect of S w am p-R oot la soon he had a large fam ily and all that sort
rea'ized It stands the hlgbast (or Its woo- of thing ha felt sura I would reimburse
"The amount was a trifling one. and
I did send him a foreign money order.
I have since learned from experienced
travelers th a t 1 bad been made the
victim of a systematic form of robbery
and that scarcely a cablegram la sent
from the other side unless It to o f n
business nature that Is not followed
by some such plea from the Europe»»
operator.”
Oulaof lived through the meat sweat
ful periods o f modem France. H e wan
boro In 1787 amid the muttering» o f the
revolution. OniaoTs parents were m ar
ried by n proscribed Protestant pastor,
I and his birth was »ever legally regis
tered. His father, who was an advo
cate. used his talent for public speak
ing Io tbq. Interests of the persecuted
Protestants and became a marked man.
A fte r living for severe! weeks In Ban
ger o f hts life ha was at last arrested,
•m w llllngly enough, by a gendarme whe
knew and respected him.
:
“Shall I let you escaper said tta
In October. 1804, Allatoona pasa, a
defile In the mountains of Georgia, was
guarded by General Oorse. w ith 1,600
men. I t was a strong, strategic point,
sad. moreover. 1400,000 rations w a n
stored there
Freslch. the sontbern
general, w ith 6,000 men. attacked the
garrison and drove the defenderé Into
s small fort on the crest of the hllL
The battle was fierce. The northern
soldiers fell ta such number» th a t fu r
ther fighting seemed folly.
But one of Corse’s officers caught
sight e f a white signal flag fluttering
to the breexe on the top of the Kene
“Are you married 7" replied U . GuL saw mountain, acroaa the volley. U
miles aw ay. The signal was answered,
nut.
and theu came the tnap'ring meaaagt
“ Yea. I Im re tw o c h ild re n ." ^
from mountain to moon tain: “H eld
“ And so have I.” replied the prisoner,
the fort. I am coming.—W . T . 6 h e r
“but yon would have to pay for me.
Let ns go on."
Cheer a fte r cheer went up, and,
They went on, end M. Onleot died on
the scaffold a few days later. A t thw ¿bough bopcleealy reduced to nnmbern.
they did hold the fo rt for hours until
the advine» guard o f Bhevmau's arm y
was six and a h a lf years old and al came to their relief. Blx year» totes
P. P. Biles, the evangelist heard the
ways l i n i n i l the recollection o f ge-
story In all Its r ir id detall fres» a anb
tng ta see bto fath er to prison, or w k rt
was euphemistically called the bouse of I tiler friend and then wrote Hw wosde
I sad music o f'U e famous Uym»^- Pre
hyterton.
tim e savsr. and mas who are In tbs pub
lic aye to-day are noted ¡or ih - lr ability
to make each momcn' -ount when they
are nt work and even wnen key »re at
play. President Roosevelt Is said 10
slip into the pocket of his riding oost
paper and peneil. If during his ride ha
should frame a reply to some difllcult
question trough' to htsaUeolloa h t Jots
It down immediately sod does not trust
to hie memory Prceldtnl Lonbet. of
Prance, settles some of the momentous
question» of state at his breakfast tabla,
when he la practically alone and before
bla reasoning powers are distracted by
small and patty quss loua. Lord Roth
schild commences his day's work In bad.
He receives bis confldsaria) men not
only In bad. but while he is dressing and
breakfasting.
When he leaves his
eenntry bouse tor town he Is ready to
hear about other people's affairs, but be-
tore that thne hr has done what many
men wouio regard as a good day's work
for himself. Dr Ingram, bishop of Lon
don. I t obliged to travel a great deal,
and ho has a special kind of electric
reading lamp fitted Into th* Inside of
bis carriage, so that while be Is being
whirled through the streets o f Losdon
in the evening he can keep up his lite r
ary work.
REMARKABLELUNO CURE.
Y eu ng Clergym an Takaa to Outdoor
Now Yorkers who have been advised
by their physicians to seek out-door
work In the country, and who lack
cither means or opportunity te r mak
ing the llteg lvln g change need not
despair, says the Herald. Wonderful
out-door cures are being worked right
la the heart of tbs etty. A most ra-
markdbls ease is that of a young cler
gyman who for the last eight or nine
months has been lecturing on a sight
seeing coach. Last summer he want
o Oxford college, England, for a spa
tial courea of study, during which his
icalth gave way, a n d h s returned to
America with funds exhausted and the
verdict o f nervous prostration and tu-
bsremlosls hanging over his head. His
N t # York physician told him to sack
taWy from those of Russia, which h a w
produced shout 96 per cen t o f the world'»
output. The lergest part o f the crude
placer platinum now produced in the
United States is won by dredges work
ing it California a t the west base o f the
Starrs Nevada, in gravels derived from
worn-down lodes and concentrated by na
tural streams. The greeter production
from this region than from northwestern
California and southwestern Oregon and
other placee would appear to he due to
larger operations rather than to greater
or richer deposits.
All the know placer deposits th a t contain
platinum are near areas o f basic igneous
rocks, and i t would seem that the firs t
stop In any aearch for nsw flespoaits o f
platiniferious gravals is to look for out-
e r o ia 'o f p srid o tite, p y ro x en ite, d u n ito,
and serpentine. When areas o f these
reeks have been found the gravels o f the
streams th a t rise in them shout; be
washed to tee whether they contain ptot-
uium. Most o f the heavy coneentrstoa
found in gravels that carry platinum are
rich in chromite and olivine. The char
acter o f the rock o f which the gravels
were forme''; may give a d u e to their
source.
Crude platinum as it «*- ura in placer
concentrates is ordinarily a silvery-whita
metal, the freeh surface of which could
be eon fused only w ith that of sijver, or
possibly with that of Iron. I t can‘eerily
tp distinguished from these metals,how
ever, by simple testa, as they are solu
ble In dilute nitric acid, whereas crude
platinum can he dissolved only in con
centrated aqua regia, a m ixture o f 3
parts of l.ydrcrhterie G r o 'e t lr ) ecld
and 1 p a rt of id ttir nr 11. (t| srnrte pier
er depo'-ite the grift ha are eoatcii w ith
a dark film and some what pedcml if the
grains of the ds' k miner»;
ebnatito,
magnetite, o r ilmenite, from which,
-however, they fa n he separated by rare-
ful panning, as the platinum is heavier
than any o f those metals.
— Concluded on Inside page
Dean MastenbrooK
Jeweler
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nt n>asnnnl)le prices.
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