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W ater Is Rival of Electricity *-------------- Wave Power Transmission Hailed as Newly Come Conqueror on Industrial Horizon. IS INVENTION OF AN ITALIAN New Method Is Coming Into Practical Use— Piles Driven and Granite Drilled — Not Same as Hydraulic Power. New York.—Unheralded except among a narrow circle of engineers and technicians In England and Italy, a new method of harnessing water, in vented only a few years ago, is com ing into practical use. We make the waves of the air work for us in a thousand ways, and through ages have striven to chain the tides to machin ery, but wave power transmission is hailed^ as a newly come conqueror on the industrial horizon. It is, says Marian Storm in the New York Post, by no means the same as hydraulic transmission of power in the sense now popularly used, and it proposes, in certain fields, to rival electric trans mission. Capt. L. G. Culleton, R. E., who is at present in New York, and who is a friend of the Italian inventor of the system, George Constantinesco, talked with enthusiasm of the service which he believes wave power transmission is destined to render when the theory Is more commonly known, declaring it comprehensible to almost every one In days when little boys build their own airplanes and automobiles, although, of course, a description of the method cannot be given without some technical terminology. The Principle. “The transmission of power through a pipe full of water is the simplest thing Imaginable—if anything, simpler than the transmission of electric cur rent over a wire,” he said. “You won der why it has never been practically applied before, since theorists have dis cussed it so much. “The principle of the system differs fundamentally from the usual concep tion of the hydraulic transmission of power, where liquid Is made to flow through the system. For in wave pow er transmission the liquid does not flow, but power is handed on from particle to particle of the liquid, these vibrating about a mean position and transferring the impulse received from one to another, until a t last the power received at one end of the system has been delivered at the other end.” So far it seemed quite understand able. “These impulses in the form of waves,” he went on, “travel through water at the rate of about 4,707 feet a second. The machines are built to work at forty impulses or cycles a sec ond—2,400 per minute.” “ What are some of those machines —what can they do?” “ Well, wave power generators and transmission piping are on the mar ket now in England, and tools of a good many kinds are obtainable—rock drills, riveters, coal cutting drills, disc and chain type coal-cutting machines, impact screens, concentrating tables, even piledrivers.” ^ : “ Wave power transmission doesn’t seem so very different from alternat ing current electrical transmission,” some one reflected. Wave Transmission. “ There is A similarity, and it’s not coincidence,” Capt. Culleton answered. “Many of the laws that govern wave and electrical transmission are inter changeable. You’ll be interested to know that in wave transmission there are the equivalents of what we call in electrical practice volts, amperes, fre quency, angle of phase, induction, ca pacity, resistance, condensers, trans formers, single-phase and poly-phase systems—” He was interrupted by the question whether anybody could conscript his private pond for service by aid of wave power machines. “Oh,, naturally, world-wide patents cover the storage of energy in liquids. Experimental work has been carried on in England since 1914, and early in the war the British government took GOLD STAR MOTHER SCHOOL DAYS Last Night’s Dreams —W h at T h ey Mean DID YOU D R E A M ABOUT D R IN K ING? that booze has “gone glim N OW mering through the dream of i This beautiful statue, the Gold Stai Mother, now stands in front of th< building of the Chicago Historical so ciety. over the entire experimental plant and made all the patents secret,,but I un derstand that considerable use was made of the system in equipping allied battle planes. He explained how docile water musl needs become in the grasp of this in ventor : “As long as your pipe is strong enongh to do the work, the power imparted to the particles al one end of the pipe line by the gen erator can’t help being delivered ai the other end. “Do you think, then, that wave power will even chase electricity oul of the field?” ' “No, certainly—but it can be used in cases where it is not desirable tc use electric power, or in fields where electrically operated machines do nol give the best results, as in mines, oi in boiler shops and shipyards where direct vibratory machines are required. Compressed air at present has prac tically a monopoly in these fields.” f Crewless British Torpedo Boat Picked Up in Channel things that were” it is interesting to investigate the alcoholic conditions in Dreamland, “Where there ain’t no Ten Commandments and a man can raise a thirst” It is not too much to say that the situation there is positively shocking, and the drys ought to get busy at once in the realm of shadows. Old booze- fighters, now reduced to taking their tipple and consorting with their inebri ated associates in Dreamland only, may gather what solace they can from the fact that oracles and soothsayers regard as of generally favorably omen dreams in which the late John Barley corn conspicuously figures. And it may be laid down as a rule that if you ! take your “licker” in dreams alone it won’t hurt you. In fact, it will have just the contrary effect to taking it over a real bar. To go Into a Dream land barroom—the only one now open —and there, seeing old acquaintances, say “What’s your’s, boys?” indicates, if everything is pleasant and convivial, that you will soon embark in some new speculation or business which will be highly profitable. Should one of these dream-friends refuse to join you, de claring that he is on “ the water- wagon” you will soon meet an old friend and have a long and pleasant chat with him. To dream that you are drunk and have accumulated your jag from Dreamland booze indicates that riches and honors, now wholly unforeseen, are to come to you; probably through making the acquaintance of a man now unknown to you who will put you in the way of making your fortune. To the unmarried man it signifies that he Is beloved by a woman of whom he has, as yet, scarcely thought, and that she will make an excellent wife. But to dream that you have tasted no li quor and yet are drunk is accounted a bad sign. You will soon commit some foolish action. If you dream that you got drunk on water you are going to boast of your rich relations, and of wealth which i you do not possess. Also, to see an I other man drunk means that you will j do something foolish. It is but fair to the oracle and sooth sayers to state that these dream in terpretations were expounded years and years before the dry amendment to the Constitution was thought of. (Copyright.) ---------O--------- ¿¡miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiirg | THE GIRL ON THE JOB | 5 How to Succeed— How to Get E 5 Ahead— How to Make Good 5 By JESSIE ROBERTS me Jnqttisiiio . co/>rMCfrrCS TH E ROMANCE OF W ORDS "K ANG ARO O .” W e play at our house and have all sorts of fun, An’ there’s always a game when the supper is done. An’ at our house there’s marks on the wall an’ the stairs An’ ma says that our house is really a fright, But pa an’ I say that our house is all right. —Edgar Guest. Captain Cook’s expe W HEN dition anchored off the coast of Australia one of the first things the explorer did was to send some of his men ashore with Instructions to bring back specimens of the plants, flowers and animals which appeared to be distinctive of the country. Two of the sailors returned with a beast which had ex tremely ' long hind legs, short fore paws and an exceptionally well developed tail. Cook, who had never seen anything of the kind, desired to learn something more about the strange animal and sent the men back to dis cover by what name the natives called it. Upon their return they report ed that the nearest they could come to it was “Kan-ga-roo.” “At least,” as one of the men de clared, “that’s what all the na tives said when I pointed to the animal.” So, when Captain Cook returned home, he brought with him, the body of pn animal which was introduced to natural history under the name “kan garoo.” It was not until a number of years later that it was found that “kan-ga-roo” was the Aus tralian equivalent for “ I don’t know,” which was the reason that the natives said this when Cook's men asked them ,a ques tion they didn’t understand I GOOD T H IN G S FOR T H E TABLE. A nice spice cake which will keep moist a long time is the following: Spice Cake. Cream one-half a cupful of batter, add one and one-half cupfuls of brown sugar, two eggs without separating, one-half cupful of coffee and two cup- fuls of flour sifted with three teaspoon- fuls of baking powder and one tea- spoonful of cinnamon, one-half tea spoonful of mace and one-half tea- spoonful of clove. Add the coffee al ternately with the flour and bake in a loaf pan. Peanut Butter Fudge. Boil together two cupfuls of brown sugar and one-half cupful of milk; when a soft ball is formed by dropping a little in cold water, add one-half cupful of peanut butter, reheat until melted, pour into a buttered pan and mark in squares when partly cooled. | Cereal and Nutmeat Chops. Take three-fourths of a cupful of hot cooked cream of wheat, add'one-fourth TH E JOB A B O V E YOU of a cupful of soft bread crumbs, two cupfuls of fine crushed nutmeats, one T IS perfectly legitimate for you to teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth tea be keeping an eye with a view to spoon of pepper, one-half teaspoonful future possession on the job above of powdered thyme and one egg beaten you. Some of us have perhaps reached^ light. Mix all the ingredients together the pinnacle of our ambition, but that thoroughly and form into cutlet number is small. There is something shapes. Place in a buttered pan and ahead that is better and it is right to bake twenty minutes. Serve with ba try for it, to plan for it, to get it. But nanas cut In quarters, rolled in flour don’t make the mistake of slurring and fried In hot fat. your present job because you think you are fit for a better one. The best Chocolate Mocha Cake. way in the world to get that rise is Mix as usual the following ingredi to fill your present position asjvell as ents: One-half cupful each of butter, it can be filled. There is very little brown sugar, white sugar and molasses, really thorough work being done. The one ounce of melted chocolate, two egg girl who Is thorough in what she does, yolks beaten light, one-fourth of a cup The French trawler Wagram recently arrived at Plymouth, England, with the British torpedo boat 0-76 in tow. who can be definitely depended upon, of cream, one-fourth of a cup of milk, will attract notice. Doing your work one-half teaspoonful of soda, one- The Wagram had picked up the little war vessel while on her way to Boulogne. No trace could be found of the tor well is more important than many fourth teaspoonful of clove, one-half pedo boat’s crew. women think. teaspoonful each of cinnamon and One woman whom I know was sup mace, two cupfuls of flour and the lawbreakers and carried into their cab posed to make clippings for her em stiffly beaten whites of two eggs. Bake in. Ball, the leader of the gang, was ployer in regard to the business of In a sheet twenty-five minutes. in favor of killing the visitor to make the firm, clippings from a large num sure that there would be no evidence ber of papers, and to leave these on Mocha Frosting. against them. his desk. It occurred to her that he Take one cupful of butter, If salt, If Smith had not strongly objected lost a good deal of time in running wash it; add two and one-half cupfuls Ball would probably have killed the[ over these slips. She began arrang of sifted confectioner’s sugar, then two farmer, but Smith was determined j ing them according to topics, and she squares of melted chocolate; finally that the crime of murder should not fastened to each bunch of clippings a beat In one-fourth of a cupful of no fish Worth catching, the boy thought be his, and a compromise was ef-, of their contents carefully coffee a few drops at a time. Make Hidden a Century Ago by Coun this explanation somewhat remarkable. fected. The farmer was obliged to resumé made. It wasn’t much perhaps, but and freeze the orange ice as usual. To When he reached home he told of swear by the most binding oath that it looked good to that employer. He a pint of cream add a scant half cup terfeiters on Shore of Lake his adventure, and at first none could he would not reveal his discovery, and kept his eye on that young woman. ful of sugar, and such flavoring as de in Maine. account for the presence of strang was then permitted to go. She had aroused his interest. sired; beat until light but not firm or ers or for their actions until one of The farmer, after his return home,: Presently she suggested the feasi In the least dry. Fill the mold with the older residents of the town de hesitated between his fear of the coun bility of issuing a small pamphlet layers of the orange ice and the clared his belief that the two unknown terfeiters and his sense of duty for a made up of items from these clip whipped cream. Cover and pack to men were seeking the burled treasure day or two, and then told the town pings, a monthly record of what ap become firm. which has lain in secret for almost a authorities what had befallen him and peared in the public prints that was Gang Worked in Secret for Many century and has defied the efforts of what he had discovered. Deputy Sher- j most to the point. The idea was Spanish Sandwiches. Years, but Refrained From Pass treasure seekers for years. iff Downes started for the forest at adopted and worked well. Put into a small chopping bowl ing Any of Their Product in Long ago many men labored dili once, along the route described by-l A girl like that does not stay down. twelve anchovies wiped free from oil, the Neighborhood. She is now private secretary and ad two tablespoonfuls of capers and four gently along the shores of the lake, the farmer. but the search was abandoned, and Before reaching the cabin of the vertising manager to that employer, or five branches of parsley; chop fine, Bangor, Me.—The fact that a for until this week no one had been known counterfeiters the officer came upott at an excellent salary. And she will then pound with a pestle, adding mean tune lies buried in the dense forest to have hunted for the treasure for a Ball, who was doing sentry duty. %o farther. while half a teaspoonful of mustard, somewhere along the shores of Money quarter of a century. Deputy Downes, a courageous man, ! You don’t need to be a grind and a one tablespoonful each of oil and vine maker lake, between Robbinston and Moneymaker lake is surrounded by advanced upon Ball. The latter fired; trudge to do your work so well that gar and the hard cooked yolks of two Red Beach, well-nigh forgotten by the a heavy forest growth and is in a bringing down the officer at the first ,mu will be taking the job above you eggs. When all te mixed to a smooth few residents of that section who ever somewhat inaccessible place in north shot. Other , officers later captured is soon as it is vacant—or can be • paste spread upon buttered bread; knew it, has again been brought to ern Washington county. It derived its Ball, but Smith and Blaisdell escaped [ created. You do need to be interested sprinkle with the whites of eggs mind. name from a gang of counterfeiters and have never been heard from since. in what you are doing now, to be jphopped fine and press together sand A Robbinston farmer lad, having who, early in the nineteenth century, Ball was tried, convicted of murderl ready to develop its possibilities, to wich fashion. see the relationship between what strayed some distance from home in dwelt in a cabin on the shore of the and was executed. ^ search of trout brooks, which might lake and pursued their unlawful em Before his death by hanging the you are doing and the work of the or furnish better sport than those nearer ployment of making money, chiefly counterfeiter said that a large sum ganization as a whole. It is work the settlements, came upon two men imitations of silver coin. of money had been hidden by him done without interest and. hope that (©. 1920, Western Newspaper Union.) --------- o --------- digging under some giant spruce trees Later their names were known to at the foot of a tree near his cabin, Is hard. It leads nowhere, and it is The Kitchen Bolshevist. near the shores of Moneymaker lake. be Ball, Smith and Blaisdell. Here but he defied any one to find it, and boring. Keep alive in the job you are “Are you a parlor bolshevist?” The men did not observe him at they lived for many years in secrecy refused to tell its exact whereabouts. in. (Copyright.) “No. The humbler phases of life in first and he watched them while they until one day, almost a century ago, He said most of the money was in ---------- O-----Ì---- terest me. The lettuce sandwich and toiled in two or three spots. Later, a Robbinston farmer, looking for some genuine silver coin, the spurious mon-1 For Scorched Garments. the cup of tea are no inducements. I when he accosted them, they told hinj cattle which had strayed from his pas ey having been distributed elsewhere. ! Hold the stain left by too hot' an am directing my attention to the kitch they were digging'for worms for bait. ture, came upon their cabin unawares As soon as the story became known, As they had no fishing tackle with and discovered the nature of their em and for many years after, hundreds .iron under running water for a few en, where they really have something to eat.” them, and as Moneymaker lake has ployment. He was seized by the three tried vainly to find the hidden hoard.1 « i n n f a s o n d It w ill n n ic k lv d is s n n fia r . (niiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiS I Strangers Seek Buried Treasure OLD EPISODE IS RECALLED f W t (Copyright.) 4*-- -O - THE WOODS BY DOUGLAS MALLOCH T H E S K Y PILOT. Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodg. ing place o f wayfaring men.—Jeremiah 9:2. wall of the busy city, B Y In "THE the midst of the market place, Ye have lifted on high a temple, Ye have bullded. a house of grace. Amber and red the windows, Marble and tile the floor— But I weep for a thousand pilgrims far Who never have seen the door. Gorgeous the gilded altar, Pleasant the cushioned pew, Thrilling the chorused music Ringing the cloister through, v Wonderful thing the sermon, Grilling the creeds absurd— But I weep for a thousand woodsmen strong Who never have known the Word. Build me no mighty temple, Build me no jeweled shrine— Build me a house of worship Under the solemn pine. I’ll speak from a rough-hewn pulpit To men of a rough-hewn race; And, with God’s great help, I will bring them yet With the Master face to facel (Copyright.) --------- O--------- MILITANT-M ARY - Solomon was'young'ood goy, Di-bet'be u s e c M o 'S l G H T o '+ b m K 'o i't b a t ENGAGEMENT RING-HE ALWAYS‘ HAP TO BUY!