Aurora observer., December 30, 1920, Image 2

W ater Is Rival
of Electricity
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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.”
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“ 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.
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| THE GIRL ON THE JOB |
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By JESSIE ROBERTS
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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.
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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
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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.
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“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
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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 .
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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
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