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LOME AND FAUM MAGAZINE SECTION 7 Late Inventions and Appliances citari)i::g paper fok money. IN constructing the new building for the United States Bureau of En graving and Printing In Washington, provision has been made for recrea tion space for the employes on the roof, where It is planned to provide comfortable Beats, luncheon tables, etc., as well as space for promenades and gomes. These provisions are necessitated because of the rule prohibiting em ployes from leaving the building or even entering the public parts of it between their arrival at work in the morning and their departure in the evening. This rule Is only one of the many precautions the Govern ment employs to prevent the theft or accidental loss, not only of paper money, which is manufactured at the bureau, bnt also of the special bank paper upon which money la printed. This paper is so valuable that the plain white Bheets are counted, re counted, checked, sealed and ac counted for Just as if they were money. Without a scratch or line upon its white surface, the very pos session of a single sheet of this paper renders one liable to a fine of $5000, or to imprisonment for five years, or to both fine and Imprisonment. Made in but one mill, at Dalton, Mass., by a secret process, and under the strict supervision of Government inspectors throughout the entire proc ess of manufacture, every precaution is adopted to prevent a single sheet from falling into the hands of unau thorized persons, who might use it illegally. Until impressed by the engravings that convert them into money, these sheets are simply high-grade bond paper. Nothing but pure linen rags Is used in its manufacture, and these rags are fresh, new and undyed. They are clippings from linen used In the manufacture of shirts, collars, lin gerie, and such articles. Being pure white, no bleaching Is necessary, and the fibers are spared the action of strong chemicals. The rags are washed in flowing warm water until every trace of starch, size and filler is removed. They are then placed In a steam cook er, or digester, where they are boiled for a long time, and then pounded or beaten uutil they are reduced to a pulp. This pulp is then stored in filters from which the water drains off. From this pile of long-fiber pulp a sufficient amount is taken for the day's work, put in grinding machines, whore, mixed with pure water, the pulp is reduced to a uniform consis about 90 per cent water to 10 per cent fiber. Thus far the manufacture of bank note paper follows the accepted methods for the manufacture of any high-grade bond paper. At this point, however, begin the secret manipula tions which increase its wearing qual ities and incorporate the silk fibers, red and blue, which are characteris tic of American paper money. The method by which these fibers are in corporated into the texture of the paper is one of the most carefully guarded secrets, known only to a very few trusted and bonded em ployes of the manufacturer and the Government officials in charge of the work. There are two stripes, or bands, of silk fiber, so placed in the pulp, at some stage of the process of manufacture, that all bank notes cut from the sheet will contain an approximately equal number of these distinctive markings, so disposed as to fall principally on the portions of the note not covered by engraving. In their finished condition, the sheets, which are 8 by 13 Inches in size, Just large enough for four bills to be printed npon one sheet, are counted by employes of the mill and then a check count Is taken by a force of counters of the Treasury De partment located at the mill. A thousand sheets are then counted, checked and placed in a package which Is sealed with the Government seal, which is not broken until the package is delivered to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, when the paper is again counted before any work Is done upon It. Clay Workers to Meet. A conference of brick, tile and other clay workers of Oregon will be held during O. A. C. Farmers' Week, February 1 to 7. Dean Parks, bead of the School of Mines, thinks that the importance of the clay products in construction, drainage and other lines Justifies a more rapid and eco nomical development of clay prod ucts Industries. EMERGENCY AUTO CONTROL. A DEVICE for stopping an auto mobile, which can be operated by a passenger in emergencies, such as the fainting or sudden disability of the chauffeur, ha's been patented by an English inventor. The invention permits the quick stoppage of the car, whether It is going forward or backward, without Jnterfering, how ever, with the ordinary management of the automobile under normal con ditions. Two friction wheels, which are normally held apart by a spring, may be shifted by a push button or by a lever so as to engage the rear wheel and drive a gearing, winding up a chain which pulls the brake. The mechanism is contained in a small case bolted to the frame of tha car. Substitute for Cement. The following is recommended as a substitute for cement: Make a mix ture of slaked lime, linseed oil and cotton fiber, kneading well together to a stiff dough. This should be al lowed to set before being exposed. SELECTING NURSERY STOCK. BY W. A. LUZADER. It ought to be the aim of every man with enough ground room to Justify it, to plant some useful kinds of fruit trees. 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