LOME AND FAUM MAGAZINE SECTION
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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. In an astonishingly
short time they will begin to bear,
and If the selection is carefully
planned an abundance of wholesome,
nutritious fruit is almost always at
hand to supply the family table. At
least one-half of our diet should be
fruit, and the family that is deprived
of this luxury is to be pitied.
Young fruit trees are very much
like young live stock they need
care and attention; good husbandry,
as it were, and no husbandman can
expect a bountiful harvest if proper
attention is not put forth in caring
for the trees. The writer once heard
a gray-haired man, who years before
had carefully planted the luxurious
fruit trees about his premises, refer
to them as "his children" and it was
his delight to invHe a friend to par
take of the luscious fruits of his In
dustry of former years.
There should be at least a tree or
two of most of the standard varie
ties, the fruits of which mature in
succession as the season advances,
so that each meal may have its va
rieties of fruit In various forms.
Do not buy diseased trees, buy de
pendable stock from a dependable
nursery; one with a reputation, even
If the stock costs a little more than
they can be bought for elsewhere.
Pay the price for good stock; it will
pay big dividends in the end.
The writer not long ago had the
good pleasure of visiting a largo
nursery and carefully noted the care
exercised In the grading and select
ing of stock. Not a tree that was
not healthy and of good form was
allowed to pass the Inspectors. All
trees that did not come up to a high
standard of development were dis
carded and consigned to the brush
heap, as food for the flames. Every
person who intends to set out some
trees should know this nursery. It
Is the Oregon Nursery Company,
Orenco, Or.
The faults of your neighbors prob
ably look as great to you as yours
do to them.
Farmers Want Good Clothes
Farmers Want Good Shoes
Farmers Want Automobiles
(so do their wives.)
Farmers want the same necessaries an? the same luxuries that
doctors, lawyers, bankers and business men want,
(their families likewise.)
What's more, right now the farmers have got the real U. S. dollars
to satisfy every single want and then some.
If you mate or sell anything that 13 useful or ornamental-to
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