Machine That Makes “Swiss Cheese”
r
Bridge company, absorbed by the
American Bridge company, receive
$1.867.80.
The Illinois Steel company distrib
uted $50,283.62 among five plants and
the general offices, while the Tennes-
- see Coal and Iron company had
$8,198.70 divided among 11 mines
quarries, furnaces and works besides
general offices and transportation de
partment.
Sixty-three units and the general of
fices of the H. C. Frick Coke company
received $75,164.49 while the Hostet
ter-Connellsville Coke company, a sub-
sidiary, divided $1,041.30 between two
units, and the United States Fuel com
pany of Illinois shared $1,432.75 with
three mines.
Killing of Sacred Pigeons in Bombay Causes Riot
HE WOULD NEVER PAY TWICE
Wash White Gave Hie Note In Pay.
ment for Mule—Thought That *
Was Sufficient.
Kansas City, Kan.—A United States
district attorney, who has rounded
up many of the country’s oil stock
swindles, said In a speech here the
s)
other day:
"It’s pitiful to see bow foolish a
great many people are when it comes
to a question of finance.
C HAAAUS $ EWTNG
“Old Wash White Is a good exam
ple of financial foolishness. When
Wash's boss got back to the delta
Swiss cheese, "made In America,” Is the latest. K. E. Parks, dairy engi from the North one day, he found the
neer of the dairy division. Department of Agriculture, la the inventor of the old man driving a fine young mule
cheese press shown In the picture. This hydraulic press squeezes the cheese hitched to a handsome wagon. Now
into a compact unit of 25 or 30 pounds, completing the operation within 24 Wash was a notoriously shiftless cus
hours. The method now in use necessitates all work by hand with a lever tomer, and so his boss said to him :
press and heavy weights.
“ ‘Where did you get that splendid
turnout, Washington?’
“'Ah done boughten it at Magnolia
sah,' said Wash.
“ 'How much did It cost you?
“ 'Ah done give ma note fo’ $200
for it, sah.’
“ ‘Good gracious,’ said the boss,’
‘where do you expect to get $200 to
meet your note when It fulls due?
“Wash looked astonished and of
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fended.
greatest beneficiary being the South
“ ‘Fo’ de Lawd's sake, boss man,’ he
Big Corporation’s Disbursements | works,
Worcester, Mass., with $27,- said, ‘you sho'ly don’t expeck me ter
360.16. The balance went to 30 other give mah note an’ pay, too?'”
in 1920 Make a New Fund
plants In Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Record, Says Report.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Illinois, and the general office and “FOOL TO GIVE WIFE ALL PAY”
sales department representatives.
Thirty-one plants of the American Judge Calls Generous Husband Brain
less and Reduces Amount of
Sheet and Tin Plate company partici
Alimony.
pated to the extent of $98,324.85
The
Greater Than Has Been Disbursed greatest amount of any one of these
Detroit, Mich.—“A man Is a fool who
Any Year Since the Establishment
was $9,887.51 to the Aetna Standard
of the Fund in 1911—Plants
works at Eridgeport, O.
Ten plants turns over all his earnings to hts wife.”
This statement was made from the
in Eight States.
of the National Tube company with the
general offices and sales department bench by Judge Harry D.ngeman, when
Pittsburgh, Pa.—An aggregate of received $87,270.98, the largest bene Joseph Lenkiewicz was pleading to be
$779,766.60 In pensions was paid to re ficiary being the National works at relieved of the payment of alimony.
“What did you do with all the money
tired employees of the United States Pittsburgh with $37,897.22.
you made when working?” Judge
Steel corporation and Its subsidiary
Plants In Eight States.
con “hanies in 1920, according to the
The American Bridge company’s 17 Dingeman asked.
“I always gave every cent to my
tenth annual report of the United plants and general offices received $59,-
States Steel and Carnegie pension 104.31, the Pencoyd plant at Philadel wife when I lived with her, and have
fund, made public here. This Is phia, the largest beneficiary of this nothing left," Joseph replied.
“I can’t protect a man who has no
$46,059.15 more than was disbursed company, receiving $21,393.33.
The
last year, and greater than bad been plants are located In Connecticut, New brains,” Judge Dingeman said, after
paid uny year since the establishment York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, which he reduced the payments from
of the fund In 1911.
Missouri, Minnesota and Michigan. $10 to $6 per week until Joseph gets a
There were 3,204 participants ; 2,940 Former employes of the old Keystone job.
wire on the list at the beginning of
1920 and 324 were added during the
year.
Two hundred and ninety-five
were discontinued because of death or
other causes, leaving 2,969 as active
participants.
The total amount disbursed since
the establishment of the fund is $5,880,-
581.00. Starting with $281,457.37 in
1911, It has Increased annually; the
quake occurs, we may predict
amounts are for 1912, $358,780.92; Newer
Geologic
Formations serious
that others are likely to follow It, but
1913, $422,815.14; 1914, $511,967.90;
that Information Is of little practical
Cause Tremors Reported
1915, $659,389.42; 1910, $711,130.33;
value since, we cannot tell how long
1917, $712,506.65 ; 1918, $709,059.82;
From Various Sections.
the epidemic will last, what the Inter
1919, $733,707.45; and 1920, $779,700.00.
val between the quakes will be or in
For ten years the average age of
what part of the earth they will occur.
the pensioners bus been 65.78 years,
East Not Often Visited.
the average service 30.41 years, and
“The eastern part of the Uniteti
the average payment $20.10 monthly.
States is not often visited with severe
The beneficiaries make no contribu
The only severe ones
tion to the fund. The money is derived The World Merely Suffering Another earthquakes.
felt hereabouts since New England
Periodic String of Convulsions, He
from a trust fund of $12,000,000, es
was settled were In 1638, In 1727 and
Saye—Scores of Shakes Every
tablished by Andrew Carnegie and the
In 1755, with a much lesser one In
United States Steel corporation.
Twenty-four Hours.
1872.
Carnegie Company Loads.
“The shock of 1727 was so vigorous
Because so many of the corpora
Cambridge, Mass.—The epidemic of
tion's activities are in the Pittsburgh earthquakes that shook the world in that sermons were preached on 'A
district, naturally a large proportion several widely separated sections In Holy Fear of God and His Judg.
of the funds Is distributed here. The recent weeks contains no cause for ments,' and a day of fasting and pray
Carnegie Steel company leads the sub general alarm ; they are only the grow er was observed. The shock in 1755
sidiary companies with $168,715.79, ing pains of the newer geological brought down 1,500 chimneys and the
more than $3,000 Increase over the formations and old Mother Earth her gable ends of brick houses In Boston.
preceding year. The Edgar Thomson self at heart Is still sound and solid. But the really large earthquakes are
works at Braddock, Pa., led all units This, In effect. Is the reassuring state In the portions of the earth such as
of this company, with $38,387.17 ment of Professor J. B. Woodworth, Japan, the East Indies, Alaska and the
awarded its retiring employees, while who is In charge of the Harvard seis Pacific ocean floor, where the moun
the Homestead plant was second with mographic station, as prepared for the tains are new geologically and where
the rocks are moving. Volcanic regions
$35,873.89. The old mills of the com correspondents of the press.
are often Identical with earthquake
pany, known as the City mills, received
Occur in Series.
regions, but great earthquakes show
$22,142.24, while $12.453.97 went to the
Earthquakes have a way of occur-
no immediate connection with volca
Youngstown (O.) plants.
ring in series, he said, and the world
The American Steel and Wire com has merely been suffering from an noes.
“About twenty earthquakes strong
pany was second with $152,561.60; the other of these periodic strings of con
enough to be felt or registered occur
vulsions tn the shocks reported front
every day In the year somewhere In
Albania, China and Peru. As a matter
♦
' » of fact, there are a score of earth the world, but only a small proportion
of these are serious. The Harvard
quakes strong enough to be felt or
Start Across U. S.
seismograph registers some eighty
registered somewhere In the world
earthquakes a year, chiefly distant
In Ox-Drawn House
every twenty-four hours, but only a
ones, from 2,000 to 6,000 miles away.”
small proportion of them are serious.
Greenwich, Conn.—With his
Some are so small that they would not
home and virtually all of his be
be realized but for the sensitiveness of MAY WASH OFF COMPLEXIONS
longings destroyed by fire, J. C.
Instruments. To indicate the fine per
Berrang, a farmer of Worcester,
ceptions of these Instruments, Profes Alabama Policewoman Says She Will
Conn., built a house on wheels
Attack Drug Store Variety
sor Woodworth said that In times of
and starter) for California, where
Wherever Found.
severe stonila at sea the crash of the
he has relatives. The novel wag
surf on the rock coast of Newfound
on Is drawn by a pair of oxen
Birmingham. Ala.— Birmingham girls
land Is registered at the seismographic
which Mr. Berrang raised.
with hectic complexions artificially
laboratory here.
it contains almost every con
“The quakes that shook China and produced are In for a face washing
venience to be found In a house,
South America last mouth were not whenever they appear on the streets
hai Ing drop beds, an oil range, a
the same; but separate shocks,” said In the future, according to Mrs. Hulda
refrigerator and cooking devices
Mrs. New.
Professor Woodworth. “Geologists all Newsome, policewoman.
Inside. A trailer In the rear,
know that earthquakes are likely thus some declared that whenever she sees
which carries supplies for the
to come In groups. I or example, tn a young girl with a “chalky white com
oxen. Is drawn by a third ox,
plexion, cheeks of brilliant red. ver
the year 1755 the city of Lisbon.
w hich is led by the farmer's wife.
Portugal, was destroyed by an earth millón pigment on her llpe and her
The couple average about ten
quake on November 1, while on the nose powdered to the nth degree.” she
miles a day, and expect to reach
18th of the same month Boston was feels like escorting her to the nearest
California In a year and a half.
severely shaken. The difficulty Is that : bathroom and administering to her
They are sixty years of age.
there la no way of telling exactly | face “a liberal dose of soap and wa
when or where they will occur. If one I ter—and I am going to do IL too."
$779,766 For
Steel Pensions
CARNEGIE COMPANY IN LEAD
EARTHQUAKES
GROWING PAINS
HARVARD EXPERT EXPLAINS
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The killing of two sacred pigeons In Bombay, India, by two European boys, started a not that caused consider
able excitement and the injuring of a number of persons.This unusual photograph shows a flock of the sucred pig
eons in the streets of Bombay.
a great medley of funnels and masts,
long gray warships, blunt, powerful
tramps from every corner of the world,
and the daintier lines of sailing ves
sels. Blue or vivid yellow fishing boats,
with bulging red sails, come in from
the sea with their catch ; their prows
are boldly curved back like those of
the Venetian gondolas, and they recall
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the graceful lines of the old-time cara
striking feature of the crowd is the vels which used to set out from Lisbon
bright animation which shows in the to conquer the world.
brown faces and the natural eloquence
of the gestures. All around are hordes REVEALS TUBERCULOSIS CURE
of noisy street urchins selling newspa
pers and national lottery tickets—mis Treatment Heals and Immunizes Pa-
chievous looking boys with black gimlet
tient, French Doctor Reports
eyes and merry and impudent laugh
to Academy.
ter.
Women With Fish and Fruit.
Paris.—Professor D’Arsonval, mem
Women come up from the harbor car- ber of the Institute of the Academy of
rying, balanced upon their funny little Medicine, has presented a report to
black hats—rather like battered “top the French Academy of Sciences on
pers”—large round baskets filled with the curative treatment of tuberculosis
fish or golden fruit ; oranges, pome
by a new method discovered by the
granates and mandarins. Their heads
Swiss bacteriologist, Henry Spahlin-
are bound In bright colored handker
ger.
chiefs, and as they push through the
The treatment takes the form of in
masculine crowd they look like flowers
jections of antitoxins and ferments,
bursting Into bloom in a mown field.
which are modified according to the
Lisbon has many other pictures to
condition of the patient. It alms first
offer. There are the old parts of the
at eradicating the acute symptoms,
city, which are reached by picturesque
then immunizing the patient, complet
flights of steps littered with brown
ing the cure and preventing a relapse.
faced children at play and baskets of
cakes and flowers tended by women
from distant lands. Here you will find
Secret of Prison Pigs’
narrow crowded streets not unlike cer
tain streets in Naples, lined with tall
Eternal Youth Found
houses strung with garlands of gayly
colored washing.
Boston.—Acceptance of the
And there are deserted squares
apothegm that pigs is pigs has
where, through the half open gateways
cost the city many pounds of
of the houses, you may catch glimpses
pork, and those in charge of the
of mysterious gardens that turn your
municipal piggery on Deer Island
thoughts to the Arabian Nights. Fur
have a new watchword, “Swine
ther still you come upon some old Por
herds, know thine pigs.”
,
tuguese palaces, with outlandish red
Penal Institutions Commission
fronts and big thickly barred windows,
er O’Brien announced the discov
which look as though they could tell
ery of a scheme by which young
many a strange story of love and
pigs were brought down the har
death
bor In boats, landed surrepti
On the very top of the hills lie Lis
tiously at Deer Island and substi
bon’s fine parks, Sao Pedro d’Alcan
tuted for full grown, meat car
tara and the Botanical Gardens, with
rying porkers, which were taken
their avenues of enormous palms and
away to market.
their woods where northern oaks and
The guards in counting the
huge tropical cactuses grow side by
noses of their porcine charges
side.
There are wonderfully bright
daily checked pigs as pigs with
emerald lawns and pink cascades of
out distinction. The number of
bougainvilea mirrored in motionless
noses tallied, but the poundage
pools of water, and high warm ter
of the porkers fell off tremen
races looking out over vast stretches
dously. Young pigs succeeded
of reddish roofs descending in tiers
old pigs, and officials thought
down to the sea.
the inmates of the piggery had
But the best part of all, perhaps. Is
found the secret of eternal youth
the port, one of the oldest in the
until the pig-running plan was
world. As your glance sweeps over
discovered and the substitutions
the innumerable docks and the miles
stopped.
of quays you receive the Impression of
Lisbon Worth
Tourist Visit
Picturesque Portuguese Capital
Contains Much of Interest
to Sightseer.
CITY OF QUEER CONTRASTS
Modern Town Is Crowded
mated Groups While Old
Quiet Retreat—Garden
rope Set Beside the
With Ani
City Is a
of Eu
Sea.
London.—If, some evening, writes a
correspondent of the Times from Lis
bon, you should leave Madrid—that
luxurious but melancholy city, perched
high above a wintry landscape of
which the hard, bleak outlines are
softened by a mist—and if you should
take the little short-winded train that
jolts cheerfully, if pantingly, all the
way to Lisbon three times a week,
you will wake up the next morning in
an enchanted land.
You will see a clear, pale blue sky
and a fresh, joyous morning light
touching forests of cork trees with sli
ver; flocks of red brown goats frisk
ing In and out among the bright red of
the stripped tree trunks; a torrent
gleaming among white rocks ; gaily
painted houses covered with flowering
rose briars and surrounded by clumps
of slended palms, and brilliant green
orange trees laden with silver gilt fruit
that twinkle like stars. Thus, with all
the peaceful splendor of a Virginia
landscape, there passes before your
eyes formosa Lusitania, “Jardin da
Europa a beira mar plantado,” as the
Portuguese poet Ribeiro called It—
garden of Europe set beside the sea.
At every little station, as you draw
near the capital, the first-class coaches
—there are no thirds—are invaded by
peasants wearing short jackets and
woolen caps that hang down onto
their shoulders, and women with ivory
faces framed In bright colored hand-
kerchiefs, all carrying baskets of fruit,
cheese or cackling fowls, and girt
round with strings of partridges or
woodcock. They swarm into the cor
ridors and onto the footboards with
a friendly lack of ceremony ; questions
are asked and jokes exchanged in the
soft, somewhat heavy Portuguese lan
guage, which has lost the rough quali
ties of Spanish, and loud, unrestrained
laughter fills the air. It is a pic
turesque, Intimate sort of scene, which
has the advantage of lasting too short
a time to pall.
Lisbon Worth Delay.
If you are on your way to the Portu
guese Riviera. Lisbon is well worth a
few days’ delay. Except that the beds
sre a trifle hard and that the heating,
owing to the coal shortage, leaves |
something to be desired—but this does |
not matter much, for the sun shines
nearly every day—there are some
quite good hotels. They are well run.
and even the visitor who Is merely
passing through Is treated ss a friend.
First, there Is the modern town,
which lies In the plain at the foot of
the seven hills. It begins on the edge
of the country with the superb Avenue
de la Llberdad, with Its eight rows of
plane trees and palms. This thorough-
fare extends majestically for half a
As
mile, between villas and One new
houses, right Into the heart of the city,
the Rocio, a wide square overlooked by
the hill upon which the rusty red cita
del stands.
A dense crowd, differing from north
ern crowds In that It Is composed al
most entirely of men. passes up and
down the footpaths and on the streets ;
there are few carriages or motorcars.
but plenty of tramcars, which are more
numerous and better run than in any
A railroad track scale testing car of the national bureau of standards.
other European capital.
Men form
Washington. The car Is fltted with weights of 10,000 pounds each, and is
groups in the streets and carry on live sent about the country to test railroad track scales. It also sets the stand
ly discussions— politics mainly.
A ard by which is calibrated the test cars of the railroad companies.
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