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Some Pyrotechnic Products Must
Ory In the Open Air.
TRYING FOR NEW DESIGNS.
Staff of Artists Continually Devising
Color Schemei to Be Worked Out In
Fire The Conetruction of the Set
Piecee Work of the Chemists.
DRUG DREAMS.
The first step In manufacturing fire
works is the making of the cases, or
shells, as the cylinders or other recep
tacles in which the explosives and the
chemicals are placed are called. Prac
tically all of these are made of innu
merable sheets of tissue paper pasted
and rolled together until the thickness
required Is attained. Most of these
cases are made by machinery and are
delivered as wanted to the places
where they are to be filled or charged
with the materials that have been pre
pared. All the charging is done by
machinery except in the big shells that
throw forth Bets of stars of varying
colors. In these each "star" has to be
placed in a certain position so as to
explode in Just the right way at the
proper instant.
Out of doors in pleasant weather the
long lines of fuse "quick match" they
are called are made. These are wound
on reels six or seven feet across. Their
basis is loose cotton cord covered with
various highly lutiammable chemicals.
"Quick match," roman candles and a
number of other pyrotechnic products
cannot be dried by artificial heat. They
must He in the open air until the mois
ture used lis mixing the chemicals
evaporates.
All the year around the artists on
the staff of the pyrotechnic manufac
turers are taxing their brains design
ing color schemes to be worked out in
fire. Outside of the big set pieces,
which are much in vogue, a great deal
of attention is given to rockets,
bombs and rocket bombs, of which
there are innumerable kinds. When
the artist has evolved some striking
color effect he turns over his painting
to the chemists, whose task it is to
combine various combustible ingredi
ents so as to reproduce what the
painter has put on his canvas. The
race between the art department and
the staff chemists is unending. It is
the boast of the chemists that they
can duplicate in their burning colors
any combination of paints that can be
presented to them.
These colors are imparted by the
heated vapors of certafn metals. So
dium, for instance, gives a yellow
light, calcium red. strontium crimson
and hiirlum ereen. The number of
chemicals, common and rare, employed
In the manufacture of fireworks is
prodigious. Take blue stars, for in
stance. These are commonly produced
by a combination of chlorate of potash,
calomel, sulphuret of copper, oxychlo
rlde of copper, dextrin, stearin, black
oxide of copper, copper filings and sal
ammoniac.
Every fireworks manufacturer bas
his carefully guarded trade secrets.
Pyrotechnics in its various branches
and as a whole Is taught in no uni
versity, and there Is little printed lit
erature on the subject.
The construction of the set pieces,
especially If they are large. Is a huge
task. First the artist draws the pic
ture. It is complete in every detail
of outline and shade of color. This is
marked off into equal squares, each of
which represents a square foot In the
actual reproduction in tire. Sections
of light boards, say. 20 by 25 feet are
built and laid flat on the ground, and
rectangles a foot square are marked
thereon. On the section is outlined
the picture that the artist has made,
with the different colors indicated in
their proper groupings. Loose over
this is built a checkerboard frame
work of light lathe. Then come men
with strips of rattan. They tack these
to the framework, following exactly
every line that has been' indicated on
the boards below, leaving practically a
huge line drawing In rattan.
Then come men with thousands of
big pins ordinary pins, but about an
inch long. These are set in the rattan
an inch apart. These are followed by
other men. who cut the heads off the
pins. After this comes a gang of men
with bundles of little fireworks, two
inches loug by oue-quarter to three
quarter Inches lu diameter, In varying
colors or combinations of color to cor
respond with the original drawing.
These are called "gerbes." When ig
nited they emit sheaves of fire. These
are stuck on the pins and glued, each
shade of color lu Its proper place along
the framework.
After this has been done another
gang comes with hundreds of feet of
"quick match" and connects all these
thousands of "gerbes" together. Loose
ends are left here and there for firing
when the piece is in place ready to be
set off. Then these sections are hoist
ed into their proper positions, and aft
er infinite labor everything is ready
for ttie wonderful delight to the eye.
which may last between one and four
minutes. So swiftly does the fire run
from "gerbe" to "gerbe" through this
-quick match" that the biggest "pic
ture" that is usually shown will be
aflame in every part In three seconds.
There is said to be little or no dan
ger about firing these set pieces or
even in setting off the bombs that ex
plode with such fearsome noise. The
ends of the "quick match." where the
"port fire" Is applied by the men who
do the igniting, are carefully timed so
that they have plenty of chance to get
out of the way.-New York Press.
Queer Vision Conjured Up In the)
Brain of Oaring Experimenter.
An experimenter with the Mexican
drug mescal Is rewarded by many
and varied visions Before him flit
myriads of dainty butterfly forms, glis
tening, iridescent, tlbrous wings of
Insects, revolving vessels on whose
highly polished concave surface of
inotbcr-of-pearl many strange and vivid
hues play. There are elaborate sweet
meats In endless and appetizing va
riety and living arabesques of gorgeous
hues and superhuman design.
He may take up a pen for the pur
pose of making notes, but will find
himself unable to use It A pencil.
however, proves easy of manipulation.
As he writes his paper is covered
with a soft golden light, and his bands,
seen Indirectly, appear bronzed, scaled,
fantastically pigmented and flushed
with red.
Tiring of the visions, be may light
the gas, which immediately fills the
room with a glorious radiance, while
wonderfully colored shadows of red.
green and violet flit here and there.
Generally, it is said, no feeling of de
pression or physical discomfort fol
lows the dream.
A medical experimenter In Kentucky
soon after taking a large dose of hash
eesh began to feel very excited; a feel
ing of inner Joyousness possessed him;
all fatigue seemed banished forever,
and his mind ran riot, one bizarre idea
after another rapidly passing through
bis mind. Later his brain appeared
to split In two parts, one of which
urged him to the performance of comic
gestures, while the other as insistent
ly hinted at impending death and sug
gested restraint and Instant medical
advice.
While waiting for a doctor he experi
enced alternate spells of lucidity and
periods when all connections between
himself and the outside world seemed
to be severed, when a chaos of disjoint
ed ideas and wild reveries obsessed
him. The duration of these latter
periods was never longer than two
minutes, but each seemed an eternity.
It appeared a hopeless task to follow
the minute band of his watch during
Its infinite round; long before the sixty
seconds bad elapsed he gave up the
stupendous task In deep despair. The
departure of the doctor synchronized
with the return of the feeling of im
pending death, now most horribly In
tense. He imagined himself surrounded by
grotesque, menacing, cruel Vlsaged
monsters. He felt himself expanding,
dilating, dissolving Into space, as he
ascended steep precipices, covered
with Brobdlgnaglan creatures some
what like lizards, overhanging enor
mous abysses, the while he was over
whelmed by a horrible, rending, un
utterable despair Detroit News-Tribune.
Pastime Parlors
On the Heights
Fine Line Cigars and
Confectionery, Soft
Drinks, Stationery &
Notions.
L. B. STEVENS & CO.
BARGAINS
IN LAND
$200 casli
Forty acres at $40 per acre,
balance $10 per month.
Ten Ki'res. three acres just set to trees,
all under ditch ; $10 per acre, $I!00
down, $1B per month.
Twenty-four acres; 130 apples 4 to 6
years old. 300 two years old, all newly
fenced, 2 acies in strawberries, build
ings on plate, inches of water from
spring. Price, $5,000 ; $1000 down and
$800 ner annum until paid.
11 Hcres, 10 In young trees, $250 an acre
$500 carr anil $oOtt a year on oaiance.
J. ADRIAN EPPING
PHONE 1492-K.
Open River Trans
portation Co.
Service between Portland, Hood River
and The Dalles. Steamer J.N. TEAL.
OWNED BY THE PEOPLE
m,.,iH 1 Biinuorted bv the People
We give spectal attention to fruit
shipments Spacious accommodations
for handling live stock ami wagons.
solicit your patronage.
E. M. Miller, A at. Dorsey B Smith Mr
Hood River Portland
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MAKING GOLD LEAF.
by
CHAPMAN & CARNES
Successor to Chapman & Co.
Dealers in
Staple & Fancy Groceries.
Feed and HARDWARE
Flour,
We solicit a portion t' your patronage.
Hood River Heights Free Delivery Phone TS-K
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j. k. McGregor
For Good Fruit Land
At $30 per acre. Identical in soil with and close
to Hood River.
MOSIER, OREGON $
Stoves, Heaters and Ranges
All kinds, New andSecona-hand.
liig Stock of New and Second-hand
Furniture, Carpets. Art Squares Rugs
Chairs, Rockers, ifitc.
Agent For CHARTER OAK Stoves and Ranges
O. P. DABNEY & CO.
P. M. MORSE
Davidson Building
CITY ENGINEER SURVEYOR
BLUE PRINTING
Manager Hood River office For NEWELL, GOSSETT & WALSH
CIVIL ENGINEERS and SURVEYORS, Portland
GOULD & SNYDER
PLUMBING
Steam and Hot Water Heating
All jobbing promptly attended to.
TRANSFER & LIVERY CO.
AGENTS FOR THE REGULATOR LINE OF STEAMERS.
Hauling, Draying, Eaggage Transferred, First
Class Livery Turnouts Always Ready.
Real Estate
LOANS, RENTINOI& COLLECTING
A Specialty of City Property, Residence
i-ots, and Hmall Tracts Clone In. For
Hargalim call on or address JeMH
T. D. TWEEDY
Hood Klver
Home Phone H7.L
HOOD RIVER APPLE VINEGAR CO.
Manufacturers
Pure Apple Cider & Apple Vinegar
We receive Canning and Cider Apple from one season to
another, paying market price for the same. In ship
ping over Mt. Hood R. R. or from iM osier there will be
no transfer charge from freight house to factory.
Patronize your home Industry and let us have your apples.
The Metal Is Beaten For Hour
Men, Than Finilhad by Qirla.
in one of the downtown business
streets may be seen sticking from one
of the upper windows a massive arm
and band, tbe band grasping a buge
hammer and the whole sign gilded. It
Is tbe sign of tbe gold beaters' estab
lishment, where thousands of tbe gold
sheets are turned out after having
been packed by girls.
(iold leaf Is packed more by the aid
of the breath than by the hands. The
operation of transferring a sheet of
almost transparent gold leaf from one
place to another Is so delicate that It
Is possible to do It only by a light
puff of the breath. It takes most girls
six weeks to acquire this knack, and
some girls are never able to acquire It.
The gold reaches the beaters first
In wide bars or nuggets and has to be
weighed, melted and made Into Inch
wide ribbons before anything else Is
done. The ribbon Is then cut Into Inch
squares and beaten with a hammer
wielded by a man. When each leaf
has been beaten thin It la transferred
to a mold, where It Is beaten four
hours more. The beating Is done wltu
a wooden hammer weighing from
seveu to eighteen pounds, on a sheep
skin cushion, which rests on a granite
block. The gold used for beating la
m-ually 12 or 23 carats fine. A little
alloy of copper or silver Is added to
make It spread. It would be Impos
sible, the beaters aay, to handle per
fectly pure gold.
After the gold has been beaten It
Is handed over to the girls, who lift
tbe unshaped leaf from the mold with
a pair of wooden pinchers, flatten It out
on a sheepskin cushion by gently blow
ing on It. cut It to a perfect square.
replace It between the leaves of the
book and flatten It out with the breath.
There are twenty-nve leaves In a
book, and a skilled girl can pack sev
enty books In a day, for which she
gets from 2 to 3 centa book. New
York Times.
ARNOLD & RUPP
DENTISTS
WORK GUARANTEED.
Logical Result.
On the notice board of a church
near Manchester tbe other day the fol
lowing announcements appeared to
gether: A potato pie supper will bo
held on Saturday evening. Subject
for Sunday evening, "A Night of Ag
ony." Manchester Guardian.
Crown and Bridge .Work
a Specialty.
BROSIUS BUILDING.
HuntPaint& Wall Paper Co.
Complete line of PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES and BRUSHES
HEATH & MILL1GAN MIXED PAINTS.
Our Stock of Paper Include! latest designs In Blanks, Oil tl and High Grades, from
10c up. A full stock of Room Molding, Picture Kail, riate nan arm a smai
line of novelties in Framed Pictures. CALCIMO, the latest thing In
Room Tintine. mixed to order. Painting, Paper Hanging. Sign Work
Horn Phone 116 First and Oak Streets
HocKcnbcrry & Bartlett
ARCHITECTS
Blue Prints Done to Order.
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Davidson Building Phone 61
VctcrinarySurgcon
J. SANDERS
Office at Fleming & Taft's Feed Store
Night calls at F. A. Fleming's house
Rhone 232- M
In Later Year.
"We." remarked the young married
woman, "try to see how few quarrels
we can have lu a year."
'We." said the old married woman,
"try to see bow few cooks." Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Without a frleuil the world la a wil
derness tatfl&JBBSES!:
Cholera Infantum Cored.
"Something like two years ago my
baby, which was then about a year old,
was taken seriously ill with cholera in
fantum, vomiting and purging profusely,
write J. F. Pempsey ot Denipsey, Ala.
"I did what I could to relieve her but
did her no good, and being verv much
alarmed about her went for a physician
but failed to rind one. so came back to
Elder Bros. A Carter's store, and Mr.
Elder recommended Chamberlain's Col
li, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy. I
procured a bottle of it, went home as
quickly as pOSfibje and gave tbe halijr a
dose of the remedy. It relic ! her in
fifteen minutes and soon cured her en
tirely." For sale by all dealers.
She Dot.
Suffragette We believe that a wo
man should get a man's wages. Mar
ried Man-Well, Judging from my own
experience, she does. Boston Trail
acrioL Washington's Plague Spots
lie in the low, marsliv bottom- of the
Potomac, the breeding ground of m
laria germs. 1 bese germs cause chills,
fever and ague, biliousness, jaundice,
lassitude, weakness and general debility
and bring suffering or death to thous-
ands yearly But Electric Bitters never
fail to destroy them and cure malaria
troubles. "They are the beet all round
tonic and cure for malaria I ever used,"
writes K. M. James, of lyiuellen, 8. (J
They cure Stomacli, Liver, Kidney and
Hood Troubles and will prevent typhoid.
Try them, 50c. Guaranteed by I 1 1 as .
Clarke.
Underwood
and
Little White
Salmon
PAGHION STABLE
..Livery, Feed and Draying..
STRANAHANS & RATHBUN
JHoocL River, Ore.
Horses bought, sold or exchanged.
Pleasure parties can secure first-class rigs.
Special attention given to moving furniture an
pianos.
We do everything horses can do.
Choice Fruit
Lands
Improved and Unim
proved Land at Reason
able Prices. -
Small Tracts a Specialty
WRITE OR CALL ON
F.W.DeHart
Underwood, Wn.
ADVISE. YOUR FRIENDS
"The Best Way"
To See Hood River Canyon and Valley is
via
Mt. Wood Railroad
A RIDE ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM DUST
Train leaves Hood River 8 A. M. every day
and returns 6:10 P. M. Spend your Sunday
in the mountains.
A. WILSON, Agent
J. H. GILL
DKAI.KIi IN
Staple & Fancy
GROCERIES AND
HARDWARE
SOLK AGENTS FOR
Majestic & Mesaba Ranges
and Stiletto Cutlery
Hood River Heights
Oregon
Phones
Wharf ilont No. 14-F. Office 5
R. E. Harbison
A. L. Newton
BOXES
Crates and Fruit Packages of All Kinds. Band
Sawing and Other Wood Work Given Special
Attention. Saw Filing and Mill Saw Repairing
Hood River Box Co.
Hood River, Ore. Home Phone 175
Harness & Saddlery
Harness Made to Order
and Repaired
Lap Robes, Horae Blanket Tenta,
Wagon Covers, Water Bags, Etc.
Davenport Harness Co.
Tents and Wagon Covers
Carriage Trimming
Summer Lap Robes, Gloves, Etc.
Harness Made to Order
GEORGE IRVINE, Hood River, Or.
HOOD RIVER ABSTRACT CO.
J, M. BCHMKLTZKK, BKCRKTABY
ABSTRACTS, INSURANCE, CONVEYANCING and
SURETY BONDS.
We have the only Complete Bet of abstract books in Hood River County
and are in a position to execute all work with promptness and accuracy.
We repreeeDt some of the best old line lire insurance companies doing
business in Oregon and can give tbe best Kire Insurance obtainable for
the money. -:- Our reputation as conveyancers is known to all. All
of our work it guaranteed. -:- Come to us when you want Surety Bonds
of any description.
Office in DAVIDSON HI IK.. N. E. corner Cascade Aveand Third St.
Home Phone HOOD RIVER, ORE.
CENTRAL MEAT MARKET
Ph. C. YOUNG, Prop.
Fresh and Cured Meats
Lard, Poultry and Fish
HOOD RIVER, ORE.
Phone Main 6 FreelDelivery
Don't Overlook this August
CLEARANCE SALE
OF
Broken Buses of Ladies' Beautiful White Lawn Waists
Also
Ladies' Summer Underwear at the lowest price
Fine line of Ladies' black and tan Oxfords, price
$1.75 $2.00 $2.25
Also Men's Oxfords in black and tan from $3.50? to 4.50
Do Not Miss the Bargains at
CARMICHAEL'S