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— ",’ASNET MARVELS Tillamook Headlight, January 18 1912. MAKING GOLD PENS. Th« Metals That Ar« Usad and th« Precess of Manufacture. Tbe tiny tip of white metal seen on tbe under side of tbe point of a gold peu may be of platinum, but it 1» more likely to be iridium, iridium is a very bard metal, and it is expensive. It costs about four times as mueb as gold. Tbe purpose of tbe iridium tip is. of course, to give tbe pen a more durable point Tbe gold pen maker buys bis gold at the assay office in bars of pure 24 carat gold, which be melts and alloys with silver and copper to the degree of fine ness required. Gold of 14 carats is used in the manufacture of tbe best American gold pens, that being tbe de gree of fineness deemed most suitable for pen use. but good pens made tn this eountry for sale In France are made of 18 carats, the French govern ment requiring that all articles exposed for sale In tijat country as made of gold shall be of not less than 18 car ats. The gold from which the pens are to be made is rolled and rerolled until what was originally a thick, heavy bar of gold has been rolled into a thin gold ribbon about three feet in length by four Inches wide. Then this gold rib bon is put into a machine which stamps out of it pen shapes, all still flat. Then on the top of each of these pen shapes is fused the iridium point, and then the shapes go to a slitting machine, which cuts the slit In the pen. From the slitting machine tbe pens go through another, which gives them their rounded, familiar ¡ten form, and then tbe pens are ground and pol ished and finished ready for use. American gold pens in fountain pens or as dip pens are sold In every coun try in Europe In competition with pens of British or of German manufacture, and under the same competition they are sold throughout the world in South America. Africa. Japan. China, wher ever pens are used.—New York Sun. MOSLEM HOLY WARS. Once Ordered They Are Waged Till Either Sid« Is Wiped Out. When a jihad or holy war is pro Modern Giants That Raise Tons claimed by tbe Mohammedans it mean» that every male Moslem from of Metal at a Time. eight years old to eighty most take up arms and fight to tbe death, if need be. tn defense of bls faith. LIFT BILLETS HOT OR COLD. When a holy war is proclaimed tbe sacred green banner of tbe prophet, A Single On« of Th««s Monsters With kept furled nt all other times. Is loos ened to tbe breeze, nnd tbe Moslem Invisible Magic Fingers Will Do the who does not follow it is held to be Work of Half a Hundred Men—The forever accursed. Anybody may kill Magnet In Medicine and In Surgery. him with impunity. His wives, his Those who have watched a toy mag children and his property cease any net lift up plus and needles and mar longer to belong to him. He Is cut off from all communion with the faithful. veled not a -little at tbe unseen power The man who engages in a holy war, that causes tbe bits of metal to jump on tbe other band, is called “sbehld,” might well be excused for standing which means “martyr” or "glorious aghast nt the sight of a modern giant one." His sole alm and object hence magnet picking up several tons of iron forth is to kill as many Infidels as pos and steel from the scrap heap and can sible. If be himself is killed in his keying it with ease and rapidity M turn it does not matter in tbe least the melting furnace beyond. His religion teacher him that be goes So great has been the commercial de straight to paradise, where bright eyed velopment of the magnet that It can bouris are watching to clasp him in lift five and a half tons. These giant their arms and acclaim him as “bravest magnets used In Iron and steel mills of tbe brave.” can pick up hot as well as cold billets, It was because of a holy war, pro auil a single one of this character will claimed against England by Gaylau. displace half a hundred workmen. sultan of Fez. that England gave up A further improvement may be not Tanglers. For twenty-one years this ed in tbe combination of skull cracker particular holy war was. waged, and and magnet. Tbe skull cracker Is a during that time no quarter was asked bW iiear shaped ball of Iron suspend or given by either side. To England ed by a chain to a hook and steel it was one long series of disasters. nines This skull cracker Is dropped The worst was that which befell the . great t’orc<\on scrap metal to be West Surrey regiment. Ambushed and broken up lor remelting. It breaks the surrounded, this corps was practically metal Into conveniently small pieces annihilated, only uiue men out of more and is lifteil up and down by tbe mag than 500 escaping with their lives. net until the scrap is reduced to prop In 1842 again a holy war was pro er size. Then tbe invisible fingers of claimed against England by Akbar the magnet gather up the small pieces Khan, the favorite son of Dost Mo and carry them to the melting furnace. hammed, ameer of Afghanistan. whom The entire operation Is accomplished England had deposed. The savage hill in one-hundredth of the time formerly tribes rose to a man at his bidding, required by manual labor. and tbe entire British army of occupa More recently magnets have been tion—about 1C.000 men. including employed in the milling Industry to camp followers—was wiped out of ex pick out small particles of metal that istence. SILENT MEN. frequently get Into flour and cause ex The worst of a holy war is that, once plosions through friction when they come In contact with the big rollers. Wallenstein, Who Never Smiled, Wat begun, it can only be ended by one side or tbe other being exterminated, the Most Dramatic of All. Not a particle of metal can escape the Washington’s reserve made him so that it is liable to drag on almost powerful magnets suspended over the chute through which the grain passes. stiff, formal and 111 at ease In compa indefinitely.—London Answers. In mining and metallurgical work ny. but it also prevented his plans Blackbuck’« Extra Nostril. tbe magnet has become an Indispensa from being betrayed to the enemy and Two visitors to the menagerie were ble labor saving agent. The magnetic the country from being deceived by discussing the why and wherefore of separation of ores has saved thousands his promises. William the Silent was frugal of an opening on tbe face of an Indian or dollars to mining companies. When the rocks are crushed and pulverized words, because h reserve that conceal antelope or blackbuck halfway between powerful magnets gather up the in ed his designs, even from those acting tbe eye and nose. One visitor said it finitesimal parts of metal released from with him, was necessary to the inde was due to an injury; the other opined it led to the tear duct. their beds anu convey them to the pendence of the Netherlands. The most dramatic of silent men "You are both wrong.” said tbe keep smelting furnace. Quantities of ore can thus be saved from old tailings was Wallenstein, the antagonist of er. "That 1« an extra nostril for the that were formerly considered pure Gustavus Adolphus and the comman fastest running member of the ante der of the emperor’s armies in the lope or deer family. He runs so fast waste. Recently commercial magnets were Thirty Years’ war. He Insisted that that his ordinary nostrils cannot supply employed for tbe novel purpose of rais the deepest silence should reign around enough air to bls lungs nature came to ing sunken treasures. A big cargo of him. His officers took care that no the rescue with the extra air channel. nails was lost In twenty fathoms of loud conversation should disturb their No other animal that I know of is so water, and the loss seemed Irreparable general. They knew a chamberlain well provided. The blackbuck is the until some enterprising genius raised had been hanged for waking him with fastest thing on hoofs. On favorable them easily and cheaply by means of out orders, and an officer who would ground and spurred by fear the black a magnet suspended from a derrick by wear clanking spurs is the command buck could make sixty miles an hour. er's presence had been secretly put to —New York Sun. steel cables In the most improved commercial death. In the rooms of Wallenstein’s magnets hollow steel castings are used, palace the servants glided as if phan Ths Lessening Death Rats, in which magnetized coils are placed. toms, and a dozen sentinels moved gome of tbe greatest advances Tbe latter are built up of alternate around his tent charged to secure the civilization are made silently. They layers of copper and asbestos and In- silence the geueral demanded. Chains escape tbe flourish of trumpets, while r.uluted from the cast steel frames by were stretched across the streets and other much less Important advances thick sheets of mica. A magnet of roads in order to guard him against are accompanied by Incessant drum this construction Is proof against heat the disturbance of sounds. Wallen beating and pyrotechnics. The diminu and cold and free from tbe danger of stein's taciturnity and love of silence tion of the death rate is one of lhe short circuiting. There Is nothing com that caused him to be irritated at tbe signal triumphs of modern enlighten bustible used in its manufacture, and slightest noise was due to his consti ment. It is also one of tbe most po He never tent checks on economic waste. Tbe it can gather up a ton of hot scraps tutional temperament. smiled, he never asked advice from average age of each generation Is be of steel with comparative ease. But the Invisible fingers of the mag any one, nnd he could not endure to ing materially lengthened, und that re net can pick up the most delicate lie gazed at, even when giving an or sult is chiefly being reached by stop splinter of steel no larger than a sew der. The soldiers when be crossed ping the excessive loss of infant life. ing needle as easily as It lifts a huge tbe camp pretended not to see him. Yet few persons realize the extent of Iron or steel beam weighing a ton or knowing that a serious look would tbe beneficent progress thus made or two. The small magnets have there- briug them punishment.—Exchange. what it has meant in the way of in fore found ns great a field of useful- creasing tbe sum total of human hap Concrete Stays Put. ness as the big ones. In all trades piness and efficiency.—New York Trib As concrete gets older it becomes they are employed for handling pieces une. harder and more durable — that is. of of metal too small for fingers to pick course, if the concrete Is properly up easily. The Old Press Gang. In a medical way they are used suc- made. The usual means of wrecking Desperate means were sometimes re c . .fully for extracting iron or steel a house have not the slightest effect sorted to in order to get men for Brit c’nders from the eye and also for on concrete. Tbe sledgehammer, tbe ish warships. A chronicler writes that .vine out of the body needles and drill and dynamite must be used. in the year 1738 “a fleet of ships be •ces of metal that have found lodg Acids might be used to disintegrate ing required Immediately to be man ment there. A dressmaker who had tbe concrete, but the expense would ned, the press gangs placed a live tur Inadvertently swallowed a dozen nee- be enormous. Tbe only thing to do Is key on the top of a monument, which, tiles was operated upon in this way to loosen tbe material with explosives drawing together a great number of wtth entire success. For several days and then break it free from the steel idle people, they bad the opportunity she was placed under a powerful mag re-enforcement with sledgehammers, of selecting as many men as answered net until every needle had been drawn and that is a long, tedioua Job.—Boston tbe purpose of their Intended scheme.” Advertiser. from her body. Tbe acene so enraged a citizen that be In a therapeutic way magnets have Bred a ahot at the bird, “which occa Durability of Steal. proved of value in destroying ulcerous sioned it to fly away.” But the mis Nearly an tbe failures of steel occur chief had been done. and cancerous growths, and even blood diseases of some kinds have very early in its history. A bar or a yielded to their curative effects. A plate of steel that lasts a year In serv **8t. Wapniac. man with the point of a dagger broken ice may be regarded as perfectly dura A person dealring to keep In mind off tn bis body bad it removed by a ble. Continual bending backward and Which members of the cabinet would magnet. Another patient had been forward, as in what Is called “panting" ■occeed to the executive office may suffering from a painful ulcer on the a boiler's end. Is tbe most trying for ■«member tbe name 8t. Wapniac. < liln for many years without finding I steel which, according to an expert, is ■ach letter suggents tbe secretary or relief. He was finally cured by front “tumultuous in youth, trustworthy In Mead of department next in succession ment with a magnet, which drew from middle age and beyond reproach In fcr president of tbe United State»— for his chin a lot of steel filings that bad old age ’’ llntance. state. treasury, war. attor caused all tbe trouble. The filings had ney general, postmaster general, navy, Th« Running G««r, found lodgment in a cut In his face “You say you have a new musical teterlor, agriculture and commerce and one day when working before a tam comedy? ” asks tbe manager. “Have iBfcor.—Leelie'«. ing lathe. No immediate trouble had followed, and the man had forgotten you a scenario of ltT* Ending His Suspense. “Yea I brought It along." answers lhe Incident until tbe magnet drew "The widow promised to give me her tbe author, producing a collapsible t rn out and gave the ulcer a chance 1 don’t see to iieal.—George E. Walsh in CMcagu evening bat. a seltzer bottle, a set of sleep eccentric whiskers, pink silk tights, an Record-Hern id. "Go to sleep and don’t worry, old artificial nose and a German dialect chap She told me when I introduced Joke —Life. A P«rtin«nt QuMtien. feu to her that she was going to mar There are great men who m—nt ly you.”—Houston Foot. D««p 8«s Life. •;«eil. and small people who obfaet to Animal life, existing under a pm them. "Spell ’cat’" said tbe taocker to tbe boy nt tbe tail end of tbe eta is rare of five and a half tons to tbe “K-a-t.” replied the boy. ne square Inch, has been found in tbe tt ed tbe teacher "Can't yea ^eil Tonga basin, near New Zealand, at a .-atT “Well.” replied tbe seasflbta depth of fonr and three-quarter mile«. hoy. "what does k-n-t spellY’—lMBffieu The greatest ocean depth known Is lees than a mile deeper. Chronicle. ■ Avoid greatness In a cottage there 1 diene«« Is only tbe refuge ef amok My be found more real bappinses ro'.nd« and tbe holiday of foeta. a-1 than kings or tbeir favorite« enjoy In terOeld. ____ J BOOST! BOOST! BOOST ! Tillamook County will Double in Population the Next Twelve Months pl' Send the Tillamook Headlight, the Pioneer Newspaper of the County, to your Friends. The Headlight is the Old, Reliable Newspaper of Tillamook County. 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