BUILDS AND GRADES ROADS
Machine in Operation in Midwest
That Is Capable of Working at
Rapid Rate.
Moderate Initial and operating ex
pense as well as rapid work are fea
tures of a motor-driven, one-man road
builder and* grader of somewhat novel
design that has appeared in the Alid
VVest. The machine carries at opposite
sides endless conveyor drags that are
supported uf right nngles to it by ad
justable booms. These members are
inclined downward, so that as they op
erate at a speed of 200 feet a minute,
they carry dirt from the sides of a
30-foot roadway to the middle, filling
depressions and building up the
crown. Under ordinary conditions, it
Is said, the machine is capable of
building a new road at a rate of one
or two miles an hour. Road surfacing
and dragging Is accomplished at a
speed of from two to three miles an
nuur.
First Turnpike Built.
The first turnpike in the United
States was constructed between Lan
caster, I’a., and Philadelphia.
Roads In National Forests.
The federal government is spending
$12,000,000 on ronds in national for
ests in the western district.
Lincoln Highway Surface.
All but fort/ miles of the 425 miles
of the Lincoln highway in Wyoming
are surfaced with a boulevard coat
of finely crushed granite, sixteen feet
wide and five inches thick.
Improvement in Canada.
Modern roads are now under con
struction In Canada at a cost of mil
lions of dollars, over which white
topped prairie schooners broke trail
only a comparatively short time ago.
Building in South.
A stretch of hard surfaced road in
the southern states, twenty-five miles
In length, was difficult to be found six
years ago, whereas at present there
are any number of hard surfaced roads
from twenty-five to 100 miles in length.
Acquire Road Trees.
The state highway commission in
California lias tlie authority to ac
quire roadside trees along its high
ways.
Construction in India.
Highway construction is now mak
ing important and extensive strides In
various cities in India.
Traffic to the Riaht.
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Dinner was ready at the usual hour,
but Mr. Bowser had uot appeared.
Mrs. Bowser waited three minutes,
and then began to worry.
Why didn’t Mr. Bowser come?
Had lie gone on a fishing excursion
and been wrecked, and perhaps been
cast on a lone island, miles and miles
at sea? He might have gone up in a
flying machine and taken a drop. He
might have gone out into the country
to buy a piece of land to raise grass*
l hoppers.
Hnlf-past six, and no Mr. Bowser!
Mrs. Bowser put on her hat and
j walked up to the car line. She stood
on the corner for a quarter of an hour,
and no Mr. Bowser. She returned to
. the house to telephone, but who could
. she telephone to? Who kept track und
trace of Mr. Bowser?
The cook came up to console her,
and she did it by saying:
“Do not worry, Mrs. Bowser. If Mr.
Bowser lias fallen off the roof of a
kllllJIrw. 1.- -.j 11 . .
that's the end of him, and you can’t
help him any by worrying. He may
have climbed a tree and Is afraid to
come down."
Mrs. Bowser was moving towurd the
telephone, when It began to ring. She
answered very quickly.
“Is this Mrs. Bowser?” was the In
quiry,
“Yes—yes!”
“Mrs. Samuel J. Bowser?"
“Yes.”
"You live up on Third pluce, don’t
you ?”
“Yes. I do."
“Well, don’t get nervous when I tell
you something. This Is the police sta
tion, in the Sixth precinct.
“Is—is my husband dead?" was
asked In a trembling voice.
“Oh, no, madam. He Is very much
alive. Now, I will make you under
stand how the case Is. A boy, who is
a young thief, was stealing from a
grocer. A detective saw him and ar
rested him. The boy fought back, and
tile two had quite a scrimmage in the
street. Mr. Bowser was riding home
or. tin- car. He saw the row and
thought the man was abusing the boy.
He jumped off the ear and mixed it,
and, as it Is against ttie law to strike
an officer while doing his duty, he was
arrested and brought In.”
“And nothing has happened to him?”
asked Mrs. Bowser.
“Well, yes nnd no, to that. He Is a
very lordly sort of a man, you must
know. He thinks he runs the town. He
began talking in a loud voice the min
ute he came into the station, nnd tell
ing what would hapjien to us if we did
not apologize and turn him loose.
That’s Mr. Bowser’s way, isn’t it?"
“Why—why, he has ways about
him," said Mrs. Bowser with a laugh.
“I should think he had! When I
tokl him that if he didn't shut up we
“He May Have Climbed a Tree and
Is Afraid to Come Down.”
would lock him up in a cell he defied
me to do it. He said that if I locked
him up he would go to the President
of the United States and make me all
kinds of trouble. He said President
Harding was a great chum of his.”
Mrs. Bowser laughed and the police
sergeant went on:
“He finally started to walk off and
we had to detain him. In the row I
think he got lilt with a club, but there
Is no great damage done. It cooled
him off somewhat, but it took three of
us to put him in a' cell. We would
have let him go If he had explained
the case, but he would not listen to us.
Now he will have to appear in court
tomorrow morning to answer the
charge of misdemeanor. I don’t think
It will do any hurt to keep him In the
cell all night. If you want to bail him
out you must bring the deed of your
property.”
"But I can’t do that,” answered Mrs.
Bowser. “Mr. Bowser has the deed In
safe deposit.”
“Then can you raise two hundred
and fifty dollars in cash?”
“I fear not, ns we have got but $5
In the house.”
“Aud Mr. Bowser hasn’t got but $10
on him. Unless you have some friend
to interfere in your behalf, he will
have to pass the night In a cell. You
might come down and talk the matter
over with him.”
"Yes, I will come."
Mrs. Bowser went down to the sta
non, urn sue was nneen minutes too
late. They would have shown her
every courtesy, but Mr. Bowser bad
taken advantage of those fifteen min
utes to raise unother row. He had
banged on the door of his cell, and In
dulged in about fifty awful threats.
Therefore they were about ready to
drench him down with cold water
: played through a hose. Mrs. Bowser
was only allowed to talk to him
1 through the door. She spoke about
getting Mrs. Green or some one else to
bail him out, but he almost ferociously
replied:
“I forbid you to do anything of the
kind! I want to have a perfect suit
for a million dollars' damages against
these fiends of police! I am In here,
and here I will stay until I am brought
into court In the morning. I know the
judge. He will give them an awful
raking down, and then I will begin my
| suit. If it is necessary, the President
himself will come down here as one of
my witnesses!”
“But the President knows nothing
about the case!" protested Mrs. Bow
ser.
“It don't make any difference. I tell
you, Mrs. Bowser, they have got hold
of the wrong man! They never knew
who Samuel J. Bowser was, but they
will know it after this! The detective
Indulged In About Fifty Awful Threats
scratched my nose In reaching for my
collar. They will have to pay me a
hundred thousand dollars for that
scratch. Then he tore my coat collar,
as you see. That Is another hundred
thousand. Then, because I wouldn’t
stop talking, they hit me with a club,
and the brutes shoved me into the cell.
Oh, but won't I give them such a law
suit as never was heard of before!”
“Then I can’t get you out," said Mrs.
Bowser.
"No, ma’am you can't, but you must
not worry. 1 will be home about nine
o’clock, headed by a brass band. You
can arrange about the band, tf you
wajit to."
Mr. Bowser was rather quiet all
night long. That Is, he didn’t protest
and threaten only once every fifteen
minutes. He was brought out of his
cell when court opened. He smiled at
the Judge, but there was no returned
smile. The officer told how lie saw
the boy stealing and he said there was
a scuffle, because the boy tried to bite
his hand. He told of Mr. Bowser’s In
terference, and then Mr. Bowser him
self was called to stand up. All he
said was:
"He was using the boy In a brutal
mnnner, and I felt called upon to In
terfere."
“Oh, you did, eh?” remarked the
Judge. "You are fined $50, or thirty
days in Jail!”
There were friends of Mr. Bowser
there who lent him the money, and he
paid the fine and started for home.
When he reached It he had something
to say to Mrs. Bowser, and it was:
“I will also sue^lie Judge for a mil
lion dollars’ damage! Clet some breuk
?not rnaftn »» i>in ft
Cadmium Found In Zinc Orea.
Cadmium, a metallic element discov
ered In 1817 by Stromeyer, Is not
found native, but occurs as the sul
pldde in the mineral greenockite, and
in association with zinc ores. Green
ockite is found In Bohemia and in
Hungary, and also In Lehigh county,
Pennsylvania, but In too small quan
tities to be of commercial importance.
Cndmium is a constituent of most zinc
ores, and as It is more volatile than
zinc it passes over tlrst, in t he reduc
tion of such ores, as cadmium oxide.
This is collected, mixed with charcoal,
and the mixture heated in iron tidies,
from which the cadmium distills over
in a more or less Impure state. In
order to purify It, the metal is redis
tilled and the product dissolved in
hydrochloric acid, from which solution
metallic cadmium is precipitated with
zinc. Most of the cadmium of com
merce comes from Silesia, but small
quantities are produced in tile Joplin
(Mo.) district.
First Practical Reaper.
Cyrus H. McCormick made the first
successful reaper. He built it as a
boy without his father’s knowing it
and tried it out one fall. Tt was not
entirely a success, but tie made some
changes and tried it again. Finally
In 1831 he made his first successful
reaper, says Farm and Fireside. He
kept on making Improvements and
in 1834 had a machine good enough
to patent, lie offered them for sale
for $30 apiece, Hut no one would
buy. Finally in 1839 he Invited a
lot of fawners to see it work. It
cut two acres an hour. That was
really wonderful in those days, but
still no one would buy it. The next
year, 1840, a man at Egypt, Va.
bought the first machine and paid $3C
for it. It worked, and faith in th<
new invention began to spread.
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