WATER POWER IN THE EAS1
Great Center* Established for Its Dis
[ tribution Through New
England States.
f
When Niagara foils was first
tapped to furnish electric light
and power for all sorts of pur
poses many miles around it was a
revelation to the world of the pos
sibilities of the practical applica
tion of the new force, and so
strongly did it appeal to the prac
tical not to say the greedy side of
society, that there has been great
difficulty in preventing the do
struct ion of the cataract as one of
nature’s wonders, and making it
simply a source of power for the
l>euetit of monopoly. Hut while
there has been danger that proper
bounds might be broken, and
while that danger will doubtless
exist us long as legislatures are
mercenary, says the Boston
[Transcript, the history of electric
al operations at Niagara lias fur
nished a great and suggestive oh
ject lesson for the rest of the coun
try. If a great water power can
serve such a wide expanse of pop
nlous territory as the figures show
could be done in this case, then
smaller streams with sufficient
descent can render a similar serv
ice to more limited territories, and
there is now a stronger tendency
than iiaw ever been manifested be
fore to develop that idea even in
the most obscure quarters.
Another great power center lias
now been established in Pennsyl
vania, where the falls of the Sus
quehanna river, near York, have
foeeu put in shape to meet the
needs of a wide stretch of country
at a cost of $2,000,000. The elec
tricity generated at this point will
foe distributed to a large number
of towns and cities, of which Phil
adelphia will very likely be one.
Another large plant at Spier
falls, on the upper Hudson, has
been established and is serving a
large and widely scattered popu
lation in all those respects that
the larger development of our
modern civilization demands.
Hut even the great plants are nor
so significant of the vast expan
sion of the water power of the
country as the multiplicity of
smaller plants actual and project
ed in places that haw* apparently
becomedecadent.bul need only the
touch of this new force to awaken
them to new lfe. There are hun
dreds of streams in New England,
and we have in mind several such
in Massachusetts and Connecti
cut, that HO years ago furnished
power for all sorts of small but
prosperous manufactories—wool
en mills, pajier mills, cutlery
works, and so forth. In the last
two or throe decades these enter
prises have gone by the board,
swallowed up in the absorption of
their business by large centers.
Hut the streams remain, awaiting
new uses which seem to be sug
gested by the service we are con
sidering.
Xhe central purpose of almost
all invention is the increase or
multiplication of power, and the
development of electrical force
and its practical application per
forms that office for the streams
of New England. Once their
power at a given point was only
sufficient to run a single mill, and
that frequently not very large:
but now working through electric
engines they can light tin*
streets of towns, proj»el their cars
and supply power for almost any
number and variety of industries
that imi\ be desired. As water
power is cheaper than steam pow
er, many a venture that would
otherwise be unpromising can
now be made profitable and new
leases of life be brought to sec
tions long threatened with
atrophy and abandonment.
l Dyeing by Atomizer.
The atomizing process, which
has found so many applications in
recent years, has now been em
ployed by a German inventor for
the dyeing of cloth and other fab
rics. The new machinery, exhibit
ed at Zittau, differs from appara
tus hitherto used in dispensing
(with the upper reservoirs, from
(which the dye waa distributed, and
1 attaching atomizers directly to
the mixing vat, from which it is
forcibly driven into the cloth.
Thus the goods need not he dipped
into the liquid.—Scientific Amer
ican.
Give You a Jolt.
The fall bonnets are cunning.
If you doubt it inquire the price of
one.—J udge.
OUTPUT OF RELIC MILL.
Worm-Eaten Furniture and Ancient
Swords and Guns Made to
Order for Museums.
“1 visited a strange mill last
week/' said a factory inspector
to a writer in the Buffalo Times.
“It was a relic mill. They were
making there relics of all kinds—• i
dusty blunderbusses, eighteen
century duelling pistols, battle
nicked swords, blood-stained and
bulled riddled uniforms.
“In one department a half doz
en young women were boring holes ;
with tiny augers into chairs and
tables of mahogany. The holes
were of needle-like fineness. The i
chairs and tables were new. 1
asked the foreman the object of ;
this work, and he said that the
holes gave the mahogany a worm
eaten look. i
“‘Antique furniture, which is
usually worm-eaten, brings a
higher price than new furniture,’ |
(he foreman explained.
“Two young men in another de- i
partment were dipping bullets
into acid baths.
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the bullets,’ said the foreman. ‘If
you should pick up one of them on
the battlefield of Gettysburg or
Waterloo, you should say that it
had been lying there for many i
years.’
‘‘In a department like a black
smith shop men in leather aprons
stood in the glare of (laming for
ges, heating and hammering
swords and gun barrels and suits
of armor. These pieces, when the
men took them up, looked new.
Afterwards they looked very old,
they had become real antiques.
“‘Our relic mill employs a hun
dred hands,’ the foreman said.
‘We are always busy. We don’t
know what slack times are here.
Only yesterday we got an order
from the owner of a foreign bat
tlefield for 1,000 bullets, 150
swords, 500 privates’coats pierced
and bloodstained at the breast
and a mixed lot of epaulets, spurs
and skulls.’’
FLOWERS UNDER ARC LiGHT
Astonishing Changes of Size and
Color Produced by the
Electric Rays.
In a modern plant experimental
laboratory the electric light arc
creates transformations that as
tonish the most hardened investi
gator, states a scientific exchange.
Night and day the bright light
stimulates the plants in their
growth, while all sunshine is cut
out from the building. The deli
cate violet grows rapidly, matur
ing its flowers within a few weeks.
The rose flowers with most bril
liant colors months ahead of its
regular season. The reds are in
tensified in brightness, but they
fade quickly. Horn in a day and
night, their period of usefulness is
measured by the same short span
of existence. When brought to
the light of day they grow sickly
and fade rapidly.
The electric arc has produced
roses eight inches in diameter and
violets more than an inch across.
Tulips become gian ;>rd chrysan
themums resent hi > 'ahhag"?- in
size. Experiments with electric
ity show further that the light
modified by different colored
globes produces varied results.
Red globes intensify the growth
and increase the brilliancy of col
ors, but they also weaken the vi
tality of the plants. The flowers
quickly fall away and decay and
the plants succumb to ordinary
diseases or to chills. White
globes, which dissipate the rays
and spread them more uniformly,
make the plants grow steadily and
satisfactorily. But the yellow
globes so far have given the best
satisfaction, while blue ones ap
pnrently neutralize the whole of
feet of the electric light.
Electricity is not life, but it
stimulates life in plants its
adaptation may still revolutionize
horticulture.
Height of Birds’ Flight.
Balloonists say that birds’
flight is limited to 1,315 feet above
the surface of the earth,
COFFEE AS A FUMIGANT.
Clears a Room of Offensive Odor More
Quickly and Thoroughly Than
Any Other.
“Coffee is an excellent fumi
gant, and one whose pungent odor
vanishes more quickly than those
n ordinary use,” states Prof. Mar
ais I. Epstein, reports the St.
aiuis GIobe-J)emocrat. “No mat
ter what the disagreeable odor in
lie apartment may be, the coffee
lot only drives it out, but a! o l;s
t, decomposes it, one mighi
ind replaces it with the lie, :, v
idor of coffee, which cannot be dis
agreeable to even the most sensi
ive.
“A proof of the fact that coffee
ictually absorbs the other odor is
ound when tin* coffee is fi*rsr
turnt. If it simply drove the
ither odor from the room, the
anell of coffee around the stove
ivould be very strong, but it can
lardly be noticed for some min
11»Him im ii ciii» j4^ut*raiiv
n all portions of the place being
"umigated. To use coffee as a
himigant, a quantity must be
•rushed and placed on the top of a
rery hot stove and allowed to
burn either directly on the stove
ids or in a receptacle provided for
the purpose. It destroys all odors
effectually, and its own odor will
ranish in one fifth the time it
akes to got rid of sulphur. Fur
thermore, one may more about in
the room at will without suffer
ng any inconvenience. A test of
he utility of burning coffee for
this purpose was recently made.
“A quantity of meat in a very
bad condition was placed in a
•oom and allowed to remain
there, with the doors and win
lows closed, for some hours.
When the room was opened the
ador was such that none could en
ter without protecting their nos
trils. but a quarter of a pound of
coffee poured on the stove caused
it to vanish completely in less
than five minutes, and thnee min
utes later the coffee odor had dis
appeared and the atmosphere was
fresh and sweet.
Population of Canada.
Canada’s population west of
Lake Superior was, 50 rears ago,
*,000. The population west of Lake
Superior to day is 000.000. and is
75 pei- cent. British and Canadian
born, 25 i>er cent, foreign birth.
Bearing His Cross.
Little Boy—Don’t you get awful
tired doin’ nothin’, mister*
Languid Larigan—Terrible;but
1 never complains. Everybody has
their troubles.—Stray Stories.
ADMIRERS OF MAGAZINES.
Pc..;ie in Far-Off Countries Make
31uch of American Picture
Publications.
An American traveler who ex
plot' i the northern part of Sibe
ria ttes that he found in the hut
of Korak peasant a picture of
Mit; a- I fix cut out of a copy of
Ha. -r’.s Magazine. The mayor’s
pict re was enthroned on it wood
'll irine, and adored by the
lvorak and his family as their
household deity, says Wontan’k
Home < ’ompanion.
Tiii.•» is probably the most ex
treme case on record of venera
tion for ;t magazine page. But 50
years ago in this country it was
not uncommon to find a single
eopy of a magazine being read by
13 or 20 families every month, and
regarded by all as an infallible au
thority.
It is said that when the shah of
Persia visited England several
years ago it was one of It is chief
delights to buy a dozen magazines
and “read the pictures. As there
are only about 3,000 people in Per
sia who can read and write, his
amazement at the number of mag
azines is not surprising.
FOR ■ -{Mf'Mi-mCAN INDIAN
Words o. I.* *• Uttered by William
Penn in His First Descrip
tion of Hun.
William Penn, when be came to
America, gave a most interesting
account of the Indians whom we
met. “They are generally tall,
straight, well built and of singu
lar proportion,” he said. “They
I read strong and clever, and most
ly walk with a lofty chin. Of com
plexion black, but by design, as
the gypsies in England. They
grease themselves with bear s fat,
clarified, and, using no defense
against sun and weather, tlieir
skins must needs be swarthy.
Their eye is little and black. The
thick lip and flat nose, so frequent
with the east Indians and blacks,
are not common to them, for 1
have seen as comely, European
like faces among them of both
sexes as on your side the sea, and
truly an Italian complexion hath
not much more of the white, and
the noses of several of them have
as much of the Roman.
“Their language is lofty,yet nar
row; but, like tin* Hebrew in sig
nification, full. lake shorthand in
writing, one word serveth in the
pl:!<* of three, and the rest are
supj u*(l in the understanding of
the hearer; imperfect in their
tenses, wanting in their moods,
participles, adverbs, conjunc
tions, interjections. I have made
it my business to understand if,
that I might not want an interpre
ter o)i any occasion; and I must
say that I know not a language
spoken in Europe that lias words
of more sweetness or greatness in
accent and emphasis than theirs.
“In liberality they excel. Noth
ing is too good for their friend.
Give them a tine gun, coat or other
thing, it may pass 20hands before
it sticks. Light of heart, strong
affections, but soon spent. The
most light-hearted creatures that
live. They feast and dance per
petually. They never have much
nor want much. Wealth circulat
ed h like the blood. All parts par
take. and though none shall want
what another hath, yet exact ob
servers of property.”
Improvised Wedding Rings.
Recently live couples of gypsies
were to he married at a elmreh in
Surrey, but only two gentlemen
had the necessary ring. The
church warden, however, came to
the rescue by cutting off the rings
from the kneeling hassocks, and
the ceremony was satisfactorily
performed.
QUEEN’S LOST BRACELET.
Royal Patronage Secured by Lisbon
Girl Who Was Fortunate
Finder.
While at an open-air bazar and
fete in the Estrella gardens, Lis
bon, recently, the (jueen dowager
ot Portugal lost a gold bracelet
set with diamonds, which she
greatly prized as the gift of the
late King Ltiiz on their wedding
day. A close search of the grounds
for the missing ornament met
with no success, savs the London
Mail.
< hi going home in the evening
one of the oldest of the keepers
was relating the incident to his
wile, when their little seven year
old granddaughter slipped out of
bed. and, to their astonishment,
held out the lost bracelet, asking
them to look at the pretty round
Thing she had found in the gar
dens.
iN'-xt day the keeper hastened
to the palace with the ornament,
aud on announcing his errand was
admitted directly to tin* queen,
who otic red him *.“(( as a reward.
1 he old man, however, proudly de
clined to accept it, saying he had
only done his du t v.
be added, “my wife and
I aie old. and will soon die. I f her
majesty wishes to do something
for me let her protect my little
gianddaughter.the finder of the
bracelet, who will be left alone.”
The queen smilingly granted
this humble request, and prom
ised 10 interest herself in the fu
ture of t he child, who is forthwith
to be sent to a good school.
City Directory.
MUNICIPAL OFFICER8
Mayor, J. II. Ilolderby,
Recorder, O. F. Crain,
Marshal, Walter Pascoe,
Treasurer, E. Magness,
Aldermen:- Fred. D. Whiting, W.T.
Mag ness, Morg Drennen, W. C. Mims,
and C. M. Edwards.
Council meets first Monday night in
: each month.
CHURCHES
Methodist church, services at 11, a.
in and 7:30 p. m. fourth Sunday in
each month. Rev. C. H. Newman,
Pastor.
Ilaptist church, services at 3 p. m.
Saturday before third Sunday, and 11
a. m. third Sunday in each month.
Rev. .1. L. Brown, pastor.
Christian church, services first and
third Sundays in each month at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. W. W. Young,
Pastor.
FRATERNITIES
Pannelly Chapter R. A. M. meets
third Saturday night. I. C. Nuckolls,
E. H P.: T. II. Hearing, Sec.
Newark Lodge F. & A. M. No. 248
meets secend Saturday night. T. .1.
Raney, W. M.; J. 11. Jimerson, Sec.
Newark Encampment 1. O. O.F. lt>8
meets second and fourth Thursday
1 nights. G. A. Ashley, C. P; F. C. Hoyt
Scribe.
Newark Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 263
meets the first and third Wednesday
nights. T. J. Raney, N.G;0. F. Craig
Secretary.
Newark Camp W.O.W. No. 288 meets
second and fourth Tuesday nights in
each month. E. H. Magness, C. C.;
(). F. Craig, Clerk.
Independence Lodge No. 2379 K. &
L. of IL meets first and tnird Monday
nights in each month. (). F. Craig,
Protector; Zed Griffith, Secretary.
WHITE RIVER BRANCH
Si. L. I. M. & S. Ry.
Trains pass Newark as follows:
GOING WEST.
No. 127.12.50 p. m.
No. 125.8 00 a. in.
GOING EAST.
No. 128.1.9.10 a. m.
| No. 120.7.02 p. in.
F. C. Hoyt, Agent.
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