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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1912)
How Scales Are Made to Cheat AGAZINE3 and www paper have given much ipwt ta lata to us Ques- of weights and anasarca, which has molted in the pas sage ot legislation In many states putting IK jrfj tee npcninw fl I this particular branch ot work ua- der a defined depart-aw-nt of state government. There ara auMrou ways ot cbeut tas la the as ot scales, regardless ot the sis or make. The art ot scale buildtig has advanced rapidly in the last quarter century, hat Investigatioo hy various departments of weights sad measures, both national and state, has disclosed the tact that the inven tive ailnds of those whose matortaaate mental arrangement leads thexa to do traad their fellow awn, has kept pace with this advance. The most astounding frand ever perpetrated was that ot the famous agar treat fraud, ta which the Called States government was robbed of saany mOlioaa ta Import tax duty, hy the ase ot a small piece of ambrella steel to throw the scales oat of bal ance. Bat with aoost eases of decep tion, the perpetrator becomes 01 confident, and throagh carelessness leaves a alight cine, which eventually leads to discovery. Rabber bands have been employed to throw scales I correct balance, bat as these are hard to apply they are not so commonly used. A common method of cheating is to overload the scale counter weights with lead and throw the balance to the credit of the scale owner. Bat the most pernicious and tn gealoBS ot these is a device recently discovered by the department ot weights and mearurn which Is aader the jurfartictJoa ot the railroad aad warehouse commissioa ot Minnesota. This Is a small piece ot tempered steel welshing 1-33 ot aa oases, aad Is ased la scales for the purpose ot add ing to or shrinking the weight of aa article. It can be carried in the vest pocket aad placed la position oa the seals la a tew sccoadg. It has the advantage to the aser ot being re versible, that is to say. he can take snore ta haying or give less la selling, than the Jest aad proper weight. The device Is ta the nature ot a false knife-edge or pivot. It has a small pre lection oa oae side, which whea ap plied to a scale with the projee- tloa towards the back ead ot the scale beam the effect wm he to make a load weigh less than correct, and the reverse Is tree whea at., .ied with the projection toward the front ead ot the scale braia. These devices are made so that the ase ot them oa a scale dot. not af fect the beam action whereby an ob server coo Id ten that the scale was act weighing correctly, as they allow the beam free action. The percentage ot error ta the ase ot this device would diler. depending a poo the make ot scale and the mul tiplying power of the scale beam. All scale beams have not the same meas urements, aad on one scale the effect was IS per cent either ta excess or deficiency, depending apoa how the device was placed, and oa another scale the effect was S per cent either way. Oa some ot the aew type stock scales with fall capacity beams, hav ing bo counterweights, the effect would easily be 1 per cent ot the toed. x These figures are baned apoa the assumption that the scale would be pat Into pei feet balance after the de vice was Inserted, bat it by neglect or desire the scale shoald not be bal anced after the device was pat aader the folcram pivot of the beam, the affect woold be to give a false weight at a boat SO poaads oa aay sixe load ta addition to the JH. a, or 1 per cent as the case Bight be. It oae ot these devices were weed oa a scale beam for fraudulent pur pesee. tt would undoubtedly be Insert ed in the loop from the rear of the beam, and thas coald not be seen from the position in which one stands to do the weighing, hence the necessity of looking into the beam loops from . the rear of the beam to prove that sack a device is not being ased. At a huge stock shipping point ta Minnesota many complaints bad been received relative to the weights over a certain stock scale. Oa Investiga tion ot the acale tt was discovered that oa ot these "shrinker" was. la ase. The commissioa Immediately started tta special ageat oat to trace tt an. The remarkable part of the tnvesU gatloa ta that fax the endeavor to find the origin of this device, the trail led throagh the states ot Minnesota. Iowa, Illinois. Sonth Dakota and Wis- eoaeta, and going oa the old theory. "uhcio there la mech smoke there Women Are for Peace of the traits of sex aqwanty Win bo the decline ot war Interna tional strife, industrial strife aad aax strife. Women may not know bow to play fair, at first, but they will be more apt pupils than the men. In masculine contests the rules are often mora Important than the gam. What ta fair ta war? Murder, but not tor ture. What la fair tn industrial war? larva tlca. but aot JJ fulcrum F7 rot uncer- rrfiicft' .At Icq' Enlarged " fwt4 NTS. CwoViaw most be some Ere," it is safe to as same that whea continual rumors of ""shrinkers" were prevalent, the shrinker device mast have been doing some shrinking, aad in the case of this particular form of shrinker. which coald be ased 00 heavy scales, such as stock scales and grata scales, tt has been the farmer aad TOdncer who were the victims. The evidence obtained by the ageat ot the Minnesota commissioa dis closed the tact that the man who had made these devices had procured from JS to $75 each for them. At Booth's First Meeting Old Londoner Tells of the Beginning ot Real Work of the SahratJoa Army. Steading at the salute by a big tomb stone ta Abney Park cemetery was aa old soldier ot the Saivatioa Army. As the procession filed past him General and Mrs. BramweU Booth gave him a glance of kindly recognition. The old man. who is seventy-five years ot age. and named Peter Monks, was the lxta general's first convert in London. One day nearly fifty years ago, be fore William Booth had started say mission work, he was walking down a squalid little back street near the Lon don docks when he met Peter Monks outside a notorious drinking house. "The general came up and spoke to me." said Monks to the Daily Mirror, "no doubt because I looked the bad character that I was then. " T am looking for work. be said to me. He went 00 t say that he had left a congregation just before 'be cause, he said, they thought about me than him. "Presently Booth told me he going to try to hold a meeting oa the Mile End Waste a most daring thing to do tn those times and he asked me to or me to ft. "I said I would, wondering what bad come over me. "I went dowa to the meeting at the Mile End Waste, and found that some of the worst characters from Spital aelds aad Whitechapel had gathered round Booth's ro-gh platform and were giving him a very bad time, throwing cabbage stamps and dirt at him. ' "Something seemed to "rise ap tn me. aad instead of Joining In the horseplay, as 1 usually did. I clenched my fists and simply walked round' the crowd. "The lads knew who I was 1 had a bit of reputation as a boxer in those days and surprised by my taking ap the preacher's side and from fear of my fists, they became quiet, and Booth got a hearing, for which -be thanked me many times. 1 did not become actually converted for some time, but I went to all the meetings and helped to keep order. Whea the Salvation Army was finally formed I joined." London Daily Mir- New AcoulaltKMk. "Pea. get me a little wagon to hitch your goat to." "Tve got no goat, child." "Tea yoa have. pop. Billy Smith's father says you've got his." tag is not fair, but blacklisting ta. evicting ta, monopolizing food is. main taining tuberculosis tenements is. These rules wont pass. boys, when the gtris learn to play the game. The tyrannical employer will have to go. syndicalism and sabotage (the logical answers to arbitrary capitalism) will have to go. We already have the chll drea'n bureau witlt a real statesman, JIta Lathrop. at tba bead. We are Loot Fulcmum. -IVOT .Smhnkcr LOOf The follow in 5 precautions will be ot assistance ta helping to detect these, 5 or similar fraudulent devices aad pre- i vent the seller ot any commodity j which may be weighed over a acale j from being victimized: 1. See that a scale Is in perfect bal- 3 ance before aay weighing Is done. X. See tir scale beam swings tree- I could not get out of bed. but his sub ry. that is, without a stiff Jerking mo ! stitute, cheerful and self-reliant, tjoa j promptly at seven o'clock swung the . . , , , I calipers and figure tablets across her r See that tiere to e clearance ,aorately started for about the scale platform, if It is s , ,.,,, . T. wagon, stock or dump scale, 3 COMBINATION NEW TO HIU and Ladies" Was Some thing the Veteran Politician Newer Had Heard of. "Lemonade and ladles!" A certain ! veteran politician laughed derisively ' as he read those words oa a card this I morning. I "Say. Boh," he said, "what kind of I a way is this to run a campaign? Seen f this card? If s a notice ot the Tenth ward Progressive dub's meeting to- i night at Posey's halL and it given a special invitation to the ladies to at- t tend aad says tee cold lemonade will 1 served free. Did you ever hear anything like that. Bob? "Lemonade and ladies! That aint no way to run a campaign. Say. how many votes can these ladies cast? I guess Tve had as much practical ex- perience in politics as any man and ril tell you these Progressive xuvs ain't going to get very fij- with their lemon- ade and ladies. It wont go." However. despibi the warnings of the professional politicians, the Tenth ward Progressive -lib will serve lem- onade at the mass meeting tonight. It tS accot-tUns to the new order Of things. If any of the "bovs" attend they win be welcome. Kansas Citv Star. . . -. - . , -Oae of the hardest things for shop- 1 th i.rI iT pers to learn is thar the sixe of gloves aad thimbles do not coincide." said a salesman. "If the womaa who wears bay a thimble for her she tells him i .VT L. il a-aasia, caq a,u7 miAamaaw. vz-a eu V3 4a, AU WUT ... tK .v , e-. V Kt U.aZ U1-X. trtAM hM ATMnKnae wl& f. .k;ki- i - .. great disereaces m the make, ad a great deal depends too, apoa the pecu liarities of the hand. But. as a role. thimbles run about two sixes larger than gloves." No Room for Doubt. Railroad Attorney You are sure tt was our Flyer that killed your mule? What makes you so positive? Rastus He dun licked ebry other train on de road. Pack. The R "My dear, fa suspicious ot that young architect who is visiting our MaheL" "Whyr "He'a a designing fellow." getting the beginning ot eugenics. When the instinct of motherhood is allowed tree play we shall bocomo coBstractlve. synthetic. peaceful. Twentieth Century Magazine. The Young Idea. "When yoa are a man. my eon, I do not want you to grovel on the earth, but to fly oa the heights." -What will I fly with, pa?" "Wtth a fine Ideal, my soa." "Say. pa, can X work tt with LITTLE MISS CALIPERS How a Sick Lumberjack's Daugh ter Made Good. By N. J. COTTON. Amos Tattle hobbled slowly Into his rode log shack, a halt mile below the landing and camp ot the Kilkenney Lumber company, and wearily threw down his string of wooden figure tab lets and calipers. "It's no use," he dejectedly exclaim ed. "I can't go on with that scaling. The rheumatism has got me worse than ever. I doat know what's to be done. I asked Dona for a lay-off to night, and he told me if I quit now It would he for good. He's had it In ! for me for a long time, and I sup pose he thinks this is his chance to ship me." "I'm sure I don't know what is to ' become of us, with a payment due on 1 the farm.' complained Mrs. Tattle, a j little worn, tired-faced woman. I "Say. dad! cheerfully exclaimed a ! sturdy, rosy-cheeked girl of eighteen. ' throwing an arm lovingly around his I neck. "Why cant I take your place oa I the log pile? I have been with you ever 1 since I can remember, scaling tim ! her - "Why. gaL replied the old man. tenderly stroking her cheek. It's bo place for you among all those rough "But I know the most ot them, dad. and I am not afraid.' "Amos Tattle loved his daughter I better than anything else oa earth, and ho was proud to have her offer to step into the breach. Bat instinct ively he shrank from consenting to her coming in contact with ; ui those rough men. For sev- I sral moments he tenderly regarded i aer la thoughtful silence. At length 5 ie spoke, but with evident relue- aalc "Well. Rita, if Dunn is willing you may try It. but if any of those Jacks insult you. gal, tell me. and I'll crawl ap there oa my hands aad knees and ihoot the cusses." Then next morning Amos Tuttle nntBr ,tB it- mntl overshoes, and her riotous curls con fined by a long topped Canadian to boggan cap, she successfully defied the cold and was a most bewitching wood nymph personified. Jim Dunn, the boss, was alone on the landing when she arrived. The teams had gone up the mountain after their first load, and the landing men had not come up from the camp. Dunn was a big. coarse, illiterate man. who kept his job by sheer muscular force. "Hello, a coarse. little one." he exclaimed in coarse, familiar voice. Rita acknowledged . the greeting as graciously as possible. She had an in- stinctive dread of this man. "Father is hud up with rheumatism. Hay I take his place?" Dunn regarded her a moment in open admiration before answering, then laughing coarsely he said: i "It's irregular. gaL and might cost j me me job. If the company knew It- But, 1 11 he danged if I won't do it. on one consideration- 11 you 11 give me a kiss every morning. 1 11 do it,' he finished, i Rita's heart eank. ' "Is there no other alternative?" she asked. 1 "I don't know what that jawbreak- " means; but I reckon you mean, is : there another loop-hole? I opine there I a- ss a aay. or you aonx Kt the job." I rut uaugnie- m yours w mj 2 Place. Mr. Dunn." she pleaded. ' "Aint got none, an' If I had reckon a kiss wouldnt hurt her any. was his - unfeeling reply. Her plea had fallen l ob barren ground. She hesitated. It I T,? us proposition he of- i tered. but oa it hung her fathers job. ' and they needed the money. I "I accept," she crisply replied, "pro- Is around." say. Guess 111 take me first install- i f meat now. w.-. t POWerillS dissrust for this beast fill- 1 ed her souL Bat she resolutely held up her head and submitted to the sacrilege- It was veil Amos Tuttle did not witness the act; it he had Jim Dunn would never have lived to insult an other woman. Energetically wiping her outraged lips. Rita went to the scaler's tittle ! shack to wait for her first load ot I timber. I le w-c wa- 1aiib hafnrm osa t toama ! tBft tandinBL vith elankin, of I T-iiTiRL booming of dragging timber. i and hoarse shouts of the teamsters. I Rita's debut created a sensation, but It vras a cordial, good-natured one. Admiration for the plucky girl who so bravely took her father's place amid such trying circumstances brought out a about ot approval from those rough men. One old teamster, a friend ot her father's, shouted enthusiastically: "Bully for yew. little Miss CU- pers A cheer and the name were taken ap and repeated, until the woods rang with the echoes. There was not a man tn camp but would have championed her. - and aken a licking from Dunn, had she appealed to them. But she realized Dunn wan a power there, and it would do no good to appeal to anyone. When she could stand it no longer she would suit. A week paaaed, and Mr. Tattle grew no better. Dunn was somewhat ad dicted to drink, and on several occa sions Rita had been saved farther in dignities by the opportune arrival of the landing man. On Mondav morninr Dnnn had been drinking more than common, and in sisted on kissing Rita several times before he would release her. Suddenly she was conscious of a stranger present, and looking up she saw a tall young man standing in the doorway sympathetically regarding her. There was a quick step, and a clenched fist caught Dunn on the ear. and he went down. With a curse, he was on his feet In an instant, ugly as a bun. Dunn was a fighter, and Rita trembled for the stranger; but her concern was needless; he just played with Dunn; circling around him, and when he wished he promptly knock ed him down, until Dunn, acknowledg ed he bad enough. Now," said the stranger, standing over tne prostrate man. " don t you f ever try to insult this girl again, or you won't get off so easy next time; and remember she is to continue with the scaling unmolested. I suppose you may as well know, first as last, that I am Ralph Orton, eldest son ot Arthur Orton. senior member of the Kilkenney Lumber company. I shall be here for some time, looking after our interests; and if I hear of any more of your deviltry, we shall dis pense with your services." Finishing, with a cheerful nod to Rita, he turned ob his heel and walk ed away. Dunn painfully rose to his feet and slunk away, a look of concentrated ha tred on his brutalized face. Rita, trem bling with excitement, went into the shack to think, and secretly cherish something new and strange .that had entered her souL The days and weeks went by unin terrupted. Ralph Orton took up his abode at Tattle's home, and the old man soon acquired a distinct liking for this energetic young man. Ralph helped Rita with her work when he was not on the mountain. Dunn kept his place in sullen, vin dictive silence. Ralph and Rita soon fell into the pleasant habit of waiting for each other at the landing, and walking home together in the twi light. It was a Saturday night in Febru ary. The men had all come off the mountain early, except Ralph and Dunn. Anxiously Rita waited, but still they did not come. The sun had drop ped behind the western horizon in a deep red setting, tinging the snow blood red. She trembled. A forebod ing of danger reached out and closed about her heart. Suddenly she heard a step on the snow. Darting behind a tree, she waited, alert and expectant. Her quick ear told her it was Dunn. Presently he came in sight, and her heart sank like lead. His face car ied a covert look of triumph. In stinctively she knew something had happened to Ralph. Soon as his foot steps had died awry she sprang into the road and sped up the hard moun tain road like a startled fawn. Her one thought was of the man she loved better than life. She had no definite idea where to look for him; nor had it occurred to her to alarm the man. She knew he was in grave danger somewhere on that bleak mountain side, and on her rested the task of rescuing him; so. panting and trembling, she sped on. Every few steps she stopped and called his name. No answer come back, but the moan ing of the light breeze through the woods. On Bhe pushed to the top of a ridge. It had got quite dark now. Pausing on a ledge almost on the top of the cant, she shouted: "Ralph! Ralph! where are your" "Here. Rita, at the top of the cant," came the quiet, reassuring reply. With a glad cry she hurried to the top of the ridge, where a hme spruce stood. Then she stopped, and her heart sprang into her throat. She saw his uaoger, and swayed dizzily. "Courage, my Utile girl, courage," came from the smiling Bps In cool, even tones. "This is some of that devil Dunn's work. When my back was turn ed tbs coward laid me out. Take heart, little one. we win yet." It was an ap palling situation. Ralph was bound to the lone spruce with a piece of snub warp. The spruce was near ly cut off. so that it crackeJ ominous ly in the rising wind. Rita heard it roaring in the distance, and knew when that wave reached them the spruce would break and leap over the ridge to the north, a sheer drop of one hundred feet. A name less terror seized her as she frantically dug at the knots, and the rising wind roared in her ears like the knell of doom. Take it easy. Rita, dear, there la plenty of time." his cool voice reas sured her. "My knife is in my pocket, tear it out and cut the warp." Nearer and nearer the wind came, roaring like a demon in her ears. With one last mad effort she cut the last coil, and Ralph stepped from the tree. safe. With a wild, exultant swoop the wind tore through the tree tops and. with a sharp crack, the lone spruce sprang over the ledge. "My brave little girl." he tenderly whispered as she clung to him. chok ing back quick, nervous sobs. -Thank God! you are safe. Ralph." 'she fervently murmured. -God is good, my dear,' the : her reply. "Let us thank him. Ralph," she soft ly whispered. Devoutly two faces were lifted heavenward, one, fair and trustful, the other strong, masterful, compell ing, and in each were th.nVg mute and appealing. (Copyright. BO. ny the McCSnre Nwe papar BiadhaleJ AMERICA MIGHT COPY THESE English Towns and Villages Shown to Be Far Ahead of Those of This Country. Those who read the report of the Stanley investigating committee, which arraigned the methods of the United States Steel corporatkn to dealing with its employes, will be impressed by -an account of an Eng lish Tillage, which was printed recent ly in the Yorkshire Observer of Bradford, Knglanl The condition ot the average small wage earner in the mine and factory districts of the Unit ed States is not enviable. Social sur veys have afforded the general public opportunities to study the way hs which these poorer Americans Bve. Ia contrast is the successful experi ment conducted - by the Yorkshire Main colliery at Kdlingtoa. near Doe caster, England. Land near the mine was sold to a reputable land development company . which in turn sells or leases pwjtai to private bunders. The latter are re quired to conform to a sanitary and architecturally pleasing plan approved by tie colliery company. The site of the village is 120 feet above the sea leveL Ob one hand is a picnicking woods and on the other hinting grounds and the picturesque cliff of Levitt Hagg. The streets are wide and have grass plots aad trees ia the center. There are ample yards, the business houses are confined to particular district and space has I allotted to four churches. Tw ation grounds have been laid out with a combined area of four acres. In the center of another four acres is the village schooL At present there are 850 cottages, but with aa addition un der way, the number win soon be In creased to 1.400. Indianapolis News. CO-OPERATION IN RURAL LIFE Governor of Oregon Has Commission Which Promise Good ReseJta, The governor of Oregon has appoint ed a "Rural Life Commissioa" of 13 members, four ot them women. Its slogan Is "cooperation," which at the very outset is applied to good roads, betterment in housing, impioustit In in farm products aad marketing, better teachers and increased pay for them, one church for one cowuanmlxy. and a lot of things which would net be attempted by the individual. For example: Many farms have rousing water in the barn to save the labor of men, and none fh the house for the convenience of women. This is to be remedied. Hereafter, by the plan, all farmers shall raise the same products, so that the middlemen will come to the community instead of the farmer going to the market with only his own wares. There will be uniformity ot price, saving in freight and advertis ing, and prompt payment for goods In our village there were two churches on opposite corners, and a school and a grange hall similarly sit uated. It is proposed to dose both churches, using one for a neighbor hood home, with gymnasium, Ehrary. etc, and using the grange kail for preaching. Sundays. Must Plan tor : Of much more importance plans for streets, are those for the structures on them. In fact, often ex penditure for streets indirectly raises death rates. I have ia mind several cities near here that have spent all of their money, bonded themselves to the utmost, and are now practieaSIy bankrupt, having exhausted their re sources for expensive paving, wrote Daniel H. Burn ham. Their death rates are high, yet they can do aeth lng for their people, because of their orgies of street building- They have no health department, bo hospitals, bo laboratories, no school inspection, no bunding inspection, no anything which runs straight to the welfare of the people, because of their provements. Clerks Should Read the Ada. The success of any retail store de pends largely upon the loyalty ana to-, teUigent efforts of the clerks. Advertising has a great deal to du with store success. Is absolutely sicca sary, in fact, but the clerk has the last call on the customer. The effect of the advertising is tempered by the ef forts of the clerk. The ad brings the customer in sag-, gests quality aad value but the clerk must do the rest. Every live clerk should believe to advertising should read 11I11 1 Hilar. should know every morning what has own store and its competitor ta ad vertising for that day. -Out of Sight, Oat of Mind." "To discontinue advertising." says ex-Postmaster General John Wanav xnaker (one ot the largest advertisers in the world and, naturally one ot the most successful men). "Is like taking down your 1 It yon want to do business, yoa let the people know It. I soon think ot doing hnstncii tiarks as without advuftndng.-