TUB OMAHA DAILY BEEt SUNDAY , OCTOBER R1. 3 81)7.
EDISON'S ' LATEST TRIUMPH
Operation * of a Magrfetio Ora .Extractor in
tbo Jerssj Mountains
DETAILS Or A WONDERFUL MACHINE
.Sutoimitlo MnHiltirrr frnslir * flu-
I took , tt lrnrt * I lie Ori mill
fpi-ilv lire 1'itrnin'pn . ( Irpiit
( f iiyrlRlit. 1M7. liy 3. 8. MfCSure Company. )
IIiom.18 A. Edison'has-JUKI completed what
ifljy piovo to be ( lie greatest arhlcvemeat
or his life. Alter eight year of Incessant
work , night and diy , In the ( ace of cllit-
v 'uragcmuits wlilcli ficcmud nlmont Insur
mountable , In splto of obstacles which only
u genius could overcome , lie 1m given to
the world on Industrial Invention which In
I ho seriousness of Its Intention may couio
to rival the k-lnctoicupc , ( ho phonograph op
uvcn the electric light. Nothing ho has
t'ono heretofore ban icqtilrecd so much of
ln individual attention , taxed his Inventive
Inguuulty > ' fully , or iJi' the aggregate
consumed bin vltel powers innre than this
l.itcst accomplishment. Thousands of poor
workmen will bless the steadfastness of pur
pose which made him carry his Idcan to a
ttuccwsful Iwilo. Ho hoti , In short , at last
pointed out n commercial way of utilizing
the Immcilso deposit * of Iron ere wlilcli lie
under the New Jenny hills.
Billions of tons of Iron era lie scattered
though the jochH of the eastern spurs of
the Allegheny mountains. Edlsnn himself
inado this remarkable discovery year. ? ago
and geologists over since have amused them-
Sketch of the Principle of Ills Magnetic Ore-
Seixiratlng Plant , Made by Thomas A.
Edison.
Eolvos with proving how perfectly Inex
haustible Is the supply. Uut the ore Is
scattered rbout In such fine particles that
It could not he mined with trie ordinary
methods , and hence has been looked upon
as ono of the tow great wastes of nature.
This state of affairs was very aggravating
In view of the peculiar conditions which pre
vailed in the Iron trade of the extreme east. |
For some years past the bulk of the Besse
mer steel trade has been drifting westward i
by resocn of the discovery and opening up
of Immense deposits of high-grade ore In the
tipper Peninsula of Michigan , suitable for
making Ik'ssemer stool , cheaply produced ,
pud carried at small coit by water trans
portation to furnace * contiguous to the lake
ports. The furnaces east of the Alleghanles
vrero compelled ( o depend on a few small ,
Isolated deposits of Bessemer ore In the- east
and ores Imported from foreign countries.
The ere deposits of the bouthern states , as
well as the mon-magnollc ores of New Jer- i
soji and New York , are unsuitable for mak-
\aa \ nessemer steel.
Kor a time the cost of the ere at the
eastern furnaces was not greatly different
from the coat In the Plttsburg district , but
In the last tow years the cost of foieign
ores , which are approaching exhaustion , has |
reached the prohibitory point. Then the dis
covery of the great deposits In the Mesaba
i.uigo of Minnesota In the last three years ,
nnd thu tremendous cheapening In the coot
of mining and transportation of these de
posits , have apparently raised inaurmoimta-
'blo obstacles In the way of eastern Iron mil's
meeting the competition of the great mills
of the central west , e\en In the eastern mar
ket , and many mlllrf have ceased to operate. I
The condition Is inot a trivial one , for many
thousands of persons depend upon thcso mills
and furnaces for a living.
THE DISCOVERY.
Edison's Interest In the matter dated from
a romantic episode which occurred sixteen
years ago. lie was walking along the sea-
Hhoro on Long Island one day when he no
ticed a stiango pile of black rand plied
high up on the beach. He had , never-seen
such remarkable sindv Ht examined It.
slftCd It and even tcbted It , but he could
find no reason for Its Inky hue. With the
zeal of the eclcntl'lc Investigator , ho carried
sonio of It home to his laboratory for the
purpose of testing It. He was rci the point
who el r > it pUnt on the bench nd pro *
ceeded to xcpar t0 the Iron ore from the
* nd wflh orery j ro > r ec ( at' dvloptnH an
cTlPiiillte Industry , intit the * * n | > rev l to
br ICCT itcnerons than It hurt .11 flMt pforrtlncil
to h , for orre darl : ntgAt thrtocamrta Morm
iticH htiT nrtt vlilted fh placo' ' for tn ir/
years and when the contractor crfmo to vIMt i
his plant the next mornlntr , not a vestige of
the blflclr rthtl1 rcmalhcd. U rftd' all btfcn
swept Into the en from whence It came.
When the above mentlonvd cttrlous condf-
tlon nf affairs In the IrOu trade was brought
to Mr' . Kdl-'on'rt attention , clqht years ago ,
he thought' of the ! ill-fated LOUR Inland en-
torprljo > tiul of his dlscaided magnetic' eepar *
ntor , and -Aandnrcd If It might not In the
end present a tmc' ttolntldn of the
difficulty. In order to' assure himself -
self of the rfrfaet condition of the Iron mints
In the edit , her made a tour of the1 mines In
New Jersey , for the purpose of seeing how
tnucli ore there was left fn them and how
lon r It would last. It wan on this memora
ble trip that ho mail * thi- discovery that
most of the rocks of New Jersey were under
laid with Immenno deponlts of IronHo In-
ventnd a magnetic needle which would "dip"
touards the earth -whenever Itwau brought
over a Inrgp deposit of Iron. oro.
A NEBDLn POINTER.
' He s driving alone In a buggy one day
'between ' two' mines. Tile needle was on his
lip and hto mind wan drifting awny from
the subject In hand , whn suddenly he
notlred the prtltvt of the needle dip' violently
toward theearth1 , and remain pointing down
ward. He wondered how this could be , for ,
as f r as lie knew , there was no Iron ore
anywhere near him. Ho tested the needle
nnd found Ir all right. He was driving over
, gnclsn rock t the time , and he noticed that
whenever ho was above this i"ock the- needle
continue ! to point toward ? the oarth. Ills
amazement became great , for If the needle
jillil not err. It simply meant that the ground
iunder him was underlaid with Immense de-
ipoMIs of Iron. Determining to flud out If
till ? was so , he net u corps of men at work
'making a magnetic stiwc ? ol the rockp of
( New Jersey. He then planned a magnetic
survey of the whole east , and It remains
probably the moat comprehensive , undertak-
, lngs of Its kind' ever accomplished.
\Vlth his magnetic needle , or , as ho calls
It , his "magnetic eye. " IIP tested every largo
body of gneiss rock extending along tha
eastern coast of the United State * ,
from lower Cnnada to the great
Smoky mountains of North Carolina. Ho
found Immense deposits of Iron. For In-
EUr.re , In the 3,000 acres Immediately sur
rounding the village of Edlnon there are over
200.OOfl.OW toils of low grade oro. In the
entlto district there are 10,000 acres In which
the deposit Is proportionately as largo. The
world's annual output of Iron- ore does not , < it
the prevent time , reach GO.000.000 tons , so
that in the paltry two miles surrounding the
village of Edison there Is enough Iroa ere
In the- rocks to keep the whole world sup
plied for one year or the United States for
three years , even with the natural Increase
In domain' ' . Sixteen thousand acres , or twen
ty-five square miles of land , contain enough
Iron ore to keep the whole world supplied for
seventeen years , allowing- course , for all
natural Increase of demand duo to the needs
of a growing population. Those acres would
moro than supply the United States with Iron ,
including necessary exports , for the next
suvonty yeirs , and they contain more than
has born mined heretofore In this country
'sine's ' fts discovery.
1 This was a remarkable condition smelting
works shutting down for want of Iron ore
.it low prices when billions of tons of It lay
Idle In a strip of land whlrh In most cases
was within seventy-five miles of the g'eat
Iron mills of the Atlantic coast. Here was
an nnnorturllrr of which the Inventor 1m-
HOW ORW IS KXTKAUTUU KHU.M TIIK JIUUNTA LNSI1JK UN HUISUN'S IHU.N .MINIS
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of putting It atlde when suddenly he be
came posscr i > d of an Idea. lie procured an
electro-nwignel and held It near the mass.
Immediately llttlu dark grains separated
th < * nulve from the heap and scurried
across like to many black ants to tl'o spot
over which the mignet was held.
The little ants wi-ro really groins of Iron
ore aitd , strange as It may seem , Edlmn had
dUco-ered a. bed of finely divided Iron ere
cast up 'by the sea. This sand covered the
Dhora In spots for fifteen miles along the
coast. U was duo to the erosion of Comuvtl-
st rocka bvyaler for magnetite In ono of
tbf coiistUtieiita of the primal rocks found
Ui Cinnoitlcut , Edison calculated that the
depCiiUs must contain millions of tons of Iron
> v ) > jch , If It could be 8ir. lteJwould become
valuable product. On tno basts of his
find be evolved bin famous mtgnetlc-ore
separating machine , which ho exhibited at
tbe UJt Paris exposition. Then he let out
b-t ? prlvlUuf of ualusit to contractor
UJto , sui i wJ Mrft'-i
mediately took advantage. He set to work
to vlan out a great Industry. It has taken
him eight years to do It , hut the result has
justified all the trouble and money which he
has expended upon It. Engineers used to
large enterprises of the kind have smiled
Incredulously. Some of them have spoken of
It as Edison's hobby and others as his folly.
Some have shown him on paper that no
machine could bo constructed . powerful
enough to crush five , six and seven-ton
rocks , or If such a machine were constructed
It would never stand the Jar and strain
exerted upon It. This particular difficulty. It
uray be said In passing , Mr. Edison sur
mounted so completely that less than 100-
horse pawer Is required to reduce rocks
weighing six aud aoveu tons to dust In three
seconds from the time they are thrown Into
the crushing machine. Other difficulties wore
overcome as completely , none proving- too
much for Mr. Edison's Indomitable will and
rare concentration of mind nnd enc'gy.
HOW EDISON LEVELS MOUNTAINS.
Yet , after all , ho has accomplished a very
f'nole thing. He Is crushing locks and drop
r-'ne ' the resulting powder past powerfr
nlectro-magnets. The sand Is not attracted
by the magnetism and passes straight on ,
the Iron ere Is attracted to cue side anil
falls lu a heap of. its own. This is the whole
prlnelplu , yet In the actual working out It
| The village of Edison stands on the fium-
| mil of Mount Musroneteong , In northern New
| Jersey. The npot la 1,200 feet above the level
, of the sea , and Is the center of a dense
; wilderness. One's first view of the place In
. apt to bs tempered by the disagreeable white
I dust which Mies through the air and overlies
everything. The activity roundabout IsIn
stiong contrast to the placid country district
through which one must travel In order to
reach the place. On all sides the roar and
whistle of machinery , the whirr of convey
ors and the general noise and bustle , pro
claim this to be nonio quite extraordinary
enterprise. The workmen look like millers ,
so coated do their clothes become with the
Hying white particles , and every one wears
n patent muzzle In order to circumvent the
bad effects which the dust would otherwise
have upon the lungs.
Some of the buildings arc as tall and nar
row as city "sky scrapers ; " others are Hat
and squatty covering consldeiablo areas.
Dig wheels revolve In the engine house and
big dynamos transmit heavy currents through
overhead wires to the various points of thu
plant. Little aarrott gatijjo locomotives move
about to the various parts of the workn.
A line of freight cars runs slowly through
the place , and on a nearby hill a troup of
noisy children cotno romping down from Sum-
uiervlllo , a hamlet where the miners live.
Over to the right of the village , lumbermen
are cutting down trera and making the land
ready for the steam shovel , which Is tearing ; >
away at the rocks half a mile distant.
,
Further over , on a half-cleared section of
land , a great stream of water rushm through
a hose with mighty force from a hydraulic 1
pump and washes the debris free from the 1
rocks. Steam drills rattle and the boom of
dyimmito resounds when the rock la riven
into boulders and laid on live-ton sklpn or
trays , ( o be transmitted to the crushing
plant. The ateam shovel does the work of
loading , and as it tum . capacity for lifting
ten tons of free- rock * minute , the local
Activity is tremendous , FUt cars carrying
two Rftlptf cch , move alonn t lively speed.
A long llhe of them Is constantlf leading up
tu the crushing plant , where big electric
cranes rM them of their load and * llttlo
switching engine pushes them around a loop
amf allows them to r\in down an Incline Into
the cut again.
MAKING A YOSKMITE OF ins OWN.
Edison Is found watching the steam shovel.
"Wo are making a Yoncmlle of our Own here.
Wo" will con have one of the biggest artifi
cial canyons In the world. " This remark Is
.occasioned by the fact that the steam shovel
'Is ' working three-quarters of a mile from the
' * brka proper. It Is somewhat down the hill
side , but It Is eating Its way on n level
straight Into tbe hill.
"It will take us a year to reach tha mills ,
bnt when we do Ret that far In we will have
, a trench with walls 100 feet deep. I suppose
wo will take out over COO.OOO tons of rtfck
before wo get there. Then when the trench
Is completed we can blast oft tbo walls with
dyr-amlto , taking oft 32,000 tons at a time. "
As Intimated above , the ere bearing rock
l > blasted Into boulders' and then laid on
tlat cars with a stcim shovel. 1C Is then corv
vcyeil to the crushing plant. The cars nro
, run In under * each end of the crushing mill.
Tlui' trays containing the rock arc lifted by
the cranes to the second story of tbo mill ,
where the rock Is dumped Into a large squire
pit. Ten feet below the edge of the
| pit revolve Immense Iron rollers weigh
ing 100 tons. The snrfaco of these rollers
to studded with teeth , and the spice bo-
wflen them la less than a foot wide. Nev
ertheless a six-ton rock dropped Into the pit
passes between the rolls In less than three
seconds ; Far down beneath UHMO rolls Is an
other tot of alrallar size , but nearer to
gether : From the heavy rolls above the rock
falls Into thlfi lower set and Is crushed still
smaller. It has now been reduced to pieces
the size ot a man's fist and from the lower
set of rolls drops' Into at ) elevator or endless
conveyor , which carries the pieces up to. the
.0(1 ( of another part of tha bulldtnr/ and dumps
them Into .1 shaft leading down to three irjore
sets of rolls , directly beneath ono another.
As the rock passes through these rolls Ihe
latter arc found to bo placed nearer an1
nearer' together until with the last or third
set the two rolU composing It arc set tightly
against each other , so that when the rock
ultimately passes through It has been reduced
to dust.
Ono of the remarkable features ot this Im
mense crushing plant is that the crushing
doneby thu largest , or what nro known In
"EdlEou" as the giant rolls , Is not the direct
tesult of the energy of the &team engine.
The rock Is really crushed by momentum.
For Instance , the engine which operated
the 100-ton rolls Is of leas' tlun 100-horse
power. It has just power enough to cause
the big rolls to revolve at terrific speed , but
more than this it cannot do. If any ob
struction a rock for instance should como
between the rolls , a patent clutch by which
Uio engine is connected to the rolls at once
causes the engine to let go its hold. The
momentum of the rolls , however , carries them
around , and the rock Is crushed by this
stored up energy. The same energy If ap
plied directly from the engine would neces
sarily have to be much greater than It Is ,
and at the same time the shock of
the obstruction coming between the rolls
would jar the engine to pieces In
a short time. In fact , It may bo
said that the work of ere separation would
not bo a commercial success were It not for
the utilization ot throe natural forces mo
mentum , magnetism and gravity ; momentum
to crush the rocka , gravity to take the place
of expensive machinery In separating the
ore , and magnetism to draw the line particles
of ore from the sand.
A MILE OF MAGNET FACES.
One of the features of "Edison , " the place ,
s the great number ot endless chain eleva
tors which connect the buildings with onc-
inothor. As the ere passes through each
nilldlng it Is carried on to the next auto
matically In these endless elevators. After
t leaves the crushing plant It Is carried to
lie toj > of the magnet house and dumped
nto space , to find Its way through many
sieves of varying meshes and past many
magnet faces of varying strength before ! t
ultimately falls In the cellar ot the build
ing and into another elevator which carries
the gieatly changed product to the next
department. There is over a mile of magnet
faces in the nearest magnet house. The
ere drops down through long chutes. On the
way down It passes the magnet faces. Di
rectly under each magnet face is a slde
chutft loading off in a direction of its own ami"
directly above each magnet face Is a sieve.
An the ere conies down , If line enough to
pass through the sieve It continues Its
course ; If not , It rolls off the slevf Into a
dm to at the bottom of which there Is a ron-
vojor , which carries It back to the rolls to
be re-crushed. If the product RO S through
the Hlcvo the magnet draws the ore from
the sand , passing straight down to an eleva
tor which carries It out of tue huildliVK and
dunrps U onto a-huge sand pile.
The falling sand presents a very beauti
ful sight. A stream of It , simmering and
ahlning in the sunlight , descends and mlx.es
with tiio great cone already piled up be-
neith. Nothing could bo more beautiful
thin this gorgeous cataract of powdered
rock fallini ) like a veil , and nolsoltgsly add
ing to the great mass below. Nor Is It a
useless accumulation. It U sold for various
purposes to builders and manufacturers , who
seek it more eagerly than they do the sand
of the seashore or of the bank. Seashore
or bank sand has , In the couma of centuries ,
Icvit Its edges , because the particles have
constantly rubbed against one another.
Hroken rock sand , however , Is very sharp ,
and for cement and lime-work Is very de
sirable.
SIXTY-SIX HUNDRED EXPERIMENTS.
The pure ore Is now allowed to drop down
ward and pas. ? through a room where blowers
rid It of any dust which may have accom
panied It on its travels. After leaving the
blower room it Is really a stream of pure ,
finely divided iron ore , which drops Into
conveyors and la carried to a store house
which holds 5,000 tons. Here It may rcsl
temporallly , or It may pats on by means of
I other osnvoyors to the mixing house. It
cannot be smelted In the form of Iron dust.
Tlie force of the 'blast would blow it from
the furnaces. U must be made Into brlq-
ettea , and In order to do this It must be
mixed with some adhesive substance which
will prevent It from disintegrating when
brought under the action of the furnace. The
mixing machines are huge cylinders In which
J operate great Iron paddles. The ore Is fed
' Into the cylinder from 'the top , and the ad-
heslvo material ( the nature of which Is a
; secret with Mr. Edison ) drops also from
I above , and -the whole mass is churned to-
gether until every particle of the ore has
* come in contact with a duo proportion of tha
1 adhesive substance. It becomes , hi fact , a
sticky mas * which Is pushed out of one end
'oi ' the cylinder and convoyed away to the
bricking house to be made Into little1
. 'briquettes ' , It may be said In passing , Inas-
Jmuch as It throws a sidelight on the char-
Don't turn around every time yon
hear somebody whistle
Ought not the Orchard & Wilhelni Carpet Co. , with
all their buying and selling facilities , be able to give
the best values at the lowest price in all the different
lines that go to furnish a house ?
Couches
Hex Couches , with deep box extending
the full width and length of the Couch ,
just the thing to lay out dres-u-s In up
holstered In muslin all splint ; edge
$7.1i5.
Another Hex Couch upholstered In
tlenlm box plate llouncu $ lfi.UO.
Wide wale1 corduroy High Head
Couch $ .7.ri.
Hococo Couch , new shape frame , ve-
lonr covering .fVS.H ( ) .
Very line calfskin leather large
Couch In any color made with diamond
mend tufts and cut leather fringe-
made under our careful supervision
and guaranteed by us not to crack and
the springs to stand up under all cir
cumstances price $117.50.
Brass Beds
Kull 4-foot fl-lneh all brass lacquer
Heils with fancy head and foot $21.CO.
-1-foot (5-Inch ( bow swell foot
- - - , V/2 posts ,
Hrass Hed best laetiner 10.00.
An extra heavy full 2-Inch post-
heavy trimmings , double ball bearing
castors S-IO.OO.
Our present stock represents by far
the best values we have ever offered tit
prices marked , and Includes all the lat
ent and most desirable styles.
Extension Rods
Js-lneh Extension Hods , extending to
It Inches complete with brackets l.'lc.
Vj-inch Kxtenslon Hods , extending to 5
feef with projection brackets suitable
for lace curtains 25c.
acter of the great Inventor , that Mr. Ddlson
performed over G.GOO experiments before he
struck upon the right adhcslvo material for
use in binding the ere together.
Ihe bricking machines are simple looking
affairs and , for the purpose of comparison ,
may bo said to bo Just-as simple In their
appearance as is the Incandescent lamp.
Llko the latter , however , they passed
Iron Beds
A full -1-foot ( Much brass trimmed.
white enameled Iron Red , with Irdn side
lralN-.yj.a- .
A better Iron Hed at $ ! l.t0. !
A mueh better one with bow foot-
brass trlmmed--5.8.- .
The greatest value for tbe money we
j have yet shown Is a fancy brass trim-
; met ! ' , brass rail , extended foot $0.00.
In line enamel Hrass Trimmed Hcds
we have an especially law line , line
that ! ban taken the place of all brass
beds with a fireat majiy u ers they
contu in a jjreat varlerj' of sltat > 4K and
styles of trimmings , raiiKlitK In price
from $ S.OO , .flO.OO , $12.00VM.OO up U
Jf'JI.OO fora very heavy 0-post bed.
White enameled , brass trimmed.
Child's Hed with woven wire maltres <
drop side $7.75.
IXKW CAUhOAD-XKW PATTICUXS
LINOI.12P.MS.
Linoleums
, Our sale or rather calling special at
tention to onr Linoleums last week ha , '
opened the eyes of Linoleum buyer.-
'and has convinced HKMII that Linoleum
real genuine oil and cord linoleum
cannot be MIK ! for less than I5c. Kng-
'Ilsh "Linoleum" is not even "oil cloth"
In "value , and therefore worth what
ever it will "fetch.Ve have another
.carload now new patterns tind we
.bought i't as low as Linoleums can b ; >
bought but we can't sell it for le.ss
. thiuitrie and that's a very low price-
lower than can be had nny\\here eKe.
the plant , and these men ate after all merely
watchers , to wo that the machinery does not
get out of order. The crushing capacity of
the Edison plant Is more tliaui 20 per cent
greater than the combined crushing ca
pacity of all the stamp mills of California.
The long mile of magnet faces has enough
pulling power to tear a modern cannon from
Us stanchions , and the great steam shovel
can clean , out more rock from the mounta'n- '
slde In a given time thap any other like
piece of mechanism In. . the world. Yet all
the. ° e great affairs seem as nothing to the
maetcrful control of the man who p'.inncd
It all. Kdlson moves about among his men
with not the slightest consciousness of hav
ing done anything great. It will be but a
question of tline when the little plant on the
hilltop will he the center of the great Iron
Industry of the east. The pockets of ere
from which the United States has drawn
Its chief bupply arc rapidly becoming ex
hausted. There Is , It imti > t be understood ,
plenty of Iron ere In the country , but It Is
not the kind of ere from which steel can be
made. Steel can only be made from ores
In which the. per cent of phosphorus Is very
small. Kdlson , with his crushing process ,
has entirely eliminated the phosphorus ele
ment from the ore. It therefore remains
Inevitable that thL * must ultimately become
the only serious method of producing ore.i
from which steel will bo made. It would
seem from the prospect that Edlsco will
become the head of a vast Industry , ta great
as that brought Into existence by the in
vention of the Incandescent light , and In a
measure more Imposing , as It embraces the
production of what In commercial circles Is
after all the most valuable metal on earth.
In spite of this , however , the man who
planned It all does not from his domcsnor
appear to have been over-lmptessod with Its
Importance. Ills position In tlm matter Is
well summed up by Mr.V. . S. Mnllory , his
second In command.
KDISO.VS ATTITUDE IN TIIK MATTER.
"J want to say , " sajs Mr. Mallory , "and
I know whereof I spcnk , for I have been
with lilm night and day for boveral yeirj ,
that OOi per cent of the erodlt of all the In
vention and new work of this establishment
Is < lue personally to Mr. IMIson. I have
heard It stated that Mr. Kdlwn Is an or
ganizer for the brains of other men. Nothing
could bo further from the truth than thl.-i.
Made-up Rugs
A sitpol.il snip of nirule-niS UURR at
very upeclal itrlees an entirely ' \v lot
to K < > on .salu Monday.
Moqtiette ling lO-HxS-It. $ ir > . ( V ) .
Tapestry Hni els Uns-MO-IUS-H
i ? 11.00.
nineluw AxmlHster lltigr-9-JxO-S )
$11.50.
Hotly Hnissels CiU'pot nntl Tapestry
Border HuK-1 < l-Ox8-t-$12.fi : < ) .
Motnu'tte iius ii-oxS-t : ; $ i7.r > o.
lli'st Tapestry Brussels
$11.50.
15ct Hotly HniHSels VJ
MnqtlOtto UtlK 11-tlXlO-rt .ItUM
Host Hotly Brussels lliij ; 17-l.xS--- : !
$22.0.
Many tithpi'S. Brlnpf your measures
It will pay.
Oil Cloth Stove Rugs
Best intnllly tVi yank square . " > 0e.
Ht'.sl ( Utallty l'/j yards square "Ik1.
XI lie Binding complete to match I'/i
yards , t'-'e ! ' { . yards , U"c.
Matting Rugs
.Ta pa nose Matting HUBS 2 yards long
and a yard wide Itrie a whole lot of
tUU'ereiM designs choice II5c.
Coco Mats
To prepare for the snre-to-be-niuddy
weather wu plaej.on sjile a lot of Coco
Mats at 2 < ) e each.
I'.ntnh Coco Mats atl. . e , ( Kit1 and S5c.
1414-1416-1418 Douglas Street.
THOMAS A. EDISON AND WILLIAM S. MALLOUY.
U'T'in a l'lmtot.a | > li Tnken In "K-IKon , " N. J. )
through a multitude of changes before their
final form was agreed upon. As is usually
the case with Inventions of the kind , this
final form 1s probably the simplest that
could bo devised , and in view of the cum
brous machines which wcro constructed and
I discarded In the course of the rrolutlon one
wonders that this form was not thought of
at once.
The ere drops Into a small orifice In the
cylinder. The cylinder then turns ire that
the hole comes forward and exerts thousands
of pounds presuuro on the ore , the cylinder
then turi',3 downward and the newly made
brlticttf | drops out from the hole and falls
Into another endlcsi conveyor , and Is carried
forward Into' a largo oven , to 'bo ' baked.
There are thirty bricking machines and fif
teen evens In the plant and a continual
Etrtam of briquette. * Is circulated through
the hot air chambers of these nveiw. The
conveyors tiavel llvo times around the Inte
rior of the oven before the briquettes re
appear. When they come out they have un
dergone a change which makes them a com
mercial product. Kor instance , they will now
absorb ganes In the furnace which they are
required to do ; but thuy will not absorb
water. This condition' Is necessary so that
they may he shipped to thu furnaces In open
ears. If a stream of water were allowed to
How on a brick , the water would simply run
off ; on the other hand. If alcohol were
dropped on It , It would Instantly be ubsoibed
by the brick. Tills was the point for which
Mr. Edison was striving when he nude his
sixty-six hundred experiments.
"WONDKn'TOL ' AUTOMATIC ACTION.
Krmii the oven the bricks arc conveyed
to the railroad , where lon-g trains of freight
cam await them. The conveyor at this point
oxtimils out over the track , and the engineer
of a train boa simply to back his cars under
neath the mouth of the conveyor. The bricks
drop out and tbo cars load themselves. In
fact , this , automatic action Is the great fea
ture of the plant. From the time the ore
Is blasted with Its native rock out of the
mountain-side until It Is loaded In the form
of commercial ( > ure lron > briquettes on the
cars. It Is not touched by human hands.
The never ending and never-resting steam of
material constantly circulates thro UK It the
various buildings , crushed by the stored
momentum of glgantlo rolls ; hoisted sky
ward by steam ; pulled earthward by gravity ;
deflected by magnetism ; dried , sifted ,
weighed , gauged , conveyed ; changed from
rock IrUo dust , and from dust Into compre
hensive lumps , mixed with a due proportion
tion of adhesive material ; churned , baked
counted , and sent Hying to the furnaces by
fast freight ; anJ > not once In Us course It Is
arrested or jogged onward by human agency.
Only attendants are required to operate
If this place was preserved as a monument
for him , his memory would ho placed upon
no false pedestal. I have seen hint by night
and by day. In all weathers , and under all
conditions , and I have found htm always
the same , the personification of concentra
tion of purpose , and with a long-dlstanco
judgment at his book and call which , how
ever strained It may seem at the time , we
have all learned to respect as. being sure to
prove right in the end. And what has been
said of his personal magnetism lus not boon
overstated. I doubt It there Is another liv
ing for whom his men would do as much.
I suppose It is the power of example. We
have here many men who have loft well-
kept homes to come up Into the backwoofira
and toil day and night mainly out of loyalty
to Mr. Edison. The fact that the 'Old Man'
does It seems to 'bo ' sufliclent reason for
them to dii It ; for what Is good enough for
the 'Old Man' Is good enough for them. This ,
at least , is the spirit that provaila. "
That this 1.1 the spirit which pervades the
community can be easily seen by any one
who visits the place. Up on the hllltip. in
the shanties of Summervllle , dwell laborers
of the poorer class. Far over on the other
side of the mine stands the "White House. "
It Is a llttlo dwelling in which Edison lives
with his chief men. At Intermediate spots
stand the shanties In which live the work
men of the Intermediate class. Hut from all
of these dwellings comes a reverence for
the master which Is quite as strong and
healthy In ono place as In the other. As
ho moves among them all , none of them can
hive a true conception of the great things he
Is constantly planning , but they all know It
Is for their good and for the goxl of tbe
world at large. No man has done more
than 1-Ml.son to benefit his generation. He
essential ! } Is the man of his time. Other
men may do great 'things In the tlmo to
come , but whatever these things may be they
can never cieate moro radical changes In the
oonduct of human life than have Edison's
Inventions. Ills old duster and his oldest
straw hat can he seen Hitting hither and
thither about the works , their owner ap
parently Intent upon nothing out of the
ordinary ; but the constant suggestions which
ho makes to the heads of thu various de
partments' show that the wonderful brain la
never Inactive. The present enterprise was
planned years ago , and now that It Is finally
Combination Book
Cases and
Ladies' Desks
In -mahogany finish ? 4.7fi.
Ladles' DeSU-wlth shelf nntl drawer
> *
? > M > .
Ladles' de.sk with French legs , beau
tiful mahogany llntsh , ! ? ( ! . " . ' ) .
A very elegant Desk that has bcetv
sold heretofore at $ lii.50 now $11.00.
C'omltlnntlon Desk and Bnoke.ast - with
B hook shelves , failey eabln < > t top wltn
French plate mirror drawer oak f
mahogany llnlsh $11.no.
Then tluvv go up to $ i : < .iiO.
And fi to < lt.nomil $ lS.pO nml up
to $15.00 for a solid mahogany Ctiinltl-
nation BimUenxe anil De k.
Bookcases in solid oak-$5.00.
Hookeaso-wllh two glass dooi's eabN
net almve.50. ! .
We have other Hookeaies all sorts of ? .
shapes , styles and prices.
Hook K.ickssuitable < ellhor to stand'
or hang on wall.
Stand Covers and
Pillows
Orepc Stand Covers 30x22 Inches
With fringe 21e.
Crepe stand covers , yard square , with.
fringe , IWe.
Crepe Piano and Mantel Scarfs with )
fringe 't.'e.
Very line Pillows covered with crepe , '
tinned with gillSe. ( .
Down Sofa Pillows ItOc.
completed , Mr. Edison's mind will revert to"
even greater schemes of conquest ; and at
thin moment It Is safe to say that ho Is
planning out some great achievement which
will take the world more by storm than ,
have the great things ho has already ac
complished. THEODORE WATERS.
lliifUIoii'H Ariiirn Salve1.
The bent salve In the wo'ld for Cuts ,
nrulsos. Sores , Ulcers , Salt Uliouni , Fever
Sores , Tetter , Chapped Hands , Chilblains ,
ConiB and nil Skin Eruptions , and positively
cures Piles or no pay u > quicd. ! H Is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money
refunded. I'rlco 23 cents per box. For tnla
by Kuhn & Co.
.siit\ni.vaK.- : : . -
( | > iint < T--crs ! ( Miikillrttrr
Thni tinInviTiiliiriH. .
ST. LOUIS , Oct. 30 Counterfeit silver
dollars of greater weight and fineness than
thcso turned out from Uncle Sam's mlnti
arc- the latest , and St. Louis Is the ( list city
to suffer from them. 'For ' the last week St. .
Louis bank tellers have been accepting thai
couutei felts In question without hesitation.
It was only when they reached the St. Louis' '
siibtreastiry that their spurious character"
was detected. United ' .States Treasurer Small" '
bout OIK. to the director of the mint for assay. .
He received a reply In which the statement
was made. that , although the assay had not-
been completed , there was no doubt thatt
there watf nioro pure silver In the counterfeit
than In a genuine coin , anil that It fineness' '
exceeded that of the genuine. According to1
Colonel Small , th coins weight 13V& grain * '
more than the genuine , which weighs Uli'/V
grains. Its fineness Is 04 per cent , whllo >
that of the genuine Is but 90 per cent.
iIlAtlmn > limn Killed 'IIIFt Ciiiiiiiiiiloii
AUUO11A , 111. . Oct. 30. J'etcT Urnun , *
merchant of thlH city , WUH .shot iind In--
Htanlly Hilled late lust night by u high
wayman. Two thugs at at'ked Mr. Jlrnun
and In tin' Hciilllc onn of them Hcnt n bullet
through his partnnr's body ul o , rndlng hla
life. St-olng hla mlslnke ho llpd without
taking thi' proceeds of tbo d iy'H business
from thi' poekots of Mr. Hr.iun. The dead
highwayman hasi not licen Identllled.
American Lad > Corsets arw the liest.
INTERESTING FEATURES- THOMAS A. EDISON'S NEW IRON MINING I'LANT.