Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1915 — GOLD TAKEN FROM SWEEPINGS. [ARTICLE]

GOLD TAKEN FROM SWEEPINGS.

Thousands of Dollars Rseovsrsd From Wasts Of Silversmiths. Recovering the lost values that lie !n the floor cracks, the ceilings and the sweepings of Jewelry workshops, sllverwars factories and other places where precious metals are used has become a well established business. Once the waste dump received the sweepings and filings of jewelers and silversmiths, no attention being paid to the wealth thus lost and destroyed. By new methods of refining grains of gold, silver and platinum are saved In amounts which run up to thousands of dollars in value. One concern which has built up a big Industry along these lines has paid as high as $6,000 a ton for sweepings which once found their way Into city dumps. For essaying sweepings a series, of one ounce samples are treated and a variation of a hundredth of a grain of gold In an ounce means a difference of sls a ton to an offer to purchase the* refuse. Sweepings received In the rough are first burned In specially built furnaces and the ashes carefully collected and ground to a fineness that permits their passing through a fine mesh sieve. The different grades of sweeps are then mixed. The flux and litharge are added in the mixture and the entire lot put In a briquetting machines, which forms the mass into bricks for smelting. The lead Is separated in the first process from the gold, silver and platinum, then the silver from the other two, and then the gold from the platinum.—New York Sun.

Our Yearning for the Hill^ How much of the Influence of early environment, of those habituated reactions which comprise for each one of us the iron ring of his destiny, there is In even our deeper attitude toward the external world —toward what we call Nature! Not long ago I spent many weeks in the prairio country of the west, a sense of oppression constantly increasing in weight upon my spirit. Those endless, level plains! Those roads that stretched without a break to infinity! A house, a group of bams, a fruit-orchard, now and then a clump of hardwoods, alone broke the endless, flat monotony of snow-covered fields —no, not fields, but infinitudes where a single furrow could put a girdle about an entire township In my home land! My soul hungered for a hill; my heart craved, with a dull longing, the sight of a naked birch-tree flung aloft against the winter sky. Back through the endless plains of Illinois the train crawled, away from the setting sun. But the next daylight disclosed the gentle rolling slopes of the Mohawk valley, and before many hours had ..passed the Berkshire hills were all about, like familiar things recovered. The camelhump of Greylock to the north was sapphire-blue and beckoning. The nearer mountains wore their reddish mantles, pricked with green, above the snowy intervals, and laid their upreared outlines stark against the sky. Shadowy ravines let Into their flanks, suggestive of roaring brooks and the mystery of the wilderness. The clouds trailed purple shadow-anchors; the sun flashed from the ice on their sacred ledges. And a weight seemed suddenly lifted from my spirit The words of the ancient Psalmist came to my lips unconsciously: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills'. From whence cometh my help! My help cometh from God.” —Walter Prichard Eaten In Harper’s Magazine.

Is Vocational Training EnoughT If man could live by bread alone we might rest with vocational education. But by that very intellectual unrest that makes for evolution he cannot. Having eaten, he must learn to use the life he has preserved. But while sustenance is theoretifcally a very simple problem being only a question of how much you can earn and what you can buy with it, the use one makes of the vital energy into which life transforms is the most complex and difficult of all questions. Religion, ethics, education all bear upon it, intersect and blend so that it is almost as difficult to say what teaches one to live as to answer the question of how to live itself. It is enough to observe that education has a part here which is not vocational, and which is enormously important. This is the province of liberal education. Its services are indirect, because its effects must be transmitted into the art of living; they are uncertain in the same proportion as all life is illusory and never to be confined in measures made by man. Nevertheless, although these services are definite in their breadth, at least we can specify some of them. We know, for example, that the mind must be able to grasp abstractions; and so we apply mathematics. We know that it must have perspective and, background if it is to understand the passing show of brief reality allowed it; and so we instill history- We know that it must be able to interpret character, to feel the loftiest emotion, to perceive beauty and enjoy iti and so we give it literature and the arts. Man is to be liberalised. He is to be taught to comprehend life.—Henry S. Can by in Harper's Magaslne.

Straws in Pies. A straw such as is used at soda fountains, cut in two and stood upright In the center of a rhubarb or berry pie when baking will allow the steam to escape and prevent the juice -mining over the edgu. . .