Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 5, 15 November 1919 — Page 12
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TIIK IUCIIMON'D PALLADIUM. SATURDAY, NOVKMBMlt 15. 1919
1 6? 677 How to Make and Do Useful Tilings 1
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For Boys to Make
RiCD'n9 a Telegraph Line. By Grant M. Hyde. To rig up a telegraph line and learn to talk over it by Morse rode la not beyond an average boy's ability and is a fascinating pustime. Here are some tdiort-cuts: Instruments. The necessary sending key and sounder for each station may be homemade, but, now that they can bo bought cheaply at almost any electric shop, it is better to buy them ready-made. They are usu
ally fastened to a board and will work best if left on the board. Line Only one wire is needed since the ground may always bo used to complete the circuit. Use insulated magnet wire; tho electric shop will advise you as to the size demanded by the length and by the use indoors or out. Don't try to run too far out-doors, because you will have continual line trouble, and don't stretch your line near any other wire. To ground an out-door line, fasten the ground wire to a heavy spike and stick it Into tho ground. To ground indoors, fasten the ground wires to water or gas pipos; if there ftro
none, use a two-wire circuit without a grounded wire. Battery In commercial wires, to enable one operator to call another, the circuit is always complete or "closed" with a battery in it. This requires a special kind of battery. You will use dry cells, and a "closed" circuit would soon exhaust
tneni. lueretore rig the wires ac-
WHAT-BOYS-CANBE
Worker In Merchant Marine Dy R S. Alexander
Four-Footed Thrift
By Ailnlia Belle Heard Take the busy, quarrelsome, lit-
Darney Wells liked to sail boats, tie red squirrel, for instance lie
From the little harbor town near is thrifty enough. And the gray
his borne he had gone to sea in squirrel, and the fox squirrel the every kind of a boat he could find! whole squirrel family in fact exthere, from rowboat to fishing icept the Chipmunk and other smacks. But he wanted his chance ( ground squirrels all putting nuts, at blue water sailing. So he I seeds, and grain into cold-storage
shipped aboard an old tramp t against the time when these good
steamer. At first Barney envied the boat swain and the quartermasters. While they were not licensed offi
cers, they were several steps above: sleep all winter his position. About this time he! cousin, or go had an opportunity to become fire-j squirrels prefer
things become scarce or give out altogether. If they did not do that they would have to migrate, like the birds, in search of food, or
like some of their hungry, and the the cold-.-.toi age
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cording to this diagram with two dry cells at each station and switches to "cut them in." When the lino is not in use, both switches should be set at A and keys closed so that there is no current, or battery In the circuit. To call from one station, tho operator first moves his switch to II, so as to put his battery into the circuit, then opens his key, and begins to call. Station 2, in answering, also switches to B to put in his batter les and Btrengthen the current. After talking, both stations close their sending keys and put the switches back to A so that the batteries are again idle. The switches may be made of tin and screws. ! I Soy 8' and Girls' Newspaper Son Ire '
CopyrlEht, 1913. by J II. Millar
j man. But he envied the quarter- : masters more than he did the ! asistant engineer and he liked tho j deck better than below so he re- ' mained a seaman. As time went on and through hard work and i study he became a quartermaster
he forgot his first envy and devil
oped another. He now looked upom
the bridge and envied the captain. Shortly after he was made a quartermaster he bought a book called "The Men on Deck." It was a manual of seamanship. lie stud ied it very carefully. Later he bought and mastered several other books referred to in "The Men on Deck." If he were preparing himself at the present time he could write to the United States Shipping Board in Washington, D.C., for fur
ther information and advice on thej
subject. But this hoard had not hen formed when Barney was a
quartermaster. Barney took a course in a nautical training school. He could have gone on as lie was and perhaps som" time been mad.' a li censed oilicer but he preferred to get theoretical training as well as sea experience. After he finished his course he took the examination for his license as an officer. Now as Barney walks the deck he is still envious of the captain, but his envy doesn't hurt so much, for he is now Mr. Wells and is a brand newly licensed third mate. !'.i s' and Girls' Newspaper Servhe , iV.pyriKtit. 1'JlO, by J. II. Millar
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Their homes are deep lio'es in the trees - their winter homes at any rate which are store houses well protected against tho weather, and which they can. themselves, protect against plundering neighbors. Besides these they take possession of holes in the ground, and here, too, pile up their winter suplies willi provident ton-thought. Then there is the heaver. His winter food is tho bark of trees, and you would naturally think thai might be secured the year round for the ta'.iug. The hark is (here, to he sure, so is (he Beaver, but bark without the soliciting and lla-
AN EVENING OF MIND-READING By Mo! lie Price Cook A raw November evening! Blustering wind outside! The family gathered in the living loom! Moth
er's mending handy; father's com- ; fy things placed where he can 1 reach them! j Get an accomplice your sister or ja friend. Fix a turban or hand 1 around her forehead. Announce 'your entrance to the living room by dapping your hands. Then introduce "Madam BaHboo, the great mystic mind reader." "Madam Bali boo lias just come from India, ' where she has learned to use Jut : wonderful natural powers of mind j reading from the magic of the Or-
Miuiam can read your minds tell your innermost se-'reis. will now have the room while
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"Mats" Made by Stereotyping By Grant M Hyde "Dad, I can't see how the type stays on those rollers on the Jiig press at the newspaper office. They run so fast that 1 would think it would all fly oil." "No, sony, there is no type on those rollers -only big solid stereotyped plates. It would never he possiJde to fasten all tJie thousands of pieces of type in a newspaper page onto a round roller. So what they do is make stereotyped plates. Then when the page is once made up. they can make as many plates
please, priming form ol a printers must put lids ol pieces of slugs, and other
even
fip ,biFy or eleciriciiy to hake the past vK. you pick on: some object on which fsftr iffyN j ,!l nvet VK'.'.r t'..u:dil. She will y y, . ,, f ,,, , MX i!,'u y'-"1 " u v!,"a n'-: N .. fi?iiM r"D- ! tun:.-. . v. v . .1 f H';', ; T 1 eM?H'-dZ0Z! i C.-1 t':e f .miJv I,) (ie ide U!K)tl v.v H : ' j . ! ' i "'' ' ,t -
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from it as they "To make th newsiaier pagi tog. tlier thou. ; type, linotype pieces of metal
are metal engravings, long I ime to do this and form is bulkv, heavy, am
ic pictures it takes a the page I Hal. Sup-
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! pose they wanted to duplicate it or make curved duplicates for the round rolls of a rotary press -1 they'd have to do it all over again, i But stereotyping is a quick, cheap j way of making such duplicates. "The first stop consists in makj ing a papier-mache (pasteboard) mold of the type form. This is donn I by wetting a sheet of pasteboard. I spreading it over a type form, and ' placing the form and pasteboard in a press that is lieated by steam
voring sap does not appeal, it seem, to even a wood eater, the Beaver first cuts down
trees, choosing poplars and quaking aspens, win n they can be had. then d ftly cuts off succulent twigs aad short, lengths of branches m
their tender bark they are FUCeuleill These he carrie: built of mud and deep under water, ture dinners when
rover, n ; and ten into hi Uicks, oi to keep the wo;
ei". house buries for fuel has
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second, fourth, filth .
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mind reading stunts Some are nev er gtn ss ers, ;is they demand memory. ( Hie supposed mind-n stance, learned all the
a. using anutnting rhe t' n.'n iues-ei-i'a!. All
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had a picture show. I saw some, Absurd Pupil - "I wouldn't be sur wounded soldiers. The Bed Cross ' prised tliey say fools can multi
'Well, how stupid you sure! Can't multiply by twenty-five. I bet do it in less than no
turned cold and the lre s have withdrawn into themselves the sweetness that spring sunshine will again turn to running sap. They are not food hoarders, these little creatures of the wild, they put by only enoueh to last them until Hie next harvest. It is
for inin the
British Museum in order to perform her coin-reading tricks and became known as a great telepathist. Your ingenuity will help you enlarge upon the suggestions here
giv en.
or si; noum every
was helping them. Josephine Harris. Baxter School, grade 3B.
ply
very rapidly nowadays. Mary Jane Sehdlim
er.
interesting Boys' and Copyright
to watch them do it. Sirls Newspaper Service 1 !!!. by J. H. Millar
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Always have a code word nal which is not too proed -and change your signals other time so they cannot be detected. and ('oris' Newspaper Servtrt; yi i.glo. 1 :!:. by J. II. Mdlar
ard. The result is a matrix, or
mat, that contains a mold of all the type in the form. "The mat is then placed in a casting box, and molten metal is pound over it. After flowing into all the depressions in the nut the metal hardens into a plate that is an exact copy of all the type and will print the same words and pictures. If the casting mold is i .lived, tho mat is bent, and the resulting plate is curved for the rotary press. Many plates may b" mad" from one mat. "Distributors of newspaper articles, ads. or pictures, often use die pi eces to save extra typesett ing. Tluy set up the type of their articles, make many stereotype copies or plates of it, and send tliese 'boiler plate' copies to the news papers." li'ivs' arol I'.irls' Newspaper Servie. Copy i ight, 1 '.!!. by .1. II. Millnr
1HE-WISHING pLANK-llPJll
M. OX ' WILLI -.wirfltt-t LiK AJt
As Badydear guided the bigi plane towards the little Swiss village where Khe was going to tell j Signor Angelo more of the kid-j napping of Jack and Jane, she tried; to think of ways In which she and 1 Captain Brave might get somoi i trace of the men who stole the chil-j idren. But there seemed to be no! tway of finding out who they were or where they had taken Jack and Jane. 1
After she liad been flying for two or three hours she found herself to take Jack and Jane away, but over the grape country in northern Italy where she and Captain Brave and the childn n had visited w ith Como and his family. "Perhaps Como might lodp us," she said to herself as l)i big plane whirred along. She looked at the maps Captain Brave had given her and decided as nearly as she could where Como's home was. Then
i she headed fur it. At last she came ! to the village she knew to be a few j miles from Como's house and then, circling low m ar the ground a lit-
I tie way beyond, she saw Como's
i house and landed in a field near it. He was very much surpriced, i though, w hen he saw only Lady'dear climb out of the machine.
"Where are Captain Brave and' the little folks?" he said. j "The children have been kid ! I napped and Captain Brave is try-, j ing to find them," replied Bady-' 'dear. "Iam going to get Signor Angelo, the man the children told ; you about. Perhaps he can help.' The kidnappers left a note saying that Signor Angelo ordered thein
we're not sure he didn't. Do you suppose that you could help us?" Then, wliile Como listened in
tently. Ladydear told him liow the; children had Leen stcden. and howl the note had been left at flie hotel I to fool Captain Brave and Lady dear into thinking that Sir or An I gelo was the man respon.A' l" for1 the stealing of Jack and Jane. Como thought a minute and then said: j "If the men belong to the band which Signor Angelo helped pun-' ish they will be able to hide the, children as long as they want to. I I'm afraid, for they have so many ' members helping (hem that they can keep a watch on the police,' you. Captain Brave and S'gnor!
RIDDLE Wlijit is the difference between fly and a person? Betty K. I (Answer will appear next week.) Angelo and move the children to another hiding place the minute anyone gets close to where tho children now are. I'll try to think of some way to help, though." Ladydear climbed back into the plane and headed again for the lit tie Swiss village. She was sad. though, for she had hoped that Como, because he was so bright and knew so many people, migJit be able to help her. Two hours later she arrived in the Swiss village and landed nearWidow Aar's home. She rushed into Wido Aar's house long enough to tell her of the stealing of the children and then, taking Widow Aar along, hurried to tlie chalet where Signor Angelo was staying