The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 March 1912 — Page 8

Review of the World’s Events

CHARLES DICKENS, famous novelist, paid two visits to America, and now that the one hundredth anniversary of his birth is almost Tiere, the date being Feb. 7, it is a matter of interesting conjecture to ponder over the likely trend of his pen if he could come back and write of things and persons as he would find them today. Master of human mimicry and droll as well as quaint in his study of mankind in his own time, it is not too much to say that were he living now the books he could write would set the world by the ears. Are we growing better or worse? Are there more Martin Chuzzlewits and Old Scrooges than of yore? Are the Uriah Heeps more numerous? Are the simple, faithful Peggottys scarcer? What would Dickens say? Shunning ostentation, Dickens requested when he lay on his deathbed that no monument should mark his burial place. And so they laid him in Westminster abbey without display, and the only epitaph that was written was this: “Charles Dickens, 1812-1870.” Are men of the type of Charles Dickens, author of the Immortal “David Copperfield,” fewer today than in the years gone by? Who will say they are more numerous? A SYMBOLIC TOWER A symbolic tower 850 feet high is planned as one of the features of the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco. The plans call for a granite, anchored base 220 feet square; a shaft eighty-five feet square, with corners rounded, of steel construction, and with marble or terracotta veneering, rising 625 feet above the base and sur-

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Charles C. Moore, Who Is Guiding a Great Exposition. mounted by a large glass and steel, globe eighty-five feet in diameter. At night the globe will be illuminated. The approximate cost of the structure will be $1,000,000. The tower is designed to serve as an observation point during the exposition and subsequently may be of advantage to the government as a lighthouse and signaling station, weather observatory and wireless station. It will be located on the side of a knoll overlooking the Pacific ocean and the Golden Gate, and the top will have an altitude of 1,100 feet above sea level. This is only one of the wonders undertaken by the exposition officials under the leadership of President Charles C. jMoore of San Francisco. Mr. Moore • ' is an engineer of note, and his profession is proving of great value to him as the preparations advance. UNALLOTTED LANDS Secretary of the Interior Walter L. Fisher believes that the leasing system is the only means by which the public domain can be preserved for all the people, though it often seems to inflict hardships upon the individual. He had in mind the unappropriated public lands of the west when he expressed this opinion and said it was , his intention to pla6> these lands in the possession of bona fide?settlers as quickly as possible. K M A LANDMARK it has positively been fixed that work < will be started on the tearing down of Madison Square Garden Feb. 5 by the company that has purchased it. The plans for the new commercial building which is to be erected in its place was approved several months ago. The new structure will be twenty-four stories high. The top four floors will be Used for offices, the remaining twenty for lofts. CORNERING BEEF Conservative estimates of the length of the Chicago indicted beef packers’ trial when it began placed its duration at between four and five months. The defendants number ten and are J Ogden Armour, president of Armour & Co.; Louis F. Swift, president of Swift & Co.; Edward F. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co.; Charles H. Swift, director of Swift & Co.; Edward Tilden, president of the National Packing company; Edward ’Morris, president of Morris & Co.; Arthur Meeker,

director of Armour & Co.; Francis A. Fowler, director of Swift & Co.; Thomas J. Connors, superintendent of Armour & Co., and Louis H. Heyman, manager of Morris & Co. The government charges that these ten men, accused of violating the Sherman anti-trust law, have dominated the meat industry of the United States and fixed prices since 1880. « •? “DEBIT AND CREDIT” Will you come to my divorce dinner? read a note sent t“ a dozen friends of the “widow” made by law. And the dozen invitations were speedily accepted. The dinner in itself was only one of the many which we hear of nowadays, but it hadn’t proceeded far when it discovered that the divorcee wore. In addition to the usual garments and impedimenta, a plain gold ring on the little finger of her left hand. When this strange equipment was noticed swift questions flew. “Why, that is my wedding ring, which I had cut down to fit my little finger, to be worn as a public sign of my new estate.” Is this new fad to displace the wedding ring forever? somebody asks. Surely if divorces continue at the rate that now prevails the debit and credit sides of marriage wilj soon balance. ‘ . •6 P TAFT AT DEDICATION When the new government building was dedicated in Columbus, 0., Jan. 30 President Taft attended. On the previous day he was the guest of the Tippecanoe club at Cleveland. After the dedication he was entertained at a luncheon by the chamber of commerce of Columbus. r * M CROWN JEWELS The Portuguese government, it is reported', decided that all the jewels found in the various royal palaces—at Lisbon, Cintra. Mafia and elsewhere —after the flight of King Manuel and his relatives- on Oct. 5, 1910. “do not belong to the dethroned family, as at first supposed, but are the property of the republic.” Hence the cabinet proposed to sell all these things and get the useful money for them. They are mostly relics of Portuguese conquests —crowns, swords, rings, scimitars and such trophies, incrusted with precious stones and of enormous intrinsic value, in addition to their historic interest. . * NEW COMMANDMENTS L Ten codimandments for wives and ten commandments fpr husbands were recent literary diversions, and then came six rules for physicians, written by one of’ their number. This physician, Dr. R. L. Graham, advises members of the medical profession as follows: Never permit your patient to become familiar. J Ignore rich patients most. Never explain, for you are paid for your wisdom and not for your instruction. Don't tell all you know. Don't dicker with deadbeats; drop them. Keep your office hours promptly and study to improve the methods of business. A discussion followed the reading of Dr. Graham’s rules, and rqborters were shut out. Many home discussions were precipitated by the commandments for wives and husbands. Truly, all the world is kin, and we're an argumentative lot! SENATOR “JOHN SHARP” Congress -is now getting down seriously to work. There is usually little done before the holidays, and after New Year's it ordinarily requires about one month for the solons to warm up to the game. Now thej’ are getting their gait, and we may expect much talk and some performance till far into the summer. On the Democratic side in the senate John Sharp Williams of Mississippi is constantly assuming a more important position. “John Sharp,” as everybody calls him. 4 once was minority leader of the house, and he is rapidly forging into the same relative, position in the senate. although Senator Martin of Virginia is the titular minority leader of that body. Williams beat ex-Governor Vardaman in Mississippi after a hotly contested fight. Then Percy beat I** ilp I?"’ John Sharp Williams, Influential Factor In United States Senate. Vardaman again, after which the former governor turned the tables and defeated Percy to the tune of three or four to one, “John Sharp” has kept clear of the recent controversy between the two, doubtless for the reason that one of them already Is his colleague and the other soon will be, and senatorial courtesy must be observed though the heavens fall.

: HUMOR IN VERSE J The Critic on the Hearth. I know a mellow, worthy pair, Who many a wedded year have seen And stoutly faced their wear and tear. Learning to bear things and forbear ° And strike love’s golden mean. Yet ’twlxt these two one troublous cloud Has spread that time falls to disperse. And, spite of all forbearance vowed, As with undying force endowed, The thing gets worse and worse. ■e Yet by no deadly sin they’re racked And urged to such undying IreNay; they are proud of this one act. Which is the futile way. in fact. That each will poke the fire! —London Standard. The Lost Child. The child was lost! No matter where t His parents looked he was not there. They searched the attic through and through. They searched the deep, dark cellar, too; 45 They went out on the roof, and then They searched the cellar dark again; They looked behind the chiffonier. But ne’er a kiddle did appear; They opened all the empty trunks* They looked behind the beds and bunks. They looked beneath the parlor chairs. They looked behind the kitchen stairs. They sought him at the house next door, They sought him at the candy store. They looked all through the eight day clock. They sent alarms all round the block; But, though they sought him everywhere. The child was lost—he was not there! Then on-«~smdden his mamma Resolved to seek for him afar. “Bring me mjl hat! Be quick!” quoth she. “/This dire suspense is killing me.! y fear his wandering little feet 'Have led him out upon the street!” And then, oh, joy, the child was found! What cheers all through the house resound! Asleep he lay, he and the cat, Curled snugly up on mother’s hat— He with the cat, the cat with him. Behind the feather on the brim! —New York Times. Woman’s Will. Men, dying, make their wills, but wives Escape a task so sad. Why should they make what all their lives The gentle dames have had? —John Godfrey Saxe. A Domestic Scramble. Is it true the house is haunted when each window has.a shade? Shall a mistress scold because she sees a / large spoon holder maid? (The maid may take a cup and saucer, im~pudent young thing! Should you always come to breakfast when you hear the napkin ring? If the water pitcher to the floor, will it make the butter ball? (She’s often let the salt shaker and never wept at all.) Is it true that for each window pane they’ll call a doctor later; That, though your stove may have a grate, there is a nutmeg grater? If you let the pepper box, then should you let the sugar bowl. The teapot stand and strainer eyes to see the finger roll? 0 And when the biscuit cutter did the knife handle the scraps? Let the picture wire to know and you'll find out these things, perhaps. —Woman’s World.

With the Short Story Writers

Attaching the Elephant

CHARLES B. LEWIS

The Circus and menagerieof\Jones & Jones were coming that The greater part of its menSgene consisted of the elephant Abduu amLAbdul had become old and no longer saw things with the friskiness of other days. lie was being most carefully watched when the show arrived at Clementsville. Jones & Jones had had to offer 50 cents on the dollar to their creditors at the last three stands, and when the exhibition at Clementsville was over they could not pay certain farmers fpr oats, hay and straw. One farmer, the largest creditor, refused to take a note of hand. His claim was for S4O, and he rushed to see Mr. Taylor, the lawyer, about it. “Your claim is good, and all we have to do is to attach something,” was the lawyer’s announcement. “As the elephant is the biggest and most valuable thing they have, we will attach him. The circus won’t move on without him. Your case will be settled within an hour after we attach him.” And so the elephant was attached. The constable saw the creditor, and arrangements were made to take Abdul, out to the farm. He figured that he was going to get a soft thing, and, much to the astonishment of the circus folk, he went along in a contented manner and finally brought up in the farmer’s barn. Then the real history of the case began. Jones & Jones left town with smiles. That meant that the suit would have to be adjourned when called and that ultimately it would be decided in the farmer’s favor; also that he would find himself with an elephant on his bands. He found that out even within the first hour. Abdul wanted from three to five barrels of water to wet his throat. It took an hour to bring it from the house. Then he wanted a quarter of a ton of the best hay to eat and the same amount to toy with as he stood up to meditate and feel sorry for those elephants that were still knocking around the country. Night had not yet come when he took a fancy to a certain beam in the barn and wrapped his trunk around It and pulled it from its place and used it for a baseball bat. Then he tore out the manger and used the slivers for toothpicks and went to

Timely Agricultural Topics

AYRSHIRE DAIRY COW’S __ POINTS OF EXCELLENCE. Gentle, Hardy Animal With a Healthy Appetite and Produces Milk Continuously. The Ayrshire cow in general is a handsome, sprightly looking animal of medium size, weighing at maturity about 1,000 pounds, red and white in color, the relative proportions of red and white being greatly varied and yielding readily to the taste of the breeder, says the American Cultivator. There have of late seemed to be more inquiries for Ayrshires with white predominating, but color is merely a matter of fancy and carries with it no excellence of dairy quality. In Scotland there is not the attention paid to color that there is in the United States, the dairy quality of the cow seeming to be about all that commands attention. The Ayrshire has a small, bony head; large, full eyes; dish face, broad muzzle, large mouth, upright horns, the size, whether slim or large, being a matter of local taste in breeding; long.

< “ ■ ' F- ; ■l* k , Sbwiß - ; " W ■Photograph by Farm and Ranch, Dallas, Tex. AYRSHIRE BULL. This bull is considered one of the finest animals of his breed.. He has all the marked characteristics of the good progenitor of dairy cattle, as described in the article printed herewith. Howie’s Fizzaway lives in Woodsville, N. Y.

slim neck, clean cut at throat; thin, sloping shoulders, with the spine rising a little above the shoulder blades; baqk level to setting on of tail, except a rise at the pelvic arch; broad across the loin, barrel deep and large, with ribs well sprung to give abundant room for storing coarse fodder, and wide through the region of the heart and lungs: milk veins large and tortuous, entering the belly well forward toward the fore legs; skin soft and

bed happy. The farmer again consulted the lawyer. The latter had been making elephants a study for the last four hours. Yes, all the cost of Abdul’s keep and all the damage he did while in the hands of the law would be assessed on Jones & Jones when the case was decided against them, as it surely must be. Just go right back home and give that elephant w hatever he wanted and it would be all right. On the second day AbcW broke his chains and pulled a ton of bay from the mow’. Then he wanted a drink, and when the farmer cut him off with five barrels of water he trumpeted wildly and broke up the fanning mill, the corn sheller and some stray boards and beams. « “Very irregular and improper on the part of Abdul,” declared the lawyer, but of course Jones & Jones will settle. They must settle. They must have him with their show.” On the third day Abdul demanded seven barrels of water, .half a ton of hay and most of the pumpkins growing on the farm and then broke down the doors and piled the fragments in a neat heap and set out on a voyage of discovery. He discovered the smokehouse and chicken coop and dairy house and upset them. He discovered the family well and yanked the pump out by the roots and threw it over the house. He discovered the house itself and smashed all the windows and doors. Then he passed into the orchard and pulled up twenty-one apple trees to show that he was no bluffer. He had leveled forty rods of fence and torn down a w r agon shed and tossed a reaper and mower sky high when he entered a mammoth mudhole and drowned. The law’yer said Abdul’s proceedings could be legally criticised, but that there was no question as to how the suit would go. There wasn’t. Jones & Jones came back and won it and made the county pay them $7,000 for the loss of their elephant while in the hands of a duly elected constable. And then Jones & Jones, the clown, the bareback riders, the tight rope walker and other circus people smiled and winked, and Lawyer Taylor realized he had had his chance and was not equal to the occasion. [5 A]

mellow, covered with a thick growth of fine hair. The Ayrshire is a tough, hardy cow, with a vigorous appetite and not too particular what she eats. While at pasture she goes to work rapidly, gathering what is most convenient, and when satisfied dies down to. chew her cud. ’ * The general appearance of an Ayrshire as you look at her is striking, being alert and full of life and reserved energy. She is a healthy cow, rarely having ailments of body or udder, and you seldom see an Ayrshire cow but that has four healthy quarters in her udder, giving a uniform quantity of milk well up toward calving. Many Ayrshire cows are dried off with difficulty. THE USES OF ALFALFA. Worth More In Money Value Than Glover or Timothy. Alfalfa in money value is worth 45 per cent more than clover and 60 per cent* more than timothy. One acre will pasture thirty hogs for six months. Ten milk cows can be fed on less than two acres six months by soiling. Three pounds make full feed for fattening lambs. Thirty-five pounds make a full feed for fattening steers. A lamb

will winter and thrive on two" pounds a day. Sheep fed on alfalfa will gain from eight to fifteen pounds in 75 to 100 days and double that with small grain ration, added. Steers will put on a pound to a pound and a half a day on straight alfalfa, and if fed grain rations will put on double that amount. Lambs wintered on alfalfa Will produce one to two pounds of wool more than when on range. Brood sows will do well all summer on alfalfa pasture alone and thrive on alfalfa hay in winter. Horses have been known to put on .six pounds a day when grain rations were fed also. Alfalfa is a great poultry feed when cut fine and mixed with cornmeal. This is also a good way to feed it to hogs in winter. One acre of irrigated alfalfa will produce 10,000 pounds, one acre in inclosed native pasture will produce 500 pounds, while one acre of range will average a production of 250 pounds. One acre of irrigated alfalfa will feed one steer 400 days, one acre of inclosed pasture will feed one steer twenty days. Putting it in the form of sheep it will show as follows: One hundred and sixty acres of irrigated alfalfa will run 1.600 sheep one year; 160 acres of inclosed pasture will run eighty sheep one year; 160 acres of range will run forty sheep one year. Apply these figures to the stock growing in arid regions, taking the proportions as given in round numbers and 160 acres of irrigated alfalfa will carry 146 steers for a year, and it would require something over eight sections (5,120 acres) of dry range to carry the same number of cattle, or. putting it briefly, one acre of irrigated alfalfa is worth as much as thirty-two acres of average dry range.—Denver Field and Farm.

Do You Want Home Trade?

Ladies, are you doing your trading at home? I don’t mean all of it, but so much of it as you can, asked Richard A. Haste in a magazine article. Before you send to the city are you giving your home merchant a chance to sell to you or to send and get what you want? You want this merchant’s help to make your home town a better place to live in. Now and then you want a donation of $5, $lO or $25 for a worthy purpose. It may be the building of a church or the establishment of a hospital or it may be the parking of a street. Are you doing all in your power to help this merchant in his business so that he may be able to give to these worthy objects? Are you advising your friends to

“Nd, thank you. I want what 1 asked for. Good day.” This quotation took the grand prize in a recent contest held by a magazine in the campaign against substitution in trade. You do not always get what you ask for when you order through a catalogue. It is very easy to make an article look better in a picture than it looks in reality, and this is done frequently in the catalogues. But there is a still more insidious and contemptible way of de-

* BY A MAN WHO KNOWS. * 4» Speaking in New York recerit- X X ly before an audience of bankers. * X railroad men and manufactur- -IX ers. Professor Perry G. Holden, T superintendent of agricultural ❖ Z extension in lowa, said: Y T “It s a question of producing ❖ 4> another bushel of grain per acre X X of soil. The time will cogie y X when every farmer, just as every X T doctor, will be required by the *-‘ X state to have a certificate to X X show his ability. We must grow • more grain per acre, and we .•> £ know that it can be done, for * 4 we have done it in lowa, and X every extra bushel of grain pro- £ * duced in lowa reduces the cost T of living in New York dt}'- A * “The farmer who now gets a X yield of thirty bushels of corn T per acre is just making a liv- ❖ X ing. He is not making money. £ T If be can prod ’ce thirty-five X bushels on the same land he T will have a little extra coin to * X spend for railroads, churches T and schools. If he cat. produce * X fOisty bushels he has doubled his ■ $ T profits, and if he can produce y forty-five bushels he has trebled X -his profits. Our experiments ’J’ * show that he can get over sev- -jX enty bushels out of an acre. X T : “In lowa we plant three ker- ❖ X nels of corn to a hill, and out of § * each hill we now get one X healthy stock with one ear of X * corn weighing eleven and one- * X half ounces. We ought to get a T three healthy stocks and three * X ears of corn. We are not look- X T ing for that all at once, but if X X we can increase the weight of X T the one ear of corn, for instance, 1 X by three ounces see what that 4 * will mean. It will mean ten X X additional bushels of corn per ❖ acre. It will mean 100,000.000 X A additional bushels in the ninety- X nine counties of the state. It X will mean additional profits of X * ‘ $5,000,000 for one year.” X X* ,

SAVE YOUR SOIL How to Prevent Your Valuable Land From Being Washed Away. When soils are likely to wash an ounce of prevention is worth jnauy pounds of cure. The best remedy, J. G. Mosia in Farm Progress, is a preventive e one. This applies especially to the formation of gullies on hillsides by which a farm may be completely'ruined in a very few years. When these ditches are small they may be filled with rubbish that will current of water and cause the to be deposited there whi<lMßll result in the filling of the ditch‘d The general washing that - takes place from the surface of kll hilly and even slightly rolling land should be looked after as well. The washing removes the best soil and lowers the productive capacity of very large areas of land. Much of this was not the best to begin with, and the removal of the thin top soil has rendered many tracts almost worthless. Silt and clay soils are much more liable to wash than sandy ones, because the particles are smaller, consequently more easily carried by water, and as these soils do not absorb the rainfall readily, because the pores are small, so there is more water to run off. While it is ijnpossible to change the inorganic constituents of soils to any appreciable extent, yet they may be treated in such away as to change the texture in a few years. This niay be done by incorporating organic matter in them. The partially decayed material cements the soil particles into granules or grains, giving it somewhat the porosity and looseness of a sandy soil. It is estimated that ten inches of loose soil will alnsorb two inches of rainfall.

AN APPEAL TO WOMEN.

trade at home, even if you can save a dime by sending away? Or do you belong to a soap club and get your teas, your sugar, your coffee aud a thousand other things sent you by mail and express? Have you, a collection of catalogues in your house to which you go when you want a rug dr a piece of furniture ? Are you always trying to get something for nothing? But that does not matter. While you are trying you are the worst possible enemy your own community has. You are falsg to your first civic duty. And all that you may do toward the improvement of your home (jiwu will be futile as long as the lifeblood is being drawn away.

CATALOGUE DECEPTIONS.

■ ceiving the public which some of these t concerns employ. ; They print both a picture and the i description of a piece of furniture, for > instance. According to the picture. It is elegant. Suppose it is a dining room ; table. The picture will show handsome five inch table legs. The reader is attracted at once. Even when he finds by- perusing the description’ that the table has two Inch legs he is not altogether disenchanted.

A SUNKEN COLONY Coney Island Squatters Constant* ly Fighting Shifting Sands. LIVE IN WORNOUT BOATS. In Spito of Incessant Digging to Preserva Their Queer Homes They Are Contented and Have the Laugh on Landlords. * Os the million of pleasure eeekert who visit Coney Island every summer few know that within a short distance is one of the most interesting colonies of squatters in the country, says the New York Tribune. They lire in ol<P hulks and patched up shacks, which are only saved from being bhried in the constantly shifting sea of sand arotmd them by daily shoveling and eternally digging. But as the tenants pay no rent and live lives of seeming contentment in their strange sand waste they don’t mind a little thing | like shoveling to keep from being wiped off the landscape. A few years ago a houseboat dri fed into this barren land, which faces Gravesend bay. The houseboat partv took a fancy to the quiet, secluded section of the bay and prolonged their ■ stay indefinitely. The presence of this one boat attracted others, and sootj there was quite a colony of ’’battered old hulks, tugboats that had been put on the pension list, scows that had made their last sea voyage in the long ago and all the odds and ends of worn- ! out craft that persons of limited means ! turn to use as houseboats. Some of the houseboaters came only for the summer and departed when th ■ cool weather arrived. A few were of the permanent kind of houseboaterstmen. single and with families, who had found that the solution of the rent problem was to live on the water and be free taxes and independent of landlords. As most of the colonists found it possible to get a living sufficient for their small needs from the water around them, it was at this tjme a very happy and contented colony. Then came a bombshell to shake the quiet contentment The secluded spot was invaded by an army of workmen, » who came with orders to fill in a part of the bay.. The colonists got orders to clear out. They defied the orders. They- were warned that there would be no way of escape by water afteV the operations were completed, as the bay would cease to be a bay in that particular part. The colonists said they didn’t care. Water or sand, it was all the same to them. They were there to stay. So the work went on, and in course of time the houseboats, the scows, the old tugs and the entire fleet were high and dry, and it was a case of stay perforce, for there was no way out, s Then some of the old era ft began to settle in the sand, and the fight for existence began. So long as there was a free scuttle in the top of the stranded craft the owner was content. All he Wanted was to be able tc let himself down into his sleeping quarters at night. In the cold weather the san<F was a positive advantage, for it kept the house air tight and warm. But the sand ruthlessly crept over the old hulks until it became necessary to dig away into the interior of the home, and often in the winter when the night had been stormy it became necessary to dig a Way out tn the morning. So the shovel became a part of the colonist’s outfit, as it was a case of dig or be buried alive. The tenant would go to sleep and wake up to find his hatchway as tightly closed as though bolted over his head, and, being unable to lift the lid of his prison, the squatter must have perished miserably but for assistance from without, . Wearying of the continued light with the sand, some of the colonists decided to build shacks. The submerged hulks provided foundations. A wornout canalboat houses “Old. Bob,” the patriarch of the colony. He is obliged almost dally to dig his old tub out of the encroaching sand and •is one of the first usually, to be sanded under when the stormy weather comes. By Proxy. He had the poet’s instinct for leaving practical matters to others. But his father-in-law to be did not know this. “Look here, young fellow,” he said, “I think it’s about time the date of your marriage with my daughter was fixed.” “Yes. perhaps,” the young man agreed. “But I am leaving that entirely to Ermyntrude.” “Ah! Is it to be a quiet or a stylish wedding?” “I think, sir,” answered the young man quietly, “I can leave that sWy in the hands of Mrs. Bullion.” “Yes, quite so,” nodded Mr. Bullion. “But a young fellow generally has some idea with regard to the expense—bridesmaids’ gifts, you know. And, by the way, what is your income?” “Well, that, sir,” said the young man modestly. “I am leaving entirely to you.”—Answers. y _ To Stop Eels’ Migration. The Danish government has undertaken to prevent the migration of eels from a portion of the Baltic sea into the outer ocean by means of a barrier of electric light. Fifty electric lamps are to be placed along a submerged cable between the island of Fano and the coast of Fyen. The eels migrate only during the dark hours, and it is believed this wall of light will keep them from passing.—Popular Mechanics. ' .