The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 8

HcaitSi- Economy The price of platinum has gone up greatly within, the last, three months. It is now an ounce. By January 1 it will probably be up to $40. There is a growing fear among the users of the metal that the supply in this country will be cornered and put iip to even a high price. A member of the gold and silver refining house voiced the sentiment of a A Diamond Talk The Bestthe Choicest Gift of all-a Diamond.

Hi JZsy AS X' The pleasure of Christmas eiviiis 1 can be greatly enhanced by select as' "in the case of the rags the pulp is bleached and washed and into the midst of the revolving knives of the beaters, and the coloring and sizing added. The tints and colors of the finished product depend upon its treatment here. The sizing which is put into it at this point', keeps the finished product from absorbing the ink which we apply in writing letters of, if book paper, in printing upon it. From tne beaters the. pulp is placed what the known as.

"stuff chests" and is kept agitated until it comes time to pump it into the paper machines. From this point the early making ot the paper proper by, hand is easily understood, and the modern automatic method is even more interesting. Before the intrpduction of the automatic method, the fibre, as it came from the beating machine, was laid out in a sheet upon a wire sieve which acted as a mold at the same time alowing the water to drain The pulp, thus in the, form of ing your gift our store. There's true character in every article we it great many of the users of the metal in a remark h'e made the other day. "The outlook is certainly very discouraging," said the dealer.

"If the price of the metal goes much higher I do not know what we will do. The situation Is alarming. "So far as I know there isn't an ounce of the metal being mined in this country, and the mines in Russia are practically inactive. The labor troubles over there are playing hob with many business interests. HOW PAPER IS MANUFACTURED sen.

You can buy Diamonds from us with perfect confidence not only because of our Tecord of 1 in-. years of honorable dealing but because our diamonds are selected by men FROM" RAW MATERIA! TO THE "Take the jewelry trade. A short time ago platinum was lised very extensively in connection with 14-karat gold. Now there isn't a bit of it being of experience keen judges of diamond values and who select only the finest FINISHED PRODUCT a wet sheet, was turned upon a ieit nr. A TirPO sd nut into the desired thick- quality of stones.

One of our important features is the developing of original ideas and the artistic mounting of dainty pieces. OF RAGS OR WOOD A Few SU ggest i ons Fo 1 1 Gathered from Dreary Forests or City Alleys Work at the Factory-Finished Products By Arnold Grant used that way. Its use to the jewelry trade is confined almost entirely to diamond setting. It is used to give color to the stones, and, of course, the higher it goes up in price the costlier such diamonds will become." Platinum is used in the manufacture of many articles of commerce, and nothing has been discovered that can take its place. It enters into the manufacture of telephones, but not enough to affect the cost of them to the public.

The. raw material for our modern nesses. It is said that the paper which Benjamin Franklin used for printing purposes was made in this manner. The machine which has taken the place of this crude and slow process receives the pulp upon a moving endless wire cloth which is supported by a series of metal rollers so set that a perfectly even surface is maintained. By a.

lateral motion of the rolls, the fibres are simultaneously made to interlace. As the pulp hastens on, much of the water which it contains passes through the meshes of the wire cloth and, soon, the web of pulp comes to rollers covered with felt and here leaves the wire cloth for a journey upon endless, rolls of woolen felt. It is carried between the rolls of several presses and then onto heated cylinders where the paper is I we4 Dentists use the metal extensively in the making of plates, and these have gone up in price. In the manufacture of incandescent electric light bulbs platinum plays on important part. The short intake wires which pass through the glass and carry the electric current to th'e filaments must be of this material, as it expands Buying Direct form the Manufacturer we save the Middleman's Profit.

Mail Orders Promptly Filled. Anything pictured here forwarded immediately' postage prepaid, on receipt of the price, ami delivery i and contracts equally with glass at Large New Illustrated Catalogue Free. Send us your name and address on a postal card and we will mail at once our new catalogue. dried. To give the paper a glossy or.

glazed surface or other finished appearance, it next goes through machines -known as "calenders." The calenders are equipped with peculiarly adapted metal rolls arranged one above another in several tiers. Through these the paper passes under pressure. The paper comes from the machines in webs sometimes as different places the depths of a dreary forest orthe back streets of a crowded city. In other words, the raw material is either rags or wood. The city rag picker pays one rate for all the rags he buys, but, after he gets them to his headquarters, they are sorted into numerous bins or boxes.

The cotton ones go to the makers of paper and others to makers of certain kinds of clothing. After being sorted they are baled by machinery. The' wood which goes into pulp for paper is chiefly spruce and poplar. This is becoming scorce both in the United States and in Europe, and the paper mills in this country bring large quantities from Canada, where in the districts- of Algoma it is plentiful. Arriving at the paper factory, the wood in th form of logs is piled up over awide area.

It is not unusual to find 75 to ICO acres of pulp wood and factory buildings in connection with one paper -mill. In the United States there are nearly 800 paper and pulp mills, and the value jof the products which' they produce is more than $127,000,000. The nap rf xrrnr mi In rla "hnnlr nnlv n.hmit A A THE LEADING JEWELERS different temperatures. No other metal does this. Platinum has also uses in analytical and technical laboratory work which no other metal will serve.

In photography it produces a picture which' is regarded as absolutely permanent. If Russia should prohibit the exportation of platinum it will make trouble in the business and scientific world. And in the trade it is regarded as not unlikely that- the Russian government may take some such action owing to great as 160 inches in width and often at a speed of 300 feet per minute. The wide rolls are next split in narrow ones and rewound. The fine grades of paper, of course, require, a very high' finish, and EVERY ARTICLE SOLD IS FULLY GUARANTEED AND WE'LL CHEERFULLY REFUND MONEY IF ANY ARTICLE PURCHASED DOES NOT PROVE JUST AS REPRESENTED.

the disturbed state of the empire. Min-1 ers, it is said, cannot be obtained to this extra smoothness is given by means of supercalenders. In the supercalen-ders the rollers are alternately of iron and compressed paper. The machines which cut the rolls of bells can tell him any better, although the block. Mrs.

Dash suddenly remem they make more noise. paper into sheets can be set for the very many different sizes desired. The sheets as cut are delivered by a system of tapes onto tables which stand about get out the ore. Nearly all of the metal now exported fronj, Russia is in the form of ore. The United States imported in the fiscal year ended in June last, 9,269 pounds of valuted at $2,678,546.

This was more than the world's annual production fifteen years ago. Gold is worth today $20,067 an ounce, while platinum, worth $36 an ounce, is still going up. Ders mat tms is ner corner ana sne puus- the bell rope, giving it a second jerk because the first did not seem loud, enough. She keeps a tight grip on the and when the car has come close to the crossing she pulls once GOOD ADVICE FROM OiBKOSlUlOTORMAfl TELLS HOW PERSONS ON STREET CARS OVERWORK BELL FOR STOPS. two and a half feet high.

A girl at each one of these tables scrutinizes each sheet and her trained eye quickly discovers a defect or spot no matter how "This is the signal for Mrs. Blank to take notice of what is going on. She- v.i:,-; 4-1, 4-1, 4- to think that the car will be stopped a little more quickly if they pull the bell rope twice or three times. Two bells really are the signal for 'go and three bells means back up and as these signals are used only by conductors in directing the motormen the latter get badly mixed when in crowded cars people give repeated at the rope. "It's really amusing sometimes to see themselves when they are intent on getting off at a certaint corner and are afraid that the car will be run past the Blatnk, who is a keen business man and wants to be in.

plenty of time, rings half way down JUDGE E. H. ELLIS DIED ON SUNDAY band rang for the corner and that her friend Mrs. Dash has" emphatically signified her intention of getting off She does not even-notice that the' brakes are being applied and that the car is being slowed So she rings a. couple of times more.

It it any won-7 der that we 'are all" getting gray head ed?" OF WAS A WELL KNOWN JURIST GREEN BAY. a half century, but it has now come to take place of rags to a very great extent. The high price of rags about the time of the civil war assisted greatly in the introduction of wood as a substitute. In making paper from rags, the rags are first sorted and the dust is eliminated from them. Girls do thfs work by the aid of wire screens through which the dust sifts.

They also sort the rags into different colors and cut off the buttons on garments. After the rags are cut up into pieces two inches long, they go'intd a washing tub, where they are stirred iy of revolving machinery, care being taken that no dirt shall be ground into the fibre. The pulp in this form may be bleached by. a bleaching, powder which', irrespective of its former color, brings it to a creamy white. "Next the pulp goes into the beating machine where it is thoroughly cut up and mixed by chemical knives.

Here the coloring and sizing are put in before it is ready for the wonderful paper-making machines. Where the pulp is made from, wood, the logs are brought from the acres of log piles about the factory and sawed into short lengths and, by an ingenious device, the bark is stripped from each Next the lengths" of wood are ground into mere chips, after which they go to the digesters huge tanks where they afe dissolved by cooking with sul-. phurous acid. One of the digesters will thus handle 10 or 12 tons in a day. Next, The following interview, published in The Oshkosh Northwestern, applies equally in Appleton "Speaking of signals, said a well known motorman on the" city lines, "I wonder sometimes if half the people of this town know the proper bell for stopping a car.

A hundred times a day some woman, and very often some man will ring th'e bell on the car three or four times in order to remind the motorman that he promisied to stop at the next corner, or to reinforce a preliminary ring which was probably intended only to put the motorman in a receptive attitude for the next ones. 'There would be a good deal less confusion if th'e people were rriore careful about these things, and there might be better service if the men operating the cars were credited with a little, Was Judge of Circuit Court of the Tenth District From 1872 to 1879. Was Highly Regarded in the State. rapidly the machines are running. Each defective sneet is thrown into a large' box to the left of each girl.

The paper which is to be ruled now goes in the various sizes to an automatic machine equipped with fingers which are little short of being human in their The sheets are placed in a pile at one end of the machine within reach of the mechanical fingers, which pick up one sheet at a time with great rapidity and send it on its way to little wheels the fine edges of Nvhich act as pens in marking the lines. As the sheets, one by one, come in contact with these wheels, they are ruled on both sides, another set of circular pens from working in unison with those on top. Where the writing paper is to be folded into small double sheets, it goes to still another machine which makes the creases and folds with great acuracy. Then in the shipping rooms th'e scenes are varied. Part of the paper is put up in boxes.

Partis placed in packages and sealed, the packer standing at a table beside a small gas fire in which, at intervals, he holds a stick of sealing wax before applying it to the cover of the package. The larger packages are book paper which requires a gloss and finish much the same as writing paper. "MESSIAH" chart now open at Woelz Drug store. sense. One bell rung when about half 4 way along the block toward the corner at which one wants to stop, is enough to tell the motorman that you want to stop there- No number of Judge E.

Holmes Ellis, former "circut judge of the Tenth judical district, one of the best known men- in Wisconsin, died Sunday at Jus home in Green Bay of old age. Eighty years old, unable to practice because of failing health for the last five years, one attack followed another until the last illness a month ago. Judge Ellis was born in Green Bay Aug. 26, 1826, and spent every year of his life but four there. He began the study of law in the office of Henry S.

Baird in the days when law schools were unknown. He was admitted to the bar when 21 years old and moved to Manitowoc, where he engaged in the practice of law until 1851, when he returned to Green Bay. in 1886 and 1889 he was candidate for the supreme court. In 1872 he was elected circuit judge, serving until 1879, when sickness caused him to resign. Judge Ellis was a lifelong democrat and is known in judicial and political circles all over During Cleveland's second administration he was postmaster and served as and alderman at different times during his early life.

f' TE -TIE TO SAVE IS WEALTH AWAITS THE TINDER OF PLATINUM THE METAL IS GROWING SCARCER AND IS MUCH MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD. A Little Chap can give more annoyance than a serious injury. There are months of discomfort ahead, jdue to chapping and ronghen-ing of the skin, unless you have a perfect remedy at hand. The one we think perfect is our Perfection Cream LOTION If you think otherwise after testing it come back and. get your money.

What will actually happen will be that you will always keep it on hand. 25 cents Wages afe high and work is plentiful. Lay aside a sum for the rainy day that is sure to come. Our Home Savings Banks will help you. 3 Per cent interest paid on savings.

NEW TYPEWRITER AT COURT HOUSE GIVES ENTIRE SATISFACTION The new book and record typewriter, recently purchased by the county board Baltimore, Md. One of the most interesting pursuits in America today is the search for platinum. Wealth awaits the discoverer of the metal in paying quantities upon this continent. Its rapidly increasing use makes it one pf the most valuable metals in the world Heretofore its production has been limited chiefly to Russia and South' American countries. Russia furnishes 95 per cent of the world's supply, but there are many indications that quantities of it will be mined in the United States in a few years at the most.

Several American firms have sent out their prospectors to search for it. From tune to time rumors circulate that large deposits of platinum have been discovered in the United States, but no such mine is being worked so far as the in formation of the trade goe3. entire satisfaction. When the machine arrived it was slightly out of order but 0. mm an expert from Chicago h'as placed it in good condition and it will be a valuable instrument in county offices.

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