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forms it is pressed between steel roUers into 

 a ribbon form, wide and thick enough for the 

 formation of cards of matches. The cutting 

 follows and then the dipping. 



Various forms of hardwood and pulp 

 matches are exhibited next. Fig. 8 shows a 

 match with a twist in the center. This is 

 solely for novelty. The crook is put in while 

 the wood is undergoing steaming. When 

 dried out the match becomes stiff and the 

 buyer wonders how the turn was made in the 

 shaft without splintering it. Some wonderful 

 effects can be made with pulp matches. It is 

 possible to adorn such matches with pieces of 

 glass, worked in at the moulding, as in Fig. 5. 



This results in an ornamental match, which 

 looks attractive among the smokers' effects. 

 One also finds engraved hardwood matches oc- 

 casionally. 



Fig. 10 shows a queer form of hardwood 

 match, made with a bushy top by slivering 

 some of the wood. This slivered part is satu- 

 rated with oil, so that when ignited there is 

 quite a torch of light made for a minute or 

 more. Hardwood engraved matches of the 

 nature shown in Figs. 11 and 12 are coming 

 out in elaborate smoking rooms found in 

 clubs and hotels. They are expensive, but the 

 buyer does not care for that so long as he 

 gets a novelty. Okoroe Rice. 



Lutf) Hicitman's Invention, 



Luth Hickman used to run a sawmill in 

 east Tennessee, and kept the wolf away from 

 the front door of his residence by throwing 

 sawdust into the animal's eyes. 



One fall, several cvclrs since, he 



INVEXTUjN. 



• untract to supply the "bridging" for the 

 •sleepers" in the new Ducktown hotel. The 

 hid he made was so low that not a few of 

 his friends advised him to make an assign- 

 ment before he even started on the job. 

 But he said he would stick to it or bust. 

 So he started in on the work, and before 

 he had '>0 per cent of it completed he was 

 the loser by considerable. This naturally 

 <-aused him much worry, and he sat up late in 

 the evening nursing said trouble. 



One P. M. very close to A. M. he ran 

 :i.ross a scheme to stem the tide of bank 

 niptcy. Then he began to smile. He smiled 

 -II vehemently that his wife was awakened by 

 I he noise. She sat up and at once began 

 to scold him. But that did not hurt Luth's 

 feeling, for he was quite happy over his 

 liright idea and in spite of his wife he 

 ilozed off into slumber, and mi.xcd snores 

 with smiles. 



Before breakfast next morning he got up 

 and dressed. Then he sauntered down to 

 the mill several furlongs distant. There he 

 took off his coat and cuffs and, procuring 

 a file, coldchisel and hammer, began to tinker 



with the 36-inch band-saw. He measured 

 the teeth on the circular saw and their dis- 

 tance apart, and with the file made holes 

 in the other so that the teeth in the circular 

 would fit into the holes perfectly. In other 

 words, he so fixed the circular saw that it 

 would permit the band to cune around it. 

 .\fter accomplishing this he set the machin- 

 ery going. 



Picking up some studding he placed it 

 against the circular portion of his invention 

 until it had cut into a considerable length, 

 then he bent it over to the band part and 

 severed it on an angle which made perfect 

 bridging. 



The old way took four men laboring con- 

 stantly for half a day to do what could 



NC AND I.UTH. 



be done by one individual in twenty-five min- 

 utes witli Luth 's scheme. 



When these four hands came to work as 

 usual that morning and saw their profession 

 damaged by the labor-saving device they were 

 disgusted and moody. One of them had seen 

 tlie moon through the trees, so understood his 

 bad luck ; but the other three were at a 

 loss to know how they came by such ad- 

 versity. 



"You have kicked the wolf from your 

 door against ours, ' ' said Dune Looper, the 



one who had seen the moon through the 

 trees. ' ' I am awfully unlucky — besides this 

 I have the indigestion and broke my razor 

 strop. Troubles never come singly. ' ' 



"Don't feel so out of sorts, employee' 

 said Luth, good naturedly. "I wiU give vim 

 work in other lines. There is plenty <•< 

 labor for all. So long as I am proprictm 

 of this sawdust institution you will not lia\f 

 to board that wolf." 



So the four workmen began to look upon 

 the Bill Nye side of life at once, and con- 

 gratulated each other, and Luth himself. They 

 even went so far as to telephone to their 

 families about the invention. 



As for Luth, he got the "bridging" cou 

 tract out ahead of time, and actually cleared 

 $50 on the deal. Yes, he made it out of 

 the invention and sent a model of same to 

 Washington to have it protected by the gov- 

 ernment. After doing this he sold it to a 

 sawmill machinery house in Cincinnati for a 

 snug sum. In fact, he got enough cash out 

 of it to give his son a college education, and 

 enough left over to buy some timber land in 

 Kentucky. G. D. Janes. 



New Market Condition Keport, 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States under date of July 14 sent out 

 a new statement of market conditions covering 

 poplar, oak, ash, cottonwood, gum and other 

 hardwoods. Accompanying the report was a 

 letter from Secretary Lewis Doster, as follows : 



"To All Members : We have passed through 

 the hardest part of our battle with the com- 

 mercial depression. We have been able to realize 

 an apparent betterment in the industry which 

 naturally comes with the return of a more sult- 

 ,ihle amount of business and are met with the 

 fact that slocks of hardwood In the bands of 

 the producers are very small. This refers espe- 

 < iaily to the higher grades of lumber in all kinds 

 if wood. 



• In this new statement of market conditions 

 you will note are some changes, the most decided 

 of which is in quartered oak — a slight advance 

 in high grade white and in the red, in both No. 

 1 common and fas. A slight increase will also 

 be noted In gum. No. 1 common and better 

 grades In practically all woods are strong ; it Is 

 hoped the lower grades will develop more 

 streigth in the near future owing to the splen- 

 did condition of the boxmaking Industry and 

 the noticeable change to higher values in some 

 of the competitive woods, especially pine. Re- 

 spectfnllv submitted, 



"Lewis Dosteh, Secretary." 



Canadian Lumbermen's Association. } 



The Canadian Lumbermen's Association was < 



organized last month, with headquarters at Ot- j 



tawa. to promote better trade conditions in the j 



Dominion. The association states that Its object J 



has not so much to do with prices as with other j 



matters affecting the industry, which are con- | 



tinually arising along other lines. The member- 1 



ship is gathered from all sections ot the country, j 



and It represents a capital of perhaps $2.";.000,- < 



000. The association will pattern somewhat | 



after the mode of operations of the National j 



Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association of this 1 



country — in which Its president Is a prominent J 



worker. j 



The otHcers chosen by the Canadian Lumber- | 



men's Association are as follows : Honorary I 



president, J. It. Booth, Ottawa : president, Gor- | 

 don C. Edwards, Ottawa ; vice-president, J. n. 

 Miller, Toronto ; treasurer, R. G. Cameron, Ot- 

 tawa : the secretary will be a permanent paid 

 official and has not yet been appointed. The 

 Executive Board will consist of twenty members. 



