8i' MODERN BLACKSMITHIN(j 



"my father always used to say, 'A mechanic is known 

 by the tools he uses,' and when a smith has good tools 

 in one line, he has them in another, and I shall give 

 this man a chance." 



Our traveling smith had heard enough. This was a 

 temperance and tool lecture to him, he began to think 

 of all the trips he had made to this town. Twelve 

 trips a year, three dollars a trip for liquor and the time 

 lost must be worth two dollars per day. He figured 

 it out and would have turned back if he had not been 

 so close to the place. He took a glass of beer but it 

 didn't taste as usual and he asked for a cigar. With 

 this he returned, and on the road home swore off for 

 good. He bought a tire holder at once to start in 

 with, and by this time he is one of the best smiths in 

 the country, always at his stand ready to do the work 

 brought to him, and his customers now know that he 

 is to be found in his place, with tools of all kinds and 

 a sober hand to use them with. Do thou likewise. 



TIRE IN SECTIONS 



Many of us remember the time when tires were 

 made in sections and nailed on, at this time the wheels 

 were more substantially made, because the tire could 

 not be set as tight as it is now, and the wheel had to 

 be made so that it would stand the usage almost 

 independent of the tire. Our endless tire is a great 

 improvement over the tires made in sections. The 

 wagon tires as they are made now are, I think, as near 



