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to dig: up the bones of some old quarrel— 
long bnripfl and forgotten—and proceed to 
“pick" them in public! Then there are 
the "boneheads” who think they have a 
monopoly of intelligence! The subject of 
bo s . is far-reaching. Let’s reach for 
them and crush them or burn them that 
they may become productive once more. 
n. w. c. 
1922 ACOUSTICON 
For 10 Days’ FREE TRIAL 
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piece of wood. In other cases holes are 
drilled in flip stones and iron wedges 
driven in, One old method which we 
have often seen employed is based on 
force of contraction. The stones are first 
heated by building a fire around or on 
top of them. When they are made as hot 
as desired a bucket or tub of cold water 
is suddenly dashed over them. The heat 
of the fire causes a slight expansion of 
the rock and the sudden cooling by the 
cold water causes contraction, which 
usually splits or breaks the rock in 
pieces. This is not in any way a new 
process. We saw it tried years ago on 
the old farm in New England, and the 
histories state how Hannibal, when be 
marched over the Alps to full upon the 
Romans, used this method to make a 
way through mountain passes. The his¬ 
tories state that Hannibal used vinegar 
after heating the rock by building fires 
against it. but it is more likely that cold 
water was used as bore described. Some 
years ago we mentioned this matter and 
received comment from a large number 
of our readers, some of whom told some 
remarkable stories of the tremendous 
force exerted by this power of contrac¬ 
tion. In one particular case a party of 
hunters were traveling through the 
Rocky Mountains. They built a camp¬ 
fire on a rock ledge. It burned nil night, 
and in tlie morning the rock was very 
hot. In order to avoid any danger from 
forest fires they proceeded to put out their 
campfire by dashing water over it. To 
their astonishment a good-sized piece of 
the ledge suddenly split and dropped 
away as the result of this sudden cooling. 
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lor the deni unili ytm hare irled it. 
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