June 25, 1910.] 
TESTING A NEW ROD. 
Not haying any more clock-weights, Mr. 
I uttlebury’s enthusiasm fired him to test his 
new rod in ariother direction. The tackle deal¬ 
er who had sold it to him had guaranteed it 
equal to playing anything up to seventy pounds, 
and his line was an Improved Invincible with a 
patent Tenacity Core, and he yearned to put 
them to a practical proof. Happy thought! he 
frequently read of interesting contests between 
apglers and swimmers—the angler’s line being 
fixed to a powerful swimmer, and the game be¬ 
ing for the former to haul the latter, with the 
rod, to the edge of the water, in spite of the 
swimmer's opposition. True, Mr. Tuttlebury 
had not a swimmer, but Mr. Griddlewick, next 
door, had a dog—a healthy and active Airedale 
terrier, with which Mr. Tuttlebury might be 
said to be on speaking terms—that is, Mr. 
Tuttlebury was in the habit of telling him about 
seventeen times a week to clear out of the 
garden back to his own premises. Sometimes 
Mr. Tuttlebury told him by word of mouth, 
and sometimes with half a* brick or a rake 
handle, which ever happened to be most con¬ 
venient at the moment, but the dog always 
understood him. 
Naturally, then, when Mr. Tuttlebury spied 
Mr. Griddlewick’s dog sneaking past the garden 
gate, and invited him to enter—invited him, too, 
in a tone of voice that was clearly intended to 
convey the impression that he-wanted to love 
him—Mr. . Griddlewick’s dog was not without 
his suspicions; and, moreover, when, after Mr. 
Tuttlebury, with a lavish repetition of “Good 
cle fellow!” and “C’mon, old chappie!” had in¬ 
duced him to venture within the sacred 
precincts, he caught sight of the pike-rod, he 
clearly regarded it at first glance as a new and 
effective part of speech which Mr. Tuttlebury 
had added to his usual vocabularly to talk to 
him with. 
However, after a monumental display of 
patience and perseverance on the-one part, and 
discreet elusiveness on the other, Mr. Griddle¬ 
wick’s dog at length permitted Mr. Tuttlebury 
to attach the end of the line firmly to his collar; 
and then, with a throb of delight as he realized 
that the sport was just about to commence, Mr. 
Tuttlebury held up the point of the rod, and 
ejaculated encouragingly: 
‘Hst! Cats, ole fellow—cats!” 
It was glorious! Mr. Griddlewick’s dog at 
once pricked his ears, gave a gladsome yap, 
dashed across the lawn, and plowed eagerly 
through the flower beds, apparently oblivious 
m the excitement of the hunt, of the line he was ■ 
dragging after him from the merrily whirring 
reel. For a moment Mr. Griddlewick’s dog 
seemed disappointed when he found there was 
no cat there, and he stopped to think, while Mr. 
Tuttlebury reeled in a few yards of line. Then 
a sudden inspiration suggested to Mr. Griddle¬ 
wick s dog that the cat must be out in the road, 
and the reel screamed as he tore off line in his 
lightning dash over the intervening space and 
the garden wall on to the road. 
As Mr. Tuttlebury saw him disappear, he 
naturaHy gave a vigorous restraining tug, and, 
Mr. Sweedleham s clog chancing to be passing 
at the precise moment that Mr. Griddlewick’s 
cog simultaneously dropped into the road and 
felt the tug, Mr. Griddlewick’s dog thought Mr 
Sweedleham’s dog had got hold of him. while 
Mr. Sweedleham’s dog, with his off hind leg 
caught up in a kink of the line as it tightened 
thought Mr. Griddlewick’s dog had seized him! 
I r - Griddlewick s dog immediately recognized I 
that, in the way of sport, a dog-fight at hand 
was worth two cat-chases in the bush, while 
Mr. Sweedleham s dog was equally readv to I 
seize the opportunity and anything else he could 
lay his teeth on; so that, by the time Mr. 
I uttlebury, hurriedly winding up slack line 
rushed out of the front gate, he found himself 
playing a first-class dog-fight. As the tide of 
battle surged his way, he rapidly reeled up more I 
line, until he had the combatants at rod-length 
—close under the point—and for the next five 
minutes the excitement was intense. With the 
length of the rod between them, sometimes the 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
wild scrimmage was rapidly revolving round 
Mr. I uttlebury, and sometimes Mr. Tuttlebury 
was skipping as expeditiously round the raging 
conflict. 1 lien, at last, Mr. Sweedleham’s dog 
suddenly discovered that lie had had enough of 
it, and, finding his leg disentangled at the same 
moment, fled down the road. Mr. Griddle¬ 
wick’s dog flew after him, and Mr. Tuttlebury. 
finding the rod powerless to check him, was 
forced to skip swiftly after him or abandon his 
costly tackle; and so the mad procession ava¬ 
lanched itself along the King’s highway, de- 
\sstating and sparing not. Mr. Twillson’s 
chubby twins were crossing the road on their 
way to school when the extended line took them 
behind their chubby legs and mowed them 
ciown like the grass of the field. Thirty yards 
further old Miss Maggs abruptly sat down on 
the pavement without being conscious of the 
slightest desire to rest awhile. Fifty yards 
further, again—but why catalogue the long list 
of trivial casualties? Eventually Mr. Griddle¬ 
wick’s dog succeeded in getting the line wrapped 
round a lamp-post, and, dashing on ahead 
again,. snapped the line like a grocer breaking 
wrapping-twine round his finger. Mr. Griddle¬ 
wick’s dog still went on, but Mr. Tuttlebury 
turned back home—and went back, too, by the 
most secluded by-ways he could find —W 
Garter Platts, in the Sporting Times. 
FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY. 
An event of importance to the wood-using 
industries of the country and to engineers is 
the completion of the Forest Products Labora¬ 
tory at Madison, Wis. June 4 has been set as 
the date for the formal opening. The labora¬ 
tory has been established to aid, through ex- 
pei ljnents and demonstrations, the lessening of 
waste in the manufacture and use of wood. It 
is a co-operative undertaking between the U 
S. Department of Agriculture and the Univers¬ 
ity 01 Wisconsin. The State has erected for 
the pin pose a new building at the univers¬ 
ity and will furnish also the light, heat and 
power. The Department of Agriculture has 
supplied the equipment and apparatus and will 
maintain the force of thirty-five or forty per¬ 
sons required to carry on the work. Through 
this arrangement, the United States has se¬ 
cured perhaps the largest and best equipped 
wood-testing laboratory in the world. 
. ^ number of vacancies in engineering posi- 
! lons in connection with the work will be filled 
m May and June. Among these are positions 
or engineer in wood preservation, engineer in 
timber testing, and chemical engineering. 
Ihese positions will be given to men with a 
basis of thorough engineering training, or two 
or three years’ experience in practical work. 
I he laboratory will be prepared to make tests 
on the strength and other properties of wood, 
to investigate the processes of treating timber 
to prevent destruction by decay and other 
causes, to study the saving of wood refuse by 
distillation processes, to examine the fiber of 
various woods _ for paper and other purposes, 
| and to determine the influence of the micro¬ 
scopic structure of wood on its characteristics 
and properties. Facilities are at hand, in fact, 
for almost any kind of test on wood that prac¬ 
tical conditions may require. 
Lumber manufacturing and wood-using in¬ 
dustries are keenly interested in the work on 
account of its practical bearing on reducing 
waste of wood—to them a subject of vital corn¬ 
ed n. Already they have proposed many ex¬ 
periments and supplied much testing material, 
which is awaiting attention. 
Many prominent men of the lumbering and 
n ood-using industries have signified their inten¬ 
tion to attend on the day of the opening. Sev¬ 
eral organizations expect to hold directors’ 
meetings or conferences at that time to con¬ 
sider, among other matters, plans for making 
wide practical use of the laboratory. A short, 
appropriate general program will be arranged, 
and there will be a systematic inspection of the 
laboratory, with demonstration work in pro¬ 
gress at the time. The entire exercises will 
occupy but one day, and visitors will be able to 
return to Chicago the same evening. 
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