The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1903, Page 7

s from contain it. & quan- e weeks 8go 1o searching h was er near Webb's sta- where he now He was not d also con- these pre- t , fifty feet while making & cro bhe came upon & ledge of this feet in width and scle ts strange performances. ng ledge s a thirty-foot wall of t seems to the west oOf It mineralized so ng is very overed. k specimens of the ore to other, in the Spreckels wing his penknife over see the red streak which t a copper ore his s to see a zigzag trall e. All lights were e and the mineral tests to make with the finger thpick produced ks—a fluorescence, if lacking only the e of the mi hardness, was on putting & THE FUNDAY CALL. & S—— nch of it upon a marble surface and making a rotary motion on the powder v he bottom of an ary glass or bler a circle of flashing light followed ev motlon. Putting a plece of the neral under water and scratching it & penknife produced the same bril- ney A few days afterward Mr. Fitch took a Mf to E. B. Pres- State Mining Bu- From't veis 1t contains r, cop- minum and resoives an pitate, which possesses the power of light in the same marked degree the extraction of these many According to Selby's fire into pre assay the mi gold to the t zine Aside from its many other qu Fitch is assured that there profit found in extracting many ¢ metals from strange compo many ere t that t nly wa ex tract them would be to do so by chemical processes, and Mr. Fitch has already had a proposition from wealthy capitalists to put up blg chemical works to handie the ore Since beg Fitch is of the o discovercd w mineral he has e great use In the field of electriclty, bu on this point opinfons differ. M. Fit gave some of it to a man in Chicago who thought he would like to see what the stuff was good for In the electrical | He thought it would gor rage battery, and accordingly he ground up the ore and after putti muriatic acid washed filled a little U which he had m. periment this, he screwed it on tc in the place of the elec his room. Simultane ing on of the current plosion like that of a seemed ltke a grote experimenter’s face lamp was to be found. According to the electricia told to Mr. Fitch, the ex; out all the fuses throughc which had to be entirely man who tells this remarkable story 1y belleves in the great electrical ance of the mineral. A most remarkable feature of this min- eral, 80 new and strange to science, is that after putting it through hydrofluoric igh wum and electrical lamp, e exy Having exhaust pls se Not fece s story as m melted “ 20 AR SEEMED LT g GROIES O FLANE FIEW TN THE EXPERINEN RS 7R, > NORA’S KERRY CO T. C. McClure) CARNEY sat on a hesp of the last of the the empty 1, which hung locked fingers, backward and y between his knees. ng straight ahead, Jessness and birthright of a , the end of his sce might have been eenth century monk. ed all that, apparently formed for no reason on whistle an Irish jig, and the hus engaged was sufficient to rever of the idea that life was hour, At present his lips puckered more than once, but only a lone note, which seemed to have gone astray from the rest of the ne, issued from them. BSomething be- gan to grow in his eyes, burning away their mysticlsm and revealing a sub- wratum of quicksilver. WARD--By M. Lou “*Tisn't fair, be gob!” He stood up and faced the brick wall opposits, as though it was the president of the wire works himself. *“*Tis chances enough the workin' man hae to take, anyhow—"" His volce stopped as if broken. Cringed into himself, he sank back on the slag, torn between the conviction that *‘’twas fair” and the Irishman's inherent abhor- ence of “Informin “An’ sure, where'd be the use?’ he solfloquized, his mental attitude sceming to descend despondently with his body; “don’t they know ’‘tis done, an' every day, too?" But an hour later, when the foreman ordered him to replace a large belt from a shafting to a counter-shaft while the machinery was in motion, Carney looked him quietly in the eyes and refused. His glance had measured the danger first. It was a particularly ugly Jjob, crammed hear the celling, compared to which the belt he had replaced that morning was as child’s play. “You'll not do 1t7” “Not while she’s running; I'll not do it.” The foreman's strong, young hands closed and unclosed at his sides. He was ten years the Irishman's junior, with his record still to make. The eyes which answered Mike’s narrowed to points of steel. For a moment the two men re- garded each other with a pecullarly still, fiat look. “You Kerry coward!” The measured words were like the hi of estaping steam scalding the Irishman' face. All the fighting blood of his race showed in the one unloosed shaft of blue light that leaped from his eyes. Like & felled log the foreman went down. Very quietly Mike picked up his be- longings and left the shop. Not even the certainty that he had lost his job and the beating thought of five small mouths at home to be fed could quell the fierce sat- isfaction in what be had done. For an hour he walked, hugging it savagely to his breast. Then, as he ascended the steps to his tenement, it seemed suddenly to ooze out at his finger-tips. Nora's eyes, while she stood on the small plazza hanging out clothes, were as mirrors from which all the grim, bare facts attendant on being “out of a job” looked back at him with cruel distinctness. BB Margaret Hartman leaned her arms on the table and looked across the sllver and cut glass at her husband. Her white face and wide-open eyes still held the tremu- lousness of one who had recently been-in the darkness of a great fear. “But the man,” Hartman said, fingering his glass. “I wish you had found out his name, Constance.” “I know, dear; but, Henry”— Her hand went to her heart. Hartman felt re- proached as he watched the added pallor of her face. “Oh, it was all so sudden— 50 awful! Those mad horses with the trailing harness and wrecked carriage, the fearful recklessness of it as they came down the street! left Anna and came toddling unconsclou: ly across to where I sat on the plazza'— “There, dear, don't go over it any more.” Hartman came around the table and put his hand on his wife’s shoulder, “The man,” she went on, after a pause, “has been hanging about here lateiy. I have fancied sometimes that he wished to speak to you or me, When I had baby safely in my arms I looked at him—he had the kindest blue eyes—and saw that he was very white. But when I asked And then, when baby him if he had been hurt he said no, only & ‘bit of a bruise’ where the shaft grased his shoulder. - It was the quickness and coolness with “which he did it, Henry, that stunned me. And no sooner had he grabbed baby than his mouth puckered in the funnlest way, and he sauntered up to me whistling an Irish Jig.” Hartman’s brows drew together. “It couldn’t be—of course not’— *“Who, dear?”’ “Carney, my little jig whistler. And that reminds me that I haven't seen him around since I got home.” The superintendent of the Leffington ‘Wire Works went quickly into his library. A moment later his wife heard him call- ing up his assistant by telephone. Mike stood in the Hartmans’ library two hours later. His sensitive face worked as he turned a shabby hat round and round by the brim. “Oh, sure 'twas nothing, ma’am. I've got five o' thim meself at home,” he said, deprecatingly. “How does it happen that you're not working, Carney?’ The superintendent looked at him keenly. ‘Well, sir, you see ‘twas this way: Meselt an’ Harrington had a bit of a dis- ise actd or aqua regia and destroying all the metals found in it the precipitate still gives forth the same bright light by fric- tion. It is clalmed by the finder that it will make one of the finest carbo for lighting purposes, and he also supposes it will make & good storags battery when properly handled. Though many have been working upon this mineral, no one yet seems to have found out exactly what it is and many and widely differing are the opinions as to its value, its use and properties. Some believe that It y be a zine blend with a slight show! of radium. Others say that it shows an electrical resistance of 1.57 volts. Still others have found it to be a great resistant when in its patural state, but not when fused. It has also been found to show great spiro-electrici- ty caused by the presence in it of consid- erable zinc. E. B. Preston of the Mining Bureau is of the opinion that it is not & new min- eral, but a phenomenon caused by un- known electrical conditions. Specimens of the mineral have been sent to Edison and to the Smithsonian Institution. Edi- son has given it as his opinion that it is zine blend. Experiments in photography have been made by Mr. Fitch with the mineral in the hope that he may succeed in finding radium present, but the color plates so far have shown no signs of the presence of radig_active ore. At Berkeley severai students are work- ing upon this mineralogical problem un- der the direction of Professor Christy. A cording to Professor Lewis of the univer- sity, who has been making investigations and experiments with radium, Mr. ch's new mineral shows no radio active quall- ties. “As to the luminous quality,” sald Pro- fessor Lewis, “Dana in his mineralogy mentions this quality in sine blend. I cannot see how e mineral could be used for storage battery purposes.” Professor Eakle, also of in so far as he has looked & is of the opinion that Mr. found & new mineral. He sald: “It may be zinc blend combined with somg copper-arsenic mineral found In quirtz. It shows no radium or radio aot- ive qualities. It has the strong. reastive qualities of zinc blend, and it has been known for many ye that zino blend with quartz has the luminous quality on friction, which is present in this mineral It it contains radium it has in it the most expensive thing in the world.” Professor Haynes of E Business College, who has been very much inter- ested in the mineral, takes a different view of it. He finds that the mineral shows quite an effervescence under acids and that one of the alkalies is present in its makeup, but cannot yet determine which one it is. He says it has been found to be & good conductor of electricity, but it has not been proved that it is & natur- al storage battery, as claimed. Several other electricians and scientists are working upon the mineral, and further developments are expected as they go deeper into the matter. On top of all this comes the record of the telephone com- pany, who have been making experiments looking to find an electrical use for the mineral. They have made a test of t stuff with a galvanometer with the wires an inch apart and fo ten megohms, g that the mi electrode for batteries. The ore used in these experiments was crushed to a fine powder. of the co used as an Insul Meantime the verer is serene In the belief that if mineral contal thing else develops the gh of valuable and precious metals to bring him a fortune by extracting them. He also believes that his find will yet prove to be something more wonderful than zinc blend. Cummins. * l 4 \ ! agreement about & belt and—a"'— “Well 7" Hartman's éyes held his compelling the truth, “Mr. Hartman, sir—" the words rushed from the Kerry coward in a choking blurt— “I once seen a man tore to bits doing what Harrington bid me do. I'll not deny that it's hungry the childer've been sometimes since I've not had a steady job, but 'tis hungrier they'd be it I wasn't here at all, an’— I couldn’t take the chanct.” “You don’t have to take the chance.” Hartman was pacing the floor, with hands thrust deep into his pockets, the veins on his forehead knotted. ‘“No man who works under me wi. be asked to take chances that I would not take my- self. Did Harrington discharge you for that?” - He wheeled suddenly, facing Mike. “No, sir; no, Mr. Hartman, sir. We had a few words first, an’ Harrington he called me a Kerry coward, and—I hit him a lck.” “Did you, though?” There was relish in the superintendent’s voice: ‘“Oh, sure, "tisn’t any harni I'd want to be doing him,” Mike put in quickly; “the lad is & dacent lad enough, an’ knowledg- able, too, only a bit young, and sure, that'll mend.” Hartman followed him to the door. “Come down to the works in the morn- ing, Carney, and we'll see if we can't find something for you that'll keep the ‘childer’ from being hungry fn fut he said genially. “As to what you did for me this afterncon—I can't speak of that yet.” - Margaret Hartman pushed her husband ide and, taking Mlke's hand, raised it to her lips, “He called you a Kerry coward,” she sald, with heaving breast, while Mike stood transfixed by the bpauty of her tear filled eyes, “but I call you the brav, est man—the bravest man that ever lived!” ‘When Mike reached the-street he stood and looked at his hand in the moonlight “Wisha, now: to think of that!" he said reverently. aith, I dunno but I'm glad he called me a Kerry coward.” ——————— A Frenchman has invented & tobaceo pipe which has a whistle in the stem in order to enable the smoker to summon a cab without taking the pipe from his move™