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for several days but was considered
well enough to make the trip.—Boise
The United Artisans will hold a Box
Social Friday evening, February 18,
at the I. O. O. F. hall. Ladies are asked
to furnish boxes well filled. All members are urged to come and invite
their friends. Written invitations must
be presented at door. Charge of boxes
will be 50 cents. A large attendance
is desired.
Smelting in Bulacan.
A primitive iron smelting industry,
evidently of Chinese origin, exists in
Bulacan, a province of the island of
Luzon.
Magnetite and hematite ores,
found in the locality, are smelted by
the natives in small bamboo cased
blast furnaces of soft clay bricks set
in clay, each furnace being seven and
one-half feet high and five feet in ex
ternal diameter, with a conical inner
cavity, tapering from forty to twenty
Inches. The furnace has a single clay
tuyere and a Chinese double acting
hand blower made from a hollow tree
trunk and fitted with a feather packed
wooden piston. An average charge is
fifty-five pounds of ore and ninety-five
of charcoal, no flux being used. The
iron made is cast directly into molds
for plowshares and plow points, and
the product of a furnace is about 600
of
GEORGE WAS OUT ONE
George—I've fixed that kid krottaei
so he won't watch us any more,
have paid him a dollar and he has
agreed not to bother us for a year.
She—That's too bad. I got engaged
to Freddy last night.
1.  Every farmer should use printed letterheads. It will bring his business and improve his standing. 