justment of an extension rim for use on soft ground; and the folding and elevating details of reel and apron are such that for transportation the machine can be made small enough to go through any ordinary farm gate, over any standard-width bridge, etc. Improved threading and knotting devices and the light draft, short hitch, and reduced weight of the machine as a whole offer further advantages.

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A NEW TYPE OF AUTOMOBILE

HE latest adaptation of the motor wheel, chiefly used for propelling bicycles, is in its use as the motive power for driving a light, two-seated buckboard. The entire outfit weighs only 135 pounds and will run for many miles on one gallon of gasolene. The springy construction makes driving either on city streets or country roads very comfortable.

The control is extremely simple and therefore easily operated, consisting as it does of a thumb ever attached to the rim of the steering wheel. A clutch and a foot-brake are provided, and the steering arrangement is like that of an ordinary automobile.

them up one story. Here a pair of cams upon the side of the upcoming elevator (placed just between the openingthrough which it is desired to discharge the barrels) engages the ends of the curved lever arms which carry the barrels, and trip an automatic discharging lever, which empties the barrels into the desired opening.

AN ELECTRIC EGG COOKER

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HANDY device for cooking eggs uses the heat developed by electrolysis of water, rather than that produced by the resistance of wires, to do the cooking. The cooker is nickel-plated on the outside and contains a porcelain dish, in the inside of which is a small well for holding the water to be converted into steam. A definite quantity of water, depending upon the length of time the eggs are to be cooked, is put into the well, which is graded in lengths of time that the cooker is to operate.

To insure cooking the eggs uniformly the tray holding them is fixed so that the steam which has condensed on the surface of the eggs will run back into the well, but as soon as the surfaces of the eggs become heated to the temperature of the steam, condensation no longer takes place on the surfaces but

occurs on the inside of the cover, on which it runs down into a groove, that encircles thecooker, where the water remains.

As soon as all the water in the well has been turned into steam the current is automatically turned off. The device is also used for heating nursery bottles, and it is unnecessary to watch the milk, as it is impossible thus to burn or scorch it.

A MOTOR FOR THE PHONOGRAPH

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Y MEANS of a small electric motor it is no longer necessary to wind the spring of the phonograph after each record has been played. And the spring becomes unnecessary, for the motor, which can be attached to any electric light socket, revolves the disk. With this motor, a non-changeable needle, and a repeating device for records a disk can be played continually for dancing.

The motor is set on the phonograph close to the record so that the arm of the motor (on the end of which there is a small rubber disk) engages the plate on which the phonograph record rests. The use of the motor is said to minimize noise and vibration and, furthermore, the record is rendered with the same rhythm throughout and there is no running down toward the end with its attendant discordant sounds.

VOLUME XXXIII

NUMBER 3

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HE sentiment for universal military training has been of reluctant growth in this country, but it seems now to have taken hold upon the convictions of the American people. They long fostered a noble aspiration for perpetual peace-an inspiration based not upon fear or slothfulness or creature comfort, but upon a profound conviction of the wickedness and the futility of war. And so benign had been their intentions toward the rest of the world that they had come to assume that the United States was outside the range of foreign envy or malice.

The dream has been shattered. The vastest war and one of the most ferocious in history has destroyed the illusion of a permanent peace of altruism. And instead of finding the benignancy of our intentions a bar to hostility abroad, we have found ourselves on every hand confronted by short-tempered nations whose speech to us has been as sharp as the limits of prudence would permit.

We have taken the hint, and, relaxing no whit our benevolence of purpose, we have gone half way toward assuring that we shall so far arm ourselves as to guarantee that we shall be strong enough to be left alone to pursue our peaceful way. Presi

dent Wilson knew the history and the temper of the American people well enough to know that they believed by inheritance in a strong navy and a weak army; and he got the means of defense they would most quickly agree to he got for the navy the most prodigious appropriation in its history.

Now the people see the need of a strong army as well. If it is not to become the instrument of oppression which history has taught them to dread, it must be a democratic army-and that means universal military training. It does not mean the continental system of long-term service. Least of all does it mean the erection of another unspeakable Prussian hereditary class of military egotists, or the more romantic but scarcely less repugnant military caste of the professional British army before the war. What is wanted in this country is a training in the use of arms and the usages of war as brief as the Australian or the Swiss, and an organization as democratic as the French, where officers and men are simply fellow-citizens in a common service of defense. More than this will not be tolerated by the great body of American people: less than this will not be enough to guarantee the Nation's safety.