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��A Military Automobile From Fittings

OXE of the most painstaking pieces of pipe-fitting work ever exhib- ited in this country is a model mili- tary automobile built entirely from mal- leable and cast iron fittings and so admirably put together that

the wheels are ahnost per-

fectly round. The detail, even to the smallest parts, is very perfect and well proportioned.

The model contains one thousand one hundred and twenty-nine separate piece.- and weighs seven hundred pounds. It is six feet long and two feet and four inch- es wide. It was built by Julius Genor of Bridge- port, Conn.

Although the material of which it is composed was cheap and easily obtain- able, the model represents an immense amount of fine machine work.

��For Squeamish Fowl-Killers

AXEW and ladylike way to kill fowls has been devised by which the free flowing and spattering of a chicken's blood after lancing is prevented and the unpleasantness of viewing the

����A soft-hearted chicken- killer is spared the sight of blood when the fowl is inserted head first into this death- The lever is tearfully causing a be driven through the brain of the fowl. Then a blow from a pendulum-like hammer is regretfully delivered at the back of the bird's head

��chamber, on top operated, knife to

��This model military automobile is built entirely of malleable and cast iron fittings

whole sanguinary aft'air is removed.

What to the squeamish is the most dis- tressing feature of the poultry business — killing fowls by hand — is eliminated by a machine, which does the work with accuracy and with a delicacy that must appeal to the aesthetic. The fowl is considerately suspended by the legs from yoke-like leg clamps, with its body and head within a tubular casing. In the lower portion of this casing is a dainty head-holder with a ring, in which the bill is inserted. A V-shaped collar is pushed into position and tenderly locked in place over the front portion of the neck of the fowl. The door to the cas- ing is then decently closed, shutting the fowl from the horrified view. Next a lever extending out from' the casing is boldly operated, causing a knife or lance to be driven through the brain of the fowl. To relie\e any doubts that still linger a blow from the pendulum-like hammer is immediately thereafter de- livered at the back of the head of the fowl. To relieve any doubts that still blood, which is caught in a small pan below the head, so that not even the machine is soiled. Could respect for one's feelings be carried farther? No undertaker can be more considerate. But, somehow, the old axe and the chopping block seem simpler and just as eftVctive to our brutal mind. The fowl is cer- tainly rather more tortured before the last quick death-blow is delivered.

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