Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Long Voyage in Small Boat.
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of parliament that lady related that
she had spent the afternoon in the
zoo.
draws but 4% feet of water is making
the perilous ocean voyage from Eng-
land to the west coast of Africa, where
it will be used on a shallow river.
will turn the current on, and pulling
the other will turn the light out.
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Old in “Uncle Tom's Cabin.
All Things Considered, He Had Soma
Excuse for Anger.
An Electric Machine Which Will Do
Away with Chloride of Lime.
Contrivance Which Makes It Easy to
Switch Current On and Off.
THEN AND NOW
Complete Recovery from Coffee Illa.
saying apologetically: "Don't get up.
I rapped on the wrong door.”—Lippin-
cott’s.
COUGHS AND COLDS.
I Took Pe-ru-na.
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Novel Use Being Made of the Micro-
phone by Norwegian Fishermen.
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laughter soon spread to the
house.
A few years later Offenbach
paddle-wheel steamboat which
“I hope you
found your people
she made her debut, when only six in opposite directions
on and
current
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arrange-
whom she owed a grudge. At a din-
The captain—See here, you’ve give
seventeen men ba -es on balls! Dis
here’s a ball game, not no six-day
walkin’ match!
Charles E. Wells, who has been
called the groundhog senator of West
Virginia, because he once introduced
a bill advocating the changing of
groundhog day from February 2 to
July 4, was staying over night at the
Grand hotel of a budding West Vir-
ginia village not long ago.
He was awakened in the morning by •
heavy pounding on his door, and the
voice of the old man night clerk say-
ing "Five o’clock! Better get up or
you’ll miss your train.”
Mr. Wells didn’t intend to catch a
morning train and hadn’t given any
instructions that he should be called
at the unearthly hour of five o’clock,
so he paid no attention to the old
man’s early morning greeting and was
asleep again almost immediately.
In about 15 minutes he was again
awakened by the pounding on his door
and heard the voice of the old man
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Whitens Clothes Without Harming
Them.
wherein she impersonated a slave girl.
And here already she unconsciously
created a sensation, although she did
not have to utter a word.
But her face having been blacked
with licorice juice, little Hortense,
while looking at the audience, started
licking all around her mouth, thus
creating a white circle in her tiny
black face. Those in the front rows
of the stalls noticed her and their
minutes more, after which, when
placed in ordinary sea water, some of
the eggs develop and hatch precisely
as if they had been fertilized in the
There is an attempt to revive op-
erettas. Musicians are not wanting,
but good librettists are scarce, while,
according to the Gentlewoman, oper-
etta singers are nowhere tto be found.
Offenbach had the gift for unearth-
ing the proper persons for this sort
of role. He it was who discovered
Hortense Schneider, the great Hor-
tense, one of the most brilliant stars
of the latter days of the second em-
pire.
It is exactly 50 years ago that
"About nine years ago my daughter,
from coffee drinking, was on the verge
of nervous prostration,” writes a Louis-
ville lady. "She was confined for the
most part to her home.
"When she attempted a trip down
town she was often brought home in a
cab and would be prostrated for days
afterwards.
"On the advice of her physician she
gave up coffee and tea, drank Postum,
and ate Grape-Nuts for breakfast.
"She liked Postum from the very
beginning and we soon saw improve-
ment. To-day she is in perfect health,
the mother of five children, all of
whom are fond of Postum.
“She has recovered, is a member of
three charity organizations and a club,
holding an office in each. We give
Postum and Grape-Nuts the credit for
her recovery.”
“There’s a Reason.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, “The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letterr A new
•ne appeers front time to time. They
are genulme, true, and full of human
Imterest,
A Rich Country.
A report for the calendar year 1907,
just issued by the United States geo-
logical survey, contains the startling
announcement that the total produc-
tion of our mineral resources is valued
at more than $2,000,000,000. This
means an increase ranging from 5 to
40 per cent. The largest contributions
to the mineral wealth of the year
were made by coal and iron, which to-
gether represented considerably more
than half of the total. The value of
the coal mined showed a gain of about
15 per cent, on 1906. The increase in
iron was somewhat less.
Turning
off the
may be
by an
The problem of bleaching clothes in
laundries without rotting the cloth has
always been a serious one, but a ma-
chine is now on the market which is
expected to do away with the use of
chloride of lime bleach, says the Pop-
ular Mechanics. It is a device for
producing bleachfng liquor electro-
lytically from an ordinary salt brine.
This liquor or chlorine is claimed to
be harmless to clothes, and in fact is
considered equal in this respect to the
old grass bleach.
The machine, or electrolyzer, occu-
pies a floor space of three by four feet.
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The sport of "tickling" trout and
landing them is well known to most
|— boys who have
erman is surrounded with several
rods, some baited for herring, others
for trout, one for cod, and a cable
for larger fry. He is informed by
microphone which rod he may be ex-
pected to use when the finny one ap-
proaches.
The herring, it is recorded, makes,
as he draws near the boat, a hissing
sound; the trout marks his approach
with a puffing noise; the cod with a
grunt of delirious joy, and large fish,
like sturgeon or small shark, with an
ecstatic snort. The fisherman knows
what rod or line to turn to and acts
accordingly.
The use of the invention, quite a
recent one, adds considerably to the
captures made by the fisher folk. It is
cheap, and the poorest are invariably
equipped with the instrument. The
electric light has proved also the doom
of many a submarine monster. The
night fishers of southern coasts of this
country have long since discovered
its attractiveness for the eye of fish,
especially the tarpon and coast shark,
many a good specimen of which has
sacrificed his life to his curiosity for
investigating luminous effects—even
as the silly moth.
ment as shown in
the sketch. Re-
move the hard
rubber thumb
Electric globes are sometimes placed
so high that they are not easily
reached by hand.
The conviction of some of the ear-
lier experimenters with electricity
that it was identical with “vital force”
would have been greatly strengthened
by the recent investigations of M.
Yves Delage on the fertilization of
eggs in which he calls an "electric
bath.” The modern biologist does
not believe in “vital force,” and his
explanation of how the electricity acts
is of quite a different sort, which
shows how far science has traveled in
the last century.
Delage takes salt water or some
other liquid that may conduct an elec-
tric current and places it in a shal-
low tray, the bottom of which is made
of mica, covered on the outside with
tinfoil. The tinfoil and the liquid are
connected respectively with the oppo-
site poles of a battery, which, since
covered her and she at once became
famous. It was she who created the
title role in the “Grand Duchess” and
in the great French master’s other
operettas.
In addition to her great talent Hor-
tense was remarkably witty, especial-
ly at the expense of those who had
the misfortune of incurring her dis-
pleasure. Some of her repartees
have not been forgotten. During the
Franco-German war she came to Lon-
don, where she met a lady, a rival, to
“those others” forgot the baroness,
who, skillfully conducted by her pilot,
kept well with the huntsman and the
pack, riding somewhat on the left of
the hounds, and keenly watching their
trend, with a view of cutting possible
corners.
There was another lady out that
day—one in particular of many—a
young, small and very pretty lady,
and she stuck closely to the master.
These two kept ever on the right of
'the pack, while the baroness and her
pilot, hoping to achieve the chord of
an arc, hung on the left of the bounds. I There's always light enough to steer
rhe bounds ran very hard. throwing | by if your heart's right.
Destroying Giants' Causeway.
The devastation of the Hudson river
palisades, now happily averted by law,
finds its counterpart in the threatened
destruction of the famous Giants’
Causeway. Americans are usually
branded as unsentimental, money-mak-
ing despoilers of nature. Guilty as we
have unquestionably been, it is doubt-
ful if we have ever outdone the des-
poliation of the Giants’ Causeway,
which is now occurring at the hands
of a British syndicate. The basalt
of which the Causeway is composed is
an excellent road-making material,
and to be trodden under foot seems
now its ultimate fate. This latest bit
of vandalism is in large measure due
to the automobile. The advent of the
high-speed motor car has brought about
a necessary Improvement in the maca-
dam road, and the best possible road
is made by the Irish basalt of which
the Giants’ Causeway is constituted.
Dis
Efficiency of Wireless.
The efficiency of wireless telegraph
for communication between the earth
and balloons or airships was recently
tested near Brussels. Messages were
successfully transmitted to a balloon,
which also received signals from the
Eiffel tower, in Paris. One of the ob-
jections to wireless apparatus in a bal-
loon is the danger of igniting the gas
with sparks generated by the ap-
paratus.
each end a few turns around the spool After the liquid has been joined with
“I t'nk dat de dogs ees running on
their heels,” said the baroness to her
pilot, Capt. Molecule, as the pair
pulled up.
The pilot squirmed at the words
dogs and heels. murmured something
inaudibly to himself, and replied:
"Quite so. baroness; the hounds are,
I believe, running heel."
Then the huntsman flashed upon
the scene, grasped the situation in a
glance, took hold of th m and put
them right, and galloped ahead with
a cheery, "Hole, together-for-ard-
away!"
The Baroness de Cruchecasse was
popular (with the men) and a liberal
member of the Gorseshire hunt;
smoked large and long cigars of great
price, scaled at least 14 stone, knew
nothing about hunting, and rode.
Molecule was a horseman and a
sportsman to the nails; walked about
eight stone—certainly rode under
nine. His leading characteristic and
pride lay on his admirable (that is,
tenuous) leg for a boot.
Artfully, and, perhaps, wickedly,
posted down wind, at the bottom of
the covert the pair had stolen a good
start, sfter a stole-away fox, which,
silently, they viewed; the advantages
of their maneuver being dissipated by
the above-mentioned check, which al-
lowed the master and a friend and the
body of the field to come up.
The huntsman carried his line
sweetly for a mile or more, when
hounds briefly faulted again. While
and has a capacity to take care of a
laundry business of $3,000 per week.
It holds 85 gallons of water, into which
35 pounds of the cheapest salt is
poured. The salt water runs slowly
into an electrolyzing vat, and a cur-
rent of electricity is thrown on. It
travels through the water, which cir-
culates between carbon plates, thus
making the bleaching fluid. The
fluid flows into another tank, where it
is drawn when needed. By means of
recording instruments attached to the
machine it is possible at all times to
determine the strength of the chlorine
produced.
"When I began your treatment my
bead was terrible. I had buzzing and 1
chirping noises in my head. A %
"I followed your advice faithfully and.. < anA
took Peruna as you told me. Now d Y 2
might say I am well. " I 0
“I want to go and visit my motherA,^ 4 •
and see the doctor who said I was not • >
piece on the lamp the two are separated, throws the mi-
socket and supply ca bottom between them into a state
a common spool in of electric tension. On this mica bot-
its place, Fasten a strong cord with tom are spread in a thin layer the un-
extending ends to the spool, giving fertilized eggs of a marine organism.
Joseph HallGhasf, 197
604 TENTH WA
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Peruna Drug Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Gentlemen:—I can cheerfully recom-
mend Peruna as an effective cure for
soughs and colds.
You are authorized to use my photo
with testimonial in any publication. -
Mrs. Joseph Hall Chase,
804 Tenth St., Washington, D. C.
Could Not Smell Nor Hear
Mrs. A. L. Wetzel, 1023Ohio St., Terre
Hante, Ind., writes:
"When I began to take your medicine
I could not smell, nor hear a church
bell ring. Now I can both smell and
hear.
Prefers Jail to France.
Charles W. Morse is credited with
saying that if he had to choose be- !
tween spending 15 years in France and I
15 in jail, he would prefer jail. i
their tongues now and again, and the
line was of the "large order" variety.
The fences were frequent and stiff;
the field began to tail. The pack
swung right-handed, insomuch that
the baroness and her pilot, circling
wide, had leeway to make up.
Ere long the pilot found that his
charge was in trouble. Her mount,
not quite up to her weight, began to
sway and roll and make a noise. As
they took an oxer, the baroness’ horse
landed with one of these pecks, two
of which spell, grief, and, charging
12 feet of water, down came lady and
steed—on the right side of the brook,
happily.
Quickly up again and off, the bar-
oness was enraged to see the master
(on his second horse) far ahead to
the right, closely followed by that
other lady, who seemed to be going
strong and well. Her ladyship ut-
tered, in her native tongue, some re-
marks which need not be repeated
here.
Soon after this a lucky turn to the
left and a face-about of some miles
let the couple in, but too late. They
heard the loud "whoo-whoop!" and
the label of hounds. When they came
up all was over, and that other lady
was In proud possession of the brush,
which, having been informed of the
aspirations of the baroness, the mas-
ter begged her to thrust under her
covert-coat.
Meanwhile, the hallali being cried
beside the copse containing the body
of a flagitious sheep-dog, the tail of
the latter had been secured as a tro-
phy for the baroness, to whom the
master handed it with gracious cour-
tesy.
That night the baroness duly ap-
peared at the ball, "all smiles,”
dressed in a glorified edition of hunt-
ing garb, and triumphantly bearing
on the handle of her fan that which
she termed “zee tail of zee fox.” But
that other lady, young and fair, whom
the master delighted to honor, also
carried a trophy of the chase—the
trophy, indeed.
And so what Mme. de Cruchecasse
dubbed "zee tail of zee fox” every-
body else called "the baroness’
brush.”
Spilled mercury may be collected by I ordinary way.
rolling a piece of tin foil tightly to the -------------------
size of a lead pencil and touching Cleaning an Injector,
the end to the scattered globules. I An injector that is scaled up inside
When as much mercury is gathered as may be cleaned by soaking until the
the tin toil will hold, squeeze the I scale is soft or dissolved in a solution
amount collected Into a suitable re- of one part muriatic acid and 9 to 12
ceptacle. I parts water.
"I Most Particularly Desire to Be
in at Zee Hallah To-Day."
he was making his cast, the baroness
took the opportunity of giving certain
instructions to her accomplished pilot
“You will please note, captain,”
said she, "zat I most particularly de-
sire to be in at zee hallali, to-day—at
zee death, as you would say—for to-
night, you know, ees zee bal masque
at Gorsetown. I shall be habille—what
you say habited, costumed, dressed—
as ‘Diana Up-to-Date’ (in hunting kit
zat ess), and I am determiz.ed to
emacer—ecraser—those others. And
voyez vous, I moost have zee tail of
zee fox."
"By those others” she meant the
local ladles of the Hunt, between
whom and the baroness there was
little love lost.
“M’yes, I see; just so,” replied the
pilot.
"And in order," continued the baron-
ess. “in order to be quite en regie, it is
aosolutely necessary that I should
have zee tail of zee fox for zee handle
of my fan. Mark you well of that,
Mon. Ie Capitaine.”
Molecule squirmed again. That tail
struck him like a flail. He merely an
swered: "All right, baroness; I'll do
my best.”
Then the order was again “Right
away!" Some very pretty hunting and
riding and fencing ensued. Everybody
was fully occupied with his or her
own business. For the time being,
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lived in the coun-
try. Shooting fish
is a common |
enough method of
filling the basket.
Netting them
„ with a light as
__the attraction, an-
other. Now comes the telephone pro-
cess. which does not mean, however,
that the fisherman telephones to any
particular fish that it is required to
come and adjust itself to the remorse-
less hook. It is true, nevertheless,
that Norwegian fishermen use a small
telephone, or rather microphone, when
engaged in sea fishing.
The microphone is dropped, like a
sounding lead, into the water, and
therein it faithfully records all sub-
marine sounds, which are transmitted
to a sounding-box or recorder fixed i
to the fishing boat. The patient fish-
long forthis world. I will tell him it was
Peruna that cured me."
Peruna is manufactured by The
Peruna Drug Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Ask your Druggist for a Free Peruna
Almanac for 1909.
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