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" HOW HEAVY ARE YOU?
After the Age of Forty Overweight
Affecte the Heart.
Life insurance statistics show
that overweight policyholders very
CURIOUS GRATITUDE.
A Story at Hie Own Expense That
Jaoob Riia Ueed to Tell.
The late Jacob A. Riis was a good
story teller, but there was one story
rarely die of old age. For that mat-1 that he used to tell to his friends
ter no one ever dies of old age. with especial glee, even though he
But overweight persons are apt to ] was the "go*tf of it.
It seems that soon after he took
up his residence on Long Island he
decided to build a house. He went
to an Austrian whom he had known
in the days when he was poor and
friendless, and who had since pros-
pered. Biis asked him for a loan
on mortgage. Biis' friend insisted
that the money should be regarded
as a gift. Biis would not consent,
and the matter eventually was left
as a loan (of which no written rec-
ord was made) which was to be
paid back at the borrower's con-
venience.
"Years passed," Biis used to add,
"and somehow I never had the
money to pay my friend. Then I
heard he was ill and went to see
him. I found that he had become
estranged from his family and had
many talks with him regarding his
expressed desire to leave his prop-
erty to distant relatives in Austria.
Incidentally, he again toid me that
his loan to me was not to be repaid.
Eventually he made a will, in which
the bulk of his estate was given to
the people of Austria.
"well, my old friend died, and of
course the family contested the will,
alleging that the testator was of un-
sound mind. The Austrian crowd
learned of my intimacy with him
and of the fact that I had seen
him often toward the end of his
life, and I was called as a witness
at the hearing of the suit to upset
the will. I took the stand and told
as fully add aB frankly as I knew
how oi my relations with the dead
man and of the talks I had had
with him, making it clear thai he
was sound in mind if not in body,
and knew what he was doing when
he left his money outside the im-
mediate family. Incidentally, in
talking of my old friend, I told the
whole story of the loan of years be-
fore.
"And would you believe it," Biis
always finished with a chuckle,
"when those Austrians won their
rait and got possession of tWt es-
tate the very first thing they did
was to demand from me payment
Of that unrecorded loan. And, by
golly, I paid it too!"—New York
Post.
CORNERS IN THE HOME.
succumb to some illness earlier in
life than persons of normal weight.
A man five feet tall should weigh
115 pounds.
A man five feet two inches
should weigh 127 pounds.
A man five feet four inches
should weigh 138 pounds.
A man five feet six inches should
weigh 144 pounds.
A man five feet eight inches
should weigh 155 pounds.
A man five feet ten inches should
weigh 170 pounds.
A man six feet tall should weigh
177 pounds.
Between the ages of fifteen and
thirty underweight is more impor-
tant than in middle life. It is of-
ten the indication of incipient tu-
berculosis or some other chronic dis-
ease. Of course, it may be a fam-
ily trait and mean nothing. But
when only one member of a family
shows underweight the case is one
for the family doctor's observation.
Diabetes, tapeworm, chronic appen-
dicitis, anaemia, tuberculosis and
other obscure conditions may be ex-
Sressed almost exclusively by un-
erweight in early adult life.
Underweight in individuals up
to the age of forty shortens the ex-
pectancy of life—that is, insurance
companies have found by experi-
ence that these individuals do not
live as long on the average as do
persons of normal weight. But aft-
er forty the factor of underweight
seems to be of little importance.
From forty up overweight begins to
assume the more prominent place.
Why is overweight bad?
A moderate amount of excess
baggage doesn't seem to be bad for
younger men; in fact, it seems to be
a favorable factor. But in men past
forty excess weight simply adds to
tile work of the heart. It stands to
reason that if your heart was made
to do the work of a forty horsepow-
er machine in the first place you
can't load on enough for a sixty
horsepower machine without caus-
ing a breakdown sooner or later.
Every time a fat man walks up-
stairs or lifts himself out of a chair
or tears himself away from the din-
ner table his heart is doing over-
work. Both overweight and under-
weight individuals may accomplish
much through diet. But the first
thing necessary is to find out wheth-
er any organic disease is the under-
lying cause of the abnormal weight.
—William Brady, M. D., in Chicago
NewB.
Namea That Don't Name.
Many chemical nemes convey no
exact idea of the things they stand
for. Oil of vitriol is no oil. Neither
are oils of turpentine and kerosene.
*0opperas is an iron compound and
contains no copper. Salts of lemon
is the extremely poisonous oxalic
acid. Carbolic acid is not an acid,
but an alcohol. Cobalt contains
none of that metal, but arsenic.
Soda water has no trace of soda,
-and sugar of lead has no sugar.
Cream of tartar has nothing of
cream nor milk of lime any milk.
German silver has no silver and
black lead no lead.
Mistaken.
Menzel, the German artist, was a
regular patron of a certain Berlin
wine shop. One day, says the Ber-
lin Bekord, a man and wife came
in and sat down at his table, and
presently Menzel noticed that the
woman was making fun of him.
Calmly he 4*ew out his sketching
book, gazed at the woman awhile
as if to study her face for a portrait
and then commenced to draw. Her
husband immediately took notice:
"I forbid you to draw a picture of
my wife. Stop it!" he exclaimed
angrily.
Menzel made a few finishing
touches, and then, passing the
sketching book over to thf man, he
inquired, with a laugh, "Is that
your wife?" He had drawn a goose.
East Indian Village Deities.
There is a cruel custom prevail-
ing in many parts of the Telugu
country, in India, in connection
with the worship of the village
deities. At the end of a sacrifice a
small cart with four, five or nine
pointed stakes standing upright at
the corners and sides is brought to
the image. Pigs, lambs and fowls
are then impaled alive upon these
stakes. The cart is dragged in a
procession to the boundary of the
village. The animals die in agony
on the way and are taken off the
stakes when the cart reaches its
destination.
8peed of Veeeeie.
"One knot" is a measure of the
velocity—not a measure of the dis-
tance—and means one nautical mile
per hour. It therefore includes the
measure of distance and the meas-
ure of time. It is wrong to say "a
vessel runs twenty-three knots an
hour." Either "twenty-three knots"
or "twenty-three^ miles an hour" is
right. But it is apparent from the
above that for the same reason it
is wrong to say, "The day's run
was 527 knots," because you wish
to express the distance which that
boat ran in one day. It should read,
"The day's run was 527 nautical
mües."—New York Times.
8eoond Thought.
Lawyer—Madam, I'm sorry to
•ay that I don't see the ghost of a
chance for you to break your uncle's
will.
Client—Well, to be frank with
you, I don't see the ghost of a
chance to pay you for what you've
already done if the will isn't bro-
ken."
Lawyer—H'm! On second thought,
madam, I think the will can be
broken.—Boston Transcript.
Butchers' Common.
William, earl of Warren, in the
time of King John, while standing
upon the castle walls saw two bulls
fighting in the castle meadow till
all the butcher dogs pursued one of
the maddened bulls quite through
the town. The sight pleased the
earl -so much that he gave the castle
meadows, where the duel of the
bulls began, for a common to the
butchers of the town, after the first
grass was mowed, on condition thai
they should find a mad bull the day
six weeks before Christmas day for
the continuance of that sport for-
ever.—London Standard.
Have You the Least Idea How Many
There Are In Yours?
It was not until I began to count
the number of corners that I realiz-
ed how little I really knew about
my house, despite the fact that it
had been built according to plans
and specifications furnished by our-
selves. To begin Aith, there are
nine rooms, "^ell,' you will say,
"put down four corners to each
room." But I have brushed too
many cobwebs • out of the ceiling
corners to have them thus ignored,
so I put down eight to each room,
or seventy-two for the nine rooms.
In the upper and lower halls, in-
cluding side entry and back passage,
there are twenty-eight corners
which, added to seventy-two makes
the first 100.
There are two flights of stairs,
one at the front and one at the
back of the house. Each stairway
hat nineteen steps, and as they are
of the inclosed type each step has
two corners, which brings the sum
up to 176.
There are ten closets, including
pantries and storeroom. Counting
eight corners to each, we have 256
corners. But these closets, pantries
and storerooms all have shelves,
which in turn have corners, from
the depths of which refractory par-
ticles of dirt must often be tedious-
ly fished out with some sort of an
improvised skewer. Here we have
100 more corners, or 356 so far.
The forty windows in my nine
room house must needs be frequent-
ly cleaned, 320 corners in all. Add
this to 356 and we have 676 corners.
While these are the main details, it
is easily seen that if we are to con-
sider the woodwork which must be
rubbed down with a dustcloth after
each sweeping, the number of cor-
ners made by the joining of base-
boards, carpet strips, door and win-
dow sills and other architected de-
tails would carry the number far
and away beyond the limit of 1,000,
which perhaps you thought impossi-
ble.—Mother's Magazine.
A Genuine Apology.
Colonel Blank had a little boy
five years old, and little Bobby had
often heard the men in his father's
comparfy spoken of as "Colonel
Blank's men." So he said to one of
them:
"My father owns you."
The soldier was very angry. "You
little imp!" he exclaimed. "What
are you talking about? Nobody
owns me."
Bobby's mother heard about it
and was much distressed. Calling
the little boy to her, she said:
"Bobby, you were wrong when
you said your father owns his men,
and I want you to tell the soldier
that you are sorry for what you
said."
Bunning to overtake the private,
the little boy exclaimed breath-
lessly:
, "I'm sorry my father owns you!"
—New York Post.
8trong Soup.
In the biography of William
Stokes, published in London fifteen
or more years ago, it was related
that Stokes was sent to Dublin dur-
ing the famine to show people how
to make soup. He asked one starv-
ing beggar why she didn't go and
get some of the free soup.
"Soup, is it?" said the woman.
"Sure, it isn't soup at all."
"If it isn't soup what is it?"
"It's nothin' but a quart av wa-
ther boiled down to a pint to make
it strong!"
Dust a Thousand Feet Thick.
China has its "bad lands," all
dust and dreariness, and its irriga-
tion wheels, and its "soul appalling"
Gobi desert, along whose southern
boundary lies the Great wall. In
some of these regions the famous
yellow dust of China lies to a depth
of 1,000 feet, and when the wind
blows the whole landscape is ob-
scured. Yet it is upon this dust
that the fertility of northern China
depends. The Chinese call it "gin-
ger powder."
Not Tactful.
Some one asked Archbishop Lang-
ley of England once what tact was.
"Well," replied the archbishop, "it
is difficult to say what it is. Here,
however, is an instance of what it
is not: Only this morning a clergy-
man in my diocese wrote to me, In
consideration of your grace's many
infirmities and failing powers/
That was not tactful!"
DRIVING A NAIL
There Is More to It Than Simply Ham-
mering It Into the Wood.
One who thinks that the driving
of a nail consists simply in getting
the whole length of it out of sight
has little conception of the real
nature of the operation, says the
Scientific American. A nail driven
by an expert will often hold several
times as much as one ill driven,
while, too, it is often made to draw
the parts into place.
If you have ever watch®d a me-
chanic driving nails you have doubt-
less noted that he rarely drives one
at right angles with the face of
the work. There is a reason for
this. Suppose that he is nailing
the "sheeting" on the frame of a
building and desires to draw the
board down tightly against the one
below it. He points the nail down-
ward, and a few well considered
blows at the last produce the de-
sired effect. If the board is bent
edgewise, so that much force is re-
quired, probably he will start the
nail in the upper edge, pointing
very sharply downward.
Again, two nails driven in a
board at different angles will hold it
in place much more firmly than the
same nails would if they were driv-
en at right angles with the face of
tl\0 board.
JP>id you ever notice that in driv-
ing a nail in very hard wood one
man will do it successfully, while
another succeeds only in doubling
the nail up before the point has
fairly entered the wood? The dif-
ference lies in the fact that the ex-
pert strikes the nail fairly and not
too hard, "coaxing" it in, while the
other strikes too hard and with in-
direction.
It may be properly mentioned
right here that in driving a nail into
very hard wood it is usually profit-
able to dip the end in oil or grease.
This will not sensibly interfere- with
the holding qualities of the nail,
while it wül be found to very ma-
terially facilitate its driving.
Disinterested.
Lord Monboddo, an eminent mem-
ber of the Scotch judiciary and one
of the clear cut figures in Boswell's
immortal ''Life of Johnson," was a
great beau in his youth and in his
later years a brilliant and learned
if whimsical man.
He was a friend of the Garricks
and one day was their guest at their
villa at Hampton Court when Han-
nah More was also visiting there.
They were walking together in the
garden when his lordship astonish-
ed the fair and sprightly Hannah
by a declaration of love and an offer
of his heart and hand. Meeting
with a positive refusal, he soon >e-
turned to the house and made a
clean breast of it to Mrs. Garrick.
"I am sorry for this refusal," he
said in conclusion. "I should have
liked so mqch to teach that nice
girl Greek."
The Clarinet.
The clarinet has the richest,
sweetest voice of all the wood wind
instruments, although its sound
does not travel quite so far as that
of the oboe. Whenever, as' some-
times happens, there are two melo-
dies to be played, at onee, the clari-
net takes the lower of the t\we,
while the violins play the upper and
more important one. But in a mili-
tary band, where there are no
strings at all, the clarinets play the
chief melody. The bass clarinet is
not so smooth or so sweet as the
higher ones. It has a rathei; choky
sound, though softer than that of
the bassoon.—St. Nicholas.
8elf Evident.
One of the dangers of a little
knowledge is that its possessor
rarely estimates it at its true value.
Ignorance, it has been said, bestows
her choicest gifts on those who
value her least.
A conceited undergraduate once
said to his teacher that he feared
he had rather a contempt for Plato.
"I am afraid, Mr. Johnson," re-
plied the teacher, "that your con-
tempt has not been bred by famil-
iarity."—Youth's Companion.
Easy Reasoning.
The Counsel—How do you know
this night letter was forged by a
man and not written by the woman
whose name is signed to it?
The'Expert—Because it contains
just forty-eight words, and a wo-
man would have used two more to
get her money's worth.—Birming-
ham Age-Herald.
The State of Texas
j To the Sheriff ot any Constable of Hous-
i ton County, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon
| the unknown heirs of John L. Hodge, de-
ceased, the unknown heirs of J. Ledger
; Hodge, deceased, the unknown heirs of
¡ J. Ledyard Hodge, deceased, the unknown
■ heirs of J. Ledgard Hodge, decs'd, the un-
| known heirs of Sarah J. Martin, decs'd, the
J unknown heirs of S. J. Martin, deceased,
the unknown heirs of Mary F. H. Gwin,
deceased, the unknown heirs of Mary E.
Gwin, deceased, the unknown heirs of
Wm. G. Logan, deceased, the unknown
heirs of Wm. M. Gwin, deceased, the un-
known heirs of Caroline K. Gwin, deceased,
the unknown heirs of Jas. P. Langhorne,
deceased, the unknown heirs of Evan J.
Coleman, deceased, the unknown heirs of
Lucy Coleman, deceased, the unknown
heirs of John L. Adams, deceased, by
making publication of this citation once
in each week for eight successive weeks
previous to the return day hereof, in some
newspaper published In your county, if
there be a newspaper published therein,
but if not, then in any newspaper pub-
lished in the nearest county to your coun-
ty, to appear at the next regular term of
the District Court of Houston County, to
be holden at the Court House of said
Houston County, in the town of Crockett,
on the fifth Monday after the first Monday
in September, A. D. 1914, the same being
the 12th day of October, A. D. 1914, then
and there to answer a petition filed in
said court on the 3rd day of August, A.
D. 1914, in a suit, numbered on the docket
of said Court No. 5512, wherein T. L. Hall
and J. F. Hall are plaintiffs, and the un-
known heirs of John L. Hodge, deceased,
the unknown heirs of J. Ledger Hodge,
deceased, the unknown heirs of J. Ledyard
Hodge, deceased, the unknown heirs of J.
Ledgard Hodge, deceased, the unknown
heirs of Sarah J. Martin, deceased, the
unknown heirs of S. J. Martin, deceased,
the unknown heirs of Mary E. H. Gwin,
deceased, the unknown heirs of Mary
E. Gwin, deceased, the unknown heirs
of Wm. G. Logan, deceased, the un-
known heirs of Wm. M. Gwin, de-
ceased, the unknown heirs of Caroline K.
Gwin, deceased, the unknown heirs of
Jas. P. Langhorne, deceased, the unknown
heirs of Evan J. Coleman, deceased, the
unknown heirs of Lucy Coleman, deceased,
the unknown heirs of John L. Adams, de-
ceased, and Elliott W. Eaves are defend-
ants, and said petition alleging that
plaintiffs are the owners in fee simple,
being lawfully seized and possessed of
the following described tract or parcel of
land situated in the counties of Houston
and Trinity, Texas, and more particularly
described by field notes as follows, to-wit:
Situated about 5 miles east ofLovelady
and being a portion of the Francisco Mar-
tinez League, and beginning at the North
East corner of said League, a stake from
which a P. O. 24 in. dia. marked X brs N.
84 E. 2 9-10 vrs. Thence South with the
East line of said league 1409 vrs. to stake
from which a Pine 20 in. dia. marked X
brs N. 4 E. 8 2-10 vrs. and a P. O. 6 in.
dia. marked X brs N. 17 W. 3 vrs. Thence
South 89-40 degrees West with the South
line of a 64 acre tract on said league,
1087 vrs. to a stake at South West corner
of said 64 acre tract from which a P. O.
13 in. dia. marked X brs N. 3 W. 4 2-10
vrs. and a R. O. 10 in. dia. marked X bra
S. 39 E. 6-10 vr. Thence North 326 3-10
vrs. to stake on the South line of the
Gantt 200 acre tract from which a Hickory
8 in. dia. marked X bra N. 56 W. 2 2-10
vrs. Thence West 121 5-10 vrs. to a stake
in a slough from which a Sweet Gum 18
in. dia. marked'X bra S. 66 W. 2 7-10 vrs.
and a Pecan 13 in. dia. marked X bra S.
33 XA E. 4 4-10 vrs. Thence North 20 West
1092 vrs, to a stake at the North West
corner of said 200 acre tract from which
a P. O. 22 in. dia. marked X brs S. 60 W.
6 4-10 vrs. Thence East 1212 vrs. to the
place of beginning, containing 296 acres
of land, more or less, as surveyed by J.
C. Ford.
Plaintiffs fully set out in their Original
Petition the title under and by viitue of
which they claim title to said land.
Plaintiffs allege that they and those
under whom they claim title to said land
have been in the actual, useful, continuous
and adverse possession thereof, cultivat-
ing, using and enjoying the same under
deeds duly registered, paying all taxes
due thereon for periods of three, five and
ten years, and plaintiffs specially plead
in their said Original Petition the three,
five and ten years' Statutes of Limita-
tion in bar of all claims asserted by the
defendants in and to said property.
Plaintiffs further allege and set out in
their Original Petition that all of the
claims of the defendants in and to said
property are unknown, but specially allege
various minor defects in and to said title
by reason of various discrepancies which
are fully set out in said Original Petition,
and all of which cast p cloud on plaintiffs'
title, which the plaintiffs sue to remove.
Wherefore, plaintiffs pray judgment for
said land, removing all clouds and quiet-
ing their title to same.
Herein fail not, but have before said
Court, at its aforesaid next regular term,
this writ, with your return thereon, show-
ing how you have executed the same.
Witness, John D. Morgan, Clerk of the
District Court of Houston County.
Given under my hand and the seal of
said Court, at office in Crockett, this the
3rd day of August, A. D. 1914.
[Seal] John D. Morgan. Clerk,
Adv.8t. District Court, Houston County.
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