The Sanger Courier. (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1905 Page: 4 of 12
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SANQER COURIER.
BRNMT LOG8DEN, Pub.
BAKOEK,.....TEX A 9
Entered at tb. postoffice at Sanger,
Damon County, Texas, aa aeoond-olaas
nail matter.
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ALWAYS IN ADVANCE unless
otherwise especially agreed upon.
Ah they are Philadelphia men. there
Is no mystery about how that girl
married twelve of them. She caught
them napping.
fiobltsse Oblige
Now that the war la over, we may
admit that It has taught many of us
a good deal of geography—American
as well na Asiatic.
In order to convince the world that
there* Is no truth In the story that his
feet had been amputated, Mark Twain
has got the gout.
It Is hardly possible that there Is a
shortage of chorus girls. There are
chorus girls In plenty. There Is only
a shortage of girls who can sing.
The family of our northern sister Is
growing. This time It’s twins, and
Saskatchewan and Alberta are lusty
youngsters of which Canada Is proud.
With commendable foresight the en-
voys used several pens In signing the
treaty, so that the great demand for
souvenirs will be to some extent sup-
plied.
The Houston (Tex.) council has of-
ficially declared that "goo-goo" eyes—
if made by men are a misdemeanor.
Girls are not mentioned. They make
their own law.
When manufacturers get to telling
automobiles for $400 apiece next year,
as they are now planning to do, the
millionaires will give theirs away and
go In for airships.
A girl In New York state faints
whenever the hand of her village be-
gins to play. Is this the press agent’s
way of advertising “the most extreme
limit” In conducting?
It Is only fair to Mr. Morgan to ex-
plain that the portion of the earth
now known as the moon got away
before the title to this planet had
passed Into his possession.
Now that the experimenters have
sent a kite up more than two and a
half miles in the air, it Is obvious that
anything that Is knocked higher than
a kite must go up pretty high.
A woman cashier in a Chicago res-
taurant put two holdup men to flight
recently by throwing cigar boxes at
them. The name of the brand is not
given, but the cigars must have been
fierce. •
Charles II. Flint, Just bnek front
Russia, says that the czar Is a man of
high intelligence and strength of
Character and that the grand dukes
are all right. Mr. Flint must have got
his contract.
The tolesrope reveals the fact that
the landscapes on Mars are subject to
sudden and frequent changes of tilt
most extensive character. Map mak-
ing must be the most profitable em-
ployment on that planet.
Capt. Sir Ernest Cochrane of Dub-
lin and Belfast promptly denies that
he has any design whatever on the
America cup. He must have been
reading the papers since Sir Thornes
l.ipton started ont to "lift” It.
Mr. Rockefeller said to the humor-
ists who visited him: “I am one of you
now.” and wore proudly a badge they
gave him. Still, he should not com-
pete with them by sending Jokes to
♦ he comic papers even "at space
rates.”
A* the ladles and gallant* of Florence
Beguiled the Murk days of the plagut-.
Telling tales to forget the abhorrence
Of the specter horrific and vague;
Bo we In lh“ City of Pleasure.
In tlie Carnival piaer of the land,
■hall 1-uW to misfortunes full measure
And true to our colora shall stand.
As the good that the days have provided
We took In the Joy of our hearta.
Our loyalty never divided.
In woe we are true to our part*.
No moaning nor any complaining
Shall tell of the sorrow we spend:
Our fatheia' traditions maintaining,
We take what the Heatena shall send.
—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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(Copyright. 1903. by Dally Story Pub. Co.)
It is as natural for a girl to make
herself pretty as it Is for a bee to
gather honey. Who would stop either
in so sweet an occupation?
The bank had failed and all that
Dr. Maguire had In the world was
swept away in the failure—literally
all, for with the savings of his young
manhood went the hope of making a
home for the girl he loved. If It had
been an honest failure, a money panic
or anything save a defaulting cash-
ier, It seemed to the doctor that he
could better have home It. But to
feel that bis work and his economy
had gone for naught, that the sav-
ings of the hard years of his profes-
sion and the hope that bad lightened
the work were gone, while another
man had gotten away In peace to live
with the woman for whose pleasure
this theft had been done, was mad-
dening. The papers made the sensa-
tion of a day of the departure of the
cashier and the woman who went with
him. Then the depositors who had
lost went back to their work forgotten
but not forgetting.
Dr. Maguire gave up his practice In
his home town In Missouri where
there were memories to haunt him
and where the accumulation of riches
was slow, and weut down to an un-
healthy little spot In Louisiana where
disease was always present and where
medicine wag a profitable profession.
He prospered and again he began to
hope that some day the home and the
girl would be hta.
One day—It was In July and the
mercury registered a temperature sel-
dom reached back In Missouri—the
papers began to he full of rumors of
the yellow fever. The plague was
stealthily creeping across the South.
The next day the rumors had become
facta and from a city plague-ridden
the Ignorant masses were beginning
to flee. On the third day two refugees
came Into the town where Dr. Ma-
guire had taken up his abode. They
were Italian laborers, and one man
was sick when they reached the place.
Before night the town had established
a quarantine station and the two Ital-
ians were held there. The one was
In the clutches of the fever, and the
other so badly frightened that he
easily fell a victim to the disease. The
first man died and the second follow-
ed his example, but not before the
town, in spite of all precautions, had
become another of those pest centers
whence the line of the plague swept
steadily onward, like the creeping evil
of a prairie fire through dry grass.
Thenceforth there was work for the
doctor's hands. Early and late through,
the fever-fretted town he went to
his errands of mercy. He had given
but little study to the fever, but now,
with ample opportunity for study af-
forded him he was too busy bringing
healing or closing the eyes of the
A Brooklyn Justice has sentenced a
man to talk to hl^ wife two hours
every Sunday. That means that the
wife must keep quiet two hours. Evi-
dently somebody I* about to suffer a
eritel and unusual punishment con
trary to the constitution. Guess who.
For the benefit of their pupils, all
the schools of Journalism should
make note of the fict that the proper
thing for reporters to say on the re-
turn of an Arctic expedition Is:
"Though they failed to locate the pole,
they bring hark data of great sden
tlflc value."
••Tall m« hla name.”
dead to give time to experimenting
with the bites of mosquitoes, or the
danger of Infection through contact
With the disease.
One evening the doctor went In an-
wer to a summons to a bouse with-
out the town. The place was a lonely
one. five miles from the city, Just
within the cordon that the quarantine
had drawn about the town. Evident-
ly the house was the home of people
of wealth. It was a handsome struc-
ture. but It was seemingly dese-ted.
. The doctor found In an upper room a
woman dying of the plague. Before
the end came that night she was able
to tell the doctor something that he
had long wanted to know. Little by
little she whispered her story. She
had left the North with a man who
had done much evil for her sake. He
had betrayed a trust reposed In him.
He was a thief and a fugitive from
Justice. They had lived there very
quietly to avoid discovery, so quietly
and so alone that they had not known
of the coming of the fever until the
quarantine lines had been drawn
around them. The man was a craven
coward, shuddering In fear of the dis
“If you dia, I shall have given you
what you deserve."
ease and when the woman had shown
symptoms of the plague he fled, leav-
ing her to die alone. She paused,
apparently unable to go on. “His
name,” Dr. Maguire urged,' "tell me
his name.” He shook the dying wo-
man roughly, all else forgotten In the
eagerness that was upon him. She
roused sufficiently to whisper the
name. And the doctor knew that his
revenge was near. Somewhere, In the
vicinity of the town, with the quar-
antine lines drawn tightly about him,
caught like a rat In a trap, was a man
who fled from a town In Missouri with
the savings of his neighbors and his
friends. Dr. Maguire was almost hap-
py as he rode back to town.
Skirting the streets of tho plague
ridden town a man crept, hiding In
dark corners, crawling along the
ground, terrified at tho death that
threatened old and young, nor spared
for prayeis and promises the man who
feared to die. Dr. Maguire, riding In
late that night, almost overrode the
crouching figure. And when he had
stooped from his saddle to set the
groveling wretch upon his feet he
knew who It was that crawled in the
dark. His revenge was at hand. The
defaulter, too, recognized the doctor.
And in Dr. Magulre'H eyes he read that
the time of reckoning was ut band.
He fell on his face at the doctor’s
feet, all manhood fallen from him
leaving him only a groveling, fright-
ened, abject thing that crawled Id
the dust. "Mercy,” he begged, his face
hidden.
."Mercy," the doctor repeated. "Did
you think of mercy when you robbed
men and women of their all, when
you stole the widow’s mite and left
orphaned children to go hungry? Did
you think of mercy when you blasted
a man's hopes nnd left him hard and
merciless and with the passion of re-
venge eating at his heart? Mercy foa
such as you? Never! And the wo-
man for whom you sinned—you could
not even keep faith with her. You
deserted her when she was dying and
left her to meet the end alone. Mer-
cy? 1 am going to kill you like the
dog that you are. It's what 1 have
been wanting to do theae many
months.”
The man at his feet licked the dust
and tore his hair with Impotent fin-
gers. "My life,” he begged again
"Spare my life. Only let me live. I'll
give the money hack to you."
Dr. Maguire smiled a dtaboncal
smile. "Bo bo It." ho said. "You
shall have your life since you are so
tearful of death. I will give you a
chance. You shall try your luck wltlj
fate. They say that the mosquito's
bite breeds the fever. For me, 1 do
not know. But you shall take the
chance. We'll let the mosquito bite
you, and if you live well and good.
But If you die. I shall have given you
what you deserve.”
He drew the cowering fugltivo
roughly to his feet and with hla
horse's bridle throwu across his arm
led his captive down the street to the
office of n fellow physician who had
been experimenting with the mosquito
theory. The fugitive saw the doctor
place one of the mosquitoes near and
nearer his arm. He turned hla head
away, shivering. There was the sharp
sting of t*he Insect's bite, and the fu-
gitive slipped to the floor In a faint.
The doctor kept his enemy with him
In the days that followed, watch-
ing the man's every movement. In
due time the fever developed. Dr.
Maguire seemed surprised that It
should be so. The patient was hys-
terical with fright. He had worked
himself Into a frenzy of fear and so
had made himself an easy prey to the
plague. And he died, died of the fever
In its worst form.
Dr. Maguire’s friend, the physician
who was Interested in the mosquito
theory, rubbed his hands complacent-
ly. “This proves the experiments ab-
solutely In my opinion,” be said. "The
man had positively no symptoms of
the disease. Its development and Ills
subsequent dealh were due to the bite
of the mosquito.” Dr. Maguire smiled
strangely. "What would you say,” he
said slowly, “if I told you that the
man was not bitten by a mosquito?
At the last moment, when he turned
his head aside as 1 held the Insect
ubove Ills arm, I thrust the point o'.’
a pin into the flesh Instead of allow-
ing the mosquito to bite him. The
man died of fright, pure and simple.
Or else he took the fever from infec-
tion. The woman had the plague,
you know, when the man fled from
her.”
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PROPER CARE OF HEADGEAR.
How Hats May Be Worn Long and
Always Look Well.
No article of dress becomes shabby
so quickly, for want of a little care,
as a hat; light, air and dust all tend
to turn It brown, If It is exposed to
their Influences; It ought therefore
to be kept In a hat box whenever it
Is not In use. On ordinary occasions
a soft 'brush should be used.
When the hat is wet It should never
be wiped with a pocket handkerchief
(unless a clean one is specially used
for that purpose), but the superfluous
moisture should be taken off with a
dry soft cloth.
If It has received only a partial
sprinkling, and a rough mottled ap-
pearance is left, dip a hat brush
lightly In cold water and pass It gen-
tly round in the same direction .as the
nap.
When all parts are uniformly damp,
take a hard brush, and with that bring
the nap to Its former state of even-
ness; then lay the hat on Its side on
a clean cloth for the night to dry.
After It has been brushed with the
ordinary hat brush next morning. It,
will look little the worse for the wet-
ting It has undergone. The better the
quality of the hnt, the more times may
this be repeated without injuring ‘It.,
Bulges or Indentations may be re-,
moved by warming the hat (by steam
Is preferable) nnd taking them out
with a hot Iron. Any attempts to re-,
store the shape by other means will
probably result In cracking the hat.
Gloss may he removed, when after
some wear the nnp becomes dull and
gray looking, by brushing with a hot
brush, or, better, by gently pressing a
three times round In the direction of
flatiron, ordinarily heated, two or
the nap.
Had Faith In It.
Admiral William G. Buehler, at a
dinner at Hot Springs, Va., said of a
Philadelphia editor:
“He Is a good man, an enthusiast.
His paper prospers because he be-
lieves in it, becuuse he has faith In
it.
•And what faith in It he has! He
reminds mo of tho Yankee with the
accurate watch.
"This Yankee, an elderly man. had
a watch that for thirty or forty years
had never once gone wrong. Hence he
boasted about It at all times.
"With a gm st from Boston he rose
one August morning to see the sun
rise, and as they waited for Its rising
the Yankee kept consulting first his
watch, which was in his right hand,
and then a farmers' almanac, giving
the sun’s schedule, which was In his
left.
"There was n long wait In the pale,
vague dawn. Then, tapping his watch
with his forefinger, the Yankee said:
“'If the sun ain't over that hill in a
minute and a half he’ll be luce.”’—
Buffalo Inquirer.
Rumors and Roomers.
”1 Just heard of a fellow who took a
room up at that hlg hotel," said the
first summer man, "and when he got a
chance stole s lot of money from the
other Inmates."
"Yes?” said Jokeley; "another cas«
of a bad roomer gaining currency."
i!
Fruit Trees and Mlct.
Every winter In some parts of the
country great losses are experienced
in the orchards by the ravages of
mice. It is not unusual to take up a
report from a state of the United
States, or province of Canada and find
numerous reports of the great havoc
wrought by mice. Wo noticed a while
ago a report from the province of On-
tario. Among tne reports were these,
which were characteristic: From
Glengary: "Thousands of fruit trees
have been ruined by mice.” From
Carleton: “Ol ’ fruit trees are In fine
condition, but young orchards have
been almost destroyed by field mice."
From Parry Sound: "Mice were very
destructive last winter and did a lot
of damage to young fruit trees.” From
Dufferln: “Fruit trees were badly peel-
ed by mice during the winter." We
might repeat numerous other reports
of tne same general character. Re-
ports secured from various northern
states of the Union frequently have a
like tenor.
Losses from mice always occur on
young trees, generally trees that are
one or two years old. These little
creatures can do a very great amount
of damage because It requires but a
very small damage to any one tree to
kill It. The mice simply gnaw entire-
ly around a tree at the snow line.
They are after the young bark to sat-
isfy their hunger. The space gnawed
may not be more than an Inch wide,
but It means the doom of the tree. It
Is no wonder then that a whole orch-
ard Is sometimes wiped out in a sin-
gle year by these young rodents.
They are especially dangerous where
straw or corn stalks have been placed
around trees, as this makes a hiding
place for the mice. Corn stalks are
frequently put around trees to protect
them from sun-scald In winter. The
trees are saved from this Injury, but
Instead are destroyed by the mice.
Where mice are troublesome, the best
way Is to destroy all their biding
places in the orchards and adjoining
fields. In the west we have few stone
walls to act as protectors of the mice,
and It Is caster to prevent their rav-
ages than In the eastern states where
every farm orchard Is protected on
some side by a stone wall. Where the
hiding places cannot be destroyed,
some kind of tree protector will have
to be used. One of the best of tbese
is a shield made of latbs bound togeth-
er by wire. This Is sunk Into the
ground around the tree before the soil
freezes hard In the. fall. The wire
lath shield is Inexpensive, and any
man can make it. The wires are sim-
ply crossed between each two laths,
and the spaces between Any two latbs
must not be large enough to permit
the rodents to cut through. We would
like to hear from our readers as to
their methods of protecting their
orchards against mice.
Vitality of Seeds.
The practice of sprouting seeds
between layers of blotting paper
does not give absolutely accur-
ate results, except to show what
per cent of the seed will germin-
ate under those conditions. If a lot
of seed be divided Into two portions
and one lot be placed between sheets
of wet blotting paper and the other be
actually placed in the ground, the lat-
ter lot will show a much smaller per-
centage of germination than the oth-
er. It Is one thing for a seed to sprout
under ideal conditions; it Is quite an-
other for seed to sprout under hard
conditions, which obtain frequently
when the seeds are covered with
earth, and are put In at varying
depths.
Fertilizers in the South.
The twelve southern states long ago
began to use fertilizers. Exhaustive
cropping systems that have been In
vogue In the South for a hundred
years have depleted the land of tta
fertility to such an extent that good
returns are Insured only by the appli-
cation of vast quantities of costly com-
mercial fertilizers. For last year the
total number of fertilizer establish-
ments In the southern states was 205.
The total capital Invested was in ex-
cess of $37,000,000. These factories
used last yenr raw materials to tne
value of $10,000,000. They turned out
a product valued at more than $24,000-
000. The fertilizer tonnage for the
south during the last twelve months
for which we have reports was 2,441,-
887 tons. The consumption of fertil-
izers lu Georgia alone was 089,916
tons.
A Historical Carpat.
A curious carpet has lately been
manufactured at Caesarea. It H
a representation of the battle
of Trafalgar, depleting that ino
.nent In the engagement when Nel-
son received his fatal wound. The
carpet, which Is entirely of silk, la
7 feet by C feet, and took two glrla
fourteen months to weava IL /t via
sold for £400.
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