Weekly Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 28, 1902 Page: 6 of 10
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1
AS THE WORLD
REVOLVES
Persons, Places
and Things
IE WEEKLY
PANORAMA
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NEW SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS.
THINKS CONDITIONS ARE GOOD.
that they too* form through the ef-
fect of the sun on the fields of per-
petual stew.
MODERN DRAMA IN GERMANY
Noon.
Khari-lrr In dr valley
Sunlight on dr hill.
Hut'ny/wi*h dal locus
Kuflwrd how to be still
Don't de heal already
Melt a body hum.
Dout dat Insec' say la’
llottah days to come?
Attempt Being Made tn England to
Revise the Standard.
An attempt le belt t made in Eng
land to revise the etat lsrd of weights
for commercial purposes The sug-
gestion la to create tew weights of
fifty pounds, twenty five pounds or
twenty pounds, ten pounds and live
pounds avoirdupois respectively, to
run concurrently with the hundred-
weight series of weights. The corn,
cotton and tobacco trades have adopt-
ed the cental system hut It is neces-
sary to make up the rental to use the
fifty-six pound and the twenty-one
pound weight. If two --<* of weights
are nsed. one based on the hundred-
weight and the other on the cental,
confusion can be avoided by making
the new weights of otherwise plainly
distinguish between the two series of
weights. The propc-ul is being en-
thusiastically supported and there
seems every possibility of its coming
into vogue.
Prominent Flranclsrtoatitflsd with the
Russian Outlook.
James It Keene, the famous flnan
cler. who has Just prophesied a long
and uninterrupted period of prosperity
for the country, is properly considered
the Nestor of the financial world, and
one whose opinions are almost re
Esthetic Not Popular With Theater-
Goer* of tho Fatherland.
German dramatists and t >e devotees
of the modern drama are Jealous of
their craft sad resent the Importation
of say foreign article unless It bear
tho bandmark of leben. HJornsen or
one or two Russian dramatists of the
gloomy type. For In the Herman
dramatic world there are agrarians
who cry "German drama for Ger-
many.” Just as there are agrarlars In
the Reichstag who want to exclude
American beef, sausage and graiaa.
Tfcey awear loyally hy their liaupt
tnann. Kudernnann. lialbe and Khillippl
But the political agrarians have t.ielr
opponents and the dramatic agrarians
have Whgjr*. Tor the axsiHtsntetsg-
manager, scene shifter and costume
makers are (brown out of Jobs.
The romigig season promises an
—•her deluge of the modern drama
he Kaiscf and royalty may disp-
rove and 1 refrain from favoring the^
a in a with Its patronage, but the"
leatergolpg public who contributes
> the balance sheet credit page, dU-
,tes and Its command is “away with
.1* esthetic,” and let us have the filth
f the gutter.’ as the Kaiser siys in
Traveler Made Money.
Vernon Churchill, an American
"globe-.glrdler.M recently Balled from
Liverpool on the last stage of his
round the world Journey. He began
his travels with a five-cent piece given
him by Admiral Dewey, some twenty
months ago; he has now 92,000 in his
possession. He is a lightning pastel
artist, and hia method on tour has
been to msh« pictures or give enter-
tainments in public places. In this
way he has been enabled to live at
flrat-claas hotels, wherever such ex-
isted. Though speaking English only,
he found that dumb show, and his
ability to draw pictures sufficed to
carry him around the world. He has
been in Japan, China, Manchuria,
Siberia, Russia, Germany, Holland
Kiri r a shinin' yallrr
Wld dr bondin’ grain,
Guinea hen a callin'
Now'i dr time fu' rail ;
8hrt yo' mouf. you raacal,
Whi'i de me to cry?
You do’ *<*e no rain clouds
Dia hyeah awcajsf^becn po'ln'
Dows nsjr face since dawn,
Ain't hit time we * hyeahln’
Dat ah dlnnah ho n?
Uo on. Ben an' Jaspah,
LIT yo' feet an' fly.
Hit out fu' de ahadder
T*’ 1 drap aw’ die.___
Hungry, lawd a' mu*i y,
5 Hungry as a buih,
8<-em* talk I hyeah dlnnalj
Callin' evahwhaih'!
Daih's de ho'n a blowiu'!
Let dat cradle awing
One mu' a weep, den da'kies.
Beat me to de spring!
Paul i.*wrtnc« Dunbar, In ALisles's
Mngaxlnr.
Roemarinc.
DIPLOMAT 18 IN DANGER.
Stats Department Annoyed at Action
of Golombisn Minister.
The tactics of Benor Concha, the
Columbian minister at Washington
arc said to be exhausting the patience
Shark in Fishermen’s Net.
A monster man-eating shark over
fifteen feet long, and weighing nearly
a ton, was caught by Frank R. Peter-
son an 1 Henry A. Thomas at White-
horse beaci, Manomet, Mass., the
other afternoon. The shark, which is
of a species rarely seen in northern
waters, is the same one which caught
James Rooney, a resident of White-
horse Beach, by the hand, and pulled
him off a dory, to his death, some time
ago. Rooney had his hand-in the
water, when the moster came up per-
pendicularly, and caught him. A
woman on shore saw the shark, and
life-savers put out to his rescue, but
the body was never found. The
shark probably dragged him to the
bottom and ate him. Such a fish would
ordinarily go through a net, but a
shark's tendency is to turn itself over
and over, and in this way he wound
himself ail up to the net, which the
two fishermen, Peterson and Thomas,
were hauling in. There was plenty of
fight left in him, and he gave them a
desperate battle before they were able
to drive a lance into his brains.
garded as market valtte..* ifis ups and
downs have been Innumerable, but of
iate- ye-wr* bbv affai r* have prujiDered
until he Is considered on perfect^,
safe ground. Mr Keene will -be re
mem be r*-d above all else for his finaru-
Ing of government bonds at the close
of the civil war. an achievement in
those days regarded as almost mira<
ulous. Mr Keene, though still an
active man in the street, is nearly 70
years of age
D BY ILLINOIS MASONS.
Hallenbeck CHOscn Grand
OOUtcr of Grand Council.
ral - Hallenbeck, elected most
The ancients thought that walrus
was a sea monster which climbed
cliffs and fed on dew. They called it
the rosmarine and printed pictures
of it like the above.
Accident Has Good Results.
For forty years Mrs. Emily Van
Dyke, of Philadelphia, was unable to
use her left leg, she having met with
an accident which partially paralyzed
the limb. The other day she started
to market aa lame as ever, with the
aid of crutch and cane, accompanied
by her pet dog, Fido. They met the
city pound wagon and one of the dog-
catchers made a dash for Fido. The
animal ran to his mistress, and in
his rush knocked her down. She was
taken to the hospital, where it was
discovered that the shock and fright
of tie dog-catcher’s sudden advent
had started tho circulation in her in-
jured member. Her paralysis has
disappeared.
CYCLISTS TAKE HEED.
Code of Warning Perfected by Inter-
national Tourists’ League.
An International code of warning
signals for the benefit of all cyclists,
snd more particularly for those travel-
ing In foreign countries with whose
largtiage they are unfamiliar, has
just been composed. The series of
(anger signs is of great simplicity.
Senor Concha
of the United BtatPS government and
may result in a request for his recall.
,\Vlfh instructions from his govern-
ment to proceed with the negotiation*
for the Panama canal he has for some
time been delaying the treaty on one
pretext or another, and now he has
placed everything at a standstill by
refusing to move until .he receives a
reply from his government as to
whether the attitude of Admiral Casey
on the isthmus in the revolutionary
disturbances will have any effect oe
the negotiations.
Curious Headdress.
v»iiK atltnileiv
Coffee Blindness.
It is well known that the Moors are
inveterate coffee drinkers, especially
the merchants, who wit in their ba-
zaars and drink coffee continually dur-
ing the day. It has been noticed that
almost invariably when these coffee
drinkers reach the age of 40 or 45
their eyesight begins to fall, and by
the time they get to be 50 years old
they become blind. One is forcibly
Impressed by the number of blind
men that are seen about the streets of
the city of Fes, the capital of Moroc-
co. It is invariably attributed to the
excessive use of coffee. This opinion-
has been confirmed by the opiniopilg
European paysicians living ther<grj|| |
John C. Hallenbeck.
excellent grand master of the Grand
Council. Royal and Select Master Ms
sons of Illinois, at the annual session
in Chicago, is a well known man in
the stationery and paper business, and
a Mason who haa taken nearly all thr-
ees and held office in most of the
onic chapters. He Is of old colo
,ai Dutch stock, and has been i ro»1-
t of Chicago since childhood.
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SOON TO WED ANSON FLOWER.
. . * *
' This peculiar headdress was fash-
ionable in the middle of the fifteenth
century.
Miss Hilda Clark Ondi of "the “HWR
Known American Prime Donne.
Miss Hilda Clark, who ia soon to
become the bride of Anson Flower,
son of the late Gov. Flower of New
York, is one of the most prominent
WILL WR'TE OF IRELAND.
Marchioness of Londonder-y Has
Work In ConteifnlaPon.
The Marchioness of Londonderry,
who Is said to have In contemplation
a serioua literary work on the Irish
question. Is perhaps better fitted by
education, inclination and experience
for the task before her than any mem
-Mfontt British nobility. Her father,
the Kart of Bnrewsbury snd YaiDotr
was premier earl of Ireland, and the
young Lady Theresa Helen Talbot
spent much of her time in that coun-
try. Lord Londonderry's favorite
Baby Bird Tsn Feet From Tip to Tip.
George L. Stillwell of San Jose, Cal.,
who has just returned from a trip
to Santa Barbara county, has brought
back with him a young bird of the
giant condor family, the largest spe-
cies of blrda in existence. The bird
was captured after a most thrilling
experience. Stillwell and a conapan-
ion scaled a lofty crag and engaged in
xoMB—Ohbtrxxq Horv.'
and has been unanimously adopted by
the nineteen national cycling associa-
tions which comprise the l.lgue Itoter-
cationale des Associations Tourits
The basis of the signals is the ar
row, which Is In universal use in dan-
gCT’ signs. and Is therefore easily
understood by all cyclists.
Freak of Lightning.
The phenomenal action of lightning
on the farm of J. L. Jones near Lane]
Ottawa, Kansas, is reported. Mr.l
Jones’ pasture fence was struck re-
-the lightning—running—*i**«g
the lower wire, pulling out many of
the staples and scarring the posts
for a quarter of a mile. Two cows
lay with their heads almost under the
fence. A neighbor saw one of the
cows go down. She rolled over, then
got to her feet She walked a few
feet and fell. A post-mortem exami-
nation showed that the cow’s brains
had been cooked by the electricity.
The upper part of the skull was badly
crushed.
a battle with the mother bird. 'Tho
parent bird measured fifteen feet from
tip to tip of wings, and both men
suffered many bruises. The young
bird has never learned to fly, and
its wings are not yet strong enough
to bear the wetgbt of Its body. It
measures ten feet from tip to tip and
ia developing well in captivity.
The parent of this bird Is the only
one of the species known to exist in
the state. Its home is one of the
wildest spots in 8anta Barbara county,
n crag in the heart of the moun-
tolas, fifty six miles east of Santa
Maria, aad midway between Bakers-
field and Santa Barbara.—San Fran-
cisco Chronicle.
FIRM IN NOW A FUGITIVE.
Main Revolutionary Movement on
leland of Mayti Collapses.
The main revolutionary movement
In Haytl has ended with the surren-
der of Gonaivea, the Firminite head-
quarters. to the government troops
and the flight of Gen. Ftrraln. who is
t refugee on board the steamer Adi-
rondack which sailed for Bahama.
Oct. 29. It is now believed that order
Hilda Clark.
and popular of the American prima
done. in 1899, after studying for
three years in Milan and Paris, aha
Joined the Bostonians, and moat of
her subsequent successes were scored
while a member of that organisation.
Miss Clark is a daughter of a Leaven-
worth. Kan., banker, but was brought
up in Boston, where she received bar
earlier musical training. Her voice ia
* powerful dramatic soprano, very
flexible snd of wide range.
Strange Figuee of Snow.
Dr. R. Hauthal of the Argentine
museum of La Plata, South America,
has solved an old mystery that has
been n wonder story of the Indians of
the southern Cordilleras for years. On
the east side or this great chain, high
up on the mighty sky-storming moun-
tains. stand grant. Impressive figures
—nieve penitente. the Indians call
them. They gay that these nre pen!
tents turned to scow, sinner; In life
who stand with bowed headr exptat
lag,; their crimes snd wickedness by
sternal sorrow to tho white itoiitodes
of Patagonia and the Argent ice.
Dr. Hantbal reached the ’’places of
penance” after a kmg. hard Journey
through the wilderness. He found the
great figure*, looking impost ig and
striking. Indeed. But be fovad that
they were lost Ordinary clear las aad
i ms mode of conveyance is tfie
moat common in mountainous regions
of Japan. It to called kago.
Secured Red-Haired Bride. I
W. W. French, s red-haired hotel J
porter cf Findlay, O., advertised for a]
red-haired woman to marry, ’wealthJ
no object, no black, brown, golden orfl
auburn hair wanted. Must be red toff
<J«y ” Maggie Slckmlller, aged ll
years, from the country, applied wal
accepted, and they were married. |
Never Judge pictures and horses J
’-heir frames
“sent” is Mount Stewart. County
Down, where the family have spent a
great part of each year among a large
and loyal tenantry, and for three
yearn. 1899-99, Lord Londonderry was
lord lieutenant of Ireland. Lady Lon-
donderry has always loved her Irish
home aad the Irish people. She has
done much to popularise their laces,
linens, tweeds and poplins, and has
In'ail her work coma la know Ireland
for what she la, ao aho will be able to
write truthfully and with * friendly
Better Return*.
It to noted by the Buffalo Times
that among the business men of that
community there 1s an Increasing tea*
deacy to discard nil other forms of
advertising la favor of more aewspa-
per spaeq, Almost nil means of pub-
licity are useful, but It to apparant
that there are vastly bettor returns
from newspaper advertising than from
srv A - - .
Gem Firm in.
ch order ae the republic
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