The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1909 Page: 4 of 10
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By Albert Payson Terhune
THE SUBURBAN BREAKFAST
NOT SO BAD.
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WANTED THE DATE.
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tear wildly at her hair, pulling it out
in large handfuls.
Miss Oidgirl—Don’t you think It’s
v great impropriety to be engaged to
(lire© men at once?
Miss De Fiippc—Not if they don't
know it
Sounded That Way.
"It beats all how many things
quarter will buy these days."
“Took hash for dinner, did you?”
has
my
Carrying his bowl of mush
And double quickening far.
Tommy breakfasts as he hikes
To catch the high school car.
Coffes cup and roll in hand
And titty seconds lute.
The Latest.
Sandy Pikes—Yes, mum. I used to
Soon the
Crimean war broke
out.
ill prepared,
seiner
After
many failures
Niepce found, in
1827, that by coat-
ing the surface of
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ap
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c
p.
t would seem
Though revenues are lax,
No breakfast tables will be found
On which to lay a tax.
—McLandburgh Wilson, in
Sun.
Clever Willie.
On Ills baby sister’s head
Willie broke a piece of tile.
Mamma only smiled and said:
■ “That will hold her for a while.
Protected Them.
"He lorad hie fellow mail"
••How do you know?”
“He refused to Insure bl* Ute, thus
making It ItnpOMlbl* tor bis wife tu
■am o««to."
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THREE REASONS
Each with Two Legs and Ten Finger*.
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Angry.
"Ill never speak to you again!"
“Now that's a nice way for a worn
an to talk to her husband, isn't It?"
"Well. I won't!”
“Never?"
"Well, not Illi pay-day, anyhow "
-ESSON IN NATURAL HISTORY
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DAGUERRE—The Man Who Made
Sunlight Work for Him.
In the Future.
First Ward Politician—We’ll carry
our ticket.
Second Ditto—But you forget our
opponent is the reform candidate, and
he will get all the women’s votes.
First W. P.—Won't be any women's
votes to count.
Second Ditto—How do you know
they won't vote?
First W. P.—Because we have ar-
ranged with the stores to have big
bargain sales on election day.—Balti-
more American.
break a law ”
"i uiUtorstaud," answered* Senator
Horghum. "that Is why you have ao
often tried to have the law made to
•tilt, you in <ho «ra» plaoo.”
Unprovoked.
“No one will do you a bad turn, it
you do not first do them a bad turn.”
“Oh. I don't know; look at my wife's
first husband.”
"Did he ever do you a bad turn?"
"He died, didn't he?"
No Use.
Newspapers try to post the world,
And keep it posted—do their best—
And yet some city youth each year
Essays to pick a hornet nest.
the
house
can
will
To cutch the 7:06.
Nibbling at a soft boiled egg
And hooting might and main,
Mother breakfasts as she speeds
To catch the shoppers’ train.
Adapting Proverbs.
(dogmantically)—Straws show
which way the wind blows.
She (significantly) — Well, some-
times, in a treating party, they show
somebody is raising the wind.
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Mrs. Fixem—I don't see what you
men find in your club.
Mr. Fixem—It's what we don't find.
Amusing, But Somewhat Expensive
as Miss Patty Realized When r“~
the Goat Was Through.
of Progress
Preacher—Tommy, I hear you have
been telling lies. I never told lies
when I was your age.
Tommy—When did you begin, sir?
of a human*face. This revolutionized
From that time further
was a comparatively
improved it.
Draper of
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the
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of
a-1 ie
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photogrnphy.
Improvement
easy matter
Though an
for photography, yet France rightly
claims the credit of originating the art.
(Uepy righted.)
People Becoming Interested.
Evidence of the popular interest in
the anti-consumption crusade is given
in a statement made by the National-
/Association tor the Study and Preven-
tion of Tuberculosis, to the effect that
during the year ending August 31.
nearly 3.000,000 people have attended
tuberculosis exhibitions in various
parts of the country. Besides the
three traveling tuberculosis exhibi-
tions of the national association, there
are 28 exhibits of this kind thromZ*
out the United States. Four year?
ago there were only three such dis-
plays in the entire country.
HENRY BESSEMER—The Man Whose Failure Won Success.
shot. It was declared useless; and
once more people laughed at Besse-
mer.
But, inadvertently, these two fail-
ures formed the foundation of his fu-
ture fame and fortune. Had he re-
ceived the easy government job prom-
ised him years before he would prob-
ably have rested content and done lit-
tle for progress. Had his projectile
been adopted, he might have remained
a mere cannon-ball inventor.
When, however, the French emperor
rejected his new shot, on the ground
that no cannon was sufficiently strong
to fire it, Bessemer simply set to work
to find some strongei’ material for
cannon. He knew little of metals, but
began a careful study of them. At
that time, iron, not steel, was used for
railways, big guns and nearly every
structure requiring metal. Steel was
hard to make and was far too expen
sive for common use. Few men were
employed in working on it, and these
used a tedious, laborious process in
its production.*
But Bessemer was not content with
the modes then in use. He knew that
steel was an alloy of iron and carbon
in certain proportions, and he invented
the following process for making it:
He drove a blast of air through
masses of pig iron that was in process
of fusing until it was cleared of car-
bon. Then, by introducing the proper
proportion of carbon, he found he had
an excellent quality of steel. He could
thus make steel far more rapidly than
it had ever before been manufactured,
and at a mere fraction of its former
high price. He also found that by
blowing through molten pig iron until
all its carbon was oxidized he could
produce a fine grade of malleable iron.
Steel became at a bound one of the
world's foremost industries. The
United States at once took the lead In
its production. Before Bessemer's in-
vention our annual production of steel
was about 11,8,36 tons. A few years
later it had risen to 3,019,906 tons a
year. Bessemer was the father of
steel rails, steel frames for sky
scrapers, steel ships, steel cannon and
modern armor-plate. His invention
gave work to millions of men.
tCopyriglite’d.)
Miss Patty Shepard of North Thir
:eenth street went to the country with
i party of friends on Memorial day.
They stopped at a farmhouse where
>ome of the party are well known.
Browsing about was an old goat.
When Miss Patty saw her the nanny
was placidly nibbling at a few blades
of grass, and she innocently thought
that goats were strictly vegetarians.
Jn the lawn in front of the porch she
md put her handsome new peach-
tasket hat, trimmed with pretty ar-
tificial roses, which she had got from
he store the night before. The goat --
iaw the hat and advanced joyfully to-
vard it. Miss Patty laughed. “The *-
old thing thinks they're real roses/b
she laughed. “Won’t she be fooledf
when she smells them?”
Everybody sat still to watch the
;oat smell the artificial flowers and
walk away. But the goat fooled them.
The next week Miss Patty bought
mother hat.—Philadelphia Times,
By Inference.
Bridge Teacher—Now, if your part-
ner is dealer and has a dreadful hand,
what will she make it?
Mrs. Baker—No trumps.
Bridge Teacher—Why, you
know anything about bridge!
Mrs. Baker—Possibly not; but 1
know all about my partner.—Harper’s
Bazar.
I *
be de star wire walker in de days
of Barnum. Couldn’t you loan me a
quarter to join de show in de next
town ?
Housewife (suspiciously)—Where is
your wire?
Sandy Pikes—Don’t carry it ' any
more, mum. I'm a wireless walker
now.
A Boston woman who is a fond
mother writes an amusing article
about her experience feeding her boys. ‘
Among other things she says: J
“Three chubby, rosy-cheeked boys,
Rob, Jack and Dick, aged 6, 4 and 2 1
years respectively, are three of ota<f'*z
reasons for using and recomending
food, Grape-Nuts, for these youngster A w
have been fed on Grape-Nuts since in-^
fancy, and often between meals when j
other children would have been given
candy.
“I gave a package of Grape-Nuts to
a neighbor whose 3 year old child was .
a weazened little thing, ill half the j
time. The little tot ate the Grape
Nuts and cream greedily and the moth-
er continued the good work, and it g
was not long before a truly wonderful ■
change manifested itself in the child's I
lace and body. The results were *•
markable, even for Grape-Nuts. \
“Both husband and I use Grape- j
Nuts every day nnd keep strong and j
well and have three of the finest, /
lealthiest boys you can find in a day's I
march.” f
Many mothers instead of destroying
'.he children's stomachs with candy i
ind cake give the youngsters a hand I
■nl of Grape-Nuts when they are bog-1
ting for something in the way of J'
sweets. The result is soon shown Ini
greatly increased health, strength am’.'
mental activity.
“There’s a Reason.” f
Look In pkgs, for the famous lit/’
book. “The Road to Wellvillc ”
ib* ■***• letter* A
ttte* «• ttoter
wad Ml at lM
Precaution.
"If there is anything a trust hates
to do.” said Mr. Dustin Stax, “it is to
Putting H4m Wise.
‘Have you a play -for next season?” I
•i .ked the low comedian.
’ No,” answered the manager.
“Well," continued the 1. c., “I
|mt you next to something that
draw well."
“What is it?" queried the manager.
“‘A mustard plaster,” answered the
fcther, as he made a hurried getaway.
Opposing Results.
“There is one paradoxical experi-
ence," remarked the Home Philoso-
pher, “which nearly every person
has.”
"What is that?” asked the Humble
Comapnlon.
“That It strike.'! no one’s sense of
humor to bit hie funny bone.”
A little French boy lay sick in bls
darkened bedroom one summer day in
1775. Outside was a glare of sun-
light, but heavy shutters rendered the
sick-room gloomy and dark. The white-
washed ceiling alone reflected patches
of light from holes and cracks in the
wooden blinds.
The little invalid was Joseph Nice-
phore Niepce. As he lay staring up-
ward, very lonely and very sick, he
saw a cart and horses drive slowly
across the ceiling. Then a drove of
cattle, and after a while his father’s
figure and that of his pet dog.
As the sun went under a cloud these
wonderful images faded,
mother cam<
procession i
ing.
He had merely been side the first
camera in existence. A chink in the
blinds had served as lens and the ceil-
ing had been the plate or “finder,”
reflecting objects passing in the road
outside. The boy did not forget. As
he grew up his memory often returned
to the strange phenomenon, and he be-
gan to figure out in his own mind the
cause of it. At last, in the course of
time, he hit upon a very fair solution
of the mystery.
This decided, he set to work trying
to reproduce the process in real life
and to obtain some permanent image
of objects thus photographed.
How the First
Photograph Was
Made.
a metal plate with a mixture of lav-
ender oil and asphalt, putting the
plate in a primitive camera and ex-
posing It a long time, n very faint
imago of the object or landscape in
front of It would be cast upon the
metal. He developed such plates by
washing them with a combination
of petroleum and lavender oil.
Great as was Niepce’s discovery it
remained for another man to put it to
practical UM. This collaborator was
Jacques Daguerre, who had begun
life as a soldier and had later won
fame In Paris as a scene painter and
maker of the first Dioruma. A theater
fire made Daguerre poor nnd out of
employment. He met Niepce nnd went
Into partnership with him. Hoon aft-
erward Niepce died, and Daguerre car-
ried on the work to completion The
Idea* were, practically, all Niepce’s.
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The Language of Love.
“Has he proposed yet?”
“Not in so many words."
“That’s no answer. Proposals never
come In words—they consist
signs, ’hems, haws and gurgles."
of the many terms
youngster.
He stood ridicule bravely, and by
means of several lesser inventions
(gold paint, velvet making, and im-
provements in type-casting) he man-
aged to support himself.
A Misfortune x ,
That Brought L England was
I ...i, ill prepared. Bes-
----- devised a
long projectile for use in smooth-bore
cannon. His government would not
adopt the invention. So he carried it
to Fiance, where a test was made. It
was proven that such cast-iron can-
non as were then in use were not
strong enough to fire the new oblong
An Apartment House Appetizer.
“One of those miserable ralnj' nights
last week," said the Harlemite,
“when I entered the house I was
greeted with a strong odor of fried
onions, and being wet and hungry 1
sniffed with approval.”
“‘My! but those onions smell good,’
I said to the animated piece of bronze
that runs our elevator,
“ 'Yessir, they do; several people
have admired those onions already—
oven been cablin' up on de phone about
em.“ >
Your sympathetic nature is aroused 1
and you cry: “The poor woman is
temporarily insane. Why doesn’t some
one stop her before she does herselfi
bodily injury? She must be in terri-
ble mental agony to stand the pain of
pulling her hair out by the roots.”
But hist! Be not too lavish with
your sympathy, friend. Up to now
Gwendolyn has only pulled off 14
pounds of puffs, three miles of inter-
locking switches, and a few detach-
able curls. She has some distance to
go yet before she touches the real,
cross-your-heart hair Gwendolyn is
merely distracted because her maid
cannot get her floating, hirsute equip-
ment on in becoming array. She is j
simply getting ready for a fresh start!
- Puck.
Gwendolyn de Courtenay, the hand-
some society Favorite, was nervously.
. . ' ,__I bather breakfasts on the run
agitated. Even a blind-baggage cat
could see that. -She passed up and :
down in front of the large cheval glass
In her room. Evidently she was great-
ly aggrieved over rometbing. Finally
her high-strung nerves got churned up
to such a pitch that she lost control
over herself and began to clutch and
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be a
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they
Already Fulfilled.
Fortune Teller—I can read thai
there is a be a wreck in your home,
and It will.be caused by a blonde
woman.
Patron—Oh, that has already oc-
curred. Our new Swedish maid let
the dumb waiter fall and broke all the
dishes.
A young inventor—Henry Bessemer
by name—awoke one morning in the
first half of the nineteenth century
to find himself the laughing-stock of
England. His name was on all lips,
and the story of his latest folly was
told and retold amid the derision of a
nation. He was pointed out as a fore-
ordained failure in life. Here In brief
is the tale of his odd ill-luck:
The stamping system in the British
government offices was carried on in
an expensive and old-fashioned way.
Bessemer, though little more than a
boy, Invented an improved stamping
device, which was so excellent that,
in spite of the increased money out-
lay involved, the government decided
to adopt it. In payment Bessemer
was to receive a life position as super-
intendent of stamps at a salary of
|4,000 a year. It was unheard-of good
luck for so young a man. Bessemer
in his delight became overzealous and
forthwith spoiled his prospects by in-
venting still another system whereby
the old-time arrangements for stamp-
ing could be continued profitably at no
extra expense or special alteration.
In other words, he “improved” away
the necessity of his own promised po-
sition. There was no longer any need
of his services. The government
adopted his second system, thereby
saving much money. Bessemer re-
ceived not one penny for the inven-
tion, and was, moreover, out of a
$4,000 a year job. All England
laughed; for there is scant sympathy
for a fool, and "fool” was the mildest
applied to the
Soothing.
“I think my wife has mesmeric
powers. Whenever I am unable to
sleep I get her to run her fingers
through my hair, and she never fails
to make me feel drowsy in a little
while.”
“My wife can put me to sleep in an
easier way than that. I just permit
her to go on talking and she soon
gets so deeply interested in her sub-
ject that she doesn't exepect me to
answer.””
Probably
“Why do you auppo'" Mr. Keith
pre orders that no mother io law
^okea voeld be permitted la bls the*
tort’
“rroMMy bis «oUMf4a law told ini*
New York
Trifle Too Esthetic.
“There’s no use o’ talkin’," 8Mb
Farmer Corntossel, as he sat down on •
the horse trough. “I can't git along
with some o' these here summer
guests.” “What’s the trouble?" “I
have jes’ been lectured by that good X
lookin' young woman with glasses fur
sp’ilin’ the color scheme of the gat-
den by puttin' parts green on the veg-
etables.”
Gettin 'Em Out of the Way.
Penman—A certain society
inade me an offer to buy all of
poems.
Wright—It must be the Humane so-
ciety.—Yonkers Statesman.
But it was Daguerre who got the cred-
it for them and who had the honor of
making the first successful photo-
graph. He, too, it was after whom
such early photographs were named,
for the term “heliographic picture”
was shortened to "Daguerreo-type.”
The process whereby Daguerre made
these first pictures was absolutely
crude. A sheet of silver-plated cdpper
was highly polished and freed from
every particle of dust. Then it was
hung, face downward, over a saucer
containing Iodine. The fumes of the
iodine formed, on the surface of the
plate, a substance known as silver
Iodide, which is sensitive to light.
When enough of this had collected to
turn the surface of an orange color
the plate was ready for exposure and
was put into the dark side of a cam-
era. The exposure Itself, which had
formerly taken several hours, was now
cut down to between three minutes and
half an hour, according to the light.
But another difficulty confronted
Daguerre. He could not hit upon the
right chemical for developing his pic-
tures. One day after taking a photo-
graph he was called away. Before go-
ing he stuck the plate Into a closet
near his stove. Taking it out on his
return he found, to his amazement, a
picture perfectly developed. He was
utterly mystified until he searched the
cupboard.
There he found a jar of mercury.
The warmth of the closet had vola-
A Discovery That the mer
Was Made by euiy- and the va
Accident. por thus fornled
had developed the
plate by condensing on such places as
had been acted on by the light in
nearly the same ration as the Intensi-
ty of the light's action. Next the print
was "fixed” by dipping it Into a solu-
tion of hyposulphite of soda. In 1839
the first Dnguerrotype was exhibited
Other men took up the Idea nnd
In 1840 Prof. John W.
the University of New
York Invented an improved lens, and
by it made the first "sunlight picture”
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