Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1914 Page: 2 of 10
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FAMOUS WIRTERS IN PARIS.
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THEY LEFT NO PORTRAITS.
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Dryness
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and so active for years. both in
If there was, perhaps
true portrait.
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HUNTING THE CARIBOU.
Never break a twig if you
essential.
is true of the
trait, and the same
Nicholas
air are fighting!"
LUCKY AT CHEATING DEATH.
other deer that I know of and is
any
readily approached.
PIGS AND FIGURES.
minute the firing
rate of 750 shots a
sand test
very
sas I
box.
Thinking that th: gnu
more- shots
A week old pig is up in geom-
W. C. SHULT
years.
R. F. SPENCER, Jr.
. finding the way
Decatur, Texas.
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L. D. Ratli
Erank J. Ford.
Ford & Ratliff
PAVED WITH GCLD.
Thert s Money in the Street Scrapings
Texa
J. V. Patterson
ATTORNEY
Office up-stairs in Masonic building
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War in the Air.
smaller
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home along the
An old sow's
“No Bite,
“No Sting,
"No Bag,
“No String.
for a cracking branch
which carries far and
it round so as
out of range
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Office on second floor of the Great |
house building, S. W. Cor- Sq-22
to bring the schooner
As the gun fired at the
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Historical Characters of Whose
Looks We Know Nothing.
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Hudson Maxim Has Figured In
Some Perilous Incidents.
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inquisitive. and they will come within
a few feet to find out what it is Then.
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G R I NE K’S
unch Room
EAST' MAIN STREET
Fish and Oysters.
Good Things to Eat j
the logic of his methods
results of operation will differ widely
erected on the site of his printing of-
fice, now of the Cotton Exchange, at
Hanover square.
The lack of an authentic portrait of
Nathan Hale, the martyr spy of the
Revolution, is somewhat better known,
although the sculptors MacMonnies,
Partridge and others have not al-
lowed this to restrain them from de-
picting the features of the young sol-
dier in stone or bronze. Of Colonel
Ethan Allen there is no known por-
Felt the Power.
RUI_Music has a wonderful influence
over us.
may give warning of your approach to
the very stag you particularly want.
Equally important is it to keep a sharp
lookout at all times, especially when
entering a barren, where a stag may
be sleeping. for under such conditions
they are hard to see. Among the nu-
merous gray dead stumps and moss
covered low trees the color of the cari-
bou is so inconspicuous that the un-
trained eye will fail to detect the ani-
mal even at close range. The first in-
timation will be a glimpse of a disap
pearing patch of white as the caribou
vanishes Into the woods.
All these things considered, the cari-
bou of Newfoundland is not as alert as
can avoid it.
makes a noise
set red by the powder
When the same gun was undergoing a
was just abont to step round in front
of it Suddenly it fired a dozen or
was safe. I
UNFAMILIAR FACES Once Every m. In France Was Ice
size from n large plate to a saucer.
Hemoving several handfuls of the
road scrapings and placing them in the
large platter, the woman picked out :
and threw aside the large stones. peb
files and bits of stick and then mois
tened the remainder with water frm
the other bucket This enabled her to
process until there "was a quantity or ene from its usual haunts. Two or
sand and gravel ready for treatment. 1 three crows spied him and made pur-
This she sprinkled freely with water suit, ana a fight in the air followed,
and by a deft circular movement of The contest was observed by a soldier,
the platter brought the small gravel to He dropped his gun to the ground and
the outside, where it could be thrust
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therefore more
actually be ' most pure mathematical, measure
When one ments; hence have resulted the lon-
listed calculations available to the
farmer - W J Harsha in Breeder s
Gazette.
remove smaller refuse.
The residuum she put into the.next
first newspaper printed in the prov-
will have the same effect.—A. Rad
cliffe Dugmore in "The Romance of
the Newfoundland Caribou."
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Misleading Bookkeeping.
Even bookkeeping is not an exact sci-
Office, County Attorney’s Room* y
thing which you imagine will
Philadelphia as well as in New York,
that it is rather surprising not to have
something worthy of being called a
There is, of course, great variation
among them, some being extremely
alert and difficult to stalk, while oth
ers are so absurdly tame that they will
allow a man to walk right up to within
a few yards before taking flight. Curi-
osity is often a noticeable failing with
them. When once it is aroused they
will go to almost any length to satisfy
it. I do not. however, advise the hun
ter to count too much on it. for the
During the hottest fighting at thf 1
siduum sne put mIbattle of Chickamauga an owl. alarm
Blatter, and she repeated the ’ ed by the unusual sound*. was trht "m
Bradford was so prominent a
doughty warrior. General
Herkimer.
was all over inside half a minute.
Fortunately no damage was done.
Upward Revision.
"When first I consulted you about
my eyes you told me it would cost 10
francs, but your bill is for 100 francs.
"That only shows the excellence of
ny treatment Now you are ten times
vetter."- Pa ria Pele Mele.
The commanding otlicer did not ar
rive to see the gun tired until all' r the
board in charge had completed the test.
He then appeared and deuanded that
the firing should be continued for his
benefit The chairman of the ecperi
mental board demurred, saying that
the gun had passed through the test
exclaimed:
"Whew! Even the very birds in the
nent New Yorker, William Bradford.
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Variable Conditions.
"That man says he doesn’t know
whether he is married or unmarried,
sane or insane.”
“Yes. He has had a great deal of
trouble with court complication. Those
things all depend on what state he
happens to be In.”—Washington Star.
work it for gold dust
in ten minutes the servant returned
with two zatvanized iron buckets, one
filled with road serapings and the oth
, r with water She also brought thren
or four wooden platters, varying in
On One Gun Testing Occasion a Sud-
den Impulse to Run, Which He Obey-
ed, Was the Moans of Saving His
Life—A Magazine That Got Its Sec-
ond Wind.
One of the most thrilling adventures
in my experience took place at the gov
eminent proving grounds at Sandy
Hook, N J . when the United States
government was testing maximite be
fore adopting it.
Near a light frame building in which
i was filling shells with maximite, a
Advice is seldom welcome. Those
who need it most like it least.—Dr
Johnson.
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surround him. Profit or loss. so far as
the pig is concerned, is almost purely
a matter of feeds and feeding, and
these are in their turn matters of al
Where Ha Gets Off.
Bacon—He's living on Easy street
now isn’t he? Egbert—N: he’s living _
on Get Up in the Morning and Light
the Fire street.—Yonkers Statesman. - I
Boiling the Kettle.
Mrs. Campbell had engaged a new
maid. "Martha.” said the mistress on
,hn first morning, "be careful always ______ .
to boil the teakettle before making the ^IMimMMMIIM™^
at Annapolis. Md.. I came
being killed by it.
Porkers From the Standpoint of All
Around Mathematics.
The educated pig of the old time
sideshow, which gravely read figures
on a blackboard, was only a type of a
class. His modern prototype is quite
bls equal in devotion to the exact sci-
ence. By both instinct and fate he is
a mathematical animal Subjectively
and objectively he is great on figures
They are dealt out to him, and he
deals in them himself. He desires his
square meals to be regulated daily by
the rule of three. In addition, he deals
with his owner's indebtedness. He is
able to reduce V mortgage to fractions
with amazing rapidity. In measuring
the available contents of a pail of slop
he is a lightning calculator.
As a multiplier the pig has no equal,
counting on six to the litter and two
litters in the year At this,rate. bar
ring accidents. the sow's progeny will
amount to more than 1,000 in tour
picked up in the streets,
visitor, an Englishman, took the state
UI uaniu- i ment as a mere figure of speech his
i. where the ho-t inmadiately bade a woman serv
ant go out into the main street, gather
a bucketful of road scrapings and
I lillIE ndci--5 P, -
Points of the Crescent Moon. riddled with partly burned yun“5.wn
Why does the moon sometimes ap [ smokeless powder that had
pears with points turned upward and
at other times downward? There is 1
one cause only-the rotation of the i
earth. If the moon rises with points
turned upward then, when it sets, the
points must turn downward-that is.
the western horizon meets the points
in its apparent approach: they point
toward it. apparently downward, in the ‘
western sky -New York American.
Curiosity Often Lures the Watchful
Animal to Its Fate.
Tn hunting the caribou quietness is
with the same actual occurrences, so
that even bookkeeping may be sniff
merely to present results dependent ! and debris tell over a
upon the aspects of the situation as I many fragments struck
rendered by those who have the au closetome.
thority or opportunity to interpret.- 1 walked back to the sceneofatc. , | is to forget them -Syrns
Beniamin A Franklin in Engineering I cident and found that the windows
Magazine. the little building where I had 251 |
filling maximite shells were complete y
Wronging Another.
No man in the world ever attempted
to wrong another without being injur-
ed in return—some way. somehow,
some time. The only weapon of of-
tense that nature seems to recognize is
the boomerang.
of an African Town.
Tr once had another curious esperi- I Travelers declare, says
eme at sandy Hook during some trial" . Weekly. that at Axim, on
of the Maxim automatic machine Eun Coast of Africa, gold may
Among the severe tests to whichthe
gun was subjected was one intruded to
simulate what might occur in making
. streets. Bells were shivered into pieces
as they rang, clocks stopped and in the
cellars wine turned into ice. Hares
and partridges came into the towns
and hid themselves in the nooks and
corners of houses, where they were
subsequently found as stiff as a board
and quite inedible.”
There Is no portrait of William Cun
ningham. the heartless keeper of the
provost jail in a corner ot City Hall
park during the Revolution Betsy
Ross, the celebrated maker of the first
stars and stripes, lias no portrait. Cap-
tain Miles Standish is among those
a landing upon the seashore,
mechanism of the gun might get Olle i
with sand. The test is known as t
"sand test."
The gum being tested at the time me
| of the kind using ......k gmqmwdei
| cartridges, for it was before the intro
, duetton of smokeless powder I lien
.Jill-1 know it. was so much enerzy in the regoil m
"Did you ever feel the power , barrel that great ...... of sand
singer over you. Yonkers could be thrown into the met haniu
"Sure! I married one. - Yonkers Without interferinz with the workin
Statesman. ;_____ of the gun
Many of the Famous Figures and Ha-
roes of Colonial and Revolutionary
Time* Are as Blanka to Ua So Far
aa Their Personal Appearance la
Concerned.
In the search fora portrait of Thom-
as Willett, the st mayor of New
York, the committee from the City
club visited nearly every print dealer
in the city in addition to scores of pri-
vate collectors of Americana. But
there was no portrait to be found.
Any one who has ever attempted to
make a collection of the pictures of
the big men of early New York soon
realizes that there are many blanks.
For instance. of the four Dutch gov-
ernors Peter Stuyvesant is the only
one of whom we have a correct por-
trait. Of Peter Minuet William Kieft
and Wouter ran Twiller there is abso-
lutely nothing accurate. although vari-
ous caricatures have appeared from
time to time.
The same is true of a still more emi-
tea." *
Martha signified her willingnes i
and, after an absence in the kitchen. I
returned to her mistress and said
"Please, mum. there's nothin' big ।
enough to boil the taykcttle in. 'less i
tis the wash boiler, sure. National ,
ence. For behold! How often is it that
one man will put into the expense 40 a sudden impulse I ran
count a given Expenditure say. the might. F---—oc 1
rebuilding of a machine- thus reducing i The gun was discharged
his profits by this amount, while an round just in time to see the nuge
other wiii put suci an item to ‘he breechlock pass through a building nen
asset account, and each can advance the one in which I had been at wo .
weightv arguments nnd reasons as to ! It came up th.' track, striki " .'
- But the net breaking one of the rails over which I
had passed it ricocheted against the |
Parched Throat—you escape
when you smoke STAG.
And in their place you find
Fragrance — Freshness — Mildness —
and Eternal Contentment
“Better than I imagined tobacco
could be."
Thousands are saying it You will
say it
Convenient Packages: The HandyuHalfSiz
5-Cent Tin. the Full-Size lO-Cent Tin, the Pound and Half-Pound
Tin Humidors and the Pound Glass Humidor.
..______ to go without it.
the first printer, who founded in 1725 "In 1776 sentinels were found fro-
the New York Gazette, which was the zen to death outside Versailles, and
i the king put a stop to this service. In
f Paris great bonfires were lit in the
NARROW ESCAPES---
A schooner was approaching near
I the line of fire. The commander said
lie only wanted to see a few rounds
fired and that the firing would be com
pleted before the schooner would come
within range. Accordingly a belt of
333 rounds was inserted, and the firing
1 ten inch gun was being tested A num
ber of shots had been fired from the
stamsmmv.si am EHsFSmESB
a strange noise will make them very way track directly behind the 8““- mla The firei about 150
At that instant I remembered.that rounds and then stopped My assistant
several years before, when one of these rerod aown tde sare-that is to say. |
guns was being tested, the breec tord t" trigger, so that it could not
had blown out, passed through the clesring the gun
bombproof and killed six officers and 12"
men, but I argued with myself that the
chance was infinitely remote that the
breechlck would lie blown out of the
present gun on this discharge at the
very instant I was inranKitbutirmy . clothes were
1 gases.
One of the tests made at Annapolis
was to fire : Maxim gnu vertically
into the air We had fired a couple of etry
hundred shots in this manner, when nypotenuse short cut
something truck very near us. It quickness in boxing the compass in a
then ......lined to the offi er in charge potato patch is amazing. And when
that what xoes up must necessarl I it comes to a troughful of skimmilk
- , come down Firing eeased, and we she is the least common divisor; she
top of the old granite fort and glanced sought cover for 1 few minutes to । Wants it al herselr.
high into till- Ilir A shower of st ; avoid rhe leaden rain-Hudson Maxim , Objectively the porker finds himself
.....I Aahrie fell over a wide area am 1 in youth's Fompnfon stacked about with a bewildering ar-
ttie Kroul । ray or figures- his gains every day on
The best remedy for wrongs done ns pasture, his gains every day on grain.
His gains to the pound of grain. Ids
gains on pasture plus a daily ration.
His gains on vegetables and roots
these nnd a hundred other tabulations
over the edge. When she had repeated
this operation three or four times she
treated the material which now looked
more like mud than anything else. in :
a still smaller platter
At last, in the smallest platter of all.
she had the bucketful of sweepings re
duced to a handful or two of black
sand This she carefully washed and
sifted At last with a dexterous twist
she brought tile sand into a crescent.
' the outer edge ot which showed a thin
rim of yellow It was unmistakably
! gold dust. The whole operation had
taken half an hour and it had pro
duced about a shilling's worth of gold
occasionally, a white handkerchief
"hlllluu.
Mnfeititui. a
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dose to me that my
who have left nothing of their per-
sonal appearance, nor is anything
known of the intrepid French explor
, I.ljet. who tracel the sources of the
Mi-- is-ippi.
other- of more or less note of whom
thet re no portraits are the old Eng
loll dramati-t. Christopher Marlowe:
J: nari savage, another well known
) uli-t dramatist, who died in 1743:
Sarjuis Duquesne, from whom Fort
Duquesne, now Pittsburgh, got its first
name from the French: George Clin-
t >n. royal governor of New York from
1743 to 1753 and father of the British
general in the Revolution. Henry Clin-
ton: Colonel John Henry Cruger. Gen-
eral Oliver de Lancey, Governor Wil-
Ham Tryon. General John Forbes.
Baron Dieskau, General Robert Howe
and Bourrienne, Napoleon's famous
secretary, who wrote an excellent life
of the great French emperor.—New
York Times.
begun. After perhaps fifty rounds were
tired the command was given “Cease
firing." but the gun kept right on. It
afterward proved that the trigger was
blocked by sand, so that it was Impos-
sible to stop the gun The schooner
came into range, aad the bullets flew
over and around her
My assistant, who was firing the gun.
did his best to work the trigger and
stop it. It did not occur to him on the
instant to unlimber the gun and swing
One of the heroes of Bunker hill.
Colonel Richard Gridley, has left no
portrait. He was the artillerist and
engineer who built the fortifications
the night before the battle. Other
prominent Revolutionary fighters of
whom no pictures exist are Colonel
William Ledyard, the defender of New
London, who was killed by a British
officer when Ledyard surrendered the
fort: General Thomas Conway, leader
of the notorious cabal to depose Wash-
ington from the command of the army
in 1777: Colonel Seth Warner, who was
prominent in the attacks on Ticonde-
roga and Crown point and in the bat-
tle of Bennington; General Seth Pom-
eroy of Massachusetts, and General
Samuel Holden Parsons, one of the
board which tried Major Andre and
was appointed by Washington as the
first judge of the northwest territory.
No accurate portraits exist of two of
the fifty-six signers of the Declaration
of Independence. John Morton of Penn-
sylvania and John Hart of New Jer-
sey. although a portrait which is said
to be that of Hart hangs in Independ
ence hall in Philadelphia and is said to
have been painted from a miniature.
There is nothing extant of the fa
tiler of George Washington. Augustine
Washington, nor have any portraits
been discovered of Colonel Ball, fa
ther of Mary Washington, mother of
the general, or of John Dandridge, fa-
ther qf Washington's wife. Martha
Wasbington.. gmEE E
- A pertrait which a great many col
letters of old New York materia'
would give a good deal to obtain is
that of Samuel Fraunces, Hie West in
dian tavern keeper, whose best known
bouse was the old Fraunces tavern,
now owned by the Sons of the Klevolu-
lion, restored since they purchased it
n few years ago to its original condi-
tion. It is on lower Eroad street, on
the corner of P’eari street, and the
famous long room in which W ashing
ton took farewell of his officers has
bcen restored ns closely as possible to
its original form. I M- • --
C. C. HENDERSON x sasi
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Ciy Pte pci) I aMPyek
Exchange
D. H. Payne"
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..-utng famous winter* m France,
he Paris Petit Journal sas that "the
rteenth century might justly be call-
ed the cold century.
"In 1408 the registrars of the parlia
ment of Tart* reported that it was Im
possible to issue any of its resolutions
becaue the ink froze in the ink bottles
of the clerks. Every three words they
had to thaw their pens, and this with
a fire roaring in their room Every
river in France was frozen, and no a
millcoula work Twelve years later.
In 1420. there was a repetition of this
winter Foodstuffs gave out, and poor
people died by tens of'thousands.
“In 1422 in less than three days the
wine and the vinegar froze in the cel
lars; cocks and hens had their combs
frozen; the streets were full of peo-
ple who danced, jumped, wrestled and
ran races, anything to keep off frost
bite.
“In 1430 it froze for more than two
and a half months, and-the snow fell
for fortv days without stopping. Al
the birds hidden in the trunks of trees
died. A
“In ‘the year of the great winter, as
1003 was called, hundreds of persons
died from cold. Everything was fro
zen hard, even the bread served at the
table of Henry IV in 1700 all the
wheat was destroyed, and a new sow
ing hail to be m ole in the spring Buf
foil relates that no Tead "as to be
bad. Even Mme de Maintenon had
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