The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1912 Page: 6 of 8
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TEXAS NEEDS
GREAT MEN
XL. WISDOM
OCRATES taught the Athenians philosophy and Solon gave
Greece her laws and under their inspiring influence civiliza-
tion bore its noblest fruits. The Greeks owed their advance-
ment to strong leaders who were able to grapple with fundamental
thoughts and to a citizenship that drank deeply at the fountain
jf truth and wisdom. Every age has been indebted for progress
co its geniuses who could open the store-house of knowledge and
oistory tells us that nations pin£ away and die in the arms of
ignorance.
SOCRATES TEACHING WISDOM.
Let that nation that would reach the towering height of
civilization rock the cradle of thought in the billows of progress,
nurture genius on the milk of inspiration, chasten ambition with
the rod of experience that civilization may bloom and bear its
golden fruits of power, happiness and prosperity. Texas Needs
Great Men.
A FAMOUS FENCER
Master at Arms Jean Louis Was
a Wizard With the Sword.
GREATEST DUEL ON RECORD.
In Front of an Army Thi Napoleonio
Wonder Faced Thirteen Italian Sword
Experts and Spitted Them In Suc-
cession Without a Rest.
To give au Idea of what a brave man
can do if he knows fencing thoroughly
and but keeps cool and collected in
danger we will relate a historical duel.
So extraordinary is this combat that It
would be held a romance had it not
been witnessed by a whole army. The
hero is Jean Louis, one of the great |
masters of the sword of the beginning
of last century, and the duel happened |
In Madrid in 1813. He was the master ;
at arms of the Thirty-second rogiment
of French infantry. The First regl I
ment. composed entirely of Italians,
formed part of the same brigade
Regimental esprit de corps and rival-
ries of nationality caused constant
quarrels, wtieu swords were orten
whipped out or bullets exchanged.
After a small battle between the two
factions of the brigade had occurred In
the streets of Madrid, in which over
200 French and Italian soldiers had
taken part, the officers of the two regl
merits, in a council of war assembled,
decided to give such breaches of order
a great blow and to reestablish disci-
pline. They declared that the masters
at arms of the two regiments involved
should take up the quarrel and flght it
out
Imagine a whole army In battle array
on. one of the large plains that sur-
round Madrid. In the center a large
ring is left open for the contestants.
KThls spot Is raised above the plain so
that not one of the spectators of this
tragic scene—gayly dressed officers,
•Oldiers In line, Spaniards, excited ag
never a bullfight excited them—will
miss one phase of the contest. It Is
before 10,000 men that the honor of an
army Is about to be avenged in the
blood of thirty brave men.
The drum is heard. Two men. naked
to the waist, step in the ring. The first
Is tall and strong. Ills black eyes roll
disdainfully upon the gaping crowd,
lie is Giacorao Ferrari, the celebrated
Italian. The second, tall, also hand
some and with muscles like steel,
stands modestly awaiting the word of
mmraond. Ills name Is Jean Louis,
The seconds take their places ou euner
side of their principals. A deathlike
silence ensues.
"On guard!"
The two masters cross swords. Gla-
como Ferrari lunges repeatedly at .lean
Louis, but in vain, ills every thrust
Is met by a parry. Lie makes up his
mind to bide his chance and caresses
and teases his opponent's blade. Jean
Louis, calm and watchful, lends him
self to the play, when, quicker than
lightning, the Italian jumps aside with
a loud yell and makes a terrible lunge
at Jean Louis, a Florentine trick often
successful. But with extraordinary ra-
pidity Jean Louis has parried and ris-
posts quickly in the shoulder.
"It Is nothing," cries Giacomo, "a
mere scratch." And they again fall
ou guard. Almost directly he Is hit in
the breast. This time the sword of
Jean Louis, who is now attacking, pen
etrates deeply. Glacotno's face be-
comes livid, his sword drops from his
hand, and he falls heavily on the turf.
He is dead.
Jean Louis is already in position. He
wipes his reeking blade; then, with the
point of his sword on the ground, lie
calmly awaits the next man.
The best fencer of the First replment
has Just been carried away a corpse,
but the day is uot yet over. Fourteen
adversaries are there. Impatient to
measure swords with the conqueror,
burning to avenge the master they had
deemed lnviucible.
Jean Louis hardly bus two minutes
rest. lie is ready. A new adversary
stands before liiui. A sinister click of
swords is heard, a lunge, a parry, a rls-
post and then a cry, a sigh, and all is
over. A secoud body Is before Jean
Louis.
A third adversary advances. They
want Jean Louis to rest. "I am not
tired," he answers, with a smile.
The signal is given The Itallau is
as tail as the one who lies there a
corpse covered by a military cloak, lie
has closely watched Jean Louis' play
and thinks he has guessed the secret
of his victories, lie multiplies his
feints and tricks; then, all at once,
bounding like a tiger on his prey, he
gives his oppouent a terrible thrust in
the lower Hue. But Jean Louis' sword
has parried and is now deep within his
opponent's breast.
What need we to relate any more'/
Ten new adversaries followed lilni,
and the ten fell before Jean Louis
amid the excited yells and roars of an
army.
At the request of the Thirty-second
regiment's colonel, who thought the
lesson sufficient, Jean Louis after
much pressing consented to stop the
combat, and he shook hands with the
two survivors, applauded by 10.000
men.
From that day fights ceased between
French and Italian soldiers.
This wonderful and gigantic combat
might be held a fable were not all the
facts above stated still found in the
archives of the ministry of war.—Lip-
yincott's.
A keen, warm sympathy that makes
your brother's need your own—nothing
short of that Is really charity.—Phillips
Brooks.
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CHURCH STEEPLES.
And the Ancient Mountain Peak
Shrines of the Storm Qod.
There is a theory which finds the
spire of the New England meeting
bouse In the mountain peakB of Ara
bla.
Tracing back the process of evolu-
tion. we come first to London, where
the clean sweep of the great fire gave
Sir Christopher Wren his opportunity
to experiment In steeples, and then
Venice, where the campanile Is a shin
ing example of a tower beside a
church, but separate from it, and then
to Alexandria, where the famous light-
house on the Isle of PliaroB contribut-
ed to the religion of Mohammed both
the form and the name of the minaret,
and then to the tower of Babel at
Borsippa and the zlkkurats of the
temples of Babylonia and Assyria. A
zlkkurat is a huge quadrangular mass
of brick, rising In diminishing stories-
as a child places a big block on the
floor and puts a smaller one on It and
on that a smaller still—and ascended
by a winding balustrated stair to a
shrine on top.
This, according to the theory, was
the ritual equivalent of a mountain.
into the flat lands between the Tigris
and Euphrates came the ancestors of
the Babylonians and Assyrians out of
the mountains of Arabia. There they
had worshipped the storm god. who
dwelt upon the heights among the
clouds, with whom they communed,
like Moses, by climbing up and making
their offerings and saying their pray-
ers upon the summit And because
there were no mountains in their new
country they erected beside every tem
pie a little mountain In the yard
Thus the zlkkurat, and then the min-
aret, and then the campanile and then
the steeple of the parish church.—
George Hodges in Atlantic Magazine.
TANGIER ISLAND.
Where the People Do Without Jails.
Lawyers, Horses and Cows.
There Is a little Island in Chesapeake
bay, 125 miles south of Baltimore,
where the world has stood still for
more than a hundred years. Tangier
island Is five miles long and much less
than a mile wide, but more than 1,500
people live on it. There is only one
street, nine feet wide, without side
walks, and the houses are all built
along this street with narrow canals of
the deep water of the bay between
each two houses. There is only one
church, presided over by a Methodist
minister, and only one doctor, and
there is no cemetery, the dead of each
family being buried In the yard. There
is no newspaper, no Jail, no lockup aud
no lawyers nor any need for them.
Everybody is deeply religious, and pro-
fanity is punished with a fine imposed
by the deacon of the church.
The men go fishing and crabbing in
sallbouts early on Monday mornings
and do uot come home until Saturdays,
when they have marketed their sea
harvests in towns ou the mainland.
There are no gardens, no horses or
cows, but plenty of chickens are rals
ed. Fuel Is supplied to the islanders
by sloops, which come very month or
so loaded with wood and anchor oft
'fancier, sendinir small boats tilled with
cordwood and kindlings to every house
by menus of the little cauals. The wo-
men wear sunbonnets and go barefoot
ed. and there is an organ in nearly
every home. Tangier was first settled
by white people in 1000 and before
that time was occupied by the Indians
—Exchange.
Barring the Evil Spirits.
The Chinese believe that evil spirits
are able to move only In straight lines
and that they cannot penetrate through
solid matter; therefore the problem of
keeping them out of a dwelling or a
garden seems to them a simple matter
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DALLAS, TEXAS.
On passing through the entrance of the
ordinary middle class home in China It
is necessary to turn to the right or left
because of a fixed screen, the purpose
of which, according to Popular Me
chanics, is to keep evil spirits out
Likewise just at the back of the en-
trance to a walled garden may some
times be found another wall erected
for the same purpose.
OUR WORLD AS A MOON.
Pine Display a Full Earth Would Give
to the Selenitee.
Were we transported to the planet
Venus a peculiar set of views could
be obtained of our earth, enabling us
to SCO ourselves, to some extent at
least, as others see us. Venus is about
the same size as the eaKh, Is some-
what closer to the sun and has more
atmosphere than tho earth. When
the earth and Venus are nearest to-
gether they are, of course, on the same
side of the sun, and in consequence of
this the earth does not see more than
a very small part of Venus illuminat-
ed, but Venus, on the other hand, sees
all of one side of the earth illuminat-
ed and Is therefore able to claim she
has something that takes the place of
a moon, for the earth to Venus at this
time looks very large aud bright, al-
most as much so as our moon does
to us.
If we could seo nil tho Illuminated
surface of Venus on these oecasions
we should have quite a distinct sec-
ond moon. When we do see all of her
tlluinlnnted surface she is on the op-
posite side of the sun from us and
consequently nt an enormous distance,
yet she Is so brilliant as to prevent us
from seeing her surface distinctly.
But to our own moon we appear In
the best light as a moon. A full earth
as seen from the moon, according to
Todd and other astronomers, Is a very
Inspiring sight. It can at once be
seen why this Is necessarily true. The
earth Is several times larger than the
moon and would appear in the heav-
ens ns a disk about fourteen times the
size of the moon. It would probably
shine with a variable light, due to the
shifting clouds of the earth, though
the light is, of course, reflected froru
the sun, and tho reflection is due in
part to the upper surfaces of the
clouds.
The outlines of the continents of the
earth appear very clearly to the moon
as if they were formed in papier
mache on a globe. Cities of compar-
atively large size could be made^out
with ease in case observers were there
to make them out. The intensity of
the reflected earth light would be as
much as fourteen moons and would
enable the Selenites, if such there
were, to read or work in comparative
daylight.—Harper's Weekly.
Love Matches.
"I argued and wrangled about love
matches with Miss Marie Corelll one
whole day in her old fashioned Strat-
ford home," said a prominent woman
magazine writer, "but she rather got
the better of me at the end with an
epigram:
•"She who marries for love,' Miss
Corelll said, 'enters heaven with her
eyes shut She who marries without
love enters hell with them open.' "
What appears to be calamities
are often the sources of fort-
unes.
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The next time you think you
need a dose of calomel, don't
take it. Even if you have taken
it often before, this might be the
very dose that would sali-
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followed by dangerous after-ef-
fects. If you are constipated or
bilious or if your liver has gotten
lazy and inactive two or three
doses of Dodson's Liver-Tone,
pleasant tasted vegetable liquid,
will "make you feel like new."
We would not recommend
Dodson's Liver-Tone in place of
calomel if we were not willing to
fully guarantee it. So anybody
who buys a bottle of Dodson's
Liver-Tone at J. R. Peel's drug
store and does not find it a per-
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get his or her money back.
It has absolutely no bad after-
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PILOT POINT NOVELTY COMPANY
Jesse D. Moffitt, Manager
Telephone No, 219 Pilot Point, Texas
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1912, newspaper, May 31, 1912; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291219/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.