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THE ATLANTA NEWS
LOVELACE BROS., Publishers
ATLANTA.
TEXAS
Nice and cool to fight files!
Weather Jokes are bound to be dry.
Do you think the weather man la
playing to the galleries?
Meanwhile, remember that there ia
«lways some hotter place.
Do not argue with the contagion-
spreading house fiyP Swat him!
"Doing nothing" has been defined to
a looker-on at a game of checkers.
Drownings are increasing in direot
proportion to the carelessness of hu-
manity.
It does not necessarily help any to
get cold feet during this sort of
weather.
You will enjoy your own outing bet-
ter If you help others who are less
able to get one.
A man has reached the limit of
boredom when he ceases to laugh at
his own witty remarks.
An airship that goes only 33 miles
an hour will not make much of an
appeal to the joy rider.
And after the confounded potatoes
get up, every blessed cutworm turns
Into a blooming potato bug!
A St Louis man claims that he
never had to swing on a car strap.
A circus has an armless wonder, too.
Anyway, that baseball player who,
while eating, stabbed himself in the
arm with a table fork had a wretched
delivery.
The Cincinnati woman v ho saya
she will not rest until kissing has
been abandoned has a weary time be-
fore her.
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Anyway, the aeroplano has put an
end to the plaint of the mollycoddle
who was always sighing for the wings
of a dove.
We've known amateur gardeners
who saved an unbelievable amount of
money by buying their truck at the
grocery store.
A 16-ton shark has been captured
near Seattle. The people are in luck
that It did not scramble ashore and
proceed to rnn for office.
It coats $50 to ride 300 miles in the
Zeppelin airship. It is hoped, how-
ever, that competition may eventually
bring about a lowering of the rates.
Following recent experiments at
Hammondsport, N. Y., it is gravely an-
nounced that the aeroplane is not very
good as a man killer In war. Who
cares?
It was not until the inventor of the
hoop skirt was eighty-three years old,
that he died. How long must we
wait for news from the inventor of
the hobble skirt?
Cities that are disappointed because
of the census returns should reflect,
that Uncle Sam is as much Interested
In making a good showing as any par-
ticular community possibly can be.
English nobleman announces that he
Is willing to marry a beautiful and
wealthy American glrL For once, the
bit unmarried male American major-
ity can sympathize with the British
peerage.
If American heireaaea who marry
poor Englishmen of title are to be
given the cold shoulder by the Court
of St James, the circle of mourners
In thla country and Great Britain will
be very small.
Mulone, notorioua Sicilian brigand—
that name sounds queer—has been
sentenced in Perugia to 144 years' Im-
prisonment. It may be mentioned that
Slgnor Mulone was tried in his ab-
sence, not having been seen since he
escaped from his captors in 1906. Thus
the exemplary sentence, while proba-
bly pleasing the authorities, does not
hurt the signer.
The unsinkable ship may be~a long
way off, but she will appear some day.
and then such items as that which
chronicled the drowning of a captain
and eight men by the sinking of the
steamer La Rocbelle In the English
channel as a result of collision by
which ahe waa almost cut In two.
The modern passenger steamer can be
cut In two and floated as two pieces,
and it ought to be possible to so con-
struct ships that they will stay afloat
•ven when severed in twain by the
surgery of accident.
More earthquakes have been record-
ed at Washington, but they attract
little attention now that Halley's
comet has proved an alibi.
Germany Is to have indestructible
aerial warships. From earth modern
progress moved the locality of battle#
to the sea and now It ia to be moved
thence to the air. It ia characteristic
•f the perversity of human nature that
the flrat thought of the practical adap-
tation of man's victory oyer the re-
sources of nature ahould be to uae this
Victory for the destruction of man.
Aiding*
- Horse
Hot Weather
Hints for
Dumb Animal
By P. EVAN JONES
ORSES become greatly fatigued the second day of a hot spell,
■ ^ the third day always causes some heat prostrations or sun-
*■ strokes, and each successive day brings more in a greatly in-
creased ratio.
The fatigue of the second day increases until the horse
is completely prostrated, soon becoming insensible, and dying
in an hour or two unless he receives very prompt attention.
Panting, usually accompanied by profuse sweating, dila-
tion of the nostrils, hanging of the head, drooping ears, slow-
ing up, loss of animation and bloodshot eyes are the first
symptoms of heat prostration. If the horse is forced along, he ceases to
perspire, staggers and goes down.
Don't overfeed. It is generally believed that horses which die from
sunstroke are suffering from indigestion. To keep the stomach in good
order the best of hay and oats should be used, and a double handful of dry
bran should be mixed with each feed of oats. It is best to feed a little
less in hot weather than the horse has been accustomed to.
Don't overwork. It is the( overworked horse that usually gets sun-
struck. He is not able to do as much in hot as in mild or cold weather,
and consequently should not be loaded as heavily, nor driven as fast nor
as far.
Don't neglect to water often. Horses should be watered every hour
or so on a hot day. When a horse begins to pant and show signs of weari-
ness he should be allowed to stop in the shade and rest for half an hour.
See that the horse is provided with some protection for his head. A
driver should no more think of leaving the barn on a hot day without a
sponge than he would without a blanket in winter. When stopping to
water the horses it takes but a moment to wipe off their faces and heads
with the moist sponge, and it refreshes the animals wonderfully.
Never let pass an opportunity to leave your horses standing in the
shade. Make your stops periods of rest to your coworker. If your horse
is greatly overheated he should have some light covering thrown over him
when left in the shade to prevent congestion.
In this hot weather be careful as never before of letting the wheels
get into a rut. If in spite of all precautions this happens, jump down
and put your shoulder to the wheel. Others will fall in line to assist you
and three or four can easily life a wheel out of a place from which it is
practically impossible for a horse to pull it.
Do not neglect the horse's feet in summer. Many
seem to think that as there are no slippery pavements
the way is easy. The heat generated in the shoe by
constant friction with the heated pavement^ is trans-
mitted through the protecting horn of the hoof to the
sensitive inner parts and causes great distress. Take
advantage of every opportunity to let the shoes cool off.
Never take "steaming" horses to the barn. Let
them cool off the latter part of the way in, going very
slowly. They should be sponged off, watered and
rested before being fed.
Pranks of
Some of
Our Frisky
Students
By ADOLPH G. VOGELER
Certainly no thoughtful person in his
right mind, most assuredly no well-bred
student or fond graduate of our glorious
American institutions of learning, will for
one moment think of denying the civili-
zing, elevating, spiritualizing influence of
the hazings, rushes and initiations of some
of our frisky students.
No callous, ignorant, prejudiced out-
side barbarian can ever learn to appreciate
the wonderful, far-reaching results flowing
from this reformatory work of our earnest
student bodies exercised upon each other,
supported by equally earnest faculties in
their laudable efforts to raise the standard of citizenship.
They improve morals, develop gentle manners, teach discipline, fos-
ter scholarship and learning, promote brotherhood, inclucate self-respect
and respect for the rights of others and supreme respect for the law,
insure peace, raise the social standard, engender friendship—oh, well,
what's the use ?
No mortal mind can ever hope to formulate all the grand things
welling out of these excesses indulged in by our American students in
their ebullient enthusiasm and connived at, condoned and fostered by
wickedly weak, cowardly or self-blinded authorities in their mad desire
to outrival in student numbers.
'this state of things educates a set of selfish individuals who in sub-
sequent years in business, in politics and in daily life may utilize their
sharpened wits to ride roughshod over everything and everybody in their
unrestrained lust for money, power and pleasure.
Sharp
Practices
Injure
Nation
Bj JAMES B. McARDLE
of Su Frucitco
BURNING UP BOGUS DRUGS AND FOODS
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Washington—Persons in the vicinity of the department of agriculture building the other day were at-
tracted by a novei bonfire that was being conducted by Uncle Sam. Officials of the department were cremating
thousands of dollars' worth of adulterated or misbranded drugs and foods that had been purchased by their
agents in the open market in different parts of the United States. In each case reports were made and the manu-
facturers were taken to task by the department of agriculture and warned that repetition of the o^ense would
result in prosecution.
STEP IN CHEMISTRY
Progressing Very Close to the
Secret of Life.
Physical Function ef Green Plants Re-
produced—Synthesis Made by New
Physics Presented by Vener-
able Prof. Jungfleisch.
The Chinese are the most honorable
people in a business way that one could
have dealing with, and they expect to re-
ceive the same square treatment.
Failure to do the right thing by the
Chinese will inevitably cause thein to turn
away from the offending party and give
their custom.elsewhere.
Not long ago they considered that they
had been worsted in a cargo of lumber
bought from a Seattle firm.
The stipulation was that the timber
should be creasoted.
Instead of a thorough process of crea-
soting only a surface coating was applied, which was a mere imitation of
the true preservative treatment.
The evil of such sharp practise was developed when another firm on
the Pacific coast undertook to contract for a big amount of fir, which the
Chinese wanted for railway purposes.
This firm put in a very reasonable bid, but the business was given to
a lumber concern in Australia, which had asked a great deal more money
for the same stuff.
The Australians had not tried to get the best of the Orientals; the
Yankees had, and their proposals were not considered.
It is a trifle rough that the shady transactions of one house should
hurt an entire nation, but this is what has actually happened and what
will continue to happen in our commercial relations with a people like
the Chinese
Paris.—The Academy of Sciences
>vas startled at a recent meeting by
the announcement of a great step for-
ward that has been made in the chem-
istry and physics of living things. It
is not a laboratory creation of life, or
in any way the transformation of in-
organic matter into an organism. But
It is the laboratory production of
chemical substances which in nature
are produced by living things ex-
clusively—and by the same physical
process v/hich living things employ.
More than half a century ago the
famous Berthelot won his renown as
the greatest living chemist by this
compounding of what naturally are
organic products, from inorganic mat-
ter—the synthesis of organic com-
pounds. His son, Daniel Berthelot, has
now made the synthesis by nature's
own process—"chlorophyll assimila-
tion." This is the physical function
exercised by green plants in sunlight,
namely, th^ transforming of carbon
existing as a mineral into carbon ex-
isting in an organic state.
Plants do this by feeding on air;
they get the material which they trans-
form from the carbonic acid and water
vapor of the air around them. The or-
ganic compounds of carbon which
plants produce serve as food for high-
er living beings. Without this chloro-!
phyll function of plants, which thus
assimilate the carbon of our atmos-
phere, there is no life on our globe.
Isow this chlorophyll assimilation has
been reproduced artificially by Daniel
Berthelot and his assistant, Henri
Gaudechon, in all its fundamental ac-
tion.
For this purpose they use purely
physical means and not chemical reac-
tion. Under the influence of the ultra-
violet rays produced by a mercury va-
por lamp, they have obtained exclu-
sively from the air, that is, from its
carbonic acid and water vapor, a num-
ber of organic compounds. They have
thus accomplished the synthesis of
ternary compounds, beginning with
methylic aldehyde, whose condensa-
tion gives sugars and starches; and
they have gone on to the synthesis of
quarternary compounds, beginning
with formic amide—and this is th6
very starting point of those albuminoid
bodies which are the basis of proto-
plasm or living matter.
This means that we have come close
u* to Huxley's physical basis of life.
We have not overstepped the dividing
line between living and not-living
things. Nature has still a process by
which these carbon compounds enter
Into the colloid, automatically assim-
ilating state; and this is the resultant
of their own assimilation by the living
cell. This, too, is physical, like every-
thing in nature, but whether the
process shall be eternally limited to
the cell itself—omne vivum exovo—is
still the mystery of life. Daniel Ber-
thelot's discovery does not touch It.
The new discovery marks an epoch
in science for another reason. The
elder Berthelot used the physical en-
CAT CAUSES UPROAR
Panic Ensues Among Musicians
When Kitten Takes Stroll.
Little Black and Gray Feline Walked
Inquisitively Across Stage at Den-
ver During Opening Concert of
Musical Festival.
Denver, Col.—When the little black
and gray cat strolled inquisitively
about at the Auditorium during the
opening concert of the musical festi-
val, she distracted the attention of the
audience and of the musicians and of
the singer, but she never knew bow
near her little excursion came to
causing one man to swoon with terror.
Emil Oberhoffer, leader of the Min-
neapolis orchestra, related the incident
to Festival Manager James A. Thorpe
while he was waiting for his train to
pull out.
"The little cat came out just as No-
relli was singing. She will never know
how near she came to robbing the au-
dience of some exquisite little runs
from the oboe or how near one man
came to a dead faint.
Giraffe Thrives on Bottle
Mother Ignores Her Offspring and
"Provisionally Peter Pan" Finds
Good Friend.
, London.—Materna/ care is not every-
thing at the Zoo, for Peter Pan, the
baby giraffe, whose mother will not
love him, is thriving on the bottle;
whilst the chamois baby, whose moth-
er lavished love on him, is dead.
The baby giraffe, because the au-
thorities when they first saw him
feared he would never grow up, was
called provisionally Peter Pan. and.
when they found that his mother re-
fused to have anything to do with him,
"Provisionally" was omitted from his
name, which then became plain Peter
Pan, for it seemed so certain that he
would never attain mature stature.
And from then his mother, unduti-
ful and cold hearted, steadily refused
to have anything to do with him. In
fact, had he been left to her care, he
would be dead now.
But to his rescue came a mere man,
and Peter Pan immediately fell deep-
ly in love with him, for he brought a
bottle full of all that life holds dear
for a baby giraffe who may never
grow up—milk.
And poor, neglected Peter Pan found
that there are moments worth living
for, afid nearly ate the bottle in his
enthusiastic recognition of, hew good
some things are.
These moments worth living for re-
cur at intervals of two hours, and
when they do come round again he
feels, to Judge from his conduct, like
embracing the bottle bringing man.
In fact, he loves that man now with
all the unspoilt emotion that he might
have bestowed upon his stiff-necked
mother had she been worthy of It
So keen is his interest In the bottle,
indeed, that he has again been called
Provisionally Peter Pan, for there is
every chance that he will grow up to
be ^ big 15 feet giraffe like his father,
and then the name Peter Pan will not
fit.
Wonderful Mexican Gun.
City of Mexico.—Gen. Manuel Mon-
gragon, chief of the department of
artillery, has secured a patent for an
improvement in his Porfirio Diaz gun,
by which the velocity of the projectiles
will be given a maximum above that
produced by the guns used by any oth-
er army in the world. This improve-
ment, it is said, make9 the Mexican
gun superior to the Mauser, which is
used in the Mexican army at present,
as well as in the armies of several
European countries.
Rains Suiphur Near Vienna.
Vienna.—A heavy fall of rain at
Wiener, Neustadt, during a thunder-
storm, left the roads powdered with
sulphur and the air was pervaded with
a strong sickly odor.
The phenomenon caused a panic.
The meteorological authorities consid-
er that the sulphur was carried by
clouds from some distant volcano.
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ergies known to chemistry In his:
time, particularly light and heat. His
son has successfully harnessed to his
uses the wonderful energy newly
known but commonest of all in univer-
sal nature—the radiant energy which:
nature herself uses in transforming
inorganic elementary matter into or-
ganic living tissue.,
This new synthesis made by the
new physics was presented to the
Academy of Sciences by the venerable
Professor Jungfleisch, who wrought
for a lifetime with Berthelot and suc-
ceeded to his chair at the College de
France. It would be intensely inter-
esting to know if the dead master
foresaw these new lines of research,
along which his 6on proceeds so tri-
umphantly. It Is difficult for us, even,
now that we have been told about it-
to foresee how far the new road will,
lead.
Lifts Ban on Benzoate.
Pasadena, Cal.—Action taken last
year, condemning the use of benzoate
of soda as a food preservative, was re-
scinded by the American Institute of
Homeopathy the other night
"I saw the little feline begin her-
outing among the feet of the mu-
sicians. I noticed her as she saun-
tered among the palms and ferns on.
the platform. I quaked as she rubbed
against the skirt of the singer. I
boiled when she made the audience-
snicker.
"But I almost fell from my stand
when I noticed one of my men. It was
the oboe player, an Italian, and one of
the best performers in the company.
"He was deathly pale. He moved
uneasily upon his chair. He shuffled
his feet. His eyes would leave his
tnuslc and travel beseechingly toward
the chandelier. I couldn't take my
eyes from him.
"Then I noticed his fingers. They
appeared to be engaged in an act of
truancy. One second they would slip
>from the instrument and the next
they would leap guiltily back. Once
his whole hand darted swiftly to his
bosom and as quickly regained its po-
sition upon the instrument. And all
the time his eyes, body and feet kept
up their strange disorder.
And the little cat roamed serenely
about.
"My oboe player was approaching
the point in the accompaniment at
which he was to execute several arpeg-
gios. They are beautiful and quite an
essential part of the composition. I
wondered whether he would disgrace
our orchestra by missing them.
"I watched him like a hawk and my
concentration must have influenced
him. For he played the runs well and
the orchestra was saved.
"Meantime the " cat disappeared.
Norelli finished singing, we played the
closing bars and the intermission be-
gan. Anxious to know what was the
matter with my oboe player I walked
over to him. He was sitting limply in
his chair. His hands waggled feebiy
at me as I begged him to explain. Was
he ill? Did he think he could go on
that evening? What in heaven's name
was the matter?"
" 'I'm superstitious about cats,' he
gasped. 'I'll be all right now that she's
gone.'
" 'Yes, but what were you doing
with your fingers?* I insisted.
" 'I was trying to play and cros
myself at the same time.' "
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The Atlanta News. (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1910, newspaper, August 18, 1910; Atlanta, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth336691/m1/2/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.