The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 913, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 16, 1907 Page: 2 of 4
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CALLED HIM “DUDE”
ITS HEART IS iN ITS TmROAT.
FARMERS RESENT MAN’S ADVICE
AS TO WHISKERS.
Meddling with Subject of Personal
Adornment Seems to Have Made
J. H. Hale, Peach Grower, 4
Somewhat Unpopular.
J. H. Hale, wlio has made a for-
tune raising peaches in Connecticut
and Georgia, discovered that he put
New Styles in Scarecrows.
his foot in it when he went out of his
way at the annual meeting of the
State Agricultural Society at Spring-
field, Mass., to tell farmers that they
would do better if they were “slicker”
In appearance.
A deluge of letters began to pour in
on him from grangers who affect
beards, informing the peach man that
they didn’t give a continental whoop
what Hale thought about their whisk-
ers or anything else that belonged to
them; their whiskers were their own,
land it was none of his darned busi-
ness Whether the said whiskers went
junoombed and wild or were “har-
;row.pd and scythed by barber fellows.”
The grangers who didn’t write
about their whiskers had a hot word
to say about the Hale suggestions
that they should put on “store
clothes” and abandon homespun, rub-
ber neckties, celluloid collars and an-
tediluvian headgear.
“You go back to Georgia or Con-
necticut, or wherever you be from,
and stay there!” wrote old' Squire
Whipple, whose tangled chin under-
brush is known the length of the
Springfield Turnpike. “You raise
peaches and we’ll raise whiskers. And
one thing more—even if we do wear
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rubber neckties we don’t go around
putting our noses into other folks’s
business. We keep looking straight
ahead. Now get along, you dude, and
don’t come around here no more to
put city notions in sensible country
boys’ heads.”
Rather Cruel Practical Joke.
A practical joke was played upon
the district of Ballymena, County An-
trim, Ireland. Large posters on walls
and trees announced that the war de-
partment wanted thousands of cats
for export to stations abroad where
British troops were quartered, as
these stations were overrun with rats.
Prices ranging from 50 cents to one
dollar were offered for healthy ani-
mals, with or without tails. It was
added that a war office agent would
attend at Ballymena Fair Hill to pur-'
chase suitable cats. On the day an-
nounced the roads to Ballymena were
blocked with conveyances of all kinds
filled to the brim with cats. For hours
the Owners waited for the “war office
agent.” At last it dawned on them
that they had been hoaxed and the
carts rattled homeward with their
were thrown overboard on the journey
squealing loads. Many of the animals
and left to the mercy of strangers.
Living Toad From Earth's Interior.
A live toad was brought up from a
depth of 346 feet by men drilling an
artesian well at Murdo, S. D. The
toad weighed four pounds. The drill
was working slowly through a clay
drift when the toad was brought to
the surface. No one believed the toad
was alive, but after being in the cool
air the reptile revived.—St. Louis
Republic.
A Steer Which !e a Veritable Freak of
Nature.
A steer with its heart in its throat
is the property of the Western Voter
inary college, No. 1121 Holmes street
It is just an ordinary roan steer, four
years old. It came from Oklahoma.
It differs from other steers only in
the location of its heart.
Every beat of the heart, the distinct
movement of both auricles, the gush
ing of blood into arteries, may be eas-
ily felt. In fact, you may see the
movement of expansion and contrac
tion when several feet away. The
only protection to the heart is the
skin of the animal’s neck.
“It’s just a freak of nature,” said
Dr. Carl Parker. “The steer is in good
health and the rather unusual location
of its blood pump in no way affects it.
A smart blow would kill the steer,
but we are careful in handling it. We
keep it merely because it is a freak
of nature.”-—Kansas .City Star.
END OF ALL CONTROVERSY.
Boy Settled Question Which Has Long
Been a Vexing One.
Ex-Senator Anthony, of Rhode
Island, when a little chap, was attend-
ing church service at the town of CoV'
entry, R. I.
“I was only ten years old,” said the
veteran of the senate chamber, “and
had been sent to attend Sunday serv
He Preached at the Boy.
ice alone. I always accompanied my
mother, but on this particular Sunday
she was slightly indisposed, and there-
by forced to remain at home.
“I was occupying a seat very near
the pulpit, and the theme of the di-
vine was ‘Am I My Brother’s Keeper?’
“After preaching about 15 minutes
he reached the climax of his remarks
with the words of his subject, and his
gaze seemed to rest directly on me.
I commenced to fidget a little, but he
didn’t turn his eyes from mine for a
second and after a short pause he
burst forth again: ‘Am I my brother’s
keeper?’
“I could stand it no longer, and an-
swered in a meek voice: ‘No, sir.”'
HEARD MANY MILES AWAY.
Sound of Submarine Bell Carried for
Long Distance.
The fact that the sea is a marvel-
ous conductor of sound, as all swim-
mers know, has now been turned to
valuable account by an ingenious de-
vice known as the submarine bell.
The bell is dropped deep into the sea
from a lightship, and rung at intervals
by a cable attachment, as shown in
our picture. In order to hear the
sound other vessels are fitted with a
submarine telephone, the receiver of
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which is, of course, on deck, the trans-
mitter being fixed in. the hold of the
ship below the water line. In this way
the deep notes of the bell may be
heard many miles away. Our smaller
illustraation shows the telephone
transmitter.
Houseful of Hornets.
A few days ago, while hunting,
Bartley Eqkfield of Marion, O., found
a hornets’ nest, which he took home
and hung up in his library. The
warmth of the Eckfield home put life
into the hornets and the family sp^nt
a day fighting the fierce insects.
IN SOUTHERN STYLE
PROPER WAY OF COOKING FAVOR-
ITE DISHES.
Rice Soup Without Meat—Fried Liver
a la Lyonnaise—Right Way to Pre-
pare Okra Soup—Delectable
Ham Souffle.
RICE SOUP WITHOUT MEAT.—
One cup of rice, yolks of four eggs
three quarts of water, one spoonful
of butter, one pint of milk, pepper
and salt.
Wash the rice thoroughly, rubbing
dry. Put it in a saucepan with one
pint of cold water; when swelled add
one pint of boiling water, and when
it begins to get very tender add the
remaining pint of boiling water. Add
the pepper and salt. Beat up the
yolks of the eggs with a few table-
spoonfuls of cream. When quite
smooth stir in carefully a few spoon-
fuls of the boiling rice water, and then
pour the eggs and cream into the
saucepan, stirring very briskly. Draw
aside and stir for two or three min-
utes, but do not allow the soup to boil
after the eggs and cream have been
poured in.
FRIED LIVER A LA LYONNAISE.
—One pound of beef liver, one table-
spoonful of butter, two large onions,
salt and pepper to taste.
Slice the onions nicely. Put one
tablespoonful of butter into the frying-
pan and add the onions. When brown
take the liver, which you have cut into
slices about three inches in length
and one-half inch in thickness, and
season welKwith salt and pepper, and
lay it over the onions. Stir weil. Cover
and let it fry for about three minutes,
and then turn over and let it cook
for three minutes more. Pour a tea-
spoonful of vinegar on top and season
again to taste. Let it simmer three
or four minutes longer and serve hot.
Liver does not require long to cook.
OKRA SOUP.—Two pounds of beef
without fat or bone, two cups of okra
chopped fine, one-quarter pound of
butter, four quarts of cold water, one
onion sliced and chopped, salt and
pepper.
Cut the beef into small pieces and
season well with pepper and salt. Fry
it in the soup kettle with the onion
and butter until very brown. Then
add the cold water and let it simmer
for an hour and a half. Add the okra
and let it simmer gently for three or
four hours-
HAM SOUFFLE.—One cup of
minced ham, three eggs beaten with
white and yolks separate, one tea-
spoonful of finely chopped parsley,
pepper to taste.
Mix together the chopped ham,
parsley and yolks of eggs, and beat
all very hard until it becomes light.
Then- add the whites of eggs, which
have been beaten to a froth. Beat to-
gether sufficiently to mix well. Fill a
dish and bake in the oven for eight
or ten minutes, and serve with a
cream sauee.—New York World.
To Wash Handkerchiefs.
To keep handkerchiefs a good color,
instead of damping them in the usual
way before ironing, proceed as fol-
lows: Put two quarts of tepid water,
with five drops of blue and a small
piece of lump starch, into a basin and
into this mixture dip each handker-
chief separately, thoroughly wetting
it, and then squeezing it as dry as
possible. When all the handkerchiefs
have been treated in this way, spread
them out smoothly on a clean cloth
or towel until they can be ironed.
Good Way to Broil Chicken.
Anyone who has broiled chicken
knows how hard it is to cook it
through without burning outside, so
wish they" would try this way: Split
and wash-chicken and put in a shal-
low pan with a little water in it and
place in hot oven for about half an
hour; then put on broiler and brown
well on both sides; take the water in
pan and make a butter' gravy and pour
over chicken; serve hot.
Care of Your Piano.
If a good piano receives proper
care, its value increases with use. It
becomes more mellow, more re-
sponsive and richer in appearance.
Avoid placing a piano near the win-
dow, as the varying temperatures
which necessarily exist in such a po-
sition are injurious to the strings.
Be careful, too, that you do not
have one end of the instrument near
a fire and the other near a window
or door. When a room has become
very cold, do not build a big fire im-
mediately; increase it gradually.
Things Soldiers Don’t Use.
A writer in the Philadelphia Bulle-
tin informs an amazed public that
soldiers never use umbrellas during
wars. Another peculiarity of the war-
rior is that he never uses a lorgnette,
a bottle of smelling salts or a fan in
a hayouet charge.—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Queer Butter Making.
Butter in Armenia is made in
churns suspended by ropes from the
rafters and shaken from side to side
by the women.
REMEDY FOR SEASICKNESS.
New Contrivance Which Is Said to
Bring Sure and Quick Relief.
The well-known traveler and writer
Eugene Wolf says in one of his books,
that the best remedy for seasickness
is the application to the head of a
wet compress, as hot as can be borne.
This suggestion, however, is difficult
to carry out in practice unless the
traveler is provided with a sea-proof
servant or companion, for in a sea-
way the stewards are apt to be too
busy to furnish fresh hot compresses,
at short intervals, to all who are in
need of them.
A device which enables the desired
result to be attained without the
steward’s intervention has recently
been put upon the market.- It con-
sists of a leather cap lined with a
thick cushion of wet felt, which can
be fastened very tightly about the
head. The wet compress is kept hot
by wires, which may be connected
with the electric lighting system of
the ship. Its effect is an increased
flow of blood to the brain, and, there-
fore, the removal of the cerebral anae-
mia which is the cause of seasickness.
This appliance has the advantage that
the patient can enjoy absolute rest,
as no removal of the compress is nec-
essary. As the compress is aseptic,
it may be used for many patients,
A Patient Undergoing Treatment.
though the apparatus is not too cost-
ly or cumbersome to be carried by
every passenger. Its effect is said
to have been very beneficial in every
case in wh^ih it has been employed,
so that it would appear to be destined
to come, very soon, into general use.
The same prophecy, however, says
Scientific American, has been made
in regard to many other remedies for
seasickness, and has not been ful-
filled.
WRITING WITH ELECTRICITY.
Novel Experiment Which Can Be
Easily Tried.
Soak a piece of white paper in m
solution of potassium iodide and water
for about a minute and then lay on
a piece of sheet metal. Connect the
sheet metal with the negative or zinc
side of a battery and then, using the
Electrolytic Writing.
positive wire as a pen, write your
name or other inscription on the wet
paper. The result, says Popular
Mechanics, will be brown lines on a
white background.
New Electric Furnace.
In order to determine the points of
fusion of refractory substances, W. C.
Heraeus has constructed at Hana'u a
new electric furnace, the essential
part of which consists of a tube of
iridium 20 millimeters thick and 40
millimeters in diameter, and in which
temperatures between 1,500 and 2,000
degrees centigrade may be maintained
for any desired length of time. To at-
tain a temperature of 2,000 degrees it
is "necessary to send through the tube
an electric current of 1,200 amperes
at five volts. At a certain temperature
the substance under examination be-
gins to soften, and at a temperature
five to 15 degrees higher, depending
upon the nature of the substance com-
plete fusion occurs.
Tantalum Wire.
The tantalum wire used in com-
merce, largely for1 electric lighting, is
drawn through diamond points to an
extreme state of fineness. This is,
perhaps, one of th^ most remarkable
characteristics of the metal, more es-
pecially when its hardness is consid-
ered.
NON-MAGNETIC SHIELDS.
How Watches and Clocks are Protect-
ed from Electrical Currents.
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Cases or shields for the protection
of clocks and watches against mag^
netization are now on the market. It
is well known that if the wearer of
an ordinary watch approaches too
near a powerful dynamo, he runs the
risk of putting his timepiece out of
commission. Means of avoiding this
are described in Cosmos by L. Rever-
chon, who says:
“The protection of watches and
chronometers against magnetization
has become a very important ques-
tion in this age, where electricity is
creeping in everywhere. The indica-
tions of a magnetized watch are ab-
Watch with Leroy’s “Paramagnetic"
Case.
solute unreliability. Demagnetization
is only a palliative—it does not re-
move the cause. Demagnetizing ma-
chines in use are of various degrees
of accuracy and they are not always
immediately available.
“It may be understood that under
these conditions, makers have sought
practical methods of. protecting the
movements of clocks and watches
against magnetization—certainly a
more effective thing than to demag-
netize them after they have been al-
ready magnetized.
The most recent effort of this sort,
we are told, is that of a Parisian
watchmaker named Leroy*, who has
made for the hydrographic service of
the French navy a non-magnetic chro-
nometer which keeps much better
time than any of its other timepieces,
the variation being only 3.02 seconds
in three months, while pieces with so-
called non-magnetic balance-wheels
varied from 5.85 to 16.29 seconds. To
quote further:
“It should be added that the
screens need only be partial, and may,
for instance, be reduced to a sim-
ple iron plate within the case, when
the wearer is exposed to magnetic ac-
tion only on the one side. It is then
sufficient to place the watch in the
pocket in such a way that the plafe
is between the movement and the
electric source against which protec-
tion is desfred.
“Leroy also constructs exterior
screens—cases in which an ordinary
watch may be placed when it is de-
sired to avoid the expense of Chang-
ing its own case. Neyret brothers
also make such cases, which they
call electrophages. . . .”
Use of Kites i.n War.
One of the lessons learned from
the late British army maneuvers is
that kites can be used for observa-
tion purposes when weather condi-
tions render work with the army bal-
loons impracticable. The plan used
was the suspension of a small car
from the lowest of a series of box
kites. In the car was placed a signal
service man who made observations
and reported what he observed by
means of signal flags. The kites held
the car steady in winds too boisterous
to permit the ascent of the war bal-
loons.
Making Lead Casts.
Antimony has a hardening effect
when added to lead; a small qiiantliv
of bismuth gives the alloy the propen^-y-
of expanding at the instant at whi^ j*
solidifies, the result being a P*fect
cast from the mold.
A New Microphone.
One of the greatest difficulties to be
overcome in the telephonic^
tion of the human voice,
great distances, where micj
lays must be employed, B
tion of an exact corr€/pojLjence
tween the variations *n iitfensity of
the electric current and thfe varying
vibrations of the micro jih<hnic mem_
brane. In a new mii&ropk'oj/^ recently
introduced by the Teleplfonic Company
of Zurich, Swit/erla/d> gays the
Youth’s Companion, ft M believed this
difficulty has b^en s/0 far overcome
that strong and we|k voices are al-
most equally >well #0duced, and the
apparatus permits »of the use of a
much stronger' bat£ery The various
audiphonic/aevicegf for the deaf should
benefit frpm thp improvement, as
well as ||png‘(iis^jice telephone lines.
Mofjnr Orojlibuses in London.
Thenfe are dciLj over 700 motor omni-
buses/ owned lby London companies.
According to J^lie Commercial Moto
469 /of these J^ere in rm
4, /over 200
aids.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 913, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 16, 1907, newspaper, February 16, 1907; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth900711/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.