The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 61, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1905 Page: 3 of 4
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BOY OVi-i.L_^,xuO A POINT
ALL OVER TEXAS.
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STILL HAD $5 COMING.
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In a hard fought battle with Louis-
ville and Niagara Falls Dallas won the
1906 meeting of the International Fire
Chief’s Association at Duluth.
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as the animals
discharger
Besides, a
Tom Hogg, son of the “storm toss-
ed,” who is summering at Colorado
Springs, was thrown from a fractious
donkey, a few days since, and narrow-
ly escaped being tossed and kicked
over a cliff.
The Barnum-Bailey circus will tout
Texas this fall.
The drillers in well No. 1 at Telieo,
near Ennis, have abandoned the hole
as a duster at a depth of 1,000 feet,
and are moving the rig to another
place.
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That
writer thumper.
you how much you can bank
woman's Jove—Chicago News.
Game of Noted Men.
The hostess begins by saying:
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How to Make a Steam Engine
wet as he
No baby boy; O, Rachel’s grief!
I rushed around in dread,
The meantime using language which
Were better left unsaid.
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Elysium fields.
tant temple were tinkling musically.
The South-western Christian College
directors at Denton have commenced
the erection of a new chapel building
I at the college. Other needed improve-
; The new 6000 light dynamo am, fcv.w
engine at Greenville have been tc-x
I and worked well. New street iiglusaro
being put in place and when complet-
ed Greenville will be one of ihe i?;«t
lighted towns in Texas.
Smallpox has again made its appear-
ance in the lower edge of Ellis county-
near Leland, and three eases which
were discovered there have been iaken
to the pest house at the county farm,
the infected locality properly disinfect-
ed and Quarantined.
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Ennis and Crisp Camps, Woodmen,
of the World, joined in a picnic and
barbecue on Village Creek, four miles
north of Ennis. A large crowd attend-
ed. Speeches were made by C. O. Pip-
pin, C. L. Allen and Congressman Jack
Beall.
Pa.anJ Ma- (i th’
stops right in th’ do .’11 .-re
>rt o’ makes a pictur ’
An’ taps upon th’ floor .» cries
’ll pa looks up, an’ then h” ’
‘Well, how is this for style is eyes—
i pa jus’ grunts an’ drops i
^n’ then 1 see him smile
ad—
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alcohhts on a
™vel with
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'h plugged
,ed with
An easily constructed steam er gine
may be made by any boy with very
simple materials. An old baking pow-
der box will do for the boiler. Fasten
its lid to it with shellac varnish, and
punch two holes in the side of the
box, one about the size of a pinhole,
the other as large as a slate pencil.
The larger hole must be fitted with a
wooden plug or a cork.
Your boiler is now complete, but it
must be fastened at its two ends be-
tween two upright posts that are at-
Ply
Some thermometers in Dallas regia-
tered ICG degrees Friday and th*
general reading was about 100 degrees.
The distinction of filing the first
State Bank fell to the Union Bank and
Trust Company of Houston, a $500,000
corporation.
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Animal Sextons.
How rarely do we meet with the
dead body of an animal—a bird, a
mouse or a mole, when we walk about
in the woods or fields. This is because
the beetles are always at work, and
their work is to bury the dead. Indeed,
they are well called the sextons of the
animal world. Though very small them-
selves, they bury bodies three and
four times their own size; ay, and
much larger than that. A beetle has
been known to bury a whole rabbit.
Four beetles were once watched for
fifty days, and in that time they buried
four frogs, four birds, two fish, a mole,
some grasshoppers and some other
things besides. Burying beetles abound
mostly in temperate climates, because
in these climates things decay most
slowly, and there is the most work for
them to do.
It is the beetles that keep sweet and
clean the meadows, where cows and
sheep feed, as they bury the dung and
vegetable refuse by burrowing it into the
soil, and bringing up the soil that is
underneath to the surface. In four days
a meadow will be perfectly cleared if
given over to the beetles’ care.
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Toy That Will Talk.
Would you like to make a talking
machine? If you have a toy trumpet,
put the small end in your mouth and
your two hands over the large, or
flannel, end. Now blow through the
trumpet and open and shut your
hands once quickly. The syllable
“ma” will be sounded, and if you re-
peat this in a quick succession, the
word “mamma” will be spoken by the
‘grim,
| to him,
frock.”
s hair
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use. Put a
when red hi
and the inscription will appear plainly
for a few m nutes greenich in hue,
but disappear’.ng as the coin cools.
This pjan originated in the mint in
the beginning of the 19th century.
Barlow.
in noiselessly with a
A Tale of Horror.
Not many years ago I took
A baby boy to raise
And bring him up as best I could
In strictly proper ways.
I hired a homely girl as nurse,
Who said her greatest joy
Would be to show her constant care
And service to the boy.
She said she’d had experience
With baby boys, and she
Assured me that for several years
She’d bossed a nursery.
So in the guileless manner of '
Old bachelor confidence
I left the baby boy to her
And ended my suspense.
But not for long; that evening when
I came back home there was
A household tilled with dire dismay;
And truly there was cause.
The baby boy was missing—lost; t
The nurse girl tore her hair,
And like a loose detective she
Went searching everywhere.
The wretched creature said she’d batheq
Our darling little Jim;
But after that she didn’t know
What had become of him.
He comes, a-singing in the night—
A thing of terror; yet so small!
'Tis useless to attempt to fight,
And all,in vain for help you call.
He scorns so slight a things as wealth.
When bis dread visits make you wince;
His quest demands your rest and health.
Of giaft he is the very prince.
He takes the public for his prey;
And not content with fattening,
He leaves before he goes away
Mementos that will smart and sting.
He has been caught. But oftener fat
In safty he has fled and laughed,
To hear you curse your luckless star—
He is the very prince of graft!
—Washington Star.
At last I found the precious lamb,
Down by the sink forlorn,
Attired exactly as he was
The day that he was born.
How did it happen? Well, that girl,
The low browed, careless cub,
Had simply poured the baby out
In emptying the tub.
—William J. Lampton
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through, a ball tipped
would kill you instantly,
point attracts the lightning, and thus
keeps it from striking other parts of
the building. The point is made of
metal that does not easily corrode be-
cause corrosion or rust, increases tne
resistance, and a rusty point, there-
fore, might cause a violent and des-
tructive discharge.
If you have a lightning rod on your
house, no doubt it lias emptied many
a cloud of its electricity without any-
body’s knowing anything about it.
Had Selected a Turtle Not Sufficiently
1 Venerable
Speaking of the turtles that were re-
cently found in Jersey, bearing dates
of fifty anjl sixty years ago, recalls
an incident that once occurred on the
farm of the late Henry I. Deacon, a
well-to-do and influential resident of
the land beyond the Delaware
A youngster, who -was fond of roam-
ing over the fine, well kept farm,
found a turtle one day and it occurred
to him to make it one of the ancient
date. /
Nothing short of the George Wash-
ington era would do. So, taxing out
his penknife the boy inscribed, “G.
W1776,” on the reptile’s shell. The
cutting, of course, looked very mod-
ern, but this was easily remedied by
rubbing in it mud and polishing it on
the grass.
This done to the satisfaction of the
boy, rushed to the jolly-faced farm-
er, exclaiming:
“Look, Mr. Deacon, I just found a
turtle more than 100 years old with
George Washington’s initials on the
shell!”
“Thee has?” said Dr. Deacon, hold-
ing out his hand for the turtle.
“Yes, sir,” returned the youngster
with a very straight face.
The good old farmer glanced at the
reptile just one second, and then burst
out intQ a merry- laugh.
“Willie, thee darned fool,” said he,
“that turtle isn’t half grown.”—Phil-
adelphia Record.
“You have told me what you
been, not what you are.”
straightforward way, with sometimes
a n©te of wistful sadness in his voice.
And she was always grave and sym-
Temple Houston, youngest son. c4 ‘he
Texas patriot, Gen. Sam Houston, died
at Topeka, Kan., a few days since., af-
ter an illness of six months. He u.is
i well-known in Texas and in Oklahoma,
I where he made his home save?al
. years.
beds of western Kansas. The habit
of the buffalo is to roll in every pool
of water or hole of mud which he
comes to. The well-known “buffalo
wallow,” still to be seen over the great
plains, was the product of this habit.
Canfields’ buffalo had simply been roll-
ing in a bed of the native lime, which
coated his hide, when dried in the s<m,
with a kind of plaster. And no doubt
these lime holes could account for
many of the w’hite buffaloes so often
reported by hunters.
trumpet. It may have a strident
sound, but it will, nevertheless, be a
spoken word.
Another good imitation of the hu-
man voice may be made by taking a
large empty spool and stretching
across the hole at one end two rubber
bands. The bands must be close to-
gether at their edges, but must not
overlap. You can tack or tie the ends
over the side of the spool. When you
blow through the other end of the
spool the bands vibrate like the hu-
man vocal chords and make a sound
something like the human voice,
which will change according to the
force with which you blow.
•ame tripping
s-earing bowl.
“Dor’t go,” he said again.
Ihe sat down in a bamboo chair by
the wind ow. She was smiling as one
smirs at a wilful child.
“V here am I?” Barlow asked.
“Th, 3 is the Fu-Chang Mi&ion,”
said she.
“And ju?’’ he inquired.
“I am t.A daughter of Father Ray-
mond, as they call him here.”
“How long have I been here?”
“Four webks nearly,” she said.
‘Two cool e.. bought you at night.
They safl you had been beaten by
highway!-.er on the Sheng-ti road. You
mustn’t tall yet,’
was i'
t© you?”
jjJarlov. .itdCiid and closed his eyes,
The farmers of Harrison county are
very much troubled over the gloomy
prospects of crops. The best farmers
say they will not average but ten bales
of cotton this year where they made
forty to fifty last year.
Gov. John Sparks of Nevada is in
Taylor making arrangements to place
his entire pasture of 12,000 acres of
more, situated in Williamson and Mi-
Jam Counties, on the market foi sale
in tracts to suit actual settlers.
Mr. Bell, a farmer, 80 years old,
who lived near Chicota, was found
dead in bed Sunday morning. He and
his aged -wife lived alone. His death
was due to heart failure.
. she went on as he
about speak. “Shan’t I read
she® Gmf
that,
truth,
pointed.
Gray—I’m sorry to hear that. What’s
the trouble?
Smith—Well, you see, during the
courtship stunt she used to tell
how strenuously she loved me, but
had no sooner got spliced than she
gave up her $10 a week job as type-
That goes to show-
on a
damp sand to steady the slips, and
keep them put on the lid of the box
and fasten it by glue so that it will
Arrange this wheel on t*b
so that one side
John Farley, a farmer about 50
years of age, living about one mile
west of Troupe, killed himself by
shooting himself in the head with a
22-calibre rifle. He died within a few
minutes after his wife reached him.
Curlls Bure DanWJ, c;Ve cf- 1 auas
county’s oldest residents, was found
dead on the farm of his brother near
Calhoun. He had gone to the field to
cut some grass for a horse, and was
found by a neighbor who was passing
the field.
Fickleness of Woman.
Gray—Hello, Smith, old boy!
so you are married, eh?
Smith—That’s what the parson told
me.
Gray—And of course, you are hap-
py?
Smith—Well, I don’t know about
To tell the plain, unvarnished
I’m just a little bit disap
Mrs. F. R. Hedrick, wife of the
president of the Live Stock Bank of
North Fort Worth, died at the hospital
Wednesday, the result of a fall from
the fourth story window of the Worth
Hotel ten days previously.
It is estimated that the Texas
wheat crop will reach about 7,000,4000
bushels, and that as the milling ca-
acity of the State is about 12,000,000
consider able wheat will be imported.
The oat crop is estimated at about
10,000,000 to 12,000,000 busbies.
Surprise For the Husband.
A truly economical woman has been
discovered at Wilton, N. H. Her hus-
band was so unfortunate as to have
his hand badly mangled by contact
with a buzz saw, and a portion of it
amputated by Dr. George W.
he was under anaes-
his better half remem-
had discussed having
teeth extracted, pre-
laving an artificial set
fitted, and inquired of the doctor if
her husband would remain under the
influence of the ether long enough to
extract the teeth, and if it would cost
any more to have this done also. Re-
ceiving favorable replies, she instruct-
ed Dr. Hatch to proceed, and her hus-
band, when he regained his senses,
found that his wife had “killed two
birds with one stone.” ,
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not open.
wire axle so that one side of it
comes directly above the pinhole in
the boiler.
Now remove the plug from the
larger hole and fill the boiler with
water; then close it, and light an alco-
hol lamp under the boiler. When the
water boils the steam will issue from
the pinhole in the boiler, and, strik-
Creditor Rejoiced Top Soon
Liquidation of Debt.
The late Rev. Benjamin Eastwood of
Pawtucket, R. I., for many years rec-
tor of the Church of the Good Shep-
herd in that city, related the follow-
ing incident, which occurred in his
parish:
Tom Fararady, tinsmith, had loaned
Tim Marks, his neighbor, $5, and Tim
had fallen into dissolute habits which
so curtailed his income and impaired
his credit that Tom’s prospect of re-
covering his money seemed dubious.
One morning, however, Tom dunned
his debtor with unusual severity and
later in the day Tom came to him and
paid the debt. Tom, elated, rushed to
his telephone, a crude affair of his
own construction, connecting his shop
and house, and signaled his wife.
“Jane, are ye there?” he called.
“Ay, John, but ye’ll wake the babe
wi’ yer thumpin’; what is’t ye want,
John?”
“Ye know Tim Marks, Jane, that’s
owed me $5 a long time; e’s paid me!”
“Eh, neighbor Tim, did ye say; did
he owe ye, John?”
“Ay, $5, and a long time, but e’s
paid up now-.”
“Well, I’m glad ye’ve got yer money,
John, and it’s good to know e’s hon-
est, too, for e’s borrowed $5 off me
this morning.”
THE HOME MADE STEAM ENGINE AT WORK.
tached to a baseboard, so that the
two holes will be at the top of the
boiler. The side posts should rise at
least two inches higher than the top
of tl e boiler, and should be connected
at th> top by a piece of stout wire,
whi ?h will serve as an axle to a stiff
wheel, ike a water wheel, or the pad-
dle of a steamboat.
The v heel is made by taking a
large pi 4 box iaking slits in its sides,
and slipping in pieces of stiff card-
board, w lich project at least half an
inch on each s.de of the box. When
these arc in place, fill the box with
ing the paddles of the wheel,
cause it to spin very rapidly.
A grooved woode/i wheel may be
glued to one side of the paddle wheel,
and a string run around the groove
may be connected with any of the toys
that are to be set in motion by minia-
ture steam engines. You may use for
the grooved wheel a small spool such
as buttonhole silk is wound on.
This engine will .serve for your
amusement as well as a purchased
one, and an ingenious boy can i-.t-
prove on it and elaborate it as much
M he likes.
The Commissioners’ Court of Gal-
veston County has decided to work
all male country prisoners on county
roads and on the county farm.
Y. M. C. A. directors have fixed Sep-
tember 1st as the day for the laying of
the corner stone of the new building
at Waco that is in course of construc-
tion.
was
Hatch. While
thetic influence
bered that ho
his remaining
paratory to
all creatures.
It is all a matter of
Children should be taught
left hand as much as the righ,
would be no difficulty about t at all;
a person who las been
to the
; to use
it awk-
Let him
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the cork. Now fill one 1
water up to the neck (See
then lay it over an
while the other bottle (C) r >
kitchen vessel on an exact 1
the other bottle.
Over C hang a funnel wit!
row end either pinched or
with cotton so that when
cold water it will release tl
only drop by drop on the b(
beneath.
As the vapor from the tiQs/J/
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The White Buffalo.
The disappearance of th stuffed
white buffalo from the Kansis state-
house, whence it was taken b; its own-
er, who left it on exhibitim there
years ago, recalls the day vhen the
white buffalo figured in huntes’ tales.
There was a tradition arcing the
hunters that some one had jung up
a reward of $1,000 for the kin of a
white buffalo. There were vhite buf-
faloes—albinos, such as are ound at
rare intervals in all the families of
the animal kingdom—but. the number
of those which existed puny in the
imagination was in wonder-1 dispro-
portion. Every buffalo hunur could
tell stories of having seen and pur-
sued white buffaloes. Many a hunter
has been sent on a wild gese chase
by false reports of this chai. cter. In
1873, for example, old “Ben’ Canfield,
who roamed the plains, wRl his tall,
gaunt wife for a companion, followed
a bunch of buffalo from the northern
edge of what is now Oklahoma to the
sand hills of Nebraska thiiking to
kill a big white bull at the h^d of his
harem of cows. And, after th. :e weeks
of patient stalking, Canfield did kill
the bull, only to find that he was cov-
ered with a coat of whitewain, which
gave him Lm appearance being
white in fact. An explanatioi of this
phenomenon would not be n eded by
I people familiar with the natural lime
but when a person who las
taught to use the right hai
exclusion of the left attemp
the left, of course he find;
ward and discouraging. Let him per-
sist, however, and he will oon be
able to use one hand as
does the other.
Yale had given an A. B., Heidelberg
had made him a Ph. D., The World,
the flesh and the devil had done the
rest.
In the course of many wanderings
and as many diverse experiences he
had come to the province of Fan-
Chau with a legend of a deserted gold
mine of wonderful richness ringing in
his ears and a parchment map very
yellow and apparently of great age in
the inside pocket of his khaki coat.
But just outside Fu-Chang he encount-
ered one of the many bands of high-
waymen that infest the region. Be-
? averse to trouble in any form, his
ir coolies had left him to face the
isle alone; and while they fled howl-
r.with terror he put up a single-
r.ded but unavailing resistance, I
rch, while it lasted, was a joy to his
■ v-ild; reckless soul.
.Vhen darkness had fallen and there
were only the great, silent stars to see,
tlKii two coolies came creeping back.
They found him lying in the mud, his
CjQthing torn, his face a mass of
blood, and one arm broken where he
bad shielded his head from the blow
of a cudgel. Near him lay two limp,
siient figures, their yellow features
livid and distorted.
The coolies held a whispered consul-
tation. Then they lifted him between
them and bore him down, the slough, ‘
(Copyright, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co.}
while she read him news from a Lon-
don paper six weeks old.
He gained rapidly after that. In a
week’s time he was able to hobble
about the mud walled garden of the
mission. The girl was with him con-
stantly, reading to him on the little
veranda, or singing to him in the soft
glow of the September twilights.
Gradually he told her of Ips life—
of his aimless wanderings, of his
wasted opportunities. He neither soft-
ened his past nor excused it. There
were many parts of it, of course, that
he did not mention; but what he did
tell her of it he told in a plain,
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winch was called a road, toward the
■ distant lights of Fu-Chang. But first
■ they rifled his clothes, and in an inner
po?.ket they came across a map and a
gold coin that the highwaymen had
overlooked. The map, having no in-
trinsic value, they replaced.
They left him at the mission in Fu-
Chang, and went their way, for the po-
tentialities of that golden coin were
■strong upon them.
Another man would have died; but
Robert Barlow had a grip on life that
was almost uncanny. After weeks of
unconsciousness, during which it
seemed that each hour must be his
last, he opened his eyes; slowly, pain-
fully collected his wandering senses;
then fell to roundly cursing the high-
waymen for misbegotten vandals, and
his. coolies foi' eenpu-r- - ■ ’-’flp'rotte.u.
cowards. After which he sank back
on the cool pillows utterly exhausted,
and fell into a deep, refreshing sleep.
The old missionary smiled knowing-
ly. “He will live,” he said grimly, and
he went to the kitchen to get some
strengthening broth foi' his patient.
When Barlow awoke it was early
evening. He could hear sandals clat-
tering by on the uneven pavements
of the street. The odor of some
strange, sweet flower floated in
through the open window. He stirred
uneasily and sat up. He was quite
alone in the room.
“I say, somebody,” he called lustily
There was a sound of light foot-
falls, the soft rustle of skirts. L "
doorway was a gleam of white,
looked up to see a young
standing there—such a woman as Bar-
low had not beheld for many months;
the kind of a woman he had well-
nigh forgotten existed in this world
of disappointment and trouble. He
felt his heart jump to his throat. The
color crept into his sunburned face.
He stared at her, scarce daring to
credit his senses.
“You have been very ill,” she was
saying in a low voice that set the
blood tingling in his veins. “But you
are getting on famously now.”
“Don’t go,” he said again.
The Left Hand. f
It is strange that so strong!,
dice against the left hand luis lived
and increased for centuric;; when
there is no natural or physiological
reason for it. Examination’ of the
skeleton of a person ’who wal? strong,
healthy and well formed in It e shows
that the bones of the left 1;
arm r ’
those of the right.
The study of physiology stows, too,
that the muscles and ligaro-mts and
cartilages that fastened that) person’s
arms to his body and gave r.hem the
power of motion were mace to do
their work just as well on one side of
the body as on the other. I the left
side was the weaker it was because of
the failure to exercise it as freely as
the other.
Monkeys, cats, dogs and ether ani-
mals would be likely to smile—if they
could—at the absurdity of tleir paws
being rights and lefts, or thlv the paw
on one side could do more than the
paw on the other. And yet we hear
boys and girls say that they can
throw a ball, handle a rack t, or do
anything else only with the ri ht hand,
which seems to prove that
not so well formed
named. On the contrary, ; human
being is the most perfectly firmed of
ilucation.
: use the
. There
A square ta
and a small
settle comprise the
Very coarse mesh cur-
tains are dyed a golden brown, anu
brown and yellow pottery in quaint
shapes is placed on top of the book-
cases—a box of flaming red gerani-
ums are the one touch of vivid color
in the room. On the table are the
latest magazines and periodicals. The
little room can thus be used as a rest<
ful lounging or waiting room.
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pathetic? an(j eminently lovable.
So the days flew past—very happy
days they 'vei-e for Barlow, until there
' came a bitioi- pip'irf- u’^vced
^ne narrow, crooked streets of ?__
Chang alone and had it out with him-
self. What was he that he should
dare to love a woman like this?
cursed himself for a blind fool.
past of his own making rose before
him like a grim gate, shutting him
forever from paradise.
The gray morning light was break-
ing over the crooked, dirty streets of
Fu-Chang when he returned to the
mission and threw himself on his bed
utterly exhausted; but sleep he could
not, and after tossing restlessly for
awhile, he arose and stood at the win-
dow, watching the sun creep up above
the mud-walled huts.
All these wasted years and nothing
to show for it but the bitterness of
his heart and an ancient yellow map.
In his despair he caught the map
from his pocket and tore it into small
bits. Perhaps it was best after all,
he reflected. He doubted his ability
to remain silent had his assets been
otherwise.
It was evening before he could trust
himself to see her. He found her in
the garden and went to her smiling
bravely.
“I am going away to-night,” said
he. “I must somehow earn enough
to repay the kindness that has been
shown me here.”
He saw her face pale a little.
“You are not able to go yet,” she
said.
“I am better able now than I shall
be later,” he returned almost roughly.
She looked up suddenly and saw
he was trembling. His face was white.
“Don’t—don’t go,” she urged. “Stay
until you are stronger. Stay until—
until----”
He drew himself up.
A Lounging Room.
On the first floor of many houses
there is an unnecessary little room,
called through courtesy a den, a libra-
ry or a reception ro&Yn. As a matter
of fact, it is without purpose, and I
have never yet been able to under-
' why an architect should aud
tnis ■'1’flunus touch; but, since the
room is txi^e, xx ’ ,
„ . , ,‘uust oe considered
fittingly furnished. .. aom
can well be done in bamboo, suggests
Vogue. Procure the kino of curtains
that are used on piazzas to protect
one from the sun and have the room
covered in these with strips of bam-
boo portioning off three-foot spaces
and covering the seams; a strip of
bamboo is also run at the top, close
to the cove of the ceiling, and an-
other finishes the matting at the bot-
tom. High bookcases painted a deep
cream stretch along the walls and
natural color wicker furniture is ef-
fective in such a room,
ble, a lounging chair
high backed
furnishing.
Why Lightning Rod is Pointed.
Many boys and girls have wondered,
no doubt, why a lightning rod is al-
ways pointed instead of having a
blunt end, and also why the point is
made of metal that does not easily
corrode.
The object of a lightning rod is to
empty a cloud of its electricity noise-
lessly and harmlessly, and it must be
pointed because a point offers no re-
sistance to the discharge. The de-
gree of resistance is in proportion to
the surface of the object, and a point
has the least possible surface.
If the rod had a ball or a knob on
the top, the discharge would be vio-
lent. The difference is shown in dis-
charging a battery. You will be sur-
prised to hear, perhaps, that the full
charge from a large battery may be
pas :ed harmlessly through your body
if it be received through the point of
a needle. The same charge received
J. W. Vance, a man piobahly 4J>
years of age, was found dead m a
rooming house at Fort Worth lato
Thursday afternoon. The man had
died between 10 o’clock in the morn-
ing and the hour he was discovcrrd
“It means too much if I stay,” said
he.
“You must,
low voice.
“Good God, child!” he burst out.
“haven’t I told you what I am?”
She smiled up at him—a smile of
perfect faith and perfect understand-
ing.
You have told me what you have
been, not what you are,” she said
gently.
With an inarticulate cry he sprang
towards her, his face transformed by
The perfume of the
garden came to him like a breath of
The bells of a dis-
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It is given out that the Praetorians
will erect a three-story building at
Waco at an early date, to be used
partly for business purposes and for
officers and lodge room.
A trade of more than ordinary in-
terest was consummated the past week
wherein the Levy Oil Company of
Fort Worth purchased from J. F. Hor-
kans all of his land, oil wells, rigs and
machinery.
Pauline Boyd was bitten by a cop-
perhead snake while out in the garden.
The foot that was bitten was immers-
ed in kerosene oil for about three
hours and the child is now getting
along all right.
How to Distill Wall
There is much use foi
(pure) water in every hous
wash, for instance, shouk
used unless made with disti
But is costs something to f
distilled water from the drq
most people do without it.
Your home need not do i 7/
fcr „„ J 4 Xt
supplied with distilled watei
quantity, at least. ! a ’
Take a couple of bottles 1-777
pare a cork that will fit so §
the necks of both 1
will be airtight. Bore a hob
and pre-
into
T _ j hat they
bottles , fh h
ire a hOR
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Coin Inscriptions.
If any of jo'i girls or boys are col-
lecting old coins, the following way of
reading worn inscriptions may be of
a poker in the fire, and
hot place the coin upon it,
script:
m in '
earing
. t^xxxx origin<
beginning of
Out of Joint.
These pro-verbs appear to be famil-
iar. but they don’t read as they
should. Whet
them ?
The mice will play ’fwixt the
and the lip.
A bird in the hand catches the first
worm.
When the cat’s away, look not upon
the wine.
Early to bed an.d early to rise mak-
eth the heart sick.
He who fights and runs away is
rather to be chosen than great riches.
Hope deferred makes a man
heal hy, wealthy and wise.
Tfere’s many a slip when it is red. •
Tl e early bird may live to fight an-
other day.
A good name is worth two in the
bush.
In a prohibtion eleciion held in mod
for Commissioner's Precinct Nc. 3,
Robertson county, Thursday, the i or'
won hy approximately 2 io 1. > nA
practically leaves the eastern pa.r;
the country dry and the western p
wet.
I he hostess begins by saying: “I
know a celebrated poet, the first part
of whose name is very black, and the
last is an elevation.”
The player, responding “Coleridge,”
in turn describes the name of some
other noted person. For instance,
“Shakespeare,” saying: “I know a
noted author and poet, the first part
of whose name people do when cold;
the last part is a weapon of warfare.”
Only give the profession, nothing
else. The following names readily
lend themselves to this simple but in-
structive little game:
. Words-worth.
Shell-ey (Shell-lea).
Church-hill.
Web-ster.
Wal-pole.
Washing-ton.
Long-fellow.
Black-stone.
Isaac Walton (Eye-sack-wall-ton).
itbnut it,
however, for you can easi’ _a smajj
’al; strong,
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ind and
are just as large and cejiable as
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Pa an‘ M 1
Pa an’ Ma. A th’ stair
When ma comes runnin’ d<
ctcir'c v’icrl-tF i»-? 4- V-»
An’ sort o’ makes a pictur ’
An’ taps upon th’ floor
Till pa looks up, an’ then I;
An’ .
An’ _________ _______
My pa sometimes he gets sc r
It’s awful how he blows
About th’ money ma has had
To keep herself in clothes.
An’ ma she tells him how s’
To please him all the while ide—
An’ pa he snorts an’ looks a
An’ then I see him smile. i
An’ pa he growls an’ looks so'
An’ then begins to knock. ■, „
When ma upstairs calls downfrock.
“Please come an’ hook my ?
But ma she sof’ly smoothes h i
In such a lovin’ style, tl
Jus’ where th’ gray is cornin’.
An’ then I see him smile. 1
My pa has got a temper bad--'
He’s always full of fight;
He scolds at ma an’ gets so
But ma ain’t scared a mite.,
An’ yesterday I said to pa—I
’Twas after tea awhile— I
“I guess you think a lot of (
An’ then I see him smile.«
—Cleveland Plaj
distilled
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ever be
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