The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 9, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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THE HOME AND STATE
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When you hear of good in people—tell
it.
When you hear a tale of evil—quell it,
Let the goodness have the light,
Put the evil out of sight.
Make the world we live in bright—
Live to make the big world right.—Ex.
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GOLDEN RULE MILLINERY CO.
500 Houston Street
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
(This is one of the largest millinery houses in
Texas, and thoroughly reliable.)
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ror the best Accident, Accident and Health, Indus-
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ground..foor. SOUTHWESTERN CASUALTY IN-
SU RANCE CO., San Antonio, Texas. Homer Eads,
President.
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hand-knotted, three and four-tie, excellent stock and
beautiful lustre. The most beautiful dress hat trim-
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rave over it. Sent anywhere on receipt of $10,00.
Other Wonder Values: 26 to 27 inches long, 26 to
27 inches wide, $12.50; 28 to 30 inches long, 28 to
30 inches wide, $15.00. Money refunded if not sat-
isfactory, or sent C. O. D. with privilege of exam-
ination. Mention color.
CHARACTERISTICS OF BIBLE
CHARACTERS.
We take from an exchange the fol
lowing characteristics of Bible wor
thies:
The Faith of Abraham,
The Meekness of Moses.
The Gentleness of Isaac.
The Shrewdness of Jacob.
The Consecration of Enoch.
The Faithfulness of Noah.
The Obedience of Samuel.
The Boldness of Elijah.
The Courage of Joshua.
The Visions of Ezekiel.
The Constancy of Elisha.
The Personal Work of Andrew.
The Loving Heart of John.
The Helping Hand of Barnabas.
The Missionary Zeal of Paul.
ORANGE & FRUIT TREES
Full line fruit and shade trees, grapes
roses and ornamentals for the South.
Write for free catalogue No. 12.
ALCOA
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EL H. BUSHWAY. Manager. Alroa, Fex
William Lomas, F. I.L.
Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society of England.
Landscape Architect.
Parks, Cemeteries, Public and Private Grounds laid
out and beautified. Plans prepared and advice given
so
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Furs, clocks, cutlery, house-
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Big Stove Book—FREE
East India Blood Purifier
and Liniment. For sale by
Wholesale and Retail Drug-
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I had never in all my life so great
an inlet into the world of God as now.
The Scriptures that I saw nothing in
before are made in this place and
state to shine upon me. Jesus Christ
UJee pun [B1 xou lAu SeM
than now; here I have seen and felt
BABIES’ RIGHTS.
Has a mother the right—
To be ignorant, uninformed?
To give her baby unclean milk?
To let the baby have an unclean
body?
To feed her baby improper food?
To keep her baby in unclean air?
Has a milkman the right—
To have unclean or tuberculous
cows?
To have unclean stables? Unclean
pails?
To permit the milk to become
warm?
To sell the milk in unclean stores?
In unclean cans?
Has a community the right—
To interfere with the milkman?
To interfere with the tenement
builder?
To interfere with the mother?
To have inefficient boards of health?
To have ineffective milk inspec-
tion?—(From the monthly report of
the Kansas City Hospital and Health
Board.)
REAL ESTATE WANTED.
To seU your property write NORTHWESTERN BUSI-
NESS AGENCY, Minneapolis, Minn.
Records on Selection
Are you oxperiencing difficulty in buying reooras
Irom catalogue? It is hard to judge by titles. We
want., to try « plan by sending records te you on
selection, so you can hear them played before buying,
and return those not wanted. Sand for catalogue of
records you use, and receive our proposition. All
foreign records kept in stock
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HANTE LAMP COMPANY, 125 Aladdin Building, Dallas. Tex
Origin of Familiar and Useful Con-
trivances.
Every time anybody in the United
States pulls the cap off a beer bottle
or a soda water bottle with the intent
to quench a thirst, temperately or
otherwise, he puts the fraction of a
cent into the pockets of one William
H. Painter of Baltimore.
A good many people have pulled
these caps in the last few years, says
William A. Du Puy in the Scientific
American, and Painter is consequently
an ever increasing millionaire. Yet
not a very laborious thing in the using,
but the public is always ready to pay
for things that are made easier. So,
just recently, an inventive genius
made a can with a seam just below
the top and when the owner wants
it open he has but to strike it a blow
where the seam breaks and the top is
off. A single Chicago packer ordered
10,000,000 of these cans as an experi-
ment and others followed suit. The
inventor has a fortune, and the thing
is but just begun.
HOW TO MAKE HENS LAY
eggs the whole year for 3 cents per 50 hens. ■
Write for trial. It will convince you. Inclose I
10 cents. N. L. WEBB, Lamasco, Tex, Box F. I
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• cent on Kalamazoo stoves and you /
pocket their profits and get the best /
—America’s Standard Stove /
SERIOUS THINGS TOMORROW.
Archias, a magistrate of the city of
Thebes, was seated at a feast, sur-
rounded by his friends, when a mes-
senger arrived in great haste with let-
ters containing an account of a plot
formed against his life. “My lord,”
said the messenger, “these letters con-
tain serious news, and I am requested
to ask you to read them at once.”
“Serious things tomorrow,” replied Ar-
chias, laughingly; and then he laid
the letters carelessly aside. That
very evening the conspirators rushed
into the dining-room and put the care-
less magistrate and all his guests to
flight.—Tools for Teachers.
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Mitchell’s Pure bred Farm Seeds
Bred up carefully 15 years and tested
by all State farms, proven to be the
most productive under all the most try-
ing ordeals, doubling- yield and profit.
MITCHELL’S PROLIFIC CORN, bred
up from Cocke’s Prolific, grows twice
as many stalks per acre with twice as
many ears per stalk, characters of the
finest breeding. Pearl white, straight
rows, drooping ears. Graded for plant-
er, $3.50 bu.
MITCHELL’S EARLY PROLIFIC
COTTON, bred up from King’s Im-
proved with remarkable features, per-
fectly formed, broad double limbs and
bolls, very early, very prolific, produc-
ing wonderful yields in spite of the
boll weevil, insects, unfavorable sea-
sons, bad stands and shedding. Sealed
and guaranteed genuine N. Car. grown.
Booklet “Farm for Profit” free.
Price $1 bu. here; Natchez, Miss.,
$1.15.
SUGAR LOAF COTTON FARM
Dept. A. Youngsville, N. C.
Gen. Agents, RUMBLE A WENSEL CO.
Natchez, Miss.
Positively will be paid for any blood disease
or case of Rheumatism that Dr. T. H. Stu-
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contracted or hereditary blood diseases: the
most powerful blood purifier and alterative in
the world. Send $1.00 to insure good faith
to the STUART REMEDY CO., Detroit, Mich.,
Box 403, and receive the $5.00 cure course,
containing two full months’ treatment on
trial Pay if satisfled.
LADIES!
I want to send you this handsome
Manchurian Lynx Set of Furs pre-
paid for $8.85---anal want to send
it today. ::::::
With the distinct under-
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the cap for bottles is a small thing,
an idea crystallized and patented. The
patent is the source of the millions.
Painter, however, carried his patent
in his pocket for six years before he
succeeded in interesting capital in its
manufacture. Then a man of means
advanced the necessary capital in re-
turn for a half interest in the patent
and a company was formed.
At the end of the first year he and
Painter each had a net $27,000 in his
pocket. Now the invention has crowd-
ed all other stoppers for fizzy water
off the market and a big factory in
Baltimore turns out the caps by the
million every day.
Before the time of Painter there was
a man by the name of De Quillfeldt,
who lived in New Jersey and who in-
vented a stopper that took the trade
away from the corks of our youth.
This stopper was of rubber and was
tightened by a wire attachment which
was pulled down as a lever on the out-
side of the .bottle.
A decade ago they were generally
used on milk bottles. De Quillfeldt
is said to have made $15,000,000 out
of his patent. He might have amassed
a competence had it not been for Wil-
liam Painter and another equally clev-
er person who fitted a piece of paste
board into the neck of a milk bottle
and took the business away from him.
An idea that is perhaps simpler than
the pasteboard stopper is the “humps”
on the hoops that furnish so much
employment for married men just be-
fore theater time. Women had been
fastening their dresses up with hooks
and eyes for a generation and it is
probable that some one had made a
lot of money out of the original in-
vention. But hooks had a way of
coming unfastened, much to the cha-
grin of the neat and fussy.
Then came the genius of the hook
and eye. A man who was wide awake
despite his residence in Philadelphia
bent one of these hooks so as to make
a hump in it. He tried hooking it up
and found that it remained hooked.
He patented it and has monopolized
the business through his “see that
hump” advertisement every since.
One day a man stood b hind his wife
while she put up her hair. The hair-
pins of those days were straight pieces
of wire. They did not “stay put” very
effectually. The woman in this case
bent her hairpins before putting them
in. Her husband saw her do it. The
result was the invention of the crinky
hairpin which is to-day used in car-
load lots by the women of the world.
So important an invention as the
telephone was made by turning a
screw one-fourth of one revolution. All
the millions that have resulted from
the invention of the Bell telephone de-
pended upon this slight twist of the
wrist of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.
There had been men before Dr. Bell
who had come near finding a way to
make female gossip and masculine
commercial intercouse easier. The
Reis patents came nearest success.
But in the Reis patents the current
was intermittent. .
It had to leap a gap. Dr. Bell clos-
ed that gap when he turned the screw.
Dr. Bell was not trying to invent a
telephone when he incidentally stum-
bled upon his secret. He was working
on a method of making speech visible,
for his wife was deaf and dumb and
he was seeking an easy method of
conversing with her. Instead he found
the method of talking over a wire to
people at a distance. He did not:
patent the idea, however, and it knock-
ed about his house for months.
Finally he demonstrated it to some
friends and they saw the possibility
of its application. Upon their advice
he patented the invention. His patent
was filed at 10 o’clock in the morning
and at 3 in the afternoon another man
applied for a patent on the same thing
The Consuming Evangelism _
Peter.
The Patience of Job.
The Tact of Mordecia.
The Kingly Spirit of David.
The Wisdom of Solomon.
The Tears of Jeremiah.
The Eloquence of Apollos.
The Loyalty of Daniel.
, and lost a hundred million dollars by
> a nose.
Thaddeus Fairbanks was a New
; England farmer with long whiskers
> and much Yankee ingenuity. In his
; time old-fashioned steelyards were the
i only accurate means of weighing the
produce of the farm. Platform scales
; were unknown, for nobody had ever
worked out a method of arranging the
[ levers that supported the platform in
; such a way that an object could pull
equally no matter upon what part of
the platform it rested.
l Old Thaddeus Fairbanks used to tell
i the story of the evolution of the ar-
rangement of these levers. For a
, long time the problem was on his
mind. He used to lie awake nights and
’ attempt to arrange those levers. It
was in the dead of night that his think-
ing finally bore fruit. The arrange-
ment unfolded itself and the Fair-
banks scale was the result. So did
a farmer practically monopolize the
scale business of the world and so
did he write his name upon platform
scales wherever civilized man buys
and sells by weight.
It was a man by the name of Hyman
L. Lipman, likewise a .'resident of
Philadelphia, who invented the rub-
ber eraser that throughout our genera-
tion has been attached to the lead pen-
cils in common use. It was in 1858
that the invention was made. In those
times people talked in much smaller
figures than nowadays. Lipman was,
however, able to cash his patents for
a cold $100,000 when dollars went
much further than they do to-day.
So did a man by the name of Hea-
ton, resident of Providence, notice
that mother was occasioned a great
deal of trouble because the buttons
constantly came off the children’s
shoes. Heaton devised a litttle metal
staple that holds on the shoe buttons
of to-day and realized a fortune for
his pains. No less clever was a man
of the name of Dennison who pasted
little rings about the hole in a ship-
ping tag and thus made an “eye” that
would not pull out.
Elias Howe conceived the idea of
placing a hole near the point of a
needle and under the encouragement
of this small thought was the sewing
machine developed. Howe was one of
the Columbuses in the development of
a machine to sew seams and deserves
a monument from the women he eman-
cipated from needle work. When he
asked Congress to extend the term of
his patent for a short time (one ex-
tension had already been granted) he
admitted that he had collected $1,186,-
000 in royalties, but considered, him-
self entitled to $150,000,000.
The man who was born too early to
wear, as a boy, red top boots with a
brass tip across the toe was also born
too early to feel the true thing in the
way of pride run rampant. Silverthorn
brass tips, they were called, and they
were most serviceable in preventing
holes in the toe. Silverthorn made
his fortune out of them.
Harry Hardwick invented an ingrain
carpet with the threads of it so inter-
woven as to prevent wrinkling, and
Hardwick is now $4,000,000 better off
for his pains.
A towel manufacturer found that his
machinery was not working right and
that his towels were suffering a vast
tangling of the threads. While ad-
justing the machines he used one of
the damaged towels to dry his hands.
He found it pleasingly absorbent, and
from the idea to which that gave rise
was born the bath towel and a fortune
to the patentee.
Charles Edward McCarthy was a
blind man and lived in South Carolina.
He devised a method of attaching
power to a cotton gin and lived his
life out in luxury and ease while the
mules did the work.
R. R. Catlin of Washington invent-
ed a pattern cat that need but be
stuffed with hay and sewed up to be-
come a toy. Such figures as “Billi-
ken” and such games as “Pigs in Clo-
ver” are always a fortune to the in-
ventor if they become popular. The
rubber return ball made much money
both for the inventor and likewise for
an infringing manufacturer who fought
him in the courts.
The brass paper fastener which is
still generally used for thick docu-
ments was patented in 1867 by a Gov-
ernment clerk by the name of G. W.
McGill. Yet it was not new, for the
Romans used a similar device 2000
years ago and the modern appliance
was but a resurrection.
The patent for a typewriter lay
dormant for half a century in France
before it ever came into use. Then a
man by the name of Sholes made a
machine in this country and called it
Remington.- Another man named
Brown made a different kind of type-
writer and called it the Smith. The
patentees immortalized other men by
their work. They made millions and
also made it much more pleasant for
the editor who has to read copy.
The man who invented tin cans
made it necessary for somebody to in-
vent an opener. This was done and
the money corralled. A can opener is
your friends—let me
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present. Sent to any address in time for
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You should order to-day, stating color de-
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Broadway & 143rd Street,
Dept. R. New York City.
standing that if it does
not equal in appearance
any $20.00 set in your
local stores you may re-
turn it at my expense.
It is a beautiful set
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