The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Earning a Plaid Cloak.
At colleges and boarding schools all
over the country, girls are trying to re-
plenish their slender purses by sham-
pooing, darning, boot-blacking, tutor-
ing, and other services. In one co-
educational college a conspicuous sign
announces, "Dogs valeted." The
strange entrances by which girls force
a way into the wage-earning world are
not novelties, any more than their
warm hearts and large ambitions are.
A charming and characteristic story is
told by Mrs. Sarah Stuart Robbins in
her recent bOok, "Old Andover Days."
The tale dates back to the first quar-
ter of the nineteenth century. Its hero
was a certain flute-playing German
"theologue," afterward a famous mis-
sionary. He was poor but fascinating,
and four little girls loved him dearly.
TheF wanted to bu^ him a cloak, for
he had no protection against the keen
Andover winter. They racked their
brains for ways and means. They sold
lamplighters. They made a patchwork
quilt which brought them three dol-
lars. One day a pious and peculiar
Andover matron offered them 25 cents
apiece If they could come every holi-
day afternoon for many weeks and
read aloud to her "Mason on Self-
Knowledge." Moreover, if they would
agree to let her "make remarks" to
them on the book, she would increase
their pay to 50 cents. So the four lit-
tle maidens spent their long, precious
afternoons with Mrs. Porter and "Sglf;
Knowledge," and earned ^j^h^Ir sac-
rifice money for a long red plaid cloak,
with a voluminous cape, fastened with
a large gilt clasp; and this "gay plu-
mage' decked out a theological student
In Puritan Andover. The girlish de-
vices for earning wages a hundred
years ago at least had the advantage,
declares the Youth's Companion, of
leaving their inventors no poorer in
self-respect. One wonders if as much
can be said for some of the modern
schemes. Dollars may come too high,
when they are sought greedily or sen-
sationally.
The awakening of China must now
be accepted as an assured and indeed
a partially accomplished fact. It dif-
fers widely in many respects from the
awakening of Japan, partly because of
the difference in the manner and cir-
of Its achievement and
of the radical difference
the genius of the people. But it is
no less real and is likely to prove no
less significant to the world. We may
date it from the time of the war be-
tween Russia and Japan, and may
credit it largely to that war as one of
Its unintended and perhaps unexpect-
ed results. There had been sporadic
symptoms of unrest and uprising in
China before that, but since then the
movement has proceeded at a rate
really startling to those who have ima-
gined the Orient to be necessarily and
Invariably conservative and slow.
I slimy something poked
out of the water into
your face, quickly fol-
lowed by another slimy
something and then
another and another;
each endeavoring to
secure an option on a
different portion of
your anatomy, and you
have one of the vari-
ous joys of fishing for
the devil fish.
But along the Amer-
ican coast of the Gulf
of Mexico there are lots and lots of
men who eke out their livings doing
Just this thing. For the man who
doesn't have to fish for the devil-fish,
it's fun, but to the man or crews of
men who do it for their daily bread;
well, they content themselves with a
single catch a day.
Aristotle of old is recorded in his-
tory as the first writer on the( sub-
ject of devil-fishing, but as he was
exceedingly fond of Mr. Aristotle's
health he left lots unsaid because he
didn't investigate.
Every Gulf of Mexico sailor who
Bshes for this creature oarries a
hatchet close by, for that is the only
means of getting away from the fish's
tentacles—simply cutting them off as
they are about to grasp the intended
victim.
In the" gulf the devil-fish is har-
pooned and seldom after one of these
great prongs has been imbedded in
the body of tne victim are the fisher-
men able to land their quarry within
two hours. Usually it takes from
three to four hours of good, hard mus-
cle-grinding work and then lots of
times the crew of the hunting craft
must cut the cable and lose the har-
poon simply because the brute fights
too hard to allow the occupation to
be carried on safely. It is little
wonder that one fish a day of this
variety is considered sufficient.
Many wild, weird tales are told of
the devil-fish. One dlass of stories
deals with the creature's addiction to
towing ocean-going steamers out of
their courses." So strong'is the deep-
Bea monster that captains of vessels
have been known to wonder what
was carrying them to windward, and
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Chicago contains at least twelve
women who believe that they have
model husbands, and they do not use
the term model as meaning a small
Imitation of the real thing. They had
an exhibition the other day at which
the husbands proved their right to the
title. The final and supreme test was
given when the men were called upon
to fasten a 24-button embroidered
•hirt-walst; the waist was decorously
put on a wooden dummy, so that the
* men might in no way be embarrassed.
Two of the husbands fastened the
waist in two minutes and seven sec-
onds without pulling off a single but-
ton or tearing any of the embroidery.
They will have to enter Into a subse-
quent contest to discover who is the
modelest model husband of the lot
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to address the Royal Geo-
graphical society in London on his re-
turn from his African hunting trip. He
is one of the nine honorary members
of the society, and the only one of
them who is not royal. Probably when
he makes his address there will be
more popular curiosity and interest
In the ex-president and American citi-
zen than in all his other honorary and
royal co-members put together.
Mme. Calve, the great singer, ad-
vises youag women not to be ambi-
tious for stage fame, but to marry and
be happy. But the wise advice of those
who have tried all ways and know life
and the futility of its ambitions to sat-
isfy generally falls fiat on youthful
ears. Each one claims the right to
find out what is unhappiness in his or
her own way.
The present strained relations be-
tween England and Germany show
how weak are family ties when na-
tional passions are inflamed. And if
the. quarrel is finally precipitated, it
will be worse on account of those
ties, for everybody knows that the
worst and most Irreconcilable of all
conflicts are family quarrels.
A New York woman sued for a di-
vorce because she found a milliner's
bill against her husband for two hats
not the ladj.
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upon investigation find that a devil-fish or cuttle-
fish was trying to bite off a corner of the rudder.
Numerous cases of the fish attempting and suc-
ceeding in towing ten-ton sloops for miles have
been recorded in the annals of the industry. The
devil-fishers always are compelled to put up a hot
fight against this animal of the sea. The intend-
ed quarry will pull them far out of their course
after the first harpoon has stung his hide and
it takes two and sometimes three of them be-
fore the catch can be brought close enough to
the sloop to allow the gunner to place a shot in a
vital spot.
The fish must be continually worried or it
will descend to the bottom to rest, in which case
it usually takes the boat crew and apparatus
with it.
A story is told of a boat crew which had not
had a devil-fish strike for two days until finally
the harpoon expert on the bowsprit imbedded
his instrument of torture within the vitals of one
of the monsters. The creature, of course, went
through the formality of turning the water there-
abouts into a delicate black, this being one of the
traits of the species when attacked. This done
the devil-fish started for home, which was the bot-
tom of the gulf. The harpoon expert hated to
let go, on account of strikes being few and the
boat crew and harpoonist also began the descent
in inky darkness. The craft being provided with
air tanks at each end, the harpooned had some
job on his hands, and when down in the sea
about 20 feet, as near as the mariners could
figure, the eight-armed namesake of the American
trust gingerly climbed into the boat with the
men who were seeking his life-blood. It being
dark the fishermen did not perceive his presence.
Once more at the surface, however, and there
was a miniature fire panic. Regaining his pres-
ence of mind, however, the harpoonist put an out
drop on his second throw and put'an end to the
pranks of the fish. That tale has been called
"Just a fish story," but there are three deep sea
fishermen to-day who vouch for the truth of a
portion of it and they still ply that trade on the
coast of the gulf. But now when the devil-fish
starts for home, they let him go.
The manta, as the creature is called by sci-
ence, is to be found as far north on the Atlantic
coast as the Carolinas and in those waters some
of the largest of this class of sea creatures have
been seen. One caught on the Atlantic coast
several years ago required three yoke of oxen to
drag it from the sea and Its weight was estimated
at four tons.
Usually the devil-fish measures from 20 to 25
feet across its back when full grown and one
mariner on the Pacific coast reported that he had
estimated one to be 40 feet, which eye measure-
ment of course, is within t£e realm of possibility.
The creature has two well defined plans of de-
fense, and thus the Al-
. mighty has endowed the
speeies with more than
the ordinary powers, for
usually fish, beast or
bird of the air has only
one natural mode of pro-
tection. The cuttlefish,
however, can cast from
its tissues an inky sub-
stance known as "se-
pia," which turns the
water in its vicinity an
impenetrable black and
allows escape. Combined
with this there Is the set of eight tentacles,
which possess grips of iron and are lined under-
neath with "suckers," which, when in working
order, form a vacuum over the object grasped
and thus insure a firm hold.
So firm is this grasp that story tellers of sever-
al decades ago were fond of dropping the treas-
ure-hunting hero into the hold of the sunken
galleon and there bump him up against the "ter-
rible devil-fish which had thwarted all human
wiles and for umpty hundred years been the
guardian of the don's loot." The hero always
won and captured the coin, being dragged to the
surface unconscious.
There have been one or two cases where the
cuttlefish has made its home within the cabins
of sunken ships. In one case in particular off
the northern coast of South America it is told
that a devil-fish killed three divers who descend-
ed to lay plans for raising the ship. As each
man was brought to the surface dead from a
cause which none of his mates could guess, an-
other was sent to take his place. Finally the
trouble was suspected and the last man sent
down gave explicit Instructions about being
brought to the surface upon the faintest tug at
the guide line. After numerous trips up and
back he succeeded in dislodging the creature-
by cutting off its arms one by one. Deprived of
its arms, it fled and no further trouble was ex-
perienced. /
Perhaps the most uncanny sight which ever
befalls the devil-fish hunters is when, on a clear
day, the denizens of the deep may be seen on the
bottom walking along (frith the aid of their
tentacles, which are used as feet On land, it is
recorded, this is a physical impossibility, for the
fish, but buoyed up by the water of many fath-
oms, it's easy.
Though absolutely the most dangerous of crea-
tures of the sea, it is said the devil-fish displays
greater fear of human attack than any of the
other species. The first move when assailed, is
to try to grab the hunters with two or more of
the long artas that streteh out as occasion de-
mands. Failing in this the fish will attempt to
get away under cover of the inky "sepia," but
when caught with the harpoon and it finds there
is no apparent escape the real tug of war com-
mences and the struggles are never ended until
the quarry ceases quivering in death. Then the
cables which hold the harpoons are lashed to the
stern of the craft and the sailors turn the ves-
sel's nose towards home, the most welcome part
of the voyage.
Study the habits and origin of the cuttlefish
is one of the most interesting which any scien-
tist ever attempted. The fish are propagated
by means of eggs. The tiny creature at first has
only one tentacle, which, when it grows older,
gradually divides into two and then into four
and after a yea/ or so into eight
small arms. These grow larger and
stronger as the age of the fish in-
creases. Some adult specimens have*
been caught, the tentacles of which
were over 20 feet in length. Jets of
water squirted by means of fins con-
stitute the method of locomotion, of
the cuttlefish.
The devil-fish's choicest occupation
is that of feeding upon shoals of
smaller members of the finny tribe
and when interrupted in this pursuit
he effect is terrifying. The great
creature will toss several of its ten-
tacles to the surface, still continuing
to feed with the rest of them; and if
this bluff fails to scare the intruder
away, the devil-fish will come to the
surface personally to see about it.
While next^ to human beings,
sharks are the greatest enemies of
the cuttlefish, the scavengers of the
sea are just about as frightened by
the tentacled monsters as the latter
are by the sharks. Mariners have
often told of the battles which they have seen in
clear water between these warriors of the briny
deep, but accounts telling of the victors are scarce.
Along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico the sharks
show their delight at the plight of the devil-fish
when caught by following in its bloody wake and
with wide-open jaws, seeking a bite here or there
from the carcass. At night along the coast they
fight In the water for the opportunity to consume
the dead devil-fish after the fishermen have fin-
ished with him.
All in all devil-fishing is the most thrilling, most
hazardous, most entrancing method of anglihg
which has ever been discovered, for the creature is
doubtless the craftiest of the inhabitants of the
tropical waters. And the man who goes after the
sfcalp of the deVil-fish while he is not armed with
modern accoutrements is taking his own life in
his hand. The plain hardware store hatchet with
the short handle iB declared to be the best weapon
of defense /in close quarters and dozens of lives
have been saved simply because the parties at-
tacked were equipped with hatchets and knew
how, when and where to use them upon the an-
atomy of the dangerous fish.
UNCLE SAM SEEKS STAMP VENDER.
Will the time ever come when Uncle Sam can
dispense with letter carriers? The increasing use
of the automobile, the pneumatic tube and me-
chanical devices in the postal service would indi-
cate that eventually some method of delivering
mail will be found which will, in a large measure,
do away with the present system of distribution.:
The postoffice department has an annual appro-
priation which is used to experiment with mechan-
ical devices, and every year the officials are called
upon to investigate the practicability and utility
of inventions. There have been hundreds of differ-
ent styles of mail boxes submitted, and there is
no end of devices designed for picking up mall,
bags by fast-moving express trains. There is no
doubt, so experts say, thajt the stamp-fixing ma-
chine will come into general use, and they are
equally certain that the government will adopt
slot machines for the automatic sale of postage
stamps, as Germany and numerous other foreign
, countries have. The department has made an offl-
'cial trial of such machines.
A little more than a year ago the postmaster
general appointed a special Committee of officials
to make a thorough investigation of the stamp-
vending machines. Washington is now having its
extended public demonstration of these machines,
and other cities also will have a chance to try
them for a long period under the direct supervi-
sion of the postoffice authorities.
When the postmaster general decided to make
experiments with stamp-selling machines, he in-
vited all persons with inventive tendencies to Bub-
mit models. He did not confine the invitation to
America. The result was that some 75 machines
were offered for experiment, and the postoffice
committee had a long and tedious task in selecting
those that appeared to be practical.
After much investigation the committee selected
a half-dozen machines for further test. To the
owners or inventors of these six makes was given
the opportunity to make public tests of the ven-
ders under the direction of the department, but at
their own expense. Finally three different models
were picked out for an extended public test at
government expense.
Two of these macnines are foreign Inventions—
one a German machine and the other the invention
of an Australian.
Some Pertinent Observations Made by
Writer Evidently Not Fond of
Subject.
fllstory is a running account of bow
King Somebody-or-other either did or
did not get to a certain place, which
nobody ever heard of, before King
Somebody-else got there, from which
we are usually supposed to conclude
that it would have made quite a differ*
ence whether he did not not
Like nearly everything else, history
has two sides. The history of the
Garden of Eden depends upon wheth-
er it is related by a man or a 'wom-
an. The history of the American rev-
olution reads quite different in Eng-
lish books from the way it reads in
our own books. The history of the
civil war depends upon *vhich side of
the Mason and Dixon line you happen
to be sitting when you write it
History is a bore, not only because
you are unacquainted with the people
who figure in it, but because it repeat*
Itself.—Life.
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PROOF POSITIVE.
"Do you really love me, George?"
'Didn't you give me this tie, dear?"
'Yes, love. Why?"
"Well, ain't I wearing it?"
By Elimination.
"All the latest popular novels," sang
cut the train boy. Then, holding out a
copy of the "The Guest of Quesnay"
to a prosperous-looking passenger, he
urged: "Buy Booth Tarkington's latest
work, sir?"
The man looked annoyed.
x "No! I am Booth Tarkington him-
self."
"Then buy a copy of 'Three
Weeks,'" persisted the boy. "Yoa
ain't Elinor Glyn, too, are you?"—
Everybody's Magazine.
Never Fails
There is one remedy, and only one 1
have ever found, to cure without fail
such troubles in my family as Eczema,
Ringworm, and all others of itching
character, That remedy is Hunt's Cure.
We always use it and it never fails.
W. M. CHRISTIAN,
60c per box Rutherford, Tenn.
The Natural Proceeding.
Editor—I say, this story's too long:
about that fellow's hanging himself.
Reporter—What shall I do about it?
Editor—Cut him down.
For Colds and Grif.
The best remedy for Grir
Hicks' Capudine. Relieves th
fevertehness. Cures the cold—He
also. It's Liquid—Effects im media
25 and 00c at Drug Stores.
A woman nearly always shows
best in an argument when she doesn'
know anything about the subject oa
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Men, Bova Women, MUaea and Chttdrea.
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