The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 49, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 14, 1909 Page: 3 of 4
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Dr.PRICES
CrS?m Baking Powder
No atom, no lime phosphates
As every housekeeper can understand,
burnt alum and sulphuric add—the in-
gredients of all alum and alum-phosphate
powders—must carry to the food adds
injurious to health.
Read the label Avoid the alum powders
Certainly Not Overlooked,
"In short, sir, we go in far loo Uttl*
for what Matthew Arnold calls sweet-
new and light." “I don't see that—
sugar and oil are the two biggest trusts
we support."—Life.
Passive Virtue Discredited.
1 ran not praise a fugitive and clois-
tered virtue, unexarcised and un-
breithed, that never sallies out and
seetys her adversary.—Mil ion.
Thoughtful Waiter.
Waiter—“Be careful of the soup,
gentlemen. It is so hot that it has
scalded both my thumbs'—Meggen-
dorfer Blatter.
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j Mission of Successful Man.
Nlot to outshine, but to shine upon
hi* neighbors, is the successful man's
mission.—Towne.
REAL ORfOIN OP “MEAL TIME."
Sometimes the Less, the Better.
Vfe have noticed that anybody who
can sing can play the pi|ano a little.—
Atchison Globe.
Make It Effective.
Markham: We have Committed the
goltjen rule to memory!; now let us
commit l* to life.
Before and After,
Before marriage a woman is inter-
este|d in the reflections fa the mirror;
after marriage she is engrossed with
the jrefleet ions in the mfad.
Hastened to Secure Prize.
Sm—“Mother never j leaves the
house. She simply hates visiting." He
<witjh sudden decision)—"Will you be
minS, darling?"—Boston Transcript.
Haa Come Down to U« from the An-
glo-Saxon “Mael.”
With regard to the difficulty of de-
fining a "meal" It may be observed
that originally, a meal meant a re-
paat taken at a fixed time. It la the
Anglo-Saxon "mael," a mark, sign,
measure, fixed time, and so food par-
taken of then, and has no connection
with "meal" of the oatmeal kind, ex-
cept by one of thoee verbal coinciden-
ces In which language abounds. All
the other senses of "mael” but that of
a repast have vanished except in the
word “piecemeal," but Germaa haa
still both "mal.” a time (as in "ein-
mal," once) and "raahl," a meal.
Of “mahl," however, tourists should
beware. There is a story of a fa-
tigued English pedestrian staggering
into a German inn with a demand
for "Abendmahl." What he wanted
was supper (“Abendessen"); what be
got was a clergyman ready to admin-
ister the holy sacrament (which
"Abendmahl" In practice means), un-
der the impression that he. was dying.
"Meal time" has got into the Ger-
man language of greeting It was
the old fashion after supper in the
, home to shake hands all round and
say "Gesegnete Mahlzeit"— a blessing
on the meal-time. And the German
digestion is so vigorous that the stu-
dents at the universities part from
each other, not with good-by or adieu,
or any such supraterrestriai allusion
but—“Mahlzeit!”
SAD STORY OF A WASTED LIFE.
Mar) Is Not Made for Himself Only.
No man is made only for biimself
and! his own private affairs, but to
serve, profit and benefit others.-—Ben-
jamin Caiman.
Pavemental.
Few of us, are interested in those
famous pavements made jof good; inteh
tionk as we don't expecj to go!there,
anyhow.—Chicago News.
! Popular Names in Britain.
In England and Wales; oat of every
100,000 girls and boys, 6.820 are bailed
Mary and 6,590 Wrilliam. |
Immense Mexican Haciendas.
Scjme of the haciendas in the Mexi-
can ptate of Durango con&ia a million
or more acres.
Safety in Eminence.
“Ejven in case of an accident.’^ says
the (Philosopher of Folly, "the man
who’has climbed the highest is bound
to faill on top of the heap."
Man a Lifelong Hermit* Because He
Forgot to Mail Letter.
Here's a life-story in a few lines,
told in Answers:
"Half a century ago a young Eng-
lishman, while traveling, met a beau-
tiful girl and promptly fell in love
with her. A few days later he re-
turned home and his first act was to
write her a love letter. In It he told
her, that If she regarded his proposal
favorably he would expect a reply
by the next mail. To this letter he
received no answer, and so disappoint-
ed was he that, from that time until
his death, which occurred recently, he
shut himself up in his home and lived
like a hermit. Most of bis time was
spent in reading, and the day after his
funeral the heirs began to search the
books of his library, for they thought
it quite possible that the eccentric old
man might have hidden some bank
notes in them. They found none, but
in a tattered old pamphlet they found
another kind of note—the love letter
which was written 50 years ago, and
which the writer had forgotten to
mail.”
CNVELOPES TO SEND ABROAD.
.'•k?
Si
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Mad* Now Lined with Thin Tissue
Paper of Any D*«ir*d Color.
"Nice sorts of envelop#* they hav#
nowadays for foreign correspondents,"
said a girl who writes letter* abroad.
“You know the envelop#*, like the
letter sheets, are made of thin paper
*o that they won't weigh too much
and Increase the postage.
“With an envelope of thin, plain
paper the writing on the letter might
show through. So they came to make
these envelopes of a paper that wan
printed on the inner side with close
lines In a pretty plaid pattern that yon
couldn't see through and that served
very well, but now you can buy. ter
sign letter envelopes that are mad*
opaque with a lining of the thinnest
tissue paper of any desired oolor.
"Such envelopes you will find and
with lining of various colors In stock,
envelopes lined with blue or with red
or purple or tan or violet, but if you
don’t find among these just what yon
want they will show you n book of
tissues with samples of B0 or more col-
ors or shades from which you can se-
lect first Just the color you do fancy
or the color you call your own and
then you have the envelopes made to
order.”
THE GIRL FROM THE COUNTRY.
Habit That Enabled Her Inetantly te
Be Singled Out.
Said a visitor to a teacher in a busi-
ness college:
"That girl from the country seems
to be the brightest student In thn
room.”
At the request of the teacher she
designated more particularly the girl
she bad in mind.
"Oh, yes.” said the teacher, "she
is very bright, but how did you know
she is from the country? She doesn't
look countrified."
"Her habit of washing her hands
so often gave her away," said the vis-
itor. "I have been sitting here about
two hours. In that time she has
washed her hands three rimes. No
city girl would have done that; she
would have sharpened pencils or
turned over the dusty books, and sim-
ply have polished her hands on her
pocket handkerchief and gone on
working. The country girl would find
it impossible to work under such con-
ditions. She must have clean hands.
All country people have a mania for
washing their hands. After each task
down go their hands into a basin of
water. City life cures most country
habits; frequent bathing of the hands
is the last' to go."
run PHYSICIAN® AND NURB1B.
New Watch That Indicates Number *f
Beats of the Rule*.
A new watoh has been invented for
thn nan of physicians and Burses in
counting the puis*. The watch indi-
cate#, without mental calculation, the
number of beat* of the pulse in a min-
ute. It operates on the principle of n
stop-watch. By pressing the push-but-
ton a large second hand ia set In mo-
tion, and the counting of the pulsa-
tions begins. At the twentieth pulsa-
tion the motion of the hand is stopped
hr another pressure of the push-but-
ton. The dial accurately indicates the
exact number of pulsations per min-
ute. ▲ third pressure on the push-but-
ton brings the hand back to the start-
ing point. The uee of this Instrument
does away with the necessity of ob-
serving the progress of the watch
white taking the pulse, and In addi-
tion insures an absolutely correct rec-
ord. The Instrument is also a chrono-
graphic counter, facilitating the ma-
king of observations, which are auto-
matically recorded In minutes, sec-
onds and fifths of a second. A small
dial placed below the 12 records min-
utes from 0 to 30. The large hand
records seconds and fifths of a sec-
ond.—Scientific American.
HERRINGS NO LONGER SMOKED.
His Hard Position.
Oyler—“There goes a man the Weath-
er seldom agrees with." Mver—"So?
Wbol is he?'* Gyer—"He's a govern-
ment! weather forecaster.’’
The Minnesota Girl.
It Is said that every third Minnesota
girl jig a breadwinner. | It is hoped
that | the other two girls are Ijiread-
makers. Minnesota certainly has the
flour!—Cleveland Plain Bealer.
African “Butter Tree.”
Th|e “butter tree” grows in Centra)
Africja. From the kernel of its nut
is obtained nice, rich butter, which
may ibe kept a year or more, r
Rubber.
Rubber is a queer product. It
thrives best in the hottest court tries
in tbs tropics, yet it cannot stand heat.
In 190S we imported $37,000,000 worth.
| Charity and Love.
Without dew and light flowers fade.
Charity and love are the dew and
light of the human heart.—Mm«. de
Gentif. ,
Mixed Population.
The most mixed population in the
world is probably Ahat of British Gui-
ana. There is admixture of French,
Dutch, Spanish, British, coolie and In-
dian blood.
A Sign. /
When people begin to take the
trouble to tell other people that the
value of your work is overestimated
it| is a sign that you are succeeding.
Costly Incense Sticks.
Some of the incense sticks made in
Thibet cost from one to two dollars
apiece T ,
Beauty.
If actresses were always as pretty
as their pictures no girl could get
married without going on the stage.
The Tartar’s Manners.
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Bride of the Young Officer.
Consider, my daughter, ere thou
hast said yes to the cadet of the slim
waist and haughty air. For verily I
say unto you, sad Is the fate of the
bride of the regimental goat. For her
lord is haughty no more, but even
the sergeants speak of him as a shave-
tail. Thou shalt have many nuptial
gifts, yea, many of silver and glass,
so that the packing of them is a weari-
ness to the flesh, and thou shalt have
no cupboards to stow them therein.
And as soon as thy curtains hang fair
at thy windows, then shalt thou be
ranked out, till no spot on the post
•hall deem to be thine -own. And at
ast it may be that rooms in the bach-
elors' building shall be assigned thy
spouse: then shall bursts of music
trouble thy dreams, and in weariness
of spirit thou shalt say: “Why did I
wed me to a shavetail? for only those
of rank have spacious dwellings. Had
I but wed the son of a banker my
wedding gifts had not been fractured
with many movings.”—Army and Na-
vy Life.
As to Cats.
The cat is the most active of all ani-
mals. As an acrobat it has no equal.
I know that every friend of tne col-
umn likes to read about animals;
therefore I venture once in awhile to
say something about cats and dogs.
Every now and then I receive letter#
from people who insist upon “more cat
and dog stories." Last night a fine
specimen of a man called on me.
After some refreshment, and as he
was about to depart, I asked if he
was married. “Sure,” he replied;
“many years.” "Got any children?"
“No, we had two and lost both; ail we
have in the house now is a cat and a
canary bird. They in a measure
keep my wife from being lonesome
when I’m down town at business.”—
New York Press.
Their Fallen idol.
Two little newsboys, ragged and
■oiled, recognized Napoleon Lajoie as
he stood on a downtown corner, talk-
ing to an acquaintance.
“Lookee!” exclaimed the first boy
in a hoarse whisper, “there’s Larry!”
"He’s nothin’ but a hen an’ goose
farmer now," returned the other lad,
without any show of hero worship.
“But he’s the greatest ball player
on earth,” retorted the young admirer
zsz «“sir? ,!?r.
guest to dine with him he will take
the guest by the ear and lead him to
the table.
If We But Knew How.
Whatever happens to anybody, it
may be turned to beautiful results.—
Walt Whitman.
Improved Pumping System.
rnia, where many wells
natural gas and water, it is
that a system has been tried
Safe 4.
the gas is separated
in an engine to pump
mWk
Mebby he is,” admitted the other
one, “mebby he is in the summer time,
but—” disgustedly—“think of a feller
■raisin’ chickens all winter! Poiper,
mister?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Diplomatic Clerk.
“It Is quite a coincidence,” observed
the celebrated pugilist, coldly, “that
•very time(I apply for accommodations
at this hotel the house is full.”
“It is a bit singular,” agreed the
clerk, edging as far away from the
Able to Operate on Lungs.
A German physician, by means of a
glass cabinet with a partial vacuum,
hag solved the problem of operating
on the lungs. He probably has paved
the way to successful surgery in cases
of interna] cancer, and possibly of
consumption where the lung tissue ia
affected. By the use of his cabinet
the patient, it is said, can breathe
easily with the chest cavity open and
without danger of collapse of the
lungs, which has been the danger
hitherto, owing to atmospheric pres-
sure. After the surgeon and his as-
sistants have taken their place Inside
this cabinet the subject is placed up-
on the operating table and his head al-
lowed to project through a tight-fitting
rubber collar In the wall of the cabi-
net. By means of a suction pump the
air inside is then reduced to negative
pressure.
Has Made Quartz Fusible.
It is not so long ago that the text-
books on minerals used to describe
quartz as “infusible.” The electric
furnace has made this an error, and
now some manufacturers of chemical
devices devote special catalogues to
apparatus made of this substance.
There are two grades on the market—
the transparent kind, made from rock
crystal and looking almost precisely
like ordinary glass, and the cheaper
translucent variety, made of common
silica, and sometimes called In the
trade “electroquartz.” Both kinds are
valuable in the chemical laboratory,
because vessels made of either resist
all acids but hydrofluoric, and cannot
be cracked by the change of temper-
ature, however violent. Quartz is use-
ful also for its Insulating properties,
which are nearly perfect.
They Are Now Painted with a Harm-
less Chemical Extract.
"Extract of smoke,” saM the can-
ner. dipping his brush Into a pot of
brown fluid.
“Extract of smoker repeated tb*
dased reporter.
“Smoke extract.” said the caaner.
He took up a fresh herring, painted it
with the dark mixture, and laid it on
a board beside a long, long line of
brother herrings. “Now. fa the past,"
he explained, "you smoked herrings
by hanging them up for days in smoke
houses wherein smoldered Are# of
costly aromatic woods. That process
was slow and expensive; we have
quite improved it out of existence.
W# paint our herring now with this
really quite harmless chemical extract
of smoke—a coal tar product—and as
soon as he is dry he is ready for the
market."
The reporter taeted one of the her-
rings. "But this isn't half as good
as the smoked herring of my boy-
hood." he protested.
“Not as good, perhaps," agreed the
canner, “but ever so much more profit-
able."
Error About Patents.
There is a very general notion that
when the United States government
fdv*s a man a patent for an invention
by this very act the patentee is in
possession of exclusive and inalien-
able rights to his invention for a
term of years Now this is the very
thing that does not necessarily exist
and the very thing that patentees, In-
vestors and the public would like to
have established. Most patents are
exploited by others than inventors,
and the money for the purpose is
largely supplied by those with little
knowledge of the laws. It has hap-
pened time and time again that the
governmental patent has proved
worthless. Iri used to be that it was
llrie more than prims facie evidence to
be used la litigation. Of recent years
there haa been some improvement in
the laws and practice, but at present
there is no governmental guaranty be-
hind the papers issued to any inven-
tor.
A Fellow Sufferer.
In Philadelphia they tell a story of
a man whose wife had arranged an
“authors' evening,” and persuaded her
reluctant husband to remain at home
and help her receive the 5Q guests who
were asked to participate in this in-
tellectual feast.
The first author was dull enough,
but the second was worse. More-
over, the rooms were intolerably warm.
So, on pretense of letting In some cool
air, the unfortunate host escaped to
the hall, where he found a servant
comfortably asleep on the settee.
“Wake up,” sternly commanded the
Philadelphian in the man’s ear. "Wake
up, I say. You must have been lis-
tening at the keyhole.”—Harper’s Mag-
azine.
Sherlock Holmes Again.
Somebody wondered how Jong a cer-
tain woman who had Just left the room
had been married.
"About fifteen years," said the Jew-
eler.
“How do you know?” asked his wife.
"You never saw her until to-night"
“I can tell by the size of her wed-
ding ring,” the jeweler replied. “The
width of wedding rings changes about
every five Years. The kind she wean
was la style IB years ago.”
Linguistic Policemen.
There are at present on duty in the
main thoroughfares of Paris 21 po-
licemen who speak English, nine who
speak German and six who speak
Spanish, and their usefulness has
been clearly demonstrated.
Useful Home Remedy.
“A-Turkish bath is such an excellent
thing,” remarked Miss Tartun, "that
I have often wished these Turks who
sell candies at expositions would take
one o- rionally.”
The Last Straw.
’1 am entirely friendless,” remarked
the man of gloom. “Why, do you know,
to-day I bowed to the inevitable, and
—It cut me!”
and re***ter ** possible, “but we trust that
ih. you will continue to let us hare the
Superstitious as Ever,
Superstitions are aa numerous and
u absurd to-day aa during the middle
ages. But instead of burning our
sorcerers, fortune-hunters, palmists
and crystal-gazers, we pay them. He-
Scots as Pi' te’* Body Guard.
Of Andrew Carnegie the London
Chronicle remarks: "Mr. Carnegie la
not only a millionaire of milllonarids;
he la also a Scot of Scots, who, in
spite of all temptations to belong to
other nations, remains a Scotsman.
Ever since the fifth century, he says,
‘Scotsmen had led the world,' but he
might have gone five centuries further
back still and asseverated that the body-
guard of Pontius Pilate was composed
of Caledonians, the Dugald Dalgettys
of their tlm i. Such at least is the
claim put forward by the Royal Scots,
now the premier regiment of the Brit-
ish line, who are alternatively known
as ‘Pontius Pilate's bodyguard.' ”
Justice Fuller's Idea of Interpreters.
Chief Justice Fuller has but a small
opinion of expert witnesses and en-
tertains scarcely a more favorable opin-
ion of interpreters. He is not at all
averse to expressing his mind on these
subjects, and on one occasion summed
up his idea of an interpreter as fol-
lows:
"An Interpreter is a person who
translates a language he does not un-
derstand into one that he does not
speak.”
THOUGHTS OF MAN IN COMMAND.
Jwet What the Captain of a Battleship
Actually Feels.
How the commander of a modern
big American battleship can feel la
disclosed in the following, taken from
a letter written by such an officer
“There are more than *00 men on this
■hip, and, on the theory that an offi-
cial of the government is a servant
of the people, I am the servant of
these *00 odd men and am bound to
see that they are kept fa food and
clothing end baseball bats—and abun-
dantly supplied with occupation. Per-
haps 1 should feel more Independent
if 1 didn’t have to listen respectfully
to the orderly every time he comes
in and makes one of bis Infinitely nu-
merous reports, and put men In jail
when I don’t want to.
“Some of these 900 man look more
dignified and independent than I feel.
I wonder whether I look dignified and
Independent. 1 suppose 1 ought to do
so, for to swing a steel mass 504 feet
long successfully around like monsters,
and to make 15,000 tons writhe
around the corners of narrow chan
nels, is something of an art, after all,
and one not possessed by many of the
inhabitants of the globe.
"With all that swinging of steel
monsters around there go the respon
siblltty and tbe knowledge that If the
■hip runs aground the whole civilised
world will b« acquainted with It In-
side of 24 hours.”
AGE NOT COUNTED BY YEARS.
Just What It Msana Is a Matter Hard
to Determine.
This is Walt Mason's story: A few
days ago.an aged man was planted fa
a little” Kansas cemetery. That he
was highly thought of was evidenced
by the long cortege that followed the
plumed hearse to the City of Rest.
Friends stood by the open grave and
shed real tears, yet none of them
would have called him back to life
had that been possible. For he had
died of old age and consequent Infirm-
ities; the toil and tribulations of -7*
years had battered him down; and for
a long rime before his death he mere-
ly went through the morion of living.
“He was an old, old man," said the
mourners, as they turned away from
the grave, when the clods had been
heaped upon tbe coffin lid.
"His age wasn't hurting him any,”
responded a white-haired man, who
stood by the newly made grave, lean
ing upon a stick. The speaker was
the dead man's father. He was 98
years old.
What is old age?—Kansas City
Journal.
Suburban Compensations.
“I do find It inconvenient to live out
of town, of course,” declared a sub-
urbanite, “but it has its compensa-
tions. My husband and sons travel
by train, and always have seats with-
out having to secure them at the coat
of letting women stand.
“After I have ridden in the subway.”
she continued. “I come borne perfect-
ly satisfied to put up with anything 1
have to by living out of town rather
than let my husband and sons become
such hogs as the men seem to me to
be who ride fa tbe subway, securing
seats for themselves and looking indif-
ferently at the numbers of women
banging wearily by the straps, being
knocked about and jostled every time
a passenger gets on or off the car.”—
New York Times.
Caruso, But Still—1
At a performance of “Aida," Caruso,
as usual, soared into the highest alti-
tudes of song with such consummate
ease and thrilling power that he
brought down the house-^with the ex-
ception of one critical young woman
In the family circle. *
"Lou," she observed to her compan-
ion, “ain't it funny that Caroozer don't
seem to gripe your noivet the way
L- does on the record ?t}ueer, ain’t it?”
Unusual Freedom.
"Are all married men as carefully
watched aa jokesmlths say they are?”
“Certainly not. I know a married
man who is allowed two nights out
every week, Just so he comes home be-
fore 11 o'clock, and tells his wife ex-
actly where he has been and brings
some sort oMittle gift, just to. show
that he hgrbaeh thinking about her
all thg^tfme.—Birmingham Age-Herald.
One Way
COLONIST
TICKETS
to
California Points and
Pacific Northwest
via
H. & T. C.
Railroad
On Time” Tickets on sale
daily, March 1
to April 30, 1909. See any H. &
T* C. Agent for particulars.
C, K. DUNLAP
Traffic Manager.
T. J. ANDERSON.
Gen. Pas®. Agent
T,
Mme. Jusselin, Commercial Judge.
Don’t forget her name. Mme. Clem-
ence Jusselin is the first woman ever
elected to any public office in Franc*.
She is the lady who was put up aa
representative of her profession as
dressmaker, and she It is who will
now decide in the trade disputes. Her
title is commercial judge. Strange to
say, Mme. Jusselin has been elected
entirely by men. Stop, though; per-
haps it would have been stranger if
she had been chosen by her own sex
She regards her election as "an almost
historic event, for it is something to
be proud of to be the first woman in
France to hold such a position.” But
let madame be wary, go slow A
commercial judge s judgments will cre-
ate a stir fa many quarters, and this
one may not find her role so easy.
The Pity of It.
"I saw a woman coming across
Stuyvesant park," said she, "holding
a string with a little white dog at the
end of It. She said, 'You darling little
precious baby, you!’ to the dog.
“I like dogs all right enough, but
about half a block from the park there
are the raggedest sort of children who
haven't enough tfi eat half the time. It
seems a sort of pity they can't dress
them up in white, tie strings around
their necks and say, 'You darling little
precious baby, you,’ to them."—N. Y.
Press.
Ths Ascent of Art.
"Yes, he has had quite a varied ex-
perience. He began his artistic oareer
by painting a sign for a livery stable.”
"Indeed!”
"Then he climbed steadily. Hava
you Been his latest and best work?”
"No. What is It?"
"It's a calendar for a book beer
brewer.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
AH Depends.
"It’s a lucky man,” declared Daaty
Rhodes, “dat children an’ dorgs likes
to toiler about. Don’t yer agree wit'
me, pard?"
"Not if the children want to chuck
rocks,” answered Wayside Waggs. "an’
4e dorgs wanter bite.”
A Mysterious
Model
tty Cher let Lemon.
(Copyright, by Ford Pub. Ce.)
Many people all over the world
know the statuesque figure of a
knight in shining armor which occu-
pies a corner of the third room in the
metropolitan museum. Hundreds have
approached the circle of railings
which surrounds It, have gazed, ad-
mired, and come away; but only to
three persons fa the world is its
cret known. I make no attempt to ex-
plain the mystery—fa all human prob-
ability it will ever remain unraveled.
Various theories have been broached
by those who came into relation with
It; I leave the reader to form his
own.
Following an evening wllh my
friend the sculptor Foulard, I put In
an appearance at the studio the next
morning not long after nine o'clock.
The night before Foulard had told me
of a remarkable dream, ye had been
commissioned some rime before, it
seemed, to carve the figure of a wom-
an listening. Tbe statue was to go
fa the hall of a great musician. Ba-
tor* attempting anything in marble he
decided to work out his Idea fa some
softer material, and consequently had
a huge block of chalk brought to the
work room. Foulard’s dream of which
he had told me previous to my matu-
tinal visit was that be had seen vivid-
ly fa a dream the features of the stat-
ue he was about to carve. Not only
had be seen tbe features, but the ex-
pression of the face and poise of the
body were all deeply stamped on his
mind.
"Getting on,” cried Foulard, cheer-
ily. as he saw, me.
He must have worked all night. The
result of his labor was marvelous,
and. if one had not known the nature
of the material, absolutely incredible.
A trifle over life-size the statue stood.
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'Raven-
-Go—Go—Go and Look! God I
It's Human Flesh!"
showing a pure white against the
dark background of curtained wall.
The face was outlined, the sweet con-
tours of arms and hands nearly fin-
ished, the sweeping, enchanting
curves of shoulders and breast prac-
tically done. Foulard had been won-
derfully successful in carrying out the
idea, so far; already the cold, lifeless
chalk expressed his thought In a great
degree He was Joyous with the ease
of his work and its gradual culmina-
tion, and my involuntary exclamations
of delight pleased him greatly.
'Once l finish this to my liking, old
boy,” he chatted, “the real labor at
the marble will be comparatively
easy; it will be more a process of
copying, eliminating errors, and ac-
cumulating good points than anything
else. I am Just going to complete this
right arm and hand, then to re-touch
the face—as much as 1 dare.”
I ensconced myself cosily in an
easy-chair with a new magazine. We
exchanged a few desultory remarks,
then Foulard went back to his work
and I kept silence, feeling that he
would be better at ease without my
chatter. He was whistling softly to
himself. The Only other sounds were
the dull blows and scrapes of his chis-
els on the chalk, and the soft crunch-
ing as now and then he stepped on
the surrounding fragments.
Suddenly there came a startled cry.
almost a scream, from my friend; he
dropped his mallet with a crash on
the floor, and stumbled blindly across
the room to a low settee, upon which
he nearly fell. I sprang from my seat
instantly and rushed toward him. He
waa trembling violently; the chisel
still held fa his left hand fell with a
clank; his breath came in quick
gasps
What’s the matter, old man?” I
asked swiftly, fearing he was ill. "Can
I get you anything?"
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suitable for framing. Make
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We take your family wash-
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This includes the ironing
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He struggled to speak for a mo-
ment. then at last, with my# hand on
bis shoulder, stammered oat—
"Raven—go—go—go and look! Ood!
it’s human flesh!” For a moment I
thought he was mad; bat be still
pointed to the statue, mad I went
across to IL
Hie last stroke on the right of the
figure had exposed about three inches
of a pink, delicate. Inexpressibly hu-
man arm!
I stood aghast, afraid to touch,
afraid even to move, the skla of my
head creeping, all thought absolutely
paralyzed, then I went back to the
settee and sat down by the side of
Foulard, feeling more than a trifle
IsfaL. He touched my arm patheti-
cally,
“Am I—am I mad, old chap?" he
whispered.
"No, no,” I answered, pulling my-
self together; “you’re all right; it’s—
it’#—hang tt, let’s have some whisky."
I went to tbe cupboard where Fou-
lard usually kept some refreshments,
carefully avoiding the statue, and
pulling out a bottle and glass poured
out a little whisky. We both drank
some hastily, then looked at one an-
other more calmly.
Presently, without a word. Foulard
went up to the statue, which we had
hardly dared to glance at. I followed
him. watching intently. Very gently
and with the utmost cate he began
scraping and cutting away at the
chalk until the whole of a perfect,
beautifully symmetrical band and arm
was revealed up to the shoulder. His
nerves were steadier, but hi# excite-
ment and exultation were tre-
mendous; aa for me, more than once
I was compelled to look round the
room at the familiar objects—tbe
chairs, the magazines, that morning's
"Telegraph"—to convince myself that
I was not plunged into some nerve-de-
stroying fantasy of sleep.
"The face—the face’” Foulard
eagerly whispered. Little by little the
shqulder was disclosed to our won-
dering gaze, tbe white mask re-
moved, until In an hour tbe face was
uncovered, and we stood back, awe-
struck and silent, as before some pro-
found, unearthly mystery.
My friend clutched my arm.
"The woman of my dream!” be
said.
It waa the form of a woman, with
face infinitely calm and sweet, and
sad. bending slightly forward Her
eves were closed.
Strangely enough, now the face was
visible, we felt no fear, so hushed, so
exquisite was the entrancing beauty
disclosed, and for long w# sat talking
In whispers over tbe marvelous thing
which bad happened.
When I left the studio. Foulard
came with me to my rooms, for the
sake of company; it would never have
done for him to be alone—be looked
ill with the shock and the excitement;
and we agreed to lock the room door
and come again in the morning
Of course, my friend copied his
world famous statue of The Song of
th# Siren," which made so great a
sensation not long ago from the wom-
an of his dream so suddenly given to
him—by what means it is impossible
for us as yet to say.
On the morning when we re-entered
the room (I had hardly left his side),
he began upon the final statue In mar-
ble. and labored Incessantly, almost
day and night; hardly would he allow
himself time to eat, aad on many days
I used to force him away from the
half-completed figure to partake of a
hurried mea] with me. The woman—
what else can 1 call her—he had
stripped of all her white casement of
chalk She had been partially robed
by a fibrous garment thrown across
her bosom and drooping to her feet,
made apparently of some peculiar
cloth that crackled when touched.
And. day after day, week after week,
she stood there while he worked ar-
dently, passionately, at this labor of
love.
At last It was ended, and with many
a hope, many a fear, the reverent fin-
ishing touches were added. It is need-
less to describe the statue as it stands
in the hall of sweet sounds; every-
one knows of it, how that more than
one has said that it has a soul; how
that great musician has made it doub-
ly immortal by a composition directly
inspired by it. Fbulard was famous,
and urgent commissions poured fa
upon him from all sides.
But—the woman? Was she dead, or
was she alive in some marvelous se-
cret way unknown to modern scien-
tists. as the Indian fakirs are sup-
posed to have the power of suspend-
ing animation for months or years to-
gether? How long had she been fa
her cerement of chalk—years? Hun-
dreds. thousands of years? All these
and many more questions we dis-
cussed, and then, not knowing what
•ise to do—for It was impossible to
keep the exquisite form in my friend's
Studio, or, in fact, it seemed anywhere
else—we called in a mutual friend—
the curator of the Cranston Museum
—a man of some skill in medicine and
ancient lore. After his first utter of
surprise and incredulity, he ventured
many hypotheses, both plausible^ and
futile; and then, fa order to preserve
more fully the secret from prviaf
eyes, while attempting a solution, he
made a tentative suggestion which we
carried out. In his building he had
a complete suit of armor of olden
times. Carefully we built this 'round
the Impassive figure, and conveyed it
back to its place fa the museum.
And of all the crowd, lord and lady,
merchant and peasant, lad and lasa.
that come to gate at that magnificent
figure of the old-time knight with his
vizor down hnd his hand at hip, not
one dreams that inside that bright ar-
mor sleeps—a woman. And whether
she be alive or dead, no one known
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Collections Depositions
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N. H. L. DECKER
Attorney
No. 206 Main Street
Denison, Texas.
JOHN HOLDEN
BLACK SMITHING
Horse Shoeing a specialty
General repairing
Shop 204 W. Chestnut St.
W. E. Knaur H. G. Rowe
KNAUR a HOWE
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413 to 417 W. Chestnut St.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
McDougail Building
Denison, Texas
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