The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1913 Page: 3 of 21
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* THE TRAP! ALDRICH IN THE OLD DATS
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f Turkey
topla.
ervloe, a man
wita keen and
In point la sup-
Angell, In hts
ila anecdote of
Inople, aa mln-
Statea:
an were every-
e that the apy
prosperous of
iat spies were
lies of the prtn-
ar the conver-
:th one against
warned, I had
dignified Arab,
id long enough
ell. He intro-
saytng he had
em, and was
from the gov
Hew the Author Appeared When
Had Juat Become Editor of
Atlantia Monthly.
WHO WOULDNT BE TEACHER!
Hero la a Schedule of Her Dally Tasks.
With an Estimate of
Her Pay.
I can see him now, sitting at the
round table at Oscar’s, holding a briar
pipe that was oftener between his Aa*
gers than In his mouth, and swinging
It In graphic curves as he talked to
us. He used it like a painter’s brash
or pencil.
He was dressed in a quiet suit of
tweeds, the sobriety of which was re-
lieved by a flowing crimson scarf gath-
ered at the neck by an antique ring.
He was partial to crimson in those
days, and it became his complexion
and the light curls apostrophized by
Bayard Taylor. We parted late and
in a merry mood, the young fellows
among us glorying In the new friend
who was so witty, so suave, and so at-
tentive to our ambitions and asplra-
i tlons. Moreover, Aldrich had Just
succeeded to the editorship of the At-
___ lantlc Monthly, and hopes arose of
for the con- possible advantages lying for young
authors In that direction.
“I’ll have an elegy ready for him be-
fore breakfast, and try to get ahead of
Edgar.” said Frank Saltus, referring
to Edgar Fawcett, as the lights went
out in Oscar's and we dispersed, and
on the following morning he came to
me. dissembling an air of despondency
"It’s no use. Edgar’s beaten us all.
He shipped a car load to the Atlantic
by the fast freight before daylight—
as per invoice, sonnets, ten bales; tri-
olets, ballads and rondeaux, three
bales; novels and short stories, twen-
ty tons in fifteen crates.”—Bookman.
>f waterworks
i formed me—
rnent was so
lope of secur-
pt by bribing
It refreshed
< representa-
rannlcal gov-
spects to the
■ and honest
o be to draw
lerogatory to
uld report to
irked that a
>y a Jhst sov-
ng spectacle,
•lies It must
it men were
e.
and proceed-
government.
itions of en-
▲ school teacher Is a person who
teaches things to people when they
are young.
The teacher comes to school at 8:30
o'clock, and when she has gotten
enough children for a meas in her
room, she teaches them reading, writ-
ing, geography, grammar, arithmetic,
music, drawing, cooking, board saw-
ing, crocheting, deep breathing, bird
calls, scientific eating, patriotism;
plain and fancy bathing, forestry, civ-
ics and other sciences too numerous
to mention. When school Is out she
stays behind with five or six of her
worst scholars and tries to save the
state a Job of reforming them later
on. After that Bhe hurries home to
i make herself a new dress and Bnatch
a hasty supper before going back to
! attend a lecture by an imported spe-
cialist on the history of tribal law In
Patagonia, which the superintendent
thinks may give her some Information
which may be useful in her school
work some day. A great many lec-
turers roam the country preying on
school teachers and some of them are
very cruel, talking to them so long
that the poor things have to sit up
till morning, when they get home, to
get their dally test papers corrected.
School teachers’ salaries range from
$30 a month up—but not far enough
up to make them dlxzy. On her salary
the teacher must dress nicely, buy her-
MAPS OF THEIR HOME STATES
Exiles Keep Them Hanging In Their
Offices Because They Get Very
Homesick.
NOTED POET WELL GUARDED
Paludan-Mullar Was Kept Pram All
Social Intercourse by His.
Eecsntrle Wife.
The famous poet of Denmark, Palu-
daa-Mullsr, wee closely guarded In his
later years hy an eccentric wife, great-
ly his senior. Of her preposterous odd-
ity, writes Mr. Edmund Oosse in “Two
Visits to Denmark.” Stories were
everywhere current in Copenhagen.
She kept him as much aa she possibly
could from all Intercourse with ths
outer world. During a visit to Copen-
hagen the host of Mr. Oosse decided
to Invite the poet to dine, and his
daughter and guest, were sent on a
mission to invite him.
It we could secure him for a night
convenient to him, writes Mr, Oosse,
all that was brightest and best In Co-
penhagen was to be constrained to
come, too. But fortune was against
us; if we had found him alone it Is
possible that success might have
crowned our efforts. When we ar-
rived, with our dinner Invitation on
our Ups, we were damped by being
tolfl that the poet had gone out for a
walk, but that Mrs. Paludan-Muller
would receive us. The fierce llttls
lady, In fact, closed our retreat by
peeing round the edge of the door
and commanding us to enter. Miss
Aline Fog, overwhelmed by the event,
lost her presence of mind, and blurt-
ed out the Invitation, which it would
have been wiser to suppress.
The answer came at once: “Impos-
sible, my dear lady, impossible! I
i In this way
he bade me
myself, wlth-
ag.—Youth's
anate at ths
e Ara-
countrles of
he sultanate
the ’ south-
country is ;
e area has
ted, as the j
has never
lion, which |
1,000 is dis-
te sea coast
s that can
rlvera, and
more than
only source
of Cancer
while the
mmers are
Arabic la
spoken,
y persons
id Hlndu-
rchant can
-apondenoe
nch. The
. or gover-
h may be
out refer-
o any law,
such pre-
be deemed
w is un-
extremely
.teadlly, a ]
ot to any ;
labor, but
>ly caused
ee, or ne-
lportation
,e prevall-
es curren-
tera, 46;
; masons,
, 20, and
Qoats,
d stunted
rage, are
»s which
der grow
■d In the
•re being
he whole
To that general Information bureau,
the elevator starter, went the man
who wished to see a large map of
Wisconsin.
“Where can I find one?” he said.
“There Is a Wisconsin man In busi-
ness on the eleventh floor," said the
starter. ’‘He’U be likely to have one."
Up to the eleventh floor went the
OMAN i seeker for a map. He found one there,
i "How does It happen,” he said to
the Wisconsin exile, "that all you men
from other states keep a life-size map
of your native state hanging up In
your offices for a year or two after
migrating to New York? Is It be-
cause you are homesick?”
"Partly," said the Wisconsin man,
“and partly for the accommodation of
visitors from back home. I guess vou
are right about every last one of us
exiles clinging to a home map for a
while. I have been into the offices of
recent arrivals from half the states In
the Union, and every place I saw a
state map. I suppose those people got
them for the same reason I did. Back
in Milwaukee I never thought of own-
ing a map of Wisconsin, but now that
1 am a thousand miles away it does
he good to trace familiar railroad
routes and locate well-known towns.
Then, a lot of Wisconsin people here
on a visit drop In, and as they expect
to go back soon It is a material as well
as a sentimental advantage to them
to find a Wisconsin map handy.”
he Is ably t<
clety. it Is
It. I sjv to
self "things The j -oMnot sanction It! Mr. Paludan-
clty Is too poor to get, go to twenty-
bine lectures and concerts a year, buy
helpful books on pedagogy, pay her
Vay to district, county and state in-
titltutes, and enjoy herself during a
three months’ vacation which her sal-
ary takes every year. In addition the
teacher is supposed to hoard away
vast sums of money, so that when she
becomes too nervous and cross to
ttach, at the age of fifty or there-
abouts, she can retire and live happily
ever after on her income.—Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
IS; MOST POPULAR OF BOOKS
Muller is weak; he is good-natured;
too ready to go into so-
my privilege to prevent
to him, ‘You are too dell-
catcj’ my dear, to mix with ethers.
You must positively consider your
health.’ ”
Miss Fog feebly asked whether the
poet might not himself be appealed to,
"Such old friends! so small a' party!
so early an hour!” The lady was quite
obdurate, however. "I could not trust
him with your message. He la so
weak, so good-natured. Hli place Is at
home with me. 1 do not wish to dine
abroad, Why should he?” *
Financiering.
A email boy was given a penny to
upend. Now, although his stomach
craved a lollypop, he also wished a
banana be had seen on a fruit etand
at the corner. He preferred, of the
two, the fruit.
"How much is them bananas?” he
ashed,
“Six for five centa, or a penny
apiece.”
"Six for five? Well," the youngster
said wistfully, "gimme six."
The fruiterer counted out halt a
dozen and banded them over.
"A penny dpiece?” questioned the
boy, taking them.
The man nodded. So the boy count-
ed out five bananas and gave them
back. "There’s your live cents’ worth,"
he said. “I don't want ’em."
Before the merchant quite saw the
value of the lad's act, tbe boy was
on his way to tbe candy store, a
banana In one hand and hit cant In
the other.—Judge.
Bible Holds This Proud Position
Partly on Account of Its Pure
Literature.
The Bible is the most popular book
in the world on account of its pure
literature. Say what we will concern-
ing the advancement of modern meth-
ods of style and beauties of expres-
sion, I doubt If anyone will approach
sonie of the passages which can be
fotiad In the Psalms. In the Prophets,
or in the Book of Revelation.
Considering the fact that these wrlt-
ings have come to us through transla-
tions, It Is astonishing what beauties
and power have been preserved. There
is no book quoted oftener that the
BtbU Passages have been woven en-
tire into our own literature. No writ-
er of any prominence haa ever been
able to escape borrowing from the
Bible. The reading of It has affected
the style of writers like Ruskin and
Browning and Milton. Gladstone re-
peatedly acknowledged hts Indebted-
ness to the Bible for h!s phraseology.
Charles Fox said more than once that
he owed to the perusal of tha Bible
his Vocabulary. The variety o£ ex-
pression to be found on the part of
the different writers Is strangely com
mingled with unity of expression due
In laige part to the fact that all of
these men are writing with at laaat
one great purpose in view. For we
have in the Bible a style which Is
more or less uniform from beginning
to end—even the style of expression.
—Tho Christian Herald.
PUTS OUT PETROLEUM FIRES
lutlet
i Keresu,
3 was ex-
it was
r to fee
tbe vari-
ied were,
to him.
at- the
Rio de
reakfast
he had j
Baron," |
sly, “It's |
3rve tha |
or “la j
ng from j
ten min- j
dining- '
ave Just i
ter here \
i to get j
serving •
tea, you !
upon M i
' called
mg me
a.
id poor
Her Idea of Art.
An old gentleman who owned a fine
estate not far Irom the country seat
of the duke of Devonshire, (which Is
open to the public when the' duke is
tbere> one day drove with a party of
friends to this famous residence, tak-
ing with him his housekeeper, Martha,
a good old soul, who had been with
him a great many years.
Arriving at Chstsworth they passed
slowly through room after room ot
almost priceless pictures. But Martha
spoke never a word, although It was
evident that she was not missing any-
thing. Each and every picture that
her eye lit on underwent a most rigid
scrutiny, much to the amusement of
the rest of the party.
At last her master turned to her
end said; “Well, Martha, what do you
think of It alir
“Why,” exploded Martha, rapturous,
ly, “I cannot sea a speck o' dust any-
where.”
"Memento Garden."
A very popular woman has what she
calls a "memento garden." All the
flowen therein come from bulbs saved
from Plants sent her during her fre-
quent Illnesses. At first she used to
give thhse pots of tulips or hyacinths
away before the bloom was over eith-
er to tbe furnace man or to aome
other employe coming In dally, but one
day a ft lend who had a country place
asked fur tbe bulbs of a particularly
beautiful box of coral pink tulips, the
flowers having a spicy and unusual de-
gree of herfume. This made her con-
sider hei- own flower beds, and there-
after tha various lots of bulbs were
dried and "bagged." Each bag was
labeled tnd the place where the con-
tents wejw eventually planted was
marked ,to correspond. Thus each
spring brings a reminder of kind
friends, *nd ths sir Is rragrant with
their gifts. With proper care and
favorable weather conditions the bulbs
will blooin for a lifetime, and thus
they constitute a lasting memorial of
their donors.
Caustic Seda Solution Mixed With
Alum Is Found to Bo Moot
Efficacious,
There are no fires more disastrous
than those in which petroleum min-
eral essences, benzoin, etc., play a
part, on account of the difficulty ot
getting them under control. No real-
ly efficacious method haa ever been
put Into use to extinguish fires of
hydro-carbontc origin. Water la ut-
terly useless. Danger may be at
times reduced to a minimum by pre-
venting contact of air with the flame,
choking it between blankets, mats,
damp cloth, earth, or sand, but tbia
is by no means always milflclent. For
this reason scientists are Interested
in some experiments made recently in
German laboratories bearing on tho
possibility of controlling fires of vary-
ing chemical origin. It Is said that
If a stated quantity of caustic soda
solution ha mixed with an equal quan-
tity of alum it forms a dough—or mor-
tar—fifteen times as great as tha or-
iginal single quantities. This dough
is very light and foamy. It this sub-
stance be flung over tho petrotoum,
etc., and tho entrance of air Impeded,
the fire will at ones bo put out
An experiment was lately tried In
Germany to establish these tacts be-
yond question. An Improvised Are
extending over four cubic millimeters
was extinguished in lest then two
minutes by an elghty-per cent, solu-
tion of the above mentioned sub-
stanoo.
f
Kept Its Ministers Long.
"Ths town of Lancaster, Mass., In
which I live,” said Mr. Harold Parker,
“is a place of little sine—not over
2,000 population—end yet It haa
enough of Individuality and quality,
not to apeak of history, behind It to
make Its Inhabitants very proud of
living there. In the flrst place It Is
ancient, a charter having been grant-
ed It In 1653, and the same year wit-
nessed the establishment of the flrst
parish church, which.I can assure you
is no commonplace house of worship.
“The present structure Isn’t so very
old and yet it dates from 1310 aad-
looks good to last another century.
The remarkable feature, however, la
that la its history of over 350 years
this churab has had but sight minis-
ters, Including the incumbent sev-
eral of them wore pastors for flfty
years or more and tho average la over
thirty yean, which I imagine Is a rec-
ord no other religious congregation
can duplicate."—Baltimore Amerloaa.
A Possible Derivation,
“Words sr* terribly funny things
aren’t they?" said Mrs. Jones. “Take
ths word gargle—hoe on earth do
yon suppose they ever got that?”
“Very simple, my dear," said Mr.
Jons*. “Just look at yourself in ths
glass some time when you gargle aad
then look at a gargoyle, and you'll
soe.”—Harper’s Weekly.
Known by Tholr Actions.
Borne people are like e fly on tho
body of an ox, in that they pass over
all the sound, healthy parts, looking
for a sor* spot at which to stop'aad
reed. Or uke a hornet that rejacta
all the sound fruit and Mixes upon
ths on* rotung specimen. As ths hor-
net reveals hi* nature hy getting
poison out of tho sum* flower whore
the boo got* honey, so do thee* con-
stitutional growlers prove themsslvso
bad reporters hy their bed report.
Just Hie Job.
Joakiey—Now, there’s a fallow wh»
doesn’t do anything but pick up plant
all the time.”
Coakley—Well, well! that’s a queer
superstition.
Joakiey—Oh, no; it’a not a supersti-
tion, but aa occupation. Ha’s em-
ployed la a bowling allay.—Catholic
Standard aad Timas.
Out ad ths Mouths of Sabo*.
Western t Mid (returning rrom Eu-
rope. surfeited with monuments aad
many tembaf)—Mamma, what’s thatf
Mother—Tj*# statue of Liberty.
era < d—is that
arty to bertogt—Peek.
■very City* Pride.
“Mo matter what city you striker
ismart* Senator Hors, who travels alt
ever ths United States each year.
“Somebody to certain to oonfide to
yea: There are more automobiles
need her*, far the pontottoa. than
anywhere la the country.’ That’s on*
fart short hto m town that mty
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Carlock, E. A. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1913, newspaper, January 9, 1913; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth730448/m1/3/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.