The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3380, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY LEADER
VERNON & ABNEY, Publishers
X/AMPASAS. - - - - TEXAS
ATHLETES, OLD AND NEW.
| The athlete who Is gone is like the
(pong that was sung before the days of
jthe phonographs—a memory only.
{Records tell the height of a jump or
jthe time of a hundred-yard dash; but
{there is no way of recording that
jgrimmer prowess of the wrestling mat,
jthe football field, the prize ring. Even
records are of a matter of yesterday,
Bo to speak, says the Chicago Journal.
Our ancestors bf a few generations
jback did not hold stop watches, nor
carry around rulers and notebooks.
IBo it comes, that there is no way of
[settling the ever-recurring question
lot the physical advance or deteriora-
tion of the race. No way of settling
It with certitude. But there is some
(acts which point a probable verdict.
IA.t a pageant some years ago in Eng-
land, it was thought that the spirit
of the middle ages would be better
reproduced if the knights wore real
armor. Those picked to represent the
{knights thereupon descended on the
museums where the old armor is pre-
served, and tried to work themselves
Into these “iron overcoats.” And with
hardly an exception it proved that the
armor worn by the doughty knights
of yore was too small to buckle on
the modest gentlemen of today.
Daniel Webster delivered a speech
In the United States senate which was
once celebrated 3nd which is not yet
forgotten, in which he described Eng-
land as the country whose drum beat
never ceased and on whose territory
the sun never set, says the Manches-
ter Union. Those were strong fig-
ures of speech, used by Way of illus-
tration, but what would the “godlike
Daniel” say now, with wireless speech
aroilnd the world by the same nation
almost realized, and certain to be an
accomplished fact within a year? It
is no dream ofc visionaries, either, bmt
an intensely practical affair. One of
the most important links in the great
Wireless system which within a year
is to bind together the greater part
of the British empire is to be a high-
power station at Pretoria, for which
the South African government has
just promised to provide $400,000: This
Btation, by way of Eggypt to the north
and India to the east, will be in si-
multaneous communication with Eng-
land and Australia, and will thus oc-
cupy a central place, in the long chain
of communications which is to make
imperial defense independent of ca-
bles, What this means is not perhaps
fully understood as yet.
* One of the rich men of the coun-
try, one of our foremost financiers,
who is now an octogenarian, was ask-
ed how it came about that he carried
his SO years as though they were but
half the number. “Because,” replied
the man of big business, “I never tak§
$ny business with me from iny office.
When I was married, almost 60 years
ago, I made a boon companion of my
wife, and when I returned daily from
the office she and I had great sport
in riding, driving and romping to-
gether; when the children came we
all romped and played together. 1
tried to be as young as they were.
When I went on a vacation it was
auch in fact, for I set my house in or-
der before departing and had ho mes-
sages, no wires, no word of any sort
to annoy or vex me. I forgot every-
thing save the joy of living and mak>
ing my wife and little ones happy.”
This man enjoys life. He lives a
Bane and sensible life.
From Berlin it is reported that they
do not swat the flies there. There’s
a reason. The authorities have so
effectually cleaned up the breeding
places for files, that no flies are left
to swat. American cities might well
take notice, and attack the evil at its
source.
A boy in Philadelphia found $250
and promptly restored it to its own-
er, who rewarded him with a dime.
Thus is the honesty of which the
world is professedly in search re-
warded and encouraged when dis-
covered.
We ape surprised to hear of the con-
troversy over the status of the old
maid. We were under the impression
!th$t she had developed into a bachel-
or girl.
A genius in Pittsburg has invented
jan anaesthetic bullet, but the ordinary,
i every day bullet may generally be de-
fended upon to put a man to Bleep-
Judge William N. Gemmill, sitting
in the Chicago court of domestic rela-
tions as the successor to Judge
Charles N. Goodnow, re-assigned, the
other day declared his work a study
of hearts.
Judge Goodnow left the court of
domestic relations because he found
it filled with heartaches.
Judge Gemmill took up the labors
of the court as the most interesting
labor of the law.
“I enjoy the work,” said the .new
Judge of the court of hearts. “I have
Just come from a civil court, largely
dry as dust sort, of work. Here my
work is full of ‘heart interest’ It is
a study of people and motives. The
problems here presented are as intri-
cate and interesting as life itself.
“An unending procession of lives
and loves are passed through the
court for observation and study.
“The work is far from as full of
heartaches and sorrows as the work
of a criminal court. There one has
times death.”
to Impose long, hard sentences, some-
from the man’s eyes. Warmth and
istics.
Snowy-haired, deep-chested, power-
ful, keen-eyed, Keir Hardie, leader of
millions of British working men, has
just finished his third visit to Amer-
ica. The chairman Of the Labor party
in the house of commons is a strik-
ing personality—picturesque and un-
forgettable. He came to attend the
wedding of his son, who is in business
In Brooklyn.
At the age of seven Keir Hardie
was set to work In a mine. His father
had been a miner before him, his
mother a working woman. In the
mines he stayed for seventeen years.
Today, fifty-six years old, he Is the
leading figure in Parliament in the
fight for Improving the condition of
working people.
The muscular hand grasp with
which he welcomes his caller is a re-
minder of the days when he used to
8wing a pick. There is warmth in It
as weir as strength, a warmth that
bears out the steady, kindly gaze
strength are Keir Hardie’s character-
REMARKABLE PERSONALITY OF HARDIE
REAL TRUTH ABOUT SIDE WHISKERS
The truth about, whiskers is out.
Turn - the spotlight on Chauncey
Depew.
Returning to his own, his native
land, after his annual wandering on
foreign strands, America’s ex-cham-
pion after-dinner statesman stood on
the deck of an Atlantic steamer the
other day and admitted that he was
the modern father of all hirsute facial
adoriainent.
Mr. Depew was much incensed by
the report that an invasion of Eng-
lish whiskers threatens the United
States. He fingered Sis own flowing
white ones caressingly as he made
the following points:
That he begah to raise this same
crop fifty years ago.
That forty-nine years and nine
months ago they were just as they
are now, barring a whiteness of color
that is natural at seventy-nine.
That he made many annual trips
to England, taking the whiskers with
him each time, and just as surely bringing them back to America each time.
That Englishmen, at first deriding him, came finally to imitate him,
And that, considering ^11 these things, a thinker can plainly see it is
not an invasion of English whiskers, but of native grown American whisker*
that threatens this country.
DEAN OF FRENCH JOURNALISTS QUITS
Henri Rochefort, veteran polemist
and dean of French journalists, has
laid aside his pen forever.
He is almost eighty-two years old,
has been in journalistic harness for
half a century, and until the present
indisposition has not missed writing
an article every day for more Phan
forty years. Even since his eyes be-
gan to fail him, only once has he
missed dictating his daily article.
And now the doughty old fighter
takes what he believes to be only a
temporary rest; at the imperative or-
der of his physicians. The paper for
which he has written so many pal-
pitating articles announces that no
one replaces him. It Says in effect
what Jefferson replied when the
French foreign minister welcomed
him with the remark: “You replace
Dr. Franklin.” “No,” replied the au-
thor of Jeffersonian simplicity; “no
one can replace Dr. Franklin; I
merely succeed him.” As long as a
shadow of hope remains of his reappearance, no one will succeed Henri
Rochefort. ' „ - § | . ' |g p ' ' v- .
Exactly That.
“Why does he wear such •« swim-
ming suit as that?”
“For divers reasons.”
If your appetite is not what it should be
perhaps Malaria is developing. It affects
the whole system. OXIDINE will clear
away the" germs, rid you of Malaria and
generally improve your condition. Adv.
Put It on Her.
Gibbs—Oh, yes, Jones is an ass and
all that, but you’ll never hear him
say a mean thing about his wife.
Dibbs—I don’t know! He says she
made him what he is.
Hold him a friend who kindly points
a fault—Punshion.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of ^
*In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Wrong Guess.
Nan—I’ve seen your new young mail
and I should call him a diamond ih the
rough.
Fan—Well, he’s susceptible to some
polish, I’ll admit, but you ha ven’t class-
ified him correctly; he’s a Jasper.
Enough to Kill It.
“Oh, papa!” exclaimed the young
girl, “that pretty plant I had setting
on the piano is dead.”
“Well, I don’t wonder,” was all the-
father said.
If well thou hast begun, go on. Ifc
is the end that crowns us, not the
fight-—Herrick.
Nothing is so contagious as enthu-
siasm.—Bulwer.
BE
" “Progressive”"
Joke on His Clerical Brother.
Two brothers named Chalmers, one
a minister and the other a physician,
lived together in a western town. One
day a man called at the house and
asked for Mr. Chalmers. The physi-
cian, who answered the door, replied:
“I am he.”
“You’ve changed considerably since
I last heard you preach,” said the
man, who appeared greatly aston-
ished.
“Oh, it’s my brother you want .to
see; he preaches and I practice.”
Don’t let a lazy
liver put you “in a
® rut.” Make it ac- B
tive,keep the bowels
g open, the appetite g|
keen and the diges-
m tion normal by the _
■ daily use of
Getting Along Fine at School.
Now that school has been “going”
several weeks parents are beginning
to inquire of their young hopefuls as
to their progress. The other day a
mother out on Harrison boulevard,
while eating luncheon with her six-
year-old, asked:
“And how are you getting along in
school, Dorothy?”
“Oh,” replied Dorothy between
mouthfuls of bread and milk, “just
fine! I and Frances Smith are the
smartest and best dressed girls in
the school.”—Kansas City Star.
Vegetable Fiber for Shoes.
A Haverhill (Mass.) shoeman has
obtained patents giving him the right
to make vamps "and tops of vegetable
fiber which he has invented and per-
fected to be used in the manufacture
of shoes. A few cases of shoes have
been made of this material, which ap-
pears to be a good substitute for
leather. The fiber is said to be par-
ticularly adaptable for warm weather
wear because, being of a woven ma-
terial, air can penetrate the vamp and
top. The inventor also claims that a
shoe made of this material is water-
proof.
■ HOSTETTER’S ■
STOMACH BITTERS
IT DOES THE WORK
60 YEARS THE LEADER
Make the Liver j M
Do its Duty
Nine times in ten when the liver i&
right the stomach and bowels are right.
CARTER’S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS
gently butfirmly com^
pel a lazy liver to,
do its duty.
Cures Con-,
stipation, In-
digestion,
Sick
Headache,4
and Distress After Eating.
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE*.
Genuine must bear Signature
More Schoolboy Howlers.
“The Salic law is: that you must
take everything with a grain of salt.”
“Julius Caesar was renowned for
his great strength. He threw a.bridge
across the Rhine.”
“The, zodiac is the zoo of the sky,
where lions, goats and other animals
go after they are dead.”
“The Pharisees were people who
liked to show off their goodness by
praying to synonyms.”
t;; “An abstract noun is something
you can’t see when you are looking at
it.” .
“Algebraical symbols are used when
you do not know what you are talking
about.”—-Westminster Gazette.
IT'S THE FOOD.
The True Way to Correct Nervbus
Troubles.
Nervous troubles are more often
caused by improper food and indiges-
tion than most people imagine. Even
doctors sometimes overlook this fact.
A man says: ,
“Until two years ago waffles and
butter with meat and gravy were the
main features of my breakfast. Finally
dyspepsia came on/and I found myself
in a bad condition, worse in the morn-
ing than any other time. I would have
a full, sick feeling in my stomach,
with pains in my heart, sides and
head.
“At times I would have no appetite,
for days, then I would feel ravenous,
never satisfied when I did eat and so
nervous I felt like shrieking at the
top of my voice. I lost flesh badly and
hardly knew which way to turn until
one day I bought a box of Grape-Nuts
food to see if I could eat that. I tried
it without telling the doctor, and liked
it fine; made me feel as if I had some-
thing to eat that was satisfying and
still I didn’t have that heaviness that
I had felt after eating any other food.
“I hadn’t drank any coffee then in
five weeks. I kept on with the Grape-
Nuts and in a month and a half I had
gained 15 pounds, could eat almost
anything I wanted, didn’t feel badly
after eating and my nervousness was
all gone. It’s a pleasure to be well
again.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the book, “The
Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s
a reason.”
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest. Adv. -v- ^ :
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3380, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1912, newspaper, October 25, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth890048/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.