The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 819, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 27, 1906 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY LEADER.
VERNOR & ABNEY, Pubs,
LAMPASAS,
TEXAS
Radium and Its Revelations.
That the discovery of radium and.
radio-activity has brought into ques-
tion some of the most firmly estab-
lished theories of modern science is
well known, but a recent address de-
livered at-York, England, by Prof.
Lankester, the noted British scientist,
indicates that the upsetting of pre-
vious conceptions has been greater
than is generally imagined. New
chemical elements have been revealed
in rapid succession in recent years,
but radium is the most wonderful of
all. It has raised up doubts concern-
ing ideas that had been accepted as
the fundamental bases of scientific
'Speculation. It has caused a new
study of the atomic theory, opening
up the question whether the trans-
mutability; of elements may not after
all be a possibility. The number of
new problems which may follow the
discovery of this extraordinary, ele-
ment with its mysterious power of -giv-
ing off energy from some source with-
in itself can even now be only con-
jectured. The question of the evolu-
tion of the solar system and the prob-
able age of the world will have to be
restudied in the light of the knowl-
edge brought by radium. Prof. Lan-
kester points out that heretofore all
the calculations as to the probable
past duration of the earth and the
length of the various geological pe-
riods have been based on the assump-
tion that the material of the earth was
self-cooling. With the discovery that
a small quantity of radium diffused
through the earth would maintain its
temperature against all loss by radia-
tion one of the most firmly established
theories of the physicists becomes un-
tenable. A fraction of one per cent,
of radium in the sun's mass would
make good the heat annually lost by
it. So far as concerns this method
of calculation the geologists may have
"to revise their views entirely, extend-
ing the probable past of the earth in-
definitely. Prof. Lankester's words,
says the Chicago Daily News, open up
remarkable vistas as to the possibili-
ties of new investigations and illus-
trate in a striking way the tentative
and uncertain character of much of
that which has been accepted as truth.
Our knowledge of all the greater phe-
nomena of material nature seems,
after all, strangely limited and in-
definite.
ROMAN RELICS IN SCOTLAND.
Bronze Vase of Fine Workmanship
and Collection of Armor Unearthed.
One of the most interesting contri-
tmticms to the Scottish Historical Re-
view deals with the excavations of the
Roman fort at New'stead; Melrose,
which are being carried out under the
auspices of the Society of Antiquities
of Scotland. Owing to the nature and
variety of the finds, and the care
with which they are being recovered
and preserved, the work may well
be considered one of national impor-
tance. James Curie, of Melrose, a
distinguished border antiquary, who
Contributes notes on some recent
finds, says the most striking result
of the work lies in the collection of
objects from the Roman period which
have been brought to light.
“The finds, for the most part, have
been made in clearing out what would
appear to be disused wells of rubbish
pits. These have been found outside
the fort, as wrell as within the ram-
parts. In depth they vary from 12 to
30 feet, and all of them are more or
less filled with decomposed animal
animal and vegetable matter, which
has a marked preservative influence.
Mr. Curie gives a detailed descrip-
tion of a finely preserved specimen of
a bronze vase with a single handle.
It stands 11 inches high, and, it is
conjectured, dates from the first cn-
tury. The vase is undecorated, ex-
cept for the handle, which is of fine
workmanship. No fewer than 14 pits
have been cleared out in the field
known as the Fore Ends, lying to
the south of the fort. In one of these
two chariot wheels, three feet in di-
ameter, were found, also a human
skull, cleft by the blow of some sharp
weapon. From another pit came
most valuable collection of armor, in-
cluding a Roman brass helmet. The
helmet is in a wonderfully good state
of preservation. Mr. Curie considers
it the most perfect object of the find.
It covers the head and neck, and has
a high, projecting peak in front. The
whole of the crown is covered with
an embossed design and an inscrip
tion, presumably the owner's name, is
punetured on the rim.
Why People End Their Lives.
The New York World compiled a
page of interesting facts on the
growth of suicide, and gives the fol-
lowing reasons why some persons end-
ed their lives: Josiah B. Riddle, of
Jefferson City, Mo., because he was
too fat. Irene Baltimore Boggins, of
Atlantic City, because she had a new
lavender dress to be buried in. Pon-
iepo Fulponi, of Chicago, because he
was in love writh a marble statue of
Venus. Mrs. William Thomas, of
Punxsutawney, Pa., because her hair
was turning gray. Herman Recyling,
of West Hazleton, Pa., because he
missed a train. .Tames Andrews, of
Oxford, Pa., because he had to speak
at commencement exercises before
girls. Mrs. Grace De Wolf, of St.
Louis, because she could not bear to
be separated from her sister-in-law.
Robert Lehman, of Des Moines, la.,
because he believed his family re-
ferred to him when they sang “Every-
body Works But Father.” George
Hawthorne Smith, of New York, be-
cause he believed himself too old at
45 years. All of which goes to show
that human life does not weigh very
heavy, after all.
UPSET CLAIM OF DOCTOR.
A Fruitarian Diet.
A fruitarian diet consists of the
fruits cf trees (like apple?, oranges,
bananas and olives)', the fruits of
bushes (like currants and raspber-
ries), the fruits of plants (like straw-
berries and melons, lentils and beans
and cucumbers), the fruits of grasses
(like t^heat and barley and maize and
oats), the fruits of nut trees (from
filbert fto cocoanut), together with
some earth fruits (like potatoes), and
a modichm of vegetables and salads.
To thesp may be added butter, milk,
honey and cheese, although their pro-
duction Is not so free from risk of
contamination and animal infection as
Is the case with the products of the
vegetable kingdom and the -florid of
fruits. Gr.own under healthy condi-
tions, with diseased specimens easy to
detect and remove, it is far more pos-
sible, skys "the Westminster Review, to
live healthily and well upon a fruit-
arian dietary than upon the products
of the slaughter house.
Hallucination Proved, but Other Evi-
dence Was Too Strong.
Chloroform, it appears, begets
strange visions which may be libelous
A story comes^from Paris that a doc-
tor's wife has been petitioning for a
divorce on various grounds. The evi-
dence on her side included the state
ment of a servant girl employed in a
friend's house. The doctor was called
in to attend to the maid during an
illness. A surgical, operation was
deemed necessary and the girl was
put under chloroform. On awakening
after the operation the first thing she
saw was the doctor kissing her mis-
tress—that is to say, his wife’s best
friend—and, of course, she told the
wife. Respondent has met this evi
dence with a learned lecture on the
effects of chloroform.
To attach credence to the girl’s
story argued ignorance of the peculiar
properties of the drug. The doctor
called Professors Brouardel and De-
bove to support him and both authori-
ties agreed that chloroform is well
known to produce such osculatory hal-
lucinations. These are not only fre-
quent during an anaesthesia, but often
persist after the return of conscious
ness. The servant girl had been
dreaming of kisses, and on awakening
imagined that she saw the doctor
kissing her mistress. It was a mere
hallucination, and the doctor had
never thought of kissing the woman,
either then or at any other more fa-
vorable time. The court was con-
vinced by the two learned professors
and rejected the servant gill’s evi-
dence. Unfortunately for the doctor,
other grounds for a divorce brought
forward by the wife were proved to
be not hallucinatory, but substantial
and she lias won her suit.
The Age of Machinery.
We live in the age of machinery.
The thinking, directing mind becomes
daily of more account, while mere
brawn falls correspondingly in value
from day to day. That eccentric phil-
osopher, Elbert Hubbard, says in one
of his essays, “where a machine will
do better work than the human hand,
we prefer to let the machine do the
work.”
It has been but a few years since
the cotton gin,, the “spinning Jenny”
and the power loom displaced the
hand picker, the spinning wheel and
the hand loom; since the reaper and
binder, the rake and tedder, the mow-
ing machine took the place of-the old
craddle, scythe, pitchfork- and hand
rake; since the friction match su-
perseded the flint and tipcler; since
the modern paint factory replaced the
slab and muller, the paint : pot and
paddle.
In every case where machinery .has
been introduced to replace hand labor,
the'laborers have resisted the change;
and as the weavers, the seamstresses
and the farm laborers protected
against new-fangled looms, sewing ma-
chines and agricultural implements,
so in recent times compositors have
protested against type-setting ma-
chines/glass blowers against bottle
blowing machines, and painters
against ready mixed paints. And as
in the case of these short-sighted
classes of an earlier day, so with their
imitators of today, the protest will
be in vain. It is a protest against civ
ilization, against the common weal,
against their own welfare.
The history of all mechanical im-
provements shows that workmen are
the first'to he benefited by them. Tire
invention of the sewing machine, in-
stead of throwing thousands of wom-
en out of employment, increased the
demand to such an extent that thou
sands of women have been employed
at better wrages, for shorter hours and
easier work, where hundreds before
worked in laborious misery to eke
out a pitiable existence. It was so
with spinning and weaving machinery,
with agricultural implements—in fact,
it is so wth every notable improve-
ment. The multiplication of books in
the last decade is a direct result of
the invention of linotype machinery
and fast presses.
The mixed paint industry, in which
carefully designed paints for house
painting are prepared on a large scale
by special machinery, is another im
provement of the same type. The
cheapness and general excellence of
these products has so stimulated the
consumption of paint that the demand
for the services of painters has eorre
spomlingly multiplied. Before the ad
vent of these goods a well-painted
house was noticeable from its rarity
•whereas today an ill-painted house is
conspicuous.
Nevertheless, the painters, as a rule
following the example set by the
wmavers, the seamstresses and the
farm laborers of old, almost to a man
oppose the improvement. It is a real
improvement, however, and simply be
cause of that fact the sale of such
products has increased until during
the present year it will fall not far
short of 90,000,000 or 100,000,000 gal-
lons.
Hindsight is always better than
foresight, and most of us w'ho dc-plore
the short-sightedness of our ancestors
would do well to see that we do not
in turn furnish “terrible examples” to
our posterity.
Brotherhood of the Sea.
Dr. Nansen is fond of sailors. He
says that there is a brotherhood of the
sea which stamps sailors and singles
them out from all other callings. He
has found more thoughtful earnestness
among sailors and a better spirit than
among members of any other profes-
sion. Sailors, he believes, bear all
their hardships and sufferings with
calmness and fortitude.
Great Seaman Lives in Simple and
Unpretentious Manner.
T3ie admiral's home is in a remote
quarter of the city, and is as simple
and unpretentious as anything else
that belongs to him. I spent a long
afternoon with »Mme. Togo a little
w'hile ago and forced myself to no-
tice the details which usually escape
me when strong human interest is
present. The little browm house
stands back from the street in a
small but well kept garden. The first
greeting I received was from two fine
setters, wrho have the privilege of
accompanying their master on the
Jong, solitary shooting expeditions
which are his favorite recreation. As
all good dogs speak English, even in
Japan, these guardians received me
amicably and a smiling maid ushered
me into a tiny hall, and thence into
the sitting-room, fashioned in conces-
sion to modern ideas, with a few
chairs and tables, and a carpet which
relieves the foreign visitor from the
uncomfortable necessity of removing
his shoes. Mme. Togo is a gentle, in-
telligent looking woman, with very
bright eyes. and the quiet, charming
manner of the oid fashioned Japanese
lady.
The first thing she showed me w'as
am object which had evidently” given
her great pleasure, and which, she
said, her husband valued very highly
—the little bust of Nelson, made g£
wood and copper from the Victory,
and sent to the admiral by his Eng-
lish admirers a short time before. The
curious parallel between the achieve-
ments oi the two great sailors and
the coincidence of the centenary of
Trafalgar occurring at the moment of
Togo's return and the visit of the
British fleet had impressed her, as it
had all the Japanese, very deeply.
She was still also under the domina-
tion of intense relief at her hus-
band's safe return, and told me that
the period of his two absences had
seemed unbearably long from the
weight of daily and hourly anxiety.—
World's Work.
Makes Pain Go Way.
Are you one of the ones who pay in
toil
For-your right of way through this
life?
If so you will find in Hunt's Lightning
Oil
A friend which will aid in strife;
To those who earn their own Avay
by their own labor, accidents occur
with painful frequency. Burns, bruis-
es, cuts and sprains are not strangers
to the man who wears corns on his
hands. A better reniedy for these
troubles- does not exist than Hunt's.
Lightning Oil.
Girls Debt to Papa.
Daughters can never take too much
care of- their fathers.—Plautus.
New Style of Deadly Weapon.
Duff Merrick, a lawyer of Asheville,
N. C., was recently arraigned before a
magistrate on a charge of assault with
a deadly weapon, to wit, a street car,
in seizing one Melton, and attempt-
ing to put him in front of a ra^dly
moving car.
Taking Things Too Seriously.
Miss Jenks—Have you really broken
off your engagement to him?
Miss Flytie—Oh, yes. I just had to.
He was getting too sentimental—be-
gan to talk to me about matrimqny.
Not So Bad.
“That was a rum deal of my part-
ner’s,” sighed the merchant.
“Have you lost anything?” anx-
iously inquired his friend.
“O, no; it was in Jamaica spirits.”
—Baltimore American.
Complacence of Modern Genius.
“Ben Franklin was practically tide
discoverer of electricity.” :
“Yes,” answered the traction mag-
nate; “but he wasn’t smart enough
to see the money (hat could be made
from it”
The stage represents fiction as if ii
were if act.—Betterton.
Dumas Was No Flatterer.
One day Dumas was entertained by
a pompous parvenu, who took him
over his country house. In the center
of the park -was a tiny pond, which
the owner proudly called “the lake.”
“Last month a man called on •me,”'the
host remarked in an important voice,
“and was drowned in that lake.”
“That man was a flatterer,” replied
Dumas.—Bystander.
Genuine Thieves.
A man who refuses to pay his debts
When he can is a thief at heart.
Result of Bomb Outrage.
It is officially announced in the
Correspondence de Espana that 15
civilians were killed and 70 injured by
the bomb outrage In the Calle Mayor.
In the b'ody of the horse which was
killed while drawing the royal coach
28 bullets were found. ,
Highest Point on Manhattan.
The highest point on Manhattan
Island, is at Washington Bridge road
and One Hundred and Eighty-fourth
street; which is 250 feet above the sea
level. . n;,; ’./if?!;
Polonius’ Advice a Hoodoo.
A certain Chicago manufacturer has
issued a terrible warning to the gay
and festive clerks who pass the ma-
jority of their siiare time in devising
ways and means whereby they may
the more gorgeously adorn their
manly figures.
This manufacturer entered his of-
fice the other day just as one of his
clerks was coming out. In the clerk’s
hand was a small cane and on his
finger glittered a diamond ring, and
his raiment was such as to make
Solomon turn in his grave with envy.
The employer noted the dazzling crea-
ture and then made his way to the
cashier's office and inquired what sal-
ary the young man was getting.
“Twelve dollars a week,” replied
the cashier.
“Cut it down to $10, the fellow-
dresses better than I do,” was the
terse response.
From Sandals to Shoes.
The first foot coverings were sand-
als. After these came shoes left open
at the toes, then the wooden shoes
of the ninth and tenth centuries, fol-
lowed a little later by shoes with
long pointed and turned-up toes,
which sometimes reached as high as
the knee. Later a shoe was worn
with an exceedingly wide toe, so very
wide that it impeded the process of
walking. Queen Mary restricted the
wearing of this by proclamations. The
proclamation ran to the effect that
shoes should not be worn wider than
six inches.
Domestic Bliss.
“Of all my women friends,” re-
marked the spinster, “I know of only
one who is happily married.”
“Is it possible!” exclaimed the mere
man.
“It is,” replied the spinster. “You
see her husband is a naval officer, and
is away from home two or three years
at a time.”
Theatricals for the Poor.
Some Parisian theaters give gratui-
tous performances three or four times
a year. They are intended for poor
people, and the first arrivals are usual-
ly at the doors several hours before
the house is opened.
Shows Age of Whales.
The age of whales is ascertained by-
the size and number of laminae of the
whalebone, which increases yearly.
Ages of 300 and 400 years have been
assigned to whales from these indica-
tions.
Some Foes of Memory.
Scientists have discovered that the
memory is stronger in summer than
in winter. Among the worst foes of
memory are too much food, too much
physical exercjse, and, strangely
enough, too much education.
Scandal Spoiled.
“Didn’t you hear about it?” said
Kidder. “Deacon Goodley came home
barreled the other evening.”
“Aha!” exclaimed the gossip, de-
lightedly. “I always thought there
was some hypocrisy in that old fel-
low’s temperance tftlk—”
“Oh! no, he simply was swimming
in the creek, and some tramp stole
his clothes.”
Riches and Independence.
‘And now,” said the friend of other
days, “you are rich and independ-
ent.”
“Well,” answered Mr. Cumrox, “I
am rich, all right. But when mother
and the girls are around, I don’t take
chances on being too independeiit.”'
W0MEN?S_NEGLE0T
SUFFERING THE SURE PENALTY
Ifealth Thus Lost Is Restored by Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
How many women do you know who
are perfectly well and strong? We
hear everyday the same story over and
over again. “ I do not feel well; I am
so tired all the time !
jAiss Hat eM?Donald \
More than likely you speak the same
words .yourself, and no doubt you feel
far from well. The cause may be easily
traced to some derangement of the fe-
male organs which manifests itself in
depression of spirits, reluctance to go
anywhere or do anything, backache,
bearing-down pains, flatulency, nerv-
ousness, sleeplessness, or other fe-
male weakness.
These symptoms are but warnings
that there is danger ahead, and unless
heeded a life of suffering or a serious
operation is the inevitable result. -
The never-failing remedy for all these
Symptoms is Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg-
etable Compound.
Miss Kate McDonald of Woodbridge,
N. J., writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
“ Restored health has meant so much to rue
that I cannot help from telling about it for
the sake of other suffering women.
“ For a long time I suffered untold agony
with a female trouble and irregularities,
which made me a physical wi-eck, and no one
thought I would recover, but Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound has entirely
cured me, and made me well and strong, and
I feel it my duty to tell other suffering women
what a splendid medicine it is.”
For twenty-five years Mrs. Pinkham,
daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham,
has under her direction, and since her
decease, been advising sick women free
of charge. Her advice is free and
always helpful. Address, Lynn, Mass.
W, L. DOUGLAS
*3=50&*3=00 Shoes
BEST iW THE WORLD
W.LDougtos$4Gilt Edge lino,
cannotbe equalled a tany price ^
To S hoe Dealers :
uglas’ ,Tob-
is the most
oe Dea
W. L. Do
bini/ IIo
bmp’ House is the most
oor ,pie to in this country
Send for Catalog
Higher Than Mount Everest.
Mount Everest is 2!*,002 feet high;
but lately it is believed that two
peaks behind 1 Everest'' ate actually
higher,than it, which', hitherto, has
been considered the highest mountain
in the worlds
SHOES FOR EVERYBODY AT ALL PRICES.
Try W. H. Douglas Women’s, Misses and
Children's shoes; for style, lit and wear
they excel other makes.
If I could take you into my lsrgfr
factories at Brockton, Mass.,and show
you how carefully W.L. Douglas shoes
are made, you would then understand
why they hold their shape, fit better,
wear longer, and are of greater value
than any other make.
Wherever you live, you can obtain W. L.
Pougia3 shoes.. His name and price is stamped
on the bottom, which protects you against high
price3 and inferior, sillies. Take no, substi*
tate. /yik your dealer for W. L. Dhuglas shoes
and insist.upon having.them.
Fast Color Eyelets used; they will not wear brassy.
Write for illustrated Catalog Qf Fall Styles.
VV. L. DOUGLAS, Dept. 12, Brockton, Mas*,
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