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THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
Inventor Proposes National Emblem of 13 Balls
lif aSHING-TON.—At last the number of 13 is to be shown to the world in its
W true light. All this argument about it being unlucky Is “bosh,” according
to R. S. Gibson, who is organizing a class of students in Washington to figure
out an invention worth $100,000. The
new invention, when it is discovered,
will be the result of a close study of a
cluster of “stones” which he says he
has discovered to be the basis of all
nature.
Gibson, who claims to be the in-
ventor of the paper headrest for barber
chairs, pointed to a chart on the wall
of his room. The chart was a picture
of 12 balls grouped around a single
one in the center, and on the bottom
was printed these words, “What means
these stones.” “That picture,” he said, “shows you what you will find in the
cells of the human body, and in all the planets and the stars.
“Take 12 perfect spheres of equal size and group them around a thir-
teenth so they will all touch, and you have a perfect symmetrical group.
That is a discovery of my own, and I believe it can be worked out to be worth
some money.”
The inventor’s idea is that if he can get several people to study his dis-
covery, one of them is likely to get the idea that will be worth the $100,060.
“The principle of the 13 idea is basic,” Gibson said. “Christ and the 12
apostles, 12 jurymen and a judge and the 13 original states are a few ex-
amples.
“I have written President Wilson, Bryan, Roosevelt and others, trying to
get them to adopt that cluster as a national emblem. It stands^ for the
original states and at the same time is a perfect symmetrical group.
Our Soldiers May Look Like the Knights of Old
* LL existing records concerning the types of breastplates, shields, helmets,
and even suits of armor worn by the knights of the middle ages, are
being closely studied by the ordnance bureau of the war department in an
effort to find the best kind of protec-
tion for American soldiers in trench
warfare.
And the office of the chief of
ordnance is getting to look like the
showroom of the royal armorer in the
days of Richard Coeur de Lion.
Since the European armies began
to adopt steel helmets and breastplates
as protection against the hailstorms, of
shrapnel and the spatter of machine-
gun bullets, a crop of inventors has
sprung up throughout the United
States intent on improving the devices which warriors of bygone days re-
sorted to when crbss-bows and battle axes were used on the field of war.
The other day, for example, the bureau had before it a working model of
a coat of armor invented by an American. Its pattern was adopted from a
■type favored by the ancient Samurai of Japan. The breastplate was formed
of a V-shaped shell of quarter-inch steel with a padded lining.
A mask of similar design with opening for the eyes was intended to be
used to protect the face and head..
All known designs of helmets are likewise being studied in order to pro-
vide bullet-defying headgear for the men. Besides the designs in use at
present in Europe—the solid-piece types used by the British and Germans
and the sectional type used by the French—designs similar to those used by
the Crusaders with neck-pieces and vizors are also being studied.
Crab Supply of the Capital City Is Diminishing
it i ASHINGTON is famed as a “great place for crabs.” Well may this be
W time, for the city lies within short distance of the principal crab fish-
eries of the Atlantic coast—those in Chesapeake bay. But the city’s reputa-
tion in this one line is in jeopardy.
Season Jby season for the past ten
years the crab supply has been slowly
diminishing, and this year the dealers
are noticing that the number of crabs
sent to market is showing a marked
decline. It is difficult to secure as
many hard-shelled crabs as the trade
demands, to say nothing of the soft-
shelled ones, which are unusuallj
scarce.
Is it possible that the snowy crab-
flake is destined to become only a
luxurious delicacy? The bureau of fisheries has been moved to act to prevent
such a tragedy. One of its crab experts is now down in the Chesapeake bay
region making a thorough study of the causes of the decline of the crab
output. He is going from crab fishery to crab fishery studying crab life at
first hand from every angle.
Generally speaking, it is thought that the chief cause of the decreased
supply is due to the very extensive fishing which has been carried on within
the last few years around these shores. No attempt has ever been made to
prepare for the future’s output by such means of artificial propagation as
scientific fishermen now use in regard to that other valuable crustacean, the
lobster.
French Remains the Menu Language of Washington
C RENCH will remain the language of Washington menu cards. No matter
» how strong the offensive of the New York hotel chefs becomes to have
the French of the bills of fare supplanted by English, the lines of French
on menu cards bid fair to hold firm in
the capital.
Tiffs is the opinion of August F.
Moeller, maitre d’hotel of the New
Willard.
“We have decided to be strictly
neutral,” said Moeller, with a twinkle
In his eye and a decidedly Teutonic ac-
cent when questioned as to the pro-
posed obviation of the French from the
bill of fare.
“Why, it would be just the same
as asking the average English-speaking
connoisseur to change his language,” continued the rnaltre d’hotel. “There
are many persons, those persons who are accustomed to eating at hotels and
cafes, who would not know how to order their meals if the French on the
menu card was supplanted by English.”
“Will there be a change from the old order which might interfere with
the gastronomic environs of Washington’s gourmets?”
“Jamais, jamais,” which in the words of the language* attacked means
“Never, never.”
There is still the occasional illusion that a reckless, ill-natured remark is
"wit.”
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LIGHT RAYS NEW
AID IN WARFARE
English’ ian Invents Remarkable
Engine of War Called
“Light-o-Mine
IS USED IN FRENCH ATTACKS
Mines Laid in Captured Trenches Are
Set Off by Ray of Light When
Reoccupied by the
Enemy.
Paris.—Light as an adjunct and aid
of modern warfare is the newest ally
of the allies, summoned to aid in the
campaign against the central powers
by H. Grindell Matthews, an English-
man.
Grindell Matthews’ engine of war
Is called a “light-o-mine,” and com-
prises an electro-clockwork arrange-
ment that is attached to a series of
bombs and which is set off by a ray
of light. The new form of trench
fighting, the raiding tactics first car-
ried out by the British and now be-
ing engaged in to a great extent by
the Russian troops on the French
front and by the poilus themselves,
avails itself largely of the use of this
“light-o-mine.”
The apparatus itself is about a
yard long and four inches square. It
consists of a lens at one eud, open and
resembling a pocket flash lamp. In-
side is a dry battery, a sensitized
plate and a clockwork, and from
that lead wires. When a raid is made
on an enemy trench, this apparatus
is carried, and with it a line of trench
bombs. Now a line of trench bombs
consists merely of 20 or 50 or 100 or
200 yards of ordinary iron piping, a
little larger, for instance, than gas
piping. Tke piping is cut in suitable
lengths—say 10 or 15 feet long each.
From each of the ends protrude two
bits of wire, the positive and the nega-
tive, for the current to be transmitted
to detonate the bombs. The piping is
packed tightly with alternate cham-
bers of T N T, as the allies’ standard
high explosive trinitrotoluol is called,
and shrapnel, bits of iron nails and
slugs of metal.
Mines Are Planted.
The raiding party carrying this
equipment and preceded by a wave of
grenade throwers, raids the enemy
trench after a short but intense bom-
bardment. They bayonet or blow up
with grenades the survivors in the
trench, then hastily lay this mine of
piping, all connected up with the
wires, in the bottom of the trench,
covering it over with a few spade-
fuls of earth. The end of the long
pipe-line of bombs is attached by
wires to the “light-o-mine” appar-
atus, and this is hidden in the enemy
trench, leaving the bull’s-eye lens ex-
posed and pointing back at some ob-
ject in. the Franeo-British lines.
I About this time the German batter-
ies in the rear have been advised that
an enemy detachment is occupying a
front trench section at that point and
a few shells begin to drop in. That is
the signal for the raiders to clear out
land return to their own positions.
Cautiously the enemy reconnoiters for-
ward when he hears nothing and no
shots are fired from the lost trench.
Finally he approaches and finds it de-
serted. The first thing he does is to
clamber over the parapet and look for
wires leading across the No Man’s
Land to the raiding party’s positions,
and finding none, has no suspicion that
a mine has been placed in his trench.
Troops are sent forward to reoccupy
the trench, and just when it is com-
fortably held by the Germans again,
a star shell is sent up from the Fran-
co-British position in a line following
that toward which the lens of the
“light-o-mine” is pointed. The light
ASKS TWO TO MARRY HIM
serves to set off the long Line of piping,
full of TNT and shrapnel, and the
Germans are blown out of the trench.
It would not be feasible to detonate
the mines by wirelesf- on the principle
used by John Hayes Hammond, Jr.,
in guiding his manless boat, as in the
first place it would thus be necessary
to place aerials above the German
trenches^ after a mine were laid and
the enemy would notice., the uprights
at once. In the second place the ac-
tivity of the wireless apparatus of
both allied and German machines over-
head, signaling directions to batteries,
would “jam” the connection necessary
to fire the mine by activity.
Italian Works Fake.
Some years ago an Italian naval
officer named Valatti announced that
he had invented a contrivance for det-
onating explosives at some distance
off by wireless rflys. Tests were mde
at Ostia, (harbor of Rome,) and on one
occasion he apparently exploded a
mine buried on the far side of one of
the hills surrounding the harbor. He
flashed the rays from an Italian war-
ship. Investigation indicated, how-
ever, that he used fake mines, pre-
pared automatically so they would ex-
plode after a certain time had
elapsed.
Grinnell Matthews’ proposition Is
quite different, however, the actual
starting of the contrivance for setting
off the bomb being begun by the ef-
fect of the ray of light entering the
eye of the lens, and thence being car-
ried out by the electric battery and
the clockwork. The mines can be set
off in daylight, ordinary light having
no effect on the lens. Only if the
lens were directed squarely at the
sun would it produce the required ef-
fect.
WILL MOVE BED OF RIVER
Kansas Farmers Will Change It for
Eighteen Miles to Reclaim
Land.
McPherson. Kan.—The change of the
course of the river for iS'miles is tb“
undertaking promised. by the fanners
of southern McPherson and northern
Reno counties. For nearly a score of
miles the bed of the Blaze fork wijl
be changed so that it will not over-
flow.
When nature caused the river to
wend its way south from the Big Rai-
sin, west of McPherson, the flow was
stubborn. The bed of Blaze fork was
so crooked that even a river could not
follow it. So it overflows.
Lately it has been overflowing more
than ever. John Schrag. owner of a
large share of the Big Basin, has diked
and ditched his lands. Now the water
is diverted south. The farmers affect-
ed at first protested, but Schrag went
on in the dry weather, when irrigation
projects concerned the farmers little.
Recent rains have forced consideration
of the subject on the land-owners and
a big drainage district may take up the
plan and advertise for bids for making
straight a crooked river and hundreds
of acres may be saved to farming.
WEDDED IN WAR BY WIRE
COWS HAVE THEIR HOPES
Should Be Fed in Courses Like Hu-
mans Is Assertion of Michi-
gan Senator.
Marquette, Mich.-—“Cows have their
hopes and ambitions like human be-
ings, and when they go to their meals
they should be fed in courses, with a
cocktail as an appetizer and a dessert
for the finish.” This is the assertion
of State Senator Alton T. Roberts of
this city, who is looking after the wel-
fare of a fancy'dairy. “Several years
ago one of my men tried phonographic
music as a means of inducing the cows
to give more and better milk. For a
time the soothing tones brought re-
sults, but after a while the cows be-
came tired of the music and we began
to experiment on other things.” The
senator is not feeding alcohol to his
cattle. Instead lie is using the red
table beet as an appetizer.
Private in Washington National Guard
on Border Is Married by
Telegraph.
Calexico, Cal.—I. P. Oyster, a pri-
vate of the Washington National
Guard, on duty here, and Miss Flor-
ence Sweeney of Duquesne, Pa., were
united in marriage by telegraph a few
days ago, it was stated here. Minis-
ters and witnesses, it was said, partici-
pated in the ceremony here aud at Du-
quesne.
Chaplain S. C. Sulliger of Vancou-
ver, Wash., officiated at Calexico. The
entire wedding ceremony was repeated
by the telegraph between the soldier
and his bride in Pennsylvania.
The couple, it was stated, had been
friends for years. Cryster’s .sister was
married recently to Miss Sweeney’s
brother and Miss Sweeney then re-
newed her acquaintance with her
brother-in-law. A proposal by mail,
followed by a reply of.acceptance, was
said to have led t'O the telegraphiif
marriage.
“I
Another View.
heard Bill was making money
so fast that be had to give it up for
a long rest.”
“You heard it straight, tie’s in the
penitentiary for counterfeiting.”
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This shows one of the smaller guns in action during the British offensive
on the western front. There is not a minute’s let-up in the work of the
smaller- guns. It is a hot job for a summer day.
West Virginia Negro Goes to Hospital
With Knife Wound in
Back.
Clarksburg, W. Va.—As the result
>t inviting two Alabama girls to travel
>o this town, from the sunny South, to
aecoine his bride, William Green, a
colored coal miner, has been lying near
death in a Clarksburg hospital with a
knife, wound in Ms back.
According to the story told police au-
thorities, Green came from Alabama
several months ago to work in the
West Virginia mines. Recently he
sent for Molly Smith, an old sweet-
heart, saying he had saved a little
money and they could marry and start
housekeeping. He also sent for an-
other colored girl whose name was
not learned.
The unknown girl arrived first. Then,
when Miss Smith appeared on the
scene, the two confronted Green, de-
manding that he choose between them.
The choice was against Miss Smith and
she proceeded to wiefd the knife.
Man and Fish in Amfc'dance.
Ridgway, Pa.—Patrick Deerihg and
a trout measuring inches, the
largest ever seen here, occupied an
ambulance on their way to a local hos-
pital the other day. This is the story
Deering’s friends tell: Patrick, while
diving In Laurel Mill pool, collided
with the trout. The fish, stunned by
the blow, immediately rose to the sur-
face and was captured by other swim-
mers. Pat, -sorely hurt, was pulled
from the water. An ambulance was
summoned and the strange compan-
ions in distress were taken to the hos-
pital.
Farmer Plows Up Wealth.
Nacona, Tex.—A farmer named Pal-
mer, near here, a few days ago plowed
up silver bars on bis farm variously
estimated to be worth from $100,000
to $2SO.OOO, it became known recently.
Palmer says he will send the bars to
the Denver mint for analysis. It is
believed the silver bars were left here
by Spaniards in the sixteenth or seven-
teenth century, when they retreated
owing to the activity of the Indians
against them.
Bumblebee Upsets Car.
Elwood. Ind.—Mrs. W. L. Abbott and
Mrs. L. M. Cross were riding in the
country in a closed automobile when
a bumblebee got inside: In their ef-
forts to drive the bee out Mrs. Ab-
bott lost control of the machine and
the car went into a ditch and was up-
set. The woman escaped, with- a few
bruises.
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Youth Can't Smile or Flirt Ever.
New York.—Magistrate KroteL sen-
tenced Philip Levine, eighteen years
old, never to smile or flirt with anj
girl in the city as long as lie lives,
Levine had been arrested on com-
plaint of Dora Rubinowiiz, who al-
leged he smiled at her and blew smokf
at her in an elevated train.
Woman Lands Big Bass.
Rochester, Ind.—Probably the lar-
gest blacl^ bass ever taken by a wom-
an from Lake Manitou was caiiglit re-
cently by Mns. Frank ISmerlek of In-
dianapolis when she hooked aud lantT-
ed a large month buss weighing 7*4
pounds.
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The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 183, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1916, newspaper, October 5, 1916; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906556/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.