The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 145, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 22, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
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Will Make Garden Spots of Its Alleys
Detroit
ETROIT.—Not the desert, but the alleys of Detroit, will be made t<
U as the rose, also the morning glory, the clematis, even the wild cue
the plan Inaugurated by the home and school gardening committe
Twentieth Century club, of which Mrs,
George G. Caron is chairman, receives
the hearty co-operation of the bome-
lovlng citizens of Detroit.
An ordinance has recently been
passed which provides for cleaner al-
leys, and the gardening committee
wish to make a pleasure of duty, and
stimulate interest In the beautifying,
as well as the cleaning, of the alleys.
So in the fall there are to be prizes
for the best alleys in various blocks
throughout the city, where the citizens
care to enter the contest^ The planting of flowers along the fences, inside and
out, and the training of vines to hide ugly buildings on the alleys will be part
of the scheme. Phillip Breitmeyer has given $100 in prizes, and a like amount
will be given by the Twentieth Century club.
Any city block where the garden markers wish to organize may have the
service and advice of Leon B. Gardner, who has been secured by the club
to assist the work of forming community gardens. It Is the desire of the club
to stimulate an esthetic intei'est in beautifying property on the part of home*
makers, as well as to encourage the children to plant gardens of their own.
Queer Things Found in Gotham’s Slot Telephones
W YORK.—“You would be surprised,” said the telephone man, “to see the
l’l amount and variety of junk sorted from the nickel-In-the-slot machine tele-
phones in New York city every month. “Last month we had two small barrels
of assorted coins, slugs and other
things. There are various foreign
coins, such as German 2*4 pfennig
pieces. They may be about the size
of a nickel, but they are of consider-
ably less value. On the other hand, an
occasional gold coin glistens forth
from the dingy pile of iron and copper.
When one of these comes along it
helps to make up the deficiency, but in
the long run of course we lose.
“Probably you know,” continued
the telephone man, “that some rural
districts are equipped with what are known as farmer lines, that is a locnl
service. Farmers are not noted for the great amount of ready cash they
carry about with them; furthermore, it is inconvenient for persons in isolated
districts to be always supplied with change. So arrangement is made with
some local merchant who acts as a banker. He sells the farmer slugs which
are the size and shape of a five-cent piece. Now it must be that a lot of men
are drifting in from the hick towns every day and fetching along pocketfuls
of these iron slugs, for we are constantly finding them.
“There Is another interesting phase about this petty form of dishonesty.
Of course you know that New York is a gum-chewing town and probably the
habit has its mental effect, especially on the young. It Isn’t at all likely that
a boy could chew gum all the way from the Bronx to the Battery every day
and even up to lunch time without thinking after a while of something else
to do with the gum. We sometimes find two pennies stuck together with chew-
ing gum and sometimes a wad of gum sandwiched between two pieces of tin.
Then, of course, all the nickels in New York that have holes in them and those
that have been chipped eventually find their way into pay-station phones.”
Antiprofanity Club Organized in Bucyrus, Ohio
D UCYRUS, O.—Several of the most respected citizens of Bucyrus have
D formed what they call an “Antiprofanity club,” and it is said the member-
ship is constantly increasing. It appears that these gentlemen who have taken
the initiative in the establishment of
this organization have heretofore been /'\VA/| 4
addicted to the use of violent and pic- „ Vj/WV,
turesque language when things didn’t *** - | V*
go along smoothly. It appears that f f
before this club was formed there was gj V • « 4
considerable rivalry in Bucyrus
among the charter members as to
which one could, under stress, emit the
largest volume of sulphuric language
in a given time without repeating him-
self. In fact, they were quite proud of
their ability to express themselves In
a lurid and vehement manner. When a Bucyrus citizen began to talk In the
language of a pirate it was not unusual for the neighbors to call their children
in off the street and close the windows.
At last, however, the wives, daughters, sisters and sweethearts of these
naughty word jugglers shamed them into reform. The ladies pointed out to
them the evil influence their profanity was sure to have on the rising genera-
tion of the town, and suggested that when a man resorts to profanity to ex-
press himself It is an admission that his education in pure English has been
neglected.
These arguments seemed reasonable, so the gentlemen who had oeen doing
ground and lofty tumbling as to their use of pyrotechnic language got together
and formed the Antiprofanity club.
New York Zoo Has a Snake That Blows Itself Up
TkJEW YORK.—Keeper Charley Snyder of the snakehouse up at the Bronx
IX park zoo got a new hunch the other day for bjs old scheme of crossing the
hoop snake with Irhe puff adder, and thereby turning out a constant supply of
living tires for automobile*. For the
first time in the experience of even
the noted snake expert of the Bronx
park reptile house, Dr. Raymond Dit-
mars, a snake came to the park which
can blow Itself up like a Wall street
bull market.
The snake was sent to the zoo by
a party of naturalists now in South
America looking up specimens for the
Zoological society. It Is about four
feet long and normally not fatter than
a broom handle. The moment that
sightseers stop in front of its glass house it first seems to become obsessed
with the notion that it Is another Charlotte of the Hippodrome Ice ballet and
begins to throw itself Into grapevine twists, figure eights and capital S’s.
When it takes a deep breath or something, however, is the time that its
,preat mental and physical gifts are displayed at their best. One moment the
crowd saw a snake an inch or less in diameter and the next moment it was
a Zeppelin.
All four feet of the snake begin to swell until the body measures from
i three to four inches in diameter from head to steering gear. The snake will
remain inflated for some time then, or until it reaches a decision that enough
is enough. Thereupon it collapses with the suddenness and general hullabaloo
of an automobile tig
A MATTER OF MEDICINE.
For many years Doctor Eustachy
iad been the leading physician of Per-
tuis, a town In the south of France.
His professional reputation was so
high that he often was summoned to
distant places, and many people won-
dered why he persisted in hiding his
light under a bushel, by dwelling in a
country village; but the doctor held
that it is better to be first in Per-
tuis than second In Paris.
Personally he was not exactly popu-
lar, because of his temper, over which
he had poor control. Small things ex-
asperated him to an unseemly de-
gree, and when he was warm under
the collar It took him a long time to
cool down. So it happened that when
Doctor Tournatoire arrived in Pertuis,
announcing that he had come to stay,
and was prepared to furnish pills in
any quantity, many of the leading citi-
zens, wrho were tired of Doc
tachy’s tantrums, gave the young man
the glad hand.
Tournatoire had been graduated
from the best of medical schools, he
wras highly recommended, and he soon
demonstrated that his skill was great.
His manners were most engaging, and
he had a comforting way wTith patients
that was quite as effective as his medi-
cine. He became popular at once,
and his praedee grew' In a manner
that must have been gratifying.
All tiffs was gall and wormwood to
old Doc Eustachy, w'ho found himself
almost abandoned by his townsnihn.
The calls for his services became so
infrequent that he spent most of his
time in his dingy office, calling down
maledictions upon his young rival. He
hadn’t pride enough to keep quiet. He
talked of nothing but Tournatoire,
whom he denounced as a quack, an
impostor, and everything else unpleas-
ant. He became such a bore that peo-
ple avoided him, and when he went
for a walk he had the whole street
to himself. Meanwhile business was
humming with Doctor Tournatoire,
who frolicked over the countryside,
cutting off people’s limbs and feeding
them wdth pills, in the merriest way
imaginable.
This w'ent on for two or three years,
and In 1884 Tournatoire was urged to
run for a local office, so he placed him-
self in the hands of his friends, ex-
plaining that he always wTas ready to
bleed and die for the flag at a moment’s
notice. This public spirited conduct
was more than Eustachy could stand.
He determined to be a candidate him-
self, and thus bring humiliation to his
rival. He had the idea that he had
enough friends and sympathizers to
elect him, but when the votes were
counted Eustachy was the most pro-
nounced kind of an also ran. He didn’t
have a look in. And he was so mad
over it that he howled like a W'olf.
A day or two after the election the
people of Pertuis woke to find the
COMPLIMENT OF HIGH ORDER
Happy the Woman Who Could Truth-
fully Be Described as “Trail-
ing the Beatitudes.”
“There comes Mrs. MacGregor—
‘trailing the beatitudes,’ ” said a young
man admiringly as a beautiful elderly
woman came out of the hotel door and
stopped to speak to a group on the
steps.
The girl beside him turned in sur-
prise. “What a funny thing to say I”
•he cried with a laugh. “What do
you mean by such a speech as that?”
“Just look, and I’m sure you’ll see,”
he answered softly. “Watch her face
as she talks to those people.”
For n moment the girl was silent,
studying the face that was turned
toward her as Mrs. MacGregor sank
into a proffered chair.
“I do understand,” she whispered at
length, turning buck to her companion.
‘ ‘Blessed are the pure in heart.’ That’s
here isn’t it?”
“Yes,” answered the man quietly
and all the rest of them, too. I looked
lexn up at once when I heard someone
town plastered with handbills in which
Tournatoire was held up to scorn as a
moral leper, and a professional shy-
ster, and a few other things. All
wire-edged words in the French
language were used in the effort to do
him justice. The people were called
to rise as one man and run the
faker out of the community. Doctor
Tournatoire stood by a deadwall and
read the hand bill, and his lips whit-
ened, and a cold sweat stood on his
for^iead.
"Parbleu!” said he, In the absence
of a good American cussword. “This
is going too far!”
So he had old Doc Eustachy arrest-
on a charge of libel, and it was
easy to provo his responsibility. The
doc was convicted and fined, and
returned to his office madder than
ever.
Six weeks later Tournatoire invited
some of his friends to a little banquet
at his home, and on the afternoon of
the festive day a basket of game ar-
rived at the house. Half a dozen beau-
tiful thrushes were in the basket. The
thrushes were cooked, but there was
such an abundance of good things at
the feast that nobody ate them. The
guests dispersed at a late hour, well
fed and happy, and no doubt “One
Who Was There” wrote a story of the
joyous occasion for the local paper.
On the following morning Doctor
Tournatoire returned from his office
to his home on some errand, and, upon
entering, was astonished to find his
wife trying to stand on her head. As-
sisting her to her feet, he asked her
what she was trying to do, and she
began explaining that all her relatives
were dead, her husband killed in a
duel, and she wanted to die herself.
dinary dilated, and she acted like a
woman both crazy and blind,
doctor, alarmed, went into the kitchen
to question the cook, and found her
trying to put the dog in the stove.
The dog was a large one, and defended
itself heroically, but the cook seemed
to have superhuman strength, and she
considered , the work of cremation
highly important. The doctor rescued
the dog. and tried to get some in-
formation from the wnaan, but she
would talk of nothing but death. Ev-
erybody was dead, she said, and she
had received a spirit message ordering
her to put the dog in the stove. Her
eyes also were dilated, and she seemed
half blind.
A layman in such a painful position
would have thought it a plain case of
insanity, but the doctor, after a mo-
ment’s consideration, decided what
was the trouble.
“They have been poisoned with sul-
phate of atropine,” said he, and gov-
erned himself accordingly, to such
good purpose that the two women were
convalescent in a few days.
They explained that they had each
eaten a thrush that morning, and sick-
ness followed, and they remembered
no more. The doctor examined the
remaining birds, and found them sat-
urated with the poisoa The news was
say that about her, and they’re all
there, and in her life, too—the mercy
and the peacemaking; and the hunger
and thirst after righteousness most of
all. She’s the mother of a friend of
mine, so I know her right well.”
“What a lovely thing to say about a
woman!” mused the girl thoughtfully.
“I thought it was funny at first, ‘trail-
ing the beatitudes,’ but now I appre-
ciate it. It is as If she were clothed
in them, isn’t it? Beautiful and bles-
sed ! Why, it’s the most wonderful
compliment you could pay I”—Youth’s
Companion.
Helpful.
Flatbush—A roomy drawer is hidden
in the seat of a recently-patented rock-
ing chair, primarily to hold sewing
materials within easy reach.
Bfmsonhurst—If it Is one of the kind
to be left in a prominent place in a
dark room, let us hope arnica and
court-plaster will be placed in it.
To Clean Paintbrushes.
No matter how hard a paintbrush
has become, it can be made as soft and
clean as new by simply boiling in w#-
made public, and it was taken Tttf
granted at once that Eustachy had
been playing another i*f his pranks.
The old doctor was arrested, and
strong evidence against him soon was
forthcoming. It was easily established
that he had bought atropine paste of
a druggist; also that he had won St
prize of game in a local lottery, and
his prize was six thrushes. When the
evidence thus became formidable the
old doctor confessed, but said that he
was merely trying to play a practical
joke on Tournatoire. The courts of
France, like those of the other coun-
tries, had not much appreciation of
humor, so Eustachy was convicted and
sentenced to eight years of toil with-
out recompense in prison.
So this eminent physician, wearing
fetters, left the town where he had
long been honored and respected, to
take his place among felons, and all
because he could not overcome his
jealous spirit It is unnecessary to
tack a moral to the story.
The case is celebrated in criminal
annals because it is the only one of
its kind. Doctors may, and doubtless
do, hate each other now and then, but
Eustachy was the only one on record
who tried to remove a rival by
poison.
Greeley's Profanity.
Early in my reporter days on the
New York Tribune I was detailed on
an election night to assist in tabulat-
ing election returns In a room adjoin-
ing Horace Greeley’s “den” (on the
second floor of the ancient, drab-hued,
hrick building). Raised, as I have
been, in the West, with reverence for
Greeley only second to that of my
maker, the shock to my nerves, when
I heard him swear continuously for a
quarter of an hour, is Indescribable. H
was the most profane man, except John
A. Cockrell, I ever encountered and I
have been around somewhat.—Brook-
lyn Eagle.
Couldn't Shoot Straight.
Little Ned had been a bad boy,
swearing in the presence of the preach-
er. His mother had corrected him, tell-
ing him that the lightning would strike
him if he was profane. Young Amei^
Ica looked solemn, then his face bright-
ened as he replied: “I say, mamma, Jl
guess be meant that bolt for me whl
struck the church next door, but th
angels can’t shoot straight.”
■Wrifies That Annoy.
How true it is that it’s the llttl
things that make or mar one’s happi
ness! We know one noble and high
minded woman, for instance, whos
whole life' seemed blighted during
recent 24-hour period because she go
a little top much bluing in the wate
she washed the curtains in.—Ohl
State Journal.
It Was.
“How much is thim plums?” “Te
cents a peck.”- “Shure, pwhat do yea
think I am, a burrd?”—Jfcampoon.
ter into which has been put a llttl
lye. A little w'ashing powder or soa
will do, but it will take longer. Th
brush should be placed on end and th
boiling water should be no deeper than
the length of bristles, as the boilln
suds will injure the handle. Turpen
tine will clean paintbrushes, but not
after they have become hard.
Business System in Pa-apuay.
An unusual custom prevails in Par-
aguay, and It is known as “contra ac-
counts.” *he wholesaler sells the
goods he buys from the foreign man-
ufacturer to small dealers through th
interior of the country, and makes
over the bills against these small deal-
ers to the manufacturer from whom
he purchases as collateral security for
his own indebtedness. The established
length for credits, in this country, la
six months.
Advice.
“What advice would you offer unde*
the circumstances?” “My advice,” re-
plied Senator Sorghum, “in almost any
kind of a crisis Is not to waste much
time iu offering or requesting advice."
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The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 145, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 22, 1916, newspaper, August 22, 1916; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906629/m1/2/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.