The Savoy Star. (Savoy, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1912 Page: 4 of 6
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THE SAVOY STAR
T. E. ARTERBERRY, Prop.
SAVOY.
TEXAS
TOO MUCH FOR THE LAWYER
How a Michigan Congressman, Testi-
fying aa Lumber Expert, Silenced
the Noisy Attorney.
■
There is a certain representative in
congress from Michigan who was once
summoned as a witness in a case being
tried in Saginaw, the summons being
rbased on hia expert knowledge of the
Humber business. It appears that the
whole case hinged on whether or not
merchantable lumber had been sup-
plied a certain firm, as set forth in its
contract with the party of the sec-
ond part.
Representing the opposition there
appeared a very vociferous lawyer
who made up in noise what he lacked
tn argument. He would shout and
roar and pound the table in front of
him like an auctioneer.
"What,” demanded the counsel in
stentorian tones of the witness, "what
do you regard are merchantable
"Lumber tb&t may be sold at a
profit,” replied the imperturbable wit-
r.eest
The lawyer pounded the table again,
•trotting about, shouting a good deal
more, and finally came back at the
witness in this wise:
"And what, sir, would you regard as
'r merchantable grain?”
"I don’t know anything about
grain.”
“Ah, you don’t, you don’t, eh?
Well, then, what about merchantable
fruit r
"Nor fruit. I am a lumberman.”
"Come, now, my dear sir. As to
slabs and culls—should you say that
they were merchantable?”
‘They are products of the mills.”
"Oh, ho!” fairly yelled this law-
yer this time. "Can you tell the honor-
able court whether you have any ideas
at all about any kind of merchantable
i goods r*
“Oh, yes,” replied the redoubtable
■witness. “A lawyer, for example, who
tries his case with his brains—I
should call him a merchantable law-
per; but the one who tries his case
with his mouth and his hands and
feet, I should call him a cull!”
That closed the cross-examination.-*
The Green Bag.
Ayigg
Recent French Invention That
Opens Great Possibilities.
Highest Paid Woman Official in U. S.
UFUl/1 OFF
A MILLION
NICKELS,
AMI LLION
^DIMES'—
WASHINGTON. — Some misguided
if men in the United States have the
idea that their wives boss their in-
comes, salaries or wages—different
words to use in proportion to the
amount they' receive. This money
they receive in bills or coin. The per-
son legally responsible for It Is the
secretary of the treasury of the United
States, who is charged with making
all of Uncle Sam’s money. But, get-
ting down to real facts, it is somebody
else who bosses all the money—Miss
Margaret V. Kelly, Uncle Sam’s high-
est paid womaan official.
She gets 15.000 a year. She is as-
sistant director of the mint. Actual-
ly the secretary of the treasury has
little to do with our coin. Miss Kelly
attends to that. There are but four
persons between her and the secretary
of the treasury, and in their absence
ihe runs things.
Miss Kelly is a native of New Hamp-
shire, a producer of Boston education-
al institutions.
As assistant director of the mint
Miss Kelly holds such a high official
position in the treasury department
that it can be truly said that there
has never been her equal in the serv-
ice.
Fifteen years ago, fresh from the
Boston schools,,Miss Kelly tackled a
civil service examination. She passed
and fourteen years ago entered the
service of the mint bureau as a stenog-
rapher. Since that time she has been
successively private secretary to the
director, adjuster of accounts, exam-
iner, assistant direetor, and now, when
the director is absent from Washing-
ton, she signs herself “acting direc-
tor.”
To see her some day acting secre-
tary of the treasury of the United
States is no stretch of the imagination,
for, if the secretary and the two as-
sistant secretaries, the comptroller of
the currency and the treasurer of the
United States were to be absent them-
selves at the same time, and Miss
Kelly were then acting director of the
mint, it would be "Margaret V. Kelly,
Acting Secretary, Treasury Depart-
ment.”
WTblle there are 1,400 employes in
the mint service and the responsibili-
ties of the management are great, Miss
Kelly held her own as acting direc-
for the last few months.
The salary that Miss Kelly receives,
$3,000 a year, is large pay as govern-
ment salaries go, for Uncle Sam does
not believe in paying too well for any
service rendered, no matter how val-
uable.
No Hereditary Descent in Politics
Reunited in Strange Way.
While a scene In a play was being
reproduced at a cinematograph the-
ater at 8t. Petersburg the other day,
a peasant and bis wife in the audience
recognised an actress in the scene as
their long-lost daughter. The woman
swooned, and her husband, shouting
"My daughter!” tried to force hia
way behind the stage, expecting to
find his daughter there. To convince
him that Ms daughter was not there,
the manager had the curtain drawn
Then ringing up the firm from
whom he had the film, the manager
was Informed that the actress was
there and would set out for the the-
ater at once. Soon after this informa-
tion had been given to the audience
a cab drove up with the actress, and
parents and daughter had an affection-
ate meeting, k
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Makes Pet of Bantam.
Fashions in pets among society
women are becoming as changeable as
fashions in hats. A lady who has been
seen on several occasions in the streets
of London with a pretty little black
bantam nestled In her arms, entered
a West-end restaurant recently with
her pet. While his mistress removed
her gloves and sables the bird was
perched upon her knee and was after-
ward fed from the lady's hand with
sugar crumbs. While at home the
bantam is permitted to hop about the
table, but In the restaurant his man-
ners were beyond reproach.
Lottery Prize# Bring Joy.
The two great prizes of the Spanish
Christmas lottery, amounting to $1,-
200,000 and $1,000,000 respectively,
have been won by workmen. The first
winning ticket was sold at Barcelona,
and according to custom was divided
Into several shares among several
owners. Ten parts of the ticket were
bought by persons living as far away
aa Marseilles, and they will all share
In the munificence of Fortune. The
second prize ticket for $1,000,000 was
boughj by a factory proprietor, at
Mauresa, in Catalonia, and distribu-
ted among the workmen, who are over-
joyed
'I' HE passing of great baronial houses
1 in politics is stimulated by the last
elections. Another blow has been de-
livered to the practice in several in-
stances of handing the senatorial toga
from father to son. State Senator Ar-
thur P. Gorman, Democrat, of Mary-
land, was only running for governor
to be sure, but it was generally rec-
ognized that had he been elected he
would soon have become a formidable
candidate for the United States senate,
where his father of the same name
served for many years. The late Sen-
ator Gorman started his only son upon
a political career by reason of his in-
fluence with the state machine, and
undoubtedly looked ahead to the day
when the son would become a senator.
The Gormans are related to the Da-
vises and Elkinses, of West Virginia, a
neighboring state. All three families
made considerable money in the same
ventures, but not all their money for
the late Senator Gorman died a mil-
lionaire, the late Senator S. B. Elkins,
Republican, died a multi-millionaire,
and ex-Senator Henry Gassaway Davis,
cousin of Gorman and father-in-law of
Elkins, is the richest of them all and
close to 90 years old. Young Davis
Elkins got Into the United States sen-
Photographs Can Be Sent by Tele-
graph With Great Accuracy and
8ome Speed Whenever Nec-
essary Apparatus Exists.
Paris.—It has been possible for
some time to send photographs by
wire with great accuracy and some
speed, wherever the ueeessary appa-
ratus exists. Such transmission has
for a year or bo formed part of the
regular Paris service of an enterpris-
ing London journal. Suppose, however,
that a reporter finds himself at a
country telegraph station and desires
to send to his paper a picture of some
kind In connection with his story—
portrait, or the photograph of some
building or locality. He is evidently
no better off than he would have been
a century ago. A recent process, how-
ever, the invention of a French en-
gineer named Mortier, would make it
possible for him to send his picture
over a single wire, with the aid of the
ordinary telegraphic instruments—or
rather, it would” enable him to tele-
graph data from which the picture
could be built up at the receiving sta-
tion. This process is described by R.
Bounin in La Nature, where we read:
“Mortier’s process requires neither
costly and delicate apparatus nor any
peculiar Installation, nor a special
wire. It will work anywhere, using
under normal conditions the existing
telegraphic plant of the smallest lo-
calities and without the least inter-
ference with Its ordinary administra-
tion.
"What was necessary to obtain this
result? First, to take up in a new
form one of the original conceptions
of Charles Cros, about 1869—the trans-
lation of images into a series of num-
bers, then to give to the symbolic
HEART REPAIRED WITH WIRE your success as a farmer.
How Six Feet of Golden Thread
Coiled in a Man's Aorta Made It
Strong Again.
Philadelphia.—With the walls of his
heart reinforced by a coll of wire
through which electricity passes, just
as It follows an electric-light wire,
John Braden rests at the University
hospital, and expects to resume his
usual routine in life In a few weks.
The heart is the pump which keeps
all the machinery of the human body
in motion. It has valves just as all
other pumps have, and when an engi-
neer finds a valve leaking In a pump
under his care he sto>p6 the engine
and introduces a new valve if the de-
fective one is beyond repair. The
main valve in the heart of John Bra-
den leaked. All through the day he
was disturbed by its unnatural noise,
and at night it kept him awake.
Finally the pressure became so very
severe and the peril to his life so im-
mediately grave that he was removed
to the University hospital, where Dr.
ate a few days last spring on a Guber-
natorial appointment, prior to the as-
sembling of the legislature.
Last elections in Maine dashed high
hopes for another family succession In
the senate. The Maine voters under-
stood pretty well that if Col. Fred
Hale had not slipped up on his ambi-
tion to get into congress from the
First district he would speedily have
gone into training for the senate, and
had Maine stayed Republican the or-
ganization, of which his father, now
ex-Senator Hale, was head, would have
had a toga waiting for him.
Similarly, over in Vermont, where
for a season the late Senator Redfleld
Proctor held the state as in the hol-
low of his hand, all the plans had
been laid for a senatorial succession
from father to son. It proceeded as
far as the election of the son to be
governor of Vermont, but no farther,
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Plan Celebration of Perry’s Battle
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A TENTATIVE design for the Perry
A memorial to be erected in 1913 at
Put-in-Bay, Ohio, in memory of the
one hundredth anniversary of Commo-
dore Perry’s battle on Lake Erie has
been selected here by the Joint board,
composed of the state boards of nine
states which are to participate in the
erection of the memorial. The ar-
chitect has been employed and prep-
arations begun for a celebration which
is to last from July 4, 1913, to October
1 of the same year and Is to be par-
ticipated in by almost every city in
the Great Lakes.
J. Frledlander of New York was se-
lected for architect, his suggestion for
the memorial being accepted as the
most satisfactory of 54 submitted. It
will be subject to modification, but In
the main will he erected as proposed
by Mr. Frledlander. Premiums of
$1,250, $1,000 and $750 each were
awarded to the second, third and
fourth designs, according to their mer-
it as seen by the board.
The memorial Is to consist of a plain
shaft 330 feet high, erected near the
shore of Lake Erie, at a point off which
the battle was fought. There is to be a
terrace or plaza leading down to the
water’s edge and on one1 side will be
erected the historical museum, while
another is to a memorial building to
commemorate the 100 years of peace.
The estimated cost of the memorial is
$500,000.
As part of the celebration the Ni-
agara, the old flagship of Commodore
Perry, which is sunk in Erie harbor,
will be raised and made seaworthy. It
will then be taken to each of the more
prominent of the lake cities during
next summer for a stay of a few days
in each one. It will be escorted from
city to city by vessels of the naval
militia and such escort of motor boats
and other craft as can be mustered in-
to a fleet.
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Coll of Gold Wire Inserted In Heart’s
Aorta.
Charles H. Frazier essayed the deli-
cate task of tightening up the valve
of his heart and reinforcing the entire
structure.
Examination disclosed the fact that
the aorta was about to rupture. This
would inevitably have resulted in
death.
Dr. Frazier opened the aorta as
near to the heart as possible and
Yon” success as a farmer depends
upon your selection of a tarm. We
are offering substantial farming
homes, so reliable in their nature and
on such tiasy terms, that any thrifty
farmer can make the land pay itself
out in a short time. We are selling a
wonderfully fine body of land as own-
ers, guaranteeing perfect title, to the
homeseeker—consequently no selling
commission increasesjlhe price to the
purchaser, who gets the last dollar of
value in the land.
Good crops were raised in this sec-
tion last season when so many locali-
ties made short crops. Send to us
for free illustrated booklets, giving
complete Information. The farmer
who is now working land that he caa
sell for high prices can re-lnvest ia
lands just as productive, just as cer-
tain, getting a big increase in acreage
this wonderful new country. The
renter can here become owner of a
home of hie own. It is a solid op-
portunity for the rich farmer to be-
come richer and far the farmer with
small resources to become indepen-
dent. Terms, one-fifth down, balance
In 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 years—Prices $12
per acre and upward—Notes payable
on or before maturity.
Address:
CHAS. A. JONES,
Manager 8. M. Swenson A Sons,
Spur, DickenB County. Texas.
Newspaper Is the Medium.
"The importance of this whole ques-
(ion of publicity to the consumer is
growing on the manufacturer. He
sees his competitor or some man in
another line turning the trick of pub-
licity and he sits up and thinks. He is
gradually realizing that localized,
crystalized publicity in the home is
what pays best and that he can only
get that through the newspaper."-—
The Daily Club.
deftly inserted a hollow needle which -—-
had been electrically insulated. LAWYER CURED OF ECZEMA
Through this needle Dr. Frazier push- i _—
Swindled Again.
By goeh there ain’t no chance to
■git ahead of these swindlers,” com-
plained Silas Hossbarnes.
"What’s the matter now?" his wife
asked.
"I sent a dollar to one of ’em for a
receipt to keep hair from failin’ out
and what do you s'pose he writes?"
"I can’t guess.”
"‘Quarrel with your wife and git
It pulled out’ "—Chicago Record Her-
aid.
Fraud Promoters Enriched by Millions
“F
Expected.
"Father,” said the small boy, "what
Is a reformer?”
"A reformer, my son,” replied the
statesman, "ia a man who expects
sxerybody to be economical and self-
sacrificing except his own constitu-
ents.”
Its Status.
"I wonder why they attach so much
Importance to a coal strike.”
"Whj; isn’t It Important?"
**Of course not It is merely a
ptfnsr occurrence "
ROM the final reports submitted
by Inspectors covering the ar-
rests for the fiscal year it has been as-
certaAMI that the promoters of fraud-
ulent^^kemes who have been put out
of bus^fts during the past year have
obtained approximately $77,000,000
from the public.”
This is the astonishing statement
made in the annual report of R. S.
Sharp, chief postoffice inspector. It
will probably he incredible to the av-
erage person that there are enough
“easy marks” in the United States to
contribute $77,000,000 to operators of
"get-rich-quick” projects, but. accord-
ing to the chief inspector, this amount
does not represent nearly a!l that went
Into the pockets of swindlers. The
$77,000,000 is the profits of those who
have been caught, and does not take
In those who are Btlll operating.
"These fraudulent schemes,” said
Chief Inspector 8harp, “cover a wide
field sod are of endless variety, from
the simplest business transaction to a
gigantic project Involving the sale of
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worthless stock in fake mining com-
panies and fictitious institutions exist-
ing only on paper or in the minds of
the promoters.
‘ The result of the year’s work has
developed the fact that these fraud
manipulators arc a distinct class of
criminals, some moving ir: the highest
social and business circles, hut near-
ly all having more or less affiliations
and connection with or are advisors
with schemes or enterprises of illegiti-
mate character in which they are
known as promoters.”
During the fiscal year 1911 522 in-
dividuals were Indicted on charges
of using the mall in furtherance of
schemes to defraud.
Elements That May Combine to Form
the Human Face.
numerical text a form that will make
It transmissible by all telegraphs, with
or without wires. Finally, to effect a
typographic reconstruction of the
image.
“The first thing to do is to cut the
picture up into tiny squares, each one
of which has the tone of the part of
the image in which it is situated
which tone is represented by a con-
ventional figure serving for its tele-
graphic transmission. But this process,
which has the inconvenience of being
slow and uncertain, has been happily
replaced by Mr. Mortier by the follow-
ing. which may be called automatic:
“The picture to be transmitted Is
first printed in an enlarged form siffc-
oeptlble of easy analysis. This ana-
lytic print has two valuable properties
—first. It Is naturally cut up by a gril-
lage of fine lines; secondly, the
squares do not appear as more or
less gray or transparent elements
whose tone cannot be evaluated nu-
merically, nor as groups of points
whose light value can be stated in
numbers only after a laborious meas-
urement, but rather as black sil-
houettes against a white ground or vice
versa, of forms so diversified as to
embrace an extended scale of shades
and so striking as to he Identified at
sight
"These expressive figures arise spon-
taneously in the course of the manipu-
lations. simple enough, that turn out
the analytic proof. By what artifices
has it been possible so to discipline
the actinic force of the light that It
shall express Its own tonalities In
characters more discernible than fig-
ures? The zoned cellular transpar-
ency. a simple sheet that has been
placed in the printing frame between
the original negative and the sensitive
paper, before the printing of the ana-
lytic proof, operates this miracle by
itself alone. At first sight this trans-
parent sheet 6hovs a simple marking
lif squares, but under the microscope
the appearance of the network gives
piace to an arrangement of square
<e!ls of complex structure which re-
produce exactly the typical outlines
of the symbolic silhouettes of the pre-
ceding illustration.
‘ After the preparation of the print,
the analysis of it amounts to no more
than the simple reading of a page and
the Jolting dwn of the figures in or-
der ”
ed and arranged in evenly distributed
coils more than six feet of solid gold
wire. This thread of wire was guided
by the surgeon through the pulsing
blood vessel by the sense of touch
alone, and it was built up in the
aorta, at the point of its weakest dila-
tion, just as a weakened building wall
would be strengthened at its most
perilous point. Thus the heart was
bound round, on the inside, with a
coil of strong but fin* wire, caught
“While attending school at Lebanon,
Ohio, In 1882, I became afflicted with
bolls, which lasted for about two
years, when the affliction assumed the
form of an eczema on my face, the
lower part of my face being inflamed
most of the time. There would be
water-blisters rise up and open, and
wherever the water ws-uld touch i»
would burn, and cause another one to
rise. After the blister would open.
and held in place by the surgeon’s place *ould 8Cab OTer* and vould
trained fingers. Then the problem of
preventing hemorhage arose.
Coagulation of the blood was the
great, the vital end sought. It was
decided to employ electricity to obtain
this purpose. Coagulation take* place
at both ends of the galvanic current—
that at the positive pole being small,
black and hard, and that the the nega-
tive being larger, softer and of yel-
lowish color. It happens that the
blood Is the very best agency in the
body for the conducting of electricity,
and when, as in this case, both poles
are inside the sac and near to each
other, a mild current of electricity
will cause vigorous electrolysis. In
applying the current_4j» Braden a
rheostat was used to Control the flow
and to prevent shockJwhen it should
be cut off.
Thus by coagulation the reinforce-
ment of the heart was accomplished
over the gold wire framework and
nature is building a new wall within
the valve, stopping all leakage and
giving John Braden a new lease of
life.
CAT FOSTERS STRANGE BABES
Mother Pussy, Having Lost All but
One of Her Babies, Adopts Three
8quirrels.
Knoxville, Tenn.—A squirrel is about
the laBt thing one weuld expect a cat
to adopt. Yet a motherly, gray pussy,
having lost all but one of her own ba-
bies, took charge of three gray squir-
rels In their stead, and brought them
up aa carefully and tenderly as she did
her own remaining kitten.
They played about her, with one an-
other and with the kitten as uncon*
burn and itch so as to be almost un-
bearable at times. In this way the
sores would spread from one place to
another, back and forth over the
whole of my upper lip and chin, and
at times the whole lower part of my
face would be a solid sore. This con*
dition continued for four or five years,
without getting any better, and in fact
got worse all the time, so much so
that my wife became alarmed lest it
prove fatal.
“During all this time of bolls and
eczenSa, I doctored with the best phy-
sicians of this part of the country, but
to no avail. Finally -I decided to try
Cuticura Remedies, which I did, tak-
ing the Cuticura Resolvent, applying
the Cuticura Ointment to the sores,
and using the Cuticura Soap for wash-
ing. In a very short time I began to
notice improvement, and continued to
use the Cuticura Remedies until I was
well again, and have not had a re-
currence of the trouble since, which la
over twenty years. I have recom-
mended Cuticura Remedies to others
ever since, and have great faith In
them as remedies for skin diseases.”
(Signed) A. C. Brandon, Attorney-at-
Law, Greenville, O., Jan. 17, 1911.
Although Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment are sold everywhere, a sample
of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to “CutJ-
cura,” Dept. L, Boston.
Needed Reform.
Denham—We need a reform in our
banking system.
Mrs. Benham—Yes; It’s a shame
that a wife can t overdraw her bus-
band’s account’—Judge.
“Rhino” on a Tear.
New York—Old Smiles, the two-
horned Rhinoceros in the Central
Park zoo, has a wild headache. He
got fighting drunk Sunday on a quart
of whisky given with quinine to cure
bis cold
A Happy Family.
cernedly as though they had never had
any other mother.
This happy little family was kept
on exhibition In a show-window in
Lawrenceburg, Tenn., for a lo/ig time
—indeed, until they were so well
grown that they needed no further
care.
Lizard in Stcmach a Year.
Milton, N I>—Lo68 of flesh at the
rate.of a pound a day has been suc-
cessfully combated by Joseph Schnei-
der of Wales since he toughed up a
live lizard about an inch and a half
long The lizard had evidently got
into his stomach last summer while
he was drinking water from a slough
where he was hunting.
YOU CAN
ASSIST
YOUR WEAK
STOMACH
back to its normal
condition by taking a
short course of
Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters
It tones and invigor-
ates, also prevents
Poor Appetite, Indi-
gestion, Heartburn,
Costiveness, Colds,
Grippe and Malaria.
TRY A BOTTLE T00AY.
Ban Mince Pie.
Boston—Simmons college, follow'-
ing the action of Mount Holyoke, will
allow girl students to eat mince pie
only twice a year. It makes them
drowsy, the pedagogues sa~
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Arterberry, T. E. The Savoy Star. (Savoy, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1912, newspaper, February 23, 1912; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth913493/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.