The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, October 13, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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hit’s War Scars
s the human memory that the scenes of the sanguinary conflict
• round Port Arthur have almost been forgotten. The glory of
has departed, and the attempts to restore the once powerful
* cf the Russians are slow indeed. The,visitor to the battle-scarred
hillsides, however, must be struck wltlj the feeling that, to all ap-
ths war might have taken place only yesterday. The Illustration
tne ruins of Fort Ehrlung, the main parapet of which was undermined
/ up by the Japanese. About 1,100 Japanese and 500 Russians were
iqd or wounded at this point.
VAST RICHES OF CHINA
An astonishing impression of the
variety and peculiarity of the natural
riches of China is given by the store-
houses and factories of the Hankow
export firms. Whereas the export of
tea, the monopoly of a few large Rus-
sian houses, has for some years re-
mained almost stationary, the value
of the export of oil seeds from Han-
kow, to take one example of a com-
paratively unimportant article, rose
from 3.8 million taels In 1907 to 10.5
in 3909
Boats bring wood tar from the up-
per Yangtze in big round baskets lined
with paper to be refined and remelted
in the factories; they bring astonish-
ing masses of the greasy product of
the tallow tree used in European
technical industries, also cotton and
beans, gallnuts, pigs’ bristles; also
skins, which are sun dried in the
yards of the storehouses and packed
by means of hydraulic presses for
sea transport
Millions of ducks’ eggs are, during
the few weeks of the season, manu-
factured by the hand labor of coolie
women and children into masses of
pure dried yolk and albumen, smelling
like biscuits. The albumen is used in
the photographic industry, the yolk
in the Enropean sweet stufT manufac-
ture. On the same bank of the Yang-
tse are the new cold storage houses
and the great tobacco factories of for-
elgn firms, and near by are ore refin-
eries, in which antimony, lead and
zinc are prepared for export
tead.
1 the
may
may
hum
irg as the
in 1912.
undrymen
for Pitts-
lalT’ must be
Port Chester,
table d’hote
being a min-
will be angry
th shotguns to
nentat flier from
mfleld8 with his
WHO’S WHO IN THIS TANGLE?
When Edward F. Nehrik was ar-
raigned on a lunacy charge at Day-
Ohio, the other day, a curious
family relationship developed. Nehrik
is ine father by marriage of the wom-
an once his wife, he is the grandfather
of his own daughter, while bis son is
stepfather to the child as well as her
brother. Mrs. Nehrik Is mother-in-law
to her husband. Mrs. John Nehrik,
divorced wife of Edward, filed the in-
sanity papers against him. In 1900 she
wedded Edward Nehrik and by the
union came a daughter, Pearl. In
1906 she was granted a divorce decree
and custody of the child. Nehrik's
son, John, by his first wife, married
his father’s divorced wife, or his own
stepmother. At the hearing the court
declared him sane.
rl refused a young
es because he smoked
lot more than one girl
refuse a man once for
■ a bout an aeroplane
you can see the racers
- v un if a tall man or a
. pens to be directly in
hr:tan who has succeeded
raphing thought” has per-.
the way to getting the'
witnesses who find it con-
fer get.
*r fessor comes to the
iounce that vacations are
!f he got among a crowd
vacationists be would find
nore so. /
r, Atlantic City has adver-
se is lost. Why should he
■:rouble, when, according to
liters, most of the people
e same condition?
V. : sconsln a man dived Into
er and caught a 22-pound
. Down In Texas they
;ing mountain lions with Jack-
We need a frost.
and dine any day” will not
fashionable lnvltatiofc much
if aviators take up the custom
ping in through the roof as the
> Atlantic City did.
announcement that from 1,750,-
\ 1)00,000,000 bacteria are con-
in a cubic centimeter of ice
must go unchallenged on our
r lack of time in verifying the
os ton girl of seventeen years
become the bride of a China-
haps she wants to be sure
will never be necessary for
do the family laundry work
e nas been a revolution in Ecu-
t we have not been able to
ut whether it was necessary or
• bulged in because the revolu-
ts felt the need of practice.
a cases have occurred of eye-
nreatened or lost by the inordl-
long hatpin point. Unless worn
realize themselves that this is a
ant and serious menace and re-
the length of the sharp pin,
ph will have to be taken to
the general public from this
iserous nuisance.
FATIMA'S HAND AS TALISMAN
A favorite talisman among the Mo-
hammedans is the “Lid el Fatima”—
the hand of Fatima. Manomet must
have reproduced in silver the hand of
his favorite daughter, of that Fatima
through whom his blood has descended
even to our days, for even since then
every Mohammedan, and especially
every Mohammedan woman, has al-
ways worn a silver hand. The greater
the glory of the saint yho consecrated
It. the more Intense the magic pow-
er of the relic over those who put
themselves under its protection.
IS ALIVE AFTER “FUNERAL*
After formal funeral services had
been held at his former home in
Washington, and his near relatives
had donned mourning for the man
supposed to have met his fate and
been buried In far-off India, word was
received the other day stating that
Bert R. Emrick, a widely known and
well-to-do oil man, was alive and well
and was planning to start for home
within a few days. Emrick went to
near Slngu, in Upper Burmah, India,
about 18 months ago, for the Burmah
Oil company. Recently word reached
his people by way of the company of-
fices that Emrick had been killed by
breaking of a cable at one of the wells.
It was &fterw«fdB discovered that the
original report of the tragedy was a
mistake.
JAPANESE KITE FLIGHTS LOFTY TOWER TELESCOPE
In Japan there Is an annual feast
day for boys, when each house having
male children hangs out strings of pa-
per carp, which Inflated by the breeze
become lifelike monster fish.
"It was on this feast day,” says a
writer in the Wide World, "that we
left Yokohama for Kamakura, once
the eastern capital of Japan, now
merely a quiet little seaside village.
"As it was such an important occa-
sion the whole world made holiday,
some families hurried to the seashore
to fly their enormous humming kites,
from which the parents appeared to
derive quite as much enjoyment as
the children. The loud hum emitted
by the soaring kite as caused by a
piece of thin bamboo, which is
stretched tightly across from shoulder
to shoulder.
"This taut bamboo filament not
only acts as a aeolian harp but bends
the whole kite, so that its surface is
concave instead of being, as in our
kites, a plane. The noise when some
threescore or so of these monsters are
in the air at the same time is deafen-
ing.
, "The Japanese kite has no tall, bnt
is furnished with numerous long
streamers. Great competitions are
held by the owners of the kites, and
occasionally a mimic battle will be
fought in the air, the rival factions en-
deavoring by means of powdered
giass, which has been previously
worked into a defiinte' length of the
kite strings, to saw through a rival’s
string, and so bring the vanquished
kite tumbling lgnominiously to the
ground.”
NEEDLE ENDS LONG TRIP
A pair of tweezers were used the
other day by Edmund C. Gaskill, a
lawyer of Atlantic City, to remove a
needle that had been in his body
twenty-three years. It had worked its
way from his knee to his shoulder.
He found it*there when bathing the
shoulder In the belief he had rheuma-
tism. When eight years old, Gaskill
fell against his mother, who was sew-
ing, and the needle was jabbed deep
In his knee. A doctor failed to find it.
It was forgotten when the puncture
healed. That the needle took so long
in working through his body may be
explained by the fact that he is six
feet eight Inches tall.
This is the second tower telescope
constructed at the Mount Wilson ob-
servatory, in California, from a new
design by Professor Hale. The first
was 65 feet high, and it was so suc-
cessful that the larger one here shown
was built, which Is 160 feet in height,
while the well containing the specto-
graph and spectro-heliograph is 75 feet.
By the later Instrument photographs
can be taken of the whole face of the
sun, showing the vapors across its
disk. The coelostat and secondary
mirrors are mounted at its top. and
after reflecting from them the sun’s
light passes vertically downward on
to a lens placed near them on the top
of the tower. A horizontal image of
the sun, 17 inches in diameter, is
thence obtained in a plane near the
ground.
GOING TO COLLEGE AT 80
Mrs. A. D. Winshlp of Racine, Wls.,
Is the oldest university student In the
United States. When Mrs. Winshlp
was seventy-eight years old she en-
tered the University of Ohio. She Is
now eighty years of age, and has com-
pleted her freshmen and sophomore
years Her specialty was psychology
At summer school this year Mrs. Wln-
shlp won a prize for excellence in her
studies.
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Mrs. Hattie M. Freeman Says Fe-
line Pets Can Understand
Her Just Like a Man.
SHE ONCE WAS A TABBY
Declares She Formerly Lived In an
Alley and Roamed Over Back
Fences—Her Existence Then Has
Made Her Solicitous for Cats Now.
LLAMAS IN HARNESS
An interesting attraction In one of
the European zoological gardens is a
pair of tame llamas that draw passen-
gers about the grounds. They are de-
clared to be the only creatures of their
kind in Europe that have been trained
for this purpose. The animals draw
a light carriage and at a receht test it
was shown that they could easily pull
a load of 450 pounds. They are quite
docile and readily answer to the rein.
In their native Andes they are the
beasts of burden.
Every summer the people of Paris and visitors to that city are enter-
tained by the tournaments on the Seine, which have been held for at least 50
years. The banks of the river are crowded with spectators and the con-
tenders for prizes are numerous. The photograph shows one of the tilting
contests In which the men with the long poles endeavor to push each other
•If the boats.
Kansas City, Mo.—If the family cat
purrs gently at your side, if it meows
appealingly, if it sits upon the chair
and casts a sympathetic eye in your
direction while you argue with the
iceman or if .it gets upon the piano
keys, don’t pass the incidents indif-
ferently from your mind as unimpor-
tant and merely the antics of a cat.
There is meaning, real significance,
in every action and look of the cat;
at least to one woman in the world,
Mrs. Hattie Melius Freeman, of this
city.
This woman is thoroughly couvei-
sant with cats. She can understand
their every whim; she can talk to
them; they can talk to her. In court,
they are her companions, and she
would much rather be in the company
of cats than be forced to participate
in some idle and garrulous chatter.
For Mrs. Freeman is a firm believer
in the transmigration of the soul
In her previous mystic condition,
before she took human form, she
Talks to Cats.
iays that she was an alley cat. Just
a typical alley cat. Not the kind that
is fortunate enough to be taken into
a home and sheltered behind a warm
stove In the 'vinter, fondled by a
kind mistress, and the subject for
friendly comment by well-meaning
visitors. Never that.
For hers was that wild and noma-
dic alley cat’s life which *s spent in
the out-of-way places, gathering food
to sustain life wherever it may be
found.
“Oh, the horror of that life! Shall
I ever forget it?” Mrs. Freeman was
speaking to a reporter, and as she
half asked the question a shiver rent
her. Then, without waiting for an an-
swer, she related that the existence
she had to endure in her former life
has made her especiaJly solicitous of
cats in this life.
There you have the explanation of
the twenty-seven cats which make
their home with Mrs. Freeman. All
her life she has been a cat lover.
If any one will take the trouble to
go to the rear of this woman’s home
he will not only find food there for the
stray cats, but he will see also a
shelter made especially for the pur-
pose. '* t
“It, is terrible, terrible to lead the
life of an alley cat,” continued the
woman. "No soul can have a braver
or a more sordid trial. The wild re-
treats which must be made in the
face of pursuing dogs, clubs, the kicks
and the abuse from human hands. I
might have thought myself the most
ill-treated soul In the world had I not
met other cats worse off than I.
“Well do I remember one dusk in my
cat world when I had put in a most
miserable day. It seemed as though
I couldn’t endure the torture, until
finally I came onto another alley cat.
whose leg had been broken that day
by some heartless boys. Then It was
that she and I pledged that If ever
we got to be human beings we would
treat all the cats kindly.
“Would you believe me?” Mrs. Free-
man spoke with a manifestation of
much interest. "One day I went to a
theosophist meeting in Detroit and
there I met the woman who had been
the alley cat with the broken leg. The
recognizance was mutual. She was
keeping her promise and goodness
knows I am not being kind to the
cats solely because of that promise,
but for the reason that I enjoy car-
lug for them.”
WHAT SHE
WANTED
This Woman Had to Insist
Strongly, but it Paid
Chicago, 111.—**I suffered from a fe-
male weakness and stomach trouble,
and I went to the
store to get a bottle
of Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable
Compound, but the
clerk did not want
to let me have it—
he said it was no
good and wanted me
to try something
else, but knowing
all about it I in-
sisted and finally
got it, and I am so
glad I did, for it has cured me.
“I know of so many cases where wo-
men have been cured oy Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound that I can
say to every suffering woman if that
medicine does not help her, there is
nothing that will.”—Mrs. Janxtzel
2963 Arch St., Chicago, I1L
This is the age of substitution, and
women who want a cure should insist
upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound just as this woman did, and
not accept something else on which the
druggist can make a little more profit.
Women who are passing through this
critical period or who are suffering
from any of those distressing ills pe-
culiar to their sex should not lose sight
of the fact that for thirty years Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound,
which is made from roots and herbs,
has been the standard remedy for fe-
male ills. In almost every community
you will find women who have been
restored to health by Lydia E. Pink,
ham’s Vegetable Compound.
NATURAL HISTORY.
“Do giraffes catch cold when they
wet their feet, papa?”
“Of course, my son—but not until
the next month!”—Heitere Welt.
Buying Legislators In Joblots.
One day, writes Sloane Gordon in
Success Magazine, a former member
of the Ohio house displayed, inad-
vertently, a large roll of bills in the
Neil house lobby. A fellow member
gazed in awe at the show of wealtl?
"I just sold a drove of hogs,” ex-
plained the former member rather
hastily and confusedly.
The observing one was thoughtfuL
He did not reply for the half-minute
usually essential to the full-measured
beat of Ms mental processes. And
then—”
“Yaas,” he drawled, "and I’ll bet
I’m one o’ them hawgs.”
Ready for It.
"Young man, have you made any
preparations for the rainy day?”
“Oh, yes,” replied the son of the
prominent millionaire. "In addition
to my roadster, I have a corking good
limousine that will easily hold six
girls.”
The more a woman runs after a
man the easier it is for her not to
catch him.
Easy
Breakfastl
A bowl of crisp
Post
Toasties
and cream—
the thing’s done!
Appetizing
Nourishing
Convenient
Ready to serve right
out of the pacKage.
‘The Memory Lingers”
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Hudson, C. H. & Woodward, Roy. The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, October 13, 1911, newspaper, October 13, 1911; Pearsall, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth974854/m1/2/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .