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DEVIL’S RIVER NEWS.
H irris* Optical Company.
Dr. Edward A. Caroe
Optometrist,
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VOL 34
SONOKA SXJTTON CO.. TEXAS. SATURDAY, FEBKUUAY 21. 1925
NO. 1784
E.F.YPPE5 STUCKEfl-
T53IPK COMPEIfY.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES
CB3CKERY, HAYiDWAIE, ETC
WINDMILLS, PIPE AND PIPE FITTINGS
Libera llriasa iltda on iajsp and] 3-pat:.
Phones 53 and 190.
S3NO;iA. TEXAS.
DEVIL’S RIVER NEW
PUBLISH Kll a KM v
STEVte MURPHY Publisher
Entered at ts« Festohico *: S.-.u-
M second-class matter.
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Thanks. Notices of Kiiiialntnents -mi
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FAMOUS FORTS
IN U. S. HISTORY
Sr ELMO 5COTT WATSON
Where the "Kin? of the
Missouri” Ruled
When Kenneth MeKenxie, (tie stovn
old Scotch lim n who Inter «:i* kno-vti
ns the “Kin? of Hi MiR-inirl," v e
jnit In charge of the Vi i ‘rh-an Fur I
business on the u; per Min j
sour! In he hallt a fort nt liie '
Junction of the Yellowstone and the i
Missouri in the extreme weslern part |
tif the present stale <u North Dakota. j
At first this was known us Fort Floyd,
but McKenzie changed that name to
For* IV n because he intended to
make It the center of both mountain
and river fur trade.
Fort Union is said to linve been
the best built post on the Missouri,
end with the possible exception of
Bent's fort on the Arkansas, the heat
in the entire West. Here the "kins'
re'over Ills turbulent subjects,
both white aud rod. and for tl*e next
quarter of a century Fort Union re-
tained Its Importance, which was not
true of many of the for trading posts
built during that era. But the end
came Iti 1804 when n steamer, sent
by Smith. H.ibtxil and Hawley, who
bad bought out tlie American Fur com-
pany, appeared at Fort Union to;
transfer Its goods to Fort Benton In j
Montana.
In the word” of one historian, "when ‘
that steamer backed uwny from the J
landing, lenving the stout walls of old [
Fort Union to crumble into dust, she
bad turned the last leaf on the clos-
ing chapter of an epoch which for
thrilling romance has seldom been
equalled In the history of the conti-
nent. Fori Union hud been the great-
est of tbe Indian (ratling post* witbln
tl>« boundaries of the United States.
For J-enrs the rnoa* powerful tribe*
of the North west had come there to
trade; there had come the fuctors of
the company's other piwts front a11
over the vast watershed of the upper
Missouri; there had assembled the
bold rtiynox, of t tie wilderness from
(lie Gr«..i Riu\e. oike anil the Platte,
f.'orr the Uo ky mountains nnd the
Pod rt~er of the North; there had
visited nt one time and another some
of the world's most fatuous scientists
and explorers, among others. George
O-stllu. Prince Maxtullian and Au-
dubon.
“When Fort Union passed away,
there passed with It the last vestige
of the fur trad" as an Independent
commercial Institution, and there re-
mains today but llttlo trace of tha
pines where "Klrg" McKensle ruled
until III* clandestine distillery rpera*
tlon* within Its wall* brought down
upon him the wrath of the United
Btsirs govi runi-ni and rlrtnnlly put
tB an end the -fulness of one of
tbe greet figur e .n he fur trade,"
(b. ltd, Wi.i.ru I'nI.n.)
WHAT IS
APPENDICITIS?
DR. F'RKURRirK B. OBKKN
Kdlior ot • tlt'tl.TH '
<*<•<• ■:
/~\s'K of the favorite subjects for
Jokes or. the part of our present*
dny humorists Is usqieudieitl*.
According to tliese gentlemen, np-
pendlrltln I* a recently discovered dis-
ease which was Invented for t*l
pose of giving surgeons u rcuiuucrulite
occupation.
"How does It happen," asks the
newspaper humorist, "that our grand-
parents never Imd appendicitis?"
I’.less your hearts! They did. lust
ns people do nowaday* but they died
of It In the majority of eases they
never got well to tell the story.
Appendicitis Is as old as the human
race. Buffer found evidences of It in
the Egyptian mummies of a thousand
year* before- Christ
Ever since man gave up an r.xrlu
slrely vegetarian tliet iui ! began to
walk uprlghl or- his hltul feet he Its*
had npttendleitls Hut he didn't "all It
that The doctors of fifty years ago
called It "billot:” colic," or "lutlamms
f ,t ,ov ,p" v know than*
pt i.t-ui'tt ultdomon. hut tit 'v didn't dare
; hint up to Hi I out hut the troe
hie w.- liicn.-e they knew 11 nt t If
i'-cy da! the (iMt'fnt would die from
the t partition, while if lliey let hlin
ab-ne he rogh- g-d well
F-.I they j.-.-ji-• h'ta o; tim tn deaden
tup pain and be either got well or
died althoiurli In the great majority
of c”*ca he dit-d.
About forty von rs ago t’cstcnr
proved th-.it Inlbimria-ion -.ad jifertlou
»r<- due to minute germs. Sir Jo-eph
I later mi Ri’gllsh stirce- ii, found out
l ow t-> keep th"«o germs out cf wounds
so a” to avoid Infection. This was the
befrlr.mng of modern surgery. As soon
as the surgeon could open the human
body and cl «e It up again without kill
Inu the p tlent. It was found that what
had been called "Inflammation of the
bowels" was often due to an Inflamma-
tion of the append's, a httle glove like
portion of the Intestines, which we In
herb vs! from our herbivorous ances-
tors. It is of no me to elrlllred man
and is rattier a danger because It rus
llv becomes Inflamed.
When this happens, the patient has
pain and lendcirt ss In the r'ght groin',
generally wit It Inc,-caned tempernttire
If the luflaniniait ’ll r 'C<i ort it"til th»
wall of the appendix 1 softened. It
inn; rupture aud produce r.n abscess
or a general peritonitis.
The present-day surgeon doesn't wait
for perforations. He makes a little
Incision through the skin mid muscles,
slips In his finger, draws out the In-
flamed appendix, ties It off and re-
moves It, then drops the bowel back
Into the abdomen, clos'ng the Incision
with a few catgut stitches.
Appendicitis Isn't anything new. The
recognition and treatment of ttie con-
dition are new and proper treatment
saves thousands of lives every year
($. 1924. vr#.-t«rn N«w»pap*r Union )
“Sacrifice” That Saved
Monopoly for Holland
The Hollanders once enjoyed a
very profitable monopoly in the
manufacture of tcbacoo pipes aud
supplied them in large quantities to
the surrounding countries. The
people of Flanders, who had been
I very good customers, thought to
' keep this money at home anti there-
j by undertook to establish a pipe in-
t dt’.ofry in their own Cry , ui
forded ii the protection of a tarilT
sufficient to keep the Dutch pipes
out of the country. Being unable to
hold the trade, the Dutch manufac-
turers undertook to wreck it, which
they did in a very ingenious and ef-
fective manner. They loaded u boat
with en assortment of pipes and
then deliberately wrecked it on the
Flanders coast. It was prompth
salvaged by the people of Blander*
and their country flooded with cheap
pipes, which answered all demands
for a year or two, and pipes were so
ruinously cheap that the new indus
try perished. By sacrificing a cargo
nf r*m<s the Dutch monopoly was
S,.bJ.
Venetian Gondola Goes
Far Back Into History
On* hopes the story that the gon-
dola* of Venice are to be electrical-
ly driven in the future may he dis-
missed as a bad joke. For no means
of locomotion ever invented has so
•venerable a history or is so suited to
it* environment.
“Gondola” is said to be a deriva-
tion from the word “cynihs,” which
was applied to the skiff in which
Charon ferried the goals of the dead
across the Styx, and the passenger
tvlto enters the modern boat, lays lit*
coin on the gunwale just as the soul
was supposed to pay its obol to
Charon.
The uniform black of the gon-
dola's paint, however, has no fune-
real significance, blit is a result of
the Venetian sumptuary laws of the
Sixteenth and Soventsenth cen-
turies, which curbed the attempts af
the nobles to outshine each other in
the magnificence of their appoint-
ments.
WAS STILL ALONE
The Gooii Cxample
Mrs. Browne—Our new minister
is just wonderful. He always bring*
the truth home to yon.
Mr*. Mnuvc—Wouldn't it be per-
fectly lovely to have a husband like
thut?
She Cured Him
Mr*. A—How did your husband
get over his illne** so quickly?
Mrs. B—*1 threatened to send for
mother to take cat* of turn.—Bua-
tou Trtafcrq't.
“Didn’t you marry because u>
didn't like to be alo.it*?”
‘Sure.”
“Then what are yoj getting a
divorce for?”
“For the same reason.”
Steam From Midearlh
Coming Motive Power?
VI hut will happen when the earth
runs short of coal and oil supplies ?
This problem was discussed bv
Prof. W. W. Watts in a paper on
‘‘Geology in the Service of Man.”
He suggested the possibility of a
grout new power which humanity
may harness to its service—nothing
les* than the heat of the earth’s
nether regions.
A i."o been rcadc at
Volterra, in Italy, where u n.w
source of power has been found in
the high-teutperuture steam front
Funtaroles, which has previously
been end only a* a source of borax.
Now tbe Ft-eam is being tapped by
lairing, and *'S elite* heat is em-
ployed in running great power sta-
tions.
Shipper Telit of Ship
Pursued by “Islands”
The good-ip President Adam*
docked in New York recently with
a story of having been chased up the
Pacific coast by a floating island. j
C'apt. James Parkelbury was the
skipper. He nut the thing r.s he
was sailing north of Borneo. It hat
palm trees, he declares, taller than j
the wireless masts of his ship, with ,
ringing birds and chattering mon- j
key* in them. Through marine
gla. ■- fie made uut a mass ot flow-
ering vegetation nnd a fumily of
reptiles. Thin bit of land come
floating up the sea and then began
to follow him. “Before night,” di-
clatos Captain Parkelbury, “we
sighted eight or teu more floating
i»ht tuls, but none so'large us the first
one.”
What happened, member* of the
This may le but the beginning cf j
the application of a new ami vylu- i American Geological society cx-
sble source of power in which the! plained to the newspaper which
service* of geology will be required, printed the story, whs that the enp-
We are haunted by the fear that tain merely rtui into a rather large
a limit will be imjaieed by high tom-1 order of an entirely normal plie-
perature to deep mining, while that nomenon in tropic waters. “Float-
very heat may provide energy, ns ing islands” are tangles of vogeta-
valuable as the material which tion, ns tightly woven as a grass
would otherwise Is? mined—just as rug, that wash out of the mouths of
we dread the gas from certain coal rivers in times of tropic floods.
seams, when t!u> gas might, if it' -;—
could hr exploded, give a return UNSUCCESSFUL DODGE
equivalent to that of tha coal itself. -
SOU^Of PEARLS I
lit
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He—Do you expect to get u pearl
out of an oj'iter during one of theso
long dives?
She—No; I’ve been expecting to
get a p'arl out -' a 1 >bst.T all along.
Particular* V/anted
ITsving won plaudits in Europe,
a beautiful film star came to this
country. She looked eo soulful that
it itemed sordid to mention money
in her presence. The manager had
no id-a what she would expect, hut
something had to be suid about sal-
ury, so he asked in an offhand man-
lier: “How about ten thousand a
week ?”
She gazed at him fo long and
fixedly that, ho feared ho had lost
her with this piffling offer, but his
breath came back when she slowly
inquired: “Ten thousand what—
rubles?”—Louisville Courier-Jour-
Luis
Hungary Re vela Again
Night life in Hungary has been
practically absent, so far as its old
effulgence is concerned, since 1914,
hut recently with returning pros-
perity many of the famous old
places have reopened. “Gypsy nm-
sie,” which was an outstanding fea-
tnre of night entertainment there
for years, is now quite common in
the Budapest enfes, and buildings
which formerly held famous cafet
and were closed for banks and other
marts of trade have omted the liusi-
ness enterprises and are now teem-
ing with merriment.
Make• Diving Eaay )
The invention by the .Japanese of
* diving appliance which disjiensei
with the use of pumping promises
to revolutionize the pearling indus*
try. The new appliance consists of
a small mask, with face glass and
rubber edge, which covers the eye*
and nose. The mnsk is connected to
a cylinder about sixteen pounds in
filled with compressed air,
which is carried on the chest. Tit*
supply of air to the nose is regulated
by the mouth, which controls an at-
tachment to a tube connecting the
cylinder with the mask.
Production of Helium
The I'nitcd States is the o»ily
country which l as dove! >ped helium,
or has used it so far. However,
helium is likely to lie found
whercv*r oil is f " d 'or instance,
in Alaska, Russia and Sil>eria.
“The motorist has gotten into
trouble frying unsuccessfully to
dodge another auto, I guess.”
“No; trying unsuccessfully to
dodge another auto tax.”
Rides With Milkman
At Bclair, L. I.L there is a young
woman whore swain lives in Greater
New York, and ns he usually misso?
♦he last train home, he has engnged
one of the milkmen who’regularly
goes to the city after midnight to
carry him the five miles between the
home of his inamoiata nnd his own
For several months he trekked the
five miles to the nearest Su'-i.a) un-
til the rattling of the milk truck
gave him tha bright idea and now
ihe milkman watches for his Lite
wooer regularly, ns they have struck
a bargain of $1 per (rip.
Not There for Pleasure
There is a nuin in New York who
has gone to the theater every night
for the last 15 years, nnd yet has
never seen a complete performance.
He is employed by a company that
prints the programs distributed in
most of the playhouses in Broad-
way. The company prints ouly
enough to provide each ticket hold-
er with a program, and his real job
is to estimate the number of pro-
grams needed at the playhouse*
where dwindling audiencea are en-
countered.
Corn Yields Sugar
By s new process used by the
United States bureau of chemistry
fl.'l pound* of sugar may be extract-
ed from a bushel of corn.
Ship Has Traveled Far
The world's largest tanker, tha
Diesel-driven ship Zoppot, has imw
covered ?45,286 sea mile* in [uui
jears’ urduter: ipt?d service.
Canada’s New Industry
Canada has become Italy’s rival
as a macaroni manufacturer. Three
years ago the Dominion imported
7,000,000 pounds of macaroni, prin-
cipally from Italy. Last year it im-
ported only a few hundred pound*.
Canada’s factories turned out 12,-
000,000 pounds. Exports increased
from 219,000 pounds in 1922 to 2,-
'29,000 pounds in 1923. The prod-
uct went principally to the United
States, Groat Britain and Belgium.
Progress in Lighting
The people of the United States
sjient $020,000,000 during 1923 for
electricity used for illumination
purposes. Ilad they used as much
light during any single year prior
to the advent of the tungsten fila-
ment lamp the cost of the electricity
would have amounted to $2,250,-
000,000.
Woman Officiates
For the first time a woman, Mra.
C. B. Alderton, the new mayor of
Colchester, performed the ceremony
of hauling in the first dredge of oys-
ters at the opening of the season at
Biightlingsca, England, this season.
Heavy Death Duties
Nearly $7,500,000 was paid in
death duties on the estate of Sir
Emil Hopner, a British sh'j> owner,
who left an e»latc of $18,000,000.
WOOL AND MOHAIR
CHARLE& bChREINER, BANKER.
(UMNCUKPORATKD)
KE.RRVI11.E. TEXAS.
Make* Liberal Advances on Sheep, G„»ta, \, ool andMohair
Established 1809.
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MORTGAGE LOANS
Unlimited Funds - - No Delay.
E. R. CHANDLER * CO.
102 East Crockett St., San Antonio, Texas.
W- R. Stumberg, Agent San Angelo.
WOOL GROWERS CENTRAL STORAGE
CCKPANT, SIN ANCELO, TEXAS.
WOOL AKD MOHAIR
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
WL HOLLAND AU10 CO.,
; v. S. (Bob) Holland* Phone 754.
19, 21 West Iwcbig Ave., San Angelo, Texas.
STORAGE
Car Washing and Greasing.
Truck Tires, Mobile Oils.
lour Car end Contents are Sate In my Place.
GROWTHER SUPPLY CO.
18 E. oncho Ave, San An elo,
Oai lies a tu’1 line of John Deere Tnpl'i.yonts.
Peerless FeLCing und Wire. Aeimotor
Windmills, Pipe, Cylinders and Rods,
John Deere Wagons.
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The McDonald Hotel,
Mrs. Jcsie McDonald, Cwn«r.
7$tes S3.£5 Ter r&y. Gccd Toblo and Ccivicc.
Comfortable, Convenient, Homelike.
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Cramping Spells
MORE THAN A YEAR I had bean in a
JL1 very bad condition,” says Mrs. It. E. Kimbrell,
of Route 1, Dorchester, Texas. “I suffered
with cramping spells which gave me bad pains in
g my back and sides. Sometimes I would, have to
■J catch tt something, I would get no suddenly dizzy.
... I hud to quit doing my work. I tried many reme-
dies, but none of them seemed to do me any good.
“In April I went up to Arknnsas to visit my sister. . . .
Sho said to me, ‘Willie, it you arc going to take anything,
take Cardul. It w ill really help you/ I ctunc home nnd told
my doctor what sho had said and lie oald I could net tnke any
bettor tonic, so my husband immediately got me a bottle uni
I began it. ... My caac waa a pretty tough or.e, I know, so
I kept on faithfully. After the fourth bottle, I began to feel
very much bettor, so much so that I was surprised at myself.
I have taken six bottles now and I can truly say 1 feel like a
different woman. ... I feel line and I owa it all to Cardul,
which I took faithfully/*
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