QUEER USE OF GRAMOPHONE
That 'nstrvment la Not Designed
Merely for Amusement Has
Been Proved. ,
The gramophone is sometimes put
to strange uses. The leader of an Af
rican hunting expedition, who set out
on a motor trip from the Cape to Cairo,
recently used it as a decoy for tigers
and hippopotami. In tiger hunting it
Is usual to tether a l&mb to a tree;
its bleatings attract the tiger within
reach of the hunters. Before leav
ing England, the explorer had some
records made by bleating lambs, and,
says a writer in Answers, he tried
them on the unsuspecting tigers of the
African jungle with considerable suc
cess.
The record makers gained one of
their greatest triumphs when they suc
ceeded in getting good nightingale
and blackbird records. The chief dif
ficulty was the objection that the
birds had to the sounds of the re
cording machine. The clever men got
round that by setting up a dummy
recording machine, in the horn of
which they put some of the birds’ fa
vorite food.
When a bird entered the horn to
get the food the clockwork was set
in motion. The little creatures soon
grew accustomed to the sound, and
so, after much tedious sfiid discour
aging labor, successful records were
made. These records hre selling in
thousands all over the w'orld.
The gramophone is also of service
In more serious and more scientific
updertaklngs. Records of all dialects
and languages spoken in Great Britain
have been made and preserved in the
British museum for the benefit of
posterity. The people of the thir
tieth century will know by the help
of these records just how Manx and
Gaelic sounded, and how the cockney
lingo differs from “braid Scots.” Sev
eral of the universities also have col
lections of the same kind.—Youth’s
Companion.
TOOK THE CREDIT, ANYWAY
Man Who Had Intended to Disregard
Wife’s Advice Made Her Think
Otherwise.
When I am going to be extravagant
I always like the encouragement of
my wife, and I usually get it, writes
A. Edward Newton in the Atlantic
Monthly. I determined to talk over
with her a proposed purchase. Her
prophetic instinct in this instance was
against it. She reminded me that the
business outlook was not good when
we left home and that the reports
received since were anything but en
couraging.
“That amount of money," she said,
"may be useful when you get home.”
The advice was good. Indeed, her argu
mjenta were so unanswerable that 1
determined not to discuss it further,
but to buy anyhow and Bay nothing.
Early the next morning I went back
and to my great disappointment found
that someone more forehanded than
I had taken the treasure. My regrets
for a time were keen, but upon my re
turn to this country 1 found myBelf
in the height of the 1907 panic. Secu
rities seemed almost worthless and
actual money unobtainable. Then I
congratulated my wife on her wisdom,
and pointed out what a fine fellow 1
had been to follow her advice.
Made Point for Defense.
Of Sir Thomas Egerton, who was
gifted with quick perception, this story
is told: “A poor woman had been in
trusted with the care of a large sum
of money by three farmers, who told
her to keep it safely until they ap
peared together to claim it. Shortly
afterward one of them went to her
and, representing that he came at the
direction of the other two, he received
the money and forthwith disappeared.
The other two brought action to re
cover the whole deposit. Egerton hap
pened to be in court during the trial,
in which an intimate friend defended
the woman. Seeing that the case was
going against his friend, Egerton vol
unteered to speak as amicus curiae.
Permission was granted. Emphasiz
ing the condition on which the money
was left in the woman’s care, Eger
ton said: "It is clear that the plain
tiffs cannot recover, because it is to
the three appearing together that the
defendant agreed to deliver the money.
Where is the third? Let him be pro
duced.” Thus Egerton saved the day
for his friend.
Happiness.
The small boy gets his happiness
neck deep In the creek on an August
day; the grandfather finds It In the
society solumns of the newspapers
when their names appear “among
those present;” some look for It In
the stock market—to them It Is a
matter of dollars and cents. There
are as many varieties of happiness as
there are sorts of people. But the
most satisfying and lasting happiness
is the retroactive type that comes
through making others happy. We
get out of life In proportion to what
we put into it.
Profit In Mistakes.
Because one has made a mistake In
the business world Is no cause for dis
couragement, for if one is keen enough
to see and correct It, it may lead to fu
ture success.
Setting the goal high and permit
ting no discouragements or mistakes
to change the course will do away with
many of the disappointments found in
the path of most people at some time
in their experience.—Christian Science
Monitor.
IT WAS A COLD DAY
BY ELIZABETH ALLEN.
"Isn’t this a lovely winter day!” re
joiced the hostess as the young wom
an with the extra fine lynx furs came
in.
“Oh, by all means!” agreed the
young woman with savage politeness,
as she made for the open fireplace.
"Still, you can talk till you're black in
the face about the joys of snow and
ice and ruddy cheeks and all the rest
of that rubbish, but as for myself give
me a thermometer that is climbing to
the top like a new-rich family on the
social warpath. You might throw in
a few palm leaf fans and a case of
sunburn into the bargain—I'll take
them all!”
"What has happened?" inquired the
hostess. “You are so violent, dear.”
“Violent!” echoed the young woman
who had juBt come in, hurling her muff
at the Pekinese spaniel and dashing
her gloves into a thicket of Boston
fern. "I’m a mild ethereal zephyr
compared with what I’d have to be if
I expressed the sum total of my emo
tions! In fact, I have so many emo
tions that I feel like the person who
lives in a two-by-four flat with folding
beds squeezed into one corner and has
her grandmother’s mahogany four
poster bestowed on her! I’ve got to
move, that’s all! Violent! Come here,
Chow, and let me bite you!”
“Leave that poor, innocent dog
alone!” ordered the hostess, hurried
ly. “Is your new velvet dress spoiled,
, or what?”
The young woman sank into a chair
and groaned as she regarded the fire.
“Worse," she related. “Beyond the
limit of the impossible! You know
Winston Wilder, don’t you—the one
we all call Winnie because he looks
like it? Why, once when we were hav
ing conundrums somebody asked,
‘Why is a Winston Wilder?’ and the
answer was, ‘Because he was out when
the fool-killer called!’ I don’t know
why any of us have tolerated Winnie
all these years except that he is gen
erally harmless, in spite of his super
natural conceit.
"Then, too, as for myself, I always
was interested in counting the six
hairs of his mustache and seeing if by
chance there were seven, but there
never were. I think he has those six
glued on, and even they are kind of
pink. He isn’t even decorative at a
tea, because he insists on talking and
that shrill voice of his sends every one
home. We have accepted him as one
of the drawbacks to existence. Well,
when Winnie appeared yesterday aft
ernoon and said he had come to tako
me skating he seemed so sure about it
that I went. Besides, I had nothing
else to do and I like to skate and I
thought I could forget he was along.
“We had a lovely time at first, until
I notfced that it was frightfully cold.
When I get chilled my face always be
comes so frozen that the musrfles
won't work and I can’t talk. It's just
as though they were set in a vise. I
didn’t know it had happened until Win
nie began to propose to me.”
"Propose!” shrieked the hostess.
“Well, perhaps you wouldn’t call it
proposing if you are finicky about
wcrds,” admitted the young woman
who had dropped in. "Rather he be
gan to inform me that he had decided
to marry me. It never would occur to
Winnie to ask a girl about a little
thing like that—his idea is that she
would hurl herself at him in hysterical
tears of joy should he but mention
that she had a chance to get him. As
soon as I realized what he was doing 1
turned upon him with a chilling sen
tence on my lips—where it stayed. I
couldn’t get out a word, so I sawed
the air wildly and protestingly with
one hand.
“ ‘I know what I have said has
startled and overcome you,’ remarked
Winnie as he grabbed my hand and
pulled it down, ‘but try to be calm!
Try to control yourself! It isn’t so
strange when you come to think of it
—you are a very attractive girl if you
aren’t a beauty and I never would mar
ry for money anyhow. I want my
wife to be a girl who has been brought
up frugally, so she won’t expect dia
mond tiaras and ten servants to wait
on her. A woman’s place is the home,
making things cheerful for her hus
band, don’t you think?’
“I made some strangling, guttural
sounds and Winnie beamed at me
soothingly. ‘I knew you thought so,’
he said. ‘You can trust to my judg
ment. I knew you cared for me, dear,
even though you were at such pains
to conceal it. The knowledge that
you did so was what first touched me
—it would have been unmanly to
spurn your aiTection!’
“I stopped short at this and pound
ed on the ice with one skate and
glared at him and waved my hands
and tried to talk and my face simply
wouldn’t work.
“ ‘Poor girl!’ Winnie said, still sooth
ingly. ‘I shall take you home to recov
er from the excitement of the mo
ment. I’ll have our engagement an
nounced at once.’
‘‘I live only two blocks from the
park, you know, and between rage and
horror I cried all the way home and
the tears froze and pulled out my long
est eyelashes, and I thought I'd die.
I almost pushed Winnie down the
front steps as I rushed inside and
when I got my face thawed out I tried
to telephone him. I’ve been trying
ever since and he’s not at home or in
his office or anywhere and I can’t stand
another minute to have him dare to
think I’m engaged to him! I won’t
have it!
“What on earth are you laughing at?
You are a heartless, brutal, unsympa
thetic friend, that’s what you are!”
THEMISTOCLEf
When Themistocles was asked by
his host at a dinner party to enter
tain the guests by playing the lute, he
replied that he could not play the
fiddle, but that he could make a small
town a great city. We have in this
nation many politicians who are good
"fiddlers,’’ but they cannot make a
small town a great city. We are over
run w’ith orators who can play upou
the passions of the people, but they
can’t put brick and mortar together.
We need builders.
Let those who hunger and thirst for
power understand that the highest
glory of a statesman is to construct,
and that it is better for a man that he
should build a public highway than
that he should become Governor of a
state, and that he start a plow than
that he become the author of a law.
The true test of statesmanship is the
plow and the hammer, so let those
who would govern, first build.
The American Calf.
Deer hunters are forbidden to kill
fawns In most American states. There
are laws to protect the baby seal.
Game fish under a certain size have
their lives insured by official regula
tion. How does it happen, then, that
the American butcher goes on slaugh
tering the American calf, slashing at
the throat of the nation’s meat and
dairy supply, without audible protest
Vrom any quarter? The heifer calf’s
place in our system of table economy
Is not a matter of guesswork or the
ory. *The calf that is eaten as veal
never develops into betf, nor can it
continue the race of its valuable kind.
It is a contention of experts that a
very definite reason for our dwfndling
beef supply is the unrestricted slaugh
ter of very young heifers.—Philadel
phia Telegraph.
Kills Raspberry Canes.
The disease known as raspberry an
thracnose causes small dead spots on
the canes and kills fruiting clusters.
Sometimes so many of the dead spots
occur that the entire cane is killed.
This disease is spread by unclean nur
sery stock or may come from wild
plants into a plantation. The com
monest source of it, however, Is nur
sery stock. Under favorable weather
conditions and on some soils especial
ly, it may destroy a year’s fruit crop,
and destroy the prospect for next
year's crop at the same time.
It may be only imperfectly controll
ed by spraying. It is safest to plant
only clean stock and to destroy an old
diseased patch rather than fight the
disease.
J. l<ee Hewitt, Plant Pathologist,
LODGE DIRECTORY
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o'clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
C. T. Thompson, W. M.
C. A. Berry, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER. No. 122. R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
L. F. Magee, H. P.
R. W. Beede, Secy.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320, Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at .7:30 o’clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. C. A. Berry, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec’y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. 0. 0. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
A. P. Holtsford. N. G.
E. L. Ware, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66.
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Dona Holtsford, N. G.
Mrs. May Claybaugh, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 411 W. 0. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
L. M. DeSpain, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK A MONROE RY.
South
5:25 a. m
?:55 a. m
Leaves
11:55 p. m.
. Huttig
Monroe
LOCAL. *
Huttig
North
3:25 p. m
1:00 p.m
Arrives
12:15 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
FARMERVILLE A SOUTHERN RY.
North
4:42 a. m.
3:15 a. m.
Huttig
Farmerville
local, t
10:16 a. m.Huttig
South
3:54 p. m
5:20 p. m
2:25 p. m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
’Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe
Russian Clergy.
There are two classes of Russian
clergy, the white clergy and the black
clergy. The former officiate in the
parish churches, the latter only in
monasteries.
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