Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912, February 09, 1912, Image 8
MAKING MONEY WITH GAS WAS CHEERFUL AND RESIGNED WAR IS COSTING ITALY MUCH THE WORKING DOLLAR WILD DOGS MENACED PARIS SerUua Situation That Became One of the Worst Feature of Reign of Terror. So many startling events happened from day to day during the Reign of Terror that the apparition of wild dogs In Paris was commonly overlooked. But It was quite natural. The greater part of the grandees, who fled or went Into hiding, kept dogs, and very few of them were able to make arrange ments for the poor beasts when they left home. ' The dogs, abandoned, took to the atreets of course, and shortly they be gan to congregate In two packs, one occupying the Champs Elysees, and one the Bois'tie Boulogne. Soon they became a public danger. Carlyle pokes fun at Santerre, the brewer, who pro posed a law that all dogs should be hanged; be had not noticed the para graphs in the newspapers telling how people had been attacked in the Champs Elysees. At length the situation became real ly grave, as is easily understood when thousands of starving animals have to find subsistence in a starving city. Many of them were wolf hounds, and of powerful fighting breeds. So In September, 1793, drastic measures were taken against the Champs Ely sees pack. Two battalions of the National Cuard surrounded the area, leaving a gap toward the Rue Royale, while mul titudes of ragamuffins beat the cover. The game was driven up to the Rue Royale to the Place Royale. where troops made a battle of It, firing vol leys. Three days consecutively this operation was repeated and - more than three thousand dogs lay in the place. A certain Oaspardin received orders to clear them away, and he, short of means, applied for the Royal equip ages. It was a timely Jest, greeted with applause. o M. Gaspardin packed the dead dogs neck and heels In the gilded coaches as full as they would bold, and made a state proces sion through delighted Paris. HARD ON MRS. PACKER, TOO Little Mistake In Matter of Tickets Causes No End of Annoy ance. Blueberry was a small and unimpor tant rural railroad station, and the post of ticket agent was held by Mrs. Nancy Dipple, an energetic woman who lived near the tracks. Travel to and from the town was light, and hav ing little use for a separate office, Mrs. Dipple sold railroad tickets, when they were called for, at her own house, where she kept her stock for safety In a bureau drawer.; Besides selling tickets, Mrs. Dipple "did for"; houseful of boarders and a shiftless husband. A ticket for town being required one day when the agent's hands were occupied with the mixing of biscuit dough, Mrs. Dipple requested her husband to act as her representative, and he obligingly com plied. A little i later he appeared In the kitchen wtth -a troubled brow. "Nancy," ; he askedj anxiously, "was any of the town tickets bluer . "No all red said Nancy. "Well, Mr. Dipple rubbed bis head with a disturbed look, "I sold Mrs. Packer a blue ticket, an' then after wards I noticed some , red tickets In the drawer, an' " "Forevermore!" Mrs. Dipple broke out In great vexation. "Did I ever see the like! . You've gone and sold her one o' my milk tickets, the last one I had, you careless critter, and sow the train's gone and. we can't get it hack! And milk's so dear, too!" Youth's Companion. Modern Appliances for Whaling. The use of the modern whaling can non in place of the old-fashioned and more picturesque hand harpoon has been familiar for a good many years, but It is probably, not widely known that another modern Invention has beeu pressed into service. Compressed air Is now pumped into the whale's carcass until it resembles a toy bal loon, and the hole filled with oakum, so that the whaler may set the car cass afloat with a buoy to mark it, without danger of Its sinking. In this way time can be saved In starting on the pursuit of other whales .which may be in sight Heroism of Women. ' It is painful to note that few Car negie medals go to women. One might infer from this that heroism is exclu sively a male characteristic, comments the Philadelphia Inquirer. Fortunately, It isn't so. As a fact most women have to be heroes to get through this world at all. They do things right along (which would make a man famous. .Some of them exhibit constant hero jisn. by living with men who ought to in Jal or in the tomb. But, aside (from suoh considerations, women have tdone their share in every branch of (heroic effort so far as opportunities (opened. Appeal to National Pride. The Italian wrestler Bruggllo proceeding cautiously, says a writer ,1a the Chicago Evening Post. He was Stealing his opponent out, stalling him off with various pokes and not show- ting that daring in attack that the Lerowd likes. Most of them were silent, but one adviser, seated far away, kept yelling to him to "take a chance." As fthls seemed to make no impression iwith repetition, he shouted anally "Take a chance, you wop lobster. Co f.umb'is took a chance. Up-to-Date Equipment Installed In New Melting House of Brit ish Mint. Four tons of gold will on an aver age be melted down each working day in the wonderful new melting house now being completed for service next year at the royal mint, near the Tow er of London. The new melting house will be the most complete In the world. It Is much larger than the existing one, end is to contain ten furnaces, all heated by gas. The present melting house has only four such furnaces. Gas furnaces alone are now used at the royal mint for the meltirg down of precious metal, coke furnaces hav ing been finally banished in March last. No less an amount than 80, 000,000 worth of gold has been melted down by gas since the special furnaces were introduced. Many experiments were carried out .before gas was accepted as the best medium for the melting. In connec tion with the tests Mr. Rigg, the super intendent of the operative department, paid a number of visits to factories in London and the country and made a tour in Canada and the United States with the object of obtaining evidence as to the value of gas as a fuel. At length a special type of fur nace was designed by officials at the mint, and a gas burner made by Mr. S. N. Brayshow, of Manchester, . was adopted. Ordinary gas is taken from .. the -street main for the melting and mixed with air from a powerful blowing en gine. It is found that by the use of gas the crucibles for the gold last long er than they did when coke was em ployed, each crucible enduring eight een heatings under gas as against twelve under coke. In addition, the cost is less, having been reduced from 7d. to 5d. for each hundred weight of gold melted. London Mail. BYRON HAD LITERARY AGENT Author's Representative Not New- In vention for the Torment of Publishers. ... Much his been written lately about literary agents, as if they were a new invention of the Evil One for the tor ment of publishers. But in looking over Byron's letters the following one shows clearly enough that the first John Murray, who published for Bryon, had to cope with authors' representa tives Just as the third and fourth John Murray s do today and, by the way. John Murray IV., who is an ac tive and pleasing young man. is taking more and more of the burden of his father's business. Here is Byron's letter to John I.: "Can't accept your courteous offer. These matters must be arranged with Mr. Douglas Kinnaird. He is my trus tee and a man of honor To him you can state all your mercantile reasons, which you might not like to state to me personally, such as 'heavy season.' 'flat public,' 'don't go off.' 'lordship writes too much.' 'won't take advice,' 'declining popularity.' 'deduction for the trade.' 'make very little.' 'generally lose by him.' 'pirated edition.' 'foreign edition.' 'severe crltitBms.' etc., with other hints and howls for an oration, which I leave DoiikIhs. who la am ora tor, to answer. "23d August. 1821" Apparently the song of the publish er to the author whh exactly the same almost h century agu as it is today. The Italian Soldier Under Fire. These Italian soldiers were a new experience to me.i For sheer unemo tional daring I have never seen any thing to equal the behavior of the Ital ian soldier under fire, and mark you. heavy fire. They are. as a whole, a tplo.ndld body of men from the point cf view of ' physique and discipline. Much more than this can be said, bow ever. ' The good spirits and earnest ess and other good soldierly qualities r f these men can only be spoken of in terms of highest praise. "Chummy" is the word I must use to describe the relationship and feeling existing be tween officers and - men, and under such conditions where each is so es sential to the other a wiser policy can not be adopted. Frank J. Magee, in Metropolitan. Very Ancient Sword. "Some of the Arabs have . two handed Bwords," says ex-Lieutenant Montague, late with the Turks in Tripoli, "left behind by the crusad ers." But one never can be certain of anything in this world. After one of the British campaigns in Egypt an officer brought back as trophy such a formidable weapon, which he hast ened to submit to the late Mr. Jack Latham, head of the Wilkinson Sword company, in Pall Mall, saying that, n his opinion, the thing belonged to the first half of the eleventh century. "No," said Mr. Jack, with a smile, after a slight scrutiny of the blade, "it belongs to the second half of the nineteenth century. There's our trade mark in the corner of the hilt" English Women Intemperate. ' "Women now provide a dispropor tionately large part of the habitual drunkards." says the head constable of Liverpool, England. Thus,, during 1910, in the class of three or more convictions within twelve months there were 133 men and 184 women, and in the class of six to sixty con victions (all told) there were 733 men and 774 women. For two years the "black list" In Liverpool has consist ed solely of women. "Temperance." .Entertaining Event That Dispelled the : Blues With Which Algernon Was Afflicted. "How do you like this weather, Al gernon," asked Mr. Topfloor as he got into the elevator one cold evening last week. "I doesn' mm it sah. Tain so bad, but it might be better," replied Alger non impartially. "Any ol' t'ing de 'good Lo'd likes suits me, sah." -; "ft is pleasant to find you so re signed and so cheerful," commented Mr. Topfloor. "T'ank you," Is right cheerful dis ebenin'," replied Algernor with a broad grin. Ts mighty blue las' night, but I's well now, t'ank de Lo'd. I had a right pleasant aft'noon at a fr'en's house, an' dat kin' cheer me up. Wot de 'casion? De 'casion was de fune'el ob his sister. Dere was mighty . big doin's to cel'b'ate de 'vent, an' de whole party so cheerful an' 'signed like, I couldn' help bein' elebated up, too. Yessar dat so, de half dollars an' de quartans de does count', t'ank you', sah, t'ank yo! Mebbe yo' .don' know, sah, pursued Algernon, cheerfully, as Mr. Topfloor took out his latch key to open his front dor, "dat de gas pipes Is froze an dere ain no dinners bein' cooked in de 'partroen's dis ebenin'? De gas man's confab'latln' wif de pipes now. He done brung his bag. o" lnst'uments, an' 1 guess he gwine op erate on de dif'ent meters, but ef he say dere's any danger of a conflabgra tion in de house. I sut'ny will rimform yo. sah." New York Press. AS A BEGGAR REMEMBERED Remarkable Character Who Died In . 1681 Left Bequest for Benefit of Poor. Gifts of clothing are being made In many market towns and villages of Surrey to the poor from a bequest left for the purpose by Henry Smith, or "Dog" Smith, as he was more gen erally called; having earned the so ubriquet from the fact that -be was never seen without a dog at bis heels This remarkable character lived about two and a half centuries ago, and was one of the best known fig ures in Surrey. lie was originally a silversmith In the city of l.ondon, and, prospering in business, acquired estates in different parts of England. Developing eccentricities as he grew old, be adopted Inn life of a beggar. His wanderings were confined almost entirely to Surrey, and be is said to have begged his way through .every town and village in the country. At is death in 1SR1 he left, all nis wealth to the market towns and par ishes of Surrey, and the mdowmeuts enabled each town to spend 1250 and each village about $30 on the pur chase of clothing for lis poor. Mitcliam, tinwerer. was excluded from his benefactions. Smith's ex planation being tbai oq one occasion the inhabitants of MHcbain whipped him through the village as a comuion vagrant. London 'hronU:lev ' Danger of Gaolene Fumes.. In a loiter to the New York Med ical Journal Dr T. 1. W. flm-tcney de clares that puniic warning should tie given in regard to otinger (Youi fume where gasolene ts burned and , cius the case of a man wno wan found un conscious and near deuto after oe tng for a short time in a small room in which an automobile engine was running. , "Some time ago." he says. "I was also called to see a plumber who was rendered helpless and almost un conscious by fumes from nts gasolene torch. It appear? that only a small amount of the rtmies is necessary to cause helplessness and that there is little or no warning of danger in tue feeling of the one affected. '"Persons working alone in tbeir small private garages are in gravn danger when they let their engines run for even a short time," says Dr. Plnckney. "Chance aloue saved the men in the two cases I mention." Reviving Old Mackintoshes. Shabby old mackintoshes can be made as good as new at borne .for a small outlay, and by the exercise of a little care and patience. Boll n little linseed oil and edd to this about 20 drops of terebene (to be had at any chemist's). While hot apply this mix ture to the mackintosh with a brush. Allow it about 4S hours to dry in, and then wash the whole over with India rubber solution dissolved in methy lated spirits to the thickness of cream. Leave this another two days to dry and the mackintosh will be found to have a smaath and hard surface, as calculated to resist all moisture as when the coat was new. The same process will, o fcourse, do for rain hats, sponge bags and all water-proofed things. " Measuring River Flows. In its work of stream gauging measuring the flow and volume of riv ers by up-to-date methods the United States geological survey co-operated during the past fiscal year with 13 states; the states contributing over $49,000 and the survey doing the work. The geological survey also co-operated in this work with the reclamation ser vice, the office of Indian affairs and the forest service. Ninety-six gauging stations were maintained in co-operation with the reclamation service, IS in co-operation with the Indian office and 194 in co-operation with the for est service on streams draining na tional forests. In all 1,105 gauging stations were in operation at the close of the last fiscal year. Spending Vast Sums in Cannonading at Nothing More Vulnerable Than Desert Sands. The correspondent of the London Daily Express who is now with the Turkish forces in Tripoli says that the Turks are hoping much from the cost of the war to Italy. The war is costing Turkey nothing, but the Ital ians are spending vast sums in inces sant cannonading at nothing more vulnerable than the desert sands. The correspondent says that there are Ital ian prisoners in the hands of the Turks and that they are well treated, and especially the wounded. He then adds: "The Turkish doctors have other patients, too. I was in one of the medical tents this morning, and -there entered a muffled little figure in the dress of an Arab girl. Hiding her face, she crouched on the floor, and the doctor, removing bandages and pads, showed me a ghastly cavity In the poor little creature's shoulder. An Italian bullet had entered from behind! and had passed through, making a dreadful wound. . I ques tioned her, and the child, still muf fling her face in her striped robe, told me how the Christian soldiers broke into her father's house and killed her .mother and sister, and how she, being near the' door, had run out into the street. Some of the soldiers followed her to the door, and stood there firing at her as she -ran down the street; and 'At last,' said she, 'one of those Christians shot me as you see, here in the shoulder, and I fell down.' " MULEY HARD GOES HUNTING Sultan of Morocco Uses the Tele phone, Wireless and Acetylene During Day's 8 port. Muley Hand, Sultan of Morocco, has evidently made up his mind to make the best of things and have as good a time as he can. A short time ago he expressed the desire to go partridge and rabbit hunting. To go out without an army would have been impossible to him a few months ago, before the French .occupation of Fez. But he started out one morning with a small escort, and had good luck at hunting, white no -rebellious tribesmen took a shot at him. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon he found a tent set up and luncheon served. On the way home he stop ped at a French fort, used the tele phone to call up his palace at Fez and saw for the first time wireless tele graph in operation. - After many trials the operator suc ceeded in getting into communication with the station on the Eiffel Tower, and the Sultan sent a message to his minister In Paris, El Mokri. Acetylene lamps were used to light his entry into Fez, and the Sultan was as pleased, over 'the day's sport as a child with a new toy. Benefits of the Fire. The fife alarm sounded and a va grant who had been huddled in a dark hallway crept out and Joined 'the crowd hurrying to the midnight fire. Presently others of his fraternity ap peared. ... .-.. "Why do all you Johnnies always break your necks to get to a fire?" said a man who was something of a fire fiend himself. ' The vagrant pointed to a woman who was emerging . from a nearby apartment house carrying a pail of steaming coffee. "There's the answer," he said. "At 'every winter fire that gives the fire men a hard tussle the women of the neighborhood bring out coffee and sandwiches to brace them up. Some times the firemen don't have time to snatch a bite, sometimes they do. Anyhow, there is sure to ' be some thing left over, and the women well. it's a hard-hearted woman that won't rve a poor devil a cup of coffee a night like this." The man kept an eye on his candid derelict. He got two cups of coffee and two sandwiches. California Wine Grapes. The total number of tons of wine grapes handled by the wineries in ,tiis vicinity during the last season .rescues the surprising total of 70,000 tons, writes a Lodi correspondent. If .this 70,000 tons of grapes had been .converted into sweet wine the total number of gallons would approximate 5,600,000. It would be safe to say that at least 10 per cent, of this ton nage was converted into dry wines, which would bring the number of gal lons up to a higher figure. As between table and wine grapes the wine grape industry at the pres ent time looks to be in the better shape. At $10 a ton for the common variety of grapes a rancher can show some profit. As table grapes have been selling for the last year or so there is little or no profit in them. Music Fever. Walter Damrosch, the eminent mu sician, told, at a dinner in New York, a story about Patti. ' "When the Patti fever was at its height." he said, "a worthy Philadel phia couple decided to buy tickets at $8 each. So they drew $16 out of bank. "But $16 seemed a good deal of money to spend on a single evening's music. In brief, after a serious talk, the worthy couple decided to devote the $16 to charity. : ' "So they sent the money to a poor man whom they knew and the pool man bought two tickets with It, and took his wife to hear Patti." An idle dollar is like an idle man a drag upon the com munity. Some men are idle because they can not find work. A dollar can always find work. 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