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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-07-10

All the hot weather jokes aer about
10 melt.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
NOTES FROM AFRICA.

There are just four regions in which
the wild African ostrich is now found.
He lives in considerable numbers IN
Arabia, where he has been little
hunted. In Africa his most northern
habitat is the Sudan and the southern
part of the Sahara, from the Red Sea
almost to the Atlantic Ocean. He does
not live in the excessively moist re.
gions of central Africa, but III the
drier countries between the Indian
Ocean and the Nile he is found in con-
siderable numbers. His fourth home
in Africa is in the great dry districts
of German West Africa, from the At.
lantic Ocean more than halfway across
the continent.
There will be no dearth of diamonds
for many day to come In Kimberley
they are being found in vast quantities
in what is known as the "blue ground.
really a rock which disintegrates on
exposure to air and water and thus
frees its precious mineral charge.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
The Absent.Minded Man.

Everybody's MISUNDERSTANDING the
latter portion of his life Emerson
seemed to live much in the world of
souls, and came back with difficulty to
take cognizance Of physical affairs.
To illustrate this, these incidents are
narrated:
AT the time of the Millerite excite
ment he was walking one day down
Broomfield street Boston, when he
met one of his friends, who remarked ::
This is the Gay when the world is TO
come to an end, according to the Mil
lerites.' The Sage of Concord looked
reflectively at his friend for a moment,
and replied; All, well. we can do with
out it. -
1t is also told OF him that one very
hot day Dr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
was standing at the corner of fremont
and School streets, hopping his brow,
holding his hat in one hand, with the
mouth up. Emerson. coming along and
seeing a venerable man with his hat
thus outstretched dropped quarter
in it and walked on, without recogniz-
ing the genial autocrat of the break
fast table.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
THE VITALITY OF cENTIPEDEs.
Hens and Cats Are Their Natural
Enemies.

The dread of centipedes in tropical
lands is said to be so great that the
sight of full-srown one is enough to
affect the strongest nerves. Ten to
eleven inches is the average length,
although larger ones have been seen.
Lafcadio Hearn, in 1.-TWO Years in the
French West Indies" says that the vi
tally of the centipede is remarkable.
Mr.. Hearn kept one in bottle,
without food or water, for thirteen
weeks, at the end of which time it re-
manned active and dangerous as ever.
The centipede has one natural enemy
able to cope with him, the hen.
The hen attacks him with delight,
and often swallows him. head first,
without taking the trouble to kill him
The cat hunts him, but she is careful
never to put her head near him. She
has trick of whirling him round and
round upon the floor SO quickly as to
stupefy him; then when she sees a
good chance she strikes him dead with
her claws.
There are superstitions concerning
the creature which have a good effect
in diminishing his tribe. If you kill a
centipede, you are sure to receive
money soon; and even if you dream of
killing one it is good luck.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03

lens to outside influences. Every hui
man body gives out heat, and when
brought near to extremely sensitive
substances, affects them to a greater
or less extent. Now watch
He walked down to the lens, and hell
his hand under it about two feet away
Instanteously marvellous spectacle
burst into view. 1t seemed as if the
great glass disk had become a living
volcano, squirting forth jets of flame
The display was dazzling. Waving,
leaping, dancing, the countless tongues
F, of light cleaned and vibrated. Then,
fitfully reluctantly, they died away,
leaving the lens rejecting only pure,
i untroubled light.
What is it? How do you account
for the wonder?" were the eager ques-
tons.
at is only the radiation of heat al.
ternately expanding and contracting
the glass. If l had put my hand upon
, the lens itself, the phenomenon would
have been even more violent"
! To person ignorant of lenses the
almost supernatural constituencies of a
mass of glass weighing several hun
dreds of pounds was astonishing. But
to the cientist it is an every day mat.
ter, for he has instruments that will
register with unfailing nicely the ap,
proach of a person fifty or a hundred
, feet away.-Youth's Companion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
A Kink in Cat Nature.

Through their fondness for fish,
house cats have learned to prowl
around the bay front and capture un-
suspecting mullet that come too near
the waters edge. One of the strange
things in nature is the fondness of the
cat for fish and its fear of water.
There is no animal, not even those
which prey upon fish and are adapted
by nature 10 catching them, like the
otter and muskrat, which is fonder of
fish than the ordinary cat. There is
no animal which dislikes the water
more. A cat has been seen which
losfed around live box, where min
nows were kept, and which would
watch the surface of the water as
closely as if watching a mousehole,
and if minnow came to the top it
would be quickly slapped out of water
by the paw without even wetting the
latter. This is not fish or cat story,
either-Galvesto News.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
THE GREAT COURAGE OF DUTY
Some Brave Soldiers Show a STRIKING
Indifference to Pain.


The Indifference of some men TO pain
while they are under duty is strikinglv
Illustrated by the following incident.
During the siege of Gibraltar. its
governor, General Elliott, was one dav
making a tour of inspection, when he
came upon soldier who, though stand.
ing at his post, neither presented arms
nor even held his musket. The officer.
IL Is said, accosted the soldier rather
severely.
Don't you know me, sentinel?" in.
CURED the general; why do you neg
lect your duty?"
know you well, general, and my
duty also" was the reply, "but within
the last few minutes two of the fingers
OF my right hand have been shot off.
and am unable to hold my musket. ="
why don't you go and have them
bound up?"
Because man is forbidden to quit
his post until he is relieved by an.
other"
The general instantly dismounted.
NOW, my friend said he, give me
your musket and | will relieve you.
Go and have your wounds dressed"
The soldier obeyed, but went first TO
the nearest guardhouse, where he re.
ported that the general was standing
on duty In his place. His injury I'm.
htted him for active service, but he
was duly compensated.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
A MATTER OF CROWNS.

Even kings did not always dare to
carry out their own desires and had to
consider the wish of the people, even
when sucn consideration was never
suspected.
King George Ii once wished to add
the Green park in London to his
palace grounds whether the people
liked it or not. He inquired of his
minister as to the cost His lordship,
mindful of the general discomfort pre-
valent, answered: The cost, sire?
oh, it would be matter of three
crowns!" The king took the hint
The people kept their park and the
sovereign his triple crown.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
HOW 1T ALL ENDED.

He stood up there before us with ges
ture proud and stately.
He spoke. His words were really
quite pathetic,
And yet it seemed his hearers did not
care about them greatly,
Or ire when he became more ener-
getic.
With passion and with fury he was
presently denouncing;
His irony was whitening and blight.
ing,
But we just yawned behind our hands
at all this verbal trouncing-
We know that he was only just recit.
ing.
He stamped his feet and hurled at us
his scorn and his defiance.
The epithets he used were almost
shocking.
He dared us to the combat-in the
right was his reliance
Then tainted US again in language
mocking
But still we sat and took it; there
were even sounds of snoring
At times when high his eloquence
was killing.
Also he writhed and wriggled; we re.
marked that it was boring
And wished he'd make an end of his
reciting.
At last he lost his reason-h was real
ly little wonder.
He tore his hair and made dismal
wailing,
Then shrieked shrek that fairly tore
our tortured ears asunder-
He seemed to think our patience
was unfailing.
But we, we fell upon him. Far too
long had we endured him.
He's conscious at this present time
of writing.
He'll possibly recover-but in any
case we've cured him
OF his pestilential habit of reciting.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
MOONLIGHT faY---.-.y.
ION a pesolate Plantatios.l

NNh "a 1NSSA~NN ASNNAS--st
The moonlight through the vine-clad
trellis
Falls and spatters upon the floor,
Breaks to a thousand silent ripples
And rolls in waves to the oaken
floor;
Falls, breaks, lips and kisses,
Whispering low for an entrance
there,
Washes and splashes high as the
knocker,
Sinks, and signs to the redolent air.
Up, down, back through the trellis
Far 1t GIBBS to its cold moon-shore.
What did it wash from the ancient
threshold,
Why did it splash up the grim oak
door?
The cricket trills in the tender grasses
Springing up through the shattered
way;
over each corner silken mazes
The ghoulish spider has planned for
prey.
The fluted columns and Grecian cor
nice
Time has cast from their high es-
tate;
The suffered windows are shivered
to pieces,
The Griffin head fallen off the gate
With mouth to earth forever silent,
flushed by Time is its secret tale
Over it washes the sea of moonlight
And surges far through the weird
dim vale.
Down in the garden the weeds are
growing,
The ivy twines DER the fallen tree:
The cold flag paths cleft to fragments
The fox and the rabbit are running
free.
Wrecks, wrecks, on the rocks are ".
ing,
Left to view by the ebbing tide,
Only keel, a rib, a timber,
To speak the moon of a summer
pride.
From moon-bather shore to the top of
the terrace,
Under the rose-red porch to the door,
Over the portal into the manor
Silence, silence. from root to floor.
And still the moon through the ghostly
shadows
Flows and GIBBS in a mystic sea.
steals with a vague and fearsome
question
Down where the marsh winds whis
per free.
Out in the pond where the argent
fishes
Rise in the stagnant waters to die,
Wrapped in the tangled, weed,
meshes
How quietly silently, white bone,
lie.
Silence, silence and desolation
Night after night through the drows,
of years;
Down in the pool or under the roses
The tide-wind signs in a dream OF
fears.
-George II. Parr.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
A FAMILY OF SEA TRAMps
Drifting About the World in :
Schooner.

correspondence Of the New YORK.
Ilmes.-Snug against the Delaware
river bank at Florence, N. j.. lust be.
low Trenton, lay all the week a two
masted schooner, the Studio. as inter.
esting boat as sails the seas. while
the history of Skipper Samuel Drucke
miller reads like Stevenson romance
Inc Studio is tramp, its skipper IS
d tramp his wife and n-,ears-olu
chlId are fellow-tramps, and the old
dog Brindle is canine tramp. No.
hoboes or unclean tramps. still tramps
in the sense that they go whittier they
list, having no ties of citizenship ana
only one domicile, the one which fioatg
On the water.
Painting is the occupation of Skin.
per Druckemiller, and because of This
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
A LIVING, FLAMING VOLCANO.
Heat Caused a Sensitive Lens TO Give
Display of Dazzling Light.

Some years ago the writer paid a
visit to Alvan Clark, at Cambridgeport
to witness the testing of the huge lens
for the famous Lick telescope. At the
end of the long. dark room the largest
flint glass then IN the world was sci
up on edge. From distance of about
fifty feet pencil of light was flashed
into the heart of the disk and reflected
back into the observers eye. The
slightest imperfections, if any, in the
glass, would then be revealed by the
curves of light and the lines Of polari
zation.
Now" said Mr.. Clark, 81 will show
you the wonderful sensitiveness Of the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
BRONCO BUSTER IN CONGRESS
Oklahoma Sends Bird Mcguire,
Mighty Man, to Represent Her.

Kansas City Journal-The Hon. Bird
S. Mcclure is a man after Roosevelt S
own heart. Mr.. Mcguire when he
takes the oath in Washington next
winter will be known as the very best
all-round athlete and wrestler in con-
gress. He is five feet eleven inches
tall, weighs 1876 pounds, has chest on
him as big as barrel and is superbly
and gracefully built. He is strong and
sound physically as he is mentally,
and has never smoked or chewed, nor
tasted a drop of sintoxicating liquors,
and he never uttered an oath till he
became politician, which was when
he became about ten years old.
The new delegate from Oklahoma
has been in Politics practically since
the day he first began to think. He
was born in Illinois Oct. IS, 1865. His
parents, while he was an infant, went
to Randolph county. Missouri, where
they lived On a farm until he reached
his sixteenth year. Then they all EN-
igrated to ChautaUlua county, Kan
sas. B3t ycGl- Bird gave up farming,
went or tae lGn~e 2-d r2amed the
country eyer rs ccUooy from the
Rockies tc tie sivtr 2El from Kansas
to the gulf - - the days when
there were plenty OF bad Indians, des-
peradoes and big game, and Mcclure
developed into as nervy bronco bus
ter and as skillful a marksman as ever
rode the trail
But this was a life for business and
not pleasure for MCGUIRE. He put the
money he made in bank instead OF in
poker and whisky and came out 81, 100
to the good after two and one-halt
years Of this stormy career. Then in
1884 he went to the normal at Empo-
ria. Two years afterward he attended
for a year the law school at Lawrence,
but off and On he taught school and
continued at thar profession until 1889,
teaching at Jonesburg and at Sedan
the county seat of Chautauqua county
Kansas.
In the spring Of 1889 he was elected
county attorney on the republican tick,
ct. holding the position for four years,
a part of which time he also served as
mayor of Sedan. At one election he
was the only man of his party elected,
and at all other times he ran ahead
of his ticket, and was famous in Kan
sas as being the youngest person who
ever held the Office of mayor or county
attorney in the state.
Mcclure went to Oklahoma in the
fall of 1898, and his friends say that
this move was made with the avowed
intention Of running for congress. His
home is at Pawnee From 1896 to 1902
he was assistant United States dis
trict attorney, and perhaps has sent
more criminals to the penitentiary and
the gallows than any other lawyer in
the territories. He has over 200 con-
victs to his credit now serving time at
Fort Leavenworth. He was largely
instrumental, along with the famous
Marshals Tillman, F'ossett and Heck
Thomas, in breaking up the Doolin,
Green and Ben Craven gangs of out
laws.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03

~ oOOl anu StlrTup, anu
company, under the command of
Col. Sir Richard Lindsay, rode from
the scene of the battle en- route for
Chiverton hall. 1920 =
A fine array Of men they were, in
deed-gallant, proud. able, and willing.
There was some of tie best blood that
England could boast of in the troop
and many an adventurer as well.
Amongst the latter was one Wallace
Redgrave, a trooper who mad attached
heart he was bound in sympathy to
the spirit of the parliament.
Much service had Redgrave seen
abroad, and he had been travelling
England on the lookout for fame and
fortune just sprior to the outbreak of
him to Chiverton, where he had first
set eyes on the beautiful Blanche,
daughter of Sir Richard Lindsay.
Never had he seen such beauty as
hers, and when his eyes fell upon her
for the first time as she was out rid
be my wife"
Redgrave was a strong man. Never
i in his life had he longed for thing
without securing it by dint of his in
staid at Chiverton and volunteered for
the service of the king.
A fine swordsman, a capital rider, a
fearless swashbuckler, handsome, born
to command, he attracted notice every
where.
At Stratton his chance had come.
: The army of Charles, dismayed by the
solid front presented by the Ironsides,
had wavered and looked like being
beaten, when, with ringing cheer,
Redgrave led his men right through
their lines, carried terror and dismay
into the hearts of the rebel camp, and
turned the tide of battle in favor of
the king
Covered with cuts and bruises, his
face blackened with powder, he had
returned to receive the thanks of his
leader, Sir Richard Lindsay, in person.
And this morning, as he rode proud
ly by the side of the knight and saw
the towers of Chiverton loom amidst
the trees ahead, he made sure that he
had won his point-he had but to ask
and the hand of Blanche would be
given him.
1t was in the great hall that night
| of Of
to their much needed rest that he
preached the sublct to Sir Richard
The knights face blazed with anger
as he heard.
"Give my child to you!" he cried
"You must be mad"
Mad or not, sir" was the fearless
answer, 81 dare ask it; what is more
l dare claim it, The maid cares foI
me, as she will tell you if you ask her
Why should she not become my wife
| am your equal, sir, in learning, in
the prowess of the fed. Like you,
was born to command. In France
was deemed worthy of the friendship
of the king. Today / am known as
| the victor and hero of Stratton
Though of lowly birth, l can trace a
family line as Ions as your own
ask you for the hand of your daughter
and, Sir Richard, dare you to re
I fuse!"
With angry strides Sir Richard
/ paced the apartment. his hands behind
+ his back. Turning to the table. he
struck the gong which rested on il
with savage force.
! Send Blanche to me-" he cried OF
the serving man who answered the
summons.
/ His daughter came to him.
/ Blanche" said her father sternly
4 this adventurer has dared to ask me
/ for your hand in MARRIAGE beg you
to give him his answer"
The girl hesitated, blushed, crossed
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
Dawn was breaking

DdNu Was DISdhiuS
IN May II, 1913. The
foyalists had camped
npon the victorious
field of Stratton; the
roundheads were in
full retreat.
With the break of
day the weary sol
diers, stirred to life
by the advent of the
sun. struggled into
ooot and stirrup, and
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-10-22
Editor i'm Trouble.

Harry Snyder, the editor of the Shep-
herdstown (W. Va.) Register. and one of
the mainstays of the Morgan Grove fair,
who served as manager of the baby show
ut the recent fair, is thoroughly discour-
aged at his efforts to run the show. He
says in his paper:
1.-THE editor will refuse to serve as
manager of the Morgan Grove baby show
next year. As result of the choice OF
the successful contestants last Friday
seventeen persons threatened to discon-
tinue their subscriptions. twenty-five
parents, eighteen grandparents, forty,
seven aunts, sixty-six first cousins, and
several hundred collateral relations are
deeply offended and VOW vengeance ON
the manager. The judges, who are really
responsible for the trouble, are all strang-
ers and have left towr, and we have TO
stand the trouble alone. No; we will
never be manager again-unless enough
prizes to 60 all around are given"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-10-22
YACHT RACING.
This Expensive Sport Was Begun In
England In 1862.

This Expensive Sport Was Begun In
England In 1862.
Though vessels answering to the
character Of yachts were In use by
royal personages from an early date
Queen Elizabeth, for instance, had one
built at Cowes, Isle Of Wight, in 1855
the word yacht was not used until
the year 1860, when the Dutch present
ed "jacht' named the Mary to
Charles H.. says the London Chroni-
Gle. In Evelyn's Diary, under Oct. l,
1861, occurs the entry, Il sailed this
morning with his majesty in one of his
yachts, vessels not known among US
till the Dutch East India company pre-
sented that curious piece to the king.
being very excellent sailing vessels"
Yacht racing commenced In 1G62,
when Charles H., who had some yachts
built for him by Sir Phineas Pett,
wagered $500 that yacht Of his would
beat Dutch one owned by his brother,
the Duke Of York, afterward James II.
But the growth of yacht sailing was
slow, and it is not until 1720 that IN
authentic record of yacht club is
found, in which year the Cork Harbor
Water club, now known as the Royal
Cork Yacht club, was formed. In 1872
q similar club, the Yacht club. was
formed at Cowes by some fifty yachts
men. This club in 1920 attracted the
notice Of the Duke Of Clarence, after
ward William w., when its title was
altered to the Royal Yacht squadron.
Cowes. Fourteen years later William
Nv. presented the first royal cup to this
club. But In 1851 only 500 yachts We're
in existence. Since the international
yacht race Of that year the increase IN
the number has been immense.
In America, the Chronicle says, 1.-The
sport may be said to have commenced
in 1914, In which year the New York
Yacht club was formed, and the his
tory Of that club is practically the his,
tory Of American yachting.'
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-10-22
FRUITS AND FLOWERS.

Rolling ground is the best for an or
chard.
Rhghted leaves and branches on fruit
trees should be cut off and burned.
That tree does not bear well every
year Is not an indication Of disease.
Most effective pruning is done In the
early stages Of the orchards growth.
One advantage in pruning during the
summer is that the wounds heal very
quickly.
Dead branches are often the means
Of conveying decay to an otherwise
healthy trunk.
In pruning roses cutting back closely
produces, as q rule, fewer blossoms, but
of finer quality.
Never prune a tree unless there 1s
good reason why a limb or branch
should be taken of.
A moderately heavy soil that has been
underdrained and subsoiled and then
carefully worked is capable Of produc-
ing the heaviest crops Of fruit.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-10-22
HOW EAGLES FIGHT.
A Furious Battle Between Two OF
thu, Big Birds.

A Furious Battle Between Two Of
the Big Birds.
A small party Of gentlemen, most all
Of whom had tinges Of sporting procliv-
tiles in their blood, were discussing the
subject of chicken fighting. An old
farmer from Rappahannock county,
Va, broke into the conversation.
Gentlemen" said he, "iI my time
have seen some bang up chicken fights,
but the greatest fight l ever saw be-
tween birds in all my born days was q
contest between a bald eagle and a
gray eagle near my old place in Kappa
hammock.
This fight took place on the bank Of
the river. l couldn't forget it if lived
to be as old as Methuselah. I was the
only spectator and saw the struggle
from start to finish. The bald eagle
had caught a muskrat and was about
to eat it for breakfast when the gray
eagle scared down and attempted to
rob the other one Of its prey. Then
commenced the combat, and, Lord, how
the feathers flew! They fought with
wings, beaks and talons, and l could
hear the talons crack when they struck
and tore each other. The sounds made
by their wings as they buffeted one an
other were like explosions Of musketry,
while their screams and yells sounded
demoniacal. The battle lasted fully
fifteen minutes and wound up with q
victory for old baldy, who drove the
gray eagle away and then resumed bis
interrupted breakfast.
"Oh, yes, there are great many ca
giles up IN my part Of the state" said
the old agriculturist in reply to ques'
ton. There are plenty Of high rocks
and lofty trees whereon they build
their nests. We farmers do not give
them any latitude, however. Whenever
one of these big birds Is seen soaring
about the poultry yard, or, in fact, any
where about the farm, it's Johnnie, get
your gum because it not infrequently
happens that good sized chickens, young
lumbs or little pigs are carried away BY
them, 80 they're very unwelcome visit
s."-Washington Star.