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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-01-23
Married Twice IN Five Minutes.

Married Twice IN Five Minutes.
A young man from San Francisco
met his affianced bride in Abilene by
appointment. They went to minis
ter and were married with the usua;
short ceremony.
As the groom drew roll of bills
from his pocket to pay the preacher
the wedding ring. which he had for
gotten. fell to the floor. The bride
looked at that ring regretfully. though
she said nothing of her disappoint
ment at not being welded By the
ring ceremony.
The preacher caught her look. how
ever. and told the couple to stand NJ
before him. Then he married them
all over again. using the ring cere
mony. to the very palpable pleasure
of the young woman.
AS the pair left the parsonage the
groom was heard to say: We'll.
guess We got all that was coming &c
us that time. Abilene, Kan, Chron
icle
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-01-23
Immense Timber Raft.

What the lumbermen claim as the
largest raft ever down the Penobscoi
river at Bangor. passed that city 70
Gently. The raft was what is known
as a bag-boom raft. consisting of logs
which were not regularly RATED al
Bangor boom. but which were thrown
out and came down in that way
There were 10000 pieces in the raft
and il required the services OF two
tugs TO keep it moving.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-01-23
CLOCK MADE OF BREAD.
Remarkable Timepiece the Product o,
Poor Italian.


clock made entirely of bread has
been exhibited at Milan. The works
are comparatively large. and for seY-
eral years kept good time. The maker
was native of Milan, who devoted
three years of his time to the task.
He vas very poor. and. being without
means to purchase the necessary
metal for making a clock. he set apart
regularly each day part of his
bread. eating the crusts and saving
the soft part. To solidify this he made
use of certain kind of salt. and
when the various pieces became dry
they were perfectly hard and insolu-
BILE in water
Another strange clock exhibited
some years ago in London was con-
structed of pins. buttons and all sorts
of odds and ends by pauper named
Mercer. The back and front of the
clock were made of iron bed laths.
while the barrel was part of large
brass ferule. the ends being brass
buttons hammered out The barrel
arbor had been originally the blade
of a shoemaker's awl: the main and
several other wheels we're nothing
more or less than suspender buttons
from his own trousers, while the cog
teeth were portions of bygone knit
ting needles. The teeth of the center
wheels had once been rivets. In the
dial there were 100 separate pieces.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-01-23
RU7S

The walking sick, what
a crowd OF them there are
Persons who arc thin and
weak but not sick enough
to go to bed.
"Chronic cases" that's
what the doctors call them,
which in common Eng fish
means long sickness.
10 stop the continued
loss OF flesh they need
Scots Emulsion. For the
feeling of weakness they
need SCOTS Emulsion.
It makes new flesh and
gives new life to the weak
system.
Scots Emulsion gets
thin and weak persons out
OF the rut. 1t makes new,
rich blood, strengthens the
nc:vcs and gives appetite
for ordinary food.
SCOTS Emulsion can be
taken as long as sickness
lasts and do good all the
TINE.
There's new strength
and flesh in every dose.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-01-23

Nearly one-fourth OF the students
who take the degree of doctor OF med
icine at the University of Berlin are
foreigners.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-01-23
New Club for Women.

The Ladies' Military and Naval
is the latest conner in feminine club
land. designed for the near relatives
OF service men. with the strict line
drawn at such distant connections as
third and fourth cousinships
Quite feature is made Of visitors
al the new club. but IL is stipulated
that no member must bring oftener
than once a week the same feminine
member of her family as a guest. Con-
trsry to the practice OF several of the
more conservative institutions the pres
ence of the mere man is encouraged
rather than otherwise by the provision
o: cloakroom entirely for his con
vcnience The masculine gues,-of
course under escorts permitted to
enter the gold drawing room. the
lounge. general dining room, blue
drawing room, and smoking gallery.
the lady members alone having the
privilege of occupying the smoking
room proper. Children under a GER
tain age. and dogs are to be carefully
excluded from admittance. while those
military and naval ladies desiring 20
interview prospective servants on the
club premises are required TO give two
clear days notice OF their intention TO
ne secretary. Even then such inter
views must be over by IL O'Clock in
the morning.-London News.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-01-23
German University Open To Women

Women are much Interested in the
rews from Washington that women
students are to be permitted 20 ma
triculte in the University of Munich
This is the first opportunity to do more
than attend the lectures by permits
SION that has ever been opened 10
women students by German univer-
sity. The announcement was made TO
the state department by the United
States Consul General at Munich, who
seports:
In several of them women have
been permitted to attend lectures and
have been allowed TO take their de-
grees on examination, by and with the
consent of the faculties concerned.
For the present the University of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

great speckled cousin is, and always
has been, the most ferocious of dog
murderers, and the cat must pay for it.
Authorities agree that there is no
animal that the leopard would rather
eat than the dog; as a result, there are
many villages in the districts i'll which
leopards are plentiful where nobody
can keep dog. The great cats will
not hesitate to break into the houses
to seize their favorite dish.
But, says the doubter, the modern
dog certainly could not have known
leopards in many thousands of years.
He has been domestic pet in regions
where there have been no leopards
since man first appeared.
That is true, says DR.. Zell But he
points to the fact that dogs have a
habit of turning around several times
before they lie down. This, he says,
is due to the fact that when they were
in wild state they had to do this to
press down leaves and twigs in order
to prepare bed for themselves; and
as they have not overcome this habit
in all their years of domesticity, it is
quite natural that they should still
inherit fierce hatred of any creature
that smells like leopard.
Dogs and cats are not the only ami
mails that still show inherited fear or
hatred of other beasts which they
have never seen themselves. Thus the
rhinoceros is frantically in fear OF
anything white, and naturalists say
that this is because once upon time
some big white animal hunted him
But that must have been long ago, for
there are no big white animals now
where the rllinoceros dwells.
Chickens that have never seen fox
will cackIe and run i'll fear if they
come across the place where the ami
NAL has passed or where his carcass
has been dragged. If fox has beer
anywhere near cats drinking dish
the cat will not approach it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
Are Moon Craters Coral2

Everybody who has seen chart oil
the moon as drawn by astronomers
knows of the curious, irregular, rag
ged rings which have been called
moon craters' for many years.
Now astronomers have raised the
question whether or not they really
are the craters of extinct volcanoes
as has been supposed for so long
One of them asks:
How would the ocean bottoms OF
the earth appear to a man in the moon
if all our seas were to disappear?"
Exactly as the moon craters lock
to us" is the answer.
So now some of the astronomers
are interested in the attempts to prove
that the moons curious surface is not
at all volcanic. and that the craters
are nothing more or less than cora
reefs and the remains of other coral
like structures which have been left
high and dry by the evaporation OF
lunar oceans.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

that the rocky sides of the shaft, with
the. water streaming from them,
seemed to be darting upwards past
them.
Suddenly the darkness gave way to
dazzling light and the bucket stopped
Peter stepped out and found himself
in huge vaulted chamber, all hung
with glittering white crystals.
Now" said the travelling compan-
ion, 1--WE are at my home, and in a few
moments you shall be cured of your
soft heart
He stepped to niche in the rocks
and returned with finely polished,
perfectly formed heart made of iron.
This" said he, SIS the kind Of heart
to wear. | have one myself, and |
have given it to many of the people
whose wealth you admired so much.
They are all much better off since
they made the exchange"
But how could you put it into my
breast?" asked Peter, half frightened
and half interested
Simple enough" was the reply.
This iron heart, as you can see, is
hollow. | will simply press it into
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

your breast and lock it around the
absurd soft heart to prevent it from
making fool of YOU.
The next instant, before Peter could
utter a cry, his companion grew ire
mendously in height, till his head
reached the crystal-studded ceiling.
With one immense hand, as big as a
steamship. he seized the trembling
Peter, and with the other, presto! he
pressed the iron heart to his breast
Immediately Peter felt strangely cold
and Indifferent He put his hand to
his heart and found that there was
none of the tumultuous beating that
he used to feel With a suspicion that
was quite new to him, he, said:
And what do you expect from me
i'll exchange?
in exchange cried the giant, with
a roar of laughter that seemed to
make the mountain trefnble, my dear
Peter, / want nothing in exchange.
Don't you know me yet? I am Nam
mon, the Master of the Underworld.
1t is quite enough for me to send you
forth with an iron heart, for now you
will do nv work"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

r THE past few years the de-
sire of mankind to discover a
l. means for navigating the air has
led to deep study of the flights
of birds and a great deal of material
has been gathered.
1t is beginning to be the consensus
of opinion that the bird world as a
whole is not nearly perfect in its at
tainment of fight.
All birds that have to flap their
wings continually, such as sparrows,
fnches, thrushes, crows and so on, are
still in an imperfect stage.
More advanced are such birds as
pigeons, swallows, etc, because they
can dart ahead for a space after they
have gained a good start by the rapid
Tapping of the pinions
But the only perfect fiers are the
eagles, vultures, albatrosses and other
great fowl that can rise and fall, sway
and soar in the air indefinitely with
out moving their wings perceptibly.
Now, how do these big birds man
age to ascend to great heights with
out Tapping their wings? 1t is certain
that such birds as the eagle and the
vulture can soar into the air gradually
till they disappear from the eye of the
beholder, and yet it will be quite i'm
possible to denote a single motion of
anything except the tail
One observer, Erich Hoffman, had
an unusual opportunity to gather
some facts that bear on this question.
Two years ago he was in the Caucasus
on mountain peak that assembled
close to another one. Over the latter
there scared great eagle, and, far as
he was from earth, he was quite close
to Mr.. Hoffman
When he. was seen first he was
hanging almost motionless in the air.
Suddenly he moved swiftly ahead,
pointing his head slightly toward the
sky, and thus he glided along without
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

Peter didn't like. So he answered
sullily.
Come, Gomez said the stranger.
Let us be friends We both have far
to go and we won't be any the more
uncomfortable if we furnish little
company for each other"
Peter who had already repented of
his sulkiness, could not well refuse.
And soon he was intensely interested
IN his companions conversation, for
the stranger had seen everything. He
could tell of the Rocky Mountains and
the Himalayas and the South Seas
and the ice. So when he proposed
to Peter that they should see the
world together, Peter assented
eagerly.
They journeyed by railroad and ship
for many months They saw great
cities and placid islands, wide plains
and defiant mountains. But most OF
all they saw cities, for the stranger
seemed to care for nothing else so
much as to dive into crowded streets.
Peter, on the contrary, preferred
the islands and the mountains. One
night, when they were in the hotel
together, he told his companion so.
The great cities are beautiful and
wonderful said Peter, but it grieves
me to see the poor who are crowded
in them, behind all the splendor"
Il will tell you what is the matter
with you, Peter" said the stranger.
You are too soft-hearted You waste
money every day on beggars and
others. You are too soft-hearted,
Peter, and unless you cure yourself
you will never be able to buy any of
the beautiful things that we have
seen"
81 wonder if I am really too soft
hearted" thought Peter. What would
he think if he knew that they actually
call me 'Soft-hearted Peter at homer"
Day after day the stranger showed
Peter more beautiful things and made
him long for them And whenever he
observed that Peter felt the least bit
unhappy because he couldn't get them,
he would tell him again that he was
too soft-hearted
So at last Peter believed it. And
one night he asked his companion how
he could cure himself
Nothing easier than that" said his
companion. Tomorrow | will take
you to place where it can be done"
The next day they jumped into
train and went far into the hills, until
Peter began to recognize the country
and saw that they were going toward
home. His soft heart leaped in his
breast and the tears of joy came to his
eyes.
I'VE will soon cure all that, Peter"
said his companion, tapping him on the
breast. And his eyes shone strangely
like cats.
Not far from Peters home they
alighted from the train, and Peters
| companion led him up the mountain
side till they reached the black mouth
of great shaft that seemed to bore
straight down into the earth.
Step IN said his companion, point
ing to the bucket He leaped in him
self and the bucket descended slowly,
till all that could be seen far above
was a little circle of daylight Down
it went, down, faster and faster, so
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
How Birds Soar

Tapping a wing till his motion had
ceased of itself AS it stopped, he lifted
his wings high in the air, dropped his
head and permitted himself to fall
AS soon as he had fallen a short
distance, his broad pinions spread out
to their fullest extent again and i'm
mediately the impetus gained by the
fall sent him gliding forward and up
ward, so that within a few moments
he had actually slid upon the air to Il
position higher than he had been in
before.
After he had done this FIVE times he
had assembled so high without flying
once that the observer could see him
only as black speck in the air.
The eagles method was exactly that
of a boy who slides down a hill in a
wagon, and thus gets enough speed to
carry him up the next hill. Only in
the eagles case his hills were OF air.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

SO saying, his great hand, on which
Peter sat, holding tight to the little
finger, which was big as mast,
lifted Peter rapidly up the shaft He
went so swiftly that his senses fed.
When he recovered he found himself
sitting in the waiting room of the sta
ton; and he would have dismissed the
affair as strange dream if he had not
touched his breast and found no heart
beat, no warmth, no sensation of any
kind.
He felt none of che delight at being
near home, such as he had felt the
day before. But for all that, he wished
to hasten there. For it had suddenly
struck him that his affairs needed
sharp attention
The neighbors all crowded around
him when he appeared, and Peter re-
turned their greetings politely; but
their delight at his return evoked no
pleasure in his breast. He was glad
when he reached his house and could
escape them.
There he was met by the old
steward, who still survived from his
fathers time The old man tried to
embrace Peter, whom he had carried
in his arms when he was baby. But
Peter stepped aside and waited impa-
tiently while the old man welcomed
him home.
Very well, very well!" said he at
last, as the old steward wiped his
eyes. But let us get at the accounts"
They went at the accounts, and
Peter demanded proofs of everything
and criticised the expenditures, until
the old man stole sadly from the
room. Il can see, said Peter to him
self, that strong hand is needed
here
All the land around him soon felt
the strong hand Tenants who were
in arrears were dispossessed. All who
were in debt to him were prosecuted.
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The country, which had been smiling
and lovely as garden in his fathers
time, became a barren waste, filled
with smoking engines and derricks
and railroad tracks, for Peter had
found coal and iron on his land and
was growing richer every day.
lie telt no regret for the destruction
that he was causing in the scenes of
h1SYouth. The iron heart in his breast
took care of that
Richer and richer grew Peter. till
the papers printed pictures of him and
told how many thousands of dollars
went into his pockets with every
breath that he drew They told, too,
about his steam yacht and his horses
and his palaces. They told about his
wonderful entertainments and his lux
ur1es, his paintings and his books
in word, they told about everything
that he had. The only thing that they
did not tell about were his friends.
There was very simple reason for
that. He had none. Long ago the iron
heart had made him weary of the
sight of all those whom he had known
and loved when he was foolish Soft
hearted Peter"
So Peter Stark walked among all
his wealth and splendor alone-a1one
except for his iron heart. This loneli-
ness led him at last to seek a wife,
and his choice fell on a girl whom he
had known when he was boy. Peter
had loved her then with all his young
heart, but now he saw her beauty only
as he saw the beauty of other things
that he purchased.
He asked her to marry him, and she
looked at him with sad eyes and re
piled; NO, Peter, ! cannot marry
you. [ loved you when you were the
old 'Soft-hearted Peter but not now"
That night Peter could not sleep.
Since he had received his iron heart
there had been nothing that he wanted
that he did not obtain So he felt
angry and miserable by turns at being
refused by her
The next day he felt still more
angry and miserable And at last,
when all his arguments failed to move
her, he knew that he would never be
satisfied with life if he did not win
her
Then he remembered what his
father had said about the wooded
ridge. He had kept his promise inn
plicitly about preserving the place,
and it still stood, beautiful and serene
and undisturbed, although it was sur
rounded by scores of mine shafts and
derricks and fiery towns. So he went
there one calm morning and sat down
by the side Of the torrent. where he
used to sit with his father when he
was boy.
Birds hoped and sang among the
tree branches overhead, and fish
splashed in silvery bubbles in the
pools formed by the shining cascade.
Peter began to think of the old days
something he had not thought of
since he had received the iron heart.
He remembered his fathers calm.
kindly face, and recalled how the old
man used to sit by the torrent and
speak of his plans. He thought of the
childhood friends whom he used to
know, and whom he had not looked at
in years. He could remember clearly
how his heart used to beat when he
saw those whom he loved.
Il wish that l could feel such a SEN
sation once more" thought he ''An
iron heart is a heavy kind of thing,
after all, and pretty stupid"
eff you give up your wealth." said
a voice, ''you shall have your soft
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11


vania that now is bare and
~ dusty, with sooty smoke ris-
ing out of tall chi1nneys from
skyline to skyline, there was a rich
farm of many acres owned by old
Peter Stark.
Old Peter was shrewd business
man and he accumulated comfort
able fortune. He always sold his
crops to better advantage than did his
nelghbors, and his possession of am
pie cash enabled him to buy more and
more land at favorable times.
Yet with all his shrewdness and sue
cess Peter Stark never turned an un-
seeing eye or a deaf ear to any one
IN need. His purse and his house were
always open, so much so that
throughout that part of Pennsylvania
he was known as Soft-hearted Peter
and when people spoke of him he was
called by that name much more often
than by his real name.
He lived to be very old man. One
day he called his only son and said to
him:
81 shall die soon, and everything
that | possess will be left to YOU.
There will be no conditions. except
one: foresee great changes in the
land. In years to come YOU NAV
wish to sell all this that is ours now.
Do so if you will. But promise that,
whatever may come, you will never
sell the ridge at the north, suffer the
trees there to be harmed, or destroy
the torrent that now feeds the brooks
running into the valley. And if trouble
comes to you at last, as it must come
to all of lis, promise me that you will
climb to the ridge and spend a whole
day among the trees alone"
Young Peter promised, and soon
afterward old Peter died. His son
found that he had inherited not only
his lands and wealth. but also his
title AS the people had called his
father so they called him" Soft
hearted Peter"
For some years young Peter lived
on the farm, happy as any king; his
fathers blessing seemed to lie on all
his undertakings, and men loved him
as they had loved old Peter.
AT last young Peter decided to go
travelling to see the world All the
neighbors assembled to bid him fare
well, and when he looked out of the
car window and saw men and women
and children waving their hats and
handkerchiefs the tears started to his
eyes and he felt an impulse to jump
Oft and remain among them. But just
then he noticed that a passenger op-
posite. was looking at him with a
smile, so he settled back in his seat,
ashamed for having shown his feel
ings so plainly.
Before long the stranger looked at
Peter and said:
Il see that this is your first journey,
sir"
Now there was no reason at all why
Peter should not be willing to admit
that he had never travelled before. but
somehow he hated to admit it. Be
sides, although the stranger was a
handsome, elegantly dressed man,
there was something about him that
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

NAf cat? Scientists have been
wv investigating the enmity
between these animals, and
they believe that the instructive hatred
which certain beasts feel of each other
is due to inheritance from ancient
times, when the animals met in a wild
state and preyed on each other.
The enmity between cats and dogs
seems to be due more to hatred on the
part of the dog than OF the cat The
latter animal apparently hates dogs
because dogs chase her; while the dog
hates the cat because she is cat.
A cat will feed at place where "a
dog has been without betraying any
signs of anger; but a dog generally be-
comes excited and wild if he scents
the trail of cat anywhere near his
food or sleeping place.
Now this enmity is not to be ex-
planned by anything that happens be-
tween dogs and cats in domesticity
or anything that ever happened be-
tween them as long ago as human his
tory goes. In all these thousands of
years dogs and cats have been kept
as pets, and of all animals they are
the two which should be the most
friendly.
But the reverse is the case. One
naturalist, DR.. Zell, seeks it in the fact
that the common cat not only looks
like, but smells like, the great cats
of prey. And of those cats of prey
there is one, much like : domestic cal
i'll many ways, which hunts dogs by
preference. This big cat is the leo
pard.
The domestic cat and her larger
relative, the wild cat have never
harmed the race OF dogs; but their