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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11

seem that the wire, ring and coin would immediately fall over. But that is where the surprise coEfes ini
 Instead of falling over,f the weight of the whole apparatus adjusts itself on the needle point and finds a position of perfect. equilibrium, and there 1t rests for an indefinite time.
 Suppose you then give a gentle touch That sets it into motion. Even then it will not fall over, but will apparently pivot, and you can keep 1t moving as tong as you please.
 Try this experiment. It will interest Eour friends as much as yourself.
 Now I shall tell you of perfectly safe wager you can make if you wish, or you can exhibit this as a trick.
 Make a proposition that you will fill q glass with water and place 1t on table In such 2 manner that your friend cannot move it to another place without Eptllfng the whole of it's contents.
 The way to do 1t Is as follows: Fill a glass with water, and having laid over it a piece of paper, which covers the water and the edges of the glass, place the palm of your hand on the paper. and taking up the glass with the quickly. and place it on perfectly fiat part of the table.
 Then gently. very gently, withdraw the paper. The water ih the glass will re- main in it, since the air cannot enter, and your friend cannot move it any Ray without allowing the air to enter. md consequently spilling the water.
 You see, do you not, how safely you pan make wager on the success of this herformance2
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11

ners of the hold? or, had some vast
 revolution in the ways of Nature
 taken place in SC ondl and the law
 Of gravity been reversed2 It was not at all warm down there, but I per- spired violently!
 Then a notion flashed upon me. Those barrels must have been empty. damned together, they stayed below, of course. but once the jam was looss ened, they would fly at once toward the surface.
 Gloomy Thoughts of a Fool.
 Then I thought more. I had been an ass. Of course. those barrels would do as they had done, even were they full of oil. oil floats on water. as everybody should know. They might De either full or empty, 1t didn't mat ter bit had forgotten that I was moving in 6 different element from the air I was used to, where bar rels Of oil did not rise up and fly into space without warning.
 Obviously, had made a fool of myA selfi but l had some comfort in the about to see it. Then it came upon me suddenly that would rather have some one there after all, for I wRs helpless. Those horrible barrels were having another jam in the hatchway now, and my retreat was cut ofr en- tireiy.
 Here I was, like a rat in a cage. DOAS4 AAA on every sue. My cation cord and my air pipe led up between the barrels to outer safety; but what of that? Why did I ever make a submarine idiot of myself, and go rummaging about, where I had no business, at the end of a rub Der gas pipe? If I could have dated myself back an hour at that moment, I believe l should have changed my mind about going ia for this amuse- ment
 I made an effort, pulled myself to- gether. and determined on heroic meas ures. My axe lay near, and, with a little groping, I found it. I would hew my way out of this difficulty through the side of the vessel. I turned on the inofeensive timbers at my side and hacked away viciously-with, really fancy, a certain touch of that wild, stern, unholy joy that any one feels who is smashing somebody's else prop erty with no prospect of having to pay for it. Every boy with a catapult, who lives near m empty house, win under stand the feeling mean-especially if the empty house has a large conserva- tory.
 The timbers were certainly stout. The work was a bit curious to the senses the axe feeling to work with deal more dash and go than the arm that directed it. At any rate, the exercise was pretty hard. Any millionaire In want of an excellent, healthy and ex- pensive exercise should try chopping his way through the sides of ships-it will do him world of good, and will
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leaping flames 1t seemed very small, Again he elambered up the bank, pour ed as much water a5 he could carry on the flames and went back for more.
 The sweat stood out on his forehead, his back aehed anu his shoes were filled with gravel, but he did not stop. He could see his father standing near the switch watching him.
 Take another pailful, Hugh" he heard him call f-om far down the track, you will have the fire put out soon."
 Hugh could not count the times that he dipped his pail in the running water and climbed the steep bank. SBut with each trip the red and yellow flames grew smaller and the bla K charred spot on the bridge grew larger.
 At last the fire disappeared and the smoke drifted away. With his emntv pail Hugh trudged back to his father at the switch.
 well done, Hugh," said his father you have sa-ed the bridge from burn. ing. l am prou of you. Go home. now, and rest.'
 Hugh went home, proud and happy. He forgot his a. hing back and the
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be as expensive as anybody could possi-
 ply desire. After a while I found that
 had we'll started a plank, and, once through, chopping away round the hole was not so difficult. Stf1l, when I had
 made hole big enough to get through, l did not feel by any means as fresh as had when first that horrible copper pot was screwed down over my head.
 I squeezed through the hoic and at the first step I had ever made on the sea bottom, came a complicated erop- per over my communicatio tion cord. got up, but as I stepped clear of the cord a rrightful conviction seized my mind that was bigger fool than had ever gwen myself credit for being.
 What in the world was the good of getting out through the side of the ves- gel, when that communication cord my only means of slgnaling-and that hfe-led up through the boat itself and among those horrid oil barrels? Aw- ful! Awful! I sat down helplessly on throaSh Sro6en my r0dR SdoS Snd StaTsS e ba0y 0y have been mere brayado, with so much salt water already about rue.
 IMPOSSIBLE TO SIGNAL
 I tried to signal with the ccmmuni- cation cord, but 1t was caught some where in that congregation of oil bar myself, who was all down, with no prospect of ever rising in the world again. Shadowy forms came and went in the water about me, and I specu- lated desperately in how long or how short a time these sea creatures would be having dinner party, with me as the. chief attraction. I wondered, cas- ually, whether the india rubber would agree with them, and hoped that 1t would not Then wondered what they would take for the indigestion, and thought they would probably take each other-it's their way, I believe.
 I was wandering on in this way, when an inspiration seized me-a great in- spiration: should have called out ''Eureka!" as did the venerable dls- coverer of that principle of specif1c gravity that had lately 0iterally) taken a rise out of me, if I had thought of it, but I didn't which was fortunate, be- cause it was rather a chestnut after all.
 This was my notion-a desperate one, but still one with hope in 1t. would shut off the air-escaps valve on my helmet, so that the air being pumped in would infiats my india rubber dress like a bladder. Then could cut my air-pipe and communication cord, stuff fing the pipe and tying 1t as best could,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
An Owl Stole a Puppy

A the purchase of a line Gordon IT., puppy by a gentleman named haas, added: "On Thursdas he went away to work. leaving the puppy shut trR uR m the barn. He did no. get back ltl S o'clock in the evening, and while ne was putting out his horses the puppy ran out in the barnyard.
 Tn a few minutes Haas hearo it yelp- ing piteously. Thinking that one of the cattle had either hooked it Or stepped on 1t, he ran out just in time to see e huge horned owl flying of with the puppy in his claws. He ran after him, hallooing, but the owl swooped on through an orchard, C--S tkls was the last he has since seen of his Gordon puppy"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
Do You Know This Game?

TT IS called a game of Milking
 Falls, and Is very jolly. A number of children form a line, holding each others hands, and act as the sons and daughters. Another child or a grown person acts as the mother, standing in front of the line, while 1t sings to her, swinging hands. The words are as follows: Children
 Mary's gone a-milling,
 Mother, mother,
 Mary's gone a-milking,
 Gentle, sweet mother O mine. . Mother
 Children, children;
 Take your patls and go after her, Gentle, sweet children O mine. Then the following verses, with the refrain:
 Children-Buy me new pair of milk
 Mother, mother. etc. Mother-Where's the money to come
 Children children, etc. Chndren-sen my fathers featherbed. Mother-whats your father to sleep chiiGren-Put him fin the trundle bed. etc.
 Mother-What are the children to Children-Put them in tho plg-sty, -c. Mother-What are the pigs to lie in? etc.
 Children-Put them in the washing Mother-What am to wash in? etc. Children-Wash in your thlmble, etc. Mother-Thimble won't hold your fathers shirt, etc.
 Children Wash in the river, etc. Mother-Suppose the clothes should blow away? etc.
 Chndren-set man to watch them. Mother-suppose the man should go to sleep? etc.
 M0ther-supposs the boat should be Children-Then that would be an end When the children have sung the last verse the mother swoops down upon them to seize and beat whom she can catch.
 The first one caught must act as mother in the next game The children should advance and re- tire in rhythm with the music as they sing their verses, and the mother should sway hAS body, Thythmieally aH she
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
A Daring Feat

|ToU have heard of intrepid steeple. N climbers, of course. Never a year
 passes that the newspapers 20 not climber or other having made par- ticulariy dangerous ascent In safety.
 But, have you ever heard of any one attempting the daring feat uictured here-standing ON ONES HEAD on top Of a steeple?
 This was done by an Englishman whose business is laying down slate roofs He has become So accustomed to dizzy heights that he thinks nothing or such performances as this.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
Tom Tits Tricks

Y HAVE q really curious and surpris-
 ing experiment. to tell you about
 today, boys and girls.
 Take a piece of thin wire or e hairpfn and bend 1t into the shape indi- cated on the right of this picture.
 In the sharp bend you have given the one end of inc wire firmly fix a coin. and on the hook at the other hang a ring.
 head of it into the smaller end of 8 well-formed cork, set the cork on a fiat surface and then rest the coin on top of the needle.
 On your letting go. 1t would, of course,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
Pinless Chinese.

A member of the Chinese Legation. clad in splendid pale hued silks stood before the Casino at Newport
 Pins" he said, "cause untldy hab- it's. We have no pins in China. The right way to fasten things is with but tons and buttonholes or with loops and frogs. To fasten things with pins ia to make use of an untidy makeshfft To employ pins is to become lazy and sloy- enly.
 I've have no pins in China. Certain foreign manufacturers shipped millions of them to us in the past, but we sent them back. We had no use for them, Ma WAra o0.~nAaA8
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
Enigma

am composed of six letters. My s, 6 is not off.
 My 1. s, is a weight. My 3, 5, 6 Is not daughter. My 8, 2, l is to weep aloud. My whole is the name of @ city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
Printers, Pi.

Who can make the following Jolly into prinkeTS pi? 4 Lod Reintw sl het ann orf em. Tosut hedFtea, nodus, dan tadsey,
 Letse renVes dan snobs fo sarbs tahh Moec won. moee lowb. chs deary,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
His Praying Was Nothinel

4 little boy was on his knees recently at might, and auntie, staying In the house, was present.
 ''lt is a pleasure" she said to him afterward, Ito hear you saying your prayers so well, you speak earnestly and seriously, and mean what you say, and care about it."
 "Ah!' he answered, ''ah! but, auntie. you should hear me gargleg
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
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Hospital Talk.

A SICK little girl who had spent N many weeks in a hospital and "A uneonsciously picked up many
 phrases commonly used by the nurses and doctors was telling her doe tor about the death of her little broth CT, which had occurred just before her own illness befell her,
 Tt was all along of eatin' too much lce cream and ginger nuts" she nar- she smiled beautifully. Tt was a ptously.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11

gravel in his shoes.
 ,.,1'n NOW when he walks the ties over the ba S ne reels as If 1t was his bridge ing'-The Little Chronicle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
Jumbled Rivers.

The following are all Maryland rivers. See if you can make out the entire list: {. Kie. 5. cowmocH 6. Kcompeoo. 2. PBtpcoaa-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
Drop-Letter Insects.

The following drop-letter words are all names of insects. Can you supply the omitted letters and give Polly Evans the entire list of insects7
 l. - h.
 z - SD.
 2. B - - tl -.
 1. -s-,
 D. - -.
 6. -r-e- (. c -c-o-, & - - 6 - " Q B - - - b - C. 10. a O. ii. - tt --h-, 12. c --e-p ---ar, 1d. - - - qui A. - lSro ---
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11

TRTEEN words are pictured or sug-
 Es gested in the cut below. Write
 them aosE a,.,n, in list list and ad,,y you will 3tI name of a famous man and CD some thing he will be eating some day this month.
 list of fifteen words and the two words of the answer?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
lEstagrann.

Example-I am something sweet baked; change my head and I am a body of water; change my head again and I am a garden Implement; change my head 8 third time and I rouse from sleep.
 r-Cake-Lake-R -Rake-LWake.
 [ am something worn by king: change my head and I am to scoW1; change my head again and I am to in- undafe with water; change my head yet again and I am a color.
 Can you give the four words?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
I-Henrico is no longer afraid to ride the bucking broncho his brother brought hin. from Texas

II-For he has safety which protects him besutv b
 Snortng Bill is rearing and kicking A" ""A'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
Answers to Last Weeks
 Puzzles
Word Chains.

~, Ean-oor, dor-mer, mer-man. man. Sels s1ll-era- crater. terror,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11
Single Acrostic

The line on this diagram shows the route by which the miners succeeded in sately reaching the mouth of the mine,
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-05-10
Who Comes to the Rescue?

For years the ancient Uncle sam has been stran-
dod with the old ship Of and being washed ashore
stands shaced the rocky riffs of monopoly In the dis
ance on the horizon of the great sea of turbulent wates
there appears sturdy old ship at the helm Of which stands
a man of determination and cve of country, plotting the
battle scared craft to the rescue Uncle SAM pnoncd mid
the rocks OF monopoly. The effort is momentuous one
most hazardous. The craft may be dashed to smthcrnes
upon the shoals of the mighty millions, but that pilot phys
the wheel to the rescue and the old ship will bear him
to strike the shackles from the imprisoned suffering saint
That old craft to the is called "Democacy and
strange it may the pilot is President Roosevelt. This
country is held in the grasp of monopoly and the President
is making war wealth, the country from fnan-
ca panic. The great railroad companies have combined
and pushed the freight high that the small dealer
squeezed of business making monopoly possible and the
people helpless in the face Of high prices President oose
welt is wagng this state of affairs and his chanpon
the floor of the that matchles democratic leader
Senator Tmm The democratic party fighting with the
president for the people and his party leaders the
enemies to his hopes. Democracy, poted bya Republican
must save the country from revolution against the oppros
sion of capital.
Speed the rescue May the president be successful
and may Democracy stand his aid in this noble work un-
til the brcpst-worb of the enemy is su1nountcd with hc
waving flag of the peoples rights
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-05-10
A Tale of Two coloneIs.

Bold. brilliant. helligerent and bizarre
are the adiectiyeS which perhaps most
aptly describe the minds of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt president of the
United States, and Colonel James Ham
iltOn Lewis, once representative in
congress from the new state of Wash
ington, now corporation counsel Of the
city of Chicago. These two are per
Sonal frenuS both having served In
the Spanish American lmbrogliO. They
are both mtch in the limelight, because
nature, generous to each, lifted them
for the center of the stage. Colonel
Lewis has been in Washington recent
ly, where lie is always received with
the glad haad because in his two years
of service in the house he made Il mere
indelible Impression upon men ani
things than an ordinary member would
have done Ia decade. While here he
gave out an interview in which he haul
ed his friend In the White House over
the Goals at lively rate because cf
his speech on "the man with the muck
rake" Like all the rest OF Colonel
Lewis utterances. the interview cou-
stitutes what Horace Greeley would
have denoui.nated "nighty interesting
reading" But surely there is late
message of his White House frleed
which Colonel i.ewis ought 10 coa-
mend-l mean the one in which the
president eXcoriates Judge Humphrey
Of Chicago Tor his decision In the beef
packers cases. That ought 10 warm
HE cookies of the heart of Colonel
Lewis, for Il was this same Judge
Humphrey who recently sentenced
Colonel Lewis 10 sixty days in Jail for
bringing certain suit IN state court
Colonel Lewis purged himself OF con
tempt by disnlissing his suit AS his
friend and adlnlrer | wish he had gone
20 jail aud served out his sixty days.
John Bunya An wrote "Pilgrim's Proa-
ressr while IN jail, and Colonel Lewis
in that length Of time could have iLi-
himself by writing two
books both sadly needed one entitled
The Proper Limitations OF the Theory
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-05-10
Demoo Gratis of Ohio.

Ohio has only one Democratic rep
resentativc in this congress Hon. H..
c. CARRIER He is also chairman of the
state committee. and much of the credit
of electing Il Democratic governor last
year should 70 to him. He is an in
defatigable worker and q skillful or
ganiZer. He has just returned to
Washington from Ohio and brings with
him splendid accounts of Democratic
prospects in that state. According to
Mr.. CARRIER the Democratic administra-
tion has been and is Il pronounced sue
cess Notwithstanding the sickness Of
the governor. The Democrats in the
Legislature appear to have done what
they promised to do and have left I'M
done what they said they would leave
undone, or, to use the usual formula,
they have redeemed their ante-election
promises, a good thing to do always.
The chances are that Ohio instead of
having only one representative in the
SiXtieth congress, will have much near
er one dozen.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-05-10
MOVABLE TYPES.
The Honor of Their Invention Belongs
to the Far East.

to the Far East.
China, the "cradlc of the arts" I"
claims tae honor of the invention Of
printing. Away back in the year
j93, nearly 1000 years before Gut
enbcrg issued the first volume of
his famous Bible, the Chinese were
using the "block system" Of print
ing, and in the tenth century, 400
gears before Europe had become ac-
quaintcd with the art preserva-
tive The almond eyed Celestial
typos were better yersed in the sci
ence of setting movable types than
were the American printers OF the
days of Benjamin Franklin. The
"block system" of printing, which
was so well known i'll the Flowery
Kingdom less than six centuries
after the birth of Christ, did not
find its way to Europe until about
the first OF the fifteenth century,
when devotional manuals" each
bearing u portrait and a few lines
in printing, became popular. These
cuts and printed lines were taken
from engravings made ON single
block, the very earliest dated speci-
men of that character made in Eu-
rope bearing date of 1923,
There is still a question as to
who was the first European printer
to use the movable types. 1t is not
question as to what European in
vented movable types, for it is
known that the honor belongs in
the far east. The honor of being
the first to adopt the system appears
to rest between Laurenz Coster of
HARLEM (died 1440), John Faust
and John Gutenberg. In the above
list some include the name of Peter
Schoffer, son-in-law of Faust.
Dutch authorities claim that Coster
was the first to use the movable
types and that Gutenberg, who was
at one time workman in Coster's
shop, stole the idea from him. The
Germans give Gutenberg the honor
and set the date of his first success
full practice of the art at 1886. The
first entire European book ever
printed from movable types bears
the name of Johann Faust on its
title page. 1t bore the name of
"Tractatus Petri Hispan' and was
printed at Mentz in HIP. As Gut
enberg did not put his name on all
of his books or the date when they
were issued, there is some doubt
when the first appeared or how
many were issued. Gutenberg's
great work was his Latin Bible,
which appeared in 1l5G and which
is often catalogued as the "frst
book ever printed on movable
types"
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-05-10
Everybody Was Quiet.

Back in the seventies of the last
century report reached army head
quarters that the Indians had
swarmed down on little village in
Idaho and murdered every inhab-
liant. A second lieutenant, who
had just received his commission,
was dispatched to the scene to as
certain the authenticity of the ru-
NOR. A few hours after his arrival
in the village he sent this dispatch
to the commanding officer:
Everybody is quiet here"
Whereupon the commanding Of
ticer replied;
"Your report is unintelligible.
We have it from responsible source
that Indians have massacred every
inhabitant."
The lieutenant answered:
'Report is correct. Everybody
has been massacred. Everybody is
quiet"