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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-24
GUARDING A SECRET.
The Number Of Persons Who May
Share u With Safety

In the realm of the multiplication
table. where. for example. two and
two can be relied on to make exactly
four. reckoning is easy. but when you
leave the field OF abstract numbers and
deal with persons strange results some
times appear. Such n case is describ.
ed in Lady Dorothy Sevills book, I'm.
der Five Reigns."
With regard to the number OF per
sons who may safely be trusted with
a secret. there Is no proverbial author.
lily for believing II TO exceed two We
are told In several languages that
the secret Of two Is Gods secret. the
secret OF three is all the worlds" and
the Spaniards say. What three know
all the world knows"
gentleman who had gained DOS
session OF valuable commercial Sc
cret conhded 1t to a friend who ap-
precinated its value. A short time
afterward this friend came to ask per.
mission TO communicate ii. under oath
OF eternal secrecy. TO a friend of his
who would be likely to assist In utiliz-
Ing the secret to the best advantage.
Let me see" said the original pos
SCISSOR OF the secret. making a chalk
mark on board at hand. II know
the particulars. That makes one"
One" agreed His friend.
You know them oatinued he.
making another mark - the side of
the one already made. 'T@ at makes
Two cried the other.
well. and IL you tell your friend.
that will be"-making third mark.
Three" said the other
mo" was the reply-"111."-L
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-24
The First Society of Authors.

A society for the protection OF au-
thors was founded as long ago as 1885.
Authors themselves were not mem
bers OF the society. which was insti-
tuted for their benefit by noblemen
and gentlemen. who subscribed gum
cas- annually in addition to an en-
trance fee Of 10 guineas
Their purpose. as defined by them
selves. was Ito assist authors In the
publication and to secure to them the
entire profits OF their own works.
that Is to say. they published books.
but took no fees for doing so. They
were amateurs. however. engaged In
trade In competition with profession
ais. and their enterprise was unsuc-
cessful. The society was wound up In
1T49. and the balance In hand GEO 1851
was presented TO the Founding hospi-
taL-London Author.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-24
REBUKEp AN EMPEROR
oluek Didn't Like the Way Joseph
Sang His fhus,e.

Sar9 fss MUSIC
Gluck. the composer. was not Of Il
sort Of men of whom courtiers are
made. one day he attended Mt the
court ut Vienna a concert at which the
Emperor Joseph IL. and one OF his
nrchdukes suuy fragment from one
OF Gluck's compositions. Naturally
enough, the imperial artists glanced st
tile composer To see how be was i'm
pressed by the honor they were doing
him. They were shocked TO observe
that be was making series OF ex-
tra"rT.rary and significant grimaces.
The emperor stopped and inquired
whether he and the archduke were not
singing the bit according to Gluck's
idea OF how it should be done.
My idea"' exclaimed Gluck. why,
sire. ] am the poorest walker In the
world. but would vastly rather take
a walk OF six leagues than be forced to
hear composition Of my own inter
preted in such a way as that"
Joseph ii. was brave enough to take
no notice OF the criticism. but the
court was quite convinced that II
such reproach had been addressed to
the Car Nicholas the composer would
have prosecuted his musical studies
from that time forth under the unfa-
vorable surroundings OF the Siberian
mines.
1t was the composer weigl. a man OF
very different temperament from
Gluck. who when the Emperor Fran
els Joseph played the first violin In the
performance OF one OF bis overtures
threw himself at the monarch's feet
and exclaimed. "Ah. sire. will your
majesty benignantly condescend TO
grant my prayer and favor me once
more with most gracious sharp?"-
New York Press.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-24
WEINBERGS
January !, 1912

We want to thank customers for tho Iowa,
support they have the past We have in many v
had the best business history As we start the New
lear we do so with the desire to hold ana conldepc.
and good will of all and to do yield first in quail
W ana second prices Quality sded the best goods We can
getat lowest has been and shall motto Call andse
-0-0
e Now once more and apologies: need money t. Inv
and for the goods SELL hint the friendly is eponyb
w. Harry Agnor, Ss ssts. Main
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-24

The United States, although the
youngest among nations. manufac-
lures more goods, sells more mer-
chan disc, raises moi produce, en-
ploys more labor, pays more wages.
gives more comforts to it's people,
has more happy and prosperous
homes than any nation on earth.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-24
Fled From Osath.

We questioned the applicant for q
position as laundress.
Are you marriedY" we asked.
mo. sub: Is a widduh"
"Ah-and your husband Is dead?"
"Yassuh-he's sho' daid."
How did he meet his death?'
Meet 1t? Laws. man. he didn't meet
1t! Dey had ter chase him two mile
70 dey all could ketch him an put de
rope roun' his neck-"-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-24
Had FORESIGHT.

That man Mehitable married has @
lot Of foresight" said Farmer Corn
tossel.
He looked kind Of worried and scar.
ed at the weddin'." replied his wife.
That's what makes me think he has
foresight "-Washington Star.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-24

Little Haxel-Papa. what did you
say to mamma when you made ur
your mind you wanted to marry bert
Mr. Meek-i said. Yes. dear"-Cas.
sells Journal.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-24
Routine Resumed.

Master-SO you have friendly doinys
with your brothers people once moref
Pat-Yis. sir. His family and our'p
do be scra Hpin' again az IL they'd nivef
bin parted -Harper's Bazaar,
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-24

Home is the seminary Of all other In.
1tttutiops.-Chapin.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
In One Ton of Coal.

From one ton of ordinary gas coal may be produced 1,500 pounds of coke, 20 gallons of ammonia water and 40 pounds of coal tar. By distilla- tion the coal tar will yield 69.6 pounds of pitch, IT pounds of cresote. IA pounds of heavy oils, 9.5 pounds of naphtha yellow, 6.3 pounds of naphtha- line, 4.75 pounds naphthol, 225 pounds of alizarin, 2.4 pounds solvent naphtha, Is pounds phenol, 12 pounds aurine, II pounds benZine, II pounds aniline, O.77 of a pound of toluidine, 046 of a pound anthracine, and 09 of a pound toluine. From the latter is obtained the substance known as saccharine, which is 230 times as sweet as the best cane sugar, one part of it giving a very sweet taste to 1000 parts of water.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
FIRST TO WRITE OF AFRICA
Nuneo Park Properly May Claim Dis tinction of Pioneering In the -
 "Dark Continent"

Mungo Park, the African traveller and explorer, was born at Foulshiels on the Yarrow, England, in 1771. He was one of thirteen children, and as a youth was apprenticed to a surgeon. Afterward he studied medicine in Ed lnburgh. It was in May, 1795, that he set out on his expedition to trace the source of the Niger. After many ad- ventures, among them imprisonment by a Moorish king, Park escaped and reaching the Niger at Sego. He fol- lowed the Niger down it's course as far as Silla, where he encountered hin drances that compelled his return, and he arrived back at Gambia in June, 1797, after an absence of nineteen months. An account of his travels, published under the title Travels in the Interior of Africa" at once had large sale. Park afterwards settled down as a surgeon at Peebles, Scot land, having married a daughter of Dr. Anderson, his old Selkirk friend, but tiring of the quiet monotony of a country surgeons life, he undertook a second expedition to Africa, this time under the auspices of the govern ment, in 1895. He and his companions were drowned at Boussa on the Niger. Mrs. Park was in receipt of a pension until her death in 1S40.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
Boys Copy DesperadO,s Exploits.

The notoriety given to Bonnot ha fired the imagination of . an eighteen year-oId boy named F'irmin Licardies, living in the French town of Maurs, In the central department of Cantal. This lad, who has been reading the exploits of the band, resolved to imi- tate Bonnot. lie armed himself the other day with a hatchet and a gun, got possession of some cartridges, and then barricaded himself in his room, refusing to leave it. You will have to dynamite me as they did Bonnot," he cried. Finally the gendarmes were sent for, and as they were surrounding the house the boy fired at them. His next exploit was to escape from an attic window, and he fled to a neigh boring wood, where, after long hunt, he was found making cartridges in thicket. Three young ruffians also at tempted to seize a motor delivery van near Nancy by cutting through the pneumatic tires, hut they took to flight without the car, alarmed by the cries of the chauffeur.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
nThe CaIfU


 The Church hall of the National Church of Scotland, in Crown court, Covent garden, London, has just re- ceived an addition to it's portraits of former ministers. It is a portrait of the Rev. James Stevens, D. D., who was inducted in 17S7. In making the announcement in the church monthly, the Rev. A. Macrae, the minister, writes: ''In his younger days MT. Stevens fell foul of Robert Burns. for on one occasion, preaching from the text Malachi AZ: And they shall go forth and grow up like calves in the stall,' the irrepressible poet on return ing from church wrote his verses on The Calf giving a painful immortal ity to the poor gentleman's style and name. Gossip further declares that on MT. Stevens settlement in London Burns cousin, who had been up on a visit, wrote the poet that he had at tended Crown Court church and had heard The Calf preach. In 1903 Dr. Stevens was presented to the parish of Kilwinning, Ayrshire, and died sud denly of apoplexy at his manse there on February 15, 1924" He was one of the founders of the London Mis- sionary society.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
New Neuro Tyne

The United States census of 1910 reveals an interesting fact about the negro. Despite crossing with lighter races the southern negro is growing darker. Negroes were formerly classi- fled as octoroons, quadroons, mulat- toes and blacks. Those distinctions have given place to a homogeneous type which is not pure negro, yet is not lighter in color than the negro of unmixed blood. The characteristics of the new type is an accentuation of the color of the skin. The negro of Louisiana, notably of New Orleans, is darker than were his ancestors. The type is of a softer and more velvety black than the Congolese; and the pe- culiar softness of color is accompanied by features of a less prominent Afri- can type, while the hair is less wool like.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23

rassment of meeting on the way his colleagues and other friends who won- dered what could be wrong with the intrepid congressman from Virginia. Furthermore it was at that season of the year when not only the feminine mind, but the masculine mind also, was focused on the subject of hats. Under these conditions was MT. Slemp obliged to run the gauntlet amid the volley of none too sympathetic que ries.
 This may serve as notice to anyone who has by mistake walked away with a size seven and three-quarters "hard- boiled" hat, derby of late design and good quality, that it should be re- turned at once to Congressman Slemp. Said hat has associated with it cer- tain memories-besides costing five dollars.
 Therefore are we justified in the suggestion that a hat-rack and cloak room be established at the White House.-Chapple's Newsletter
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23

WASHINGTON.-"Give me a real
 w shovel" exclaimed Sunny Jim Sherman, vice-president of the United States, the other day as he stood on the lawn of the capitol and cast a critical and experienced eye at hole in the ground six feet in diameter and three feet deep. In the hole stood a small tree, destined to be known as the Sherman tree" and Sunny Jim vas there for the purpose of perform ing the historical business of planting it. An attendant had just handed the vice-president a small spade, child size. Upon his indignant refusal of this implement a man-size shovel with a rounded bit and long handle was placed in his hands, and if they had not stopped him he would have filled in the hole in few minutes.
 'T supposed I was to plant this tree," said the vice-president as they asked him to desist after he had thrown few shovelfuls into the aper- ture. Until this spring only two trees on the grounds of the United States capitol bore the name of any human being. One is known as the Washing
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
Travel of Two Casks of Wine.

If wine could talk, there are two casks of 1t which passed through Hous- .on the other day which would tell an interesting story.
 This wine, consigned to a firm in Baltimore, was aboard the Fl Sud when that boat sank just out of Gal Veston over two weeks ago. Three Jays ago the casks were picked up by life savers of the United States life saving station at Point Isabel, near Brownsville.
 They were brought to Brownsville and turned over to the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexican railroad. J. A. Brown, general freight agent of the line, ordered the goods shipped on to the firm to whom they were originally consigned. The address of this firm was still visible on the casks and there was no mistaking to whom they should be sent. The wine will be turned over to the Morgan line at Galveston Monday.
 There is some doubt existing in the minds of railroad officials as to whom the liquor should be checked. It is the first case on record of goods being given up by the sea to railroad com pany, and there is no book in the of flee for keeping track of this class of freight. The wine was originally sent by the Italian colony of Southern Cal Ifornia.-Houston Post.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
Lost Hats at the Executive Office

NOW we intend to make 1t an issue. " For some years we have openly lamented that at the executive office of the president of the United States there are no hat racks. The time is at hand when the great issue must be met. Congressman c. B. Slemp of Virginia, who is generally as punctil- ious as an ordinary mortal can be, fin ished a rapid-f1re conference with the president and came out to find his hat, which he had left upon one of the seats in the outer room. Hastily and then carefully he looked, but his hat was not there. Someone had changed hats. Now Congressman Slemp's hat was of fairly normal size, and all he could find was a little hat that would cover only the rear end of his head. And that was discovered only after the process of elimination had been applied and the little hat was the only one left.
 It is humiliating to think that the statesmen of the country should have to roam about the executive office hunting for stray hats. Of course ev erybody joked Congressman Slemp, but it was far from a joking matter to walk down Executive and Pennsyl- vania avenues to a distant hat store. It did not comport with statesmanlike dignity; to say nothing of the embar-
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
Bell "Peeved" Uncle Sam's Young Men

tioneer on charge of disorderly con- duct. While the warrant was being sworn out in police court, however, Assistant Corporation Counsel Gus A. Schuldt considered the case and rem dered a decision to the effect that the auctioneer was not liable to prosecu- tion for the ringing of the bell.
 The warrant was not sworn out, but Capt. Michael Byrnes, of the Sixth precinct, visited the auctioneer and explained to him how he was uncon- sciously interfering with the work of Uncle Sam and slowly demoralizing the patent office. Tears came to the eyes of the auctioneer at the thought of having caused Uncle Sam a mo- ment's trouble, and in broken words notified the captain that it would be unnecessary to arrest him, for he would discontinue the ringing of the obnoxious bell at once.
 So the bell will ring no more. That is, during patent office hours. But up to one minute of nine in the morning, and after 4:31 o'clock in the after noon, the bow-legged wielder of the massive bell will jangle it in a man. ner never before heard of in order to make up for lost time.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23

AIO longer will the minds of the em- " ployes of the patent office be dis tracted by the dangling of the auctioneer's bell.
 For some time past numerous com plaints have been made to Clement s. Ucker, chief clerk of the department of the interior, by employees of the patent office, to the effect that their work was interfered with by the in- cessant ringing of a bell at an auc- tioneer's establishment, in Seventh street Northwest, between B and F streets, opposite the patent office.
 They complained that the bell com meneed ringing promptly at g o'clock In the morning and that it continued until 4:30 o'clock.
 Chief Clerk Ucker finally reported the matter to the police and an at- tempt was made to arrest the auc-
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
FORBIDDEN CITY IS ENTERED
Halata, Once the Center of African Civilization, Now Nothing bun
 Heap of Ruins.

Another Mysterious city of the iesert has given up it's secrets; Walata has been entered by white explorer" ]" Until last January Walata-Oualata, he French spell twas more mysteri- ous even than fabled Timbuctu, its distant neighbor.
 In the tenth century Walata was a great city, the center of civilization, from which the religion of Islam spread throughout western Africa. Up to the twelfth century it was the prosperous capital of the kingdom of Cana, the market to which came all the nations of Africa, with caravan routes across the desert to Tunis, Touat, Tafilelt and Fez. Here gathered the wise men and the doctors of the
 law of Mahomet
 Then, like all Babylons and all Tyres, it began to decline Timbuctu, } younger city. gradually stole away Its trade and usurped it's position as an intellectual center. In the four teenth century it had lost its splendor.
 Two centuries more and the sultans of Morocco, extending their conquests LO luS SOUlu, OCCuplSQ IL anu It DGCdLu0 only one of the many conquered towns.
 Finally Walata became the home of the bands of robbers who terrorized all the country around. With the pos sible exception of Laing in 1926, no white man had seen it, and its pirate masters had resolved that none should enter it.
 But last winter Colonel Roulet, French commandant at Timbuctu, de- termined to dispel the mystery. At the head of a camel corps of 200 sol diers, he marched across the desert and occupied the city without firing shot, eighteen years to the month after the French entry into Timbuc- tu.
 Only a few poor families now live In the ruins of what was once a great city, as the remains of it's walls, cita- del and massive mosques testify. There are left, even, some decorations of the style made familiar by the AL hambra, that prove that once the arts were studied here as well as in the other Moorish empire north of the straits of Gibraltar.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
Daylight Canned and Sold By Expert
reCANNED DAYLIGHT" is an illum-

SCANNED DAYLIGHT" is an Hum
 V mating invention of Prof. Walter Q. Smelling of Pittsburgh, former ex- pert of the department of agriculture. He is startling Washington scientists and gas manufacturing experts with demonstrations of his new sunshine" maker, carried in small suitcase.
 Liquid gas Is Professor Snelling's invention. It is manufactured from waste gases and vapors of oil wells, ,heapIy produced, easily condensed md transported. That it will revolu- ionize farm illumination is predicted oy it's inventor. His suitcase ''gas plant" carries enough material to light ! room for two weeks, without re- plenishing, at cost of about $1.
 Canned" gas, Professor Smelling Iays. can be supplied farmers at cost as low per 1000 feet as city folk now pay. In a single container, 2,00o Get, nearly a months supply, is held n liquid form, to be liberated when burned as needed. The liquid gas de relops heating and lighting power of L400 British thermal units, as against
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
Profit on Sewaue.

Bradford is porbably the only city in the United Kingdom which derives a big revenue form it's sewage, and there seems a prospect that in time the sewage works will be self-support- ing. The town has just erected new machinery at cost of $3OO,OOO to ex- tract marketable products from the city's sewage. Last year the corpora tion made a profit of $15O,OOO from grease recovered from the sewage, and it is anticipated that the annual pro fit will now be raised to s25OOOO. A market has been found for the pressed cake which remains after the grease has been extracted, and large quanti- ties of this have been exported to be used as fertilizers in France and South America.
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
Turn on the caIcIunn.

The doorbell of the Vanitys' house rang at about eight o'clock one night, and Mrs. Vanity said, excitedly. to her husband:
 There, Charles, know that's the furniture van coming with the new bedroom suite we bought today, and if it is I just won't receive it, that's all.'
 "Why not?" asked MT Vanity.
 "Why not?" replied Mrs. Vanity. DO you think I'm going to pay $100 for a suite and then have it sent out here after dark so that none of the neigh bors can see it when it's brought inS Not if l know It."
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
Something to Think About.

If carp can live a century and half and a pike live to be 267, why shouldn't a piker live to be 1000? Ad- hitting that an elephant deserves to live to be 100, and that one tusker has lived to be $50, and considering that a white-headed vulture has survived cap tivity almost fifteen decades, and that the cat who keeps you awake at night may not expire for 20 years, did Methuselah have much to boast of, after all?
The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
Imprisoned in Strong Room.

A somewhat amusing incident, in
 voIviag the enforced imprisonment of
 two clerks in the strong room of the
 Bohemian bank of Prague, Austria,
 occurred recently. The clerks were engaged in detaching coupons from bonds when the manager, in showing, the strong room and the mechanism of the armor plated door to the di- rector of a provincial bank, locked the door upon them. A few minutes later the manager tried to open 1t, but could not Several locksmiths were called, in, and though they worked hard the whole day, they failed to un- lock the door, The Berlin firm who constructed the strong room sent some mechanicians by express train to Prague, but their endeavors were like wise in vain at first. It was only af- ter thirty hours of toll and search that the spring was discovered, the door opened and the two prisoners released. During their Imprisonment they had been fed with milk supplied through lR india rubber tube slipped through ln airhOle.