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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
BENT BACK THE RULE.
Where Sauce For the Goose Was Not
Sauce For the Camden.

OduCe TOR tne 1dnoeT.
In tbs early days of certain club
OF New York. when it was rather
harder shedding for the club than it is
at the present time. in a meeting of
the council the question came up rs
to the arrears of members dues. and
the treasurer reported that one man
was particularly recreant in this regard.
1t was in the winter, and the club was
then maintaining throughout the day
and evening beautifully heated and
lighted quarters At this time the
only person in the club who fire.
quented it every day was this de-
hnquent. who, In addition to doing a
large portion of his writing there. was
accustomed to make considerable in
roads upon the stationery of the club
for home consumption
At the meeting Of the council re
ferred to there was protest against
this state of affairs, and a determine
ton was manifest to put an end to IT,
and after discussion the secretary WIS
instructed to notify the member in
dropped from the rolls of the club
The question then arose whether
there was anybody else who was in ar
rears. whereupon the treasurer report
ed that this was true of another meiD
Der.
"Who can that be2 Let US make an
example of them both," remarked one
member, bringing his fist down on
the table for emphasis. The reply
was that it was Mr.. X, the poet
"Oh, heavensy' replied another. I'VE
can't let X. go. He's too important to
the club
Whereupon the resolution was then
amended to read as follows: Re
solved, that the secretary be lnsiruc;
ed to drop the name Of Mr.. Q. fro"f
the rolls Of the club for nonpay neut
of dues and to retain the name of Mr..
X. for the same reason."-Century.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
ELIZA WAS GENEROUS.
Her Munifcent Offer For an Origins
Five Act Tragedy.

FIVE Act Tragedy.
People are likely. TO look back com
miseratingly upon the past in the>,
days of modern progress. When We
hear what the most prolific of present
day nOvelists receives a word anC
what the weekly royalties of any wei
known playwrights are we say tina;
the literary profession has come int
its own. Some bark back to the con
trasting tale-that Milton receive;
only Ej for the first copyright al
Paradise Lost" an epic in lively,
books containing "a total of 1856
lines, but that was over two centuiir,
ago. Poe received SO for "Th.
Raven" That may be dismissed witt
the statement. that poetry never paid.
The modern way of making money
by literature is even more recent tina,
is. generally thought. Alexander Hi
Of Cincinnati, one of the best know,
bookmen and collectors Of the midd'
west, has a letter in his collection ui
autographs that proves this point.
Two generations ago Eliza Loga.
was a leading actress in America
Read her letter, o budding genius CO.
the typewriter. and be glad that whrl
you are paid it is space rates for T.:
local paper:
fremont House, Boston, May II. 1854.
Z. DusseaUt, Jr., CharlestOwn, Mass
Sir-I wish an original five act tragedy
the feature TO be q heroine. myself Ja
-personatOT OF Il: the scene not to be la.
IN this country; the plot to- be option
with the author-for which, if like it.
Will pay s.. Respectfully,
ELIZA LOGAN
boston Post.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
Real Use Of the Bees Sting.

''The bees sting is a trowel, not n
capier." said 4 nature student. 1T is an
eXquisitely delicate little trowel with
which the bee finishes off the honey
cell. injects q little preservative inside
and seals it up. With its trowel-like
sting the bee puts the final touches On
the dainty and wonderful work. With
the sting it pats and shapes the honey
cell, as i mason pats and shapes a row
of brick. Before sealing up the cell it
drops a wee bit of poison into the honey.
This is fOrmic acid. Without it honey
would spoil. Most of us think the bees
sting. with its poison. is weapon only.
1t is n weapon secOndarily. but pri-
marily it is magic trowel, a troweI
from whose end, as the honey cells are
built up. Il wonderful preserving fluid
drips.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
Diaraeli,s Fine Digestion.

Disraeli appears to have been en-
dowed with a most accommodating D..
gestion. When he visited Spain IN
1880 he wrote his mother glowing a.
counts of 1.-THE most agreeable dish in
the world-au olio. | will explain. &.
TO you. for my father would delight III
it. There are two large dishes, one q,
each end Of the table. The top OH
contains bouiili beef, boiled pork /sau
sage and black pudding The other !,
medley of vegetables and fruits. gen
orally French beans, caravanseras and
whole pecS. Help each person to q
portion of the meats and then to tbt
medley. Nix them up in your Plat,
together and drown them in tomato
sauce. ! have eaten this every day
1t is truly delightful. "-London Stand
ard.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
SILVER PLATING.
An Accident Pointed the Way to the
Original Process.

MI FASNlOCHh Tic way 70 hnc
Original Process.
In 1742 Thomas Bolsover, a me-
chanic of Sheffield, England, discovered
the art Of silver plating. He was re
pairing the handle of knife in which
both copper ana silver were used Ac-
cidentally the two metals were fused
together. Based upon this observation.
he developed he new process.
Upon 4 thck ingot of copper he
bound by iron wire a thinner ingOt of
silver. TIL whOleevas then heated in
a reverbe tory furnace until the edges
Of the 81. .er ingot were observed to
begin to l"elt. The two ingots were
then removed from the furnace, slowly
cooled and picked, cleaned and rolled
to the desired thickness. The result
was a plate of copper more or less
thinly covered with silver on one side.
This was the first Sheffield plate.
For fifty years following the copper
was plated on one side only and the
cut edges showed the copper. Later
the process was so perfected that no
copper was left exposed. All the sill
verplate of the world was made by
this process until electroplating was
discovered and made commercial
Popular Mechanics.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
DisiIlIusioned.

''She had played in amateur thea;
ricals and threatened to go on the STAGE
if her parents wouldn't let her MARRY
the duke"
And what did her parents do after
that threat?"
''They let her go on the stage. gave
the duke check for front seat and
were not at all surprised when he
sailed back TO France the next morn
ing."-Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
American Leaf Colors.
Boston Post

It has been observed that the leave,
Of American trees. such as naples
scarlet oaks and so forth, which "a
home exhibit splendid colors in "a,
autumn. fall below their reputation i,
this regard when transplanted in Enc
land or on the continent Of Europ.
An English observer, who has bee.
studying the causes of the autumn,
tints of trees, thinks the superiOrij
Of our woodlands arises from the sol
and mild yet glowing climatic cond
tons prevailing here in the fall En-
land, it is added. is rarely blessed wi
an Indian summer. When the clirnat:.
conditions permit the leaves to retail
considerable vitality in the autumn
the colored' pigment is normally .dc
veloped; hence the glorious forests %
the United States. 4Chicago Record
Herald.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
She Didn't Do II.

The family jar waxed fercer..
You talk about my being to blame
for our marrying!" shrilly exclaimed
Mrs. vick-SepD. John Henry did /
hunt you out and then make love ii
you?'
NO. he snOrted. But you could
have given me the CLASSY eye and sent
me about my business, and you didn'r
do it. madam-you didn't do itr-Chi
cago Tribune
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
Her Last Gard.

IL want ANEW bonnet bat nv hus-
band says he can't afford it" =
as that final, do you suppose?"
HE says 1t is. but |. won't know
until tonight
Going to get a definite answer
them
Eyes. I'm going to settle it one
way or the other I'm going to start
to cry when he gets home, and If that
doesn't work there'll be no new bon
net Detroit Free Press.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
UNITY OF LIFE.
Cells of Animals and Plants Alike and
Governed by Same Laws.

Cells of Animals and Plants Alike and
Governed by Same Laws.
Protoplasm. the literal trapslation Of
which means "the first man made.
was the name given by a German sci
enlist in 1916 to the shiny, granular.
semifuid contents of vegetable cells.
1t looks like the white of an egg,
and it can be analysed into four chem
ical elements-carbon, oxygen, nitrogen
and hydrogen. 1t is now recognizes
as the fundamental basis for all life
The smallest particle of it goes through
what is known as the cycle of life
free motion. feeling, feeding and re-
production. When in some uncOn
scious way it grows a membrane for .
covering or a little nucleus. kernel
somewhere within it, science calls it q
cell.
These cells are the same in plan;
and animals. Professor Jacques L02.
showed the importance Of this fact
Although plants, he explained have
nervous systems. they have ''instiu
tive movements" In analysis of l.
stincts he bound together in the CO.!
common to them the plant and tn
worm at the root of the plant-as som.
day, perhaps. the tree of life and til,
serpent may be bound-and he callto
their reflex actions ''tropisms."
Then he pointed out that tropism.
are mechanical acts-that moth aui
fly and ivy leaf move in spite of them
selves in chemical subsection. to Iigit
heat and doors. which the scieHtist
calls "emanations."-F Man as {;
Mechanism" in Metropolitan.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
SELECT CULLINGS
The Diver and His Clothes.

rWhen clothed in the ordinary divers
suit topped with the heavy brass he'll
met diver is helpless. The air that
Is pumped down to him fills not only
the helmet. but the entire suit, putting
It out to such an extent that heavy
weights are required TO keep the main
down. The work that he can do ~
limited. One OF the annoyances that
he has to endure is the fact that he
cannot reach inside of his suit to ease
any discomfort. A diver once dis.
covered June bug in his helmet when
ne was down under water, and he was
obliged to endure all the torture of
having the insect crawl over his face
without any possible means of reach.
Ing it to destroy it or even brush it
away. Recently, however, a French
inventor devised a divers outfit which
dispenses with everything but an ab
breviated form of helmet. Air is pump
ed to the diver in the usual way.
through pipe which is attached TO his
helmet at the back of the neck.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
Capital Punishment.

Mamma. did you love to fiirt whep
you were young?"
Il am afraid did, dear
"And were you-ever punished for it,
mammal"
"Cruellys dear. ! married your Ia
Their, Paris Rire
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
AIRS Fish For the Doctors Net.

why. the size of your bin." cried
the angry patient to the doctor. makes
me boil all overr'
"Ah!" said the eminent practitioner
calmly That will be just $40 more
for sterilizing your system5..-Ladies
Home Journal
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
.His.1itle.

"No. shall never marry sighed the
old bachelor
riie spinster gazed at him scornful-
~. "You cowardr' she hissed.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
Before and After.

Bobby, you have been fighting with
that Stapleford boy again. Did yoii
count ten before you struck him. as !
have always told you to do?"
"No, but I was told. that somebody
counted ten after he landed on me-
Chicago Tribune
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
Almost a Threat

Police inspector-Haven't often in
structed you that you are not to allow
the. public to pick the flowers in this
park? Park Keeper-Yes; that is. my
wife. who used to be your cook. Per-
haps you will try TO make her stop
MegSendorfer Batter
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
A Curious Word.

There is word in the English Ian
guage the first two letters of which sig
nifty the male. the first three female,
the first four great man and the
whole great woman The word Is
HEROINE Ladies' Home Journal
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
Purpose and SUCCESS.

1t Is the old lessoD-a worthy pur-
pose. patient energy for its,accompiish-
ment a resoluteness undaunfed by diff
ffculties and then SUCCESSIVE. NJ. Pun
shon.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
Sorry u. s,Nk-

led IKE to know what entovA
- nen. you can find in going from stor..
~ sure looking at things Won bava,,.s
, ,ne least idea of buying. She-I kno,s
melanch Duy lnem' but there is a sort Of
.ou,a "enoy pleasure in thinking thar
.oulo nave bought them If had mar
.h.,,. george Scads. when I had .ths
nance instead of taking you. s
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
Very Necessarx

Hewett--l expect to leave footprints
on the sands of time. Jewett-It takes
sand to do it, Woman's Home Com
panion.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04
Yes, Indeed, Threepenee Is Threepence.

Yes, Indeed, Threepenee Is Threepence.
Since the national health insurance
act went into effect in England last
summer washing day has threatened TO
move down the week from Monday TO
anywhere this side of baking day
which anybody who knows anything
knows is Saturday. The reason is that
the first employer of the week has 70
pay the washerwoman's insurance CON.
tribution. So if you keep Monday fer
your wash day you have TO pay three
pence extra. 4 good many employers
have already shifted to Tuesday. IA
the hope that other and more stubborn
Il ~Se6eepers win stick TO Monday and
pay the threepence. But if everybody
changes TO Tuesday there will be moth.
ing for it but for the economical ii
change again to Wednesday and 10
continue changing until all the posi-
bilities in the case are exhausted lt
is said that conventional England con.
templates this shifting of wash day
with stony horror, but threepence *
threepence.-New York Post.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04

THE hours we pass with happy pros
poets In view are more pleasing than
those crowned with fruition.-Gold-
smith.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04

1t Is seldom that punishment. though
lame OF foot has failed to overtake a
villain : Horace.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04

wb msso''ection is theonly paradise from
81 n we cannot be turned out :
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-12-04

All must respect those who respect
themselves Beaconsfeld y
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-07
Ell Paso Needs 1t

FFICAL given proposed parking
the establishing bathing pools
with}the the
trustees Valley meeting Wednesday
By
bathing pools ought provided;
Of the reclamation
the
andb bathing o project
plan entirely feasible miles
it wholly practical for
ghtofwy little
problem taken at
expense by installing
small
park walk family
children
times out Of sight Of their homes This
cities
necessarily from the of the people
bathing pools
would
population
universally useful easureable heahful
them, proposed
tina project pressed
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-07
Girls the Better Farmers

~ TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND boys enrolled governments
organizations
~ which
competition counted
quantity, quality production The
select
pare the ground how cultivate
of bushels
acre highest o
Through interested
pictures villages
booths long
prosperity ultimately perhaps cheaper living for the town
The work Of government among fectuay
clubs" The started
and canning opera
strongly appeal
program mapped club under government
other lines including poultry and
kind fruit vegetable until the girls clubs Oklahoma this
varieties than half the 57" pickle
factory
Government agents Of agricultural department
they
excellence product One
girl 4OzOo f1oth
indefinitely whenever
fit appropriate for the edueave work and
ganzaiOn expense
Business men estimate the value this year. of the Oklahoma girls clubs to the
agricultural production stimulation
100000 u
girls efforts influence
mated 100000
canning people
large profit
enterprise happened
girls canning in
canning
and decided to retain the orchard
Many girls poultry canning
showing They
places they vegetables
otherwise would not have been at all
Clearly suggestion
Mesna valleys
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-07
Little Bobbie's Pa 57 WEE7za :: ETRK:
He Loses Two Arguments.

YESTERDAY was the first time 1
ever seen Pa lose two 90 ar
- guments. He newer lost any
at times when he was arguing at
hoam. but the folks that argued with
him at hoam was all the time think
ing Of Ma. So thay newer contradict
ed Pa Pa used to tell me that thare
was two kinds Of folks in this world.
He sed thay was divided like this:
YES folks & no folks. He sed that
the YES folks was the kind that was
lingering how they mite git sumthing
out OF you by saying YES to every
that here & thare YOU cud find sum-
body that was a NO guy. A NO guy,
sed Pa, is man that doesn't care
what happens He doesn't care what
anybody thinks of him. I am a kind
Of a NO guy myself, sed Pa
You doant tell me, sed Ma. The
only time that you cUd ever have
the currage to say no wud be wen
sumbody suggests going hOam.
Wife, sed Pa L am going TO show
YOU that I can say NO but that a.
the same time I can make every other
man say Yes. How do you know that
AesZ Sed Ma BY the sheer force Of
my personality. Pa sed. The same way
that Napoleon made his solgers crawl
oaver the Alps 1 dOant think them
French boys was tikled to death to
90 oaver them mountings, sed Pa, but
the Little Corporal sed that they had
to scale them peeks, q they scrambled
] dOant believe that you can maik
any man that ever lived say Yes to
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-07

8 everything you say, sed Ma. At leest,
you viii have to show me.
Jest then q friend Of Pa calm in. I
dident know what he did for a living,
but the minnit / saw his eyebrows I
seen that he was a Scotchman. Pa
toal me long ago that the best way
to tell a ScOtchman was to look first
Tor his bushy eyebrows & next for his
big Jaw This friend of Pas was .
reglar ScOtchman, / guess, bee1aus he
had bUshy eyebrows & a big jaw. 1t
other, beekaus I herd him telling Ma
that his wife had hit him with a roll
ing pin, by mistake She thOt she was
swatting a fly-
The minnit that Pa started in to
talk about pOlyticks, I seen Mister
MacfersOns jaw git eeven bigger & his
eyes got big & bulgy like the eyes in
a fish.
Doatn you agree with me, Mister
1IacfersOn, sed Pa, that RUsevelt is
the man who is going to save this
country?
No. sed Pas friend.
Doant you believe IN the un-dying
principles of the. Progressive Party
sed Pa
No sed Pas friend
run the principles for which Mister
RuseveIt mas TODD for 50 long, as
Loyalty as the peepul has stood for
Mister RuseYelt, wiz in time triumph
1T the pools?
No. sed Pas friend.
After he was gone, Ma laffed & sed
TO Pa Howe are you, Daniel Web
ster2 You are the most convincing
gent I ever saw
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-07
Fortunes Wheel
The HeraId's Daily
Short Story

She flushed hotly
Pardon me, but you know I do 1t
/ must be q great deal They tell me you
are a famous doctor and
Look here, Miss erode, don't you
worry about that If your conscience
[ is so strict that YOU must pay my i'm
aSInary Dill, come back some day, when
3 fortunes wheel has turned for you, and
you're a rich woman. then you may
give me my fee. Is that a bargain 90
softly
Before I knew what she was about Z
was conscious of warm, soft lips on my
hand, and she was gone
Fortune had not done spinning her
/ wheel
thought my eyes had dfmmed oddly,
iDdispOsitiOn- IT was not. Tt was merely
the precursor OF the end. which was
blindness Then T. too, knew what il
was to long TO end my days.
All that made life worth living had
gone
They told me. 1 should go away for
a change. The country might work
wonders for my general health 1t was
all one to me where / went. so IfObeyed
readily enough but IL took a good deal
OF persuasion 10 make me go to DunS-
ford On-Sea, one OF the prettiest places
on the west coast. and within half
mile of the Earrants' place Mrs. Far
rant is q cousin OF mine
She came and talked and made the
hours pass / didn't protest when she
proposed TO send some girl who was
living with her-a sort of secreta ~
companion Z gathered-tO read to me.
+'She has the most soothing voice in
the world Lucie told me You viii
grow to love her reading, Robert and
she can talk, too
She came the next day. Her very
presence was sOOthing2 She read with
Intelligence the things liked.
There came a day when I heard that
LUCie Earrant had to go abroad and
proposed to take her secretary with
her.
realized that new bIackness would
fiji my life if I lost her.
What am I to do without your I
said abruptly
i felt her start
Have I been any help2" she asked
in that soft, familiar voice
'Help? echoed passiOnately.
You've saved me-saved me from de-
spair, from worse than death2'
Then I've paid some of my debt she
said, very low.
And quite suddenly-mi it had
never dawned on me before knew,
and understood.
-'Clarissa-' I rried, and CROPPED for
and found her hands 1t is really your
] cried.
Really. Do you think that feels like
a ghOst2'
Her hands were still in mine; she was
very near me / could hear her hur-
Tied breathing. Suddenly something
warm and wet fell on my hands.
Then knew.
"Clarissa-
She did not speak.
I think she had always been mine
And, after all. Dame Fortune had vet
another twist 10 give my wheel For
presently the darkness began to dis
perse- A gray mist hung about me, /
could distinguish light and darkness.
the outlines of objects. Presently on
our wedding day. i saw Clarissa' s fac,
saw her dear eyes smiling into mine
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-07
DACK-ACTION BY GEORGE FIT CH,
- PROPHETS Author Of "At Good OId Siwa.b'

a L this minute the quadTennial crop
~ Of baek-actiOn prophets Is ripe
and on the market 1t is the
largest on record because there are now
more people in the United States than
ever before.
If national elections didn't accomplish
anything else they would be remarkable
for the enormous crop of reverse gear
representations which they produce. A
baek-actiOn prophet Is a man who is able
to look backward after a thing has hap
pened and ten Just exactly how it is 90
ing to occur.
The back-actiOn prophet is much more
valuable than the ordinary plug prophet
because he Is always right. He never
makes a mistake unless he happens to
read the newspapers earelessly At this
minute millions of bae6-action prophets
are announcing the electoral vote for
Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson with an
accuracy verging upon the marvellous
and are telling Just what every doubtful
state viii do in the election which has
just passed.
The ex-post-facto prophet knows what
IS going to happen long in advance
sometimes years In advance. But he
doesn't tell anybody That is where he
is wiser than the eommonorgarden
prophet The latter tells all he knows
months before election and then every
body knows it and he is no wiser than
anyone else. The back-action prophet,
on the other hand, conceals his knowl-
edge until after the election and then
announces it in triumph Thus no one
can take the credit of his discoveries
away from him and he becomes a great
man and Is madly envied- by ignorant
people who didn't have any idea in june
what kind of a vote Wilson would poll
in New York.