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SPEED OF SOUND.
An Easy Method of Judging the Dis.
tance Ii 1raXels.

tance 1t Travels.
There is an old saying that If you
can count five between the flash and
the thunder you are safe. Modern
science tells us that if you can see the
fash at all you are safe, because If it
struck you you would have ne time to
see it. The speed of lightning is about
$50 times that Of sight.
The old idea was that if you could
count five the storm was a mile away,
which was considered sac distance.
Sound travels at the rate Of 1;142 feet
a second, or about a mile in five Sec
onds In order to count seconds ac-
curately many photographers start by
saying to themselves: "No one thou
sand, one one thousand, two one thou
sand, three one thousand" etc. This
gives about the right space between
each count Of one, two, three, etc., II
you stop at the number of seconds you
want to time. With a little practice
with a watch beside you this Is &C
curate up to half minute or more.
If you see a steam whistle blowing
and note the instant it stops you can
count the seconds until you lose the
sound, and by allowing fifth Of a
mile for each second you can judge the
distance. The same is true of guns,
or an explosion, or even Of hammering
or any loud sounds.-New York Press.
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THE FRIENDLESS SPIDER.
He's a Pretty Good Insect In Spite Of
His Looks and His Webs.

LOOhS anu
Aside from snakes, there is probably
no living thing which can look to man
kind for friendship with SO little hope
as the spider, yet when the spider Is
fairly brought to trial it is rather hard
to prove anything against him except
his appearance and few cobwebs.
Apart from furnishing an example
of industry and patience from which
we might well profit, the spider feeds
exclusively upon freshly killed insects,
all of them being Of the kind denounc-
ed by sanitary authorities, the house
fly being its favorite quarry.
As the actual destruction Of few
hundred housefiies means that several
hundred thousand that would other
wise have spent gay lives in transmit
ting typhoid and other diseases will
not come into existence and as almost
any spider should be able to account
for as many as 800 in the course of a
summer, to say nothing Of stray mos
quitoes and black gnats, we surely owe
him something more than a flap with
slipper when we happen to eaten
him out Of his hole.
A spider can bite, of course, but he
seldom does except in self defense,
and even then the bite is not much
worse than would have been received
from any one of the several hundred
mosquitoes he has probably dined
upon or will, if let alone. In the light
of present scientific knowledge the
story of the spider and the fly that
was invited into the pretty parlor does
not cause such a surge Of sympathy
for the fly as it once did.-Harper's
Weekly
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GETS BAILEYS JOB

Resignation Due Soon, Governor Has
Picked Editor For Place.
Austin; Tex, Nov. 11-United States
Senator Joseph w. Bailey's resigna-
ton is expected to reach Governor
Colquitt within the next few days.
The governor is authority for the
statement that Bailey will resign from
the senate At a conference of the
Baileyites, attended by Bailey, at Fort
Worth, a few days ago, he senator
announced his intention in the mat
ter.
Governor Colquitt authorized the
announcement that he will appoint R.
M. Johnston, editor of the Houston
Daily Post, to the vacancy.
Beauty Of Colonial Gateposts.
Perhaps no other feature adds more
to the seclusion and dignity of a house
than well designed entrance gateposts.
The meeting point Of house and
grounds always presents a difficult
problem, even In the best suburban
architecture. Shrubbery often miti-
gates this unavoida BILE Intersection, but
the old fashioned white picket fence.
full OF interesting detail and backed
up by hedges. solved the problem most
satisfactorily. Yet this best solution
must be used with discretion. On
suburban streets broken up into many
small lots. there should be an agree
ment on the part of several neighbors
to mt uD the same sort of fence:
otherwise the different heights and
shapes of the pickets would be too
disturbing to add any beauty to the
houses. In other words. a good picket
fence demands a certain amount of
continuity to do 1t justice. In the
gateposts. however. a great variety
could be displayed. and where there Is
group of little colonial houses, or
even only colonial doorways. the ia
nous old gateposts Of Salem offer
wealth Of suggestion.-Country Life In
America
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Baseball Is Business.

Professional baseball is a business
and millions of dollars are invested
In it by business men. They make
fortunes out of it, but they pay their
players higher salaries than 900 out OF
every 1000 of them could earn at any
other line of work during a similar
number of months each year. From
baseball player nothing is required but
that he be able to play good game
and keep in condition. Many stars in
the old days were able to do little
more thans sign their names and read
big print. A better educated class of
men are in the game today. but they
are getting more money for their
services than they could earn If they
followed any one of hundreds of diff
ferent professions And remember
that many of them stepped right out
Of college into good paying baseball
positions Could they have done as
we'll financially had they entered
banks or tried their hands at the law
or medicine ED A. Goewey In Les
Hoe
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SHE LIKED TO BORROW.
Give Her a Fair Chance, Too, and She
Was Willing to Pay Back.


Day by day as Mrs. Worth's house
hold and kitchen furniture and grocer
les slowly disappeared she saw that
the moment approached when hnal
stand must be made. One morning
when Jimmy, son of the borrower, ap-
peared ut the back door with the state
ment, ma wants the wash boiler"
Mrs. Worth determined to act.
"You tell your ma that when she
brings back what she has already Dor
rowed l will lend her the boiler"
In little while Jimmy reappeared.
"Ma wants to know what she has
borrowed"
There are quart Of -four" began
Mrs. Worth, "a peck Of potatoes, cup
full Of sugar, can of coffee, half
pound of lard, some onions and butter
and spices, the screwdriver, the hatch
ct, pair Of scissors''-she paused, rec
ollecting- three spools of thread, q
paper Of needles and
But Jimmy was gone. Presently he
raped on the back door again.
INA says for you to write 'em down.
1 forgot some Of EN-"
Mrs. Worth sat down with pencil and
patiently made an alphabetical list OF
all the articles she could remember.
Jimmy took the list and disappeared.
A half hour later he once more ap-
peared at the back door and announced:
ma says if you'll lend her the wash
boiler to carry them in she'll bring 'em
e."-Youths Companion.
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SEVENTEEN HELD UP
IN POOL ROOM
Robbed Of $1,000 by Two
Masked Men.

Grand Forks, ~ D., Nov. 11.-Sev-
enteen men were held UP by two
masked robbers in pool room at
Dolette, N D., and $4,000 was taken
from them.
The robbery was pulled off in true
wild west style and the two men
made a successful getaway. The two
robbers leveled revolvers at the crowd
and told them to throw up their hands.
Into the air went seventeen pair OF
hands. The victims were then lined
up in a row at one side of the room.
One robber stood on guard with
two revolvers covering the crowd,
while the other robber passed along
the line From one man $500 was Sc
cured, while from the other sixteen
victims enough was secured to make
a total of $4,000. The job completed,
the robbers backed to the door. They
ESCAPED on horseback.
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Marryino Her DebtS,

1t sounds strange to talk of marry.
ing the wife's debts, but that was
common practice In England years
ago. 1t was before the married wom-
ems property act of 1882. In con-
temptation of law the husband and
wife were one, and the husband was
that one. Then If the bride owed any
debts before marriage they devolved
on the newly married husband, and he
had to pay the piper. This led to some
extraordinary farces being enacted.
Women who were overloaded with
debts actually got rid of them by mar
rying some poor bankrupt, imprisoned
for debt. These men did not mind
whether they were liable for hundreds
or thousands. and the wife" usually
paid the ''huSband' few pounds for
The protection of his name, and then
she would snap her fingers at her BAT.
fed creditors and gayly set about in
curing fresh debts. The law which
settled and removed this sort of thing
deserves a better title than the colo
quail one OF "a bass" - London An.
sWera
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70 RUSH ANTITRUST SUITS
Attorney General Wiekersham to Com
nIete as Many as Possible.

attorney General WiSkSTSndh ~ Wi"
pIete as Many as Possible.
Washington, Nov. 1.-THE depart
ment of justice is making strenu-
pus effort to push as close to conclu-
zion as possible all the pending anti
trust prosecutions of the Taft admin
Istration for President-elect Wilson
and his attorney general when they
take the oath of office on March 4.
The taking of testimony in most OF
The suits will have been completed, 1t
Is believed, and the cases be before
the courts for decision before the Re-
publican administration expires.
While the issues have been joined
In the two biggest pending cases
the suits against the steel and HarVes-
Ter "trusts"-it is not thought they
will be ready for decision by March 4.
The steel suit probably will extend
we'll into the new administration, but
officials foresee the end of the testi-
mony and arguments in the MarVes-
ter case by April or May.
Several of the suits against retail
lumber dealers associations, regard
ed as among the most important cases
because they involve the extent OF the
rights of the middle man" in COM
merce, in all probability will be ready
for determination by the courts be-
fore President Taft retires.
While the taking of testimony In the
civil suit for the dissolution q the
American Sugar Refining company is
approaching conclusion, it is under
stood that Attorney General Wicker
sham will not retry the criminal sugar
case which resulted in a disagreement
of the jury.
The cases against the Keystone
Watch Case company, the magazine
trust" and the transatlantic steamship
pool" according to expectations, will
be in the hands of the judges by In
auguration day.
Among the important issues which
likely will go over into the Wilson
administration for final preparation
for the courts are the cases against
the National Cash Register company,
the motion picture trust" several al
legged steamship pools" and the Unit
ed Shoe Machinery company.
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BOYS WHO DID BIG THINGS.
Many of the Worlds Great Men Won
Fame In Their Youth.

many OF tne worries Sfedc Mon WON
Fame In Their Youth.
Some of the greatest achievements
In the world have been made by youth,
and it will always be so in human his
tory. David, the sweet singer Of Is
rael, was shepherd, poet and
general before he was twenty and a
king at the age of eighteen. Raphael
had practically completed his life work
at the age of thirty He did no
great artistic work after that age.
James Watt, even as a boy, as he
watched the steam coming out Of the
teakettle, saw in it the new world Of
mechanical power made possible by the
old element turned and driven by
simple appliance.
Cortes was master of Mexico before
he was thirty-six. Schubert died at
the age Of thirty-one after having COM
posed what may perhaps he called in
some ways the most enhancing melody
ever written. Charlemagne was mas
ter of France and the greatest emperor
of the world at the age of thirty. Shell
ley wrote "Queen Nab" when he was
only twenty-one and was master of
poetry before he was twenty-five.
Patrick Henry was able to shape the
revolutionary history of new country
before he was thirty and astonish the
world by his oratory before he was
twenty-six years old. At the age Of
twenty-four Ruskin had written Mod
ern Painters" and Bryant, while still a
boy of high school age, had written
"Thanatopsis." Robert Burns wrote
some of his greatest songs while he
was a plowboy.-London Answers.
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Metals.

Mercury. of course. is fluid at all or
binary temperatures. OF the metals
which we commonly regard as solid,
lead can be made to flow with great
ease. Ii by hydraulic pressure 1t Is
forced into a cylinder with hole in
the side of 1t it will. when the cylinder
Is full. flow out of the hole In q solid.
barlike stream. The harder metals. as
gold and silver. obviously undergo
slight f1uxion movements in the process
OF coming. as iron is not perfectly
rigid. In dra wing out bar of 1t into
wire the change of form compels the
particles OF the metal to slide or shear
over each other. just as in the flow Of a
liquid. So great are the pressures that
can be applied by modern mocha meal
science that even steel can be COM
PEELED to change its shape without frac-
ture. and all such changes imply dux-
ion In the metal
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SOCIALISTS CAIN
NEARLY DOUBLE
Debs For President PoIIet
Nearly Million Votes.
ELECTED MANY LEGISLATORS
Leaders Say They Would Have Made
Better Showing Had Colonel
Roosevelt Not Been a Candidate.

Washington, Nov. 1.-The Socialist
vote in the United States at last Tues
days election was nearly 100 per cent
greater than the vote cast for that
party's candidates in the presidential
election of 1908. It will be near the
million mark.
The spread of the doctrine seems
not to have been confined to any par
ticular section, nearly every state in
the Union showing an unusual in
crease
While rejoicing over the progress
made by their cause, many Socialist
leaders declare that a still greater
showing would have been made had
Colonel Roosevelt not inaugurated the
Bull Moose movement, which attract
ed many voters from Debs, who has
been running for president on the So
cialist ticket for many years.
It is believed that when all the re-
turns have been canvassed 1t will be
found that score or more Socialists
throughout the country will have been
elected to- state legislatures. Kansas
mas 0l0CueQ Que SIdUS ocudtOt dAu oAA0
member of the general assembly.
From the far south comes the story
that in Mississippi Debs received q
total vote greater than President Taft.
In the far west California gave him
$3.50 votes, or 1851 more than he
received four years ago. Minnesota.
on the northern boundary line. went a
little better with her Socialist vote
than in 1908, returning an estimated
total of $4,000 Debs ballots. In New
York state the Socialists polled 49. 1856,
an increase of 1885. and in Pennsyl-
vania they polled $1,000 and nearly
doubled their vote. Indiana, Kansas.
Nebraska, Arkansas. Louisiana. Mis-
sissippi, Virginia and Washington are
among the states which trebled or
nearly trebled their vote for the So
cialist candidate.
In Indiana the movement was large
" recruited by dissatisfied men in the
Democratic PARTY. it is claimed. the
total increase being 270 per cent over
the Debs vote of 1908.
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Frederick and Joseph II.

During Frederick the Greats visit to
Joseph IL. of Austria at Neustadt he
came into personal touch with some
of those Austrian generals to whom
he had only spoken hitherto through
the roar of cannon" When Loudon
entered to take his place at the table
Frederick called out to him: Come and
sit near me. Nj. Loudon l much prefer
you by my side to facing you" Fred
erick had several busts Of the emperor
at Sans Souci. and when he looked at
them be would remark. THAT Is a
young man on whom | must keep an
eye" The Austrian sovereign was am
bilious. and Frederick distrustsd him.
He put it this way: THE Emperor Jo
seph has a head. He is capable of
much. 1t is pity he always takes the
second step before he has made the
"A Mystic on the Prussian
Throne
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After the DeIuqe.

She had just returned from her first
trip to Europe and everybody was
given an opportunity to know about it.
One by one they gently extricated
themselves. but at last she found a ST.
lent youth in corner who proved to
be an attentive listener. To him she
rhapsodized on the beauty of life
abroad" and especially in England,
1t is difficult, however, for the most
enthusiastic tourist to exist long with
out eliciting from an auditor some ex,
preston of wonder or applause, 50 she
sought to break her listeners respect
full silence even at the expense of los,
ing a little time herself. "Were you
ever in England?" she asked.
EYES," he said modestly. Il was born
there. and am thirty-six years old.
lived there until l came to America
three months ago. If you can tell me
anything about America should be
awful1y glad, as 1 wish to learn all
can."--New York Press.
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A Wonderful Toy,

Perhaps the most wonderful toy In
the world is owned by Russian
prince, who lavished fortune Of $780,
QO on a mechanical theater. The stage
'tted up with every accessory In the
L spe of scenery and machinery that
eern skill has devised. and the act
eofs are figures as large as life, all
dressed as sumptuously and appropri.
ately as their living prototypes. The
princes repertoire covers almost all
the most popular operas, and it IS only
necessary to press button to set the
whole marvellous machinery In motion
The actors make their entry on the
stage and play their varied parts with
appropriate gesture, while number OF
Photographs supply the vocal parts in
the voices Of the leading operate sing,
arS
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Diseases of Metals,

Metals suffer from contagious dis
eases analogous to those Of living be-
ings. Among these diseases one Of the
most striking is that called "tin pest
Sometimes a block, plate or medal OF
tin attacked by this disease crumbles
and falls into dust, and sometimes
warty protuberances appear on the
surface of the metal. Various other
metals suffer ffom a disease that man
ifests itself by spontaneous recrys-
utilization. The most remarkable cases
occur with lead and hard drawn brass.
These diseases are not due, as has
been thought, simply to moisture.
Temperature plays part in producing
them. The most extraordinary fact
perhaps is that the Tin pest is capa-
BILE of spreading by contagion.-Har-
per's Weekly.
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An Island City.

Greater New York consists Of forty
five islands. 1t might be called the Is
land City. Read the names of some Of
the larger: Manhattan Island, Long Is
land, Staten Island, Harris Island, City
Island, Riker's Island, North Brother
Island, South Island, Blackwelrs Is
land, Randal's Island, Wards Island,
Berrian's Island, Governors Island,
Barren Island and Coney Island.
Many small ones in Jamaica bay have
large names. One inland island, Mar
bic Hill, near Kingsbridge, has been
made by the government channel cut
through on the Harlem river improve
mentS.
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What IL Cost.

In little town in England not long
ago the entire family had been at
church and the young minister was
coming home to dine with them. While
at dinner they were discussing the new
stained glass window a member had
given. 'It is most beautiful piece of
workmanship" said one, "and must
have cost great deal Of money" do
you have any idea how much?" 81
really do not" replied the minister,
"but far into the hundreds, should
imagine" mo, it didn't" said little
Harold. 81 know how much it was. 1t
cost 14s. 1Od." "Why, Harold, how do
you know anything about it?'' "Be-
cause, mamma, it says at the bottom
of the window, Job IA, TO- London
Globe.
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Important Notice To Tax payers Of
Cambridge District.

Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons, who have not paid 1912 taxes,
that the undersigned will begin to
deliver tax bills, in person, on Mon
day, Nov. IL, 1912, and payment in
full will be requested when you
receive your bill. On Jan. 1, 1913,
1 will begin to enforce payment of
taxes, unpaid on that day and date.
will be at the County Com
missioners' office, in this Court
House, every Saturday, from am.
to p. M, for the purpose Of receiv
ing taxes. Edgar Brannock,
Adv. Tax Col. Cambridge Dist.
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Biographies to Blame.

Ask any hundred English men, wo-
men or children what is the name OF
the capital Of Russia and every one OF
them will reply, "St Petersburg" 1t
may be a small matter, but in point of
fact the proper name Is Petersburg.
The English are the only folk who in
sist upon the Saint" The city was
founded by Peter the Great and is
named after him. 1t is quite true that
Peter was one of the most extraordi-
nary men that ever filled throne, but
no one would have been more astound-
ed than himself at being dubbed a
saint. He neither lived nor died in the
odor Of sanctity, and it is hard to find
out how it became the English fashion
to miscall the splendid town he found
ed.-London Mail.
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Spelling Reform Needed.

An old gentleman from the east was
visiting his daughter in San Jose. Cal.
OF course he pronounced the name ac-
cording to the spelling until they I'M
pressed it upon him that in Spanish ]
has the sound OF a.
By and by he started to see son In
Watsonvile This town is on branch
line q mile or so from the junction at
Pajaro. and as the electric cars from
Pajaro to Watsonville passed dirQo
-hp tha -snn11lAase. the old gentlemd
railway ticket was for Pajaro. r4e
looked at it in a puzzled way. then
threw it down In great disgust, ex-
claiming:
well. sir! They can tell me that
Jose spells 'Hozay. but they needn't
tell me that pa -a-r-o' spells Watson
villev-Exchange
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9tAeI GjobeS In Space.

If two solid balls Of tempered steel
each the size of the earth and hard al
the harveyized face of armor plate
were taken In two Jovian hands. plac
ed gently together in ispace and re
leased what would happen? They
would behave exactly as if they were
liquid; they would coalesce like tive
great drops of water. and the highest
prominence or mountain on the new
globe could not have a height of fifty
miles. because anything SO high as thai
would fiatten out under its own weight
Hudson Maxim in Youths Compan
ion
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Broke the Spell.

Judge e. lockwood Hoar. remark
ing on President Lincoln's dry humOr
said that on one occasion a delegation
Of negroes had waited on Mr. Lincoln
and were evidently at loss to know
Just what to say. The president wait
ed awhile and then Remarked:
"WelI. all who are here seem to be
present"
This self evident proposition broke
the ice and removed the spell from the
African jaw.
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The play was not by any means bril-
liant, and obviously the man was Dor
ed. Suddenly he leaped to his feet.
II heard an alarm Of fire." he said.
~ must 60 and see where it is"
His wife, whose hearing was less
acute, made way for him in silence,
ind he disappeared
cit wasn't fire after ALL" he said
on his return.
Nor water, either" said his wife
coldly, with a sniff.-Exchange
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Man Who eeheaded Charles /

WAN WHO 66ne1oeo Cnar1e8 !.
The mysterious masked man who
beheaded Charles I. remains the Brit
ish analogue for the Man With the
Iron Mask. Lilly. the lying astrologer,
denounced Cornet Joyce at the restora-
ton, but Joyce on the fatal 3Oth OF
January was not in favor with Crom-
well. The parish register of White
chapel records the burial in 1649 of
Richard Brandon, the common hang
man. and opposite the entry contem-
porary hand wrote that ''he cut off the
bead of Charles the First" Brandon
himself asserted that "they made him
DO 1t for ESQ.," with which he drank
himself to death.-Dundee Advertiser