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The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29

Nervine. and / must say it helped NE
wonderfully. have had no severe nerV-
business for several years"
MRS. DAN KINTNER,
1902 Pleasant St, Defiance y.
Many remedies are recommended
for diseases OF the nervous system
that fail to produce results because
they do not reach the seat OF the
trouble. DR.. Miles Nervine has
proven its value in such cases so
many times that it is unnecessary
to make claims for it. You can
prove It's merits for yourself by
getting a bktle of your druggist
who will return the price 1t you
receive no benefit
MILES MEDICAL CO, Eikhart, Ind.
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29

'T had stomach
trouble when | was
eighteen years old
that broke down
my health, and for
years l suffered
with nervousness,
headache. indises-
tion and nervous
spa S m S T h 9
spasms got so bad
/ would have them
three or four times
a week. After try
ing nearly every
r e m e dy recon-
mended. L began
taking DIR. Miles
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29
A Nervous Woman Finds
Relief After Many Years

Women who suffer from extreme
nervousness, often endure much
suffering before finding any relief.
Mrs. Daniel Kintner, OF Defiance,
O.. had such an experience, regard
ing which she says:
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29
siye Farmer

The say to get money out ut iand
IS 10 Improve 1t. the way TO get
go1d eut pf this Community Is TO iih-
prove IT,
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29
Contract Notice.

Notice Is hereby given that Con-
tract for the Repairing OF the County
jail and the CONSTRUCTION OF an au-
Joining room To Counts Sherllfs "
fire, according to plans aud speciilca-
tions On HE. will he let to the lowest
bidder at the front door OF the Court
House, in the City II PaScaroula, on
the
FIRST MONDAY,
the 2ud Day nf December, 1917.
All bidders ail be required TO de-
pusit 5000 or its equivalent. With
bid. sane to he forfeited unless BID IS
carried OUT, and the lowest bidder
will be required to furnish bond ac'
cordng to law. the Board reservlhg
the right to rri, CT any and all hlds'
By order OF the Board
r. A ROBERTS President.
FRED TAYLOR Clerk 4U-4s
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29

"Gererlly dehiliiated for years
Had SEX haadlcbe, lacked ambition
was worn cut and all run down Bur
duck Blood Buffers made rue wei
womau.H-Nrs. Chas Freitoy. Moss
up, Conn.
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29

Il you have anything TO sell, advvi-
tl.e H. here tie people reaa II
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29

You like TO see The United States
maintain its balance OF trade; what
about Pascagnula?
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29

Tho advertising columns of The
DEMoCRAT-STA tell the eloquent
story uf the drawing power of It's cir
culation Your advertisement therein
willpay ynu greater dividends.
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29
. Vessel. Date Seiz're
STRONG Eyes

Gulfport, Miss. Nav 8 1912.
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1912-11-29
FIRST MONDAY,
Notice-Bridge Contract.

FRED TAYLOR. ClerS 40
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-09
BRANCH FOR CORPUS
iasus ral,., snpt's, ii"asc ~ ite'l
~iotae, ii,.uns

D. q pniWFf go. oi Sow go
teens l.s knuvn al our oi CO.'S lafs
oai paror sarpn hoaasn ~ arr
south base annunn,pi ihai nNhu
az, ue,i 80 dave ihrs wiii orDn q
hrsneh vafohoge u Cofpn thrHit
v1h q copeland ~ itia rlil "a
focal eront
a snfatie Warehouse elil tN tniil
In thr .Hf hHsinesa AiHricl aud q
inffo auppiy of fho Rouda rtfrci h'
me annnant Nin ht roupfisod M ~,
ietai ttost ~ S. enc lufentinu Fl
De, roHpan, io uate ra.l'Hs lhe dia
uitnInr polni Cog Hf ruluet Do
thIa section NJ ihr state
Mf Copeland hsa br'n via 60
paimrr Comian, for ihs pael ue,efa
wears and ihe buslnsss hefs o. nail
60 have rro~n 90 such proportion
thai D. local varchnHs D. Imperative
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-09
FIRST DAY A Bio SUCCESS
Ne VI NNrffru. Manager 80 Nra1
Nrls iianu CO.. says

Wr 500 3D. .amr,uat ia ,uIafr.'
a .I. forr 10 ha.uo ~ eood
t,,a.rr.a n Nondat Dnf
ASA, aafs aas .f1aH,i 800 Gag aff
ruaonn and .oms thfer of fout
raania n,nt AVA, eithoai telUns
ites on
All ren hss,ls da a. ome aos iof
,oar.rif thsn san aui b. fontinred
,bat :, 49,. aea.na plauos al prros
s4,,r befsfr heard 81 in aut pana
.ter.
ftlrt see $3.50. 81 ulli he fnf you
=. h.,. msnru bomc Son rn
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-09
RIVIERA SCHOOL BIDS


nlds we're orcnHi Deg fnHHif 30
i,finioBaeni sai uanfnD uhle itt.
tarln nnfninr foi tho an 'iH i0i
- nsv brlet srbooi affi ~ ~ u
faoma al hnftn TOO ioihniHs
bias etf, yea 81 q Skinner
uoastoa fass0 q b. Watt knes
vile asssl n o. reins iiishpp
tpgi5 a. . Carain AWw. $685.
10 W Rmith Cafpnn $500 Mufphf
IA Cnti Mineral Wells $685.
"a b. houFhi thas contract aiiI
b. iei 30 one ~ ths above hladrt.
hg iho isiief part ~ this ssoi
The bandinF eiil b. ioenlrd 81 =
biari ~ isad N th. center Of $50
ioan nhifh aas rerentlj douatsa ~
one ~ lhe pflsUpal bHsinesa ran.
Germs ~ lhr rnY nifiers ~ rfcs'
eai has sfhnlssifr eproiimspi a.
s.edlAs is1 Ana haa foa1 teaehrr
employed
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-09
WISHING GUNSfRs
tsssh uetA.msn "a tsewxspn %
rAus,usa,e IN shssos r,.iay.

tbs hassl Caa Club ~iil AAse A. ia
eassis israss ecsVtai srorsm,n ami
thopsers ~ wlae repaiassen. aho wlll
shcCs vitb thcn inls Attegnocn on
the eiab eroau.is W tAe neyiaefn rari
81 the Sils. prosidiar the wcaihcs
.efmnk "a N ssoii 81 nepescn.
has taken the n.aitci 500 wiih sidnty
Ia ncr1sa If the ls,Al yiab ~isb she
sls~ tn hAsins a. lafks an attendance
81 me si,s'ei a. ro,sibiv
Rcn Claunsh ga FlAtc u q Cfeln
aaa ushefs e ihe tasAl clint Niil pfo.
hatiY sase rart n the sh,~as and
uhiic shs, So nu, hoi,, lo b. AZ akin,
fai ln hiiiins NE tias pirrcns ~ the
men comprising ths ,biuae ratis
thss e,rct ~ bold A. ,Asll cad %
lhe sAms a. ans rate
AmunE Theses who wiil o. ln The
si.iilnk parts afe Walter D erolt
w. n Croshy that q srrurcr. "
+ , uosden ana nea sehWaru
o. 3 uagdsa aut Sehwartl are
f kneeh ie b. eNccllent shpie Nott
hsse v.liel h.ee believe ana have
lhiwifairt thrir stli rhr ntnvi
senuemrn ln ihe pans arc mumbof.
w the flaafion uun Niah. ans 49,
e,ycmsouhle sond stola
al rffri viN d. mai tr have ]
lair Sliced ,rsvd b. thr fen eit'
efuunds ihu aiifHuaH t0f ihs al
iaIf ASA ~eatnrf pafmnilHe tlt'
nIrrous should ua enc varNt a
iint of the vtnlsf
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-09

uas paia a. a banquet a. iisnff Clsy.
h. Nev prieanF in 1852 HlehiY
oonig ior those pith stomach trouble
~ grdisesfion Tedag aeopie every
shefe uae ur Kings Sew iAfH pills
for fhetf trunhiea 30 veli ~ tter
Fl3uey apa hoNcl disorders Easy
safe. sure Only BE a. Joshua r.
Rmilh
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-09

ror tsie NJ bargain a tseHe
equity ~ so acre irnrt % 10 4
black land. near Corpus christl. Tea
for $3.50 Land ~ actually ~eFih
SIS 90 an arres cost 49, 90 an acre
: - years ago Investigate auiet
Address " tAis orlee lp ~
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-09

oar nia friend wrKameg across
90 haY a. Gregory certainty believes
"a fine cotton need for blasting a. hs
paid one hunfres dollars PER Ton LAST
sprlng Tor piantiaE seed
rags
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-09

Imported Eefx ia fpid and silver
ard oshsr roiors 7se ard siea.
ldsai Halrareaslng rarlora IA II
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-09

The death ~ iifhff H1ettNann a
native ~ cofpnp CHRISTI oefnffod ln
esH kuionia sunday niHhf ~ s'r
feafon Nas gf yasfs ~ aFF ana BAD
bern VAIL health iaf ihe peel three
mnnihfF
ns had a. from CORPUS fof
sac pas, icn "A most n ihs ame
SEEING q, suroa peinis - Notth
Tesas sna Oki4tt9 fliy parins
hs rssiaesfe "a ~ eill. BE- Nsa 3
mfmhsr ~ ihs FIRM - ihs nlahifsi
hardware compaHy asd ~as slsa
far several gears empiofea IN ihr las
once ~ q n scoii
The femalns All he accompanied
herr ~ biz brother Ales sieseHsaa
and 30 his slSfer virs Arnis sieTen.
sen both ~ whom iise 10 Kagls
i'aas The boa2 - erpefed 80 srfifs
On fsss afternoons Sap train ffDu
San Antoine The fpnersl sisl offn'
wednesday fnorpinK ~ n'riofA
from me churfh ~ ihe Cord fheg,
hera. Rss " xskea ofrdafirr
rnisrmeni will b. made n ~
KuiThn ~ pyshiss W IN shs Nes
Tnyyisr ceWierY
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
Woman's Factory.

A silk spinning factory near Mar.
settles, which was organized by a
woman and is managed by women,
boasts that within the nine years Of
its existence it has never had a
strike. One thousand women are en-
ployed by Nine GARNER, the owner.
The only men in the factory are
those employed to fill positions UNI
suitable for women, such as stokers,
etc.
Nine. GARNER planned the factory
herself in every detail. The machin-
cry for silk spinning is an invention
of her own, and has proved so sue.
cessful that she is enabled to give her
employees more than the average
wages and still compete successfully
with rival industries. Perhaps some
Of our own manufacturers would do
we'll to go and take a few lessons
from Nine. GARNER
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
GOLD SEEKERS OF LONG AGO
They Took Large Quantities of the
Precious Metal From Brazil
$50 Years Ago.

Alexander p. Rogers, a mining euBi-
neer who recently made an inland voy-
age by river from the mouth of the
Amazon to Buenos Ayres, found proof
that the same regions had been over
run $50 years ago by a band of ad-
veuturous goldseekers.
They were remarkably successful in
their search for gold, too, and found
every mine which is known today in
that region.
AT "a mine near Matte Crosse they
had brought in a small army of slaves
and cleared off the Jungle for a mile
around, while others were set to work
constructing a long ditch to bring
water to the fat beloW. 1t was a clev-.
er piece of work for men without sur
veyors' instruments. They cut the
ditch through cement formation that
in places was twenty feet deep, and
near the ltwerrend they constructed
a great chamber in which they ground
the ore between huge rocks. Wheth-
er they used mercury to amalgamate
the gold / could not determine, but
several stone tanks and sluices made
me think that possibly they did. They
built q town around these works with
a brick kiln and a distillery as the
most important adiuncts. 1t must
have been a busy and exciting place
to live in, ruled over by an iron hand,
the masters word law in everything,
and cruel law it was.
They took out large amount of
gold. And then, to enjoy it, they had
10 get ont to the civilized world with
it, through 5000 miles of hostile coun-
try, where freebooters lay IN wait.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
SYSTEM Is NEEDED IN THIS
Seems to Cry for Reform, Says
Mere Man.

We have no desire to pose as one
ctiticizing another's method OF work
Our notion is that man who has
spent his life running a hotel knows
how to do 1t better than We 90, who
patronize hotels only for toothpicks,
matches and writing paper. Our mot
10 is: Shoemaker, mind your own
business!" and We adhere strictly TO
ii. Ordinarily we let the lady who
runs our house alone. II We think she
is making a bed backwards, or putting
too much baking powder in the bis
cults, we say nothing Bedmaking
and cooking are her profession, ours
is paying the bills.
But with housekeeping time APP
preaching we pause a moment here 10
suggest that there is no overwhelming
anxiety on the part OF mere man to
have a house cleaned from cellar to
dome in a single day. Admitting that
We know very little about houseclean-
ing as an art, we declare that it seems
unnecessary to rip up every room in
the house as a starter. We cannot see
why it is necessary to take the rug OH
the back bedroom floor in order to
get all the dust off the parlor pictures.
We may be wrong, but it strikes us as
curious that she cannot clean behind
the sofa in the den unless the down
Stairs hall is barricaded with the din
ing room furniture. Why it is neces-
sary to dump everything out of the
front bedroom in order to clean the
kitchen windows has never been made
clear to us.
We realize that we are treading on
dangerous ground. But surely ii there
ever was anything in need of little
system il is spring housecleaning.-
Detroit Free Press.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
GOT FEAST, BUT NO BULLETS
Hungry Soldier in 5esieeed Town Of
Kimberley Called the Bluff Made
by Colonel kekewich.

In some "reminiscences of the late
Boer war Colonel Kekewich, who so
CALAMITY defended Kimberley for 126
days, tells the following story:
One day be was approached by a
private, who asked:
Colonel, when DO you expect we
are going to get something to eat?'
Eat" exclaimed the colonel. Did
you Join the army merely to get some
thing to eat?"
We'll. that's about the size of it,"
replied the soldier.
Here" said the colonel, calling an
officer, give this man something to
eat, and then have him shot"
The officer understood the joke and
replied:
"All right, colonel"
The private, however, exhibited no
alarm, and. turning to the officer,
said: -
Boil me ham, cap'n, stew up q
couple of chickens, bake two or three
pounds Of potatoes, fetch a gallon o
beer and load yer guns! With such
Inducements the man who. wouldn't be
willing to die is plithering idiot"
"A. hearty meal was prepared for
the soldier and the threatened execu-
ton never came. off.-Tit-Bits. T.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
POVERTY DROVE TO Thief
+, Reveals Perjury in the Public Sery-
g5.. ice Of Austria.

A Vienna jury has just acquitted
Baron Joseph Won Bechinic in spite OF
his confession OF embezzlement. The
trial gave sad insight into the PEN
ury, existing in the lower ranks of the
civil service.
The baron, who belongs to an old
but 9decayed family, entered the postal
service and married when receiving
only Is. Cd. day. His pay ultimately
ross to .G3 a week, but the greater
part of it was pledged in paying off
thei debts he had been forced to incur
earlier in order to keep his wife and
family.
He confessed in court how one day
WHOM he had. nothing to give his four
children to eat, he forged an entry in
a 'stivings bank book, and once having
gwen way to temptation, repeated this
till che had embezzled $40, always
hoping that relatives would help him
to repay.
81 The acquittal. for which there were
no grounds but sentiment, is some
what criticised in the Vienna press,
the newspapers pointing ont that 1t
fer ms IA dangerous" precedent, !s1here'
being so many impecunious members
of the nobility in the public service,
and that this particular baron had
brought his poverty on himself by his
fmprovident marriage.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
EXPERT ON FALLING SAFELY
Motorcycle Racer Explains Why He
Isn't Killed When He Tumbles
on Saucer Track.

People who know nothing about it
think that falling from a motorcycle
going at high sped is sure DEATH" re-
marked Joe Walters, the famous
racer, who was recently spilled from
his machine while it was moving at
the rate OF 80 miles an hour, and es-
capped with few scratches. AS a
matter of fact 1t is safer to fall from
a machine, moving at 100 miles an
hour than ii is TO fall from one going
at half that rate of speed. II the speed
Is great enough to throw the rider
free of his machine he slides along
the track and escapes with a few
scratches, or, possibly. some broken
bones. The development OF the motor,
cycle saucer track greatly lessons the
danger. II the rider is at the bottom
of the track he runs small danger vi
being injured. provided he has pres
ence of mind TO Keep from under the
motor in case Of an upset The few
riders that have been killed were
either caught under the machines or
were riding near the top Of the track
and brought up against one of the
posts. In my fall at Los Angeles the
law of gravitation brought into play
by the third Of mile circumference
of the track kept my weight and the
weight of the machine off the boards
until the momentum had slackened
and there was practically no danger.
The marks made on the track Will
bear out my statement. There Is
scratch about fifty feet in length al
most Immediately in front OF the pad
dock, 200 feet from where / started to
fall. The mark shows the compare
lively short distance the machine and
| slipped before coming to a stand
still. The only damage | sustained was
a bent pedal and some minor
scratches"
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
replied
Moses. Electrician.

That electricity must have been
known TO the anclents has been many
times asserted, but now comes for
ward an electrician in Munich-Mr.
Stadelmann-who has been in times
past an Archaeological, to assert that
he found in Egypt, in buried walls, in
dications denOting the use OF electric
lamps, says writer in Harper's
Weekly. he claims that Moses
brought electricity from Egypt, and
chat there are Biblical paragraphs
which will bear him out in his state
ment that lightning rods were in use
in the temple at Jerusalem. Stadel-
mann believes that the serpent OF
bronze Of Moses was nothing more or
less than an ordinary lightning rod
such as is in use today.
He points out, further, that the Ark
Of the Covenant, made as it was OF
wood and adorned inside and out with
gold, constituted a veritable Leyden
jar which communicated with a light
ming rod on the roof, and that it was
so arranged that under determined
conditions it could be charged with
electric fluid and produce the death
of any ignorant person daring to en-
ter the sacred precincts of the ark
without necessary precautions.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
WHEN ROYALTY VISITS US
Writer Recalls sundry Times When
Various Exalted Persons Failed 70 -
Disturb Our Composure. q

Writing on the visit OF the Con-,
naughts to New York, F. d. Dunno in
the Metropolitan Magazine says:
"Other royal personages have looked
Us over in the past The late king OF
England came 70 America before the
war and must have been extremely ac-
tive on his feet for at least 10000
old ladies are still alive who danced
with him. Princess Louise we al
ways remember With respect as the
first person who had the courage to.
speak out against the filth and in
decency of the American sleeping car
Of the time. We had Dom Pedro of
Brazil with us for awhile. Ten years
ago We were favored with the pres
ence of Prince Henry of Prussia.
Long before that came the king of the
Sandwich islands, an agreeable brown
potentate with q taste for drawing to
inside straights. 1t is so long ago
that we can't recall whether the
ladies of New York made themselves
agreeable to him in the historic man.
ner of the Cannibal islands by ask
ing him in to pick an acquaintance
with them. but it is fact of history
that the proprietor of a hotel in Chi
cago did meet him at the door and in
quire whether he wouldn't like to go
to his room and wash up Under all
these honors, as far as we are in
formed, the American public bore It.
self with some degree of composure,
but the arrival of the duke on pure
ly social visit was too much for the
pent,up aristocratic emotions OF all sec
tons of the population, and they re-
ceived him with AS great show of
fealty as though he were the reigning
prince and they his sworn subjects"
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
Oldest Metal.

A recent paper presented to the
Royal Institution at London, in dis
cussing the question of the metals
used by the great nations of antiquity,
pointed out that gold was probably
the first metal known to man because
it is generally found native.
The oldest metGllic objects to which
we can assign probable date are
thought TO be those found III royal
tomb at Nagada in Egypt, supposed to
have been that Of King Menes. In
one Of the chambers We're some bits
of gold and a bead, button and a
fine wire of nearly pure copper. If
the tomb had been properly Identified
these objects are at least $500 years
old. Nearly all the ancient gold that
has been examined contains silver
enough 10 give it light color. 1t was
gathered by the ancients in the bed
of the Pactolus and other streams OF
Asia Minor.-Harper's Weekly.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
Remarkable Admission.

3, Were you acquainted with the muir,
dered man?" asked the prosecuting at
torpey of a witness for the defense in
a murder case. The willingness of the
witness to say ali that he could in be-
half of the murderer was very APP
patent, by the way.
"a know'd him. He was the honest.
est
5fiNever mind about his honesty. You
say you knew him"
."Yes, sab; and Use proud to say I
nebber knowed SIGH noble
Nobody asked you about that.
What was The condition of his health
was he not in robust health?"
mo SAIL He was the feeblest mig
gah | cher seed.
HHe was killed by the accused, was
hei not?" ""'
"a. can't say so, sab. My idee am
dat, he was in SIGH bad health dat,
eben eff he hadn't geen killed when
he was, he would. hab died, anyhow,
at;least two days previous, sah."
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
SERMON SAVED HIs HONOR HORACE GREELEY IS ov1poME
Joaquin Miller Is Believed to Be the
Worlds Champion. at lIlegible
- Writing.

Old-time printers are never tired OF
telling weird stories OF the Unreliable
handwriting OF Horace Greeley. In
modern times it has been said that the
copy" OF Mr.. William Winter was a
task to worry even the smartest COM
positors, but ii is said that the cham
pion illegible writer is Joaquin Miller,
the Poet OF the Sierras," II is re-
lated that some time ago the secretary
OF n we'll known club in San. Francis
co wrote to Joaquin Miller, asking him
to take part in some celebration. In
response to the secretary's letter
came four page letter from the poet,
but none in the club could decipher
it,
There was nothing for it but to
write again TO Mr.. Miller stating that
it could not be determined whether
his letter was an acceptance or re-
fusal, and the secretary added, to
make sure: IF you will be present on
the date mentioned, will you kindly
make a cross on the bottom OF this
letter, and return it? If it will be inn
possible for you to appear, kindly
draw a CIRCLE
BY return mail the secretarys letter
was returned to him, and at the bot
tom was the sign as he had been re-
quested.
But it was absolutely impossible for
anyone to tell whether the sign was
meant to be a cross or circle.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
To Detect Fire Damp in Mines.

One Of the simplest of the many
suggested tests for fire damp in mines
is that described to the Scottish So
ciety OF Arts. 1t is an attachment
that may be applied to any oil or spir-
it safety lamp, and consists of a loop
of copper wire supported on a brass
rod passing through the oil vessel. To
make a test the loop is moved into
the flame, This becomes instantly
nonluminous, but if fire damp is pres
ent in the air the gas cap is clearly
seen. The test can be made in mo-
meDt, at any time, without turning
down or putting out the light. 1t is
claimed that the percentage OF fire
damp this method will detect is ex-
ceedingly small, and the results Of
trials in both laboratory and mine go
10 show that this is one of the most
sensitive, accurate, and expeditions
means of revealing the presence OF
inflammable gas in mine or other air.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-07-20
Old Clock of ST, Giles,

'!All loyal Scotsmen will learn with
regret that the well-known clock on
St Giles tower in Edinburgh, which
must have told the time to Scott and
Burns, is doomed TO disappear. APP
parently workman fell through the
case and damaged the mechanism so
badly that the civic authorities do not
consider the wornout works worth re-
pair. So the old clock will be BAN
ished by the city museum and re-
placed by an invisible timepiece. with
out hands or face, which will merely
strike the hours and leave the aes-
thetic effect of the tower unspoiled.
The ancient clock of ST Giles has seen
two centuries of service, but is a
mere giddy youth compared with some
of the medieval horologes on English
cathedrals. There are clocks that
date from the fourteenth century at
Exeter, Wells and Peterborough.