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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-02-04
LUMRERMEN OF MANY
STATES IN CONVENTION.

Cincinnati. Ohio, Feb. 4.-The an
nual convention of the Hardwoad Mo-
ufacturers' Association, the strongest
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-02-04
TAMPA HOLDS CARNIVAL.

Tampa, Fla, Feb. 4-Mardi Gras
was observed in Tampa today with the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-02-04
'O"N ADVERTISING CLUBS

ent %r.s5lSo, I a.. Feb 4.-Water,oo ).
Advertising dnr' c"s. Of the Associated lated
s sont in att attendance + ro eori D., D'Issates
Clinton Sli DaT csaa, Rapids Iowa ' cty
several other cities 'o'' Dodge and
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-02-04

a' s.e he. D',, sss'i lss ! .I Be ga, good
10 on'.-so''hen Asrie ! SpS't be
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
NEWS 6rme
YOUNG
PEOPLE
HANDY BOY ABOUT TIE HOME
Every Young Man Should Have Box
of Tools and Learn to Repair Arti-
cles Damaged About House.

like the handy boy about the
house, who knows how to hang pic
.ure, drive a nail, and do the little
aecessary repairing that any mother
wants done. 1t is easy enough to
learn how to use a saw or chisel, and
avery boy should have box of tools,
so that he can repair articles that may
become damaged. The boy who Is
handy about his mothers house will
be of inestimable value to his wife
when he shall marry. Boys who do
aot care to go out at night may learn
10 make many pretty pieces Of furni-
ture, IL they will only devote some
time to studying how to use tools and
paints. With a few lessons, the handy
boy may make picture frames, or cab
NETS, odd cornices, or desks or other
articles of usefulness and value. The
boy who is handy about the house and
help to his mother is one who learns
how to make purchases for the house
hold, who can tell a good piece OF
meat at the butchers, or pick out
fresh vegetables at the market. Oh
no, do not say that marketing is
woman's work. It is quite as much
mans work, and besides, none of us
can know SO much in this world thai
we can afford to ignore even the de
tails of marketing.-Foster Coates,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
Mourning for the Dean,

In the process of expansion press
telegrams often undergo a wonderful
transformation. Some years ago the
first three horses in the Lincoln handi-
cap were OBJ, Dean Swift and Roseate
Dawn. A press agency in London
wired the result to an Australian pa
per, as follows: Lincoln OBJ Dean
Swift Roseate Dawn"
The sub-editor, who was in charge,
had never heard of the Lincoln handi-
cap, and for some time Suzzled vain
ly over the mysterious message. FL
nally he came to the conclusion that
lob" must stand for obit, the Latin
word expressing death notice.
He accordingly turned out the fol-
lowing paragraph, which dull ap-
peared in priLt: I'VE deeply regret to
announce the death at Lincoln of the
celebrated Dean Swift, the author of
that favorite hymn, The Roseate Hues
of Early Dawn '"-Chambers Journal.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
Not ThIa Time.

Johnny was rather apprehensively
waiting his fathers return from busi-
ness. He had curious little feeling
that more would De heard about the
broken pane of glass in cid Crimes
glass house.
Take off your coat, my son, and
come along with mel" said pa after
he had rested from dinner.
You're not going to give me a
hiding are you, par" inquired young
hopeful with nervous sulp.
Didn't l tell you this morning that
l would settle with you for your bad
behavior when came homer" queried
father.
''Yes," said Johnny hopefully. ''but
I thought you were only joking. like
when you told the grocer you would
settle .wtth him. .'-Rehoboth Sunday
HerA
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
FACT STRANGER THAN FICTION
After This, NoveIists Need Not Be
Accused Of Unduiy Stretching
Their Imagination.

NoveIists accused of overwroking
the long arm of coincidence might
keep for reference the following
strange piece of fact. The bark Nomia
wG= Eosted as missing on December
II laak She sailed from Newcastle
with cargo of coal for Chile on July
10, ara sank in midocean when six
days oul. At least, so it appears from
the only scrap Of evidence available
small, ragged bit of paper torn from
q German log book, on which was
written Monday, 16, Z, 1912-Nomia
is sinking fast by hurricane in AZ S.
400 Il. Gott save us all and every
body This message, inclosed in a
bottle. was picked up recently on the
beach between Mangonul Bluff and
SCOTS Point, New Zealand. But was
the manuscript Eenuine? Here the ex-
tansiye limb above mentioned got in
IT'S good work. The message was given
Ito German Consul Carl Seegner oi
auckland. who had known Captain
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
POLITICIAN USES THE MOVIES
french Candidate for Office Shows
Himself on the Screen in Effec-
~ tive Poses.

la French politician who seeks cleo
tim to the council of one of the de-
pArtments has adopted a time and
labor saving scheme to urge his
cIlns on his constituents. Perhaps
thu Chinese praying machine inspired
hih.
Instead of harranguing the voters at
eleettan meetings he invites them to
a c5aauatograph theater; there to the
pornlar music one or two picture
comedies are shown.
Then the candidate appears on the
SCREEN. He is seen addressing meet
ing. shaking hands with the prefect,
and entering his motor car. Another
reel If films shows him helping an old
woman to load her donkey with bun
die ot wood, Indignantly refusing a
bribe,. and paying p visit to an old
man stretched on bed OF illness.
In tie last and most effective pic
ture q the series the sympathetic
candidite proves his heart is in the
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26

Minnie, spring-house girl at Hope sana-
torium, tells the story. 1t opens with the
arrival Of Miss Patty Jennings. who Is re-
and the death of the old doctor who owns
the sanatorium. The estate Is left to a
scapegrace grandson. Dicky Carter. who
must appear on certain date and run
the sanatorium successfully for two
months or forfeit the Inheritance. A case
of mumps delays Dicks arrival. Mr.. Tho
burn is lowering about in hopes of se-
curing the place for a summer hotel
Pierce. a. college man in hard luck, is pre-
vailed upon by Van Alstyne, Dicks broth
and take charge of the sanatorium until
Carter arrives. Dick. who has eloped
with Pattyss younger sister. Dorothy. ar
rives. and the couple go into hiding IN
Dorothy's father, who Ii at the sanator-
ium. Dick arranges with Pierce to con-
tinue in the management OF the property
Julia Summers. leading lady of Pierce's s
stranded theatrical company arrives.
She Is suing Diclzy for breach of promise.
The prince. under the incognito of Oskar
Won invalid. arrives at the sanatorium.
Barnes. character man with Pierces show
and graduate M. d., takes the place OF
tf.aatorium physician. Pierce, who IS
very much interested in Patty, shows q
strong dislike for invalid. Dick becomes
peevish over the Independent manner in
(which Pierce is running the sanatorium,
Z Miss Summers discovers that the Dick
Carter she Is seeking Is the owner Of the
sanator5 Dick. In attempting to steal
his low fters from Miss Summers.
breaks mo. the wrong room and gets the
commissions from overeating. The patients
believe 1t has been poisoned by the doped
spring water. In panic they. go TO
Pierce and start q row He tells them them
the truth about themselves and they
make Preparations to leave. snow
blockade compels the patients to return
Pierce lays out course of rational and
simple living and all agree to give 1t
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
Lightning and Forest Fires.

Lightning is held responsible for
most of the forest fires this year, ana
while the number of severe local
thunderstorms has been somewhat
exceptional, this is a fresh reminder
that the exercise of care by railroads
and campers, good in itself, can never
yield full protection. No matter how
we'll the laws are observed there
must be fires from time to time,
kindled as nature has been kindling
them for ages; origin, perhaps, of the
Prometheus legend. The remedy
must be found in the gradual and sys-
tematic application of scientific fores-
try, including fire lanes and the care
full clearing away of brush and fallen
timber There is need. too, of a
further extension of the patrol serv-
ice, with a network of watchtowers
from which an incipient fire can be
quickly discerned. In this state such
a network is nearly complete, and
with the help of the telephone a
force Of firefghters can quickly be
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
Box for Medicine Bottles.

hours, and sometimes they put the
spoon in the one to take next, or they
place one to be taken in the morning
in different glass from the one to be
taken at night.
On ingenious boy who saw his moth
er always forgetting which of the lit
tie bottles of pills to take next noticed
that there were two of the bottles in
pasteboard box, lying side by side.
They each had number on them, but
there was no way to be sure which
number his mother had taken last
Then he had an idea. He pasted a
little slip of paper on the cover of the
box and wrote his directions on it.
AS the little box inside slipped out
of the cover it was easy to put the
cork of one bottle toward one end and
the cork of the other at the other end
After taking a dose from bottle No. /
she just pusSed the cork into the
cover first. SO that the cork of No. 2
was toward the end with the arrow
mark, and she always knew that was
the one to take next
A druggist that saw this simple lit
tie trick had labels printed for all his
boxes, and it proved SO popular with
the doctors that used those medicines
that they made the boy present OF
bicycle for his invention.
If you keep your eyes open and
think about things you never know
when you may hit upon some useful
thing like this, which others will pay
you for. A girl that stopped to fix a
broken shoe lace and tried to pull il
through the hole with hairpin invent
ed the surgeons needle that is used
today all over the world for sewing
up wounds. Some boys that built a
fire upon the sand with seaweed found
the secret of making glass.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26

on four wheels, two axles of the device
being connected by strong steel
band, on which the footboard rests
The construction is such that by
fitting the footboard to the right or
left the wheels will turn in the same
direction, but the toy will not upset
The long handle is adjustable to any
height and is used more for support
than for guidance. To operate the We
hicle a boy stands with one foot on
the platform and with the other foot
pushes 1t ahead until sufficient mo-
mentum is attained to carry 1t on! He
then get aboard with both feet and
guides 1t by throwing the weight OF
his body on one side or the other.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
BOYS .sEcoND-HANDED FUN
Jacob Riis Says Football and Base
ball Pauperizes Youth, Both
Mentally and Physically.

The shortcomings Of baseball and
football as sports for boys are pointed
out by Jacob Riis in an article on
"The Boy Scouts" in the Outlook. He
says, Scouting gives every boy a
chance to be in the game" and con
tinues:
"The trouble with baseball and foot
bah is that they do not do that. They
are good as far as they go,s but they
do not go around. Nine or eleven
boys take hand in them, hundred
or a thousand sit and shout. They
have no other part in it. Granted
that there are many mines and elev-
ems. Still there are many more whom
the game really robs of boys most
precious quality-initiative; it pau
perizes the boys, physically and men,
tally, by making them take their fun
at second hand. But play, said Froe-
bel is the normal occupation of a
child, through which he grows char
acter; and we know Froebel was
right. Scouting is all initiative, all
individual effort.
'T am not knocking baseball be-
cause we didn't know the game when
was boy in Denmark. am simply
saying what must have been in the
minds of many boys leader, in and
out Of school, all these years. Tha
national game can take care of itself.
I am glad scouting has come to fill
in the chinks, as 1t were. If some
of the fierce competitive spirit is lost
that has run riot in the past, the
standards are not. Scouting, as l
have shown, sets up definite stand
ards to which the boy must come up
and which will stand being matched
against any boys game anywhere
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26


spring and looked at me.
You're not warmly enough dressed
for this kind of thing" he remarked.
Where's that gray rabbits fur, or
whatever 1t is?"
IF you mean my chinchillas," / said,
they're in their box. Chinchillas are
as delicate as babies and not near SO
plentiful. I'm warm enough"
.You look It," He reached over and
caught one Of my hands. Look at
thatl Blue nails! It's about four de-
arees above zero here, and while the
rest are wrapped in furs and steam
errugs, with hot water bottles at their
feet, you've got on a shawl. I'll bet
you two dollars you haven't got on
any-er-winter flannels."
Il never bet." I retorted. and went
on folding up the steamer rugs.
'I'd like to help" he said, "but
you're SO darned capable, Miss Min
ME-
"You might see if you can get the
slot-machine empty" I said. tits full
of water. 1t wouldn't work and Mr..
Moody thought it was frozen. He's
been carrying out boiling water all
afternoon. II it stays in there and
freezes the thing will explode"
He wasn't listening. He'd been fuss
ing with his package and now he
opened it and handed it to me, in the
paper.
tits sweater" he said, not looking
at me. II bought it for myself and it
was too small Confound 1t, Minnie,
l wish could lie!, bought them for
you! There's the whole business
sweater, cap, leggings and mittens. Go
on! Throw them at mel"
But l didn't. looked at them, all
white and soft, and it came over me
suddenly how kind people had been
lately, and how much I'd been getting
the old doctors waistcoat buttons
and Miss Pats furs,. and now this!
just buried my face in them and cried.
Doctor Barnes stood by and said
nothing. Some men wouldn't have un-
derstood, but he did. After minute
or so he came over and pulled the
sweater out from the bundle.
I'm glad you like EN-" he said,
"but as bought them at Hubbard's,
in Finleyville, and as the old liar guar
anteed they wouldn't shrink, we'd bet
ter not cry on 'em."
Well, | put them on and was
warmer and happier than had been
for some time. But that night when
went out to the shelter-house with
the supper basket / found both the
honeymooners in wild state of excite
ment. They said that about five
O'Clock Thoburn had gone out to the
shelter-house and walked all around it.
Finally he had stopped at one of the
wiz lows of the other room, had
worked at it with his penknife and got
it open, and crawled through, They
sat paralyzed with fright, and heard
him moving around the other room
and he even tried their door. But II
had been locked.
By Friday of that week you would
hardly have known any of them. The
fat ones were thinner and the thin
ones fatter. and Miss Julia Summers
could put her whole hand inside her
belt.
And they we're pleasant. They'd sit
down to supper Of ham and eggs
and apple sauce, and yell for more.
They fused some still about sleep
ing with the windows open, especially
the bald-headed men.
Mr.. Won invalid was still there, and
not troubling himself to be agreeable
to any but the Jennings family. He
and Mr. Pierce carefully avoided each
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
centipedes and Tarantulas.

A centipede has deadly fear of a
tarantula, and one of the most curious
habits of the centipede is his manner
of going to rest in the desert when he
knows his enemy to be in the vicinity
He builds cactus fence literally about
him.
A tarantula hates u cactus as much
as he longs after centipede, and has
never been known to crawl over the
plant,
Secure in this knowledge. the cent?.
pede will sleep as long as he wishes
while his wistful enemy looks long
ingiy at him over the barrier, power
less to go to the attack.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
New German Industry.

Germany has now 26 establishments
engaged in the production of dry yeast.
1t keeps indefinitely and is nutritious
food not only for cattle, but also for
human beings, after the removal of
the unpleasantly bitter hop resin that
it contains. The industry has deveI-
oped within the last three years, here
tofore the thousands of tons of yeast
produced annually by the German
breweries being almost without value.
except for the small amount used by
the breweries themselves to hasten
the fermentation of the wort.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26

other, but knew well enough that only
policy kept them apart. Both of them,
you see. were working for something.
Miss Cobb came to the springhouse
early Friday morning, and from the
way she came in and shut the door /
knew she had something on her mind.
She walked over to where l was pol
ishing the brass railing around the
spring-it had been the habit of years,
and not easy to break-and stood look
ing at me and Breathing hard.
"Minnie," she exclaimed, 'I have
found the thief!"
Lord have mercy!" I said, and
dropped the brass polish.
Il have found the thief" she repeat
ed firmly. Minnie, our sins always
| find us out"
Il guess they do" I said shakily
and sat down on the steps to the
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26

stood warming her hands. / saw her
sister watching her.
What's wrong with you, Pat?" she
asked. "Oskar not behaving?"
I'm tired to death, but don't Sleep
Miss Patty said. Il don't know
why"
81 do" her sister said. 'Tf you
weren't SO naughty, Pat, and would
just own up that you're sick of your
bargain"
Dolly" Miss Patty got red and
then white.
"Oh, all right" Mrs. Dicky said. and
shrugged her shoulders. only, l hate
to see you make an idiot of yourself,
when I'm so happy"
Mr.. Dick made move at that to go
across the fireplace to her, but Mr.
Sam pushed him back where he was.
you stay right there" he said
Here's Pierce now"
He came in smiling, and as he stood
inside the door, brushing the snow off
it was queer to see how his eyes went
around the circle until he'd found Miss
dtIy duQ oIOppGu dI HSI.
Nobody answered his smile, and he
came over to the fire beside Miss
Patty
"Great night" he said, looking down
at her. There's something invigorat
ing in just breathing that wind"
do you think so?" Mrs. Sam said
disagreeably. 'tOf course, we haven't
all got your shoulders"
That's So" he answered, turning to
her. 81 said you women should moi
come SO far. We could have met in
my sitting room"
"You forget one thing" Mr.. Dick put
in disagreeably, "and that is that this
meeting concerns me, and cannot
very well go to your sitting room"
*Fact," said Mr. Pierce. .1'd forgot
ten about you for the moment"
You generally do" Mr.. Dick retort
ed. "If you want the truth, Pierce, In
about tired of your high-handed meth
DDS"
Mr.. Pierce set his jaw and looked
down at him.
"Why? I've saved the place, haven
1? Why, look here" he said, and pulled
out couple of letters, "these are the
| first fruits of those that weep-iI
other words, per aspera ad astra! Two
new guests coming the last of the
week-want to be put in training!"
Well, that vas an argument nobody
could find fault with, but their griev
ance was about themselves and they
couldn't forgive him. They turned or
him in the most heartless way-eyer
Miss Patty-and demanded that he
| give them special privileges break
| fast when they wanted it, and Mr.
Sam the key to the bar. And he stood
| firm, as he had that day in the lobby
| and let the storm beat around him
looking mostly at Miss Patty. 1t wa'
more than I could bear.
Shame on all Of you!" said. Hes
done what he promised he'd do, ant
more. If he did what he ought, he't
leave this minute, and let you find ou
for yourself what it is to drive thirty
odd different stomachs and the sam,
number of bad dispositions In one di
| rection."
you are perfectly right, Minnie,
Miss Patty said. Were beastly, al
Of US, and I'm sorry" She went owe
and held out her hand to him "You'v,
done the impossible" she told him
| He beamed.
Your approval means more thai
anything" he said, holding her hand
Mrs. Dick sat up and opened her eye
wide
| Speaking of Oskar," she began, an,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26

MINNIE, formerly of the bark Germa-
MIA. The Nomia's skipper was also
named MINNIE. Searching among his
papers, Consul Seegner unearthed a
letter written by the Germania's
MINNIE. and on comparing the letter
with the message from the sea he
found the writings identical. Here was
evidence enough that the Germania's
MINNIE was also the Nomia's MINNIE,
and that the message wasn't fake.
Seeing that Consul Seegner was the
only man in New zealald-perhaps in
Australiasia-likely to be able to settle
the question, the arm which piloted
that wandering bottle right to his door
had, as before mentioned, useful
hand at the end of 1t.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26

When the witnesses had recovered
from their fright they pelted the head
with stones and sticks. 1t winked its
eye stoically, not to say philosophical
ly, and calmly ducked beneath the wa
ter and was seen no more
Some there were prosaic enough to
say it was crocodile or alligator. but
others insisted it was really. truly
seashore, summer resort sea serpent
Anyhow, an alligator or a crocodile
has as little business in the River des
Peres as a sea serpent-St. Louis Re.
public.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
AMUSEMENT IN A MAGIC BOX
Balls and Paper Men Made to Jump
About in Fantastic Static
Electricity Is the Secret.

A novelty which affords much
amusement is the magic box. 1t is
4x6x2 inches, made out Of wood with
a glass cover and lined with foil. The
directions for operating the box are
as follows: Rub the pane of glass
with the little leather cushion and
the balls and paper men will begin
at once to produce their performance.
jumping about in the most fantastic
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
In a predicament.

The teacher was reading the his
tory of England to some of the little
pupils When she came to the state
ment that Henry l. never laughed
after the death of his son she noticed
one of the littlee girls mad raised her
hand and seemed very DESTROYS of
attracting her attention.
well. Amy said teacher. what
is it?"
please. ma'am," said little Amy,
what did Henry l. do when he was
tickled ?'-Harper's Bazaar.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN
Little Story Of What an 0bsery-
ant Boy Accomplished.
ingenious Lad Invents Paper Box for
His Mother to Take Medicine
Without Any Confusion-Idea
Soon Became Popular.

A great many boys are always look
ing forward to the time when they will
grow up and be able to do something
big, but they overlook the chances
they have to do something worth while
when they are still boys. Here is
little story of what an observant boy
did:
1t often happens that people have to
take two different kinds of medicine
alternately. and endless ways have
been tried to remember which comes
next. Sometimes they take No. l at
the odd hours and No. 2 at the even
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
CHAPTER XIII.

''Well!" she said, and stood staring.
Then she smiled guess our faces
were funny.
May come in?" she asked, and
without waiting she came in and
closed the door. "You do look cozy!"
she said, and shook herself free of
snow.
Mr.. Dick had turned white. He got
up with his eyes on her, and twice he
opened his mouth and couldn't speak.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
St. Louis Secs a Sea Serpent.

A st. Louis at last has a sea serpent
story!
1.-THE serpent-made it's appear
ance in the River des Peres. near
Franklin bridge Forest Park.
The ugly head appeared suddenly
above the peaceful and conventional
stream which has boasted nothing
more vicious or terrible than craw-
fish.