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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23

gauze, and finally a flat-ring washer"
In explaining how this device pro.
tects the delicate membrane of the
tympanum from the ear.splitting
noises of battle while permitting the
wearer to hear ordinary sounds dis.
tinctly. Mr.. Boys says:
THE sudden access OF pressure In
the neighborhood of gun at the mo-
ment of firing imposes so great a
strain on the drum Of tho ear that
deafness is usual result. The IN.
crease in pressure in the modern gun
and the high pressure still remain.
ing when the shot reaches the muz.
zle. makes the conditions more seri.
GUS than they used to be until com.
paratively recently. Not only those
who are near the gun when fired,
but those also in the neighborhood
Of bursting shells, bombs or explo.
sives are liable to suffer in similar
way even II they are not otherwise
damaged!
when pair of defenders is
placed in the ears. the thin dia,
phragms, untouched except near
their edges, where they are held, are
free to take up aerial vibrations and
to transmit them to the ear.passage
Thus ordinary sounds are heard with
little loss. When. however, the VIC
lent impact due to gunflre or explo
sion in the neighborhood occurs, the
diaphragm is brought up against the
wire gauze. by which further move
ment is checked, also the Injurious
increase OF pressure. In this way
the ear is defended"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23
A DOG Who Really DICTATES LETTER

q ONE remarkable facts are made
public by DR.. Arundel Del Re.
~ OF University College. London,
regarding u reasoning dog at Mann.
helm, Germany. According TO Prof.
William Mackenzie. who made a special
visit some time ago to investigate
the acts of this dog. an Airedale ter.
rier about 3 years old and named
Rolf, the names of other scientists
who examined this dog are sufficient
guarantee OF the facts Of the case.
Tho dog first attracted the notice
Of Nine. Moekel. its owner. to its
extraordinary powers one day. when
she was trying to coax her little
daughter to do simple sum in addi.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23

been secured from natural sources.
AS a drink radium water would
prove an expensive luxury, since a
very moderate sized bottle costs
$3.50. II has the fiat taste of dis
titled water. together with n curious
faint salty flavor, and Its effect is to
render one extremely sleepy.
Considered as medicine one
dose" is OF no use. 1t has to be
taken continuously for some time,
and the patient who starts taking
radium water usually has to con-
sumo about ono hundred dollars
worth before its beneficial effects are
perceived.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23
How Euopes SOLDIERS Are Being Saved from DEAFNESS

~ HoRTLY after the present war
began the prediction WAS made
that, II It continued for any
ength of time. there would be SO
many thousands of deaf soldiers that
loss OF hearing, produced by the In
fernal din of guns OF potential
smash" would become one OF the
commonest OF Affections among the
millions OF fighting men Of the war
ring nations.
1t seems, however. that this pre-
diction was made without taking into
consideration the fact that "Neces-
s!ty is the mother Of invention" for
an aurist has perfected a small and
delicate instrument called an ear.
defender" which has already found
its place in the war. This instru.
ment is said to prevent mental de-
rangements and shocks caused by
the "ear-splitting" din Of exploding,
high.calibre artillery. 1t Is also
claimed that this "ear-dcfender' has
the power Of deadenins the noise
and shock of exploding 42:centimetre
guns. without shutting out the light
est word OF command.
In the last century the soldier who
plugged up his ears before going into
battle would have been considered
effeminate, but until recently the
-horrid din Of war" contained no
sound powerful enough literally to
split the ear drums of soldiers or to
rack their nerves to the point OF in.
sanity.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23

These phenomena are observed when
light is not absorbed.
Hold a piece of red glass in front
of a flame and we see only red. Rays
of all other colors have been alb.
sorhed. The natural colors Of the
objects We see about us. leaves,
flowers, books and chairs, depend
upon absorption. A green leaf throws
back chiefly green rays; the rest are
absorbed. So. the natural color of
everything in nature is the unab.
sorbed residue from full white light.
"a swarm Of minute particles, scat.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23

this wonderful ability is given in a
letter dictated by the dog to Prof.
Mackenzie after his departure from
Nine. Moekel's home. The letter. as
quoted, read:
"Lieb Doktor, BALD kommen MIN.
mer gehen. mir Bilder geben. auch
ems Won Dir, viel Gruss, Dein Lol''
1.-THE dogs pet name).
The following is a translation OF
Rolls letter in childish English:
Dear Doctor, coming soon, never
will go. Give me pictures. one oil
yours, too. Many regards. Your
Lol."
1t is said that the dog took the in.
itiative in debating this letter, tap.
ping out each letter by code.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23
formally recognized by science
as oae.ae the mo,t1wide spyead
THE phenomena Of hysterIa. now

formally recognized by science
as one. af the oss1widespread
diseases Of the nervous system. are.
unfortunately. known to nearly every
one. Hysteria has many forms. from
terrifying convulslons to mere snap
pishness and display of causeless
emotion. It has been defined by DR..
Pierre Janet and others who have
studied II scientifically as doubling
OF the PERSONAL---VERY. rather. as a
temporary disintegration OF it.
whereby the natural. unconscious. or
instructive self escapes from the con-
troll Of its wiser associate, the reason.
Hence 1t often shows itself in the
commission OF foolish, senseless, or
merely brutal acts. such as would
only be INDUCED in by children or
savages.
The hysterical character, no mat
ter how It evolves. so far from set.
ting itself to the steady accomplish.
ment Of great purpose, shows itself.
in the words Of great medical au.
thority on the subject. IL emotional
instability. in readiness to be infu.
enced. a tendency to make sensations.
a remarkable egotism, and desire
to conspire. to fabricate. and to
simulate.
The hysteric, when opposed firmly
and persistently. generally collapse
suddenly and utterly. The beneficial
effect OF a douche Of cold water in
mild and isolated cases is well
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23

forced or controlled smiles. Chances
that are not frank and honest betray
habit Of secretiveness which also
frequently are the cause OF hysteria.
For this reason mothers are urged to
train their children to be frank. to
give natural play to honest emotions
and to avoid hypocritical expressions
either in looks or in speech.
III the symptoms OF hysteria," says
DR.. Burrow. represent in reality the
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23

plicator contains seven milligrammes
and the largest $50 milligrammes.
Capillary glass tubes filled with
radium sulphate closely packed are
used for insertion into openings in
the body. in cases where the dis.
eased area could not be reached in
any other way: their length varies
from two to four centimeters and
their diameters from 0.2 to 0.3 cent?.
meter.
The radium emanatlon is some
times collected in glass tubes or
metal containers and used with APP
propriate screens. exactly as the ra-
dunn salts are used. due regard being
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23
An ASTRONOMER Explains Why the SKY Is BIIF

q UNLIGHT, which we call white.
Is composed Of light rays of diff.
~ ferent colors-red. orange, vel.
low. green, blue. indigo and violet"
says an astronomer. at can be
broken up into Its constituent colors
in various ways. If 1t passes through
a transparent prism Qlke the crys.
tails that hang from chandelier) or
II 1t falls on surface which has al.
most invisibly minute Irregularities
(like mother.of.pearl or the wing of
a butterfly we see the rays into
which sunlight has been separated.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23
Mothers Should Train Children to Be Frank to Give Natural
Play to Honest Emotions and to Avoid Hypocrtical
Expressions Either in Looks or Words

seems the only honorable course
open to them-that of rigid repres-
sion. In consequence of the moral
conflict from which no escape is of.
Tered, such a personality becomes
more and more deeply repressed.
until life has at last become so
wracked as to be scarcely longer en-
durable. Mental explosions" take
place, forerunners OF which, scien.
lists have shown. is the habit Of
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-23

IVY HILE the winding Of ones
M watch would seem to call for
Wv but a small amount of ener.
gy, 1t assumes q most significant
aspect when multiplied several hun.
dred times, as in the instance os a
watch repairing concern in New
York city part OF whose work 1t is
to wind 700 watches or more each
day. To facilitate the work the firm
makes use Of an electric motor
which drives small. felt-lined
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
Iovinu Your Husband.

Some day you'll love u man. You
might just as well die now unless you
do! But you'll really love him after
you have your children. 1t may even
be long after. 1t isn't having children
that makes q woman, I don't care what
the world says about it! They pre-
pare you to love the man. They cease
to need you so much; but he needs
you more and more. And after the
children have deepened you, the thing
will come over you. The mother who
thought she had spent herself, rises,
Anna! She is resurrected. Then she
turns and mothers a man. She moth
ers him as she could not have moth
cred any child for the duty is left out
and all the responsibility. 1t is sheer,
be" tiful, generous giving.-Alice
Woods in American Magazine.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
WHERE THE WOMEN WORK
In Palestine No Woman Is Considered
Too Old or Tco Young to
Work.

No woman in Palestine is too old
or too young to work. A girl of six
tends her small brothers or sisters,
and the grandmother weaveS or spins
until the day she dies. As is common
among oriental women, those of Pales-
tine, age early, and at twenty-five the
ordinary woman Of the labOring class
is wrin1IeG and bent, unless as a wa
ter bearer she preserves her erect
carriage and queenly gait.
The old woman spins wool as she
goes to her home Oc the fields where
the men till the ground or beat the
green olives from the trees. Her cos
tune is composed of two pieces, unless
she wears shoes, which is neither
necessary nor customary. The tuu
dress or Iohe is gathered 1t the waist
by belt of coarse cloth, and is tied
at the throat with a heavy string,
so that weatherbeaten strip OF neck
can be seen below it. One piece OF
goods forms the front and another the
back, anu until Paris fashions affect
the labOSerS, as they have already at
fected the drones in the Levant,
triangular piece of cloth, to give high
speed walking fullness 10 the skirt, is
the only material added.
The veil is long and strong, and
can be used to tie up fagots or to con-
tain such measures of barley as Ruth
had from Boaz in the fields. Coarse
and durable embroidery may decorate
boil. tobe and veil, but the young bride
wears embroidery for which rich tour
lists bargain in vain.-ChriStian Her
aid.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
PEEVED AT BEING DUNNED
considerate Debtor Pours Forth His
Soul in Letter to His
Creditor,

1t is not every firm that can have a
delinquent debtor write letter to it
like this one:
"YOur letter at hand. Would say
the - company went to the wall
years ago, and if pay, or had to pay
the obligations of that concern, even
at a discount of 80 per cent, it would
keep me guessing for some little time
to come, out here in this godfOrSaken
country where skunk skins amt worth
but fifteen cents a pair. I will here
state that being broken down in health
and fortune l left Waterbury some
nine months ago and came out to my
original estate, the family homestead,
and am going to try and keep in sight
of the old family monument in the
cemetery, where my forefathers sleep,
the rest Of the term of life allotted to
me, for prosperity is out of my reach,
and rheumatism, old age and death
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
BUNYAN AND HIS GREAT WORK
"PiIgrim's Progress" Was First Printed
About a Decade Before the
Authors Death.

The first edition of '"rhe Pilgrims
Progress was printed in 1878. just a
decade before the death of the author,
John Bunyan, who breathed his last in
the home of London grocer 22S years
ago. The first edition was Printed for
Nath. Ponder, at the Peacock in the
Poultry, 167S," and a second edition
was necessary the same year. Ten
editions were printed before Bunyan
died, and the book enjoyed a huge
popularity among the lOwly and hum
bic of England and Scotland, but was
sneered at by the educated classes.
BunyaE was very proud of the fact
that his work was greatly admired by
New Englanders and by the French
HuguenOtS. For more than a century
"Pilgrim'S Progress" had no standing
In literary circles. Gall the numerous
editions" said Macaulay, "were evil
IDENTIFY meant for the cottage and the
servants hall, as the paper, the print
ing and the plates were of the mean
est description" In his youth Bunyan
was a tinker, and far from piOus. 1t
is recorded that woman, whose char
acter was such as to make her an au-
thority on profanity, declared that he
was 1.-The ungOdIiest fellow for swear
ing she had ever heard in all her life,
and that it made her tremble to hear
him. "-Exchange -,.~~~-
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14

southeast corner of the school house
lot; thence with the school house lot
line North deg, e. Is poles to black
gum, the northeast corner of school
house lot, also d. S. PAGES corner;
thence with his line North IL deg.
East 80 "a poles to a stake and point
| ers, his corner; thence South SO deg.
! E. poles to stake and rock, thence
North deg. East 20 poles and IL
links to stake and rock; thence
! South IS deg. E. poles and % links
ito a stake and rock; thence North 4
! deg. E. SO IL poles to a rock and
! pointers, on the North edge of the new
road leading from the Towards Gan
road, to Hendersonville by way Of
Devils Fork creek; thence with the
North edge of the road South So deg.
East II poles to a stone on the North
bank Of the road. the Northwest cor
ner of the 10 acre tract: thence with
the North bank Of the road. South Sc
deg. East "a poles to the beginning
containing 80 acres more Or less. Elk
cepting from this boundary the fol
lowing portion, conveyed by A. C.. JUS
tus and wife to c. c. Mccall and de
scribed as follows:
Beginning at a stake and stone the
southeast corner of the school house
lot, also D. S. PAGES corner: thence
with D. S. PAGES line North 3 1-2 deg
r. "a poles to stake and pointers:
thence South Sc deg. E. 20 poles and
IL links to a stake; thence North
oeg. EAST 20 poles to a stake: thence
5. st deg. East 20 poles and links TO
a stone; thence South 4 deg. West
II 3-5 poles to a stake in the old
original line; thence North "a 1-2 deg
W. SO IL poles to the beginning. con
tanning fifteen acres more or less,
Division B. Beginning at a rock and
pointers on the North edge of the new
road leading from the Towards Gan
road to Hendersonville by way of the
DeVll's Fork creek, P. D. Heffner's
corner and runs with his line South 4
deg. W. 81 IL poles to g rock and
stake; thence with his. line N. Sc deg
W. poles and % links to a rock and
J stake, his corner; thence North sc dea.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14

W. poles to a rock; thence N. 5 deg.
W. Is poles to a rock; thence N. Il
deg. West 9 poles to a rock on the
/ North edge OF tie road; thence with
the road Sc deg. East "a poles to tne
beginning, containing five acres and o5
| poles more or less.
Third. All that land described i'll
mortgage of record in Book 40 paEs
1874 of the records Of mortgages anu
deeds Of trust for Henderson coun"
and described as follows:
Being the same land conveyed by }!
L. Orr and wife to Chaple Wyatt 0!
deed dated April 6: 1912 and recoraeat
in Book u page 165 of the RECORDS y.
deeds for Henderson county and mOi0
particularly described as follows:
Beginning at stake On the weS'
side of the road leading from the 10
cey;s Grove read to the Upward rOau
at the S. E. corner of the D. S. Pao,
lot, and runs with the line Of sa'd ~.
N. Sc deg. w. 25 ga poles to a STAKE ~
said line; theme running along the cav,
margin of street n. % noles 10 a. a.
iron stake; thence S. SO IL deg T.. ." -
poles to a stake on the cast margln. ~. -
road mentioned above; thence WIZ
the east margin of said road S. z u'S'
E. ga poles to stake; thence ~,
81 IL deg E. poles to "+"''N' ~'t,
S. ) deg. W. 81 poles to a stone; tnSu NV
N. Sc deg. w. 8 poles to stake on tho tho
West margin of rosd; thence WIN w ~
west margin of said road S. deg w.
poles to the beginning. Tho
Excepting and reserving tFonl I'D
above boundary a small strip OF l"'''
heretofore sold off by Chaple Wya.''
This Sth day of December. 1912
J. sHIPMAN.
12.14-4tc Commissioned
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
Typewriter That Reads.

A self-operating eye, which, when at
tached to a typewriter, enables that
machine to copy properly any printed
matter properly set before it, is the in
vention of a Brooklyn electrical en-
gineer. The eye consists of a large
sphere having a lens on it's front side
and field corresponding to retina
of selenium cells connected with a
source of electric current. The eye is
mounted on and moves with the car
riage of the typewriter and is so TO-
cused that the image of but one letter
is reflected in it at a time.-Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
HE KNEW FEMININE NATURE
Mr.. MickIes' Ingenuity Saves the Day
When His Wife Calls at the
Office.

Mr.. A1ickleS, your wife is outside,
sir" said the office boy, between blind
ing, nauseating puffs from his cheap
and thoroughly nasty cigarette.
GOVT" said NickleS, expreSSively,
somewhat eXplOsively and q tritle ap-
prehensively and shiveringlg, although
it was a hot day in Africa. Mickles
rose from his desk and went out into
the ante-rOOm, carefully shutting his
office door behind him.
Henry, I've come to see your new
stenOgrapher," said his wife.
'But, my dear, she will offend your
aesthic sense!" protested Mickles.
"She's a sight. I told you she was a
sight"
Il insist on seeing" replied Mrs. NJ.
Every well, but wait till finish die
tating a letter. It's very Important
it's to Higgim & Diggim canceling an
order for a dozen lead pencils and
must get Off"
I'll not wait a second"
"Just as you say, my dear. But your
hat isn't on straight. There's q glass
over there in the corner"
"Oh, dear. I'll just fix it. I'll be
there in a minute"
And she went over to the glass to
straighten her hat, and in the half
hour it took her to do it, MickIes had
let his beautiful new StenOgrapher out
the window on an improvised rope lad
der, and hauled up a frightfully home
ly one for whom he had telephOned to
the EMPLOYMENT burpau.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
PATTERSON DOING A
GOOD BUSINESS.

H. Patterson. the Hustler's largest
advertiser, is doing a good business
these days and the receipts from the
sale of merchandise from his large de-
partment store show an increase over
1915 of about so per cent.
Last Saturday he had % clerks en-
ployed and they were kept busy the en-
tire day. The secret of Mr.. Patterson's
success lies in the fact that he is a
liberal user Of printers ink, and also
keeps the goods to back up his adver-
tisements. Hendersonville is FORUM
ate in having Mr.. Patterson and his
large stock of goods in her midst.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
Dad Was Puzzled.

In these days of good education chill
dren learn things their fathers and
mothers know very little about.
Nora, aged nine, met her father the
the other day with her little blue eyes
full of tears.
"Oh, daddyr' she walled. give
just fallen and bumped my patella."
Dear, dear! Poor little girl - said
father, synpatheticalIy, as with the
best intentions in the world he bent
to examine her elbow.
t Nora drew herself angrily away.
- "Humph!" she snorted, with superior
air. 81 said my patella-that's not my
patella-my patella is my kneecap."
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Licenses were issued by the register
of deeds the Dast week for the mar
riage of the following:
Clarence Hayes. Greenville, s. c..
and Miss 'Eula Levi, Tuxedo, N. c..
w. F Rhodes and Miss Nola Nix,
both of Fletcher.
Willie Hudgin sand Miss Ollie War
rem, both of Bat Cave.
B. M. King, Zirconia. N. c.. and Miss
Ethel Brown, HendersonYille.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
Windmill Pudding.

The new draft had just arrived in
France and the men were exchanging
notes with the old hands.
do they feed you we'll out here?'
asked one of the raw hands.
"Oh, not at all bad" replied the cam
paigner-"nOt at all bad! Good break
fast and good dinner, and always pud-
ding after dinner"
Pudding, Ell? What kind Of pud-
ding today?"
ooh, the usual kind-windmill pud-
ding"
windmill What sort is that?'
"Why, if it goes roand you get
some"
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
PnAuer of EIatterY.

Wife Tin the cafe)-George, that
brute over there has been staring ut
me for half an hour. Somebody ought
to knock his fool head off.
George Ito stranger)-What do you
mean, sir, by ogling my wife?
Stranger (calmly)-Tn admit that L
have taken more than passing notice
of the lady. A pretty woman with a
small foot always attracts my atten-
ton.
Wife-Now, George, don't make a
fool of yourself and start a scene IN
here. The gentleman evidently meant
no harm-Puck.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14

have lust hove in sight. So if you
would like to correspond with me so
cially or upon what I know about
farming am at your service, but for
heavens sake don't send me another
,dunning letter for the delinquency
of the - company until you read
nv obituary at least three weeks in
succession in the New~Y York Sunday
newspapers"
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14

clapping her hands with delight.
"Oh, Miss Nichols!- They're coming
down the avenue!
"Who?" asked her teacher, hurrylng
to the window and looking fOr-she
knew not what.
"The measles! Bessy Tubbs, right
on our corner, has just got them' ana
now it'll be my turn next"
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
uxtra! Bic Mexican Sensation.

Hamfat-Can't you think of an idea
for a play in which l could score a big
hit?
Playwrite-Got just the thing for
YOU. old mana military play in which
as Villa you will win round after round
of applause.
Hanfat-Won't do. AS Villa would
be egged off the stage.
Playwrite got the dope
wrong. AS Villa you get killed in the
first act.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
An unnremeditated Hoax.

The measles were making their an
nual round of the juvenile population
of the community, and FIOssie was
very vexed because she didn't catch
them. She felt that nice little vaca-
ton was being denied her. One day
she came running into the schoOlroom.