The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 29, 1914, Page 6, Image 6
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DELATES TALES OF ROYALTY
Interesting Reminiscences Published
by Caton Woodville, Famous English
War Artist.
"Random Recollections," by Caton
Woodville, Itae English war artist,
contains some enjoyable tales about
royalty.
One of the amusing anecdotes concerns
Edward VII. Woodville painted
an equestrian portrait of the king,
who, says the artist, was greatly
pleased with It until he examined the
legs.
"Oh, Mr. Woodville," he said, "what
a pair of magnificent legs you have
g'ven me. They are simply splendid.
Tlllt lnolf ot m\r eKr.st V/v.i ...ill
have to make these in the portrait
shorter."
"I pointed out," says Woodville In
telling the yarn, "that in some of his
photographs his legs appeared to bo
quite as long as 1 had painted them,
but no argument could convince him.
A piece had to come off, and it did."
The old Durto of Cambridge was notorious
for the facility with which he
could go to sleep at dinners and other
public functions. Once when Christopher
Sykes and Woodville were in the
party the Duke succumbed. Awakened
by a loud laugh, he opened his eyes
and demanded, "Christopher, have 1
snored?"
"I have had the honor to hear your
Royal Highness sleeping well," replied
Sykes.
Woodville painted a large equestrian
portrait of the Emperor Frederick of
Germany in the handsome white uniform
of the Imperial guards, with the
magnificent golden helmet crowned by
the silver eagle
"It was a sad task," says Woodville.
"I painted the portrait shortly after
vun LillipCIWl ? Ul'iUU, HI1U 1116 tiTTlpr??8
was very particular about tho
color and shape of his eyes. She wore
a bracelet with a miniature of one of
his eyes painted on Ivory in a medallion
upon it She stood beside me for
hours holding tho bracelet so that I
could see it In the best light and not
miss any of tho details."
Drowning the Bells.
The strangest thing that the Office
Window man saw during the New
Year festivities was the population of
this great city decreeing that glad
chimes should be rung at Trinity as
the year came in, and then drowning
the sound of the bells, when they were
rung, by the blowing of horns and
the ringing of cowbells, remarks tho
New York Mail. The visitor from
Mars must have wondered greatly at
this. It was like asking Melba to
sing for you, and then, when she
opened her lips, raising so great and
wild a shout that not a note of her
song could be heard.
The Trinity bells on New Year eve
?if for a moment you could get
away from the din of the horns?were
sweet. They were well rung, and the
alrB were the tender and familiar
songs that touch the people's hearts?
"Nearer, My Ood. to Thee," "Robin
Adair," "The Old Kentucky Home"
and the like. Rut as one stood on the
opposite side of Rroadway, in front of
the church, absolutely not a murmur
of the church bells could be heard
through the roar of the horns and
Othar maillii-K. -' Jl 1 * J
w?mv> iu^uiuuio ui UIBCUIUitlll HOlina.
The vast crowd plainly came there
to smother the chimes, not to listen
to them.
Meal Time in a Small Village.
Zona Gale, writing a piece of fiction
In the March Woman's Home Companion
which she calls "The Flood: A
Story of Friendship Village." begins
with the following little picture of
breakfast time in a small town:
"1 don't" know how well you know
villages, but I hope you know anyhow
one. because if you don.'t they's things
to life that you don t know yet. Nice
things.
"1 was thinking of that the morning
that Friendship Village remembers
still. I was walking down Daphne
street pretty early, seeing everybody's
breakfast lire smoke coming out of
the chimney, and hearing everybody's
boy splitting wood and whistling out
by the chip pile, and smelling everybody's
fried mush and warmed up
potatoes and griddle cakes floating
ut, sort of homely and old fashioned
and mmfrirhililn
" 'Look at the family,' I says to myself,
'sitting down to breakfast, all up
and down the street.'"
Fancies in Weathercocks.
Weathercocks seein to date from
early times. According to Dueange,
the cock was originally devised as an
emblem of clerical vigilance. The
large tail of the cock was adapted
to turn with the wind. Many churches
have for a vane the emblems of the
saints to whom they are dedicated.
St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, is surmounted
with a hoy, St. Peter having
the keys of heaven and be Ik 3t. Laurence
has for a rtme a "Srlfffrtm, ami 1
8t. Laurence at Nbrwich has the ffrM- j
Iron with the holy martyr extended'
upon the bars. A gilt ship In fuTl sail
ts the vane upon 9L Mildred's church.
In tl*? Poultry. St. Michael's, Queen- j
hit be, has a ship, tbe hull of which
will hold a bushel of grain, referring
to the former traffle in corn at the
hithfi.? Dnilv Chrnnlclo
Free Talk. Punch.
First Trooper, Imperial Yeomanry
(discussing a new officer)?Swears a
bit, don't 'e, sometimes?
Secrnd Trooper?'R's a masterpiece,
'e Is; Just opens 'is mouth and
lets it say wot It likes.
fcLL UMt.LtU "UAWNT / i?\'U Y"
Car.-.egie's Shrewdness as Much in
Evidence Now as When He Was
Piling Up Millions.
Andrew Carnegie started in with a
one liorse blast furnace outfit and built
up the greatest steel business in the
world. Shrewdness, that peculiar trait
prominent in so many of his countrymen.
played the important part of
that great achievement. h.. unirf
out his business to the steel trust fc.*
the sum of $.'100,000,000, stipulating
that $100,000,000 should be cash and
$200,000,000 in first mortgage 5 per
cent, bonds; that the bonds should be
guaranteed against any future state or
national tax. Again that shrewd foresight.
Now comes the income tax;
but instead of Mr. Carnegie contributing
on tiie income of those two-hundred
million-dollar bonds, the government
will have to look to the United
States Steel Corporation, says the
Popular Magazine.
The old ironmaster uses the same
methods in his present vocation of
giving away money as he did in the
early days of accumulation. He makes
sure that each contribution is going to
serve a proper cause, whether it bo
$10 or $10,000,000.
Some time ago a delegation from
a small church in a Pennsylvania
town, where Carnegie once lived,
called upon the philanthropist.
"Mr. Carnegie." said the chairmnn,
"we have come to ask your help In
the purchase of a pipe organ. We need
it badly, and knowing that you once
attended our church, thought possibly
you would be interested."
"How much do you want?" asked
Carnegie.
"Well," answered the chairman, "wo
have figured on $20,000."
"Go back and raise $10,000 and I'll
talk with you," commanded the old
fellow.
A moftth or so later the delegation
returned and with a twinkle in his
eye. the chairman explained that the
$10,000 was in hand.
"Wall" " *
oniu v arnegie, "tnat'8
enough for any organ. I'll not contribute
a cent."
How to Test Water.
Every one knows and admits the nocesslty
for puro water. When you are
away from home, and are not sure of
tho character of the water supply. It
would not be a bad idea to make a
few simplo tests. The results may
prove that It was decidedly worth
whilo to take the trouble, says the
New York Sun. Here are two testa
that you can malon very easily:
Fill a tumbler with water, drop in
a lump of white sugar, cover it with
a saucer, and let .it stand over night
on the bricks at the side of the range,
on tho kitchen mantelpiece, or. in fact,
anywhere where the temperature will
not sink below 60 degrees. If next
morning the contents are clear, the
water is pure. If, on the other hand,
the liquid is cloudy, some source of
contamination is indisputably proved.
The second test Is to drop a few
grains of permanganate of potash into
a tumbler of water, cover, and let It
stand for an hour. If the water is still
of the bright rosy color to which the
chemical'turned it, it is perfectly safe
for dripking; if it is of a brownish
color. It is impure, although the imnuritv
mav h<* ' >? bl?1 "
. , , - - ?- luc niliu IIIU1 UU1Iing
w^ll rob of Its power to harm.?
Youths Companion.
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Cost of Radium.
Testimony belore congressional
committees Is apt to consist of hall
truths, even when given by persona
who know, as witness many statements
in tariff hearings of former
days. In the radium matter Joseph
M. Flannery of Pittsburgh, knows a
good deal, and whether or not"ho told
all he knows, his remarks were interesting.
He said thai his company had
spent in three years $6."?0,000 to pro
duce two grams of radium. This cost
$480,000, he estimated, and brought in
$240,000. In April, he said, the comDanV
wnnlll ho ni-Ailnoi""
. "no Kiiini a
month "There is enough radium ore
in Colorado to supply the world live
times over," remarked Mr. Flannery
"Only 200 grams are Seeded for th?
whole 1'nlted Stales. ' I will undertake
to deliver to the ^government in
five years from January 1, 1915, 200
grams of radium at a maximum price
of $N0,000 a gram."?Kngineering Jour
nal.
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HANDJCAPPED.
Tins is the Case \Vitl. >lnny Lnnraster
People.
Too many Lancaster citizens arc
handicapped with bad backs. The
unceasing pain causes constant misery,
making work a burden and |
stooping or Mftfng an impossibility.
The back aehfts at night, preventing
refreshing res\ and in the morning
is stiff and laike. Plasters and lini
ments may glie relief but cannot
reach the cause if the kidneys are I
weak. To eliminate the pains and
aches of kidney backache you must i
cure the kidneys.
Loan's Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys?thousands testify to their
merit. Can you doubt Lancaster I
evidence? j
Wiilllam Carnes, farmer, It. P. I). ;
No. 8. Lancaster, says: "My kidneys
were disordered and my back
pained me. The kidney secretions
were too frequent in passage and
caused a burning sensation. My
rest at night was broken and I bad j
!o get up four or live times. Loan's I
Kidney ills gave me great relief."
Price 50c at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy?'
get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same <
that Mr. Cames had. Poster-Mil- J
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THE LANCASTER NEWS
BEYOND LIMIT OF PATIENCE
Bridget Had Become Annoyed at Constant
Importunities of Borrowing
Neighbor.
Bridget was annoyed. That was
plain. There was fire in her eye, and
one instinctively had a fear dishes
might be hurled at a moment's notice.
"Why. Bridget!" exclaimed her mistress,
"what is the matter?"
"Matter enough," muttered Bridget,
"I can't beat her game, mum, and
I've Jist rackled thim brains of mine
till me head feels like a carpet
stretcher had been run over it. It
ain't no use. and her returnin' the last
scuttle of coal half dust! Shure she's
borrowed everything In the house
from the fryin' pan to the bed sheets.
and?"
"Well, what Is It this time? Nothing
to get so annoyed about, 1 hope. You
must not bo rude to the neighbors,
you know, and besides what harm
does it do anyway?"
"Shure, mum, it keeps me from gettin'
me work done?that's what It
I does. It's 'Plaze, Ilridget. wilf yez
let me have a cup of lard?' and no
sooner do 1 get the lard over the winder
sill, than it's 'And plaze will yez
lind me the gridiron,' and thin, 'Plaze
something else,' till 1 jist can't do
anothei thing for waiting on her. Now
it's plaze will 1 lind her the broom
and me wanting to sweep meself. No.
mum. I plaze will not lind her the
broom and I told her so."
"Why, Hridget, what excuse could
you possibly make for not lending her
the broom?"
"Shure, mum, I jist told her that
yez had made It a rule not to let the
oroom go out of the house, and if sho
wanted to use It she would have to
use it here?shure I couldn't be afther
being delayed wid me cleaning any
longer."
Statesman's Private Bottle.
In the office of a great statesman at
Washington there entered a large
man with a largo thirst and^a nervous
disposition:
"Give me a drink,*' cried the large
person in husky tones as ho clutched
the lintel of tho doorwajr. "I famish."
Jhe great statesman drew out a
bottle on which was J^.jikbel "Carmine
Red Ink."
"I am serious." said tho large person.
"1 had a bud night and I must
have a drink or I'll fail in a faint."
"Drink some of that," said tho
kh-ui siuiesman.
"Don't trifle with me; I am serious.
I must have liquor."
"That's the best in Washington,"
said the statesman, pointing to the
red ink.
The nervous person went muttering
down the corridor and the statesman
poured out a little of the "red ink"
for himself. It was really very fine,
very old Kentucky whisky.
"I keep It in a red ink bottle to
allay suspicion." he said, as he tossed
ofT a beaker full.
Scientific Swindler.
Oh, yes?there are new ways ol
fooling us being devised every day.
And some of us are being Just as easily
fooled as were our ancestors, in
spite of all the knowledge we have
packed into our heads. Sometimes
we are snared by-the scientific swin*
aier. At other times we snare the
scientific swindler?just to preserve
the balance of things. Only the other
day Samuel Spitz was telling persons
in Oakland, Cal., that he had invented
or discovered a machine whereby ho
could throw on a glass disc at night
the image of anything out of doors
within a five-mile radius. He offered
"stock" in this "wireless spectroscope"
concern at low figures. Some
boobs bought it, too. Hut iconoclastic
persons investigated They found at
a "test" that a panorama film was
being hidden in the machine and
worked off on them. Now they pro
pose to prosecute tjjp "ir.ventor."
What does all this amount to? Well?
the fellow.'wlth the "show mo" mental
attitude isn't wholly a nuisance, is he?
?Detroit Free i*ress.
Wireless for Miners.
An invention has been brought to
light which will serve considerably to
minimize the dangers to which every
day the large number of underground
workers in the kingdom are exposed
.n ?jit?vt-r uerman suDjeci, tlerr J. II.
Reinecko of Westphalia, has invented
a system of wireless telegraphy for
uso in mines. The system has been
adopted ut Dinning ton main colliery
in Yorkshire, where instruments have
been fixed at two points and conversations
have'been carried on with the
same ease as is the case with ordinary
telephones. There is a portablo
instrument adapted for use in the cage
while ascending and descending the
shaft, and so a gleans of communication
with those tjbove ground in time
of disaster has been established. By i ,
this m? ?n? rescue work will be consid- .
erably facilitated, for entombed miners
?,t 11 1 t _ J! * *
win uo iu uireci commumcaiion witn
the pit hcah, thus being able to call
for assistan^ and give directions as J
to their whereabouts and the best
mean* of reaching them.?London Tit- ,
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A Fixed Habit.
A dispatch to The Record from
New York says Governor Blease In
an interview', there "attacked" Sen- I
ator Smith a|id President Wilson. I 1
Seems to be >a habit so confirmed
with the governor that he can't quit ! i
when there is no possible object to
be gained by it.?Columbia Record, j
Many a man hasn't half a chance i
after acquiring a better half. <
, SKPTKMBKK 29, 1914.
COULD DO WITHOUT JOHNNY
Daddy's Sober Reflection Resulted in
Restoration of Cherub to His
Mother's Arms.
A Washington lawyer had a call recently
from a woman In distress. The
hubby. It seems, was given to the flowing
bowl and spending more on his
good times than In the upkeep of his
home, so the wife sought the attorney
with a view of relief in this unhappy
state of affairs.
"I must get some legal protection,"
she moaned. "I left Mr. Jones (which
wasn't his name) three months ago
and took Johnny with me, but I am
afraid he will take the child just for
pite. He has threatened to, often. I
don't like to go to the courts, but I
am In daily terror lest he take Johnny
before 1 have established my solo
legal right to him." (Business of copious
weeps by distressed woman.)
Now the attorney was a man who
knew a man's nature. "I think the
best thing in the world would be to
let him have Johnny." he remarked
with a smile. "Just let the child go
along with the father the next time
Jones gets gay trying to frighten you,
and 1 bet a dollar he Is home at daybreak
the next morning."
So after much talk the lawyer persuaded
Mrs. Jones to call her hubby's
bluff the next time he came around
making Uome howl. In a few days
Jones, half full, called and though the
mother pretended to put up a weeping
protest, she let the boy go with his
father. That night she did not sleep
a wink.
By nine the next morning the bell
rang, the door opened and Johnny
came bouncing into his mother's arms.
The trick had worked. Just as the lawyer
knew it would.
.ioner. uonraed at a place where he
had to meet about fifteen men and
women every evening at dinner and
when he brought Johnny in to the
fable the hoy began to cry for "mamma."
The sterner Jones was. the
more Niagara-like the flow of tears
Then men at table glowered at Jones,
the women expressed in loud whispers
their opinion of a brute of a man who
would he cruel enough to steal a baby
boy from his loving mother's arms and
the landlady told him in plain terms
that she would not stand for such
scenes at table or such homesickness
around her house.
Nobody spoke to Jones after dinner
in the parlor and when he bore the
crying boy to bed he heard sundry hot
and uncomplimentary remarkB following
his embarrassed footsteps up the
stairs. It took a pound of chocolate
candy. Ave "funny papers" and two
ice cream sodas to quiet his sorrow.
Day did not break soon enough for
Jones. He managed to pull through a
frosty reception at breakfast, then
started for his wife's rooms.
Thirty Years' WIII Suit.
The death of Mr ? *
..... vuaau i/a?rj OK
Wheal Duller, near Hedruth, England,
reopena a litigation which has been
going on at intervals of over thirty
years.
Nearly 35 years ago his uncle, Capt.
John Davey. died at sea. leaving a will
by which he bequeathed ?200 a year
to Mr Richard Davey and the bulk of
his estate, valued at more than $300.000,
to Richard Davey's unborn eldest
son. Richard Davey being then unmarried.
Mr. Richard Davey married, but never
had any children, and for 21 years
the estate remained invested at interest.
at the end of which time it
amounted to about ?90,000. Various
attempts were made by ('apt. John
Davey's six sisters to break the will,
and at the end of 21 years the court
allowed the next-of-kin to benefit to
some extent from the income of the
estate.
Captain Davey's will provided for
his estate to go to charity in the event
of his nenhew hnvini. nn ?
. own, IIUI another
attempt will be made to have it
declared void.
Corollaries.
Hilary K Adair, the prominent west
ern detective, said somewhat despondently
as ho boarded a train In Lincoln:
"Yes. I have failed here. 1 am leaving
this fine town of Lincoln defeated
I suppose I haven't attended properly
to my corollaries.
"In detecting, you know, everything
depends on your corollaries. Every
fact, that is to say. has its corollaries,
or interlacing facts, and it's the detective
who works out his corollaries best
who best succeeds.
"An example of a corollary? Well,
let's see. H-m! Here you are:
"When you behold a young it?an at
midnight hurrying down a deserted
street with a melted collar in 7.ero
weather, the corollary to that is that
a pretty girl is tiptoeing upstairs in a
...... i'j iKiiinn in wie uarK, Willi her
Bhoes under her arm and her hair all
rumpled."
Her Reason.
Boston Transcript.
MistresR?Why did you place the
alarm clock beside the pan of
lough, Mary?
Mary?So It would know what
time to rise, mum.
Johnny in Bad Company.
Exchange.
Mother?"Johnny, stop using such
dreadful language!"
Johnny?"Well, mother, Shakespeare
uses It.'*
Mother?"Then don't play with
him; he's no fit companion for you."
The poorer the Roll the better the
crop of wild oats.
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Treasured Secret of the War Department
of the United States Seems
to Be Rendered Valueless
by This Publicity.
News that will be of intereBt to all
army men was received here In a copy ^
of l^a Gazette de Hollande. The Gazette,
which la published at. The |
Hague, has discovered a secret long
cherished In the war department?
the use of bees as messengers.
No longer will the aid-de-camp spur
his Btaggering horse through shot and
shell to carry the message to the
front. Instead he will don his gloves
and mask and, going to the portable
bee hive back of headquarters, seize
one of the faithful littlo insects and
send the well-trained messenger
through the air.
"Whoever possesses a receiving out- ,
fit can read the secrets of the wireless,"
says La Gazette do Hollande;
"one can cut the wires of the ordinary
telegraph; the pigeon does not
always escape the bullet. Therefore
other mfns have been searched for.
In Am> :a the general staff dreams
of using, as a dispatch bearer, the bee.
"The bee, like the homing pigeon,
gnided by his marvelous instinct, returns
to the hive from wherever he
may be liberated. Tiny dispatches,
which can be deciphered with the
magnifying glass, can be attached to
Its breast.
"Hut something better still lias been
found. Hy an ingenious process the
wings of the tiny insect are sensitized
and by means of microscopic photography
the message is imprinted on
the wing, doing awa;r with extra
weight."
"And there you are," says Ha O.azette
do Hoilande, "liny aeroplanes of
war."
The secret is out, but all is not lost.
i.a uazeue do Hollands liaa not discovered
the wonderful process by
which to dlspoae of the fireflies that an
up-to-date enemy would send to ruin
the sensitized wings of the trained
boos.
The details of course can not be, divulged.
Suffice it tcjsay that as soon
as an eneray'a firefly reached the dark
hive where the b?*hs are waiting to
have their wings photographed Its
presence 1b made known by the action
of the metal selenium, which Is sensitive
to light, and the the alarm Is
given to a corps of trained dragon
files, who speedily make away with
the intruder.?New York Herald.
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Buy from Tliow in Need.
To bo offective, the people who
buy cotton In tho buy-a-abale moveI
nient should buy <-otton only from
i those who are In need of cash with
which to pay for picking, ginning
and baling their cotton and to buy
the necessities of life, and not from
those who are themselves able to
hold their cotton. The object of the
movement should be to prevent the
I market from being glutted and the
consequent slump in the price of
cotton.?Orangeburg Tiroes and
Democrat.
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HUT/3LC ANIMAL HAG PERMANENT
PLACE IN HICTORY.
Prejudice AgainGt Him on Account
of His Mistaken Sense of Humcr
Is Fcrgo'.tcn When There I*
a Load to Be "Toted." )|
The mule family escutcheon has the
bar sinister across it, but he has
nevertheless occupied a secure position
in society since liiblical times,
and nobody knows how much longer.
In the biographical dictionaries his
personal achievements may not be
mentioned but he is entrenched in
the Encyclopedia Uritannica between
Gorardus Johannes Mulder, a great
Dutch chemist, and Elisha Mulford, an
eminent Episcopal minister and
philosopher.
That is saying a good deal for an
animal of modest pretensions who is
popularly believed to cherish a.
heartier regard for the Afro-American
than for others in this part of the
v.orld, and is said never to give his
entire confidence to the white man
as an associate.
In war the mule plays with high
credit the role of Kipling's Gunga Din
He is bullyragged. He is blasphemed.
He is belabored. Hut he is always on ^
hanrl urhnn hapHpH mwl la ulu'iiVH
needed. In peace he is sportive.
His humor Is sometimes mistaken
for spitefulness when he kicks a well
meaning farmer into a protracted sojourn
at a hospital or sends his soul
sky-winding into the hereafter with
his body not far behind. Hut when
it comes to pulling a load, uphill or on
the level, subsisting upon a limited
menu, and starving the veterinarian,
he puts it all over his handsomer and
more aristocratic cousin, the horse.
Wherever the footing meets the requirements
of an able bodied goat the
mule can go and is willing to "tote
his load." His hide is tough and
weather proof, and his expectancy of
life is higher than that of a thoroughbred.
Electricity relieved the mule of the
task of pulling street cars. Inventive
genius has provided an electrio substitute
for him on the tow-path along
the Panama canal. The treadmill Is
now Used chinftv nn n. flmirn nf unrorli
Where the lay of the land Is right
more or less plowing ia done by
tractors. w
But there is still plenty of work for
the mule to do. It is his proud distinction
to cost nearly as much as a
small motor car. He was perhaps
seven thousand years old when the
motor car was Invented. He is built
on the original model. He has the
same tendency to backfire that made
it a risky business to start him when
Alexander set out to cross the Indus,
whep. Tamerlane crossed the Ganges,
when Hannibal crossed the Alps,
when Charles Martel double crossed
the Moors, when Washington crossed
the Delaware and when the farmer
boy tried to cross a swollen creek In
the last freshet.
Although he is sometimes Infernal,
the mule is eternal.?Louisville Courier-Journal.
Few men 'recognize good luck
when they meet It.