Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, December 02, 1915, Image 6
KEEPER RESCUED BY IEAP
Animal Attacked Mate When the Lai
ter Tried to Pounce on Man
Who Was Helpless*
Tim, a big polar bear in the Central
park menagerie at New York,
4ave<l the life of Tim Coyle, a keej>er
for whom he was named. Coyle
had drained the tank in the outdoor
cage occupied by Tim and Molly,
his raate.'to repair a drain pipe. He
was in the bottom of the tank when
Molly sprang down from the rocke
and leaped into the tank to attack
Coyle.
Since his eubhood days Tim had
been the particular pet of Coyle. He
watched Mollv, and when he saw his
mate ubout to attack the keeper he
sprang from a crag, landed in the
tank and fastened his teeth in Molly's
throat. The hears fought in the
tank, giving Covin time to escape
from thp r>ficr/>
' "O1-1
I?il I Snyder and his assistant
keeper? had to pry the bears apart
with sharp-pointed irons. Mollv's
throat was eat and both had wounds
from teeth, hut Tim hnd saved Tim
Covle.
SNAKE NESTS IN CEILING
Strange Noises Explained When the
Reptile Thrusts Its Head Through
Bored Hole.
A blacksnnke found its way to the
coiling between the plaster and roof
at the home of Clifford Fliteraft,
near Daretown, and had made its
home there Cor a long time. The
family had heard peculiar noises,
hut thought they were made bv rats
or mice. While repairs were being
made to the coiling a hole was cut
and tin; snake poked its head
through.
It was dispatched and was found
to measure 5"i inches, tic longest
ever seen in this section. The supposition
is that the reptile crawled
up from the ground between the
trout her board* and planter.?Salem
( X. J.T"Dispatch to Atlantic City
Review.
SCALE IN WATER JACKET.
Often in the "gyp" w?tcr region,
or in any region where the water is
hard and contain.* a pood deal of
suspended matter, scale will rapidly
collect in the cylinder head, exhaustvalve
jackets and small piping of a
gasoline engine.
Commercial muriatic acid in it*
undiluted strength can he put in the
part of the water jacket where the
scale has formed and let stand from
four to six hours. The cylinder outlets
should he separated from the
rest of the cooling system by plugging
them up. If the engine is hopper
cooled, no such preparation is
necessary. After allowing the spent
acid to flow into the container and
he thrown where it will do n<* damage.
wash out the water jacket thoroughly
with a strong stream of
? ater.
Keep the acid off any material
about the engine that may he dam
aged by if. Keep if awav from the
oment foundation of an engine if
if has one.? -Renry L. Thomson.
Department of Farm Engineering,
Oklahoma A. and M. College, Stillwater.
BEFORE HIS TIME.
"That was a good story you told. |
hut it. seems to me that 1 have heard j
it before," said the man who easts a;
damper on everything.
"Maybe you have." answered the
raconteur, slightly irritated. "The j
tir?t and only original funny story |
was told bv Adam to Eve in the Oar-!
den of Eden, and 1 didn't happen tobe
there."
THE HARDER BATTLE.
"After a man has made a million i
1 presume he can lake it easy."
"Xo. After a man has made a
million he has to light harder than
ever to hang on to it."
THEIR ppnoco oi */?c
"My dear. these are regular scrub j
plants."
"All right: I'll give them to the
floor cleaner."
DEFINED.
"1*0, what's a symposium?"
"It's a sort of meeting, mv boy.
so calleil because a lot of simps usually
pose at 'em."
UP TO WRONG EAR8.
"Is Jo'.ies up to his ears in debt?" ,
"Wowe?it has come to other
people's eara> too."
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I HORSEHAIR USEO IN RUSSIA]
] Is Employed in the Manufacture of a
Great Variety of Articles Used
j In Commerce.
Horsehair is used in Uussia for
making a great variety of articles, an
exchange says. Brushes are marie
from it. the rnanes being kept for
soft brushes. White horsehair is considered
the most valuable for this
purpose, and black the second best.
The long hair of horses' tails is utilized
for fishing taekle, violin bows,
military headdress and cloth for
pressing oil. Shorter hair is used
for stuffing mattresses and fwniinre,
after having been cleaned with
soap and water. The value of horsehair
varies greatly, according to
grade. On the Petrograd market
one pood (3fi.ll pounds) of unprepared
horsehair (gray manes) may
he purchased ?t six to eight rubles
/CPO PA A- _ ^A *
I \0n.o\i ro tii.iu per iimi ponlids),
while long horsehair manes fetch a
price of $10? per 100 pound" and
even more. The prices paid for Russian
horsehair abroad are much
! higher.
THESE WOMEN
iff
Ilenpeck?May I ask. my dear,
what you are scolding so about?
Mrs. FT en peck?There now. you've j
driven it completely out of my
head. I wish you wouldn't ask *ueli'
-illv nlli>?;Hnnc
FLOPPING OF THE WORM.
Mrs. Enpcck?The paper '
that Doctor Pillshury and Miss
Golding arc to !>c married this evening.
Vou know 1 was engaged t<; j
him before I inet vou.
Enpcck?Yes, I know. Anyway ;
the doctor is to be congratulated.
Mrs. Knpeck ? Why, 1 wasn't
aware that you knew Miss Golding. t
Knpeck?I don'*.
HIS APOLOGY.
Rifkius?I have been told that
vou called me a flannel-mouthed old
duffer.
Mifkins ? Someone has beer
stringing you. I hope 1 have toe
much sense to use such highly improper
language as that. Flannel
shrinks, you know, and that is mon
than I could truthfully sav of voui
mouth.
HOW, INDEED.
"Did you see anything of a strm
pii; along the road?" asked tin
farmer of an Irishman who wat
passing.
"Begorry," rejoined the son ol
Erin, "an' how would Oi he afthei
knowin' a sthray pig from any othei
! P'K ?"
PER80NAL TRIUMPH.
! "Was the suffragette rally a sue eess
?"
"It was so far as Mrs. Seadsor
was concerned."
J "What did she do?"
"Nothing. But she was the bestdressed
woman there."
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SORRY HE SPOKE.
He (during family quarrel)?J
suppose some idiot proposed to you
before I did.
She?No, when you did.?Host or
Transcript.
THE SPECIES.
"Do you l>elieve there ran he
germs in osculation?"
"Certainly; germs of alTeotion."?
Baltimore American.
APTLY DEFINED.
"Pa, what is an echo?"
"An echo, my son, is the only
thing that can cheat a woman out of
the last word."
HER VERSION.
Kniotor?Did your wife Mow yon 1
?p?
fieokwr?3he aft/a I atnadt * .
TURNING ATTENTION TO WAR
Inventors Are Flooding the Depa -tment
at Washington With Every
Kind and Form of Suggestion.
The number of suggestions and
propositions which are being received
at the war and navy departments
from inventor-* is increasing
to a prodigious extent, attaining
such proportions that the ordinary
facilities for handling such matters
are proving utterly inadequate, the
Army and Navy Register statca.
Formerly the war department received
an average of two hundred of
these communieations a year; now
I Km- OI?A A 1 ' A A
? uir Kiniiug in ui mar rare per
week, with a variety and range of
subject corresponding to the nnmer- |
ieal product. It has become a serious
problem how these inventions
shall he treated in a way which shall
not give occasion for complaint, the
impression prevailing, evidently,
that on account of Secretary Daniels'
inventions board some new assurance
exists for the favorable consideration
or adoption of all sorts of
inventions. Indeed, a large part of
the communications that are being
received are impatient protests
against the delay in aciion or remonstrances
against the failure to accept
suggestions. One correspondent
calls attention to his discovery
that there is being produced in this
country for use in the army a shell
similar to that which he "invented"
three years ago. The complainant
"videntlv believes that he has been
robbed of the fruits of his ingenuity,
although, of course, the explanation
is that the man invented something
which was already in service.
MANY MEN. MANY MINDS.
Ideas of "solid comfort"' vary. A
pipe and a jug and n fishpole is a
suggestive combination in the mind
of manv a man: a hook of verses underneath
a hough, etc.. was the
poet's dream (though, to be sure,'
there was a jug in that vision, too).;
Rut le? your mind grasp this paragraph
from ihe Manchester (England)
Guardian.
"The wants of the men in the
trenches are curious and varied, but
this request from a university youth
at the front is a queer combination
of the intellectual and the practical:
'Could you post me each week
The Spectator and a small tin of
insect powder?"'
It takes so few creature comforts
to make a man contented! exclaims
the Cleveland l'iain Dealer. One
pictures this educated young soldier
waiting eagerly for each week's mail,
seizing his precious packages with
trembling, anticipatory glee, and.
wicn ins powder tin in one ham! and
liis magazine in the other, running
to his cozv little nook for an hour
of mental and physical bliss!
_ - - .
LIGHT OF LAST RESORT.
"Miss Soreleaf says young Jack
Dibble proposed to her last night."
"Let nie see," mused Miss Outturn.
"They went motoring, did they
no; ?"
"Why, yes."
"I thought so. When a woman's
features will no longer l?ear close inspection
in daylight, or in the glare
of electric light, she can still bewitch
some foolish l>oy bv the light of the
moon."
FEWER LETTERS.
"I think I'll call my lunchroom1
'The Massachusetts.' How much will
those handsome enamel letters cost?" !
"Six dollars per letter."
Tm. guess I'll name it 'The;
Ohio.'" ? Louisville Courier-Jour- \
nal.
i,
THE NEEDY, GREEDY ONES.
Irate Father?It's astonishing,
Richard, how much money you need.
Son?I don't need it, father. It's
the hotel keepers, the tailors and the .
toxical* men.? Boston Transcript.
HAS MUCH PRACTICE.
"The dentist should make a godd
soldier."
"Why so?"
"He's drilling all the time."
THOROUGH JOB.
"What's the cause of all the dis- '
order here?"
"Ma's cleaning up and she's '
cleaned pa out."
1
HIS STATE.
__ ;
"Your pot frog does not seem to
like my attentions, my little fellow "
"Ha don't, sir; Wa hoppi^ |
AND JOHNNY STILL WONDERS
i -Information That He Sought to Obtain
I From Hia Father Was Not
Forthcoming.
The head of the family, with
his beloved briar-root pipe and hia
! 'favorite magazine, had settled back
,in the rocker for a quiet., comfortable
evening.
On the other side of an interven;ing
table wa9 the miniature counterpart
of himself, the wrinkling of
,whose eight-year-old forehead indicated
that he waa mentally wrestling
with some perplexing problem. After
a while he looked toward his comfort-loving
parent, and with a hopeless
inflection naked:
j; "Pa."
"Yes, my son."
; "Can the J.ord make everything?"
?xr a
, -1 es, my dov."
: "Even'thing ?"
! "There is nothing, my son, that
he cannot do."
! "Papa, could he make a clock that
would strike less than one?"
| "Now, .Tohnnv, go right upstairs
to your ma, and don't stop down
here to annoy me when T'xn reading."
Johnnv went and wondered still.
[?Chicago ledger.
HIS IDEA
Mrs. Ivnagg?Do you regard marrisige
as a lot ten*?
Mr. Knagg?They should be in ,
the same class. Lotteries are prohibited
by law.
HARD TO HIT.
"I'm prepared to have my character
blackened in u good cause,",
said the candidate.
"Hear! Hear!" shouted one of ,
his stanch supporters.
"Yes. my friends, I expect a great
deal of mud to he thrown in my direction."
"Don't worry about that," cried
a man in the renr of the hall. "They
won't be uble to hit you. Nol>ody
knows where you stand in this race." i
TABLE TALK.
i
"Did you ever drink any of those
substitutes for coffee?" asked the,
hushhouse landlady of her star
boarder. !
"Let me sen/' lie mused, "how
long have I boarded with you?"
"Xearlv seven years," she replied.
"But what has that got to do with
it?"
"Well," be explained, "ycAi ought
to know that T haven't drunk anything
else during that period."
OUT OF THE QUESTION.
"Daughter, you don't tarry yourself
well. Throw your shoulders back,
hold up your head and spurn the
earth with your feet."
"That's just like you, pa. Always
inconsistent."
"What do you mean ?"
"How can I spurn the earth with
liny feet when you won't allow me to
wear French heels?"
BLISSFUL OBLIVION.
"We are going on an automobile
tour for our honeymoon."
"Better take somebody with you."
"We'll have a chauffeur, of
course."
"That's good. You'll need somebody
to tell you when a tire's punctured.
when your car gets stuck in |
the mud and when other accidents ;
happen that you will probably be too
busy to notice."
THE CONTRARY WAY.
"Is the club going to hare a 'shutin'
branch?"
"I believe that is still an open
question."
ACCOUNTING FOR IT.
"Miss Pretty Face is so sincere;
she is a girl who rings true."
"No wonder, when ibe'a *uch %'
fine kind of ball*."
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