Bluefield evening leader. [volume], September 13, 1910, Page 3, Image 3

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Wednesday.
Seventeenth annual exhibition of
the White Plains, N. Y., Horse Show
Asso<|ation.
Thursday.
Boxing championships of the Met rev
politan Atheletic Union at the Irish
Amerloan Athletic Club.
Tenth annual invitation tournament
for the Philadelphia Cup on the links
of the Philadelphia Country Club.
Friday.
Motor Racing Association begins
twenty-four hour race on the Brigh
ton Beach, I* I., motordrome.
Saturday.
Second annual athletic carnival of
the New York Press Club at Ameri
can League Park. New York.
Motor boat race for $1,000 cash and
$•"'00 cup through the Whirlpool Rap
ids of Niagara Kails.
National balloon race will start from
Indianapolis, the winner to defend
0 America's title in the international
race.
Annual amateur racing tournament
of the Rerkshlre Hunt Club at Lee,
Mass.
Annual bench show of the West
chester Kennel Club at White Plains,
N. Y.
Her Answer.
Ill Inculcating the Idea of truthful
ness h teacher askc«l the question.
"What Is tlto best thing In the world
to do aud sometimes tho hardest?"
A llttlo girl raised her baud timidly.
Hell, my child?” "To get married!”
THE CAMERA OBSCURA.
From It Was Evolved Our Modern Pho
tographic Apparatus.
The camera was invented by an Ital- |
iau named Baptists Porta, though it
was not at first tisi-d for photograph
ing. It was In reality merely h dark |
room. Into which the light was admit
ted through a little round lade in one
side. The rays of light coming from
objis'ts outside <>f this room entertsl it
through this a|**rture and made a pic
ture on the other side of the room
glowing in all the beauty and color of
nature Itself, but rather indistinct ami
upside down.
This dark room was contrived by
Porta about the middle of the sixteenth
century. lie improved it later by
placing a glass lens In tla* Mperture
and outside a mirror whieh received
tin* rays of light and reflected them
through the lens so that the Image
upon the opposite wall within was
mark' much brighter, more distinct
and In a natural or erect position. This
was really the first camera obscura, an
invention which Is enjoyed to the pres
: ent day.
Now our modern photographic cam
era Is merely n small camera obscura
In Its simplest form, currying n lens nt
one end and a ground glass screen at
the other. It Is. however, often much
more complicated in its construction.
Recipe For Longevity.
People live longer In North Carolina
j than anywhere else In the world, chief
ly because they lend the simple life.
‘ drink buttermilk and eat blackberries
fresh in summer and dried lu winter.—
i llnlelgh News mil Observer.
i No Profit In It.
I "What are you kicking about? She
returned all your presents, didn’t she?*’
"Yes. but the expressage amounted
to more than the presents were
worth:”
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Gagadig Gigadab.
Thero was a quaint old umn In Man
chester, England, who for many years
went by the unique name of Gagadig
Gigadab. Ills original name was John
Smith, aud for many years he brooded
over the possibilities of mistaken Iden
tity luvolved In It. The name figured
frequently In crlmlnul records, and ho
became abnormally apprehensive lest
he might l>e confused with some of
the had John Smiths. At last what he
fenred so much actually happened
One morning the papers reported the
arrest of an accouutnnt In a hunk for
embezzlement, aud through some blun
der of the reporter the Identity of the
embezzler was confused with the sul>
Ject of this article, who was also n
bank necouutant. Then and there ue
determined to assume a name like
unto no other ever borne by mortal
man. And in Gagadig Gigadab most
people will ngree that he succeeded In
so doing. —New York Tribune.
Legally Better Off.
Tlie creditors of the ancient king
had become so unpleasantly Insistent
that he resolved to put them where
they could trouble him no more. So
he Invited them to a great banquet,
and when they had feasted and drunk
of his prepared wine he Instructed his
servants to convey them to his deepest
dungeons. And the next morning
when he went down to learn whether
his servants had dnue his bidding his
creditors raised their voices and eu
treuted to be set free. Hut he retnou
| strated with them, saying:
"My friends, you have no Just cause
for complaint. Aro you not better off
In the eye of the law.’ than ever be
fore? Any lawyer will tell you that
a secured creditor has nil exceptional
; cinch." Then ho left them and went
' on his gladsome way. happy In the
knowledge that he could ni last go
through his dominions without being,
dunned.- Chicago News*
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APPALACHIAN
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EXPOSITION
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Greatest Ever Held in the
South!
KNOXVILLE, TENN. m
SEPT 12, OCT. 12, lu
Magnificent and mammoth buildings. More to see and amuse than ever offered
aa Southern Exposition. $10,000 in Purses for Running and Trotting Races. $10,
™ in ^,a,^X^0,t2L,0n b ™ch.ne8 °f Wright Brothers, strobel and other Aerc
ri ®j .. ^ the Air Ships. $25,000 in matchless Fireworks, “Grand Battle of the
otherd'shows ofTofe ^ ° P°mpeiU Mulha,r8 ^ous Wild West and twenty-five
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Greatest Bands in all America
Admission to grounds 50 Cents in Day—after 6 p. m., 25 Cents.
Remember these Special Dates:
Live Stock and Races. Sept 12th to 17th; Night Horse Show.
Sept. 13th, 14th, 15th; Bench Show, Sept. 22d, 23d, 24th; Pig
eon and Pet Stock Show, Sept. 17th to Oct. 1st; Poulsry Show,
Oct. 5th to 12th; Wright Brothers' Airship Days, Sept. 22d to
29th; Strobel 8 Dirigible Baloon, every day, Sept. 12th to Oct.
12th; Pain a I ire Works, every evening, Sept. 12th to Oct
I2rh; Battle of the Clouds, Sept. 19-24; Fall of Pompeii. Sept!
26th-Oct. 1st. w
Special Rates Lvery Day and Remarkably
Low Railroad Rates to Knoxville and Return
SEE THIS GREAT EXPOSITION
W. J. OLIVER, President.
A PUZZLING PINE.
PMuliar Traa That la Something of a
Myetery to Botaniata.
Upper California Is the borne of a
tree that bus puzzled botanists. It la
a pine which will grow only near the
seacoast Ita growth is slow, and It !
doe* not attain to great size.
Tita strange thing about It 1r that I
there nrei, to all opi>earnnces. lnsur- j
mountable difficulties In the way ofl
the perpetuation of the species. Soma*'
specimens of It cxfSit In Kew gardens.
In I*ondou. They have^ecn carefully
examined by OAiinpotem authorities,
and all ndtfm that the tree presents a
problem unlike anything elsewhere
met with. %
This pine produces at regular Inter
vals the usual cones containing seeds;
but, strange to say, the cones are so
thoroughly protected that tin' seeds
cannot be released. The cones are
hard and tightly closed and hnvo
strong overlapping scales.
More extraordinary still la the fact
that the pine, after producing Its al
most Invulnerable cones, keeps them
hanging ou Its branches year after
! year. Unless through some peculiar
accident the seeds would apparently
remuln attached to the parent tree for
ever. klany of the cones on the trees
In Kew gardens have been there for
| years, ns Is shown by the slzo of the
branches and the formation of the
bark.
It bus been found that tbo seed ves
sels which this tree so powerfully re
tain are so well protected thnt It re
) willies a strong knife with the assist
ance of a heavy hammer to cut the
: cone Into sections. No ordinary con
ditions of temperature can make a
cone open.
The following Is the only explana
tion yet offered thnt aeeins to have any
degree of pluustblllty: The species
may be perpetuated by Are. One who
has studied the troo asserts that noth
ing hut the Intense heat of h forest
lire could compel the cones to release
their seeds. It bos been found that
under tho Influence of Intense heat
they crack open aiid the seeds full
out uninjured.—Harper’s Weekly.
TURKISH RED TAPE.
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Getting the Kink* Out of • Custom
House Tangle.
In tho fnr cast rules ami restrictions
may be mudo to yield to influence with
, <1 force behind It. as instanced
serlo-effoilo Incident found In,
■ Captain A. B. Townshcnd's book. "A
; Military Consul In Turkey.” A certain
highly Influential foreigner at Adrlnn
ople wanted a Christmas tree and or
dered one from Sofla to come by train,
but when the tree, an unpretentious
little flr about ten feet high, arrived
at Adrlanople station soma one discov
ered that It wns Illegal to receive
“plants” from abroad.
“Yasak" (It la forbidden), said the
custom house.
‘‘Yasak/’ echoed tho sentry on duty.
Tho foreigner said whatever was
the equivalent to ’Tubbfcdi” and de
manded the tree.
Here wna a nice quandary for the
authorities. Evidently It wus a most
fearful thing to recelvo a treo from
nbrond, and yet the consignee wns
cnpnble of getting some ono Into very
serious trouble If he did not get Ids
tree, and he said he must have It with
in forty-eight bourn.
Somo one at tho custom houso soared
above the difficulty. Tho tree was sent
on to Htamboul on tho Orient express,
an eight hours’ Journey. It came back
to Adrlanople by tho next train, and
the person for whom It was Intended
received a notice that “u tree from
Constantinople” had arrived for him
and would at once l*e banded over
i to his messenger.
So the wretched little Bulgarian tree
had becomn a Turkish one, brought
from Constantinople, and by that
moans It satisfied officialdom and serv
ed Us purpose In fhe end.
• Gladiators.
The gladiators were originally male
factor* who fought for their llv.-s or
captives who fought for freedom. They
"ero first exhibited at the funeral i-ere
monles of tho Homans. 203 B. and
afterward at festivals about 213 B. C.
When Dacia wns reduced by Trojan
1-000 gladiator* fought at Horne for 123
days In celebration of his trlnmpli. It
Is said that In the triumphs of Pompey
the Great 10,000 fought through n
series of many days. Them* combats
were suppressed In the east by the
Emperor Constantine about A. D. 32.1
and /n the west by Thoodorlo In A. J>
300.—Now York American.
Mar Protection.
"Why don’t you marry, too?" lie
asked her. npropo# of tho marriage of
her friend.
"I can’t,” sb© answered, "without
committing bigamy. I haven’t my dl
roree yet, you know. Ft'* probably a
good thing, a great protection I might
have married some good for nothing
again If 1 had had It. I am so unfor
lunate In my selections."
"True,” ho said. "You might hare
married me."—New York Press.
Works Lika a Charm.
Hanson—Wonder how It Is that the
Jugglnson* get along so harmoniously.
They never have any quarrels, appnr- 1
ently. Hurt—1The reason Is simple
enough. Jugglnaon always lets Mrs
J. havo tho last word, and sho never
trlea to prevent him from having his
own way.—Hoston Transcript.
Chance For Haroism.
Adorer (anxiously)—What did your
father say? Sweet Olrl-Oh. he got
so angry I was afraid to stay and lis
ten. He’a In a perfectly terrible rage.
Oo In and appeaae him.
A Specialist.
A compositor, on l»elng remonstrated
with for not having properly pnnctn
Jted his work, replied, "I um a setter,
•ot a pointer.^
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Watch THE LEADER for the
announcement of the
Automobile Contest
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Of course, you will want the
Automobile. If not, you will want
to vote for some one who does.
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Conditions o£ Contest will be announced
in a few days.
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“THE MUSIC HALL GIRL.”
Often a production lias nothing to
recommend It cycept the mounting,
Sometimes the play Is the thing. Many
limes talent is wasted on a nerveless
drama or comedy. Seldom do all
threo desirable factors appear in the
same work In equal degrees of worthi
ness. If n choice was made among
these factors as they appear In that
most pleasing farce comedy, "The
Music Hall filrJ,’* It would be hard to
decide, as all three factors have been
made as perfect as a liberal manage
ment can make them. This Jolly lit
tle farce Is written with a pen steep
ed w’lth and acted with a zest by play
ers imbued with a spirit of artistic
merry-making, and will hold the
boards at the Klks Ope ha House to
morrow night, Sept. 13.
An Oversight.
To Imprest* on young children Just
what should nml should not he done
and why Is among the most frying
problems of parents, as evidenced by
the recent ex|H>rlcn<*. of a West Phila
delphia mother. I»ast Sunday she
asked her hiiimII mm, aged eight, to
carry a chair for her from the dining
room to the parlor. lie started off
willingly, but In the hall he tripped
and fell. Amid the crash could |*e
heard th<* hoy giving vent to utterances
that would have done credit to a pirate
of ancient day*. The mother was
taken hy surprise and was greatly
shocked. She gave the hoy a long and
^•rlotiH talk on the subject of pro
fanity. This apparently did not make
the right Impression, for when she con
cluded the Iw.y added to her dlseom
j flfuro by exclaiming. “I am sorry I
| swore, mamma, but I forgot it was
Sunday.”—Philadelphia Uecord.
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A LONG WASH DAY.
La»t#d a Weak, but Cama Only r'our
Timaa a Yaar.
Every one has heard of the Gorman
• ful Dutch method of accumulating
unllod clothes and of having h wash
day only two or three times a year.
Not every one realizes, perhaps that
the custom was brought over to this
country from Holland and that tho
Dutch settlers long continued Its prac
tice. In these days of the ever ready
laundry It Is strnnge to read of tho
Inl orlous period which came to our
New Amsterdam ancestors four times
a year. Helen Evertson Smith tells
about it in “Colonial Days and Ways."
1 he custom of quarterly clothes
washings was maintained notwith
standing our summer heats sad the
Immense quantities of clothes neces
•ary to keep up the state of cleanll
mss required by Dutch Instincts A
New Englander who had married a
' Iflrcri of New York write* in ifflo
of this practice, which was undoubted
ly strange to her:
“Grandmother Blum Is so deep In
her quarterly wash this week that she
has time only to send her love “
The washing was done In an out
house called the hleeekcryen, where
the water was boiled j„ Immense ket
J!cs and all the other processes of tho
laundry work carried on. The work
required not h-ss than n week, fre
quently two weeks.
During the time preceding this cruel
l.v hard lnt*,r the soiled clothes were
accumulating In very large hampers of
open hasketwork. This custom orlgl
Iinfcd the necessity for tho great stores
af linen with which every bride was
provided.
Masculine Music.
'J f*j musical doctor stepped Into the
shop.
His hair stuck out Ilka stiff straws,
and his Joy of life was under his arm;
also two buttons on hln waistcoat were
undone. Ho there was no doubt about
his being a genius.
“Aha, ahem, ahumP* purred the
musical doctor. "H string for a violin,
please.”
'Ihe man behind the counter looked
flustered Ho went to the shelf, took
nff a small packet, examined It care
fully. examined It again and then bos
Itatlngly returned to the customer.
“I beg your pardon, air,” he began
diffidently, “but this 'appena to bo my
first dsy In the shop, and yer might
give mo a little ’elp. The fact la tboso
’ere strings look all alike to me. an’ I
can’t tell the 'es from the thee!”— Lon
don Globa.
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