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EATING LESS.
[Believing Amerlcnns suffer from
overeating, Mr. Do Cunha of Now
Jersey would limit by statute the
amount of food a person may swal
low at a meal.]
I ordered up a sirloin rare,
With mushrooms on the side—
It waB the finest form of fare
That ever 1 had tried—
When, lo, a man In brass and blue
Said, "You must cut that steak In
two,
And just one-half of it must do
Or Into jail you'll sUdo."
When on a sultry summer night
The youth and maiden fair
Would eat all the Ice cream In Bight
Upon the hill of fare
The watcher says, with Iron will,
"Not one more spoonful of vanlll',
Because, according to the bill,
You’ve Had your legal share."
O diners at the annual feed
Of Gotham's Old Guard troop.
What torture’s of stomachlo need
You’d suffer In a group
If as you gulped the oysters raw
The toastman rose, held up a paw
And groaned, "It's specified by law
We finish with the soupl"
All Sorts of Pranks Can Be Played
With It Under Certain Conditions.
Hudson River and Its Mud Acted as
Cushion For Railway Tubes, but Air
Did Not Prevent Broken Windows.
W. Scott Sims, one of the most dis
tinguished experts in high expletives
In the world, Inventor of the Sims dy
namite gun, the Sims wireless torpedo,
the Slms-Edison dirigible torpedo and
many other methods of putting high
explosives to use, believes the recent
$1,000,000 explosion nt Communipnw,
on the New Jersey shore opposite New
York city, in which thirty-four were
killed and hundreds injured, occurred
because some of the dynamite on the
pier was possibly frozen. In this con
dition it is most dangerous, be claims,
explaining it by saying:
“Under ordinary conditions you can
brenk a stick of dynamite in two or
drop it on any surface from even a
great height and nothing will happen.
Fresh dynamite is as safe as safe can
be—except,’’ added the inventor, with
n smile, “when it isn’t Once in awhile
It will go off even under the best con
ditions from some little shock which
ordinarily wouldn’t budge it, but usual
ly new dynamite at a temperature
above freezing is absolutely safe to
handle in every way. Why, I’ve car
ried it around in my pocket, and" so
have all of us who live with explosives.
I have even seen men touch a match
to the end of a sliver of the stuff and
light a cigar with it as it burns.’’
Freezing Causes Danger.
Mr. Sims explains, however, that
freezing makes dynamite most unsta
ble. The best grades, called gelatin,
are composed of about 00 per cent ni
troglycerin, 7 per cent guncotton and
3 per cent camphor. The dynamite ]
on the Communipaw dock, thought
Mr. Sims, was probably of a more
common grade, usually employed for
blasting.
“My idea of the explosion is that the
men who were shifting the boxes from
the car to the ljghter grew a bit care
less perhaps, ns those of us who han
dle, explosives always seem to do. Sev
eral of the boxes of dynamite may
have been frozen, and if that is so a
good jar in sliding one of them down
to the lighter might have set it off.
If the men had already knocked off
.work for the noon hour it might have
been some other thing—a boiler explo
sion on one of the boats perhaps, but
with the frozen dynamite getting the
force of the shock, small as it may
have been.”
“How about the other car of the ex
plosive on the plpr that didn’t blow
up?” he was asked. “Isn’t that pecul
iar?"
“Not at all,” was the inventor’s an
swer. “It is entirely normal and nat
ural. It is very possible that only” a
few sticks of the stuff that did ex
plode were frozen. The other carload,
however, was probably at a normal
temperature, and therefore even the
force of ten or fifteen tons of it going
up at even a little distance away didn’t
disturb it”
“How about the force of a big ex
plosion?" the inventor wns asked.
“Why did the blast break windows all
over Manhattan and still not disturb
any building foundations or
/ E can be found in
our old quarters
in the Farmers Union
[warehouse with larg
est and best line of
It seems a blow at pleasure, this,
Within the banquet hall,
And yet one economic bliss
We see In dinners small.
The beef trust's downfall will be
viewed
If wo offset the price of food
By making of ourselves u brood
Who do not eat at all.
—John O’Keefe In New York
World.
CHIEF’S GRANDDAUGHTER
NOW AN OFFICEHOLDER.
Watched Chippewa Relatives Fight
Unole Sarr!—Now Works For Him.
From a life of hardship and danger
among the Indian tribes of South Da
kota to the position of adjuster of
claims in the office of the Indian af
fairs of the department of the interior
is the unique life history of Mrs. M. L.
Baldwin, granddaughter of a chief of
the Chippewa Indians and relative of
many of the famous Indian warriors
of the west
Until she was fourteen years of age
Mrs. Baldwin slept only in an Indian
tepee or in the open air. Many times
when she was n girl she saw members
of her family shot and scalped and
one of her own brothers tortured.
From the shelter of sand pits she, with
other women and girls of her tribe,
often watched the braves fight In
dians of other tribes and soldiers of
the United States.
Mrs. Baldwin’s mother was a pure
Chippewa Indian and her father a
French Huguenot. Her- grandfather-
formerly lived'at Osseo, N. D. He also
served as scout for rpany excursions
for government troops. He was one
of the most fnmous chiefs of the tribe.
Her father later moved to Minneap
olis, where he wns made a judge ad
vocate. He is now attorney in Wash
ington for the Turtle Mountain band
of the Chippewas. Mrs. Baldwin has
held her present position for five years.
We have ever handled. Our line in these goods
cannot be fexcelled by any make.
Hay, Grain and Feedstuffs.
We are headquarters fr the choicest feed
tuff and are better able to supply your needs
in thi s line than ever. Wn. pvl ces
right too. f
RICHEST SECTION IN COUNTRY
Virginia County Puts Out Boast of
Amounting to Something.
“One county in Virginia—Accomac—
is, I believe, the most prosperous coun
ty in the United States,” declares Wil
liam A. Anderson, former attorney
general of the Old Dominion. “I don’t
menn, of course, to say that it is the
richest, but I do assert that there is
probably no other county in this coun
try, or, for that matter, in the world,
where every man in the county—and
it is a county of 35,000 population-
can within twenty-four hours raise
$100 or more.
“Potatoes have made Accomac coun
ty. Last year the' potato production of
Accomac county was worth more than
$2,000,000. Forty years ago the entire
output of the county was not worth
$500,000.
“Persons may talk about tbe oppor
tunities presented in the western
states, but I tell you that In tbe east
and south MtjSZS- • --■*
Use good fertilizers in planting
reap big crops at harvest time,
have been thoroughly tested in this
have given absolute satisfaction to
chaser. Join the satisfied crowd
vour fertilizers from us.
_ even
shake the tubes under tbe Hudson.
Explosive’s Force Is Great.
“Let me explain,” be answered.
“The force of any explosion is in the
direction of least Resistance. Ah ; ex
plosion on tbe surface of the ground
therefore exerts its greatest force up
into the air, not down. Most^ people
think the force goes down because
they can see the hole in the earth.
What they cannot see* is the far, far
greater hole in the air.
“One can realize what this force la
by remembering that the pressure of
a seventy-five mile an hour wind is
only about two pounds to the inch.
After this air wave comes a practical
vacuum, racing behind it through
apace. This is what gets the windows,
and this vacuum explains why glass
falls out Instead of in. The windows
can stand the first onslaught—in Man
hattan it might have amounted to five
pounds extra to the square inch—but
what they cannot stand is' the sudden
backward snap as the low pressure
follows the first force of the blow.
“The tunnels under the Htidson did
not feel the explosion primarily be
cause its chief force was exerted up
and out into the surrounding air; sec
ondarily, because water itself in great
there are hundreds of
chances that are being overlooked. Do
you know that in Virginia—in Suf
folk—there is the second richest bank
in the United States? I doubt if even
the Chemical National of New York
pays greater dividends than the Suf
folk National of Suffolk, Va. The
shares of the Suffolk today are wocth
nearly $3,000.
“The* development of the peanut in
dustry has been largely responsible
for the prosperity of the country sur
rounding Suffolk.”
Town Improvement Tn Panama.
A dispatch from Panama seems to
mean that we are to have at least two
cases of comprehensive town planning
on this side of the Atlantic. It reads:
“The president of Panama, as an in
cident to a contract just made with
the United States regarding payment
for municipal improvements in Colon
Cranford, Calvary,
R. C. BELL
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
IRA CARLISLE
Associate
General Practice: Office over Post of
fice. Five Year FARM LOANS prompt
ly negotiated at low rate of interest.
CAIRO, GA.
W. J. Willie
GEORGIA—Grady County.
There as rs. Lena Curry, administrix
of W. J. Curry represents to the court in
her petition duly filed and entered on re
cord that she has fully administered W.
J. Currys estate, this therefore is to efte
all persons concerned, kindred and credi
tors, to show causejf any they can, why
said Administratrix should not be dis
charged from her adminstration and re
ceive Letter of dismission on the first
onday in March, 1911. This February
8th, 1911, P. H. Herring.
Ordinary.
Attorney-At-Law
Will practice in all Courts, State and
lederal: Collections a specialty.
Office in L. B. Powell building.
Phone 73. - - CAIRO, GA
arid Panama, has issued a decree mak
ing It unlawful to erect any building
or structure in either city before the
municipal authorities have completely
laid out and mapped the section andi
paved the streets.”
Are our cities to learn lessons from
little Panama? i
Oar experience gives ue advantage o other
We have the beet machinery that experience enn
elect or that money con buy. We will be glad to
figuro with you on theprinting problem. We fee
sure that wo can save you money. We handlo all
kinds of PRINTING. If you need anything
gure with ue, QUALITY ie our motto,
THE PROGRESS, - • Cairo, Ga.
P- C. ANDREWS,
Attorney-at-Law.
CAIRO, GA
Office in Parker Bnilding.
masses 1b a good cushion, and, thirdr
ly, because the tubes must lie under
some fifteen or twenty feet of mud
and slime on the river bottom, which
is tho best sort of a cushion in Itself.”