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§LS I AFRICA
Known English
Tells of Trip.
Gaunt Rode 700 Miles In
ujrv ; ; Through Tropical Coun
o k Woman
Where White
W f n "; Before.
Never Had Been
After traveling 1,500 miles
Xmwa S Africa, in a a hammock- large por
tropical being through
* . her journey white woman has
where no
’ before, Miss Mary Gaunt,
f known authoress, has book re- of
London to write a
to
iences. “SeTday she narrated Is pleasant some of
She a
resoluto lady.
been ail along the gold
: m the western to
8 be said, "from
intern borders. 1 also visited
( tbe German territory) and
in the northwest province ol
the back of beyond, where no
yhjte woman has gone,
ether, 1 have been away eight
Sow I want to go to Timbuc
L | must write my book first
jshantl 1 created quite a sensa
jione of the natives had ever
t white woman before.
■I turned out with guns and
Jem off, and they Crowds beat deliclous- to
toni-toms. came
,t me.
‘dashed' me (gave me) sheep
dickens and eggs—some of
tere hoary with age—and
Ions. That meant, of course,
ad to 'dash' them, which cost
ill the time 1 was In tropical
laever felt the heat so much
hie done since I came home,
y.four degrees in the shade
hottest my thermometer regls
tat It was very humid, and
rusts and rots, Including
clothes.
liay 18 1 lost my medicine
uy boots, knives and forks, and
all I possessed.
happened on a 360-ton bar
in the mouth of the Volta
The surf was so bad that it
the bulwarks, the boats, the
the galley, and the water *rose
engine room flush with the
We thought we were going
The waves were mountainous,
the only passenger, and a
too, so 1 did not say 1 was
I said to the captain:
It magnificent, isn’t it?’
iilcent!’ he said. 'Good
; we can’t stand any more of
are going down! ’
He blacks, crew and all, ran
leek, crying and wailing. The
, a German, stuck to his post,
poping about amongst scald
He said:
ihlnk It finish, but 1 may as
li out" this way as another.'
»me through all right. In the
tit his face was scalded. He
’mail.
taveled 700 miles in a ham
ill over the gold coast, carried
four at a time,
hfgomeda my carriers were
to go any further because of
~er from the Krobo Hill. The
used to come down and catch
sacrifice them to their blood
Augotneda 1 heard a leopard
a "d I wanted to get on. We
®and found a bright, moonlit
tee 1 thought we would camp,
7 said: ‘Oh, no; bad place!’
Ion.
st hand was a gloomy em
which they said was the
L™' The 7 clapped their hands
ned to make noises like a very
company.
hlack clerk riding by on a bl
ad disappeared there. The
.
c ome down with pronged
Tjth .J. which Declt they and seize their
* W11 to carry them
torture them.
“there I went to Laboiabo,
l.. e ,® teep Evet0 mountains and
7 1 “ German colony, where
UenoJ’ 617 600<1 ‘ 1116 Ensllsa
°* Ma JoHty.
ia ! 7° n Datents U ry have been is
. serve ’ m ° Bt of whIch
4 no other - Purpose than to
, lrv
■- dre “'*
s »lth the Cynic.
SjresV! 6 !lke you money; when you
If fou , lose ’ may rlBk some ;
It, folk will still be
“ ave Plenty to
spare.
imber and Cheap Prices. £
carrying as large a lot of®
as was ever before placed on»
Market and at prices to suit the m
’$e. *
j^erials teest quality. consist of If every thing contemplating in the builders building, line get and our o ^
you are g
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BERLIN IS VERY QUIET CITY
Needless Noises Are Wl6ely
•y Suppressed and
In Kaiser’s Capital,
Mrs. Rice Finds.
Remn.-’-Noise^ Germany” has
“aao Z L r' 1 '? New i “ lpr Vork. “ 5 '"“ president °' »” Mrs.
Unnecessary thTthe^dVaXTS
ouier things
re a " 6Cessary evil on railroads
has method’ h 6 ” ^ by ,he
Ge ™“
A couple of years ago, In
quence of the kaiser’s conse
ing by night habit of travel
and his dislike of being
disturbed, orders were Issue! that Ger
Accidents AoHd ! r ° adS on German Sh ° Uld n0t railroads USe whlB tles.
rare w hl]e , are ®
ties n Belgium( where
are screeching continually, theU they
are trennent The same ,s in
In Germany ten minutes before the
train starts the officials tell the
sengers to take their pas¬
1 seats. There is
^ a “ d when U 18 t^e. a whis¬
tie tle like like a boatswain’s is sounded
the train starts. and
Mrs. Rice would like
to see the same system introduced In¬
to the United States.
Mrs. Rice has been devoting special
attention to automobile horns. They
are as great a nuisance abroad she
says, don hotel as at at home. While In a’Lon¬
ing a busy hour in the even¬
she counted 488 whistles in 15
minutes, and during a comparatively
Quite time 656 In half an hour
“In Paris,” she says, “our
chauffeur own
sounded the horn 55 times
in less than three minutes, and it
in quiet was
a street.
“I noticed in passing through the
streets of Paris that scarecely a win¬
dow was open. People cannot sleep
with open windows on account of the
noise.
I am happy to say that several so¬
cieties for the suppression of noises
are successful In Europe. They have
even Induced hotel people to post
signs reading, “Kindly keep quiet.”
THEATER ON WHEELS CLOSED
Balky Traction Engine Caused Paris
Manager to Abandon His Pet Pro¬
ject-Will Try It Again.
Paris.—One of the most Interesting
theatrical experiments of late years,
the Theater Ambulant Gemler, or the
Gemier Traveling Theater, is about to
come to an end in its present form,
and the company is going into liquida¬
tion.
Mr. Gemler, the enterprising actor
manager of the concern, formerly of
the Comedie Francaise, states that
although, from the point of view of
the receipts, averaging $600 a day,
the new venture has been a complete
success, it is impossible to continue
the present method of tugging the
heavy theater, scenery, properties,
dressing room, caravans, lighting
plant, etc., along the roads by means
of a traction engine, which, when
working properly gets up a speed of
three miles an hour, and at other
times, falls into ditches, dashes down
hills Into churchyards and otherwise
complicates matters.
The founder, therefore, thought It
best to go into voluntary liquidation;
but he has not the smallest Idea of
giving up this portable theater. He
will still take it around the country,
putting it up In town after town as
he arrives; but henceforward all the
vans will be transported by rail In a
special train. —*
M. Gemier seems to have had noth¬
ing but trouble ever since he started.
Another setback was that at a number
of towns booked he was unable to give
performances owing to the dear-food
riots.
ARCTIC VOLCANO IS RAGING
Explorers Find the Pavlof Shooting
Fire Thousands of Feet in Air—
Spread Out Like Tree.
Seattle, Wash. Mount Pavlof, the
volcanic peak in the Aleutian islands,
was active during the summer, accord¬
ing to advices brought by the bark
Gug C. Goss.
Owing to the vigor of Bogosiof,
Shishaldin and Pavlof, all famous
Aleutian volcanoes, during 1909, sev¬
eral expeditions were sent out to pho¬
tograph them, but the weather in 1911
was so foggy it was dangerous to ap¬
proach the volcanic islands.
On the way north, the Goss ob¬
served Pavlof sending a column of
smoke thousands of feet into the air.
This column spread out Into branches
like the li mbs of a huge tre e.
Builds Hopes on Sand.
He that waits upon fortune is never
sure of a dinner.—Benjamin Franklin.
the COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1911
1 WOOED BY WIRELESS
Bashful Swain Who Could Not
Muster Courage Is Aided.
Indianapolis Business Man, in Love
With French Girl, Carries on
Courtship by Telegraph
and Wins the Lass.
New York.-The wireless as an aid
to bashful swains who cannot muster
courage to tell their love in their
fiweetiiearts presence stepped in to
accomplish a marriage solemnized in
New York the other day.
A Trench girl, Miss Marguerite Cas
taign, a daughter of Colonel Jean Cas
taign, was the heroine of the Jules
V era like romance that the wedding
disclosed. James Guy Haugh, an In¬
dianapolis manufacturer, was the
hero. The various scenes are laid in
France and America and on three
liners tljat crossed the Atlantic at
various times this summer. And
neither the cable, which runs far be¬
neath the surface of the ocean, nor
the ether above the water was with¬
out its share in conveying the mes¬
sages of love which Anally brought
the two together.
Haugh met Mile. Castalgn on ship¬
board last June. He was attracted
to the charming young woman, and
she in her turn appeared to regard
the American with favor. Arrived in
France Haugh managed to make the
acquaintance of Colonel Castaign, the
young woman’s father. He visited the
Castaigns several times, and his ac¬
quaintance with the daughter grew.
1 he time came for his return to
America, but he could not summon
sufficient courage to ask the fateful
question so soon after he had first
met her. They parted. The time
when he might return to France was
indefinite.
Mr. Haugh, after a restless period,
decided he could wait no longer. He
approached the wireless operator of
the vessel, and a few moments later
a message for Miss Castalgn was
flashing into the ether from the mast¬
head of the retreating steamship. It
said, in the language of dots and
dashes of the telegraph code:
“I love you. Will you marry me?"
After more restless days the liner
reached New Y’ork. There wa 3 a ca¬
blegram waiting for Mr. Haugh.
“I certainly will,” it said.
The cables between America and
France hummed with other rapid-fire
correspondence between the two. Mr.
Haugh was unable to return to
France to get his fiancee, and so she
agreed to come to him. The other
morning he met the French Line
steamer La Bretagne, and Miss Cas¬
taign landed and that afternoon she
became Mrs. Haugh.
FROG EATING FOR G0RMANDS
French Taste, With Art Trimmings,
Extending to England—Various
Ways of Cooking Delicacy.
London.—The taste for frogs has
spread to some parts of England. In
Cambridgeshire and Norloik house¬
wives occasionally serve them up
whole, fried in breadcrumbs. But this
is not the right way to treat them.
On the continent only the hindquar¬
ters are eaten, either grilled and ac¬
companied with bacon, or served in
an omelette. Frog and bacon sounds
a repugnant dish to British ears, but
those who have tried it generally ad¬
mit that it is as good, if not better,
than veai and bacon. Another delicacy
of the same order is frog pie. This
is sometimes a most expensive dish.
Not long ago, at a dinner given at
Monte Carlo, to celebrate a phenom¬
enal run of luck, among the Items on
the menu was a huge frog pie for
which the host paid 600 francs. In
this case, however, truffles were mixed
with the frogs, and they helped to
swell the cost.
Francis Hindes Groome, in his "Two
Suffolk Friends,” tells of a friend of
his youth who seems to have carried
his passion for frogs to excess. “In
summer time he loved to catch small
‘freshers’ (young frogs) and let them
hop down his throat, when he would
stroke his stomach, observing (for he
stuttered badly), ‘B-b-b-b-eautifully
cool.’ ” At the time of this strange
diet he was a middle-aged man, yet it
did not appear to hurt him in any
way.
SKY ROCKETS IN A ROMANCE
Man Writes Note on Piece of Fire¬
works, Girl Finds It and Wedding
Is Natural Result.
St. Louis.—A skyrocket romance
that originated in St Louis a little
more than a year ago led to the mar¬
riage in Ashland, Ore., of George
Mold, Jr., of Alton and Miss Sophia
Bindell. Mold, while working In a
fireworks factory in St. Louis, filled
an order consigned to George Bindell
of Artesian, N. M., formerly of Alton.
On a rocket he wrote: “The girl who
finds this will be the girl who will
me—George Mold, St Louis.
Miss Bindell unpacked the fireworks,
found the rockets, answered the note
and the wedding followed.
Take Pictures From Balloons.
Paris.—The rooms of the French
Aero club at Paris tell of what has
been done tn the way o. photograph¬
ing from balloons, a hundred or more
curious pictures of Paris taken from
great heights adorning the walls. A
new room will soon be given over to
photographs taken from aeroplanes.
THESE TURTLES CAN’T SLEEP
Too Much Food Gives Them Insomnia
or Some Other Fashionable Dis¬
ease—Fast Is Advocated.
- «
Los Angeles, Cal.—Six turtles in the
chamber of commerce exhibit hall are
suffering from insomnia or some oth¬
er fashionable ailment. The creatures
doze for seven months at a stretch in
their native habitat in the desert, but
here they seem unable to obtain sleep.
The custodian tried every method
of inducing slumber. He draped old
bags over the turtles’ box and tried
shutting them up in a dark closet.
becretary Wiggins was appealed to
to find some method of bringing re¬
lief to the sleepless eyes of the six
turtles.
I think they have been overfed,”
said the secretary, “and would advise
a prolonged fast Dyspepsia often
causes sleeplessness. Maybe that’s
the trouble with the turtles. Anyhow,
I can t see but what they look pretty
lively.”
They ought to be lying down nice
and quiet,” said the attendant. “In¬
stead of that they waddle to the edge
of their pen whenever visitors come
near. They want fresh lettuce, and
water every five minutes. These tur¬
tles didn t get much green food when
they lived in the desert.”
Two turtles were brought to the
chamber of commerce about ten years
ago. Since then others have been add¬
ed to the collection. For some time
they would eat only once In two
months. Now they are hungry all the
time and refuse to sleep at all. When
one goes out on the little outdoor
porch of their quarters they sidle up
to the fence and draw out a foot of
neck to gaze at the visitors and see
if any fresh feed has been thrown In.
1 hey like apple parings, oranges,
grapes and lettuce.
SERUM TAKEN FROM ROOSTER
Dr. Kyes of Chicago, Reports on Ob¬
taining Antibodies Preparation
With Aid of Chanticleer.
New York.—Serum with a protec¬
tive action against pneumonia when
inoculated into certain animals has
been perfected by Dr. Preston Kyes,
of Chicago, who contributes an article
on the experiments he has made to
the current number of the Journal of
the American Medical association.
Most of the studies which have
been made regarding the germ of
pneumonia have been made upon ani¬
mals which are very susceptible, and
Dr. Kyes has selected what he be¬
lieves are the most insusceptible of
creatures availahJe—barnyard fowls.
One of the most elaborate experiments
has for its subject a White Leghorn
rooster weighing almost five pounds.
The preparation obtained from a hum¬
an lung involved with acute lobar
pneumonia.
Dr. Kyes believes that it Is possible
by the inoculation of fowls with ex¬
treme doses of pneumococci to obtain
a serum of specific antibodies and pos¬
sessing distinct protective action
against pneumococci within certain
hosts. He shows by a series of tables
and reports that the immune serum
which he made did not in any case
fail to show a protective influence
against the disease.
FOG HORNS ROAR OUT TUNES
One Is to Be Set Up on the California
Coast and Can Be Heard for
Distance of 12 Miles.
San Francisco.—The time when a
ship will be welcomed twelve miles
out to sea by national airs, popular
tunes and, perhaps, eventually phono¬
graphic records bellowed from gigan¬
tic fog horns, seems not far distant.
Pleased with the tuneful tooting of
electric automobile horns, Lleut.-Com.
William A. Moffatt, lighthouse inspec¬
tor of the sixteenth district, made in¬
quiries as to the possibility of making
a similar horn for lighthouse service
to replace the dismal blare of the fog
horns now in use. He learned that
one could be made which would be
heard at the Farrallone islands, 23
miles out at sea. As a sample, how¬
ever, he decided to order one with a
12-mile range. It will be Installed im¬
mediately on Blunt’s point, Angel
island.
HORNETS OWNED THE STREET
Yellowjackets In Oregon Town Roused
by Boys Take Full Possession of
Side of Thoroughfare.
Hood River; Ore.—Yellowjackets in
a crevice beneath the boardwalk at
the west end of cascade avenue were
aroused by small boys the other morn
ing and took complete possession of
the north side of the street. Pedes¬
trians were forced to take the oppo¬
site sidewalk, and even then wander¬
ing yellowjackets. found several vic¬
tims.
Marshal Lewis was stung on the
nose by a vindictive hornet. The
marshal returned to town, obtained a
beeman’s mask, gloves and other
safeguards, matches and sulphur, pre¬
pared for battle. The fire was applied
and most of the yellowjackets were
killed. A few escaped, and were so
violent in their attacks that the crowd
that had collected was unable to get
close enough to extinguish the fire
that was burning the sidewalk.
Seed Crop Nets $30,000.
Halleck, Minn.—A. L. Briggs the
other day sold a wagon of timothy
seed from this year’s crop for $850.
Briggs, who is a retired merchant,
coming here from Colorado two years
ago, has Just finished harvesting 700
acres of timothy, which will net him
approximately $30,000.
PAGE SEVEN
New Racket Store
Spot Cash! One Price! BIG VALUES!
New goods of season arriving
every few days, many new
lines added more to follow.
Yours Very Truly
J. J. GUINN
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