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Fire Dutchman's
Invention
By DON MARK LEMON
(Copyright.)
HE WAS known as the Fire Dutch
man, a nickname that be had
justly earned by attending every Are
of any consequence that bad occurred
in the city for a period of ten years.
He win n fat little man, who had
taken to heart literally the biblical in
junction, Let thy answer be always
yea and nay, and no more, only he pro
nounced it yah and nine.
But though he was not given to
much speech, the little man had a
laugh that continually welled up from
his heart to his broad felt hat
Years before, when he first began
regulurly to attend every fire of any
consequence, the firemen had sought
to move him along as a nulsnnce, for
he would get as close to the flames as
flesh and blood dare get, while he in
variably brought with him a big brass
horn mounted on bicycle wheels, and
during the progress of the fire he
would blow the horn softly and mu
sically.
But after a time the men grew to
liking him about?his music was sooth
ing and cheering by turift and the su
perstition got to be accredited that
this melody somehow checked the
flumes, and luck whs always with the
firemen while the little Dutchman con
tinued to blow on his great horn.
"Yah," he would *ay; "mooslc lss
goot to but out (ler vire mit! Yah?
nine?" And then his laugh could be
heard bubbling In the notes of the big
bras? horn.
There were certain minds that spec
ulated about this assertion of the little
Dutchman. Perhaps fire could be
checked with music. Fire Is but one
form of energy or activity, and music
has power to soothe and quiet. Could
the Fire Dutchman be an Inventive
genius who was slowly perfecting a
new fire extinguisher?
A certain horn was said to have
blown down a certain wall in biblical
times?might not the Dutchman's horn
blow down a wall of fire?
"Humph I" exclaimed the skeptical.
"He Is only a crazy Dutchman whose
musical bump is excited by heat and
flame."
"Perhaps so, and we will dismiss
the fire-extinguisher theory," conceded
the speculative. "But yet you must
have noticed that there are strange
notes in his playing. May It not be
possible that his horn and not his
brain has chords that are excited by
fire? For Instance, there Is the
aeolinn harp, that the wind makes mu
sic on: May not his horn be a thing
that fire and heat can make music on?
He may not blow Into the horn at all,
but merely seem to, and what we hear
may be music made by the heat en
ergy of the fire affecting some deli
cate Instrument concealed In the horn.
Heat melody, as it were, or fire trans
lated into song."
"Humph!" again exclaimed the i
skeptical. "He's got a little sausage
factory up at his house, and he may
have brains enough to translate man's
best friend Into s^usngest but OQver
fire Into song. Take my advice,
friend, and buy your gasoline at some
other garage."
But whatever the world thought
about liim, nothing seemed to affect
the Fire Dutchman save fire Itself.
That baked him brown and browner,
till he grew to resemble one of his
own smoked sausages. The wonder
was lie kept so fat, with the moisture
toasted out of his body every few
days at some fire, but the spring of
laughter undefiled in his heart mny
have had something to do with the
matter.
The pitcher that goes too oft to
the well is at last broken, and the
little Fire Dutchman who ran ' too
often to fires was at last killed. A
wall toppled on him and his bom at
a great fire one night in a down-town
wholesale district, nnd when they got
to him he was quite dead.
They took him up and bore him
away in his horn. "The little Fire
Dutchman Is dead?in a horn!" the
burly policemen Jested, ashamed to
confess their personal grief at the
sad accident.
After the funeral, which was nt
tended by every fireman who could
get off duty, a gentleman who had
taken n deep interest In the disposal
made of the horn called on the widow
of the little Fire Dutchman and
offered to purchase the sausage shop.
The sum he offered was so consid
erable that the widow turned the
place over to him the following day,
and moved her personal belongings
into other quarters.
Immediately the gentleman went on
a tour of Investigation and found that
all the machinery used In the making
of ?usages on the premises was run
by electric power. But yet there was
np electric plant on the premises, and
no wires leading Into the house. i
Again the gentleman examined th?
"crUbheO horn iliut me ume Ure
Dutchman for a period of 10 years had
carried to every tire of any conse
quence In the city. Ah! could he
rediscover the principle of the deli
cate, broken mechanism concealed in
the horn?
If so, then with capital to back him,
a vast fortune was at his command.
For here was the means of translating
Into electric energy the untold heat
power lost every year beyond recov
ery In the Innumerable fires that
ravage towns and cities, and whlcft,
until the little Fire Dutchman had hit
upon his invention, no man had
thought of utilizing.
The Windmill
Windmills were In use in the re
mote ages and their discovery and first
use is not known, but Titus Llvlus
says when Hannibal crossed the Alps
In 180 B. C. the Carthaginians saw
windmills In the valley below and
there Is legendary Information that
they were brought from the Orient
by the Crusaders. They were well es
tablished In the country around Paris
in the Twelfth century and shortly
after that time were put In use In the
Netherlands. They were known In the
days of Cervantes, who gave them a
place of some distinction in his writ
ings.
Effect of Altitude
The geological survey says that ac
cording to science there Is an alti
tude at which water would not boll;
however, no one has ever reached
that point, as it is about twenty miles
above sea level. While it is not im
possible to boil an egg hard at the
top of Pike's peak, it takes longer to
do It. Water bolls at 212 degrees
Fahrenheit at sea level, but on Pike's
peak It bolls at about 180 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Timet Had Changed
The salesman who had been turned
away several times remarked to the
office boy with fine sarcasm:
"Well, I suppose the boss Is in con
ference again this morning?"
The ofllce boy flipped a paper wad
at the stenographer before he replied:
"No, sir; not in conference. He's
Sworn off golf."
Treasures
Misfortune may whirl our material
treasures from us; sorrow or sickness
may canker them, turn them to ashes
in the mouth. They are not ours; we
hold them upon sufferance. But the
treasures of the intellect, the gift of
being upon nodding terms with truth,
these are treasures that are our im
pregnable own.?A. S. M. Hutchinson.
New England's Great Poem
The one great poem of New England
is her Sunday.?Henry Ward Beecher.
Melanchthon
The original name of I'hillp Me
lanchthofi was Philip Scliwartzered.
He was born in 1497 and died in 1500.
He was a German Reformer. In early
manhood' he was professor of (ireelt
at Wittenberg university, but became
a fellow-worker with Martin Luther.
Qe drew "P th? Augsburg confession,
find muTui^od with cOn?ilhimafe ?kili
' the conference with the opponents of
I the reformed religion held at Worms
! and Ratlsbon. By his skill and wis
; dom he did much to save the Itefor
' mation from excesses. On the death
1 of Luther he became the leaded of
! the Lutherans. His most popular pub
lication was a book that Is regarded
as the first great Protestant work on
theology.
The Objective Mind
Can you bring all your faculties to
the front, like a house with many
faces at the doors and windows; or
do you live retired within yourself,
J shut up In your own meditations?
The thinker puts all the powers of
: his mind In reflection; the observer
puts all the powers of his mind In
perception; every faculty Is directed
j outward; the whole mind sees through
the eye and hears through the ear.
lie has an objective turn of mind as
opposed to a subjective. A person
with the latter turn of mind sees lit
tle. If you are occupied with your
i own thoughts, you tray go through a
' museum of curiosities und observe
' nothing.?John Burroughs.
Boiling Water in Bag .
Uere Is one from Australia on a
' novel way to boll water. The old
! fisherman is speaking: "I left iny
wllllam-can at home one day. The
' prospect of dinner without tea did
not appeal to me. Fishing In the
tucker bag, I found a sound p: ;>er
bag. Making a fire, I propped the
bag, full of water, near It By u?n
j stantly pouring water Into the bag,
| the top of it was prevented from burn
ing. The water boiled, the tea was
' made asd there wag no "prouder man
In all the land than I." Try this some
time when you haven't anything else
to do.
Mouth Organ Really
Old Musical Device
The probable nnocator of the mouth
organ wus the Grtftek syrinx, one of
the most ancj^pt of musical Instru
men t s. It was formed of u number
of short hollow reeds of graduated
lengths, fixed together by wus. The
lower ends were closed and the upper
ones open and on a level, so that the
lips could puss !rom one to another.
The modern mouth organ is the Inven
tion of Christian Messner, of Tros
singen, Wurteniburg, Germany, about
the year 3830. The factory that he
founded still gives employment to
J.000 workers, not counting 3,000 home
workers in the town. Messner got the
Idea after buying a child's trumpet
ut a fair, to place a number of trunj
pets side by side, each giving n dif
ferent sound. lie produced a piece
of wood with breathing holes in it, to
which was fixed a lead plate with
brass tongues.
FronTTrossingen the industry spread
Jo other places in Germany, notably
IClIngenthul in Saxony. During tlio
World war attempts were made by
other countries, such as Japan and
the United States, to guin a footing
in this industry, but Germany soon re
covered her trade. Skilled workers,
cheap production and un old estab
lished Industry give the German fac
tories the advantage.
"Flip-Jacks" Made No
Appeal to This Poet
Taylor, the poet who lived and wrote
early in the Seventeenth century, evi
dently failed to fully appreciate the
Shrove Tuesday pancake, or flip-Jacks.
Dealing with the pancake custom he
wrote: "There is a bell rung, called
'the Pancake liell,' the sound of which
makes thousands of people distracted,
and forgetful either of manners or hu
manity ; and then there is a tiling
called wheaten llour, which tl^e cooks
do mingle with water, eggs, spice, and
other tragical and magical enchant
ments; and then they put it by little
and little into a frying pan of boiling
suet, where it makes a confined dis
mal hissing, like the Letliear snakes in
the reeds of Acheron, Styx, or Plilege
Ohon, until at last, by the skill of
the cook, it Is transformed Into the
form of a flip-Jack, called a pancake,
which, with ominous Incantations, tha
Ignorant people do devour very
greedily."
Japanese Constitution
The constitution of Japan was not
patterned after that \>f any other
country. It was promulgated in 1880
and was formulated by Prince Itor
who, after investigating the constitu
tions of the various nations, modeled
the constitution of Japan largely after
the Prussian. It is divided into 70
wticles and provides for a law-making
body of two chambers, the house of
peers and the house of representatives.
The emperor convokes, opens and
closes the diet, has all executive au?
thority, and all laws are submitted to
him for sanction. '
Rough on the Preacher
The Sunday school girls of a certain
church put flowers in front of the
pulpit ea^h Sunday. *
One vf5s asked by an elderly per
fon what they did with the flowers
after the service.
"Oh, we take them to people who
are sick after the sermon," was the
Innocent reply. j
Odd Entries Into Life
Many babies are born at sea, but it
is doubtful if any entered such a trou
blous world as a German baby girl born
in mid-Atlantic during a recent ter
rible storm. Steerage babies often
provide nn event for passengers to
talk about. A subscription list Is al
ways opened, with the result that the
baby receives a substantial start-off
in life.
The record in strange birthday sur
roundings is surely held by the bnby
boy who wns born 6,000 feet up In
the nlr. His mother was traveling by
ulrplane from Budapest to Naples
when the event took place.
Ocean Area
The oceans of the world have nn
area of about 139,000,000 square
miles and their combined volume Is
about 302,000,000 cubic miles. The
Hvernge depth Is two miles and the
deepest known depth Is five miles. A
gallon of ordinary sea water contains
about one-quarter pound of salt From
a study of the beds of rock salt un
derlying Stra8sfort, Germany, New
York state, Ohio, Michigan and Kan
sas, and Cheshire, England, It Is sap
posed these areas are all drled-up
Inland seas.
Real Sportsmen
On the fishing stream a man Is pa
tience personified. lie waits hours for
a nibble and congratulates himself
when h? finally secures one. Why
can t be be as g6od a sportsman in
his bame or place of business? It
he's a real sportsman he will be.??
Grit