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2 BRAINY PAUPERS. Brilliant Inventors Who Reaped Pitiful Rewards. DIED IN POVERTY AND WANT. Some Men of Genius Who Were Doom ed to End Their Dsys In Obscurity, While Their Fruitful Ideas Madd Millions and Fame For Others. Now and again a man Is born whose brain fairly.- bubbles with inventive genius. New ideas stream from him, and all branches of science are mas tered with hardly an effort. Soch was Frederic William Martino,' one of those many brilliant Italians yrho left their native land to seei fortune in a foreign country. Martino came to England, and his same is most familiar from the Martini-Henry rifle, the breechblock of "Which was one of his numerous in ventions. It is an irony of fate that Martino's aoame should go down to posterity solely through a warlike invention nrhich he himself thought little of :when his greatest work was done in "the cause of peace, for Martino was "the discoverer of the process for con certing basic slag into manure, a dis covery which has put millions into the pockets of German manufacturers, but from which he himself, it Is stated, never reaped a penny. The fluted rib for umbrellas, a new process for the extraction of nickel from Its ore, a new development of platinoid. Immensely important in " electric work and a brilliant Inven tion for the reduction of gold ore, these are only a few of Martino's dis coveries. And yet he was bo lacking 3n business capacity that In spite of Jlis extraordinary output of valuable Ideas he died at Glasgow in 1903 a comparatively poor and obscure man, while dozens of others have been made richer by his genius. In 1860 the chemist Lenoir patented a motor driven by an explosive mix ture of air and gas. He used electric Ignition obtained from a battery and - jRuhmkorflf coil, actuating a sparking plug very similar to that in use in the modern motor. The system of valves lay means of which the suction of the. piston drew in the charge of gas for the next explosion was also designed try Lenoir. In 1862 he actually produced a car which, if crude, was similar in all re spects to that in use today, save that lie employed coal gas instead of petroL nd . this he actually drove himself through the streets of Paris. Yet for reasons similar to those which caused the failure of Martino he never received the reward of his gen-v Ins, and it was left for Daimler, nearly thirty years later, to produce the first of. the practicable autocars. Lenoir died in 1900, poor and un known. Three years later, in 1903, the life of George Shergold came to an end in Crloueester workhouse. Shergold, orig inally a shoemaker, was the inventor of the safety bicycle. He built a ma chine of this order in the year 1876, "the front wheel of which was twenty seven inches and the rear wheel some thirty-one inches in diameter." In 1900, when it first became gener ally known that the man whose inven tion had made millions for others was as poor as when he had cobbled shoes, l public subscription was raised, and lor some time an allowance of 5 shil lings a week was made to Shergold. But the funds became exhausted, and poor Shergold ended his life in the workhouse. How many people have ever even ieard of Scheele? Yet this poor Swed ish chemist was perhaps the greatest discoverer of facts that the world has ver known. We always hear In England that Iriestley was the discoverer of oxy jgen. Yet Scheele made this most im portant of all chemical discoveries si jnultaneously with Priestley. And it ?was Scheele who discovered chlorine gas. Chlorine is perhaps the most Important of all gases in commercial -chemistry. It is the great bleacher "that gives us white linen or white straw hats. It is also' the best disin fectant known. 1 It is essential to the manufacture of the great pain killer, chloroform, and it is used extensively :f or the extraction of gold from its ores. Chlorine's value to the world has 7een incalculable, yet Scheele, the man who discovered it, lived hungry and 4iied a pauper. Professor Gore died a comparatively poor man, yet Gore was the inventor ff the modern safety match, of the method of electrodeposition commonly known as electroplating and of many other processes which have put mil 3ions into the pockets of manufactur ers. Gore's book, "Electrometallurgy," published in 1870, is still a standard work on the subject. London An swers. Value of Cinders. A few years ago great heaps of cin ders piled up. often being dumped into low places where new earth was need led. Manufacturing concerns were glad to get rid of the accumulations. But aiow the cinders are in great demand ior use in the foundation for cement and concrete work. They form a per fect drainage material, and it has been iound that frost acts very lightly on them. Furthermore, concrete work in which cinders are used is said to be of extreme durability. When cinders are ground and mixed with cement the mass becomes very hard. The road to success is as easy as the ioad to ruin. Benjamin Franklin. Married Women's Names. In England and in tne United States a woman loses her identity in mar riage. In Belgium and Spain the hus band adds the name of his wife to his own. In the United States women sometimes retain the family name, as Mrs. Harriet (Beecher) Stowe. In the Channel islands the woman never loses her maiden name. In Spain the children write the names of both parents, as Llarena y Monteverde. In "Don Quixote" is the following: "Casajo'was my father's name, and I, for being the wife of Sancho Panza, am called Teresa Panza, but by good right they ought to call me Teresa Casajo." In Scotland both names are preserved, and the rroman is always known by her maiden name. In "Wales it is the custom to describe the woman by her maiden name. The fact that a, woman on becoming the wife of a man loses her identity is apparent in many portions of the Bible, when under the ancient custom man. on taking a wife, declared that she be came "flesh of my flesh and blood of my blood. thereby establishing the old time saying that man and wife are one. Richmond Times-Dispatch. Tyranny of the Tip. There have always been those who have revolted against the tyranny of the tip. So long ago as October. 1795, we find that ubiquitous personage, 'Constant Reader." venting his griev ances in the columns of the London Times. "If a man who has a horse puts up at an Inn." he complains, "be sides the usual bill he must at least give Is. to the waiter, 6L to the cham bermaid, 6d. to the hostler and 6d. to the jackboot, making together 2s. Gd, At breakfast you must give at least 6d between the waiter and hostler. If the traveler only puts up to have a refreshment, besides paying for hi3 horses' standing he must give 3d. to the hostler; at dinner Gd. to the waiter and 3d. to the hostler; at tea Gd. between them; so that he gives away in the day 2s. Gd.. which, added to the 2s. Gd. for the night, makes 5s. per day on an average to the servants." They did the thing pretty thoroughly in those days. A Millionaire. The term "millionaire" is of inter national use. but it does not mean the same thing in the mouths of different nations. To every one it means the possession of a million, but not neces sarily a million dollars. In Great Britain a millionaire has a million pounds, or nearly $5,000,000, while in France they count francs, so that there a millionaire is a compara tively poor individual with but 200, 000 to bleps himself with. Million aires are quite common in Prussia, but a million marks don't mean much these days, amounting to a trifle of $250,000 in our money. For mil lionaires of real class it is necessary to go back to old Babylon. The Baby lonian millionaire had 1,000,000 talents and would not be regarded as a poor man even by a Wall street office boy. A talent was about $2000, and a mil lion of them would be $2,000,000,000. I A Triple Play. It was at the end of the ninth in ning. Yet, though the home team was two runs to the good, things looked black for them. The visitors were at bat. There were no outs, and three men were on bases;' also Terrible Terry TomkiDS was up, and Terry's batting average reached the clouds. Terry hunched his shoulders and waited confidently, and a groan went up from tth- bleachers. The ball flew in three pieces, and the pieces flew in three directions. One was caught by the pitcher, one was pulled out of the air by the shortstop, and one landed in the first baseman's mitt. A triple play! The game was the home team's. The bleachers went wild. Philadel phia Times. Breaking It Gently. "I have called, sir, to see the photo of the lady with $25,000 who wants a husband." "Can you keep your face straight?" "Of course I can." "Very welL We'll break you in first with the $5,000 applicants, and then gradually, as you grow stronger, we will work you up to the big prize. This way, please, and don't get frightened.'- Exchange. ! - Dinner Among the Romans. The Romans in the time of Cicero and Augustus took an early breakfast, from 3 to 4 in the morning; a luncheon at 12 or 1, and at about 3 o'clock the coena. or principal meal of the day. corresponding with our dinner. Con currently we read of some not dining until sunset Early Morning Talks. He is always doing something -that causes a lot of talk." "Why, I never beard any of it" "He is the only one who hears it He is always staying out at night later than his wife wishes him to." Hous ton Post A Scheme. Youthful Inquirer Father, what is a scheme? Perplexed Parent I can't ex actly define it my boy, but it is some thing whjch will fall through quicker than anything else on earth. Coming. ; First Graduate 1 hear that you've got a job on the road. Second Ditto Yes; it hasn't reached me yet. Ex change. Happiness in this world," when it comes, comes incidentally. Hawthorne. . II! Timed Humor. Dr. Frederick Van Eeden. the Dutch physician and author, always kept in sight the injustice of fate that sub jects the poor to tortures from which the rich are exempt He told the fol lowing bitter little anecdote, which occurred during his student days in Amsterdam: Once a poor man was brought in affected with a very strange and rare disease of the spine that caused him, by involuntary spasms of the legs, to jump and to continue hopping when he tried to stand on his legs. Our pro fessor wanted to show this .to his stu dents, and he requested the patient to stand on his feet The poor man looked at the crowd around and said with a pathetic, imploring look: "If the gentlemen will please not laugh." The professor promised they would be serious. And yet when the man began to hop the "gentlemen" roared. And 1 felt the tears come to my eyes and my fists close in my pockets. World's Work. A Greenland Duel. It is rather a pity for the gayety of nations that French men of letters cannot fight their duels as duels are fought in Greenland, in Greenland when one man has been Insulted by another the adversaries each compose a satire in verse. This each man re cites to his household until the serv ants and the women know it by heart Then a place of meeting is ap pointed, ""he two men, the insulter and insulted, the offender and offended, stand face to face, and each recites his poem. His friends and servants form a chorus. Each man tries hard to raise the laugh against his adversary. Each man speaks in turn, whipping the enemy with epigram and quip, and after two hours of this wordy battle the meeting gives the victory to him of the two adversaries who has amused the whole assembly most. Colored His Sermons. 'A minister has got to be alive and resourceful today," said a deacon of a big metropolitan church. "Ours finds be can't speak well extemporaneously, and he reads from a typewritten copy. I never knew bow he managed to preach so effectively until one day I happened to see his manuscript Half of it was underlined in different colors. It looked so curious that I asked him about it " 'A little scheme of mine,' be said laughingly. I found I was delivering what I had written in the same tone. So now, early on Sunday morning. I go over the copy I carry Into the pul pit I keep crayon pencils of six differ ent colors on my desk. Red means one tone, green yet another, yellow and blue yet others. As I turn each page I see at a glance just how I am to speak.' "New York Sun. ' ' ' js - Secret Societies Secret societies are so ancient that their origin is lost in the mists of the past They existed in Egypt Persia. India, at the earliest times with which history or legend gives us any Insight It seems to be natural for men to organize such societies for both good and evil purposes. "Nearly all th ancient religions were of a two faced character, popular and secret or, as they are called, "esoteric" and "es oteric," the first for the few. the in itiated, the second for the rank and file. The philosophers would teach one thing to the masses of the people and another to the select few who made up the "inner circle." Cicero tells us thai the wise men of Rome and Greece be lieved quite differently from the com cnon run of Greeks and Romans. A Good Listener. Alfred Henry Lewis, the author, was walking up Pennsylvania avenue one day when he met Louis Brownlow, th magazine writer. "Louis." said Lewis solemnly, 'listen to me for three hours." "Why. whaii the -matter?" asked Brownlow. "Why." said Lewis indignantly. "I've been in this town all day. and every body else has been doing the. talking I do love my little conversation!" Brownlow went to luncheon with him and, after doing a sprint in long distance listening, pulled out his watch with the remark: "Lewis. I've listen ed to you for three hours and nine minutes. Goodby." New York Trib une. Th Genuine Article. "I don't a.now about this picture, Bobby," said the visitor as he ran over specimens of the youngster's camera work. "I am afraid a dog with" a propeller instead of a tail is something of a fake." "That ain't a propeller." said Bobby. "That's his tail. He kept waggin' it while his picture was being tookened." Harper's Weekly. Vulgar. "When ordering champagne some people are not satisfied with the pop of the cork." "Think not?" "No; they think the waiter ought to also sound a gong' Kansas City Jour nal. . Women and Youth. She A woman, you know, is as young as she looks. He Yes. but un fortunately she isn't always as young as she thinks she looks. Exchange. Sarcastic Major Mull The doctor says he thinks I am suffering from brain fag. Miss Cynic Rather a flatterer, isn't he V London ODinion. It is manly to love one's country; It Is godlike to love the world. J. W. Conklin. CERTAIN RESULTS . Many a Oxford Citizen Knows How Sure They Are Nothing uncertain about the work of Doan's Kidney Pills in Oxford. There is plenty of positive proof of this in the testimony of citizens Such evidence should convince the most skeptical doubter. Read the following statement: D. S. Fuller, Broad St., Oxford, N. C, says: kenw that my kid neys were disordered, for the kid ney secretions were unnatural and deposited sediment. I had a dull pain in my back and there were sharp, shooting twinges in my kidneys- I rested poorly and all these troubles caused my health to be come run down. When I heard about Doan's Kidney Pills, I got a supply from the Hamilton Drug Co., and it did not take them long to drive aay my aches and pains. Doan's Kidney Pills are by far the best kidney medicine I ever used." (Statement given in Feb- 1903.) RE-EXDORSEMEXT. On December 9, 1910, Mr. Fuller said: "I willingly verify my former statement given in praise of Doan's Kidney Pills. I still believe that this remedy is an effective one in curing kidney trouble." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents- Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the Uni ted tSates. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. What the Stand Pipe is. One of the latest jokes is credit ed by the Washington Star to Sen ator Curtis of Kansas: A stranger travelnig through the state was surprised to see what he took to be a tall chimney rising above the monotonous level of the prairie. "'What is that-chimney for?" he asked of his guide. 'Is somebody putting up a factory in this lonely quarter." "'No,' was the reply. That's just Joe Miller's well. Cyclone turned her inside out." NORMANDY NUGGETS. Stones That Find Their Way Into the Mouths of Many People. It is a far cry from "the lonely stretches of the wave kissed shore" to false teeth, but by unexpected paths we often descend abruptly from the sublime to the utilitarian. Many a man calmly chewing an indestrucible steak in America little dreams that the picturesque coast of Normandy has been sacrificed to provide him with molars. Such is the painful fact how ever. If you walk along the southern shore of the English channel between Dieppe and Havre you will see men and boys searching -for, stones of a certain size and shape from a varied collection of rocks which form the beach. These are put into sacks and shipped to America, where they are converted into porcelain. The industry for such is the term used to designate this invigorating oc cupation has grown to considerable proportions in the past few years. Its simplicity is perhaps its greatest charm. Having once learned the kind of stone you are looking for, all that is required of you is to pick it up. If you do this steadily and uncom plainingly for several hours you will be sure to fill a sack. Then all you have to do is to fling It jauntily over your shoulder, run across the bowlders to the superintendent and demand 1 franc. With this wealth in your pocket you can then sit down and look dreamily over the water while you allow your imagination full play. You seem to see the stones after a long voyage across the Atlantic being slowly rescued from their rude state. Bit by bit they are dragged from their primi tive nothingness up to the heights o'f twentieth century porcelain. They are then shaped, polished, amounted on a gold pivot but why go into it? It i? too painful. Minneapolis Bellman. Riddle of Gravitation. Nearly 250 years ago one of the great est intellects connected with science turned his attention to gravitation. In that . 250 years physical science has made rapid advances. A boy who has completed a year's work in elementary physics could entertain Newton in elec tricity were it possible for the great philosopher to return to earth. After learning of the great progress in elec tricity I can imagine him in his eager desire for knowledge turning to the boy and expecting some light on gravi tation. Alas, not only the high school boy, but. not even the most learned, can give any definite information on gravitation. The problem is about where Newton left it. Popular Science Monthly. Deserted at the End. William the Conqueror was a man of very gross habit of body and at the siege of Mantes was hurt by the rear ing of his horse, the pommel of the saddle striking the king in the abdo men and causing injuries from which he died In a few days. Before his death he was deserted by all his at tendants, who stole and carried off even the coverings of the bed on which he lay. The body remained on the floor of the room in which the king died for two days before it was buried by char itable monks from a neighboring, mon astery. - --' A Vague Impression. What is your idea of the character of Lady Macbeth?" "Really," replied Mrs. Cumrox, "there is so much gossip about people con nected with the stage that one scarce ly knows what to believe." Washing ton Star. Valor consists in the power of self recovery. Emerson. IMAGINATION IN BUSINESS. A Fresh .Application of it Now Go 'ing on In the Periodical Trade. Woman's Home Companion, . Imagination, as applied in busi ness, foresees what the public needs and then makes a profit by furnish ing it An interesting new case is shown in general development now going cn in the periodical business. In the past, readers of periodicals have obtained , their copies in. one of two ways - either by mail through a-yearly subscription, or by purchase at a news-stand. The yearly 'subscription method is a per manent institution, accommodating both to publishers and to a large class of customers. The new move ment that is taking place is towad the development of the news-stand trade Many news-stand dealers will now take your order for a periodical and deliver it to your house each month In this manner the customer is saved the trouble of going to the stand and carrying his periodical home. The system tends to induce the customer to buy more periodi cals and to buy them more regular ly than does the accidental purcha ser who drifts from one news-stand to another and in stormy weather stays away entirely. The general results are extension of business and stability. Newspapers of course develop ed the delivery of their product to the individual customer years ago, but dealers in periodicals have not generally done so. 'An occasiona dealer may have accommodated an occasional customer by delivering his periodicals, but the movement has never become general as it now bids fair to become. NO HOPE FOR IDA LEWIS. Has Been Keeper of Lime Rock Light 44 Years. Newport, R. I. Ida Lewis, who many daring rescues as keeper of the Lime Rock light, in Narragan sett Bay, has earned for her the title of the "Grace Daring or Amer ica," was still unconscious tonight as a result of the stroke of appo plexy she suffered yesterday while at her post of duty. ' Miss Lewis i3 72 years old, and for 60 years she has been at the Lime Rock light. In 1867 she was appointed keeper of the light by special act of - Congress, to succeed her father upon his death. She is the only woman, it is said, ever to receive that honor. " The attending physician says that while she may live for another day she cannot recover- Nowadays women may have an individual bank account something that no woman should be without. We have provided a Lady's Department, which will make it easy for our feminine patrons to maintain that which is so necessary to independence money in the bank. & Trust Company. H. G. COOPER, B. S. R0YSTER, W. T. YANCEY, President. HOW OLD PEOPLE May Prolong Their Lives At an advanced age waste is morel rapid than repair. The organs act more slowly and less effectually than in youth. The circulation is poor, tfie blood thin and watery, the appetite poor and digestion weak. We want to say to every aged per son in this vicinity that Vinol, our de licious cod liver and iron tonic (with out oil), will prolong life. It creates an appetite, aids digestion and makes good blood. In this natural manner Vinol retards waste and replaces weakness with strength, giving new; life to the worn system. If people in this vicinity only real ized how Vinol Invigorates old people we would not be able to supply the demand. Try a bottle of Vinol with the un derstanding that your money will be returned if it does not- help you. Hamilton Drug Co., Oxford, N. C. A. A. HICKS. T. G. STEM. Hicks &. Stenn, Attorneys af Law, OXFORD, - - N. C. Assccaite Counsel, T. T. HICKS, Henderson, N. C. Prompt attention given to all bus ness intrusted to our care. "Please wrap up all my purchases said the grouchy customer '"Why, I've done so," replied the grocer i "Beg pardon, but you haven't," retorted the grouchy customer. "What have I left undone . up?" "That thumb of yours you weigh ed with the butter, also the one) you weighed with the meat. Wrap them up, I want them for dog meat Mack's Monthly. Home Treatment tor Tuberculosis Consumptive patients need no longer dread either the fate that formerly over took all sufferers from lung trouble, or costly and often terribly inconvenient journeys far from home to other climates or to some expensive sanatorium. Hun dreds are now staying quietly at home curing themselves at no expense beyond the cost of a few bottle of medicine. Here is one who speaks from experience: 220 S. 4th St., Colwyn (Darby), Pa. "Gentlemen: For four years I was troubled with cough, which gradually be came worse; I had night sweats and pains in my chest. I was losing my appetite and had become so thin and weak I could not attend to my household duties. A physician pronounced my case Consump tion. Not being satisfied. I was exam , ined by the physicians of the Polyclinic Hospital; they also pronounced the dis ease Consumption, which was proven later by an examination of sputum, as Tuberculosis Bacilli was found. I was ordered to a Consumptive Hospital. My nephew would not allow me to go until I had tried Eckman's Alterative. Be fore I had taken the medicine three weeks I had marked relief, night sweats ceased; pain In the breast relieved; cough be came loose and easy; fever left me and I commenced getting well. My health became normal. I am In excellent health now and have been completely cured for ten years. I strongly recommend it." (Signed) (MRS.) MARY WASSON. Eckman's Alterative is effective in Bron chitis, Asthma, Hay Fever; Throat and Lung Troubles, and in upbuilding the system. Does not contain poisons, opiates or habit-forming drugs. Ask for booklet of cured cases and write to Eckman Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pa., for move evi dence. For sale by all leading druggists and- J. G. HAIit, Oxford. N. C. Vice-President. Sec-Treas.
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