Pauls Valley Sentinel (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1904 Page: 11 of 16
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CAMPFUBE
•TALES:
You Can Laugh About It Later.
You can laugh about it later,
When the storm has drifted past.
And the lookout sits a-smlling,
Gazing calmly from the mast;
You can laugh about the danger
That has turned the other way.
When you sit within the sunshine
Of a later summer day.
You can laugh about the trouble
That has one time caused you tears!
Half your former heartaches vanish.
Looking backward through the years;
For the mountains seek the valleys
Till a level landscape lies
'Neath tho gleaming, golden sunshine
Of some future summer skies.
You can laugh o'er disappointment!
Of the years of Fortune's frown.
O'er the neavy griefs and failures
That haVe often bowed you down;
For God's blessing is upon you—
Time, life's healing balm, he gave
For the wounds that may beset you
'Twlxt the cradle and the grave.
—Floyd D. Raze, Buffalo, N. D.
summer ot i861. The art of war wai
new to us then, and we believed thai
If any man pointed a cannon Id oui
direction and let drive he was bftcnc
to kill somebody. Imagine our coa
sternation then when the rebs acroai
the river opened on our camp fron
guns high up on vlte precipitous hills
We couldn't understand how they go'
there, and their boldness in erectini
batteries so near our own camp pare
lyzed us.
"In -addition they sent solid sho
rolling over our parade ground and
among our tents. They knocked i
cup of coffee out of a man's hand
and knocked a kettle of beans off i
fire built just right to cook beans
We were surprised that the genera
did not order us to move camp a:
once, but he did nothing of the kind
After we had been bombarded foi
about five or six hours he rode dowi
LATEST SCIENTIFIC MARVEL
Machines
That Weigh Thought
Measure Senses.
Amongst the wonders of modern
science must surely be included cer-
tain instruments and machines lately
invented, by means of which senses
and thoughts can be measured and
weighed, and hitherto mysterious se-
crets connected with the human brain
revealed. In fact, so remarkable have
been the results of experiments with
these machines that doctors and
to see us, and found the boys chas iscientists-of both the European and
Massachusetts in the War.
Massachusetts contributed eighteen
regiments of infantry and a battery,
which served for nine months, a bat-
tery which served for six months, and
a company (Company B, 7th militia),
which served for a similar term. Two
corps of cadets served for about three
months, 13 unattached companies
served for 90 days, 10 unattached com-
panies enlisted for a year, but did not
serve for the full term.
Before then the need of regiments
for longer terms of service became ap-
parent, and 40 regiments of infantry,
numbered from 1 to 62, with some
numbers omitted, as they represented
9 months and 100 days. Regiments
were recruited for three years. The
61st served for one year, and the 62d
was not mustered into the service,
as by the time it was organized the
war was over. In addition to this, the
state furnished three heavy artillery
regiments for three years, another for
one year, and a battalion of heavy ar-
tillery which served for three years.
Two unattached companies of heavy
artillery served for a year, and 15
batteries of light artillery served for
three years.
Five cavalry regiments went out
from Massachusetts and served for
threo years, and a battalion of frontier
cavalry served for one year. The
state also contributed two companies
of sharpshooters, which were later at-
tached to regiments in the field. Sev-
eral companies of infantry, organized
In this state, served in New York regi-
ments. In addition to this, Massachu-
setts contributed about 30,000 men to
the navy, this state, then as now, be-
ing one of the best fields for securing
men for the naval branch of the serv
ice. Approximately the state contrib-
uted 152,000 men to the army, and
30,000 to the navy, during the war
period.
The 20th regiment, commanded by
Col. W. R. Lee, Col. F. W. Palfrey,
Col. Paul Revere and Col. G. N. Macy,
recruited in Boston, served in Hall's
brigade, Gibson's division, 2d corps,
and suffered the heaviest in action of
any regiment that went out of the
state, it's loss being 944 men, which
entitles it to stand so far as heavy
loss is concerned, at the head of the
Massachusetts regiments on this roll
of honor. Its percentage, as already
stated, was exceeded by the 57th, the
22d, the 2d, the 15th and the 28th regi-
ments.—Boston Globe.
ing the enemy's cannon balls on th<
parade ground. He laughed and sale
the experience would do us no harm
and it didn't.
"The rebs blazed away at us ever)
day for seven days, and we wondered
way the general didn't do something
about it, but we didn't care whethei
he did or not. There were lively In
cidents every day, but not a slngl«
man in our regiment was hurt. On«
day Capt. Fee, our quartermaster, de
cided to ride down the river roa<
from Mount Tompkins to our camp
He was a striking figure and he rodt
a striking horse, and scarcely had h<
started on his trip when the rebi
turned all their guns on him.
"The road followed the river bank,
river close on one side, and a high,
precipitous cliff close on the other
The cannon balls from the rebel bat
teries crashed against the cliff, bring
ing down showers of fragments and
splinters from the rock. Capt. Fee'i
horse didn't like this, and the boyi
expected to see the captain turi
back. Instead he gave his high spirit
ed horse the rein and he came dowE
that road at a gallop, the rebs firing
at him as rapidly as they could load
As the captain '•ame into camp th<
boys cheered him lustily and the rebs
at the batteries across the river Join
ed them. Our boys said that if th(
rebs couldn't hit a man and a hors(
under such favorable circumstance*
they couldn't hit anything, and thej
became contemptuous of all bombard
ments."—Chicago Inter Ocean.
American continents have united in
Laughed at Bombardment.
"Gosh," said the Sergeant, "I hope
those Russians who put up such a
fight at Port Artnur were not new to
bombardments. If they were I will
bet a pound of hard-tack they were
scared a good many times when the
Japs first- got their range. Nothing
scares a fellow worse in the begin-
ning than a well organized bombard-
ment, and nothing Is accepted with
greater indifference by soldiers when
they get used to it.
"I remember an experience we had
while camped at Gsuley Bridge In the
Gen. Blackmar's Gavei.
An incident connected with the elec
tion of Gen. Blackmar as commander
in-chief of tho Grand Army of the Re
public escaped notice in the excite
ment of the day, and few of those whe
attended the first meeting, over which
he presided, knew that the gavel
which he used on that occasion was
one of singularly historic value, con-
taining relics of exceptional interest
and rarity.
The gavel was presented to Gen.
Blackmar by Mrs. Phebe C. Goodwin
of Boston. Almost Immediately after
his election she met him at the door
of Symphony hall, and with a few
words appropriate to the occasion,
presented him with the gavel.
It is a combination of relics from
different parts of tlffe world, collected
by Mrs. Goodwin. It is historic in its
construction, and will be very valuable
as a memento of the last grand en-
campment In Boston of the men who
made this country famous.
The handle is palmetto wood from
the south, the head is of wood from
the Olympla, Admiral Dewey's flag-
ship; in the handle is embedded a bul-
let picked up on the battlefield of
Gettysburg; in one end of the gavel
is set a piece of petrified wood from
the tomb where the body of George
Washington first rested on the banks
of the Potomac; in the other end is a
pebble which Mrs. Goodwin picked up
under the steps that lead to the house
where Christopher Columbus, discov-
erer of America lived in Genoa, Italy.
The whole makes a handsome piece
of work, worthy of use in the gather-
ings of the country's veteran defend-
ers. It is inclosed in a box of excel-
lent workmanship.
This Machine Will Weigh the
Thoughts of the Subject Who Lies
Flat on His Back.
declaring them to be the most impor-
tant discoveries of the age.
Perhaps the most interesting of
Ihese instruments is one by which the
speed and duration of thought can be
determined. The subject sics with his
hand on an electric switch, connected
with an electric clock, which measures
the smallest fraction of a second. Im-
mediately in front is an upright metal
tube, inside of which runs a slender
rod of steel, while directly opposite
the eyes of the subject is an opening
in the tube. As the rod slides down
the interior of the tube a white disc
appears af the orifice. The exact sec-
ond this appears the rod touches a
spring af che bot'om of the tube and
the clo« x is set m motion. The sub-
ject is instructed to stop the clock
just as soon a the white disc appears.
Tills he does for thirty times. The
length of ti/iie required for him to do
ithis is noted, and an average struck.
This aver? ge is called his physiolog-
ical time.
The subject is then told that the
disc appearing may be a colored one.
If so, he is to stop the clock. Should
It be white, however, he is to pay no
attention to it. The time required to
stop the clock at the appearancc of
a colored disc Is aiways longer, and
wnen the physiological time is sub-
tracted from the longer time the re-
mainder is called the mental time—or,
in other words, it represents the time
of the object fixing itself on the eye,
its passage along the optic nerve to
the brain, and the action of the brain
and Impulse of the will directing,
through the nerves, the finger to act.
In addition to measuring the speed
a perfectly poised see-saw. The sub-
ject is placed supine within tho shal-
low tray, and after his body has come
to rest weights are shifted until an
even balance is maintained. Gradu-
ated scales, spirit-levels, and indicat-
ors betray the slightest disturbance of
the subject's equilibrium.
To hav(* your thoughts weighei ' y
this machine, you lie flat upon the
shallow coffin with your hands at your
sides. The operator will then ask you
to think of love, hate, jealousy, or
any other of the human passions. As
you do so you will find your head fall-
ing, your feet rising, and the plane
of your equilibrium so altered that,
were it not for the stop-catch on the
scale, you would find yourself turning
a somersault. The opposite result fol-
lows when the operator asks you to
think of running, jumping or kicking.
In this case you feet will sink and
your head rise in proportion to the in-
tensity of your thoughts.
This effect is brought about by the
action of thought on the blood of the
body. The machine is, in fact, a key-
board to the brain, enabling the oper-
ator to follow the course and speed
of the nerve telegrams sent by the
brain to the heart, and then to follow
what have been described as (he "'hur-
ry up" orders of the heart for a new
supply of blood corpuscles in what-
ever part of the body they may be
needed.
It Is also quite possible with this
unique instrument to compare mental
processes. It may be made to shew,
tor instance, whether multiplying 789
by 5G brings more blood to the brain
By the Use of This Instrument the
?peed and Duration of Thought Can
Be Measured.
aud duration of thought, however. It
is quite possible, with the aid of an-
other wonderful scientific invention, to
actually weigh the thoughts. This
machine might be best described aB a
shallow coffin, exactly balanced on
knife-blades ao as to gently rock like
1 his Strange-Looking Contrivance
Registers the Sense of Touch.
than multiplying the same number by
26; whether the brain which is work-
ing out a problem in trigonometry
weighs more than one which Is fol-
lowing the lines of a puzzle in geom-
etry; whether happy thoughts weigh
more or less than unhappy ones, and,
perchance, whether bad thoughts are
weightier than those which are pure
and virtuous.
Almost as remarkable as either of
the aforementioned instruments is
one which has been invented for meas-
uring the sense of touch. This Instru-
ment consists of little discs, each
three millimetres in diameter, sus-
pended by fine, delicate thread from
wooden handles, which are stuck Into
holes round a block. The lightest disc
Is taken out and touched on the skin,
the subject having his eyes closed.
If nothing is felt, the next heavier
disc is used, and so on until the pres-
sure Is noticeable. The discs weigh
from one to twenty milligrams, and
with their aid It has been proved that
the sense of touch in an average per-
son Is conveyed by two mlilgrams on
the forehead, temple and back of foro-
aim; five for nose and chin, and fif-
teen for the Inner surface of the fin-
gers.—London Tit-Bits.
Not Very Consoling.
The Friend—So poor John is dead!
Well, may his ashes rest in peace.
The Widow—-Ashes! Why, do you
think he gote therei
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