The Coalgate Courier. (Coalgate, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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GEO D CALLAWAY Publisher
COALGATK T
A loving apostle la a living epistle
A good boy is worth far more than
a bad man
The secret of true wisdom is to
know your ignorance
All men are made of dust— but some
dust is about two-thirds sand
According to our measure John the
Baptist made a miserable fizzle
Some men cut acquaintances while
scraping them— barbers for example
To triumph over a temptation is to
build a temple out of the devil's stumb-
ling blocks
A woman’s idea of a serviceable hat
is one she looks well in after the nov-
elty has ceased to excite remark
A suicide club has been discovered in
iFrankfort Ind and the police are
now endeavoring to prevent the club’s
surviving members from following the
example of several of their number
who have already shot or poisoned
themselves Taken as a general rule
the man who joins a suicide club is a
full brother to the man who fools with
an ‘unloaded” gun with the one
ipleasing difference that his victim is
himself and not some innocent friend
or bystander
Even that view of the juvenile court
which one'may get from reading the
newspapers is enough to show that the
court’s highest efficacy may consist in
suggesting its terrors to the youthful
'defendants rather than in applying
them The boy of 12 charged with tru-
ancy for example who wept and
pleaded when confronted with the
court will never be so much afraid of
it again Perhaps he will never be
so much afraid of any other court In-
discriminate leniency would f course
in time destroy the usefulness of the
institution But there is no other court
in which the chance to try again may
be extended with so large a probabil-
ity of good results to so great a num-
ber At the Sanitary Institute at South-
ampton Dr Manby stated that several
outbreaks of typhoid fever in Liver-
pool had been traced to contaminated
ice cream Since 1898 319 persons had
applied to the Liverpool health author-
ities for permission to sell ice cream
and 56 had been told that owing to
unsuitability of premises they must
make other arrangements There had
been two convictions and in one
case the stipendiary magistrate re-
marked that the best punishment for
the defendant would be to make him
live on his own ice cream for a time
Dr Manby stated that Glasgow had
adopted a similar policy to Liverpool
and advised local authorities to apply
for parliamentary powers on the lines
of those granted by the Liverpool act
of 1898
An Italian countess has given her
extensive estates to a hygienic society
in that kingdom on condition that a
hospital for consumptives be built on
them The act of philanthrophy is
an incident in the world movement to
do more than ever for persons threat-
ened with the terrible malady or act-
ually in its deadly grasp The methods
of prevention and of aid rob the dis-
ease of some of its power to destroy
and promise larger gains in the sav-
ing work “Resist the beginnings” Is
a motto which has peculiar force in
dealing with phthisis while the later
theory justified by scientific investi-
gation that a degree of isolation will
prevent the spread of the infection is
a re-enforcement to medication and
other healing measures The old fa-
talism which expressed itself in folde'd
hands and a despairing heart wheq
consumption knocked at the door i3
dying out
In a paper read before the Paris
Academy of Sciences entitled “Action
of Some Gases on Caoutchouc” M
D’Arsonval showed that at pressures
varying from one to five atmospheres
caoutchouc absorbs large quantities
of carbonic acid gas and at tbe same
time increases in volume and becomes
more gelatinous and less elastic On
exposure to air the gas Is gradually
lost and the caoutchouc resumes It3
original properties Hence vessels of
caoutchouc readily allow carbonic acid
gas to pass through their walls The
action is much slower in the case of
oxygen and is slight with nitrogen
From these experiments M D’Arson-
val suggests that bicyclists should in-
flate their tires with nitrogen This
however would not seem to be neces-
sary according to Invention for after
the tires have been repeatedly deflated
through loss of oxygen and then
pumi-ed up with ordinary air the pro-
portion of oxygen inside the tire In-
comes small and practically pur nltf t-
gen remains
A SHOWER OF
Comes Once in Every ThirtyThree and
OneOuarter Years
All persons who watch the heavens
and gaze in admiring wonder on the
glittering stars see frequently appar-
ent runaway stars dashing among
their fixed fellows leaving trails of
light behind and then usually in a
second or two disappearing complete-
ly These stars seem to have been
shot out from a previous fixed position
by somj tremendous force which
makes the watcher think of the action
of a great cannon and hence the name
of “shooting stars” is given The
astronomer knows that these “shooting
stars” are not really stars Real stars
are giant and distant suns shining by
their own light They are cold dark
bodies which become hot and visible
when they strike the air surrounding
the earth The velocity of their mo-
tion is on the average about twenty-
five miles a second and so when they
dash into the earth’s atmosphere the
friction of the air produces a tempera-
ture of many thousand degrees The
result is that as these bodies are usu-
ally very small they are completely
evaporated and dissipated Sometimes
quite large bodies are able to resist
this tremendous frictional heating
and then the residues reach the earth
Such bodies when found are called
meteorites meteoric stones aerolites
(air-stones) or uranoliths (heaven-
stones) Some consist of nearly pure iron
with nickel others are stony and still
others are mainly stony with grains
and globules of Iron Comparatively
very few meteors have been seen to
fall Their chemical and minera-
logical character is such that they can
be identified as meteors it is sup-
posed without anyone seeing them
fall The number of shooting stars
visible to the naked eye is far great-
er than one would imagine who only
A SHOWER OF
glances at the sky now and then' A
single observer can see on the aver-
age about five an hour But such a
group of watchers can observe ordi-
narily only those stars which “shoot”
within two or three hundred miles of
their observing station If there-
fore the whole earth were covered
with observers enough" to see all the
heavens it has been calculated by
the late Prof Newton of Yale univer-
sity that the number visible daily
would be between fifteen millions and
twenty millions When to this num-
ber we add those which are too faint
to be seen by the naked eye we reach
a total which may run up to one hun-
dred millions We are therefore forced
to the conclusion that inter-planetary
spaces are quite rich in such bodies
Investigations show that these shoot-
ing stars are of a gregarious temper-
ament Millions travel together in
the same swarm or group They have
plenty of room the separate bodies
frequently being miles apart
The best to observe is between
midnight and the sunrise-twilight as
proved the case during the recent
heavy meteoric shower We were
then on the advancing front of the
earth and saw those meteors we catch
up with or meet
The “story of the November me-
teors” is most interesting and in-
structive The astronomers have been
able to work out the life history of
these meteors fnom the observations
made In 1799 S Humboldt saw from
the Andes mountains a grand star
shower and in 1833 there was another
AN ARIZONA METEOR FELL
great meteoric display Many thou-
sands fell in the course of a few hobrs
Prof Newton of New Haven investi-
gated "the matter looked up old rec-
METEORS
ords of star showers and showed that
there had been a great number of star
showers occurring about thirty-three
years apart and coming in the fall of
POLISHED METEORS IN SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
the year He prophesied that the next
return would be seen Nov 13-14 1866
The shower came as predicted and so
came the recent shower
METEORS
ONE UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE
Three Trained Marie on the Niger Are
Not to Be Envied
The unpleasant experience of three
trained nurses 500 miles up the river
Niger does not lead anyone to envy
them in their situation They are the
only white women that have ever been
seen there and are therefore objects
of curiosity to the natives One of
IN ARIZONA IN 1856
them says: “We are out in a clearing
In the bush— the hospital is one large
wooden hut and our house is another
partitioned off into three rooms Our
patients are officers and non-commissioned
officers of the West African
frontier and are all white men and
the cases are mostly malaria for this
climate is a deadly one We took
more than six weeks getting here as
the river was so low that we stuck
halfway and had to be taken off to a
little station We stayed there over a
fortnight till the river rose enough for
us to continue our journey This is
altogether the roughest life one can
possibly lead We lived almost en-
tirely on tinned foods but now we are
on short commons as the river has
been so low ‘they’ have not been able
to get the stores up We have no fur-
niture except a camp bed each and
some packing cases as tables ' At the
termination of the rainy season our
men expect to have a good deal of
fighting with the natives so I suppose
we shall have heavy work then A
great many of the natives are canni-
bals and after a fight they dig up hu-
man bodies and eat them” — Pittsburg
Dispatch
Physics and the mechanic Arts '
In a lecture recently delivered be-
fore the Franklin institute Prof Cleve-
land Abbe said that all great station-
ary engineering structures illustrate
the perfection to which the arts have
attained and the physical problems
that must be solved The tubular
bridges over the Menai straits and the
St Lawrence the suspension bridges
over Niagara and the East river the
Eiffel tower at Paris and the Ferris
wheel at Chicago were only possible
after machinery had been devised for
rolling the iron and steel cutting and
bending it punching and twisting it
in all directions and finally testing
every portion of the structure as to its
strength and expansion with stress
and temperature The modern bicy-
cle illustrates the fact that at every
turn our knowledge of physics is of
vital importance to eur future progress
Now li till Time u
In the Interest of your own welfare
now Is the time to enlighten yourself
as to tbe best place and to begin pro-
viding for your next summer’s com-
fort and pleasures With this in view
consider the matchless climate the
grandeur of scenery and the numerous
resorts of Colorado
Drop a postal to W F Sterley A
G P A or A A Gllsson G A P
D of “The Denver Road” at Fort
Worth Texas and you will be provid-
ed with exhaustive and magnificently
illustrated literature without expense
Give all the people work and there-
by produce prosperity
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Dropsy treated free Dy Dr H H Green’
Sons of Atlanta Qa The greatest dropsy
fpecialists in the world Read their adver-
tisement in another column of this paper
Evil men fear the law good men re-
spect It
Puerto Kico
Three tours of the beautiful Island
of Puerto Rico are scheduled to leave
Chicago December 27 January 28 and
February 15 Special Pullman sleep-
ers and dining cars will convey the
party to New York thence on board
the splendid new steamships Ponce
and San Juan through and around the
island by rail automobile carriage
and boat Tickets include all ex-
penses everywhere These select lim-
ited parties will be under the special
escort of Mr Walter Boyd Townsend
under the management of The Ameri-
can Tourist Assoclatioa Reau Camp-
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and tickets can be had on application
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