The Altus Weekly News. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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rrs your cue. and it win* for you—Edelweiss
1 always wins, because Edelweiss satisfies.
The choicest hops carefully blended with
selected malt produce that delicious flavor and
"body" distinctive of Edelweiss, the popular
beverage for fifty years.
Enjoy it as a beverage in your home—
order a case today.
Turner-Altus Company
Phone 405
704 S. Main St.
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DIAMOND IS MODERN JEWEL I
Beautiful stone ss We Know It Today
Was Unfamiliar to ths An-
cient World.
The Nam* Taffy.
The name Taffy is a nickname for
the whole Welsh people. The word la
simply Davy (David), pronounced with
aspiration; Sawney (Alexander) the
jinost common Scotch name; Pat (Pat-
The perfectly cut and brilliant dla- rick) 016 most ommon Irish name;
Biond the world knows today Is not very and John (John Bull) the most com-
■auch more than 50 years old, says a moa En*I1>h name. Each Is used to
(Writer In Popular Science. The an- |desi*n te the race or nationality to
Blent world knew little of dla- Iwhlch " belongs. A similar case Is
moods. From the first Pharaoh to i11141 of Brother Jonathan, once com-
the last, through all the pageantry of i mon,y used to designate the people of
SI dynasties, diamonds were unkaown 'the States, but now largely au-
la Egypt. Prom the dawn of history.
Baby 100 remained unfamiliar with
them for 40 centuries.
The conquest of Alexander across
the Indus In S27 R C. acquainted
Greece vaguely with their existence.
The patricians of Rome in the days
Of the early empire rarely owned them.
Byzantine supremacy, the rise of Ven-
ice to maritime power, the Moorish
conquest of Spain, brought only a
trickle of diamonds Into western Eu
perseded by Cncle Sam.
"There was developed by the en-
gineering division of the ordnance de-
partment a body defense, including a
light front and body plates, weighing
altogether only nine and one-half
pounds. The plates were lined with
sponge rubber. One lot of 5,000 were
manufactured and sent abroad for ex-
periment. There was also developed.
Msv~*« Ui uiaujvuus into wesrern ta- • manufactured and sent over to Prance
rope. A fashionable Jewelry store In 'or test a heavy breast plate with
America today carries more diamonds thigh guards, weighing twenty-seven
In stock than were In all Europe pounds, capable of stopping machine-
when Columbus sailed from Palos. gun bullets at 150 yards.
Henry D. Morse of Boston, In the The Yank did not take kindly to
last century was the first to discover
the balanced proportions that devel-
oped a diamond's highest reflective and
refractive possibilities. Since brilliancy
Is the crowning glory of a diamond, he
did not hesitate to sacrifice whatever
weight was necessary to achieve It
Betalning the 58 facets of the earlier
cutters, he fouod that a diamand is
■t Its sharpest climax of brilliancy
When the depth from table to culet
I* six-tenths of Its diameter, and that
• little more than two-thirds below.
Cot In this style, a diamond not only
flashes light from every polished facet
surface, but seems alive with corus-
cating inner fires.
Morse's proportions are the rule of
the world today, and they mark the
final triumph of the art In the achieve
ment of the perfect JeweL
the idea of body armor. Or it might,
more aptly be said that the Tank did.
not take kindly to the idea of still
warfare. "Tell It to the tanks," he
shouted when asked how he liked his
proposed winter suit
SCHEME WORKED TOO WELL
.Teacher Should Have Remembered
That Old Proverb Concerning
Things Heard by Listeners.
A new high-school teacher had come
to the local high school and was anx-
ious to know how she Impressed the
faculty members and students. But
she was new and of course would not
ask any of them the others' opinion
of herself.
80 she began to watch for a chance
to use her own ingenuity in making
the discovery. And one day her chance
came. She was in the principal's of-
fice filling out an Identification card
when she saw him and one of the
other teachers coming down the halL
Quickly she slipped Just outside the
back door and stood there to listen a
wee bit
Just aa she had hoped they would,
they noticed the card ahe bad Just
flUed out, "Oh, she's the new teach-
er" "Poke up the principal. "Do yoa
" IV «*y ehaace what history
Dig for Egyptian Temples.
An appeal for funds to carry on the
excavation of Egyptian antiquities on
• larger scale than ever before con-
templated was sent out by the Egyo-
tlan Exploration Fund from Its Amer-
ican headquarters at Boaton. the New
York Times states. About $10,000 Is
needed to reopen the excavation of
ancient civilisation where many relics
were found before the war stopped the
work. The appeal aays:
Two monumental undertakings are
the clearance of the eleventh and
eighteenth dynasty temples of Delr el
Banari, visited by every tourist at
Thebes, and at Abydos, the Oslrelon,
the temple of the underworld, dedl-
cated by Merenptah, Pharaoh of the
Exodus, and richly decorated by him
with texts from the 'Book of the
Dead.' This great excavation, halted
by the war, employed 683 fellaheen
(native workmen) and awaits comple-
tion. It is the one remaining archi-
tectural puzzle of Egypt"
BUT ONE THING LEFT UNSAID
®*#ms Something of a Pity That
Writer Old Not Complete
Pungent Epistle.
Not long ago, the story runs, a trav-
eling salesman visited a certain small
town and sold the proprietor of Its
general store an order of Jewelry, the
Tooth's Companion relates. When the
Jewelry arrived It was not as repre-
sented, and the merchant consequently
returned It But the wholesale house,
nevertheless, attempted to collect the
bill, and drew a sight draft on the
merchant through the local bank,
which returned the draft unhonored.
The wholesalers then wrote to the
postmaster. Inquiring about the finan-
cial standing of the merchant and
the postmaster replied laconically that
it was O. K.
By return mail the wholesalers re-
quested htm to "hand the inclosed
account to the leading lawyer" of the
place for collection.
This is the reply that they received:
I "The undersigned is the merchant
on whom you attempted to palm off
your worthless goods. The undersigned
Is president and owner of the bank to
which you sent your sight draft. The
undersigned is the postmaster to whom
you wrote, and the undersigned is the
lawyer whose services you sought to
obtain for your nefarious business. If
the undersigned were not also the
pastor of the church at this place he
would teU you where to go."
Dar by dav the termer to Ma-
ine to § toiler realisation of the
fact that the farm •• well aa the
factory must be run on business
lines if farming it to be made
redly profitable. There it no
better proof of the treat possi
bilities in agriculture than the
faet that farming haa always
been the means of making a good
living and often a comfortable
fortune despite the very ineffi.
cient methods used in our grand-
fathers' and even in our fathers'
time.
Theeity manufacturer would
be in the bankruptcy court ,in a
very short time if he employed
merely hand labor: if he did not
use all the machinery applicable
to his business he would find
himself far behind his competi.
tors. In fact he would not be
able to do any business at all be-
cause he would be unable to sell
his product at a price anywhere
near the competing price of the
machine • using manufacturer.
This principle of increasing pro-
duction through labor saving haa
been recognized on the farm as
well as in the city with the re-
sult that mechanical equipment
of all kinds has replaced to a
great extent the old, time-worn
hand work methods of doing
business.
And now the farmer is follow-
ing the city man yet another step
toward real living efficiency. Mr.
City Man has learned that labor
saving is a good thing not merely
in his business but in his daily
life at home, that he will have
more energy for his daily work if
he can enjoy his leisure hours to
the full without having to do any
tiring non-productive work- The
farmer is following his example
in this respect and today on
farms where the pumping, churn-
ing, sweeping, washing, milking
and a hundred other tiring chores
were done by hand in time out-
side of the real working hours,
we now find the farmer and his
wife and family enjoying the
leisure that their hard work en-
titles them to. Electricity, fur-
nished by dependable little
light and power plants, has be-
come the household servant and
extra hired man on thousands of
farms all over this country. Of
course light is the first thing one
thinks of when electricity is
mentioned and it is true that
electric light is universally used
wherever it can be obtained. It
is also true that electric light
makes a wonderful difference in
the farm home, brightening and
cheering every phase of home
life. But many a farm family is
finding that the work electricity
does through the many electric
power appliances now available
Majority
THE WINNING FLOUR
This flour is positively made
through the laboratory under
the most scientific methods
known in Milling, being so care-
ful that nothing but perfect wheat
3 4* J ^ _ A. _« a a
is used, not a cracked kernel
ing through the rools. !i is sift-
ed through sanitary seives, sack-
ed and sewed without touching
the human hands.
A PERFE.'T FLOUR FOR PERFECT BREAD
A.H. GIBBONS & SON, Distributor
Ask your grocer for Majority
LONG IDOL Uh SMALL BOY
Famous "Deadwood Dlck~ Lived and
Died In Full Appreciation of Hla
Great Popularity,
Deadwood Dick Is dead. Hla real
name was Richard Bullock, and he
died most conventionally at an age of
seventy-flve years In a hospital at
Glendale, CaL
Deadwood Dick abould have been
the happiest of men. Tew men can
pass twilight years Illumined by the
Slow of their past Few men are
privileged to read heroic lies about
themselves which are founded on a
modicum of truth. Achilles never
read the "Aeneld." Satan never read
"Paradise Lost." unless he had pe-
rused It alnce Milton's day by the fitful
flames of his plutonlc abode. Sieg-
fried never scanned the "Mbelung-
lled." The greatest heroes of the
greatest lies by the greatest liars have
met their end believing they would be
unhonored and unsung by posterity.
Not so with Deadwood Dick. His
saga was at his elbow these several
decades. All be had to do was to
take down one of the volumes over
which the boys of a generation or two
ago pored to realize what a great man
he had not been. And all the time
he had the consciousness that he real-
ly had passed wonderful days on
mountain and plain, hauling gold by
stage through perils created by nature
military service' 4.7W more sfrdiers
than would an equal number of city
boys. Similarly, 100,000 whites would
furnish 1,240 more soldiers than would
an equal number jf colored. Finally,
100,000 native born would yield 3,500
more soldiers than would a like num-
ber of foreign. The Importance of
these figures may be appreciated by
noting that 8,500 men Is equivalent to
an Infantry regiment at full war
strength. *
Fit Yourself to Conquer.
Ton must see the rainbows In the
future if you would be a builder who
touches men. You must forget the
lowering clouds and impending storms.
Their present hindering will but swell
the tide flowing your way later.
There's something godlike In the en-'
thusiastic soul. Enthusiasm paints its
own stars in the mental firmament
and then draws from them light You
might as well try to pull the sun from
the sky as to hinder the youth who Is
led by enthusiasm. His life la too
buoyant to be held down by oppres-
lon- Injustice merely makes him a
martyr and wlna the crowds to him.
And when he feds the opposition of
unthinking men he will rise to greater
f-oi. 1 i,. "Why, 9t ' hel«hta " be thrills those who Usten
" he it ■■ad. 1 should have *,Ul ,tor7 <* hu fnap. What he
1 that ftrea her IssSa* gj. , "" * thinks he mm SMkes hla in*
sistibU and flta hla to conquer.—OrlL
The other teacher
VISIONS NOT Aa REALIZED
■ut Cven So, There Is Something Fine
la the Dreaming of Beautiful
Dreams.
There seem to be a great many dis-
appointed people In the world today;
the explanation apparently is that
n>any of us do not find our dreams and
hopes realized la quite the way and at
the time we expected. How many
times have there been conjured up be-
fore us a kind of magic day In which
aU fine and splendid things would bo
easily possible, and life would, of ne-
cessity, lose very much that was sor-
did and un-ldeal? We had beautiful
visions that seemed so easy of realiza-
tion. put in the cold light of the day
Into which we havo now come there
are manj' hard and unyielding un-
ideal facts, and what we fondly pic-
tured falls to shape Itself in actual
life. Of course, we are disillusioned
and disappointed. But outfit we to
bet Was there, after all, anything the
matter with the vision that we cher-
ished? Is it possible that the trouble
with us la that we have not the faith
and the wisdom to see the vision be-
ing realized, though In ways and fash-
Ions of wlilch we had not dreamed?
Columbus did not discover what he !
looked for, but were his faith and ,
dreaming not Justified nevertheless?
And would be ever have discovered
anything but for the faith and the
dreaming?—Montreal Herald.
IT PAYS FOR
ITSELF
MIC0U6HT
" 5looiricify /br
av9jy Farm"
nlflcent light at the same rate as the
gas and electric light companlM. we
should have to pay £57344j0#0.000,0(
■ day. or about 21.000 million pounds
• year; bat the sua dees aot charge-
he fives It t as all without aoaer
tad without price.
Delco-Light really costs
you nothing. It pays for
itself by doing work—run-
ning the washer.—pumping
the water and doing many
other odd jobs. This is the
opinion of the vast army of
Delco-Light users.
Write for Catalog
W.C. SHAW,
Altus. - - Okla.
p-h-o-n-€ 750
„ " " -"land by man—that there was enough
for home use is even a greater 0f the heroic to justify the modern
service than the furnishing of minstrel.—Cincinnati Times-Star
light.
PEAT ESTABLISHED AS FUEL
In Dsnmark it Is Employed to Furnish
Power for Many Lines of
Big Industrie*
In 1919 peat established Itself aa a
fuel more firmly than ever In Den-
mark. It Is used now by nearly all
the industries, by the private rail-
roads sad In the country districts,
where It to practically the only fuel.
Twelve million peat brick* were taken
from the marshes In the Odense dis-
trict In 1818, snd while figures are aot
available for 1919, It Is estimated that
the number was considerably larger.
The electrical works of the town of
Svendberg have successfully used
peat gas Instead of petroleum. Aa a
locomotive fuel It proved to have some
disadvantages, requiring a larger boil-
er and giving off many sparks.
Peat producers have complained
that the government's maximum price
on this article has made its manufac-
ture difficult. There have been a num-
ber of failures. However, the quality
of peat has been greatly Improved
during the last five years, and more
has been learned of Its possibilities.
It will therefore undoubtedly figure
much more than previously as an
economic factor in Denmark.—New
York Sun.
Endurance Test
The setting for the tale Is Ls Alls,
a small town near San Diego. It Is a
place that boasts of great swimming
snd . many other attractions, besides a
museum. A little maiden, whom we
will call Nellie, was passing the mu-
seum with her mother. Both were
newcomers In the town and were tak-
ing their first sightseeing tour. Nellie
glanced up at the sign in front of the
museum—"Man-eating shark. Fifteen
cents admission." So the two passed
on. Two or three hours later, mother
and daughter came back by the same
route, and again passed the museum.
The sign, of course, was still there.
Nellie could not be silenced. "Is that
man still eating the shark?" she asked.
"I should think he*would get tired."—
Pittsbui%h Chronicle-Telegraph.
Diplomats at Washington.
There are 42 accredited representa-
tives of foreign governments In Wash-
ington. Besides'these there are many
unofficial representatives of nationali-
ties seeking recognition from the
American government Chief among
the latter are representatives of tht
Irish. Ukrainians, Armenians, Lithu-
anians and Albanians. Only the states
of Monaco and San Marino, two of
the smallest republics In the world,
are without representatives.
Polar Qapo en Venue.
According to Edward M. Nelson,
writing In the English Mechsnlc, polar
caps were plsinly visible oa Venus last
June In his three-Inch refractor, power
ISO. They are described ts of In-
tense whiteness, resembling that of the
crater Aristarchus en the moon. A
similar observation to reported froa
M. Flammarloa's observatory at Jsv-
Isy, France.
Surprised Mother.
The missionary society was meeting
t our house and the woman who was
to lead the devotlonals took the elaa-
lie band from her Bible, laid It on her
lap and began to turn the pages to find
the passage she was to read. During
Ihe solemn silence my young son
Jiarched over to her and, picking up
!he elastic, he announced: "Why,
lhat's my mother's garter I"—Grit.
Physique of Country and City Boys.
Under the selective draft law. regis-
trants were given two physical exami-
nations, one by the local draft boards
snd another by the army surgeons af-
ter the men who passed the local
board examination reached camp.
Analysis of these records of physi-
cal examinations shows thst the coud-
try boys nude better records than
thoas tnm the cftfee; the white red*
treats better thaa the colored, aad
the native bore better records thaa
" * allen birth. These ditto-
ra ,
teakh ht the
Not Strong on Ablution.
The Ainu feels that by washing his
face and hands on great occasions he
nas paid his debt to civilization. The
Tibetan considers that the oil of the
>ody contributes needed warmth in his
Mountain life and refuses to wash It
•way. but does not object to washing
Ms face and the tlpe of his fingers once
b awhile.
Pete Ueed te Swell Sound.
The ancient Greeks, to secure reeo-
lance without the use of woodwork,
pieced under the seats of their thea-
ter* earthen pots, with the aeuthe
•uraed toward the stage, the vtbrat-
t* e serving t* (*>
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