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,ons ' - . ice tte 0?& . ^ ui;.n with 4 J?t) that happy /nr : ;.:!;? is Lhnt period [hu and swii.'wu. s\w-;is i*Ie?an, and the j De?' f ""???? p ctr is oftt-n .-J. teBtber <J?v? <vt seem to have , effect on ^esre the day? when it is better .01 Ufbtl) than i?t- >orry. gijo is a great Nvn to the man - Mse has $i'' '?' * , a /eaJr. tose ha ^r,::u;-d ^ - emptor Uward W?p ?_??,* '? if B'y'y sliPPln? ,lreau5 tnr He ? lltriys Kinprv M world diplomacy ?aC . for more oil. reacbii -snepMc idesteps green 03 S"t?* . . -r ...If l^nlal ^ 8 ? the height of self-denial, i L lome of , tbere snv be th: i: men are liars, ' tbei.i -?'??n't care for flsh 0 M ,, have . turned to popu t Id Fraace >i the worst I* ^world's iii ,vf -'Utting remark to ij; "l'ou lc tierce with It |f?ec have g n-.- n pretty general , ^ sports. AoyiUmg to wear the I Be worlds tw-? :ront sources of (Just now api--.ii" to be dry land land. 0tir test fo the millennium Idei war Lucwicrial which suited df;ard thin? to determine is where 1 ifer; leaves off and a summer cot- j I leciiis. |iia matter -f tact, people are not | iping over their religion, but over r opinions. I What would the summer resort ads I Kit weren't for lire* pictures of the Pr,i? j The comfort lulu-rent in a nice cool makes hd ?-? . asional hot spell ; forth while. | OK of the world's permanent my* is where tin- counterfeiter goes ictange a $1,000 l?i!l. [While seeing America first, lovers of i picturesque should be careful not jtlll off the' scenery. [tatomake aa old-fashioned farmer lit home, tractors ought to have a Its iwltch in fl\ lime. |fcfernng again :<> 'lie late hot spell, itouid you like \o put in twelve li day in a steel mill? |isns flute has U en stolen from j %ttS6ela museum. An attempt is : [Bade to keep it quiet. I la airplane has >?-n refueled in the ' Copying the i lea of the endur * Mincers, who ait on the fly. lillncander, six fee! long, believed Vive. hundred ;><m - <dd, has been ^in atea.pit p-md in Toklo. who go ic. . v from home for ?fcoer at U?a>- - . veed in hiding ?iicomforta i neighbor*. ' *onler the Cys'l 0 f municipal, ? ?ttd national ^ \.nmient is high geuiiii v. much more of lk?Pe that will's will cease has strong ugh to discour Inventors 01 military ma stopped a iyiching by firm dottier day. The idea is good ^ bfe apiiiieii much oftener uii have vr.me hack as far ^?cham;).< vs at Paris, and ?pinion ? ? most malei ? la iw?sis ^0 cei i for h hair cut, ire lu''!vV that lhe maD *w* the tawu -iuesn't charge acting, af-l,leved the twm rm ' a telePhone % wr(>ii<r numbers in a m ha? quit the pulpit to 1 ^median in the movies. 10 ^is old ph, he says, bis be p\(._ \S but^a \hA !:skimo 'ov * u .. ilill'Uage with the ere 1 bib ?l1 im Nve '? talk. a lot of - Cty&edin , - iLSt '5l,1,orte(1 10 hav* can't?. Hrch of Qew Th 'ri!!': :lie *)est one ^ dat ! fr' ifope. make rnc>r<' nearly tlie b; """I scared look. their com CHIEF OF TRIBE SACRIFICES SON 'South Afrioan Youth Burned to Death to Appease Wrath of Great Spirit i Cincinnati. ? Sir Clark son Tredgold, 1 the senior judge of southern fitiodetia, and a jury weft engaged for two day* investigating the cireumstaaeee In which Ifanduae, the second ?urvlrlnfi ; Son of Chief Chignngo, of a section ox the Mtawara tribe, was offered up as a sacrifice to appease the wrath of the Mwafi (the Great Spirit^ ; Those charged with the crime of Hittrder included Ohlgango, the father of the victim ; Ghiswltl, the paramount : chief of the district, whose only proved phare of the proceeilnga was the pro vision of an escort to carry out the orders of Ohigangp; Chlrlseri, a head man of a neighboring kraal, and four "police boys," or priests, who, acting on orders, carried out the ceremony. iThe paramount chief was found not igullty and discharged; the others were found guilty and sentenced to death. Ib passing sentence the Judge an nounced that he would support the strong recommendation to mercy with which the Jury has coupled their ver dict, says Henri Pickard In the Cin cinnati Enquirer. Crops Burned by Sun. ! In January last the Mtawara tribe, In common with others, saw their crops Joeing destroyed" by a scorching sun fend starvation staring them in the pace. Suspicion fell on Manduza ? that he had angered the Great Spirit ?and his father ordered that he should be put to death with all the customary ceremony. It came out in evidence that Ohlgango could not trust his own people to execute this decree, and obtained an escort of about sev enty from Ghiswltl, so that the victim ahould not allow his courage to fall *nd seek safety in flight. ' Mandusa was conveyed in the night to Chlswitl's "sitting place." Instruc tions came from Ohlgango that his son should be sacrificed. An eyewitness of the scene described how Mandusa's hands were bound with a limbo, spe | dally kept for such occasions, and iwas then carried by the "police boys" [to a place where a wood fire had been prepared. The man was laid on the pyre and further timber placed over htm it did not transpire that he of fered any resistance. By daybreak nothing remained but a pfia of ashes and human bones, from which the flesh had been burned. Ohiefs Son Notifies Polk*. In the meantime Chigango's second ?on, who heard what had happened to his brother, and evidently feared that he might be marked out for t^e same i fate, went to the police post at Moqat Darwin and reported the occurrence, i A police trooper and four native po lice boys visited the scene, made cer tain Inquiries, and marched 80 natives, who seemed to have been concerned in the case, to Mount Darwin, Where the investigations were continued and the preliminary examination held. In a statement made on that occasion by one of those afterward placed on trial, (the following passage occurred: " I admit we were caught, and are now to !die for the fault of our chief and head man. Ohlgango came to Ohlriserl and told him he wanted him to take and | burn his son, Manduaa. Chiriseri re fused to do so, saying that we were under the white people's rule now, S Ohlgango said: 1 burnt Mgurakcfco and Manyondi, and the white people lhave not heard, and they will not hear [of this.'" The statement as \o two previous sacrifices having tsfeen place in recent years at the mm* site is be lieved to be true. The Rhodeeian police and law de partments have had to deal with a considerable number of charges of [murder arising out ef witchcraft an ?the machination of witch doctors, or the outcome of deep-rooted tribal su perstition, but this Is the first instance in which they have been.able to obtain evidence of human sacrifice In accord ance with old-established rites. Rained "Diamond*" in This Man's Back Yard London.? -Does it ever rain dia mond*? 0. P. Fltsgerahl eapert metallurgist, is seriously asking this question. tour ing a recant thunderstorm there fell in his garden several meteorites weighing about six pounds each, az*d so hard that fiftgments of them Will cat glass. Fitzgerald said the meteorites ex actly resemble the diamond-bearing Quarts- found in South Africa, and he has sent his finds to a laboratory tor examination. < Wisconsin Town Has Modern Pied Piper The "Pied Piper of Hamlin," who led rats into the river by mule, has a rival in the person of Bert Hobgers, dam tender, of Appleton, Wis. Bert, for many moons while working on the dam, was pes tered by too friendly rats. 33*ey would crawl about his legs. The "Pled PipSr" of Appleton now throws lye on the boards aboat the dam. The lye clings to the wet feet of the rats and boras them. The rat* then com mit suicide bf? "m .?7 Europe has been In hot water so long Jt Is hand boiled. ' In this age, a wise chicken doesn't cross the street A beauty clay doctor is in trouble, and his name is mud. In all probability the new Ice age has been postponed. A grade crossing just will not stand for being double crossed. A good time to rehearse safety lea sons is over the week end. No nation can pay the fiddler's bill by doing the fiddling Itself. Greatness Is three parts of ability and seven parts of responsibility. The world will bear its finest music when It detects Mars' death rattle. Save your husbands. They may prove useful even If not ornamental. No other roof can leak so mnch as a summer cottage roof when It leaks. In her new gown the modern girl has nothing up her sleeve to deceive you. Perhaps it would be a good Idea to teach less evolution and practice more of It One trouble about a balloon Is that it pays no attention to traffic regula tions. ' Oculists say that lying causes a tem porary myopia. That is not all it causes. Despite the shooting, husbands go on taking out life Insurance In their wives' favor. The man who isn't good for any thing else can always tell how it should be done. It may tye that the league saved Austria, but the allies began the cure some years ago. The average fisherman wonders why it was felt necessary to pass a law limiting the catch. 'fhe trouble with eating corn on the cob Is that one loses so much time reaching for more butter. Balloon racing Is something like try- \ ing to find a place to park. One never j knows where he will finish. Wolves are multiplying in Russia, so | it Isn't true that Bolshevism dlscour- ' ages expansion of every kind. ? Except for tiie w automobile, some good citizens never would have dis covered that nature is wonderful. Traffic noises get on one's nerves, | but it isn't the electric horn that af- j frights so much as the greenhorn. In obtaining new material for our ! national melting pot, we should first select only material that will fuse. A method for photographing the brain has been perfected. Here and there, Just possibly, It will enlarge, " Balloon racers have their own Idea of fun. They never know where they are going when they are on their way. j Still, II it ever becomes common te ! jail men for having an opinion, a lot \ of prominent politicians will be safe. Advice to "buy your coal now" may seem funny today, but It will not seem * so funny next winter, if you neglect It ' ________________ Now and then a wife Is found who . says, after her husband Is wounded, that she was shooting at somebody j else. J Breslau, In Silesia, possesses a chim ney 50 feet high made entirely of com pressed paper. It is stated to be fire proof. A 'sucker ' is one who thinks the j "good things" are peddled about over i the country to give the small investor a chance. The champion gloom of all time le the dealer who advertises, "The new car of today is the used car of to morrow." J / _ * Some bright little boy in the class ; when asked "What is the capital of I Russia?" Is pretty likely to answer "Insufficient." Ice. is thick off the coast of Labra dor. Doubtless the summer resort- ; ers there can boast that they sleep under blankets. Ton call the finny creature that lurks in the frigid fifty-foot depths a fish, but In such weather as this you do not j call him a poor fish. . One reason for opposing the threats j ened return of the hoopsklrt is the in- 1 tensifying effect it will have 06 the t prevailing traffic jam. A Philadelphia pugilist knocked ; down a bandit who tried to hold tim up. This affair, too, has the earmarks ! of having b&n over a purse. j According to the story of a husband RETWRS AFTER 27 YEAR TQ mm Hts WIFE HEWED Modem Enoch Anion Rami* Identity to Son. : Hickory, N. a?? Another adventure ?tranger than that which befall him i few days ago when a three-weeks 6ld girt baby waa left on his front gorgb, came Into the Ufa of William t Hoylo, local a?top?oblle mechanic, *h#n h4? father, Lee Hoyle, after wan 4*ri ng around for to years, drove up in an automobile and declared hte identity CO the son. % Some 15 years ago Mrs. Lee Qoyle .married again and ia now living) with her second husband, Rufus McMillan, three miles from Lenoir, In Caldw8ll county. This couple have five chil dren, the oldest being less than fif teen and the youngest about six. Whan Lee fioyle disappeared 27 yeans ago his wife waa told by Lin berry Hoyle, his uncle, that Lee had been killed by a runaway team at a lumber mill. The Wife and mother accepted the story as true. Later she married and reared Ave other children besides the little boy and girl by her flrft marriage. Lee Boyle has gone to Danville to visit his daughter. He said he would return to Hickory and from here would go to Oroehvlfle, 8. 0, to en gage In the cotton business. He has bean in Birmingham for the last six years. Had Lee Beyle, like BJnoofc JLrden, found the facts in the situation in his home, and silently departed, his story might never have been written, but he said he felt tbe urge to return home t* see his Mends and lpved anas. He said he had written twice but had received no answer. DANCER ASKS BIG SUM Dora Duby, a dancer of JN#w York alt y, has brought suit against Harold Grier, said to be an officer of .the Do minion Glass company at Montreal, Canada, for $100,000, alleging breach of promise. ! Sound Cash Displacing Moscow. ? Russia is gradually work ing into a now monetary system, based upon actual values la gold or negotiable securities, which promises soon to eliminate the billions of paper rubles now flooding the country. At the present time, a dual monetary system prevails, the one based on the Hew standard, the other on paper emis sion. The new money Is paper currency issued by the state bank in units equal in value to ten gold rubles of the pre war issue, and supposedly redeemable in gold upon presentation. Silver coins in ruble and fractional denominations have been minted, but net yet issued. American, English, French, Dutch and other currency is now in free and general circulation In Moscow, but gradually find their way back into the state bank which, whenever pos sible to persuade clients to accept, pays out the new gold notes in order to accustom the people to their use. They are well made notes on excellent paper, slightly larger than American currency. Find Prow of Stone Boat . 1 ' Used by Aborigine* Santa Barbara, Oal, ? Investigators of the Smithsonian institution, Wash ington, led by J. P. Harrington, havt unearthed in an ancient grave on Bur ton's mound in this city the prow of what was onoe a soapstone canoe. The Hid is said to be unique in the his tory of American archeological re search and indicates, in the opinion of the scientists, that stone boats were qsed by the ancient aboriginals of this district. Aviator's Dog Guards Plans. Mahonoy City, Pa. ? A government aviator, flying over the Quakake val ley, had to descend when his gasoline supply gave out. He had his Airedale dog with him. Placing the dog on guard, he went in search of gasoline. The Airedale kept crowding motorists on the highway away from the plane. ! ! Man KlUsd In Fight Over Toy Hclrn. Memphis.? In a quarrel for posses sion of a toy hoia, A. M. Mitchell, forty^two yeaj-s old, was shot to defth. Three other men, two of whom m Peking may once again be the capi tal of OhlfiiL *" . Not only statistics, but all facts lis when misapplied. A chronic grouch merer geee where he Lb teld to go until lie Ml ' x Poor boys often become great, asl great boys often become peer. .????; -j' A wise woman lets her husband make her do what die wants to do. ? ?* i. y ' ? ; 1 ? 4 ? ? Oftentimes the grouch that makes men uncharitable begins at home. Lots of men seem to cenaider that a loan is nothing bet* sou friends. Speaking of screen stars? what's the matter with the burgiarloas meequltot The summer styles prove that the fashion makers are bulls on bareness. Nobody need worry If child labor can be prevented as easily as the adult's. Too much of Europe's pressing for ward to prosperity has been printing* pressing. * Somehow the Turk always assumes that the crescent has a scimitar's cut* Ing edge. Now It Is the radio thief and Mr is stealing everything but the sta tion number. ? The paragrapher who says Bve Was a flapper is badly mistaken. 'jjjft tempted a man. With all these radio entertalnmshts, we soon shall be having cases of love at first hearing. Three things that will always be dis puted are an umpire, a husband and the Alaskan boundary. The judge whc^could call a baby cai* riage a common carrier has an uncom mon sense of values. One view of * <tHjto?V%atlon8 Is that the hands across the sea hre not handing anything across. ? ? An optimist Is one Who believes everything will turn ^out all iflgfit ia the end, even pessimists. Bagpipes were used In Home aa early as the year 69 A. D. And yet some people talk of evolution. While the Bolsheviks have not over ran the world, they hsve unquestion ably overstayed their welcome. This would be a itsble old wortd If -a man's faith could be made as nearly immovable as his prejudice. Talking to Mars is nothing compared to the feat of arranging office vaca tions so that everybody Is satisfied. A star has been discovered traveling 9,000,000 miles a second. Must be a movie one passing through matrimony. Also, there Is what Is Known as the "banana fly." Tou are admonished to swat that, too, rather than step on It. 1 " ? ? ? When a man starts out to be a Na poleon he never cares to read the book as far as Waterloo and St Hel Bettors on the races will ride In automobiles and the hand-bookles will walk when the age Is horseless In that sense. Overworked muscles cause wrinkles, says a physician. -Thafs why some people have all their wrinkles around the mouth. All that is needed Is s ride ever some railroads to convince oge that things aren't going as smoothly as they might Now it is said Noah's ark was a pyramid and next thing somebody will try to convince us that Jonah's whale Was a XT-boat. Another disadvantage In wireless telephoning is that when you cures the operator everybody under high heaven hears It The X-ray is credited with changing the sax of unborn banana flies and, for real benefit why not try It on "hoes" files la ambry* T "Baby needs $7,500 yeerly," says a headline. Well, that's right tat what we need and what we get Is some thing else again. A champion bexer who says he wouldn't pull jon one glove far $60,000 considerately dl4n*t let any cottage professors hear him. " There was ease s man who made a list of the twelve greatest women snd forgot to mention his wife. He Is still 1 realizing his mistake. The chorus gift who Is suing tot a divorce just possMjr ho hit npm , that as one way out of the chorus to a more prominent part ? ? "?jM ' _ ?? ? I Her press agent Is jnst the mas the movie actress has beta wanting to ses. 1 She wants to find out whether she stll) la living with her htufeand. - Sovietlsm is gradd|^^|y|g|^| mr OF 13 IS PMBB IN HOSPITALS TEN YEARS ? , J" . . * ' Poorly fat Lag Reoulti in So End of TrouMfc Bethlehem, Pa*-? After spending ttft ? ?i Ui thirteen, jean in ud 0&t of hoe* ?Mala, Stanley Spanvtius at this etty p en (he road to recovery at the Sa ered Heart hospital. The boy was tor jared on the eve of h to third birthday while playing around his father's flf flee in the Da Pont powder works St Hastings-on-the-HudsoiL i The boy's father, the late Fret IV W.-Spanutius, at one time a membef tf the faculty at Lehigh univewity, Was employed as chief chemist at the slant and it was his custom to taM ? the boy down to his oAe* One moflfr tog while playing Stanley fsU down a flight of stairs, breaking his leg to tour places. A physician in Hasting* however, set the broken member so poorly that blood poisoning set in and g portion of the Ug had to be ampu tated. The operation was performed at 0L John's hospital. New York <*T, Where he was confined for several months and finally discharged. Since that time he has been a patient at ten or more institutions, so numerous, in fact, that when asked their names and fbft period he had spent at each he replied: "I can't remember all of them." During the time that he has beso on the lists of hospitals he has un dergone 18 different operations. HCs is at present awaiting the fourteenth. Find Bones 10,000 Years Old in Ancient Tombs London.? The Joys and disappoint ments of excavation are exemplified in the British School of Archeology1! work this year In Egypt by some prod ucts which are now on exhibition at the University college, London. Describing the operations, ? H. Bach, one of the party of four excavators, said: "Of 'mora than 8.000 tombs opened by lis, 2,000 contained nothing of im portance, 600 contained a few beads and a vase or so, tfftd most of the Test provided very little of importance. "Then We across one or twa tombs which provided us with stacks ef rfrsfcefciss material. There was ?ueh a profusion of objects that ws wanted forty Instead of four Euro peans to charge. We came across an enormous pils of fossilized bones, con taining the earlleet human remains found in Egypt. MAmoag the hones we found ps^t of a pigmy's skull. The bones may .be ?wyhofv from 10,000 to 2t),000 years old." Send Flowers to Fit Your Friend's Illness London.? If you say It with flowers to s friend in the hospital don't say the same thing every time, is the sub stance of the advice given by Charles H. Dyke of the Royal Historical so ciety to his friends. Different ailments require different posies, is his sugges tion. "Try to discover what your friend is suffering from," he says. ?Tor inflammatory cases never take red blooms. Take blue flowers. If the patient Is sick at a time when an or dinary flower cannot be obtained a square of blue silk would relieve burn ing head pains like a tonic. For neu rasthenic and nerve complaints use - red flowers." Sword fish AstUti Man to Capture Big Shark Paris.? The surprising tale of a bat tle alongside of a fisherman's boat be* twees a shark and a swordflsh was told to Toulon correspondent!. No ticing a commotion In his nets, Indi cating that a shark was feasting on a [ sardine haul, a fisherman tossed oyer a large baited hook and In a few infa ntes the line began to run out After a long struggle he drew a four-foot shark to the surface. At this moment a swordfish appeared and slashed inte the shark's flanks, cutting deep gashes in four places, and enabling the fish erman to lift In his catch without dif ficulty. L ? * 8lx Silver F?xm Brjng $9,000. Vancouver, Wash.? Three pairs st sllyer foxes, raised on a local fam, brought $6,000 from local purchases*. Th^ foxes were rslsed by l>r. R. I. Mercer of this city, who has a ranch near the city limits in the Heights district The three pairs of young foxes were bought by W. J. Knsppt Brainy k Kusick end Jotwph' Cartsr, all business men here. Dr. Mercer Is bleeding the foxes on a commercial scale end hss had good success so tit. I The three pairs he sold were of extra breed, he said. Trial Marriaga Cost $21 in Days of OM Back in 800 B. 0. If a man didn't know which he preferred, single blessedness or marriage, it cost him only $21 to find out This Is the rate according to an ancient marriage contract found by Professor W. F. Petrie, of London, England. The contract, signed by an Egyptian, gave a woman $4, ap> proximately, and to return she was to be the man's wife. If he wished te divorce her, the ceatrad sped led, he wonU |K about $1T for his liberty. -iwunSiK't
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