,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
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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.
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