VOL. LI
CURE OF SLEEPING
MALADY IN SIGHT
Missionary From Congo
Holds Out Hope.
New York.—After 12 years abroad
with but one Interruption, Dr. Arthur
L. Piper, a medical missionary of the
Congo mission conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, has Just re
turned for six months' furlough, ac
companied by his wife and two danglp
ters. Both duughters were born In
the Congo. The family comes from
the most remote mission station of the
Methodist church at the village of
Mwatu-Yamvo*of the\Paramount chief
of the Luunda tribe, aV Masumha, near
Kapanga, Belgian Congo. All are vic
tims of malaria contracted in the
tropics.
Doctor Piper corroborated reports
of cruelty In the Portuguese posses
sions of Angola. He explained the
difficulties he had experienced In fight
ing malaria, sleeping sickness and
leprosy among the Bantu natives.
Mwata-Yamvo, where the Pipers
have lived for 12 years, with but one
brief furlough five years ago, Is 1,200
miles from the cbast. It Is reached
by a 2,000-mile rail Journey from Cape
Town to Eltzabethville,' the Congo
capital, followed by another railway
Journey to the railhead of, Bugama.
From Bugama to Mwata-Yamvo is a,
21-day Journey by* caravan.
Are Only White#.
It is 500 miles' from the northern
Rhodet>iau border, and 1(W miles from
the border of Angola, 9 degrees south
of the equator, and has an altitude of
3,000 feet. With the exception of two
ollicials at the government • post at
Kapanga, five miles away, the Pipers
are the only whites in a native popu
lation of 45,000.
The entire family were yellowed
and listless from the malaria which
attacks all white aien in the Congo
jungles. Taking five grains of quinine
a day has beea their custom for years
and the children were fed quinine
from the age of two weeks. Drainage
of coqipoundß, and mosqul to-proof
houses are powerless to protect them
from this scourge, they said. Of the
children, Ruth, born in 1915, was the
first white baby born In that section
of bje Congo. On her birth she re
ceived the name of Mutuba and the
gift of a bull calf from the local chief.
'The baby, Margaret, born in 1920, is
uiaklDg her first trip to civilization.
Doctor Piper salf that sleeping sick
ness and leprosy were thf scourge of
the district, 4 per cent of the popula
tion being, lepers. No attempt was
made to segregate the iepers, he de
clared, and only sporadic eiforts were
made to relieve theui.
Germ Now Known.
"Although the germ of sleeping
sickness is known," he said, "hitherto
uo great progress has been made In
fighting the disease. The government
tries to see that the natives do not
live In the sleeping sickness belt along
streams and rivers where the carrier,
the tsetse fly, breeds. For the sunTe
reason attempts are made to keep the
villages clean. t
"The two drugs we have used have
not been successful. They don't-cure,
tfbt merely delay death. They are
atoxyl, Injected Inter-muscularly. and
tartar emetic, which Is given Intrave
ously.
"Three cures are now In existence
and give definite hope for the future.
They ure the Grtqman preparation
known as Bayor 208, a Rockefeller
institute preparation called trypanar
samlde, and a French specific. These
are not yet In general use, but I hope,
to adopt them when I get back. .
"Lastyyear I made my first attempt
to treat,the lepers in the district. They
art not segregated, as the dlftease is
of a comparatively mild variety, and
they constitute 4 per cent of the popu
lation. I gave them chaulmoogra oil,
by mouth and Injection, and the re
sults were not satisfactory.
"The taste of the oil Is disgusting
and lingers on the tongue for bouts,
while Injections are so painful that a
man 1b Incapacitated for days. A new
treatment with sodium morrhuate Is
reported more satisfactory and I hope
to try it out."
Why Needles Disappear
Explained by Detroiter
The 'mysterious disappearance of
millions of needles every year la par
tially explained by a Detroiter who
Just, returned from his old family
homestead upstate.
A rifting other things, be fonnd an
ancient pincushlbn, about eight inches
square, while exploring an attic Ailed
with miscellaneous Junk. With Ms
wife, he ripped open the cushion and
spread the sawdust filler on a news
paper. One by one they uncovered 112
needle* aa bright and shiny as the
day they were bought. They estimated
that the cushion was at least 190
years old, as It was brought to Michi
gan f>om New England shortly after
the Revolutionary war. The cushion
h*4 not been In nse for more than
W jssja—Detroit Trm Prup.
nn
THE
Old Festival Rites
in Honor of Ceres
The sacred rites with which the
annual festival of Cerea was cele
brated at Eleusis were called the
Eleusinlan mysteries.
Many tradition* were afloat In
ancient time, says Chambers, as to
the origin of this festival. Of these,
the most generally accepted was to
the effect that Cerefc.wandering about
the earth In search of Proserpine, her
lost daughter. aiTlved at Eleusis,
where she rested on the famous "Sor
rowful Stone" beside the well of Cal
llchours. In return for some small
act of kindness and in order to com
memorate her visit she taught Trip
tolemus the use of corn and other
cereals on the plain of Rharlan. near
the city, and instituted the m.vstlc
rites peculiarly known as belonging
to this goddess of agriculture.
The festival which she Inaugurated
consisted oi' two pnrts—the greater
snd the mysteries, the less
important feast serving as but un in
troduction or prelude to the greater.
The cot el'ration began on the fifteenth
day of Broedromlon. but history finds
no exact record of the proceedings.
That they were most Important in the
mystic life of the time Is evident from
the i>ro;nlnenee given to them. —R. H.
Tingley, in Chicago Journal.
Many and Various Are
"Graveyardof Book*
Wlien a book languishes, unread, un
looked at and 'unasked for on the
shelves of a library, one phase of Its
life has passed jwid It Is destined soon
to enter on a new one. IJut what is
the n«xt stage in Us career? That,
to the man In the street, is one of the
mysteries of literature. .
Most libraries have a sort of sanc
tuary for unwanted boobs —a chamber
of the forgotten—where they are kept
for a time and then disposed of.
Sometimes they And their w»y to sec
ond-hand book barrows; sometimes
they are repulped to supply -paper for
other books with all the world before
them.
Luckiest of all are those which the
London library decides, to discard. It
was recently revealed that they are
sent out to the Seychelles Islands,
where one book Is as good as another,
and the date of a volume's publication
has no Influence on Its chances of
popularity.
Adventurous books, these, that go
voyaging out to the Indian ocean. But
there Is a price to pay for adv.ent.ure.
Sooner or later the ants will get them,
and when these voracious devourers
of literature are done with them
there will be nothing left for ordinary
readers! —London Mall.
Eye 4 of the Great
After consulting various records we
fln l says the Washington Star, that
nl lioug!) in the eyes of famous people
a.I colors are represented, the ma
jority appear to have had ey«*p either
of blue, gray or blue-gray. Dante's
eyes were brown, as were slso those
of Inlius Caesar. PfeganlnL Goethe,
I„ . -■> Hunt. Voltaire, Gladstone. Pope
I.' XIII, Beethoven, Raphael and Sir
Joshua Reynolds. Persons with gray
e; es Include Byron, Coleridge, Chatter
ion. Napoleon. Bismarck and Nansen,
the explorer. Audubon, the duke of
Wellington, Richard Coeur de Lion,
Wolsey, Dickens, Ruskln, Moltke, the
duke of Marlborough, Swift and Edi
son nl! had blue Many persons
I'Hve eyes that are jit times gray and
nl times blue, generally described as
blue gray. Famous persons having this
type of eyes Include Frederick the
Great, J. Russell Lowell, Rossetti and
George Washington. Most portraits of
Shakespeare Indicate that he had blu?
eyes.
Stopped in Time
The defendants were all certain that
they had not been overspeeding.
"We may have been patting on
speed when we got to the bill, but we
could be down to 20 miles an hour
within two car-lengths," said the first
one.
"I'm sore," said the next man, "that
we weren't doing more than 15 mile*
an hour, and at the crossroads we
were down to ten."
The third merely put it: "We were
practically at a standstill when the
policeman cam* up."
"If I hear any more witnesaea.>l
shall have the car backing Into some
one." said the justice of the peace, Td
better stop the thing now. Ten dollars
flue."
1 **Bloody Sweat"
The skin of the hippo]
which in some places Is two Inches
thick, contains a large quantity of oily
substance which. exudes from the
pores. When the hippopotamus la ex
cited or In pain thin oily substance
flows more freely and Is tinctured red
dish la color. This la the "bloodr
swiii'" for which the animal Is faraou*.
S - «ytjr tital the color of the
oil j • a - l- um caused by bloo&
—Fa thunder Mifil—
ALAM.WCK (jrIiEANER
GRAHAM, N. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1925
Repose, as a Fine Art,
Found in Spanish Town
If proof be needed that Spahi, geo
graphically as well as historically, is a
sort of bridge between Europe and
Africa, the ancient Saraceh town of
Elche, near Alicante, supplies It.
It. Is an odd little town with Its
twisting, zigzagging streets. Its medie
val towers and buildings and Its ravine
where not a drop of water flows. In
every doorway a man Is seated mak
ing soles for sandals. Indeed the en
tire town appears to be dedicated to
the manufacture of sandals which yon
see everywhere In piles and bales,
overflowing the shops.
In the center of the town Is a tiny,
green square, as neat and trim as a
salon, beneath , ancient, overarching
trees. Nearby are two or three cafes,
which serve as the club for the city
notables; and the triple rows of wick
er armchairs on the sidewalk are voc
cupied hy silent, grave men who
neither drink nor talk. Here they re
main, as motionless as statues, for
hours at a time.
"I have never In my life seen so
many people sitting down as there are
in Spain," remarked an American
woman who was in our party. "I
should like to bring some of my fel
low countrymen here to teach thein
the art of which they are abysmally
ignornnt—the art of repose."—Ray
mond Recouly In Le Figaro. Paris.
(Translated for the Kansns City
Star.)
Modern Ideals Make
Cave Men Seem Tame
Another Ideal of the flapper has
been shattered. Her vision of the cave
man is all wrong.
ne did not catch them young and
treat them rough, nor did he a-woolng
go with a big club and prove his devo
tion to his sweetlu by dragging her
around by her unnobbed tresses. A
professor of Belolt college has been
looking up the records of the gay
Lotharios of sixty years back and can
not And a thing to show they were the
tough bunch we had always supposed
thepi to be.
The fact Is they were n mollycoddle,
na.mbypamby set of young fellows,
who would have made a sorry showing
with tfie present day maids. Instead
of wielding clubs thfey found great
thrill In stringing beads and begging
the handset their loved ones on their
bended knees.
That Belolt professor bus done the
men of the present nge » grent serv
ice by showing up the cove man In his
'true character. The yotinp'men of to
day do not pack clubs and_stone ham
mers and may naj/be rough* enough to
come np to spefllcntlons. but we can
not accuse them of pnttlng In their
time stringing beads. There Is an
opportunity now for some favornlfle
comparisons. The girls will have to
admit that the men have Improved
In the last sixty thousand years.
To Aid Children
Knights of Youth, a new order
whose purpose Is the ethical training
of school children, has been Introduced
In 12 public schools of New York city.
Nearly 1,000 children are enlisted In
the ranks of knighthood In one school.
This order acclaims character as th*
knight's noblest quest, and It was
formed to combat the Increase In Ju
venile crime. It is sponsored by the
"National Child Welfare association.
Spread of the Boh
Shingling Is still the most popular
ityle of halrdress In Paris. I»ndnn, Vi
enna and Rome, according to answers
to inquiries made recently.
Live* Year With Savage
Tribe in West Siberia
Leningrad.—Mme. it. P. Slltusova, a
plucky, collaborator of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, after 12 months'
residence with a new race of people
discovered In the arctic wilds of west
ern Siberia, has collected much Inter
esting Information about these strung"
people, who are organized Into Ave
clans and number only about fIOO.
The members of this race call them
selves "Neshen," which means merely
men or people. Their neatest neigh
bors are the Samo.veda.
These strange people are quite un
like the Samoyeds In that they have
very dark hair and complexions and
their language is wholly different,
lacking entirely the "ft" sound, which
Is pro.nlnent In speech of the
Samoyeds.
, Until 1923, no civilized person bad
been known to have set foot In the
territory of this new race, according
to B. N. Oorndkov He has Just pub
ilshed a report of an expedition sent
to western Siberia by the Russian
Academy of Bcfences In the latter pan
of 1928, which found these aborigines
on the River Purs.
Bear* Thirtieth Child
Madrid.—At the age of sixty-eight
"anillle Lorenzo, a resident of thi
©wo of Vafladofld. ha* Just gives
Mfth to her thirtieth child.
Limit to Airplane Speed
Can Be Fixed
What will be the limit «f r on'i
■peed through the air? According to
Science and Invention, experts and
engineers have tried to estimate this
limit since the Wright brothers made
their first successful flight In a power
driven airplane. One hundred miles
an hour was once considered an amat
ing speed limit for airplanes. This,
with estimates that, followed,
has been surpassed by the rapid ad
vance of aircraft und motor designs,
until up to the present time It is dif
ficult to estimate what the maximum
speed of future alrplunes will be.
There are, however, two conditions
to be considered, namely, the mechani
cal limit and the physical limit.. The
latter has already shown itself in
closed circuit speed trials when mak-
Jng turns, due to the fact that cen
trifugal force begins acting on - the
blood, forcing it away from the pilot's
heud and rendering him temporarily
unconscious. While there are prac
tically no physical defects noted In
flying a straight course, outside of
nerve strain, tlfe mechanical limits are
present. This Is known as an air
plane's speed range, which Is the dif
ference between the. low landing
sperd and the highest level flying
speed, the definite landing speed de
sired becoming the point of departure
in the design.
At the annual International air
races a landing speed not to exceed
75 miles an hour Is fixed, so that
safety is not sacrificed In the work of
science to advance the world's speed
records.
As the airplane at present Is the
most effective weapon of wnr, due to
Its speed and maneuverability and
with the leading countries of the world
striving to attain constantly Increas
ing speeds. It Is safe to estimate
velocities In excess of 400 miles an
hour In the near future.
Why Platinum Is High
The present position of platinum In
the Industrial and In the commercial
World is a peculiar one. It has al
waya been a rare metal, and our mod
ern Inventors have made it quite aa
essential, In perhaps minute quanti
ties. In many lines of Industry. The
demand thus created baa sent It to
the top of precious metala—lts re
cent price ranging at four or Jlva
times that of gold.
The enormous price has created an
abnormal demand among persona fond
of dlaplay. - The United Statea now
"conaumes" more platinum than all
the other countries of the world com
bined. and by far the greatest amount
of the metal goes Into Jewelry. For
this purpose the demand Increased
from 2,000 ounces In 1819 to 100,000
ounces In 1923, while the total world
output in 1924 was only about 88.000
ounces.—Compressed Air Magazine,
Why Termed "Dowager"
Strictly speaking, every widow In
receipt of a dower Is a dowager—
"dower" implying property- which waa
either brought by a bride to her bun
hand and reverts on his death to her
own use, or which has been legally
settled by the husband to his widow's
use. In practice, however, all widows
so situated are not called dowsgera,
but only those whom It Is necessary
to distinguish from the "reigning"
wife of the same name and, even then,
the word Is confined chiefly to Isdles
of high rank. Thus In a titled family
we may hear of the duchess snd tbo
"dowager duchess," the latter, by tbo
way, very often living In the "dower
house," a small establishment near
the big mansion put aside for the use
of the widow by the late lord.
Why Rings Are Worn
The finger ting dates from ancient
times. In the enrly periods when the
art of writing wan known to but very
few It was the custom for men to wear
rings on which some distinguishing
sign tfr hsdge was engraved so that
they could use them as \enls for let
ters snd other Important documents.
As a pledge of good faith, a promise
snd ss a symbol of authority finger
rings were In use before the Chris
tian era.
Found It Easy to Forgivo
"You know the' feeling, that flush «f
anger that comet over you when you're
driving peacefully along a country
road and suddenly bear a familiar
■harp report," aald the motorist. "You
begin to curse and ask yourself why
you didn't change that tire. We 11,,1
wa* driving near the Oakland IJllls
Country and Golf club recently and
all of a sudden 'lJang!' I got out to
see which tire It wa*. They were all
O. K. Then up comes a beknlckered
chap and starts apologizing for some
thing. 'Sorry,* says he, 'sort missed
my aim and drove my -pill Into your
rear fender.' Sure enough there was
a dent In the fender and the ball wa*
a short dlstsace away. 1 waa only too
glad to forgive Mm."—Detroit Vow,
Varying Behavior ot
Animation Shtyfard
To be in charge of animals on a sea
voyage is somet'lm— a perilous as well
as an unpleasant
human beings who, on the approach
of sea-sickness, evince a dismal tfeslre
to die, dumfi creatures often display a
violent desire to live.
A rough night on a )*«s carntM,*
cargo of cattle can provide many
thrills, snd, unhappily, a number of
horrors.
It is fortunate, however, that while
cattle are the most usupl Rve stock
carried by sen, they are also tha most
heroic of all creator?* In a stornv
showing s stoical determination t®
conquer the devastating powers of
sickness.
Some snlmsjf do.not fefl thf effects
of a Journey by sea in the s*m« way
as others, and while some sre 111 dur
ing the whole of the trip, others quick
ly become used to their. new home,
and flourish. "
The worst ssllor of all is safd to bo
the tiger, while the only, one thst caa
be described as bejpg really comfort
able on board ship 1* the polar bear.
Horses are great sufferers' at set.
as every cavalryman knows, sad they
frequently die from the effects of sea
sickness.
Birds. reptile*, mopkfys aWL other
small anlinala suffer in varying d*»
(frees, bat, in comparison wjj til Iblblf
ger creaturea. they are mock, batter
sailors. of these. little trsv
elera are brought to eur shore#, each
yea{, and on .an arerap the '
are fairly small.
Sometimes, of conrse, acorea of bird*
will die oft In the early stagea of a
voyage, but that ia not always actual
ly caused by eea-slckness* Mora often
It la a dlseaae that la spread among
them by one Infected member of the
batch;, or it may be a complaint
brought on by being confined la neces
sarily close qnsrters.
When once a dlseaae la estsbilshed
In a cargo of birds, numbering hun
dreda or perhapa thousand*, there is
little hope of many being landed alive
Charlatan*
"The snares of the charlatans are
no more peculiar te Denver Qua to
any place where helpless bwn4n|ty
offers harvests to the unsCTqpuW
profiteers of affliction,?. aayp ATice
Ilohe, New York journalist, telling of
her fight back to health, la Hearsts
Internatlonal-OosmopoUtaa.
"Discouraged at my Inability to work.
I listened to the Importunities of aa
acquaintance who wanted to bring a
friend, a doctor, to aaa me. Ho told
ino there was nothing the matter with
me, Just a little bilious attack.
"But oh, when In a moment of weak
ness I told him I had com* to Col
orado for tuberculosis, how tM»p
changed t Immediately ho Informed me
that I waa dying and couldn't last the
year out unless I took his magical
serum treatment With the warning
from New York In my ears, I refused.
I bulwarked myself behind the truth
ful plea of no money.
" 'But you're In a dangerous condi
tion, you're dying,' he Insisted. 1
can't let yon die. You're a friend of
X. If you get well from your almost
hopeless state. It will bo an advertise
ment for my method- Dont worry
about the money.'
"And so I fail, in a moment of ter
rorised Illness and discouragement
Just as no doubt countless other lonely
lungers have fallen. Then two
later an enormous MU arrived snd
automatically I stopped (he treat
ments."
Thm ShyUark
The skylark la to me tbo moat WS«
derful bird in the world, bacaflM therj
Is no sense but Just rar? beauty to his
way of singing. Like soma mad spirit,
some blithe bird soul, be flies la ever
widening circles towards the beavena,
singing ss bo climbs higher snd higher,
until yo» swear bla vary throat would
burnt Then when be la paly a flash
ing speck swsy up almoat oat
he dives like a graceful monoplanv
trilling bia pure Joy, wild with life,
mad with abandon in the azotic non
sense of his font Suddenly ha checks
his fsntaatlc drop sqrf then, aa, softly
as s leaf floating downward la a gentle
hreexe. be glidea to earth—and his
song Is ended.—Frailer Hunt, la
Hearst's International Coamopollun.
Monhoy at Pots
Monkeys are natives of win ett>
mates and cannot eador* • low
temperature, therefor* they should he
provided with heated quarters, at least
daring cold weather. If the animal
Is to be confined contlnsally the cage
should not he lev than four feet la
each dimension. The cage should be
entirely tight with only the front wired
—thus preventing draughts, which are
fatal to theae animal*. The following
1* prescribed aa a diet: Vegetables,
raw or cooked; boiled rice, ripe fruit
—banana*, oranges, sweet apples;
stale bread, occasionally a bit af well
cooked chicken, fresh aiilk to which
raw egg ha* been added; water should
be provided at all" flisss -WnlHj
IN War.
Find Beach Combing
' Industry Worth While
The statement that a beach comber
•t Liverpool has igede £9 ($45) In two
days may amass the uninitiated, but
at many popular resorts and big porta
there are men who make a bit simply
from combing the beach.
Whatever Is lost upon the.ssnds and*
much that goes Into the sea are evfjp- i
tually brought back by tha tide at;
some time; but the beech comber must,
be quick, for the nest wave may suck)
his. find back to remain hidden for!
several tides or to be thrown up onj
another portion of the coasts, thai
Manchester Guardian says.
All sorts of srtides are found.)
Cigarette cases, rings, brooches,!
watches, purses and coins all go to
make up the treasure trove of seasldei
beaches. At the ports much bulkier
stuff Is retrieved. Barrels of oil or 1
beer, esses of copper or other metal.,
and piles of loose rope or canvas are
among the crop, and these have usu
ally a ready market.
It Is a skilled business, too, this
combing of the beaches, for not merely
are a keen eye and quick grasp essen
tial; to mske the greatest profit a man
must be fsmllisr with the currents of
the coart, and so be able to foretell
which portion of the beach is likeliest
to yield treasure at each season of
the year.
Make* Sad Picture of
"Night in Mexico
* Mexico la no holy city. Secretly abe
Suable*, secretly abe Indulges In all
the vices: secretly her people poison
themaelves with alcohol and drugs. a»-
cretljr they aaaaaalnate each other.
■Bh« la a hypocritical city. She prac
tices every rice that the modern world
has Invented for Its aelf-annibilattoa.
She Indulges In the dlaelpatlons of
Part* and New York, but without the
Joy that fires them a pretense of ra
tionality, or the craving for beauty
and happlnea* that lenda them a notte
pathos. In Mexico vice 1a petty and
affected —an alien psrmalte on the old
colonial life.
fiMMhiii art taciturn by nature.
RiHr does Joy excite aa to aoag ud
iMgfctar. , We knew nothing of the
high spirit! of tba French. Ware a
person to slag at midnight la *V
streets he would scandalise every
food cttisea returning from the cinema,
contented with baring seen bis own
stupidity faithfully reflected on the
screen from 'eight Interminable reels
of celluloid.
Our drunkenness also Is sad. Wine
rises to our heads H wares of blood.
Then we kill—kill as naturally as
other men Isugh snd dance.
Cabaret*, renter* of wild merriment
fc. the United States and Europe,
among n* become and places where
people dlae., expensively. drink eco
nomically, and dance hlerstlcslly.,—
Julio Jlmtnes Hueda In the ExceWor,
Mexico City.
Hmndfhahe Guide to Loom
The handahake la a correct and ln
fallfble guide to true love. This Is the
contention of Dr. David V. Bosh, n
teacher of applied psychology. "Shake
bands," he aaya, "before yon start *
courtship— not because yon are to
start something resembling a pugilistic
bent, bnt because If the hsnds dont
fit perfectly, don't start It." Doctor
Buah aays "the sltar Isn't even a
milestone In the con roe of lore; It's
apt to be s millstone. A marriage cer
tificate la no guarantee of lore. Mar
riage. looked at as the goal of lore,
is apt to be a grave If the game ends
when the knot |s tied." The exponent
ef applied psychology thinks trouble
Can be avoided by proper character
analysis before the courtship advances
too far.
doing Him a Lift
A canal boat skipper aat placidly on
his rudder handle and smoked, while I
horSe towed him slong the canal. A
limping tramp balled blm from tbe
bank.
"Can 70a give HM ■ lift to the next
town, captain T* be asked. "My fetfi
raw with bllaters."
"If I sign yoo on to the next town,
wty 70a I(TN to work your
■y lndr
1 will. captain," Mid the tramp,
eagsriy. "My feet —"
The skipper threw ■ rope ••hot*.
"Then catch bold & that rope;" he
Mid, "line np alongside the horse, snd
•put! for all yov're worth."—London
Answers.
Of RuatUm Origin
The balalaika Is n Russian musical
Instrument- it originated with the
peasantry. Whan Pater the Grant
heard It, be bad It Introduced into the
court. Prom his day until the fall of
th« empire, a balalaika orchestra was
maintain*] nt court. The Instrument,
whlcb Is becoming popular In the Unit*
ed States, has a triangle-faced box.
the hack being nMndoll»-shapel. The
leag neckttJttai'irA'f£»s string*.
There are aheet n dease diffsrrat
NO. 38
BELIEF IN WITCHES
BY NO MEANS GONE
Still Strong in Part* of
Rural England.
In remote corners of England to
which the railroad does not ran, and
where visitors are few, the belief In
witchcraft still lingers, In spite of par
son and schoolmaster, says a writer in
$ London paper, who I continues:
Walking down what Is called a
"green lane" only a few days ago I
passed a little Elizabethan cottage,
thatched and weather-boarded, and
saw over the front door a hazel wand.
Cariosity led me past the corner of
the field on which the cottage stands,
and these, sore enough, on the back
door, was another hazel wand.
On the pIA of wishing to buy some
"of the gooseberries that were growing
on the bushes, I entered into conver
sation with the old man who owns the
cottage, and asked him frankly who
was troubling him. I pointed to the
hazel wand over the back door as
though I took its efficacy for granted,
and he told me that be had had some ~
trouble with the local "Wise Woman.**
One of his pigs bad sickened as a re
sult, and to save himself from further
trouble be bad put op the wands, bp
cause no wise woman can pass beyond
them.
In another Tillage I know veil t
woman who earned a«good bit of
money by the sale of herb medicines,
sent her daughter to service In Wales;
and this daughter came back with MM
of the Old-fashioned bats of tbe COOK
try that women used to vgKr'By the
aid of tbe hat and her
'mother thrives, foj she has sharp fea
tures, and the costume strikes terror,
or at least respect. Into tbe heart* of
the country folk.
▲ point to be remembered is that
many of the "wise women" hare a
Cte valuable knowledge of the rir
■of certain herbs. I know of ooe
who has repeatedly cnred the wont
symptom* at whooping cougti by giv
ing mothers of afflicted children a *Mi»
slice of garlic to wear between their
foot and their sola. A great llarioy
street specialist told me only a few
years ago that this cure has an un
doubted efficacy.
Some of the village folk will set
trust their children to the "wise wom
en," but they sre not so particular
about their animals and It la a fact
that many simple of cows;
calres, pigs snd dogs are cured by
these unauthorised practitioners.
A country clergyman of long experi
ence told the writer tbe other day that
the belief la witchcraft is not to be
eradicated, and that aa long as plaus
ible* people advanced dalma, these
claims would be recognised.
He Wasn't Interested
Lincoln Springfield, whose career of
more than forty year* In Fleet street
has admirably fitted him to write his
reminiscences thereof, relates a story
of i reporter named Jewell, gifted
with a brilliant descriptive pen, but
sadly lacking In knowledge of the
ralue of news:
"Down at Blackwall, at the Thames
Iron works, H. M. S. Albion was to be
launched one June afternoon by tbe
duchess of York (the present queen);
and thla occurred to me to be just tbe
kind of function that Jewell wonld de
prettily and gracefully.
"Sure enough. Jewell wrote a bril
liant description of the »cene—the
nearest thing to a Turner sunset that
you could get In manuscript. I was oa
the point of sending It up to the com
positors. and was glowing with pleas
ure over my Judgment in having
leeted Jewell for tlie Job, when a mes
senger placed on ray le*k a report
from the tape machine, announcing
that HO people bad been drowned at - ,
the launching. As the ship took the
water, tbe displacement had sub
merged a staging where masses of
spectator* were assembled. Several
hundred of them were thrown into tbo
water, and more than 30 of them could
not be rescued.
"There fiad not, in Jewell's master
piece of scenic effect bfea a hint of
any disaster, of unyth&x st all uxv
toward. 1
"I demanded ai) explanation from
Jewell. Hadn't be seen anything of
the catastrophet
" 'W'elV replied the languid Jewell.
1 did see some people bobbing about
in the water, as I came awuy, but—'*
English Bibles in East
A great many English Bibles hare
found their way to the foreign depots
of the Near East relief organization,
frequently gifts of individuals la
America. In many cases an Arartlcan
church member Contributing an old
dock or anlt to the annual Bundle day
campaign, has tucked a Bible or an
English Testament Into one of the
pockets, forgetting that very few of
the refugees are able to read even a
aingle word of English. These Bible*
are carefully sorted oat and are dis
tributed to Ibe teachers or to student*
In Eagttoh dwni tor urn m tos^