VOL. LI
PAGO PAGO MAKES
IDEAL NAVAL BASE
Port in Heart of Extinct
Volcano Crater.
i Washington.—Pago Pago, visited by
United States naval vessels, on their
return from Australia and New
Zealand, Is the capital of American
Samoa, which Is the only bit of Amer
ican soil that lies south of tlie equa
tor, according to the bulletin from the
Washington headquarters of the Na
tional Geographic society.
"Pago Pago practically fell Into the
lap of a •none too willing America,
while various powors were seeking Is
land territory in the Pacific," con
tinues, the bulletin; "but If the entire
South seas had been combed, with all
the other nations standing deferential
ly by, a better location for a naval
base hardly could have been chosen.
Most South Sea harbors are little
more than crescent bays, protected by
coral reefs, their safety largely de
pendent on the direction of the wind.
At Pago Pago ships sail into the heart
of a ifuge extinct volcano crater, only
a nar,row entrance open to the sea.
Furthermore, there Is a sharp turn In
side, the whole harbor being shaped
much like the ankle and foot of a
stocking.
Beautiful ?.8 Well as Safe.
"The United States naval station Is
situated on the 'instep,' Its back to
ward the sea, but with high mountains
Intervening. Pago Pago town lies at
the 'toe.' Most of the anchorage Is
entirely out of sight of the sea, and
the ships lie In deep placid water even
when destructive galgs are blowing
outside.
"Giving Pago Pago the premier place
among South Sea havens does not do
It justice. Many famous harbors are
more aommodious; but It is hardly too
much to say that Pago Pago Is at once
one of the safest and most beautiful
harbors In the world. A narrow strip
of level land rims the harbor. Imme
diately beyond this strip the sides rise
up steeply to mountuinous heights, the
sloping walls cohered with varying
shades of green, tropical vegetation.
In addition to the naval station and
Pago Pago town, three or four pil
lages nestle close to the water's edge
around the harbor, their thatched
huts half hidden by coconut palms.
"The harbor of Pago Pago almost
cuts the Island of Tutulla In two. This
is the largest Isle of Samoa.
17 miles long and about five wide.
The other American Islands lie about
sixty miles to the east. Only one,
Tau, about five miles in diameter, is
of Importance, though two smaller
Isles are inhabited. Altogether the
population of American Samoa Is
about 8,000, some 6,000 residing on
Tutuila.
"American Samoa has been little
spoiled by the civilization of the
mother country, or that of other
whites. Few whites reside In the Is
lands besides the small group of mis
sionaries and the officers, men and
nurses at the naval station. Only one
plantation Is owned by a white man
and only three or four whites have
leaseholds. Practically the entire
surface of the islands ;-ls owned in
'small tracts by individual natives. The
United States even bought from Indi
vidual landlords the 40 acres needed
for Its naval establishment.
I "In the, past the lavir-lava, a son
of short skirt or-kilt, was the only
garment toorn by both men and wom
en. Now slight concessions are made.
In Pago ■ Pago or In the presence of
whites the men add a sort of under
shirt and tHe women.a sort of Jacket
or smock. Among themselves, how
ever, and in the outlying districts, the
natives still let the lava-lava, tucked
about the waist, serve In place of the
white man's and white woman's more
complex costume.
Natives Largely Belf-Governlng.
• "In governmental matters, too, the
United States has practiced lalssez
falre to an extent highly appreciated
by the natives. The system employed
so successfully by the Dntch In the
East Indies has been adopted. An
American naval officer stationed at the
Pago Pago depot Is appointed gover
nor, bnt all officials under him sctual
ly exercising supervision over the na
tives are native hereditary chiefs. The
Llands are divided Into three districts
(ancient native divisions) with a na
tive governor for each. Under the
governors are chiefs of 'counties' (also
ancient districts) and under the coun
ty chiefs are the village chiefs. The
village chiefs have councils composed :
of the heads of families.
"The United States practices a cer
tain measure of paternalism over its
Bouth Sea Island wards. Copra, the
dried meat, of coconuts. Is practically
the only article of export The gov
ernment bandies this crop for the na
tives, so assuring them * fair price.
Free medical attention Is furnished
through naval medical officers, dent
ists, nurses and hospital corps men.
Tiie health of the Samoans Is excel
lent and their numbers are Increasing.
During the 91 rears of American con
tful Reputation has grown 41 per
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THE ALAMANCE ULEANER
Spanish Ttium CI trims
Home of Colambu*
A campaign rages in Paris to show
that an Arab discovered America 400
years earlier than Columbus. This
agitation has not prevented a fourth
town from claiming the distinction of
being the great Christopher's birth
place. This latest claimant Is the
small Spanish Galllctan community of
PonteveUra. It is preparing to put up
a monument commemorating itsdf as
Coiumbuef home town.
Pontevedra's action has excited the
rival Columbus birthplaces. Genoa,
Calvl, Colos, none will admit the com
petency of the evidence on which the
others have their claims, and all make
light of Pontevedra. The French
press inay seek to destroy the glory
of the man whom a Corslcan historian
named "the Inventor of America"—but
the four towns argue on.
Colos, Ir Portugal, contains a whole
library on the subject of where Colum
bus was born. Not only does It hold
that Columbus 'first saw the light of
day In that tiny village In the province
of Alentejo (the country of the poet
Caroens), but also that, Genoa to the
contrary, he studied for his subse
quent nautical calling In the Portu
guese kingdom, and offered his serv-
I Ices to the king of Spain only after
they had been refused by Juan II of
Portugal.
The general opinion seems to be
that, since Homer had no less than
seven birthplaces, (according to the
best authorities—the towns them
selves), no one can call four excessive
for a mail like Christopher Columbus.
New editions of the encyclopedias
reassert that Genoa was his birthplace.
The Americana says he was "born In
Genoa probably in 14.11." It records
that he first olTered to go on his event
ful voyage for Juan II of Portugal,
and that'he "also sent letters to Henry
II of England, with the same ill suc
cess." Nelson's (English) Encyclo
pedia records that the "discoverer of
( the new world was born In tlie neigh
borhood of Genoa and went to sea at
fourteen." and was for a time lh Portu
guese maritime service. The New In
ternational Encyclopedia says he, "the
discoverer of America, was born In
Genoa." But he married at Lisbon
and .there his son, Diego,' was born.
The Britannlca records that he was
"the eldest son of Domenico Colombo
and Suzanna Fontanarossa and was
born at Genoa about 1440 or in 145 L"
—New York Times.
How Fast Light Travels
Light travels with t speed of about
188,300 miles a second. Scientists have
known this fact fbr years. Bnt Dr. A.
A. Mlchelson, president of the Na
tional Academy of Science; who is one
of the greatest practical physicists in
the world, Is not sstlsfled with this
figure. He thinks it is about 20 miles
short of absolute accuracy.
If Doctor Mlchelson's experiments
are successful this error will be re
duced to as low as one mile per sec
ond, a figure accurate enough for prao
tlcally all scientific purposes. Although
Doctor Mlchelson Is confined to his
bed In Pasadena, Cal., aa the result of
an operation several months sgo, he Is
continuing his experiments with the
aid of his assistant, Fred Pearson. A
reflection mirror on Mt. Baldy, 22 miles
from Mt. Wilson, Is being used for the
light experiments.—Exchange.
Toy Theater Comet Back
In Europe the toy theater has again
taken hold of the popular fancy with
the result that there are some Interest
ing offerings being made. The amart
set of London Is back of It The en
tertainment is given by means of min
iature toy actors manipulated by
strings. It Is a far cry from the days
of the manipulated punch and Judy
shows, as even Shakespearean dramas
are being given In these modern toy
'heaters.
Gentle Hint
Hiram Snlckleby, a New Jersey
horse dealer, sold s horse to an ex
pressman who, however, returned In
s day or two with the statement tbat
he was not exactly satisfied with his
deal, Ije was asked the reason for
his dlsatlsfactlon.
only one tblng I don't like
about this mare," be said. "She won't
bold her bead up."
"Oh, that's only her silly pride," ex*
claimed Hiram. "She will when sbe'a
fully psid for." j
Greateet Artificial Lake
What will be the largest artificial!
Inks In the world is being built in s
remote section of Alnbama to assure :
s constsnt flow of water for driving j
three large electric generators. These j
will feed power Into the electrical'
transmission system of the state. The j
lake will have a shore line 700 miles
long snd will cover 40,000 seres of
farm and forest land.—Popular Science
Monthly.
What It Sounded Like
Suitor—l called to—er—talk te yon
about—er—.your daughter's band
Fattier—James, tell Miss Dorothy
the manicure has antaet
GRAHAM, N. C,. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1925
FACTS OF HISTORY
GET ODDLY MIXED
People Seem to Want Thefn
Made to Order. '
It Is 4 curious thing that the people
will have history as they want to have
tt regardless of what really happened.
This singular retrospective power of
mere notions or Impressions %ver ac
tual events extends even to the lives
and deaths of persons. A case In point
is the assumption, found In virtually
all the- papers; In connection with the
sad death of the President's son, that
during the Incumbency o(. the Presi
dency Lincoln lost his boy, whose nick
name was "Tad," says the Boston
Transcript.
This is not at all the case. "Tad"
was the familiar name of the Presi
dent's son, Thomas, who died, at the
age of eighteen, some years after his
father's death and, of course, after the
family had left Washington. The
President's son who died during his
term of office was Willie (William
Wallace), whose death, at the age of
twelve. In February, 18I2, brought a
pang of sorrow to the nation. Nor Is
it "true, as Qne paper asßerts In order
to explain this confusion, that It was
Willie Lincoln who was properly called
by the nickname "Tad." This was the
I familiar name of the boy Thomas al
ways.
Not infrequently after his brother
Willie's death "Tad" Lincoln accom
panied his father In his appearances
in public places. He was a familiar
figure, but his death, after the fam
ily's removal, did not nttract the poign
ant attention that Willie's death did,
coming, as that previous blow did, dur
ing the severest stress and strain of
the early period of thej Civil war.
All this Is made clear In the biogra
phies of Lincoln, and It Is a part of
the recollection of many of thosi now
living whose memory covers the days
of the CJvlI war, but the notion that
"Lincoln's Tad" died during his fa
ther's term of office'ls so firmly fixed
that some even of those who were
alive in the early 'oob entertain it.
If there is a remedy or a: correction
for this particular error perhaps it
lies in teaching the true names of Lin
coln's sons, and the reasons lor them,
so that they will get these boys differ
entiated.
Lincoln's eldest son, Hetoert T«dd.
now living and distinguished (people
sometimes forget that, too), was
named after his mother's father, Rob
ert S. Todd, an Influential Kentuckian.
The second, Edward Baker, who died
In Infancy, was named for a friend.
The next, William Wallace, was named
after Gen. William Wallace, a friend
of Lincoln's In Illinois. Thomas
("Tad"), the youngest, bore the name
of Lincoln's father.
Petty Tyranny
Isn't there, perhaps, a bit of petty
tyrannyin most of us? Don't we some
times take a mean delight In dominat
ing a situation. In lording it over an
other person. In exercising our small
rights till they become veritable acts
of despotism?
There's the husband who habitually
places his wife in the position of a
menial by requiring her to ask for
money. There's the nagging, fussy
wife whose "nerves" keep the entire
family In subjugation. There's the
holly brother who makes life for hie
small sisters utterly miserable.
And outside the family there are
others who turn "their functions In so
ciety Into realms of absolute power.
There's the bad-te npered boss, an*
the overexactlng teacher, the snappy
petty official.
But whether onr tyranny Is an In
nate one that lies In our character or
an acquired one that has come throagh
chance position In life, most of us
have It In some form or other. There's
no need of adding, we'd be better peo
ple apd the world liapp'er, too, without
It.—The Designer Magiizlne.
Menage of Gratitude
Counting up onr inerde* and our ev
eryday reasons for gratitude, looking
at the hundred little things and large
things, gentle words, loving smiles,
flowers sent to cheer ns. children to
greet us. old friends to advise and
middle-aged friends to uphold us. good
books to read, dear songs to slag,
meetings In gladness, even partings In
hope for the better life, we do not
know where to end the list. Tbs only
tblng to do la to live always In an atr
mosphere sweetyand vital with thank*
giving—-Margaret K. Sangster.
Pound Almost Zoo
Paris. — The Paris poundraaster'e re
port shows the city really could quali
fy aa a Noah's Ark. In the last two
years the pound has collected 14
i horses, seveb bulla, live donkey*, six
1 bogs, nine sheep, 14 rabbits, 15 chick
ens, 27 pet birds, three turtles, tl
white rets, one noongoose sad one
Caacaslsn bear. It also boused for m
while an entire menagerie abandoned
by s bankrupt animal trainer.
;; HOW il
• • MOON CAMS INTO BEING, • •
1! AS A SCIENTIST THINKS.— ! 1
; The earth "is the parant of the ]|
■ moon In mora than a poetic >
;; sense, In the opinion of Dr. R. J \
• • H. Rsstsll, lecturer In economic • ■
\ \ geology at the University of
• ■ Cambridge, who recently an- • •
nounced a theory that our sat- !!
; | elilte Is made of material that j J
!was once part of the earth's !'•
; • crust. ;;
Doctor Itastall's theory, how- ■»
] ' ever, difTerq from that of Sir | \
• • George Darwin and others who • •
• \ have previously made tlrallar \ \
• • suggestions, for he thinks that a • ■
!! layer of the earth's crust, about ! \
41 miles thick and covering ;■
.. about two-third* of Its total !!
' | area, was peeled off by the at- ' J
.. traction of the sun. Tills tidal ■>
; • action of the sun was effective | )
«• while the crust was still in a ■ ■
I [ plastic state, and the moon's ] j
• • own gravitational attraction • ■
I! caused it to roll up Into a ball ![
of the form that we now see In ••
!! the sky. The crustal area left ! I
; | on the earth formed the contl- ''
nents. !!
;• This theory also accounts for \)
•. the fact that, while, according •.
] | to generally accepted Ideas, ' j
• ■ masses of lighter density such • •
\ I as make up the earthly rontl- |
• ■ nents should cover the entire sur- • ■
!! face of the globe, they actually !
■ • cover only about a third, the • ■
!! missing two-thirds consisting of !
; * the moon. Measurements of the ''
I! moon's density by Its effect on ■ ■
• | the earth show that It Is about " J
.. three and a half times as heavy • ■
] | as an equal volume of water. " J
• ■ This Is more dense than the av-. • ■
' | erage for the continental land !
•' masoes, but Doctor Hastall as- • ■
) sumes that at the time of the !!
;; disruption some of the heavier ;;
.! underlying material was alßo !
[ | torn away. ] |
X The new theory also fits In • >
I; with the Ideas recently set forth \
• • by a German geologist. Prof. Al- • •
|; fred Wengener, who believes the
■ • American continent was origi- • •
nally united with Europe and
;; Africa, and tbat it floated away * |
!! to its present place. This would
;; not have been possible, so long ' |
' as the entire earth was covered 1!
II with such a crust, but after the ) J
- ■ moon had been torn away It • •
|) was possible for the continent* ))
• > to separate from their long em- • •
11 brace.
Mill I I 11 111 I l-l 11111 I H 'I t
How Patrol Service
Saves Ships From Ice
In 1014 the leading maritime na
tions of the world came to an agree
ment that a patrol service to keep a
lookout for icebergs should be set up.
This conference .was the outcome of
the sinking of the Titanic with great
loss of life after striking an Iceberg
on the night of April 14, 1012. The
United States government wss asked
to undertake the responsibility of the
Ice patrol In the North Atlantic.
For about four months each year,
when the ice is breaking up Into gi
gantic, treacherous masses, tbs patrol
must be maintained. It begins usual
ly In March, lasting until the end at
June. The usual procedure Is for the
patrol cutters, upon sighting a berg;
to allow themselves to drift with the
white maaa. For days they may bare
to keep thjs position, and the monofe>
ony Is only relieved when the berg
finslly dissolves or Is no longer dan
gerous. The patrol boats are each
fitted with a 2,000-watt telephone and
telegraph transmitter, and all the
time tbey are with the Icebergs tbey
send out messages of warning at reg
ular Intervals.
Both the Tampa and the Medoc, the
principal ships of the patrol, are driv
en by electricity and carry every kind
of measuring Instrument, so that tbey
can discover the exact sice of each
berg they encounter.
r.'.j Week's Story
Thla week's short story: He glanced
anxiously around him, then, assuring
himself that he waa unobserved,
brought out s small paper package.
For a moment his hand trembled over
the glass of water. Should he put the
powder In? He was breathing heavily.
He cast s glance about him—and then
tipped the powder Into the water. . .
One gulp and It was gone! "If that
draught doesn't make me sleep tonight
HI hsve to see s specialist I" he mat
ured
Why Compass Changes
A perfect and accurate compass to
day will not be sctentlficslly reliable
40 jean from now. It Is msintained
because s compass point is constantly
changing Its direction. When observa
tions were made In 1580 "north" was
In reality 10 degrees east of north.
A hundred years ago It bad moved
over to 24 degrees west of north, and
In 1024 rh? needle moved or varied
ea»fiflh of a degroa
HARD TO EXPLAIN
, WHY EARTH QUAKES
Still Much to Be Learned
on the Subject.
Seismologists' explanations of the
earthquake prevalence ,in the . Far
West offer no basic reasons. They
say that the Banta Barbara temblor
was tectonic, that It was caused by s
recurrent slip along old fsult lines
near the Pacific coast, snd thst the
slip was probsbly set In motion by the
slight qiykes'ln Montana. This really
gets nowhere, for It has long been
known that the Pacific coast has many
fault lines, and there Is not even an
effort to explain why the preliminary
tremors were felt in Montana, where
there ana no fault lines, and where
there had been no earthquakes In the
memory of man.
It Is predicted there will be con
tinuing quakea for some time, and
they may be felt in widely separated
parts of NortVAmerlcs. This Is, how
ever, no cause for alarm. Except in
regions of known earthquake prev
alence, where the faults are markeJ,
an earthquake seldom or never does
any large damage. The earthquake
which a few months ago was lightly
felt In Cleveland and more markedly
in New England and Canada, was
quite Innocuous. The Montana quake
was one of the severest In a non
earthquake region, but the damage
was comparatively small snd there
was no loss of life.
As for California, the danger Is
-more real, but It Is to be borne In
mind that only two disastrous earth
quake! have been recorded in that
state, the really calamitous San Fran
cisco temblor and the one which re
cently caused considerable damage In
the small city of Santa Barbara. By
the taw of probabilities no more cities
are due for visitations for a long
time. That the danger Is considered
very slight Is proved by San Fran
cisco's magnificent rebuilding on the
ruins of the destroyed city.
We cannot tell the wherefore of
earthquakes and we cannot predict
when or where they will occur. It is
possible, of course, for cities In earth
quake regions to build with some
thought of earthquske possibilities,
but otherwise nothing can be done*
and American life Is not to be dis
turbed by phenomena as yet so in
adequately explained.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Expositions Costly
Such exhibitions as the one recently
In progress at Wembley entail an
enormous , expenditure te put eves
properly, snd whether they will result
In loss or gsln is always problematical.
London's first big exhibition, that of
1851, was a great financial success,
says the Montreal Stsr. More than
6,000,000 people visited the Crystsl pal'*
ace, and the surplus, after paying sii
expenses, was nearly $750,000.
Tln» next one, held In 1882, was not
so successful. Shortly after Its open
ing the prince consort died and when
the American Civil war broke out Its
receipts were so Impaired that, al
though they totaled about S2£BOfIOO,
there was a final deficit of 160,000.
Tlie Parts exhibition of 1887 showed a
profit of $540,000. In Vlenns tn 1878
a loss of nearly £2,000,000 wss sus
tained ; the Philadelphia exhibition
showed a loas of about fl ,280,000,
while the Paris International exhibi
tion, although it attracted 18,000,000
visitors, showed a deficit of 98^250,0001
Then Inch changed A series of amsll
exhibitions held at Kensington were
sll successful, while the Chicago
World's fslr snd the grest exhibition
at St. Louis both showed big profits.
In 1908 London's White Cfty proved a
fairly profitable undertaking In spite
of a wages bill of *4.000,000. '
flute Centuries Old
A flute which amde music on the
Nile In the balmy air of Egypt 8,000
years ago. recently played aa encore
In the University of Pennsylvsnls's
museum, ssys Capper's Weekly. Un
like our Antes, the wind enters through
slits In the side of the reeds Instead
of the ends, sad escb note end Its oc
tave are sounded at the same time, as
If two flutes were playing. The notes
have s soft snd mellow sound The
Ante was found In the tomb of a noble
of the lime of the Pharaohs. If some
body could find s way to make It re
produce the tunes be plsyed on It the
Twentieth century might bear aoroe
new and Interesting musie.
Proof
A beautiful young murderess had
been acquitted of, murder, and had
gratefully kissed all the Jurymen, and
the Jurymen had wept and patted her
pretty shoulder sad bidden her to go
snd sin no more.
"Modern womsn!" said Butler Glaen
*er, the New York critic, aa be de
rided the episode. It reminds me of
a police court scene.
"Ton sre unmarriedT a magistrate
said to a man In a police court
"" 'Unmarried 7* grunted the man.
•Where did I gat this broken arm,
th*ar~ "
Untrained Monkey Thut
Shows Good Manners
What Is a monkey really like? That
la, when he Is brought up without any
training of furbelows whatever, when
he Is left entirely uninfluenced to fol
low bis own sweet.way and Is nut even
given monkey companions from which
he can learn, what is proper for
monkeys to do? That is the question
Professor Pfungst, a member 6f the
Berlin Physiological society, wanted
to get some tight on in a study he
made on a monkey brought up Just
like that.
As au Infant, the monkey was raised
on human milk with some mixture of
cow's milk, for the monkey brand was
unavailable. His face was so light at
birth that It was easy u mistake him
for a human Infant when In his nurse's
arms. On the third duy of his adopt
ed life he began to suck his thumb
snd has not gotten over the habit yet
in his fourth year of life. Thumb
sucking has never been observed in
other monkeys, Professor Pfungst
ssys.
The little {allow knew good man
ners from blrtn. He could not bear
being shouted at and he always
turned his head and Ignored the of
fender. It was Just as bad when any
one stared at him; In fact, sometimes
he was so upset by It that he showed
he would rather be dead than go
through with It, for be often lay flat
on the ground and pretended be was.
Anything that resembled big stary
eyes frightened him. The sight of a
man's head did not alarm him in the
least, but a gorilla's head aroused
great fear.
The monkey ya.vned, not when he
wss bored or tired, but when he was
angry. He was serious and never
laughed, although his mother before
him had. He could not cry, and even
oalons held before his eyes failed to
evoke tears.
In four years he had seen prac
tically no other creatures except man.
On two occasions he had been shown
a cat, and then hlmaelf In a looking
glass. Then came his to
one of his own kind. At first he was
very excited and his cour
age eventually returned, and before
long he became trustful.
Burglar Was Ladylike
Nettle Gswler, who had the unen
viable reputation of being the only
woman burglar In Kansas City, msde
burglarlng quite a profitable business
—until she was caught. One night she
stole some clothes from the residence
of Mrs. Fannie Farr of that city.
Some tltne ofter. the clothes were
stolen Mrs. Farr was visiting st the
home of her mother when a woman
called at the house and tried to sell
her some clothing. "This dress will
JUBt fit you," she said. "The bust and
waist measurements are Just right
You are Just the proper height to wesr
them nicely."
"What kind of a dress Is It?" In
quired Mrs. Farr, all at once becoming
interested.
"It's a taffeta silk with a lace collar
and Insertion of narrow Val—" began
the woman, when Mrs. Farr seised ber
by the*Sirm, Interrupting her.
"11l take It," ahe said. "Let's go
and see It st once."
As the two were going toward Ibe
bouse where the dress was alleged to
be stored they, met a policeman and
Mrs. Farr asked him to arrest her
companion. The woman was taken
into custody, the house was searched
and the stolen goods were recovered
Family of Naoal Heroes
It Is a sixteen-year-old naval cadet
who has Just succeeded to the bar
onetcy of his father. Admiral Sir Mi
chael Culme-Seyinour, who In the
great war commanded the battleship
Centurion at Jutland, afterward di
rected as rear admiral of the British
forces In the Black sen, helping the
ltusslan empress mother and the mem
bers of her family to escape from the
Crimea, ami who from 1023 to 1024
was commsnder In chief of the Brit
ish naval forces In north Atlantic and
west Indian waters.
That young Sir MlchaehCulme-S«T
moor should belong to the naval pro
fession Is In keeping with the tradi
tions of his sncient family and serves
to recall the fact that the name of
Seymour bas figured without a single
break on the roster of the officers of
the British fleet ever since the reign
of Ilenry VIII, that Is to say, prior to
the discovery of America by Christo
pher Columbus. Sir Thomas Seymour
wss the lord high admiral of the blue
beard monarch. And another Seymour
was the vice admiral of that fleet
which defeated the Bpanlsh armada.—
Family Herald
Strictly on Time
, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Douglass
Johnson of Port Townsend, Wash.,
have no difficulty In remembering the
birthdays of their three children. Ber
nice Msrisn. the eldest, was born May
8, 1920 c and three years later Eliza
beth Julia made her. appearance on
the aame date. Little Ollre Nona kept
■p the family regularity as to blrtb
finys by striving on Msy 0. this year.
NO. 39
Air "Twister" Coated
Terror in England
The first tornado in England of
which there Is any definite mention oc
curred nearly three centuries ago to
Cheshire and Lancashire. Rotating or
spiral storms, snch as are compara
tively frequent In western America,
occur but seldom In Europe.
The "twister" of 1662 Is thus de
scribed by a contemporary writer:
"There arose a great pillar of smoke,
in height like a steeple and Judged
twenty yards l>road. which, making a
most hideous noise, went along the
ground six or seven miles, leveling ail
in the way. It threw down fences and
stone walls and carried the stones a
great distance from their places, but
happening upon moorish ground, not
inhabited. It did leas hurt.
The terrible noise It made so fright
ened the cattle that they ran away,
and woe thereby preserved. It passed
over a Cornfield, and laid It as low
with the ground as if it had been bro
ken by feet
"It went through a wood and turned
up above a hundred trees by the roots;
coming Into a field of cocks of hay
ready to be carried In, It swept all
away, and left a great tree In the
middle of the field, which It bad
brought from some other place. It
overthrew a house or two, but the
people that were in them received not
much hurt, but the timber was car
ried away nobody knows whither."—
Exchange. V
Cricket Held in High
Importance in China
In Shanghai the public parka, the
gardens and the trees of the cathedral
yard. In the center of the business dis
trict, are the bunting grounds of hun
dreds of Chinese coolies and boy*. The
quarry Is the green cricket. To the
Chinese a chirping cricket Is a symbol
of good luck. And crickets swarm on
all the trees in the International set
tlement and their noise rises above
even that of the traffic. Roys climb the
trees, pick off the cricket#, put them
Into small hasketUke cages and then
go through the streets selling them for
a copper or two each. One cricket or
more are to be found In almost every
native home, where they chirp and *
trill all day and all night. The noise
of a cricket Is to a Chinese the height
of musical excellence phis tha added
virtue of good luck. If all the multi
farious noises of the noisy city of
Shanghai were boiled down Into oae.
the song of the cricket drown
them. No opera singer could capture
hair the hipturoua interest that' the
cricket Is getting from the Chinese to
day.
f What Am I?
I have scattered breadcrnsta, tha
cans, Sunday supplements, paper
plates, itaper bags, chickei bones and
fruit skins from the wilds of Maine
to the tip of Florida.
I have hacked forest trees and left
campflres burning from the California
coast to the Atlantic seaboard.
I have booked apples from New
England orchards, walnuts from the
Willamette valley and oranges from
our southern states.
I have rolled rocks into the sap
phire depths of Crater lake and thrown
tin cans Into gurgling brooks In every
state In the Union.
I have seen all. heard all, know all
and In my weak way have destroyed
much.
I am the American tourist who
through careless and thoughtless acts
brings dishonor to res[«>nslble, respect
able and careful fellow travelers—Old
Colony Memorial.
Not the Only One
"I see you have furnished rooms."
said the man who had rung the bell.
"Ya," rejoined the foreign woman,
pointing to the window card, "dere's
da sign."
"Well. If you have wne that*s suit
able I'd like to rent It for a while."
"We no rents da rooms. My family
take up all da house.",
"Don't rent any? Why, then, have
you that sign, furnished Reoms,' In
your window T
Til deli you. Las' week dat woman
next door she hang up a sign in her
front window, end when I see dat I
put up von. Just to show da people
dat she ain't da only voman In dls
place dat have her rooms furnished."
Bahama Iwlanda
The Bahamas are a group of 8,000
Islands, mostly reefs, of which only 20
■re Inhabited. The principal Islands
are: New Providence, population 13,-
554; Obaco, population -4.463; Great
Bahama, 1,824; Andros, 7,545, and
Harbor Island. The total area la 4,-
403V4 square miles, and the highest
point is over 410 feet above sea level.
The principal city Is Nassau, which Is
situated on New Providence, and la a
fashionable health resort The mean
temperature in the hot months Is 8S
degrees Fahrenheit, and In the cold
months 06 degrees Fahrenheit. There ~
are heavy rains from Sla.v to October,
and the rainfall In one year was ,