Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 30 September 1912 — Page 8

SEEING IK ECLIPSE Moon’s Passage Across Sur Watched in Holland. Weather Ideal for Event—Neither Animal Nor Plant Life Waa Affected In the Least by Midday Gloom and Cold. The Hague, Holland.—Whether the Dutch astronomer!* have succeeded In solving the problems eel themselvea with regard to the sun and moon wilt only be known when all the photo graphs taken In the eclipse camp in Limburg have been developed studied and the numerous observe tions then taken have all been worked ou’. The weather, every one admitted,, was entirely favorable, so that a wealth of material was gathered. 1 * One of the important tasks of the aetrnnomor; »i« tn trv to obtain data ; from which to determine the eTact position anj exact diameter of the moon, For that purpose they station observers at five different places. At each of the points chosen two 4 elescones were erected on firm s’one ■foundations —one for direct ocular ob srrvatlons, the other for projecting the phenomenon on a screen, on which could be followed the whole course of the sun and moon while in conjunc-, tion, • The sky was ideal for observing the eclipse. • I As for rayself, 1 had chosen the open fields for taking observations. There it would be possible to note how birds, animals and plants comported themselves; for very conflicting stories are told of fear manifested by some crea tures or of birds going to roost and ■of flowers closing their petals in sleep Exact to the half minute the sun began to show an indenture at the lowet right hand side of the disk, but no di mlnishing of the warmth of its rays could yet be felt. Not until the moon had covered more than half of the sun was it appreciably colder. But at the critical moment, when only one twentieth part of the sun’s disk re mained. like the sickle of a golden new- moon, the air became very cold. At the moment of greatest intensity of eclipse the light effect over the landscape was peculiar, it was somewhat like a very bright moonlight night." only that the colors were more vivid; the grass was much greener and the red of the roofs of the distant houses more intense. Contrary to everything I had ever beard the animals in the fields took not the slightest notice of the gather ing gloom. Cows, sheep and horses grazed calmly on or lay Quietly chew ing the cud. Neither was there a sign of unrest in the bird world. The sky larks did not cease their warbling nor the plovers circling over the meadows uttering their plaintive cries. Star lings and crows flew about in little flocks as usual. No birds went to roost as far as I could see. The plants and flowers around me utterly ignored the phenomenon; the daisies did not close their starry eyes and the clovers did not fold their trefoils in sleep as they do at eventide. But as T looked the moon was pass ing swiftly across the sun’s disk and the lower right hand “horn” of the sun was visibly lengthening. The colors In the landscape grew brighter; more light flooded the fields, ft seemed as if the light increased with greater rapidity than it had dlmln ished. The temperature rose as the sun’s sickle now appeared standing upright like a golden new moon. Then in a few seconds the lower rim of the sun reappeared. Soon it was halt sun,” then three-quarters sun and at ten minutes to 2 only a small dark In. denture showed on the extreme left of the sun’s surface. At 1:57 the phe nomenon was over. It had lasted about two hours and thirty minutes.

EGG'S SKIN AS LEG PATCr Hole in Broken Bone Filled With Albuminous Tissue by Physician# May Heal. New York.—The skin of an egg has been used by the surgeons in the Baby lon (L. I.) hospital to fill up a hole left in the broken leg of a man. By the use of th.- egg it i; believed that the injured limb will heal and, aftftv a short time, be as serviceable as A few days ago Babylon residents were surprised by an advertisement appearing in a local paper, stating that the Babylon hospital was in need of an egg ready for hatching. Inquiry as to the use to which the egg was to be put revealed a curious operation in reconstructive surgery performed upon Patrick Padian, a patient in the hospital. A telephone pole fell on Padian’s leg, fracturing it. In healing, a small hole was left in the bone. The skin of the egg was placed in ’he hole, and the development of the cells formed new bone tissue, which has completely filled the opening. 73 Wounds; Can’t Die Yet. San Francisco, Cal.—Michael Auheim. until recently a cigar dealer at No. 735 Ellis street, made an unsuccessful attempt in Golden Gate park to dfid his life by inflicting 73 wounds in his body, with a pocket knife. When examined at the Park Emergency hospilfcl it was found that Asheim had cut his throat from ear to ear, stabbed himself 27 times in the breast and 45 times in the scalp. Despondency because of failure n business was given as the ch tsc w Iht mans act

’ GHOST ALARMS THE POLICE i New York Officers Say It Io » Vele-’* an of the Revolutionary War— Roundsman Doubts Story. New York—The old soldier la walking again on Morningside Heights. An uneasy veteran Is ho. ! Just because someone sneaked into Uls tent in the war of the Revolution - and thrust one of the old fashioned broadswords through him he has been an annoyance to the residents of tb-t vicinity for more than n hundred years. Nowadays the neighborhood is - growh up in apartment houses, but I that makes no difference to him. lie oozes out of the janitor’s door of the , house which occuplea the former site ’ of his tent anil goes for his midnight stroll as nonchalantly as ever. Fortu- ' natajy he doesn’t walk often. The other night Cy Townsend, the ■ policeman who has the fixed post at One Hundred and Nineteenth street ! , and Morningside avenue, saw the ■ uazy figure of the old soldier gJldfoK by him, Policeman Townsend mail? j “ ’'"“ecily tiombie noise as he be? 1 ‘ it in the general direction of his pa- | t-c'lhg mate. He found the officer in ' n high, fever. He had seen the old I soldier, too. A night hawk cab drlver had also been favored by a sight | of the visitant. The night hawk was , making strange noises in his throat, j , As they were discussing the weird i ' occurrence the roundsman came by. ■ “We raw the old soldier," said the ' Lhree in chorus, The roundsman Carefully smelled ■ the breath of the three. The twe 1 coppers passed muster. The roundsman stepped well to the windward of the night hawk after the first sniff and began his interrogatories. “Nix on this ghost stuff," said the roundsman, after he had concluded his questions. “If the old soldlet comes around here again you guys want to make an arrest or you go uj on charges." Policeman Townsend and his mate were white and shaky. They wanted to know on what charge they could arrest a ghost—even supposing that the ghost submitted peaceably to ar rest. “Well," said the roundsman, “whal does this old soldier spook look like I anyway? Does he wear a uniform?: Has he any legs?” After consultation, the two police , men attested that the old soldier was i in mufti. Also, he had no legs. He , j»i a rorta slipped along, klnda wav- | ering like. The roundsman spoke with | decision. „ “If he ain't got no legs," said he i “you can pinch him for having nr , visible means of support.” Then he went away chortling. Po liceman Townsend and his mate hav« decided they do not like that xsnnds man. LASHES SELF IN RIGGING Wife of the Master on Wrecked Pishing Schooner Saves Life by Timely Act. Seward, Alaska.—The mail steamei Dora, bringing 35 survivors of the wrecked cod fishing schooner Joseph Russ, including Mrs. Charles Foss wife of the master of the lost vessel, arrived from Chirikof island, where the Russ went ashore at one o’clock ir the mornhig. The Russ struck at high tide during a terrific gale. Immense wave* swept the decTts and the crew and thr lone woman lashed themselves to th* rigging, where they remained six hours, when the tide went out. leaving the ship high and dry on the rocks. First Mate John Jorgenson, the only one to lose his life, was swept off the deck soon after the schooner struck and was dashed to death against the ,- rocks. When the tide went out and those aboard found it safe th descend from their places of refuge in the tigging baggage, provisions and other articles

that would enable them to live on the uninhabited island until rescuers , came, were tak#n off the boat. As soon as all had been made snug on shore. Second Mate A. E Reeves set out in command of two small dories to row to Chignik. 100 miles distant, for aid. They pulled into Chignik three hours before the steamer Dora, on het monthly voyage from Unalaska tc Seward, entered the harbor. The Dora put about at once and steamed to Chirikof. BULL SCORNS GAME RULES Attacks and Nearly Kills Toreador In View of Thousands Despite Ancient Tradition. Paris.—Among bull fighters there has long been a tradition that a bull would not attack a man if he posed as a statue in the ring, remaining motionless, the idea being that the beast would think him an inanimate object, In a modified bull fight at Pau recently a daring fighter put his theory to the test before thousands of people. Including many American and English members of Pau’s winter colony. A toreador, whitened to represent a statue, was placed on a pedestal in the ring and stood motionless. The gates were thrown open and the bull allowed to enter. There was a breathless moment and then suspense changed to horror as the bull charged directly at the man, knocked him from the pedestal and gored him. He was saved from death by the other toreadors. Although badly injured he still wished to try his experiment, not being convinced that 4fie ancient tradition was only a myth, but the public protested and would not allow him to agi.in endanger his life

SEEKS GRAVE DEED ' Death Near to Aged New Yorkei He Requests Lot. Tells Court Son Was Victim of Maine Disaster and Gave Document to Fiancee—Now He Wants It Back. New York.—John Kelly, bent over • cane by the snows of elghty-sixe winters, pleaded in the Oates Avenue PoI lice court, Brooklyn, for a summons that he might force his son's sweetI heart to give him the deed to his i grave, so that when death arrives he will not be buried in the potters field. He lives near Tlllary and Johnson streets Numbers he cannot remem her. He had eleven sons, he said, ten ■ of whom "went to the bad." In 1869 he purchased a deed to a ’ ; grave in Holy Cross cemetery, and ' «ui>ny years after gave it to John, Jr., I ■ the eleventh and only good son, to keep for him. They lived together i until 1897, he said, when the Spanish i American war broke out and his son I joined the navy. He was assigned to the battieship Maine and was on board when that -——l was blown up. John neves came back. His name was among the missing. Perhaps his bones were among those brought home for burial recently. Before John left home be gave the deed and other family papers to his sweetheart. Miss Lizzie McShean who. the old man said. Ilves at Franklin and Myrtle avenues. Feel ing that he is getting too old to stand many winters such as the one he has just gone through. Kelly said he went to the girl and asked her to give him the deed. "She told me that if I did net keep away from bothering her about deeds and such things she would throw scalding water on me.” lamented the man to the clerk. He was given a summons and tottered out of court to regain his grave $l,lOO FOR PIGEON EGGS Money Offers of Last Year Repeated Hopes Entertained That the Bird Is Not Extinct. Milwaukee. — Rewards aggregating \ $l,lOO are available for Wisconsin , bird lovers if they find an undisturbed I nest of a pair of the nearly extinct passenger pigeon. In a pamphlet issued recently by Prof. C. F. Hodge, Clark University, northeastern Wisconsin is designated as “the- most likely spot on the continent” for the find- , ing of th,- specimens. The object of the rewards, which are offered to bird lovers In every state of the Union, Is to determine whether or not the species has become entirely extinct. The rewards were offered last year, but despite ex haustive investigation, not a single reward was claimed. Many nestlings were reported, but they were all found to be. either doves or mourning pig eons. The wild or passenger pigeon al ways nests in trees, generally ten ot more feet from the ground, and lays but one egg. In case any of the species are found the finder is requested to communicate at onee with Prof. C F. Hodge, giving exactly the date hour, number in flock and direction cl flight. As soon as as the report can be confirmed the reward will be so warded. HAVE GLEW TO LOST HEIRESS Search Prosecuted In Munich for Mist Dorothy Arnold of New York. Munich. —The search for the raise Ing New York heiress. Miss Dorothy Arnold, wbo disappeared from het home a year ago last December, has now centered here in the- Bavarlar capital, after having extended over ths greater part of southern Europe at well as all of America. The police here have located Miss Arnold’s uncle, Gustav Arnold, a wealthy retired real estate dealer llv ing at 34 Frederick strasse. From hit extreme unwillingness to aid them ths i police believe he knows something concerning the missing girl’s whereabouts. ■ It has been ascertained by the investigators that the parents of Dorothy Arnold visited Gustav Arnold 1 early last autumn—it is believed in September— an<[. since then the old I man has refused’ even to grant the po- ! lice an interview. The director of the detective bureau 1 is convinced that the uncle is in comI munieation with Miss Arnold, or at - least knows where she is, and has givt en orders to keep a constant watch , over Gustav Arnold's home. t Mother Chains Her Boy. Salt Lake City.—Cries of children pleading for help attracted neighbors to the home of Mrs. Rose Wfnegar, 1 where they found a boy of nine years * with a heavy dog collar around his a neck, chained to the floor and the i mother preparing to secure a second ■ child in a like manner. J Mrs. Wlnegar told her neighbors t that she had just received a revelation telling her to punish her children i by chaining them up like dogs. The mother had convinced her oldest child, - -> s'i’-l or fourteen years, that the al- • leged revelation should be carried out, i but the boy and a younger sister objected and called for help. Mrs. Wine- ; gar was taken in custody by juvenile I court

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