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THE GREENCASm HERALD

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1921

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THE BUSY AMEBTCAN IHH Illa Honey Sella for Enough to Pay Interct on the Public Debt. The value of $25,000,000 placed on the annual output of honey puts this farm crop only slightly behind raw cane sugar, which had a valuation at the reltnerles of $2x,00l).000. Comparisons with the output of the elity-four hoet-sugar factories, which have a rapacity of 49,500 tons of beats dally, may eeeni odious. Yet ti e product of this coddled and fostered Inditf try—$4 5.000.000—was less than double of that of the busy hive communities. The bee in effect, pays the interest on the public debt—$24,310,320. Shall not the insect which Napoleon made an Imperial emblem have some ft ate recognit on such as Massachusetts gives to the eodlish In its legislative halls? As a matter of fact, the products of the New England fisheries which have been the subject of treaties ami International convention:. an-' occasionally raised the spectre of war, amount In value to only half the bee’s product. At least the bee deserves a share In ‘he naticnal affection which Is lavished on the hen. This Industrious worker maintained its reputation during the year by givirg poultry products a value of $600,000,000 exceeding that of the wheat crop. Tlat the dairy products counted for more than any crop except corn testifies to the Importance of another of the humbler farm Industries. The great proportions to whi"h the lesser agricultural products have grown, the orchards with their minor Item of 1,754.927 barrels of cider, the $113,000,000 worth of miscellam ous vegetables, the 6,000,000 tons of cottonseed, once plantation waste, but now furnishing the equivalent In value of seven 20,000-ton battleships, make a nature wonde•tory of never-falling Interest.

Hole tn the Watch Key. "The queerest patent,” said the attorney, “Well, the queerest patent I know of. was the patent of a hole. "An old farmer out St, Louis way. patented a hole, and what Is more, be made a lot of money on it. Now. though, It Isn't' worth the paper It

Is written on.

"The farmer one morning In the dim past went to wind his big silver turnip and found the key stuck full of dirt. He tried to dig the dirt out

with a pin. No go.

" Tonsarn >e,'' be said, TU fix ye.' "And he arllled a hole In the key,

r.nd w ith a single breaih blew oat | found an empty seat beside the little

shrimp of a man, and 1 caught them

Sensible Girl

“That little girl next door 1* certainly mighty sensible," rerrtarked Blandish, settling himself beside his wife In the porch swing. "Indeed?” replied Mrs. Standtsh. •Has she been making eyes at you?” "I am free to admit,” replied Blandish, “that that would be a proof of intelligence, but not a proof of unusual Intelligence. Everybody docs that, you know. If you hadn't made eyes at me In days gone by 1 presume 1 should stdl be hopping from twig to twig as light heartedly and as carefree as a johnny-jumpup.” "Your metaphors are somewhat mixed,” replied his wife, "but I think 1 get your meaning. Let me tell you that If 1 had not made eyes at you 1 am sure you would still be as untidy in your appearance, with your tie as crooked and your boots as unshhied atid your hands and feet as awkward I sa they used to be; and, besides. 1 didn’t make eyes at you, and you know ', it. You didn't give me any peace in ' my life; you hunted me from pillar to : post, pursued me till 1 was out of breath, and then, while 1 was still out ■ of breath and could not answer you. you asked me to marry you. and took silence for consent and married me before 1 recovered. 1 married you because 1 was sorry for you. and because none of the other girls would look at you, and because you needed someone to look after you, and If 1 had my life t«> live over again 1 would marry you

again!”

“Help! There seems to be no es-

cape!”

"If you go to making eyes at the little girl next door,” said Mrs Blandish, “and coming to tell me how sensible she is, you'll have to show a reason for your interest, or I'll put a spider In your coffee. Confess!” “All right, here’s where I make a clean breast of the whole aiTair. 1 have been watching her for a long time. She takes the same car to town every morning that I take, and she knows two men who take the same car. One of these is an Apollo. If the seats are all occupied he is happy. He takes his place in the aisle between the two rear seats, reaches a hand up on either side and gets holt of a strap. Hanging that way. everyone who enters the car is compelled to scrouge past him, and so notice what a beautiful creature lie is. When he is so unfortunate as to be aide to find a seat he sits in the end nearest the aisle, crosses his knees carelessly so that one foot projects into the aisle, where everybody will fall over it, and so take notice of him, and he sits sidewise so that his beautiful cameo-like profile is turned to all the rest of the car, and preserve that position all the way to town. The other man she knows is a small insig nificant shrimp with pale hair.” •‘Are you describing yourself?” “No, 1 would not flatter myself that way. If i were describing myself 1 would be the Apollo and let the other fellow be the shrimp. 1 am merely an onlooker. The shrimp person efiaces himself as nearly as possible. If the car Is crowded to the platform he remains in a corner of the platform where he will not be noticed. If all the seats are occupied he goes up to the front of the car where no one will

fall over him.

"Tne shrimp and the Apollo for many months have cast kind glances in the direction of the shrinking little blossom next door, and I say she is a sensible girl because this morning.she

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every tit of the dirt

"He patentee thst hole He built a factory, bought millions of keys and made holes for them His plant turned out 27..',00 holes a day. “In fact, all the world used the farmer's watch Keys, which were the only kind that would keep clean, and

the old fellow got rich.

“That of course, was in the dim past. The hole factory Is only running on half time row, for few persons to-day use any but the stemwinding or keyless watch.

FARMING BY PROXY After reading certain farm papers •nd artidrs on farming In general papers and magazines, says the Farm Journal, cue cannot help wonderii.g whether the farmer Is still the h"rd working man he used to he or whet m r he is merely a figurehead sitting id an bfflce signing checks while waiHn t for his chauffeur to roll the limousine around One of there articles In a week!/ paper would have us believe that a Pennsylvania farmer who was unable to get thu farm help he needed installed an electric plant and now does everything electrically except to plough and plant potatoes. An article in another of our popular Journals, the writer of which evidently has never been sufflcii utly attracted by the lure of the land to get within close proximity to a farm, contains the statement that in Kansas alfalfa goes through five sowings a year—presumably while the farmers sit on the fences and watch the strange proceeding. However, despite these word pictures of beautiful farm Utopias, the fact still remains that in no other vocation does real hard work count for so much as in farming. We have not yet reached the point wrberr farming is done by proxy, it is still done by farming, and farming means work. Anyone who.will do a little Investigating will find that the farmer lias not lieeu altogether emancipated from work by the Introduction of the au tninobile, the farm tractor and the gas engine. On the contrary, modem farm machieiy lias made the [armer's time more valuable.

both looking at a beautiful diamond ring upon the third finger of her left hand. And I also saw them surreptitiously holding hands for a moment. Also the Apollo person forgot to stick his foot in the aisle this morning, and did not care whether his perfect pro file was turned toward the world or not. That little girl had a chance to thoose between real worth and an imitation, and she has chosen as you

did.”

•‘Thank you. That puts me Into the sensible class. Hut perhaps she choM as I did for the reason I did. The good looking fellow didn't mean business and the shrimp proposed. She took what she could get.” "Well, wasn't that sensible?” *T think It was, and I hope she may think so when she has been married ns long as we have. You little shrimps aren't much to look at, hut you make pretty good running mates when you get wives who have sense enough not to spoil you.” “Well, no one will ever accuse you of having spoiled your husband. 1 was going to buy you a new dress, but now 1 am going to compromise on a fivecent picture show.” “That will be perfectly all right. 1 can get the new dress myself. 1 get all your salary, anyhow.”

Domesticating the Elephant. It was long a disputed question whether the African elephant was amenable to domestication. Titos* who held the affirmative referred to the experience of the Carthaginians with these animals, and recalled the elepnunts that formed a part of Han. nibal's army on his march toward Rome. At present elephants are being trained far domestic labors In the Congo, In the Uarman African colonies, In Uganda and elsewhere. In the Congo especially It la reported that the training of elephants la rapidly developing Into a recognized Industry. A French society has recently been formed under the name of ■'Friends of the Elephant.” the object of which is to prevent the destruction of those animals in Africa, and to encourage their domeatlcaUun.

:: The Stories of Famous Novels By Albert Payton Terhunc

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By Victor Hugo

Old Lethlerry, richest shipmaster on the Isle of Guernsey, had two Idols. One was his niece, Deruchette, most beautiful girl In all the Islands. The other was his steamboat, the Durande. first craft of Its sort in old world

Guernsey.

Clubln was captain of the Durande on her voyages among the channel Islands. Lethlerry trusted him. Clubln repaid the trust by seizing $15,000 in large bills that a thief named Rantaine had stolen from the old shipmaster and by preparing to escape to the Continent with this fortune. The captain’s plan was simple. He Intended to drive the Durande against some offshore rocks In a fog, swim to the nearby land and get away, leaving Lethlerry to believe he had gone down with the ship. But during the fog Clubln miscalculated his location. Instead of running the steamboat onto a reef close to the mainland, as he Intended, he ran her upon the terrible Douvres rocks, full eight leagues from the nearest shore. The Durande was jammed fast between two high projections in this big group of rocks. Clubln, strapping the stolen money about his waist In a tin tobacco box, started to swim to a taller rock just ahead, from whose summit he hoped to signal some passing vessel. He dived from the wrecked Durande. Down Into the still water he plunged. There some unseen Thing seized him. And never again did he rise tn the surface. When news of the wreck reached Guernsey old Lethlerry was in despair over the loss of the Durande, but especially at the loss of the boat's engine. It was the only engine In that part of the world. To replace it woud cost more than he could pay. And it was still lying useless in the wrecked steamer between two of the Douvres

ro< ks.

Deruchette, touched by her uncle's hopeless grief, declared that she would marry the man who had the pluck and resources to go to those fearful rocks and bring back the Durande’s engine. It was seemingly a safe offer. For the feat was regarded as impossible. But a quiet, grim young fisherman, Gilliatt, who tiad long adored Deruchette in secret, not daring to breathe his love for her, at once volunteered for the

task.

Away sailed Gilliatt alone In his fishing boat. He reached the Douvres rocks, anchored his boat in a sheltered bit of water and set to work. For months he labored at a task that would have proven too much for Hercules himself. He had no machinery, no assistance. Alone t-c rigged up i. rude apparatus for lighting the Durande’s heavy engine out of the shattered hold and aboard his own frail craft. One obstacle after anohter seemed ever about to ruin his plans. And one obstacle after another he overcame. He grew thin, haggard, ragged. His only food was such shellfish as he could catch, his only drink the rain and dew that formed In hollows of the rocks. Like a maniac he tolled— one man battling against all the forces of nature, a mere mortal striving to wrest back the prey of the sea. At last ‘he task was finished, the victory won. The engine, whole and unh- rmrd. was at'-Td the fl? 1 'ng boat. Gilliatt prepared to sail back to Guernsey In triumph and claim his reward. Diving under a rock in search of a giant crab, on the day of his departure, GUliatt found himself in a cavern w hose low entrance w as beneath the water’s edge. Before he had time to explore the place long tentacles stretched forth from a pool and seized

him.

He was in the grip of a giant devil fish, whose den he had Invaded. Fiercely Gilliatt hattled with the monster there in the submarine cavern. And at last by the aid of 1.1s knife he cut himself free, severing the creature’s hideous head. There he noticed, naif buried under a herp of crab shells In thia lair of the octopus, a human skeleton. Around Its middle was fastened a tin box. OHHalt opened the box and discovered In It the long missing $16,000 stolen from Lethlerry. The skeleton was Clubin’s Back to Guernsey sailed Gilliatt with the engine and the fortune he bad won, at hourly peril of life, from the deep. Reaching Lethierry’s house at nightfall, unseen, he beheld Deruchette standing clasped in the arms of a stranger^—a man who wooed and won her while Gilliatt had been away fighting for the reward he had now loSi forever. Old Lethlerry was wild with Joy over the return of his treasures. He loudly declared that Deruchette and Gilliatt should be married at once. But Uilliatt, knowing the girl loved another man, calmly refused the offer. Aftar Deruchette’s wedding to his rival Gllll-'t walked far from sh- e at low tide and seated himself on a chair like rock, watching the ship Hint was bearing his sweetheart and her husband away, Slowly the tide rose as Gilliatt sat there. It reached his hips, his shoulders, his moc* 1 -. TU«n the waters closed above his head. VICTOR MARIE HUGO was the recogntged leader of the romantic school of the 19th century in France. His childhood was spent partly with

QUEEREST MEN ON BARTH. Wear No Clothes, Wh.le a Few Leave? Satisfy Their Women. Earth's oddest and oldest race of m&n has been brought prominently Into notlco again through the wide spread Interest aroused by sending a batch of Indian political agitators to the penal settlement on the Andaman Islands, that beautiful coralbound archipelago In the Bay of Bengel. This remnant of this most primitive human species in evidence will soon be nothing but an ethnological memory, says a Calcutta Correspondent. Contact with advanced civilization has been followed, as usual, with a train of infectious diseases which are steadily thinning the ranks. Owing to the ancient course of frade, the Andamanese have been anown about from the earliest times. . tolemy's Agathan Dulmonos Nesos probably preserves the misunderstanding of some term applied by sailors to a place in or near the modern Andamans. Notices of them by travelers, Aslastlc and European, are continuous from the seventh century, and the islands regularly appear In some shape on maps of those regions from the Middle Ages down. The Andamanese live In s Hesperi^ian garden, where they toil not, neither do they spin. For the product of the spinner they have no use. as the men go stark naked and the women wear one or more leaves In front and a bunch of leaves tied round the waist behind. The average height of the men is 53 inches; that of the w-omen 64 inches. They appear to dwell free from rare in a country that is everywhere beautiful and varied. In the ordinary attainments of human beings, however, unenlightened, the Andamanese are amazingly deficient. During all the ages of their intercourse by word of mouth they have not developed a medium worthy of the name of language. Before the arrival of the British the tribes, except actual neighbors, had no intercourse. Even clans of the same tribe found difficulty in the details of dialogue with one another. There is a change of jargon along .bout every twenty miles of the coast. , They have no words for ordinary greetings, salutations, or expression of thanks. Such language as they have, however, Is exceedingly Interesting from the philological point of view. It possesses a quality which would b* invaluable were the Adamanese a business people. In their speech only what Is absolutely necessary Is usually expressed. These mites of humanity could do Just as well probably without any word* at all. They have an expressive sign language, which they employ almost aa much as the spoken words. Their speech is Jerky, disjointed, and helped out often by a grimace, a gesture, or a sudden change in tone. The Andamanese knows scarcely anything and has no desire to increase his stock of knowledge. He has never learned any sort of agrl culture. Until the English taught him to keep dogs he did not know bow to domesticate any animal or bird. He cannot count even with his fingers, and doesn't see the need of counting. All bis Ideas are hazy and Inaccurate. On one point, however, he is levelheaded. He belongs to a race of fighters, knows it and will never attack unless certain of success.

I lie i.uu-Im of I- rmii e A feature nl (tie roads of France Is the ever-present guldepost These guulepnsts consist of an iron plaque, about two feet lung and a foot high, securely mounted on sturdy posts or fastened to some substantial wall

Bed Venus Blue. Red glass nai teus vegetation while •blue glass suppresses it. Sensitive plants, like tbs mimosa, gm- 15 times higher under red gir Mue

Wife--“Who can doubt till r woman’s love! Think of the thousanils of wild youth.s who have settled down Into staid and respectable citizens a 5 soon ns they are married!” Hu ,band—“Good lands! They could n't afford to be anything else after ihej got married."

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The Difference. Here are tables of crime tn which the meaning is the same but the description different: THEFT. Rich woman, kleptomania Rich man, short&ga Poor roan, stealing. DRUNKENNESS. Rich man, debility or heart failure. Well-to-do roan, alcoholism. Poor man, delirium tremens. IN WALL STREET. Rich man, legitimate speculation Well-to-do man, dabbling in stock*. Poor man, gambling.

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