Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1935 — Page 13

It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN JOHN PUCKERING, a market gardener of Arley, England, died the other day and came back to tell about it. On the whole he regretted his return. It seems to me fair to say that John Puckering was dead. He was pronounced dead by the doctors. He lay upon an operating table and for 150 seconds there was not the slightest sign of a quiver in his heart. Dr Mills massaged the heart and after two minu?e< and a half it began to beat again. John Puckering is back among the quick and growing cabbages.

In all his 58 years nobody paid very much attention to Mr. Puckering. ' How are the carrots and the onions?” some customer may have inquired, but nobody was interested in his ideas about the empire and still less his conception of the cosmos. I fear, a little, that John Puckering mav have returned to a somewhat impaired artistry. From now on one ran hardly expect him •o suffer agonies over the life and death of egg plant or young radishes. Even when he meets the select few of the world who have flown the broad Atlantic the market gardener of Arlev has - right to smile in a

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Superior wav for he ha r crossed over the vast expanse of Jordan River. Columbus was a recluse and Marro Polo no more than a nitch hiker compared to Puckering. mam He'd Rather Hare Quirt IT is trie tha 'he report which he gives of the life hevond Is a i rifle vague and shadowy. ‘lt was.” he avs. as though I were looking into a great place something like a hall, though I can not recall having seen either ceiling or walks There was a good light and I saw crowds of people. So many were there they seemed like a multitude at a football match.” It mav be that heavens of infinite variety are provided for all the elect. The paradise of Puckering does not precisely suit my fancy. When I have to go to mv just reward I do not wish to be a part of any football crowd and hear the cherubim and seraphim continually cry out that they are going back to Nassau hall It would hardly be Heaven for a Harvard man to find himself bound through ail eternity to the gloomy prospect of watching his team furnish mincemeat for the Tigers. Nor is it soul satisfying to contemplate the everlasting snake dance of the Princeton lads down through the jasper streets and up to the golden bar of Heaven. Who wants to be a Cambridge angel and under compulsion to tread among the ha If-pint flasks of the victors? But the rest of the testimony of John Puckering of Arley and the hereafter, is .nuch more comforting. ‘ The people stood in a circle.” he says, “and I noticed that there were no children among them. They looked natural, with healthy faces, and they appeared to be dressed as on earth.” ana Hi* Suits Are O. K. ALL of that is swell by me. Existence would be more restful if I were not so constantly summoned from my work to the telephone to hear a piping and an pacer voice say. “Papa. I want $2 straight on Boom's Pal in the seventh race at Hialeah. A dollar on Our Mae at New Orleans in the fourth. That's on the nose, too. And 50 cents on Sweet Chariot to show in the eighth at Santa Anita.” “Dressed as on earth” also has its attractions. The blue sutt and the brown which I have now' are adequate and to me the thought of wungs and a long robe has always been alienating. I would prpfer, pcasn. to walk all over God. 1 Heaven in the black shoes T now’ possess. I’ve broken them in. It would he a nuisance to have to ask some other angel to wear my sandals for the first two weeks. “I was deeply impressed with the happiness which shone in their fares and which was so intense that I felt as though I should not have minded joining them.” Spoken. John Puckering, like an old Puritan and a true one. The most that the sight of joy could raise in him was a sense of acquiescence. Possibly for the first time in his life he was moved to feel that one could be both happy and respectable. Perhaps somebody may ask whether I believe that John Puckering of Arley went to Heaven for 150 seconds. I hope so. but how can I tell. All I know is that he was dead. Where was he? There must be somewhere the land of happy faces. At least there ought to be. lOopyrieht. 19351

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE Rocky Mountains consist of two distinct I parts each of which originated in a different way. according to Dr. Charles E. Resser, paleontologist of the Smithsonian Institution. The northern half, extending from the Arctic through Montana, constitutes one section. The southern half extends from about Yellowstone Park to the Rio Grande. Yellowstone National Park represents the meeting point of the two. Dr. Ressersays, jind the differences m them can be studied there. To explain these present-day differences which manifest themselves in different types of scenery and the necessity for different types of engineering In building roads. Dr. Resser takes us back 500.000.000 years to the geological eras known as the Lower and Middle Cambrian. Back in those days, there were no Rocky Mountains. During the Cambrian era. a long, narrow, shallow arm of the Arctic Ocean extended southward into the low-lying, flat North American continent. This is known because the nick layers of that time include the fossils of the curious crab-like creatures known as tnlobites and the fossils of other shell fish of that period. This arm of the Arctic occupied a sort of trough In the American continent. The technical name for It is a geosynclme. According to Dr. Resser's findings. it followed the general '•nurse of the northern Rockies, but turned westward in Montana, continuing along the so-called Rockv Mountain trench between the Rockies and Selkirk s. through the Great Basin and as far south as southern California. mmm THE important thing about this arm of the /rctir was that it passed west of the present southern Rockies. During the Lower and Middle Cambrian periods, when the great geosvnc’.ine was flooded, sea waters were not able to enter the region which is now tuthe southern Rockies. However, in the period which immediately followed, the Upper Cambrian period, there was widespread flooding of the continent. The shallow seas spread into the region of the southern Rockies. Tht high parts of the land in the region of what Is now the southern Rockies formed a chain of islands in the shallow sea of the Upper Cambrian period. These islands. Dr. Resser says, were the highest spots of the ancient land. Today, they constitute the cores of the ranges of the southern Rockies. m m m THIS difference in early history. Dr. Ressner continues, explains why the scenery of the northern and southern Rockies is so different. North of Yellowstone Park, the thick masses of sediment laid down from the Cambrian era to the so-called Coal Period in the geosyncline, were folded and faulted to make castellated mountains such as those of Glacier National Park and'Canada. Southward, the granite cores were uplifted so that their rather thin sheets of sediment resulted in the so-called "quest as ’ and hogbacks such as are typical of the Garden of the Gods.

Questions and Answers

Q—What was Cleopatra s real name? How old *ras she when she died? A—Auletes. daughter of Ptolemy XITT. She was about 39 years old at the time of her death. <s—What was the name of the last book written by Biai Ki.*g? A—" The Spreading Dawn.'* written in 1927*

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MANUAL HIGH SCHOOL GROWS UP

South Side Gridders Humbled College Teams in Good Old Days

In the glittering days of 1895 to 1905, when bright young athletes played the limit for the team without benefit of girl cheer leaders or brass bands, Manual Training High School sailed through its schedules, soundly drubbing such college teams as Indiana, De Fauw, Wabash, Franklin and Butler. It was an heroic age. Athletes ventured forth, often on cow pastures. to meet any comer with few. if any. holds barred. Many a tough from the comer gang would join up with surh roving teams a? would allow it. for the acute pieasurp of smearing an elbow in the ribs of an opponent. Football was not a game for the weak or timorous. The amiable practice of ••hurdling” was in vogue. That meant that when a runner was in a tight spot he could take his life land that of his comrades) in his bootstraps, and leap feet first over tacklers. The flying wedge was another device employed by the gridiron warriors. With their heads bent and with determination drawn in every line of their jutted chins, the football players would rush forward in a V-shaped formation. This practice often left the sod unsuitable for anything but plowing. Before the Industrial Training School, as Manual first was known, had hardly caught its breath, some ambitious boys from this institution and some more from old High School 2 banded together to form a football team in 1895. nan IT all happened because some unidentified ancient had a football. A few boys booted it around in a vacant lot. Others liked the idea. School spirit was all that held the team together. The boys played their first game against an opponent, which, for want of complete records, must go unidentified. It is just as well, for the school boys walloped their rivals 46 to 0. A short time after this memorable contest the 1 ’ team was broken apart by jealousy between Industrial and High School. A year later, a team was organized at Industrial that was so powerful that, according to the school yearbook, “other high school teams refused to play our husky kickers.” Industrial w’on the slate high school championship by a sort of default. That same year, the South Side boys played De Pauw. Indiana and Purdue. The Pur-

-The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen _

WASHINGTON. Feb. 13.—Although no longer chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Senator William Edgar Borah still wields tremendous power with the State Department. American career diplomats—particularly Douglas Jenkins, consul general in Berlin—had allowed Isobel Steele, an American girl, to languish in a Nazi jail for four months. On one occasion Jenkins did not visit her for a month.

There was no definite charge against her. There was no trial. Nazi authorities confiscated her cash, kept here in solitary confinement, even made her pay cell rent. Secretary Hull did nothing. Finally Borah was informed of the situation, raised such a commotion that she was released . . . Bob Straus, hard-working son of Mary’s ambassador to France, says: "The difference between Gen. Johnsons NRA and the present NRA is that Johnsons NRA went ahead and made mistakes. The present NRA doesn't even make mistakes.’’ . . . Irish Minister Mac White recently scored the most difficult diplomatic victory of the year. He got the Roosevelt Administration to reduce the tariff on an Irishmade stout by 50 per cent. He did

TRIBUTE TO BE PAID BY POINTING BOARD TO RETIRING CLERK

Robert Mythen. retiring clerk of the State Printing Board, will take with him tomorrow when he leaves his post a hand-printed testimonial from the board, praising him for his stewardship. The testimonial is printed entirely in Old English letters and is signed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. Secretary of State August Mueller. State' Auditor LawTence Sullivan and Miss Emma May. repor.er of the Supreme and Appellate Courts. Mr. Mythen will become a federal conciliator in the Department of Labor. He will be sworn in before he leaves for Washington by Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler, a brother member of the Pressmen’s Union. Mr. Mythen will be succeeded as clerk by Parke Beadle, now assistant clerk. D0G _ CLUB _ T0 _ GiVE WIRE PUPPY EXHIBIT Annual Show Will Be Staged at Antlers Saturday. Thomas Carruthers. Glendale. 0.. will judge the wire puppy match sponsored bv the Wire Fox Terrier Club of Indiana at the Antlers Saturday. Frank J. Ward, club president, announced today. Male puppies will be judged at 3 in the afternoon. Females and specials will be judged at 7:45 and the show will continue until 10. A similar matched staged a year ago by the club had the largest entry of any wire puppy show in the United States, it is said. The entry list thus far indicate* ail even greater show than last year, Mr. Ward said. • <

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They played Purdue, Wabash, De Pauw. Rear Row (left to right)—W. Wheeler, W\ G. Kaylor, Fred Winters, R. Cooper, J. Hotz, Coach E. Noyes, J. Gilman, M. Dennis. „ .. Middle Row (left to right)—A. W’oodbridge. John S. Kittle. Raffensberger. George H. Steel, W. Krull, Front Row (left to right)—Willis Coval, Jack Shidler, Manola Pickett, Ora Reed.

due coach commented that it was the best high school team he had ever seen in action. Outraged scribes on the school annual staff, however, indignant at seeing their schoolmates mauled around by “ringers” from the gas house and the packing plants, launched a campaign for purity in football. One editor wrote: “Our school, so far-famed and respected in an educational way, is striving each year to put a higher standard on the truly scholastic sports . . , That which needs to be encouraged in our own state, among high schools as well as some of the colleges, is purer inter-schol-astic athletics. “What merit is there in the fame or excellence of one school over another, if the leaders enlist professional athletes or college graduates merely for the athletic teams? To be beaten by a team published as high school when in reality it is a town team is hard to bear.” n n n IT was the hey-day of the tramp athlete who went begging from college to town team

this at a time when other nations were rushing in to offer various reciprocal tariff advantages. Mac White gave nothing in return. n n a A. F. of L. chieftains, soured on the Administration, have determined to take their demands to Congress. They have approached Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Labor Secretary, with the suggestion that he resume his old job as legislative representative. They want McGrady, a real favorite on Capitol Hill, to direct the A. F. of L. fight for a compulsory 30-hour work week and the Wagner Labor Disputes bill. The President is opposed to the first measure and has displayed a wariness regarding the second. . . . The four walls of Huey Long's private Senatorial office are lined from floor to ceiling with bookcases containing nothing but law books. . . . Secretary Wallace, one of the sponsors of the Washington Public Forum, is considering plans for the establishment of similar open-discussion institutions in rural communities. 808 SENATE colleagues of "The Man” Bilbo have been trying to egg him on to tackle Kingfish Huey, but the little Mississippian is keeping his own counsel. Incidentally, Huey knows that Bilbo is being urged to assail him and has told friends that he is all set and ready. "Assistant President” Richberg has been promoted. His colleagues now call him “associate president.” Both titles gripe him considerably. . . . Unlike most congressmen, who supply profuse biographical material for the Congressional Directory, Rep. Marion Anthony Zioncheck enters only his name and "Democrat, of Seattle, Wash.” He omits to mention that he was bom Marjan Antoni Zajaczek in a part of Austria that is now Poland, was naturalized 10 years ago. He is one of 11 foreign-bom Representatives in the 74th Congress. POSTOFFICE CLERKS TO MEET HERE SUNDAY Executive Session Is Called by Indiana State Branch. An executive meeting of the Indiana State Branch, United National Association of Postoffice Clerks, will be held at 1 Sunday afternoon at the Spink-Arms. Officers of the organization include Ed S. Cochran, Monticello. president; Loren Z. Fately, Indianapolis. Ed S. Hiatt, Bluffton. vice-presidents, and Reid Dickover, Wabash, secretarytreasurer. i

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1935

to high school, offering his services again and again under various aliases. He had a heart which could impulsively warm up to anybody’s school yell. Manual, from the very beginning, opposed such doubtful athletics. The years of 1897 and 1899 found Industrial the undisputed high school football champions of Indiana. The Red and White also claimed the championship of Kentucky by virtue of its defeat of Louisville Male High School, the Bluegrass champions. The years 1898 to 1903 spun along with Manual walloping De Pauw. Wabash, Franklin and Butler with such regularity that their scores looked like those of a Notre Dame season under Knute Rockne. Many of the graduating gridmen went on to greater honors as outstanding players and captains at such universities as Indiana, Purdue, Cornell and West Point. The high school games were modestly called “practice games” by the editors of the annuals. The rivalry between Manual and Shortridge was always bitter. Sometimes Shortridge would beat

MANUAL GIRLS NAMED TO ASSIST LIBRARIAN 10 Are Selected From Masoma Club Honorary Society. Ten girls were selected this week from the Masoma Club, Manual High School honor organization, to assist Mrs. Florence S. Schad, school librarian, and Mrs. Marion Adams, her assistant. The girls are Eva Popchey, Charlotte Pieper, Marjorie Amt, Lilly Buchatsky, Mildred Kraft, Inas Donahue, Frances Snoddy, Marjorie Howard, Agaia Angelopolous and Mildred Grossman. Mrs. Ruth Shull, faculty member, is sponsor. ACTON EASTERN STAR TO GIVE BOX SUPPER Ways and Means Committee in Charge of Social. The ways and means committee of Acton Eastern Star. Chapter 173, will sponsor an old-fashioned box supper Saturday at New Bethel High School. Ladies of the chapter will bring the food, and prizes for the most attractively arranged boxes are to be awarded. An entertainment by Federal Emergency Relief Administration workers is scheduled.

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Manual and the South Siders would come back with blood in their eyes and grim determination in their souls. Manual also had a brilliant record in track The first year that Manual sent cr, organized cinder squad into competition, 1898, the team won the state championship. The elated journalists at Manual gave much credit to Anton Vonnegut, now the president of the Vonnegut Moulder Corp. The championship event was the Indiana Interscholastic Field Day. Many records set at that time were broken by Manual track and field men in 1900. persistent and ambitious youngsters who believed that their school should be the best in everything. nan SO fired were they by the marks set by their predecessors that succeeding trackmen have kept the corridors of Manual well filled with trophies. It was natural that, when the school was founded, a baseball team should be organized. Most boys

IN OLD NEW YORK By Paul Harrison

NEW YORK. Feb. 13.—Among the optional activities of a reporter oi the scrambled Gotham scene is attendance upon such memorabilia as ice-sitting contests, kissing marathons, spaghetti-eating races

and jumping bean sweepstakes. The other day it was a callipygian contest. "Callipygian” is a word in good standing, of Greek derivation, and means shapely—ah—hips. Well, not exactly hips, but the region where ladies used to wear bustles. Recently some etymologist among the corset people discovered “callipygian,” and they have been employing it profitably ever since as a descriptive of what corsets do to the feminine form. They have, however, corrupted the definition to "flat rear profile”—a liberty which probably would have distressed the ancient Greeks. ANYWAY, there was a contest. with 16 showgirl participants who had only the vaguest idea of the meaning of callipygian, and with three judges who had opinions if not definite standards of measurement.

By George Clark

had played “catch” as soon as they were old enough to handle a baseball. Faded lithographs in attics or old barrooms show the immense popularity of the baseball player. They were then, as now, the idols of boyhood. With only sporadic coaching by interested oldsters and with uniforms borrowed from big brothers or with none at all. the baseball team made its debut in 1895, only a few months after the pupils had moved into the new building on S. Meridian-st. The Manual year book reports in 1897 of the baseball team: "The first game was lost to a team of professionals who played in Butler suits.” Wabash and Indiana State Normal were beaten by Manual. Fighting against the handicap of having no gymnasium, Manual nevertheless was able to develop basketball teams that consistently defeated college teams. The first Manual basketball team came along in 1900. Butler, which w’as later to become nation-famed for its quintets, was beaten three times, 3222, 29-17 and 48-29. The pupils at Manual were wildly happy when their team beat an assured, veteran Shortridge team, 12 to 9. nan A BASKETBALL league was organized in Indianapolis in 1905. Manual, only once defeated, won the league title by drubbing Butler, German House and Shortridge. In all fairness it must be reported that the other teams were given a 5-point handicap over German House. With characteristic Hoosier enthusiasm, the pupils then lifted basketball to the position of a major sport. As the living years became memories and many of those sturdy athletes of the first days were graduated, other sports were included in the Manual activities Manual teams continued to win. Bowling, tennis, golf and women's sports assumed a place. One of Manual's greatest athletes was Harold Harmeson, ’22, one of three brothers who starred at the South Side school. A fiveletter man, Harmeson won nationwide fame at Purdue. Next Monday many an athlete of a by-gone day will wander through the halls looking at the enduring mementoes of their own past glory—the cups and medals which adorn the walls and cases. Some will probably look with bewilderment at those staunch, resolute faces staring out of pictures of the old teams and wonder just how they managed to live through it all. It was an heroic age.

As soon as the young ladies appeared in their one-piece bathing suits, the photographers present lost all concern with the true purpose of the affair, and spent their time delightedly snapping front views of chorines. The rest of us, as mere spectators, sa£ around and simulated a cool and academic interest. It was an afternoon affair, held on the stage of the Paradise cabaret. With creditable restraint the management had entered only one lass from tne Paradise chorus. BUT Sally Rand, who dances there in the evenings, was present in the rol? of hostess. She wore fifteen pounds of clothes, which included (she told me) five petticoats, a steel-staved corset and a gown of the ’nineties. Her waist was constricted to a mere 22 inches. I wanted to say that I never had seen her look so charming, but refrained for fear she might not consider it a compliment. After all, Miss Rand earns S3OOO a week by looking charming in a costume of talcum powder. Margery Gayle Hoffmann, an Ames (la.- girl who has made good in several Broadway musical comedies, was the callipygian winner. Later she confessed to a woman reporter that she never has worn a corset.

ONE-MAN ‘UNION’ IS RULED BARGAINER BY LOCAL LABOR BOARD

After deliberating long and seriously, the Indianapolis Regional Labor Board has recommended that Earl McLaughlin should be the collective bargainer at the A. E. Boyce & Cos., Muncie letter printing shop. Mr. McLaughlin, the lone employe of the shop, told the board that he wanted to join the International Printing Pressman’s and Assistants Union and that his employers wouldn’t let him. The board suggested that Mr. i McLaughlin join the union and be ! recognized as the bargainer. SCHOOL TO HAVETpARTY Broad Ripple Pupils to Enjoy Valentine Social. Broad Ripple High School will attend the third all-school party in the gymnasium tomorrow at 3:15. The party will be in honor of St. Valentine. Candidates for the honors are Juanita Rauch, Jean Willcutts. Katharine Matzke. Billie Miller and Gladys Scott: Ralph Kelly, Carroll j Combs, Russell Rauch, David McQueen and Gilbert Sheely.

Second Section

En'prp'l is Second -("'liim Matte* at PostoffW. Indianapolis. Ind.

I Cover the World WMPHIUP SIMMS TODAY as Italy mobilized for a possible bloody war with Abyssinia, the State Department prepared to dispatch to the scene one of this country’s most distinguished diplomatic agents. George C. Hanson, former Consul General in Harbin. Manchuria, and later in Moscow, has been detached from that important past and his nomination as charge d'affaires at Addis Ababa will shortly be posted. Consul General Hanson was in Manchuria

several years prior to the conquest of that country by Nippon. He was transferred to Moscow after the. Japanese coup, and following the recent break-down of SovietAmerican debt-and trade negotiations it was announced that he would not return to Russia. The writer is now in a position to state that Mr. Hanson will be sent to the capital of Abyssinia, where world history is again being made. He has spent a lifetime in just such an environment, where not only unusual diplomatic qualifications are essential but years of special training are indispensible. Mr. Hansen is perhaps the best

known diplomatic official throughout the Far East, regardless of nationality. That he should be chosen for this particular post by the State Department, at this time, indicates the importance the United States attaches to present developments. nan Abyssinia Is Independent ASIDE from the tiny and tottering Republic, of Liberia, set up as a home for American Negroes on the west coast. Abyssinia is the only independent territory left on the continent of Africa. If France and Great Britain are willing, Italy sooner or later will almost certainly do to Abyssinia what she and the other great powers have already done to the rest of the dark 'continent. Liberia, not as large as the State of Georgia, and with a population about one-fifth that of New "iork City, retains its independence only by suffrance of the great powers. Egypt is practically a dependency of Great Britain The rest of Africa, second largest continent on the globe and about four times the size of the United States, is divided into dominions and colonies belonging to the nations of Europe. Abyssinia is in East Africa within a short distance of the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. But this part of Africa controls Britain’s sea route to India and. to make it safe, the coast is parceled out to various European powers. an n Italy Is Key to Peace ERITEA has belonged to Italy since 1885, Events in this strip of land made and unmade Italian dictators half a century ago. Just as at Gibraltar—where the British on one side and the French on the other control the entry and exit to and from the Mediterranean—the British and French control the Strait of Babel Mandeb, with the French on the African side, the British on the other. Next come British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland between Abyssinia and the sea; then, to the south and west, are British Kenya colony, Uganda and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Plainly, Premier Mussolini will not hurl his troops into the middle of all this without the consent, tacit or expressed, of the British and the French. Reports are that neither objects very seriously. Italy is one of the keys to the peace of Europe. -She did not like the division of territory following the World War. She felt—and‘still feels—that she did not get her share. Were Italy now given a free hand in this rich area, the pressure for an outlet which she has never ceased to put on the British and French might let up. Besides the Ethiopians may be counted on to provide plenty of trouble for a considerable time to come if there is a war.

Your Health _BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN—

MODERN science has developed an ingenious method of guiding the courts in deciding the true parentage of children, or discovering who committed a murder, by means of examining the blood of the persons involved. Also, in the case of a blood transfusion, this method is used to see that the blood of both persons involved is compatible. This prodigious step in medical science is based on the existence of certain dominant factors in the blood. Before a blood transfusion, tests are made not only to see that no infection is transmitted from one person to the other, but to be sure that the blood of both will mix well. If the bloods are not of the kinds that mix well, the blood of one person will cause the red blood cells of th'e other to clump together. If this occurred within the human body, death would follow promptly. BBS STUDIES have shown that persons can be divided into groups, according to the group factors in the blood, and that the bloods of certain groups can be mixed without danger. By this blood study, it is also known that there is a tendency to inherit certain characteristics and while we can not say from the study of a blood group that a certain child is the descendant of a certain father, we can say in some instances that a certain child could not possibly be the descendant of a certain man. The blood consists of a liquid part called plasma and the red cells,' or corpuscles. The plasma contains a substance called agglutinin, which, when it comes in contact with corpuscles of a certain kind, clumps them together, or agglutinates them. The corpuscles also contain a substance called agglutinogen, which enables them to be clumped when they are acted on by the right kind of plasma. BBS THERE are two kinds of agglutinins in the plasma; these have been called “a” and "b.” There are also two kinds of agglutinogens in the corpuscles, which are called “A” and "B.” Now persons may have iij their blood various combinations of these agglutinins and agglutinogens; for instance, aglutinin “a” can combine with agglutinogen “A” and cause the corpuscles to clump. It may not, however, affect corpuscles which contain agglutinogen “B.” After many thousands of persons were studied, it was discovered that all human beings can be divided into groups according to the agglutinins and agglutinogens which they have in their blood. It is obviously impossible for any person to have “a” and “A ’ in his blood, because his corpuscles would at once clump together. It is, however, possible to have other combinations —for example, "A” and "B,” "A” and "b,” "a” and "B,” “a and “b.” This latest-mentioned group of persons have been called O individuals because their blood cells can never be clumped together. Q— What is the average amount of gold in sea water? A—lt varies from 1 grain to 0.03 grain per ton. Q—How did the expression "to talk turkey” originate? A—lt is said to have originated from an incident of conversation between a white man and an Indian. After a day of hunting together they had only a turkey and a partridge to show for their work. Tne white man said: "Take your choice. You can have the partridge and I’ll take the turkey; or I’ll take the turkey and you may have the partridge.” "Ugh,” said the Indian, "you dont talk turkey to me.” The expression has come to mean to "talk business. **

Wm. Philip Simms