Ligonier Banner., Volume 55, Number 48A, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 January 1922 — Page 4
s PRUGRAN . rystal Theatre Monday, January 23 o “QONE WILD WEEK” with Bebe Daniels and a “Torchy” comedy also a colored picture, | ‘ o ' Tuesday and Wednesday, January 24, 25 “THE JUCKLINS” irom 0. P. Read’s famous book a 6 reel special also a 2 reel Christie comedy. - . ; Bl Thursday and Friday, January 26,27 = “THE FORBIDDEN WOMAN” a special icature with Clara Kimball Ydimg a magnificent production also a car-toon and screne snap shots. Adm. I{),‘ 20, flnd 2!’)(‘. 5 : i | Saturday, January 28 : J . : . : “THE GHOST IN THE GARRET” with Dorothy Gish the funniest pieture you ever saw, aiso a 2 reel comedy. e L , , Sunday and Monday, January 29, 30 ' SWHAT' WORTH WHILE” a special Paramount picture : n The greatest question sinece the world began also a fine Merimail comed y with “HAM” | / ' : Coming soon Mary Pickford the world’s sweetheart, Look for her.
’ Public Sale. . fl I will sell at public auction at my residence 3 miles north and 2 tiles west of Ligonier 3 miles east and one mile south of Millersburg on Wednesday Feb. 1. Beginning at 10 o'clock a. m. the following property: ~ 6—Head of Horses—Bay mare 10 vears old, weight 1300, bay mare 7 vears, weight-1400, black mare 7 years old weight 1300; bay driving mare, 1 vears old, weight 1300 sorrel mare 4 years old weight 1100, black yearling colt - L/ o 3 Head of Cattle—Durham cow 3 years old to be fresh Ist of March a good orie; Durham cow, 3 years old, to be fresh in June yearling heifer. 41 Head of Hogs—Twelve full blood Duroc brood sows due to farrow April Ist; 31 shoats, Duroc boar 3 years old Duroc boar 1 year old. - ; * 100 pullets part pure Wyandottes
Farm Implements—McCormick binder, McCormick mower, Oliver corn plow, Ohio corn plow, Gale corn plow, Oliver [sulky plow, corn planter, 2 spring -buggies top buggy, 9 hoe Superior drill, Syracuse walking plow, Gliver walking plow, 3-section spike tooth harrow spring: tooth ~harrow single shovel plow, flat bottom rack with stock rack, 2 iron wheel wagons 10 h. p. Appleton gas engine with saw outfit, 2% h. p. Sattley gas engine set harness, set new gravel boards, boat, hand drill rip saw wood lathe, 3 iron kettles, 40-gal. copper kettle block and tackle fanning mill, corn sheller feed grinder 'set butchering tools, large number small articles. :
4 tons Timothy hay more or less, 175 shocks fodder, more or less, 500 bushels of corn more or less, 200 bushels oats more or less. Household Articles—New HEconomy King cream sseparator, power washer and wringer, Majestic range, Radiant Home hard coal burner, 80-egg Weimer incubator, 150 egg Banta incubator, black walnut wardrobe, sideboard, bookcase, dresser cabinet, ten-foot extenmsion table chairs- beds cupboards, bureau, comfort frames, about 20 gallons lard, some dishes and cooking utensils and many other articles. About fifty cords of wood.
Terms of Sale—All sums under $5 cash. All sums over that amount a credit of 8 months will be given with 7 percent interest from date of sale. Dinner served by Burr Oak Ladies’ Aid Society. : ‘
, JAMES W. VANCE Harley Longcor, Auctioneer .
o Public Sale e 1 will offer for sale at public auction at my residence four miles west of Rome City four miles northeast of Wawaka and seven miles southeast of Topeka, Wednesday Feb. 1. Beginning at cne o‘clock the following property t%-‘.vf‘(: o One spotied Shetland Pony. four years old broke to ride and drive. Cattle—Red shorthorn bull calf, five months old,” sire Silver Goods (622823) dam Ruby of Oakland 4th (610813); Jersey cow, 3 years old calf by side, one heifer calf: 20 Head Chester White Bred Sows These gilts are sired by Petroleum Goods (52077) whose sire was eight times grand champion. They are bred to Pierce’s Big Bone and Shady Corner Giant, a spring pig won that won first at Auburn fair and he defeated the first prize boar at Kerdallville and Huntertown. | hTese gilts will farrow n iMarch, April and May. They have been fed to do the buyer good. All are eligible to record. . One boar Prince Big Bone, farrowed March 22 1920 whose gie's litter mate was grand champion of lowa last fall. Four tons good Timothy and clover hay in barn. e : .
Terms of sale—All sums of $lO and under cash on sums over that amount a credit of seven months will be given - with 7" per cent interest from date, >"2 per cent off for cash. : C. F. Pierce - E. R. Kurtz, Auctioneer - o Carl Frick, clerk. : s et 8 e Public Sale. ~ The undersigned will sell at public auction on -the O. 8. Randolph farm one mile north-west of Wawaka and . six miles east of Ligonier on Thurs- ~ day February 2, 1922. 'Saig to begin at <1:00 o'clock p. m. s - 6 Head of Horses—Black mare coming ¥ years old in foal, roam mare _coming 3 years old broke, bay gelding -coming 3 years old, broke, gray mare coming 3 years old, 2 colts coming 2 # years old fresh day of sale, Jersey €ow 8 years old fresh day of sale,
Durham cow 8 years old fresh in Juns Jersey cow 7 years old fresh in June Holstien heifer 3 years old pasture hred, Durham bull 2 years old. 40 Head of Hogs—6 brood sows to farrow in Mach and April 34 head of shoats. - : . 300 bushels of corn in crib. Terms of Sale—A credit of 9 month will be given on all sums over $5.00 with interest at 7 per cent from date on approved notes. 2 per cent off for cash. L : : e Randolph & Lower E. R. Kurtz; Auctioneer . Chas. W. Schwab ,Clerk 48a3t TURN YOUR SPARE MOMENTS IN- ' TO DOLLARS Supply coal consumers with “Koal Save” guaranteed jto save the user 309% of his coal. Men or women will find this a very profitable 'business, Exclusive rights. Write for full particulars enclosing stamp for reply. HOUSEHOLD CHEMICAL CO. . 180 E 3rd St. St, Paul, Minn. : Fdas g 48a4t : "Entertains Friends. '
Martha Holloway gave a party Saturday afternoon to a number of her little friends in honor of Auburn visitors. Refreshments were served and the time spent in parlor games. Among the guests were Harold Schloss Mary Mentzer, Ward Swartz, Marshal Link, James Little, Bonnie Lane, Mary Hire Carols Lane and Mary Weyer. v ' Grain Prices. Lyon & Greenleaf today paid the following prices for grains: ; Whene 4.0 a 8 Rye ol s B 9 Oate a 0 e iR COrD. 4o e s b 3be Teh price of wheat has taken an advance of four cents a bushel since the last report in the Banner, . Earl Burk Home. ; When Earl Burk came in from the Burk ranch near Diamond lake Saturday he brought the Banner families a fiice lot of sausage sen t by his brother John who is butchering every day for some of his neighbors. Earl Burk had been assisting with Xhe ranch work. '
Fatal Auto Accident.
George W. Mast fatally hurt dying before the hospital was reached and William A. Renn both of Elkhart was seriously injured when Mr. Renn’s Saxon car was struck by a Big Four passenger train Saturday afternoon.
Scientists Have New Home.
The Christian Scientists society of Ligonier has taken a lease on the hall over tthe Weir & Cowley hardware store formerly occupied by the American Legion post and F. E. Weir owenr of the building has made the necessary ‘improvements to insure \a most pleasing meeting place, :
More Snow Falls,
Ephraim Yoder is assisting Street Commissioner Banta in keeping the cross walks and the gutters clean of snow. An additional fall -of the beautiful snow Friday night called for more shoveling. ‘ '
~ Loses Diamond and Cash. dealer lost 4 dia...Br?oD.|:nYnib@oo Harry Wagner Fort Wayne coal dealer lost a diamond ring worth $l,600 and $l5O cash to a stick up man while on his way home from the office Saturday night. :
Ignores Civil Service,
Congreseman Fairfield has at least eight republican enemies in South Whitley. He named Prince A. Edwards rostmaster ther: over nine candidates without the foumality cof a ecivil service examination, y
Dies at Advanced Age,
Adam Brossman prominent Whitley county farmer and civil war vetcran is dead at the age of more than &2 years. His widow survives of the same age. The couple had been married 62 years. :
Mrs. €. D. Zimmerman and two children have rteurned to Kendallville after spending several days here with Mrs. Lena Stansbury who is ill and confined to her home. It is believed the danger of pneumonia is now ‘passed, - : soo e evt e ! . Slashes Arm While Butchering, While butchering a beef on the W. M. Berkes farm in Allen township Roy ‘Wolf slashed his arm with a knife, RR e T SO eS R e
LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA.
Will Build Lake Cottage.
~ Next summer Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bordner expect to spend considerable time at Kagle lake. Mr. Bordner is having a neat cottage erected near the lake and will occupy it next season.
Company Declares Dividend.
The Elkhart County Farmers CoOperative Association has declared an 8 per cent dividend on a capital stock of about $45,000 as a result of last year’s business. :
Is Successful Teacher,
Samuel Galloway who is teaching in the Topeka schools this winter drives forth and back each day. Mr. Galloway taught school thirteen years with marked success before coming to Ligonier. : i
Has Injured Eye.
While chopping wood at his” home near Brimfield Don McDonald suffereda bad injury to one of his eyes when a chip flew up and struck the optic. The injured man is being treated in a Kendallville hospital. v e
Called to Michigan.
© Mrs. W. A. Campbell’ of Nappanee was called to Detroit to care for her sister Mrs. G. W. Emmett who fell recently and fractured a leg. Another sister Mrs. Jacob Heck of the same city is also in poor health. :
iTo Succed Hays.
A dispatch from Washington says Dr. Hubert Work, Colorado now first assistant postmaster general will succeed Will H. Hays as postmaster geneéral it was learned from a high administration source. ' ,
Important Meeting.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion will hold a meeting at the Legion club rocom Wednesday January 25. Every member urged to be present as there will be election of officers. -
Miss Schwab lIL
- Miss Mabel Schwab employed as an accountant in the offices of Wertheimer & Sons was taken quite ill Friday and had to be removed to her home in a conveyance.
Notice of Services
Christian Science Services are held every Sunday morning at 11 o’clock at the hall over Weir & Cowley. Welcome .1-1-22
Real Estate Tranfers
. Mary Dean Coucher Scott to Homer L. Cook and wife lots in Ligonier, Delos S. Morris to Mae and Arley P. Morris land in Perry township.
Thieves Get $1,200 in Furs.
Fur capes valued at $1,200 were taken from a show case in the lobby of the Steele-Myers store at Fort Wayne early Friday morning. .
NEWS NOTES 1 Mrs. Louisa M. Wildman is dead at Wolcottviile aged 82. : For sale, modern. prvopertyp in good location. Call at Banner office. 47btf For S@le——C‘orn, hay, oats. Inquire of C. A. Wolf. Phone 271. 47btf " The Jacob Synagbgué ‘at South Bend was damaged by fire Friday afternoon to the extent of $6,000. . Out of 72 school children examined at LaGrange all but two were found to have colds. The ratio is equally as large in Ligonier. Quits Town Board. : H. A. Moore has resigned as a member of the Avilla town board. ~ The ladies Aid Society of the U. B. church will hold a doughnut sale at Frank Miller’'s store Saturday afternoon Jan 28th. Your patronage appreciated. 48a2t " The Columbia City Post carries the announcement of 20 democratic aspirants for county and township offices in Whitley county.
Want Public Library. Wolcottville .is- making an effort to secure a public library. The citizens are making strenuous big&kfor support in the laudable unde ing WANTED—Man with car to sell low priced Graham Tires. $130.00 per week and commissions. Graham Tire Co., 1019 ‘Boulevard, Benton Harbor, Mieh. g Walter Elliott had a leg crushed Friday by the caving of frozen gavel in a pit near Columbia City. The fractured bones pierced the flesh and amputation of the foot may be necessary. e s
A small son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Clark of Kimmell accidentlly fell and ran a darning needle into his back the sharp instrument® breaking off. An Albion physician came to the relief of the child. i :
Te first individual Guy Hieber will call on when he reaches Washington Wednesday will be President Hafding’s private ' physician. *Mr. Heiber has a personal acquaintance with the doctor. : LA
7 e o Bt s e SRR ' - Both Meams Beaten. = | Auburn boys and girls defeated Lig- | . "r's teams Friday nigt by close 'sco‘r‘:: before a big crowd. It seemed (an cf! ~'sht for thelocal tossers and | the resu!t ‘was a surprise to all even the wisit ~z teams, This ic the second defeat for the Ligonier girls during the season. They were first best-d by the Kendallville girls but they ev- u:d the score here some time ago when {2y trimmed the Kendallville damsels in nroper style. They also defeated Aubiura earlier in He seapen. . o 0 - Goshen tests strength with the local tossers here next Friday night,
. CROMWELL NEWS ' - - Mrs. Glenn Nicoli is visiting at Goshen. - : L Boy scout basketball team of Ligonier won from the Jr. Y. M. C. A. team here 6 and 3. : Mrs. M. Beberich and daughter Deloris was home from Kendallville Sunday. r A social 'was held at the Lutheran church Tuesday evening. The Senior class of the high school held a party at the home of Miss Mildred Kimmell Saturday evening.
Twin babies arrived at the home of Mr. anl Mrs. R. Twaits. Chester Vanderford of Ligonier was here on legal business Saturady. Spall McMann has resigned his position with the B. & O. : |
fixck Green is visiting in Chicago. Miss Lenore Moore was home from St Jas Sumday. = i Mss Deloris Ruby was a country visitor’ Sunday. : Dr. J. Nye has recovered from a weeks sickness. &
Revival meetings are in progress at the Alcinda village. Mrs. Mon Schlabaeh is seriously ill. Wm Crow is slowing improving in his sickness. e i
‘The Y. M. C. played basket ball a: Albion and lost. i ;
Jack Smith of -Syracuse is visiting at the Wm Wiright home. : Les Bunger is home from Terre Haute.
The Farmers shipping association held their annual eelction of officers meeting here Saturday.’ v
The women of the M. E. church entertained their husbands at a party Tuesday evening. : A benefit home talent show will be staged here next month, :
Way to Cut-Expenses.
Jesse: Eschbach state adcountant has reached the .conclusion that -for the' good of the service and in the interest of economy the next legislature can reduce the number of public officers, boards and commissions by one-third to the gré&at relief of the taxpayers. B It is rather unfortunate that Mr. Eschbach as speaker of the house in the last two regular sessions of the legislature did not urge these reforms. . Enjoy Birthday Party. . A birthday surprise party was given Earl Graham at Pleasant View by about forty of his friends Wednesday evening. Mr. Graham was presented with gifts showing the high esteem in which he is held. Ligonier, Cosperville Topeka Wawaka and neighbors were among the guests. b -
Some Fine Porkers.
Last Saturday Jacob Boyd 'the tenant on Sheriff Harlie - Hern’s farm in LaGrange county sold eighteen hogs at Howe which weighed fortyfive hundred pounds. These hogs were pure Duroc. Twelve were born July 5 and six on August 10 and their average weight was two hundred and fifty pounds. {
Frank Jackson Stricken.
Word " reached Ligonier relatives this morning that . Frank Jackson many years a merchant and postmaster at Benton suffered a stroke of paralysis at the home of his son John in Waterford. Mr. Jackson is about 75 years of age. ; :
Successful Bake Sale.
The Ladies of the U. B. church conducted a very successful bake sale at the F. E. Miller grocery Saturday. The ladies aid of the Presbyterian church will conduct a bake sale at the Sisterhen grocery Friday January 27. {55
Surprise Party.
Friends and neighbors gave Mrs. C. L. Reeve a surprise by gathering at her home Friday evening Jan. 20, to. help celebrate her forty-ninth birthday. The evening was spent with games and music. At a late hour refreshments were served. ;
Popular®Dances.
The dance at Eagles hall Friday night was very successful an immence crowd being present. Another dance will be given next Saturday night. Sack’s orchestra furnishes music for: these functions.
Caught in Gravel Pit,
- Ed Stackhouse 40 was caught in a sorting machine at thg gravel pit near Tippecanoe Saturday morning and his body was crushed tothe waist line. He died from his injuries Sunday morning. ]
Ending Busy Season.
- John Burke the Diamond Ilake butcher is just closing a very successful season. He has been butchering for his neighbors to their entire satisfaction. :
Janitor is Enaged.
Homer Nelson has been engaged as janitor of the U. B. church and he is a good one. Mr. Nelson responded to. an advertisement in the Banner,
all the news happenings that come to your attention to this office. It will be appreciated for every piece of news will make-the paper more interesting for you as well as others. We want and with your help will print all
SHARKS TAKEN OFF NEW YORK
Their Capture Said to Have Been a " Regular Thing Prior to and - During Year 1816. =~~
A shark nowadays even on the most exposed beaches of New York and the metropolitan srea is a rarity and a curiosity, but there was a time when these fish used to be caught off Cutiiarine slip, says the New York it This was about 1815, when the fisliing smacks and fish cars used to unload and load off this wharf in the East river and the dead fish thrown out into the water used to attract the sharks. An old man, Sam Way, a porter in the old Catharine market, earned a reputation as a master shark catcher. “Shark around the slip,” was the cry that was raised when a shark was sighted off the .pier and then Sam would drop his broom and put out his chain hook a%d soon wodld have the giant fish struggling on the dock. He' is said to bave hauled in as many as; seven in one day, some of them fourteen feet long. » ; Devoe, the historian, tells an incident which is passed on‘herewith without confirmation: 4 ‘
“One day Sam hooked a big one and he climbed into a skiff which lay tied to the end of the slip; the shark took to pulling and broke loose the skiff with Sam in, and away he went fown the river at race-horse speed, aearly as far as Red Hook before he tired out, or Sam could hold him up. He, however, mastered him and brought him back, and Sam after that concluded not to be,run away with again. So he stuck to the raft or dock when he, fished' for ‘shark’ thereafter.”
PAID BIG PRICE FOR TITLES White Men in. South Africa Hardly _Recompensed by Appellation of Brave and Noble Indunas. Their adventure in Swaziland Is told by a doctor who just returned, from a ten’ years’ sojourn there and who, with two other white men, was made sub-chief in the Swazi tribe of South Africa negroes. The white men were not eager for the experience, and the initiation was far from an inducement, the rule requiring that they should spend ten days ‘of purificatory exile from human society, in native dress, with only native weapons, depending upon their skill ih the use of these for food. The doctor told with considerable feeling how they were stripped by the leading medicine man of every shred of. clothing. given Swazi warrior costumes and conducted into the hills. They were bitten by insects, scratched by thorns, frozen at night, scorched by day, their bare feet bruised and abraded until they were in agony, kept in constant fear of the many poisonous snakes—but, most of all, hungry. In spite of L’Tunga’s tutoring in native methods of taking game, the white men, used to depending upon the rifle for such purposes, nearly starved. However, when the chief medicine man and his assistants came to conduct them back to the kraal of the queen, the famished, dirty, desperate looking white men, with ten days’ growth of beard, were acclaimed brave and noble indunas. ‘ : :
Hibernating Fishes.
Cold weather has a marked effect on some of the fresh water fish at the aquarium of the New York Zoological society. When the temperature of the fresh water flowing through the tanks of ‘th%:quarium" falls below 40 degrees, certain fish become very sluggish. The young yellow perch lie quietly at the: bottom of the tank, @s evenly spaced as if put there by their keeper, and take little food. A low temperature affects young black bass in quite a different way. They ‘stay poised somewhere above the bottom, but crowded close together. Mifty or more will often gather in a com--pact mass, all facing in the sanie direction. The aquarium has several tanks of young black bass, all groups of which show the same curious habit.
Didn’t Play the Game.
~ She is a.young woman of artistice talents and makes a snug bit of change manufacturing dainty bits of embroidery and fancy work. She was displaying samples of her handicraft in her home, the purpose heing to sell her wares for Christmas gifts. The other day an interested caller looked over the various displays. “Here are some bridge table covers that many of my patrons admire,” said the young woman of artistic talents. ~ “Not fg¢¢ me,” the prospective customer replied. “I only play euchre.” —lndianapolis News. ;
Seek Cheap Power Alcohol.
Gasoline users will be interested to know that the search for. cheap ‘sources of power alcohol still continues. A recent writer in Nature suggests that foodstuffs are too valuable at present for such uses, but thinks that waste land in Ireland might be used to produce crops to be autilized 'in this way. Arrowroot, cassava and corn are possibilities in, tropical countries; and a number of cellulose materials, such as straw and sawdust, offer possibilities In indus‘trial regions. ;
Mummy’s®Wisdom. ] . “Mummy, may I hdve that chocolate you promised me now?” ; “Bless the child! Didn’t I tell you you shouldn’t have any at all if you didn’t keep quiet?” . “Yes, mummy.” : “Well, the longer you keep quiet the sooner you'll get it.”"—Brooklyn Eagle. i e Y _Stuart Carney who has been .confined to his home two weeks by illnesg is reported much improved today.» : : gt B e .FA:. &. e . Joseph, Eckert is again on th_‘ka:;:_jObf after being laid up a week the result
TWAIN FOND OF BILLIARDS
Biographer Has Told How Great _Humorist Would Wear Out His , Companions at the Game. }
November 30 is Mark Twain’s birthday. The beloved humorist would" have been eighty-six on that day In 1921, if he had lived. His biographer, Albert Bigelow Paipe, in writing .of Mark Twain’s passion for playing billiards, a hobby which endured to the last, comments upon his great physical endurance and perpetual youth. - “l was comparatively a young man, and by no means an invalid,” Mr, Paine writeg, “but many a time far in the night, when I was ready to drop with exhaustion, he was still as fresh and buoyant and eager for the game as at the moment of beginning. He smoked and smoked continually, and followed the endless track around the billlard table’ with the light step of youth. At three or four o'clock in the morning he would urge just ome more game, and would taunt me for my weariness. : : :
“I can truthfully testify that never until the last year of his life did he willingly lay down the billiard cue, or show the ‘least suggestion of fatigue. He played always‘at high pressure. Now and then, in periods of adversity, he would fly into a perfect passion with things in general. But, in the end, it was a sham battle, and we went on playing as if nothing had happened, only he was very gentle and sweet, like the sun on the meadows after the storm had passed by.”
- WITTY EVEN IN .DREAMLAND Rev. Washington Gladden Was Able to Recall Humorous Response He Made During Sleep. Many of us have dreamed of writing a poem, delivering a speech or making 'a witty remark, that seemed at the time wonderfully brilllant, but that, recalled on waking, proved to be either commonplace or wholly meanIngless. That is not always the case, however, as a story omce told by the Rev. Washington Gladden proves.
He dreamed that the old house that formerly stood near his church’ was still there, and that old Mr. Deshler, who had been dead many years, still lived in it. Doctor Gladden also knew that his old dog, George, who never failed to bark at the minister when he passed the house, still lived. In the dream Doctor Gladden was passing the house when the door opened and the old gentleman came out, followed by George, who, as usual, rushed barking up to Doctor Gladden.
“Now, now, George,” said the old man, “you ought not to do that. You know that’s a friend of ours; that's Doctor Gladden.” *
“Oh! I have met George before,” responded Doctor Gladden in his dream. “In fact George and I have for some time had a bow-wowing acquaintance.”—Milwaukee Sentinel. Farms Supply Wild Life Loss, According to figures supplied by the Dominion bureau of statistics, losses to the fur industry of Canada caused by the spread of civilization in the North are more than made up by rapid development of the fur farming industry. . In '1920 there were 587 fur farms in Canada, 578 of them foxes, six mink, two raccoon and one karakule sheep. The animals on these farms are valued at a little less than $5,000,000, silver foxes leading. 3 The industry commenced on Prince Edward island and has worked west into British Columbia. By provinces the farms are distributed as follows: Prince Edward island, 809; Nova Scotia, 55; New Brunswick, 57; Quebec, 80; Ontario, 42; Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 4; Alberta, 15; British Columbia, 11 and Yukon Ter;ltory, 14. ‘
Ex-Service Men as Teachers,
Intensive training for teaching is given ex-service men {n England at Hornsey Rise Training _college, under the auspices of the ministry of labor. The course is 75 weeks long and not more than 24 days’ absence will be allowed to any student, so that the length of the course will approximate that of the ordinary training college. . et There are 180 students registered in this course, which began July 1. All of these have been approved .by the board of education and by the National Union of Teachers. Some have already had teaching experience. :
Life as | See It . From our prehistoric ancestors down man has always had a friendly feeling for trees, regarding them as almost sentient beings. : Great writers have not disdained to express this feeling. . Robert Louis Stevenson says: “He inquired his way of every tree.” - And again, after an unpleasant encounter with a boor: “A tree would not have spoken-to me like that."”— Louisville Courier-Journal, e
She Guffawed Then.
Sam—l never see you with Miss. Giddings any more, : Lou—No; I .couldn’t stand her wvulgar laughing. Sam—So! I hadn't noticed it. . Lou—No, you weren’t around when I proposed to her., :
i Preventable Forest Fires. More than 160,000 forest fires have occurred in the United States during the past five years, Of these, 80 per cent were due to human agencles and were therefore preventable. 4. Te Try-For O, . LaGrange county residents have invested $5,000 in the Howe Oil company and a prospect well will be sunk for oil or gas. LR - Lois Reece spent a few days in Kim~m at the home of Miss Eva Grow-
T e g e g i —— STORIES OF VENIZELOS® BIRTH Two Legends Told, One of Them Nar rated by the Great Greek States- - - man Himself. . <There are many legends surrounding the birth of Venizelos, According to one, his mother went to the Monastery of the Virgin near Canea to pray for a son, promising the child should be born in a cattle shed after New Testament tradition, Another tells the same story with this addition: When the abbot christened Venizelos he uttered, following the mother’s wish, these prophetic words: “I baptize thee Eleutherios, for thou shalt deliver our long-suffering island from the tyrainy of the Turks.”
In the “Life of Venizelos,” by S. B. Chester, still another story is told, based on incidents narrated by the Greek statesman himself at a dinner party in London. Hlis parents, having already lost three children, decided to follow the local custom and adopt him as a foundling. There was, ‘a superstition that the child would survive only if treated in this fashion. Eleutherios was duly taken away from bis mother and deposited on a heap of dry leaves outside the house. Passing by soon afterward, some friends, who, of course, played their ‘role in -the secret, “discovered” the -child, brought him to his parents and urged that they adopt him as a foundling. They did, and Eleutherics survived and prospered. -
LAW HAD BIBLICAL SANCTION
West Virginia Mayor Couldn’t See Where Autoist Had Any Reason for Complaint,
Law founded on the Bible is good enough for Mayor Gilmore of Morgantown, W. Va. A local man charged with not having the tail light burning on: his automobile was arraigned before the mayor, who assessed a fine of $3. ) T3t
The ~accusell protested, sdid " that it was a poor law under which he was fined and that he did not think it would hold water in court.
The mayor declared any law founded on the Bible was good enough for him. The defendant said he couldn’t see where a tail light had anything to do with the Bible. The mayor looked pityingly at the accused and said:
“Do you remember the tale about the ten virgins, five of whom had lights and five of whom didn’'t? Well, if you do, you will remember that the Lord wouldn't have anything to do with the five without lights, and ‘neither will this court.”—Louisvilla Courier-Journal, _ ¢ oy Miniature Libraries. : A curious idea in book making ils offered by a firm of French publishers. Their plan consists of substituting for the large pages of the average books microphotographic reproductions of them to be read through a magnifying glass. ; : It is proposed that the size of the plates representing pages should be internattonally standardized, so that any one possessing the magnifying apparatus would be able to read any book produced in this way. No technical difficulties are said to be in the way. It is claimed that the cost of production would be enormously reduced. Also it would greatly reduce the work of libraries now cumbered by books of every shape and size. The plates would be, moreover, of a fire-proof and durable material, while the system admits of an edition being enlarged to any dimension desired in accordance with demand. :
Making Library Helpful.
Presuming that a public library Is so well conducted that its custodians are able to direct applicants promptly to the volume asked for, thé next step for an ideal institution would be to advertise the treasures which It holds in trust for all citizens. It* would appear that the Newark (N. J.) library has reached the second stage, for it has been distributing .circulars telling how the ambitious worker may , educate himself by reading, and how the library can help him to find just the right things to read. Taking a cue from the methods of writers of eye-catching advertisements, the library entitled the circular in large type: “Get Wise ' Quick.”—Christian Science Monitor. ;
Proud South American Cities.
It Caracas claims the- title of “The Paris of the New World”—and so they called the Venezuelan capital in the century past—we ought to remember that Bogota, Colombia’s capital, was early in the Sixteenth century famed as “The Athens of South America.” This city, founded in 1538, was a center of culture, before Harvard university had been thought of. Cartagena Colombia,” is fondly known as “The Heroic City,” or “The Cradle of South American Liberty.”—New York Evening Post.
» Engine Wrongly Blamed. A very nervous man bought a meotor car and a friend asked him to give him a lift. They found themselves in a crowded Street. 4 The friend said: *“Jim, your engine is knocking badly.” ! “Don’t be a fool,” was the reply. “That’s my knee.” e : Looking Just Ahead. S Hydro-electric devglopments, totaling 18,500,000 horse power, and a doubling of the present ratings of central station plants, are regarded as probable within the next four years by some American authox:itles. 65 T _— ; . County Statistics, Clerk of the Court Isaac Deter has discovered that there was a slump of 40 marriage licenses issued in 1921 under 1920. The number issued fn. 1920 was 195 while in 1921 the number mm«g uring 1921 fifty divorces