The Syracuse Journal, Volume 18, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 January 1926 — Page 7

MREDEPAMT Section ‘Devoted to , W Attractive Magazine Material

M ® In the ®ME A JUNGLE B \9F With Cheerups and the Quixtes RM-? Grace Dliss Steward lt&

THE ODD OKAPI «T AM going to call on Cheerups thia morning.” said OlUe Okapi to Mrs. Okapi, with a determined air.’ “Well. I don’t see why you Shouldn't go, my dear,” replied Mrs. Okapi, much to Ollie's surprise. “1 should think he would be delighted to see you. This Cheerups person may be wonderful and helpful and all that. <>ut when it comes to curiosities, there isn’t one that I know of who can hold • candle, of a firefly I mean, to you. Ollie. Ton are the most oddest—" “The oddest my .dear, the oldest! I do wisL you would be careful of jSSv jyPtgjpdwy "Make Yourself Quite at Home” Greeted a Small Voice. your African,” said Ollie gently, for he was feeling very much flattered. “Perhaps it would be a treat to him to see me. now that you speak of It. Why shouldn’t I do folks a favor □nee in a while, when It’s so easy? That’s a very good idea, indeed.” and Ollie Okapi strutted up and down as well as he could for the Great Trees and the Twisty Vines which got In bis way. “How do you think I look; all right to start, my dear?” “Oh. yes. you look very handsome. Ollie,” cried Mrs. Okapi,' turning on alm admiring eyes. “But* don’t stay away too late or I shall worry.” “No, I won’t. Mother; good-by and with a whisk of his tall and a frisk of his heels, the odd Okapi dashed away through the Woods on nig journey to Cheerups. “I don’t believe It’s very far.” thought he to himself, “for the Jungle and the Deep Forest are really rhe same thing. I ought to be finding him soon. Why. here's a nice little clear place to stop an<f look around.” “It certainly la sir; make yourself gulte at home.” greeted a small jolly voice. “I’m Cheerups, and on the lookout for adventures thia morning, but really, I hardly expected—” "No. of course you didn’t. Mr. Cheerups." shouted Ollie joyously. “I just knew you would be too surprised for -anything when you saw me. But you haven’t hurt toy feelings a bit. sir. You couldn't be expected to know about me. because I have only been recently discovered by a famous explorer. Nobody really .knows anything of my habits except that I live In the densest part of the Deep Forest and seem to go about with my mate o&ly. Two’s company.’ say L Okapi is my name. Ollie

“ORHAT’S IN A NAME O fl J By MILDRED MARSHALL Ptn about your name; its history; meaning; whence it a was derived; signtikance; your lucky day and lucky jewel "

NELLIE T'HERE is considerable room for doubt In assuming that Nellie Is a Serlvative or a contraction of stately Claanor. Though some etymologists claim that the former name Is evolved tn the lengthy process between the sriginal Helen and the hnal Una, there are two other source* from which Nellie might well be sprang srithout such a formidable history of derivation. The Dutch have a name which they tall Nelle, meaning “horn." which is pronounced the same as our Nellie and might easily be the direct progenitor of this popular tittle name, for those who reject this derivation, there U the German Nelle which has dde vogue In all countries under TeuAlc Influence. It was evolved through _<• W Means*

Okapi to my friends, and 1 hope you will be one of them, sir.” Thank you, thank you, but—but —” stammered Cheerups. “It’s your looks, pllie. that are so confusing. You are something like a giraffe, something like an antelope, something a zebra and something like an ox. and I can’t decide where one begins and another leaves off.” By this time Ollie was too pleased and excited to control himself. He pganced. capered, shook 3 his tall and wiggled his ears with pride and joy. “I can’t blame you. sir,” roared he tn a boasthil tone. "I guess most anyone would be astonished to see the reddish coat of an ox. the striped legs of a zebra, the horns of a giraffe and the general shape of an antelope all belonging to one animal. Now that I have given you a treat, sir. I think I must be going.” “Don’t hurry. Ollie,” said Cheerups. who had recovered his composure by this time. ’’But of course. If you think Mrs. Okapi would be worried, you’d better be off. Remember, though. "No matter bow flne one’s looks or dress A boasting manner makes them less. "Good morning!” “Sow I wonder what he meant." mused Ollie Okapi, as he scampered away through the trees. <© by Uttle. Brown * Co.)

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OUIJA BOARD THE ouija board Is not new —many of us remember its Immediate predecessor. the plancjiette. But Its pedigree can be traced far back of the planchette, its first "ancestors of record" being, apparently, the device used by Hllarius and bis fellow conspirators to discover who would succeed the Roman emperor. Valens, who died A D. 378. Hllarlus, hnder torture, described the device used as a little table with three legs bearing a disc on which were inscribed the twenty-four letters commonly used In the Latin alphabet. The diviner held over this table k ring suspended by a thn-ad and the ring, swaying first to one and then to another of the letters, spelled out the answer to the question asked of "Weejee.” With Hllarlus the ring spelled out ”Theod —." whereupon one of those “present cried out "Theodoras.” This brought Theodoras and the Ouija party tdl the executioner. But nevertheless, Valens was succeeded by Theodos!ua, thus vindicating the ouija of the day In the minds of the populace. In some analogous for mit has existed ever since. Our ouija board is inherited direct from the Romans. The three legs of the board represent, as confessed by Hllarlus. the three legs of the tripod from which the Delphic oracles were delivered, thus connect-. Ing ouja up with ancient Greek superstition. The selection of the letters, as every sensible person knows, results

the quaint English Petronella, a feml- I nine name giden tn honor of Saint Peter. The first Petronella was said to have been his daughter. For that reason the name was exceedingly popular in Spain as Petronilla. In Norway it made its appearance as Petronilie and wa*ahortened to Nllle. a name which corresponds very closely • to our Nellie. The bloodstone is Nellie s tallstnanic gem. It will preserve her health and protect her from 'diseases, especially from those which affect the blood Tuesday Is her lucky day and 1 her lucky number. <© Wkwltr Syndlcai*.) —o Eucalyptus Logs Eucalyptus logs have never had a market here, excepting as fuel. For fuel they have to be cut. split and pUed to season or else they do not burn well. Dry eucalyptus Is fine in an open grate. The great difficulty Is that most people tn the towns now cook with gas and heat'with gas. The well-to-do who have open grates buy eucalyptus wood, but the market Is not very active, The logs have never yet been used as telephone poles. I think a large reason for this is the fact that a dry eucalyptus is very bard and the linemen would experience difficulty In using climbing spurs. A few pilings of this kind, used by a bridge pier jkilder when he thought he could chea»% little, proved to be far more enduring than the ordinary pilings. I have wondered many times * y eucalyptus pilings were not used .xtensively. but it Is hard to teach I most folks.—Mn Harriman. In Adven- • ture Magaxine.

Vilma Banky r ' ■ >'J| V I 'I I - fl*' r ’' f/ - y ♦ * ♦ . w y This blond “movie” charmer was recently imported from Budapest, and has been seen in a prominent production playing opposite one of the most conspicuous male stars in motion pictures. Miss Banky enjoys the distinction of being the only Hungarian who has attained prominence tn American pictures. She worked in pictures in her native land before she wai brought to this country.

from unconscious muscular movement on the part Qf the operator—to which a suspended ring was even more responsive than the device Used at present. The rest is merely a survival of the “spiritism” of primitive man who sought to account for natural phenomena by ascribing it to supernatural agencies and thus surrounded himself with invisible spirits which he suspected of constantly interfering in bis affairs and which he was constantly trying to bring under his own control by “trick and device." <© by McClure New»p«p»r Syndicate.) O | —,Z|bbreviated L — STORY I 4 TINFOIL TAPER’S HEART 'T'HE heart of Tinfoil Taper was as soft as it was large, and. even when, he was without a cent in his pockets, he never refused to stop to listen to a hard-luck story. S<> now. instead of beating off the ragged stranger’s detaining hand. Taper said benevolently: “What’s wrong, brother?” , “Everything," answered the other sadly. "My wife Is sick and doctor bills are high, and I have seven young children with seven young appetites, and I’m out of a job and the landlord has served notice that the rent goes up next month and If I don’t pay on the dot well be evicted.” His great heart overflowing with sympathy. Tinfoil Taper shook the mendicant’s hand warmly. “I know exactly how you feel,” he assured him. “I too am the father of a large and meat-eating family, and my wife is sick also, and my rent, likewise, has been raised and I am under the necessity of having to-pay or get out I have a Job —I’m a bib designer—but It only pays $24 a week. How much do you make begging, if I may ask a personal question?” “Not a-tall. certainly. I make as high as $46 a week on this street Just working this side alone. 1’ can see you’ve got a good heart, and if you’dlike to throw up your Job and take the other side of the street, I offer it to you freely, mister." Without more ado. Tinfoil Taper tore his clothes Into appropriate tatters. took the other side of the street, and collected $8 that very afternoon. (© by George Matthew Adame) frl HU ; A LINE O’ CHEER • • - — ■ L • » By John Kendrick Bangs ; ‘ll l llll hl !■ ill it;’ THE QUESTION J »oea there?” "Mr. I . . W Gloom." ’No admittance. No •• • ’ more room.” * ’ • ‘ “Who goes there?" "Mr. Care" I < . "Keep right on—no room to < ■ • • spare” < • ; ‘ "Who goes there?" "Brother ' . , Cheer.” . > "Come tn. Brother—come right < . • • here <• ; ; "Bring your 'amity, servante ;; ■ ~ too, - ;; < > There is always room for yon. I ‘ ’ • , • ’ And what friends are tn your ■ ‘ 1 ;; party i , , WUI receive a welcome hearty." Ti ■ • I© by MoClare Newspaper Syndicate > < 11 H-H-H Mi l l till | | IIH |/i

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Time Has Come When We Should in Ail r airaese Do Justice by Farmers By SENATOR WHXIAM E. BORAH, in New York Tlmea j WE HELPED the railroads when they were in trouble and congress responded with the highest tariff law ever enacted when the great manufacturing industries appealed for aid. Now I maintain the time has come when, in all fairness, we should do justice by our farmers, the great class whose prosperity is most important if the rest of the country is also to enjoy prosperity. Maintaining the farms is just as essential as maintaining the railroads. I am in favor of the enactment of a co-operative marketing law, under which the government would assume operating direction of the proposed co-operative agencies. I have all along contended that this proposition Is a righteous one,jmd a bill such as will meet the problems involved i should be passed by congress with a minimum of delay. I sometimes wonder whether the people not of the farms realize the vast scope of agriculture in this country; and, if so, whether it has dawned upon them that, on account of the wide scope of the industry, it is impossible for the farmers to effect these necessary co-operative organizations without the aid of the government ■ 1 The plight of agriculture in this country is one of the’ tragedies inci- 1 dent to the great war. It is true that the general farm situation has im- ' proved somewhat, but the farmer is not yet out of the woods by any means His problem is still with him and congress should, before many months, I pass a law to give him the relief to which he is entitled. Don’t forget that both major parties promised this relief when they I asked the farmer for his vote last year. Both parties alwaye show a great love for the fanner just before election time. Now the hour to makt good is at hand- There is no question that a fair and workable co-opera-tive marketing law can be framed. Politics should play no part in the solution of this problem, for it is a question involving the welfare of every man, woman and child in every state in the Union. Why Has Not a Reform Been Made in the Rules of the U. S. Senate? By CHARLES G. DAWES. Vice President Tn the United States senate anyone can talk as long as he pleases on any subj“ct on or off the earth, whether or not it is relevant to the subject which we meet to discuss and act upon. This situation has obtained in the senate of the United States for 119 years—alone in the senate of the United States of all the great deliberative bodies of the earth. The senate cannot be properly a deliberative body when through unlimited debate it has surrendered, to the whim and ulterior purposes of individuals and minorities, the right to allot its own time. Why has not a reform been made in the rules of the senate? Simply because this right of unlimited debate, acted upon by authorities and individuals, has been found to give personal power and prerogative to individual senators and minorities which they can and have exercised to thwart the right of the majority of the senate to aqt as a body-—something unheard of in the first 17 years of the senate, something not resorted to in the early days of the senate, but a custom which has grown up until each senator knows that the power of obstruction afforded by the present rules : gives to him a personal power and personal prerogative to be used for sectional and selfish interests. The Next Five Months Are Pneumonia Season in . the United States \ By HUGH S. CUMMING. U. S. Surgeon General. The next five months are the pneumonia season. Here are some of the precautions the citizen should take to avoid contracting the disease: Avoid needless crowding, walking to work if one has time is better than riding. '|, Stay in the open air and in the sunshine as much as possible, but do not get chilled. Breathe fresh air. Breathe through the nose. Avoid all poorly ventilated, overheated places to which it is unnecessary to go. Keep the windows of your sleeping room open. Keep the windows of the room in which you work open. For people who are well the best temperature in the winter is about 68 degrees during the day. After one goes to bed the temperature may be allowed to drop to 55 or even to 50 degrees. Use plenty of covering to keep warm while you sleep. Keep the feet dry and warm. Avoid persons who are coughing and sneezing. Avoid late hours, overeating, chilling of the body and overheated rooms. —■ t Asia and Not Africa Will Prove„to Have Been the Birthplace of Man By ROY C. ANDREWS. American Explorer in Mongolia, I know that many scientists consider Africa <he birthplace of man. But, in my judgment, Asia will one day prove to have been the source. I do not believe we are far distant from the proof. Having considered the many signs left by succeeding races of humans, scattered all over the Gobi desert, 1 cannot conceive that search torwe first man will go unrewarded. \ It may not be my good fo\une Lpyfind this long-sought evidence of evolution; but I am convinced xKN>Buch evidence will be found upon the i Mongolian plateau, and probably within a short time.. Our next expedi- ; tion, which is to begin work in April, will be specially equipped to seek out the dwelling place of early man. Nowhere else in the world were conditions more favorable for the birth of man. I do not believe, as is generally supposed, that man first emerged in a hot country, because the conditions of tropical life are too easy. Man needed the spur of Necessity to him upward. Climate and other factors were favorable'to his appearance upon the Mongolian plateau in the Pleiocene from 500,(AX) to 1,000,000 years ago. Door of South America Open for Products of the United States * By REPRESENTATIVE W. E HULL, <rf IHtoota Upon, my return as the head of the American delegation to the PanAmerican highway congress I would say that South America is open for the products of the United States. The next ten years will tell whether we shall have the trade or not. Our merchant marine is a key to the situation. * Quick delivery, of mail, prompt shipment of goods and guaranteed merchandise will win the trade of South America. Our opportunities are far greater there than in Europe. Our schools should teach the Spanish language. The South American countries will reciprocate by teaching the English language. When we understand each other’s language, the bridge will be crossed. What North America produces, South America can take. Mrs. Oliver Harriman, President Camp Fire Girls—The modern girt is unjustly designated “flapper.*’ As a substitute we offer the name ‘moderns” instead of flappers. The common interpretation of the word flapper is a person of light, frivolous, vain and empty-headed character. The word modern stands for the up-to-date girl—the girl of progress, ambition and common sense. Bepresentative Frank R. Beid of Illinois—There is nothing in the articles of war enacted by congress which prohibits freedom of speech and the same Constitution which gives congress power to enact these articles fr ' -om passing anv law abridging that freedom.

LIFE’S > LITTLE JI JESTS gB COLLECTING A visitor at a country fair noticed a sad-lookinj; man who persisted In remaining on the merry-go-round. “Do you like being on there?” asked the visitor. “No. I don’t.” was the reply, “but the man who owns this roundabout owes me money, and the only way I can get even Is by taking It out in rides.”—Tit-Bits. CONGRESS MAKES IT SO Southerner (proudly)—Norfolk is the peanut capital of the nation, my friend. Englishman—l thought Washington was still the capital, y’ know. A Woman*a View Women’s faults are many; Men have only two— ■ Everything they say. and Everything they do! : Literally True Doris—And how is your bachelor friend ? Walter—When I saw him last he 1 was mending slowly. “Indeed. I didn’t know he had been 111.” “He hasn’t been; he was sewing some buttons on his clothes."—Stray Stories. With Fewer Piet ea Mistress —Hilda, what do we need for dinner? Hilda—Please, ma’am Tve tripped over the rug and we need a new set of dishes. —The Progressive Grocer. Ingenioua Victim—l wish some one would make a safety razor that's really safe." Pal —That’s easy. Just leave out the blade. Uaually Short “It’s funny that you should be m call. Your brother, the artist. Is short, isn’t re?” "Yes. usually.” What He Would Miaa T wish 1 were a clock. M;F gosh!" Cried Charlls Chase. “For then I’d never havs to wash My hands and face.” Personal “What are your favorite pastimes?" “You mean who. don’t yoa?”— Princeton Tiger. The Way Today “The office ought to seek the man." "We thought we’d give this , job to jotne prominent woman.” * OUT OF SIGHT feWMnc /z “How times have charged! What’s secoine of the village blacksmith who used to stand under the spreading chestnut tree?" “He’s lying on his back under a juzz wagon now." Literal Robespiere—Ah. la t»elle dame la Guillotine, she are one beanty. Louis XVI—Aw, she give me. a pain In the Deck. —Scarlet Saint 1 Couldn’t Nurse —I wonder who it was who oever folded up his clothes when ne went to bed? Tommy—Adam!—Vikin gen, Osloi Tha Very Idea Old Gentleman (to old apple woman) —No, no. my good woman—very nice, but you mustn’t tempt me. The Lady—Go’s a-temptlng yer? D’yer think this Is the Garden of Eden ?—Humorist, Lon don. Man’a a Contrary Critter “My husband is forever kicking •bout the cost of women’i clothes.’* "A lot of men do that, but I notice they always hang around the beat tressed women at parties.” A Favor "How Is it you’re not ont today, NoraF “My man’s gone away. mnm. Ye egn take a day off this week, yersel£ mum.” No Expert ■Dan. what's a heifer—is it a pig or IB It a sheep?” asked two sailors. Dan paused reflectively. Then he raid: "Tn tell you the truth, mates. I don’t know much about poultry."— Progressive Grocer. «

!i: Train Lacking Tab, He Bathes in Rain :j: ;|* Oslo.—When the night train II; Ji; on the Oslo-Bergen railway arrived at Voss, at 8 a. in. recently. the residents of that NorJ; wegian village were shocked beyond words. < The rain° was pouring and !; j; from one of the compartment J I windows a man wap leaning out —sans raiment. He stepped out ;i of the window and was holding < onto the roof of the car. There he remained swaying on the edge, taking a hath in the fresh < morning rain while the train ;i sped along at more than 45 miles 1; ; ’ an hour. At the next station an official ;■ entered the compartment and J J; found the man, still nude, sitting ij! in his seat and humming a i; cheerful ditty while he shaved I; ;i; himself. He was an English- ■! man who had wanted his morn- ;i ing tub. HUNT FOR MISSING MILLIONS SUCCEEDS Securities Found Wrapped in Old Newspaper. Rockmart. Ga. —After search extending from Georgia to the financial centers of New York, approximately sl.(MM).(KM) in stocks and bonds belonging to the estate of Thotnasi J. Flournoy, has been found wrapped In an old newspaper and chucked away in the cement vault of the Southern States Cement company, of which he was president. Mr. Flournoy came to Rockmart about twenty-five years ago from Kentucky. He died here September 5. The Fidelity and Columbia Trust Co. of Louisville, in administering the estate. found that be was worth about $2,000,000 in securities, although only about half of this amount could be located Efforts to locate the remainder of the fortune led to a close scrutiny of the fireproof vault at the plant here, used by the company in safeguarding ; books and valuable papers. Examination of a package wrapped tn a newspaper revealed the muchsoucht tre-isure. Mr. Flournoy, who was more or less a reeluse. died at the age of sixty-six. He was unmarried and his estate will be divided among nieces and nephews living here and in Kentucky. Just why Mr. Flournoy left the valuable package loose in the cement plant’s vault instead i>t in the vaults of the Farmers and Merchants’ National Bank of Rockmart, of which he also was pregident. is not known. Mr. Flpurnoy had extensive interests at Paducah, Ky.. and his body was carried to Princeton; Ky.. his old home, for . interment — . c) Crime Rehearsal Almost Brings About a Lynching Paris—French love for detail and I exactitude In, the matter of crime detection almost brought disaster on a recent crop of criminals who were called upon by the police to re-enact the robbery of a post office and the killing of the agent In order that the evidence for the forthcoming trial might be in perfect order. As the murder rehearsal proceeded a crowd of villagers gathered about the post office and became more and more excited as the three young criminals—who had only been captured after a stiff ’ hunt —went through the actions of their crime with complete nonchalance. One of the bandits, the man who had fired the fatal shot which had killed the postal agent, entered into the affair with such gusto that the crowd was soon shouttbg for his blood. Curses were hurled at the prisoners and hurled back at the crowd. With a pleasant smile the accused murderer goaded the villagers In.to such a fury that spon all bounds were passed and the infuriated onlookers made a rush for the, three men. Only the fastest work on the part of the police, who hurriedly called off the crime rehearsal and rushed their charges into an automobile, prevented an attack which might have developed Into the lynching of the bandits. Deer Drunk on Grapes Runs Wild, Hooks Cows San Francisco. —Intoxicated by a meal of dried fermented grapes, a deei ran amuck a few miles north of San Rafael, hooked several cows, partially wrecked a’ barn and tore down two miles of fence on the Miller ranch. When last seen the deer, his one undamaged antler crowned by a garland of brush, was staggering into the hills. Tony Sllveria. manager of the Millet ranch, reported the intemperate deer to the San Rafael authorities and a hunt wa» organized. Killed by Train . Dubuque. lowa.—Fred Grundman, seventy-five, a laborer, was instantly killed when a passenger train struck him on. the Illinois Central tracks near Dubuque. Wrecked Her Nerves V Reno. Nev. —Mrs. George L. Loft has divorced her husband, a New York candy manufacturer, because he wrecked her nerves by walking along the ledge of a 14-story building. Starves Amid Gold New London. Conn.—At the instance of neighbors, police broke in and found James M. Lewis, seventy-five, a recluse, dead on the floor of his house apparently from starvation and infirmities. Bills of many denominations And gold and silver coin were about the bouse, and there was also food. Her Idea Dear Old Lady—Have you any cigars thatofficersssmokee —eear —a good rank cigar I suppose you’d call It.