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OlA BIRD FEASTS 08 L;VE SHEEP Specie* of Parrot is the Most r*ormid? able Enemy of the New w? Zealand rann-:r. ' There is other parrct like the tea. The po rer cc-nterou in ixs u?ek. lieak and talons is s<; grt-a trhe kea is the mosi formidable p*?*: witii which the Nev Zealand shoe** tanner has to contend. White soaring overhead it sele*i< its prey. ami, *>voc;? log downwards, seines on ua* siwi" s back and proceed is to tear away ihe wool with its beak, then, digging deep into the flesh, holds on to the wool with its talons until thoroughly gorged. When the first settlers came to New Zealand the kea was mainly a vegetarian, the animal part of its filer being confined to insects and grubs. It has been suggested tha? it acquired its taste for sheep flesh from the offal which the farmers left exposed after slaughtering a sheep. And speaking of sheep in New Zea&?d, in the mountain districts there flourishes a plant known as the Raoulia, or vegetable sheep?a mass of closely pack**; rwigs thickly covered with white, wcolly leaves. .Seen from a distance Ibo Uaonlia so elosemoamMae "c cim.in ?%> a STrtlln of V A^OVUIUiW ? V'* ? ?r sheep, resting on*the hillsides tbat shepherds are ofren led to make a loag trek in its direction, mistaking it for lost members of treir flock. N- ' 1 .... WERE BARBER AND SURGEON Centuries Ago, Members of the Present-Day Guild Embraced the Two Avocations. A reminder of the survival of the ancient trade guilds In London, leng after their members have ceased to 1 have any connection witii trades th?\v ostensibly represent, is provided by the recent election of a chairman of the Company of Barbers. iThe new chairman never was a barber, and if any of his ancestors were he has forgotten it. And the same is true of all the hi embers of the <.orr>pai But* they arc very proud of the old traditions of the company and get together on stated occasions to eat a generous dinner, washed down .with good wine, and listen t<> speeches about tlie good old times. The company was incorporated in 1481 and fifty years latc-r an art was passed which prevented any persons not memt>ers of the company from practicing surgery within seven miles of the city of London, unless they had been licensed by the bishop of London., Barbers were versatile folk in those times, combining the avocations |~<*f surgeon and dentist with the ^vork of trimming hair and beards.?From a London Letter to the New York Eve, nlng Post. Owl Preys by Night. ; The habits of animals are developed and regulated .chiefly-by rheir surroundings and by the sort of prey mi which they live. Sea-gulls, for example, can dive u considerable distance maoer vtuitr auu vsti-cu nic form their principal article of diet. (while a chicken weald starve to death if forced to depend upon this method of securing food. $o it is with o?vls, ^ which generally make their appea?ance wily after dark. This species of birds feeds mainly anon mice ar-d other small creatures which are active at night. Therefore, the owl, vrhieh has developed a soft plumage that makes its flight almost noiseless, comes out after sunset in search of its food. It is also because or this habit that the owl's eyes, Pk^ the cat's. are so made that the pupil can be dilated until the bin] is able to make use of every particle of light available and, while owls cannot see in absolute darkness, they, are abk> to utilize the faintest of light rays to such an extent thai they can spot and catch their prey unerringly. * ' . S Tvnoicsai^ nuum.i Forty thousand pairs of ears and 40,000 noses, the war trophies of that famous and painfully thorough Japanese General Hideyoshi. lie beneath the plain stone mark?'* and crassgrown mound of the "Mimi-Zuka," or Ear tomb, a short distance tYom one ot Kioto's main street?. r They' were deposited there as evidence of the valor and success of Hideyoshl's expert carvers, and also m serve as emphatic warning of x:.e f:ire all who crossed that determined warrior might expect. IThe ears and noses are not. how* ever, the bounty of any recent exploit. Hideyoshi was the strong man of Japan more than three centuries aero, and his gruesome trophies were onee the valued property of 40.00*; Koreans who had foolishly resisted the Japanese general's invasion u: their native land. | ... ; His Nai^e. ! A Washington man. visiting lik-hmond. took a great fancy to a brighteyed little darky wj.,. pushed ids shoes. Shortly after he became interested In the little chap, the Washington man asked his nu?; e. ?uh." was the reply. After a fev.' moments ot* silence rh? WaSbingU-nian continued, "1 sur>;.>se thar is an abbreviation tor General V" The word "abbreviation" sfumpetf the littie fe5?ow fr>r a wi.ile. but h< recovered hiwtcif. "No. sub," in- .sai'i, 'It ain'i exactly thai. My si?ore enough name Gc!;e>i> ?X s > shall my rijrht'.-or,*n<.'s.s answer for nu* in time t<? - ome \Va$]-m<ri??n Jones, I Hat they j,^i c aiif rue- Gg iV *&] ?'?,"? Philadelphia Ledger. , BOOKED BY POOR FARMS33 fjrtayan Civilization Succumbei f ej cause of Crude Methods of AcjriCM-tyre Then in Vogue. A 5vi cult ;? :! I limitations probably causrd the final breakdown of the rema^kh !Je Mayan civilization, about r^O-GTiv} A. 1 ani brought ahc-ut the desertion of nu n> of its magnificent cities tv.iiing into. a tropical wilderness a country whirh formerly supported at least *00.000 people, in the opinion ?>f a member of the Carnegie iiistitiuion r.T Washington. i While ii;;* Maya r.ice had worked out a system <>f time measurement wh:r!i groarh" excelled that of the Greek?. Romans or Egyptians, their n:et'?or:> of fanning were very crude. nif<? rv.w of the modem Indians. The jrecess was to fturn off ' the for'esr and brash un land selected for cu'^ivntion. A;[?r one or two crops had been made, oil this land, they j allowed rl'e field to lie fallow, and proceeded to cut and bum and planr ; another field, and so on until sufficient ?>ra.sh led accumulated on tide first field tor reburaingr it. Repeated burning over of the land : causes trasses ro e>Jine in. In this way, be thinks, the forests were con- , verted inio ,?r;;ss lands. Planted ! crops were choked oui. The rapidly multiplying peop'e needed fresh lands j and finally moved elsewhere. I Other areheolosnsts h:ue attributed | this apparently sudden break-up to a | series >f yellow-fever epidemics, but ,! ; Or. Mcriev discredit^ this theory. i j i WISE PROVISION OF NATURE j j j ; Good Old Came Shrewd in Sending Young People Afield to Do Their Courting. In that part of southern Europe in- i i habited by Slavs It is conceded that 1 ' a young roan In search of a wife ; should go to a neighboring village to j find lior. No such concession is made , by American" villagers, but Nature as- i : sumes authority and quietly works : her wisdom without benefit of man's i direction. i As a result, at least half of the j young iadies who e*>me to our tovyi I as school teachers remain as wives. They may be no prettier or smarter h:vj;iA f iris. 1;;it they have the | charm of newness, and bachelor : hearts Ion;, immune to the gentle paa| si on skip a beat when they appear, i * . i j Our own girls do not remain nn! courted, howeve.:-. The town "boys, j having 'known them and quarreled j with them sinre childhood, feci no thrill in their presence. But v.hen j tt'e girls have finished college, most j of thftn leave fccKie again to teach in ; dish ni villages. and in a year or two j we hear rhat voting men have designs j | on tl-om. These young men come | i a-cotniing during the summer, and we look th*m over shrewdiy to see if they j are worthy. Ns.rure is a wise old party. aivi she I did more than statutes could ilo to ; prevent inbreeding when she made ! the hilis look green far away.?PhilI edelnhla Inquirer. I . J ! \ ' ! CoHe^e'Rules L;ttle Changed. ' " U.,?, j llt'IV .Tl'i' SOHK* "t i.ue lUICib Wi. ! ilton college. Oiinion, N. ^ published j in 1SV5. It nil! be noted that Twenti| eth century ireshmeu aud sophomores retain the old titles. but, that in this ! <i;?y the senior and junior sophisiers i have become merely seniors and 1 juniors. I "The mcler-.iraclnate students shall be divided into four distinct classes. The first year livoy shall be called freshmen: the second, sophomores;] ' ;he third, junior sophisters, and the j j fourth, senior -.ophlsrers. And in order j to preserve a due subordination anion; \ i the st:< ti> the classes shall jrive ; a?>n receive, in the course of their col j legiaie lift', those tokens of respect :*.n<! subjection which from common ' and approve] r-age belong to their j standicg in the college." ! J 1 Love Affair Quickly Ended. j My first love a.'T;:;r began and ended j aU ?: tin- same evening, when I was a I boy of sixteen. Each Hallow een, in our li'iie country town, the young ; folk? : > luI'-M.d in what w;i? then railed ; a Ila'biWfon hum. The girls hid ? !heins?Iws somewhere abotr. town and i the fellows hunted for them, the losing ' | side being forced r? ise** ;he winners j to ?u?>per afterward. This particular i ^ i j time The boys the giris in an old j ! hayl?>;t. 1 spkd the first girl and she 1 I was > ?r>tni stranger to me. a visiting 1 : rrit !. I found out later. She was about I s\?. c-t * as a peach. I fell herd het ls in love with her. then i and !i;"te. But, alas, the next mornin;. she returned to her home in the i city, and i never saw or heard from i her again!?Chicago Journal. t ' i I - Look Ahead. There's no substitute for looking i f.iivJMi. S.??:e folks prare about b'.v.-us. ' v?r.*^ u ; :;:uch of the article seldom , , so-- :? >;:t jiiciu it. It's the short end ; who abo'Jt it and trios to iiiij 'vss you with what he hasn't got. ! p.?:i kit>!; al;anyhow. There'll lie i.lert;. < :" o;v?-ru:nity to cluck disast-r ii' >< * !;:<*v just when to do it. . If buck the world you : .-an it a ' i<jiter when you go . in ?t wirh y.;'-r eyes open. J': c :?tiw w> K?iieve in shaping our (tw'i> sSwsilny. VV'J- fa.-jMon 'mild as we .'" ani fee-:. on;.-- :'i < for a'I !?h?\ n. <?,? your ids;, n big i^rieiv. 1 ; '..ret the sitna:: year hlsa-si > i; v. The flUuis wiJ: b^ar r. > '<; :o hew well you?v?; dune it.?UrJ i. IUUHW.I . -.*-f??fcqg30P8Ksa ? II rx?ncKg?o? j BEAUTY SPOT MADE MOCKERY I | ; Honcyn.ocr! Island, in tlie Pacific Ocpa.i, Ones Knew Ail the Cruelt ?s of a Convict Station. j 'T- ' ynioon island.'' the nickname for \< oik island in the Pacific. i? so calleu i'roni a prevailing superstition that honeymoon couples xvlio pass the ! iirsi month of their married life there ! nv- i.-rtain to enjoy lasting harpiness. i>:!r * !vin the legend it would he an iu.;;; viace for a honeymoon, for it has i been called the most beautiful spot on earth. This earthly paradise start, ed its career as a convict station# The h?s?nrv of those earlv days is a tale f of horror. Ruins of the famous "silent ; cells" are still to he seen. These cells. I made of concrete, four feet thick, were s just large enough to enable a man to j stand up or lie down. On rhe walls I can he seen the prayers carved by coni victs. Known as "the tombs," the si, lent cells provided the worst form of j punishment, and those confined in j them rarely came out sane. Hardly a ; day passed "without a murder taking ' place, and the convicts became worse ; than savages. Som^ even became canj nibals. There are only eight families on the island. Money is very scarce. , The islanders, however, are entirely i self-supporting, and have everything ; they n^ed. as well as a number of i luxuries. The island has its own government. which is presided over by a governor sent out from Australia. j f ANOTHER GAIN FOR SCIENCE! Information as to Respiration of Insects Said to Have Been Accurately j Ascertained. A scientist abroad has constructed a delicate instrument that registers and measures the respiration of insects. The apparatus is composed of a crystal tube with an aperture in the end. Imprisoned in this, the locust. in the effort to extricate itself, turns over, bringing his tliora^c immediately under a needle having a ball in the point. In rhis way, thanks to the ascending and descending movement of the needle working over a lever, the movements of the 'thorax are registered on a plac* or metal leaf. It is thus'possible to study attentively the quickness and the length o? each breath of the insect and, what is mnrp imnortant. the strength and ac tion. By this means it has been ascertained that insects respire in a manner directly the reverse of human beings. We are required to put the necessary strength into the inspiration, while expelling it is largely automatic. The locust, on the other hand, Inhales automatically, but expels with more trouble. What Is "Sheffield Plate'-'? The process of welding silver plates on both sides of a copper sheet took the n:?mo of "Sheffield plate" from the English town. Electroplating superseded this practice, and today the tern1, "s used recklessly in the trade, for products of superior and inferior quality alike, because it conveys a suggestion of "quality" to the buyer Fifty ];<>; cent of the manufacturers, ?>. . with the federal 'trade commission, have condemned this practice. defined* the word as meanin "an article vrell plated on a base nicrnl of nickel silver of not less than 10 per cent nickel content," and agreed to abide by this definition in thvir own business. The federal trade com mission is inclined to disapprove of the use of the word as a trade name or mark for silver-plated hollow-ware. irrespective of definition.? Scientific American. Time's Changes Since 13G9. Times have changed since 1869, when John Eaton, Jr., was superintendent of schools for Tennessee. In Km oil's biennial report, published in ti.,% fnUowinrr excerpt appears: JCA.1-, . "The prejudice existing in most communities lo this class of instructors (women teachers) is as groundless as It is unjust. The eight lady teachers who have so honorably acquitted themselves In our school have proven beyond a doubt their capacity to teach, govern and manage the largest and most unruly. They are not only equal to male teachers in the exercise of the common duties of the school room, but far better adapted to advance the class of scholars now attending free schools." In Your Garden. f It is truly wonderful how many birds will visit modest gardens during a year. They will, during the spring migration, be most in evidence from early daylight till breakfast time, and then again as evening comes on. says the American Forestry Magazine. ; When autumn approaches, the migration that takes place is equally inter est in;:. In winter we mny iook tor various finches, sparrows, crossbills, hawks, owls and not a few other species that come to us during t'sat time of the year. j Could Supply Either. There was no sign above the tiny office t*> denote what went on inside, excep: that it was n general agency. But underneath that description was the following sentence: ' Anything: you went at a moment's notice." So the humorist knocked. entered and found himself facing a slfelc young mnn across a small deskside. ' i yaiit 3. lawyer," said the humorist. rtrhrtr. sir." said the young man? "Sma : or straight?" , 0!-' COURSE DORIS WOK OUT ! ! What Was There for Mother lo Say in the Face of S^ch an Argument? They hart been chatting since enter' in? the bus, but the Woman, who sat opposite them on top. heard nothing i really good until Grant's monument i w;ts reached. i Without taxing her hearing in the : least the Woman learned that they were former schoolmates at the uni! versity (for university days were mentioned again and again> who were revisiting the city after a number of ; j ears. '"I don't think the girls of this cen' tury will ever stand for long skirts : again,'' remarked the one in the green : dress. "Reminds me of what Evelyn was telling me just before I came : away. She was making a skirt for her daughter. Doris. Everything except the correct length had been decided ; upon. Evelyn wanted to make this a little longer than Doris* other skirts. ! She told her that the fashion was for ( increasing the length. But Doris was [ obdurate. j "Evelyn, you know, generally lets ; her have her way in matters of dress, ! but this time she argued and Doris j burst into tears. 4Be fair, mums,' she ; pleaded. 'Honest Injun, now which do j yon think I should take?the advice of j one mother or of twenty girls?'" "And what happened?" "Oh, mother shortened the skirt, of : course."?Exchange, i _?: ! HISTORIC HOME FOR AMERICA? : ' Possibility That Dwelling in Which Miles Standish Was Born May Be Brought Here. j : The hero of Longfellow's poem, "The Courtship' of Miles Standish,*' j was n real historical character, who j was horn in Lancashire, England, ' somewhere about 15S4. It is now sug. gested that the house where he was norn snouui r>e iraiisponeu u? .\ew i England. It is even said that within i ; six months the four rooms of the ! Standish home now located in the par, ish of Standish, near Wigan, Lan oashire. England, will befitted into the house for some United States citizen i whose family history goes back to ! Mayflower days. The Standish house : has been occupied by the Standish ! family since the Norman conquest. j One of the ancestral stately homes of' ; England is just now being takes down ' and carried across the Atlantic to be j.set up stone by stone somewhere in I the States. Now if history belonging ! to these ancient buildings could also ] be transferred to the United States, ! what a Iierfp of renown that enterpris! ing nation could collect and own?? | Montreal Family Herald. Moaeru was inc omyicu. j A New York Chinaman sent an ur; gent call to detective headquarters j complaining that $900 had been stolen j from him. The Chink, who conducts j a restaurant, told *the detectives he ! suspected a colored employee, stating he hid the money in his cellar, but could not locate it. A detective suggested a search of the cellar. The detectives made a careful survey, i without results. As they turned to i abandon their search, one of them ! noticed a small bundle of paper move ! across the cellar floor. Springing up1 on the ob.iect, he placed his foot full j upon it. The bundle ceascd to move, i but ils moving force?a husky rat? j vanished into a nearby hole. Nine \ hundred dollars in hills was in the | bundle, thus accidentally clearing up j what might have been a battling raysI tery. I Diplomatic Corps Cared For. ! Other Washingtonians may shiver ' with the cold this winter, owing to the j coal shortage, but the administration ] has seen to it that the 400 persons Jn ! the diplomatic corps will not suffer, ! owin.s to a lack of fuel. Many of the diplomats eome from countries where artificial heat in homes is almost unknown and, indeed, unnecessary, and ; worried about their empty coal bins I The State department has given their. 1 precedence over others, thus emphasizj ing the entente cordiale. It ?s only in ! recent years that the Knglish and the | Scotch have known the comfort of | steam heat, the sea coal Are, as they : call it. burned in open grgtcs. being ; the only method of heating their l homes.?Washington Star, i SOrr.ctmng ns uan i eacn ncr. I "I simply couldn't teach my wife to ; drive the oar. Gave It up and let ' somebody e!<e do it.M j "Well?" i "Same with bridge. She wouldn't | listen to me at all. Hired a tutor for i her." j "Well?" j "Dancing was another art we i learned separately. Always wrangled when we tried the new steps- together. I bur. at that, there's one thing she's | willing to let me teach her." i "What is that?" ! "She insists that I must tea oh her j how to cigarette smoke through i her nose." j Martens Raised in Captivity. The raisin? of warrens in captivity : is now commercially possible as a re! suit of the discovery or their breeding J season by naturalists of the biological j survey of th? United Sta'es I>eparti ment of Agriculture. These valuable i fur bearers mate late in .Tn'y and in ' August, and appear to have a gestation ; period of eicht months, much longer ; tHau most aninuds of the s;tme croup. It was formerly thought that their : season was in the full or - winter; the young being born !o the ! spring. i "WI. ill ' ' II ??. -P. ?? J nn "w AIRPLANES TO LOCATE LAKES ' Plan to Use Flying Machines in the Finding in-J Photcgraphir.rj of Aiactcar. ir.iana Waters. I Locatirg and photographing unriis; covered lakes in the narional forest* ! of Alaska are tho latest uses to which j the airplane has been put, says Ameri , can Forestry, quoting tlie Uniroc I Stales forest service. We rend: j "It lias lone: been known that thor< j are many lakes on the headlands anc ( islands traversed l\v the inside pas ' sage between Seattle find Skagwaj i that do not appear on any map. Dur I iiiir the New York-.\ome tliglit macie m j army nvictors, lakes were frequentlj j sighted which could not be found or the latest and most authentic maps o: ! the territory. Tales of unknown watci : bodies are constantly bein^ brougln j in by trappers and prospectors. Less I than a rear aero a lake four and one j half miles Ion? ami one-half nii 11? widi j was discovered at the head of Shor | bay. This lake has over V-00 acres o J surface area and is less than one ant j one-quarter miles from tidewater, ye because of the surroundin? territory': I rou??h topography has remained un ! known and unnamed. lie-:'Oj?n:zin| j that many others of these 'lost lakes j may be sources of valuable ware; ; power, the forest service has km } plans to map this n ? man's land of tli< j North by means of aerial photographs i A few day's llight. it is said will b< 1 sufficient ro cover the area with < I degree of accuracy that would requin I many years and preat expense to ac ! ooir.plish by ordinary method?. Tin ; work, which has been approved by tin I federal pvwer commission, will be j done by seaplane, living from Kctchi | kan as a base." WOGDEW SHIPS HAVE "KNEES' Right Angle Timber Brace, Irriportan Fart of Ves33l, Namea ror Human Lec Jcint. In these days when flapper slnnjr jug pies' with Mayings like "the cat's pa jamas" and "the bee's knees," ho* many boys and girls know any thin; about ships' knees. Snips' knees, how ever, are a fact and not a faney. Thi is an exceedingly important item i: the construction of a wooden ship. A ship knee is a right-angled woode; , brace used ro give strength to th framing, and is fashioned from tb nntural crook of a tree formed by i heavy, shallow horizontal root and i section of the tmn'.c. Knees when tin isheu are sometimes as* ranch as st ; or seven feet high and many times ar four feet high. Tlie tremendous impetus to wocdei shipbuilding brought about by the ws has resulted in thr establishment of i sawmill at Portlan-i. Grp., designed e? clusively for the finishing of sUi] knees. The timber preferred is second growth Douglas fir. found growing ii shallow soil, so that the roots turn of at right angles to the trunk and thu nrK-o ti>n nrnr.pr Rli.'iiie. The standard ? V. I'* i -- -* Izetl wooden ship requires some tw hundred knees of :iil sires, while an otlier typo of wooden ship, also unde construction. requires more than 10 knees.?Ameriean Forestry. _ Topography cf the Air. Explorations of the air have rr vealed an astonishing definiteness o arrangement in its layers, although of course, the derails are rontimiali: changing. Ley. ir. England, has d1 reeted his studies of floating balloon to n solution of the question of tin influence of the "opojrmphy r.f th< earth's surface on rhe state of the a! : above !t. He finds, among o;he ! things, thut the disturbances produce* ! by hilis and valleys are transmit te< to an unexpectedly srreat elevation affecting the lower and middle strat; throughout. A general effect notire* Is that the velocity of tb.e wind, or o a current of air. is increased over : hill and diminished over a valley. I is thought fh:u similar observation? generally d's:r'b,::?d. would provid a real topography of the air. Big-Game Hunters. The Woman has recently received ! IP.tOr Ti'O'Hl I !!t? > -1{l "i ??.' Peebe tropical research exp* dition Hitherto they hr.ve bad tho jnngli more or less to themselves and havi hart most excellent chances to stud; i and explore. P>nt now it is not so. Since the re cent diamond m:ne boom the ru.^ii o prospectors to the diamond fields hn: J been tremendous, and those wh< thought the jungle would belong ex : elusivelv to them and to l ho* wild <-ren tures who made their Iwnnes there wil now conic home sooner than planned. It seems that n?> place can remain s wilderness or a jungle if I he though of wealth can be connected with it.? Exchange. * Cattle Wearing Halter. A Frenchman lu>s invented a halt erliko arrangement which ho puts othe head of young cattle, so that the, may he weaned without having I' separate them from the rest of th herd, and with litt'e trouble to th farmer. A bit in the mouth alio**. I hem to eat and c'rink while it pr vents them from sucking, thus fore lug thejn to feed themselves. Reniiy Useful Umbrella. It was a French inventor, with : tender heart for bicyclists, chauffeur.* " ' > * '*1 tt !i Him ?u< ;r* tudck.1! ?? ?* contrived a fern; of uiu!?re!!a for pr< j teetion airainst sni: or rain, whic! ran I?<? easily :?n<l s-.>?i?l7v attached r< 1 !: ' shoulders so a? to icuve rii?? ara; : and hoods absolutely fre?r. When no j;i u?e it folds up in a convenient}; portal-is form. if GREAT ESTATES BROKER UP ' . Among British Lands Rssentlv Pieced ' on the Market Are Those of the Cameror.s. ' | If one is not too deeply stooped In ' < romance ho may fail to feel remorse 1 : at th? sale of many of the large Eng- 1 ' i iish estates, for the greater part of i ] their broad lands are of agricultural ! i value. With Scotland it is rather dif- ' * i ferent, for there is much tha: is no 1 ! more than heatU and rock, where " | there is no mr.rc than benuty and son- 1 timent and romance, and that in every ! stone and sprig. | The real Highlander feels sad when '* j he reads that the wide Cameron es1 ' tates.of 117,000 acres, including the domains of historic Lochaber and : ; Lochiel. are in the market. They inc ; elude a big slie(*p ? range and some 1 j valuable timber, but that is about all i commercially, for deer, black-gai^e - | and wild duck are not articles of r ! trade. In the old days the great lairds I maintained these wild lands nnd their 1 rN{ wild retainers out of their own pock- j 5 , ets; now they cannot afford it and j : lands and retainers have to go. In all I i the Highlands, probably there is no i clan better known by name and story r ; to the world than the mighty Camer* | ons. The Cameron Highlanders, "The ? ; March of the Cameron Men," Lochiel's ! slogan and the Lochaber ax, are j i snoken of everywhere. 1 ! There was not a Cameron among - j the "Seven lien of Glenmoriston" (who were Grants, MticDonelJs, Mac- j - j gregors and Chisholms), but they were - ; connected with almost every other ! J ! episode of the gallant young Prince ; i Charlie's sad and brief career. The ! beautiful estates now in the market I f were forfeited on that account, to be ' j restored .half a century later, this be- ! j ing the only break in the Cameron t possession. RAIL YARD TO COST MILLIONS \ Freight Terminals to Dt Built at Onco at Los Arsgelcs Wi!i Cover n 700 Acres. rr Actual construction will he started * | shortly o:j a TOO-rcre freight terminal j covering ^ two-mile strip along the San | Fernando road, beginning at the North ; Broadway yards, by the Southern Pacific Railway-company at a cost of sev ^ eral millions of dollars. This announcement was made recentlv bv T. H. Wil8 * liams, assistant general manager of the company, according to the Los ' Angeles Examiner. 0 i ! The completed yard will be one of i the most extensive and comprehensive ^ ! freight terminals in the country. It I will include sections for classification n i , . , ?? /lahvori* rp* I fuiri receiving, au suuu^c, L* j pair tracks, stock resting corrals, eleo ^ j trie power house and illuminatlag sys~ j tem for tlie yard, two 50-stali roundy' houses, caboose tracks, drill tracks, j water tanks and mammoth repair shop. s i "The construction of this huge freight terminal at Los Angeles is the 0 j practical recognition of the tremendous growth of the city and surrounding ^ towns and of the greater growth in prospect," said Mr. Williams. I In 1020, a normal year, one railroad company spent more than $S.000,000 for materials and supplies in Los '* Angeles. Irs normal pay roll is approxf iniatcly $1,000,000. !. _________ : : Cosmopolitan New York. ! New York each year becomes more " of a foreign city. With considerably ^ more than half of its population fore;?rn-!)o:-n or of foreign parentage, and with fully a third of ^ iis residents Jewish, it is fast acquiring many habits nr.d customs that are distinctly not American. although '* in all the various groups of national1 it;*.* in Mio metropolis systematic ef forts toward Americanization are bef Ing made. 1 The principal society nt work to r this end is called "America's Making." It is headed by Dr. John Houston p Fin ley, formerly president of Cifly col . leg?; and widely knowp in educational ; circles. At a carnival this society gave at the Hotei Astor the other eve* r:ng there were groups of 30 differ-, ? <.it nationalities, all in native dress? i. a ad all of them were New Yorkers, j ? r P His Own "Dsublc!" r Few modern statesmen are the sufiJect of so many good stories as M. < lemenceau. who is eighty-one. Here ' is one or' rhe latest: J R ! The other day lie weijt round the , 1 street markets of Paris testing prices.; ! following his usual habit of seeing: things for himself. Asking an old ' ' woman at one of the stalls the price ; of some carrots, lie was told 60 cen-' 1 j times. f ' "They are too dear," he protested, i "I will give you fifty." : The woman looked at him a minute, perhaps to see if it was worth while . haggling, and then said: "Very well, you shall have them for ! fifty, because, my little oM man. you resemble our pood 11. Clemenceau." 1 o! Keep Tight Rein cn Emotions. The emotionally uncontrolled not 1 merely tend to an impractical impuls:\cness. The storms of emotion ? which continually sweep through them ? cause them to see facts in a distorted ! way, clouding their judgment, and thus j deceiving them into conclusions which R may he the reverse of sound. 1 '"An angry man," as the proverb 0 tersely puts it, "cannot see straight.", i As with auger, so with the other emo ' tlons. To give them free rein is to 0 yield all hope of winning a place s .imfifl? rlc? efiectivelv practical, the t sensibly efficient, the :?ucce.s5-winners. )' ? H. AiMi' gton Kruce in tin; Chicago Daily Newa. i' i DIVERS IN CONSTANT PERIL Aggressive Denizens of tfr "Deep by No Means All They Have to Contend With. 'Sharks are afraid of air bubbles," 5aid Cap*. Lawson Smith to an internewer recently. "When a diver sees a shark." said Captain Smith, "ho nips fhe#valve of "he Tube through which he receives ilr from the surface, and then lets it ?o again. This makes great air hubbies in the water, and usually the shark swims for its life when it sees them. Another trick to escape a shark is to hide behind a clump of seaweed until it has gone. "Anot her peril of deep-sea diving i9 a disease which is caused by a diver being hauled to the surface too quickly. T1 e pressure of the water when he is in the sea is relieved by compressed air inside his diving suit. When he is brought to the top sudIt* a ??t ? 4-lwx e???f nnchnc uriu.v i '.:r <i i :n ixirr outi x uoii*.o mt v his veins. He becomes like a soda- ^ wafer bottle which bubbles up suddenly when it is opened. "The diver's veins fill with air bubbios. and if these reach the heart he is a doomed man. The only remedy is to pop him back again into the water and lower him to the same depth from which he was brought up. This draws the air out of his veins, and he is cured by the time he reaches the surface again. If they did not put him back in the water he would die in three minutes. "Other dangers which divers have to face are blanket fish and the octopus. A blanket fish is a great flat tteast which floats over the diver and suddenly comes down on him and envelops him. Like the octopus, it absorb* him into its system. "My diving suit is of the latest rattern. and has a telephone attached. I can communicate with the men on the surface with it. or with another diver near me. Divers, if they are not brought to ti:e surface carefully, will leap out of the water to a great height, like fish. Few divers go down more than 200 feet, and at this depth they only stay down about ten minutes." Disiike the Telephone. ."""v Mo$t of us who are accustomed to the telephone as a constant instrument in business and social life find it hafd to remember that some of our loading public men will not and even cannot no.ke use of it. Lloyd George is woll known to have the strongest objections to speaking on the telephone. and there are few people who can boast that they have "rung him up.'' That perhaps, is sufficient 1 foundation'for a story that is circulating in the political clubs. Mr. Balfour (so the story runs) had occasion to telephone the other day on urgent business. A secretary was called to the telephone and told that Mr. Bal four wished to spealc. After tnat tne secretary could hear nothing for some moments except a distant and confused mumbling. The secretary was much abashed, and was summoning up courage to request Mr. Balfour to "speak up" when Mr. Balfour's voice suddenly came through clearly as follows : "I'm very sorry; I'm afraid I'm as b:vl at the telephone as Lloyd Georire himself. I've been talking for the lasr two minutes into the thing you ought to put to your ear."?Manchester Guardian. "Thread of Discourse." The term "thread of discourse* has done very well as a figure of speech. In reality, of course, the main relation between thread, be it of copper or what nor. and discourse, has been ti-nnftbiicclnri Unt nftw. UUC l>l UllllOOIk'^vu. , if a Swiss inventor makes good his claims, thread of discourse will have more than a metaphorical meaning. It will be possible to have a spool of thread which will take dictated messages and repeat them as required. In other words, this thread, which is of cellulose, will record speech in the same way as disks and cylinders. Such a device would seem to entail interesting improvements. For example. records hould go comfortably into the vest pocket. Used for dietating business letters, it might lend to an abandonment of the usual colorless brevity. With a mile of thread at bis disposal, why should not the business man expand into all the florid affability of the Victorians? Used for amusement, a whole Wagnerian opera might tit nearly into a single spool.? Christian Science Monitor. Some Snake Story. At the Bruce Museum of Natural !? <?,ii"- r?r fireenwieh. Conn., there is quite a collection of snakes, some of which were captured during the- past summer upon country expeditions of patrons of the institution. One of these o- -mributions. a garter snake, was viewed wisl. unusual interest as it was suspected it. was a mother snake and that she was about to make some interesting contributions to the museum's collection. This occurred on Aagust 15. when SO tiny snakes were ushered into the world. In five days the same sort of event occurred, when presided over by the same snake 33 snake lets were added to the first brood. Five died: but the others seem in a fair way to reach adult snakehood. Toward night the mothei snake coils up her body and is at once covered by her offspring. Napoleon's Last Pet. A report from St. Helena tells of the death yf the last survivor there of the days of the exiled emperor of the French?a gigantic turtle. Although nearly one hundred years old vrhen he became one of Napoleon's pets, the turtle outlived his master by 101 years.