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PECULIAR KIND OF UMBRELLA
African “Bishop” Made Use of Prince
Albert Coat When Rain Threat
ened Precious Loincloth.
"Tlie Bishop” Is like no other Afri
can. He has acquired the graces of
the court of St. Jnines and a surpris
ing gift of repartee, using smiles and
grunts chiefly. He is taller and older
than any native iu the neighborhood,
which is the locality suburban to Va
vati, Portuguese Hast. For yenrs ,he
has trekked with missionaries, He has
carried their packs, bundled their beds
and mosquito netting over miles of
trail. His name was chosen by him
self, in memory of Bishop Hnrtzell,
with whom he traveled.
Yet the bishop is still a heathen—
and proud of it. Among the other Af
ricans in any given traveling party he
Is as conscious of his heathen distinc
tion ns Tom Sawyer’s friend Jim was
of his reputation for having seen evil
spirits.
On a recent expedition a missionary
saw the bishop for the first time and
was particularly struck with the bish
op's pride in his loincloth, a well-tai
lored trifle fashioned from monkey
skin and built around a large brass
ring. It began to rnin. The bishop
looked solicitously at the garment—
much ns a lady caught umbrellaless
will look at her new spring suit when
rain comes. The bishop had no um
brella, hut from somewhere he pro
duced a Prince Albert coat and but
toned It tightly about him. It served
Its purpose. The new loincloth escaped
unscntlied.—World Outlook.
ANCIENT AND MODERN NAMES
Writer Contend* That Present-Day
Appellation* Lack-the Euphony
of the Olden Time*.
Speaking of New England names,
the genealogical columns of the Tran
script are Indeed a standing proof
that the seventeenth and eighteenth
century names possessed much more
of snap, flavor and euphony than our
twentieth century names possess.
Pick up the genealogical depart
ment at random—any day—and you
will find such fine and resonant names
as Betsey Keyes, Patty Holbrook. Su
sanna Gates. Polly Arnold, Darius
Dewey, Prudence Hand, Thankful
Sawyer, Thankful Newcomb, Hannah
Pike, Deborah Clark, and Jonathan
Rich—all of which are from one re
cent column. It Is true that the same
column contains names which are not
exactly euphonious, and are Indeed
rather hard nuts to crack; these, for
example: Leafy Bullard—a woman;
whence the name of Leafy—Hatsel
Higgins, Sparrow Higgins, Abigail
Nash, Zeruinh Jewel, and Alcy Lock
wood. In the previous number of the
same department are found the names
Content Brown. Tabitha Holdredge.
and Keturah Bassett.
The Nomad once encountered In an
old book the name of Camilla Scud
der. Was there ever a swifter name
than that? And what about the name
of Hepzlbah Hathaway of New Bed
ford, found In Emery’s hook on the
Howland Heirs?—The Nomad In Bos
ton Transcript.
Origin of Surnames.
No one can say with a»y certainty
when the practice of taking a surname
became general. The Greeks, Assyri
ans, Egyptians and other ancient peo
ples had no surnames; the later Ro
mans had each one real personal name,
to which they sometimes added a clan
name or nomen, a family name or
cognomen and a nickname or agno
men. The personal or Christian name
was the only name recognized by early
English law. surnames being words of
description used to Identify persons of
the same name from each other. The
Nortnans had Introduced Into England
the habit of using surnames, hut tills
was confined to t ie upper classes. By
degrees even the common people be
gan to be distinguished by names re
ferring to personal characteristics, as
Armstrong, rank or profession ns
Smith, father’s name as Jackson, etc.
Custom Demands Seven Dinne.s.
The speaker of the British house of
commons Is obliged by custom to give
seven official dinners each season to
the members of parliament.
Examine Opportunity Well.
Every opportunity needs to he
looked nt through the glass of prin
ciple. It may mean, apart from con
science. a chance of making money
or gaining social position, of grasping
power; but if It does not pass muster
morally, it also means loss.
Misplaced Sympathy.
Many a wife dusts file billiard chalk
from her husband’s coat ami sheds
tears of sympathy because of the late
hours he must spend at his desk close
to a whitewashed wall.—Exchange.
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History of
Past Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Paragraphed
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INTERMOUNTAIN.
Tvo people are dead and a third
quite hndl,\ linn as the result of liimis
received when the Martin home, a few
miles east of Welser, Ida., was burned
to the ground, following the explosion
of a kerosene lamp, which, it is
thought, was being filled while the
wick was burning.
A grand Jury to probe disorders in
connection with the strike of train
men of the Denver Tramway company
1ms been authorized.
Three persons were killed nt Bing
ham, Utah, when a train backing down
tile lilll on Ibc Utah Copper workings
with seven loaded cars of ore crashed
Into an engine.
Explosives under the rails on the
Slout street car line at Denver dam
aged the track and crippled a car Fri
day. No one was injured.
Joe Shackley of Ogden, Utah, was
seriously injured in a wrestling match
with Jack Fisher of Emporia, Kan.
Shackley fell off the platform. His
skull was fractured and hemorrhage
of the brain followed.
Preliminary plans for the establish
ment of a dally paper to he printed by
tlte Colorado state federation of labor
in Denver were made at the annual
convention of the federation at Pu
eblo.
DOMESTIC.
Assurance mat no further bank
Closings are likely to result from tlie
collapse of tlie financial dealings of
Charles Ponzi have been given by Jo
seph C. Allen, state bank commissioner
of Massachusetts.
A conspiracy through which liquor
worth $360,000 was fraudulently taken
from bonded warehouses at Owens
boro, Ky., was revealed by a raid at
St. Louis in which a deputy constable
and ten others were arrested.
Parley P. Christensen, Fanner-Labor
party candidate for president, bus sent
a cablegram to William C. Adamson,
chairman of tlie British labor party,
congratulating the Britisli workers on
their determination to resist mllitifvy
intervention against Russia.
Indiana, ninth state of the Hilton in
point of population ten years ago, has
2.030.544 people within tier borders,
tlie census bureau announces.
Vac "J'obay, full-blood Choctaw In
dian and a native of Oklahoma, was
electrocuted at Little Rock, Ark., for
the murder of C. C. Smith near Spring
dale, Ark., last May.
Labor, the league of nations, agri
cultural issues and the tariff are to be
headliners of Senator Harding’s cam
paign during early September, under a
program revealed in connection with
announcement of plans for Ids first
speech outside of Ohio.
More than 100 diamonds, supposed
to have been a part of the famous
Jewels of the Russian,royal family and
addressed to “Comrade Martens,” have
been intercepted by customs officials
while en route from soviet Russia to
the United States.
Two cases of illness, diagnosed by
quarantine officials as typhus, were
discovered among tin* 886 steerage
passagers who arrived at New York on
tlie Niugaru from Bordeaux.
The first blow in Chicago’s new war
against rent profiteering was struck
by the city council on Friday, the 13th,
when a motion was passed requesting
Governor Lowden to call a special ses
sion of tlie state legislature to give
tlie aldermen the power to regulate
the rents.
Kie old bogey r rlday, tlie tpir
teenth,” has no terrors for John
Snmlsky of Groton, S. I>. He was
born on that date, and last Friday re
ceived word that he was heir to a third
share of a $50,000 estate. He wants to
name his latest baby “Friday."
The Tennessee senatp on August 13
ratified tlie woman suffrage amend
ment. The vote was 25 to 4.
Krnest White, 29, is dead and Jack
Mead, 30, is in juil ut Forsyth, Mo.,
following a pistol duel between the
farmers, culminating in a quarrel over
»1 Mend is said to have owned White
as part of wages for working ut the
Mead farm. .
Senator Harding lias decided to
make his first important speech away
from Marlon on the occasion of tlie
Minnesota state fHir at Minneapolis
during Urn first week of September.
The body of Ma.j. Gen. William G.
Gorgas, lute surgeon general of tlie
United States army, arrived at New
York, August 12, on board the trans
port Pocahontas from Southampton.
Twenty-five human skeletons have
been found fourteen miles south of
Corpus Christi, Tex., on the west bank
of tlie Laguna Muilre. Old residents
recall tlie sinking of n Spanish treas
ure ship in the early ’40s near tills
place and suggest that this is the
crew,
Charles Ponzi, whose spectacular ca
reer as an investment bunker was cut
short by the authorities, lias surren
dered to tlie United States marshal at
Buston and was placed under arrest.
He was charged with having used the
mulls to defraud.
Richard J. Koran, who survived the
world war with twenty-two wounds,
while a member of the Three Hundred
Ninth machine gun battalion, was
killed by lightning at Paterson, N. J.
Dr. A. IV Busk, of Mosinee. Wis.,
father of Grace Busk. Waukesha
sMliool teacher, sentenced June 2,'t.
IhlT. to nineteen years' imprisonment
for the murder of Mrs. David Roberts,
as ilie sequel of a love Iriangle, lias
begun steps to obtain it commu
tation nf her sentence.
Knur fires in northern California for
ests are beyond control and the situ
ation is as serious us at any time in
the lust lew years, said u statement
from federal forest service headquar
ters at Sail Francisco.
Frieda Bostletaan, 18-year-old Ches
ter, Neb., girl, died of poison adminis
tered by her own father, Fred Bostle
iiiiiii, on tlie day before she was to
have become married to W. .1. Butske.
a young teacher, according to a ver
dict rendered by a coroner's jury'.
WASHINGTON.
Government expenditures during
September probably will jump nearly
SHOO,000,000 it is estimated by treasury
officials, nearly two-thirds of tills sum
representing payments to railroads.
President Wilson in a telegram to
Spaker Walker, of tlie Tennessee
house of representatives, urged favor
able action oil tlie federal suffrage
amendment by that body.
Crop reports indicate somewhat low
er prices for foodstuffs, according to
the monthly bulletin of tlie Knifed
States chamber of commerce commit
tee on statistics and standards.
imports of sugar into the United
States during the fiscal year of P.1J0
exceeded exports by over ti.OOO.tXXt.UOO
pounds.
The American Railway Express com
pany lias made application to tlie in
terstate commerce commission to in
crease their rates so as to cover the
recent wage increase to employees.
The department of justice is con
ducting an Investigation into the tex
tile industry to determine whether tlie
closing of cotton and woolen mills is
due to a conspiracy by manufacturers)
to continue high prices.
FOREIGN.
rile new break between Great Brit
ain and France over Kussia makes a
session of the French parliament: seem
indispensable just now and Hie com
ment is frequently heard that the
British parliament was not adjourned
because of the break.
The international seamen’s congress
ui Brusselss adopted a motion that In
order to prevent future wars the sea
men will refuse to transport troops
and munitions.
A plebiscite to determine the future
of Htissiuii Boland is one of the peace
terms drawn up by the bolshevik! co
incident with tiie first proposal of an
armistice by Hie Polish government.
Hostilities have broken out between
the provinces of Fukien and Kwnn
tung, Chinn, the former supporting
Hie militaristic Anfu group and the
latter being loyal to tiie new Pekin
government.
The assassin's bullet, which split
Hie shoulder blade of Premier Venize
lous of Greece into four pieces, was
removed in an operation which was
declared successful.
The French government is sending a
note to the United States expressing
pleasure that I lie French and Ameri
can views on the Busso-Polish situa
tion are “in complete accord."
Canada’s 1020 wheat crop is estimat
ed hy officials of the agricultural de
partment at 262,338,000 bushels ns
compared with the final estimate of
103.260,000 bushels I ast year.
In the north the Poles are still fall
ing back, an official statement an
nouncing they have evacuated Mlawa
and Pultusk.
Five paymasters carrying 300,000
pesos left Mexico City on August 13
to pay off followers of Francisco Villa,
it is officially announced. A personal
escort of fifty men wiU be given Villa,
the soldiers being paid by Hie govern
ment.
Antwerp Belgians wno suriereu in
the war have launched a radical move
ment against the few score (iermans
who, since the pence treaty became ef
fective. have managed to re-establish
themselves in business there.
Following announcement that gov
ernment agents had discovered large
hoards of sugar, alleged to be con
trolled by speculators, the Argentina
government has asked congress to
sanction a law permitting expropria
tion of 1100,000 tons.
Poland, in an official proclamation
issued at Warsaw, has solemnly
warned the world that, if she is over
thrown by the Russian bolsheviki, her
fall will he due not only to “over
hearing might,” but to the “indiffer
ence of a world which calls itself
democratic.”
Tens of thousands of rats which in
fest l’ulta, Peru, have caused the Pe
ruvian government to order the town
destroyed and rebuilt in a rutproot
manner.
The construction in Japan of thirty
vessels for the United States shipping
board has virtually been completed
and the hoard's force of inspectors and
others is preparing to return to the
United States, although a small force
will remain in Tokio to take charge
of repairs and other matters.
The La Fayette wireless station near
Bordeaux, designed and erected by
American forces during the war, has
been turned over to the French gov
ernment. It is the most powerful
plant hi existence with double the j
range of the Annapolis installation. {
READY IS COME IN
CANTU OFFERS TO BRING HIS
MEN IN IF HE IS GRANTED
PARDON.
✓ ilia Invites President Hueta to Visit
Him at His Hacienda to Talk
Over Terms, But Invita
tion Is Declined.
Mexico City.—Estuban Cantu of
Lower California, who lias been lead
ing an insurrection against the finleral
government, lias agreed to surrender
office to Intis M. .Salazar, recently ap
pointed governor by Provisional Presi
dent de la Huerta. He bus stipulated,
however, that he is not to be punished
for any of bis acts, that he will remain
a colonel in the .Mexican army, and
that his troops will continue in tlie
service, according to (he Universal,
which quotes an official announce
ment. Salazar is now in Lower Cali
fornia. where lie 1ms been negotiating
with Cantu as a friend of both sides.
Francisco Villa has invited Provi
sional President de la Huerta to visit
him at his hacienda, and has offered
Senora Villa and his brother ns
hostages for the safety of the provi
sional president, who declined with
thanks. •
Francisr* Mtirguia, Francisco Uru
queso, Francisco de P. Muriel and
Federico Montes, followers of Presi
dent Carranza and Manuel M. Dleguez,
former commander of government
troops in north Mexico, have been
Iropped front the rolls of the army, it
was announced Sunday. All officers
who fled from the country have also
seen divested of their military honors,
die announcement says. The first
four are in the military prison here,
awaiting trial on charges arising out
.if Carranza's dquth.
RAILWAYS COST U. S. HEAVILY
Treasury to Pay Out Six Hundred
Million in September.
Washington.-—Government expendi
tures during September probably will
Jump nearly $1XX>,000,000, it is esti
mated by treasury officials, nearly
two-thirds of this sum representing
payments to railroads.
The roads will have computed
amounts due them under the govern
ment's guarantee against loss for the
six months ending September 1 by
ihe middle of the month, it was said.
1’he interstate commerce commission
tius estimated that tlie total guarantee
to be paid will run between $500,<X30,
Xhi and $000,000,000.
A heavy drain also is expected on
die $300,000,000 revolving fund by
ihe transportation act for new equip
ment. With this outflow in Septem
ber, officials believe reduction of the
public debt may be somewhat cur
tailed, although reductions will con
tinue, it is emphasised.
WERE FEW DRAFT EVADERS.
Less Than One Per Cent of Ameri
cans Registered Evaded Service.
Washington.—The war department
disclosed on August 15 that only 173,
311 of the 24,000,000 American citizens
.vho registered under the selective
draft for military service during ihe
world war could be classified ns wilful
deserters. This Is less than 1 per cent.
This announcement was made to
gether with the publication of a plan
to make public the names of these
173,911 men with a view to their ap
prehension. To apprehend them ihe
war department asks the co-operation
of various state and local officials, pa
triotic societies and other agencies, in
cluding the department of Justice.
ROBBERS LOOT UTAH BANK.
Scorn Small Change When They Pried
Off Door of Vault.
Katnas. Utah. — Scorning small
change, robbers successfullydooted me
vault of the Kanins State bank about
1 o'clock Sunday morning. They pried
the front door of the bank open and
used the same method to remove the
first door of the vault* The inner
door of the vault was blown off and
the contents were thoroughly investi
gated, the visitors refusing to take
anything less than a dollar. Himes
and nickels were scattered over the
floor of the vault. The loss by the
oauk was over $1,000.
Bomb Explodes at Court Door.
ltuenos Aires.—A bomb wns explod
ed Saturday in the palace of justice,
at Ihe door of the criminal court,
where eleven alleged anarchists ac
cused of plotting for a communist rev
olution last March were being tried.
There was a panic, but no one wns in
jured.
Aviatrix Makes World Record.
Mineola, N. V.—The world record
for looping the loop by women aviators
was broken Sunday afternoon, when
Miss Louise Hromwell, HO years old,
of Cincinnati, flipped her machine
over eighty-seven times.
Lord Mayor on Hunger Strike.
Cork.—Terence Mnc-Sweney, mayor,
nnd ten men arrested with him August
13, have refused food since they were
placed in a military barracks, and hove
been joined In their hunger strike by
other prison*
I
WARNING! The name “Bayer” is the thumb- ^
print which identifies genuine Aspirin prescribed by ™
physicians for 20 years and proved safe by millions.
/'
SAFETY FIRST! Accept only an “unbroken package” erf , .
genuine “Buyer Tablets of Aspirin,” which contains proper direc
tions for Headache, Earache, Toothache, Neuralgia, Colds, Rheuma
tism, Neuritis, Lumbago, and for pain generally. Strictly American!
Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but a few cents1—Larger package*.
Aspirin Is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoac*.tlcacldaster of Sallcyllcaoid
.Hid I uiiklns says many a louirge
lizard turns onl to lie a regular alli
gator for money.
Cuticura for Sore Hands.
Soak hands on retiring in the hot suds
of Cuticurn Soap, dry and ruh in t'u
tleuru Ointment. Remove surplus
Ointment with tissue paper. This is^
only one of the tilings Otitieum will do
if Soap. Ointment and Talcum are used
for all toiler purposes.—Adv.
Seldom is a light headed man «
brilliant eon versa tionn list.
Some l- rame i nem.
“May 1 ask what that scrap of pn
: per is you are gazing at (a sucti taelan- -
j clioly fit sit ion?”
“You may. That’s a diploma from,
tlie school of experience."
"A what?”
“A eaneeled note I've just paid for
another man Who catae in hurriedly
one day and persuaded me to Indorse- •
if."
The more reason a man Inis for in
dignation tlie less comfort he gets out
out of It.
Terrible Tortures From
Itching Skin Diseases
ino Mire lteuer tniiune t ause
Is Removed.
When the blood becomes in
fested with millions of tiny dis
ease germs that attack the skin,
then the fiery irritation and in
tense itching will remain with you
until these germs are removed
from the blood.
Genuine relief therefore, can
only be expected from a treatment
that goes right to the seat of the
iruuuiu, uiiu awifti'a v.
Such a remedy is S. S. S., the re
liable old blood purifier that kills
the germs of disease, and sends a
new supply of rich red blood
coursing through the veins.
S. S. S. has been used success
fully in some of the worst cases
of eczema and other skin disor
ders.
For valuable literature write to
Medical Adviser, 108 Swift I,ab<^
ratory, Atlanta, Ga.
RUBY IS JULY BIRTHSTOME
Gem Has Been Associated Through the
Centuries With Some Remarkably
Quaint Superstitions.
The ruby is (lie hlrthstone of July.
It was associated In ancient times with
many queer superstitions. How these
old fancies originated or how they
could have been palmed off on the pub
lic it is difficult to Imagine. The fact
that the common people had Implicit
faith In them proves how very much
more credulous the world once was
than it is today.
For Instance, the ancients believed
that if a ruby were worn about the
neck it conferred the power of seeing
In tin' dark. One wonders what mon
umental ftiker started this nbsurb con
ceit and for what purpose. It was gen
erally believed, however, possibly be
cause rubles were costly and the com
mon people could not test the matter
for themselves.
The ruby also was supposed to he a
talisman against evil spirits, the
plague and poison. By the deepening
of Its color it forewarned its wearer
against Impending misfortune. If tied
upon the forehead in it linen cloth it
was believed to bo a specific for dis
ease of the eye.—Brooklyn Eagle.
By Wear.
Dibits—“That’s a worsted suit you're
wearing, isn’t It?" Dabbs (lighting
the H. I,., proudly)—"Badly."
SOME RECORD AIR FLIGHTS
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Give Proof That Birds Are Still the
Undisputed Champions in the
Flying Game.
Long-distance (lights hy hinlmcrv
have long been anticipated by the birds
themselves, says the Christian Science'
Monitor. Itccent proof of their cnritir
nnce and wanderlust conies in a re—
port from Capetown, which sa.vs it.nt
! live swallows have been traced recent
ly from hangars in England to tem
pornry homes in South Africa. Thesi*
birds were ringed as nestlings and
found liv a happy chance at the otlie*.
i end of the world. One nestling ringed
i in Lancashire, was found in Cape
: Province in February of the next year;
another, ringed in Ayrshire was re-'
; ported next March In Orange Free
| Stale: another, ringed in Yorkshire,
was recovered In East Griqiialand tin*
following February; a fourth swallow.
\ this time tin adult, ringed in StulTotd
i shire, was recovered in Natal lit
months afterward, the* fifth bird,
ringed on June 1, 1010 in Stirlingshire,',
"'as found iu February, 1i)‘20. at Lake
i Ctrissie.
Tlie ringing scheme was inaugurated
by .1. H. F. Witherby, editor of British
Birds.
A Mi»Up.
John Alilen approached Priscilla. '
"Are you sure you are the right:
nominating committee? ’ she asked.
Twenty Five Years
i of Success
proves that
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was building upon a sure foundation i
when he devised this most famous
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i j Where one used it in place of coffee, I
f in the beginning, tens of thousands I ‘
drink it today—and prefer it to coffee. I
• j Healthful, % delightful to taste and
satisfying to every one at table.
Postum is now recognized as coffee's >
one and only great competitor among ! g
those who delight in a coffee-like j *
flavor. |
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