Cologne Gets a New Bass Bell
the Watchtower had probably been
Mtmewhere In the vicinity. He begun
to »eurch the const.
At la»t he came one day Io Punta d<
Ifneh, 20 mile» »oiith of the <'«!'<» ol
the Hhlp and 30 tulle» Mouth of I tenia
He drove through the village and out
to the »eucouat and knew that hl»
■earch wn» ended. There It »tood—
Henteroakopelon —the Lookout Poet —
the Watchtower—a mammoth rock.
1.070 fret In height, that dominated
the low, flat beach like Rome cat’ll»
built by giant* might have done. Doc
tor Carpenter »ay» be ha» never »een
anything like It In »Impe and |H>»>tloii
except Gibraltar. It waa certainly the
Watchtower of thoaa ancient Greek»,
becuuae there 1» nothing at all like It
anywhere along that *a»tern coaat.
An Ancient Naval Ba»a.
Upon climbing the top of the rnek
Doctor Carpenter wn» able to are the
Balearic l»landa, 70 mile» away. He
dlacovered a anug inner harbor b*
tween the rock, which jut» Into the
Mediterranean, and the coaaL
No
wonder the Greek» chose I hl» place
and called It by that name. Here war
a good naval butte In caae of war, will
a lookout post Which enabled one to at •
70 mile* »enward. it» »trnteglc |x»»l
tlon wn» put to good UM In the Flr»i
century. B. C., when Sertorlua, In hl»
great rebellion agulnat Home, used II
a» bl» naval baae.
It will be • few year» before the
work of uncovering the ancient town
can be »tarted. The Barcelona museum
ha» brought to light the ruin* of Em
porion, the third and ls»t Greek settle
ment in Spain, and, according to Dot
tor Carpenter, will probably begin
work on the alte of llemero»kopelot
aa Boon as fund» are available.
Ilemeroekopuion flourished particu
larly In the Sixth century B. C. At that
time Greek» and Phoenician» were
eatabliahlng trading posts every when
and were engaged In a keen race to
control trade In the Mediterranean
Americans Secure
Manganese
Supply
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Needful for Morning Shave
and Radio.
Washington.—Fram Paris It 1» an
nounced that a United Ktutes firm has
won the concession for tint Tchlaturl
manganese mine«, biggest tn the world,
•o America cu ahuve In the morning
with u steady, untroubled band.
“There I* a very Intlmdte connec
tion between Tcbluturl, deep In an arid
ravine under the Caucasus snow peak*,
and Hi* cutting edge of the dally
razor,” says a bulletin of the National
Geographic society from its headquar
ters at Washington.
"Razors are steel. Steel is iron. But
■teel also I* carbon and silicon and
sulphur and phosphorus and mangan
ese; for steel 1» an alloy just as bronze
or aluminum are alloys. Gary and Beth
lehem and Pittsburgh can get Iron
from Minnesota and most of the 'sea
soning* for their steel In the United
States, but they must go abroad for
much of their manganexe.
Come* From Georgia, Ru»*ia.
“Georgia, not the United State*
commonwealth, but the Soviet repub
lic which 1» federated with Russia.
The Mw M m Mii< •■l«l»urul«ly Uetoraled with » m H uik I s und flower», 1»
Ilea along the southern slope* of the
showu being hauled to th« entrance of the Cologne cathedral, prior to It«
giant Caucasus mountains which cut
erection In the belfry. It* weight 1» 25 ton». The bell la »luted to bo the
it of! from Russia like the Pyrenees
heaviest In Europe It replace» a »Itullnr one prevented by the ex-knlser »an»
cut off Spain from France. OU Is
year» ago and which wn» taken front the cathedral for »upply of German muni-
Georgia's chief mineral resource and
uon* during the World war.
manganese la second. OU at Baku, on
the Caspian sea. did much to build the
Transcaucasian railroad from Baku to
Batum, on the Black sea, back In the
eighties, but manganese found use for
it first.
“A few miles west of Tiflis, which
Women Rule in Tibet;
Is the capital of Georgia, a narrow-
Take 6 Husbands Apiece gauge branch railroad now winds
New York.—In far Tibet men any ot through the deep cut of the Kvlrila
their women: "They are just like the river. Its terminal, 25 miles from the
foreign women. They boa* the home» main line. Is Tciiiaturi, which Is about
They get their own way." The order 130 miles from the ports of Batum or
lege
Doctor
Carpenter
told
of
the
find
Fir»t Greek Settlement in ing of the loat town.
that prevail» among other primitive Poti. Round about Tchlaturl nre next
people» 1» reversed, and one woman to the largest known rich deposit» of
Spain Located.
Doctor Carp»nt»r'( Story
the rare earth called manganese ore.
He hud never been aatlatled with the takes unto herself »lx or more hus
Although this region Is supposed to
Brvn Mawr, Pa.—The site of the general theory that the modern town bands, often brother», thereby keeping
have 200,000,000 tons awaiting the
the
whole
family
under
her
thumbs.
first Greek settlement In Spain, an im of Denla, near the Cabo de la Nao—
Tibetan women wield the keys of th( pick, Brazil Is said to have a mountain
portant trading town built by Greek the Cape of the Ship—Wa» the alte of
mariners and merchant» before tloo B ilemeroekopeton. That It wu the alte household; figuratively »peaking, and of It, but this particular Brazilian de
C. and lost to history for the lust 2.000 of the Itoman town of Dlunlum wn« have complete sway In the ordering ot posit Is so far Inland that Its exploita
years, ha» been dlacovered by Prof obvious.
Deniu—Dlunlum. The old their husbands' Uvea. A woman con tion is Impracticable at present.
“Before scientists discovered that
llbya Carpenter, bend of the depart town hn« not evtn changed Ite name alders herself badly off If she has only
manganese would facilitate the process
ment ut archeology at Bryn Mnwr In the pnnslng centuries, and then two husbands.
In addition to their housework the of making steel and before they found
college.
every time a cellar for a new bouse
women
run things on the outside. They that a certain per cent made steel
was
dug
there
wm
nearly
always
The find 1» regarded by archeolo
gist* a» one of the moat Important turned up some concrete evidence of cut the grain after the fashion of Huth wonderfully bard, the Tchlaturl moun
made In recent years. It eatnbliahea the Boman occupation. But never did with a small sickle, and they thresh II tain district was inhabited by a few-
herders.
In
prosperous
on the Hat mud roofs as in the days of scattered
beyond a doubt the location of Hein- the diggers find anything Greek.
eroskopelon, long a puzzle to histori
It wa» In the winter of 1923-24. a Abraham. They do little In the way ol times 4.000 miners now work the hills.
an* and archeologist*. It fixes a lone year ago. that Doctor Carpenter de cooking, except to boll their tea. They A herder of sheep knows little about
ly wind-swept rock In the Mediter termined to locate the true »Ite of live largely on barley, butter and raw mining so at first Italian miners were
ranean as the » jh H that was the cen Hemeroakopelon. He knew that while meat. They butter themselves Instead imported to work the strata. But the
mining Is easy and comparatively safe
ter of Greek commerce In Spain in a Denin was not the place, the town of of bathing.
so the Georgians soon caught on and
dny when Iberia supplied the world
now the great majority of workmen
with silver, tin. Iron and lend, and
are natives.
Greeks and Phoenicians were bitter
Brought Theater and Hot Bath*.
rivals for supremacy In thia trade' on
“Before the World war much was
the sag and In the world's markets.
done to maintain good living condi
Not only was this town- the name
tions for the miners. Homes were
tneuns "Lookout Post" or “Watch
tower"—the center of trade, but with Hunter» in Northwest Search particular cougar Is known to have de built for them together with an Insti
stroyed $4.000 worth of calves and tution for hot baths, so dear to the
Its sister colonies, Emporlan
the
for Animals.
sheep near Okanogan. Peter C. Peter Georgian heart. Electricity came into
north und Malnake to the aouthwMl, I'
son, renowned predatory unltnnl hunter the mountains for the mines and the
made Its Influence so strongly felt
Olympia, Wash.—A scourge of cou Is out In the mountains after the ani villages. Manganese even brought a
thut for hundreds of years after the
theater to Tchlaturl.
Greeks hud departed the people of this gars. the big cats of the Northwest mal.
"When the branch railroad reached
Sheriff C. Studebaker of Cowlitz
part of eastern Spain showed evi forests. Imperils the live stock of
Isolated settlers, deer, elk und game county headed a party of hunters in a the deposits there was great rejoicing
dences of Greek thought and culture.
Native Iberian art In the form of birds. Ileports reaching here from al fruitless search near Braynlon moun because previously all ore had to be
statues und fragments of columns and most every section of Washington and tain. near Kelso, for a large cougar taken over perilous mountain paths 25
ether ornamental bits of architecture, Oregon Indicate the reign of this car that circled James Brownell seven miles to the main line. Seldom more
tall showing strong Greek Inllnence. are nivorous night prowler Is widespread. times while the settler was getting out thnn a ton could be carried by bullock
now being dug up along the coast in While hunters. Indian* and trappers fence posts. *The tracks were telltale cart at one time. The old Russian
government built the branch line, but
the vicinity of these three settlements, declare cougars will not attack human In the new snow.
und even ns far back ns 50 miles in beings, at least one victim Is known,
Game commissioners and two expert freight charges were so high, it Is
the interior, showing how well-estab- .lames Fehlbaber, a thlrteen-year-old cougar hunters with live hounds spent said, that they paid the railroad's cost
boy. who was killed In an encounter a week near Mukilteo seeking n giant in two years.
llshed was the Greek position.
India Passes Georgia.
In an Interview at Bryn Mawr col- with one of the cuts near Oleava. This cougar that killed n valued Airedale
“Up to the time of the World war.
and two bounds and frightened resi
dents of the districts. The animal Georgia led the world in production
of manganese except for the periods
eluded the men.
Hunters and hounds trailed n large of depression In 1D0T nnd 1903. Then
cougar which robbed henneries near its rival. India, passed it. Closing of
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Longview.
The tracks led up Into the Bosporus in 1914 practically sealed
mountains of loose rock and were lost the Georgian mines.
too
late.
Many
guns
had
to
be
aban
Hero Who Stopped German»
"The United States has always im
A female cougar measuring sever
doned nnd the German troops, caught
feet two Inches, with forepaw» which ported manganese heavily from Brazil
by Flood Is Dead.
by the rising waters, were either
were five Inches across, was killed near where the mines are in Minas Geraes,
drowned in their trenches or. unable to
about 300 miles northwest from Rio de
Bruges, Belgium.—ilenrl Geernert. return to solid ground, had to sur Hood River. Ore., after a long period Janeiro. During the war America de
of colt and calf killing.
lockkeeper of the sluices of Nleuport render.
E. A. Hull, of Yelm, recently bagged veloped her own manganese resources
nnd hero of the first battle of the Yser,
By enrly November an nrtlflclnl lake
a cougar measuring nine feet from tip nnd Is using them today to some ex
died In a hospital here after a long more than two miles wide acted as an
tent. The principal steel-producing
Illness. On Christmas dny, when he effective barrier to the enemy from to tip. Just before being treed the cat
had
killed
a
four-point
deer.
seemed near the point of death, he re Nleuport to the uorth of Dlxmude. The
Oknnognn. Sequim. Queets. Concrete.
ceived un award of the Cross of the first buttle of the Yser was over and
Order of Leopold, In recognition of his the Germans had met with a serious Rockport, Walluln and Falls City re
port damage from cougars.
action In opening the dikes In Novem check.
American Finds
Lost Greek Town
COUGARS IMPERIL LIVE STOCK
AND GAME IN WASHINGTON
LOCKKEEPER OPENED DIKES
TO SAVE THE BELGIAN ARMY
countries bar» In the psst each drawn
their chief manganese supplies from a
different source; Germany from Geor
gia, England from India, where it I*
found In the presidency of Madras and
In central India, and the United State*
from Brazil. Montana, the Blue Ridge
mountains of Virginia, Arkansas, Colo
rado and our own state of Georgia,
are the source* within the United
State*.
"Many radio fan* also rely on man
gañese. Grade* of ore coming chiefly
from Philipsburg, Mont., are Important
constituent* of the dry cell or dry
battery."
143 American Divorce»,
Paris Record for 1923
Pari*.—American divorce* granted
In the Pari* courts during 1023 num
bered 143 out of a total of 7,064.
While the percentage of American di
vorce* a* regards the total number
seems relatively small. It is much more
Important when one considers that *11
the divorce* obtained by other for
eigners of all nationalities during 1023
•mounted to only 151.
The present legislation In France
provides that In the application for di
vorces emanating from American dtp
sens the laws of the various state* In
which they live In the United State*
■hall apply.
More Building Now
Is Done in Winter
Better Stabilizing of Indus
try Is Result
New York.—Constructors say mid
winter building has become a con
quered peak.
First scaled »uccesa-
fully after years of effort in the win
ter of 1923, they report that during
the present winter they will go 1923
enough tetter to make the conquest
permanent.
The business world, watching the
climbers from below, already sees the
effect in an early easing of seasonal
unemployment in both the building
trades and the field of building sup
ply, In relieving of the housing short
age and In a better stabilizing of the
building Industry as a whole by dis
tributing the old back-breaking sea
sonal loads over a full 12-montb
period.
,
Dwight L. Hooplngarner, executive
of ;he American Construction coun
cil, in describing some of the new
aspects of winter construction, says:
"This greater stabilization has been
secured by relatively simple methods.
Lesson From Experience.
“Experience has shown that work
on large buildings, whether of steel,
niasonr.. or concrete construction, can
be condu ted with safety In temper
atures dov n to 20 or 25 degrees above
zero. After that salamanders to pro
vide beat, tarpaulins to keep It and
hanging scaffolds to hold men nnd
materials where they are needed
have solved the problem of keeping
out the cold and frost and permitting
winter operations to go ahead In many
cases at more even temperatures and
greater economy.
Records of con
tractors over periods of years have
shown an average of about fourteen
days, with scarcely over thirty-one
days’ maximum In any one year in
which the weather necessitated that
the precautions of winter building be
taken.”
Mr. Hooplngarner advises the build
ing Investing public to recognize the
necessity of exercising special care
in securing responsible and thorough
ly skilled architects, engineers and
contractors in the performance of
winter work.
Four per cent more contracts were
let for new building In the first 11
months of 1924, ended November 30,
than in the full 12 months of 1923 in
the 36 states covered by the Dodge
Geernert, who was fifty-one years old
nt the time, together with Cogge, his
companion sluicekeeper, supervised the
operation of the sluices to admit the
water nnd manipulated them In a wny
to avoid extending the Inundation west
of the railway bank, where the j>ene-
trntlon of the wnter would have ham
pered the Belgian defenders, whose
line of defense had twice been broken
and re-established nt great cost before
the expedient of opening the sluices, at
Geeraert's suggestion, was adopted und
successfully curried through.
Japs Settle in Tennessee
Memphis, Tenn.—The movement to
place thousands of Japanese farmers
In the rich portions of Arkansas be
tween Marlon nnd Joyner, Ark., began
to take form several days ago when
two families of Japanese from Cali
fornia settled upon this vast acreage
and, according to Denn
Adams,
Memphis realtor, Japanese have In
corporated and proposed to buy sev
eral thousand acres of land In that
section nnd colonlz.e It with 50.000
Japanese, the Commercial-Appeal says.
The proposed colony will engage
solely In farming.
British Science Studies
Habits of the Herring
London.—The humble herring, sta
pie breakfast diet In thousands of
British homes, Ims become the subject
of much research, anil two British
scientists recently went to Norway to
acquire a more detailed knowledge of
his temperament and habits.
Fisheries authorities point our that
the huge catches of herring in the
North sen of recent years have threat
ened the supply and the migrations
and seasonal distribution of fish of
different ages nre being studied In un
effort to prevent the decimation of the
runs, such as happened in the case
of salmon In the Pacific Northwest and
British Columbia walers.
Thousands of herring have been cap
tured and marked for further idetitifi
cation, then released, and fishermen
advised to notify the fisheries develop
ment commission If they are caught In
the future.
Another means of determining the
migration routes of fish of different
nges Is by counting the annual growth
of rings which appear on the scales.
report», »ay» Mr. Hooplngarner. Th»
total figure for the 11 month» was
$4,100,000,000.
Compared with th»
same 11 months of 1923 the In
crease was 13 per tint.
With
prices In the main slightly lower than
the year before, be »ay» the com
parisons are conservative.
Mr. Hooplngarner finds winter ac
tivity producing a relative increase
In prices, although price» for the year
as a whole »how a slight decrease.
Previous to last year the winter de
mand for materials was relatively
small. "It Is well to note the tact,”
he observes “that with a greater vol
ume of winter construction there will
be a tendency toward higher relative
prices for materials, and possibly for
labor, than have been considered nor
mal for the winter season. Such a
condition, however, will not vitiate
the basic advantages of winter work."
SOLVE SECRET OF
“GENTLEMAN BUM”
Brother* Trace History of Cul
tured Beach Comber.
Bay Shore, N, Y.—Photographs ot
the "gentleman beach comber” who
committed suicide In bls hut on Fire
island, were Identified by relatives as
those of Andrew Sherman McMillen,
sixty, a contractor and former lawyer,
who disappeared from Bridgeville, Pa.,
seven years ago.
Identity was established by McMil
len's brothers, Charles E. and Georg»
B. McMillen of Bridgeville, and George
H. Baird, Pittsburgh banker.
McMillen’s brothers examined let
ters, trinkets and friends of “old
Mac," as the man was known, until
they found a photograph of him taken
only a month ago. It was the picture
of a bent and broken old man, with a
flowing beard and white hair.
McMillen once was an attorney In
Bridgeville. Then he became a con
tractor and constructed many bridges
In suburbs of Pittsburgh. He was a
Mason and an Elk.
Seven years ago he was divorced
and shortly thereafter disappeared.
About five years ago “Old Mac”
moved into a hut on Fire Island. It
was learned, to become a beach
comber. There he gathered seaweed
In season and acquired scores of
friends among wealthy summer resi
dents.
Bundles of newly received holiday
greetings were found In the McMillen
hut. Inquiry disclosed that “Old Mac”
had Journeyed to Brooklyn and New
York to return many of the greetings.
But none of those who knew him best
had been able to glean an Item of his
past history.
They knew him as a cultured old
gentleman in a beach comber’s garb,
who liked to chat on Intellectual sub
jects and to piny with children, who
t unversed In several languages and
who played the violin well.
State police knew and liked him
ami so did the young fellows In the
United States naval radio station. He
used to visit and chat with them and
sometimes have them apply emer
gency kit medicines to alleviate the
pain of Internal diseases for which he
several times had been operated upon
and which are believed to have driven
him to suicide.
One of the naval radio operators
a month ago took the snapshot which
enabled McMillen’s brothers to iden
tify him.
Bank books Indicated that the bench
comber once had $3.000 on deposit In
The new Soderbelje canal In Sweden has Just been opened with much a local bank. But when he died the
cefemony. The Illustration shows a steamer passing through the road bridge account held only $3, while his effects
yielded only six cents.
of the waterway.
Sweden’s Newest Canal Opened
ber, 1014, Hooding the Yser battlefield
nnd stopping the German advance. The
honor acted as a tonic und Geeruert
revivled for a time.
It was after the surrender of Ant-
wvh>, when the German troops were
advancing victoriously uervss Belgium,
that Geernert'» knowledge of the work
ings of the Belgian sluice system came
Into play, saving not only the Belgian
artfly from complete destruction but
bringing about the definite blocking of
the road to Calais to the Germans.
When the sluices were opened the
water began flowing Into the flat coun
try along the eastern side of the rail
road bank from Nleuport to Dlxmude.
At first Its progress was not notice
able, the wnter being absorbed by the
ground. Within 48 hours, however, the
ground became Juicy and a few hours
Inter the whole country was trans
formed Into a muddy plain with the
German men nnd horses struggling des
perately to free themselves from the
entngllng slime.
Gradually the wnter begnn to rise
nbove the ground, one foot, two feet,
nnd at last three feet. A faithful ally
of the Belgians, the flood paralysed
the Invnder. When the Germans had
dlacovered what was going on it was
Miss Martha Ostenso, shy llttl»
twenty-four-year-old school teacher
from tho Northwest, arrived in New
York the other day to receive a cash
prize of $13,500 for her novel, “The
Passionate Flight," which was ad
judged the best in a contest held by
Dodd, Mead 4 Co, Pictorial Review
and Famous Player* Lasky.
Her
novel is to be published In magazine
and book form and then screened.
Miss Ostenso was born in Norway,
coming to this country at the age of
two.