Dayton tribune., July 16, 1925, Image 3

“Tigers” Get Their Old Flag Back
Tapir Nuisance in
Zoo on Board Ship
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WEDS ONE MAN THRICE
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Cuban
Digger*
Find
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Who Dislike* Specie*.
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Many Relic* of War J
LATIN PUZZLE IS
FOUND ¡N ARIZONA
Discovery Arouse* Curiosity of
Philologists.
Iiv It. Wildman, cousin of thu man »bo captured It (left), and Capt.
J. A. Ilarrul, New Orleans Confederate veteran, »wn holding the flag of
L<Mil*lnna'* Tenth regiment of the Civil «»r, which wits returned to Its
nuthr slate by representatives of It* Connecticut captor*. Riddled by bullet*
of u dozen buttles und torn In two (dacee by cannon bull*, but remarkably
»ell preserved because of reierent cure bestowM upon It by It* captors for
»Ixty years, the flag ot the "Louisiana Tigers" cum» home.
Chicago.—Arizona Ims given Ameri­
can scholars the year’s best cross­
word puzzle In Latin, dating back os­
tensibly to tlie Eighth century nnd In
scribed on mysterious lead «word*,
spearheads nnd crosses. The puzzle
has been referred by the University of
Arizona to Prof. Charles II. Beeson,
scholar of the classics ut the Univer­
sity of Chicago, who Is versed equally
In secret codes and the broken lore of
Kotnnn Carthage.
These fact* were announced nt a
meeting of the Midway Graduate
Classical
duh,
which
Professor
Beeson addressed, telling Chicago *tu
dents for the first time the Inside
story of a recent discovery In the
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SoutbWMt of ancient Latin writings
with only .1.9 per cent in the largest which nre attracting attention among
flocks. Apparently the reason for this philologists and excavators.
Professor Beeson has verified the
condition Is that farmer* with small
flocks do not like to take the necessary conclusions of Prof. Frank Fowler at
time to care for their sheep In the the University of Arizona and made
lambing season, whereas farmers with new observations of the Latin Inscrip­
large flock* know It will pny them.
tions. Imprints of the writings and
blue print outlines of the crosse«, un
Effect* of Qood Car*.
earthed by chance near Tucson, are
Accurate records of losses at lamb­ being studied by Professor Beeson.
ing time were not available In all case*.
The oldest Inscription bears the
It Is therefore believed the beneficial date of 790, laboriously marked on
effect* of good care were'really greater the lead surface of the cross In Latin.
than these figures Indicated. The pro­ The next oldest dates back to 9Û0.
duction costs and net profit* from One cross, on which has been in
these Itnestlgntlons show tlrnt every scribed Incoherent phrase* of a re­
lamb saved ut lambing time meant $.8 ligious nature, begins with two Latin
or *10 more Income In the flock, with words, "Ab Ord." which Professor
very little additional costs.
Beeson explains, means "Out of the
Though labor made up only IS per egg.” und has no logical bearing on
cent of the production costs In these the rest of the translation. Continu­
sheep enterprl-.es. It wa* one of the ing with this particular piece, he found
most Important factors affecting the frequent reference to Jacob. Israel and
profltablenes* of the business. In win­ Theodorus, the latter being obviously
ter less ttian one hour a day sufficed Irrelevant.
to care for a large flock. Little atten
A typical Inscription rends In trans­
tbai wa* likewise necessary during the lation : "With the help of the Lord,
summer. In the critical lambing period, Jacob reigns with strong hand accord­
however, the labor requirement* were ing to the custom of his ancestors.
relatively large nnd were adequately Say unto the Lord. May his fame live
met on farms the operators of which forever.”
were In a position to hire their field
Professor Fowler Informed Profes­
labor and devote their »own attention sor Beeson that the crosses, swords
to thrlr »heep. For flocks of from 50 and spearheads were burled not less
to 150 head, one man's full time was than a century ago. The writings re­
necessary In the lambing season. For vealed nothing of the Identity of the
larger flocks extra help was required author. Professor Beeson said. They
for a period of from two to four weeks. may have been written by some Span­
Sweet clover was the principal pas­ ish priest who wanted to write his
ture crop provided. This plant makes own epitaph, or the Instrument* may
excellent pasture, hut Ims a tendency have been lost by wandering Spanish
to cause "bloat." Study of the causes adventurers who picked them up in
and preventives of bloat from sweet Europe.
clover Is necessary, say* the depart­
ment. because even men who handle localities the loss from dogs and
their flocks In the most approved man­ ; coyotes was serious.
ner have losses from bloat. Neverthe­
A valuable by-| finduct of the sheep
less. the total losses from bloat were Industry In Minnesota and North Da­
only 1 per cent of the total number of kota was found to be in Its value In
■heep lu the breeding flocks. In a few । controlling weeds.
Sheep Thrive in
Red River Valley
Farmers Learn Flocks Are
Paying Propositions.
Washington.—Farming In North Da­
kota and western Minnesota Is In a
transition stage between grain grow­
ing und diversified production, and the
farmers are making sheep « paying
proposition in the transition process
Sheep tune been added on hundreil* of
North Dakota und western Minnesota
farm* In the hist few year*. They
have added materially to net farm In
comes, says the United States Depart­
ment of Agriculture.
Information
gathered by the department Indicates
that »beep cun tie profitably Included
In farm enterprise* on most of the furtn*
In the Ited River valley of North Da
kota and Minnesota, and Indeed
throughout North Dakota, with the ex j
ceptlon of the southwestern one-third i
of the state.
Sheep raising In thl* urea In 1921 |
was profitable, according to an Invea- ;
tlgatlon made by tin» department In
co-operation with the North Dakota |
Agricultural college, lieturns from 190 j
flocks und a* many farm* were an ;
alyzed. Even though It Is usually tin
wise to start In the sheep business
when It Is nt the penk of prosperity,
this should not deter the farmers In ;
this area from starting with sheep In I
a small way because sheep are espe­
cially well adapted to this area and j
can make a profit nt much lower 1
prices for wool and lamb* than now
prevail. It Is declared.
Industry on the Increase.
Market conditions have favored
•heep raisers In the last few years.
Since 1922, wool and lambs have com­
manded prices well above Ute pre-war
level. As a result, the sheep Industry
Is on the Increase In most parts of the I
United States. Sheep are displacing
cattle to some extent on the range.
There Is a strong tendency to increase ■
sheep in many farm sections, and the j
lemnnd for feeding and breeding stock ;
lias been such ns to put the price of I
feeder lambs much closer than usual I
to the price of fat lambs. There Is a |
slight tendency throughout the world
Io expand sheep production In response
to higher prices for sheep products, j
Few countries, however, have much 1
room for expansion In sheep raising
except nt the expense of other farm
enterprises.
Some important conclusions are
drawn by the department from Its
study of the 100 flock* previously men |
tinned. The Investigation showed, for,
example, that size Is an Important fee I
tor in determining the Income from j
sheep raising. On these Minnesota '
nnd North Dakota farms the Income i
from flocks of sheep Increased very
nearly In the same ratio as the size of
the flocks Increased. Thus, from flocks
containing 50 sheep each the profit In
11121 wn* $201, while from flocks of
150 sheep each a profit of $721 was
realized.
These profits were figured after mak­
ing allowances for nil costs, Including
Interest on the Investment In the
docks. Not only did profit per head In
crense with the size of the flocks, but
production costs, both for lambs und
wool, decreased.
An Important point noted by the In
vestigatora Is that 55 per cent of the
small flocks received attention nt lamb­
ing time. In the cnse of large flocks 1
only 0 per cent received Inadequate at- .
tention nt this critical period. The re [
Ollher Frank McMemamin of Chicago and Marjorie Elizabeth Neher, six
suit Is shown In percentage* of lambs years old, the adopted child of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Neher, who was found
lost. In the cnse of the smallest flocks with her hands Imprisoned In crude wooden stocks nnd with tie additional
the percentage was 12.7, compared torture device of u wire about her neek. The Nebers were arrested.
Chicago Child Cruelly Punished
New York.— An unusually large and
valuable collection of rare bird* and
beasts from the Upper Amazon ar­
rived In New York frotu Para and
Pernambuco.
Th<- collection arrived In charge of
Philip Schuman, who had spent five
month*, and had employed *lx hun­
dred Indiana In bringing It together.
The gem* of the collection are a
Moracaju Jaguar, a beast about the
size of a fox terrier, with a curious
mark on It* forehead resembling a
Chinese laundry ticket; three allnkera.
large birds the size of pheasants, with
a unicorn like spike on their heads
and aheathed spikes on their shoulders
tor offensive purposes; a rare and
very valuable yellow parrot, a white
marmoset four inches long, and a
three-year-old -tapir, the size of a
Shetland pony, very affectionate.
The collection also includes 44
monkeys, 19 macaws, 22 marcos ducks.
9 tnaracas, 6 garsa*. V kudos, 3 anta*
2»! parrots, 3 Jucamees, 5 mutuna, 5
alligators, 8 snakes. Including a fifteen­
foot boa-constrictor; 3 owls, 21 land
turtles, 1 gwura, 1 three-toed web­
footed giant Brazilian waterbog.
which resembles a highly magnified
guinea pig, and 9 anteaters.
The entire collection was housed on
the forward hatch and covered by a
canvas tarpaulin.. This unusual dis­
position of such a perishable cargo
was explained by Capt Walter Denson
as due to the light cargo and the at­
titude of the crew.
A Royal Feast of Nuts.
"Except for a little rubber and the
animals the only cargo aboard was 500
tons of Brazil nuts. If we had struck
any sort of a sea the cargo would ba^e
shifted, the animals would have
broken loose and, let alone the Job of
recapturing them, would have feasted
royally on Brazil nuts from Para to
Sandy Hook.
“We tried to have the animals
boused In the forecastle, but the crew
objected.
“So the only alternative was to put
them on the forward hatch, which we
did. There was room for all but the
tapir. At first the chief officer tried
to have the beast slowed separately In
the carpenter's shop. But the latter
came to me and requested to be put
In irons.
“ Tt ain't Christian,' was ail he
would say. Alf Moore was bls name,
and be said he had lost a cousin In
Australia from the kick of a tapir
’It's orl right for 'Ira to sye that the
beast’s gentle,’ Moore declared, ’but all
I knows is that you’ll 'ave to put me i
In the brig for mutiny afore I ships i
with that bloodthirsty reptile.’
“The worst of it was that the tapir J
seemed to h*ve taken a fancy to Alf.
We made him fix the cage on top of j
the others, surrounded by the ant- '
eaters and ilie waterbog to steady It.
But every time the ship rolled the !
cage swayed, and no amount of stay- i
Ing could make It fast. All the time
Alf was working, the tapir kept wrig­
gling his nose at him and uttering low
whistles of affection. But Alf took no
notice.
“All went well until two nights out
from New York we struck n nasty little
sea crossing the Gulf stream. Alf
felt hungry along toward midnight and
stole aft to the galley to brew a mug
of hot tea on the sly. As he passed
the tapir the beast gave a mournful j
cry of recognition, but Alf hurried on. i
Frightened by the Tapir.
"A bit later the chief engineer, Mr.1
:
Havana.— Relic* of Cuba'a
past
are being
constantly
brought to llght through
ploratlon or préparation for
new building*.
In Maceo park. now near the
«•enter of the city, but years
ago some distance from the city
walls, workmen uncovered a
store of hand grenades and war
material believed to have been
buried about the time of the ten
years’ war In the '00*.
Repair* to the old Sant*
Hara convent, completed In
1643, brought discovery of a
secret tunnel which led to a
catacomb in which more than
100 ckeletons were discovered.
Near Majagua a farmer dis­
covered a lump of wax In a bob
low tree. He cut It open and
found Inside a revolver perfect­
ly preserved, gold-mounted and
carved.
It was of a model
popular In the United States
about 1865.
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Brand, spied something moving against
the crack of light by the galley door.
Thinking to play a Joke on Chips, who
had got so be couldn’t bear to have
tapirs spoken of in his presence, he
sung out, ‘Look out, the tapir’s broken
loose.’
”‘0h Gawd! the tapir!' Alf yelled,
and dove into the lazareet and barri­
caded the door.
“Word passed that the tapir was
loose, and eight men and the bosun
b. gan hunting It in the dark. It was
dirty weather, the old ship rolling, ghe
was so light, all the birds end animals
squalling and Jabbering, the Jaguar
meowing like a chorus of tomcats,
and the anteaters giving shrill cries.
“The men carried no lantern, and
there was one nasty moment when two
of the crew tackled the bosun—he was
a Bristol man. and they came from
Cardiff. They handled him a bit
Mrs. Nola Ead* Austin of Miami.
Fla., has Just married Arthur Austin
of Jacksonville, Fl*., for the third
time. She says if they cannot make •
go of their married life thi* time ab*
1* through.
roughly, und It didn't make matters
any better when they explained that
they had mistaken him for the tapir.
"Finally, the chief took a hand, and
found the tapir In the galley. Only tt
wasn't the tapir after ML It wa* tba
four-Inch white marmoset. ' ‘
"Une of the parrots was dying and
It* mate set up *uch a jabber that the
marmoset could not stand it. Ha
didn't like living with parrot* anyway
and wa* nearly crazy from the smell
of the Brazil nuts in the bold.
"The marmoset had crept out of the
basket and found Its way forward to
the galley. When the chief found It
It bad Just finished a piece of biscuit
and Jam the doctor had been eating
and was swearing horribly because tt
had burned its nose In the doctor's tea.
" ’Come on out!' the chief called.
•We’ve got it!'
“So Alf crawled out of the lazareet
“‘Here's your tapir I’said Mr. Brand,
pointing to the little chap, who wa*
trying to bite the edge off one of the
chiefs brass buttons.
“Alf looked at It. 'Strike me pink I*
was all he would say then. But the
men said later that the language he
used forward was horrid."
Safety Rules in
Electric Storms
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formulated a set of suggestions to help
people take care of themselves dur­
ing such disturbances. Since that
time, he says experience has borne out
Milton. Mass.—About this season, as the value of these suggestions and
the old almanacs used to say, expect science has not developed any new
thunder storms. Inevitably they bring means of safeguarding a person
danger to human life, but the hazard against lightning discharges.
can be diminished considerably if the
Get under cover, Is his first rule.
advice of men who have made a thor­ If you can’t do that, lie down. About
ough study of the electrical discharges ten lightning flashes in a hundred come
of the atmosphere Is followed.
down to earth in a straight line, and
One of these experts Is Alexander : the person who stands out in the open
G. MacAdie, director of the Blue Hill when such flashes are seen, invites
observatory and professor of meteor­ trouble.
But getting under cover
ology at Harvard university. In the doesn t mean seeking shelter beneath
little building on the wind-swept sum­ a tree because that will bring you in
mit of Blue hill, the highest point In the direct line of discharge, and Pro­
eastern Massachusetts and In the fessor MacAdie says more people are
midst of the Blue Hill forest reserva­ killed by lightning in this way than
tion. he has spent many years in probably any other.
watching nnd analyzing the action of
Cut Out Radio.
the elements.
The
doorway
of a barn or a window
Studies Thunder Storm*.
He has made a special study ot near a chimney also are dangerous
thunder storms and some time ago he | places to stand, because lightning fol-
' lows to some extent any draft of air,
especially warm air. When the flashes
are heavy or numerous, keep away
from chimneys, trees, flagpoles or met­
al clotheslines, and cut out your radio.
You are safer Indoors than out
The probability of a person in an or­
dinary residence building being struck,
says Professor MacAdie, is very
slight, and dwelling houses in city
blocks are virtually safe. He defends
the lightning rod. once so popular, but
now largely fallen into disuse, assert­
ing that If a house is provided with
j good lightning rods there is little to
1 fear.
Student of Lightning Says,
“First Get Under Cover.”
Not Tamed by His Many Years
Mexico City Crimes
Average 102 Per Day
Mexico City.—Barred from police
' headquarters because, they assert
their, papers published the truth about
crime in the capital in April and May,
police reporters on the leading papers
have devoted their efforts to outside
, investigation.
As a result, they claim to have
proofs that, during the early days of
May, the crime average reached 102
cases daily.
Investigation of records at the pros­
ecuting attorney's office has disclosed.
I according to El Universal, that 30,000
i cases are consigned annually to the
■ penal courts. During the first trimes-
i ter of 1924, It is stated, there were
j 2.267 cases of assault, resulting In
Injury, and 1.272 of robbery.
Statistics secured at the federal dis-
i trlct penitentiary and the Belen and
Jonathan Fottlk, one hundred and seven years old, admits he likes the I municipal Jails, the same paper asserts,
indies. Foulk was born in Marion, Iowa, 107 years ago last December 3, and is I show that 70,914 persons were either
now going to the Old Soldiers’ home at Danville, III. He owes his good health ' detained or Imprisoned in these Insti­
to eating corn bread, always working out of doors nnd walking at least tutions during 1924.
Ninety five per cent of those held
seven miles n day. He said: “I never smoked, chewed, drank or got mad. but
I like the Indies. The modern flnpper is foolish, to my way of thinking." He , for Infractions of the penal and civil
I codes, It Is declared, go unpunished.
is shown here telling Martha Llndeberg a funny story.