Plebes of West Point Get Field Work Practice
Patriotic Celebration by Young German Order
The "Young German Order," a large and Influential organization tn Germany, Is here seen holding patrioti«
exercises on the sixth anniversary of the adoption of the constitution. At the right la Captain Wabraum, leader
of the order.
Jerba Is Rich in
Romantic Interest
Was Fabled Home of the
Ancient Lotus Eaters.
Washington. — Jerba,
the
North
African island where an nnclent Greek
treasure galley was discovered re
cently. Is not listed as a stopping
place on the Mediterranean cruise",
although It possesses a background of
rich historic and romantic Interest.
Tradition places <>n tills little Tunisian
island, almost midway between Gibral
tar and Suez, tiie home of the lotus-
eaters, of whom Homer tells In one
of bls sea tales.
"The present-day natives, mostly
Berbers of the Kharijite sect, would
probably tell you they have never
heard of the fabled sweet forgetful
ness that wax • said to come to the
Lotophagl. us the enters of the lotus
plant were called," says n bulletin
from
tiie
Washington
headquar
ters of tiie National Geograpl.k
society.
"There Is nothing today
about their busy little pnltn shaded
towns, or harbors full of fishing boats,
that lends the atmosphere oY 'a land
of always after dinner.' Secure In
their Insularity against the attacks of
nomndlc Arabs, the Jerba Islanders
tend their fruit groves ami vegetable
garden«, vying also In Industry with
their kinsmen, the Noznbltes. as trad
ers to alt the seaports of the Orient.
Sponge S'd Polypus Fisheries.
“The sponge, polypus nnd other fish
eries. ami the oyster beds In the Canal
d'AdJIm, the ship channel through
the narrow sweep of water flint sepa
rates Jerba from the mainland, nre
productive. Every morning the queer
looking craft of the Arab sponge fish
ermen put out from the long wharves,
with tings flying, for the great
stretches of shallow water that extend
In all directions from the island.
Large steamers must be met by native
sailing craft and rowboats, as It I*
Impossible for most of them to ap
proach within two or three miles of
the shore.
"Jerba lias been made, through the
efforts of Its Inhabitants, one of the
most fertile nnd prosperous »pots
along a great stretch of sun-bnked
Mediterranean coastline. More than a
million date palms wave their fringe*
over the white-roofed towns and vil
lages of tills Island oasis, which Is
approximately twice ar large ns Malta.
Its British neighbor 250 miles to (he
northeast. In addition there nre ex
tensive groves of olive, orange, lemon
and peach trees.
"To the stranger coming from the
bleu . nnd parched Tunisian nmlnlnnd
this fertility seems a miracle. There
nre no rivers on Jerba, no streams
worthy of the name even, nnd rainfall
Is ns scant nnd Infrequent ns on the
mainland. Tiie answer to the riddle
is
underground
water,
obtained
through artesian wells.
* "Humt-Suk, the capital nnd princi
pal city, lies on the sandy north coast
about half n mile from thu sen and
J
Plan $3,000,000 Copy >
of Solomon’s Temple •
[ft
£
¡ft
ft
ft
[ft
ft
ft
>J
[ft
ft
ftf
Philadelphia. — Something of
the glories of a civilization long
past will be presented In mlnuta
and historical accuracy for vial-
tors at Philadelphia sesqulcen
tennlnl exposition next year
when plans furthered by Mayor
Kendrick's presentation of GO
acres of the exposition site to
John Wesley Kelchner of New
York nre completed. The plan
contemplates the construction of
an elaborate replica of King Sol
onion's temple nnd citadel at n
cost of $3,000,000.
Tiie plan centers about n
tower, which will rise 210 feet,
The house of the forest of Leb-
anon, tiie palaces of the king
nnd queen, tiie molten sea and
the tower of David will be parts
of the exhibit.
J
V
ft,
$
ft
ft
iji
ft:
ij
ft[
teftxxxxxft»»:
ft
ft
:*
ft
*
ft
*
ft
ft:
ft
ft
>
J
ft
$
ft
J
ft
ft
ft
** >:>:>:»2Ce;A
five miles from tiie anchorage* of
steamers. Its countless little bulldhigs
of one or tw® stories all have domes
and from the roof lops the city looks
like an array of Inverted zaucers, with
the graceful minarets of tiie mosques
breaking the skyline like slender light
houses Public gardens nnd a numtier
of wide, curving streets show the be
neficent Influence of the French. Down
by the sea Is the spot where a great
mound of Christian bon®< called 'the
Skull fort,’ stood for centuries. The
bones were those of several thousand
.Spaniards who were massacred by the
pinite Dragut In 1500. They were col
lected anil burled In the Christian
cemetery near by In 1848.
Roman Ruins Everywhere.
"All over tiie Island are Homan
ruins, decayed causeways, baths, tern
plea—the subsoil of all tiie Mediterra
nean world. But ¡.aide from the mau
soleum of Borgba nothing remains In
tact of this one-time Important Roman
colony, tiie birthplace of two Roman
emperors, Vtblus Gallus and Volu
senus.
"Hara-Serlra, a village of 1,500 In
habitants five miles south of the capi- i
tai, is I* resort of Jewish pilgrims J
from southern Tunisia and Tripoli-
tanla. The Gherlba or synagogue, Is
built on the spot where, according to
tradition, one of the table« of the law
of Moses was found. It la much re-
vered also by Catholics and Moslems.
Not f/ir away, at Gallala. Is an unex-
plolted Eden for photographers. Tlds
Is the center of pottery manufactur-
Ing, where all day long the statuesque
native women. Twentieth-century Re
beccas, carry graceful white water-
Jugs to the stone-rimmed wells.
"Of the lotus, or JuJubler, as the
French call It, there are few rem
nants. There hns been much disagree
ment as to the identification of the
Homeric lotus. Lotus Is a popular
name applied to several plants, and
whether the one that the Greek poet
had In mind was - a tree, a bush, a
flower, or the seed of any.of them, has
not been determined.
“One visitor was taken by a native
guide far Inland to see what the guide
said was the only living specimen of
the lotus on the Island. It was a bush
or vine, trained up the wall of an
Arab house, shoulder-high, and grew
In stout, hardy stocks. It was almost
leafless and bore no blossoms.
“Some of the natives contend, how
ever, that the lotus has nothing to do
with the stranger's forgetfulness of
home. They point to the soft glow
of tiie sunset on the white-domed
houses and minarets, the rippling blue
green Mediterranean and the waving
palm trees along the sandy shore—
nnd then ask if any such loadstone Is
necessary."
.
“ Heaviside Layer”
Theory is Proved
layer.
This relation could be and
was worked out mathematically.
"Joint experiments with the Car
negie Institution of Washington ap
Washington.—Existence of a "cell proached solution of the problem
ing" over the earth, which exerts a from a different angle, demonstrating
strong influence on radio communica definitely the existence of two waves,
tion, lias been established by the naval one of. them arriving by way of the
research laboratory, in association earth and the other by way of the
with the department of terrestrial layer.
"The knowledge gained will play
magnetism of the Carnegie Institution,
It was announced by Secretary of the an important part In further advanc
ing the radio art.”
Interior Wilbur.
Experiments have confirmed the
long-disputed theory advanced sev BRINGING SKY TO EARTH
eral years ago by the lute Sir Oliver
iienvlslde of an iolzed region In the
higher levels of tiie earth’s at
mosphere, It was announced. Ob
servations indicated that the plane of
maximum density, or celling. Iles at
a varying distance above the earth s
surface, rising nnd falling as at
mospheric conditions vary.
-,
Importance to Radio.
Behind this purely scientific an
nouncement Is news of vast Impor
tance to radio development, both com
mercial and broadcast. It means:
That the short-wave transmission field
now may be opened with, In the near
future, mathematical certainty as to
what may be expected In transmis
sion and reception.
That, within a brief lime, the com
mercial radio field will expand tremen
dously, with moderate power, cheap
short-wave stations supplanting pres
ent high power ones with prohibitive
erection costs.
That transmlslson nnd reception of
broadcast programs will undergo Im
portant changes.
That fading, the bugaboo that hns
At the bureau of standards Iti Wash
ruined many a. tine evening. Is well
Ington high altitudes nre brought lo
on the way of being overcome.
The condition Is further explained the ground. The low pressure existing
In the air at high altitudes causes the
as follows:
airplane engines to give less power
"Tlds layer acts as a deflecting sur
So to study how this can be remedied,
face to electro-magnetic waves.
Re
the same air pressure is brought to
sults obtained are based on an analy
tills room, the engines started nnd
sis of the phenomenon known ns 'skip
their performance studied.
distance,' checked by a simple me-
ehanlcal device by menus of which
Raid Jail Garden
the effective distance of the de
Lnwrence, Mass. -Depredations of
flecting layers may be actually meas
potato thieves raiding the gardens of
ured.
In seeking to account for this, n the county Juli have become so seri
theory was developed nt the research ous that George M. Banting, master at
luborntory that there was n relation the Institution, appealed to the police.
between the earth's magnetic field, In some Instances the thieves have
frequency of waves used, skip dis scaled the Jail fence to dig up the po
tances observed nnd height of the tatoes.
May Open Way to Great
Strides in Radio.
Fourth-class men of the military academy ut West Point, usually called “plebes," are -seen above setting up
camp during a week's hike taken for the purpose of field practice. They learned a lot about road discipline, camp
sanitation, field cooking and the care of the feet.
Tonawanda Indian
Woman Brisk at 116
Mn. Nancy Miller Older
Than City of Buffalo.
Buffalo, N. Y.—Smoking a clay pipe
nnd weaving many colored baskets in a
tiny workshop on the Tonawanda In
dian reservation, 25 miles from here,
may be found any day the woman who
is older than Buffalo. She is Mrs.
Nancy Miller, nee Black Squirrel. If
being bom on the banks of Buffalo
creek makes her a citizen, then she Is
Buffalo’s oldest native. Nam-y Miller
la one hundred sixteen years old, says
the Buffalo Express.
Born tn 1800, Mrs. Miller’s memory
goes back to when she was three years
old and her father. John Black Squir
rel, left to fight In the War of 1812.
She was six years old when he re
turned three years later. Both inci
dents stand out in her memory of those
early days.
It was during this aged squaw's
childhood that the shadow of the man
of destiny spread over the Old world.
While Mrs. Miller, a papoose, was be
ing toted on her mother's back through
the winding trails of the Buffalo creek
reservation Napoleon was at the height
of his power and glory and reigned
over all Europe. She was a little girl
of six years when heimet bls crushing
defeat at the Battle of Waterloo In
1S15.
Mrs. Miller speaks only her native
Iroquois tongue. Through an Inter
preter, Chief Nicodemus Billy, she
chatted freely with an Express re
porter.
Buffalo, a Trading Post.
She remembers little of Buffalo—tn
effect there Is little to remember. The
Buffalo of her childhood did not aspire
even to the low standards of the pres
ent one-horse burg. It was but a small
trading post, a little clearing cut In ’
the midst of n dense forest, and nar- !
row Indian trails were the only |
streets.
8
$
J
ft
J
ft
*
ft
J
ft
J
ft
#
ft
ft
i»: ‘Gold-Paved’ Highway •
for Nevada Motorists J
ft
Reno, Nev.—A highway paved J
$ with gold really exists In the ft
ft state of Nevada. An analysis of ft
* the gravel being used In paring ft
ft the highway between Ruth and ft
In 1838, in accordance with the i » Ely, eastern Nevada towns, ft
terms of the treaty made that year, : ft shows that the budding material *
the Indians agreed to the sale of the ft contains flour and flake gold, ft
Buffalo Creek reservation, and the * The gold is not present 1 b quan- J
Black Squirrels with all their kinfolk ft titles to make It a paying mln- ft
were virtually turned out of their * Ing Investment, so the construe- ft
homes and forced to depart, like refu ft tlon company la applying It to ft
ft
gees In face of advancing enemy J the road.
troops.
»iXXMXXXXX»!* > M * > > > >
“I remember long lines of Indians
carrying blankets on their backs wind
ing slowly down all the trails leading something is wrong and I He down,"
out of Buffalo." said the centenarian. she said.
Mrs. Miller Is the oldest living Sen
“Some went to Cattaraugus, some to
Allegany and others. Including our eca Indian and perhaps the oldest liv
family, to the Tonawanda reserva ing person In the United States today.
She has two daughters, the elder being
tion."
In 1842 a compromise treaty gave sixty-five years, twenty grandchildren
the Cattaraugus and the Allegany and fully thirty great-grandchildren.
reservations to the Senecas. The Ton- She has two great-great-grandchildren,
wanda band purchased in 1858 the res- ; Irving and Doris Sundown, four and
ervation near Akron for $20 an acre— six weeks old, respectively. All live
“land that we previously sold to the on the reservation.
Frequently one sees In the papers
whites for half a cent an acre!” com
mented one-hundred-and-slxteen-year- pictures of four generations. It usu
ally takes a family reunion or a gold
old Mrs. Miller.
en wedding to bring together such a
Though now In her one hundred and
group to pose for a picture—but on
seventeenth year, Mrs. Miller could
the Indian reservation a reporter
pass as a squaw in her nineties. She
stopped at Mrs. Miller's home and In
goes barefooted in summer and takes a
less than a minute gathered a group
daily walk of four or five miles about
for a four-generation picture. He was
the reservation. While attending* the
told that If he could wait half an hour
Batavia fair a few years ago she went
one of the Sundown children could be
up In an airplane and since then has
brought over and thus make a five-
been an enthusiastic avlatrlx. She's
generation photo.
still talking about her ride with the
Mrs. Miller has lived so long that
"great engine bird."
living on and on has got to be a habit
Always Smoked.
with her. She Is healthy and spry and
AnJ here's a good argument for dev does fine basket work without the use
otees of the weed: Mrs. Miller has of glasses. Money interests her just
smoked tobacco back as far as she like it does a monkey in a zoo. Buy
can remember. And she's one hundred one of her baskets and pay her, then
and sixt - n years old! “Some days watch the huddled old lady sit in her
when I don’t want to smoke I know chair and count and recount her coins.
Famous Violin
Found in Vault
Bears 24th Child
in 24 Years as Wife J
Yuma, Arlz.—Mrs. Jose San- J Thuringia Gets “Strad” After
chez of Yuma has borne her [ft
Long Litigation.
twenty-fourth child In twenty- J
four years of married life. She
Is thirty-eight and her husband
fifty-one.
The twenty-fourth child Is a
healthy girl. The mother Is pur-
suing her usual household du-
ties. Only seven of the twenty-
four children are living.
All
were born singly in consecutive
years.
ft
J
ft
*
ft
ft;
♦
ft
ft.
®---------------------------------
the strength of a clause In the will
of the donor. Concertmaster Koempel
of the Weimar Court theater, that
they should have an option on the pur
Weimar. — A famous Stradivarius chase of the violin whenever ft was
-iolin, mute for years In a safe-deposit offered for sale. The heirs rejected
vault, recently passed definitely Into one compromise made by a lower
the possession of the Thuringian gov court and appealed to the Supreme
ernment. which had been bequeathed court, which refused their claim.
Herr Koempel, who was the favorite
the instrument but was later sued for
its recovery by heirs of the donor. pupil of Ludwig Spohr, had first given
his beloved instrument to the Thurin
The litigation continued many years.
Fabulous offers made for the Stradi gian Asylum for the Blind, a govern
varius. led the heirs to start suit on ment Institution, but now it has been
Intrusted to the care of Professor
Reitz, present concertmaster of the
German National theater of Weimar.
Radio Pleases the Wranglers
Mummified Woman Is
Puzzle to Italians
Naples.—A striking example of
the mummification of a human body
by natural processes has been discov
ered at Vatolla, in the province of
Salerno, with the exhumation of the
body of a local resident, Rosa Scarpa,
who died In 1912. The body was found
to be in a perfect stnje of preserva
tion; even her clothing were in a sort
of petrified condition, but retained
their original colors.
Thinking the mummification proc
ess might have been due to peculiar
chemical qualities of the soil, the au
thorities ordered the opening of an
adjacent grave, but the corpse In the
latter grave had completely decom
posed. This, therefore, led to the be
lief among devout natives that a mir
acle had been wrought.
Suit Lasts 23 Years
Radio has won its way Into the hearts of the cowboys of the West. No
more are the long winter evenings or the summer afternoons spent in telling
tales, but in listening to the music brought from far away by the modern
wizard. The chief wrangler, mounted, shown In the group above, Is Prof.
T. D. Kegler, Instructor in chemistry in the University of Wyoming In winter
and horse Wrtngltr In summer.
Westernport, Md.—Wearing one suit
of clothes 23 years Is the record of
J, R. Wilt, a farmer of Swanton, Gar
rett county, Md. He appeared In a
clothing store here, where the pur
chase was made In April, 1902, nnd
was presented with a' new coat and
vest for the old.
Sixty-three per cent of the people In
Who's Who are college graduates.