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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1921)
Q HOME SWEET HOME J YOU WANTA MAHAY MV DAUGHTCR,tH ? HAVE Y D uSA vrD a n y M o n e y ? OH •% U N uY l a s t i-tONTH 1 5>AV£_D V 2 0 U J ■1 MILWAUKEE HAS TALKING PUSSY Says Mamma in Perfect English as Result of Teaching by Parrot. F. Parks rrrprrrrm I WAS S m U N ' IN MY CAR TH* JUDGE SAID SHOULD MAKKIlib WOMEN WORK? M ilwaukee.—“M amina, m am m a,“ Is .la- <-ry hfuni about »upper tim e at the nun of Mrs. /.ala*I uml her daughter. \_iif». No, they huxcn't a Imliy ami I is only M ilw aukee's talking cal. Mrs. Znliel culls him Mousy ami d a isy 's sister by the nam e of Pussy. Ui di - Hie two cats. Mrs. Zabel owns l parrot. Polly is sixteen years obi iml oli bow she can talk. When Mousy w ants to pet in the nniise. lie calls lo Mrs. Zabel with i s sweet feline voice ami says, “mum- ii.i. m am m a.'' Believe* It or not, just is you wish, the reporter heard, wi>h n own ears. Mousy talk, anil a re porter's ears are usually pretty sharp. Mrs Znliel says she didn't trnin Mousy to talk and tlm t he just picked lie art up som ewhere. According to Mrs Zabel, tier pet goes out for a -iroll every afternoon ami comes back ONLY PHOTO EVER TAKEN OF A “K .K .K .” INITIATION P o s s ib ly T he Com m ander of the Barbara Frietchie Post of the Am erican Legion in New York is a woman — M rs Julia E. W heelock. the writer, w ho during the W orld W ar re cruited 16,000 men for the U nited States navy M rs W heelock has \irged married women xxlm w ork un necessarily to give up their jobs in favor of unemployed cx-servicc men. f < p v n ghtfd photograph by the A utocastcr Service sl'oxvs ttic cere m ony of initiation into the Klu klu x k la n the recent order which is being investigated by the U S tinvernm ent T he K K- K noxv lias •od in every state except New Hantpshtri Utah ind Montana T he j uers included a great uuiubtr of candidates. WHERE AMERICAN LEGION WILL GREET FOCH M arshal hoch is to make Ins first public ap|H-aiance in A m erica I h í .. ic tin A iucrn.m le g io n 's National C onvention at Kansas City, N oxcui I mi I. 11 1 -, welcome is to I" rxtriuh *1 hi the In im ,!,| C onvention ilitl shown in the picture, where in I00t>, his fam ous com patriot, baiali B ernhardt, played to the largest audience ever to witness a dram atic perform ance in Am erica. i WILL TRY TO .SAVE WORKS OP FAMOUS “MOUND BUILDERS’ \m c n ra n scientists are m oving to save tl m ounds built in (.lino, Illinois and elsewhere by tl "m ound builders" wbo preceded the Indians AI kjvc Hu- hugest of all. the "Setpent M ound," located It p ilu le s out of Cincinnati. THE CHIEF PROBLEM TO BE SETTLED NEXT NOVEMBER P o lly Taught M o u sy . Just In tim e for supper. In fact, when the reporter and photographer arrived. Mousy was out for his walk and Mrs. Zabel s|H'iit fully ten m inutes before she located the cat In a neighbor's back yard in tbe next block, prowling around looking for goodness knows what. Mousy Is n good little cat and posed for the photographer like a regulnr person would In his best “Sunday go to rneetln' suit.” Ha, ha—the reporter struck a clue. Polly can tnlk. Now w ouldn't It be possible for Polly to tench Mousy the English language? Scientists say th a t anim als com m uni cate w ith each other. Of course Polly Is classed as a bird, but w hat cnre we for that. Yes, Polly can say “m am m a" and. betw een you and me. Just a few other things which wouldn’t look well in print. As we said before. Mousy Is a good cat and |terhap s slie chooses her language a little m ore carefully than Polly. Mrs. Zabel is n native of Norway and has ju st returned from a trip lasting four m onths to her home town in Norway. Polly. Pussy and Mousy stayed home and took care of the house. PLOTTED TO KILL HUSBAND B r id e o f E ig h t M o n t h s F o r g iv e n b y I n tend ed V ic t im , W h o A ls o F u r - n ic h e d B a il. P hiladelphia.—Mrs. E dna M urphy, nineteen years old, a bride of eight m onths, has lieen Indicted by th e grand Jury on a charge of “feloniously solicit ing t ’harles Colllton to secure some one to shoot and kill her husband, George M urphy/' Mis. M urphy, It Is alleged, paid ?75 to a supposed gunm an nam ed “Paddy the Thug." Im personated by W illiam tlelshaw . head of the Philadelphia police "m urder squad." Instructing him to si ont her husband. T he young wife wanted to collect her husband's Insur ance and elope w ith another man. Subsequent to Sirs. M urphy's nrrest. her husband forgave her and furnished $" 000 bail, limit t which she w as freed Woman's Trance Broken by Long Talking Vigil Folloxxing fifteen days of sleep. Mrs. Lucy t.acMprhi of Scranton. I’a.. xxas »w akened, after 11 days of "tulk cure." Neighbors said the talking is xv hut revived her The xxoiuau rem ained aw ake for some tim e after living aroused, and phy sicians said she probably xvouhl recover. Eleven days before she was aroused from her trance, women of tbe neighborhood began a talking vigil at the bedside, and kept it u p ‘constantly hy shifts. Journalistic D iletta' te. “W hat's the m a tter w ith th o city ed ito r? Two member* o f the stnfT arc holding him and he looks as If he w ere shout to have a fit" “It's Yhe fau lt of th a t w ealthy *enb rep o rter hired last week. T he e. C. told him to cover a lin i C ross m eeting th!s afternoon and he said It would Interfere w ith his gam e of golf."—- B irm ingham A ge-Herald. WHY - The Steam boat Is Coming Back to the M ississippi T his year alone forty-three steam boats. hattav known to the old tim ers as “packets" came hack to the stream s of the lower M ississippi valley, ob serves a w riter In the Dearborn Inde pendent. "Where did they come from? No man can tell. Some were newly built, but tbe m ajority, of which the w riter has lieen able to count thirty- one, came from small inland ports, where they hud been tied up for the last fifteen to thirty years, waiting, waiting, alm ost hopelessly, against the tim e when they could again compete with the iron horse in freight and pas senger tratlic. From Memphis and Vicksburg and Greenville and C airo; from the sheltered w aters of the Bayou St. John at New O rlean s; from little tow ns on the A tchufalaya, the lted and the M ississippi rivers; from tishing villages on B arutruia and Lafourche and Vermillion buyous, anil even from the far Sabine river of Texas, they were brought hack, when railroad rates went to a height which m ade water hauls profitable. But there is one difference in this return of the packet: It Is coming hack as a freight currier. It is com ing hack us a business pro|M*silion, not as a palatial pleasure boat, operating up and down the stream for the liene til of tlie w ealthy planters of cotton and rice and sugar nnd cattle buyers and sellers, for the packet cannot coni pete with the passenger train, either north or south or east or west. But with railroad freight rates 20 to 40 (>er cent above the costs at which freight can be bandied profitably by w ater, otiier people liesldes the w ater ways departm ent of the federal gov ernm ent have learned th a t their aver age of 175 miles a day freight haul, ns compared with the tw enty-four miles a day of the average freight cur, is a profitable Investment of firewood w ater, negro labor and hulls, which for these freighters seldom cost more than 925,000 to 930.000. v Itenllzlng the size and Im portance of this bnck-to-the-water movement of freight, the packet ow ners and the builders are going Into It seriously, many cities along these rivers are In vesting large sums in term inals and cargo hundling facilities to meet bout lines. FIND EELS’ BREEDING PLACE W h y the D is c o v e r y It C o n s id e re d of Im p o rta n c e to the P e o p le of E u r o p e a n C o u n trie s. T here has alw ays been a mystery about the eels. No one knew Just w here they cam e from. It Is said to have been solved hy D anish scientists who discovered by a deep-sea exposition that eels leaving northw est Europe go to a place near the W est Indies, where conditions for the developm ent of their larvae are favorable. The lurvae afterw ard make their way back to the places from which their parents started on the E uropean coasts. This discovery is not only of geographical Interest, hut will also yield very practical results. T he supply of eels In the breeding places Is said to he inexhaustible, and there will he nn unlim ited supply of eel food for European countries. Eels only undertake the Journey from and hack to the breeding place once In their lives. W hy C a lle d “ C a r d in a l V ir tu e s .“ T he chief virtues of the ancients as fa r back as Socrutes were justice, pru dence, tem perance and fortitude. They were called cardinal virtues because all other hum an virtues de- pended upon th eir existence—turned or hinged on them. T he word cardi nal, from the L atin “cardo,” means a hinge. Such nn enum eration, however. Is by no m eans exhaustive. It has often been pointed out th at the list omits entirely the fundam ental virtue of benevolence. C onscientiousness, cour age. modesty, sym pathy and reverence are other cardinal virtues, but not con tained In the original roster.—Clexe land Plain IV nler. N o t D o b b in . T he little hoy of th^ farm wns show ing the visitor, who happened to he a literatu re teacher In one of Indiana's higher Institutions of learning, over th e farm . He com m ented often, hut som etim es not as wisely ns a farm er would have com m ented on the points of Interest. They happened to pass a field in xvhich w as an anim al whose place has partly been usurped by the auto industry. He leaned against the fence and gazed on the sight. "Poor Dobbin, your day of usefulness Is over.” he sighed. “No doubt a shin ing: new filvver has taken your place." "No, sir," the little boy offered in form ation. "H er cult hurt Its frot In the posture yesL'-dn.v, so dad left It In the barn today while she grazed.* Goal Always to Be S ought T he greater good lies beyond the •y es. to be reached for but not touched. Im palpable, u nattainable, never de spaired of, never found, alw ays In tbe prospect, never in th e experience, som ething certain for the future, som ething unknoxx-n to tbe past.—Cllf- f ig j Raymond. O r.giif of honeym oon. T o the an cients honeymoon wns a luxurious heverrgre prepared with the fdrupy secretion of the bee. It was th e custom to drink of this diluted honey t^ r 30 days, or a m oon's age. a fte r a wedding: feast. Hence arose th e term honeym oon, which Is of T eu tonic origin. Lights for Surgery. The discovery th a t a pure red light Is com plem entary to the greeniah yel low of the fluornscope, so th at each makes the eye more sensitive to the others has made possible the use of X-rays during a surgical operation, without danger to the surgeons. In the past It xvas necessary for the surgeon to work w ith his hands ex posed to the baneful Influence of the rays, and also with a m ere shudoxvy light of the rays them selves to work by. Now It has been found, through the experim ents of a French surgeon, that operating with a bright red light alternating with the X -rays makes the operation Itself easier, and also the alternating lights m ake the eyes especially sensitive, so th at the most delicate und m inor details of the X-ray shadows seem d e a r. A Prodigy. A new prodigy has appeared In Purls. H e is proclaim ed as a man, or rath e r a boy of genius and his nam e Is Salvator Schlff. H e Is designated In a P arisian Journal ns “a w riter who Is not a w riter and yet It ap pears w rites b e tter than all the w riters." lie Is a boy In the house of a picture dealer. H e has been discovered tak ing the pen from the desk of his em ployer nnd letting It run agreeably to his fancy. One of his m asterpiece* of an Idle m om ent cam e hy chance un der the eyes of his em ployer. “Did you do th a t? ” asked the em ployer. “Yes, m onsieur," responded the hoy, much disturbed, fearing th a t he m ight he discharged for neglecting his du- th“s for frivolous am usem ents. “It Is ad m irable!” declared the em ployer, who w ithout delay sent the m anuscript to u noted literary m an and now the M ercure de F rance Is go ing to publish the first work of Suixa- tor SchifT w ith others probably to fol low. L itt le B a b y P h e n o m e n o n . A two-year-old baby girl holds the world's record In m ental developm ent. T he infant prodigy Is M urtha Springer, tw enty-six m ouths old, duughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Springer of M ountain View, Cal. The child can read like nn elght- year-old. The fath e r says th e child has a norm al mind xvhich sim ply lias been developed by persistent training. A t a recent m eeting of college pro fessors nnd experts In pedagogy nnd psychology the child for forty m inutes read, counted nnd told the tim e hy the clock and talked w ith the men xvho were observing her. H er baby brain did not sag and she nppeured to enjoy the long interview . The child reads and speaks w ith a vocabulary of about tw o thousand words. She Is lnrge for her age and eats and sleeps well. N e w Id e a in B u t t e r M a k in g . An eniulsor, now being widely Intro duced, produces pasteurized milk or cream from th eir com ponent parts with the aid of centrifugal force. T he m achine, which Is shown in Popu lar M echanics M agazine, is built some w hat like a cream separator. Milk powder, b u tter and w ater, which have been mixed and heated in a steam - jacketed vat. are fed at pasteurizing tem perature Into the revolving cham ber, producing a perfect em ulsion from which all foreign m atter la elim inated. HOW STUD EN TS EXPLAIN T H E ORIGIN OF “GHOST” IDEA.— Many people xvho “do not be lieve In ghosts" would hesitate to spend a night alone in a haunted house. So strong is the effect of Inherited tradition that it overcomes our common sense and, like conscience, makes cowards of us nil. For the belief in ghosts Is woigl , wide and of extrem e antiquity. It exists todny throughout the globe, among every race from the most prim itive to the most highly civilized. Popular beliefs die hard, and it is easy to understand th at once the Idea of ghosts had a r i* u it might continue to ex ist for countless generations. The difficulty is to explain lioxv a superstition so contrary to common sense could have first arisen. A new solution of the mys tery has recently been suggest ed in “Tlie Burial of the Dead." According to this latest theory, ghosts were originally not dis embodied spirits but living men. A survey of sujiersticions throughout the world discloses the fact that there are certain characteristics common to the ghosts of all nations. Among other things they suffer from hunger and cold. So tlie good- natured Breton peasant, when he goes to bed at night. Is in tlie habit of leaving a little food on the table and some fire in the grate so th at the poor ghosts may eat and warm t he hi w ives. Again, among many races it is believed th at a ghost may he wounded or even killed, and it is not uncommon for savage* to organize ghost hunts. — Kx- I; • • m A F lir t. 1 don t see why you are so h it’s captain. She saya she was alw aj fon»! of .Toar coto ¡winy.** "She proved that. Slie g.q enga.-e to four of my company, to say uuli lag of myself."
