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MILWAUKEE HAS
TALKING PUSSY
Says Mamma in Perfect English
as Result of Teaching by
Parrot.
F. Parks
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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."