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SUCH IS LIFE One Way of Looking at It By Charles Sughroe r tfOM,WHAT'lV -MOUSRR ; MOM,V0U GOT THAT W ll MUTTs THE AAAU WHO f- GAVE MM TO M SAID tf ( r WAS BETTER, TUMI A fieetz they WAS. A LOT Q' TUOROUGHBItm Represented This Cat No"Jinx" Wlldwood, N. J. The tradition of ' bad luck which has been woven about the black cat was destroyed recently, at least for Capt Hilding Peterson of the fishing schooner Clifton. As the result. of his kindness to a stowaway black cat, In prohibiting his crew from throwing It overboard to prevent a jinx, the captain Is $7,000 richer than when be put out from Wlldwood Gables. When demands came from the fore castle to toss the cat overboard, Cap-, tain Peterson refused and shared his cabin with it. At dawn during the skipper's watch the cat followed him to the deck and sprang to the rigging, clawing Its way upward to the empty crow's nest where a lookout had not yet been stationed. The captain climbed the ratlines to Its rescue and from the high place saw a large area of the sea broken by baby mackerel trying to escape the attack of a school of blueflsh. Dories were lowered quickly, encir cling the entire school with seine, and three hours, later the Clifton sailed Into Cold Spring Harbor, the deck waist deep In blueflsh. Captain Peter son was at the wheel, a black cat perched on his shoulder. The catch, the record of the season, filled more than 400 barrels and brought $7,000 at the docks. The crew raised a fund to buy the cat, now the pet of the ship, a silk cushion, several cases of condensed milk and plenty of can openers. ' ' 1 By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of jS Illinois. ; fi : Nothing else so Inhibits progress as fear fear of failure, fear of people, fear of criticism, fear of what peo ple will say, fear .of disease, fear of the unexpect ed, and of the most trifling and impossible things. It is the skeleton sitting across the table from one and mocking him at the feast. I have seen people crushed by . It, paralyzed, incapacitated and made wholly Ineffective and, unfitted for the responsibilities of life. It was fear, so we are told, which drove primitive man to 'sacrifice fear of . the gods and a, desire to placate them by offer ing up something of value. It is a foolish thing in many Instances, which takes away initiative and originality and freedom of action. Mrs. Stamey is afraid of mice. She cannot remember when she was free from this fear, nor does she recollect what first caused it She looks fur tively into every corner when she Is going about the house lest a mouse escape her; she turns down the, sheets before, getting Into bed at night a mouse may have crept in during the day. She sits tense in her chair at borne and when calling upon friends, her meager skirts drawn tightly about her limbs, afraid, not realizing that the mouse, should It appear, Is far more afraid of her than she of It Sheldon is afraid of disease. He bimself really has nothing the matter with him, but .his uncle died of can cer a few years ago and ever since Sheldon has been haunted by the thought that he, too, will shortly suc cumb to the same hideous disease. He exaggerates every symptom, he grows cold with fear at any localized pain, he examines every abrasion, and shudders when he finds a mole on any part pf his body. He has little peace of jnlndnight or jiay fear of dis ease paralyzes him. Miss Lenox Is afraid pf what peo ple will say. Maybe her remarks at the sewirig society were too personal, too direct." Perhaps she should not have expressed herself so categorlcnk ly. She said something very compli mentary she recalls, her face growing hot, concerning the new minister, and he is not married. What will people suy? Will they think she Is setting her cap for him? Horrors I Fear takes her into its clutches. She Is almost afraid to walk down the street she has done the wrong thing, she has sppken Indiscreetly. Dudley has alvTays been terrorized by the thought of poverty. He has never wanted anything; he has been In comfortable circumstances all his life, but constantly there is before him the dread of bankruptcy.' Crops will fail, prices will run down, his cred itors will become insolvent, the bank in which his funds are deposited will full a thousand things are sure to conspire against him and in his old age he will be a mendicant, a beggar on street corners, an inmate of the poor house. To his dying day he will live In fear of poverty. Courage I What a wonderful weapon it Is with which to fight these useless fears which at one time or another possess us all I ' (. 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) Pretty Pet Skunk Follows Small Boy Berwick It may have been a little lamb that followed . Mary to school one day, but It is u skunk that follows six-year-old William Grassley. The boy stroked and fed the animal when it was found. Just a tiny creature. In the cellar of the Grassley home, and it be came his Inseparable companion. Thoroughly domesticated, It trails William about six Inches back of his heels. Wherever be goes, so goes the skunk, and there usually is a crowd watching the perambula tions of the lad with bis strange pet. The animal Is a particularly pretty one. VETERAN WELCOMED t . it i I'liiiflUlirlt&I Frosty Peters, brilliant drop kicker of the Illini 1020 team, is back in col lege after a year's absence and will be of great assistance to Coach Zup pke in the remaining grid struggles. Pet "Made Good" Danville, Ky. Because his pet dog led him to treasure .trove of 1,800 sil ver dollars, James Ashe, aged and poverty stricken, who lives near Dan ville, Ky., believes Providence has favored him for upright life. Ashe lives alone In a small habitation. He was walking through a field when bis dog jumped a rabbit, which fled to an old tree stump. The dog dug furiously about the stump and Ashe began removing the accumulation within to scare the rab bit and ee what there was there. In a few moments he found the top of a kettle, then loose pieces of metal, dis colored by age Cleaning one, he dis covered it was a silver dollar. Ashe continued his excavation until he had removed a large copper kettle, apparently full of coins. He could not carry It far, and hid It in the un derbrush. He told a friend of his dis covery, and they took the kettle to Ashe's home. The coins were cleaned and counted. There were 1,800 sliver dollars, none bearing a date later than 1858. It is believed robbers of long ago burled the money and never re turned for the loot, or that some ante bellum miser placed his hoard there. Another theory Is that the treasure may have been burled during the Civil war to prevent roving soldiers or guerillas from taking it. Turks Establish Model Villages for Farmers Jerusalem, Palestine. Introduction of modern and scientific methods In to agriculture, evidently Is fostered ac tively by the Angora government So-called model villages are being erected a. a number of places. Heads of the Slvas vilayets, situated In the heart o Anatolia, have been asked to nate some place in the districts under their respective administration for conversion Into model villages. , In such villages modern plows and other agricultural Implements are dis tributed free of charge. The idea is that model villages should be so centrally located as to allow farmers pf the surrounding country to profit from their advancement Bars Small Girls New 1 York. Small girls are now barred as public school teachers. Ap plicants must be at least five ' feet tall. Those under that height are pre sumed to lack commanding personality.-'-. ' : , .' , Odd Buriat Customs Washington. The Buriats who re cently Joined the Mongols In destroy lug a portion of the Chinese Eastern railway came Into the spotlight two years ago when the Russian govern ment banned wife stealing among members of the race In Siberia. "Theft of wives Is not a traditional custom among the Buriats. Marriaee' among them usually Is effected through un exchange of children arranged hj their parents," says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society. "When the parents of a youns Buriat swain decide he should have a wife, they consult the parents of an eligible muiden and offer a daughter in exchange for her hand. If there Is no daughter to exchange, the son's wife Is, In effect bought by a gift ot cattle. Frequently, among the well-to-do Buriats, the brides dowry of furs which would be valued at thou sands of dollars on an American fur market, offset the 'price' paid for ber. "Buddhist temples with their pray er wheels which 'say' thousands ot prayers per revolution and Christian churches are found In Buriat villages; but both Buddhists and Christians at tend Shamnnlstlc rites at some of the mountain-top shrines. Shamanism is nature worship. Adherents of" Sha manism believe that rain, the rivers What Shall the Harvest Be? the wind and the mountains are peo pled by gods. The higher Into the mountain the Shamanist goes to wor ship, the greater favor" he receives from the deities. Frequently worship ers climb to the mountain-top shrine where, amid chanting and weird con tortious of Shamanist priests, the Buriats make their sacrifices on a sa cred fire. "The Buriat and his horse are In separable companions. A horse often Is tied to his owner's grave to starve to death In order that it may follow hi in in death. Good horses are scarce GIVEN HIGH POSITION f hi- i Mrs. Adalin Wright Macauley of Wisconsin and former national presi dent of the American Legion Auxil iary, who was elected president of the Women's Auxiliary of Fldac, the in terallied veterans' federation, at the Fidac congress In Bucharest, Ru mania. ' ' so the heirs sometimes manage to ap-' pease the gods by substituting a use less hark, or they tie the good saddle horse by such a flimsy thong that it soon frees Itself and wanders back to the village. "Few automobiles have penetrated the land of the Buriats. which lies In regions adjacent to the southern shore ot Uke Baikal. The Buriats spread their villugea all over the land wane without regard to streets. The nomads near - the Mongolian border live in yurts, dome-shaped tents built of Interlaced flexible sticks covered with skins or felt. . "When a Buriat settles down he fre quently builds a hut, but no matter how elaborate the new abode may be, It usually bears some resemblance to the yurt Some leave a smoke hole In the roof and build their fires In the center of the floor as In the yuru "Though house furnishings are few, rugs adorning the floors and walls of the well-to-do indicate that the Buriat likes display, and if the tribesman can afford It, he will be seen strutting about the village In silken robes. "Tea drinking and smoking are common habits of the Buriat, both among adults and children. Some of the tribesmen wear broad silk girdles In which they carry their pipes and tea cups. , "When the Russians first met the Buriats In the Sixteenth century, the latter were true children of nature. Many of them made their living" by fishing and hunting, while a few were stock raisers. The Russians taught them agriculture, and succeeding gen erations of Buriats surpassed the av erage Russian farmer In farming." A Family Affair Maryvllle, Tenn. A dojble wed ding in which four first cousins par ticipated was celebrated here when Nellie and Beulah Gourley sisters, married Fate and Isoac Gourley, brothers. The father of the girls Is a brother of the boys' father. "ALL-WHITE" COAT k. few i , A . Miss Blllie Dove wore this charm ing coat In "The Night Watch." It is of ermine and expresses many of the season's most Important points. White fox forms an elaborate trimming and expresses the beauty of the all-white wrap most effectively. More Cotton Dresses Worn, Inquiry , Shows New York. Six weeks of direct In vestigation, supplemented by Informa tion furnished by nearly 2.30 firms and individuals, has led the new uses sec tion of the Cotton Textile Institute to conclude there Is uu Increasing de mand for cotton dresses and piece goods, President Walker D. Ulnes an nounces. The conclusions reached are that more cotton dresses are being worn; more cotton dresses were made and sold during the summer of 1928 than In 1027; retail sales of cotton piece goods this summer were larger In vol ume than In 1027, and retail stores have been advertising fine cotton goods more extensively. The report says the trade Is con fident 1929 will be a big cotton year, but has suggested that the popularity of cotton fabrics will depend upon superior styling. Golf may be an old man's game, be cause the old have the money; and It takes money to sup port golf links. Odd Punishment for Naughty "Freshies" 7 iP U"" V S " 5. - 1 f ' t sj -4" f -f- ni!fr Freshman girls of the University of Cincinnati have a hard time of It these days. Any Infraction of the rules and they are given a ride in the county dog catcher's wagon. Here's a load of the fair coeds ready to start heir Jaunt. ust f I lit FkAjJ If TOO MUCH SCENERY "Ye gods I Why did you ditch that queen you bad and get a homely nut like that old ben for your stenogl" exclaimed the friend of the boss. "To keep from going Into bankrup ty," be grinned, "the homely nut does six times as much work as the queen did and the clerks and I are do ing six times more work than we did while she was here." HAS NO REP YET "You've heard ot Sally Twinkle, haven't you? The great movie star." "Why no Indeed, I haven't heard ot her. Eas she ever been divorced?" A Ditty Man U somewhat I Iks ths sausage Very smooth upon the akin; But yo can't tell Just exactly How much hog there is within. Tough Luck First Clerk Poor old BUllugi la In a quandary. Second Clerk Having trouble at home? First Clerk Nope. He doesn't know whether t tell the office buncb about the cute sayings of his kid or to tell them of the new golf stroke he's discovered. s She Speak$ Up As a man bowed to a friend In the grandstand l.e said to his wife: "We really must Invite the colonel to dine. He is an excellent Judge of horseflesh." "Llssen. We won't have that on the menu." Louisville Courier-Journal. : Easy Enough to Get Salesman, (to man buying complete gardening equipment) You'll want one of these syringes for green fly. Amateur Gardener Yes er1 see. Now er where do I get the green fly? Lettered Speech "I want a synonym for 'fat'" "Say 'adipose tissue.'" 'Too long. Give me something nhorter." "O-b-c-t" Boston Transcript UNNECESSARY AID "Do y-vu play golf?" "No; I hadn't the lc.st difficulty learning how to ;.( without It," Obtcure Contributor The fish that's landed as a prlz For admiration comes to view; But has no chance to realize The honors that to him are due. To Teach Him a Le$$on 8tranger (savagely) You're sitting on my but, sir I Old Gentleman (ditto) So I feel.' sir 1 And I hope for the future you'll wear soft huts and not these ban) brimmed abominations. Crath "I see you've given up teaching your wife to drive." "Yes, we had an accident. I toht her to release the clutch and she let go the steering wheel." Such Gallantry ' "Now do you really think you'll be mitlHlled with me as a mother-In-law?" "Madame, It was to obtain a moth-er-.ti-law like you I fell In love with your daughter." The Parting Shot Mr. Bore I've tried many seeming ly Impossible feuta and succeeded. Companion (fed op) Really I Did od ever try to have the last word with an echo?