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Elephants Once Roamed . Texas Gigantic Beast and May Have Lived 1,000,000 Years Ago, Says Biologist. SKELETON IS DISCOVERED Fact That Tusks Are More Than 12 Feet Long, Indicates the Great Size of the Pachyderm— Probably Killed by Tiger. > San Leon, Texas.— Positive proof that elephants of gigantic size, with bodies probably covered with long hair, once roamed the coastal plains of Texas has been obtained by the unearthing here of the skeletons of one of these prehistoric animals. The period of its life dates back anywhere from 500,000 to 1,000,000 years, ac cording to H .. O. Chandler, assistant professor of biology in Rice Institute of Houston, who assisted in removing the remains from the hard bed of sand and gravel. It will take some time to recon struct the bones and form the skele ton as it originally existed, and until this is done measurements cannot be accurately taken. The fact, however, that the tusks are each more than 12 feet long indicates the great size of the pachyderm. it Scientist’s Speculation. The skeleton was discovered by B. T. Roy of Houston, who called Mr. Chandler to his assistance in unearth ing it. In speaking of the discovery Mr. Chandler said : “Before Noah collected his animals in the ark and before Adam and Eve ate the disastrous apple in the Garden of Eden this beast, perhaps attacked by a murderous saber toothed tiger, a huge beast which also roamed through North America at that time, laid his great carcass down on the sands of the beach and died. The seabirds of that ancient time, no doubt, dined sumptuously for many weeks on his great body, and what was left by them was picked by the microscopic animals of the bay. “The waves of the ancient bay rip pled over the bones of the fallen mon arch, carrying sand and gravel, until finally the entire skeleton was buried deep under a mass of debris. “ Centuries passed and the land slowly raised to its present level, some ten feet above the water level. Year by year the waves lapped con tinuously against the bank, eating it away, until finally a tooth was brought to view, probably some 500,- 000 years after it had been dropped from the jaws of the great beast. A Hunting Ground. “ There are many who, while admit ting the evidence of their eyes that an elephant did live and die on the shores of Texas, will question state ments of scientists as to the great ex panse of time since the animal ex isted. “ No very accurate estimate can be made, it is true, but that it exceeds 500,000 years and may approach 1,- 000,000 years there is no doubt in the mind of any person who has made a study of the past life on the earth. Such estimates aYe based on the time required to deposit sedimentary rock, to erode valleys and to wear away rocks. No one could judge the age of this particular specimen alone, but its age is estimated on the known occurrence of the animal in company with other animals in rocks or depos its where the age can be roughly es timated and Its absence in deposits which are of more recent date. “Had there been game hunters in the pleistocene period North Ameri <$>“ Milwaukee.—What is claimed by scientists to be the first com plete isolation of the germ of sleeping sickness was announced here by Dr. William Thalhimer of Milwaukee, who, in conjunc tion with a number of physi cians, conducted a clinic of a year’s duration at the Columbia hospital. The results of the clinic, it was announced, showed that a minute organism was responsi ble for the dread disease, and that the physicians had been able to completely isolate and propagate the microbe. It is believed that a cure for the disease may result from the experiments, though this is not yet claimed by the Milwaukee doctors. The scientists are at work now on the preparation of a serum to combat the disease. ca, rather than Africa, must have been their favorite hunting grounds. Scien tists state that during that period over the same plains which these ele phants roamed numerous other long extinct animals, whose descendants now live in such distant places as In dia or Central Africa, were living in abundance. “ As the storms and waves grad ually eat away the gravelly bank of the bay at San Leon the remains of camels, extinct horses and perhaps other prehistoric animals will be brought to view, thus furnishing ma terial for another page in the account of that long distant period when cen turies and not years were used as the unit in the measurement of time.” Mule Puts Town In Darkness. Hartford, Ky.—A mule belonging to Joe Ford, below town a couple of miles, broke a leg and thereby put the electric lighting plant of the town out o f business. The owner of the mule furnishes coal to the light plant com pany for steam purposes, and when his muleship cracked a leg it “busted” a team. No teamwork, no coa l; no coal, no lights. America’s New Cardinal Returns From Rome Claim Sleep Sickness Germ Has Been Isolated t » ••.•» •» •.•I ' <$> Woodpeckers Almost Human. Shepherdsville, Ky.— Walter Roby of Leeches came upon a flock of wood peckers drinking sugar water from a sugar tree. They seemed to be intoxi cated and fight after fight was staged. Roby investigated and found that fer mentation had given the water a great kick. Indians in Peru K new of Jazz Prehistoric Instruments Indicate That They Must Have Started Early. KNEW NOTHING OF STRINGS Instruments of Percussion and Wind Instruments Composed Their Ochestras— Bells Were of Copper With Pebble Clappers. New York—That the Indians of pre historic Peru knew the art—or should we say science?—o f “jazz” is apparent from the decorations, representing orchestras and dancers, found on the ancient pottery and metal objects o f the region. Further evidence is furnished by accounts of early writers, and, most convincing, by numbers of the musical instruments themselves which have been recov ered from graves and ruins by archeologists. These Instruments in clude drums, bells, cymbals, rattles, pipes, flutes, whistles, trumpets and an unmistakable ancestor of the oboe. If the activities of an energetic Indian orchestra, equipped with some or all of these instruments did not produce something akin to present-day jazz, the writer is guilty of an error in judgment. Undoubtedly, early man sang and danced before he produced instru mental music. As the most import ant element of the song and dance is rhythm, and as In singing and dancing a desire for some sound to clearly Indicate the rhythm seems to be universal, primitive vocalists and terpischoreans everywhere have found assistance in the snapping of fingers, clapping o f hands, beating of hips and stamping of feet. Then, probably, the drum was devised—the first musical instrument. The allied instru ments of percussion, as cymbals, rattles and bells soon followed. Wind Instruments. Later came the wind instruments, sucn as musical shells and varieties • Oldest War Veteran Is Honored A gold medal was presented to Capt. Emmanuel J. Oppenheimer, oldest living United States war veteran, the other day by Commander W. F. Eighmey in behalf of Argonne post. Veterans of Foreign Wars. Captain Oppenheimer served in the Mexican war. He is shown here with his granddaughter. of pipes and horns. And finally, the more complex stringed instrument was developed. The greatest single step forward in the history of in strumental music was the mechanical production of a musical scale. This came with the pipes. In Peru, evi dence is found of the first two types —instruments of percussion and wind instruments— but so far nothing lias been found to indicate that the pre historic Indians of the region knew how to make music from the vibra tions of strings. In the American Museum of ¿.Nat ural History in New York City there is a large collection of prehistoric musical instruments of Peru. They have been carefully studied by Charles W. Mead, Assistant Curator o f the Department of Anthropology, whose findings have been published in a short paper. According to Mead, no drums have been found in ancient Peruvian graves. This may be for the reason, he believes, either that the drums of the time, being made of p e r is h a b le m a te r ia l have a ll disim<£s* grated, or- that because of some su perstition it was not customary to bury drums with the dead. Drums, however, were pictured by the native artists of the time and described by early writers, the evidence showing that they were identical in kind with the drums used to-day in several parts of Peru. They were made of skin stretched over a hoop o f wood or over one end of a short section of a tree trunk hollowed out to a thin cylinder. Small drums seem to have been the rule. The drum heads were usually made of the skins of deer and other animals common to the country. Copper Bell. The bells o f the Peruvian “jazz” , orchestra were o f copper, with peb bles for clappers. There were rat tles, made of small shells, nuts,- seeds, &c., which were worn attached to the wrists, ankles and other parts of the body in dancing. Gourds filled with pebbles were used as hand-rattle»?. Shells were struck together like cym bals. ' The Museum collection also contains three small bronze discs, slightly concavo-convex, with per forated projections by which they were evidently suspended. When struck with any hard substance they give out a remarkably clear and resonant sound. < Whereas among us the fad of the day is the ..ukelele, the Peruvians of “THE GOOD OLD DAYS” delighted in performing on the huayra puhura, or pipes. The pipes were open and closed, and made of bone or cane, 'and, in one known' instance, of stone. Flutes of cane, or bone and of gourd were also popular. They were carved in a variety of fantastic shapes. A number of the bone flutes which have been found have stop- holes on the under side, apparently meant to be closed by the thumb. They are very primitive instruments, not producing a true or complete scale. That the Peruvians were able to realize their shortcomings to at least some extent appears n the fact that in some instruments attempts to correct the scale have been made; the vents have been plugged with bits of gourd and substituted by other holes. Moreover, it is to be re-' membered that the age and condition of the instruments, especially those of cane, have doubtlessly affected the tone qualities. ^ Increase Vineyard Acreage. San Francisco.—Information that approximately 175,000 additional acres will be devoted to vineyari’s in Cal ifornia this year has * been brought before prohibition officials here, ac cording to reports made pi blie. The high price of wine g apes was said to have been given by the grow ers for the increased acreage. ® His Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, archbishop of Philadelphia, has returned from Rome where he re ceived the red hat from the pope. The illustration shows the procession of automobiles carrying the cardinal and the reception committee for the pier in New York, Rodman Wanamaker presenting a bunch of roses to the cardinal. of form and color, a delicate ear for sound. It Is well to study hair color as one more key to the mystery o f personal ity, but let us hope that the tendency to draw hair-color lines will not spread, and that the Order of the Golden * ---------------------------------------------------------- Fleece will remain local. Alarming Possibilities Are Pre That is, It shows what race predom inates in the make-up of the individ WEDDING SHOCKS QUAKER 400 sented by the Order of the ual, and therefore what racial traits he may be expected to haye. Golden Fleece. Philadelphia Belle Marries Cowboy This, it appears, is less true of the With Notches on Gun, an’ red-headed than of either blondes or Everything. brunettes. Red-headedness occurs in both blonde and brunette races, as a Philadelphia.—Who is Buster Estes? sort o f sport-color. It does seem to When the news that Frances S. Mears, Members Are Listed in the Club Rolls be associated generally with certain prominent society girl, had been mar emotional and nervous characteristics, ried to a cow-puncher named Buster Under 22 Classifications Covering but these are peculiar to the reds of Estes reached here Philadelphia city the Various Shades of Red all races. That they are by no means folk gasped. Hair— To Study Data. necessarily disadvantageous is shown The ceremony Was performed at by the great number of successful red Jackson’s Hole, Wyo., on March 29, Washington,—What does the color, headed men and the well- known popu where the young couple are spending abundance and texture of your hair larity of red-headed women. their honeymoon on the bridegroom’s reveal regarding your character and But black hair or blonde hair is dis big ranch. ability? tinctly indicative of race, and It is only According to Dr. Harvey J. Butte of The question is raised sharply by by such physical characteristics that this city, the cow-puncher bridegroom the news of a banquet which was held race may be detected'these days. Race this year by an unusual organization now conforms to national boundaries is everything that the movie fiend in the University o f Nebraska. It Is very little. It would be easy to find dreams about. He holds several championships for known as the Order of Golden Fleece an Irishman and a German who were horsemanship, is a dead shot with a and its membership is composed only of exactly the same racial type, and of young women whose hair belongs two Irishmen who were as different record of having killed three horse thieves, is also a veteran o f the World to one o f the many shades vulgarly racially as an Italian and a Swede. war and “ can lick his weight in wild described as red. According to au cats.” Characteristics of Race. thoritative reports the members are classified on the club rolls under the There are three principal races In following color headings: Squash, car Europe, according to the anthropolo BLOWN UP BY HIS OWN BOMB rot, pumpkin, orange, bricky scarlet, gist^»— the Nordic, the Alpine and the flamingo, maroon, copper, auburn, Mediterranean. The Nordics are the Italian Anarchist Torn to Pieces In henna, mahogany, magenta, sorrel, tall blonde men with long heads na Attempt to Destroy Home strawberry, roan, russet, cerise, car tive to the north, as for example the of Engineer. nation, salmon, shrimp pink and pink. typical Prussian or Norwegian. The Lemon, ginger, insipid brown and Alpines are a short, stocky race with Turin, Italy.—Mario Facta, an an chemicals of all kinds are barred. brown hair and flat heads inhabiting archist, was blown to pieces by a bomb Prizes are awarded at the annual east central Europe, as for example a which he was trying to explode against events for the brightest flame of color, typical Swiss peasant. The Mediter the house of Signor di Benedetto, an the greatest quantity of hair and that raneans are a short, dark, long-headed engineer in this city. During the pe ‘ of the most beautiful shade. race, inhabiting the south of Europe, riod of disorders here last September, One More Kind of Class Feeling. as for example, a typical Italian. In when workmen occypied many metal This organization is interesting and addition to these there are many other factories, Signor di Benedetto de perhaps alarming to the general public races in smaller numbers, such as the fended his factory against an attack as an example of one more kind of Old Black Breed in Ireland and the an and killed two persons. He was later class feeling. It is well known that cient Iberian race in Spain, but these tried and acquitted, it having been class feeling and the tendency to or have -had relatively little influence on found that he acted in self-defense. ganize on a class basis are on the in the mas3 o f European and American Facta was twenty years old and was crease. We now have associations not population. The other three races are recently expelled from France for hav only o f capital and labor, but also mixed Badly all through central and ing formed a section of the Italian So mothers’ leagues, parents’ leagues, con western Europe and in thè United cialist party in Lyon. Police authori sumers’ leagues, writers’ leagues. States. ties discovered six more bombs hid There are leagues based on every pos Hair color Is significant as showing den nearby, besides a number of sible role which one may play in life, whether Nordic or Mediterranean pamphlets and newspapers and a book whether in business, politics, society, blood predominates in the individual. giving directions for the manufacture marriage or sport; but heretofore, so It does not reveal the presence o f of explosives. far as we can learn by exhaustive re Alpine blood so readily for the Alpine search, there has been no effort to or stock usually show brown hair of an Turkey Hen Lays. ganize on a basis of physical charac intermediate and indeterminate shade. Falmouth, Ky.—Mrs. A. H. Steph teristics, if a few Jolly Fat Men’s clubs The shape of the head should be most ens, formerly of this county but now be excepted. valuable in detecting that particular residing in Kenton county, has a blue The tendency to organize on a basis strain. turkey hen that laid 80 eggs last of hair color, therefore, is a thing of The Nordic and the Mediterranean spring and then raised a brood of great and alarming possibilities, espe stocks have different qualities, accord young turkeys. cially if red-headed women take the ing to the anthropologists. The Nord She has a bronze turkey hen that b«- lead in the matter. Imagine if you ics are noted for their combativeness, gan laying April 1 and laid continu can an insurrection o f the Interna their organizing ability and their sense ously up- to N’ov. 17, a total of 176 tional Order o f Red-Headed Women. of order. The Mediterranean race on eggs. During all this time the hen did And this organization of red-headed the other hand is noted for Its artistic not show any inclination to “ set.” women into clubs will undoubtedly in and musical ability, and its creative tensify what you might call the »hair genius generally, while in war and gov t" S class-feeling. The Order of the ernment it is not so conspicuously suc Sun Cooks Scientist’s 1 Golden Fleece will no doubt make a cessful. It Is the theory of some pretty thorough study of all the data scientists that nearly all the great Meals on Novel Stove [ bearing on red-headedness, and each European governments were organized person will come away from its gath by Nordics. They say that thè orig Washington.—Advantages of erings with a clearer notion of the spe inal Romans were Nordics from the the Old Sol cook stove, operated cial destiny which her flaming top has north, and that when this stock died 24 hours a day on sun heat prescribed for her. alone, were explained to the out, due to an unfavorable climate, the That Old Saying, Y'Know. National Academy of Sciences Roman government collapsed. This There seems long to have been a pretty theory has never been proved. here by Dr. C. G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution. sort of general agreement that red Subject Little Understood. The device is as yet a lux headed persons have peculiar charac In fact, the whole matter of race ury, he admitted, but added that teristics. It is generally believed, for Mrs. Abbot had done everything example, that they have hot tempers characteristics is little understood. but fry on the solar cook stove and strong emotions generally. In the Typically, a tall blonde man should at Mount Wilson, Cal. He dis last century a simile in common use be a good executive, a reliable, con played a can of beans, saying was “easy as making love to a red scientious fellow, not apt to get ex they were solar cook stove headed girl.” Since the rise of cited or act suddenly on impulse, but canned, looked good and “ tasted the Nietzsche-Shaw-Mencken school of rather lacking in imagination and en better.” philosophy, which holds that woman is thusiasm. These latter qualities should The apparatus, Doctor Abbot a dangerous predatory animal, bent on be found rather in a brunette. said, was a “ concave, parabolic, You can find much to contradict this hunting man down and making a cylindric reflector” through slave of him, this generally has been notion, and you can dismiss it with a which ran a tube of ordinary revised to read “ dangerous as making shrug if you wish to. But you can cylinder oil to absorb heat from find also by common observation some love to a red-headed girl.” the reflector and then apply it to Whatever basis this saying may have facts to support it. For example, Is it the cooking compartment, in in the experience of man, it is ample without significance that the engineers sulation retaining heat in the oil evidence of a general popular feeling of ocean-going boats—men on whom over night. that red-headedness is a quality o f the many lives depend—are almost al Cooking temperatures were mind and temperament as well as of ways blond men—either Scotchmen or automatically regulated by a the hair. For some reason, there is Scandinavians. And 'how many such float device, he said, while a sim no similar popular idea regarding . tall blond Scots and Swedes will you ple clockwork mechanism kept other hair colors, but scientific re find In such occupations as designing, the reflector pointed to the sun. search shows that hair is a great re- Interior decorating, teaching and per forming music, which requires a sense vealer of character in an indirect way. <*•< W om en Red Heads Form New Society PRIZE FOR RRIGHTEST HUE