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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Tremendous Trifles POTPOURRI TOPNOTCHERS I by J K et _______________ Typhoid Germs and Cold By ELMO SCOTT WATSON WNU Copyright STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER N NAPLES, ITALY, tn 1896. John Sous« read a three-day- of the Paris edition of the New York Herald, in It was a brief dispatch saying that David Blakely, manager of Sousa’s fa mous band, had dropped dead In his office. Hastily cancelling the plans that he and Mrs. Sousa had made for a visit to Sicily, he booked passage on the first ship for America. As be paced the deck of the S. S. Teu tonic, saddened by the news of Blakely’s death, an uncanny thing happened. Sousa became aware of the rhythmic beat of a playing band— just an imaginary band that was making music in his mind. Through out the voyage across the Atlantic, that Invisible band kept on playing, playing. Never for a moment was it silent and it always played the same tune! He tried to think of other things but the theme of the melody echoed and re-echoed In the back of his brain. Psychologists today might claim that this was “compensation” . . the reaction of a creative mind after a severe shock. But whatever the reason for it. Sousa made no attempt to set the tune on paper while he was aboard the steamer. When he reached New York and found that mystical band still playing on and on. he could re sist it no longer. He sat down and I Philip old copy "Believe It or not," says stepping Stella, "the fastest drivers are found In the parked cars.** ©. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. in a few minutes had recorded the all too familiar measures of that composition. “The March King" himself has testified that not a note of that tune hits been changed from that day to this, it was the "Stars and Stripes Forever." known all over the world today and the most beloved of all Sousa composi tions. Continued freezing tem|H*rn tures apparently do not kill all disease germs. Typhoid germs In a sample of Ice cream which was kept for two years In a temper ature averaging four degrees be low zero, were still alive at the end of that time. The number of bacteria decreased, but the final sample contained a plen tiful supply. iI/VV yWtfßl/CWMfi (T Western Newspaper Union. zuccarj’/id/y de/frM it Mir it was to a strange chain of cir cumstances over which he had no control. In his command were a number of pirates who had fought well for the cause. One day. during the siege of the fortress one of these men wns pierced In the side by an arrow The cutthroat pulled It from bin flesh vowing to send It back to the Spaniards as fust as he could. Wadding cotton around the end of the arrow, he crammed It Into the barrel of his gun. took alm and i fired. The missile went uniting i over the fortress wall and wns lost from view. It was merely a ge* ture of revenge. No one dreamed of the consequences. But the cotton wns kindled by the powder which In turn set Are to the thatched roof of a building In aide the fortress. The Spaniards I PIGS- IS PIGS •«DIGS Is pigs" and they're also * trouble makers. As witness: In 1S41. Monsieur De Sallgny was French nmbassmlor to the itepubllc of Texas. One day. a pig belonging to an Austin hotel keeper mimed Bullock, strayed Into M. De Sallg- ny’s garden. One of the ambassa dor's servants abused the pig. Whereupon Bullock proceeded to horsewhip the servant. De Sallgny insulted Bullock and Bullock insulted De Sallgny with the result that the ambassador de manded bls passports and left the were frantically trying to get the country. Diplomatic relations be Hames under control when the tween France and Texas became creeping fire renched the powder strnlned and it required an apology magazines. They exploded, burst fronj President I .a mar of the lame Ing part of the walls, and Morgan Star itepubllc to restore peace. rushed In to capture the stronghold More serious wns the pig Incident <B W-afvrn *iew«i>gn«r Union that troubled the peace between England and the L'nlted States a few years later. On one of the tiny San Juan Islands In Puget Sound lived an American and an English man. One day the Briton shot one By of the American's pigs and a furi ous quarrel resulted. But they LEONARD A. BARRETT finally agreed to settle it In court. © W«Mt*rn S'ewspuprr Union But which court — British or American? Despite the treaty of The president of one of the larg been large and very Insistent. In 184«. boundary lines were none too eat American universities recently such Imoks we live over the periods clear, es|>eeiaily on this little Is expressed t h c of history and share the failures land. So the dispute grew worse opinion that not and triumphs of that |>eraon whose over the matter of jurisdiction. one of the books life we are reading. It Is also a Civil officers were drawn Into It, written today wonderful study In humnn nature nt then the military. Troops were will be rend 25 Its best and at Its worst. The his mobilized and it looked like war. years hence. Per torical novel seems to have been By this time the pig was forgotten haps this state supplanted by books In the field of in a controversy Involving citizen ment Is true with biography. It Is not necessary to ship, boundary lines and interna reference to fic rend a large number of books. It tional law. tion and most of matters not how much we rend but Eventually it wns settled by arhl the poetry. One how we rend. Lincoln had few tratlon—with no less a person than hesitates to ac hooks, but these he mastered nnd the German emperor acting as ar cept ns true so Ills Gettysburg address still remains biter in a dispute that started over drastic a state a classic In American literature. a pig! ment regarding "Master books, but do not let them CHOICE OF BOOKS "HE SHOT AN ARROW—” THE capture of the Important Spanish fortress of San Lorenzo by Sir Henry Morgan, the famous English buccaneer, was not due to bls expert generalship as much as All the Winner Gets Is a Book Each year the students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stage their "book rush.” Boys garbed in old clothes rush toward a huge greased cylinder placed on the campus. On the top of the cylinder Is a slot through which a man inside passes wooden "paddles” which may be exchanged later for the annual Tech year book. There’s many a headache after the rush is over. The boys are shown here at the height of the melee. • - . books of science and philosophy. The theories advanced by our modern scientists may be discarded, and likely will be, but as books of reference, a quarter of a century from now, they will be valuable. We are of the opinion that books of ref erence containing results in any re search field will always be of much value. We are living In a different world than that In which Hnw- thorne, Emerson, Shakespeare and Browning wrote. The works of au thors like these will always remain of permanent value and will be eagerly read by generations to come. The wonderful story of Les Mlserables by Victor Hugo Is still read by thousands. In choosing books we should read, modern fiction may or may not have a prominent place. This depends upon the desire of the reader. We are Informed that books of this sort remain In shop windows, conspicu ously displayed for sale, for Just three months. After this time other books of a like nature take their place; which Indicates the large amount of such writing that is thrown upon the market. Publish ers are evidently of the opinion that the destiny of a book Is determined within a three month's period. It Is evident that no person can keep up with all the latest fiction. We are of the opinion that the most stimulating reading Is biography and history. Many most excellent biographies have been published within the last ten years. The de mand for hooka on biography have mr.ster you—Bead to live, not live to read." (£) Western Newspaper Union. Largest Chameleons Are Produced in Madagascar Mndngascnr is the home of zoological curiosities, hut It con tains nothing more remarkable thnri Its chameleons. Of the fifty-odd s|>ecles known to science about 20 are nntlves of thnt Island, nnd most of them are notable either for their great size or for the fnntns- tlc excrescences thnt adorn the heads of many of them. The big gest of them mensure twenty Inches In length, which In truly gigantic when compared with a South Af rican species, the pigmy of the fnm lly, less than five Inches In length. Their color-chnnglng ability ap- years to be quite equal to thnt of the smaller species, says the curn tor of reptiles In the London zoo. reporting upon specimens of chame leons received alive from Madn gascar. When they were unpacked, and were cold. their bodies were cream colored, with Irregular patches of yellow; under the warmth and light of electric lamps they quickly darkened to a mottled brown, which changed to maroon with green patches when cock roaches Induced an excitable frame of mind. The greatest Interest at taches to one specimen which was perched among dark twigs nhove a mass of green leaves; under these conditions its bnck became grayish brown and the flanks and under surface green. Stoss fi’ucd ÂJ? IWU?d 3 c/iattcnfô to out Mop in Me Two Women Nominated as Presidential Candidates Back In 1872 a Mrs Victoria Claf lin Woodhull (later Martin) was nominated for the presidency at Vineland. N. J., by a convention styling Itself the Equal Hights party. But she spent election day that year In the Ludlow street jail In New York city, where she had been confined after being charged with circulating obscene litcraturs. The same party nominated Mrs Bahts a . Lockwood Is ihs - s and again In UH, The Equal Kights party, observes a writer In the Cleveland Plain Itenler, was a suffrage organisation, and both Mrs Woodhull'S and Mrs I .ock wood's campaigns amounted chiefly to a suffrage propaganda, since neither of them could have held the office had they been elected. The amendment to the Constitution ghlng nationwide suffrage to wom en wns not adopted until ItrjO. Mrs. Lockwood was a lawyer and reformer, born In 1830 at Itoyalton, N. Y. Stic was educated at Gen esee college, Lima, N.Y. and taught achiHil for eleven years. Then she studied law and was admitted to the bar in the District of Colum bln In 1873. Six years later she was admitted to practice before the Supreme court, under a law which she had been Instrumental In get ting passed. She waa born Belvn Ann Bennett, wns married In 1848 to Uriah H. McNall, who die«) five years later, nnd In 18tW to Dr. Ezekiel Lock wood. She died in 1917. Fred Jacoby, Jr., of North Ber gen, N. J., photographed Just after lie won the eighth annual Hudson river outboard motor race, from Al bany to New York,
