SHEIKS OF SYRIA
WORSHIP A DEVIL
Taout Malak, Fallen Anf el, It
Their Patron Saint
Aleppo, Pyrla. Taoua Muluk, the
"fullttu miKol" whom Clod expelled
from htmveu, In (ho putroo mint of the
tliolkt uot thud wIiom handsome
profiles thrown on the American
screen have undo flappers' hearts
flutter, ' ,
Tli tribe of tlx Yuddlui, worship
re of autiin, (rum which (lie original
slislks sprang, are uoinada living from
cattle raising. They number about
32.000 nod their bubltut It north of
Aleppo near the Djebel Houinann. An
other bruuch U to be found at Kliul
tar, a nuall town lu tha viclulty of
fclarkeblr.
Hhulkt claim they can trace their
ancestry from heaven, blng direct de
scendants of Khelk Charat Kddln, or
"tha moon." Another early slielk wat
Aniandlu, which uieuui "pillar lupport
liif lieu van," whlla a third one wat
directly related to tha aun.
Soma of tha present-day ihelkt
claim to huvt tha power of miracle
In reuderlng liiofft-oalve the bltat of
anakaa and scorpions.
"Why do you worship the devlir
aakad an American, who had bn bit
ten by t potaouout Insect, and, de
tlroua of ascertaining tha mlraculoua
power of tha sheiks, had aent for out.
"tiatun It the aource of all evil and
If we Ignore him we cannot avoid hit
wrath. Uod, on tha contrary, la the
essence of kludtirss and therefore we
have nothing to fear from him." wat
the way the reply waa translated.
There la no divorce among the real
ahelka. hi which they differ somewhat
from the American spec-lea.
Hheiki marry only the daughter! of
other ahelka, J'he marriage ceremony
la very simple. It la a question of
mutual consent between the bride and
the bridegroom, expressed before one
of the older ahelka. lioth uewlyweda
are then branded with red Ink on the
ehouldwra and forehead.
The ahelk performing the ceremony
then takea a branch of tree and
breaking It In two, aaya: "Remain
united until death parte you at force
liee broken thla branch."
Movement Launched to
Abolish Poorhoutet
Dee Muluea, Iowa. An organised
effort to abollah the toorhouae at an
American luatltutlun will be launched
ea the reault of an Investigation
financed by a doteu fraternal organ!
aatloua and the Vulted Btatee Depart
luent of Labor.
llarry C. Kvana of Dee Itolnea, apa
rt al coiumlaalouer of Becretary of La
bor Davie, In a report made public
upon a two-year nation-wide turvey of
' almshouses, recommenda complete
' abolition of the prevailing county
poorhouae ayalem and the continu
ance of Ita eaaentlal functlona In a
central home fur the aged In each
commonwealth. -
The present system, under which
each county malntalna a aeparate In
ttltutlon, la deacribed In tha report aa
"the worat uilsiuetiagod public bual
lieae In the world" and "the symbol
of humanity'! degradatlona."
The central home plan wat submit-
ted, together with a detailed report of
the aurvey, to the annual convention
of American fraternal Congreaaee at
Buffalo, N. T.
The auggeated plan, the report aald.
"would dignify the laat daya of the
poor, give them a home rather than
a mere lodging houae, where now are
kept not only the Indigent but often
the Uitane, the criminal and the
feeble-minded."
Cross Yak and Bison
and Get the "Yakalo"
Walnwrlght, Alta. The new breed
of live etock called "Yakalo" It be
ing developed In the national park
at Walnwrlght by croaalng buffalot
with yaks.
"Yakaloa" combine the meat pro
ducing qualities of the yak with tha
foraging characteristics of tha buffalo,
aald U. B. Itothwell, director of the
animal buahandry dlvlalon of the De
partroent of Agriculture. The new
animate breed true to type, he laid,
and have proved more adaptable than
"cattalo," evolved aeveral yeara ago by
croaalng buffalo with domestic cattle.
Cnttaloa are sterile.
The meat of yakaloa It deacribed at
almoat Identical with beef, aalde from
being finer grained. The aulmalt are
hardy, can forage for themselves, are
capuble of wintering In the open, and
are realatant to ninny of tha common
diseases of domestic cattle.
Washerwoman Pose
of British Flapper
London, England. The "washer
woman pose" la the British flapper's
lutest. ' She now aaaumea an arnit
aklmbo attitude which at one time
would have been considered Inele-
gunt, If 'not vulgar, but la now con
aldered III the height of fashion.
Cnpet and cloaks, now much In
vogue, are blamed for the new style,
When they were sponsored at the
dress displays earlier In the season
obacrvuiit women noticed that the
mannequins Invariably placed one
hand lightly on the hip when demon'
Ht rating the awing of the new module.
Later the same acute women discov
ered thitt what had appeared to be
merely an effective "gesture" wat an
nttltuda demanded by the cut of the
cnpet, which look dowdy and uninter
esting with the nrmi hanging by the
sides. "Elbows out," therefore, It the
PRIVATE MUSEUM ON
TOP OF SKYSCRAPER
Bingham Keeps Rare Ma
rine Specimens in Suite.
New York. On the top floor of the
office building at 82 Broadway, In the
heart ef the financial district, there It
what It undoubtedly the only sky
scraper oceauogratihlc museum In the
world. r erhapt It It an exaggeration
to call It a museum for It consists of
only two rooms of a private ofllce
suite, and It It not now, and probably
never will be, open to the public, but
in tlit glsse casvt tnd In glast Jars
awaiting ttudy and mounting are tome
8,000 tpecluient of marine life, many
of them of hitherto unknown species.
Thla office building collection la tha
nucleut of what It expected to grow
Into a thoroughly organized private
museum, which llarry t'ayne Bingham,
Ita owner, will house In an appropri
ate building. Meanwhile Mr. Illnghum
It working In company with Louie L
Mowbray, assistant director of the
Aquarium, classifying and atudylng the
wealth of marine material they got on
the three months' ll.OOO-inlle expedi
tion they made last spring In the Car
ibbean and the Pacific.
Soma Extraordinary Fish.
Hundred! of these specimens al
ready have been mounted and placed
In glass cases In Mr. Illnghnin't office
at 82 Ilroadway. Others are on the
wall. Many of them' are deep-sea va
rieties, In the grotesque shapes made
familiar by William lleebe't descrip
tions last, year of the ocean treasure!
he found on his cruise In the A returns.
Their range of site Is extraordinary.
There la one flah from the depths of
the ocean only three Inches long. It
ti equipped with a tough akin which
bat prevented It blowing up aa moat
deep-sea flah do when brought to the
surface from the heavy pressure of
the lower level! of water. And on the
wall nearby la a giant awordfleh 13
feet long. On the wall also la a si-cl-men
of weak-Ash six feet long, weigh
ing 17S pounds, In atriklng contrast to
the sir.. pound variety caught In New
York watera and served on restaurant
tables.
The skyscraper collection contains
even a sea -serpent. It looks like a
blacksnske about three feet long, with
the under side of Its bead white. It
wat caught close to shore In the Gulf
of California.
All Mounted and Painted.
The flah, aa they are seen In Mr.
Rlngham't Slflce, are In their original
shapes and colore. Francis West, taxi
dermist of the ltlngham Mowbray ex
pedition, made plaster casts of the Ave
flab while they were flopping about
the deck. Their skint have now been
fitted over these casta and painted by
Wilfred Hronsoa, aa artist, .who ob
served them la life la a diving suit
and made notes of their coloring.
In aa adjoining room la a motion
picture projection machine and a
screen ea which Mr. ningham and Mr.
Mowbray can throw pictures they took
on their voyage. With the aid of this
they can study again the life bablta of
the aea animals.
Mr. Dlngham admitted that It waa
true that be waa planning to estab
lish a museum, but aald bla plana
were entirely vague thna far and that
he did not yet have enough material
to warrant forming a niaseutn. Ilia
office serves meanwhile as a storeroom
and workroom.
Mr. Illngham formerly wai a mem'
ber of the New York Stock exchange.
but told bla aeat two yeara ago to con
centrate hli attention on hie atndlee
of marine life, In which he has long
been Interested. - He Intend! to ainke
another three montha' voyage early
next year In search of specimen He
and hla party will travel In the Taw
nee, bla 100-foot yacht, In which be
explored southern watera thli year.
The yacht Is equipped wltb Diesel en
gines. R contain! a laboratory, rooma
for mounting the ipeclmeni and elabo
rate paraphernalia for exploring the
depths. -
Church Censors Clothes
Milan. Women who dreat too tnod-
eraly will be refused admittance to
church, by order of Cardinal Toat, who
bat forbidden public dances.
New Milliken Light
Dims X-Ray's Force
, Washington. The newly dis
covered Milliken light ray has
the most powerful penetrating
force of any ray ever brought
to human notice, the Smithson
ian Institution announced In sT
bulletin calling attention to the
fact that the .new ray will pen
etrate a layer of lead tlx feet
thick, whereat the X-ray can be
atopped wltb a thin sheet of the
same metal. No one can foresee
by what remarkable uses the
ray may be made to serve man
kind, the bulletin added.
Tha extraordinary penetrating
powers of the new ray depend
on the extreme ahortoeaa of tho
wave length. Ordinary broad
casting radio, or Hertxlan raya,
have wave! from 100 to 8,000
meters, Professor Langley
found rayi in the tun't and
moon's besms, which were In
visible to tht eye, of a wavo
length of one-hundredth of a
millimeter, or 100,000,000 times
shorter than 1,000-meter radio.
The new rayt which Milliken
hat found are 2,000 times short
er In . wave length than the
average X-ray.
LIGTHNING BURNS
OFF HIS WHISKERS
Farmer Struck While on Plow
Hat Narrow Escape.
Alliance, Neb. Struck on the head
by lightning, Joe W. Kennedy, forty
five, farmer, still Uvea to tell the tale
and tha attending physician toyt he
Will recover. Kennedy was riding t
gang plow pulled by four horses. He
taw the storm approaching, but not re
garding It at particularly threatening,
he kept on with hla work. He says he
saw no flash and heard no thunder,
but the next thing he knew was when
he found a doctor bending over him
In the hospital here.
The lightning itruck Kennedy above
the right ear, burned fhe crown of hie
hat, scorched the hair from hla head
and plowed It! way across his cheek,
Jumping from there to till cheat, which
waa aeared, tnd onto bla legs, where
deep burns were left From there It
entered the Iron teat of the plow on
which he waa riding, melting the
metal Into a mssa and then passed
along the steel csble to which hit lead
team of horses wat attached to the
plow. One of Die four wat Instantly
killed.
Kennedy waa knocked nnconsHout
and waa found t half hour later by bit
wife and daughter. The lightning put
out of commission most of the tele
phones In the neighborhood.
The course of the lightning could be
clearly traced from where It struck
Kennedy to where It leaped from hit
body. A full set of whiskers that
adorned hit face went up In smoke
The accident occurred on the man's
farm five miles from town.
Woman on 17th Annual
Hike Across Bridge
New Tors. The Manhattan bridge
bat at least one true friend and ad'
mlrer Mrs. Joseph Woolston, Union
City, N. J.
"1 hsvs done It again," aald Mrs.
Woolson. Ton know I waa the first
woman to walk across the Msnhsttsn
bridge, and alnce then I have walked
across It, rain or shine, every yesr
on the anniversary of the opening of
the footpath."
Mrs. Woolson wat asked the reason
for ber attachment to the structure.
Had aha lived formerly la the neigh
borhood of the span t
"No," aha aald. "I need to live In
tide city, but that wat yeara before
the bridge waa opened. But the day
they opened It I came to New Tork
alone to be at the ceremonlea. When
the bluecoatt took down the ban I
atarted across.
"When I got to the middle of the
bridge a big, Una policeman said -to
me: 'Madame, yon are the A rat wom
an to walk across Manhattan bridge.
If I were yon I would celebrate that
by coming here every year on July
18 and walking acrosa IL'
"8lnce then," continued Mrs. Wool
ton, "I have not missed a year.. I
used to wslk over and get a drink of
water at the little fountain on Nas
sau street, at tha Ttrooklyn end, but
I could not get that drink today be
cause the fountain It gone."
Shuttlelets Loom Is
Invented by German
London. A shuulelens loom hither
to regarded as an Impoaalbllity, has
been Invented by a German named
Oobler, according to a report from
Herlla and haa been already thorough
ly teeted and proved feaalbla In Her
man factories before being publicly
announced. The mechanism Is de
scribed aa the simplest and works on
two rodl which carry threads aud
weave all klnda of cotton yarn "and
Jute with the aatne apparatua.
The claim la made that production
It quicker Sind safer, that the number
of operatives It reduced, that the com
plicated preliminary slept before
winding the threads will be obviated
and the coat of the loom construction
greatly lessened.
Lancashire haa not yet beard of the
new Invention and It not likely to
adopt It unless Its weaving skill,
handed down through generations, la
equully applicable to the new ma'
chine aa with the old well-tried Ark
wrlght loom.
Blade in Man's Skull
28 Years Is Removed
Birmingham, Ala. A piece of kulfe
blude two Inches long waa removed
by aurgeona at Opel Ik a, Ala from the
head of IL P. Waller of Auburn, after
having been In Waller's head for tht
laat 28 yeara. The operation It con
sidered a remarkable one.
Waller laid that when he wat about
ten yeart of age ht wat ttabbed wltb
a knife In the hands of a drunken
man. At the time Waller wat ttabbed
It wat tald by doctors that only an
open wound wt! left Thli quickly
healed.
For many yean Waller suffered
with tevere beadnchea, and did not
know the cauae. Recently an X-ray
examination waa made of Waller'!
head and the piece of broken knife-
blade waa discovered. The operation
was a lucceas, and Waller aayi hli
headache! hive disappeared and that
be feelt better than for years.
totes Lg fo Savt Dog
Mlddletowri, N. Y. To avoid killing
a dog which atood on the tracks of
the New Tork, Ontario & West'
ern railroad, Jacob ltsuser ap
plied the brakes ou a gasoline track
car, causing It to overturn, Inflicting
Injury which necessitated the ampa
tatlon of one of bit legs.
THE SINGING
LINE
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
A LINK that wilt not let you sleep
Goes singing through your
brain
And, If that lint you'd like to keep,
Before you sleep again
Arise and find your pen tonight,
Arise end flod your pen tnd write,
Or when yon waken at the dawn
You'll And your tinging line It gone
And life It full of tinging lines,
' Borne Impulse fine and, true,
Borne kindness that the heart design!
For human hand! to do.
Oh, let them never sing In vain I
Before we turn aside again
On, let us write that Impulse on
Borne life, before the line It gone.
For many a man hat nobly thought,
For one who did a deed.
T It not to know the thing we ought
To do, that now we need.
The world It full of tinging lines,
Borne kindness that the heart de
signs Tht need of me, the need of yon,
Not hearts to feel, but hands to dot
it) by MoClsre Kewepaper SyBdtsato.)
O
Jhclfotcll
HUE'S A repaint job," tald the
Hotel Stenographer, looking
after a man aa be left ber desk.
"HubT The House Detective didn't
understand.
"She didn't get a new car when she
married him," explained the girl, "be
cause be'l been married before. lie's
a repaint Job tnd likely to peel In the
hot tun of life.
She baa taught him bow to wear
a dress suit, but the cant keep blm
from carrying pipe cleaners In the
pocket of bit swallowtail. He Just
will wear bla napkin and abe can't In
duce blm to throw away the cold
toothpick be won In a Kelly pool
tournament
"He baa a lot of money, and all
that, but the wat foolish enough to
think she could mold blm to fit a
two-dollar book on etiquette abe
learned from cover to cover when
abe waa a ticket teller In the Odeon
Moving Picture Palace.
"One woman bad already molded
blm and be bad hardened In her
mold, ne Is too old for her to knead
blm even If abe did need bis dough.
- "The trouble with marrying a wid
ower Is, tbey have a certain place to
put their aboes and a certain way of
cutting np their food, and IU almoat
Impossible for a new wife to change
them. No woman Is very happy un
it's the thinks the It remaklug her
man. It can't alwaya be done with
new material never wltb old. No
made-over dress or husband la ever
quite satisfactory to the woman In
possession.
"Ton can taw brancbee off an old
tree, but unless yon start wltb It SI
a sapling, yon can't train IL Believt
thou me, I am not going to marry a
widower unless all the stock of yonng
men bn been nsed np."
"Widowers and older men are al-
.wayi kinder to dumb brutes," remind
ed the House Detective.
tCopyrlskt ty Ike McNeushl tyadteele. tae.)
FOR THI GOOSE
ft" AN unmarried woman hi restless
A everybody says lt'l because she
ain't got a husband. And gen'rally It
is.
By delay In usln It, a perfectly de
licious can of crab meat gett to be
the worat kind of poison.
Don't tell even the truth. If 111! dis
please your men . And donl tell a
lie, even If It'll please ber.
Men that ain't your husband love
to boy yon little triflea like candy or
flowers, Ilunbanda prefer to buy yon
somen lastln like a tombstone,
FOR THI GANDER
If a man't got on'y a little money
and makes a will, It may be the
savin' of hit wife. Hut If a man't
got a lot and dont, It may be the
savin' of hla life.
When business li good, a man can
stand nearly anything.
It'i good to be an early fisherman,
but It i better to be a lucky one.
Juitlce li one thing everybody'!
wlllln' to tee tht other feller get.
All the oratory In the world ttn't
as much use at fifteen cents' worth
of gasoline when It comet to ttartln'
a flivver.
(Coprrtiht)
U
Ludwlg 8pohr, violinist, conductor
and composer, was the first to use a
baton for conducting a large orches
tra la England
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Temper.
People who do not control their
tempers nearly always say they can
not Within us are greater forces
than we credit, and only tho chronic
Invalid finda hla mental capacity in
sufficient to overcome bit physical
weakneaaes. Temper la a physical
weakness, and for your own happiness,
aa well as for the happiness of others,
you must determine to overcome IL
If you do not. It will overcome yon.
Exchange.
Travel en Dead Sea.
The Dead tea hat been navigated In
the past, although not continually or
for commercial purposes. It waa navi
gated by an Irishman named Costigan
in 1S53; by Molyneau in 1847. An
American, Commander Lynch, explor
ed It In 1848. It la related that the
aea waa navigated by the Knlghta of
SL John during the Twelfth century,
Pheasant Fast Walker.
A nine-Inch atride thla Is the secret
of the pheasant'! speed. There li no
American game bird faster on toot
than the Imported ring-neck. He is
the greyhound of the uplands. In
stead of flushing before the gunner, be
usually prefers to employ his legs, and
disappears like a streak, with only a
glimpse of the long tall to mark bis
progress. Detroit Newt.
Slav Patronymics.
Ski and vltch are patronymica,
meaning "eon of," at distinguished
from the metronymic ovna, meaning
daughter of." The termination ski
Is found in many Polish surnames.
Productive Ice Machine.
Los Angulea boasta of the largest
electrically driven Ice machine In the
world. It haa a daily capacity of 700
tone and la operated by an electric
motor of S00 horsepower.
Conductor Walks Far.
A passenger riding from Boston to
New York city on a railroad train
loaned the conductor a pedometee. In
picking up Ucketa on the trip the con
ductor found that be walked nine
miles during the one-way Journey.
Health the Greatest Wealth
NOTHING more quickly or
completely destroys health
than chronic Flies or other Rectal and
Colon ailments. The constant Irritation
affects Important nerve centers steadily
undermining both physical and mental
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Humanlti Increase
It la estimated tht there are over
40.000,000 birthi every year. Suppoi
Ing that the children could be carried
past a given point at the rate of
twelve a minute, the one who
last would be seven yeara of
before he passed the counters.
was
age
Haosr-s Well In Mosque.
The well from which, according to
a Mohammedan tradition, Hagar drew
water for ber aon Ishmael, It within
the great mosque of Mecca, and Its
water, nsed by pilgrims, it taid to
have miraculous powers.
Best Sealing Wax
Equal parts of shoemaker's wax and
resin make a good sealing wax. It
will not tempt mice and insects as
paraffin does.
Much Lumber In Log.
A log estimated to contain 9,000
feet of lumber was taken to a mill In
Longview, Wash, from Ryderwood. It
was cut from a Douglas fir and meas
ured 36 feet in length, 10 feet In di
ameter at one end and 6 feet 4 Inches
at the other.
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"I hove aalned seventeen pounds, have
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