THE HEBMISTOH HERALD, HERMISTOUf. OREQOM.
Europe's A rt Object»
T elit of W itnetting
Excellent W ork Done
Lar~e St ms of Money
R eally Second Rate?
Volcano in Eruption
by the N avy Station»
Forwarded by W ire
The treasury of Europe, that vast
Joseph H. Sinclair, representing
There Is a constant Increase In the
number of compass atatlona main
tained by the Nary department along
the various coasts. The latest statis
tics' available show that 15,374 ship
captains were shown their location
during heavy fogs last year, and It Is
fair to assume that at least 10 per
cent of them might have been ground
ed or wrecked had It not been for the
assistance given by radio.
A compass station Is a wireless plant
where special apparatus Is used for
telling the definite location of a vessel.
A ship Is lost In the fog; the wireless
operator flashes out the signal, “Q. T.
E." The station receiving the mes
sage adjusts the radio compass to
meet the direction from which the
message comes. This Is the "mechan
ical ear" of the station and the oper
ator can tell exactly the direction
down to a point of the compass. Each
station getting the message reports to
a central station, where calculations
are made as to the location of the ship.
The distance from shore Is told by
the strength of the signals. Then
within flve minutes of the time the
vessel sends out the Inquiry the reply
comes back and the ship's master
knows Just where he la and pilots his
craft accordingly.
Too Much Pessimism
Take» Joy From Lit»
the American Geographic society, has
returned to this country from a hard
trip of exploration through Ecuador,
where he had a terrific experience In
an endeavor to reach a smoking vol
cano which had erupted, the whole
country for miles around being del
uged with a flow of lava. The na
lives hnd a wholesome superstitious
fear of the great pile and could uot
be Induced to guide the explorer as
near as he wanted to go, hut by Ills
own efforts und alone he managed to
get within seien miles of the cone
and tills was near enough for him to
witness a uumher of explosions which
repeatedly changed the contour of the
crater’s rim. Little or nothing had
been known about the volcano and he
secured valui.lde data concerning Its
character und location.
Mr. Sinclair pointed out that he was
not the flret white man to see the vol
cano—a mountain which the nutlves
call Ueventador, meaning “ Eruptor.’’
Near the place the explorers came on
a lone white limn who could not tell
them how long he had been there nor
why he had penetrated so fur from
civilized association. Nor would he
go with them to the mountain, lie,
too, had been Infected by the supersti
tion of the natives, which holds that
whenever a human sets foot on the
side of the toll volcano Ueventador
becomes “muy brava," or very brave.
People that are always looking for
all the hardships and difficulties that
Immunity to Poisons
they may meet travel a hard road If
Not Yet Understood
their speech Is In line with their think
ing. I know farmers that start In with
One of the most fascinating chap
spring work and see their crops ruined 1 tecs in animal poisons Is the subject
by coming disaster, until It has been of natural Immunity, the fact that
stored uway. A snow and cold spell some animals are Immune to the poi
coming after the oats are In is certain eons of others and remain unhurt II
to kill the seed, and all must be done stung or bitten by the poisonous ani
over. A two days' rain Is evidence mals, whereas all other sorts of beasts
that It Is going to be so wet that noth succumb.
ing will mature. I f the surface of the
A case In point Is that of desert ani
ground Is dry we are In the start of mals, which are unharmed by a scor
a dry spell that will ruin everything. pion's eting. The desert fox, the kan
Thus It goes dally to the flnlsh. I garoo rat and other Inhabitants ol
claim that a man that really thinks deserts where scorpions abound are In
that way lives a mighty poor life. We tills happy position. Their cousins,
have to take about everything on faith living fur awuy from the desert, would
In this old world and on the whole at once be seriously Injured by a scor
our faith Is Justified. A happy philoso pion's sting, whereas the desert breeds
phy of life Is a thing that cun be cul remain unhurt. It Is to be supposed
tivated and Is worth while. It Is an that In the far distant pust, before
added treasure to the Joy of living, the desert nnlmals hud this complete
not for one but for many.—George immunity to scorpion venom, those
Godfrey in Successful Farming.
which were stung and could not resist
died, leaving no offspring.
Tlielt
luckier brothers, who happened to have
D e a r G irls
a hardier constitution, survived and
Amelia Gingham, the noted actress,
left behind them a resistant race of
was bright and gay to the end. She
descendants.—The Forum.
said one evening at a dinner In her ,
Riverside drive flat:
"The girl of today Is dear—dear In
C reated C in d erella
the monetary sense.
It was Just three centuries s'n-e
"A millionaire’s son was drinking
Charles Perrault, creator of t in
tea In a girl sculptor's studio In
derella and Red Riding llood, was
Greenwich Village. He said, as he
born. Perrault, a Frenchman, never
poured a little more Bacardi Into his
dreamed that the fairy children of
cup:
his brain would become Immortal. He
“ 'I got my month's allowance this
wrote poetry of an exceedingly dull
morning.’
order, and It wus by Ills poems und
'“ Did you? What are you going to
not by his fairy stories that he hoped
do with It 7* asked the girl sculptor.
to win fnme. Perrault conceived and
** 'Well,* said the young man, T
wrote tils stories, which he called
haven't made up my mind whether to
“Tales of Mother Goose," to please
buy another racing car or to ask you
his little son, Just as Lewis Carroll, a
out for the evening.'”
mathematician, told the tale of Alice
In Wonderland to amuse two little
girls. Cinderella and her glass slip
Interesting Old Organ
Count Georg Friedrich Sol me Leu- per was one of Perrault’s favorite
bach, flying mate end financial backer heroines. Soma people have tried to
of Otto Koennecke, devotes many an Insist that Cinderella's slipper of
evening hour to playing the organ. “verre," or glass, was meant to be a
Count Bolme boasts of having one of slipper of "vnlr," or fur, but one can
the oldest and most Interesting or not Imagine Cinderella In anything but
gans In Germany. It Is so rare a a crystal slipper.
specimen of the art of organ building
In the Seventeenth century that the
W h a t I t a Ped d ler?
management of the Frankfurt exposi
The word peddler Is derived from
tion on “Music In the Life of the Na
tions*' requested Its loan for the dura an old English word, “ped,” as lu
tion of the fnlr. Count Sol ms readily Spencer's "Shepheard’s Calendar.’' “A
assented. The ancient organ lias only bosk Is a wicker ped wherein they use
to carry fish." It has no connection
five stops and one manual.
with the Lntin pedis, a foot, as often
reported. A peddler Is, therefore, one
D iligence
with a ped, basket, or pack, and It has
Our word, diligence. Is from the been held in law, one who has the
Latin, “dlllgencla." It menns the qual Identical article he sells In Ills “ped.”
ity of being diligent; Interested and i It Is, simply speaking, Incorrect, there
persevering application; devoted and fore, to call an Itinerant merchant,
painstaking effort to acompllsh what who simply takes orders for goods
Is undertaken; assiduous Industry; bought from seeing samples he car
,
careful attention. Industry has the i ie3, a peddler.
wider sense of the two words. Imply
Ing an hnbltual devotion to labor for
A irplar.es Cut Journey
some valuable end, as knowledge oi
property.
Diligence denotes earnest | An airplane* service for gold dig
application to some specific object or gers and others concerned with the
pursuit which more or less directly newly discovered fields In New Gui
has a strong bold on one's Interest or nea Is the Intest aerial development.
The new fields are on a 2,000-foot high
feelings.
plateau, 60 miles from the const, a
cross-country Journey of six days,
Hairy Elephants
und a fleet of airplanes has reduced
Historians tell us that. In prehis the trail to one of 50 minutes. All
toric times, mighty mastodons and supplies for the fields are now car
mammoths were covered from head to ried hy air, the machines returning
ta ll with a very coarse hair which, to the con I with cargoes of gold and
In many cases, grew long. So the ele passengers.
phant's forefathers had long hair hut,
as the world changed with regard to
W a te rp ro o f G lue
weather conditions, from the bitter
Casein glues arc exceedingly resist
frosty glaciers that were encountered
to the modern climate of extreme beut ant to the action of water and retain
and cold, the elephant gradually doffed a very high percentage of their orig
bis overcoat The hair sometimes inal strength, even after long Immer
seen on the top of his head alone re sion under water. They are compara
tively Inexpensive, and the materials
mains as a reminder.
from which they are made are readily
available In the market. They are ap
Moderation
plied cold and w ill set without the
* There Is a wide difference between application of heat.
the confidence which becomes a man
and Ibe weakness which disgraces a
The Biggest C ra te r
fool. He who never trusts, to a nig
Two young Swedish students of ge
gard of his soul,' who starves himself,
and by whom no other Is enriched; but ology named Wsdell and Ygherg, after
he who gives lo every one his confi an expedition In Iceland, have dis
dence, and every one his praise, squan covered what to believed to be the
ders the fruit which should serve for largest crater In the world, measur
the encouragement of Integrity and ing Ibe miles long and a quarter mile
the reward of excellence.— Sophie wide, and further claim Io have dla-
I ’arkereon. Io "Genie f«»r the Toilet.” , coiered warm springs.
litter of the work of their grandfa
thers, which the posters preach, la aa
miscellaneous and unequal as a Jack
daw's swag In the hollow tree, and no
one knows the good from the bud, de
clares William Bolltho In Vanity Fair.
"All artistic criticism," declares this
Iconoclast, "is as dead In Europe as
was scientific In the Middle ages. The
same Frenchman who insists that you
do the dusty Journey to wind-swept
Versailles to worship the monstrous
puiace, where even the impenetrable
stolidity of un architect who could
make over three hundred yards of
bays In exact repetition cannot dis
guise the ill-judged megalomania of
the monarch who insisted that his fa
ther's hunting box should be built
Into the center of the largest palace
in the world, will rush you with a
sickly smile past the magnificent und
serene Eiffel tower.
“The grand staircase of the Chateau
of Blois Is stuck on and superfluous;
the
greatest
German
cathedral,
Cologne, is nakedly, appulllngly out of
scale, too short for its height, and in
stead of that lovely Gothic sensation
of soaring to the heavens, gives the
spectator a dull pain between the
eyes; detailed mention of all instances
that clutter my memory would not ex
haust the case.” Whether good or
bad, he concludes, anything built be
fore 1840 Is reverenced as being ar
tistic.
Pastor Called On to
H ave Business Mind?
“The church Is caught in the occi
dental, and more particularly Am erl-.
cun, habit of gauging success by the
spectacular. A successful church, like
a successful furniture shop. Is the one
which has the biggest establishment,'
offers the biggest assortment of warts,
und affords the biggest Income. . . .
A considerable part of my work as a
minister Is not so different from that
of the executive charged with the re
sponsibility of getting new customers
Into a furniture shop,” writes a min
ister In Harper’s.
"I must ‘sell’
my Institution just as surely and
skillfully ns the man hired by the local
chamber of commerce ‘sells’ his or
ganization. The difference Is that he
was hired for that express purpose,
and I, tradition says, was hired, or
should have been, for something else."
Money orders to the number of 3,-
768.548 and calling for the payment
of more than $250,000,000 were
tandled last year by the Western
Union Teh graph company In its
money transfer service, according to
Dots and Dashes, a monthly publica
tion of the company. The largest
single sum I andled wus $250,000. while
the smallest was 1 cent. The $250.-
000 order vas In connection with a
motion picture contract.
The 1-cent transaction grew out of
a difference arising when a person in
New York sent an acquaintance In
Chicago a postcard bearing a 1-cent
stump.
The laiter. In a sarcastic
mood, complained that the commu
nication had been received with post
age due. Upon leceipt of this letter,
the man In New York went to the tele
graph' office, sent the cent with a
caustic message and went off less $1,
the cost of transmission. Instances
of 2-cent nmney orders are said to be
quite frequent. Involving In practical
ly every case valuable mall held for
postage due.
The three greatest sources of money
order business are listed by the com
pany publication as workmen em
ployed on j(,bs nway from their home
town, out-of-town visitors and tour
ists caught short of funds on their
travels, and traveling salesmen. Many
firms encourage their representatives
to ask for expense money by wire.
They regard that as more economical
than to have salesmen waiting for
money while hotel bills accrue.
R em odeled Barn Made
into Camp for Girls
How an old gray barn In the coun
try near New York city was remodeled
into a girls camp by the New York
Association for Improving the Condi
tion of the I ’oor is told by \V. II. Mat
thews In llvgcla Magazine.
It was an enormous bnrn, with nu
merous stalls, three floors, a silo, har
ness rooms and a magnificent view of
the Catskill mountains. Extensive re
modeling was necessary, but It proved
less expencive than the original plan
to build a group of cottages, and the
result was a unique camp.
Fifty-five girls were accommodated
for five weeks at a time. The time
was a radical departure from the
usual plan of keeping children for Iwo
weeks. Congenial counselors, oppor
tunity for wholesome outdoor play and
substantial gains In health made the
U te o f Hooks
Every home owner should Invest In visit at “Greybarns" a strong Influ
a good assortment of hooks. To hook ence for good in the lives of girls who
back doors while open Is a conven had never liad such an opportunity
ience, ns nothing has to be hunted up before.
to hold the door from banging shut
when It Is wanted open. Hook doots
on the Inside. Hook covers on feed.
boxes Instead of having weights on
them. Hook basement storm windows
that have to be opened occasionally.
Hook gates, tool boxes and children’s
playhouse doors. These doors should
never be hooked tightly or the chil
dren will sometime lock themselves
In. I f a long staple Is used and a good
dealt of It left on top the wood, the
hook will hold the door and yet give
It play so they can work It open from
the Inside.—Successful Farming Maga
zine.
J a il B ird
It was one of those little parties at
which au out-of-town girl wus a gues'
of honor. In the course of the eve
ning she was introduced to a young
man from the prep school. After the
introduction, she avoided him with the
most deliberate Intent When her
hostess asked for an explanation, the
young visitor replied that he was from
the prep school. The hostess looked
perplexed.
“But Isn’t It a sort of a peniten
tlury?" the girl ventured.
English Tongue in France
English in eleven lessons so equipped
twenty Paris policemen that they an
swered 350 questions io the new lan
guage. This encouraging result caused
the prefect, Jean Chiuppe, to order
250 more of the force to go to the
school. Frenchmen who hive adven
tured abroad suggest thai a notebook
and pencil will help out the <'fibers,
for they have found It simpler In Eng
land and America to write their qeus-
tions rather than wrestle with the
foreign accent.
Snow Storm Form ation
Potentially enow storms form In
general region of warmth, strange as
It may seem. The urea of low baro
metric pressure, or storm sea, comes
whirling eastward across the tJulf
states and then generally takes a
twist northward along the Atlantic
seaboard. When sufficiently far north
these warm air currents are chilled
ami the moisture becomes snow, very
often being home to the earth hy the
back draft of east wind.
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W id e A w a k e
it w ai after dusk and yet the two
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Presently a keeper came In sight,
going his rounds befors closing the
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“Sorry to disturb ye,” he said to the
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“ I didu't realize it was so late,” be j
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