TILLAMCOK HEADLIGHT. AUGUST 15, 1918.
fer over origin of dog what scotland is
cether All Kinds Had ■ Commen
Ancestor Has Long Been a Mat
ter of Dispute.
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GOOD REASON, TOOI
Thia Little Country Has Already
Cheerfully Done Very Much More
Than Her Share.
| fhe ancestry of the dog has been
| occasion of much controversy, se
lling to Leo S. Crandall’s book,
rts." Many naturalists have con-
sred that It Is descended from a
lie ncestor, such as the common
f of Europe. Darwin, however,
ns toward the theory of multiple
tin, and advances much convincing
of In support of his belief. It Is
lely known that many savage tribes
’® dogs, which appear to be simply
f-tamed representatives of the par-
wild doglike animals inhabiting
(I liar
same regions.
"he dogs of the American plains In
ns closely resemble the small pral-
wolf, or coyote; the husky of the
■th country Is plainly not far ro
ved from the gray wolf; the Ger-
a sheep dog and the Samoyede are
kingly wolfltke In appearance,
-ether our present dogs are the re-
t of crossing these many simple
nvatives of wolves and jackals
ong themselves, or whether there
■■ an original ancestral dog, now ex-
■ct, with which the blood of other
■•cles has become mingled, we have
E yet been able to determine, though
■ many primordial animal remains
fe come to light.
According to St. George Mlvart, the
rgo Is the only wild dog still exlst-
K which meets the requirements of
| ancestor of our modem breed«.
Bto species is found throughout Aus-
Illa and fossil bones which have been
■nd show Its presence there from
fy early times.
We are pretty well acquainted in this
country with the part Canada is tak
ing in the war. We have been advised
from time to time of the Individual
sacrifices being made by the people
to the north of us. We know only in
a general way what other people are
doing. So It comes as refreshing news
to hear from the lips of such a man
as Hurry Lauder the heroic work and
sacrifices of the Scots.
More than 300,000 Scotchmen are
under arms, or have given up their
lives In the struggle. And Scotland
is a small country. In the cities and
towns there are no more eligible men
—no more men fit to bear arms. They
have all departed. Scotland is a land
of old men and women and little chil
Explained at Last
dren—and crippled soldiers. It Is not
Mr. Flatbush—Why In the world
the Scotland of three years ago, with
a husky set of strapping young fellows does a woman always get off a street
tilling the fields and working in the car the wrong way.
Mrs. Flatbush—She doesn’t.
mines and mills.
“Of course she does. Instead of fac
Not only that, but the people do not
complain. There are no riots because ing the way the car io going, she faces
of the conditions—no murmurings the other way.”
“That’s because the conductor takes
against their fate. The war Is on; the
Scots will fight It out. That Is the her beyond ths street she wants to get
spirit one finds In Scotland, among off at, and of course she wants to face
those old men and women and among the way she’s going.”
the little children. It Is the spirit one
More Imposition.
finds out In the trenches, where the
"Mrs. Diggs is going to read an Im
Scottish soldiers stand on guard and
portant paper before her literary club.”
meet the enemy face to face.
“Ah! In that case. Professor Diggs
The history of Scotland is too well
understood to call attention to it here. will have to drop his scientific investi
The record of the Scots, made In the gations for a while.”
“He won’t be compelled to hear her
long ago, still Is fresh In the mind of
every one who knows history. So It read it, will he?”
“No, but he’ll probably have to write
Isn’t necessary to state that the Scots
LLUSKS MAKE GOOD SOUP are born fighters, that they are not it”
going to give up. They have done In
Probably.
Up on Florida Beaches by the this war exactly what those familiar
The old colored man had climbed
with Scottish history expected them to
Waves They Are Collected and
do. And they will not fall at any time Into the dentist’s chair.
Sold to Hotels.
“Shall I give you laughing-gas,
in the future.—Columbus Dispatch.
uncle?” queried the tooth doctor.
lMong the Florida beachea a very
“Not till the toof am out, boss,”
■»mon and familiar kind of rock Is TOOK PHOTOGRAPHS OF CZAR
replied the old man.
"Reckon
folly composed of the shells of a
fall species of mollusk, oval In shape Movie Operation Was Privileged to mebby Ah’ll feat mo* lak luffin’
den.”
Id half an Inch long. It Is called
Qet “Close-Up" Views of the Im
bqulna," and Is hard on the feet if
prisoned Former Russian Ruler.
Vernacular.
e walks over It without shoes.
“Why did you discharge your cook?"
In beds below the line of low tide
Tn “Donald Thompson In Russian,"
“She said she wouldn't be repri
p mollusks of the same kind, alive. the movie photographer tells how he
Mr bivalve shells are pink, blue and succeeded In getting a picture of the manded.”
“Did she express herself to that ef
I other colors, quite brilliant, so that czar after the revolution had begun.
I places the beaches are beautiful to He went out to Tsarskoye Selo, the fect?”
“Yes, but what she really said waa,
p eye, great numbers of them being palace near Petrograd where the royal
rown up by the waves along the family were confined, and from a dis T won’t take no sass offen nobody.’"
pre.
tance saw the czar and his son walk-
Point Blank.
Under such circumstances they soon tog In the yard. “The servants must
Jack—And when I proposed at the
P. of course, leaving their pretty have told hlm,| writes Mr. Thompson,
ells to adorn the strand. But there •for the czar sent word to me to come dance she asked for time to think it
e always plenty of live ones at the saying that he would allow me to make over. What do you suppose she did
iter’s edge, and these are gathered a picture as close as I wished. I told that?
Bess—Well, a girl naturally hates to I
^quantity at some of the winter re him that I had met him before In 1915,
ft» by boys who collect them with and had made pictures of him then at think of disagreeable things while en
kes and carry them In baskets to the the front and at Lemberg. He remem joying herself.
Itels for sale.
bered and Immediately spoke of Meuse,
A HINT.
[They are used for soup, being the English photographer. While I
Jessed to a pulp In order to extract was making pictures and the camera
lair Juice. The latter, strained ‘and was being re-loaded so that I could
fated, affords a very delicious table put in some new film, several of the
iverage known as “coquina broth.” soldiers came up close, while the czar
is particularly recommended for In- was watching .how the camera was
llds and persons with weak dlges- loaded. They were smoking. One of
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them elbowed the czar away and at the
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same time blew smoke directly in his
The Sap of Spring.
face. But the czar didn’t show that he
i When the sup of spring is bursting
annoyed by this. After I had made
lie fetters of winter the general hu- some motion picture films of him and
|*an heart beats high. A few of us his son, and also some still photo-
nNosophers receive amid the rich but 4*aphs, I saluted and said ‘good-by.’
vber tints of autumn a happiness that He answered ‘good-by.’ While walk
Fie would not exchange for any other ing away I glanced around. He was
•ason, but we are a minority, and still looking after me and talking to
■nail. The head of one cf the moat bls son.“
-pportant departments at Washington,
ho thinks about the processes of man-
“Strafe" Made Prize of War.
nd, has a theory that makes a regu- ' The British have taken “strafe." In
r curve of the relation of the seasons an announcement from the Oxford Uni
i the appetite for war. As the buds versity Press the fact is officially made
>en, every nation thinks It is on the known. The captured word has been
Father—Agnes, is that young man
lge of victory. This curve rises for a taciaded, not to say interned, in the
bile, begins to decline in the summer latest volume. Volume IX, of the Oxford still there?
Daughter—Yes. papa.
ad gets well down In the autumn, dictionary. And as a trophy of war it
Father—Then ask him to bring In
he period therefore, when statesmen. has been treated after a characteris
the morning paper before he goes, will
they bad decided to make peace, tically British fashion. Its fiat Teu
you. dear?
mid do it most easily. Is from the ton “a" has been changed to the long
ays ot goldenrod and autumn browns Ekigliah “a" as of “safe.” and from
Exactly.
* Just before the greening of the two syllables it is reduced to one, so
By subterfua« be got away
Pds. The story of coal, a tragic that it may rhyme with "chafe."
From cope oo the qui vive,
And ao became, as one mietet say,
gto the poor, helps this curve, but
Nor does the process of eliminating
A subtorfusitlve.
> to In it much of sheer poetry, to- Germany In this verbal instance stop
ident of more solid things,—Nor- on the mere point of pronunciation.
A Proud Declaration.
Hapgnod In Leslie’s.
To the compilers of the Oxford lexi
“I miss the well-rounded periods you
con
it
to
“
v.
slang."
So
in
captivity
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this word of portent originally fierce used to employ In your orations."
How 8cout* Can Help Nation.
“I may be shy on well-rounded pe
11 Offer your services to some gnrden- loses not only In quantity but in qual
riods," replied Senator Sorghum, “but
lr M a patrol. He will be able to pay ity. To quote the London Times, as you will notice that I come to a full
on for your labor. Make his crop cited by the dictionary makers, “strafe stock quicker.”
be best In your neighborhood. Show to becoming a comic English word."
he world that the boy scouts can rise
A Final Opinion.
York Road 8«t Fre«.
o any emergency.
“What did you think of the tech
The final step In clearing old York
Plant a garden at home. No mat
nique of the prima donna last night
er how small the space. Forego the road of its toll gate incumbrances was Mrs. ComeupT’
six
toll
gates
bo
taken
recently
and
ower garden this season. Plant veg-
"Why. It was all old style. It even
tables
If you have no garden, use tween the city line und Hatboro will
| window box. You will be delighted hereafter cease to vex the users of this was buttoued down the back.”
vtth the results, no matter how small Important highway. Philadelphia abol
Mutual.
ished all toll gates within her limits
he crop. Do It now.
•Grace
—
Percy
says his dog is as In
some
years
ago,
but
these
nuisances
j Offer yonr services to your teacher
o help in securing the necessary tn- still continue to maintain a state of telligent as he is.
Dolly—Oh. there’s no doubt about It.
brmntlon to establish school and home siege about this city except on the Del
aware river front, where the ferries Percy Is proud of the dog and the dog
gardens. Don’t be a slacker.
I Ask your city officials to organize to perform a similar part. The ferries is proud of Percy.
kelp conserve the food supply of our will remain until the Delaware Is
Nowadays.
fountry. Have them offer vacant space bridged, but the toll gates must go,
Beggar—Could you spare a hungry
nr cultivation. Show your patriot- and are going.—Philadelphia Press.
man a nickel?
am. Arouse theirs.—Scout News and
Choliy—Yes. If you'll tell me where
“Tell T. R. It’s Miks."
bulletin.
From New York comes the story of a man can buy anything to eat with
a former resident of Belleville who a nickel.
Ship on Giri’s Back Bar to Society.
| A ship on a girl’s back Is a bar ro was kept busy night and dny answer
ing telephone queries regarding the
Rustic Plutocracy.
ver entrance Into society, according to health of Theodore Roosevelt during
"Thousands of dollars pass through
ttato Senator Alfred J. Gilchrist, of the latter*« recent illness at Roosevelt
a bank teller’s hands dally.”
New York city. The senator declares
“That's nothing. Think of what
hat ■ Brooklyn girl is barred from ao- hospital.
The man had a telephone number passes through a farmer's hands who
■lety because, when ten years old, a similar to that of the hospital.
milks twenty cows."
<hlp was tattooed on the girl’a back. | The limit of his patience was
She cannot wear a fashionable, low- reached, however, when a man called
In The«« Days.
tack dress because of the spreading and said: “Tell the colonel that Mike
“ft’s as useless as the fifth wheel to
«Ils »crows the ocean on her back. Hicks called. He’ll remember me.
a wagon."
The senator, therefore, asks for a law I’m the fellow that shook hands with
“That adage la out of date. All au
imposing a fine of $500 for any one . him at the depot the day ba came to
tomobile« carry extra tlrea.”
«rhe mars a young woman’s beauty.
Allentown.”
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It happened at a Red Cross tea held
at a country club. The fussy old gen
tleman of the white veet tupped the
tweed-clad youngster on the shoulder.
“My boy,” he said, “why are you not
In the army?”
The boy smiled. “To be frank with
you, sir," he said, “I don’t like It.
There's all tills business of sleeping
in the mud, and uncooked food, and
ruin all the time—dashed uneomfc.t-
able, you know.”
“Uncomfortable!” The white vest
front heaved indignantly. “Are you fcot
of age. In good health or physically
fit?”
"Yes—sound as a dtaim. Just twen
ty-two, no dependents.”
The young
man was still cheerful. The inevita
ble group gathered about them.
“Disgusting! Have you no patriot
ism—no love of country?
What Is
your reason for not being In the army?
Confess, coward!”
“I can’t be,” said the cheerful youth.
Tm In the navy.
Eighteen hours’
leave nnd special permission to wear
’civies.’"
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Twas In her darkest houri.
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Son—My coat fell down the stairs.
Father—A coat wouldn’t make all
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Son—Well, I was In the coat
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"And who Is Harper?”
"He is in the china business.”
Pl.aalng Hubby.
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She—One from the lower part «f
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