The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 17, 1916, Page 3, Image 3
ENJOYED PLAY OF REAL LIFE
Women Enthuslastlo Over Acts Which
No Doubt Were Thoroughly Fa.
miliar to Them.
Robert W. Chambers, the novelist,
said at the Century club in New York:
"We novell8ts have got to remember
that the public, while claiming stoutly
to like truth and realism, really
llkea?really likes?well, here's a
story:
"Two women stood In a queue waiting
to get in to Bee a melodrama.
" 'This'll be a goon Bhow,' said the
first woman. 'Life, you know. Real
life. Nnth??' ->
..w?u*u v/TCiUUUC.
" 'Yob, 1 like life, too,' said the other
woman. ' I don't want to be put to
sleep, though. Still. 1 can't stand
nothin' far-fetched.'
" 'Same here/ said the first woman.
"And then they went in and sat
through fire acts wherein the hero
killed thirty-six Kafirs with his naked
hand, found a diamond as big as a
duck's egg, smashed with his revolver
from a mile away the bottle of poison
that the beautiful heroine was about
to swallow rather than yield to the
blandishments of the villain, and finally
killed the latter in an aeroplane1
duel, slightly off stage, inheriting later
an unexpected dukedom, and so forth j
and so on.
"When the curtain fell to the sound
of wedding bells the two women looked :
at each other with glistening eyes.
" 'Grand, wasn't it?' said the first.,
W 'Lifo, real life, eh?'
" 'You bet,' said the second. 'That's
life, that is. Nothin' far-fetched or
overdone.'"
wuwiAnrs PHUUKtSS GOES ON
Pittsburgh Ward's Board of School
Visitors Is for the Time Being
Entirely Feminine.
A news Item in the Leader provides
striking evidence of woman's progress.
Announcement was made that u whole
board of school visitors in the Twentysixth
ward will consist of women.
It has been only a few years since
the candidacy of tho late Miss Kate
McKnight for a seat on an Allegheny
school ty>ard attracted state-wide attention.
Hut within a Bhort period the
men of a city ward deemed it wise
and to the best interest of the citizens
to fill a board of visitors with women.
The wisdom exhibited by the men in
giving women an opportunity to exercise
their intelligence in governing the
public schools is a wholesome sign.
Women are the natural guardians of
children. They have charge of them
in their homes. Their experienced
hands will make a favorable Impression
on the schoolroom.
Women are already reDresented on
the board of education. Their presence
there Is fixed. Their position
will not be changed unless their Influence
Is enlarged. ? Pittsburgh
Leader.
The Fruitful Days.
Now comes the season of accomplishment.
Summer's light and heat
have long ago suffused these buildings
with which we wrap ourselves against
the influences of the natural world and
have laid up even in the feeblest of us
some store of energy, some additional
gift of life. Whether we see It or not,;
we are ready now, If ever, against the'
darkness of winter when the tides of >
being are low and Its wheels turn slowly.
We have before us the example
and inspiration of the earth's mighty'
harvest, the warning of these shorter
rinva on/1 ----- ? -? 1
iuu oyui vi WVVICI WUttUier. I
I Those who teach know that the suc-|
cess of their year's work depends oni
the drive of the next four months.
Those who direct the enterprises of
trade and manufacture know that this'
is the time to realise what has long;
been planned. If you purpose to learn
anything or do anything better than
in the past, now is the hour for your
beginning, the beneficent strength of
things is on your side, and the course
of the world runs with yours. The'
past is a help, but not a hindrance, and
the way is clear toward whatever good
may be your goal.?Collier's Weekly.
' Lead Pencil Industry.
The English lead pencil industry.!
which is receiving a notable Impetus
through the war, dates back to the
early half of the eighteenth century,
when plumbago?which hitherto had
served mainly for the manufacture of
shot and crucibles?was first used for
writing purposes. All the black lead
iiflnrl In nnnnll mnbln* than
Seathwalte, which enjoys tho double
distinction of being the rainiest village
in the British Isles, and of being
the only place in the world where
pure plumbago may be found. This
mine yielded a huge fortune to thej
Bankes family, who owned it, the output
in 1813 amounting to 31 tons of
pure plumbago, which realized $525,-;
000. Twenty years later foreign 1
graphite began to take the place of
plumbago in pencil malting and in
1850 the Seathwalte mine was closed j
down.
Birds Invade Helgoland.
Helgoland is now experiencing an
Immense aerial invasion. In early
autumn the island Is one of the rest '
places of the birds migrating from
the North, and night aftef night they
come in countless armies. In timet '
of peace the iilandern turn the Invasion
to profit, stirring abroad all
night with lanterns and nets, trapping
the weak and weary birds that snatch
fa few minutes' rest One observe?
t records having known 16.000 larkr
\ alone trapped in a single night, ol '
which n'.mher a lighthouseman caught
ino bv fixing a wire net outside the '
great lantern.
FLOODS OF MUD IN ALASKA
Much Damage Done in Indian Village,
According to Letter Received
From City of Juneau.
A river of mud 100 feet wide and
nearly ten feet high ran into the Indian
village of Klukwan the other day,
carried off ten ricks of wood which the
natives bad gathered, broke into tho
schoolhouse, covered the floor with a
two-foot layer of mud and stones, destroyed
gardens and did much other
damage, says a Juneau (Alaska) letter.
There is an Indian tradition that
many years ago a similar stream
came down out of the mountains and
destroyed an entire village.
The village of Klukwan is 23 miles
inland from Haines, on the Chilkat
river. Two and one-half miles back
from the village in the tops of the
mountains is a great bowl, or hanging
valley, which some monster glacier of
prehistoric times left as a monument.
This bowl is drained by a small stream,
which often becomes choked with
rocks.
The heavy rains of the three days
preceding the 13th gradually filled the
surge 01 me small stream with a mass
of water, mud and rocks. Between two
and three o'clock on the afternoon of
August 13 the natives in the village
heard a deep rumbling and grinding
back in the hills, according to the story j
brought here from Klukwan by W. O. I
Beattle, superintendent of native
schools. A moment later the natives
saw a river of mud coming down the
mountainside, headed directly for their
homes.
The river covered two and a half
miles at the rate of eight miles an
hour, carrying rocks ranging from
pebbles to bowlders. The stream continued
to run for about fifteen minutes
and spread for a width of over 100
feet.
As soon as the water drained off the
mud became so hard that picks were
necessary to break up the layer.
SITE OF GARDEN OF EDEN
Recently Discovered Tablets Give the
Legendary Spot as Island of
oanrein.
The history of Bahrein, In the Persian
gulf, is long and interesting. Ancient
tombs found in the interior tell
us that the Phoenicians once settled
there. The kings of Assyria frequently
fought there. The Babylonians
called the island Dilmun.
Again the Island is the center of interest.
for there has recently been discovered
in Babylonia a large clay tablet
recording the story of Paradise,
the deluge and the fall of man. and the
story tells us, says the Christian Herald,
that the island of Bahrein, the
ancient Dilmun, was the paradise, the
Garden of Eden, where man first
lived.
The newly deciphered tablet recording
this story was among the many inscribed
objects found by the expedition
sent to Babylonia from the University
of Pennsylvania. Prof. Stephen
Langdon, a young American scholar,
who is professor of Assyriology in
Jesus college, Oxford, England, a chair
<,?uuncu ujr an niucricHi: lainuy, was
visiting the museum in Philadelphia in
the autumn of 1912.
At that time he copied a number of
the tablets, one of which was a triangular
fragment. He took the clay tablet
to Oxford, where it was shown to
the eminent English scholar. Professor
Sayce, and it was discovered that
it recorded a part of an early Sumerian
story of the flood and of the fall
of man.
Real, But No Qhoata.
A frightened yell from a man who
was walking through Union Square
park, New York, brought two passersby
to his assistance. In answer to
what the trouble was, the man, who
had been touching the harp none too
gently, pointed to rows of phantom
fionisoa ** A m f a v *?
nui occiug iucui ; no
asked. "No, they are ghosts all
right, all right. This park used to
be Potters Field, and I guess those
fellows have come up to see the
Broadway sights." What the souse
saw were tho down-and-outs asleep on
the benches. Since the cold spell arrived
here they have discovered a
way to sleep comfortably. As soon
as the cops leave the park the wearyraggles
wrap themselves in layers of
newspapers. These, they have discovered,
keep the chilly winds from getting
too close to their skins. On a
dark night the white figures on the
benches look rather startling and
coming upon them suddenly it's liable
to make one's hair stand straight up.
Bacteria to Make Bread?
Prof. W. B. Bottomley of King's
college, London, referred at the meeting
of the British association at Manchester
to the behavior of a special
substance found in peat treated by
bacteria, called auxlmones, which had
remarkable effects in promoting plant
growth, and which were apparently
essential to plant nutrition.
Professor Hartog said that the meeting
of the sectfoft would be remembered
for the paper, and the influenco.
It would have on the food supply of
'he world.
The president of the section said
that the conclusion reached showed
that Professor Bottomley was on the
fr'nge of a wry great discovery.
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Protecting the Bison.
It is stated that there are nearly
",000 bison in national parks, etc., in
this country and In Canada. The
American Bison society Is interested
In preventing the extinction of those
und in trying to foster their
propagation; It Is said to !>e meet I"; f
v.iih success.
THE LANCASTER NEWS. J J
TRAVELS ON LAND OR WATER
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"Amphibious" Motor Boat, Invention
of Austrian, Seems to Have Been ^
Proved a Success. \
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A number of people have been work- ?S
lng of late years to solve the problem J
of constructing a vehicle capable of J
traveling upon both land and water. <
More than one ha3 had some degree of <
success, but none is better, perhaps, V
than that Invented by a Viennese engl- J
neer named L. Zeiner.
This "land motor boat" resemhlns an
ordinary touring car in appearance ex-;
cept that the body is rather higher. J|
But besides its wheels, it is provided j
with a propeller placed at the rear.
The power of the motor can be
switched from the running gear to the <
propeller screw and vice versa. It is
built so as to take quite steep grades
with ease. Hence one may ride down ^
the sloping bank of a river, plunge into \
the current, switch the power to the , ^
propeller and cross the stream in a ?
practicable motor boat. Arriving at 4
the other side, the engine is switched !
to put the wheels in commission once
more, the bank is easily climbed, and ?i
the journey continued without more ?
ado. ^
The vehicle has made good under
practical tests and is expected to be *
particularly valuable for military use. <
It is so built as to go well in swanmv I
and muddy country. In shallow water ?
wheels and propeller may be used si- | ^
multaneously; this Is a particular advantage
when a sand bank Is acclden- ; Jfc
tally encountered In a stream, since it ^
removes the danger of "getting stuck." J
The power Is supplied by a 16-horse
power, four-cylinder motor which gives
a speed on land of 45 miles per hour. ,
This speed is diminishes' In water to
about twelve miles per hour.?Literary
Digest X
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GREAT MEN AS PEDESTRIANS
Writers and Others o' World-Wide V
Fame Who Were Fond of Long *<
Jaunts on Foot.
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"There have been some famous pe- ^
destrians, with the emphasis on the
word famous. Charles Dickens was a ?
great walker. 'Twelve, fifteen, even ^
twenty miles a dav were none too ^
much for Dickens . . . swinging
his blackthorn stick, his little figure ^
sprang over the ground, and it took }
a practiced pair of legs to keep alongside
of hi3 voice.' He once did 'a
special feat of turning out of bed at ^
two, after a hard day, pedestrian and Jj
otherwise, and walking thirty miles | <
into the country before breakfast.' ^
Sir Walter Scott 'walked twenty or
thirty miles without fatigue, notwith- | J
standing his limp.' Browning, when <
past seventy, could take long walks %
without fatigue, and Wordsworth at
sixty did twenty miles a day. De ^
Quincey considered fourteen miles a *
day necessary to his health, and Lamb, > ^
notwithstanding his 'almost immate- V
rial legs,' 'could walk during all the
day.' Brahms was a tireless pedes- i
trian, and Beethoven always took his
daily walk or 'run' of five or more
miles in all manner of weathers, ^
while Turner traveled twenty miles ^
a day, sketching as he walked. Herbert
Spencer, at thirteen, in a fit of
homesickness, walked forty-eight
miles one day and forty-seven the i
next; but was probably injured in so
doing. Tolstoi, at fifty-eight, walked ^
130 miles in three days. Great men
are usually of powerful physique, and i
many of us would suffer if wo emu- i j
lated their walking habits, but they
have not all been so vigorous. Im- 1
manuel Kant walked for at least an ^
hour every day, but doubtless Bacon or ! f
Locke, Chopin or Weber, Spinoza or
CalVln, who were none of them in ??i
good health, would have found a walk ^
of a mile or two ouite sufficient or t
even too much."?St. Nicholas. V
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NEW WAR AGAINST ILLNESS *1*
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Classes Inaugurated, With Competent y
Teachers, to Show How Health
May Be Conserved. *
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Recent innovations In educational
effort indicate that a sort of Declara ^
tion of Independence has been started
In the mattei of dealing with human V
ills. The modern tendency is to appeal +4
to the personal sense of responsibill- ^
ty to prevent illness rather than to de i
pend upon the traditional value of cur- ^
otivo mooouroa
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Rochester, N. Y., has introduced a
plan of having two teachers, one {
doctor and a nurse give lessons to ^
the public bearing directly on health ^
and life conservation. Classes, open J
to women eighteen years old or over, J
are taught in the public school build- i
ings from four to five in the afternoon.
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Information ia given as to what X
diseases are preventable, how to ?
void them, how the body can be, !<
made resistant to disease, how to A
nurse scientifically, how to reserve, X
record and report symptoms, and . Jr
what to do tn emergencies. The1 <%}
course. Which includes instruction ic A
the care of children and preparation X
of food, is planned in two lessons a J
week for six weeks, and is succos- V
slvely Riven in different localities.
Another suggestive movement has
been started by the Boston Instructive ^
District Nursing association, co-oper- j V
ating with Simmons college and the \ A
8chool for Social Workers. An eight !
months' course has been mapped out ; ^
to supplement the ordinary training V
of nurses in order that they may deal i A
practically and helpfully in asslrtinc ! +
the public.
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