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HOW THE INI MADE A ' '* Over most of the United States, the plow occasionally turns up pieces of flint, quartz and obsiaum, beautifully fashioned into spearpoints and arrowheads. In some parts of the country they are more plentiful than in others; some are broken and imperfect, while many are just as they were when they came from the hand ' of unknown worker in stone. To one with any imagination the picking up ctf (mo nf the.se relics, is much more .. than the finding of a pretty pebble, or a crystal of quartz. It sets one to wondering?'wondering about the bronze faced artist who fashioned it; throughout the years or the centuries it hfts remained .hidden in the clay; about the game it has brought low, and about the strange people whose homes once styod where ours do now. If the lifeless fragments of flint/, lying so dead and insert in one's,palm could speak, It could tell us many things we would like to . know. For a long time the process by which the Indian could finish these arrow-heads, with their graceful lihes and needle-like points, without shattering the brittle material, was looked on as one of the lost arts. Many theories were, advanced as to how it could.be done, many claiming that it was done by heating the stone, and then allowing a drop of water to fall on the part, where it was desired to remove a portion, and that the sudden cooling would cause that part to flake off. Others contended that they were not made by the Indians at all, but were the handiwork of a race that occupied, the country ^ong before the Indians appeared on the scene, and that he on iy picked them up ad used them v/ey again. When questioned, the Indians often disclaimed any knowledge as to how they were made, in fact, they ,were not inclined to discuss the matter with the white :man, seeming to feel that it was a secret "of theirs, and an outsider had no right to pry into the matter. So it was their policy when questioned to invest the who^e business with an air of mystery, and let ^t go at that. But the patient, plodding ethnologists of the ' Smithsonian Institution set about clearing up the mystery, and right' ' well have they succeeded; and now there is no more doubt as to who made the arrow-heads and spear points that the plow turns up; and there is no guesswork as to how they were made. And the rindings of the observers are the results of witnessing the actual work of hanging a fragment of stone into a finished arrowhead. They found that there were several methods used by different tribes ? in various parts of the country?all of them simple when Understood. There were three processes employed: first, that of fiak\ ' ing with a stone hammer and punch; second, that of shaping the article by free-hand pressure, using a large bone flaker; third, that of breaking out notches by the pressure of a small gToved ftaker. In every instance, where an arrowhead was being shaped, the piecee of material was held in the palm of the left hand, the hand being protected by a piece of thick, soft buckskin. It would have been impossible' to have done the work without breaking the material, if it had rested on -any hard, ungiving substance, but the soft buckskin, in the yi&lding palm saved it from the breakage. Maj. J. W. Powell of the United States army in 1869 gives a very clear account of the process of making an arrow-head, which has been nuiblished in a bulletin of the Rtiroan <jf American Ethnology, which is given, below in the Major's own words: 'In a little valley north of the Minta Mountains, a tribe of Shoshina Indians were found still manufacturing stone arrow-heads, these were made from masses of m^ss with rude stone hammers. A fragment held in one hand protected by a piece of untanned elk skin was wrought by a hammer held in the other hand. Having somewhat improved the original fragment in this manner, the workman proceeded to give his implement the final shape, by using a deer-shorn tool, from eieht to twelve inches in lepgth, and worked down from its original size by grinding so that its diameter was about fice-eightihs of inch. Holding the specimen in one hand, with the implement in the other, he worked the little stone into the desired shape by sudden pres 1 DIANS iRROWHEADS I SAY THEY CAN CHANGE A CORPSE TO A STATUE I ' 1 Two Paris Doctors Give A Demon, str&tion of a New Embalming Method. Paris, Sept. 25.?The discovery of a process by which a dead body can ibe preserved for twenty years is announced /by two (Paris physicians, Professor Felleyseniczhy and Dr. Ednqond Bartha. What it does, according to their statements, is to solidify the body so that actual flesh and 'blood assume the appearance \ and hardness of mart>le. Before a small party of newspaper men the ftrst public experiment was conducted last evening 'by Dr. Bartha, with every appearance of success. The foody of an elderly woman who faad died in a hospital was used. It was lajd on an operating table as if for dissection, and as death had talten place ten days ago, putrefaction had already begun. Dr. Bartha, before beginning his threatment, called attention to the marks of decay and said that one of the remarkable features of his process was that even though decay had begun, it could be arrested and the body presprveH as -well as if deatih had iust taken place. What his method was ' the doctor of course refused to disi. close. All he did was to Inject with a syringe into the femoral artery the conserving liquid which Professor Fellyesnichzhy and she say they have discovered. ' For a tiiqe there was np change in the appearance of the foody, "but at the end of about ?n hour the flesh began to take on an aspect as of life, the muscles filled out and the tissues and tendons became like those of a j living person. In two hours the change was complete. The skin, too, had changed its appearance and, although almost dead white and waxy, was almost the same in tint as when the boy had been alive. The features wore a different expression, as of i repose, owing to the filling out of the muscles and flesh, and- the whole HnHv rvrocontoH .flip AnnPAraniTP of a sleeping peraon *>r a finely chiseled statue. All trace of sickness or death had 'been removed. Today the body has the same appearance, and the next step in the process will be completed in a few days. The skin will then be coated with a preserving pomade, and when this has been done the conserving liquid which has been injected into the body will, the doctor says, harden so that the body itself will become perfectly rigid and as appearance it now has of tranquillity and sleep. No embalming process yet invented, either modern or ancient, the doctors assert, can so well preserve the natural expession and appearance of life, which they say will, per. siSt for at least twenty years. sure on its ege with the horn tool, and in this manner breaking off small flakes. The arrow-heads thus made, were small, slender and symmetric, while the stone knives were given keen, but somewhat serrated edges. I visited this tribe of Indians many times, and found their camps strewn with chips, among which were many discarded failures, all having the characteristics of those finds, which in the eastern , portion of the United States had been called "paleolithic." Other observers have witnessed the actual making of arrow heads by different tribes of Inidians, and the results of their ob-1 servations are given at length in the bulletin referred to. That brittle stone could be fractured just as the workman desires, by simple pressure, is inconceivable to'the uninitiated, and that the work can be done by horn or bone tools, is still greater strain on one's > credibility. But when the Indian's life and safety depended on the making of certain implemets out of the only material at hand, and with the only tools at his command, he naturally kept on until he solved the problem, Onc? started in the right direction, he carried the art of working stone by pressure applied to parts to be re-J moved, to apoint of perfection thati would have been possible by no other means. So the arrowheads we pick up in the fields, are no longer a mystery, but are none the less interesting on that account.?Exchange. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS HAV? MUCH TIMBE Manila. Sept. 26.?There enough fimber in tthe Philippine i lands to take care of most of tl lum'ber industry of the Far East, a , cording to Major General Leonai Wood, who has just traversed tl archipelago from Northern Luzc to the Visayan islands. "Few people appreciate the eno: mous resources in the islands in tt way of lum'ber, much of it of th most valuable kind," he said. "Neai by 80,000,000 feet of it was cut i 1920. of which in the neisrhborhoo of 15,000,000 was exported. "In ordinary years there ought t be an enormous amount availafel for export. iNow is the time to initi ate those wise forestry measure which would insure the replacemer of the trees cut. These > forests ar full of the most valuable woods, an there is possibility of great develop ment in the production of ruMbei camphor, etc., also an enormou amount of other forest and jungl products. ' "Lumbermen in the islands ough to unite so as to have better mai keting of their products abroad, li other words, here is a. great" indue try which can be developed on soum lines an reproduction of the fores assured." W. Cameron Forbes, former gov ernor general of the Philippine is lands, predicted a great future fo: the lumber industry of the islands He said: "On my way to the Philippine is lands for the first time in 1904, J stopped at the forestry exhibit o! the Philippine government at the St > t .' ' V t . If I oSq ' ii; BBW i1 i i JHMfl UoflH^R Louis fair. 1 was literally carriei ;r off my feet 'by the beauty and splen dor of the Philippine woods then is displayed. Right then and there 1 s_ made up my mind that it was on< 1 of my ambitions to have certaii c_ rooms, in whatever house I migh d build'in the future, finished with es ie pecially fine panels of selected* Phil. )n ippine woods. During my ten years stay in the islands, I collected ? r_ considerable quantity of those woodi ie took the risk, of their not standing ,? "f""hP Amain'/tQn /tliwo+fl 4*l-?aw IXZ *VM1? V4*mawwy ?"U O^llV bUCllI r. home. The wood has stood wondern fully well and seems to (be as gooc d today as when first put in and is th< admiration of everybody who visit: my house just outside of Boston. ] e am sure that he lumiber industry oi the Philippines has a marvelous fu_ ture." s ^ A. iF. (Fischer, director of forestry e of the Philippine islands, estimates d there are 72,224 square miles of h standing timber in the Philippines, . and that on this area the stand of ? a timber is 200,000,000,000 board e feet. This timber which is owned by the government is estimated to be t worth |400,000,000. I WIRE-FENCE TELEPHONES \r ' J Cheap System Inittlled In We*t To t Aid Farmer*. t There are still many rural homes that do not have telephones, and, as r at present, economy in all lines is imperative, interest is reviving in the "barbed wire, system" which was more or less common in j>arts of the [ West twenty years ^ ago. f In Carson County, S. D.. the coun. ty agricultural agent has assisted /cjg ' for You / HUWEVJEKsinc torist's statem his experiences w cannot be applied your operation of i Most drivers knov I vidual cars have p< We do not ask you t improved'" Standa Gasoline simply b < have heard that it on the market. W to try it for yours ing to your own rec On a basis of res we would gladly hi I cide whether or not L. use it regularly. "Standard" Moto Is a light, volatile | STANI * farmers to install such a system a1 " an average cost of material per far 8 me; of less than $20. Carson Count j 1 is eighty-Seven miles long and verj - sparsely settled, although the agri1 cultural lands are fenced. Standard t telephone lines appeared to be toe - expensive, yet there, was a greal need of facilitating communication, The county agents furnished infor1 mation regarding the cost of install3 ing the line, using porcelain nai] > knobs for insultation, which cost 1 about $5 a mile. These knobs work* ed satisfactorily when the barbed ^ wire is tied to them with a short J piece of wire. In order further to re5 duce the cost some famers tied r # 1 pieces of rubber cut from automp 'bile inner tubes an inch and a half ' square were wtrtmd around the barbed wire and fastened to. the post with staples. The county agent reports that this insulation is giving satisfaction, although, of course, the rubber w;ill deteriorate in time. The farmers were able td obtain second-hand telephones at from $5 $20 each, and 50 cents bought a lightning arrester, so that the total cost to each farmer was nominal. Each farmer has his" own special ring, so there is no expense for a central. It is possble with' a system like this to connect various parts of tihe farm, or distant barns, with the house, or the "tenant house with the farm house at a very low cost. 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