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YOl/K "FINNY HONK." Why It Hurts so When You Hit It Against Anything. When you bump your nose or chin i you bump the tiesh and bone and not j a nerve, consequently you feel a sen-! sation or pain just where the blow j was struck. If you strike the point j of your elbow it will be just the! same, it's only when you strike that j little hollow between the big central | bone of the elbow and the little inside bone that the tickling, tingling sensation is felt. In the little hollow you strike of the large trunk nerves that spring between the vertebra at the base of the neck and runs through the arm to the wrist. In the hollow of the elbow the nerve lies over a bone. When you strike that spot you feel a tingling sensa- , tion which isn't exactly funny, but : because it tickles the bone is called the "funny bone."?Milwaukee Jour- , nal. The Night Kitler of Cypress Swamp. |r It was sunset, and each little pool, 1 in its setting of rushes, shone like molten gold in the western glow, and the tall, straight trunks of the sweet ' " gum and cypress went amber yellow. 1 As the dusk gathered, and the dark ' shadows fell, where the growth was 1 thickest, the small dwellers of the swamp, wnu sicep unuugn tuc uaj.i were stretching themselves, and get- >1 ting ready for their nightly wander- I ings. The owl was already abroad, and, on silent wing, was skimming low. over tangled thicked and grassy knoll, on a still hunt for belated bird, or venturesome field mouse. The frogs, down among the lily pads, were tuning up for their evening concert. Like a bow, drawn slowly across the strings of a violin, some big green fellow, throws his throaty call over the blackening waters, to be answered by a deep toned voice : from another pond back in the! swamp. Snugly coiled, in a furry ball, at the bottom of the hollow, in a big gum tree, the raccoon opened ; \ first one eye and then the other, as if j the effort to open both at the same j time, was too much for him. Standr ing on his hind feet, and reaching high as possible with his hands like j paws, he gaps lazily and treats hi?n j x self to the luxury of a good, old fasn-' ion stretch. Wide awake now, be j $ scuttles up to the opening and sits for quite a while thinking. He is debat-' t k" ing in his mind which would be best; 1 ?to forage around among the cane' i brakes and ponds for his usual sup- j s per of snails, grubs, berries, lily ' roots and, possibly a nest of small j t young birds or to make a night of it, f t and visit that farm house a mile orj < ? T two down the creek and try for one f ' of those fat Rhode Island Reds, that1 c he watched one day as they were '< feeding around the door step. As he !.< sat there, pondering over the risks 1 he would have to take, his paVs fold- j t ed comically over his stomach?there i floated over the stillness of the' 1 swamp, the faint, far-away crow of ? a cock. That distant call, brought < to his memory other moonlight j i ''' nights, when he had revealed in the : 1 taste of fresh, warm blood, as he; t feasted to his fill on the delicate! i flesh of high bred pullet. That call,1 t settled any doubt he might have had.j 1 Climbing down on level ground, he|i went shambling down ine irau, wuu * that curious sidelong gait of his, ' t headed straight for the cabin in the, i clearing. There was nothing care-J f less in his going?he was ever on f the alert for possible dangers?keep- ? ing near the beaten trail?seldom 1 taking advantage of cross cuts, that promised an easier path. He even I ttook the trouble and time, to cross ? and recross the creek several times 1 in order to throw off his tracks any i enemy that might be trailing him. i ( Sometimes, when the trees grew 1 thick lie took the precaution of doing < a part of his hike above ground run- i ning along branches rrom tree to i tree, thus leaving no tell tale scent i that could be followed?a cunning i trick, bred in his bones, by long gen- 1 erations of iiunted ancestors. So 1 firmly decided was he on chicken for 1 supper, that he let pass several fair- i ly good chances of catching more < than one of the-small swamp dwell- < ers. The big blue black muscadines i were a sore temptation to tarry, but t as he passed them by he registered a i mental resolve to return to this spot in case the raid on the farm yard- < failed to materialize. Reaching the i edge of the swamp, where a rambling I rail fence separated the cornfield i from the cane brake, he stopped and ; listened. There was no sound or 1 sent to arouse his suspicion. There 1 ?""""'no' the fnrn standine ! v?ao uuuiius , rank and tall in the moonlight?no j < sound except now and then, the | < drowsy chirp of a cricket in rhe ] : grass. Hungrier now than when heM awoke at sunset, with watering chops, he eyed the ears of corn, that j he knew were fairly bursting with j : milky grains. Deciding to lunch, be-; fore tackling the big event or tne^ evening he gathered the fattest ear;; , ' in sight, and retreated to the little J sream he could hear trickling among | the reed?. The coon can eat his food j Ql'EK.V OF THK SEAS. | e j Sketch of the (h eat Cunarder Sunk by the (iernians. Eight years and eleven months! - old. one of the biggest, best equip- i e ped and fastest of the ocean liners. I v the Cunarder Lusitania held her f head high as queen of the seas. First; - of the trans-Atlantic palaces to cross j V and land passengers in four days * from the departed port, 7So feet t over all. making a speed of 27 f knots, 3$,000 tons displacement, af fording means of comfort in travel i for 2,400 passengers and 800 offif f?rc anH man with enerines nf 7ft. "THE POWERS." As I'ndeistood a Year Ago the Phra.s Xo Longer Exists. Translated out of diplomatic lan guage. says the World's Work, "th powers in Europe" meant?even nov it is a strange sensation to speak o them in the past tense?Great Bri tain. Germany, France. Austria. Ital; and more recently Russia, the si: strongest nations in Europe. Bu now, in these ultra-civilized days o 16-inch guns, submarines and aero planes, the chancelleries must find i new shibboleth to take the place o "the powers." As understood a yea ago, no such thing now exists. I died on the first of August in th< white, yellow, blue and the othe books of assorted outside colors ant uniform recriminative content. dry, but he much prefers "it wet, s< alternately dipping and eating, h< enjoyed to the full his corn on th< cob. As he finished his lunch ant was washing his hands, there camt another crow from the roosternearer this time, just beyond th< field of corn. It would have been th< safer and saner thing from the viewpoint of a sly old 'coon to have trav eled around the corn on the topmos ridges of the zig-zag fence but th< hunger call overcame his usual cau tion, and he loped straight over th< :orn rows, in the direction of th< farm yard. In a few .seconds h< reached the other side, and there ir the moonlight stood the chicker house, the mecca of his pilgrimage! Stealthily climbing the picket fence still keeping in the shadows, he slow [v reconnoiters the premises, to mak< sure the coast was clear. The fow house door stood open and. there wa: nothing between him and his banluet. With muscles tensS drawn, h( irew nearer and nearer. Just hen :hings began to happen. A sleep} >ld hound, wandering around, woniering if it were worth his while tc jark at that big yellow moon hangng low over the barn, caught a ;limpse of a dark form moving icross the chicken yard. The moor vas forgotten and with a bugle like jay, sandwiched between a snarl anc i growl, he made a dash for the in;ruder. with a lunge so frantic thai ie was carried partly through tht jalings of the fence. While he was shaking himself free from the enangling pickets, the raccoon was lalf way across the corn and makng for the friendly shadows of the swamp. Gaining this as the dog was foundering and lumbering through :he corn stalks, he springs on the ;runk of a fallen tree, runs rapidlj lown its length, leaps at right angles. as far as he can, climbs a tree Tosses by over lapping branches tc mother, which stands on the bank )f the creek. From a hanging limt le drops without a moment's hesita:ion into the water. Half swinining and half wading, he makes his vay up stream, scrambling over the scaly coils of more than one moc>asin. hiding among the rocks. Once nore in his native angle of vines )riars. cane and undergrowth?with he friendly track effacing stream iearby he feels safer, and takes ime to pause, catch his breath and isten. Only an occasional bell like tote reaches his ears, as the hound foundering aimlessly in the edge ol he 6wamp?picks up the trail for a noment, only to lose it again. Oui 'riend of the gum tree hollow, disjusted with himself, dogs, chickens ind the world in general strikes the > rtb * J 1 k r/\n ryb f l-* a OU'Qmn JCLK, t\ 11 an UHUUS1I o v* i* m i/# While skirting: the edge of a sedg\ )ool with a spiteful grab, he seized md devoured the first tenor of the Frog-Pond Orchestra! Rememberng about those blue black muscalines, hanging so low he makes his vav there?and after feasting pushes >n up the trail that follows the windng of the creek. In the dense trowth of stunted reeds he stumbles ipon the carelessly built nest of a narsh hen. The mother bird with larsh clacking cries, flutters away iialf flying, half running. Left ir possession of the nest, with its treasure of mottled eggs the coon makes i hearty meal, unheeding the louc rails of the frantic mother. Arriving in the vicinity of his usual haunts the trail becomes plainer and sur rounding objects more familiar rhere being no need now for hurrj ?p nantion hp vprv deliberated takes up his position just above the en trance of a wood mouse's burrow and sits, solemnly and patienth awaiting the home coming of th< little earth dweller. He did not hav( long to wait?as the trembling grass stems marked a movement in th< covered runaway to the burrow. A rjuick dip of the raccoon's claws? a faint little squeak of terror anf there was one less member of woof mouse colony, and one less pang o hunger in .Mr. Raccoon's stomach. A spreading glow in the eastern sk? warned him that another day was coming so with a feeling of failure and chagrin he clambered up to hi: bachelor apartments in the big gun tree, to doze until another sunset ir the swamp.?Greenville News. r 000 horsepower, this giant of the t main cost her owners $10,000,000, 2 and they say she was worth every r cent of it. 1 It was in the yard of the British shipbuilding firm, John Brown & Co.,1 : at Clyde Bank, on June 7, 1906, that j the Lusitania received her name 5 from the lips of Dowager Lady Iver? Clyde, her sponsor. She was the 1 newest and greatest maritime won? der. It was said at the time that - she would smash the speed records, ? and she did?even her own. For ? years the New York papers awaited - her arrival in port as an event equal - almost to a championship polo tourt nament on Long Island or a bitterly i fought middle-season baseball se ries at Coogan's Bluff. With 3,000 ? passengers she made her maiden ? voyage on September 7, 1907, and i reached New York in five days and l 54 minutes, a record at that time. i But the captain said, "I'll beat this," ! and thereafter that record was low, ered and lowered, until the four-day - trip was a reality. ? Although German steamship men 1 said that the vessels out of Hamburg s made better time to New York than - did the Lusitania from Liverpool, no i one ever disputed her mastery of the ? sea, so far as speed was concerned, r and the reputation she acquired at Iia AnteAt Af V?nr nornor ViOe UvnH kliC . UUVO^l \J 1 ll V ft VUl WVA img II* VU > on, despite the birth of liners, such - as the Imperator, Olympic and Vaterl land, far surpassing her in size. She j was the favorite of some of the most i noted trans-Atlantic wayfarers, the ; luxuriousness of her accommoda1 tions and her unfailing swiftness counting greatly in her favor as : against the mere bulkiness of the } others. She had nine decks, all coni nected with elevators. Her cabins - were designed to look more like a > hotel than a ship, there being open fireplaces, windows shaped and !cur; tained as in a private house, elab> orate suites, tapesstried reception i rooms, smoking rooms and. cafes. ;! Her captain, W. T. Turner, one of ?: the most daring seamen who ever led * * J a liner across the Atlantic, has brav- I . | ed mines, torpedoes and submarines i j on two occasions since the war be; | gan, and the big ship on one of the . ! f T?J r\n V* rv* of QtOPC O T| r? to deceive the enemy lurking beyond Queenstown. This gave cause for 5 great concern in Washington, and it ; j was said that Capt. Turner made use | of the American flag on his own ini! J tiative. Later, however, it was de- 1 i j clared that the move had been ori aered by the British admiralty, and i that the captain had nothing more ~~Z > to do than obey orders. f": 1 Everything about the great vessel ; was of colosal dimensions. Her rud- A I der weighed 6.r> tons. She carried jg ' three anchors of 10 tons each. The L i main frames and beams, placed end Jy1 ' to end, would extend 30 miles. Her builders said she was as near- ~ , Iv unsinkable as a vessel could be. ! The lower deck was watertight, and the double bottom was so construct ed that, should the bilge keels be [ torn away, and the hull pierced, the j entering water would be confined - within the inner antf outer bottoms. The lower portion of the hull was ; divided into IT.t watertight compart- I > ments. with communicating doors so ? constructed that they could be closed ]}] ? automatically from the navigating > bridges in a few seconds. l Marine engineers were particularvei i ly interested in the great engines by gt? . which the Lusitania was propelled. i i Instead of the usual type of recipro- ov< eating engines, turbines were install- ho > ed. They developed an indicated I horsepower of 70,000, driving four TZ ; shafts, each of which carried a three- ff , blade propeller. ftj Her accommodations, distributed j B . into classes, were as follows: First, j fl r class. 550: second class, 500; third || > class. 1, 300. The zenith of her speed was reach , ed on a western voyage when she r still was a youngster. It was four i days, eleven hours and 42 minutes. *c ; Later, however, the record was g 5 wrested from her by her sister ship. ; Mauretania. which set the mark at l four days, ten hours and 41 min- Lai - utes, the standing record. p 1 Her first trip after the war began Su 1 was made on August 4, when she ' x* V?1. ! r Slipped OIH OI .\ew lui'h oiiiuuucu i i in darkness, save for her port and' ? . i starboard lights. 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