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SUCH IS LIFE—Fair Warning!
By Charles Sughroe
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Scotland Once Led
in Witch Burning
Palm Given to Northland in
Revived Discussion.
f London.—Although several anti
quarians have presented evidence
in London papers giving the Ameri
can colonies a clean bill of health
in regard to repeated accusations
that alleged witches were once actu
ally burned there, a mooted ques
tion still remains and its discussion
has mounted to fever attitude: What
part of the United Kingdom was
most culpable in this respect, Eng
land, Wales, Ireland or Scotland?
Scientific opinion is making out a
good case for Scotland, with a rec
ord of 4,000 executions, although one
writer declares that strangulation
(worryit), and not fire, was used as
a means of exit at the stake. An
other writer, however, while admit
ting that strangulation was some
times used, declares that the stake
with fire was a much more popular
fdrm of execution, and he writes:
‘^Rev. Dr. Lauchlan MacLean
Watt, Glasgow, tells that in 1658 a
warlock, duly condemned, was ‘wor
ry it* (strangled) at the stake on the
Castlehill of Edinburgh. But in that
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of which two will* be cast in bronze
and placed on either tide of the
125 foot flagpole at the Nevada end
of Boulder Dam. The figures which
are the work of Oskar J. W. Hansen
of Chicago will be cast in bronze
and placed in tho semi-circular
granite base at the flagpole. They
will face downstream and across
the 1,000 foot gorge of the Colorado
river.
same year four women were burned
to death in the same place, all con
fessing their covenant with hell,
while presently nine witches from
Tranent all went the same way,
with confessions in their mouths.
School Master Done to Death.
“Then there was the noted case of
Dr. Fian, school master, Saltpans,
1591, who was first strangled, then
‘put into a great fire’ and burned on
the Castlehill of Edinburgh.
“Or we may take what is known
as the wittiest representation of a
witch trial in the English language
—the sketch, 'The Devil to Pay’ in
the ‘Table Talk of Shirley,’ by Skel
ton. There the minister of Cudie-
stane declared that the witch on tri
al had no title to be burned alive.
She was not, he said, a first-class
witch. She must be ‘worryit’ first.
But even there, out of ten old wom
en, although two were strangled,
eight were burned to death.
“From the official records—and
many are available—it is clear that
of the 4,000 so-called witches burned
in Scotland only a fraction under
went the minor horrible death by
strangulation before the burning at
the stake.
“But I shall confine myself to the
case of Aberdeen, a dreadful exam
ple. where the records are clear
and full, and where, in 1596-97 alone.
22 women and 1 man were burned to
Meath. Says Kennedy, the annalist:
‘They were, of course, condemned
to the flames, and in order to make
a due impression on the minds of
the people their sufferings took
place at short intervals at the Cas-
UehiU ‘
Last Exeeatiea la 1722.
“These shocking occurrences
went on in Aberdeen well into the
Seventeenth century, although the
last person to be tried by a lord of
Justiciary was brought up at Dum
fries Gamut court as late as 1709
and the very last person to under
go trial for witchcraft in Scotland
was an old woman who was brought
before the deputy sheriff of Suther
land and condemned, at Dornoch,
in 1722
“Not everybody in Scotland was
pleased by the cessation of witch
burning, and the repeal of the stat
ute of King James authorising the
same. 1739.
“In 1743 the Aasocate Presbytery
of Scotland—the noted Erskine Se
cede ri from the Church of Scotland
—declared that ‘the penal statutes
against witches have been repealed
by Parliament contrary to the ex
press law of God*; and more singu
lar still, even in 1819 Rev. James
Paterson, M. A., minister of the
Associate Congregation of the up
land parish of Midmar, Aberdeen
shire. felt it necessary to issue a
pamphlet. ‘A Belief in Witchcraft
Unsupported by Scripture ’ It was
printed by Chalmers, of The (still
existing) Aberdeen Journal, a
strange production, very rare, but
an item in the local collection of
this library.’’
COURTESY
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
The tourist motoring in Ohio will
have his attention frequently di
rected to a sign
attached to the
rear of a large
truck and bearing
this inscription:
“Blow your horn
— the road is
yours.” The truck
is owned by one
of the large
oil companies in
Ohio, and the
driver has been
instructed to turn
to the right the
moment he hears
the horn of an ap
proaching car. “The road is yours.”
One seldom sees a finer expression
of courtesy. Courtesy seems sadly
lacking on many of the highways we
travel. A driver will frequently park
in a position that leaves little or no
room for the car in the front or the
rear to move out. “Just so I have
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Where Ha Wants to Be
A man generally shuns an invi
tation. Why? Simply because ac
cepting, knocks him out of the
dull, stupid rut he is always com
plaining of.
After opportunity has passed en
by. It looks three feet taller.
I slept, and dreamed that life
was Beauty; I awoke, and found
that life was Duty.
A word to the wise may be suf
ficient, but the wise frequently
ask for further enlightenment.
Can't Fool 'Em
Don’t argue to young people
that the world is all wrong. They
know better.
A chronic knocker is angry
when everybody agrees with him
and he has to dry up.
Civilization as it develops, be
comes more Intellectual, but It
must not forget to consult the hu
man heart.
Two perfectly useless com
plaints are of the weather and the
fashions. Both are inexorable.
To be confident of pleasing is
often an infallible means of dis
pleasing.
Little at a Time
Everything is to be accom
plished bit by bit.
The man who has affection for
you may be under an illusion,
but, oh, let it never be dispelled.
The dumb animals arc the ones
that live as wisely as they know
how.
Happiness is the bird on whose
tail you have to put salt in order
to capture it.
Two great talkers will not
travel far together.
QuilUag Fashions This Cherished Coverlet.
Hubert Schultz, end of the 1996
Columbia university football squad ;
, is seen here in kicking practice The
team of the Moramgside Heights
school is giving its opponents
plenty of competition in the current
gridiron season.
AMAZE A MINUTE
SCIENTIFACTS BY ARNOLD
Dwarf elephants/
On the Mediterranean
islands oc Malta and Cyprus dwarf
RACES OF ELEPHANTS ONLY 5 TO 6 FEET
TALL HAVE BEEN FOUND, CAUSED BY
CONTINUAL INSUFFlCIEkY OF FOOD.
Danger
driving hours-
The hour of
LEAST AUTO AC
CIDENTS IN THE
week is Tuesday __
TWEEN 4 AND 5 AM
The greatest number
occur Sun dan afternoon
7 O'CLOCK
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room” is the common practice. Con
sideration for the safely of the pub
lic is of little concern, so long as
one keeps within the law. Scores
of automobile accidents can be at
tributed to lack of courtesy—which
is simply s lack of respectful con-
! sideration of others More courtesy
l on our highways will mean less ac-
, cidents. “Be courteous” is a good
! motto to hang on the dash board of
every car.
Courtesy may express itself in
respectful consideration of others,
no matter what the surroundings
may be. In one large store in a
prosperous section of a certain city
the men remove their hats in the
elevator when ladies are present.
In another store less favorably lo
cated in the same city, the removal
of hat? is tabooed. Why this dis
crimination? Is not a lady always
a lady regardless of the particular
elevator in which she rides? The
principle of courtesy should hold
true and prompt a man to rise
when a lady enters the room,
whether the room be palatial
or humble. Is courtesy dependent
upon prosperity or poverty for its
expression?
How much of the courtesy in our
daily contacts is real; how nuch
is artificial and conventional? The
answer to this question reveals both
true and false courtesy in nations
as well as in individuals. Courtesy
between nations is of paramount
importance in producing mutual un
derstanding and good will. Its nat
ural use expresses a hopeful es
teem for others and a fundamental
regard for the opinions of others.
Courtesy is the conscience of diplo
macy and the covenant of per
petual peace. The gift of the Sta
tue of Liberty by France was an
act of sublime courtesy. The same
element was entirely forsaken when
nations fought with nations in the
last great war. Let us have more
of the kindly spirit of courtesy in
our international relationships.
edaeatioa or imkerited emit see. It to
• aiatter el self-4toeipliae and la
ssie develops# eat.
A ditch digger may be a
man if he has a
T HE name American patchwork
was given by the English to a j
certain type of piece patchwork evi
dently originated on this continent.
It to a name unfamiliar to moot
Americans, although credit for the
beautiful work is given to the wom
en in the United Stale* and Canada.
American patchwork found its way
from this continent to England in
the latter quarter of the last cen
tury. somewhere about 1179 or 1MB
In Great Britain It was attributed
equally to the United States and
Canada, both countries being m
America, and there being an un
certainty about )uet which sort ion
was rsspoostbto lor the distinctive
The name of loghouao quilting was
given the design abroed It has an
odd aound to ua for tog homoo are
termed log cabins la America Here
the pettem has been known through
the century as the log cobin pettern.
but the name tog house quilting has a
fascinating ring le It The petrh-
worh was. and to. one of the hand-
someat type* of all Its special fea
ture was its use of nbbone for
patches and also silk and satm (and
aometimes velvet) cut into strips of
nbbon widths.
The strips are poaitionod in ever-
widening rows about a small squaro
of one of the materials. In each
row strips overlap one another
Ends are straight, that is they are
not dovetailed or mitered The rib
bon-like stripe can be sewed to a
foundation square or be seamed to
gether. In the old work the rib
bons were sewed to a foundation,
with a square of silk sewed on the
exset center of the foundation
square. After this the rows were
personality. “Every inch a gentle
man.” A fine compliment earned not
at a cost of money but by a persist
ent attitude of mind that listens
when another speaks and remains
calm when that speech is not the
echo of his own mind. Courtesy is
something more than an expression
of conventional good manners. It is
the outward expression of the soul
within. The fruit of loyal nature and
the gift of noble mind.
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set in order about It. Edges slight
ly overlapped so no lining was vis
ible.
The method of arrangement of
colors la definite. One diagonal half
of a square to of dark colored
pieces, the other of light ones When
squares are sewed together dark
come* against dark and light
against light, producing a faednal*
ing v sequence of e
squares of light and
colors are artistically
quilt with Ha rich
perb ^ ^
Week’s Supply of Poet uni Froo
Read the offer made by the Poa-
tum Company in another part of
this paper. They will send a full
week's supply of health giving
Poatum free to
for it.—Adv.
Methods to Witdom
By three methods we loans art*
. dom: first by reflection, which M
the noblest. second, by Imitation.
i which la the easiest, and third, by
ssper.encv. which is the bitterest
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CONSTIPATION
A Parma-violet broadcloth dinner
dress by Robert Piguet, with an
absurd little muff of Parma violets.
Boy designed the hat of Parma-
violet broadcloth trimmed with
tiny pinked edges to match the
dress.
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BACKACHES
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MOTHERHOOD
Thoaa montha before baby
cornea put such a heavy atrain
on mother’* muscles, that aha
frequently suffers for years.
Allcock’a Porous Plasters
do wonders for such back
aches. They draw the blood
to the painful spot—whether
It be on the back, sides, legs, arms or shoul
der. This has a warm, stimulatinc affect,
and the pain soon vanishes. It takas only S
seconds to put on an Alleoek's Porous Plas
ter. and it feels as good as a 12 massage.
Over 5 million people have aaad Alleoek’s.
the original porous plaster. Refuse nay
plaster but Alleoek’s. It brings quickest
relief. Lasts longer. Easy to apply and xw
move, lit at druggists.
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Don’t beBALD!
Don’t Rive op!
Faithful use of
Glover's Mange
Medicine and
Believed to bo the only animal of its kind in the United States, this
blue Duiker-Bok was s recent addition to the Fleiahacker aoo in San
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