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Bellefonte, Pa., January 28, 1921.
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PHILOSOPHY.
I love to ride in a touring car,
And zip on the old stone road;
I love to tour the burgs afar,
And joke with the merry load.
1 love to see the trees whiz by,
And hear the motor hum;
1 love the rumble as on we fly,
With the sound of a kettledrum.
1 love the rush of the bracing air,
And the feeling of joy it brings;
It’s sport that’s far beyond compare,
A sport that is fit for kings.
It’s the jolliest thing I know by far,
And my heart with rapture melts;
1 love to ride in a touring car—
When it's owned by some one else.
—Lehigh Burr.
DIAGNOSING ILL OF YOUR MO-
TOR. .
Expert Gives Advice Concerning En-
gine Troubles Motorists are
Likely to Encounter.
By Jack Reid.
This small tract is written con-
densing the data concerning motors
for the purpose of guiding the car
owner, saving him many mistakes and
at the same time avoiding the pitfalls
that surround him.
1t will help him to diagnose his mo-
tor symptoms or at least know if,
when he goes into a starnge shop for
some repairs, the mechanic knows his
business and does not put in needless
time on probably the wrong thing. It
is the purpose of the writer to explain
in as few words as possible the work-
ing of your motor, how you get pow-
er out of gasoline. You know it is
there, but some fellow gets more than
you do. Why?
“Your motor action is divided into
four stages or cycles, intake, compres-
sion, explosion and exhaust. That is,
the different strokes on each cylinder
required to transform the potential
energy in the gasoline into kinetic en-
ergy. The intake—As you crank your
motor the piston is drawn down,
causing a vacuum. At the same time
the intake valve opens, through which
and into the cylinder gasoline and air
that have been mixed to the correct
proportion in the carburetor rush, fill-
ing the space between the piston and
cylinder head. :
j COMPRESSION.
This displacement of the piston now
being filled with gas, the next move is
compression. The piston, now at the
bottom of stroke, returns upward.
The intake valve closes and the gas,
finding no means of escape, is com-
pressed more and more as the piston
approaches the top.
Now, at this period comes the ex-
plosion. The spark, timed correctly,
ignites the compressed gas, forcing
e piston downward. This is the fir-
ing or power stroke.
Your cylinder now is filled with
waste or burnt gas, which must be
ejected, which brings us to the last cy-
cle or the exhaust. After the piston
has been forced downward by the ex-
losion, it returns upward, the ex-
Pes valve opens and the used gases
are forced out through the muffler.
Your pistons now repeat the opera-
tion.
Here lies the secret of your power.
You must have, first, good carbure-
tion to give you the right gas; good
compression with no leaks and a hot
spark timed correctly. This is the
trinity of power in a combustion en-
ne.
Do not be led astray by every quack
who promises to give something for
nothing. If he says he can give you
more power see if his statements
agree with the trinity of power.
Now the first stage of these three
that compose your power is the car-
buretor. A good standard carburetor
that has been tried and stood the test,
that is standard equipment on numer-
ous cars, is your safe guide.
By perfect carburetion we mean
propertioning of the gas and air cor-
rectly all the way through the range
and speed of the motor, giving the
maximum power and speed; quick,
smooth acceleration at any speed; an
easy starting motor at all seasons;
more miles per gallon and atomiza-
tion of gas.
Now we come to the second stage
or the compression of this gas. Here
js where trouble occurs. The pistons
compress the gas, but with the aid of
piston rings that closely hug the cyl-
jnder walls to prevent any escape of
this gas past the piston head. There
must be no means of escape of the gas
that you have trapped. Where leaks
occur then power is lost. If you had
no compression you could have no
power. Powder being on the surface
and lit by a match goes off in a flame.
Now confine and ignite it and you
have a terriffic explosion. By this you
can see that it is necessary to com-
press that gas, and avoid all chance of
escape. There are three places to look
for leaking compression. The valves
must be ground accurately next the
cylinder head (if it is a removable
head), if not, the compression caps
must be tight, and, last, the piston
rings must hold.
ON VALVE GRINDING.
In grinding valves more care must
be exercised than merely smearing a
little grit on the seat and twisting it
around. Many times a valve looks
good after it has been ground, but
when it is rubbed dry lines and scores
appear. It is important that your
valves are ground correctly.
Now the most important are the
piston rings. All are important, but
the valves and cylinder head or com-
pression caps are easily remedied, but
the piston rings require all three to be
gone over. That is, you would not
think of changing rings without mak-
ing sure that your valves were tight
or that your cylinder head or compres-
sion caps had no leaks.
In installing piston rings remem-
ber you do not save money by putting
in a cheap, plain ring. First, be sure
there are no scores on the cylinder
walls or that they are not oval or ta-
per. After a motor has run about 20,
000 miles you may find the walls out
of round and taper.
This is discovered by use of an in-
side micrometer. If they are so, then
they should be reground and new pis-
tons and rings furnished. Now be
careful again that you do not make a
mistake. If the rings furnished are
of a cheap grade you will not have the
esired results.
I often hear the remark, “The cyl-
inders have been reground and new
rings installed and still I have no
power.” A good plan to follow is to
have the regrinding concerns regrind
and furnish pistons without rings and
you get your own ring.
The ring should undoubtedly be a
lively one-piece ring.
A one-piece ring that has a good
sealed joint and proper wall pressure
will hold up compression and hold
down oil.
If you lose
or, inversely,
compression.
Loss of compression is the cause of
more trouble than any other and more
money is spent foolishly over this
than any other thing. For instance,
a car is losing power. You do not
know how to take hold of your crank
and test your compression, but you go
to an accessory store and buy a set of
different kinds of spark plugs, or you
put something on your carburetor or
probably you put some new arrange-
ment on your ignition. You might as
well put an emblem on your radiator.
Remember this, motoring friend,
the compression is the base from
which we work. If it is weak, stop
right there and have it attended to,
but if the compression is good and
you are losing power, it will be easily
remedied, but do not expect pep, pow-
er and comfort with poor compression.
IGNITION.
a little information regarding
ignition, for in it you find the release
of the stored power in your cylinder,
for without that little spark in a gun
the charge would be useless; likewise
that gas is lifeless until released by
ignition. :
It is not the intention to go into
detail of the various forms of igni-
tion; suffice to say that there are two
forms, battery and magneto. Some
cars have both. :
In the battery ignition a coil is used
in connection with the distributor and
breaker box.
Nearly all cars that have magneto
equipment have the high tension.
When we speak of correct time in
ignition we mean that the spark is
caused by the breaker box causing the
spark to ignite in the cylinder when
the piston is at the top. A late spark
or late timing is when the piston is
too far over the center and is going
down on the explosion stroke before
the spark ignites the gas.
An early spark occurs before the
piston arrives at the top, consequent-
ly causing a knock.
Ignition troubles are sometimes dif-
ficult to determine. A weak coil is
most. of these troubles. Bad points
and weak connections also give their
share of annoyance.
three will cause hard starting, miss
firing and backfiring.
Another important thing that is the
source of much trouble in a motor is
the vacuum tank.
compression you lose oil,
if you lose oil you lose
Now,
The vacuum tank is used to store a |
small quantity of gasoline so that the
carburetor might have gravity feed.
This tank is so constructed that the
vacuum caused by the displacement of
the pistons causes gasoline to rise
from the rear tank into the vacuum
tank and then into the metor. While
the motor is running this tank is kept
full. A float inside shuts off the valve
and keeps it from overflowing, but
sometimes this float becomes loaded
and hangs or the valve sticks, causing
the overflow of gasoline into the in-
take, cscaping through the carburetor,
causing the motor to load, miss fire
and backfire.
An experienced mechanic can locate
this trouble, but it is one that is dif-
ficult to diagnose, as its symptoms are
like carburetor and ignition troubles
insomuch that it causes the carbure-
tor to flood and your motor misses and
backfires in the muffler like faulty ig-
nition. .
MOTOR KNOCKS.
Now as to knocks in your motor;
these are very important. It is up to
you to get the best out of your car and
repairs to it are as essential as oil and
gasoline.
Never run your motor that is
knocking or getting noisy. It means
that the bearings are wearing and a
loose connecting rod bearing makes a
flat crank shaft, which is an expen-
sive operation to repair.
You hate to hear noises in your car,
but far more important are those tell-
tale sounds in your motor.
It is wrong to run your car until it
falls apart, neither should a man drive
one that is not giving power. Quite a
few motorists only get about 5000
miles of good riding out of their new
car. It is fine, full of pep and ans-
wers his touch like a spirited horse.
Then it loses power, probably through
his own neglect, and he limps along
from bad to wrose where, in the first
place, had he taken it to a competent
mechanic he could enjoy the full
pleasure of driving. Some people are
driving cars that have done more than
70,000 miles with the same pep and
power of new cars.
No Different.
The regular conductor of the ad-
vice to the love-lorn column being
away, the red-headed office boy had
been temporarily promoted to that
job, under the general supervision of
the sporting editor.
“Here's a gink who wants to know
how long girls should be courted,” the
office boy reported. “What'll I tell
him?”
“Uuse your own brains, boy!” the
sporting editor growled. “Tell him
just the same way as short girls, of
course.”
——“You say you want no govern-
ment whatever?” said Mr. Rafferty.
“None whatever,” rejoined Mr. Dolan.
“I hope you get your wish for a min-
ute ‘or two. Then I can handle you
anyway I feel without a chance of you
Llling a policeman.”—Washington
T.
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HAD GENIUS FOR INVENTION MANY ABLE TO HEAR COLORS
Man Who Began Life as a Frawis
Sheep Herder Made Most Re-
markable Record.
It is probable that Walter Turner
was the world’s most prolific inventor. |
Starting life as a shepherd on a:
prairie sheep ranch in the far West
he knew nothing of the mechanics of |
railway engineering. One day, how- |
ever, while tending his sheep on the
prairie in the neighborhood of a rail- |
way, Turner came to where the ruins
of a train were scattered, and among |
the fragments he picked up as a curi- |
osity a vital part of the Westinghouse |
prake. This he was allowed to carry |
away. During his lonely life on the
prairie he would ponder over the
mechanism of this brake. [lis chance
came when, having failed as a sheep
farmer, he got a job as a wheel tapper
on the railway, ultimately being pro-
moted to the engine shops. A series
of inventions, improving brakes pat
ented by the company. led to his fur-
ther advancement. Mr. V.®stinchouse,
who took him into his worizs. finally
made him the head of the ensitiesring
department. Westinghouse patented
two hundred inventions, but the shep-
herd from the prairies pate:ted {our
hundred. Westinghouse made an air
brake that would control fifty raiiway
carriages; Turner improved it Hl it
would control a hundred. When he
died it was said that the value ef the
shepherd’s inventions to the worlé
was over thirty-five million dellars in
gold. :
NEXT JOB IS WHAT COUNTS
Good Thing to Forget What One Has
Done, and Look Forward to
Something Else.
James J. Hill, who possessed a phe
nomenal memory, said it is easy te
remember things you are interested
in.
What to do, therefore, is to discern
what things are useful, what {hings
one’ ought to be interested in, anc
then forget the others.
That sounds easy, but it isn’t easy
as we dll know. However, if we try
wwe may accomplish 3ozaething. If we
don’t, we won't.
Let's see, therefore, what are some
of the things we ought te forget.
First, and most important of all, for
get that brilliant record you made ai
school or that wonderful sale you
made which caused all the boys tc
talk, or that remarkable piece of work
you ‘did which won ‘your raise of pay
i firmed his statement.
and promotion.
Forget the big things you did yes |
terday or last year. i
Forget all about the time you |
topped the list and were made a fuss |
over, i
Forget that you are (in your OwEk
eyes) a wonder, a world beater.
Water that has gone over the mill |
wheel can grind no more corn. |
Forget what you have already don
and address all your mind an¢
strength and talent to the next job.—
Forbes Magazine (New York).
1
When Thunder Roars.
When caught in a thunderstorm
don’t rush for any shelter.
lemember that any tall, isolated ob-
ject, such as a tree or a flagstaff, or
even a tall building, is liable to at
tract lightning, and for that reasor
should be avoided.
If trees are chosen as shelters dur
ing a storm, select a group in prefer
ence to one standing by itself, and
avoid the highest.
Never run to escape the rain, as 8
flash is likely to be diverted to the vi:
cinity of the air thus set in rapid
motion,
In a house, keep away from open
windows—it is best to shut them—
and fireplaces.
It is safer to be soaked by the rain
than dry under an umbrella; wel
clothes will be chosen by the light
ning in preference to the wearer, and
the wearer in preference to his dry
clothes.
The Calling of Wild Geessz.
There are certain bird notes whick
strike strange chords, whose vibrations
are lost in a mist of dreams. I remem
ber a little runaway boy who stooc
in a clover field in a gray twiligh
and heard the clanging calls of wil¢
geese shouting down from midsky
Frightened, he ran home a vast distance
—at least the width of two fields. As he
ran there seemed to come back to hin
the memory of a forgotten dream, if It
were a dream, ‘in which he lay in an |
other land on a chill hillside. Over
head in the darkness passed a burs!
of triumphant music and the strong
singing of voices not of this earth
From that day the trumpet notes oi
the wild geese bring back through the
fog of the drifting years that same
dream to him who heard them first ir
that far away, long ago clover field.
Wonderful Balances.
It was the Italian physician Sal-
vioni who devised a microbalance of
such extreme delicacy that it clearly
demonstrates the loss of weight of
musk by volitalization. Thus the in-
visible perfume floating off in the air
is indirectly weighed. The essential
part of the apparatus is a very thin
thread of glass fixed at one end and
extended horizontally. The micro-
scopic objects to be weighed are
placed on the glass thread near its
free end and the amount of flexure
produced is observed with the micro-
scope magnifying 100 diameters. A
mote weighing one one-thousandth of
a milligram perceptibly bends the
thread.
i vive scarcely 2,000.
According to Investigator, the Gift
Not Uncommon—Possessed by
One Person in Eight.
—
Color hearing, or chromaesthesia,
the constant association of colors with
words, letters, musical notes and nofs-
es, is inherent, the New Orleans Times
Picayune says, in one of every eight
persons.
A few years ago a noted physician
told his audience that the day was not
far distant when sound would be seen
and color heard, and time has con-
It seems in-
credible that a beam of light can pro-
duce sound, yet it has been accom-
plished by throwing a ray of sunlight
through a lens.on a glass vessel con-
taining lampblack, or colored silk or
worsted, or any similar substance. A
disk having slits or openings cut in it
is made to revolve swiftly in the beam
of light so as to “cut it up” into alter-
nate flashes of light and shadow.
When the ear is placed to the glass
vessel the sensitive ear can distinguish
strange, faint sounds as long as the
flashing beam falls upon the vessel.
A still more extraordinary effect is
produced when the beam of sunlight
is first made to pass through a prism,
so as to produce what is known as the
solar spectrum. The disk is turned
so that the colored light of the rain-
bow passes through it and is alternate-
ly interrupted and transmitted by it.
Now, if the ear be placed to the glass
vessel containing (he silk or other ma-
terial, it will be noticed that the col-
ored lights of certain parts of the
spectrum will make sounds, and those
of other parts will not. For example,
if the glass vessel contains red wor-
sted and the green light is flashed up-
on it, there will be comparatively loud
sounds, and when the red and blue
parts of the rainbow fall upon the
vessel there will be faint sounds; but
other colors will produce no sounds
at all.
CIVILIZATION PROVES FATAL
South Sea Islanders Are Rapidly Pass-
ing Away as Result of White
Man’s Coming.
There are today but 2,500 persons
in the SO Paumotu islands, separated
from each other by about 40 miles of
water in the South seas, where 15
years ago there were more than 4,000.
If equally distributed there would be
. ample of this sort of political propa-
. ganda was unearthed recently in New
but 30 persons to each island, but on
more than half of them no person
lives. Epidemics have cut the people
| down in throngs, and it is the belief
of Frederick O'Brien, writing in the
{ Century Magazine, that the time is
not far off when the last Paumotu
will curse the white man for the gifts
he may have brought. When Captain
Cook made his survey of the Tahiti
islands © there were 70,000 happy,
healthy people, and today there, sur-
They were not
! slain, but perished by diseases con-
comitant with intercourse with civi-
lized men. :
The Tahitians and the Paumotuans
understand each other easily, though
many words are different. The for-
mer lived with Europeans for 100
years, and they soon became the most
cultivated race of the South seas,
while the Paumotuans remained the
coarse, primitive savages that they
have for centuries. The Paumotuans
are a quiet people, serious and con-
templative, while the Tahitians are
laughter-lowing, light-hearted, frenzied
dancers, orators, music worshipers
and feasters.
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Ghost for Fish Bait.
Siamese fishermen do most of their
fishing by means of what is known as
a ghost boat. This consists of a long
board, painted white, and arranged in
position in the water. The top must
not be too high above the surface of
the water for the fish it is desired to
capture to leap over. When in po-
sition the ghost resembles very much
the white side of a boat or punt. The
fish, seeing this white board, become
frightened, and in fear they leap over
the board. At the back of the board,
however, nets are arranged in such a
position that those fish that succeed
in leaping the board land in the nets
and are caught. The amount of fish
caught by the employment of ghost
boats is very large indeed, and the
method has the advantage of prevent-
ing the smaller fry from getting into
the nets, as they are unable to leap
over the board.
Largest Venomous Snake.
The bush master is the largest
known venomous snake, It inhabits
the Amazonian region in South Amer-
jca. Ity teeth and poison apparatus
resemble those of a rattlesnake, and
the fangs are very large. Death has
been known to occur within 10 minutes
after the bite of one of these reptiles.
It lives in dens and holes in the
ground, frequenting river banks and
does not climb trees. This snake at-
tains a length of 12 to 15 feet; the
color of its body is yellowish pink,
with brown patterns and tints of pur-
ple.
No Place to Boil It Then.
At the bank of the Missouri river,
one mile west, I questioned a man,
who replied that he had heard nothing
about Sitting Bull. I then asked him
whether it was true that they drank
the Missouri river water, which was
rolling by ‘us like a tidal wave of sand.
“No,” he said, “we can’t do that, but
we often break off a piece and suck
it like molasses candy.”—Fred Cope-
land in the Youth's Companion.
SURE THAT AN!MALS DREAM
Eminent Authorities Have Gone on
Record, Though It Has Been
Subject of Dispute.
Aristotle’s history of animals de-
clares that horses, oxen, sheep, goats,
dogs and all viviparous quadrupeds
dream. Pliny, in his natural history
specifies the same animals. Buffon
describes the dreams of animals. Mae-
nish calls attention to the fact that
horses neigh and rear in their sleep,
and affirms that cows and sheep, es-
pecially at the period of rearing their
young, dream.
Darwin, in the “Descent of Man,”
says that “dogs. cats, horses and
probably all the higher animals, even
birds, as is stated on good authority,
have vivid dreams, and this is shown
by their movements and voice.”
George John Romanes, in his “Men-
tal Evolution in Animals,” says that
the fact that dogs dream is prover-
bial, and quotes Seneca and Lucretius,
and furnishes proo? from Dr. Lauder
Lindsay, an eminent authority, that
horses dream. Bechstein holds that
the bullfinch dreams, and gives a case
where the dream took on the char-
acter of a nightmare, and the bird fell
from its perch, and four great author-
ities say that dreaming becomes S0
vivid as to lead to somnambulism.
Guer gives a case of somnambulistic
watch dog which prowled in search
of imaginary strangers or fowls, and |
exhibited toward them a whole series !
of pantomimic actions, including |
barking. Dryden says: “The little
hirds in dreams the songs repeat.”
SHREWD IDEA IN POLITICS
Pictures of Presidential Candidates
on Letter Heads Was a Popular
Thing in 1840.
a
Back in the early days of the re-
public it was considered a fine idea
to decorate paper with the portraits
of presidential candidates. In this way
the letter writer showed not only his
preference, but tried to influence his
correspondents for his candidate, re-
marks the New York Sun. A fine ex- |
York. It dates back to 1840, when
William Henry Harrison was running
for president on the Whig ticket
against Martin Van Buren, Democrat.
The letterhead shows the two sides
of the gold medal awarded by con-
gress to General Harrison for his serv-
ices in the War of 1812. The picture
to the left shows a medallion portrait
of General IIarrison, while the one at |
the right depicts the Goddess of Lib-
erty, armed with a spear, placing a
wreath of laurel on an Indian tepee. |
This latter was intended as a com-
pliment to the general for his success
in fighting against the British and In-
aians. ;
Under the pictures of the two sides
of the medal is a copy of the resolu- |
tion of congress conferring the med- |
als on General Harrison and Isaac
Shelby, “late governor of Kentucky.”
Improvised Gun Has Kick.
The Burma government forbids the
natives to have guns in their posses:
sion, and prohibits trading in arrows
and ammunition. But the native’s in:
genuity enables him to get around this
He will find a piece of gaspipe some. |
where, fit a rude stock to it and a |
crude primer and hammer. and will
use safety matches in lieu of powder,
He cuts off the heads of about twc
boxes of matches and puts them inte |
the improvised barrel. He then rams
his shot home and is ready for busi
ness.
And let me tell you, if you ‘never
tried to shoot with such a gun, don’t |
ever do so. Why, an express rifle is !
about as kickless as a .22 caliber Flo-
bert compared with this improvised |
shotgun! I tried shooting one once |
upon a time and the thing almost |
kicked my shoulder off.—National Geo- |
graphic Bulletin. i
Getting Rid of a Knot.
It is often a difficult business to
get rid of knots, especially if these are
of long standing. By following the
plan indicated it is a simple matter
to free the hardest knots, whether
these be in straps, harness, rope, cord
or anything of a similar nature. As a
first step place the knot on some hard
surface and give it a good hammer- |
ing on all sides with a mallet or a’
thick piece of wood. Now boil up a
little water with soap in it sufficient
to make rather a cloudy solution.
Then soak the knot for two or three :
minutes in the liquid. At the end of |
this time it will be found that it can
be quite easily untied, often enough
with the fingers. The loosening can
be done with some sharp implement.
Profitable Companionship.
~ Among the most curious and inter-
esting of natural phenomena are those
pertaining to the mutual relationships
of common organisms. Two plants,
two animals, or a vlant and an ani-
mal, may live together for their mu- |
tual benefit. Very often one of the
partners gets food for the combination,
while the other receives protection.
This is the arrangement that subsists |
between tropical plants and certain
species of ants which live and feed
in their hollow stems, and in return |
drive away other insects that would
do damage.
Real Success.
“Uncle George, what is success in
life?” asked the small boy.
Uncle George—It's gettin’ ither folk
to think as highly 0’ you as you think |
o' yourself.—London Blighty.
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WHEN LAWS WERE CRUEL
Barbarous Death or Life Imprisom
ment the Portion of Thinkers in
the Sixteenth Century.
They had a rough and ready way of
dealing with spiritualists in the six-
teenth century. An act was placed on
the statute book in the reign of
Queen Mary which made it a capital
offense for many persons “to propose
to hold communications with the
dead.” and later the penalty for such
an offense was made burning at the
stake.
In 1520 a man named Edward Bar-
ber. who lived at Ongar in Essex, was
ordered by a local magistrate to be
put in the stocks for three days, and
subsequently to stand for trial for
pretending that he had received mes-
sages from a dead person, and “for
telling divers persons that he had done
so.”
This luckless spiritualist, however,
was never sent for trial, as on the
last night of his confinement in the
stocks he was burned to death by
some of the villagers.
In the reign of Queen Anne a man
named Prothero was sentenced to im-
prisonment for life for writing a pam-
phlet proving that communication with
the dead was possible; and even So
late as the reign of George I there are
records of severe punishments being
inflicted on people who professed that
they had received messages from the
dead.
In the reign of James I a Dutch mer-
chant named Kolep, living in London,
was sent to the Tower for alleging
that during a bad illness he had actu-
ally died and that his soul had passed
for two hours in the world beyond,
when it returned to his body.
Kolep was deprived of his property
and was sentenced to imprisonment
for life. He escaped from prison, how-
ever, and managed to make his way
back to his native country, where he
afterwards published a book giving
the experiences of his visit to the
world beyond the grave.—Stray
Stories.
RULED BY TREATY POWERS
Shanghai Only Great City in the
World That Is Under That
Form of Control.
Shanghai is an international city
—the only international city in the
world. It is controlled and governed
by the treaty powers, which include
all the principal powers that have es-
| tablished treaty relations with China,
| except France, which has its own ter-
ritory or concession adjoining the in-
settlement. In such a
| community unique solutions have to be
“ound for unique problems. and no
swroblem has been more difficult than
that of the administration of justice.
[for the foreign resident it is a sim-
ple matter, writes Nathaniel Peffer in
He is subject only to
the laws of his own country. because
of the privilege of extra-territoriality
which China conceded to foreign
powers some T0 years ago. when she
was forced to concede so much else,
including parts of her territory. Thus,
for the American, there is an Ameri-
ean distriet attorney to administer
American law, just as in New York,
Chicago. San Francisco or Joplin. As
! for the British, Russian. Japanese or
Italian. even if no special court has
been established for him, there is at
least a consular court. The result is
of course, that your neighbor can do
things with impunity that would "net
you $25 and costs, or vice versa.
ugatan Finds Some Mischief Still—"
The mischief of water is not that
it does not run, but that, not running,
it corrupts, and, corrupting, breeds
poisonous miasma, So that they who
live in the neighborhood inhale dis-
ease at every breath. The mischief
of indolence is not that it neglects
the use of powers and the improve-
ment of the opportunities of life, but
that it breeds morbid conditions in
every part of the soul. An indolent
man is like an unoccupied dwelling.
Scoundrels sometimes burrow in it.
Thieves and evil characters make it
their haunt; or, if they do not, it is
full of vermin. A house that is used
does not breed moths half so fast as
a house that, having the beginnings of
them. stands empty. Woe be to them,
who take an old house, and carry
their goods into it! A lazy man is
an old house full of moths in every
part.
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Origin of “Dutch.”
The word “Dutch” is derived from
the German ‘deutsch,” meaning Ger-
man and the original meaning in Eng-
lish was German, Teutonic, except in
local, careless or slang usage. The
German language is classified into
high and low German, the low being
spoken by the people of the Nether-
lands, formerly designated as the low
Dutch language. Gradually the usage
Las changed until in modern times it
has reference only to the inhabitants
of the Netherlands, their language,
ete. Thus Dutch furniture signifies a
style developed in Holland in the sev-
enteenth century.
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Wonders of a New York Church.
All Saints’ church. New York city,
built in 1824, contains a wealth of in-
teresting antiquities which may be
seen, however, only at the regular
services. Among its wonders are a
museum of Dutch antiquities, the only
open and unchanged slave galleries in
the United States, the only colonial
window left in New York, the only
' three-decker chancel arrangement left
in the East.—Automobile Blue Book.