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BELL CASTING IN OLD JAPAN
Peopie Gather in Thousands to Wit-
ness Ceremony Which Has Deep
Religious Significance.
The making of the bell in old Japan
was accomplished by great and soleren
rites, Marjorie Latta Barstow writes
in Asia. For months, sometimes for
years, the community had been cou-
tributing of its bronze and copper or-
paments and precious possessions.
For many days before the casting
there were prayers to determine the
auspicious moment at which to begin,
and to put all spiritual beings and
ministers of grace in a propitious
mood. Pilgrims came from all the
surrounding country, for the Japanese
of long ago loved a pilgrimage as
much as do their descendants today;
and made of their act of piety an op-
portunity to enjoy a little festivity
and see something of the great world,
On the appointed day, men gathered
in their finest attire. Then the priests
appeared in rich ecclesiastical bro-
cades and the workmen in robes beau-
tiful and sanctified. With prayer and
ceremony the work reached its climax.
The great molds were prepared and
the flaming, molten mass, into which
had gone so many precious things,
was to them what the dedication of a
cathedral was to the believers of the
middle ages. Before their eyes and
with their own co-operation, some-
thing intangible and divine assumed
shape and tangibility. Many went
away to become heroes in their vil-
lages because they had participated
in the making of the great bell, which
became more precious and mysterious
as time went on, and they passed on
to their children’s children, even down
to this day, the souvenirs of the occa-
sion, inscribed with prayers by the
presiding priests.
RETAIN THEIR WILD INSTINCT
Herds of “Tame” Buffalo Have Much
in Common With Their Brethren
Who Have Freedom.
The “tame” buffalo of Yellowstone
National Park, are tame only in the
manner of speaking. They retain all
the habits of the original wild species. |
For instance, they are able, without |
fail, to predict a heavy storm for one
or two days in advance. As the buf-
falo of the old plains were known to
do, they point the storm, standing
.with the head toward the point from
which it afterward breaks. Another
sign of uneasiness induced by heavy
weather is the stiff-legged leaping and
running about in circles which often
.mark the herd just before a storm
preaks on their range. They live prac-
“tically in all respects the wild life of
ithe so-called wild herd of the park,
with the exception that they are
watched by horsemen and are fed hay
‘during the most inclement weather of
‘the winter, The ranges of the tame and
wild herds overlap to some extent, and
‘without doubt they occasionally inter- ;
breed. The original hope, which has
‘not been realized, was that some of the
tame herd would drift off and become
members of the wild herd.
: Ant Engineers |
It has been found that the popula-
tion of an ant hill has solved many |
_ complicated mining problems. Thou-
+ gands of ants working instinctively
. perform miraculous engineering feats
with amazing efficiency and without
profiteering. Each ant finds its own
work and the team work when the big
‘problems must be solved is surprising-
ly efficient. When one shift of workers
tires or must stop for food or rest its
place is taken by other workers equally
skillful so that not a moment is lost.
: When an ant becomes covered with
dirt others immediately clean it by
washing and brushing. During their |
mining operations in digging holes and !
removing stones an ant is often in-
jured, whereupon others rush to its
assistance and carry it to a quieter
gallery where first aid may be adminis-
tered. The resourcefulness of these
little engineers has been found to an-
ticipate many of our recent efficiency
methods.—Boys’ Life.
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House Names.
1 liked the English habit of naming
their houses; it shows the importance
they attach to their homes. All about
the suburbs of London and in the out-
lying villages I noticed nearly every
house and cottage had some appropri- |
ate designation, as Terrace house, Oak-
tree house, Ivy cottage, or some villa,
«ete, usually cut into the stone gate
~ post, and this name is put on the ad-
“dress of the letters. How much bet-
“4er to be known by your name than
by your number! I believe the same
custom prevails in the country.
. It is a good feature. A house or a
farm with an appropriate name, which
. everybody recognizes, n#dist have an
» added value and importance.—John
' Burroughs.
Was Sunday Your Birthday?
People born on this day may not
. live long, but will achieve many great
* things and win much renown while
"they do. They will learn many trades
, and will make and spend much meney,.
their chief trouble coming through
* their marriage. They will be subject
. to headache, toothache and fever, and
» may be in danger from fire and
J.plagues. They will be much beloved,
will marry more than once and will
be lucky in dealing with horses.
NO SUBSTANCE TO DREAMS
Writer Gives Reasons for Her Refusal
to Have Any Belief in Common
Superstitions.
The mind during sleep reminds me of
a naughty child, writes Marion Holmes
in the Chicago Daily News. With a
normal person during waking hours
reason controls it and when it seems
inclined to let loose a foolish train
of thought rebukes it with “Nonsense!
behave yourself!” But when reason
goes to sleep the mind has seasons
of wild capering. It makes you do
things that when awake would scorch
you with blushes. It causes you to
go to church dressed in your very
best except your shoes and stockings,
which you find you have left at home.
It makes you marry a dark man with
big black whiskers when you already
have a perfectly satisfactory husband
who is blond and smooth faced. There
is nothing that it will not do uncon-
trolled by reason. Therefore I never
have had much faith in the prophetic
quality of dreams, although there are
persons whe pin their faith to those
so-called warnings. We have heard
them say. “I dreamed last night that
I had lost a tcoth. That means bad
news,” or “I dreamed of walking
among ruined buildings. That means
that somebody in the family is going
to be ill,” and, like fortune telling, the
predictions that do not “make good”
are forgotten.
A recurrent dream is of no impor-
tance. I have known the same stage
setting with its incidents to be pre-
sented over and over in sleeping vis-
‘ons without ever reaching its coun-
terpart in reality. An’ uncomfortable
position during sleep, or the fact that
vou are not feeling well often occa-
zions troubled dreams.
NEW THEORY IN ASTRONOMY
Possibility That There Is a Tail At-
tached to Our Earth Leads to
Ingenious Suggestions.
Opposite to the sun there is a very
mysterious glowing patch, which is
thought to be attached to the earth
as a cometlike tail.
The highest regions of our atmos-
phere consist of very light gases, and
the impression is that some of these
were driven away by the sun or by
other means, and that they stream off
from the earth into space just as the
| light gases do from the head of a
large comet,
Naturally, this theory has aroused
much controversy, and has led to all
sorts of ingenious suggestions. One
of these is that a swarm of meteors
(of the kind we know as shooting
stars) keeps us company through
space at a distance of abont a million
miles, or four times the distance of
the moon. But a tailed earth is an
ideal- vehicle for imaginative flights.
It might be argued that if our globe
has a tail why should not the planets
Mercury and Venus, and even Mars,
have one. Well, perhaps they have,
ior all we know to the contrary. Our
)arth’s tail would be much more
casily seen by us because of its near-
uess and brightness.
Soft Beds in Ancient Days.
According to Athenaeus, effeminate
in ancient Greece some-
gentlemen
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tion and distribution.
Concentration of population drove the peddler
and his wagon out and brought the modern pack-
ing industry and the neighborhood retailer in his
place.
And the modern packing business means this:
That near the farms and ranches, the centers
of live stock production, are packing plants that
assemble and manufacture the meat products
you use.
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mie meat peddler of the old days, who killed
his own live stock and then sold the meat from
the tail of a cart, is gone from our larger towns
He was a pioneer and did good service
but he couldn't keep up with his job.
methods had to give way to new ideas in sanita-
times slept on beds of sponge. Fash-
ionable people in Athens slept under
coveriets of dressed peacock skins,
with the feathers on. Clearchus, the
author of a treatise on sleep, described
the bed of a Paphian prince in such a
way that it is difficult to keep awake
while reading it. “Over the soft mat-
tresses,” he writes “was flung an ex-
pensive short-grained Sardinian carpet.
A coverlet of down texture succeeded,
and upon this was cast a costly coun-
terpane of Amorginian purple. Cush-
ious variegated with the richest purple
supported his head, while two soft
Dorian pillows of pale pink gently
raised his feet.”
Democratic Cigar Names.
The nomenclature of tie cigar trade
is one of the very interesting phases
of democracy, says the Philadelphia
Public Ledger. No agent intent upon
building up a market for a 10 cent
cigar ever named it for a statesman.
He compliinented, instead, an actor,
a philanthropist, a race horse, a hypo-
thetical Indian maiden or a supposi-
titious Spanish grandee. To have
named a 10 cent cigar for a states-
man would have been to ‘“‘queer” both
the cigar and its involuntary patron.
The people would not have stood for
that sort of thing.
It would have |
presumed a certain superiority which i
they would have rebuked both at the !
cigar stand and at the polls.
Cure for Flat Feet.
‘Are you flat-footed? If you don't
know, the next time you take a bath,
observe the impressions that your wet
feet make. If your feet are normal,
there will be a narrow line from heel
to toe on the outside; if they are flat,
the entire bottom
show,
How can you cure flat-footedness?
Buy a handful of marbles, place them
in two rows, and start picking them
up with your toes. To do this you
must curl up your toes; as a result
the muscles of the feet will be exer-
cised and thereby strengthened.—Pop-
ular Science Monthly.
Time to Go.
“She i'd ‘No’?
“Yes,” said the dejected suitor.
“Cheer up. A woman's ‘No’ some
times means ‘Yes.,""” :
“Not in this case. The door bel
yang and she produced the other man.’
-Birmingham Age-Herald.
Becos Eaten for Revenge.
Bees are usually employed as manu-
acturers of honey. which is every-
where considered a delicious food, bu:
there are places where the bees theri-
selves serve as a food.
The negroes of Guiana, when stung
bv a lee, proceed to catch as many as
{hey can and in revenge eat them. It
would be interesting to know whal
happens as an effect of the sting thus
taken internally. :
In Ceylon the natives hold a torch
under the hee swarm hanging to a
treo, catch them as they drop, then
carry them home, boil them and eat
hem.-—Papular Science Monthly.
Turned Down.
Closeman—Sorry to refuse you, oid
man. but my money likes company.
I'nrrows—What do you mean?
Soseman—It can’t bear to be @
loan.—Boston Transcript.
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That swift and sanitary refrigerator cars carry
your meat from these packing plants to every
_ Dealers in towns and villages are’ supplied
directly and regularly from these refrigerator cars.
And in cities the refrigerator car is unloaded
into branch houses, chilled and sanitary, from
which deliveries are made to your meat shop.
And all the time the meat is kept so chilled that
deterioration is prevented.
Swift & Company's plants and branches are
co-ordinated, interchanging supply and support-
ing each other, when necessary, so that no section
of the country may ever lack its daily meat.
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Spirits of Fierce Birds Ara Croiion 1
Deprivation cf Sleep for Lo..
Periods.
The Asiatic eagle i3 the goeklon
ecgle. It is a big bird, many pounes
in weight, sud exceedingly swift
flight, as well as fierce when attached
Indeed, 'to see the natives on borse-
back carrying golden eagles on their
arms is a strange sight, for the birds
are usually tame, when one considers
how they act when free.
The eagle fancier has a probleni
in taming, much less training, a gold-
en eagle. The eagle hunter finds
where an eagle frequently rests dur-
ing the day, He climbs to this place
and ties a live fox there, trailing the
repe into some heaped-up stones to
form a cavern in which he hides, fir-
lv grasping the rope.
When the attention of the soaring
eagle is attracted by the fox, the eagie
drops down and Kills it. So intent
is the greedy bird on tearing his prey
that he decesn’t notice the dead fox
is slowly being drawn along the
rocks, When it is within easy reacu
the hunier casts a net over the eagle
and secures him.
Kept absolutely in darkness, ane
with drums beating night and dus
so it cannot sleep, the spirit of th:
eagle is broken. When he shows sign
of submission the trainer feeds him
little at a time and gradually wins
his respect, if not his affection. Vit
the passage of months the eagle a
taches itself to the man who feed:
ard trains him.—Detroit News.
(GNORED WEALTH UNDER £007
Spanish Treasure Seckers Meccked by
Fate When They Overlooked
Vast Mountain of Iron,
Near Mercado mountain, Mexico, a
legend goes, Spanish soldiers slew an
Aztec chief, who said that the hill
was the upthrust finger of the Spir-
it of Fury, and that it would some
day avenge the folly of Spain. The
incident was in time related at court,
and the fine men and women there
laughed over it,
Like the gold seekers who over-
looked the fortunes that were un-
der their feet in the wonderful soil
of the English portions of the Uni-
ted States, the Spanish silver sleuths
looked with unseeing eyes upon a
' naked, blood-colored hill worth more
than all they were to take out of
Mexico and Peru in a century. Mer-
cado used it to hang his name on.
and rode away after the metal he
had come to regard as the only form
of real wealth.
Just
this greatest body of iron ore above
ground in the world would have had,
It is a scientific fact that ‘‘as you FEEL
SO are you.’
Trim fitting, handsome new clothes,
actually make the man who wears them
not only look younger but FEEL younger.
If you don’t believe this just come in
and let us slide on to you one of our
brand new suits and overcoats. You don’t
have to buy them unless you want to.
We never urge anyone to buy, We let
our CLOTHING do it.
Wear our good, “Nifty” clothes.
what effect the discovery of :
had the explorers grasped its real |
value, is hard to say. But there is
hardly a more mocking incident in
history than that of the Spanish sol-
diers, when Spain was surfeited with
silver and destitute of iron, circling
around one of the most perfect iron
supplies on the face of the earth, and
cursing their luck because they had
found nothing of value beyond the
mountains. :
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