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HAD CLEAR VISION OF RAL
Amaginative Canadian Writer Locke:
into the Future With Sight That
Was Prophetic.
A remarkable imaginative predic-
-tion of wireless telephony was mate
‘by Grant Balfour (J. M. Grant) oi
“P'oronto in a triologue which appeared
An an English magazine in 1889, and
was afterward reproduced in a
‘pamphlet entitled “Bahrak-Kohl,~
two Hebrew words, meaning the voice
«of the lightning. The characters of
this little treatise were represented
48 in the neighborhood of the Jordan.
“The prophet now took from his
girdle,” says the narrative, “a smal!
instrument resembling a trumpet for
the deaf. Coming down to Mohamed,
lie asked him to turn his right side
toward the south and to put the broad
end of the instrument to his right
ear. The prophet then inquired where
this home was.
,“‘My home, replied Mohammed, ‘is
in the extreme south of Arabia, 1,460
miles away.’
“ ‘Listen now, said the prophet;
dost thou hear the sound of waves?
“¢ do, replied the sheik. ‘Where
may they be?
“Phese waves,” answered the proph-
et, ‘are the waves of the Indian ocean
breaking upon the Arabian shore.”
Further describing the instrument.
the prophet said: “The thing before
thee is but a rude pattern in part of
tiie coming needed device of man. No
such device is required by a prophet
of the Lord to entrust the lightn.ng
with a message: The prophet speaks,
may, he needs but to will, and it is
done.,”—Toronto Globe.
GREEK ART LONG IN MAKING
Mistaken Idea Too Long Held That
It Was a Thing of Spon-
tanecus Growth.
Every now and then some extreme
modernist comes forward with the
statement that the Greek inspiration
has no place in the art of our time
Yet, from a broad modern standpoint,
“classic art” has so greatly enlarged
its scope and widened its horizon that
it seems in no danger of dying out of
the present-day world. What used to
be called “the classic traditions” have
long since died out and given place to
new conceptions of the origins of
Greek art, and the tendency of mod:
ern criticism is also to revise old ideas
of late classic styles. Any and all
periods of llellenic development are
accepted—in their relation to our own
time, rather than as absolute, consery
ative ideals of beauty.
Archeology has, in our day, become
one of the most vividly interesting and
thoroughly alive of pursuits, continu-
ally opening up new avenues of in-
quiry, and giving light and inspira
tion to the whole field of art. Arche
ological discoveries of the last 50
years have shown that the golden
age of Greek art was more than 2,000
years in the making. It is strange
enough to think that previously it was
regarded as a spontaneous growth,
with origins veiled in impenetrable
mystery. Now, the adventurer int:
the great regions of knowledge, where
the story of Greek civilization un-
folds itself, may become possessed 0
at least the main facts of prehistoric
epochs long before Greek art became
Greek.—*“The Field of Art,” in Secrib
ner’s.
Job Led Israel Out of Egypt.
A northern visitor was playing golt
on one of the Florida winter resort
courses this spring, where the cad-
dies were largely colored boys. Most
of the boys he found to be deeply re-
ligious. It is open to question
whether they read the Bible them-
selves or absorbed most of their
knowledge through their ears, listen-
ing to their elders.
The northerner and his caddy were
walking down the fairways. “You
know considerable about the Bible,
Henry,” the player said, “I suppose
you know that when Jonah led the
children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt it took them almost a lifetime
to get to the promised land.”
“No, sir,” the colored boy replied,
“that wasn’t Jonah what led the
Israels. Jonah never done that. It
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Not If He Can Help It. ™
«fd Tom was a colored janitor.
He really was not old, but his slow
shuffle at all times had caused the
nickname. A few days ago ne was
leaning his chin on a broom handle
listening to music from a phonograph.
After :¢ few moments he started
slowly wp the stairs, dragging one foot
after the other as though he was al-
#0st exhausted.
+ “Pom,” inquired his employer, “are
you tired?”
“Never,” he replied, with a drawl,
“and I ain't never golng to get that
way.’—Indianapolis News.
Leads in Farm Telephones.
The bureau of the census counted
the telephones on the farms in th?
United States on January 1, 1920, and
found 2,508,002 of them. In other
sountries, except Canada, a telephone
on a farm is a curiosity. There are
half a dozen or more agricultural
gtates in this country in which there
are more telephones on the farms
slone than there are in the whole ter-
ritory of Italy, including the great
cities of Rome, Milan and Naples.
EL ,
MANY AND VARIED TASTES
Wide Variety of Things Considered De-
sirable Good for Import and
Export Business,
“What a good thing it is,” remarked
Anne, “that we do not all have the
same tastes. It would be a frightfully
uninteresting world if we all had the
same tastes and thought the same
things, and all wanted to do just ex-
actly what our neighbor did at the
same time she was doing it.”
Mother laughed. “That is very
true,” she sald, “but your experience
is with the little part of the world
about you. It is this difference in
taste all the world over that makes for
the import and export business. Trade
depends upon such differences for its
success. Indeed, I think the world
would have stopped going round long
ago if we all thought and di? and
liked the same things.
“The other day I read an article on
‘How Folks Differ,’ Here are some of
the things it said: ‘We chew gum, the
Hindoo takes to lime, the Patagonian
finds contentment in a bit of guano.
The children of this country delight in
candy, those of Africa like rock salt.
A Frenchman considers fried frogs a
rare delicacy, while an Eskimo Indian
thinks there is-nothing more delicious
than a stewed candle. But the South
Sea islander differs from them all;
his fancy dish is a fresh boiled mis-
sionary, with the green cotton um-
brella added for spice.’ ”—Milwaukee
Sentinel.
THREE ‘GOOD MEN AND TRUE’
Lawyer's Characterization of Town
Officials Really a Masterpiece of
Summing Up.
There dwelt down East a quaint old
character, “Lawyer Hopkins,” whose
notion of the divine origin and char-
acter of justice was certainly modern
in its practicality. He occasionally
practiced law in a small way and in a
manner peculiarly his own.
On one occasion a flock of sheep dis-
appeared and their heads were found
in a flour barrel in the barn of a cer-
tain man, who was thereupon arrest-
ed and tried for sheep stealing. Law-
yer Hopkins, in conducting the de-
fense, maintained that the sheep were
not stolen, but had strayed away, as
was common in the spring.
The prosecuting attorney said:
“Yes, I know sheep do stray away this
time of year, but they do not usually
leave their heads in flour barrels in
the haymow.” :
Hopkins went to a neighboring town
to settle the case with the selectmen,
but failed and gave this report, char-
acterizing the three town officials:
“Mr. A will do nothing wrong if he
knows it; Mr. B will do nothing at all
if he knows it and Mr. C will do noth-
ing right if he knows it.”—Philadel-
phia Ledger,
Balancing of Trees.
There has been offered a very in-
teresting suggestion concerning the
utility of a tree of the irregular ar-
rangement of its branches. Watching
a large plane tree during a gale, an
observer noted that while one great
limb swayed in one direction, another
swayed the opposite way, and al-
though all the branches were plunging
and bending before the blast, they did
not move in unison, or all at once in
the same direction. But for the pe-
culiarity in the motion of the branches,
it is thought, the tree could not have
escaped uprooting; and the investiga-
tor suggests that this kind of balanc-
ing serves in general to protect large
trees, white oaks and beeches, which
have their branches unsymmetrically
placed, from being overturned by high
winds.—Washington Star.
“Gallows Hili.”
Formerly in each county in England
there were a number of such hills,
relics of which still exist in spots.
Tyburn, the historic place of execu-
tion outside the limits of London, was
situated on a hill, nearby which the
Marble arch of Hyde park now stands.
On the Surrey downs near Hind head
and the Devil’s Punch-Bowl there is
another marked by a gibbet cross,
and in 1786 a memorial tablet bear-
ing the following legend was erected
there.
“Hrected in destestation of a bar-
barous Murder Committed here on an
unknown Sailor; Sept. 24, 1786, by
Edwd. Lonegon. Michl. Casey & Jas.
Marshall, Who were all taken the same
day, And hung in Chains near this
place.”—Literary Digest.
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Keep the Mind Healthy.
If you would be healthy, look to your
thoughts. The health stream, if pol-
luted at all, is polluted at the foun-
tainhead—in the thought, in the ideal.
You cannot hold ill-health thoughts,
disease thought in mind, without hav-
ing them pictured in the body. The
thought will be expressed in the body
somewhere, and its quality will deter-
mine the results—sound or unsound,
healthful or unhealthful. There can-
not be harmony, ease in the body with
disease in the mind. Never affirm or
repeat or think about your health
what you do not wish to be true.—Ex-
change.
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Sufficient Enlightenment.
“What do you understand by the
term, ‘an enlightened voter.”
“go far as I am concerned,” said
the chronic ofiice seeker, “an enlight-
ened voter is a constituent who shakes
me fervently Ly the hand and telis me
that if his vote will keep me in pub-
lie life I'll never live to see the prefix
‘ex’ printed before my name.”"—Bir-
mingham Age-Herald.
DOG WAS THERE, ALL RIGHT
Train Conducter Quite Mistaken if He
Tnought Animal Couid Nct
Stand the Pace.
In the early days there was a railroad
in Tennessee whicn allowed its con-
auctors to make their own rules af-
fecting the traveling public. Some-
times one conductor had rules in di-
rect conflict with the other. One of
tite conductors wouid permit passen-
gers to take their dogs into the
coaches with them. The conductor
running opposite would not allow a
dog on his train, not even in the bag-
gage car. ' One day some hunters, re-
turning to the city, met the conductor
who would not allow a dog to ride on
his train. When the train left the sta-
tion the dog followed tied to the train,
and had no difficulty in keeping up
with it. When the conductor saw what
was happening he was highly incensed
over the disrespect shown to his train.
“Watch your old dog when we start
down grade,” he stormed, “and see
what happens to him. You think you
are making fun of my train.” A little
later, when on the down grade, the
conductor approached the rear plat-
form and, not seeing the dog, called
to the owner: “Now, tell me, vlease,
what has become of your dog” “Right
here,” retorted the passenger, point-
ing to a big hole in the floor of the
coach. “See him under there? He just
came under the coach to trot along in
the shade.”—San Francisco Argonaut.
RACK IN PALECLITHIC TIMES
Custom of Erecting Cairns Above
Bodies of Dead Was Common in
Those Days.
In Paleolithic times, before the At-
Laaitic burst in at Gibraltar, bands of
white men often came down from
what is now Russia. They foliowed
he Euxine river, along the present
bed of the Aegean sea, skirting to the
west of a lake that washed the shores
? Crete and entered Africa near what
is now Tripoli. They were savage
men who carried stone axes, stone-
tipped lances, and huge maces. Their
eyes were blue, they had long beards,
and wavy red, copper, or sandy hair,
They brought their families with them,
whole groups trudging on by wood and
glade.
Horses to them meant only animals
to be killed and eaten, never to be
tamed or ridden. Zhen one of their
Jjoved ones died the whole group
stopped and together they heaped a
cairn of stone and earth above the
body. The custom of building funeral
tumuli was common in their native
Russia. That land is still dotted by
innumerable burlal kurgans, extending
eastward far into Siberia. In Egypt
the kurgan grew to be the pyramid.
One Method of Ghost-Baiting.
The London Daily Express says
that the bishop of London may like
this, or he may not. A®yway, it is
true: A correspondent tells me that
the other day he was in a part of
Kent where there is an interesting
thatched cottage reputed to be 600
years old, and haunted. The tenants
told him that on the first night of
their occupation their dogs showed
the greatest reluctance to enter the
hedroom. Ultimately one was per-
suaded to sleep there, and in the mid-
dle of the night he awoke and growled
furiously. Still growling, he ad-
vanced with bristling hackles toward
an old Jacobean cupboard in the cor-
ner. Obviously there was something
uncanny about. “What did you do?”
asked my friend at this point.
«I stuck the bishop of London’s
picture on the door,” said the mis-
tress of the house, triumphantly.
“That did it.”
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Odd Name for Legislature.
The first legislature of the state of
California is known in the political
history of that commonwealth as “the
Legislature of a Thousand Drinks.”
There are various theories as to how
it earned this sobriquet, the most pop-
ular being that it is simply an allusion
to the well-known tendency exhibited
by the early Californians to find in
the goblet everything from a mode of
entertaining potential constituents to
a balm for the defeated candidate.
But the term probably originated,
not from this far-flung custom, but
from a man named Green, who con-
ducted a saloon near the state house
in San Jose, where the body met.
When the legislature adjourned it was
his custom to meet the lawmakers at
the door and call out, “Come on, boys,
let's take a thousand drinks!”
One Good Effect of Sermon.
A southern revival meeting was in
progress. The parson was in an ec-
static state of reform. ‘“Brudders and
sistahs, I wants to warn you against
de heinous crime ob shooting craps
and fuddermo’ I wants to warn you
‘bout de heinous crime ob stealing wa-
termelon.” At this juncture a darky
in the back of the tent rose up,
snapped his fingers, and sat down
again. “Wharfo’, brudder, does yo’ rise
up and snap yo’ fingahs at my adjura-
tions?’ “You jes’ reminds me, pahson,
whar all I lef’ ma jackknife,” was the
penitent response.
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Grammar Vs. Veracity.
The editor poised his pencil. “You
say here that Mr. Longbow is lying at
death’s door. We'll just make that
laying.’ ”
“But that's not good English,” pro-
tested the reporter.
“No,” replied the editor, “but it's
better to make a grammatical error
than to offend Longbow’s relatives.
His reputation for veracity is notori-
ously bad.”—Boston Transcript.
22,500 Sets of 1923 Auto Tags Sent
Out.
bile license tags were shipped from
the State Highway Department’s au-
tomobile division for 1923 last week,
20,000 sets being put in the mail as
well as 2500 sets for commerical ve-
hicles.
Shipments will continue daily, ar-
rangements having been made for
handling by postal authorities in the
automobile division offices, so that
they will go to 288 parcel post divis-
ions. The tags go direct to trains
from the department building.
cation accompanied by a check for
ny filed applications for 1923 for al-
most its whole fleet.
memes fear
How it Happened.
Five villains, with ‘gyves upon their
wrists, sat in durance vile.
“It is strange,” said we, “that you
five stalwart scoundrels, after robbing
the bank, and maltreating all persons
who sought to stay you, should have
allowed yourselves to be knocked down
Act Quickly
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gel.”
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browed of the lot. “Our lack of fore-
thought was our undoing. We expect-
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ly armed posse, which could not run
and capture a lost gosling. Instead,
we met the lame lad with a club, who
meant business and had no desire to
show off. Of course, we did not know
how to comport ourselves.”—Kansas
City Star.
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man who comes with his mind
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That’s the trouble; so many
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