Bellefonte, Pa., June 1, 1928
TRIBE'S REFUSE
NNLY MONUMENT
Find Kitchen Middens Left by
Calusa Indians.
Washington.—When the Calusa In-
dians, who dominated southern Flor
ida when the Spaniards landed, and
who were reported to have grown rich
on the shipwrecked gold of the Con-
quistadores, became extinct, they left
behind them as almost their sole mon-
ument the refuse of the food they ate.
Their principal diet was shellfish and
the shells they threw out piled up
into heaps thirty feet high and hur
dreds of feet long.
The Smithsonian institution’s re-
cent expedition under Henry B. Col-
lins, Jr., determined the point ahout
which there had been some uncertain
ty, that these shell heaps were really
kitchen middens and not artificial
structures- with some other signifi
cance. The proof is that all the shell
heaps Investigated were stratified
with ashes, small animal bones and
other refuse from the kitchen.
The language of the Calusa, except
for a few isolated words and place
names, is lost, little or nothing is
known of their beliefs, customs or ma-
terial culture. Some mounds of soft
beach material and loose sand do ex-
ist, some of which were foundations
for houses, and others burial mounds.
Mr. Collins excavated several of these.
‘His most important find was of twen-
ty-five well preserved skeletons in »
single mound. :
Most of the bodies had been folded
with the knees to the chin and burial
was very close together. The skele-
tons were excellently preserved. The
burials probably took place before the
coming of the white man, since only
one bone was found with any evi-
dence of disease and the artifacts as
sociated with the b Is were purely
“of Dative origin. ie only objects
in the way of mortuary offerings were
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ipleces of broken pottery placed
| around the heads, an arrangement
not known among other Indians. The
mound contained no other artifacts.
‘Motor Police Seen
fig as Most Efficient
Swampscott, Mass.—The way to ef-
deiency in the small town police de-
partment lies through a completely
motorized force, says Walter Fran-
cis Reeves, chief of the Swampscott
police,
Chief Reeves is trying to put his
idea into practice here and points out
that the town’s force has shrunk
from twenty-one patrolmen and offi-
cers to fifteen men. With the de-
crease and diminished expenses have
come motor equipment, and, the chief
asserts, a far more efficient police
service.
Reeves believes that every town in
¢he United States should motorize its
force. His plan would banish the old
time “sidewalk pounder” and would
put all policemen except traffic men
in well equipped vehicles. automobiles
or motorcycles with sidecars.
A criminal, he said, can keep tah
on the old-time patrolman, but he
cannot tell when the motor-mounted
policeman may show up at any given
spot. In suburban and thickly set-
tled town districts alike, he says. po
lice are needed who can be sum:
moned at top speed.
Asiatic Monkey Aids
Yellow Fever Research
New York.—Man’s study of yellow
fever, the mysterious tropical disease
that once took heavy toll in the west-
ern hemisphere, has been expedited
by the achievements of a little band
of scientists now at work in West
Africa.
The yellow fever commission of the
mternational health board, Rockefel
ler foundation, has found an Asiatic
monkey, similar to the familiar com:
panion of the organ grinder, that is
susceptible to the disease. Working
with this primate, the commission
has already made several important
contributions to knowledge of the
fever.
The experts have been able to
transmit the virus consistently to the
monkey, known as Macacus Rhesus.
both by inoculation and by the pri
mary infective agent, the mosquito.
It has been found that the serum
from recovered cases of yellow fever
will protect monkeys against virulent
blood, an important discovery because
French Houses Pretty
but Not Comfortable
Have you ever—but of course you
have—raced down in a too swift train
from Cherbourg to Paris, through the
French countryside on a spring after-
noon when all the apple trees in Nor-
mandy are in full bloom? And through
the trees you catch a glimpse of little
old farmhouses that have stood there
in she midst of their flowering or-
chards for centuries? Enchanting,
these little houses; but according to
modern standards hardly comfortable,
says Arts and Decorations. Once in-
side, we should find the rooms too
small and crowded; the windows too
small to admit of proper ventilation;
the kitchen antiquated, and the work
done there made doubly difficult be-
cause of lack of equipment. No, these
little houses are lovely to look at; on
a walking trip. if night came on too
quickly, one might enjoy staying over
night, perhaps, sharing a French sup-
per with the farmer's household, en
famille, gathered about the kitchen
table: sleeping in one of the little
rooms under the thatched roof, listen-
ing to the sleepy chirp of birds in the
long soft twilight. But to live in one
of these houses—impossible. It re-
mains for our own young country to
combine much of the charm of these
old Normandy farmhouses with Twen-
tieth century comfort.
Device Said to Be
Superior to X-Ray
Dr. Andre Tours, a Frenchman, has
discovered a means of making the hu-
man body transparent, so that all the
organs will be seen working as in a
mirror. The doctor has refused all
financial assistance, and also an offer
to go to the United States. He is de-
termined that the first data shall b~
given to medical men of France.
If flesh can be made transparent sO
that the bones can be seen clearly by
surgeons and osteopaths, X-rays will
be dispensed with in locating internal
troubles. The doctor in future will be
able to see the trouble at once with-
out diagnosing blindly. In cases of
consumption and cancer the trans
parency of flesh will be an enormou”
boon to medical men.
Doctor Tours claims that his dis
covery will assist experts in tracing
the eause of death where murder is
suspected. The presence of poison
will be easily detected, and in the case
of shooting the exact course of a bul-
let will be traced.
Explained
The newly appointed pastor of a
negro church faced a packed audience
when he arose to ‘deliver a sermon op
the burning question: *Is There a
Hell?”
“Bredren,” he said, “de Lord made
the world round like a ball.” .
“Amen!” agreed the cengregation.
“And the Lord made two axles fo
Je world to go round on, one axle at
the North pole and one axle at de
Souf pole. :
“And de Lord put a lot of oil ana
Jrease in de center of de world so as
to keep de axles well greased and
oiled.”
“Amen!” said the congregation.
“And then a lot of sinners dug wells
.n Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Louisiana.
Oklahoma, Texas and Mexico and
Russia. and steal de Lerd’s oil and
grease,
“And some day dey will have all ot
de Lord's oil and grease, and dem
axles is gonna git hot. And den, dat
will be hell, bredren, dat will be hell.”
—Prairie Farmer.
Timber Loss by Insects
The standing timber of the country
suffers a serious loss by reason of the
operations of various insects which
either destroy the wood or damage fit
to such an extent that it must be
placed in a lower grade by the dealer
The government agents have recently
given this matter some investigation
and an elaborate report has been pre
pared advising growers and handlers
how to cut down this loss. The prin-
cipal damage comes under two types
of defects, designated as wormholes,
with no living worms or decay, and
powder post. Powder post occurs
only in the seasoned or partially sea-
soned sapwood or heartwood. This
type of injury is dangerous, since the
grubs continue their destructive work
in the wood and also infect other tim-
ber near by.
False Alarm
Mr. Linkins, the junior member ot
che firm, had a peculiarly irritating
sneeze. It began with an elaborate
and terrifying series of facial convui-
sions, and ended with a most lame
CATCH LIGHTNING,
TO BREAK ATOMS
May Present World With Mys-
terious New Force.
Berlin.—Like Benjamin Franklin,
three young German scientists have
gone fishing in the clouds to catch
lightning and tame it.
They hope to release atomic energy
with the help of the terrifically high
electrical voltage which they drag
down from the thunderstorms in the
skies with a huge wire net strung
between the peaks of Mount Gen-
eroso in Switzerland.
So far, the only promising efforts
to demolish the atom have been made
by means of radium on a small scale.
But the Germans will attempt demo-
lition of the atom in a wholesale man-
per, with the aid of 5,000,000 volts
of electricity coaxed from the clouds.
This audacious dream stands with-
in a few months of realization, ac-
cording to the belief of the young
scientists, Doctors Lange, Brasch and
Urban, all under thirty and students
at the University of Berlin.
If this be true, the young wizards
may present the world with an im-
measurably powerful and mysterious
force, or ray, which will revolutior
‘ze things material. :
These modern gods of thunder and
lightning have searched out the lo-
cality in the Swiss Alps visited most
frequently by natural electrical din
charges.
Last summer, with the help of all
the discoveries of learned scholars
since the time of “Poor Richard” and
his kite, the Germans found that 2,
000,000 volts could be controlled bv
their method.
Their “lightning tamer” was a fair-
ly simple device, merely an enormous
spread of wire mesh provided with
bristling points. It was suspended
on a cable between peaks with three
sets of insulators and a complicated
apparatus for measuring the current,
From a tiny, lightning-proof hut,
the young wizards watched as the
lightning struck the points of the net
again and
They plan to return to the lonely
hut on the rocky cliff to renew thelr
experiments as soon as the snow
melts. They are certain that they
will be able to control 5,000,000 volts
by improving their devices.
Sword of De Soto’s
Expedition Is Found |
Carters, Ga.—Traces of Hernando
De Soto's expedition through north
Georgia were believed discovered near
here, when a hilt, guard and part of
a blade of an iron sword were un-
earthed in an Indian mound by Dr.
Warren K. Moorehead, head of the
department of archeology of Phillips
academy, Andover, Mass.
The part of the sword was founa
«mid a score of skeletons and cere-
monial relies which Doctor Moorehead
declared were of a pre-Columbian age,
which he considered most significant.
The sword was found beside the
skeleton of a warrior and stuck
straight up in the ground, where it
probably had been placed after the
brave had been buried, Doctor Moore-
head said. This reiic of the white
man’s invasion of north Georgia meas-
from iron, a strong indication that it
Moorehead declared.
in addition to the sword, many
“war points,” fine arrowheads used in
Battle, were found at the right hand
of the warrior, who was buried alone.
At the feet lay a spade of delicate
green granite, perforated and highly
polished, which the Andover scientist
said was a symbol! of the tribe's re-
spect for its religion, as it was too
frail for actual usage.
The skegrton was found in what ap-
parently had been a hut made of posts
of cedar and pine that were in an ex-
cellent state of preservation consider-
ing the centuries they had been buried.
Take Clerk’s Pants
New York.—Solomon Weisman, a
clerk in the Kaufman hat store, was
held up recently in the store at the
point of a revolver by two men who
took $61 from the cash register and 2
watch valued at $50. Then, to prevent
Weisman from following them, they
took his trousers and fled.
Prehistoric Survivor
London.—The plesiosaurus, esti-
mated by scientists’'to have lived one
hundred million years ago, may not
be extinct, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
thinks. He believes he saw one him-
gelf off the coast of Aegina some
i land, recently.
| was lucky and became extremely in-
ured about six inches and was made |
Apparently There Is
Much Virtue in Soap
Kings are like other human beings.
They need to be washed occasionally.
Even when they exist only in bronze.
King Henry VII bas his. tomb in
Westminster abbey. Nobody ever paid
any attention to the grave. The monu-
ment was considered to be of no im-
portance, historically or esthetically.
From this opinion to the belief that
King Henry VII did not amount to
much as a monarch, was only a step.
Somebody had the notion to clean the
tomb a short time ago. The stone
was scrubbed and the bronze polished
up. Great Burprise. The sculpture
was discovered to be the magnificent
work of an Italian artist, Pietro Tor-
regiano, of whom Kipling speaks in
his novel, “Just So.” Since that time
thousands of visitors to the abbey
have asked to see the masterpiece.
and . . book publishers report
that there has been a sudden demand
for works on Henry VIL Henry might
be recognized, one of these days as a
great king, thereby establishing that
fame depended on a little bit of soap.
—Pierre Van Paassen, in the Atlanta
Constitution.
Left Freak Songbird
Guessing as to Class
People who know Mr, Gatti-Casazza,
director of the Metropolitan opera,
know he has a positive talent for
dealing with bores. Here is the new-
est story they are telling in musics’
circles about him:
One of his songbirds, a man not a
bit lacking in self-assurance, hus a
voice of peculiar range. He started
as a tenor, changed his mind and reg-
ister and warbled for a while as a
baritone and then actually sang as a
basso. One day he cornered the busy
Mr. Gatti and edged him into an audi-
tion chamber at the opera house. First
he sang his tenor notes, then his bari-
tone, then rendered a few bars basso
profundo. After which he drew him-
self up and with the utmost pride de
manded : :
“Tell me, am I a tenor, a baritone o*
a basso?”
“No!” roared Gatti, seizing his hat
and leavin room.—New York Sun
2 "Chilly Forecast ii
The ‘earth is growing in bulk on ac-
count of the meteoric dust that falls
on it. It has recently been estimated
that 100 tons fall daily over the sur-
face of the globe and that millions of
years hence this will have increased
the thickness of the earth consider-
ably. This would have a tendency to
bring us closer to the sun. But centrif-
ugal force is augmented at the same
time in greater proportion and coun-
teracts this tendency; consequently
the earth would be swept away from
the sun, with the result that its dis-
tance from that body would be con-
siderably augmented. This is spoken
of as having possibly happened to
some of the larger, outer planets—
notably Jupiter—in the remote past.
Why Bishop Quit Betting
That he spoke from experience when
denouncing betting, was the declara-
tion of Stirling Woolcombe, bishop of
Whitby, at a meeting in York, Eng-
“While at Oxford 1
terested,” he said. “My last bet was
' ten shillings on a five-to-one winner
came from De Soto's band, Doctor |
of the Chester, cup, yet my friend and
' I resolved after the race never to bet
again, not because we had lost—we
had won a considerable sum—but be-
cause we were finding out that when
betting enters into you it saps your
highest interests. I believe it would
have driven me to hell if I had gone
on with it.”
Odd Reason for Delay
Mr. Jones rang the bell at the new
doctor’s house. Usually he went to
hie old family doctor, but the new man
happened to live nearer and it was an
urgent call.
The doctor's wife answered the ring
“You wish to see the doctor?” she
said. “Couldn’t you come tomorrow
morning?”
“Why,” said Jones, “isn’t the doc
tor in?”
“Oh, yes, he’s in,” said the woman
wistfally, “but you're his first patient,
and I'd like you to come as a surprise
for him tomorrow. You see, it’s his
‘birthday.”
Ancient English Dance
In the English morris dance, whick
evolved from the sword dance, swords
are discarded for sticks or handker-
chiefs. The morris men, six in num-
ber, are dressed in short trousers and
jerkins adorned with bright-colored
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