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in Private Ownership |
Among our primitive ancestors |
there were no such things as a will or i
even inheritance by a limited pum- |
Sree iuheritonss BY 4 A
ing to inherit or to will All property |
| was community property. When a
| man dled he simply ceased to use the |
_ | common property “pool,” and without
| any formalities the surviving mem-
| bers of the group continued to make
| use of It.
When private ownership of things
and land came to be recognized, the
governing unit—village, tribe or state |
—found that it had to take some ac
| Frwate O°
n city or town the country round,
In sunlight and in shade,
re the scouring twins, the cook who
grins,
And the pancakes Auntie made. i
‘he salad oil time cannot spoil,
And fountain pens by Scores;
rime canned fish for all who wish,
Polish for waxing floors.
tion when a man died, leaving prop- |
erty. If nothing were done, anyone |
who happened to be near or strong |
might seize the ownerless property, |
even though he were a total stranger i
to or even an enemy of its former
owner. Tribal concepts of falr play
came into operation, and it was rec-
| ognized that the dead man's family
| should have first claim tc his former
belongings, From this developed the
customs and laws of Inheritance which
| have taken varied, and In some cases, |
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‘hen gum and jam and ham what am,
With pickles crisp and green; i
‘he biscuits round, the cornmeal ground, |
And Boston's famous bean. |
ure family soap and cigaret dope,
Carnish that lasts for years;
jome-made bread, chickens milk-fed—
It drives one quite to tears. !
do not like the colored signs,
They don't appeal to me;
.merica has scenery
I'd really like to see!
| very complex forms, in different parts |
| of the world.—National Geographic
| Society Bulletin. |
—Anon. |
ee eee Raisin Pie Only Thing
VHY LEAVES CHANGE New Yorker Can’t Find
COLOR IN EARLY AUTUMN Some people, it seems, are uever
«What causes the leaves of trees satisfied.
o change color in the fal?” is a The New Yorker, having been In
\uestion frequently asked of the town four months, has already been
gratified by the sight of a venerable
gentleman with his whiskers caught '
in a subway door, but he says he |
can't rest until he sees a passenger
carry & bale of hay Into a subway |
sar, |
He's seen almost every other con- |
ceivable package and bundle, including
a dog measuring only half a head short-
er than a Great Dane, carried in a |
blanket. Just the other day he was one
of the victims buffeted about by a large
and energetic woman hurrying into a
shuttle train at Times square with a
pair of 10-foot wooden curtain poles.
Another thing this insatiable New
Yorker craves to find is raisin ple.
He's tried no less than 33 eating |
places, from coffee pots up in the gas-
tronomic scale of excellence, and all
he gets when he asks for his favorite |
dessert 1s a negative headshake and a
sad smile of pity.—~New York Sun.
Secretary John W. Keller |
xplains that there is yet much to
je learned of leaf coloration.
yopular conception that frost is
yrincipally responsible for the color |
hange is now largely discounted. |
Trees, according to Keller, cease
summer growth several weeks |
jefore autumn approaches. The
ipward flow of sap gradually stops.
“he leaves have performed their
luty; their vitality becomes lower
nd they no longer waanufacture the
reen coloring matter known as
‘hlorophyll. The amount of chloro-
»hyll present in the leaves gradually
ades away. the new and
jcher hues come from has not been
:ntirely ex] Some botanists
«nd chemists declare that the colors
re the result of mineral deposits
vhich are absorbed by the fine root
\airs in the ground and are carri
1p through the tree mto the leaves.
Nith the fading of the green color-
matter, the mineral deposits
show up as yellow, reds and purples.
Early frost turns many leaves
yrown and causes them to fall be-
‘ore their autumnal colors appear.
Any cause, such as fire or drought,
vhich retards the vitality of the
eaves brings on early browning.
Nature has provided a means of
liscarding the leaves after they have
eased to work. At the base of
Deputy
Father of Observatory
The entire fund for the construction
of Lick observatory was given by |
James Lick, an American philan-
thropist, who was born at Fredericks
burg, Pa., in 1796. Formerly a piano
manufacturer in Philadelphia, Buenos
Aires, Valparaiso and elsewhere, he
settled In California in 1847, Invested |
in real estate and made a fortune. In |
1874 he placed $3,000,000 in the hands |
of seven trustees to be devoted to cer |
tain specified public and charitable
he leaf falls corky cells are formed
)n either side of the point of sev-
srance, So that when the stem
yreaks the scar is already healed.
There is a reason why, during
jome years, the autumnal colora-
jon of hills is more prilliant than
juring others. Extended periods of
irought and heat, such as occurred
ast year, Keller pointed out, ap-
sear to result in richer colors. The
wutumna! effects in regions of high
Jumidity cannot compare with the
seauty of Pennsylvania's mountain-
yus regions.
MOVEMENTS OF EYE
CAUSES CAR SICKNESS
Physicians who have made a study |
yf “car sickness" are inclined to
jlace the responsibility for this
malady on the mechanism of the in-
-ernal ear and eyes. Susecptibility
‘o the affliction, which causes many
sersons to suffer from dizziness and |
Jausea while riding in fast-moving
sehicles, seems to run in some fam-
lies, according to the Scientific,
American.
In making a special study of the
-elationship of the eyes to car sick-
Dr. James E. Lebenson pro-
juced the jerking of the eyes which |
s known as optical n
it the same time
shanges that
stomach. A cylinder marked in
slack and white was revolved before
the patient's eyes to produce ocular
aystagmus, and water ‘was
thrown into the ear t produce
abyrinth or internal ear nystagmus. |
At the same time the contractions
»f the empty stomach were measur
»d by the movements of an instru-
ment connected with a balloon swal-
iowa #54 Toi aimed rs storey | rows which are still far too numerous |
or Le CE aaurbed| the dairy herds of the land. |
1sually avoid riding backward and |
savor the front seat of a motor car
where there is less jarring and where
the view is less constricted. He |
points out also that when the land
traveler gazes at the scene hiseyes.
slowly follow the objects in the
pe, which appear to be mov-
ng backward As these objects
uses. Among his principal bequests |
were those to the University of Call-
fornia for the erection of an observa-
tory and procuring a telescope supe-
rior and larger than any constructed,
for which $700,000 was given.
How to Better Poor Posture
Bodily poise is just as importaut as
social poise to the really attractive
woman. Poor posture will spoil the
, effect of the most expensive gown,
but if posture is poor, it's easy to im- |
prove it, Kathleen Howard writes in
Harper's Bazaar,
“Here Is one way to do it” she
writes. “Stand In front of your mir- |
ror, without your clothes, and turn |
sideways. You may see reflected a
bad case of swayback. If you do. put |
one hand below your waist on your |
back and put the other In front, on
your abdomen. Then roll the tip of
your spine under and up, at the same
time keeping your head well up. It
really works."
Huge Herd for Candy
The production of milk which goes
annually Into the milk chocolate Indus-
try is no mean task. If the cows nec- |
essary to yield the milk could be lined
up and milked In one day there would |
be 4,000,000 better-than-average cows
in the line. The 40 firms turning out
chocolate products last year consumed |
926,000,000 pounds of milk products, |
which at 70 pounds per cow Is prob- |
ably considerably above the average |
because of the lower yields of scrub |
Victorians Weren't So Prim
The Victorians, who are accused of
primness, had much all-round extrav- |
agance. George Meredith was as per-
verse and fanciful in prose as in |
verse; indeed, more so. Diana of the |
h Crossways seemed to sit not so much |
pass out of the range of vision, the |
return to their normal at the crossroads as in the heart of
2yea Hence the eyes are ol _os | the labyrinth; and the Egoist juggled
king, and this causes many to much more deceptively than Juggling
Nr that the eyes are responsible Jerry. Some of Browning's friends
‘or car sickness. complained that he was cryptic, not
only In prose, but in private corre
DEER REPORTED EATING | spondence.—G. K. Chesterton In the |
THEMSELVES TO DEATH Ulustrated London News.
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Literally the deer are eating them-
selves to death. |
Still worse, the State of Pennsy!- |
sania is now approaching the point
where it cannot raise young forests |
n the more densely deer populated
regions.
This is why the game commission- |
srs have thrown open the season on |
female deer this rvinter. |
Saving Her From Herself
The late David Belasco, at a time
gome years ago when Isadora Duncan
was In hard luck, sid to a New York
art critic:
“Isadora, like all great artists, Is
too generous. Her generosity Is prodi-
gal, reckless and ruinous. I think I'll
dress up as a beggar and call at her
apartment, and what I collect may
keep her till she gets another engage-
ment."—Springfield Union.
—A cloth dipped in turpentine will
Sean the tiled hearth most beauti-
fully. |
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| seamen.
| —Exchange,
| first saw the light of day.
Plimsoll Deserving of
Title “Seamen’s Friend”
By agreement among several of the
more important maritime nations of
the world, the Plimsoll line, marking
the safe loading point for vessels, has
come almost into universal use. It
bas been the means of saving the lives
of thousands of seamen. Before Sam-
uel Plimsoll made his stand for hu-
manity, seamen were at the mercy of
scoundrelly owners who thought only
in terms of insurance. No thought of
| the men who would go down with thelr :
ships stayed their hands. i
Then came Samuel Plimsoll, “The
Seamen's Friend.” He had been pros- |
| perous; he had known disaster, From |
| a position of affluence he had come to
met seamen and heard their stories.
He was roused to a great anger, and |
common lodging houses. In them |
| there aad then took an oath that he |
would never rest until he had re-|
vealed the villainy of the “ship-knack- |
ers.” i
He knew that before he could
| achieve anything he had to get into
| parliament. That meant money. Out |
of the pit of poverty he climbed. He
| was elected to parliament and devoted |
| nis energies to the measure he had |
suggested for saving the lives of the |
in the face of violent oppo- |
sition he prevailed and the meas- |
| ure became a law requiring a mark on |
the hull indicating the safety loading |
line. |
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Word “Camera” Derived
From Renaissance Toy |
The primitive Aryan root “kam" |
meant “to bend,” and the Greek |
| weamera,” derived from It, was used |
to denote anything with an arched
cover or roof. Hence came the Latin
“camera,” meaning “a room,” and uiti-
mately, through French, the English |
“chamber.” A common toy of the rich |
in Renaissance times was 2 dark room |
letting in light only through a small |
lens, which threw an inverted image of |
the scene outside on the wall opposite
it. ‘This was called a “camera ob- |
scura” or “dark room.” The problem |
for the inventors of photography was |
to make permanent the image in the |
| “eamera obscura”; hence the instru- |
| ment with which they ultimately ac-
complished it was called a “camera.” |
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Scapegoats
No one likes to be a scapegoat.
is not natural or normal for anyone
It |
| to carry the burden of blame that |
should be borne and faced by those |
who deserve It.
I am not sure it is not ethically |
wrong for a person to suffer punish
ment that some one else ought to suf- |
fer. At least, it Isn't logical. The |
guilty one, apparently, goes scot-free, |
of punishment, he is more than likely
to do wrong again.
Sometimes we cannot avoid
| and without the very definite discipline
being |
| a scapegoat. There are those who |
be in a superior position to us, and who, |
| to save their own skin, shift the blame
for some mistake on to us. That is a
cowardly business. It Is a mean trick
to folst a failure on to some one who
may not be in a position to hit back.— |
©xchange,
Rise of Workhouse Boy
When the visitor in Wales has seen
| Its mines, mountains and music, he
| goes to Denbigh, 26 miles from Ches-
ter, to see at St. Asaph’s workhouse,
the place where nearly a century ago
a poverty child called John Rowlands
To be born
in a gloomy workhouse and reared
therein, as a child, unloved and un-
known, was not much promise for a
| boy, but in later life he changed his
pame to Henry M. Stanley and was
the man who found David Livingstone
in dark Africa—in its day the greatest
Good Roads and Hotels
Won Early Travelers
“The commerce of with
Philadelphia,” a Cincinnati corre
spondent wrote to a Philadelphia pa-
per 100 years ago, “has greatly in-
creased during the present season. On
conversing with many of our mer
chants who have from the
East we find that gearcely one In
five of them went to Baltimore. The
reasons are unanswerable. The Cum-
beriznd rozd Is in & oct villainous
siute. while the stage fare and the
tavern fare are both much higher than
on the road from pitt=hnreh to Phila-
delphin, and not so «ood, The road
from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, we
are informed by a gentleman, a Mary-
lander, who has just returned from
the latter city, is in excellent order,
the stage fare reduced, and the tav-
ern fare cheap and good, and go great
was the travel upon it, that, though
four or five stages started from Phil- |
adelphia every morning for Pitts
burgh, he was obliged to secure &
seat 8 week beforehand. In another
year the Pennsylvania railroads and
canals will have connected the Ohio
river with Philadelphia and, when in-
creasing trade of this river shall have
once taken its course, it will be diffi-
cult to divert to another.”"—Detrolt |
News,
Achievement in World
Seldom Won by Haste |
A doctor says, “The man who lives |
longest is the man who never does |
anything in a hurry,” This Is called |
to the attention of speed maniacs. It |
is undoubtedly true, also, that those |
who proceed at a leisurely pace in all |
things, secure a greater enjoyment out |
of life. It is only the presence of peril |
that requires haste. Precipitancy has |
evil consequences, all the way from |
dining to divorce; and the plaintive |
cries of the unfortunate are usually |
due to something they have done In |
a hurry. The earth provides bounte- |
ously, but not necessarily to the swift. |
Even the fortunes, the greater ones, |
are of slow accumulation in most |
cases—sometimes piling up through | USEC
the generations.
The spiritual achievements are like-
wise more the result of meditation and |
contemplation than of any rapid-fire |
thinking. Ruskin said, “All one's life |
ts music if one touches the notes
rightly. But there must be no hurry.” |
An enforced rapid rate of movement |
is a yoke. We are creatures of time,
but we need not be its driven slaves.—
St. Louls Globe-Democrat.
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Armadillo Common in Tropics
The burrowing mammal known as |
the armadillo is still quite common in |
South and tropical America. But ike) J
a lot of modern things they are of the
miniature type. Thelr ancestors or
cousins, however, were giants. These |
big armored fellows apparently roamed
over Florida some 40,000 years ago. |
walter W. Holmes, field worker for |
the American Museum of Natural His- |
tory, recently discovered part of the |
armor bones and teeth of one of these
extinet armored beasts near Braden-
ton, Fla. It 1s the first time such a
specimen has been found, and has
been named “Holmesina Septentrion-
alis” In honor of the discoverer.—
Pathfinder Magazine.
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the world's greatest travelers and ex-
plorers was his destiny and Denbigh
Guests Brought Coffins
A custom of the Middle ages was re
ferred to at a party to inma®®s of Nor-
| wich (England) Great hospital, a hos-
| tel for aged men and women. When
i the inmates were admitted years ago, |
each had to bring a coffin. It was
found, however, that the coffin was
| used as a cupboard In the cubicles,
and when some of the old people died
| the coffin was worn out. Nowadays,
instead of a coffin, each man and wom-
an takes in £1 to provide a shroud.
Garfield Monument
The Garfield monument occupies the
highest spot in
| in 1885 and dedicated in 1800. The
monument is 180 feet high, the tower
50 feet in diameter. There are five
panels on the outside depicting scenes
from Garfield's life. The stained glass
is an allegorical presentation of the
funeral of Garfield. A second casket
| contains the body of Mrs, Garfield, the |
President's wife, who died in 1918.
School Is 1,125 Years Old
The “Gymnasium Carolinum,” of
nigh school at Osnabruck, which was
founded by Charlemagne, has celebrat-
ed its one thousan: one hundred and
twenty-fifth anniversary. It was giv-
en the status of a university in 1630
by imperial and papal decree, but
when the Swedes took Osnabruck
three years later they drove out the
Jesuits, who had charge of the insti-
tution, and it again became a high
school.
| Lake View cemetery, |
| Cleveland. It cost $225,000, was begun
| is worth a visit for his sake and also |
| for its own.
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Double-Moated Castle
Notwithstanding its rather remote
position on the island of Jutland, in
Denmark, on the banks of the Lim-
fjord, Castle Spottrup has lured many |
visitors to its walls of recent years.
Although its age and builder have been
forgotten, it has been there for many
centuries, and Is one of the best dou- |
ble-moated castles of Europe. Its di- |
viding bulwark of earth on the eastern |
side reaches almost to the eaves of |
the structure, and with its grass-clad |
rampants adds immensely to the im-
pression one recelves of its ancient |
formidable strength. It is only re
stored In part, and the visitor can
easily visualize its ancient extent and |
! form.
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"train took 300 invited guests of the
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Potential Sugar Crop |
About 8,000,000 sugar maple trees in |
the Dominion of Canada are tapped |
annually and the maple sugar output
for 1030 was valued at more than a
million and a quarter dollars. The
tree is mainly to be found In eastern
Canada where there are approximately |
60,000,000 trees and fewer than one-
quarter of this number are tapped so |
that the potential output of this sec-
tion is 50,000,000 pounds of sugar an i
uually. |
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Thousands See First Train
When the Sharkishla-Sivas section
the Ankara-Sivas railway, in Turkey,
was officially opened thousands of
for the opening ceremony. The ma-
jority of the 35,000 gathered to see it
pull in had never seen a locomotive
and cars before. Bronze medals struck
to commemorate the completion of the |
line were given to the guests.
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Disease in the Home
When there is a communicable dls-
ease in the home, the mother must
substitute knowledge for superstition
and enlightment for prejudice, in the
opinion of Dr. W. W. Bauer, a Hygela
Magazine author. She must therefore
mingle with the respect she feels for
her parents and grandparents a cer-
tain skepticism toward their views and
take only advice from the family phy-
sician,
SERVICE OUR SPECIALTY
The Greatest Asset
That a Bank Can Have
is the confidence of the people with whom it
transacts business.
This confidence is based not only on the
bank’s financial strength but on the character of
its management.
When people think of a bank, they often
have in mind an individual, some one active in
the conduct of its affairs, whom they feel they
can trust.
They know that capable, experienced man-
agement is as importaut as financial strength.
When the two are joined, as in this institution,
confidence is inspired. :
In the mind of the true banker, the interests
of the bank and of the depositor, should have
equal place.
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