ABOUT THE TORTOISE
i E ARE lucky,” said Mr. Box
WwW Tortoise,
“Why?” Inquired
toise, .
“Just think about it,” said Mr. Box
Tortoise,
“Il don't
lox Tor
Mrs.
know what to think about
it,” said Mrs. Box Tortoise. “Do you
mean because we have a nice zoo
home? Or because the keeper is kind
to us? Because we don't have to wor.
ry about getting our food? Or hecause
we are always safe, so very safe?”
“Now,” said Mr. Box Tortoise, “you
have given me many thoughts; ves,
indeed, many happy thoughts, [I think
we're lucky In many ways, but all
along I've really only been thinking of
just one way. Now you have given
“We Can Draw Our Legs and Heads
inside Our Bony Shell,
me pleasant and I'l! show
my gratitude by giving you some
thoughts,
“Well, of course you know that we
live on the dry lang.”
“Isn't the land aly
Mrs. Box Tortoise.
“Yes,” chuckled
as only a box
and as only
understand, “the land is always dry
that except when it is wet, but
then it isn't lost in the wet. 1 meant
that we didn't live in the water as so
many of the turtle family do. They're
our neighbors in the zoo I love
to watch their ways,
“But to continue my story why we
are lucky. We can draw our legs and
heads inside our bony shell, and
can also lock ourselves in.”
“I know,” said Mrs. Dox Tortoise.
“by means of a tortoise lock which is
in the center of our lower shell, That
is why we are pamed Box Tortoise.”
“Yes Mr. Box
“Of course, you krew all about it, but
ways dry?”
Mr,
tortoise
Tortoise,
Jox
can i
chuckle,
another box tortoise can
is,
and
we
Tortoise,
agreed
I wanted to remind you of it. We
can always keep ourselves out of the
way of danger by locking our selves
in our own little boxes when we are
frightened, We do It in the zoo some.
times when people come near us who
are strangers.”
“Ah” said Mrs. Box Tortoise, “it's
splendid for the Box Tortoises who
have to live In the outside world to
have something to keep them safe—
and what a wonderful thing it is to
be able to carry around one's protee-
tion ulways, and to be able t¢ put a
lock on it, too,
“But we never have to worry, for
we are In the and are always
safe. Still it's nice to have our own
protection always."
Now Mrs, Gopher Tortolse was talk-
ing nearby. “I've heard of sensible
creatures,” she gald to Miss Gopher
Tortoise, who wns her daughter, but
who was called Miss Gopher, even by
her mother,
“You mean other gopher tortoises?
“Ah, my She
Is wise. There Is an
you for me,
call saving time Of it's not
that 1 want to time, but 1 hear
people speak of it as something to be
done. They rush and run and hurry,
they scramble
about, and if anyone asks them why,
2.00
child takes after me.
compliment for
and one That's what 1
course,
sive
and race and dash
are trying to save time
possible In a
they say they
and
little time,
“So 1 paid a complin
the same time"
Tortoise, “i
wise and tha
t
it, and 1
to do as much as
to hoth of
continued Mrs
ent
us
Gopher suid you were
was paying you a com
nid that yor
npliment,
have expla
I have
rence 10 mi
r Sensible eren
are sensi
the ground
ind
(Ws
MIrrow
ng! That sl
we're sensible and
» sand down South
wheres we came
ing, when 1 think of he
tinued Mrs. Gop
me glad, indeed. |
me” con
her Tortoise, “It makes
the 200 for
good to
fast disappear
gam In
we are supposed to he
eat,
and our relatives are
ing down South—Yes, they are disap
pearing «owe peonie's thironis!
1
Just hee Sovind
“They are bi
but
Use thes to eat!
are
g. and they have th
shells, 1 |
caught and t!
“But our own story
. tra
ey are
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
THE EMPTY HEARSE
HE superstition that it is an omen
of good luck to meet an empty
hearse is one of anthesis, originating
from the fact that it is considered an
evil omen to meet a funeral procession.
This idea that it bodes ill luck to meet
a funeral procession is especially prev-
alant in the South where the negroes
rill frequently turn back if they see
a funeral coming toward them. While
this fear of meeting a funeral proces
sion undoubtedly has its basis in the
primitive conception of the “death
contagion” yet there is in it certain
psychological element—the Idea of
death coming toward one-—coming to
meet one. Which is shown by the fact
that it is not considered a bad omen
to follow a funeral procession. This
notion, then, of meeting a funeral pro-
cession being a death omen, or at least
an evil omen, having become firmly
implanted in the superstitious world, it
at once manifests itself in the super.
stitions mind when the owner of the
mind sees a hearse coming toward
him. But, lo! the hearse Is empty.
All that would make its approach an
evil omen is wanting: death Is not ap-
proaching and a mental reaction takes
place which transforms the empty
hearse into a good omen,
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“SABBATH”
ERE is a word dating back to the
of the
beginning of all things: in fact, so far
back tha memory of man run
neth not to the contrary.”
As everybody knows, after creating
the world and everything in it, includ-
ing men, in six days, tells
us that God rested on seventh
day. This day was called by the an
cient Hebrews the Sabbath, the word
“Sabbath” in Hebrew to
beginning language, to
»
“the
the Bible
the
meaning
rest,
Orthodox Jews refrain strictly from
any manner of labor on the Sabbath,
the ancient custom being to spend the
entire day in prayer and meditation,
We find the word “Sabbath” in its
various modifications in almost every
language and everywhere it has this
meaning derived from its ancient form
and usage, expressive of rest, absten
tion from labor and thoughts of things
material, and therefore by inference
If not by Injunction a day for the
turn of the mind to matters spiritual,
{EE by the Bell Ryndieoate, no}
ssl] Possession
“Dear Editor:
VERY time | go to Boston I'm glad
I climbed Bunker Hill monument
and the big state house dome when 1
was young and frisky.
If 1 had my lifs to live over again
I'd do more stunts like that. And
read Scott and Dickens and learn
duplicate bridge. Time's cheap when
you're youny, and it gives you some
thing to talk about when you get up
In the thirtie® and feel old.
But if | were starting life again 1
think I'd do something different with
those two weeks | spent trying to
learn Esperanto. And 1 sort of regret
that afternoon 1 stood up to see n cer
tain dctress in a show, But | suppose
we all have some time to waste, Fred
Barton,
(6 by the Dell Syndicate, The.)
siesmaimasconimll Foaming
Point of Importance
It fsn't so much what you say that
counts in this age as It is the num.
ber of people you ean get to belleve
you ~Capper's Weekly,
Barbara Stanwyck
A Columbia picture star, From
Brooklyn to Hollywood, three pictures,
then fame, fortune. A cinema star
overnight after making “Ladies of
Leisure.” She is married to Frank
Fay, screen actor.
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By LEONARD A. BARRETT
a
CONAN DOYLE
Wi the passing of Sir Arthm
Conan Doyle the world loses the
mast noted
Fictional
To succeed one must
writer of detective stories
not euny task,
possess not or ly
t alm
writing Is an
id imagination bu
ession to a very ms
103 Das In
se (wo
excell
requis
Conan Doyle
farm
engure
ity Fi
writ
writl
for
=
i
i
cannot
pared Or
L. A. Barrett,
classed with poetry, the
novel Detective fiction may
the highest form of literature,
it may not even he regarded ¢
ture, hut as “fetion”™
Doyle
and
dure
thrill
reading
will en
find a
relaxation in
Conan ©ey
men women
8% A
stories
Like
not fle ith
preferred be
hut to he
as an advocate of spiritualism,
many i onan
[rosle
wns his own work
He
writer
forgotten as 2
remembered
He is
before
dead
wish revive him again, 1
known to posterity, as
ctional
the
desired
quoted as shortly
his death,
I never
to he
having said
“Rhieriork Holmes i=
to
wish not
the
hot as a
creator of a 0
pioneer In
spiritualism
Since |
with his who died in
war, argument could weaken his faith
He
ism not as a eritie, or even as a scien
tist, but as one who had a very
an experience which gave
him an unswerving faith In the truth
of his convictions
had w
will
#0 AN
communicn
{ion
the late
avowsd
son,
approached the theory of spiritual
real
experience
The arguments he
ith his friend, the late Honding,
interesting LE inily
corresponden © which
passed them upon this
ject will shortly be given to the publie,
Conan Doyle was absolutely sh
He played no assimed
ever one may
of his conclusions he must
credit for his transparent
At his own request he was hurried
the fragrant garden adjoining
home,
{Es 1930, Wasturn Newspaper Union. ¥
nlways be
the
hetween wih
rere,
How.
differ with him in some
be given
sincerity,
in
his
rode
GABBY GERTIE
“There's not much stirring when a
girl refuses to spovn.” :
{
Fertilizer Types :
and Distributors
Little Known of Merits of
American Machine and
Drilling Quality.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Up to the present no accurate in-
formation has been avallable as to the
relative merits of the American types
of fertilizer distributing machines,
Also, little has been known regarding
the factors which affect the drilling
qualities of fertilizers. To obtain re.
lable data the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture undertook an ex.
perimental study of fertilizers and dis-
tributors the results of which have
Just been published In Technical Bul
letin 182.7, entitled, “Factors Affect
ing the Mechanical Application of Fer-
tilizers to the Soil.”
Test Atmospheric Conditions.
Atmospheric conditions, especially
nu marked effect on the drillability of
fertilizers, so it was necessary, for the
purposes of these experiments
struct a room in which the tempera-
ture and humidity were fully under
the control of the experimenter. This
room was lined with Insulating board
and the space between this lining and
to con-
the outside walls was filled with saw-
dust, The to the room
was through a vestibule equipped with
By
possible
"
only entrance
means of
to
desired
fer.
were
Fertil
makes
three tight fitting doors.
thermostats it
the air In the room
temperature and hm
was keep
any
The
the experiments
in this
distributors of
were Installed successively in the room
and the fertilizers run through
the ma with the air at various
the effect of
tilizers used In
stored In trovs room.
lzor various
were
chines
to determine
rate of delivery.
f vari
humidities
thie
csentative
Effect of Weather.
rrimenters noted
gravity ol
between
distribution 1
of the depth
» hopper, t
for,
tore
the use of agi
, and other fac
be obtained, while
distribution Insts,
n application the Office of In
formation, United Department
Washington, D. C.
is bulietin may
free
to
States
upply for
culture,
Ax Is Best Treatment
to Give Sick Turkeys
bad news for alling turkeys
is very much { usual
ing prescription, but the di.
this case are not to wait
nber to give It. Dr. W, A
itension yvelerinary special-
farm, St. Panl, Minn.
¥ known "turkey talker,” says
{ treatment for a sick turkey
ax. “let's have as few sick
an he writes in his
news letter mailed to turkey
ail the United States,
As another Umely hint, Doctor Bil
2% suggests: “When your pouits
greens for the first time,
not gorge them
Direak the good pews to them
are bigger than
and some may load up
rtd die because they are giuttons, If
the little fellows are starved for
greens they should be handled care
fully to prevent such trouble. This
to alfalfa, rape or any other
leafy plant.”
Predictions that this is to be a “good
grasrhopper year” hold little promise
modern turkey growers, Doctor
Billings opines, if the birds
are allowed fo roam to eat the hop
pers they will likely die off from oth.
er causes, He urges keeping the poults
¥
like the
fiiversity
is the
OnLes possible.”
ralsers aver
eit on
ake care they do
Felves,
ently. Their eyes
green,
for
because
away from chickens and at a
i
Effective Control of
Cucumber Beetle Pest
One part of arsenate of calcium and
twenty parts of land plaster, mixed
thoroaghly together and applied In
dust form at the mate of thirty to sixty
pounds per acre, has heen found by the
Ohio experiment station to be an ef.
fective measure of control for the
cucnmber beetle, The station made a
duster by using a half gallon tin can
and nailing a three-foot strip on each
gide and joining the two strips to-
gether at the top with another piece
rounded off for convenience and com-
fort in handling. Then twenty holes
were made in the hottom of the ean
with an eight-penny nail, punching
from the inside out,
Clean Up Grain Bins
Before Harvest Time
Farmers will find it worth while to
repair their eribs and grain bins be
fore the harvest season, The job is
both more simple and easier at this
time of the year because the posts
and ‘beams are not loaded. Windows
may be added for more light and ven.
tilation and greater convenience may
be secured by placing the doors where
they are needed to save steps In tak.
Ing out feed. The outside of the build.
ings may be improved by cleaning up
and painting.
\
Perpetuate Forests /
by Careful Logging
Trees Less Than Twelve
Inches Are Unprofitable,
{Prepared by the United Biates Department
of Agriculture.)
Forests that last indefinitely and
sawmills sawing up these forests with-
out ever running out of logs are ple.
tured by the forest service, United
State Department of Agriculture, in re-
porting the results of a study of selec.
tive logging In the northern hardwoods
of the Lake states,
The key to perpetual timber produe-
tion Is selective logging, the forest
service states, which means a partial
cutting of the forest Involving judi.
clous selection of trees to be felled, 85
as to perpetuate and Improve the for.
est and at the same time maintain or
increase the profit. Lumbermen in
the Lake states with no virgin timber
In prospect for cutting after present
holdings are exhausted, must choose
between going out of business in a
comparatively short time or taking
steps to put thelr remaining stands on
a self-perpetuating
Costs of logging
termined by the
basis,
und milling as de
study Indicate that In
typleal Lake trees less
than 12 inches In diameter are un-
profitable to convert Into lumber, iy
taking only the trees larger than that
the lumber: ns a better
and nt the same time
thrifty
state forests
slze pan obtal
profit
mans
next
leaves
¢ the
trees to grow for
and
region
lumber can prob.
cutt reseed the bare
Investigated
In
gucecesgive “cron
places, is
iy be harvested on this basis every
30 years,
Technical Bulletin No
Northern
166. Selective
Hardwoods
which gives the re-
the
of the Lake
sults o
may p
f Acrieul
be procured
At iCU
writing t
Washing
by
nartment o
D. C.
ure
Cod Liver Oil Gives
Poultry Fishy Taste
oil Is highly
ling poultry under
ft has a tend
he flesh to have a fishy taste
from
Jenut
rec.
Sey
re should be omitted
broilers for at
marketing, says
1. Unk
1 to
ino 4 prior
Dr. F.
Yersity
Doctor
Con
poultry specialis
Paul, Minn.
ites some experiments
jue university which
should be
duet
indicate liver oil
left
18 dave before
ation for about 16 to
The amount
th of time
and the
out
marketing
of cod liver oil and the leng
1
used, the method of evoking
temperature of the meat when served,
of the fishy fin.
ity
was fed two per cent cod
-
i Tected the Intensit
vor, One lot
i1 in the ration, and after the
nued two weeks,
liver o
oll had
been discont
no bad taste was apparent while warn
ted when allowed
received
in the ra
birds
was dete
hut a trace
to become cold, Another lot
four per « 1 liver oil
tion. of one of these
taste was
the
lot
trace of
enough,
How
removed
weeks, only a
i
had
two
fla-
wis fishy
after oil
for
fishy
evident ever,
from
slight
been the
vor could be detected,
The experiments show no evidence
that the omission of cod liver oil for a
short period will cause any bad effects
upon of marketable
chickens size,
Feeding Orphan Lambs
Quite Important Task
In the feeding of orphan lambs, the
ts must be kept in mind
1. The milk should be taken from a
cow whose milk tests high in fat
2. For the first three or four weeks
the milk from this one selected cow
only should be fed to the lamb,
8. For the first few days and nights
the lamb should be fed every two or
three hours, and a small amount (say
three tablespoonfuls, with a
increase) given It each time,
#0 as not to overload its stomach.
4. The milk should be warmed up
to 92 degrees, which is about the
warmth of sheep's milk. Care must
be taken not to let the milk beil.
6, The bottle and nipple should be
thoroughly washed each time after use
to keep bottles sweet.
following pois
two or
gradual
The husker-shredder will
corn borers.
destroy
* = »
Silage forms an important part of
the ration for fattening lambs,
. » »
When a team will not pull together
cross the Inside traces, hitching each
to the inside of the opposite single.
tree.
LE
In order to grow chicks well they
must be supplied with an abundance
of a suitable ration. At least one
hopper four feet long is needed for
100 chicks. As they grow larger they
will need more space.
. 0» *
Dipping the hens in a solution of
two ounces of sodium Muoride to each
gallon of water helps them to be bet.
ter layers by ridding them of body
pests. Carbolinium or any of the
glock dips Kill mites,
.- & 8
A large barrel, buried In a hori
zontal position In the side of a bank,
makes a convenient place to store
small amounts of root crops and cab
bage. Soil and straw or leaves are
used for covering the barrel, The
barrel head makes a convenient door
for this storage pit,
| -~
\
NN
TS Sir Walter speaking. What, Sir
Walter Raleigh? The same.
Some months ago he offered pipe lovers
a free booklet on “How to take care of your
pipe.” And the poor chap’s been buried
under requests ever since.
owever, we ve succeeded in engaging
two of Queen Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting
to help the old boy out with his mail—so
don’t hesitate to send for your copy. It tells
you how to break in a new pipe—how to
keep it sweet and mellow — bow to make
an old pipe smoke smoother and better—
the proper way to clean a pipe —and a
lot of worth-while hints on pipe hygiene.
If you're a pipe smoker, youll want to
read this booklet. It's free. Just write to
the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Cor-
poration, Louisville, Ky.
TUNE IN en “The Raleigh Revae™ every
Fridey, 10:00 10 11:00 p. mm. { New York Time),
over the WEAF cossrtoconst nerwork of NBC.
Sir WALTER
RALEIGH
Smoking Tobacco
it’s milder
—
I's 15¢ and
A Gl
Americans Living Abroad
Apart fro thw seusona tides of
302.608 American eiti-
in permanent
greatest number, ac
figures by
based upon re-
is found
where ZH 147 of our
Europe is next with
TIS. Mexico and Central Ameriea
total 100614: the Caribbean islands,
18.570: South America, 12.130: Asin,
24.110; while Africa reports 36703,
© Speyer
and Australasia and Oceania, 2307.
tourist
remain abroad
residence, The
to the
the State department,
poits {rem
in Canada,
eitizens reside,
zens
vording compiled
S30 consulates,
For Efficiency
Clerk-—1 can’t help being sleepy in
the office. My baby is teething and
every five minutes wakes me up.
Chief—If that is =0 you had better
bring him to the effice.—Berlin Der
Wiahre Jakob,
Children’s stomachs sour, and
need an antiacid. Keep their sys-
tems sweet with Phillips Milk of
Magnesia !
When tongue or breath tells of
acid condition—correct it with a
spoonful of Phillips. Most men and
women have been comforted by this
universal sweetener—more mothers
should invoke its aid for their chil-
dren. It is a pleasant thing to take,
yet neutralizes more acid than the
arsher things too often employed
for the purpose. No household
should ve without It.
“hillips is the genuine, prescrip
tional product physicians dena
for general use; the name is impor
tant. “Milk of Magnesia® has been
the U. 8 registered trade mark of
the Charles H. Phillips Chemical
Co. and its predecessor Charles H.
Phillips since 1875.
of Maghesia
ens give opus
W. N. U, BALTIMORE, NO. 33.1930.
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