CHIMPANZEE USES ONE HUMAN WORD Professor Garner Teaches It ihe Word "Feu" Which Is French for "Fire" SPENT SEVEN YEARS IN AFRICA Returns to America with An Animal from the Depths of the Forest That Seemingly Understands Many Things He Says. A chimpanzee which is learning to talk like a human being was a pas senger in the French steamship La Touraine, from Havre to New York. With the chimpanzee came Professor Richard L. Garner, who, for the last seven years, has been buried in the depths of an African forest learning monkey language. Garner's chimpanzee is named Susie. She can speak as yet only one word, "feu," which in French means "lire." Garner expects to teach her other human words so that in the end she may be able to communicate her thoughts to the highest order of primates on the globe. Susie was a source of wonder to her fellow voy agers in La Touraine, principally be cause of her apparent ability to un derstand some of the things said to her. Also, Susie has been taught to laugh, an accomplishment which Gar ner says ranks her above all others of her species. As for the chimpanzee language, Garner says lie has twelve or fourteen of the twenty or more dis tinct monkey words, and he believes he has mastered nine of the sounds so he knows just what they mean. When the ship docked and the news paper men got aboard Professor Gar ner brought forth the chimpanzee and said to her: "Susie, love ytxw pop?" The chimpanzee put her arms around the neck of the professor and kissed him. Then after she had nib bled an orange he asked her for part of it and she gave it to him. A pas senger handed the chimpanzee a stick of gum and she was about to put it In her mouth when the professor said: "Don't eat that." The chimpanzee held the gum out and looked at it earnestly. "Give It to this man," said Garner. Then Susie turned around and handed the gum to a man pointed out by the professor. Afterward the pro fessor had the chimpanzee act in a manner that appeared to be that of laughing, and when he left her she ap peared to cry. Professor Garner re marked that Dr. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Gardens has said he tried many times to make chim panzees laugh, and has been unsuc cessful. Asked whether he has been able at any time to teach words of the human race to his dumb animal subjects, Professor Garner said: "I taught one the word 'Feu,' the French word for 'lire.' When 1 would light a match she would call 'feu' as Boon as the flame showed, but would remain silent when a burned-out match was shown. A hot cinder would bring the word 'feu' and so, too, would the sight of a camptire." Professor Garner said he found chimpanzees affectionate to a high de gree. Chimpanzees are of a forgiving disposition, and will succeed in poli tics, when they learn the language, it Is said. Professor Garner says when he left America seven years ago he went to . the French Congo, and from Cape Lopez he proceeded into the interior until he reached the waters of Lake Fernan Vas, where he decided to set tle himself for a lengthy pursuit of his studies. The place in which he made his headquarters in these jungles was called American Point. A special cage which he had taken for his work went overboard before he reached the place, and he decided to confine what chimpanzees he could get in a house ■which he constructed at American Point. The number of chimpanzees ! which he had in the place at various , times in his long stay reached twenty two and the gorillas reached nine. "The gorillas proved by no means , so tractable as the chimpanzees," he ] said, "and not nearly so intelligent, if i may use that term. 1 here have ; been misconceptions of my teachings t at various times, and a lot of this has , been because some of the things j which 1 have said have been miscon strued. I would be pleased to have i you be very careful in getting down correctly my beliefs in regard to com- , munication among the animals 1 ' studied." Professor Garner says chimpanzees have one certain call when they jo Into the bush. Gorillas, the professor asserts, fear men probably as m ich SB men fear them. He said that in ■ the gorilla group, the old gorillr, is i the fighter, and has a way of con- > ducting a family of gorillas to a place of safety before returning to a point at danger to wage fight against man ■ or beast He related one incident in which be and two native companions sighted a monster gorilla forty rods from them. He said the animal gave , the most horrible cry he had ever j heard—'evidently a warning cry and . then retired. One of the natives as-1 serted the gMtlla would return tn wage flght. and the three men leat • r»3nik Editorial Column. In Which the Editor Has His Say. •'What is home w ithouta paper?" A home without a newspaper is no home at all, It is kind of dreary don—a rendezvous of liedlmgs and lleas. where the inhabitants live in blissful B ignorance ol what the world is doing 1 . It is inhabited by a class who do not know who is president or what lit! is president el—-who never lind out that a tiling has happened until long alter evervone else has lorgotteu it. Ihe children grownup in rags and dirt, while the wile geneially finds eon s ilation in darning socks ai d lug ging a pipe loaded with long green t >baeco, and the man generally lives bacause he can't die and he is to la/.y to kill himself. He goes out on election days, and does not know who he is voting lor, but just takes the ticket bearing the name his great-grandfather voted for. The day ought not to be so very far distant when intellegent, thoughtl'nl people will select their family paper with as much care as they do their preacher or their school teacher, for, as a matter ol fact, the fanily paper may have as much to do in shaping "public and private morals as either the preach er. A public journal in the family (Hivlc—he it good, bad or indiffer ent ---is read, more or less, by every member of the laniily who reads at all. The teacher has the child or young person live or six hours a day : the preacher talks at or over them an hour or two a week, while a paper is in the home the whole week through, and is generally throughly read because it is always at hand—ii lor no better reason. It is more fun to see a man I read a puff on him self in a news | paper than to see a fat man slip on a bannana peel. The narrow minded man reads it over seven or eight times, and then goes around to appropriate what copies he can. The kind hearted man goes around to the ollice and pays what he owes The successful business man who advertises regularly and makes money by it, immediately starts out to find the editor and the two walking silently down the street land the business man takes sugar in his ami they both eat a clove or two and life is sweeter and peace settles down on their hearts for moments. Such is the experience of a mustard seed that falls on different ground. The trouble with most young men is that they do not under ! stand the dignity of manual labor. They do not realize that honors of i fortune may be more readily gained [ outside of the so called learned ! professions than in them : and that it is just as honorable ,t«» swing a hammer or to hold a plow as it is to make a speech in court or to amputate a limb. Ihe lesson 1 young men should be taught as : early as possible is that v it is not (so much what a man does for a living as how he does it, and that manual labor is as honorable as honorable as any other. GORE BRIBERY FAILS I House Finds No Evidence In Indian Land Cases. The house committee which inves j tlgated Senator Core s charges of at | tempted bribery in connection with : J. P. Me Murray's Indian attorney con ! tract in Oklahoma, made its tinal re ! port to the house j The committee found no evidence to show McMurrav was involved • Girl Given SIO,OOO Heart Balm. 112 Miss Henrietta French, the pretty j South Dakota girl, who sued David H. j Decker, Jr., a wealthy young civil en gineer, for breach of promise of mar | riage lias been awarded n verdict of ' fin.ono by a jury in the supreme cotir' i in New York, lustier Krlanger reserv | ed decision on a motion to set the [ verdict aside, declaring it was "ex tiemelj excessive." Girl Student a Suicide. Lena Gebhardt. seventeen years of ' age, a member of the senior class I at the Knclewood, N ,1., high school, I died a victim of a bullet which she admitted flrinu herself. Her eyes wer« i.t e v. i nu'j ?:,c- woulJ not Le able ..o graduate. LATEST NEWS OF SOINESTOWN. Joseph Bird of Masten is spend- ] ing a lew days at the Sonestown Hotel. 1 Maben Fox of Eagles M"re has been stopping at Smith Bondman's for the past couple weeks. Mrs, Riley Stein hack and son 1 William have moved from Ricketts to this place. Joe Lovelas is running A. T. ( Armstrong's grist inili. He learned the trade at I'nityvilie this winter and is alright. Victor Bird and Miss Ada War burton were registered at the Sones- 1 town Hotel Sunday. Smith Boudman was a business man in Williamsport last Friday. Mrs. Mabel Sanders visited her parents at Tui bottsville Sunday. Louis K. Knoeller was tuning pionas in town Wcduesday and Thursday. John Crist and Kdith Boatman both of Sonestewu were united in marriage by. Rev. Hertz Tuesday evening, Feb. li 9, 1912. liertie, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe I'aintain was operated upon for appendicitis at the Wil liamsport hospital Sunday. llarver Taylor of Muncy Valley, who has been ill for some time with typhoid fever is consideradly lui proved- Wui. Stackhouse was a business man in Williamsport Tuesday. Velma Watson was in llughes | vide Tuesday. Harry Shaffer loss a very valuable horse Tuesday. Bennie Worthington transacted business in Williamsport Monday. Miss Kathryn Brooks of Muncy ! was giving music lessons in town I Friday. K. W. Simmons is suffering with 1 a carbuncle 011 the throat. Melvin Fox of Kagles Mere was in tow 11 Wednesday. (i. 11. Stanton of Williamsport ! was a business man in town Wed -1 nesday. Herman A. Knipe, Sup't. General Manager of the Kagles Mere Railroad and General Manager of the W. & N. B. visittd It. W. Simmons Tues day. William Steinback has decided not to purchase a house and lot in Muncy Valley. He considers the town a very undesirable location. Oh You Fatty. The big fat fireman 011 the W. & X. B. must have went 011 an awful spree. His train ran into Hughes vi lie, and he took his glad rags along in a valise for he had firmly made up his mind, (and he is to slow j to change it) that he would attend a ! moving picture show in town that 1 night. Anyhow that is what he j told his wife at Sonestown, but he I must have got in wrong for when 1 his wife opened his valise the follow ' ingjday. Shew as astonished to find the remnants of a glorious time stowed therein. We metioned the fact that he is fireman on the W. & N. 15., but he is thinking seriously of throwing up the job as it is to strenuous an occupation for so fragile a person. We interviewed fatty, but he postively refuses to disclose contents of the valise, but we are willing to bet a year's subscription against an empty vinegar barrel that lie had to do some explaining to his wife. The Fire Bag. Every whaler and sealer that sailed the seas in the days of wooden ships tarried a tire bag. This was a tarpau lin bag about a foot long and six Inches wide lined with waterproof material, with interlinings of oilcloth and thick flannel. Into this was placed the flint :i ml tinder bos for kindling fire, and the bag was then securely fastened with double flaps and tied to keep Its contents dry. It was the special duty of tho second mate to look after tha tire bag and in case of shipwreck to at tack it at once to his person by means of stout straps provided for the pur pose. Thus if officers and crew were east away 011 Rome deserted shore in tho desolate arctic circle the means of obtaining a file to warm themselves by 11ml to heat food and drink would not lie wanting as long as the precious fire bag was safe. The steam whalers and sealers of the present day still carry a Are bag stowed in the lifeboat with tho bread and wa ter. but now it ts of rubber and con tains half a dozen tin boxes of matches. —New York Press. Morocco. Morocco, in spite of its close proxim ity to Europe, is the most fauattcal of the .Mohammedan countries. Where the Worry Comtt. "Are you not worried by your Wife's nliseneoV "No: It's |n>r return that al \v.i\s wi>r: '* s me. Smart Set. Election Notice, | In accordance with the Act. of the Assembly of April (itli 1911, | The County Commissioners of Sullivan County hereby publish : That at the primary election (known as Spring Primary) to be j held by the electors of Sullivan q County on the second Saturday of !j April the following Delegates and | Alternate Delegates arc to be \ elected, viz. : $ Two Delegates and two Alter- nate Delegates to represent the ! 1(> Congressional District, of which j Sullivan County is part to the j Democratic National Convention j to be held in Baltimore. Maryland \ June 25, 1912, One Delegate to represent Sulli- ' van County in the Keystone State Convention of 1912. One Delegate to represent Sulli van County in the DemocraticJState Convenion of 1912. Two Delegates and two Alternate Delegates to represent the I<> Con gressional District of which tSul 1- ivau County is part to the Repub lican National Convention to be held 111 Chicago 111., in June next. ( One Delegate to represent Sulli van County in the Republican State Convention to be held at Harrisburg, Pa., in May next. Five Delegates and Alternate Delegates elected to the National Prohibition Convention in Atlantic City, N. J., July 10 11th, and 12. 1912. \ Notice is also given that there are to be voted for in Sullivan County, at the General Election to be held on Tuesday, November oth 1912, Candidates for the following offices: One Representative in Congress. One Representative in the General Assembly. IRVIN HOTTENSTEIN. JCSEPH SICK, G EORG E B ROSCH A RT. County Commissioners. Judson Brown, Clerk. Mildred and Bernice. NEWSY PARAGRAPHS FROM THE.TWIN TOWNS. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. L. Mott, twin boys. Michael Fromberg of St. Louis is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fremberg of Mildred. Mr. Hertcott will commence work 011 the new breaker Monday. Bp the middle of the week lie will have a large force of men working steady until the breaker is com pleted. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Collons ef Mildred, a baby'boy. Two of the feelhfeel have been rewarded for services rendered, one got what he wanted and the other got what he didn't want. Thomas Watter and wife are visiting friends in Delanson, N. Y. If all the different nationalities have to get hotel accomdation, its a city chart we need. Judge Terry refused all new liquor licenses at this place. D t Finan, wife and son were . Lopez visitors Sunday. Thomas Donhue who has been ■ seriously ill for the past few weeks : is improving, I We are informed that the new 1 Associate Judges granted a new hotel license. 1 T. J'. Finnan was a Dushore \ visitor Sunday. 1 Supt., M. Laughlin has the ( masons building a new fireroom in - place of the one destroyed by lire 1 two weeks ago. James Cahill of Sayre was call j ing 011 friends at this place Sunday. I. Clinton Kline Est]., of Sun bury Republican Candidate for Congress, was in Laporte Friday. The paper for you. The News Item will do. 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