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
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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.
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Morocco, in spite of its close proxim
ity to Europe, is the most fauattcal of
the .Mohammedan countries.
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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
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Convenion of 1912.
Two Delegates and two Alternate
Delegates to represent the I<> Con
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ivau County is part to the Repub
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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,
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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.
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