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} “LOOKA DE MACKEREL SKY!”
“YA ALWAYS TALKIN’ ABOUT SOMETHIN’ T' EAT!”
THE DOER OF
DEEDS
By EVELYN GAGE BROWNE
T ISN'T the man who tells you
Who points out this one’s failures,
And jibes at everyone.
Who boasts how he'd have done it,
And criticizes the way,
The Doer of Deeds is working—
Who counts in the world today.
It's the man who's in the struggle,
Whose face is grimed and worn,
Who keeps on fighting bravely,
Though battle-scarred and torn.
He may fall—but gets up gamely,
And, striving, never heeds,
The ones who sneer and slander,
But dares to do the deeds.
He gives himself, unsparing, L.,
And never counts the cost:
But knows the joy of fighting,
Although his cause is lost.
To him belongs the credit,
And the victor’s laurels, too;
For the world today is needing
The man who dares to do!
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How everything should be done;
SOMETHING TO
THINK ABOUT
By F. A. WALKER
WHEN I WAS
TWENTY-ONE
BY JOSEPH KAYE
AT 21-—James Montgomery Flagg
Was Studying Art,
T ABOUT this age I was an art
student and a short time later I
became an illustrator for the St. Nich-
olas Magazine,
And it was St. Nicholas that first
published my drawings,
I had always made drawings—from
the age of two—of everything imagin-
mble, from cows to blood-lusty Zulus;
these were mildly discouraged by my
parents, but they nevertheless dated
and pigeon-holed them in a sideboard
drawer,
When 1 was about twelve I took a
bateh of drawings in to St. Nicholas,
and Tudor Jenks, the editor, showed a
kindly interest in me and them: and
as he knew a lot about drawing he
helped me. Ile selected about ten of
the cartload I laid on his desk and
made me redraw them, after which
he published them on a full-page of
the magazine. ¥ received my first pro-
fessional payment for them—ten dol-
lars—in cash.
I walked dizzily home.—James Mont-
gomery Flagg.
TODAY~--James Montgomery Flagg
Is a famous illustrator and portrait
painter whose work is known to every
magazine reader in the English-speak-
Ing world, and in some paris of the
world which are not English-speaking.
(® by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
——eee (Yee
SAWS
By Viola Brothers Shore
FOR THE GOOSE—
ET in your fine work with a man
as soon as possible. ‘Even the
early bird has got to ketch the worm
before he turns.
! You don’t have to throw out the ice
box just because you got ants.
Once you break the thread of friend-
ship, even if you join it again, you
got a knot,
FOR THE GANDER —
Formerly a woman'd marry almost
env map but en’y kiss one she really
cared about, Nowadays a woman'll
kiss slmow any man. but on’y marry
ene she really cares about.
Tf you can kiss a woman easy, don’t
blame it entirely on your irresistibil-
ny.
Don’t ever tell a woman she don’t
endersiand berseM. If she does hap-
pa Lo, she'll ke furious And if she
don't, she'll be even more so.
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GIRLIGAG PR
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“After a warried man makes a hit
with a girl,” says Flippant Flo, “he,
has to aveid being ‘thrown out at
Let others cheer the winning man,
there's one I hold worth while:
'Tis he who does the best he can, that
loses with a smile,
Beaten he is, but not to stay down
with the rank and file;
The man will live another day, who
loses with a smile.
FOR THE FAMILY TABLE
SOUP is always a good beginning
for a dinner at any season.
Oxtail Soup.
Have three oxtails split and cut into
small pieces. Fry them until brown
in a little suet. Place them in a soup
kettle, add two dozen cloves, one-half
cupful of onions chopped and also
fried; one large carrot cut into dice,
one-fourth of a cupful of browned
flour. Season with salt and pepper,
add two pounds of lean beef with a
few dashes of cayenne. Cover with
four quarts of cold water, bring to the
boiling point, then simmer on the back
of the stove or at low heat for three
hours. Strain and serve.
Fish Chowder.
Dice a pound of any good fresh fish
freed from bones. Fry three or four
slices of salt pork cut into fine dice,
add three onions sliced and six geod-
sized potatoes also sliced. Cook with
water to cover until the potatoes are
nearly done, then add the fish and
cook until well done. Add half a doz-
en milk crackers soaked in hot milk
and one quart of hot milk. Season to
taste and serve, at once.
Vegetarian Gravy.
Chop one small onion and carrot
and brown them in two tablespoonfuls
of butter. Dissolve one bouillon cube
in one cupful of water, add to the
vegetables and simmer for 20 minutes,
Strain and thicken with flour and but-
ter well browned, adding a dash of
worcestershire sauce and kitchen bou-
quet.
Gateau de Princess.
Bake a sponge cake in two Jelly
tins. Cut the center from one cake,
leaving a rim one and one-half inches
wide. Cover the cake with Jelly, jam,
fresh berries or sliced fruit. Place
the rim over the cake and frost the
rim or decorate with whipped cream.
Cream of Corn Soup.
In a double boiler place one quart of
milk, one and one-half cupfuls of corn,
one-half of an onlon, three sprigs of
parsley, paprika and salt to taste.
When hot stir In two tablespoonfuls
of flour smoothed with two tablespoon-
fuls of butter, add to the soup and
cook for 15 minutes; remove the onion
and parsley and press through a sieve,
Serve hot garnished with freshly
popped pop corn.
(©. 1927. Western Newspaper (Union)
Do You Know
22 | hat: 77-4
6% ED LETTER DAY” is now used
to signify any gala occasion cr
memorable day in the life of an indi-
vidual or a nation.
Originally, however, the term is an
ecclesiastical one and was used to
mark the more important festivals and
saints’ days of the church. These oc-
casions were marked in red letters in-
stead of black in the calendar. In the
cheaper prayer books both of the Eng-
lish and the Roman church where the
two colors were not used in printing,
these days were printed in italics or
Gothic capitals. The minor festivals
were marked in black letters by lower-
case Roman type.—Anna 8. Turnquist.
heme’ by bis wife”
THE LOGICAL SEX
BOUT the oldest tradition in the
world is the one that describes
the “race of men” as the logical sex.
The masculine human being is con-
vinced that he solves his problems by
reasoning with himself about them.
On the other. hand, he is convinced
that the female of the species is sim-
ply guided by instinct.
This is in spite of the fact that all
over the world, from China to Peru,
when it comes to the question of
feminism, the men lay down a gen-
eral proposition and then proceed to
evade it.
In a word, women and men are
“equal.” But man’s prejudices must
not be interfered with. Hs still re-
serves to himself the right to protect
and regulate the other kalf of
humanity.
Women have the right to vote at
North America. They may be admit-
ted to the bar and plead before the
courts. But the question whether or
not they should be allowed to sit cn
juries is not yet settled im most of
the states,
Various reasons are given by those
who oppose the change.
When it is examined the opposi-
tion is found to be based on the the-
ory that the gentle sex must be regu-
lated as it has been in the past.
An interesting example of mascu-
line logic is supplied by the Ger-
man’ republic.
In the constitution of that state it
is provided explicitly that men and
women have the same rights and,
apart from fighting, must perform the
same duties.
Yet when the proposal to make
women eligible for jury duty came
up before the federal council in the
form of the proposed draft of a law,
it was negatived.
The explanation given by Herr Von
Preger, the Bavarian representative,
ought to be framed and hung up in |
every woman's club in the world as |
an example of how not to reason.
“The Bavarian government,” he
said, “maintains the principal stand-
point that women are not suited to
Judicial office. The admission of wom-
en would result in a softening of Jus-
tice, which is most undesirable Just
at this time.”
So It all comes to this: Women
may elect those who make the laws;
they may expound the same laws,
but they are not fit to decide simple
questions of fact arising in connec
tion with the administration of the |
laws.
When Mrs. Poyser made the tart
generalization that the women were
made fools “to match the men" she
was really unnecessarily severe on
the long suffering sisterhood.
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UP WHEN SHE IS FRIGHTENED?
To make the cat seem larger
And scare away its foes,
It humps ita back and says, “spsst,
spsst,”
And then away it goes.
(GQ 1927, Weatern Newspaper Union.)
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DRAKE MONUMENT,
TITUSVILLE, PA.
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of America,” Yale University press; photographs of
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SENECA INDIAN
Ol. SPRING,
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HE other day a crowd of more than
five thousand persons gathered at a
woodland spring under the shadow
of the towering hillside near the little
town of Cuba, N. Y, for the unveil-
ing of a marker. As the American
Stars and Stripes and French Tri-
color which had draped the marker
were drawn aside, there was revealed
a huge bowlder and on it a bronze tablet bearing
these words:
| 1627—SENECA OIL SPRING—19827
Its history forms the first chapter In the devel-
opment of the petroleum industry in the United
Statws—a gigantic world enterprise transforming
modern life.
1627—0il on American continent first recorded
in this region by the Franciscan friar, Joseph de
| is Roche d’Allion.
| 1656—Spring mentioned by the Jesuit father,
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Paul Le Jeune.
1721—Prior to this year, spring visited by Jon-
caire, the elder.
1767—O0il from this spring sent to Sir William
Johnson as a cure for his wounds.
1797—Spring permanently reserved by Indians in
treaty of Big Tree.
1833—Description of spring by Prof. Benjamin
Silliman of Yale university.
Erected as a tercentenary memorial an
July 23, 1927, by the University of the
State of New York and the New York
State Oil Producers association.
Thus was perpetuated in bronze and stone the
beginnings of that gigantic industry which after
threg hundred years is second only to agriculture
as a wealth-producing industry. Today nearly
2,500,000 barrels of petroleum are required every
day to satisfy the needs of the nation, and it is
estimated that annually Americans use about
750.000,000 barrels of petroleum for their motor
cars, trucks, busses, artificial gas plants and the
innumerable by-products from petrolenm. Approx-
imately 70 per cent of the world’s petroleum indus-
try is in the United States. Ten billions of cap-
ital is invested in it—half the valuation of the
national railroad system. It employs nearly one
millien people and its pipeline system, which
criss-crosses the country, totals about eighty-five
thousand miles. In the crowd which gathered at
the tercentenary celebration in New York were
representatives of the Seneca Indians, who still
hold possession of this land, of the Franciscan
monks who have a monastery a few miles away
and of the petroleum industry from all parts of
the United States, and their presence there
recalled the whole romantic history: of the dis-
covery of oil on the North American continent,
It was some unknown member of the great
Iroquois confederation who first looked upon this
oil spring, but how far back that was nobody
knows. Arthur ¢, Parker, director of the
Rochester (N. Y.) Municipal museum, who is
compiling a book of Iroquois legends, which is to
be published next year, made public at the time
of the celebration the legend of the oil spring
which is to be the opening chapter of his “More
Skunny Wundy Stories.” The tale follows:
A village was stricken by strange fevers and
many of the people died slow, lingering deaths, in
which they were convulsed by chills and then
| burned by fever. Gone Goose, the medicine man,
could effect no cure, nor could he determine what
caused the-disease.
It was then that Skunny Wundy, a youth, unable
to sleep, crept out upon the roof of the bark
house and watched the near-by pond. To his
amazement he saw the hummucks of grass rise up,
pushed by long wisps of vapor. Like gray ghosts,
these queer beings danced upon the surface of the
pond and as they opened théir mouths a shrill
singing sound was heard. Skunny Wundy looked
and saw swarms of mosquitoes coming from the
foggy throats of the ghosts. These attacked him,
driving him back to his bed and under the pro-
tection of a buffalo skin. Then he fell to dream-
ing. He saw in a vision a strange spring whose
guardian spirit was a hunch-backed dwarf with a
peaked red cap. Near-by he saw an enormously
fat she-bear sporting about. A dream guide told
Skunny Wundy to find the spring and talk to the
dwarf, for in that magner his tribe would be freed
from sickness and given a great treasure.
The next day the boy sought out the spring. At
first he was afraid of the fat bear, but when she
talked to him he lost fear and asked her about
the dwarf. She laughed and told him to watch
her.
Poising upon a fallen tree she dove into the pool
and splashed about, becoming very thin. Her fat
dissolved and floated upon the water. When she
came out the dwarf popped up and sprang to the
bank. He greeted Skunny Wundy and asked him
what he wanted.
“I want to master the gray witches that dance
in the haze of the ooze” came the answer, “I
dreamed that you would tell me how.”
“Then take the oil and pour it upon your pond,”
sald the dwarf. “Run with it as fast as you can;
when you get tired rub it on your joints and it
will make you run faster. It is good medicine
and you must give it to the world.”
Skunny Wundy took a pot of the oil back to
his village and poured some on the waters of the
pond, at which the gray witches shrieked and sank
into the ooze, becoming “hummocks of sedge.”
Then he rubbed it upon the bodies of the sick
people and made them well,
To his uncle, Rumbling Wings, Skunny Wundy
told the story of his discovery. “The dwarf says it
will make people run faster,” concluded the boy.
“Aye,” answered Rumbling Wings. “Verily T do
believe that you have found the great medicine
that will make the whole world run faster.”
Although the Seneca oil spring was known to
the people of the Long House (Iroquois) for
many years, the first white man to look upon it
was Joseph de la Roche d@’Allion, a Franciscan
monk, who was making his way through the wil-
derness of western New York in the summer of
1627. An Indian friend told him of a sacred spot
in the neighborhood which he should see, and
on July 18 the Indian led him to the place where
the monk saw oil bubbling up through the crust
of the earth. This experience he describes in a
letter from Huronia to a friend in Angiers,
France, in which he gives a careful description of
the land, its people and its products. Among the
latter he mentions “a touronton,” a mineral ofl,
which he saw in an oil spring in that region,
Without a doubt this was the famous Seneca
oil spring near Cuba and so to Father d’Allion
goes the honor of being the “discoverer of oil in
America.”
From that time on this spting is repeatedly
mentioned by the early chroniclers, In the “Jesuit
Relations” for 1656 there is a reference to a spring
where “one finds heavy and thick water which
ignites like brandy and boils up in bubbles of
flame when fire is applied to it. It is more-
over so oily that all our savages use it to anoint
and grease their heads and bodies.” In Galinee’s
map, published in 1670, one of the first maps of
the Great lakes region, there is marked a “Fon-
taine de Bitume” which Is the Seneca oil spring,
and it is by this name that it was known by
most of the early historians. Pierre Francois
Xavier de Charlevoix, a Jesuit, one of the most
talented and scholarly of the French missionary
ploneers and also one of the most prolific writers,
is among those who wrote ahout the Fontalwe de
Bitume, and in 1721 he was directed to the spring
by Joncaire, a French explorer, and from Fort
Niagara he wrote of “the water that looked like
oil and tasted like iron.”
The Seneca Indians, who from historic times
have owned the land around the spring, placed
such a high valuation upon its medical worth that
they refused to relinquish title to it. When the
treaty of Big Tree was signed in 1797, giving
most of western New York to the white man, the
Senecas insisted that the spring should be
reserved in qa tract of land of one square mile.
Later a land company took possession of the
surrounding property and sold it, In 1856 Phil-
enus Pattison bought the tract, cleared and
fenced eighty acres and commenced to farm the
land. So the Indians went into court to regain
their favorite spring and offered in testimony an
old map, showing the Indian reservation outlined
in red with the oil spring within it. It was this
map which enabled them to retain title, Although
the present Seneca reservation, where most of
the tribe lives, is some distance away, one Indian
family is at all times located at the oil spring
to preserve the tribe's title to it. However, the
Senecas, recognizing the importance of the ter-
centenary celebration held there recently, granted
the committee in charge a right of way for a road
to the spring and also, the land for 75 feet around
it. This road connects the spring with a state
highway near by so that this historic place Is
UNVEILING THE MONUMENT at CUBA,N.Y.
now more easily accessible than it ever has been
before,
The unveiling of this monument is not the first,
however, to be erected to “Black Gold,” for years
ago a monument was erected near Titusville, Pa.,
on the spot where the first oil well was drilled.
This well was known as the Drake well, and it
came into being because in 1859 capitalists in New
York and New Haven organized a company to
procure, manufacture and sell petroleum for
illuminating purposes, They sent “Col.” Edwin
L. Drake, a conductor on the New Haven rail-
road, to western Pennsylvania to discover oil.
Drake was instructed to drill for oil as if for
artesian water and for this purpose he engaged
the services of William Smith, a salt well digger,
and his sons, Wilijam Smith, Jr, and James
Smith.
In this connection it is Interesting to note
that there is still living in ‘jtusville a man, who
as a boy of sixteen, had a part in drilling the first
oil well. He is Sam Smith, son of the William
Smith, mentioned above. In describing the his-
toric achievement, Sam Smith tells that the spot
for locating the original well was selected because
at that point a pool of surface petroleum had
collected for years. The Indians had been accus-
tomed to scoop oil from the puddles to mix the
paint with which they adorned themselves and
later the white men had dipped it to lubricate the
machinery in saw mills nearby. However, the
amount obtained thus was only a few gallons
a day.
After weeks of hard work and many disappoint-
ments, at last on August 27, 1859, at a depth of
69% feet, Drake struck oil which rose to within
a few feet of the surface. A pump and tank were
installed and every day except Sunday from 20
to 30 barrels of crude petroleum were pumped
from the well. From the beginning Drake had
been looked upon as something of a fool, but his
success made him a hero. Immediately there was
a rush to the region around Titusville, and Oil
Creek valley, which until this time had been a
remote lumbering region with only a few scat-
tered farms, became the goal of an excited multi-
tude which expected to make its fortune from
the “black gold” which Drake had brought to the
surface. The story of this boom camp Is the story
of many others.
Cities sprang up between days, Pithole, a few
miles from Titesville, being the most famous.
When the first flowing well came in, there was such
a rush started that within three months the town
had 10,000 people, then 20,000, and, it is said, at
one time a permanent population of 30,000. Includ-
ing transients it is even asserted that the num-
ber reached 50,000. The first pipe line was from
Pithole to the railroad, four miles away. Three
railroad Hnes were later graded into Pithole and
trains ran on one of them, Big hotels were built,
an oil exchange established and the post office
business was exceeded only in Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh among the Pennsylvania cities. Petro-
leum sold up to $16 a barrel and even higher, but
at other times it was as low as 10 cents a barrel.
The first excitement soon died down to the
humdrum activity of every-day industry, and
after the oil resources of that region ran dry the
mushroom towns that had sprung up soon passed
out of existence. Drake himself had made a for-
tune, but he soon lost it, and he and his family
were reduced to poverty. They were facing
starvation when the state of Pennsylvania granted
him an annuity of $1,500 a year. This pension
and the monument erected to his memory near
Titusvide were all that Edwin Drake received for
his gift of “black gold” to the world,
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