Old “Drizzle” Runs Washington, — Recent discoveries made in the famous Red Beds of Texas, of the Permian age, have proved that the markings described by earlier investigators as trails of many-legged worms, are in reality weather mark- ings, or examples of “fossil weather.” The proof of this statement lies in fa small slab of shale which shows nu- © NORTHWESTERN STAR merous parallel markings, large and small, in such abundance that they could not have been made by animals. The designation of the markings as “drigzie runs” indicates the weather conditions in what is now Texas, in that far-off time. Formed on Mud Flats. The “chevron” formation of the markings is due to the accumulation of fine mud in a slow run-off on a mud flat, with a gentle slope. Some slight obstruction, such as a grain of sand or a bit o# plant material or a hard piece of mud, was enough to start the formation of a slight ridge along which the markings continue. On another slab of red shale are to be seen circular marks where a plant leaf or a piece of grass made circular scratches in the soft mud millions of years ago. One can almost see the sunshine following the shower after which an animal, unknown to science, walked past the wind-moved plant. Disprove Raindrop Fossils. Geologists have for many years re- garded as fossil raindrops any group of circular or oval-shaped depressions, and the standard textbooks figure such markings. Recent experiments in the University of Wisconsin, sup- plemented by observations of shale slabs from the Texas Red Beds and on the soft mud and sand along the Pa- cific coast, prove clearly that many of the so-called raindrop impressions are due to air bubbles. Markings made in recent mud are exactly like those seen in the ancient red shales. The influence of the proportions ot sunshine and cloudiness, in ancient geological time, upon the rapidity of growth of individuals and upon the rapid expansion of groups of ancient animals and plants is now attracting the attention of students of fossil life. An attempt is being made to inter pret, from conditions seen in ancient rocks, the state of the weather at a time when earth conditions were quite different from what they are now. It is expected that previously unrecog. nized bits of sunshine will very soon be seen in the rocks of the old Paleozoic. Long Time at It Oulianovsk, Russia.—It took Cath: erine Sorokina 121 years to become a voter, but she has done it. Born a serf and sold at the age of fourteen for a hunting gun, she is a free voter in the local Soviet now. George “Yatz” Levison, for two years Northwestern, this year showa such remarkable ability as a ball carrier that Coach Hanley has shifted him to halfback, In the early games his consistent ground gaining has made Northwest- quarterback at has Gas Made Liquid ern rooters forget the feats of “Moon” Baker and other “Wildcat” stars of the past. Expensive Fish New York.—One hundred pounds British gold for one fish was the top price paid at the recent British Aquar- ists’ association exhibition in London. The fish was a blue, telescopic-eyed veiltail, one of the new forms of goldfish bred by the Japanese. Gold, white and hlack in these forms are common, but hive is & rarer color. Fog Horn Silenced to & - Please Resort Colony Bexhill, England.—*“Mournful Mary” has lost her job. She has been given a full month's notice, and the nerve-racked residents of the fashionable re- sorts within sound of ber wails are jubilant. The only friends “Mournful Mary” has are the members of Imperial Merchant Service guild, which guards the inter ests of merchant seamen. They have submitted a protest against her dismissal with Trinity house. & What will fog-bound ships do they ask indignantly, if Mary's piercing shriek fails to warp them that they are approach ing the most dangerous turning in the English channel? For Mary is the foghorn of the Royal Sovereign lightship, and if she isn’t popular with the residents at least the sailors appreciate her. the DAE © 2. 9d Berlin.—Oxygen used in highly com- pressed form in industrial undertak- ings can now be delivered in light brass containers instead of the heavy steel bottles formerly used and requir- ing two men to carry. Dr. Paul Heylandt, Berlin chemist and inventor, has discovered a process by which the gas can be manufactured and delivered in liquid form. His in- vention has won for him the hon- orary degree of doctor of engineering from the Charlottenburg Institute of Technology here. The oxygen gas is reduced to a liquid by Doctor Heylandt’s process, is then poured into specially devised con- tainers on automobile trucks and is Day Coach Passengers Sleep at Their Own Risk Sioux City, lowa.—Train employees are not obligated to awaken passengers who fall asleep in day coaches when nearing destinations of such passen gers and railroad companies are not liable for damages if loss results to the passengers if they are carried be- yond their destinations, Judge A. O. Wakefield ruled here in the District court. The ruling was made in the case of Clyde Vanderbick of Sioux City against the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad. Vanderbick sued for $2,700. Cobb in New Role San [rancisco.—Prof. Tyrus Ray- mond Cobb is to teach the young idea of Japan to wallop. He is to tour the country, lecturing on baseball and playing with various university teams. “Little Left of Po wder Magazine These photographs show the fort of before and after the terrific explosion were killed and hundreds of others Injured. SUCH 1S LIFE Cabrerizas Bajas at Melilla, Morocco, of the powder magazine. Fifty men Plenty of Chickens carted from plant to plant much as gasoline or oil is delivered. The needs of the customers are supplied by merely opening a faucet and letting the desired quantity run into the small containers supplied to each customer. At a nominal rental the customer is also supplied with apparatus for converting the liquid oxygen into compressed gas, which is then stored in the steel bottles that were hitherto transported back and forth. DIPPING INTO SCIENCE Heat and Storms The reason we always feel warm just before a storm is be- rause there is so much moisture in the air that it cannot absorb the perspiration of the body. This process of evaporation of the water from our skins is the chief means by which our bod- ies are kept cool. 4 ©. 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) THE PATTON COURIER “Time to Squelch the Brood COUNTRIES By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK | % UNDISCOVERED Dean of Men, University of Illinois. 3 $ To most of us the places we have not ourselves seen are virtually un- discovered coun tries. All that we know about them is what we have heard or read and what we have thus discov- ered is usually the worst. Now there is Africa. It looks to me like a huge re- versed capital letter P on ‘the map, and it con- notes to me wild elephants, desert wastes, untraversed jungles teeming with strange animals and deadly ser- pents. It is a land of unclothed sav- ages with rings in their noses and poi- soned arrows in the quivers which they carry on their backs. My cousin Tracy has just come from Africa and his account of what he has seen there is quite different from the picture which I have painted of that, to me, undiscovered country. There are Ford cars in Africa, Tracy tells me, and ra- dios and moving picture shows, and water softeners, and electric lights, and hard roads, and the gi bob thelr hair and carry lipsticks just as they do in other civilized countries. I have been quite mistaken in my Judgment of Africa. When Nancy and YI were in Cam- on bridge, Mass., 25 years ago or so, we got our meals with a group of dyed-in- the-wool New Englanders. One wom- an had been out West, she said—that is as far as Troy, N. Y., but none of them had ever looked across the Mis- sissippi river, and they looked upon us as semi-civilized savages from a wild and unconquered West. They be- lieved everything we told them about rattlesnakes, buffaloes, and Indian raids. They were astonished that we were able with as little dialect as we language. The Mississippi valley to them was an undiscovered country. White, whom I later met, born in New England and imbued with a holy de- sire to do something to raise the mor- literate West, had a call to Austin, Texas, as assistant pastor of one of the southern churches. He was cour- ageous but wary. He asked me con- fidentally, as of one who had had wider experiences in such things than a wise precaution for him to take pis- tols with him in going to so dangerous a locality. I was in Herrin, Ill, a few weeks ago—Herrin in bloody Williamson county. It is a beautiful little city with a wide clean boulevard running through it 100 feet wide. It seems like a quiet well-ordered place. It is full of comfortable houses sitting in the midst of well-kept lawns and sur- rounded by beautiful gardens. It was in rose time that I was there, and I have never seen anywhere, not even in England nor in Italy, more beautiful roses than there were in Herrin, They have beautiful school buildings, I do not know another city of 10,000 popu- lation which has a better designed and more attractive high school building than Herrin. The people seem to love beauty and to stand for education. Maybe we have not discovered Herrin | (© by Western Newspaper Union.) Great Volcano Stirs : Naples.—Vesuvius is fretful. She is flashing red by night and by day pouring into the blue sky a column of sulphurous smoke which floats off in a breeze for mile upon mile, or in calm air rises straight toward the vault of the sky for many hundreds of feet. Vesuvius in normal mood shows only a wisp of smoke and does not make the night over her red with sud- den flashes of fire nor does she rumble so. A few weeks ago she was, to all appearances, sound asleep. She takes long sleeps: she has been known to sleep for 500 years. So long did she sleep after her destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum that it became al- HHH HHH HHO HHH HOH Thirteen in Family All Have Same Initials Nodlesville, Md. — Thirteen children of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Ferguson living northwest ot here each have a first name be %& ginning with letter “R” and a & second name beginning witn “E” so that the initials R. B. F. stand for all the children. i range years. The children are Ruby : Ralpb Erie, Ruth Esther, Reno Elva, Reva Emola, Rose Ellalia, 3 3 iF oF Ages % from eight to thirty-five Editn, Roger Eugene, Russell Ermall Roy Elden, Renzel Elmo, Reldo Edward, Roe Erwin and Rich B ard Erroll. 3 FEHR LHHH most a legend and was forgotten by the peasants dwelling about her. Goats grazed in the crater upon the rich green grass that grew along the HEADS BROTHERHOOD H. Lawrence Choate of ‘Washington, D. C., has been elected to the presi- idency of the Brotherhood of St. An- drew of the Episcopal church, Mr. Choate succeeds Edward H. Bonsall of Philadelphia, who has held the po- sitjon for the last 19 years. By Charles Sughroe shores of two lakes deep within that mighty hole. Then suddenly she gave warning, | which few heeded, and poured seven rivers of fire down into the surround- ing villages, destroying them and killing hundreds. One of these rivers rushed pell-mell into the Bay of Naples, where the water boiled for days. This was the great eruption of 1631, The peasants dwelling in Lorre del Greco and in Massa di Somma and other small settlements that were wiped out took it that de- mons lived somewhere under mountain, | Now Vesuvius is again in eruption; | not a tremendous one such as the | recorded eruptions of the past, but one at least showing she still has vi- | tality, She has not driven the popu- lation away from her base, but her grand pyrotechnical display has again become a lively attraction for visitors. the | Reason Enough reno, Nev.—One of the reasons given by Mrs. Charles W. McHose of Los An- geles for wishing a divorce is that her husband has been a bad loser, hurling golf sticks or throwing low cards on She obtained a decree. the floor. When wives and widows speak of their late husbands their meaning is quite different, a QoME NOW, 115 TIME FOR BED / (i = > 77 Yaup ONE NIGHT ABAD OLD FOX CAME AND STOLE A CHICKEN = LTHE NEXT NIGHT HE CAME — AND STOLE ANOTHER 2 \| CHICKEN=AND THE NEXT NIGHT HE CAME CHICKEN = AND THE NEXT NIGHT, LS 2 GUESS WHAT ¥ HAPPENED! STOLE ANOTHER | KNOW =HE CAME © AND STOLE AuoTvER | ——— Ee . showed to communicate in the English | al and religious standards of the il- | himself, if I didn’t think it would be | | safely. | times he was obliged to leap off the { noying the officia | luxurious death. | thrown Man Swallows Wasp and Dies in Agony Paris.—The strangest acci- dental death eof the year in France is reported from Nor- mandy. A farmer outside of Rouen bit into a pear. A wasp that had burrowed into the fruit stung the man in the throat as it was being swallowed. An hour later, after suffering in- tense agony, the farmer died of suffocation, despite all attempts made to relieve him by the local doctor, RH OO ROE | ABSENT 14 YEARS | HE GOES TO CHURCH | Bandit Guns. | Denver.—After a 14-year absence { Tony Vitullo has gone to church but through ne choice of his. Vitullo, who is a prominent Italian sportsman in Denver, broke his “churchless” rec- ord at the instigation of two bandits who urged him on with the ends of their guns poked in his ribs. The bandits held up Vitullo when he was returning home from his club. He drove his ear into the garage and was confronted by the two masked figures who showed their guns and re- lieved him of $190 and a diamond stickpin valued at 0. They then ordered him to drive to a distant church. When he objected to this procedure on the ground that he had missed church for 14 years, they told him that it was time for him to | change his ways. Tying Vitullo in the deacon’s chair, the robbers told him where they would leave his car, and left. After freeing himself from his bonds, Vitullo went to a farm nearby and telephoned to | the police, | “I didn’t really get scared,” he | said, “until they left. That church [has more creaks than a second-hand flivver.” | Boy Jumps 60 Feet From Bridge Into River Lewiston. Maine.—A fourteen-year- | old Lewiston boy, whose name the | police decline to make publie, was | taken to police headquarters upon complaint of Maine Central railroad officials, and admitted to the police that during the present summer he has jumped from the Maine Central | bridge between Lewiston and Auburn, into the Androscoggin river below, no less than 36 times. The jump is a perilous one, a dis- tance of 60 or 70 feet, to a bottom covered with boulders, and perilously near the Union Water Power company dam across the river. It is a that requires an expert to negotiate The boy said that several bridge to escape oncoming trains, and at other times he did it for the fun of it, using the high bridge for a div- ing tower. The boy was taken in a round-up of lads who have caused the railroad no little trouble, damaging property, | removing insulators from the telegraph | wires on the bridge and otherwise an- | . They have disre- | garded the signs warning people not to | trespass on the bridge and failed to heed verbal orders given by railroad employees to keep away. I Luxurious Death Way Out of Love Triangle New York.—Joan Fornum, age twen- ty-two, a pretty blond, spent all except $10 of her $127 that she might have a The girl’s body, clad | in a lavender silk negligee and expen- sive boudoir slippers, was found in a gas-filled apartment in Brooklyn, on which she had just paid $75, a month’s rent, Miss Fornum had told her land- lady, Mrs. Harriet Baird, that it was to have been her wedding day. “But his mother interfered,” she had | said, “and I had been saving up money | all the | foolish to save money, so I bought time for our marriage. It's | | these things.” Later, other tenants, smelling broke into Miss Fornum’s room found her dead. Beside the body was. | a4 copy of William Cullen Bryant's | “Thanatopsis,” open at the lines: | if thou gas, and So halt thou rest and what withdraw | | In silence from the living? | John Lagatta, noted magazine illus- | trator, whose name appeared on a torn | note in Miss Fornum's room, denied | knowing her. Mrs. Baird said the girl had been a newspaper reporter and | came of a good Boston family, Saves Boy; Finds Son Marshfield, Ore.—Hearing the erles | of a drowning person, A. T. Sorenson | leaped from a big boom into Coos Bay and rescued a boy. When he brought { the lad to the surface he discovered that he had saved his own son. | — | Finds Ring in Rubbish | North Bay, Ont.—A $600 engage- | ment ring, which had been lost and | out with the rubbish by gq | hotel chambermaid here, was found by a youngster exploring the rubbish for | funny papers, | Flowers Dangerous Portsmouth, Va.—Flowers here have | proven such a traffic hazard that it | has been found necessary to remove | several beds of cannag from one oti the city streets. * dive | jules she shatters and laughs at seri- ! No opium, no nausea, DR. 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Sayre, Pa, Positively Last Word About Girl of Today | We knock and eriticize her; we | scold, apostrophize her, we wish that she was wiser, more dainty and re- fined; her path we're always ing to eriticize her talking, her ¢lothes, | her way of walking, her manners and { her mind. | We say, “Oh, highty-tighty! she is frivolous and flighty and all her ways are mighty undignified to see; she joy- rides, flirts and chatters, our old-time stalk with unabated glee!” and we her, we detect her, we study and dissect her with all her and and find on looking her (and learning to adore her) she’s just | ous matters | We chide shadow and correct smiles tears, o'er | like girls before her for several thou- | sand years.—Boston Transcript. Will Cold Worry You This Winter? Some men throw-off a eold within a few hours of contracting it, Anyone can do it with the aid of a simple com- pound which comes in tablet form, and is no trouble to take or to always have about you. Don’t “dope” your- self when you catch eold: use Pape’s Cold Compound. Men and women everywhere rely on this amazing little | tablet.—Adv. The Tawhoo’s Warning Persons living in the region of the Caribbean owe much to birds called the tawhoo. According to ap article in St. Nicholas, these birds always fly | to the mainland when they sense a hur- ricane, arriving while the inhabitants are enjoying the period of sunshine and windless weather which always comes just before the storm breaks. A Clean Sweep Wife—What shall I say in Bridzet’s reference? I can’t say she stole. Husband—Say she carried all be- fore her,—Montreal Star. dear but dearer. IT STARTS in the STOMACH Experience is a inexperience is a teacher, HAVE YOU ever sus pected that most of the common illnesses of men and women have their beginnings in stomach disorders? That lost vitality, those frequent headaches, that cold you can’t shake off—your stom= achisprobablyrespon- sible. 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