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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL.
JULY 8, 1021
SENT MESSAGE BY DOCi TEAM 'CROWN DECIDEDLY ‘"IN BAD” j GREAT WASTE DUE TO FlUSI j D 01) (L ^ S CO IN TV s u, TIN El I STARVE PONIES BEFORE RACE
Motive of Labrador Used Unique £
tem of Communication Across
Vast Frozen Waste.
In (lit* bleak land of Labrador, where |
the winter distance:, are vast snow j
Hpares. the means of coninuniieatirtqVI
between liclghbnrs 1- mmiicHhu .-Pm mat- i
Of Course Rich Uncle Johnson May :
Forgive Him, but He Ftcls
It Is Hardly Likely.
ter «Jt serious in
oafi, irteans (if c<
dug Fledge or on i
ail interesting «
ran ingenuity in
land Plain Deale;
nnumle
Their
is bv
Kin with
s’"mi the night
he Mi>hed hie l
t •> he :■ 1 1 tttibroh
lee, without eve
linvd how he ’
This brother
gl»ll\g to
vir; oen enlightened.
U* !• >k a stoat jdoi e of hoard, wrote
b’s i tes-ave on lr, nltaelu’d to it m rope.
»"ol th('n called his dog team to him.
Hnnnthe loader, lie tied the rope
to the trace, and tlmn, with a cut of
Ids long whip, sear the lender dashing
away. Afmr hitn ran all the team,
harking and .\ piping at the hoard that
hounded and skidded over the snow.
In an amazingly short spare of time
the hrolher appeared, his sled double-
imniessed, with mv host's t«-;im in (lie
lead. The lender seemed very proud,
and l think he knew what had been
required of him, and that he had ac
complished his mission-faithfully.
DREW ON HIS IMAGINATION
High Ecclesiastical Authority of Cen
turies Ago Had Wonderful Idea
of Sea Serpent.
Kmlyiird Kipling's eoneepllon of «
pair of sen serpents—great white,
blind pathetic creatures risen froth
the primordial onfte—made a corking
yarn, but It wasn't « hit more imagi
native than the grisly description
Iienued la all seriousness centuries ago
by Olaua Magnus, archbishop of Up-
sala. The worthy archbishop wrote:
“Their forms are horrible, their
heads square, all set with prickly,
and they have sharp mid long horns
about, like a tree rooted up by the
roots. They are 10 or 1*2 cubits long,
very black and with huge eyes, the
compass whereof Is about H or 10 cu
bits. The eye Is red and fiery colored,
which In the dark night appears to
fishermen afar off under waters as
a burning fire, having hairs like goose
feathers, thick and long, like a heard
hanging down. The_re,st of the body,
for the greatness of the headr^avlilch
Is square, Is very- small,, pox. being,
above 1*1 or 15 cubits long. One of
those sea monsters will easily drown
many great ships.”
Unsolved Mystery of Nature.
The exact principle which causes a
magnet to take hold of metals and
ding to them with a force which over
comes the principle of gravity is, like
electricity, one of Nature's unsolved
mysteries, the Detroit News remarks.
It Is merely known that a piece of Iron
which has been, electrically treated
will attract and hold various other
metals. The force It exerts Is called
“magnetism.”
The most logical explanation would
appear to he that an electrically-treat
ed piece of Iron gives off a force
analogous to that given off by radium,
In that It will affect other pieces of
metal without materially lessening Its
own power.
The name “magnet” Is derived from
the mineral “magnetite.'' This, in
turn, Is so culled because it was first
discovered in Magnesia. Magnetite is
a natural magnet, of which Indestone
la one of the best known varieties.
Y r Their Wedding Day.
When wq were married, my hus
band and I thqught we had planned
carefully to elude the sendoff our set
^\hs sure to give us. We had a quiet
family wedding and knowing our
friends would he at the depot to see
us off on our trip with the usual em
barrassing attentions bestowed on
newlyweds, we decided to outwit them
by hoarding the train at the water
tank, where It stopped before pulling
into 1 lie station. We drove up there
undetected, clambered up on the rear
platform, and then discovered to our
dismay that the rear door was harked!
Unable— to get Into the car. we cow
ered there, both blushing red as heels,
while the train slowly pulled up be
fore the long platform full of our ap
preciative friends.—Chicago Trihtfne
Almost IncaScuiab <
Yearly by Itu A
!e Don
Met-
After luncheon
an., Gibson UroiM
ov'ermat, to find
that it-Mas not
popular restaur-
*«u bed 'up for his
Ills amazement,
e. Just at that
Tin
sites
It
omei
Bread to Clean Watches.
There is no more novel use to which
bread Is put than that in vogue in
some of the great watch factories
where more than forty loaves of fresh
bread were used daily in pre-war times
From the early days of watclmink
lug fresh bread has been reduced t(
dough which Is used in removing oil
and chips adhering to the minute part
of the watch. Since many of iliesi
parts- are barely visible to tin* naked
eye the oil Is absorbed by the dough
while the chips stick to It. There I
no other known substance that wipe
the parrs without leaving some par
tides attached to them. Hence, “stn
of life” Is used.
he caught a glimpse • »f a main
out ot tl »• restaurant wearing.
thief:” veiled Brown, and ,
tore after the departing stranger, lie j
•overtook him at tin* first corner and
gave- hbu in charge of a policeman, i
Then, wearing the overcoat again him- '
alone £3L’.C>00,OIK)
London Answer?.
When the oXyi
bines .with the :•
metal it produce
rust nod nothing
Aluminum i
not rust. <’•>
ho a ru^c-s
jnct-t air
the
"My dd
turn11
idng.
satisfied.
uture tills mid-
- without aid. ftru
ill rust.
MuVmental sicci
ng Ids brother word !
:i visit, and 1 won- I
the
it. I 1
Waiting Li6t.
A Pennsylvania authority is advocat
ing the general establishment of gout
farms, flood: the next tiling will he
the establishment of general dlsposl-
Ito be t|e» goat.—Fopton Tran
-II v,
Hi. I•!
Interrupted his
firs
i'lish
ei\ lr
produced by i
Proccts 1
noiurfilly
ilyi l.-.n-
oiCt nisi
Official Organ of Douglas County.
RALPH MEEKS, Pub.
i-.ULA KING, Man. Edit
Fu’.'Iished livery Ft
HHPTIOK ,1.50 VEP.
iutiftt* Petrified Woods,
(•trilled woods are beautiful
or *dialy. Wlon thin slices
'uHy ground down to a thick-
r <>.'\ inch or le-s and placed tin-
i.they show perfect-
In Mongolia. After Severe System of
Training, Animals Cover Fif
teen Fiiler. at a Stretch.
meiil in Mongolia. 1 hiring tlo* prelimi
nary training of tin i nii.es, according |
to a writer in the t ! •'graphic Maim- j
'i11: v , each competing pony is tied :<
rope picketed on the grass philn. T
-»•!>!"
Ilia
ml
aid
ciur
111 lie
•tilic
rtdizailon and tin*
ii.ilv is ‘continued
protested Mr. Brown.
“No. dear; 1 must tell you mine, j
Hieii Uncle Johnson has forgiven its
for our marriage and has conn* to stay j
with us for a few days. He'll probably :
remember us.in hi* Mill non.”
"That's all * iTt."* answered Mr. !
bur ■
Brown. Interested
own story, "but I tie:;
coat stolen at jjpueh
described ilx
rly had
t»nr.
)h. Gibs
tin'
ell Ids
“wimt hate you done? You did tod
wear that coat this •morning and I lout
It to uncle when he went out to have
a look around Loudon'!"
Brown reseiu*d undo from the police
station, hut the old man refused to for
give them the in*ult. Loudon Tit-Bits.
- Dry air will entx* rust, but the
metal has to he at high temperature. A
poker which 1ms l » < q made red hot
will rust wlo*ii it .o !*. Crate bars do.
the same. The Hakes that come from
red-hot iron wlmn it is hammered are.
but rust.
The best preventive of rust is fat-oil
varnlsli.-4*ihe part) mixed with rectified
spirits of turpentine (five parts) and
applied 'with a sponge. Tin* highest
si eel polish on mathematical instru
ments remains absolutely unaffected ii
lids solution is applied.
Tinware is rrmlen d practically im
mune from the rust fiend if when new
the ware Is smeared with pure lard
mid baked In a hot oven.
geolot
of tin
spei-h
lived
in tl*.
State-
The.-.
• c : distinct, though nmv they 1
•i;c. i d by chalcedony. By study-
• sue; inns F. Ii. Kuowlton, oft lie
cal survey, has found that most I
■c arancarlan trees were of tin
Ar.iueurloxylou uiT/onlcum, aj
»w extinct. It Is known to have
it the same geologic time uls«*
east-central pan of tin* United
where the remains of some of
-delates fiave also been found
Included other cone-hearing*
Vitis (Vends, and gi gnu tie horse
vliicli indicate that at that tiun
i infall of llu* Southwest was
Cu ilie day of I
clipped and h->i"i
plaited with vatic,
to ..der ns little
t bus
'■'■**%" 1
> increa*-'*
•ace lei locks are
ml rails tightly
*d rll-o.ins, so sis
. Upholds Silting In Lover's Lap.
Oklahoma City, Okln.—Lovers hnva
found a friend In Municipal Judge Torn
('lutmhers.
He handed down a decision that sit
ting In your lever’s lap Is not - disorder*
ly conduct. The decision was given
in the »'ms(* of Dminy O'Leary amt
Grace Bender. J'olice lmd prel’eiTed
c hai : of disorderly conduct against
tite couple, claiming they found the
girl sitting nn OTcery's lap.
lr.' is yoti ig nml un-
“Combinclion Fish."
possihle.
and.it I-'
m* fen start »*n jlm
•do, which a Mongol
* children,
ee lads of
exhausting
race really
FOLLOWED "ERIK THE RED"
Colony of Icelanders Settled in Green
land About PS4, but Finally
Completely Disappeared.
Erik Kurus, vulgarly dubbed “The
fled,” ran on to Greenland In 981.
Evik’s Norwegian father had found
it convenient to go with his family to
Iceland to escape the strong hand of
the law, which was reaching out for
him on account of a murder he had
committed in his- native land.
Young Erik had not been In Ice
land long before he. too. became in
volved In o dispute with a fellow
townsman, and with the termination
of the argument Erik's antagonist
was dead. In attempting to escape
the pursuit of Justice he accidentally
discovered tin* const of Greenland.
Having spent two or three years In
exploring the country lie had found,
he somehow obtained the pnrdot. of
the folks hack in Iceland, and de
cided to pay them a visit.
He Insisted that. In contrast to Ice-
hind. the new country waa a land of
green meadows and rich pastures,
abounding In cattle and every species
of game. His enthusiasm, or his ef
frontery, worked like magic, and he
went hack to Greenland, which lie had
named himself, with a numerous fol
lowing. The colony prospered under
Erik’s successors—it once numbered
2,000. hut disappeared completely In
the fifteenth century. Whether the
settlers all perished or were gradual
ly “assimilated'' by the Eskimos, no
man knows.
Kansans Hard to Catch.
Cars from Kansas and hearing the
license plates of the state must he
careful In running by a traffic police
man on a low corner of Fifth avenue.
New York, says the Sun of that city,
lie is watching for them.
“You’d be surprised at the different
places front which cars come.” said
the cop. “And the funny thing about
it is that 1 seem to have to call down
out of town drivers all the time. I
suppose it’s because they don't know
the traffic rules.
“For the last two years I've kept a
record of the out-of-town licenses that
I’ve had to Jot down to report. I’ve
got one from every slate in the Union,
except one, and several from Porto
It I co.
“The missing state Is Kansas; I’d
certainly like to complete the list, and
so I'm looking for >t Kansas driver.
He'd heller watch Ids step.”
Bachelors and Children.
Commenting on John Galsworthy’s
book (Mi childhood. “Awakening,’’ a
erilic remarks that men, and especial
ly bachelors, are the best historians of
childhood. It Mas Charles Lamb who
wrote “Dream Children." Lamb, by the
way, Mas scarcely an inveterate bache
lor, as lie Mould have married Ann
Simmons* if she had been willing, and
there M_ns also "Alice W.." as well as
FVnny Kelly, the actress. mLi refused j
KNEW USE OF MOSQUITO NETS
Abundant Proof That the Ancients
Usld Them to Foil the Attacks
of the Pests.
A 'cording to Col. Kir Patrick 1-Iehlr,
a physician, mIio has traveled about j
India, lecturing to the people about
malaria, mosquito ticts are b? no
means a modern invention. He quotes
Llerodotua, who, writing of the Egypt
ians Mho dM'elt on the hanks of lakes,
rivers and marshes, says:
"Every man has a net with which
in the day he takes fish and at night
uses in the following manner: In what
ever bed he sleeps lie throws the net
around It. and then, getting In, sleeps
under it. If lie should wrap himself
up in his clothes or in linen the
mosquitoes Mould hit# through them,
hut they never bite through the net."
The Boinaus called the mosquito net
a eonopouni. It is spoken of by Varro.
Horace, Juveiial, Propertius and Pani
ns Kilenlarius. Horace ami Propertius
referred to It in a m«.v that Implies
they thought It unmanly for a hardy
Honuin soldier to indulge in such pro
tection.
WltAfl Peter Cooper Made Shoes
icier Cooper, designer and huildet
(»!’ tin* first locomotive, mjis an inventot
from childhood. Ills first invention
according to Thrift Magazine, mjis a
crude washing mucliinc, or, In reality,
an arrangement for pounding soiled
linen on wash day. This lie put to
'gether to help Iilsliard-Morked mother
A But probably one of his greatest
helps to his father; mother and eight
brothers and sisters mjis the shoes lit
made for them. In his autoblogruph.v
he tells how lie made tin* shoes:
“I first obtained nn old pair, and I
took them apart to see the structure
and then after procuring leather
thread and needles and some suitahU
tools. M'itlumt further Instruction, '
made the last, and a pair of shoe."
wlileli compared very favorably wltl
the country shoes then in vogue."
Bird and Boat Collide.
A Hying albatross collided with a
vessel in Australian Maters Mlth such
force Hint the "trigger” locking the
forward rudder Mas lifted, and the
rudder released. The vessel xvas travel
ing at a speed of ten knots an hour at
the time, and ns a result of the sudden
release of the locking gear, the rudder
took charge and caused the steamer to
sheer off her course. The engines were
quickly stopped and the whistle blown
for assistance. After a delay of about
live minutes, however. Hie rudder wus
secured again. On a subsequent trip
Hu* rudder was found to he damaged
and the steamer mbs withdrawn and
sent for repairs. The albatross, a
fiiit^ specimen, was measured by one of
the deck hands and found to cover
ten fed from tip to lip of Hie Mings.
The skipper at first mistook the bird
for u shed of neM'spnper swept off the
deck by a squall. The bird only missed
the glnss-lnelose(| wheel house by
a couple of feet.
Armor Always in Use.
Men have used armor of some kirn!
since the days of earliest record
Even more striking ts the resent
blanee of modern armor to the armor o:
early design. Except in M’lthstandlnji
severe ballistic tests, neither our mod
orn plate, nor our padded armor seeuq
to he much Improved. The helmet
and corselet of today are in many re
spects strikingly similar to those a
early times.
No
Middles are allowed, but each
rider is given a heavy whip and a
handkerchief. With the latter he leans
over and Mlpes the dust from the eyes
and nostrils of Ids mount, as otherwise
the dust of the steppe might injure
Mind or eyesight.
Eutliuslasfle owners or spectators,
including bishops and archbishops of
the Lamaist faith, gallop out to meet
the coin est a ii f s ami assist In whipping
them In. But sometimes two favorites
arrive at the finish literally leaning
against each other, shoulder to shoul
der. Thus Hiey support each other oil
the nth. though both are so exhausted
that If they Mere suddenly separated
they would drop in their tracks.
Wonderful tales are told of the dis
tances covered by famous Mongol ra
cers at a stretch. Fifty, even 100
miles at full gallop, are claimed. Tills
Is doubtless exaggeration, but 15 and
20-in lie races at great speed over a
straight course, are mcII authenticated.
HARFLEUR ONCE GREAT PORT
Made So by English Invaders, Who
Were Finally Driven Out of
the Country.
After the conquest of England. Hnr-
tleur became the principal port of Nor
mandy. The dukes and merchants
M'orked together to make Harfie'ur a
great maritime center. During the
earlier period of tin* Hundred Years’
wnr the sailors of Uarrteur M'ere
terror of the English. Naturally, says
Herbert Adam Gibbons, in Harper
Magazine. Mlien Henry V felt that Hie
time had conic to annex Normandy to
England, he made ii point of establish
omhiim-
appL'Ml
win
lived
t ho
Nmokv Mill riv
they have nev
it. The fish n
ears
.v,:;
11mi anything like
lies a salmon, hut
*t miiulli May under the
body is round and t\V«»ty
inches long, with very few hones.
indigestion %
Many persons, otherwise
vigorous and healthy, are
bothered occasionally .with
Indigestion. The effects of a
disordered stomach on the
system are dangerous, and
prompt treatment of Indiges
tion is important. “The only
medicine I have needed has
been something to aid diges
tion and clean the liver,”
writes Mr. Fred Ashby, a
McKinney, Texas, farmer.
“My medicine is
Thedford’s
S
n for indigestion and stomach
= trouble of any hind. I hare
D never found anything that
H touches the spot, like Black- M
■_ Draught. I take it In broken S
H doses after meals. For a long B
Q time 1 tiled pills, which grip- n
B ed and didn't give the good Z
results. Blaok-Druught liver B
B medicine Is easy to take, easy Q
D
D
to keep, inexpensive.”
Get a package from your J5
druggist today—Ask for and ”
D Insist upon Thedford’s—the B
Q only genuine. B
B Get it today. Q
dd ni
IB
St. Elmo’s Fire, a Sign at Sea.
St Elmo’s fire Is the popular name
of an appearance sometimes seen,
especially In soul hern climates, during
thunder storms, of a brush or star of
light at Hie tops of masts, spires or
oilier pointed objects. It is sometimes
accompanied by a hissing noise and iv
of the same nature as the light caused
oy elect rich y streaming off from points
connected Mitli an electrical machine. 1
The phenomenon, as seen at sea. was!
woven by the Greeks Info the myth of
Castor and Boling. Even yet sndi
lights ai Hie masthead are considered J
by sailors a sign Hint they have noth j
ing to I'car from the storm. The name I
Comes from SI. Elmo. St. Peter |
Gonzales, 1190-1210, a Spanish Do-1
niinicen. who is onvokeil by sailors oi* j
the MediH’francan during storms. j
a nny
him. It was H
wrote “Peter Pa
Hons of eliildret
or Peter Pans, h
lonely Barrie
And few deseriji-
not dream olilbVen
of annul child life
—can surpass the pictures drawn h.v
E. Nesbitt (Mrs. Hubert Bland) In
"The Treasure Seekers" and “The
Phoenix and Carpel."—Exchange.
Explaining “Bo-Peep.”
Bo-Peep has quite a curious history,
and it Is not about a shepherdess, ac
cording to u MTiter in Pearson's Week
ly. In the old days the people of Eng
land gave a great deal of money to
H?e begging friars, whom they dared
not refuse, hut m hen the power of tin*
monasteries declined they grew hold
er and Jeered at the friars mIHi the
Bo-peep rhyme. Bo-peep or Boo-peep
was a slang term for the holy men,
and the Mords, “Boo-peep bus lost
his sheep,” referred to the falling off
of the spiritual flock, though of course,
in later years Bo-peep mbs turned luto
Roman “Hours." .
The Piomans divided Hie day-1line j
Into tM'clve “hours/’ ’tin* exact length
of Hi esc Varied, of course mIHi season
and hilltude: but llu* first always he j
gnu at sunrise, llu* sixth ended and
llu.* seventh began ar noon, and tin i
twelfth ended ai sunset.* 'Hie period j
from sunset lo sunrise, on the uiliei
hand, consisted (in military parlance) |
of four wilt dies. 'Finis Julius Caesar j
at Ids first crossing in Britain, slates
that he left port “about the third
watch,” reached Dover “about the i
fourth hour of the day," and rode at;
anchor “till the ulnili hour," Mlien ilie
assembled fleet moved on up the coast
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No Army "Dead March."
The cetnelerial division of the wai
department says there Is no official fu
iierul march. When the relatives (1<:
riot make a request for certain muslcui
selections at u soldier’s funeral vuri
oils suitable ones are chov.en, the onlj
regulation being Him taps he sounded
Pay $211.57 down and $35.37 per month for 12
months. These charges include fire and theft insu
rance for one year and all interest charges.
You can pay about $250.00 down and $31.50 per month for 12 months or
divide the balance in six, eight or ten months as desired. Farmers can pay
ONE-HALF down and balance in six months with charge for fire and theft in
surance and interest added in.
Come in and let’s see which plan will suit you.
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