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He sought out the director of the “educational” department of one of the big screen concerns and asked him if lie was in the market for especially fine ethnological pictures. “No,” said the director, “we never go in for religious stuff.” —Panorama. Makes Life Sweeter Children’s stomachs sour, and need an anti-acid. Keep tlieir systems sweet with Phillips Milk of Magnesia! When tongue or breath tells of acid condition —correct it with a spoonful of Phillips. Most men and women have been comforted by this universal sweetener —more mothers should in voke its aid for their children. It is a pleasant tiling to take, yet neutralizes more acid than the harsher things too often employed for the purpose. No should be without it. Phillips is the genuine, prescrip tional product physicians endorse for general use; the name is important. “Milk of Magnesia” has been the U. S. registered trade mark of the Charlei H. Phillips Chemical Cos. and its pre decessor Charles H. Phillips since 1875. Phillips r. Milk of Magnesia Their Mistake “Where’s your nfew license?” de manded the officer, eyeing the 1928 plate. “Why, officer, we’re just on the way to the courthouse now to get it,” ex claimed the grass widow and widower in the car, with one voice. Two Species What is described as a walking fish from Africa has been brought to Bos ton on a visiting ship. Humorists may now do their worst in comparing the peripatetic fish from overseas with the poor fish who already walk Bos ton streets. —Boston Transcript. “RbfArp Mv iriHtor.- '‘Lydia E. Finkham’s Vege table Compound puts new life into me and makes my work in the store and in the house easier. I took several bottles before my baby came and am | always singing its praises to my friends. I recommend it for girls and women of all ages. It makes me feel like life is worth living, my nerves are better and I have gained pep and feel well and strong.”— Mrs. A. R. Smith, 808 S. Lansing Street, St. Johns, Michigan. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Lydia'E;’Pinkham Med. Cos.. LVnn. Mass. ■ ■ : ■ ■ ■ ■ ' : ■ ‘ 1 VOODOOISM OF MANY CULTS GRIPS CUBA Find Right Cat Bone and You Are Invisible. Havana, Cuba. —Mystic voodoo riles practiced in many parts of the United States have been linked by recent in vestigation with the cult of Nanigoism in Cuba. Comparative analysis of African sacrificial customs have furnished un usual evidence that both had a com mon origin in the Congo jungles and that voodooism reached the American continent by the importation of slaves from Cuba and Haiti. “Obeah," a mild form of voodooism. is practiced in Cuba and the British West Indies with virtually identic ceremonies. Negroes who came to la bor in Cuban sugar cane fields have brought to this Spanish-speilking is land not only the Obeah but also the far more terrible and sanguinary rite of Nnnigo. The high priests and priestesses of these cults have shown great powers of resistance to tlie sup pressive measures of the police. Cuba inis dealt severely with voo dooism, and it is believed that its more ghastly forms have been eliminated. It was largely in connection with the government's campaign against Obeah ism and Nanigoism that measures were adopted curtailing the immigra tion of illiterate workers from Haiti and Jamaica. Takes Criminal Aspect. Cuba has been particularly con cerned because voodooism here takes on a criminal aspect entirely exclu sive of the possibility of human sacri fice. In Oricnte province, which lies nearest Haiti, the voodoo priests of that island wield large powers. In other parts of the island Nanigoism is dominant among the negroes who take their religion in this form. Nanigoism is a combination of devil worship and gang spirit. Its priests promise occult powers to law break ers, and members of this cult are pledged to render all possible protec tion and assistance to each other. As far as can be learned the sym bolism of the cults is very similar. All include the sacrifice of roosters, black cats, goats and other animals. Cuban police records show cases where the perpetrators of murder in connection with voodooism have been brought to justice, but it is claimed that this type of sacrifice has been eradicated. Havana newspapers continue to chronicle cases of Nanigo outrages committed against those who have in curred the enmity of the gangsters. It has been found that there is always someone willing to carry out the priests’ orders, because a Nanigo neophyte fails of membership unless he has one capital crime to his credit. At Nanigo funerals a black rooster Is slaughtered in the home of the de ceased. The fowl is then presented t' some neighboring non-Nanigo family as a warning. Cat Bone Is Charm. One of the strangest superstitions in the Haitian cult is that a certain bone in a black cat’s body will confer invisibility to its possessor. The rite takes place in the presence of three witnesses, and the cat is thrust into hot water. It is related by voodooists that supernatural manifestations, such as thunder and lightning, are an ac companiment of this process. In the early years of the Nineteenth century Jean La Fitte, famous pirate of the Spanish Main, frequently brought slaves to Cuba and the United States. His principal market in the United States was New Orleans and this fact is now being used to explain the par ticularly close similarity between the voodooism of Cuba and that of the lower Mississippi valley. There is a tradition that La Fitte’s entourage included several African “conjur doctors.” The successors of these doctors to day have considerable knowledge of herbs and the curative properties of plant juices. In genera! they are em ployed to effect cures, but with other herbs the doctor-priests are said to be able to cause temporary or perma nent loss of memory to their enemies. This belief appears substantiated by the recent discovery by United States marines in Haiti of a colony of ne groes, dazed or hypnotized, working under their task masters on a plum., tion. Priests frequently claim the power to take on animal or reptile form. This recalls the African “leopard” su perstition where a certain clan were credited with power to turn them selves into leopards and prowl the jungle at night. Manila Declares War on 12,000,000 Rats Manila. P. I.—Bubonic plague has broken out in parts of India arid China and tlie Philippine health authorities have started a campaign against rats, the principal carriers of the disease. II is estimated that there is one rat for every person in the islands, ap proximately 12,000.000. The chief of tiie health service issued a warning that until this number is reduced the outlook would be dangerous. Sanitary inspectors are acting as pied pipers in the ports of Cebu, Iloilo, Zamboanga, I.egaspi and Davao. Run Clock* by Radio Smolensk.—lvan Zlotnikov, a radio amateur, has invented an apparatus with the "aid of which he expects to work and control clockwork mechan isms throughout the city. The inven tion has been patented. THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., Feb. 13, 1929 RUMANIA GIVES GYPSIES FREEDOM 300,000 Nomads Will Be As similated by Nation. Jassy, Rumania. —Three hundred thousand Rumanian gypsies will l>e assimilated by Rumania and become an integral part of the Rumanian race. This is one of tiie great social re forms inaugurated by Dr. Julius Mnniu, Rumania’s new progressive premier. Unlike the gypsies of Hun gary, Czechoslovakia and Yugo-Slavia who have been granted citizenship in tiiese countries, the gypsies of Ru mania are still regarded virtually as slaves. Up to 1545 gypsy slave markets ex isted in Rumania. The price of a family of gypsies sold as slaves was about SSO. When the United States was struggling with the slave prob lem during the Civil war Rumania decided to abolish gypsy slavery alto gether, so that today gypsies are free to live their own unfettered, nomadic and primitive lives, where and how they will. Rumania’s large gypsy population is scattered all over the country. Large settlements of them are to be found in Moldavia, Walachia and Transylvania. Like their brother gypsies in tiie United States, they ply their trade as tinkers, blacksmiths, musicians, dance soothsayers and •horse dealers. Those who cannot find regular employment live by theft and mendicancy. Unlike the gypsies of Czechoslo vakia or Hungary, who seem to I)e a superior caste, tiie Rumanian gypsies live in great squalor and want. Although they allow themselves to he baptized in the Christian faith, they really pursue no religion. Their old women practice fortune-telling and are famous for their magic and sleight of hand. America Sets Record in Road Construction New York. —No nation has ever gone into road construction at such an amazing pace ns has the United States during the last ten years. Roy D. Chapin, chairman of tiie highway committee, National Automo bile Chamber of Commerce, says that in less than ten years the public has voted virtually $10,000,000,000 to the construction and maintenance of roads, or enough to defray our cost in the World w#r, excluding foreign loans. No public roads improvement in any era has remotely approximated the expenditure of these projects, and it is notable that the feat of raising the money has been accomplished with comparative ease. During the last year four states, Louisiana, lowa. West Virginia and Missouri, have voted a total of $240,- (XX),000 in highway bond issues to fa cilitate completion of tlieir main state systems. New York has more high-type high ways than any other state, with 11,- 000 miles of hard-surfaced roads. Illi nois leads in cement pavements, with 6.000 miles, while Indiana has the largest mileage of all types of hard surfaced roads. Two states have already completed initial improvement of all of their roads. These states are Maryland and Delaware. The Department of Commerce esti mates that there are 6,500,000 miles of highways in the world, of which more than half are in the United States. When only the improved roads are considered, the United States has much more than half. French Citizen Claims He Invented War Tanks Lillg, France. —A man who says he is the real inventor of the tanks used during the World war has brought suit against the state for $600,000 damages for having communicated the plans of his invention to England. M. Parisot de Rupt, who claims to have invented the war tanks, was man aging editor of the “Political and Liter ary Annals” during the war. He has already protested to the ministry of war and tiie premier’s office, but hav ing received no answer has now taken his grievance to court. Bobbed Her Age New York. —Irving Cole is seeking an annulment on the ground that Ids bride bobbed her age and not her hair, in effect. He avers she was thirty-five instead of twenty-seven, as represented. j ♦s* j* *j* $* $* ♦J* $ ♦J*- % Astronomer Finds % % Great Gas Cloud % * Ithaca, N. Y. —A vast cloud of •> gas, lying in space in the north- * 4* ern heavens near the constella- * tion Cassiopeia’s Chair, has been * found by S. L. Boothroyd, pro- *> $ fessor in charge of the Fuertes £ *> observatory of Cornell univer- ♦> *;♦ * .> sity. * *> The observations were made * while working at the Dominion ♦> * Astrophysical observatory at * j. Victoria, B. C. •> *;* Although the cloud is invisible * * even through telescopes, the *> X spectroscope not only revealed ,{* **♦ its presence, but showed Its * X composition, which is calcium .£ gas. Calcium is the mineral * * that makes bones hard. * •> $ $* *J J* *j *s* FIGHT TO PUT SONS ON VACANT THRONE Rival Widows Battle for Crown of Hungary. Paris, —A hitter, undercover strug gle is on between two brunches of the Hapsburg family for the unoccupied throne of Hungary. Two widows head the rival factions. Each Is scheming to place her son on the coveted throne. The two women are the former Em press Zita, widow of Emperor Charles, and the Archduchess Isabella, widow of Archduke Friedrich. The sons in whom the two women have centered tlieir ambitions are the sixteen-year-old Prince Otto, the crown prince, and bis thirty-one-year old cousin, the Archduke Albrecht. The strife between the two women, their sons and tlieir factional allies is just far enough beneath the surface to keep out of the news. News Almost Broke. Two months ago it almost broke In to the headlines. November 20 was Prince Otto’s sixteenth birthday. The “legitimists,” champions of Otto’s candidacy, have long been chafing with impatience, and had decided that on that day they would take destiny in both hands and proclaim Otto king. They almost did it. But there were so many obstacles in the way that cooler heads prevailed, and the birthday feast was reduced to the proportion of a quiet, intimate rejoicing. True, Hungary, according to iier con stitution. is a kingdom without a king. True that Otto is the legitimate heir. True that monarchists are in control of the cabinet, that they have a ma jority in parliament, and tbat they command the army. Within the conn try there was little to prevent tli& legitimists from carrying out tlicii pri ject. But without, there was the rub. The peace treaty declares that no Hapsburg shall accede to tiie Hun garian throne, and Czechoslovakia, Poland, Rumania, and Yugo-Slavia are ready to go to war to see that no Hapsburg is crowned. Another obstacle is that Empress Zita, who is fiercely desirous of making her son a king, has no money with which to finance tiie preliminaries. In any case it was de cided that the time for Otto is not yet “ripe.” A Hapsburg May Reign Again. Give Austria time to merge herself with Germany. Hope tiiat Croatia will continue in her mood of seces sion and in seceding will weaken Yugo slavia. Let Rumania flounder a while longer In the confusion of a weak regency ruling for a six-year-old king, and the time may come when even a Hapsburg may be a king again. Between tiie devil and the deep sea are the legitimists. If they enthrone Otto now, the allies will surely de throne hi", again within a month. If they do not enthrone him now, 1 lie rival faction of monarchists may pro claim, Albrecht the favored candidate, and may edge Prince Otto out of the running. Albrecht, too, has the Hapsburg handicap. But his mother has plenty of money. She lias saved almost all of her great pre-war fortune. His supporters believe that, though he is a Hapsburg, he is far enough removed from tiie direct line not to be abso lutely taboo. They believe that if tie were made an elected king the allies, though they might dislike it, would not go to war to dethrone him. Another cousin of Prince Otto has recently thrown consternation in both camps with a sensational declaration that, despite his titles, Albrecht is not a Hapsburg. He is, according to this statement, tiie illegimimafe son of the Archduchess Isabella and a handsome Hungarian army officer to whom Albrecht bears a striking re semblance. This charge is made by the Arch duke Leopold, who challenges Al brecht to prove by a blood analysis that be is a genuine Hapsburg. From these bare facts, divested of the tangle of intrigue which sur rounds them, it is apparent to tiie most sluggish imagination that the vacant throne of Hungary wails un easily. Modern Scales Changed Little From Old Ones London. —There is little or no dif ference between tiie scales used today and those used in the days of ancient Egypt, judging by an exhibition in the Science museum, Soutli Kensington, recently. illustrating the history of weighing as fur back as is known, a steelyard used by a Roman butcher identical to the present-day “meat purveyor” was on show. Modern scales of nickel and enamel, with multi-colored dials, on which the weight can be read in an instant, stood side by side with models showing that centuries ago Leonardo da Vinci de signed a self-indicating machine on exactly the same principle. Among the sets of standard weights was one row which had come down from pre-Norman days and which still is legal standard in the Channel is lands. although no longer used. There were weights of glass and rock crystal and, in contrast with a Chinese balance of ivory which would slip into a vest pocket, were photo graphs of modern monster weights, weighing hundreds of tons. “Sea Serpent” Caught Noank, Conn. —A real sea serpent was hauled ashore near here in the form of a 7%-foot sea eel weighing 27 pounds. It fought 20 minutes and tort one net to shreds. For Colds How many people you know end their colds with Bayer Aspirin! And how often you’ve heard of its prompt relief of sore throat or tonsilitis. No wonder millions take it for colds, neuralgia, rheumatism; and the aches and pains that go with them. The won der is that anyone still worries through a winter without these tablets! They relieve quickly, yet have no elfect whatever on the heart. Friends have told you Bayer Aspirin is marvelous; doctors have declared it harmless. Every druggist has it, with proven direc tions. Why not put it to the test ? j. Aspirin I, ,be triple mark o, Cityrr Mnnnfnrturo nt UonnarcUraeiiic.tcr of P.llrjilr.rid Greeks Got Alphabet From the Phoenicians Tiie Phoenicians are generally be lieved to have produced tiie first al phabet and from tlieir group of sound symbols have grown all of the alpha bets in existence today. The Greeks, it is known, eomposed their alphabet from (lie Phoenician as a result of tlieir trade with tiie first sailors. The Romans took their alphabet from the Greek and the English alphabet comes directly from the Latin. Only minor changes have come down in the English alphabet from that of the Romans. Tiie English added tiie letter “j” for which “i” was used in tiie T.atin and added “w” to tiie Latin “uv.” Probably the best explanation of tiie Phoenician alphabet’s origin lies in tiie roving disposition of that poo plo. Stopping at various ports along the Mediterranean they adopted cer tain characters of Hie cuneiform lan guages of all the countries and adapt ed them to tlieir own usage.—Detroit News. Still Fighting On President Butler of Columbia, apro pos of the jibbing of France and other countries over Secretary Kel logg’s anti-war past, said at a re ception : “War would vanish if mankind real ly worked against it. If men only persevered in wise tilings as splendid ly as they do in foolish ones the mil lennium would be here next week. “ ‘Jones is a man of remarkable perseverance,’ a banker said to me. “‘Yes?’ said T. “‘Yes. He’s tried 288 cures for bald ness in (lie last 19 years, and lie's slill fighting on as hard as ever.’” \\\ \ | [// s' Derived from. 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With a steel square, t sharp ax and a piece of chalk any man can cut the joints. P.efore saw ing oue the windows or doors he sutf gesis that the logs be spiked with t transverse two-by-four to bold them in place. A plummeet line helps 61 keep the wall in line, he finds. The Eternal Feminine Mrs. William Walker, aged ninety of Wainfleet, England, is planning dress with short skirts for he! eightieth wedding anniversary. SSu says she approves abbreviated skirt* for those who have good legs, and that she has not seen any logs l Wainfleet recently that are prettier than hers. t\Jie and her husband, aged ninety-one, recently celebrated their seventy-first wedding annlsecs sary. Walker said lie enjoyed reading accounts of sprightly young peopl# celebrating their golden weddings,and of middle-aged couples holding di*> mond weddings. 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