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WEDNESDAY. MAY 22, 1029 i Hornsby Is Playing J “Lone Wolf’’ Role * M; Rogers Hornsby, the corns >; gpondentH with tlu> Chicago >; >J cubs assort, still is .playing the >; :♦ of “lono wolf." The lta.lah, * ij: u,py say, does not mingle with :V !♦; I,ls ciubamtos oil’ the fiohl. & $ Hornsby hns never been n ;♦! mixer of that,typo of linbe Ituth; $ ](. neither Is ho bothered with the !$' buck-shipping, horseplay or >; >; pranks indulged In by most of >; iji the phiyers. It’s all business > >i with Rogers.; He once said: >1 i play baseball because I !♦! ni.o it, but Chiefly because u is * a good business for me. i am >; iii there to put nil I can into > it, but also to get the most out >! $ of it.” 5: Hornsby did not spare his >: ij; men whenever he was in a po- J W sition of authority, neither does '*] !ji be spare himself. J , ■ „ Gil Dobie Will Remain as Cornell Head Coach [ No sooner bad the students of Cor nell ventured to express ttie opinion that football defeats were not the worst catastrophies that could befall a university than rumors spread that Qil Dobie, head coach, would resign shortly. Of what use would Dobie be, if there was no need of his weeping, it was asked, if defeat on the gridiron i Were not in fact a serious affair, why ;keep a coach whose tears were tears of blood? i 1 But Graduate Manager Romeyn j Berry spiked the report of Dobie’s departure as "silly,” so presumably Gil will be weeping away the autumn hours, even if tie weeps alone. One-Armed Pitcher :., ,f, C : y -'meatm■ Francis “Bunno” Burns of Cb'arlos jtown, Mass., who, thougli be lias the use of init one band, the right, is the mainstay of the pitching staff of the ] Boston university baseball team. De spite the handicap of his physical dis | ability (his left hand was amputated | a number of years ago), he lias al ready won bis freshman numerals in football, baseball and track. Bright Yellow Baseball Has Been Put on Market Golf and tennis, which have been made more colorful by introduction of orange, red and green balls, have/been followed by baseball. A bright yellow baseball is now on the market, mak ing the old white “horsehide” seem pale. Golf has extended the riot of color to club shafts with green and red pre dominating in the now spring models. The orange golf balls have filled a I long felt need on courses where there jis a wealth of sand, but they may be , come as elusive as the white ones i when the dandelions bloom. | Sport Notes i; 1 George Newbiatt of Brooklyn, guard, , lias been chosen to lead the New York university basket ball team next sea son. * * * Thomas McCrea, of the Hawthorne Golf club of Detroit, has been named pro at the Riverby Hills club, To ledo. * * Eight holes of the Pebble Beach course in California, where the ama teurs will play in September, border on the ocean. • * Chapman, University of Florida heavyweight, stands six feet eight. Inches and claims the greatest reach of any college boxer. * * * England plans to send a team to the Olympics in 1932, according to a state ment made by Lord Rochdale, chair man of the British Olympic associa tion. * * • Football is rapidly becoming an all year sport at many of tDo leading colleges, some schools starting their spring sessions this year early in Feb ruary. * * * George Levis, long business manager °f athletics at ‘the University of Wis consin, and an old Badger athlete, lias been named coach of the university golf team. *' * * The Marquis of Douglas and Clyes oole, twenty-two-year-old son and heir the duke of Hamilton, one of the oldest Scottish titles. Holds the, nma teur welterweight boxing champion ship rtf Scottabd/ % two 'eps Porcupine Shown to Be Much Maligned Animal One of the most unconcerned deni zens of the woods and one about which has been woven many a fantastic tale is (lie porcupine. It is tlie marksman of the forest, "? the story goes-the bowman that shoots barbed arrows at ttiose it sees fit to attack. One in imagination can nlmost see a cloud of quills winging Heir way toward some enemy, ready to pierce any unprotected skin ami <•"’<> beneath the skin, presenting the problem of the fish-hook Imbedded In a luckless angler’s finger. II has the reputation of belligerency of the two gun man, swaggering around, scowl ing at any luckless person who chances to get in the way. If ever a more unfair picture of tiie character of an animal lias been paint ed, a grave injustice has been done. The porcupine, as a matter of fact, is mostly intent on minding its own business and hopes that other animals will do the same. It is not particularly afraid of any others, knowing, as the skunk does, that it will not be at tacked by any but the very young, and the very young soon learn that a good defense is a wonderful offense, reversing the usual strategy. Printers Absolved of Charge of Irreverence An average layman, fairly familiar with his Bible, hastily opened the Good Book to verify the statement of llie Literary Digest’s lexicographer that in tlie Scriptures the personal pronoun representing our Lord did not begin with a capital letter. To his surprise, tlie learned doctor was right. And if tlie reader turned back to the Old Testament, lie discovered also that tlie pronouns referring to God were in tlie same style. The reason for this, the lexicographer explains, is that early-day printshops had inad equate upper cases (capitals) and that tlie rule was invoked, not because of a lack of reverence, hut of necessity. So far as we know, Bible publishers are tlie only printers who have re mained true to this tradition. Cer tainly there are few, if any, newspa pers that do not use tlie upper case first letter in a pronoun referring to Christ or God. —St. Louis Post-Dis patch. This Frank Decade Mary Elizabeth lias just started to dancing school and on the occasion of tier second or third lesson tier mother, sitting by as an interested spectator, was glad to see that she and her boy pari tier seemed to be holding a conver sation. "What were you and Jimmie talking about?" she asked when the little girl joined her after tlie dance. “Oh, just talking,” evaded the young ster. “Well, what did Jimmie say,” persisted* the mother. “He said, ‘Gee, you’re a rotten dancer,’ ” revealed Mary Elizabeth. “Oh !” cried tlie strick en parent, thinking her daughter would be offended. “What did you say to that, honey?” “I said,” replied the child, calmly, “ ‘Say, you’re not so good yourself.’ ” Catfish Peculiar Catfishes are called catfishes be cause they have feelers on the head, like eats’ “smellers.” They have no scales, their bodies being naked and smooth, or mailed with long plates. The different species vary in size from dwarfs two inches long to six feet giants. The stone-cats and tlie mad toms, seldom more than three inches long, sting painfully, but not danger ously. Only a few fossil eatfisheg have been found. The present scaleless members of the group evidently come from scaly ancestors. The peculiari ties that distinguish them are caused by specilization of some parts and by degeneration of other parts. Swedes Made History Sweden’s international relations wore kept, alive by the contact be tween the home country and Swedish emigrants and settlers abroad. Thus in the year 375 Swedes penetrated as far south as the Black sea and found ed an Austro-Gothian dominion. Oth ers settled on tlie British islands and in Normandy. Headed by the great statesman and warrior, Rurik, one group went east across tlie Baltic and founded the empire of Russia, named after the coast district of Ros jagen, near Stockholm, whence came its founders. Old American College Dartmouth college at Hanover, N. II is an outgrowth of a school found ed’ at Lebanon, Conn., by Wlieeloclc for the Christian education of Indian youth. Funds raised in Eng land and contributed largely by Lord Dartmouth enabled Wl.eelock to move 150 miles to the Hanover plain, five miles north of the junction of the Con necticut and White rivers, and so al lowed him to enlarge the scope of h • W ork. The province of New Hamp shire gave a charter to the new Dart mouth college in I™ 9. History of the Diamond India was the original home of the diamond as a jewel For ee. tunes India remained the so e source> of Eu r „„e’s diamond supply. About 17JJ diamonds were discovered in Brasil. ISG7 diamonds were discovered in South Africa. South African diamonds constitute more than 90 Pcr ccnt of tlm world’s supply. From their ands '..very . the present time they have vjeided 90,000,000 carats. The dm n o ids of the world probably repre- Zt .l value of $5,000,000,000. THE ROCKDALE RECORD. CONYERS. GEORGIA Gingko Tree Only One That Has No. Enemies Only one species of plant life now growing iu tlie United States Is with out an enemy trying to take Its life, Dr. William A. Taylor, chief of tlie bureau of plant industry, reported to tlie house appropriations committee during hearings in Washington. “This unmolested tree is tlie Jap anese ginkgo tree,” Doctor Taylor stated. “So far qs we know tills tree lias no insect or fungus enemy at the present time." On n driveway leading to tlie Unit ed States Department of Agriculture buildings the street Is lined on both sides with tlie ginkgo trees. In tlie fall they present a striking appear ance, for ns the yellow leaves fall they heap up on the sidewalks like piles of gold. The ginkgo tree has a fruit, but one which tlie white man scorns. The nut Inside Is rather tasty, but as Doctor Taylor said, “it is surrounded by a most abominable smelling and tasting pulp. It smells more like salt-rising bread in tlie process of fermentation than any other tiling. Chinese Inun drymen pick up the fruits, take them home, clean them and eat tlie ker nels.”—-Kansas City Star’s Science Service. Last British Invasion French Practical Joke? The last invasion of England by an armed enemy force was on February 22, 1797, when a Freneli army of 1,400 men, under General Tate, landed at Fishguard with an idea apparently of conquering Wales. The whole affair proied farcical. Lord Cawdor hastily gathered together the local militia, and hundreds of women, dressed in the national costume, red mantles and beaver hats, accompanied their men folk, whereupon tlie invaders, conclud ing that large reinforcements had reached Fishguard, hastened to make unconditional surrender. Tate was an American, many of his officers were Irish, and more than half his men were convicts released to help to equip the expedition. There were not wanting cynics, who declared that tlie French government had planned the whole affair with the sole idea of get ting 1,400 incorrigible ruffians board ed and lodged at the expense of the British. Great Forests on Pacific Nowhere in the world are there such magnificent forests as those found alorv the immediate coast north of San Francisco, says the American Tree association. West of the Cas cade and coast ranges tlie mild cli mate, heavy rainfall and generally humid atmospheric conditious have re sulted in the production of a forest that is more wonderful in the density of its growth and the majesty of its development than is to be found any where else. The sequoias of Califor nia are the giants of the vegetable kingdom. The Douglas firs, Sitka spruces and the giant arbor vitae (western red cedars) of Oregon and Washington are second in size only to the sequoias. Fi*h-Oil Ice Cream Ice cream made from fish oil, snow and sugar recently was an unexpected winter dish of Eskimos of Alaska. The odor was strong but the dish is said to have tasted better than it smelt. Eskimos caught great numbers of eu lachon, a species of smelt which is sometimes called the candlefish be cause it contains so much oil. These they placed in holes lined with heated rocks, and after the fish were cooked they were placed in covered baskets on which the women trod with hare feet to extract the oil. During cold weather the oil lias much the consist ency of butter. To make the ice cream, tlie oil was melted and sugar and snow were added, then stirred in. Why Borah Couldn’t Come Tlie Golden Book recounts the story of how Mrs. William Borah, wife of the senator, arrived alone at a diplo matic breakfast in Washington dur ing the late days of the Coolidge ad ministration when the Kellogg anti war treaty was still in process of negotiation. Asked by Secretary of State Kellogg what had become of her husband, the gentle and literal Mrs. Borah replied: “He said that if you asked for him, Mr. Kellogg, I was to say that he is at home working on your d—d treaty.” One Thing Certain Some questions will forever remain unsolved. A back East physician once told a colored woman who had called to consult him in regard to an all goneness, that her vitality was much run down. “Suppose," said he, bright ly, using one of Doctor Holmes’ ques tions for the purpose, ‘you were packed in a barrel of snow. How much of it could you melt?” The l„,]y shivered. “Ah dunno,” she re plied fervently, “an’ what’s mo’, All ain’t never goin’ to find out.”—Port land Oregonian. Hernandez Found Dahlia It was in 1570 that Philip II of Spain sent Francisco Hernandez to Mexico to compile an official report of the tree and plant life of New Spain., He sent seeds to the director of the Roy al Botanic gardens in Madrid, who, says Nature Magazine, disseminated the dahlia throughout Europe. Hernan dez found the dahlia, not as n wild flower, but In the cultivated gardens oi the Aztecft tu Loir*,pm Trade Board Big Factor in Chicago’s Progress Tlie Jobs of 30,000 men and women are directly dependent on the exist ence of tlie Chicago Board of Trade; 100,000 are employed Indirectly lie cause of tlie "world’s largest" com modity exchange. These figures Indi cate tiie important part tlie hoard has taken in building Chicago into tlie fifth city of the world and tlie financial and marketing center of the Middle West. Early in ISIS a small group of In fluential leaders, engaged in pulling Chicago out of the mud that was old Fort Dearborn, organized the hoard of trade. Memberships in those days could he bought for a comparatively few dollars. Today tlie total value of memberships, at n conservative es timate, is $50,000,000. In tlie old days, toiling wagonloads of wheat and corn arrived from across the prairies in Chicago and were promptly sold at the exchange. Long before tlie end of the board’s eighty first year, Chicago was tlie railroad center of tlie world and farm prod ucts moved to market in modern style. It is estimated that one-seventh of nil the revenue of midwestern railroads now is derived from the transport of farm crops to market. A great part of their shipments go to Chicago for sale on the exchange. Thinks He Has Special Reason for Complaint The driver of a small car, parked iu a crowded downtown section, stopped short and stared at tiie appar ent nakedness of the machine. The spare tire was missing. With a nonchalant shrug, lie mut tered something about “thieves will he thieves” and began to climb into the machine. But lie stopped short again and stooped to pick up a wrench from the running board. IBs face grew crimson, and (he tilings lie said were terms not generally employed by fre quenters of social teas. “What’s Die trouble?” asked tlie Stroller. “A lot!” he snapped. “I don’t mind these crooks stealing my tire, hut when they open my car and take my tools to do it with, that’s too much*!” —Philadelphia Public Ledger. Protect Guano Bird* Shipmasters carelessly blowing (heir foghorns, disturbing tlie guano birds nesting on the islands off the coast of Peru, are punished with a fine; and if it is discovered that 1 hoir vessels ap proached within two miles of the is lands, their boats are confiscated! Tills new law was passed by the Peruvian government in a drastic cam paign to protect tlie birds, which, as described in Popular Science Monthly, produce large quantities of guano, an excellent fertilizer. While guano is found in various places, the most val uable variety—containing from 13 to 14 per cent nitrogen and a like propor tion of phospnorie acid—is exported from the Cliincha and other islands near the Peruvian coast. These is lands produce $1,000,000 worth of tlie fertilizer a year. Gem* Hi* Playthings Many, varied, and strange are the belongings kept in safe deposits. Dur ing the recent visit to England of the ruler of a semi-independent Indian state a score or more of gorgeously ap parelled retainers visited the prem ises of one company every day to col lect three heavy chests filled with cut and uncut precious stones. These were taken away for tlie dusky potentate to play with, and returned to (lie vaults when he tired of his daily amusement. The jewels were said to lie worth over £10,000,000 and were probably the most valuable collection ever stored at one time. Cable Insulation One can hardly see any connection between hoop skirts and the electrical Industry, but one may he traced, strangely enough, which took place in the early days of tlie electrical devel opment. The first cables were not in sulated satisfactorily till Walter T. Glover, an Englishman who braided steel hoops with cotton, had an in spiration. Crinolines were going out, so was his business. So lie used his machinery for insulating copper wire with cotton braid, and lie soon had no cause to regret Die passing of tiie crinoline. Turkey* Bred by Aztecs Although the earliest authentic rec ord of the turkey refers to its intro duction into Spain in 1524, a French writer says turkeys were first brought to France In 1518. When the Span iards conquered Mexico they found semi-domesticated turkeys in the zoo logical parks of the Aztecs, he writes. Among the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest turkeys were raised before the coining of the Spaniards and these fowls had reached about the same de gree of domestication that pigeons have today.—Pathfinder Magazine. Help! Young Tiling (at the library)—l want a copy of Liver. Librarian —My dear, this Isn’t the butcher shop. Young Thing—Maybe not, but I was told to get a copy of some kind of meat here. Librarian—Maybe you mean Bacon. Young Thing —You guessed right first time, so let me have Bacon for my little boy friend. —Cincinnati En quirer. Hope That Beams Will Divulge Historic Dates With saws and drills and micro scopes, tlie specialists engaged in the beam studies are digging from tlie heart of ancient logs and beams a more accurate calendar of happenings in the southwestern United States than that which we possess for the civiliza tions of the Egyptians or tlie Mayas. The work is built on tlie fact that every growing tree letlves In Its trunk a ring for each year; and on tlie fur tlier fact that each one of these rings lias an individuality of its own—a dif ferent width, definiteness, or charac ter resulting from different climntlc or seasonal differences. Furthermore, all trees In a given re gion show tlie same ring sequence; and some of tlie rings, deposited in an especially characteristic season of drought or moisture, stand out so plainly that it, is almost as if Nature had rubber-stamped tlie ring: "This is tlie year 1398 A. D." The work was undertaken after ex peditions of tlie National Geographic society had uncovered tlie ruins of Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico, one of America’s earliest “apartment houses.” Mirny interesting tilings were learned about tlie customs and culture of tlie 2,500 people who once occupied tlie great structure; but tlie date at which they flourished remained ’a secret Some of the old beams used in sup porting the roof were well preserved, niul when sawed showed characteris tic rings. Tlie idea was conceived of tracing a tree-ring calendar hack from the present to the days when Pueblo Bonito’s beams were growing. Wisest Men Have Ever Been Slow of Speech People are likely to set too much store by “conversation.” Avery large proportion of it isn’t worth 2 cents. It must bo conceded that there is a kind of exhilaration In talking. One can even got headache by it; showing that (it lias a direct offset on tlie tem po of the heart and on tlie nervous system. The popular notion that one must talk “for tlie sake of relief” is probably bogus; because silence, once it is learned and practiced, gives a greater relief. Keeping still Is an interesting game, to tlie point of being, nt times, de lightful ; especially when employed to keep out of a furious row under full headway. It is a difficult game, there fore the more inviting to play. One may suffer from the invidious impli cation that it is timidity instead of good sense that keeps him from par ticipation, but let him remember that many of the wisest men within hu man knowledge were tactiturn —“mind- ed their own business,” and we don’t know but that tlie slow to speech get along about as well as the wordy and impassiouate; some think, better. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Washington’* Cherry Tree* Mrs. Taft shortly after going Into the White House oj-dered 80 Japanese cherry trees to tye sent to Washing ton and planted. She had seen and ad mired these trees while traveling in the East. A Japanese resident of New York made tier a gift of 2,000 of these trees. When they reached America they contained an insect that was in jurious to American plants. For that reason they were tiirown overboard. Tlie city of Tokio then gave tlie United States 3,000 of these trees. The water side around Die Speedway and tlie Tidal basin in Washington have these trees iu blossom during tlie early spring. Honoring tlie Dead Annual Decoration day is most, en thusiastically observed by tlie Lower Yukon River Indians. Late last au tumn fifteen families of Indians from Nulato and other villages met together to fulfill the custom of erecting houses over the graves of those who died dur ing the year. The shelters of tlie old graves were given a fresh coat of bril liant paint. Many of the unique mausoleums have windows and floors and contain rugs and other articles that were used by tiie departed ones. Every western Alaska Indian tribe lias a different method of protecting the spirit of departed ones. Cumbersome Old Vessel* Galleon was a name formerly given to a large kind of vessel with three masts and three or four decks, such as those used by the Spaniards in their commerce with South America to transport precious metals. They were large, clumsy, square-sterned ves sels, having bulwarks three or four feet thick, all of which were so en cumbered with topiiamper and so over weighted in proportion to their draft of water that they could bear little can vas, even with smooth seas and light winds. More Howler* “A schoolboy’s essay on Henry VIII included in the sentence: ‘At this time King Henry walked with great diffi culty, having an abbess on his knee.’” A business man says that n short age in any commodity automatically raises its value. —This is doubtless the reason for the high price of evening gowns. No Standing Still Progress Is essential in this life. But whether it shall he forward or backward is for you to decide. You cannot stand still. This is impossible. Tlie world Is only a stairway on which men go either up or down. —Grit. Romance Rides With Silver Fleet LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 10 Tanned to u tropical brown by des ert sun and wind, the pilot cavaliers of the Goodrich Silver Fleet escorted romance In their silvered caravan to that famous colony in California where romance works harder and longer than in any other spot on earth. Hollywood fittingly celebrat'd the arrival of this silvered gypsy cav alcade after its 11,000 mile treck. Ani ta Page, most recently featured in “Broadway Melody" was hostess to Commander Schaeffer and his li9 col lege athlete pilots. Racquet Torres, Julia Faye and Fay Webb added their graces to a luncheon to the pilot per sonnel and helped to otherwise en tertain the travel weary cavaliers. At the Pacific Goodrich factory, here, Mayor Cryer was presented with tin' good-will greetings of Mayor “Jim mie” Walker of New York, signed by tlie dtip|K‘r Gotham mayor when the fleet was launched January 23. During the months that the fleet zig-zagged around the shore line of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, with occa sional excursions inland, hundreds of names of mayors, governors, congress men, senators and other civic and po litical dignitaries were added to tiie fleet scroll. A most unusual document of good will greetings was presented to Mayor Cryer here. The week of the fleet’s sojourn here was marked with luncheons and other varied entertainment, including dem onstrations at tlie places of various Goodrich dealers with the tires that had borne the fleet to its western mec ea showing hut little wear. ... • • Ancients Excelled in Art of Glass Staining The medieval artists in stained glass toiled like jewelers selting diamonds nnd rubies. Their ideal was not a pretty picture made transparent, but a window made beautiful. Years of ex perimenting with various combinations of glass taught thorn secrets of de sign which resulted In windows that have never been surpassed. Glass staining and glass painting are (wo quite different tilings. One method is lo build up a mosaic of pieces of glass, colored not only on its surface but its very substance. Tlie other is to paint tlie design upon white or colored glass. It was In glass making Hint (he an cients excelled. The blue of one school was so vibrant Hint the workers ground down sapphires to obtain their magic color. The fancy, although popular, is probably fallacious. Nevertheless, tlie colors of the ancients were so expert ly compounded that they blended into a uniform whole in a completed win dow and never appeared fiat, or “raw.” Tlie greens, for example, were not a straight mixture of blue and yellow, but a combination of blue and red and yellow in such proportions that (hey did not fust* into adjoining blues at a distance as do modern blue-and-yellpw greens. The reds likewise were dis tinctive, as they contained alternating layers of red, nnd green-white gave a mellow softness to light before it reached the eye of tlie beholder. Mendelssohn Hailed as i Master of Philosophy Asa Jewish philosopher acting tlio part of a pioneer, Mendelssohn brought about the understanding of tlie beauty; nnd humanism of tlie Bible, says n writer in tlie Boston Herald. He pre pared a basis for the development of science and Judaism. liis translation of Hie Pentatech lind Inaugurated a new era In tlie education of tlie Ger man Jews. He gave to ids brethren the German Bible, by which means lie introduced them to the intellectual life of Ger many, and thus through it once more into the civilization of tlie world at large. Mendelssohn has united Jewish nnd Hellenic life. He was tlie first to advocate the emancipation of tlie Jews. By his writings he contributed to a great degree to the removal of the brutal prejudices against tlie Ger man .Tews. Mendelssohn died on January 4, 1780, and was deeply mourned, not on ly by his coreligionists, hut also by all the learned world. His memory was celebrated as that of a “Sage like Socrates." The greatest philosophers of tlie day exclaimed: “There was but one Mendelssohn.” May-Day Customs As far back as tlie Medieval pe riod in England, Chaucer says, it was customary to go out early on the morning of the first of May, "to fetch the flowers fresh.” Hawthorne branches were carried home about sunset amid much merry-making. The name, The May, was given to the hawthorne, and tlie ceremony was called “the bringing home the May.” A relic of the Roman custom when on May day the goddess Flora was espe cially honored is seen in the selection of a beautiful village maid to be crowned as queen of the May. Total fuel consumption of tiie Rouge plant of the Ford Motor company dur ing the past year was 12,700 carloads, enough to make a coal train 100 miles long.