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Show THE BULLETIN Spains Night Watchmen AMAZE A BY ARNQT.n SC1ENTIFACTS MINUTE Relieve Police on Duty Every visitor to Spain, writes tlie Madrid correspondent of tlie Imdon Sunday Observer, notices tlie sereno." or watchman, who, with Ids pom-l- i of keys and small oil lamp dangling from ids chest and with his tuernlsliod xtnIT In his hnnd. forms one of tlie rldef notes of city life nfter dark. Madrid's sproiioB" coine In large part from Galicia. They form tlie Imtt for much fun on the variety and musical comedy stages. Tlie fact that tlie Mndrllemwi" live almost exclusively In large blocks of flats usually at least five or six stories j high makes the work of tlie watchman relatively simple. The house (mu'- ter, unlike his nnfortunate colleagues j In France, Is free of all mqtonHiblllty j for the comings and goings of the or-- j cupants of his house while the sereno" Is on duty. In some Spanish towns the sereno" ; wears a typical uniform, but In Mudrid ; a hat Is his only olflciiil dls-tlnctlon. lie ranks, however, as belonging to the "armed forces," and two 4 years Imprisonment Is the minimum punishment for even the slightest assault on Ids person. Ills presence in the streets avoids the necessity for kc lice patrols, and Madrid Is probnhty the only capital in Europe whose streets are not regularly patrolled hy policemen throughout the night. H. Van Harten BARBER SHOP good-nature- For Excellent Service 1107 East 21st South Steel at . strength Structural one-fif- th U steel . A HAS TENSILE STRENGTH OF ONLY 89,000 ROUNDS PER SQUARE INCH AGAINST ' 400,000 ft d i A j FOR PIANO WIRE. J COURTESY SERVICE Where the Big 4 Meet The Paint Pot 1074 East 21st South Hyland 8739 QUALITY - flat-topp- ed i PRICE Tricycles Baby Buggies and All Wheeled Goods RETIRED and REPAIRED Keys Fit and Duplicated Phil & Joes SOUTH EAST REPAIR 2021 So. 11th E. 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Believing the Indians would receive him kindly, he began clearing the land and building a cabin, said to tie the first cabin on Ohio soil, except the temporary shacks of traders. With a village on the opposite side of the stream, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the redskins liecnme suspicious and an Investigation committee cnlled him over for a conference. Post explained that he had come to Instruct them in the arts of living and agriculture and to administer the word of God. The land, he told them, was needed for raising vegetables. His manner of presentation, manifesting slneerlty. so Impressed them that they agreed t let him lay off a square tract .10 steps on each side. Captain Pipe stepped off the plot, drove stakes at the comers and In Indian fashion deeded to the missionary his right to the land. The agreement was evermore respected by tlie Indians. Tima Standards The earth turns on Its axis every 24 hours, rotating from west to east Sun time Is taken from the time when the sun apparently crosses the meridian at a given place. Since this changes as one goes cast or west. It has been necessary to establish different standard times cones, based on the meridians, 75, 00, 105 and 120 degrees West, In this country. Places within about 7 degrees of each of these lines of longitude take the time at these meridians as their standard, no matter what their local or sun time may be. Many cities adopted a daylight saving time for the their summer months, advancing docks an hour so as to take advantage of the early morning light and to save light and fuel in the evening: The United States time cones, running from east to west, are eastern, central, mountain and Pacific. The continental railroads adopted these standards as early as 1883, hence the term, railroad t&n& Detroit News, OTHER WITH A FORCE OF Sand glass . 600,000,000000000,000-00TONS. Glass 0 three-quarte- Ancient Egyptians Love for Cats Never Equaled spells Cat. From the blackboards of little red sdiiMilliuiisea and those of inetnqiollrnn cities, this line brought our first lesson In selling. It started our edura tlnn. observes a writer In the I os Angeles Times, which later brought 11s through the historical stories of the ancient Egyptians, who accorded Miss d Piiks their worship. We learned of their religion, which decreed that whole families and whole rities go into mourning at the death of a cat; learned that the death of a kitten called for the shaving of the worshiper's eyebrows; that troops of rats were maintained within temple walls, choicely fed; that any "noble Roman" cnnslng Injury or death to a cat, whether It be accidental or Intentional, was torn to pieces. latter, we learned that Miss Puss served as a T . -- et is composed op sand. J The now volcanoes nntll heights of hy Manna Kra rise 14.000 feet shove sen level snd more than 82.000 feet above that profound ahyaa known as the ocean floor. If the poaltlon of Hawaii Is unusual,'. Its people are even more so. They ln- chide almost every rare on earth. ori--i entals predominating. Sugar la hy farj the most Important Industry In This Iso lated land, and Its cultivation requires' s squatting position for the worker.; Orientals, the prime sqnattera of were therefore Induced to go to1 Hawaii. A century or so ago It was1 Chinese who predomlnsted. Then camel a wave of Jrpanese. after their crowd-- J ed country was opened to the world In the sixties and seventies. When the Immigration restriction law on orientals was passed, a tremendous labor: problem rose. Hawaii was now (181)8) j a territory of the United States, and; labor was sought all over the world.! ' They tried everybody from Cubans to Portuguese, hut a solution was reached only with the comparatively recent Importation of Filipinos (not affected by the Immigration laws) who art now oqoattlng all over the place: nod lx lng up with the others. the-world- whole-hearte- symbol of witchcraft In the cat can be found a more universal response to her prime utility. Long haired or abort haired, Siamese. Manx, Persian, or Just "common alley cat" she offers the beat self-sthat has been found In all her 8,000 years of domestication. In this utility, she has saved n world from vermin that might hare other- rs , , - I trap wise destroyed it Behind the Intense glance or attentive big eyes is a brain, centuries old In intelligence, responsibility nnd resourcefulness that has brought her triumphantly through the long period of maltreatment by humans, pnrsnit hy larger animals and battles fur existence. Hawaii la Farther Away From Land Than Other Ilawall fa situated In the middle of the Pacific ocean, farther away from the nearest land than any other spot on earth, writes a correspondent In the Chicago Tribune. It has torn plied eg Valparaiso Valparaiso is Spanish for Vale of, Paradise. The c'lief seaport of Chile,! it dates hack to 1.733. Immediately be-- 1 hind the shore the hills begin to rise,! and the city, containing a quarter of j a million persons. Is built on these! hillsides. On char days Mount Aeon-- 1 cagua, the highest point on this heml-- i sphere; may be seen towering above! its Andean brothers. In Valparaiso! women work ns conductors on the street cars, which are double deckers. Santiago, the capital of Chile, Is reached by train from the seaport It Is a combination of Paris and Madrid, and Its site la second In beauty to that of Rio de Janeiro. Santa Lnda hill overlook the entire city. In Santiago the women are extremely teilgfomt while the men an Inclined to |