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Show run CHANGES ARE MADE AT MOUNT VERNON While Horse of Hanover Used for Cattle Emblem flags sre crimsjn, says a writer in Pearson's Lend m Weekly. Dragoon guards cariy square standards, dragoons pointed flags called guidons. A white horse appears on all. It is the White Horse of Hanover, to show that these regiments saved the Hanoverian Succession by defeating the Stuart rebellions in 1715 and 1745. The first white horse standards were carried into our country by the invaders, about 400 years after Christ. A white horse was their battle emblem. You can still see it carved in the Berkshire Downs above Uffington Vale to mark the site of or.e of their victories over the Danes. Their principal chieftains called themselves after it, Hengist (steed) and Ilorsa (horse). The Kingdom of Hanover covered the land of the ancient Saxons, so their white horse became the emblem of the Hanoverian kings. Lancer and Hussar regiments have no colors. Their battle honors are emblazoned on the saddle cloth instead. They have appeared here, as on flags, ever since the Peninsular war. No battle before Minden (1759) was recorded on them at first, but the rule relaxed with the years and battle honors now go back to the end of the Seventeenth century. The colors have ceased to he carried in battle. British regiments last carried their standards into action against the Zulus at Isandhl-wan-a Mount VerWashington, D. C. non, home of George Washington near the national capital, has a new superintendent, the fourth since the Mount Vernon Ladies association took over the care and upkeep of the famous shrine in 1858. Following the recent death of Colonel Harrison H. Dodge, the Ladies' association elected Charles Cecil Wall, former assistant superintendent, to take charge. Numerous changes and restorations have taken place at Mount Vernon in recent years, says the National Geographic society. Many of the alterations, the new superintendent points out, were made as a result of extensive research work among records, letters and other documents found both in this country and abroad. As a result the Mansion House and its adjacent buildings and gardens are today .more nearly as they were in Wash-- ! ingtons time than when the Ladies association took over the neglected 'estate. This organization, founded 79 years ago, by Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham of South Carolina, is .chartered by the state of Virginia. Its officers serve , without pay. ' Because the' vast proportion of Mt. Vernons thousands of annual visitors come by motor car, the federal government and the state !of Virginia have each constructed trunk highways to take care of the heavy tourist traffic. Wall Protects Estate. Facing the circular plaza, but outside the gates, are lunch rooms, and souvenir shops, housed in buildings whose colonial architecture harmonizes with the rest of the estate. There is also an outdoor cafe. Parking spaces for cars and busses are partially concealed by shrubbery and trees. A high brick wall, which was not a feature of the plantation in Washingtons day, but was erected to .protect it today, encircles almost the entire estate. Perhaps the most conspicuous change in the Mansion House, itself .is the removal of the white railing above the roof of the portico on the east, or Potomac, front. Study of several ancient drawings and paintings of the mansion, some of which .have only recently come to light, revealed that the railing did not appear on any pictures prior to 1839, and therefore the railing must not have been a feature of the house during Washingtons lifetime. Consequently it has been taken down. "Another restoration, of particular interest to landscape architects, is the kitchen garden along the south side of the bowling green. This sloping plot of land was laid out by Washington in terrace style, an interesting example of Eighteenth century design. Growing in the garden now are old herbs, vegetables and fruits mentioned i n Washingtons farm accounts. The old brick barn has a new .roof, a shingling job completed this spring. Relics Returned. i Visitors may now peek into the tiny building at the west end of the flower garden believed to have been used by the Curtis children and their tutor as a school house. This octagonal structure was, until recently, used as a tool house. Some authentic relics recently returned to the estate for display in the mansion or in the small museum near the spinning house are: Mrs. Washington's French writing desk, a knee-hol-e dressing table, a stool with Mrs. Washington's initials on it, the original bronze cannon used by George Washington to salute vessels sailing up the Potomac, and a quaint lacquer mirror. Entirely concealed from visitors eyes is one of the most remarkable bits of restoration work undertaken in connection with the "preservation of the mansion. Some time ago it discovered that the heavy : was wooden beams supporting the roof ;and ceiling above the banquet hall were showing signs of sagging. From a narrow third floor trapdoor, work-- j men were able to brace the ancient timbers with iron plates and heavy bolts, so that they now are as strong ias new. So carefully did they do their work that the brittle plaster of the wide ceiling below was not 'damaged in the least. Mount Vernon now is open every day in the year, but only in recent years has it been open on Sundays. ; j ; - . i : red-roof- ed ; : : i I ; I ! I j ! ! Rats Protected at Mine; Give Warning of Danger i ; Zortman, Mont. Under strict orders from the management, the employees in the mines near this small north central Montana mining com-- ; m unity protect the hundreds of rats that scurry from tunnel to tunnel and regard them as their friends. The rodents have saved many miners from injury and possible death because of their uncanny sense to detect caveins. Due to the sandy nature of the mine formations, caveins sre common. The rats are able to deter-- ' mine the slipping earth long Jjefore ' miners are aware of the movement. Wasting no time, the rodents run for safety, thus spreading the alarm. No dead or even crippled rat has ever been found after a cavein has been cleared. . : ft Am Anglo-Saxo- n in 1879. Loud-Chirpi- Cricket Usually Fierce Fighter ng Cricket fights appeal to cultured and wealthy Chinese who often wager large sums on the outcome of the insect battles. Fighting crickets get very special attention. To. make them strong and .sleek, a tasty dish is mixed for them consisting of fresh cucumbers, boiled chestnuts, lotus seeds and mosquitoes. When the hour for the fight approaches, relates a writer in the Detroit News, they are frequently dosed with a bouillon tonic concocted from the roots of exotic flow- ers.' The best cricket fighters, according to Chinese authorities, are the loudest chirpers. On tiny scales especially constructed for the purpose, the crickets are frequently weighed during training. Extremes in temperature, reputedly bad for cricket organisms, are carefully guarded against and the crickets minute mustaches, barometer of its health, are constantly watched for the least sign of drooping. No smoke is permitted in the .rooms reserved for cricket fights. The entrants are elaborately matched as to weight, size and color and then are placed in a large container with screened sides and top. Like cocks, crickets almost invariably fight until one of the contestants is dead. Victorious crickets are carefully guarded and' highly prized. When they, too, eventually die, they are buried with ceremony in little silver coffins. FOR EVERY OCCASION AT REASONABLE Rcre Papers Show Human Side cf Great Writers. Independence Is Recognized by Treaty With England. The last will Missoula. Mont. and testament cf Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, 219 years after it was signed and executed has found its way to Montana. The document, now worth far more than the eccentric writers itemized fortune, is a part of a literary collection owned by H. W. Whicker, member of the Montana State university faculty. In addition to Swift's will, Whickers collection includes an original document by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in her own handwriting. The collection also contains original manuscripts and letters of Thomas De Quincy, Robert Browning, Thomas Gray, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Carlyle and others. Only previous owners of the collection knew that the originals were in existence. Facts concerning most of them have never been published heretofore. Manuscripts Were Gift. Whicker, a well - known northwest author, is not, however, a collector. The manuscripts were given to him. University students are using the manuscripts, not for scholarly purposes, Whicker said, but for the rich personal atmosphere most of them have, and for the incentive they may give the students through personal feeling. The manuscripts are also being studied because they thrust aside the years and show those whom we to often worship as geniuses as being vitally human, concerned with the same human problems with which we are concerned, dogged by the same human weaknesses with which we are dogged. Swifts w'.ll is dated September 8, 1718, and it lists bonds and mortgages valued at 1,514 pounds. Of this sum 200 pounds was bequeathed for a building at Nielytown and the balance to his family. While the paper . is yellow and fragile with age, the document is still legible. Original Poe Manuscript. Another unit of Whickers collection is a page from one of Edgar Allen Poes original manuscripts on literary criticism. It is written in his own handwriting. The page is pasted together similar to editorial copy for newspapers or magazines. Samuel Taylor Coleridges letter to his publisher relative to a certain famous Rhyme of the Ancient Maris also included in the iner group. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem, Life, bears her initials besides her own penciled revisions. The work was originally published under the title, Human Lifes Problems. ' A comparison with the poem as it is published today shows only two of the stanzas are not the same as the original. Washington, D. C. The country that was among the very first in world history to develop a national government has at last become free and master in its own house. Egypt has been acknowledged by treaty with England as an independent country, with the latter as an ally: and more recently an international conference at Montreux, Switzerland, abolished "capitulations, or special privileges granted to forThus the land of the eigners. Pharaohs, of Tutankhamen, and of Cleopatra comes into its own again. "Among the first in history, Egypt also has long been foremost in the literature of travel folders, sa the National Geographic sneiet Winter visitors have flocked to see the country that the Nile built; to be jerked breathlessly up the pyramids; to seek out the knotty crocodile that is supposed to lie and blink among tbe bullrushes' in the Nile; to shiver at mummies; to romance from draw camel caravans and vast expanses of tawny desert flecked with oases of green date palms. Part of Egypt in Asia. They find that Egypt has no crocodiles now except in poems about it. The sacred ibis is missing from herons and among the cranes that fish in the Nile shallows. Lotus blossoms, beloved of the ancients, are now found only in the Delta. The papyrus reed, which gave the world some of its most valuable written records and gave paper its name, is virtually extinct along the lower Nile. Donkeys are five times more numerous than cameis; but the vile - tempered freight cars of the desert still outnumber automobiles six to one. In the land that practically invented writing, developed algebra and geometry for surveying flooded fields, and had one of the largest libraries in the world 19 centuries ago, only one person out of five can now read and write. "Egypt is perhaps the most publicized African country, and perhaps among the least understood. Known since the beginning of history in fact, history is thought by some to have begun there parts of it are still unknown at all. It is thought of as a tropical i country, typical of parched northern Africa. Yet most of it is in the temperate zone. And part of Egypt is not in Africa at all, but in Asia the desert of Sinai, scene of the wanderings of the Children of Israel. Egypt is six times as large as England, and about equal to Texas ind Colorado combined. It is closer o the size of Venezuela, but sup-orfive times as many people, labitable Egypt, however, extends 10 farther east and west than the vaters of the Nile can be induced o go, for the country is fourteen-ifteentdesert. The real Egypt, he part which is responsible for the lawn of'fcJediterranean civilization, as large as a only and barely larger than Belgium. But so fertile is this wind-n- g shoestring, the richest area in Uric a, according to some reports, hat it supports one of the densest xipulations in the world. Tobacco Prohibited. Food Is at such a premium that space cannot be spared to raise which is prohibited, or to graze many animals, so that meat s almost a luxury to the large vege-aria- n population. On a slim diet f greenish bread, onions, and watermelons, the true farm-r- , Egyptian is still a looking and living much as he s represented in wall paintings ihousands of years old. One source of the awe which Egypt has inspired is its important place in the Bible. Before children ire old enough to know that there mnrn of Afri'Vi than EffVDt. th,r - 11-m- I : . Gifts of Character! IS ITS OWN MASTER ON TITANS OF PEN Indians Killed White Spy Highway Is Paved With Although Michigan has been a Gold Ore of Low Grade battleground in several wars, Sagifew San of one the naw was the scene cf Diego, Calif. A highway spy executipns ever recorded in the paved with gold ore takes motorists state, relates a correspondent in the from Ramona. to Julian, once a colDetroit Free Press. During the War orful mining town in San Diego' of 1812, the Americans were troucounty, Calif., according to Charles bled as to which side the Saginaw H. Reed, secretary of tMe county tribe of Indians there would take. bureau of mines. Jacob Smith, an Indian trader, was Although few motorists who travsent with two assistants, ostensibly el the strip of highway reon a trading trip, but actually to alize the value of the road. Reed learn where their sympathies were said it was constructed of gravel enlisted. One of the assistants drank and ore with an average gold contoo much and revealed their actual tent of $7 a ton. mission. Smith and his other asHe said the gravel came from a sistant fled, leaving their stock. The on the escarpment of a nearquarry one who exposed the plan was but the gold content mountain, by killed as a spy but the others es- was not sufficient to warrant sendwon the caped. Smith later again ing it to a smelter. Contractors esgood will of the Indians and opened timated that at least $2,000 worth of a trading post where Flint now is embedded in the highway stands in 1319 and operated it until gold to the old Julian gold minloading his death in 1825.. ing district. While Julian did not gain the fame by some mining towns, its acquired Plinys Panther Story is a picturesque one. history Plinys story about the panther Horace Bailey, owner of the first was: Philinus, a philospher, saw line out of Julian, recalled the stage a panther lying in the road, evident- difficulties he encountered in operatly waiting for some one to pass. the line. He tried to go around the animal, ing One grade was so steep, he but the panther headed him off, I had to tell my drivers "that said, rolled over on its back to attract to make an announcement to the his attention, and showed signs of passengers: grief. When he attempted to draw First class passengers keep away, the animal fixed her claws in your seats. Second class passengers him his garment, evidently desiring get out and walk. Third class pasto follow her. When at last he recsengers get out and push. ognized what she wanted he followed her and she led him to a pit into which her cubs had fallen. Woman Finds Profit in Moved by pity, he helped the young Raising Snails for Sale ones out, and the happy mother Kearney, Neb. An experiment showed her joy and gratitude by Mrs. frisking around him, and by escort- begun five years ago provides comfortable a with Munn A. A. her cubs with him after ing trotting living.. She raises snails and has her, to the edge of the desert. the largest output in Nebraska. Wholesale houses and private and Discovered Chromium public aquariums from coast to The existence of chromium as an coast are supplied with snails by Mrs. Munn. Even Florida, which is element was discovered independ1798 in Louis supposed to have plenty of snails, Nicolas by ently receives her product. and Martin Heinrich KlapMrs. Munn specializes in the large roth. Many years passed, however, before the free metal was isolated red snails because they attract more from its compounds, and even then attention by their vivid color. They it could be produced only n minute grow to be as large around as a half shipped when quantities and in an impure state. dollar, but they are their growth. It was not until about 1900 that tiny, just beginning Mrs. Munns industry is contained chemical technology had advanced and woodsufficiently to permit the production in large glass aquariums like fish in en tubs. The snails are of the metal in commercial quantinot be must and that spawn ' ties they disturbed during hatching season. Vau-quel- in EGYPT ONCE AGAIN HOMELY LIGHT CAST All cavalry Alterations Result of Re- search Among Records. FRIDAY AUGUST 13. 1937 SUGAR HOUSE BULLETIN By L. L. STEVENSON Back to B'way: Old vaudevillians are making their return in various forms of the entertainment world. Many are doing bits in the legitimate theater, working as extras out in Hollywood and along 'the main stem, entertaining at private parties, conventions and meetings of various kinds. In the latter field they have staunch champions in B. A. Rolfe and Joe Cook, whose memberships in lodges and fraternal organizations make them stand out as charmen of entertainment committees. At a recent party given by one of the Rolfe neighborhood sofurcieties, the following nished the program: Sherman Wade, dancer; Harry Brooks, banjo expert; Allan Wallace, songster; Gertrude DeSylvan, age unannounced, pianist, and young Lillian Ashton, fifty- character singer. year-olold-time- rs seventy-four-year-o- ld d Fate: A young woman driving in Brooklyn the other afternoon was stopped by a carload of cops who in no uncertain terms informed her that she was on the wrong side of the street. The young woman, unaware of that fact, remained mute. The officers of the law, however, went on and on, sometimes taking turns and sometimes working in duets. Running down at last, with a final and most emphatic denunciation, they drove away. With that, the young woman, having heaved a great sigh of relief, was about to drive on, only to be halted by the regular man on the beat. Never mind em, lady, he remarked with a grin. "You wasn't doing nothing. But they've been on the carpet themselves and they just had to bawl somebody out. ' Southpaw Right: There is a store on Fifth avenue that displays some of the most beautiful gowns in the city. For show purposes, wax models, whose faces and forms are in keeping with the fine raiment which adorns them, are used. Naturally, the exhibits are the targets of many eyes whenever they are on display. A short time ago, however, the models attracted more attention than usual. There seemed to be something wrong with one of the most attractive. Close inspection revealed why that impression persisted. The beautiful model had two left hands. Satisfaction: A New Yorker, who by intelligence, diligence and much hard work reached a point where he could retire from business activities, went back to his old home town in Connecticut and built himself a mansion. In the daya of his extreme youth, in fact all through his boyhood, he had been looked down on, the general opinion being that his kind were worth probably a dime a dozen. When the house, which topped everything the whole countryside had to offer, was completed, the owner sent out invitations to a party. None were excluded, not even those who had slighted him most in his ragged The guests were taken days. through the house and then served a sumptuous dinner. At the conclusion of the feast, the host arose. Neighbors, he said, "you have seen my home. You have been well fed. You know that, despite your prophecies, I have made good. Now you can all get out. I'm going to bed. They did and he did. At Parties: Instead of singing, Carl Ravell sits at the piano and gives imitations of Eddy Duchin, Joe Riechman and Vincent Lopez. . . Don Voorhees leads a symphony orchestra in pantomime. . , Mord ton Bowe does tricks . . . Peter Van Steeden takes deg light in beating his host at or pool. . . Phil Baker plays classics on his accordion. . . Martin Freed sits at the piano and comlyrics poses about other guests. . . Johnny Green exhibits tap dancing steps he learned from Fred Astaire. . . Carlton KaDell burlesques more important screen and radio stars. . . Charles Martin, writer, plays the violin. . . Harry VonZell sings baritone. city-dwelle- rs' long-legg- ed long-eyelashe- d, ts hs Es-on- two-thir- ds ia to-lac- yel-ow-pu-lp small-scal- e PRICES BOOKS FOR RALE AND TO RENT ' Rental Kut lTi Week and lu a Day THE ARTCRAFT GIFT 8 BOOK SHOP 1080 iSoiii I it East 21st South In Sugar IIoiimj mfe adventures or Jacoo, jo-- t Israelites amid Most.' "" note arJ 1 that Efeypt is th? cnv v out- side his native Palestine ni which the New Testament describes a sojourn of Jesus. Wheat was widely cultivated in the days when Joseph tided the country through depressions with what may be the first public relief on record. The chief crop is cotton, which makes Egypt one of the three most important cotton growing countries in the world. Cairo, the largest city in Africa, has been Egypts capital for less than a century. Already its name has acquired a distinctive fame, from the cosmopolitan air of the European settlement citys large and the medieval flavor of the old Moslem districts. Cairo ia the site of a university older than Oxford and Cambridge, which only a few yegra ago stopped teaching that the world was flat. The city's site at the apex of the Niles delta makes it a transportation center for airlines, camel caravans, the government railroad, and busy river traf-- 15 BILLION YEARLY IS COST OF CRIME Chief bays felony curs Every 24 Seconds. G-M- an Washington. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has urged the nation to accept a gauntlet thrown down by more than 4,300,000 persons who have chosen to defy our laws. The crime army threatens three persons out of every four in our United States, bringing about a succession of crime so magnitudinous that a felony occurs every 24 secsaid. onds, the chief He estimated the nation's annual 0 crime bill at $15,000,000,000, or per minute,. $41, 040, 000 a day. It seems inconceivable, Hoover continued, that in a country as advanced as America each setting sun should look down upon a daily toll of some thirty-silives taken at the hands of the underworld one such murder being committed every 40 x minutes." Hoover said records of the bureau for 1936 revealed 1,333,626 major crimes in the nation, including 13, 242 murders and manslaughters, criminal assaults, 55,600 robberies, 47,534 aggravated assaults, 278,823 burglaries, 716,674 larcenies and 213,712 automobile thefts. In analyzing the cost of crime a little further, he pointed out, we find that it means a burden borne by each and every individual of $10 every month. Our greatest need in America today is a new type of mental vigilance on the part of our citizens, who will study conditions and who will realize that there cannot be safety from the depredations of the vast criminal underworld unless this safety is insured by the combined efforts of all persons. "Our citizens must become not only foes of corruption and inefficiency but the strong right arm of the honest law enforcement officer. 7,-8- 81 right-thinki- ng ping-pon- Ball Syndicate. WNU Sarvica. Ranchers Kill Coyotes Lander, Wyo. Ranchers, enraged by coyote raids on their livestock, waged a campaign of extermination against the marauders, killing 800. Officer Cannot' Swim, but Outruns Memory Policeman Jeannin, Paris. forgetting in excitement that ha could not swim, leaped after a robbery suspect who jumped into the Seine river. Another policeman, Jean Lefevre, leaped in, rescued Jeannin, captured the suspect and dragged both to shore while a crowd applauded from the bank. 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