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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Bridal Veils Used in Ancient Times to Scare Demons beping Up JJl cience I custom of THE aancient bride was once a trick WXU Service. ? ried Up Wells Irode By LEWIS BROWNE McClure Newtpapei Syndicete. Greeks of Old Followed Quaint Marriage Rites ScenceJServce Science Service. The GRAPHIC BIBLE to mislead mischievous demons Thus Prof. Ludwig Deubnet of the Berlin university explains bridal veils, which in ancient times were more envelop- to Produce WNU Service. Peiping, the Capital of Yesterday Reached at Last CHINA. OUT of Kobe, Japan, through Inland sea, three hundred miles, strewn with countnsire less islands, emerging at in, ing and mysterious than the airy a crossing the Tsushiveil of a modern June bridt. f mist Patents Process ma channel and breasting the of Fear demons, it appears, Raising Oil Field plagued the ancient Greeks in a Yellow sea, we arrived, about fashion reminiscent of the fairy-talat the port of WASHINGTON. Spent or fear of the wicked fairy who al- daybreak China. d ;d up oil wells would be ways turned up for trouble at wedFrom a flat horizon, like some vate'e to ooze forth more black dings and christenings. old man arising after a hard night, . Jig Brides Disguises. the sun, dulled of all luster, strugaccording to a process Describing lengths to which wed- gled into the sky, mounting slowly ncreasing the productivity ding parties would go to foil de- into the yellow haze that extended ) r veils recently patented mons, Prof. Deubner said that to the very zenith. At six oclock four sk in Sparta were dressed in barges laden with coolie stevedores (patent No. 2,038,720) by brides mens clothing. The Spartan maid, crept into the river and tied to our Sii De Groote of St Louis. chemicals, as hydro-- dressed like a man and with her starboard. In the art of deliberat ich simple sodium fluoride, hair shorn, was shut up in a dark tion these gentlemen of the waterand acid Petroleum A ki, e Ta-K- By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. OU know, there was a time when wild animals roamed the spot where New York city stands now. Authorities differ on exactly when that was, though. The historians say it was a couple hundred years ago, while Anthony E. Di Lorenzo of The Bronx, N. Y., says it was in 1923. And of the two, Id take Tony DiLorenzos word before I would the historians. Those doggone historians are only talking from hearsay, but Tony was on the spot, and saw the things hes going to tell us about. Now Tony will be the first to admit that there were very few u, A o! r, , - 7 roach killer, when prop-- ? .mulsified and injected into the would do the trick, claims the lt!Perful "a e ftor, sick oil well when given a of this medicine would again oil trapped in the earth be-- 7 an? lU the reach of man. , Wells Not All Dry. all oil wells that stop lrt are really dry, that is, their ,a;.; f of oil is not completely exd. The stoppage of output be caused by the building up lid deposits of wax or of in- 5 ic salts, such as cause water Vastfess, in the channels or pores a rock. , . urally, when pores and chan-sJ'ir- e clogged oil will not flow de-.- v ,r J le wells output eventually to the point where it is not . cal to work the well, although may still be much oil pres- pro-va(e- ,g inventors mixture of hydro-- ? c acid and sodium fluoride is led to regenerate the produc-- e of such wells. It has the rty of dissolving out the min-- e 1j1' ' f5 deposits which clog the pores channels. 'Toe le Opening. only that, but injected into ell, the chemicals eat out new jjjjj' t in the rock, making it s porous. hydrochloric acid in the mix- dissolves out the calcareous e deposits. At the fnestone-likof the acid reacts d jViihe sodium fluoride to liberate J 'powerful hydrofluoric acid aiiffi dissolves away the clogging most difficult to fundi deposit clogging mineral se,"igs room to await her bridegrooms arrival and a dramatic rescue. Other ancient peoples tried other confusing practices. On the island of Kos, near Asia Minor, it was the bridegroom who dressed up. He wore womens clothes. Prof. Deubner finds evidence that Greek marriage customs are related to customs of other peoples, and some can still be found surviving in parts of Greece. Parents Made Matches. Describing ancient Greek weddings, Prof. Deubner stated that as marriages were arranged by the were not parents, the couple-to-b- e consulted and often became acquainted only after they were wed. The popular month for weddings corresponded to late January and early February in our calendar. The bride sacrificed her hair, her girdle, and her toys at the altar of Artemis. to a modern Corresponding church wedding was a sacrifice rite to the goddess Hera. During the wedding banquet the bridegroom removed the brides veil Wedding gifts went by a name meaning unveiling, because they were received after the removal of the veil Guests accompanied the couple to their home and threw old shoes to ward off evil The groom lifted his bride from the cart in which they rode, and she like ancient German brides walked thrice around the hearth-fir- e in token of her entrance to a new family. ic 24 American Cities is ning, eel w Magnesium S'ets May Help SWild ry Ducks Washington. S Magne- - added to the lead used in shot may give wild ducks ance for their lives if the -- r misses, the U. S. Biological y has announced. Paradoxi- t the widespread use of this ammunon wouid re- l yPe n increasing the number of jmit imilar ,..,d pellets of the kind now used J.j.sfo chances at the ducks, Sur-- i fbientists explain. The first is jnters honest chance to knock a bird when he fires. The 1 puts no ducks in anybodys Nh'-- t only killg the poor fowl w lead poisoning. Havoc Is Wrought. pellets falling thick into r marshes where wild feed are shoveled up as the TAST grub in the mud for food. ) are retained in the gizzard f RyAmall pebbles, and as they 'owly rubbed down some of f dissolves and finds its ato the blood stream. ID ong these is a paralysis of ssgo'ind wings, so that if the )es not kill the birds outright tasty, flther die of exposure or fall 1CSIJ' victims to predatory animals ' -- 3NPU-tgu- VAG-ve- lad poi-;ctr- U cf ird3 20c, 3 'lest Railroad Is Jjlted in Oregon Escaped Typhoid Deaths During 1935 CHICAGO. Twenty - four large cities have a place on the honor roll of the American Medical association, having had no deaths from typhoid fever during the year 1935. These cities are: Bridgeport, Conn.; Cambridge, Mass.; Elizabeth, N. J.; Erie, Pa.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Jersey City, N. J.; Long Beach, Calif.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Newark, N. J.; New Bedford Mass.; New Haven, Conn.; Omaha, Neb.; Paterson, N. J.; Peoria, 111.; San Diego, Calif.; Scranton, Pa.; Mass.; Somerville, Springfield, Mass.; Tacoma, Wash.; Trenton, N. J.; Wichita, Kan., and Youngstown, Ohio. Eight of these cities five of them In New England had no deaths either from typhoid or diphtheria in 1935. They are: Bridgeport, Cambridge, Erie, New Bedford, New Haven, Scranton, Springfield and Tacoma. Death Rate Declines. The total of typhoid deaths for the 93 large cities annually surveyed by the American Medical association was notably less in 1935 than in 1934, 385 as against 470. At the other end of the scale are seven cities with high death rates from typhoid. In the order of high mortality from the disease, they are El Paso, Texas; New Orleans, La.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tampa, Fla.; Norfolk, Va.; Knoxville and Memphis, Tenn. Research in Soybeans PPLE, ORE. -- What is Brings Federal Medal to be the worlds "yed rail-i- s est standard-gaug- e WASHINGTON. Expedilocated near here. It is tions bringing back to the in length, starting up leet rfwier cent grade, continuing T'ter on on United States over 2,000 dis- varieties of soybeans, as to tinct as numerous other useful cent and cutting down As it nears the top of well and ornamental plants, won for P. cline. IL Dorset, veteran scientist of the railroad brings logs from a Department of Agriculture, the 1,000-fostand of timber ly-- I Meyer Medal for Distinguished IA the high mountain ridggs Service in Plant Introduction. clivers them at the foot of Presentation was made by Dr. ine Of nyon. David Fairchild, on behalf of the EuSlas hr and council of the American Genetic ICoast hemlock to be cut Is association, at the plant Introducir Cm' valuable, covering a great tion station of the Department of Coffee so the matter of its removal Agriculture at Bell Md. ,e and xnportant one, involving as it Mr, Dorsetts expeditions have : Seo e lowering of logs 1,500 to taken him to China, Brazil and the id Ceet down the narrow and d West Indies. It was from his Chiis side of the canyon of the nese collections of over 6,000 seed piberry river and getting samples that the 2,000 soybean vato the raflroad at a con-y0- rieties were Isolated. Some of L1JTAH l PuiMt. these are already in wide use, y rj lst. cent pre-jun- ... front rivaled anything I had ever seen in other lands. That a ship had arrived and was preparing to discharge cargo seemed to make no impression whatever upon anybody present. The tempo to which I had become accustomed in Japan was null and void at g Jugglers. Some Chinese masons, evidently part of a crew concerned in suspending building operations across the way from the landing dock, sauntered into view and took seats on a pile of bricks. After careful scrutiny of the lounging dock wallopers and the indolent bricklayers I decided that the port was in the grip of a building and shipping strike. At seven oclock, the panorama, suddenly came to life, the static spectacle, to all intents set for a day of leisure, took on a vitality all its own. While the native participants did not seem to alter-- materially, every man jack of them was drawn into the ponderous movement, more amazing because once under way there seemed no stopping it. The ship spewed cargo in a stream; while from the river side, two hundred coolies, with panshaped wicker baskets, tossed wet nut coal from barges along a human chain, through gaping side ports, poured a flood of fuel that slithered like rushing water into the bunkers. With the accuracy of vaudeville four coolies, using performers, short - handled wooden shovels, tossed one at a time from ground to second story a geyser of bricks that fell light as feathers into the hands of the workmen above and like magic grew into a wall A company of noiseless jugglers, and every gesture artistic. Dust-Boof China. Once off the lugger and my bagtrain gage on the Peiping-Mukdethat meets all steamers touching I thought only of rolling at Ta-kinto the ancient capital where Marco Polo dropped in to pass the day centuries ago. Whilst waiting for all aboard a somber cloud, released from the very dome of heaven, began to settle upon the earth. It came first like a shadow of brass, darkening as it moved, stifling, oppressive, heavy as the advance guard of a thunder shower: Arrival of the dust storm, first indicated in the yellow haze that veiled the morning sky. n Into this shifting mass of thrown up from a million acres of tilled farm soil drifting across China pursued by gales out of the northwest, the train rolled as though it had been waiting for such a signal. u With no mountains between and Peiping to balk the oncoming cloud, no trees with enough foliage to break it up, the invading and advancing dust threatened all outdoors. Here was I, in despair at having turned up exactly at the wrong time. But I knew not the mysterious moods that control China, where meteorology, natural causes and precedence fail utterly to set the pace. The Temple of Heaven. After three hours by slow train through this intolerable cloud, wa split what seemed to be the outer curtain and broke into an atmosphere of crystalline purity that enveloped a glittering landscape shimmering in the garb of spring. The yellow stains faded out of the sky, soft, cool zephyrs took the place of hot siroccos and cerulean mantled the horizon, against which I caught ray first glimpse of the Great Wall winding like a drunken serpent across the hills that encircle Peiping, the capital of yesterday, where the pomps and vanities flared under the dragoned banners of the Mongols and the Tartars, waned in the face of the advancing Western world, dipping at last their colors to Time, the arch Peiconqueror of all dynasties. ping, sacred to the memories of the past, profaned by the corroding acids of the present, her splendor dimmed. Forbidden City a showroom, the Temple of Heaven silent but magnificent; the Palace of Ancestors an entrance and an exit where strangers arrive and depart for fees paid to guardians of glories gone. Ta-K- Brick-Layin- n land-polle- Ta-K- Copyr ht WNU Si r Bum Steer Here Comes Pompey of Rome three requests for furnished Pompey a perfect excuse for Invading Palestine. Of course, the Arab army which had been besieging Jerusalem fled the very moment it heard of the approach of the Roman host. Aristobulus, suspecting that Pompey would not favor him, shut himself up in the fortress of Alexandrion (or ; but his courage fulled him at the last moment, and he abjectly surrendered when Pompey arrived. Aristobulus followers, however, were less easily cowed, and when Iompey reached Jerusalem they refused to lay down their arms, but Instead Intrenched themselves on the Temple hill. And so strong were the fortifications that It required three months before the rebels were forced to surrender. With the capital In his hands, Pompey proceeded Immediately to put the tear of Rome into the hearts of the Jews. Ills first act was to put 2,000 of the rebels to the sword. His next act was to Investigate the temple. lie had heard much about this strange edifice, and was very curious to enter it But the Jews had strict laws all save Israelites to enter the Inner courts, and all save the High Priest to enter the Holy of Holies. Pompey, however, paid no attention to these laws, and unceremoniously tramped right Into the THE Alex-andrlu- for-bidi- holy place. Pompey tried to settle the civil strife In Palestine by Imprisoning Aristobulus and giving Hyrcanus the title of Ethnarch, which meant "governor of a nation." But It was only a sorry fragment of a nation that Hyrcanus was permitted to govern. His territory was cut down until it included little more than around the the central city of Jerusalem. But even though the Jews were left with so little territory, they still knew no peace. The sons of the defeated Aristobulus had been taken captive to Rome, but, escaping thence, they had returned to s stir up trouble in Jerusalem. and his patron, Antipater, were temporarily overthrown, and only with difficulty did they manage to retain their power. A second time they were attacked, and a third. Then Crassus, the Roman general In charge of the East, needing money to carry on his wars, marched down and plundered the temple treasury. This Antipater was a man of astounding shrewdness, and he saw the wisdom of throwing in his lot with Caesar while the latter was still engaged In his life and death struggle with Pompey. As a result, when Caesar emerged the victor and became master of the Roman empire, Antlpater came In for a rich reward. He was appointed no less than procurator over Judea a position which was really of far greater importance than that of nyreanus, who was merely the nominal ruler with the title of Ethnarch. Antlpater did not enjoy his power for long. Four years after his elevation to the procuratorshtp he was treacherously poisoned by a riBut bis death val politician. brought no relief to the Jews; on the contrary, their plight now bes came worse than ever, for power fell Into the hands of his son, Ilerod, one of the craftiest men that had ever ruled over Judea. Like his father, Herod realized that the supremacy of Rome could never be broken, and that therefore It was wisest always to side with whoever happened to he ruling the empire. Caesar having now Herod been assassinated, fawned on Mark Antony. Herod sent him bribes and flattered him with fine speeches, and as a reward was confirmed as governor of Judea and Gulilee, though still under the nominal rule of the doddering old Hyrcanus. The central and eastern parts of the land remained Independent of all Jewish rule. The ten Greek cities which dominated these regions were organized into a separate state called The whole of the ttie Decapolls. coastland was given by Mark Antony to Cleopatra, the fascinating y Ilyr-canu- Antl-pater- queen of Egypt with whom he was In love. But even with the land thus vided there was no peace. di- Reign of Herod the Great became king of the Jews year 37 B. C. He was, as I have said, a shrewd man, and knew that his safety lay In always siding with the ruling faction at Rome. And because he never departed from this policy, he was well rewarded by the heads of the empire. They knew well the value HEROD of Herod. lie controlled the bridge" between the continents, and the whole security of Rome in the East depended upon his loyalty. Therefore as the years went by he was given more and more territory over which to rule. Finally, In 31 B. C. he was made king not merely over Judea and Galilee, but over almost all of Palestine. Ills realm extended from the sea on the west to the desert on the east, and from the wilderness on the south to Mount Ilermon on the north. Only the Greek cities of the Decapolls were left independent of his rule. But despite that the Jews could now once more boast a king, they were not happy. They loathed Herod because he was not one of their own stock. Besides, he was an unscrupulous tyrant, and showed no mercy to all who dared to oppose, him in anything. One of his first acts In his accession to the throne wus to execute 43 of the leaders of the old aristocracy. And throughout his reign he never ceased to oppress the people with exorbitant taxes. Herod needed so much money because he dreamed of making his realm a great cosmopolitan center instead of the backward little place It had been for centuries. He wanted to build up Its cities, beautifying and Ilellenizlng them with elaborate baths and gymnasiums. Herods crowning work, however, was the new temple he erected in Jerusalem. Repeated sieges had left the sacred place almost In ruins, and" though Ilerod despised the Jews and hated their religion, he felt it his duty as their king to rebuild the sanctuary. First he enlarged the narrow summit of Ml Moriah by building a huge stone platform around It, supporting the structure on piers and arches. This platform was about a thousand feet square and covered the site not only of the old temple but also of the ancient palace of Solomon. All around the edge of this platform Herod erected beautiful cloisters of marble, roofing them In with cedar from Lebanon. From these cloisters there arose a number of flights of steps leading to a higher level Here stood the temple proper, a beautiful structure of which the Jews were mightily proud. The house was not very large, but It could boast of foundation blocks 70 feet long which were covered on their outer faces with pure gold! Yet the Jews never ceased to hate him who had built this grand temple, for they knew he had built It out of vanity, not out of love for the God of Israel. They were certain of this because they knew he had used their money to build temples also to heathen gods In his own realm and in Greece and Asia Minor. Therefore, no matter what nerod tried to do for them at Jerusalem, the .Tews spat at the very mention of his name. So Ilerod, for all that he became a mighty king, knew little Joy In life. All his days he was surrounded by conspirators, and never till Ms death was he free of the web of Intrigue, The Jews hated him. and many of the Roman politicians regarded Mm with envy. And as Herod grew older and his Infirmities Increased, he grew Increasingly suspicions and cruel Toward the very end he became quite mad. and ordered executions right and left. Finally, In the year 4 B. C the royal maniac died, leaving an order that all the leading Jews he butchered so that the people might mourn at Ms funeral. But no attention was paid to the command, ami Ilerod was hurled amid the rejoicings of the populace. wild animals roaming New York in the year 1923. Game was street, and even as far uptown as very scarce in Morningside Heights, there was little wild life except an occasional mosquito. As a matter of fact, Tony doesnt claim to have seen more than one wild beast roaming the streets of New York in all his life. And it was just his luck that that one had to single him out Forty-Secon- d Steer Stampedes in the Heart of The Bronx. was working for an automobile concern at street and Gerard avenue, The Bronx. At this place it was customary to do small repair jobs on new cars while they were parked on the sidewalk. Thats just what Tony and his helper were doing. They were installing a pair of heayy wire gratings on the sides of a newly purchased truck. They had just put in one grating and, while his helper held the other, Tony went inside the building to get more bolts. He was on his way back to the street when he heard a clatter of hoofs outside. They seemed to be about a block away, and Tony wondered vaguely what they were. If he had known then what he found out ten seconds later, hed have turned around and gone right back into the building. Tony came to the doorway and looked out. As he did so, he saw a man, working on another car down the street, jump to his feet and climb onto the roof of the car. At the same time he started waving In the fall of 1923, Tony Tony Could Hear the Animal's Heavy Breathing. excitedly to Tony and pointing to something up the street. Tony couldnt see what he was pointing at then, but a second later he did. Around the corner came a steer a wild one, with fire in his eye, his head down, and his long horns set for action. Tough Bovine Begins to Pick on Tony. Tony remembered then something that had been in the back of his Not far away, mind ever since he first heard the clatter of at the Yankee Stadium, they were having a rodeo. The whole of the wild and woolly West had been combed for the meanest and most vicious steers In creation, and the lot of them had been shipped to New York for the rodeo riders to work out on. Without a bit of doubt, here was one of those steers, escaped from the corral and coming full tilt at Tony. The steer was almost on top of him before Tony saw It. He had no time to climb on the top of his truck as the other fellow did. The big, lumbering animal charged him as he emerged from the doorway, and Tony gave a Jump to one side. The steer shot past him a few feet, then turned and made for him again. Tony turned to run for cover, and as he did so, the steer was so close behind him that he could hear the animals heavy, labored breathing. The only safs place in sight was the truck, but he didnt have time to open the cab door and get in. hoof-beat- Maddened Animal Has Tony Cornered. There was one other place, though, that offered a certain degree of safety. The truck was parked a scant two feet from the wall the space between looked too narrow for the steer to squeeze through. Tonys helper had already taken refuge In the narrow alley thus created, and Tony folowed him. I ran around to the front of the truck, he lays, with the steer right after me. But when I started to squeeze Into the narrow opening, my heart almost stopped beating. My helper had the way blocked with the wire grating he was holding using It as a fence between him and the hull and be was too frightened to move it and make room for me. It was the tightest jam Tony had ever been In. In another second the steer would be on him, pinning him against the wall with his long, sharp horns. There was no time now to get out of the corner, lit just had to stay and take it He squeezed himself as far back as he could between the radiator and front fender of the truck and waited. Whitey, Bad Steer of Rodeo, Meets Bad End. Well says Tony, he came eyes all red and steam coming out of his nostrils. He hit sideways, luckily for me, with his head hard up against the fender. One horn was above the fender and the other below It His horns had nails driven through them for the cowboys ropes, I suppose and one of those nails stuck to the bottom of the fender. Then I saw my chance and reached for the other horn. Tony grabbed that horn and held on. Then he reached around te the under aide of the fender with his other hand and got hold of the aerond horn. The ateer tried to push the truck ever, but he wasnt strong enough for that. Then he changed bis mind and tried to pull away. That was just what I wanted, says Tony, so I helped him by letting go of his horns. Once free of the fender he ran at top speed down the street toward the stadium, but he never got there, for 1 read in the papers that, after damaging an automobile and turning over a stand full of tomatoes, he was shot by a policeman on University avenue. That was the end of Whitey, the bad steer of the rodeo. WNU Srvlcw Playing Cards as Cash card had unique meaning for early residents of the historic French Canadian city of Montreal In the latter part of the Eighteenth century real noney was so scarce that playing cards were used as commercial tender, the signatures of three administrators of the French colony being inscribed on the back to make such money legal The playing card money, together with a land transfer written on the back of a jack of hearts, is among the exlubits In the McCord National Museum of McG.U university. A fortune on a Pandas Live In Trees The panda, not to be confused with the giant panda. Is a scientific In some ways he looks puzzle. and acts as if he might be a relative of the raccoon. In other ways he seems to be kinfolk to bears. Scientists never have been able to decide this question, so they gave . him a family name of his Aelurus fulgens. In their native Nepal pandas live In holes in trees and sometimes hide among the ow-n- rocks. They are nocturnal creatures, and it Is customary for them to have twins. Their cry Is a sudden squawL |