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Show Thursday, November 15, 1931 THE Sn Superstitious Notions Connected With Almost Every One of the Digits; Six Is HeM Highly Potent in Mystical Properties. , day. The second digit acquired an espe- cially evil reputation among the early Christians, because the second day hell was created, along with heaven and earth. The Caballsrs said It typified anion of Christ. It seems to have been a number unlucky In English dynasties. Harold II was slain In battle; William II and Edward II were murdered ; Ethelred H. Richard II and James II were forced to abdicate; and Henry II, Charles II, and George II were unfortunate in many ways. The number seems to have been an unlucky one to the sovereigns of other European conn-trieThe Charles II's of France, of Navarre, of Spain, of Anjou and of Savoy passed or ended their reigns unhappily. The number 3 has an abundance of superstitions connected with it It was the perfect number of the Pythagoreans, who said it represented the beginning, middle and end. A greater Importance was given to the number because It represented the Trinity, not only in the Christ-ta- n religion, but In many others. There was but little mystery attached to the numbers 4 and 5. In folk-lor- e d the clover Is especially lucky. The four of clubs is an unlucky card, and it is named bed. the devil's four-poThe Cabalists asserted that the number 0 was potent In mystical properties." The world was created la six days, the Jewish servant served six years, Job endured six tribulations, and hence the figure typified labor and suffering. The Tabbis asserted that the letter vau, which represented six, was stamped on the manna, to remind the Jews that it fell on six days only. The number 6 was an unlucky one at Home. Tarqulnlus Sextus was a lrutal tyrant and the church was divided under Urban the Sixth. The number 7 has been invested with more mystery than all the oth-e- r digits together, and to it were .ascribed magic and mystical qualities possessed by no other numbers. Several learned treatises have been written on this number, and septenary combinations have been sought everywhere. In an old writer f two centuries ago we may read why, in his opinion, the number is peculiarly excellent First, he says. ""It is neither begotten nor begets"; secondly, "It Is a harmonic num st ' Harm Done by Seeking to Standardize Child "Children are being wronged by enforced molding to the means of mass measurement," Dr. L Newton Kugelinass says In Ilygeia Magazine, In an article entitled, "The Myth of the Average Child." "Standardizing plastic youth into average patterns is detrimental physically to growing children, troublesome psychologically to perturbed parents and false biologically to the national Ideal. Children are Individuals, not average, In their body build and In their organs and tissues even to the single cells, trillion In number, that twenty-fiv- e compose the human structure. . . . Every child is unitary and unique. Never before and never again can the exact conditions be reproduced for the evolution of the same being. "A child Is considered normal physically when he does not reveal any pathologic disturbances that Interfere with his functional integrity or with his pattern of growth development. It is a negative definition expressed in. terms of the abnormal because we have more knowledge of disease than of well being. "Clinically, it is practical to class ify children In two extreme groups that define a wide range of norm for any one child. . . . The one Is dynamic and thin, and the other static and fat." 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CHAPTER and be was flying the malls when, suddenly, at the request of Capetown and he did not yet know from how high an official source-- he had been granted a special leave to fly a certain shipment of scientific material to America. That Is, he was Instructed to lly It not only the length of his ordinary route, but to continue with It the length of Africa and across the Mediterranean to France, where he was to mage connection with the fast express steamer Europa for New secret Itself was still safe. THE was clear that the public could not yet have learned it No; the nature of the tremendous and terrlflc Discovery remained locked in the breasts of the men who had made It No one bad broken so badly under the burden of It that he had let slip any actual details of what had been learned. But the fact that there was a secret, of incomparable Importance, was out, David Ransdell received plenty of proof of It, as he stood at the rail, and the radiograms from shore were brought to him. He had had seven, all of the same sort, within the hour; and here was another. lie held It without opening It while he gazed across the sparkling water at the nearlng shores of Long Island beyond which lay New York. Strange that, in a city which he could not yet see, men could be so excited about his errand. The first, arriving less than an hour ago, offered him one thousand dollars for first and exclusive information to be withheld from all others for twelve hours of what he carried In his black box. It was signed by the most famous newspaper In New York. Hardly had the messenger started back to the radio station when a second boy appeared with a message from another newspaper; "Two thousand dollars for first Information on your business In New York." Within ten minutes the offer had Jumped to five thousand dollars, made by another paper. Plainly, the knowledge that there was a secret of utmost importance had spread swiftly I The offer remained at five thousand for twenty minutes; then It Jumped again, and doubled. It was ten thousand dollars, in the last radiogram Dave had opened. Ten thousand dollars cash for first information, which now need be withheld from others only six hours, regarding what he was bringing to York. He had been summoned at night to the great mansion of Lord Uhon-dinear Capetown. Lord Rhon-dihimself, a big, calm, praetlcal-mlnde- d man, received him; and with Lord Rhondin was a tall, wiry man of forty-odwith a quick and nervous manner. j "Professor Bronson," Lord Rhondin said, Introducing Ransdell. "The astronomer?" Dave asked as they shook hands. "Exactly," said Lord Rhondin. Bronson did not speak at all then, or for several minutes. He merely grasped Dave's hand with nervous tightness and stared at him while he was thinking, patently, of something else something, Dave guessed, which recently had allowed him too little sleep. "Sit down," Lord Rhondin bade. They were in a big, secluded room given to trophies of the hunt. Animal skins covered the floor; and Hon and buffalo and elephant heads looked down from the walls, their glass eyes glinting In the light which was reflected, also, by festoons of shining knives and spears. "We sent for you, Ransdell," said Lord Rhondin, "because a very strange discovery has been made a discovery which, if confirmed in all details, is of incomparable consequence. I tell you that at the outset, Ransaell, because I must refrain for the present from telling you anything else about it." Dave felt his skin prickling with a strange, excited awe. There was no doubt that this man Lord Rhondin, industrialist, financier and conspicuous patron of science thoroughly believed what he said; behind the eyes which looked at Dave n New York. The thrilling urv ' irij and Ransdell was awe at knowledge which he dnred not reveal. But Dave asked boldly, "Why?" "Why can't I tell your Ixird lthondin repeated, and looked at Bronson. Professor Bronson nervously Jumped up. He stared at Lord Rhondin and thee at Hunmlell, and looked up from him at a lion' head. "Strange to think of no more Hons!" Bronson finally muttered. The words seemed to escape him Involuntarily. Lord Rhondin made no remark at this apparent irrelevance. Ransdell, Inwardly more excited by this queerly oppressive silence, at last demanded, "Why will there be no more lions?" "Why not tell him?" Bronson asked. But Rhondin went abruptly to business: "We asked leave for you, Ransdell, because I have heard you are a particularly reliable man. It Is essential that material connected with the discovery be delivered In New York city at the earliest practicable moment You Hre both an expert pilot who can make the best speed, and you are dependable. If you will take It, I will put the material In your care; and can yon start tonight?" "Yes, sir. But what sort of material? I must ask, If I ara to fly with It?" "Glass photographic plates." "How many of them?" Lord Rhondin threw back a skin which had covered a large black traveling case. "They are packed, carefully, In this. I will tell you this much more, which you may guess, from Professor Bron son's presence. They are photo graphic plates taken by the great est telescopes In South Africa, of regions of the southern sky which are never visible In the northern hemisphere. You are to take them to Dr. Cole Hendron In New York city, and deliver them personally to him and to no one else. I would tell you more about this unusual errand, Ransdell, If the the Implications of these plates were abso lutely certain." At this, Professor Bronson start ed, but again checked himself before speaking, and Lord Rhondin went on: "The implications, I may say, are probably true; but so very much Is involved that It would be most disastrous If even a rumor of what we believe we have discovered were given out. For that reason, among others, we cannot confide it even to you ; hut we must charge you personally to convey this box to Doctor Hendron, who is the scientific consultant of the Universal Electric and Power corporation In New York. He is now in Pasadena, but will be In New York upon your arrival. Time Is vital the greatest speed, that is, consistent with reasonable safety. You should reach Doctor Hendron not later than a week from Monday. You may return, then, If you wish. On the other hand" he paused as crowded considerations heaped In his mind of It was that David Ransdell himself did not know what he carried which could become of such He was merely amazing concern. the courier who transported and guarded the secret. Those who had entrusted It to him knew that he would never violate his word. Least of all, would he sell out to others. Moreover (if curiosity tried him beyond his strength) he had Professor Bronson's word for it that the contents of the box would be utterly meaningless to him. Only a few, with very special training, could make out the meaning. Cole Hendron in New York Dr. Cole Hendron, the physicist could work it out. Indeed, he could determine It more completely than any other man alive. That was why fact fidence. Dave gripped the rail with aggravated Impatience for arrival In the city. He wondered, but with secondary Interest only, under the circumstances, what it would be like In America. It was the native land of his mother; but David had never so much as seen its shores before. For he was a South African his father, an Englishman who had once ranched In Montana, had mar- ncu tt I'uituia gii i aim uuu lUKCrl her to the Transvaal. Dave had been born at Pretoria, schooled there, and had run away from school to go to war. ''Tie war had made him a flyer, ie had stayed In the air afterward. -- kitchens. There is a largo solarium and an department, In which the delicate electrical apparatus la s reproduced on the scale of of an Inch to a foot. In the children's wird on the top floor two cots are covered with laca huixlkerchiefs by tha presented queen, who bus gnut Interest In the construction of the model. There are also an electric lift, which really work, and bush tens offices with carpets and paneled walls, ona of them decorated with miniature pictures of Florence Nightingale. Linter, Lord Dawxon of Perm ami Lord Moyniham, painted by Alfred Praga. three-qtiarter- Read This First Installment and Follow It Through to the Smashing Climax Dave Ransdell, from South Africa, was bound for New York; he was bringing the box to Cole Hendron, who, after he had satisfied himself of the significance of Its contents, would take the courier Into his con- The Choice of Millions BM11 POWDER ft P What did people do as they stared into the relentless face of destruc sixty-thre- s. four-leave- ... fear- as death blasted fully expectant from the skies, boiled up from the bowels of the earth. tues and seven mortal Bins. The ancients not only noted the Importance of seven as ait astronomical period, but also connected with the seven planets the seven metula then known. The soul of man was anciently aupposed to be controlled by this double septenary combustion. It was also an ancient belief that a chango in the body of man occurs every seventh yearn year. Saya an old writer: "Augustus Caesar as Gelllus saith, was glad, and hoped that he was to live long, bee cause he had passed his years. For olde men seldom passed that year, but they are In danger of their lives. Two years, the seventh and ninth, commonly bring great changes to a man's life, and great dangers; therefore C3, that contain-et- h both these numbers multiplied together, coutatneth unknown the Twilight The world waited . . . hushed, ber and contains all the harmonic; thirdly, "It is a theological number, consisting of perfection"; fourthly, "It 1 composed of perfect number, and participates of their virtues." lie may ttnd better reasons for the Importance attached to this number. Much of it is doubtlesa due to Its prominence lo the liible. The seven days f creation led to a septenary division of time to all ages. Several of the Jewish feasts lasted seven days. Kll.sha sent Nuamari to wa-- l in the Jordan seven times, and Kllpah sent his servant from Mount Carniel seven times to look for rain, for seven days seven prletita with sereit trumpets invested Jericho, and on the seventh day tuey encompassed It seven times. There were seven vir- ,3 NEPIII. UTAH S. WONDERFUL MINIATURE Sacred and Lucky Numbers Very many ttipcrktltloua and curl-oMea havo Uco and are mill eonuwted with number. Great hope have bet'n founded mon certain of numbtrg lo lutterVi, Id orocopfg, or In itredictiou regarding Important event. Important undertakings have awaited favorable dut for their Inception, and the live of more than one leader of men have been more or leas Influenced by a regard for certain numerical combinations, supposed to have a dominating power In shaping a successful career, write a contributor in the IJiruilnghaia (Eng.) Weekly Tost. There have been superstitious notions connected with nearly every no of the nine digital numbers. The number 1 was held to be sacred because it represented the unity of the Godhead. This number U esteemed as very lucky by the Javanese, who allot but one day to each of the several operations of husbandry, leaving that portion of the crop that could not be gathered In one TIMES-NEW- you may be Indifferent as to where you are." "On the earth," added Professor. Bronson. "Of course on the earth," Lord Rhondin accepted. "I would go myself, Ransdell, you understand," Bronson then proceeded. "But my place, for the pres ent, certainly la here. 1 mean, of It course, at the observatory. Is possible, Ransdell, In spite of precautions which have been taken, that some word of the Bronson discYour errand o-, .y niay get out may be suspected. If it Is, you know nothing nothing, you understand? You must answer no Inquiry from any source. None none whatever!" Until now, nothing had happened to recall these emphatic cautions; but now, something was out A boy was approaching with another Ird ... radio: dollars In "Twenty thousand cash paid to you if you grant first and exclusive Interview regarding Bronson discovery to this paper." It was signed by the man who, an hour ago, had ofiened the bidding with one thousand dollars. Dave crumpled It and tossed It overboard. If the man who sent with It had been In that trophy-rooBronson and Lord Rhondin, he would have realized that the matter on their minds completely transcended any monetary consideration. ALL CLEANED UP and RARIN' TO GO CLEANED SPARKPLUGS MOTORS THE SPARK OF LIFE. ..SAVE GAS... GIVE MAKE STARTING EASY " pfug Removing spark ruS Oxide Coating gets rid of the chief cause of slughard startgishness, ing, loss of power. All Registered AC Cleaning Stations are ready NOW to clean your spark plugs. 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"If you suggest bridge, they tear up the rugs and dance. If I'd asked them to dance and had an orchestra they'd have played bridge or made fudge." "Why have guests at all, Eve? Especially tonight, when for the first night In weeks, the three thousand miles of this dreary continent aren't between us?" "I didn't have them, Tony. They Just heard we were home; and they came." "You could have had a headache for them." "I almost did, with the reporters this afternoon. This Is really a rest ; let's enjoy it Tony." She leaned against the balustrade and looked down at the lights; and he, desirous of much more, bent Jealously beside her. Tony laid his hand possessively on Eve's. She turned her hand, lessening subtly the possesslveness of his, and said, "You can kiss me. I like to be kissed. But don't propose." "Why not? . . . See here, Eve, I'm through with Christmas kisses with you." "Christmas kisses?" "You know what I mean. 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