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Show Murray Eagle, Thursday, April, 10, 1930 T Napoleon's Ancient Barge Found sim x"? r vivi. 'nL (:3on6)5 Haii) Lands Analyzing 1 1 I By C. J. COFFMAN Dean of All the Enumerators Irene As the eye Indicates our wakefulness, so the first syllable In this name, IK, really signifies the wakefulness of the city. This naturally makes yon most adapted to city life, where you will not only be most at borne, but where your greatest success Is almost certain to be found. Tour second syllable, ENE, tells ns a lot about singing. This means not only songs of a Joyful, happy nature, but the song of triumph, which you will sing because of your watchfulness for opportunity In the city. Only a few people can succeed, and then be peaceful. Yon have real ability hee, because you avoid the continual urge of ambition, the dynamic drive for more success and of applause. The whole word Irene means pence, quietness and rest. The letter I In your name, like the human eye In your body, Is able to radiate great peacefulness among your friends and loved ones. At mA. iiiui-a Woman of Palestine Wearing Her Money Wealth National Qeographlo Society, Washington, D. C.) (Prepared by th a Ornament. The habit of haggling, still preva-- I lent, may have come down from United States has settled those ancient days of barter. to the use of the small The idea of money was not yet size paper money so complete- born to that borderland of Europe ly that the occasional large bill that and Asia that was then the West. ' is encountered seems awkward. The nearest approach to an article One more chapter has been written tnnt would function as such was Id the long story of money. the ox. Man has used money In some This animal possessed one prime form since the dawn of civilization. Fishhooks and slave girls, beads, requisite of money. It was generas a thing of value hawks and hounds, nil have served ally recognized desired of nil men. Money must us a medium of exchange. Karly primarily be something that every Virginians bought wives with to- one wants, for which he will exbacco. Once, It Is said, Mexican Indians used cacao beans, until change any of hisoxordinary com came nearer and the aboriginal crooks began mnking modities, this test 1.000 II. meeting C, In the varbaked and clay counterfeits, triangle that was Greece, Egypt, nished to look like the rent. than did any other The study of money, as an In- and Palestine, of wealth among the strument of trade through, the nges, element masses. Involves art, heraldry, and mytholThe peoples from which Western ogy ; It lends to economics and poll-tic- s civilization sprang were pastoral and fur Into history, When folk, their wealth being representkingdoms rose, often new moneys ed In sheep and cattle. Gradually rose with them ; and, when they fell, values their moneys passed away. Nothing theythecame toofmeasure other ox. A unit the herd, the tli iik cs a government like the de- by little later armor was priced In preciation of Its money. The very oxen. A knight could buy a servprogress of civilization Itself may iceable suit of armor for ten oxen, be largely measured by the pace at but one of choice workmanship which the various moneys of the would cost fifty. world have been standardized and The modern word "pecuniary," commerce. International accepted by from pecus, cattle, has Its place In It was, to a large degree, the quest our for gold and silver, and their use once language because cattle were money. In coined money, which led to the Sheep represented a lower moneof exploration and settlement tary denomination. They were America, Australia, and South Af- small change! Ten sheep equaled rica. one ox. The metal-dismoney of the After copper was mined In Cyprus West was born In I.ydla, at the and pots made of It, these utensils astern end of the Mediterranean, came to be used for money. Later about 2.WO years ago. conveniently shaped strips of copCowrie, the lowly shell money of pots as a medium of the antipodes, has through the per replaced and later still these were ages been the most widely circu- exchange a weight When shrewd lated rlvr.l of the metal disk; but of definite debased the copper by mixIts day of dominance has departed. traders ing cheaper metals with It, or gave Only Isolated communities still the a short weight. It becling to It as money. Yet cowrie camepieces for the local govnecessary can boast that more people have ernment to in, test the metal, step used It than have clinked the certify to Its value by a stamp. metal disks In all their varieties. and modern idea of metal It has served a greater number of Thus the of value was born. lunnan beings as a medium of ex- money When copper became plentiful change than any other money de- and therefore cheap, It was too vised by man. bulky to serve as the principal China's Metal Coins. Silver displaced It and money. The cash of China, coins with ruled the money world for 2.ooo holes lu them, still dominate the years. In time the same thing hapmarts of many nieu In a consider-util- e pened with silver that had hapcorner of the Asiatic world. pened with copper. It became too There exist Inscribed cash pieces bulky to figure In large transacGold, which hud always It. C, and tions. attributed to fimllnr pieces, unlnscrlbed, be- been In the background ns money, wns brought forward to become lieved to be earlier. The tno, also of China, was one the standard money metal. of the first metal coins In the Token Coinage and Paper Money. world. The word Means "knife' Metal money did not remain or "sharp-edgeinstrument," hence wholly a matter of Intrinsic value. the name was applied to the razor-- 1 It wns discovered almost by ac shaped coins of old Clilnn. cident that a strong government Convenience f'r carrying Is co'.ild take a piece of metal of as accounting fur the Introlelntlvely low value, stamp a highduction and long use of perforated er value on It, nud have It acceptcoins by China and Its neighbors. ed lu trade ns though It were truly 1 rmn earliest times a string has worth the stumped amount. Thus been the poor man's pockcthook. or undervalue token colnnse, There have been many unique money,' came Into existence, markmoneys In different countries. Nails ing another Important step In cre once so precious that they evolution. It was partly wore used as money In Scotland money's real value Hiid partly Vnluo based rind In Now l'nglnnd In on trust In the Issuing agency. In And while (ho mark the United Slates all of our small days. was skidding to soro after the nickel and copper coins are World war, pox! muster In remote silver, tokens. None of them will melt parts of Germany used shoe nails down Into metal of as great value for smnllchnnge purposes they as the denomination sUimped on It. bud a fixed utility value. money may be looked upon liars of crystal salt are money os Paper token money carried to lis flnnl In many parts of Ethiopia. This extreme. A piece of It has no medium of exchnngp, however, suf- value at all In Itself; the value defers deterioration In strange pends wholly on a promlso printed way. It hns become a nice cour- on It. Put although the Idea of tesy, when meeting a friend, to paper money might be expected to proffer a coin to be licked I developed easily from token The Island of Tap, of the Caro- have money, no one In the West seems line group, neighbors In the remote to have considered the mntter way of the South seas with the feasible until more thnn a thousand New Guinea, Philippines and after token coins appeared. boasts the strangest of years the first "paper" Paradoxically, It Is of stone and the money wns a brick; for the iiimi'y. germ coins are sometimes 12 feet In of the Idea seems to have been diameter and weigh many hun- born In Bnhylonia more thnn two dreds of pounds! thousand yenrs bofore the Christian When Cattle Were Money. the repayment of pra. lionda Tt Is nearly 8,.K) years back to loans were written on clny tablets the time of Homer, when there wns and baked. These passed from no such (hint In the Western world band to band as representations of as money. People bartered In the the amounts Involved. Similarly, markets, exchanging s'lrkllng goats deposits were made with Individfor woven rugs. There were uals, and clny brirk drafts were neither ducats nor dollars In written against them. I.nter brick which to prb-- them, nor wns there bills transferred of nchanj. sn established measure of value. wealth from place (o place. I TUB nillk-face- 1115-107- d 0 fr e I. I . - 1. I iujg nuftciuiiifAs U muy "Vim dash of fire In It, like that of Iff Uordonl, the French actress vaudeville artist Taking the letters separately In your name I signifies Immaculate, Innocent; It stands for Righteousness and Restoration; E stands for Enter and Entertainment while N stands for both Nobility and Novelty. Whatever advice Is given you, yon will do as you like about following, but the principal bit of advice that you really need Is to be kind to your Inferiors. The reason for this Is that yon have a tendency to attract around Inferiors who grow. Then may, quite unexpectedly, catch up with you or even go ahead of you. To you especially applies the conclusion of the little fable about the grasshopper who spurned the acquaintance of the caterpillar, and was afterward snubbed by the butterfly who had been the caterpillar. Grace Tour name begins with 0, the seventh letter. To the enumera tor this repre-sents God. but t0 wyone else rjrX "S- y0u wui need to bring; out the (lod within you. It Is quite probable that you will be deeply The Eyes of religious In your Grace, own way, but not easily restrained by creeds or dogmas. The word Grace really means to do things without friction, and you are happiest only when you are doing things that way. Your deep and studious eyes show tl-- ability to penetrate the thoughts of others. You can mother them, even though you disagree with them. With an almost unlimited cour age yon ccmblne a peculiar timidity, a fluttering of heart and mind, like a frightened bird, mnking almost a paradox In your life. Taking off the (i in your name we find the word HACK. This Indi cates the sieed with which you can accomplish a thing your heart la set upon. It also has a relationship to the pride you take In skill of fingers. The first three letters of your name Git A, relate to an old Greek root to write. In this you will probably find your greatest career. Among the modern Graces who have exemplified this Is Grace Coolldge. Taking off the Orst two letters of your nnmo gives ns the word ACR. This gives you the desire as well as the ability to hold to a single Ideal, nnd to demand the singular possession of what you feel to be your own. You have one of thore peculiar natures that gives yon access to what you set your mind upon, but this Is curiously restrained by the timidity that 1 mentioned. Ordi narily you arc not lonesome even when nlono your mind Is to filled with things to lenrn and to do. Go rUht on Courageously, then. Grace, knowing that all things come to til ii who waits. If you contluue to labor while jou wait. Wwtffis N. w.pap-- r felon ) (3. -- A. e Chriitmaa Carol The Etude s.iys thnt the oldet csnd lu existence is in Norman French In a Thlrleenih-cenlurmanuscript It Is a song of fes tivity urging the lord of the fsa-tl- e to drink In lionor of Christmas, In 121 Wynken df Worde printed the first known set of Christmas carols. IsTu!tl Ink The buresu of standards' snyi that the safest chemical for Invisible Ink Is ammonium chloride, often culled saI ammoniac. A solution made by dissolving the salt In five times Its weight In water can be nsrd for writing with a pen. It is developed by heat Sailors' Soperatilioa The mention of certain anlmsli r-boor J t fishing vessel Is regarded as unlucky, the animals varying wn in u e roumry anq in unii-reu- i Including hsrrs, ca Ji. !gs, horses, spiders and in son e cases even i I 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 I M 1 Athens. The Island of Pontlkronlk. famed In classic story as the home of Neptune aud better known by Its more romantic title, "Island of the Dead," Is In danger of sinking Into the sea. A commission of engineers who recently studied the Is land olT the Grecian const reports that, unless a number of breakwaters are constructed, the waves thnt have undermined the cliffs will soon finish their woik. To save the Island a fund has been started by the ArchSir Basil bishop of Corfu. ZuharofT, the armaments millionaire who lives In Purls, has guaranteed half the sum required if the Greek government will raise the rest Pontlkronlk Its gained name, "Island of the Dead." from a painting by Bockllns. The painting shows Charon ferrying one of his ghostly passengers to Its forbidding With the New Science of Syllabic A Typical Irene Eye. I 1 Sea Is Engulfing "Island of Dead" ? ...YOU... 2 1 1 y cliffs. Lcj I l!s i I I I I 1 I I I I Ml M liiiiH to be let alone to live his life as be sees tit, aud 1 hardly believe anyone hero will ever Interfere with him, for they haven't during a quarter of a century. He Is get ting along In years now, but Is ro bust from bis outdoor existence. He may live many more years, but my guess Is thnt he will take his life's secret to his grave." While cleaning out a storeroom In the old arsenal at Brest, France, government authorities came upon an old barge which proved to be one thut had been especially constructed for the use of Napoleon I, and later used by his nephew, Napoleon III. ISrest Is to France what HampU. S. Creates Medical ton Roods Is to the United States, so that the barge was evidently used by the Napoleons for the Inspection of the fleet when It wns In the harBoard for Air Pilots bor. The historical craft will be placed on public view after It has been dis Occupntlonnl Washington. The restored. a shows rear view completely photograph of the barge, with the emperor's crown on top of the cabin and his shield at the stern. eases und peculiar physical require ments of aviation have compelled the War department to develop speclul aviation medicine division of the medical corps to keep army TREE pilots In proper condition. Among Uie occupational dtsnhtll ties developed by constant flying he nailed a long pole are stateness, Impaired hearing and Lives in Suspended Iron on his fowls upright on the gate of his chicken a condition caused by constant high On the top of the pole he altitudes In which the body grud Tank, Gets No Mail and yard. fastened a white flag and, while ually becomes deficient In oxygen A school of aviation medicine has Seldom Talks. working In fields nearby, he kept been established at Brooks field his eye on the white cloth. Any Iloratlo, Ark. "My post Is burled movement of the cloth denotes the San Antonio, Texas, through which ask no questions!" For a quarter opening of the gate. Theft of his CO fight surgeons already have of a century these curt words have chickens censed, he said. passed. These medlcnl otlltera atbeen the only reply of "the tree Several weeks ago Brown wns tached to flying units must be alrman of Horatio" to all who have summoned to De Queen to court as mlnded. They ore required to fly sought to penetrate the wall of a witness In a minor case which constantly and several are quail mystery he hns raised about him originated In the vicinity of his Ded pilots. By regular contact self. So successful bos been the placo. He Ignored the court order with flyers' disabilities they berecluse In veiling his past that few and a deputy sheriff wns sent for come able to diagnose symptoms not be persons ever question him no.w. and him, hen brought Into the courtr- of conditions which would cause for alarm except to airmen. In fact only a few residents of this oom, Brown vehemently expresse.1 The Importance of physical fit little town know of his existence, his opinion of all courts In general a was It bitter cold night moe and the Sevier county tribunal In ness lies In the fact that the hu than 25 years ago, when a few min particular. The Judge sentenced man element alone has resisted utes after the night train south hnd htm to Jail for contempt, but he efforts to make flying safer. Wnr made its brief pause here, a middle was allowed to depurt after a few department statistics show that f0 commercial flying ac While Brown was In Jail per cent of aged man walked Into the small nays. hotel and asked for a room. "Just Sheriff Roy Hooper made Intensive cidents, 63 per cent of army acci per cent of navy fly. call me Fred Brown," be replied inquiries In the North and East dents, and In a German accent to questions hut could obtuln no Information on Ing accidents are due to pilot fail ures ruther than mechanical de as to his Identity. the recluse. The hotel proprietor soon discovSo far as Is known. Brown has fects. ered that Brown bad placed a neveT received any mail through the secret lock on his door. The ec- post office here, and he never Lender's Son Receives centricities of the stranger con- rends, although he apparently has a Book Borrowed in '89 tinued to arouse the curiosity of good education. He now appears the landlord. He Investigated. to be about sixty years old and Is Richmond, Va. In June, 1SS!), Finally he discovered a small Iron In the best of health. Rev. Rufus Pegg of Burlington, N ring at the base of the hall oppoborrowed a book from Mr. and Mentions "Mountles." C site Brown's room. A pull on the "One day while I was taking to Mrs. William M. Cates of Gibson ring released the secret lock on the him ville, In that Slate. Inside of the stranger's door, but the he mentioned having been with Recently 0. E. Cates of Burling mounted In police but Cannda, the sudden arrival of Brown cut when I It ton, a son, got the book back. to tried continue the trend short any exploration by the hotel of the seems that Rev. Mr. Pegg, a circuit he conversation, departed man, and a few minutes luter the suddenly and It was several weeks rider, forgot the loan. At any rate, mystery man checked out before I saw him sgnln." snys Brink-ley- , It reposed In his library for years, and after his recent death a rela Lives In Tree. the storekeeper. So far as anyone here knows, live discovered the book had Mrs. A few days later, Brown requlsl Cates' name In It He returned the Honed a htik'e cast-of- f Iron tank along that Is the only time the recluse book, regret that It had the railroad rolled It has ever mentioned any Incident in been expressing kept so long. about a hundred yards away nnd his past He appears to be an ex"sqiinttedH on land owned by Tom pert naturalist and will talk for Green of Horatio. There he re- nours atiout trees and birds, but Chinaman Is Survived only of those In this section. Brown mains to this day. Is violently opposed to nhotnir- by 109 Descendants the ends of the old tank Cutting nnd the only pictures ever rnphers, Honolulu. T. H. One hundred and then hinging them as doors. made of him have been taken while and nine living descendants Brown awung the contrivance high paid he was caught o(T guard and with flnnl honors to the memory of Chlng up In a largo tree. In the tank he the cameraman running the risk of Yueng foo, retired Chinese planter. established his home, becoming having a chunk of wood or some wtm died at the age of eighty seven known as the "tree man." A rope other object hurled at his head. yenrs. ladder furnishes means of reachi.rown, as be chooses to mil him. Chlng was survived by a widow, ing the aerial house, and as soon as Brown Is perrhed In his swinging self, may be a titled European who 3 sons, 2 daughters, 47 grandchilfell Into disgrace, he ma be a dren and 67 A home, the ladder Is pulled up. man In love, or a numme descendant lives In China, two large piece of tin securely fastened ber ofdisappointed other things, but I will never on the malnlnnd of the United to the trunk of the tree prevents believe blm a fugitive from Justice." Stnles, and the rest live In Hawaii. anyone climbing up without arous Brlnkley, his closest friend Chlng came to Honolulu from In winter lug the tree dweller. Apparently, he Is a man who wunls Canton 57 years ago. Brown closes the doors of his home, while they arc allowed to swing open In wnrm weather. For many FRANCE PUCES HERBICX ON PAR WITH FRANKLIN yesrs the tank was the only abode of the recluse, but recently he has built a six foot square shark without windows, which be occupies on American Ambatiador's Life Work fng nnd Improving the American some of the coldest nights. An Imsplinl In I'Hrln commemorated by Wins Highest Praise of other sli.uk houses a few clib kens a Derrick ward, which, although It Parliians. nnd furnishes storage for food sun wns Intended to honor the memory Mrs. Herrlik, who worked herplies which he grows on about an of Paris. Four spnnlnneotis movencre of ground Hint he hns fenced self to death nursing soldiers In ments among French and AmeriIn from the owner's estate. the hospital during the war. Is also Only one man, O. T. Brlnkley, cans to honor the memory of the a monument to the generosity of late Ambassador T. Derrick Mymn Horatio storekeeper, Is on Intimate the ambassador. terms with Brown, and he hns never of Cleveland will make the Ohhmn Without a doubt Benjamin Frankrank with Benjamin lin nnd Myron T. Derrick been able In delve Into the re diplomat were t he rluse's pnst. Brown bus worked on Franklin as the nioxt honored dip- most beloved American ambassalomat the United Stntes hns ever Brlnkley's farm nt t!mes for the sent dors who ever served In Franco. to France. Inst '."0 Jen , nnd makes all hi The first honor was the decision purchases from bis employer's of the city of Paris to name one Doctor, 98, Prescribes store. More thsn CO yenrs sgo Brown of lis most benuilful avenues Rules of Longevity purvhnsed a sullrnsc from Brink Myron Derrick, the only Amerlcun A new prophet of longevPnrts. or ambassador with the and returned the next day with minister, ley It parked and asked Brlnkley to al- exception of Franklin, who has ity hns arisen In the person of Prolow him to leave It In the store. been so honored. There are streets fessor Guetilet, who at ninety-eight- . The suitcase remains In the store for Presidents Wilson, Washington I still studying medicine and Is looking for a country home In today, (in rnre occasions Brown and Lincoln. which to pass his declining years. comes Into the store, opens the suitStart Monument Fund. De has not a wrinkle on bis fiice, case, takes or lenves some article, The Amerlcnn and French adand then depnrts. No other tier-so- mirers of Ambassador Derrick possesses clear eyesight and good hss ever seen the rontents, snys have started a fund for the erec- hearing. His prescription to ennble Brlnkley. tion of a statue near or at the be one to live to one huudred yenrs Sells Vegetables, ginning of the new Avenue Myron or longer Is: The recluse crows small llerrlik. Acnln Benjamin FrankPnn't est loo much. Fat only amount of vecetables on Id, plot lin Is the only other Amerlcnn dip whnt Is good for you. Brenthe of ground, which he "ells through lomat who hns a statue In Pnrts. deeply because oxygen regenerates the Brlnkley store. He enmc Into Ambassador Derrick's friends In the blood. Take sufficient town about otire a week, but always Cleveland subscribe I I IO.imk) fur exercise to ensure this. Bephysical chaste after dnrk. Front his garden air) the equipment of a Derrick bnll In after middle nge. Live In the couna few chlrkens be derives most of the beautiful new Amerlcnn Legion try If possible. his necessities. Gueniet himself eats eggs and building, wlilch Is onlv a stone's I.nst summer he complained thnt throw from tlio embassy where butter every tneal, with a little Some one wns stenling bis clib kens, Derrick died. incut, vegetables, wine aud fresh snd in order to thwart further raids Derrick's untiring work In found fruit. MAN' KEPT SECRET 25 YEARS A. Sour Stomach In the same time it takes a dose) of soda to bring a little temporary relief of gas and sour stomach, Phillips Milk of Magnesia has acidity completely checked, and the digestive organs all tranquilizer Once you have tried this form of relief you will cease to worry about your diet and experience a new freedom in eating. This pleasant preparation Is Just as good for children, too. Use It whenever coated tongue or fetid breath slgnnls need of a sweetener. Physlclnns will tell you that every spoonful of Phillips Milk of Magnesia neutralizes many times its volume In acid. 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