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Show PIRATE ACTIVITIES STIR FRENCH TARS TO DEMAND ACTION Milkweed Supplies Milk, Poison, Dyes and Fibers Milk from milkweeds is used by human beings! In its native Ceylon one such milkis called cowplant. The leaves Destroy Them or We Strike Is weed of several are cooked and eaten as Threat of Sailors; Urge greens. Tender growths of others are eaten as salads. The milky sap War Tactics. of several is used for medicine. The may be tonic, emetic, purgaParis. French sailors and mari- juice or even a deadly poison. tive, time workers, who haye cpmplained Some aborigines use the juice to six the last during constantly e arrows. The names of months about piracy on the seas poisonor have been dogbane applied and lack' of security for themselves, to some milkweeds because they have petitioned the government once were these and employed more for effective defense against other animals. toIn poison East Africa one attacks such as that which blew the variety is thrown into pools to British Jean Weems out of the wa- plant fish. Not all, however, are poison ter off Catalonia. toxic or noxious. Seamen became skeptical about Some milkweeds supply dyes, the Nyon agreement system of pro- basts and others fibers. But the tection when double attacks sank one Sodom apple of the Bible is supFrench freighter; the Oued Mellah posed to have been the fruit of and an air French dispatch boat such a native to' India, a plant stationed at Minorca, within the that hasplant been grown in local garspace of ten hours. Whereas be- dens. fore French seamen were content Milkweeds form a large and into ask the government to provide teresting family because of their varadio control and to be firm with ried uses, writes a correspondent in the aggressors, now they call for the Los Angeles Times. In the preparations similar to those proAmericas we have kapok or vided during the World war. trees, but in other parts of the world Plane Bases. kapok" of exports is Urge Destroying the pods of milkweeds. In the seamen's paper. Journal de from In a family of 2,000 different inla Marine Marchande, one writer dividuals or species we must expect stated immediately after the at- a wide range, and children who tacks: The Nyon accord was a step in have opened ripe pods of milkweeds been delighted with the silk the right direction but it is too tim- have id. It admits the right only to at- floss. It is not used locally only beof lack of volume and the cost tack the individual airplane or sub- cause marine which has carried out the at- of harvzsUng it. But giant tree-lik- e tack. It does nothing about the or- milkweeds fifteen or more feet high a rich reward to natives of ganization which ordered the attack. promise India. These species have been I ask that aerial patrols chase planted in our country and, in the pirate planes, shoot them down if West Indies, have escaped from possible, but if not follow them to to the wilds. their base. Once such bases are gardens identified they should be destroyed to the last shred, to the last man. St. George Dragon Myth "It doesnt suffice in attempting One of Many in History to halt Mediterranean piracy to kill the aviator who is under orders. It According to the Roman Acta is necessary to strike the organizaSanctorum, St George was born in tion at its heart. To those who Cappadocia and received from his say this would mean war, I ask what parents a careful Christian training. country, Spanish or foreign, would He early showed a fondness for war, thus admit its complicity before the joined the army of the Emperor entire world?" Diocietian, and soon rose to high rank. Would Arm Merchantmen. But when the persecution of the The National Federation of MariChristians became bitter, he went time Trade Unions suggests that the merchant marine be armed at once to the emperor and, confessing his "so that they could effectively de- faith, remonstrated against his fend themselves as they did during cruelty. He was immediately arthe World war." It informed the rested and suffered martyrdom April 23, 303. government in a special comAround the few facts of his history munique that must answer at once before the French seamen if it se- many traditions and myths have gathered. Among those is the story riously intended to protect them of his slaying a dragon which had from attack. haunted a certain neighborhood and note "We The terminated: say off beautiful maidens. Acsquarely that our comrades have carried to one account, he is said to had enough, exposed every day to cording the barbaric acts of pirates known have reappeared nearly 700 years or unknown, and will manifest our after his martyrdom and fought the famous crusader, Godfrey feeling shortly by refusing to take with Bouillon, at the battle of Antioch, any ships to sea, unless some ac- of tion is taken to protect ships sailing and to have revealed himself to at the in the danger zones. This is the Richard the last warning we will give. The next seige of Acre, predicting the heros time we will take action ourselves." victory. The latter narrative led to Seamen have formerly protested his being more highly honored than ever in England, of which he was against the fact, which they say the patron saint. they can prove, that orders have In the Saxon martyrology April 23 batbeen given to all held sacred to him alone of all teries and all ships to fire only want- was the saints. This feast was celebratis on which blanks craft ing pirate ed with jousts and tournaments as believed to be on ah attacking misas chivalry endured, and for long sion. They insist that the pirates must know this fact and have there- years afterward, until after the fore become daring again in the Reformation,to when Queen Elizabeth it. put a stop Mediterranean. Seamen openly affirm that they expect an increase in attacks shortThe Act of Thinking ly, following the proclamation by act The of thinking is extremely nationalists of a blockade on Medas neurologists describe formidable, iterranean Spanish cities. it. Under a microscope, the cerebral cortex is seen to be made up of a vast quantity of tiny cells, some to Ghostly Legend at the ends of long nerve-celHerd of Buffalo Is Upset apparently passing up from underlying white matter, others long cells lyAustin, Texas. Research workers for the Texas game, fish and ing parallel to the surface. These oyster commission have discovered latter are believed to be paths of association. Through them, says a a record of ghost buffalo herd that 40 years ago ' created a wide in- writer in Literary Digest, various central stored in Texas sensory impressions terest among "memory" that is, other cells are sportsmen. connected. Something we see, hear Wild buffalo had disappeared from Texas several years earlier or smell may prod a whole series because of the depredations of pro- of cells into consciousness, creating fessional killers. Then in 1894 a a memory - picture, swaying our sports magazine reported that 40 judgment,howdriving to suicide or to make $1,000,000. or 50 buffalo still roamed the wild showing area of Val Verde county along the Rio Grande. As the story circuAtlanta Had Other Names lated, the herd grew figuratively In 1821 the land which was the larger. An expedition to hunt the last site' of the founding of Atlanta was herd was found at San Antonio. ceded by the Creek Indians to the Then came word that the herd had state. The first cabin was built in crossed the Rio Grande into Mexi- 1833 and in 1836 engineers drove s the stake which was to mark the co. The buffalo hunters grew end of the proposed state railroad. and finally disbanded. nat- For that reason the towns first H. P. Attwatcr, was Terminus. In 1843 the uralist of the day, checked on the name was name changed to Marthasville legendary herd. He concluded that in honor of the daughter .of Governor the buffalo were a myth. Lumpkin. In 1847 it was incorporated as a city with the name of AtKansas Dogs Are Sissies; lanta, probably suggested by the which was called the WestHunters Cannot Explain railroad ern & Atlantic. It was made the Dodge City, Kan. Something had capital of the state in 1868. happened to Dodge City, once the home of the best huuting dogs on the prairie and the scene of two or Body Most Have Salt three national coursing meets. is water, but Perspiration Either the dogs are victims of it contains a fairchiefly of salt amount easy living or a coyote isn't a thrill which is discharged from the body. any more. The body is constantly absorbing More than 500 men and women and getting rid of it again, but were on a coyote roundup the other salt of absorption and disthe operation day. They were accompanied by charge must be so balanced as to to enough dogs, from coursing dogs Insure a regular quantity of salt in the ordinary run, to round up all the the body at all times. Salt is necescyotes in the county. of it may lack and the for body ' sary When a coyote was flushed, the Human blood contains serious. be dogs gave a few feeble steps, may- exactly the same amount of salt as be yelped once or twice, then sea water unquestionable evidence dropped back. The dog experts of that man originally came out of the the community can't explain it sea, says a writer- -la Pearson's LonOne coyote was captured. v don Weekly, wolf-ban- silk-cott-on Lion-Heart- anti-aircra- ft ls suspi-iciou- well-kno- : ; -- ' . u. . . . r V - RARE MUSIC FOUND DY PiTT PROFESSOR Homans Classed Manuscripts 200 Years Old The Romans were the greatest bridge builders of ancient times. Although bridges spring from the Dis-ccv;r- in Church. Fi!l:burgh, Pa. Greatest Buy Only Ancient. Bridge Builders ed cache of rr.r; musical manuscripts, hidden for almost two centuries in a church ir. the village of Lititz in eastern Ic n: sylvania's Lancaster county, has been discovered by Theodore M. Finney, lecturer in music at the University of Pittsburgh and director of Pitt's famed student band and the mens glee club. Mr. Finney made his discovery last summer. He said the music had been written between the Revolutionary war and the War of lC!r by composers who were communicants of the Moravian church whose members fled Germany to come t; country around Bethlehem and ( course, to be dubbed "Pennsylvar.'i Dutch." None of the music save what was written by the Moravian musicians before they migrated to America has ever been published. It is in thr classical tradition of Mozart and Haydn. Some of the pieces arc religious anthems. Others ore in symphony and chamber music arrangements. The Pitt teacher explained: "It is unusual in violation of the tradition of its times because in the Eighteenth century the churches of New England considered any music, except the singing of psalms, sinful. "No one in New England would have dared suggesting an orchestra might play in a church. But in the little towns of eastern Pennsylvania it was done every Sunday. A large percentage of the Moravians must have been skilled musicians, for many of the pieces Mr. Finney found would prove severe teste for the ability of even a professional of today. Moravians liked music, he said, and indicated in their writings they didn't think much of the New England style of unaccompanied singing of hymns in which every member of the congregation carried what was his own idea of the tune. One Moravian critic referred to the Massachusetts church music as the "woeful shrieking and squalling of the congregation." He said the manuscripts will probably be turned over to the Moravian church's seminary at Bethlehem, and kept there. A Artificial Leg 39 Inches Long Is Without an Equal New Orleans. The longest and largest artificial leg known to J. E. Hangar, Inc., artificial limb makers, has been sent to E. C. Bledsoe of Bastrop, La., 7 foot 6 inch giant. The leg is 39tt inches long and weighs 9 pounds 9 ounces. The average artificial leg is 26 inches long. The shoe, which matches the one worn by Bledsoe, is size 22. The shoe is 15 inches long, 511 inches wide and weighs 2 pounds. C. W. Apperson, manager of the firm, said in the 76 years the company had been in existence, records show it had never before been called upon to make such a large leg. Bledsoe is forty-thre-e years old, a farmer and woodsman. He weighs 267 pounds. He has removed the front seat of his automobile and drives from the rear seat. A tree fell on him in November, 1936. Blood poisoning set in and the leg was amputated at about the middle of the calf. The artificial leg, however, straps to his knee and thigh. ' New P. and Qs Urged as an Aid to Composition Buffalo. The reason many people it difficult to put their thoughts on paper is that their handwriting cannot keep up with their ideas, according to Dr. Walter V. Kaulfers, of Stanford university, who advocates streamline English spelling and handwriting. Dr. Kaulfers told the National Council of Teachers of English, which held its annual meeting here, that he favored a system of shorthand and simplified spelling. "How much better it would be if we could be taught from the start to use a kind of shorthand that would make it possible for any one to write down an idea as fast as he could think," he said. GOOD COAL demands cf commerce, Romans built them for conquest. And when their empire fell, so did the science of bridge building. War revived that science on e grand scale, too, says a writer in the Washington Post. Napoleon may command respect or condemnation r, but he as a military needed bridges in his business. So bridges were built. Yet, some spans came between the Romans and Napoleon. For instance, there was the old stone London bridge. Its distinguishing feature was the houses and shops bordering its roadway. These were of wood, regularly burned down with terrible loss of life, and were just as regularly Railroads, coming along in the 1330's, took up where Napoleon left n off. Then came the first bridge. Scottish engineers developed this type with a span in Glasgow in 1841, and a mistake of Scottish engineers signaled the passing of large iron bridges. The mistake was in not allowing for the force of wind in throwing up the Tay bridge. In 1879, two years after its completion, the crossing was swept away in a storm. A train on the bridge was hurled into the river, carrying about 100 people to their deaths. 500-wa- here. Coeds Spend 2 Hours Daily Before Mirror Canyon, Texas. A student at West Texas State Teachers college here said the 130 girls in her dormitory average two hours daily before the looking glass. The girl, who prefers anonymity for obvious reasons, said the schedule runs about like this: 30 minutes before the first morning class, 10 minutes before lunch, 5 minutes after lunch, 30 minutes before bedtime with the remainder of ti:e two hours consumed by interim primping or getting ready for "dates. Call Hyland 2520 CASTLE GATE E CLEAR CRE7.lv n ABERDEEN KING COAL glory-seeke- Agents for Sentinel Stokers A Prepared Stoker Coal Loftiest Plateau Has an Elevation of 16,500 Feet Tibet has the loftiest large plateau In the world, a vast tableland, with in average elevation of 16,500 feet, observes a writer in London Tit-Bi- ts Magazine. Tibet is a strange place Inhabited strange people, with strange customs and habits. It is a provinca in Central Asia, west and southwest if Chins, and north of India. The population is largely a mixture of Chinese and East Indians. The highly rarefied atmosphere causes all kinds of trouble. In winter the air is so cold and so deficient in oxygen that explorers have found it almost unendurable, and many travelers have lost all their pack animals during this season, n summer the clear sky and thin ir permit the suns rays their full power and the hottest days are often followed at night by temperatures below freezing point. There are no fowls, but this makes little difference, as one probably could not boil an egg in these altitudes on account of the low boiling point of water at such high elevations. The country is rich in minerals, but robber bands are numerous and bold, so travelers find it safer to move in large companies. Yaks, mules, ponies, and even sheep are used as pack animals. by Victoria of England the death of her uncle, Wiliam IV, on June 20, 1837, Victoria iscended the throne at the age of ighteen, and was crowned on June 8, 1838. She became engaged to er cousin. Prince Albert of in October, 1839, and narried him on February 10, 1840. er husband died in 1861 but she urvived him for forty years, to anuary 22, 1901. She had four oni and five daughters and, by the me of her death, there were 37 Her reign was he longest in English history. Great ubilee processions and ceremonies narked the celebration of her gold-1-1 anniversary in 1887, and anniversary in 1897. She was iom in Kensington palace, London, m May 24, 1819, and died at Isle of Wight, January 22, 901, at the age of nearly eighty-woutliving all previous British ulers. InORlTC MITCHELLS . Sugar House ARE FEATURING THE VERY REST IN SUGAR HOUSE Permanent Waves COAL CO. AT JI91 Highland Drive SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES 1053 E. 21st So. i !r' BEAUTY SALON ? all-iro- Ily. 2320 FISHING TACKLE Headquarters Hy. 8553 Tennis Rackets Restrcns PHIL and JOES Thief Takes Canary Along With Valuables SOUTHEAST REPAIR SHOP OMAHA. The burglar who broke into a roofing company office apparently either had a musical turn of mind or a love for 1113 birds.' When clerks arrived to open up ui the morning, the thief had stolen the secretarys canary besides other loot. Hyland 364 East WHITE PORT Paradise MUSCATEL (Amber Sweet) QUART Code . Hy. 8598 First Plows of Tree Branches The first farm plows were made of crooked tree branches and worked by man power. , 2044 South 11th E. 21st So. Now QUART 947 Code No. W7 jm GALLON Code No. 948 GALLON u U Code No. 977 On dia-no- Os-iorn- nd e, o, find Soldiers Build Radio Hamilton Field, Calif. Built entirely by two United States army tt amasoldiers, a powerful teur radio station, capable of rhort-wav- e transmission to anywhere in the world, is nearing completion SEPTEMBER 9, 1933 FRIDAY, THE BULLETIN Known as "Old Parr" was Thomas Parr (1483(?)-163an English centenarian. His birth date is unauthenticated, but he was a Shropshire fanner who married for the first time at the age of eighty. In 1635 he was taken to London by the Earl of Arundel to present to Charles I. He died soon after from what the great physician, William Harvey, diagnosed as change of air and diet. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. In the Nineteenth century many stories were invented about him to advertise a quack remedy, "Old Parrs Life Pills. 5) Tonnage Ship May Carry The quantity of tonnage that a ship may safely carry' varies with the seasons, the hemispheres and the kind of water. Hence nearly all vessels carry "load lines, or a Pllmsoll mark, painted on the sides of the bow and stem, that represent the depth to which the ship may safely be loaded in FW (Fresh Water), SW (Salt Water), IS (Indian Summer), S (Summer), W (Winter) and WNA (Winter North Atlantic). Collier's Weekly. Ilornets Unless the hornets nest is In a position where it is a nuisance and persons passing constantly disturb the insects, hornets are a help and not a danger. They will never sting unless molested and they eat flies in such quantities that they will keep a bam or house completely rid of the far more serious menace, the house fly. ; BISCEGUA SWEET ALCOHOL W SI BfiOLCELLARS WINES 2 0BY L HELENA GAURDRNIA DRV.WINES VOLUME ALCOHOL 12 BY VOLUME I Served with Wild Game, Red Meats or Lamb CODE NO. i Paradise Burgundy (Red Dry) Fifth 818 raradise Burgundy (Red Dry) Gallon 827 Paradise Zlnfandel (Red Dry) Gallon 823 raradise Zlnfandel (Red Dry) Fifth Served with Fish, Fowl or Eggs 815 Paradise Riesling (White Dry) Fifth 825 Paradlse-Sautern- e Gallon (White Dry) 830 Paradise-Sautern-e Fifth (White Dry) Served for All Occasions 932 Paradise Port (Red Sweet) Quart 940 Paradise Port (Red Sweet) Gallon 1057 raradise Angelica (Amber Sweet) Quart 1058 Faradlso Angelica (Amber Sweet) Gallon Served as a Cocktail or with Soup or Any Time of Day 1035 raradise Sherry (Amber Dry) Quart 1043 Paradise Sherry (Amber Dry) Gallon FAMOUS BEAULIEU BRANDS The King of AO Occasions 867 Beaulieu Burgundy (Red Dry) Fifth 818 Beaulieu Haute Sauterne (Mel. W.) Fifth 991 Beaulieu Muscatel (Sacramental W.) Gallon 915 Beaulieu Sparkling Moselle fifth (Champagne Type) 917 Beaulieu (Pink) Sparkling Burgundy Fifth 816 Iluman Harr for Wigs Human hair, secured from the heads of European peasant girls who make a regular business of it, is used in wigmaking. In most instances the money obtained from the sale of their hair goes toward their dowries, and some of them have as many as eight cuttings in the course of their lives. The hair diamis taken from a three-inc- h eter in the back of the crown, and the front and the side hair is draped to conceal the shorn spot. The best, quality hair is Scandinavian, blond 'i " f and silky. Italian ana Spanish nilr have a dark, wavy- - lustrous quality. Eastern European hair has a coarser texture; by the time one gets to China, the hair is almost wiry and is of use only for theatrical wigs of inferior quality. Life of Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton, born January 11, 1757, on the British Isis of Nevis, in the West Indies, was forced to support himself at the age of 'twelve and came to America '.tiSSTrCW1. later.. Having adopted |