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.11 SQHUYLER COUNTY CHRONIQI¥E, JANUARY 23. 1913. THE’ THRIGE-A-WEEK EDIPION \‘” §AvA‘eE nsoas. V‘anishi‘ng Seainen. \W MEXICAN’ 'B'R\I'G‘IW[i§I’ \\ ” ’ solitary confinement. QUEER BUREAL SERVICE. It used to he seixmeu. Now it is steammexx. The clmnge suits to a» \t.” The old time sailor has nearly vanish- ed. Steam has put him out of the run- ning. 11' a new Sir Joseph Porter were Loscqme from the imagination of some new librettist he would no longer be told of gifted sailors “who could han- dle. reef and steer or’ ship a se1va_gee.\ There will be no present day_Al'ling- ham to chant.the glories 01‘. “the wet. sheetyvand the sea and the wind that follows fast to bend the wil- my mast,\ for there are no longer sheets and masts enough to inspire his muse. For the matter of that. the'en- tire song has gone out‘ of sea life. When men “tripped anchors” and did‘ it by .ma_n'ning a capstan and bending their backs rhythrnically to the job, as the mate sang chanties to them, mu- sic counted as an exhilarant, but now steam yginches lift the ~anchors and what would be the ‘sense of singing to a mass of iron and steel?—C1eveland Leader. The punishment which replaced the leath penalty in ltaly——n\amely lite im- prisonment With solitary con ! ~is considered to be: much worse than death itself. Murgerers sentenced to life imprisonment invoke death to end their su Isolation, complete in the very sense of the word-em torced idleness. lack of exercise and su food and continual surveil- lance in a cell so small as to almost. render any movement impossible—such' is the fate or a murderer in Italy. Sol- itary con ! lasts for tive long years. sometimes for ten, but convicts can hardly bear it for more than six months. invariably they are insane long before the term expires. and of- ten they commit‘ suicide. The fear of solitary con ! acts as a preven- tive to murder as much as and perhaps much more than that of capital pun- ishment. It is quite true that the cases of murder have not diminished to any ‘great extent in Italy since the abolition of the death penalty; but, on the other hand. they havenot in- creased.-—Chicago News. Newn 3Y7i1rk . World ;,O|'-7' Tl-‘-IE .l’h,ey‘Saprifi’ce~\Men{. Women and Ani- male to Their God of War. More unattractive savages than the Aborslit; would=\be hard to‘ or T1- ,beto—Burman origin they speak a lan- \guage which is allied to that of the Ti- betans. -while their ‘arts, such as they are‘. lprobably came from. Tibet. .,'rne1f;~ religion is anlmistlc. The dei- -Piang, is the god of war and’ the ,,chase, and is believed totavor attacks on defeneeless neighbors and the ruth- Iless destruction of all game. Impur- s_uancfe of a policy to propitiate him, .men and women. are killed or. taken as slaves, big game is hunted. birds, squir- rels and are trapped. The elemental belief in man as the hunter, 31,nd lconsequentlythe more ted, to be the protector,, still holds good. so the Women and slaves toil unceas- ingly at the crops as hewers of.Wood and drawers of water. and my lord, how in hand‘ and with quiver on his shoulder, stalks off on the Warpath. his arrows poisonedswith aconite or croton berry. . Their burial rites present points of interest similar to those of African savages. Over the grave of each de-. funct. warrior is a grass shelter, where are hung his cane helmet. dao. bow and arrows. the horns of the tame bison Whieh furnished the funeral feast. with a basket containing food to propitiate the deity.-New York Telegram. Pleasant Sort of ‘People That Merely How Adaman Islanders Protect Thain Dead. from Evil. Spirits. ‘ Strange is the burial service among the Adamant islanders. It is the cusv tom of the islanders to drop the bodies of their parents into the sea at the end of ropes and leave them there until nothing remains but the bones. which they then gather and hang from the roofs of their huts. it is a common custom for a rgla to sit by the hour and watch the bones of some relative. This is the way they have of showing their love and respect. The bodies are treated in this fash- ion so that the evil spirits cannot tease ‘and pinch them. All that is left are 'the dried bones. and these are placed high so that if the evil spirits wander into the nuts they will have a hard time to them. It a bone is carried away it means some bad spirit has seized it. and this niezms that some terrible calamity will befall the fam- ily. - ‘\ Robbed Travelers. \LW-as once for some weeks at a sugar plantation. near a -small p.rovln- cfal town wrote the late Mr. Labouchere In 1879. \In\ the town lived It brifgand. He, was highly es- teemed by his neighbors. and I passed many a p|easant'ev~eutng with him end his family. His daughter was a ‘bean- ty,' and this estimable parent was amassing a llttle fortune for her. “His habit was to ride at night to the road between Mexico and~Vera Cruz with twoor three associates and to levy contributions on the diligence. When I left the town I wanted to strike this road. and I went with him and his frlen(_ls. We reached it at about 6 la the morning. Having par- taken of chocolate. the brigands post- ed themselves behind some rocks. and I looked on. Soon the diligence was seen approaching. The brigands emerg- ed. the (,'0a('I]K]]8D stopped’. the passen- gers were requested to descend and were politely eased of thelr money. \The pzlaseugers then took their places again In the coach, and it drove oft‘. while the brigands courteously bowed to them. So honest were they in their peculiar Way that they wished me to take my share in the spoil; but this. of <-oux'.«le.. my standard of moral- Ity being different from the-irss. l de- clined, and I wished them goodby. “Ruling on to Peucla I dined at 3 table d'hote that evening with the de- spoiled travelers and_ was greatty amused to near them recount the val- orous manner in which they had de- fended ‘themselves and how they at last’ -had to succumb to numbers.” Practically 43. Daily at t11e[P,Iice at at Weekly Io other newspaper in thc World give: so, - é ngnch at so low 3 pr_ice_. ‘ .The great ‘Presidential campaign will 's‘oo'nVbegiij1 and‘ you will want the news acc,1_u-atély and\ promptly. The World -long since. established a record for“im- partiality, and anybody can a its Thrice-a,-Week edition which comes every other day ‘in the week, except Sunday. It will be of particular value \to you -‘now. Thel\Thrice-a-Week World also abounds in other strong features, serial stori}_:s_, liumor, markets, cartoons; invjfact, everythinpg that is to be found in ‘a \ ! dajily, THE THRICE-A-WEEK WORLD’S regular subscription price is, only $1.00 per year, arid tliis pays for 155 papers. .We offer this unequalled ‘newspaper and 'thd.SCH:UYLER COUNTY CHRONICLE to- gefher for one year for $1.56. . The regular subscription price of the two papers is $2.00 per year. In the Katanga district of centrax Africa when a chief and his wife dies there is grmt feasting and celebrating. Some of ttwse festivals last three or four days. After the bodies are laid to rest with dancing and rejoicing because they are going to rule over n higher sphere their relatives and friends do not depart until they leave ‘ one or more chairs and a supply of clothes. This is done because the souls are expected to come out and wander about their graves.-Chi-cago Tribune. ' Trees and Lightping. The reiation of trees to lightning. as shown by a bulletin of the United States forest service. does not Wholly accord‘ with popular beliefs. It is found that trees are the objectsmost often struck because they are the most numerous, of all prominent objects. they offer 21 short course to the ground. and their spreading branches in the air and roots in the soil present an ideal conductor to the ground. Any kind of tree may be chosen by the lightning, the greatest number in any locality -being found-among the domi- nunt species. The_likelihood of any tree being struck is increased if it is taller than surrounding trees. is isolat~ ed. is on high land. is deeply rooted and if its condition—as when wet- makes it the best electrical conductor of the vicinity at, the time of the Lightning may set a forest tire by ig- niting the tree or—what is Ln uch more likely to be the case—-the humus about the base. A curious illustration of the princi- ple of responsibility ‘abroad is afford- ed by a civil damage suit growing out of the breaking of a plate glass win- dow in a German town. A witness had testi as follows: “ Now that Lassa. has succumbed to the advance of the globe trotter what is“ the ‘most inaccessible place in the world outside the pola The London Post answers the oasis of Kufra, in. the Sahara desert, the home of the Senussi. ‘ _ “As I was passing down the street in front of the Window I saw a big stone come whirling through the air. I did not know whence it came. I saw it coming through the air, and I had just time enough to dodge to save myself from being hit by it.” The witness was sharply questioned upon the éoint whether the stone that broke the window would have struck him had he not dodged it. He was then dismissed.’ Eventually the deci- sion of the magistrate was this: Moving Picture Japan. The Japanese take the moving pi‘c- ture with the seriousness be the national character. They enjoy it thor- oughly.“ but they like it best when, it While whales are the largest of ma- rine animals. yet certain grow to almost as gigantic‘ size. The largest of true fishes are found among the sharks and the largest of these tor- mldable ‘are the whale sharks. These huge tish occur in the Waters of India. Japan. South America. Panama. California and the West Indies. The nose is very broad and blunt and the mouth. although very wide. is armed only with minute teeth. It is a dark colored creature. marked with small. whltlshspots and ls perfectly harmless to man. feeding exclusively on small It's huge bulk makes it dan- gerous when wounded. This great list: reaches a maximum length of seventy feet. Whale sharks. makes “them sad'._ The favorite theme .‘_1s tpe al1egqrica1« play that represents the warrior_ ‘ for righteousness. White Robed Blacksmiths. For Infants and chiIdr[e.m Next in\ popularity comes the pathetic “picture. The strictly ed_u(-ntional is also popular, and there is always applause for good scenery. But the love story is never represented in the Japanese m6vin,<: picture. It would be an outrage to modesty ‘and a violation of decency and therefore intolerable. Pictures derogatory to the dignity. of o ! and of policemen are forbid; den. as well as those likely ‘to instill revolutionary ideas in the minds of the young. ' Extraordinary precautions are ‘taken by the Korean blaoksnu€{h heftore he attempts to shoe any Korean horse which is noted for its bad temper and likely to lts heels if not se- curely tied up first. Sight or one of the small ponies trussed up to the heavy timber framework is ludlcrous. however. and in a way may be termed \horshoeing on the safety plan.” Whlte costumes 'would look out of_place for a hlacksmith use almost anywhere else. but in Korea all men wear whlte‘gar- meuts. Young men also wear their hair screwed up In hard knots on the top of their heads as a sign they are married. ' ‘ Ibo Kindi You Have Always Bought Bears the =8i_gjnatnre of \Inasmuch as if the witness had not unfortunately ducked his head the glass would ixdt‘ have been struck by the stone. he is hereby adjudged re- sponsible for the breaking of the win- dow and is ordered to pay to the own- er the value of the same.”-—Chicago Inter Ocean. Parties sent:-out by the French gov- emmen to explore the Sahara desert have reported that. the obstacles in the way of building a. railroad across the waste. of sand are not. so great as was supposed. - ‘First Recorded Alifnony. An Egyptian mummy now on exhibi- tion in London wasgvrapped in papy- rus which scholars have found to be covered with inscriptions. ’ Among oth- ers is one which indicates that at least one lady of the pharaonic period failed to agree, with her life partner. The document is :1 petition to the proper authorities for justice against a spend- thrift and abusive husband. \When I married I-Ieracleides.\ writes the peti- tioner, \I brought $00 druchm:1s_ as a dowry. Besides this. my husband. when“ he lost his property. found a home in the house of my parents. in spite of this. Heracleides. after he had run through my dowry. cursed me. beat me. deprived me of tp‘e.neces,s_aries of life. wickediy deserted me and left me in misery-. I pray you to force him to appear before you and to cause him to return to me the dowér I gave him in- creased by, half.”-:New York Ameri- can. Bees Stick ~to One Flowdr. A Dangerous Precedent. It is usually supposed, especially by the poets, that bees sip sweets indis- criminately from many a The best case which I have seen of law V‘r\SUS justice and common sense is one which Montaigne relates as hav- ing happened in his own day.‘ Some men were condemned to death for mur- der. The judgzes were then informed by the o of an inferior court that certain persons in their custody had confessed themselves guilty of the murder in question and had told so circumstantial a tale that the fact was placed beyond all doubt. Nevertheless it was deemed so bad a precedent to revoke a sentence and show that the law ‘co'unl<._i,n enrnthat the innocent men were delivered over to execution.- London Graphic. Euphemismg For Death. Children Cry % run -I-‘LETGHER’S C A S T\ O. R I A I-Io woos the Poppy and weds the Peach. Inveigxea Dalrydowndilly: And then, a. deserter. abandons each For the petals of the Lily. _ \Decease” is now a regular form of word for death. But it began as a gentle euphemism, \decessus\ (depar- ture) seeming much less harsh to the Romans than \mars.\ All languages abound in euphemisms of the kind. which go back to a superstitions ma luctance to mention death plainly that gradually passed into a kindly desire -to soften the idea. “Passed away.\ “departed.” \gone.\ \expire\ «breathe out). \no more.\ \demise\ and even \the late\ are expressions of this na- ture. Most striking of all is the R0- man euphemism for “he ls dead,\ .\vlx- it\ the has lived). Marriages In Burma. A curious idea ajnong the Burmese in that peopleporn on the same day of the week must not marry and that if they defy the rates their union will be marked by much HI luck. To prevent these dimstrons marriages every girl carries a record of her hirt,hd,:‘1y In her name. each day or the weéI§”='l':av1ng a letter ‘belonging to It. and all\ children are caned by a name which bdglm with that letter. The seasons appear rather ‘mixed in the verse. which in other respects. however, re the popular belief about bees. It is far from~ being the true one. ‘ A steamship company is being formed or tra on the Rivers Tigris and Eubhrates. The \ contract covers ‘the transportation of building material for the Bagdad Railway from B8.SSOI_‘ah. All vbees. including the honey bee. show a strong tendency In collecting both nectar and pollen to be constant to one species of This is mani- festly for the advantage of both‘ insects and in the case of a number of bees for only a small part of the season this habit has become so spgecinlized that they visit only one or a few allied species of which -'o 8.-!’l—u'—bl'lilda-Il'(\e or pollen and nec« tar.-London Post. _It;dia»’s latest great‘. irrigation project. 8 the Niri Right Bank Canal, in Bom- ay presidency. It cost. $8,500,000. The obstmatd coon. F‘ather—~Cook1ng achoois are of somq use after all. This cake is delicious. Daughter--15 it‘! I thought It would be 2: terrlblg , nature... .lf‘.!_lL|£!',-.'i’V_:.ll¥‘?., Daugbter—l told the rook exactly how to make it. and she went and made it some other way. By Comparison. . Children ‘Cr-y CA ST 0 R I A \Say. mamma. my teacher ’d make a bully highwayman!\ exclaimed a boy as be rushed in from school. ‘ Turks Firot Banned Tobacco. A Sop to Her Conscience. Tobacco was carrled“‘1 - key by English sailors. and its use was quickly prohibited. As in Rus- sia. a tradition was discovered pro- hibiting its use by the faithful. Mo- hammed. it was said. had prophesied that in future ages some of his tol- lowers would smoke a herb called to- bacco. but’these would be unbelievers. Sultan Amurath IV. strictly prohibited its use. Search was made for smok- ers. Tobacco pipes were driven through their cheeks. and rolls of to- bacco hung as collars around their necks. Thus arrayed they were mount- ed on asses. facing the tail. and driven through the streets as a warning to lusters after tobacco to be hanged.’- New York Sun. Hub (after :1 night out.)--=1 feel like the two spot. I wish you'd telephone to the ofiic-e that I'm in bed with the grip. Wffe—’1‘lxi1t would be a iie. But) —How particular\ you women are! Fetch over that grip und lay it on the bed near my feet. '!‘h¢-rel Now will you telepnone?~-Boston ’l‘1'unscr1pt. \Why. Freddy. what in the world do you mean?\ inquired his astonished mother. - A Good Stove Lmgng. No manwcan do nothing, and no man an do e¢verybhing.—-Gem.1an Proverb. A good stove mmnz. on.» that will last two yezlrs or more. ram D9 made from hlhe «-ln_v Rm-k u-my or one that does not «-nnthm mm-h .~'am1. is gum! also L‘lu_v mum! m x-Hl_|f w.-mar Inar.~:m=.~: is one of the must for stove ImIn::s The c-my must no rt-dlu-pd to a unste- abunt like putty The Iwd fnr lining should In» hrnshmi r-mun .-nu: rnm.<n-mzd befure the <-|:u_\' IS nppllml. Put on with hands. smnnth with :1 trnwm or run. piece of hu:Il'lI - .\’utiunuI :\I2u.::1zine. \Why. she's always telling the chil- dren to ‘hold up their hands.’ ”—-Judge’s Libn-:n'_v. . . '.°Wh_v do you encourage your bus- band to drink so much co Recollection is the only paradise tom which we cannot be burned nub. ' Richter. \lt’s the'one thing that will keep him awake nights. and that's the only chanve I get to ten him what I Eéully think of him!\-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Took the Count. Happy Homes. \Bobby. you have been tigntiug with that Stapleton boy again. Did you count ten before you struck‘ him. as l have always told you to do?\ \No. but I was told that. somebody counted -ten after he landed on me.\- Chicago Tribune. To be happy at mum: is the ultimate resuit of all ambition. the end to which every enterpriwa. nud mbor tends and of which evmgv dc-sire prompts the prosecntion.- Dr. .\‘u_mm-I .|uhnson. children _ Cry CA ST 0 R I A With or Without. \D095 she snug?\ --Yes up \With or without?\ \Witt: nr without whar—ber mimic?” ‘'.\'(> With ur without coaxing.\- Detruii l“f\¢-9 }’i‘P.\‘.~x True Greatness. The're is nothing more pitiful than a. ife spent in thinking of nothing but ,e1f.——Farrar. , Won by Hus Blarney- Life Is made up of little things. It is but once -in nu 1:29 that m-c-usion is offered for duing :1 are-at dz-ed. True £':I'(*:lfIl('Ds' ¢~un.~‘i-ts: in he-in-.r great in little (l1inL:5.——(}eoI':.'e .\I:wdunaId. A W9man’s. Age. Irish .'\la«,n.~*mm- l.~Jnvc-n‘t You been bP1'oi‘¢- me before‘! Asillie l\r1.=um-r—~ N0. yer nnnur: I HPVPI saw nut one face that Iuuko-(1 like ymn-.~, nu than was 1') |)lmtu:_'r:mn 0|‘ nu Irish kins; .\l:(:.:&«'- trute‘ Hist-h.-arzzmll I an the Iwxt mise- —l.onclnn Answers ~ Guest—Delightfu1 pafty you are hav- ing tonight, old fellow. Host-—Yes. 1 am giving it to my Wife. It is the twelfth anniversary of her thirtieth birthday.-Harper's Baizai-. srm Worried. It. is Well there is no ope without a. aulb, for he would not have a friend in he world.-—-E{azlit.ts. ’ “Children.\ asked the visitor who was addressing the school. \how many of you can tell me what it was that Napoleon's soldiers used to call him?!\ Nobody unswered “Think a moment. ‘Little’ \-— Still rmbudy _spnke up. “ ‘Little Corp‘ \-_- \A little corpulentl\ shouted the children. —- Chicago Trib- une. \It used to worn mé when the hm‘- ber infurmo-41 um that my mm was get- ting Pl iifrlp mm -m Inn ' .5 \But you 1:01 us-«(I In H. uh?\ \Nu. .\'m\ it w-wru-.< mu» In-vuusae he dne.~zn't mmnrlcm at t must be cutting old.\ l'h1I2:dHpnm~ ~!~'—r«.-.x-, ~ \Does your lIush:uul do any work around the hnu.~'c-':\ ,_ \l\'otmn;: except split a few in tives.\-—lndimmpulis News. The Way It Goes. “I Want 3 nice hunli lur an invalid \ “ rc-Il:.'im:.~'.. madnm’.'\ \Er nu In-‘.9 (~uIwznvs«-a-ut,\- Boston 'I‘ra nsr-rn rt. Nothmg Mean There. \I .~m_v. (‘ll('Yl*~.,y,{_:|<'l{. I dreamed you {:av(- me mnr 2| crown last night.\ Whenever you a man who is :1 failure you will also :1 patient lit- tle wuman making his exonmas to the world.—New Orleans l’lca_vr.ue. Do you wish to know If anything 13 the Lord‘s work‘: See if It Is a work among. the poor.-—(.‘harles Kingsley. 'I‘ruth Is an) muwzdt man's statement of :1 far-I. in you. me'nuy': Well, you can it \--lmudmn Fntler. 5&1» o — ..—:....-O-ya!-.—i4.;..-5)-‘:‘.,»:A ‘ ‘. ’?.. / / Ev \ . 1' 5 H \ . ‘ § ‘ i '11-\ 5”‘ en % D.S.Aaé:ws&Co. Ate Agents for Steinway, Kranich & Bach}; Sohmer, Peasey And Twenty other Pianos\ ‘Besides the %Pia'noiaL Piayér- Pia;nos« A Shortens Day’s Work Q ; . FTER.y‘o‘1,1finiTsh the d_ay’s Workyou ; ‘ T ' often thinl; of some; important ‘ma_t-; ?, M v «te‘r,1':hat needs\immediate.attention.. It is no doubt something that can be I ‘ taken care of by a Bell 'Telephone call.‘ . . 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