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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-08-06
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-08-06

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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-08-06

Ser Seripaltungsratb Ser ihtpeis
5eriihen SmnoeSbabnen bat nit 33
sesen 7 Stimmen beihlpilen, ben Fan
bes 3ueiten SimplOn-S tunnels in
ei9ener 8e9ie aus5uiiibren.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
USE Or CROSS M HERaL DRY
More Than Four Hundred FORMS Of
abe Device Are Recognised III
That sclenee.


In early pagan days the cross was
d symbol of shame and gnominy. and
only those deformed or misshapen
trees that could be used for no other
purpose were formed into crosses.
But since the cross has become dear
to Christians, says the Ave Maria"
the most precious weeds and metals
have been formed into It TO the third
century may be traced the custem OF
making the Sign OF the Cross. In
the days of Constantine, Christians
painted crosses on the entrances Of
their houses as symbol OF their
faith.
The impetus to the use of the crosa
in heraldry was given by the Crusa-
ders, who wore red cross upon their
right shoulder as a token of the OBJ
legation they had taken upon them
selves It's form and meanings in her.
aldic designs are many. In fact, over
four hundred and seven different
forms have been recorded by students
of biography and genealogy.
In heraldry the cross is formed by
two perpendicular and two horizontal
lines crossing in the center of the
shield This form is modified in va
rious ways by additions and combina-
tons, thus expressing many meanings.
It has been said that human intelli-
gence has never devised a system SO
infinite in its varieties and so endless
in its application as is to be found in
the science of heraldry, in which fig
ure twenty-seven basi6Npr fundamental
crosses.
The Greek cross has all four arms
of equal length, while the Latin cross
has the earth end longer than the 9TH
er three arms The Calvary or Christ
Cross rests upon three steps or de-
grees. The Patriarch cross is recog-
nized by its double crossbar. The
st. Andrews cross is an x, in token
of the form of croes on which that
saint suffered martyrdom by having
his hands and feet bound to its four
arms The st. Anthony cross is
shaped like 7, and has its name
| from the cross that ST. Anthony, alb
bot, wore upon his cloak, though the
origin of his cross seems to be Egypt
ian.
1t is matter of interest that many
American families have the cross as
the basic emblem of their escutcheons.
Among them are at least five of the
presidents. The Garfield shield has a
blue cross In the dexter canton, and
the family motto is, I'm the cross !
conquer" The Tyler shield had on it
bar, two crescents and cross form.
The shield of the Adams family was
>dorned by large cruciform device
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
SOME STRANGE TlMEKEEPERs

To ascertain the time at night the
Apache Indians employed a gourd on
which the stars of the heavens were
marked. AS the consultations rose
in the sky, the Indian referred to his
gourd and found out the hour. BY
turning the gourd around he could
tell the order in which the constella-
tons might be expected to appear
The hill people of Assam reckon
time and distance by the number OF
guilds of betel nuts chewed. 1t will
be remembered how, according to
Washington Irving, the Dutch colonial
assembly was invariably dismissed at
the last puff of the third pipe OF to-
bacco of Governor Wouter Van Twill
Ter.
A Montagnis Indian OF Canada will
set up tall stick in the snow when
travelling ahead of friends who are
to follow. He marks with his foot
the line of shadow cast, and by the
change in the angle of the shadow the
oncoming party can tell, on arriving
at the spot, about how far ahead the
leader is.-Harper's Weekly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
Tribute to Amazons.

The magnificent example of the
women of Dahomey should be made
widely known wherever their more CIV
ilized sisters are TO ~nfe found strug-
Cling for their rights. Frederick Mar
tyn Of the French foreign legion, who
fought in the recent Dahomey cam
paign, tells us emphatically that "the
female of the species is more deadly
than the male" The Senegalese trail
leurs were attacked by the Amazons,
and Mr.. Martyr says that "any one in
clined to sympathize with the ANA
IONS on account of their sex and to
look upon the combat between them
and our men as unequal may take 1t
from me that their sympathy would be
misplaced. These young women were
far and away the best men in the Da-
homeyan army, and woman to man
were quite match for any of US.
They fought like unclaimed demons,
and if driven into corner, did not
disdain to use their teeth and nails" "
1t may be an error of policy to make
these facts known, and thus to stimu-
late a militancy already vigorous
enough.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
MILLION PIECES IN TABLE

A table made up of 100000 pieces
of wood. inlaid on a foundation of
white pine, required one year for S.
p. Wood, of Joplin, Mo-, to construct,
and won a blue ribbon at the Inter
state exposition. More than score
of native and foreign woods went into
its makeup, the outside surface being
a design colored by bits of varicolored
woods, some Of which were not more
than sixteenth of an inch long. It
has been estimated that at least
100000 pieces were required for the
table. Several blocks in the top which
caused speculation as to the kind of
wood used were made of shavings of
many blocks. Wood never took les
son in inlaid work. He has been a
carpenter all his life Another small
table containing. a specimen box for
ores Of the district, is also an inter
esting curiosity. On the front is a
picture Of canoe being propelled by
man. All colors are natural woods,
the mans fingers being each sep
arate piece.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
MUSIC AND LONGEVITY

A DIR. Rogers has been studying
the effect of wind instruments on the
life of musicians. The average life of
the wind instrument artist is SO, while
that of others is 81. Thirty-four per
cent. of the former category attain
70 years. Performers on the flute in
DR.. Rogers "echelle de longevite"
reach on the average the age of 81,
while the hautbois executant lives
two years longer. Buglers go two
years better, and the clarinet player
lives till he is 65. He of the cornet
only fails the allotted span by one
year. The ophicleide artist beats
them all. His time of life is from rs
to 80. There should be no hesitation
after this.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
GODDESS OF FREEDOMS PAL

AL Porch, the old rigger at the cap
itol building in Washington, is the
most intimate associate of her ma
esty, the Goddess of Freedom, who
stands upon the very dome of this
building, which harbors the national
congress. There are electric wires to
be rugged on the bonnet of the goddess
and occasionally she is to be given
a bath and coat of paint. When these
necessities arise it is AL Porch who
Is sent aloft to meet this difficult stu
alton. This mounting into the very
presence Of Freedom is no mean task.
Rarely is it accomplished in any other
method than that of scaling ladders.
For 60 feet before the top of the statue
is reached the ascent must be made
on the outside ladders. This is true
when anyone but AL Porch makes the
ascent But the rigger has long made
the very pinnacle of the capitol his
playground. He has practically lived
here for AZ years. The upper dome OF
the capitol has come to be passion
with him. A spry little man of Ga, he
runs about these great heights as or
binary men walk about the streets. He
is to the capitol what the famous
hunchback was to Notre Dame. Once
he fell from position at the foot of
the goddess and was dashed from pro-
lection to projection down the statue
base. Altogether he fell so feet and
with one arm broken, chung with his
legs dangling over the abyss below,
which would have meant certain death
IL his hold had given way. Yet later
he climbed one after another of the
pillars that support the statue in an at
tempt to capture an escaped canary
bril- and finally succeeded. Many times
since he has scaled the statue to its
very top without the help of ladder.
He does this by working himself into
the folds of the garments of Freedom
and so braces himself as to get mex
plicable holds.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02

" whirls 1t around atop his finger
for a moment to give it pancake
form, then throws it flop into the
oven against one or the heated walls.
1t adheres there for moment, bakes,
expands, drops automatically onto its
other side on the oven floor, and, just
as it is browning nicely. is dragged
out at the moment another is
Topped in. The time consumed In
the baking is about two minutes. The
japanese bread, strung on string
like buttons or Chinese money, is
much used with tea drinking and In
soups.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
OPPOSED USE OF THE FORK
For Many Years After Its EntroGue
ton II Was Considered an Alb
surd AffectatIon.

The Italians, with their delicate
good taste, were responsible for the
substitution of forks for fingers. but
it is difficult to trace their use there
further back than the time corre-
spending to the reign Of Queen kiiza-
beth, and Their they were not widely
known.
In some parts OF Europe forks were
considered a useless luxury and sinful
Indulgence and were for a, long tfme
under a ban of the clerfcs, though
these latter eventually had to give
way and tolerate their use by those
who wished to keep their fingers
clean.
In Germany the ordinary people re-
garded the innovation an absurd af-
fectation, while the clerics considered
them an insult to Providence, who
had given man wholesome food which
he ought not to be ashamed TO touch
with his fingers. In courtly France,
however, forks were welcome addi-
ton and speedily became popular
The custom in England was OF very
slow growth In the reign of James I.
and Charles I. the fork was only par
TALLY used, according to the writer's
of those periods, and even under the
commonwealth honors were equally
divided between them and fingers.
Later on, at. the Restoration, their
use became more general, but people
were by no means agreed on the best
method of handling them, and rules
were soon formulated for guidance, so
that genteel persons could pride them
selves on the nice conduct of the fork
after the manner observed at court.
Yet it is difficult to overcome the
preiudices of old customs. and the
satirists Of the day often amused
themselves destrtbing the awkward
ness of their coustry cousins who, on
visiting town and using the instru-
ment for the first time, thrust the
morsel they had transfixed over the
shoulder, while their fingers. from
force of habit, found their way intr
their mouths.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
BEES MAKE GREEN HONEY

Bees that make honey as green as
pistachio ice cream have been discov-
cred operating from the biological
laboratory of the College of the City
of New York. Amateur sluething has
failed to track the bees to the source
of their green coloring matter. The
bees are branded with red spot upon
their backs and another red spot
upon their breasts, and all students
who see any Of these red spotted bees
are to rush to the biology department
with the news, giving the exact spot
at which the bee was discovered.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02

Prof. Brander Matthews, at dinner
in New York, said of literary criti-
cism:
"A good deal of It, too, is biased.
A good deal of 1t is like Mr. Walton's.
mfr. Walton's daughter, a college
girl, wrote, at the age of Is, a novel
which her father brought out for her
at his own expense.
During the Christmas holidays Mr..
Walton gave party in his daughters
honor, and at this party the young
girl read from an improyised platform
chapters out of her book.
"Her fond old father was carried
away by the reading. So tremendous
" indeed did his admiration for his
daughters talent enkindle him that,
as the girl read on, the old man could
be heard muttering over and over:
"HoweIls be hanged! Howells be
hanged"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
oppose Wellington Pension.

The Belgian chamber is about to
discuss the chapter of the budget that
includes national pensions and in
every year figures about 1000 under
the heading "Dotation of His Great
ness, the Duke of Wellington. Prince
of Waterloo"
The origin of this item is somewhat
curious. After the battle of Water
loo King William. the sovereign OF
the new state of the Netherlands. Gre
ated Wellington prince of Waterloo,
and decided that the title should be
handed on from father to son. as
well as the revenue of a pension to be
Instituted. AS matter of fact. the
revenue is nearer $4,000 than the
sum figured in the budget, for the
product of the lands and forest round
Waterloo which were given to Well
ington and his posterity must be
added to what the present duke re-
ceives. A question, says the Paris
Journal, will be raised because GER
tain BeIgians consider this pension
derogatcry to their country II Ii bad
enough, they say. that the state
should In the past have always been
the battle ground OF Europe without
their still being reminded OF it By IT,
pension In question
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
Unseen Universe.

In the vicinity of the star 8. Coz.
onB Australis Innes and Worsell
have found patch of sky 25 minutes
of arc in diameter where no star can
be seen with a 9-inch refracting tele-
scope.
According to Innes, who discusses
the subject in "Transvaal Observa-
tory Circular No. g. the apparent abb
sence of stars in this region is due
to the occurrence of some absorbing
medium, interposed between us and
distant parts of the universe.
Stars in the neighborEood of the
dark region are enveloped in nebulR;
while just on the border Of it there is
a star which has been observed to
f1uctuate in magnitude between lilo
and 12.2, and which was invisible
during the years 1899-1901.
The latter fact is accounted for on
the supposition that the absorbing me-
dunn was for a time in front Of the
tar, but has since withdrawn
rom 1t.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
CURIOUS FOREIGN BREADS

Two curious breads, one Turkish
and the other Japanese, the first de-
ncious and the second not recommend
ed, are shown in the accompanying
illustration from Popular Mechanics.
The Turkish bread. which is ''oven-
fu2Red" and is shaped like certain
kinds Of American biscuits, is claimed
to have an exquisite, appetizing.
grain=like favor. found very seldom
in American breads. In making It
the baker takes a piece Of dough. deft-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02

looking for another play in which tina
religious theme was dominant.
Still holding to the idea of teach
ing a moral lesson from the stage.
Lorimer's final effort was with a play
let called The Crucifix." 1t did not
succeed, and in his despondency the
young enthusiast ended his life.
The discovery of the novel came as
strange coincidence on the day that
the actor-preacher's body was borne
to It's final resting place.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
CAMERA PROTECTS VAULT

Besides the usual burglar alarms
z at protect bank vaults snapshot
Genera has been introduced. Auto
n.aticallv it will take the burglars
picture as he looked while in the act
The dashlight photograph win both
serve to identity the man and furnish
evidence OF his guilt
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02

All through his life he had a fond
ness for Biblical art 1t inspired him.
He became convinced that the subject
and the spirit of a great painting
could be given a dramatic setting and
made to do the work he, with indiffer
ent success, had sought to do in the
pulpit
He saw a picture one day In which
was figure of young shepherd and
some sheep. 1t was entitled David
Watching His Fathers F1ocks on the
Hills of Hebron" The story of young
David was familiar to him. He had
read it and preached from it. He set
about to make a stage character of 1t
and succeeded. He called the play
''The Shepherd King" Others aided
him, but it was his thought
Considered Play Taught Lesson.
81 do not know If the dramatic pos
sibilities of the character of David
have ever occurred to playwright or
an author before" he confided to
friends who knew of his ambitions,
but to me the story from dramatic
point of view is intensely interesting.
There Is every known passion that
can enter into stage portrayal
love, envy, hatred, malice, jealousy,
Joy and courage are all set forth In
the story of David. 1t teaches les
son such as l have tried to teach.
For three seasons he played David
in "The Shepherd King" It was
profitable in money way, and to him
a satisfaction, for he felt that he
could SO interpret the Bible character
as to make it portrayal worthy of
one who had started out in life to
preach the gospel.
In the booking of the play he had
the opportunity of appearing more
than once In cities where, under other
conditions. he had appealed to the
people.
On the occasion of his professional
appearance in the opera house at
Troy he was warmly received by
members of his former congregation.
In Scranton old practitioners came by
his invitation to the stage and dined
with him amid scenes showing the
country of David. He told them he
had transferred his ministry to the
stage.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
Ability Manifest.

AT the start he gave evidence of
ability to fill all the requirements of
a leader among his people. but later
on, whether from inexperience-he
was scarcely more than a youth-or
a failure to realize that a struggling
church organization requires careful
financing, he became involved IN
money difficulties. They were simply
the ordinary embarrassments that any
young minister is apt to meet. and
which some knowledge of business
would have adjusted without serious
friction. To young Lowell they were
as a milestone about his neck
Suddenly, and scarcely without no
tice, the young minister announced his
intention of resigning his charge. Soon
he went away
1t is unimportant to set down in
order the list of the other pulpits
which he filed. The interesting fact
is that his failure to achieve real
success at the start did not discourage
him or turn him to other things. He
preached to the people of the coal
mining community of Honesdale and
later ministered to the congregation
of the Baptist church of North Scran-
ton. In the latter town his sermons
shot wide of the Baptist doctrine and
there was a severance of relations be-
tween church and pastor.
Turns to the Stage.
From this time on until he finally
transferred his work from the pulpit
to the stage. struggle was going on
within him as to how he might best
live according to his ideals. The
pulpit still continued to call him, but
he began to have doubts as to his own
ability to accomplish in his chosen
field the good that he felt should come
from his efforts. He wanted to In
spire men to well-doing in way that
was new
While he was still minister in
Groton, Mass. whittier he went from
Pennsylvania. and IN Richmond Hill,
the Brooklyn suburb, he began work
Ing On play.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-02
Defended His Course.

ST beg of you not to upbraid me for
doing this" he said, "for the inspira-
ton which came to me when | stood
alone in my pulpit and preached to
Won is still my inspiration in the
drama, and am quite certain that my
success, which is now Of larger meas
ure than it used to be, is productive
of even greater good than it used to
be-"
When he was at the height of his
tage success and his purse was well
filed. Lorimer lived in fine hotel
apartments, in which his taste for the
artistic in furniture, art and draperies
was seen in many rare examples. His
library was valued at that time at
not less that $4,000, and no volume
on his shelves was priced SO highly
az the Bible, book-marked at the text
Of his last sermon, which he kept for
daily reading.
The dark days came to Lorimer the
second time in his life when he got
into a legal controversy over the
rights of the play In which he had
successfully starred. The play was
withdrawn from the stage and. not
withstanding his best efforts, he could
not again secure employment in
role such as he had come to believe
he was fitted by nature to interpret
planned Return TO Pulpit.
Then, for a time, reduced in cir
cumstances and forced to withdraw
from the society Of those who enjoy
ed his fair weather companionship.
Lorimer thought he again heard the
call of the pulpit He spoke to one
or two Of his friends about It and
they discouraged him, saying that
having abandoned the pulpit for the
stage the church folk would not be
likely to accept him again. With that
ia abandoned the idea and set about