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The broad ax., 1917-02-03
INDIAN TRIBES USE
WRESTLING LANGUAGE
Able to Express Their Thoughts
Perfectly by Its Use, Says
Mining Engineer.

Carlisle, Pa.-That entire tribes Of
Indians in Mexico carry on long con-
versations by means Of whistling is as
serted by Harold T. Mapes, mining en-
gineer, who was for twelve years In
Mexico, but now lives in Carlisle.
Mapes declares that the Indians have
q whistling language and are able to
express their thoughts perfectly by its
use. He says it is not series Of signs
or calls signifying danger, love, fear,
peace, war, etc, but regular language,
by which the most subtle shades Of
thought may be expressed.
Like people in other parts Of the
world, the Mexican Indians occasion
ally whistle for their dinners, only they
are able to explain by their whistles
exactly what kind Of a dinner they
want-either a simple meal Of tortillas
and frijoles or a more elaborate feast
Of enchiladas and mole guajalote, with
cervezt or vino.
Mapes says that he understands that
the whistling language has been hand
ed down from generation to generation
from the time Of the Toltecs and Az
tees and that Indian lovers can put
world Of tenderness and passion into
their whistled declarations Of love or
stir their fellows to heroic deeds by
the f1erceness with which they whistle
a call to arms.
A whistling language has been used
from time immemorial by the Swiss
mountaineers, and Neapolitan sailors
converse frequently by means of whis-
Ting. Convicts in the big jails In Ma
pies converse freely by means Of whis-
Ting, and there is apparently no limit
to their whistling vocabulary. =
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
Girl T[Ts ARE FALSE,
SAYS PROFESSOR SHAW
Don't Believe Her When She Says
She'll Be Your Friend.

New York.-"When a girl says, i
cannot be your wife, but III be your
friend she tries to speak the truth,
but utters a psychological falsehood,"
declared Professor Charles Gray Shaw,
head Of the philosophy department OF
the New York university, In lecture
ut the institution.
Professor Shaw argued that no wom-
an could be q friend to men or to
women, because a friend requires q
clear cut personality and a disinter-
ested outlook on life. Both Of these,
he asserted, women lack. He also de-
clared that friendships between men
were passing from the earth.
"Woman cannot be friend because
she is never an individual, for to be
an individual one must stand alone"
he said. "Only those who stand alone
can come together"
Professor Shaw said that woman was
like a planet-well adapted to revolve
about some center, "but not organized
In such q way as to stand alene."
unfortunately, masculine friend
ships are just passing from the earth,
and in the course Of time friends will
be found only in museums, along with
other aboriginal products. This mel
ancholy situation is due to the fact
that modern life tends to destroy per-
sonality and philosophic view Of the
world. Man is bound to man not by
ties of friendship, but by bonds Of pro,
fessionalism which are usually Of q
commercial character"
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
FOUND IMAGE TN CAVE.
Crude Stone Idol Probably Antedatss
Indian Mound Builders.

Inolan mouno 6uiIoe0s
jacksonville, Ky.-E. L. Littlepage
Of the Morton Gap country brought to
th.e place recently stone image that
Is a curiosity and probably Of historic
value.
Mr.. Littlepage found 1t at the edge
of a cave on a high elevation In North
Christian county, KY, while investigat-
ing some prospective oil land belonging
to him. The cave Ia located In a wild
and broken section Of land uncultivat-
ed and but thinly inhabited.
The image is rudely carved out Of a
tough, ferrous sandstone. 1t is about
six inches In height and is well pre-
served, except for a slight injury on
one side Of its head and slight wealth
ering Of one arm. The figure Is In q
sitting position, with its legs doubled
under its body and arms extended in
front, with hands resting on its knees.
The image is evidently q relic Of an
idol worshiping people and antedates
any old Indian relic found In various
Indian mounds in western Kentucky.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
WIDOW SAVES TREES.
Turns Commissioners From Those
Planted by Her Husband.

Turns Commissioners From Those
Planted by Her Husband.
st. Cloud, Mich.-"Woodman, spare
that tree; touch not single bough."
Thus quoted Mrs. Mary Spicer, wild
ow, as she pleaded for the preservation
Of trees planted by her husband, long
dead.
1t was three years ago that Mrs. Spi-
Ger started her battle with city officials
over the maintenance of this arborian
inheritance. She was called upon to
enter another skirmish the other day
when sidewalk bids were opened, In
which provision was to have been
made for the removal Of the trees.
Mrs. Spicer's pets" fringe a lot on
which her modest little home Is built.
Wait until l am gone and you may
remove Them" she told the city COM
missioners, who took her words to
heart. When sidewalk bids were OPEN
ed there were proposed contracts on
other Jobs. but on the Widow Spicer's
property-not a word.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
Aoma Ground Flour.

Grinding wheat to make noui ~.
be done at home as easily d
grinding OF coffee. Thus a fami! a
have whole wheat -four. freshly giVO- ~
q thing that Is usually difficult "
tain. The New York Medical 'OL -,
advises its readers to buy ther 40
from seedsmen rather than lFO IN, h,
GERS or feed stores because II
cheaper and more efficient. m
The grinder can be USED 70
cracking wheat. corn, barley OA .s,,s
and other grains for use as =, I'D
cereals. And the cereals ID
chewing, which will not only as
en- the muscles Of the che"ei,. .,,y>
but win keep their teeth from
that Is. II they begin as eniia 80
Homemade cereals need "sb
ing, 30 q freless cooker Is
dispensable.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
Bank Robber Returns IS.

Scranton, PA letter with s. in
closed has been received by the Pine
Brook bank. The letter said that the
writer held up the teller and took the
money at the point Of a revolver. 81
am taking the first opportunity to pay
1t back" said the letter. which was
postmarked Moscow, Pa. The bank
officials will have the missiye framed.
The robber entered the bank and point
ing a revolver at the teller, George
Browning, demanded S25. Browning
handed out s.. which satisfied him.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
CHASING A COYOTE IN
AUTO EXCITING SPORT
Hound, Sighting Game, Leaps
Over MUD Shield and Lands
Twenty Feet Ahead of Car.

Iarned, Kan.-An exciting coyote
chase In automobiles took place near
HanSton. The party consisted Of Bill
Ham, John Uann, Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin
Seaman and William Warning. They
went in two cars and took three grey
hounds I'm each car.
Mr.. Warning says that auto polo Is
mild compared with the way those two
cars chased across the prairie. ravineS
and bluffs after coyotes. He said that
his speedometer registered forty miles
one time when he dared to glance at IL
and he was afraid to look again.
They were going along between TWEEN.
ty and thirty miles an hour at the tirle
they started up the first coyote, and
when the biggest hound in Mr.. War.
rings car sighted the wolf it leaped
over the wind shield and hood and
landed running twenty feet ahead Of
the car. The coyote was big fellow,
but the hounds finally brought him
down, the big hound throwing him.
while the others pinned him down.
While chasing the first coyote the
other auto nearly ran over another one,
which leaped up almost from under the
wheels Of the car. The men shot at II
several times. wounding 1t, but because
Of the speed Of the bounding car could
get but poor aim. 1t finally ran into a
hole and was tished out with q wire.
Messrs. Ham and Seaman have killed
many coyotes.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
TEACHING INDIANS is
THIS WOMAN'S HOBBY
Mrs. MoIineux Declares Red Man Can
Be Led, but Will Not Be Driven.

Salt Lake City.-To have mothered
one or possibly two tiny lives through
the strenuous days of early infancy is
a task that most women consider plen-
ty, but Mrs. Elizabeth Molineux, until
recently teacher in the United States
Indian service, has the distinction Of
having mothered a whole tribe Of Pluto
having raised them, old and young,
from a condition bordering on the
sQualid state where they consider
cleanliness next to godliness and, one
and all, are heartily in favor Of both.
Mrs. Molineux recently resigned her
post as teacher on the Shivwits res
ervation In southern Utah and is In
Salt Lake resting preparatory to going
to Ketchikan, Alaska, to take charge
Of the Episcopal church's mission
school there. She is guest at the
home of the Right Rev. Paul Jones,
bishop Of the Episcopal diocese Of
Utah, while here.
Indians have become q hobby with
this diminutive little Scotchwoman.
She speaks their languages and In her
eight years Of service with the Indian
department has been intimately asso-
ciated with the trials and tribulations
that beset poor Lo on his native heath.
Mrs. Molineux is an ardent church
woman and attributes her success In
dealing with Indians to the fact that
by blending religious teachings with
the three RS" she has dismissed dis
trust of her from the minds Of her
charges and has always been regarded
by them more in the light Of a friend
than a teacher. She declared the In
dian mind to be susceptible to teaching
If properly approached, but adds that
he can be led but will not be driven.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
ALL AVAILABLE LAND GONE.
Commissioner of q, immigration Howe
Predicts That United States Will Be-
come an Emisrant Rather Than an
Immigrant Nation at the End of Hos
Utilities In Europe.


Utilities In Europe.
New York. prediction that the
United States would become an "emi-
grant" rather than an Immigrant" ma
ton at the close Of the war was made
by Commissioner Of immigration Fred
eric G. Howe at the Sunday evening
forum Of the Free synagogue.
Mr.. Howe took the stand that immi-
grafton was purely an economic ques-
ton and declared that 1t had been
such from the beginning. He said that
those who opposed immigration did so
because they desired to limit the COM
petition Of unskilled foreign labor !;
those who favored the wide open door
did 50 because it made labor cheap.
He said the immigrant no longer
went to the farm because all the avail
able land Of the country had been tax
en- up, hundreds Of millions of acres
being held for purely speculative pur-
poses.
1.-THE immigration problem never ex-
listed so long as the land was free for
the asking" said Mr.. Howe, land it Is
this scarceness of land which makes
immigration an economic question.
at is a matter Of freeing labor on
one hand from the competition of the
incoming labor groups from Europe
and of insuring to the immigrant an
opportunity to work for himself rather
than for an employer interested in Sc
curing his services at the lowest pos
sible cost.
81 keep more or less in touch with
the centers to which go most Of the
men who pass through Ellis island. /
am told that everywhere the men now
employed in our shops and factories
who at home worked as farmers are
saving their money to return to the
old country. They have always wished
to own their own farms-they came
here for that purpose-and they figure
that after the war land will be cheap
In the countries overseas. This senti-
ment. spreading among our workers,
will result In a serious crisis in our
Industrial life"
Mr.. Howe also discussed the servant
question. He said that since the war
there had been practically no servant
girls coming to this country and that
many Of those who were in service had
left 1t to enter munitIon factories and
Offices. while others had married or
died.
To regulate the tide Of oriental i'm
migration and, In fact, to check In some
measure immigration from any land
DR.. Sydney L Gulick, an authority on
Japan, suggested that, for example, II
Q thousand Syrians came to this coun-
Try In 1900 and ten years later all had
taken out American citizenship then
another thousand might be admitted.
II, however. only 300 had applied for
naturalization papers the decision Of
the remaining 700 to still be Synans
automatically would keep an equal
number OF their fellow countrymen In
Syria.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
Self Convicted.

Say, pa" Queried small Bobby,
what is goSsiping, anyway"
"GossipiLg. my son." replied the old
man, IF We get right down to the
plain, unvarnished facts. is lying. But
why do you ask?"
Because" answered the young in
vestigator, INA says you do a lot Of
gossiping every time your business
keeps you late at the off1ce."-Ex-
change.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
Too Much Practice.

Does your minister practice what he
preachesT the newcomer questioned.
"He does" the citizen answered, with
a sigh, land I'd be perfectly willing to
have him stop. He lives next door to
me and begins at Z o'clock Sunday
morning to practice what he is going
to preach. York Times.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
HE KNEW.

Austrian Tells Who II Is That Elects q
President.
Hammond, Ind.-Jorn Bosovich, late
Of Austria, applied to the federal court
for citizenship papers. Clerk Hem
stock put the questions and got these
answers:
"Who is president of the United
StatesY
"Mr. Wilson"
"Who makes the lawsf"
"The congress"
"Who elects the presidentr
California"
He got the papers.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
EIGHTY, WANTS HEART BALM
Woman Is Deaf, Has Lost Right Eye
and II n littIe Lama

Woman Is Deaf, Has Lost Right Eye
and 10 q Little Lame.
Utica, n. Y.-Mrs. Almira Kingsbury
Is just little on the right side Of
eighty years old. She Is rather deaf.
She has lost her right eye and her left
thumb. Besides she Is a little lame.
But she took the stand to testify that
Robert Roberts of Trenton, seventy-six
years old and a farmer, had been 80
smitten with her charms at first sight
that he urged her to marry him. Then
she said he broke troth and she sued
for breach Of promise. They met at an
employment agency where he sought Q
housekeeper.
Judge Hazard told Mrs. Kingsbury's
attorney. IL think your client Ia clearly
entitled to about 8 cents" However,
the case was held open for more svi-
dence.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
BIRD DOG WEARS GLASSES.
Georgia Setter Does Good Work After
Visit to OcuIist.

Moultrie. Ga.-Fanny. a thorough
bred setter, wears spectacles. She was
fitted with glasses by an oculist, who
found that she had astigmatism.
For years Fanny has been known as
one Of the best hunting dogs in this
section. Before the opening of the
quail season this year she went to the
fields by herself and on returning
showed evidence of bad falls. Fanny
could not help falling into bitches and
running into trees. Then 1t was dis.
covered that her eyes had become af-
fected.
1t Is believed the glasses will correct
the trouble. At least Fanny now Is do
ing her work as well as usual.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
Divided IL.

Scene-Policc court during dispute
over eight day clock.
Magistrate-I award the clock to the
plaintiff.
Defendant-Then what do i get!
MagiStrate-l1l give you the eight
days.-London Stray Stories.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
Sharks and Death,

There Is an old yet still operative su-
perstition among seafaring men that
when a shark perslstentIy follows a
vessel It is q sign that some person on
board is going to die. the alleged rea-
SON being that the great fish can scent
death.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03
Fashionable.

Willie-Paw, what Is a fashionable
RESORT Paw-A place where you can
obtain the least comfort and the most
style for the most money. my SON.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The broad ax., 1917-02-03

Oh. how bitter q thing It b to look
into happiness through anothsr mans
rssE-As You Like It" IT..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
AUGUSTE ROBIN

Someone has eXtravagantly said
that all the art of France seems but
a preface to that of Auguste Rodin;
but. if we substitute the word sculp-
ture for art. closer approximation
of the truth is reached. Since the
early Goths France has had numer-
Gus sculptors but few great ones. And
Rodin, who died in Paris yesterday,
stood head and shoulders above all
the sculptors of France as he did
above all the contemporary sculptors
of all the world.
1t was inevitable that an artist of
his extreme individuality, one who
rejected so contemporary the accu-
mulated artistic dogma of his time,
should have been slow to be recog-
nized and, even after his genius had
been acclaimed. should have had so
many bitter detractors. But Rodin
lacked neither defenders nor imita-
tors, once his pre-emience had been
established. A whole library of liter
ature has been written about him
and his mark is indelibly stamped
upon the artistic ideals of today.
To obtain comparisons with his
strong mastery over the technique OF
his art, his fresh, unspoiled view
point, and his marvellous fidelity to
truth, his critics have had to so back
to the early Greek sculptors and to
the two dominant figures Of the his
tory of sculpture. Donatello and Nil
chael Angelo. But Rodin was more
than faithful to life; he had the rare
genius for adding just that touch of
exaggeration or emphasis which
transforms mere representation into
the very semblance of the thing it.
self and at the same time brings ouI
the inner drama, the inner beauty or
1t.
The memorial to Robins greatness
has already been prepared. The city
of Paris has erected a building in
which his collected sculptures are
housed; and Rodin. in his lifetime.
bequeathed his works to the Govern
ment on condition that the museum
thus created be preserved. At this
shrine art lovers from all parts of
the world and for generations to
come will worship and learn.-Phila-
delphia Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
ACROSS THE TABLE

"HE fifth State Welfare and Eff
.iciency conference, which began
at the State Capitol to-day.
ought to be as important in getting
employers and employees together
over conditions prevailing in the war
time speeding up of industries as the
meetings of previous years were in
enabling representatives of these two
vital factors in State life to under
stand each others position in re-
gard to minor labor and workmen's s
compensation. The events of the
last six or eight months have turned
the business of Pennsylvania to war.
Only three times in the history of
this commonwealth has this situa-
ton arisen and it is important, nay
more. essential to the national de-
fense that Pennsylvania great in
dustries operate with a minimum
of friction.
When the first conference was
held a few years ago there were
some misgivingS because of the hu-
name statutes ABOUT TO be put into
effect. Happily. manufacturers and
workers and. State officials and stu
dents got together at the Capitol and
talked it over. In other words. they
discussed across the table the COM
pensation and other systems whose
operation in a State with as complex
an industrial problem as Pennsylva-
MIA has attracted international at.
tention.
There are many things arising out
of the war which call for calm con-
sideration and study of the other
side. This conference should be in.
valuable as a means of getting peo.
pie together for discussion of mat.
ters which should be adjusted now
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1917
RIFFS IN THE CLOUDS

TIVE Russian revolution and the
italian disaster have so be-
clouded our skies for days that
some of us walking along with
bowed heads have not seen the riffs
in the war clouds that are begin
ming to appear.
The whole Allied situation is be-
ginning to ''sweeten up" The road
roller tactics of the English in North
ern France continues, the French
are steadily pushing ahead. the Ital-
ians are showing that they are far
from beaten. French and English
troops are on the italian front, the
death of General Maude has not
prevented his troops from actively
continuing their campaign in the
East, the Russian situation is so
difficult and uncertain that even the
Kaiser declines to attempt to make
peace with the anarchistic party in
control, there have been riots in
Germany, American war prepara-
tions are speeding up. and last, but
far from least, the German subma-
rine menance appears to be waning.
We are to have period of blue
skies instead of just plain blues.
This war has been series
of ups and downs. At one period
Paris was just on the verge of fall
ing. Then the Russian road roller
got to work and it was ION to Ber-
lin." And so. week after week and
month after month. our emotions
have see-sawed with the varying
tides of conflict. now sodden with
foreboding and now buoyant with
hope. But two things we should al
ways remember in our darkest mo-
ments. One of them is that however
brilliant the achievement and disas-
trous the result of German attack.
the German army always in this war
has fallen just short of the object
at which it aimed. The other is
that we have the money, the guns.
the munitions and the men, and that
time fights on our side.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21

very great force for maintaining and
improving the morale of the recruit
has been lost.
To Harold Craddock, of the Com
mission on Training Camp Activities,
the newspapers owe the opportunity
of sending a committee to Wash
ington to help frame a code of rules
for the prompt and efficient handling
of the vast number of papers that
are daily addressed to the soldiers
in camp.
What better Christmas present for
the lad far from home than a sub
scription to his favorite home news
paper? Now that Uncle Sam is ar
ranging to play Santa Claus all
through the year, by seeing to it that
the newspaper is delivered daily. this
form of holiday remembrance ought
to be doubly attractive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21

| Sunday concert was given in Berlin
by the philharmonic Orchestra, and
while the spell of Wagnerian master
pieces was still upon them persuasive
orators asked the audience to fill out
subscription blanks.
A big feature of the propaganda
for the loan was the effort to dissi-
pate pessimism as to the financial
position of Germany after the war
In the midst of the loan campaign
Rudolf Havenstein. President of the
Reichsbank, delivered a speech be-
fore the Frankfort Chamber of Com
merce summarizing current German
arguments.
Herr Havenstein candidIy admitted
that pessimism about the financial
future was widespread. He replied
to the pessiinists in the first place
| with generalities about the enor-
nous strength of Germany, which,
he said. could never become bank
rupt unless the empire were broken
up. He still held out a vague hope
of indemnities. but admitted that
such hopes were better left out of
the calculation. Germany's financial
burden would be undoubtedly heavy,
but she would be able to bear it. he
said. The whole economic machin-
cry of the world would move faster
dlleF tne war; anu lHe GeTInaIlE
would have to work still harder
think still more, and live more mod
estly. They would also have to take
good care to turn capital into the
most profitable channels. But the
main point was that, when peace
had opened a free road for German
work both at home and overseas. ant
when the German luercnapt wa:
again able to wrestle in free compe
tition with other nations in the worlC
market" nothing could permanent!
paralyze German work. which wa
! "inimitable. e."-Exchange.