The mirror., 1920-10-07

l nave neard the shouting Wlnu
Throw rain my door,
And all the October day
Wished for nothing more.
Now in this wooded exile
Night comes on like tide;
/ hear God in my garden
Among the blooms that died.
Promising resurrection.
God may I not know,
The bright fame of October
Wherever my soul shall go9
-Leonie Davis Colister.
October, the eighth month in the year of
Romulus, as its name imports, and the
tenth in the year of Numa, 713 B. c. Octo-
ber still retained its first name although
the senate ordered it to be called Faustinus,
in honor of Faustina, wife of Antoninus
the emperor; and Commodus called it
Invietus and Domitianus October was
sacred to Mars.
FAMOUS OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS
Like many another great man, DR.. Har-
vey Washington Wiley, was born on
small farm, Indiana being the state of his
birth, and October IS, 1874, the date. He
says his father "plowed for living, and
preached for love-" and being scholar
himself, inspired in his son love OF
learning. The boy Harvey entered Han
over College where he paid fifty cents a
week for room, lived on bread and mo-
lasses, cornmeal mush and potatoes, which
supplies he brought weekly, from home,
and led his class, both in studies and
athletics. After graduating he studied
medicine at Butler college, later at Har-
ward, and abroad, and under the head of
the Berlin Board of Health, gained the
first inspiration which resulted in the de-
votion of his life to the battle for pure
food and drugs. DR.. Wiley began as head
of the United States Bureau of Chemistry,
with four assistants and dishwasher, in
the cellar of the old Agricultural Building
and there he worked for many years at
clerks salary. Now, he has building of
his own, and over three hundred helpers
He was born in the midst of wartimes,
was Leonard Wood, now Major-General
of the U. S. A., on October 9, 1860, at
Winchester, N. H., the great grandson of
a commander at the battle of Bunker Hill,
and the son of an army surgeon. He was
educated at Harvard, Williams and the
University of Pennsylvania and was ap-
pointed from Massachusetts, assistant sur
geon, U. S. A. He was made major gen
eral December 7, 1898, and was honorably
discharged from voluntary service April
10, 1899, and has been decorated several
times for distinguished military service.
He was military governor of Cuba in 1899,
governor of Moro Province from 1908 to
1916; special ambassador to Argentine Re-
public, in 1910; chief of staff U. S. A.,
1910-1914; and was appointed commander
of the S9th Division, N. A. at Camp
Funston, Kansas, in April 1918.
THE HEAVENS IN OCTOBER
Over Aquarius the winged horse Pega-
sus is flying westward. 1t is impossible
for modern people to trace in this con-
stellation the faintest resemblance to a
horse, but the constellation is easily found
on account of the Great Square of Pega-
sus which it contains. This figure of a
winged horse is found on coins issued in
ancient Corinth, FIVE hundred years be-
fore the Christian era. Pegasus is sup
posed to have sprung from the blood of
Medusa when her head was struck off by
Pereus, and was so named because he
made his appearance near the sources of
Oceanus. The ancient Greek word for
source of Oceanus. The ancient Greek
word for source was Pegai. Pegasus was
caught nv RellerODhOn bur when the lat-