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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Worry Really Wicked.

Worry is really an evidence of lack
of self-confidence and of faith In the
power that runs the universe. 1t is
lack Of faith in the power that, pro-
vided you do your part, will always
bring things ont better than you posi-
bly, could by yourself alone. Why
should you worry, why should you
fear, why should you be anxious, when
Gods vision and Omnipotence are al.
ways ready to guide and serve you?
There never has been an instant in
your life, my friend, which you could
have safeguarded or provided for with
thousandth part of the wisdom with
which God has guarded and provided
for it. 1t is really reflection upon
him to be anxious about the future, to
dread poverty and sickness, to worry
about your business, to fear failure
IN your undertaking.-Oris SWEET
Marden in Chicago News.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
FoRESEE APPROACH OF DEATH
Writer Tells of Instances Where AMI
mails Evidently sensed Dissolution
and Feared II.

am perplexed at the way in which
the lower animals sometimes have a
premonitlon of death and fear it, while
at other times they appear to be per-
fectly Indifferent to death.
I have known dog to beg not to pc
taken on a railway journey, when usu-
ally he used to dance about with de-
light when he saw these preparations
being made. On the occasion on which
he exhibited distress he slipped off the
platform, was run over and killed.
have known a horse who was
very free jumper refuse obstinately a
small fence and, when his rider forced
him over it the horse broke his back.
A bullfinch-nOt a pet, but merely
one of a cageful of birds-dropped
down screaming; took him out and
so long as he lay in my hand he was
quite quiet, but he screamed if l at
tempted to put him back on some cot
ton wool. He lay in my hand for
quarter of an hour and died quite
quietly.
l have had a horse refuse to pass
under a tree under which he had pass
ed every day for years. 1t was
perfectly calm day. I drove him round
the tree, and as l did so big branch
fell upon exactly the spot on which
we would have been if l had not let
the horse go round.-From the Cont
mental Edition of the London Mail.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
GAIT VARIES WITH SPECIES
Il May TruthfuIIy Be Said That Nc
Two Animals or Birds Walk
4 Exactly Alike.

The horse strikes his gait with
cheerful, steady and strong step; the
COW is uncertain in its moving ioiilng
and tagging in its gait. 1.-The lowing
herd winds slowly DER the lea" The
ass trudges. and keeps a dull eye on
the earth as it journeys along. Inc
sheep trots, and beats as 1t passes,
while the goat springs aloft almost
needless of its footing. The gait or
birds on the level varies a great deal.
There is a sort of majestic carriage
in the rock, stepping over crumbiing
furrow. The red-footed pigeon trips
1t daintily; the heron stands, as If to
think, and moves with stateliness with
in it's narrow bounds. The dog casts
a careless foot, scattering dust or mud
without thought; while the cat adj
vances dainty paw, as If distrustful
of the ground. The hen scratches, and
pauses to look round, as If bewildered;
while the peacock lifts its foot with
seeming pride, and as If the earth
were honored by its moving upon II
at all. The pig takes ground anyhow,
and without needing, turning about
careless whether right or wrong. The
little mouse scurries across the COM
mon path with something of the pas
sivity of blown leaf; while the rat
assumes the ground to be its own pos
session, and prOwls about with conf
dence and unconcern. OF all animals
the hare bounds upon the earth as
upon its Heritage. and breasts 1t the
whole day long. AS Wordsworth not
ed. the hare runs races in Its mirth.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Must Earn Natures Eavors.

Nature will not reveal her beauty,
her joy, her splendor her magnifcence
or her sublimity to the selfish or the
hurried soul. She thinks too much of
her great treasures of marvellous mys-
terry to fling them out to the penurlous,
greedy, hurried human being, to the
casual eye, to those who are rushing
along at railroad speed. No one can
successfully WOO and win her who is
not willing to study her, take time to
observe her, and listen to her voice.
She tells her secrets, reveals her mys-
teries and beauties only to those who
know how to wait, who take time to
think, to ponder; to those who can
appreciate and love these things we'll
enough to spend time with her.-Ori-
son SWEET Marden in Chicago News.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME
Peter HeuIeln, Who Made the First
Watch, Accused Of Witcheraft and
Thrown Into Prison..

There is in existence today a letter
dated April %, 1921 from Martin Luz
Their to Father Frederick Pistorius,
the last abbot of st. Aegiduis in Nu-
remberg, In which he thanks the alb
bot for the gift Of watch, and adds:
Il feel compelled to become a pupil
of our mathematician in order to I'M
derstand this unique timekeeper."
Never before had he seen such an OBJ
ject.
AS he was familiar with clocks.
what he meant, evidently, was that
the time indicators on the clock were
different from those on the watch
which had been given to him. 1t is
quite probable he had In his posses
sion the first watch made by Peter
Heulein, or at least one of his first
ones. This Peter Heulein was black
smith and locksmith and devoted his
time to mathematics and watchmak-
ing, for which he was thrown into
prison charged with witchcraft, which
was then one of the easy ways of dis
posing of rival or of a person who
did things out of the ordinary.
But Peter persevered, and the name
of HeuieiE and Nuremburg is preserved
nv monument in his native town,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25

New Bells mace Like Old.

We have often heard of the beauti-
full silver tone of very old church bells
In Europe and some have even been
bought at great price and brought to
America. 1t was supposed that after
bell had rung regularly for one or
two centuries some mysterious quail
ty was developed, and the beautiful
tone could be acquired in no other
way. An ingenious American studied
the problem, however, and decided
that the silver tone was simply due
to the fact that the clapper of the
bell had worn itself and the bell by
continued striking, until the two fit
closely together and that the shape of
the metal and nothing else determined
the tone. He began to make bells by
casting them so that the clapper and
the bell fit each other properly, and
the mellow silver tone was obtained at
once. Today we are manufacturing
such bells and selling them abroad.-
Boys Life.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Feeding for Good Teeth.

The soon defective teeth of the
adult are due in a great measure, ac-
cording to an authority on dentistry,
to the faulty kind of food given to
children. Food which requires mas
tication tends to develop the gums and
salivary glands, while the practice Of
giving too much liquid food causes
narrow jaws, weakens the gums and
mars physical beauty. The same au-
thority continues: "Thin, small jaws
consequent on liquid diet, do not fur
nish room enough to accommodate the
teeth even were the blood supply suf-
fcient-the teeth thus crowded falling
to receive adequate nourishment-a
most potent cause Of defect in the en-
amel, and carries follows"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
No HIGH Cost of Clothing Here.

When a hole is worn in tapa cloth 1t
is only necessary to moisten the edges
and beat them together. Tapa cloth
was once woven or pounded into
shape In many parts of the South Sea
islands. 1t is made of the barks of
the banana, breadfruit or mulberry.
The rough outer bark is first scraped
off and the inner fbers are beaten to-
gether and allowed to ferment. So
fine Is the texture of the cloth that
one would never imagine it had been
prepared in this crude manner. 1t is
bleached to a dazzling white color In
the sun, and when made into gar
ments is practically indestructible.-
Boys Life.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
RH0DESIA %LAND OF 0PHlR7"
ArcheoIoalsts Have Long Contended
for and Against Arguments to
That Effect.

The extensive ruins Of ancient forts,
temples and gold workings in Rho
desia have ben given rise to consider
able controversy from time to time,
some Psychologists contending that
they are only four hundred or five
hundred years old and others horuing
that they date back to at least two
thousand years before the Christian
era, and that Rhodesia was the land
of Ophir, mentioned In the Bible at
chapters TX and K Of l Kings.
1t is noteworthy that Milton In
Paradise Lost" book II, speaks of the
angel Michael leading Adam to hill
of paradise from whose top
His eyes might there command wherever
stood
City Of old or modern fame.
from the walls of Cambalu to
sofala Thought ophir) to the
realm of Congo. and Angola. far
thest south.
The theory has been advanced that
If Rhodesia was not actually Ophir,
1t was at least the "Havllah" whence
the gold of Ophir was obtained and
which was so much In evidence at
Solomon's entertainment of the queen
of Sheba. If this theory is correct
then Sofala Of today would be the
site of "Tarshish," the ancient sea-
port for "Havilah," and the outlet
for precious stones, metals and other
merchandise, Ophir being situated In
all probability on the southern coast
of Arabia and constituting a dlstribut-
Ing emporium rather than the place
Of origin of these things.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Fierce Apparitions,

In the West Indies a sight of the
trolling calf" presages death or ter
rible misfortunes. The negroes are
dreadfully afraid of possible encoun-
ter with it at night. 1t Is white, Of
enormous size and with eyes that
blaze like hot Goals.
William Thorp, learned student of
such manifestations, writes Of a
phantom shark that haunts the waters
about Nassau, in the Bahamas, where
1t is known as the "harbor master"
1t shines with a weird phosphorescent
glow even in the daytime, and though
hooked on many occasions and pulled
in. 1t invariably vanishes from view at
the last moment-simply melting into
nothinCness.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
MANY ROADS TO KNOWLEDGE
in Opening Up the Field Of
Electro Therapy.

Along the road that leads to knowl-
cdge are scattered many fake-shops,
which as a rule do a fourIshing and
profitable business. For the chief
weakness of the human, mind is credu-
iity.
But by curious paradox, the foolish
ness factories every now and then
produce something that proves of SUBJ
stantial usefulness to science.
For example. in New England many
years ago a man named Perkins in
vented what he called a magnetic
tractor" for drawing diseases out of
folk. 1t was shaped like a pair Of
compasses, with one leg of silver and
the other Of copper. When the two
points were passed over the afflicted
part of the body the instrument was
supposed by some electrical means to.
alleviate or cure the trouble.
The tractors" undoubtedly did
benefit many people; also Perkins,
who sold them for SIS apiece. They
made such a sensation that scientists
took the matter up investigating 1t
thoroughly and proving that magma
ton did the work. Embodied per-
sons were relieved of pain by the con-
tact of a couple of pointed sticks of
wood, which they mistook for the in
strument IN question.
The whole business was plain fool
ishness. Nevertheless, the interest
1t awakened led to the first opening up
of the field of electro-therapy, discov-
cries of which have proved of such
immense Importance to medical SCI
ence.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
FORCED TO BECOME PIRATE
Great Grandfather of President Fill
more Coerced Into Sailing Under
the Black Flag.

John Fillmore, great-grandfather of
Willard Fillmore, the thirteenth presi-
dent of the United States, was pi-
rate, though he was pirate in spite
of himself The story begins with the
first quarter of the eighteenth century,
when the freebooters, Bluebeard. Low
and Phillips, swept the Atlantic coast
from Jamaica to Newfoundland. Phil
lips captured the Dolphin of Cape Ann,
a vessel commanded by Andrew
Harden.
Harden discovered among the
pirates crew two young men, John
Fillmore and Edward Cheesman,
whom Phillips had captured and
made pirates against their will.
They had determined either to es-
cape from the pirates clutches or
to capture his vessel and bring him
and his crew to justice. They fixed
nm appointed hour for making the
attempt at escape, after reaching
an agreement with Harden.
The signal was given when only
three were on. deck, one of whom
was Phillips. One of the men was
thrown overheard, and the other two
were killed. This was done while the
crew was below in the hold of the
ship. The captors then sprang into
the hold and placed the rest of the
crew in chains, steered the vessel
for Boston, and arrived there May 3,
1924. Two of the pirates were hanged,
while Fillmore, Cheesman and his con-
federates were acquitted.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
RUGS MADE TO APPEAR OLD
Ingenious Method by Which "Genuine
Antiques" Are Furnished to Sup
ply the Demand.

How genuine antique rugs" are
manufactured and prepared for Euro
pean and American markets Is told
by an American who visited Bagdad.
The shopping streets seem like tun-
nels. They are arched overhead with
brick to keep out the heat; thus they
run, like subways. up and down the
bazaar quarter. Through those long,
sitting, family lighted tunnels throngs
the eternal crowd Of men, mules and
camels.
Often one will see fine rug lying
fiat In the filth of a narrow street,
ground beneath the tramp of men
and beasts, but there is method In
this. Foreigners make oriental rugs,
bright and new, in Persia, and sell
them through Bagdad. Since an "old
rug" is worth more, willy brokers have
hit on this way to make new rug
look old.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Penquins,

Though so much has been written
about them, the penguins always ex.
cite fresh interest in everyone who
sees them for the first time. There is
endless interest in watching them, the
dignified emperor, dignified notwith.
standing his clumsy waddle, going
along with his wife Cor wives) by his
side. the very picture of a successful
self-satisfied, happy, unsuspicious
countryman, gravely bowling like
Chinaman before yelping dog-the
little undignified matter-of-fact Adele
minding his own business in a way
worthy of emulation. They are per
fectly adapted to a narrow round of
life, and when compelled to face mat
tiers outside of their experience they
Jften behave with apparent stupidity,
but sometimes show a good deal of
intelligence.-From "The Heart of
the Antarctic" by E. Fl. Shackleton.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Many Species of Asters.

About 120 different species Of as
tiers are native in the United States,
and 81 of these are found in north
eastern America. All but q dozen
are purple or blue and even botan-
lists find 1t requires patient study TO
distinguish their many species. The
New England aster is the most strik-
ing of the group. 1t has a stout,
hardy stem, sometimes eight feet
high, and large violet-purple and some
times pinklsh flowers, and is found in
the swamps In late summer. Great
Britain claims only one native aster.
Many American species are cultivated
in English gardens under the name
of Mchaelmas daisies. The Swiss
species Is the beautiful purple aster
which is found in such quantities
along the New England highways In
the autumn, and which, with the gol-
denrod, makes a radiant display of
purple and gold.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Friendship,

The loftiest test of friendship-un-
derstood as companionshlp-ls the
power to do without 1t. And In this
world of externaR COMMISSIONS and sep
arations, there is often such need.
We do not yield the friendship, but
must forego the companionshlp. Then
comes the proof of our capacity for
sacrifice, our loyalty to the Highest
of all. We turn our faces from each
other, but never our hearts, and walk
our opposite ways. Gradually the
heavens widen and deepen above us !;
we find ourselves breathing new, yet
strangely familiar atmospheres, sweet
with the breath Of the old affection {;
we see ourselves-each sees the other
met once more In a Presence which
has never forsaken us-the presence
of one who puts his cross into the
hands of all hottest friendship, saying
Conquer by this !" There Is no dan
ger of losing love, here or hereafter,
If It is only real; for love Is the one
indestructible element In the universe.
Lucy Larcom.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25

This puzzle in nationality has the
marines guessing:
Louis c. Minette, accepted for en-
listment In the United States marine
corps at Tulsa, Okla, said that his
mother was an American who married
a Frenchman in Italy. He was born
on ship flying the Spanish colors
while lying In the English channel. At
the age of five his parents died in
Sweden and he was adopted by
German who brought him to the
United States. His adopted father is
not a naturalized citizen.
"Would you class him as The Man
Without Country'?" the recruiting
sergeant was asked.
Man without country nothingw
said the sergeant. "I'd class him as
League of Nations"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Manhattan In the indian Tongue.

We had a sad shock the other day
when we learned from one of our
learned clients that Manhattan, In the
Indian tongue, Is said to mean THE
place where they all get drunk" Ac-
cording to William Loring Andrews
book, 1.-THE Bradford Map" 1888,
shown by James F. Drake. the ma
tive name was coined In happy mem
DRY of the greatly regrettable revel
that transpired when Peter Minuit
1--WE think 1t wss) put over his deal
with the Indians with the aid of a
Aagon Of schnapps. We trust Mr.. An
derson will take immediate steps to
have the name of the island changed
Christopher Morley In New York
Evening Post.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Emaciated Bride Considered Beautiful.

Javanese marriage customs include
period of religious instruction for
both the bride and the groom. The
young man starts his instruction by
paying daily visits to the priest Of
the village, and learning all the COM
plicated phrases which he will have
to utter on the day of his wedding.
The pupil is placed in a tank of cold
water and stays there submerged up
to his chin while the priest bends over
him and reads the Koran, the perform
ance taking place in front Of the
church.
The girl begins her preparations
for the great day by several weeks Of
semi-starvation during which time she
takes only sufficient rice and hot wa
ter to sustain life. Because of this
hunger strike enforced by custom, she
loses considerable weight, an enact
ated bride being considered a thing
of beauty on the island of Java.-De-
troit News.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25

Although the British have occupied
that part of Burma from which some
OF the best teak is extracted for nearly
a century, Burma tree-fellers still pre-.
Ter their own axes to any of the vari.
GUS kinds which have been imported
from time to time from Europe or
America. This implement, called a
poksin In Burmese, is about an inch
broad, and ten or twelve inches In
length. Fitted with wooden handle
cut from the neighboring jungle, the
burman erects scaffold of bamboo
around the trunk of the tree to be
Relied which may be IL or IS feet
in circumference, about five feet from
the ground, manage to bring 1t down
oy his vigorous and repeated strokes
within few hours.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
COUNTRY OF MIXED RACES
Best Qualities Of Three Great Peoples
Declared Mingled In the pwellers
In AIsace.

As we came out Of the square Cat
st, Amarin) little boys were bringing
In armfuls Of wood for their school
room stoves; others were already
noisily scampering home for dinner In
the crisp, sawdusty air; straight COL
umns of smoke from many chimneys
evoked women standing about nooday
fires; there was homely human feel
Ing about It all.
AS went through the school 1t
seemed to me that the types of the
children were modified In two ways,
incllning now toward the elongated
head, with pointed chin, dark hair
dark eyes and mantling color; now
toward the round-headed, .square-jaw-
ed, blond type, with full. dreamy, blue
eyes. But under these notifications
one felt that there was a persistent
something, that was their own, neither
German nor French nor anything else.
for all the mingling; the Alsatian
root and stem, with an inalienable,
peculiar life mounting In 1t. Its very
own. its race gift.
And this essential gift, this rich, d.
verse inheritance. had been received
from each point of the compass. From
the south, through the defiles of the
Alps, the Great Latin traditions had
infiltrated. From the north and east
had come Germnnic thought, with Its
mystical reactions, its metaphysical
fnclinations, its marvellous legends.
and Its romantic chronicles of gods
and half gods. From the west, from
Gaul, came grace and courtesy and
the deathless wish for liberty. Was
ever a people more richly ehdowed?-
From "Alsace in Rust and Gold" by
Edith O'Shaughnessy.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Functions Of the Heart,

The human heart is like milestone
In mill; when you put wheat un-
der 1t, 1t turns, and grinds, and bruises
the wheat into -four; If you put no
wheat in, 1t still Agrinds on; but then
1t Is itself 1t grinds and slowly wears
away.-Luther.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25

"A married woman should see that
she has all kitchen requisites as she
starts housekeeping" Eyes, even to
husband who washes the dishes for
her."-Judge,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Sure THING.

81 told Jiggers that If he kept on
indulging In that absurd fad of his
he would be stung."
'That was only to be expected with
bee In his bonnet"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25

Among, army officers in some of the
European countries the custom still
prevails of wearing ring set with
turquoise as talisman against q
violent death
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Real Life.

To work, to help and to be helped,
to learn sympathy through suffering,
20 learn faith by perplexlty, to reach
ruth through wonder-Behold! This
is what 1t is to prosper, this is what
1t is to live.-Phillips Brooks.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Powerful Pile Fuller,

Featured by a cylinder containing
a piston with lifting force of eight
tons, hydraulic apparatus has been
invented for pulling up piling even
from deep water
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Mining Glossary.

A mining glossary just issued by the
bureau of mines contains 10000 terms
and 10000 definitions, covering both
technical and local usages in various
branches of the mining and mineral
industry.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25
Dancers In Quinine

Many cases of malaria are really
quinine poisoning. The amount of
qulnine administered is often large
and the smaller doses are continued
for too long.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-25

Husks Of coconuts are used by va
rious manufacturers to be turned into
cordage, brushes or mating.