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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28

cided to make ethnology rather than 20
ology, his life work. and since that time the
study of primitive races. and particularly
the races of the East, has engrossed him.
DR.. Lumhotz recently completed work
on Borneo, which. next to New Guinea, is
the least known of the larger islands of the
Malay archipelago. He spent two years In
several expeditions into the interior OF the
Dutch portion of this island His plan now
is to attempt to cross the island OF New
Guinea at its wider point. an exploit never
yet achieved.
There is so much work to be done that
profitably could spend several lifetimes SIM
ply in the study of the islands Of the Malay
archipelago" said DR.. Lumholtz, who Is now
in this country. in explaining the reasons
for his interest in that part of the world.
"On the seacoast and for some distance in
land particularly along the rivers, Borneo,
for instance, may be classed as explored.
The island produces both coal and oil, and 1t
is probable there other minerals. 1t has
u great economic future, and the Dutch, in
their part of the island. which is about two
thirds of the whole, are making the most of
this Much of the interior. however. Is vir
gin soil for the explorer. as found during
my two years of study.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Asia d Fertile Field
for Scientific Expedi-
tons, but More In
teresting Possibilities
Rest in Great Islands

TN one sense the world is well known.
\ map of the globe reveals no con-
- tinents or large islands the dimensions
and shape of which are only vaguely or
inaccurately defined The white man has
some knowledge of the people and animals
of every section of the globe. But the work
Of exploration is not yet over. There are
vast regions in the interior of South America
and of the larger islands of the Malay archi-
pelago, notably New Guinea and Borneo,
where white man has not yet set foot. With
the same zeal as in past centuries, however
the work of exploration is being pressed.
Three types of explorers are securing re-
mote regions. These are the adventures
looking for gold or, more recently, OIL and
other mineral deposits most needed in this
commercial age; scientists studying flora,
fauna, races and geography, and mission
aries.
There is no scientist bold enough to lay
his finger on the map 10 indicate with any
real definteness those parts of the world
which white man has not yet looked upon
for there are too many wanderers and too
few reports of their doings to make it pos
sible for any one, however learned to make
more than a guess. And scientists are nota-
bly, averse to guessing at least for publica-
ton.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Australian Ethnologist Gives
History of the Queer Creature

Archibald Weston, Australian ethnolo-
gist and explorer. obtained six specimens
of this remarkable fish for the Sydney
ciety He is an authority on the language
and customs OF the Australian aborigines.
His notes, furnished to THE NEW YORK HER
AID. comprise a complete history of the fish,
apart from the embryology. and this is the
first time all the facts have been collected.
The chief popularity of this sole living
representative of the long extinct ancient
Ceratodus lies in the double breathing
organs. 1t is. therefore, a connecting link
between the fish and the amphibian. The
head Is like that of large black snake. and
the scales. especially the two on the head
are marked in a snakeskin pattern.
This Ash rises to breathe with the at
mospheric lung at intervals varying from
a quarter Of an hour to an hour. AS he rises
he makes a peculiar sound said TO be like
the sound Of a hiss. This sound is heard
most distinctly at night.
why this sole survivor of the ancient true
Ccratodus remains alive to-day in the uppe"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Flood Clears the Pond
of It's Priced Specimens.

Soon after he caught another, but the
curator was passing, saw IL wasaa strange
Ash and sent it to the museum to DE Wis.
who knew It at once and promptly sent the
fish back. That and two others we're placed
in the pond in the west corner of the gar
dens. where the flood of 1893 took them all
away. never to be seen again.
In August 1898. a qualified German scvn-
fist. Prof. Richard Semon. went TO the Bur
nett River 10 collect natural history spec
mems and make a study OF the life history
OF Ceratodus.
After FIVE months on the Burnett River
Semon went north to Torres Straits and New
Guinea for four months and then returned
to the Burnett, arriving In Gayndah on July
Z. 1899. and not leaving the district finally
until October 81. and from Brisbane to Java
by the Wodonsa on October 20.
II is we'll to mention that the bones OF
Ceratoius arc cartagfnous. like those of
shark .eand that the female spawns usually
i'm October and November.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28

the scales vary in size from a shilling to a
half crown.
The Burnett blacks called the Ceratodus
"jillay," those on the Mary River "theebine.
the name now given to a railway junction.
They grilled him on red Goals, the best OF all
methods of cooking, and got him with the
spear the "tow-row" hand net and the fish
ing line baited with worms, frogs, shrimps
or white flesh from the tail of the goanna.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28

ton, and tho color of the scales, and dip
moi" denotes q fish with double breath
ing apparatus.
The word Ceratodus means horn
TOOTH referring to the hornlike formation
of the teeth, which are a peculiar series Of
wedge shape dental plates. The pectoral
and ventral fms are leaf shaped. much like
the pointed broad bladed canoe paddle of
the Polynesans In a medium weight FISH
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Greatest Barriers Encountered
In Exploring Tropic Regions
THE Neo- Ceratodus has kept under
cover for several hundred centuries,

TIME Neo-Ceratodus has kept under
cover for several hundred centuries.
but it has at last been dragged from
obscurity. 1t is a strange creature cross be-
tween reptile and fish; it hides In the
mud and has two pairs of lungs. one for
taking a breath of free air when it feels
like Lasca or want free life and | want
fresh air. and the other supports 1t by
the mixture of air and water when it feels
too sluggish to quit the bottom of a pond
or lake. 1t probably was found in various
parts of the world when the ichthyczaurus
romped around. but eventually, as the old
friends died out. IL retired to the Burnett
River in North Queensland.
Two specimens of this remarkable fish
have been consigned by the Geological So
ciety of sydney. Australia. to the Aquarium
in Battery Park. where the officials are daily
expecting it's arrival. Considerable excite
ment will be shown when II comes explain
able when It Is appreciated that the cave
men used to spear and eat this fish
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Asia Still Fertile Field
For Scientific Exploration

Several of the vast regions in Central Asia
which have been the subject of practically
no scientific scrutiny are to be studied with
some thoroughness by an American expedi-
ton led by Roy Chapman Andrews. the
zoologist. with a view to ascertaining the
correctness of the hypothesis that man
developed from animal to human being
somewhere on the great central plane ex-
tending northward from the Himalaya Noun
tains to the frigid zone. Much OF value will
undoubtedly be uncovered in geological.
botanical, geological and chronological fields
by this expedition even If the fossil remains
of primitive man are not discovered along
prehistoric trails But although their wan
derings along the Eastern border and even
within the boundaries of Tibet, on the Tartar
plain and in Mongolia, will take them where
white men have seldom. If ever, gone there
are regions elsewhere which are less known.
Africa while still called the Dark Con-
tinent, is by means as dark South
America. The missionaries, hunters and
plorers of Africa, notably Stanley, Living
stone Cecil Rhodes, Baker, Spoke, Cummings
and Du Chaillu, have done their work well,
and even the sources of the Nile and Congo
no longer mysteries.
Europe of course is the continent about
which most Is known-so well known that
here the wanderer becomes the tourist no
matter in what part he travels. There are,
however. tribes in Europe that still remain
TO be studied by the ethnologist. And North
America. young 1t is to the white race,
has few secrets from the explorer. There
are parts of Mexico however, in certain
regions OF the Sierra Madre Mountains. that
are yet to be explored.
Greatest Barriers Encountered
In Exploring Tropic Regions
aric hos et apio no ~
Of Brazil midway between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans and drained by the upper
Amazon and It's tributaries. into which white
men have not penetrated.
Australia still has some deserts in the
western interior which are virtually virgin
ground.
In all continents and large islands, how
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Borneo Far More Important
Than 1t Appears on the Map

DIR. Lumholtz's plan to enlighten the
world concerning New Guinea was formu-
lated in 1914. The Governor Of the Dutch
possession was unable to furnish him with
a military escort, as the world war had just
broken out, and explorers are not permitted
TO enter the interior without escort, owing
to the danger OF attack by native tribes.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
This Earth Known to Man, but Explorers Keep On

s.t
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
South American and
African Jungles May
Hide World Won
ders, but Frozen Re-
gions Offer Little

tangle. He found the existing maps abso-
lutely wrong, but was able to make his way
along nevertheless. From the Barito he
went to the Busang, a tributary filled with
rapids, which made portages necessary.
Explorer Finds Stone Relics
e of the Old Hindu Missionaries
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-25

William Thistle, 20 years old, was
drowned while bathing in the Wis
consin river near Baraboo.
Ralph Wacker, IL, fell from a pier
at Racine and drowned in Lake Mich
igan. The child had gone to play
promising his mother that he would
return at the sound of the curfew.
Adeline, the 2-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Merton Farmer, Surfing,
Oconto county, met death in peculi-
ar way. The family was preparing
to go on an auto trip when the little
girl leaned out of the upper window,
lost her balance and fell to the
ground She was picked up uncon-
scious.
Thirty-five thousand dollars dam
ages for personal injuries is the
amount asked by William Dederich,
in an action brought against Logan
Hay, Springfield, ILL.,, operating un-
der the name of the Racine Indus
flywheel in the power plant of the
Sattley building, owned by Hay and
leased to manufacturers, burst. One
man was killed and Dederich, star
pitcher of county base ball teams,
CllpAOyC oS q IudCnlAIot Ny I1C w al
lis Tractor Co., was struck by pieces
of wood and iron. Although seri-
ously injured for life, Dederich made
no claim for damages to the industri-
al commission against the Wallas
Tractor Co. He demands damages
from the owner of the building, alleg-
ing negligence in the care and opera
ton of the power plant
The city of Trempealeau in the west
ern part of the state on the MISSISSIPPI
pui river, has an attraction of which
its people are very proud as it is
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-25

Thieves who broke into the cream
cry at Galesville stole 800 pounds of
butter valued at $165.
Numerous offices in Fond du Lac
were entered one night recently by
fastidious burglars who took cash
but left other articles untouched.
The body of Geo. Galow who was
drowned in Lake Gilmore near Rhine
lander, was found floating on the sur
face after a dragging party had
searched five days.
Four roadhouses near Marinette
were raided by the district attorney
and sheriff who surmised that the
keepers were dispensing moonshine.
Three men were arrested
Twelve pure bred registered Hol-
stems owned by Will Schwarz of the
town of Westfield, Sank county, were
electrocuted when lightning struck a
wire fence near which they were
standing.
Wilbert Hack, 8, was drowned in
the Sheboygan river while playing
with his cousin at the docks of a glove
company. The boy had been throw
ing blocks of wood in the river and
poking them with long poles when he
fell in.
Johnny Norwich, 5. son of Police
Chief Olais Norwich, Rice Lake, found
a shell loaded with buckshot. He
strnuck it with a hammer. It ex-
ploded injuring him and his seven
year old playmate. George Alderman.
John Johanski, Green Bay, was
killed and another man ceriously in
jured when a scaffold upon which
they were working collapsed at the
Indian packing plant Johannski is
survived by wife and two children.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-25

found in only two other places in the
United States in just this form-a
wonderful bed of Egyptian lotus flow
ers. This is the most beautiful of all
water lilies. The leaf measures two
feet across, and the flower itself is
enormous, very fragrant, and a beau
tiful yellow shade. The petals are
three inches long. The seed pod is
long and full of seeds which are rich
in starch. These were utilized for
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-25

food by Indians in early days. They
were also sometimes converted by
them into rattles for the papooses.
The root when boiled somewhat re-
sembles the banana and is considered
by some people very palatable. There
is said to be bed of these flowers in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-25

Cedar Rapids and also one somewhere
in Massachusetts. The mystery of the
introduction of this flower of ancient
Egypt into Wisconsin waters is yet to
be solved. 1t used to be found in the
Nile and its adjacent rivers but for
some reason grows there no longer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-25
]. S. O'CONNOR
LICENSED OPTOMETRIST

LICENSED OPTOMETRIST
/ am licensed and registered under the
Wisconsin state law.
Eyes tested and glasses correctly fit
ted. Come in and get your glasses
Strengthened; no charge.
Wright House, Friday. Saturday and
Sunday, August 9th, 2Sth and 29th,
1920.
At Ostermeier hotel, POtOsi, August
Both, afternoon. and 31st, forenoon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-25

Y YP where a man must bal
ance on iron girders,
- climb swaying beams,
where a single false move
means a helpless body drop
ping to the pavement 800 feet
below that's where Adam
Diehl works.
Believe me-" says Adam
Diehl, 1T means a lot when |
tell you | put on Blue Buckle
OverAlls every time work on
a high building. The overalls
| wear have got to fit easy. |
can t afford to have them pull
or bind-and they've got to
stand up strong under the
toughest kind Of wear.
"OUerolLS 7Uhere I zOork get
about as big a test as you can
g7Ue an oUeraU.
Like millions of workers on
big jobs-on farms, IN factories.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-25

"OUeraHs zchere I 1cork get about
as big test as yOW can gsOe an
OUeraH."
(Signed) Adam Diehl
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-25
AS big a test
: as you can
give anove

onrailroads-everywhere, Adam
Diehl has found that Of all the
overalls he's worn Blue Buckles
give the fullest value-last the
longest.
Long wear is woven into the
tough, thick denim cloth.
Every pair is always big and
roomy = always comfortable.
The wide, double stitched
seams will not rip. The heavy
brass buttons and buckles don't
rust or break. Every detail has
the same sturdy, frst-class
workmanship, the same care
full attention. Big, convenient
pockets extra wide suspenders,
and free swing raglan sleeves
on all the coats.
Wear, comfort, looks, you'll
find Blue Buckles have them
all. Ask your dealer for a pair
today Mems, Youths and
Children S sizes.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-12
Leaf Tobacco Imports Are
Bigger in March, Report

Imports of leaf tobacco into the
United States show an upward trend,
all grades with the exception OF
wrapper leaf making a substantial in
crease during the month OF March, as
month last year. Imports from the
Philippine Islands made a gain of
5O,127 pounds, or 17S per cent; wrap
per leaf shipments fell to 1915 pounds
decrease of 1884 pounds,
or SO per cent, the loss being due
mainly to the strinkage Of receipts
through Canadian ports. Imports Of all
ether leaf in March increased 5,931 1888
pounds, or so per cent, the total in
crease for the month for all kinds of
leaf amounting to 5,S66,S96 pounds, or
IS per cent. The value of leaf imports
during March. 1920. was $12,03S,S3S. an
increase of S5,340432 or 80 per cent
The record for nine months of the
current fiscal year reveals the follow
ing comparisons in contrast with the
corresponding period of the last fiscal
year: Philippine leaf decreased 1872
GA pounds, or 80 per cent; wrapper
leaf decreased 958,645 pounds, or 10
per cent: all other leaf increased
12,92O.71O pounds, or 25 per cent; total
leaf increased 25,533,769 pounds, or 81
per cent The total value for nine
months up to March, 1920, was ST.,
677,564. an increase over last year,
amounting to S12,S56,S46, or q per
cent
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-12
Kentucky's Wheat Yield
Is Cut Over One-Half

FRANKFORT, KY, June 12.-ken-
tuckys wheat crop promises to be
6,204 900 bushels less than last year.
The crop last year totaled 12,029,OOO
bushels. The crop this year promises
to be 5,825,000 bushels. The Hessian
fly prevails in western and southern
Kentucky. The average wheat crop in
Kentucky from 1914 to 1918 was
10,316,000 bushels.
These astounding figures were given
out today by commissioner of agricul-
ture Hanna and H. F. Bryant, Ken
lucky field agent of the United States
bureau of crop estimates.
Oats are doing fine on a good acre
age, except where too badly drowned
out in few places.
Rye shows a condition of So per cent
or normal Barley acreage in Kentucky
this year is about II per cent less than
in 1919, due chiefly to increased hurley
tobacco acreage.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-12

that the wage earners who formerly were the
best customers of the money lenders have been
replaced by another class, who make bigger loans.
Twenty years before the war the average
loan of the Provident Loan Society $16,"
says the Times. -Four years after the war
started it $50, and last year $76. In 1875
early months the number of borrowers leaving
pledges between $3.50 and $500 was under 1000,
but in the closing months above 1000. The re-
port says: Fewer loans were made than in any
year since 1910, but the amount of loans was
nearly Sc, OOO0 900 in excess of any previous year.
"These borrowers are the new poor, who
have succeeded the old poor. Wage earners most
ly patronize the pawnbroker in emergencies, such
I as sickness or unemployment. Salared and pro-
fessional men are less troubled by such family
crises, but seriously affected by the ne
cossity of sustaining their standards of living
when the cost of living skyrockets out of their
reach, if not sight. The new poor are on yearly
rather than weekly pay, their ways of living are
more settled, and their associations make de-
mands upon their purses from which wage earn
ers are more free. It is tragedy that so many
lntellectuals' are driven to striking to maintain
not the dignity of their professions, but the de-
cencies of their life"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-12

Quartette and a mixed quartette, as
sisted by others:
WOndrous Cross; Nearer My God
to Thee-Male Quartette. The Best
Town on the Map; The House by the
Side of the Road-Bessie Bull. Sc
lection-Mixed Quartette. Solo-Miss
Vesta Roll.an, Brookville, Ohio
Nursery Advice; The Independent
Fair-Bessie Bull Juineta; Fishin
Male Quartette. Bass solo - James
Stewart. Takes Heap O Living
Legend Of Twilight Bell-Bessie Bull
Solo-Miss Rollman. Guide Us and
Guard Us-Male Quartette.
Everyone IS invited. no admission
but free will offering.
CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind-The open
ing meeting of the Christian Woman s
Board of Missions met with Mrs Clara
Cornthwaithe Monday night
An interesting program was given
Mrs. r. l.. Scott was the leader
throughout the evening.
Officers were elected as follows:
Mrs. X. l.. Scott, president; Mrs
Ralph Tague, vice president; Mrs. A
II. Hodson, secretary; Miss Virginia
Barnett, treasurer; Mrs Clara Cornth
Walthe, assistant treasurer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-12
TRADING OF
CONTINUED from Page One,

Continued from Page One,
as postmaster general if Wood wins
in the convention and at the elections.
Fighting for Penrose Mantle.
In reality, and candidates aside,
Hert and Hitchcock are and have been
fighting for the leadership of the Re-
publican party because it Is known
that Senator Penrose will not be able
to take active charge Of the cam
paign.
The national Craftsmanship is Incl
dental also. Hays may continue in one
event, or may not. The big politics of
it is that the leadership, the power or
party domination and direction are at
stake, and that Wood and Lowden are
the pawns in the game, as it began.
All combinations made, or making,
by Hitchcock, Hert or any other, are
based on that, with the nomination
second, and merely as an instrument
or medium, and the needs and desires
Of the American people very bad
third
The artificial character Of the ap-
plause feature of national conventions
as developed in the last 20 years, was
again shown at this convention. Just
as there is great maneuvering to get
first chance to make a. nominating
speech and the first crack at the ap,
plause, so there has grown up this
claque applause demonstration.
It is all organized like the cheering
section at a football game, with ex
pert cheer leaders and meters and
props such as flags and pictures and
bands and so on. The first parade OF
the standards in a national convention
and was a sensation and the Woman
in Red" was novelty, but this organic
ed hired applause now is a bore
Nationally, if there are dominating
candidates the one named second must
have as much applause or more than
| the one named first.
Has no Effect at All.
Somebody seems to think that
| applause counts in the general results
whereas it has no effect on any dele
gate whatsoever save to wilt his collar
wet his shirt and otherwise mess him
up when it comes his turns to per
form. It never changed a vote.
| 1t was seven-tenths artificial and the
rest real at the Coliseum today. AnC
it was particularly messy because the
| temperature in the hall was very high
! and the air very humid.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-12
Dinner Stories

What we call thrift in ourselves,
IS sometimes stinginess in others.
But cheer up, thrifty ones, The re.
cord in meanness is we'll established
by the lady who called at the local
shop in country village and gave
a small-very small-order for goods
including half a pound of cats meat
The shopkeeper was muttering an
cry words to himself half an hour
later as he made up the order, when
Hurried and GREATNESS maid SER
want dashed into the place
'H-have you sent off Mrs. Grab
tights things YETI" she gasped
Just doing EN-" snapped the gro
Ger, struggling with a sea of parcels
"Oh, thank goodness" gasped the
girl Then don't send the cats meat
The cat just caught a sparrow"
A mistress had a Yorkshire maid
of-allwork who had one fault-a lacb
of cleanliness. DO you know, Mary
the mistress at last summoned Ut
courage to say, "if you would only
wash your face in hot, soapy water
it would make you look beautiful
would it now" was Marys an
swer. Il wonder, mum, we've nive1
tried it yerself"