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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
PEAK WHERE NOAH LANDED
Mount Ararat, in Northwestern Per-
sia, Is Now Part Of a Recently
Created "Buffer" State.

Youthful students of sacred history,
if they will look up the map Of the
near East, will find in the extreme
northwestern part of Persia noun
tain peak marked Mount Ararat. That
should give them fine starting point,
for they will remember that it was on
Mount Ararat that Noah, in the Bib
lical account landed. Mount Ararat
Is the loftiest peak In Azerbaidjan,
1900 feet above sea level, but If they
have neglected news from Europe
they may not know that Azerbaidjan
is new republic established by the
political strife in eastern Europe in
the expectation that it will act as
political and military buffer for some
of the great nations.
The inhabitants of Azerbaidjan are
Pegsians, Armenians, Kurds, Tartar
Turks and Arabs, whose valleys are
veritable garden spots. 1t ranks in
statistics as one of the most produc-
tive spots in all Persia, but young
readers will find their chief interest in
the fact that it contains Mount Ara
rat, which gave Noah his first shelter,
according to the accepted narrative.
The erection of Azerbaidjan as buff
fer state brings the remote past and
the immediate present together In a
way which may also awaken the in
terest of those who have moved past
the years of youthful curiosity.-Pitts-
.urgh DiSpatch.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
Ancient Bricks Well Made.

OF the durability of the ancient
bricks the remains of ancient walls
and courses that go back to prehis
toric times bear witness. So strong
are the well-made sun-dried bricks
that they are found as foundation
many courses deep, beneath the pom
derous stone work of ancient temples
The remains of the ancient town, now
known as Ell Kab, still exist, with a
wall constructed entirely of such
bricks, still a solid mass. These
bricks now, as in ancient days, are
made with mud from the Nile and
chaff, not straw, but the admixture
was by no means always required, as
the Nile mud differed considerably in
different places, and In second-rate
brickmaking the mixture of "tibu" or
chaff was not used. But In great
works, such as the greater wall in
closing the temple group of Karnak
which was made under the impulse of
the government at the time, this chaff
was always used.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
Ammonia by Ne,ssProcess

An enterprising American has Sc
cured from the Italian government
concession for the utilization of 800
horsepower Of the Marmore cascades
near Terni, about seventy miles from
Rome, and maintains that he can turn
out heterogeneous plant food for the
italian farmer at cost as low as ]
Ira per kilo equivalent to $00SS per
pound, with the Ira taken at its par
exchange value of $0193). 1t is said
that the falls are capable of general
ing not less than 10000 horsepower.
These are the cascades over which
Byron waXed so eloquent in "Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage" Alfred P. Den
mis-, commercial attache of the United
States embassy in Rome, reports to the
department of commerce that the only
ingredients in the ammonia are water,
air and electric energy.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
Reality of Disease Germs.

Replying to a protest from Lee
White, publicity department of the
Christian Scientists, against remarks
on the death from diphtheria of girl
under Christian Science treatment, the
Journal of the American Medical Asso-
citation says: Had the nine-year-old
girl been buried beneath a load of
bricks, even Mr.. White would have
suggested, we believe, that before CIV
ing the injured child Christian Sci
ence' acknowledgment or present
the bricks should be removed. What
Mr.. White fails to realize is that a
Klebs-Loeffler bacillus is just as ma
terial an object as brick. 1t does
material damage, 1t is true, not by its
material weight, but by the equally
material toxins it produces"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
MAKES THE SAPPHIRE BLUSH
Rsdium Treatment Turns the Cheaper
Stones to Rubes Which Com
mand the Highest Prices.

Modern science has not brought us
very much nearer the magic stone OF
the old philosophers, but it has enabled
later experts to play some surprising
tricks with the existing materials OF
the jeweler and lapidary. The old
alchemists set out to discover the phi
losopher's stone, and achieved gunpow
der and other adjuncts to civilization
as the accidental by-product Of theil
original inquiry. Their less credulous
descendants reverse the process; the
invention is made first and its applica
tion to magic is discovered afterward
The existence of the electric furnace
makes it possible to create diamonds
that are the veritable stone, and tC
fuse clippings and fragments of ruby
into one complete jewel. Now arrives
a report that with the aid of radium
successful transformations have been
made in the appearance, if not in the
nature, of certain precious stones. A
sapphire, it is said, has been turned
into glorious ruby by long exposure
to the effect of radium. Chemically
considered, THIS is not very surprising.
for the two stones are both examples
of corundam, and the mysterious acct,
dent of color is the principal difference
between them. If sapphire can be
made to blush hard enough for its
mistake in not being a ruby, pre-
sumably it could blush itself into a
most accomplished example of the
more valuable stone.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
New Thread Has Fine Qualities.

A sea grass that grows abundantly
about the shores Of Japan has been
found to yield fiber which, properly
mixed with cotton, forms thread
much cheaper and stronger than one
of all cotton. The process Of remov-
ing the rind of the weed, which has
been patented by its japanese inven-
tor, is to dry the plant, boil 1t in I've
for two hours and cool slowly. Wash
ing it in water then separates most of
the coverings, and the rest comes off
when it is soaked in water containing
lice bran and brought to the boiling
point. The resulting fiber, after rims
ing, resembles cotton, and Is ready for
use. The grass is harvested in the
fall and the fiber can be prepared by
fishermen. 1t is expected to have a
marked effect on the price of cheap
clothing, and to improve the durability
Of fishing nets.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
Dinner for Dyspeptlcs.

Sir Henry Holland, the late Lord
Knutsford's father, gave what Is not
too common-a really pleasant piece
of medical advice. He recommended
his dyspeptlc patients to go out to din
ner and eat made dishes.
Herbert Spencer, one of the recipi-
ents of this advice, found it to con-
siderable extent justified
"The effects of agreeable emotions
are often surprising" says the valetu-
dinarian philosopher. 81 have had
many experiences of the fact that dys-
pepsla, so far from being necessarily
exacerbated by dining out, may even
be cured Notwithstanding many die
tetic imprudences, If the social sur
roundings are such as to yield great
pleasure. London Chronicle.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
Bird Eats 1000 Bugs.

A cliff swallow will eat thousand
flies, mosquitoes, wheat-midgets or
beetles that injure fruit trees in a day
and therefore is to be encouraged,
says the American Forestry associa-
ton of Washington.
This bird is also known as the cave
swallow because 1t plasters Its nest on
the outside of barn or other build
ing up under the caves. Colonies of
several thousand will build their nests
together on the side of cliff.
These nests shaped like a fattened
gourd or water bottle are made of bits
of clay rolled into pellets and lined
with straw or feathers. This bird
winters in the tropics.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30

In the struggle for the conservation
of energy and material we are urged
to cut out the hyphens from our books
and writings, says the Chicago Jour
nal Their use causes us to waste an
enormous amount of time, ink and
physical force. Some nations build
up compound words without any by
phen to break them, but the English
find one necessary for a simple word
of five letters, like to-day" 1t may
be roughly estimated that each of the
2,O00,000,000 people who write Eng
fish write today" tomorrow" or
tonight" three times a day. Half an
ounce of force Is required to make
a hyphen with a pen or a pencil, so
this superfluous symbol entails a to-
TAI waste of 1S,50O000 pounds daily, or
enough to draw a passenger train
round the world
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
DEEP RESPECT FOR SABBATH
Writer'S Recollection of How Day
Used to Be Observed When He
Was a Small Boy.

My mother was born and reared in
little country village in western New
York On the farm where my grand
mother lived, it was the custom to be-
gin Sunday on Saturday night at
shutdown. The "hired man" came in
from the chores, grandmother put
away all her York in the kitchen, and
then the entire family gathered in the
best room and studied the Sunday
school lesson, or had reading from the
Bible, led by grandfather, and all the
family retired not later than nine
O'Clock.
In the morning after doing none but
the absolutely necessary chores on the
farm, the team that had not been used
the day before was hitched up to the
big four-seated wagon and the entire
family, including the "hired" help, went
to church. There was preaching serv-
ice in the forenoon, and then we adj
journed to a lunch for ourselves and
the team. Then we went in to a Sun
day school service, and after an inter-
val there was another preaching serv-
ice, after which we hitched up and
drove slowly back to the farm.
That was the way Sunday was kept
in western New York little more
than fifty years ago. | can remem-
Der hearing my mother say that when
she was girl in the same New York
state village, she was not allowed to
walk except to the cemetery and back,
on Sunday, and was not allowed to
read any books except the Bible and
"Fox's Book of Martyrs. "-Christian
Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
Beetle Cultivation

Ants are not the only insects that
practice the cultivation of mushrooms,
although for a long time it was thought
that they were the only creatures OF
a lower order than man that possessed
the intelligence to follow such an agri-
cultural pursuit. Bouverie, the ento-
molOgist, had found that certain
wondering beetle, known as the bos-
trychide, is as familiar with mushroom
cultivation as is the species of ant of
which so much has been written. Pro-
fessor Bouyerie discovered that the
beetles in question bore holes in wood
and half fill them with a prepared
fungus which makes an ideal mush-
room bed. The garden is carefully
spawned and in course of time the
mushrooms appear. In this way the
beetle provides itself with a food suf-
ficiently tender for its feeble jaws.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
ANNAPOLIS FOUNDED IN 1904
Nova Scotia Earliest Colonlzed Land
In North America, With Excep-
tlon of St. Augustine.

Nova Scotia may lay claim to be-
ing the earliest colonized land in North
America, with the exception Of st. Au-
gustine, Fla. where the Spanish es-
Establishment was made as early as
1885. Port Royal, now the little town
Of Annapolis. was founded In 1904.
three years before the English settled
at jamestown. The brave French
pioneers found It necessary to sus-
pend their colony for three years, but
the settlement was established in
1910 by a group of Acadians.
The Acadlans were In almost con-
slant conflict with the English. The
colony fell into the hands of the Eng
lish twice, and was each time returned
to the French before the English final
ly captured It In ITO. The Acadians
remained steadfast in their hopes that
French rule would some day return
but their hope was destined never to
he realized. They. however, persisted
IL maintaining their identity even
against the English insistence that
they abandon their allegiance to their
mother country.
The descendants of the Acadans,
numbering 100000, are to be found in
Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas,
Georgia and Louisiana. When the
Acadians were expelled from the Basin
of Monas. Grand Pre-, when they re-
fused to take the oath of fealty to the
English sovereign in 1855. many of them
escaped to the wilderness and later
drifted back to their former homes only
To find them occupied by new settlers
from New England states.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
Rebuilding Guatemala City.

Guatemala city, in the republic of
the same name, which was the scene
of one of the most violent earthquakes
in Central American history, during
the latter months of 1917 and the early
part of 1918, is now being gradually
rebuilt.
Guatemala was for centuries the
home of the Maya-Quiche Indians. At
Quirigua are located some of the most
remarkable ruins in the Americas
monoliths resembling Egyptian ODE
lisks, from the top of which gigantic
faces stare at the intruder. Excava-
tons in the vicinity have revealed the
ground plan of what must have been
remarkable and imposing temple. A
bulletin of the National Geographic
society states that in the mountains of
southwestern Guatemala live pure
blooded Indians who are known for
their physique, cleanliness and scrupu-
lous honesty.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
MADE TOMBSTONE OF ROCK
Probably New Yorker viii Investigate
Before He Carves His Name on
Another Boulder.

1t was quite a while before proml'
nent lawyer In New York related to
his friends a personal experience
which he had one summer when, being
somewhat run down In health, he went
into the Adirondacks to rest.
One day, as he was wandering aim
lessly through the woods, he came up
on a huge boulder not far from the
railroad that runs along the shore of
a lake. Listlessly he began to carve
his name on the rock, but gradually
warmed to the task and chiseled zeal
ously away until he had wrought both
name and date with various embellish-
ing fiourishes.
AS he was proudly surveying the
result of his labor, an elderly back
woodsman appeared on the scene. Aft
err the customary greeting, he dex-
terously shifted his pack to the ground.
then with a somewhat quizzical air
surveyed the lawyers work.
"Quite a bit Of art you've got
there" he observed gravely.
The lawyer accepted this tribute
complacently.
'Kind of curious how things come
about" he went ON. "Now, the first
time a train was run into these here
woods 1t come in contact with tramp,
long about here and that there boul-
der marks the spot where we buried
him. Now, here he is provided with a
first-class tombstone and an inscrip-
ton that anybody might be proud Of.
Kinder curious, amt TT"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
Humminn Birds Nest.

Burroughs, in his charming little
book, "Wake Robin" says it Is an
event in ones life to find a hummlng
birds nest. The event happened to
me without any effort on my part.
Looking up from a seat in the grove
I saw the ruby-throat drop down on
its nest, like a shining emerald from
the clouds; it did not pause upon the
edge of the nest but dropped lmme-
diately upon it. The nest was stu
ated upon an oak twig, and was
about the size Of a black-walnut, and
from where ] sat it looked more like
an excrescence than a nest. II was sit
uated in the fork of two twigs and
firmly glued at the base to the lower,
but was not fastened to the upper
wig.-Mary Treat in Home Studies
in Nature"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
SUPERSTITIONS OF THE PAST
Peculiar Beliefs That Not So very
Many Years Ago Had Almost Uni
versaI Credence.

A reader furnishes us With list
of old superstitions which were part
of our folk lore in this part OF the
country before we had to have folk
lore societies to preserve this sort OF
thing:
A rooster growing at the front door
meant a visitor coming.
A twig catching young lady's dress
meant a beau.
An itching ear meant that some one
was talking about you.
To turn back after starting meant
bad luck.
Opening an umbrella in the house
meant bad luck to the house.
A measuring worm on a woman's
frock meant a new dress.
An itching left hand meant that you
would marry soon.
An itching right hand meant that
you would shake hands with strang-
er.
Seeing the new moon over the left
shoulder meant one would soon get
money.
Probably most of us are supersti-
tious about the number 13, just as peo-
pie were long time ago. Our own
superstitions will amuse subsequent
generation, as those recalled by our
reader amuse u.s. Only subsequent
generation pon safely laugh at super
stitions. Socrates was put to death for
laughing at some of the superstitions
of the Greeks. Let u.s. then, laugh at
these and take the superstitions of our
own time as seriously as we please
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
Ancient H. c. L.

The FL. G. l.. is no brand new phe.
nomenon of our own day. 1t was old
as far back as the second year of King
Darius, about 500 B. G.
aye have sown MUCH" Haggai, an
orator of his time, tainted his towns
men, land bring in little; We eat, but
We have not enough; We drink, but We
are not filed with drink; ye clothe
YOU, but there is none warm; and he
that earneth wages earneth wages to
nut it into a bag with holes"
Haggai's platform, his scheme for
reducing that H. C. L., was the build
ing of new temple.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30

Lady Butcher in her Memories of
George Meredith" recently published,
gives the world not little new infor-
nation about the novelist which is
both significant and extremely enter
tanning. Here is one of the passages
she quotes from her diary which shows
his amazing power to paint with
words;
"AIr. Meredith went with father and
me to see Irving and Mrs. Grove (nee
Bateman) in Macbeth During sup
Der he explained the acting of the
sleep-walking scene to mother, and
wishing to describe the way that Lady
Macbeth pushed the palms of her
hands from nose to ear, he said: My
dear Mrs. Brandreth, assure you that
she came through her hands like a
corpse stricken with mania In the act
of resurrection From Book Cos
sip"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
zodiacal Signs and Vegetation.

Zodlacal signs have no influence
whatever upon vegetation. A fruitful
season is one in which the climatic
conditions, such as temperature and
precipitation, have been of the nature
to produce the best possible results.
There is great variation in these con-
ditions, although coincident with the
return of the same zodlacal sign. The
same sign comedies with the abnormal
summer as well as with the normal,
and the same remark applies to any
other season.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-30
One Thing at a Time. Bows.

When a fellow is trying to mobilize
enough courage 10 kiss girl he isn't
able to think of germs.-Toledo Blade
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-10
OUR BUYING ORGAN
IZATION.: "

To make certain that we are constantly
able to supply you with the newest and
best that the nations markets produce,
we maintain all-year-round buying or
plantations in our own offices at. New.
York, St. Louis and St. Paul. Daily con-
tact with the markets is a big advantage
in buying. We have that advantage.
Experience has demonstrated that in no
other manner of buying can we be sure
of serving you as you should be served.
In each of our buying centers we have
an adequate staff Of thoroughly expert
enced buyers whose intimate knowledge
of merchandise and markets, combined
with the accurate information supplied
by our local managers as to the needs
of every section Of the country, enable
them to buy for you the Ready-to- Wear
Apparel, Shoes and Dry Goods that you
particularly want. n 1920.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-10
2g7 Stores Apparel Cog Dry Goods and Shoes
Everybody -Square Deal to All
OUR BUYING POWER

In 1919 we sold, for cash, thirty mil
lion dollars worth of merchandise We
know it needs very little explanation. to
convenince people that such buying
power is sure to entitle us to lowest cost
prices. In addition to quantity purchases
we do, by our centralized buying organ
ization, almost entirely eliminate the
middleman's profits that generally con-
stitutes part of the cost in the usual one
store-only buying.
What we save in buying is passed on
to our customers. This fact in itself is
a very good reason why we sell con-
stantly at such low prices. ->~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-10
NEW MERCHANDISE
-. ~ ALWAYS

Our low margin of selling assures
rapid selling-that results in constant
replenishment of our stocks-you are
thus assured that you have new goods to
select from at all times in our stores.
Merchandise does not remain here suf-
ficiently long to become old.
Furthermore, we never buy bankrupt
stocks or undesirable merchandise of any
sort. The pick Of the nations best goods
only and always.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-10
WE NEVER HAVE SALES

With J. c. Penney Company near you
there is no need or wisdom in waiting
for Especial sales" to buy at lowest
prices. We never hold "sales" or 'cut
price events.' Sales are either dis
posal of undesirable merchandise or else
the price has been marked too high at
first so as to stand a mark down" at
the, end of the season. Think it over!
Who pays the big profits when the
sales" method is used. -
You can buy from us at the beginning
of the season, when goods are the new
est, at prices generally as low as the so
called "after-the-season clearance sales.",
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-10
WHO WE ARE

The ]. C. Penney Company owning
and operating 297 stores, is the OUT
Growth of small store started IN ken-
merer, Wyoming, in 1902. Ever since
the first store was opened the principle
that has guided the present day Natlon-
Wide Institution has been the Golden
Rule. With fullest consideration tor
everyone, serving all alike, our reward
h.. been ever increasing friendships
that enable us to constantly enlarge our
fold If service and consequently beneht
greater number as we go 1or"aro'
J.. C.. Penney Company was pioneer
in irving to the men who came into the
organization an opportunity to become
partners in various stores. We know
that when you know us, you Will nave
;r,nl;cit confidence in our intention ana
dissemination to render you service
worth while whenever you require Dry
Goods or Wearing Apparel for Men,
Women and Children.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-10
REMEMBER

the saving we effect
in buying merchan-
!. disc and operating
our business is the
: saving you partici-
pate in every time you
purchase at this store
- ,, . -, .-.''..' 20 =
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-10
ONE PRICE TO ALL

And that price is bed rock low always.
We never discriminate in the prices at
which we sell merchandise.
One price to everybody, that's the real
spirit of the J. C. Penney Company.
Every doll ar that you spend here has
the same purchasing power as your
neighbor's -isn't that your idea of cor
rect business methods? ~-- $780, -.
Our investigation of conditions in and
about Bemidji three years ago has proven
to US that the majority of the people
quickly appreciated the advantages Of
fered to them by the service of this store.
With. new methods always, lowest
prices every day and courteous service
at. all .times-this different store has
filled long felt want in this community.
People who visit this store are quickly
convinced that this is in truth ''the store
for everybody"