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The Nevada County picayune., 1921-12-29
John Gets His Last Chance
By WINIFRED DUNBAR

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 The telephone was jingling discord- antly and Cleave was conscious of an acute presentiment Of disaster as he took down the receiver.
 "You wife accident |. .. he heard voice saying. "fhrown from the buggy :. bend In the road unconscious and grave fears come home at once"
 Cleave hung the receiver up and sat staring moodlly ut the papers upon his desk. It seemed like fate, this ac- cident. for he had not expected to see Mary again for months, If ever.
 They had been married two years, and had no child. If one had come things might have been different-they might not have quarreled so perpetu- ally.
 How she had loved him before their marriage, thought Cleave, as he sat at his desk. Then she had striven at first to make him happy And he, too, had tried hard to be good to her, for Mary was very lovable and sweet. But at last they had both given up in de spair. Cleave would always remem- Der the words she had said to him that night three months before:
 'I can forgive you, John, and love you, but the memory of these two un- happy years must always be with me. II can never be quite the same again.
 And after that everything had seemed hopeless. Things had gone from bad to worse. And finally they had decided that Mary should go back to her mother, to spend the summer with her. There was To he no scandal. Mary had been on her way to the sta ton when the accident happened.
 Suddenly there swept over him fuller realization than had ever De fore come to him of his seltshness. If he could only have one chance more
 An hours run and he was treadng the streets of the country village In which he lived. He saw his home; an automobile was standing before lh4 door. He rushed in. The doctor and Il nurse, hastily summoned were Ill the hall. When the doctor had finished speaking. and the nurse had sped up the stairs. he turned to him.
 "Your wife has had very serious accident. Mir. Cleave," he said, "She was thrown out of the buggy when the horse swerVed. and sustained frae- ture of the skull There Is no immedt- ate danger, am happy to say, She may recover consciousness at any time. But we fear some brain In jury
 All through that afternoon John Cleave sat at his wifes bedside, star. iug into the wide-open eyes that saw nothing. She lay in stupor.
 It was not until the third afternoon that consciousness returned.
 It was about three o'clock in the aft ernoon when she stirred and spoke. She smiled at him, and the smile was like that which she had worn upon their wedding morning.
 "pearest-where am I?' she asked.
 At home," said John, thrilling at the faint clasp of her fingers. At home. never to go away again.
 "She spoke to you, you sayf In ouired the doctor of John that eve ming. "She knew you and spoke and seemed rationalf
 Absolutely rational answered John Cleave, and turned away. He went into his room and on his knees thanked God for the chance that was to be his. Ills nrayer was answered.
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-12-29
BIRDS TONGUES VARY WIDELY
Feathered Creatures Apparently Pro- vided by Nature With That Best
 Suited to It's Species.

Some curious data have been gath cred with respect 10 the tongues of birds. It is pointed out that many persons suppose that woodpeckers use their sharp-pointed tongues as darts with which to tranStix their prey. Ii is true that the woodpecker, like the hunming bird. can dart out it's tongue with the greatest rapidity, and that It's mouth Is furnished with an elaborate mechanism for this purpose, vet investigation shows that the ob- feet of their swift motion is only to catch the prey, not to pierce it. For the purpose of holding the captured victim the woodpecker's tongue IS furnished with n sticky secretion.
 lnasmueh as it pctesses the power of initiating speech, it is not surpris- ing to learn that the parrots tongue resembles that of man more closely than any other birds tongue, It is not because the parrot Is more intelli- gent than many other birds, but be- cause its tongue is better suited for articulation than theirs that it Is able to amuSe us with Its mimicry.
 In some respects the humming birds tongue is the most remarkable of all. It is double nearly from end to end, so that the little creature is able to grasp its insect prey veryr N
 it's mouth were furnishe4
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-04-14
Vol. XXXIV: No. 81

Yeddo was made the capital of the
empire and the Mikado's court was
transferred thither, but the name,
Yeddo, being distasteful on account
of its associations with the shogunate,
was abolished, and the city renamed
Toxic, or Eastern Capital"
The history of Japan from the
abolition of feudalism, in 1871, up to
the present time, is record of ad-
vance in all the arts of western civili-
cation. The Mikados have shown
themselves to be much more than
pretty divinities. They have taken a
firm stand in advocacy of. the intro
ductions of western customs, where
ever there were improvements. The
imperial navy, dockyards and machine
shops have been the pride of Japan.
They have withdrawn themselves
from mediaeval seclusion and assumed
divinity and have made themselves ac-
cessible and visible to their subjects.
They have placed their Expresses in
positions like to that occupied by the
consorts of European monarchs and
with them have adopted European at
tire. Modern innovations have been
introduced, education has been ad-
vanced and the standards of Christen-
dom have been firmly planted on its
soil.
In 1890 constitution was granted
to Japan by its Emperor and few
months later Legislative bodies for the
first time began deliberation in Toxic.
With government drawing for it
self parallel with those of enlightened
western nations, increasing the free
dom of its people, the power of the
peoples legislators and the honesty of
the peoples courts. Japan has every
right to name herself as worthy of
place in full brotherhood with the
family of civilized nations.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-04-14
Birds Need No Compass

Experiments recently made 20 to
show that the so-called sixth sense"
of certain animals is magnetic one
enabling them to know instinctively
the points of the compass, or at any
rate the direction in which to go.
In one experiment a labyrinth of
passages was constructed in metal,
and so arranged that the whole busi-
ness worked on a pivot, and could be
turned in any desired direction.
Rats were trained to traverse this
labyrinth until they could go through
in a few seconds.
The contrivance was then moved
through an angle of ninety-degrees,
yet the rats went through in the
same direction as formerly, but not,
of course, through the same passages.
to which they were accustomed.
"A blind bat was turned loose in
room across which had been stretched
a number of fine threads. The bat
flew in and out among these threads
with as much apparent ease as if it
had been in full possession of its
sight.
Small birds, as we know, cross
great stretches of sea, frequently hy-
ing by night. They can have no pos
sible landmarks by which to fly, and
therefore must have wonderful sense
of direction.-Es.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-04-14

ing villages, were in great tumult,
fearing that there would be a war,
for which the country was totally un-
prepared. Meanwhile the envoy was
impatiently demanding an answer. AT
last, after eight days, the patience and
the impatience combined with the
demonstrations made by the vessels of
the fleet, which were highly impress
sive to the Japanese who had never
seen steamboat, won success for
Commodore Perry's message. A high
japanese commissioner came to Ura-
ga, prepared magnificent pavilion
for the ceremonies, and announced
himself ready to receive the letter to
the Emperor. With great pomp and
ceremony the American landed and in
his pavilion with proper formalities,
delivered the letter and the presents
from the President. Then having,
for the first time in history, gained
several points in etiquette in coun-
try where etiquette was more than
law or morals, Perry sailed away with
his fleet July II, 1853.
Thus was formally opened the
gateway to the Orient. Perry went
back again in 1854 and after consi-
derable debate the shogun's council
signed a treaty with the United States
March 81, 1854. The next impor-
tant step was not taken until July,
1853, when Lord Elgin arrived with
propositions on the part of Great Bri-
tain for treaty of amity and COM
merce. He was unaccompanied by
an armed force and brought a steam
yacht as a present from Queen Vic
(toria to the Tai Kun, or great ruler,
of Japan. A few months later
treaties were entered into with all the
leading powers of Europe.
This action of the shogun in enter
ing into communication with foreign
barbarians did not meet the approval
of the people and for the next ten
years there was so much disorder, in
trigue and bloodshed that Japan be-
came among the western nations
byword for treachery and assassina-
ton. Defenseless foreigners were
cut down in the streets of Yeddo and
Yokohama and even in the legations.
The reason for these acts of violence
was explained in the hostility of the
Mikado's partisans to the shogun's
government. All possible means were
taken to thwart the shogun and to
bring him into complications with the
ambassadors at his court. Every at
tack on a foreigner brought fresh
trouble upon the Yeddo government
and hastened its collapse. Long be-
fore the foreigners arrived, the seeds
of revolution had sprouted and their
growth was showing above the soil.
1t is to the state or political parties
and of feudalism at the epoch in Jap
anese history, and not to mere ill will
against foreigners, that this policy of
intrigue and assassination must be
aScribed.
The result was a series of civil
wars which resulted in the aboli-
tionate of the shogunate and the
establishment of the Mikado's author
ity. As the center of the nations life.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-04-14
HE first golden rays of the orb
of day, shining over the tossing


wastes of the broad Pacific,
lights land whose recorded history
stretches back through the hoary CEN
turies almost to the beginning of time.
hitting, indeed, is it that the poetical
name of this land should be the En-
pire of the Rising Sun, for such has
Japan been called since the days when
the memory of man runneth not to
the contrary. Oldest of the dynas-
ties of the world is Japan. Before
the pyramids of Egypt were built, or
the Sphinx began its lonely watch
over the sandy stretches that border
the Nile, the peacocks were preening
on the fretted pillars that marked the
tombs of its sun born, as told in its
traditions, which carry back its his
tory for a term of years which re-
quires several hundred ciphers to mea-
sure.
Until the 18th century of our era,
Europe did not know even of the exis-
tence of Japan, and the reports which
were then brought by Marco Polo,
who had learned of the island empire
from the Chinese, were as vague as
they were enticing. The successes of
the Jesuit missionaries led by Xavier,
and the commercial intercourse estab-
lished by the Portuguese in the latter
part of the 10th century, and by the
Dutch somewhat later, promised to
disclose the mysteries of the far Paci-
fc empire; but within a few genera
tions these were more hopelessly than
ever sealed against foreign intrusion.
Only Go years ago the United States
knocked at the door of Japan, met
welcome under protest and the coun-
try began to open to western civila-
tion. Even yet the great mass of peo-
pie Of our own country have far from
a right conception of the ancient civil
lization which has for ages prevailed
in these islands of the Pacific.
1t is almost impossible for mind
trained in modern ways of thinking
to conceive of written history which
dates back to $50 B. c., yet such
volumes exist in Japan, making al
most a complete record of the coun-
try since the ancient days when Jim
mu Tenno began his reign as the first
Mikado on the aforementioned date.
Jimmu must have been a pretty good
Mikado, for he is deifed in the Shinto
religion and in thousands of shrines
dedicated to him the people worship
his spirit. The reigning Emperor re-
fers to him as his ancestor, from
whom he claims unbroken descent as
the 123d member of this dynasty.
April 9TH is fixed as the anniversary
of his ascension to the throne and
that day is national holiday on
which the birth, the accession and
the death of this national hero are
still annually celebrated. Then one
may see flags flying from both public
and private buildings and hear the
reverberations of-a royal salute fired
by the iron-clad navy of Japan from
Krupp guns, and by the military in
French uniforms from Remington
rifles. The era of Jimmu is the start
ing point of japanese chronology and
the year one of the Japanese era is
that upon which he ascended the
throne at Kashiwavara.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-04-14
Saltwater, Minnesota, Thursday, April IA, 1921.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION BENEFITS JAPANESE
Selected

1t was the American Union which
opened the door of Japan to western
civilization. 1t had been desired by
all of the European nations, as we'll
as by the United States to obtain
access to japanese ports. Supplies
were frequently needed, particularly
water and coal, but no distress was
ever considered sufficient excuse for
the japanese to permit the landing of
a foreign vessels crew. Even Jap
anese sailors who were shipwrecked
on other shores, or carried out to sea,
were refused re-admission to their
own country when rescued by for
eigners.
Commodore Matthew Calbraith
Perry of the American navy urged
upon President Millard Fillmore the
necessity and possibility of making
some sort of a treaty with the exclu-
sive empire. 1t was decided that the
most effective way to advance this
desire was to sail into the bay of Yed-
do with squadron sufficient to COM
mand respect. A fleet was assigned
to the undertaking, under the COM
mand of Perry, and the American
vessels sailed away to the Orient to
rendezvous at the chief city of the
.Liu Kiu islands, Napha. From
Napha the fleet sailed for Japan, the
flagship, Susquehanna, the advance of
the line of ships of II nations.
1t was on July 7, 1853, under
sky and over a sea of perfect calm,
that the four American warships ap-
peared off Uraga in the Bay of Yeddo.
Without delay the officials of Uraga
notified the barbarian" envoy that
he must go to Nagasaki, where all
business with foreigners had to be
done. The barbarian refused to 60.
He informed the messengers that he
was the bearer of a letter from the
President of the United States to the
Emperor of Japan; that he had sailed
as near as possible to the destination
of the letter and would now deliver
it and continue it on its way by land,
but would not retrace his path until
the letter was delivered. The shogun,
Iyeyoshi on receiving information of
such a decision, was exceedingly
troubled and called his officials to a
council. Alarm was widespread and
it was ordered that strict watch be
kept along the shore to prevent the
barbarian vessels from committing
acts of violence. During the eight
days while Commodore Perry's fleet
was waiting in the Bay of Yeddo, the
boats of his ships were busily engaged
in talking soundings and surveying
the shores and the anchorage. No
sailors were permitted to land and no
natives were molested. Every effort
was made to indicate to the Japanese
the desire for peaceful friendship.
A learned Chinese scholar was sent
by the shogun to Uraga, who acted
as an official and eminent interpreter
in an interview with the American
envoy. Continued councils were called
by the shogun, not only of his chief
officers, but of the daimios, the mobiles
and the retired mobiles of Yeddo. The
citizens of Yeddo and the surround
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-07
VET YANK IS FAVORITE
How Welters Compare
Jack BrfttOn.
Ted Lewis,
By JACK VEIoCK.
ternatiOnal News Sports Editor.

International News Sports Editor.
NEW YORK, Feb. Jack Brltton
viii battle Ted Lewis over the fifteen
round route at Madison Square Garden
tonight, with the worlds welterweight
title hanging IN the balance.
1t will be the nineteenth meeting be.
tween the rival welters and Lewis hopes
TO make reprisal for his defeat at Canton,
Ohio, in 1919, when Britton knocked him
out in the ninth round and took posses
sion of the coveted crown.
Britton and Lewis were originally
matched to fight in Albert Hall, London,
for Promoter Rube Welsh, but the match
was called of by their respective man
ayers when Welsh failed to forward
steamship transportation and Tex Rick
ard signed them to have it out here to-
night.
The bout will be the first welterweight
affair to & decision that New Workers have
seen in Gotham in tUeuty-One years. The
last title bout Of this kind was fought
between Mysterious" Billy Smith. then
champion, and Charlie Mcheeyer, whom
Smith defeated in twenty fierce rounds.
With BrittOn and Lewis both in excel
lent physical condition, tonight's knuckie
bee promises TO be q thriller. Some crit
5cs believe Lewis viii win back the title,
among them no less a parsonage than
Benny Leonard, the lightweight cham
piOn.
Lewis has youth and greater strength
on his side and he is going after Britton
hammer and tongs. But though he IS
Sc years old, the champion stands IN a
class by himself as a master boxer and
his chances Of retaining the title are so
substantial favOrite in the betting to de-
beat Lewis on points.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-07
pulling Winter Baseball News Basketball Scores Boxing and other
Second Reading of
Boxing Bill Before
Legislators Today
Third Reading and Vote of
Representatives Tuesday,
Amendment Possible.

The American Legion boxing bill, which
would legallze boxing in Indiana, was
to come up for second reading before the
House Of Representatives today. The
bill will be brought up for third reading
tomorrow, after which the assemblymen
VIII cast the vote that decides whether
Indiana IS to enjoy the ring sport or
not.
1t was understood today that an amend
ment would be added to the bill. ruling
that $15 shall be the highest admission
charged at any boxing show in the State
This amendment is said to be favorable
to the American Legion.
The bill would make It lawful to stage
bouts of as high as fifteen rounds dura-
ton in the State. If the bill Is passed
by the Legislators, the Governor, If he
approves the measure, Will. within sixty
days, appoint a boxing commission OF
three men whose duty it will be to su-
pervtse all bouts and see that the public
the State, boxers and promoters are pro-
tected in every way.
Mrs. Julia d. Nelson, representative
from Delaware County. has expressed
herself as in favor Of the bill.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-07
Weeks Basket Card Of
Interest to Local Fans

TODAY.
De Paw VS.. Michigan Aggies, at East
Lansing
Minnesota VS.. Iowa, at Iowa City.
Ohio VS.. illinois, at Champaign
TUESDAY.
Purdue VS.. Wabash, at Charlottesville
Butler VS.. Franklin, at Butler.
Chicago vs.. Northwestern, at Evanston
Chicago Tech VS.. Valparaiso. at Val
paraisO.
Rose Poly VS.. Stata Normal.
Tech High VS.. Thorntown, at Thorn
town.
WEDNESDAY.
De PAW VS.. Indiana, at Bloomington
THLRsDAY.
Western Normal VS.. Notre Dame, at
Notre Dame.
FRIDAY.
Butler VS.. State Normal, at Terro
Haute.
Notre Dame VS.. Armour Tech. at Notre
Dame
shortridge High VS.. Bloomington, at
bloomington
SATURDAY.
Purdue VS.. Ohio, at Lafayette.
Northwestern VS.. Wisconsin, at Madl-
son.
Minnesota VS. Illinois, at Champaign.
Butler VS.. Rose Poly. mt Terre Haute.
Valparaiso vs.. Northwestern Dentals
at Evanston.
State Normal Va. Concordia College. at
Merom
Tech High W. Lebanon, at Lebanon.
Shortridge High VS. Oolitic, at O0lltic
Manual High vs.. Bedford. at local "Y.'
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-07
ROWLING
CRAFTS KNIGHTS
HOLDING OWN

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Feb. 7.--Tndian-
apolis bOwlers are more than holdin g
.heir own in Glass A Of the annual Tri-
State Printing Crafts bowling tournament
here. The Stafford Engravers, who shot
into the lead with 2G71 pins Saturday
night, were replaced by the Cincinnati
Enquirer No. l team with a Pip total
yesterday. The Moran Press and Indian
apOlis News teams now rank third and
fourth, with counts of 251S and 2,513,
respectively. The Ft. Wayne Engraving
team is fifth and the indianapolis En-
gravers and Cornelius Printers of Indian
upClis are sixth and seventh.
The Cincinnati Times-Star is first In
the Class competition with 2,27G pins.
The Jazz Pos and Pauleys Of IndianapO-
lis are holding the other positions in this
race.
VoteI and Menden of Cincinnati are
leading in the Glass A doubles with a
count Of LIP. All other positions In this
class are held by Indianapolis teams in
the order named: Bahrbach- Mccain,
Stitch Epsey, BoegemanL Locker, Curler-
Deubig, Cummins-Chryst and Woodward
Kuhn.
Cannon and RawsOn Of Dayton, Ohio,
are leading the Glass 3 doubles shooters
with a total Of 800. Hubbard and VIII
liams OF Indianapolis are second and the
only indianapolis team in the running.
The Indianapolis bOwlers were to shoot
their singles games today.