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Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1921-11-25
QUEER CUSTOMS OF
NORTHERN RHODESIA

Washington, d. Gle who COM
plains of the complexities of ciyili-
zation, or of the rapid changes in
styles, or of the multiplication of
laws and ordinances, and believes
that the simple life is practiced
among primitive tribes, will have a
rude awakening if he examines the
customs of the aboriginal Rhodesi-
ans" says a bulletin from the Ma
tional Geographic Society, relating
to the South African people who are
reported moving back to their re-
serves to preserve their native in
situations.
Southern Rhodesia has some 49,
600 Europeans among its three
quarters of a million people, and
these whites may be considered
bona fide colonists in land set
Ting down after a somewhat disap-
pointing gold boom to regular oper-
ations of agriculture and mining.
But northern Rhodesia still is
the happy hunting ground for the
human geographer; where he may
study the effects of a plateau re-
gion upon remote tribes that have
been little affected by the encroach-
ments of the white man. Here near
ly a million natives inhabit an area
greater than Texas, where fewer
than 5000 Europeans have estab-
lished themselves.
'The Illusions that all savage peo-
pie do pretty much as they please
is dispelled upon a cursory exam
ination of a legal system that has
penalties Of mutilation for minor
offenses, whose judges must fold
their hands in certain way when
they try cases, and where every
native male inhabitant becomes
something of lawyer since the
daily public trials furnish the prin-
cipal village advertisements.
1.-THE quips at woman's extrava-
gance in dress, and the variability
of modes, which often provide the
''AS'AtebiN bbflSdA oOIS 1T amer ltdIl
musical shows, find their prototypes
in the minstrelsy of a Wemba swain
whose metrical plant is, o Woman,
you are like a greedy wagtail, peck
ing up all you can get But a mo-
ther-in-law' joke in this tribe would
result disastrously for its perpetra-
tor. So great is the reverence
! shown this relative that a husband
must step aside out Of the path
! If he meets her abroad. Should
he come upon her unawares he must
bow his head, cast his eyes upon the
ground, and not dare look at her.
Nor may he address her at all until
after his first child is born.
Women annoint their babies with
castor OIL they whiten their faces
with chalk at new moon time, but
the variety of ways they dress their
hair also is subject for native
humor. Defamation of their teeth
forms another adornmenti but the
practice which their husbands COM
plain about is their penchant Zoe ae-
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1921-11-25

Maryland; Arthur Middleton, South
Carolina.
The records of Thomas Nelson
Jr., Virginia, were destroyed by fire
in 1866, and those of Carter Brax-
ton, Virginia, during the Civil war.
The records of Thomas Hayward,
South Carolina, were also destroyed
during the Civil war, and those of
Lyman Han, Georgia, were lost in
q fire in 1856.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1921-11-25
with a pipe and ?. A.!

Prince Albert is
sold in foppy red
bags, tidy red tins,
handsome pound
end half pound Tin
Lur7lidorS and in the
pound crystal glass
h II m id or With
sponge I1ofSteReT
top.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1921-11-25
Who Cuts
Grass Is Too Good

(By international News Service)
Cleveland-Mrs. Bertha Wilson
complained to assistant police prose-
cutor Russick that she had too
good a neighbor.
lie cuts my lawn, gathers up
the papers, pulls out weeds and
puts the fallen apples on the porch"
she said.
"I'll issue a summons for that
guy Russicl1 said. Perhaps l can
induce him to take the house next
to mine"
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1921-11-25
OLD NEGRO TELLS
OF DAYS AS SLAVE

Little Rock, Nov. T." 'Cawdin
to my bes' recountenance, I mus be
gittin' on to'ds 80 yeahs," said old
Dalton Hendricks, negro of the
old school who lives at 1921 Pine
street, North Little Rock. 81 mem
bers L WIZ IS when I wuz first
put on de block. Spectator he
bought me fun a thousan' dollars
an turn roun' an sole me fun fiji
teen hun'ad, an pocket dat odder
five hun'ad, see? Niggah traders,
dey call 'em. Yessir. Niggah men
mostly brung fun a thousan' to fiji
teen hun'ad, but likely cullud gal,
good 1ookin' bright Mulatto gal,
seamster err maid, she'd bring
neah bout two thousan'."
Dalton told of the days when
he first came to North Little Rock
40 years ago, when there were only
a few farm houses and shotgun
houses on this side of the river. In
those days, he said the winters were
often very severe, and the river
froze over solid ice. There was no
bridge, a ferry boat being used
most of the time. During heavy
freezes, drivers put cork shoes on
the horses feet and hauled heavy
loads over the frozen river, and
people crossed on the ice. North
Little Rock was nothing but low
lying swamp then, he said.
Going back to his memories of
the old slave days, Dalton told Of
the first time he was put up on
the block. A slave trader from
South Flur'da'' came up to South
Carolina, where Dalton lived at the
age of IS, and bought Dalton among
other negroes. Dalton's mother
didn't want him to go so far away
from home, and through the in
fluence of Miss Susie Roper" one
of Daltons white folks" Dalton S
parents persuaded the trader to sell
the boy back to them for $1,000
The trader was curious to know
low the old negro slaves had ever
managed to save up $1,000. Dalton
said his father never told, but that
he had stolen whiskey from his
master and had sold it. Bootleg
ging, evidently, is not a modern
invention, inspired solely by prohibit
ton.
His first master Lon Hendricks,
was good to his negroes, said Dali
ton, but the old negro declared
che didn't jes' feed us huff. But
we'd stead hit We'd steal a hawg,
some night, an vide hit 'roun
'mongst de niggahs, an dat hawg
would be gone foh mawnin'." He
told of the days of the 'paddyroles, -
wien the negro slaves had to have
passes to leave the plantation OF
their owners. They secured passes
to so to 'neighboring places to big
dances and feeds.
Sometime | thinks, ev'ything
considered, de niggahs wuz bettah
off in dem days dan dey is now,
the old negro said. "Dey didn' hat
to pay no taxes. An dey didn'
hat to look aft nothin'. Dey des'
wuk. An ev'ything furnished 'um,
stuff to eat and clo'es, an tn amt
no bother. Didn' hat to look aft
nothin' tall"
Dalton, although white haired
and getting somewhat stiff in his
joints, is still working hard, get
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1921-11-25
NOTICE.

TO j. J. MANNEY;
You are hereby notified that I, las
f. hyde, as constable of Clark town
ship, Greene county, Arkansas. will
sell at public cutlery. at the feed and
sale stable owned by John Rosson,
situated on West Main street in the
city OF paTagould, Arkansas, one
black mare, about seven years old
and known as the Robertson mare,
now belonging to you.
OF said John Rossor for feeding and
keeping said mare to the amount of
ono hundred and twenty dollars. Sale
viii he made on Saturday, the 31st
day of December, 1921. at 10 o'clock
q. m, for cash.
JAS L. HYDE,
("dee.lD Constable.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1921-11-25

ting up at 8 O'Clock in the morn
ing, to go to work. He is employed
by the Knight dairy, at Eighteenth
and Pine streets.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
Ghost Appeared.

This went on every II years unit!
1912 Then when, according TO habit.
the ghost appeared. the old men called
n council. The governor was sent for,
as we'll as the priest of the parish and
the archbishop of Santa Re and a Wis
ting cardinal from Rome. They all
came and paper was signed TO the
effect thar they had seen the body.
Again il was buried. hut this time in
h ANY oak casket. and over the
crave. and even over the whole floor
of the church. was laid and nailed a
heavy plank floor.
Plank floors are not common in lit
lie adobe churches in this region. and
this is The explanation IF tie most
truthful man in lsleta. But now.
plainly visible. there is u bulge in the
planking the size of mans body
and the nails in the floor protrude!
Apparently the ghost is trying TO
come again 10 Isleta and the towns
people are looking forward apprehen-
sively tO 1924
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
OLDEST Ghost
ABOUT 10 ST..
Every Twelve Years Since Span.
iSh Invasion Body Of Mur-
dered Priest Appears.
Spanisrd Killed by Indians in New
Mexico Who Feared He Would
Betray Them to Spanish
Invaders.

Isleta, y. M.-Here "epOSeS at pres
ent the Oldest and most persistent
ghost in America. This might be in
scribed in the little adobe church
here.
Long ago, at the time of the first
Spanish invasions of sOuthw, stern
America, Spanish friar was cap
tured by the Indians. Although kept
as prisoner for "A time. lie later won
their confidence and as years went
by was admitted TO their peculiar re-
IigiOus and political circles.
At last the rumOr reached the tribe
of the advance of Coronado in search
Of treasure. The Indians feared
trcachery on the part of their Span
ish friend and one night he was
stabbed To death by one of the more
skeptical members of the tribe.
The medicine men were Mortified at
the crime. for not only had they come
TO respect the Spaniard's Christian
teachings, but had made him a par
ticipator in their own religion. And
above all, they knew what might be
expected of onraged Spaniards If they
should discover the crime.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
9 YEARS OLD, READS MINDS
Youthful Kentucky Prodigy Hopes to
Support Father and Sisters by
Gift.

Cincinnati. - Nellie Gordon, nine
years old, who for five years has as
founded all who saw her as a mind
reader, has returned To her home near
Middlesboro, Ky, after visit of sew
eral days in Cincinnati. Before Mel
lie could read writing. she could read
minds.
Although as child of five Nellie
could not tell time by reading the nu-
merals Oh the face of a clock, she
could tell the hour and the minute
by reading the mind of a person who
had just looked at the clock.
Nellie came to Cincinnati to go on
the stage. Her father is out of work
and has FIVE children. He hopes that
Nellie. who is the Oldest of five chill
dren, will become rich OH the stage.
After showing Cincinnati theater men
what the girl could do, father and
daughter returned to their home in the
Kentucky mountains TO wait for let
ter from theater manager.
Nellie is in the fifth grade OF school.
two years ahead OF other children OF
her age. She has bObbed hair and pre-
ternaturaIly bright gray eyes.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
Deg Dies Rather
Than Leave Horse.

Kansas City, Kan.-When a
garage burned here an owner
less dog sacrificed his life 10
stay beside Il horse that was
his friend. The horse hauled
Il small ice wagon.
When the horse was bought
the dog was first noticed about
tie stable. The little dog had
many friends among the boys
i'm the neighborhOod, but never
failed To pay Il daily visit 10
the horse and sometimes fol-
lowed the wagon on its rounds.
The rapid spread of the fire
and the fear OF explosions pre-
vented the rescuers from reach
ing the horse.
The dog accompanied each
ole who attempted 10 reach tie
horse and was brought back
fOrcibly several times, but final
~ sprang in alone and made his
way through flames and falling
timbers and died beside his
friend.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

\ newspaper dispatch says the Han
ward Glee club. which has been tout
ing Europe. received an especially en-
the papers of that city had apparently
been in doubt aS to what the word
"Glee" meant, and ON looking il up i'm
an English dictionary found the def
milton "gayety. merriment delight. -
They therefore assumed that the club
had been sent to downhearted Europe
To restore lis gayety. and welcomed
il as having that mission. says The
Outlook. Perhaps they were more
than half right.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
THE GOOD OLD SONGS.

1t Is pleasant TO read the announce
ment Of the Music Publishers assO-
citation that the good old songs Of
home and heart and mother and moth
er love are growing in favor. There
IL continuing demand for these dear
Old familiar melodies, homely but
wholesome as some of them may be.
breathing their message of normal hu-
man emotions and love, picturing the
sweet and beautiful part of life. There
is joy reused by the announcement
they are crowding out the abomina-
ton OF jazz. that has made its appeal
To the masses but has no reason for
continuance. says the Ohio State Jour
nal. There is more joy that the I'M
musical melodies OF Hawaii are los
ing steadily in public favor. Jazz
and the Hawaiian melodies. like the
JOY ride. raise great dust and con-
motion. but the end is inevitable. Low
ers Of music have reason for joy that
a state of normal thought and judy
ment has been reached i'm musical life.
There is so much Of beautiful music
within the reach Of the most modest
purse, no reason exists why the
cheap. the vulgar, the abominable and
the nerve-racking substitutes should
ever be given a hearing.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
Buried Near Altar.

The priests body was hastily
wrapped in sheet and without any
prayer or ceremony buried deep in
front of the altar in the little Chris
tian church i'm lseta.
COronado's men never learned of
the crime, hut few years later II pc
cuiar mound appeared in front Of HE
altar in the little church. The horri-
fled natives observed the mound was
exactly the length and width of il
mans body. Soon the hard earth floor
cracked and one morning just l.
years after the burial of the priest,
his body was discovered lying face up
ward above the spot where he had
been buried.
ON examination 1T was found that
the body was soft, rs though the
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

Another picturesque figure hts
marched out of the mist uf The cen
turtles To wit. Juan Baut;sta iii ANA
conquiStadOr. explorer. pracnu>ui T.
was i'm 11t4 that hi ANA let lis NOR
through the gates of the old Spanish
fort ut Tubac. and. without maps
guideS. or Il suspicion of what WAS he
fore him, plunged into the unknown
A year later. after battles with Indians
and battles with starvation. haVin ,
climbed two mountain ranges and
crossed desert. he reached the coast.
the first white man Ia gaze through.
the Golden Gate into the Pacific Thus
is the hiStrionic stare" of Cortes
rivaled.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

DIR. Charles Aubrey Eaton conirn.
with some degree of plausibility. al
fhe fear of poverty is not In itself ii
bad thing. He holds that such fear
may become the mother of thrift. Ii
acts as spur 10 endeavOr, and some
men, like some horses. do their best
under the spur. Poverty is not always
an unmixed evil I'm fact. il is and has
been looked upon as one of the dis
tinctly Christian virtues. although
there seems TO be rather a feeble de-
sire TO practice this particular grace.
Greed, on the other hand, is always
bad. says the indianapolis Star. Ii
is plainly the Outcropping of the hog
I'm human nature. IL is the fear of
poverty run amuck. Ii is illustrated
much but never got enough. Greed IS
AT the bottom of most of our troubles
today and has been equally fruitful Of
evil i'm every age and among every
class. We can never come To perma-
nent social peace while the fear Of pow
erty embitters one-half the people and
greed drives the other half To self
destruction. Nor will il get us any
where 10 infect the whole population
with the greed germ and turn society
into glorified trough.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

After having been neglected for
many years. the little town hall in
Goshen. New York. In one room II
which Noah Webster taught district
school i'm the days before he hag.,n
the compilation Of the dictionary
which bears his name. is to - IN
"vated and redecora;ed Even -
improved condition II will lie me- 90
fitting monument TO one We ac-
complished. alone and unni,lcd ire
mcndous and useful II task y e
will serve To bring To ihe a;'en'.' %
many the fact that W. Stcr lee
taught school although illiS ni.sht
have been suspected - wei ~ he
fact that he once resided in G. en-.
Perhaps il will also serve 20 in 49,
upon many the fact that Il was : n
and not Daniel Webster Who Wa .ht
photographer. He was ~ pro. i.c II
not particularly entertaining writer
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

Use is the antidote FOR the twin
evils of waste and economy. These
are both destructive. one of matter
and the other of mind. The savings
habit can he overdone, especially by
young men. To use what YOU have
and what YOU are iS much better than
merely To "save" what you have. The
best savings you can make * 10 in-
vest in yourself: make use of your
money To make yourself more useful.
and then I'm your proper career vnu
can handle the savings matter with
ease The only proper economy i
use. The only cure for waste il prop
er use The terms waste" ami
use" have no meaning apart from the
Individual. We cannot destroy matter
We can miss our opportunity with ii,
and misuse il. that's all. says the
Dearborn Independent. our own in
terests are all locked up in the princi-
pie of use.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
STUDIES IN INSTINCT.

Dr. Raymond Ditmars Of the New
York zoo has been making q philo-
sophicaI study of instinct i'm his
charges. He finds that the very hui
man custom Of holding hands has its
prototype among the apes. "ln all
their monkey moods" says Doctor
Ditmars, "in happiness or grief, sleep
ing or waking, the apes hold hands"
But all is not amicable hand holding
at the Bronx zoo. says the Chicago
News. In a separate dispatch comes
the news that a venOmous copper
head has hurled himself through the
air and fastened on the hand OF an
attendant who was using a long-han-
died mop on the apartment Inhabited
by this copperhead along with few
moccasins and rattlers. Thanks 10
quick and efficient first aid by Doctor
Ditmars the victim probably will re-
cover A philosophic Interpretation
Of the cOpperheads action is not yet
forthcoming, but. pending an explana-
tiOn by Doctor Ditmars, surmises are
in order. 1t seems clear that the
plague of fail decorating has extend
ed itself 10 the Bronx ZOO. This cop
perhead represents the conservative
masculine instinct to let well enough
alone and repel the decorator. When
The intruding mop was thrust inc
this sacred den he struck at the home
wrecker The action will be under
] stood If not cOndoned by male human
ity all over America.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
Release Wounded Eaolc.

Huntington. pam eagle. wound
eel seven weeks ago near here. has just
been released from the highest peak
of the Allegheny mountains. Tie
cost of its food was the reason for
giving il its liberty. the bird. eating
three pounds of beefsteak daily.
The bird, since it was hurt, has
been kept in a cage and cared for BY
game wardens. The eagle was wound
ed by a farmer who was tired of see
ing IL hanging around his farm"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
His Body Was Discovered.

priest had been dead but few days,
and the wound in his back was clot-
ted with fresh blood. There seemed
to lac nothing 10 do but TO bury him
again. This they did and were care
full to press the earth down very
firmly.
Ii was no use. The crack re-
appeared and widened and at the end
of another L. years they found him
lying there again. And as before the
body showed no sign of decOmposi-
tinn
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

Dr. Arthur ID. Little, addressing the
American Chemical society in New
York. declared that new energy, TO be
derived direct from the suns rays,
from the diSintegratiOn of the atom,
from wind and water, and from grow
ins vegetation" must in the future
take the place of that row obtained
from the worlds dwindling supplies
Of coal. gas and petroleum. Doctor
Little developed his theme with Scien-
life particularly, and greatly interest
ed his bearers; but, of course, he told
no more than some of them already
knew. This has been the dream Of
scientists and of plain, untutOred lay
men alike for long time, says the
Philadelphia Record. If only one
could invent or discover "a perpetual
piece of fire" Put il in the furnace
In late September and let il heat the
house, say. until March without need
of replenishment or any sort Of at-
tention; then put II away somewhere
In cold storage. Many man lies
awake o. nights thinking of such things
as that.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
HUBBY PUT MOUSE
IN W0MAN'S BED
Wife Regards Conduct as Ex-
tremeIy Cruel and Asks Judge
for Divorce

Chicago.-"My husband often was
extremely cruel TO me, but the climax
came when he placed a live mouse
in my bed" Mrs Gladys Mae Marsh,
1921 East Marquette boulevard, told
Judge SABBATH in the Superior court,
in support of her plea for a divorce
from Clyde Marsh, real estate dealer.
IL was tired from my days work
as stenographer in loop office and
wanted To rest after dinner" Mrs.
Marsh continued. My husband want
ed 10 go to the movies. finally went
To bed. A few minutes later l felt
something moving under the bed
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25
LOVE FOR DOG IS FATAL
Girl Drinks Remainder of Poison Used
in Killing Pet Animal, Thought
Too Old.

New York.-Afler her pet dog. who
was thought too old. had been killed
10y a swiftly working poison, Gladys
Coulver, took The poison that was
left and killed herself.
After the dOgs had been poisoned
the remainder of the stuff was thrown
sister of the girl went to the brook,
got the poison. apd gave it TO their
sister.
She mixed il with water and drank
Ii. Just before she died she staggered
into her mothers room and cried:
Mother, mother Why did / do III"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

The unemployed i'm London are add
ing 10 the governments troubles. The
spirit which furnishes mischief for
idle hands 10 do is apparently busy
everywhere. with no lack of dates for
work.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

\ considerable advantage is enjoyeG
10y Dr. EinStein through the fact that
his theory. being difficult 10 demon.
strate to the popular intelligence,
leaves very little for an argument
against il 10 take hold of.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

clothes. He had put a mouse there.
Il was SO frightened l couldn't
move. My husband just stood In the
middle OF the room and laughed until
his sides hurt. 1t was brutal"
Judge SABBATH intimated that he
would grant the decree
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

WEEDS. gets 1T by ua'm. hi.cs ,"n-ue
nearly of" j. H. >iafi linz new given
the public hN headline. y cNnir
might say that H." unfortunate Per
son wouldn't have had much clunc'-
TO use 10. anyway.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

A new telescope will bring Mars
within two miles al he earth. accord
inc Ia Paris astronomers. VIII The
scientific gentlemen please train their
instrument on a nice juicy beefsteak?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-25

A stainless steel has been invented
In England What fine thing for
nation 10 make its swords Of