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some men make such afhit with ami
mails is because they are innocent of
heart and mind. II that is so. Oily
!, must have been the toughest kind of a
sophisticated criminal
That was one reason Oily was as
signed to the animal tent. Nothirs
ma kcs such q hit with the crowd as
to have the animals yowl and jump at
the cage bars and show mcanncss. and
all Only had to do. was to walk around
inside the tent TO have wave of yowls
follow him. Even the guinea pigs in
the Happy Family would try To bite
tho cage bars when they saw Oily.
And II takes something to make a
guinea pig show fcrocity. Oily was
the only thing l ever knew that could
do 1t.
We had Jap with the show once
who used a kind of hair oil that drove
the trained seals crazy lie was Il lit
tie fellow and about fifty years old.
and his star stunt was to go away IN
into the top of the big top and fasten
his little wisp of hair to "a pulley and
slide down long wire. hanging by the
hair and whirliuE around and around
until couple of rough nccks caught
nun just as he 'rca h Gu the
ground Along In 'aS his hair began to
come out, and he wrote TO an uncle of
him in Nladtvostok for some of this
hair oil. | guess II was one OF the good
old family remedies he know about:
anyway, 1t was SO strong that IL the
Spaniards had heard about II in time
they wouldn't have had TO invent
garlic. ,e,
The hrst time Yams Toy came into
The big top dopod up with the stuff
the eight trained seals were doing
their stunt on the stage between the
two big rings, They gave ono whiff.
said something that sounded like n sea-
Hirk army and scootetii pf tIa,r,
went into n clowns giant fake tuba
like snail into a shell. and he went In
so far and so hard that we had to cut
the tuba off him with can opener.
His head was jammed into tho funnel
of the tuba so hard that one of us had
TO hold down one OF tho keys OF the
tuba so the seal could get a breath.
Everytime the seal drew deep.
frightened breath the tuba played a
note. II was r fiat below the scale.
and whenever hear that note now 1
can smell Sams Toys hair oil
There must have been something
about oily Jones that had this effect
on all tho birds and beasts. l don't
know what It was. and neither did
Oily. Later on we tried every way
possible to discover what 1t Was: but
that comes later In this story. 1t isn't
sophisticated criminalty. Atcug about
the time when Oily was dying ot
love, aud when he usod Ia toll me all
bis troubles, he told me with tears in
his eyes he had never done a naughty
deed, and I believed him Maybe It was
just that animals did not like his looks,
Perhaps they did not like his eyes. We
tried TO figurc out that 1t was his
scont-<evcry man and animal has a
distinctive one, as bloodhound owners
know. And we tried diet, OILY was
fond OF onions, and We thought maybe
that was it. He went without onions
for weeks. and it made no difference.
We tried rubbing cotton ON Only and
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

is SO marrcd tn public would turn
sick to sec II. One of the cats ella wed
her there. Tho truth Is that the cats
have their days. Some days they are
as sweet as pigeons and again they
are as mean as rattlesuakcs. Some
days one cat will be cross and all Tho
rest Will behave like little anccl1;
another day they will all bo cantankcr-
Gus; another day they will all he good
Once in while you'll find a cat that
is good all the time.
remember. when I was a kid on my
fathers farm. we had a bull that was
so swcet-temrcred a chlpmunk could
push 1t out of the way. Pink had one
cat like that 1t was a big he lion with
a mat OF beard and msnc and big vel
low eyes and the sweetest temper any
brute ever had. I'll tell Won what he
was like he was like one of those big
heavv-haircd orators they grow ont
West who stand up on platform aud
shake their names and bowl and look
grand and fcrocous and then so home
and cat half u soup plate of milk toast
and call IT full meal. That was like
old Leo. He was = star poser. Ic was
tho nohlest cat ever saw. did Tho
lmo-rampant act to perfection. yowled
like blood-thirsty hycna. aud ncvcr
even acted annoyed except when he
had ten too many chocolate creams
and felt satisfied. believe that IL he
hadn't been ashamed to bc seen doing
It. he would have eaten hay instead
of meat
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02
NEWS NOTES FROM MOWELAND

lf you were Just sixteen. pretty to
the point of winning a state wide
beauty contest hailed from small
town. were on your first visit to New
York. met one of its most popular
movie stars, had your features test
ed to sec IL you'd screen we'll, had
these features o. k.'d and thus gained
place in the next picture of the star
you've always worshipped, how would
you foel7
1uanita Thomas. petite hlue-eye
blonde from Jesur, Iowa. seen in her
mothcr-chaperone's apartment az the
Embassy Hotel, New York II abIoided
the answer into just ono expressive
word. Dizzy"
Miss Thomas Is the winner of the
Des Moines capitals contest launched
to discover the Hawkeye states prst-
test girl with screen ambitions. To
Juanits. out of multitude OF cor
testants, fell tho prize which included
ameng other things the opportunity to
gain place in tho company of a lead
ing screen star. provided the fair con-
tender passed the necessary screen
test and satisfied the casting director
as to ability and suitability over and
above her recognized facial puichri-
tude.
And now tuanita Is facirg the cam
era, acting real part in Norma Tai
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02
ANDROCLES JONES

As 4 matter of fact his name was
not Androclcs but orlcy Jones. and
Ae was commonly called oily for
three reasons: "oily" is not unlike
A.ley and made good substitute for
II In company where substitute
names were the rule. The old hands of
the Hoggins- Weltz show had an inyar-
iable method OF hazing newcomer
they called him out OF his proper name.
This had the effect of showing that
tho new hand was an unimportsnt bit
of nothing-at-aIi and put him in his
proper place at once. II his name was
Mike they called him Algernou until
he had writned into proper state of
mcekncss or had objected and been
beaten into right state OF mind. Thcn
his now handle was softcncd to AlEl
and IL he proved to be good fellow.
he might become Al. but never-as
long as he was with tho Hogcins-
weltz bunch-was ho Mike again.
Even Katie oHare, whose ring
name was Mile, Rosa Montmorcncy.
was Susie to all connected with the
show. and old Hoggins, safe in his Of
hco In the METROPOLITAN Tower in Now
York most of the time the show was
on the road was "Bifr' Hoggins. The
name had something tu do with the
fact that he had once owned a chear
Wild West show, a paltry imitation of
Buffalo Biu's outfit. aud had thus won
the distinction OF being dubbed "Bif-
faIo Bull"
The two other reasons for the name
were that orlcy Jones had certain
gentleness that might, by extreme
stretching be called unrtupus. "Orioy.
Hey?" said Codep RiKss. when he had
asked the new mans name. We'll. you
look Oily. all right" And the name
clunE. and IL chung the tighter because
Mr.. Jones had way-due 10 his Now
York birth-of saying II had to got IN
oily this mornin" or The oily bold
gets the wcim.''
Tho little man. with his eyes got too
ciosc together and HIS general air
Of having served n long term as
sweepcut in cheap bar room. Joined
the Hoggips- weltz crowd Mt paNen-
port. Iowa. How he ever happened to
he at Davenport was a mystery. but
he was down on his luck aud ready
for any kind Of mealtickct, and when
Codgc Biggs, our canvas man. had
knocked out three drunken rough
neck stakemen with ono of tho iron
capped blue tent stakes, he took Oily
and two other huugry-lookiug follows
to fill tho vacancies. At Iowa city. oily
doubled with the camels. leading ono
Of the tan-colorcd hrutcs in the pa
rade. and the camel bit his arm, Hc
had no luck with animals II he stood
in front of the cockatco cage for two
mlnutcF the birds wet crazy with
rage. They seemed to take oily ne ?
personal iusul, of some sort, aud
screamed their heads half off.
You may have road Of men who can
Eo into the woods and ait down, and
in a fcw minutes tho Hnuirrels come
up and kiss them, and diclSy birds
come aud roost on their shoulders,
and beavers and badgers and things
como and purr against their legs. Oily
wag Just as different from this ms he
could he, Fvcn pnk-cyed rabbits tried
10 bite him. They say tho reason
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spleen. and hence 1t is that an frascible
person is called "splenetic." Courage
was understood to be located in the
liver: and this idea survives in the
term "white-livered," meaning COW
ardly. The butcher calls Sleeps S
liver a pluck and from that source
comes the word.
AS matter of fact, all of your vital
organs respond to emotions and do a
good deal of thinking for you, being
operated by groups of the little brains
called ganglia.
COMPLEXITY OF TRANSMISSION
SYSTEM
You may get a notion of the won
derful complexity of the maze of nerve
wires that extend to every part of your
fody by looking at the palm of your
hand. 1t is covered with an elaborate
arrangement of ridges in curiously con-
voluted patterns. Each one of these
ridges Is roof covering the ends of
row of touch-nerves. There are hun
dreds of thousands of these nerve
ends beneath the outer skin of your
palm. the arrangement of their rows
marked by the ridges. The same re-
mark applies to the sole of your foot,
which has an equally complex pattern.
Inside of your skull. behind your
cars, is a small secondary brain called
tho "cerebelluin.'' Nobody knows ex-
actly what its functions are, though
undoubtedly :hey are very important.
Part of its business is to govern the
muscles in s,;ch n way as to make
them work harmoniously. But one
should realize that all of this appara-
tus-the brain proper, the cerebellum.
the spinal cord, the ganslia, and tho
nerve wtres-is one installation. COM
plete electrical plant
While the body is at rest, durins
sleep. the storage batteries of the brain
and sub-stations are slowly charged,
so that. on getting up in the morning,
one. is in condition to undertake a
Gays work. During the course of che
day, II one Is busily employed. the
supply of energy Is gradually dissi-
pated. and by late evening so much Of
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

! Anyway, Oily seemed to stand in
pretty well with all the danes In the
show-Pink, especially. Come to think
| of it, he must have stood in with me
pretty we'll. too. although never
thought of that until this minutc.
Come to think Of 1t. ! did push him
along pretty fast. rushing him up
from canvas-man to what you might
call NV general assistant in half a sea-
son. But oily was a handy man, and
he could get things done He was oily.
that wav. He had a brain. and he
creased tho trouble paths with 1t so
things slid easily.
I've got to drive around tho block
like. and get back to Pink Morris.
NJ .ybc you'll bring her to mind with
out my telling you any more if I say
her ring name Is Princess Cara Yes,
thought you'd remember her! She
was just the best little handler OF the
big cats We ever had. and one of the
best the world has produced. There's
a lot Of bunk about handling tho big
cats. and there's a lot that isn't bunk
Those who think anyone like Pink is
in mortal danger every minute she is
in the big cage have 1t all wrong. and
those who think the trainers are as
safc in the cage with the big cats as
they would beat home In bed are just
as wrong. You get one of the trainers
to strip-get any of them to strip-and
you won't find ono that Ia not SCARED
up. The reason Pink wears her fleseh-
inEs to her wrists is because one arm
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

work. We have begun seriously to
take in hand the business of deriving
it from falling water. AS yet only 3
per cent of our water power has been
developed. We have 200 100000 con-
tinuous horsepower from this source
that can be made available
To accomplish the work done in the
United States by mechanical power
would require the labor of three bill
lion hard-working slaves. The Smith
mate, calls attention to the fact that
every household in the country today
depends for its comfortable mainten-
ance upon mechanical service and
mechanical appliances.
In the United States each family
equivalent of ono hundred and fifty
slaves to do work And they work
without requiring to be fed Use of
mechanical power gives to each man,
woman and child the equivalent of
thirty bond servants.
The human body is itself a COM
monwealth-a commonwealth of liv-
ing cells. Its work is done by single
electric installation. marvelously
elaborate Vet a wonder of perfection
in every detail under the direction and
control of the brain.
One of its most important features
is an arrangement for the storage of
electricity. so that a supply of the
Juice" may at all times be available
for use. Much is doubtless stored in
the brain itself and some presumably
in every one of the sub-stations of tho
great system.
ELECTRIC SUB STATIONS
The sub-et tions are little knots Of
gray mind-stuff. strong along the
spinal cord and along tho nerves.
Thru them the activities of the vari-
ous parts of the body are directed.
Anatomists call them "ganglia." II
you wiggle your big toe. it is the gan
glta in the member and its neighbor-
hood that produce the movements. in
response TO an order telegraphcd from
the brain.
These sub-stations are really little
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

center. We speak of good heart, :"
or a lowing heart" An amiable and
sympathetic person is called kind
hearted Lovers are "sweethearts."
Tho greatest assembIage of sanglia
outside of the brain is behind the
stomach, where there is an elaborate
interlacement of nerves called the
solar plexus.' This is why a keen
anxiety gives you a sickish feeling in
that region. The prize fighter always
guards his stomach. A hard blow
there may kill man as quickly as II
his skull were smashed In.
Odd though 1t may seem. 1t Is only
within very recent times that the brain
has been recognized a. the organ Of
mind. Only few centuries ago 1t
was believed that the liver did the
thinking-though some a,rNSorities
held that the scat of intellect WAS the
kidneys. 1t is on this account that
even today we speak OF people of 'our
own Kidney
Emotions of anger were formerly
supposed to be engendered in the
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02
Science Has Discovered That Nerve Energy Is Electricity
and That What You Call Your Nervous System
Is Complex Electrical Installation

| ton of the human electrical system.
The spinal cord is the main transmits
, sion line, and the nerves which extend
to all parts of the body are she sub
sidiary wires.
II is system comparable to that
operated for the electrification of a
city-for lighting. running street-cars
and elevators. driving machinery. and
great variety of other mechanical
purposes. But it is vastly more COM
plex, and incomparably moro efficient.
It's output of electrical energy Is far
greater in proportion to fuel con-
sumed. its work is infinitely better
performed. and the tasks it accom-
plishes are a thousand fold more nu-
merous in kind.
One of the motors driven by the
current it supplies is the big muscle
which we call the heart. This must
be kept going night and day. year in
and year out, to pump the blood in
steady stream thru miles OF veins
and arteries
The amount Of power required for
that single function is very conai:ler-
able. And power Is needed for many
other purposes connected with the in =
tcrnal machinery of the body, as w.ll
as for the external muscles About
onc-thlrd of all the food you cat is
used merely to keep this machinery
in operation.
DISTRIBUTION OF POWER
Nature uses electricity to run your
body system because of its superior
economy and efficiency. 1tsis energy
without substance. Its transmission
calls for no vehicle other than wire
Ito which nerve corresponds For
distribution of power there is nothing
like II. n ~
We are beginning to realize this.
and to apply the idea to the mcchan-
ical management of civilization. Eiec-
tricity is doing more and more OF our
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02
BY RENE BACHE

What is the kick in alcohol ?
The why and wherefore of it? To
understand IT.. you must realize that
the human body is an electrical plant.
Tho fact that nerve energy is nothing
in the world but electricity has been
definitely established.
Alcohol steps up" the current. 1t
increases the voltage. which is a term
of Intensity.
In an ordinary electrical plant coal
is burned to run a steam engine. The
engine drives a dynamo. which con-
verts mechanical energy into cleo
tricity. To apply the electricity for
mechanical purposes, motors are en-
ployed
In your own body. the food you eat
furnishes the fuel which is chemical
ly burned. The dynamo Is your brain
and related structures. The motors
are your muscles.
A great deal Is said about the outer
coat of grey matter" the rind OF the
brain, which does your thinking. but
how about the mass of whitish sub
stance which Il envclops? What is
that good for?
An anatomist would tell you that
this interior mass Is composed of
bundles OF nerve fihres wound round
and round like the wire on a dynamo
NOT spool-fashion, however. but in
an interlacement OF amazing COM
plexity.
THE MAIN TRANSMISSION LINE
Just below the brain is the "medul-
IA oblonsata." great enlargement OF
the upper end OF the spinal cord. This
Is likewise mass of nerve wires. as
they might be called. But thru it,
and thruoul the length of the spinal
cord. extends core OF the same sort
of gray matter as tho rind of the
brain is made OF.
The brain Is the central power sta
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

of a husband. Pink gave him all the
weeps he deserved. and I guess she
didn't think much OF marrying again
until Oily Jones began to make up to
her. Now, there's another thing not
many people know or think about. The
kind of man that makes the big hit
with the innocent birds and beasts.
like I mentioned. don't stand one-two
three with the ladies'. as n general
rule. You can take that or leave 1t,
hut 1t Is 80. Maybe the DANES have
and inside liking for kiiIerssoIdiers and
big game hunters and such always
s, m to make hit with them. some
how. ! give 1t up: I've got other
things to figure out, at the end of a
show season when we've had rain once
every day and sometimes twice and
then some.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

tempered individual. read a story
some fellow wrote and go. published
in magazine. and although he
changed tho names, anybody would
know it was about Pink and Morris.
Owe used to call him Grunt, he was
always so complaining), and It had
II lot OF stuff about how Grunt lay
under the big stick. crushed and
holding Pinks hand-you know. the
only u clown lut human after all'
stuff That story would make
horse weep. but it wasn't any of it
so. The big stick hit him on tho
head and he never knew what hit him
II he had known. his last words would
have been Sue the show! We can
get damag ges for this!.'
AS l said. Grump Morris was good
enough clown. but he was not much
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

then putting the cotton in the cages
with tho brutcs. You know how dog
or a cat or any other animal will go
! for anything scented with a scent they
don't like. We'll they paid no attcn-
tion to cotton scented with Oily. They
Just did not like him. During those
days Oily Just moped around the show
and didn't care whether he lived or
died. 1t was on account of Fink.
This Pink person was widow and
a young one and one of the finest
girls with the show. l knew her be-
fore she married Morris, who was
her first husband and who was killed
In the big blow down in Kansas in
II, and she always was just about
as fine as they make them. Norris
had never carre much for. He was
a god enough clown but sour
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

brains, composed mainly of the same
sort of gray matter that is found in
the brain proper. We could not get
along at all without the thinking they
do. For instance, young lady has
to give her mind to learning a new
piece of piano music, but, when once it
has become familiar to her, she can play
1t and talk to her best young man a
the same time. Her spinal cord and
Eanglia play the piece. and so she is
al liberty to use her brain for CONVEX
sational purposes. 81
When the young man goes home, he
continues perhaps to think very hard
about the young lady, paying no at
tention to turning the proper corners.
But he gets there all right. his spinal
cord taking him to his residence. And
the next morning. still incoming on the
same subject, he does not really know
what he is doing while tying his four
in-hand scarf: yet he ties it correctly
because his ganglia are on the Job.
Your conscious thinking is done by
your brain: but at least ninety-nine
per cent of your actions are uncon-
scious, and are controlled by your
spinal cord and ganglia. They know
your business better than you do.
Which shoe do you put on first, the
right or left? They know. but prob
ably you don't. A man who fixes his
conscious mind upon his task while
Shaving with an ordinary razor is in
danger of cutting himself.
WHY THE HEART is EMOTIONAL
There is n great collection of gan
glia In the heart. they control tho rhy-
thmic pulsations of that organ. When
strong emotions affect this bunch of
electric s'ub-stations. they disturb the
nv Ls,s.
fright may stop It's beating for a mo-
mont or two.
Thus it WAS that long ago the heart
came TO be regarded as an emotional
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

, IT is gone that nature demands an"
other period of repose in order to refill
the battery cells.
LESSONS FROM A FISH
1t is a very curious fact that science
was first led TO identify nerve energy
with electrical energy by observation
OF a fish, the torpedo ray" which is
not uncommon species along our At
lantic coast. 1t weighs about forty
pounds when full-grown, and spcci-
mems are often caught in the deeper
waters of Buzzards Bay. Fishermen
arc exceedingly wary of touching them.
for the fish, which looks some what
like Il gigantic skate, can deliver a
shock that will knock a man down.
The rear part of the torpedo rays
brain expands into bulb (callcd the
electric bulbD, which is an electric
generator. This bulb. through connect
ing nerves, supplies electricity to two
large oval masses on either side OF it,
which are true storage batteries, each
Of them composed of 40 cells placed
vertically. The cells, which are In ef-
feet miniature Leyden jars. are filled
with jelly-likc substance. Substan-
tally. the apparatus is constructed on
the same principle as the most up-to-
date batteries for automobiles.
In working out the problem of the
torpedo fish it became apparent that
the Juice" stored in its batteries was
derived from the creatures central
nervous system. The obvious inference
was that the electricity was simply
nerve energy, and that. IL this were
true in the case of the fish, the same
idea must presumably apply to other
animals, including human beings.
Further experimentation by biolo-
gtsts proved it to be so. and has placed
beyond doubt the fact that tho human
body is In truth mechanism operated
by an electrical system, its main >power
station housed in the box of bone We
call the skull.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

An ingenious mechanic in Munich
has invented n contrivance which eau
he fixed TO public fire-slarms so that
however rings III. alarm is csuEh, by
tho arm, and held until the a, .-i,al vf
the firemen.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02
SHE'S LEFT Us FLAT

We fear that Fannie Ward has de-
cided never TO rcjoin the ranks Of AM
erican film stars because she has or
dered for sale the various art objects,
curtos and souvenirs left by hcr in her
former Los Angeles residence. she bss
an independent fortune and Ia now In
Italy with her husband
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02
STAR LOSES MOTHER

Work on forthcoming Wanda Hsw-
lev picture was della we'd recently WHOM
the Rcalart star was summoned to the
bedside of her mother in Ere,nerion.
Wash. After a stroke Of paralysis her
hours She was fifty-one, years old.
S29-S2 Thatcher Block, Pueblo
ItANITA THOMAS
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02
BUT HE'S GAINING

Bill Hart now announces that he il
not soing TO retire. Sarah Bernhardt
shll leads him by about a1s announce
mcnts.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

Employees of the London Under
ground Railway are invited by the
management to submit suggestions for
Improving the service, those accepted
being paid for.