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The herald., 1922-09-14
CHINESE NOW CLAIM HONOR
cred America Long Before
/ Day of Columbus.

Legends common to the literature
of both China and Japan relate that
about the year 400 Hwui Shan,
Buddhist missionary, in company with
five brother priests, found land
many miles to the eastward of China
which he named Fusang. They sailed
along the Chinese coast to kamchat-
ka and thence along the Aleutian Is
lands TO Alaska. The description OF
the peoples they found fits the Aleuts
and the EskimOs as they are today.
From Alaska, which they called
Great Han, they sailed along the coast
to Fusang. Hwuai Shan describes the
dwellings made of blocks of sun-dried
mud, which housed many people, a
description which fits the pueblos Of
ancient America. He mentions plant
used in making cordage and paper.
which afforded vegetable milk and
which yielded tender edible sprouts.
The maguey plant also answers this
description.
He also describes a plant and its
fruit which is the species OF cactus
commonly known as the prickly pear.
From the Chinese records, therefore,
Fusang was very like Mexico.
A few years ago the Chinese gov
eminent directed its historian TO make
a search of the imperial records, and
from them came the foregoing &C.
count.
The herald., 1922-09-14
PESSIMISM NEVER IN ORDER
Present Time Always Just as Good
Time as Any, II One Will
but Consider.

Our age is bewailed as an age Of In
troversiOn. Must that needs be evil?
We, it seems, are critical; we are EN-
barrassed with second thoughts; we
cannot enjoy anything for hankering
to know whereof the pleasure consists;
we are lined with eyes; We see with
our feet; the time Is infected with
Hamlet's unhappineSs-
Sicklied Ger with the pale cast of
thought.
Is it SO bad then? Sight is the last
thing TO be pitied. Would we be blindf
Do we fear lest we should outsee ma
ture and God, and drink truth dryf
look upon the discomfort of the liter
airy class as mere announcement Of
the fact that they find themselves not
In the state Of mind Of their fathers,
and regret the coming state as untried;
as a boy breads the water before he
has learned that he can swim. If there
is any period one would desire to be
ton; when the old and the new stand
side by side, and admit of being COM
pared; when the energies Of all men
are searched by fear and by hope :;
when the historic glOries of the old
can be compensated oy the rich posi-
bilitles of the new era? This time,
like all times, is very good one, IL
we know what to do with it.-Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
The herald., 1922-09-14
Do We Laugh in Dreams7

Why do we have no sense of humOr
while we are dreaming? And why do
we take almost everything as a mat
ter of coursef
In our waking moments we should
be surprised If fat Chinese guest
were to swim like a goldfish through
the dining room where Lloyd George
is gratefully eating mud pie
brought in by a little girl whose hair
is done up in eight pigtails, and a
tailor is applying an immense fiatiron
TO the coat which it's owner Is wearing
while he Is smoking a saxophone, and
a swarthy man is chopping up books
and cording them in the center of the
room.
Perhaps we do laugh while we
dream, and then forget that we
laughed.-Life.
The herald., 1922-09-14
Orjuin of Polka-Dot.

Silvered with the dust of decades Is
the polka-dot pattern in mems scarfs.
Fashions may appear and disappear,
but the polka-dot is peerless and dis
appearless. AS regularly as sunrise
and the seasons, this design brightens
windows and wearers. 1t is One-and-
invisible with the fine art of dress
alike In America and England.
To the polka-dot is ascribed an odd
ancestry. Its name, of course, is de-
rived from the polka, an old-fashioned
round dance with three steps to the
measure. This dance, introduced In
Europe by a Bohemian, round about
1885, spread to the United States at
the time that Polk was candidate for
the presidency. The polka-dot was
bracketed with Folks name by politi-
cal admirers, and polka-this and polka
that, from shirts to shoes, became q
bit of furore In merchants windows.
The herald., 1922-09-14
How Machine Cuts Mortar.

A special machine, which Is intend
ed for cutting out the mortar between
bricks, is described with illustration
In a late issue Of Popular Mechanics
Magazine. 1t consists Of small wheel
which is operated at $500 revolutions
Der minute by q flexible shaft from
q one-fourth horsepower electric mo-
tor. A case, partly covering the
wheel, extends down to form a han
die, and a safety guard is provided to
protect the operators hands from fly
ing bits Of mortar. Wheels Of vari-
GUS thicknesses are supplied so that
they may be changed to fit layers OF
mortar Of different width.
The herald., 1922-09-14
Mortality Of Trees.

uran beings cannot compete with
! n the matter of longevity, but
kn beings are more fortunate than
J % to certain ages, according to
|nHp tables A forest at maturity
bins about 5 per cent of all the
! hat have started life there. The
tntage Of persons living from ten
kp Is much greater in the case
rea About IS per cent Of our
y de before they are eighty years
Ehls only 81 per cent Of persons
De before reaching that age.
4 when II comes to trees 100 years
|p md over we have to go back
Biblical history to find human be
vho compare with them In length
can Methuselah and Noah were
mad Of the majority Of our com.
tees as centenarians, but no man
% nation has lived as long as
B he seQuola trees. The seQu0ia
nhsn age Of about 1900 years.
The herald., 1922-09-14
Wood Has Bad Reputation.

Elder is Of iIl-omen since Judas,
they say, hanged himself thereon, yet
1t has the virtue Of beauty in the days
Of wild roses and honeysuckle. Elder
fiower-water Is good for compilations,
say rustic maids, and old-time farmers
claim for elderberry-wine that 1t Is
"a pretty tidy tipple."
Though the elder-woOd Is a dank,
weed-infested place, 1t is to the liking
Of rabbits, that always seem to abound
there.
Such woods cumber the ground, but
here and there the superstition holds
good that to cut or burn elder Is to
arouse the wrath Of the trees dryad.
and so they are spared.
The herald., 1922-09-14
ALL ABOUT RAIN
BY a Man Who Evidently Has
Studied the Subject.
Some Few Facts May Have Been Over.
looked, But In General It Will Be
Found Pretty Comprehensive.

RAIN" said the man who presldes
over the fortunes of the all-night
lunch room, sis u phenomenon familiar
to all of us from our early years.
Scientists tell us that rain is the mols-
ture which makes the clouds before II
Is condensed into rain drops by COM
ing into contact with colder air cur
rents, and that is very interesting.
There are certain other interesting
facts connected with rain. / have
spent much time in collecting them.
Rain can be confidently expected to
fall on the Fourth of July, on the 18th
Of March, on the dates of weddings,
open-air prize fights, and inaugurations
Of the Presidents, when 1t sometimes
appears frozen and is then called
snow 1t can be looked for with as
surance on other occasions too nu-
merOus 10 mention and II comes fire.
quently in defiance of all known rules.
There are certain cities in this
country which support game called
baseball" he continued. "In these
cities rain is famous principally be-
cause Ii produces what are known as
dOuble-headers, an arrangement much
in favor among certain admirers of the
sport.
in the days before children were
deprived of the pleasure Of risking
their lives with firew Orks in celebra-
ton of the signing Of the Declaration
Of Independence each Fourth Of July.
rain was hailed with delight on that
anniversary by certain nervous men
and women. Ii eXerted dampening
influence on the dangers of the day,
tended to reduce the noise OF the Oc-
casion and made it almost impossible
to set roofs on fire with skyrOckets
and powder crackers.
But today almost the only persons
who welcome rain are the husbands
and fathers of the land, who seek
excuses for accompanying their wives
and children to places of so-called
amusement and who, by some strange
superstition, regard a holiday as a
period in which to rest. Rain is es-
pecially unwelcome on days like the
Fourth Of July to the people whose
profits depend on the assembling OF
thousands of patriotic celebrators In
the open air.
aside from holidays, rain Is deemed
a valuable stock in trade by farmers
gardeners, the manufacturers Of rub
bers. raincOats and umbrellas. House
wives usually object to 1t. because In
all the centuries Of civilization the
male members of families have never
learned the real use Of the mat at the
front door with Welcome written
on 1t.
Rain is sometimes, but not often
useful as an inspiration to poets, ad
yertisement illustrators and people
with bad tempers. The last class ofteI
wakes really eloquent when the gentle
drops fall from the clouds.
HE told me that he had just beer
presented with something from owe
the border that rendered him immune
to the Ills attendant upon rain. calle'
me a Grass materialist and went out
thinking OF viOlets, l guess, because
he forgot to pay for his coffee. =
Providence Journal.
The herald., 1922-09-14
HOW
FAMOUS COLORED CHECKS
CAME TO POPULAR FAVOR.

S IL IOI SbhIN ANOTN.
Sir Walter Scott's black and
white tweed trousers figured In
q paper dealing with the de-
signing and coloring Of Scotch
tweeds read at q textile con-
gress held at Hawick some time
ago. The famous author was
one Of the earliest wearers Of
tweed, and the first pieces were
made In the black-and-white de-
sign.
COlored checks were intro
duced by accident. A manufac-
turer had number of pieces
and the white was so impure
and dirty-looking that they could
not be sold. Then someone sug-
gested that If the pieces were
dyed brown the defect would be
covered. The suggestion was
acted upon and a new check Of
black and brown was the result.
The new color was sent to
London and sold rapidly. 1t was
a short step to dye black and
green and black and blue, and
to make broken checks, and the
trade increased amazingly.
1t was now possible for a lady
to have a reversible skirt made
up In such a way that she might
appear at one time in q modest
blue and at another In the tar
tan of her clan.
The herald., 1922-09-14
CHARTER.
CHARTER OF
CASTIGLIOLA PRODUCE CO. INC


United States of America, State of
Louisiana, Parish Of Orleans. City of New
Orleans: BE IL known, that on this Both
day Of the month Of August, the year
of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred
and Twenty-Five. before me, Robert X.
Ramos, a Notary Public. duly commits
stoned and qualified. in and for this City
and the Parish of Orleans, therein re-
siding, and in the presence Of the wit
nesses hereinafter nanNd and under
the Persons whose names are hereunto
subscribed. who declared that availing
themselves Of the provisions of the Con-
stitution and Laws of the State Of Louis
lana. and particularly Of the provisions
Of Act No. 267 Of the Acts of the General
Assembly of the State Of Louisiana for
the year 1914 and the amendments there
TO. they have covenanted and agreed and
do, by these presents. covenant, agree,
bind and form themselves. as well as
such other persons as may hereafter Join
or become associated with them. into a
corporation and body polite in law, for
the objects and purposes and under the
agreements and stipulatiOns following.
to-wft:
ARTICLE 1.-The name and stvle OF
OLA PRODUCE COMPANY. INC. and
under that name It shall have and enjoy
corporate existence for a period of ninety
nine years from the date hereof. 1t shall
have power to hold receive, convey, trans
fer mortgage and hypothecate property
bonds, notes and other obligations. II
may contract sue and be sued, plead or
be implicated by its corporate name In
any court Of competent Jurisdiction. II
and alter or break the same at pleasure
| II may hold stock in other corporations
| and its capital stock may be Issued for
| capital stock Of other corporations.
The herald., 1922-09-14
fnuland's Daylight Saving.

rhsht saving In England passes
the term Of summer time. II
'een under consideration In the
= parliament, where new statu.
iuthority has been given. II
= there b something of an agri.
"a bloc In England, too. Its &C
- resulted In shortening the pc
'~ early rising by three weeks al
ad In other words, England,
10 high latitude. and the conse
n upon the relative length Of
ut and darkness, win next year
ayllght saving late in April and
u early 10 September.-From the
lns Business.
The herald., 1922-09-14
ReIioious Freedom Under Bolshevisrn.

The baptizing of children will not
be allowed in Russia In the future.
The supreme council Of the church
which is under Soviet control, is elabo-
rating a new church law dealing with
baptism. In this the age Of baptism
Is fixed at eighteen, and the consent
of the person concerned must be OBJ
tanned in writing and filed with the
authorities.
The herald., 1922-09-14
Eaulet Must Prove Fitness.

Many were the strange stories told
Of the eagle during antiquity. 1t was
believed to be the messenger and
spirit Of Jupiter. One of these stories,
and perhaps the most peculiar Of all
of them. is the following, told by
Pliny. the great naturalist Of ancient
Rome:
As soon as her fiedglings can fly the
mother eagle takes her young ones
and bids them sit upon limb In full
view Of the setting sun. If one Of
them ever so much as blinks or waters
at the eyes the mother falls upon II
and kills 1t, deeming II too degenerate
and weak to propagate the species.
The herald., 1922-09-14
How to Solder Aluminium.

To solder aluminium. first make .
soldering bit from q piece OF v or
z inches round or square aluminium.
Next, tin the parts to be soldered with
a composition Of 81 per cent tin, 10
per cent aluminium, and per cent cop
per.
After the copper has fused, the
aluminium should be added little by
little. stirring the mixture thoroughly
all the time. The tin and small
portion Of tallow should be added. DO
not overhead the composition.-Po9a
lar Science Monthly.
The herald., 1922-09-14

Persuading the landlord that your
rent is sufficiently high.
Meeting two of the girls you Tilted.
at your fiancee's reception.
Wearing the lavish neckwear q
maiden aunt gave you at Christmas.
Suggesting to the boss that small
increase in salary would be acceptable.
Attending a lecture on eugenics and
discovering that you and the speaker
are the only males present.
Listening to military genius out
line the cause and effect Of the next
world war.
Sitting beside the restless boy who
chews gum and asks questions at the
movie show.
Sharing q hymn book with the elder.
ly lady who possesses a cracked 50
prano voice.
Paying the gas and repair bills in
Cured by your brotherin-law while he
was driving your car last SUMNER
Life.
The herald., 1922-09-14
n BY GRIZZLY
|, LAST Out in stand-Up
\, With Forest King
! ,.,.. It Seemed That An
e'as's ..n Taken in Trap
~ ~ a,d Broken Away

,.st pioneer huh'ei a
p.,'s Who knew all the tricks
j, n'n .ss killed near LivingS-
ene EMILY by a grizzly bear ,
n, ! nice ranch in the south.
r,s S.rs county. Montana near ca
. Of the Yellowstone , Ma,
n6'i. md a. he knew all the tricks
=. .,, ,s' game, was well aware are
tanuDs Of encountering a VIC
sSd vet be appears to have
~ :, a. sssth in trying to kill alone
~ aa,.Iy' and to have lost ,s ono q,
ssbt the animal In one OF
s ,.sDs-a huge steel device
p e.. a' Itself with clamp about about
af', .. hastily returned home
.; ,,r re- rife and told his
NJ Ms catch. Mrs. Duret never
lin His failure to return
, - to search the hills with
= .. p, Then she appealed to
'."sone PARK rangers .,,,,-v
S0'a o.,t over the country
long search W. Hutchlngs'
', 4 the park buffalo corrals !,
william Dehnoff found
! a.aeled body nearly two miles
~ .,.i se had engaged in a life
- Struggle with the beast EAST .a IL
nj. desolate place not ten
~ where Duret in 1870 was
"a and warmly greeted by
,nt Roosevelt. - ,u,-
\ hair and torn flesh. rem,
a. broken trap and a clawed
go die told the story Of the
o,,s, made. Superintendent
n Albright Of Yellowstone
,so Investigated the old hunt
...,s said the grizzly was a
!, mute Of the park for which
ma covered many a mile. IL
,,tIy bad succeeded in breaking
.ar the trap after Duret fired
n IA believed the bear broke
n which attached the trap to a
| A.. attacked the hunter, whose
Nd apparently damned.
=, apparent that Duret had
\ defend himself by using his
club, but his fight was use
| o., arm and a leg were torn on
n, body was mangled. 1t is be
h became unconscious, Their
IA ,,ter the bear had wearied
NJ ney and dragged away the
attached to the trap. Signs in
" nat Duret managed to craw
|, tvo miles toward his home. The
u ny be must have retained full
~dn Of his faculties, as he wa:
kx a straight line to his rancf
death overlook him.
The herald., 1922-09-14
~The White Mans Burden. =

The Man friday don't like this
goatskin Prince Albert. master. It's
too hot. Why do we have to wear
clothes on this island?
Robinson Crusoe-These garments
are unhandsome and uncomfortable,
but we must endure them. They are
our badge Of civilization.
The herald., 1922-09-14
SEEING 10 Believing.

Jane, age four, had just come Id
from four hours in the sand pile and
was having a prolonged session in the
bathroom with her mother.
"Jane, your hands are simply
rights" exclaimed mother. consider
ing the possible use of a scrub brush.
"But, mother" retorted Jane, you
ought to see my knees; they're more
frightened than my hands,"
The herald., 1922-09-14
What Made HE Hen 10.

S,sley Of Beaconsfeld makes q
~ poultry keeping. He geti
NJ out Of II. and occasionally Q
fux
aer day. for instance, he
~ VI one Of his chickens was III,
soded to kill 1t. When he
up to ascertain the cause Of
0able he found:
nntacks,
Small screws,
reces of TIN, and
Metal nuts.
chicken, he afterward learned
"a pecking for food in a build
["-London Express.
The herald., 1922-09-14

1t is said a single pair Of sparrows
and a nest of their young consume
about 5000 insects a week. Say what
you please about sparrows. they are
good workers, even IL they are poor
musicians.
The herald., 1922-09-14

With a proper radio outfit you can
keep in touch with the gossip of the
world, but we calculate II will be
long time before science replaces the
Ladies' Sewing society I'm giving 100
per cent efficiency.
The herald., 1922-09-14
II Was Hard to Bear.

Mr.-Have you heard that Sjoberg's
wife had run away?
Mrs.-No, indeed! Poor fellow
How did he take it,
Mr.-Well, he has now Gained down
o nttle, but for the first few days he
was de.irious with joy.-Stockholm
KasCer.
The herald., 1922-09-14
arItish LEGACY Law Shift.

A change in the English law is pro-
posed by which the freehold property
Of a man who dies without leaving a
will may be divided among all his chill
dren. AS the law is at present the
property goes to his eldest son.
The herald., 1922-09-14

Street car fare In Moscow is 1000
rubles for half q mile. or about what
used to be the cost Of q trip around
the world; but since the cost Of
pair of shoes there is about 100000
rubles. we suppose 1t pays to ride.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The herald., 1922-09-14
ODD FACTS

One Of the oldest known types of
dogs is the greyhound.
Felt and cloth are now being made
out Of spun glass In Italy.
Prior to 1925 all women's shoes
were made without heels.
Worms attacked the first wheat
crop Of the Virginia colonists.
The teeth Of the harlequin snake
are arranged like those Of a cat.
A silkworm In it's brief lifetime
spins about 1000 yards of thread.
Wild canaries were not yellow orig
inally, but green or gray In color.
Many travellers declare the Arabs
to be the handsomest people of the
earth.
Tadpoles treated with thyroxin
turn into matured frogs almost at
once.
la Marseillaise," the French ma
tional anthem, was composed at Stras-
burg.
The herald., 1922-09-14
PICKUPS

A success Is a man who has
gone a little way but Is anxious
to go further.
Few men appreciate the Joy
Of having work to do until they
get out Of a Job.
The man who is always look
ing for little the best Of Ii u.s.
ually picks up much the worst
Of 1t.
Making the most Of what you
get Is much better than depend
ing for happiness on what you
think you are going to get.
The herald., 1922-09-14
READ AND HEED

Increases Of railway dividends win
shortly be In order.
Any time is a good time to start
carrying out good idea.
Maybe the trouble is with you, not
with your job or your boss.
A warning: Many radio stocks now
being promoted are as thin as air.
If you're ashamed Of your position
you should be ashamed of yourself.
The leaders Of tomorrow will have
to be likeable. Are you trying to
qualify?
Congress, always eager to reform"
business, badly needs businesslike re-
forming.
The two pillars Of every whole some
nation must be the Heart and the
Hearth.
My favorite motto: Everything
comes to him who hustles while he
waits."-ThOmas Edison.
Your mind like soil will produce
nothing unless intelligently titled
nothing, that is, but weeds.
Wealth won hasn't necessarily been
taken from someone else. What about
Ford, for example SForbes Maya
zine.
The herald., 1922-09-14
@soer- Saving Implement.

.a0'f.savins Implement.
W. md that taking summer
usn'ens your burden as an
sural toilsrf'
G u does" declared Farmer
- ITS a heap easier to get
n -. .'0e. with a can opener than
The herald., 1922-09-14
AZ Last.

Perpetual motions here
Yes, it's come.
Just watch your own stenog.
Chewing gum.
The herald., 1922-09-14

A tired toiler frequently thinks he
leads a dogs life although the average
dog gets plenty Of rest.-Arkansas
Thomas Cat.
The herald., 1922-09-14
A FEW THOUGHTS

Egoism is love In its meanest form.
Modesty and merit are handsome
couple.
Half truths often make whole trou-
bles.
A sunny thought drives away the
shadows.
The man who labors forgets that he
waits.
To be content with less Is to have
less discomfort
The herald., 1922-09-14
Between love and duty's the comic

For every innocent man In Jail ther'
are one hundred guilty men az large
One radio enthusiast says that ra-
do will soon displace the automobile
az a diversion, says the Houston Post.
We can't believe that until we see
what hugging and kissing facilities for
the spooners this wonderful new dis
covery affords.
The herald., 1922-09-14

An opera singer says that no woman
is worth loving until she Is thirty.
Maybe not; but how is one to tell
when she is thlrtyl
The herald., 1922-09-14

One should seek for others the hap
piness one desires for ones self
Buddhist.
The herald., 1922-09-14
ARKANSAS "MEWSINGS"

The difference between a man and
q jackass Is often two feet.
There are all sorts Of deadbeats, but
the debt of gratitude possibly develops
the most dodgers.
The herald., 1922-09-14

Romeo was a perfect lover, but
what couldn't he have accomplished
with q twin-six limousine2
The herald., 1922-09-14

All things whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do We even so to
Decentralization.
The herald., 1922-09-14

The torrential rain that follows
lightning is because the air has been
charged and cannot hold its moisture.
The herald., 1922-09-14
WORDS OF WISE MEN
Remember your failures are but
your stepping stones to success.

Fiction has higher aim than fact
1t is the possible when compared with
the merely positive.
The herald., 1922-09-14

He sought for others the good he
desired for himself. Let him pass on.
Egyptian.
The herald., 1922-09-14

What you would not wish done to
yourself, do not unto others.-Chinese