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Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
YOMKERS HAS THE CUCKOO
Citizen Complains That the Birds Are
Somewhat Too Attentive to
Business.

A proud but truthful resident Of
Yonkers admitted that there We're
lot of cuckoOS there. He wasn't proud
of the cuckoOs, particularly. AS far as
cuckoos are concerned, his pride Is
strictly civic. If one must have
Cuckoos, he prefers the Swiss kind,
which are vocal only when wound up
and then only at intervals.
The Yonkers cuckoo doesn't have to
he wound up. The imported eight-day
cuckoo Is piker beside the Yonkers
cuckoo. The YOnkers cuckoo stays
awake half the night waiting for the
dawn and each has the same pride in
being the first to salute the earliest
gleam of the sky that a farmers wife
has in getting her washing out before
neighbours line is strung.
From the moment that the night be-
comes family luminous until about
9 30 n. m. the air is tremulous with
cuckoos. From 9:35 to 10:05, the
cuckoos knock off for lunch. Then
they're at 1t again until dark. They
yelp "cuck 90" at every resident of
Yonkers they see ana even ut strang-
erS from Peekskill. When the street
is utterly deserted they murmur
"cuck-oo, cuckoo" just for practice.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Times Changes in England.

The poacher, the trespasser, the
man who by accident let's his pigs or
heifers out upon the public road, the
urchin who rObs an orchard, and many
minor rural 'malefactors" are, it Is
generally claimed being more person
ally dealt with by modern country
magistrates. in England. The abolition
of the old-time benches of squires and
landowners, whose right to be made
justices Of the peace was almost re-
garded as hereditary, and their substi-
tuition by men Of integrity in every
walk Of life, and now by women, has
wrought change in rural police court
Justice which the country mind under
stands and appreciates to the full. On
country bench recently, a prominent
landowner, his agent, one Of his Ia
borers were all adjudicating together.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Steel Has Great Cutting Power.

"High-spced steel" for cutting tools
has been well known for years, and
an improved form of this material has
been introduced in Sheffield, England.
1t is reported that this steel has four
times the cutting power of any other
in use. The composition, is, it APP
pears, still a secret, but it is said to
be the first "high-speed steel that
can be hardened in cold water with
out danger. 1t can also be hardened
with oil or in a cold blast.
Tools made of it wear out much
less rapidly and require much less
grinding than those of the older
kinds of steel They will also go on
working at high temperature longer.
But the makers themselves say that
this steel does not by any means
mark the final development of high
speed steel."-Washington Star.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Social Climbers In Germany.

Old decorations and titles are Still
craved by social climbers in republican
Germany. This Is shown in a case in
which an international impOster and
his accomplice, who is lunatic, were
tried for fraud, says the Montreal
Herald. The prisoner was charged with
having travelled over Germany repre-
senting himself to be papal count
and chamberlain of the Vatican and
selling papal baronetcies and orders
for thousands of marks each. The
titles are said to have been solemnly
bestowed by the demented accomplice,
who was formerly veterinary sur
geon, and whose mania Is believing
himself to be ruling prince. A
Munich art dealer paid 10000 marks
for nOnexistent Lateran order, while
a Frankfort merchant underwent
solemn investure as Maltese knight.
But when the new knight did not pay
the promised sum he was deprived Of
his title, which originated only in the
fertile Imagination of the false papal
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
ANCIENT CAPITAL OF JAPAN
Nara, Rich In Artistic Treasures, Was
Once Classic Center OF Shinto
Worship.

Nara, ancient Japanese city, Is q
classic center of Shinto worship, and
was the first capital of japan. Much
of the building and beautifying begun
In A. d. 100, the "Golden Age Of
Japan" still is intact.
During the early days Of Nara pros
perity, the Todaiji, one of the seven
great temples, was the head Of Bud
dhism in Japan, and the buildings COW
cred some 20 acres.
Of all its glories there today re-
main but few, chief among them be-
ing the Great South Gute, Nandai
Mon the great Hall of Buddha, and
the ancient and most interesting old
shrine called Kaidan-in. The Great
remodeled in 1899. On either side are
two gigantic figures of Mo, or the
Deva kings, carved by Tankei and his
pupil Uhkei With the two stone
lions close by excellent specimens Of
Twelfth century Chinese sculpture,
they are listed and protected as "Na-
tional Treasures"
The Observation-Disclosures, the vast
bronze Buddha cast in 749 A. D., Is
the largest of the kind in Japan, If
not in the world, being 52R feet in
height.
The Kaidan-in Is remarkable for its
unusual construction and arrange
ment insidea series Of platforms ris-
ing one above the other to support the
images of the Deva kings, Indra and
Brahma, which are said to be among
the best examples Of the art of Nara
era, also are counted among the "Na-
tional Treasures"
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Help Austrian Children.

Danish joint committees for help to
war devastated countries report that
in 1921 Denmark entertained 1884
children from Austria for several
months, and that since September,
1919, Denmark has cared for 16,43o
Austrian children and 5,42S German
children. Furthermore, 120 German
little ones needing special care were
nursed in a special camp. Gifts of
hospital equipment were sent to
Austria and Germany, and 10000
francs was spent 20 supporting IA
children's home near Rheims. Food
and clothing to the value of 10000
Danish crowns We're sent to Germany
and Austria and financial assistance
for children amounting to 25,Oo0
crowns was sent to Belgium, 3,115 to
Poland, and 34,500 to France.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
WONDERS or THE CENTURY
MarveIs That Are Accepted az Com.
monplaos by the Citizen Of the
Present Day.

william Allen White, editor Of the
Nmporia (Kan.) Gazette, in an ed
itorial in Judge, says:
"The vast mystery of natural things
Is so battling that II Is no wonder the
mysteries Of the supernatural are
neglected in these days of marvels
The big, imponderable old world Is
shrinking and revealing itself as a
speck OF cosmos around which Its
inhabitants may ride In few weeks,
write in q few minutes and talk In q
few seconds.
"Within the memory Of living men
the railroad has divided distances by
ten and steam and electricity have
speeded up time in the ordinary proc
esses of life's business hundred
fold. Middle-aged people can recall
the days when there were no tele-
phones, no electric lights, and young
people in their middle twenties re-
member when automobiles were toys
and the moving picture was an eX-
pertinent just coming to commercial
use. And much Of the difference be-
tween the American Of today and Of
Monroe's day is due to the physical
discoveries that a hundred years have
developed.
"These physical discoveries have
changed mems creeds, revised mems
attitude to God and man, rebuilt their
institutions, made them braver be-
cause they could afford courage. made
them kinder because they could afford
kindness, and wiser because knowl-
edge of life was forced upon them by
the civilization in which they live
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
PARROT FISH ODD CREATURE
Must Have Been Devised When Moth
er Nature Was In Unusually
3 Freakish Mood.

If some one asked you, what Is
that which has a beak like that of a
parrot and cheek pouches like those
of u monkey, lives in the sea and
chews the cud like cOwT you might
imagine 1t was some kind Of catch rid
die Yet there is creature which an
swers this description perfectly. 1t Is
called the parrot fish.
The upper and lower jaws have be-
come hardened into sharp, curved
beak, which is just the tool required
for looping off Jumps Of tough weed.
Each piece shipped off by the beak is
passed into one Of the two curious
pouches which adorn the cheeks, and
there it remains until the parrot fish
feels that he has collected enough to
make a good meal.
He then lies on the bottom and chews
the cud by means Of the splendid set
Of teeth which nature has placed, not
In his mouth, but in his throat.-Ex-
change.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Wordsworth's View of Nature.

There was in Wordsworths own
character, as we have seen, a certain
natural contentment, sort of Unborn
religious placidity, seldom found
united with a sensibility so mobile as
his, which was favorable to the quiet,
habitual observation of inanimate or
imperfectly animate existence. His
life of so years Is divided by no very
profoundly felt incidents, its changes
being almost wholly inward; 1t falls,
like his work, into broad, untroubled,
perhaps somewhat monotonous spaces.
What 1t resembles most Is the life of
one of those early Flemish or italian
painters who just because their minds
were full of heavenly visions, passed,
some of them, the better part Of GO
years in quiet systematic industry. And
this sort of placid life matured In
Wordsworth a quiet unusual sensibil-
ity, really innate in him, to the sights
and sounds of the natural world
Walter Pater in sketches and Re
views"
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
The Worlds Greatest Dam.

Plans have been made to build
dam on the Colorado river which will
hold back Il volume of water equal to
two years flow of the entire 1,S0O
miles of rushing river The dam Is
to be 700 feet high, approximately
the height of the Woolworth building
in New York city. The dam will form
a reservoir with an area of 200 square
miles and an average depth of $50
feet. This body of water will consti-
tute the largest artificial lake in the
world. One western railroad system
is already planning to operate fleet
of steamers to carry tourists over this
man-made lake to the Grand canyon,
the wonder spot of America. The
Panama canal is the only undertak-
ing ever attempted in America which
may be compared in magnitude or
boldness of conception to this en-
gineering project, which will trans
form an empire of waste into a re-
gion of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Work.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
BIRD DOESN'T HAVE TO FLY
Washington Specimen Uses the Street
Car as His Particular Means
of transportation.

Now that spring is here, 1t may In
terest bird lovers to know that at
least one bird has solved the problem
of transportation without the use OF
wings
Birds are famous for their migra-
tions, but hitherto they always have
used wing power. Now comes along
one local bird who gets himself from
place to place with scarcely the flap
of a wing.
This bird came riding down Penn
sylvania avenue about eleven o'clock
one morning last week. He was
perched on the roof of a street car
coming from Georgetown.
When the car stopped at Eleventh
street the bird alighted, and VIZ ked
gravely up and down the platform.
lie was fine. big fellow, with black
body and blue head, but did not look
like q blackbird
After surveying the post office de-
partment for a bit. the bird flew over
TO a car about to leave for Mount YER
non. and established himself on the
roof.
Whenzthe car pulled out the bird
was with it.-WaShington Star.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
MAKING Vermilion.

For many years in Hong kong the
industry of vermilion-making, entirely
in the hands Of the Chinese, has been
an important one. The factories at
Hong-kong have inviolate trade Sc
crets. The manufacture of this pig
ment is among the foremost of the
colony's Industries. There are some
thing like hundred small plants for
the manufacture of vermilion in Hong
kong and Kowloon. The raw material
comes from Australia. ana the YER
million Is prepared altogether by what
Is known as the wet method. The
Chinese made artificial cinnabar long
before Europe was a civilized country,
and to this day there are trade secrets
in the vermilion industry.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
The Church Eair.

The suburban woman and her sew
enteen-year-o son, George, went to
the church fair The fair, like most
church fairs, was costing the woman
a great deal of money. 1t was a
chance on this and chance on that.
A few articles she bought outright.
Since she was well known and her
husbands salary was also matter Of
town gossip, all her friends who had
charge Of booths insisted upon her
buying and buying.
All this continual handing out money
was too much for Georges compre-
hension. He couldn't seem to under
stand the cause Of 1t all. Finally.
when his mother was free for few
moments, he looked at her seriously
and asked, Mamma, do we have to pay
to get outT'-Chicago Journal.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
MARRIAGE MADE A BUSINESS
Practice In France That Can Hardly
Be Said to Savor Much Of
/ Romance.

Anyone can marry-anyone, every
one If they have a business man
ager who knows the business.
Since the war, in France, weddings
have doubled, births increased and
deaths declined In the most astonish-
ing manner.
Now, as all know, marriage does not
necessitate a business --manager-the
old helter-skelter way Of falling in
love by hazard will undoubtedly con-
tinue very much in vogue; but If
anyone imagines that marriage is not
moving with the times and yielding
to business organization, they know
little of what Is happening in France
today
Never before have girls done such
marrying in France-with available
bridegrooms so reduced in number!
What is more, this organized promo
tion of marriage gives every girl
chance--despite handicaps of unac-
quaintance, social disadvantage, plain
looks, lack Of money, lack of family,
lack Of pushing friends to aid the
match.
Your business managers your push.
Ing friend
Helps girls to marry3 q e.,
Helps men. also.
Perhaps even, more so. -.
You will object. ~
And romance2
but the quality, monsieur, think OF
the quality!" said madame. "Durable,
solid, the best mark in France! Before
the young folks are allowed to meet.
both had been investigated, weighed
compared and balanced by social ex-
perts and the pairing-off o. K.'d in
final conference! Now, there's mar.
riage that will last. It's got good
wear in It'll"
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Hole Acts Like Reversed Camera.

Sitting on the old shot tower at Fay
ette and Front streets, of which he
had been commissioned to paint pic
lures, Howard A. Frech, Baltimore
artist, was startled by the apparitlon
of a man walking along the wall, Sc
rene in spite Of being upside down.
The phantom reached spot of shadow
and vanished. Mr.. Frech investigated.
He found that opposite the spot where
the uncanny vision appeared was a
small hole in the brick wall an inch
or two across, where once a paddock
hung. Through this aperture the
images of persons passing on the walk
outside are thrown on the wall life
size, and with all colors exactly repro
durad- hut legs In the air.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Still Shrouded in Mystery.

Mary and her little brother were
playing in the back yard.
A worm came to play Its humble
part In their lives, too.
"Oh, Mary" he cried, suddenly. II
have found worm!"
A robin looked enviously from a
tree.
"Oh, Mary" the child exclaimed, "is
a worm good luck? Say, Mary, is a
worm. good luck?"
Mary replied, but her voice was
quiet, so that 1 do not know yet
whether a worm is good luck or not
Washington Star.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
A Kind Wish.

When Jean went to her, little neigh
bor's to visit she often talked to the
grandmother of. the house. II have
a grandmother, too," she would say,
'but she's In heaven"
And she and the grandmother of
the house were good friends until one
day the grandmother was cross. She
seolded the two little girls for leav-
ing the screen door open, for walk
ing in a flower bed and dropping
crumbs on the floor.
The two youngsters sought refuge
on the porch. Grandmother started
to follow them there little later, to
try to make up. She realized the
necessity of doing so, for when she
reached the door she heard Jean say:
Ruth, I wish your grandmother was
ylstin' my grandmother today"
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Cuts the Worlds Whiskers.

The American safety razor Is given
the credit of having conquered the
Spanish beard. On account of the
heaviness of their boards, the Spanish
men generally shave much less than
those of other countries and the re-
suit was they presented a rather un-
shorn appearance. The visit to the
barber was serious matter and the
Spaniard selected his barber as other
men would select a dentist, the one
that was least painful. But the
American safety razor is said to have
overcome this and the men are not
only enabled to shave themselves, but
to shave more frequently.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
The Soil Does Not Exhaust.

DR.. Curtis F. Marbut of the United
States Department of Agriculture has
sailed on a three-months' trip to Eu-
rope and his special mission will be
to determine why it is that the soil
in some parts of Europe which has
been worked since the Christian era.
has not been exhausted. He will
bring home samples of the soils of va
rious countries visited and analyses
will be made in the endeavor to ar
rive at the secret. In Italy and
Greece the soil has been titled for
centuries and has never been fer
tilized, and has never had the advan-
tage of live stock raising.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Husbands They Would Like.

Half of the women enrolled at the
University Of Wisconsin are willing to
marry a man on salary Of $500
year, according to report issued
by the statistics committee of the uni
versity. An average of one coed out
of seven wants husband with a sal
ary of at least 5000 year, while one
coed demanded a $20,OO0-a-year hus-
band.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Penny.urious. So 70 Speak.

A man who had just opened store
in a strange town was interrogating
one of his early customers on the pur-
chasing power of the citizens.
"Now, there's Deacon Brown" he
said. "He has the reputation of being
wealthy. Would he be likely to spend
much money in here?"
"Wa-al" drawled the native, refiec-
lively, II wouldn't exactly say that
he'd 60 to hell for nickel, but he'd
fish around fer one till he fell in."-
Salt Lake Telegram.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
siamsse Nation Of Gamblers.

Everybody CANDLES in Siam. When
you 60 out for golf at the Royal Sports
club, your caddy bets with your op-
ponent's caddy on your game. And
If your game is not so good as 1t
should be, your caddy will deftly pick
up your ball with his toes, unless you
watch him, and carry 1t just a little
bit farther than you were able to
drive it!-From the Heavenly-Royal
City of Siam, by Florence Burgess
Meehan. In Asia Magazine.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Smokjno In Churchea.

The churches on Manhattan island
In the very early days were not heat
ed, says Gas Logic. It is related that
the "half-dozen dominies preached
with heavy knit or fur caps pulled
over their ears, and wearing mittens."
Both men and women carried muffs
and wore them In church, and the
head Of the family, whom he felt 20 in
clined. smoked his nina.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Maklnu Life liNable.

Somebody may always be taking the
Joy out Of life, yet could not easily do
so If more people were engaged In
putting joy into life. TO make life
livable we must meet and overcome
every influence whose tendency is to
destroy human contentment and happi-
ness
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Look Before You Leap.

A novice was Drawing the Dart
mouth .ski-iump. He shot down the
incline, lurched weakly Mt the take
off, landed face downward below and
finished the slide, nose first, plowing
into the snow smother.
"You jumped too late, Joe" yelled
an enthusiast.
"Naw"-from the smother below-"I
jumped too soon Should have learned
more about the game first."-Every.
hody's Magazine.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Thumbs Down.

In the gadiatorlal combats which
took place In ancient Rome wounded
man would sometimes call for mercy
by holding up his forefinger. The spec
tators would thereupon either wave
their handk kerchiefs In token of mercy.
or condemn him to death by holding
out their clenched fist with the thumbs
6awp
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
cbipees HSix Aceompljshnen nts !"

The traditional Chinese social sys-
TEN recognized four main classes below
the priest-emperor, Of which the first
was the literary class. In the time OF
Confuclus the education OF the literary
class included what was known as the
six iShments-archery, horse
manship, rites, music, history and
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
Real Measure Of Worth

The whole world does not revolve
around any man-only small portion
of it. When man undertakes to
make himself the center of larger
portion, he must show himself worthy.
Worth today Is measured by service
to fellow men. not by dollars.
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
A Priyilane Of Youth.

Mrs. Chatterton-Oh, Henry what
do you think? Little Richard is be-
ginning to talk.
Her Husband-Good luck to him
It's more than I've been able to do
In this house. How did he ever get
the chance?
Catoctin clarion., 1922-07-06
A Fish az a Mousetrap.

A large brook trout was caught by
]. E. Barbour of Paterson, N. j., in the
st. Johns river, Gaspe, Canada, June
20, 1921, and when opened 1t was
found that its stomach contained nine
mice, five of them quite large.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1922-12-14
81. Plant Takes Opener
1 ! CITY Basketball League

c;tv Basket Ball League open
I nav S,'I night with two games. The
I IT, + plant and the N. 0. G: N.
Z. 4 having the honor of the first
alls Totborn tossing the first goal
9 , y. season season. The G. S. L. Plant
! NJ III Biz end of the score, 1914.
,sA y I'd Of the plant team led in
s l9H' Goals. getting five. McNeece
1aa biSh score, getting IL of the
80 28 points, with two field goals
v sight foul goals.
~ second game, the G. S. L. OF
!. = nj Invincibles mixed things
m - generally for thirty minutes
N M 10Th teams doing more guarding
!. shooting. Only six field goals
= made in the whole game, HaF-
williams Of the G. S. L. Office
.+ro three of these. The final
y ~. was II to 2 in favor Of the G.
1.fsree. Ben Miller. Timekeeper,
y Foil. Scorer, George Werckley.
doubleheader will be played
,.rv Tuesday and Friday nights.
80 open at 8:15, game starts
romptly at $3.50. There is no adj
-igion charge and the public is in
ted to see the games.
friday night the G. S. L. Plant
Nv the G. S. L. Office, and the
H d. G.N. plays the High School.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1922-12-14
RESOLUTION NO. 11e

EleCting certain officer of the City
of Bogalusa, in accordance with the
provisions of the Charter.
Whereas it appears that under Sec
ton FL, of the Charter of the City of
Bogalusa, Louisiana, that each Com
mission Council thereafter elected
shall, at their first meeting, elect by
majority vote the following officers
to serve for four years, to-wit: City
Attorney Clerk of Commission Coun-
Gil, Chief of Police, etc.
Thereupon be it resolved by the
Commission Council of the City of
BogaIusa, Louisiana:
Section 1. That B. D. Talley is
hereby elected City Attorney, to
serve for four years; that K. I. Bean
is hereby elected as Clerk of Com
mission Council, to serve for four
years; that T. A. Magee is hereby
elected Chief of Police, to serve for
four years. Their salaries to remain
as at present until further action of
the Commission Council.
Section q. That ]. H. Slaughter,
be and he is hereby appointed to
serve as City Physician for the next
four years his appointment, however,
being made with the specific under
standing that he is to draw no salary
as City Physicain;- because of the fact
that he is a member of the Commits
sion Council, appointing himself, and
it would be against public policy for
him to draw two salaries. The Com
MISSION Council appointed him be-
cause of the fact that he has been
City Physician 70 the past several
years and has rendered such efficient
and has offered to serve
now without compensation.
Section 3. That H. E. Willis is
hereby elected City Engineer, and o.
]. Sherman is hereby elected Chief of
the Fire Department to serve for
four years, their salaries to remain
as at present until further action of
the Commission Council.
w. II. SULLIVAN,
Mayor.
K. I. BEAN, City Clerk.
Introduced and adopted December
9Th, 1922.