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The mirror., 1923-12-13

that had to be forded. Nathaniel Wyeth
started from Cambridge, Massachusetts,
with wagon bodies made tight and calked
like boat so that they could be taken off
their wheels to float across the rivers. In
the high mountains much of the travel had
to be on foot, sometimes over snow-covered
slopes or up and down ravines.
The most dangerous land journeys were
over the long stretches of barren and desert
land in the Southwest where it might be
thirty or forty miles from one water hole
to another. A writer on the Commerce of
the Prairie thus describes the mirage, which
was one of the dangers of the travel:
"The thirsty wayfarer after jogging for
hours under burning sky at last espies
a pond; it must be water, it looks too
natural for him to be mistaken. He
quickens his pace, enjoying in anticipation
the pleasure of refreshing draft; but 10!
as he approaches it recedes or entirely dis
appears; and when he is upon its appar-
ent site he finds but a parched plain under
his feet. 1t is not until he has been thus
dozen times deceived that he is willing
to relinquish the pursuit"
The first travellers underwent many
hardships-hunger and thirst heat and
cold, drought and soaking, WEAKNESS and
enforced rest. One compensation was an
outdoor life that made them rugged and
healthy; another was the fascination of
new scenes and discoveries. It was a
great thing to be the first to discover such
noble mountains as Pixies Peak and Longs
Peak and the snowy mountains of the
Columbia region, to get on the roof of the
continent and to overlook "innumerable
lakes and streams, the spring of the COL
orado, the heads of the Yellowstone branch
of the Missouri, the snowy heads of the
Trois Tetons, where were the sources of
the Missouri and the Columbia Rivers"
Or again, what pleasure to come upon
"a deep valley, which was entirely oc-
cupied by three lakes, and from the edges
of which the surrounding ridges rose
precipitously five hundred and thousand
feet, covered with the dark green of the
balsam pine, relieved on the border of
the lake with the light foliage of the
aspen! They all communicated with one
another, and the green of the waters, COM
mon to mountain lakes of great depth,
showed that it would be impossible TO
cross them"
Far greater than the joy of scenery and
the satisfaction of winning way through
burning sands and banks of snow was the
sense of opening up country that was to
become the home of millions of people.
The explorers pieced together bits of In
dian trails and portages and mountain
passes into great natural highways such
as the Oregon Trail. In addition they
were helping the nation to take possession
of vast areas of valley and mountain and
seashore. Men like Pike and Lewis and
Clark, Ashley and Jedediah Simth were
running the lines of great empire. They
were making possible the binding together
of East and West into a wide continental
belt stretching from ocean to ocean and
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf.
The mirror., 1923-12-13

Rubies have been produced in Paris
chemical Laboratories. They are perfect
in appearance and answer every known
test-Ex.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-07-19
RAIN EXPERT
DISSECTS FOG
Harvard Professor Explains That
Precipitation Is Really
Forced Draft.

Cambridge, Mass.-Now we have this
truth about rain making! Prof. Alex
ander Meade, climatology expert and
director Of the Blue Hill observatory
at Harvard, offers an article to this
effect In the current issue of the Hair
ward Alumni Bulletin. Clouds can be
taken into the laboratory and studied
these days. 1t is the forced draft that
brings the rain, the professor say
and that 1t would take considerable
time to tell of natural rain makers. A
great cause is the mountains.
Experiments now in progress by
Bancroft and Warren under the
auspices Of the air service" the ar
ticle says, indicate the possibility Of
clarifying cloudy atmospheres by
spraying with electrified sand from
above. 1t seems feasible.
sFog, whether in the streets Of Len
don, or on the banks of Newfoundland,
or over flying fields, Is essentially a
wall built OF ionized. indicated, vapor
vanished bricks.
Flnds Fog Eiemente-
Quite a remarkable wall, too, for
while it often rests on the ground it
can spring into the air and float away.
And this without the slightest noise or
damage. 1t never stands still and is
always falling and fading and yet at
the same time rebuilding. A thimble-
full Of fog stuff contains about a thou
sand bricks; and all these squeezed
tightly together will make only a small
drop Of rain.
Mature wrings the clouds and
makes rain by pushing moisture-laden
air upwards, or else sldewise into an
other current decidedly colder. 1t is
the forced draft which counts. The
simplest case of upward push is the
shower of summer The surface air
and vapor Is lifted a thousand meters
and the expansion. cooling. coalescing,
and capturing of comparatively large
dust particles produce a cumulus
cloud, the cloud that makes one think
of a colossal helping of celestial ice
cream. The e tint soon gives way
to a dirty gray and this IN turn dark
ems into the brown black base Of a
cum6lo-nlmbus ready to spill light
ming to another cloud or dart 1t earth
ward.
Noah Up In the Air.
"Few university men realize that
Noah was considerably up in the air
at the end of the big flood. Yes, If he
vas near the top of Ararat he was a
mile farther up than one who stands
on the top Of Pixies peak. Some flood"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-07-19
Bird Builds Nest
Under Mail Coach

New York.-When "Wynken. Blyn-
keon and Nod n night sailed out in q
wooden SHOE" their voyage was not one
bit as adventurous as the daily jour
ney OF rs miles taken by FIVE Of the
oldest passengers that ever rode on
the Philadelphia & Reading railway.
Every day at noon, standard time, q
United States coach leaves New Hope,
Pa. It gets to this city an hour and
forty-seven minutes later, stays In the
Reading terminal until 3:15, standard
time. then starts again for New Hope.
For ten days now a mother robin
at the other end Of the line has walt
ed as a~nxiously for that train as all
the people together in New Hope have
for their mail. When the train reaches
the New Hope station, Brakeman Leon
Nugent, who lives at 1912 French
street, Philadelphia. sends away all
the curious o%nlookers. Then the robin
hops down from a nearby tree and
disappears under the mail coach.
There, on top Of a warm steam
valve, protected by a drip pan, is a
nest. The little mother perches on
the edge and looks inside to see If
any damage has been done. For with
In the nest are five blue robin eggs
warmed by the steam beneath, waiting
the day when their shells can be brok-
en- by five little mouths.
The steam valve has a little fiat
surface on top that makes the nest
quite safe when fastened by a few
restraining straws. If any Of the
straws have been Jared loose by the
days ~journeying Mrs. Robin has some
more at hand to repair the damage.
When all has been fixed. she takes her
place on the nest and through the
night warns the eggs.
SO far the plan has worked we'll.
and the mother and the railroad have
taken turns keeping the nest warm.
But Brakeman Nugent is faced with
a knotty problem. In not so long a
time the nest will have five hungry
mouths to feed. and catching worms
IA a precarious piece of business when
i coach Is riding the rails. VIII
mother robin keep her seat on the
nest during the trip and start out in
search Of worms when the train gets
10 the TERMINAL -
-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06

ON PAPYRUS
This horse imported England will try to beat the
best American purse Of 100000 People
VIII pay $50 each the race and others will bet many
millions the It isn't at all commercial undertaking.
just affair Of sport; be to remember that
Before you bet too heavily the English horse you
PLAN remember that trip the combined
with climate often takes from horse twenty to
forty per of energy Sometimes the trouble lasts for
several months Papyrus three weeks training
meanwhile
That trip the ocean is great handicap
Whether Papyrus lose you will be in
the position of Jockey Donaghue the English horse
learned that from AMERICAN jockeys.
The famous Of English Jockeys Archer, and all the
others used to ride sitting straight like guardsmen with
their legs stretched out in long stirrup feathers.
small American jockey went to England, rode and
his couched the horses neck in the American style
By this crouchng various things accomplished The power
resistance essened by crouchng the horses
The weight Of the jockey is put above the wher resting
the front legs which simply hold up the horses weight
Jockeys weight removed from the horses spine
and quarters giving hind legs of
the back nothing do but PUSH THE HORSE forward.
Englishmen saw American jockey ride and laughed
heartily monkey seat By and by, they their
money betting against the American jockey and observed that
almost any English horse PLUS American monkey
jockey could win races they stopped laughing and made
their own jockeys ride in the American way.
It remarkable for how long time who think they
understand thing do it the wrong way. It's hard
believe great julius Caesar after had
in for thousands of years. still riding in his battles
without stirrups occurred him his Roman
predecessors to stirrups stirrup feathers.
There still many things that do just badly
English used ride. Study the mistakes ONE of
them; you may may make fortune in nventing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06
Nature Talks

" HE hermit crab is one Of the
most interesting Of the crus-
- tacea, says Nature Magazine
Of Washington. In this animal
the abdomen is soft and it lives
in shells. the young crabs In
habiting those Of periwinkles, and
the larger ones the shells of
whelks and sea snails.
In the common hermit the
right claw is much larger than
the left. and besides functioning
in capturing prey 1t serves as a
lid to close the mouth OF the
shell.
The next two pairs Of feet are
used for walking and the hermits
travel about on them very rapid
ly, drawing their houses behind
them. AS the hermit crab grows
it is obliged to find larger shell,
and very often it tries several,
calipering them very carefully
with it's claws, before it finds one
to fit.
If the desired shell IS already
occupied by a hermit there is
likely to be battle for the Dos
session Of the shell. When a.
suitable shell Is found 1t is ex-
amined critically inside and out.
then the abdomen Is withdrawn
from the old shell and darted
rapidly into the new one.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06
The English Are Thorough
We Should Copy Them.

British plan boycott vessels of the American Shipping
Board is denied feeby need not disturb this country
the English boycott shipping backed by the American
Government giving preference to ships backed by the British
government, they have the right to do
The United States passing laws giving American shipping
full cargoes before freight passengers mail any
other line should be able support good line of American
steamers This country sends good deal Of freight abroad
brings many passengers home and imports great deal of
freight
Great Britain depends largely her shipping being
self supporting nation There whatever why she
should endeavor do from English ports what
from Egyptian ports The American Shipping Board may
learn that the British single pound Of cotton being
sent from Egypt the United States AMERICAN boat
Instead of being annoyed should admire the thorough
of the English and try to initiate it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06
CROMWELL'S
GRAVE NOT
KNOWN

IT ONDON.-" Where are the
bones of Oliver CROMWELL"
Here" says one, pointing to
the site of the historic Tyburn
gallows tree: where street repair
men have just dug up an assorted
collection Of human bones.
Here" says a resident of Hol-
born, pointing to q small paddock
where the obelisk in Red Lion
square once stood, and inviting
reference to Sir John Prestwick's
Republican" to prove his point.
AT Naseby Field" says a Stat
fordshire correspondent, quoting
from the Rev. John Maston's
History Of Naseby," published
in 1892.
You're all wrong" replies a
happy resident of Hemel Hemp
stead, pointing triumphantly to a
government report on historical
manuscripts, issued in 1908, in
which it IS commended that Crom-
wells bones rest in a. sarcopha-
gus at Newburgh Priory, York.
shire.
And the battle is on. Every
day a new authority is produced
to show that the famous Pro-
tector, whose followers forcibIy
removed the head Of Charles I in
the middle of the street before
Whitehall and did many other
things of tragic interest in their
day, is safely eEtombed in a new.
more distant spot.
When Cromwell was still WV
idly in the minds of his fellow
countrymen nobody cared much
where he was buried, or whether
he was buried at all, as q matter
OF fact. The passage Of many
years, however, has served to
wipe out many unSavory associa-
tons, and competition is keen for
the honor of claiming his burial
place.
In a manuscript diary kept by
n merchant named Edward Saint
hill, who was living in London
when Cromwelrs body was
dragged from its tomb in West
minister ABBEY, there occurs the
following nnte:-
1.-The 30th Of January, being
the day twelve years ago after the
death of the King, the odious
carcasses OF Oliver Cromwell,
Major General Ireton, and Brad
shaw were drawn in sledges to
Tyburn, where they were hanged
by the neck from morning till
in the afternoon
Their bodies were then thrown
into hole under the gallows in
the SeTO -cloths and sheets"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06

A N AMAZING person Catch glimpse of him il you
Bend every effort to hear him talk You re not
apt to get within meeting distance Of his like.
Of Pitt big enough acknowledge George
Washington the father of both British and American
democracy merits reciprocal generosity from the nation
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06

OBITUARIES are belated erasers Of injustice. Ht
J where person, at least, gets the chance to
at few of the sentiments likely to appear In
eptaph
Individual and partisan estimates won't alter the b
evidence supporting Lloyd Georges unique claim !
distinctions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06
Once-Overs
Copyright, 1885, International Feature Service
DO NOT HANDICAP YOUR CHILDREN
EXCEPTIONALLY

AS parents perhaps you carrying heavy burden In
order to send your boy your girl away to school.
Sometimes you regret your decision when you think of
how much it is going and how must scrmp and
to meet the expense Of it.
Then, too, you lonely without your dear and you
wonder why you should sacrifice yourself personally and
financially, to give the child the priviegef
But you should look at the matter in another light
Your children a right to expect from you good
education.
They have no claim you to leave them money for
ease comfort they should be fortified by education
to put up good battle without the handicap which
poor education entails.
Do handicap your children educationay you
money and provide present Injuries and comfort.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

TT is a great thing to do a
little thing well.
Continuance is better than force.
Mind has it's influence on
mind, and no man is free but
when alone.
BY doubling we reach the
truth.
Those who detect the faults II
others do not detect their own.
These are wise on others behalf
and foolish on their own.
A library is the souls burial
ground.
Great people are ofttimes great
only because we are on our
knees. Let us arise!
It is the role of cowardice, not
of courage, to go and crouch
down in a hole, under q massive
tomb. to avoid the blows Of for
tune.
Every art is an imitation of
nature.
No man is born without faults
he is the best who has the
fewest.
When friendship goes with love,
it must play second fiddle.
Wise men learn more from
fools than fools from wise men.
Contentment is the philoso-
piers stone which turns all it
touches into gold-the poor man
is rich with it and the rich man
is poor without it.
A man receives only what ne
is ready to receive, whether ply
sically or intellectually or moral
ly.
Fame itself is but an epitaph-
as late, as false, as true.
Little things are great to little
men.
Never make defense Of apol-
ogy before you are accused.
Duties extend beyond obliga-
tons, and direct the affections,
desires and intentions, as well as
the actions.
Copyright. 1929, Newspaper Feature
Service. Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06
HEROINES OF HISTORY
What Her Great Courage Won for Mrs. Oliphant
-By MARK STTJYVESANT-

IT Is surprising how many
women writer's have en-
barked upon their careers
either in an effort to forget some
great sorrow. or to support their
families when they have sudden
ly found themselves widows or
destitute of any other means of
support.
The lives of many of these
writer's are as absorbing in inter
est as those Of the heroines
whose lives are chronicled by
them. Among these authors is
Margaret Ouphant Wilson, known
throughout the English-speaking
world with great affection as
Mrs. Oliphant."
When I thus began the world
anew, I had for all my fortune
about a thousand pounds of
debts. a small insurance of, L
think. two hundred pounds on
franks life, our furniture laid
up in warehouse, and my own
faculties, such as they were, to
make our living and pay off our
burdens by"
These are the words which
Mrs. Oliphant used herself in de-
scrib1ng the desperate straits in
which she found herself at the
death of her husband. She was
penn1less. She was not a strong
woman. She had q large family
OF small children, several of
whom were very delicate and
needed the best Of care, expen-
sive medicines and constant med
zeal attention.
But Mrs. Oliphant had come
from a long line OF sturdy ances-
tors. In her veins flowed the in
dom1table courage and uncon-
querabfe spirit of her Scottish
fOrebears.
She was born In 1.-THE Heart of
Midlothian" in 1928, and like the
famous Sir Walter Scott, who
has made that country famous in
his beautiful novel bearing the
title Just quoted. Mrs. Oliphant
set out to write of Scottish life,
SO beautifully did she write and
with such charm and warmth did
she depict scenes from the land
OF her birth, that soon she found
herself successfully emerging
from the great difficulties which
had descended upon her with
her widowhood.
Although her life was one of
great activity and tremendous
responsibility and worry-for she
had much Illness to cope with in
her young family-Mrs. Oliphant
was never discouraged.
1t is said that she often sat
down to write with a breaking
heart and with her brain almost
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06

numbed by anxiety. But realiz-
ing what her efforts would mean,
she would quickly emerge from
her slough OF despond, summon
her courage and write with
vigor and inspiration.
With the publication OF
"Zaidee," Mrs. ELEPHANTS name
came before the public and she
was moderately. discussed. But
when Chronicles of Carlingford"
was presented to the public, her
success was assured. From then
on Mrs. Oliphant was able to pro-
vide comfortably for her family
and her struggles were at an
end-after fifteen years Of effort.
Copyright. 1923. by Newspaper
Feature Service, Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06
Watch the Feeding
Nourishment' That Kills.

Whenever newspapers describe for you the illness well
known watch the doctors and the methods FEEDING
Some of most learned medical gentlemen allow their
patients to die by giving them socaed nourhment When
is desperately ILL., food is nourishment" BODY
DISEASED CANNOT ABSORB NOURISHMENT. Food
under such conditions is apt to be deadly poison.
When dog is sick it wanders off, hides away No dog
doctor to obge anxious family forces food the
sick dogs throat, AND so IT RECEIVERS
patient with fever above normal unless absolutely
emaciaed lacking strength and tissue maintain fe should
take water, AND NO OTHER "NOURISHMENT' UNTIL
NORMAL TEMPERATURE Is RESTORED.
Any to normal weight and should without
any food but while fighting high temperature Food
interferes with the body's fight against poison.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06
Styles Go Back

r ONDON-Evening dresses will
be gayer than ever this
- winter, and dress salon ex-
hibitions indicate that they will
incorporate in their design more
than ever an atmosphere renainis-
cent Of the eighties.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-22
GIANTS NEED
FIVE GAMES
FOR PENNANT'

NEW YORK. Sept 2s.-Flve moro
~ victories in tho nine games re.
naming on their schedule win cinch
tho National league pcnnan, for the
New York Giants and send them
into the worlds series for their third
straight crack at tho New York
Yankees
The double victory of the Giants
over the Pirates yesterday made the
New York club almost a certainty
for the pennant
One postponed gnmo in the SEIZED.
ule remains with the ST Louis
Cards. but IL n doubtful II the
game will be played. and in this
case NIL the Giants have 10 do 10
win the pennant IS to split even IN
eight games. even II tho Cincinnati
Reds should win all the eight games
on their program
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-22
:Dugdale Names All-Coast Team for Yea
Conference
Not Likely
Back East
Traditional Grid Games
Make League Among
Colleges Improbable

THERE II little chance Of n big
i football conference ever being
formed IN the East because OF the
traditional Eamos between old
schools that would put up the barb
TO such plan.
Yale Harvard Princeton tursles.
the Penn Cornell game. Dartmouth
and Brown. syracuse and Colgate.
Army and Navy. Amherst and WIZ.
Jams. Lchigh and Lafayette and the
rest OF those Eastern classics are
almost lnsurmountabls barriers 10 n
conference.
In nearly every section OF the
country conferences are the rule.
but tho older schools In the East.
with their traditional games. have
never been hpls 10 got together TO
form football loop.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-22
Easing Up
Won Help
Americans
May Find 1t Hard to Set
tie Down in Worlds
Series Games

WINNING tho American league
w championship nearly three
weeks before the worlds series may
throw the New York Yankees clear
Off their stride for The big classic.
It's cinch that the champions
viii ease up during tho rest OF the
American league season and It's no
oinch FOR your professional ball play,
a. TO get All kcye dup again once
them has been lot.down.
The National league race Is far
from over and unless the Giants snap
cut Of their slump they arc In grave
danger OF finishing In second place.
The Cincinnati Reds still have a good
anee TO win. altho the Giants are
should the National race be close
10 the end % the seaano the Giants
viii so into the big series all hoped
up and don't be surprised II the men
OF John McGmw hrcczo thru another
series as worlds champions II they
play the Yauks.
Having defeated the American lea
sncfa IN two consecutive fnalcs it's
cinch that the Giants will have
moral advantage over the Yanks.
They say that the Higgins clan
t. a new team this year and with the
good pitching they are getting and
With tho rejuvination OF Babe Ruth
they are doubly dangerous.