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HAR DIN, HIE HARDIN TRIBUNE By E. H. Rathbone - MONTANA There is the usual cold comfort for all parties iu the returns from Medicine Hat. Customs officers in New York had a big job on hand lately. They seized 10,000 kid gloves. A scientist tells us that \metals get tired.\ Now you know why the gold gave out before it got to you. There is one advantage in looking for the north pole. In the face of the gravest danger one can always * keep cool. At a spiritualist seance in New York, we are told, a man's arm was lengthened two feet. That's stretch- ing it some. baybody who doubts the ability of the American Indian to be as civilized as anybody should observe him in a fleK.tball game. That man who is going to cross the ocean in a balloon should pause to consider that the water in the Atlantic is still deep and wet. The inventive Yankee is still at it. During the last fiscal year the United States patent office received some 58,527 applications for mechanical pat, ents. Kissing, declares Dr. Napoleon Bos- ton, spreads more disease than flies. We scorn his statement because we don't like his name. Reminds us of Waterloo and Bunker Hill. A way has been found to make pa- per out of cornstalks. This will create a pleasant harmony for the man who likes to combine his reading with the pleasures of a corn -cob pipe. The plan of the proposed Henry Hudson memorial bridge at New York calls for a reinforced concrete span of 710 feet, and represents one of the foldest engineering projects of the time. The Highways Protection league reports 932 automobile accidents oc- curred in Great Britain in 1907, killing 215 persons and injuring 675. For these accidents and other motor car offenses 2,270 persons were summoned, of whom 2,046 were convicted. There are at present on duty in the main thoroughfares of Paris 21 police- men who speak English, nine who speak German, and six who speak Spanish, and their usefulness has been so clearly demonstrated that the prefect of police has decided to add to their number as opportunity may arise. Brazil has spent $15,000,000 in the effort to bold up the world's price of coffee by government purchasing and warehousing of the Brazilian produc- tion. The theory that a national gov- ernment can do anything it chooses in commerce occasionally gets a very rude jolt. It is not surprising that Kaiser Wil- helm should invent an air -brake. He has done many things wisely, if not too well, and as he begins to slide down the years, turning inventor of a motor brake is a becoming climax to his other accomplishments. Whether it is a truly practical stopper remains to be proved. According to the Scientific Ameri- can the fact that our macadamized roads don't wear as well as those in Europe is because we don't apply the theory of the stitch in time. European highway departments watch the roads and mend them wherever and when- ever they need it without allowing the damage to become important. Now a medical expert comes for- ward to assert that the French heel, considered one of the greatest out- rages inflicted by feminine vanity upon suffering nature, is not only proper, but highly desirable. Still, feminine vanity will not make so much of this practical vindication, as, in any event, it would have kept on wearing the French heel. Felicitations to the cranks! Am- bassador Bryce's tribute to them as not infrequently the first pioneers of great causes, is distinguished appre- ciation. It is scarcely so enthusiastic, however, as Dr. Holmes' earlier ob- servation that there never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its origi- nator was spoken of as a crank. Horace E. Bixby, 82 years of age, still at the wheel after 60 years as a Mississippi river pilot, enjoys the dis- tinction of having taught Mark Twain the art of navigation on the \Father of Waters.\ He says Mark Twain be- came a good pilot, having but one fault—the excessive use of tobacco. Capt. Bixby is still hale and hearty and enjoys telling of the various epi- sodes of his eventful career upon the river. During the five years preceding 1904-05 the total acreage annually un- der indigo cultivation in India was 755,900. In 1906-05 this area had de- creased to 330,400 acres, or a falling off of a little less than 44 per cent. The Mecca railroad is being con- structed rapidly, solidly and method- ically. Foreigners are employed la po- sitions of leadership and management. By imperial order it Is now proposed to complete the line from Medina to cis, a distance of 280 mile\ before the next pilgrimage. THE ALASKAN'S TOTEM POLE. - His Family Histcry Told in the Strangely Carved Symbol. Seattle, Wash.—Totem poles are erected by certain of the American Indians, principally the Alaskans, be- fore their dwellings as symbols of family pride, veneration of ancestors, or religion. The poles are usually 40 feet high, and are carved into gro- tesque figures and animals one above the other, while the crest or badge of the chief by whose house it stands sur- mounts the top. The totem pole to the Alaskan is as dear as is the genealogy of the proud- est \blue blood\ of the eivilized world, for it Stands a record of the character of his forefa- ther, and every carved sign and every blended color upon it has a sacred meaning. For example, the eagle upon a totem pole means that a son of Alaska has descended from a traveler, a leader, or one who migrates. The raven is he who is crafty, wise and pos- sessed of great acumen; the frog that of a philos- opher, a savant; the bear means strength, muscle; the whale im- plies plenty of food; the duck suggests placidity, a phlegmatic temperament; the seal beauty, grace, charm; the salmon means great favors, desires, am- bitions, and so on down the line of comparison with every living crea- ture. Some years ago a party of Seattle enthusiasts, bent upon a voyage of discovery, chartered a steamer and made a trip to southeastern Alaska. They arrived at a small Indian village, but as the population seemed to have deserted the place, they decided it would be , Iv just and lawful to \take . Into camp\ one of the S s 1 5 7 0 totem poles that stood Seattle's before the Indian huts, Totem Pole. so they entered into negotiations with two old Indian women who were the only living beings about the place, and purchased, as they supposed, one of the most pretentious looking totems in the place. The pole was removed to Seattle and was presented to the city with much speechmaking in the pres- ence of the city \fathers\ and other citizens assembled. ' Seattle felt proud of its acquisition and had the pole repainted so as to lopring out all its remarkable character- istics. Some weeks later two chiefs 'of the Indian village arrived in Seattle and threatened suit in the United States court for the theft of their cherished totem pole. Seattle is said to have paid $5,000 in settlement of the claim, but retained the totem pole, which now proudly stands as a land- mark in one of the most progressive cities in America. HISTORIC SPOT LITTLE KNOWN. Cairn Erected on Spot Where Miles Standish Landed. Boston.—Quincy is noted for its many places of historic interest, but there is one that is little known, other Miles Standish Cairn. than to historians. This is the Miles Standish cairn at Squantum. It is not only historic, but a romantic spot. The most renowned spot at this place is Squanto rock. It is here that Miles Standish and a party from Plymouth, piloted by Squanto. the faith- ful friend of the white man, landed, September 30, 1621. In commemora- tion of this event a cairn has been erected on the highest part of a stone bridge, which on the east dips to the sea and on the west declines to \Mas- sachusetts Hummock\ aqd its mead- - ows. On Monday, September 30, the cor- ner -stone was laid in the presence of a large assemblage. Charles Ft - en- ds Adams, Jr., delivered an acidrese, in which he described the voyaging of Miles Standish and his men from Ply- mouth, and paid a tribute to Seuanto for whom Squantum was named. In a recently -built Italian man-of- war ere apecial arrangements tar a dentist. GERMAN IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR Prince von Buelow has taken a prominent part in tee dispute between Emperor William and the reichstag. The chancellor recently presented his resignation to the kaiser, but the latter refused to accept it. CHILD'S RARE GIFT SIX -YEAR -OLD MARY GERHART IS FINE PIANIST. Allentown (Pa.) Girl Never Took a Lesson in Music, But Her Perform- ances Surpass Those of Most Adults. Allentown, Pa.—Music, heavenly maid, has many handmaidens for her deliverance and interpretation. Some acquire her precious gifts only by sloe and painful process, while others seem to be born with the gift divine, as if music had whispered into their ears at the very birth the secret of her harmonies and her harmonics. Such a one is Mary Gerhart, the six -year -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Gerhart of this city. Her age naturally precludes the idea that she has ever had any musical training nor has she ever received a lesson in her life. Neither of her parents possesses the slightest knowledge of ramie nor cares very much about it. The same is true of nearly all her rela- tives, except an aunt, who in her childhood days possessed a remark- able gift of improvisation and reading by ear, but whom the force of circum- stances prevented cultivating and de- veloping her genius for music save to the extent of seven lessons. Those seven lessons, however, have been the means of giving her an insight into music, which has been one of the com- forts and solaces of her life. Mary is one of three children, all girls, and all noted for their exquisite personal beauty. The eldest, Esther, aged 13, is the only one who is receiv- ing musical instruction. No one paid any particular attention to Mary, who, had never shown any desire for music, and who rarely touched the piano. Suddenly one day she sat down to the piano and soon issued forth the more or less classical strains of \The Mer- ry Widow waltz.\ There were a large number of false notes in the first rendition, but these her acute musical ear and sense of harmony soon cor- rected, and now she plays it perfectly in time, shading and pedal work. Her attitude at the piano, the position of her hands and her digital dexterity are remark able. Where she learned and became ac- quainted with the tune no one knows. Her sister does not play it; she is yet too young to be taken to the theater, and the only explanation is that she heard a strolling band of German mu- sicians. She herself won't say where she heard it. Possibly she doesn't know. Other selections which she has learned and played are \Nearer My God, to Thee,\ learned in Sunday school; \I'm Afraid to Go Home in the Dark,\ a somewhat different type of music; - The Star Spangled Ban- ner,\ \School Days,\ etc. Some of these tunes she picked up at the homes of her playmates. Lately she has been developing rare gifts of improvisation for one so young. May See Life on (Planet Mars. Baltimore.—R. W. Wood, who oc- cupies the chair of experimental phys- ics at Johns Hopkins university, has worked out a mercury telescope by which it is hoped that life, if it exists, may be seen on the planet Mars. Prof. Wood reported his invention recently to the National Academy of Science. Prof. Wood refused to make any definite statement as to the future pos- sibilities of the instrument. It is pos- sible, he said, that a mirror 15 or 20 feet in diameter, mounted in the trop- ics at the bottom of a deep pit might enable people to observe details on Mars and the other planets which can- not be seen with smaller instruments. Nubian Tombs Yield ['aids Lecturer Describes Archeological Re- sults of Expedition. Philadelphia, Pa.—Finds, said to be of the greatest importance in the science of compartive archeology, were the subject of an illustrated lec- ture, the first of a series by C7 - Leon- ard Woolley at the University of Penn- sylvania museum. They were the re- sults of the second Eckley B. Coxe Egyptian expedition, which busied itself with excavations of tombs in Nubia. The greatest part of the ob- jects recovered from the mounds are on exhibit in the museum of the uni- versity. The description of the construction of the Nubian tombs formed a large part of the lecture. It was the third exploration of the ruins, so that the expedition got what the lecturer called the leavings of the two previous exca- vations. Nevertheless, some unique finds in pottery and bronze were made. Some pieces were especially com- mented on as being probable parent suggestions of Byzantine art. There were inscriptions on the tombs which are being deciphered here and in Ber- lin and Oxford. The combination of bird and human heads in the decorations testified to the faith in immortality of the soul. Jugs full of things to eat and drink were found with the skeletons. Scores of the faces of the dead carved on the tombs suggested atiOnany person- alities as a cartoonist of the present day could need to invent for any pur- pose in tragedy or comedy. The ob- jects furnish light on teeny unknown pages of history of Nubia and other countries of the period from 100 to 300 A. b. NAME NEARLY CONVICTSHIM. But Prisoner Was Only a Sneeze,. at • Moving Picture Show. New York.—A. Zenuff, 16 years old, yet so stalwart of form that he was not to be sneezed at, went to a pic- ture show at 133 Eldridge street, a stuffy little place which soon became snuffy. Everybody sneezed, including Zenuff. The picture machine coughed, the phonograph wheezed and the sing- er who abetted them both began to sniffle. All emitted \cachoos\ in rapid succession, and when the lights were turned up Henry Scharfman, who owned the place, said, between sneez- es: \Snuff! Snuff! Snuff!\ Now it may have been that the boy looked startled when he heard, or thought he heard, his name called three times by a man whom he did not know, and be started involun- tarily. Scharfman jumped at conclu- sions between sneezes and said: \He threw it.\ So a policeman took a good pinch of Zenuff, just as though he were a whole carboy, and brought him to the station house, where he searched Zenuff for snuff and found none. \Don't think I threw the sniff,\ snuffled Zenuff, now almost in tears, \because my name is Zenuff.\ So Magistrate Steinert, seeing that the youth was in such a box and with- out any evidence against him at all. discharged Zenuff on the charge of throwing snuff and then snuffed out the complaint of one who was in error in thinking himself quite up to snuff. ADD TO INSURANCE RISKS. English Company Now Issuing Polley Against Insanity. London.—A novel departure eas been taken by an English insurance company—that of issuing policies against insanity. Seeing that one in every 280 persons in the United King- dom is certified to be insane, the com- pany is of the opinion that it will find a large number of clients anxious to insure against a melancholy contin- gency in their own case. For a premium of $2.50 per annum the company will guarantee a payment at the rate of $600 a year during the period of insanity up to Ave years, or for a premium of $6 to pay $500 a year for an unlimited period. There are few contingencies in an ordinary person's life that can not be insured against. Among the risks which can nowadays be insured against are: No issue to marriage. Increase of income tax. Injury to servants. Loss by bad weather. Riot involving loss. Fire or burglary. Twins. Unemployment. Servant's dishonesty. Loss of trade. Loss of keys or season ticket. Depreciation in a mortgage value. Delay of important documents in transit. Loss of motor car, horses, dogs, etc. Singer against loss of voice. Musician against injury to hand. Playwright against failure to play. Novelist and composer against non. success of work. War, death, accident, illness. RARE OLD BOOK IN DETROIT. \Young Man's Companion\ Printed Nearly Two Centuries Ago. Detroit, Mich.—Among the treasures which have just come into the hands of Edward Young of Detroit is a vol- ume of 400 pages that has come down through his family for nearly two cen- turies, having recently been sent him by a relative. The book, old and yellow, and much the worse for wear, is \The Young Man's Companion; or, Arithmetic Made Easy.\ The introductory an- nounces that it contains \Plain Direc- tions for a Young Man to Attain to Read and Write True English, with Copies in Verse for a Writing School, and Inditing of Letters to Friends.\ The book was written by W. Mather \in an easy Stile, that a young Man may attain the same without a tutor.\ That the \Young Man's Companion\ was popular in its day is indicated by the fact that this was the thirteenth edition, \with many Additions and Al- terations, especially of the Arithme- tick, to the Modern Method.\ The \Companion\ was \printed in London for S. Clarke, the corner of Exchange Alley, next Birchin Lane, 1727.\ Adorning the fly leaf are the names of several into whose possession the book found its way, beginning with Anthony Linnis, in 1730. It is fairly bursting with information, although in this day and age it is difficult to see how a considerable portion of it pos- sessed any especial interest for young men. CANCER FROM GARDEN WORM? Buffalo Physician Has New Theory as to Hideous Malady. Buffalo, N. Y.—The Buffalo Acad- emy of Medicine has heard a new theory as -to the origin of cancer. Dr. Hiram D. Walker of this city said in a paper on the subject that seven years of experiments had proved to his satisfaction that cancer was a parasitic disease and that the common garden worm was the source of the parasite in question. The transmission of the parasite from the worm to the human being came from the worm crawling over vegetables. \If I am correct in my conclusions,\ added Dr. Walker, \all the suffering and death caused by cancer can be prevented by refraining from eating such vegetables as cabbage, celery, onions and lettuce which have been infected by these parasites.\ Dr. Walker elaborated on a series of 60 experiments on various animals; feeding or injecting the parasitic germs obtained from earth worms into guinea pigs, mice and dogs, was fol- lowed in many cases by the develop- ment of tumors or cancers. In al- most every case infection was fatal to the animals. Dr. Walker presented a series of mi- croscopic slides, showing cancer cells produced under these conditions. These cells were examined by promin- ent specialists and pronounced can- cer cells, though the specialists were not told from what animals the cells were taken or how produced. Says Man Could Live Forever. New York.—Man should live forever if the proper \spirit life\ is cultivated, according to Charles Brodie Patterson, who las made a special study of lon- gevity. This rather startling state- ment he made at the Waldorf-Astoria at a meeting of the Medico -Legal so- ciety. Authenticated cases of extreme long life he pointed out to support his theory, adding that with proper care even the longest spans of life as now measured might be increased 20 or 30 years, or even indefinitely. Another speaker said he knew of a man in England who lived to the age of 130 years and that those who wished might do the same. Alcoholic stimulants, declared an other speaker, cut short many a Ws that would otherwise he long. SOPHIA KITTLESEN. HEALTH VERY POOR— RESTORED BY PE -RU -NA. Catarrh Twenty-five Years --- Had a Bad Cough. Miss Sophia Kittlesen, Evanston, M., writes: \I have been troubled with catarrh for nearly twenty-five years and have tried many cures for it, but obtained very little help. \Then my brother advised me to try Peruna, Red I did. \My health was very poor at the time I began taking l'eruna. lily throat was very sore and I had a, bad cough. \Peruna has cured me. The chronic catarrh Is gone and my health is very much Improved. \I recommend Peruna to all my friends who are troubled as I was.\ PERUNA TABLETS i—Some people pre- fer tablets, rather than medicine In a fluid form. Such people can obtain Peru- na tablets, which represent the medici- nal ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet equals one average dose of Peruna. Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative. Ask your Druggist for a Free Peruna Almanac for 1909. 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