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HOW CHINESE USE MONKEYS IN WAR Training of the Animals la Long and Arduous Task. London.—The use of monkeys la warfare by the Chinese dates back to the time when the Mongolians cap tured Peking. The monkeys used are the “Wah-Wahs,” called after the pe culiar call they make when angry. They are tailless, always walk upright, and when fully grown are about 4 feet In height, says a writer In the Dally News. The monkeys are captured when quite young and are kept In a small hut situated on a lonely plain. The training of the animals Is a long and arduous task, and only such as the Chinese, with their Infinite patience and utter disregard of time, would at tempt The animal Is let out of the hut at the end of a thin cord about ten feet long and made to go forward and take out of the ground a little flagstaff with a yellow flag on It This flagstaff forms the center of three flagstaffs, the two outer flags being blue. When the monkey brings back the yellow flag he Is Is rewarded with food, but If he attempts to touch the blue flags the cord Is drawn tight and he Is chastised. Qradually the cord is lengthened, and after years of train ing the monkey Is capable of going distances up to two miles nnd bringing back his colored flag. Other monkeys are taught to take blue flags, others red, until an army commander is in possession of several hundred monkeys distinguished by the color painted on their backs. Every Chinese division Is distin guished by colored pennants carried by bannermen, soldiers noted for their bravery. When a commander wishes to make an attack and desires to strike terror Into the enemy, he selects about 20 monkeys of the enemy’s color. The animals are starved for several days and kept In a position where they can see the enemy. The night of the attack the monkeys are covered all over with luminous paint and let loose. They Immediate ly make their way over into the ene my’s lines, where their appearance and the savage way In which they bite and scratch In their efforts to capture the flags strike terror In the heart of the enemy. When the commander hears the loud "Wah-Wah” of his beasts he knows the enemy are In con fusion and launches hts attack. Plant TNT in Snow to Open Drifted Highway* Loveland, Colo.—Incased In a tube of lead, a ribbon of powerful TNT, known as a Oordeau fuse. Is being stretched along the trail of the Rail River road, In the Rocky Mountain National park, west of Loveland. This fuse will be buried under snow drifts 15 to 28 feet deep on both sides of Fall River pass, and In the spring drifts of snow will be blasted from the trail This Is something new in the work of the park service. Heretofore the snow has been bucked and scraped from the mountain pass roads each spring. This has been the hardest and most expensive task the service had to handle. The new Instantaneous fuse Is set off by a blasting cap, so that Its en tire length explodes at once. Fifty pound boxes of 20 per cent dynamite will be placed at 20-foot Intervals In one of the worst drift locations along the road. Each box will be opened and the Cordeau fuse strung between them, after which they will be sealed. This powder will be left beneath snow drifts during the winter, and next spring a blasting cap will be Inserted In the end of the fuse and the entire charge detonated at once. Contract to Produce Rain Made by Californian Bakersfield, CaL—“Rainmaker1' Hat field recently closed a contract with the Kern County Cattlemen’s associa tion and the sheepmen's association whereby he promised to produce lfc inches of rain In Kern county between November 20 and December 20. If the rain Is produced, Hatfield is to receive $4,000, the money being guaranteed by the cattlemen and sheepmen. Coins of Old Wessex Kings Found in Cave London.—A collection of Sax on coins lssaed during the reigns of five Wessex kings has been discovered In a cave near Peakland, Derbyshire, by Bev. O. H. Wilson. Human and ani mal remains found In the outer chambers of the cave indicate, ! according to antiquarians, the ] cave was formerly the dwell ing place of a personage, pos | slbly of a Mercian ruler of more than a thousand years ago. The coins eo far Identified date back to the time of Cen wul, a Mexican king who ruled about the year 800. Articles of personal adornment also were found. Mr. Wilson has advanced the ! theory the Saxons of eastern and middle England, retreating before the victorious Danes, took shelter In the Derbyshire caves and that there many of them were slaughtered or starved. -1 PHARMACY j SUCCESSOR TO PATRICK | I HARDING’S ICE CREAM \ Druggist—Prompt Free Delivery and Courtesy >nty-fourih and Seward BOOK DESCRIBING EARLY TRIP FOUND Telia of Hennepin's and Dn Lhut’s Adventures in 1680. Minneapolis. Minn.—A yellow, worm eaten old book. Father Louis Henne pin's own account of how he and Dn Lhut In 1680 discovered the falls of St. Anthony, has been found In the home of W. E. Hewitt, a Minneapolis attorney. The book was published In London and dedicated to William IIL Father Hennepin tells the story of how, after Journeying from the mouth of the Illinois river down the Missis sippi to the gulf of Mexico and back, he and his companion were captured by a band of northern Minnesota In dians. They were taken to the north woods, where Father Hennepin became 111. He was placed In a tepee, Into which were rolled large round stones, red hot. These heuted the tepee, while two Indians gave him a sort of "Swed ish massage." The treatment was re peated until he recovered. Accompanied by Du Lhut, he and his party later started back to Canada, discovering en route the falls of St. Anthony. Near the falls they found beaver skins hung up to scare away evil spirits. Some of the party want ed to steal the hides, although Du Lhut opposed this, knowing the ways of the Indians better than they. Despite his protest, the skins were taken. Later the whole party was captured by the Indians, who wanted to kill them. Friendly Indians Inter vened, however, and the white men were allowed to proceed. Father Hennepin at the time was a subject of Spain, although traveling with an expedition financed by France. Upon his return to France, because he took credit for discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi, which the French contended should go to La Salle, he was exiled and proceeded to England, where he wrote his book, with William HI. as his patron. Vienna Makes Record Speed in Home Building Vienna.—What Is said to be a rec ord for central Europe was made here recently when a number of houses were completed and ready for occupancy within three weekn The houses were erected as an experiment owing to the dearth of dwellings here and it Is planned to build more by the hundreds if the scheme proves practical. The frame of the houses consisted of two sets of boarding which were set four or five Inches apart. The Intervening space between the board ing was filled with sawdust which had been treated with a chemical preparation which made It nonln flammahle. A coating of plastering was applied to the outside of the boarding and a family from the Vien na slums moved into the new home 21 days after the work was begun. Water Found in Quartz Ten Million Year* Old Chicago.—Drops of water more than 10,000,000 years old, preserved In quartz since an age before life be gan to appear on earth, will be ex hibited in the Field museum here. The water was obtained In South America by O. C. Farrington, head of the museum’s department of ge ology, who found it Imprisoned In crystal quartz taken from rock for mation at Bon Jesus dos Meiras, Bahia, Brazil. The estimate of its age was based on the fact that the rock formations of the archean age are as serted by some scientists to have ex isted 550.000.000 years ago. The wa ter Is clear and sparkling In its crys tal container. City Authorities Plan to Modernize Moscow Moscow.—Moscow will rival In beauty and civic modernity any Euro pean capital. If present plans of the municipal authorities materialize. Preparations are being made for the construction of a subway on the Amer ican plan and the establishment of omnibus systems, taxicab lines, new tramways and other improvements. The present sewage and canal systems will be entirely remodeled. A com mission representing the Moscow so viet has left for Germany, France and England to seek foreign loans for the projects. Oldest London ‘Cabbie* Mourns End of Horse London.—London's oldest cab driver Is Joe Mlndon, who has been 00 years on the box, and whose greatest pride Is the fact that the late King Edward was for years one of his regular “fares.” Motorization of the means of transportation In London has left old Joe almost without employment, and he talks Jaunt ily of acquiring a taxicab. Asked for his opinion of the taxi, the aged cabby said re flectively : "They have driven us off the streets In the same way the busses are driving them off. And as for the traffic, we’ll soon have to start burrowing under ground. Give me the old days with clear streets and a smart horse, and time for a nap on the box If you liked." For Rent BOOMS FOR RENT—Neatly furnished rooms, 2536 Patrick avenue. Two blocks from car line. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms, two blocks of car line. Home con veniences. 2619 Caldwell street. > WEbster 6731. 4t-9-5-24. FOR RENT — Furnished room in; strictly modern home, 2524 Patrick aveeue. WEbster 1888.—2t-9-24. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms. All modern. WE 3613. 3-28; FOR RENT—Two rooms for light house-keeping, 2216 North 27th Ave. WEbster 6834. 8-8-24 FOR RENT—Furnished rooms for light house keeping. One block from car line. 1712 North 25th street. WEbster 5450.—Indf. (7-25 24). FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms, j From $3.50 to $4.60 per week. Home convenience. Two blocks from 1 car line. 2619 Caldwell. WEbster 6731. 4t. 7-26-24. FURNISHED ROOM in modern home one block from car line. 2876. Wirt St. Web. 4285. 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If the teeth are not well kept they at once become a liability. 1M*> Tmtk Fmete etemme teeth m mem sssUe At l0tt user ehensdsts Ami SdssunoeeAst teSehlmi tmeredtemt thmt eemtte etemme mtth emt eereuhie^thetmemett e dl0emtl eretiem A large tube of Litteriae Tooth Paste it only 25 cents; at your drug gist’s.— Lambert Pharmaeml Co., Setmt Louis, U. S. A. 1 1 " 1 < M inihtfll.__ __ NEGRO VETS PARADE FIFTH AVE. (By the Associated Negro Press.) New York, N. Y., Nov. 21.—Among the military units that took a prom inent place in the Armistice day pa rade on Fifth avenue was the “Fa mous Fifteenth’’, now the 369th regi ment, national guard. Invitations were sent to one hundred colored citizens to be present at special exercises in Central Park. MAUD CU5EV HARE 15 RECITAL (By the Associated Negro Press.) Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 21.—Standing room was at a premium in the Brook lyn Academy of Music when Mrs. Maud Cuney Hare, pianist and reader, appeared in recital under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Washington, D. C., Nov. 21.—Accord ing to United States ABBistant District Attorney David Hart, there is one boctlegger in this city for every 90 inhabitants, or a total of 6,000, all but 250 of whom have been in the courts. SEW AND SAVE WITH BEST SIX CORD SPOOL COTTON Dressmaking Hints For ■ valuable book on drawmaking, send 4c. to THE SPOOL COTTON CO., Dept. C 315 Foartb Ave., New Tork LI MON ft GRAY ELECTRICAL WORKS Expert Electrical Engineers Motor*, Generator*. 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