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    FIND MIRROR 2,400 YEARS O.D
British Museum Gets Beautiful Bronx*
Specimen of Greek Metal
Workers’ Art.
A Grecian bronze mirror 2.400 year*
old baa been added to the British mu
seum's collection of Greek antiquities.
Its age has been deduced from a com
parison with other early Greek bronzes
found In the Acropolis excavations.
According to a bulletin of the Copper
and Brass association, the mirror
dates from earlier than 470 B. C.
It measures seven Inches In diame
ter across the disk, which is plain, ex
cept for an egg-and-tongue molding
and beading around the delicately
worked edge. Marvelously well pre
served, It bears witness to the great
ness of the ancient Greek metal work
ers, as Indeed to the enduring quali
ties of the material In which they
wrought, says the Nesv York Times.
The disk rests on a base forming an
arc of a circle, with a voluted pal
rnette In the center supporting It. Be
low are the figures of u winged youth
and winged maiden, springing apart,
one on either side, as though for (light
from a central lotus flower. Under
the flower is a spike which was prob
ably fixed originally in some kind of
a pedestal, as the whole work seems
too large and heavy to have been
used as a hand mirror.
The figures themselves ure molded
lu the round, hut the rest of the group
is In flat relief. The girl, whose fig
ure Is draped, Is shown holding a fold
of her skirt, while the boy, who Is
nude, curries u wreath. It is believed
Ihat they represent Agon (Contest)
and Nika (Victory).
The earlier bronzes found In the
Acropolis excavations allowed less
freedom to the forms. The new statue
is. In fact, a later modification of tlie
“kneeling run" pose, as the feet of the
figures are brought closer together
thun had been the former custom of
the bronze metal workers.
BANKS ARE RICHLY HOUSED
They Spend for Building* About On*
Dollar in Seven of All Their
Resources.
A million dollars still seems to many
people a large sum. Multiply that mil
lion 1,100 times and you have the
value of the homes in which American
banks do business.
Next to United States government
departments American hanks are bet
ter housed than any other institutions
of any kind in tile world, says “tii
rurd" in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The bunks have put about one dol
lar In seven of all their capital, sur
plus and undivided profits in buildings.
A decidedly solid, even if not a liquid
asset!
In the procession to keep the hanks
in front Philadelphia is in the van.
New hank buildings in process of com
pletion here exceed in value $10,000,
000. When erected, the old United
States bank building in Chestnut near
fourth street, now the custom house,
was generally described as the most
beautiful building in America. Huge
as it then appeared to be. it would be
too small for some of our banks to
day.
it is hard to overestimate the moral
•ffect of beautiful bank buildings.
Japanese “Movie Fans.”
Recently compiled statistics by Ja
pan’s minister of education show that
the motion picture is the most popu
lar form of amusement in that coun
try ; next comes the public- story teller,
and, third, the theater. It is less than
ten years since motion pictures were
introduced into Japan and now there
are 800 theaters devoted to “movies.”
The most popular foreign films are
the ones with much swift action. Wild
West scenes, hair-breadth escapes,
cowpunchers and bad men of the wild
and woolly West. Strange, indeed,
must be the idea gleaned by the Japa
nese stay-at-home of the American
civilization they portray.
Cremona Varnish R;-Discovered.
A maker of stringed instruments in
Italy has discovered the secret of the
renowned varnish of Cremona violins
which used to give to the old Instru
ments their marvelous sonority. He
found the secret in an Italian manu
script dated 1710 an<i states that It is
made with certain resinous substances
and is not soluble in alcohol. The var
nish was Invented by the hmttiers !
Van Eyck and used hy their Flemish
successors. From Holland the secret j
of its making was brought to Italy by
Antonello da Messina, and It became
known to the Cremonese through
some painter in the Sixteenth century.
Loose but Harmless.
An Englishman was paying his first
visit to Scotland. He arrived at a
small town and liegan to question the
porter. “I suppose you have a probost
here?"
“Aye,” said the porter.
“And does he have Insignia like our
mayors?”
“Have what?”
“Insignia—well, for instance, does
he have a chain?”
"A chain?” said the astonished por- I
ter. “Na, na. He guns.* loose; but j
dlnna be feared, he’s quite harmless.”
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Just Like Ail Men.
The baby was bawling. I‘a stood It
as long as he could and then ventured
t* make inquiry.
“What does the baby want?"
“He Is like most men,” snapped ma.
“How Is that, my dear?"
“Doesn’t know what lie wants, hut
keeps yelling for it!” she returned.
“He will make a great statesman.”
said pa. discreetly,
VITONA MINERAL ORE
This great mineral has been tested*
for many years and has relieved thou
sands of people of Indigestion Ca
tarrh, Ectemcj, Diabetes, Rheumatism,
Piles, Inflamed Bore Byes, Gout, Blood
Poison Erysipelas, Constipation, Fe
male Complaints, Nervous Troubles
and all Blood Disorders.
If you are afflicted with any of
these diseases, or if your system is
-all run down, n fair and honest trial
I of this Wonderful Natural Remedy will
do wonders for you. Place the con
tents of the package In one quart of
milk warm water, and let It stand
for twenty-four hours. Then take a
table spoon full three times a day
in a large tumbler of water and you
will find it a wonderful tonic.
VITONA MINERAL ORE CO.
W. Alston, General Agent
5002 So. 18th Street, So. Omaha, Neb.
Market 8473. —Adv.
WAS NAMED ISLAND OF GOLD
New Guinea Was Discovered by the
Portuguese and Later Divided
Among Powers.
New Guinea was first reported by
two Portuguese mariners, Antonio
Abreu and Francisco Serruiu. in loti.
They were tlie earliest westerners to
lund in New Guinea; but one Dom
Jorge de Meueses. tlie Portuguese gov
ernor of tile island of Termite. Is said
to have landed there in lolM. Alvaro
de Saavedra, a Spaniard, who vv s kin
to Cortez, tlie discovert r auu c< D
queror of Mexico, coasted tie Island in
I5t!ia and 15119. trying to get back li .me
ta Spain, says Adventure Mag. zinc,
lie found traces of gold on tue north
ern coast anti promptly labeled the
Island Islu del tiro, or I land of Gold
Tlie island was left to meditate—
while the unthropoph. gi cheerfully
rallied each other and did their lies! to
eat one another—until the great pow
ers Imd annexed nr stolen all the avail
able lantl In the western hemisphere.
Then they remoigh iv4 ''e v Guinea.
An agreement between the nations of
England, Germany and Holland parti
tioned tlie island amongst those gov
ernments in 1S84.
Germany lost tier section In 1!>14
when a force of Australians captured
the colony, which is now administered
by Australia under mandate from the
lieague of Nations. Australia also
owns the territory of Papua (formerly
British New Guinea); the Dutch still
hold their section, about one-half of
the whole island.
DAMASCUS A BEAUTIFUL CITY
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Horn*, Hama and Aleppo Also Are
Among the Near East’s At
tractive Places.
Damascus is considered one of the
most beautiful cities of the Mast. All
Hlnng the road from Reirnt to this an
cient city In the desert there are camel
trains, almost In a c* ititinous line
carrying the grain of tic plains to the
sea anil bringing hack the produce of
the Western world. The bazaars of
Damascus are the most interesting iri
the Near Mast, although they are not
so extensive as those of Constanti
nople. After Damascus. Homs and
Hama, on the road to Aleppo, attract
attention, set as they are in the midst
of wild, desert country, hut refreshed
by never ending wntfr. Horns is the
center of a great grazing country,
and Hama, with its ancient wa
terwheels pumping water in prtmi
rive fashion, is tiie center of an im
portant silk Industry and market.
Aleppo is a source of delight, for her
bazaars are more primitive than those
of any other city In the country and
for the suite reason full of charm
One can buy any produce of the Near
and Farther East from these tiler
elmnfs. the produce of the looms of
Persia, the silk of China, brought
thousands of miles by caravan, and
wonderful brass and inlay work.
Church on the Roof.
A roof garden has been installed on
the top of the new $250,000 Methodist
Episcopal church «at Austin, Tex
Lacking the lawn which usually sur
rounds churches in cities the size of
Austin arid smaller, and on which the
night services of summer may be held,
the hoard of stewards decided to
build n roof garden where the congre
gation may worship in the outdoor
breezes. Over the four-foot parapet
wall, which will surround the roof
garden, the congregation will look ou
! the east Into the grounds of the statp
capitol. .Special electric fixtures, at
j inched to the walls, will Illumine the
! garden. Movable seats will he In
stalled. and special arrangements
made for seating the choir of the
church.
Judged by Effect.
A snia 11 boy visiting his Indulgent
aunt partook heartily of cuke and Jam.
When asked if he hadn't had all that
was good for him, he replied that he
didn t know yet.
“Well, you’re a funny boy.” said his
aunt. "When will you know?”
“In half an hour. If I'll) uot ill In
half an hour. I'll he sorry I didn't take
more; and if I’m in I’ll he sorry I
took so much. That’s the only way
I to tell that I know of.”
Shifting Condition*.
“Your constituents sav your
speeches are not as convincing as they
used to he.”
“Perhaps they are right,” replied
Senator Sorghum. “It’s dangerous to
convince a crowd of voters so thor
oughly that you won’t be able to make
them follow a new line of ar
gument In ease circumstances render
It necessary for you to change your
mind.”
New Guinea's Wonder Woman.
The majority of people, except those
who are residents in Australasia, have
never heard of Mrs. Elizabeth Ma
hony, yet she is one of the most won- ]
derful women in the world. Trader, j
engineer, builder, farmer, stock breed
er, shipowner and mine owner, she is
the (mcrowned queen of an Island
known as Sudest, near New Guinea,
where she has lived for the past 33
years.
A Good War Hoese.
A farmer sold a horse to a cavalry
officer, warranting the animal to be
a first-rate war horse. Some time
afterward the officer came to the
farmer in a rage and said : “You call
this animal a good war horse? Why,
there’s not a hit of go In him! A good
war horse indeed!”
“So he is.” replied the farmer. “Sure,
he’d rather die than run!”
COMMON DUS I USED IN V.U£b
When It l« Mixed With That From
Coal the Combination Is
Nonaxplo&ive.
Dust Is generally regarded as an
enemy rather than a friend, and
, housewives have always declared re
lentless war on the little purtlcles of
matter that accumulate on their
shelves, hut some people deliberately
I collect dust and pile : :gh on shelves
collect dust and pile It high on shelves
When a slight explosion occurs In a
coal mine there may he no Immediate
damage done; hut the rush of air
caused by this small upheaval stirs
the tine coal dust on the tlnor of the
mine, whips It Into the air and leaves
It suspended; and coal dust, suspend
ed In the air, Is a deadly menace, for
nothing promotes the spread of an ex
plosion more quickly; In fact, the sus
pended dust becomes Itself an explo
sive mixture, which, If Ignited, could
easily wreck the entire workings and
cause u frightful calamity, observes
the New York World.
But science has found that when
coal dust In the Hir Is mixed with
other dust It becomes harmle s. There
fore In the mines are shelves, and on
| the shelves are plies of dust collected
from outside—ordinary dust, such as
housewives sweep away. When n rush
of air stirs the deadly coal dust It also
stirs this harmless dust and mixes It
I with the coal ; so that the air Is no
. lopger a source of danger. Inspectors
! visit the mines and take samples of
j the dust In the air and If the mixture
Is too nearly pure coal dust the own
ers are warned to put In more of the
common article.
CENTIFEDES FROM TRINIDAD
London Zoo Is Given Two Specimens,
Each More Thar. One
Foot Long.
A pair of unfriendly looking centi
pedes from Trinidad have been pre
sented to the London zoo. They are
eueh more than a foot long, and at the
broadest part nearly half an In h
across. They are dark brown, with
rings on the long feelers and on the
legs, a pair of which projects from
each flattened segment of the body.
These tropical centipedes live in shady
places, hidden under hark, stones or
dead leaves, moving chiefly at night.
It has been shown that the whole of
the body of these centipedes secretes
a volatile venom, so that even the
wounds made by the sharp claws are
extremely painful. Under the surface
of the herd It carries a formidable
pair of poison fangs, ihe venom of
which escapes by a pore In the clnw
being formed by large glands at the
base of the claws. The venom Is an
add opalescent liquid, hardly miscible
with wuter. When injected into the
veins of rabbits It produces instan
taneous paralysis, with coagulation of
the blood; when injected under the
skin enormous aheesses are rapidly ;
formed. The bite Is very painful to
human beings, but has not been known
to be fatal, although it causes insom- ;
Ida. local swelling and occasionally
ulcers.
Regrets Passing of Parsing.
It is said that Knglisli grammar as
we studied It has been discarded,
writes Mitchell Bronk in Scribner's.
I certainly have found nothing resem
bling It in the school work of my own
children. The more's the pity!
A language has Its anatomy, which
must be mastered in order properly to
manipulate that language. Mow we
used to take apart and put together
again and pound the meaning out of
“Paradise Lost." and the selections
from Shakespeare given in the hack
of “Brown's Grammar”—that gram
mar that was the law and the proph
ets of Knglisli language study in those
days! “Parsing,” it was called. But
so the Kngliah speech became a won
derful and living, albeit useful, thing
to us.
Rifle Has Done Its Bit.
When u private stationed at Fort
Benning was engaged In cleaning a
rifle which he had Just drawn, he j
pushed out a small roll of paper which j
contained the following message: j
‘This rifle was used h.v Private Frank j
Webster 2010213. I Co., 125th Inf. 1 ;
fired this point-blank at seven Ger- I
mans. Oct. 7. 1918, In an attack on the |
Krlemhllde Ktellung during the Meuse- !
Argi ne offensive. On Oct. 11, 1918, |
I fired with this rifle 115 rounds while i
In the third battalion. 125th Inf. i
Gassed In the Death Valley near
Geanes, France. Whoever draws this |
rifle can know It has done Its hit.”
Big Cat* Like Catnip, Too.
We have all heard that cats like
catnip. It remained fdr government
scientists to apply this knowledge |
practically to the big cats They found
the lymting of mountain lions and
bobcats with dogs and guns to pre- j
vent destruction of Western cattle |
was an expensive proposition. Then |
they thought of catnip. Large quanti
ties of this aromatic herb sere raised.
From this chemjpts extracted the oil
which gives It its odor, {iow it Is no
longer necessary, to look up the lions.
They walk right Into traps scented
with catnip oil.
Why He Waa Sad.
‘"•'hy do you look so sorrowful. Den
nis?” ,
‘‘I Just hear-r-d wan man cal) an
other man a liar, and the man that was
called a liar said the other man would
have to apologize, or there would be a
fight.”
"And why should that make you
sad?”
'"The other man apologized.”
haiym Dun ifiuon,
One thousand five hundred pounds
is said to be the weight of the largest
bull moose ever weighed in this coun
try, and the greatest known horn
ipread Is 78 Inches.
“Jehu."
Jehu as a colloquial name for a
coachman, or for one who drives rack
lessly. Is derived from a biblical
source, 11 Kings, 9:20. “the driving
Is like the driving of Jehu the son of
Nlnishl. for he drlveth furiously ”
A Doubtful Comp'lment.
At r New Hampshire w<*drtlne r
friend of the groom watered him
closely during the reywcvay. and
when It waa me' he haste. <*o 'o the
happy man and said: "Bill, ve done
tine! I had an Idea ye would he skit
tish while ye was bein’ tied up, but
hy gosh, ye look as hold as a sheep I"
—Boston Trnnscrlnt.
That "V" Soaped Vest.
The V-shaped opening of s waist
coat Is really a piece of vanity, giving
the wearer a chance to show what
sort of shirt ip- wears It originated In
the days wbei linen was first worn,
and rlie man wl ** eotild sport a linen
shirt was eon- le:ec| something of a
“swell He 1 <1 the opening out In
his w aistcoat I tint all could see his
elegance.
Atao With Gloves.
A magazine article is headed, "How
to Treat Sick Bees " For our own
part, we always trenl bees with re
spect. sick or well.
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DAISY MARTIN
Inimitable singer of "blues”, with Jack
Reid and his famous "Record Break
ers” at the popular Gayety twice daily
all week starting Saturday matinee.
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WANTED Colored men to qualify
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perience unnecessary, transportation
furnished. Write T. McCaffrey, Supt,
St. (>ouis, Mo,
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the Madam South and Johnson bair
system, wishes to announce to her
many friends and patrons that she
has moved to 2724/Miami street. Tel.
Webster 3067.—Adv.
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