Far north Also Has
Its “Emerald isle”
Were not the title pre-empted,
Kodiak, in the Katnml district of
Ahisku, might have been called the
"iiuterwld Isle” quite as well as Ire
land, for its situation In the Pacific
Is similar to that of Ireland in the
Atlantic ocean, is the assertion made
bj a writer in the Washington Stur.
Although the Island of Kodiak Is
1<J0 miles from Mount Katmnl, which
in June, U)12, gnve one of the most
tremendous volcanic explosions ever
recorded, it was buried nearly a foot
deep in ash. The ashy blanket trans
formed the "Green Kodiak" of other
days into a gray desert of sand, but
after a period of two years the ash
laderi hillsides were again covered
with verdure finer than ever before.
In the words of a resident of
Kodiak, "Never was such grass known
before, so high or so early. No one
O'er believed the country could grow
so many berries, nor so large, before
thi. ash.”
The Island owes Its climate, ns does
Ireland, to the tropical ocoan current
which bathes Its shores. The easterti
half of the Island Is occupied by a
forest of spruce, whose trees reach
« great size. Then comes luxuriant
grass land, equal to any grazing land
In the United States, and finding a
parallel only In the “guinea grass” of
the tropics.
Armenians Have Long
Survived Other Races
The Armenians have remained un
shuken In all vicissitudes and by their
Courage have preserved until our days
their nationality, their language and
(heir customs, asserts Herbert Welsh
In the New Armenia.
The races that the Armenians knew
In their Infancy have finished from
the face of the earth. Their brothers,
•the Phrygians, are today only a vague
memory. Anmng the contemporaries
the Armenians, only the Hellenes,
the Itallotes and the Gauls have sur
vived, not, hswever, without undergo
ing many changes, and abandoning
many of their fonner customs. Ex
cept the Greeks, one must seek the
kinsmen of the Armenians among the
nations who were brought from the
steppes of the North toward the
Aores of the Mediterranean by the
same flood that brought the ancestors
<tf Haik toward Thrace.
It can clearly be seen that the titles
of nobility of the Armenian race date
back to more than 3,000 years before
•ur era, and that they are muoh more
•orient than those of most of the Eu
ropean peoples. About the time when
Rome vvns being founded, Halk, the
eponymous hero of Armenia, led the
Armenians to Ararat. The Persians
tyere Just commencing their political
life when Armenia had ulready con
stituted herself a %tate.
Astronomical Theories
The naval observatory says the be
lief Is commonly held among astrono
mers that Mars is an older planet than
IJte earth. The old theory of the
origin of the solar system, called the
nebular hypothesis, was first proposed
by Laplace a hundred or more years
•go. According to his view, the sun
lyas once so large that It extended as
far as the orbit of Neptune. In the
process of shrinking to Its present size
It left bits of Itself behind, each of
,tyhleh became u planet; so that the
farther out a planet is, the older it is.
However, there are many astronomers
lyho do not accept this theory; several
different theories are now given to
•tgplain the origin of the solar system.
Preserving Trees
I*arge wounds In trees made by the
removal of branches of considerable
diameter may be protected by painting
tl«e cut surface with a heavy coating of
^hite lead. A large number of waxes,
paints and washes hav£ been tried, and
the conclusion has been drawn that
any substance which Is not corrosive
or detrimental to growth and which
wfll protect the heartwood from the at
tacks of rot spores, will prove a satis
factory covering for a cut surface.
Among such substances may be men
tioned white lead, yellow ocher, coal
lar and grafting wax.
Awakens New Hope
Some enterprising California cltleon
discovered that goldfish are much more
valuable In a pond of stagnant water
than in a glass bowl. It is said that a
few goldfish placed in sluggish water
where mosquitoes breed will in one
season eat every vestige of mosquito
larvae, freeing the neighborhood of
Oils pest. Just about the time we bad
given up all hope that this metallic
Colored fish had any value other than
as a parlor pet. along cornea this news
dispatch. There Is hope for the gar
pike yet.—Detroit News.
Oriental Rug Designs
Authorities on oriental rugs say
that the rug Itself typifies the uni
verse and the various designs the
ever-changing course of life. The
principal color. If red, typifies life of
Victory; If blue, royalty; If white,
purity; If green, devotion, and If
Hack, evil. In patterns the Swastika
means good luck; the Hower and knot,
fortune and life everlasting. th» cir
cle, Immortality. The star of six
points represents Allah.
Our Inquisitive Youngsters
^'Un'.le Tom. what are those little
square holes In your desk for?"
“Those are pigeon holes, my dear."
“When will the pigeons be back?"—
Boston Transcript.
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Scrap Beolti
Famous Rifleman Gave
Name to Pipe Spring
Pipe Spring national monument is
famous in Utah and Arizona history.
In 1853 Jacob Hamblin was sent by
President Brigham Young of tiie Mor
mon church to visit the Hop! Indians
in northern Arizona. His party con
sistod of ten, Including a Piute Indian
guide, and, so the story goes, they
camped by a marvelous spring in the
midst of the desert.
Hamblin, observes the New York
Times, was a noted rifle shot, and the
conversation turned to the qdestlon of
marksmanship. A wager was made
that he could not shoot a hole through
a handkerchief at 20 yards. Hamblin
(ired several shots at the square silk
hung by the two upper corners, but the
force of the bullet only swept the
handkerchief back without penetrating
it. Stung by his failure and his
friend’s laughing remark that he could
not shoot straight, Hamblin declared
that if he could not shoot straight
lie could stick his pipe up as a target
and shoot the bottom out without
breaking the bowl. Up went the pipe,
and "crack” went the rifle. Hamblin
made good his word and from that
time on the spring has been called
Pipe spring, according to the Depart
ment of the Interior.
In 1801 James M. Whitmore was sent
by the church to the southern part of
the state to raise cotton in Utah’s
Dixie and to develop the resources of
that part of the territory. He and his
followers settled at St. George, and
in 1863, In order to provide grazing
facilities for his henjs of cattle and
flocks of sheep, he located and im
proved the Pipe Spring ranch, which
lies about 55 miles east of St. George
and 20 miles west of Kanab.
Indian City of Jeypore
Has Unique Features
, One of the most remarkable cities
In the whole world Is Jeypore, In India.
It is specially beautiful and regular
because it wasybullt all at one time
and according to a single consistent
design instend of being built helter
skelter and at different periods. The
founder of it was Jey Sing, a maha
rajah or native ruler who started it in
“Hall of the Winds”
1728. Most of the buildings are cov
ered with pink and white stucco—this
being the case with the “Hall of the
Winds," which Is here Illustrated. In
Jeypore the sacred cattle go about the
streets at will, eating anything eatable
they see, and the people dare not mo
lest them. The monkeys, elephants,
camels and other animals are also con
sidered sacred and they have things
pretty much their own way.—Pathfind
er Magazine.
Clocks* Two Years* Test
The twenty electric clocks In the
palace of Industry and other buildings
at the Rrltish Empire exhibition at
Wembley were two years under test
at the royal observatory, Edinburgh.
The special apparatus used included
a klnomatograph which takes account
of thousandths of a second. The vari
ations of the clocks during the test
never exceeded one-hundredth of a
second In twenty-four hours.
Buoy*9 Long Voyage
A light buoy which broke away
from its moorings in South America
live years ago has traveled nearly
10,000 miles to Australia. The direc
tor general of navigation in New
South Wales reported that the buoy
broke adrift in 1919, and. assuming
that it followed the shortest route, it
must have drifted between four and
five miles a day.
Retriever Adopts Kitten
A Chicago man owns g retriever and
a Ciit, and both recently became moth
ers. The retriever’s two pups were
torn dead, so she abducted the cat’s
Ingle kitten. The distressed cat has
■ndeavored to secure possession of
n»r offspring, but the retriever holds
icr at bay and jealously guards the
It ton. which she nurses and tends
ievotedly.
To Feast on Ancient Ham
A fanner near Excelsior Springs
'to., has kept a hnm 47 years. It is
n»* his father put away in ashes in
IS77. l«o says it Is his intention to In
ite a few of his old friends to take
tinner with him in 1927, on which oc
•aslon 1 t»e hnm will be served and its
p'ftkvh anniversary appropriately cele
ul'Ultt).
Humorist Could Also
Be Bitter at Times
For renl bitterness the following
(from Mark Twain) is hard to match:
“A myriad of men are born; they
labor and sweat and struggle for
bread; they squabble and scold and
fight; they scramble for little mean
advantages over each other. Age
creeps upon them; infirmities follow;
shames und humiliations bring down
their prides and their vanities. Those
they love are taken from them, and
the Joy of life is turned to aching
grief. The burden of pain, care, mis
ery, grows heavier year by year. At
length ambition Is dead; pride is dead;
vanity is dead; longing for release Is
in their place. It comes at last—the
only unpoisoned gift earth ever had
for them—and they vanish from a
world where they were of no conse
quence; where they achieved nothing;
where they were a mistake and a fall- i
ure and a foolishness; where they
have left no sign that they have ex
isted—a world which will lament them
for a day and forget them forever.
Then another myriad takes their place,
and copies all they did, and goes along
the same profitless road, and vanishes
as they vanished—to make room for
another and another and a million
more myriads to follow the same arid
path through the same desert nnd ac
complish what the first myriad, and
all the myriads that came after it, ac
complished—nothing!"
And they called Mark Twain "Amer
ica’s greatest humorist” 1—Pathfinder
Magazine.
Heart Massage Is One
of Surgical Marvels
The heart is a pump, and Its work
can be done for it quite well for a little
while by hand, while its own power
fails, and It takes a rest. One lias to
remember that, normally It never lias
a rest from the moment of life until
death. And what happens In cases of
heart massage is that the surgeon rap
idly makes his way to the organ,- and,
taking it firmly and gently in the hand,
squeezes It so many times to the minute,
thus keeping the stream of the blood
circulating. If all goes well, the heart
gradually recovers itself, and begins
to beat of Its own uccord.
Thus it practically amounts to this—
that a person may actually die and be
brought to life again.
There was a time when if wotrid have
been thought madness to touch the;
heart. Yet wonderful things were done
in the World war in removing bullets
and shrapnel and in repairing heart
rents, though often it Is better to let
sleeping dogs He undisturbed, and the
surgeon is still very chary of touching
the great vital organ. For, though the
heart is not so fragile as we once fan
cied, It has a queer temper. Its nervous
mechanism is not a little touchy, and
easily thrown out of gear.—London
Times.
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Danger of Deforestation
The forest service suys that the re
duction of the forests does diminish
stream flow. The forest cover acts
as a gigantic sponge that holds back
excessive moisture and lets It out
gradually into streams. Deforestation
can take place without danger to a
certain point. If the deforestation is
carried too far it proves dangerous
through periods of excessive moisture
such as melting snow, which causes
floods. With the forest cover acting as
u sponge it does lessen floods to a cer
tain extent. The Increase in arable
lands would diminish neighboring
streams in so far as forest lands would
be taken and placed Over in the arable
lands.
Organization of Scientists
The Royal society grew out of two
small groups of friends, who met oc
casionally in London and Oxford to
discuss scientific questions, about the
middle of the Seventeenth century.
These were organized into a definite
society in 1600, and two years later the
society was granted a charter by
Charles II and incorporated as the
Royal society. Its early meetings took
place in Gresham college, and after
wards In Crane court. In 1782 the
place of meeting was transferred to
Somerset house, and in 1857 to Bur
lington house, London.—London Mall.
Fir at Coinage of Silver ~
Sliver was first coined on the Isle of
Aegina. Here the ancient Greeks
stamped a turtle on their first silver
coins over 700 years before the Chris
tian era. The first silver coins in the
United States were Issued by the Mas
sachusetts colony, which minted small
silver coins, familiarly known as the
pine-tree shillings. The mint was
closed by order of the crown In 1684.
The first coins made by the United
States government were in 1793.
Papal Triple Crown
The tiara, a high cap of gold cloth,
encircled by three coronets, with a
mound and cross of gold at the top,
is the triple crown of the pope. It
is ornamented with precious stones
and pearls, and is decorated with three
royal diadems. It is without inscrip
tion. A symbolic meaning has been
found in the triple crown, as repre
senting the authority of the pope over
the church “militant,- expectant and
triumphant.'’
Service
Mrs. McGee (In hotel)—Are these
sheets damp?
New Maid—No, ma'am; but we can
sprinkle them If you wish.—Hotel Man
agement.
PLEASANTVIEW ITEMS.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Murphy and son,
of near Emmet, spent a few’ Says with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bruder
and family last week.
Miss Dorothy Winkler spent a few
days last week with the Charley Bau
man family, south of Atkinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Nels Anderson, Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Reise and Dorothy, were
dinner guests of Mrs. George Reise!
and fajnily Xmas day.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pratt and family
spent Christmas day with relatives,
Mr. and Mrs. Tm Malloy, near Emmet, j
Elmer and John F. Warner ate!
Xmas dinner with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Zeb Warner, of O’Neill.
Mrs. Elmer Warner is spending the
holidays with her uncle, Strongburgs,
in Omaha.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Klingler, Wm.
Steskall, Amiel and Albert Heeb, Ed
die Rosier were Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Strong.
Katherene Reise spent a few days
last week with Mrs. George Reise and
family.
Tom Maring, Jr., is spending a few
days in Neligh.
Elmer Warner returned home Mon
day from a visit in Long Pine.
Wm. Clausen spent Sunday In
Spencer to the bedside of his father
in-law, Mr .Bigler, who is in the hos
pital there with heart trouble.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Walnofer called
on Ed Heebs Friday.
Miss Marcellia and Tressie Ulrich
spenf a few days with their brother,
Leonard and wife, south of Atkinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winkler and
daughter, Dorothy, spent Christmas
day with Mrs. Winkler’s parents in
Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Less
man.
Mr. and Mrs. James Mullen and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Hitchcock
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ul
rich and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leon
ard Ulrich spent Christmas day with
Mrs. Katherne Ulrich and family.
Miss Henretta Rleser spent Satur
day evening with Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Fued and family;
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Maring were
called to the bedside of his mother,
Mrs. Alex Maring, of Atkinson, Mon
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Walnofer were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Klingler Sunday.
Miss Francis Moore and brother,
Clyde, Bill Siebert and Ida Ohle spent
Thursday evening with Miss Katie
Ulrich.
Fred Roth spent Sunday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winkler and
family.
George Fullerton spent a few days
with relatives last week, Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Fullerton.
\Ienry Winkler was in Emmet Mon
day.
TAKEN UP
Taken up, Wednesday, December 3,
seven head of shoats, weighing about
fifty pounds each. Owner can have
same by paying for advertising and
keep.
27-tf MRS. VIOLA MORGAN.
“A tribe of Indians tius laid claim
to a section of Chicago.”
“They probably want It as a spot
as yet wholly untouched by civiliza
tion."
Lost Oddly Marked Pets
A New York lady has, as a hobby,
the collecting of cats with an unusual
number of claws on their paws. She
had gathered together 19 cats, each
possessing more than the usual num
ber of claws, but unfortunately, while
moving, eleven of the cats were suffo
cated. The lady sued the driver of the
lorry who had moved the cats, but the
action was dismissed.
Clock Made of Hard Coal
M. A. Randall of Concord, N. H.,
has a novelty In the shape of a clock
that Is made of hard coal, presented
to him by his son, Elmer, of Wllkes
barre. Pa., In the heart of the hard
coal section of Pennsylvania. Stick
pins and cuff buttons made from sul
phur diamonds found In the Pennsyl
vania coal mines are part of the odd
collection.
For the Forbidden City
As foreigners are not allowed to
enter Lhasa, the Forbidden City of
Tibet, Tibetan engineers have been
receiving instruction in electrical en
gineering in England, where a special
turbo-alternator has been constructed
for use in Lhasa. As the machine
will have to be carried 400 miles on
camels. It was necessary that no part
should weigh more than 56 pounds.
Barrier Against Flies
A screen of air from hidden electric
fans above and below the door is used
to keep flies from entering meat and
fish markets in Boston.
Cheating the TailorJ
Mr. Joseph Bagley, of Willingham,
Lincolnshire, England, wore on his
golden wedding day the suit In which
he was married.
A Valuable
Asset
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nection with this bank, will be one of his best and
strongest assets.
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Bank
PAID LOCALS.
FARM LOANS—R. H. PARKER.—37tf
KODAKS, FILMS, KODOK FINISH
ing—W. B. Graves, O’Neill. 30-tf
NO. 2 HAWKEYE CAMERA, SPEC
ial $1.98, Graves Jewelry Store, 27tf
FOR RENT—GOOD HOUSE, CLOSE
in—Edlward O’Donnell. 29-tf
Bring your scissors and knife sharp
ning to Davidson’s Plumbing Shop.
35-2p
FOR SALE—MODERN HOUSE AND
8 lots. Call or write, Mrs. Nona
Bedford, Page. 27-9p
FOR RENT—MY RANCH OF 760
acres, 3% miles east of Inman.—
Mrs. Peter Ryan. 29-3
I WANT SOME FARM AND RANCH
loans. If you want money come in
and see John L. Quig. 32-tf
FOR SALE, OR WILL TRADE FOR
stock or machinery, Ford touring
car. Inquire at this office. 29-3p
Buy one book for 75c, read it, then
bring it back to us and pay us 10c and
take your choice of our stock. W. B.
Graves. 26-18.
Yonr eyes will not trouble you any
longer if you will nail on Perrigo
Optical Co. at the Golden Hotel. Satur
day, January 10th. 30-2
FORM AND RANCH LOANS, 6 AND
three-fourth per cent, no commis
sion.—F. J. Dishner, County Agent
Joint Stock Land Bank. 17-tf
FOR RENT—160 ACRE FARM, HAS
120 acres under cultivation, has,
good buildings, has some alfalfa See
R H Parker, O’Neill 27-3
FOR SALE — GUNN SECTIONAL
book cases 8 sections with 2 tops
and 2 lower drawers. Mission finish.
Call at this office. 26-tf
ANNUAL ME ETING—SHIELDS
TOWNSHIP
The annual meeting of Shields Town
ship will be held at the Town Hall
on Tuesday, January 6, 1925, at 1:3#
P. M.
ED. MURRAY, CLERK.
ALL WINTER HATS ON SALE AT
60 per cent off at Clinton Hat Shop.
' 29-3
FOR SALE.—6-cyl. automobile cheap.
—R. H. Parker, O’Neill. 20-tf
Satisfaction with our glasses will
remain long after the price Is forgot
See Perrigo Optical do. at the
Golden Hotel, on Saturday, January
iOth. 30-2
IP YOU NEED THE OLD LOAN ON
your farm renewed for anothter 5 or
10 years, of if you need a larger loan
* ,Of" make !t for you.—R H. Parker,
O Neill, Nebraska. 21-tf
5%% INTEREST AND NO COMMIS
slon. I am now loaning Money on
r arms and Ranches at 5%% interest
and no commission to pay. New Loan
Company I Just got.—R. H. Parker,
O Neill, Nebraska. i 3-tf
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(First publication Dec. 18.)
(W. J. Hammond, Attorney.)
NOTICE OF GUARDIAN’S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue
of a license granted to me by the Dist
rict Court of Holt County, Nebraska, in
an action-pending in said Court enti
tled “In the matter of the application
of Zada Russ, formerly Zada Schreier,
guardian of Henrietta Schreier, a
minor for leave to sell real estate,"
dated December 1, 1924, I will offer for
sale and sell to the highest bidder for
cash, subject to all encumbrances, the
undivided one-half interest of Hen
rietta Schrlerer a minor in the Court
ing real estate in Holt County, Ne
braska, to-wit: South Half of South
Half, and the North Half of Southeast
Quarter and the South Half of North
east Quarter of Section 18, in Town
ship 25 North, of Range 11 West of the
6th PrinciDal Meridian, on the 7th
day of January, 1925, at ten o'clock A.
M. at the front door of the CCourt
House In the City of O’Neill, Holt
County, Nebraska. Said sale will re
main open for one hour.
ZADA RUSS, formerly Zada
Schreier, guardian of Hen
rietta Schreier, a minor.
29-3
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When they do depositors loee heavily. Why f
Because deposits in National Banks are not
guaranteed.
State Banks Fail—
When they do depositors a>e paid in fuU.
Why? Because deposits in State Banks are
prtoected hy the Depositers Guarantee Fund
if 'toe ’Mat* yC Nebraska.
The Nebraska State Bank
of O’Neill is the only bank in O’Neill which
offers you this protection.
Tou will protect yourself and please us by
depositing your money with us.
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