CEMETERY C
r . rn—s
A COMPLETE SKELETON BURIED 'N a GRAVE
with Pottery at tarkeian
W NDEIi the direction of the
■teg I British School of Arch
ie” aeology in Egypt a great
I '81. cemetery of the first
dynasty (5500 B. C.) was
wg* explored last year, ac
¥ _ cording to the Sphere.
¥ and much that was im
’ W portant was accomplish
f ed, both from the stand
point of science and that
of the acquisition of relics. The valley
in which the excavations were made is
situated at Tarkhan, about 40 miles
south of Cairo. It was cleared this
year and found to contain about 800
graves. An exact record was made of
all the contents of the graves. The
bones were measured, plans were made
of each grave and of the entire cem
etery and a complete description of
all the pottery and vases that were
found was set down. As the cemetery
dates from the most critical point in
Egyptian history, the finding of such
a detailed record, the most complete
ever made, is considered of much Im
portance to archaeology.
This points is regarded as the pre
Memphite capital of Egypt, as it was
the place of residence of great num
bers of wealthly Egyptians before
Memphis became the capital of united
Egypt. It is supposed that in addi
tion to the many graves that have
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CLtARINCj*N'<L Vv
OUT AN ANU£NT'"^J
TOMB NEAR GERZ.t« ^
been discovered, there are great num
bers under the water. The tombs
which have been opened are, many of
them, in a remarkable state of preser
vation, as the filling in of sand in the
valley has preserved the bodies from
disturbance. In the graves quantities
of alabaster and pottery vases were
found. Some of the vases were of the
blue glazed variety. There were also
slate palettes, alabaster stools such as
are used to support dishes, strings of
bead and ivory table implements,
among which were spoons ornamented
with flowers, foliage and birds in
carving on the bowl. Another spoon
was In the shape of two arms, with
scooped palms for the bowl. The two
THE MOCKING BIRD BEATS ORIGINAL IN ITS OWN SONG
By L. M. BENNINGTON.
The newcomer in the south is likely
to be surprised some morning by hear
ing a number of birds, not usually on
the best of terms, confabbing com
fortably together in some nearby tree
top. Interested in this sudden burying
of the hatchet, he will search out the
friendly group, only to And it made
up of a solitary individual; this one,
however, as much in earnest about
things in general as though he were
the whole anticipated dozen.
The mocking bird’s powers of imi
tation have been much commented
upon, but. can hardly be exaggerated.
One has been observed to mimic four
teen different birds in the course of
half an hour, each so perfectly that it
was hard to believe the medley of
sounds proceeded from a single throat.
The only perceptible difference in
the real song and the imitation is that
the mocking bird’s note is usually
more full and round than the original.
It is perfect in inflection, however, and
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for that express purpose. Again and
again the robin began, only to be in
terrupted after the first few notes by
the saucy usurper, who finished the
whole song each time, ending with-a
little triumphant flourish, as much as
to say: “You see I can beat you at
your own tune!”
The annoyed red breast, astonished
and resentful, at length flew a little
farther away, and began again. This
time, however, he brought down upon
himself a torrent of musical revenge,
including nearly every bird song in the
catalogue, and ending up with a series
of derisive cackles, like nothing so
much as the cries of a disturbed sit
ting hen. Thoroughly disgusted by
this outpouring, Mr. Robin gave it
up as a bad job and flew away.
The mocking bird is one of the bold
est of the feathered tribe. Even the
impudent sparrow has a wholesome
fear of him, and is pretty careful
about building where he is in the
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“Way Down South in the Land of Cotton.”
even In the little "quips and turns”
that characterize the mimicked tones.
The bird’s own song is one of the rich
est and roundest possible, and is not
much improved by being interrupted,
as it often is, by the unmusical squawk
of the jay, or the complaining whine
of the catbird.
An odd little musical duel was ob
served one day between a mocking
bird and a robin. The robin, perched
in a rose bush, had hardly begun his
rich, full-throated solo when the notes
were literally "taken out of his mouth”
by the mocking-bird, which had alight
ed in a cherry tree near by, apparently
habit of making his own nest. Dur
ing the brooding season he is unusu
ally aggressive. A dog. which was
caught sniffing about unwarily under
a tree where a mocking bird’s family
was being reared, was put to sudden
and ignominious rout by the onslaught
of the angry male bird. Prowling
cats find it better to keep at a safe
distance, and there are few winged
depredators that would enjoy a bout
with an enraged mocking bird.
As a consequence the nests are
found quite near the ground, the bird
trusting to its own prowess for pro
tection.
PREDICTS NEW TYPE OF SHIP
Waterplane, According to Writer, la
Forerunner of Change in Marine
Architecture.
The waterplane, I believe, is the
forerunner of an entirely new kind of
ocean-going ship. At present a ship’s
speed is checked by reason of the tre
mendous resistance offered to her pas
sage by the water.
Now If we could produce a vessel
that traveled on the top of the water
she would only have to overcome the
resistance of the air, which is not
nearly so powerful as water resistance.
This is the kind of vessel which, 1
fancy, the waterplane foreshadows—
the ocean-going liner of the future.
The ship of the future will probably
be flat-bottomed, winged, and with a
rudder-tail. She will sometimes rise
above the waves, and at others travel
along the top of the waters, but only
touch them with her flat bottom.
When a ship now travels at 23 knots
she will in the days to come make 60
or perhaps even 70 knots, because she
will skim, instead of being sunk in.
I expect to see this type of vessel
make her appearance during the next
twenty years. And when she has
actually come into being a revolution
will have been effected in transit and
traveling facilities in comparison to
which the introduction of steamship,
raUways and motor cars will seem in
significant.—Exchange.
A man may be a heavyweight
fighter and a lightweight husband.
Most Heroic Invalid.
Stevenson—that most heroic of in
valids—would have agreed with Dr.
McWalter of Dublin that it is better
to enjoy a short and merry life than
to be a helpless centenarian. "To
forego all the issues of living In a
parlor with a regulated temperature,”
he writes, scornfully, "as if that were
not to die a hundred times over, and
for ten years at a stretch! As if it
were not to die in one’s own life
time, and without even the sad im
munities of death! As If it were not
«
to die, and yet be the patient specta
tor of our own pitiable change! The
permanent possibility is preserved,
but the sensations carefully held at
arm's length, as If one kept a photo
graphic plate in a dark chamber. It
is better to lose health like a spend
thrift than to waste it like a miser."
That Might Work.
One way to kill the "turkey trot"
and “tango” would be for doctors to
prescribe them as a tonic for the »|«^
and infirm.—Baltimore Sun.
Diet and Nationality.
Among modern nations the greatest
eaters are the British. Germans.
French and Americans. The diet of
the Spaniards and the Italians to nota
bly less substantial than that of the
British and Germans, just aa their
bralM are less active and original.
The Americans are, on the average,
the greatest eaters in the world. Said
Carlyle to Emerson: "The best thing
I know of that country is In it a
man can have meat for hto labor'*-.
Family Doctor
grave, or
arms closely bound together formed
the handle of this spoon.
The residents of Tarkhan must have
been extremely prosperous, according
to the evidence furnished by the exca
vations. They were provided abun
dantly with beautiful ornaments for
their households and persons, and also
with innumerable useful articles of
practical necessity in the kitchen, the
dining hall and the boudoir. Some of
the tombs are so well preserved that
the whole story of Egyptian reverence
for the dead and belief in immortality
can be read by a glance at the tomb.
In the brick wall above the grave may
be seen the little slit through which
the soul comes forth for its offerings.
The offertory still stands, as do the
piles of pottery which once bore food
and drink for the departed, and which
were brought to the tomb by the rela
tives and friends.
Many works of art of the eighteenth
and nineteenth dynasties have been
discovered by further clearing of the
great'temple of Ptah, in Memphis.
From some of the excavated work
shops in Memphis have been procured
all the utensils used in the manufac
ture of stone vases and examples of
the vases in all stages of construc
tion. Colored stones which were
brought from the desert and other
rich stones which were imported into
Egypt for use in making ornaments
for the very wealthy have been found
in these shops.
A few ^niles south of Gizeh excava
tions revealed some unusually large
tombs of the twelfth and thirteenth
dynasties. The excavations revealed
that a robbery had been attempted
centuries ago. The robber had en
tered the tomb by a little opening, the
result of a piece of excavating on his
own account, and he had gathered to
gether a little heap of ornaments with
which he was about to make off when
the top of the tomb had fallen on him
and crushed him. His skeleton was
found in the tomb by the excavators,
and close to it a handsome gold pec
| toral inlaid with colored stones, of
which the poor wretch had hoped to
rob the dead.
History of Tea.
The earliest record of tea being
mentioned by an Englishman was
probably that contained in a . letter
from Mr. Wickham, an agent of the
East India company, written from Fir
ando, in Japan, on June 27, 1615. to
another officer of the company, resi
dent at Macao, in the south of China,
asking him for "a pot of the best sort
of chaw.” It was not until the middle
of that century that the English began
to use tea. They received their sup
plies from Java until 1686, when they
were driven out by the Dutch, says
the Bulletin of the Imperial Institute.
At first the price in England ranged
from £6 to £10 per pound. In the
Mercurius Politicus of September.
1658, occurs an advertisement of the
“China drink called by the Chineans
Telia, by other nations Tay, alias Tee.”
being sold in London. Thomas Gar
way, the first English tea dealer, in
1659 or 1660, offered it at prices vary
ing from 15s to 50s per pound. Not
until 1677 is there a record of the
East Inijia company having taken any
steps for its importation.
Just So.
"Speaking of that Gettysburg reun
ion.”
"Yes?"
"What a lot of good feeling it did
cause.”
“And what at lot of bad poetry.”
AGAINST SPY SYSTEM
Scouting Practice of Football
Coaches Called Unfair.
Dr. Cal McCracken, Farmer Pennsyl
vania Gridiron Star, Would Abol
ish Secrecy and Declares
Against Locked Gates.
Dr. J, Cal McCracken, former grid
iron star, in a lecture before the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania students, con
demned coaches and schools for the
present spy system. Many schools
send scouts to spy out the style of
games of their opponents, he charged,
and declared against this practice as
unfair ar.d unsportsmanlike.
“If spying out practices are justi
fiable," said he, “why not pay a plav
,er to enter your opponent's institu
tion, make the team and keep you
fully informed?”
"Such a player might secretly in
stall a distograph In the room where
blackboard talks are given, and so
be able* to sell nightly records to all
his team's opponents."
“The members of the faculty of the
college or university should realize
that athletics are desirable and ab
solutely necessary to the best devel
opment of the student and stu
dent life. If each tehcher were
fully in sympathy with athletics
and athletic contests there would be
greater sympathy between teacher
and student, less friction and better
work done by both. Rosters would
be made and examinations set on
dates which would less frequently
conflict with important athletic
events. Athletes would feel their
teachers were interested in their
success on the field and this thought
alone would do much toward making
the students wish to conduct them
selves in a manner worthy of the ap
proval of their instructors.
“All regularly employed coaches
and athletic instructors should be re
sponsible to the university and con
sidered regular officers of the insti
tution. This would give them greater
dignity and security and consequent
ly better men could be obtained to
fill these positions, which are of
great importance to each individual
student. If so engaged, an athletic
instructor’s position would not de
pend more largely upon the general
Influence for good or bad which such
contests had exerted on the individ
ual contestant.
Prof. K. Taft McKenzie read be
fore the National Collegiate Athletic
association a paper in which he men
tioned. as the most prominent, the
following four evils of the present
day system of athletics:
“1. The standard of all perform
ances is raised so high that the or
dinary student, realizing that he is
hopelessly outclassed, gives up play
ing the game that he would otherwise
enjoy, and that should be kept with
in his reach.
"2. The competitor is elevated and
separated in a special class apart
from h!s fellows requiring separate
quarters, special diet and consequent
privileges to make the drudgery less
irksome.
“3. The publicity that accompanies
the contests puts them into the class
of public spectacles for which spec
tators pay to see. and so acquire cer
tain rights over the players, who be
come mere performers. Pressure is
thus brought to bear on athletic au
thorities and rules committees to con
sider the spectator rather than the
man for whom the game should be
designed.
“4. The winning of the game be
comes more important than the ob
servance of the spirit of the law and
the practice of fair play. It is the
professional motive, which is gain,
replacing the amateur motive, which
is the thrill of the contest.”
Move Against Baseball Spikes.
The long list of accidents to the
baseball players of the Toronto Inter
national league team this season has
moved President McCafferty to drastic
action. He will suggest that the clubs
of the organization each hold a meet
ing and appoint one delegate to attend
a meeting in the offices of President
Barrow to discuss the adoption of dif
ferent spikes from those now general
ly used on the shoes of the players.
Mr. McCafTerty has offered to try la
crosse spikes, which are of hard rub
ber.
Oldring Play* Anywhere.
Since he joined the Athletics, Rube
Oldring has played every position on
the field except one of the battery
places. This season he has played
games in all of the outfield positions
and shortstop. In past years he has
played at second, third and first base.
He only needs to be allowed to pitch
a few balls and catch a few to have
played them all for Mack. Oldring
was an infielder in the first place, but
he was never a regular on the infield
since joining the Athletics.
Order New Yacht Race.
A contract baa been placed for a
Herreshoff sloop by George M.
Pynchon of New York ayd E. Walker
Clark of Philadelphia, to compete for
the honor of meeting Sir Thomas
Upton's challenge for the America's
cup next year. The boat Is to be de
livered In May. when the Vanderbilt
syndicate sloop will also be In readi
ness for trial races.
HUSKY CAPTAIN OF PENNSYLVANIA TEAM
IjfrjHH « WWttH-i'W-i-tWWHWW-t-i-Hi-H-H-i WWWgjM** ?-f jjjjj
Captain Younge of University of Pennsylvania.
A regular human catapult is this husky young captain of the fooball
team of the University of Pennsylvania. Young in name, young in years
and young in experience as the big man. in the big team which the big Penn
sylvania university turns out each year. Young as he is in expenience as
a captain—this being his first appearance in that role, he looks like the
kind of a football captain who can whip his team into shape, and imbue it
with the spirit of "getting there."
FRANK GOTCH AGAIN RETIRES
World’s Champion Wrestler Will Nev
er Return to Mat—No Man Can
Win on Forever.
F’rank Gotch, world's champion
wrestler, who owns more than 2,000
acres of ground In Minnesota, says he
will wrestle no more. "I have had my
last turn on the mat. I’m thirty-six
.years old, nearly thirty-seven, and with
15 years In the game I’ve had enough.
When a man gets past thirty he’s like
a house that a carpenter finishes. As
soon as completely built, the house be
Frank Gotch.
I
gins to deteriorate. I know more about
wrestling now than at aj»y time In my
life, but each year takes away more
endurance. I’m not afraid of any man
in the country now, but the people
have seen me at my best and don’t
want me to ‘come back.’ No man can
go od and win forever.”
HARVARD SEEKS NEW HONORS
Crimson Preparing to Grab the Inter
collegiate Track and Field
Titles Next Spring.
The athletic authorities at Har
vard university are not letting any
grass grow under their feet. The
Crimson is out to grab the intercol
legiate track and field title next
spring that its athletics missed this
year by the mere tipping over of a
hurdle, and it has taken a big step in
this direction by the engagement of
J. Fred Powers, the former Worcester j
academy track coach, to fill the place
of the late Bill Quinn as adviser to
the field athletes at Cambridge.
Powers is one of the best develop
ers of athletes in the United States,
and the proof of this statement lies
in the list of wonderful athletes he
has turned out In late years. There's
Larry Whitney, Dartmouth’s great
shot putter and football player; John
Johnstone, the Harvard high Jumper,
who was one of the greatest school
boy performers at his specialty that
ever denned a track suit; W. F. Itoos,
the ex-Yale weight thrower, who now
| represents the New York Athletic
| club; A. E. Bartlett and others too
numerous to mention.
Harvard now has a trio of coaches
to send her track men along the right
road—Powers for the field men, Alf
Shrubb for the distance runners and
Donovan for the short distance men.
The result of Shrubb's work with the
Harvard hill and dale runners is al
ready apparent In the fact that the
intercollegiate cross-country title
reAs outside the halls of Ithaca for
the first time In a decade.
Baseball as a Business.
Thirty million is a minimum esti
mate of the fans who see baseball in
a year’s time. There are 35 leagues
in organized ball. All have from six
to eight clubs. They average 130 games
a season, with from 150,000 to 200,000
as a daily attendance. The New York
Giants alone played to 750,000 last sea
son; 250,000 saw the eight world’s
series games last year. One New
York paper estimated that it sold 100,
000 daily extras during the big series.
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First-Year Stars.
Two all-star teams are herewith
picked from the 1913 entrants Into
the big leagues:
NATIONAL, Position AMERICAN
Meyers, Boston lb Johnson, Clev.
Viox, Pitsb'gh 2 b Baumann, Det.
McDonald, Bos. 3b Maisel, N. Y.
Mai anv'le, Bos. ss Chapman, Cle.
Burns N. Y. If Chappell, Chi.
Steijgle, Brook, cf Liebold, Cle.
Cravath, Phil, rf Murphy, Phil.
Fischer, Brook, c. Schang, Phil.
Whaling, Bos. c. Schalk, Chi.
Demaree, N. Y. p. Boehling, Wash.
McCjuillen, Pit. p.Falkenburg, Cle.
Pierce, Chi. p. Shawkey, Phil.
Mayer, Phlla. p. Dauss, Det.
James, Bos. p. Weilman, St. L.
Johnson, Cin. p. Keating, N.Y.
Dickson, Bos. p. Russell, Chi.
Rudolph. Bos, p. Leonard,
CHANGE IN FOOTBALL CODE
Rule on Oncide Kick Is Revised in
Conference Held in New York—
Action Regarding Officials.
The entire code of football rules In
effect for this season's plays was dis
cussed, dissected and Interpreted at a
gathering of more than one hundred
football coaches, team managers and
officials of the game In New York re
cently. It was the annual interpreta
tion meeting of the intercollegiate
football rules committee and the cen
tral board of officials.
The only rule that met objection
was Rule 20, and to tills an addition
was made which will be incorporated
in the final version. It has to do with
the privileges of players in making
an onside kick. The addition will
permit players behind a player making
an onside kick to enjoy an equal right
with men of the opposing team to go
after the kicked ball. They may not
interfere with players on the opposing
side in their attempts to catch the
ball.
Dr. James A. Babbitt, chairman of
the central board, announced that the
list of officials for the season now
completed would show an improve
ment over previous seasons. Corres
pondence with the leading colleges
had shown, he said, that the list of
twenty or thirty qfflcials each preferred
largely coincided. Since this prefer
ence for a limited number of officials
was so generally shown and since the
list of officials in recent years has
become overburdened, It was the pur
pose to reduce it and try to bring the
officials for whom prefernce has been
Indicated by the colleges in general
into greater use.
They Can’t Ring Him.
George Bell, with St. Joe, in the
Western, has a record of winning 21
straight games this year. He pitched
19 while in the Wisconsin league and
was recalled by the Saints, where he
added two more to his string. This
gives him second place among the
pitchers of all time, so far as this feat
is concerned. In 1886 the records
show that some twirler pitched 28
games for the win column.
Hat Two More McLoughlin*.
Secretary Rouss, of the Pacific
Coast Lawn Tennis association, says
that there are two boys on the coast
who in time will take the place of pres
ent champion McLoughlin. Roberts
and Davis are the two youngsters, the
former fifteen years old and the lat
ter seventeen years of age.
Begins Work on Baseball College.
Ex-Manager Charles C. Carr of the
Kansas City, American association,
team, will soon begin the working out
of his plans for the establishment of
a school of baseball at San'Antonio,
Tex., which he will open next spring.
Cock o' Walk Wins.
Cock of the Walk, Johnson's mar
velous three-year-old, with an impost
of 125 pounds, won the Royal Blue
handicap at Harve de Grace. The bet
ting odds were prohibitive, being 1 to
2 against the field.
MOIHl LOOK KI
If cross, feverish, constipated,
give “California Syrup
of Figs”
A laxative today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels, which become clogged up t^ith
waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach
sour.
Look at the tongue, mother! If coat
ed. or your child is listless, cross, fev
erish, breath bad, restless, doesn’t eat
heartily, full of cold or has sore throat
or any other children's ailment, give a
teaspoonful of “California Syrup of
Figs,” then don't worry, because It is
perfectly harmless, and in a few hours
all this constipation poison, sour bile
and fermenting waste will gently
move out of the bowels, and you have
a well, playful child again. A thor
ough “inside cleansing” is oftimes all
that is necessary. It should be the
first treatment given in any sickness.
Beware ot counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of
“California Syrup of Figs,” which has
full directions for babies, children of
all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
GO BACK TO MOTHER NATURE
Scientists in The-v Discoveries Un
cover Lead That May Mean
Much to the Race,
If the green plant in sunlight can
elaborate from water and carbon diox
ide one of our chief food substances,
starch, there is no reason why the
biological chemist should not discover
the secret of this process and imitate
it an a commercial scale. Starch, I
believe, has never been synthetized
but some sugars have been so con
structed. Two years ago Stoklassa
and Sdobnicky made the remarkable
discovery that by the action of ultra
violet light on nascent hydrogen and
carbon dioxide sugar was formed.
Such discoveries as this suggest the
means by which we are to throw off
our slavery to the green plant, and I
am convinced that in time this over
throw will become so complete that
our staple foods wlil be the products
of the biological chemist. — Popular
Science Monthly.
“CASCARETS”DR
A BILIOUS LIR
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 10-cent box now.
No odds how bad your liver, stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and uncomfort
able you are from constipation, indiges
tion, biliousness and sluggish bowels
—you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don’t let your stomach, Uver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets to-night; put an end to the
headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv
ousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach,
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health, happi
ness and a clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
if you will take a Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children—their little in
sides need a cleansing, too. Adv.
In English Politics, Too.
“Well, did you discover anything in
Stump's past life that we can use
against him?”
Detective—Not a thing. All he ever
did before he came here was to sell
awmings.
Election Agent — Why, that’s Just
what we want. We’ll say that he has
been mixed up in some decidedly
shady transactions.—London Tit-Bits.
A CLERGYMAN’S TESTIMONY.
The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wig
ton, Pa., suffered from Dropsy for a
year. His limbs and feet were swol
len and puffed. He had heart flutter
mg, was dizzy
and exhausted at
the least exer
tion. Hands and
feet were cold
and he had such
a dragging sensa
tion across the
loins that it was
difficult to move.
x)tt. tt , Arter using 5
Rev. E. Heslop. ^ of *odd.
Kidney Pills the swelling disappear
ed and he felt himself again. He shys
he has been benefited and blessed by
the use of Dodds Kidney Pills. Sev
eral months later he wrote: I have
not changed my faith in your remedy
since the above statement was author
ized. Correspond with Rev. E. Hes
iop about this wonderful remedy.
Dodds Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at
your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household
Hints, also music of National Anthem
(English and German words) and re
cipes for dainty dishes. All 3 sent free.
Adv.
Mr. Growcher says he believes that
the only man who ever went Into the
country for rest and quiet and actual
ly found them was Rip Van Winkle.
Water in bluing is adulteration. Glaas and
water makes liquid blue costly. Buy Red
Cross Ball Blue, makes clothes whiter thaw
snow. Adv.
One pretty girl will inspire more
feminine envy than a dozen clever
ones.
Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens ta*. gums, reduces lnflamm*.
Mon,allays pain,cures wind college a bottleJe
Anyway, the man who wants the
earth gets a lot of mud thrown at him.