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3 »>&. e V ' - ' f i ; 'r h*%v *"r7T~ ^ *r ~ r-~* ipparw^w*- * • * • * f; vr>-7w m "\\ ^ -*-V • THE McHElTRY FLMHDI4LER, McHENBY, ILL. New Diseases #Tranea>;-niat Has' Always Followed the Advance of Civilization. «S* -•« Washington, D. C.--"Announcement that Influenza is ravaging the natives of the western coast of Alaska and has resulted In many deaths, recalls that one bind of tragedy has always followed the advance of civilization," •ays a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society. "Primitive people In out-of-the-way places, once entirely Isolated from civilization, have been: I threatened with extermination by ' even such ordinarily unimportant 'civilized' diseases as measles* It Is not • matter of unhealthful regions," continues the bulletin, "for the scenes of such tragedies often have climates bracing and upbuilding to whites and to such natives as escape the first onslaught, and who develop immunity to the new diseases. Marked Handicap. "The natives of Alaska had tB their habits of life a marked handicap In lighting disease. They lived--and many still live--in wooden houses partly below the ground level. These had their single doors always closed, and were without windows, There was one opening in the roof, out of which the smoke from a central fire was supposed to find Its way. As many as 60 and 00 persons lived in the larger houses and competed for die little available oxygen amid reeking odors of rancid oil and decaying fish and fish-eggs. Sanitation was unknown ; all debris and refuse to be disposed of was merely thrown a little way from the doorway. "When civilization automatically transplanted Its disease to Alaska, the field was too fertile, and the 'crop' grew rankly. Tuberculosis Is now continually at work klling oft the native population, but the most spectacular Inroads have been made by measles and smallpox, which have raged from time to time since 1842 like fires In a dry thicket. By the time an immunity at all comparable to that of the civilized Two Motorists Hur| by Exploding Pavement When part of the brick pavement In the Chicago road exploded under their car from the intense heat, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rahel of Paris, HL, were Injured. Farmers, attracted by the loud noise, found a heavy cloud of smoke arising from the place where the concrete foundation was torn out. world was developed, nearly half the population of many regions had been swept away. In later years the work of the United States public health service has done much to raise the health standard among the natives. "Exactly the same thing happened In that paradise of isolation, the Islands of the South sea. But there the tragedy did not overtake natives weakened by unsanitary living, but rather men and women of Ideal physique, living largely In the open air. Measles, smallpox and 9tuberculosis had never .been known among them or their ancestors, and their bodies simply had no weapons for the unknown fight The Hawaiian islands and the Marquesas have suffered more, perhaps, than any of the other island groups. The tragedy still proceeds.' In the Marquesas there are now about eight native deaths to one birth, and it Is predicted by observers of conditions that in another decade not one full-blooded Marquesan will be alive." Turtle Tows Lazy Fisherman 3 Miles Caughdenoy, N. Y.--Cap Gorkey, of this village, went down to the river to fish for pike. Then he decided It was too hot to fish and that be would sleep for a couple of hours. He rowed his boat to a shady nook, baited his hook, threw it Into the water, placed the rod across the seat and stretched himself out for a nap. An hour later Cap awoke and found his boat In the center of the river, rap- Idly going down stream. Cap grabbed his rod and found there was a fish on the hook. He angled for half an hour and brought a large turtle to the boat. The turtle had towed Cap three miles down the river. Static Is Eliminated by the Clarophone Travels 5,780 Miles to School. Scandla. Kan.--Dorothy Foreman, a Scandla freshman, claims the champion long-distance scholarship. Her mother lives In Jewell county, and during the school year Just ended Dorothy traveled 5,700 miles and passed 12% days on the train to a* tend school In Scandla. -'t The "•ctarephoo*'* invented by w. J. Scott, electrician of the Navy department (at left of picture), will eliminate "static" or atmospheric disturbances and revolutionize long-distance radio communication, according to claims, The machine consists or more than 10,000 bits of mechanism. <r Penknife Used to Save Man Choking to Death It Relieved by the Quick Action of Hospital Surgeon. New Orleans.--A taxlcab stopped before the doors of the Hotel DIeu (hospital). A young man carried an older man up the steps of the building In his arms. "Quick !n the young man shouted. "He's choking to death." ' Present From French Lutherans A nurse ran Into the hall. "Pot him down there," sfie e&M, indicating a small room'just inside the aoor. "He's dying. It*a only a matter of seconds." Dr. Joseph Danna, noted New Orleans surgeon, wearing his hat and coat, had Just finished his work at the hospital and was leavln? at that moment. As he passed near by the young ®>o recognized him. Doctor Ready to Help. "Oh, doctor, can't you help?" "Certainly," the doctor replied. Without a moment's hesitationthere was no time to send tor instruments on the floor above--the surgeon pulled his penknife from his pocket and slit the throat of the dying man. The nurse came running back with a tube, which the doctor Inserted In the man's throat, and held the side of the incision together with blood-stained fingers. Slowly color returned to the cheeks and the pnlse began to beet freely. Doctor Danna turned to the eon, who bad watched the unusual operation, and said, "He'll live." After the organs began to function normally the tube was removed and the Incision stitched. Merchant Is Sufferer. A* operation had taken less then one minute; longer probably would have meant death, the surgeon asserted. It was performed on R. Rouge lot. a New Orleans dry goods merchant Mr. Rougelot complained of strangulation earlier Tn the day. Simple remedies had no effect, and he was put into an automobile by his son and rushed to the hospital. He became suddenly worse and before the instl- In appreciation of the service the National Lutheran Council of America tutlon was reached he had ceased te has rendered in the after-war period of reconstruction In France, the Evangel-1 brfeathe and his pulse had stopped, the leal Lutheran Church of France has presented to the council an original can- j son said. •as of J. Eade Reld, "Christ on the Judean Hills at Dawn." The photograph I Similar operations upon the throat, •hows M. Charles Barret, consul general for France, making the presentation j known as tracheotomy, have been perof the painting to Dr. J. A. Morehead, executive director of the National Luther- ; formed many times by Doctor Donna, an council, and Dr. F. H. ICoubel, president o£ the United Lutheran Cbuceh is I but tljja, wsg^JU? first with a pocket- America. Iknlfe.^ M*,- * avajos* Sand Pictures ^ of "The Blessing of the House." In a previous ceremony the More Motor Touring in Central States Chicago.--There has been approximately 14 per cent more travel by touring automobiles through the Central states, both east and west bound, during the first five months of this year than during the corresponding months of last year, according to statistics compiled by the Chicago Automobile club. During the Crst five months in 1028, 17,443 motorists registered at the Chicago club, as compared with 15,153 during the first five months of 1922. The answers to the call of the road t>egan in January, when 1.960 tourists registered. This waa 00 per cent more than in 1922 when 1,308 tourists stopped at the club during January. The travel continued heavy during February, when 1,270 registered as compared with 1,009 during February, 1922. The March figures were: 2,023 In 1923 end 1,594 in 1922. In April 3,916 registered as compared with 4382 IS April, 1922. Harvesting Uncle Sam's Own Crops I & "V& This picture was made at the Department of Agriculture's experimental farm In Virginia, Just across the Potomac from Washington. Famous Pictures Made by Indian Artists Are Preserved for Posterity. Gallup, N. M.--The famous sand paintings of tbi Navpjos have been preserved for posterity, and the old Indian prophecy of "The Holy Ones," that when all the sand paintings are forgotten and all religious chants die out, the end of the world will come, can be laid aside in the minds of those who believe in It, for the time being, at least. For the sand paintings have been transferred by artists to the walls of the Hotel El Navajo, recently dedicated here. In placing the paintings on the walls the artists were particular not to depart In the slightest degree fnm the original paintings made by "White Singer" and other eminent chiefs. In the art of fhe Navajob, painting, music, the dance, poetry and the drama are Indivisible and all are the expression of religion. The medicine man is high priest, pliyslclan. singer, dancer end sets the stage for no mean drama. He depends upon his memory for every detail and teaches the colt in turn to his followers. The legend reads that when "The Holy Ones" gave the ceremonies to man, the priests were enjoined to memorize them and destroy the originals. This was done, not only to avoid their falling Into sacrilegious hands, but principally to write the 1 on the hearts of living men. Made In Colored Sand. They were therefore mnde In colored sand and destroyed the same day they were made. Thus both paintings and charts passed on from generation to generation, changing gradually and many of them fading from the memory of even the oldest priests. Thus many Indian medicine men were called upon to assist in furnishing tht true paintings that remained In their memories, and these were checked by Sam Day, Jr., of St Michaels, an authority on Navajo customs, who contributed the originals of the paintings snd superintended the work, so that no detail was overlooked. These paintings, all of the sacred rituals of the Navajo, are not Intended to be pictorial, but every figure, every line and every dot Is a boL By the use of symbols only painter priests appealed to the imagination and the heart. * One of the most prised paintings •doming the walls o* El Navajo U that of "Nayenezganl, the Man Who Killed Fear." It Is a 3and painting of peculiar sacredness to the Navajo and has been made but rarely. Second in religious Importance Is the picture of the "Ascension of Dlnae-e-dl-glni" or "Young Holy One." Dedicated by Navajoe, Among the other sand pictures mr painted on-the walla of the hotel are those symbolizing "The Clouds," "The Arrow Ceremony," "The Iiagle Ceremony," "The Sky Man," "The Earth Mother," "The Bear," "The Pollen Boy" and "The Harvest Beetle." When the Navajo tribe heard that the sand pictures were to be transferred and perpetuated they Insisted on dedicating the hotel with the ritual of their race and performed the ritual buried the bags. evil spirits had been thrown out and the ritual contained no words of any evil or unlucky thing or spirit Instead all that is good and beautiful was invited to take possession of the dwelling and its occupants and leave no room for evil spirits to return. The Initial chant, sung during the procession of the medicine men, was an invocation to the "Unnamed God." He was petitioned to bless not only the house but all its occupants and all that per* talned to It as far as the mountains on the four sides of It The paintings were blessed with a special ceremony, the procession going from picture to picture, stopping for the leaders to sprinkle each picture with the sacred corn pollen. After these particular blessings were invoked s number of other chants were sung and the medicine men IN WOMAN'S OSS "KILLS THIEF IN PRISON ,, Visitor Gives Prisoner Deady - Powder Through Lips and J'\ Death Results. Philadelphia.--The woman with the poisoned kiss Is being sought by police. Her kiss, through the bars of a cell el Moyamesing prison, enabled Nathan Kesler, convicted Jewel thief, to cheat Justice by committing suicide. The woman was allowed to see Kesler, saying that she was a relative and wished to tell him good-by before he began serving his sentence. The watchful guard was near. "Hurry up," the guard aal^ as-ti*>- time limit expired. "May I kias him good-by?" the women asked. The guard assented aiid the woman leaned through the bars as far as they would permit and pointed her lips to Keslefs. When she left tears were streaming down her face, not as police ' thought because she was parting from Kesler, but because she knew that he soon would be dead. In the kiss shehad passed a powerful, poison, wrapped in a bit of foil, into kesler*s mouth. After she was safely away KeSNfT took the poison and died. Bear Hunter Will Use Bow on Alaska Hunt Tacoma, Wash.--Dr. Saxton T. Pope, champion long distance archer, lias taken his yew bow and birch arrows to Kodiak, Alaska, where with Arthur Yard, a bear hunt Is to be staged. Not a gun is permitted with the party, the Indian guides carrying axes and the hunters their bows and arrows. Game for food must fall before the pointed sticks. Dr. Pope Is no novice in big game hunting with the primitive weapons, for In his California home he he* shot deer, rabbits, wildcats and beer. Friendly to a neighbor sheep owner. Dr. Pope practiced killing with the arrows when mutton was wanted. Apprised of the fierceness of the huge Kodiak brown bears, Dr. Pope declared sp" rinkled the meal from the sand pic- I t.h e arrow method of hunting was ad.* tures over the building and the spectators and to "the four corners of the earth." The remainder of the sand was placed in buckskin bags and couriers rode forth to places remote from the gatherings of men, where they could hear "The Echo" and there BRITISH SCIENTIST SEES f RADIO CONTROL OF WORLD vantageous in that many shots coold be fired at a bear as noiseless as the wind. Bears attack toward the sound of their enemies and always charge the direction of gun shot, according to Dr. Pope. S Tells of Directing Transportation by Use of Wireless. London.--Under the heading, "Coming of the Wireless Age," a British scientist contributes a striking article to a London newspaper. In which be predicts that wireless will be used In the near future for directing ships at sea, train and trolley services, truffle control on the road, fleets of battleships and aircraft. J "It wi(l bfc possible,'* he says, "to direct the path at everything moving on the surfac^er the earth, not even excepting human beings, by means of wireless." The Initial step In harnessing this potent and little-known force was the establishment some weeks ago of a wireless lighthouse on Inchkelth Island. In the Firth of .Forth. By means of this "lighthouse," ships can be directed through the dangerous channels of the Firth by wireless, so there is no possibility of their running ashore or being wrecked even on the darkest night or in the densest fogs. Steps are being taken In conjunction with the British board of trade and the meteorological office, to inter nationalize wireless direction of ships at sea. At the present moment there Is lying in the port of London a ship that has been specially fitted with powerful wireless receiving sets to give demonstrations of this new method of navigation In all ^e principal ports of the world. Setting out from London, thlV. missionary ship will sail for China! via the Mediterranean, Indian ocean and the Straits, and thence on to North and South America, and back across the Atlantic to Europe and South Africa, giving demonstrations at everjr big port en route. The most ambitions effort however, will be a cross-Atlantic airplane flight which Is to be made late in the summer. The machine will carry both pilot and observer, but their attentions will be confined to the actual flying side. Setting out from Newfoundland, for the first 000 miles of Its flight the air. plane will be directed by the Glace bay wireless station. Then It will be picked up and navigated by a wireless "lightship," cruising In mid-ocean, to a point where control will be transmitted to Ongar, the big operating station In this country. The whole 2,000 miles of flight will be directed by wireless. Boy Operates on Prize < Hen to Remove Tumor Cincinnati.--Albert Koch, fourteen, of 872 Academy ttvenue, operated '01* his prize-winning Plymouth Rock at his home and cured It of a tumor In its neck. He used a razor blade tn the operation. Biologists say the operation Is one of the most remarkable on record, considering that a boy performed It successfully. "The tumor was exhausting the hen," Albert said. "It couldn't breathe and had reached a point where it no longer could walk. I had taken biology for one year at high school and decided I knew enough to save the hen's life. "I cleaned the affected place carefully, painted it against Infection and operated. The tumor was about the size of a hen's egg. The hen is walking now and has started pecking Cor Its food. ^ T am giving It a medicine I pr* pered myself." „ . #! u,- • •?>v MOTHERS LEAVE BABIES AT DOOR OF INSTITUTION Revolving Panel in Wall Makes parting Irrevocable. Bto 4e Janeiro.--One of the moot carious Institutions In this city is the "Casa dos Expostos." a foundling asylum thatsrecelves Its small inmntes through a sort of revolving door which Is so built In a wall that the person operating it from the outside cannot see Inside the building nor be seen by persons within. The purpose of this mysterious door is to enable unfortunate itiorhers to place their offspring In safe keeping without revealing their identity or whatever secrets may have been connected with their existence. Most of the foundlings, the asylum officials say, are put within the revolving door at night when there Is little or no traffic on the street outside. With the turning of the door a bell rings, which announces to the attendants that a new guest has arrived. If a note giving the child's name or ether Information is pinned to Its clothes, It Is baptized with that name, but once a baby Is placed within the door by the despairing mother. It Is Clever returned, no matter what change In fortune may come to the mother or what claims she may advance to support her repentance. The Inmates of tfte "Cass dos Expo stos" are raised like orphans and prepared for life with the best care Within the ability of the gentle nuns who manage the Institution. Many of the children are adopted by childless couples. Founded in 1738, the Institution in the two centuries of its existence has furnished more than 45.000 citizens to this city, some of whom achieved renown and high position-- and their Introduction te the world was a revolving door. Blaze in Negro Cafe Beats 'Ruity* Firemen For 18 months and 10 days the modern paid fire department at Greer, S. C., had been "champing at the bit" to show citizens It was worth their money. Not a single alarm was sounded In whole time. Early one morning fire was discovered in a lunch room owned by a colored man. The flremen turned out In full forces but the room was destroyed. Lack of practice made the flremen "rusty," the people decided. Girl Sings to Snake; but It Attacks Her Chicago.--Miss Use Forester, a Chicago messo-soprano, had read somewhere that snakes were susceptible te music. Recently on her vacation near Arena, Wis., she encountered a five-foot rattler, stretched out In a dusty path. To put her theory into practice, she sang a few bars from "Samson and Delilah.'* The big rattler seemed to enjoy "my heart at thy dear voice," but colled menacingly. Miss Forester had aleo read that If a feather or light switch was swept along a snake's back II. would uncoil, so she tried It with a switch. The snake struck at her twleat but missed. Miss Forester grabbed a stone and killed the rattler. "It's the lest time I ever will stsc to a snake," she said. Mexicans Earn 10 Cents a Day. Mexico City.--Twenty cents vos, or 10 cents in American money. Is what the Indian workers of the Coixtlahuaca district, state of Oaxaca, earn In a 13-hour day, according to a report submitted to the department of industry and commerce. BOGUS "ANTIQUES" FLOOD f AMERICA, PARISIAN SAYS Mew York Museum "and louvre Are Victims, He Asserts. Paris.--America Is heavily loaded with bogus "antiques" and the Louvre In Paris and the Metropolitan Museum «f Art In New York have been buying .spurious pieces for years, Jean Vigouroux told the court at the opening of his trial on charges of diverting funds end art treasures, filed by the Parisian antiquarian, George Joseph DeMotte, whose New York branch was formerly managed by Vigouroux. The specific charges against Vlgouroux are based on the alleged diversion of $7,000 of the branch's funds and the disappearance of Persian manuscripts valued at 1,(XX),000 francs, later recovered by M. DeMotte. Vigouroux was arrested when he returned to France, *s he claimed, to obtain Justice. Vigouroux denied any wrongdoing; - . : ^. t ^ 'v offered explanations of the alleged Irregularities and turned the trial Into a public denunciation of DeMotte as "the world's greatest antique faker." His diatribes at times became so violent that the presiding Judge in the Twelfth Correctional court, where the trial is being held, threatened to have him removed from the room If he did not restrain himselt "For twenty years the Louvre museum has been buying bogris antiques," Vigouroux testified. He declared the directors of the Metropolitan museum in New York had bought 3,000,000 francs' worth of spurious art object* Woman Sets New Mark . 16,300 Feet Up in Air 8t Louis, Mo.--Mrs. Bertha Horchem, professional avlatrix, of Ransom, Kane., established a new altitude | marks each, which at the current rati record for women hv ascendliut ML3U0 I of exchauK? was ubou? ( feet- tn an airplane at St. Louis Aviation field. The pr^ous record was 15,700 feet and was' made by Andre R. Peyre, French woman tiyer, in California last May. The flight was official, being held under regulations of the National Aeronautical association. Mrs. Horchem was In the air two hours and eight minutes. When she descended she had to be lifted from the cockpit, her hands and feet being frost-bitten, despite her winter clothes. MaJ. William B. Robertson, commander of the Missouri National Guard Air Service, accompanied Mm Horchem on the flight •ananas at 8,000 Marks Eadjk Berlin.--Bananas have been tfo rnrq ler Germany for the last two years that op almost created a ibitlng two complete wlnmer street. Crowds nd eagerly asked the price. The himnnas . sold for 5,009 Vassar's Famous Daisy Chain Carried by Beauties ti< Vassar carrying the famous ' ' nay chain at tne cuoiumviaeat fimwes, I tie graduating class this yer J eluded girls from every state In the Union as well as from Canada, Japan ai d Poland. Postcards Popular In Germany. Berlin.--Postcards have become Germany's most popular means of Communication since the war. Figures just announced show th'at nearly a trillion passed through the German monn during 1921. There were 928.- 166,700 exchanged within Germany alone, 44,724,870 went abroad and 38.- 758,750 came into the country from foreign correspondents. * Natures that dont like to say "Thank you." don't want things given then. Thought for the Day. Guide poets are useless unless heeded; truths are valueless unless obeyed. . . . . wVjALife, v Father doesn't realise how son Is growing up until sen asks for his flMj dress salt Hen Goes on Strike, but Sun Proves Good Incubator PlQtta, O.--Another tough blow has been delivered at the poor chicken along with the progress of the Incubator. This one Is due to the recent hot weather. Daniel Shoffner, farmer, declared he had a setting ben leeve her nest aftar she had been on eggs two weeks. He left the eggs In the nest, thinking them a loss. The ben did not COQM back because of the ^rarrn weather. '< $ But Old Sol became the father o&a . t handsome brood of chickens and «v«ll ;, one of them lived. 'i * Lost Child Found Asleep in Bed at Her Own Home Parents of five-year-old Elsie Kingston of Cleveland, O., after a search lasting an entire night, found the child asleep in bed at home. The parents told police the child had wandered away from them In a park and they believed some friend must have taken her home. Baby Uninjured in Fall on Screen. Chicago.--Falling to the ground " a window screen from a second-sto^r jr - window, a two-year-old baby was uninjured. Frank WeislpiS, the boy, was laaniny agninst the screen when it MB out. - Seeks Free<Mn Pram Ttekftae. •*. '/ tf* Jersey City, N. J.--Alleging that hts i wife tickled his toes with splinters ami ' kept him from sleeping, R&ymoqft Sheldon, has filed suit for a divoreh, '% Sheldon's wife was so cruel that fct had to leave heist he usp4.