Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 16, 1921, Page 24

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PAGE EIGHT ~— =" 'fl?‘l‘t""’"*’wimw the Christmas air goes righ.¢ ) a spot where a man lives at! M gives a feller a appetite—. i Fhey ain’¢ no:doubt about that! And yet they’s.somepin—1 don’t_know what- /n And ha'nts and wom&s* a * A kind o feel By ', They’s a feél, as 1 say,' bleat o’ O’.tite horn2.No! If [ OO FAMOUS UNCLES IN FICTION Up to About Thirty Years Ago Mra. ! Stowe’s' Hero Might Be Said to Be Favorite, Who is the' moast famous uncle in liternture? Thirty years ago only one woswer could 'have been given. It would ‘have been “Encle Tom,” wha dwelt in the world-renowned “cabin,” and whose uuaérlng- did- much ‘to | hasten the emancipation of his fellow| slaves, London Answers states. He | was only an “gnele” by coyrtesy, just 23 many an old woman {s addressed as’ “granny” who hag 1o’ other claim to that title except age. Almost as well known today s an- other “uncle by courtesy,” also a ne- gro. This 18 ‘the jmmortal’ “Uncle® Remus,” whom . Joel Chandler Harrls depicts so inlmitahly as.‘relating to a little white boy the fanciful doings of Brer Rahbit, Brer Fox,' Brer Tur- | rapin and Brer B'ar. ‘Uncle Remus 18 @ universal favorite, ard all- the children are hls neplwwo and- nieces. , Probably the most humorous uncle in'Hterature ig that Uncle Podger who hangs a pieture in J. K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat;” whilst un- doabtedly the most: saturnine I8 Uncle | Ralph Nickleby, In' Dickens’ master- plece, and the mest horrible that frightful old’ miser uncle of David | Bulfour, In Robert” Lonlj' swvcnwnx “Kidnaped.” The creator of Sfieflock ‘Holmes las &' very attractive uncle ‘in the best of his French novels, “Unclé Benuc,” | and those who are aboye mfllml'y age wilk’ ‘reenll the long-suffering | “Uncle Harry,” who endured a week's | misery with- “Budge and:‘Toddy,” in! that once world-real ‘Hook, ' “Helen's Bables,” HAVE NOT “TAMED” LIGHTNING Expression ls .Comnion” Sitice Frank- lin's Famous Experiment, but 1t Is Not Accurate. When we wish to speak’ figuratively of our achlevements in electricity we are accustomed to boast that we have “tamed the lightnihg,” or something of {he kind. ‘But in reality we have done ¢ ‘no such thing. Lightning is a well- kilown natural eleetrical phenomenon ; but the electricity. that. we use is drgwn ftom another' source=it was “tame” to start with, o cateh a fih“""g dischnrge and - redice its tago 50 thut it may be utilized is a different mattor, It may be sug- d that: the result might nat be orth the trouble. Byver stnce. Franklin's' famous: kite 18 sent -upon its flight- certain op- “ individuals = have thought oy tmuntuld power and wealth, The a_gevere thunder ewhifitle Pes ittle tmrdrum//a d biake | s6Grm has_evident! Fad! | aré tumbling about in the upper alr, and to render these available to man rieeds “only: some’ method of: tapping thie invisible reservoir.. Now it has heen said that the quantity af electric- ity taking. part n a flash of light- | thls thimbleful- of electricity present a problem which few eélectrical engl- | neers would care to undertake. It is g | great achlevement'to use: the water a | Ntagara to drive o dynamo; but most of us would hesltate at the thought of employing a stream of rifie bullets for the same purpose, WHOLE DISTRICT S IN TERROR India Practically Have Inhabitants at Their Mercy. Wia beasts- are committing havoc " central provinces of India. 2 wild: jungle disérict at. the junction ot the Godavery and Pranthila rivers, conducted by the Womens | chureh, there arve four mxssionswties, { all women, | 45 wmnwr, many ot thew famine- vic- tims.. Work! of sueh’ & kind' i the ral: | son_d'etre ‘of ‘the . nisi Initein: ad- dition the womer. h; | | added to' their duties’ responsiBi- | ity of preserving themselves and their charges from: attncks by wild beasts. [ Six persons hayi en’ kllled and | twenty seriously injured, “In -addition 1§ | to. many animaly, doring. one month, by panthers and leopards in Sironcha. itatloty, nttack- and loss of sewe kind, The. villagers, and - thelr children es- pectally, are never safe The beasts tear down the inat doors of the vil- lage houses and get inside before the occupants are aven aware of their nearness, Lhoy are” 50 stealthy.~Ix: change. Racing. Pigeons. The year 1922 is to see a boom in pigeon racing, we are told; a form of the use of the pigeou: as a messenger. Issnt least as odd ‘as Solomon. It was [ distance flylng began: with-a race of a hundred wniles i Belgium, This was gun in' hnglund | 80 hour. lleve that vast quantities of plpclrlclty LM vnlng cculd be collected on a thimble; {1 but the handling and restraining of [} Wild' Beasts in Central Provinées bf i fn some of the mission stutfons in the || . At one of these statious at Sironche, | Hary | | society of the Methodist Eplscopal i and they look ufter 170'| girls, 100. boys, numerous. bables and |/ lately bad [§ Every day lately brings its tale of vis- | sport - that Is quite modern, although °f a little over a ventury ago that long- |§ . soon' followed by. & race from Loudon |§ to-Belghum, but even then it wits net | | mntil 1881 that regulir races were be: |§ In the early days | the birds averaged about 1,350 yArds.| a minute, but training has raised thelr i speed now to- meahina ‘aver G0 milés | & » YHE BEMIDJI DALY 'PIONZER FRIDAY EVENING. 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