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HAS . MANY. Island of Jerscy Has.Been Called a Wornderland—Really 1s' an . Intoresting Place. 3 The island jof Jersey is-famed focr many things, remarks the “Chder the Clock” celunmist of - the . London Daily News. . . . lilies, golfers; *“won- ders,” potatoes midd cabbages ten feet high, to.mention only a few. of its most obvious specialities. . But jts’ chief claim to fame is that it I3 the residu- ary legatee of the old Norman’duchy, therefore thie inhevitor ‘(and’ presum- ably the proprietor) of the British | empire, Jerseymen tmdoubtedly fought In William's victorious drmy, at Hasgt- ings, and.to. (his day the island has a eonstitution and Jaws which have been little altered since the reign of King, John, and which, on ‘occasions, have even. dared fo defy the thunders of the privy :coincil. The inhabitants are a most intense- 1y loyal péople, and the two greatest blows that can be offered to their pride are, first, to confuse their island with Guernsey, and second, to call fhem Frepeh, Fancy the_joy. of the Jersey contingent which welcomed into Fermoy with the strains of. the Marseillaise! Jersey has-‘hever been conguered; England has; the dedue- tion is obvlous. . Color Blindness. In total ¢olox blindness ‘the eye dls- tinguishes only ‘light and dark, in the more common partial color’ blindness red is mistaken Yo green, o black for brown, and In' a third form only pri- mary colors can ‘bé made out, often with confusion of biue and violet. Th new spectrometer of K. W. Eldridge- Green mejsures the portion . of - the spectrum._appearing. to. be ‘monochro- matic and the limits of visibility -at cach end -of:thesectrum,.. The -aver- awe cye Secs sixdefinjte colors and 18 apparently nionachromatic parts of the spectrum; another .moreor less imporfect color vision separates not fewer single color patches than 18. Exceptional eyesight detects seven distinet colors, with as many as 25 monochromatic patches. e . s (]1¢ wine began .to flow most freely, For Dollar Day OFFER NO. 1 « Value 10 lbs Sugar........ 70c « 1 jar Sandwichla..15¢ 8 bars Hardwater. Castile Soap......45¢ 1 pair Canvas Total....$1.45 - $1.00 OFFER NO. 2’ ALL FOR 2 1bs Oleo .2 cans Baked 2 boxes Rub- No-More ... 1 box Matche: Total....$1.34 ALL FOR $1‘00 OFFER NO. 3 . Value 65¢ 50c 1 good Broom. 2 1bs Coffee ... 1 small Log Cabin Syrup ... ..35¢ Total....$1.50 s ron . $1:00 GRINAGER'S SUNSHINE GROCERY WHERE YOUR DOLLARS BUY THE MOST AIMS: TO: FAME [ 8COUTS BUILD LOG CABINS. e Trodp 159 of Brooklyn Demonstrating the Art of Double’ Quick’ Time in Construction. | ALWAYS ‘SKELETON" AT FEAST Egyptian Merrymakérs - Had ' Custom Which Must ‘Have Beén Something of a Check an' Revelry. Accounts which ‘have: come" down among. the wealthy ‘people and- those Rgyptians who were “In -soclety” they were very - elaborate aftnirs with & great variety of rich and high-spiced and -high-priced food and many -wines : —wines rare and strong. !'py and hilgrious {he’feast, a mummy was there as a reminder of death. . ly was an adventurer by nature; - His | |«them at the court of Queen Bliza- | guise of peaceful traders, committed in- ; ered he went ‘to :Spain as-agrandee ’ Thousands-of Tons of Water Not In- of Egyptian banquets indicate 'that | nakes its appearance amidst the rest. 8 K 1 | . But no matter how. jovial and hap- 2 S DR Y DIME-NOVEL “"HERO Stukaly Pest ¢f Any of the nw‘h‘l‘ rvlhn Flourished der.Gdod Queen Bess. A "céreer ‘5o’ lurld and- impregnated with ", -dime novel atmosphere has | scarcel q‘h been seen ofitalde -the | eov e penny: dreadfuls as fell Thoinas Stukely as it ran ‘from. matrimony. to' piracy; | d Interspersed ‘with. dashing, gillant and . fearless!bravery. which has caused his “name’ to be remembered when miny a better man has sunk to oblivion, Stuke- mother was Irish and of a very good family, and’it Is said that he conld claim as his father. Henry VII of England. Stukely .acquired < a great fortune by ‘marrying-a lady of wealth.and proce¢ded fmmediately to spend 1t with t(heé greatest dispatch. SirWalter Scott says thatgallant ruf- fled it with Raleigh and the best of beth. His first chimerical scheme was to found a kingdom for himself in Florida. Then he went to Ireland and ned considerable - influence over ane O'Nefll, the most pawerful of the native chieftains, helping him:to gain a decisive battle. Stukely never gave up his career as a merchant and still retained ships which, under-the famous piracles, - On-belng dlscov- and thence to Rome, . At the great RSN A S AVES OF GIGANTIC HEIGH - 4 frequently” Poured Upon: Decks “+ of Otean’ Vessels. Even in stormy wedther the average helghit‘of waves, in mid-acean. does not ‘ns’a tule exceed 30 or 40 feet. Some- times, however, one enormous wave \Why this should happen no one can say.} "All we ‘know' is that a- mighty mass-of water rushes suddenly toward a ship at the appalling speed 'of over " Lthen @arink'aud enjoy yourself.. for ; 10 .extinguishi the ‘mast-head lights of all- their, drinking_ parties.” ‘At the conclusion of the most, sub- | stantial part of tlie’banquet and when 100, miles anhour. 1f ‘the ship can meet such a wave With_ her.bows: she will. ride .over it, an attendant-perhaps one of the wal ers, would carry around a coftin con- i | taining the image of a dead body May sweep over her decks. DBut if carved in“wood, andas the Greek his- the wave is following her and rushes torlan,’ Herodotus tells “us, - “made a8 at lier“fromthe stern, she may fall I-like.as possible;in color and workman- to-rise. Maifly a good ship has gone | | ship, and in size geherally about one. 10, her dodm in this way. !'or. two cubits in length.” The busic These vast mountains of water rise | Woss of the -waiter was-to show this. Sométimes.to a hejght of more than |"to” each -member". of ‘th v and joy~ , A hundred-feet—as high as. the spire | ous company. and “Lool upon this, ©°f.8& chureh.” They have been, kbown when dead you will-he like this.” salling ships. ; Herodotus wrote about 5500 years | mSOme::mcs on a ‘pertec(ly calm day 1 “this practice thpy have at | there.will be a sudden troubling of the ppines s o surface of the sen, and without the slightest warning a wave 130 feet il Sl ot PR TR high will appear. SHOULD EAT. MORE CABBAGE Plant Societies. 1 = | Diet -Experts of Cornelli’s Ccllege of it 5 ; appears that the knowledge of . ““":‘:"I"‘I" R""",‘""I"d . botany, has been greatly advanced by ticle of Agriculturs, °; the ‘developmiént of what may be | S : c¢alled the sociology of plants, that is, Experts at Cornell's' college 0f. 8- tyo study of their vélatlons to one an- “this priestess, was discovered immedi: though -thdusands of tons of water | | succulent vegetable should be more i rich:in iron and other mineral salts and- contains d small amount ~of growth-promoting subsrance: Cabbage Americans, largely because Americans { do not know how to ook 1t, it is con- tended. “Cabbage,” says a statement from uncovered for-20 minutes, no-longer, will, be a delicate light green color, tender and easily digested. Long cook- ing, in a tightly-covered kettle, pro- duces a dark, brownish mess in which chemical changes have taken place that make it almost indigestible. “Food specialists at Cornell suggest ton -or beef," escalloped ‘cabbage with cheese sauce,. fried cabbage with minced onion, cabbage cooked in milk and_water, or, baked with. hamburg or. frankfurters, lady cabbage, sweet or sour cabbage, or filled cabbages. Recipes for these dishes are:found in most cook Dbooks. i “For salads, cabbage glves an al- most endless varlety; with apple and onfon, or with onion, celery or car- away seed, with green peppers, to- niatoes, carrots, salmon, shrimp or genéral, cabbage salads are best served with a boiled dressing.” Sugar Once a Delicacy. We are apt to forget how short a time it Is since sugar was regarded as a costly delicacy, proper. to be used by the wedlthy alone or as a medlcine, riculture at Ithaca, N. Y., urge & Wid- | gthor, "ns well i er use of cabbage, asserting that this | «yrioundings. | generally included in the diet. It lsi ! plant “fociety, all the members of is eaten much wore by the Spanish, | | French and Italian races than by | the college of agriculture “plunged in- to- boiling - salted ' water, and cooked | s their adjustmentsto | since the war, w Dotanists recognize that ! . SIGN OF A NOVICE “He's a new driver.” “What makes you think so?” “MHe hasn't got over arguing with the traffic policernen yat” MAY BE BONES br PRIESTESS | these nimble anim Skeleton Found Near Smoking Crater | tinct inside o of Kilauea Believed to Be Last of Her Order. The skeleton of a womaw, believed that of the last of the priestesses of the Hawallun fire goddess Pele, whose ~———=——== traditicnal home was in the Kilauen | volcano on the island Hawail was i found recently In a carefully prepared crypt not far from the smoking crater. The tomb was found In the western sector of the main wall of the great outer crater of Kilauea, where once | naval battie of Lepanto hé commanded | stood a great | temple dedicated to i one “-of: . tlie . papul . ships.~Chicngo | Journat. ? i Hiiake, the sister of the goddess Pele. Nothing now remains of this temple. The last occnsion upon which it ap- peared in history was when it was visfted by the Princess Kaplolant in 1824, when the royal Hawalian Chris- tian journeyed to the volecano for the purpese of uttering deflance to Pele. The. journey formed the motif of one | of ‘Alfred Lord Tennyson's poems. Lo- | cal tradlition says that the princess | was met at the crater rim by a hag- gard priestess—the last of Mer line || —who came from her abode in the ruined temple near by and made one last- attempt to overawe the princess and to appeal to her fear of the super- natural. | The tomb, belleved to be that of ately below the site of the temple. The position of the bones Indlcated that she had been buried in a sitting position, with ler back propped against the wall, with her head placed |, so that her sightless eyes were'in line | with a small orifice Iminediately In front ¢# her and in a direct line the mile-distant fire pit of the volcano. | of, all Atlantic fly holds the blue ribbon. She the North Atlantic - crossing hound) in four days, ten hou minutes, at an average speed of knots per hour. During the; war she averaged 27.04 knots -per hour In a day’s run of 676 knots, ‘and has also, for part of a voyage, averaged the high' speed of 2747 knots. A few days ago the Cunard liner Aduitania made the passage in five days, 16 hours and 57 thinutes, which Is the best: time made by any s-Atlantie steamer. steamer Olympic made the trip in pladts are not seattered haphazard | five days, 18 hours and 1S minutes, over the globe, but-are organized into definite communities. A pond:has its which fall into their proper places. A swamp-forest consists of trees pos- sessing n certain soclal relationship, and differing from those that form a forest on dry land, There is progres- sion from one social organizatlon of plaits to _another. A lilv-pond may give place to a swamp-moor, this to a society’ 6f swamp shrubs, and this, again, to a swamp-forest of tamarack, pine and hemlock. So socleties of plants on dry lands succeed one an- other as the conditions change. Cause-of Volcanic Explosions, Volcanic explosions are commonly bolled eabbage served with lamb, mut- | even pineapple shredded cabbage | makes an excellent combination. .In regardéd as the release of stores of cnergy ~ kept confined . by exterhal pressure, and bofled explosions and geyser eruptlons are typical of ‘this ¢lass of outbreaks. An expert of the | Unfted States geophysical ‘laboratory, finds that another class of explosions, thut of explosive mixtures ltke gun- powder, are not likely. to oeccur in volcanoes. But a third class, that of explosive compounds brought into con- tact with oxygen or water, is- more || probably the usual source of volcanic explosions, and is {llustrated by aluml- } num - sesqufoxide — finely divided — || brought into such relation with water in the electric.furnace that mechanical fletonation ‘causes violent explosion. The' dust of Moént Pelee may have been analogous to the nlnminllnn‘ sesquiox- ide. =" The Indians' “Pipe of Peace.” The calumet, the “pipe of peace” of the American Indians, was used on | post. ys I :%D:xe%arcleymc:l:ng:’lu:;)lm tmggl?o:: all ceremonial ¢ casions, but especial- and granulated sugar m"ns unknown: | 1y when treaties of peace were being o | ratified. Each warrior took a solemn 1t was with the growth of the custom s > 5 of drinking coffee.and-tea that it be- | DU from the pipe as It was passed came a food staple. When it was in "‘"‘t:"" ;‘h'; (']'fi'le- li\"::‘e tobacco, | with which willow bark or sumac ® fioduced to Bagiand, o nitdleysLtizts : leaves were mixed, was smoked. The it was as “Indian salt,” a rare and % i bowl of the pipe was made of white rec th arc'! i Dfeciows cohdighent, et 18 stone in the East and Southeast. In | i i El was known in India | k ng‘l))::h:gefl;z:‘_rmm d,,:“m. and in | the West it was made of a red clay ooy ~ ‘earli obtained from the famous pipestone .:f;up;ht ".33;2.- f&'flf\fihx.ag:s, .fi‘&tc: quarry of Minnesota, mentioned in | N ork Gazolte of 1730, carrieq’| Longfellow's “Hiawathn” The pipe | this ‘advertisement:, “Public pofice | 18d ‘a° Sery- long. stem, made some- | | i hereby given that Nicholas Bayard, Umes of wood, sometimes of - reed. ! of the City of New York, has.erected = Feathers, porcupine quills and wom- | a house for refining all sorts of sugar | en’s hair were used as decorations on i and sugar candy, .and has procured | the ‘stem. ‘The name “calumet™ orig- { from Europe nn.:n . pated with the French Canadians. ) - e ot e ) s | that ‘mystery u'l A e UBSCRIBE FOR THE PIONEER . 3 - Joke on Him, The bride and groom, followed by the -usual shower of old shoes and rice, boarded the tialn. The travel- ing man across the aisle enjoyed the fun to his heart's ent, L After the train started, the groom tried to clean up the rubbish left hy the merrymakers. e opened the win- dow- aind threw out the old khoes and rubbish, The traveling man was so gmused that he forgot that he was sitting there in his stocking feet. Later he came to his senses afl then he found that the groom had mis- taken the only pair of shoes the (ravel- ing man had with him for some that the ‘merrymakers had left, - | hunting - leenses. I fact, compara: 5 Fear Extinction of Chamols, Extinction of chamois in the moun < of Savoy in Italy and Switzer- land, threatened, just as the buffalo dlsappeared from the western Amerl- | ean prairies, and animal lovers there { are preparing ‘to petition their govern. ments, demanding the protection of: the chameis. An Investigation of the Grenoble district showed that the war | wag responsible for the new devasta- | tion of the chamois. Before the war only 1 few mountaineers took out few of thewm could bear the ex- pense- of buying a good rifle. After the istice, flowever, thousands of | veterans returning to the Savoy moun: talns took with them rifles and good: supplies of ammunition, which proved user in combating the inereasing cost of living, So general has hunting ! jow bLecome in the mountains that | gepartmental ofielals say that unless are protected will hecome ex: N IO T T at leyst two ¥ SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DALL Y PIONFL: T RATES DOWN G. 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