Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1921, Page 64

e T4 t BY H. 0. BISHOP. &6 HAT does Father Ton- dorf say about it?” . That, in substance, is the question flashed by land telegraph, ocean cable, long-dis- tanee telephone and wireless from all sections of the world whenever an eafthquake termor is felt. The As- Sociated Press and all of the other great news agencies of the world know that they can always rely upon the world-famed Father Tondorf being in comstant touch with the seismograph instruments at George- town University. So far as working hours are con- cerned, Father Tondorf is a combina- tion of city policeman, fireman anc newspaper reporter. FEarly dawn, midnight, noonday and twilight are all the same to this priest and scholar. He quietly laughs at any suggestion of “reasonable” hours or vacations. He loves his fascinating work and, aside from a few hours’ sleep mow and then, is everlastingly at it, : S T was the result of a gift from Pat- rick H. O'Donnell, a graduate. that made the Georgetown University selsmographical observatory possi- ble. The original installation con- isted of a horizontal and vertical seismograph after Weichert, each carrying a stationary mass of eighty kilos. These instruments were tenta- tively placed in January, 1911, at the base of the south tower of the Healy building. It was soon ascertained that the choice of this position was unfortunate because of the rocking of the tower. 212 feet in height, when- ever a strong wind was blowing. The difficulty was overcome by digging | a cave beneath the quadrangle twelve feet in width, thirty feet in lensth and eleven feet high. This is known in university parlance as station A. Great care was taken to make this new home of the selsmographs both heat and damp proof. A new Wie- chert horizantal seismograph, with a stationary mass of 200 kilos, was pur- chased to replace the smaller one. | The smaller instrument is now in- stalled In Guatemala City, Guatemala, and is in charge of Senor Claudio Ur- THE SUNDAY STAR A WASHINGTON SCIENTIST WHO MAKES EVERY EARTHQUAKE' REPORT TO HIM ATHER TONDORF. Who Has ' Charge of the Seismograph Instru~ t ments at Georgetown University, Has a Record of All Earth Tremors—He Is 1 | Called Upon From All Over the World | | for His Opinions. EfTes 2 rutia, consulting engineer to the Guatemalan government. The cave also houses a vertical seismograph after Wiechert, two Bosch-Omori pemadulums of twenty-five kilos each, amd two comical pendulums after Muinka, of 135 kilograms mass. A concrete buyilding, situated on observ- atory hill, at an altitude of 159 feet above sea level, known as station B, shelters a Bosch photographic instru- ment with pendulums of 200 grams each. The time is automatically reg- istered on these instruments by five contact clocks noting minutes and hours. . With this elaborate equipment. Father Tondorf experiences no diffi culty whatever in making the earth- quake tremars of the entire world re- port to him, giving minute details as 1o magnitude and duration. In comparison with this up-to-now scientific equipment, it is interesting 1o note that the earliest seismoscope of which we find any historical recoré is one which owes its origin to a Chi- nese inventor mamed Choko. It was invented in the year A.D. 136. A de- scription is given in the Chinese his- tory called Gokapjo, and the transla- tion of this description reads as fol- lows. “In the first year of Yoka, A. D., 136, a Chinese callel Choko in: vented the seisinometer: which con- sists of a spherfeally formed copper vessel, the diameter of which is eight feet. It is covered at its top and in form resembles a wine bottle. Its outer part is ornmamented by the fig- ures of different kinds of birds and animals, and old peculiar looking kinds of lefters, In the inner part of this instrument a column is So sus- pended that it can move in eight di- rections. Also, .in the inside of the bottle, there is an arrangement by which some record of an earthquake is made, according to the movement of the pillar. On the outside of the bottle there are eight dragon heads, each of which holds a ball in its mouth. Underneath these heads there are eight frogs so placed that they appear to watch the dragon's face, S0 that they are ready to receive the ball if it should be dropped. All of the arramgements which cause the pillar to kmock the ball out of the dragon's mouth are well hidden in the bottle. ly di :‘:inc'i:yree':i:el it viprates vigorously. Any one watching this instrument can easily observe earthgquakes. “with this arrangement, although one dragon may drop a ball, it is not necessary for the other seven dragons to drop their balls unless the move- ment has been in all directions; thu we can easily teil the direction of an earthquake. “Onece upon a time a dragon dropped its ball without any earthquake being | observed, the people therefore; thought the instrument of no use, but after two or three days a notice came saying that an earthquake had taken place at Rosei. Hearing of this, | those who doubted the use of this in-| strument began to believe In it agai After the invention of this ingenius; instrument by Choko the Chinese gov- ernment wisely appointed a secretary | to make qbservations on earth-| quakes™ * % % ¥ ANOTHER earthquake instrument, also of eastern origin, Is the mag- netic agismoscope of Japan. On the night of the destructive earthquake of 1855, which devastated a great portion of Tokio, the owner of a spectacle shop in Asakusa ob- served that a magnet dropped some old iron mails and keys which had been attached to it. From this occur- rence the owner thougnt that the magnet had, in consequence of its age, Jost its powers. About two hours afterwards, however, the great earth- quake took place, after which the magnet was observed to have regain- ed fts powers. This occurrence lead to the construction of the seismo- scope, examples of which are still to be scen in Tokio. These instruments consist of a piece of magnetic iron ore. which holds up a piece of iron Yike a pail. This nail is connected. by means of a string. with a train of clockwork communicating with an alarm. If the nail falls a catch is re- Jeased and the clockwork set in m. tion, and a warning given by the ring- ing of a bell. “To what cause do scientists at- tribute the occurrence of earth quakes?’ was one of the first ques- tions asked Father Tondorf. This ather broad query brought forth an mused smile. ~ Before replying. her Tondorf looked out of hix window across the Potomac to the Deautiful hills of Virginia with a reminiscent expression on his features. as though he were thinking of things that had taken place in far-away lands. The causes governing earthquake occurrences, e replied. “have at all times and with every people been a Suatler of keen speculation. Among yemi-civilized and barbarian races prevailed which were crude piotion; hot to say srotesque. In Japan it wa supposed that « restless, monstrous spider made the earth's bowels its Bsunt. In Mongolia the earth-shaker | of twenty-one feet to an uncertain | appeared "entirely at the ends of the | lines passing through the Taal vol- ' FATHER TONDORF AND THV was conceived to be a luble":nenn! ndi ‘The M \ i [crust. In spite of these wild attempts to explain earth-shakings it is noted | that classic writers touched on the scientific reagons. So Pythagoras and Seneca ascribe quakes 1o the presence f masses of fire at the earth’ ter, Aristotle to pent-up gases. Lu- cretius fancies them the consequence of the underminings of rock strata due to water agents, while Democritus recognizes them as the consequence of upheavals and subsidences of the earth’s crust. Cardano, an Italian mathematician and philesopher, popu lar about the middie of the sixteenth century, figures that all selsmic energy ig tHe resultant expression of the chemical action a8l petrous, bituminous the former being due to voleanic ex posions, the latter to movements in masses. The importance of this Jatter class has grown with time. slight importance. This belief is strongly borne out by Father Miguel Saderra Maso, director of the Philip- pine seismological observatories, who declare: ‘Beyond a doubt. many seis- disturbances are due to causes other than vulcanism. Many of the worst disasters we have experienced have nothing to do with voleanoe and that volcanoes are nearby is only | a coineidence, or may be explained” by the fact that the place where great | disturbances in the earth's crust occurl is naturally u zane of weakness and where molten material would be ex- pected to seek an outlet. At the time of the Messina earthquake Mount Etna, which can be seen from Messina, was comparatively quiet. The great disturbance at Messina, as is general- 1y known, was due to an adjustment along the line of a great fault or fracture in the eapth’s crust which is marked by the Straits of Messina.’ “The great California earthquake of April, is another striking in- stance of a disturbance due to dislo- cation. The shifting was along the San Andreas fault. the slip measur- ing a distance of miies, in which | the two sides of the fracture had been displaced relatively to cach other by an amount varying from a maximum minimum, but which must have dis- fault. As a striking example of an earthquake, due primarily to vulean- ism, I might cite the cataclysm of Taal, P. I Yet it should he added that the volcano s located along a line of crustal weakness, and at the time of the quake a very appreciable dis- placement occurred along one or more cano. “The practical certainty of the dis- location theory calls for a more thoi ough study of geological formations, 80 that the more unstable areas may be Indicated on the map. This accom- SEISMOGRAPH. GENRGETOWN UNIVERSITY earthquake occurred ‘along the St Lawrence river, partly in what s | naw known as New York and partly exciting and picturesque description of the catastrophe in the French lan- which was tpanslated into in by his friend, Rere Francois Raguencau. This Latin m is now cne of the treasures of the Georgetown University Jibrary Possibly the earliest existing rec- ords of earthquakes are those ap- pearing in the Bible. ~The first of these, which we are told occurred in Palestine, was in the reign of Ahab —B.C. 918-$97. Qne of the most ter- rible earthquakes mentioned in the Bible is that which toolifpiace in, the days of Mr. Uiziah, who-was. tho king of Judah in the vears of 811:959 B, It ‘I8 recorded that th’ earthquake 8hook the ground and rFent the tem- ple. The awful character of this, and the deep impression produced on men's minds, may be learned from the fact that the time of its occurrence was subsequently used as an epoch from which to reckon dates. Amusing, and at times exciting, have been the peculiar methods by which people have claimed to be able Sl 1R egevine of g “nake. Some people have persuaded them. 4 ... yue ing of an state of the weather or a certain oppressivencss-they feel, and instine- tive feeling arises that a disturbance is near at hand. In 1543 a bishop of Ischia fore warned his people of a coming earth quake, und thus was instrumental in the saving of many lives, Naturally, in an age of superstition the bishop would be regarded as a prophet, but Favaro considers that the prognosti- cation was probably due to a knowl- edge of premonitory signs as exhibit- ed in changes in the characters of mineral waters. The shock of 1851, at Melfi, was in this way predicted by the Capuchin fathers, who observed that a lake r their door became frothy-and turbulent. in Canada. The ml”l?é"y wrote his Underground noises have led per-|> sons to the belief that an earth- guake was at hand. It was in this way that Vidauri, a prisoner at Lima, predicted the destruction of that city. Before the earthquake of 1863, S0 severely felt at Iquique, the inhabit- ants were terrified by loud subter- ranean noises. That underground noises haye pre- ceded earthquakes by considersbie intervals appears to be a fact, but at the same time {t must be remem- bered that similar noises have often ovccurred without an earthquake hay- ing taken place. Farmers predicted the earthquake of St. Remo in 1831 by underground noises. On the day before the oarth- auake which, in ‘1873, shook Mount Baldo the inhabitants of Puos, g vil- lage north of Lake Santa Croce, heard underground noises. Before the earthquakes whi 1783, shook Calabria and sxcn‘;f"nf;'r: are said to have apbeared in great numbers on the coast of Sicily. and the whirlpool of Charyhdis assumed plished, a more exact interpretation of the warnings given by lesser shocks, would be useful in places sit- uated along a serious fault line. Had | this been_done in the past, Messina | and San Francisco would have been | better prepared to meet the shocks that were so disastrous for them. * % x ¥ HREPEATED attempts have been made to establish some connec- tion between magnetic and seismic disturbances with a view to predict- ing the latter. Yamasaki reports that for- three days prior to the great North Honshu, the magnetographs at | Sendal, Tokio and Nagoya were vio- {lently agitated. Nakamura ceding the great Japanese seaquake of the same year. Prof. Milne, the | noted English seismologist, says these magnetic disturbances may of course be regarded as mere coincidences, but that when we consider volcanic and seismic activities as evidences of physical and chemical changes, to- |gether with mechanical displace- | ments of a molten mass, it is reason- | able to suppose that they should have {at least a local influence upon mag- netic needles. Quite a few seismic observatories, favorably located. have within recent years, added magneto- |eraphs to their equipment with a | view to settling this question. In | case a correlation is established It is {just possible that a rule for ea quake forecasting will be at han One of the earliest known reports Japanese quake of August 31, 1896, in | ' ul]l[ulnulu[ndllyhexcllsfld stat # said that erecyde: the carthquakes of & Lacedemon ara !;:lmom l:ly the taste of the water in very deep well at th fho ex e Castle of The wr bon iter of an article on the Lis- earthquake says: “Aft, 24th I feilt lppreheynllvo. er[ ;’I;? served the same prognostics as on th the afternoon of October 31; that i, weather was severe, the wind rorine erly, a fog came from the sea, the water In a fountain ran of a yellow a or. On clay ol © 25th I felt five * * ok N the northern part of South Amer- ica certain shocks are anticipated chron- |& little bell attached to a T-shaped|cup black molasse icled like magnetic phenomena pre- [frame to ring. There are, however,|and add a very little water to dis- persons who are supposed to be en. dowed with seismic foresight, whose verdicts in that section of the world are greatly relied upon. In Caracas it is smid that nearly every street in the river suburb has an earthquake Cassandra or two, predict the coming seisms, the vicissitudes of particular streets. The story of a crasy lifeguardsman who prophesied an earthquake to take place in London on April 4, 1691, is an example of early day guessing. A study of the warnings furnished by ahimals is exceedingly interesting. It is said that several of the native: of Caracas possess oracular quad rupeds, such as dogs, cats and jerboas, which ‘anticipate coming dangers by their restlessnes: Before the ca- of an ecarthquake in North America wus chronicled in 1663 by the Jesuit | tastrophe of 1812 at Caracas a Span- ish stal broke out of its stable 4 uscript | Some of these go 8o far as not only to| W0 was r.lnl'g:d I.- t“h:x r.r‘ult of presci- ence of a eomin, amity. “;l;bra the dis .uriumyvf 1822 and they had been alarmed by the com- mencement of some suboceanic di: turbance. caped from the city of Talchahuano. People nowadays are always leok- ing for results from sclence. By this they usually mean applications of the knowledge gained to the problems of other fleids of endeavor. Judged from this standpoint, has seismology any results to offer? From a practical and economic point of view the knowl.- edge of the nature of seismic vibra- tions has been of material assistance to the building engineer and is lead- ing to saner and safer construction, especlally in those reglons that are exposed to earthquakes. But it is te the geologist and geographysiciat that seismology has been the greatest boon. Before the advent of seismology the interior of the earth was a sealed book. The depths which were reached by mines and borings can scarcely be called a scratch on the surface. Ac- | cording to various vague assumptions, we were led now to & molten liquid earth surrounded by a thin crust; now to a gaseous interiar. Seismology proves beyond doubt that the interior of the earth. whatever its conditian, behaves as if it were a solid more than twice as rigid as steel. The notably destructive earthquakes that have occurred during the past 2.000 years are as follows: 79—Accompanied by the eruption of Vesuvius; the cities of Pompeil and Herculaneum buried. 742—In Syria, Palestone and Asia more than 500 towns were destroyed and the loss of life surpassed all cal- culations. 936—Constantinople overturned; all Greece shaken. 1137—Catania. in_Sicily, overturned and 15,000 persons buried in the ruins. 1186—Calabria; one of its cities and all of its inhabitants overwhelmed in the Adriatic sea. 6—Naples; 1537—Lisbon; 1.500 houses and 30,000 persons buried in the ruins; several neighboring towns engulfed with their inhabitants. 1596—Japan; several cities made ruins and thousands perished. 1662—China; 800,000 persons buried in Peking alone. 1693—One in Sicily, which overturned fifty-four cities and towns, and 300 vil- lages. Of Catania and its 18,000 in- habitants not a trace remained; more than 100.000 lives were lost, 1731—China ; 100,000 people swal- lowd up in Peking. 1746—Lima and Callao demolished ; 18,000 persons burled in the ruins. 1755—Great earthquake at Ligbon. In about eight minutes mest of the { houses and upward of 50,000 inhabitants destroyed and whole streets buried. 1758—8yria; _extended over 10,800 square miles: Balbec destroyed. 1783—Messina and other towns in Italy and Sicily overthrown. 40,000 persons perighed. 1797—The whole country between Santa fix-l‘e and Pd‘nlflml‘t de-t‘r:ymi. includ- ine Cugea and Quito buried. eoRp 1842—At Caj & mingo; destroyed two-thirds town. and 5,000 lives were lost. 1852—At Philippine Islands, nearly destroyed. 1854—Amasca, in Japan, and Simeda, in Nippon, destroyed; Jeddo much fn- Jured. it57—In Calabria: Montemurro many other towns destroyed and abou 22,000 lives lost in a few seconds. 186§—Quito; abeut 5,000 peggons killed and an immense amount of property de- v troy 5 1868—Cities of Arequipa, Iquigue, Tacna and Chincha and meny small t?’wnl in Peru and Ecuador demolish- ed. 1883. Krakatoa 1Island, Bumatra and Java, Bast Indie 1886 — Shocks throughout eastern United “Stati at Charleston, 8. ware lost and $5.000, 000 worth of property destroyed. 1893—Islands of Zante and Strem- boll, the farmier west of Greece, the latter one of the Lipari p. west |of Calabria, Italy, Seve shaken. Great loss of life and property at Zante. 1906—Severe _shocks in _California wrecked San Francisco and adjacent towns, and caused the greatest fire ’ln history. Great loss of life and over $300,000,000 worth of property destroyed; aver 300,000 homelesa. 1906—At Valparaise. Chile; great de- struction of life and property. 1907—Lai f Kipgston, Ja- Ttaly; 40,000 persons per- Haytie anto Do- of the Manila an between Me desolated. Appalling logs of life. ! Expeoted It White, ¢ A MERICANS travéling for the first time in Europe,” 8aid a sen- “display provincial crudeness in many ways, but the faux pas a Beston leather profiteer made in 3 fashiona. ble Parisian restaurant was pardon- Thanks to prohibition, he was able. quite uninitiated in the matter of ta- ble wines—he had made his pile after we went dry, ‘Holy smoke, walter,' this profiteer exclaimed, haughtily, “look what brought me—yeilow wine when you for white! —_— Not Fair. uH G. WELLS, Bertrand Russell and many other writers,” said & noted lawyer, “after flying trips to Russia hope to size up bolshevism and Russian conditions. They are doomed to failure for it is only after a long residence that one can speak authori- tatively about a foreign country. Otherwise we are apt either to fdeal ize_everything' or we are foo re and make wounding, f criticism Like the Englishman. “An Englishman,” he continyed, “during a month's flying (rlg over our country unfortunately had his pocket P! ke America! he exclaimed to a friend. America, the land of the free—and easy.’ " — Good Homemade Candy. Peanut Butter Fudge—Cook to- gether two cups granulated sugar, two tablespoons peanut butter and one-half cup sweet milk until it forms a soft ball when dropped into cold water. Add one teaspoon vanllls, cool and beat until ereamy. Pour into buttered plate and when nearly cold cut into small squares. Crackerjack—Crackerjack is some- thing that is enjoyed by both old and young. First pop the corn—for a large lard can full of the corn take two and one-half pounds light brown sugar, two tablespoons glucose, one Put on the fire solve the suga until just before it bre: in water. Take one teaspoon soda lightly dissoived in water and add just be- fore you take it from the fire. ‘When it foams pour it on the corn and stir with & paddle. (It requires persons—one to mix and one to pour the liquid.) but also|” When mixed, butter the hands and spread it on the table. When warm break Into pieces. Keep in airtight box or can as the air makes it sticky. Sea Foam Fudge—Take two cups brown sugar, ome-half cup sweet milk, two egg whites beaten stiff with one teaspoon sugar added, cup nut meats. Cook sugar amd milk until it spreads or forms a medium hard ball in water. from fire pour over beaten whites of eggmy Beat until a light cream; add nut meats cut up fine. When it starts to harden pour on buttered pan and. missionary, Pere Charles Simon. This and escaped 1o the highlands, which cut in squares to coel, e ‘When all is dissolved add one-haif pound of butter substitute and cook and | crowd of sight CCORDING te the terma of the Constitution of the United 1 States,- Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolldge are mat officlally and definitely elected Presi- dent and Vice President of the United States untll the yeturns from the electoral colleges of emch state &re duly and solemnly tabulated by a Joint session of the Senate and House, which will be held on the minth day of February. & The method of electing the Presi- dent provided by the Comstitution fol- lows: “Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legisiature there- of may direct, & number of.e¢lectors, equal to the whole number of sena- tors and representatives ta Which the state may be entitled in Congress; but no senator or representative, or person holding an_office of trust or profit under the United Btates shall be. appointed an electo: “The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom at least, shall not be an i habitant of the same state with them- selyes.” * ¥ x % The body of electors, when they meet in their respective states to vote for President and Vice President are called the electoral college. Congress may determine the time for chapsing the electors and also the time for fheir meeting in the college to choose he President. They are now, of course, elected in the year of the presidential election, on_the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the day appointed by an act of-1845. By this act the day for choosing the electors is the same throughout the United States, al- though this is not required by the Constitution. Jn all the siates the electors are chosen by popular vote, and in most of the states the ballot- ing is by the Australian system. It is not necessary that the names of the presidential candidates should De upon tu¢ bauol. in point of law, the voters vote for the electors, not for the party candidates. The elec- tors meet for their final voting in their respective state capitals on the cond Monday in January. Origi- nally, by the act of 1792, the meeting of the electoral college was required to be on the first Wednesday in De- cember, and the popular election was to be thirty-four days preceding this. HBur by the act of 17 the second Monday in January was fixed for the meeting of the college. The electar: mest in their respective stgte capi- tals on the same day. They organize by electing one of their number ehairman and by choosing a secretary. If an elector should die between the popular election in November and the meeting of the college, the re- maining glectors may select some ene to fill the vacancy. The electors bal- lot, all veting for the candidate for whom they were elected to vate. They must name {n their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President. The law requires three certificates of the result of the ballot in each state to be kept. One is filed with the judge ef the United States district court of the electors' stat. nt by mail and one by messenger— fisually one of the electors—to the resident of the United States Senate. According to the Constitution, “th President of the Senate shall, in the resence of the Senate and House of epresentaties, open all the certifi- DON QUIXOTE AY off the wild oats in your vouth, and it's a hundred to one chance they'll crop out in your dotage. Such was the case with old man Quixada. He was a harmless, stringy- necked individual for some score of years. when the dime-navel craze that had been suppressed in his youth slipped up on him and beaned him. At the age when he wore freckles on his front ‘elevation, he had been denied chewing gum, licorice d Dead Dick Romances, so when his ' = childhood commenced he determined to make up for the shortcomings of his first. He imbibed deeply of the paper- backed lore of the Sixteenth Century. The adventures of that age had it all over Jesse James. Jimmy Jesse mere- y flossed out with his gang and pick- ed off a few rare birds with a flock of wed-trigger .44's, while the knights of Quixada’s books eased off with but & sword and slew armies, giants and monsters. * K K ¥ UIXADA took it seriously. He be- gan to “Thee” and “Thou, Madame,” his housekeeper, who fea ed the worst when she caught him patching a rusty coat of mail with her kitchen utensils. In his zeal to become & knight, Quixada mortgaged his property and rented hi horse for bill-board purpost he mounted his remaining animal, a collapsible nag gloriously rechristen ed Rocinante. And followed by his bay-window servant, Sancho Panza, ugly wedged to a sway-back mule, he departed in quest of adventure. The tin roof of a far-off inn he mi; took for silver, and hied him thither. The landlord, beholding the ers outside, hurried th. "T‘When‘- the calliope?’ he demand- ed, thinking there was & circus in town. !\I'Iou liege, 1 would beé dubbed Sir JANUARY %, 1921—PART 4. NEXT PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT NOT OFFICIALLY ELECTED UNTIL FER' 9 CCORDING to sentatives. cates and the votes wshall counfed.” In a close presidential race, suah as that between Tilden and Hayes the counting of these return hecomes a serious matter and attracts wide af- tention. This year, however, Vic President Marshall will experience exciting thrills in presiding over th meeting that will count the eloctoral college returns. The day appointed for the counting in Congress is the secand Wednesday in February. If no candidate for President recelve a majority of the electoral votes, then from the three highest “on the list af those voted for the House of Representative shall_choose immediately by ballot the President. But in choosing the then be President the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each - state having one vate”; a quorum for this purpose shall con- sist of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a ma- Jority of all the states shall be nec- ING AS PRESIDENT AND C: essary to a choice. In the election of the Vice President, if a majority of the electoral college do not unite on a candidate, “then from the two highest on the list the Senmate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of tw thirds of the whole number of sena- tors, a majority of the whole number being necessary to a choice.” * ¥ % ok If no President is elected by either the electoral college or the House be- fore the expiration of the current presidential term on the 4th of March following, and if a Vice President should be elected by that time, the anfied by, A Knight.” explained the gentleman on the horse with the languid neck,) haughtily eyeing the crowd through the pasteboard patch of his helmet. “You look like Saturday Night al- ready,” laughed the inn-keeper. But tion, Returns From the Electoral 1 Colleges of Each State Must Be Duly | and Solemnly Tabulated by Joint Ses- | sion of the Senate and House of Repre- THE BALLOTS COUNTED FROM THESE BOXES AT A JOINT SESSION OF THE SENATE AND HOU REPRESENTATIVES ON FEBRUARY » WILL DEF] LVIN COOLIDGE AS VICE PRESIDENT. ing & majority. The electors desired to have Jefferson for nt Burr for Vicp President, Con* stitution provided no means of theif designating that, and when Sach re- ceived the same number of votes the election for President was throws Into the House. Jefferson was elosted there, but only after a severe ©Op- test. This contest led to the adop- tion of the iwelfth amendmen Which provides the presemt fmode election. The galleries of the *House “will doublesy be crowded to -eapacity when Vice President Marshall eallt the joint session to order_at 1 p.m. on ihe afternoon of the sedond Wed s ok Constitur | o g “isn of & ¥ hed If peither Fromident Le Constitutio ines that th some Cresident untl sident ia accom- Fresident nor A Ly March doen not indicate who hall act as Fremident, and no- “ | President. ays customary fof the Vice President to solemnly Wt the galleryites that no applause w. be tolerated, which warning, of course. is usually cheerfully disee- garded for. an inning or two. The 3y 1e Vasts power to de.|MosL exciting phase of this gathering ermine 1 There would |0cCurs when the senators, two by, be an interregnum, unless the exist- | two, preceded by the sergean Il’ll( President Vice President larms, the Vice President, and puoma nesignbefore |t pages toting the boxes eom.m-g(fi provialans ot tho w‘r returns, arrive at the entrance to the | Cesnton GiIS, th | House and the chief doorkeeper ex- sitedly announces: “Mr. Speaker, the would act ax Pry tion be made. The Constitution at|yice President anq the senators of present doex not provide that an ex-; the United States” This assemblage isting President shall hold office until |19 admitted in dignified fashion, an’ his successor be elected |after all dignitaries are seated i The above 18 the process prescribed boXes are unstrapped and the count by the twelfth amendment to the | inS takes place | Constitution. Formerly, before this| This year the ceremonies will he amendment was adopted, the electors | closed this announcement from kmlg_ht_ vote for two persons without | Vice President Marshall: “I do hereby designating which one was intended | declare Warren Gamaliel Harding b: oF NITELY DECIDE THE ELECTION OF WARREN G. HARD- | for President and which for Vice! elected President of the United States | President. The person receiving the|for the term beginming March $if, | greatest number of votes was to be|1921" An announcement along simi- President, provided that number were | lar lines will inform the world thus a majority of all the elyctors ap- Mr. Coolidge of Boston will | pointed, and after the choice of the fill the job now being held dow: President the one receiving the next| Mr. Marshall. highest number of votes should be| The boxes containing the ballots at- ce President, no matter whether | ways become the personal property i the votes cast for him be a majority | the retiring Vice President. They &y 22 not. _ | well worth having, because they a% | ,John Adams was elected Vice Presi- | merfect specimens of the cabinets | dent in 1759, although he did mot re- | maker's art, made of polished ma- | ceive half the votes. This system | hogany and cleverly inlaid wit} |soon led to confusion and to a dis-|hollywood and redwood. These boxt | puted election. In the election of |are made every four years by LI, 11800 Jefferson and Burr each received | Senate carpenter under the perso | the same number of votes, each hav- |direction of the sergeant-at-arms. Cla e Jordan Swiftly he charged into the group of clerical obesity and felled a fat monk from his horse. Sancho, follow. ing his master's orders, quickly frisk- ed the other outraged monks, which is to say he searched them for the vietor's spoils. Two lads from the ) | beat it. The Don and Sancho nabbed all the food left in the retreat, repaired to the tall timber and declared recess. After a series of minor adyentures they landed for a night at an inn, dnd two -worked errants were soon lost in slumber. Presently the Den Quixada’'s fat purse bought him a new name and knighthood. The landlord | solemnly christened him Don Quixote | arose, in the midst of a dream that he bed hi d painfully sepa- o N R B ool was marrounded by fat-stwmaches rated him from the shredded wheat de 1a Mancha. | Sancho Panza didn’t know what it was all about, especially when his lanky, gray-bearded master kept talk-| ing about a chicken named Dulcinea, | who, he said, had pearls for eves, solid gold tresses and a complexion as of spring flowers. Sancho was trying to puszle out what a dame like that would look like. when the Don uttered a squeal of excitement. “Hark! *Tis a giant on the horizon.” | Sancho shivered until his somno- Jent mule shook like a shimmy queen. He scanned the.fields fearsomely and THE RIDER WAS TOSSED IGNOMINIOUSLY TO A SITTING POSITION MANY ¥ harked intently, but he could neither see nor hear evidences of a glant. A peaceful windmill stood waving its arms in the stiff breeze. Suddenly there was a snort from a rudely awak- ened horse, and a clatter of tinware like a familiar brand of automobile getting under way. With his lance polsed high above his head, Don Quixote de la Mancha charged wildly into the revolving arms of the wind- mill, SHppit; appity, slack! The lance snapped short, the:horse reeled in indignation, and the rider was tossed ignominiously to a sitting position many yards away. The wind- mill kept on turning. “Pick me that cute little daisy, Dul. cinea,” smiled the Don, as Sancho hur- ried fo his side to administer first aid. The horse Rocinante merely rolled the disgusted whites of his eyes at Sancho Panza, and said nothing. * ¥ ¥ % uGUESa that giant n't bother anybody any mor exclaimed Den Quixote, proudly, as he collected himself off the ground. ‘Then the knight and his henchman resumed their glorious march. Down the highway came a party of monks, escorting the buxom neighbor of the Don's, who was renowned for her #kill in salting pork. ‘Hist! "Tis the fair Dulcinea,” whis- pered Don Quixote. “The villains have captured the fair princess!” giants. He had no time to don his armor, and attired only in his abbre- viated nightshirt and a red cap. he lashed at the paunches of the giants. | The floor streamed with bicod and tha inn-keeper, feeling it trickling dot through the floor, rushed up to disco that the Knight's trusty sword had slit open all his goat-skin wine sacks, Jav- ing his establishment about as attrac- tive as William J. Bryan's cellar. Doin and Sancho were ingloriously bounced, and only the curate saved them from punishment befitting the crime. " The unwearying knight insisted of that adorned his chin, and he shriek- ingly desisted. The Don, rushing to| the rescue of his valet, lost an ear and half his helmet, but he succeeded in forcing the victims to kneel before the fat and flustered housewife and beg the princess’ pardon. “Oh, what will my husband say!”| wailed the emancipated heroine. “He will never believe that I didn't make eyes at this old nut. The Don took her tears to be joyful and he and Sancho, suffering from the subtraction of an ear departed DMILL KEPT ON DS AWA seeing Dulcinea again, but he was dis appointed. “They all look when they're fu away !" he sighed. “She merely a frowsy| farmer's wife, with cow’'s tail append- ages instead of golden plaits. The more I :’efl of women the better I like adven- turing. Hegsoulhl out a Duke and Duches and urged that they make him Kin, of some quiet island, but he found ther:) unappreciative like the rest of the At length :e returned home with “his. faithful Sancho. “] guess F've been reading too much summer_ fiction, Sancho.” he muttersd wearily, Plenty of Practice. * LOYD GEORGE, the English prime| minister, who was formerly the chancellor of the exchequer, and this capacity levied all taxes, has a| happy wit. At a gathering of ex-soldiers recemt-) 1y in their club at Colwyn Bay, North| ‘Wales, he said that he once tried to play billiards. “T could generally hit one ball, bug not two,” said the prime minister, * could mever get into the pocket” added, “although as chancellor of, exchequer for five years 1 nothing but get into pockets” gayly down the big road. The journey continued without fur- ther engagements, until they came upon a pasture whereon grazed a school of sheep. “At last—an army !" shouted the Don. “An army led by kings attired in tin- kling armor.” He shouted his battle-cry and swept, like the shell from a Big Bertha, straight into the gob of sheep. The victory was 80 easy that he stood high in his stir- rups and crowed: “Where, oh, where art thou, O haughty Olifanfaron ! “Right _here, you dirty bum!" shouted the shepherds, running to the aid of their sheep, with their hands full of alley apples and Spanish onions. They stoned the victorious Knight, and beat him until his two pet teeth were miss ing.. Sancho saved him and mnuladl that maybe they'd been chivalrous enough. But they carried on until they came to a funeral procession, with twenty clergymen in flowing_robes accompany- ing a black-shrouded hearse. * ¥ ¥ % “ ’TXS some knight they have slain, the variets !” cried Don Quixote. “I shall revenge him!™ Again he flew into the ensemble, slash- ing at fiying robes with his bent and twisted sword. The clergymen tripped and stumbled over their garments, and -