Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1915, Page 7

When Mastodons Were Kings By GARRETT P. SERVISS. Among the remarkable exhibits to be ®een In the American Museum of Natural History,. on the west side of Central park, New VYork City, are gigantic skeletor stodons and mammoths, which a way, the ancestors of the elephants. It is an aducation to stand beside the towering bony frames of these mighty oreatures of the past, and think of the vast changes which have come over the earth Juring the hundreds of cen- turies that have elapsed since they llved on our planet. There is positive evidence that man was already a dweller on the earth in the days of the mammoth and the mastodon, but they have gone into ex- tinction, while he not only remains, but has made enormoud advances in his physical and mental development and the conditions of his life In a certain way the mastodon stands typlcally for prehistoric America, and the mammoth for prehistoric Burope. Mammoth ‘remaine have been found in America, and within the area of the United States, and similarly, mastodon remans have been found in the old world. But, broadly speaking, the special home o the mastodon, so far as his relics show, was in this country, while that of the mammoth waé in Europp and Asia. Tie relations of the cave men of Europe with the mammoth have been clearly re- vealed by archaeologlcal explorations, and pictures of the huge beast, drawn by the hands of men Who met him, have been found In the prehistoric caverns of France. The discovery of the frozen bodles of mammeths In the lcy marshes of Siveria has enabled us to compare these ‘drawinge' made by our ancient forebears with the real forms of the creatures that they were intended to represent, and the likenesses are found to be astonishingly distinct. Evidently - those darly men, clad only in skin garments and armed only with spears and darts, pointed with flint and staghorn, ,were not afrald to encounter these immense beats in. hand-to-hand con- fllct, and were able to slay them. To Kkill & mammoth, however, they must have employed other means than the rude weapons just mantioned. Probably they used some kind of trap, as the natives of Africa did in capturing elephants be- fore the white man came with his guns. The details of thelr drawings show that the cave men understood the anatomy of their gigantic game. > There is very little doubt that early | By Gouverneur Morris and Charles W. Goddard Owpyright. 1915, Star Cempany. | synopsis of Pevious Chapters. John Amesbury is killed in a radlroad nocident, and his wife, one of Americ mOsL beautifui Women, aies itrom the shock, (euving & $-Yeu -old dwugater, wio I8 laken by Prof. Stuliter, axent of the interests, far into the Adironascks, where sie is reared in the seciusion of & Cavern. Fifteen years iater Tommy Barclay, whe has just quarreied with his adopted LALLOT, WANGUS JUL0 tie WOy ana dise covers the girl, now known as Celestin, in company with Prof, Stiliiter. Tommy takes the girl to New York, where sne falls into the clutches of a noted pro- curess, but 1s able to win over the woman by her pecular hypnotic power. Here she attracts Freddie the PFerret, who becomes attuched*to her. At a bis clothing factory, where she goes to work, she exerciscs her power over the girls, and is saved from being burned to deatl by Tommy. About tnis time Stilliter, Barclay and others who are working to gether, declds it is time to make use of ‘Celestia, who has been trained to think of hersell as divine and come from heaven. The first place they send her is to Bitumen, a mining town, where the conl miners are on » strike. Tommy has &one there, t0o, and Mrs. Gunsdorf, wife the miners’ leader, falls in love with him and denounces him to the men when he #purns her. Celestia saves Tommy from being lynched, and also settles the strike by winning over Kehr, the agent of the bosses, and Barclay, sr. Mary Black- #tone, who is also in love with” Tommy, tells him the story of Celestia, which she has discovered through her jealousy Kehr is named as candidate for president on a ticket that has Stilliter's support, and Tommy Barclay is named on the miners ‘ticket. Stilliter professes him- self in love with Celostia and wants to get her for himself. Tommy urges her to marry him. Mary Blackstone bribes Mrs. Gunadorf to try to murder (elestia, iWhile the latter s on her campaign tour, traveling on a snow white train, Mra. Gunadorf is agatn hypnotized by Celostia and the murder averted. THIRTEENTH EPISOD) ‘Once more for luck,” said Celestia, with a kind of awful grimness, “‘make it & baker's dozen. Thirteen, now she's dead, Now she can't help anybody any more, | You're sorry now and frightened, aren't You? Well, perhaps, they won't catch you. Nobody saw you come, nobody will #ee you go. But, of oourse, poor Celestia will be found murdered and there will be 6 great hue and cry. And if they find a woman hiding in the woods with a wild, hunted face, and bloody hands and A bloody knife fn them, they’ll know Just ‘what to think. Bo slip into the bathroom there and get the blood off your hands and off the knife. The left-hang tap s the hot water. Hurry! There 15 no time to lose.! - «8o: Mre, Gunsdorf hurrfed and hurried and washed and washed and Celestia man.met the mastodon in America just as he met the mummoth in Burope, but the evidence {8 by no means ®o abund- ant. The firet human inhabitants of this continent left.but Insignificant marks of thelr presencs, compared Wwith the in- numerable traces of their possible con- temporaries n the other side of the Atlantfc. This arises largely from the difference of local condition It so happened that in those parts of Furope, particilafly France, where men and mammoths met, extensive, dry cav- erns existed, forming admirable and secure dwelling places for primitive men, and here they made relatively large settlements and dwelt for many succe: sive generations. On our side of the ocean there were no centers of population com- parable, for instance, with the valley of the Vezere in France, with its bordering caverns and rock shelters, which furn- ishéd a kind of natural metropolis for the oave men. The prehistoric Amer- jcans were, evidently less settled in their habits. But the mastodons assemibled in chosen places it the men did mot. They seem to have had a predilestion for marshy places, in which, with their huge, un- wieldly bodies, they became helplessly mired. The skeletons of mastodons were first found in ancient swamps west of the Hudson river in New York, The mystical Cotton Mather believed that the tooth of one of the monsters, found in 1706, which weighed nearly five pounds, | belonged to one of the glant men of | early days, mentioned in Genesis. He calculated the helfe Of the glant at seventy-five feet, on the basis of a sup- posed thigh-bome seventeen feet long! There is a place, some twenty miles south of St. Louls, Mo, called Kimms- wick, where bones representing several hundred mastodons have been discovered, at the foot of a bluff near the junction of two lttle streams. It seems Prob- able, says Frederick A. Lucas, the di- rector of the American Museum of Natural History, in his book on “Animals the Past” that, in the days When the streams were larger the epring floods swept down the bodies of animals that nad perished during the winter, to sround in an eddy beneath the bluff. “Or, as the place abount in springs of sulphur and salt'water, it may be that this was where the animals assembled during cold | weather.” The cause of the the mastodons and mammoths remains to be discovered. extinction of What to Use and Avoid On Faces That Perspire Skin, tq be healthy, must breathe. 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Dissolve 1 oz Bondored Mbilte TS Dintol “hasel ?1 use as a wash lotion.—Advertisement, stooq krimly by and looked on, “It is curious that it doesn't all come off, but then there was such a lot of it. Try the pumice stone, try that little bottle: it's for removing ink stains. I'm afraid 1t's no use—you'll always see those spots on the hand that held the knife. You'll really have to go now. Someone is wure to come, and you'll be caught.” She accompanied Mrs. Gunsdorf, now quaking with terror, horror and remorse, to the rear platform of the car. “You'll hide in the woods at first,”” sald Celestia, “Do you see that star? Follow it, for an hour—then you'll wake up. But you will remember that you have mur- dered an innocent person. There will be the blood on your hand to remind you. 1t there was another, or others who set you on to do this thing, you can report to them that the thing has been dope. Then Mrs. Gunsdorf hurged down the The Most Imposing Motion Picture Serial and Story Ever Create Read It Hcfi——stc It at the Mov Freddie the Ferret Smashes Prof. Stilliter in the Face. steps of the platform round the main line of ralls, glancing furtively about her and disappeared into the night and the foreit. Celestia. dined all alone that night, and went to bed soon after, utterly exhausted, after locking the door of the observation car and of her own stateroom for the first time in her life, At midnight a locomotive was attached to the snow-white train and it was drawn slowly on its way deeper into the hoart of the north woods. " Boon after the traln had started, Prof. Stilleter entered Celestia’s car from his own, after plying a well-olled pass-key, stood looking down at the darkness where she lay.. . « Presenfly "he ‘touched the button of an electric torch and her face shone brightly in the circle of radiance. Then with his free hand Prof, Stilleter began to make caressing passes over the smooth white | forehead, up and down, and acroes and | something at the very last moment|he picked it up, and after & momen across, never touching it, but always 0 | yeemeqd to restrain him . hesitation opened it, slipped the glassos | close that his hand had a sensation of [ “Sieep now, darling,” he said; “the|into his pocket (he thought there might | warmth, | other sleep, the ‘mleep of nature that| be & reward offersd for them), snapped After a while Celestia passed from | makes us all over agaln between days.” | the heavy case shut, and lald it in a natural to hypnotic sleep; her eyes | He tiptoed out, closed the door to her opened partially and had no expression in them. when you have spoken to the people, you are to go back to that heaven from whioch you came. Now that you are be- ¢inning to doubt your divine nature, your to you think, my blessing! It will be a heaven on earth. I shall be In it with you, To- | morrow you are to be married. Say that usofulness is over. But the heaven which you aréd going is not what | you are glad.” | Celestia’s lips parted, and In |cold and without emotion, she said: | are glaa.” | “You will say that you wish to go for |an automobile ride in the forest. At 6 o'clock there will be a motor ready and walting. You will enter this, refusing to be accompanied by anyone, and you will |do exactly what the driver tells you, I had planned our elopement for tonight, |but there was a ditficulty about the | license.” He bent over her as if to kiss her, but a volee ol | stateroom behind him, locked it, turned | | and recelved a smashing blow in the face. they hit the floor of the car. For a long time he had been in the habit of cafrying. two spare pairs in leather cases, one In euch of his walst- soat pockets; he now reached for ono of these and it was knocked from his hand, as he strove to ward another blow from his face—atier tho blow had landed. Guarding his face ‘und bead with one tupturned drm and elbow, and breathing fast with fear and excitement. Prof, | Stilliter wought and found the door of the passage that led to the other end of the car, and succeeded In placing it be- tween himself and his assailant. Then groping with both hands, and in his blindness bumping from stde to side of thoe brightly lighted passage, he turned and fled, Meanwhile Freddle, ‘the Ferret, picked up the broken pleces of ¥rof. Stilleter's Glasses and throw them into a cuspidor. Percelving tho leather case containing the second palr lylng where it had fallen, | prominent position on the center table. Then he began to wonder what every- thing was all about anyway. He him-| “Tomorrow, Celestia, dear,”” whispered | He gave a grunt of fear and pain and | self had no business in the observation | Prof, Stilleter, “‘when your work is done, heard his eye-glasses smi to pleces as car without iavitation; but he héd an ox- | cellent excuse. He had almost missed the train, had just managed to swing on floulty, had let himself in. on the polnt of p to his own quarters forward, when had seemed to | Freddie’s judgment, was halt glory half animosity. There was only one light burning very low in the observation car. Freddle turned thia out and started to stand guard in front of Celestin’s door. After a while he moved further off and sat guard, and then slept guard. Then he heard some- thing moving and without thinking, for he was still halt asleep, attacked that thing, and as he would have sald him- self, “made a monkey of it." Discovering now that his victim had en Prof, Stilletor, who had only come, thing of that short, Freddle was in mortal terror.. It would have comforted him greatly could he have known that Prof, Stilleter was equally frightened (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1915, Star Company. Do you belfeve there is anything in the theory of the effect of astrology on human lUves; in other words, do you think & man or woman is utterly foolish to have a horosco) of his or her life cast and to en- deavor to live by it 50 far as he or she can? And if you do think 8o, can_you explain how it” is that an astrologer who knows a| lutely nothing about his client can glve an accurate account of that rson's past life, s e i char- A year ago I had P ke of my Hfe cast f 1 am to belleve what it foretells 1 am to have a very won- cerful future As I am et quite young 1 do not Wish to make the mistake of takin thing too serlously; fully sccurate manner in which all my past life |s described makes it almost im- possible for me not to believe in it ho| this will not mseom too foolish for you to answer. o ma it ls of \"lhl tmportance, having eome at a time when things seemed par- ticularly discouraging and oh)t‘illa;l. . 1N & this yeot the wonder- 2 1 jand trivial & matter | Some of the greatest men and women | in the world's history belleved in astrol-| ogy and consulted the stars when sbout to make any ventyre of importance. Catherine de Medicl and Napoleon were | devout students of this science. A belfef | in astrology was almost universal in the seventeenth century. Kings and queens| and prime ministers kept their personal| astrologers as they keep secretaries to- day. | Astrology was the parent of astronomy. | The child has forgotten the parent, or | remembers but to sneer. Yet that a great truth lies under all the debris of super- stition which hides this old sclence from modern eyes is as positive as that a mighty intelligence Ues under all the confusing ideas of God which exist in various parts of the world today. The astrologers of old gave their whol¢ lives to the study of the planets and their influence upon the earth and human lite Prophets of Astrology Do Harm to Weak Minds #® These men were respected and oftfimes provided with all the necessaries of life in order that they might pursue their studies uninterruptedly. “‘Monday—Doubtful aspect at 2:38 a. m very beneficlal aspect at 3:3% a. m., hav- ing a very good effect upon jour con- stitution; 10:45 a. m. brings circumstances i|strange persons with evil designs, etc., |etc., through a whole month | Now it chanced that I was in the same house with this lady during the whole It is a misfortune that all men and making you irritable; you may possibly |period of the .time indicated (a month), women who represent the sclences today | lose something; avoid dangerously places, |and not one event occurred as predicted do not realize the Influence for good they | might exert upon the evolving mind of| the race. | No human being has a right, under| the name of an ancient or a modern sclence, to plant a seed of fear and de-|in using sharp instruments; be cautious|friends who spair in another mind Here s an extract from an: “hourly gulde,” sent to a friend recently by one| of these widely advertising astrologers “Sunday—~Bad aspect at ¢ a m; fortunate aspect 6:38 a. m., indicating im- | portant letters; 6:46 p. m., bad ampect;| look for trickery in other and impedi- ments in your affairs especially where machinery is in motion “Tuesday—Bad aspect at 4% a. m.; very lucky hour at 6:19 a. m.; very un- lucky hour at 12:21 p. m.; avold quarrels nd arguments; avold fire and be careful during the torenoon; entire accidents | liable to happen. “Wednesday—Very unfortunate day all through; look out for robbery apd ex pect enemies. “Thursday—Nothing of importance till [ then surprising changes will occur, Friday—Be entire evening very careful during you may be followe the by by the hourly guide. There were no ‘‘robberies,” and no indication of “trick- ery,” and no accidents. surprising changes oecur. persons” on tem—as they might easily do with the average woman. 1 believe in a great stratum of divine The Meeting By JANE M'LEAN, It was a lady that I met, All searlet-gowned and fair, Who made me all my pain forget With perfume from her hair, She bore a goblet in her hand Brimmed deep with Her eyes I could not u “Give me to drink, “From out the chali Instead her owd, cool h My fevered sight to ruddy wine; nderstand, But, ah, her smile was mine! 1 anguished sought, ce rim’'; ands she brought dim Who are you?" starting back, I cried; She smiled and said From that land where And Folly is my name.” » 1 came men's souls have died, I Advice to Lovelorn By BEATRION YAIRFAX Be Honest with Him. | Dear Miss Fairfax: Where I am em | ployed there is a gentleman who pays| | much attention to me. I do not care for | him, but I am afra'd 1 eould not say #o He Is a fine man, about 33 (1 am 2), and he has told me re tedly that he loves me. 1 think he would make an ideal hus-| BUYt If you live In a continual atmo- | nmntll ’ll)l‘k any one xl‘.l“ Itkes him. My isphere of fear and allow yourselt to | | people like him. have been told I{imagine evil ts about’ yo : would make a mistake to think of giv-|, ¢ eVl 18 about you from & . m ing him up. He s now earning $3 a 'O midnight your perceéptions in intul week, with bright proubects, and has|tons Wil hoome dulled «nd your will already figured out with me that we|pe : od.’” Yo et e could five comfortably on that amount. |/ o Paralyzcd. You will be no mor DIXIE, |than & broken shutter blowing in the To marry & man you do not love ia to | Wind do him & STERS. Iniatice and ity OBMSt|} wui creater than. stér. or sin. yourself of your chance of real happl-|For I um a portion of One the One. ness. 1f you llke him well enough o be [Part and parcel of that great cause afrald of hurting him, be brave enough |1 Will be ever. I am: 1 wes 1 When Mak: oulde |to save him the .greatest possibie hun»' N argaker and Moulder of systems {'which baving & mercenary and unlov- |Fashioned the universe, | was there. ing wife would mean. Tell him of your indifterence. He may be able to conquer f l Noither ala the “The strange Friday were dear intimate called. Fortunately the woman was not of a nervous temperament, and she was pos- sessed of good common sense. Possessed also of a fo'th in God and her own soul, these hourly hints from the occult world |aid not upset her mind or nervous sys (& K truth In astrology: but I believe in very few astrologers; just as 1 believe in the | great truth of the creed of love taught by Christ; but I believe in very few of those who attempt to translate His words And I belleve the immortal soul of man Is greater than the stars; and If we keep | our minds tuned divinity we will secret enemies,” to be robbers,” and to turn to aur ultimate good Instead of econsulting your “hourly ®ulde” every ten seconds of the day, take & half hour and sit alone with God and your own soul, and think of the trust, peace, good will, usefulness, opulence, be ness and wisdom ay that all of these aro yours that only good can come to you Do this for one-half hour daily, and vou will need no hourly bulletin of mis- fortunes. to the be able thought to of our “overcome protected from whatever occurs words, serenity happi love, volence und to the rear car, and since he was one to whom no simple lock offered any dif- He had been ng through the train it him that it would be a &lorious thing to stand guard all night| before Celestia’s door like one of those knights of old of whom he had just been reading In & book which, according to and | probably to ‘fetch a magazine or some- | Parents and the Child. . The Mental Pains of Little Ones as Inflicted by Carless Elders | By Virginia Terhune Van de Water. | Copyright, 1915, by Star Company. Children have a right to the care-free | extatence proper to their age. Parents who think that they recognize this fact feel that in granting to young creatures such toys, comrades and amuse- ments as childbood craves they are dis- charging thelr duties along this line. But there are still other things neces- sary to make chiacod the happy time it should be, One o1 these is freedom from worries that ure outside the province of youth, Children are supposed to be, as a class, heedleas little creatures. But they ditfer in temperament as much as do their eldors. Yome small boys and giris have a cupacity for suffering that would appall thelr parents were its existence recog nized. And one of the strangest things about children fs their reticence. One would think that the trustful youngster would go to the mother With every imaginary or real worry, On the contrary, children keep most of their most polgnant distress to themselves They may ‘complain of physical discom- fort or pain, but of thelr spiritual and | mental sufferings they ‘say nothing. One child told a lle and underwent torments of naclence for weeks, re- membering that lle. ‘He had told it to his mother and had stuck to it with suoh obstinacy that she belleved him. His pride prevented his retracting it. Moreover, his doarly loved mother had said to him: “1 know you are telllng me the truth, darling. Were I to learn now that you hiad led I think it would just about kill me." He was only 7 and took her satement literally. In the daytime he could quiet his consclence with the assurance that everybody once in & while told a fib, But at night, alone In the dark, he would brood over that lle, and each letter of the fearful word was & great black ocapital. The knowledge that his mother trusted in him added to his agony. Again and gain he would start out of bed, deter- mined to go to her room and sob out his confession, Then the words, “Were I to Klulm now that you hWd lied to me [ {think it would kill me,” would recur to him and he would creep miserably back into bed. Hia mother was not strong. Sup- pose his confession were really to kill her. Then he would be a murderer! X Does it all sound ridiculous and sense- |less, oh, wise and ssne grownups? Of course it does, but lét him who has for- (gotten the imaginations of childhood | scoff at it. Not until this poor nervous | little boy was man grown did he tell kis | mother of the agony he had undergone when hardly more than a baby. Together they laughed over the episode. But once it had semeed a tragedy to the small sufferer. Another child heard her father say that | when his ship came in he was going to | take his wife around the world. It was all in fun. But the child be- lieved it. Little did the father suspect | how, anxiously she listened with dread unspeakable for news of the ship which would take her parents from her and ‘banish her to a boarding school. As little pitchers have big ears, let us | be careful what we pour Into.them. " Do You Know That If camphor 1s put into places frequented by mice it will completely drive them away. In the last 1,000 years the sea has matohed (24 square miles of land from England, and every year the increased by about 1,600 acres, Other names for the lady-bird, In var- foug parts of England, are the fly-gold- ing, Bishop Barnaby and God Almighty's cow. When marching on “Pimbuctoo, some yoars ago, General Joffre recelved a sting from a polsonous Insect which led to the permanent fllming of his left | eve. It has been sald that the only two words in the English languuge with the vowels In order are “abstemions” and “facetiou but others could probably be found. ECEMA CAUSED INTENSE ITCHING SRR Began With Small Watery Pim- ples. 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