SENECA COUNTY CODRIEE-JOURNAL. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1909
BELIEV E IN T H E FA TES.
N O ISES IN V E N IC E .'
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G reek
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P ea sa n ts
and
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R u le
o f th e
m al Q u ie t off th e Ci
C ity .
M orai O v e r C h ild re n .
With all the water tralHc and witli
not a horse or a cab or a wagon to
wake the eehoe.s. tlU' utter silence of
Venice is the thing that first impresses
tile traveler. Yet hccause there is no
■undertone of city noises in which occa­
sional noises may merge the Grand
canal at Venice seems to the sleeper at
night the noisiest place in the world,
for every little noise cra.shes into
one’s sleep, and the most wakeful
hours of onr six weeks in Italy were
fpent on th e Grand canal in Venice.
The bells of the churches probably do
not ring louder nor more frequently
than they ring in
In other cities, yet because Venice is so still thes
these bells
clang through the night like the alarm
of a continuous and ever increasing
fire. The bawl of a lovelorn human
calf carrying lioine three drinks and
a throbbing heart, a noi.--e that may be
heard by the al tent ire listeiu-v any
place on earth ,‘ifter 11 o'clock, in
Venice becomes iii.sisKmt and demo­
niacal. Tlio cnimiinn i|naiTv‘l in the
The peasantry of Greece firmly be­
lieve that the future of every child is
determined by the three fates, known
by the name of the Morai. In the
popular mind this trio of fates are
supposed to be three old and -wrinkled
women Avhose habitation is a moun­
tain cave. They come simultaneously
to a house Avhere a new baby has
made its appearance, says the London
Globe.
When they are expected all furni­
ture is set aside so that their aged
and tottering feet may not be hin­
dered, and refreshments in the shape
jread and wine are
of honey cakes, bread
placed ready for these important
though invisible guests. Money, too,
is placed for them as a bribe to get
their favor for the baby, so that his
future may be one long, sweet song,
the superstition being that all things
good and bad are in the giving of the
street
night
are present, as tlii.s will certainly make
with nerve racking {li.slinctiies.s, and
the morning song of the market gar­
dener bringing his wares to town in
his silent l)oat smite.s the sleeper’s
ears like a call to arms. If Macbeth
really did murder sleep, the crime was
done in Venice.
There are, of course, considerable
acres in Venice--island.s—where the
streets are paved and where commerce
goes on in tlu' ordinary way, except
f) hors
in the narrow ways.—William AliTen
White in Gmporia Gazette.
its good look.s disappear. ]\Iarks on a
bal)y’s skin are looked upon as sent by
these harbingers of weal or woe.
Ill luck is supposed to be the lot of
the children -who cut their upper teeth
first. There are one or two African
tribes who so firmly believe this that
they are said to kill all babies but
those whose lower teeth appear first.
Another race of people In the dark
continent see all the signs of bad for­
tune in twins, and so they avoid it by
slaying all of them.
enters
the
bedroom
at
T H E- SEA L ION.
QUEER BURIALS.
U n c o u th
M e th o d s of th e
Q u e e n sla n d .
N om ads
of
Of all Ihe modes of burial ever prac­
ticed by c-reatiires in the shape of hu­
man beings the meihc'd of the Queens­
land nomads is cerlahily the most un­
couth. After drying the corpse in the
sun and knocking out its teeth for
keepsakes they deposit it on a frame­
work of rough poles and bury it 'under
a few armfuls of rushe.s and old kan­
garoo skins, leaving the bush wolves
to sing its requiem.
No member of the dead man’s tribe
will settle within a mile of his grave
for fear of being haunted by the spooks
making the burial place their midnight
rendezvous. The metaphysical opin­
ions of the Australian aborigines prove
indeed that savages can be afflicted
with an abundance of snpernaturalism
without betraying a trace of anything
deserving the name of religious sentiThoy believe in evil spirits whistling
in the blasts of the storm wind and try
to exorcise them by spitting in the di­
rection of the sky, but for the concep­
tions of the Deity, of future existence,
of repent.aufo, atonement and con­
science their language has not even a
definite word. From somewbere in the
land of their fore fa thor.s—eastern Asia
perhaps—they have imported a notion
f a in t l y
ro so m b lim r t h e
On no account must the child’s
beauty be alluded to when tbe Morai
R u d d h is t doc-
trino of meterapsyfhosis anrl believe
that animals may be reborn as men
and men as luiinan beings of a supe­
rior rank.—London Answers.
white.
In fact, the whole beast has a
Freshly drawn from the water thi.s is
not noticeable.—Wide World Magazine.
T a p s O v e r a S o l d ie r ’s G r a v e .
“I was telling Baby Hild
Hilda a fairy
story'one night,” said the sky pilot.
“Baby Hilda
my little girl. The
story was all about another little girl
who was chased by bears and who ran
to the edge of a steep mni!nF‘’ in and
jumped off. No, she didn’t i . The
minute she jumped off she turned into
a bird with wings and flew. That was
the story.
“Baby Hilda thought awhile about
It, then she looked up and said, ‘Papa,
is that story true or was it just preach­
ing?’ ”—New York Press.
A S o c ia l B o ta n is t.
Guest—He seems a very nice young
man. What’s his profe.ssion? Hostess
—He’s a social botanist. Guest—And
what is that, pray? Hostess—Oh, we
invite him especially to give attention
to our wallflowers.—Boston Transcript.
T h e M o istu re .
“Does your wife cry when she gets
angry?”
“Yes,” answered Mr. Meekton. “It
isn’t the heat of her temper that dis­
tresses me so much as the humidity.”
—Washington Star.
Upon tids he infcrmc'cl bi.s guest that
he was a luagi.-trate, pointed out the
nature of I’te offense and explained the
ting an h<au- in tlie stocks.
custom at that time allowed the mag­
istrate to convict and imnish at once,
and in this case he acted a.s accuser,
witness, jury, judge and sheriff, all in
thy jt
aided by his son, conducted the travel­
er to the i)lace of punishment, an open
place near the meeting house where
the stocks were placed. Here the trav­
eler was confined in the usual manner.
the l)enevolent executor of the law reof its tedium by edifying conversation.
At the expiration of the hour he was
reconducted to the house'and hospita­
bly entertained till tbe next morning.
When the traveler departed with, let
us hope, a determination to consider
his words more carefully before giving
them utter.ance in the hearing
aring of a -conscientious magistrate.
An Education Without Cost
The Seneca County Courier-Journal Offers
the Choice o f T w elve V aluable Scholarships
to the F ollow ing Institu tions :
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
CORNELL UNIVERSITY^ Ithaca^ N . Y .—A ny course for one year.
scholarship is optional with that of Syracuse.
P R A T T ^S IN S T IT U T E , Brooklyn, N . Y.—A ny course for one year.
COLG ATE U N IV E R SIT Y , Hamilton, N . Y .- M e n only.
tuition. Scholarship valued at $240.
IT H A C A C O N S E R V A T O R Y O F MUSIC, Ithaca, N . Y .~ M en and
women. One year tuition. Scholarship valued at $J50.
SPECIAL SCHOOLS
T H E PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL F O R N U R S E S -T h is scholarship is
applicable to women only. All the expenses for a two years’s course
are paid.
W ILLIAMS SCHOOL O F D RAM A TIC A R T A N D EX PR ESSIO N ,
Ithaca, N . Y .—Men or Women. One yeaFs tuition course. Valued
at $150.
B U SINESS SCHOOLS
C E N T R A L CITY B U SIN E SS SCHOOL O F SY R A C U SE—There are
two 30 weeks^ scholarships to this school.
BARCLAYS^ B U SIN E SS IN S T IT U T E A N D SCHOOL O F S H O R T ­
H A N D . Geneva, N . Y .— There are t'wo six months^ scholarships
to this school.
HOW THESE SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AWARDED
The means adopted by the COURIER-JOURNAIy to ascertain whether or not the candi­
dates enlisted are worthy o f the scholarships offered is through votes. Votes are issued each
week in the paper and additional votes are given on all m oney paid on subscription.
It is the duty o f the candidates to secure the votes issued by the COURIER-JOURNAL.
The amount that each receives is in accord with the amount of energy that is put forth into the
endeavor to better themselves and the amount of interest he or she can Stir up among his or her
friends in their cause.
I N T H E M A T T E R O F V O T E S , T H I S P A P E R IS G E N E R O U S
other hand, it is a simple matter to
Story or Ssrmon?
Our Shaping.
“Chance shapes our destinies,” quot­
ed the wise guy.
“Well, all I have to say is that some
of us have mighty poor shapes,” add­
ed the simple mug.—Philadelphia Rec-.
A Safe Proposition.
I lay it down as a safe proposition
that the fellow who every little while
has to break into the baby’s bank for
ear fare isn’t going to evol
ivolve into a
Baron Rothschild.-Philip D. Armour.
O b liv io n .
Oblivion is the dark page whereon
memory writes her light beam charac­
ters and makes them legible. M’ere it
all light nothing could be read there
any more than if It were all darkness.
gained is worth much more. Dead
snake.s brii’g from 2 to 5 cents, accord­
ing to their size, and live ones from
25 cents to $1. One of the largest
snake skin comi)anies has factories in
Sumatra. When a snake is received
from a hunter it is seized adroitly by
an operator, one hand squeezing the
neck and the other holding the tail.
It is thou attached by the neck to the
trunk of a i>ulm tree, an assistant
holding it by the tail. With the point
of a knife the operator cuts the skin
just below the head and, pulling with
all his strength, peels it from the
writhing reptile in the same way that
a woman peel.s a pair of gloves from
her hand.—Popular Mechanics.
T w o P o in ts o f V iew .
“Good morning, Jones!”
“Good morning. Brown! Any news
today?”
“Why, yes. You know my brother
who works at the bank? Well, he went
to business the other day and found
£1,000 on the counter. And what do
you think he did? Stole the money
and tripped off to Canada. And when
the news reached my father it broke
the old man’s heart.”
“That’s funny! You know, my broth­
er works at a bank, too, and when he
went to business the other morning he
found ££1,000. And what do you thin!
he did?’
“W hat-stole it?”
“No; took it straight to the man­
ager’s office. And when the news
reached my father, do you know, it
broke the old man’s heart!”—London
Telegraph.
S tr e a m s o f L ig h t.
One night we were in a dense crowd
watching a parade when during one of
those unaccountable lulls which so of­
ten occur in large crowds a little fel­
low who was perched high up on his
father’s shoulder shouted: “Oh,, p^pa,
ou ought to see! Way in the street
th(ley are just squirting light: all over
2.”—Delineator.
the people.”—D(
Successful Publicity.
The king of successful advertisers
was given an interview.
“My methods are very simple,” he
said. “I learned them from watching a
girl trying to keep her engagement a
secret.”—Newark News.
Encourag
***,,„., Yes,
Artist—
.^as, I kee]
keep pegging away,
Sometimes
dis<’ouraged and say
stimes I get discouraged
sa
to myself,
Friend—
lyself, “What’s the use?” FriendDon’t give up. old man. You can’t do
worse than you’ve done, you know.Exchange.
It Is too late to throw water on the
Education is a capital to a poor man
cinders when the house is burned down. and an interest to a rich man.—Horace
^ Mann.
—Danish Proverb.
Four years^
nU SIC A L SCHOOL
JAPAN’S PAGODAS.
T h e y A re B u ilt to R e s is t th e S h o c k o f
a n E a r th q u a k e .
T his
SY R A C U SE U N IV E R SIT Y , Syracuse, N . Y .—Any course for one year*
T his scholarship is optional with that of Cornell.
most rppiilsivo oflor ivlioii in tho sun. Skill 11 live siuike, imd the skin thus
The custom of sounding taps over a
soldier’s grave originated with the
late Captain John C. Tidball. U. S. A.
On the retirement from the peninsula
in August, 18G2. Horse Battery A. Sec­
ond artillery, was serving with the
rear guard, and on reaching Yorktown
one of the cannoneers died and was
buried there. Not wishing to stir up
the enemy by firing three rounds from
the battei-y rvuns. as wa;- customary.
Captain Tidball substituted the sound­
ing of taps, lights out, which impress­
ive ceremony has since been observed
at all military funerals at the close of
the services.—Argonaut.
Barring the Party.
“Pray, Mr. Canning,” said a ladj
the Eng
Inglish statesman, “wh;
they made the space in the iron gates
at Sp
Spring gardens so narrow?’’
at
ma’am,”’ replied Canning, with
“Oh, ma’am,
the delightful absurdity for which he
was famous, “because such very fat
people used to go through.”
a trai’clor called sit his house for lodg­
in'.. The ready ho^ pitalily <'f the justl-c‘ wa.-; ai uiit Ixfiiig displayed when
the iravd- r unluckily uttered a word
will: h Ills Lo.d I ousidered jirofane.
A remarkable fact in Japan is that
pagodas built hundreds of years ago
embody the principle of the modern
The head of the sea lion at close seismograph, which is to minimize the
quarters is a blunt, rough, savage effect of earthquake motion by the
prow. It is well armed for battle, the combination of an inverted pendulum
mouth being an eight inch half circle with an ordinary pendulum, or, in
other word.s, by the union of a stable
studded with two rows of great shai
itabl^ structure to produce a
teeth. The body is heavily coated with and an unstable
abili
which renders the
seal brown hair, sun bleached to light neutral stability,
foie building least sensible to earthj-ellow on the back and sides. The whole
lake shock.
Immensely long hind flippers have big quake
In the! holll
hollow well of every five sto­
Strong claws imbedded in the fiat up­
per surface several inches from the ried pagoda a heavy mass of timber Is
exai
ends of the flipiier. The fore flippers suspended freely, like an exaggerated
have the openings for these nails or tongue, from the top right to the
female I ground, but not in contact with it, and
claws, hut:t in the particular
pa;
at the shock of an earthquake this
dissected they were lacking.
ng.
The transparent wiry feelers about large pendulnm slowly swings and the
the jaw are much esteemed hy the structure sways and then settles back
Chinese as toothpicks. About two doz­ safely upon its base.
This is also the principle followed in
en of these sensitive guards project
from the upper lip. The ears are very the construction of all bell towers
small, not as large as a common cat’s, throughout Japan, w’here the bell acts
the roof, supported
and much depressed. The eyes are a as pendulum,
forms an inverted peniidulum.
deep, soft brown, but they can sparkle by posts, for
in the seismograph.
like flame in auger. W^heu the dissect­
ing knife laid the skin back we en­
When an earthquake occurs a pagoda
countered a heavy layer of fat—rich, or a bell tower may be rotated or dis­
oily and fish smelling. The heart was placed. but it cannot be overturned as
very large, fully^as big as a cow’s, and a whole.—Wide World Magazine.
the beast also owned four huge livers
Peeling a Snake.
a foot and a half long. The meat is
It is difficult to skin a dead snake,
very rod and, although eaten by the
coast tribes, is too coarse and redolent and the skin is often spoiled in the
of fish oil for any save a starving course of the operation, while, on the
In a lecture delivered at the Royal
Society of Arts by Gabriel Cleather
on the “yiusical Aspect of Drums” .»t
was contended that the kettledrum
was one of the few perfect instru­
ments in the orchestra, owing to the
exactness of its scale. The kettledrum,
he contended, was perfectly compe­
tent to produce atmosphere as well as
rhythm. Even to tune the instrument
three things wore required!—a perfect
musical ear, a fine sense of touch and
five j’ears’ experience. After playing
over a kettledrum melody, written
eighty years ago, from Meyerbeer’s
“Robert le Diable,” Mr. Cleather con­
tinued, “I venture to say that, outside
the musical profession, not one person
in a hundred of those who listen to an
orchestra in England today knows that
tympani have notes and can give oiit
a melody.” No instrument, he added,
had a greater range of power than the
kettledrum, for none could be played
more softly, and none had greater pen­
etrating power.—Dundee Adlvertiser.
N o t S o B a d a s It S o u n d e d .
a n d T rie d
In the "Ii: tury li i.everly,” Mass.,
ilu- 1- \.l. •- a.., .1. ;<■ ix related of a
go'.d JU'-’ui-c ol t.'ie pen e in the old co­
lonial time.s. Cm a cu.d ui-'ht in winter
T h is Q u e e r B e a s t Is th e O w n e r o f F o u r
H u g e L iv e rs.
T h e K e ttle d r u m In M u sic.
In a dov.-ntown cafe two old college
friends met by chance. They had not
met before in several years and were
properly delighted. In the course of
conversation one. who had been lodg
absent from town, bethought him of a
mutual friend.
“Tell me.” said he. “how I can reach
Jim. I’d like to look him up tonight.”
“My boy,” said the other, “if you
want to reach Jim you’ll have to tele­
phone t o ---- . an undertaker on Sixth
avenue.”
“What! Yon shock me. Jim dead! I
—I am sorry indeed to hear it.”
“Dead? Who said he was dead. Ile’.s
a friend of the undertaker and has
rooms near by. He has no telephimo.
b'ut has an arrangement for using the
undertaker's, as the place is o;)cn at all
hours. Just telephone the undertaker,
and the message wiP be carried around
to Jim.”—New Yor'K Globe.
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But the allowance to the old subscriber is a generous one.
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Do not fail to clip the coupons that are issued each week in the COURIER-JOURNAL.
Each one means a boost o f ten points for some one candidate into the higher realms of
this world.
In other words, it means an education to the one for whom you cast the notes you are
thus entitled to.
You can see for yourself that they are invaluable to the aspirants for education.
THE SCHOLARSHIP CAMPAIGN WILL NOT LAST LONGER THAN DEC. 16
This means that YOU m ust co-operate with “YOUR C^.NDIDATE NOW, ’’ lest this one
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