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ItX.PERIllIENTS PROVE TDIS 'PO Alot cute:tits A 31 upped 0 u 6 .
Woeleing Power -Iiierinteed ff 'All
of Grey Matter '',ITtfe
Put. in Use.
You would increase your working
peeher yeu could have the use 'of
.the greatest individual : efficiency
can beeproeured by the Proper
training' of both ?lands. By 'thus
bringing the -nerves 'of both sides
• of he body into xtion •dormant
braio oils come into use, A Brit-
psychelogist, in a paper in
which he' gives, a,n enecerpte'suggeste
that even genias may bedne to el e
fact that both ,sides o the brain
.,ane't`vericing up to theinecepacity.
A a-arta:itiaie gifeiness oar
authOrity tells •Os, •thas important
• commercial relatiens with the Ar-
gentine •Repubtie. The bueiness
teas developed and - •its existence
all your brain. • Itecen•t extranerelin-
-ary, emperienents ;by psycholegists
seem toprove beyond a doubt that
• continued through the tact and dip-
lomacy of a third member of the
• firm, who was stationed in Buenos
Ayres.
Had to hinow Spanish.,
His position required a, know-
ledge of Spanish, which he epoke
'fluently. In the Midst of the most
successful month the firm had en-
joyed since its eetablishment thie
South American member died unex-
• pectedly. ,
The two partners were throwu
into a panic. Owing to the pecu-
liarly delicate relations that exist
ed between the firm .and its Ar-
gentine market no one laub either'
surviving member eould be intrust-
ed to undertake'the continuation of
the buSiness. .50 unexpectedly en-
tlangered. It was imperative that
one of them ehoord depart for South
America. It wai deemed that the
younger man, 'who was about 35
,years old, should undertake this
task.
But he knew almost nothing of
Spanish. However, he set about
mastering. the language under o
oempetent teacher. Several days
passed and little was accomplished
• He redoubled his efforts and the
number of ,hours he daily devoted
to the work. Several naore. 'days
• passed With little-restilt. ifsmain
shortcoming, a vital. one, 1174K .his
difficulty in memorizing words.
Problem Solved.
The two partners were on the
verge of despair. Then the unbe-
lievable happened. The wife of the.
tunier partner had a poor relation,
who sometimes wa,s iovited to din-
ner. Phis man did nob amount to
much from a commercial point of
view;in
fact,. lee always had been
Iooke-d upon as a failure and a
"dreamer."
As life runs now he was both of
these. One night, just -at the ,criti-
cal juncture in the janior partner's
• affaies, this dreamer, who dabbled
a little in modern psychology, drop-
ped into dinner as an unexpected
guestThe tonversation • between
the hest and his wife natueally
drifted to the desperate situation
in which hie firm found itself and
to his inability to progress in a
supposedly easily acquired lang-
age as the reason.
The ,r 'dreamer " listened with:•
marked interest. Then, burning to
his agitated host, .he Said in• a quiet'
way: "'think 1 eail help' you." And
help him he did, for a, month later,
due entirely to „the inetructien of
the "dreamer," the junior •partner
03ailed for Buenot Ayres with a
practical knowledge of Spanish.
What had happened / What did the
'Creamer" Say that night
net ? •
• He &aid ehmething like bis:
"You're a :shrewd husinees man,
and a ,saccessfol one, too' hut I
don't eoppose you ever give your
grey matter any thought. Have You
ever heard. about a 'speech een-
tre 2," Well, yo-u've got -one all
righbon 'bhp left side of your brain,
and We carrying. about as toecla
of a lead as it can carry in remem-
belraineg and using the.English lan-
guage.
, "Fortunately you have, or ought
to have, a e•econti, ',speech cetitre'
on the other half of your heain,
ut, it's never been need; it' e like a
White sheet of paper that's never
been written on. It ought ta ab-
' b the Spauith yon want hid lice
'eponee taking up '1,3401:., •Ie'e
dormant—clormant-ayou'll
have, to.-triek lb into life and 'action.
Th your instance, and under the.
lectonetancos, !the only wa 1 Oen
hink of your doing eo. will he by
nitirne alowa every Spaeiell
lt has lens been cornmeal pletalo-
logical knowledge that the left half
of the braio has fual ea/amend over
the eight side of the body, while
the right half of the brain exerctses
a like command 'over the left side
of the body. An electric, Shock ap-
plied to the right half of the brain
will cause enovement on the left
side of the body; 'similarly the left
'half of the hrain atinfutated af-
fects the right. side of the body.
Every movement of an arm or leg
originates tin a well mapped ,out
centre on the opposite half ,of the
brain. Any injury to one of thee
•oentres Shows iteell in some form
of paralysis, but aleva,ys oh the op-
posite side. •
• if we have speech eentres which
have diver been"' 'developed, as
proved in the illustration present-
ed, is it net pos,sible that we have
other brain eentres unused, asleep,
was -ting, solely because we have
thus fan not learned of their pre-
sence 'an& how to bring -them , into
the field of activity?
1fEBESTJNG WATER BIRD.'
The Grebe Rarely Flies, Although
• He Can Do So Upon Occasion.
The Far West has many interest -
mg birds, none more so than •the
Weatern grebe, writes a. Youth's
Comp,anion contributor. That bird,
which is unknown in the East and
South, enjoys the distinction of be-
iag ."Number One" on the Check
List of the.American Ornithologists',
Union. For many years the sofb
velvety breast feathers were in de-
mand as trimmings for ladies' hats.
Fortunately, through the efforts of
the various bird -protective socie-
ties, laws have been passed to pre-
vent this slaughter.
The grebe is admirabry adapted
to a life in the water. His feet are
placed far back, so that when he
attempts to walk he falls forward
in the most ridiculous manner, but
in the water nothiog can equal the
graee with which he moves about.
The long, slim neck and sharp -
pointed beak offer but little resis-
tance to the water when the bird
dives, and the dense, smooth beast
down, impervious to 'water, is he
proper thing for swimming, The
short, stout wings move with great
rapidity when flying, and carry the.
bird through the air like a blind,.
Grebes seem to- know their exposed
emedition when on the wing, arid
are loath to leave their natural ele-
ment.'
The nesting traits of the Western
grebe are unique. When nesting
time comes the birds seek some se-
cluded lake or pond where rushes
and lily pads grow.. They pull a
mass of these together into a great
heap, which they anchor to a stout
lily pad. The nest is hardly above
the surface, and when the wind
blows, the waves dash over the
eggs, and keep them continually
wet. Mrs. Grebe does notseemto
mind this in the lease, nor do the.
eggs seem to suffer.
Thete are two eggs, and they are
pure white at first, but soon become
stained a dirtygreen from contaat
with the decaying vegetation. The
mother bird incubates them three
weeks. When the chicks are hatch-
ed, they take to the water imme-
diately. I have seen a litble fellow
plunge off the nest into the water
with half a shell clinging to his
back.
Whenever the old bird leaves the
nest, she aovers the eggs with lily
pads or 'rushes. Naturalists for-
merly thought she did this to pro-
tect, the eggs from prowling ene-
mies, but now they believe she does
it to keep the eggs' from becoming
over -heated by the sun. The pre-
dacious birds and animals do not
seem to prey upon the grebe to any
great exteot ; they .seem to realize
that it is impossible to capture one
of these birds on the water, and as
the grebe seldom leaves it, they are
not often ought. It might be sup-
posed that the muskrats, which are
always numerous where the grebes
nest, would eat the eggs, but they
do not se -em to do so. 1 watched -a
grebe's neat throiigh my glasses for
several hours. A muskrat crossed
the net a nimbler of times, hut did
not trouble it.
Once 1 was watehing a sitting
grebe through ray glasses, when a
naiiskrat came nut of the water and
•stained across the neat. The vali-
ant little lady darted at him, and
‘knoeked him back inta the water
with her beak; he did not return.
Still, if you fired yourself in a rut,
re -member theta rut is the smooth-
est part. o,f the road. .
Many a mazi who hew that, tired
feeling did not ,acquire is legitini-
atieqy.
THE 011.41ELDS OF-M:XIGO
PO SSIDIlATIES' A.1.310 RE-
. .
YON I) MPREIIE:IN,SION
Hundreds of MilliotOf Barrels of
Oil Taken. Out in
Twelve Years,
Oil is the biggest commereial and
financial ,faethr in Mexico at this
time, and it will. continue to hold
that place for mealy years to.ehhte,
according to. experts: But for oil,
Tampico would now ,be an insigoi-
ficant port and c,ity, says the Tam-
pico correspondent .of the, New
York World, ..
Little ,short of a great conyulsien
of nature could completely •destroy
the almost fabulous all • reecnerces
of the east coast region of Mexico.
• The destruction ef a few of • the.
many existing wells in the Templed
territorywould, of course, entail
enormous monetaiy losses, but the
undeveloped and unexplored fields
as so large ae to aesnre thaxeplac=
ing of them within a ,short time,
110,000 Barrelea DaY,
The Portrere del Llano well ol
the Mexican Eagle Petroleum Cam-
pany, a subsidiary of theePegton
syndicate, 100, miles southetese' of
Tampico; hasa proved flew Of 110,-
000 barreIs' a day. which Would be
40,150,000 barrels a year. The mar-
ket value is about 55 cents 'goltiter
barrel. The cost of 'handling is
comparatively small. On aeeatuat
of the lack of storage, and marieet-
ing lacilities the Petrer del,.Llano
well was kept down to a, dailehTflhw
Of 15,000 barrels. 'The Valve neart
not be closed anv,tighterthan that
as the pressure below is too geeab.
The Juan Oasiano field has solar
been developedohiefly by the Hues-
teca Petreleum Co'mpan-Y, a. salesi-
diary of the Mexioan Petroleum
Compa,n3r. The. foriner oompapy has
one well that has been fleveing,at
the rate of 15,000 herr:els a day
for about four yeanseits aotual 'pro-
duction being more then 20,000000
barrels: It is said lb have netted
its owners inoretilion. $10,000,000,
The Potrero del Llano and the
Juan Cahiano fields combined have
yielded up to May 1 more than 75.-
000,000 barrels.
llore Than Can Re IlandleiI.
There are scores of other produc-
ing wells in the'different fields with
•reariacities ratigingefrom a ,few hun-
tired to 15,000 barrels ,a, day. There
are about fifty companies operating
the fields around Tampico and Taunt
para end mot of them are owned
by Americans. The British inter:*
este are confined chiefly to the
Pearson syndicate and the Royal
Dutch Shell 'Trading and Trans-
portation Company, the latter being the recognized strongest,, cone,
petitor of the Standard Oil Cone:
pa,ny everywhere eicept in the
United States.
Most of the wells are now capped
• and have been in that eondition,
ever since they were brought in.
Only a few of the larger companies,
have an tartlet for a, part of ,their
production. in the way of storage
tanks, pipe lines, tank oars and
carrying vessels. Some conserve
:-
-live oil inen say the available pro-
duction already amounts to more
than 400,000,000 barrels -ayear.
ExpOrlS of Petroleum. .
The -export's. of crude petroleum
from Tarepide last year aggregated
more than 25 000 000 barrels, of
'which 16,560,000 \rent to the United
Stato. The quantity of oil in etere
age in the different fields and at.
Tampico an May 1 was aboub 25,-
000,000 barrels, it, is reliably stated,
Since the first oil discovery in,
the Tampico dietriet, a little over
twelve years ago, land values have
advanced to .$50 and as high as
$2,00 an acre, where previously the
prevailing prices were 50 cents to
$1. -When Americans first came in-
to this region the average wage of
the p.e.on was about 36 cents a, day.
The wages were then raised to $1
or $1:50.aday, andthere was plenty
of work for all -
The Discoverer.
The distinction of discovering the
oilProductivene,es of the Tampico
territory belongs to E. L. Doleeny
of •California, now at the head of
the Mexican Petroleum Company
arid allied concerns. Me. Doheny
was attracted to the Tampico sec-
tion about twelve years ago by the
report of surface oil indications
that were said -to exiet near what
in now the town of klbano, fifty
miles from'. 'Tampico. lie got oil in
•small nant1-tie in the firet wells
he berecl. He established a sixiall
refinery at Ebano and emoted at-
erantive buildings for his employ-
ees, ifilleeeSS attracted othere
and when the fantous Dos Bdecae
gusher was brought in near the
shore of Lake ,Tiniihua, seventy_
five Miles from Tampico, Other big
men from the oil ;world got into the
game, The Doe Boase well ,
owned by Lord Cowdra,y and asso-
ciates. It proved the existence o
enornaous 'oeuentities al-
though the well itself was dedroyeed
by fire, burning for three months
and consuming untold naillions of
barrels of oil,
B It Guns i -s4 SCIENCE.
• Criminals Now gave No Chance
'Against Scientific Intentions.
The modern eeiminal has to com-
bat a formidable arrayeof scientific
inveatiens which may well fe-ghten
him from the paths of wrong -doing.
The tendency of desperate crim-
inals to barricade themselves in
houses or sheds and keep the police
at bay by volleys of reviven shots
has been responsible for the in-
vention of a deadly form- of gun
which is utilized for the purpose of
dislodging desperadoes who set up
sieges of this description. It con-
sists of a circular tube which con-
itg.ingslbseosimbs charged with ,suffocat-
, The police use these instru-
ments in conjunction with Metal
shields fitted with wheels, as this
tYpe of gun does not possess long-
range possibilities.
Checks and hank -notes which
speak are latest terrors which for-
gers have to combat. A scheme has
been perfected by an Englishman
by which. the edges of bank notes
are cut in a jagged line, which is
the enact reproduction of the sound
vibrations made in the air by the
voice uttering the particular sum
of money required, and when plac-
ed in a special machine, somewhat
similar to a phonograph; the note
will ery outits value.
Notes thus doctored are passed
between metal rollers; the varying
size of the zig-zag points along the
edge of the paper act in .much the
same way as the perforations .on a
phonograph record, and thus cause
the note to speak. The operator
testingothe note has two ear tubes
which carry to him the sounds given
out hy the note.
This device, which is likely to
sound the death knell of forgery. is
ootat all complicated, as the neces-
sary edges can be cut on the notes
with
e.a Specially. consteueted steel
knit
,Sealuggling and piracy are by no
naean,sas extinct an many people
imagine, and one quarter where
these .branches of crime exist is
around the reefs of the Phillippine
Islands, To combat. these maraud-
ers speedy motor boats, armed with
quiek-fire Colt guns, are now otsed
by the revenue authorities. They
cruise about the reefs ie.; these is-
lands in readiness to give 'chase to
wrongdoers who are lurking in the
vicinity.
Being very high powered. these
vessele seldom fail to overtake sus-
picious craft whose movements sug-
gest evil intentions on commercial
aresels passing near.
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' son}, 1,4,,c RNIRIC WILL
Ope, Chalked On, Coilibin, Said tO
7 b1.5 in I/octors' Conn:Hons. '
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C URIO US ' S.
How Common, Ett/ryday Sayings
Originated.
Many of own eommon, everyday
phrases have anything but oominon,
everyday origins.
"Eating humble pie," for exam -
le ; is a phrase whieh really rose
from a oorruption of the Word "um -
or "ntembles," the, coarser
iiart of •a dear killed in hunting,
whinh 'former -13r was made into a pie
ano. 'egeerved for the lower hoot
Seivants:
"Ten it to the lifarines"—a
phrase commonly used to ,show die -
belief in the truth of a stery---arose
from the tact that when Marinea,
firsit went to sea they were natur-
ally somewhat "green" concerning
pautieeti matters. Hence anyone
whe spun a very tall -yarn was bid -
deo to ."te11 it to the Marines," the
.idueiteab.eing they were easily
"Going to the dogs" tonies from
the Far East, *here dogs ,act as
scavengers in the streets:
Many years ago 8 theatrical man-
ager .of the unreliable oreler had
in his company an eater whese
strong Part was the ghost in 'Tam -
lea" If his ,salary wa,s not teeth=
coming in time,- lie was wont to ex-
claim: "Then the ghost meart't walk
to -night 1"—a. phtase *WO still
May be heard in seethe theatres on
pay-day.
h•14
Shoppieg ,in Duhlin—"Moeher,"
said 'a girl, lookinghungrily
eround in atay shop, "may 1 have
nyaing I wan I, 'Certainly.
dear," answered • mother
"but, be careful not to want any-
thing :you can't hitee."
A N./4 1..1S
The S ft ns a re it: rea
Asking
a It is the right of every SuJa,n
ian to inquire closely into tho,
and identity of evere stranger.
tuna,r,niy, he does not resent eq11,p,
close inquiry. Inconsiatoot a$,
ErriWa03;:dee-rb'e,°irlaccie'LlethrIPtiontiS'a:nrhee;h:'
laina, at his own valuation. Hawl
Ikeiarz,11171. BW.n1S0e121: on rtclelaeohltlin'IgtLe4
of their villages, was not eurpre
to receiee a visit from a eeiget
individual. In `-To -Mesopota
and Kurdistan" he di se ri bee
visitor aa wearing a fine cloak
emnel's hair, covered with
thread work. The dialogue
something like this:
"Are you going to Tersia'r
"I do net know at preseet."
"Why do you not know et
sent? How shall a man not in
his destination?"
'Because my piens are not fee
"What are you by trade?
you a doctor?"
"No-; why V'
"Because of your European s
of dress, which for any but a
,
tor is all Impropriety here, WI
did you buy those thoes
"In Kerkuk."'
"Here they are improper,
-
they have laces."
He east about for new quest:
Then suddenly:
• "Where did you buy
..tru:`‘Iliknns141L"onnddoonn'll Why' did you
there?"
"I had business,"
"What businese?"
tIfy own business.—every
has his own business and affairs.
"Quite true; but I came here
tell you, as a 'friend.- that 3
should act sit in a, caravanserai;
• i5MnoytpPart1Penecre.".carne to an end, aa
.1 reversed the order of things, an
started an inquisition ,C)E my ow
. "Why do you wear a turquoi
ring?" I inquired, severely.
"What?"
"I say, why do you wear a tea
quoise ring? It is improper in n
country.''
"I came bete as a friend; why el
you ask such unkind and ridiculot
questions?' he asked, in a ;hal
tone. ", - • '"
1 menhted "io w
country thero is a. saying, 'He wt
annoys the stranger by inquisitivl
ness seeks after the abuse and rid
cule that ill manners may ea
forth from the (tormented.' "
• Frowning vrith indignation,
gathered his gay cloak about hini
and departed swiftly; he did nd
even deign to answer my farewell
will -chalked by a man on a cornball
eati of pa inscribed on a bedpost;
beth {3.nlabin and bedpost are said
Jo be ded in Doctors' Oominons,
London, , •
• Of whimsieal wills of modern
times we may note Jeremy Ben
them's, .which bequeathed hie body
to ,rolouelpdbe
e
WithlaiNntrera4
i0411$
Itshhiu
head preserved entire and that he
should, when thus, treated, preeide
ata meeting of the hospital direct
-
Ors and be present at banquets of
his old'frienels; Whether his /tones
ever presided at directors' meet-
ings is not recorded, -hut his body
was kept in the hospital museum
for many years, •
.
• Even more •-extraordinary • was
that will of Solomon. Sanborn of
Medford, Mass., who left his body
to Prof. Agassiz and Oliver Wen-
dell. Holmes, to be by them prepar-
ed and placed in the anatorical
museuni of Harvard after having
two drumheads made of his skin.
• Upon one was to be inscribed. Al-
exander Pope's "Universal Pray-
er" and on the other the Declara-
tion of Independence. These heads
were to be pre-sented t -o the testa-
tor's friend, the drummer of Co-
hasset, laut on condition that on
june 17 each year the drummed
should beat "on the drumheads at
the foot of Bunker Hill the spirit -
stirring strains of "Yankee Doo-
dle."
Among French wills is found one
whose testator, a Frenchman, de-
claeed the French to be a. nation of
da.stards of fools and for that reas-
on devised his entire fortune to the
poor of London and directed that
his body be thrown into the sea a
mile from the English eoast. On
conte-st a French eourt declined to
declare him insane.
Another Frenchman directed that
new cooking recipe be pasted on
his tomb every day; -still another,
who was a lawyer, left 200,000
franes to a, lunatic asylum, declar-
ing that many of his clients who
paid him should have been inmates.
One who was an enthusiastie card
player left to some of his card -
playing friends, a legacy of a good,-
ly suin on eondition that they place
a deck of cards in his coffin and stop
on the way to his grave to haye, •
gnietegiamo oft -Witte at a favorite Ca-
baret. Another left his estate ,to
six nephews and nices on condition
that each nephew married a worean
named Antoine and each niece -a
man namedAnton.
Patrick Henry gave his wife the
bulk of his property and full power
over his six- sons, but ended by re-
voking ail provisions in her favor
if she married again, which she
accordingly did. Thomas Jefferson's
prineipal conundrum was: how to
provide for his daughter and her
family without making gifts bulner-
able to attacks from creditors of
his son-in-law, Thomas W. Ran-
dolph; which he did by a simple
trust. Thomas Paine commends his
soul to God, a disposition which,
must have startled =some who inter-
preted his "Age of Reason" as pure
atheism.
GREATEST OF CATTLE LANDS
There Are Probably Two Million
Ilf.ad in Venezuela.
VenezueIa'e vast plains and river
valleys offer unlimited ranges and
excelleat pasturage. About 1548
Cristobal Rodrigoez sent the first
horned cattle into the Ilanos, where
they have increased to probably two
million head. Lack of proper gov-
ernment support and initiative pre-
vents ten times as many cattle oc-
cupying the vast llanos.
If one observes the piles of hides,
dried or drysalted, crowning the
river beak of San Fernando, and,
scanning the vat, plains ef this re-
gion, watch the great herds swim
the wide reaeh of its river, he will
understand why the State of Apure
is the greatest breeding -ground for
cattle and the reason for San Fer-
'nand° 'being its capital,
Many of the great herds have
gone to provide, literally, sinews
of war—gobbled up by reaohttion-
aro hands; in peace, eathie owners
suffer from marauders and an "ex.
tract of beef" governinental policy.
Almost every important industry is
under a inilitary government mono,
poly, `liere," said ome 'Venezue-
lan, "the government is a store";
and beef is not least among its pro.
fetable,waees. In . San Fernando,
beef is sold on the hoof at slightly
over three and a half cents e pound
to the government, at eight cents
a pound to the butchers.
One drop of gaiile may make
quart fgoodoese
WOMEN OFLUDDLE AGES.
In 1303 Had 31ire.
enPrivileges Thai
Women in England have alway
shared in the industrial life of.th
naticin. Curiously enough a statue,
of 1363 that ordered men to keep ti
one trade left women free to prae
tise as many as they chose. -
In a few instances, at least, toe
men in the later middle ages dia
-charged duties and held offices thal
do not fall to tkeir lot 'nowaday4
There are alltietorte to women bin?,
gasses in the records of London and
other towns, and if women marrie
aliens,they could naturalize thern-
• Women did nOt shrink from el
gaging in foreign .commeree. The
exported goods to France, Spa:
and ,other countries. A widow, Ma,
gery Russell, of 'Coventry, is men
tioned,in no less th9r
a three diffe
exit eixsting, documents. Her busi
ness must have been on a fairl,
large sca:14, for she was robbed
.merchandise worth *4,000 by sore
men of Saatandere in Spain. In or
der to recoup hereelf for her lose
she obtained lebters of marque tha,
empowered her to -seize the good
belonging to eountrymeo ot ine of
fenders.
Margery aelpferently info
than was her due. for -two Sparie
nerd:iambs lodged eumplaint
against her,She was e rde reit t
restore both ehips, bat t ne of th
Snaniards 'declared that s7oe ri,fns<,
tea do „so; although he had a eon
n4411.011 direetedto 'the exelentuei
If Dame ltitiegerv Reased sas
tn'Oe.: women teadene of the T11 i441
ages were won faille to look •:..gt4
themselves.—Mr. A Abram, •
English Life and Manners ;p 11 -
Later Middle .tkges.
• Each` Molant fnlrerent.
don't expee1 call n ,you
a, long time again," eald the you:
men, departing.
"Weil." said the ewe -et vow
!thing with a yawn,
hava youscall, but not 'for so
a tilne again," •