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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-07-03, Page 5_ "" "" .4" ""T 110En an,d phease you study with. yoer left AU 01.11t UKAIN 51)1 ,uoLu haod." . . , Extra/lead:inane . ie may seem, „...,....„, this ie a true dee 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. , 1 ' son}, 1,4,,c RNIRIC WILL Ope, Chalked On, Coilibin, Said tO 7 b1.5 in I/octors' Conn:Hons. ' . ', ' 'd " t h , „- to•ate rePorte ins ances o s f 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," •