anaheim-gazette 1906-04-05

FOSSIL CORKSCREWS QUEER FREAKS OF NATURE THAT ABOUND IN NEBRASKA. Gigantic Spirals of Mineral Fashioned So Mathematically As to Be Easily Mistaken at First Glance For Works of Art. Nobody knows with certainty what the so called "devil's corkscrews" really are. They are found by tens of thousands in Nebraska, most particularly in Sioux county, and some of them are as much as forty feet in height, without counting the gigantic "roots" presently to be described. Quartz is the substance of which they are made, but how they came to be imbedded, numbers of them together, in the sandstone cliffs of that region is more than anybody can tell, unless, perhaps, one theory, to be mentioned later, is to be accepted as correct. You are traveling, let us say, on horseback through that part of the country, and, as often happens, you see, standing out from the face of a sandstone cliff, a gigantic spiral. If, as geologists have proved, the sandstone rock be chipped away a corkscrew shaped thing of quartz is exposed to view, fashioned so mathematically as to be easily mistaken at first glance for a work of art. The white spiral may be free, as a sculptor would say, or, in other cases, may be twined about a sort of axis, as a vine would run around a vertical pole. Somebody awhile ago gave to these spirals the name "devil's corkscrews" for want of a better and as expressive of the mystery of their origin. Scientists discussed them in vain, and many theories were formed in regard to them. There were authorities who declared they were fossil burrows excavated in tertiary times by gophers of a huge and extinct species. And, to confirm this notion, the bones of some burrowing animal were actually found imbedded up the remains of plants were left behind by accumulated detritus at the bottom of the ancient lake converted into solid rock—led their way through the land this way and that and explored view of the modern trawl faces of the cliffs the fossil prehistoric water weeds stood when they grew thousands and probably years ago. Their tissues were as they decayed by silica further, particle by particle, and by magical means, their have been preserved for and admiration of the preyors on the earth. Such is the theory now accepted by scientists in re-origin of the "fossil corkscrews" it is not correct, but there is room for the exert body's imagination in the case of this veritable romancecient history of the world. Herald. Personal Beauty If either man or woman will the full power of personal must be by cherishing nobs and hopes and purposes, something to do and sometime for that is worthy of hum which by expending the soul gives expansion and to the body which contains. A Man of Action Hicks—There isn't a man who can keep the conversation rolling like our friend Gayn—Nonsense! He never said worth listening to. Hicks does a lot of things wrong.—Philadelphia Ledger He who feels contempt of thing thing hath faculties that never used, and thought with its infancy.—Wordsworth. Somebody awhile ago gave to these spirals the name "devil's corkscrews" for want of a better and as expressive of the mystery of their origin. Scientists discussed them in vain, and many theories were formed in regard to them. There were authorities who declared they were fossil burrows excavated in tertiary times by gophers of a huge and extinct species. And, to confirm this notion, the bones of some burrowing animal were actually found imbedded in the substance of one of the "screws." This seemed to settle the matter for awhile, until the controversy was started again by the discovery of the osseous remains, under like conditions, of a small deer. Nobody could assert that a deer was ever a burrowing animal, and so that notion had to be abandoned. Other theorists declared that the "fossil twisters," as some folks called them, represented the prehistoric borings of gigantic worms that lived in the very long ago. Yet others suggested that they were petrified vines, though it was difficult to explain how or why the "poles" on which the alleged vines seemed in many cases to have been trained had been so admirably preserved, or, for that matter, originally erected. In the midst of so many contradictory theories the problem seemed likely to defy solution indefinitely. The one that held out longest and gained most adherents was that of the extinct gophers. It accounted for the "root"—a shapeless appendage often nearly as big as the "twister" itself and attached to the lower end of the latter—which obviously, as it seemed, had been the nest of the rodent animal, the "corkscrew" representing the spiral hole by which it made its way to the surface of the ground. What could possibly be more easy to comprehend? Professor E. H. Barbour, however, has declared—and his decision is accepted provisionally until somebody offers a better—that the corkscrews are of vegetable origin. They are, he asserts, the fossil remains of ancient water weeds of gigantic size, which grew millions of years ago on the bottom of a vast sheet of water that covered all of Nebraska. These must have been the biggest aquatic plants that ever existed, and when the huge lake that overflowed the region in question The Better Wax A Man of Action Hicks—There isn't a man who can keep the conversation rolling like our friend Gayn—Nonsense! He never says worth listening to. Hicks does a lot of things wrong about.—Philadelphia Ledger He who feels contempt for thing hath faculties that never used, and thought with its infancy.—Wordsworth. A SELFISH MASTER The Prayer He Addresses Throne of Mercury The following example and selfish prayer does not the liturgy; it is from "Ancient Hackney:" "O knowest that I have nine cities of London and likewise have lately purchased an o simple in the county of H seech thee to preserve th ties of Middlesex and Essex and earthquake, and, as mortgage in Hertfordshire thee likewise to have an passion on that county, a rest of the counties thou with them as thou art Lord, enable the bank to their bills and make all good men. Give prosper and return to the Mermaid cause I have insured it, a hast said the days of the but short, I trust in there wilt not forget thy promise purchased an estate in reven will be mine on the dead profligate young man. Sir my friends from sinking at me from thieves and ho and make all my servant and faithful that they may my interest and never change of my property night or day. THE CHINESE MOON She Is Steadfast In Affecting Children. The Chinese mother is very her children. She is happy company and spends much ing for them. In a Chinese birth of a child is a greater with other orientals. Long child is born the mother pea and ceremonies to propitia that her child may be a birth the little fellow is The Better Way The tissues of the throat are inflamed and irritated; you cough, and there is more irritation—more coughing. You take a cough mixture and it eases the irritation—for a while. You take SCOTT'S EMULSION and it cures the cold. That's what is necessary. It soothes the throat because it reduces the irritation; cures the cold because it drives out the inflammation; builds up the weakened tissues because it nourishes them back to their natural strength. That's how Scott's Emulsion deals with a sore throat, a cough, a cold, or bronchitis. WE'LL SEND YOU A SAMPLE FREE. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl Street New York She Is Steadfast In Affecting Children. The Chinese mother is very her children. She is happy company and spends much ing for them. In a Chinese birth of a child is a greater with other orientals. Long child is born the mother pea and ceremonies to propitia that her child may be a birth the little fellow is old rags and in winter is put in a bag of sand around its neck to keep the warm. Great rejoicing if the child is a boy there is an air of chaste pointment. But good China make the best of their life becoming very fond and even them. I have known more Chinese father to exhibit wee girl for approval, though with the customary native deprecation of what belongs Indeed, this evidence of courtesy may be found even this strange land. It is go vilify what is mine and la thine. "My good for not are all still troubling the their presence. How is y able family?"—Pilgrim. MUMMIES. Some That Do Not Come Tombs of the East Many persons who have in archaeology will be sure know that all the mummies in museums have not been faraway tombs in Egypt or ern lands. Well preserved have occasionally been taken ruins of the cliff dwellers in tain canyons of Arizona a the remains of many of the were left behind buried in the related detritus at the bottom. the course of time—ages after the of the ancient lake had been buried into solid rock—rivers plowway through the land, cutting way and that and exposing to the of the modern traveler on the of the cliffs the fossil casts of the coric water weeds just as they when they grew hundreds of birds and probably millions of go. Their tissues were replaced decayed by silica from the waticle by particle, and thus, as if logical means, their likenesses been preserved for the wonder mination of the present survivthe earth. is the theory now pretty well by scientists in regard to the of the "fossil corkscrews." Posis not correct, but if otherwise room for the exercise of anyimagination in the consideration veritable romance of the anstory of the world.—New York Personal Beauty. ever man or woman would realize power of personal beauty it by cherishing noble thoughts opes and purposes, by having going to do and something to live it is worthy of humanity and by expending the capacities of gives expansion and symmetry body which contains it.—Upham. A Man of Action. There isn't a man in town to keep the conversational ball like our friend Gayrake. Wicks nse! He never says anything listening to. Hicks—No, but he lot of things worth talking Philadelphia Ledger. who feels contempt for any living hath faculties that he hath used, and thought with him is in ney.—Wordsworth. Mexico and southern California. These mummies, though very poor specimens of the mummifying art, are considered great treasures by scientists, because they give the anthropologist a vague idea of the strange people who had the earliest civilization on the American continent. The best of them are almost entirely ignorant of who the Aztecs and Toltecs were, how they looked and lived and why they have been so entirely obliterated from the face of the earth. The reason for this ignorance is found in the fact that no satisfactory remains of the dead Aztecs have been found. These people were cremationists, and they probably buried household effects with the dead, leaving little or nothing for the scientist to build a theory upon. Frequently a party of explorers in the valleys of Arizona will come upon sealed jars of burned bone dust. Flowers In the Shade. It is not unusual to hear a complaint that one's yard has no sun, and therefore flowers cannot be raised. But there are a large number of flowers that prefer shade to sunshine in summer. The begonia is of this class. Those who have north walls or fences may have great beauty during the summer by setting out the different kinds of begonias. Even the gloxinia, the achimenes and similar hothouse plants bloom splendidly throughout the summer season when grown on the north side of walls. Keppel's Recipe For Health. Meeting me in a bitter east wind one day in Picadilly on his way to church, Keppel asked how Mr. Gladstone was. I told him he was very ill. "Ah," he said, "he is overnursed. If he would do as I do, climb up eighty steps, have a cold bath every day and sleep with his window always open, he would never be ill."—Memoir of Sir Henry Keppel. Foot In It Again. Princely, Selling Made of the b and are fast color Yun 127 Center S Our new Spring a You will B The Great Golden Sta Through to Chicago Southern I Composite li room sleeping car tourist sleepers w for St. Louis. Inquire of T Southern Pacific, 261 S. ern Pacific agent. A Man of Action. There isn't a man in town to keep the conversational ball like our friend Gayrake. Wicks sense! He never says anything listening to. Hicks—No, but he lot of things worth talking Philadelphia Ledger. Who feels contempt for any living hath faculties that he hath used, and thought with him is in nancy.—Wordsworth. A SELFISH MAN. Prayer He Addressed to the Throne of Mercy. Following example of a quaint Irish prayer does not come from energy; it is from "Glimpses of Hackney." "O Lord, thou hast that I have nine estates in the London and likewise that Iately purchased an estate in fee in the county of Essex. I bequee to preserve the two councils Middlesex and Essex from fire earthquake, and, as I have a large in Hertfordshire, I beg of newwise to have an eye of common that county, and for the counties thou mayest deal them as thou art pleased. O enable the bank to answer all bills and make all my debtors then. Give prosperous voyage turn to the Mermaid sloop, because insured it, and, as thou did the days of the wicked are short, I trust in thee that thou forget thy promise, as I have need an estate in reversion which mine on the death of that young man, Sir J. L. Keep hands from sinking and preserve from thieves and housebreakers like all my servants so honest faithful that they may attend to arrest and never cheat me out property night or day." THE CHINESE MOTHER. Steadfast In Affection For Her Children. Chinese mother is very fond of children. She is happy in their joy and spends much time car them. In a Chinese family the child is a greater event than other orientals. Long before the born the mother performs rites ceremonies to propitiate the gods for child may be a boy. After little fellow is wrapped in Keppel's Recipe For Health. Meeting me in a bitter east wind one day in Piccadilly on his way to church, Keppel asked how Mr. Gladstone was. I told him he was very ill. "Ah," he said, "he is overnursed. If he would do as I do, climb up eighty steps, have a cold bath every day and sleep with his window always open, he would never be ill."—Memoir of Sir Henry Keppel. Foot In It Again. Mr. Brakes—Who is that sour looking dame over there? Mr. Grubbins—Sir, she has misfortune to be my wife. Mr. Brakes—Oh—ah—er—indeed, sir, the misfortune is—er—all yours, I'm sure!—Cleveland Leader. Possible to All. She (philosophically)—Do you think it is easy to die? He (commonplace)—Well, a lot of very stupid people have managed to do it. Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.—Seneca. Tea Houses In Japan. In Japan nourishment is to be obtained by the traveler chiefly at the picturesque and omnipresent tea houses scattered all over Japan. When tourists stop at one of these places the "runners," who carry the jinrikishas, bathe their own feet and wash their mouths with cold water, after which they are served with their meals on the benches outside the tea houses. Their meal, which they eat with avidity, consists of salt fish, rice, pickles and a soup made of almost everything odious. After they have eaten they will smoke tiny pipes, with only three whiffs for each filling. Next comes the delicious nectar, world famed, and of this "cup which cheers, but not inebriates," foreigners also are always glad to partake. It is tea (cha) and when brewed by the Japanese is perfection. A pretty tea house girl presents it on a lacquer tray, bringing with it a china or bamboo charcoal holder and ash pot.—What to Eat. The Story of a Famous Phrase. All the world knows the remark of the governor of North Carolina to the governor of South Carolina, "It's a long time between drinks." The true history of this famous anecdote was told by a South Carolinian. It appears that the phrase was first heard at a political dinner when the governor... The Story of a Famous Phrase. All the world knows the remark of the governor of North Carolina to the governor of South Carolina, "It's a long time between drinks." The true history of this famous anecdote was told by a South Carolinian. It appears that the phrase was first heard at a political dinner when the governors of both North and South Carolina were present. The first governor had delivered a fiery political speech. The situation was intense when the turn came for the governor of South Carolina to speak. It seemed that any word the governor might say would complicate the situation. Even should he keep silent his opinion would seem clear. It was at this critical moment that the governor of the other Carolina rose and, inspired by a stroke of genius, remarked, "It's a long time between drinks." 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