MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1930.
THE
CHINA
PARIS UNIVERSITY
MAIL.
SENSATION.
ANOTHER CURE FOR COMMON COLDS.
THE AUGSBURG MARVELS OF A LOST ADVENTURES OF AN
CONFESSION.
Ceremonies in Bavaria,
LUTHER'S DAYS.
Augsburg. June 24. On June 28 the ancient Ravarian eity of Augsburg will be en fete,
CITY.
· Carved Monolith for British Museum.
Strange pyramids, a wonderful, hill of terraces, and "a carved monolith weighing a ton-all ̋ the; work of a race long since extinct are among the discovérlos made in the Lost City of Maya by the British Museum expedition,
EXPLORER.
The Buffalo and the
Convenient Tree.
LORE OF PIGMIES.
Leakage of Examination Parisian Doctor Makes
Papers.
Paris, July 25.. University circles have been thrown into consternation by the announcement that a number of candidates for the recent Bachelor With eight boxes of trophies, degree examinations got their sufficient to reproduce a pigmy and papers before the examinations.
the printing works.
Interesting Claim.
ELECTRIC CURRENT.
Paris, July 10,
colds more
and the celebration will be con- to England in a cargo steamer and Mangbetu village, Mrs. Delia J. Apparently there was a leakage at ultra than the ultra-violet ray has
The monolith là now on its way tinued throughout the following it will be set up in the British week. The occasion is the four Museum later in the year." hundredth anniversary of the pre Difficulties overcome by the ex- sentation to the Emperor Charles pedition in getting the monolith V. of the statement of Lutheran from the heart of the jungle in Bri- faith that afterwards came to be tish Honduras to civilisation were known as the Confessio Augustana, described by Captain E. L. Gruning. the Confession-of Augsburg, "the leader of-the-expedition."
Bome
Strange Faces.
The
The construction
some
Round the
strange
What
A cure for common
just been perfected by Dr. Jules Loubier at the American hospital in
Akeley, woman explorer and frst wife of the late Carl Akeley, sculp-LAW "A BUNDLE OF Paris. Dr. Laubler, one of the most
the
tor and naturalist, hus returned to New York after months alone in the jungles of the spending ten Belgian Congo, Hiving with pigmy tribes and studying their The expedition was sponsored by, the Brooklyn Museum.
lives and customs.
of native life.
SCRAPS."
Judge and Divorce Rules,
eminent living French physicians, is president of the Society of Electro- therapy and Radiology and atten- ding electrotherapist at the Ameri- can Institution.
The new diathermic "electrical treatment may be applied directly Mr. Justice Hill, in the Divorce to affected areas where inflammation Court recently, described the law has set in, by means of pads through detached rules and scraps of Pads applied to the bases of the affecting divorce as "a bundle of which electric current is passed,
legislation."
ears, for example, will accure al- In the case before him the hus-most instant relief for sore throat, discretion in his favour as he had duced through heating. band asked the Court to exercise the membraneous tissue being re- Similar committed adultery.
treatment may be given the nose inquired whether he was entitled nostril. -
Mr. T. Bucknill (for the wife) by placing the pads on either
to cross-examine the husband,
Local Application,
Aro
Mr. Acton Pile (for the husband) conjunction with the American Is it not because the principles of Hospital, to distribute his apparatus ecclesiastical law have got mixed at a price which will be within the up common law?
tho principles of reach of every pocket-book-United
Press,
with
an ecclesiastical garment and then,
Mr. Justice Hill-We start with
by legislation in a wholly scrappy way it has been turned into a patchwork garment. Some of the patches are big and some small and they have all been put on without any reference to any pattern.
consistent
MR. A. SCHUBERT.
NEW FINNISH CONSUL TO CANTON.
It was-according to authorities at 3 o'clock in the "We were anxious to secure this afternoon of June 25 in the chapel monalith," said Captala Gruning, of the episcopal palace that this "because it will help us to make a
The pigmy is nothing now to Mrs. famous document was read in a further study of the Maya language. into their territory to her credit Akeley, She has four expeditions resounding voice by Dr. Beyer, the which is very little known. Chancellor of Saxony, in the pre-atono la carved all over with strange hopes will last for at least two and is planning another, which she sence of the Emperor and the great faces and figures. German notables, princes, knights, "In order to get it away from the vious trips stood her in good stead years. Her experiences on her pre- and citizens, assembled in Diet. jungle city, we took a tractor with The more reading of the document us, last the journey of 40 miles this time, she declared, because Was dramatic. The Lutheran occupied a week.
some of the pigmies remembered Not only did we her, and then, too, she was able to Princes insisted that it should take have to get it through the jungle precedence of any discussion of the growth, which is very
understand their language and to dense, but speak it slightly. Turkiah menaco on
"It is absurd," he said, "to have the Eastern there were dreadful floods and about frontier-always a haunting fear six rivers to cross.
Mrs. Akeley told of being charged a rule that a petitioner who asks
This treatment may be applied with Charles-and they refused to
by a herd of buffalo. "The eity we were exploring te missed fire and she escaped from must disclose his adultery in the d'Arsonval generator, or with small Her ride for the discretion of the Court either with the large coil of a big have it read. in Latin. They were almost covered with heavy a gathering of Germans: It must jungle undergrowth.
being gored to death by ducking be petition and for the Act of Parlia- lastruments made especially for it, We sur- be read in German. The Augsburgveyed a remarkable terraced bill,'
hind a tree. She also told of wit ment to preclude him being ques- some with an electric globe similar Confession was, in fact, part of which dominates the south side of easing the trepanaing of a young tioned about it."
to that of a radio, instrument. that assertion of nationalism-athis mysterious
pigmy's akull. Arrows were usedi Mr. Justice Hill-There city, four miles
Comparing his discovery to the nationalism that looked with equal square.
to perform the operation. which many things in the law affecting ultra-violet ray treatment for com suspicion on Pope and Emperor- "All over this hill there are stone was done without anesthetle on the divorce which I would like to see mon colds, recently so popular in the which was so dominating a feature structures and sub-structures built screaming child. She attempted to altered but I despair of Parliament United States, Dr. Loubier pointed of the German Reformation.
with hundreds of thousands of tons take pictures of the operation, but doing anything. The administra-out that whereas the latter is ex- This aspect also contributed of limestone.
the natives postponed their surgical tion of justice in this Division is cellent for improving the patient's much to making the Confession of and putting into position of these work until she had gone. She did made exceedingly difficult by the general condition, his treatment is Augsburg the important instru- great stone blocks shows engineer succeed in making 5,000 feet of film state of the law, not in this respect applicable to actual local infections. ment that it afterwards became ing of a high order.
only but in many other respects. It is now Dr. Loubler's plan, in But even in Its doctrinal aspect whole was a megalithic wall,
Wives by Purchase. there WBA something speci- "We found marked
Mrs. Akeley said pigmy wives are the separation be pyramids bullt on the hill. fically
purchasable for very small gifts, an Gorman about it.
It they were for it is impossible to tell. excellent wife being obtainable for tween Wittenberg. on the опе
A Bridge. hand, and Zurich and Geneva on
|a good sharp knife, while others not "Below the hill we discovered the ao comely may be bought for some the other. It was intended to ex remains of the only known bridge sait or even exchanged for a young elude Zwingli, and was so euccess- of Maya construction.
These were son. ful that when he read it he was the buttressed atone enda, the centre Cannibalism still is practised and moved to send to the Emperor apart having long since disappeared even dead bodies are not sacred she statement defining his own doc- "The community appears to have said. Friends of the deceased fre- trine of the Eucharist in the plain been the centre of a highly cultured quently live beneath the specially eat and extremest terms. But to civilisation day there is a third aspect which to A.D.300.
from about A.D. 150 bullt roof under which he is buried cannot fall to be in the minds of
to prevent other tribes from re- "There is evidence that the Hill moving the body, she said. Bome who will be celebrating the
community was a religious one, birth of Lutheranism as an or- and access to parts of it were ob man's" medicine, said Mrs. Akeley, The natives are fond of the "white ganized system next week.
tained by staircases which were cut who praised the medical missions. Preserving The Unity. out in the rock, it was obviously a She said the pigmies have discover- Luther had but A secondary very Important place, but what ited a herb which prevents the share in its composition. He was meant is still a jungle-secret. still under the ban, and could come
spread of leprosy, but she did not "The only way in which we could know if it would cure the disease. no nearer than Coburg. His shrill pursue our inquiries was to keep She said that the natives would utterances showed his alarm. In hacking away at the undergrowth not reveal this secret cure to scient- his absence the more efrenic and folling trees and digging. In ists. Thirty-five per cent, of Melanchthon drew up a statement a cave we found a quantity of paint-natives are afflicted with the dia Intended "to show that theed pottery, and in a grave there was ense, stie declared. Lutherans were reformers, not re-a aumber of jade beads. volutionaries. It keeps as near, to
The pigmies are distrustful of "There were not many clubs, how outsiders until their confidence has Catholic teaching as possible. Itever, to the real puzzle we were try-beer won. Mrs. Akeley went on. does not deny the divine right of ing to solve.
"After they realise you do not In- the Papacy, or the indelible char "Who were these Maya people? tend to harm them," she said, "you acter of the priesthood, or the ex- Where did they come from? Where will have no trouble in obtaining istence of seven sacraments. In did they go to and why did they anything you want. They are 'very regard to the Lord's Supper, the go? Confession asserts that the Body
Missing Clue. and Blood of Christ are truly "For some reason, they sudden (vere) present and dispensed to ly disappeared and the lost city we the communicant. The confession have just explored is only one of the was accompanied by a statement great centres of their civilisation. of abuses corrected, which still, "Unfortunately, we have not further strengthened the prevalt much knowledge of their language, gian Congo will soon be a flourish ing note.
but we are getting a bit more of ising country, The Belgian Govern- The Confession of Augsburg is every year. If we could find ment has planted vast quantitles of significant to-day because it shows key then we should indeed have a cotton, which is purchased by Creek how far the reasonable Lutherans marvellous chapter in stone before traders, she declared. Good roads were prepared to go to preserve the us to read.
have been built and automobiles are unity of the Catholic Church.) "Evidence of domestic life in this a frequent sight. These improve. : There is little doubt that in this city was mostly lost. The people ments have resulted in 2,000 per they could count on the sympathy lived in wooden houses and they cent. increase in the cost of expedi- of Charles himself. Luther had a had all crumbled away.
At every tions, she added. real affection for and hellef in turn in this lost city ont finda Mrs. Akeley travelled from London "Kaiser Karl." The Kaiser him- something that baffles,"
to Port Suydam, then to Khartoum, thence down the Nile to Rejaf.
1
self showed a profoundly Chris
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the
fond of salt, which to them is as candy to us; toy balloons, tobacco and soap. They are a very clean race and bathe regularly."
Good Roads.
Mro. Akeley believes that the Bel-
tian temper. There was no pride attending. But the Archbishop of From there she proceeded by auto-f or cruelty in him, as Melanchthon Canterbury has asked the Dean of mobile Inta the Belgian Congo to testified. But Cisalpine ecclesias Chichester to attend as his per- Arabi, where she met her first tical influences and the jealousy of sonal representative.
pigmy tribes. She then proceeded
the German princelings combined Augsburg itself is a town with north to Momvu; a mining section, to shatter the large and noble a long history, otherwise the Diet and from there, again by auto- prospect that opened up that day) would not have been held there. It mobile, to Betongwe, thence to for Europe and for Christendom. les on that high Swabian plateau Avekuvu, where she spent most of
The gathering next week will which prepares the Northern her time in the jungle. naturally attract. Lutkerang from traveller for the Alps that lie
all over the world. Lutheranlam fa abead. Ita position, like that of
the dominant creed in Scandinavia Nuremberg, Jay on the
great
and the new Baltic States, and medieval highway of trade from SWISS WATER DIVINER'S FIND. doubtless there will be strong de- Italy to the North; its wealth has legations from Denmark, Norway, left its mark on its buildings. Sweden, and Finland. There is Already a Free Imperial City in certain to be a large representa the thirteenth century it was in the diviner of great repute, la reported The Abbe Mermet, a Swiss water tion from the United States, in fourteenth and fifteenth that it to have rediscovered the sulphurous which country there are more than reached the apex of its fortuner. 2,000,000 professing Lutherans. The Fuggers of Augsburg were les-Bains in the Rhone Valley salty spring which once made Bex- They have been a markedly con- the rivals of the Medici servative body, holding themselves Florence. They were among the been lost for more than half a of famous for cares, and which has aloof to some extent from co- first to discover that buying and century.. operation with other Christian selling on a large scale le mors
Mr. Buckn!l! said that there ought to be a codification of the maintenance and all the discrepan- law with regard to procedure and eles should be removed,
The Tell-Tale Scale. Unless you are over normal, a decline in weight should always be taken as an indication of some- thing wrong. In the hot weather especially you should be weigh- ed at intervals to see that your 'weight is being maintained. Persistent decreases must be taken seriously for they indicate that the blood-stream is losing its power of correcting the wear and tear of the tissues.
Neglect will assuredly lead to trouble, for once the blood gets into, poor condition there are many disorders. that can arino. Everything depends upon the healthy condition of the blood; and nerves, indigestion, Thou- matiam and general debility, al- though widely different in symp toms, are all attributable to one contral cate poor blood.
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Victor
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with its frescoed front and the Some of these are situated in the "Fuggerel," the little town of sit grounds off
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