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last you might hear.” Come give the men 1 a stirring. S : § e TBO G : : ’e e N TELEGRAM , - SI. CROIX STATION. | New Bedford, Mass., D¢c. Tth. —Britan- - § nia Day was given special recognition in | this city today. with a varcied progra nme ‘ which included a welecome to “the officers | and men of H. M. S. Caleutta, flagship | of the Bermuda squadron. i Athens, Dec Bth.—The plans to have | ex-King Constantine return to Greece L this week, appeared today to have been abandoned. The decision of the Govern- i ment apparently was to continue its wait E and see policy with the tendency (o leave | the decision as to Constantine’s return to | the throae to the ex-King bhimseil. The | financial pressure of the British upon the | ‘Government, which as been exerted | against the pian to resiore Censtantine i appears to have become stronger. Bx- | premier Counaris, leader in the move- ; ment w~hich led to the downfall of Pre- | mier Venizeios bas appealed to Ve Izelist | army offiears to keep their posts | Wasl ington, Dec. Tth.—Both Houses ! were_in brief session today, 3 hear | President - Wiison’s annual message. It ! was read by the clerk, Mr. Wilson hav- | ing held the advice of. nis physician, not E to appear in persom to pre-ent his recom- ! _mendations. Galleries in both Senate | and House were crowded. Both those E drawn by the chance that the President i might appear in person, or the possibility that his message might touch vpon the | {League of Nations question.-or his own | approaching retirement to private life, | were disappointed, as Mr.” Wiison con- | fined himself- to- dome3tic questions al- | most wholly. @ London, Dec. Bth.=The Australian | crieket team willvisity England next | year, aceording to word rec:ived here | yesterday. ; Washington, Dec. Bth. —Provisions of | ihe National Prohibition Act extend to | the United States ships, whether they be . | in homo waters, on the high seas, or in | _foreign whaters,. Commissioner Wiliiam of | the Internal Revenue Dept. ruled today. | Commissioner William’s ruling based on | opinion =by ~ Acting Attorney seneral | Frierson, was sent to .all coliectors of | internal revenue and Federal Prohibition | Agents "for their information and guid | ance,. 5 . | Paris, Dee. Bth.—The Reparations ! Commissiop announced today that Ger- many must deliver t 6 France and Belgi- | um a total of 1,740,000 fowls within four | years, 25,165 goats: within three years and 15;2b0 pigs within one year. The | Germad representatives have agreed to | this programme. The Commission also | announced that Germany has almost completed the aelivery of the live-stock _advances required under annex 4. 9 London, Dec. Bth. Government sup- - 1. CRUEX A VLS portegs in the House of Commons’ yes- terday were brought into line for the secoud r'eé‘ding' of the dyestuffs Bill, against which- Trreconcilable free traders are making a dead.set. Thursday will witness the debate on natiopal expen- diture, which, in view of the outery for economy, must "be important. It is ex- pected that the esg¥mates will have to be out all around. and thgé}ovt. 1S being pressed to prevent any ¥iresh schemes involving furtheér expenditures. Mr Austen Chamberlain, replying to a ques- tion on the subject, said that there was as yet no reason to anticipate any ma- terial variation from his estimate of 234, 000,000 pounds sterling, stated to be the balance of the year’s revenue and ex- penditure, .. Ve THE PYGMY DISCOVERED AGAIN. A recent moving-picture expedition in Africa resulted in the reported discovery of a race of pygmies of. such primitive characteristics that they are but little removed from ape men. They were found in theforasts of the Belgian Con- go by Dr. L. 4. Vandenbergs, a Catholic, missionary and anthropologist, whose explorationn covered 11 ‘months. It is claimed that adults of this pygmean race, known as the “‘Mambuti,’’average about four rfeet in height. The malescan move with ‘surprising agility through tree brancnes. Although interesting as this bit of news may be, we hear of a strong denial from abroad. Lady Stanley, widow of the cel- ebrated African explorer, Henry M. Stanley, asserts that her husband made the..discovery as far back as 1888, while on his search for Enim Pasha. His book is cited in proo” of her claim. ' As a matter of fact, pygmies nave been “‘discovered’’ and described since the time of Homer, the Greek poet of 1000 B. C. They were recorded as being ill- favored but very honesi, w~hich quality appears to have clung to them to this day. It is said that these pygmies neither lie nor steal'and are strictly monogamous virtues which would put some of vur own race o shaine. The word ‘‘pygmy’’ comes from the Greek ''pygme,’’ representing the meas- ure from the elbow to the hand. Anci- ent writers seemied to revel in making these dwarfs as small in st:ture and as fantastic as imagination would allow. Home:r says that every spring they were attacked by the cranes on the coasts of Qceanus and were devoured. J.ater writers place them at the mouths of the Nile, in the region of Thule (er Ireland), and in subterranean dwellings on the the eastern slope of the Ganges mountains.- A _ jt was said that they cut down every corn-ear with an axe; that when Her- cules came into their country they climb- ed up his goblet by means of ladders to drink from it; and while he was asleep two whole armies of them fell upon his right hand and two upon his ieft, but Hercules rolled them all in his lion’s skin. Swift took this Grecian le- gend and brought forth his ‘‘Guliiver’s Travels,”” which are the delight of ev- ery young boy or girl—although they were written as ¢ political satire. Aristotle did not believe that the stor- ies about pygmies were utterly fabu- lous; bis- interpretation of them was that they were a diminutive tribe in up- per Egypt who rode very small horses end lived in caves. C(tesias represent- ada nation of them as inhabiting [n dia ; Pliny placed them in transgsngetic India. : - Du Chaillu found “pygmies in the mountainous country of the Ogobal. .They are called Obongos and about four and a half feet high. They lived in the midst of negro tribes of ordinary sta- care and subsist chiefly on animels food, but partly also on the roots, berries and nuts which they find in the forests. Schweinfurth between the years 1868 and 1871 came in contact with & pygmean race in the heart of Africa. There are also the Akka and Batwa pygmies in Central Africa. : The most recent discovery of Vpyg mies’’ was by President Wilson, when he tound them in the U. S. senate, when the league of nations covenani was denounced and ratification prevented. “Pygmy’’ in this sense is figurative—a peason of small understanding o: nar- row intelligence —7The Pathfinder. AIRSHIP RISK SLIPT. - Air ravigation will soon be so safe that timid people will prefer to spend their life in airship travel in preference. to risking all dangers of staying at home. Out of almost -40,000 flights, in which 70,000 passengers were carried, during the first year of civil flying in England, only one person was killed. Over 100,000 pounds of freight was carried and SI,OOO, 000 worth of goods was imported from the corntinent by the air route. —lbid. NORTEERN ;. C e Assurance Comparny -Lo ) : imited OF LONDON CEC. L. MARKOQE Agent for [rederiksted’s District ™ V. K. ARMSTRONG. 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