NEWS OF WORLD 1
BRIEFLY TOLDj
Ovtstacding Happenings ot Weckj
Gathered from Every white Con-j
denned for the Busy Reader
Gnii grafts adjourned yesterday for
the hoHdayK a:d will dot convene
again unfi! January 4.
A cold v.iivt' extending from London
to Komc and beyond brought
sno'v to .southern Kurope. the ilrst in
many years.
K fry p,;.sons mostly chiUlyeh, lost"-.their
tive.s .in a f?r? that destroyedj
the Hospice St. Charles Orphanage j
in Quebec. Canada, last Wednesday j
night, Heroic efforts 011 the part of!
nur?s and firemen prevented a!
grc&tei casualty.
Buffalo, N. V.. Dee, V9.-?-Relief
teidgfct reached 200, men, women!
ami children, must of them touristsi
write lie. i beer onow bound for -iSj
bonis on tile Lake Shore road he-;
wetn the, village of 3ei*usa1em Cor-j
ners and Evans Center on the southj
shore oi Lake Erie. A rotary snow i
plow succeeded in rutting a path'
through the huge drifts piled up
during it storm which began on Sun
day and continued throughput the
day. The area of drifts covered
about ten miles of the Jake shore.
A far ilung inquiry with the aee
- f. the secret service if necessary is
promised by a special senate committee
determined to go to the bottom
of documents published in
Hearst papers purpoiting to show
that a $1,2X5,000 Mexican fund was
created for four United States senators.
Accepting the unqualified denials
of the four senators named in
the documents?Borah, of Idaho, :
Xorris of Nebraska; Heflin of Alabama,
and I. Follette of Wisconsin
?that they received an\ of the
money, the committee is pressing
forward in its effort to establish ihe
authenticity of the papers. ;
A warning to congress to apply
the brakes to all moves seeking a reduc-ion
of taxes in excess of the :
treasury recommendation was issued
Friday at the While House. It was j
disclosed that President Coolidge be-j 1
tieves the bill as passed Thursday!
'tight by the house railing foi a re- I
duction yearly of $2110,000,000 is
unwarranted by the condition of the
treasury. In his opinion the maximum
reduction should be J225,000. '
000 applied as suggested by Secretary
Mellon. The president is waii-j
nig with interest to see the fate of
the tax bill in the senate and fully
expects that by the time it reaches
his desk for approval, the measure
veil! have been brought within what
he considers reasonable limits.
Daily immunization from pneumonia.
just as one brushes his leeth
may hot be far distant, according to
Dr. ifussell L. Cecil of New York, an
- eminent authority on pneumonia.
ine. catwui person in me tutuic tiefore
starting out for the day will
simply reach for life atomizer, open
his mouth, squeeze the hull and a
spray of pnesianpn vacciiie -viit line
j ifhis mouth, throat and perhaps the
upper portion of the lungs- He can
then sally forth into the highways!
and subways, satisfied that the germsj
with which he is fortified will go to J
grips with any live pneumonia germs
and kill them. In short, he will
knew that he is, OS per cent proof
against the disease that leads the
mortality list of the United States,
Deaths from automobile accidents
in the fin .ted .-states are increasing
both in total number and in proportion
to population each y ear, the |
department of commerce announced i
last week in giving out results of a j
study of the. subjpet- The depart-',
meni fixed the number of autumn j
bile deaths in J926 in the United I
States of IS,871 perrons. This gave'
an indicated death rate of 17.9 per-j
sons iter year per 100,000 population.
In 192.7. the similar rate wa.17;
in 1924 it van 15.7. while in
1923 it was 1-5.0 and in 1922 12.5.
Further, the report said, the total of
deaths metin collisions between automobiles
and railroad trains or street
cars was excluded. If .-oeh deaths
had been included, the iota! for
1926 would have been 20,891 deaths,
and the automobile death rate would
have been increased to 19.9 per
100,000 population.
An open letter to William Randolph
Hearst condemning him for
the publication of documents purporting
to show citation of a ?1,'215,000
Mexican fund for four United
States senators, was made public
by Senator Morris of Nebraska, one
of the legislators named in the document.
Senator Norn- and the three
other senators?Borah, Heflin and
l^a Koilette-?havebeen cleared of
any suspicion of having received the
money or having been approached
in regard to it by the members of
ihe special senate committee investigating
the charge and also by Mr.
' Hearst who gave the charges to the
committee. Senator Morris said in
his open letter that an analysis of
the article published by Hearst and
of hi; testimony before the committee
"leads to the inevitable conclusion
that you are not only unfair and
dishonest but that you arc entirely
without honor."
Fortune Teller: 'Beware of ..
handsome, tall blonde."
Weary Willie (sadly). "Too late.
I've married her."
tS&M
THIS WEEK
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
i
VALUE OF BREVITY
COLDEST SPOT ON EARTH
MARRIAGE STILL BEST
President Coolidge, a man of few! ,
word?, regrets that his message toj i
congress could not be shorter, j j
Madame de Sevigne wrote to heroJ
daughter. "If I had more time I j |
should have written you a shorter 1 (
letter." Considering the field cover-'< (
cd the president's message was ,
shorter than most men could bare j
made it. His "1 do not choose * J
prov. < ability to say much in a few
words. Ij
It: Australia workers, unemployed.I
t? force their way ?.nto the!
treasury building. The* rioting was[
- . pressed- ]
\ . traiir i> severe ir. its irumigia-j
lion limitations, ami rioting there byj
*ht unemployed reminds American]
workers that what a country needs (
is population. j
A monument ' Fheodore Koose- j
veil will erected above the Cul-j
ebra C ut overlooking t he Panama j
canal. R oo.se veit deserves the hpri-j
or; the ruonuniew should be a finej
one. |
All his interesting talk, advising
women to have nineteen children,
etc.. will be forgotten. But the fact,
that he pui through the Pan am u ca-j
nal will not he forgotten. In that' he
rendered. his country great service.
i
Old age is the night of life
"Work, for the night is coming
when man's work is done," says the',
aid hymn. For Ihose that have not j
saved, age is a dreary night.
Chicago has found in Detroit a t
blonde beauty with long hair, and
positively arranged yesterday to 0
show a Lady Godiva at last night's ,j
?.rts ball. . Rosalind Kio-htowrr u-Hn ..
will be Lady Godivn, without horse,!
rode to Chicago from Detroit in an! jairplane,
and ail! pose ill a picture |
frame, hair and ail. She sees rioth-j a
ing immodest in a beautiful ladyij,
dressed only in her iiair, and says. .
JTo me a short fat woman in an nb- ( s
breviated skirt is vulgar; the homan t
body h- a thing of beauty." v
ji
Berlin scientists ii.r,e created the j
rawest spot on earlii, producing inj[
laboratory experiments a tempera-j
Lure 451* degrees below zero. j
Outside our atmosphere, in mys-; t
terious spaces separating solar sy?-; i,
tenis from each ether, there exist:;;,
"absolute zero." On our Fahrenheit : f
thermometer that would be 461 do i s
grees below zero, space without j
I.
At such a temperature the prop-' ,
ev; ies of matter change Metals lose j 1
resistance to eluctrie.ty and become! <
supra-condnotors. A tfcin thread of 1
mercury will carry enough electricity t
to light several hundred lamps. He- I
Hum, the gas used in our dirigibles,
becomes liquid a few degrees above t I
absolute zero. In that terrible cold j 1
mo I ecu lbs in matter lose their n,e-t
tion, which may account for their
greater electric conductivity.
l-'ir=t abstract science, then useful
appreciation. Practical men may find
a way to create in metals, apart
from any absolute zero temperature? j
Conditions similar to those that abso-,
lute zero creates. That would make j
possible transportation of electric j
current without cost or loss, and'
solve the problem of cheap power.
Mr. Haldeman-Julius, of Kansas,
whose daughter is just trying a
"companionate marriage" experience
ceils the world that his daughter
was bom six years before he, flal:
deman-Julius. her father, was mar|
ried. lie didn't have money to set
up' housekeeping, but the dear little
girl was born anyhow.
That is interesting, not ur.usual.
Leonardo da Vinci, second in greatness
among all artists, was born outside
of marriage, his father and
mother never married. Ho supported
I his "legitimate," respectable high
j born half brothers and sistersj
Will am the Conqueror was born
before his father married the interesting
girl whom he first saw wash-!
ir.g clothes in a brock as. he rode
past with hi; warriors.
Uut all that doesn't change the
fact that marriage i.. better than lack
of marr age. Marriage will not go
oui oi iasn:en. it will persist until
men liecome worthy of an institution
at present too good tor many
of them.
The Bible as a Foundation
I have always found in my scientific
studies that when I could get the
Bible to say anything upon a subject
it afforded me a firm platform to
stand upon, and a round in the ladder
by which T conid safely ascend.?
j lieutenant Maury.
.God's Giants
All God's giants have been weak
men, who did great things for God
, Iweause they reckoned ou Hte being
vith them.?Hudson Taylor.
Buyer: "Does this flannel shrink?"
Clerk: "Not so much as I woukl
,'rom telling you it didn't, if it did."
THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVI
IN "THEM" DAYS
When Kni^ki Came Bnogutg
Gift*
This ^1! happened many, many
ages ago; before the era of Fords
and traffic cops. When women
were as o:u as they felt, ajjfl men
were as .?!<] ;-;s women wanted thein
to feel.
Now, every well-regulated
paleolithic community, there was always
a huge ferocious male who
headed the tribe; he war. known as
the Old Man. And, amid his many
wives, he always had a favorite who
had been the daughter of o rival
L'hieitain. And shf alwavi begot a
[laughter wViose beauty and grace
were the talk cf the land All this
had to bo- otherwise theie- would be
10 st?vry.
Mow. the Old . nnmo wrjs
VI umbo tlie Tern bio. And his favor*g
wife, in his intimate moments, he
ailed, "Hoy, You!" And the duugher
known to all and sundry as
Pyorrhea?because four out. of five
.vanled her
Pyorrhea's hand?both i>? them, in
"act?were sought aftei by several
uitors. In the order of theii e.piearance,
there was Jumbo the
"oc keyed. He was One of Pyorrhea* s
iuiuerous step-brothers; but; in those
lays they weren't so strict; and any J
vay, in actual relationship, Ypro and 1
iunib?) were about forty-three steps!
embved. Pyra rather liked Jumbo,;
Hit could never learn to trust him; j
vifch another woman present. Pyroj
:ouid never tell which of them Jum-j
>o was looking at. So she told Jum-!
?o she could never be more than a
ister to him. Then came Rum'oo the
Tinea rod. He kept a gymnasium
vhere he reduced the fingers and
lankrolls of all the very rich l>nsi?ess
men who read Lionel Strong- j
ort's ads and believed them. In the
rid days. Rumbo used to be a porkmd-beaner:
never got beyond the
>rel?rainaries, until he fought Squee:v
the Squafher; that time, he al- ~
host got to the gates of the neanlerthal
heaven. At first Fyo was ,
lui&e fius-trated by the attentions a
f It umbo; his miamier of wooing, as! r
lemonstratcd by the ardent way in
/high he caressed her bean with a;
;z.v club, almost swept her off her]
oct.
Came Chri<?.i.;a . as the movie says! ,
nci Pyo was btig&t by the highest!
iroblem in her ! fo. Mumbo the Tor-! ^
ib'c- had issue l a decree that who-j
oevei ho 12i1 ; ?stow upon iidhugHvi
er Ihe mo t n;.-ual gift lit tliej **
.'orld?that uinr. -kculd it :-c Mum-' ^
b's right ha d duirg the ;mm <' Q
east; and that man should havej -?
'yorrhea ' a
Oh, how the gallant swains flocked _
> the contest! Prom far off Diph-j
horia t?> still farther Inertia; from!
mcharted realms and from Mumtooh :
n.vsi village?-r ich tribe ;ent a hope- j
ill suitor. Such clashing of cymbals; 1
uch show ot* wealth! Such glitter of)
exyels. such sheen of tiger-skins. I
After declaring the rules of the]
fontest, he mentioned the timckeep-J
*r to sound the gong, and left the,
dug. Immediately started the pro-1
session of gift-bearing suitors. As
Ihey came before Pyo. One by one,
.hey hold forth their gifts. Each ex:olIcd
the virtues, of his token* rceking
the travails he had undergone
cb secure it. To each Pvo listened: i
:o r:nh, she said ''No." As a reward
for losing their heads?for such was
the penally incurred by the losers?
each was p< rmitted to kiss her hand.
(Author's note. After decapitation,
the bodies were stripped of their j
rotes and jewels. which Mumba kept. )
Tex had overlooked this, item in
drawing up ihe contract with Mumto
?something (tat his do contain
AOiiSc have spotted immediately.!
The sun huiig low in the heavens
already, and Pyc was growing tired
of saying "No." Aud her hand hurt
from the scrapings of many whis- j
kers upon .t. And -till no gift ap- j
pealed to Iter.
And then, lo and behold! Foot- j
steps were heard to clatter along the. [
road; and a breathless rider threw >
himself from the back of his spent!
as sack, hetorePyo. He prostrated !
himself before her; anil when he
raised his face to meet, her glance,
a thrill such as she had never known
passed through Pyo's body.
So s.ifliy that, even the referee had
difficulty in hearing her, Pyo whispered
"Yes!" The stands shook with
the acclaim of the multitudes. The
dinosaur and the minosaur raised
their heads in start led wonderment,
and then fled into the thicknesses ef
the jungle.
A refreshing way to say
"Merry f,
And it's just as refreshing on
any one of 365 otliev occasions.
Keep a few bottles on ice ac
home.
Every bottle sterilized.
Over 7 million a day
IT HAD TO BE GOOD
TO GET WHERE T "5
COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.
Booa?, N. C.
iRY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C.
. Now
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Terrible was the wrath of Mumbo
i) behuld, as he rose in his might
nd demanded, "Pvo, did*st see the
?ft ? '
"Of course. Dad !" she answered.
\\ nere, inen, II I
"In Rudolf's languid glance, Dad."
"J call the gods to witness that I
avc ;i e.razy loon for a daughter!
s hat manner ;>f gift couldst thou
ave seen in this man's eyes?"
"Well, Dad," said Pyorrhea in her
ulcet tones that were likened to the*
illing of doves. "It's really hard to
xpl&in to somebody else. But the
econd 1 looked into his eyes I re-J
Kzcd that Rudolf has?It!"
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This is a story of the Wild and j
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iff of Tin Spoiit. who dispersed on'
rngry mob with a few well-chosen |
words:
"Yes," said the sheriff, relating I
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down ail right. When the boys,
swarmed round the gaol I stepped i
out with a couple of guns in my,
hands an' spoke sorter soothin1 to
'em."
"What did you say?"
"J just reminded 'em that my
brother was lunnin1 the only undertaker's
in the town, an: everybody
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Don (with a tender look): "Pe.rhap
somebody noticed that it, hugged
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I': "Biffer bus worked himself up.
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S: "How do you mean?"
P: "He used to be n ehirepcourt,
now he's a dentist,"
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