VOL, LI
SIZE NOT MEASURE
OF BRAIN CAPACITY
Evidently Quality l» the
Only Thing That Counts.
Homo Sapiens (1925 model) prob
ably will not worry a great deal over
.the recently expressed opinion of Sir
Arthur Keltlx the great English
archeologist, says the St. Paul Pioneer
Press. Sir Arthur, who has just fin
ished an examination of the prehis
toric skull unearthed In South Africa,
concludes that the tendency of man
is backward in the direction of the
animals whence he sprang. Man's
brain capacity is diminishing. We are
nt>t threatened with super-intellectual
ity, but the reverse.
Now, there Is nothing new about
this melancholy situation. Man's brain
cavity Is smaller than it used to be.
According to the archeologlsts, it
reached Its greatest size in Pleisto
cene times. Some of the Neanderthal
and Cro-Magnon people had brain
cavities as large as 1,880 cubic centi
meters. Pithecanthropus erectus, the
Tflnll man, had a brain cavity of
1,000 ccm. This was the smallest, ac
cording to the scientists, of the pre
historic brain cavities. The Plltdown
race had brains as large as the mod
ern man—1,500 ccm. Since Upper
Paleolithic times the brain cavity has
diminished from upwards of 1,800
ccm. to 1,500 ccm.
Yet, despite these large brains, the
Pleistocene races were monumental
dumbbells, Intellectually speaking.
Thousands of years were required be
fore they learned to pick up a stone
and throw It at something. Other
thousands passed before they found
out how to chip pieces off the stone
and give it a cutting edge. Still other
thousands elapsed before they learned
how to fasten this sharp stone to a
stick and make an ax. The old Stone
age lasted for hundreds of thousands
of years, yet Its people, all of whom
had lafger brains than the "best
minds" In the the ordinary Presiden
tial cabinet, were able to master only
a few rudimentary things. •
If therefore,' modern man has a
smaller brain than his progenitors, ob
viously something is to be v said for
its quality. He learns much mope
quickly. Within the memory of those
now living he has accomplished things
far beyond the comprehension of the
big-brained people. He can outfly the
birds; outswlm the fishes; send his
voice aArand the world without wires;
harness the llghtnlpg, and Imprison
sound in a box. Size clearly Isn't
everything. ,
Ex-King Freed From Exile
Ex-King Prempeh, of Ashantl, and
sometime ruler, has been released from
bondage In the Seychelles In the Indian
ocean, to his old home In Ashantl. after
28 years' detention. The ex-monarch
is a convert to the Anglican church
and speaks excellent English. He has
the most courteous manners. Nobotty
now talking with him would dream
that he was once the terror of Aahantl
land. After the overthrow of King
Prempeh In the Ashantl revolution of
1880 (when he was exiled), several of
his chiefs hid the famous golden stool,
the symbol of sovereignty correspond
ing to the throne. British attempt's to
And It led to the rebellion of 1900 and
the selge of Coomassle. The stool was
eventually found In 1921 by laborers
doing excavation work for a new road
70 miles north of Coorassslew Ashantl
rulers wear golden headdress and, on
Important ceremonial occasions, carry
huge red and yellow umbrellas.
Hie Ignorance
"A feller driving along In an old
Hootln* Nanny car last night with Its
lights out, ran onto a mule that was
laying In the road In front of Hoot
Holler's house." related Gap Johnson
of Rumpus Ridge. "The durn mure
started to get up Just as the car ran
onto him and knocked him over. The
driver of the car a hoot of his
horn and a -yell from himself, and the
mule laying.on his back began to kick
and squeal.
"'Say, what'n'ell are you trying to
do with my mule?* yelled lta owner,
running out of his house.
- «You better ask him what he'a try
ing to do to me and my car !* the feller
hollered right back.
"And as I'd seed and heered this
much and hadn't no desire to mix In a
light, being as I was all down in the
. back, I Just went on and never did And
out the rest of it." "■—Kansas City Star.
Unconvinced
Owner at Property (sternly)—Do
yoa eee that notice, "Trespassers will
be prosecuted?" /
Hobo (calmly)—No, I don't see It, for
I can't read.
Owner—Well, you know what it 4a
now. ae take yourself off.
Hobo—Hexeaae me, mister, bat I
don't know what It la.. I've ooty got a
bare word for It an' ytw're a jwffcck
to me. For all I know the
notice may be: Kilk and Heggs Sold
'awtf* or "One* and Kerriges to Rent,"
of "Welkins, Weary Wanderer."— Bo*
ton Transcript
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
Antecedentt of Modern
Writing Paper Told
Vhe credit of making the first sheet
of paper Is due, according to the Amer
ican Forestry association, to a schol
arly eunuch named T'sal-lun of China,
In the year 75 A. D. For this achieve
ment he was 40 years later raised to
the rank of marquis.
It appears that T'sal-lun, believing
that old bamboo tablets and stylus had
outlived their usefulness, set for him
self the task of making new writing
materials. After 30 years he pro
duced the first hand sheet of paper,
and It was made from the bark of a
mulberry tree.
Prior to T'sai-lun's day leaves of
trees and various barks used in crude
| form had served the Egyptians,' Ro
| mans and other nations as paper.
T'sal-lun, however, did not use the
crude Inner bark of the tree as the
final material on which to make his
records. He did use the bark, but
merely as a raw material from which
he produced a finished sheet of pa
per by a series of processes which, crude
as they may seem now, wert the fore
runners of paper manufacture today.
Heine, Like Others, Felt ,
* Charm of Don Quixote
Heine, a later magician in laughter
and tears, has narrated his own al
ternating attitudes toward Don Quix
ote. It was the first book he read
after he had really learned to read;
and he took the tale, he has told us,
with the unshaken faith and serious
ness of childhood ... he wept,
bitter tears over the ridicule and re
buffs of the noble-hearted knight. He
re-read the book every five years or
to with ever-varying feelings. As a
youth he was, he confesses, bored by
it. Later he saw in It only the comic
side, and laughed at the follies of the
mad knlgbterrant * Older yet again
and wiser he made friends for life
with Quixote and Sancho. Afterward
he had but to glance over his shoul
der to perceive attending him the
phantom forms of the thin knight and
the fat squire—more particularly, he
adds, when he himself hung lrrspolute
«t some parting of the ways. What
Heine felt by turns, the world has felt
by classes.—Times Uterary Supple
ment.
Miracles of St. Leonard
If there were such a personage, St
Leonard would certainly have been the
patron saint of prisoners. He was
originally a French nobleman at the
court of Clovls I, and became a monk
and founded a monastery which, after
his death, about 599, was known as St.
Leonard le Noblat. fie was famed for
his charity toward prisoners, and Is re
puted to have worked many miracles
on their behalf. These miracles In re
leasing unhappy captives continued
after his death, according to tradi
tion, which was very convenient, aS
his festival happened to be the first
day of the Michaelmas term, when
writs were made returnable. —Family
Herald.
Early Adding Machines
That the ancient Inca civilisation In
Peru possessed an adding and calcu
lating machine has been revealed In
the recent discovery by excavators of
a knotted cord, or "qulpl," In the
ruins of a prehistoric tomb. The cord
is sixteen yards long and contains 100
knots.. Divided Into ten unequal sec
tions these knots represent the odd
numbers fr«frn one to .nineteen. The
sections are of different colors, Includ
ing red, brown, yellow, blue and
green, and are separated by silver
beads, which represent. the even num
bers from two to; twenty. By using
this simple way o counting, based
on the decimal system, rapid calcula
tions can be made. —Montreal Star.
Marrusge Ethics in East
"Proudly the first wife stands oil
the river bank while at her feet the
•second washes all the plates
snd all the dishes. She Is training
the young second wife, whom she had
herself advised her husband to take,
to wash the dishes and plates. She
was tired of being the only wife of
her husband, who was earning quite
enough to take a second young wife.
Her Jealously Is dead. She herself
found the girl, and ber husband was
quite pleased with this charming little
second wife, and the first wife has a
maid at lsst Never sgaln will she
wash dishes and plates In the river." —
Eastward.
First Recorded Divorce
A German magazine suggests that
Thebes may have been the Beno of an
cient Egypt According to this paper,
a papyrus document found In a tomb
excavated on the site of that city con
tains the first divorce decree In re
corded history which is thoroughly au
thenticated. The document is prob
ably two thousand years old. It bears
the signature of a notary named Thut
On the reverse side of the papyrus are
the signatures of four witnesses. The
grounds for the divorce are not stated.
—Pathfinder Magazine.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 5, 1925
Lightning and Radio
Lightning is one of the causes of tha
"static" that worries radios llsteners
ln, though probably not the principal
cause, aa was formerly supposed, says
Nature Magazine. While lightning
flashes cause clicking noises In the re
ceiver, the heavier and more trouble
some rumbling sounds known as
"grinders" are believed to be due to
electrical disturbances in the upper
atmosphere far above the level of the
thunderstorm.
Eyeglcuses in Profusion
The late Giacomo Puccini was for
ever looking for his eyeglasses. His
wife, that he might give free rein to
his genius, therefore Invested In a
supply, in his study alone there were
not less than five sets of glnsses, one
on the piano, another on his desk, a
third on a little table near the fire
place, a fourth on his bookcase, and
a fifth on a music rack.
Queer Siamese Delicacy
A missionary returned from Slam
tells of a queer food the natives are
very fond of. Bee-bread, made from
wild bees with the larvae In It, Is brok
en up and cooked until It is a pulpy
mass. "It is really quite delicious,"
says the missionary, "with a sweetish
nut flavor. I| one didn't happen to
know the- Ingredients he would prob
ably take a second helping."
Immense Statue
J. W. McSpadden In his book on
American sculptors says that to carve'
such a huge figure as the statue of
Lincoln in the Lincoln memorial from
a single block would 'be impossible.
Twenty-eight blocks of Georgia mar
ble, perfect and without fissures or
seams, were used In creating this
statue. The total mass measured over
4,000 cubic feet. The statue weighs
270 tons.
Times Have Changed
In the good old days, when a wagon
broke down In the road we used to
gather around It and put In several
hours apiece Inquiring how the contre
temps occurred, sympathizing with the
owner of the vehicle, and recalling and
describing In the most minute detail
sundry Incidents of similar character
which had transpired In the past. But
nowadays when a motorcar blows out
k tire we go right on.—Eh-yah I
Kansas City Star.
History of Lace
Lace was first made in the Sixteenth
century. Before that time the term
lace described such articles as cords,
narrow braids of plaited and twisted
threads, used not only to fasten shoes,
sleeves anil corsets together, but also
in a -decorative manner to braid the
hair and to wind around hats. Later
it was used as a trimming for cos
tumes.
National Revenue
The principle sources of revenue of
the United States are from excise du
ties on Imports and exports, taxes
upon liquors, tobacco, certain luxuries,
such as theater admissions, and In
come tax, which is at present by far
the greatest source of. revenue. No
part of the taxes raised by the states
la turned over to the federul govern
ment.
*
Less Error Next Time
Astronomy has never fallen down
yet on any prediction. This does not
mean that we pretend to know It all.
not by any means. Astronomy Is ad
vancing at every step. Every obser
vation that Is made helps It along,
makes It a little more accurate and
enables us to predict with Increased
precision.
. The Brute. Again
"This poet has written some beauti
ful lines to The Silent Night,'" re
marked Mrs. Grouch, looking up from
a book of poems she was reading.
"Suppose he wrote tbein after his
wife had gone home to visit her
folks for a while," growled ber hus
band.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Guineas
'ln the days of the merchant adven
turers the coins minted from the gold
brought from territories clustering
around the Gulf of Guinea were styled
"guineas," and they thus became as
famous throughout the world as the
Gold coast Itself.—Theodore Uuete la
the Empire Review, London
Hate and Love
When I bate, I take something
from myself. Wbrj I love, I become
richer by what I love. To pardon is
to recover a property thst hss been
lost' Misanthropy Is a protracted
suicide. Egotism Is the supremest
poverty of a created being.—Schiller.
Long-lived Patriots
Five signern of the Declaration aC
Independence lived to be over 90 years
old. They were Charles Carroll, Mary
land; William Ellery, Rhode Island;
Francis Lewis, New York; James
Smith, Pennsylvania, snd John Adam*
Massachusetts.
READ AND SMILE
Conversation Safety
"So she married a lawyer?"
"Yes. She suld they would always
have somebody's divorce to talk
1 about" '
Question of Honor
Caller—"Are you sure Mrs. Snip la
not In?" Maid —"Do you doubt her
word, tna'am ?"—Judge.
Great Mystery Solved
"Pa, what does Santa Claus do be
tween Chrlstmuses?"
"Hides from his creditors, my son."
He Ought to Know
Fan—What are some of the hobbles
of a motion-picture actress?
Press Agent—Hubbies.
Something to Show for It
May—"She spends a lot on evening
gowns." Jack—"But she has some
thing to show for it."
Natural Attraction
"Why do all the old tuuids go to
church?" "Because of the hymns, 1
presume." f
His Secret
First Waiter—"Did you ever get a
tip that satisfied you?" Second Ditto
—"Yes, but the donor never knew it"
Had to Leave It
"I hear Bill died and left a fortune."
"Yes, a policeman shot him as ha
climbed out of a bank window."
Had the Advantage
"Helen won In our golf match."
'The best player, is she?"
"No, the poorest adder."
The Only Exception
Benton —Slielton never repeats tha
cute things hlB baby says.
Newton —No; he hasn't any baby.
Sermons in Stones
"There are sermons In stones."
"I know. My farm is a lpO-acm
yact"—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Out and Out
Itub—The wife and I bad It out t»-
day.
j Dub—How out?
| "Loud I"
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Right of Trial by Jury
Trial by Jury was Introduced Into
England during the Saxon heptarchy,
mention being made of six Welsh and
! six Anglo-Saxon freemen appointed to
try causes between Welsh and English
i men of property, and made responsible
I to the extent of their whole estates
I for false verdicts. In Magna Charta
i Juries are Insisted Upon as the great
' bulwark' of the people's liberty. The
! right of challenging men called as
| Jurors has always been possessed by
tha accused by virtue of common law.
That Proofreader, Againt
"What do you mean by Implying
I that I have dishonestly covered myself
> with the people's tioney?" demanded
! the city treasurer, as he rushed Into tha
: office of the local paper.
"What's the trouble?" casually
' queried tbe cltV editor.
"Here U Is," Indignantly continued
i the public official, pointing to • news
, Item.
The Item began: "Wllllaa Blnns,
who Is encrusted with the public
j funds. . . ."—Everybody's Mazazina.
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Professionalism
The seance was proving a great
success. The new nfl?mber of the cir
| cle, an Oldham pigeon fancier, had
j been brought Into touch with the late
ly departed father-in-law, who had
: Just announced he waa an angel,
i "Wi' wings sn' all?" asked tha son-
I In-law.
The reply was in tha affirmative
"What dostl measure fra' tip to
tip?" asked the pigeon fancier.—Van
i couver Province.,
Hard on the Ball
Sbe—Wasn't mother pumping yoc
I last nlfht?
He—Yes, and I think she'd better
too. That's what 1 need.
. 'She—What do you mean?
j' He—Your dad has been u.isg w
j for a football,
i* ' >
Loses His Tithe on Races
An English churchman recently
promised to give his week's winnings
on horse racing to the church's lighting
fund. bu» announced latef that he could
r pot carry out his plan i>ecause he had
i lost on every race.
Method Unchanged
Ancient Egyptian noblemen speared
fish In much the same manner as do
Americans today. The spear handle
was tied to the wrist and the weapoa
was thrown at tbe fish.
Humble Frog Friend and
Benefactor of Mankind
Among creatures moat useful to
mankind the polllwog must take his
place with the cow, the horae and the
dog, writes the World's Work.
More books have been written about
the frog than about Shakespeare or
Lincoln or Napoleon, or as Dr. Samuel
Holmes put It In his book, "The Bi
ology of the Frog":
"Perhaps no animal, except man,
has been subject to ao many scientific J
Investigations. ... In fact, moat of I
what Is known In certain departments
of physiology Is derived from atudy of
thla animal."
"Startling, but true, that this Insig
nificant creature Bhould have con
tributed so much to medical aclence, j
when mention of the frog usually
raises the obvious queries on the edi
bility of Its legs or why It makes so |
much noise when men crave sleep. In
literature the frog Is no hero and Is al
ways represented as being 'unneces
sarily raucous, except by Aristophanes,
who, In "The Frogs," makes Charon
remark to Bacchus aa they atart their
river Journey: "Thou'll hear sweet
mualc presently of frogs with voices
wonderful as swans." But see what
company Charon had!
To the scientist the voice of the
frog la Just as sweet as It was to
Charon, even when Bacchus Is not
present. Without the frog, the polll
wog and otfeer marine animals, the
study of the endocrine glands would
be much more difficult, and the sud
den and widespread extermination of
the frog would retard the solution of
many of the proldema confronting
medical science. In tlie study of can
cer and some other diseases the mouse :
Is favorite; the guinea pig also is s
good servant of science. Bgt the frog
Is leader.
Fish That Sing and Hoot
The Ifland of Ceylon produces an
anomaly In a shellfish of tlie mussel j
type which sings. While It does not
warble like a bird or an opera singer,
It produces « long, low, fluty sound,
which has a musical quality. Seeing
that these blvslves do not possess a
throat in any accepted sense of the
word, and certainly no vocal cords,
this singing sound must be produced by
some manipulation of their double
shell. It Is possible that Increasing
It produces a long, l«w, flutey sound,
only' occurs after the tide has been .
down for a considerable time, leaving
the blvales high snd dry on the rocky
beach. There Is a fish which hoots, 1
too. The Scotch fisherman calls this
fish the buttarman snd. when caught
by line or net. It makes a noise from
the back of Its throat when landed.
*Eels also mske a noise when the
hook Is being removed from their
gills. The common and very ugly
gunard of onr coadt grunts loudly
when hsuled to the surfsce, a strange
croaking noise more like the caw of a
crow than the sound a fish seems like-,
ly to produce.
1
Wireless Typewriting
Typewriting by wireless , has been
successfully demonstrated 4n Berlin.
At one end of the hall was a sending
set, consisting of a typewriter, which
operates a wireless transmitter which
transmits the messages In two frequen
cies for each letter sent or key of the
typewriter pressed. At the other end
of the hsll wss a receiving set, con
sisting of n special form of wireless re
ceiver which wss connected to the
typewriter tape machine. For each of
the two frequencies received a selector,
tuned to these two frequencies, operates
the same letter In the tspe machine
as the kgy did In tlfo typewriting ma
chine at the sending station. Mes
sages were transmitted successfully,
and messages hsve been transmitted
several miles by the same apparatus.
"There Is no reason," said the demon
strator. "why the transmission should
not be mads over any distance. Ir only
requires s more powerful apparatus."
Meteoric Showers
The naval observatory says thera
was n remarkable meteoric slKAver. ter
rifying to the Ignorant and possibly the
most brilliant on record, beginning
about midnight November 12-13. 1833,
and Isstlng until daybreak, visible in
North and South America, maximum
brilliancy In latitude 22 degrees north.
The most hrllllsnt display of the pre
ceding century was In 1709. one day
earlier, visible In the same part of
the earth at tlie same time of the
night. The earth encounters this
stream of meteors In November of
every, year; bat they are more num
erous at Intervals of 33 or 34 years.
Familiar Happening
Mary had been brought up. so to
speak. In the front sent of her father's
motor car. At fen she took her first
train Journey. When they msde the
first stop she looked surprised.
Leaning out of the window, site In
quired anxiously of the conductor, who :
hsd Ju«t swung himself off the steps;
"What's the maher? Killed yczr en
gtaeT'—Vancouver Province.
From the Camp
Harvey Firestone was describing ta
a Plymouth reporter his camping ex
periences with Thomas A. Edison and
Henry Ford.
"Henry," snld Mr. Firestone, "loves
camping, all except the sleeping part.
He's a light, nervous sleeper, you
know, and his fellow rnmpers' snoring
always bothers him.
"Usually he puts up with It—for
he's n long-suffering geezer—but I'll
never forget one night, alyout 2 a. m.,
when lie roused the whole outfit of us.
" 'Here, wake up! Wake up, you
fellows!' he said in a despairing kind
of*voice. 'We're all going to go to
sleep together.'"
Life Budgets Proposed
Several colleges, looking to modern
needs In tlie curriculum, have Included
In their new courses one for "life bud
geting" which means not only training
on how to budget and spend financial
Income, but nlso on budgeting time, In
cluding leisure, work, reading and oth
er pursuits. This Is felt necessary
partly because' organizeil labor is get
ting a gradual reduction In working
hours, leaving more and more leisure,
a great deal of Which, It Is said, Is now
wasted In a way that does As much
physiciTl harm as the surcease from
too much work does good.
Her Impression
A woman from the country was tak
ing her five-year-old girl on her first
visit to the zoo. The child had never
been In the city before, nor ridden in
a motorbVis, and she looked around In
amazement, which was deepened when
her attention was called to a group of
giggling flappers, who were boastfully
exchanging reminiscences as to "He
seal to me," etc. Suddenly the child
turned to her mother and asked In u
penetrating voice, "Say, mumsle, is this
the zoo?"
Village of "Torchys"
A village near Swansea, in south
Wales, lays claim to the world cham
pionship as a red-haired community.
The auburn predominance has re
mained unshanged for centuries. Defi
nite types persist In many villages In
south Wales; because they are con
servative In their marriage relations,
rarely going outside their own "clan"
to find a partner, according to a local
medlcaf officer.
Long Time in Asylum
There Is In a lunatic asylum near
Pnrfs a woman lftS yenrs of age, who
has probably beaten all world records
for a long sojourn In an asylum for
the Insane. The woman became in
sane when she was eighteen and has
been ■confined In the asylum for the
last DO years.
Opium Common in India
It Is said by a writer defending the
work of Gandhi In Indlu that the aver
age Income of the people of India Is
about 5 cento a day. and that opium
Is also said to be used almost as a
household remedy among the |>oor for
every'ailment In Infancy and child
hood. There are about 2U0.000,U00
people In India engaged is agricultural
pursuits.
Regicide Fought Indians
William Goffe, one of the Judges who
condemned King Charles I to death,
came to New Kngland after the restora
tion of the monarchy In Kngland, and
took part In the Indian warfare In
western Massachusetts.
Old Roman Idea
Every Itoman household was sup
posed to be under the protection of
one lare and several pennies. Their
symbols were kept In a special part of
the house called the "larariurn."
Where London It Dry
London Is far from being Ory •on
top of the ground, but there ure large
chalk strata areas underneath it
where no amount of" digging will find
wafer.
Highest of All Ideals
The Human Ideal will be the de
sire to transform life Into something
better and grander than Itself.—
Charles Wagner.
Saw Economy
Circular saws In common use pot
08,(160,000 cubic feet more In the na
tion's sawdust pile than handsaws
would put there If they were used.
"Presence" Means Much
A graceful presence ac
ceptance, gives a force to language,
and helps to convince by look and
posture. ,
Well Expressed
My definition of a proverb Is, the wit
si one man and the wisdom of many.
—Earl Russell.
Women of Influence '•
The two most influential ladies are
the one on the dollar and Mrs.
Grundy.— San- Francisco Chronicle. I
NO. 5
Method of "Starting
at Bottom" Given Up
For maq£ generations the only way
one could learn to be a business man
was through apprenticeship.
called it "startlng'at the bottom." Most
of us were reared with a conception
of a business career derived from the
Alger books—"from train boy to, pres
ident," writes Richard J. Walsh in
Century Magazine.
That ttiijß idea still persists is ap
parent when we look at the stories of
success In some of the popular maga
zines. Bteadlly, however, formal meth
ods of education have gained ground,
replacing the apprenticeship or "watch
me, my boy," system.
f Commercial education first appeared "
in our public schools iil>r>ut 1805. It
grew naturally oyt of the multiplica
tion of industrial occupations. At
least one-fourth of the jobs today are
utterly unlike any that our grandpa*-
ents had to do, and many of them
such that the boss could not teach
them, because he narer mastered them
himself. P. V. Thompson says:
"Commercial education was perhaps
the first subject to be adopted by the
high school as a concession to the pub
lic desire that the school should fur
nlsh preparation for vocations."
By 1915 we were spending more for
the commercial course than for any
other In our city high schools, and at
least one-third of all pupils In the
hlch schools of large cities were en
rolling In commercial courses, while
business training for adults was being
ofTered in evening and continuation
dunes.
Early Gatherings of
Baptists in Alabama
Lorenzo Dow, iybo Is said to have
readied the distant frontier settle
ments of Alabama along the Tombig
bee us early as 175*3, at the age of *
twenty-seven, preached as a son of
thunder, says a stuff correspondent
of the Birmingham News, lie was a
Baptist. The first trace which the
writer finds of the presence of the
Baptists in Alabama is around Hunts
vllie, but shortly after they found a
footing in the southwestern part at
the territory In the neighborhood of
St. Stephens, the first captlal of Ala
bama.
Itev. John Xltholson bad the honor
of organizing the first Baptist chnrdi
in the'state. It is said that In the
fall of IS3I a number of families met
and spread their tents near Elytoa
and held the first campmeeting ever
held In Alabama. There were unnsaal
demonstrations among those who he
rn tin- interested in the matter of re
ligion. One who witnessed these pec#
liar manifestations thus described
them: "It was not onusnal to have a
large part of the congregation pros
trated upon the ground, and tn some
instances they appeared to have lost
the use of their limbs. Xo distinct
articulation could be beard; scream*
cries, groans, shouts, notes of grief
and notes of joy. ali heard at the
same time, made much confusion, n
sort of indescribable concert."
Source of Quinine
Chlnchona, or cinchona, is the name
of the South American tree, the bark
of which produces the well-known drag
called quinine. The virtues of the
bark were discovered about 1535, and
in 163S a decoction made ot the bark
cured of fever the wife of/he vice
roy of Pern whose. name waa Cin
chona. The bark was introduced into
Francs In I(UU. and Is said to have |
cured of fever the dauphin, who later j
became King L"uls XIV. The bark i i
came kito general use in 1080. and Sir
I Inns Sloan Introduced It Into Eng
land about the year 1700. The chln
chona tree has been planted in India
and Ceylon and thrive* there. I
First Pafenf
The first inventor to take advantage
of the first national patent act, which
congress passed in 1790, was Samuel
Hopkins of Vera ont. His patent was
for nn Improved method of "maklag
pot and pearl astiu's." In those days
the potash industry WHS important. 1
i'otash. k whirh was ured In making
soap and glass. was produced by,
lenching wood ashes and boiling down
the lye. To make u ton of potash,'
which was worth about $25, the trees
on an acre of ground bad to be cut
down and burned, the ashes leadied
and the lye evaporated in grent iron
kettles.—Youth's Companion. * . .
Koran Inspired Work?
The Kornn or Alcoran, the sacred
book of the Mohammedans, was writ
ten about 010 by Mahomet, who as
nerted that It had been revealed to
him by the Angel Gabriel in 28 years.
It was published by Abu-btkr about
135. The leading articles of faith
preached Is compounded of an eternal
truth and a necessary fiction, namely,
that there Is only one God, and that
Mahomet is the prophet or apostle of
God. The Koran WHS translated into
English by Sale in 1734. It was ai
rhapsody of 0,000 verses, divided Into!
114 Eeftlons. "