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SCIENCE naps
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Dr. R. A.- Mill?lean Describes
, JNew Discovery to Na
tional Academy;
*tsdlson 't". Hf« nrceM In too
latlng a ray with energy greater than
fegW* tsy- other known and with a frequency
, j . a thousand times hleher than the fre'
It qilency of f*e n't"« \ rnv related
by Prof R A M'lllkan.of the Cal : f«>r
nia .Tn"tl»ntn of "V>chnotogv at the
w meeting of the haiiouul Acudemy of
Sciences here.
Professor MlUlkan told of the work
th«t has been done In the study of the
nsw,ray with first experiments made
by sending nr balloons containing elec
troseopes wM-h showed that thr» lon*
ihc"oi.j;od v'vh ePUvd'o T'. r
stud'es of rh' i naMirt- "Hre id t ■ r
German profe sors hpforp th» wnr and
since then tfesn.-r Milliknn har
Sent up small bal'oorw with ln=tru
ments from Kel!y aviation fle'd wh'ch
In general bore out the flnd'igs of t>»»
German scientists,
t Gets Results at Ten Miiss.
Professor Milllkan noted tf»e la?
crease In tb# pumber of loos, with alt!
, w ttufc; qne ~of hU marhlne*
tpaTlpf ascended to. 4 height, qf ten
miles.
... .la order to sift qut the Influence of
substances, tests were
A>4 . tyiqt tlyfc,,liquid was radioactive nnd
anpw ,vater-fed Lake Mn'r Mount
Whitney was next taken as the «cepe
of experiments • Here It was fonrd
that through lowering the ln^tru , n»n"
to dfPths the hard rays Could
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r wjra. ialer. trled *t. Arrowhead lake.
800 mllps (
'w Mftjfr-wlth approximately the same
m*at • ' • v •-
f *4>%«uM"Waao;,|» Ukw at hl*h altl
pp«i*sdrr Ifte'esaor Milllkan to
«t that brought absorption otherthan
radioactive mrtmtancea.
«M flon Haa No Effect,
v Professor MOilkan found that there
m>»QfmthI ag eomln % in, from the oat
rtdi action ®f all.radloac
father
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times of the Jajr and that the cut); had
a*«ff«(t pn. the lonization of the COM-.
KAA
«Jciiiya.
. the 10.000 OOfK-vol (
.fyfifeatqr . Milllkan» decided
_ colluded . that thpy are due to
v, oyer to other atoms.
onergy of the ray la ,that of
- captured by a heavy
i%H"S*Tted. -The rjiys are
„ aty,, thryagif jtpfcee, bombarding the
earth, ftpm all directions. They are
f|p of extraordinary absorbing power
-and-come to the earth with equal In
, ?J«Mlty day and night"
-. >1 1 Milllkan did not discus*
■fMHM' ;»WP*« the rays mlsht
, .|frvs. It him befQ suggested that tbl«
, cosmic ray la a counter force to gravl
tatlon. perhaps responsible for the in
».J4iMiMßtlTity of planetary bodies and
that Us,lnfluence In the nnlrorse pre
to prevent the force.of gravln
thw bringing all celestial biHiien Into
one maaa.
Qrimf in Animal*
A man or woman who- loses tome
dear ene la overcome with deep sor
row, remembering only the bdmirabto
. qnailtlea of the lost one, bat this feel
log is soon softened by a multitude of
external Impressions and influences,
so that sorrow gives way to melan
choly, which In Its turn diminishes.
~ Not so In the case of many aiflmaia.
Xheso not only retain their grief much
longer, but there are cases in which
ft lasts as long aa life Itaelf.
The eat Will swim after her kitten*
, which-, aome' cruel man is trying to
~ drown. The story of the:' doc who
starves to death on the grays of his
master la no labia A stone In the
•', , Paris, dog* cemetery Is thus Inscribed:
- "He was ao intelligent that be might
- have been taken for a human beta#-'
- bqt that he waa faithful"—Das NOBS
UUftela Magazin. Berlin.
Lighting Scheme
/ Speaking of modern convsnlencos
and Innovations, somebody- who helped
design the new infants' wasd-at .the
Children's hospital, 8t Antolns and
Farnsworth streets, used.bis.or her
, Imagination. About knee Mgti shore
, the floor are ncessse or sllts,j4 the
Walls fitted with lights. When a nurse
eaters daring the night to tuck die
ha Was in. she doesn't have to tun on
the svrhssd lights sad ran the
ctyunee ef. waking the day patients
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SHE ALAMANCE (JEEANER.
Sp 'nianl Gets Credit
for the Frankfurter
What is a hot dogT, Well, It Is most
bull ; bull meat mixed with pork,
iiiy spiced, steam -cooked and
moked over hickory smoke. It orig
inated In Bologna, Spain, so long ago
at only the main facts may be re
'l«d. They used to slaughter an
u> mous number of bnllf in the arenas
i' Spain In days when bullfighting was
ore popular and more brutal than It
' iy." *
/ looked like a great economic crime
■r> see so much prise beef wasted. But
>)body wanted bull beef Just so; bulls
f tough and not so delicious as cows
' - iueers are. A butcher In Bologna
id an Idea and bought bulls that
. ore killed In the bull ring and made
the meat into a sausage, mixed with
pork and highly seasoned. Bologna
sausage appealed to the popular taste.
• ; Germans borrowed the formula, put
the sajpe- sausage mixture into small
casings and Bologna became "Frank
furter" In Frankfort and "Weenie" In
Vk.'na. Coney Island gave it the name
of hot dog and popularized it.
One stand In Coney Island that has
been selling hot dogs for half a cen
tury Is reputed to have a sale of five to
ten tons of Frankfurters a day in the
busy season. Somebody has to sell
a lot of 'em to get rid of that 400,-
000,000 pounds a year.—Colliers' Maga
zine.
Confidence in Self
Man's Biggest Asset
Life Is an Island, entirely surrounded
by risks, losses, troubles, hardships and
misadventures of all sorts.
Most men go to pieces when they
have had a few beatings. They wilt.
They fade away. They crawl Into a
safe little corner and hide, whjle the
great rough tide of glorious life rushes
past them.
The fact is that defeat.ls the normal
thing In this haphazard little world,
and victory comes bat seldom. Every
victory, usually, la the result of a long
series of defeata.
A man must bave faith in himself
and In what he Is trying to do, He
must aay: "I can." He most back
, himself to win. He must bet ea him
| self. He must have faith In the peo
ple he worka with. He must bell ere
la his team. He muat see the better
plde of hia co-workers and not think
that hia. own point of view Is the only
right one.
| He moat have faith la those great
principles that make us superior to the
animals of the forest—to Troth, Hon
esty, Sympathy, Justice, Progress.—
Forbes Magazine.
i • "
Duchess of Fontanges
Marie Angellquo, duchess of Foa
tangea, waa the successor to Mme.
| Montespan in the favor of Louis XIV.
I "She was beautlfifl aa an angel, but
silly aa a goose," apld Abbe Gholai of
her. She, nevertheless, captivated the
; affections of Louis XIV, who was tired
of Mme. de Montespan.
As aeon as she hsd discovered the
passion she had inspired in the king,
she became haughty and extravagant,
spending at times aa much as 100,000
crowns s month. She became the gen
eral dispenser of the king's favors and
the model of fashion. She was made
a duchess by the king, but did not long
enjoy the rank, since sha died at the
j age of twenty, in the abbey of Port
! Royal, at Paris.—Chicago JpurnaL
Only One Wood for Spools
In almost the entire world, with its
great variety of wood to select from,
there Is only one kind that Is ased for
spools—the ordinary spools an which
' sewing thresd is wound,.writos Oharlss
N.- Lurie in St Nicholas. By far the
'greatest part of the world'a spools are
turned from the" wood of the white
birch tree. It grows in many sections
of the United States, but especially
well In Maine. Virtually the whole
world'a supply comes from the great
north woods. Some of the spools are
made in Maine; but a very large part
of the wood la shipped elsewhere for
spool-making, after being seasoned
where It grows.
Where Cod is
Kddle, ago fdur. Is a veritable Ques
tion mark.
After attending Sunday schoo) he
was at home, seated on the floor (lay- j
bag with his sister, Virginia.
He looked op suddenly and aaked:
"Mamma, where is GodT"
' 1 "God Is everywhere," I answered.
Kddle held eat his : hand about
twelve Inches above the floor.
"Is God here, msmmaT" he ques
tioned.
I replied In the affirmative.
Then again from Eddie, still balding
out his band, **ooolo here, Virginia,
and put year band ea CM."
I" -IH ■» II ■"
- These, De*r Qhh
'Madge—Beauty is bat skla Msg.
j you know j
I Mario—Thea doat flsspafr, dear,
I yours may ooase to the surface to.
I esurso e tlma. |
GRAHAM, N. CV THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1926
Residents of English
Town "Cultivate" Cat»
The old nursery rhyme about the
•ats of St Ives it) based on a solid
oundatlon, for St. Ives, England, 14
be cat kingdom, as Is evident to any
visitor. Cats, are encouraged to the
limit. By an old resident It Is thus
explained: ' h
"This Is a very old town—soo years
some of the houses, leastways their
cellars, and parts of the foundation
are. Now, we keep our fishing gear
in the cellars, and there Is a terrible
lot of rats and mice about In an old
place like this. Well, the rats, and
the mice, too, would eat the nets;
they'd eat us out of house- and home
if it were not to the cats.
"A eharactertistlc of the cats of St.
Ives is that they do a little fishing
for themselves. These sleek, well-fed
and exceptionally friendly anitnals de
light in a romp over the sand and in
dodging the waves. Afterward they
will watch for hours by some shal
low pool for some unsuspecting fish
or small crab which ventures from its
retreat from a bunch of seaweed or a
rock."—Chicago Journal. »
Common Word "Fiasco"
Borrowed From Italy
The word "fiasco" lias become cur
rent coin in English speech, though It
Is doubtful if many who use it know
that it is an Italian word meaning
tie. Several accounts have been given
of why an immediate failure is called
a bottle. A correspondent of "Notes
and Queries" wrote In ISC3: "Some
years since, Slgnor V. Plstrucci, profes
sor of Italian at King's college, gave
me the following derivation. A gentle
man visiting an Italian glass manufac
tory was struck with the apparent sim
plicity Of the work, so he asked per
mission to try his hand at glass
blowing, but found the operation more
(dLfiicult than it looked and the only
thing he was able to product was the
common flask (fiasco). The nnius' d
workmen crowded around him, and
greeted each successive failure with
laughter and the cry of 'Altro fiasco I
altro fiasco I*" (Another fiasco.) —Ex-
change.
"According to Hoyle"
The expression "according to Hoyle'*
refers to Edmond Hoyle, a writer on
games, who waa born In England In
1072. Little Is known about Hoyle's
life. Tradition says he was educated
for the bar. At any rate, he went to
London, where he spent much of his
time writing on games and giving les
sons in card playing, especially whljt.
He published a book in which be syste
matized the laws and rules of whist, a
game on wblcb he was considered an
authority. His name became prover
bial as an authority on gam.es.
Playing a game "according to Hoyle"
came to mean playing It fair and ac
cording to the recognized rules. Hoyle
died la London in 1709.—Kansas City
Star.
It Mahes a Difference
Tour success In life depends on your
motive. There Is an old fable about
a dog that boasted of Ills ability as
a runner. One day he gave chase to
a rabbit but failed to catch It The
other dogs ridiculed hlin on account
of bla previous boasting. Ills reply
was, "You must remember that the
rabbit was running for his life, while
I was only running for my dinner."
The incentive Is all-important. If
you are in the race merely for your
dinner you will no., put the same vim
and energy into your running as you
will If your umbitlon is deeper and
more serious. Oet the right motive
und your chance of success will b«
muc|) greater.—BoKton' Transcript.
Present and Absent
A carious instance of Israel Zanx
wlll's absent-mindedness came to my
notice the other day. He wits rehears
ing one of his plays nt the Scala, and
arrived punctual to the minute on the
stage. Taking up his position he
opened the prompt copy nnd addressed
an empty stage as follows: "I am here
to the minute. Why is it that no mem
ber of my company can be as punctu
al?" At that moment his stage man
ager, who bad been searching for him,
put In an appearance, and gently re
minded him that the rehearsal Mas In
the foyer, where the entire company
was already waiting for him!—Loudon
Mail.
Early Rising Duke
The duke of Wellington wan a very
earl/ riser. His early habit of punctu
ality la pleadingly Illustrate)] In the
following aaerdote: "I will take care
to be pre-ent at Ct«- tomorrow morn
ing." »nld the entfneer of Nt-.v Lon
don bridge, !n accept'.nr-e of the iluk-"*
request that he would uic-et liltu at
that boor. "B*7 a quarter before
fiva," replied the (take, with a quiet
■oil*. "I owe all I have achieved
to being read/ a quarter of an hoar
Mora it was doomed necessary to bo
ao, and I learned that lesson when J
was a boy.-
TO OPEN FMf :D HOOSIER
COMM|,iITY TO TOURISTS
'aalsfe* & tfittlemsnt la WabaaH
VaHuy I'ith llanatlmi
Hhrt>ry to End
New Harmony, Ind.—This little com
munity, which first offered to America
equal political lights for women, unl
.-rsal elementary education, prohibi
tion of liquor, and other reforms then
regarded as communistic, Is to be
">n6e accessible to tourists after a
century of Isolation.
Hero Thomas Say, soologlst; John
j Audubon, ornithologist ; John Chapple
| smith, engraver, and Gerard Troost,
geologist, b6gan the works which later
brought them fume.
Huddled In the Wabash valley In
the far southwestern "toe" of Indians,
New Harmony has kept to Itself Its
foresting history, except when those
,vi ■ knew tho way hero penetrated the
iiilis which hide it from the main high
ways.
It was In 1815 that George Itapp
brought hither from Pennsylvania a
grpup of German followers to estab
lish In tho wilderness a colony which
they named "Ilarmonle.'* All the 800
settlers lived a life of tftrlct self-denial,
shared equally In property, and re
ceived tiie necessities of life from a
community depot The stone buildings
they erected are still In use, and on
an outer wall of what was a Rapplst
storeroom survives an old sun dial at
which the peasants assembled a cen
tury ago to march to the fields.
After the Rapplsts had' cultivated
5,000 of their 30,000 acres and bujlt
cotton, woolen and flour mills, they
sold the entire colony, In 1824, to Rob
ert Owen, wealthy Scotch philan
thropist and social worker. Recruit
ing his settlers In Scotland, Owen
brought many leaders In science and
education. Rut the experiment failed
Equal political right* for women
were demanded first by Fran is
Wright in a speech at New Harmony,
as It was rechrlstened by the Owens
regime. It was the first community
to declare for abolition of alcoholic
liquors. It was an early center of
slavery abolition. Universal elemen
tary education at public expense with
out regard to sex or sect was first pro
claimed here, and In later years the
community Introduced to the Middle
West compulsory education. Its system
being the foundation of the Indiana
compulsory education system later
patterned after throughout the West
The first club exclusively for women
was formed here.
Today the village contains a scant
thousand persons.
Poe's Grave Becoming
Shrine of U. S. Pilgrims
Baltimore, Md. —The grave of Edgar
Allan Poe In Westminster churchyard
here Is rapidly coming to he a national
ahrine.' For years It was unheralded
and virtually unknown even within
the conflneß of the city. Now pilgrims
visit it from all parts of the United
States.
Until 1911 a tall unsightly brick
wall screened the grave from view of
passersby, discouraging the stranger
from tarrying there in the forlorn
hope of peering within. Now there Is
a bronze gate ajar so that travelers
may step Inside and see the final rest
ing place of the great American poet
and story writer.
The grave for years had been un
kempt, except for what passing care
the children attending Edgar Allan
Poe grammar fchool across the way
were able to give to it, after scurrying
over the brick wall. Peppergrass grew
unchecked. The grave itself was over
grown with weeds. The entire grave
y vrd, abandoned, was in a sorry state.
0 ' e gate was locked and those who
% ei t to the shrine were obliged to
1 eer through the bronze grill work.
Agilation grew over the neglect of
the place, and especially of the Poe
plot. At litst the Press club of Bal
timore obtained permission from the
Presbyterian committee of iialtlmore,
which owns tlie graveyard, to take
over the care of the poet's mound, j
That wu i in March of this year.
Now n mantle of green overspreads
the grave. The hedge around it is
trimmed and the paths graveled. The
small iron picket fence surrounding
the plot ha« a coat of paint, and an
air of ri-spectabllity pervades the
place. ____________
The Warning Onm
On the plains of the West thousands
of cattle rnay be neon grazing as one.
Thr»y move Mowly. feeding as they go,
their hen/Is polntliijf in the same direc
tion. Occasionally among the hun
dred there Till be one Individual that
ignores the cnstoin of the others and
fee-'I where It will. The cattlemen
have learned through experience ~o
look to such an animal for the salva
tion of the rest in times of emergency.
When wild creatures attack or sudden
storms break, the solitary feeder Is
one to give warning or lead the herd
to aafety.—Cornelia James Cannon la
the Atlantic Monthly,
Hunter* Carm Little >
for Qnsts Ferocity
The gnu, with the head tt a bars*
the long, narrow face, the body *t A
horse, an anteloptfa Ufa an nrtlM
lng mane and a flewtng tab Qkjg
reaches to the ground, to Indeed a tap
tas tic creature, writes liQlan Gto^
r z. a.
His terrible voice, his poss rvsry
thing shout him enggeata fltrcgntaa
But though savage In captivity, ball
extremely nervous, with a great regard
for his own safety.
A herd of these gnus on the rsld| to
an alarming sight Prancing and
wheeling, and tossing their beads, they
approach a strange object in single file,
forming themselves Into a solid square
ss they come near.
In this position they will stand Car
hours, glaring st a tent set up on tba
plains, oa though ready to tear It to
pieces.
But this Is a game of bluff. Let tba
owner of the tent show himself with a
gun, and though they may gambol wild
ly around him, ottering loud snerta It
will be In ever-widening circles.
I?ie first shot sends them flying, and
so great Is their speed that they na>
toh wlthlil a fftw t**
Bird's Mother Love
Example oi Heroism
The boy who "stood on the burning
deck, whence all bat he had fled," IMS
won the Immortality of a wau-kaowa
poem, bat probably a certain
will not find her poet, althoogh aba
certainly deserves one,
While beating oat a field fire at Fait
ham, in Middlesex, firemen noticed a
skylark sitting oo bar nast on ttM
ground, In the direct path of the
flames. The bird cop tinned to alt on
her eggs with dense amoke rolllnx
round her, and even when the flaw
caught the grass of which the neat
was constructed she did not stir until
t,he firemen were close upon hac.
So struck were the men with the
bird's heroism and devotion that they"
determined to aave her home at all
costs. They set about 111 tint the
nest and ware ao am 11—frl that al
though the fire apread att aaooad. the
neat waa scarcely rtsmaaad aai the
egga remained tnfacfa laadw TM-
Blta.
Hen Lay* 280 Eg ft at
$4.75 Profit in 341 Days
Springfield, ni.—■Laying a total ef
280 eggs in 841 days, n Whit® Leghorn
hen owned by H. B. Hammer, Wever,
lowa, won the state iliver trophy for
the highest score at the Illinois state
contests at Kankakee, Qulncy and
Murphysboro.
A. D. Smith, chief poultrymaa of the
division of poultry husbandry, said the
bird consumed bat S2JJS worth of CMC
Taking the average price of eggs, Mr.
Smith said, to be SB cents par desee,
she produced 17.10 worth of ana,
ahowlng a net profit of $4.78.
The record pen of Ave hens that
won a second cup for their owner, H.
B. Hammer, produced the to
tal of 1,280 eggs, an average ef 2M
egga per hen, during the 13-aaenth
period, Mr. Smith said. A total ef
84,411 eggs were laid by the 074 birds
in the contest making an average ef
147 eggs tor each bird, ar mum than
twice the number pr educed by the
average farm-yard hen, according to
accepted estimates of 70 eggs per year.
Another exceptionally high record for
the contest is seen in the fact that 90
birds produced 200 eggs or more each,
during the 865 day* of the contact."
Chimpanzees Solve Teste
When Some Children Fail
New Haven, runn (lliiijisiiss—
can readily solve some problems which
are difficult for Intelligent children of
corresponding maturity, according to
scientific testa being conducted at Tale
university. Announcement of these
testa WM mid* by Robert If. Yerkea,
profemior of psychology M the lnstf
tute of psychology.
"Many of the test* are negative,"
Doctor Yerkes said, "hot wm gut aoa«
positive resales. It Is often surprls
lug to see that children, when coo
fronted with acme of the »roblanas,
bright children. too, will fall te solve
them."
Some Thrill
Prague.—A gnvarnmsst tysr ha*
had an on wonted thrllL t»tt! sud
denly op In the air by aa hwia pas
senger, he fought with mm haad aai
with the other pMij Ufa plaaa att|
to earth. ,
Bagging thm (Mm
Begging the question la a
proposition which, in reality, involves
the conclusion. Thus, to say ♦*»»»
parallel lines will aavy mast because
thoy are parallel. Is Mm ply to assume
ss a fact the Tery thing that yon pee
fesa to prove. ▲ "clrcl. r in logic la a
vicious form of argument la which the
coadsaloa la assumed to pme the
premise, and thsa the f frwmlss taps* va
the coorhisloo.
French Literary Men
Dispute Over Unicom
Waa there mr such an animal aa
the unlcftrnt Its existence has beta
•■stifled to by se laas authoritative
writers than Ariatetl* and Pltay, and
ersn In 18T7 tba aantin at the
PNoch academy, inebdlng tba dto
tisgolabed names e laan and titter
Hugo, were so doubtful on tba Mb*
Ject that la thatr dictionary they pie
tba amblgooas that, eaaord
lag to tba meal gansral opinion, tba
anlcorn new aUeted. Bot the prceent
members of tba aeadtony, still at work
on the new edltloa of the fsmoas dic
tionary, hare triad to settle tba ques
tion for onoa and aSL The anlcorn.
any the tmmortaia to a fabulous ani
mal of antiquity.
The French (nn refnsst to accept
the dictum as teal Why, qberlee
Andre Billy, a WObUusu writer/
should the msabtos M toe academy,
oountlng not a stngle naturalist la
tbelr ranks, be aßaWsfl l» settle the
qaoettocT And, Is tba attfrtary of radi
um and the wlrsftaaa, why'should we
J«y tba testimony at PUny end
Aristotle on the satotence of a beast
Mtnaritabla only la that It had a bora
sa Ub forehead t—Paris Letter.
Hainan Ruminants Not
Unknown to History
The flnt case of i haman ruminant
(•ported io a actentlflc Journal iu
that of Robsrt QUI, • cobbler of Dor
sstehlre, wbooe talk «M reported la
ths British Annusl Hsglstsr nodtr date
of October 1, MOT.
In ancient tlmss aad la tho Mlddte
ages man who ahswsd tbe end wsra
apparently very tor from rare, bat
modern science would be prone te dis
miss such tales were they not asp
ported by evidence of mors rsosnt
time Roger QUI died after suffering
"great tortures" dne to ths loss of his
strange faculty.
001 usually began bis second fins
ing a Quarter or half aa hoar, sows
times Inter, after dlnnsr, when every
moreel cgms up snceasslvsty sssstar
and sweetsr to tbe taste. Ths chew
tag oontlnusd about aa hour or mora
and aomstlmsa would Issve him ter a
Uttts while, "la which cess he wsald
be sick at his stsmsah." Many sthsr
aad later Imtesim nflght br «MM at
p* who heeshssa to' toe
Float Wadding Gumt
lbs reeest appearance of tree toes
has created great eadteßMnt ta laolat
ed vßlages ef Turkestan, Osatral Asia.
lba mullahs, at priests, af* strongly
apposed to ths laisntlsa. which they
salt -shaltan smack." at "ths dsvtTs
'lisw,* aad they atter daNt prophsetea
at crop fall ares sad stoar dtesaters
Oat win Mtow Ms ass; but ths
Tarhsetaa passaats take kindly to the
flutes after tor isallss Its supoiloo
tty sear their palssMlre wsodea, ea>
drewa plows.
Oaa cess la resorted to whtah a
Tsritestsa psassnt instated that ths
teastor should hs pssssat nt hte ssr>
SssAsfsrss Wall fa Jmpmm
WfeUt Itbenn were at wart ta the
gvaaada of the Imperial palaaa la
My*. ONJ CUM across a lira wah,
m lar»s that tbay AM believed K waa
a log end started te move it Tbanp
tile came to Itta and tha aialmaa
icaHaad Honrar, they coald tan
iooa nothing anyway, as the coot
sffl rials ordarad that tha crawlar not
ha needlessly diet ui bod mad they sn>-
phetlcslly declared that* woold ba aa
anake boot Tha nakat Japaaaaa bo
ttom. la tha apMt at tha awciant
fmti sea that waa ooea oa tha rtta
whara It waa foond. and If lat aleaii
wta ham oa ooa.
Thm Na
The leading tribe of the eovthern
division of the Athapascan atoek at
Jforth A marl An Indians was the Kan-
Jo or Tnnal. which waa the name need
by themeeWee. Sine* first knows they
have occupied the land on and aoath
etf the Ban Joan river, la northern
New Mexico aad Ariaoaa, and extend
tag Into the state* of Colorado aad
Utah. They were aarroaudod oa all
Mdea by the eocaata Apache tribes, ex
cept on the north, whan they met the
trlbea of the Bchoehoooan family. At
present the Navajo are aft the laaeria
tloo bearing their name la Utah, Maw
Mexico aad Ariaoaa.
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Nmw Egg-Drying Proem—
Chemical advance hub now de»ei
aped a process, already la commercial
ue, whereby largo anmbers of eggs
can be kept far Indefinite periods
without the use of cold atorage or
ygmm iiMiiir aad which. It Is said,
wm hare a material effect upon the
■laarnnT agg markets of the country.
The Mw procaaa produces perfectly
irili wn hi the form of a powder.
Thar Win keep Indefinitely aad can
be aoed for ebnoet aay form at ooefc'
NO. i 2
WAGES HIGHER
THAN '2O BOW
Meantime Unit Coct of Pro
ductkm Recedes a* Earn*
in|« RIM>
Wew Tack.—JL braid and dlstted
tendency toward rising "mT wages
that la, wagea measured in terma oi
what the worker can bay with hfa
earnings, la traced by the national in
dustrlal conference board, New York
In a comparative study of represent#
tlve Industries.
Increased application of power, bet
ter utilization of labor, mechanical In
tenuity and managerial efficiency, a»
cording to the board, are ateadlly tend
ing to reduce unit coat of production
thereby cheapening the general cost oi
living with resulting Increasing pros
perity for aIL
While this tandeoqr la not eqaally
noticeable In all industries the differ
ences In waga levels and coat of pro
duction are attributable largely to the
different degree of efficiency of pro
duction prevailing in the respective In
dustries, the board points oat in co im
parl ng conditions In major Industrial
Wancbsa.
Iron, Steel Good Exsmplss.
Tho Iron and at eel todutry, neeord
-I** to the uiljili, Is a striking «-
ample at what pwpialw modernized
methods can do. While wage levels
la the Iron and steel Industry are near
about 140 par cent above the pre-war
X according to tbe study, the av
prlce of Its products at present
Is only aboat M per cent higher than
In 1814 la other words, while wages
of tree and steel workers are nearly
two and a half times aa big as tbe?
ware before the war, average prices
of Iron and steel products bare risen
only about a third.
Another notable Illustration of this
tendency of declining costs, benefiting
the wags earner within the Industry
aa wsll as the consumer at large. Is
the automobile Industry, where wsga
levels now are about 122 par east
higher er more fhtf doable of what
they ware bate* the WuV W«M av
erage prices a t sutomobllsS are acts
ally 29 par cent lower thaa la Mi
aa Instance signally reflecting the bs
provemsnt of industrial procasssa
Similar coafUlfas are found te eb-'
tain In the ehsmlcal. foundry and ma
chine shop, the rubber, furnltst%
leather aad other Industilsa The
aame la alas tree at the pobUc atitt
tlss generating gas and electricity,
where wages are nore than dosbta at
what they were la 1914 (lid par csat
higher) while the eeet at gaa aad slss»
trldty for domestic consumption, as
estimated by the conference bosii
averages only 40 per cent higher thaa
ths 1014 leveL The figure here sse4
the hoard points out. Is for gaa aad
electricity combined, and deals with
OstSsasl averages only, aad, thereto*'
doe* sot apply necessarily to aay oaa
locality ar to either gas er alaitihlH
alone.
Survey ef Twenty-Ore Veers.
The Important rale played by adsrta
istratlve aad technical progress ta
lowering ths unit cast ef production Is
graphically Illustrated la a ssparato
study by the board at the volume at
production as compered with the ap
plication of power and nmnber at
wage-eernere daring tha laat quarter
of a century. Tha total volume of
prodaction from 1880 to 1823, accord*
log to thla study, Increased 185 par
cent, "Inataltod primary power" 236 1
par eeat, while tSa namber of wage
earners daring the aame period In
eraaaad only 90 par cant
Since 1914, however, the board
potnta oat, both tha application of
power and tba number of wago-eara
era hare lncraaaad leaa than the
volume of production, conclusively .
showing tba advance In efficiency of
management la utilising both machin
ery and labor.
The concrete result of this Increased
efficiency, the board study declares, la
reflected In the fact that while the
American workman today, aa we inea
gttre the parchsalng yalue of his earn
ings In terms of the same standard
of living as prevailed In 1914, bat dis
count the rise In retail prices. Is 24
per caot better off than be waa at the
tanning of the war (In July, 1914)
and 5 per cent better off than he was
at the peak of wage earnings daring
the Inflation period of 1920.
Unkind
One day, at the table of the lata
Mr. Paaae (dean at Ely). Just as the
cloth was being removed, the subject
of discourse huppened to be that of
aa extraordinary mortality araoogat
lawyers. "We have loet," said a gear
daman, "not leaa than six eminent
barristers la aa many months." The
who waa quite deaf, roee as his
friend finished his remarks, snd gave
the eempany grace: "Forttjeaad