The Alamance Gleaner. XXV. GRAHAM, N. C, THURSDAY. JANUARY 20, 1910. NO 49. Totfsils a . J.tananflr flYfW niflHIl whatever he wlshsfc They prevent SICK HEADACHE, reuse the food to assimilate and nour Uk i the body, give keen appetite, DEVELOP FLESH md solid muscle. Elegantly sugar asV - Take No Substitute. lll I THE COUCH r.r iimc AND UUKB ww Dr. King's Vlf m Discovery io fOUCHS ioiYi.oa. rUll ISOLDS Trial Bottle Fres 4ND in THROAT AND IUW0 TROUBLES, GUARANTEED SATISFAOXOBY FOR Your Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing:. HADLEY & LOY GRAAAM, N. C. Have You Read the FORD "Ad" in this peeks'' Sat lirdaylJEevening Post? Read it and then call on us and see the FORD cars moo: GREENSBORO, N. C , Indigestion T and'--- When your stomach cannot properly digest food, of itself, It needs s little assistance and this assistance is read ily supplied by Kodol. Kodol assits the stomach, by temporarily digesting all of the food in the stomach, so that thi stomach may rest and recuperate. 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WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS. that the Sun, Planet and All Matter Were Once a Vast Ma of Incan descent Gaa All Jumbled To&ether In an Enormous Chaotic Cloud. Everybody has heard the phrase, the Debula hypothesis, but wbut is it? In a few WOrds this Is the meaning of "nebula hypothesis:" That the sun, the planets and ull that Is in them were Jit one time In the Inconceivably remote past a vast muss of chaotic, in candescent gas all jumbled together in am enormous nebula, or cloud. Tn hatriti with r l ,. . . B--. ..i. iuc uini t-uueepaon that science has dared to make, how- cici, iui-3 us one step runner back Without munHnnlni, I. - -i .-i - . u..wu,w& me uiigUl Ul UJai- ter itself scleuce conceives that In the 1 ,, ucgmuiug an matter was unllormly distributed throughout space - that there were no stars, no planets, no satellites, but that .all space was fllled with the matter we ow have divided up into very fine particles some dis tance apart. The consistency of such material was perforce very thin in deed, much more rarefied than the highest vacuum we can obtain now by Ilir mimnsi Pmm thfa statu tn th. nebulous state the theory has a miss ing link, one that can only be satis fled by supposing divine command, for it assumes, in the words of Professor Todd, that "gradually centers of at traction formed and thesjceuters pull ed in toward themselv- other parti cles. As a result of the Inward fail In? fit mutter tnWHril thPKP fpntern the collision of its particles and their fric tion upon each other the material masses grew hotter and hotter. Nebu lae seeming to fill the entire heavens were formed luminous fire mist, like the filmy objects still seen in the sky, though vaster and exceedingly numer ous." This process is supposed to have gone on for countless ages, faster in some regions than In others. Many million nebulae were formed and set in rotation around their own axes. This happily con be explained by science. Whenever particles are attracted to ward a center and are kept from fall ing directly to this center a whirlpool is formed, rotating In one direction. An example of this, though humble and not exactly analogous, is the rota tion of water In a basin when the stop per is pulled out of the bottom. Gravi ty attracts the water Immediately above the hole, which starts Bowing nut. thus lea vine a soace to be filled. The rest of the water rushes in from all sides to do this, and the whirlpool is the result. Now each of these whirling nebulae became exceedingly hot, 'and each formed what Is known as a star or sun, our sun being one. The earth and other planets had not then come into separate existence, of course, as it is supposed that they were mrowu off later from the sun. Our sun in Its nebulous form and ro tating swiftly on its axis gradually flattened at its poles on account or centrifugal motion. This phenomenon is entirely familiar to those who have seen a ball of clay on a potter's wheel gradually flatten. The motion was so swift and the mass so nebulous that the sun to be took the shape of a disk. a. m went on the outer part be came cool and somewhat rigid, while the inner part continued its cooling nnrl contracting. Thus the Inner pan drew away from the onter, leaving a ring of Blatter whirling arounu u .u. .-!.!- ' rri, la Kranlrlnff off Of the ring uuiniuv. , is supposed to be hastened by the in ability of the outside to keep up the swift motion of the central mass, both on account of the slight cohesion and f th rentrlfueal force. But this par ticular part of the argument has noth ing to staud on tr tne nrai tion is true. l -tn tram nt tht SUD S in tne toccwi" -n contraction this proces ws repeStw over and over again, until severs rings were whirling around tne ceu-. orb. They would oecw....; -the same plme. Now. these rings not being nnlform in mass r would each gradually 'ro0't'j?- ward the densest portion until l Mkey. too. would form a ' subsequently flatten, and iZcV continued nebulous snd , be bU was large enough hey would also Slough rings. inrard Of course the rings the sun d scard ed have become the plane b required by the theory . are nearly In the same P'"V J1; that the plane.. volar system. another From this ',n Xve snd that sr.ss'-'sr'JSs .T-'th the greajej, . LwhMl. of course It cannot p mncj. Htoj -.a to be Aroood one of the Nonets of orw."' world rornm mnttm Baf rtnrt. whlcn are i m are tore " . . urn. mrr "-- la the optnlosi J Bodge to KewJortTrftw a(Vf gay DSi wuw tloToT-oto of bl. btpUV w aid. . n. roe think yonr fW doe's el- INSECT INSTINCT. How Bees Treat Intruders That Get Into the Hive. What does the bee do when some foreigner in the animal world, as, for instance, a heavy slug, invades its hive? Stings it to death, of course. But what then? All the bees in the hive may not be able to drag out the carcass, and yet they must db something with it to keep it from infecting the colony. Move into a new house? Scarcely, for they would abandon their store of honey. No, the workers cease gath ering honey and start out after pro polis, the red resinous substance with which bees line and fence their hives. This bee glue they spread all over the foreign substance in little fillets until the foreigner is completely embalmed. So, too, if a snail invades the hive and evades being stung to death they glue him fast in his shell and when he starves to death embalm him with propolis. But the bee is not the only in sect that exhibits a clearly denned intelligence. The maternal nature shows up in some of the meanest insects to a wonderful degree. The pine silkworm moth tears all the hair and down from its own body in order to make a soft nest for its young and expires Boon after. This is to a greater extent than the rab bit, which tears only the fur from its belly for its nest. Some gall insects even immolate themselves to protect their off spring. As the insect, full to great distension with eggs, ex:ls them gradually till all have been laid and nothing but a hollow shell remains of the mother, she sees that her task has been accomplished and gathers the eggs into a pile, spreads herself over them, fastens the sides of her own body down over them, and thus dies. This, of course, forms an impermeable covering for the eggs till they are hatched. The mother has here paid for the child birth with her life, and the chil dren are born in the shelter of her corpse. New York Tribune. The Hippopotamus. Next to the elephant the hugest beast in point of bulk and weight is the hippopotamus. One White Nile specimen measured fourteen feet three inches from snout to tip of tail. The crocodile never ventures to attack the hippopotamus, which for its part disdains to attack the crocodile. Although, like the rhinoc eros, this monarch of mid-African rivers is not carnivorous, it is very formidable to man, being easily pro voked and assailing the object of its resentment with reckless fury. It can upset the largest boat and in one instance perforated with its tusks the iron bottom of a steamer, causing a dangerous leak. The flesh of the hippopotamus is always palatable, and when the animal is young it is. delicious. The fkin makes excellent turtle soup. The tusks were formerly more valuable than those of the elephant, being in request by dentists because they never turn yellow. Too Much. A certain young fellow has got the parrot's complaint-he talks too much. And this is how it let him down a cropper at an important in- "You love my daughter?" said the old man. , . "Love her!" he exclaimed pas sionately. "Why, I would die for her! For one soft glance irom mow sweet eyes I would hurl myself from yonder cliff and perish, a bleeding, oruised mass, upon the rocks 800 feet below!" The old man shook his head. n "I'm something of a liar myself, he said, "and one is enough in a small family like mine."-London Globe. The Yoiina Lebrter. From the eggs of the lobster are hatched creatures not in the least resembling their F""'"6 . : -nth f.atherllke 10- comotive organs near the turfaceof the water. At the end of six weeks they develop legs-unless, as is high ly probable, they have prwu.Jjj beei devoured by fihes or other enemies-becoming thereupon small lobster, of familiar shape. Hat ing reached this stage of growth the young lobster, become walking & U .into? to HS i:..i ak hiding place, to protect them from their foes. Hard to . That editor is certainly getUnf . . : t,m anthnr remarked ham vo ami, . ,. S, . disparaged Toice, gwing wdlj at heavy envewj -r -- - "What im me . cheerful friend, who get. a regular u"?' . A th Oh, he returne u - J - , - . V- it im too bald. . . v k. that he didirt LAST wrc. -- . . . care for .tone, of the baa tug kind. Whit can you do with a man Pte tliatr-i;prDCOtt' .!- Hits. . . - tmtmt story ec an DuVtlw wb. arr-d. tb. cort after asKKber a V . ,,, Mk Dotnta. Sao of waJca seess irLTJorTb. bare any r .nt tb. eoert Eoarr, aald. tttok there is wytbmf to-a potattr . To wklrb tW .ttonry fe Oidat know bt poar aoeoc w The Negleoted Commandments. General Iinndle was visiting in com pany with a party of tourists his na tive county of Devonshire, and they were shown over a little pld fashioned church. ' Among the party wns a Hergyman, who, when the visit was concluded, looked round the church and said to the attendant: "Very nice indeed, but I notice that you have not got the Commandments exhibited. How hi thatr The man's reply was startling. "Well, sir," he answered, "It Is like this: We used to have them up one time, but no one about here seemed to take any notice of -them, so .we took them down, and they are behind that door." London Tatler. Lost Hi Thumb. I have reason to remember our visit to the Andamans, for I lost the top of my thumb there bitten off by a par rot tlsh. The brute came to the sur face after some torpedo experiments, shamming death. I Incautiously put my thumb in bis mouth, when the creature's jaws shut with a horrid snap, taking off the flesh of my thumb to the bone. Our surgeon dressed the wound. My cockswain picked up the portion of my thumb and, follow ing me down Info my cabin, .asked what he should do. with It. I told him to give it to a panther cub we bad on board the ship. "Hurrah For the Life of a Bailor," by Vice Admiral Ken nedy, i Dante's Fierce Retort. The secret of Dante's struggle through life was in the reckless sar casm of his answer to the Prince of Torona, who asked hihi how he could account for the fact that in the house hold of princes the court fool was In greater favor than the philosopher. "Similarity of mind," said the flerce genius, "Is all the world over the source of friendship." Tine Perfmme off iTIhie lady im The Latest and Greatest Detective Story i7 i r BY .GASTON LEROTJX Author of -The Mystery of the YeUcrvf Room" The PictorV Too THrillin I j . Get the First Number I It is worth a whole years' subscription:-and you will regret it if you don t get it. Be SS4a if Taniiarv Sosend $L00 and get The Crab. Students of the crustacea often find the cod n useful assistant collector. Thus the circular crab seems to be a favorite food of cod and rays, and it was chiefly from the stomachs of these flsh that some of the oldest naturalists obtained (heir specimens. Another hunting ground of the naturalist is the sailing ship which has been in for eign parts. The 8alted Thread. Soak a piece of thread in strong salt water, dry it and repeat two or three times. When thoroughly dry, tie one end to a cuaudclier and on the other or lower end tie a ring or some small but not too heavy article. It Is now ready for the experiment. Set fire to the thread, and behold the ring does not fall to the floor, nor does the thread break. The explanation Is: The thread has' In (renlity been burned, but the salt with which the thread was saturated forms a solid column, and that sup ports the ring. Varied experiments can be made, using several threads for one article and. In fact, many others which may suggest themselves to the. readers. Lot of Vowels. In the Hawaiian langunge every word ends In a vowel. A Hawaiian finds it almost impossible to pronounce two consonants together, and in Eng lish helms the greatest difficulty lu pronouncing any word eudlng with a consonant. Mr. Hale in his Polynesian grammar says: "in all the Polynesian dialects every syllable must terminate In a vowel, and two consonants are never heard without a vowel between tin-in. It is chiefly to this peculiarity that (tie softness of these languages Is to he attributed. The longest sylla bles have only three letters, and many syllables consist of a single vowel." Again, no syllable, as a general rule, in the Bantu family of African speech can end In a consonant, but only in vowels. .Show. RooUtabifle, the Maatar .-A V T mAv In Black. tad the Lady in tuacz. and Mysterious : : , A Postoffic Story. In one month, according to the Jour nal of St. Petersburg, (here have been found In the poslofflce letter boxes 332 postal cards and 170 letters and book packages bearing no address. In this respect the Independence Beige relate, the story of a peasant who In writing to his son addressed the letter. "A Mon I'ils, Brnxelles" (to my son. Brus sels). Th authorities did not despair. They placed the missive In the rack of letters to be called for nt the general postoflice. One day a young man ap peared at the counter and asked. "Have you not received a letter from my fa ther for me?" The clerk handed him the letter without hesitation. He was the addressee A Ship and Its Story. Coke of Holkham began his great ag ricultural work about 177(1 on an estate where, as old Lady Townshend an Id. "All you will see will le one blade of grass and two rabbits righting for that." In fact. It was little better tuau a rabbit wnrren. He transformed the bleak, bare countryside by planting fifty acres of trees ever)- year until he had 3,000 acres well covered und In 1832 had probably the unique experi ence of embarking In a ship which wa built of oak grown from the acorns he hnd himself planted. Between 1776 and 1842, the date of Ills din 111, he Is said to have dKnl VMV.Ml on Improv ing his estate - I-'rotu "History of Kng llHh Agylculliim." by W. II. It. Cutler. Lighting a Pipe. "I consider that one of our most pic turesque everyday sights," remarked a painter. Indicating the suddenly illu ruinated face of a man lighting a pipe. "And probably the hardest on the eye of the pIcturcKijue person." returned his companion, a physician: "That close and sudden during Is harder on the op tic nerve tbnn you Imagine." New York Post. Black Detectlra, . to Describ caravan erea::.:akinq. Afghan' Use Cobblestones, While Tur coman Li'; a 6nd. The bread of the Afghan caravan was codked by ' heal lug small round cobblestones in the fire and then pok ing them out and wrapping dough an inch thick about them. The bell, thus formed were again thrown Into the fire, to be Hiked out again when cook ed. The bread tasted well there la the desert, although I J civilized communi ties the grit and ashea would hare seemed unendurable. After good fellowship hud been es tablished the Afghans actually sold US some flour, says a writer In tbe Na tional Geographical Magazine. The camp where we used It a little later happened to be beside the sandy bed of a trickling salt stream, which was drinkable in winter, but absolutely un usable In summer, wben evaporation is at its belgbt and the aalt In concen trated. , ., "See," said , one of onr Turcomans as we dismounted; "here is some sand. Tonight we can bave some good bread." When some dry twigs had been gath ered he proceeded to smooth off a bit of tbe cleanest sand and built upon it a hot fire. When tbe aand waa thor oughly hot he raked off most of the coals and smoothed tbe sand very neat ly. Meanwhile one of tbe other men had made two large sheets of dough about three-quarters of an Inch thick and eighteen Inches la diameter. Be tween these be placed a layer of lamp, of sheep's tall fat making a buge round sandwh h. This was now spread on tbe bot sund, coals mixed with sand were placed completely over it and it was left to bake. Now and then an edge was uncovered, and a Turcoman smelled It appreciatively and rapped on It to see if It was yet cooked. Wben tbe top waa thoroughly baked the bread was turned over and covered up again. It tasted even better than tbe Afghan bread after It waa cooled a little and tbe sand and asbes bad been wblsked off with a girdle. The Turcomans are so accustomed to life In the sandy desert that tbey think tt impossible to make tbe best kind of bread without sand, while tbe Af ghans, wbo live In tbe stony moun tains, think that cobblestones are a requisite. . THE ZANZ1BAR1S. Dense Stupidity and Amusing Blunders of the Natives. In tht, "Antnhlnirrsnhv of Sir HenrY M. Stanley" tbe author say. of the colored natives or central Atrica: ., "Good a tbe majority of Zanzibar!, were, noma of them were indescriba bly and for me most unfortunately dense. One man who from bis personal nriMranc. mbzht have been Indeed to be among tbe moat Intelligent waa after thirty montnr experience wiin his musket unable to understand bow It was to be loaded. Be never could remember whether be ought to drop the powder or tbe bullet into the mus ket first Another time be was east with a man to transport a company of men over a river to camp. After wait ing' an hour I strode to tbe bank of tbe river and found tbem paddling in opposite directions, each blaming the other for bis stupidity and, being in a passion of excitement unable to bear tbe advice of men acroea the river, wbo were bawling ont to tbem bow to manage their canoe. "Another man was so ludicrously atupld that be generally was saved from puulsbment because bis mistakes were so sbsurd. We were one day floating dqwn tbe Kongo, and. It being near camping time, I bade him, as be happened to be bowman on tbe occa sion, to stand by and'seise tbe grass on tbe bank to arrest tbe boat wben 1 should call out In a little while we came to a flt place, and I cried. .'Bold bard. Klrongof 'Please God, master,' be replied and forthwith 'sprang on tbe shore snd seised tbe grass with both bands, while we. of ccuree, were rapidly swept down river, leaving biro alone and solitary on tbe bank. Tbe boars crew roared at tbe ridlcaloaa sight but oevertbelees his stupidity cost tbe tired men a bard poll to as cend again, for not every place was available for a camp. "Be It was also wbo on an occasion wben we required tbe branch of a spe cies of arbutus which overhung tbe river to be cut awsy to allow tbe ca noes to be brought nearer to tbe bank for safety actually went astride of tbe branch and chopped away enttJ be fell into tbe water wltb tbe branch and lost onr si. Be bad seated himself ea tbe outer end of tbe branch." A iuneh ef Kick. Tin In bard lockr algbed tbe steel rail. "Look at met I get nothing from morning till nlgbt bot not air," groan ed tbe pumping engine. "I'm always In bot water."' sighed the boiler. "Consider my plight" cried tbe mac adam road, "invariably walked over and trodden under foot" I'm need to tt. for Tm always ap against It" philosophically remarked tbe wall paper. "You're ocoe of yon as badly off as I am." aald tbe furnace, ."for. no mat ter where I go. I'm generally flred." Baltlmore Americaa. CMrcme tbe Cuetem. L taboocbere was once held a by tbe Germaa custom, service and ba! ail tbe contents thrown out of his trunks. . Tnt those things backr aald ha to the men wbo bad emptied his trunks. Tbst k your affair." tbey snewered. 1 stay here until you do," be re plied. "Bnt give me a telegraph form." On the form aL Laboocbere wrote: -To Prince Bismarck. Beribv-Begret cannot breakfast with you highness tomorrow. Held here todeflnKeiy." Quirk as llgbtnmg tbe emdaia pack ed the trunkal- y e Heie"e4wa Lady (at railway statlou-Nw. por ter, are you sure I have ail say luggage la tbe carriage? Porter lee, ma'am. Lady-Nothing left behind? rorter-Kotbto'. ma'am; aot erea a carper, aaa'aaa. Loudon rum. Oatvltra Little Early Risers, T tmm S- pUS- Cftci Tlf Kl&sjrlr.';. Unhealthy Kidneys Make impare Moot. . Wek and unhealthy kidneys are re sponsible for much sickness and suffering. trouble is pesmitted to continue, seriom re- , suits ere most likely to follow, , Your other organs may need at tention, hut your kid neys most, because they do - most and should have attention first. Therefore, when your kidney, are weak or out of order, v you can understand how quickly your en tire body U affected and how every organ to 111 to ao tie amy. j If yon are sick or " feel badly," begia taking the great kidney remedy. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root - A trial will con vince yon of it great merit Tbe mild and immediate effect of Swamp-Root, the peat kidney and bladder remedy, ia soon realized. 'It stands the highest because its remarkable health restoring properties have- beea proven in thousands of the most distress ing cases. If you need a medicine you should nave tne nest, ;, oj t Sold by druggists in fifty-cent and oue-dbl- f lar sizes. ...You may I nave a aamnle bottle I by mail free, also ai. 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