VOL. XLIX COMBS OF WOOD Women of Ancient Egypt Usee Boxwood Ornaments. Prof. 8. J. Record of Yale Unlversl** Describes Various Kinds of Wood Used Centuries Ago. The tresses of a pharaoh's daughtei' were dressed with combs of wood, says Prof. S. J. Record of Yale university, who recently made a study of the dlf- j ferent kinds of woods used by the an dent Egyptians. These combs were made of boxwood, which was much used for carving by the early Egyp tians, and they were not greatly dis similar to Isome of the combs which adorn the women of the Twentieth century. "As one wooden object nfter another from the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen hai been described and pictured in the pub-1 11c press, many questions have arisen," writes Mr. Record. "What kinds ol' woods are these? Whence did they come? What preservatives have kept them sound for thousands of yearsl How can these woods be Identified to day?" Professor Record's studies included the woods representative of the period ■ from 2900 B. C. to 1200 B. O. Wood 1 played an Important part In the lives of these Egyptians and It had to be hauled very long distances. Cedar he found to be one of their most prized woods, the most famous species being the cedar of Lebanon, which Is no myth, as some are Inclined to believe. The Egyptians used cedar extenslve • ly for coffins, boxes, large effigies and for such general purposes as we use white pine. They also used cypress, another wood of great durability. The gopher wood used in making the Ark of the Covenant was probably cypress, according to Professor Record. The yew, a tree noted for Its dura bility as the cedar and the cypress, was used by the Egyptians In the mak ing of bows, carvings and small Imple ments. Sycamore was used for mum my cases, but the sycamore of the ancients was a flg, an evergreen timber tree sometimes called a flg mulberry. These species were employed where large sizes were demanded, while In the manufacture of smaller articles the Egyptians used such local growth as was available, which apparently was limited to tamarisk, alder and other minor species. The Egyptians were skilled woodworkers, cabinet makers and wood carvers Wood veneering is not an ultra-mod ern accomplishment, but it Is In fact a practice of venerable antiquity. It was developed by the Egyptians sev eral thousand years before the birth of Christ. Professor Record found an admirable example of this craftsman ship In the coffin of the monarch Neph thyo from Melr, displayed In the Ninth Egyptian room of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. That these woods used by the Egyp tians pave endured the centuries. Pro fessor Record attributes to the dry climate of Egypt and not to any pre servatives employed. Professor Record identified the different woods by sub jecting them to Intensive study under the microscope and comparing their cell structure with that of the species as found growing today.—American Forestry Magazine. Across Empty Continent. Two explorers, seventy-year-old twins, by the bye, have just crossed Australia from south coast to north coast and back, covering nearly 6,000 miles In 67 days with- three motor cars. The explorers passed through vast stretches of country without sign of man or beast, an experience, Cap tain White considers, which most strinklngly Justifies the late Lord Northcllffe's lament over the folly and menace of the "Empty Continent." Mr. McCallum, one of the two broth ers, says he was amazed at the abun dance of fertile country through Which they passed in the interior, and Mentions one plain, 190 miles long and extending east and west as far as the eye can see, consisting of splendid alluvial soil. They passed through Superb pastoral areas with many rivers available for huge Irrigation schemes, but the development of! of these lands would be absolutely de pendent upon the building of a direct ftorth- south transcontinental line. Right to His Teeth. After a row with his dentist, Hoffy declared that he would have some thing to say to that gentleman. The boys at the club would not think { Hoffy would have the nerve. When he ! came in a week later they were not backward In putting the question di rect: "So you told the dentist what you tbought of him?" "Bald It to his teeth," he answered firmly. "When T" they asked. "Yesterday afternoon." "He was out of town yesterday after noon." Hoffy was not disconcerted st this. "1 told you I said it te his teeth." —Baltimore News. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. HELPING OUT THE FARM WIFE Mlmoucl Woman In Charge of Hom« Economics Work of Depart ment of Agriculture. A Missouri woman hus set out to make the lot of the farmer's wife easier. Dr. Louise Stanley, formerly dean of home economics at the Univer sity of Missouri, who recently was called to Washington to take charge of the home economics work of the Department of Agriculture, will eon- I duct a series of studies this winter Into the intimate problems of the farm home. The work of the government in nu ! trlflon studies and reports on prepara-; tion of foods Is to be carried on, but the Missouri woman will go Into phases of home management neglected In the past, says a Washington letter in the Kansas City Times. For example, here are some of the Questions her department will study this winter: * . How much would the farm wife con tribute to the farm income If her mani fold services were put down In terms of actual wages? What textiles wear best in children's clothing on the farm? If the farmer Is to build a new house how should t s e kitchen be arranged for maximum convenience? What sort of washing machine is cheapest for the farmer's wife to buy? Doctor Stanley has submitted her program to Secretary Wallace and it has' received his approval. She Will make the studies In order of their rela tive importance to ttie homemakers on the farm. "Studies of the cost of housing are at present needed. The cost of hous ing has Increased to a relatively greater extent than any other element in the household budget," said Doctor f Stanley. Estimates must be readjust ed, and more definite information as to the relation of this cost to running expenses obtained. IT REMINDED HIM OF BUNYAN Btory of Dr. Plumptre and Thackeray Apropoa of Ignoranoe In High Placet. Apropos of Ignorance in high places, the president of Magdalen college. Sir Herbert Warren, told an interesting story of Thackeray at the university extension inaugural meeting at Ox ford. y "Thaelteray," said Herbert, "ap peared In Oxford in various capacities, once as a political candidate, and on another occasion as a lecturer on "The ' Four Georges." He applied to J vice chancellor, Dr. Plumptre, master ] of university, who figures in "Verdant Green" as F. P.; for permission to lec-. ture, and the following conversation took place: "'Who are you?' asked Plumptre. "Thackeray replied: 'I am an ait ; thor. I think lam fairly well known.' '"Will you tell me the names of some of your works?' said the vice chancellor. " 'Weil,' said Thackeray, 'I think on the whole the work of mine which Is best known is "Vanity Fair."' " 'Oh,' replied Dr. Plumptre, 'I seem somehow to connect that with the name of Bunyan 1' " However, the vice chancellor was j sufficiently satisfied to allow Thackeray to deliver his lectures.—New York Evening Post. Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus, killed by the bite of a serpent on her wedding night. According to classical mythology, Orpheus followed Eurydice to Hades, where, by the music of his lyre, he so charmed Pluto, the grim ruler of the Infernal regions, that he won back his wife from this most In exorable of the deities. His wife, how- . ever, was restored to him only on con dition that he should not look back at her until they arrived In the upper world. When they had almost reached the limit of their Journey, Orpheus was go overcome by the anxiety of love that he looked around to see If Eury dice was following him, and beheld her being dragged back Into the in fernal regions- Right-Handedness. Of two pay telephones In a shop, the one on the right side took four times as much money as the one on the left. This curious Influence of the dominant side of the body was lately demon strated by evidence that speakers be fore a large audience have a tend ency to address the right-hand side If the speaker happens-to be left-handed. The same unconscious tendency may be seen In the schoolroom. Befors the Stars and Stripes. The flag which the colonies all used before the Stars and Stripes was adopted was variously known as the congress colors, the grand union flag, and the first navy ensign. It consist ed of 13 stripes, alternately red and white, typifying the 13 colonies, with j ■ union bearing the crosses of St. 1 George and St. Andrew combined—the . national flag of Great Britain— -s'lgni- j tying the mother country. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1923 Make South's Idle Lands "Blossom Like The Rose" ■ ■ _ . -*; v ; : t" '■ "* "?#'*« Wi I * ? ff Some of the cro.os produced on Southern cut-over la%Js. Top, field of sugar cane; below, Battle and Satsum.i Oranges. One of the principal objects cw the t Forestry Reclamation and Home-'ftlak- j lng Conference to be held In New Or- j leans, November 19 22 is to devise 1 ways and means for putting to some I useful purpose the vast areas of cut-' over, swamp and overflowed lands In the South. The conference will be j held under of the Southern Pine Association, Mississippi and I Florida Development Boards and New Orleans Association of Commerce, and i the people' of every southern state and community are considered to bo I vitally Interested in this movement. Several million acres of Irld land In the West have been made to "blos som like the rase" by reclamation through Irrigation projects financed and constructed by the federal govern ment. The South now is asking that she be allowed to share In this fed eral assistance so that those portions of her Idle lands suitable for agricul ture also may be ma'de to "blossom I like the rose." Many prosperous localities in the ! South which have been built up on ! cut-over lands furnish convincing proof that largo portions of the cut ; USE FOR SULPhiTE LlfliUli] Alcohol and Fuel to Be Derived Krort Paper Mill Wsste by New | Process. Waste sulphite liquid that now pours from paper mills Into rivers will b« utilized in manufacturing alcohol and fuel by means of a new chemical process recently discovered and thor oughly tested by chemical engineers. This announcement, considered one of the most important !n years In the paper industry, will be mu le before the cellulose division of the American Chemical society by I'rof. K. 11. McKee, head of the chemical department ol Columbia university, who was asso ciated with Dr. Max Kahn, New York, In the discovery und preparation of lntarv'n, one of the two c«-. t ; ,it !> dis covered substances tlint cheek dlu'-etex "At present, for in ry c ud of wood used In the paper nJ -i the manufac turer obtains 1,000 pounds of pulp and 1,000 gallons of waste sulpi ite liquor, which flows Into the rivers adjoining the plants, causing death of fi- ii, dis agreeable odors and i>t aer ini nven lences so great that 'v\ru nt la. h have been passed in son.e Mate , : r;d were they rigidly nfore. d. mills wnaal have to close down," deelswed Doctor McKee. "Under the new process this vas'• liquor will be fermented a:-.I n L"«)d grade of commercial alcohol obtained. Then after the alcohol has l-e.-u dis tilled off, the residua] material will be evaporated and may be used as fuel." —Milwaukee Journal, Again the Young Idea. Two small boys were talking togeth er on the beach. "I say, what's your father?" "He's an architect." "Huh; mine's not. He's a soldier."' "My father was a soldier In the war, ♦ too." "Huh, anybody can be a soldier when there's a war." —London Dally News. Tenshunl "You are nor listening to me," com plained Jane Muchmore at breakfast the other morning. "I didn't know you had said any thing. dear," returned the meek Mr. Muchmore. "I havent, but I expect to," said Jane. —Howard Courant. [ over and "Wet" tracts in tho South can be made as desirable agricultural lands as can be. found anywhere In America. The South today Is the pio net r country as it is the only section where low-priced farm homes can bo procured. The cost of reclaiming southern cut-over and "wet" lands Is said lo bo about one-fourth the cost of putting western arid lands In suit able condition for agriculture. At the Porefitry., Reclamation and Home-Making Conference in New Or leans the problem of utilizing and set tling the South's idle lands will be considered from all angles including reforestation, livestock raising, dairy ing, fruit growing and agriculture In all Its branches. It i» hoped the Con ference will result In an effective movement that will secure expan sion of the federal reclamation policy into national scope so that oth er sections than the West may bene fit from such assistance. All persons interested in the constructive devel opment of tho South are Invited to attend and participate In the New Or leans Conference a-id all southern congressmen nr" ur > d to support Its purpo "h. Diplomacy. The Young Bride (looking In win dow of jewelry store) —George, I'd love to have thnt bracelet". The Husband —I eiin't afford to buy It for you, dear. The Bride —But If you could, you would, wouldn't you? The Husband—l'm afftild not. The Bride—Why? The Ilushand —It Isn't good enough, dear. The Bride—Oh, you darling!— Life. Shortest of Sentences. Whijt is believed to be the record for short sentences pronounced in Fresno county, California, was im posed nn George L icht, charged with vagrancy. The Judge ordered Leleht held in custody fi>r flftei-n minutea, after which he was to b ;u • Fresijp. The llf'i -n-111in 11• sentence was j»rt> noiiri'i.; tit -eji.ir.ite f,«■ i 111 and his pal. ' l.ii hum uri'i -ted on the same Charge. Ca' /. ,\"e!! -Mr 1.. , kit d. ile Mid I t■ I \ ry . . iv ...id icry ar t:.-illl ti re. Bell —lno ed '! And m picture did yi,n tak«-, dear? i'i.ihidelphia Ledger. Appears PUusibls. l': >fe- i-• r ,vntlini!«4oKy—lt l» nald "that tlie t;i>" l inn . ;i> found in India, ti ed .!c fi>i-nfi nil . professor? i",o! -••• : iii ' 1.-mi' tnted, iVjiibt- I*. • hi;,;,- . ft. Gy~ta . id VVoireh. A Turd'ii. 'I, ih re lejit ri'oorjs of York c(,i;..iv, |.r«-ir.ed in the coijrt hmise at Alfred, Mi ~ mid women were not alln.ved nn the J,les df Shoals. One. (Hibernian I'f'Ttt-ft.t I,is wife there, at liie same time Importing Koine gorWs, Lengthy legal battles wfPTTr'wiiSed con eerning tlie mutter. Finally It was Fet tled that the goats must go but the wife could stay. Mixed Situation. Dnshaway—"Von say your sister will be down in a minute, Willie? That's good news. I thought perhaps she wanted to be excused, as she did the other day." Willie —"Not this time. I played a trick on her." Itashaway— "What did you doi" Willie-—*'l said you were another fellow I"—l.ondon Tit-Bits. DON'T "IMPROVE" ON NATURfc Introduction of English Sparrow If ; United States an Example of Its Unwlsdoj^. There have been some disastrous ex pertinents In the direction of "lmprov lug" on nature. For Instance, whet rats became such a nuisance in Ja maica the East Indian mongoose win Introduced to rid the Island of tin pest. But today the mongoose is e greater nuisance than the rat, and be Ing bigger und hungrier and qulckei| on Its feet it Is worse than tlic thing It was Introduced to destroy. A settler thought he would make home in a strange land more homelike by Introducing the British sparrow, 1 which hitherto had been unknown onj the other side of the Atlantic, sayi London Tit-Bits. Mr. Sparrow liked his new quarters and quickly made himself at borne, with disastrous re stilts to crops and native birds. And what shall be said of the col onlst who brought a pair of rabbits from English ileitis so that they might breed and supply him with his favorite rabbit pie? There are enough rabbit* In Australia today to make rabbit pie for the entire population of the earth. The authorities have spent millions of pounds In efforts to exterminate them, but they still go on breeding and eating tlio grass the sheep should have. MUST CHANGE MAP OF ETNA Recent Eruption of the Sicilian Vol cano Probably Has Made Great Alterations. Seventeen years ago when Vesuvius was angry all maps had to be rectified, after the eruption. The extreme sum mit of the mountain had become con siderably lower and the crater was much deeper. Now the Etna eruption! was much more violent than that of Vesuvius, which means probably the I sides of the Sicilian volcano will also! have to be changed on the mnp. In spite of Its great activity the' eruption of Vesuvius can he observed! from one end to the other by an ex-' pert. Doctor Matteuccl spent three days and three nights In a recess oft the smoking erijfer.. He was thought .to be dead. When he returned he could not hide his Joy, not at having escaped death by a miracle, but at being able to make observations on the spot of this tremendous phenomenon, of which he hnd been certainly a most Indiscreet witness. Ills successor, Professor Mriladrn, has been observing the different phase t of fiie recent Etna convulsions. But he was not able to approach as near as fioctor Matteuccl on Vesuvius. — L'Oplnion. Nudity In Ears. Women's ears will soon lie visible —prophesy American hairdressers. Can It he? Are years of invisibility to go fill" naught and, as modesty shriek ing flies, Is another, and the last, limb to be uncovered in surrender to fash- Ion? So long has the world gone without a glimpse of woman's ears that It will await with skepticism the emergencies of the mythical-tinted shells. While ail along It has been suspeeted that girls were equipped with auditory ap paratus, because of the quickness with! which they could hear nn Invitation to the movies, It will require Ihe actual appearance of feminine ears to reas sure man as to their existence. Then the shocking nudity of ears will call for the creation of a League of Nations branch to deal with the problem.— Washington Post. Hindus Great Cotton Spinners. Six or seven centuries before Christ the Hindus bad attained great profi ciency in the art of spinning, weaving and printing cotton. Some 'if their fab rics were so exquisitely fine that they have been compared with gossamer web, says the Detroit News. They were highly prized and available only for the princes and nobles of ttie land; ; the coarser weaves served as clothing for the common people. Following the trail from India to Europe bin zed by Alexander the Great, commerce has since continued to flow back and forth between these two con tinents. By no means the least valu able of the commodities that moved In the stately caravans over hundreds of miles of Intervening desert and plain were the beautiful fabrics of cotton. Movie of Aching Tooth. An aching tooth In action 1( the lnte*t subject for the movies In France. It IK In a film used In a eru-1 sade to Improve the teeth of the peo ple. The film pictures n throbbing nerve In its most excruciating stages, i and those who saw the picture attest to its vivid accuracy. _ *■ Rats Destroy Coconut*. Serious damage throughout the vast coconut groves of British Honduras hus been discovered to be due to rtt ,, which climb the trees during the dry season and attack young coconuts to quench their thirst. The Spider. We gnve some perfunctory admlra! tion to the landscape, which Is Indee-i only beautiful to those who aduiir iand, ami to them perhaps the mrn beautiful in England. For here is tii body df the great chalk spider wfi straddles over our island—whose leg ure the south, downs and the nort; downs and tl*- Chllterns, and the tip of whose rues poke out at Cromer ani Dover. He Is a clean creature, wli grows as few trees a.s he can, and thoa few In tidy (lumps, and he loves to l> tickled by quickly flowing streams. I! Is pimpled all over with earthwork? for from the beginning of time inci have fought for the privilege of stand ing on him, and the oldest of our teni pies Is built upon his back.—E. M Forster, in "The Celestial Omnibus." Deserts Not Without Water. The vast stretches lying betweet the Sit rra h;.i and California am the eastern fordillerun ranges mountains) in the L'nit' d States, ant between the pacific ocean and tin eastern Sierra Ma ire of Mexico, ei n stlllite the great American desert, i: superficially waterless. Its plains a i • usually barren of surface water savi for an exceptional saline lagoon. Not withstanding the apparent scarcity " water, one of the most remarkable fea tures of the great American desert ii that water has been secured often it apparently impossible places and ■!:! quantities that have made possible tin existence of cities and industries, sayi the Detroit News. Fish Has a N?sal Pocket. Fishes possess n smelling faculty. At examination of the. nostrils of n lis* reveals the fact that they are not nccted with the air tube system, as it most animals, but lend into blind pock ets lined with delicate membranes wel supplied with nerves, in fishes watei Is not drawn through the nostrils, hut; merely Into the small pockets, nncj these may he emptied and refill. I says the Detroit News. The qiuintitjl of water brought Into contact with tin; nerves of smell must be comparatively small. In some few fishes, as in tin globe fishes and puffurs, for example ( there Is no nasal pocket, the nerve-i being directed into external processes . Diet Affects Bird Colors. ""*! By varying the diet of birds, Profes! sor Ehrenrelch of Berlin has succeeded In chungltig the coloring of their feath | ers. Certain foods will cause red anii; green parrots to turn yellow. His ex P"rlments tend fo show that a bird's j [- '.image depends largely on the dye s'litf;* contained In food, says the De-| 11 "It News. Dyestuffs put In chicken feed a fleet s the hue of egg yolks to ij considerable degree. Caterpillars fid exclusively on walnut foliage become j dark butterflies. Indians have long un-j derstood the art of changing the color of living birds through the diet method j Men's Souls Are Tricky Things. As a matter of precaution I would advise •womeii to leave tlie souls of men alone, especially their adolescent souls. They consist entirely of amor phous spiritual substances. They have as many rit. ,'s of sentiment and vapor ous eloquence around them as tlei planet Saturn. It is easy to guide one of the pulpy things into the church; but when you have done it you do not know whether y >ll have committed a blessing or an act of salvation.—Cora Harris In the Sat urday Evening Post. Haddon Hall. Iladdon Hall Is a famous mansion In Derbyshire, I.upland, 23 miles north west of Derby, which has been occu pied successfully by the Avenelis, Ver nons, and Rutland*. The building Is In an excellent state of preservation, and represents three different orders of architectures—the Pointed Gothic,! the Tudor, and the Elizabethan. No ! additions to the structure have been made since the Sixteenth century. Reference to lluddou Hull Is made In Sir Walter Scott's "I'everli of the Peak." Animals Froicn for.Centurle*. The Smithsonian Institution itnygj that cadaverx, or bodies, of the norih-1 era mastodon and tln- hairy rhinoceros, have been found In tlie ice of Siberia. Wolves, dogs nnd bears art? said to have eaten of the frozen flesh as It; thawed out. Small portions of the muscular tissues, skin covered with hafr, stomach contents, etc., of »me of : these frozen specimens of the mam-j moth are on exhibition In the Unitedj States National niuseifm. One Way to Look at It. Little Girl in ISox (at the play)—j I didn't think the lady wus so bad, muiiiuiy. "Bad? Why, what do you mean?" j "That they should make her 'do It •ver."-^Llfe. Fading Affection. "You don't love me any more; you [ don't even tell rne that I make you ! sick."—l'nrls Journal Amusant. We like the cockney version better. 1 "You dahn't knock me abaht." —iioe*, fc'D Transcript. NO. 33 BILL BOOSTER SAYS * Oe.(Wi3; AS HOVJ 1 OOMf RK p&er -TO UVE more TUAM A COUvH-E OF HUVJOfcSO N6A&S UOUGtER, AMD COUS'OHSMViG,- AIA THE. THWQS V NAkif XQ 00, t PiQiC ER. \ AUT GOT A M\UUTE To VJAVTE KkWCKiMO- AUD ViOLF\Ur ABOUT V OOUX* UKE« Ilk, i [l Breeding Snakes. *1 The breeding of snakes has hf-«oM J a reeocn!zel industry. The «kln if | the- snake is used in nmking/ many 1 leather r. .veltles, while the fat of the I silnke's car-as# a:i oil wl±l.h is j valued in he treatn ent of n liar 1 rheumatism. Even for the sn -*-*s ] venom there is a market, since It .as a recognized medicinal value and tads j a ready sa'e pmong physicians and : chemists. I Business Before \ "I'arllni-'." exclaimed the happy bos band after ttie minister had pro- * nounced the frtu: words. "I am not w rtiiy of yo i." "Of course you are not." ahe r«-i■; ed ; "hut a"!er a gi—L has celebrated h. r twenty-fifth birthday for five cous'i'Utive years she an't afford to he toe particular."—Clxl*« nati I Inquirer. td 6 1 * is a Prescription for Colds, ' Fever and LaGnppe. It'stne ! most srjceuv remedy we Know, preventing Pneu monia. PROFIT ..UNAL wAKL>d J. ii. BALL, v. C. i riiKomitOi .servuii.-. ...id I'hr >uu- U •.v.-cwfea, . in . i ,ii i •.%, \ Ottire: lit Hi, iclt'j.a .ii. •(.,». . . ~o . UK LUVjK S\ i . ;iL •*. i rk.ijra4;, -iii.i JU , O A A. 1 A M . ;> . C . %» ."lair a .villi -I ~:n .1. I! • .J.-iNoi:. O.it t' oii-r Siillu..;u iliiik oi vl..ui nice i.iJ vWS U. CQQi'Eii, AUomcy and Coutiivilor-.it-.Law, BURLING FON, N. C, Associated wil'.i W. S. CoulUt, N'.. *45 lurst N •%oua! Br.uk Si«%. J>. t, iHOOi\, Jr., iwa. D. (■ruiiam, .N. t. it * «. vei I-' iieti I >ru_- i u. • I ■«-; - itt .I ami 7 tu 1 ,i. iii , ami »y n' iiic*!*t. i'iioue V GrfAHAivl HARDKiM, M. D. Burllagtoo, N. C. Office Hours: y to 11 a. a», and Uy uppoiatnii iu Oiliie Over Afiue. i>rug Co. frltSibiWti ottice ! 10— Keaideace *itil JOdN J. UENDERSOS Attorney ai-Law 'JKAIIAM, N. C. Jlllce over National Bank ol Alamane r, s. co o '^z y Attofn.jf-nt- Lmi e KAHAM, ... N. C once Patterson Building g«cond floor. . , !»li. \Vli,L^l,i)\lJ..!R. DEN-HST ? ! I [ reiim, - - * - Cmrt 'lna i )FFICfc. IN PARIS BUILDING