VOL. XLIX
LESSENING FERTILIZER COST
Nitrogen From Air and Hydrogen
From Water Combine to Make
' Cheap Ammonia.
Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers ualng
ammonia as a principal Ingredient,
may be made at prices to feompete with
those using nitrogen from such natu
ral bources as Chile saltpeter, Charles
0. Brown, consulting chemist of Provi
dence, told members of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers. The
nitrogen may be derived from the air
by any one of several processes; the
hydrogen, which is the other compo
nent of umomnla, may be had from
water.
Economy in production of hydrogen
from wa,t«rf, which is a well-known
method, may be effected, Mr. Brown
said, through use of a special type of
electric cell and through utilization of
electricity from hydro-electric power
plants at other times than that of the
peak load. It Is cheaper, he said, to
sell such power at a low rate than
to waste it, und the manufacture of
hydrogen offers a profitable use for It.
Another good source of hydrogen, In
the opinion, is gnses of coke
ovens. These aro two chief sources
for what he termed "by-product, hy
drogen." Such secondary methods of
manufacture were the most suitable
oent of ammonia, may be had ffc>m
Mr. Brown declared. r
Mr. Brown predicted that hydrogen
, may be produced from 1 coke ovens at
the cost of 20 cents per 1,000 feet, and
from water at from 28 to 88 cents,
depending on the cost of ihe electricity
u.ied. The production cost of anhy
drous ammonia, using "by-product hy
drogen," ho figured as from 8.84 to
6.32 cents a pound, which would en
. able the production of commercial fer
■ tillzer at a lower cost than that now
made from natural sources of ammonia
and nitre ,;en. #
ROOTING HURTS THE VOICE
Professor In University Says Vocal
Lessons Are Useless After Big
Football Game.
Discovered—the reason why schools
of music never have football teams.
Voice pupllta would be " hoarse u
goats for half of ihe week followMf
every game and the ears of the rest
of the students would be way off
standard, due to heavy duty In the
4 cheering section.
This is vouched for by Prof. E. O.
.Kllleen, instructor in voice at the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
Professor Kllleen says he woold
never have to attend a game nor read
a newspaper to know how a Minnesota
football contest came out He would
be able to reconstruct the game at
soon as lessons began Monday morn
ing.
Voice students were practically 100
per cent casualties following the Mln
nesota-loWa game and at the close of
the Northwestern ga*ne, In which Min
nesota was victorious.. Voice lessons
went off smoothly the after Min
nesota lost to Michigan a game eo,.
fiir away that relatively few were
present. \
Professor Kllleen's keenest disap
pointment came th 6 week after the
lowa game. One of -his pupils is an
oboe player in the Minneapolis a Sym
phony orchestra. * *
He expected this voice at least to b«
dear and accurate. \
When the man tried to sing it sound
ed like putting the brakes on a train
of heavily loaded flatcars.
Even the oboe plftyer had been to
the football game.
v Liberty Bell Alwaye on View.
The Liberty bell, treasured Ameri
can relic, will be made visible to die
public, day and night, summer and
winter, under plans being formulated
by Wilfred Jordan, curator of Inde
pendence'"hall, where the bell rests.
Heretofore thousands of visitors have
failed to see the -famous old bell be
cause the building is closed to the
public during certain hours. Under
the hew plan It Is proposed to place at
the rear portals of Independence hall
a Georgian grill of wrought iron work,
fo open In character that the bell may'
be clearly seen at all times. At night
It will be illuminated with flooihgbta.
" Ba °®
Ifttuj % order ts
.be independent. They «hoa!d rather
seek character, the only true source
o Independence.
Pessimists and Optimists.
A pessimist is a man who In every
opportunity sees a difficulty—an op
timist, one who in every difficulty sec*
an oppor unity.
Human Nature Unruly.
Human nature began a good many
thousand year* ago; and It la still un
ruly. Perhaps It outfit to be, to b«
healthy.
First Meerschaum Pipe
11m lint meerschaum pipe waa
made 200 years ago by a Hungarian
shoemaker who was a dsver woo*
carver. ' .
*
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
. .... s
CAUGHT INPASSING j
Laugh at trouble and sometimes
you can make It smile faintly.
Occasionally Conscience Itself Is af
flicted with a case of "nerves.'* •
Bad luck always gets tired eat,
sooner or later.
Uncongenial as one may be, other*
will like him better If he laughs at
their Jokes.
Men invent women's fashions, bat
.within a 12-month women have added
a hundred amendments.-
A plain blunt man sometimes en
joys a reputation for wisdom In his
commonplaces.
Those who like the solitude of the
wilds are made to feel that they ought
to apologize for It
One of the great influences for
home staying at nights Is the high
way man.
No one wants to be left out In tha
cold through not knowing the catch
phrase of the popular song.
No one wants children: to tell any*
thing but the truth, but discretion la
harder to teach thetn.
The man who doesJPt talk has lesa
repenting to do than the garrulous In
dividual.
The iiunter who Is chased by a bear
Is lucky If he comes out ahead of the
game.
The weight of a woman's first bak
ing is usually twice the weight of tha
Ingredients.
Popularity, If purchased at the a»
pense of base condescension to Vice,
is a disgrace to the possessor.
WTiat nobler employment than that
of the man'who Instructs the rising
generation!
There is nothing more difficult to
find than perfection.
He takes the greatest ornament
h-om friendship who tnkea modesty
from it. ' _ "
- DurLdg the whole of Our life wa
ought not to depart a nail's breadth
from a pure conscience.
Many men recognize nothing as
good unless it Is also profitable.
There can be no true friendship
that is not founded on virtuous prin
ciples. ' ' • *
When a man will not Uaten to tha
truth, even from a 'friend, his condi
tion Is desperate. - V l '
Perhaps Adam wanted to leave Eden
because the rales wouldn't 'Mow him
to eat any of the snltnaft.
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Roman Dentists Capped
Teeth Centuries Ago
There are specimen# iii'th6 museums
in Italy which show that (he Romans
capped teeth and did bridge work ot
various kinds In gold, ahd probably
also used fold wire In various ways
for the fixation of loose teeth.
The RomantJransplanted teeth and 
a slave maiden was sometimes re
quired to give ap a tooth to be Im
planted in her mistress' mouth, after
she had lost one for any reason..
Ia oae of the law* of the Twelve
Tablets at Rome, the date of which I
is not later than 460 B. G, It was I
forbidden to bury gold with a corpse,'
except such gold as was -fosMhsd to
the teeth-—Detroit News. - _ (
Penetration of Light
The limit that light can pane
trate the ocean Is somewhere between
000 and 000 fathoms, which Is 8,000 to'
6,406 feet The penetration of light
rays Into the deaths of tha ocean Is
measured by a photometer. Seme of.
the light rays are reflected, ethenr pen
etrate and are gradually absorbed at I
different depths, according to the wave J
length and to the clearness sf tha wa
ter. The dark rays aro absorbed most;
quickly In the uppermost layers; the
light rays penetrate deeper, while tha
bine rays penetrate deepest of aIL
The Omnipresent
"The late Bishop Tattle," said a St
Louis man, liked to drive home his
statements with an anecdote.
"He told me once about a five-yes*
old boy prodigy who was questioned
by a cardinal. - *
'"My boy,' the cardinal said, tell
me where Ood Is and m give yon an
apple.' 
" 1 -will give your eminence a bar
rel of apples,' said the boy, "U youH
tell me where he lq. not,' **
"Augean f -w— "
Augeas, king of Ella, kept a herd of
three thousand . osetf In his stables, I
which lisd not been cleaned for thirty
years. Hercutes performed tha labor I
of cleaning them In one day by tarn
ting into them the rivers Alpbeus sad :
Peneus. 'Ala Is the scesuat glvsa la
various mythologies. The phrass Is
used to signify aa accumulation of cor
ruption almost beyond the power st
man to remove. v '
Apples Breathe Like Humana,
Scientists have found that applet
breathe Just as human lungs d* A a
apparatus has been perfected by which
the taking In of oxygen la meaeared,
the moat successful experiment hating
been performed with the eeeds 0f New
town pippins. The seeds, In addition
to taking in oxygen, give of carbon
dioxide. i
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f;,*i i 51 /?. gt
Cost of the War.
Attempts havgJbasn made by a amo
ber of statisticians and economists to
compute tha money seat of tho World
war. The results arrived at vary.
According to the estimates sC Profes
sor Bogart, under the auspices of the
Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, the direct costs were $186,338.-
037,697, and the Indirect coeta $151,*
612,5412,660. making a* grand total ef
988T.MUT9.MT. I, v
Fighting Pieties,
w Prise-lighting JUhfs are very com
mon on the coast ef Japan and Slam.
Their pugilistic tendenclea ace most
pronounced, so much-so that the na
tlvea make them take the place ef
boxers la Slam, sad arrange matches
la glaaa bowls between two* of . the
species, heavy beta, being laid On tha
result
Ne Kissing In South Seas.
Another "close-up" finale is being
attacked The South Sea islands are
| often the acene of romantic stories
and acenarloe, traveler from
there has remarked on the fact that
there are no caatoms there which In
clude kissing among the savages.
Trees of North America.
-The following are some of the moat
important treea that are found in their
native state only In North /America:
Hickory, ball cypress, sequoia (both
species), yellow poplar, Arizona cy
press, white pine, western yellow pine
and Douglas |r.
Discovery of X-Raya.
The property of X-rays to penetrate
solid matter -was discovered by acci
dent through 'leaving a key on top of
a desk beneiOi which-, photographic
platea were kept When the plates
were developed the ahadow of tha key
waa seen.
Apea 4d Rick eta.
Although mummified apea of an
cient Egypt show evidence of rickets,
no definite evidence of thla dlaeaao
has yet been found In the numerous
human bodies exhumed from ancient
graves of that land. ' . > '
Seawssd as Remedy.
Chinese doctors have been success
ful in curing certain akta diseases
with extracts from seaweed. Experi
ments In this direction are now being
carried out In Paris and other Euro
pean cities. .f. . •
Marriage In Egypt
In Egypt the ordinary marriage"
takes plsce at a very early age. Many
of the bridea are little mora than ten
years sf age, and few have passed fif
teen on their wedding day.
 "Scribes" Used te Be Fighters.
A scribe wss a ngtne used among
tha Jews orlglaally to Indicate s mil
itary officer, bat later the cognomen
was given to those who copied the
books the law. '•>
X ' " „
Afraid of Leather.
Mohammedans always . look on '
leather with Suapldoa aa pig's akin.
The Koran, therefore, according to
the moat orthodox directions. Is bound
In doth.
✓ j
New ths desk's O. K. Again.
Clocks do not run faster during tha ,
night thsn the daytime, claims en* as- ,
trsnomer, who hss s six-iach transit
. circle with which he tells ths accuracy
of time,
| . Her Baey Dsy. r
I The, Supervisor—"Why did yon give
'thst party the busy sigaalt There'
waa no 000 oa the line." The Oper
ator—"l waa busy—dotng my nails." I
* Easy for Hsr. ' J
It Isn't necessary for a woman te ha
an expert mathematldsn In order to
' calculate how much her husband-would
sate In a year If he quit smoking.'' "
Placability.
Nothing la more praiseworthy, noth
ing more Suited to s great and Illus
trious msn thsn placability. sad n
merciful disposition.
Cruel and Unusual.
Every alien should be required to
live here ten yssrs before boasting of
hb ancestors who came over oa tho
Msyfiower. '
What Olhets Observe.
I Without yonr knowledge, the eyes
sad ears of masy will see sad watch
you. ss they have doae already^—
Cicero, »■
flllfCUl
ffuiL'Bf eoßilitf la good fortune,
allied to good design—lf ths latter be
waa ting sncceaa la altogether Impos
sible.
Sounds Like sn Old Saw.
Nostrils, swath and samll tseth sf
ths SBWSafe aro dh the under asrfses
of thq hsad aear ths baae sf tboaaw. »
A fow who would like grsalaaaa, ds
Set wish it to bo a bethsr to thorns '
b«t ft always Is s botbsr.
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WILD TURKEY LIKES TC i'AIL
UMI Wing* Mora Than la Suppotad—•
Votoanaa Down Mountain Slooa
at Express Train Spaed.
Wild turkeys use their wlngß wore
than la supposed; (or going to and com
ing from the roost; when disturbed;
often to come together from consider
able distances changing tlieir
■feeding grounds, aad sometimes the/
will fly Into tall trees apparently just
to spy out the land. In mountainous
country turkeys do a good deul of sail
ing down long slopes. This wild vol
planing Is a most beautiful and Imprea
slv* flight downward and the rush of
the wind through these mokes a sound
Ilk* a howling shrapnel. The speed is
terrific, and It Is checked by the birds J
gracefully swerving to one side ere
they coma to ground. On several occa
sions I hav* attempted to time such
flight, having the birds In fall view and
knowing approximately the distance
covered. Unless my estimate was
wholly wrong, turkeys can volplane
down a two-mile mountain slope In a
shad* over a minute and a half. An
other fly of about three mile*; Includ
ing a dip to,«' distant rldg«, seemed to
be made la thr** minute* flat. Bat.
such speed, audit* the circumstances, j
la not extraordinary when we remem-1
b*r that a grseh-wlngad teal, along a I
straight river reach, has been timed at ]
180 miles an boar. The speed of wild
things Is at laast on* insurance policy
they carry against extermination.
Tb* caaa of the wild turkey la excit
ing in ita promise. Here Is a great
bird for long la many states oa tha
' verge of extinction, BOW comtag bade
la all bis regal stateltoess Nor Is tha
mar* kill lag of him tb* only sport that
bis ratora affords. His presence one*
, more la oar tenets Invests them with
I tha spirit of primeval wildaess that no
I man wishes this country "*r wholly to
. lo*fc—Archibald llatl*dg*. la tb* New
T*rk Indcpeadent.
* Car* *f Hide*.
Only *oaad hide* free from cats en
the flesh side; well taken *ff, of rago*
lar even pattern, properly aalted and
cured, can command n high price and
kiake good leather. Greater care must
: ba taken In rammer than In winter In
I salting, caring and marketing bides,
I **p*clally by th* farmer or tb* coon-
I try butcher wbo has only an occa
sloaal hide to cure, Partly dacayad
bides are practically oseles*.
Made Bald by Collars,
y A French hair specinllsr~*aya that,
starched collars are the chief cause
of men's baldness. Women an not
bald at forty as men are becaas* th*y |
do not wear tltrlst or stllf collara that
press on veins and bldod-vesstls sad
tlius prevent healthy blood circulation.'
L
Water Baga of Indian Army.
The water Is carried In goatskla'
bags In th* Indian army because tha
religion of the various soldiers Inter
| feres with the use of any other kind,
' The Mohammedans cannot drink from
a bag made of pigskin, and the Illndaa
caaaot drink from ooe of calfakla.
' A Prlsonar'a Observation.
Bald-Healed Magistrate—'-If bait
of what the witnesses have said
against yon Is true, your consdenca
most bo as' black as yoar hair." Pria* J
oner—"lf you judge a man's con-|
Isdsac* by his hair, you cannot bava
a conscience at aIL"
Hav* Yoar o*ld Seal* Tested.
• Standard flaeaasa of all gold aad sll>
Iver colas Is *OO, bat a variatioa of.
thro* oa*Tb*as*adths Is .allowed far 1
■Over coins, wbll* a deviation of bat;
so* on*-thousandth far the gold Mbl
Is a*t permitted. . 2
USE BREAD TO CLEAN WATCH
Doagh fraaa Small Parte of Tlmaplao*
of Oil, Chip* of Motel and
Other Thing*
Although the custom Is very old, few
people realise that bread la extensively
used in the making of watches. From
very early tildes It has been th* prac
tice of watchmaker* to employ a doagb
made by kneading fresh bread with
water to remove foreign matters from
the parts of timekeepers.
I Curiously enough, there Is no known
substanc* which 'Will so completely
free th* small parts of a watch from
oil and chips of metal a* bread dough.
After rubbing with th* dough, the
metal Is absolutely clean. Evefy other
substance which has been tried tends
■ to leave some of its own fragments on
the metal. One of the world's largest
factories uses 80 loaves of bread a day
for this sol* purpose.
To the astronomer, the threads which
certs'n kinds of spiders weave are of
the utmost value. They are used for
bisecting the screw of the micrometer
used for determining the positions and
moveqwnta of ttie stars, snd no sub
j stltute for them has yet been found.
The minute strands of this spider's
thread are remarkably line, not exceed
ing one-fifth to orfe-seventh of a thou
sandth'of an inch In diameter, m com
parison, the tliread of a silkworm is
thick and clumsy. It is not
fineness of the spider's thread*" which
makes It so useful, for, in addition,' it
Is amazingly durable. Spider threads
can endure great variations In temper
ature without undergoing any change.
In measuring sunspots, when the heat
Is so great that th* lenses are cracked,
the spider thread will be uninjured.—
8. Leonard Bastln In St. Nicholaa Mag
azine.^
BELLS WERE SPOILS OF WAR
Qr*at Prld* Tak*n by th* Belgian* and
Cltl** of Holland In Th*lr
, Carillon*.
Prom the Sixteenth to the Seven
teenth centuries carillons (sets of bells
played by machinery or by finger
k*ys) were often treated as spoils of
) war in the low countries, aad especial
havoc was wrought st tha end of that
period Wbea tb* French Invaders sap
pressed tb* abbeys la Belgium. Bells
captnrad In war were sometimes recast
Into cannon or carried away as
trophies, or, again, they were ransomed
aa a town's most prised possession.
When a city bought a carlllVn It was
formally welcomed oa Its arrival by
city officials aad peopl*, aad amid re
joicings th* bells were consecrated -
j with elaborate ceremony.. M*n and
| women of nobl* rank stood sponsors..
I Carillons then were. In fact, «*ta*m*d
j an Mseatlal part of th* useful *qulp
i ment aa well as tb* srtlstlc adornment
of a progressive Netherlandish city.
Their care, their proper playlag, their
enlargement, were constantly under
discussion. Even th* referendum was/
omployad to dodd* questions relating
fta them. Towns wer* rivals for pro
antfnenca In tha earllloa art and b*D
Blasters and ball makers wars aa
teamed dtlseas of great coosequeac*
—Detroit News. '
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Cbsno* for a Comeback.
It may bo true that the old homo
ain't what It usOd to be, as the song
safs, bat SOBM of Its glory could bo
r*covered If th* girls would learn how
to make real pie.—Wabash TUne*-Btar.
A
Gold at Bottom of Sea.
It la estimated that a total of SO,-
000,000/000 la gold went to the bottom
of the seas during the four years of
the World wsr, sent Uiere by torpo
doea and other disasters.
What They Think.
* At (bo marriage altar they take
each other for better or for worse. A'
little later,h* thinks It couldn't have
been worse sbd she thinks aho^lg^t
I have done "better. *
Man'e H*r**p*w*r.
I Compared with other motors, a la
boring man has been rated by French
. Investigators as having aboat one
seventh horsepower and sn efficiency
I of 80 per cent
Sin Not Against Own Soul.
Never Mt a man Imagine that he
can pursue s good end by evil meana,
without alnnlng against his own soul.
Tha evil effect oa himself Is certain.—
Sou they.
Medieval Til** Baautlfully Mad*.
I Tiles mad* In Cairo and Damascus
In medieval times are of such beauty
that squares of nine or sixteen are
oftea sold for hundreds of dollars.
i— .
Old Mlnaral Record*.
The earliest records of mineralogy
arc lists of minerals with desertptioas
that were compiled by Tboopbrastas
four centuries before Christ.
! , Have Patleno*.^
• There ar* many dirty roads to ba
' crossed la Ufa, .bat with a little pa
tience you will always ba able to And
| a dean crossing,
■ I*3 •
SHORT StlltES
Ths Qlftla.
"Wha' brand 0' bacca are ye sad*
ta\ Jockr* , /
i dinna ask him 1"
AH Stale.
"Why dont you write aome problem
novels r*
"I can't think of any novel prob
lems."
>
Lsys It on Thicker.
"Agnes 4s looking as young as ever."
"Yes. bat *ae says It coats her mora
every year." »
* Not Far Removed.
Irate Individual—lt seems to
air, that you are not far removed from
an idiot
Tho Other—Only about a' yard.
80 to Bpeak.
"writ Is this study of eosUlfetlesl"
"An» applied science, I believe."
Evidence.
"Do pupils really love teacherT"
"Well, they frequently marry him."
V »i ■
\ No Hog.
Passenger—l'd give you a tip, only
INe nothing but a $lO bill.
Porter—Oh, that'll be enough, sir.
Mean Inference.
KMy husb:ind declares he married
for beauty and brains."
"Oh, then you're not his first wlfeT*
Tiyned Down.
Ho—l'm a man of the old school.
Bh'e— Well, I dismissed that daaa
aome tltne ago. ',
New Standards.
Ad in Exchange—"For rent: Six
room modern cottage. No pets, piano
or children. Only respectable people
wanted." _
* I
Modern Science Discovers
Secret of Making Violins
Modern science at last appeals to
have rediscovered the secret of mak
ing supervlollns—a secret that waa
understood by Btradlvari and other
old masters of the Seventeenth cen
tury, and that was buried with them.
Analysis of the thin wood sections
of tha violins of the old masters has
been made by a European Chemist,
who has discovered thst the secret of
their tone ley In Imparting an artifi
cial uniformity to the wood, aa effect
produced by an oil treatment com
bined with months of sun-drying and
a special varnish.
Violins constructed according to the
methods which the laboratory revealed
t are aald to match tha old master in
struments fit tops.—Popular Science
Monthly.
Lot Them Hsve Their Wsy.
Sums ladles presented a amall em
bolic statue to their community.
1 Space was allotted in tha court
honse grounds, bnt when tho figure
waa aet up It did not fhes ths court
house. Ths Iswysis dsdarsd ths 
ststus should be turned around. Ifes '
ladles said they bad no objection to
ft* facing the courthouse, bdt an
nounced firmly that It would not ba
turned around. Whereupon the ques
tion was put up to the mayor.
,"Wbstsver ths ladles want they
' tiball have," decreed that worthy.
"We'll Just move the eourthoasa,"
Tho two men went Into a country
lan In order to obt4in some refresh- '
merit*.
The drinks were about to be paid
for by one when the other broke in.
"Look here," be exclaimed, "I've
been ataylng at your house throe
months. You've looked after me very
well. You've'taken me to tbeatsn and
yon hsve always paid. Pair play.'
,You mustn't pay for this drink."
"But—" began the other.
"No, no," said the second man,
Twe'll toss for It"
Thst Queetlon of Age.
A pretty slxl'-en year-old flapper at
tended a dunce the other night had
while taking lunch afterward at a cafe
saw one of the leading citizens of tha
town In the cs.'s. "I never was so
shocked in ny life," she said In re
counting tho ex[>erlenee, "as when I
went Into the restaurant and saw him
there. Why, he's forty If he's s day.
Think of him being there at one
o'dock In the morning."—Great Bend
Tribune. ,
~
Social Complication.
"What makes Mrs. Fllmgllt's butlsr
so extremely surly?'
"He has to be,'* replied Miss Cay
enne. "There is s report that be Is
, a nobleman forced to earn his living.
, He-has to keep his distance for fear
, they'll try. to treat Ijlm like oncM tha
family."
-'■ ,i" 4lt' 1 ' ".' Vf
Isle of Cay lon Crowded.
1 The area of Island of Ceylon Is
. about the some ftfc.tba'lt'ufr'W,#* Vlr
[ pnla and on It live mors people thsn
•jlber. .« ' - |
*049
Sticking to Hl* Story.
Jenkins tola his wife b« «u foteg
Ashing, bat Instead went to a footbtiHi
match. On hla way be. entered a flah- |
monger's and told tbem to send sod*
flab home at a certain time. t
But Bab wa* scarce that da*. «nf 1
aome coda* heada were sent instead.;
"Well," exclaimed Jenkins when lb* %
arrived home, "did yon get the flab f 1
aentr^
"I rot a lot of cods' heada," replied
the wife.
"That's right," said Jenklna, cheer
ly. "The flab were that strong that bo
fore I conld land 'em t'hafl to pall fi
their heads off." "
Electric Chair First Uaed In 18MC
The electric chair was not, strictly I
speaking, Invented. U waa known that '
electric current would kill, and expert* 1
ments In killing animals by this gi
bad been made. A New York com> .
ra (salon waa appointed to Inveatlgatf 1
humane waya of Inflicting the death fi
penalty. This commission reported ta '5
1888, and In that report suggested the
construction of a chair In which the >
criminal could be placed for efectro
cut ion. JSuch a chair was dfcvlaed by '
the state electrician for New York, y. 1
F. Davis, and appears to bare beat . *
first need In 189 a
Highly Flattered.
The vicar of a pariah in the west of
England fell ill one Saturday afternoon
and Q certain famous canon who
happened to be staying in the neigh* ,
borhood Consented to conduct the serr- 1
Ices on Sunday.
♦t the close of evening service tba.
church t wardens aaaembled U> tba
vestry to thank him.
It'a very kind of you, we*m aunv
sir," said one of them. "A much worser
man than you would have done for
we, but we couldn't flnd one."
' W
Very Likely. '>'/&
A girl seldom baa occasion to erf
. tor help when a young man kisses her
—probably because be Is able to help
himself.
Woman and Her BeereC
A woman may be able to do her own
houaework, but ahe always baa to gel
aome other woman to .Kelp her keep*
secret. ~ 3a
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Timber In Mlaesi
Tba consumption of timber fa
mines of the United State* has prae*
tlcally doubled within tba last tweatx
years.
Yams Net Swoet Potatoes. -j
True yams are entirely distinct from
sweet potatoes and are much like tba
Irish potato tn composition and toot
value. 1 f > •
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
J. B. BALL, D.C:. M
Kervoua and Chrimio
BURLINGTON, N. O.
ORee: Over Mlaa Alloe Rewlaad* Mm,
Tritpbise.MiflN.Ml. Msrtfloses. m.
LOVICK H. KERNODLE,
Attovncjr-nt&nw,
GRAB AM. N. C, Jlj
AMOCISUMI with John J. Heatfersoa.
odlre over Matleaal Bask at Ala BUNCO
THOMAS D. COOPER,
Attorney and CowueUor-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
Associated with W.S. Coulter,
Naa. 7 and 8 Pint Nattotul Bank ttldg.
S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D.
Graham, N. C.
Office over Ferrell Drug Co.
11. tun: 2 to 3 aud 7 to 'J p. in., »nd
by Hppoin-inenu
l'lioue S>7*
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
. Burlington, N. C.
Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m.
ami by appointment
Qlflce Over Acme Drug Co.
Trle|>boaest Olee 440—Heaideoee
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney
GRAHAM. N. C.
Slllee ever Hetlessl a—fcod *ls—ss
X, s. coos,
Attamar-nt-lM" •
GRAHAM, ..... N. O
Ofloe Patterson BuUdtaa
Saoond Floor. . . jB
DR. WILL S^LOMJt.
• ' OCWTIT ' • ■
'-eahmm, - - - • North Carolina
OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING