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VOL. L WRITER TELLS-GOOD POINTS OF ARMY ANT Indians Find Insects Good Louse Exterminators. Everybody has heard a lot of the horrible tales about the "army" or "driver" ants; how they sweep across the country in vast glistening sheets several hundred yards wide and de vour every live thing In their path, pulling down and swarming over wild beasts and reptiles alike, each taking n mouthful and passing on; how more than one brutal criminal—ln Action— has finally met his just deserts amidst gruesome* details at their hands, or rather Jaws. Tosh. All of It. As a matter of fact the army ants —there are several spe cies—are not' bad fellows at all, writes Gordon MacCreagh In Adven ture. I venture to assert that nobody In all Amazonas has ever seen a col umn of them more than a foot iln width. I have seen dozens of their trails as wide as eight Inches, but never more. , It is true they run to three-quar ters of an Inch In length and that they can bite a piece of flesh out with each rilp, as well,as sting like a hor net; but no beast that is able to get up and hop need ever be eaten up by a column of army ants. No, bugs are what the army ant Is out for. Worms, beetles, fat caterpil lars, sweet things—and, of course, criminals bound to trees. It Is com mon for an -Indian, meeting a column, to lay a honey trail to his hut, gather up' his brats and his string of baccal hao and clear out for the afternoon. The ants come In thankfully and de louse that hut with a thoroughness which would be a shining example to any firm of bug exterminators at $lO a room; and with sundown they re turn peacefully home. Mr. Injun re enters and spends his first peaceful night In months. Sometimes they happen along with out any honey trail. I have camped In a deserted hut to take- a siesta while the afternoon sun passed over, and have been awakened by the yell of "Carralho; Formlgas maleflscas I" and have realized the next second that the poignant words' meant ma lignant ants. Upon that occasion I waited not Upon the order of my going, but Just went with speed and sat me down in deep water —and began to understand then why that perfectly good hut Jjgd been deserted. With sundown the peons ventured back to collect gear. . But it was canned grub "that eve ning ; for the formlgas had eaten up a big potful of dlnnef. But at that there are worse ants In Amazonas than the arfcy ant. Novelistß Beet Tenantt "We like to have tenants who re celvs as few callers as possible/' said the manager a big office building, according to Fred Kelly, writing In th* Nation's Business. "Those who have a stream of people coming all day long help to congest the elevator service. "On this basis a high-priced surgeon Is more desirable than a dealer In cheap building lots, for fewer people are able to consult the surgeon than might wish to talk about the lots. The Ideal tenant, though, would be a novel ist. We onwi had one. He wanted a quiet place to work and didn't let any of his friends know where he was. His name was not In the building di rectory and he didn't even receive mall there. I don't believe he had a single caller the eleven months he was with us. I'd like to manage a building for hard-working novelists." Insect I Walk on Water By virtue of their lightness, com bined with a peculiar construction of the feet which keeps them from, becom ing wet, water spiders and a number of other Insects are able to walk read ily over sheets of water, supported by the surface tension of the latter. Thla tension acts practically the same as a stretched elastic membrane. It Is suf ficiently strong for these creatures, but ft is practically negligible so far as heavier ones are concerned. So long at * * > and other portions of the boafetror #iter Insects remain perfect ly dry they are as safe on the surface of water as they would be on terra firma, but let them once get wet and this same membrane will quickly prove their undoing.—The Pathfinder. Seeks Old Sweetheart v An almost dilly visitor at Doctors' Knightrider street, is an olds man who is determined to find out If a sweetheart of his youth ever married, says a London (Eng.) dispatch. For weeks he searched the records with out revealing his object, bnt one day he said that many years ago* he was engaged to marry and bad obtained the - license, bnt the wedding never took place. Having made a fortune, he now dMiH to trace his former fiancee and atone for her disappointment of years THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. Doctors Advise Against Use of Too Much Salt And now ttie doctors are telling ua not to pickle oar insides with salt. They say that civilization la suffering from too much sodium chloride In lta soup. Observation has given rise to the medical idea that a tendency to malignancy tn certain diseases la traceable to excessive, seasoning in the food. Patients who have made an honest to goodness effort to cnt salt out of their eats report that although the lack of It seems grievous for & few days, things begin to taste better afterward, and agreeable flavors assert themselves which were absent In the same articles of food when lavishly seasoned. Moreover It Is set forth that by cut ting out salt the fat man can reduce bis weight without the anguish of a dally dozen. The Idea seems to be that the excessive seasoning of food tickles the palate and make* us eat more than we need. Anyone who em barks op a saltless dinner will quickly acknowledge that on such a regimen he would have no trouble In training down to his fighting weight. The body needs a certain amount of salt In Its business, of course, but some of the' anti-salt propagandists assure us that natural foods»llke meat and vegetables contain sufficient salt for their contribution to the body's saline needs. If vegetables are boiled without seasoning until the water has almost evaporated, they will be found surprisingly salty. Man became a saH eater when he ceased to be a nomad and became an agriculturist. In other words", when he gave up his primitive diet of meat and milk auid begad* to fool with bread, biscuits, buckwheat cakes and breakfast foods. Also the New Eng land boiled dinner helped to drive him to the salt shaker. But neither roast ed nor raw meat calls for salt, and none is used by those earnest epicures, the cannibals of the Oongo.—New York Sun and Globe. Mirror Once Thought Magic The primitive man looking at his own reflection in a still pool beheld a phenomenon he could not explain. He saw something which was not him self, but which must be so clohely re lated to himself that there was no Joke In It What is known as sympathetic mag ic always regarded as a' close connec tion existing between a person and his "counterfeit presentment." We know better now, but who Is there who can see a looking glass accidentally bro ken without experiencing a secret feel lag of uneasiness? The smashing of the mirror destroys the self or a qprfaee which has borne It, as it l|as also borne the Images of oth er members of his family. Therefore, he himself, or some member of his fam ily, whispers the lingering Voice of de spised, forgotten, but Inherited belief In sympathetic magic, is in danger. All of which accojinta for the superstition that It you break a looking glass there will be a death In the family within the year.—London Mirror. Miradet on Every Side ( When the Greek religion began to pass awfcy Greece was a land of .mir acles. Everything that hdppened waa regarded as a miracle. There were winking pictures, sweat ing statues. stritues that wept and shed tears, paintings that could blush, stat ues that would brandish spears and swords. Images that talked, images jthat bled real blood from wounds and numberless statues and shrines which healed bounds and made the blind see and the deaf hear. The tools with which the mythical Trojan horse was made were on ex hibition as was the spear of Achilles. Twine Never 'Parted A curious record of coincidence is reported from Devonshire (Eng.) con cerning twin brothers, born in 1861, near Barnstaple, in that county. When tliey were twelve years old the twins were apprenticed to a miller. They are still millers and are still- working side by side. •.* The brothers married on the same day and lived In adjoining houses. Each- had 'ten. children; one, three boys and seven girls; the other three girls and seven boys. For fifty-seven years both twins have attended the game Sunday school and neither has ever missed a Sunday. Willing to Square It Mose was equipped with rod and basket when he bumped right into tlje parson, the latter being headed for church. "Wtfere to, Mose? asked the good man, gently. "Well, parson, to tell the tnxrf, I'm going Ashing." • "Now, Mose, don't your conscience hurt your 4 *Tes, It do. If I hss sny luck HI leave you a nice mess of fish.**—At lanta Constitution. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MAY 22,1924 Claims Flower Lovers > Show No Consideration "Persona who love flowers," com plained the man who doesn't, "are th« most inconsiderate beings in the world. 1 hate flower*, yon know. I loath and despise 'em. Maybe I'm depraved, but that's my honest taste. I try to like them, but I can't. Looking at them isp't so bad, but I detest the smell of them! It makes me sick. "But does anybody think of this w'fad happens to have flowers? Let some women get flowers in their hands and immediately they begin sticking them Into the noses of everybody In sight and demanding to know If they aren't the sweetest things ever. It doesn't do any good to try to wriggle away or hold your head back or turn your cheek Into the flowers instead of your nose. Those women can aim at a pair of nostrils ten feet away and never miss. "You hold your breath in self-de fense. Tour poor nose you permit to lie In the suffocating mess for what you consider a reasonable length of time. Then you withdraw it, smiling, and murmuring that they certainly are the sweetest things ever. You Just start to breathe again, and then the woman thrusts those obnoxious growths right smack at your nose again."—Chicago American. CAUGHT IN PASSING A husband without ability Is Ilka a bouse without a roof. There is some virtue In almost &f --ery vice except hypocrisy. Tears of Joy quite as salty a* those of woe. To be clean, full of a good dinner and In one's Sunday clothes used to be enjoyment enough for Sunday. To take the worst of It smiling is usually only done in matters of small moment. Most of the "spice of life" turns out to b® pepper—and you get it up your nose. Blessing of living in the country is that you see some pretty Interesting scenery In a storm. He that will thrive may lie till live; he that hath thriven may lie till seven. Pedigree does impress everyone somewhat, no matter how much he may discount It Any man likes to have at least one friend who thinks enough of him to flatter hln. Faint heart ne'er won fair lady, tt Is the one that is predestined to get the mitten. Necessity for a "change of scene" will manifest Itself In moving the fur niture around. There are men with whom you have to break the Ice every time you meet| pretty good men, too. Dunkarde Increase On Christmas day, 1728, two persons were baptised In the Icy waters of the river at Oermantown, Pa. These were the first Dunkard converts In America, says the Detroit Mews. Since then the communlon_has grown to include over 100,000 persons. It was originally a celibate order whose members ate meet only once fc year and held property In common. These strict roles have been abated and now a Dunkard may even marry out side the faith and still hold member ship in the church. They hold church property valued at $8,000,000. The states'where they art strongest are Tennessee and Texas. To Express Relief After a short meeting a little singing was indulged in by some of the mem bers of a social gathering, and half way down the program the name of Bert Browne figured. When the time came for him to.ap pear a messenger arrived to say that he was suffering from a bad cold, and therefore the chairman had to excuse him to the andlence. "Ladies and gentlemen," said the chairman, "I have to announce that Mr. Brown will be unable to sing as announced, and, therefore, Mr. Green will give us 'A Song of Thanksgiving.*'' —Pittsburgh Obronlcle-Telegraph. Advice Taken A young married womSn of Prince ton had received letters from a young , woman of Louisville, her chum, advis ing her on two Important matters, the removal of her young son's tonsils and "certain advantages accruing from bobbed hair. The Louisville friend had about come to the conclusion that her ad vice had been wasted, when she re ceived this laconic message: "They're out; It's off—and I'm glad."—lndianapolis News. The Wrong Retort Mrs. C. was reading the newspaper, listen, John," she began excitedly. "Here is s story that begins "Young soldier finds wife he lost in war.'" "Tea," Mr. C. replied, "It does seem that those soldier fellows never will stop having bad luck." Now there are strained relations In that family.—lndianapolis News. BILL BOOSTER SAYS KNOCKS { \Y HV4 MOMS TOMN \% AS> ®AD AS TWE OOQK BMVIG-«6 HA wo TWAT Fceoa cr. wofc THE BEVJBRT OF THOSE VMO OOMT UVCE IT WORE, PER.KWT VAE TT> CAU- KCTEU-* -now to THE PACT -tUKC TRMVI9 LEAVE o*U* \ „ He Did Being shy and self-conscious, he was lacking In ' histrionic ability. However, at an amateur theatrical he was persuaded to play understudy, the first night talcing the part of a hungry tramp who had only a few words to speak. It was In the dead of winter. He knocked at the door of a lonely cabin In the woods. A woman's head pro truded from the window. She —What do you want? He (trembling more with fright than the cold) —Work, kind lady. She —Go away, I have nothing for you. He (polnflng to the ground)—At lease —at least —let me snovel the sbowl Found Him Oat The movie magnate was laying down an ultimatum. His conversation was loud and to the point. "Never let that sage-brush star make the rounds of the exhibitors again. And take his guns away from him whenever he leaves the lot." "What's the matter, chief?" "He has no gumption whatever. In one town, and with a gang of small boys following him, mark yon, he went Into a shooting gallery and tried to shoot" Glooms Kitted by Kings An American woman of some promi nence, who la traveling In Europe, baa started collecting glomes which have been kissed by kings. She herself has been presented on several occasions to kings who hiyre placed the royal and courtly kiss on her gloved fingers. From others who have had similar ex* perlences she will "beg, buy or bor row" the glove® for her collection. . King's Son a Playwright Sons of royalty cannot openly en- Sage In commerce, It seems, but they o git a change at the liberal arts, In fehlch there are profits. Prince Wllhelm, second son of the king of Sweden, has Just completed and had accepted for production a Ay he has written. Its presentation was first made In Stockholm. Lost His Ability May—l don't understand men. Fay—What's the mafter now? May—My husband ran a tank dar ing the war and now be can't even run a vacuum cleaner for me.—Hart ford Journal. Old Tahiti Record s Birth A tablet recording tbe birth of a girl, Herrennla Gemella, March 11, 128 A. D., Is preserved In the wilts of the University of Michigan. It was found In Egypt In 1022 and was translated at the British museum. The wooden leaves open like a folding slate. Though the seals have disappeared the names of the wjtnesaes are read with ease. Sure Car• Doctor (to patient)— Go to >our druggist and aak blm for some iodhyrargyrate of iodide of potas sium, some ankydrogglucochloral and some dlo*yamldearseno-benzol—end I should not be surprised if with those we shall be able to triumph over your loss of memory.—Parts Journal Amus ant • Inch in Millionth* It la BO longer necessary to use guesswork even when dividing sn Inch into 4 million parts, beeaupe a tew hrrbtim fpr comparing Yhe standards of length has taen made at tbe Na tional Physical laboratory In England. This comparator is capable of ac curately measuring the nflllloath part of an inch. ; mL I 1 FIRST NIGHT Miss Clemens and her Hawaiians Monday Night, June 9th, Chautauqua Week, at Graham. » Sage Whispers Tbere Is no little enemy. Heaven favors gy>d Intention* Shallow waters moke most dlilt Be loses thanks who proj&lses and delays. He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper. None Is a fool always, every one aometlmeo. To master one's self Is the greatest mastery. All wish to live long, but not to be called old. 4The fire proves gold, adversity, strong men. A man with a big heart frequently talk* too much. He waa scant of news who told that hla father was hanged. Words often shake our convictions, but seldom overthrow them. ▲ boy loves all dogs, but he baa grave donbfs aboi£ a lapdog. Always prepare for the worsts the best la able to provide for Itself. The best reply to a prophecy Is an other forecast It la no easy matter to bear pros perlty decently. Name not a rope In bis bouse that banged himself. A life without a friend la like • life without a aun. It is right that yon should acquire when what yon ask Is fair. \ No one knows where the ahoo pinched but he who wdars It The web of your life Is of a min gled jrarn, good and 111 together. A Slip Up ' Gentle four-year-old Jane Is a model child as a rule, but now and then she "slips up." She ha* been forbidden to take a spoonful of sugar out of the sugar bowl and eat It as children are apt to do. One day the temptation was too strong, and while her mother's back was turned she helped herself to some sugar. Her mother turned around, shocked and In dignant. "Why, Jane, whatever made you do tbatr "But, honey, I didn't know you were going to turn round," was the gentle answer.—Exchange. ' She Was One of Them > "Tea," said Boggs, unthinkingly, "1 can remember event# of Jong ago as if - they happened hot. .yesterday. When I think of my botftood days— of my escapades at school, of many my youthful and later actions, and* how I got married—l cant help smil ing snd thinking bow many foolish things I've done." . % * ■ * il Ami Boggs wondered Why his wife treated him so coolly after tbe vis itors bad gone. ' t .-w - .l-.-r* tfik ' «.» LJ IF , • . CMM Many Women Employed * in the Mines of India Romantic fancies of the zenana as protecting all the women of India are shattered by a bulletin llshed by the government of that country. Women form about one-quarter of the average dally workers In the Jute mills and about one-fifth In the cotton mills. In the coal mining Industry the proportion of women to men under ground is about two to three. The average woman worker in a Jute mill receives a weekly wage of Rs. 2-8. In the cotton mUls the rate of wages is lower on the whole and the women who are employed on the less skilled and lower paid processes tend to leave during the period while Jute presses are ginning. They ■ be come migratory workers. The management of the India cot ton mills usually retains two or three weeks' wages In arrears, while in the Jute mills they usually keep one week's wages. In the coal mines a woman's pay for a day's work varies from 8 to 12 annas and It Is stated that they usu ally spend from five to eight hours down In the mine, their work being mainly the carrying of coal to the con tainers or tubs. In the Jute mills, except in the Im mediate neighborhood of O&lratta, a multiple-shift system was the rule, And the actual number of hours worked dally by women varied from nine to Cleven hours. In some mills'where the hand-sew ing department was partitioned off from the factory, women Were work ing twelve hours a day on piecework as finishers to earn a daily average wage of from 5 to 6 annas. All cotton mills work a one-shift day, the woman yorker having an eleven-hour day with a midday Inter val during which she usually returns to her own home. It Is said by the report that the women are not able to maintain themselves on an ade quate diet under flvo annas a day. Right Thing in Literature A classic Is a work which gives pleasure to the minority which Is In tensely nnd permanently interested in literature. ... It survives be cause It Is a source of pleasure, and because the passionate few can no more neglect' It tlian a bee can neg-1 lect a flower. The passionate few do j not read "the right things'' because j they are right. That is to put the cart before the horse. "The right things" are the right things solely be cause the passionate few like read ing them. Hence—and I now arrive ■t my one primary essen tial to literary taste is a hot Interest in literature. If yon have that, all the rest will come. It matters .nothing that at present you fail to ffhd pleas ure In certain classics. The driving impulse of your Interest will force yon to acquire) experience, and experience will, teach yon the means of # pleasure. - Arnold Bennett, In "Literary Taste, How to Form It" Happy Childhood Day« "Did people ever pat you on the bead and wake remarks about your being a bright boy T" "Ob, .yea," replied Senator Sorghum. They said I might be-president some day. In f«,ct, those happy childhood' hours brought me about as pleasant, and also a reliable, a presidential boom as any 1 hare erer enjoyed."— Washington Star. NO. 16 Plaitu of Abraham The heights near Quebec overlook ing the |t. Lawrence river took their name from Abraham Martin, a Cana dian pioneer of Scotch descent who was a pilot on the St. Lawrence in the time of Samnal Champlain, foun der of the city. By a, deed author ized by Champlain himself Abraham Martin,.who was affectionately known as "Maltre Abraham," obtained a homestead on the heights of Quebec. His herds of sheep and cattle grased on the tableland along the St. liaw rence which became known among the Inliabltants of the town as the Plata* of Abraham. In 1006 part of the Heights of Abraham were converted Into W Canadian national park. ' . • ' Where Science Fail* Prof. Simon Newcomb tells of the • following Incident having occurred during a recent vlalt paid by several young Western women to the Washing ton observatory: "I had done my best." said the eminent astronomer, "to an* swer with credit to the government and to myself the running fire of questions which my fair callers pro pounded. I think I had named even the remotest constellations for them and .was congratulating myself upon the outcome when one of the younger members of the party Interjected: "But, as It has never been proved that stars are how do the astron omers ever find out their names?" New Sewing-Up Thread'Uted A surgeon who suffered an accident and had a horsehair handy has, with the aid of a scientist in Wisconsin, Invented a treated silk that will be even better. It is maintained. In the past horsehair silver wire, silk worm gut and celluloid thread have been used, with horsehair being the most favored because it stuck less to the flesh and was less palnfnl on extrac tion. The new suture Is made by treat ing fine silk thread chemically so that tissue cells will not grow to it Prof, Louis Kalilenberg of the University ot }Vlsconsln has i>erf'»rtel.the treatment. Another Bleating There Is this to be said for bnrtal In the potters field —no one 3,000 yean from now will disturb the peace of tba grave.—New York Tribune. The Bluffer The bluffer sleeps under short cov ers. If he pulls 'em up to cover his head, he uncovers his feet Bluffers rarely bluffy any bat themselves far very long. Another Fieh Story Scientists have discovered a fish that shouts, and are llkgly to recelva praise and fame for doing so. Now what would we say of a plain fisher man who reported such a dlicoveryt Muffler Often Needed Self-made men, are yet In an imper fect state. They haven't ellmlnatei the noise.—Nashville Tennesseean. PROFESSIONAL CABDB J. B. BALL, D. C CHIROPKACTOK Nervous and Chronic Diseases, BUKLINGTON, N. C. Office: Over Hiss Alice Rowland's Store. Telephones: Office. (HIS. Kealdence. 10. *- J T ;i: LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney •al-Law, GRAHAM, N. C. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. Office over Ferrell Drag Co. Hours: 2 to 3 and 7 to 9 p. in , and by appoint menu 7 Phone 97* GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N.C. Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m. and by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. » Telephones: Office 446—Residence 264 JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM, N. C. Olllec over Nitlonl SaSk el AUassc T, S. C 0 0 2C, Attorney - at- Lass* rRAHAM, .... 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