VOL. L LOVE IN COTTAGE" BELCWGS¥OI>A3I Modern Maid Not Willing to Take Chances; A large class of girls In an American college was asked the other day If any of them would marry,a man whose la come was bat SI,OOO a year- Not a ■ingle hand was raised. It was only when a salary of SB,OOO was mentioned that any enthusiasm was shown, while many held out for a higher figure. The opinions of most' girls the coun try over obviously have undergone a remarkable transformation In the past few years. It Is significant that ta tills case had tagMfcra course house hold economics gtydiwas familiar with the science of devising household budgets. The presides* «f a southern, college recently advised bis students not to consider matrimiiay on a of less than $4,00&* yea?v The students' In this case wffanot-drawn from larger cities, where trying «oats are at tbelrv highest, but from .the country .and' smaU f 4|ww*fc,c4tha.,, They were crult*4K.h?y«rev* a & from well to-do families. •, It naturally mlght.be expected that the youths of the—Unrge or so-called fashionably colleges .wquld consider marriage, unjustified except on a much larger 1 income - -• The conclusions reached by the stu dents of household economics In this respect will be .read with Interest by the great mass of housekeepers. With characteristic academic thoroughness the cost of maintaining a home In the country or city baa bean calculated to the penny. The rent la aet down as a fixed per centage of the Income. Allowances are duly made for food, clothes, edu cation and The figures mathematically are correct. According to these students of eco nomics, marriage U not Justified on a salary of less than |4O a week and few In some colleges would take a chance at teas. It la Interesting to note In this con nection, however, that, more than Jlr -1000,000 marriages took place In Amer ica laat year. > „ Now French Fat In France, "the land of queer ani mal the Siamese cat has Just come along a* the latest fad to dis place the craxy-looking French poodle in popularity. „ . The Slamaan cat, with Its bine eyes and fawn coloring; it* well Into, the general scheme of certain oriental fashions and colorings in home fur nishings now In vogue here, and la -a very chic and strange pet Indeed. The French also like It because of Its datntlneaa In the matter of food. A "gourmet" la liked here, and a 81- tmeae cat la such a "gourmet" that It, would die rather than eat vulgar foqd. It Is also an aristocratic animal. Its aloofness ftpm other animals being te elegant aa almost ,to account fer Ae present phase of cat worship. Parlalan dealer* In domestic pets ire turning their attention from the poodle to the Siamese cat and are ieaplng a harvest while the erase hat* —— | II SI l i Erratic Judgment E— was not experienced In the ltoe it buyiqg green vegetables at the gro »ry. One day she went to a store with the Intention of getting several toads of lettuce, which were marked it a sale price. At sight of the lettuce she thought the was certainly getting a bargain. s Vfter selecting several choice heads, the carried them to the d»ft When tie attempted to weigh the heads B Interfered. -Oh." «be Mid. 1 thought they were ate cents a head." "I beg your pardon, miss," answered the clerk, keeping back Ma brash, **thls la cabbage." "Weil, of all things! I didn't knew tke difference," and ske disgustedly exchanged tke cabbage tor the desired vegetable. —Br change. Agar-Agar Agar-agar is a pearly white, rtilny product Invaluable to medical research, to the hospital, to the kitchen, to the cotton mn. and to tke brewer. As n -culture medtnm for bacteria It Is un rivalel lor It ti the only gelatinous sobetanoa thet on stand the necee -04 An * el^ Tlke—m-, * snd tNagsil ae glass. ka*tMsa devel egtedrtjpk a'U»Met.g*oeeM After years « auy cut It tute required lengths. It bums IMB readily than Ot THB. ALAMANCE GLEANER QiOfimak Citi*omtOm>,Jll. Y. Unfle long white halrv who stands for^th^UnltS#-W«te«r In cartoons, was originally a real person, a citizen of Troy, N. Y„ about a hun dred years ago. The way the term eame to be applied to the United States government happened In this manner: Shortly after the War of 1812, El bert Anderson of New York, who was a contractor of the army, went to Troy to purchase some provisions. It was Anderson's habit to stamp..all boxes containing the goods with bis Initials and those of the United States, So that on the end-of each. bos • sept opt were the letters. E. A. and U. 8. Before each box went -outft Ludts be inspected, and one' of the inspector*, was an old man, popular among his os» SQoiates.for his wit and good huinoc, named Samuel Wilson.' A round . the Inspecting, rooms he was known* as "Unele saiu." One time »iie» man ia asked *u «aiploj»*~Wha*- tjm -letters the boxes, -J2, . A. and U. S.. ■ atpod for. The wan, thinking tease Uncle Sam _> bit, answered: "EL A...for Elbert Anderson, who.con tracts for the supplied, and ij,' 8. for Uncle Sam. who Inspects thein.^" The joke spread, and before long bec«B»a.-»en«r»Uy ap pll»Ato the nas»e .Uncle. Sam. . When cartoonists, looking for a popular flg-. nre to Impersonate the Unlt'6»JititSea*. heard the tale, they used the charae* teristic Uncle Sam of the Inspecting room, dressed in flag-like clothes. Why African Natives Slay Twins at Birth The other day a paragraph appeared In the Mall describing the murder of native twins In South Africa. The un traveled man must read this with hor ror, and rightly too, though I doubt if he ever thinks of the tribal laws and customs underlying such a seemingly horrible practice—customs which the native had observed for thousands of years before the coming of the white man with bis new Ideas. Unfortunately . Europeans so » often try to teachijienajive ml»4 too -quiet ly. They expect him to break suddenly from his time-old traditions and em brace Immediately altogether different morals and Ideas. They are suprised when he occasionally returns to Ms barbaric creed, instead of marveling that snch lapses are so rami That they are so rare Is a big tribute to the trust and understanding existing be tween black and white. > For all these, to qpr mind, terrible custom., were originally Intended only for the (good 'of* .the race Frt>m time Immemorial, twins k»ve , been., regarded with, horror hy most—if not tribes. I have tried to trace the basis of thla belief' In many parts of Africa, and the nearest I could come to It vyss this: . ! W hen a woman gives birth she is be lieved to produce one soul. It by some, terrible misfortune, that soul should be i divided, what chance can It have in this world or the next?— Molly Torln In the Continental edition of the London MalL • Many Flying Animals In Australia there are at least twenty species of animals whlflk are •viators. Among them are.flying squir rels, flying opossums, flying mice'and even flying bears. The name which applies them all Is "phalanger." This mean* that they have, extending from the freot to the hind legs, a membrane which enables them to float in quite a graceful way from tree to tree. They are not really flying animals, but gliders. The flying squirrel la Mid te be the moat beautiful mammal In the world. It Is odd that In the. land where many , animals fly, birds often cannot fly at all. Both the emu and the cagsownry are practically wingless, and have to depend upon their leng and strong legs te escape from their enemies. , ' Maia SarvayimgEaay American muaenm, geologists on tketr recent third Asiatic expedition In Mongolia, in making.« topograph ical survey of tke regions through which they pessed were aided by stone monuments built by Mongols'to represent prayer* te Buddha* ..Almost every hill waa crowned with ens of these prayer-monuments, so tkat tke map makera could algkt their lnstm» pents upon the very same spot every time they used the kill In trlanguln tlon. !■■■ _. mm sm FMf.lsrf4 MMsw In tke matter of inHumsat In ike Portland (Me.) ChSmbar of Com tnerce, Mys tke Boston Globe. He 'hoiks employment for can * telle as payment snip baasd ani room. ' He ha* a certain flmfl lecoese; wMck la given him aoWy en eondlttan tkat he doM not take - naplsiUMt foe wages. La«k ot week kM tmuaiik esses, hMca Ms unique nqusst. - GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY. 24.am Who Pekl the rim*/ ■ Three race-course followers- arrest ed on charges of drunk enness were remanded on baA of £Z • eacta- One of them produced a wallet contflthltag three £1 notes and left It as security. The men did not appear on remand, and the ball was estreated. Next day the wallet was shown to the Judge, who recognised it aa his prop- Arty. It had been stolen from him at the race meeting.—Lends* Mall. fin rib *■ Rotation It fs generally supposed that the nebular or planataalmal mattar from which the solar system has tdeveloped possessed an original Bp*taß"«f -rota don around an axis neaalfrtt right "anglflac4o the plana of the 'ecliptic. Theaaet* and the pUaa>%tn general, a#e isupposed sti 11 AO revolve and to rbtntAJa the *aiMudirection a* that Stt the rrotaUon of tha original mass. Register* Salt in Sea i, .An apparatus has. been perfected w-hlch automatically regUteea the •arnoant salt- in sea water, thus knowl edge of the paths fiocean currents. It Is %lso .aaprqt»d-that it wt* aid In detecting. 4M» aptsn—a «f icebergs. It la atf.lna-developed by "tha Unifed. Statea bnreau of stand •j Tram# by Laundry Mar ha • London police rely on the laundry Marks in clothing to trace criminals and Identify victims of violent death. A new regulation would require all laundries to keep a register of all laundry marks and their owners. There are special man on the force Who are adapt In'this phase of crimi nology. , Richea in Dream Power An inmate of the Pennsylvania Home for Woriting Blind baa become known aa a philosopher among his friends tor his ability to estimate the ▼slues of life. "A man is as rich aa his power to dream," he said. He maintains such power is far greater In valna than material riches. Where They-Gall a Halt "The trouble with the poets,''' say* the >W'Mtaett (Courier,, "Is that they *to gre«t >ones to elng.about the soli, but poor ones to. plow It. Show 'em the plowhandles, and straightway they have an attack of spring fever." — Atlanta Constitution. * Didn't Car* Mac* Burly .. North • Countryman (the *proud'*Vttlniier of h particularly In significant cup)—" Yes, I've won coop, aid If any one wants drink because I've woe coop'be can have bllnkln' coop Instead 4* —■nmortot (London). Early Prayer Book 1 Blchard Graftoo, an English chron-, Icier and printer to King Edward VI. .Wie the printer of the first Book of Comma Prayer in 1540. He also brought out die edition of 1552. He died about lOTE. Wen Fama Early . Bosa Bonheur, the celebrated French painter of animal life and landscapes, exhibited her first picture when she wag only eighteen years old. At the age of twenty-three she was awarded a gold medal at the salon. Fifty Year a to Com• . Regains is at a distance of 800,- 000.000.00f1.tf00 Utiles' from the earth. Its light • takes about fifty years to travel *> as at the rate of 186,000 mile* a second. . Railway Aato-Ambuktnea A railway anto ambulance to operate on the Arlce-LePax railway through a desert rsgleu ot Chile In which there are no ie to be purchased by the gorenmsant : American Motor s Load Of 808 motor vehicles registered on •the island of Martinique, 0M are of American manufacture, 07 French and 81 from a variety of other countries. Lifo /* All Too Short The trouble with spending oua-Jlvfe looking for soft places la that when we have found them tkere is no time left In which to enjoy them. " " " »" 11 ■ ■ Jadga Not 1 Do not Judge by .appearances. The man who sticks deeeet to the bulletin, board may hare n kome to go ten nOefveeton News. I Pimm War* imjUr*mm« In building an airplane" finav accurate and delicate aa thasvim making a watck Is uqdnd. 1,1 Franch Cynimum ' ' A good marriage* would,4e between 'r blind wife and a deaf husband BILL BOOSTER SAYS 'VrVJE TWMft tYWT MAKE* VL/TH\S SUCH A GbOOO tDVM ftOIAAW PCOPLS OMJUMfr.V THSttt V40MI&1 VtOtVMMd i UKSfVUtmtti A MOOS* AMD LOTTO KAAKB AFCtUMJ I GROW Boora AMD G6COMC A Gooocmtcut* Lava Bear No Myth Lava bears are no myth, declares the Portland Oregonlan. A couple of years ago Irvln Cobb came- to Oregon to hunt the lava bear. He didn't sea one, and he was ndvlsqdjtx many One* gontansfwho have spent outdoors manm years of tyelr lives that there waa no such animal. • However, Cobb met one chap at Fort Rock who Informed Cobb that if he met a lava-bear he needn't shoot the creature. "Just kick 'em to deaths waa the advic& • ' Well, there ore Java • bears In Ore gon. They're not very numerous, bat they do exist. One reason why few have been seen Is that they Uveln the lara beds where a man dare not penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet for fear of being loft and perishing. Dan Godslii game warden for Lake county, who to to Portland,-says that he has seen two lava bean. One-was trapped ■ year ago. by an agept of the government- biological -mvtrtey: *; TtW Java bear to about the slze-of a house cat sad* ts mostly head.' It ldokf ex actly like 1 rtie-*pgulutton bear, txcept for Its small si i»,-and-a* tt>r ttd-ttavr tofd Cobb, the lava -beardoeen* have to toe shot, for If the hmfter ran get near enough he enn boot the bear to dectto- The iter eaughflast-year war In die lav* 4eld norttiea* «f- Fort Book/ Royal Td rattier have a good than * thrtme; and to, ~J Imagine, would the khif end Ms etdMt StW. $ writer to the Loadon Dally MaU De marks. Few people realise. that Sh majesty auflere from chronic ti flltK tloa and-how on earth he manage* to ■mile as much as he does posses my comprehension. The prtocfc-df Wale. Inherits his father's complaint and II the despair of his hosts and hostessee because he practically lives on egfs and fartoaceoos fodder. His 'mart* solid dish Is chicken and oven that has to be chopped np very fln*> £w him.; Yet he manages as a rale to hp> pear In the pink of condition, end' Mr natural nervousness end QdgeMaeae*ha can hardly keep jtlll for Ave -minute* together) are admirably -ramoeflafW In public. Training tkm lilutt We have not Ave senses*- hut twenty* five, Including six so—e of track alone. Moreover. U Is possible to 4e-*| velop the seneee to a point whei* we can feel colors In the dark.— Dr janes J. Walsh, psychologist, makes %theee statements In the I'opntar Bdes*e Monthly. V. . Contrary to popular belief, he ee~ serts blind inen have no keaasr tones 1 of touch and hearing than ordinary persons. They have merely, through necessity, cultivated the hatolt of con centration, as have tea tasters, textile experts and other persons who make extraordinary use of their senses. £~"~ —*• «9d hearing proba bly are the senses most generally em ployed In the more familiar fonna of human endeator. These can*he traf si' -only by concentration. r SinutmrMimmmn ' There la a certain UMe Roeslan re* tanrant In Paris, where theee are so many Russian restaursnts time day* It la altogether chaining, the cooking la excellent and the wines and the music are. praiseworthy... A rloUnlsl and several- -tsfrow oueplratora per form Uke rirteoso* There (a. In fact hat one tH—adaa! ailli. and that Is la , a . placard tatked up near th* Orche* „tm whttKn reads ft "VMmmtM* Met celeferes eneeteoea.* (OWNa -aa* see the famoaa westlustfa) "Bser cnteurs" In a Rnsslnn rrsfaar—ll The chOls go np one** spine—From Le Figaro, Paris (Translated tor the Ka*> aaa Cltr Star). The Future of Farm Land Values i i • ! . coMPWSQiifIF twmiiEswmi mm or firmer bankrupts ""sates; Jmt» VT'iirr«owm>u rmnoi maMurrrr wprnrnwi *•s P>-- : • «»8. MOO M. ; I \ / MOO. T». / \ I 4JOO _J» y jL —±2?o_ «f. f I wo V—^ M. I MOO m. 2£:L— a»- 40. i?3SL_ "■ I'M , I • I.M.J..UCIIWIOWWW. row.™*. I too When former* are making money on their crops the value of plow land i Tins high and bankruptqlea ar« few. Reverse the situation and the bankruptcy line tukes a straight upward turn. That's what is happening now. Farmer bankruptcies are on the Increase, land vslues are sliding tlown the scale due to the slump of agricultural prices since the war. * What doee the future hold for farm land owners? Is this the time to bay or will The Ssars-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation, after completing ft survey of . Values covering a period of sixty years, predicts that high land values are ( coming sack and«hat wltMn a decade farm land prices will again be on the cMmb. From the days of the Civil war to around 1900 farm land values showed lit l tie change. Lnnd was eonaldered a. safe Investment. Beginning In 1900 values began to rise; by 1910 the acre price had doubled. Btlll land continued to rise , chiefly because of the advance In the prices of farm products. The war brought higher prices for farm crop values increased./ The result was a land boom. By 1920 thfe average price of land per acre waer tOO, S9O higher than In 1917 at the opening of the war. Farm bankruptcies dropped, from 2,000 in 1917 to 1,000 in 1&9. . ) During the prosperity period erf the war many farms were bought Dor- Ing the land boom It Is estimated 'hat 10 per cent of the country's farms changed.bends. Following thswar the.collapse In prices of grains and live, stuck sent land valuea tumbling for the first .time In twenty-five years. Average plow land decreased In value from an average of SOO per acre In 1920 to SOS In 1923. Crop values per acre fall from SBO In 1919 to sls la 1021. Daring the past two years there has been a gradual increase, the average for 1922.being S2O and last year the average rising to $22. Fanner bankruptcy proceedings In the federal courts jumped from 1,000 1n'1920 to 6.000 In 1928. More than Bft per cent of ttoelandottnera In 16 corn aqd wheat producing states In the npper Mississippi valley Inst, their farms: _ ; ' In tweotjsfivq. years the United States should be producing on a domestic . basis In practically every thing, unless production makes material Increases. People are (paving from Then the farm-fo-clty movement will reverse * Itself. Land values will Increase with the price levels. Bankruptcies will de crease with the rise In l«nA>valaa%. The present tendency In prices Is down. : They may continue down tat a dacadf. During this time land prices may sag . 'considerably. • But wlth a returq of production prices of farm land will go op. • The Trend in Labor Supply and Demand SS3BBB i»i» i»ao 1931 1922 [• ims i»24 | NODMAC no* • i »o»» ' \ , *» y I ao * \.* */ m \ ■* ** ' 7y * _» \y/ TO* ~ ~ 4 \ - T — —— l II Farmers are Mtttoc dm* Mart help. The demand Is estimated at only 89 •*per oent of aoniial as prepared with 9(1 per cent a year ago, according to a statement Issued by the Washington office of the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation based on data from government sources. The low purchasing power of farm products has forced the farmer to rearrange his operations. . He is coming to depend largely on his own and his family's labor. In many cases ti* hired man Is being dispensed with entirely. Farm.help costs, moi* today than at any other time in the past slxty-oae Jiaera. Wages demanded are higher than a year ago and rates for 1028 aver- tj aged above all preceding years. The peak year In the wage scale was 1n 192 a That year labor was scarce. According to the accompanying chart, In June of 1930 the supply was hot 78 per cent of nonpal, while the demand was 106 per cent of normal. During the latter half of 1910 and through the first six months j of 1921 the. labor supply curve took • sodden upward swing, snd In Jane of toOl M wen 95 p««; cent of norm a),.while demand bad dropped to 87 per rent « Until'ln June of 1022 the supply, carve continued to rise, reaching Its height at , lOfir par sent of normal, while the demand was bat 89 per tent normal. I With the beginning Jf 1928 city labor wagea Improved. centers drew farm help cityward. .Farmers hall to pay wagea out of proportion to what the farm could earn to hold their men. In Jane of 1928 the demand saw 96 per cent of normal, while the supply carve was Bagging to 84 per cent. ThO latter half vt ihe year-deihand laaaaned, due to excessive labor coets and the increasing supply.. This yegr demand hss made still farther decline, nntfl ! now H is »atdlper eentof normal, while labor supply, which k era dually la ereasKg, fa Wethnaled -Srtntnd 80 per cent J Bn—xyJo iJm ■mMnithaliafpeal« i to ta. write* Ma-OMver-L4d«t'in H>* .per'a. We- nyrtind ll anrtae.p grqat ,varUrtj' of foraMk »r And It da'baemlag .probakle tkft what, we call. matter la on* of tbeae tonne. Miami fha forma of enarar that wo know -aw convert Ible Into another, The energy-of mo tion tum into bent. 80 doe* the en ergy of correal* imJaea It U converted Into the energy of chemical separation or electric charge. Conver [«lua irwm one to another wlthoat hw tla tbe atgn manual of energy. And the proof that matter te a form-of energy will nut he el Inched an Ul U can hedeua onatratod that matter, -too, 4a coaverfr lhl« into other tormM energy. Mutt Have Bmtn Slow "Mother, I'm afraid that papa was pretty alow when be wu a young man." "I'm afraid you're right, Helen. > He alwaya paid his debts, and used ' good English, and never saw a cabaret, ' and hadn't any dabs, and was able to I support s wife before he married— yea, I guess he was pretty slow."— Boston Transcript. Life of Railroad Spikmt The durability of railroad ,spU*g j depends entirely on tbo type of tack and traffic hauled; hgwever, heavy spikes should last abodt fifteen yearn sad light spikes from twenty-one to twenty-five years. For genet*} re-, pairs approximately thirty-six spikes oar mile per montji may b? used. J NO. 25 Many Dialects Found in "English" Language The English language, observes the Kansas Cltj Times, belongs to the Teutonic brahch of Iw Indo-European family. It is a subdivision of the low: German, which In turn Is a division] of the w«t Germanic branch of the; Teutonic group. It is customary to divide the language Into three periods, Anglo-Saxon or old English (440-10G8),; middle English (1000-1600) and. mod-i era English, from 1500 to the present. The year 449 marked the invasion of Britain by the first of the Teutonic, or low German, tribes who overran the! Island in the Fifth and Sixth centuries. The invaders found in Britain a race of people who spoke a Celtic dialect,) and these, after 150 years of lncessunt; fighting, were driven into Wales and! Cornwall. The conqueror's speech, to : whlfh the name of Anglo-Saxon is> given, became the language of the country and the foundation' upon which modern English Is built During the centuries before 1000 many words were taken from the Cel tic tribes. In the Sixth century came Roman Christianity and the addition of many Latin terms and grammatical forms. The Danish conquest of the Island added considerable of the Scan dinavian element. The middle English period began with the conquest at England by Wil liam, duke of Normandy, who broke the power In Harold at the battle of Hunting* in 1000. , The French lan guage.was spoken for the next two centunes by the upper classes, law and schools. The conquered held on lt» Hps the English -"language and finally It became domi nant. About 12S0 the two languages began to merge, English absorbing al most the entire body of French. In the Sixteenth century the devel opment of modern English began. Since that time borrowing and assimi lation have gone on continually through literary, commercial and po litical relations with other nations. Preimrved in Print Ail that mankind has done, thought, gained or heen, it Is lying as in magic preservation in the" pages of books.* They are the chosen possession.—Car- lyle. Modern View of It Amelia (looking at the Laocooa group—"Ah, yes, firemen, I see. But how did they become so entangled in the hoseT'---Boston Transcript. High Cott of Election* More tlinn eight tons of paper were used and 750,000 votes counted in the election of a miners' secretary In Eng land recently. Mrs. Crandall (Iowa) Tails How Ska ' Stopped Chicken Losses "Hit Iprlnf. rata kilUd *ll our baby chick, With I'd known «|»at Rat-So* before. With jut mm Urft package we kilted tvanns strata. They wool f get tUa year's batchca. IH bet." Rat-Snap b goaf, f aotecdaadielbforaSc.6Sc.tl.2S. Sold indfUtfifttocb by I GRAHAM DKCO COMPANY, I PROFESSIONAL CARDS J. B. BALL, D. C. CHIROPRACTOR Nervous and Chronic Discuses, BURLINGTON, N. C. I OMre: OverNUiAlirr Rowland'* » "re. Telephone*: offlce. »«i. Mesldeftre. It). LOVICK H. KERNODLE, J Attorney.at-Law, GRAHAM, N. C. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D.' Graham, N. C- I Office over Ferrell Drug Co. ll' urs: 2 to 3 and 7 to tf p. in , and by appoint ment. Phone 9T| | GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office Hours: 9to 11 ft. m. and by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. Telephones:. once'* HI -Residence '2it . I : _| JOHN J. HENDERSON, Attoraey-al-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Olllea over Natloaal Baakal Alaawac j Tn s. COOK:. Attorney-at-La «** f rR4HAM, .... N. 0 Ofln Patterson Building 8«ooad Floor. . . -1 l)L Will UOTfl. JR.| . : : DENTIST : ? e ftrafeaa, .... North Carollaa OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDINQI