THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
VOL.L
50,000 IN UFE7SAVING
SERVICE OF RED GROSS
Additional 50,000 Water Safety.
Experts Probable Gain of
Summer Campaign.
A boy watched an expert give a
class a lesson in the way to revive a
person unconscious from water im
mersion. The next day the boy tried
it on a bathing companion and saved
his .life. Such a boy justifies all the
effort and the cost of the Life-Saving
Service, American Red Cross officials
declare. The Red Cross method of
restoring partly drowned persons is so
simple that the continual large sacri
fice ot life must decrease as an in-'
lormed public Insists upon general in.
Itruction in prone pressure practice
to induce respiration.
The Red Cross Life-Saving Service
in every part of the country, summer
and winter, is engaged in teaching
this method as an integral part of
swimming and life-saving. This ser
vice bas grown from a single expert
in 1914 to a corps of almost 60,000 ac
tive life-savers. In this tenth year of
the work it is predicted that fully
50,000 more experts will be eligible
for membership in the corps. This
large accession in a single year is
confidently expected as the result of
the campaign among 22,000 troops of
Boy Scouts under a plan to qualify
at least two life-guards In each troop.
During the past year 4,746 men,
3,374 women, 9,731 boys and girls suc
cessfully .passed the rigid tests of the
Red Cross—an increase of 5,331 over
1923. Intensive instruction is develop
ing hundreds of qualified examiners
for the Red Cross Life-Saving Corps,
who supplement the teaching staff
maintained by the national organiza
tion. 'The cause of water safety Is
therefore penetrating to new sections
and eventually will cover all Ameri
can territory.
Recognition of this Red Cross ser
vice for humanity is growing apace.
At the request of the War Department
every military training camp had life
saving instruction last summer. Mu
nicipalities have adopted the Red
Cross course, public and private
schools are offering it to students,
business, civic and athletic organiza
tions are promoting campaigns, and
police departments are making it a
part of th« conditioning process for
their recruits.
Volunteer life-savers throughout the
country, the American Red Cross re
ports, are eagerly advancing the cause
of water safety, 388 volunteers receiv
ing medals for giving from 200 to 300
hours' service In two or three years.
In addition 36 rescue bars to medals
were awarded members of the Red
Cross Corps who saved one or more
lives during the year.
It Is for the work and extension of
life-saving that continued support
thrdbgh memberships is sought, and
th® American Red Cross urges ail per
sons to join or renew membership
during the enrollment campaign open
ing Armistice Day, November 11.
Twain's Description of
Missouri River Water
In one of his return trips to the
state of his boyhood, Mark Twain
wrote he had found one Ihlng
that had not changed—the mulatto
complexion of Missouri river water —
and probably a score of centuries
would not change it. "It comes out
of the turbulent, bnnk-caving river,"
he explained, "und every thimbleful of
It holds an acre of land in solution.
I got this fact from the bishop of the
diocese. If you will let your glass
stand half an hour you can separute
the land from the water as easy as
Genesis, and then you will find them
both good—the one to eat, the other
to drink. The land Is very nourishing,
the water Is thoroughly wholesome.
The one appeases hunger, the other,
thirst. But the natives do not take
them separately, but together, as na
ture mixed them. When they find an
inch of mud In the bottom of the
glass, they stir It up atfd take a draft
as they would gruel. It Is difficult for
. ~."" r to get.'jsed to this batter,
but once used ne will prefer It to wa
ter."—Pathfinder Magazine.
Need to Know One Another
There Is nothing wanting to make
all rational and disinterested people
In the world of one religion, but that
they rihould walk together every
day.—Swift
Carpet for the Cetbxr
A piece of old carpet placed at the
bottom of the cellar steps will prove
a wonderful help In preventing marks
from rubber heels on the clean kitchen
linoleum.
Point of Resemblance
i Lightning bugs are not so different
from certain men. A lightning bug
can see where he has been bat not
where he Is going.—Charlotte Ob-
JwnXr.
"THE ROAST BEEF
• OF OLD
Nothing Dims John Bull*a
Loyalty to National Dish.
1 can never understand people well
until I see them gating. "Tell me
what you eat and I'll tell you what
you are." • If you eat roasted meats
ijrid well-cooked vegetables, you are
an Englishman; if you eat well-sea
soned dishes, with a liberal use of
sauces, you are French; If you don't
eat, you are Spanish.
I would take these Englishmen, so
strong and high-colored, and I would
put them in a Madrid boarding-house;
at the end of two weeks they would
be so wenlc that I could maul them
without any difficulty, declares a
writer In the Chicago Evening Post.
An English military authority once
said: "Where the Spanish soldier
would consider himself well-fed, the
French soldier would be on half ra
tions, and the English soldier would
starve to death." The English are
prodigious eaters, but as they are not
epicurean they are slim, strong and
healthy, and not fat and heavy like
the French.
I have seen an advertisement of the
Muller cooking-pans; this advertise
ment Is divided Into seven parts, cor
responding to the seven dayg of the
week. Monday shows a platter with
an enormous piece of roast beef; be
low appears the same roast, a little
smaller; It Is Tuesday's fare. By
Wednesday the roast has diminished
In a mathematical proportion. Thurs
day roast beef, Friday roast beef. By
Saturday the roast has assumed mi
croscopic proportions.
"But," you will say, "surely they eat
something else In London besides
roast beef."
Yes; In addition to roast beef they
eat more roast beef. These English
divide the same portion of roast beef
In two pieces so that foreigners may
not say that here one eats pnly one
thing.
The variety of the roast beef con
sists In the vegetables; boiled pota
toes and cabbage, all without salt.
... If one could at least have som«
tvariety in the cooking of the potatoes!
But no; Monday's potatoes are like
those of Sunday, Sunday's like those
of Saturday, and so on unto eternity.
Do you suppose that the English
would camouflage a potato? Never I
What would become of the proverbial
English honesty? No, a potato must
always look and taste exactly like a
potato. England, ladles and gentle
men, Is a serious country.
In the slang of Paris, the English
are called roast beef. "Vola un roast
beef," the French say of an English
man.
The fact Is that by dint of eating
roast beef through generations, the
English of today look a good deal like
enormous pieces Qf roast beef. They
have the same color, the same health,
the same senaltlvenef" *
An Englishman eating a roast
beef makes me think of a cannibal
devouring a fellow man.
Opal Diggers Work Hard
for Small Remuneration
Of all the rough Jobs In
Australia, digging for opal Is about
the worst. Coober Pedy lies In the
heart of the Stewart range, 170 miles
from the nearest station on the East-
West railway, and Its whole popula
tion of between 70 and SO diggers
lives underground In burrows scratched
out of the hillside. A tin shanty. In
which the diggers keep their tools, Is
the only sign of life showing above
ground.
Every inornlng the diggers come oat
of their holes and set out for the opal
fields, to cut putlently through the
rock In the hope of finding the beau
tiful black diamonds lying beneath.
Between them they have dug many
thousands of dollars' worth of opal In
the last four years, though they bture
worked only a small area of a field
said to be 40 miles long. In normal
times opal Is worth about sls an
ounce, but now that there Is practical
ly no demand for the gems the diggers
hnve opal, but no money.
• Unharmeu *,y iAPttg VBM
Among the classic English, falls
be mentioned that of a steeple
jack, who fell from the top of' the
church .of St. George In Bolton-le-
Meors to the ground, the whole dis
tance traversed being some 120 feet.
The man's skull struck some sheet
lead upon tbe earth and left Its im
pact upon It, bnt though this fall was
quite unbroken tbe man was only
slightly injured and resumed work In
a few days. -Not long ago a man
with his shoes on fell from the top
of a cliff a* Dover, the height of which
was afterward f«und to be 400 feet
He WHS picked tip floating Insensible
In some five feet of water, but his
shoes were off, which proves that he
must have retained sufficient con
sciousness on reaching th« water to
enable him to draw bis shoes from
his feet \
RAHAM, N. C., TH
Plea for Statu** of
Creations of Authors
The citizens of Auch, the ancient
capital of Gascony, have decided to
erect a statue to D'Artagnan, hero of
Alexandre Do mas' "The Three Mus
keteers" and "Twenty Tears After." |
In reality, of ctfiroe, it Is much more
than a statue to D'Artagnan, who
never existed for the world until Du
mas called him Into being. It is mora
than a statue to Charlea de Baatx Cas
tlemore, the original of Dumas' hero,
who was born not far from Auch. It
Is really a statue to Dnmas and the
human imagination.
Everything that has made D'Artag
nan memorable and International came
from a great maker of romances—
D'Artagnun is one of the many crea
tions of poeta and writers that have
become more real than real men.
It Is always a fine thing to see rec
ognition of such, the New York Sun
comments. There might even be more
statues to great characters of litera
ture and fewer statues to little char
acters of "real" life. While there Is
no harm in remembering a man who
leaves a fountain or a park to a vil
lage, the men who have left Odysseus,
Hamlet, Falstaff, Faust, Jean VsJJean
and Natty Bumppo are, after all, the
more deserving. • ,
Refused to "Fall" for
Bishop's Second Scheme
A western minister tells a story, ac
cording to the Kansas City Star, show
ing how a bishop, accosted in a Chi
cago street by a neat but hungry
stranger, derived profit from the en
counter.
Now the bishop took a fancy to the
needy one, took him to a hotel and
shared a good dinner with him. let,
having left his episcopal wallet In the
pocket of a different episcopal Jacket,
he suddenly faced the embarrassment
of not having the wherewithal to pay
for the dinner.
"Never mind," exclaimed the guest.
'T have enjoyed dining with you, and
I shall be charmed to pay the price.
Allow me."
And the stranger."paid lor the two.
This worried the prelate who insisted:
"Just let me call a taxi and we'll
run up to my piece, where I shall have
the pleasure of reimbursing you." But
the stranger met the suggestion wMh;
"See here, old man! •'You've, staek
me for a bully good dinner, but hanged
If I am going to let you stick me for
taxi fare!"
Ebony Mentioned in Bible
The deep black heartwood, which
Is most highly priced In a number of
trees of the ebony family. lsntentloned
In the Bible In Eseklel 27:15, In con
nection with Ivory, probably on ac
count of their value and of their con
trasting colors. Ebony was once sup
posed to grow In the ground "without
root or leaves" and to It were as
cribed many mlracalons power*, iffhe
chief source of the ebony wood 1s the
■lsland of Ctylon, wh*re huge locs f#
the pure heartwood are cut and
hauled to the coast. For Interior
decorations and furniture ebony has
been superseded by rosewood and ma
hogany, but for cabinet work It Is still
widely employed, being exported from
Madagascar, Jamaica, India and
Egypt. A species of the ebony tree
which Is used as a veneer also grow*
In the southern United States.—Wash
ington Star.
Almost Evened the Serifs
Mrs. Smith wanted to go to the mo
vies. Mr. Smith said be had put In a
hard day at the office and was tired
and would rather alt at home and
smoke. Knowing the Smiths, anyone
could have predicted that they would
go to the movleel
"Let's sit down near the front," Mid
Mrs. Smith.
"But I don't like to sit near the
front," Mr. Smith protested. "When
I do that the pictures hart my eyes."
"Nonsense I".scoffed Mrs. Smith. "I
like to be down close so 1 can watch
the musicians."
Soon the two were seated within
comfortable seeing distance of the or
chestra. t
"Oh, don't you Just love to hear the
ramble of tbe kettledrums?" Mrs.
I L
And then the worm turned, albeit
ever so slightly.
' "Yes," Mr. Smith replied. "Keep
qnlet I"—Kansas City Star.
Alame Is Misnomer
So-called cameTn-halr pidntbraahM
are not so named because* they am
made from hairs -«nt .etuhe.. aar—l'
skin. Tbey are mail* town .SQVWTSVS
fnr and -were first made by ; s-.mm
named Unmet whoee identity hM bsf
completely, lest for many years.
Tin Hems Bad for Blasts H
Tin can* should not be aeetipts. eeo
tainera for growing plants. #MlSs
being nnslghtly, tin eans rust and kill
the tips of the tender roots. Occa
sionally fine plants ate grown. t*4toa.
bnt they -eld have .been-Mtenif
grown In pets.
ÜBSPAY, QCrOssß 30, Wi4
DON'T ALWAYS DROP
PEARLS OF WtSDQM
Commonplace Idea* /irai
From Lip* af the Grmat.
The words of famous personages, ad
dressed to mere ordinary mortals or
overheard by ttietn, naturally are re
membered, though they are .fidSMo in
themselves comically unwet*4|r «• re
membrance. Authors and oca tors,
even those who are moat Impressively
capable of what Scott called "dolus
the big bow-wow" In print .or on great
occasions, mustoften descend to .small
talk—sometimes Indeed to t*lk flulte
microscopically unimportant. In Mr.
Robert Underwood Johnson's book,
"Remembered Yesterdays." he relates
an interview that his grandawther
once had with Henry Clay while they
were standing together by elianae on
the cliurch steps while the congrega
tion were dispersing. *
"I understand, Mrs. Underwood,"
Raid Mr. Clay, "that yon are the moth
er of seven children."
The lady deprecatlngty owned to
five or six.
"I want to tell you something very
Important," said Mr. Clay. "I wast to
Impress on you that when « child has
washed bis face It la most Important
that in order .to strengthen the sight
the eyes should be wiped towaird the
nose.*
A group of young girls standing Mar
the main staircase at a reception at
tended by Daniel Webster—so one of
them related In her old age—saw the
great man, with his thunderous brows
drawn above his deep-set dark eyes,
slowly make Ills way down from .die
dressing rooms and apeak to his
'hostess. They listened breathlessly
for memorable words.
"Mrs. X," he said; "It Is very dim at
the torn of the upper hell. ««d I haye
Just stepped on something there.
There were others pressing forward
from behind me, and I did not pause;
but it must hare been, from sensa
tion I experienced aa my foot descend
ed upon It, either a.lady's muff or a
cat If it was.a. oat, I trustlts de
mise will not grieve you deeply.".
Fortunately It . proved to be only a
muff; but half a dozen girls-for the
rest of their lives could not recall the
Impressive-figure of.Webatorto mind
without aeeing a cat under Uls toot—
"like St. Oeorte stepping on the
.squirming dragon in. old pript*," as
the narrator put it.
At her first dinner party, -when ahe
was only fifteen pears old. ,an Knglish
girl, Loolaa Courteaay, who lived .well
Into her nineties, was aaated near
Wordsworth and next to Sou they. She
was of course eagerly attentive, await
ing the high discourse of the two
poots. Wordsworth ate solemnly and
did not talk at all; Soothey.'too, ad
dressed himself gravely and exclusive
ly to his roast mutton. There was a
dlsli of lavw—a-WBd of-water oeesa—
to acoom»sBy;lt; tbia.waa art Imasedl
ately la front of little Miss Gourtanay.
and after waiting to aee whether It
was to 6e passed and finding that It
was not she ventured timidly to help
henolf.
"Young lady," aald Sonthey, *1 am
glad to see that you appreciate law.
Give me some."
She did ao, "and he relapaed Into a
alienee tbat remained unbroken till the.
end of tlie meal."—Youth's Companion.
Modmrn Lochinvar
Young JU>chinvar came out of the
West As he spun along tha road he
laughed, thinking how astounded the
wedding gueats would be when he
dashed into the church and made off
with the bride.
Aa he entered the street wherein
stood the church he noted tbat it was
still early, and he waa giad that be
had given himself a safe margin in
which to perfect hla plana. He woold
leave hla car without, hide himself In
the church, and then at the right mo
ment spring forward and seise the
bride. *
But the ceremony ended with tbe
usual Usees and teara. and tbe bride
and groom departed for tbe atatlon
amid tbe customary shower ot shoes
arid rice, and Leebiavar bad not put
in an appearance.
1 A few minutes after the seston bad
lecK ' doors of the ct>wch Loebln
rar eamd running up, breathless
perspiring.
He bad lust found a place to parlL—
> Life.
"Busy Lin• Told rf
B In Budapest, as elsewhere, a 'tale
. phone operator sometimes ptpps a K*H
, ittirougb-oo an occupied llna./4pasrally
, *sne hangs up. But gtepliipjf nsjpps.
i * high city official In Budanpst, 4l**t.
, ofor be was caUlntJli*
Star. . eeappglQd
was speaking with L|Mt
jftajpand Valeraln, one of th»bsgt
ngarlan cavalry offlcerseMMl
' aMMstont friend otJCpsxaka. |gb
1 the —nversatlon be Aearraktbat the
1 avny officw was hie srlie's
* that they planned to elope.
UWf an boon later Koasak*. taand
c GMectel ValerabMad killed him. -Kee
■aka gave liiineelf i»4« the paflea.
Primitive Customs in
Cornish Fishing Town
A place whore gMint msr-
Meo with the seat U schoolboys and
, wheite cats eat£i Jive flah among the
rock pools when the tide lrout Such
a place doea exist, ajtd ,1a the quaint
eld flatting town of St Ives, In far
away Cornwall, these things nfcy be
aeen.
In the cool of the evening, along the
bread road booUrlng the sheltered
harbor, numerous groapa of hardy fish
ermen, with aea apd sun-tanned com
plexions, play marbles for hours at a
time, surrounded by many Interested
onlookers, remarks London Tit-Bita.
Grizzled old mariners, many of
whom preserve the old Oornlsh custom
•f wearing small gold earrings, pace
the qusyslde in parties of three and
four, following the "walk four steps
and turn," which is all they are able
to do cm the dear opaoe on the decks
of their luggers.
There Is a legend about the cats of
Bt Ives, but there Vas surety aover
another fishing .town with so many
cats. Esch morning, when the night's
catches of mackerel, dogflah and skate
are brought ashore, the flah are
cleaned on tables placed near the
water's edge apd KOICS of cats have
a glorious feed ear*he effaL
Failures Caused by
Lack of Initiative
One of th* ,|Hnt. Improvements,
of the sutomoblle Is tbe self-starter,
now found on all .but $e .eheapeat
kinds of cars, which *d to be
cranked by hgttfl.
The device suggests the reflection
that a very large proportion e the hu
man family require nairthlig of Ilka
nature.
They lack laitlaUw, .uoMmjaqr ef
fort; they need cranking in thetorjn
of ordera or directions before doing
anything worth while.
The men and women who succeed
best In life and get tfeajaqatout of It
are of tj»e self-starter type. They
don't wait to be told or advised what
to undertake, but proceed of their own
accord lo do things.
The great inventors, such aa Edison,
are. all e this seat,, sags the Users
mesto Bee. They Bsa.wtgl"H*ro» * ot
mere followera or lmlt.tg*s. and thoy
rank smong the chief benefsctors of
the world.
So it is..la m, art,
the various Industries, jead, »n
occupations. Success la each is do-'
pendent chiefly upon ectgtaaiUg or In
Gr—k Dramatufa Frog
C horußamMocr Second
I have contributed ap much animal
lor* ta these paft* thai I am thtnklng
of aetttng up as a naturalist WlUlam
I.yon Phelpe wrltaa .*  l ßctttMr'a
Magazine. I suppose all aalinala ara
personalities to tbeeo whoJw*. and
nndcratand them. ']Wbe*l **« achlld 1
In Hartford It waa a yltaaaia to eoter
tha beaabft*#wdan of thst-hospitable
'gentleman, JPUny Jewell. p«,w
a little lake, and in winter be distrib
uted to tha boys of the neighborhood
free skating tickets. which we highly
appreciated. "In, aanjmar evtjslnis the
oVd gentleman would alt la a chair on
tha ed«a,o thia.|MOd and ring a bell.
At the mellow tones of thla lnatru
mant the jft»ga woold come oat of the
lake and pm themaelVaa about Mr.
Jewell, who offered them Mta of food,
which they received courteously. I
had never discriminated particularly
among frag*; but to thla man every
one of thooefrogs was an individual,
and ho had named them all. The
largest waa called LMSO ■Matilda, and
was* the owner*a favorite. lhaveaeen
Laura draw nean her maatefa chair,
take a bit of .bread delicately from
hla Angara, eat it. aad then wipe her
month daintily, like the Prioreaee in
Chaucer.
Aristophanes' f*og chorus could
never perform Ufce that The Greek
dramatist missed a trick.
StUI tht Wimnmr
The other algbt a young sun wm
i visiting his best girl, and he stayed on
: and on until she became very sleepy
Indeed. Also she had to work the next
I day and tboaght It lime te give him
a bint that it was ttae for klm te go
>m>e.
"Don't you think yeq had better tele
phone for a taxi tego hiai fast Ifs
so late now aad these have been wer
.eral mhheries.ent tm Ibto.part nftnwn
Tbe geP«M>»an was Tlstfcbr plefsd
-Oh, d* that," he retained.
. Tm net aftpld, lf> taxi will take
'me bomaw»vmptt» faster than I ( can
: i . m Hsmfop^f»en,
sUPPFSkIn eeesy corner of the w«rM.
tLMeesled as a-clever senile*
phc dees most tiny dancing) flp
piM pa's means o(«fe«eatlen
krestlng between engppafpppta.
Ja repotted tn,»i jpjs«l„J»batnpaly
CROP OF ADVISERS
NEVER FALLS SHORT
Production Always More
Equal to Demand.
"It may not be any better to give
than to receive advice," said Mr. Cato
Nlnetalls, "but It Is a good deal pleas
anter. In fact, giving advice Is about
the most popular Indoor and outdoor
apart. Supply ifnd demand have no
more to do with it than they huve
with the price of coaL Practically no
body wants advice, but full production
continues just the same. Most of it Is
not only disinterested, bnt none of the
adviser's business, ao the mere fact
that It li Ignored or even openly re
jected does not discourage him In the
least. U,is not followed, from neces
sity, because It is so conflicting that
no one could follow all of It without
stultifying, and even nullifying, him
self. That, of course, is of small con
sequence because; for the most part,
advice Is merely conversation —like
personal weather predictions—talk for
talk's sake, and probably no one would
be more surprised and perhaps
shocked—than the adviser if It were
taken seriously. The truth is that
moat people don't want advice. There
are lots of reports about statesmen
and captains of Industry always be
ing ready to listen to It, and they may
.ho, bnt there are many other things
that they would rather do.' Advice
merely wastes their time without al
tering their plans, and puts a strain
on their tolerance without compensa*
tlon. Speaking generally, the only
kind of advice that most people want
Is the. kind that costs them money.
This they get st rather high rates
f(om their lawyers, doctors, special
covnielors and other experts, and the
more they have to pay for It, the more
confidence they seem to have in it—
which nay. to some extent, sccouot
for the sice of the fees. Naturally,
such advisers want their clients to
be satlafied. Amateur advice-giving
is as much of a habit as gum chew
ing, and quite as bad a one. It mis
leads the adviser because he gets the
Impression that he is talking wisely,,
while his listener merely wishes thst
he would mind his own business. It
is also somewhat dangerous because
once In a blue moon—that'a an Jn-
definite .period, of coarse—somebody
will act on some scrap of the, advice
that la so generally broadcast, and
the after effect* are nearly always
napleaaant for both the advlaer and
the advisee—that'a a little word of
my own. fabricated for the occasion.
So, to play aafe, no one should ever
give advice unleas he Is certain that
lt*wlll not be followed. Then what
ever happens can't be blamed on him."
—lndianapolis News.
Reml Heroin*
They are mighty liberal down at
 Tfnlee la the way at costume display,
or rather the display that comes from
lack of costume, but once In awhile
L ttfepfflcer on duty does come to the
Htint when he flnda that the tide Is
afraid to come In.
But the other day, thla Intrepid pro
tector of masculine eyesight walked
right Into a lot of trouble.
"Tour tight* are too high. Drop *em
a little lower."
He wa* addressing n heavyweight
flapper, about 200 pounds net.
"How would you like "to mind your
own business V the super-flapper asked
petulantly. "There's nothing for you
to worry about, la there? If there's
anyone to he ashamed. It's me, not
you. Isn't ItT"
And then she waddled off. Onsop.
Ing beaches Isn't as simple as It looks.
—I/m Angeles Times.
Ycm, tt Really Happened
That the age of chivalry lias not
pasaed la quite well proved by an In
cident Involving a conductor on a
Jefferson avenue car, an elderly wom
an and the elderly woman's hnndker
cblef. The woman boarded the car
and, In doing ao, dropped her handker
chief on the pavement. With perfect
grace the conductor atepped from lils
post Into the street. _ picked up the
handkerchief, returned* It to the grate
ful loser and buzzed bis signal for
full speed ahead. lAnd ahe wasn't
or handsonML either!" ejavo
lateu ■•> observer, whd/decided Imme
diately .that the Incident was beyond
wnKekeealonv. In thla aje.—Detroit
I Maku Rmdio Sending Etuy
Forest ranger* la the state of Wa*h
■ la^ on have discovered that by using
' tte branches of trees Inatead of the
1 fatomary wire antenna they can
' aead radio naaagea o»er a distance
of two or tfwree mllea. Alt U>ev hare
a. copter aall Into
i , IM with It and begin to
, send, JfeqpertneMs are now In prog
r r*dr to Increase the efficiency of the
. eftlt>aace. which should prove of
service In enabling mngera to
I Map in loach with ihelr stations and |
i With .one ajwtber.—Youth's Coinpaa-1
km. I
NO. 39
Truth in Remark That
"This I, Small World"
In these days of airships, airplane!
and wireless, one often hears the re
mark that the world Is shrinking. In
deed, long before those inventions
were put to practical use it was not
uncommon for people to exclaim on
accidentally meeting a friend In a dis
tant part of the globe: "What a
small world this. Is I"
Unconsciously, perhaps, they were
saying something which was much
more than a mere figure of speech.
When one of the Challenger's expedi
tion naturalists reached home after a
voynge all over the world of nearly
70,000 miles, lie declared that nothing
had been so much impressed upon him
as the smallness of the earth's sup
face.
In comparison with the planet Jupi
ter, which lias been fio prominent In
the evening sky, the earth Is a mere
moon; It would »take no fewer than
1,300 earths to equal the glnnt bnlk
of Jupiter. *
Neptune, the most distant known
planet of the solar system, could hide
nearly four globes like onrs if the
earths were placed in a row, for Nep
tune has a diameter of 31,225 mile*,
while the earth's diameter Is, approxi
mately, 8,000 milea
There is Uranus, too, the distant
blue-eyed planet which is only just
visible with the naked eye to those
who know exactly where to look for
It Uranus equals in width four
globes like ours placed abreast
And it is possible that If another
planet exists beyond the present known
confines of the solar system It Is of a
size which similarly dwarfs the earth
by comparison.
In Justice to onr little "shrinking"
globe, however, let it be pointed out ,
that It Is bigger than Mars and bigger
than Mercury. What la more. It Just
manages, by a few hnndred miles, pa
beat Venas In point of size.
Finally, It Is more, much more, to us
than all the rest of the planets, big
and little, put together.
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Great Writer'» First Love
The death of Lady Colvln snaps
many lUmry links. She had passed
her eightieth year and until less than
two years ago she enjoyed a seat for
friendship and for books that had ani
mated her whole life. It may seem
strange, since B. L. Stevenson la still
so much a man of the present age, to j
read of a woman of eighty years, that j
"she awakened his first great passion,
which she knew how to rein and con
trol, while animating his mind qnd fix- (
Ing his character," says the Edin
burgh Scotsman. *
But one Is apt to forget that tt
Stevenson had survived this woman
friend, to whom so many of his best
letters were written, he would now
have been In his seventy-fifth year; so ,
that they were really close contem
poraries.
Lady Colvln was Prances Jane
Featherstonhaugh, of a Northumbrian
family, which migrated to Ireland In
Elizabethan times. As Mrs. Bitwell
she was the wt'fe of an East end cler- ,
gyman, who had as cuntes John Rich
ard Green, the historian, and H. It
ITaweis. As the wife of Sir Sidney
Colvln she was alertly In touch with |
London's Innumerable literary Inters
ests for about 50 years.
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'"Maps" Show Nerooiuneee
There have been Invented In recent
years a number of machines and com
binations of scientific devices with
which the exact nature of the hnman ;
voice can be pictured In the forms of
a wavy line on a chart just as an as
semblage of such lines makes what
we call a map; * picture, that la, of j
the land surface of a city or a farm.
Now these voice pictures have been
used to determine the nervous condi
tion of patients suffering from various
disorders. Everyone knows that one
of the pronounced symptoms of ner
vousness Is an alteration of the voice.
It becomes shrill and "edgy." D. E. W.
Scripture, a distinguished European
expert In the study of sound, has been
able to detect these nervous voices
and to distinguish between different
kinds of nervousness—by the use of
the voice picture described. It may
be that  "camera" for photographing
the voice will become a regular fixture (
In the office of the uo-to-date pbysi
&L. ■*-,- ■ )
Chigre Pigs
Recently the mother In a certain
Indiana home went blackberry pick
ing, and besides getting a few black
berries, came Jbeme "loaded" with,
chigres. Various remedies were used
to kill the cliigres and to allay the in
tense Itching, and amon£ them lodine
was applied.
Little Betty, three years old. closely
observed the spots where the iodine
was applied and a day or so later
drove Into the country with her pa
rents where she saw a drove of pigs.
Her keen eyes soon spied some
white pigs having sandy spots of hair
here and there, ant* suddenly Jumped,
clapped her hpnds. and. fairly
screamed. "Oh, mamma, there are
some chigre pigs."—lndianapolis News.