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VOL. L MEMORIAL FOR WAR PRESIDENT WiUon Dam Engineering i Project Second Only to the Panama Canal. Washington. America's wartime President Is to havelhn enduring me morial in Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals, to be commissioned late In the surame> of 1925. ' The project, deemed an engineering 4 achievement second only to the Pan ama canal, was 82% per cent com pleted October 1, the date of the latest formal report. An appropriation of 17,000,000 more will be required from congress. The total cost, with eight genera tors Installed, will be $45,800,000. and the dam will be capable of producing power some time next summer. It will have an ultimate capacity of 600,000 horse power, over the disposi tion of which a bitter controversy is raging In congress. Creates Artificial Lake. Wilson dam will eventually create an artificial lake, extending upstream in the Tennessee river about eighteen miles, with an average width of 7three quarters of a mile. The dam proper is considered the largest in the world and Is a mile long, 137 feet high and covers 20 acres. The work Is under the general super vision of MnJ. Gen. Hurry Taylor, chief of army engineers, with Lieut. Col. George R. Spalding in Immediate charge of the construction forces. Some 230,000 horse power of hydro electric generating apparatus will be ready by next summer. A power house, 1,250 feet long, 100 feet wide and 134 feet high will be in use. A two-stage lock for navigation, with a total lift of 03 feet, forms one of the features in connection with the project. Surplus waters during flood periods in the river will be passed througl\ 68 steel flood-control gates, each 38, feet long and 18 feet high. The dam or spillway section is 3,050 feet long, 95 feet high from the river bed and is 105 feet thick at the base. Thirteen special spillways equipped nv!th but terfly valves will pass surplus water during.normal flow on the river. Wilson dam is officially known as "Dim No. 2" and is one of three projected In the Tennessee river at Muscle Shoals. Dam No. 1 5s n small navigating dam, not yet authorized, to be two miles below Wilson dura. River Can Be Used. After all proposed Improvements are completed, engineer officers point out, the Tennessee river will be nav igable from the Ohio rivqr to Knox vllle, Tenn. The district through which this river flows Is rich In mineral, timber and agricultural resources, declares Major General Taylor, and would be greatly benefited by adequate river transportation facilities. The princi pal obstructions-to navigation are the shoals in the Muscle Shoals area, and completion of Wilson dam will be the first grent step toward opening up that region to winter development. Museum Gets Fossils of Dwarf Camel and Horse Washington.—Fossil' bones of a dwarf camel and a three-toed midget horse, which are believed to have roamed western North America until some 4.800,000 years ago, are the latest nddition to the collection at the National museum. They have Just been brought to the museum by Dr. W. F. Foshag, assistant curator of min eralogy, among other fossil remains found In the rock formations of Ne vada during a five-months' field study there. The horse, apparently about two nnd a half feet high, and the raroel, three or four feet, are beHeved to have been evolved out s>t the processes of nature during the last days rff the Neocene age, or some 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 years ago, according to Dr. J. W. Gridley, assistant curator. They sup posedly were still In existence when the highest peaks of the Rocky moun tains were being pushed up. . Charge Account Another time man gets the last word la when he says: "All, right! All right! Just tell 'em to charge it."—Duluth Herald t Culinary Note ' Many a young man poses as being hard-totled when he ia only half-baked. —New Orleans Times-Picayune. > Umn Dislike* Men'a Hats Carolina, the lioness in tlie London ■oo. alwSya snorts angrily at any man waarlat'a light gray hat. Giant Australian Tree A tree recently felled In Australia vm nine fret la diameter and weighed THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. Genius Seldom Seskt Itu Intellectual Mate Why do clever women marry stupid or Insignificant men? Catherine de Medici married weak Henry II of France; Mary Stuart chose Darnley. Even Elizabeth, that hanghty virgin, lost her heart. It la said, to Leicester, who lacked great qualities. Capable men, of course, are proverbi ally fascinated by "fluffy" women. Complete and utter ignorance, ■ex pressed through the medium of an ethereal beauty, has invariably proved an irresistible attraction to men of {,'enius. Does this Infirmity of great and manly minds also afflict clever women? - I have heard cynics say— and so probably have you—that only a peculiarly stupid man will put np with a too brilliant and capable \\oman and play, second fiddle to her leah says a writer in the Washington Post. Clever women and clever men are notably lacking 'in a discriminating love Instinct. They have not time for these "lighter" matters —and often re pent at leisure for their hasty selec tions. Kven Wordsworth could accuse his wife of no rarer charm than that of being "not too good for liumjin na ture's daily food! ...» Yet these unequal' marriages do not always end In disaster—or boredom. They can be absurdly happy and suc cessful. Stujuld men and ( butterfly women are usually likable enough—so delightfully noncommittal, so lavish with adoration. Literature for the most part leaves this phenomenon alone. Shakespeare approaches the subject In "The Mer chant of Venice"—and then obscures the problem in a' wealth of plot and ingenuity. I cunnot think thut It will long escape the psychoanalytical nov elists of today. The more prosaic explanation, how ever, and possibly the truer one, Is thut clever women murry stupid men for precisely the same reason" 1 that clever nten marry silly wives—because they feel so utterly complete in them selves but for the element of love in their lives —and this the Insignificant provide. / The Hissing Iguana In the I'uelilc ocean, übout 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, lies a group of desert. volcanic Islands, known as the Galapagos archipelago. Here, among many creatures that have never heard the voice of mun, says London Tlt-Blts, the dominant sound of life Is the hiss of tlie sea lguunu, a giant ma rine lizard that exists nowhere else In the world. Darwin visited four of tHe Islands In 1835 and found wonderful material for his "Origin of Species." The great ma rine iguana grofrs to a length of four feet and loolcs like Its prehistoric an cestors, some of which were 80 feet long. It lives about the seashoje and feeds on seaweeds. At night it sleeps in a burrow of the earth or In a lava crevasse, while in the daytime It comes out and at low tide makes its way to the edge of the surf to feed. It will not live In captivity. Old Church Doctrine The Thirty-nine Articles were the points of doctrine agreed upon by the, archbishops, bishops and clergy of the Church of Kngland, at the convo cation held In London in 1562, under Archbishop I'urker. They received the royal nuthorlty*nnd that of parliament In 1571. These articles related to the doc trine of the Trinity, the rule of faith, the doctrine concerning sin and re demption, the general theory of the church, and the doctrine of the sacra ments. The Thirty-nine Articles were preceded by the Forty-two Articles, prepared In 1551, and set {prth in 1558. In November, 1871, the Thirty-" nine Articles were ordered removed from the curriculum of studies at Ox ford. — Star. Swell* Museum's Exhibits After more than a century of obliv ion, thle Marquesas island ground dove comes Vto swell the ranks of blr'ds In the United States National museum at Washington. It has not been collected since it was first described In 1814. Another new specimen, the Rapa Is land pigeon. Is a (It mate for the ground dove, as It has previously been known by only one specimen, says Science Service. The birds are a part of the collection made by the Whitney South sea expedition and have been forwarded to tlie National museum by the American Museum of Natural History. Match Thia for Twins! ' \ "If any school principal has more pairs of twins In his or her school than Miss Mary F. Latchford of the Midland street school, Worcester, please raise your hand," says the Boa ton Globe. "Miss Latchford baa eight pairs, and If the Brnnell twins and the Talianto road twins bad not moved out of the district Just before school opened this fall there would have been ten. At present there are Jwo pairs of twins from one family In the school the Mullan twin*." GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JANTMRY 15, 1925 True Poetry The only true or Inspired poetry la always from within, not from without. The experience contained In it haa been aplrltually transmuted from lead Into gold. It Is severely logical, the most trivial of its adornments being subservient to. and suggested by, the dominant Idea; any departure from whose dictatea would be the "falsify ing of a. revelation." It Is unadulter ated with worldly wisdom, deference to prevailing .pplnlons, mere talent or cleverness. ... Its music Is the ex pression of the law of Its growth; so that it could no more be set to u dif ferent melody than could u rose-tree be consummated with lilies or vloleta. —Jutues Thomson. Eccentric Engliah Duke T.'ie duke of Bedford's gold plate at Woliurn abbey Is among the most mag nificent collections of its kind In the wcrld. Sb lightly, however, was It're garded by the eighth duke, that on his death In 11)72 gold plate worth tens of thousands of dollars was found strewn nbout the floor of his house In Belgrave square In such a deplorable that it narrowly escaped being ton signed to the dustbin as worthiest metal. Indian Tribal Language American Indians are divided Into groups and the languages of the vari ous groups are fount) to differ to such a degree that one is not lnfelllglble to another. Often within the same lin guistic family different tribes speak radically different dialects. This Is true of the Pueblos In the Southwest. Inhabitants of villages only 100 miles apart cannot understand each other's native tongues. Women in Businese A recent gathering of business wom en In London Included, umong others, advertising ngents, agricultural engi neers, architects, a dental surgeon, a lawyer, a publisher, a florist, tea taster, a horse breeder, a surveyor, a theatrical manager, a color consultant, an automobile saleswoman, a pearl stringer and two members of parlia ment. To Tell Weight of Coal A solid cubic foot of anthracite weighs about 93 pounds. When broken It weighs about 54 pounds. Bitum inous coal when broken up averages about 50 pounds per 'cubic foot. Therefore, simply find contents of box or bin In cubic feet and mul tiply by one of these numbers, ac cording to kind of coal. Turquoiae's Odd Use A Fourteenth-century authority states that turquoise protected horses from tha 111 effects - resulting from drinking cold water when they were overheated. It Is said that the Turks often attached these precious stones to the bridles and frontlets of their horses as amulets. Honor for "Unknown" The decorations awarded the Un known Soldier were: .Croix de Guerre, France; Legion of Honor, France; gold medal for bravery, Italy; Vlr tutea MUltara, Rumania; war crosses, Czechoslovakia; Vlrtuti Milltarl. Po land; Congressional Medal of Honor, Onlted States. Gale Play Queer Prank When a gale struck the home of George Nelson In a small New England town, it ripped off one chimney on his house and blew a hole through tlie other, leaving a stable jshell and in no way disturbing the top layers of brick or other parts of the building. Great American Surgeon The father of American surgery Is a title sometimes given to Philip Syng Physlck, a Philadelphia surgeon and physician, born in 1768, died In 1887. His name and nrofesslon made him a butt of the punsters. Thing That Really Harts Says the Osborne Enterprise: "We don't mind having a man lie to as once In a while, but the thing that gets irk some is the balance of the lingo be puts in for good measure."—Atlanta Constitution Opals and the Hair Beautiful blond maidens of the Mid dle ages valued nothing more highly than a necklace 6f opals. Wearing of these ornaments was supposed to keep their hair from losing its wonderful color. Gray .Eyes and Sin Among the Arabs there is a popnlsr superstition that gray eyes are a sign of sin. The belief Is foqfaded on a passage in the Koran which classes them as a possession of the wicked. Would Be Wasted Time "01 Satan den' have to set trap* foh sinners," aald Uncle Eben, "owln* to his bavin' his handa full tendin' to dem as ia standln' In line to boy tick* eta."—Washington Star, EFFECT Of ARTIFICIAL LI6HT ON PUNT LIFE Teats Confirm Experiments WltH Rays in Development of Normal Growth. Washington.—The discover? that the seasonal blossoming anil fruiting of plants U caused by the length of day, mode n few yours ago by Investigators In the United States Depui intnt of Agriculture, has been completely con tinned by experiments with artificial light and colored light. Previous to these Investigations, which were car tied on by W. W. Garner, H. A. Allard and 11. A. Stelntyrg of the bureau of plant Industry, normal plants never had been fnlly developed under artifi cial light, but It has been Bhown that under such conditions plants can be grown normally and will produce nor mal seed. "Among the more than 00 specie* of plnnts which have been, grown under these Auditions nre lettuce, celery, spinuch, morning glory, Rudbeckia, Gpdetla, cypress vine, soy bean, bidens, chenopodlum and polnsettla. With all these plants the response to the length of day has been the same as In sunlight. "Qie "short day" plants, the characteristic autumn and winter-blossoming plants, blossom when exposed to the short artificial day. The summer-blooming plants blossom when given a long day under electric lights. , , Practical conditions, say the investi gators, preclude the use of artificial light In place of daylight, but it will be possible in growing some green house plants to extend the natural day by use of electric lights to speed up blooming. Obviously this practice will be useful In caae of "long day" and "Indeterminate day" plants. A rel atively low-power illumination can be used, extending the length of day from 16 to 18 hours for many plants. In tense lights have been found unneces sary and wasteful. It la said that for commercial use engineers and green house men must work out the particu lar requirement of special crops. Experiments have shown the fallacy of a rather widely accepted view of ■plant physiologists, particularly those In Kurope, that certain wave lengths of vlsjble light are essential to nor mal development .of green plants. Healthy normal seed has been pro duced with wide variations in com position of the light used. Brooklyn Now Hat Woman Dog-Catchers _ —' - s V tt r> \ The Ant lady dog-catchers recently made their appearance on the streets of Brooklyn. They are in tha employ of the Brooklyn Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals. Mrs. B, M. Freeman, left, and Misa J. Sny der are shown handling their flrat canine prisooar. Genu Used as Playthings The first large diamond discovered In Sooth Africa la aald to have been found In the leather bag of a sorcerer. Several authorities state that in the early days In Sooth Africa highly valu able diamonds were frequently the playthings of the Boer children. Claimed Prophetic Gift Joanna Soothcote. a domestic ser vant, aroused all England about 1814. with her pretended supernatural gifts and her claim to be the woman men tioned In Apocalypse, chapter 12. She gained over 100.000 followers. Papuan Mourning Customs In Papua, widows mourn for a de ceased husband for more than a yew. and It la a eoatom for them to remove all their clothes snd cover themselves with white plpo-clay. The costume consists oTa grass skirt' Laughs at Idea That | Modem Pace It Swiftj When I waa a kid doctors never ■poke. They granted. A sick n&n never gave np.bope until the doctor abandoned his bedside manner and be gan to cheer him up. But nowadays doctors are as garrulous as English sparrowa. One of 'em got to talking the other day about angina pectoris, the moot painful disease, perhaps, that has ever been Inflicted upon defenae less humanity— "lt Is primarily a disease of the strenuoua," he said. Whereraon one of the leading appli flerß of our Business Men's club took up the sweet refrain. "We must moderate our pace," said "he, owllshly. "We must slow down a bit The pleasure of modern life Is too much for us—" Then Doc Heokelberry and I looked 'em over and laughed out loud. There they were,, a double row of business men, all nodding their heads like these Chinese toys with rounded, bottoms you buy for a nickel, and pretending to be strenuous. All acting serious, too, as though they believed themselves when they talked about the pressure of modern life and the horrid pace of this generation. Shucks 1 This only goes for our town, of course, because I am not competent to speak for otlie* towns. These busi ness men who pretend to be so strenu ous are for the most part rich. At the very least they are making money, because they could hardly have helped It In the last decade. . And— They get to work at 9:15 a. m. They dictate to stenographers. Three days they go to lunch at one o'clock and come buck at three. Just In time to see the late afternoon njall. The other three days they play golf. If tbey are sleepy In the morning It 1s because tbey have been playing bridge—and not business. Strenuously—shucks I Look 'em over. Observe their rounded contours. The curse of American business men isn't the pace. It's'the apple pies.—J. P. in Kansas City Star. / , Pumping fior Fiah Since the Stone age the accepted method of catching a fish has been to Inveigle It onto a hook. Catching fish In a net is also a method of consider able antlqoltjr. It has been left to the Americans to evolve the latest method of catching flsh—that of sucking them up with a pump I • A tub« running tor and aft of tha fishing veaael empties Into a tank, and an eight-Inch motor-driven centrifu gal pump at tha forward end aucka In about 14 tona of fish and water a minute. - , Tlits goes into the tank, which catches the flah and allowa the water to run off. The method la simple and extraordinarily efficient, tor If the boat passes through a shoal, more than two tons of fish u minute may be caught. • FrmaK-Water Mussels In recant yeara there has been a great shortage lq the supply of fresh water mussels. Pearl buttons are madu from the shells of these ./nua* sels. and the gathering of them for button factories Is one of the im portunt Industries of lowa, especially that part of the state bordering on the Mississippi. Extensive experi ments dealing with thla shortage are now being conducted at the Univer sity of lowa, and Miss Kara Lewis of the department of biology Is develop ing longer mussels. In the course of a few months mussels under her care have developed from one-half to one Inch. These mussels will be placed In beds In the Mlasiiuiippl but will not be ready for harvest for Ave years. In the meantime the experiments' will continue. Lodge Emblem as Weapon Owing to the frequency of holdups an Ingenious Inventor has worked out an Idea that may he useful. It Is to make lodge pins and other -oot-lapel adornments, carry charges of red pep per, which will be discharged when ever the wearer meets a "hands-up" operator on a dark night. The mechan ism connects the spring to the, coat alceve, so that wlienever the arina go above a certain level the pepiter will be discharge*'. Straphangers In •trot csia would have to If carefuL Practice Kirullinesa How easy It Is for one being to diffuse pleasore around him, and how truly Is a kind heart a foun tain of gladneaa. making everything In Its vicinity to freshen Into Anile* Old Custom Retained "Oreat Tom," Oxford university's famous bell, booms 101 notaa every day to proclaim the number of foondatlon scholars. This custom dates back to Henry VII. ■ . Mature Slowly Natures that have much beat, and great violent desires and pertnibatloaa are not ripe for action till they have pnsM>d the meridian of their year*— Bacon. Many U*e Hud ton Bridge The first vehicular bridge over the Hudson south of Albany was recently opened to the public, and It la esti mated that about 4,000 automobile* crossed. The bridge spans the rivet from a little above Peeksklll to Beat Mountain park, says the New York World. Although there was a constant pro cession of automobiles In both direc tions, there was little congestion. Guards and special police were sta tioned on the bridge and at the ap proaches to regulate traffic. The toll for an automobile and driver was 73 cents and 10 cents additional for each passenger. Pedestrians paid 10 centi each. Improvement in Spelling Nln>-yenr-olrl pupils today spell bet ter than pupil* of the some age 45 years ago, according to reports from studies made by Boston University. A survey conducted In 1870 hi Norfolk county. Massachusetts, included three words common to those of the recent survey, says School Life. The average spelling scores of nine-year-old pupils on "which," "whose" and "too" In 1870 were CO. 54 and 23. respectively, i A spelling contest recently conducted In 78 Massachusetts towns and cities showed that pupils of like age scored 76, 00 and 70. respectively, on the same words. Manila to Bm Great Port When Manila's great shipping ter minal known as pier 7 Is completed, the Philippine capital will have one of the finest enrgo and passage termi nals in the world. The new pier will be 1,200 feet long and will have latest equipment in electric hoists. Two vessels the size of the President liners con berth at once on each side. The pier is of solid concrete construction and will Involve anlexgendlture of SB,- 000.000. Wiurt Deaigna Coma From Deitlgns that fascinate the eye of em broidery lovers do not Just grow in the mind of tbe designer or the factory girl who makes them. They are na ture's handiwork. Growing plants pro vide the motif for much needlework, whether done by band or on machines and the natural form assumed by A plant shooting into growth or a sno*- flske falling upon a black background •re but examples of them. Wife Understands A hufthand often thinka tliat the re ception la being given to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their wed ding, observes 11. B. H.. but the wife la perfectly clear In her mind that the affair was planned ko convince him by sheer force of nnmbera that at laat they simply muat have a nun-room buHt off the living room to the south, with French doors between. —Kanaaa City Star. Chinese Dancing Rules In China, the ballroom floors are divided into squares, each which bears a sign of a bird, flah, or aome other form of nature. Oancera muat keep to their own squares and If they fail to do so are stamped with a colored disk. Three failures (o keep wltbln the square assigned results In the penulty of leaving the place. Early "Rubber Stamp/?' Rubber stamps were first used for signature facsimile during the war, around 1800. Prior to that time Impressions were made In engraving. Wood cuts were made, and then rib bons. similar to the ribbons used on our typewriter*, were used, and tbe name stumped through them. Honetty Honesty does not merely mean that you will not He with your lips or take somebody's'money or property. It also means that you will do your very best In everything, do every task to a c»n plete finish, and stamp each Job yon do with tbe trademark of your char acter.—Kiel Kraftsman. Jap Colony for Brazil Tokyo.—A Japanese emigration as sociation operating In Brazil has pur chased a tract of about 30,000 acres In Bao Paulo state on which It plans to establish a village of Japanese emi grants, according to a cablegram re ceived here from the company's agent In Brazil. The company will assist emigrants to go to frazil. Clock Tick* 200 Years Marysvllle, Csl.—Krs. W. H. Crook has In her possession s clock which has ticked off the hours for 200 years, with a cessation only when it was packed sod shipped from the Eaat 45 years ago by John Swift, father of the late Supervisor Clarence E. Swift Hufs Saw Installed Hoqulnni, AVaah. —Btf timber re quire* big am, and that'* why a ihlngle mill here hat Installed the largest circular MW In the world. It Is more than twelve feet In diameter and travels at enormous s;-eed. NO. 50 HAVE WE LOST ART OF "GOING TO BED?" Here'* Writ «r Think So, find States Hit Case. t The modern world does not under- v : stand the art of going to bed com fort ably. The proceeding has degenerated ? into a mere act of domestic routine. We Just go to bed. Of the seductive 1 pleasure, the enjoyment of doing that 1 comfortably, we have not the least ' 1 conception. Bed walty. Nature In- j 1 slsts that we shall go to it, «l£her late or early, so we bend to her will and "turn In" perfunctorily. So far aa we 1 are concerned, going to bed comfort ably counts among the lost arts. And for our Ignorance of It we pay forfeit In the shape of insomnia, neuaraathe nla, Jumplness and the various other forma of mental trouble that plague us. Our forebears, In many ways more ■killed In the art of good living we are, knew the recuperative value of restful sleep, and they coaxed thla' boon by providing conditions that In duced it to visit them—they knew how to go to bed comfortably. { For them there was no stripping off warm clothing to plunge in between Ice-cold sheets; no such abominations as hot-water bottles that heat only a small patch oi glacial surface and ttireby make the rest of It seem cold er to the shivering limbs ot a would be sleeper. When they warmed a bed they warmed It to an even temperature ' all over, making it a delightfully coxy retreat for the weary to creep Into. If a modern house possesses a warm ing-pan ir is bung on the wall as a | precious antique that must not bs touched lest the shining luster of Its ' polished copper should be dimmed by Inquisitive lingers. But our forebeara* invented warming-pans as accessories to bed comfort and used them to pro mote it Filled with glowing embers and wrapped round with a pieoa of blanket to prevent burning the sheets, . the warming pan was thrust Into the bed and moved slowly and down until every Inch had been so perfectly heated that when a tired mortal rolled in between the sheets he, or she, would snuggle gratefully down into their caressing embrace and go luxuriously to sleep. And what JoHy beds the old fotka had! Not the hard, bone-torturing mat tresses stretched upon Iron frames that we use, but stour "ticks" stuffed with live goose feathers and pillows filled with down. One lay softly upon them and felt at ease. In an old "fosr poster," with Its curtains closely drawn, all outside distractions war* ex cluded—one could not help but sleep. Real bed comfort vanished with the four-poster or. "tent bedstead," aa It was sometimes called. One still finds examples of these preserved la muae ums. But they have been ejected frem homes In which they once held pride ot place among the most cherished bouae bold goods.—Exchange. Cupid Pitching '] Judge Summerfletd waa deploring the lightness with which people marry and separate. It'a getting to be noth -1 lng but a game and a fast-played game at that. One of these days I expect we'll have a matrimonial world series. "Only the other day a' yonng friend | came to me all radiant, crying: 'Betty has sccepted roe; Betty has accepted me.' "The following day I met him again and noting the downcast look asked what was the trouble. " "She changed her mind,' be ex plained. •! asked hef why and she wouldn't give any reason and then she said: "Tell yon what! Propose to m aguln. and we'll mnke It the best tw out of three.'"—Los Angeles Times. Napoleonic Mementoes Napoleon's birthplace, the house at Ajacclo, Corsica, has been given to the French government by Prince Victor Napoleon, who. In return, has received the Roman sword of honor presented to Napoleon when he was First Con sul. and the superb dock by Clodion. Tliese formed part of the personal es tate of Napoleon 111 and were the ob ject of litigation for years between the late Kmpress Eugenie and the French, government. Prince Victor inherited' this litigation with the rest of Eu genie's property, but by tbe present, arrangement It Is definitely settled. The sword and clock are now In ths Decorative Arts museum. ■i i. i ■ I' « ■ ii Foe of Telephone Poles White-headed woodpeckers blamed for ruining annually hundred* of telephone poles in the stats of Wash ington. They fill the cedar poles of holes to make storage places for their food. It Is'claimed Why Amber Mouthpieces It was sn early belief that amber | hsd the power of preventing (he - spread of- Infection If held In the : mouth, and from that belief It became the custom to flt am her mouthpieces to pipes. ; . H