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THE ALAMANOE (JTLEANER. VOL. LI I). S. FOREST FIRES CAUSE HEAVY LOSS 92,000 Blazes Burn 29,000,- 000 Acres in Year. Washington.—Nearly 02,000 forest fires stfept 29,000,000 acres of public and private lands during the calendar year 1924, according to a report Jast compiled by the forest service, Unit ed States Department of* Agriculture. The actual money damage was $38,- 000,000, exclusive of damage to young growth, watershed protection, wild life and recreational facilities. The figures, say forestry officials, clearly reflect the bad forest Are con ditions which prevailed last year, es pecially In many southern states and In California. Compared, with the calendar year 1923, the 1924 figures represent an Increase of 24.000 fires, and compared with the nine-year aver age nn Increase of 46,000 fire 3, or nearly 100 per cent. In acreage swept by flames, the 1924 figures are only slightly larger than those for 1923, hut are almost double the acreage fig ures representing the nine-year aver age. Money damage in 1924, estimated at $38,000,000, Is $10,000,000 above the 1923 estimate, and $18,000,000 higher than the nine-year average of $20,- 000,000. Damage to, young growth; watershed protection, wild-life, and recreational facilities, and losses' to the lumber Industry, Including wages nnd other economic* values, are not inqluded. ~ Was a Bad Year. v Wllllom B. Greeley, chief of the for v service, states that the material Increase in the number of forest fires reported during 1924 Is partly the re sult of more complete reports, al though 1924 was a very bad year In many,sections of the country. "Excessively dcy weather was ex perienced in California and In the Gulf states," said Chief Forester Gree ley, "and In these states the 1924 fire "figures show great Increase over the nine-year average. Smaller In creases are also shown in most other states." An analysis of the 1924 statistics shows that Incendiary fires top the list with 21,000, or about 23 per cent of the total. Brush burning comes next with 10,000 fires, or 18 per cent, and fires caused by smokers Is third with 13,000, or about 14 per cent. Other chief 'causes of forest fires in 1924 were railroads, camp fires, lum bering and lightning. Lightning; Is considered the only natural cause of forest fires. Only six ger cent of the 1924 fires were started by lightning. Public Opinion a Needed Weapon. "The greatest single agency with which to combat forest fires," said Colonel Greeley, "Is public opinion. No thoughtful citizen can read the 192* figures without coming to the conclu sion that the fight against forest fires Is Ms personal fight The federal and state governments nre doing their utmost wfth the funds and equipment allotted to them. It is high time that a more effective weapon li placed at their disposal, and that weapon Is an outraged public opinion." The figures given In the forest serv- Ice/ report apply to all public and pri vate lands In the United States and not merely to the national forest areas under the jurisdiction of the Unltfcd States Department of Agriculture. f>n these latter areas, which embrace 157* 000,000 acres, the number of forest fires during 1924 totaled 8,247, the >rea swept by flames was 002,000 acres and the money damage was es timated at $1,500,000. ) Aged Woman Says Girls Swimming Is Age Wonder Boston. That girls actually go swimming at Nantasket and other pub lic beaches Is the greatest cha&ge In manners that Mrs. Ezra Brown, one of Cohasset's oldest residents, has no ticed in her long life. The dearly loved elderly lady whose house Is a favorite visiting place of the young and old people in the town, declared on the eve of her ninety-sec ond birthday that she doesn't begin to be as much Impressed with the radio, automobiles, telephones and other signs of progress that have cropped up during her lifetime as she is with ■ the way young glr(a have changed their manners. She only wishes her mother coald see the girls of today thinking noth ing of disporting themselves on the beach and In the water. Hie Nan- H tasket of her girlhood was visited only by men bathers, and the girls of her day would rather have died than taken a swim with people present Win JUce With Death Cincinnati. A successful race againat death terminated here recent ly when surgeons removed a bean from the left lung of four-year-old ' Curniel I'etry, Jr., of Han ley; W. Va. Xi train being available until late'at night, the 238-roile trip was mzde by MtomobUs to nine boo*. ~~ r \ Seed Motiotf Inspired- Screuf Propeller Idea When • young engineer named Hick of Bolton, England, noticed one day the rotary descent of a sycamore seed, he examined it and applied his obser vations to the making of a screw pro peller. Some years later. In 1828, a Kent ish farmer, Francis Smith, who was interested In marine engineering, con structed a model boat propelled by a screw driven with a spring.. The suc cess of this led to farther experiments on a pond In one of his fields. Experts became Interested In his In vestigations, and in 1838 he. built a ten-ton vessel to the design of his model. This had .satisfactory trials on the Paddlngton cabal and the Thames, but the Inventor was not sat isfied. He put to sea In her, and de spite rough weather his craft behaved excelleptly. A year later the admiralty agreed to foster the Invention if he could make a larger' vessel that would travel five miles an hour on the Thames; and In 1838 he built the Archimedes, a 237- ton boat of 90 horse power, which he launched at MMwall. the aston ishment of the critics this boat reached a speed of nearly ten miles an hour, and' in the two years /that followed nearly one hundred similar boats wore built Bread a Staple Food Throughout the Age* Bread Is the name given to the staple food product prepared by the baking of flour. In old English the word was written, as we write It, bread, and It is common In various forms to many Teutonic languages, as "brat" In Germany, "brod" In Dutch, and "brot" In Swedish and Dunlsh. It Is probably connected with the root of "to break," for Its early uses are confined to "broken pieces or bits" of bread, which In the Twelfth century began to be called louf, while bread became the genuine name of this kind of food. . Bread-making, or at any preparation of cakes from flofir or parched grain by means of beat, is one of the moat ancient of human arts. The charred remains of /cakw made.ffom coarsely ground grain have been found In the Swiss lake-dwellings that date back to the Stone age. The cakes were made of different kinds of grain, barley and one-grained wheat being among the 'ingredients. This bread was made front grain crashed between some hard surface*, and in these lake-dwellings many round shaped stones have been found, which were evidently used for pounding or crushing grain against the surface, more or less concave, of another stone. Antique Furniture Amateur collector* often wonder how there can be so much antique fur niture In existence. But when they stop to consider that there are thou sands of homes In Europe still fil&d with tfee furniture of olden times, they understand. In the days when furni ture making was on the crest there were only two classes of people. One was the "haves"; the other the "have note." There was no middle class, so those "haves" had much. Fine furni ture, which was to be found every where, was handed down Intact, v for in those days a man gave everything te his oldest son and to no one else. In ithut way estates were not broken up, and family furniture vu passed on from generation to generation. Much of it stHl remains aa It was long ago in the old homes. Mice Without Htdr A tribe of hairless mice were ra ' recently discovered In London and they were regarded as such great cariosi ties that they were exhibited before the members of the Zoological society. The little animals were caught in a trap In the northern part of the city of London and several of them have been observed by scientists who are endeavoring to explain their origin. Several mice have beeAvborn in cap tivity and when the pink little ones are first seen they are much like other mice at the same period of their lives. The hair appears In the usual way but when they are about three weeks oitf the hair has commenced to disappear. That of the top of the bead Is lost first and then gradually the baldness extends all ever the body. Halcyon Dmya According to Greek mythology Al cyone, or Halcyone, the daughter of Aeolua, married Ceyx. Ceyx was drowned, and Alcyone, on learning his fate, threw himself Into the sea The (Ms were mored by the tragedy of the lovers; they brought them back to life In the form of halcyons, or klngfiriiera, and they decreed that for the seven days from December 22 to December 2». the sea should co ntain calm while the seablrda built their nests upon It. Those seven days, the last of the year, are therefore called halcyon days, days of tran quillity. GRAHAM, N. C., Example of Chivalry Among Lower Animalsf An unusual "big brother" act among animals'ls described by a park nat uralist who saw a large marmot or woodchu?k attack and drive off a mink after the latter had raptured and fa tally wounded a ground squirrel. The scene of the little drahia was near the bridge otm Lava creek, a small stream in the northern part of Yellowstone park. After describing the capture of the luckless squirrel, the naturalist goes on to say: "While the squirrel was struggling in the clutches of the mink a large woodchock, apparently attracted by the the squirrel, came and stood on his hind legs a moment to review the scene, then ran straight for the point of battle. The mink raised his head Just In time to see the mar- Uiot and escape him by rutfdng to the bank of the nearby creek; the marmot followed, but too slowly. "The railing of the creek bridge Is supported by low uprights with lean ing braces of timber. On one of these braces the marmot climbed, facing the squirrel left dying In the road some yards away; then he calmly proceeded to wash his face with hfs front paws. Apparently the 'big brother' get Is an old story In the wild anlmal/£orfd>llke so many other things which we have thought human, only to discover, upon Investigation, that we huve merely adopted them with human procrastina tion. "In a former year I once saw a mink deliberately attack a marmot of me dium size. In this case the contestants, after a fierce battle, finally culled It a draw." Word "Hell" Has Been Given Many Meanings The word hell lias today several meanings. 1. The abode of evil uplr- Its; the Infernal region, especially a place of eternal punishment for lost spirits. 2." Figuratively It is used to indicate a place of extrement, evil or misery. 3» A'plnce of departed spirits, called by the Greeks hades, and by the Hebrews SheoL 4. A place of evil or rejected things. Smith's Dictionary of tbe Bible states that "This is the word (hell) generally and unfortunately used by our translators to render thf Hebrew word gheol. It would perhaps have been better to retain the Hebrew word Sheol, or else render it always by 'the grave*" or the pit' ... It is clear that In many passages of the Old Testament sbeol can only mean 'the grave' and tt Is so rendered In the Authorized Version In Genesis 87 :35, 40:89; I Samuel 2:6; Job 14:13. In other passages, however. It seems to Involve a notion of punishment, and Is, therefore, rendered In the Author ized Version by the word hell. The word most frequently used in tbe New Testament for the place of future pun ishment la Gehenna or Gelwnna of Fire." Our word hell is a Teutonic word from a root meaning to cover. In old English the word was wrlteen hel. Explorer Discovers New Race in Western Siberia Irkutsk, Siberia. —Prof. B. N. Gorod koff, Russian explorer, who has,tra versed western Siberia, reports the discovery of a hitherto unknown face on the Klver I'oora. ' Altogether Professor Gorodkoff has claas containing 000 people. The local Snmoyeds call the tribe "Pyan Ha Sovo," which means "forest people," while In their own language the tribe call themselves "Neshen," which means "men." Their languuge Is entirely different from that of any of the other nation alities populating western Siberia. The Neshen people differ also from their sainoyed netghbom by tlielr dark hair and complexion. They have no Inter course with their neighbors and very few of them engage in Usliing and tout ing beyond the borders of th«tLr own little country. Tuberculosis *AII animals have a certain degree of resistance to the attack of the germ of T. B.; In some this power Is low and others very high. The guinea pig, for example, bas almost no resistance to this disease, while the gost has so high a resistance that It Is very hard to Infect It at sit Among human be ings the Indian and negro usually show a very low resisting power and when Infected are apt to have the rapid and dangerous form of thjk trou ble. The average white man. on the contrary, has considerable resisting power. Tha English of It This is probably why the English language la so hard for foreigners to learn: Tve loot the links," said the soiled *lrt. Tve lost the links," said the golfer, as be wandered /Umlessly through tb« wood* "I've lost the lyn*," said the hunter, m l» saw track* inu4 his trap. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17,1925 HOW = | HOUSEWIVES OF LONG AGO g ' PREPARED THEIR, FOOD,— A How did those Jake-dwellers of E the Stone ag» bake their cakes © of bruised grain? Probably the ffi dough was laid on a flat of W convex-shaped stone, which g was heated, while the cake © was covered with hot ashes. S Stones have been* found among g prehistoric remains which were © apparently used t6r this pnr- * pose. In ancient Egyptian © | toinbs cakes have been foqnd, S | of concave shape, suggesting ® i the use slabs. The 3 | material of the cakes was 8 1 i coarsely cracked grain. a! ] In primitive times milling i nnd baking were twin arts. The 01 | hohsewlfe, and the daughters or • handmaids, crushed or ground ei | the # grain and prepared the s| | bread or calces. When'the pa- | i trlarch Abraham entertained * | the angels uhnuiares, us related 8 i In Genesis 18, he bade his a | wife Sarah "make ready quickly § i three measures x»f fine menl, $ | knead It, and make cakes upon w i the hearth." Among the remains © I of ancient houses In Chaldaea, j§ an oven #or baking brend has © been found In every courtyard, 8 and close by were kept the £» grinding- stones. Thnt ( bread « prepared by means of leaven © was known In the days of the # patriarchs may be fairly In- ® ferred from the passage in § Genesis 3, where It Is said of ® Lot that he."ninde a feast, and ;•) did bake unleavened bread.* § The difference Is here Implied, jS' showing that leavened was known as well as un. © , leavened. § How Liquid May Be Cooled Without Ice When unable to get Ice, water nmi any other beverage* cnn be kept cold by the following *lmple method: Arid a liberal, quantity .of coarse wilt— about a handful to a pint of water —to Rome cold water. Pour some of It Into a deep dish or soup plate, lilolsten an old napkin or soft cloth with some of the a iialted water which Is left, and wrap it closely ronml the }oz contain ing the liquid, leaving only the top uncovered. Now place the Jug In the dish containing the salted water and stand In a cool place, In a current of air. Replenish the water In the dish from, time to time, as the secret of Success Is In keeping the cloth very moist How Gold May Be "Made" That the dream of medieval alchem ists of forcing nature to givo up her secret of how to make gold Is Hearing practical realization Is the prediction freely made In German scientific cir cles. In the seclusion of thtelr labora tories German scientists are working on this problem with great energy and secrecy. Prof. A. Mlethe, famous scientist of the Charlottenburg Technical High school, whose announcement of suc cessfully making gold out of mercury created a sensation in the scientific world, now is reported to have closed a contract with the Rlemens-Schuckert company of Berlin for further develop ment and realization on a practical commercial basis of his discoveries. Stripping Cork Tree If It is done properly, the commer cial value of the cork Is Improved by Stripping a tree of Its bark. A cork tree Is stripped for the first time when it Is about twenty years old. This vir gin cork Is rough and coarse. Suc cessive layers of hark are tuken st In tervale of eight or ten years. This cork Is finer. The work of stripping must be done rnrefnlly. as any Injury to the delicate Inner skin of the tree results In rhe |ienn»nent stoppage of growth »f ciirk at that spot. How Twilight Is Explained tight l« reflected from the higher parts of the atinopahere until the xnn In about 18 degree* below the horizon. Nenr the wiu.iiir there IK little twi light becauae of tire awlftneaa with which the nun traverse* thin dlirtnnce and becauae of the transparency of the atmosphere. In the high latitude* twilight aometfmes Iwtta from xunnet to sunrise. The state of the atmos phere na to clouds, etc., haa a direct bearing on the length of "twilight. How Earth Is Slowing Down The earth la alowlng down, wiya s recent publication of the Smlthaonlan Institution. Bat there la little dnnger of cessathm of Ita rotary motion, for the rate of *lo\tinjr down Is only one thousandth of a second per century. This means a. loss of a minute In si* million year*. gclAitlats estimate that agea and ages ago the earth re volved so fast that a day was three or tonr boon. Weight Great Factor in Horses for Draft There can be a* doubt that weight Is an important factor In the produc tion of a horse that can pull a heavy load. This has long been recpgnlzed In America, where for many years draft horses, pure bred and commer cial, have been sold by weight; and It has recently been definitely proved by the dynamometer, a machine for meas uring the pulling power of a horse., It haa been abundantly shown that a pair of horses cannot exert a trac tive poll greater than their own weight A tractive pull la not merely the pull ing of a heavy load over a required distance, but the maintenance of the pull required to start that load over a distance which Is now fixed at 27Vi feet Thus the weight of a horse Is un doubtedly a limiting factor to what it can accomplish. Moreover, the* fact that a horse can make'a tractive pull of nine-tenths of Its own weight Is Significant; and these two points, taken together, show that nreedlng for weight in horses is no mere fad or "fancy point." Bill Collector Used Method That Worked A manufacturer of Unlrth City, Ind., known to his friends as Bob, tells hoij he has made a reputation around Union City for collecting bad bills. He says: , "I had n bill dfalnst a man In. this vicinity, rfnd it had been standing for so long that it had grown whiskers. I decided to send the man a statement every morning for an entire month, so every day my office girl addressed a 'dun' to him. At the end of the month I sat down at my desk and wrote my friend n little note and sent It to htm by registered mall. The note read: '"For heaven's sake, man, go down to the post office—you've got mall.' "Ai)d on the following day the fel low appeared and made full settle ment of a bill I thought would never be paid."—lndianapolis News Sugar Crop» of Hawaii ' Tear after year the sugar crop per acre Is being Increased on the sugar plantations In Hawaii, and the record thus far Is held by the Kwa'plantatlon with the crop harvested last • year,, which ran slightly In excess of 18 tons per acre fer the 128 acres In the plan tation. The yield was four times the average yield for that country, the plimters being satisfied with four tdng per acre and delighted when they raise It to Ave tons. The Cuban planters are growing wealthy with a crop of two or.three ton* per acre, and the average yield la not above two tons. In Hawaii the plan In use la to plantations smaller, develop Intensive cultivation, use all scientific information and alda and get much sugar from a few acres,' a** plan that la bringing enormous wealth to the growers and much pros perity to the Islands, Real Grief Jerry had been worshiping Ethel for months, bat had never told her. He had come often and atayed late—very late—and she could only sigh and hope. He was going swsy the next day on a holiday, and he thought the last night was the time to spring the momentous question He kept It to himself, how ever, until the last' thing. It was XIM by the clock. "Miss Ethel," he said tremulously, "I am going away tomorrow." "Are youT". she said wtth the thoughtlessness of girlhood. "Yen," he replied, "Are you sorry?" "Yes, rery sorry," she murmured as she glanced at the clock. "I thought you might go away this evening." Ancient Egyptian Bread The ancient Egyptians carried the art of baking to high perfection, al though the Greek historian remarks of them, "dough they knesded with their feet, but city with their hands" The bread of the majority of the peo ple was made of barley, bat white bread made from wheat was osed by the rich. The form of the bread to revealed by ancient monuments. A common shspe wss s small, round loaf, aomethlng like the mnffln of to day. Other loavea were elongated rolls, and curiously enough were sprinkled on the top with Seeds like the modern Vienna bread. Started Vacation Idea The Olympic games are given credit fer having been the origin of the va cation period now ao universal through out the world. Excursions to .these game* In Greece started the oatlng habit. It la said. The period was set by the lunar calendar, coming usually following the first fall moon after June 21. every four years It was usu ally necessary for die. Greeks to travel some little distance to witness the games. From this'habit the summer yscatlon custom is said to have started M 4 spread steadily w* (to wsstf. Rural England in 182S Had Little Over China The Chinese minister of communica tions sent from Peking a long cable gram of poetic prose felicitating the managers of the Darlington railway nial of George Stephenson's "Locomo tion No. 7." \ Unless the railway track was laid over the graves of ancestors In an In land province, the spectacle of the puffing monster, once«regarded as first esastn to the earth-dragon, would ex cfts far less confusion in the celestial Ngmbllc today than It did among the honest English yokels of Stephenson's era. Then, according to contemporary re port "In many bosoms the arrival caused the greatest consternation. They fled In abject terror, many hid ing themseltes In &e church, others seeking consolation la the bottle, while some of the more courageous climbed Into trees and at a safe distance from the monster's claws watched It pass." Reading that account one Is .Inclined to bVlleve that Ewope In 1825 was not many leagues tfl|favancn of the cycle of Cathay, remarks the Philadelphia Ledger. \ Old English Dog Law Had Sound Reasoning There was a great fear of dogs Oseac the people of England when Edward I was reigning, In which time was established a most extraordlnacy law affecting dogs, according to a writer In the Ohio Slate Journal. Only those people living a consid erable distance from the large forests In that country were permitted to own and keep dogs, particularly large dogs, the lawmakers, with great wisdom, reasoning that a large dog near the forest, where there was modi wild game, would Join with other large dogs and follow the call of tho wild. A great pack of wild dofs would be developed, game would be destroyed and grave danger developed for hu man life. So the law provided a dog gauge, an opening of prescribed sise, and only vuch doga aa could squeeze their way through the legal measur ing gauge were permitted to be -kept at a home within 10 miles of the forests. Aad the law never has beso repealed, but It has not been used for generatloas. F—r Warn m Fwimmd- A few weeks before Ms death Lard Leverhulme, In his presidential ad dress to the Institute of Certified Grocers at Scarborough, said that he felt sure that the greatest help to any of them was fear, and that fear had been his best friend. His first recol lection waa fear. lie bad fear of con tinuing a clerk at his father's • busi ness, and that fear persuaded his fa ther to put him on the road as a com mercial traveler at the age of nine teen. He married at the age of twenty two, and then fear came as to whether the profits would keep a wife. Later fear drove him into soap. His soap, widely advertised, was fiwated as a company in 1804. In the words-of one of his numerous obituaries: "The yean that followed marked the growth of a business ideal that was almost-epic in Its triumphs and ramifications."— Spectator. London. * Fire Attacks 618 Homes in United States Daily Washington. Fire attacks 618 homes every day of the year,' accord* tag to a report made public by the National Board of Fir* Underwriters. This means a residential fire every three minutes. The total Are loss for the. period 1019-1023 was $822310,604. The causes of the destruction were as follows: Infective chimneys and flues, (30.991,288; sparks oa roof*. $81,879,884; stoves, furnaces, boilers y4d tlielr pipes, $24348.0®; matches/ smoking, $10,129,382; petroleum and IU products. $10,423,243, cod elec tricity, $15,44.'.1*84. Four of these originating canoes ware pronounced preventable lon* rise* by Are prevention engineers and ether two are acknowledged to be partly avoidable. 324 Bathing Beauties Long Beach, Cal. —A throng of pleasure seekers estimated In excess of 100,000 jammed* the street and qfrand of Long Beach to see for themselves a parade of 324 bathing beauties whose appearance various church and reform organizations! had fought fur six weeks to prevent A Big One Little Mary's father Is a teacher sad keeps pretty dose tabs on her school work. Her arithmetic gives bins more con cern than snythlng else. At lunch time on the day when she bad her final examination In arithmetic bo asked ner what mark she got To which she maprnfully replied: Dw Mggsst aMyfct I am mm.* \ NO. 33 SIX BIG RESERVOIRS UNEARTHED IN WEST 50,000-Year-Old Tank* Are Found in Spring Valley. Gold HJII, Utah. —A v series of six. Immense reservoirs Relieved to hsvei been constructed about 60(000 years) ago have been discovered In Spring] valley, Nevada, by members of the* Coemographlc society. The reservoirs are triangular and! range fropu a few Inches to' 60" feet in depth. The retaining walls are about 800 yards long and are feathered baok Into the hillside. The walls are from six to twenty-five feet thick and are believed to be composed' of granite, covered with debris. . -The huge tanks overlook a once fertile valley, where coal deposits! have since been found. It is thought! by members of* the society that thai reservoirs were used for Irrigation! purposes. * Claims that the reservoirs resulted ffom glacial action have been denied) by the Cosmograpblc society, which points out that no trick of a glaclerj could constffKt six perfectly sym metrical msssßry formations. In a limestone cave In the moon-, talnslde above the reservoirs members of the Smithsonian Institution found several crude implements and weapons, among which were several "arrow springs," a little wooden rod with one end bent into a hook. The arrow was placed into the crook and the rod sprung afrtr the fashion of the catapult The "arrow*spring" is con-,' sldered to have preceded the bow by several hundred years. Thousand-Year-old Relics Unearthed by Ohio Farmer Columbus, Ohio.—The Ohio State Archeologlral and Historical society received of the most Important* finds of prehistoric people ever made In the Buckeye state. George N. Miller, fanner of near Jackson, gave the-Institution the skei- ! etons of five adult and itwo adolescent Indiana. j Miller fourur the skeletons snd a considerable quantity of domestic utensils In a "rock shelter" In the vi cinity of his farm. Thp bones, to* which some of the flesh still was dinging, were estimat ed to be store than 1,000 years old **r % G Mills, director of the so-' Bits of pottery, fiber moccasins, Implements, fiber grave clothing and other material was found in the abet ter, all In a remarkable state of pres ervation, equaled heretofore, accord ing to Doctor Mills, only by d|scov srles In the arid regions of the south western purt of the United States and in South American areas. A rock shelter. Doctor Mills ex plained, Is formed by the washing away of the soft strsta.of rock, leav ing a hard strata to form a root Un der this natural protection Indians In prehistoric days made their home. One of the most Interesting features brought*to fight was the fhct that ap parently there bad been some attempt made Co embalm the bodies. This was - shown by the tissue clinging to the bones. How Animals Sleep The statement is often made that animals do not Bleep as soundly ss hu man beings. A reader writes to as saying that they do. But. he says. In their normal condition their hearing is so acute that the least noise wllli fully arouse them at once. Animals' which are born deaf—white Spitz dogs, for Instance —sleep so soundly that It takes as much shaking to arouse them as it does a lazy boy. "I have a ptyipy —part Spits—that sleeps so soundly thst I can tske It up and carry It around without waking It," a corre spondent of the Pathfinder Magazine says. "Many of the white and prac tically all of the albino Spits dogs are born deaf." Study Weather at U. S. Flying School* San Francisco. —Army service schools at the Presidio of San Francisco and elsewhere have begun to turn weather prophets. The military Importance of the subject has led ahny men to a deep study of atmospheric conditions. Graduates of the meteorological section of the signal school are placed on duty along the numerous War depart ment airways, where weather forecasts roust be supplied to avlatera before they start on flights. Not only temperatures and storms must 6e predicted, but upper sir currents and the direction and duration of winds. In planning - the erection of new airdromes and flying fields the experts are given om-efßl hearings.
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