TBR ALAMANCE GLEANER
VOL.LI
DEVIL S IUWZ.K L.UPTI*
KNOWN AS LANDMARK
~ . '■ .■— \
pretty Indian Legend Con
cerning It* Origin.
i Devil's Tower national monument la
one of the most conspicuous features
to the Black Hills region of Wyoming.
The tpwer rises 600 feet above a
rounded ridge of sedimentary rocks,
itself rises 600 feet the
Balls Fouche river, says the Depart,
meat si the Interior. Its Bides are
fluted by gnat columns which stand
nearly perpendicular, except near the
Up, vfcera they round in, and near
arias* where they flare out The
but emerges into a talus of broken
columns lying on a platform of buff
sandstone. The whole presents a
never-to-be-forgotten spectacle.
The great columns of which the
tower consists are mostly pentagonal
In shape, but some are four or six-1
sided. Bach column Is about six feet
in diameter, and the whole bunched to
gether like a bundle of matches. In
places several columns unite in their
upper portion to .form a large fluted
column. In the lower quarter or third
of the tower the columns bend out
ward and merge rapidly Into massive
rock, which toward the-base shows
little trace of columnar structure. It!
measures more then- one mile around
the base.
| The Devil's tower was useful, to the
aborigines as a landmark from, which
to direct their courses across the
|pkbul The Indian legend of its origin
hu It that one day three Sioux maid* i
uu, while out gathering wild flowers,
were beeet with three bears. The.
maidens took refuse upon a large, rofk, .
jwhJeb--the bears were also able to
jdUib> -because they had long, sharp
jdaws. The gods, seeing the maidens •
about to. be devoured, caused the rock j
jto grow out -of the ground. As the
rock grew, the maidens -climbed, bnt
the bears could, climb no further, and
(ell to their death on the rocks belOw.
The maidens then .took /the flowers
they had gathered and made them Into
I rope, with which they safely low
ered themselves to the ground. The
columnar structure tosnppesed to 1 have
been caused by the marks of £he bears'
daws. The Indians also say that dur
ing thunderstorms the Thunder God
tikes hls mightyi drum; to th§ top of
the towerp where?-he beats it, thus
caoslsg the tbunden... ;
The white pioneers of civilisation
later on used the tower as a landmark
la their exploli«ttodH>4%4 great North
west Still -laterjtbe nfllltary leaders
la
during thelndlawartorSioftheaast cen
tury, directed t&Str marches by the aid
ot this towar r -fertt to' visible in some
directions for nearly a hundred mile*
The Devfl*s tower is reached by a
ilde trip of seven miles from the Cms- ,
ter Battlefield highway and Black and
Mow trail, • two- -signed highways;,
which folio# practically the same
rente through northeastern' Wyoming.*
The former is ndlnct-route to-Glaeier
National park. Moorcroft, 85 miles
U«tani on the Chicago, Burlington &
Waey railroad, is the-nearest rail
naß point The nearest settlement to
CafUsJa.
Football oh the Roof
( WlthJn a. stone's throw of that ca
thedral dome the preservation of which
to now the business of the whole world
there Is « sports ground on which
cricket and football hvwa been played j
r*mlarly for the last 00 years.
Yon might search for this a long time
without finding it—4t to on tike root of
Bt Paul's choir house. There, on al
o°»t any day in the week, you may.
And half-a-dosen youngsters in foot-..
®*ll shorts or flannels exercising in a
Jrtiwetted cage which to About the,
length of s cricket pitch.
When the choir house was built It
was realized that It was necessary for
the boys to have some place where
they could play games, and, this be
impossible In the crowded city
* treeta » * sports ground was laid out
* the rook—London Tit-Bits.
Confess—But WhatT
He w«s consulting his lawyer, more
a personal than in a professional
Tv- "I don't know what to do, John,"
*ald. "My wife has received- an
nymous letter exposing soma things
JV in before we were
m/l " Tho lawyer from
experience. "BUI," he said,
/"*res only one thing to do—con
"That would be all right John,"
, worrleJ husband, "if aha
let me take a look at the totter
«Ml me whafs in it As tt to I
«ni know what to confess."
Right to Salute Bridm
, 016 bride appears to have
o" he Carriage nnlfnnnly
!t as his Inalienable privilege
toC? * ■■■* « the lips of the
Jr n , ra ® edl «triy after the perform
tannn- offlcUl duties," for it was
•ttrv KJ^ UeVed thtt th « happiness of
Title He-Gave Hbnself
Stuck to GrecU^Showman
Probably the greatest ■'Trw the
world has ever known was Sanger »
famous for Sanger's cireua He-even
went so far as to give himself a title, i
and the title stuck so firmly that
many people thought he really had
been elevated to, the peerage 1 Every
one knew him as "Lord" George
ssanger.
Ip his book,. "Studio and Stage," Mr.
Joseph Harker, the famous scene
I painter, tells how this "title" came
' ? bout » was the outcome of a deal
to horses with William Oody, other
wise known as Buffalo Bill. Accord
ing to Sanger, Cody thought himself i
py far the more Important showman. \
In the course of the preliminaries to 1
the deal, Bill sent a representative to j
■Sanger with a message to the effect 1
that "The Honorable William F. Cody"
refused to take a penny less than so
much for the horses
| Sanger, who had the gift of giving.'
neat replies, and who also was not
going to be outdone, without more
ado sent back this terse message:
"If you are the Hon. W. F. Cody,
then, hang it I'm Lord George Sanger
and I won't give a ha'penny more
than I stipulated for the horses."
And from that day on "Lord"
George Sanger he remained.
Elephant Noted for
Keen Senae of Smell
What the elephant lacks In vision !
is more than compensated for by the'
animal's keen sense of smell. His
' trunk Is probably the best smelling I
apparatus in the world, and he de- I
pends first of all on his sense of smell. '
. When he Is at all suspicious he
moves his trunk round in every di
rection, so that the slightest taint In
■(the air will reach him. In many other
j ways the elephant's trunk Is the most
extraordinary part of that most ex- i
traordinary animal, the Providence
Journal says.
It Is entirely flexible at every point
and it can turn in any direction and
has tremendous strength. There is
no bone In It but it is constructed of
lntgpwoven muscles and sinew so
tough that you can scarcely cut It
with a knife.
From It an elephant can shoot a
stream of water that will put out a
fire, and with it he can lift a tree
trunk weighing a ton or pull a deli
cate blade of grass. He drinks with
it feeds himself with It, smells with
it works with it and fights with it
I Relations to Nature
In general one may say that the hus
bandman's is the oldest and most uni
versal profession, and .that where a
man does not yet discover in himself
any fitness for one work more than an
other, this may be preferred. But the
'doctrine of the farm is merely this,
that esrery man ought to stand In prl
■' mary relations with the work of the
! world; out to do It himself, and not to
suffer the accident of his having a
purse in his pocket, or his having been
, bred to some dishonest and Injurious
craft to sever him from those duties;
and for this reason, that labor la God's
education; that he. only Is a sincere !
learner, he only can become a master,
who learns the secrets of labor, and
who by-real cunning extorts from Na
ture ItS scepter.—Emerson.
The American Outclassed.
i The American truth teller was to
form. "Talking of ants," he said, ,
•'We've' got 'em as big as crabs out
West. l've seen 'em fight with long
horns, which they use as lances, charg
ing eaih-other like savages."
' "They, don't compare with the ants
I I saw in the Far East," said an Inof
fensive individual nearby. "The na
! tives have trained them as beasts of
' burden. One of 'em could trail a ton
load for miles with ease. They worked
willllngly, .but occasionally they turned
on their attendants and killed them."
But this was drawing the long bow a
Uttle too far.
"I say, old chap." said a shocked
voice from the corner, "what sort of
ants were they?"
"Eleph-ants," replied the Inoffensive
Individual. —London Tit-Bits.
Old Mirror Frames Made New.
When mirror .frames become
scratched or tarnished they may be
made attractive again by gluing to the
old frame ribbon or silk that har
mpnlzee with the color scheme of the
room. Brocaded metalUc and
shirred silk sfe especially
Suspended from the wall with a length
of rlbbdn ending to tassels, this rib
bon-covered frame will add an artlstto
touch to any room.
Good Business
A watchmaker and Jeweler got. a
sign painter to fix up a new and deco
££££» for him. TherignpjOntet
evolved an elaborate "W* with sa
muefi scroll werk that It looked mora (
of people read it that way-
One of them remarked to «>ep£
j prietor- "Matchmaker and
lahl ®are intensive selling. J
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1926
Fine Collection of
Books on Far Eaat
On a high hill on the very edge of
Tokyo stands the world's finest library
on the Far East in languages other
than Chinese, Japanese and their
dred tongues. The library building is
fireproof,- soundless, severe and sclen
tlfivally arranged, but sadly out of
sympathy with the unique and marvel
ous collection of volumes mafde by Dr.
George Morrison oyer a period of many
years and supplemented now by the
purchases of Baron Iwasakl, who of
fered the Institution to students of all
climes.
Baron Iwasakl not only placed ,the
library at the disposal of those lnter
estetd In the Far East, building and
equipping a home few it at a cost of
1,500,000 yen, or J750,000, but he en
dowed the Institution with 2,000,000
yen, the interest on which is to main
tain the library, assist In the promo
tion of research work on oriental sub
jects, 'and purchase additions from
time to time. The whole is placed
under the control of a board of trus
tees.
Doctor Morrison's collection Includes
works on China, Tibet Mongolia, Man- .
churia, Kashgarla, Sibaria, Korea, For
mosa, Japan and the neighbors of |
China, and a comprehensive set of
works on central Asia and the rivalry
between Great Britain and Russia on >
the western frontiers of China. There
are books on the subject In more than I
twenty languages.
Petrified Wood Has
Beauty Akin to Gem» j
The petrified national forest, one of
the 29 national monuments established
by Presidential proclamation, is the
only region of hundreds of places in
the Southwest In which sllicifled wood
occurs in such abundance as' to de
serve the name of a petrified forest
It Is located in northern Arizona south
of the town of Adamana on the Santa
Fe railroad and was designated as a
national monument in 1906.
There are three principal groups or
forests in which trees or blocks of the
petrified wood lie scattered about In .
profusion. Many tree trunks .-exceed
100 feet In length and cross sections
reveal the fact that these trees, which
are cedars, did not grow there, but j
probably beside an inland seal and
upon falling became water-logged on
the bottom at this point. During de
composition the cell structure of the "
wood was entirely replaced by silica !
derived from sandstone In the sur
rounding land.
The state of mineralization In which
much of the wood exists almost places j
It with gems or precious stones. Not '
only are chalcedony, opals and agates
found,' but many trees approach the
condition of Jasper and onyx. '
Coach Properly Defined
Now that the coach has become a
large factor in motordom, the question >
is raised as to what Is meant by the
term. The Society of .Automotive En
gineers defines it:
"An Inclosed single-compartment
body, similar In general appearance
to the sedan, with two close-coupled
cross teats for four passengers. There
Is a luggage compartment or space for
a trunk at the of the body. There
Is no glass In the rear quarters. The
conventional type has two doors only,
the forward seats being divided and,
the right-hand seat tipping forward
to give access to the rear cross-seat
Some models have two.doors on the
right-hand seat there being two ftxed
cross-seats."
American Bulldog
The American bulldog—or pit bull
dog, because of the old sport of fight
ing them in • pits—is one of the few
breeds of dogs of distinctly American
origin, and one of the first developed
in tha country, It -is the product
of a crossing of the English bull
dog with the bull terrier, the sub
sequent introduction of an additional
strain of English bulldog ancestry giv
ing the American bull its weight and
its shorter muzzle and larger head.
But the breed now runs very true,
and hss for many years, and there
is not much experimenting with It
A Stone Which Weeps.
Truly awful 'ls Fyvie castle, Aber
deenshire, Scotland, the ancient home
of lord Lelth. It possesses a secret
chamber which has not been opened
for centuries; a "Green Lady" ghost
which appears when misfortune or
death threatens the family; and, built
Into the wall, a "weeping stone," made
famous by Thomas the Rhymer, which
weeps in wet weather and dries Its
tsars in fine.
Frightened.
Jimmy, who was . Inclined to x be a
braggart was telling his father and/
mother of his experiences while out '
camping. "And all of once I stepped
on a big rattlesnake," he began. "How 1
•did you know it was a rattlesnake, {
Jimmy?" asked his father. "I coold
hear Its teeth. chattering the minute |
It saw ■a." . '
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I MUCH DIFFERENCE
! IN MORAL ATTITUDE
\ ■ ■ n
| French and English Do Noi
See Eye-to Eye.
The English language and the Anglo-
Saxon temper distinguish sharply be
tween manners and morals. Manners
are desirable things, excellent things;
they shodld be taught early and con
stantly maintained; but they are su
perficial, secondary; and the possessor
of commendable morals may be some
times excused If his manners are In
adequate. Indeed, there Is often a feel
ing that manners are not only superfi
cial, but artificial; that an excess of
them indicates insincerity and hypoc
risy; and that a finely finished bear
ing suggests an insufficient moral
basis, says a writer in the Youth's
Companion.
The French attitude is quite differ
ent. In fact, the French have the
same word for manners anfl for mor
als, and there is, if not a confusion,
| at least a constant interplay between
the two. In French a moralist Is not
. a person who passionately preaches
improvement of the spiritual nature,
! but a student of human life and char
acter and motive. Indeed, the Identity
of thought goes back beyond the
: French language to the Latin, In which
the word mores, the direct original of
I our morals, means primarily manners
and customs.
The Anglo-Saxon is 1 naturally scorn
ful of the Latin attitude, assuming
, that it implies mistaking mere cour
tesy for solid virtue. At the same
time it Is by no means certain that
there is not a deeper truth in the
French view of the matter. Morals
deal with our relations to others. Mat
thew Arnold said that conduct was
three-fourths of human life. Arnold's
mathematics may be disputable, but
at any rate conduct Is a very great
part of life and conduct Is morals and
morals is that part of life which is
concerned with our dealings with other
lives. Now, If we reflect a moment,
we shall see that all* that-ls really
beautiful and valuable In manners is
also a matter of our relations to oth
ers. True politeness, true courtesy,
are not based on display or effect but
( wholly on kindness; on a quick and
sure apprehension of what will help
others, will soothe them, will make
them feel at their ease. The esssence
i of all, good manners Is to cultivate
1 and -to strengthen the habit and the
of putting yourself In another's
place. And thus manners and morals
are not so far apart after all.
Hour of Death
For some time there has been a
prevalent idea that more people die at
midnight than at any other hour. This
| has led to an investigation of tbe 24,-
I 742 natural deaths that occurred in the
1 borough of Manhattan,,; New York,
during 1023. It was found that fewer
■! people died at midnight than at any
other hour of the day. ' The heaviest
mortality took place between the hours
of 1 and 3 a. m., those small hours
of the morning in which doctors have
' long declared that vitally Is at it? low
est. The number of deaths were low
est from eight o'clock to midnight
For the 24 hours of,the day deaths
occurred as follows: 1 a. m., 1,254;
2 a. m., 1,114; 3, 1,074 ; 4. 1,085;
5, 1,118; 6, 1,089 ; 7, 1,01*; 8, 1,024; 9,
1,043; 10, 1,046; 11, 1,086; noon, 878;
1 p. m., 986 ; 2 p. m., 1,013;', 3, T. 042;
4, 1,090 ; 5, 1,026; 6, 991; 7, 1,100; 8,
919; 9, 952; 8 9; 11, 991; midnight
801 deaths.
Fighting Japanese Beetle
Seeking for a siren lure for tbe
scourge of New Jersey and Pennsyl
vania orchards and gardens, the Jap
anese beetle, 'the bureau of entomol
ogy, United States Department of Ag
riculture, has discovered that geraniol
sprayed In plants brings every Jap
anese beetle for a long distance to
windward to the tree. The beetles
hover around It Inhaling tbe odor with
apparent delight They do not eat tbe
geraniol, but recent experiments have
shown that they enjoy the taste of lead
oleate. Previously it has not been pos
sible to persuade them to eat arsenate
of lead, because some Instinct seems
to warn them It Is poisonous, but when
this Is mixed with, lead oleate tbe
taste of the arsenic and lead to dis
guised.
Keeps on Keeping On I
When last I went West by way of
the "Broadway Limited," I was sit
ting on the observation platform watch
ing the scenery dash by, when tbe
, porter - came *out to straighten the
- chairs which had been left in some
disorder by a group of young folks.
"We don't seem to be going so much
faster than an ordinary local train,
George," I commented. "How, then,
'/ can this be the fastest train on earthr
I "Wall, sub," replied tbe African
with a grin, "de ftC Is we alls doan
I go no faster'n lots of them pesky lo
cals, but we gits dar In quick time be
cause we Jlst keeps on keeping on."—
i W. L. Barohart In Forbes Magazine
I (New York.)
Ancient French Title
The title "dauphin" was borne by
the heirs-apparent to the crowtf of
France, under the Valols and Bourbon
dynasties. In 1840, Humbert H, the
last of the princes of Dauphlne, hav
ing. no issue, left his domains to Philip
of Yalols, king of France, on condition
that the king's eldest son be called the
dauphin:
The first dauphin was Jean, after
wards John tbe Good, and the last the
Due d'Angouleme, son of Charles X,
who renounced the title In 1890. It
Is said that Guy YIH, an ancestor of
Humbert 11, was surnamed Le Dau
phin, because he wore a dolphin as an
emblem on his helmet or shield. This
surname remained to hlB descendants,
who were styled Dauphins, and the
country, they governed was called Dau
phlne. Tbe wife of the dauphin was
called the dauphlne.—Kansas City Star.
Laugh
The silverware salesman gave a
laugh.
"Do yon aee that dame with the dia
mond stomacher 7" he said. "Well, she
must be one of them new-rich million
aires."
"Yes? Why sor
"She's been buying sugar tongs—
solid silver, yon know. She chose out
most expensive tong, and then she
said:
" Til take a dozen.'
" 'A dozen I* I said, surprised.
" 'Yes; one for each person,' says
she.
"Then she kind of reddened. She
misunderstood my surprise.
" 1 never give big parties,' she says.
'A dosenll be quite enough, young
man.'"
Go Up Into These Mines
One usually thinks of mines as deep
and far below the surface of tbe earth.
But in South America many of the
most famous mines are not only deep
but also high In the air, being situated
in the lofty ranges of the mighty
Andes. At this place, where one of
the largest and richest copper mines
In the world is being worked by an
American copper corporation, the mine
Is 1,000 feet deep and more than 14,000
feet above sea level. To reach It from
Lima dhe crosses a mountain pass by
railroad at an elevation of more than
15,300 feet afy>ve sea leveL One of tbe
newest Peruvian copper mines to en
tered at the bottom, tbe miners work
ing upward inside tbe mountain toward
veins which rise vertically.
Disposal of "Dead Letter f
Letters and other mall matter which
cannot for any reason be delivered are
sent to tbe dead letter office. Where
possible the dead letter office returns
this mail to the senders. Otherwise
tbe letters are destroyed. Yaluable ar
ticles are kept for a certain length of
time in the office. Bome time ago the
Post Office department sold at publle
auction a large number of such ob
jects Inquiries respecting lost mall
should give the date when It was
mailed and shodld be addressed to Di
vision of Dead Letters, Post Office d»
partment, Washington. Pathflntai
Magazine.
Women's Wigti
White wigs are to be the vogue fat
the women of Berlin this winter, ac
cording to tbe Pbllsdelpbla Ledger.
Tbe natural blond hair of German
women was popular in classical an
tiquity with Roman women, wbo wore
wigs msde of It to cover up their own
black tresses. "Transformations" be
gan to be used to Europe in the Six
teenth century, and Queen Elisabeth
owned no fewer than 80. The full
bottomed wig, similar to tbe Impos
ing headgear of English judges todsy,
reached Its apo'/ee In Queen Anne's
day. A wig la that epoch often cost
9600 or S7OO.
Invisible Light
> A demonstration of how opaque ob
jects can be rendered transparent by
"invisible light" acting through a apo
dal Instrument called the "super reti
na" has bean given by the famous In
dian scientist Sir Jagadto Chandra
Boee.
i Sir Jsgadto Chandra Bese dedans
that he kas perfected his hutment
after SO years' experiment
| "Invisible light" eeastots e* short
electric waves having the aame prop
erties as a beam at light These waves
are selectively abaorhed by different
substances. Coal tar and pitch are
transparent while water to epaqn*.
Modern Life
Martlnaburg to a Uttle town sway
from the railroad and the aaudl chil
dren know very little about riding em
the train. One day Brno wyman an!
his mother went to New Afeany la an
auto, bnt returned via Borden sa the
Iraln. It was Elmo's first ride on the
train. The train went g abort dis
tance and stopped. x At the saae time
Elmo heard the noise of steam eecap-,
ing, and with a look of disgust he
leaned back to his seat and said, "Oh,
jgee, there goes a tire, now we wOt
have to wait another half hour."—ln
dianapolis News,
What the Deacon Said
This is credited to the Osborne Vil
lage Beacon: "Deacon," said a half
baked chump to me the other day,
"why don't you take more of your own
advice T" "My benighted brother," I
replied as softly as my temper would
permit "I am fixing up this medicine
for your aliments and not for my own.
No doctor takes his own medlfine, any
more than a banker pays 8 per cent for
money." .
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f Flour From Wheat i
The amount of flour obtained from 1
wheat depends very much on tne size i
and weight of the kernels and varies i
from 65 to 80 per cent. A fair average i
la 4.7 bushels of wheat to .one barrel ,
of flour, weighing 190 pounds, or one j
bushel of wheat to 41 pounds of flour. |
The shorts or middlings 11 to .
12 per cent of the wheat and the bran* |
18 per cent
Autos Not Catties
The Supreme court holds that a
Sian's automobile 1a not bis castle, and
many a man realizes that his automo
bile Isn't even his vehicle. It's the
rusty old machine which hurts the
pride of members of tbe family who
use It while pater famillas digs up the
scads for gas and garage bills.—Louis
ville Times.
Rail Lights Needless
All switch and signal lights on the
Alaska railroad are discontinued even
at night during tbe long summer sea
son, when the "sun never sets." This
Is the only railroad in the world
operating on a 34-hour daylight sched
ule even a part of the year. It runs
between Cwrry and Falrfynks.
Enables Blind to Read
Braille Is a system of dots embossed
on paper, which the blind read with
their finger tips. The Braille alphabet
was devised by Ltfuia Braille, a blind
Frenchman, about 1834, and has been
adapted to the language of every civ
ilized nation.
Was Civil War Veteran
Emll Frey, who was president of
the Swiss Confederation from 1894 to
1807, was a sergeant In tbe Union army
during the Civil war, and was. taken
prisoner st Gettysburg, and confined
In Libby prison.
Reason Most Powerful
The voice of reason is more to be
regarded than the bent of any present
Inclination, since inclination will at
length come over to reason, though
we can never force reason to comply
with Inclination.
Tailor's HeU
The tailor's "hell" Is the nanie of
tbe large box tailors kept under the
6oard on which they sat while at work.
The word Is thought to be a corrup
tion of the French word "oell" (pro
nounced ull).
Busy Factories
Every week the factories of the
great English industrial city of Bir
mingham turn out 14,000,000 pens, ten
tons of pins, 6,000 metal bedsteads,
7,000 tons of rifles and numerous other
artldea.
Many in 111 Health
About 400,000 patlenta are cared for
annually In tbe hospitals of New York
dty, in addition to more than 1,000,-
000 treated at dispensaries and out
patient departments.
Term for Shir her
The slang term coberger is common
ly used In the navy in speaking of one
who shirks his work or one who is al
ways looking for easy Jobs and does no
more than It is absolutely necessary.
In Wrong.
The worst thing about being a pedes
trian in a town where the majority of
Inhabitants are motor car owners Is
t that you get no sympathy when you
■tart cussing die chronic cot-out
Hands and tbe horn-honkers.
The Whole Truth.
"That man called me a liar, a cad,
• scoundrel and a puppy. Would yon
| atfvtoe me to fight for that?"
"By all imiaiia There's nothing
' nobler in this world, young man, than
for tile truth."—Tit-Bits.
, * Argument tor Industry.
Old Hen—lll give you a piece *
good advice. /
Young Hen—What to It?
Old Hen—An egg a day keeps the
tvtcher away I—Progasaive Grocer, _
Talkers' Word Records (
r A rapid and experienced talker mak
!|ng a speech on a subject which he
fully understands will speak at a rate
of about 8,000 words an hour.
1 .
4 Country Uses Mtzch Chronute
Use of cbromite by American leath
er and steel industries made the
United States the world's largest con
sumer pf the rfnineral.
NO. 53
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' N. C. STATE BOARD OP HEALTH
, STRONG HEARTS
- True-hearted; whole-hearted; hard
learted; tender-hearted; chicken-heart
ed; lion-hearted, are all common and
very expressive terms denoting char
acter. By legend and story the heart
is the fountain of life. Perhaps, in
truth, the character of the heart does
not determine the character, of the
individual, but most certainly ithe
physical condition of the heart deter- *f.
mines to a great extent the physical
status of the individual.
The human heart is little different
from the hearts of animals so familiar
in the meat markets. The average
weight is a little over one-half pound,
and it is about the size of the individ
ual's own clenched fist.
It is a pump which by Its contrac
tions and relaxations pumps the
blood stream through the miles of
varying sized blood vessels ip the
body. Its action is exactly like that
of the hand grasping and squeezing
the rubber bulb of a syringe. Nor
mally it squeezes a little over seventy
times each minute while awake and
sixty times when asleep. While
beating at this rate ,the heart pumps
an average of about five quarts of
blood per minute. Often it is beating
much faster and may pump as much
as twenty quarts per minute.
Wohld your hand get tired squeez
ing the rubber bulb of a syringe if
you had to pump seventy-five gallons
of water per hour and force it through
little tubes so small the eye could
pot see them? Suppose there was
added to this labor the knowledge that
if yod stopped squeezing for even
one minute, day or night, year after
year, it meant inßtant death. When
you realize all of this yon get a faint
idea of what your heart must and
does do. Isn't it worth a little special
thought and care to see that such a
hard working little engine is treated
fairly? Over two million people to
day in this country fcave serious heart
trouble. Is YOUR heart alright?
The main causes of organic heart
diseases are rheumatism (socalled).
certain contagious diseases of child
hood. syphilis, and improper habits of
living.
Very serious and permanent damage
to the heart may result from getting
up too soon after diphtheria, scarlet
fever, measles, influenza and, in fact,
any Infection. The poisons of these
diseases are very Irritating and de
structive to the valves of the heart
and if there is added to this the ex
tra exertion of getting up in the weak
ened condition, it may be the "last
straw that breaks the camel's back."
Somo other causes o! heart trouble
will be discussed nlxt week. >
Another Jury Needed.
Hoffy was drawn on a summer Jury,!
reported and duly qualified. He|
then formed (me of a panel which
was directed to try a lunacy case
After the testimony was in and the
verdict was rendered, the Judge, who
knew him, called Hoffy to the bench.
"Well," asked his honor, "what do
you think of this kind of work?"
"Seems a sort of standoff to ma"
"What do you mean?"
"We declared that man insane.*
"Yea?"
"And he thinks we're crazy."
.- • ,
When the Nights Were Long.
The successful man was addressing i
a class, exhorting the members to cot
%ate a taste for good books. "My
ting friends," he said, "you should
, not only read good books but you
shoul4,own them in order to h«ve ae
. cess to them at all times. Why, when
! I wns a boy I used to work all night
' to get money to buy books and get up
before dawn to read them."
Shifting Values.
"It takes an expert accountant to
1 know how much German marks are
worth."
[ "It takes more than that. It takes*
1 ( a lightning calculator."
!The Case Isnt Proved.
The Stricken One —I tell you, Dolly,
I simply can't live without you.
The Flippant One—Oh, I don't know,
old thing, all the others are pretty
1 healthy.—The Magpie
New Time Piece.
,1 "Where are you going, Lou?" "Up
' to visit a trienil pf mine, Sue." "How
' long you rwna stay?" t)ne pm>
>. sent wave."
I
Covetous
'j We never envy another man his
money. It is the guv whose fountain
L pen functions successfully that we an
Indebted to for our green complexion,
—Houston Pcst-Dispstck.