IHE ALAMANCE GLEANER
VOL. LII
Farmer Well Colled
"Indispensable Mam"
js'ow roes the husbandman forth in
the chill dawn with renewed vigor In
his gait. All winter h* has labored
but not hurriedly, fixing his barns, cut
tlpg wood, pruning fruit trees and car
ing for bis animals. On bad days he
sat by the fire find tunied things over
in his mind—«o many acres' of wheat
and so many- acres of oats, this ,field
for roots and that for corn. And you '•
may be «ure that he has also turned
over the pages of many a catalogue |
longingly, wishing be could buy twice
us many .things as he can afford—the
better to do his complicated job of
feeding the urban multitudes.
When the sun passes the
the farmer knows that his dawdling
days are done; henceforth, for eight
months he will be racing with the cal
endar, with frost, rain, hall, flood and
the everlasting weed. Old Sol sends
to the husbandman a challenge along
with his blessing of fructifying heat.
Giddap I
Ye city dwellers, reflect upon the
manifold activities of this unknown
friend of yours as he proceeds with
the preparation of your next winter's
dlDners. Sap bucket In hand, he maEes
the rounds of his maple trees. Bring- i
Ing the most progressive of his hens ;
into a warm corner, he dusts her with
antilouse powder and feaves her to her
devotions. Then he sees to It that she
has water and food during her setting
up exercises. Next, he gets the brooder
ready for the chicks he has or- !
dered. Presently, In a mad rush to .
finish a mean job before the! ground
thaws, he returns to Mother Earth the '
last of the accumulated fertilizer from
the barnyard. Any number of things
must be'done before plowing, because
thereafter every day will demand its
meed of seeding, planting, harvesting;
and animal tending.
All this labor, all these chances, of
life and death, intervene between All
Fools' day and Harvest Home. The
farmer, facing the cfclll spring wind
and the challenge of the climbing sun,
is the very embodiment of human per
sistence—the . utterly •• indispensable
man.—Boston Independent
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Preference in Moots
In an analysis of meat consumption
statistics the Department of Agricul
ture noted that the British eat nearly
seven times as much mutton and lamb
a* do Americans; and declared the rea
son has "baffled satisfactory explana
tion."
Mutton and lamb consumed in the
United States last year made up only,
8.2 per cent of the total meat con
sumption, while thei percentage In.
Great Britain was 22. There was 10
times more beef and 15 times more
pork than mutton and latnb eaten in
this country last year.
The department estimated that mut
ton and lamb consumption was at the
rate of 5.2 pounds j>er person; pork,
88.8 pounds; beef, 62.6 pounds, and
veal, 83 pounds. «-
Their Way
"I reckon IH hafto quit taking my
children to the picture shows," at the
crossroads store remarked Gap John-
Kin of Rumpus Ridge.
"What's the matter—they ketch the
Itch, or something that-a-way?" asked
an acquaintance.
"Not yet, as fur as I know. But
what's the matter is that they get so
devilish interested in the picture that
they furgit whur they're at. They all
decide for one feller on the screen and
whoop and holler for him till the roof
"ft«, or else part of 'em are fur him
rest ag'ln him, and while one
side cheers the other side snarls till
"Irectly they Jump up a-cussing «and
tear into each other like fighting fire."
-Kansas City Star.
Flying Flivver Era Tardy
Cheap, light airplanes for popular
Me and ownership are still a develop
, lof the future, says Prof. E.M.
Z*' ln charge of the light airplane
competition recently held In England
to encourage hope for an era of flying
The pn?)1Ic Interest still Is
( et '°' he said, and the' manufac
ot "sht airplanes have not snc-
t v . to an y extent in perfecting
r machines. The small light planes
—.- Te . ry no,s y. dirty, dangerous and
according to Professor
firy Dock Popular
*' ve of the largest liners afloat
dav Sou thampton harbor In threa
of !h and the Erowth °' popularity
ran* flostog dry dock has
flint u I,n S'ish Bhitners to predict
TH * -T H" BE 1116 MOST DBED PORT
Mind on Important Thingß
dear, don't you think
. * could learn to Jove me.
Johnny, I haven't time J
Ud».L ere are my mah-Jongg
lessons.—London Answer*
T»o , Prett >' Well Filled
eito /' r Every time you fall to r®>
Stnn F ' 3 croßß after yonr name.
Woida Hao* Changed
Somewhat in Meaning
If the words we use could bring up,
"** * cjfematograph film, the pictures
which lie behind them, conversation
would be more entertaining than It
is as a rule. For instance, when we
say a thing ia dilapidated, w4 bring
up an image of an ancient temple
rambling to ruin, for the'root mean
ing of the word la "crumbling stone"
K Similarly, the word stunned means
I thunderstruck, and ' ardent formerly
, meant burning.
What a remarkable picture the word
scandal calls up. its original applica
tion was to that part of a trap on
which the bait was placed and which,
| when the trap was touched, sprang up
and eaught the victim. --Another odd
word is scruple, which originally meant
a little stone, in weights mpans twenty
grains, and in modern use means
something which hurts or worries, the
conscience. >■
Irritate referred originally to the
snarling of a do£. Perplexed brings
up a picture of being tangled in miles
of string, wound completely round and
round; whilst the word eliminate de«
notes what the man did to his ba
rometer when it continued to register
'Set Fair" after it had been raining
for a week, for It means "to kick out
of doors."
Scotch Sailor Made
Immortal by Defoe
Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish
sailor whose adventures furnished De
foe the basis for his immortal story of
"Robinson Crusoe." Selkirk, having
quarreled with his captain on one of
his voyages, was left on the island of
Juan Fernandez in 1704, with only his
gun and ammunition, and a few other
necessaries of life. There he remained
for more than four years, living on
game, and clothing himself with the
skins of goats. In 1709 he was resched
by Capt. Woodes Rogers, and became
his mate. He afterwards attained the
rank of lieutenant in the British navy.
Defoe has often been charged with
having surreptitiously taken the story
of "Robinson Crusoe" from the papers
of Alexander Selkirk, but the experi
ences of the real hero and those of the
fictitious one have so little in common
that Defoe seems Indebted for little
mors than the suggestion.—Kansas
City Times. x
Midget and the Bible
My mother had a beautiful cat named
Midget. Midget was not only fas
tidious when it came to eating, bnt
would sleep nowhere but on the
family I Bible. My mother left the
Bible on the kitchen table one night,
and Midget, leaving her place ln the
parlor, where the Bible was kept,
hunted around until she found it, and
there she was found in the morning.
Just to try out the old-"tabby," my
mother carried the Bible upstairs to
her sleeping room, and the next morn
ing, lo and behold I there lay Midget
A . dictionary the same size was placed
in the Bible's usual place and the
Bible moved to a small clothespress.
Next morning Midget was found on
the Bible as usual and* there she slept
until one mornling she was found
dead. —O. B. Montgomery, In Our
Dumb Animals.
Disastrous Flood
The Dayten (Ohio) flood of 1918
was, ln the main, caused by a record
breaking rainfall, wWch was due to
the meeting of three opposing air
currents, one from the.west another
a cold stream from the northeast, the
third a "warm current from the south.
The flood was accentuated by the con
ditions of the rivers flowing through
the city and also by the bursting .of
reservoirs ln central and western Ohio.
Four hundred and fifteen lives were
lost and the property losses amounted
to $180,000,000.,
Caring for Boohs
Books kept in glass-fronted book
cases are subjeat to attacks from book
worms, moths, etc., In greater degree
than If on open shelves. To preserve
your books from these pests sprinkle
the shelves occasionally, say once ev
ery six months, with half an ounce of
camphor, half an ounce of powdered
bitter apple (well mixed together).
Do not keep books In a very warm
room. Gas light affects them very
much. Russia leather bindings In par
ticular.
'MesserJ' and "Moppur a"
The world Is divided into the people
who make the messes and the people
who mop them up. Ninety per cent
make the messes and 10 per cent are
served out with mops. I was reading
a novel called "Keddy" the other day.
Tm told It's the best picture of modern
Oxford that has ever been dqtie. And
from cover to cover therejsn't a single
mention of such things aB lectures,
reading, examinations, tutors, or any
thing of tbat sort It's really master
ly the Vay everything trivial like that
has been eliminated.—From "Black-
BafttoP." taLMrrt
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1926
SARGASSO.IS SEA
.OF MANY SECRETS
4*
Expedition Will Explore
Mysterious Region..
As if an enormous giant had put Ms
Anger into the sea and stirred It
round, the aitire North Atlantic ocean
slowly revolves in the direction of the
clock's hands.
In the center Is the Sargasso sea, a
I gigantic collection of floating islands,
made of seaweed and' inhabited by
living things. . )
1 Nobody knows how Herodotus, ID
ancient times, came by the alarming
j stories heboid of'thls mysterious re-
I gion, for It is only during recent years
that it has been properly charted.
When Columbus and his men were
drawn Into this oval-shaped vortex, his
ship remained- out of control for 15
days, and the crew thought they were
condemned to perish in a .watery
prison, closely guarded by seaweed
barriers for 260,000 square miles. But*
a strong wind luckily carried the ship
to safety. * 1
Supported in the \i*ater by small air
balloons, the feathery weeds of Sar
gasso are mostly olive-brown In color,
with blotches of white. The chief
source of supply has been proved to
be the Gulf of Mexieo.and the Carib
bean sea. 1
Sailors do not likj; this strange tract
which floats, almost like land, on the
bosom of the Atlantic. It Is reputed
to be the home of barbarous fish and
the hiding place of mysterious mon
sters. Animals drifting about on the
surface of the sea, with only the scat
tered cover of moving seaweed, are
exppsed-'to many dangers, not only
from the birds always, hovering above,
but. from hungry fish lurking in the
patches of uncovered sea, .which is the
bluest In the world.
To protect themselves, all the living
creatures Imitate, in a remarkable
way, the color of their floating home.
One grotesque little animal Is conspic
uous owing to the dlsproportlonate_size
of its head and jaws, and resembles
the frog fish, sometimes seen near
British coasts.
Making its nest of seaweed bound
together by long cords of Its own man
ufacture, this singular creature com
bines all the characteristics of an ani
mal, a fish, and a bird.
A short-tailed chib of the shell-less
type swarms on the Sargasso weed and
is blotched, with white to match the
light patches on its surroundings.
These and many more peculiar crea
tures will be examined by Professor
Beebe, of New York, wl>e recently set
out to explore this little-known re
gion. J j.
A secret ambition of the expedition
is to capture a monster squid, a terri
fying fish- of the cuttlefish fdmily, with
black eyes at least 12 Inches in diam
eter and a body 80 feet in length. The
body of these giants, one of which the
explorers hope to captyre; Is wrapped
In a loose mantle, from an bpening in
which - emerges the evil-looking head
with its sharp, parrot-like beak.
This Sargasso monster is the tiger
of the ocean, and, like Its striped coun
terpart on land, is said to kill even
when not hungry—for the sheer pleas
ure of killing.
Victoria Invested Wisely
Through the good advice of Disraeli,
her chief adviser, Queen Victoria of
'England, Invested in Suez canal stock
and was thus enabled eventually to
leave additional millions to her chil
dren. She also was one of the original
owners of a share in the New River
Water company which provided the
water supply for London. The water
shares, originally worth a pound ($5),
enhanced in value to where they were
worth millions, # and even the richest
of others like the Rothschilds were
forced to be content later with a six
teenth or a thirty-seoondth of a share.
Status of Fox Trot
favlova, the farno is Russian dancer, (
aays that the fox trot,' now so unlver» i
salljr popnlar In all parts of the world,
and of modern dances the one that ha»
remained popular the longest, Is dy
ing rapidly. In a few years, she say*
few or no dance
ptep. »n* on the other hand many
dance attthorltles say Pavlova Is '# ,
pessimist la tills regard and that th«
step has taken hold of the newer gen-1
eratione sufficiently to- be carried oc
for another generation at least with- j
•ut serious waning.
• Two Howler B
Special' notice has just reached mm
♦f two excellent schoolboy howlers.
The first Is the most idiomatic trans- >
tatlon of "Pax in bello," which was
rendered "Freedom from indigestion."
The second relate* to the .well-known
historical incident of Queen Elizabeth
and Sir Walter Raleigh's cloafi. After ,
describing the scene> the pupil made
the queen say: -
"Sir Walter, I am afraid I have
dirtied your cloak."
"Dien et mon droit," replied Sir Wal
ter, which means In English, 'My Q—d,
foa ar»*xi*btlll_ - 1
ft - • "
Cat Has Gained Feme
w» Weather Prophet
Ever since the total eclipse of tha
sun scientists, storekeepers and post*
■ boys in Middletown, Conn., have had %
I wholesome respect for
I the meteorological cat of East Hao>p
ton, which has been offered to Presl.
dent Coolldge by Its owner, Louis
James, the Boston Transcript says.
J eat predicted -fair weather for
i the eclipse when all th# astronomers
I who came to Mlddletown to set up
their Instruments to view the eclipse
, were getting cold feet ana- taking out
rain insurance to protect their expedl
i tions from loss If the rain should coma
on> that day. The success of Weather
vane s prediction on that occasion won
: him name and fame as surely as did
I the prediction of the 1888 blizzard for
late Horace Johnson of Mlddla
Haddam.
"VVeathervane was a foundling and
was picked up by Kills Hughes of East
Hiyppton and takfen to a warehouse in
.-"fTiat village. Mr. Hughes told Richard
Gillon, an employee, to give the cak a
| bed of blankets and to allow if the run
of the warehouse. Mr. Hughes now
claims he showed the cat a therm6m
eter, and declared that Is what stirred
' the meteorological instincts of the anl
mul.
I Later £onls James took the cat
home to his wife, who gave It some
catnip and three meals a day. The
cat thrived under this treatment and
soon began to predict the weather with
\ success that bade fair to rival that
of the United States weather bure&u.
I Those who have learned to decode
the cat's forecasts say he is unerring
in his predictions. For several years
now he has been giving valuable dopa
on the weather. This is done by man
nerisms and 'purrings as weather
changes Impend. Strong, rhythmic
purrings forecast fair weather. Con
tortions announce sudden changes. A
haughty attitude Indicates a frost. If
the cat Insists upon rolling over there
will be ice or snow.
Weathervane is not handsome and
does not take to many people. A great
many; however, now come tp the James
house to find out what the weather is
to be.
Radium in Trash Heap
A needle containing SI,OOO worth
I of milium was lost four days from the
j operating room of St. Michael's hospi
tal In Newark, N. J. it was missed
after an operation, and doctors took
X-ray photographs of the patient un
der the belief that the needle, which Is
no longer than a very small sewing
needle, might have remained in the
wound. After further search a radium
company of Orange, volunteered usa
of a detecting device. When the In
strument, which has a dial on which
a hand swings wheri radium Is near,
i ivas first tried in the operating room,
the hand did not move. Then someone
suggested that the incinerator, where
1
as the device was brought close to
the Incinerator, the hand swung arotmd.
Police and hospital attaches sifted the
ashes and found the needle.
Not ■Entirely Impeccable
Amonfe recent episcopal stories Is on«
of a dinner party given by the bishop
of London. According ts Mrs. Stirling,
author of ."Life's Little Day":
"Dean Inge was dining with the blsh- •
op of London, and among others pres
, eut was the bishop of Winchester.
Wines and liquors were handM rourfd,
and bot'i London and Winchester
waved them away. The dean took
champagne, port and liquor. Then ci
gars were handed round. 'No, thank
you,' aaid London. 'Not for my salT
Winchester. The dean helped himself
to a cigar, lighting It placidly, leaned
across td Sir Lewis Cowatt, K. C.,
, and indicating his companions, ob
served, deprecatjngly: ■But they have
other vices I'"
Asparagus Eating I
"The hardest Job I hare at the dl»
ner table Is eating asparagus," said a i
Hazel wood avenue resident. "I never"'
know Just how to approach It My j
wife Insists that I Impale esch stalk j
on my fork and eat from the top j
backward toward the base. I have •
heard that the proper wsy Is to sever
the tip from the base with a knife and
then fork the tip In. Another method 1
recommended Is to use the forte only
In separating the tip. What I like to
do Is to eat It with my flngera. I ,
wish someone would lay down a set
rule for this task. I'm sure the rule '
would make everyone happy—partlco» 1
larly If It allowed the use of the fln> 1
gers and the complete dismissal of the I
cutlery."—Detroit New*.
Why Feline» Purr
The purring sound made by rati l«
made by throwing the vocal cords Inte
vibration measured and regulated by
the respiration, and thli' vibration la
strong enough to make the whole
larynx tremble so that it may be felt
or seen from the ontslde. Purring Is
highly characteristic of the cat
though probably not confined tost. It
la usually the means by whlcli these
felines show contentment
SJVED FOR YEARS
AFTER HIS "DEATfI*
Bale and hearty at the age of felghty
five years, having celebrated his birth*
day with a party, School Tax Collec
tor Bdward H. Fnry a day later ob
served the slxtyfint anniversary of
his "death," the Bnffslo Neva saya.
It waa on May 6, ISM, that Mr.
Frary waa left an the battlefeld tor
dead. Serving with A. Mia*,
ty seventh New York volunteer Infan
try, Mr. Fnry waa wounded by a
mlnnle ball penetrating hla neck in the
Battle of the Wilderness. The ballet
passed through hla body In such a way
that It fractured a rib. Injured the
spinal cord, severed the nerve leading
to the left ana and finally lodged In
the upper part of hla left long. Un
conscious, ha was left on the Add for
dead, hot waa picked up many hours
later when ha regained con&ousness
and carried several miles to a hospital,
from which ha was discharged after
three months. Be waa wounded just
an hoar before General Wadsworth,
grandfather of United States Senator
James W. Wadsworth of Geneaeo, was
killed.
Experts at Work on
New Potato Species
Tht homely Irish potato may soon
lose Its simplicity and adopt sophisti
cated foreign manners If experiments
now being conducted by the United
States Department of Agricaltnre suc
ceed, according to a bulletin Issued by
the department.
- Agricultural explorers have brought
from the high Andes of Colombia and
Peru rare varieties of potatoes that
have a flesh as yellow as butter and a
delicious nutty flavor. The tubers are
a little smaller than the North, Amer
ican variety. Experts of life depart
ment now are "rl4 grossing the
new Andean potato wtth the common
"spud." It Is hoped thai new forms
will be develoyed that will combine the
flavor and color of the nrf iili potato
with the sice and reliability of the
North American tuber and one that
will be readily adaptable to the cli
mate of tbe United States.
Bay Lesg, editor of the Hearsfs
International . Cosmopolitan
tells why he doesnt believe In lack.
Ha thinks every mail gets about what
he deserves, in proof he teUs a story
in which Sam Harris, theatrical pro
ducer, points the meal:
"Luck may be 5 per cent of life,
but the other 85 per cent—which ||
what's.ln the man—always decides
the outcome. I've met thousands of
people everywhere, Ih every walk of
life, and I never knew one who got
much mere or lear than ha deserved.
When a chap knows medicine and
Europe and flve languages, and still is
s waiter, somethings wrongl" 1
Cynicml Farmeri
The 160,000,000 gifts of James B.
Duke and George Bfcstman to the
American people led Goorge Jay Gould
to «ay oa dlsembarldng from the
Stance:
"Gifts Ilka these clear the mlad •€
cyndsm. I bare Just com* from
Franca, where even tbo farmers are
cynics. The French JEaiiiag, if then
■was A Duke or an Bsstraaa rver thsa,
wouldn't aay cynically of friendship!
"'Friends stick to yoa Ilka your
shadow. hot only when the sua
shines.' ■» , ;
All Hit Ttqth mt fjs ,
At the ace of ono hundred and six*
teen years Ramon Gomes recently
died In Spain and although he *ad
been a hardworking farmhand all his
mature life, and was subjected to the
handicap of having few facilities for
dental and medical care compared with
residents In the cities, he had all of
his teeth at the time ha died. He was
not bald. Ha bad never left his na
tive village, and bad never seen an
, automobile, railway trato or telephone.
Paper Airplmnm
What promises to bet a great Im
provement In the construction of air
planes Is the use of papter In building
the fuselage which Is safd to have tba
strength of wood and cfcher material
used for the purpose, but with * great
decrease In the wetgMt; which, of
coarse, Is a considerable' advantage.
The navy Is making tests of the use
of paper in this connection snd the
trials so far have Indicated that the
change will be a very deaftshla ma
Evoiaiion
I bailer* that today la better than
yesterday, and that tomorrow vDI be
better than today.—George F, Hear.
Til Better
It ia better to be brake tbfcn never
to bate loved at alL—Jolfna Hop Una
Black and Bine Jay. 1
Pets and Pedtt
• To ffet rid of fleas, make a plflowai
sweet fern, pot It where your cat P*
dotf sleeps, and they wfl|
Spanish Swamp Home
of Wild Camel Herd
Wlid camels exist In western Eu
rope, within two days' Journey from
Piccadilly circus, writes a .corre
spondent, of the London Mall. There
•re a considerable Dumber of them in
this mysterious "colony," but no one
knows exactly how many. To survive
they have actually become serai
aquatic. .
• Up the Guadalquivir In Andalusia Is
the dreariest mularlal swamp in Spain,
and perhaps In the world, an endless
vista of waterlogged wilderness, brok
en only by occasional low Islands cov
ered with willow scrub. Here, among
enormous flocks of gulls and greylag
goose, teal, widgeon, pochard and mal
lard, dwell the outlaw camels. In an
other {1 ve years the colony will have
completed a century of life In western
Europe. Their ancestors were brought
over from Africa In 1829 by the' Mar
quis d» Viilafranca for farm work.
Vlllafranca'B horses panicked, how
ever, as horses will unless carefully
"acclimatized" to camel, and there
were some nasty accidents. Rather
than have the work of his estates op
set by labor trouble, the marquis
turned his camels loose. Some were
killed. jThe descendants of those who
took "marlsma" survived.
Vision of Cookhoute
j Read* Like Gulliver
In Paul Bunyan's camp there was a
treat coekhouse with a kitchen like
another Mammoth cave, and a dining
hall wherein, under huge and lofty
beams, the tables were ranged like
the rank* of an army corps .drawn up
for parade on a'plain. Here' were
served breakfasts of bam and eggs and
hot cakes, and huge and Incomparable
Sunday dinners and the simpler week
day meals of which the* coffee was
most highly praised, writes James
Stephens In the American Mercury.
Paul Banyan Invented a machine for
the mixing of the hot-cake batter, eo
perfectly devised that paving contrac
tors now employ small models of It for
mixing cement. The range on whicb
-a battalion of cooks fried the not
cakes was greased by a ski champion
from Norway, who skied to and from
with sides of bacon strapped to his
feet
And that the men In the far end of
the s>okhouse might be served before
the hot cakes cooled, the flunkies
speeded on roller skates. It required
a crew of 11 teamsters with tenms
and scrapers to keep the yard back of
the cookhouse cleared of coffee
grounds snd egg shells.
Krrbau'a Sensitive Note
Malay bull fights are not like those
" we are accustomed to read about, a
writer in the Youth's Companion tells
as. The contestants are generally
water buffaloes—animals that, says
Mr. Carveth Wells In Asia, the Malays
call kcrban.
A keriiou, or carabao, as It Is often
written In English, makes, continues
Mr. Wells, a white man's life miser
able because he does not like the
white man's smell, though he doesn't
mind tfie small of a Chinese or a
' Malay. If yon think yon have no
smell. Just go rfear a kerban I He not
only sees you a long way eft, but he
Instantly begins to sniff the air. Then
be lays his ears back and rashes at
yon. I remember once being chased
ont of a rice field by a kerban. The
rice was growing tn deep mud, and I
was rushing along np to my knees,
with the great animal floundering be
hind me. , While I was shrieking for
help a little Malay boy about four
years old and quite naked ran up,
caught the bull by the nose and led
him away! Never In my life bad I
■ IWt such a fool 1 »
Nature?* Witdom
The decree of battle is not alone Um
pire's means for the development of
animal and vegetable strength and per
fection, bat she arranges for the de
velopment of armaments and lighting
and defense appliances to meet every
Improvement In the status of any ape
dee. 'Works on biology teem with
examples showing the manner In
Which the mechanism 4f Mend el lan
ieredlty works.
Preserving Books
The simplest way to prevent mU*
dewing of books 1* to keep the leather
Is a well-ventilated and well-lighted
place, preferably one exposed to the
sunlight. Mildew cannot make modi
headway in . sunshine. When mildew
develops-it should be washed off with
soap and warm water, or simply wiped
sC with a moist doth, drying the
Isathwr well afterward.
Might in'the Jungle
The lion, noted aa being the noblest
ef the-Jungle's beasts. Is, of course," a
mighty hunter. His ferocity is pro
verbial. Ail 'animals as well as man
become Its victims. The African but
f*lo. however, is often Its master, and
elephants sometimes are able to over
power both lions snd all members of
tiger family. _
NO. 2
Xl-ItK.M- HKAI.TU EDUCATION. '
N. C. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
MEASLES
i
The specific virus causing measles
las not yet been isolated but it baa,
been oonclualvely proven that the
causative organism is present and:
will pass tbrongb an exceedingly fine
Biter. It is found to be present In the
secretions from the ndse and pharynx
twenty-four hours before tbe appear
ance of the raah and to remain pres
ent a day or two after the rash dis
appears. i «
Measles is perhaps the most easily
transmissible of all the contagious
diseases and is contagious from the
beginning of the first catarrhal symp
toms throughout the duration of the
rash. Tbe most infective period is
tbe first twenty-four hours of the frash.
One attack produces an immunity
which in nearly all cases is perman
ent. • 4 , .
The disease is transmitted either
directly by droplet spray in sneezing,
coughing or talking or - indirectly
through objects freshly contaminated
by snch secretions. Outside the hu
man body, the virus does not live long
and contaminated objects under ordi
nary conditions are a menace for s
period not exceeding twenty-four
hours.
Persons of all ages who have never
had measles are susceptible but the
age of greatest incidence is about six
or seven years. Deaths trom measles,
are in young children, M
per cent under two years and 90 per
cent under five years of age.
Measles at first appears very much
like a common cold except the child
Is somewhat sicker than would be ex
pected. If a child is sick with an ap
parently severe cold and has a tem
perature of 101 degrees, measles must
be considered, especially If the eyes
are red and watery and there is s
severe cough. An apparent improve
ment the child's condition frequent
ly happens Just preceding the appear
ance of the rash. The greatest dan
ger from measles, especially In the
older children, is from the complica
tions/ These are of two general types,
(1) Invasion of the upper respiratory
tract causing pneumonia, otitis, mas
toditis and meningitis, and, (2) dis
turbances of the alimentary tract caus
ing diarrhoea, enteritis and ~dysec
tary.
No method of vaccination has yet
been perfected but the use of conva
lescent serum has proven very help
ful. "
In Something of a Harry
Every trade has Its stock of well
known yarns, but occasionally a new
one does occur, only, alas, in time to
become a classic. A certain well*
know newspaper man was holding
forth to a group of writers, among
whom was a rather fiamous novelist.
The journalist was saying that he had
recently been engaged in revising the
obituaries held In readiness by his
paper. Turning to the novelist, he add
ed Jocosely: "Tve Just been'writing
you up.**
Bnt tbe novelist, apparently, had
not been following very closely, and
waking up with a start, he asked
eagerly: "When is It going to be pub
lished?" *
Engelmann Spruce Valuable
In its fullest development, Engel
mann spruce becomes a large tree, a
hundred feet or more in height and
three feet or more in diameter, with
a smooth, straight and only slightly
tapered trunk. Great quantities of
Engelmann spruce are cut for lumber.
The wood Is soft and straight-grained
and is used for various contraction
purposes, as telegraph and telephone
poles, as mine timbers, for the con
struction of log buildings, and to £ome
extent as lumber for interior finish.
In contrast with the only other spruce
in Rocky Mountain National park,
Engelmann spruce is of considerable
Importance commercially.
' Lesson in Correct Speech
A minister forgftt to take his ser
mon to church, and his wife, discover
ing the mistake, sent it to him in the
charge of a stpall boy, who was to
receive a quarter for the Job.
In due course the boy returned tat
the money.
"You delivered the sermon, did
you?" he was asked by the minister*!
wife.
t «I jes give it to him; he's deliver!*
1 It himself," he answered.
1 Uncertain
i Clerk of the Court— "Do you plead, -
'guilty or pot guilty?" Patrick—
j -Sure, I'll have to heat the evident*