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HIMALAYAN TAHR FAMILY
“I fool eorry for ordinary goafs.”
Raid Mr. Hiniwln\un Talir.
“So do l,” said Mrs. Himalayan j
Talir.
They wore usually *■; ll< d Mr. and
Mrs. Wild (it. at or Mr. and .Mrs. Tain
—not by tht? people of tin* zoo —blit
by eaob other.
It was iiiore si: p! * n name than
their bt‘st n:in:o v liioli thoj had oe
fidod llioy would only tiso for Inst
occasions.
“Just as people save tiier best i
clothes for be i occasions, so will vc j
sunc o r best inline,” said .Mr. i'l.lir. ]
“We haven’t any 1> • t clothes to i
put a fde a.nd take out and wear only .
when there are parties.
“Not only have we no best clothes j
but «e have only the one cos- ;
tunic to wear all the time, hut wo
haven't any j- «>-• to v.hieli we are
asked or to which we would go if :
we we re a-kciL”
“That is <?o,” agreed Mrs. Talir. I
“IN lay dear, w.* are superior to
peo-Ie ill la::ay ways.
“Tube just the* one mutter of
cloth* i often hear people who come
to the zoo, complain that (Icy haven't
the right dress to wear to smiio one's
party, dr that they have worn the ame
dre- s - i many timi s they are ashamed
of being seen in it nga'n.
“Now we do not mi id wearing the
same costume ail the time.
“We don't grumble as people do. !
We are contented with having one !
\ cry . uperior cost nine.
“it d is for all occasions, too. We
are ulwi ys, recording to 'lain* stand- :
arils, suitably dressed.
“We don’t feel too much dressed tip 1
in the morning nr too overly dre -•d ]
for the evening.
“People are always talking about
having something suitable for every
day and something suitable for Sun
days and so on and on.
“They actually worry about these
things. Yes, they actually worry
about them.
“It does seem silly.”
“Yes," sa«*l Mr. Tuhr, "but then !
you and I are worth while.
“I am something worth while— to he I
as I am, or as you are, my dear," he
added hastily.
“That’s so," Ids mate agreed. "It
Is tine to be ns I am —or rather as |
i
Mr. and Mrs. Wild Goat.
yon are,” she added as quickly as pos
sible.
“And the little goats are such !
precious little dears,” continued their
mother.
“Y'ou mustn’t call them precious
little der.rs," said their father, “for
people will think, If they hear you, :
that you mean that your children be
long to the deer or the antelope fam :
lly."
“I only meant to he affectionate In j
my way of speaking of them,” said
Mrs. Wild Goat, or Mrs. Talir.
“True," s-aid Mr. Wild Goat. “Still j
It would he safer to speak of your
- dear little wild gouts.”
“I will in the future,” Mrs. Wild
Goat saiii.
“We came from India,” said Mrs.
Wild Goat, “but our children were
born in this fine zoo. They have never
known the wild life among the rocks
and forests of India. Ah, the experi
ences we have had would make their
little horns and their thick purple hair
rise on end.”
“I don’t know that It would actually
do ail that,” said Mrs. Wild Goat.
“Very nearly,” her mate answered.
“They don’t know how quick we
wen* when running from danger,” con
tinued Mr. Wild Goat, "but it does |
my wild goat heart good to set* that :
they are bright little goats and can
run well. too. Ah, but they’re safe in
the zoo, just as we are, and they will '•
never know the terrible dangers we
have passed through.”
“Hut now that we are safe It is
nice to think of them,” said Mrs. Wild
Goat, "for we both bad many narrow
escapes climbing and running over
those rocks and crags, way, way off in
that foreign land.”
“Yes," said Mr. Wild Goat, “that
Is why I am sorry for ordinary goats.
Neither they, nor their grandparents
have had adventures like the Hima
layan Talir family have had.”
Riddles
When does an elephant eut most?
When it is hungry.
...
Why are watched like grasshop
pers?
Because they move by springs.
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Where are the kings of Liigkud
rrowrn d ? *
On their heads.
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Community
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Modern City Gett ng
Avj y From Old. Ideas
Occasionally there are reproduced
from ilic* iiis* r iiu*< or newspapers of
j past period the somewhat crude
I woodcuts which portray more or h s
faithfully street scenes or buildings
Indicating conditions in the then
y* • - «ely settled s. •-lions of some of
tin- larger American citi -s. Tin y arc
studied with much the..same interest
one devote, to liu* contemplation of a
daguerrot; pc of some noire or It a
famous ancestor, say ; a v riter in tic*
| ( i.i'isih.n .Science Monitor.
St ran y i ima h. in nearly every
j pm* * f th' -e f. .1. : vlllag": and cities
j c* ..’cli have 10-i lin ir identity as sep
jar.i!e unils through tin* mor in*r and
I cosies* ;;,g pro <* .; to which they have
j sn' iiiftt* ;1. gracefully or otlicrwis**,
I more :hnn a * ■ I lance of the once
; ’ :'n sir* ts remains. Anolli
.r * id - * or in*" !;, st p; • i -fore
; th -si* n.tii i< lit litis-!*. :-fks will In- oh
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by tin* i • -in;'
j trend ’■ • -d centrnlizatlou. Gr.ai ia
jdi.-ir.i ;ml *■*).:. a-i ial mum ,irr>
; ,•:•! b-lng weld ■ ; .-.-*• compr* •
; n ore i i.'i in-M'<* * ...-•( i i . l’.i wind
I tln--e there possihl;, will [.ring he
' n-v i- niers. eacii With ils owi Main
, street, the e<nivt raing point * f resi
dential villages peopled by 'auto and
tramciir cot muter.. Hut these new
• streets will ie-t be replicas of tin* old.
! The hitching posts and racks will be
I absent. The corner blacksmith shop
j will be nowhere visible. liven it.**
.rivalries which one* existed among
( neighboring communities to. deter
j mine which should be greatest will he
! forgotten.
Co-operation Is First
Step in Advancement
Interests of a community and the
public utilities serving it are idenli
cal. according to Philip 1,. Thompson,
president of tie* Association of Na
tional Advertisers.
He told of manufacturers searching
for a factory site. “When they find
| a city where for political or other con
| siderath ns tlie utilities are not being
allowed franchises and rates sufficient
to enable them to earn a fair return. )
they turn away, because they are look- I
Ing for locations where there is com- j
j inanity harmony, where the people
have learned that their interest Is it
j mutual one with their utilities.
“When labor and employers of
labor,” Mr. Thompson continued, “and
j the merchants and the chambers of
] commerce and the ltotary and Ki
wanis cluli's and the public utilities
and the city or county officials and
granges learn the value of sitting down
around the table on a give-and-take
then there is no power on eartli
j strong enough to hold hack the de
velopment of that community.”
Dry Rot in Timber
Pry rot In the timbers of the build
ings of otir country is a menace of
great magnitude and yet little Is done
to eliminate this disease. Its causes
are well known, also its habits and
| effects, but the property owners seem
willing to run chances of having their
buildings undermined by this disease,
and then pay the cost for demolition
ami rebuilding. Pry rot can lie pre
j vented if proper precautions are taken
| to destroy the fungi.
| The losses suffered by property own
ers from this disease are unbelievable,
, and more unbelievable Is the fact that
1 no effort Is being made to prevent
J these tremendous loss**-. Recently In
1 England, the Royal Institute of Hritlsh
Architecture lias appealed to the Hrlt
i Ish Science school for discussion on
this subject, which they feel Is of nii
| tional Importance. It would seem that
j n< t only architects, but property own
er as well should combine and take
In mediate step to preserve the build
In :s of the nation.
Home-Town Faults
It time-honored American trad!
fieri Hint a man must never speak any
thing but good of his native town. He
must blind his eyes to Its faults; or, I
at least, lie must never say anything)
about them. This is the tradition that
has given rise to Roosters' clubs, to
• slogans of "Roost —don't knock" and '
! the like. Not a had idea, this prais 1
Ing your home town. Civic patriotism
Is a fine thing. Hut many times the
highest form of civic patriotism lies in
criticising your town for all you are
j worth. Faults don’t drop out of ex
latence if they are ignored. The only
way to make a town all it ought to b* 1
| Is by calling attention to its defects)
iintti people are ready to abolish them.
Boosters are good. Hut sometimes a
good knocker is worth a lot more.—
Frankfort Morning Times.
Individuality in Houses
Many feel that duplication of house
designs In a row is conducive of econ
oinv. Perhaps it Is, so far ns first
cost is concerned. Hut is it economy j
when It is considered that higher
prices could be asked for bouses whose j
exteriors were hII different designs,
with un attempt made to create an
architectural composition out of an
entire row of such bouse units? Cor
rect planting of trees and shrubbery
would add immeasurably to the value
of building operations, Hn*l lend to
them that feeling of reskfulurss so (
generally lacklug.
THE ZEBULON RECORD FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1926
CROWN POINT YET
MARRIAGE CENTER
The marriage industry of th's na
! tion !!y renowned Mecca of quick and
c;*sy weddings* is experiencing a
gradually increasing growth.
Ch-es i r the uoosicr Gretna Green
ju.-a e oi tl. Peace 11. H. Kemp,
■ ■ af'f; hie, smiling, rather short,
heavy-. et first us.* stunt to Dun Cu
pid.
U s eifee •:< ji across the street
from th** county budding. It is one
) up, and : h as direct the way
| I'j th ■ rrirrlrge parlors. There is
i i.i**r. than one, for sometimes busi
j ness presses an done couple waits
hue Judge Kemp performs the fin
king touches of the ceremony im
: e Lately in hand.
Hi- lias Lec-n i*. office as a mag
i d-iate for , l or 12 years and says
,he has performed filV'Ot) marriages
1 during that time.
hr y.-ar.!* *.ne has witn* -s; d hire,
j off irk ting nt 4,<K‘(\
!r !!'*- county 1 irldii g at C.'hicago,
' P -ii ■ reed oi •e * finer
ru.-i, uo-.vn to another, c’otr.in license
to take ; iw mates anil i c legally ,<t
ii. >'•>•* d in. id? i 0 Mii-tites. It requires
it 1 ; a ■■ t.. howe,* r,
tic* .■ J**.,---. . i .ri! and baiii ;
.""'j! c r.-.tht r : '’ally to the usind
.’’.our. * r i isir. -■ day,
1 In C; ** v n Paint, vvli c perfoivairg
, r enii nivs ! as been adapted to mass
production, it is different. Th ;■ neves
-ary officials litre can be pevsauded
to pea 1: pat almost any h air.
Hard road;- ru., directly here from
j ( (iia in'; r two arc u\ a nurry,
even the taxicab fare is inside an oi
i dinary week’s pay.
When the Illinois divorce law was
| amended a year ago to permit re
j newed marriages of divorced persons
without waiting a year, it was even
thought that perhaps Grown Point
would lose some of its fame. How
ever, it has not.
Wisconsin, with its law requiring
a five-day wait after obtaining a
license and presentation by the man
jof a certificate showing he has
j passed physical examination by a re
' putable physician, is just a step far
j ther away than Chicago, and many
couples from the * Badger state ce-
I ment their love ties in Crown Point,
j The new Michigan law requires a
| five-day wait between the applica
! ti*>ii for a marriage license and is
-1 suanee of it. Crown Point is much
! nearer and a gradually increasing
number of automobiles with Michi
gan tags has been noted here.
The city is the seat of Lake coun
ty, just far enough away from ad
joining states to make the motor ride
a matrimonial diversion. Justice Kemp
is efficient; his marriage parlors are
neat and tidy. He approximates his
number of weddings and points to
the chief decoration sos his office—
baskets and boxes. The baskets are
the usual wire waste paper boxes that
are items of usual equipment; their
contents are the boxes. Thousands
!of them, representing nearly every
| state in the Union. They are small
and white plush lined, and once held
weding rings.
Were Justice Kemp to trace the
record of these rings to the volumes
! which show the contracting parties,
the names of celebrities in many part
of the world would b** dk.dosed.
Two fellow justices as assistants
usually take care of cr minal and
civil cases. But when Juscve Kemp
is rot available foi ■he j i.ning of
hands, these men officiate. The num
ber of marriages they have per
formed, added to the record of their
chief, swells the proportions of the
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i ORGANIZED PRODUCTION
I
ELIMINATE WASTE
In his annual report, Secretary
Hoover calls attention to the ramark
j able resuits American industry has
: accomplished in the last five years by
1 organized efforts to eliminate waste.
He calls it “one of the most astonish
; ing transformations in economic his
| tory ”
Largely to these efforts he attri
butes the fact that whereas in UJ2O.
the wage rate was 1W per cent above
pre-war and the wholesale price level
12b per cent above pre-war in H»24 ,
j the wage rate had risen to 128 per)
! cent above pre-war, while the whole-:
sale prive level had dropped to 50
per cent above pre-war.
Discussing fundamental purpose of
waste elimination campaign, the Sec
retary said: “It i but one purpose;
that is, to maintain American stand
ards of living for both workers and
farmers, and to place production on
a more stable footing. The high i
standards of living enjoyed by Amer
ican people are results of steadily
mounting per capita productivity.
There is only one way to further ad
vance these standards, and that is
by improved methods and proces-es,
by elimination of waste in materials |
and motion in our production and
distr.bution system.”
THE FORMERS I’ART IN
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
Discussing the part farmers must
| play, in bringing electricity to the
■ !: '.ricix, Oven I). Young re
cently said:
“The farmer:- should insist upon a
| Ludy of electrification b> their ag
j riculturul schools and colleges by
i i cor 1 tri.i organizations, a.nd r »qn?re
.. :onstan ind unend ng ;'ublicify of
;th ;• ..s of uch .-.tud'e-s through
''••dr i .>"••• journals.
“They should welcome study by the
i :•* companies and manufacturing
companies, and oh -uld co-ope;,rte in
with them to work cut practical plans
ge effective results. In each com
\ murtity, they should endeavor to de
i vole] a universal sentiment in favor
•f a power supply and genera! agree
. ; .un. to take ervice in order that a
I right oi ways may be economically
' ' : i.r.d < -.v <•!' .-ervice dh-ti i
! 'd r.niong largest porilde numbers
of customers.
he cue point' T want to make to
ti:; l'aiuc.r is Jjjnt manufacturing
! c- mpanes may produce devices, elec
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| Service in all Heals 1
|N. B. FINCH COMPANY |
9 New Furniture Store 1
1 TO OPEN IN ZEBULON SOON I
i THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THIS NEW 1
1 FURNITURE COMPANY WILL BE IN THE 1
I Carolina Wholesale |
I WILL HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF J
I Up-to-lMe Furniture |
1 WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE, WHICH j.
I WILL BE ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 1, 1926. I
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I Kilpatrick Furniture I
j Company
trie power companies may bring elec
tricity to his door, but the question
remains with the farmer whether he j
will put it to wor. Ii is he who must
say whether or not electricity is to j
be used in agriculture.”
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1 ecan trees will lift the tax burden
and incre. e the value of the prop
erty in Eastern Carolina, says horti
cultural workers of the State College.