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Uncle Sam Can Gauge Horsepower of Human Body WASHINGTON. If you' want to know your exact horsepower and the amount of energy you can gen erate under any given condition, call on Professor Langworthy at the chemistry bureau, department of ag riculture, and he can give you the an swer. He can register your horse power as easily as the engine manu facturer rates his engines. Jo Professor. Langworthy the hu man" 6dy is but "a machine. He is "the chief of division of nutritive in vestigations, and solves the problems of food values Like any other en gine, the human body has a maxi- mum capacity of bo many foot pounds of energy, and to generate this, a cer tain amount of fuel in the form of food is necessary. Doctor Langwor thy makes it his business to find what food is adapted for the best results from the majority. He described his unique depart ment in his workshop, surrounded by an endless series of laboratory instru ments, ovens, graduated scales and queer tubes and pipes where every thing under the sun is concocted and cooked up, to see how many calories, how .much nitrogen and how much- en ergy it will give the human body when ,it's eaten. - Mingling His Politics With Virgil and Horace ACCORDING to Arthur Krock, that bright luminary of a favorite Blue Grass paper, who loves to mingle his politics with the classic honey of Vir gil and Horace, Representative McDer mott of the stock yards district in Chi cago is lacking in his appreciation, of the beauties of the dead languages. Ar thur, '.with a cigar one and one-half yards long, in a voice which would have soothed the raging brine, told this yarn in the press gallery. "Robert Gordon, who is now ser-geant-at-arms of the house," said Ar thur, "studied Latin twenty years ago, when he was a schoolboy, and evi dently he clings to a knowledge of itv Two members of the house got into a wordy row a few days ago. They reached the point where they began to roar at one another. Mr. Gordon, sergeant-at-arms, sat nervously finger ing the mace surmounted by the in toxicated eagle which is the symbol of his authority. 1 " 'If I had my way,' he said .to the stock yards statesman, 'I'd pitch them out nolens volens.' "Jawbreakers" Cause Much Laughter in Senate W1EN 'Henry M. Rose, assistant secretary of the senate, arrived at his office the other day he wore a harassed, hunted look. His mood was not lifted when Senator Gallinger en tered with a hearty "Good morning" and an apparently radiant smile. Mr. Rose gritted his teeth and showed symptoms of apoplexy. This was the .reason: 1 Secretary Rose, acting as reading clerk, was struggling through the first pages, of the tariff bill-the day before when Senator Gallinger arose. "We have now reached paragraph Old "Mammy" Is Entertained by Secretary McAdoo FOLK who know William Gibbs Mc Adoo, secretary of Ahe treasury, as ,;an austere, dignified person would have been, surprised the other after- noon to see him standing in the big reception room of his office in the treasury department engaged In an intimate conversation on childhood episodes with 'an old colored mammy. After It was over' the secretary frank ly confessed ,he just had enjoyed the most pleasurable visit he'd had since he entered the cabinet. The old mammy was Julia Gibson, mother of seventeen children and who still lives in the McAdoo home town. Flie came to the treasury department , to call on the secretary, and not only v'S she received, but she was enter tained for more than an hour while a crysh of business and visitors, as well a-j trfusurf ofSeials, 'waited. - v luci laniaUy t;:e e-cretary is treasur i . v. t It t.'ions to be an l&valu- In the laboratory Is a respiration calorimeter, a chamber in which Uncle Sam's scientists put subjects to measure the energy which the subject gives off while he Is engaged In dif ferent tasks .and while fed different diets of food. The calorimeter is a valuable in strument in many ways. It enables the government to recommend certain diets as being of the greatest use to men and women in different occupa tions, and It enables them to recom mend a combination of foods that are cheap, but at the same time sustain ing. ' lhe apparatus Itself is six and a half feet square and of the same height. . There is a window In the side to permit light for reading or studying, a couch, to permit the sub ject to lie down; a pipe through which air enters, and another through which it is expelled. The expelled air is caught and Its components ana- lyyzed, for part of the food you eat is expelled with every breath. The heat given off by the subject's body is weighed and measured and then carried off through a brass pipe that has a current of cold water run ning through it. The heat-absorbing power of the pipe is enhanced by a series of copper disk! that are sol dered to it. The method Is merely the reverse of that practiced in brlng- ring heat Into a room by the hot-wa- ter method. In one, the cold water carries it away; in the other the hot water brings It In. The' exact amount of hat expelled from the subject's body is measured by the flow of cold water, one calorie of heat being ne& essary to raise one kilogram of water one degree centigrade. '"You'd do what?' said McDermott, whose native tongue is that of Mo Carey's Indians, near Sixty-third and Halstead streets, Chicago. 1 "Mr. McDermott sought out a friend: " 'That sergeant-at-arms is a Dago,, he complained. "The (Chicago - man explained the situation. The friend, unable to recon cile Mr. McDermott's'memory of what Gordon had said with any language he had ever studied, asked Mr. Gordon about it. Then the friend went to Mc Dermott and explained: " 'He said he would throw them out nolens volens, which is Arabic foi head over heels.'" 24," said the senator gravely. "While the secretary had been doing very well I hope he will read this clearly and distinctly." "Coal tar products known as anldine oil and salts and various, other ar ticles," began Mr. Rose, blandly and halted. "I protest," said Senator Gallinger. "He is not reading the complete para graph." Mr. Rose appealed to Vice-President Marshall, but the latter was obdurate, Pitching his voice so it reached for out side the senate chamber and with an agonized expression on his face, Mr. Rose called off the various items. "Toluidine, xylidin, cumldin, bin!-, trotoluol." he chanted. "Binltrobenzol, benzldin, tolidin, dianlsldin, naphty lamin, diphenylamin, benzaldehyde. benzyl chloride, nitrobenzol and nitro toluol, naphtylamlnsulfoaclds " At this point the gravity of the Ben ate gave way and members Joined the galleries In a burst of laughter. able memento of -Aunt Julia's visit. She left with him an old-fashioned brown daguerreotype of his mother and father that Aunt Julia and her mother had preserved for perhaps half a century. It was to present this gift that Aunt Julia called. Her moth er was the "mammy" of, the secretary during his babyhood and childhood. Aunt Julia departed with a picture of the building 'autographed and with a message from the secretary telling of the joy her vialt csus l. LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE Short Paragraphs of State News That Has Been Condensed' For Busy People of State. Monroe. G. M. Beasley has been elected by the board of aldermen as a trustee of the graded schools, to suc ceed Mr. A. W. Siggers, deceased. Wilmington. The body of 17-year- old George Benson, who was dorwn ed at Fort Caswell was found by negro on the beach, eight miles below the fort. - Red Springs. The second Bible Conference of the Laymen's Mission ary Movement convened here recently the large assembly gathering in the open-air ampitheatre of the Southern Presbyterian College. iarDoro. as a result of a severe rain storm, followed Jby thunder and lightning, which pwept Edgecombe county several days ago, one woman is dead, a man severely injured, two mules killed and a number of horses were also killed. A young man of this placce was sud denly killed while at his work here when a heavy derrick fell and struck him upon the head. Although medical aid was called and responded imme " lately, he was dead before a physi cian, could reach him. Washington. The candidacy of C W. Worth of Washington for the po sition of consul general at Shanghai, China, became known here when tele grams were received from him by the members of the North Carolina dele gation. Monroe. At a meeting of the Union county Farmers Union in the court house the following named were elected delegates and alternates to the state meeting to be held in Raleigh, August 26-27: A. J. Brooks, J. F, Moore, Sanford Smith and J. P. Boyd. Greenville. Mr. . O. L. Joyner, one of Pitt's most progressive farmers, as well as tobacco warehouseman, ship-. ped a carload of lambs to the RiehH mond, Va., market. This is some thing out of the usual to shipping sheep from this part of the country. Greensboro. There are now four murder cases for the next term of criminal court here, all negroes. Ben Hazel, who was brought back here to stand trial for the murder of his wife, says he is a Christian now and is trying to convert, McClure, who is in the murderer s cell for kill ing Sheriff Bain. Roxboro. Hubert Ramseur, repre senting the Just Freight Rate Asoc- ciation, was here and addressed a gathering of the citizens of the town and vicinity on the objects and pur poses of the association. A temporary organization was effected with X. V. Gwynn as president and B. A. Burch as secretary. Elizabeth City. The board of coun ty commissioners has made the levy of the taxes for this year as follows: state and pension tax, 27 2-3 cents; school tax, 20 cents; general fund tax, 21 cents; road tax.N 12 cents; bond tax, 3 cents; making a total of 84 2-3 cents on the $100 property val uation. Elizabeth City. Miss Kate Nixon, the 21-year old daughter of Mrs. Susan Nixon of Henrietta of Hertford died in the surf at Nags Head recently. Miss Nixon, with a number of com panions, was bathing in water scarce ly waist deep when she lost her foot ing and was swept out 'by the current from the beach befo.e a large crowd of terrified spectators. Asheville. Hammer McHarge was arrested here on a serious charge, having been taken at the request of Newport officers who reported that he was wanted at that place on a charge of criminal assault. Information was received in Asheville to the effect that Mclntyre had assaulted his niece, who is but thirteen years old. Within the past week storms Jiave visited this immediate section almost daily causing considerable damage to the crops and the floods, which re sulted have damaged a number of property owners. Acade'my . street here has been washed by the water which followed the rains until great piles of the stone U3ed in paving that thoroughfare were heaped up at intersection with Main street. Durham. Capt. J. C. Michie, super intendent of the Durnam Water Com pany, has notified " the town officials that an accident at the pumping sta tion incapacitated the two main pumps at this station, and consequently t.hei town would be short of water till the repairs' could be made. . Kinston. The chamber of com merce of Kinston has taken active steps looking to a union depot for he city. At a meeting of the board of directors recently if was decided that the body would ask the corpor ation commission to take action re quiring the erection of the station. Charlotte. At a meeting of the board of county commissioners re cently the matter of opening bids on the bonds of from $95,000 to $110,000, for the purpose of constructing a jail and bridges' in the county, was continued until August 20. . Bids will be received until that time. ' Washington. Messrs. Davis and Davis. Washington patent attorneys, feport the grant to citizens of North Carolina of the following: Clarfnce K. Davis, Wilmington; calendar key ring; Dennis F. Cox, -Cannon, valve; Willis W. Under, Charlotte, balancing ma-.shine. TO GET ITS SHARE N. C. BANKERS LEAVE WASHING TON ASSURED OF THE GOV ERNMENT'S HELP. IS NOT FOR CALL LOANS Secretary McAdoo Makes It Plain to Those Present at Conference That He Is Trying to Help Farmers and Not Wall Street. Raleigh. A special from Washing ton states that the group of North Carolina bankers who come here to confer with Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo in regard to the part of the $50,000,000 which the treasury depart ment intends to lend to the country banks to aid in the movement of their crops left for home thoroughly confi dent that the Old North . State will be amply cared for and given sufficient funds to facilitate the handling of the bumper crops which they told Secre tary McAdoo the state has produced this year. They were unanimous In impress' ing on the secretary that this "year's crops are probably, the largest in his tory and will therefore quire a large atnount of money for their mar keting. Joseph G. Brown, speaking for the Raleigh bankers, sa'd at least $500,- 000 will be necessary for the Raleigh clearing house to care for the small er banks. B. C. McQueen, for the Wilmington banks, declared at least $750,000 will be needed to handle the unprecedent ed crop along the coast. The Charlotte bankers did not name any specific amount, but inti mated they might ask a full $1,000,000 When their formal request is sent in. Final details were not gone into as to the amount each of the banks will ask for and how much they will get. The main object of the meeting was to bring about concerted action be tween the treasury and the larger state clearing' houses. Mr. McAdoo Impressed iipon those present that it was the intention of the administration to make loans to the clearing houses and have them take care of the small banks in their vicinity, and by - no means let the money get into such channels that it will find its way to Wall Street. .Flagman Hurt in Wreck.' Hickory. Local freight No. 64 on the Southern Railway .wa3 wrecked near the Ivey Mill several days ago. Flagman Fred Wilson, of Lenoir, was seriously injured and was carried to the Richard Baker hospital in this city. Conductor Ballenger who was in charge of the train, was slightly injured, but was unable to re sume his run. The train had stopped beyond the Ivey Mill siding and the engine, with a partof the train had gone into the -sidin-g preparatory to taking out a car when the rear of the train broke loose and ran down an incline in the track, crashing into the front ned of the train. New Corn Club Records. Durham. The boy's corn club of Durham county will establish some new. records according to the reports of the county farm demonstrator. He believes that .the youngsters have the best looking crop that he has ever known them to have since the corn club was established. Barring 'acci dents sucii as storms and bad weath er from this time on the crop which is being grown by the youngsters will pan out more to the acre than it ever has in Durham county. Carter Case Is Postponed. Asheville. Declaring that Judge Boyd's ruling throwing out 12 counts of the bill of indictment had elimi nated many of the strongest and most vital charges in the case, District At torney Holton gave notice of an ap peal to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case ; pending against John H. Carter, former presi-1 dent of the American National Bank oi uus city, whu is unargeu wiui viO' . a IV I . U 1 I 1 !.L I I latlon3 of section 5208-R. S. of banking laws, .commonly known the National bank penal act. the as List of Storm Sufferers Grows. Wilson. It might have been worse the list of sufferers in the storm which visited sections of this coirtfty recently ; contine tq grow. In the Evansdale section W. J. Davis sus tained damages to the amount of at least $1,000; Dr. S. H. Crocker and W. W. Graves, $1,500 or $2,000. Those from the Black Creek section are: John D. Mercer and J. L. Daniel, whose loss'is considerable. Much damage vas done- in Toisnot township in many instances entire crops are ruin ed. Hail Storm Does Damage to Crops. Benson. A severe hail and wind storm visited a portion of Elevation township. It seems that the worst of the storm was five or six miles northwest of Benson, where.it almost destroyed all growing crops. Cotton young corn were totally destroyed. It was literally torn to pieces by the stones, some of which were as large as hen eggs. Panes of glass " were broken out of the windows of most of the houses and a great deal of ex citment prevailed whMe the aform was doiflg the worW ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL SINKS Nw Orleans' Historic Old Church Building Causing Much Concern' to People of City. New Orleans. The sinking of the foundations of the historic old St. Louis cathedral in this city Is giving much concern to citizens interested In the welfare and prestige of New Orleans, as well as to the members of the church itself. It is a problem whether the cathe dral can be restored as it was, or will have to be rebuilt, and that is now in the hands of a commission of engi neers and architects to be solved after due consideration. The present cathedral was com pleted in 1794', under the care and from large contributions by Don Andres Almonaster y Roxas, a wealthy Span mm . .V. mX itrt" 'k.'xC IS St. Louis Cathedral. ish nQbleman and official of the city, under the then Spanish domination of Louisiana. In 1850, one of the towers having collapsed, damaging the entire front of the structure, the facade was rebuilt as it now, is, but the sinking again of the foundations of a tower presents new problems and demands. Everybody who cherishes the his tory and traditions of the city preserv ed and perpetuated desires that the historic old -structure shall be restor ed and made permanent, but there are others who want a new and splen did structure as the chief ecclesias tical edifice in this archieplscopal dio cese. - - Not less than , a million dollars, and probably more, will be required to build a new and magnificent cathe dral." All these matters should fur nish food for thought, for , they con cern every citizen of New Orleans? without regard to creed or party. OLD NIPSIC IS AN ICEBOX Warship That Survived Samoa Storm Turned to Commercial Uses by Canning Company. Washington. Converted into a gi gantic floating icebox for salmon, the old JJnited States cruiser NIpsic lies off the San Juan islands, near Belling- ham, Wash., being now a useful piece of property of a canning company. The interior at the old warship, which is of wood, has been made over into a row of great bins. Into which the salmon, brought from the fishing ground, are dumped through a long funnel at the bow and Iced. The proc ess will not freeze the fish, but will keep them in cold storage until they can be canned. Frozen fish may be sold for table use, but are not thought good for canning. - "-.-' The NIpsic .has had an interesting history, though, never in battle. Built in 1873 at Washington, she was long attached to the Pacific fleet.. She was one of the American warships that were overwhelmed by the hurricane at Samoa in1888 with vessels of the English and German navies. All but the English cruiser Cal'Jpe went ashore, but the Nipsic fortunately went on a sandy beach. The crew of the NIpsic performed heroic deeds in saving seamen from othes5 vessels. - After being hauled off and repaired the Nipsic became a receiving ship at Bremerton, and was later turned into a prison ship. Last spring sho was sold as no longer of any use to the navy. - r HAILSTONE DOWNS , A HORSE " Marietta and Vincinity Suffer Heavy Damage by RainWindows Are , Smashed. Marietta, O. Hailstones so large that one of them knocked down a horse being driven up a hill, near here, fell during a storm. The hailstones smashed windows, broke slate roofs, damaged crops and killed fowls that were suddenly thrust unprotected into the storm when their coops were over turned by the wind. In the rural sec tions many fields of corn were practi cally ruined.' It is estimated the dam age will run into thousands of dollars. AUCTION OFF-PETRIFIED MAN Grew so me Patagonian Relic Sold Under Hammer in Paris to Highest Bidder. Paris. -A petrified man was sold by auction in Paris recently. The man lived some thousands of years ago in Patagonia. He i as about six feet five inches In height.' ' Though he is now a stone statue the body bears traces of two deep wounds. It is supposed that the man was killed, and that his body was slowly, changed to stoneTby tha action of water charged with Jime salts. BAGDAD HAS 600 i . Holy Land, After Long Sleep, Is Waking Up. . Yankee Fever of Progress and. Con struction Has Broken Out ln Pal estine and Swept East to Ancient Chaldea. London. The Holy Land Is wak ing up. A "boom" a regular Yankee fever of progress and construction has broken out in Palestine and swept east to ancient Chaldea, where even the old Garden of Eden is being irri gated and-put back on the map and the market. -. '.' ' Outside the crumbled walls of .Nine veh," Yankee mowing machines are humming in wheat fields 4 that cover the bones of kings. Down on the big Euphrates Irrigation dam cube con crete mixers from Chicago are busily digesting old bricks, taken from the walls of Nebuchadnezzar's palace at ruined ' Babylon. Aleppo, so long a "sleepy, old-world Syrian town," is planning a $5,000,000 union depot, and low-speed Jerusalem donkeys are now dodging the noisy motorcycles - of nervous tourists doing Falestlne "on the high." In the date gardens around Bagdad, where for 2,000 years the Arab farm er was content with his rude "cher rid" (an ox-power goatskin and wind lass device for lifting Irrigating wa ter), over 400 English gas, engines now puff away, pumping water from the ancient Tigris. On this same historic stream motor boats from Ra cine sputter about among high-pooped Aram "saflnas" and "bungalows" still built Just as in Sinbad's golden age. In the dark, narrow, camel smelling bazaar streets of Bagdad I saw Yankee sewing machines, dollar watches, safety razors and American patent medicines, offered for sale be side costly Persian rugs, bronzes, sticky native candy, and prayer bricks made from -the holy dirt of mm Ancient Weil Near Bagdad. Moslem graveyards. - By one cable Drder a Bagdad importer bought fifty American reapers, for use in Assyrian wheat fields. From this region made famous by New Testament history the stagna tion of centuries is passing; and travel .writers can no longer dub It "changeless and inert." It's a railroad the same maglo power that built up our vast west that's rousing this long-dormant re gion of the middle east. It's a great railroad, too, greater far in possibili ties than even the famous Russian road across -Siberia. The "Bagdad railway," this singularly' significant road ic called, and already it is half completed. When finished it will stretch 1,870 miles from Scutari to Basra on th J Persian gulf; the old "Balsora" of Sinbad. the sailor's tales. From the Mediterranean to the Eu-. phrates, now spanned by a temporary bridge, the line is in operation,-and on three sections under construction 72,000 men are steadily at work. From the Euphrates the route pushes east to Mosul on the site of old Nineveh thence down the classic Tigris to Bagdad and Basra. . :INDS POISON IN FLOWERS louquet Carried to Sick Friend Affects Clergyman, Causing Swelling of Nose. Wilmington, Del. Poison In a bou quet of flowers Is believed to have caused a painful swelling in the face of Dr. W. L. S. Murray, onje of the veteran clergymen of the Methodist ' Episcopal church, now TStatiOned at Epworth church this city. While car- . rying the flowers to a sick friend Doc tor Murray Inhaled their perfume. The bouquet evidently contained a poison of some sort, because shortly after there was a noticeable swelling. in the clergyman's nose, which soqni ' spread over his whole face. Aside fromM the pain. Doctor Murray experienced no serious trouble. Test Three-Year-Old Eggs. Trenton, N. J. A test of eggs three years old was made by the state board of health here. If the board survives $4,000 worth of ancient eggs will be released from cold stprage. "
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