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VOL. LI GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1926
CARD ROOMTO SPEND VACATION
Time When City-Brtd ManShould Heed Call of
Country.???? i ?. / |
When Mr. Mann of?Anytown arrived
ffitb tbe Mrs. and youngsters at tie
vacation resort there !sat- the usual as-sortment of fat gentlemen playingpliochle and uncomfortably-garbedwomen playing bridge" or mah-Jongg,
"What the'dickens do they go on avacation for7" Mr. Mann queried W
Mrs. Mann.And yet the pinochle-bridge scene
may be found at countless thousands
of resorts. Grown men and womengo on vacations and do little moretlian play cards or similarly dodgeboredom, says the Cincinnati Post.
These people could well take les-
sons from their children, who use thisopportunity to let loose pent-up sup-
pressions of the year and run aboutshouting and playing.
Of course, every fat-paunched gentcan't play Indian or tag, but he can
\u25a0 learn the lesson of letting his mindget into healthful paths. He can getaway from the hotel steps and hikealong tree-covered trails, or acrosssweet-smelling country meadowsi-
There are a thousand things he cando that would reduce his girth andput him in far better condition when]the vacation ends ?that is, unless heIs an invalid.
ACCOUNT WAS THERE,BUT NOT MUCH ELSE
President Ernest Frothlngham, ofthe Commercial Trust company, saidat a bankers' banquet in Denver:
"We bankers are often called iheartless. You remember the story
of the dead shot who, having .failedto kill his man at point blank range,explained that he shot four times atthe fellow's heart, not knowing he
- was a banker,"Bankers) as a matter of fact, ai4
altogether too kindly'and Indulgent Ayoung clubman went to a tailor theother day and ordered a dozen suitsof clothes on credit. The tailor askedfor a reference.
"\u2666'Oh,' said the young clubman, 'goover to the Third National bank peo-ple. They know- all about me. Ihave an accourif. there.'
"So the- talkJr-'weht oyer to th«i bank and said to the cashier:
"'1 understand that young Mr.Cromwell keeps his account here.'
"'He does,' said the cashier, 'butgoodness knows- where he k«eps hismoney.'"?Detroit Free Press.
Speaking of Shakes?-"We'll tell the world, everybody
else who has time to listen," says theTlfton Gazette, "that if we had beenthe girl who found a rattler under herdresser, we would' have given up thatroom and all parts adjacent to therattler. We never did much admiremakes, no way."
Which recalls the story of the Geor-gia fanner who was -awakened from 1? sound sleep by his wife, who hadwen a snake crawling from under thecover at his feet. He glanced at the"Dake and said: "No harm In it Can'tyon tee it'g a klngsnake? Never*«ke me up again tor less tjjan arattlesnake I"?Atlanta Constitution.
Derivation of YankeeFarington gives an etymology which
be new to Connecticut teaders.The name of Yankee is derived from
the Yankow Indians formerly settled
Jn Connecticut That race now scarce-ly exists. To put an end to the wars
subsisted between those native?the European settlers, laws were
ordained which served to incorporate">em, marriages being allowed."deader, have you perchance Inherited
me drops of Yankow blood, along*"h the Yankow name?? Henry A
In the July Yale Review.
Too Far AwajfI wtl° wa s three and a half,
M very much interested in the re-
Sh t""8 °' the housie across the way.had heard folks talking about th<
wl,lch was being put on.
BittyWDd °* a roof 18 lt?" asked
st)eß ,to8 '" replied grandmother.
; t £ant ask Bestos. He's too fary> said Betty in all sincerity.
Chinese Turn to America»
® department of agriculture, of
Oatinnlvepslty, China, has been
fng
,
ste »dy progress since Its or-
nation in 1921. Arrangementswen made for procuring live
hrm-.ii"m
_
Bome °f America's finest
farme^a hllshmenta, as well ai
. machinery of the latest type.
StrongLjJ * BMP heard by players andbn*. n Corcoran's right anaL p
®
pitching to a batter[frachi Maine. An X-ray showed
Probably because the nuude*
Ocean Waves Triflesto Those of the Air,'
it Is rather startling to learn, andfrom high scientific authority, too, thatwe are living most of the time sub-merged in waves to which the greatestwaves of the ocean are mere ripplesin point of size. When a current ofair bjows across a water surface waterwaves are produced, and when a cur-,r,nf of air blow*'across a surface ofquiet, air, or air having a different mo-!tlon from the first current, then airwaves are produced.\ These atmospheric waves, we areassured, have all ef the phenomenaof water waves?troughs, crests, foam,breakers -and spray?but since thequalities of air and water are so differ- ient the air waves have dimensionsover 2,500 times those of the corre- j
water wares.Thus the great' ocean waves of per- |
haps twenty-five feet height: wouldhave atmospheric counterparts extend-ing upward a distance of ten or twelvemiles above the earth's surface.
. The undulating movement of such j}alr waves accounts In part for the in- ;termittent gusts' of wind which wenotice so frequently in storms.?Wash-ington Star.
Little Reverence forLong-Dead Statesmen
The Pantheon is visited nowadays junder conditions which seem decidedly jlacking In the respect due to the mem- |ory of great men. You pay a franc toget inside the building, and for. 50 !centimes more you can join an as- isembly of trippers for a visit to the jcrypts in the%ake of a guide who ap-pears to be on very familiar terms jwith the distinguished dead buried jthere, Paris Figaro.
The aforesaid guide' will rather dis-dainfully show you the basementwhere not 'less than forty Statesmenof the first empire sleep. The otherday he pointed out the tomb of Zola,Jaures and Carnot, and an Englishwoman in the party asked If shemight go Into one of the tombis. Tothis the guide replied carelessly thatit really was not worth while, as shecould see all these fellows at theMusee Grevin. "where they're all llfe-sifce and madf of wax."
Few "White" buffaloesIn the old days Indians cherished
the white buffalo robe as almost be-yond price.
In 1832 or 1883 the Mandans, saysthe Pittsburgh Sun, hearing that the ,Blackfeet at the mouth of the Yellow- Istone had a white buffalo robe, sent adelegation with eight horses and writhtrading goods the 200 miles to procurethe robe If possible.
The delegation left the horses and 1the goods and returned afoot with therobe. jThls was consecrated to theGreat Spirit and hung upon a pole,
out of touch, as powerful medicine.It Is said ihat not one in 100,000
buffalo was white. Even at that, the
ca4»r was likely to be a yellowishwhite, and the robe was known by theplainsmen as a "buckskin" robe. Thepure white robe scarcely existed.
BasilicasThb name "Basilica" was given In
ancient Rome to buildings used asmeeting places for business men, andas courts of justice. A basilica con-sisted of a long central hall or nave,with aisles, the aisles being separatedfrom the nave by pillars supportingthe roof. A£ the end of the nave,- op-posite the entrance, was a raised plat-
form, or dais, with seats for thejudges. To give additional space there
was sometimes added at' this fartherend, a semicircular structure called anapse. After the introduction of Chris-
tianty, basilicas were very generallyconverted Into churches, and thus Itis that the form of the modern cathe-
dral is derived from the ancientRoman basilica. ?Kansas City St^r.
Patriotic AmericanThe pledge to the American flag that
is used In most of our schools Is at-
tributed to James P. Upham, a Boston
publisher, who In 1888 suggested Its
use in the schools. The Idea was
adopted by the National Education a»sociation, which persuaded congress C4urge it to the attention of PresidentHarrison, who, by proclamation ofJuly 21, 1892, naming October 12 as aholiday In commemoration of the four-
hundredth anniversary of the landing"
of Columbus In the New world, sug-
gested the pledge to the flag be re-
cited by the pupils and the flag raisedover every school house.
The Tantony" Bell.
The "tahtpny" bell was rung frosi
churches in certain parts of Northamp-
j tonsbire at 7a. m. and at 7p. to
mark the times when gleaners In tna
cornfield were to begin work and finish
for the day. In ancient times, the
"tantony" bell was rung to call home
the swine-herd, and Jt Is probable that
the name "tantony" Is a corruption of
St Antony, for eanturles considered
the patron saint of swine-herds aad
swine - ?_«- ?,
Growths of MangrovesServe Good Purport
The trees known as "mangroves"form dense thickets along the? ses-- In the tropica of the old worldas well as of the new. They are fliar-acterized by the production of manyprop roots from the trunks andbranches; these prop roots reach Igiothe mud and form practically impene-trable tangles. They thus serve tohold the mud together and are saidto act as natural sea walls, protectingthe soil against the inroads of the sea.
bark of the tree is sometimes !taken for its abundance of tanning jmaterial; otherwise the several spe-cies are ofjio economic Importance.
In many of these species the roots| branch repeatedly before reaching the
j mud, instead of growing straight :
I down. ?The root divides Into two[ branches, one of which soon diesaway, while the other continues thegrowth. After extending for soijie<!distance this also divides into two,
I one of the branches persisting, and; so on.
The Dutch botanist Van Leeuwenhad an opportunity jo study a man-grove tangle near Samarang, in Java,and he discovered the cause of the pe-culiar habit of root branching to bea small beetle. The female beetlelays her eggs near the tip of the rootThe injury causes a new root to sprout
out just above the tip and the old tip
continues to grow.
Brings Back to MindDays of Golden Youth
His youth was spent in a castle of .dreams In an enchanted fofest. He |danced with the wood-nymphs- In thedusk and leprechauns, laughing, whis-pered the secrets of the woods to him.The sun and the moon tilled a way-side pool with gold for him.
One day a stranger In a scarlet coatlold him of the gayety <?f cities and
| sifng him the "Song of Clinking Gold,*\ 'and out Into the world \ylth him hewent, writes Whltelaw Sauaders, In"All s Well."
Now he is old. The golden song has,suddenly, dissonant harmonies, and hisown scarlet coat hangs ragged and ifaded. A blossom In a market stall,swayed by a passing breeze, brings
hjm dreams of long forgotten "dancesand In the park he hears the echoesof forest laughter. The oak tree whls- |pers, he cannot understand tljp mut-tered words but, somehov, he knows |it la-telling the legend of forgottenyouth.
Poor Man FaintedThe man had Just Informed the Pull-
man agent that he wanted a berth.
I "Upper or lower?" asked the agent."What's the difference?" asked the
man."A difference of 50 cents In this
case. The lower Is higher than theupper. The higher price Is, for thelower. If you want It* lower you'll
have |o go higher. We sell the upperlower than the lower. Most people
don't like the upper, although it Is low-er on account of being higher. Whenyou occupy an upper you have to getnp to go to bed and get down when
i you get up. You can have the lowerIfyou pay higher. The upper is lowerthan the lower because !t Is higher. Ifyou ore willingto go higher, it will belower?"
But the poor man had fainted.?Postal Spirit.
Laugh for HealthThe diaphragm beats a tattoo on the
stomach when you laugh. Every timeyou let go a good hearty laugh thisdiaphragm pops up and down on yourliver, and helps to drive away the verything that gives you the blues ?bilious- 1ness.
Laughter Is the best brand of pills
on earth. Laughter strikes in when It
comes from without, and Instantly
comes to the surface when it startsfrom within.
You may laugh because you are hap-'py, and you may be happy becauseyou lai gh. It Is the one thing,"wherethe cause is the effect and the effect Is
the cause. Any man can be a million-
aire of good cheer. ?Associate Con-tractor.
What's Wrong Here?The "Saturday Evening Post says:
"It was that hour of a rather sultry
<»arly summer afternoon when the
"Tnerehants along the west' side <»f
Main street In a certain western town
ire wont i <\u25a0 merge from their stares.>ry after another, and lower their
awnines against the glare of the af-
ternoon sun."Th» west side of the street would
be In the ade In the afternoon and
It would be the wst side where the
merchants would he powering theirawnings to keep out the glare?unlessthe Saturday Cvfenlng Post bad Id
minJ some sort of sun which
sets In tLe east.?The Pathfinder.
f Situation A lie'*An old bachelor says that a man l»
gimetimes ensnared by the same kind
Vf extravagant dressing In a woman| a* ?bant aitar marrbuc*.
HEAVY DEATH RATE\ IN DARK CONTINENT,
Conditions in French Colo*nial Possessions Bad.
The Journal dea Debats Is dis-tressed over the apparent decline of"the native population in France's blackpossessions. French Equatorial Af-rica now has less than one inhabitantper square kilometer, and the deathrate appears to be considerably higherthan the birth rate, writes the LivingAge.
Doctor Boye, chief of the healthservice from 1920 to 1922, character-izes the depopulation of these terri-tories "de plus en plus angolssante,"and. reports that "tribes formerlyprosperous and vigorous are today onthe verge of extinction."Recording to a provincial governor,"
wnere, populous and flourishing vil-lages and broad acres of cultivationwere numerous 15 years ago, only
'skeletons of villages" now remain,their t cabins In disrepair and theiffields neglected. One territory having23,950 Inhabitants, in which an accu-rate record has been kept, reports thatthe deaths exceeded the births in ,&
single year by 2,425. A larger enu-meration shows, per 100,000 natives, 4,-470 births and 6,524 deaths per an-num. <
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Conditions are sofnewhat better inFrench East Africa, where the popula-tion Is denser ?about 3.5. Inhabitantsper square kilometer?but unequallydistributed. Even here the recruitingofficers report that one adult maleout of every fij£ or six of army ago isfit for military service. In the soladistrict where an actual enumerationhas occurred, out of a population of25,000 there were 1,007 births and 1,-161 deaths.
The two prinoipal scourged of theAfrican" native in his own home aresocial diseases and malari%(_ Malariaappears to be the chief cause of In-fant mortality. Pneumonia and tuber-culosis are also devastating scourges,"the spread of tuberculosis being close-by associated with the Increasing useof alcoholic liquors."
One of the most significant and dis-turbing features of this gloomy sur-vey Is the evidence of a rapidly de-creasing birth rate, due to the dis-eases already mentioned, the sleeping
I sickness, alcoholism and artificial re-striction of births. In case of 563 ne-
! gro families Impartially selected onthe Gold coast, 138 were childless and244 had but a single child. At Daker10 per cent of the Infants born die atbirth and 50 per cent during the firstfour years.
Crave Error"I hear tell that Horace Bristles got
shot yesterday down at his fence cor-ner," stated Mrs. Johnson upon herreturn from a neighborhood calL"Seems like he was Just coming roundIt when a feller going by up and shothim." .
'Tve been looking for something ofthe kind to happen for right smart of
, a while," replied Gap Jotnson of Rum-pus Ridge. "He ort to have shavedoftener, and he wouldn't have beenmistook for a mad dog."?Kansas City
Star.
*
Barkless DogsThoroughly muzzled "hot dog
i eclairs" have made their appearanceat Detroit. First waffle batter Ispoured into a specially constructedgrid molded to the shape of a full-grown raw "dog." As the first tinge
of golden brown comes over the batter,the cook drops In the canine. Anotherspoonful of batter completely Incas**the barkless barker.
"Followed the Band"A span of horses which performed
and waltzed In a circus ten yours agowere recently recovered by their pres-ent owner, Albert French of Freedom,
, N. H., aftfr they had followed a trav-eling show's music wagon severalmiles. When found, the horses werekeeping step to the music. They re-luctantly left with their master tothome.
«
Almost FrightenedJohn D. Rockefeller likes to tell a
story of an Irishman employed by blm'who, in the early days of oil refining,
was standing near a big tank when. It exploded with a roar that could be
heard for miles about After tb«
smoke had cleared, other workers cameto gather np tho fragments of theIrishman's body, only to find blm sit-ting on a pile of debris and slowly
filling hla pipe. After he had filled
I It and Ignited the tobacco, ho re-marked, "The durn thing puriy nighscared me."
Trade Despite HandicapFoochow, China, a city without ralf-
road fracks or any wheeled, vehicles,does a large foreign trade.
Plctn Long TunnelA tunnel two and one-half mile*
long that will be the larust In Eng--1 land Is being planned.
How Nature Provides. for Seeds "Traveling"
Most people would be surprised Iftold that "the dandelion growing ontheir back lawn had Its origin In Af-rica. "Yet this might easily be so, forseeds do travel In the most remarkableway. *
How then, do they do It? One wayIs by air. Those that travel In thismanner have a kind of wing or para-chute attached to their seed, by means jof which be carried by fhewind for -miles before they finally
come to earth and grow. ?
Others with the aid,of a light floattake a sea voyage and travel with thecurrent of the water for great dis-tances. But by for the most Inter-esting way of all Is the seed that trav- <els with animals and birds. This Isdone with the help of a hooked at- !tachmegt which clings to the unimal's 1fur.
Charles Darwin once took from jthe foot of a bird a small frag-ment of hardened earth; this hemoistened and warmed, and waitedwith curiosity to see whether oranything wOuld /row from It. To Idsgre.it surprise nj f wer than 80 plantssprang from this small portion of soil.
Poor Man's PrideSo many men to whom the East
sido missionary had given money hadexpressed a preference for a certainlodging* house that ha wondered whatconstituted lta particular attraction.
"ft makes us feal self-respecting,"said the men, when questioned.
So far as the fission worker could:sue, It was'the typical cheap lodging jhouse, whose inducements to self-re-)spect. were not discernible to the or-1dinary eye. So he Interviewed the;manager.
?
"That's easy," replied tho latter,and a sign above the desk:
"Gentlemen Are lterjuestred to LeaveTheir Valuables with the* Clerk."?American Legion Weekly.
A Slip UpGentlo little four-year-old Jane Is
a model'child ns a rule, but now and["thin shu "slips up." She has been
forbidden to take a spoonful of sugarout of the sugar bowl and eat It aschildren are apt to do. One day thetemptation was too strong, and whileher mother's back was turned shehelped herself to some sugar. Hermother turned around, shocked andIndignant >
"Why, Jane, whatever made you dothat?"
"But, honey, I didn't know you weregoing to turn round," was tlje gentloanswer.?lndianapolis News.
Just WindThe child had been greatly Im-
pressed by her first experience In Sun-
j day school. f! She pressed her hands to her
breast and said solemnly to her sister,two years older:
| "When you hear something wlte
here It Is conscience whispering toyou." - I
"It's no such thing," the sister
Jeered. "That's Just wind on your
tummle."?Exchange.
Few Physically NormalAccording to examinations mado
by school medical Inspectors of NewYork sl;ate during 1923-23, 47 per centof the children living In cities, 4Wper cent of those living In small town*and villages, and only 27.4 per cent ofthose living In rural districts arephysically normal.
'
Trade AgreementAn agreement has been entered
Into by Bulgaria and Czechoslovakiathe government of Bulgaria
engages to purchase machinery and
railroad equipment from Czechoslo-; vakla and Czechoslovakia will pur-
chase tobacco from Bulgaria for Its
tobacco inonopn'y.
Blood Pressure1 The maintenance of tho circulation: of tho blood requires a certaiu amount; of pressure in tho circulatory system.
1 This pressure vuries frora 123 to 150j mlUlrr.oters of mercury.
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Wife Takes No ChancesMrs. Peck (watching ballet dance)
-rCome on, nenry I If that's tho way
Sbe Interprets spring, I don't want youIn here whtn she starts to Interpret
summer.
Uncle Eben .
"De man dat gits do most benefitfum religion," said Unclo Eben, 'ls
de one dat keeps thin kin' 'bout It 'stld4 talk In' 'bout It"?Washington Star.
No Harm In That"I hear you have been telling people
. I brag about my prowess in the hunt-ing field."
'
1 "I m«-rely said you always gavo agood account of yoursaL'."
Hardly. '
Teacher? What can yon say of theVenus de MUo?
Pupil?She cool dirt fear* gtvett any-body a handout v V .
I
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
\u25a0Tradition has handed down to us 1from countless generations the ideaof the need ot a epring tonic. Someskeptics ridicule this idea and call itan old granny notion, pleading thatits all "pure laziness" and that peopletry to condone this laziness by mak-ing for an excuse the need of a springtonic.
"Where there is smoke, there is somefire" and it isn't al ways safe to entire-ly deny ideas that have become bofirmly fixed in people's minds ap th.aone has. Many people do need aspring tonic and need it badly. This,
we had better admit than deny, but jrwhfle admitting It try to find out uio |reason why. \u25a0 *
Systematic, periodic weighing andmeasuring a group Of 15,000 childrenhas proven that thoir greatest growUi
j in both height and weight was, in the| late autumn while the least growth in j! height and weight was In the spring. |
Nutrition experts have proven t'aas jthe proteins iu our foodd are the food
| elements used by nature as building
i material and repair material. The; fats and carbohydrates are the ele-
ments in food which are used to maioheat and energy, Pats and carbohy-drates cannot be utilized for buildingor repair material but in case oI needthe body will sometimes use the fto-'teins for fuel.
It requires much more fuel to keepthe house warm in winter than la |
Tree's Unkind CommentStories of Beerbohm Tree
like the green bay of the same family
name. Tree fact and for many
years, has been the legitimate gaiue of
all storytellers, a part he undoubtedlyenjoyed. The famous scene painter,
Harker, Is responsible for this one:Mr. Harker, who painted the scenery >
for such famous spectaculnr shows as !"Kismet," "Chu Chin Chow," "Cairosnd Decameron Nights," was a friendof Tree.
Tree and he had had one of their oc- jcasional tiffs, and the actor was feel-;Ing vindictive. H® and Alfred Ware- ilng, of the Huddersfield Repertory;theater, were motoring one day In the Jcountry. Warelng called Tree's atten- jtlon to the glorious sunset.
Tree was silent for a moment, then |he snapped: "Ah, In Harker*® most jviolent manner!"
Add Motqring PerilsOne of Attleboro's fairest little '
maidens has been having a rush Job jdone at the dentist's. A broken tootbneeded expert attention. Itwas no or- jdinary mishap, the breaking of that |tootb. 'She and he were motoring and 1
, while kisses were being exchanged the jcar hit a particularly rough 'spot In the
] road. There was a facial collision In
which lips proved Ineffectual bumpers,
two sets of teeth met head on?andthen ffltme concern on his part lamen-tation on her part and the enlisting ofthe dentist's services to repair dam-ages sustained in an unusual way.?Boston Globe.
ComplimentedWhen an Edinburgh councillor was
traveling to London there was a*i oldman In the same carriage to whom bespoke several times without gettinga reply. Just as they nenred the endof the Journey the old man leaned for-
! ward and asked, "Are wo near Khg's
j Cross?"j The councillor told the old manthat he tln»ught him very Hl-man-
-1 «ered for not replying when spoken
\ to earlier In the day.
Said the aged traveler: "Man, Iwas feared to answer ye. Ye aroawfn' like a photygraph I saw In ths
i paper of a murderer." ?London Tlt-
| Bits. *
1 " V
Pcpcr Razor StropOrdinary newspapers folded toget?*-
j er In a thick strip andk beld betweenwire clips make a satisfactory snbst!-
[ tute for a regular leather razor strop.
I according to a Koropean Inventor,
Popular Mechanics Magazine reports.Tb« Ink on the pai>ei- Is said to assistIn giving a keen, non-pulling eds;e andconsequently a smooth shave. A freshstrop can be prenared in a few mo-
-1 ments and It Is Specially cpnvenient
for the traveler-and camper.
uaqi pun moo *od jo. sai
, Xtjs o} qSnoaa Suoj dn sanu.w pauqsnq
jai{ sso[un'pa{jsj)t:s ;,usj emu am ll»3(l®} oj sjtio.tt oq.tt ciutno.» aqi usah
?Xi(3J3AJ3cI aU|U|UJ»J
NOV 52
r^uMfOTiBUREAU OF HEALTH EDUCATION, N. C. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
V, SPRING TONICS
summer and it requires also much,
more fuel to k9ep the body warm In
winter than in summer.. Mothernature is a wise old dame and as it
she knew this very fact she providesin our winter foods much more fataand carbohydrates and in our summerfoods much more protein. /
Civilization has given goodhouses, well-heated by fires, a. 1 warmclotheß, and civilization also jrmits 4
many to live rather sedent, Uvea,
so that fuel is not needed e er f:>rheat or energy. Yet we contir aa eat-ing a winter food, supplying an J -;W!?te3
of fuel which satisfies the r- petita
and clogs up the furnace gra wita
asjwsa without receiving an s quata
supply of building and repai: later-ial. Such a person in the spr fe«a'asluggish, dull, and has "spric aver.''
While civilization has dor sot: 3
ha. n, she has also overcoi that
haroi by making it possible to ecu: agresn foods, rich in protein, wg. *
out the year. The person who its abalanced diet, takes plenty of at-o-doof exercise, and keeps the we'.j
active, will not have spring fev-.- norneed a spring tonic. The perse?.'whohas not done this does need oVerhaol-ing-
Don't be fooled, however, into be-lieving that the patent medicines, sotemptingly displayed Urgather Indollars, will do this overhauling for
| you. They will not
BLACKBIRDS FtAST 0» FISH
Mako Raid on Trout Fishery Esta>>lishsd en an Estate in
Scotland.
Those who study nature find thatage-long traits and habits are being
in some cases modified and la othersentirely changed.
The writer know* of a case where abinl has its habits changed by alteredconditions.
A trout fishery was established aman estate In Scotland. During certainseasons a large number of the fry <*
young trout are crowded together Isshallow pondS, as their inclination I*
t to keep together Just where the water
enters.One day a backbird. drinking at one
of these ponds, got hold of a young
trout, probably accidentally, but found
It was excellent feeding. A blackbirddoes not by habit get its food from thewater, but this particlar one, having
tapped a new source of food supply re-turned to It again and api In.
The following season tbl3 bird hadby some means been able to impartjtsnewly-found knowledge to all the ether
blackbirds on the estate, and Insteadof one bird stealing the young fish, all
the birds got tnto the way of doingso! -The owner had either to shootthe blackbirds or give up tryingto reartrout
That an entire change of food Is notdetrimental may be proved by the fact
that many of the cows kept in Norway
are fed on flsh, yet who will s« y that acow's teeth were made for de lg with
« diet of this sort?? London t-Blts.
Generous Sir Herl tSir Herbert Tree, the emi U Eng-
lish nctor, was an-orlglnal p*- n w.tha curious and often surprising -lea ofwit While walking up the II lark.-ton one occasion. Bays the T. er, hamet a lady of his acquaintar . S!rHerbert swept off his hat with flour-ish'and, still holding it in I hand,stopd talking to her for sev» 1 min-
| utes."What a magnificent lining hat
[ has," she said,
1 reu silk.1 "You admire that lining?" cried
\u25a0 in his most melodramatic iiiai.a.r, anl
with a swift wrench he tore it out aiwl
thrust it into her unwilling user?,"Madame, it is yours," he said i . prr>sively. Then he walked majt. :cally
' away, leaving the astounded ladjt
1 clutching » few scraps of red silk.
Indian SuperstitionThe Indians believe that, a UsM
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