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f PURITY OF THE AIR. t . A.n English Scientist Attacks Our * Theories of Ventilation. i Crowther, the English scientist, at- j 1 tacks one of the most cherished of our j 1 hygienic notions with a logic that com- j t pels respectful attention. His conten- ! ? Hon is that efficient ventilation does ^ not depend upon the chemical purity ? of the air. The attempt should be to t secure motion, coolness and dryness t rather than to displace one body of c air by another. I * He denies that there is a toxic or- * ga lie substance in the atmosphere as < the result of human exhalations and I challenges those who disagree with I him to their proofs, as the existence of I such poisons has never been scientif- < ically demonstrated. ? The lungs, according to him, are c never filled with air some of which t v~" ftTKoiaH InholoHftn fr?l- ! JLlttO UVi MXU Cauui^u. auuuim -v. ? lows so closely upon exhalation in ? normal breathing that a portion of the i air that has Just left the lung3 is in- < variably drawn back into them. J Exhaustive experiments show that the amount of air thus returned is from 1 to 2 per cent in persons remaining quietly indoors. It is from 4 to c 10 per cent in those asleep in bed. c There are certain sections of the re- 2 spiratory apparatus, moreover, the nose and the larger bronchi, in which a exhaled air always lingers. It thus ^ appears that the air in the lungs is al- 1 ways heavily contaminated with their 6 own excreting gases, even in outdoor life, and the dead spaces make it cer- * tain that this contamination will not c decrease. It is cot worth while, so the doctor * argues, to pay much attention to the | c small amount cf carbon dioxide in the 1 * atmosphere, therefore, **nd i? the Rir is t kept in motion and not permitted to be- f come too moist or warm tt e necessary ends of ventilation will tK- subserved. 6 ?Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. * \ ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE. 1 Changes That Come When the Barom- ! eter Falls an Inch. s Few persons have any idea what f tiemendous changes in the atmosphere c are indicated by such a rise or fall of ^ an inch in the barometer. j A cubic inch of mercury weighs a g half pound. When the mercury falls a an inch a weight of one ton is re- ^ moved from every 4,000 square inches t of surface. This is a ton for every c area five and one-quarter feet square, j If your house, for instance, is 25 by e 40 feet, with an area of 1,000 square r feet, a load of about thirty-six tons is 1 lifted from the roof every time the j barometer shows an inch fall?that is, j a thirty-six ton load would be lifted f If the house were air tight. But as air ! { presses in every direction there is as J t much of a push upward against the roof from below as there is of a push downward from above. So the roof actually feels no effect from the re- c moval of this heavy load. In the same way a man of average j ^ size would be relieved of a weight of about a ton and a half if there were no air chambers in the human body. It has been figured that a fall of an ' j inch in the barometer over a territory j 400 miles square removes a weight from the surface of the earth of 160,- ? 000,000,000 tons. If this were loaded ^ on freight cars, twenty tons to the . r.ar and thirty cars to the train, more t than ?S0,000,000 trains would be re- r quired to move it If each train were t 500 feet long they would stretch out y in a line more than 25,000,000 miles t long. c The only noise that accompanies this great transportation feat is made by the wind, which does considerable roaring in the course of such violent at- ^ mospheric changes.?Kansas City Star. The Worst Quarter of London. f What is the most disreputable bit of t London? A writer in the London s Sketch asked this question of a police- z man the other day. He said, "The \ quarrer round about the Harrow road."' c It appears that there are byways in f that region in which no policeman f dare venture unless accompanied by a j 8 brother officer. Bermondsey, too, is s pretty bad. But Wapping, once the haunt of hooligans, has become com- r paratively respectable of late. Pigeons' Eggs. The two eggs laid by a pigeon al- s most invariably produce male and fe- s ? C?tvia mirmiio ornopimontc O <5 .1 JJJcUC. CVUIC vuiivuc \.^j/v.iiuivuW ?? to which of the eggs produces the t male and which the female have re- t suited in showing that the first egg '< laid is the female and the second the < male. Knew Him. "Tommy, run up and tell your sister i c I am here, will you?" "Aw, what's the use? She knows it, 2 'cause when she saw you comin'' I t heard her say to mother, 'Dear me, ( there comes that empty headed idiot c again!' "?London Telegraph. Out For Tea. Maid?I'm sorry, but Mrs. Jiggs is 5 out for tea. Plebeian Friend?The idea! With all her money I should think she'd have everything sent?Buffalo 1 Express. Odd and Even. His Wife?I don't want you to be * coming home at such odd hour. Hus- ( band?All. right dear, I'll try to make ? it 4 instead of 3.?Philadelphia Bulle- 1 tin. Contrariwise. i ?Tall fho crorvtlomfln I'm ! I Mt.ro. Bent?Bvu^v?? - ? not receiving today, Nora. New Maid ( ?But he ain't delivering mua.; he's 1 colleetin'!?Puck. 3 Star Sight. By all tNe rules of the game of na- i :ure we should not be able to see a star at all, for it appears from the j ?arth as a geometrical point, a thing ft'itbout dimensions, and cannot be ! measured even in the most powerful ; elescope. A star appears in a tele- i >cope just as it does to the naked eye. | tho nnoetinn niitnmliV pomps III) is to why we can perceive a star, a ! :hing with no dimensions. We cer- j :ainly cannot see so small a thiug unier the microscope. The whole answer s a peculiarity of the human eye and. n fact, of all. optical instruments, call- j Hi diffraction. A lens does not focus j >arallel rays of light to a geometrical J vtfnt. even thoucrh thev come from a! >oint and so a small disk is printed >n tile retina by a star, and the star is >erceive<L Remember, though, that >nly the star's effect is perceived with he eye. A planet of course is difl'er- j snt, as it is comparatively close to us. ind its actual disk may be seen and t neasured In the telescope, Just as thati >f the moon can be seen with the nak- j ?d eye.?Chicago Herald. Born of an Odor. J Professor Alexander Graham Bell I nee gave an account, which is here J ondensed, of an in vention founded on j i smell. First, a chemist detected in sulphuric icid waste an odor which on analysis vas found to come from a nitneno i mknown substance. This was called j Senium. I Second, silenium crystallized was ound to be a conductor of electricity if phenomenally high resistance. Third, the new resistant having >e-*n put to use in place of whole colls j f wire to balance the Atlantic cable Turing the period of laying, was found ;o have at night twice its resisting >ower of the daytime. Fourth, Professor Bell playing upon dlenium's sensitiveness to light proluced the photophone, by means of vnich one may talk over a beam of I ight The Cynict. Cynics was the name applied to a chool of philosophers founded by Anisthenes. a pupil of Socrates. The nain tenet of the extreme cynics was hat civilization is a curse, and true lappiness can be obtained only by .ratifying the most primary physical ippetites which man has in common vith brutes. The general attitude of he cynics as distinguished from that ?f the stoics, who regarded everything n +ha ovtprnfli world with indiffer race, was one of contempt. They were tot an important philosophical school romerically, but attracted attention argely by their eccentricities and insoence. On, account o? their contempt 'or refinement, their name came subseluently to be applied to any one who akes a mean view of human life. I .?I Papa! Names. Every one knows that as soon as a ; ardinal becomes a pope he is no; onger known by his own name, but' akes a new one. This custom origi- [ lated out of reverence for St Peter, j This custom, now a \law of the | ,'hurch. had its origin in 8S4, when! "*-J ???? X/vrtomn nnna nf RnmP ! III r Ul\a ucvaLUu pvpv V* * v w. le held that it would be presumptu- j >us to style himself Peter II., so he j tdopted the name of Sergius II. Be- ! 'ore that time many popes had changed their names, but it was not obligaory for them to do so. Sergius II. lot only established a precedent in his direction, but he set an example vhich all pontiffs have followed in hat none of them has ever retained ? fKrt Tiomo rtf Potpr. >r iisduuicu me uuLut w Our Sixteen Striped Flag. How many stripes in the American lag? Thirteen, of course, yet there's j in American flag flown legally today j vhich has sixteen stripes. It is the | lag of the revenue cutter service, and he stripes are vertical, not horizontal, I ts in the ordinary ensign. The stripe | learest the staff is red; then come vhite and red alternately, so that the j >utermost stripe is white. The reason j 'ny aivt-ppn striDes is found in the j act that When the revenue flag was tuthorized, in 1799. there were sixteen itates in the Union, three having join>d the original thirteen. ? New York ! Tribune. Discretion. A lion that had been ill asked a ;heep if his breath was bad. The >heep said "Yes," and the lion bit off i ler head for a fool. A wolf, asked ; he same question, said "No." Him :he lion killed for a liar. A fox in* mswer to the quesiion said he had a ?-n hie hynri and could not smell. I ,vm Aia U&w She Made Him Happy. "Shan't we go now, Emma? I feel :old here, and Tve got a cough." "You sit still, Henry, and keep rour mouth shut I've got to finish ;his book on 'The Secret of Making )ne's Husband Happy.' " ? Meggeniorfer Blatter. ! Trouble For Pa. "Where do they wind you up. Miss ! Skreeker?" "WinJ roe up?" "VPn snid vcu sane mechanical y."? Houston Post. Tonsoria! Sarcasm. Barber?Very sorry, sir, but I'm ifraid I've made a small cut on your rhin. Subject?Ah, it must have been i sharp spot on the razor.?London Punch. Wholesome Advice. Just because it is so difficult for a icb man to enter the kingdom of heavm the poor man should think he i&s an absolute cinch.?Little Rock Gazette. WRICHTWI! T I ilAUt/4 JL kj V AJS North Carolina's EVERYTHING W( MODERN AH Bathing - Music - Boating Most Pop j WEEK END A1 Excursic vii Atlantic * C Standard Railros For schedules, rates of far ^ or add - W.J.CRAIG, Pass. Traf. Mgr. WTTiMTNGT I Signs of Ancient Paris. George Cain, curator of the Carnava- ' let museum, in Paris, treasure house of Parisian antiquities, has arranged . an exhibition of old sijrns rescued from , under the pick of the demolisher. Some are examples of exquisite iron work. Others are delightfully quaint, i such as the sitm of the old Latin quarteX barber, which announces that lie "works quickly and silently." hollow- i ing the name of a Herbalist in the i same old world district is the request that he be not mistaken "for the other impostor living across the srreet." A Belleville store prod,limed itself "a raw and cooked pork butcher." Among signs intentionally facetious is that of a little cafe which stood opposite the gate of a Parisian cemetery announcing to passers that they would be "more comfortable here than across the street"?Chicago Tribuue.. Nightingales as Pets. Although in nature the song of the ! nightingale does not extend later than the middle of June, yet in captivity the bird will sing up to the time of the autumn molt and will begin again at Christmas. The one detraction from the merits <jf the nightingale as, a pet bird is its individuality. Some birds will sing only when no one is in the room with them, some will sing under any condition, and some will be silent for ever if they change ownership. At the earnest solicitation of a friend I once parted with a nightingale which was the finest singer I had ever heard, and in its new ownership, although it was kept Id the same cage and was i fed in exactly the same manner as that to which it had been accustomed, it never uttered a note during the remaining seven years of its life.?London Graphic. New Year Calls In China. New Year calls are the custom in China, and you have to pnv them in > festive attire of silk or satin. These fine clothes (savs Archdeacon j Moule in "The Chinese People") can be J hired, the price being gradually low- i ered as the hours of the first six days , pass by. We complained once of the I' very late arrival of a caller, who should have been among the first to salute us. He replied that money was scarce and he was obliged to wait for tbe cheapest day to secure a fine robe already j donned and doffed by a dozen of oth- | ers. During these ceremonial days the j whole community seems to give itself over to indiscriminate gambling, a j practice illegal and condemned both by j Chinese law and standards of moral- j f.ty, but winked at during this season. ?:?? I TTU*? Clrel AircViin. ' "" ?I If we can believe certain ancient his- j torians Xerxes was the owner of the first airship. The chroniclers say it < was received as a gift from his courtiers and consisted of a winded throne, i to which were harnessed four tamel. eagles. Focd held above the hungry | birds was the incentive of the motive power, and. it is said, ttyeir struggles to appejse their appetites resulted in raising the throne from the ground. ! Justified. "Superstitious after all these years! Don t you remember on the evecing j we first met how a black oat ran j' across our path and you swore some misfortune would happe^ to you?" "And it wasn't a year until we were married! What greater proof do you want?"?Houston Post. Not a Joking Matter. "My dear," said Mrs. Henpeck, "I'm positive that our boy is thinking seriously of matrimony." "Well, I only hop'? so," returned Hen- j peck with unusual spirit "I wouldn't want any boy of mine to be so unforttmate as to regard tt as a joke." < \ * - f 30 mil v.vi't IE BEACH Famous Resort i "MDTTJ WUTT TT T\T yitJLi.1 *y IJLiJUJU JLiU flUSEMENTS Fishing Prizes - Dancing ? tar Season ND SUMMER in Fares a nasf line id of the South ] e, etc., see ticket agents, ress, T. C. WHITE, (jen. rass. Agent 'ON, N. C. ' ' 1 i <?> <?> <$> $> *j <? BARBECUES. <$> j $> $1 We, the undersigned, -will furnish aj first class barbecue at Jno. A. Crom-j er's old place on. Friday, August 28, 1914. EMdie Graham, Marvin GraJbam. We will give a first class barberue! at Bethel school house, Pomaria, on on August 22. The services of an experienced cook tiave been secured and a fine dinner is assured. A pleasand time promised. Public invited. N H. F. Counts, Caldwell Ruff. We will give a first class barbecue at the residence of Col. D. A. Ruff on Friday, August 21. There will be j dancing for the young people. The j dinner will be cooked by Mr. Luke Sease and a good dinner may be expected. D. B. Ruff, F. A. Gall man. * I will give a first class barbecue at Utopia, Wednesday, August 18. Acknowledged as one cf the best in the county. The ladies are especially invited. W I. Herbert. We will give a first class barbecue at Pomaria on Saturday, August *2, at which the governor and the con I gressional candidates will SDeak. Caldwell Ruff, H. C. Counts. The Rural School Improvement as- j sociation of Smyrna will give a first class barbecue at the home of Alex D Hudson on the 28th of August. One of the best cooks of the county has been secured. All trains will stop at Snearir an's enabling Darties to attend from any point on Southern. Prices, 50c for men, 40c for women, and 25c for children under 12 years of age. j Come get a good meal and nelp' a j worthy cause. NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that we will make final settlement, as administrators, on tbe estate of A. S. Dunlap, deceased, in the probate court for Newberry county at 11 o'clock in the fore- i noon, September 18th, 1914, and immediately thereafter apply for letters dismissory as such administrators. All persons having claims against said estates will present the mduly attested on or before that date. J. D. Wheeler, Leila B. Dunlap, Administrators. TEAUUtK WASTED ! j For Tranwood school. Salary $40 per month. Term eight months. Send application to Geo. A. Epting, J. Robert Long, Oscar H. Abrams, Newberry, S. C., R. F. D. 3. 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I The new discovery, Croxone, cures tioi such conditions because it reaches is the very roots- of the disease. It ren soaks right into the stopped up, in- ear active kidneys, through the walls and pre linings; cleans out the little filtering sib] cells and glands; neutralizes and dis- ten: solves the poisonous uric acid sub- \ stances that lodge in the joints and of muscles to scratch and irritate and firs cause rheumatism; it neutralizes the are urine so it no longer irritates the the tender membranes of the bladder, giv srnH pImus out and strengthens the ho"v stopped up, lifeless kidneys so they I sufl filter and sift all the poisons from' .cur JUIfansDrink/I (Damans Drink- U fniiprtihnrliis Tiank .r'-'f. A \/igorously good ? * delicious. Thi f and refreshing. I The national b on/4 T7Tk1 m ^ v v Demand the genuine by Nicknames encourage sj THE COCA-COLA C Whenever A . _ r you an AtUnt*- ^ Arrow think ^ of Coc* - Coi*. ?I ??> :ement * inounce to the ive one of the in the State. 0 r. 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