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Iff WHIN A METEORITE FALLS- \\ K Ko Record of Human Belng? Harmed t ff by Stones from Space. 11 i The fall of a meteorite on a negro 'i farm near Pitts, Ga., give8 further ev-|i ldence of a peculiar record of these t pbenomnea. Several negroes were t working near the place the different t fragments lodged, but were uninjur- t ed- So tar as is known no human be- 1 I ing has ever been harmed by these | tones, though cattle have been killed I by them. There is a record of a me- 1 teoric stone falling through the roof 1 ot a peasant's house bi Hungary into t the toom where two children were < asleep. The children were covered with debris, but were uninjured. ine ruts meteorite fell on the , morning of April 20 &nd was visible , over an area of several thousand i square miles. S. W. McCallie, Oeor- i gin's state geologist, give8 the follow- ] ing account of it in the Atlanta Con- h stitution: , The attendant phenomena wit- < nessed by the observers of the Pitts 1 meteorite were similar in character ' and succeeded each other in the same < order as that noted in meteoric falls 1 in general. Named in order of their < occurrence, they were: A rapidly i moving body, often referred to as a ' fire ball; a dense smoke in the wake < of the fire ball; occasionally lumin- i ous for several minutes; distinct , boomings, generally compared to dis- i charge of distant cannon, succeeded t by a number of lesser sounds; a roaring or whizzing noise not unlike the sound of a falling body and its im- i pact on the surface of the earth. Mounds lilko Thunder. The first sound heard was compared to that of thunder, and to many it was the first warning that an un-j usual occurrence was taking place | in the sky above. At Cordele, 15 miles i west of Pitts, the sound resembled! that of a heavy explosion, distinctly I heard by several people on the street. In the country, four miles east of i cordele, two terrific explosions were noted louder than thunder, which bo terrified the farm hands that they ran frightened to their homes. In the immediate vicinity of Pitts the sound was described as several loud explosions causing the earth to tremble, followed in quick succession by a number of lesser explosions. The roaring and whizzing noise and the impact of the falling fragments were heard only in the immediate vicinity of the falL An explanation of the different phe. nomena above given as as follows: The rapidly moving ball of fire was the meteorite itslef made self?lumInoug by the friction produced in passing through the upper atmosphere. The speed of meteorites when they first encounter the earth's at- 1 mosphere is said to be Beven to forty miles a second. The smoke i8 fused particles of the meteorite brushed off from Its surface as it moves rapidly i through the air. The sound compared.' ! NODEI IS Overhead expens ? expense. Old system m m m One-third of the pj have thrown away tl ? the end of the year i (21 1.- I ? > ?~ - SI - ? ? ffi :-zzee;=^= j? = , , -+ r - ; Mil: z ? -:= $?e ? ==-^= i||E = ? ^=e:== ! li ? e||e = ? ill: ? [g LEDGER LE. ffl Double or single ent; m umns. Machine ruled 01 ledger paper. Standard 12l all the time. Special fo * 1 iJIIUl l> llUllt'Ca IS IS Grows in poula a x the month your stal [g daily use throughou gj put them up in all si gj ing. They drop back * We are not beg S every particular. Tc IS traveling auditor fo g] simpler and more a< m We have specia . and machinery usee of the big city mar g Don't send y THE DILLON HERALD. ;o the booming of cannon and also the I esser sounds are supposed to be due o the explosion of the meteorite and,1 :he sudden beating of the surround- j ng air. The retardation of the meteo-J -ite by the resistance of air exerts ai powerful dissuptive force upon it, I lince the rear part of the meteorite ends to travel with the planetary i ipeed while the forward part i? being ] :liecked. The whizzing and roaring i loise heard some minutes after the j oud explosion was produced by the 'ragments of the meteorite passing through the air. This sound was followed immediately by the impact of the falling fragment striking the ;arth. Fell Near a House. The largest pieces, weighing 57 cunces, fell within less than 75 feet }f Nancy Brinson's house, where it was dug up a few minutes later still warm, but not red hot as first reported. The fragments entered the Treshly plowed sandy soil to a depth of about 16 inches, forming an in:onspicuous hole less than 18 inches In diameter and scarcely half so deep. The fragment is irregular, rhomdotial in shape. More than two thirds of the surface shows the natural pitted characteristics of an iron metoerite seated with black iron ?k-~?-v. ?Uv lUiUUftU which in places are to be seen patches of silvery white nickel iron. The remaining parts of the surface are rough and angular with more or less sharp projecting points showing evidence of rupture from other fragments. This surface is more or less smoked, but it has not the thick coating of the other surface. This fragment is made up largely of nickel-iron throughout which, in irregular masses, occurs the stony material. The latter consists mainly of gray mineral interspersed with occasional greenish granules. A second fragment fell by the road-, side within a hundred feet of Jim I Harden's house, which is 700 feet southeast of the Brinson house, and within three feet of a negro boy who way walking along the road. No "Foreign" Elements. It might be interesting to the reader to know that up to the present no elements have been found in meteorites that have not been found on the earth. This would seem to indicate that likely all celestial bodios are made UP of the same material as the earth and that all have a common origiii. Prior to thn 1 B?K ???< .1-- - ?MV AOiU CCIilUI J I lit? tan I of meteorites was not accredited by scientists, although numerous instances were recorded. Plutarch tells of the fall of a stone in Thrace in 470 B. C. The most generally accepted theory is the meteorites are dispersed matter from shattered planets, or satellites, although more study is needed before a satisfactory decision as to their origin can be reached. May and June seem to be the monthfe in which the greatest number of meteorites fall. Fifteen to twenty SIS ESSES SB?? IS IV HAAI/I U1 DUUM ie is the canker worm that gi s are costly. They.waste tim< ? cost of a ledger is in the bin ie cost of a ledger, in additio is buying new leaves at a mir pli i i mm ry up to 12 col- M9 ti extra heavy forms in stock rms ruled on i rity every year. It is a great tements are ready to mail ou t the Carolinas and our cust izes, bound in Red Russian < flat when open, giving a perf inners in the loose eaf line. V dl us what your bus ness is an r one of the largest. bonding < jcurate. 1 forms for farmers as well a 1 by other manufacturers. W lufacturer. HERALD PRINTERS rour money away to distant ci m rn rn rxi rs"i m m ia?ai (2) (Z1 f IS CD Si IS IS IS IS ISIS tZl IS E # MLLO{f, BOOTH CAROUHA. TH million are said to fall dally, but v comparatively few are of sufficient > size to be seen by the naked eye. <3 o I SNOWSTKOM IN AN 1 AIRPLANE ENGINE. c \ Unquestionably a snowstorm may 1 cause an airplane to crash. But the 1 news that a flying machine may come 6 to grief from a snowstorm of which ? It is itself the cause seems startling. ^ Recent experiments at the United States Bureau of Standards have ^ proved that such a thing may easily happen. The kind of snowstorm referred to. however, is one that takes place inside the engine. To form snow there must be moisture and low temperature, both by vaporation of fuel in the inlet system. A decrease in temperature lessens the quantity of water vapor that a given volume of air is able to hold, and the surplus condenses. Hence the temperature drop produced by vaporization of the fuel may produce a condor sat ion of moisture and turn it into snow. This was definitely proved by laboratory experiments with airplane AnirinAo 41? ?n ??. ?uc luiuiHiiun or snow made quick trouble. But a ready cure was * to supply sufficient external heating ? to orevent the temperature drop. 1 The chief danger from a snow- * storm in the engine is not that It causes a decrease in power, but ft,s produces violent fluctuations of(l power which can neither he predicted * nor controlled by the pilot. These J? fluctuations come when fragments 1 of the snow are dislodged, and result in changes of speed similar to those ( produced by suddenly opening the, throttle. If such trouble brings disaster to the plane, the snow will all melt before the engine can be taken apart for examination- There is then left, nothing to substitute the pilot's' report of engine trouble. It is be-1 lieved that this newly acquired Information will explain many disasters for which pilots have been unjustly blamed. o A FROCi SOIiO. The account of a frog concert that we printed in The Companion last " December has led a reader to send us in interesting: description of a frog solo during which the soloist was in plain sight all the timeIn the spring of 1876, writes our 1 contributor. I was atteending high school in Madison. Wisconsin, and one afternoon took a walk with my i little sister to a small stream nea.* by. i There we saw our soloist, a frog i that sat on <a stone and sang and ; trilled as if he were the whole orchestra. I We drew near and stopped to look(i at him. He finished his strain and l rested. Finding that we were friends, he renewed hin ai"i -? - _ e? '? o >??B ' ???????????l (EEPING I naws at the vitals of every bui e and lose dollars that run int THE LOOSE L ding. When you open new boo n to the time lost in transfer limum of expense. JR DUPLICA ? mm. | " - ~ 11441 B'l OUR TIME SAVER time-saver. You . make out t. No rush at the end of the omers tell us they would not cowhide back and corners, ect writing surface. Pe have been putting up loose d let us design a system to suit companies in America. We gu s merchants, bankers and mat e employ the same skilled wo PUBLISHING RUl ities for th? same class of wot fiEBBBfflfflfflSfflfflfflfflE UBftMT* MORNING, JUK4 SB; 1MB. ?? i ??- . .. _i vhlle we enjoyed the entertainment, sc Vhen he sang hia soft broad throat th I intended, exactly as if a marble had teen put into his mouth and a string <i< tad been loosely tied outside in or- el |er to keep the marble in position. e< Vithin that globe it appeared that oi be tongue vibrated; making the rills that charmed us and that seem- A d equally to charm him, for he wore ai n altogether self-satisfied air.?The ta fouth's Companion. ct 1. C. COTTON HILLS RUSHED WITH ORDERS. ? That business with the cotton nills of South Carolina ha8 improved 0 the extent of the manufacturers lardly being able to keep progress vith the orders, is the statement of he department of agriculture, comnerce and industries, in a statement ssued to the press. Business has seen 1 great increase In recent weeks, it kays. Of a total of 185 cotton mills, mly 15 were closed down on June 1, ind.a majority of these have resumed operations since June 1. It is now lecessary for many of the mills to ill orders from reserve stocks in' itorage, says the statement. "A superintendent told an lnspec-, or for the department," says the itatement, "that his mill does not ex>ect to reduce wages as present coniitions are satisfactory." The statement also refers to the sanitary conditions and conditions^ >ertaining to thF employment of chil-j iren and also pertaining to the, imusement and conveniences fur-( lished to the mill employes, and says hat these were never so good as now. WHAT CAN YCfl* DO? It's not who you are or what you know that determines your pay( *heck. When you DO MORE youJil; jo WORTH MORE. Daughon's Training taken either at tiome or in School teaches you to those things that Count most in busi-1 jess. Promotion and Salary come of their own accord to the man or wornin that DELIVERS the goods. Take I the first step TODAY. Write us for Information. I IlRAUGHON'S BUSINESS COLLEGE | aw- ^ ~ one voi coiumnia, s. C. ft'm. Lykes, Jr. F. W. Lykes. NOTICE OF ELECTION. State of South Carolina, County of Dillon. Whereas, there have been presented to us petitions signed by more than one third of the qualified voters and a like proportion of resident freeholders of the age of twenty-one years of Lake View school district No. 14. asking that an election be granted in said district on the question of issuing bonds in an amount not to exceed Four Thousand ($4,000.00) Dollars for the purpose of snlarging and further equipping the!? S3 ? ? is is ? ? a is is [ MFTHOn i IUI11UV siness. The problem today is t o big sums. The modern syste EAF SYSTEM ks you throw away one-third < ing accounts. A loose leaf ledgi TING LEDG This ledger will pay for itsel saved in three months. It ca posite each ledger sheet an bill head perforated at one pn bon sheet works between the 1 second sheet. The items are c the bill head and a copy is ma< second sheet. At the end of tl your statements are made out tear out the bill head and mail customer, keeping the second the ledger until the account is saves one-third of your book \ gives you a completer record bills from day to day as the it month. No delay in getting on do without them for many tin corduroy sides and strong me leaf outfits for many years, a it. We offer you the services o arantee to give you a system ti nufacturers. We have forms tt rkmen.. We use the same mat COMPANY, Di LERS rk. We can also give you close S) (21 (SI (2<1X1X1121 (ZI IS IS IS r2 jj CD 1X1 IS tS IS IS IS IS is f hoolhouse in said district, to meet ic needs thereof. Now by authority vested in us un- 1 ?r Section 1743 Civil Code 1912, the ection petitioned for is hereby order < 1 held at the Bank of Lake View i i Tuesday, July 5th, 1921. W. M. Ford. A. W. Smith and Q. Page shall act as managers ad only those who present their lx receipts and registration certifies as required in general elections jg banki 1 rook j When a man ha bank" he feels at eai ry. Worry is the 1 it destroys the PO\ earn money. No ma without money in b Start BANKING ] havj> not already b< see that we are ri| for urging you to d If you have a bal< it. INCREASE it. We invite YOUR The Bank SAFETY, SERVICE Dillon, Sen a? a ??is a a a? at SAVES H o get maximuiti production m is [?f the cost of your ledger. In er will last a life time and y< opordinary d. A carbill and a arried to de on the THE STE1 -3? 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