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?* ? / WIFE FINDER WANTS St 00. * And Bachelor Judge Thinks the Service is Worth It. J Alderman J. F. Ruddy, of this city, was called upon to decide how much it is worth to find a wife for a bachV elor who is anxious to step from bachelorhood into the bliss of married life. Opportunity to determine this A ~ i n? question came when Mrs. Anna Levy brought suit against Jacob Rosen thai to recover $100 which she alleges was promised her for finding & a wife for Rosenthal after he had failed in his hunt for a life partner. Mrs. Levy declared that Rosenthal expressed disgust with bachelorhood and engaged her to hunt him a wife. She located a young woman in Plymouth, introduced her to Rosenthal and their marriage resulted. Fol. lowing the marriage Rosenthal re^ j 'fused to pay the $100 he had '" r promised. \ *1 Alderman Ruddy, who is a bach^ elor, ruled that it was well worth ^ , $100 to find a wife for a bachelor, . and he gave judgment against RosenJ thai for the full amount of Mrs. Levy's . claim.?Wilkes-Barre, Pa., r dispatch to Philadelphia Inquirer. Glories of the Actic Winter Night. giv*:-,4 . "With reference to' the Arctic & night, during our winter, December / 21 to March 21, is there total dark.... . A $ness at the north pole? To what de; gree of latitude south from the pole does the darkness-extend? Where ? would there be four to six hour's daylight in each 24 hours? Would there he such a day, for instance, at Great Slave Lake? i v; . "M. M. McG.,, Omaha." m&r Ve shall not know exactly what Pthe conditions are around the north pole until people* go and live there. . Theoretically there are about. six months of continuous night at the \pole, beginning when the sun sinks below the equator at the autumnal equinox September 23, and ending when it rises above the equator again at the vernal equinox, March 21. AfSeptember 23 the region of polar, night begins to extend ^southward) . until, at the time of the winter sol] stice, December 21, it attains the - f^ Arctic polar circle, about 23 1-2 degrees south of the potej and in latitude about 66 1-2 degrees north of the equator. Along that circle there : . Is, atjthat time, just one sunless day, or One period of 24 hours, during > r .V c which the sun does not rise. Between the Arctic circle and the ? pole the greatest length of the win ter night varies from 24 hours up to six months. South of that circle ; ; / there are no sunless days. In the \ latitude of Great Slave Lake, from k , 62 to 63 degrees north, the longest nfght is about 20 hours. During four hours of each 24 the sun is above the horizon there, even at the winter solstice. The theoretical six months night S ;? prevails only exactly at the pole. About 7 degrees south of the pole the night lasts five months; at 12 1-3 i djegrees from the pole, four months; ht 17 degrees, three ' months; at I 20 1-4 degrees, two months, and at 22 2-3 degrees, one nymth. v These are the geometrical facts with which it is necessary to begin, f. :;/V' . They would be the actual facts if the (earth were a perfect sphere, if it were nbt surrounded by an atmos ^ v phere and if the sun )vere a mere - ; point of light instead of a disk half ; a degree in diameter. We may ne' y. - 'gleet the effects of the slight flattening of the earth's poles, and of the sensible diameter of the sun, but we cannot neglect those due to the re; > fraction and reflection of light by the y atmosphere. ' ^ By refraction the atmosphere virtually lifts the sun, when it is on the horizon, something more than half a . degree above its true place. This alone must shorten the polar night by four or five days and perhaps a week or more, since there is reason to be"lieve that the refraction is greater in . the polar regions than farther south. ; j But far m.ore effective is the reflection of sunlight from the upper air, ? > . which is the principal cause of twilight. Ob the average, evening twilight lasts until the sun has descended 18 degrees below the western horizon, . and morjjTng twilight begins when the sun has risen to within 18 de? grees of the eastern horizon. v r Now, as seen from the pole, the sun goes spirally round and round the sky, gradually rising from March / 21 to June 22, and gradually descending June 22 to September 23, when it again touches the horizon, and slowly sinks beneath it, a day / or two elapsing after the lower edge reaches the horizon before its upper ^ edge sinks from sight. . Similarly, on the approach of the vernal equinox, March 21, there will be a morning twilight of above two months' duration before the sun ac tually rises. Thus four months of the polar night consist of twilight, and only two months are entirely deprived of sunlight. It is q,uite possible that on account KITTEN SAVES CHILD'S LIFE. Leads Mother to Pier, Where Accident Has Occurred. Out in California a kitten saved a little 12-year-old girl from probable death. The girl and the kitten went for a walk. After a short time the kitty returned alone and kept walking up and down in front of the girl's mother crying pitifully. It was trying to attract attention of the mother, and every tin;e it thought it succeeded it would walk off, and, not seeing the mother follow* would return and cry all the harder. Finally the mother noticed the per formance, and decided to follow tne little creature the next time it repeated the affair, as she thought it strange it should act so. The kitten led the way to the end i of a recreation pier, where the child was found hanging head downward from a large spike on a pile. She had fallen from the pier, and her clothing had caught on a spike. Her mother immediately rescued, her, but she was barely conscious. Had she remained in the position five minutes longer she would have been dead.?From Our Dumb Animals. Our Manslaughter Record. Look up in almost any court rec- I ord in this State the history of the trial of the negroes charged with peddling liquor and then look up the trial of ten men charged with manslaughter and we believe you will find a higher percentage of convictions omnnpr the blind tigers than you will UU1V*A>0 ~ ?? ? ? find among the murderers. Another thing. Court records will show that oftentimes a negro gets a heavier sentence for stealing a ham than a murderer gets for slaying a neighbor. With such a state of affairs as this not uncommon in the State it is not at all surprising that North Carolina's homicide record is almost in a class to itself. Compare the statistics of killing in North Carolina with those in Virginia and we have reason to hold our heads in shame. Up in Virginia the murderer, be he rich and influential, able to employ learned counsel, or be he a beggar, lias very little chance of escaping punishment. The result is that homicides in that State are few and I for between. In our own State and in our own country with the records showing more acquittals than convictions it is not surprising that murder goes along with; unchecked fury. Judge Carter sounded a note of warning but it remains to be seen whether it will have any effect whatsoever or not.?Charlotte News. Decrease in Drunkenness. ~ - ? 3 Columbia, Feb. 6.?As compared with December the record of cases brought in the recorder's court of Columbia during the month of January shows a large decrease both in the number and kind of cases and in j the amount of revenue received from j fines and forfeitures. The comparisons are: f Cases of ! helpless drunk, 104 in December and 15 in January; of drunk and disor| derly conduct, 68 in December and 15 in January; violations of the dispensary law, 10 in December and seven cases of violation of the prohibition law in January. In December the "Black Maria" made 357 calls as compared with 153 last month. There was a total of 2,121 days served on the chaingang in December and 1,721 days in January. The fines collected in December amounted to $1,735.75 and in January to $942. of the greater density of the polar atmosphere the shortening may be tvi'on mm*#* so that the actual dura j tion of the polar darkness may not : exceed five or six weeks. Even this period is not marked by deep night, except when the sky is ! filled with clouds, for, in addition to ! the starlight, the winter moonlight ! at the pole must be dazzling. The full moon is always situated opposite to the sun, and not more than five or six degrees out of the plane in I which the sun appears to travel. Thus, when the sun, at midnight, is far below the horizon the full moon must be correspondingly high above the horizon. At midwinter the moon, passing slowly through the phases from first quarter, through full to last nuarter. is continually in sight, from the polar cap, during a period of two weeks in each month. | To all this should he added the fanI tistically brilliant, and often chroI matically exqusite, illumination of | the bickering aurora borealis. All things considered, so strangely brilliant a spectacle as that which the I Arctic night must present, with its j boundless expanses of ice and snow | glittering, flashing, glowing, in the varied splendor of silvery moonlight, electric auroral curtains and softly radiant twilight, -could hardly be matched on any other part of our planet.?Garrett P. Serviss. / We have the exclusive selling rights for this great laxative. Trial size, 10 cents. ' MACK'S DRUG STORE THE REXALL STORE P Experience Convinced Me men demonstrated the value of the Long Distance Telephone to us. He was at Huntsville, Ala., and upon his own N responsibility put in Long Distance calls for fifteen merchants within a radius of several hundred miles. "In less than one hour he had sold 2100 barrels of flour at a total cost to us of less than six dollars. ? \ "Since then we have applied the Long Distance Bell-Telephone to every feature of our business with most profitable results. The service is fine, the rates are reasonable and there is more satisfaction in one Long Distance Telephone talk than in half a dozen letters" SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY BOX 108. COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. I rCLENDALE | MINERAL SPRINGS J .... For Sale By.... HE UN BOX'S GROCERY STORE AND MACK'S DRUG STORE M Magazines For Sale At Herald Book Store uom a o. simi? The Hardware and Furniture Me Sample Bos 4 The Biggest shipr sample box pap have received in time arrived this Values up to $1. box, we sell nothin 40c per box. Ge early. 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