The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, January 18, 1934, Image 7

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owe Smoking; Newspapers . Country ToWns By ED HOWE T AM an Inveterate smoketv.but * no pleasure out of the. habit I have never owned a satisfactory pipe, nsed a tobacco that did not bite my tongue, or been able to find a satis factory d gar.—Sometimes, In smot Ing an old pipe now, I become' as sick’ as I did when a boy learning the filthy hab’.t . . . Lately I tried quitting, and the nuisance of quitting was no greater than the nuisance of -smoking; in fact a little less. . . . 1 shall try the plan on some other of my bad habits, since T ’have long The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C., January 18, 1934 Scientists Have Sought preached that practice of good habits is easier than practice of bad ones. • • • In justice to myself I find 1 cannot read all the Interesting things In the newspapers. The editors and report* ' era have become as entertaining as the moving pictures, the radio, but I have my living to earn, so I must cut £own on my reading, as I have been compelled to cut down on smoking, liquor, society, and other of the more agreeable things. . s , A woman in my town was born in . Keokuk, Iowa, and lived there until she came a bride to Atchison,'Kan-' sal (my country town), where she has lived to old age. Keokuk is her out side world; it bounds all her reminis cences. And she tells some interest- The records of a possible “ther mometer tomb," which indicates roughly the changing temperatures of ages In skeleton symbols, are be ing studied by Smithsonian institu tion paleontologists. It Is a cave In the Alleghany mountains near Cumberland, Md., where the bones of nearly 50 differ-^ man population In North America. ~ teg stories ” about Keokuk. -Lucy 'Worthington, who married Henry Clews, the noted banker, lived there ' as a girl, ahcThoiw has a palace in Newport, the most exclusive, colony in this country (according to a certain magazine which sells for a dollar a copy). Rupert Hughes lived there as • boy; In'fact, the Atchison woman gave him music, lessons. I once at- tended a banquet in New York city. am! made a Speech for nothing. (I heard later that Irvin Cobb, who pre sided, is so witty and famous as a toast master that he received a hun dred and fifty dollars.) Mr. Cobb considered Rupert Hughes so notable a man he invited him to speak. .Mr. Hughes had lately written - ! candid life of George Washington, and In his introduction the toast master said: "We have with us this evening a gen- - tleman who, if he has not proved that George Washington was the father of . hla country^haa-a* 4«a*t proved that - he tried to be. Mr Rupert Hughes, of Keokuk, Iowa." The more creditable history of the United States Is the history of Its country towns- and the farms surrounding them; cities are* largely commercial necessities coun try town people visit with regret, and, while there, learn bad habits • from their inhabitants. ..v *• • A large number of experts In edu cation lately met in convention and made over the English grammar. The decision of a considerable majority was that to make your meaning clear la the secret of good punctuation, good usage, good speech and good writing. Acft^fdlng to these learned men It Ut all right to say "all right," and the speaker who dares to say "pretty good" Is pretty good. The. old quarrel between “farther" and '‘further" ends In a draw; neither word Is further away from correctness than the other. "Nice" Is welcomed to nice linguistic society. So Is "folks." So Is “Loan me a pencil.* It Is proper now Ho make a date" and "to taxi" to the spot. We are told that a preposition Is a perfectly proper word to end a sentence with. We are advised that we may split the Infinitive all we like If our object in doing so Is to more clearly express our meaning. Arid we may open our sentences with conjunctions. The writer who has spent a lifetime In learning to be nice and refined In his technique will won der, the painstaking* are told, that the old and difficult distinctions between "shall" and "wlM" jare no longer Im portant The copy reader who for years hals patiently changed "provid ing* to "provided" In sentences like 'T will go; providing he stays," will find to his sorrow that* he has wasted his time. An old-fashioned rhetorician coming hotne to the English depart ment from his sabbatical year will find ent kinds of animals, several new to science, have been collected. All these creatures lived during the Pleistocene geologic period, the so- called Ice ages, which extended over approximately 2,000,000 years an<| were marked by alternate advances and recessions of the great glaciers over eastern' North America nearly^ as far. south as Maryland- The remarkable feature of the col lection is the wide variety of crea tures who found this common grave. Some—notably a crocodile-like crea ture, bats, a- tapir And some pec caries—represent families which now are tropical or subtropical Hu. their distribution. Others, such as a wolvqflne . and a lemming mouse, now are confined to high latitudes. Furthermore, some seem to Indicate dryer conditions than others,' al though the greater number of forms are suited 'to a forest environment tures physiologically adapted to such a wide variety of conditions could ever have lived contemporaneously in western* Maryland. In a report as a sort of community tomb over so long a period is unknown. The bones were not arranged In any marked stratification, but werq all mixed to gether. They furnish additional evid ence; however, of the changing tem peratures during the long ages when, so far as Is known, there was no hu- The cave Is located in a cut made by the Western -.Maryland railroad through a limestone ridge about four miles northwest of Cumberland. It was excavated by the late Doctor Gtdley, and study of the bones, now preserved at the National mu^efim, Is being continued by Mr. Gazin. Alto gether they afford one of the best cross-section pictures of life during the Pleistocene yet found In North America. publlsheiTby the late J. Wi Gtdley and C. L. Gazin of the Smithsonian staff, it Is suggested that the Incon sistencies may indicate a period of cave entombment long enough for Impnrtnnfc rlininflr rhnrp^v fr> taken place. They hardly can be due ; Gazin saysrto-a wide variety of topograph ical conditions In the neighborhood— the close assoclatioii^fL&ajmJog^ lands and cold uplands. Study of the "Potomac river and creek levels of the- neighborhood Indicate that during the Pleistocene there was probably / less- topographic relief than Is the case today. ( It Is known that temperatures dur ing the Pleistocene varied widely, with the advances and recessions of the Ice sheet. During the far north- ward recessions the climate of west ern' Maryland mpy nave approached the sub-tropical, whereas during the proached a state comparable to that of northern Canada at present Why the cave should have served Airplanes and Elephants Annoyance at.the nolse-of airplane motors that have recently invaded their territory is given as one of the* reasons for, the noticeable unrest among African elephant herds of late by Capt. R. J. D. Salmon, says the Detroit News. Even trained animals la the; Belgian Congo never become really Indifferent to the sound of gasoline engines, he states, and he . believes It unlikely, that the herds In the Uganda will ever learn to browse peacefully as the'airmail goes overhead. ^ The most significant result Of the unrest now apparent among the AfrT can wild elephant herds is that many of the animals are leaving their fa miliar haunts along the east Nile to seek new feeding grounds to the north aqd south of this area. Pest That Bids Fair lb Exterminate Itself One of the chief pests of Porto Rico Is a large leaf-eating vyeevtl knotrn locally as the “vaqutfa." It normally lays Its eggs between two leaves, thereafter sticking the leaves together, to protect the eggs, with a mucilage so tough that the llttte weevils when ready tp emerge, often have difficulty escaping from their nests. Dr. George N. Wolcott of the Porto Rico Insular experiment station re-, centty announced, according to Sci ence Service, that the beetle likes laying Its eggs between two sheets of paper, and will do so when paper even tn preference to insect's unci lege stidu Is arsllable, even In leaves. The the Sheets so fast together that the young are> totally unable to escape abd hence-are automatically trapped by their parents. This method of control Is being widely used.—Lit erary Digest ■ Fl><( Hole le Peak For years western moun have talked about a "hole In l'moun tain." They said the passage was large enough to Accommodate a- load of hay, and pilots for one of the air lines recently substantiated the re- The flyers (dentlfled the tnn- s’eedle i about 10,000 feet high.—: chanics Magazine. nel as a hole in Needle rock, a peak Igh.—Popular Me- H« eres * Way to ^Simplest a Cold like the civilization of ancient Greece and wifi collapse unless the Hebraic erence for the dignity Of Bai U troduced. Rabbi Milton Hew York predicted. He present-day civilisation pom ied In tellect and brilliance, hot m ouL + -Y-J m (Nature’s Remedy), chronic constipation n change t New p —ireeao*i iroin testfcuU poisons. This a gently stimulates the complete, thorough _ elimination. »*5&aSire.“- Children’s Coughs Need Creomulsion Always get the best, fastest and surest treatment for your child’s cough or cold. Prudent mothers more and more are turning to Creomulsion-for any cough or cold that starts. 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Yon will recall that the great break fast to the Belgians, French, English, Germans, citizens of the Congo, ete, was at onr house, and that the foreign guests are still here. • • • Every reader expects to frequently find In his reading a new message; something to help him along his way. I offer herewith two such message*, but both are old; I know nothing new* for myself; an I know I have read, oc heard others say. My messages of hope are: L By practicing common sense rules of hqalth, a man nay double his efficiency and comfort; double bis chances of honorable suc cess In life; 2. * Practice of the giles of good conduct strengthens and bet ters a man’s braia ; makes him score Intelligent.. %. 191S. JB«U smdlcsu.—WNU 8«rvtWk * - . -I—:r ; Put Mentholatum In nostrils to open them, rub on cheat to reduce congestion. MENTHOLATUM Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes i&k women strong. No alcohol. 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