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Stones Found in Nevada Seem to Have
a Distinct Aversion to Being
Separated.
In Nevada are found curious mineral
specimens known as "sociable
stones." No better name could be
given them, since wiien a few are distributed
over a level door two or three
feet apart they will begin to move
toward one another to a common center
with an alacrity that is ludicrous.
Campers tirst noticed these stones.
They had used wrapping paper for a i
tubleclotl) and weighted the corners i
with some of the stones sfffead over
the level top of a boulder. A few mt. |
ments later one of the men noticed
that the paper was flapping In the
breeze and that the four or five stones
were huddled in a group in the middle j
of the paper like a nest full of eggs.
He thought the wind wus responsible, |
straightened them and added more
stones.
I The next time he looked around the
stones were back in the heap again.
Once more he replaced the stones and
I sat down to watch them. They began
;o roll and hitch along toward one an- i
other again until they were in a pile. 1
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| Egyptian Women Prospering.
The fellaheen of Egypt, for cenJ
turles the most Ignorant and improvident
of serfs, has ridden into prosperity
on the tidal wave of reconstruction,
and with him his long-suffering wife. (
Still, as In the days of Christ, one may
' see him on his donkey, while his wife,
, with her heavy burden on her head,
, trudges behind. Yet there Is a real, if
invisible change in their relations.
! Through the sudden rise in the price
. of cotton from $20 to $100 a kantar :
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housewife has been enabled to make ]
j long-neglected purchases and has been
| enabled to display her native shrewdness
In bargaining and financial matters.
It is she who markets all tha
products of the farm.
"Who Wrote It?"
When Demetra Vaka, author of ]
"Haremllk" and "In the Shadow of 1
Islam," first came to America she was
governess for a year to the two little 1
grandsons of J. Fenimore Cooper. ,
The children had been brought up ,
[ with the utmost reverence for their ^
famous grandfather, and had uncon- (
sclously Imbibed the belief that all the
world's best literature was the offspring
of his pen.
Something was said In the elder 1
boy's hearing one day about one of the '
books of the Bible, with some reference
to Its authorship, and the bey ^
looked up at his governess with a ]
startled face. ;
"Who wrote the Bible?" he dems.n<led,
as one whose first faith has be?n j
shaken.
Demetra Vaka explained as best as :
she could '' jut the various books, arid
the boy sighed, still a bit incredulous. :
"I aways thought," he said slowly, |
"that grandfather wrote it" ?
Wher^th? Fault Lay.
As the Irish police recruit strolled ]
along on his first turn of night duty, <
loud yells of "Fire" rent the air. Fie J
bolted quickly to the spot, and found <
a house well alight, with a man half J
hanging out of an upstairs window. <
"Help! Help!" he yelled. "If I J
Jump, will you catch me?' 1
"Sure, an' Oi will!" replied the po- J
llceman readily.
So the man Jumped, only to crash to ,
the ground and lie there stunned. '
When, a few minutes later, he recnv
ered consciousness, he looked up at
the constable reproachfully, and mir- (
mured feebly: J
"I thought you said you could catch <
me?" |
"Begorrah!" replied the Irlshm in.
"Ol was only waiting for yez to
bounce, an' Ol'd have had yezt"?
London Answers.
Joined the Army. %
A private In the quartermaster's
corps at Camp Pike decided that he
would 6ooner be In a more active
branch of the service, so asked for and
received a transfer to the artillery.
I After bidding him good-by, his bunkmate
hung a service flag with one star
In front of their barracks. On being
asked what it all meant he said: "Our
uoe has Joined the army."
Cured.
The author of "Trivia" writes:
"What a bore It is waking up in the
morning always the same person." We
had often fretted over this, until the
shudder-glvlng thought struck us that
we might wake up some morning and
find ourself the kaiser. And it would
be just our luck to be Bill on the day
of retribution.?Boston Transcript
Guns on Airplanes.
One of the inventions of the great
war was the art of shooting a machine
gnn through the propeller of an airplane
without danger of hitting the
"? kio^oc tk<? French aviator.
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Roland Garros, was reported to be
the first man to employ this device,
which was used by hundreds of air
fighters throughout the war. Before
that time the machine gun was
mounted above the aviator so as to
fire over the propeller blades. Machine
guns may also be mounted In a 1
revolving turret or In the rear of the ;
airplane. The Browning machine gun j
will fire 20,000 shots at the rate of 600 j
per minute.
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Pottery.Maklng Simplified.
An inventor has patented an electrically
driven machine which makes |
the rcusrb clay boxes in which pottery
Is subjected to heat in kilr.s, work
heretofore done slowly by hand.
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Is the Negro Dying Out?
(Charleston News & Courier)
Some time ago, at the time census
figures for the country by races
were published, The News and Courier
called attention to the fact that these
figures disclosed a net gain in population
for the South of 3,586,107
whites during the decade as against
only 162,832 negroes. In other words,
for every neirro added to the oodu
lation of the South between 1910 and
1920, there were added 22 white persons.
It was shown further that with
a total negro population of 10,463,013
tne net gain in negro population for
the last census decade had been only
half as great as the gain between
1890-1900, and that it had been smaller
by over 135,000 than the not gain
between 1810-1850, when the total negro
population was only 3,638,808.
So rapid and progressive has been
the decline in the rate of increase of
negro population in the past thirty
years that The News and Courier was
moved in the article, referred to to
ask: "Is the negro in America dying
out?" The same question is now raised
by .the Raleigh News and Observer
which declares that "records of the
United States census together with
records from the Registry of Vital
Statistics maintained by the State
Board of Health of North Carolina indicate
that the answer may be affirmative."
The Raleigh newspaper de
clares that in North Carolina the ratio
of negro population in the State has
been declining slowly but steadily for
the past forty years and that there is
now "a wide gap between the net gain
per thousand white population and the
net gain per thousand negro population
annually."
North Carolina was one of the first
Stages in the Soyth to inaugurate records
of births and deaths for negroes
and while these records date back only
five years their value is already apparent.
For last year they show that
the white birth in North Carolina was
333 per 100,000 against the negro
birth rate of 318 per 100,000 a margin
af 15 per 100,000 in favor of the
whites. On the other hand the death
rate per 100,000 white people in North
Carolina last year was 116 whereas
the death rate among negroes per 100)00
was 189, the death rate among the
negroes per 100,000 being 63 per cent
nigher than that among the whites.
The net gain in births over deaths by
whites was 217, whereas the negro
population showed a net gain of only
L49 per 100,000 of population.
"Pursued mathematically," says The
News and Observer, "the continuation <
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of the widening ratio of racial divisions,
the decli'ic ill reduce the negro
population to less than 15 per cent of
the whole within the next 100 years,
and will carry it to the vanishing point
within two centuries. Many conditions
enter into the situation that cannot
be reckoned with until they develop,
but figured on a mathematical basis
alone, the figures are apparently
against the permanency of a negro
population in the South."
Perhaps the most interesting statement
in The News and Observer's
article is the assertion that in North
Carolina, where tuberculosis has received
more attention than elsewhere
in the South, it has not been found possible
thus far to check the ravages of
this disease among the colored people.
"The unfavorable death rate among
negroes in the State," The News and
Observer says, "is believed to be due
to inferior resisting powers of their
race for certain dis^asees chat are
prevalent in this country. Tuberculosis,
for instance, kills 260 negroes
per 100,000 every year in North Carolina,
while only 99 white people die
from that cause. The contention that
living conditions among blacks are
unfavorable in the treatment of tuberculosis
is apparently answered in
experiments that have placed whites
and blacks under the same institutional
care with the result that the
ratio of deaths is maintained."
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Send the Cash.
When sending in for publication in
The County Record notices of hot
suppers, box parties or other entertainments
given for the purpose of
raising money, also obituaries and
cards of thanks don't fail to lot
the cash accompany same. We positively
will not "charge" such notices.
The price is 10 cents the line.
You count six words to the printed
line and enclose money or stamps with
notice. If such notice is not accompanied
by the money it will go direct
to the waste basket, and we have an
extra large one for the purpose. This
same rule applies to advertisements
to be inserted in our "special" or
"want" column and to obituaries. If
you can't send the money for this
class of advertising save your stamps,
time and stationery. Minumum price
twentv-five cents. tf.
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Dying Millionaire Had What Might Be
Called a "Rehearsal" in Hla
Bedroom. . ,j J
When Mr. Parker Mason, a shrewd .
and level-headed millionaire of the
United States, was on the point of
dying a few years ago he conceived the
quaint Idea of having a rehearsal of
his own funeral service In his bedroom.
He called in a Presbyterian
minister, and h few members of the
church choir, and the full service was
rehearsed in his presence and that of
his family and a number of his friends.
The clergyman preached an eloquent
and touching sermon on the virtues
and charities of the dying man, and
the choir sang appropriate hymns. At
the ennHnstnn nf the service, which
the millionaire had followed with ,the
closest Interest and attention, he warmly
complimented both clergyman and
choir on their performance, and after
dismissing them sent for an undertaker
and made the necessary arrangements
with him and had a personal Interview
with th( pall-bearers. He died
ten hours later, and was burled with
the same service to which he bad listened
when alive.?Montreal Herald.
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