The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 12, 1920, Image 2

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.Siefajmon, is v rm.on&s^stsyjamoni; &e Es telis-of their. jceat"kindness who could not pay for his ^f^^g^T^ ?.t^fc^r whose amon* them they did not ino w, tans : . ? _ . ti*ve never " ah. utL^ejasaint word "between a ,h>-.wi?e,,$ev.er?seen, a ..child ed tjof-^tt ^d-Tserson trtatij? fn ^te$s|6fe?te affairs Are carried, ec in .an orderly way and &e good behavior of ? children is remarked by practically eTery traveler. &$p|t'.?any:- -thJnjfs .we are the. snperi A:fewrweare T!ie-moral value of some '^eriority ^/siat^ Re can rj^tt^:SRT^!j?/^i^^ cold iB^^^^j^^where .a ^New t:?f^a*e^iiiis jw^er^o?ty the ^Hjfcfc Simt. fie,.Jujs>4ev*J,. &Hift&?B*l *?*lity.,4?rt&6C than line^.-|K<|^^Mlfi^ mfcr*^eif^4o to,his .wlfe;%eiatlec iy/tte^ztitieefct. ?heilt the taulta'ttf *it neighbor% than .any but ie^Oj^c^^tnanks for in -fey-fragmentary Es aim*, .they Were more surprised than i, in .^^^ajpia^s Jand, , fa^tfgtt** km Shiver while others; : v.^-'^tJ ?^^I^?*a&& .clad?' "To . that ^x?5tion: i said 'No,' al ^--^.I^k^'t;^^^'...,. I. was .tfe; .^m4^^^r^ai^Nn^,$oidd *" ,*e t%^i ???siactor fc^ffi, very anxious to try' In* it. :45^M^^^J,^J!W, Was *irti Pub? .and U Still ?o- ^TBc-tntatimM-jtf the Gaaetta de ^-France, v t5fe\4^^ 4*rapaper in; sfef Ifraaee, waa published 2Sfr year* ago, " ^,;4?Jer, jfee^?^Ldi eg, ??00^,, jB^tjSfe T^g^ the ?tziy journalists i medicine, -e^aWished r,%?%^i^iat, ^IsaB^^kw. i^g^ fena^t in ^^^te^'^ee^Ty. and consisted'of two tea lires ;de Q&et? Endroits. fac tor B?oaudofc established the preea o>eaiiJpnr ?rgore^n';BVi^j?r&-?^ reie-_ "'le&c^aud loral^nevrs to i&e thfe,;<^zettej^cto^ei^xuiot opoly of .and se??ig newspapers in 1653 ib& Gazette;^ss$d to his,-sons. :^3^^t|t5?/: ?f G&zrettje ^?e ? 3?ranec: :was, ?:te:ais?; te tae mip^^f ^thej^J^ht ^eenth century, j* has bees published ^^-^t^%^.?ver.^nce,. with; the ^^?i^f.'af.^rie?^pari^d uring "the ittym. of jj^^When the namens ^rily xihanted to Li People ;;i,,|?^pH???. ri^et.cntfer for use in ^QjflliK? at?iel V01*If :aH? 5n- repair ^mpffi. j^e^a^ >f a 10n? barrel, with c^mpi^^Cair' c6?n'ectioii..at one end ajid; a "chisel at the other, the stem .igrylte. .j|?e|ttg' held j&y a > coiled '$jv& yEhkfe .flrawa it ba.?k-aftejr each e^^i. ^ ..pittnger^ trayc^/reely. in the .barrel or tu'^s, ?nd. a small'bypass pipe connects t^^n^s of /,thia tube. T^r? yfijpn .are es?frlo^ed?. ,th'e ?one at "dfe, raar operatrnj; iitlve ^and .the en^r at ti?e; front kesepiinr* the chfeel' against the .rivet,'head.}* The ^Orce. of pie .-Slow can be regulated by. tn^e valve! ?jt jif^ssure of 3? to 'jpoohds may ^;ajie^,;iAe,ni^er^ the ..ra,ore ejtectiye. A ^un.ca. ^can be in .s^eji^in pj[ace jof the ck^ior.rbkckr .i^-eut ^^ivets. In the- irger .size the azsoke r4U>inches, and the.weight of" ,?ie macfejD? ,complete is . only 65 pounds. A smaller afire will cot rireta up to three^thths ef an inch in fliam atar. Whan ?ttUn by a. Mad, Oof. i J^hen;Jjltten by sji ,?yimal vrhat Is j Taa aa.<i, tbVbestjhjm^to do, .accp-j^ia^. to ? Des. J. C.^^aiuami A. Silkraan. ef 5>ew TorJc^ who describe a r,?ca?t^Mta in -Archives of Diagnosis. is ? to, ffaejeze-- .the -wound to c.encoaraige ?W|tt| wash with a ^olntion Of mercuric-ci?cride (1 in I,?60), jOltater ijfe it with fnmiri*. nitric acid, ^nd[ ap ply a w^et !*xessing of the meTcnrlc c*fer& aojurion. Tic wound shouid never be sewn up; ft a ^ep *iin?ttired wougd, it should be tnt i)peji with a ieaJpel. ..^ .. I sooner thi* treatment 4s applied likely it is;to J>efsuccessful. A^erwird the. routine Pasteur treat ment should be taken. fpi ?i lo the .Future. _Jte<?itiy aeaeral airplanes, were mot ing over tite- Circle, and the-usual crowd haS stopped to watch them. An did woman i? ^the crowia be?p*n .rount i?i. "One, two, three, four, flye," she eoty0U*!?fit*st those things;*. jflie^(>4e Jprw&jo t|iej|TDan5nearest ?gkA'^?y^ ^er^see t^Aiker'r.she asked, ?^ve.^tf. ?oae,4ki?|:?.Wiiy, ^?^^jj^.^? atw^fef* win i^ im&lh tHem/'-IadiaaapoIit jreW-B. -WH?RE~M?LE BEATS MONKEY ftimiftft fs C?mparativeiy Helpless in the Water, ss Are Many of the Land Bird*. h\ y*rrj* _ Save yen ever notice*1 * .go!! drop* ping on the sea?how it spreads itf wings high so that the feathers shall not be wetted? If a gull's wing feath ers %tt .wet It cannot rise until they j dry, says ji writer in London Tit-Bits. Throw a mouse mto the water. It I can swim a little, bat as soon as its fur Jb soaked dawn it goes, and drowai. So, too, in the, case of,a rab hiU As soon as Its far is wet it Is datte?r. . A mole cmn,?irim,like-anything, bat a moakey Is very helpless in the water. I Almost, ail land birds drown very rap Ijly if unlu?ky anppgh to fall into the water. They strike out with their legs, reave round tad round Ja a circle, bat cinhotget off the water. Lions and tigers tr? y$ry good.swim a?rs,jmd^j^ the common Spk' ^tred^or the v??t*r. But of all tife cat tribe, tie South American jaguar is jgjfe. %est perf?rmer ja the water... It sjeema often to plunge ia for ma|e jay j?f a swim. A rabbit, as we hare said, drowns as soon as its far Is soaked through, yet cu$eusfr^ougn i$s pear relative, ?re hare, . swiiis ftuite, well, and will i|3^g^c^a^^Mr^?^ hunted.. .....; that usually live far Ironi &5ge sheefs of water, ?and the common rat is no mean perforjwpr. One, of .ijje tot of ^aaimal swimmers ^^f^f^^'j-g^m^^xye been known to swim a riw .nearly a mile wide slarpJy to jret back to their old stables. I)eer, Joo, cat ail swim well. $here are case* .M caribou having .swum across Jakes " ten miles. wide when escaping from forest fires. ALCOHOL &R0WS ON TREES ' ?MB.m V.qutd Chared to Be #ftntlful In Sfoems Which Flourish In Pro fusion in India. ?:/4k^hi^.-^^''im jtos.ntteatS* i^^ig^ttt^.i&t ?Hye$s? itnja. England has -had- ? committee study "ixi the ios^biHties of Increasing the ^i^^iL\\?i:'?X^M to be used In generating power. The opportunity discussed by tfct committee are ipter/^ng., . Of coajj^e, potatoes, artichokes .and- cereals cam* j^.^r^lt^j^ .Bat it seems there are "!eW known sources of alcohol. For ^amnlevthere |s. the flow.er of, th? ??naa tree, - which nnurfshes in Hy d^Mjea^ad the central part of India. This nower, ^hen.snn dried, contains 6 per cent of Its wefiht in fermentr able sugar, and apparently is to be ^ther^a^yViJ? ton. }Tpen ?ere are j'.-tbfe 'jfeitiiejptsee of the coke ovens. They are-s* rich In anrpiises to the everyday man that it is not very start-, ling to learn cani^n ;etnyien>, .which b^^syn^etic processes some what developed .uader the stress of vwar may be converted into ethyl al etnoL With tjie coal ^.bedt? ;-abjMit (jto pro daee 'a!<?ho!, ami the frees of India fairly UossomHg j?Qi it, the man with\a motor car may quiet the fears aroused 4by the scientists'., figures which show iha^t.w?^ii?^ of tue end of petroleum aM.^a^line. There is nothing like being easy in one's mind.?The Nation's Bulletin. American ?Buy* Franklin Portrait . .A jjortrait. of Benjamin Franklin, painted In -Paris in 1778 by Joseph Si frede Duplessis, and showing him as the American ambassador whom Parisians of that period knew, has ar rived in this country, the property of Michael Friedsam, the New York Eve ning Post states. Franklin presented, the portrait to the Freres Perier, en gineers and. owners of the ^Chaillot fire ,ejjiine. when, he left France, and it was from .the Pjerier family , that Mr. Friedsam.purchased it this year. r. The portrait, whose gorgeous frame J ,ef th^e period is carved in the form of a I serpent, is said to be typical of the best,work of Duplessis, who was made ! a member of the academy in 1774, and was later appointed conservator of the museum of Versailles. In Versailles is a street, called Dupiessis, and a statue of him stands in a public square of the city. Only Live Okapi In Captivity. The only lire ?kapi ia captivity has been brought to Antwerp from the Congo. The okapl Is the survivor of a distant ancestor of the giraffe. An a?uJt sraads about five feet high, and although It has the general shape of the, giraffe, Its neck is relatively shorter.a ad its forelegs are not so high in -proportion to the hindquarters. 3'he sides of the animal's head are light fawn color and the general color ation of,the body is a darl. p' rple. The most striking characteristic is that the rump, and the upper part of the legs are transversely, striped wfrh black and white. It was first known in. ;L9C#, having been found in the SemlUu ^forest, haunting low under growth and swamps. Getting On. "How did that actress ever secure an engagement, I wonder?" "ftny, didn't,ypu read about it? She appjied to a u>anager who refused to listen to her .and she shot him. Then she had several offers." She Refuses to Go Dry. 'Xll^say this for the wife." "WTiatr MNywk(Iays she's the oaly thiug left ia the house that still has the same old ! NEED FURNirURE IN GERMANY i .?-? j Problem of Its Supply Has Added Ont More to the Troubles of the Gov ernment. The German .government has so faf been unable, to find any substitute for i furniture, and has aot yet had the temerity, to ask Its subjects to- follow the example cf their Turkish allies and sit on the floor. The result is a I scarcity that has caused second-hand j dealers to reap enormoas profits. ! A second-hand kitchen chair that i formerly cost about 50 cents now sella ! for $5. An old bedstead that used to j sell for $5 now brings $50. Second I hand dealers have scoured the country ! and old tables and chairs have been brought from cellars and garrets, but the demand still outruns the supply and prices already 1,(00 per cent above normal, threaten to go higher. The problem Is likely to become more acute as soon as the war.ends, i Thousands of couples that married j when the men were called into the ! army will wish to establish homes of j their own. The government has pro : vided many houses In advance, -but ! these will be of little use without j furniture. Some urge that the government ! make tne same rule regarding second I hand furniture as is now in force in the old clothes trade";^put the. private dealers out of business, fix lower prices and make it a crime for anyone-to sell the second-hand articles except to the j state. A number of capitalists and furni ture manufacturers hare formed an ! association to .make new furniture and aell it at four per cent above cost on the ^installment plan, reouirlag one third of the purchase price as first pay njent $Tie cost of new furniture, even under this^arrangement,' Is almost jpro hibitive,l)ecause of the scarcity of ma terials and the high wages..of labor. TAUGHT INSECTS TO THINK Remarkable ^ct of Scientist That Hardly Seems Worth the Time It Must Have Taken. Jahn W. Coghlin has demonstrated ^F^ ^ti'ence and perseverance will accomplish, and hasalso exploded the old-time theory that it was impossible to teach insects^ t# understand the hu man vplca.and.actioa. Some timejsince. he had the gobd fortune to discover a hill 4f XtaSagascar neuroptera, or marching. Tants? ? aays the Pittsburgh Press. -They were about the size of the ;t^|n?ft Jane hag and of a dirty I %own.^.co)or^iV?,,JbLe says that they I are. nanierpns .-fli India and Sqath Af-j I rica?that he. can account for finding ! a hill ot them in Maine by being. i brought there on some vessel. Mr. I ? Co^ghlin invited^Bome of his friends to! ! Us ..camp at Patten's Ppad, where be' j amused them, by puttiBg:,the neurop .teraans 4as;he;called 'them) through a; I course oi-iBprouts. The way he caused j the little army to go through their evolutions was a marvel to all pres eat Marching by twos and by fours, j over inclines and bridges made ^of j toothpicks, with the regularity of i trained .troops, he finally caused them to break ranks ,hy lighting a match j before the leaders. Hesays that arrl flcial light will confuse them; there fore^they can be made to perform only in daylight. National Prayer Days.. ! v The :first time the people of the TJnit j ed States were called upon to observe i j a day of national prayer was May 9, j j 1798, by proclamation of President j John Adams. A controversy had aris-j j en hetween this country and France: aad all Americans were called uponi ! to pray for a continuation of peace. I .In . 1815, when the Uaited States was about to/make war on, Algiers, Pres ident Madison proclaimed a day of Iffayer. .J^ring. the_Civll war three presidential proclamations were issued | appointing days of prayer, for. peace. In i860 the authorities called upon the people to pray for Lincoln, and in ISSt President Arthur proclaimed a day of j prayer to mark the burial of President i Garfleld. In the autumn of 1914 Pres ident "Wilson issued his proclamation 1 for prayers on "Peace Sundays." Shoveling Out Gas. Weighing considerably more than the atmosphere, the poisonous gases employed in modern warfare always seek lower levels. Thus the gas clouds penetrate trenches and deep dugouts, and in most cases it Is a matter of ! many hours .before they become sufli i cientiy diluted with the atmosphere to I permit of safe breathing. So the mat ter resolves. itself Into a problem of driving the. poisonous fumes out of j the trenches and underground shelters, 1 or at least thinning them out until the air Is again made safe.. For this reason American soldiers now in. France literally "shovel" poi sonous . fumes out of their trenches. Attached to a shovel is a sort of can vas scoop or "flapper" which permits the men to heave the heavy gases over the-parapets and beat the fumes and dissipate them in the surrounding air.?Scientific American. Not Dangerous. "While you were out . west did you meet with any typical bad meu ?" "I should say so! I spent a week in a camp full of the toughest customers you ever saw?real cowboys who spent most of their time firing pistols and careering on their bronchos at break neck speed." "Didn't you tremble for your life?" "I was a trifle uneasy at first, but when I Gaw how a motion picture di rector bullied those fellows I plucked up considerable courage," I _._ ' DIDN'T KNOJrV CURiJNG IRON Easy to Understand That Youthful Member of Chicago Jury Was Not a MarKed Man. Every man knows what a curling j Iron is, but does every man know ! whether or not a curling iron is a deadly weapon? The question whs raised in Judge Gucrin's court in Chicago recently in the Otto Mathis murder trial. Otto said he stabbed his brother, Edward, I when Edward attacked, him with a j?iiing iron, which lie thought a dan gerous weapon. The judge ruled a de scription of the implement was unnec essary, as everybody knew what it was. "Sure, I know," one spectator whis pered to another. "A curling iron Is one of those hot things that burn your fingers when you are fumbling around among the things on your wife's dress ing tabk" "It locks like a pair of scissors with wooden handles," said the other. ?*And it's deadly, too.", a woman whispered. "Mazie got hers too hot the other night and the way .it killed a lot of her hair was a caution." fortunately," another woman an swered, "the curling iron hath no mis eries that peroxide cannot cure." Assistant State's .Attorney Daniel JRamsay insisted there might be single men on the jury. The judge glanced knowingly at the jurors. The young est looked bewildered. So Judge ! Guerin ordered a description of the weapon supplied. The youngest juror appeared relieved when, he heard what It was. WORK FOR HIGH EXPLOSIVES French Scientist Suggests Their Use in the Reclamation of War Devastated Orchards. ??? , The vigorous growth of wild plants | about shell holes has suggested to M. I Andre Piedallu a novel plan for quick ly restoring war-devastated orchards. The vigor of the weeds is attributed partly to the Sssuring of the soil by the sheil-fireaud partly to nitrogenous substances introduced, and in the pro posal to ?ie French Academy It is concluded that an ideal orchard soil could ^e produced by breaking up the rougb surface, with dynamite in such X,way that fertilizing material would Tie driven into the soil. The fertilizer would be compressed in .paper or celluloid casesraroundflinders of the explosive, which would, be. fired by a fulminating charge. .Holes for the cartridges about two feet deep would be bored with a stick or iron rod, and In the spherical cavity about 30 Inches deep produced by the explosion, the young tree would be placed and cov ered with the fertilizer-charged soil. Perhaps fome of the enormous stores ! of high explosives left over from the I war could be utilized iu this way. A suggestion already made is that the United States could put to use some of Its 50,000,000 or 100,000,000 tons of TNT for reclaiming arid deserts, Irri gating ditches being dug and roads graded by firing trains of the explo 'sive placed along the surface. .. .. - . Dog Got the Rabbit. Exploration ef caves in South Berk I sbire, Conn., resulting in the discovery of stalactites and stalagmites, big white spiders weaving their webs, hats in crusted in the crystals and a subma rine brook, made Jack Newboy of Len oxdaie recall the day that he went rabbit hunting in the Patterson, woods. Newboy's dog chased a rabbit into ja cave. Jack waited outside for re j suits. :He waited two hours, called the j dog, and, getting no results, went home. He found the dog was at home and had the rabbit. Pat, his brother, explained: ? "I was fishing on a lake not far from the shore when I. heard a comrao ! tion in the water near by and was sur i prised to see a rabbit in the water. As I reached the spot the dog came to j the surface, swam after the rabbit and j captured him."?New York World. -? In Daddy's Heart. At Sunday school Dorothy's teacher I attempted to explain to the children about keeping iheir hearts clean and filled with certain desirable qualities, j She urged them to think seriously ! about what they had in their hearts, j Dorothy's hand went up. The teacher j gave her permission to speak. ! "My daddy has nutpicks In his I heart" Now the teacher was sufficiently in- j terested in the .psychology of the thing to go to the mother for the explana tion. Dorothy had recently attended a wedding with her parents. When they were looking at the wedding pres ents her mother had laughingly turued to daddy and said: j "John, I wish you would open up your heart and ffive me a handsome set of nutpicks like these." Plagues Not Related. H. Do Brun (Bulletin de I'Acade mle de. Medicine), having had several years' experience in Syria with plague, including an epidemic of pneumonic plague, protests against the view that pneumonia following influenza maybe rotated to the eastern disease. . In pneumonic plague the cough is charac terized by a quiet, spasmodic expira tion, repeated continuously for long periods every ten to thirty seconds, and might be. termed a "whispering cough." Instead of the optimism frequentl:? manifested on the day before floats In influeu'.a there is a distressing con sclni;?i:..ss of Impending death In tin pneumonic plague patient. Nearly all cases of the latter plague end fatally ^ P POSTSCRIPTS HI r A sand-sprinkling device forisllppery ?ttc-ets, which can be attached to etreet-sw . iping machines, has, been In dented by a Californian. A sailor saved the lives of girls In a fire by climbing along the telephone wires. That's probably the best photte service they ever received. The New Zealand government is planning to drain two areas.of sKvamp land, containing .600,000 and "65,000 acres, respectively, and convert them Into grazing land. To prevent waste otf fuel in smoke an inventor has developed an attach ment for furnaces w?iich introduces heated air to mingle with the coal gases and effect complete combustion*. To save amateur photographers fnbm making double exposures a camera, at tachment has been invented which pre vents a shutter being opened until an exposed portion of film has been moved along. Operated by a 40-horse power kero sene motor, a self-propelled thrasher has been invented which, .as it travels across a field, pours grain into an ac companying wagon and deposits the straw In windrows. The government of Switzerland, de cided in favor of the single-phase sys tem for electrifying its railways in preference to the third rail because it cost lO'per cent less to make the change in equipment Concrete is prepared much, more rapidly than ordinarily with a new mixer that has a set of six . buckets parallel with the length of the' drum and curved wing's running from each alternate bucket to the outlet POINTED PARAGRAPHS As a woman sews, so shall her hus band rip. The chiropodist believe* in tight shoes?for others. Actions speak louder than wocGs when deif mutes talk. Women wouldn't be so talkative if they only spoke their minds. Crooks understand the art of ?at* ting out of financial straits. A locomotive engineer dreads a mis placed switch; a naughty boy doesn't Most men are cheerful givers when they have a chance to hand out ad vice. It's awfully hard for a woman to ooanage her home to the satisfaction of the hired girl. When a woman's husband is the Object of conversation, she isn't in ta position to say what she, really thinfck ?Chicago Daily News. DO YOU KNOW THAT? f Falling snow practically de stroys sound? Cold weather Is the best time for mental work? . Loose clothing Is much warm er than tight clothes? S The water of ? river in win ? ter is several degrees warmer % than the air? jr The best meat to eat in cold a- weather is mutton? owing to its , [t high heating value? ^irhiitii irtrtrU ttixtt'trtrtriiirirtti REMARKABLE REMARKS* The earth is good enough for.* me.? John R. Rockefeller. It Is a mistake to marryv a great man.?Elsie Ferguson. The professional politician is a liv ing lie.?Henry Wattersbn. What most women need is a hus band and not a vote.?Mrs. Francis ?. Day. My idea of a successful business is to have it well heeled with cash.? Henry Ford. Dishwashing is not drudgery if your mental attitude is right?Mrs. Ida C Allen. Kings are not born; they are made by universal hallucination.?George Bernard Shaw. ARKANSAS THOMAS SCATS Some people seem to. fool enough people all the time to keep in the swim. When joy and sorrow come dose to us it is a wise man who can teil the one from the other. We have just printed a card for a local hotel which reads: "You can help save fuel by turning off your|$s." Yes, and you can also help save food by shutting off your meUls. A Hot Springs, man has just about ;<?ne bro!:e trying to support a touring ?sir ?ml a family large enough to ill it Keep. Your Liver Ae&ve, ^0lir System Piaifisd as&i?^;? .aa Colds by Taking C?atabs, the Nauseal'ess Calemel Tafetets, that are De lightful,. Safe and Sure. ? Physicians and Druggists are advis ing their friends to keep their .systems purified and their organs in perfect working order as a . protection against the return of influenza. They know that a clogged up system and a lazy liver favor colds, influenza and serious complications. - To cut short a cold overnight-and to prevent serious complications take one Calotab.at bedtime with a swallow:of .ttaterrr-that a all. No salts, no nausea, no griping, no sickening after effects. Next morning your eold has. vanished, .your Jiveivis- active, your system is -puri fied and refreshed and you are feeling ?fine with a hearty appetite for break fast. Eat what yon please?no danger. Calotabs. are gold only ia original sealed packages, price thirty-five eents. Every druggist is authorized to r^und your money if you arc not perfectly delighted with . Calotabs.--iA.dv,) '. Beginning of Great Irrtlustry. Plymouth was the ,first ^ernjaaent white settlement ia ^ew. England and dates its founding from the landing of . the Pilgrims, December .31, .102O. 'The iron works on the-banks- of-the Saugus river, established in 1643^ were the first iron works in America.- -? small iron pot cast there in the first forge in America is now the properly of the city of Lynn and is in a glass ease in the Lynn public Horary* _ ? rr. * The Industrious Bee. The bee has two distinct stomachs. Jin the first it stores away the honey from the flowers untjl such time as it Is ready to yield it up, while the other stomach is used simply and rsoleiy for^estion ^q?oses. When the.bee Is ready to. deposit the nanny It con tracts the muscles of the stomach and the honey is ejected through' the mouth. a It Does, and Jumps! The fame of acrobats.. ought, to jn .crease by leaps and bounds.?Gartoen? Magazine. It' 5> To Dry Narrow-Necked Bottle. In order to remove the last-few drops of Trater; which remain -after washing and draining a narrow-neeke? bottle, dry the fiat on the. ni^uta~and then hold the bottle upside down un de? cold water running from the tap. In about half.,a minute dry..the- bttt ,side .pf the bottle and .. examine -tfce inside, when it w?l be ?ound perfectly dry, ? Crocodile's Record Swim. ... How far can a crocodile swim? Pop haps it would be more practical tc ask how |ac.crocodiles do swim? J. Stanley Gardiner claims -the record for a crocodile (Grocodilus porosus) that recently landed in the ^iji is lands, where he took its photograph. No crocodiles of this t^cies inhabit the Fiji Islands, and the nearest spot ? where they are known to live is the Hebrides, 683 miles distant Therefore, this crocodile must have awam S8S miles ia the open sea. Green Always Harmonious. . The professional mixer of painti knows that .fierce color discord .car easily be- created hy a misplacing. *m green. But nature never misplaces It ; Even blue stands without tying, cheel .bj cheek with nature's greens. Lark spurs and lobelias .g? quietly arm is arm with their respective foliage.: -Any rose of any tiat...or .color is .hest Bel off by a green rose leaf.. Every spring or fall color, pale .or florid, w?f. shade pleasantly Into green on the very sftm* leaf, m:-? _ The Brute. PoppertoJi?"The wife.. has .?oa? topping and left me in charge of. the baby, and Pm .blest if I know how-Jo v keep the beggar .quiet" )6rimshaw (after critically yarding the fcowHng }ureaile)-r."I should think you confcl easily keep him quiet, both In a vocal snd physical way, hy gn&i^g Wm care fully, tymg ^jaands behind llsfbacij^ Oindlng his feet together, nailing his clothes to the floor, and then adminis tering chloroform to him." Mountains of the Moon. . .. The "Mountains of the Moon** w$9 \ a name given by ancient writers to ,a \ range in the interior of Africa, cflat ram'ng the source of the River Nile. They were conceived afterwards- as traversing Africa from east to west. These ancients knew next to nothing ; abouc ?he interior of Africa, and their "mountains of the mopa nave disap peared from modern maps. Had Origin in America. There has been much controversy Aver the song, "Tha Red, White and Blue," but tie logical . conclusion is that the English adapted their wortls from the American song, which was written by_Xhomas A. B'ecket, an Eug ?Ishrsan, after he had . made America tls home. Before this song was writ ten, in 1800, no similar version was -'nowa In Enrlftnd,