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Young had been called out of town and the case was postponed. “1 have heard so mupch about di vorces,” said the young woman, “that 1 just couldn't resist the temptation of coming to Manhattan and learning something about them.” Levees at East Waco .. . . Failing; 2,000 in Peril WACO, TEXAS 'May 30—The Brazos River at this point is at the point of breaking through the levee which protects Wast Waco, a portion of this city, with a ‘population. of some 3,000 people, 2,008 of whom live in the districts which flood when the river is out of its banks. Rains in Central and North Texas have been practically continuous for days. Government experts stated ' that they expect the river to break over the levee during the night. Dog Gets Medal for Saving Another Dog PORTLAND, OREG., May #B.—For saving the life of another dog & bronge hero medal was awarded te Buck, an English bulidog, by the Oregon Humane Society 10-day. This Is the first time a medal has been presented by the &o clety to a dumb animal. ; i Several weeks ago Buck's dog com panion, Ted, while swimming in the Willamette River, became exhausted. He sank twice before Buck reached him and dragged him out by the ear. Wife Refuses Kiss; He Bites Her Lip PHILADELPHIA, May 28 —Re fused a kiss by his wife, Annie Car ney, 23 vears old, when he was about to ileave their home at Twellth and lLombard streets, William Carney, 25 years old, became angry aand bit a piece ut of her lip. Her condition was so serious that she was removed to the Pennsylvania Hospital, where physicians treated her wounds. Camden Chosen for Sen. Bradley's Place FRANKFORT, KY, May 36.—John son M. Camden, of Woodford Coun ty, will be appointed United States Senator June 16 by Govermor Mc- Creary to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Senator W. O. Bradley. Mr. Camden will accept the ap pointment and will also be a candi date for the short term in the Senate which ends March 4, 1915, THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIETS :-: Mysteries of Science :-: By GARRETT P. SERVISS » “Please give a million readers a‘word picture of the following : “Imaginc an endless railroad track encircling the carth. “How can ome conceive of a train following swuch a track and not: being upside down when it rveaches the opposite side of our globe? “f, for omec, can't think of i 3 being in any other position there.” DON'T know why s 0 many or- I derly minded people, in aa 77 'lgye that has iavented teie phones, wireless telegraphy, au tomotiles and flying machines, and that has hung flags on both of the poles, should continue to befuddie their brains over the antique_ conundrum newly set forth above., One might suspect that the fault ‘lay with the pri mry schools if one were not aware of the strange indisposi ‘tion of 'most human beings to take liate serious consideration anything so far from the ends of their nases as is the center of the earth If 'you will simply concentrate your attention on the center of the earth,'!be puzzie will undo itaelf like a trick knot. What do “up” and “down" mean in ordinary every-day lan guage? “Up” means away from the earth, toward the sky, or overhead; "down” means just the opposite, viz, toward the earth, away from the sky, or under foot. Gravitation Controls It. Both are based upon common experience of what is learnedly called “gravitation,” but which may more simply aad pictur esquely be described as falling down. Any body that is not held up will fall down toward the earth. 80 much we ail know from infaney, Now comes the scientific view of the matter, When a body falls down, as we say, what does it really do? It is not enough to say that it approaches the earth; if we wish to be accurate, we must say that it approaches THE CENTER of the earth. The earih is & globe, and its gravitation, or power to attract bodies toward it, is focused at its center. But if down means toward the earth's <center, what happens when ' that center is reached? Does the direction “down™ con tinue on beyond the center? Man ifestly not, because, from .the very nature of a globe all straight lines drawn from its surface to its center must come together at the center, and when they have reached the center they have gone as far “down” as they can. The center of the earth, then, is the BOTTOM, and there can be noth ing lower. ‘Up” means away from that center, IN ANY Dli- RECTION WHATEVER, and “down” means toward that cen ter, FROM ANY DIRECTION WHATEVER. Up may extend to infinity, but down, counted from the earth's surface, is limited to the length of the earth’s radius, about 4,000 miles Plumb Line an Instance. This can be illustrated in an other way. Suppose you take a string and tie a lead ball on one end, Then hold the other end in your uplifted hand. The ball will stretch the string straight toward the earth’s center, and our lit tle apparatus becomes that very useful thing called a piumb-line. Now imagine your arm to grow to an indefinite length, and a hole to open in the earth so that you can reach down into it and con tinue to suspend your plumb-line at gradually increasing depths below the surface. You can keep on reaching lower and lower, and the ball of lead will continue to hang away from you until you have stretched your arm beyond the earth’s center. Then there will come a change in the posi tion of the ball. As long as it was between »ou and the center of the earth it hung “down” (in your sense), but when the center of the earth is between you and the ball the latter will hang “up” (in your sense), or toward you. In reality, of course, it always hangs toward the center of the earth, and its reiative change of posi tion when it has gone beyond the center simply shows that it has passed the BOTTOM and is rising again. Suppose you could drop straight through the earth, keeping your head and feet always in the same relative direction, and could come out on the other side in the pres ence of a pagan stauding in his normal attitude. He Would Stand Upright. Do you believe that you could convince him that he was up end down and that you were right end up? With your head con gested with blood you would not have the impudence to try it Remember simply that the cen ter of the earth is the bottom, from whatever part of the sur face it is regarded, and you wiil bave no difficulty in perceiving that your world-encircling rail road (although it forms a ring like a caterpillar bent into a cir cle, with all his feet on the in side) is yet, both philosophically and scientifically, right side up all the way round. . Saulsbury Has Bill To End Railway Evils WASHINGTON, May 30.—A solu tion for the railroad section of the anti-trust legislative problem offered in a bill by Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, attracied wide interest in the Capita! to-day. The bill would, require that the meetings of buards of directors of in terstate carriers shall bes ‘publicly held, would terminate the abuse of fiscal agents for railroads by requir ing that all securities issued be duly advertised and sold to the highest bidders under rules adopted by the Interstate Commission, would requirs all supplics purchased by the rail roads to be purchased of the lowest bidder, and would prohibit the adver tising expenses of railroads going be yond a reasonable zmount. Law Suspended to Save Halfwit Child WASHINGTON, May 23.—The De partment of Labor has cancelled tha warrar.t for the deportation of Ra phazl Progrebinsky, aged 9, so as to permit tha child to stay in the United States with his mother and brother The mother and her two sons arrived a year ago to join her husband, all of them having been expelled by the Russian authorities from Samarkant, Turkestan. Six months afterward Raphael's school-teacher reported himn feeble minded, and the warrant for deporta tion followed. The father committed suicide. The warrant was finally cancelled on account of the peculiar hardship involved. ' Buys Ticket Which Carries Own Corpse SELMA, ALA., May 30.—William T. Crane this afterncon bought rail road tickets for himself and family for passage from Selma to Meridian, Miss. A few minutes later he fell dead from a heart attack. His ticket was used to-night to convey his body cn the same train he had expected to travel. Crane is survived by a widow and four children, Receiver Appointed For State Mutual ROME, May 30,—Sproull Fouche, president of the Citizens Bank, wa3d appointed temporary receiver of ihe State Mutuaal Life Insurance Company this afternoon by Judge A, A. Fite, of Cartersville. The petition was filed by W. F. Walton, of Thomasville. Officials of the company deny insolvency and are preparing a statement for publica tion. Volunteers to Feed 1,000 Poor at 'Cue More than 1,000 working women and children of Atlanta will be (he guests of the Volunteers of America at a picnic and barbecue at Grant Park July 4. Staff Captain J. C'harles Barlar, managing the local post, has addressed an appeal to the public, asking for coatributions toward the euting,