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THTOKPAT, OCTOBER 27, 1921
WORKED BtNtA in inttAnih
Discovery in Jerusalem Solvet Much
of Mystery Connected With Kino
Solomon's Temple.
flow often great discoveries spring
from irifling Incidents! The trite re
flation conies to mind naturally <>n
hearing how the quarries of King Sol
onion were found. Ir. Allen Moore
for 17 years a resident of Palestine,
tells the curious tale.
For many many years, says Doctor
Moore, travelers and archeologists
were puzzled to know where the enor
mous blocks of stone still standing in
the ruins of Solomon s temple at Jeru
salem were quarried. One day a lit
tle dog chased a lizard down a hole
among the debris. The next Instant
the dog also disappeared.
His master, coming to the opening,
peered down in vain. He called, and
to his amazement his voice came hack
as from great depths, lie summoned
assistance, and a passage was opened
Into Immense subterranean quarries
There were found huge masses of
stone almost ready to he hoisted
above ground.
"And don’t you remember," asks
Doctor Moore, “that we are told In
our Blldes that the temple was built
without sound of saw or of hammer?
The fact that the quarry man worked
underground partly explains that."
Vpon some of the stones were found
Inscriptions that perplexed the explor
ers until one scholar pronounced them
Phoenician. The stones were wrought
by some of that army of workmen sent
by King Hiram of Tyre to aid King
Solomon in bis task. —Youth’s Com
panion.
GROUSE LIVES LIKE ESKIMO
In Cold Weather the Bird Find* a
Safe and Warm Ratrcat
in Snow House.
In the tcinperHic month 8 the grouso
has nn excellent choice of food con
eluting of a great variety of berries,
small fruit, seeds, buds, clover, beech
nuts, grasshoppers and a multitude of
young, tender leaves. In the winter
one wonders at their survival; for
now the fall flight of the robins com
pletely exhausts the berries, which
were wont to linger and ripen well
tnto winter, compelling the grouse to
depend largely upon yellow birch
buds, with many a forced meal on an
evergreen.
Fortunately, whenever the tempera
ture is far below zero the sky is usu
ally clear and the grouse are active
and unconcerned, but if the days and
nights are dark and cold or the air
tilled with merciless pellets, they have
the habit of plunging into deep snow
drifts, where a foot below the surface
the heat and weight of the body form
a globular retreat, In which they re
main comfortably until t tie storm
clears or hunger forces au exit.
Sometimes In winter or the early
spring there may come a ruin or a
WHrm day ttutt melts the surface snow
followed by severe weather, and then
thousands of grouse sre Imprisoned
and the heretofore safe retreat be
comes their tomb, should weeks pass
by before the seal Is broken. —Na-
tional Geographic Magazine.
Who Made the Alphabet?
If It takes a genius to make great
words, it was also a genius who made
the alphabet which makes the words.
The pedigree of our alphubet can be
traced continuously for nearly 3,000
years, and then comes a hiatus, says a
recent writer. The genesis of writing
must naturally be sought In pictures
Caveman, when he painted his women
or beasts on rock walls, or carved elks
and elephants on antlers and tusks,
was laying the foundations of one of
the great human inventions. Behind
all this apt artistic effort we must see
some esoteric motive, for It was not
due merely to the striving of the crea
tive soul after expression. Doubtless,
adds our authority, when caveman held
an exhibition of Ids works, his friends
praised the ingenuity and beauty of
his pictures, hot there Is something
more than the desire of simple repro
duction hidden In his handiwork.
Down on the Farm.
A young man spending a vacation
was walking about the country lanes
In an endeavor to hide from himself
entirely all town life or anything
which reminded him of town life.
Chancing across a country postman,
he stopped him and asked what time
It was.
Pulling out his watch, the postman
deliberately replied:
“It's four o'clock in the afternoon
by the railway time."
“By railway time!" ejaculated the
young man. "I should say that you
country folk, living In the open air. In
the heart of the country, as you do.
would take your time from the sun.’ -
“What for?” asked the rural post
man. “Bean’t we much closer to the
railway—even If It he 12 miles —than
we he to the sun?"- Hehoboth Sunday
Herald.
Wyl Island Homs.
The original home of the Paca fam
ily on Wye Island, Queen <nne county,
passed at a recent sale of the estate
of William B Paca, the last male de
scendant of Governor William I’acH.
to an owner not connected with the
family, for the first time since long
before the Revolutionary war. The
Wye Hall farm of 367 acres, with the
Paca mansion, brought $64.30 an acre,
the purchaser being John Klnnamon.
Governor Paca, one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence, und
Inter a federal judge. Is hurled near
the farm. —Ceutrevl!le Observer.
ENGINE OF PUBLIC SERVICE
Newspaper Today Not, as of Old, the
Mouthpiece of Any Individual
or Party.
Not so many years ago a newspa
per waa a printing press surrounded
by a group of individuals chiefly con
cerned in getting their own private
theories or doctrines before their
readers.
Today the newspaper is an engine
of public service. Its success finan
cially and morally la measured by
the degree In which it supports not
a party but the people.
Those today who have a Twentieth
century ideal of achievement separate
the newspaper from the Individual and
make it first and foremost an organ
of public service built by the pwople
for the people. The Journal which
most nearly fulfills ita highest pur
pose is that which is Indistinguish
able in policy from the natural trend
of progress and march of liberty and
free thought.
Political prizes were the aims ef
the old-time editor. His policies were
based on his own party Interests and
he discussed every public question
with a ferocity and partisanship pro
portionate to the reward he expected
to get out of it.
The establishment of an institution,
a living thing, which represents the
public interest aud nothing else—that
should be the ideal of the editor.
it is this ideal which has made
newspapermen a priesthood and has
separated them—some of them —from
politics. For this age Is not a ma
terialistic age—in spite of opinion to
lhe contrary.—Vancouver Sun.
MEANT “DIVISION WITH KING”
"Royaltiea*' In Old Day* Signified
Something Altogether Different
From Mearring Today.
Recipients of royalties from books,
patents, mines or any other thing may
claim kin with kings, etymologically
speaking, at least, for a royalty rep
resented originally Ihe king's portion
of the profits of a venture.
The word entered England from
France, and was sometimes called a
“seignorage.” The king of England
at the time was the actual possessor
of all land In the domain, as be is
only nominally todny. All mines
that were worked, all lands that were
tilled, directly or Indirectly paid trib
ute to him. He possessed a similar
power, though less clearly understood,
over printing and Inventions.
The payment of a royalty to an
author, Inventor or other persons to
day Is recognition of the ownership of
the recipient to the basic right in the
thing worked or produced. The pub
lisher, manufacturer or operator tnay
have, and usually does have, the heavi
est Investment, but the iimn who gets
the royalty is the man who holds pos
session in fee simple, subject to what
contracts he may make with those
associated with him in the develop
ment or distribution of his property.
A Lovera’ Quarrel.
They stood beneath the stars, the
silence of the night being only broken
fey the intensified sound of two hearts
beating as one.
For h moment he withdrew his gaze
from the dazzling depths of her eyes
to the diamond-studded shirt front of
the aky.
“Is that Mars?” he whispered, aa
he slipped his artu around her small,
slim waist, and gazed upon a glitter
ing orb In the heavenly dome.
“No, It isn't,” she exclaimed an
grily, jerking herself free of his em
brace. "it's mine, and If you can’t
tell the difference between tuy waist
and mother’s after you’ve been court
ing me for eight years, well, you —”
Her voice broke, and her heud fell
forward upon her arm—
“We had better pijrt!”
It is pleasing to report that the mat
ter was amicably adjusted before any
thing more serious resulted.—Edin
burgh Scotsman.
When Kissing Was Illegal.
Laws against kissing still exist in
America, which produces most of the
films front width the Japanese cen
sors last year cut out 120,000 feet of
kissing scenes, observes London Tit-
Bits.
Not many years ago a student of
Yule university and bis sweetheart
were arrested for the crime of kissing
In a Boston restaurant. They were
sentenced to 15 days' Imprisonment,
the magistrate relying on one of the
“blue laws” passed in the Seventeenth
century, when Massachusetts was a
British colony.
Under these laws many men were
fined or put in the stocks for kissing
their wives in public, such conduct be
ing penalized as “lewd and unseemly
behavior.”
The only measure of this kind ever
enforced in England was of a tem
porary nature. In 1439 an act of par
llament wns passed prohlhftlug kiss
ing, owing to the pestilence raging
over England and France.
Armenian Music.
The melodies and composition ol
Armenian music are unique, although
In recent years Russian. Italian and
English styles have been incorporated
in her music, and many Armenian
operas are sung in other countries.
The national marching song of Tur
key. oppressor of Armenia, was writ
ten by an Armenian In the national
style of the Turks.
RED CROSS GIVES
ANNUAL BUDGET
$19,361,657 Allotted for Cur
rent Proflram of Relief
and Service.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Medical Aid for European Chil
dren WIN Coet $6,000,-
000 This Year.
Washington.- Expenditures totalling
f19,301,6.17 for carrying through Ita
program of relief and services in the
United States and overseas art out
lined In the budget of the American
Red Cros* for the current liacal year.
This total la more than $(1,000,000 low
er than the expenditure during the
last fiscal year, when the disburse
ments reached $24,492,741, it Is an
nounced at National Headquarters In
a statement calling attention to the
necessity of continued support of the
organization by response to the An
nual Roll Call, November 11 to 24,
if the vital work of the society la to
be effectively carried on.
Outstanding among the Items of the
domestic budget is the appropriation
of $3,669,256 for work In behalf of
the disabled ex-service man and his
family. This appropriation represents
the amount alloted to this work from
National Headquarters only and does
not take into consideration the mil
lions being spent In chapters for re
lief of the World War veteran. It
Is in the chapter that the greater
amount is spent In meeting this obli
gation of the Red Cross, the announce
ment continues, as manifested by fig
ures of the fiscal year 1920-1921 when
the total was approximately $9,000,-
000, of which $2,692,094 represented
the disbursement of National Head
quarters white the remainder was the
chapters' contribution to this field of
Red Cross service.
Vast Work for Disabled
Chief among the subdivisions of
the appropriation for work with vet
erans Is that which concerns itself
with assistance to disabled men aud
women in government hospitals. This
Item of $1,790,000, an Increase of more
than $500,000 over the appropriation
for the same work In last year’s bud
get, will provide those personal serv
ices for lhe disabled and their families
which are indispensable to supplement
those provided by the government.
The director of the Veterans’ Bureau
has recently expressed his desire that
the Red Cross should continue nnd
expend these “humanising service*.’’
Other Items of the appropriation for
veterans’ relief are proportionately in
creased. An additional appropriation
of $469,600 has been made for Red
Cross work in connection with regu
lar Army and Navy hospitals and
with the regular Army and Navy.
For disaster relief, the Red Orosa
has set aside for the current twelve
months an appropriation of $543,976,
virtually doubling the appropriation
for the same purpose for the fiscal
year 1920-1921.
More than $2,000,000 Is provided for
service and assistance to the 3,600
Red Cross chapters by the national
organization.
Helping Destitute Children
Other Items of the domestic budget
Include $498,546 for miscellaneous ac
tivities, Including contributions re
stricted for special purposes and $768,-
600 for management. Each of these
items represents large reductions over
similar appropriations of the previous
year.
From a fund of $10,000,000, $5,800,-
000 of which was contributed through
the European Relief Council campaign
and $5,000,000 allotted by the Red
Cross for child welfare work In
Europe, there remains $8,765,108 still
available, of which it is estimated
that $6,000,000 will be required for
this work during the current year.
For Red Cross participation in the
joint effort to relieve famine condi
tions in Russia, for final work in the
China famine, for Junior Red Cross
and other overseas activities including
the closing of the old general relief
program In Europe $4,978,000 Is made
available.
In announcing the national budget,
the Red Cross makes it clear that
the figures do not Include chapter ex
penditures or place any cash estimate
on the Invaluable service of volun
teers In chapters.
CARRYING ON
SERVICE FOR
DISABLED VETERANS
OF THE WORLD WAR
THAT IS COSTING
$10,000,000 A YEAR,
THE AMERICAN
RED CROSS IS HELPING
FULFILL THIS
NATION’S OBLIGATION
TO ITS DEFENDERS.
HELP THE kED CROSS
CONTINUE THIS WORK
BY ANSWERING THE
ANNUAL ROLL CALL
NOVEMBER 11-24, 1921.
THE WINDER NEWS
You’ll Find The New
Ones Here
NEWEST IDEAS IN HIGH SHOES
NEWEST IDEAS IN LOW SHOES
NEWEST IDEAS IN LOW PRICES-
Same Idea of Quality and Perfect Fitting that has
made our Store Popular with Particular Men.
Nifty Brogue Shoe with the New Perforations-easily
a $7.50 value for $5.00 and $5.50. Leonard, Shaw &
Dean’s Shoes, plain English Calf Skin, $7.50.
WE SPECIALIZE IN SHOE REPAIRING.
Shoes repaired in rear of our Shoe Store and at 455
Clayton street.
“Teach Your Dollars to Have More Cents.”
Spend them at
Martin Brothers
ATHENS, GEORGIA
Williams-Thompson Cos.
Corner Broad & Athens Streets
We have considerable domestic Hardware, Heating
Stoves, Oil Stoves, Buckets, Pans, Dippers, Oil Cans,
Shovels, Coal Hods, Kitchen Lamps, Lanterns, Brooms,
(best make at a cheap price) Wash Tubs,-Gee Whiz:
the biggest one you ever saw for a dollar. Then we have
a selection of Crockery and Glassware that we will sell
worth the money asked; likewise Tin Ware, Coffee Pots
Dish Pans, Dippers, Pie Pans, Milk Strainers, Sifters,
Milk Pails, &c., &c., and we were about to forget the
Aluminumware. We have a very good assortment, Per
colators, Tea Pots, Stewers, one and two-story Pepper
and Salt Shakes, Pie and Biscuit Pans and numerous
other articles in that line.
PLOW TIME: Well, we’ve got the goods, anything
from a hame string to a two-horse plow that four mules
won’t break; saw it tried right on Winder’s streets.
We also have building material, most any thing nec
essary to build an ordinary house, shingles, siding, floor
ing, ceiling, doors, windows, locks, hinges, mouldings.
All the foregoing and whatsoever else we have is of
fered at attractive prices. Come to see us. We’ll show
you that we sell cheaper.
WILLIAMS-THOMPSON CO.
Phone 191i
Subscription $1.50 per year.