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ld Mrs. Jim Yancey spent
Mr. a* with Mr. and Mrs
fritEuntoy McCart at Al™ on.
John William. «J»»‘ last
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Young.
Mr. d Mrs. G. H. Rice spent
an and Mrs.
Tuesday with Mr,
list of Hawkinsville.
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Joe Johnson and two charm-
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9ters of near Salem spent
ing s' with Mr. Ed McCart
last Sunday
an d family
Mr- Henry Hawkins was at
last Saturday night and
home
Sunday
Mr Charley Neely, of Fairview
spent i as t Sunday with Mr. Henry
Hankins.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L Copper spent
last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs
John McCart at Almon.
Mr and Mrs. G. H. Rice spent
last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. P.
D. Suduth.
Mr. Bob Moon was the guest of
Mr and Mrs. T. L- Ewines last
Sunday.
ANCIENT BELLS.
They Were Often Quadrangular and
Made of Thin Iron Plates.
There are several old bells iu Scot¬
land, Ireland and Wales. The oldest are
often quadrangular, being made of
thin iron plates which have been ham¬
mered and riveted toget.4*. At the
monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland
the four sided bell of the Irish mission¬
ary St. Gall, who lived in the seventh
century, is still preserved, but more
ancient still is the bell of St. Patrick
in Belfast, which is ornamented with
gold and gems and silver filigree work.
The curfew bell is that about which
most has been written and said. It
has been thought that it was only used
in England, but it was quite common
on the continent in the middle ages.
The ringing of bells by rope is still
very popular in England, especially in
the country, where almost every ham¬
let, however small, lias its church with
its peal of bells, which are often re¬
markably well rung. The first real
peal of bells in England was sent by
Pope Calixtus III. to King’s college,
Cambridge, and was for 300 years the
largest peal in England. About the
beginning of the year 1500 setoff eight
bells were hung in a few of the large
churches.
In the middle of the seventeenth cen¬
tury a man named White wrote a fa¬
mous work on bells in which he intro¬
duced the system of numbering them
1. -■ 3, 4. etc., on slips of paper in dif¬
ferent orders, according to the changes
intended to be rung. It is calculated
that to ring all the changes upon twen¬
ty-four bells at two strokes a second
would take 117 billion years.
One of the most famous bells in the
world Is the first great bell of Moscow,
which now stands in the middle of a
squnre in that city and is used as a
chapel. This be]] was cast in 1733, but
■was in the earth for over a hundred
I'ears, being raised in 183G by the Em
Peior Nicholas. It is nearly’ twenty
eet high, has a circumference of sixty
cot. is two feet thick and weighs al¬
most 200 tons. The second Moscow
De ” whic b is the largest bell in the
that 3s actually in use, weighs
ons. There are several bells ex
“' ll vddc b weigh ten tons and over, of
winch Big the largest bell in Eng
"eighmg between thirteen and
l! '- ‘vn tons, is one. Big Ben is
fortunately un¬
cracked.-London Globe.
^ ldor Military Valor.
it because men are such
t lirov! , 7 ? ' !1 lieart
that they admire
' r ' Sn iiuich and place military
I.' r j t so far beyond quai
every other
° r rCWard and worship?—Thack
eray
Y Such Good Luck.
r -r ° 1(1 Lady (f° the
tim , r seventh
! - captain, is there any’ dan
?er—shall Skin- I be drowned? Exasperated
o m afraid
den Fti not - ma’am.—Lon
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A Helping Hand.
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LIENT WITHOUT HEAT
The Puzzle of the Tiny Firefly
and the Mighty Comet.
EACH HOLDS THE SECRET.
It Is a Mystery to Science, and the Man
Who Is Able to Penetrate That Mys¬
tery Will Be In a Position to Revo¬
lutionize This Planet of Ours.
This is not an Aesop fable, although
It has a moral.
There are two things in whose pres¬
ence science stands wandering and
abashed—the little glowworm (or the
yet tinier firefly) and the mighty comet
arching the sky with its glimmering
train. Each of them holds the same
secret—how to make light without
heat. The man who gets that secret
will revolutionize the planet.
The late president of the Royal As¬
tronomical Society of Great Britain
referred to the value of the comet’s
secret in his retiring address. He
thought that we do not sufficiently ap¬
preciate the wondrous spectacle of a
comet’s tail. It shows us hundreds of
billions of cubic miles of space simul¬
taneously glowing with luminosity
whose origin is a mystery.
It is a gigantic experiment in a
branch of physics of which we as yet
know very little. The comet is im¬
mersed in what we may well regard
as a vacuum; at least it is a far more
perfect vacuum than we can produce.
Yet the persistent glow of the comet’s
tail shows that there is no real vacuum
there, but a vast quantity of extreme¬
ly attenuated matter which no doubt
is the cause of the luminosity.
We ought, Professor Newall thinks,
to awake to the importance of this
hint. “Who knows,” he says, “wheth¬
er. if we could discover a method of
disrupting gases and vapors in ultra
vacuous spaces artificially maintained
on earth, we should not have a meth¬
od of artificial illumination as econom¬
ical as that of the glowworm and as
brilliant as is needed for our nocturnal
life?”
This thing may really be within our
reach, although at the present time
we cannot even suggest to ourselves
exactly how it is to be attained. But
the tendency of recent investigation is
In that direction. As Sir John Hor
schel said of another discovery which
was just at the door, “We can feel it
trembling along the farreaching line
of our analysis.”
There are not a few men, who are
regarded by their harder headed scien¬
tific brethren as “dreamers,” who pic¬
ture to themselves a fast coming time
when we shall not only obtain light at
as cheap a rate as the firefly has it.
but when we shall have tapped the ex¬
haustless stores of energy that sleep
all around us in nature.
We are like one in a dream sus¬
pended in the midst of a vast work¬
shop crowded with multitudinous ma¬
chines, all whirling and fluttering in
a storm of energies, but w T hich he can
neither control nor understand. If
wc could see these things they might
terrify us, as the dreamer is terrified
by the -whirring belts and spinning
wheels of his vision, seeming to grasp
at his life.
If the scientific investigator needs
to establish a raison d’etre in the eyes
of the public, which cannot follow
either # his processes or his results, he
has only to point to the fact that the
greatest practical discoveries of mod¬
ern times have come out of the labora¬
tories from things as incomprehensible
to the unitiated as so much magic. It
is a well known fact that the growing
might of Germany springs from her
devotion to “pure research.”
Referring again to the pregnant hint
of the comet, Trofessor Newall is
clearly right in saying, “Here is a
theme that should stir up the most
commercial mind in the support of as¬
tronomy.”—Garrett F. Serviss in New
York American.
On the Cara of New York.
The surface cars of New York carry
on each line as different a nationality
as if each belonged to a different coun¬
try. On the Eighth avenue line there
are mostly colored people; on the Sixth
avenue they are largely Americans, if
there are any Americans in New York;
on the Broadway cars there are styl¬
ishly dressed New .Yorkers; on the
Third avenue Irish and Jewish people
predominate, on the Second avenue
Jewish, Italian, Hungarian, Swedish
and German, while on the surface ears
that run along Avenue A you see
every foreign * nationality under the
sun, ail bareheaded.—New York Press.
Vain Regrets.
“That man Biffin lacks -courage and
energy.”
“Yes, confound him!”
“Why do you say that?”
“Because he was courting my wife
long before 1 met her. If he bad had
a little more courage and energy— But
wliat’s the use of talking about it
now?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
! ! What Rules the World.
When Napoleon caused the names of
his dead soldiers to be inscribed on the
, crit¬
face of Fompey’s pillar, some one
icised the act as “a mere bit of imagi¬
nation.” “That Is true.” replied Na¬
| poleon, “but imagination rules the
i world.”—Atlantic.
Compensation.
A young cadet was complaining of
I the tight fit of his uniform.
“Why, father,” he declared, “the col¬
, lar presses my Adam’s apple so hard
, I can taste cider!”—Harper’s Weekly. !
j Your little child Is your only true
1 democrat.—Stowe.
WILD ELEPHANTS,
A Hard’s Successful Raid on a Granary
In Ceylon. {
Some soldiers stationed at an out
l>o«t In Ceylon, says a Colombo paper,
to protect a granary containing a large
quantity of rice were sent off a few
miles to quiet some unruly villagers,
only two of the party remaining be¬
hind. No sooner had the soldiers de¬
parted than a herd of wild elephants,
which had long been wandering about
the neighborhood, appeared In front of
the granary. Its walls were of solid
brickwork, very thick, and the only j
opening into the building was in the
center of the roof, which was reached
by a ladder. On the approach of the
elephants the two men clambered up
Into a lofty banyan tree to escape In¬
jury. Screened by the thick foliage,
though unseen by the elephants, they
easily saw all that went on below.
The sagacious animals began opera¬
tions at the corners of the building.
Two powerful elephants, after putting
forth every effort, but in vain, to make
an impression on the building, were
forced to retire exhausted. A third
came forward, and, applying his tusks
as levers, he at length suem^eded A® In
dislodging a single brick. opening
once made, others of the herd ad¬
vanced, and soon an entrance was ob¬
tained sufficiently large to admit them.
As the whole company could not be
accommodated at once, they divided
into small groups of three or four.
After satisfying themselves they re¬
tired arid gave place to others until
the whole herd, upward of twenty, had
made a full meal. By this time a shrill
sound was heard from one of the ele¬
phants, and those still in the granary
rushed out and joined their compan¬
ions. One of the first divisions, after
leaving the building, had acted as sen¬
tinel while the others were taking their
turn. He had perceived the troops
returning from the village and gave
the signal for retreat, when the whole
herd, flourishing their trunks, moved
rapidly into the jungle.
The soldiers found the animals had
devoured the greater part of the rice.
A ball from a fieldpiece was discharged
at them in their retreat, but they only
wagged their tails as if in mockery
and were soon hidden in the recesses
of their native forests.
DAYS OF THE WEEK.
At One Time They Were Designated
Merely by Numbers.
Formerly the days of the week .were
numbered one, two, three, four, five
and six, beginning with the Sabbath.
Even now the custom still prevails
among certain modern Greeks, the
Slavs and the Finns. Many old fash¬
ioned and orthodox Quakers, particu¬
larly iu the north of England, still hold
to this custom, which yvas the common
oue in the days of the apostles and
down to the fourth century as well as
usual among the Jews and the Arabs.
The orthodox Quakers use the numer¬
ical system in preference to the ordi¬
nary on the ground that the gods and
goddesses, from whom the names were
taken, were not of the highest respecta¬
bility in point of morals.
The week was originally only a con
venient quarter of the lunar month;
hence it began on Monday, or moon
day. The Italians still call Monday
the first aud Sunday the seventh clay
of the week. Tuesday is derived from
the Norse Tiw, who corresponded tc
Mars, the god of war, a most disreputa
ble person in the eyes of Quakers.
Thursday was Thor’s day, Thor being
a god warrior who was morally no bet¬
ter than he ought to be. Wednesday,
again, was Woden's day, Woden being
tiie god of battle rage. The Romans
called this day Mercury’s. Friday was
supposed to be the luckiest day of the
week—for women. It was called after
the Norse Frija, the goddess of love,
and is the best day for weddings. For
the pagan Romans it was also the day
of Venus, though the Christian Romans
called it the day of ill luck because
Christ had been crucified on that day.
Saturday was called after Saturn, and
Sunday was known to the Christians
as resurrection or sun day.
The week of seven days was import¬
ed from Alexandria into Greece and
into Italy about the time of Christ.
The Greeks had previously divided
their month into sets of ten days, the
Romans into sets of eight days, three ;
and a half sets being equal to one
month.—New York World. !
An Author’s Initials,
luitials are sometimes the resort of
the writer who is anxious to conceal
his identity, and a glance through any
one of the 700 volumes that comprise
the catalogue of the British museum
reading room - will discover some
strange instances. A theological book,
entitled “Inquiry Into the Meaning of
Demonlacks Iu the New Testament”
Is attributed to T. P. A. P. O. A. B. I.
C. O. S. Its real author was a certain
Arthur Sykes, and the initials reveal j
his position as “the precentor and j
prebendary of Alton Borealis in the |
church at Salisbury.”—London Chron¬
icle.
“That* Revenge.
organist Belie jilted for the
aged millionaire played a spiteful trick
at her wedding.”
“What did he do?”
“Instead of playing them up the aisle
with the wedding march, he struck up
‘Old Hundred.’ ’’—Boston Transoript.
Pi aspects Brilliant.
“I see you got married yesterday.
Chloe. Are your prospects brilliant?”
“Yaas. Mali husband’s friends
brought me fo' mo’ washin’s.”—Circle
Magazine.
This world Is to the sharpest, heaven
to the most worthy.—Hamilton.
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