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- Their Duty to Watch
- for Strayed TMMI
The official title of a small group of
young men who watch for lost travel
ers In the mountain passes of Swiss.
erland during the winter is “Soldlers
of the Snow.” These soldiers are
young Itallans who live on the Itallan
#ide of the pass. They are exempted
from military service, even in case of
war, on condition that they ald all
lost travelers on the mountain passes.
- They are supplied with uniforms to
distinguish them from smugglers, but
not with guns. Their duties are the
same as those of the monks of the
hospice with whom they are In con
stant communication by telephone,
During the.long winter they watch all
Swiss and Itallan slopes of the pass
for strayed travelers, hundreds of
whom have been saved from a linger
Ing death In the snow. At some sea
sons of the year the snow is all melted
and the traffic route through St. Ber
nard's pass 1s open.
Horror of Horrors
SBhe was charming and she knew It,
What's more, she knew that the whole
car full of north-bound passengers
knew it, too. She reveled In their ad
miring glances although assuming an
alr of modest unconcern,
Decidedly well groomed she was.
from head to foot. Her coat-sult was
trim In every detall and modish to per
fection. About her there was that alir
of consclous perfection characteristic
of those who are confident of thelr
grooming.
There was nicety In every detall
save one. When she arose to leave
the car with that languld, graceful air
of hers, the whole car saw the flaw.
Had she observed It her cheeks would
probably have blushed brick red with
mortification. Just where her silken
clad ' ankle entered the black satin
slipper, there was—a hole.—Columbus
Dispatch.
Her Afiction
Little Millie had achieved great suc
cess at her school, and was being
moved to a higher grade. Needless to
say, her parents were pleased with
her and anxious to hear how she
would get on In the new class,
When she returned home at lunch
time the first question her mother
asked was this: .
“Well, darling,” she sald, “how did
you like your new teacher?”
“She seems very nice,” replied Mil-
He, “but I can’'t understand all she
says.”
“How 18 that?' asked her mother.
“Does she talk too quietly?”
“Oh, no, mummy,” returned Millle,
“but”—with the alr of one who knows
—“I think she's got a predicament in
her speech.”
Light on Biblical Authorship
An Egyptian tomb in western
Thebes, it is sald, has furnished evi
dence that the writer of the Book of
Proverbs Is indebted for some of his
' passages to an Egyptian named Amen
emopel, who, according to records,
lived hundreds of years earlier than
the Bible author. A comparison of
the two passages referred to follows
that of Proverbs 1: *“lncline thy ears
and hear the ‘wbrds of wisdom and
apply thy breast to my knowledge.
For it is pleasant if thou keep them in
thy breast; if they are ready, all of
them on thy tongue.” “Incline thy
ears and hear my words and apply thy
heart thereto to understand them.
Good I 8 It If thou dost set them In thy
heart, but woe to him who trans
gresses them. Let them rest in thy®
breast, that they may be a key to thy
heart. So may they be the key to thy
tongue."—Family Herald,
. Monk Man of Learning
The epithet “Admirable Doctor” was
bestowed upon Roger Bacon (1214-
1202), an English monk ¢f the Fran
clscan order. He was without doubt
the greatest philosopher of his time.
His great work, the Opus Majus, was
written about 1265, and first printed in
1733. It treats of nearly all the
sclences, He was accused of practic
ing black maglc; and in 1278 a councll
of the Franciscans, jealous of his su
periority, condemned his writings and
committed him to prison in Parls,
where he remained for ten years. He
died at Oxford about 1202.—Kansas
City Times. ;
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No Dust-Free Air
Dust-free alr does not exist any
where in nature, though It can be ob
tained by certain filtering devices In
the laboratory, says Nature Magazine.
From the earth's surface up to reglons
far above the highest clouds every
cuble inch of alr contalns dustmotes,
Near the earth the dust Is mostly
blown up from the soil by the winds.
Far aloft the millions of meteors that
enter the earth's atmospherer every
day contribute their quota of fine solid
matter. Lastly, every great explosive
volcanic eruption spouts up enormous
quantities of dust to great heights,
1 e T T e
: Limit to Her Anger
“8o the engagement s off 7"
“Yes. She was so Indignant when
she heard about what he'd done that
she ‘tore off her engagement ring and
flung it onto her right hand.”
Do i
: S KILLED IN 30
c FOR 80 OVS.
®rom SITICIDE CO., Commeroce, Ga.
' at JORDAN'S DRUG STORE
THE MONTICELLO NEWS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1925,
| i & 40)3/1 ki
The Good County
. of Jasper
Needs the combined efforts
of its citizens all the time to
keep abreast with neighbor
ing counties in the various
progressive movements now
being fostered. Get busy,
brethren, and-- |
UT e (A
“Let’'s Go!”
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