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'GEMS NOT TRUE TO COLOR
I Papular Fallacy to Aacrlba to Prccloua
Stonea Huea That May Ba
Called Definite.
' Story writers talk of tiio sky being
aa blue as a sapphire, or of a wild
beast's eyes glowing as yellow as
topaz.
Host of us are under the Impression
that we can recognize gems by their
colors, nnd that certain colors belong
definitely to certain stones.
Quite a mistake. There Is hardly a
precious stone which Is always truo to
color. Diamonds, of course, vary
greatly. The famous Hope diamond
la a real and most beautiful blue.
Green diamonds are found, nod oth
ers of a lovely crimson, but these aro
eery rare. Black diamonds are com
mon enough.
Black pearls are rarer, but are
found. Pink pearls are greatly prized.
One of the finest In existence was
found in a fresh water mussel In the
Mississippi river and Is valued at 115,-
000. Off the Pearl Islands, south of
Panama, pearls are found which are
lead-gray and also green.
| Sapphire mines In the Rocky moun
tains produce stones which touch the
Whole color scale from blue end red
to an exquisite purple.
In Rhodesia Is found a topaz of a
most lovely pale blue. Yet the chem
ical t'oinposition of the gem proves It
to be Identical with the yellow topaz.
The colors of most gems are more
or less fugitive. That Is, under cer
tain circumstances they are liable to
fade. Take two rubles exactly similar,
abut one In the dark, and leave the
other exposed to full sunlight, and at
the end of two years there will be a
distinct difference between them. The
'one that has been exposed to the light
will be decidedly pnler than the other.
Similar results may be obsorved
with both emeralds and sapphires.
Garnets also will turn lighter, while
In the case of the topaz, sunlight ends
by diminishing and dulling the color
of tills stone.—Stray Stories.
DONKEYS FIGURE IN HISTORY
Merita of Patient Creatures Hava
Been Sung by Poets and Depicted
by Painters.
The "common or garden" donkey Is
one of the most Inughed-nt ‘animals,
and few of us pnuse to think what a
figure this stubborn but patient crea
ture -hns made In literature, art, and
history. Tlio very llrst plctilre tne
visitor to the London National gnllery
sees as he enters the building Is n
beautifully painted obs upon which
tho Virgin sits with her Infant Son. It
Is Holman Hunt's "Triumph of the In
nocents.” Balaam's ass has passed
Into a proverb of tho foolish Instruct
ing the' wise! There Is, too. the*
Golden ass of Apulolus, a romance of
the Second century, Hnlznc with his
“Ass's Skin." Snncho Penza with his
adored donkey, nnd Sterne with that
dend donkey which he hns Immortal
ized. Then who can forget Robert
I-mils Stevenson’s delightful "Travels
With a Donkey." where the donkey Is
almost ns entertaining ns the author?
There wns, too, the famous doukey of
Mnfeklng, nnd Halil Bey's donkey
which was shaved of Its enrs by a
British shot, and there wns Mntnnzn’s
mule killed In Culm—but that was
only hnlf a donkey I King Midas wns
snld to have nss'B enrs, and It wns upon
nn obs,that Mohammed went to para
dise to learn the will of Allah. It wns
named Al Borak (the lightning), so It
must lmvo been tho swiftest nss on
record!
Dachshund a Hunting Dog.
The dachshund Is a true hound and
Is used for hunting In Europe, espe
cially for getting foxes nnd other such
animals out of holes, ns It is a great
digger, nnd Its peculiar build enables
It to go down a relatively Bmall hole.
It hns nn excellent nose, and will trail
rabbits, foxes nnd other game with
grant tenacity, but It-Is little used for
bunting In this country because It Is
bard to train and manage, paying little
attention to orders, nnd doing ns It
pleases. If the game goes to earth, It
Is almost Impossible to get the dachs
hund away until It hns been dug out.
This breed is of great nntlqnlty, one
of Its kind being painted on an Egyp
tian monument of 2000 B. C,
Characterology.
To the layman It may seem an Im
possible task to learn all of the things
disclosed by the many parts of a hu
man being, and yet, through the work
of the men who have made these
tblngs th’elr life study, the fundamen
tal principles of chnrnctcrology can
be quickly learned and applied by the
average business or professional man.
Such a knowledge will enable business
men to choose their associates nnd em
ployees so that natural ability will
harmonize with work In hand and
every man will possess the precise in
nate capacity which will enable him
to become an expert In the depart
ment to which ho Is assigned.
Blue of the Sky.
Not one In a hundred persons can
tell why the sky Is blue, or why tho
sunrise and sunset are red. But any
one can easily demonstrate the work
ing of the “blue sky" law of nature.
Blow a film of smoke Into a darkened
room and admit the light from one win
dow only. Look at the smoke against
the dark background of the room and
its color Is bluish, but look through It
•t the light and It appears reddish.
The Interception of the blue rays by
small particles In the atmosphere pro
duces the blue color. The red rays car
ried In white light Jump the gaps be
tween these particles.
THE NEWNAN HERALD. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1921.
WHERE BUNGLER DOES HARM
Always Makes a Mass of His Own Ufa
and Too Frequently the Lives
of Othsrs.
Bunglers are frequently talkers
above thslr ability to perform. To be
sure they want to be rated well among
their friends and frequently go to the
limit In telling others whnt they are
going to do. That’s how George got
Into' the hospital. It seems George
and another colored chap did the gar
dening on a certain man’s estate In
tho Middle JVesL One morning George
didn't turn'up. The master went to
Sam and said: "6'am, where's George?'
“In de hospital, sah.” "In the hos
pital ; how did that happen?" “Well,
you see,” replied Sam, "George Is mar
ried and he's be'n telling me for a long
time as how he's goln’ to ljck bis wife,
'cause ber naggln', and ylsttldy she
done hear him at It bat’s all.” And
bow many there are like him. They
are going to turn the world upBlde
down until they meet face to face with
the facts.
After the bunglers get In their work
It’s Impossible for anyone else to make
a good Job of It They take perfectly
good reputations and leave them pretty
poor, examples of whnt Is good. No
wood butcher ever made a bigger mess
of good lumber than has many a bun
gler made of other people's lives. And
these artists even bungle up their own'
lives. They get their heads full of no
tions that lead to folly. Like guns,
they go off half-cocked and the dam
age can never be repaired. Careless
of the facts, they frequently make as
sertions that are far from true and
act according to what yon expect of
such creatures. Every effort added
seems to add to the confusion.—Grit
RIDE ON SUNBEAM EXPRESS
Journey That Would Bo Remarkable
for Speed and for Wondera
Seen Along the Way.
Emile Belot, the French astronomer,
suggests that, If one were able to
Straddle n light rny (which travels
180,000 miles a second) and thus voy
age through space, observations along
the route would bo exceedingly Inter
esting.
It would take only a little more
than a socond to reach the moon and
In 4 minutes nnd 20 seconds one would
arrive at tho planet Mars. One would
got ns far as Jupiter In 85 minutes,
to Snturn In 70 minutes, to Uranus In
2H hours and to Neptune In 4 hours.
On the way one would come across
a grent many comets without tails—
nebulous bodleB of spherical shape
which are rarely seen from the earth.
It would take two years to get out
side the sphere of tho sun’s attraction,
nnd by that time bur orb of dny
would look like nothing more Import
ant than a big star.
■The stnr nearest to us, Alpha Cen-
tnurl, would meanwhile be looming up,
nnd the wnyfnrer through space might
expect to nrrlve there In a little more
than four years. By this, time ho
would have Journeyed 24,000,000,000
miles.
Painfully Thrilling Game.
The natives of the Philippine Islands
have n game known as “slapping.” It
Is played by two men. Both are
nude, and after tossing n shell to de
termine who Is "It," one of them, the
“It” man, takes a seat qn a log In
such a manner as to expose his right
thigh. He then lights a cigarette and
endeavors to maintain nn air of con
temptuous Indifference. *
The other man steps back so as to
get a good swing, and then slopB with
his hand with every ounce of strength
he can put Into It. The report sounds
like a pistol shot A Judge examines
the 1 spot where the blow fell. If a
blood blister Is shown—that Is, If the
blood can be seen Just under the skin
—the victim has no chance to come
back at his antagonist. If It does not
show, then hC can swing at the other
fellow.’
VIEWPOINT NEVER THE SAME
• -
In Classifying Themselves the Sexes
Have Always Dlffsrsd and Prob
ably Always Will.
It may be said without fear of con
tradiction thsAa given mnn's Ideal of
a woman, an™liat same woman’s Ideal
of herself, are two absolutely different
things. For ab regards themselves the
sexes vision differently. So, general
masculine Ideals of feminity, and fem
inity’s ideals of Itself, aro most unlike.
We have John’s John, nnd Mary’s
John; Mary’s Mary, and John’s Mary;
and this square Is far more difficult
even to apprehend, much less resolve,
than Is the squaring of the circle, or
any mental glimpsing of the fourth di
mension of space. Yet If the eternal
two ever did really understand each
other, Interest would Immediately
cease; for what you understand 'you
appropriate, In a sense you become
that thing. In creating them male and
female, therefore, so like yet unlike,
Providence constituted a distinction
and difference that should prove a
‘perennial source of Interest and Joy;
with Incidental exasperations, It may
be, and perpetual wonder.
“Just like a man," “Just like a
woman,” are the commonest of phrases
—but what It Is to be "Just like a
man,” or "Just like a woman," who
can truly say? Does man understand
woman any better today than he did
In the Stone age, or woman under
stand man? Between the two Is for
ever fixed the enchanting bridge—not
Chasm—of a perpetual why. The “cen
tral core of Identity” In each may be
trusted to keep Its secret—the secret
of a delight and God-given attraction.
—Scribner’s Magazine.
JUST THREW OUT SUGGESTION
\ " . ——
Traveling Man's Interpellation, Not
Really Made With Any Genuine
Desire to Help.
A Hoosler traveling man had a ho
tel room next to one occupied by the
two teachers during the recent teach
ers’ convention. He was very tired
and turned in early. But hardly had
he closed his eyes when the two teach
ers came In from the evening session.
They discussed It, one of them par
ticularly being endowed with a voice
commonly termed strident.
Finally they finished with the sub
ject and lie, thinking they were
through with conversation for the
night, turned over again' and once
more began to think of slumbering.
But after a little pause the loud talk
er began on another theme, namely,
the hard life of a teacher. After she
bad discussed It from all angles, she
said: "If I only knew where I could
succeed I would leave the teaching
profession. Now, what could I really
do as well ns I can teach school?"
Before the second teacher could an
swer her the long-suffering man rose
to the' occasion: ' “Madam," he
shouted through the wall, "you could
be an auctioneer."—Indianapolis
News.
The Characterises Derby.
The derby wns as void of character
as an Iron pot, yet Mr. Howells wore
it for a time. Can one fancy Mark
Twain In a derby hat? Walt Whit
man always wore a broad-brimmed,
gray, soft-felt hat One thinks of Lin
coln with a stovepipe hat on, ds he
wore this In most of his pictures.
Roosevelt liked a wide-brimmed felt
hat like that of, the cowboys. While
he was President I once saw him go
ing to church with,a shining silk hat
on his head. The first time I saw Em
erson he had on u stovepipe hat, one
much the worse for wear. He proba
bly never wore any other kind.—John
Burroughs, In the Dearborn Independ
ent.
LOOK FOR IMPORTANT FINDS
Arqheploglets Believed on Verge of
Great Dlaooveriea In Districts
of Central America.
Important medical and economical
discoveries that will be of great value
to the modern life of the peoples of
the world are on the verge of being
made at the present time in several
districts of Central America by Ameri
can archeologists.
This prophecy was made by Prof.
William Gates, president of the Maya
society, In an address delivered at the'
meeting, at Johns Hopkins unlvedslty,
of the Archeological Institute of
America, the Philological association
and the Maya society.
Prof. Gates brought forth in his
talk the fact that In Central America
there has recently been discovered the
evidences of an ancient race of peo
ple, with a civilization as old and as
cultured as that of the ancient Egyp
tians.
The plnns of an eminent group of
American archeologists for further ex
ploration of the remains of this
ancient race were dwelt on by the
speaker. These workers, he declared,
hold forth the promise to the Ameri
can people of a new region, rich with
archeological material, the surface of
which has yet only been scratched.
Among the most Important discover
ies expected to be made there are the
dneatthlng of further native medical
works, some of which are already In
the hands of the Maya society, that
will add valuable specific pharma*
copoela and medical knowledge to that
society In this country.
A lot of us ask the price before wo
know the value.
Some fellow has said that insanily is
akin to love. Maybe so. But we have
never seen a fellow in love that cared
if he waB crazy.
A hotel dinner is never a success with
some men unless they have a row with
the waiter.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
John James Wells, administrator on
the estate of Paul Henry Wells, de
ceased, having applied to the Court of
Ordinary of said county for letters of
dismission from his said trust, all per
sona concerned are required to show
cause in said Court by the Art Monday
In September next, tf any they can,
why said application should not be
granted. This Aug. 6. 1921.
J. A. R. CAMP, Ordinary.
Be Independent
Duties of Queen Ant.
When the queen ant lays her eggs
the workers gather about and pick up
each egg as It Is laid and carry It
away to the underground nurseries,
where It Is watched and cared for by
other workers. Sometimes the queen
will escape her attendants. Away she
hurries, evidently bent on playing a
bit, but the moment her disappear
ance Is noted the workers scurry out
In every direction to find her, and
once she Is located she IS dragged back
to the home l>y force and gets many
a sharp nip on the way as punishment.
The queen Is three or four times as
large as the worker ant. Her first
brood finds her busy cleaning up her
bouse, digging u new room for a nurs
ery. wnshlng nnd cleaning'her babies
with her tongue, and feodlng them
from her store. After the first brood,
however, tills work Is done by the
working ants, and the queen has noth
ing to do but attend to the functions
of motherhood.
Men Short In France.
The average height for men Is 5
feet 5 Inches, and for women Is 6 feet
2 Inches. The observation Indicates
that 85.10 per cent of the French peo
ple have chestnut hair. The blondes
are next In order, forming only 12.82
per cent of the population. Pure black
hair Is found In 1.88 per cent—that Is,
sllffhtly more frequently than red hair,
which altogether was found In only
0.72 per cent of cases.
Pure black hair, so rare In France,
Is the rule In certain Mediterranean
countries (for Instance, In definite re
gions of Spain).
His Great Talent
“Blank’s a great artist isn’t he?”
"No."
"But he gets big prices for falB
work.”
"Yes, he's a mighty good salesman.”
—Boston TranB^rlpL __
Reading Man's Mind.
Bp watching a man's actions one
can tell-as plainly whnt Is going on in
his mind as a person can read a page
of print, according to Dr. Henry
Gaines Hawn, who Is conducting a
course of lectures at the chamber of
commerce on the Kansas side. “Tell
me the boyhood ambition of a man
and I can tell you much of his char
acter and desires,” he said. "He may
never have realized that ambition,
may have spent his life in a far differ
ent business and met with success
there, but his boyhood ambition tells
the way his tastes run and he still
likes tlie shine things he admired theo.
Go. Into a courtroom and watch the
two lawyers opposing each other and
you can soon tell by the way they are
questioning which fears for the safety
of the case oud which thinks himself
on solid ground."—Kansas City Star.
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and
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- Roger Ascham was a famous Eng
lish scholar and author, born at Kirby
Wlske, Dear Northallerton, In 1516.
He graduated at Cambridge;- an,d strug
gled with poverty until patrons came
to his relief. He was famous for his
general knowledge and acquirements
In Greek and Latin, and Is Classed
among older literary men, with Ed
mund Spenser, Sir Thomas More and
Sir Philip Sydney. His death, in Lon
don, on December 30, 1568, Is said to
have been occasioned by his too close
application to the composition of a
poem, which he Intended to present
to the queen on the anniversary of
her accession.
offer
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' An exchange sayB that the dear In
dies are now wearing wooden eyebrows
Perhaps they are Just the latest attach.'
meat for blockheads.
How To
Be Comfortable
Hot weather makes you keep
in mind the cool places you
know of. That’s why people
drop into our store in the midst
of a sultry day and get a
drink and sit under the fans
awhile. It’s the contrast that
is delightful—and we are glad
it is here for you.
Come in before you go on
that little auto ride and get a
drink and a few cigars or ciga
rettes. Be comfortable in sum
mer any\yay—it seems that is
about all most of us can be,
right now, so get what there is
in it for you.
J. R. McCalla
What about the home yatf
have promised yourself i
build it NOW!
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Newnan, Georgia.
THE MOVE
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give the quickest and most satisfactory delivery we
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48 lbs. good plain Flour..... $2.00
24 lbs. good plain Flour 1.10
48 lbs. self-rising Flour.... 2.24
24 lbs. self-rising Flour 1.15
Water-ground Meal, best made!', bushel.. 1.15
Sugar, 141/2 lbs. for. 1.00
2 lbs. Government Roast Beef.. 18c
Half-pound can Salmon ......... 5c
Calumet Baking Powder, lb 25c
Spices, all kinds, 3 boxes for... 25c
Jar Rubbers, 10c dozen, 3 dozen for... 25c
Quart Mason Jars, dozen........ 98c
Good white Pickling Vinegar, per gallon 35c
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5 lbs. good Coffee 1.00
Prince Albert Tobacco, 2 for 25c
Government Chewing Tobacco, plug .... 15c
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