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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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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 Sumer Excursion Fares to North Carolina South Carolina Colorado California Michigan New York Which include attractive steamship trips. For full information write to J. P* Billups, General Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. ' 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! See us for FREE building helps— working plans and cost estimates R. D. COLE MANUFACTURING CO. Newnan, Georgia. THE MOVE We are right on |}ie move to give you the best values possible in groceries, and at the same time give the quickest and most satisfactory delivery we can. It’s keeping us busy selling goods and making hundreds of customers satisfied with their purchases. 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. 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