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Cave* in Britain Wall
Worth Tourist's Visit |
Little H8 some might suspect It,1
there are Home famous caves in Great
Britain, and ?till inure that tlenerve
to be famous. The country is rich nui
only in the number, but also In ffus va
riety of typo of the caverns which it
Contains. Host known amoug these '
caves are the Peak cuvern, at Castle- '
ton, in Derbyshire and the Cheddar
Cavos, in Somerset. The Peak cavern
lias been known since the earliest
ages. No one could help seeing It.
for it yawns huge and black in the
Cliff-like side of that hill on whose j
dizzy crags I'everll of the Peak had '
bis castle, says the Wide World Maga- '
Sine.
An ice-cold stream issues from Its i
limestone recesses, and subterranean '
lakes stretch far into the hillside. 1
This vast cavern has been explored
for 2,2JiO feet.
The Cheddar caves do not advertise !
In so spectacular a fashion, although ?
the Cheddar gorge is one of the most i
Striking pieces of scenery in Great '
Britain. The first series of caves was
accidentally discovered In 1837, 1
through n man at work in his garden
falling into tlie hillside. The second
Series remained unknown until 1803.
These limestone caves form a series of
beautiful and lofty halls, hnng with I
Stalactites from the roof, and with I
beautifully colored stalagmites rising
from the floor to meet them.
Saved From Death by
Knowledge of Morse
Two employees of a telegraph com
pany sent to repair a luirglnr alarm
In a financial institution at Boston
were accidentally locked in the vault, j
Bank employees In vain tried to open
the massive door. ? It was equipped
with a time lock which was set to
open the following morning. The po
lice, lire department and safe experts
could do nothing. There was a safety |
device Inside the vault which, If the 1
prisoners knew about, would have re
leased them but there seemMl to be
no way to make them acquainted with
the fact.
1 Finally someone thought of the
Morse telegraph code. With huge
sledges the words were sounded to the
Imprisoned men. Then the anxious
throng waited. There was no an
swer. Suddenly the door swung open
and the two men tottered out. They
had heard the message and found the
lock. They were on the point of col
lapse after being In the air-tight coist
UmUuont for an lw"?
Days of the Guilds
The name ''guilds" was given to c?r*
tain corporations or fraternities of
traders that grew up In the free cities
and towns of Europe In the Middle
ages. Free cities of this kind In Eng
land were called "boroughs." These
corporations were most powerful In
the towns of FlanderB and South Ger
many. Each guild exercised a monop
oly In Its own particular craft. In
return for which privilege the mem
bers rendered military service in de
fending the towns from attack. The
right to exercise one's trade Inde
pendently depended upon membership
In a guild, which membership enrried
with It the rights of citizenship. The
guild was expected to supervise the
work of its members and to see that
it was of reasonable quality, llenr.v
VIII of England gnve n death blow to
the guilds by confiscating their prop
erty, on the ground that It was use A
for surreptitious purposes.?Kansu?
City Star.
Not All in America
The average Rriton who knows nnj
thing nhout America nover falls to ,
think that some American town names '
like Oshkosh and Yuba Dam are the
funniest things thnt ever happened, j
However, they forget the queet |
town names in their own tight Pttle I
Island.
For instance, there Is a Nasty In I
Herefordshire and a Marking in Ks- '
?ex. Norfolk boasts of a (Ireat Snor- |
fig
In Lincolnshire one tlnds Swlneshead j
?owblt, and I ?ripping Gore In Kent. |
YorknMre also lias a match for Yuba '
Ham.
It hns Pam Flask. Then there nre
other odd ones like Helious Bump- j
?tend, Toller Foreorum. Heck, Over i
Wallop and Nether Wallop, Barton
tn-the-Beans and Lynesack-ahd-Softly.
Sympathy
An untimely frost effectually com
pleted the mischief done earlier by the
Insert enemies of Mr. Perkins' pota
toes. The tops of the plants, which
had served as pasturage for the pests,
were entirely destroyed, and with them
Mr. Perkins' hopes of a crop. He waa
not selfish, however, and could think
of others In the hour of adversity. In .
the afternoon he was accoeted at the
poet office by a friend.
Hello, Perkins! How'a everything I
up to the corners?" ,
"Trouble enough, Williamson, trou
ble enough I" was the gloomy response. I
Ten million potato bugs, and nothing '
or 'am to eat P?Everybody's Maya*1
Water Denizen Thai
Hae Few Vital Organa
The little creature celled the lance
lot Is slender and pointed at both enda
and not very easy to see, since It la
almost transparent and la only from
an Inch and a half to two and a half
Inches In length.
It lives In shallow water and Ukea
to stick Its head end Into the sand,
Into which It burrows with gr??at
rapidity. It remains thus for a long
time with Its tall sticking out. When
on the surface of the water It Ilea on
Its side.
While It can neither see nor hear,
there Is reason for believing that It
possesses the senses of smell and
taste. Its eggs are-laid about aunset
and the larvae hatch out early the
next morning.
The lancelot has no head. More
over, It has neither legs nor pairs of
fins. Tt has a mouth, however,* placed
at one end, which, therefore, may b?
called the head end of the body.
It has a stomach, a very simple
form of liver and another simple or
gan which takes the place of a heart,
since It is-capable of contracting and
rhus forcing the blood, which Is quite
colorless, forward to the area of the
gills, where !t Is purified.?Review of
Reviews.
Business Now Made of
Producing Spider Silk
Spider farming la one of the little
known industries of modern times.
The end in view Is not the intensive
fighting of the fly peril, but the produc
tion of spider silk, than which there
is nothing better for the cross lines of
surveying and other Instruments.
Supplies In vastly larger quantities
are needed for the manufacture of spl
der-sllk stockings, and It Is to meet this
demand that special spider farms have
been started from time to time, says
Tit-Bits.
It Is no easy mntter to keep and
feed the spiders, to prevent them from
engaging in mortal combat, nnd to
coilect their silk In suitable form. The
process of "silking" the spider amounts
to playing catchhall, with the spider as
ball. In Its passage through the air
the spider instinctively pays out silk,
nnd It can be induced to part with a
hundred yards or more during a suc
cession of Sucli flights..
Secret Safe
"Oh, Alice!" Virginia exclaimed,
?'have you heard about Gladys?"
"No; what about her?" Alice de
manded.
"Well, she and Dick Kodney are
going to be married in June!"
"You don't say! Well, I always
Knew Dick thought a lot of Gladys,
but I never did think she would agree
to marry him."
"And Alice," Virginia continued,
?'the engagement is a secret Just now.
I promised Gladys I wouldn't tell a
living soul, so don't you breathe a
word of it to anyone."
"Why, Virginia," Alice replied, "you
know I wouldn't any more think bt
telling It than you would!"
Genuine Article
Salesmen may he gracious and cheer
ful nnd yet lack knowledge of the
goods they are expected to sell. This
Is a sad fault and a handicap to good
salesmanship. A story Is told of a
genial storekeeper In inntral Ohio
whose education in sellin< wus of the
kindergarten variety. A customer
?ame in and asked for a little cheese
cloth.
Tha storekeeper disappeared, hut
Mime back lugging a large specimen of
a New York cheese. "Here's the
cheese," he said, "but I'll be dlng
busted if 1 know how I'm goin' to get
the cloth often it J"
Bog Ornaments Irish Asset
One of the Industries of Ireland lias
long been the manufacture of bog oak
ornaments. Before the period of up
heaval In Ireland the export of these
goods from the Emerald isle through
the port of Dublin equaled a value of
$100,000 a year. The trade originated
In the reijin of ("leorge IV, soon after
hi.s visit to Ireland in 1821, I.ondon Tit
Hits says. At first all the ornaments
were band carved nnd polished, but
machinery was used with the increased
demand. Yew. fir and birch, as well as
oak, are woods used by the makers of
the ornaments. The one necessity is
flint the log? shall have been long
burled In the bogs.
Prayer
Prnyer 1* the pence of our spirit.
The stillness of our thoughts; the rest
of our cares; the calm of our tempest.
The Angela
Angels served God and ministered to
men when they proclaimed Christ's
birth.?Presbyterian of the South.
Strength
Strength Is born In the deep all# nee
of long-suffering hearts, not amidst
Joy.?-lira. He mans.
Plan?? Spread Terror
Tb? terrifying effect of airplane?
upon wild fowl la so great tbat If anf
general use should be wade of them
In hunting, the result would be ex
ceedingly disastrous, according to a
bulletin of the biological survey of the
Department of Agriculture. Probably
no other single method of pursuit of
wild ducks and other game birds
could parallel their deadly effect In
reducing the number of wild fowl.
It la for this reason that the biolog
ical survey has called upon all sports
men and con8ervatlonlsta Interested
In the maintenance of this country's
supply of wild fowl to gather and fop
ward to It In Washington accurate
Information concerning such viola
tions of law.
Weight* and Figure?
The grain Is the one unit which la
the same In troy and avolrdupola
weight. An avolrdupola pound Is
7,000 grains, a troy pound 5,760. The
avoirdupois ounce la 437.5 grains, and
the troy 480 grains. A hundred avoir
dupois pounds of gold would be
worth $29,166.67.
The American billion Is expressed
by a unit and nine ciphers?1,000,000,
000. In Germany, France and else
where in Europe the same figure is
called a milliard. The British billion
and the German, too, is expressed by
a unit and 12 ciphers?1,000,000,
000,000.
' Weather and Health
Different kinds of weather affect j
different people in different ways, but
as a rule we feel better when the sun
Is shining. Damp is an enemy of
henlth; a cool, bracing day a friend
Doctors frequently order their pa
tients a "change of scene," and they
are now learning that the benefits of
such a change are greater even than
they had thought, because a change
of scene usually means a change of
climate as well. Temperature, the
amount of moisture in the air, the
height above sea-level ? all these
things can affect our health.
Safe Makers Only One
Jump Ahead of Thieves
Recent defensive experiments and in
dentions might lend us to forecast an
end to bank burglary. Hut to bring
this about in fact is no; so easy, as
serts tlie Scientific American. What
concerns safe makers Immediately ia
the possibility of devising some metal
or other substance capable of resisting
the devastating onslaught of the vari
ous types of the acetylene torch, a
high temperature device which will eat
Its fiery way through metal defenses
unce thought absolutely Impregnable.
The contest between the safe cracker
and the safe maker is tast resolving
Itself into the old problem of the ir
resistible force and the Immovable
body?with tlie odds in favor of the
safe cracker.
Since the beginning of safe making
Ihe inventors have had two sets of
men to deal with?the burglars who
use the drill and those who use ex
plosives. Each new improvement of
safes has been met, on the part of the
burglar, with methods for successfully
attacking it.
Marvelous Natural Bridge
The Rainbow natural bridge is lo
cated within the Navajo Indian reser
vation near the southern boundary of
Utah, and spans a canyon and a small
stream which drains the northwest
ern slope of the Navajo mountains.
This bridge is unique in that it is not
only n symmetrical ^rch below but
presents also a curved surface above,
thus roughly suggesting a rainbow.
Its height above the surface of th$
water is ;*09 feet, and its span is 278
i'eet. The bridge and its neighboring
canyon walls are gorgeously clothed
in mottled red and yellow. The In
dian story concerning its origin is that
a rainbow was turned to stone, thus
permitting certain hero gods to 09?
cape flood waters in the canyon. De
vout Indians will not pass under this
bridge without saying their prayers.
The Indian name was Nngee-lid Non
*\e-zoshi?"The rainbow turned to
?t<>ne."
Dog Carried Danger Signal
I A motorist who was driving through
1 n small town in Canada one night was
' astonished to see a little red ligxii
I dancing about close to the ground on
the rond ahead. As he drew nearer
he saw that It wns an electric bulb
fed from a dry-cell battery fastened
J on the back of n little dog. The own
er, a woman who wns walking nearby,
explained that the dog refused to stay
off the streets at night, and that t?
keep him from being run over she had
contrived the canine tall light, so te
speak. No doubt the dog will ?oon
become familiar with the rales of ths
j rond?will alow down and bark at all
, crossings, keep si ways on the proper
side of the highway and never go
more than 40 miles an hour except
? wheti he tees a cat ahead.?Tenth's
i Companion. . .
BARGAINS IN USED FORD
CARS and TRUCKS
It will pay you to see
our line of Ford Cars
and Trucks before
you buy.
Cash Terms Trades
ADAMS-BUCHANAN MOTOR CO
AUTHORIZED FORD DEALER
MACON, GEORGIA.
There are other good clothes
?there are otfier low prices
....but there's not such a combination of
good clothes and low prices as BENSON'S.
Palm Beach Tropical Worsted
SUITS SUITS
New Spring Styles $22.60, $27.50
2 Pants Some with 2 pants
$16.50, $18.00
2 Pants suits $25.00
In Choice prin g Styles$35.00
F. C. BENSON COMPANY, Inc
572 Cherry Street
MACON GA.
ATTENTION PEACH SROWERS!
We have for sale 2 t wo-ton
Packard Trucks in Good Con
dition which can be bought
cheap. Just the thing for
Hauling Peaches.
Apply
COX & CHAPPELL CO.
Macon, Ga.
t
RIES & ARMSTRONG
RELIABLE GOODS ONLY
Phene 836
315 Third Street Macon, G?.