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PINTO STILL KING
IN TEXAS CORNERS
Sections Use Ponies for Fast
Transportation.
Dallas, Texas.--Railroad develop
ment in Texas has kept step in re
«ent years with the state’s march of
progress in an agricultural and min
eral way, yet so vast has been n last
frontier of southwestern border coun
ties that eight still await the steel
rails that will bring to the region a
fast and uninterrupted transportation
it thias never known.
The group where the automobile and
pinto pony are still the only means
of conveyance embrace an area fifteen
times a 8 large as Rhode Island, but
the population in this. undeveloped
section is only one-seventh of that of
Providence,
So great are distances from some
of the cattle ranches that it is neces
sary to drive stock more than eighty
miles to a railroad for shipment to
packing houses or the feed lots of
the corn belt,
Although much of the region still
is largely in a pastoral state, due to
the scarcity of rainfall and ownership
of land in tracts too large for develop
ment, it is the center of the country's
best wool and mohair area and the
breeding ground for thousands of
<attie each year. Olil resources have
heen developed In Crane county only,
tut lund prices and bank deposits
have risen rapidly since the World
wiar,
Live stock values in Crockett coun
ty exceed those of any other county
in Texas, and Edward county, one of
the group, leads the country in the
number of goats raised annually.
Transportation companies have
watched with interest this domain and
plans have been discussed for an ex
tension that will connect at least four
<ounties—Mason, Kimble, Sutton and
Crockett—with the outside world, A
road also has been proposed for Ed
wards county, but for several years
Glassock, Crane and Bandera prob
ably will not witness what would be
the novel sight of a locomotive rum
bling across the region.
Electricity Now Runs
World’s Oldest Clock
Rouen, France,—The world's oldest
<loek, built in 1389, today ticks by
electricity,
Not only does electricity run the
elock, but it also rings Rouen's his
toric curfew, “Cache Ribaud,” which
was Instituted by William the Con
queror and which for nearly eight cen.
turies has sounded at nine o'clock
<ach night the warning to all to re
turn to their homes and put out their
Nights,
For even the Rouen clock could not
wperate forever on its old machinery.
“The bulky wheels and weights ran tha
<clock for more than 500 years before
they recently collapsed under the
strain and appealed for help.
So an expert in electrical clocks was
called In. He tore out the antiquated
works and substituted a small, black
box, This box now not only operates
the clock, but also rings the curfew.
The clock has only one hand—never
has had anotker. But the great cop
per dial bears minute graduations and
the machinery causes the chimes to
strike every 15 minutes, as well as
on the hour,
Attributes Long Life
to Horizontal Position
Vienna.—A certain Dr, Jullus Tich
wehr who recently died here at the
age of one hundred nine, often de
«clared that the secret of his longevity
wonsisted in taking a horizontal po
sition as often as possible during the
day, and naturally, every night,
Whenever it was possible through
out the day, he would place his head
in the direction of the North pole and
the remainder of his body parallel to
the meridian line,
The doctor affirmed that this posi
tion coresponded to the direction of
the magnetic current running through
the surface of the earth and thus per
mitted a kind of magnetism of the
fron mass contalned In the body,
Connecticut Churches
Tax Exempt 200 Years
Harttord, Conn~The system of
Treeing religious bodles from taxation
has rounded out two centuries in Con
wecticut and is beginning a third,
Church of England churches in the
Connecticnt colony were granted ex.
emption for taxation in 1727, A few
years fater the Baptists and Quakers
also were exempted,
it Is now 220 years since provision
was made for dissenters from the es
tablished church, The general court
dn 1708 granted permission for the
Presbyterian system of church gov.
ernment to be used by churches that
dissented from the Church of Eng
dand.
Not a Comedy
New York.~Florence Reed was
wleep-walking In the part of Lady Mae:
beth. She stepped out of character
and up to the footlights and asked
that two men who had been lnughing
et out. One of them did so. The oth
or convineed the ushers he did not re
gard “Macheth” as ludicrous,
Tobacco Helps
Washington.—Which state Is third
in totnls of federnl taxes pald by
citizens of states? If you don't know
you are lkely to be wrong, The an
swer I 8 North Carollna, with a total
of S2ARINNOB The tobacco market
s booming.
Miss Earhart Urges U. S. to
Fix Standards.
New York.—A chain of aviation
schools, with fields and instructors
in strategically located cities in all
parts of the country, is one of the
major developments in American
aerlal progress to be expected in 1929
according to Amelia Earhart, first
woman to fly the Atlantic, and now
aviation editor of Cosmopolitan,
The schools, which will offer com
plete courses in flying to sportsmen
and women as well as those training
for commercial flying, will be spon
sored by one of the principal com
panies now operating commercial air
lines, she says.
Tuition Has Dropped.
The price of learning to handle a
plane already has dropped to an av
erage of $250 in the established fly
ing schools, as a result of the in
creased interest in flying among peo
ple in all walks of life and the de
velopment of a large body of com
petent instructors within the past
two years, Miss Earhart finds, sur
veying the rapid changes in aviation
in the current issue of the magazine.
At the end of the World war no air
training could be obtained for less
than SI,OOO, but recently the fee has
twice been cut in half. Today the
cost 18 hardly more than the fee of
a first-class dancing instructor, since
the $250 covers 10 to 12 hours of
actual flying, spread over 20 to 25
lessons.
Urges U. 8. Inspection.
Miss Earhart, however, warns pros
pective amateur flyers against the
“harnstorming” flying instructor and
the poorly equipped and inefliciently
operated school.
“There are excellent flying schools
and excellent private instructors in
the country, but it still is difficult to
distinguish the good from the bad,”
says her Cosmopolitan article. “It is
the opinion of many flyers that the
Department of Commerce should make
a classification similar to that of the
American Medical association, which
gives its approval after inspection to
hospitals which maintain certain
standards, Given time, flying schools
will acquire reputations, but it might
be easier for students if there were a
published rating now. One distin
guishing mark, however, is already
available, You can be sure the planes
used are licensed by the Department
of Commerce. And be sure that they
are inspected frequently,
“The student also should have a
physical examination, paying specia!
attention to the eyesight, by a De
partment of Commerce physician.”
Double-Time Tractors
Add to Farm Profits
Washington. —By working their
tractors night and day during the
“peak"” seasons thousands of farmers
are getting double the value out of
their machinery and, economists say,
leading toward the restoration of
profits in agriculture.
The idea developed on the Pacifie
coast, where 23-hour days for one
tractor and two operators have been
common for years. This year agrl
cultural engineers have seen the prac
tice spread to the grain belts of the
Middle West, where both the seeding
and harvesting seasons have been
speeded.
Under the glare of convenient spot
lights tractors roar through the night,
bringing their work year up from
2000 to 65,000 hours. The average
American tractor work year of 400
hours has been multiplied so fre
quently that it no longer is remark
able,
In the Imperial valley of California,
where cantaloupes and head lettuce
are grown so efficiently, the big track
laying tractors run for months on ca
pacity hour schedules in spite of 120-
degree temperatures, clouds of dust
and desert winds.
Chile Bars Girls Sitting
Next to Bus Drivers
Iquique, Chile.~To curb one-armed
driving, authorities here prohibit any
woman passenger In lquique’'s motor
buses from riding next to the driver.
Seats are arranged so that passengers
sit with the chauffeur, but any wom
an taking the place next to him must
move before the bus starts or the
driver will be fined, The official ex
planation was that girls “distracted
the operators’ attention"
Deity in Knickers
Resented at Theater
Frankfurt-Am-Main, Germany.
«Publie objection to represen.
tation of the Deity on the stage
took a drastic form at the Mu
nicipal theater recently when »
production f Walter Hasenclev:
er's comedy, “Marlages Are
Made In Heaven," provoked »
bombardment of vilesmelling
bombs and tear-gas grenades,
The company finished the
play to an empty house. Police
ejected several disturbers, This
caused freeforall fighting In
the street outside,
The play, In which the Deity
was represented as wearing golf
clothes and knlckerbockers, had
previously caused a scandal in
Berlin, Hamburg and other Ger
man clties
PREHISTORIC MEN
CREMATED DEAD
Scientists Unearth Bone Ashes
in New Mexico.
Minneapolis, Minn,—Evidence that
prehistoric dwellers on the North
American continent were the first of
mankind to cremate the dead has been
unearthed by an expedition of tte
Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
The evidence is based chiefly upon
a crumbly material found in the sands
of the Mimbres valley in New Mexico,
thought to have been pulverized corn,
which an analysis showed was bone
ash,
The culture of the Mimbres valley
is belleved to have flourished 2,000
years ago,
Objects and materials found cer
tainly are the first evidence of crema
tion in that valley, and possibly any
where, says Dr, Albert E. Jenks, lead
er of the expedition. Doetor Jenks
believes Mimbres culture ceased to
exist about 600 or 700 A. D.
Near Hurley, N. M., the searchers
unearthed a village of 150 rooms, or
huts, Some yielded sitting, or full
length skeletons with bowls over their
heads. But in one was found a jar
of an unrecognized material.
“We tasted it,” sald Doctor Jenks.
“One member of the party declared
it was pulverized blue corn, common
in that vicinity.,” Laboratory tests re
vealed it to be bone ash,
Another find deemed important was
a copper bell, use of which previously
had not been known, A bracelet of 13
shells was found on the arm of the
skeleton of a female,
There were fireplaces and wall buses
of adobe and stone. Some Luts were
constructed of wood.
The culture, according to anthro
pologists, disappeared when Mimbres
villages were destroyed, althougk how
they were destroyed has not been
learned. So far as is known the cul
ture never took root elsewhere.
Gusher Brings Fortune
to Motherless Children
Sunnydale, Kan.—Oil, renowned sot
its gifts of sudden wealth, is spout
ing in a new Klondike near this south
ern Kansas village, bringing riches to
willard Goodrich, hard-working farm
er, and his two, motherless children.
The discovery well in the new pro
ducing territory is on the Goodrich
farm. With a daily output of 7,000
barrels, it is the biggest gusher Kan.
sas has seen in ten years. It “came
in” without warning, drenching thé
surrounding fields in oil,
A pool of “black gold” four to five
feet deep and covering an acre o
ground was formed as nelghbofln:
farmers with teams hurriedly cons
structed ditches and dirt dams. :
The 80-acre farm on which the wel!
is located was left to the family by
the mother when she died, 11 year‘
ago. Goodrich has an eighteen-years
old daughter, Arlene, and a fifteens
year-old son, Dale, |
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America Leads World
in Making Timepieces
New York.—Watches and clocks
produced in the United States thig
year will have a value in excess
$80,000,000, almost equal to the
bined output of Switzerland and
many, the closest competitors.
Production of timepieces in th
country, jewelers say, has more tha
doubled in the last ten years. After
meeting its own domestic demand, the
United States last year exported
watches and clocks to the value of 4
per cent of the total output, an in
crease of G per cent over the previous
year,
Chaucer Manuscript
Brings $1,350 at Sale
London.—A treatise on the Astro
labé by Chaucer, offered at a three
day sale of old books and manu
scripts, held at Sotheby's recently, at
tracted wide attention from collectors,
This rare manuscript of Chaucer's
only scientific work formed part of
the library of Sir Hercules Read and
was sold for $1.350,
The Astrolabe was an Instrument
used by ancient astrologers and scien
tists, by the former for showing the
position of the stars.
She Kissed LaFayette; '
Dies in France, Aged 1
Melun, France.~Mme, Victoria Vil
pelle, often termed “the last link wi
LaFayette,” dled recently, aged one
hundred and five. As a schoolgirl she
gave a bouquet to LaFayette, and was
kissed by him as he marched with
his soldiers to Parls when the Orleans
dynasty was restored In 1830, By a
coineldence her death occurred on the
lplvomry of George Washington's
death,
Team Work
Columbla, Miss.~An unusual ro
mance collapsed here recently when
two brothers, married to two sisters,
were granted divorces on grounds of
infidelity on the same date by the
same Judge. At the time the marital
bonds were severed it was learned
that the two couples were wed on the
same day, at the same place, and by
the same person and also that the
diverce petitions were filed on the
same day In the same court.
That's Something
New York —Mrs. Annle B Gray,
secretary of the Woman's Peace so
elety, which seeks to abolish war, s
founding an auti-uolse organization,
Cpr@;flu%%
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Areas of Industry
on City’s Outskirts
The larger industries are not afraid
to go farther away on the outskirts
of the city than was considered desir
able In the past, and there is a ten
dency among the smaller industries
which are looking to the future to do
likewise, according to H. Findley
French, director of the industrial bu
reau of Baltimore.
This means that it is now neces
sary for the man who is specializing
in finding the proper location for in
dustrial plants to reconsider constant
ly various tracts of land that have
been passed over in the previous gen
eral industrial development of the
city because they have lacked vari
ous facilities or because of the char
acter of the ground itself,
In looking ahead ten years to the
probable industrial development of
the city, as the Industrial realtor
must do, conditions which brought
about the rejection of certain areas
for industrial purposes are found to
have now been offset by other fac
tors, Mr. French pointed out, and
tracts which have been passed over
can now be brought into use and will
be found to hold exceptional opportu
nitles for profitable development.
For industrial buildings in good
condition, not overspecialized in their
plans, there is always some market
provided tkey are situated in a grow
ing community.
In the sale or rental of industrial
buildings, 95 or more per cent of the
prospects in any town will come from
the town itself,
Home Builder Should
Look to the Future
It is highly important that the home
builder ascertain that the section in
which he is contemplating construc
tion will continue as a home section
80 that he may not only put his prop
erty to the highest and best use as a
residential site but count on it per
sisting in this use for many years to
come. He should, of course, inquire
whether the district is protected by
zoning laws or building ordinances
that bar the construction of commer
cial buildings, but he should remem
ber that zoning laws can be and are
amended if it can be shown that com
merce or business is making justifi
able demands on a district.
The home builder, therefore, should
seek competent advice as to the
‘trend of the land in the sections ad
jacent to his proposed home, for al
though no one can be a magician in
these matters, the' changing use of
districts, with the possible change of
zoning laws, can be foretold with reg:
sonable accuracy.
Developer Important
Real estate is a business of many
complications and very close speciali
zation. Workers concerned with real
estate activities divide themselves in
to four major groups: Developers,
who improve acreage and sell it in
home sites; operators, who build
homes for sale; brokers, whose field
Is the resale of properties, and agents,
who manage renting properties. ;
The real-estate developer is the man
or the organization which takes over
raw acreage, or farm land, for devel
opment and allotment purposes, lays
it out, improves It, euts it up, and
markets it as home sites, After thLe
ploneer, who blazes the trail, pulls
the stumps and redeems the land from
the wilds of nature, the developer lays
the foundation for all subsequent real
estate activities.
Considerations of Color $
There is a leaning today towards
gayer and more bizarre exterior color
schemes. Before adopting any of them'
for your house, take this hint from
nature, One of her larger children,
the elephant, has a sober, gray tonal
ity, while the tiny birds and insects
are usually vividly colored. This
thought is useful when selecting ex
terlor color schemes, especially .now
adays when such gorgeous and bril
liant colors are avallable in paints and
stalns. A small amount of bright col
or will usually be more effeetive than
a large expanse, while n&utnl; con
servative tones are Ineffectual, or
dinarily, if used as decorative touches.
Color Cement Driveway .
By coloring the cement of which
the driveway is made, using reds
grays, and perhaps other restful colors
that harmonize with green of grass
and color of house, this utility is made
more attractive, Coloring need not
ndd greatly to cost, for with perma
nent mineral pigments a little color
ing material goes a long way.
Tree Avenues Planted
A half mile of trees has been plant.
eod on each side of the road along the
Stockton-Sacramento highway by the
Soroptimist club, the American Tree
ussoclation s Informed. This plan for
bheautifying the roads of the country
is being pushed In many sections of
the United States.
Painted Trees of Value
Trees, mainly at corners and cross
roads, along the Roate Nationale in
France, are being painted white up
to the height of about six feet. This
plan is to reduce the number of mo
tor accidents due » darkened roads.
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tablet. And for headache. The action of Aspirin is very efficient,
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And there’s no after effect; doctors give Aspirin to children—
often infants. Whenever there’s pain, think of Aspirin. The
genuine Bayer Aspirin has Bayer on the box and on every tablet.
All druggists, with proven directions.
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Foalish
Under the Mussolini regime, Italy
has no divorces and domestic differ
ences must be’ battled out- in the
home. Hence, a Milan husband, who,
had been quarreling violently with
his wife, was quick to take up what
seemed a laxity in the routine of
housekeeping.
“I see,” he snarled, “that you
haven't even washed today’s dishes
yet.” U e
“It is my mistake,” admitted the
wife, much to ‘the man’s surprise.
“You see,” she -added, “I did not ex
pect you to get home before midnight,
as usual, ahd why wash these dishes
that I had intended to break on your
head when you. came in?”
No Use Shirking Trouble, '
“He who shirks the present trouble,”
said HY Lo, the sage'of Chinatown,
“finds- himself at 3.disadvantage ay
he' s turned to face trouble with
which he is less familiar.”—Washing
ton Star. Bty 4
: Water “Fertilized” =~ -/
“Water farmers” who raise fish,
either for aquariums or for restock-
Ing the streams, are now using fer
tilizing materials in their ponds to in
crease and improve the vegetable mat
ter upon which the fish feed.
The Youndary between the United
States and Canada is to be marked
on all the international bridges be
tween the countries.
Many a $lO hat covers a- 10-cent
head. » !
A great fortune is a great slavery.
Says one of.the
~ healthiest' men
7t it the world
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take health for granted. &c has
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Since ?t time I have taken Nuj
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aluminum, graniteware, etc., at about
1c per stick. Retail value 25c. Materi
als available everywhere at low cost.
Requires no acid or tools; simply heat
with match and apply. Needed in mil
lions of homes,. Price for formula and
moulds, $2.50 prepaid.
BLUE GRASS SOLDER COMPANY
265 Garnett St. - Atlanta, Ga,
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' Leading Varieties Now Ready
Postpaid 500—81; 1,000—81.75. Ixfiou §1 per 1,000, §
6000 for $4.50. Special prices on large guantities.
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Money back for irst bottle I£ not suited. All dealers.
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poisons from forming (we all have
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THOUSANDS of women have come
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and bair. Regular daily use of Cutieura
Bup.mimdby(h‘&unom
when required, purifics and beautifies
the skin, cleanses the scalp and keeps
the hair live and glossy.
Soap 25¢. Ointment 25¢. and 50c. Talcum 2%¢.
Sample each free. |
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P~ Cutleura Shaving Stick 25¢,