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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
For he that will love life and see good
days, let him refrain his tongue from'evil
and his lips that they speak no guile;
let him eschew evil and do good; let him
seek peace and ensue it. For the eyes of
the Lord are over the righteous and His
gears 'arc o'pen unto their prayers; but the K
face of the Lord is against them* that do
evil. And who is he that will harm you
if ye be followers of that which is good?
But if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake,
happy are ye; and be not afraid of their
terror, neither be troubled.—First Epistle
of Peter 3:10-14.
Just Among Ourselves
x HP) Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune said
what the young folks call a mouth
ful the other day in the folloAving
T
short paragraph:
“Co-operative cotton marketing has
been established on a sound business
basis and as long as it is kept that
way it will be successful, ijack of or
ganization puts the farm producer at
a disadvantage in dealing with other
lines of business that are organized. To
maintain an organization it is neces
sary for the farmers to surrender what
they have regarded as a form of in
,-dependcnce in marketing their own
products, but it is a baneful sort of in
dependence that brings no benefit.”
This paper will never make so bold as to
try to advise the farmer how to farm. The
farmer knows more about that than we ever
could learn/. But it is manifest that the
Southern farmer’s .main trouble is not in
growing his products, but is in getting a
fair and profitable price for these products.
That is because as a rule he does his
own selling. He is not a salesman. He
cannot be.
Further, in selling he competes with his
neighbor and his neighbor competes with
him. The result of this competition is that
the price is lower than it would otherwise
bo. ,
In the business world, every man buys as
low as he can and sells for the highest
price he can get. That’s the fundamental
rule of business.
In round numbers there are 2,000,000
cotton farmers in America. It is to be
doubted that there are 1,000 firms of cotton
merchants.
The cotton merchants have their buy
ers out every fall, but do they scramble and
bid against each other to get what they
want? They do not.
They let the producers bid against each
other, forcing the price down. When you
take a load of cotton to town, do yon fix tire
price you get? You do not. r
You find out what the buyers are will
ing to give. If you don’t take that, you ei
ther haul your cotton back home or put it
in ia" warehouse. So it is with everything
else you raise.
You take what is offered, or keep your
stuff.
This paragraph from the Dahlonega (Ga.)
Nugget tells the story :
“One of our farmers was telling us
last week about the sale of cotton. He
said upon hearing that cottdn had gone
up to twenty-five cents a pound he car
ried down a bale the next day and
found that it. had dropped two cents a
pound since the previous day. They can
afford to pay a big price for it oc
casionally in order to cause a rush by
the farmers, then drop a few cents And
make thousands of dollars in a day or
two. And when the sale gets slow
make another short raise.”
No other man in the world except the
farmer has so little to say about what he
shall get. .Merchants set their own prices
on their goods. They meet competition but
both they and their competitors always fig
ure to sell at a profit. The farmer doesn’t
figure at all. He takes what he is told.
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THE APLASIA I'lll-A I'.EhLY JOLKNAL
anything in Gospel, we run across farmers
who say: “None of this co-operative busi
ness for me. I always have sold my own
cotton and I'm a-going to keep on selling
it.”:
The men who say this have never SOLD
a bale of cotton in their lives. They’ve let it
all go at a price set by the buyer.
> Now put that in your pipe and smoke it
for a while.
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lected sending my subscription last month.
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shake hands and pass the time of day.
One of Georgia’s distinguished Superior
court jurists, Judge J. I. Summerall, died
while in the pulpit of the Telmore Baptist
church near Waycross, Sunday, November
30, and he could not himself have chosen
a more fitting end. He was at the point of
closing his sermon, when he hesitated, turn
ed to friends near him and requested a
glass of water. He fell to the floor and
died within a few moments.
Judge Summerall was one of the great
est friends of the rural churches of South
Georgia. He was a strong exponent of
what he termed “the country religion,”
where the people of the whole countryside
united to worship; where the women came
wearing their large bonnets, and many of
the men wore overalls and where the pure,
I simple doctrines were taught. It was in the
pulpit of one of these churches that he
died.
QUIZ
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ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q. What does a® aardvark look like?
A. The aardvark is a small animal be
longing to the anteater family and is a
native of South Africa. Its legs are like a
kangaroo’s, its ears are similar to those of
a burro and its head resembles a wolf. Its
diet is a mucilagino\is dish, the chief in
gredients of which are ants and grasshop
pers. Specimens are very rare in America,
but the Bronx Zoo in New York possesses
one of the few in this country. It is full
grown and cost a thousand dollars.
Q. How large is the throat of a whale?
W. ff. G.
A. The blue whale, the largest animal
[alive today, reaching a length in excess ot
NO feet, with a mouth so large that 10 to
12 men could stand therein, has a throat
but about 8 inches in diameter.
Q. Is -4t true that some savage tribes
file their teeth? G. S.
A. It is one of the many forms of mu
tilation which primitive peoples adopt, and
is referred to by many travelers. J. H.
Weeks in his book on Congo cannibals,
written in 1913, describes their chiselling
of the upper incisors to V shaped points.
Some only had two cut, while others had
all of the upper incisors ground away. They
believed that this operation made them look
! more beautiful. Caldez, who describes the
customs of the Madinfcoes, who live in Cen
tral Africa, says that when a man and
woman are about to be married a smith is
called in to sharpen the teeth of the per
sons betrothed. '
Q. What kind of a book is the “Book
of the Dead?” E. A.
A. The title “Book of the Dead” is re
garded as an unsatisfactory translation of
the original for the reason that the book
’is not a single book dealing exclusive’;
' with funeral rites, but it is a collection of
books and chapters treating of psychostasia
it; the “Double Hall” before Osiris: the
peregrinations of the Ka in the "Valley of
’the Shadow of Death” and the Osirian doc
i trine pf resurrection, etc. Sir Peter le Page
Renouf said: “It is not a book in the
, usual sense of the word: it is not a literary
whole, with a beginning, middle and end; it
is a mere unmethodical collection of re
ligious compositions (chapters) as inde
pendent of each other as the Hebrew
Psalms.”
Q. Are any of the seven wonders of the
world still in existence? T. G.
A. Only one of them remains today, the
i Great ryrmid of Cheops at Gizej, ,
THE SEA HAWK
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
I (rulilislied by Arrangement With First National Pictures,
Inc. Copy lighted by Uougliton-Mil'llin Company.)
CHAPTER XVI
Mother and Son
i
ARIA’ on the morrow—so early that |
scarce had the Shehad been recited— ’
came Biskaine-el-Borak to the Dasha. >
E
i He had just landed from a galley which had
I come upon a Spanish fishing boat, aboard ’
j of which there was a young Morisco, who i
' was being conducted overseas to Algiers. ’
[ The news of which the fellow was the bear- :
ier was of such urgency that for twenty :
’ hours without intermission the slaves bad
■ toiled at the oars of Biskaine’s vessel—the. j
capitana of his fleet—to bring her swiftly
i home.
The Morisco had a cousin—a New-Chris-;
tian like himself, and like himself, it would [
appear, still a Moslem at heart —who v.:
employed in the Spanish trey ary at Mai:.;.::. ■
This man had knowlcd e that a galley a. as'
fitting out for sea to convey to Naples the :
gold destined for the pay of the Spanish ;
troops in garrison there. Through par. . rnony ;
the treasuree-galley was to be afforded no es- ,
cort, but was under orders to hug the coast ■
of Euror/e, where she should be safe from
all piratical surprise. It was judged that
she.would be ready to put to sea in a week,
and the Morisco had set out. at. once to,
bring word of it to his Algerine brethren
that they might intercept and,capture her.
Asad thanked the .young Morisco for his
news, bade him be housed and cared for.
and promised him a handsome share of the ■
plunder should the treasure-galley be cap
tured. That done he sent lor Sakr-elßahr,
whilst Marzak, who had been present at the
interview, went With the tale of it to his
mother, and beheld her fling into a passion
when he added that it was Sakr-el-Bahr had
been summoned that he might be entrusted
with this fresh expedition, thus proving that
all her crafty innuendoes and insistent
warnings had been so much wastd labor.
With Marzak following at Tier heels, she
swept like a fury into the darkened room
where Asad took his ease.
“What is this I hear, O my lord?” she
cried, in tone and manner more the Euro
pean shreiv than the submissive Eastern
slave. “Is Sakr-el-Bahr to go upon this ex
pedition against the treasure-galley of
Spain?”
Reclining on the divan he looked her up j
and down with a languid eye.
“Dost know of any better fitted to suc
ceed?” quoth he.
“I know of one whom, it is my lord s duty
to prefer to that foreign adventurer. One
who is entirely faithful and entirely to be
trusted. One who does not attempt to re
tain for himself a portion of the booty gar
nered in the name of Islam."
"Bah!” said Asad. “Wilt thou talk forever
of those two slaves? And who may be this
paragon of thine?”
"Marzak,” she answered fiercely, flinging
out an arm to drag forward her son. “Is he to
waste his youth nfere in softness and idle
ness? But yesternight that ribald mocked
him with hi§ lack or scars. Shall he take scars
in the orchard of the Kasbah here? Is he to (
be content with those that come from the j
scratch of a bramble, or is he to learn to be j
a fighter and leader of the Children of the ,
Faith that himself he may follow in the
path his father trod?”
“Whether he so follows,” said Asad, “is as
the Sultan of Istambul, the Sublime Portal,
i shall decree. We are but his vieeregents
i here.”
j "But shall the Grand Sultan appoint him
!to succeed thee if thou hast not equipped
j him so to do? I cry shame on thee, O father
I of Marzak, for that thou art lacking in due
pride in thine own son.”
"May Allah give me patience with thee!
Have 1 not said that he is stll over young.”
“At this age thyself thou Avert upon the
seas, serving with the great Ochiali.”
\"At his age I was, by the favor of Allah,
taller and stronger than is he. 1 cherish him
too dearly to let him go forth and perchance
be lost to me before his strength is full
grown.”
"Look at him,” ..she commanded. "He s a
man, Asad, and such a son as another might
take pride In. Is it not time he girt a
scimitar about his waist and trod the poop
of one of thy galleys?” , t
“Indeed, indeed, O my father!” begged
i Marzak himself.
"What?” barked the old Moor. "And is it
| so? And wouldst thou go fort'll then against
j the Spaniard? What knowledge hast thou
[ that shall equip thee for such a task?”
"What, can his knowledge be since his
father has never been concerned to school
him?” returned Fenzileh. "Dost thou sneer
at shortcomings that are the natural fruits
of thine own omissions?”
"1 will be patient with thee,” said Asad,
showing every sign of losing patience. "1 will
ask thee only if in thy judgment he is in
case to win a victory for Islam? Answer me
straightly now.”
“Straightly I answer thee that he is not.
And, as straightly, 1 tell thee that it is full
time he were. Thy duty is to let him go
upon this expedition that he may learn the
trade that lies before him.”
Asad considered a moment. Then:
“Be it so,” he answered slowly. “Shalt
set forth, then, with Sakr-el-Bahr, my son.”
"With Sakr-el-Bahr?” cried Fenzileh
aghast.
"I could find him no better preceptor.”
“Shall thy son go forth as the servant of
another?”
“As the pupil,” Asad amended. “What
i else?"
j "Were I a man. O fountain of my soul,”
I said she, “and had I a son, none but my
self should be his preceptor. I should so
I mould and fashion him that he should be an-
I other me. That, O my dear lord, is thy duty
I to Marzak. Entrust not his training to an
other, and to one whom despite thy love for
him I can not trust. Go forth thyself upon
this expedition with Marzak here for thv
kayia.”
Asad frowned.
"I grow too old,” he said. “I have not
been upon the seas these two years past.
Who can say that I may not have lost the
art of victory? No, no.”
He shook his head, and his face grew
overcast and softened by wistfulness.
"Sakre-l-Bahr■ commands this time, and if
Marzak goes, he goes with him.”
"My lord—” she began, then checked.
A Nubian had entered to announce that
Sakr-el-Bahr was come and was Availing the
orders of his lord in the courtyard. Asad
rose instantly and for all that 1*» r:
greatly daring as ever, would still have de
tained him. he shook her off impatiently,
[ and Avent out.
She matched his departure with anger in
that Avent near to filming th min’ tears, and
after he had passed out into the glaring sun
shine beyond the door, a silence dwelt in
'the cool, darkened chamber—a silence dis
turbed only by distant trills of silvery laugh
ter from the lesser women of the" Baha's
house. The sound jarred her taut nerves.
She moved with an oath and beat her hands
' together. Io answer her came a necress,
lithe and muscular as a wrestler and’naked
to the waist: the slave-irng in her ear was a
massive gold.
•Bid the nimake an end of that s r- ech-
Ing.” she snapped to vent some of her fierce
petulance. "Tell them I will havo th? rods
to them if they egain disturb me.”
The *necress/went out. and silenre follow
ed. for those other lesser ladies of the
were more obd: nt to the
RHEUMATISM CURED BY A DOSE OF SUNLIGHT '
ADISON, V. Is. —Evon pigs need the
sun. Recently doctors proved that
children who Avere allowed to play in !
M
[ the v sunlight Aven e not troubled Avith rickets,
; or malformation of the bones.
: And now I'rof. Harry Steenbock, E. S. j
I Hart and j. H. Jones, of the University of i
Wisconsin, lu/'e, have proved that sunshine I
: is a preventive of the rickets, or rheumatism,
j common to hogs in northern states.
Dr. Steenbock in a series of experiments
• with rats had recently demonstrated that
foods exposed to sunlight, can be used as ti
[ cure for -rickets. It remained, to be deter
mined AVhether or not exposing the pigs to
i sunlight would have the same effect.
| Twenty-four pigs, reds and blacks, were :
[ used for the experiment. To discover wheth
er it was tlm sunlight alone that prevented i
the disease they were divided into groups of
: six. Two of these groups were fed on yelloAV I
corn, which is rich in antirachitic vitamin, ;
’ the other two were fed on white corn, Avhich ’
contains less of the antirachitic vitamin.
, Two of these groups were placed in
: “dark" pens and two in light. The “dark” ;
[ pens could not be considered dark in- the .
i crinary sense of the word, but the pigs in ’
''them Avere shielded from the direct Avays of
i the sun. Both groups Avere placed in inside ’
pens Avith outdoor runways. The outdoor
cunAvays of the pigs kept in the dark were;
roofed over Avith composition roofing, which j
kept off the direct rays of the sun.
The range of the experiment was from
June to January. The time is important, as
the intensity of ultra-violet solar radiation
varies decidedly Avith the season of the year.
Rickets occur in children most often in the
i seasons when the sunlight contains less of
the ultrafrviolet ■ rays.
j As a criterion of progress the pigs Avere
weighed every tAvo Aveeks.
i / A great irregularity in growth was showr
varying Avith the reserves of vitamin stored
up by the animal from birth. It is impossi-
i hie to produce rickets in any animal that
has been long fed a ration rich in vitamin
before the experiment. Dr. Steenbock con-1
■ eludes that ultra-violet light can substitute“
I for the vitamin preventing rickets but not
for the vitamin (A) Avhich .promotes growth,
and that in spite of radiation, growth Avill
, cease on exhaustion of stored reserves of
! vitamin A.
The yelloAV corn group grew better than
; the one on white com. In the yelloAV corn
i group light Avas found to be extremely bene
ficial to the animals. Little by little, the
i pigs kept in the -dark stiffened until they
i could hardly walk, even provq
’ cation.
On microscopic examination the bones o!
all pigs that lived in the light were seen to
have a more regular structure and better
arrangement of tissue than those that lived
in the dark.
The experimenters conclude that “light in
the absence of a sufficiency of the antirachi
tic vitamin is an important factor to consider
in swfne industry. In fact, there remains ;
no question, in vieA\ r of the conditions under [
Avhich pigs are generally kept and fed in ,
THAT NEW “ROTOR SHIP”—HOW IT OPERATES
ERLIN, Dec. 4. —A seventy-year-old
scientific principle, easily understood
by anyone Avho knows anything about
!B
baseball, is tjie trick that underlies the new
, “Rotor” shfp invented by’ Anton Flettner,
' according to German engineers and scientists
! who have examined the sensational-causing
! craft. The smooth surfaces of the great
; cylindrical “rotors,” spinning in the wind,
increase pressure on one side and decrease
it on the other, just as the surface of the
rapidly’ rotating basball piles up a differ
ence of pressure on its two sides and causes
it to drift into a curve-
That, say the scientists, is all there is to
it. ' The persistent stories of a “windmill
ship,” whose towers are somehow turned by’
the air current, or which contain inside their
! smooth walls paddlewheels that are so turned,
and which drive underwater propellers,
are all imaginative and incorrect attempts
to explain a very simple thing that looks
myserious just because it is unfamiliar in
I its present application.
i The two tall, cylindrical objects that look
'like immense smokestacks, are the only’ pro
pellers the ship needs. They are spun on
thir axes by small electric motors —20 horse
power is alb the present ship employs. As
-they’ spin, they tend to carry’ a layer "of air
around with them. In calm wehther, this
air would simply keep rotating about with
the rotors, and nothing would happen. But
when a wind is blowing, which would split
and flow equally on both sides of the rotors
| if they were stationary, more of the air is
turned with the direction of rotation than
| against it. That is, tire wind is split un
■ equally. The part that travels along with
j the surface of the rotor blows faster, mo
j mentarily, than the part that travels ag inst
the direction of motion of the other sidey
| The wind that has it; motion slowed down
naturally tends to pile up pressure at the
point where the slowing occurs, while the
wind that is helped to flow faster tends to
; lowei* pressure at the point where the
“boost” is given. When the wind is blow
ing across the ship, the rotors are revolved
;in such a direction that the pressure will
ibe built up behind them and lowered in
front, so that the craft moves forward.
This effect is known various’y as the
“Magnus” and the “Bernouli” principle,
from the scientists who first made critical
I examinations of the phenomena, in the mid
dle of the nineteenth century. It has been
’’noted in the drift down the wind of rapidly
rotating rifle bullets and Artillery proje -
■ i tiles, and all army range tables allow for it.
' But Herr Flettner is the first, so far as
• known, to attempt a commercial applica
’ [ tion.
Ono incidental advantage is claimed for
the rotor ship that sets it ahead of either
steam or sailing vessels. It can be turned
on its own center by’ rotating the towers in
opposite directions. It is claimed also that
the ship can be stopped very quickly’ by re
versing the direction of rotation of the tow
ers. This, is somewhat analogous to the
stopping of a steamer by’ reversing the screw,
and is a feature absent from sailing ships.
There has been considerable question as to
the stability of a rotor ship in a storm, but
the inventor claims that the surface exposed
to the tempest by the rotors is not so great
as that exposed by he bare rigging of a close
sailing ship.
Since rotor ships must have wind m order
to move, they would be competitors only’ ” ’
sailing ships. Since the pressure difference
must always be built up by a wind blowing
commands of Fenzileh than to those of the
Basha himself.
Then she drew her’ son to the fretted
lattice commanding the courtyard, a' screen
from behind which they’ could see and hear
all thta passed out yonder. Asad was speak
ing, informing Sakr-el-Bahr of what he had
learned and what there was to c<».
“How -mon canst thou put to sea again?”
he ended.
“.\s soon as the s.ervice of Allah and thy
self require,” was the prompt answer.
“It is well, my son.”
Asad a hand affectionately upon the
corsair's shoulder, entirely conquered by this
readiness.
“Best set out at sunrise tomorrow. Thou’ll
need so long to make thee ready for the
Continued Thursday. Reno" your sub
. scription now to avoid missing a chapter.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9,102 L
northern climes, that more attention should
be paid to illumination.” —Science Service.
SIAMESE FIGHTING FISH
LONDON. —One of the latest curiosities to
arrive at the London Zoological Gardens is
a pair of fighting fish from Siam.
Normally this fish is quite dull in color,
but when another male of the species draws
soil.”
Although experiments have been perform
ed on apricot, plum, lemon, orange and pear
trees and on barley and Avheat during the
past two and a half years, no announcement
5 of results has heretofore been made.
Trees can be pepped us as well as fed by
[ the injections. I’rof. Lipman x said that cal
i cium. and potassium salts have a stimulating
effect when injected. Large quantities of so
| lutior.s can be absorbed by the trees. One
’ pear tree Avas persuaded to soak up over
sixty quarts of clfemicals in twenty-four
I hours.
The insect menace is to be'combated by
the now injection method. Prof. Lipman
next plans to experiment with solutions of
'chemicals that are known to be toxic to
injurious insects but not harmful to the
[ trees. The trees injected Avith the poison
ous liquid Avill become poisoned bait to ma
rauding scale insects or other harmful pests
I and thus Avill become self-protective.—
[ Science Service.
near, its body suddenly gloAVs with the most
brilliant metallic colors minglecf with scarlet,
purple, and gold. The two males fight des
perately until one or the other gains the
victory. The conqueror then parades up and
dOAvn in- all his gorgeous Avar panoply, which
only gradually changes back to the original
drab color.
In Siam the breeding of fighting fish is an
important industry, and large bets are made
on the result of fights, conducted under
rules as stringent as those of cock fighting.
It is not often that a fish comes twice into
the arena, because even if victorious he is
i usually so seriously damaged as to be unfit
* to fight again.—Science Service.
GENERATE OWN GAS
PARIS.—-The high cost of gasoline is driv
ing French firms operating large fleets of
trucks and busses to seek ether types of fuel.
One response to this need has been the de
velopment of portable gas plants using such
materials 'as poAvdered coal, sawdust and
poAvdered charcoal for the production of a
gaseous fuel v.hich may be used instead of
the costly liquid kinds.
One or two types of “gazogene,” as the
new apparatus is called, utilize low grade
gasoline and crack it by heat, but the ma
jority of them use the powdered solids. So
far no type of “gazogene” has been evolved
suftable for pleasure cars, for the apparatus
is comparatively bulky and has no more
beauty about it than an olu-fashioned air
tight stove; but for the larger vehicles its
use is becoming increasingly popular. About
[ seventeen firms have placed “gazogene ’ mod
[ els on the market. —Science Service.
across the ship in order to move it forward,
the rotor ship is like the sailing vessel in
that it cannot stfll directly into a head wind,
I but must tack across it. The sailing vessel
i has the advantage when the wind is directly
i astern, for then it can sail directly before it,
I whereas a stern wind is almost a>s useless to
the rotor as is a head wind.
Herr Flettner claims that this slight ad
vantage is offset by the greater speed of his
vessel, by its greater cheapness of construc
i tion, and above all by’ the very small crew
required as compared with the men on a
sailing ship. He states that operating costs
for a rotor ship should be eighty per cent
lower than those for a sailing ship of the
same tonnage.
The ship used in the demonstrations of
the new/levice is the yacht “Buckau,” of 600
registered tons, built by the Krupp-Germania
shipyard at Hamburg. The rotors are tall
cylinders of sheet iron, approximately nine
I feet in diameter by sixty in height, one lo
cated forward and the other aft, and geared
to turn on a central shaft by electric motor
drive. The trial trip, which Herr Flettner
I claims was a full success, was made from
Hamburg to Eckernfoerde. He states that a
' speed was attained, with the rotors running
ion 20 horsepower, equivalent to that of a
!screw-driven ship of the same size running
[on 1,000 horsepower.
Herr Flettner is an engineer with at least
, one successful invention to his credit
i already. During the World war he devised
a type of balanced rudder for aircraft, which
by employing small auxiliary vanes caused
the main rudder surface to turn itself by
the force of the air currant as it streamed
past. This device, which required but little
muscular force on the part of the pilot to
operate it, has since been widely adopted in
airplane and has also been
modified for use on'ships. It was in an en
deavor to adapt the same idea, to the han
dling of sailing vessels that Herr Flettner
was led to the application of the Magnus
principle and the invention of the “rotor.”
The inventor is now raising funds for the
‘construction of a 10,000-ton ship which he
states will make the pioneer voyage to Amer
ica.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Government sci
entists in the Bureau of Standards, the
Weather Bureau, and the Navy Department,
have adopted an attitude regarding the Flett
ner invention, which though not entirely
skeptical is distinctly cautious. The Magnus
or Bernouli principle, they say, is common
place and perfectly well known; but pre
liminary' calculations, based on formulas
known at present, do not seem to indicate
the development of very large amounts of
power. They are for the most part adopting
a “watchfully wait’ng” attitude. —Science
Service.
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irving S. Cobb
They tell me this is an old one, but so
far as I am concerned it’s new. I heard it
for the first time ofily the other day.
A millionaire was addfessing his Sunday’
school class. You may’ have noticed that
quite a good many of our millionaires, in
their maturer years, do teach Sunday school
classes.
Now this particular millionaire was re
ported in his earlier days to have been
something of a financial freebooter. But
all that was in the past. At present he
fairly dripped with the concentrated es
sences of piety.
“Young gentlemen,” he was saying, “I
am going to give you the secret of my own
success as a pattern to you. It may be
summed up in a single short word. All that
I have, been, all that I am today—my posi
tion in the business world, my prestige in
industrial circles, ,my affluence —I owe to
one thing and one thing alone—pluck.
Pluck, pluck, pluck—let that be your motto.”
A new member of the class raised a hand.
“But how—” he asked, .“how will we find
the right ones to pluck?”
(Copyright, 1924.)
Society novels seldom make a hit. A novel !
in order to succeed must be bright enough
‘ to be already; entertaining. 4
PREHISTORIC AILMENTS
By H. Addington Bruce .
NOWLEDGE of the diseases affecting
prehistoric man and his animal pred
ecessors is, of course, confined to the
K
disease-indications visible in bone and fossil
remains. Os the presence and extent of
maladies not affecting the skeletal structure,
no information is obtainable at this distance
of time.
But it may Avarrantably be inferred that
many among those that now are of common
occurrence Avere more or less in evidence
in long remote epochs. Foj- this has been
shoAvn to be true of sundry bone-affecting
diseases widespread at the present day.
Even some diseases popularly supposed to
be comparatively modern hark back in
reality to the dawn of mankind. Among
such, for example, may be cited the related,
diseases of dental decay, dental abscesses,
and pyorrhea. *
Such diseases may be, and in all proba
bility are, far more common than in early
antiquity. But the fact remains that proof
of their presence in antiquity has been ob
tained from skulls of men of the old stone
age, as also from remains of cave bears,
cave lions, and other cave-inhabiting ani
mals.
Dental decay has even been found in a
Florida mastodon, and signs of dental ab
scess in a tooth of the Cohoes mastodon
preserved in the state museum at Albany.
More than this, according to paleopatholo
gists, dental disease Avas fairly frequent
among fossil in vertebrates of still earlier
geological epochs. Commoner, though, both
among men and animals, were various types
of arthritis, causing pain, swelling , and
sometimes marked deformity.
. At least one kind of ancient swimming
reptile, the mosasaur, experienced the misery
of arithritic pains, suffering in some cases
from a multiple arthritis Avith joint SAvell
ings. And though the.reptiles in due course
vanished, arthritis persisted to afflict the
earth's later inhabitants.
It brought misery to both the men of the
old stone age and those of the neAv stone
age. The cave animals likewise kne:v its
pangs. In fact, Moodie informs us that
spondylitis deformans was “extremely com
mon” among the cave bears of Europe. Nor
Avas arthritis, Avith kindred maladies con
fined to Europe. Evide’nce of it is seen in
the so-called Lansing man, of Kansas.
Tuberculosis is another disease of ancient
lineage, tubercular lesions having been de
tected in the bones oj! cave animals. As
far back as the cretaceous age osteomye
litis Avas known. Scoliosis Avas a malady of
men of the new stone age, and marks of
the ravages of syphilis have been discovered
in bones of the Mound Builders.
Space prohibits the citation of further in
teresting discoveries by the paleopatholo
gists, all of them going to emphasize the
antiquity of maiiy of the chief diseases that
harry modern civilized man.
THE CREED OF POWER
By Dr. Frank Crane
OME, say this with me. Bet us join
hands, face the tempest and repeat oar
creed, the Creed 6f Power.
c
I am backed by Power, vast, unconquer
able, irresistible Power.
Suns are behind me, galaxies, whirling
fire-mists.
Great winds, oceans and rivers bear on
me.
Multitude--', races, nations, the numberless
millions of ail them that have strived brave
ly, are in my blood.
Revolutions, martyrs, victorious rebellions
are back of me.
I am the forward-thrown wave of almighty
force.
That which launched my personality into
life’s struggle is Destiny. No one can re
sist her. She moves through the swarms-of
men as the elephant through the reeds of
: the jungle. Stand aside! It is pot 1 who
am coming, it is Destiny advancing me, her
pawn.
I. care not what is the purpose of this or
■ that in the world, of government, institu
tions, armies; nor what is to be the fate of
. America or Germany or Japan; ho?, what is
to become of the stars and the moon; it is
I, I, in whom are concentrated the inten
tions of the universe; the universe meant
for me to live, to love, to do, and to tri
;• uniph.
It is for me to keep heart and keep step,
to play the hero, and “having done all, to
L stand.” So doing, I sweep all before me,
[ the breath of the All fills my sails, the
- muscle of the All swings my battle-axe.
■I am I. I amhiot a. little exclusive I, but
, the great inclusive, allied I. If this is ego
[ tism it is cosmic egotism.
, It is the play of the stellar electricity In
[ my soul.
It is the central heat of the planet warm
ing my being.
Behind me, bearing me pn, is Power*
. This Power energizes me, it is within me.
It throbs like a locomotive, it hums like a
, high-powered motor, it roars dull and deep
, as a blast-furnace. I can hear it in the
night-watches, a rumble as of distant thun
der. 'Nor men, nor events, nor death-, nor
the machinations'' of the devil can dismay
me. Worlds mean nothing to me. Re
moved from this earth*’dead, 1 shall expect
’ new planets as Tootholds for my forces. / I
shall not be disappointed. Nature destroys
no force; she only changes its mode of mo
tion.
This, therefore, is my craed. I look into
myself, and if I find in me any goodness,
nobleness, any love, any upleaping
ambition to create, I laugh, for these things
are fragments of supernatural radium, of
everlastingly outpouring power.
1 have learned the lesson- of lessons. It
is never to- be afraid of God.
j I have taken this Power idea as my own.
j all the rags and trappings
of heathenism from it. I have discovered
its shattering stellar beauty. I have found
out it is what men call—GOD.
I (Copyright, 1924.) ’
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
Two artists were- wandering about Spain.
One day, after a long walk, they arrived at.
a shabby little house in a village near a big
town.
They could not talk a word of Spanish,
and were half dead with thirst. The sun
'-as so hot that they did not dare to drink
wine, so they decided to get some milk. One
of them drew on a sheet of paper the picture
of a cow. lhe other jingled some coins in
, his pocket.
Ihe proprietor went out making signs that
he understood.
He returned later with two tickets for a
bullfight!
The soldiers marched to the church and
halted in the square outside. One wing of
the edifice was undergoing repairs, so there
was room for only half the regiment.
ordered the major, “tell the
men who don't want to go to church to fall
out.”
A large number quickly availed themselves
of the opportunity.
“Now, sergeant.” said the major, “dismiss
nil the men who did not fall out and piarch
! the others in—(they need it most.”