The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-01

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The master bakers recently in SEES
sion at st. Louis, decided, for hygienic
reasons to quit pasting paper labels
on loaves of bread. This will also, 1t
Is believed, materially lessen the
amount of profanity current among
the male consumers.
The famous mince pie suit in Penn
sylvania has been settled at last and
the man who ate a quarter OF one
goes free. There were probably ex
tenuating circumstances that had
much weight with the court, the Age
Herald comments.
And now comes the announcement
that the Japanese army will not go
into winter quarters. Judging from
the way the Japs keep right on buck
ing the center regardless of the wea'
Their, one would suspect that the Japs
regard this war as a football game.
The worlds farming land is being
taken up at a great rate. But few
large areas nov remain open In reg.
ions suited to the white races. In a
generation or two the land owners
will hardly be the aristocrats and the
others will hardly be able to realize
that good farms " e went begging
for owners, concludes the Massachu'
sets Ploughman.
When farming is on the right foun.
dation, there is no such word as fall.
First, the man: his brains, energy
and hard work. Second, the farm: its
location, quality and fitness. Third.
the equipment: enough for the pur
pose and the best of its kind, but no
dollars idly invested. Fourth, the sys.
tenn: a connected, fs~r-sighted plan.
Nothing wasted. Nothing begun with.
out thinking it out to the end.
The news comes from Texas that
mosquitoes have completely stopped
the operation of n Of the Southern
railroads, the section men being alto
gether unable to attend to their du-
ties. Whether the mosquitoes are un'
ion or non-union isn't stated, but the
tale should bring comfort to anybody
who thinks mosquitoes are bad in this
neighborhood.
Much of the best Eastern farming
talent is being directed to dairying, in
Guiding the production Of milk for the
wholesale markets. These, with poul
try, fruit and vegetables, are fast be-
coming the money products of the
whole section, the Massachusetts
Ploughman asserts.
What date is this? asks ST. Nicho
las. OF course you would say 1904,
but If that is meant to denote the
number of years since the Christian
era it is probably wrong. Look In
some good authority and see If this
year should not rightly be at least
1908. It is worth your Investigation
if it happens to be a subject you have
not yet carefully considered.
The London Telegraph says the ap'
pearance Of several fair-sized spots on
the sun coincidently with the recent
spell of warm weather induced a we'll
known Partisan astronomer to suggest,
not for the first time, that solar spots
were the cause of the heat. If the
variation of solar energy as shown by
the spots has any effect on terrestrial
weather. the connection can scarcely
be so direct as this assumed relation
would imply; but it would be unscien'
tifc to deny any relation whatever be-
between the two things. In the last
forty years the summers which stand
out in the Greenwich records as pre-
eminently hot are those of 1865, 1868,
1870, 1872, 1876, 1884, 1887, 1893, and
perhaps 1900. The years of maxi
mum sun spots, according to accepted
authorities, were 1850, 1870, 1884, 1884,
and there Is one now at hand. The
connection is not very apparent, al
though there are some condolences.
The month of July in the year 1881
was remarkable meterologically, as the
thermometer rose above 80 degrees on
four days of the month, and reached
81 degrees on the 18th. There were a
few spots on the sun then, as there
are now, but though the spots in
creased, the temperature went down.
Those who would explain the meteoro-
logical variations by sur spot changes
must not forget-as they usually do
that hot and dry or cold and wet wea-
Their are fully accounted for by the
presence of high or low pressure areas
of the atmosphere. No matter what
spots there might be, with the
a~nticyclone that has hung over these
islands for the last three weeks we
should have calm, dry, and warm
weather any time in summer. In 1898
these conditions gave a remarkable
spell of high temperature in Septem
Der. The question to be solved is,
therefore, what causes high and low
atmospheric pressure. and have sun
spots anything to do with either?
There exists simply no evidence; mere
condolences aretof the slightest value.
III substropical INMATES, like Austria.
ia. the case may be very different, and