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String Important in Japan.

From the New York Tribune.
Writing from Japan, an American says:
You must come here to appreciate some
of the quaint customs and usages which
contact with other people has not yet
driven out. To read about them gives
you only a poor idea. For instance, did
you ever know. what an important thing a
piece of string is here? The children.
workmen, idlers, servants, all carry
pieces of string for use in case of emer-
gency. With us the emergency would
arise only when a parcel had to be done
up, but the Jap uses his piece of string
as a first aid to the injured, to repair a
rent in his clothing, TO ax broken-down
jinrikisha, to mend tools, to take meas
urements. and. in fact, the string is his
universal tool chest. The queerest use to
which it is put. according to my way OF
thinking. is when a police officer arrests
"A man. ties a bit OF string around the ar
rested mans wrist and then leads him by
the loose end of the thin hempen fetter to
the lookup. You ask: Why doesn't the
Jap crook break the string and find a
gateway He could, but he would not.
That's where his respect for the law
comes in, and the bit of string holds the
man as securely as though he were man.
acled by our own humane chilled steel,
nickel plated and snap-locked method"
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The G4roscope Principle.
From ST. Nicholas.


A practical application of this tendency
of rotating bodies TO preserve the direc.
ton of their axes has been made in Ger.
many to the compasses used on shipooard-
The needle of the ordinary mariners COM
pass is very sensitive. This has been
necessary hitherto in order that IL should
maintain its direction toward the north
during the motion of the ship as il moves
about in different directions. II has been
found. however. THAI the rolling and VIE
bration OF a ship interfered with the
needle. IL the waves were rolling high.
the needle was apt to become unreliable
because OF its greet sensitiveness to
shocks. However. If when the needle vas
knswn to be In an undisturbed condition,
II il connected properly with a gyroscopic
wheel kept continually in motion. this
wheel would hold the needle to it's true
position. The usual shocks on shipbcard
would have practically no effect. Expert
ments have been made abroad in this
connection. especially with the Anschut1
compass. The results Of these experi.
ments have been very favorable.
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the size Of the body-which has a direct
How do you measure the brain capac-
ity Of skull?'
1.-The process is very technical. The
skull is filled with dried mustard seed
and so manipulated that the seeds be-
come thoroughly packed. They are then
poured into a vessel with funnel and a
valve In the bottom This vessel is placed
On the top OF graduated jar. the valve
Is opened and the seeds fall into tie jar
at a uniform rate. 4 piston levels them
in the jar and their volume is read upon
the scale on the side. Their volume rep
resents the volume Of the brain case from
which they were poured"
Does not head high above the ear
indicate superior brain capac!ty@'
mot al all. When an infant is kept
upon it's back a long tim. it's back head
becomes compressed. with the result that
its whole head becomes higher. broader
and shorter. Interference with the de-
velopment OF the head in ere direction
Is compensated for by growth in another.
II not due to some pathological cause
was doubtless the result Of compensation
for some shortening of his head. Here
Is a Navajo Indian skull. with markedly
high development OF forehead. due to that
tribes custom of keeping it's children ly-
Ing upon their backs on cradleboards for
long periods: and here is an opposite type.
skull Of Peruvian. with a grotesque
sloping forehead, artificially produced by
head bandages Various primitive peo-
pies. even among our own race. thus
nodded the heads of their infants accord
ing to the fashions and ideas of beauty
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Buried Treasures.
1T was announced some days ago that
Mississippi planter. near Macon. by

Ut was announced some days ago tnat
Mississippi planter. near Macon. by
i the strange revelation of dream.
found 81. 100 in gold eagles that was lost
In concealment in 1855, when the Union
armies passed through Mississippi at the
close of the civil war.
This find serves to recall that mother
EARTH old hollow logs and caves In Inc
south may yet contain much valuable
treasure in gold and jewelry that was
lost in the confusion and excitement OF
concealm during those stormy days
Many heads of families in the Interior
of the gulf states. fearing the invasion
of the Union armies from the captured
and evacuated forts in the south. con-
cealed Their valuables in various ways,
principally by burying them in the
ground. where. in many instances. they
lay for months after the armies had
passed through.
In the meantime. the persons who did
the hiding, in many cases. had gone into
the military service of the state. Many of
them never returned 10 locate the exact
spot of concealment thus losing all trace
of their buried gold or household treasure.
In many instances the immediate
members of a family Were not informed
of the exact place of concealment. the
secret resting alone with the family head,
In cases of this sort the loss was fire.
quently absolute.
Some years ago a valuable old-hea6ed
cane belonging to family i'm Gergia. was
found in the cavity of large chestnut
tree standing in an old orcha rd place. The
head of that family had served in the
Mexican war with Gems. Grant and Lee.
and the cane bore Mexican war inscrip-
ton. which made Ii a valuable reminder
Of another war. The father had passed
away in the closing months of the war.
and the secret died with him. 1t was not
discovered until a few years. ago. when a
general decay Of the tree trunk revealed
the cane.
A few years ago. in an old stump near
a once palatial home in southern Ala
bama. was found, in a tin box. the hand
some sum of $4,000 in confederate money.
and some gold pieces to the value OF $tW.
The money was concealed by 4 wealthy
planter of that state just prior to Gen.
Wilson's march through southern Ala
bama TO Montgomery. Just previous to
that time the planter had Joined the Con-
tolerate forces at Fort Blakeiy. and was
lost in that battle. The money was in a
fair state OF preservation. although con-
cealed for over thirty years.
The planter had sold some cotton to the
Co; federate government in 1854. His FAM
lily knew Of the money, but had long srce
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A. then sank suddenly to the tenth magni-
tude. and gradually heightened 10 the
eighth. IL Is still visible as yellow, va
riabie, eighth magnitude star.
The Constellation Draco.
This is the best month of the year to
trace out the long constellation Draco.
which. as Vergil wrote. ''Giides away
with tortuous windings around and be-
tween the Bears AS now known. the
head of the Dragon is marked by the four
bright stars at S. the body extending
after various convolutions to the tip of
the tail at C., but to the early Chafdeans
II was even much longer. surrounding
both of the bears and extending down
ward and In front of the larger of these.
1t Is group of enormous antiquity. men
toned in the Book Of Job as the Crooked
Serpent. and known to the Babylonians
as e monster personifying primeval chaos.
which was finally overcome by great
wind driven with huch force into his open
Jaws that It split him In two. In north
temperate latitudes the constellation never
sets: the Greeks therefore saw in 1t a.
an emblem Of eternal viSilancs the Drag
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which the North Pole of the heavens is
slowly moving. The pole passes COM
pletely around the circle in %, 500 years.
1t has now reached a position near Po-
iaris, SO that this is our present North
Star; in 300 years-that is. about the
year 4.2OO-it will have reached the bright
star at G. and after $4,000 years have
passed away It will be hear the brilliant
Vega at H, which will be magnificent
Pole Star. indeed. Looking backward, we
see that the stars of the Dragon were
formerly much nearer the pole of the
heavens that at present. About 2750
B. c. the star at K was much nearer the
North Pole than our Polaris Is now. and
then the entire Dragon swung around
this central star as pivot as the hours
Of the night went by 1t was to this star
that the central passage of the Great
Pyramid was directed. In those days the
North Pole was so much nearer Draco
than now that the whole Southern Cross
was visible in our attitudes.
Variable Stars.
There are several most interesting varia-
BILE stars which will repay observation.
Two of the brightest of these are at L
and n Gig. -. both of which vary slight
ly more than one full magnitude in bright
ness. The former is faintest May T.
am. and May 10. pm: it is then
OF only the fifth magnitude One day
nine hours after this time /. flashes out in
full brightness. being then OF magnitude
30. the period being five days nine hours.
Similarly, the star at N varies from the
40 to 3.5 magnitude. the interval from
least to greatest brightness being three
days two hours. and the complete Eeriod
twelve days twenty-five hours The star
is faintest May >. pm, and May Ii. j
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skull whose internal volume Is small in
proportion to the body points in the
opposite direction"
Can you rate a living mans probable
mentality. then, by measuring his head
and comparing it with the size of his
body?"
No. The brain may not exactly CO.
incide with the external size Of the head.
The walls of the brain case may be thick
er in some persons than In others and
thus reduce the weight Of the brain below
what is apparent. 1t is the volume and
weight Of the brain which really count"
yet / have heard that .Gambetta had
an abnormally small BRAIN
His brain was badly preserved and
never weighed until after It was hardened
and had lost great deal of weight. His
does not throw any light upon the queS-
ton. The general rule is that races and
individuals of high mental attainment
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count very rarely has a forehead as
sloping as that of some men.
THE receding chin, too. is widely re-
garded as sign of mental weakness.
What about that?
There is. strange as it may sound.
really no such thing as a receding chin
in any adult lower jaw among human be-
ings. The only human skull ever found
to have q receding chin was the 'Nau-
lette skull-an ancient relic of primitive
man. discovered in France. In all other
human skulls of adult age. male and fe-
male ever found. the chin protrudes more
or less beyond the space above IT, Even
in infants the line is not receding and
often the chin has already slight promi-
nence. What is ordinarily termed a re-
ceding chin applies to the living only and
is in each case merely apparent. due
either to projecting teeth. to fullness Of
the Inns or lie soft tissues below them or
especially to the position of the lower
jaw. it's obliauity. which differs much,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-26
HE brilliant Dog-star and the
great winter groups of Taurus
and Orion have now disappeared

HE brilliant Dog-star and the
great winter groups of Taurus
and Orion have now disappeared
in the west. and the beautiful
Lesser Dog-star and the bright
group Gemini are SO closely following
Them that they, too. will only remain visi-
BILE for another month. The sun in his
slow eastward motion has drawn SO near
to the brilliant region of the sky that soon
these stars will only be above the ground
in the daytime and will. therefore. be in
visible to US. The bright spring group
Leo lies so far to the east that it is now
high up in the heavens and Will not en-
tirely disappear until next August. In
early times the sun entered this constella-
ton a month earlier than 1t does now.
and therefore passed through 1t during
the time of greatest heat in summer.
Then the lions Of the desert sought the
valley Of the Nile to escape the great
heat, and 1t is thought that from this the
name Of the constellation was derived.
Across the whole southern sky there
now stretches the great Water-snake,
bearing on his back the Cup and the I'M
fortunate Crow. who, according to the
legend is doomed. though so near the
Cup. to perpetual thirst. being prevented
by Hydra from drinking from 1t. From
this legend came the belief in early folk
lore that the crow alone among all the
birds did not carry water to its young.
Above Hydra may he seen the very
large groups of Virgo. the Serpent Holder
with the Serpent. Hercules and BOotes.
On one side OF the last is the beautiful
Northern Crown. or Ariadne's Crown, and
on the other the delicate Ii tie group
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prevailing among them. Any one. by
tying up an infants head in the proper
way. can mold it into almost any shape.
The skull always grows in the direction
of least resistance. Nature compensates
for interference in one place by greater
growth elsewhere. and the weight of the
brain remains the same. The size OF
the brain controls the size Of the skull
Where the brain in growing finds de-
creased resistance there will be a prom
insnce. and this il the only significance Of
a prominence at that point"
How about the 'retreating forehead?
1t is commonly supposed to indicate low
ment al caliber."
I'm many cases it is due merely to
unusual development of the bony ridges
over the eyebrows. These ridges are
Influenced in development by what are
known as the frontal sinuses'-hollow
spaces in the bone Of the forehead above
the root of the nose. These are never
pronounced in woman. who, on this ac-
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show cranial capacity above the general
average. while races and individuals with
small mental development have a cranial
capacity proportionately small. There
are. of course, exceptions, but this Is the
rule.
THE more an individual uses his brain
the greater is the influx Of blood to 1t
which -favors growth. and the volume of
the brain thus may continue to grow even
after maturity. and az 1t grows the brain
case must increase to give 1t room. Com
PARSONS made in France indicate that.
for instance, the average advanced STU
dents head is larger than that of the
average uneducated individual"
Brain Volume in Races.
How do you find the different races to
rank in volume of brain case?''
I'm general the white and yellow races
stand above the others. The smaller
brains are found In the Negrito, but here
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Fig. 5. The variatia. in br,sht.e.. Of


Algol.
passage of dark body between las and
the bright star. The variation of the
light of the first of these is shown in
Fig. 5.
The Planets.
The beautiful evening star Venus. now
the mos. brilliant object In the. heavens.
will pass from Taurus into Gemini during
the month. 1t Is rapidly changing in form
to a narrow crescent. May % 1t will at
tain its greatest brillianey and should be
easily visible in full daylight.
Mars also moves eastward among the
stars during the month. but more slowly
than Venus. 1t may be detected as a
faint. r0ddish star low down in the west.
but it b now. entirely too far from the
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concluded that the father had taken It
to Mobile when he Joined the state troops.
In the confusion and excitement in
many southern communities. in the spring
of 1865, from the progress OF the Union
troops to central points. there were nu-
merous such deposits made of valuabl
many of which, 1t is said. have never been
found
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earth to be observed with advantage In
the telescope
Jupiter is moving very slowly eastward
in the constellation Cancer, and through
out the entire month will be In excellent
position for observation.
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Fig. 2. The Path Of the North Pole
among the stars.
known as Berenice's Hair. Both of these
consultations are filled with important
and interesting Double-star systems.
many of which are visible in a small tele-
scope IL was just south Of the Star E
that In 1858 a remarkable new star ap-
peared which for eight days remained
brighter than the Pearl Of the Crown at
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perides.
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pm. The way in which the light of these
stars may be seen Is shown in Figs. and
4. The stars at p, r and r, instead of
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-09-24
Ni0bt SWeatS & Cough.

/. q. w. Walton, Condr. s. ?. Ky.. 7i1
Van Ness ST., San Antonio, Tex.,
writes: "During the summer and faIl
Of 1902, my annoyance from catarrn
reached that stage where it was actual
misery and developed alarming symp-
TOMS, such as a very deep-seated cough,
night sweats, and pains ia the head ana
chest. experimental with severalso-
called remedies before / finally decided
to take a thorough course Of Peruns.
"Twoof my friends had gone SO Tar Us
20 inform me that the thing for me to do
was to resign my position and seek .
higher, more congenial climate. Every
one thought I had consumption ana l
was not expected to live very long.
"Having procured some Peruna, l Dc
cided to give it @ thorough test and ap-
piled myself ~assiduously to the task OF
taking it, as per instructions, In the
meantime.
"Tho effects were o o apparent, al
alarming symptoms disappeared and
nv general health became fully as good
rs it had ever been in my life.
"I have resorted to the use OF Peruna
m two or three occasions since thai
time to cure myself of bad colds"
Peruna is sold by your local drug
gist. Buy a bottle today.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-09-24
A Dissatisfied Subscriber.

"I hereby offer my resignashun as
a subscriber to you're papier. It be-
ing a pamphlet Of such small konse-
quence as to beeit my family by
takin' it. What You need in you're
shete is brains and some one to rus
sci up news and rite editorials on
live topics No menshun has been
made in you're shete Of my butchern'
a pollen china pig weigin' 369
pounds or the gapes in the chickens
round here, you ignore that bought
a BRAN new bob sled, and that i
sold my blind mule, and say nothin'
about it. Hi Simpkin's jersey calf
broke his two front legs fallin' in
a we'll, two important chiverees have
been utterly ignored by you're sheta
& a 3 column obitchuary notis rit by
me on the death Of grandpa Henry,
was left out Of your shete to say
nothin' of the alfabetical poem be-
ginning "a is for And and also fol-
Ark" rit by me darter. This is the
reason you're papier is so unpopular
in town. If you kant rite eddytorials
& amt goin' to put 40 news in you're
shete we don't want sade shete
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-09-24

. WHY THE RICH !
. HELP THE POOR

1--WE have got to find out what our
emotion really is when we are I'M
pelled to help the poor, to do the
sort Of modified charity by which we
hone to beat our way into bliss. 10
It pity for the poor, OF is it pity Q
ourselves? Is it generosity, or sell
ashness? Is it to give them rel1ef,
or to escape from a sense OF q
guilty advantage which we seem TO.
be enjoying through their misfor-
tuner"
81 should say that IL we were sorry
for them, it was no harm to be sorry.
for ourselves, too. We are sorry pc
cause we put ourselves in their place;
and all the good in the world and all
| the progress has come from putting
| yourself in somebody else's place.
If it's uncomfortable"
Excellent! Perfectly just. What
| we recognize in ourselves. then, is a
| mixture of motives. We put our
selves in their place and we. find we
are so wretched in it that we want to
get them out of it."
1--WE can't go on and get everybody
out of misery merely because 1t hurts
us to see them in 1t. There is too
much of it; there r too many OF
them. Nobody understands this bet
ter than the rich-the people who
have more than we have. They rea-
lie that if they gave ever so little
TO each there wouldn't be enough to
20 round; and they distinguish, they
compromise. That is, they employ
intelligent persons, male or female,
cleric or laic, to distinguish, to COM
promise for them. This gives work,
and is a good thing in itself. and 1t
restricts beneicence to the deserving.
Not all the deserving r benefited
there are too many. even of them
but the undeserving are found out
and eliminated. That is very good
too; when a man has to be left hun
cry and houseless, it is pleasant tc
know that he does not merit 8 mea
Or a roof.'-W. D. Howells, in Har
per's Magazine.
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Missouri Rivers Changes.

The food has been kind to one town.
For years Missouri City, about fifteen
miles east of Kansas City, in Clay
County. has been OFF the river map
and the steamboats, couldn't get
within miles of 1t because of a change
in the channel. But recently the high
water began to flow through an old
channel and in a few days it had cut
so deep and so fast that Missouri City
awoke one morning to find itself on
the main channel of the river. A few
hours later the steamer Chester
passed the old landing, and Missouri
City's cup of JOY was full.-Kansaa
City Star.
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and
Quality

appeal to the Well Informed in every
walk of life and are essential to permanent
success and creditable standing. Accor-
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup Of Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA is the only remedy of
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
sweetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any facilitating
after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
1t acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objection
,ble substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
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