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Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-12-21
His Hard Work.

Mrs. Wunder-Does anybody ever
read those Christmas poems In the
papersH
Mr.. Wunder-Oh, yes. The editor
and the proofreaders have to.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-12-21
What Did Santa Claus say.

Little Tommy was awake when
Santa Claus came, dad.
Father-Were you. And what was
he like, Ell?
Little Tommy--Oh, couldn't see
hint was dark, you know. But
when he bumped himself on the wash.
stand he said
Father Quickly There, that1l do,
Tommy. Get on With your mince PIE.
Crit
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
To REFORM Bad BOYS

problem of the State of home
monograph issued Berlin shows clearly that
child weakness of
nothing the feebewiled child There
children
there reformatories
child
thief the girl likely
example and
until
and the
top has show itself nalibe
which
the criminal 1t civilization
sDends millions educating
in
which feebewlled
criminals should
easly prevented than cured
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
Whv CITY FOLKS SLEEP
Less Than Country People

YER every large city hangs suspended
I a menace, a threat of death, when
~ year by year drops nearer and blnds
more closely its smothering embrace. 1t is
nall of poisoned air. Scores of diseases and
weaknesses ascribed to direct causes hnd
their origin in the gradual poisoning influence
of an atmosphere year by year becoming less
fit for human consumption. Dust and sus-
pended substances in the air are bad but the
chemical changes which the atmosphere re-
veals are a danger far more serious.
The knowledge is general that one sleeps
much better in the country, but few people
seem to realize that this is an utterly incor-
rect way of putting it. Sleep is normal
thing, and under the more normal conditions
of country life one sleeps; in the city, there
fore, the point is that man does not sleep
sufficiently. City jewellers have acclimatized
themselves to a certain extent, and they sue
coed in doing with far less sleep than men
and women in rural districts. But this Is
merely a natural device to overcome a griev-
Gus ILL., We do not sleep in the city because
in sleep we breathe more slowly and the vital
properties in the air are too low to enable us
to keep going on the slow breathing. There
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07

fore we wake up, and with the quicker breath
ing of wakefulness established enough air is
secured
Digestion works badly in the city, not only
because the lack Of oxygen means less appe,
tite but also because the oppressivnesess OF
crowded streets and homes leads to sluggish
habits on the part of the body. With slower
digestion processes must be coupled the add,
ed nervous strain accompanying a condition
in which nourishment is not secured quickly
enough. When to this is added the strain OF
city life, the conditions are seen to be bad,
even without considering the everincreasng
evil influence of the envelope of noxious gases
hanging overhead
The lower levels of the atmosphere under
modern conditions are not renewed as rap.
idly as they are made foul, and so little by
little the belt of air Immediately nearest to
the earth Is robbed of its life-giving powers.
When 1t is remembered that the air lives in
layers or strata and that the winds also are
more or less confined to these strata, 1t will
be seen that there is not much opportunity
for the various layers to become mixed Thus
the upper levels of air might be pure when
the lower levels are quite foul Impure air
growing worse and worse continually, is max.
ing it harder for man to live especially in
the neighborhood of cities
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
Why Factory CHIMNEYS
Are Always Built HIGH

form a heated cloud envelope in the region
of the top of the chimney, and a tall chimney
is better than a short one because it rises
higher into the colder air. In figures, a chin
ney IT'S feet high will cause coal to burn at
exactly three and onequarter as rapid rate,
giving more heat and power to the fire. Tall
chimneys also benefit neighborhood by Civ
ing more room for poisonous gases to escape,
but the true reason of their construction is
the added power they give to the furnaces
below.
Country people have habit to-day of
stepping out of doors in the morning and
looking at their neighbours chimneys. If
the smoke is saggng down about the
chimney, acting sluggish and hanging about
in clouds, they declare it is going to rain,
or snow depending upon the season, But
if the smoke is seen issuing straight up
from the chimneys in long, somewhat spiral
columns and disappearing into the higher
air, they declare it will be fair weather
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
Only ~ LETTERS In
NEW Chinese ALPHABET

new alphabet are described in a French pub
licatlOn as follows:
The task was entrusted to learned com
mittee composed of Chow-Hi-Chu, the secre-
tary of the Chinese Legation at Rome, the ad-
iunct secretaries Wan and Chou, and Solon-
ghello, professor of Chinese and Japanese at
the School of Oriental Languages in Naples,
and one of the greatest polyglots in the world,
These gentlemen have studied all known al
phabets and combined them to form one
which shah represent every sound in the
Chinese tongue. The alphabet adopted by
them consists of forty-two characters of
which twenty-three are yowels and nineteen
consonants.
"Of the vowels, four are taken from the
Greek four from Russian, five from Latin and
one from Chinese OF the nine remaining
novels, two are modified or elongated signs,
and seven are reversed kilograms,
"Of the consonants, fourteen are from
Latin three from RUSSIAN and two from the
Greek With these it is possible to write all
the words used in the vulgar tongue in any
part OF China
1.-THE innovation has been received with
enthusiasm, especially in the southern prov
inces and 1t is believed it will be in general
official use by the end OF the year"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
Why Respectable Men Wore
Boards in BIBLE TIMES

he Shaved himself" (Gen, XII, 14), this
being the first mention of shaving in the
Bible, and in any literature.
The beard was worn untrimmed and in
fact, the Hebrew was forbidden to round
the corners of your heads or mar the
corners of thy beard" Oev. xix, 27, be-
cause such was a custom among some of
the ldolaters around them.
The beard was so highly esteemed as the
mark of responsibility and standing in the
community that it was sworn by and it was
considered greater insult to cut off the
beard than to cut of the nose among many
ancient people.
The prophet Isaiah can End no more tell
ing metaphor for expressing shame than
1.-THE ord shall shave with a ra7o~ .and
it shall also consume the beard" wi, 2O).
When in deep distress or mourning the
sufferers tore out hair and beard as sign
of degradation. con all their heads shall
be badness, and every beard cut off" lis.
XIV, p. The priest was forbidden to shave
or trim his hair or beard, as an especial mark
OF holiness (Lev., xxi, 81, and many super
stitions gathered around the beard.
When combing hair and beard it was con-
sidered essential to destroy all of the hairs
that fell out, SO as to prevent their falling
Ihlo IHe udHuS OF personal enemies WIN
might in this way be able to work evil
against them. This is one of the Oldest
superstitions known to men, and one of the
most universal having it's believers even to-
day, especially among the ignorant.
1t was the custom among the Hebrews IN
the time of David to salute one another by
kissing the beard, as is to be read. And
Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right
hand to kiss it" q Sam, Xxx, 81, and pos
sibly on this account even though the beard
was not trimmed, it was carefully kept and
perfumed with odorous oils.
Under one condition only was the Hebrew
ordered to shave the hair beard, and even
the eyebrows, and that was when he had
been healed of leprosy and was to take the
final cleansing ritual bath Uev, xvi, 81.
These provisions were applied most strict
ly by the ancient Hebrews, and even by the
Jews when they returned from Babylonian
exile. but in the second century B. C..
when Greek culture had made great inroads
into Palestine the Greek fashion of clean
shaven faces was adopted by all who stroye
to be in favor with Antiochus, the Syrian
ruler, and even the high priest Jason, im-
taed the new fashion This was fought
against strenuously by the Maccabees. who
cited the old law aud tried to restore ancient
customs.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07

THE beard has been considered a sign
of manhood among most ancient ma
tons, and the Hebrews were no ex-
ception to this rule. In fact there is rec
ord of war that was brought about because
of the shaving of the boards of the emissarles
sent by David to bring messages of consola-
ton to Hanun upon the death of his father
King of Ammon. The tale is told Ill IL
Samuel, K, All, and there we learn thaV "hoA
Hanun suspected the messengers OF DaViu
of being spies, he shaved off one-half OF thelr
boards and sent them back, and that the
men were greatly ashamed" and waited IN
Jericho until their boards had grown again
David considered this valid cause for de-
claring war, and under the generalship OF
Joab the Ammonites and their allies were
defeated
The Egyptians as proved by the monu-
ments, believed in shaving the face, and in
the story of Joseph it is related that before
he was brought into the presence of Pharaoh
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
Scores SIGNS Given WEATHER CONDITION

the middle or toward the rear, the weather will h
in the middle of Winter months or toward
Spring.
When the wind stays in the south after rain if ia
not apt to turn cold for the high barometerc prss
coming in from the far northwest not OF enough
power to push the southern part of our conf
nent and it passes Canada and does not produce
drop of the temperature of any marked degree
All the Autumn rainy periods have been followed nv
south winds, and severe changes have been noted
Temperatures in the far north are not as low az
usual in the Autumn months when are going 10
have a mild Winter. and records show it was very
mild north the past Autumn
Rats and mice are not seeking Winter quarters and
squirrels have been observed storing away large
quantity of nuts for their Winter consumption Tbe
nut crop large, but when this occurs the wild
game usually let their food remain out in the open
when nuts the little animals always
very busy storing away all they find.
A judicous and thoughtful observer can see manv
reasons why this will not be Winter, No
study is interesting and actually pays to
fully study the causes and effect in all such matters
If understood, nature is open book
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07

TN some parts OF the country the most con-
spicuous evidences Of mans handiwork
are factory chimneys, their tall shafts
decorating the landscape in the same manner
that church steeples do in farming villages
and country towns. 1t has come to be con-
sidered a matter of course that factory chin
news should be high, but why such hundreds
of thousands of dollars are spent in their
construction and what are the important
principles involved in their presence are mat
tiers little considered.
The taller the chimney, then, the better is
the draft aud the better the draft the more
thoroughly is the fuel consumed and the not
Ter does the fire burn. But why? Again, the
colder the day The better does fire burn.
Every house wife knows that. But again, why
Once more. the stronger is the wind blowing
unless It is blowing down the chimney the
better does fire burn, And once more, why!
And vet again, fire burns better by mght
than by day, but why?
The answer TO these four problems is the
same The draft IN a chimney is caused by
the difference in weight between the volume
of heated gases inside the chimney and the
cooler air outside. To give an illustration;
A niece Oh NOOu lAdl NdS 4dln III NIS NdOSA "a
long time rises up through the water slowly,
because the difference in weight is not great
A cork pops up quite rapidly, because it is
SO much lighter A bubble OF air slips up
through the water more quickly still because
it is lighter than the cork. Again, a cork
win pop up to the surface more quickly in
salt water than in fresh because the salt
water is heavier and the cork is proportion
ately more light.
Now the lightness Of heated air lies In its
heat, but most OF the gases that rise from a
fire are really as much lighter than air as
cork is lighter than water. so that they must
rise in the same way. If the air is hot above
the chimney the contrast between the smoke
and gases from the fire and the air Is not so
great, and the vapors dispense sluggshly, but
if the air is crisp and cold, the gases rise
straight up, causing a greater draft There
fore, cold day is better for firing, because
the contrast is greater; night air is better
for firing than day air, because night air is
colder a wind is better than a calm for fir.
ing. because it blows away the smoke and
heated vapors instead of allowing them to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07

~HINA is to have brand new alphabet,
AS the present Chinese alphabet con
>> sists of 5000 characters, the change
is going to be one of the most remarkable
in the history of letters, for the new al
phabet will contain only AZ characters,
Hitherto the unfortunate Chinese children
have been forced to memorize at least
eight thousand kilograms or charac-
ters. "Hieroghyphcs," we generally call
them, the queer little quirks and quirleques.
The students cannot begin to learn anything,
to understand anything or communicate even
in the simplest manner until they have mem
orized these eight thousand kilograms Then
they begin to study in earnest, and have
many more thousand to learn, for every one
of the queer Chinese marks means some
sound, some syllable or some object, and
there is a different one for everything
But now the awakened Chinese are pre-
pairing a brand new Chinese alphabet. And
10y should reign throughout China, for an
alphabet of forty-two characters will in the
future take the place of the thousands upon
thousands OF queer characters
The method in which the Chinese have
gone about to make for themselves brand
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
How Harvard Professor Discovered MICE That SING

female mated with a tame mouse and produced,
during the period of observation thrty-three indi-
Vlduals None of these offspring of the mating of a
singing" mouse with non-isngng individual produced
unusual sounds, nor has singing" appeared either in
the second or the third generation
The singing individual was SO far as could be as
certained, common house mouse. She was somewhat
larger than the ordinary wild female, but no other
external pecuarities noted. She extremely
active and savage and her mate always the marks
OF her teeth An attempt to mate her with a second
tame male resulted in the death OF the latter.
No definite time for singing" noted, except
three or four days before and for six days
after the birth Of litter 1t observed, Also that
the individual sang" sometimes when frightened.
s The sound is best described as a rapid whoe-toned
trill involving the tones and d.
The quality of the tone resembed somewhat that of
fife flute, but each ended with a slight hroay
click The tones uttered at the of four or
five per second in groups Of varying size Sometimes
group occupied one second, sometimes long ten
seconds AS rule, the tones of group clear
and distinct but, instead uttered rapidly to
connected The throaty click noticeable
in the of the last of group Often sing.
ing would be continued period of ten or fifteen
minutes with rests between groups.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07

NR CHARLES A CoBURN, of the Psychological
! Laboratory at Harvard University, performed a
% series of interesting experiments on rice that
sing.
AT the beginning of the experiment the chrps were
low but they gradually became louder. The song OF
the DR. Coburn kens to the sweet and varied
warbling OF a canary Every note "clear and DIS
tnct"
Observers state that the song is irregular mix
of chrps thrills with here and there snarlng,
smacking sound followed by a low murmur. But the
majority of those who have heard singing" in mice
have assumed that it is due to diseased condition of
the lungs Of the vocal organs
Last year, while working one evening in his study,
Dr. Coburn heard a series of sounds which to
from above the ceiling. At the time they were
thought resemble the soft chirp of a bird
Shortly afterward some wild mice needed for
breeding experiments and by of trap, two mice,
a male and a female captured in the room
These animals, while being taken the psyche
logical laboratory produced sounds like those previous
ly heard in the room and they continued to do at
intervals after being placed in a laboratory cage
few days after their capture the male escaped The
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07

All migratory birds were later in passing south this
season than usual and yet many species of birds that
all go when the Winter is to be bad remain if the
weather is apt to be mild. search in parks and
throughout the rural sections reveals many of the
Summer feathered friends of humanity still lingering
with
When the Winter is very severe thousands of robins
have been known to remain in Ohio and Pennsylvania
all Winter feeding berries and various sorts of seeds
that grew in the wild places When the Winter is
mild the robins all go south if any focks remain
they stay far up in Canada.
The husks on corn, and the chaff on wheat and
oats we're light the past season, and whenever the
Winters are severe these are always very heavy and
cling very close about the grains
Thousands of people have faith in the caterpillar
sign of Winter.
When the hundreds of caterpilars that creep ABOUT
in Autumn are dark all along their back and creep
about until after freezing weather the Winter is GER
tain to be long but when the dark is only
found on part of the worms back, or it is not very
distinct the Winter will not be so severe
r. the dark is in the front the worst weather Will
no in the fore part of Winter and If the dark is in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07

Three severe Winters never follow each other in
succession
The Winter of 1909 and 10, and that of 1911 and
II both severe The country experienced more
freezing weather and temperatures than
had been experienced in consecutive Winters for
period of about twenty years The Winter of 1890
and 81 a very mild open Winter, and many
sections It did freeze the ground enough during
the entire Winter bear the weight of horse The
two Winters previous to that one very
Easter Sunday is regulated by the Zodiac. Days
and nights equal on the 21st. of March, and the
first Sunday after the first full after the days
and nights equal, is always Easter The moon
is full the day after the days and nights are
equal March and the next day after the full moon
is Sunday, and must be Easter and it is on March
23rd which is the earliest that day possibly come
1t will not occur that early again for years
Selected Spring weather seldom comes until after
Easter Sunday, and this will have a very
early Spring
When there is a very heavy crop of grain and hay
the Winter following is, in nine out of ten,
mild open Winter. The crops we're very heavy the
past taking the country
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
Why This
Will Be
A SHORT,
MILD WINTER
BY Prof. JOHN I. TIMMONS,
Birdlawn Conservatory. Ohio.

MANY definite conclusions may be arrived at in
MI recounting the weather conditions in a general
@'% way, if the right sort of attention Is given a
number of little but vastly important things in nature
Nature like everything else goes to extremes, and
when we experience a very severe drouh, we are Ger
tain to see it followed by an unusually wet time
Severe cold is always followed by very warm weather
and intense heat produces a cool wave.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
For ShOelaCe Tips.

NE tips of shoeaces sometimes off quite good aces In
this they of sealing
the with sealingwax, then press
i a point while the is still
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
For Canned Fruit.

canned fruits
absorbent cotton in the mouth of
that will cling the cotton leaving
the fruit clean.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
A Celery Seasoning.

celery seasoning at Get five
knife of the
or n a mortar; bulk of
bottle.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
Saving TableclOths.

ABLECLOTHS will last longer it, when they washed
they folded the If folded
exactly will holes
while resto o the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-07
YOU MIGHT TRY
To Mend Gloves.

/i1EN hole glove INSIDE OUT
w and drawing the the hole together stick piece OF
leather plaster not only holds
the together, being makes very
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-08
WORLDS GREATEST
BRIDGE JUMPER
is CHARLES r. MYERS, WHO Is
HERE FOR A FEW DAYS.
Was One Of the Contestants in the
caraVasios National Mara
thon in 1909.

Charles F. Myers. famed all over
the United States and Mexico as one
OF the most daring bridge jumpers in
the world. is stopping in the city for
lew days. on his way East. For
the past two years Mr.. Myers has
been travelling with the Young Buff.
falo Wild West Shows and gives
diving exhibitions OF the different
bridges. or IL there are no bridges
convenient. he uses a tank to accom-.
plish his high dive. He has the dis.
tinction OF being one OF the few who
has made the dive from the Niagara
bridge came out alive. and other high
dives made by him are the following.
ON the bridge that crosses the Mis-.
sissippi at Rock Island. Ill: the y. &
o. bridge that crosses the Susquehan.
ma river near Baltimore. 1877 feet high.
and many others OF note.
Mr.. Myers Is also a well known
long-distance Marathon runner. hav.
ing competed here in the Caravasfos
26-mile race in 1909. and the Worlds
National race. also held here a year
later He is also the winner OF the
Rochester 10 Pittsburgh Marathon,
the Indianapolis Emile Marathon.
the braddock Lyceum. and many 9th.
ers. He Is also a long-distance walk.
er' f'ying competed with Edward
Payson Weston. Pat Devanen and
Chief Tallfeather. the Indian. and I'm
the running game with Longboat. Ted
Crook. Lightfoot West. Bruce. 81.
Yves. Lungstrom and many Others.
On next Saturday afternoon Mr.
Myers will walk a relay race against
three men at the Benwood base ball
grounds. In connection with the Mara.
hon race 10 be held there. Il will
no doubt attract large crowd from
The prominence Of the men entered
Myers Is going 10 Athens. Greece. In
1914 10 compete In the Worlds Mara.
'thon races there Frank smith. Of
Elm Grove. Is also 10 90 and compete
In this race as n prize won from earn.
vasios In The race held here In 1909.