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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

-. INCE Pasteur's great discovery of the ba-
cillus of anthrax, the part played by mi
49, crobes in the universe has constantly
grown in Importance, until it is now thought by
many men Of science that they are the chief
factors in its life.
Plants as everyone knows, take carbon from
the carbonicacid gas found in the atmosphere,
turn it into starch, ceIuose sugars and oils, and
thereby store up energy. When the plant is
eaten by an animal, it furnishes the eater with
glycogen and fats, which are i'll their turn con
verted into muscular work. The energy thus
put at the disposal Of living beings comes in the
first instance from the sun, but it is made avail
able largely by means of microbes.
Microbes prepare the soil for vegetation and
agriculture and accumulate in the earth the
nitrogen that we absorb with cereal food. They
even help TO break up rocks, and thus to produce
earth that can be worked, while they are among
the chief agents of fermentation and digestion.
Yet in spite of all this, microbes have for the
majority a bad name and most people look on
them rather as the enemies of life than as It's
helpers and friends. This is largely due to the
behavior of a relatively small class among them
who are the agents and effective causes OF GER
tain mortal diseases by reason OF the polsons or
toxins which they manufacture in the system
One has only to mention the bacilli OF tuber-
cuosis, or diphtheria, of smallpox, and the vibrio
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
Why Honest
Witnesses Often
DO NOT and
CANNOT TELL
the TRUTH

-yHE difficulty of establishing persons identity be-
yond shadow OF doubt is one Of the most per
picking with which lawyers judges and jurors
have 10 contend in proving any one guilty or innocent
of a given crime.
1t is nothing unusual for two witnesses Of equally
high intelligence and credblty fatty contradict each
other as to the identity of the person they both saw
committing murder robbery other crime. Onerwiil
declare under oath thai the prisoner the man he saw;
the other viii swear with equal positveness that he is
nothing like him.
As everybody knows perfectly honest witnesses DO not
tell the truth and psychology has lately found out that
they cannot The why this is SO are clearly
explained by Professor c. sully of Kings College, Lon
don.
Jones is say, a porter at country station, says Pro
fessor Suly On certain night the hafdozen passen-
gers by the last upran taken their seats when as
he train starts another PUSHES up and scrambles In
Now if Jones we're be questioned about this next day.
can psychology say how much he viii be able to report
correctly? Much will depend upon Jones. If he could
be subjected to a Testimony experiment we could pet
ter form an opinion AS it is, can only say propa
blv much less than is commonly supposed.
To take an actual instance In the course OF meet
ing of scientific association held in Germany during
the carnival clown suddenly rushes in pursued by
negro with revolver In the middle OF the room they
struggle there is pistol shot and they are out again
The president with serious air, asks each member 10
write down as full report he can OF the matter 10
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
All We Imagine We Do

sembance the criminal since appearance will in most
cases. have been determining factor in his arrest
Jones sees who fits his expectation suficentr
give rise to the feeling of familiarity or kfovnness
and suggestion does the rest. 80 -
since the actual recognizing consists essenti,
in percept feeling familiar known it follows that
the accused has been identified subsequent denti
fcation by the same witness hardly be more than
matter OF FORM Accordingly, everything depends on this
first identification, which becomes essential even
VITAL part of the trial. and must be subject to every
safeguard possible. For instance the witness should Ne
his oath, not only or even mainly guard against
yingor this purpose it is sadly ineectuabut rather
because of its effect the conscientious man in max
ing him apply all the caution and selfcrticsm Of which
he is capable. In passing may point out that an
absurdy exaggerated Importance is commonly attached
to the question of deliberate lying Indeed the faacy
involved in supposing that either witness is lying or
what he is effectively true has been perhaps the
most fruitful in the history of human superstition
and injustice Far fewer have been condemned on per
jured evidence than on false given in good faith
From what has been said of the psychology of recog
nion it will be clear that there main dangers
% that the fusion giving rise feeling of recogni
ton will be really of what is with those elements
of the image which to newspaper accounts and
so on, and with the elements due to memory; and
% that the suggestive force of expectation will bear
any remaining differences between image and per-
cept Now the group method WILL at its best weaken
the defniteness of the suggestion-he Witness instead
of knowing that the before him is the accused will
only know that of the ten before him is the
But this will be true only If the other nine cannot at
once eliminated because of their manner because
they obviously disagree with what is matter of COM
mon knowledge about the accused
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
Horses Pull Better with SHORT TRACES

speed on level plane.
Now to apply this to the problem stated above simply
imagine horse hitched to loaded wagon and going at
uniform speed but imagine the be hundred
feet long If the wagon goes inequality of the
ground say down hill slightly the traces of course
sacken up greatly and before the horse going at the
uniform speed before take up the slack the
wagon may have to rest slowed down consider
ably SO to bring back previous speed the horse
has to exert extra force.
Now in short trace the stretch Of the leather is much
less than in lon ones and if the wagon starts any
thing it simply shoves the horse ahead and he has no
slack to take up.
In using short traces too there is much less danger Of
their breaking for the load is felt by the horse before he
has moved his body very far and his force is applied
gently and evenly whereas if he jumped forward with
slack long trace he would have acquired considerable
velocity when the traces became aut and trying to
move the load instantly would inevitably snap the traces
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

TT is great question among teamsters whether horse
pull better with short traces long traces that
is whether it is better for the horse be close to the
load further away Their general consensus of opin
ion is that short better and in most
where there great experience they probably right
To understand the proposition it is well TO remember
that takes great deal energy to pull the load at
moving than it does to pull at uniform speed Also it
takes great deal energy to pull the load at
ing speed than at uniform speed. This is easy to
when remember that when a body is pulled along at
uniform speed a level surface the only thing to be
overcome by the racve force is the friction at the axes
On the other hand when the pace gets faster acce
GRAFTON is given and there only one thing that gives
an acceleratiOn, and that is a force.
So when the load changes speed force must be added
to the force friction thus making harder
on the horse OF course the thing applies to any
moving body The condition of least effort is uniform
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

question that most girls think it
wise to safeguard themselves
against the possibility of never
marrying by learning to make their
living in some other way.
The younger a woman is when she
gets married, the more likely that
most of her children will be girls,
the older she is at marriage, the
greater the likelihood that her chill
dren will be boys. Recent investi-
cations have shown that where
women have become mothers at
nineteen years or younger, there was
an average of forty-four girls to
twenty-nine boys born. In the case
of women who were between nine
teen and twenty-four years of age
when married, the figures showed an
average Of fifty-three girls to forty
five boys. Between the years of
twenty-four and thirty-two, the pro-
portions gradually became less and
between the years of thirty-two and
thirty-six, boys and girls were born
in equal proportions. From thirty
six to forty-two, the proportion was
fifty-two boys TO forty-one girls and
between the ages of forty-two and
forty-eight, it was sixty-four boys to
twenty-seyen girls.
The two or three preceding gener-
atoms have been as notable for
marrying young as the present
generation is for waiting until later
in life. 1t follows that the preceding
generations had more girls than
boys, and that the present geher-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

is the gas that in mines and causes SER
ious catastrophes there, or electric discharges in
damp atmosphere caused the will-o'thewisp
Its elusive nature is now recognized by Dr. Henry
Watkins and others to be due to continuous sparkling
and ignition of the gas as it comes in contact with
fresh draughts and strata of oxygen. It's glow is be-
tween dim blue alcohol light and real phosphores-
cence.
Now a conservative British savant Prof Hayward
Cooper of The Leeds Institute of Science has just de-
scribed the results of a careful investigation into the
will-o the.wlsD superstition He visited mines, marsh
and sailed ships that brought tales Of the swamp
lights" and he refutes all the commonly accepted
scientific explanations.
Professor Cooper says that although some Of the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
MORE BOYS to Be Born Than GIRLS

alton. is likely to have more boys
than girls,
The larger the number of girls,
the greater opportunity a man. has
to make his choice and the less he
feels the need Of haste. Where
women are few, man is more likely
to take advantage of the first oppor-
tunity to secure a wife, lest other
chances should not arise. Again,
the girl who is self-supporting is
well aware that marriage implies
the stoppage of many privileges and
she is therefore less ready to re-
spond to the advances of a lover.
The high cost of living also helps
prohibit early marriage.
All these conditions tend to delay
the age of marriage. Our grand
mothers married when they were
seventeen or eighteen years Of age,
our mothers when they were twenty
one or twenty-five. During the last
ten years the average age of mar
riage has advanced to twenty-four
or twenty-five. The rate of delay is
increasing and shortly will have
reached the point at which more
boys will be born than girls, and for
a generation or two boy babies will
be in the majority and girl babies
will be few and far between. WithiL
two or three generations this will
make more men than women in the
world and will of itself make ire
mendous difference in the whole
question of women's sphere and
women's work.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

7 WING Is continuous process of dying When we
cease to die we cease to live One readily
~ understand this by Of very concrete
ample Suppose you arise cold morning and find
that the fire in your furnace has gone out" It viii do
good to utter malicious invectives against the poor
furnace Just phiosophize follows: my furnace
has ceased to die. In other words II has ceased to
that very expensive article called coal The
tinual consumption Of coal is fire life in the furnace
When the consumption or dying ceased the fire or life
ceased" Accordingly, you proceed TO make the fur
mace die" some more.
What is true Of the furnace is true Of ourselves.
All organic life exists in state of continuous decom-
position and rebuilding a continuous state of dying
and living. AS soon decomposition ceases recon
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

~ URING the next twenty years
it is probable that many more
81 boys will be born than girls
and it. is expected that this dis
proportion will be large enough to
make up for the present over-supply
of women. That there are too many
women in the world is very evident.
The suffrage movement and other
plans to give women more indepen-
dence are largely due to this femi-
nine over-supply.
If there were an exactly equal
number of men and women, and if
each lived equally long, there would
be no need for women to enter bust
ness life, because there would be a
husband for each one. AS it now is,
there are not enough husbands to go
around and this brings such an ele-
ment of chance into the marriage
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

Gross the second finger behind the
FIRST, leaving V-shaped space be-
tween the finger tips. In this space
put a pencil, so as to touch the two
fingers equally; the object will then
be felt as two"
the tube. You will then seem to be
looking through a round hole in your
hand
All these illusions depend upon ap-
plying a mode of Interpretation based
upon the conditions of normal ex-
perience to exceptional or catch con-
ditions where it lead to false results.
Thus in ordinary life the outer
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
Fndin6 Out How 'WIII- THE-WISPS GET THEIR LIGHT

JACKIE lanterns may have been spontaneous ignition
of Vapors from swampy bogs well as mines and
of these may have been lumnesoent insects such
as glowworms and frefies yet he able to literally
capture from the topmass and in the rigging OF several
ships, what the sailors In tones always called
will-o-the-wisps jack-o-lanterns
They we're nothing more less than luminescent
owls and smaller birds of nocturnal habits These
winged creatures had skinned over the waters or
touched the surfaces of the marshes and the pho5
phorescent, luminous moisture had clHnS TO them as
they took flight When they momeutariy rested. on
flew about where the conditions proper. this
phosphorescencet was visible Some Of these birds
we're the white OWLS while many others were much
smaller sea birds
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
Why LIFE Is CONTINUOUS DEATH

struction ceases, or IN common terms as soon as we
dying we cease living, Certain poisons Il a''aF
lowed by human being destroy life BY annihla'lIs
the decomposng or dying process which is neceSsaIs
for life When they enter the system chemical com
pound is formed which ressts decomposition pom eA
animation of the dead body 1t win be found that pure
faction does not take place With these poisohs n ING
body there is no process Of dying hence there is no
life.
The same truth holds in regard to our mental any
moral existence If cease to struggle OF thihh any
are content to live purely animal life, the ACTIVITY o
brain powers quickly ceases and we are me taiIy
dead Struggle action aspiration is dying but u means
living Introduce the poison of vice. and here IS
cessation OF mental life as fatal that caused to M
body by arsenic
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

ferent properties from the fannie acid Of tea
AS the caffein tannate of tea is precipt
tated by weak acids, it must be precipitated
by the gastric juice, and therefore the caffein
is probably not absorbed until it passes beyond
the stomach. In coffee, however, the caffeln
is soluble in both alakline and acid fluids, and
therefore the absorption OF the alkalOid prob
ably takes place in the stomach,
AS coffee is generally considered more slim
ulating than tea, perhaps these findings may
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
Chemical Tests Prove COFFEE MORE STIMULATING THAN TEA

explain it. Theyfmay very we'll also explain
why coffee is often used as poison antidote,
and tea rarely.
AS a writer in the Lancet points out, cof-
fee is often made with a generous proper
ton of the powdered bean as in the case of
the after-dinner BLACK" coffee, the view being
that the secret Of good coffee is to make it
strong This, Of course, is an entirely esthetic
demand, which may likely enough be opposed
to physiological morality.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
How OIL Makes the TOUGHEST SEAS SMOOTH

of oil will cover a square mile of water with
a film sufficient to prevent its breaking into
waves. This oil film is effective when so thin
that II is almost unimaginable.
oil is most effective when the water is very
deep and the heaviest, thickest oils show the
best results The best method of applying oil
from a ship at sea is to hang over the side so
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
BY DIR. L. X. Hirshberg.

TX TOT long ago, every ne!ghborhood had its doefu
nj folktale of how some unhappy mortal lured
into the marshes among the boggy and
swamps, by Willo-the-Wisps, St Anthony's fire,
went to his untimely death while pursuing what he
thought was a guiding beam Of light from pio-
neer's cabin.
Hitherto the usually accepted explanation has been
that the spontaneous combustion of marsh gas which
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

that they will Just touch the water small canvas
bags holding from one to two gallons Of oil.
Holes are pricked in the bag with a sail needle
to facilitate the leakage of the oil.
The use Of oil In lessening the force Of storms
at sea was we'll known to the ancients, includ-
ing the OFFICERS OF Pliny's fleet, who practised,
it 1900 years ago.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08

bTT HE valuable part played by the oil tank
steamer Narraganseu at the time of the
Volturno disaster has renewed interest
in the use Of oil in calming troubled waters and
saving ships from wreck Scientists say that
one drop of oil, properly applied, VIII smother
seven square feet of rough seas, and nine pints
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-11-03
WHEAT AND COTTON.

Wheat prices are now the highest
for October in over 20 years. There
has been an advance this month OF
l1H to 20 cents, making the best
October rise witnessed since 1901
when the market moved up 1872
cents to $1.O7 "a, as compared with
$l1612 this month.
In addition to Wade cotton fund
pool Of $135, 100000 to finance a
general holding movement, it Is
stated that a syndicate will be form
ed in Great Britain to buy $780,
100000 worth Of cotton. Another
British plan is the purchase of cot
ton by British operatives on short
time notes.
Final measures are being taken for
simultaneous reopening of New York,
Liverpool and New Orleans cotton
exchanges.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-11-03
A WARNING TO MANY
Some Interesting Facts About ki5ney
Troubles

Few people realize to what extent
their health depends upon the oondi
tion Of the kidneys.
The physician in nearly all cases OF
serious illness. makes a chemical
analysis of the patients urine. He
knows that unless the kidneys are 90
ing their work and properly, the other
organs cannot readily be brought back
TO health and strength
When the. kidneys are neglected or
abused in any way, serious results aTe
sure to follow. According II heSltl
statistics. Bright's disease which Is
really an advanced form Ot kidney i0ol'
BILE. caused nearly ten thousand deSi1S
in 1918, in the state Ot New Nr.N
alone. Therefore, il behooVtS - u
pay more attention 10 The health O..
these most important organs
An ideal herbal compound t-a' las
had remarkable success s. A,GGSN
remedy Is Dr. KilmeT'S swamp Ao'i.
the great Kidney Liver and Bladder
Remedy.
The mild and hea,i1s ic1@s@cS q
this preparation. IN UcS: tS>5> :
soon realized. according - sworn
statements and verified Testimony ~
those who have used the -s--t,1\
II YOU feel that yC1- A.@-sN> ~
uuire attention. and W,>G S&-p.S
bottle. write 10 Dr. kilUs- i g. t'lcs
hampton, y. Y. Mention his gApsr'
enclose ten cents and they will gladly
forward it to you by ParCe. Post
Swamp-Root is sold by every drug
gist in bottles Of Two siEe>-5vC and
tp
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-11-03

An Iowa farmer who expects wheat
to 20 to $i25 a bushel, corn to 81
bushel and hogs at 12c is prepar-
ing to furnish some of these food
stuns at these prices. He went to
the agricultural college at Ames, Ia,
and paid the Henry Ford minimum
wage, So "A day for 100 pupils of
that school, to help him till his farm.
These boys are receiving the high.
est price ever paid for farm labor.
They are students, but they have
been on the athletic field, where
their muscles are made used to work,
they have been under skilled in
structors, where they have been
taugh' 10 work, and the dignity of
labor vii not suffer at the hands
OF young men trained as they are
trained.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-11-03

It is stated now that the New York
exchange will open November -.
If this exchange opens it is prob
able that New Orleans and Liverpool
win open at the same time. 1t is
not intended that the exchange shall
be opened without limitations. The
foreign holders of American stocks
will not be allowed to dump all their
holdings on the market and create
a slump that will be panicky in its
tendency, but it is planned to open
the cotton exchange and to allow 9TH
cr trading, with certain limitations.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-11-03
Ardmoreite Want Ads will find it
NOVEMBER 3RD IN HISTORY

1S29-The treaty of st. Louis, by
which the Indians ceded to the
United States lands north and
east of the Mississippi River, were
concluded.
lS4O-St. Jean d'Acre, bombarded by
the allied British and Turkish
fleets.
-Russo-Japanese war; Japanese
captured important forts east of
Port Arthur; took trenches and
inner forts by storm. but were re-
pulsed in attempt to take forts
themselves.
l9l1-The Chinese revolutionists cap
tured Shanghai with little resist
ance.
1gl2-Turkey appealed to the powers
to intervene in the war.
1913-Louis Ill. became King of Ba-
varia, the insane Otto being de-
posed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-11-03

Here are some figures that will
give the people fair idea Of the
volume of export business this coun-
try is doing: In September a year
ago the value Of the foodstufs eX-
ported from this country was eigh
teen and a half millions OF dollars, in
September this year the value Of
the exports on the same line OF
products was forty-siX and a half
millions, or a difference in one
month of twenty-eight millions. As
result the prices of foodstufs are
going higher in this country.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-11-03
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VI. Boissay, of the 10th French in
fantry, whose family lives at Nude,
near Orlans, is in the hospital at
Paray de Monail, for a fracture Of
the left shin bone. From his right
leg, which was also wounded, were
removed three twenty-franc pieces.
As Boissay did not have any money
on his person these must have come
from the pocket of another soldier,
killed or wounded not far away. and
been carried along by the projectile
in its flight.