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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Sea Moss.

Sea moss is term popularity ap-
piled to any of the polyzoa, which are
compound marine animals, several of
which share common horny skele-
ton, or polyzoary, which is plantlike
in form. According to the bureau OF
fisheries, several hundred thousand
pounds of these skeletons have been
imported annually from Europe, chief
ly from France and Germany, for dec
orative and millinery purposes, and
the supply has now been practically
cut off by the war. 1t therefore seems
opportune to develop a domestic in
dustry, as sea MOSES, probably equal
i'll quality to those heretofore i'm
ported, are said to be abundant on
our coasts, especially in New Eng
land. Those with large bushy fronds
are the most valuable.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Amazing Appetites.

If baby had the appetite of a
young potato beetle it would eat from
so to 100 pounds OF food every "a
hours. If a horse ate as much as a
caterpillar, in proportion to it's size,
it would consume ton of nay every
"a hours. A caterpillar eats twice it's
weight of leaves every day; but a
potato beetle devours every day at
least five times it's weight of foliage,
every bit of which represents just so
much money to the farmer
The most destructive of all insects,
however, is the grasshopper, which,
when in good health, consumes in a
day ten times its weight of vegeta-
ton. No wonder that whole districts
are devastated by its multitudinous
swarms.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
LOOK FORWARD EVERY WEEK
FOR THE GAZETTE-NEWS

A. d. Vittum, writing from Middle
bury, VT, November 30, for renewal
of subscription to the Gazette-News,
says: 1--WE look forward every week
for the arrival of your paper. l eX-
pected to spend the winter in Day
tona, as usual, but finally at the last
moment accepted a position here in
Middlebury, but most earnestly hope
may be in Daytona another winter"
Mr.. and Mrs. Vittum have spent sew
eral past seasons here, being located
in the Ridgewood apartments on
South Ridgewood avenue and made
many friends who will learn with re-
greet that they are not to be in Day
tona this season. Mr.. Vittum, who
is a musician, was engaged while here
in the Crystal orchestra, playing the
clarinet.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
IoLANTHE IN DIRE PLIGHT
Excellent Reason Why She Could Not
Appear When Her Cue for the
Stage Was Given.

Amateur theatrical companies are
proverbially courageous, and perhaps
that is the reason why the Puddle
combe Thespians selected "Iolanthe'' as
the means by which they would aston
lsh the natives. AS every lover of Gil
bert and Sullivan is aware, one of the
most effective scenes in the opera is
the rising of Iolanthe from the bed of
a beautiful river, and it seemed that
this scene would go particularly well.
The queen and fairies had sung their
welcome well. the Imelignt was full
on
-'lolanthe! Come, Iolanthe!" sang
the fairies.
But Iolanthe did not appear.
The queen waved her wand fran
tically, and the fairies anxiously re-
peated.
Iolanthe, Come lolanthei"
1t was tense moment and the ex-
citement had communicated itself to
the audience. Again the invitation
was repeated, and then a petulant
voice from beneath the waters silvery
surface was heard:
"Oh, do be quiet,' it said. Cant
you see I'm caught on nail?"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
HAZEL DAWN A SENSATION
IN "THE MASQUERADERS

1t is seldom that an actress who
has gained an International reputation
as musical comedy star and who
has never appeared before the foot
lights in anything but musical COM
edy roles, could suddenly leap into
popular favor as a motion picture
actress. This remarkable feat has
been accomplished by Hazel Dawn, of
1.-THE Pink Lady fame.
In 1.-The Masqueraders," IN whicli
Miss Dawn has been starred by the
Famous Players Film company, the
beautiful musical comedy enchantress
will more than prove her claim to
recognition as one of the foremost
Dawn appears as Dulcie Larondie, y
young beauty who becomes barmaid,
marries baronet and who proves TO
be despicable character. and even
tually finds the happiness which is
her due in the man who has loved her
since she was a small child
Dulcie is the supreme test of Miss
Dawn's ability as an actress. Hither-
to she has won her audience, by her
beauty, her personal charm, her be-
witching smile and her innate clever
ness. In her. latest role, however,
she must add to these qualifications
interpretative genius of the most pc
tent quality. That she has done this,
everyone will agree who sees her in
the Paramount picture at the Crystal
theatre today.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Sources of Rivers.

The great majority of the first-class
rivers commence from chains of noun
taIns, because springs are there most
abundant, perpetually fed by the melt
ing of the SHOWS and glaciers. They
have almost invariably an easterly di
rection, the westward bound streams
being few in number, and of very sub
ordinate rank. OF rivers flowing east
we have grand examples in the ST
Lawrence, Orinoco, Amazon, Danube
Ganges, Amour, Yangtse-Kiang and
HO9pg Ho
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
GOOD START MADE BY
JR. HUMANE SOCIETY

The Junior Humane society of Dav-
tona was successfully organized on
Wednesday afternoon, when over one
hundred students in the public school
met in the school auditorium for that
purpose. There was plenty of enthu-
siasm and the election was spirited,
resulting as follows: President, Miss
Sidney Fromberger; secretary, Clar-
ence Nash; first vice president. Viii
liam Perry. A vice president from
each grade will be chosen later.
Benford Deacon, secretary of the
Humane society, Mrs. ]. D. Maley,
president of the Parent-Teacher as
sociation, and Rev. Robert Mckay
made short addresses explaining the
various purposes of the Humane so
ciety. The students listened with in
terest and enthusiastically applauded
the earnest remarks.
This first meeting was gratifying
success TO those interested in the hui
name movement, and great things are
confidently expected from the Junior
Humane society of Daytona.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
RECORD IN FINDING DISTANCE
Longest Line Measured by Triangu-
Iation in Canada Said to
Be 1875 Miles.

The longest distance ever measured
in Canada by means of the triangula-
ton system was accomplished by the
Canadian geodetic survey in the work
in which it was engaged in outlin-
ing the western boundary of the Do
miniOn. One of the distances meas
ured by the triangulation method was
135 miles in length. BY the measure
ment of one side of a triangle and the
reading of the angles on the transit at
the two ends of the measured line
which angles are formed by taking a
sight at the distant point-the side of
the triangle required to be measured
can be found.
In carrying out this feat it was nee
essary to work at night and to use
powerful acetylene lamps to find the
point 1875 miles distant. The transit
or telescope is perched high on d
mountain side in order to overcome the
curvature of the earths surface. In
distance of so miles it is nee
essary to have an elevation of
1000 feet in order to see the point at
which the instrument is sighted. In
135 miles the elevationsis correspond
ingly greater. This is perhaps the
second largest line ever measured by
this method. The record is held for
measurement across the Mediterra-
mean between Spain and the northern
shore of Africa, a distance of more
than two hundred miles.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
The Fellow Next Door.

1t is the fellow next door, who wears
purple socks, or who parts his hair in
the middle, or who wears his coat
sleeves longer than our tailor cuts ours,
or who eats his soup with atnoise,
or who has damp hands, or talks
through his nose who irritates us and
makes US wish occasionally for the I'M
limited club-using freedom of the stone
age 1t is your first cousin with in
durable catarrh and a slender income
who is too much for you and who
spoils your temper, not the anarchist
orator who threatens your property
and almost your life.-Exchange
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
BIOLOGISTS PICKED
POOR CANAL ROUTE

Washington, Dec. 2-Goethals re-
ports that it is impossible to tell when
the Panama canal will be reopened
He says that the slides are so I'M
certain that all that can be done il
to keep on digging.
Goethals pointed out that places
picked by geological experts as safe
from slides have been the scene Of
the most trouble in the canal zone.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Asia,s comanches.

Unlike the maritime peoples of the
west of Europe, the Slavs had no
easement from the colonizing of the
new world. When the era of ma
chinery dawned, they were not able.
as were the English, the French and
and the Germans, to get into the sun
shine by catering to the worlds de-
mand for cheap manufactured goods.
Moreover, they have had to bear the
brunt of oriental onslaught. The South
Slavs, or Serbs, Bulgaria, Herzego-
vina and Macedonia fell under those
Comanches of Asia, the Turks.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Riliie,s Occupation.

Margaret had two boy playmates
harnessed up and was driving them
for horses. Margaret's mother called
out and asked her why she didn't let
Billie play with them. He was run
ming beside them shouting at the top
of his voice. Margaret called back:
Mother. don't you know Billie's play
Ang be the dog?''
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Mexican Rainfall.

The low rainfall of the extreme
north of Mexico of two to three inches
on the border of Arizona, and the ex-
cessive fall, reaching 156 inches, on
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with the
high rate for Monterey and the mod
crate fall for the capital, show how
remarkable are the hygrometric con-
ditions due to topography. The max
imum rainfall is only exceeded in very
few regions Of the globe.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Valuable New Metal.

new metal called Titan bronze
makes it possible to manufacture drop
forged bronze that will take the place
of brass castings. The metal has a
tensile strength of $4,000 to $4,000
pounds, elastic limit of 10000 to $4,000
pounds and elongation % to 80 per
cent.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Mean Old 1hind.

THAT fellow Tompkins is pretty
slick proposition.
What has he done now?
He buys all his cigars at a de-
partment store and has them put on
his wife's charge account, and then
when the first of the month comes
around ne calls her down for running
up such extravagant bills
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Uncle Eben,

When a man tells you what he
would do If he wus somebody else,
said Uncle Eben, hes generally neg
lectin' to accomplish as much as he
ought to, jes' by bein- his own self
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Dreadful Transformation.

Roy was working with his father in
the garden His father found a worm
and holding it out said to Roy: Here,
take this back and give it to the chick
ems" Drawing back Roy said: 20
no | can't. l think I'm turning into
girl
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02

Out Of the Mouths Of Babes.
Little Edith had been to a picnic,
and sleeper miss was never put to
bed. As her mother finished undress
ing her she said: Mamma, said my
prayers nj supper to save time"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Impersonat.

AN optimist, my son, is a person
who doesn't care what happens II 1t
doesn't happen to him. Puck
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Wonderful Modern Surcery.

A French surgeon claims to have in
vented a method for planting eye
brows and eyelashes-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
MAINTENANCE OF GOOD ROAD
To Prevent Water From Standing on
Travelled Way Surface Should 30
Raised In Center.

II you look at the ordinary country
roal after a shower. you will see small
pudGles along the wheel ruts and some
tines larger pools. This water stays
on the road surface because 1t cannot
drain. away into the side ditches. Il
you look closely you will see said
bitches which have grown up with
bushes and weeds In many cases, and
which are so far from the Travelled
part Of the road that the rain water
does not drain into theui. That part
c. the roadway where the wagons
travel is called the travelled way. To
prevent water from standing on the
travelled way, the road should be raised
In the center and should slope gently
izto broad, shallow ditehes. It Is then
ssid to have a crown. Il It Is ten feet
from the center Of the roed to the side
ditch, the surface at the side ditch
should be at least ten inches lower than
it is at the center where the horses
travel. The road then has teninch
crown. The rain that falls On a road
property crowned will run quickly to
the side and not soak into the surface
OF form pools. The side bitches sos
surface water should run parallel to
the right Of way, and should be open
as every low point 80 that the wates
can run out Of them into neighbortns
brooks or streams. II the ditches
merely collect the water from the road
surface and It cannot run away, large
pools will be formed along the road.
side, which will gradually soak into
the soil beneath the road and make It
so soft that the wheels Of wagons Will
cut through the road surface and soon
destroy it.
Sometimes water runs from land
along the read Into the road, and
forms little stream down the wheel
tracks or In the middle, where tha
horses travel. When driveways into
farm yards are built across the side
ditches they frequently form channels
for water from the farm yard to run
Into the road. The pipes under drive
ways become filed with leaves or rub
bish and the water can no longer run
away. If the driveways that stop the
ditch water were rebuilt SO that nc
pipes were necessary and the ditch
could be left open, much trouble from
surface water would be stopped.
To keep road smooth and crowned
the best method Is to drag It with a
road drag. A road drag Is made easily
with two halves Of log which has
been split. The log should be about
six OF eight inches In thickness and
abo1: six or eight feet long. The two
t:...:es Of the log are set three feet
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
MAGNIFICENT Alaska.

It behooves every American to get
Better acquainted with this important
sarr!ta-y, aeclaRs writer In the
Christian Herald. Take your atlas and
etudy Alaska. You Will get again your
echoolbey thrill to note that the United
States reaches up into the arctic CIR
Gle, almost touches Asia, and stretches
westward In the north Pacific by way
of the Aleutian islands distance from
San Francisco as great as from San
Francisco to New York. The mighty
Yukon, flowing 1900 miles to the sea
(the Hudson Is 210 miles long,, a mile
wide for 600 miles from its mouth.
will hold you in awed surprise once
more. Lakes, rivers, linitless plains,
mountain ranges proclaim this a counr
try by itself. needing no annexation to
another to give It dignity and worth.
And yet it was bought by the United
States for s7,2oo,0o0, and for nearly a
half century has been the free stamp
ing ground for fortune-hunters who
have dared its cold forbidding moun-
tain passes and rashing streams to
seek for gold. A half billion has been
thei- reward.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
Artistic Borrower,

Az English visitor to New York telis
the story of an impecunious French
man who was one Of the most artiH-
tic borrowers Of whom I have heard.
He would start the year by borrowing
q hundred francs of friend. A week
later, he would borrow two hundred
francs Of another friend and with
that loan he would repay the first
and still have a hundred francs left
for the weeks expenses. The third
week he borrowed three hundred
francs and repaid the man from whom
he had borrowed the two hundred.
And so he went on by steady pro
gressioa to the end Of the year. Then
he would begin all over again. The
man from whom he borrowed in tho
last week Of the year Of course would
never get his money back But
though the borrower had created one
enemy, he had cemented the friend
ship Of 81 persons during the year and
established a credit on which he could
run for the year following. He was
writer, but he seems to have had .
good business head.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
Efsherman'S Eib.

The Webb City Register takes OF es
'ud" to Bal Swegard Of Johnstown,
who lured two friends to the fishing
grounds by telling them the following
true story Of recent catch he made:
Il was sitting here on the bank and
had just baited my hook, when all At
once a great big fish just took thR<
bait, hook, line, pole and ell right OF
Of my hand and swan down stream
with it. I rushed back to that farm
house and we got rope and l went
down there to the dam, and when we
dnxlly baited the hook with a young
rabbit, and got that fish good and fast
on that hook. we had to take the farm
ers team Of mules to pull it out Of the
Hver. 1t was the biggest cat ever
saw, and when we got that thing out
en- the bank it just bawled like ayoung
calf"
OF course, We are not making any
remarks about Csrterville having re-
Gently gone wet" adds the Register,
but we didn't know the "red-eye' they
we're selling over there had such mag
nifying powers.-Kansas City Journal.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
,.,xs,, Il "a TIA Pitcher.

Not IN ten years has Chr1sty Matn-
ewson been taksa out Of the box by
McGraw. unless possibly under some
condition where strategy demanded
a pinch hitter, or man batting from
the other eide Of the p1ete. or speedy
base runner. This may surprise 1,ooo''
600 or more fans. Box scores may be
produced to dispute It But that Is a
case where the box scores are wrong.
When Matty comes out, he takes him
self out. He knows when he Is not
right, and is not ashamed to admit 1t.
and McGsaw leaves 1t to him. Many
time he has been known gently to lay
the ball on the ground, when he felt he
could not be effective. and facetiously
call to some comrade on the bench:
Come out here and finish this Job.
It's too large for me-" And then, as
a parting shot to the grinning bats
man at the plate: "1'll be right here
tomorrow, and the first time you come
a7. you'll breeze"
And generally he makes good on bis
ssrecast.-Popular Magazine.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
ODD WAYS OF TELLING TIME
Glance at CloeN or Watch Is by Ne
Means Absolutely Necessary, as
This Article Shows.

A clock or a watch was about az
rare in Turkey so years ago as an
aeroplane Is in America today. Even
ut the present tine in the smaller
cities and villages the house with q
timepiece in it is unusual, for a clock
or watch is considered luxurious con-
yenience to be indulged in only by o
sew Of the wealthier class
Nature is the clock of that land. a
most reliable clock, which never stops
or fails to eerve its purpose. Shoula
you inquire the time there you would
be referred to the crow Of the cock, tho
sun, or the condition OF the cats eye
The cock crows regularly morning
forenoon, noon, afternoon and evening.
Sometimes he crows at irregular PERI
DDS. Woe unto him! For superstition
demands that his head be chopped OF,
q demand which is complied with WITH
out delay, for to tolerate an ill-crowinS
cock Is to bring bad luck, according to
q native superstition.
One Of the methods they have Of
telling time by the sun is the follow
ing: They hold their thumbs touching
one another horizontally, and extend
the forefngers up perpendicularly.
Then they divide the thumb and fore
finger Of each hand into six parts,
nominal hour points, one hand repre-
eenting the morning and the other tho
afternoon. Where the thumbs join be-
ing twelve o'clock, the tip Of one fore
finger representing six o'clock In the
morning and the tip Of the other six
o'clock in the afternoon. by holding
the hands in the described position
toward the sun the shadow cas- by ono
forefnger upon the other will point
to the correct time, as Judged by the
hours nominally marked in mind. Fhe
hour divisions may be divided into
additional parts, as the quarter hours.
TO tell the time by the cats eye
sounds at first humorous, but it can
Se done. The average person perhaps
Ii not aware that the shape of the
cats eye undergoes changes during
the day: In the morning the pupil ia
normally circular, but gradually it
narrows until noon, when only mar
row streak is left. AS the day pro
grasses It resumes its normal shape,
becoming oval about three o'clock in
the afternoon. In Turkey It is com
mon for the old folks to can the cat to
their sides in order to ascertain ene
time,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
kept at the Office.

Mis- Brown always looks very duet'
GUS when her husband comes hsne
little later than usual and says 30 has
been kept at the Office" She never
looks as II she believed the excuse,
which. as a matter OF fact. is quite
genuine. But some wives seem in
capable Of realizing thai their hus-
bands really are kept late at the ONCE
sometimes. and nowadays competition
is so keen that a man can't afford to
60 OF at the tick Of the clock II he
wishes to keep his position. The sen.
sible wife doesn't make Q fuss when
he is kept late" She just notices
that he looks more tired than usual,
and lets him have his dinner and a
smoke after in peace and quiet and
you usually fi,d that the husband who
receives this sort Of treatment is
never late home II he can Hcssahly
seln IT.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
Why a Country Road UniL


a stretch Of road Of the utmost I'M
portance to a locality may be OF little
concern to q particular township IN
volved (the people using another
road), and hence there is no oDDor-
tunity to have the entire stretch OF
the road improved as It should be.
And we conclude that no system OF
roads that will answer present needs
can be built under township units, be-
cause they are too small to carry on
the work. Moreover, the cost would
fall wholly on the township, whereas
the center toward which the road goes
is as much benefited. but may be Id
different township. County control OF
the main roads would be better; the
law could let each county vote for or
against county control-A. N.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
split-los Drag.

The drag not only smooths the road,
but crowns it and pudd1es the mud so
that it is hard when dry.
These drags have been used with
great success on clay or water-holding
soils. Many stretches Of black gumbo
roads In the West are maintained by
the use Of this implement alone.
Every farmer should own one, and
after a rain he should spend few
hours on the road adjacent to his
farm. If there are many depressions
to fill, the drag should be used when
the road.is wet.
After it has been used long enough
to make the road fairly smooth, the
drag gives the best results II used
lien the earth begins to diy.