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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-03
COrnS Loosen,
Lift Right Off
Nothing But "GETS-IT" viii
Do This to COrnS and
CaIIOuSeS.

If you've ever had corns, you've
tried lots Of things to get rid of them
-salyes that eat your toe and leIve
TIE corn remaining, cotton rings that
make your cOrns bulge out ike pop
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-03
Colorado Tax Values.

Denver oct. 1.-THE report of the
state tax commission made public at
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
Only One Athens Now.

There is and has been for many cen
turtles only one Athens. But antiquity
knew no fewer than nine cities or
towns Of that name in various parts of
Greece, and even In the time of Plau-
tus 1t was sometimes felt necessary to
distinguish the great one as Attic
Athens" 1t was natural that Greek
cities should take their name from
Athena. the goddess Of wisdom, war
like prowess and skill In the arts of
life, who, according to some legends,
herself founded the City of the Violent
Crown. Others ascribed the naming
of the city to Theseus or other myth
cal kings. The IS" of the termination
Is real plural, for the city was given
plural name (AthenaD, as being made
up Of several Constituent parts.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
How Prueeia Was Reiterated.

There was no need of celebrating Ar
Dor day in Prussia In the days when
Friedrich Wilhelm /. was king, for that
monarch had plan all his own by
which he replenished the forests and
kept the country well supplied with
fruit trees.
According to Das Buch fur ALE, the
king, having observed that there was
a great dearth of fruit and oak trees
in Prussia and not being willing to
undertake the tremendous expense of
refOresting the country himself issued
an order to all clergymen that, after
June 81, 1920. they should refuse to
perform any marriage ceremony unless
the groom could produce evidence that
he had just planted six fruit trees and
an equal number Of oaks If It was in
winter or in the middle Of a dry sum-
mer, when plants would not grow, the
groom had to produce and lay aside a
sum Of money sufficient to cover the
cost Of the trees and promise to plant
the required number when fall or
spring came.
The edict worked wonders. The next
generation in Prussia had no lack Of
fruit and oak trees.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
A Painters Broken Arm.

A friend once entered the studio of
George Inness, the American land
scape painter, while he was at work
and remarked that the picture on the
easel seemed to him much better than
certain former works Of the artist.
Right" said Inness. This is going
to be one Of my best things, and the
reason Is that / have had the good
luck to break my right arm and am
obliged to paint with my left hand.
You see," he added, showing his right
hand in sling, this hand had be-
come so darned clever that l could not
catch up with it. and it painted away
without me. while this hand"-show-
Ing the left, with which he held his
brush-"is awkward and can do moth
ing without me-"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
The Colder Hsmisphere.

Dr. George G. Simpson Of the Indian
meteorological service at Simla, in In
dia, who asserted that the southern
hemisphere is much colder than the
northern, gives In the Scientific Amer
lean the reasons on which he bases his
opinion. The air is warmed not by the
rays Of the sun, which simply pass
through 1t. but by the earth, which alb
serbs the rays. Now, in the northern
hemisphere there is much land to absorb
the energy Of the sun and to give heat
to the air In the southern hemisphere
there is much less land, and all the
land within the antarctic circle Is per-
manently covered with ice, which forms
virtually perfect reflector and which
sends back into space most Of the solar
energy that falls upon It, Five mil
lion square miles of the earth's surface
In the southern hemisphere reflect into
space a large part Of the energy re-
ceived from the sun-a fact that In It.
self is enough to account for a consid.
cradle difference in temperature.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
Courtinn In Snain

In sunny Spain etiquette is so very
restrictive in the matter of courtship
that 1t is wonder that young people
ever manage to get married at all.
Even when. after many difficulties. the
engagement is accomplished, the par
ents have deciding voice In fixing
the date, and. as they prefer long en-
gagements. the wedding day IS usually
fixed somewhere in the dim future.
The best man and maid of honor are
expected not only to fulfill the usual
duties, but to contribute-sOmetim
very substantially to the expenses of
the wedding feast Wedding cake Is
unknown. but instead packets OF sugar
ed almonds are distributed among the
guests and sent by post to those who
are unable to be present.-Kansas City
Star.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
EHpIodinu Ice,

10 make a piece Of fee explode the
arst step Is to put on plate lump OF
:lear ice about as large as your fist
Then with reading glass or the lens
Of magnifying glass focus the suns
rays so that the bright spot of light is
exactly in the center Of the lump. In
q little time the ice will begin to melt
from the inside, and after a few mo-
ments a small cavity will appear, for
the ice, having expanded in freezing.
viii not take up so much room when
melted. The cavity, being entirely sur
rounded by ice, will be a partial vac
uum, fled with a watery vapor of very
low pressure. When you have melted
a large cavity lay the glass aside and
let the ice melt In the sun. Turn 1t
occasionally so that 1t will be sure to
melt evenly round the cavity. After
awhile the cavity will be surrounded
by thin shell of ice. Then, because
Of the great pressure on the outside
about fifteen pounds to the square
inch, the thin walls will suddenly
collapse, and the ice will fly in all d.
rections.-Youth's Companion.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26


'The thing to do" said the literary
man, "is to call your novel after tho
name Of the leading character"
"WhyY' asked the youngest novel
list.
Because the best and the most sue
cessful novels always have such
Names" the other replied. "Take the
great novelists The greatest book of
each gets Its title from the leading
characters name.
Instances are easy to give. What
ls the best novel Of Dickens? 1t is
David Copperield.' What is the best
novel Of Thackeray? 1t is Henry Es-
mond.' What is the best novel OF
Scott? 1t is Tvanhoe.' What Is the
best novel Of Thomas Hardy? Tess
Of the D'Urbervllles.' or George Mere
dith? The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.'
OF Rider Haggardf Allan Quater-
main OF Tolstoy? Anna Karenina.'"
New York Post
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26

Sam had come home from school,
hungry, as usual. Tossing his spelling
book on the kitchen table, he FASTENED
to the pantry and began an investiga-
tion Of cake box, cupboards and cooky
jar.
Suddenly the back doorbell rang.
Leaving his improbable search, Sam
uel went TO answer On the steps
stood an unshaven, long haired man
whose clothes needed tailor and a
laundry worker
I'm hungry" began the stranger in
a low, aggrieved tone, land should
like somethin' to eat"
well, som l." confded the boy,
but you know I've been a-huntin' for
ten minutes an haint found a thingT
Judge.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26

After the guests had waited for half
an hour in a Berkshire church for the
bride to arrive messengers were dis
patched to the livery stable to try to
discover what had happened The lIv.
eryman. made to understand that he
had omitted to send a carriage to her
house, acknowledged that all the
blame rested on him and apologized in
manly fashion, but when they suggest
ed that he should proceed to remedy
the delay he failed to see the point.
"What1l be the use o. fetchin' 'er
nowT' he argued. THE service II be
art over"-London Globe.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
1hoaa Who Rida.

In all situations of life into which l
have looked have found mankind d.
vided into two grand parties, those
who ride and those who are ridden.
The great struggle in life seems to be
which shall keep in the saddle. This,
1t appears to me, is the fundamental
principle of politics, whether in great
or little life.-From "The Young Man
OF Great Expectations" by Washing
ton Irving.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26

There is story current at Kuloang.
central China. about tiger which gave
trouble In that quarter. A missionary
and his wife had been worried by the
tiger prowling nightly around their
home. They determined to be rid of
1t and one night tied COW up in the
back yard and dog at the front of
the house. Then they armed them
selves with guns and kept watch. The
tiger appeared, The missionary fred
and killed The COW. The wife rushed
to see what had happened, and in her
absence the tiger ate the dog.-Ex-
change.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
FINE LOT OF GOODS.

We have an up-to-date and well-selected
line of domestic dry goods, wooden oress
Goods and wash goods in good variety ana
am quite sure there is some money savers
to the buying public.
We have black woolens at rs, 50. Toe
ana 81 per yard. Also good variety OF
Oolors.
Ripplettes, all colors, worth l5c per yard
Ottoman cords, in variety Of colors at 25c
Ratines, in variety Of colors, at 25c,
Ratynettes, in variety Of colors. at nc.
sin noplins. in variety Of colors. at zoe.
Poplins. regular Csc grade, at l9c
ROYAL hester poneee linens, 29c grade
at Csc. o ooaoeo
White 45-inch founcing at 20, 49, 80
and soc.
Black and white India linons at 10, l2-l-2'
IS, 20 and Csc. az On
Forty-inch linaires and naxons at H. 70
and 25c.
If YOU are in need of corsets. we have
the Memo. R. & G. and Warner Bros from
We sell the Kayser silk gloves.
Short gloves in black, white tan ana
Long elbow gloves in black, white and
tan at 81. -.
II YOU are in need of mattinss or rugs
Won can find a good stock here at best
prices, less than elsewhere.
w HTCKS.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26

Beware Of lazy idleness. 1t will have
Its effect on your whole system. 1t
brings on degeneration OF the muscles
ana the Internal organs, sometimes re-
sulting in an unhealthy accumulation
Of fat and sometimes in internal adhe-
sion. In some constitutions 1t results
in shrinkage and premature old age.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
Caught.

Herbert, you weren't listening to
what l said"
"Er-what makes you think that,
darlingT
4 asked you If you could let me have
500. and you smiled and said, Yes,
dearest Life.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
Evil Enaunh.

There is evil enough In man. Goo
knows, but 1t is not the mission OF
every young man and woman to de.
tail and report 1t ALL Keep the at.
mosphere as pure as possible and fra.
grant with gentleness and charity
DR.. John Hall.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26

1t is the appearances that all the
scene, and we pause not to ask of
what realities they are the proxies.
When the actor Of Athens moved all
hearts as he clasped the burial urn and
burst into broken sobs how few then
Knew that 1t held the ashes of his son!
-Bulwer-Lytton.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26

Mistress-Jane, didn't you hear the
doorbell? New Servant-Yes. mum.
Mistress-Then why don't you go to
the door? New Servant-'Deed, mum.
l amt expectln' nobody to call on me.
1t must be somebody to see yourself.
mum.-Passlng Show.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
Different.

Larry-My wife went away yester-
day morning. Harry-Is that what
makes you look so glum? Larry-No;
she came back last night.-Exchange.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26

Wife-Have you shut up everything
Tor the night? Husband (meekly)-
I'm sorry to say, dear that haven't
New York Sun.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
FARM FOR SALE.

Containing 1877 acres. improved by new
dwelling and barn and other outbuiidines:
about miles from Germantown Station
In MONTGOMERY county. Md, and about the
same distance from Gaithersburg; one
half mile from pike Apply to
BOWIE F. WATERS. Attorney.
iune sta Rockville, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
OAK GROVE POULTRY YARDS.

Baby chicks and eggs for hatchinR. s.
G. White Leehorns. Rhode Island Red and
Bun Rocks. Baby chicks, 10 cents each,
EGGS. H.OO per is; $500 per 100.
MRS. r. P. HINES,
Rockville. Md.
mar l7-imS
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
For sale In Rockville.

TWO HOUSES. one Of slI rooms and ous
Of seven rooms; also . STORE AND
DWELLING In the business part Of ths
town. Store contains two large rooms, with
hve rooms over II
For particulars apply to
JoBEPH READING,
seq le-ln Rockville. Ma.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26

oh, life! An age to the miserable, q
moment to the happy.--Bacon.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
For Sale or Rent.

For sale or rent ten-room DWELLING.
with bath. situated in Rockville, Md, about
hve minutes walk from train or trolley
about 4 acres Of land, stable and necessary
outbuildings. Address
MRS. JOHN MADDOX,
sep Palm Britton. Ma
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26

He does roaring business"
whats his llneT"
HE blows the megaphone Cd a sight
seeing bus."-Club Fellow.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-05-26
For Sale or Rent.

For sale OF rent. cheap. a house and
store and IL acres Of land. situated four
miles from PoOlesville and three miles from
Seneca. Montgomery county, Nd. A GOOD
business stand. Apply 10
u. K0HLHOSS,
uec T4-zm" PoolesvAle, Nd
Evening star., 1916-06-04
The Cleaner

s1HHREE ocock-the rumbles bv-the
u lurches north with maudin egthe wachman rounds
the block and himself comfortably drug
the have struggled the Cleaner
forth.
In all the city there quest for bread crueno
and pites In this unighted hour
will how hard the venge have ridden
Once she. had chance. She houemaid
shop girl wife But she proud service
and he'd her and spun
little mind
She wanted things that poor couldn't afford
wouldn't She took the thought
shortest cut here her purse she
out OF her soul that empvexcep
with which filled and the bruises which
She live the red. red
cred them into her they bundles
blood with Then she mothers
knew when proud young Rome first the hills She
would not listen and the bog the night
has taken her for scuion
hey never do eed-her And when they
voices back warning
dare the painted mres
There she walksaone the black heaviest burden
bearer of althe sob wonanth last chanter in the
oldest story-the Cleaner in
Evening star., 1916-06-04
The COnCeited Rhinestone

IF you aber than have Judged speak up
y test Cry for tryoutbut first be that
false alarm people confuse their desire for
distinction with the right Since of
pretty much alike in their ideas and capacities however
probable that egotm has dislocad proportion A
conceted rhinestone quite itself
But will ou-the tell glance have been
market and aren't accepted your figuring
yourself wrong
Any with the promise OF competence get
big his 4 light
to bushels consrant 1t will burn of hiding
Every is Immediately detected by the
of and The world looking ability
sharp and steady demand for the article
many counterfeits lately that the best of
long. We're learning A bluff has hard
Evening star., 1916-06-04
THE WEATHER BUREAU.

William Ferrel and was more infiu-
enced by him, 1 dare say, than by any
other man. He was a great meteorol-
ogist. Graduated at Bethany College.
he entered the coast survey and was
engaged in making tidal observations.
Scientific societies in Austria, Germany
and Great Britain gave him place of
honor on their rolls of membership.
With marvellous learning and skill. he
revealed the mysteries of storms and
winds.
Another man who taught. me much
of value, was James P. Espy. The
graduate of university in Penn
sylvania, he practiced law for several
years in Ohio. A classical scholar, he
returned to meteorology and enriched
the knowledge of the world by showing
that all violent atmospheric disturb
Evening star., 1916-06-04

anceS are caused by uprising air which
has been rarefied by heat-that is. hot
air .ascendS and cool air ruShes into the
vacuum.
The scientists of Europe accepted
position with the War Department in
Washington and instituted a daily bull
letin service giving the state of the
weather in different localities. The
bulletins, however, were soon discon-
tinued.
$50 far. you must understand, no at
tempt had been made to tell what the
weather in a given locality would prob
ably be the next day or the day follow
ing. In short, the course of storms had
not been traced and their movements
mapped and given to the public.
Among my early authors, besides
those whom | have mentioned. was
EbeneZer Merriam. a Massachusetts man
who went to the Mammoth Cave in
Kentucky, where he manufactured salt
peter. and to GAINESVILLE. Ohio. where
he sold dry goods, and at last to New
York. where he became wealthy as d
maker of soap and candles. He studied
meteorology and originated the theory
that atmoSpherical phenomena occur in
cycles. Merriam spent the whole of his
fortune in science and benevolence.
Il had studied. moreover. Elias
Loomis, whose treatise on astronomy
Evening star., 1916-06-04

was used as a text book in England,
whose work on geometry was translat-
ed into Chinese and whose writings on
meteorology were translated into
Arabic. My knowledge of West Indian
hurricanes was obtained from William
c. Redfield. He began the study of
storms in 1921, after the destructive
gale of that year.
"A saddler's apprentice in Connecti-
cut al the age of fourteen. he removed
to New York and engaged in shipping.
becoming in time the owner of many
vessels. He built steam railroads and
horse railroads and in his leisure learned,
by scientific processes of Investigate ton.
many facts about the hurricanes which
originate in the Caribbean sea.
Thus prepared. and Jealous besides.
l went to the observatory in Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1916-06-04
{. Al0be Tells Of His First "Weather Forecast

reading woman. gave me William
Smellies Philosophy of Natural History
Smellie was an evoiutionist in 1890. Dar-
win published his origin of Species
sixty-nine years later. Smellie turned me
into an evolutionist in 1s47. and so | have
remained until the present
"One morning, near the close of my
course at the Free Academy, now
known as the College of the City of
New York, my father asked me if ! had
decided upon a profession or a bust
ness.
I hope to be an astronomer | said
An astronomer he exclaimed
That's all very well as a secondary
matter. but how are you going to earn
a living%
There are astronomers in the coun-
Evening star., 1916-06-04
Observation-Disclosures
The man who always
"telIs you so" never tells
you anything else.
Your Ancestors Chose Your Morals

MMORALITY acquired attitude We didn't lose our ape
EVU habits all the of mans climb
Nature equipped him with crude and instincts and
him loose stub his and encounter his until self
defense forced him avoid dangerous and dlsodery impulses
The whole moral code human conceptlon-a cumulative
affair which gradually acquired form cultivated intel
gence.
We've been experimenting with impulses and habits the
togodyte and the accepted standards by which conduct
communities tempered with thousands of OF experience
they Judgment the
SO don't for yourself. The whole
tied long Don't be and invite personal set OF
when Sandaers have already paid the bitter advance
for YOU. Fire DOES burn Excesses DO undermine health N
the right determined upon ch because they PAY
better.
Evening star., 1916-06-04

natl. have often thought that lee
turing is more serious business. per-
haps, than the men engaged in 1t
realize. There is a great deal more to
1T than the money taken in by the
sale of tickets at the door.
Il had long been interested in the
weather. as l have said And the in
fuences that create the weather are
connected with astronomy. Further
more, 1 had always remembered that
the great Joseph Henry had once stated
that the weather in the United States
came from the west. Henry. the first
director of the Smithsonian Institution,
an honor he held for thirty-two years.
was one of the men whom 1 followed.
Like Mitchell. he. too. had been a
clerk in country store. Then he was
apprenticed to a matchmaker in a viii
Evening star., 1916-06-04

lage not far from Albany. He would
have become an actor, however, had il
not been for .Gregory's Lectures on
Experimental Philosophy. Astronomy
and Chemistry which he read and
which caused him to become a scientist
and to take the rank just below Ben
jamin Franklin as an experimenter with
electricity.
1T was Henry, indeed, who broke
ground for Morse's telegraph. He had
been associated with DIR. Lewis c. Beck
in his meteorological Investigations in
New York and so far back as 1899 had
endeavored to have the national gov
ernment establish stations for a scien-
tific observation of the weather.
Il had likewise read and studied
Evening star., 1916-06-04
PROF. CLEVELAND ABBE,
The first scientihc weather forecnster.
Copyright by Harris & Ewing)

lfhood.' he saId IN erect, but II I were
you l would do so and So and thus
went on most helpfully for several
closely written pages
We'll. ended up asa tutor at Trim
ity Grammar School in New York.
After saving a little money l went to
Ann Arbor and studied astronomy un-
der Brunnow. l was a tutor also at the
University Of Michigan for time
From Ann Arbor l went to Cambridge.
Mass. to study with Benjamin A.
Evening star., 1916-06-04

road, and in 1859 was elected director
of the Dudley Observatory at Albany.
AT the outbreak of the civil war he
fortified Cincinnati, at the request of
the leading men in the city. He served
with the Army of Ohio and took pos
session of the railroad in Alabama
from Decatur to Stephenson, and the
picturesque locomotive chase so often
described in prose and poetry, followed.
Mitchell became a major general of vol
unteers. He was known In the army as
old Stars Unfortunately, he died in
the south of yellow fever.
so il came to pass that the small
son of woman who heard his lecture
in Brooklyn became his successor as
director of the observatory in Cincin-
Evening star., 1916-06-04

try I boldly replied, and they surely
must live by their profession
They don't do II in studying the
stars my father answered. You had
better drop the idea and take up teach
ing he added.
II wrote to all the astronomers whose
names / could learn. a dozen or twenty,
perhaps. only to get the gloomiest OF
answers. Father Curley's letter. how
ever, was somewhat encouraging He
was astronomer at a monastery
in Baltimore. You cannot make a live
Evening star., 1916-06-04

FAMOUS Metoroi Living Washington
Printed in All the Daily Newspapers the United SateWy
Man Him the Name O1
Against Him and Said He Was
and Gowns by Universities Bureau
Evening star., 1916-06-04
Blind Judges

ISLIkE Judges overestunate and
~ the qualities people whom and
the But there relation be-
personality and performance.
A Just mind does permit
value the efficiency with which he conducts his affairs always
possible admire deed still with
doer-