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The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND
Nothing So Small That the ZephyrS
Shall Not Find 1t and Spread
Il BenefieiaIIy.

Acres Of perfume come on the wind
from the black and white of the beam
field; the frs ill the air by the cOpSe
with perfume. know nothing to
which the wind has not some happy
use. Is there a grain Of dust so small
the wind shall not find it out?
Ground in the mill-wheel Of the CEN
turtles, the iron Of the distant noun
tain floats like gOssamer. and is drunk
up as dew. A thousand miles Of
cloud go by from morn till night,
passing overhead without a sound;
the immense packs, mile square, sue
coed to each other, side by side, laid
parallel, book shape, coming up from
the horizon and widening as they ap-
proach. From morn till night the
silent footballs Of the pOnderous va
pors travel overhead. no sound. no
creaking Of the wheels and rafting Of
the chains; it is calm at the earth,
but the wind Iabors without an effort
above, with such ease, with such
power. Gray smoke hangs on the hill
side where the couch-heaps are piled,
a cumulus Of smoke; the wind comes,
and It draws it's length along like the
genil from the earthen pot; there
leaps up a red flame shaking its head ;
II shines In the bright sunlight; you
can see it across the valley.-Richard
Jefferies.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
WORK OF SPONGE CATERERS
Divers Go to Great Depths 70 Collect
Them From the Rocks to Which
They Are Fixed.

SpOnges are Of many qualities, but
the most highly priced is that Of Syria,
with a cuplike shape and a yellowish
pale color, which is found In a number
Of varieties.
The large sponge fisheries are sit
uated along the seaskores Of Greece,
Syria and Of certain parts Of the Adri-
attic, as we'll as along the TripoH and
Tunisian seashores. The fishing Of
spOnges is effected by divers who are
let down from a boat to depths Of 10,
20 and sometimes % meters, and pull
the spOnges from the rocks to which
they are fixed. Some sponge fishermen
use a long trident, but this system Is
fortunately falling into disuse, since 1t
spOils the spOnges. In better-equipped
fishing grounds the gathering Of
spOnges is effected by divers provided
with diving bells or dressed In cork
jackets.
Upon being gathered the sponges are
squeezed, beaten and washed in order
to rid them Of their black coating and
soft substance which gives them a
very characteristic chlorine odor.
When they begin to wkiten they are
subjected to a frequently renewed
solution Of sulphuric acid.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
DESERVES PLACE IN HISTORY
cecrops, IIIustrious Egyptian, Made
Country an Asylum for the ln-srv
nocent and Prosecuted.

With the dawn of Attic civilization
in ancient Greece, Cecrops, an Egyp-
tan, built a town on the site where
later the citadel of Athens rose in
magnificence. He introduced morals
and judicial regulations, and the coun-
try under his rule became an asylum
for the innocent and prosecuted. From
that time on festivals, compacts and
laws extended their beneficial influ-
ence. About 40 years after him the
PhOenician Cadmus brought the use
of letters into BOeOtia; and at Thebes,
in the same country, he erected cita-
del. The greatest lyric poet and the
greatest general of the Greeks were
Boeotians, but nevertheless this peo-
pie was accused Of stupidity. While
their value was not appreciated, their
discoveries were brought to perfection
by others and more usefully applied.
1t is remarkable that Cadmus,
the father Of learning, who taught
US to hand down our thoughts to fu-
turity, came into Greece just at time
when Joshua, the leader Of the
Jews, drove the Phoenecian tribes to-
ward the sea and compelled them to
seek refuge in distant colonies. This
act Of a despised people, scarcely
known to Greek historians, was the
occasional cause Of all the intellectual
and moral excellence which has arisen
through the influence Of literature.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
Natures unehanaInQ Way.

Outstanding ability is the reward
Of using the power one has. The
best athlete In the world will lose
power by hanging around. Resist
ance is the response Of nature to test
ings. Difficulties are never made easy
by giving up. Nature demands that
men gain strength by using strength.
Turn what you have to account and
nature will add to your store with In
terest. The more you love the larger
capacity you have to love. The more
you think the keener your thinking
ability becomes. The harder and
more sanely you work the more you
are able to. There's no secret
about it. It's just natures way of
saying ito him that hath shall be
given" And more than that, if you
want anything from nature you must
bestir yourself and get it. Nature is
not a grudging giver but she makes
men earn all they get.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
MANS FIRST DWELLING PLACE
Scientists Claim That the Desert OF
Cobb Must for Natural Reasons
Be the Spot.

The desert Of Cobb, which is the
summit Of the central steppe in Asia,
Is the most elevated region on the
globe, and 1t is here, scientists claim,
man first lived, arguing that this point
Of earth must have been the first to
emerge from the universal sea, and
that as the subsiding waters gradually
gave up lower regions of earth to
man be was able to descend and
spread himself progressively over new
acquisitions.
It is from this region that the great
rivers of Asia also take their rise
and flow toward the four cardinal
points. On the declivities Of these
highlands are the plains Of Tibet,
lower than the frozen regions Of Cobb.
Here are found not only the vine, the
olive, rice, the Iegumina, and other
for sustenance, but also those animals
which he has tanned and led with him
over the earth, as the OK. the horse,
the ass, the sheep, the goat, the camel,
the hog, the dog, and even the rein
deer. run wild upon these mountains.
On the mountains Of Cashmire, in
Tibet, and in the north Of China, grain
has been found to be growing wild for
years without ever being sOwn or
titled, and here also wild animals that
have lived there while man has tanned
others Of the same species. are numer-
ous.-Exchange.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
EVER SYMBOLS OF RELIGION
Before the Days Of Christianity
Leaves of the Glover Plant Were
Used as illustrations.

Even In Druidic worship, In pre-
Christian times. the trefoil leaves OF
the clover plant were symbols Of re-
Iigion, setting forth the three grades
Of Druids, Bards and NeOphites. In
Christian mythology its leaf is fire.
quently held to symbolic the Trinity,
and some Irish authorities insist that
1t is the true and original shamrock
which st. Patrick used to illustrate
how three separate objects. such as
leaves, could be one.
The four-leaf clover Is a freak
growth, and the causes that produce
1t are heredity and nutrition. After
a moist season clover plants with from
four to seven leaves, and some haV-
ing only two leaves, are found. Some
plants are abnormal by heredity, and
reproduce themselves with the same
characteristics in successive years
when their environment remains the
same, external Influences merely modi-
flying the size of the leaves.
The fOur-leaf clover is everywhere
held as an omen Of good luck to the
finder, partly on account Of its rarity
and partly because Of its crosslike
form. In Germany 1t ls believed a
four-leaf clover will overcome witch
cry, win love, guard one from danger
when travelling. and secure a safe re-
turn, and II plucked on st. Johns eve
will enable the finder to work won
ders In magic.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
MAKE THE MOST OF TODAY
All That Has Gone Before Is Past and
the Future Is CIoUded With
Uncertainty.

Today Is what you have. 1t is also
what you are. And again, Today Is
what you do. And If you haven't any
thing, and aren't anybody, and do
nothing-why, then, for you there is
no To-day.
For Today is music. Today Is art
Today is literature. Today is Joy. To
day is work. Today is play. Today Is
life.
Yesterday is no probIem-fOr it is
past. Tomorrow is no problem-for 1t
isn't here. Today is supremacy. To-
day is the world Today is-Oppor-
tunityI
Crowd in upon It then. TOday-take
hold upon its faintest chance. Spread
YOUR smIles-Today. Be game-To-
day. Be glad and great-Today.
Today is the day-your day.
Today is Time and Change doing Its
lob. Are you a vital part Of the play7
Today you may start out all anew. To
day you may put to use what you
learned a day ago. The center OF your
entire life may revolve about-Today.
But, above all things, do not fear
Today. And let all worry slide. All
things that do not count-let them 60,
too. Work and help and love-To-
day.
For this Today Will never dawn
again George Matthew Adams In
Good Housekeeping.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
Snakes Menace Mere Bun.

A really accomplished reptile re-
Gently arrived In London In the shape
Of the American "hOg-nosed snake"
When approached by man, 1t acts In
q most disturbing way, hattening
part Of its body and initiating an awe
some hood like a cobra. II ever any
thing said: 81 am DEATH" 1t Is the
hog-nosed snake receiving a caller.
As you get nearer. its rage and men
ace increase, but, one more step, and
there is an anti-climax. The hood
collapses, the snake "fops" to the
ground, turns on its back and ap-
pears perfectly lIfeIess. Stir 1t with
a stick, and it remains as limp as
piece Of garden hose, but turn your
back and it will crawl away. The
two specimens now in the Geological
gardens, Regents park, have gone
through their TACT" so often that they
are TOO bored to repeat it for the pres
ent. The point of the joke is that the
hog-noapd snake is perfectly harmless.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
A Psychologists Morning After.

had two days spoiled by psyche
logical experiment with mescal, an in
toxicant used by some of our south
western Indians in their religious cere-
monies-a sort of cactus bud Of which
the United States government had dis
ributed supply to certain medical
men, including Weir Mitchell, who
sent me some to try. He had himself
been 'fn fairyland." 1t gives the most
glorious visions Of cOlor-every object
thought of appears in a Jeweled splen-
dor unknown to the natural world. 1t
disturbs the stomach somewhat, but
that, according to w. NJ, was a cheap
price. l took one bud three days ago,
was violently sick for twenty-four
hours, and had no other symptom
whatever except that and the katzen-
TANNER the following day.-From Let
ter of William James. Atlantic Month
w.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
Leaders Must Pay Price.

There's satisfaction in being able b
do hard things. Weaklings have to be
exceptionally Insignificant II they can't
do something. Then there Is a large
class that can do many things indi1er-
emily. Those who can carry big loads
and carry them well are few. To be
In this select class appeals TO most
folks, but only the few really deserve
place In II. And they do not land there
without effort. Such honOrs are mat
tiers Of growth. Time and toll are the
price paid for the advance. Beginning
with what comes easy the worthy ones
become experts and then add to their
sphere Of achieving such things as ma
turally fall in line with their endeav-
Ors. Then they grow without being
really conscious of added strength.
That comes as a glad surprise when
some one calls attention to It
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
Wisdom in Loading Up Work.

Because other folks do not organize
their work they get tired and quit. Or
it may be they lose their nerve be-
cause they do not see the way out. You
have come into your powers so grad
uaIly that it seems second nature to
you. Accordingly you hustle along
with keen satisfaction while the other
fellow worries or even gives up.
There's nothing like loading up when
you do it wisely. Besides adding to
your own strength you are doing some
thing that benefits your fellow men.
You profit on two scores. The salts
faction of knowing you are doing your
full share and the praise men will give
when they realize what you are con-
tributing toward the worlds welfare.
The weakIing can gain strength, and
the strong man become a benefactor
when they use their heads in loading
up. Begin today to rise into your
heritage. Load up.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
Only Load Up" Right.

The tasks you add to your already
full program must be related to your
life work. The magnet won't hold
soap, and froth and wood. Its affinity
is with things of steel. So your efforts
must be related to youB talents and
experience if they are to he a help
in your growth. One added task above
your speciality would be enough to
swamp man who doesn't know your
line. To you it's just another added
opportunity. To be sure ii will re-
quire some effort, but nothing in com.
parison to what it would require in
others. You take the load on uncOn-
sciously. It's merely another turn or
two of the kind you do right along.
But In time those few extra daily
turns make you tower of strength.
There is no limit to your development
when you load up right-Grft.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
Weary Of the Thought Of War.

The imperial war museum at the
Crystal palace in London has been al
most entirely deserted. There is a
lot to be seen under the great glass
roof, but few persons are sufficiently
interested to make a visit. The long
avenues Of ornaments are seldom WIS.,
tied. Among 200 or 300 visitors on
one day there were only two private
soldiers. Their opinion was: at Is
mournful, gloomy and uninspiring."
A Daily Mail representative who
made a tour of the exhibition found
that the majority Of the people re-
garded the display In the same light
as the soldiers. A war widow and her
sixteen-year-old daughter. with the
knowledge of how father died." shed
tears in front Of the Warspite exhibits
and then walked slowly out Of the
building. 1t was pathetic incident
that moved other visitors. But 1t was
only one Of its kind.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
SONGS THAT ARE IMMORTAL
Greatest Minds of All the Ages Be
slowed Their Eabors on the
Poems Of Homer.

The Illiad and Odyssey were prob
ably sung by Homer about a century
and a half after the destruction of
the town of Troy following the ten
years Of war that was waged in the
cause of Menelaus, king of Lacede-
mon, whose cOnsort had been carried
away by the son of the Trojan mon
arch. The two poems are as old as
David's psalms. Originally the nliad
would appear not to have been a sim
gle connected poem, but to have at
tanned at a later period its present
complete state.
About one hundred years after HON.
er, Lycurgus, the lawgiver Of Lace
demon, brought these poems into
Greece, and two centuries and a half
later Pisistratus is supposed to have
given them their perfect form. His
son Hipparcus introduced the custom
Of reciting rhapsodies at the Pana-
thenaia, or festival Of the tutelar god
dess. more complete edition Of the
Homeric poems, from which the mod
ern ones are taken, was prepared for
Alexander the Great by Aristotle,
which the former used to keep under
his pillow in a golden case. Also
Aratus, the astronomer, Aristarchus Of
SamOs, and Aristophanes, librarian at
Alexandra, bestowed their labor on
these immortal songs. Because Of the
fine moral sentiment, Homer became
the pattern Of Thucydides, the favor
ite author Of the greatest and noblest
men, and one Of the best teachers Of
the wisdom Of human life.-Detroit
News.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
UNABLE TO EXPLAIN GENIUS
Scientists Of All Ages Have Admitted
the ImpossibiIity Of Determining
60 NFhenea n CoFnas

Science itself admits that 1t cannot
explain genius, for genius simply is
without explanation.
Handel was only seven when he in
sisted on following his father to the
court of Saxe-Weisenfels, whose
prince, hearing him play on the or
gan in church after the service was
over, persuaded his father to give the
boy a chance. By the time he was
nine he began TO compose church serv-
ices for voices and instruments and
did so every week for three years.
But Handel was a tremendous gor-
mandizer. He ordered dinner for three
at hotel, and when asked if he would
wait for the others, replied: 81 am
the others, serve the dinner" and he
ate all of it.
A story is told of Handel that while
seated at dinner with some other mu-
sicians he exclaimed, ooh, / have de
taught" Those about him begged
that he go into another room and
write down "de taught" lest they lose
some wonderful composition. Handel
did this several times, when one Of
the friends looked through the keyhOle
and saw him pouring down some Bur
gundy which an admirer had sent him
and he did not wish to share with the
others.
When a singer complained to Handel
that the style of his accomplishments
distracted the attention Of the hear
ers from the singer to the musician
and that II he did not accompany him
better he would jump up on the harp
sichord (the piano Of that time) and
smash it. Handel replied: "Fine!
Tell me when you are going to do
that and | shall advertise it, for more
people will come to see you jump
than to hear you sing"
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
CLEANING Watches With Bread.

Perhaps the most novel use to which
bread is put may be seen in some of
the great watch factories, where more
than forty lOaves of fresh bread are
sometimes used each day.
From earliest times in the history of
matchmaking it has been the custom to
reduce fresh bread to tn" form Of
dough. This dough is used for remov-
ing oil and chips that naturally adhere
i'm course of manufacture to pieces as
small as the parts IF a watch. There
are many parts of a watch that are so
small as to be barely visible to the
naked eye. The oil is absorbed by this
dough. and the chips stick to it, and
there is no other known substance
which can be used as wiper without
leaving some of its particles attached
to the thing wiped.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
PLACING CROWN ON PAGoDA
Solemn Ceremony at MandaIay That
Attracted Crowds of the DeVout
Followers Of 5uddha.

A curious festival was held not long
ago in Mandalay, the chief town of
Burma. A new pagoda dedicated to
the Buddhist religion was to be COM
pleted by the placing Of huge crown
or thi upon its summit, more than 800
feet above the ground.
To witness the ceremony came Bud
dhists from Indo-Chna, from the
Himalayas, from Laos and Chan and
Siam. Warriors from Katschin, SOrcer-
ers from Mot and people from other
places made a medley Of languages
like that at Babel.
On a street corner would be seen a
barber pulling a customers tooth. On
another corner a Mohammedan bird
dealer sold Gagged paroquets to Bud
dhists who piOusly set them free. At
very modern booths one could buy ice
cream, soda or tea. Mandalay was
gorgeous spectacle and the new pagoda
was the center Of it.
Every pagoda has at its summit a
thi, or cap, the placing Of which is Of
ten a herculean task. The one now
to be raised weighed several hundred
pounds and consisted Of a glided ball
and crown and a great spindle above
1t.
To get It to the top an Inclined plane
Of bamboo scaffolding like a huge to-
boggan slide had been built, and was
decorated with silk flags and umbrel-
las. Up the inclined plane the heavy
cap was slowly pulled. Six days
were required for the ascent and a
seventh to fasten II in place.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
RELIC OF MEDIEVAL TIMES
Sacred City Of Mongolia Has But
Thin Veneer Of the civIliza-
ton of Today.

Urga, sacred city Of the Living Bud
dha, lying far to the north Of Mon
golia, Is a relic Of medieval times over
laid with a veneer Of twentieth cen
fury civilization, and is a city Of viO-
lent contrasts and glaring anachron-
Isms. II was used as a base Of sup
plies by Roy Chapman Andrews, lead
er Of the second Asiatic geological eK-
pedition Of the American Museum OF
Natural History.
Motor cars pass camel caravans
fresh from the Cobb desert; holy la
mas In bright robes walk side by side
with black-gowned priests and swarthy
MongoI women In the fantastic head
dress Of their race stare wOnderingly
at the latest fashions Of their Rus
sian sisters, relates a correspondent OF
the Detroit News. Three great races
have met In Urga, and each carries
on its own Customs and way Of life.
The MOngoTs felt-covered home has
remained unchanged; the Chinese shop
with its wooden counter and blue
gowned inmates Is st1l pure Chinese,
and the ornate cottages proclaim
themselves to be Russian.
Men from all races and corners o.
the earth gamble together. All Mon
golia lives on horseback, and MOngol
will never walk even a hundred yards
If he can help 1t. Summer In Mon
gOIIa is short at best, and in the win
ter the temperature drops to 80 and
90 degrees below zero, and the great
plateau Is swept by biting winds from
the Siberian steppes.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
InuersoII Quoted Scripture.

There has been no modern controver-
sialist who, in the audaciOus use Of
scripture, could surpass the once cele-
brated Colonel Ingersoll, most infuen-
tial of agnostic lecturers in America
in his day. His archaeological enter
prises did not exhaust his energies ;
IngersOl was a powerful champion of
sound currency during the epoch of
inflated paper money after the Civil
war. In a speech on this exciting sub
ject he once delivered himself to the
following effect: 81 hope to see the
day when every greenback in the
United States will be able to rise up
on its edge and say I know that my
redeemer liveth -
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
Aluminium Brass.

Experiments aimed at developing
the resistance of brass to the action
of sea water, with a view to its en-
ployment for constructing submarines
In France, have, it is reported, shown
some remarkable results from the ad-
dition of aluminium. The internal
structure of the alloy is strikingly
changed by a very small percentage
of aluminium and the color changes
are surprising.
From half of per cent up to per
cent Of aluminium gives the brass a
deep golden color. If the quantity Of
aluminium is increased beyond 5 per
cent superb rose color results. which
reaches Its maximum when the alum
mum amounts to z per cent. With 10
per cent of aluminium the color turns
10 q sIlvery white.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
Why Go 70 CoIIeaeH

know a young Yale graduate IN
Philadelphia who is now convinced
that a college education Is a bar to
wealth. "GIrard" writes In the Phil
adelphia Press.
He is a clever electrician and got
a Job after leaving Yale which paid
him $50 a week. In his new place he
came in contact with an uneducated
foreman who tried to persuade the
college lad to turn a day laborer and
Join the union"
He was assured that IN a fortnight
he could get $50 a week.
The young son Of Eli stuck to hls
electrical job and when wiring a build
ing in Philadelphia boss painter told
him he could get double the $50 a
week he was then getting II he took
up the paint brush.
Do you wonder that this youth who
holds his Yale sheepskin Is puzzled In
figuring out Just how a college edu-
cation pays him?
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
Asparagus Has a Pedlgree.

Asparagus was cultivated in Rome
200 years B. c., and Pliny, in his His
tory Naturalfs," mentions that near
Ravenna there grew a kind Of which
three heads weighed a pound. Aspar-
agus flOurished also In Greece. It Is
a native of several places near the sea
In Britain. At Kynance cove, In
Cornwall, a rocky island Is called "As-
paragus island" because at one time
the plant was cultivated there. In an
cient days all sprouts Of young vege-
tables. were called asparagus; and In
comparatively modern times the arti-
choke, cardOon, seakale and alisander
were included. Nowadays only the
one Is so called. Most probably all
are wild sea-coast plants, and culti-
waited asparagus of an unpalatable or
der may still be found on British
shores.
The Adair County news., 1920-09-15
Enormous Sharks.

Sharks grow TO a tremendous size.
Rou,Ielerrs shark. for instance, which
is an inhabitant of tropical seas, at
tains a length of 40 feet. The great
basking shark is even longer. A
young fish of this species. brought to
England and set up, is II feet In
length. Full grown, this shark may
measure so feet and rival the whales
In girth and weight.
Saw-fsh have been killed 80 feet in
length, and it is not for moment to
be supposed that we have secured the
largest. The fact is that the natural
history Of the seas is still very largely
a sealed book, and that surprises are
stIll In store for future gOera1OnG