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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
BEWlLDERlNG TO THE MIND
Everyday Measurements Of Science
That Are Almost Beyond Gem
prehension OF the Layman.


One great difficulty In the study OF
astronomy is 10 comprehend the i'm
mensity OF the distances and sizes in
volved. For instance, we can form no
conception of the size or distance of
the sun.
Suppose there was a spherical shell
OF the diameter of the sun. Suppose
great genie should drop into this
shell, every second. night and day,
ball the size of the earth. How long
would II take TO filI the she'll? Would
II take an hour, a day, or a week? In
fact. II would take two weeks, and
when full the shell would contain more
than 1.0O0O00O earths.
The distance 10 the sun is 90, 10000
miles. How long would ii take a can
non ball to reach the sun, IL shot from
the earth. and continued on its course
at a uniform velocity? In order not
to underestimate the distance some
might say n year. In fact Ii would
than 100000 earths.
Automatically speaking, the above
distance Is very short. The sun is our
nearest star. Strain the Imagination
by trying to comprehend the velocity
or light which would pass seven times
around the earth in one second of
time. Now stagger the brain by trying
TO think OF stars, so remote from us
that million years are required for
their light to cross the enormous abyss
of 1t! When that ray of light, which
now enters the eye, started on It's
course. perhaps there was no life on
this earth.-John Candee Dean in the
indianapolis News.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07

A discovery that throws light on
prehistoric times has been made in
central France. In the cave OF the
"Three Brothers," at Montesquieu. a
wall painting. made I'm elemental col
ors OF black and yellow. has been
found by savants. II is apparently
1900 years old. II represents man.
walking TO the left. naked and be-
daubed with stripes. His body is lean
Ing forward. with his arms In front.
and hands Joined. On his head Is a
sort Of mask represer ting a stag. and
horses tail is bound on his loins
Professor Begoeun believes II repre-
sents a primitive sorcerer In the ex-
ercise of his mysteries. and that the
cave in question was prehistoric
wizards den.
1t is conjectured the cave was wall
ed up with Its occupants during vol
canlc eruption countless thousands of
years ago.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
ENCOURAGING the Hen

The modern method OF increasing
the quantity. of eggs that may be OBJ
tanned from hens Is turning on electric
lights in their pens in the middle of
the night, thereby awakening them. to
the end that they eat an extra meal
and thus approach closer than ever he
fore the ideal Of laying an egg a day.
week after week. One cannot but
think that this lengthening of the
working day for hens is device of
the same genius who discovered that
there was no need Of arising at dawn
TO feed the poultry. He simply waited
until after the henyard denizens had
gone to roost, and then scattered their
morning meal. The hens found their
breakfast waiting for them in the
morrSng, while the ingenious one arose
and went about the affairs of the day
only when he felt SO inclined. No
chanticleer called him to work.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
Automobile" Street Car.

Mechanical arrangement similar in
many respects TO that Of an automo-
bile is the distinguishing feature of a
new form of gasollne-driven interur-
ban car described in Popular Me.
chanics Magazine. Though the body,
seating 80 passengers, is like that of a
standard modern street car, there Is n
long hood extending in front, In which
the 50-horsepower engine is mounted.
An autotype gear shift is provided,
and a shaft transmits the power TO
the rear wheels. Air brakes. electric
lights, and a hot water heating plant
are other details of the equipment.
The car makes round trip of 40
miles in a little more than two and
one-half hours, consuming about five
and one-half gallons OF gasoline, or
one gallon to seven miles.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
REFUSED HAND OF SULTAN
Offer Of Marriage by Ruler OF Sulu
Was Turned Down by Alice
Roosevelt.

Inc Moro is not all bad. He has
his good points. There has never been
a case where Moro has murdered an
American woman, and there are many
American women In Moroland. This
abstinence, however, is not due 10
Moro chivalry, but TO the fact that In
the Moro thought women have no
souls.
Not that the believed soullessness
OF the sex keeps the Moro from be-
Ing ladies' man. In fact, he is in
clined to be very gallant. The ia.
nous visit of the Taft party, ac-
companied by the then Miss Alice
Roosevelt, some years ago (and
long 10 be remembered In the Phil
ippines), was attended by a char.
acteristic exhibition OF Moro gal
lantry. When this party visited
Jolo-no trip 10 the islands would
De complete without visiting this
picturesque island-his royal high
ness. the sultan of Sulu, immedi-
ately offered his hand in marriage
10 the daughter of the President.
He addressed her as the American
princess, and the name OF Princess
Alice still clings 10 her in the Phil
ippines. The fact that his highness
already had a couple OF dozen wives
scattered around the town was no
deterrent in case Of a Mohammedan
monarch.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
Remarkable Family.

A woman with six young "hopefuls-
n assorted sizes entered the day coach.
She selected double seat and occu-
)led one-half herself. The Oldest child
ay down on the opposite seat and the
,ther FIVE sat on his PROSTATE body.
By and by the conductor appeared. and
Upon being handed one full-fare ticket
ae sized UP the little group and said:
You'll have to pay for some OF these
children. What is -the age of the old
sst?" To which the lady answered
tartly: "Go on with ye; the Oldest one
- under Ave"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
Polish Melodies.

The Poles have remained singularly
free from eastern influence. Their
melodlc invention Is sometimes rather
limited. but their tunes are always
wonderfully embellished. and they of.
ten make use OF difficult intervals
which would seem TO be more suitable
Tor an instrument than for the voice.
The effect OF these songs Is sad but
full of interest and In hearing them
Il Is easy TO realize that Chopin was
4 thoroughly national" composer.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
How John Dory Got His soots

The dory IS one Of The mackerel
family with highly notable ancestry
He has many peculiaritics of form and
color, but none more marked than the
two vivid red spots on bis sides. Ira.
dition says that II was from q dory
that st. Peter took the coin with which
to pay the tribute. and that the two
spots mark the place where he held
the fish between his thumb and finger.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07

"Ah" exclaimed the fallen baseball
star as he wiped away tear. IF ]
had only thought about that song the
young people were singing when 1 was
a bush league playerw
"what was itr' asked sympathetic
friend.
"Take Back Your v"-Blrm
ingham Age-Herald.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
FIGURES IN POLISH HISTORY
Countess Potocks, Of Obscure Birth,
Became wife Of Great Nobleman
Of That Country.

The Countess Potocka lived obscure
ly In the days between the first and
second partitions OF Poland. She was
born In 1866. and was the daughter OF
Greek shoemaker at Constantlnople.
Her extraordinary beauty and her pow
erty brought her TO misfortune. A
French consul named Boscamp took
her away from Constantlnople to Po-
land. There she Is said TO have mar
ried Russian general. and later TO
have divorced him.
Then she married Count Stanislaw
Felix Potocka. one Of the wealthlest
noblemen of Europe, Pole of great
Influence but slight ability, who Is re-
garded as a traitor who did much to
bring ruin to Poland. The countess
lived for many years In Berlin. where
her beauty created a furore In the
ranks of society. She died there I'm
1922.
Count Potocka was the Rockefeller
Of Poland. He owned several castles
and enormous estates. possessing In
the Ukraine alone no less than 1900
600 acres. When he became of age he
married secretly very attractive
cousin. When the story of their elope-
ment was divulged there were terrible
scenes. Although he was old enough
to be husband Felix was flogged and
his young wife, berated and stunned.
finally threw herself into a pond to es-
cape her prosecutors.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
TEACHERS EXAMINATION

The examination for teachers will
be held in the court house in the
village of Ithaca, April 28, 20 and
30, beginning at o'clock a. m. each
day. Write the Commissioner for
bulletin No.16 if Interested.
Howard Potter,
$3.50 Com. Of Schools.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
Catarrh Can Be Cured

Catarrh is a local disease greatly infiu
enced by constitutional conditions. II
therefore requires constitutional treat.
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
is taken internally and acts through
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces OF
the System. HALLS Gaia II II
MEDICINE destroys the foundation OF
the disease. gives the patient strength BY
improving the general health and assist
nature in doing its work.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
+. J. Cheney g. Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07
Bad Housing and tuberculosis.

Because of lack Of housing in New
York Doctor Copeland, city health
commissioner, fears an increase In the
tuberculosis mortality rate. He says
insanltary conditions create an ex-
cellent field for the spread Of disease
and are sure TO result in a moral and
mental degeneracy.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07

Money spent with us buys not only
good coal but satisfaction and reli.
ability as well. Brown Ward Co.
phone 27.-60tf.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07

P-s-s'ss''s-ss.'s-s-s-s- s-ss-s-s-s.-s.-s.ss-s-s
The Story of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
XXII.-ALABAMA
R THE discov-
! ! s. +: Fl !; ! ! !
IF S\ " Alab ma Is
IfafS&X\tAl credited to De
IL (%& Soto In 1910.
" &NX.W The English
WfS.-sTH also laid
~ claim to this
territory and included II in the
grant to North Carolina. But
II was the French who first set
tied here erecting In 1902 Fort
st. Louis on Mobile Bay and
founding the town of Mobile nine
years later. Mobile was for
many years the capital Of Louisi-
ana. France In 1868 ceded the
territory east of the Mississippi
to England and the northern part
of the present State OF Alabama
was Joined to the Illinois terri
tory. The southern portion was
known as West Florida. Serious
conflict with the Indians was
kept up for many years. In fact,
even as late as 1912, there was
an uprising of the Creeks which
resulted in terrible atrocitlesand
massacres.
During the Revolution West
Florida remained loyal to Eng
land, but was seized by Spain
only TO be turned over to the
United States in 1913. This Mo-
bile section was then added to
the northern district and the
State of Alabama was formed
and became the twenty-secOnd
state OF the Union In 1919.
The meaning Of the name Ala
bama is variously interpreted.
Ii was the name of an Indian
tribe which inhabited this ter
ritOry at the time OF De Sotos
first visit. After this tribe the
river was named and the state
was called Alabama after the
river. The Indian word was sup
posed to mean Here we rest"
and these words are used on the
states coat of arms, but this In
terpretatsn is doubtful and its
real meaning is uncertain. Ala
bama is sometimes called the
Plantation State. Its area is d.
99S square miles.
&c by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07

We would be pleased to show you
samples Of Canaan coal. brown-
Ward Co., phone 27.-60tf.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07

Place your order for fall shrubs
fruits and Holland bulbs with X. H.
LaRue, 1904 Eastward street, Alma
-93-4w.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07

We have fresh checked and leaker
eggs for sale. Bring your contain
ers. Swift q Co.-93-2w
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07

You will find the best bread i'm
Butter Cup wrappers. 02-tfc
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07

has taken partner in the fun bust
ness. It's Jackie Coogan, the Kid.
They're the greatest combination of
mirth-makers who ever got together;
and the laughs that Charlie maybe ov-
CROOKS come fresh and snappy from
the kid And would you believe us if
we told you that here and there,
through the six great reels of the big
gest comedy the world has ever seen,
there's a sob? It's a fact-and that's
what makes the laughter bigger still.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-04-07

The comedy that took a year to make,
Written and Directed by Charles
Chaplin.
The comedy that's worth every dollar
and every minute that went into il,
Enough laughs for year. a.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04
WASTED LIFE.

TACK CUDAHY, suicide, is worthy Of reflec-
tive paragraph. Not that there is anything
j new to be learned from his death, for many
sons of the rich have taken the path to obi
Won, but that the wreckage of any life amid the
debris of golden opportunity always urges reitera-
ton of old truths
Son of millionaire, and once the manager OF
a great corporation through virtue of his fathers
name, it is plain that the younger Cudahy took
his silver spoon to sup with grief. Lack OF a few
thousand dollars, indicating complete estrange-
ment from his disappointed and embittered rela-
tives, led him at length to seek the towards way
There is blind man at the corner, selling
papers. In him is the strange, vivifying spirit
that Jack Cudahy lacked-that many sons OF rich
men never feel. And it is quite apparent that,
for the purposes Of the nation, the blind paper
vender despite his handicap is better stuff to build
upon and with than all the Jack Cudahys within
our borders.
Just this much sympathy for the suicide son
of the wealthy packer-his heritage Of grit and
commonsense was less than his heritage of riches.
For which he was not all to blame-Portland
Oregonian.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04

only the father and mother have no authority and
the strength to exercise it, but few remaining
rights that son and daughter are inclined to re-
spect.
By thunder, we should have the law on EN-,
these youngsters of ours!
The suggested law should be only a beginning.
It should be succeeded by others commanding our
children all to go to bed at the same hour and
rise at the same hour, and eat at the same hours
laws prescribing their diet and the cut and texture
of their dress; laws fixing hours during which
they must honor their fathers and mothers; laws
| recurring them to reverence the law and respect
public authority; laws regulating their manners;
laws requiring them to brush their teeth and
wash behind their ears and take semi-weekly
bath; laws, in word, that will take the place Of
fathers and mothers and do the work that the
fathers and mothers don't feel quite up to.
There are still left some old-fashoned folk that
regard their homes as really homes; that do not
shirk responsibility nor dodge unpleasant duties;
that neither spoil their children nor abuse them;
that govern them not according to inf1exible law
but according to the rule of reason tempered by
love and understandings fashioned folk who
find it a labor of love to take of their own
children and would scorn to delegate that task to
public authority. But they are out Of step with
the spirit Of progress, which holds that the easiest
way is the best way and that passing the buck is
the easiest way there is.
Some few things, perhaps, who are parents
may have to continue to do and decide for our
selves and for our children But for the most
part-let the law do it! It will save us so much
worry and care. 1t will give us more time for
pleasanter things. It is so hard to make up ones
mind and to enforce authority. We love our
children of course, but really it gets to be an
awful nuisance and demnition grind, having to
bring them up. In the laws hands they will be
in safe hands. Our conscience can be at rest
Come on, Mr.. Law and take the child!-Omaha
World Herald
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1921.
THINK 1T OVER!

When things look blue,
As they sometimes do;
When you hit Fate's line and you can't brea
through;
When the dark is deep
Where the shadows creep,
And ghosts Of trouble break up your sleep
How would you like to trade your hand,
Facing the German host,
With fellow Out There in No Mans Land,
Hooked to the Listening Post?
How would you like to trade your job,
Swapping it wrench for wrench,
With the fellow feeling the big guns throb
Out in the first line trench?
When things get tough,
Where the break is rough,
And you slip and skid as they call your bluff;
When you're out of gear
Where the world looks drear
And you curse your luck with sigh or tear
How would you like to make trade,
Swapping your troubles dire,
With the fellow storming barricade,
Raked with machine guns fire?
How would you like to trade your turn,
Making an swap,
With the fellow watching the rockets burn
At the last call-"Over the Top?
-Grantland Rice
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04

"Why, handicap is just a chance for a
good, honest fight. Affection turns some
people into sort of a sponge, which merely
soaks up pity. But sponge never gets any
where. We talk about the winds of adversely
Well, the hardest trees are those that have
been buffeted about. They don't grow in hot
houses or in sheltered hooks. don't believe
that any man or woman who has fought
through some hard places in life can unquali-
fiedly regret the experience. I believe you
will find in them not commiseration for them
selves but rather an honest pity for the So
called fortunate human beings who have not
had the joy Of fighting and the satisfaction
Of achieving. Mike Bowling.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04
OUR ANNOYING CHILDREN.
<<T HE easiest way" continues to grow in
popularity.

II" HE easiest way" continues to grow IN
popularity.
1 'The easiest way is to have the law
take care Of us, have commissioned to discharge
our personal duties and responsibilities, rather
than take care of ourselves and discharge our
own duties and responsibilities.
Particularly as applied to the upbringing and
training of their sons and daughters "the easiest
way" appeals seductively to fathers and mothers
of weak will and fabby resolution.
''Do you favor passing ordinance forbidding
high school students attending moving picture
theaters after p. m. the first four days of every
school week unless accompanied by parents
GUARDIAN"
This from the questionable committee" of
mothers, fathers and teachers Of Omaha high
school pupils
Why not? Isn't it simple? Isn't it "the easiest
way?
Why assume the heavy burden Of caring for our
own children when we can get the law to do it
for us?
For fond and indulgent parent to be obliged
to say, "No, son; you can't go. out tonight. It
isn't good for you. It isn't right that you should.
You must stay home, get your lessons and go
early to bed" to be obliged to say that might hurt
sons feelings. It might hurt the parents feel
ings too, which would be worse Besides, son
might complain and wheede and sulk and so
create an unhappy atmosphere in the home, to
dispel which the aforesaid fond and indulgent
parent would have to give in. and let son have his
way.
That method, clearly, is too darned hard. It
is annoying and unpleasant, besides being too
great strain on the will power.
How much better "the easiest way!
Charley, DEAR father and mother would love
to let you go. Really you need the sleep and
you've still have Of your lessons to get, but
want our boy to have good time. We hate to
deny him anything. But the law won't let you,
Charley. The law says you must stay home to-
night It's too bad, dear, but we must obey the
law
Isn't that neat and clever way of passing the
buck Of parental responsibility?
Our children, you see, have somehow grown
so imperious and obstinate and wilful and it is
most distressing that this should be SO at time
when we, their parents, have grown sleazy and
weak and invertebrate. Actually, unless we call
ii the law the children will run the family. A
good many families they do already It is not
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04

Not only must our homes and our schools train
for future citizenship, but that training must be
of the kind which will maintain the democracy
upon which all American citizenship is based.
To attain this the youth of the nation must be
lead by high standards-they must know tha.
wealth is false measure of success, that inherit
ance of fine breeding counts for nothing unless
worthily used that there is no aristocracy in all
he world save that which is entitled to bear the
coat of arms of character, ability and achiev-
ment.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04

"The Morgan Messenger surely put one
over on the two county seat papers in furnish
ing particulars of the Josln murder. We
can see no reason for squelchng murder
story just because it happened in vicinity of
Redwood Falls" -Vesta Censor.
For the future information of the Censor, we
would like to say that it not "just because
it happened in the vicinity of Redwood Falls, .
but just because it happened to be murder that
the county seat papers preferred not to smear
it all over the front pages of their issues. The
reasons why such case should have little publici-
t. in a. country weekly are too numerous to go
into in detail, but Inconsistency is not one of
these reasons-all cases are treated alike wheth-
er they occur at home abroad. We admit all
the other papers of the county probably have it
all over us in this matter of scoops but they
haven't single thing on US in our desire to be
both clean and free from sensationalism
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04

"But perhaps you of those who, by
dint of diligent industry and systematic saving
are able to step into his automobile and whirl
out where picpc grow and fish bite" writes F. A.
Wilson, publicity director for the Thrift Stamps
and Things. Now that is what call rubbing
it in! Its bad enough to be without automo-
bile without being taken out of the diligent-indus-
try and-sysematic-saving class well. It al
most inspires us to go and cash in our War Saw
ings Stamps and make the first payment on a
1911 Ford just to show Fermie that we belong to
the Willing Workers.!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04

The drink bill of the United Kingdom in the
year 1920 totaled 400, 100000 pounds. These
figures are reported by George B. Wilson, How
ard Medallist of the Royal Statistical society.
is astonishing indeed that the British people, who
already carry such heavy burden, should volun-
tarily add a waste of size so enormous. If the
liquor expenditures were directed to paying the
national debt of Great British, the discharge of
that debt would be completed in less than two de-
cades. Also there would be no necessity of max
ing the, request that the bill which England owes
the United States be Cancelled.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04

We can't see anything so remarkable about the
fact that woman has been made the mayor of
st. Peter. Some of the papers have commented
upon the fact as though it were one of the seven
wonders of the present century. It merely proves
to that st. Peter knows good things when
she sees it-and isn't afraid to say So
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-05-04

Remember Chief Corbett says to "Clean-Up'
all your premises this week. And we, for one
are a-goin' to do it. Far be it from us to have a
fierce chief like Joe call us up and call us down
for not doing as he told us. It is perfectly rea-
sonable request and all perfectly reasonable citi-
zens will comply with it.