davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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either SOL 1" or July 1 as 90" being
in either case an extra Saturday in
ternational holiday with no weekday
name.
When these changes are made, it
follows that the same day in each
week viii always fall on the same
four fixed dates each month, so that
each weekday name will always de-
note its monthly dates, and vice versa,
as the STANDARD month would then
apply to all months.
A less essential change is the pro-
posal to abolish mOon-wandering Eas-
tiers by the international churches fix
ing Easter at the most convenient
date in April.
Referring to the illustrations given
herewith: ~Stonehenge, the collection
of great monoliths in England whose
purpose was so long a mystery, Is now
known to have been for calendar pur-
poses. Sir Norman Lockyear has cal
culated that the so-called Sunrise
Stone was erected about 1850 b. G.
The pyramids were erected by the
ancient Egyptians in order to meas
ure the shortest noon-shadows. that
the days between might be counted.
The sphinx played its part in the cal
culaticns by which the Egyptians
reckoned a year of 365 days and a
fraction. Thus the pyramids were
built to safeguard the life of Egypt,
which depended upon utilizing the
Nile valleys advantages by applying
calendar knowledge TO agriculture.
The various pyramids were used as
tombs for Pharaohs only after each
one except the n In use had been
superseded by a more perfectly sloped
pyramid.
"The Standard MONTH and the "Day
Pointer below 1t practically explain
themselves. "Sol," it will be noted, is
twenty-eight days. -four complete
weeks. Every month is to be like 1t
and will be licked off by the DAY
Pointer"
The calendars for January and Feb
ruary of 1922 show unequal months
split the weeks az month-ends most
awkwardly, causing many inconveni-
ences.
The remaining figure of monthly
uuteS sHO" tHS uioheh WeShiy rahSs
in 1922, which includes AZ complete
and 81 broken weeks, including also
the odd day. December 81. The latter,
by being Sunday, like January /,
forces the i~nconvenient change of
weekday names in all the months and
years which follow. This shows the
need of a monthly measure in which
the day names are Fixed as to the
numerical dates.
, 1922-08-16

soldiers searched his ship at other Rus
sian ports he found a hiding place for
the girls and brought them to the
United States.
The barrier of language did not pre-
vent John Brake from speaking to
Anna in the language of love, and
before the ship reached Baltimore
she had consented to become his
wife.
Anna sang small parts in Russian
grand opera and Evguenia was an
actress of ability, their papers show.
Anna is nineteen and her companion
twenty-one. Brake is forty-one.
When they reached Baltimore the
girls combined wardrobe consisted of
three pieces and one hat.
, 1922-08-16
Russian Refugee Stowaway Per-
mitted to Enter Country.
First officer of the Manitowoc Falls In
Love With Girl He Found in Hid
ing on shlp-Passports
Are Waved.

Neutrality-suspicious. came to Anna
yiydenko, a Russian refugee stowaway
on the high seas, after she and her
companion, EvguenIa Bonar, had been
discovered hiding on the American
steamship Manitowoc, bound from the
Black sea to Baltimore.
When John Brakka, first officer on
the Manitowoc, ordered the trembling
girls to emerge from their hiding
place, he little thought that before the
yoyage ended he would have plighted
his troth TO Anna. But this is exactly
what happened, and the bureau Of i'm
migration, Department OF Labor. has
set aside the recommendation OF de-
, 1922-08-16
$3.50 BUYS RARE DUTCH ART
c.. J. Fitzgerald Refuses s25 900 for
Painting of Horses Purchased
at Auction.

New York.-Christopher j. Fitzger-
aid has loved horses all his life. His
affection goes so far that he wants
pictures of horses around hin. Re
Gently he saw in an auction room a
painted study of several horses. He
bid $3.50 and got it.
When he took the painting home
and had it cleaned he discovered he
had purchased n work of Isaac Van
Astade, n Dutch master of the Seven
teenth century.
An fife of $4,000 has beer made
for the painting, but Mr.. Fitzgerald
says it is not for sale.
, 1922-08-16

that they are not professionals, the
professional could plead with greater
justice that he is not an amateur.
!. The question is, what is the
amateur an amateur Off What is he
really in love with? Is he in love
with other people, thinking he sees
something which he would like to
show them7 If this is his po-
sltion he can do no wrong. the spirit
in which he works viii insure that his
defects Will be only as bad spelling
or bad grammar In the pretty saying
Of a Child Samuel Butler.
, 1922-08-16
SAVAGE FISH STOPS BATHING
Capture of Barracuda Near Montreal
Puts End to Water Pastime in
That Vicinity.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. has spread
through bathing circles here by the
capture of a barracuda, near Montreal,
one of which ferocious fish recently
caused the death of Miss McClatchle
of Montreal. She was bitten while
swimming off the Florida coast.
Fishing in Lachine rapids. two men
caught a barracuda. They killed it
when it attacked them. Bathing activ-
tiles virtually have ceased us a result
of their catch. ,
, 1922-08-16
Soms Interesting Paradoxes Are
Explained by DR.. Humphreys of
Smithsonian Institution.
HOTTER SUN-COLDER EARTH
Old Sol Rises Before He is Up and
Sets Before It Goes Down-Bent
Rays Of Light Account for
This Paradox.

Westinghouse rainstorm dries the
air; more goes up than comes down /;
as the sun sets the air grows warmer /;
the hotter the sun grows, the colder
me Garth becomes; the sun rises be-
fore it is up and sets after it Is down ;
these are strong statements and sound
Ike a fairy tale, but they are all true.
DR.. w. j.. Humphreys, quoted in the
annual report of the Smithsonian in
stitution which has just been made
public. explains all of them. They are
perfectly well known to scientists, If
not to laymen.
AS everyone knows, DR.. Humphreys
declares, water evaporates and is
taken up In the air as vapor. This ac-
ton is continuous all over the earth
Inc the atmosphere would soon be-
come very soggy if it weren't dried
out. Rain is the collection, or CON
~densation, and precipitation of these
moisture particles, consequently the
more it rains the less water there Is
left in the atmosphere, or the drier
the iii becomes.
contradicts Old Saying.
The second of DR.. Humphreys para
doxes seems fatty to contradict the
cd saying whatever goes up must
come down" However, as the writer
expresses it, vertical circulation in the
atmosphere is only g%ravitational ac-
ton, consisting in the sinking of rela-
lively cold and therefore dense air,
and rising of warm and light air. Con
tracted air ~descends, expanded air
ascends. Therefore, mas for mass
the volume of ascending air is always
larger than that descending.
The third paradox is merely a way
of stating that the warmest part OF
the day Is not at noon, when the SUI
Is at meridian or overhead and SHOULD
seemingly be pouring down greater
heat, but several hours later in the
afternoon. That is because the sur
face of the earth and the lower lay
ers Of air continue to absorb NOR,
heat from the upper layers for som
time after the latter have been re
ceiving the maximum amount of hea
radiation from the sun.
While 1t is not yet universally con
coded that the next puzzler, "the hot
ter the sun, the colder the earth.
, 1922-08-16
Silk Stockings

1t appears that Henry ii, when pre-
pairing for the marriage of his sister
In 1860. first had the idea for silk
hose, NJ. +. (Bradford). and Mt that
epoch-making event he was the first
TO wear knitted silk stockings. A
hundred yenrs later one Hindres es-
tablished a factory for stockings in
the Bois de Boulogne. This was the
nrst factory in France. 1t was a sue
cess from the start. and when 1t re-
, 1922-08-16
Woman Making Record
Killing Wyoming Snakes

Gillette, wyo.-Giliette ranch
ers have declared open season on
ra~ttlesnakes, and a woman, MISS
Betty Carter. is US ling the
head of the list a neck-and-neck
race in disposing of the rattlers.
To date she has killed hfty-six
in the Pleasant Hill community,
which is Il close second to the
number reported by Dick Bell
and Bill Jones, who have slain
sixty-four from two dens.
, 1922-08-16
Abandons Three.Headed Kitten.

Elkhorn, Wis.-Elkhorp mourns the
death of W%yncken. Blinken and Nodd
Of DR.. l.. H.. Coulson's cat family,
which promised to make EIkhorn ia
nous. The kittens were born with
one body but three heads. Life was
sweet until their mother, VIII felt dis.
graced by such oad-looking offspring,
left for parts unknown.
, 1922-08-16

ceived protection from the ministers
1t became a gold mine. In 1866 the
venture was turned into n company.
From It arose the society OF stocking
makers. At this time ribbed stock
lngs were made In England, but It
was not until nearly n century later
that such wear was introduced into
France.
, 1922-08-16

World war. the Russians, Siberians,
Turks. Chinese, Japanese, Egyptians
and other nations have adopted the
Gregorinn calendar for governmental
legal and other natural purposes.
Nevertheless, as everyone knows, the
Gregorlan calendar has defects and
every now and then somebody comes
forward with a scheme for changing 1t.
Now 1t is purposed to assemble the
International Government Conference
of All Nations to make changes which
e advisable and adopt in Inter
national fixed calendar"
The defects In the Gregorian cal
endar and the changes which seem
advisable. together with other useful
and interesting information are set
forth in an Illustrated article in the
Pan American Union with the title,
1.-THE Evolution of Calendars and How
TO Improve Them" by Moses b. Cots
worth. +. G. s., f. S. A., f. G. A., sec
rotary treasurer of the International
Fixed Calendar league. The defects
In our calendar are summarized in the
following outline:
We earn and pay by the month, but
have not an equal monthly measure,
except for prisoners, whose time is
counted in months Of 80 days.
Our months vary from % to 81 days
IL per cen difference-yet the
same monthly salaries. rents, etc,
must be inequitnbly paid. Monthly
business charges for maintenance, de-
probation, etc. are unfairly appor-
toned, and monthly profits credited
as though each month were produc-
lively one-twelfth of the year.
The confusing changes In weekday
names for the same dates In success
sive months. through the intrusion of
New Year and leap days, cause furth-
er disparities which are misleading
In business. as evidenced when com
pairing monthly output of full working
days from Monday TO Friday. plus a
half day on Saturday. On this basis
March, 1922, has IA per cent more
earning time than February. which is
only one-thlrteenth of the year.
The changing weekday names bring
Christmas, New Years, and other hol
days on Sunday and into weeks which
they split, depriying toillng millions In
all countries of the m~ore-prlzed holi-
day extensions combined with week
ends.
The shifting range Of weeks through
the months burdens business and so
cial life with many tiresome refer
ences. limitations, and troubles. A few
examples here may suffice:
We are constantly forced to consult
the calendar TO trace how many weeks
Intervene between any given dates,
and to ascertain the weekday names
throughout the months. Periodical
, 1922-08-16
sIIns on Banana Palntlna.

London.-WilIiam Boggerty sued n
street pavement artist for damages
owing to a broken leg. Boggerty
claimed that the artist used greasy
chalk, causing him to slip on a draw
ing of a banana on the pavement.
, 1922-08-16

While the reverse is not absolutely
correct automatically, il is added,
when sun, star or moon set,
of the slight modification of ~refractlon
due TO earth rotation, nevertheless the
difference Is exceedingly slight. Con-
sequently, as the light rays are bent
upward by earth's atmosphere the sun
has actually gone down before it Is
seen by a terrestrial observer.
, 1922-08-16
rho worthy Amateur.

There is no excuse for amateur
work being bad. Amateurs often ex-
cuse their short comings on the ground
, 1922-08-16
contradicts Old Saying.

topmost portion is geometrically ABOVE
the horizon.
, 1922-08-16

Gregorian calendar
that we use is an exc
luton which had its be-
ginnIngs in the prehistoric
times with the purpose
of ascertaining and re-
cording the most propi
tious dates for she SOW
ing of creps. Since the
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15
Utah Paper Gets Community Uplift Prize

Grant Junction Ncrs-
The News lifts its hat the Moab Tmes-ndcpendent and
to the Utah Agricultural college.
The Tmeslndependent has been awarded silver cup by
three Judges named by the Utah college the newspaper
state which, during the deemed have rendered the
greatest service to its community
Did hear Of anything like that before happening
newspaper? We confess did The
orally used the football of the community and feel
that it renders much a its community. yet
dear reader will pardon saying that the newspaper
the community renders single
Institution to the community whole
But The News wants to back the judgment of the Utah
judges in declaring that the Times independent opnocher
desk and the most sought for because Of the splendid
ii carries.
We therefore, glad reprint first page expression
of thanks that the Independent week
ing the award and join CONGRATULATIONS to the
Times and its management.
The highest praise that can be given any that
he has been of service to his community Likewise the
btOn of all newspapers believe be of genuine
wee to their communities to foster and week in
and week out all matters which tend the public good and
which help in the material, moral and educational upbud-
ing OF the community No newspaper could have higher
aim than to faithfully the community which repre-
sents.
Therefore The Times Independent graft
lied to learn that it has been awarded the silver cup given
annually by the Utah Agricultural College the paper of
the state which during the deemed to have
rendered the greatest community The giving
of the prize the result of statewide contest in which
some twenty of the newspapers of Utah had entered The
Judges the the three Salt daily
newspapers and their decision announced Monday
the seannua convention of the Utah State Press
With many of the splendid newspapers of the state
in the competition the decision giving the award to this
somewhat unexpected but naturally it for this
the less gratifying. The patrons The Times
Independent and the residents southeastern Utah
been their approval of paper there
fore especially gratifying find this judgement
people confirmed by critics eminently qualified to Judge
and we frankly admit pleasure in the decision shall
be continued to print newspaper that give to
the community the highest degree of service within
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15

economy and convenience in operation
and to gain great depth. There are
several disastrous istances of this kind
of work in Hinsdale county and the
number can be multiplied many times
over in mining regions that offer spe-
eial inducement to tunnel driving. New
ertheless it is great error until one
knows absolutely what they are driv-
ing for. The elements Of chance and
failure are too great to take such n
risk. 1t is true that il sounds fine to
say that YOU will be thousand or fif-
teen hundred feet below the old work
ings, but first should be considered
what the dangers are that may be en-
countered. First, one may miss all
the pay ore measures that might have
been demonstrated by continuing the
surface development and thus millions
Of dollars be passed by unrealized for
future generations to discover. Again,
il being an established fact that three
fourths of all mineral bearing veins
are barren, the chances are three out
of four that when a vein Is encoun-
tered it will be in valueless ground,
Ehereupon, for the reason that all
funds have been consumed to just
reach the ven, the enthusiasm wanes
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15
THE CRossCUT TUNNEL
Lake City silver world

Lake City Silver World:--
The reported closing down of n min
ing project because of the failure of a
"deep'crosscut tunnel to encounter ore
when the vein was reached brings
strikingly to the fore the much disput-
ed question of what the general value
of deep crosscut tunnel work is where
ii is based upon purely speculative and
theoretical deductions. There is no
question of the virtue of crosscut
where development has demonstrated
its need and utility, but this article has
naught to do with this phase of the
subject. The purpose here is to deal
with that feature of crosscut tunnel
work that is based upon the theory that
what shows of mineral on the surface
must go down indefinitely and the run
ming of the tunnel for the sake of
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15
MANY UOHSTEADS TO BE
ADDED TO STATE TAX roll

Although there iH now comparative
. D. little good farm land remaining
open TO enter in Colorado, the area
( that has been hpmesteaded IN the past
six years is close 20 100000 acre.
/ OF this amount perhaps $500, 900
acres has not yet been proved up and
Reports Of coun tyasoessSsr
Reports Of county assessors to the
State Immigration Department show
/ that there are now approximately
3 900 home gteaders in the state, living
more or less permanently on farms
I that they have not yet proved up. in
/ addition 10 this there are perhaps a
many homesteaders who do not live
permanently on their claims, but who
remain there only about seven months
| OF the year, which is the length Of
. time required for residence each year
while the claimant is proving up. A
great many of the houfesteaders are
eNservice men who served in the world
war, and who. because of their mill
tary service, are required to remnin on
their claims a much shorter period Of
time than other homesteaders. some
Of them being able TO prove up after
seven months of residence. A large
amount of the land entered in the past
six years has been taken under the
grazing homestead act, which permits
the cntTyman to take as much as so
acres
Homesteads not yet proved up are
reported in is of the 63 counties in the
state, though many counties east Of
the mountains report fewer than ten
homesteads each. Moffat county re-
ports the largest number-Sl5-an and
many counties on the western slope
report more than 100 homestcads
each. Las Animas county reports more
homesteads than any other county east
of the mountains, more than 100000
acres of homestead land having been
entered in this county in the past six
years. Within the next three years,
according to present indications, close
to 100000 acres of homestead land
should be placed on the tax rolls, being
land that has already been entered
and that is now in process of being
proved up. Close to 100000 acres
of homestead land has been placed on
the tax rolls in the past three years
| At the present time there are per-
haps not dozen unappropriated
| homestead claims east of the moun-
| tains in this state. Some fairly good
grazing homestead land remains open
to entry in most of the mountain coun-
ties. and small amount of farm and
on the western slope is unappfopriated
Tie remaining homestead land, how
ever, generally lies far from railroads
and is OF little economic value at
present because of the large expense
of marketing such crops and livestock
as it might produce.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15
Sweet for Governor

m IT--r n VI Sweet Sabin and Jefferson whIe
COZ p.,r overwhelming than that Of lyman
Gu.ar l"lo Collins Higgins two However
th.a difference that l9I1 is democratic year. and there
rc . -,i c.rCa .udug Mr. the governors
Mr. Gr.Gt'a. Republican nominee. is popular man. and
toyr II D.. for the laJOrHg who took
nominating hlu. to stand soIdy together AT
tie November They have done this the past
Lu, looks though wreched failure OF both state and
tlonaI Republican administrations had actually convinced the
Colorado that the Democratic party offered the
sob hop. Of securing the things they demand
The Nr" Champion for Sabn but is for Mr.. Sweet,
majority H." party have spoken and the outlook Is bright
for D,mDcraiIc success down the line
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15

and the energies fail just when they
should be aroused to the highest pitch,
the result being encouragement, dilap-
idation and abandonment, evidences Of
which are apparent in every mining
camp. The old doctrine of staying
with your ore is safe one TO follow,
even tho it means a larger expense
in operation. If necessary to reduce
this expense an aerial tramway is
much cheaper than crosscut, and you
do not lose your ore shoots and Chin
neys. Any mine should be made to
pay the costs of its own development,
and for the sake of your own reputa-
ton and material welfare cut out the
crosscut until it is known positively
to be justified in every way.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15
wHiLEN WINS NOMINATION
FOR COMMISSIONER EASN
Continued from First Page)

Continued from Firs; Page)
Cimarron, two Of the small precinct.
Whalen earned the large GunnisoE
vote. also gaining an important ma
jorty from Crested Butte. secord
largest town in the county Judge
Tanney carried his home precinet.
Somerset, also Marble and Pitkin, two
other substantial precincfs
There we're no other contests OF
particular importance on either count
ticket. Prom 500 to 600 votes werr
poIled for the uon-coutested Deuao-
cratic Offices, and about 200 on thc
Republican ticket
The Montrsse clerk Of The dig,ric:
court teleph0ned up Monday 20 star
q boom for Vim. Weizer OF Gran
Junction for District Judge, 18th Ju-
dicial District. 20 MI vacancy create
by the addition Of another iudgeship
% this di=trIct by the last Legislature
Stragd ". Logan has been occupying
. this position, and stands for election o.
the Republican ticket II Rad bee
. .uuisr TODD that he would receive no
opposition, but a. a result of the Wei-
s.r boom, fifty votes were written in
on the Dcmocratic ballot In Gunnison
county for Weiscr. II y not known
whether Weiser authorized the boom
or whether he will accept the nomina-
I ton.
/ Just prior 20 tho election. the Re
publicans passed the word 20 write IN
I Linton PittSer for county clerk and
"A. D. Mckee for county treasurer,
both Of whom received over fifty
. votes.
The county tickets Of both parties
follows:
: Democratic
I Clerk, c. C. IcWilliams.
/ Treasurer. ", y. Herrick
. Representative in State ssembly, c
n CUuau-
I Sheriff. Pat Ua0l1n
4 ASSESSOR A n. Thomas.
Superintendent, Mrs. Margaret NJ
Balm.
. Sur ey1r. J. II. Robinson.
Comm si8ner. Third District, W. II
Whalrn
Republican
Clerk Linton Tittrer.
Treasurer. A. ID. Mckee.
gn-rI. iasH.. T.. Brewer.
.- L. # WarmaEer.
rr....r n p Irr#.
-...... A.. II. #wahaFH.
I.a...a..r II1L District, Wa.
..r O.. EHsEa imam.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15

County Engineer ]. H. Robinson re-
turned Monday from four day sur
veying trip up Taylor river, where
he made preliminary survey for GER
tain slight changes in the survey for
the new Forest Service road into Tay-
lor Park. He was accompanied on his
trip by Forest Ranger Potter and Al
len Lake.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15

Before leaving for his eastern trip
G. d. Mannville ordered new Buick
six" car from McDermott & Co, and
is having it delivered to himself at
Flint, Michigan After q month with
relatives in Pennsylvania, he will Sc
cure the car and drive home to Colo
RADIO.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15

Sheriff Pat Hanlon, County Treas
urer NJ. B. Herrick. and Sprigg Shack
leford, assistant District Attorney,
made trip to Somerset Monday by
car, returning Tuesday. They were
looking up evidence in connection with
the suit brought against county Of
fcials by j. F. Hutchinson.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15
Find Prshis,arie Boat.

A wei,-preserved canoe OF the Stone
ace has been found In hog near the
castle of ceriier n.ake OF Sienne,. In
Switzerland. II Is made oui OF the
stem Of an oak. and is eight feet long
spd three feet vide
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-09-15

Ralph Stone went over to Salida
yesterday. He will return tomorrow
with his little daughter, Jean Mary,
who will enter school. Mrs. Stone
win visit in Salida for a couple Of
weeks before returning.