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The Press., 1922-07-27
IS MARVEL OF MECHANISM
"0rsat Balance" of the Bank of Eng land Capable of Registering
 Weight of ThistledoWn.

The great balance" stands in the bullion room of the Bank of England. It is a machine that was constructed, primarily, for testing light gold coins.
 Standing approximately seven feet high and weighing nearly two tons. this wonderful piece of mechanism can weigh a piece of thistledOwn OF 400 pound gold bar with equal accuracy.
 Before it can be used 1t must al- ways be carefully dusted. for other wise the dust that has settled upon 1t. even tn the course of a few, minutes, although invisible to the naked eye, would cause it to register InaccuraUely. So responsive Is the machinery that a postage stamp placed on one of the two weighing portions moves the in- dex six inches.
 When the new English currency notes were Issued the grand balance was kept busy virtually day and night weighing the gold coinage that was called in and replaced by notes. It has now been found that the total loss of gold, owing to the ablasiOn of the coins IS they passed from hand to hand in the course of circulation. amounts to nearly S5,0OO,O00.
 That, however, Is not quite so alarm ing as it sounds, for the loss is spread over a period of 26 years. Twenty five years is reckoned in England to be the legal life" of a sovereign at it's full face wei6ht.-New York Herald
The Press., 1922-07-27
WonAn in China.

In the New International Encyclo- pedia, edition of 1902, the following statement was made: "In China proper not more than per cent of the men and per cent of the women can read an ordinary book" But great advancement in the education of women has been made during the last twenty years. The EncyclOpedIa Americana, published in 1920, says: :: Until very recently, female education, so far as it existed, was mainly a private or a family affair. Of late years, largely through missionary in f1uence and example, the education of women has made surprising progress. and the tendency is now strongly to- ward more equality in intellectual training without regard to sex"
The Press., 1922-07-27

hat and OvefcOat, and locked his desk and passed out of the office with few words of instruction to his bookkeeper
 And the ofice breathed freer aS the door closed gently behind him, for he was whistling cheerily as he went.
 "So," unused the pale clerk at the photographers as he scanned the pho tographs on the counter. T remember now M4 Kulow sent them over for your approval. They are very popular among people who are from Vermont. Great country up there, and this is fine photography. There's a girl up there who does 1t all herself-makes a good living at 1t, tOO-some artist, she Is, toO-see the grouping of those trees-and this-that's fine dog goes with her everywhere she says. We have a picture of her somewhere. Here 1t is."
 Cleve Larabee stared at the strong, graceful figure wildly portrayed against a background of dark hem- locks, freighted with snow. She wore knickerbOckers tucked into high boots, a heavy sweater and a mans hunting coat. A knitted cap revealed the soft masses of dark hair.
 "Annabel r muttered Larabee. That's her name" volunteered the clerk.
 Tt must be her daughter. I knew her years ago"
 She isn't married. Miss Annabel Days her name, MT. Larabee."
 How did you happen to send the pictures that she took to my office?"
 The clerk pondered awhile: at last, "Oh, she wrote to Mir. KulOw and sug- gested that he send some Of them to you-picked out the very ones you've had in your hand-that's all, sir!" That isn't all, young man, it's only the beginning!" and the fully awaken ed MT. Larabee dashed out to call taxicab, for there was 8 train to be caught at once if he was to reach Mossdale in the morning. He must be there to meet Annabel, who had refused to grow old, who had dared to send the message of the pines to his dull life. And as the train sped north ward his heart grew lighter, for he knew that his love was not dead, but that the snow had kept it warm and alive.
 "The idea !" squealed Jane Fletcher when she received a box of the wed ling cake.
 "What did I tell you" crOwed the office boy.
The Press., 1922-07-27
DIDN'T GARRY OUT THE JOKE
Young Man Probably Was Wise in Not ImpOrsonatIn0 the Family Ghost"
 fer RutIeTs Benefit.

Among the guests at an English country house one Christmas was a young gentleman who claimed to be able to read character at glance"
 "Now, there's your butler" he re- marked to his host i've seen little of the man, but would undertake. by merely playing the family ghost, to frtghten him into a fit
 "T don't think you would! 7" laughed the host. Anyhow, you have my consent to tryw '#
 The young fellow declared his 1n- tentien to do so, but as he didn't wish to overdo the thing, he determined to drop a word of warning to the butler.
 "I say, Briggs" he whispered to that individual on meeting him in the corridor, you haven't seen the fam fly ghost, have you? I'm told that he invariably walks on Christmas eve, y'knOw!"
 "Thank you for the hint, sir" calm ly replied the butler. "One hint should be worth another, sir and"-here he dived his hand into a back pocket, and produced a wicked-lOoking revolver "heres one for the ghost if you should see him first, sir '"
 The young gentleman decided that, after all, he couldn't carry the joke any further. ."
The Press., 1922-07-27
c.s Ha. 2.ooo Industrial -usss.

Artificial gas is Tightening the la- bors of housewives in the homes Of 40,OOO,OOO Americans. and Is the ''si- lent partner" of industry, where it has upward of 2,OOO uses. The vast sum of $4,OOO, 900, 900 has been invested in the plants and equipment. ApprOxi- mately 4,6OO communities now have gas. the mains being equal in mileage to nearly. three times the circumfer- ence of the earth. It is used in more than 100000 cooking stoves, and ap- pliances. 1,5OO.OOO water heaters and 100000 gas heaters and has become so necessary to industry that thou sands of manufacturing plants would be forced to close if the gas con- panies were unable to continue to sup ply them with gas.
The Press., 1922-07-27
Practical Deduction,

Antoinette, who is six, has a charm ing mother who sings very beautifully. Since babyhood Antoinette has de- lighted in listening. The other eve ming the southern girl was a dinner guest.
 When AntOinette's mother sang Garry Me Back to Ole Virginny" in the mellow dialect of the South, the southern girl felt the tears creeping into her eyes. Antoinette piped up. Mother, Is it little baby that wants to go back to Virginny?"
 "Why, no, darling" the mother an- swered. Then, glancing at the south ern girl. Tt Is someone who loves that state, dear. It's her home She wants to go back Someone like auntie. You know she comes from the South"
 AntOinette looked askance at the southern girl. Well, why don't she walk back? Only babies get carried" Chicago Journal
The Press., 1922-07-27
M.ona charta Draws vssItors.

After 700 years, Magma Charta re- mains the most popular British manu- script. Last year 14,OO0 persons went to the British museum to see it. Amer jeans invariably ask to view the fla nous charter which insures English men their rights, according to the museum custOdians, but other foreign CTS take more interest in the papal bull, which is displayed next to it.
 Heavy green blinds are kept over the precious parchment to exclude the full light rays and thus prevent deteri- Oration, but are lifted to show the charter to admiring pilgrims.
 Most persons are disappointed at not seeing King Johns signature, ac- cording to an official at the museum, but they seem satisfied when they read the script that it was given by our hand in the meadow which is called Ronimede. between WindlesOr and Stanes, on the 10th day of June in the 17th reign of our reign. (1216)"
The Press., 1922-07-27
AArd on BnraR.

Arthur J. BalfOur." said a mem- Der of the British embassy, "Is 6 fas- einating person-he fascinated every body he met here In WashingtOn-bur you've got to admit that he's hard on bores.
 'Mr. Balfour came out of his big yellow house in Carlton House terrace one day, and before he could get into his motor car a bore held him up.
 "The bore talked to him about Ire land and Ulster for 20 minutes in one blue streak, and then. when he paused for breath, Mir. Balfour said:
 "'Yes. there are no Omelets like the omelsts you get at Claridge's'
 "'Perhaps, perhaps said the bore. but what has that got to do with what I've been talking abOutr
 MT. Balfour yawned behind his long, thin hand.
 By the way he said, what were you talking aboutr"
The Press., 1922-07-27
BIG PROFIT IN SNAKE CROPS"
FrsnehmOn In Fair Way to Get Rich When Authorities Put an End
 to the Game.

Snake breeding was one of the most profitable industries in France for two brothers who owned a farm in the de- partmsnt of the Tonne. The depart ment, finding itself infested with T1perS, offered 20 eentfmes a head as bounty. The brothers interested themselves, registered their farm and started out to catch vipers. They had marvellous luck last year, catching 4s,000 serpents and making bigger profits than ever had been made on the farm. During the last six months their catch increasing miraculously. 1T seemed likely to run into millions. Their neIghbors unfortunately were inquisitive and the authorities tnveS- rigated. The brothers were found to be raising snakes on the farm. Each mother viper reared an average of fifty 6 year. Had they continued 1t is estimated the enterprising brothers would have had 100000 viperS in i've years. The unimaEinativs court Of Amaizas in Tonnere sentenced the snake breeders to two years impriSOn- mant for obtaining money by false pretenses, which was reduced, how ever, to eighteen months.
The Press., 1922-07-27
The Chamnion MuIaanca

He goes at night to see a show where chorus fiappers stand arrow to do their little steps and sing, while bum comedians blithely spring (with Timber lips and brazen tOngue) gags that would make the Sphinx seem young Next morning when I fain would toll, and gather wampuln for my mOil, this bimbO lets a yip escape his mouth with riabIdry agape. and then proceeds to tell quite badly those jokes to which I'd hearkened sadly when l was younger far than now some day I'll crown that simp, I VOW He tells me all he can remember of wheezes grayer than December wheezes hadn't heard of lately; and then he rOars immoderately. He even feels that I also should catch the spirit of a show which he had seen and I had nOt-I swear that baby should be shot Buffalo Express.
The Press., 1922-07-27
BEST FOOD FOR THE BRAIN
Not Fish, but sananaS and Bacon, 10 the Dictum Laid Down blythe
 Best Authorities.

There was once a popular notion hat a fish diet was especially good ior the brain, but science exploded hat idea long ago. As a matter of act. the phosphorus in fish does serv- ce to the joints and not to the head. The one merit that fish possesses is hal 1t is easily digested and blood s not therefore drawn from the brain o aid the digestive organs.
 By an alliterative coincidence the hree things which physicians say are Jest for the brain are bananas, bacon md brushes.
 Bananas have that In them which iirectly feeds the gray matter of the Irain. Their content of sugar, too, Is excellent. Sugar, in any form, is en- .rgizing to the body, and as brain and IOdy are closely allied anything which .educes bodily fatigue helps the brain Hental workers know the heavy men, al strain of working when the body S tired.
 Bacon Is said to he a good food for he brain worker because pork intices he imagination. A well-known writer of exciting stories cOnfesses that his inspiration comes from pork chops So-bacOn for the brain.
 There remains the brush. Probably nine persons out of ten scratch their heads when they feel a sort of tenn porary hold-np In the action of their brains. That is natures stimulus to the gray matter Ruh your head and you bring the blood to the excited part That is what your brain needs-mOre blood Hence the vigorous use of 8 Stiff-hristled brush vill, by exciting the scalp. hiring blood to the brain and rPinvigGrate if.
 Sn If you are a busy brain-worker 'ry hora"aS hacOn, and a brush.- Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Press., 1922-07-27

touched leaves dropping around like tinted blossoms, the Orange-red fire of bittersweet tangled with the curly gray tendrils of clematis, and Annabel Day-standing there He turned from the window and sat down heavily in his chair. He had almost forgotten Annabel Day!
 Fifteen years ago he had left Moss dale and sought q living in the city. His parents had been dead a year, he had said goOdby to Annabel, refusinig to bind her by any promise.
 For a while they corresponded, but after a couple of years she had stopped writing.
 He believed her tired of waiting for him, and that someone else had won her love.
 Strange to say, 1t had never troubled him-hy that time he had become im- mersed In the pursuit of money-suc- cess. So great was the rush, so heated the competition that he never paused to analyze his own feelings.
 He had never married his clubs and his office satisfied him he was always a welcome addition to the parties of his friends, and his vacations were spent in the West, where his firm had valuable interests.
 So he had come to be the district manager of a great corporation; and he had believed he was happy-until this afternoon, when the sight Of a branch of bittersweet had stirred up all the old bOyish love of the country side where he had been born and raised, and-where Annabel Day had lived and loved him.
 His breeding eyes gradually came to notice the fiat package on his desk the name of a well-knOwn photog- rapher was in one corner.
 Idly he lifted a knife and severed the string and opened the papers half a dozen photographs were soon scat tered around him, enlargements of smaller pictures-and now. every thing vanished and he was back in the hill country again-On the right was the deep gorge filled with snow and on either side the tall hemlocks weighted with the fleece of winter, their tops seeming to touch the sky.
 Once when they were children he and Annabel had played these were Christmas trees and hung them with all sorts of bright baubles before him was the slope of the mountain, snow capped and friendly, where the little birches ran down to the edge Of the gorge here to the left was a bit of autumn road-there, a glimpse of some quiet pond refiecting the old bridge and the bending willows
 Suddenly he woke up and gathered the photographs Into a pile. Then he searched the waste paper basket for the wrapping paper. An inQuisitlVe office boy, opening the door to leave some letters, withdrew hastily and glided to Jane Fletcher's desk.
 Boss Is crazy as a loOn," he con- 1ded.
 What is he doing nowr'
 "Grubbing in the waste basket"
 "Furiesl It makes me creepy to hear about him." moaned the sten0g- rapher.
 ''Aw, he's in lovel That's nothin' p gibed Jimmy as he body entered the district managers of1ce.
 Mir. Larabes was tying up a package LsEZ cacsfallE, sna then De put oR biz
The Press., 1922-07-27
EnalneerinQ Triumph.

By the use of Out-Of-the-Ordinary methods engineers charged with the difficult task of enlargine the bore. of a series of much-used railway tunnels were able to carry on their work with out interfering with the movement of trains. which in some cases tOtaled sixty-seven a day. The problem of the engineers was to enlarge these pass ageways to minimum width of six teen feet on 8 tangent, and seventeen feet on a curve, and a minimum over head clearance of P feet and to line the bOres with reinforced concrete, all work to be done without. interruption of traffic. This situation was met by the construction of steel forms twenty feet in length, which were mounted on tracks of their own, so that they could be moved along as fast as the concrete had set. Instead of delivering the con- crete by any of the more usual means, 1t was decided to deliver the concrete pneumatically, the material being blown through pipe by machinery, located at a convenient point outside the tunnel.-Popular Mechanics Mag azine.
The Press., 1922-07-27
ExeltInu Ar VeyaaU.

A French soldier, dashed to the
 swinging anchor of \ military
 sausage" balloon, landed in an open field about ten miles from Augers, France, a few days ago, according to an exchange. He was the only pas senger, and he was safe and sound, and his craft was undamAKed- The soldier was carried aIoft when the -rwbfes mapped earlier in the day as preparations were being made for a parachute flight. The balloon, when last sighted by one of the squadron of airplanes that had pursued 1t In an effort to save the soldiers life was bound seaward. and it was feared that the soldier might be waited thithsr before he could bring the ship to earth. A change in air currents saved him. The soldier crawled hand over hand to the anchor, to which he lashed himself fast. His dangling figure dis appeared from view of those on the ground, but just before dusk he waved his handkerchief at the pilot of one of the pursuing airplanes, which could not get close enough to save him without further endangerlng his life.
The Press., 1922-07-27
Four Rivers closo TOSsthsr.

A British explorer, Capt. F. King don Ward. tells in an English maga- zine about a remarkable belt of coun- Hy between China and Tibet, where within a distance of 16o miles four of the big rivers of Asia How close to and parallel to one another.
 These rivers, the IraWaddy, the Sal Ween. the Mekong and the Yangtss, he says. flow In gOrges two and a quarter miles deep, in one place only about fifteen miles apart. The SOrges are separated by snow-erested rock walls rising for twenty-one thousand feet above sea level.
 These vast canyons may, it would seem. prove, when fully explored. to be worthy rivals of the Grand canyon Sc the COlOradO.-The Outlook.
The Press., 1922-07-27
Who Rsmsmbers 4Ruttsr palsi.s2"

A government clerk was heard be- moaning those lost dainties of his youth.
 ''I have eaten all the modern can dies he said. "Yes, sir, all the choco- lates, and the milk chocolate, and the Judges, and the nut candies, and the sort with cherry to jump out at you and all that.
 "They are very nice, but none of them approaches the delicious flavor of the old butter daisies. I remember how I used to get a nickel, run to the corner store and invest in a bag of butter daisies.
 Small yellow cones they were, that melted in your mouth, much as the fa- bled nectar of the gods was supposed to do. No, sir, haven't tasted a but ter daisy in 20 years."-Washington Star.
The Press., 1922-07-27
Forever Laat.

A man who was attending a vaude- vile show in Denver recently laughed 60 hard at one of the jokes that he became hyBterieal, fainted and had to bs carried out of the theater. Unfor- tunately he was unable, when he re- covered his reason, to remember what khs 5ske wG&
The Press., 1922-07-27
Conversation,

Modern life requires no profund- lty."
 "No?"
 NO Some people have one remark te cover all occasions. They say How do you get that way? And when they have said that they think they have said all
The Press., 1922-07-27
AvOldIno the AbrvUt N.aatIvs.

\ "A man must learn to say, No" re- marked the moralist
 Not a man in my position" replied Senator Sorghum. There are re- quests, of course, that must be re- fused, but one of the arts of politics is breaking the news ss gently and deliberately as possible"
The Press., 1922-07-27
A MattAr of Policy

q just saw your wife .Out in your neighbours mOtOrcar. Why don't you take her out in your OWn?"
 'Oh. we've just made our wills ill each others favor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-08
Old Sabbath Law Doesn't Apply
Under Christian Dispensation,
Says Minister in Sermon Here

The Times-Recorder today publish
es by request sermon delivered by
Rev. James H. Barfield, pastor of
the First Christian church, Of Ameri-
Gus, concerning Sabbath observance,
Of which thera has been some re-
cent discussion llocally. Rev. Bar
fields sermon, although he makes no
reference to the fact, evidently is a
reply both to DR.. F. H. harrington s
recent published statements in
Americus regarding Sabbath observ-
ance and some expressions of the
Times-Recorder. The following let
ter was received from Mr. Barfield: ::
Editor Times-Recorder Follow
ing the sermon and editorial discus
sion of Sunday Golf" recently,
have had numerous requests to pub
lish my discussion of "The Observ-
ancc of the Lords day" Not to per-
petuate controversy, but in the in
terest of TRUTH, l am willing to
give to the public my sermon on the
subject. "The Sabbath or the Lords
which,"
"In this discussion it is clearly
shown that the law which govern
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-08
CONDITIONS FOR
MEXICO STAND
Terms Of Recognition Exactly
Where They Were Year Ago,
Is Statement

WASHINGTON, May 8-The gov
ernment stands unalterably for the
guarantees requested Of the Obregon
government in Mexico nearly year
ago and so far Obregon and advisers
have given no definite assurances
that these guarantees will be given
in order to make formal recogni-
ton of their government possible, it
was said at the State Department to-
day. Consequently the situation re-
NAMED just where it was when the
terms of recognition were submit
ted to Mexico City in June, 1921.
The appointment of an interna-
tional commission to consider all is
sues involved in American recognition
of the Obregon government in Mexi-
co has bee nsuggested in some official
circles as solution of the continued
failure of the United States govern
ment and the Mexico City authorities
to agree on a recognition program.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-08
3SEVERELY HURT
AS AUTOS CRASH
Girl Of Ia Hits Car Carrying Six
Persons And Three Suffer
Broken Bones

p Two women and a girl suffered
broken collar bones and other in
juries, Ford car was smashed, and
two six weeks old babies had miracu-
lous escapes from injury Sunday
when a Chevrolet car driven by
Grace Collins, 14-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Collins, of
Barlow street, crashed into G. G..
Dorman's car on East College street
opposite Earl street. In the Dorman
car were Mrs. G. G. Dorman, VINO was
driving, Mrs. j. B. Williams, of
Graceville, Fla, who is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. c. L. Dorman; Mrs.
Charlie Dorman, Louise Dorman, and
two six weeks old Dorman babies,
Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Charlie Dorman
and Louise Dorman all suffered
broken collar bones and bruises and
cuts; the others were unhurt.
According to Mrs. G. G. Dorman,
who was driving, she was proceeding
eastward on College street near the
Loving Oil station and had stopped
the car near the curb when the otLer
car was coming out of Earl street
at a good speed, crashing into the
standing car across the street. Aftc4
the crash, she said, there was room
for two vehicles to pass around on
the wreckage on the opposite side of
the road.
Another girl was in the car with
Grace Collins. Neither were hurt,
but the driver was said today by her
mother to be suffering from shock.
The front ankle of her car was brok-
en- by the impact, Mrs. Collins stat
ed she understood the Dorman car
was travelling very fast at the time
of the accident, and that her daugh-
ter was not at fault.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-08
FREE SPACE OFFERED
FOR GEORGIA PRODUCTS

WAYCROSS, May 8.--The Way
ross and Ware County Chamber of
Commerce is making extensive plans
for "Made in Georgia Week." May
% to 20.
Exhibit space will be given free to
all Georgia manufacturers who care
TO place samples of their product on
display in Waycross during this week.
About thirty state manufacturers
have already signified their intention
to take advantage of this opportunity
to advertise their products.
Addresses will be made by promIn-
ent speakers urging trade amoug
Georgians with Georgia manufactur-
ers in preference to manufacturers
outside of the state.
communicated is invited from any
manufacturer in Georgia who would
like to have free exhibit space in
Waycross at this time. Of course,
the space will be allotted as inquiries
are received. Address the Secretary,
Waycross and Ware County Chamber
of Commerce.