Old “Drizzle” Runs
Washington, — Recent discoveries
made in the famous Red Beds of
Texas, of the Permian age, have proved
that the markings described by earlier
investigators as trails of many-legged
worms, are in reality weather mark-
ings, or examples of “fossil weather.”
The proof of this statement lies in
fa small slab of shale which shows nu-
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merous parallel markings, large and
small, in such abundance that they
could not have been made by animals.
The designation of the markings as
“drigzie runs” indicates the weather
conditions in what is now Texas, in
that far-off time.
Formed on Mud Flats.
The “chevron” formation of the
markings is due to the accumulation
of fine mud in a slow run-off on a
mud flat, with a gentle slope. Some
slight obstruction, such as a grain
of sand or a bit o# plant material or
a hard piece of mud, was enough to
start the formation of a slight ridge
along which the markings continue.
On another slab of red shale are
to be seen circular marks where a
plant leaf or a piece of grass made
circular scratches in the soft mud
millions of years ago. One can almost
see the sunshine following the shower
after which an animal, unknown to
science, walked past the wind-moved
plant.
Disprove Raindrop Fossils.
Geologists have for many years re-
garded as fossil raindrops any group
of circular or oval-shaped depressions,
and the standard textbooks figure
such markings. Recent experiments
in the University of Wisconsin, sup-
plemented by observations of shale
slabs from the Texas Red Beds and on
the soft mud and sand along the Pa-
cific coast, prove clearly that many of
the so-called raindrop impressions are
due to air bubbles. Markings made in
recent mud are exactly like those seen
in the ancient red shales.
The influence of the proportions ot
sunshine and cloudiness, in ancient
geological time, upon the rapidity of
growth of individuals and upon the
rapid expansion of groups of ancient
animals and plants is now attracting
the attention of students of fossil life.
An attempt is being made to inter
pret, from conditions seen in ancient
rocks, the state of the weather at a
time when earth conditions were quite
different from what they are now. It
is expected that previously unrecog.
nized bits of sunshine will very soon
be seen in the rocks of the old
Paleozoic.
Long Time at It
Oulianovsk, Russia.—It took Cath:
erine Sorokina 121 years to become a
voter, but she has done it. Born a
serf and sold at the age of fourteen
for a hunting gun, she is a free voter
in the local Soviet now.
George “Yatz” Levison, for two years
Northwestern, this
year showa such remarkable
ability as a ball carrier that Coach
Hanley has shifted him to halfback,
In the early games his consistent
ground gaining has made Northwest-
quarterback at
has
Gas Made Liquid
ern rooters forget the feats of “Moon”
Baker and other “Wildcat” stars of
the past.
Expensive Fish
New York.—One hundred pounds
British gold for one fish was the top
price paid at the recent British Aquar-
ists’ association exhibition in London.
The fish was a blue, telescopic-eyed
veiltail, one of the new forms of
goldfish bred by the Japanese. Gold,
white and hlack in these forms are
common, but hive is & rarer color.
Fog Horn Silenced to
& - Please Resort Colony
Bexhill, England.—*“Mournful
Mary” has lost her job. She
has been given a full month's
notice, and the nerve-racked
residents of the fashionable re-
sorts within sound of ber wails
are jubilant.
The only friends “Mournful
Mary” has are the members of
Imperial Merchant Service
guild, which guards the inter
ests of merchant seamen. They
have submitted a protest against
her dismissal with Trinity house. &
What will fog-bound ships do
they ask indignantly, if Mary's
piercing shriek fails to warp
them that they are approach
ing the most dangerous turning
in the English channel? For
Mary is the foghorn of the
Royal Sovereign lightship, and
if she isn’t popular with the
residents at least the sailors
appreciate her.
the
DAE
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2.
9d
Berlin.—Oxygen used in highly com-
pressed form in industrial undertak-
ings can now be delivered in light
brass containers instead of the heavy
steel bottles formerly used and requir-
ing two men to carry.
Dr. Paul Heylandt, Berlin chemist
and inventor, has discovered a process
by which the gas can be manufactured
and delivered in liquid form. His in-
vention has won for him the hon-
orary degree of doctor of engineering
from the Charlottenburg Institute of
Technology here.
The oxygen gas is reduced to a
liquid by Doctor Heylandt’s process, is
then poured into specially devised con-
tainers on automobile trucks and is
Day Coach Passengers
Sleep at Their Own Risk
Sioux City, lowa.—Train employees
are not obligated to awaken passengers
who fall asleep in day coaches when
nearing destinations of such passen
gers and railroad companies are not
liable for damages if loss results to
the passengers if they are carried be-
yond their destinations, Judge A. O.
Wakefield ruled here in the District
court.
The ruling was made in the case of
Clyde Vanderbick of Sioux City against
the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul &
Pacific railroad. Vanderbick sued for
$2,700.
Cobb in New Role
San [rancisco.—Prof. Tyrus Ray-
mond Cobb is to teach the young idea
of Japan to wallop. He is to tour the
country, lecturing on baseball and
playing with various university teams.
“Little Left of Po
wder Magazine
These photographs show the fort of
before and after the terrific explosion
were killed and hundreds of others Injured.
SUCH 1S LIFE
Cabrerizas Bajas at Melilla, Morocco,
of the powder magazine. Fifty men
Plenty of Chickens
carted from plant to plant much as
gasoline or oil is delivered. The needs
of the customers are supplied by
merely opening a faucet and letting
the desired quantity run into the small
containers supplied to each customer.
At a nominal rental the customer
is also supplied with apparatus for
converting the liquid oxygen into
compressed gas, which is then stored
in the steel bottles that were hitherto
transported back and forth.
DIPPING INTO
SCIENCE
Heat and Storms
The reason we always feel
warm just before a storm is be-
rause there is so much moisture
in the air that it cannot absorb
the perspiration of the body.
This process of evaporation of
the water from our skins is the
chief means by which our bod-
ies are kept cool.
4 ©. 1928, Western Newspaper Union.)
THE PATTON COURIER
“Time to Squelch the Brood
COUNTRIES
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK |
% UNDISCOVERED
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
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To most of us the places we have
not ourselves seen are virtually un-
discovered coun
tries. All that we
know about them
is what we have
heard or read
and what we
have thus discov-
ered is usually
the worst. Now
there is Africa.
It looks to me
like a huge re-
versed capital
letter P on ‘the
map, and it con-
notes to me wild elephants, desert
wastes, untraversed jungles teeming
with strange animals and deadly ser-
pents. It is a land of unclothed sav-
ages with rings in their noses and poi-
soned arrows in the quivers which
they carry on their backs. My cousin
Tracy has just come from Africa and
his account of what he has seen there
is quite different from the picture
which I have painted of that, to me,
undiscovered country. There are Ford
cars in Africa, Tracy tells me, and ra-
dios and moving picture shows, and
water softeners, and electric lights,
and hard roads, and the gi bob
thelr hair and carry lipsticks just as
they do in other civilized countries.
I have been quite mistaken in my
Judgment of Africa.
When Nancy and YI were in Cam-
on
bridge, Mass., 25 years ago or so, we
got our meals with a group of dyed-in-
the-wool New Englanders. One wom-
an had been out West, she said—that
is as far as Troy, N. Y., but none of
them had ever looked across the Mis-
sissippi river, and they looked upon
us as semi-civilized savages from a
wild and unconquered West. They be-
lieved everything we told them about
rattlesnakes, buffaloes, and Indian
raids. They were astonished that we
were able with as little dialect as we
language. The Mississippi valley to
them was an undiscovered country.
White, whom I later met, born in New
England and imbued with a holy de-
sire to do something to raise the mor-
literate West, had a call to Austin,
Texas, as assistant pastor of one of
the southern churches. He was cour-
ageous but wary. He asked me con-
fidentally, as of one who had had
wider experiences in such things than
a wise precaution for him to take pis-
tols with him in going to so dangerous
a locality.
I was in Herrin, Ill, a few weeks
ago—Herrin in bloody Williamson
county. It is a beautiful little city
with a wide clean boulevard running
through it 100 feet wide. It seems
like a quiet well-ordered place. It is
full of comfortable houses sitting in
the midst of well-kept lawns and sur-
rounded by beautiful gardens. It was
in rose time that I was there, and I
have never seen anywhere, not even in
England nor in Italy, more beautiful
roses than there were in Herrin, They
have beautiful school buildings, I do
not know another city of 10,000 popu-
lation which has a better designed and
more attractive high school building
than Herrin. The people seem to love
beauty and to stand for education.
Maybe we have not discovered Herrin |
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Great
Volcano Stirs :
Naples.—Vesuvius is fretful. She
is flashing red by night and by day
pouring into the blue sky a column
of sulphurous smoke which floats off
in a breeze for mile upon mile, or in
calm air rises straight toward the
vault of the sky for many hundreds
of feet.
Vesuvius in normal mood shows
only a wisp of smoke and does not
make the night over her red with sud-
den flashes of fire nor does she rumble
so. A few weeks ago she was, to all
appearances, sound asleep. She takes
long sleeps: she has been known to
sleep for 500 years. So long did she
sleep after her destruction of Pompeii
and Herculaneum that it became al-
HHH HHH HHO HHH HOH
Thirteen in Family All
Have Same Initials
Nodlesville, Md. — Thirteen
children of Mr. and Mrs. Ora
Ferguson living northwest ot
here each have a first name be %&
ginning with letter “R” and a &
second name beginning witn
“E” so that the initials R. B. F.
stand for all the children. i
range
years.
The children are Ruby :
Ralpb Erie, Ruth Esther, Reno
Elva, Reva Emola, Rose Ellalia,
3
3
iF
oF
Ages %
from eight to thirty-five
Editn,
Roger Eugene, Russell Ermall
Roy Elden, Renzel Elmo, Reldo
Edward, Roe Erwin and Rich B
ard Erroll. 3
FEHR LHHH
most a legend and was forgotten by
the peasants dwelling about her.
Goats grazed in the crater upon the
rich green grass that grew along the
HEADS BROTHERHOOD
H. Lawrence Choate of ‘Washington,
D. C., has been elected to the presi-
idency of the Brotherhood of St. An-
drew of the Episcopal church, Mr.
Choate succeeds Edward H. Bonsall
of Philadelphia, who has held the po-
sitjon for the last 19 years.
By Charles Sughroe
shores of two lakes deep within that
mighty hole.
Then suddenly she gave warning, |
which few heeded, and poured seven
rivers of fire down into the surround-
ing villages, destroying them and
killing hundreds. One of these rivers
rushed pell-mell into the Bay of
Naples, where the water boiled for
days. This was the great eruption of
1631, The peasants dwelling in
Lorre del Greco and in Massa di
Somma and other small settlements
that were wiped out took it that de-
mons lived somewhere under
mountain, |
Now Vesuvius is again in eruption; |
not a tremendous one such as the |
recorded eruptions of the past, but
one at least showing she still has vi- |
tality, She has not driven the popu-
lation away from her base, but her
grand pyrotechnical display has again
become a lively attraction for visitors.
the |
Reason Enough
reno, Nev.—One of the reasons given
by Mrs. Charles W. McHose of Los An-
geles for wishing a divorce is that her
husband has been a bad loser, hurling
golf sticks or throwing low cards on
She obtained a decree.
the floor.
When wives and
widows speak of
their late husbands
their meaning is
quite different,
a
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ONE NIGHT ABAD OLD FOX
CAME AND STOLE A CHICKEN =
LTHE NEXT NIGHT HE CAME
— AND STOLE ANOTHER
2 \| CHICKEN=AND THE
NEXT NIGHT HE CAME
CHICKEN = AND
THE NEXT NIGHT,
LS 2 GUESS WHAT
¥ HAPPENED!
STOLE ANOTHER
| KNOW =HE CAME ©
AND STOLE AuoTvER |
———
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showed to communicate in the English |
al and religious standards of the il- |
himself, if I didn’t think it would be |
| safely.
| times he was obliged to leap off the
{ noying the officia
| luxurious death.
| thrown
Man Swallows Wasp
and Dies in Agony
Paris.—The strangest acci-
dental death eof the year in
France is reported from Nor-
mandy. A farmer outside of
Rouen bit into a pear. A wasp
that had burrowed into the fruit
stung the man in the throat as
it was being swallowed. An
hour later, after suffering in-
tense agony, the farmer died of
suffocation, despite all attempts
made to relieve him by the local
doctor,
RH OO ROE
| ABSENT 14 YEARS
| HE GOES TO CHURCH
|
Bandit Guns.
| Denver.—After a 14-year absence
{ Tony Vitullo has gone to church but
through ne choice of his. Vitullo,
who is a prominent Italian sportsman
in Denver, broke his “churchless” rec-
ord at the instigation of two bandits
who urged him on with the ends of
their guns poked in his ribs.
The bandits held up Vitullo when
he was returning home from his club.
He drove his ear into the garage and
was confronted by the two masked
figures who showed their guns and re-
lieved him of $190 and a diamond
stickpin valued at 0.
They then ordered him to drive to a
distant church. When he objected to
this procedure on the ground that he
had missed church for 14 years, they
told him that it was time for him to
| change his ways.
Tying Vitullo in the deacon’s chair,
the robbers told him where they would
leave his car, and left. After freeing
himself from his bonds, Vitullo went
to a farm nearby and telephoned to
| the police,
| “I didn’t really get scared,” he
| said, “until they left. That church
[has more creaks than a second-hand
flivver.”
|
Boy Jumps 60 Feet
From Bridge Into River
Lewiston. Maine.—A fourteen-year-
| old Lewiston boy, whose name the
| police decline to make publie, was
| taken to police headquarters upon
complaint of Maine Central railroad
officials, and admitted to the police
that during the present summer he
has jumped from the Maine Central
| bridge between Lewiston and Auburn,
into the Androscoggin river below, no
less than 36 times.
The jump is a perilous one, a dis-
tance of 60 or 70 feet, to a bottom
covered with boulders, and perilously
near the Union Water Power company
dam across the river. It is a
that requires an expert to negotiate
The boy said that several
bridge to escape oncoming trains, and
at other times he did it for the fun
of it, using the high bridge for a div-
ing tower.
The boy was taken in a round-up
of lads who have caused the railroad
no little trouble, damaging property, |
removing insulators from the telegraph |
wires on the bridge and otherwise an- |
. They have disre- |
garded the signs warning people not to
| trespass on the bridge and failed to
heed verbal orders given by railroad
employees to keep away. I
Luxurious Death Way
Out of Love Triangle
New York.—Joan Fornum, age twen-
ty-two, a pretty blond, spent all except
$10 of her $127 that she might have a
The girl’s body, clad |
in a lavender silk negligee and expen-
sive boudoir slippers, was found in a
gas-filled apartment in Brooklyn, on
which she had just paid $75, a month’s
rent,
Miss Fornum had told her land-
lady, Mrs. Harriet Baird, that it
was to have been her wedding day.
“But his mother interfered,” she had
| said, “and I had been saving up money
| all the
| foolish to save money, so I bought
time for our marriage. It's |
|
these things.”
Later, other tenants, smelling
broke into Miss Fornum’s room
found her dead. Beside the body was. |
a4 copy of William Cullen Bryant's |
“Thanatopsis,” open at the lines: |
if thou
gas,
and
So halt thou rest and what
withdraw |
| In silence from the living? |
John Lagatta, noted magazine illus- |
trator, whose name appeared on a torn |
note in Miss Fornum's room, denied |
knowing her. Mrs. Baird said the girl
had been a newspaper reporter and |
came of a good Boston family,
Saves Boy; Finds Son
Marshfield, Ore.—Hearing the erles |
of a drowning person, A. T. Sorenson |
leaped from a big boom into Coos Bay
and rescued a boy. When he brought {
the lad to the surface he discovered
that he had saved his own son.
|
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Finds Ring in Rubbish |
North Bay, Ont.—A $600 engage- |
ment ring, which had been lost and |
out with the rubbish by gq |
hotel chambermaid here, was found by
a youngster exploring the rubbish for |
funny papers, |
Flowers Dangerous
Portsmouth, Va.—Flowers here have |
proven such a traffic hazard that it |
has been found necessary to remove |
several beds of cannag from one oti
the city streets. *
dive | jules she shatters and laughs at seri-
! No opium, no nausea,
DR. CALDWELL'S
THREE RULES
x
Dr. Caldwell watched the results of
constipation for 47 years, and believed
that no matter how eareful people are
of their health, diet and exercise, con-
stipation will occur from time to time.
Of next importance, then, is how to treat.
it when it comes. Dr. Caldwell always
was in favor of getting as close to nature
as possible, hence his remedy for consti-
pation is a mild vegetable compound. It
can not harm the most delicate system
and is not habit forming.
The Doctor never did approve of dras-
tic physics and purges. He did not believe
they were good for human beings to put
into their system. Use Syrup Pepsin for
yourself and members of the family in
constipation, biliousness, sour and crampy
stomach, bad breath, no appetite, head-
aches, and to break up fevers and colds.
{ Get a bottle today, at any drugstore and
observe these three rules of health: Keep
the head eool, the feet warm, the bowels
open. For a free trial bottle, just write
“Syrup Pepsin,” Dept. BB, Monticello,
Illinois.
For Old Sores
Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh
} All dealers are authorized to refund your money for the
first bottle if not suited.
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Sayre, Pa,
Positively Last Word
About Girl of Today
| We knock and eriticize her; we
| scold, apostrophize her, we wish that
she was wiser, more dainty and re-
fined; her path we're always
ing to eriticize her talking, her ¢lothes,
| her way of walking, her manners and
{ her mind.
| We say, “Oh, highty-tighty! she is
frivolous and flighty and all her ways
are mighty undignified to see; she joy-
rides, flirts and chatters, our old-time
stalk
with unabated glee!”
and we her, we
detect her, we study and
dissect her with all her and
and find on looking her
(and learning to adore her) she’s just
| ous matters
| We chide
shadow and
correct
smiles
tears, o'er
| like girls before her for several thou-
| sand years.—Boston Transcript.
Will Cold Worry
You This Winter?
Some men throw-off a eold within a
few hours of contracting it, Anyone
can do it with the aid of a simple com-
pound which comes in tablet form, and
is no trouble to take or to always
have about you. Don’t “dope” your-
self when you catch eold: use Pape’s
Cold Compound. Men and women
everywhere rely on this amazing little
| tablet.—Adv.
The Tawhoo’s Warning
Persons living in the region of the
Caribbean owe much to birds called
the tawhoo. According to ap article
in St. Nicholas, these birds always fly
| to the mainland when they sense a hur-
ricane, arriving while the inhabitants
are enjoying the period of sunshine
and windless weather which always
comes just before the storm breaks.
A Clean Sweep
Wife—What shall I say in Bridzet’s
reference? I can’t say she stole.
Husband—Say she carried all be-
fore her,—Montreal Star.
dear but
dearer.
IT STARTS
in the STOMACH
Experience is a
inexperience is a
teacher,
HAVE YOU ever sus
pected that most of the
common illnesses of
men and women have
their beginnings in
stomach disorders?
That lost vitality, those
frequent headaches,
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shake off—your stom=
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and wept.
“There's more
reputation with
wife,” rejoined |
energy. “You
ders and you'll «
your health unin
«de as he said an
week—well, you
pen. Got every
wish I could get
something. But
suaded to come
desert because
wages they get |
I hate to leave |
I don’t believe tl
tomorrow at the
Nibbess. They'll
with old Ben’s ¢
pork and hominy
do ‘em good!”
Portia let out
to receive his pa
descended intc
depths of her wg
She was a ga
graduate in dome
ors, she did not
doing. Out here
any town her |
Awnings she he
littls pigs’ mone,
groups after
smoky kerosene
glamorous light
house, open to t
plains night after
to the heat and g
It took brains—I
achieve them. A
“backer,” the gre:
i. g for his first vi
with his society v
by a silly fall fr
stay in bed for ty
deal for an ambit
young woman to
She did not he:
to a stop beside
erable and disaj
and apathetic sl
hours. Perhaps !
“Your lunch is
Startled and in
ed her tear-stai
dreaming? She
from over her ey
“Lunch?” she q
“Yes, ma'am,”
woman with a wi
rosy skin and tw
Portia Taunton
in the strong ha
figure beside he
golden and crinl
lade and tea invi
eyes to the kind
fect lunch. Tear:
ed her.
“Oh, who are y
“] am Elsie,”
replied.
“Oh, why—” P
must have found
so glad. Could }
you suppose? 1
stylish and impo
any minute,” she
hope, incredulity
they have simply
you see, for Bob’
was going to she
more her impu
“show that swe
queen we're the r
help to Bob, you k
backing—and how
“Yes, ‘na’am,”
sympathized. “JN
stay von veek, nr
cook to blease de
now you will ble:
After lunch—sh
ing on Old Ben
atrocities for a we
a few orders witl
loved menage.
“Please have
gone over by tom
she said. “I'l m
Mr. Taunton will
town for what we
ize, do you aot, E
it is that everytl
feet?”
“But, yes, ma’al
Portia had a litt
it not by any mea
told herself she w
money's worth ou
strong creature.
society queen in
But his Nibs a
appear the next
nor the next.
“You'd think,”
with frankness to
think even rich p
siderate, wouldn't
a frivolous delic
wouldn't realize wl
to a poor woman
you close the doc
the awnings away
up that thread, It
enough. Elsie, wa
live the life of a s
“Oh, but, yes m
it! Me—1 like vo
“And she'll be s
agreeable or else
helpless. Well—I
and come and get
you polish the sil
“Yes, ma'am.”
“Elsie?”
“Yes, ma'am.”
“If these people
we get this water
and get awfully ric
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