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DlHTANCWf MAT BK TOLD
BY THE ORDINARY MAN —
; If you devote your Saturday* to
: golfing, shooting, or taking photo-
; graphs, you have, In all proba-
i hillty, met the problem of Judg
| Ing distances.
Boar In inind these few simple
rules, and your difficulty will be
lessened. With the naked eyes.
If you have average sight, you
can see the whites of people's
eyes at 30 yards; at 80 yards
you can Just see their eye*.
When all parts of their body
are distinguishable, they are 100
yards aw ay; when the outlines
of their faces are Just visible,
the distance Is 200 yards; and
when a face appears as a sep
arate dot, you should be 400
yards away, says London Tlt-
Blts.
Six hundred yards away a
group of people can be distin
guished singly; but at a farther
distance than this no detail of
the human form can be deter
mined. Yet at 1,200 yards you
should be able to tell a man on
horseback from a man on foot;
at 2,000 yards he Is simply a dot
on the landscape.
The majority of people, too,
are unable to determine the
wind's velocity. When the smoke
from a chimney moves in a
straight, vertical column, It
means that a one or two-mtles-
an hour breeze Is blowing. A
three-mile* an-hour wind will
Just stir the lesves on the trees.
Twenty-live miles an hour will
sway the trunks; at 40 the small
branches will break and It takes
a mile a minute gale to snap the
trunks of big trees.
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How Butterscotch Got
Its Distinctive Name
Butterscotch seems to have grown
In public favor recently, for now, In
addition to the old-fashioned butter
scotch candy, there are pies, soft
drinks, Ice cream and many other
things made with this flavor.
It seems that butterscotch was not
of Scotch origin, as the word Is a col
loquialism meaning “to scorch." And
that Is Just what butterscotch candy
Is—candy that has been scorched. In
the commercial manufacture of butter
scotch a great deal of care must be
taken to see that the burning process
does not leave the randy <^lth any
taste eicept that which one expects
to characterize the flavor. The cook
Ing Is done by gas, and each pot con
tains u thermometer and stirring rod.
The batch of candy must be stirred
properly and the correct temperature
maintained at all times. In order to
do this, gas Is used, as with this fuel
delicate temperature control Is se
cured. ________________
H ow Pearls A re Tested
A new process for distinguishing
between natural and cultured pearls
was described before the French
academy recently.
The method, very simple and Inex
pensive, requires the Inserting of a
miniature tube In the hole bored In
the pearl for heading purposes. With
In the tube are two little mirrors very
close togther, at right angles to each
other and at an angle of 45 degrees
with the sides of the tube.
When a light Is thrown Into the tube
on the first mirror It Is reflected on
the second mirror If the pearl Is com
posed of concentric layers, as Is the
case with all natural pearls. If the
core of the pearl la not composed of
concentric spheres the ray of light In
stead of striking the second mirror
shines through the substance of which
the cultivated pearl Is made and ap
penis as a tiny spot of light on the
surface.
WHY=
Yawn Is Contagious Ex
plained by Physicians
People huve a natural tendency to
yawn, to cleanse waste product* from
the blood with a gulp of oxygen,
strongest when tired, but always pres
ent. The sight of another Indulging
In the luxury of a yawn Is all that la
needed to stimulate this unconscious
craving.
It la not only the power of sugges
tion, that turns this latent desire Into
un Irresistible Impulse, but even more
the element of mimicry. Man, like
the monkey and all other animals, l)aa
a tendency to Imitate the actions of
another, especially If such actions ap
peal to any subconscious desire on his
p a rt
Such Is the explanation of the trait
offered In the physiological laboratory
of the Middlesex College of Medicine
and Surgery by Dr. Francesco Mau-
rtello, assistant to the head of the de
partment, and Dr. A. Edward Balbont,
professor of neurology at Middlesex,
after Dr. W alter B. Cannon, of Har
vard, had admitted his Inability to an
swer the question.
Why Cross Is Regarded
as Symbol of a Kiss
Whatever your sex, at some time
or other you have probably written a
letter and put some "crosses" in It—
for kisses. But have you ever won
dered why a cross should be used as
the written symbol of a kiss?
This story takes us back to the
times when few could read, and still
fewer could write. In that respect
the nobility were no better off than
those of a lower station In life, but
deeds transferring property, wills and
other documents had to be signed
somehow. So those who could not
write their names “made their mark,"
and this, In an age when religious
symbolism was very much In evidence,
almost Invariably took the form of a
croas. Front motives of reverence the
shape used was not that of the cross
of Calvary, hut the S t Andrew's
cross, which resembles the letter "X.”
Having duly made their mark, the
signatories of a document then kissed
tt—partly as a pledge of good faith
and partly as an act of reverence.
And so a cross put on paper became
associated with a kiss.—London An
swers.
H ow T u bercu losis A cts
The public health service says that
races differ very much In their re
sistance to tuberculosis. The colored
population of the United States has
a death rate from tuberculosis approx
imately three times ar great as that
of the white. The American Indian,
likewise, Is extremely susceptible to
both pulmonary nnd other forms of
tuberculosis The disease often runs
an extremely rapid course to a fatal
termination. The Jew, on the other
hand, nmong whose race tuberculosis
has been present for ninny centuries,
resists the disease well, nnd though
frequently of frail physique, often
makes a recovery under adverse con
ditions. The Irish, on the other hand,
do not resist tuberculosis well, while
(he Italians do.
H ow to W a te r p ro o f Clubs
A new process for treating wooden
golf clubs makes them waterproof and
extremely hard, say* Popular Science
Monthly. Heads of seasoned perslm-
mou wood are subjected to a vacuum
that extracts every particle of air and
moisture from the wood, which then Is
Impregnated with the newly discov
ered chemical. The club head* then
are dried and hardened.
Clubs treated In this manner are
said to have greater driving power
than other wooden club* and not to
shrink or expand with varying atmos
pheric condition*. Inserted face plate*
are not required, since the chemically
treated wood Is itself harder than
fibre, bone or Ivory.
:f you are hurt budlv In mii accident
your breathing Is lessened, and an ex- | I L O C O M O T IV E S C O N S U M E
T IM E S O W N W E IG H T
cess quantity of carbon dioxide In j
your blood makes you fall asleep.
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C H R IS T IA N C H U R C H
Sunday school 10 a. m. Preaching
services 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Christ
ian Endeavor 7 p. m. Preaching
services both morning and evening
by the Rev. I. G. Shaw.
Mrs. J. E. Weaver, S. S. Supt.;
Mrs. J. O. Isaacson, Supt. of Pri
mary Dept.; Mrs. A1 Hermanson,
Supt. of Cradle Roll Dept.; Mrs. G.
C. McAllister, Pres, of Ladies’ Cir
cle; Bernice Shaw, Pres. C. E.; Mrs.
Warner, Choir Director.
Rev. Shaw, Pastor.
“To do the work, to get the cash,
to buy the fuel, to make the steam,
I)ew Is moisture condensed from the to do the work. .
atmosphere. Including the air con This, according to J. H. Dyer, gen
tained In soil and gathered in small eral manager for Southern Pacific
drop* on the surface of plants nnd company, is the endless ‘song of the
other bodies, which radiate heat well, locomotive’ as. it hauls the nation's
but conduct It badly. Frost la formed
on nights when the dew point la below freight across the continent.
Consuming twenty-seven times its
freezing point.
own weight in fuel each year the
H ow D enver G ot Nam e
average locomotive must perform 5 -a cre tract fo r tale, g o o d soil,
Denver Is named for Gen. James W. work equivalent to hauling one ton plen ty w ater in dry years at low rata,
Denver, who lived from 1817 to 1892 of freight 139 times around the well drain ed, t4 -m ile fro m G rants
and was the first territorial governor world before it has earned the cost Pass on stata highw ay. Land values
in creasing, g o o d m arket fo r straw*
of Kansas. Colorado was originally of its annual fuel supply.
berries, etc.
$ 1 2 00 cash if taken
Included within the Kansas territory,
soon.
A ddress P. O. B o x 173, C e n
During 1925 the company’s road
and Denver Is said to have been
tra!
P
oin
t.
ngines burned an average of 4,-
one who first suggested the name
Colorado when that region was set 948,210 pounds of fuel per unit. In
apart. He had been a California con other words each of 1,358 freight
gressman. and then commissioner of and passenger locomotives in regular CITY CLEANING AND
Indian affairs and served during the service that year required anaver-
Civil war In the Union army.
age of 58 carloads of 43 tons each
DYEING CO.
Reason in A nim als
to keep up steam in its boilers. In
Whether animals think or not I* a all, the company last year used 3,-
moot queatlon among philosophers and
tons of fuel oil and coal.
scientists. The higher animals show 359,835
“Indirectly,
well as directly, the
‘ W E A R E N O T S A T IS F IE D
considerable Intelligence In certain railroads are a as tremendous
factor in
matters, such as In getting food and
U N L E SS Y O U A R E ’ *
escaping from enemies. Modern science the nation’s industrial prosperity,’’
is Inclined to think that the difference Dyer said. “They use one ton of
between the Intelligence of human be coal out of every four tons mined
ings and animals Is one of degree an<J
the United States. Their pur
not of kind. In animals Instinct plays in
chases
from other industries total Phone 474 624 N. Riverside Ave
a much larger part than It does In approximately
one and three quarter On Highway—Medford, Oregon
people.—Pathfinder Magazine
billion dollars annually.
“Each year they pay out over
The Selfish Sex
“Women are such selfish creatures! three billion dollars in wages, which
There was an extra chop at breakfast expenditures, passing through regu
and my wife Insisted upon my eating lar channels of trade, are an import
It. It was all because she wanted to ant factor in sustaining both business
revel In the satisfaction of self-denial. and manufacturing. In the instance
A case of pure selfishness.’’
of coal the railroad’s purchases are
"And what did you do?"
“Oh. I let her have her own way equivalent to providing means of
and I ate the chop. You won’t find support for one out of every four
tnuny husbands as Indulgent as I am.” miners in the country.
H ow D e w Is Form ed
—Boston T ranscript
Has a Boiling Lake
The Grande Soufrière, of which the
chief feature Is the remarkable Boll
ing lake. In the West Indian island of
Dominica. Is but little known even to
the Islnnders who are constantly re
minded of Its presence, says Nature
Magazine. Clouds of steam Indicate
where It lies In the mountains, and to
[ Roseau, the Island's port, the deto-
! nations from Its steam vents proclaim
! Its close proximity. It Is only six
miles from the town aa the crow file*,
buf until an air route Is established
man must foot It over a difficult and
even dangerous mountain trail.
W e A re M a n u fa ctu rers o f
DOORS, SCREENS, WINDOWS AND SASH,
WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES, MOULD
INGS, CABINETS OF ALL KINDS
Our Constant Aim is to Keep Our Quality and Prices
Absolutely Right. Do Not Order r rom Out-of-Town
Concerns Before Letting Us Figure on Your Bill.
TROWBRIDGE CABINET WORKS
Medford
A MODERN MILL
Oregon
Courage Crowning Virtue
Courage is a gem of the first water.
Ita association is with the brave and
noble. Its contrast Is the coward and
his meanness. It Is the virtue that
makes the difference between a true
man and one living below the line of
his privileges.
Cournge means something more than
bravery. Bravery belongs to the bat
tlefield. but courage moves tn quiet
places and grows like the ferns, rather
In the shade. It takes grit to he cour
ageous. It is more telling than thrill
Ing.—London Tlt-Blts.
Lovers of horses, and there are
many In the countr^, read with pleas
ure the news that a saddle horse sold
for $25.000 at the recent horse show
In Kansas City. Of course the ani
mal was a thoroughbred, a three-
year-old, flvegalted animal, prize
winner In the sweepstakes class where
many other heautiftil and well-trained
horses were shown. It was a royal
honor this young animal won. and It
was a royal price he brought, the
highest price, horse historians claim,
ever paid for a saddle horse In Amer
ica. The sale Illustrates the fact that
men and women do ' love horses, and
H ow W h ale« A re W arn ed
the thousands of visitors at the horse
The simplest and most constant
show there proved the measure of
H ow G host Stories Start
sound tn Nature, the washing of the
Interest when these aristocrats
sea. serves aa a radio beacon to warn
"Haunted house»,“ of which almost public
whales, porpoises, and many fiahe* to every community has had one or more are on view In the show ring.
keep away from the shore and below at some time or another, may he
th« anrface ta rough weather.
simply old untenanted houses or It's all very well to have standards, !
According to Dr. Austin (lark, for houses with loose water piping, ac If we have sense enough to realise
merly naturalist on the nclentlflc ship cording to a theory advanced by water that there are other standards In the
Alhatroaa, “The simple breaking of the company engineer*. Nolee* are fre world and that these other standards !
waves ta of Immense Importance to quently transmitted from one house to may be even better than our own. The
see creatures aa an Index of the dan another when water Is drawn. Vlbra man who Is to sure that his standards '
ger* they are running. In times of I tlons are set up In the pipe ana it the are right, who refuses to Investigate
storm th* repellent Bound Increases, | pipe Is not securely fastened It and other
standard*, usually short changes
and by this they are warned to keep connecting pipe» will hammer against
farther from the shore and farther the Joist or wall The nol*e la most himself, writes Tom Dreler In the 1
perceptible when the water la turned Forhe* Magaalne. The wise man lives
down beneath th* surface."
off quickly and the “watch hammer.” sn experimental life. To him nothing
aa tt Is called, makes considerable Is constant hot change, tie la always j
H ow to T ell T ree'* A g e
willing to try something new or at
The forest service say a that one of racket.—Utility Bulletin.
least to open hi* mind to stortea about j
the chief ways of ascertaining the age j
something new The open-minded '
W h y “ F U a ” la V alu ab U
of a tree Is by counting the whorta of i
tho branches. In some specie* the j The Aia la thè pop Setti# ha* gene man ta the only one who Is growing
whorta are more noticeable than In up In thè world. aays Popolar Science
others, particularly tn the Eastern | Monthly. for turgeon* ere considerine A ccording to the New York World,
whit* pine you will note for each year sertoosly Ita ose a* an aneethetle In some Wall street worker» now wear
th* tree aeta out a whorl of hraorhes thè operatine ro»m. At »a clin ic re the smock, »uch as artista wear The
It hat been possible to stand oft and cently hel<! In Phlladelphla t>r Benn »mock ta a good thing In a land of
rouat anywhere from 3 to 75 years tn Morgan of Chieggo demortstrated If* liberty, equality and fraternity. And
this manner. The whorls come out ose hefore th# Rasiera Society o f An
regularly and leave clear apace* be esthetlata. Oarhon dloxlde. Doctnr It * seist« young >«*• nnd women to
tween each year.- U la not possible to Morgan eiptalnc-*. h '.he n«npo|»on keep their minds «.ft their clothe» and
tell the age so well la broadleaf trees ons aneethetle u«ed by Datore lim-lt on thetr Job«
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THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1926
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I. D. LEWIS, Prop.