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CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN PAGE SIX WHY. Winking Keep* the Eye* in Good Condition Son* people, especially those of a nervous temperament, wink much more 'requently than others. It ha* been estimated that a fast winker will move his eyelids no less than 30,000 times during an ordinary waking day. such a case the eyelids travel about Inches In a day and, should the individual live to the age of fifty, the total distance covered would be about 7.(100 miles. fortunately, it requires no thought to wlcs, since the movement Is quite Instinctive. Just like breathing. A wink is not a long operation and the whole performance occupies only two- fifths of a second. Even when you are reading, the process continues, but I f l s so rapid that you are not conscious of an Interruption. Try to see how long you can go without winking and you will Hud that you cannot hold the eyelids still for any great length of time, writes S. Leonard Rastln In St. Nicholas. As a matter of fact, winking Is a very es sential movement, for by its means, the eyeballs are kept clean and moist The moisture which Is continually be ing passed over the eyes comes from the tear glands, one of which Is situ ated at the Inner corner of each eye. It Is quite easy to see the entrance Into the gland by looking Into a mir ror and gently pulling down the lower Ud of the eye. The opening Is not much larger than a pin point, but it leads to a passage which connects with the nose. It Is on this account that your eyes water so much when you have a cold. la Z'i.000 Why Pupil* Should Be Taught to Read Aloud Most reading Is silent; books, maga- alnes and newspapers are read for the benefit of the reader alone. But there are times when It Is necessary to read aloud, and sometimes a great audience must be brought under the Influence of the written word. Many public speakers who have mastered the art of spoken discourse have never studied the art of reading aloud, so that when they turn, In the midst of their spoken address, to quote from a hook that lies on the desk In front of them or Is held In tbelr hand, their voice at once be comes confused and their utterance trails off Into the incomprehensible. Every public sch ool should teach the good old fnshloned art cf reading •loud. The teacher should Insist on the head being held well up, the enun ciation clear, the delivery brisk with out undue rapidity, and the tone In telligently modulated. No pupil thus taught will fall to he grateful for the training In after year*.— Providence Journal. W hy W e Clink Glasses Roman gladiators were accustomed to d.ink a glass of wine before fight ing. Two glasses of wine were brought by frlenda of one or the other gladia tor. and to guard against treachery through the poisoning of the wine In one of the glasses the gladiators would pour the wine from one glass Into the other until It was thoroughly mixed. Later It became a mere custom to show a friendly aplrlt between per» ns drinking together, and when the dan ger of poisoned wine was past the actual act of pouring the wine from one glass to another was changed to merely touching the glasses together. W hy Latin Waa Dropped The difficulty found In speaking Latin was the same ns that- o f old English Sentences In Latin and old English were very long, sometimes as long a* a long paragraph. Men spoke In sentence» of 400 and 500 word». While one spoke all other* had to sit by and listen until he had finished. Today It ha» been decided that a aentence should not last longer than at! second* or contain more than 13 or 10 word*. W hy One Gets Seasick Seasickness Is due to the effect of swells or long rolls of the see upon the internal esr. IVhat are called Ihe semi circular canal* o f the Internal ear are certain space* tilled with fluid. Thee set a* a spirit level to determine our place In space The pronounced movements of the ship on a railing sea make undue demands upon these organs and the symptoms of seasick ness develop. W hy Horaeah*« I* Lucky Anything In the shape of a crescent has always been considered s thing te bring luck. It Is made of Iron, and since early times Iran has been a good luck metal and, English mythol ogy having always held the horse to bo a lucky animal, tbo combination of the crescent, the Iron and the horse ha* become a lucky emblem W hy A ir Look* Blu« The air between you and the hills Is Ailed with countless particle* of dust and ether thing* (nd what you asm la pot li u- mils, nut the reflection of SCHOOL ANNUALS ON the sun's ray* from the little particles HICH SALE In the air. the color being due to the angle at which the light from the sun strikes the particles and to the char Several o f this year’s high school acter of the particles. annuals were le ft at this o ffice fo r sale at $1.00 each. Come quickly, W hv C a c tu s Ha* Holes while they last. Sclent'st* do not scree upon this subject. An explanation generally ac JU LY 4 TH E W R O N G D A T E cepted 1« that the cactus does not r*- celve cno'-g'i nourishment to support Historically, it is all wrong to cele sol'd wood. The holes represent an brate the nation’s birthday on July economv of nature. 4, Prof. W alter Whittlesey o f Prince ton University says. The “ Contin ental Congress” voted fo r indeepnd- Oxen are used extensively for pack- ence July 2 and drew up the Declar | Ing In Venezuela and Colombia They ation. Then a professional penman are slow hut sure and pack more than prepared the document. It was not a heavy mule. An ox will navigate with a burden something near 400 signed until August 2, and then only pounds, as against for a pack by 40 or 41 members o f Congress, mule. They are also ridden in both Whittlesey discovers. The remaining countries. In Ecuador they raft live 15 or 16 signed later. oxen, the process being as follows: What July 4 does commemorate, They take a long dugout and lash the professor believes, it the publi poles across It and tie the horns of cation o f John Dunlap’s famous bill four oxen to the end of each pole until about 32 oxen are In place; then board poster o f the Declaration o f they catch the tide going down the Independence which drew American river and get an early start. Men and foreign support to the Revolu stand In the canoe and prod the oxen tion. and with the current they do about Maybe so, but wrong or right the 12 miles per hour, usually arriving at words "Fourth o f July” have a thrill the slaughter-house at Guayaquil iu the early afternoon, having done 80 to and an appeal all their own that can not now be transferred to any other 100 miles. They also bring them to the slaugh day. ter-house by small steamers from the o----------- must ports. The way they are loaded House fo r Sale Is hy slipping a noose around the C loie in, large lot, $200 cash; horns and pulling Mr. Ox up by the $300 terms, i f taken at once. In neck and the way they are unloaded Is by making them Jump from the quire at this offic e . deck Into the water and swim ashore. This Is done at all the small ports of FOR S A L E — C IT Y LOTS South America and In the river at 2 lots, good location, best soil Guayaquil.— Edgar Young. In Adven in town, fenced fo r garden, priced ture Magar.lne. right. Inquire at this office. tf How South American* U*e Oxen in Packing -~H \ F or Hire— Ford roadster truck— 75c day, 3.50 week. How Radio Photos Come Mr C. Francis Jenkins, Inventor of radio telephony, gives the following explanation of the making and de veloping of radio photographs: “ At the London end radio signals are sent hy means of a photo-electric cell which convert* the light values of the photograph Into electric current This modulated electric current la then put on a radio carrier wave which is picked up In the United Slates. The Incoming radio signals operate on an Ink pen which puta dota of different sizes on a white piece of paper. The grouping of these dots, and the size of them, makes up the picture some what similar to the half-tone dots of Ihe Illustrations In the newspaper, which dots can easily be seen under a reading glass." Found- A sum o f money. Cell, prove property, pay f o r this notice and get money. The American does all kinds of printing. If it can be printed— we can do il. " T e x fo r P ro - T E X - io n ” kinds o f Insurance. for all " T e x fo r P ro - T E X - io n ” kinds o f Insurance. for all THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1926 THE I LARGEST CHECK W R IT T E N E V E R | S U M M E R When the business and good will I o f the Dodge Brothers, motor car j manufacturers, was recently absorb- | ed by another corporation, it took a ! 46-million dollar check, the largest i dheck ever written. The check was ; issued by the New York banking house o f Dillon Read and company. ! It now is included in a valuable col lection o f “ money” owned by Far- ran Zerhe and it has been on display at the Chase National bank, New | York. Mr. Zerbe began collecting money he could not spend when he was 10 years old. . . England pays us large sums in squaring her war debt, but most o f it is done through buying Liberty bonds. Eng land’s chancellor o f the exchequer being forehanded enough to buy them when they were below par. MAY END A L L FROSTS IN 4 STATES The predicted freak summer is here. Four o f the six N i\ r England states reported white frosts in mid- June which blasted farm and garden crops, only Maine and Vermont es caped. W e are to have two to three years o f freak weather because o f cyclones on the sun, creating enor mous holes in its molten atmosphere, iarge enough to drop in several worlds the size o f this one. These holes are what our astronomers call sun spots. Brick Ice Cream at D emon’ s. EDNA M E R R IT T — P IA N IS T E Graduate O. A. C. Conservatory of Music Instruction $1.00— 45-minute lesson GERM DISE ASE S Big animals eat smaller ones and the smaller ones feed on those still smaller. Now the famous Pasteur Institute o f Paris, finds the same law applies to the invisible world o f germs. There are bacteria-eaters which eat other germs, only these eaters, called “ bacteriophages,” are much smaller than the germs they slaughter and feed on by thousands. The experts hope to find a way to sic ’em on to the germs responsible fo r most o f the ills o f men. That would do a great deal to make health “ ketching.” It. was the great Pas teur, by the way, who first evolved the germ theory o f disease. — to meet every requirement in U N IO N CHURCH dry-cleaning is our claim for your Title o f Sunday School lesson: “ The Resurrection and Commission.” This is one o f the most practical les sons which we have had in the book o f Matthew. T ry to be with us in the class study Sunday morning. Miss Helen J. Carlton will bring the message in the morning service; and Mr. Edson Randall will be the messenger in the evening service. Rev. Johnson, Pastor. Unfailing Care patronage. With fine workman ship such as to impress your favor . . . though our charges are only standard. CITY CLEANING AND DYEING CO. W A N T E D TO T R A D E — Good town property fo r small, improved Mrs. P. A. Bonney is assisting *n tract o f land near Central Point. “ W E A R E N O T SA TISFIE D the Thiess store while Miss Rose Inquire at this office. 4p UNLESS YO U A R E ” Neale is taking a short vacation. Dona Morton, who has been at How Waves A re Measured Phone 474 624 N. Riverside A ve Joe Collins, local wheat raiser o f Medford hospital, suffering from By menns of a specially constructed On Highway— Medford, Oregon camera, the exact length and height of Central Point, shipped two carloads typhoid fever, returned home Mon day much improved in health. ocean waves have at last been meas o f wheat to Portland this week. ured. Ordinary waves are from 6 to 12 fpet Crater Lake National Park Ranger j high. In a high sea they may rise to Ray Henderson, and Mrs. Henderson 27 feet, or In a violent gale to 36 feet. The length of the largest waves, from I were in the valley Monday, fo r a crest to crest, I* said to be 900 feet, I short visit. and It take* 20 seconds for one wave House f o r Rent— F ive rooms, close to replace another. i. Inquire at this offic e . The tidal wave that followed the Lisbon earthquake of 1775 was 60 feet high, and a tidal wave off Peru once 5-acre tract fo r sale, good toil, lifted a ship clean over a church and plenty water in dry years at low rate, left It r mile Inland. well drained, ^ - m i l e from Grants JESSE L. RICH ARD SO N Pats on state highway. Land values \ Buy Ice from Central Point Feed Store How to Keep Brushes increasing, good market for straw A paint brush can he kppt In per berries. etc. $1200 cash i f taken fect condition by placing It. when not soon. Address P. O. Box 173, C en In nee. In a covered oil-tight tin con tral Point. taining enough raw linseed oil to cover the bristle*. A slot Is cut In the lid with a chisel to take the handle of the brush, and a nail Inserted In a hole bored through the brush handle DANGER ZONE OF SNAKE holds Ihe brush suspended In the oil. HAS BEEN DETERMINED.— —Popular Science Monthly. "The danger zone about a rattle snake on a warm day in the How to Tell Basswood open extend* In all directions Basswood can he distinguished from for a distance equal lo the length yellow poplar hy the following char of the snake.” This statement acteristics : It t* pale creamy brown la made hy Joseph Dixon In Na In color, while the heartwood of yel ture Magazine. With one ex low poplar usually Is greenish yellow ception. saya IMxon, "I have Ish brown In color. Basswood also not found a rattlesnake that has a characteristic odor, which Is not could strike more than half hi* pronounced, but It I* easily recognized length nnle»* colled and ready In whittling the wood, while yellow to strike." The writer describe» poplar Is practically odorless. Ihe exception referred lo : "Up on being routed out the snake tried to escape into the open, How Hay la Measured but wa* headed off. lie wna a Measuring hay In the barn depends Partite rattlesnake and this waa somewhat upon the kind of hay. Ihe on the floor of King* Itlver can depth of the hay and the length of yon A moment later, when the time It has been stored It Is safe to snake waa not railed, but crawl count approximately 312 cubic feet Ing along at a lively gait, my for a abort ron This refers to hay shadow happened to fall on the that la well settled. ground directly |n front of the now thoroughly angry reptile. C H R IST IA N CHURCH Without stopping to rail the snake doubi.-l quickly hack and Sunday school 10 a. m. Preaching •truck so violently at my shadow services I I a. n . and 8 p. m. Christ that he reached out for nearly ian Endeavor 7 p. m. Preaching hi* entire length o f »lightly le»» services both morning and evening than 30 Inches. From where I by the Rev. I. G. Shaw. Mr*. J. K. Weaver. S. S. Supt.: was standing I could see. as did Mr* J. O. Isaacson. Supt. o f P ri several other*, that not more mary Dept.; Mr*. A1 Hermanaon. than four Inches remained on Supt, o f Cradle Roll Pen t.; Mr*. G. the ground when it struck at my C. McAllister. Pres, o f I-adies’ C ir shadow ” cle; Bernice Shaw. Pres. C. E .; Mrs. Warner, Choir Director. Rev. Shaw. Pastor. Central Point "YO U R FACE Oregon IS GOOD, B U T IT W O N ’T GO IN TH E CASH REGISTER HOW= Big Reduction in Tire Prices 10 to 20 per cent BEEBE & K INDLE