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fto 6 the georgetown herald wednesday evening february 2rl 1938 see the new de luxe ford v8 here now for 1938 ford introduces two cars a full fane of deluxe can entirely new in ap pearance powered by the economical ford v8 en gine and at a stall lower once a newly styled stan dard ford v8 equip ped with famou ford v8 power plant see this superb- new deluxe ford v8 here today its big its luxurious fenders are deep and massive the style strikingly different interior appointments are nch its a luxury car in all but price this new ford v8 adds deluxe elegance to the quality car in the lowprice field come in today get complete details from us about both the greatnew ford v8 cars for 1s38 good usepicars 1936 deluxe sedan 1936 deluxe coach 1932 ford coach 193s ford truck several other lowpriced cars aecripps dealer in ford cars trucks and tractors phone 280 georgetown qisnapshot cuili i check up on yourself do your summer prints show the cam this ona doss t daft framing of foliage judicious placing of figures strong shadows agai bri high lights and full axpoaura for shadow detail r will trtmnrmgbtm as trimming on ths whtts llnshslpa balance tnls picture when you make a mistake do you note it down so you can avoid it in the future ifs a help ful i in many badnesses it is also a ood time tor the amateur camera man attar a busy summer to take stock of himself and bis work are yon improv are yoa aa lac better pictures now than joa were six months or a year ago and u not why not if perchance yoa arent improv log aa rapidly and steadily as yoa think yon should ill venture thlsta the reason you area t- studying your mistaken the first spare hour you have why dont you collect all your earn mer prints and single out those that are bad the portraits made in tarsh sunlight with no provision for che shaded side of the face the landscapes with dead foregrounds and no framing of trees or foliage b prints that show blank white jsi f skies without donas or tons recall the scene and then write down on the back of each print what your should have done to make the picture good if you have a blank sky or very thin dovds note down that yon should have used a fitter xtaportmkag no detail on the gy side ndta that you should javre natd rejector near the face tin that aide even if it was only a swiss watchmaker first to use jewel bearings before the year 1704 the pivot holes in watches were just holes drilled in the brass of the move ment a framework in that year notes a writer in the washington post nicolas facio a swiss watchmaker working irr lon don patented the idea and practice of using a piece of hard stone with a drilled and polished hole in it for a bearing for a pivot these were at first used only at the balance pivots but the advan tages of jeweling were so- evident that it soon became custornary to jewel some of the train holes in the best qualities of timepieces the direct advantages of jeweled pivot holes are two the bearing is more durable and the pivot runs with less friction the first named advantage is due to the hardness of the stone and the second is due to the fact that hard stone takes o higher polish than soft metal can take for the better grade of watches jewels are made of ruby and sap phire in the less expensive watches garnet is the material most gener ally used because it is so much softer and hence less costly to work to shape when synthetic corundum ruby and sapphire material was intro duced for the manufacture of gem stones for a very long time manu facturers of watches hesitated to adopt it tor making jewels w the meantime giving the new material thorough trials in practical use the result of these trials was to satisfy the most conservative that synthetic sapphires and rubies are equal to natural stones in every quality called for in watchwork and synthetic stones are used prac tically to the exclusion of the nat ural as raw material m the jewel making trade nearly all of the watch hole jewels used in all countries are made in switzerland pallet stones and roll er jewels are generally made in each factory for its own watches uncle sara name given to grant at west point president grant was named hi- tam ulysses but by a curious error he became known in history as ulysses simpson grant when he was about seventeen years old he received his appointment to west point military academy through congressman thomas l hamer grant had been familiarly known by his middle name and hamer who was sufficiently acquainted with him to know that gave the young candidate s name as ulysses s grant simpson was the maiden name of his mother and also was borne by one of his younger broth era this circumstance according to a writer in tl e cleveland plain dealer was probably the origin of the error grant applied to the west point authorities and idter to the secre tary ol war to hae the error cor rected but somehow t uns never done he did not press the miller and his associates at west point promptly adopted the in hals u s and called him uncle sam a nickname he retained to some ex tent in the army he was gratiuat ed in 1843 and his comrn ssion ind diploma both styled 1 i ulysses s grant by which nai n he wdb al ways afterward known grant was born at point pleasant clermont county oh o april 27 1822 king is father the word king orir nally was the anglosaxon cymr g from cyn meaning a tr be and ing meaning belonging to in ancient times says pearson s london week ly families were grouped into clans clans into tribes tribes into nations and each tribe or ootion hod a head or father gradually the word cyning merged into king and queen comes from a greek word meaning woman which is equivalent to mother sheet of cardboard or a white picnl cloth spread in the sun if a landscape is dead anlrte tt and recall the scene maybe by back tusue or moving to one aide yoa eom have toctuded a grace fullycurving tree branch fairly close to the camera to give the picture depth and a natural frame muyb by a change of position you could have included a path orahedgathat would lead the eye gradually across and into the picture write on the back of the print what you should have done maybe you have child pictured in which background are motueif an i confused sticking up fn rmii t ik i w fashion behind the subjeut anotl r background a change of vl wjwint might have made each plcturo r feet write down what you sh mid have done after you have noted these mla takes don t just stick the prints away and forget tbemjliajhom a a reference file take a few out u your picturemaking jaunts and 1 mlndfato them when new plclur chances arise learn what you do wrongdecide how to do k right think before you hoot here is one of the secrets of picturemaking success i john van guilder ferocious baboon the hamadryas baboon which hails from northern africa and ara bia is one of th toughest custom ers in the animal kingdom ac cording to a writer in the washing tqn post sullen and ferocious it travels in packs eats anything it can capture and kill even lions evade battle wit i them the egypt- ians dedicated this animal to their god thoth who stood for letters invention and wisdom but just why nobody seems to know harbor seal best known of all marine mammals one of the best known and most frequently seen of all marine mam mala is the harbor aeal this ia so because it has the widest geograph ic range of eny seal it is found in the pacific from the coast of japan north of siberia and south along the american coast to lower california writes colin campbell danborn in field museum news in the at lantic it occurs from about new york to greenland arid from spain through the jfeittsh isles to the scandinavian peninsula a coast in habiting- species it iives in fords and near rocky points islets and sand bars often it enters the larg er rivers and bays its appearance in these latter places frequently as much as a hundred miles from the sea accounts for its having been named harbor seal it was de scribed and pictured by writers and artists as early as fiie middle of the sixteenth century the harbor seal is the smallest member of the family phocidae which comprises the true or earless seals in these the hind flippers form functionally part of the tail and are useless for progression on land harbor seals never exceed six feet in length large ones weigh between eighty and one hundred pounds they do not gather in such large herds aa other species seldom are more than twenty five found together they are also less migratory usually living in the same place throughout the year if weather and food conditions permit a few come south along the new england coast each winter the coats of harbor seals are ex tremely varied in color the fur of some is uniformly yellowish gray or dark gray others have the yellow ish coat with irregular dark spots or the dark coat with yellowish spots gypsies count in greek speak many greek words- the fact that gypsies all over the world count in greek and use nu merous greek words further sub stantiates the theory of their early arrival in the balkan region for seven eight nine ten gypsies say efta ofto enea deca in macedonia at this period also were numerous phoenician and egyptian slaves who worked in alexander s arsenals undoubtedly the gypsies inter married to some extent with the egyptians notes a writer in the chicago tribune and when their descendants later set forth on their wanderings still trying to forget their miserable days in india they told people that they were from egypt their tendency toward sleightof hand fortune telling and other magic which europeans asso ciated with egypt undoubtedly gave them their most usual name of gypsies pharons from pharaohs is another of their appellations their association with rumanians probably accounts for the names rom and romany so frequently ap plied to them other names for gypsies are gitanos zinganes ca los bohemians tziganes zigeuner czigany duck hawk is speedy the duck hawk is the american version of the peregrine falcon of the falcon hunting days of old its speed has been developed through centuries of pursuit for food no bird is safe from this feathered de stroyer sharp cruel beak and tal ons phis speed make it almost cer tain death for any other bird no matter what the size of the prey it kills for pure love of slaughter dropping like a plummet on a flock of smaller birds striking again and again then winging off without even touching its kills the couonmoath moccasin the cottonmouth moccasin is one o the most venomous of united states shakes it gets its name from the cotton white inner lining of its mouth found in southeastern states it is a cannibal eats other snakes in captivity it outlives all other snakes though its poison kills when injected by the snake that same venom is used to combat a blood disease of humans called haemophilia which is uncon trolled bleeding rivers belong to states where they are located rivera are the property of the states in which they are located the limited jurisdiction of the fed eral government over navigable streams is merely incidental to its constitutional power ao regulate and improve navigation for interstate and foreign commerce when a river forms the boundary between two stages the title of each- state is presumed to extend to the middle of the main channel pro vided there is no legal arrange ment to the contrary sometimes two states agree for police pur poses to exercise concurrent- juris diction over a river which forms the boundary between them the ohio chattahoochee and po tomac rivers are notable exceptions to the general rule kentucky and west virginia have absolute juris diction over the entire ohio river along their shores as far as the low water mark on the ohio indi ana and illinois banks if a per son commits a crime on that river near the illinois indiana or ohio shore he is amenable to the laws of kentucky or west virginia this boundary line has been judicially recognized many times by the su preme court of the united states and the supreme courts of the states uwolved the northwest territory from which illinois indiana and ohio were carved was ceded to the fed eral government in 1784 by the com monwealth of virginia the resolu tion of cession retained title and jurisdiction over the ohio river to the low water mark on the northern bank and these rights were trans mitted to kentucky and weat vir ginia when they were later formed from virginian territory donner lake named for party of 46 emigrants lying high near the summit of the sierras in california is donner lake named for an ill fated emi grant party headed by george don ner which suffered pnvatiomnd even death in its attempt to the mountains toward the pacific in the fail and winter of 1846 donner s party formed in july consisted of 87 person 36 men 21 women and 30 children their wag on train was delayed by hardships encountered in crossing the nevada desert it was not until lata octo ber that it began the ascent of the sierras early snows impeded its progress the way was blocked completely when the party reached the shores of the lake which now hears its name through tiie long winter the emi grants fought starvation and dis ease many perishing before help reached them in the spring- a monument on the shores of donner lake is dedicated to the memory of those who suffered and died on its shores ctoss haoooinnuiks a mile the measurement to which we usually refer by this name is what can be more particularly called the statute mile it equals eight fur longs each of 220 yards or 5 280 feet in all there is another mile the geographical or nautical this mile is one sixteenth of a degree of lautude or 6 085 feet the word comes to us from the latin word mille meaning a thousand says london answers magazine the roman mile was 1 000 paces they measured a pace as the distance between the points where the same heel came down in making a stride the roman pace which we should regard as two paces was reckoned at about five feet this made the roman mite 5 000 feet noticeably shorter than the mile measurement we use today black drink used by indiana there is considerable question as to whether the north american tribes knew alcohol before it was introduced by the whites but they were familiar with some quiteef fective substitutes among them was a brew of the leaves of acextoin species of holly which is common in the southeast this was the cele brated black drink of thestus- kogeans a foul tasting concoction with a real intoxicating effect boone kept coffin under bed when daniel boone the indian hunter and pioneer died oftseptem bee 2fl 1820 he was buried near marthasville mo in the coffin which during his lifetime he had kept under his bed twenty five years later says the digest his bones were- transferred to frankfort cultivated before 1519 the mexicans had cultivated the dahlia before the spaniards arried in 1519 but it was about 300 years later in 1791 that the plants ap peared in europe at the botanic gardens in madrid spain the new er forms have all been brought about since the year 1800 the na tive mexican name of the dahlia was acocotli which means water pipe and its present name is in honor oltbe famous spajustiibot anist dr andreas daml ancient hygiene while methods of disease trans mission are discoveries of recent years the mosaic laws made pro vision against transmission that are similar to our own hut go a long long way further a person who touched an unclean animal or thing caught the uncleanness and had to wash himself and his clothing in running water somexfimes the pl lasting for many days san marino legend says san marino on the eastern shore of upper italy was founded in the fourth century by st mannus of dalmatia its total area is 38 square miles its known history begins in 885 a d by the tenth century san marino had launched its republic the monte- feltro family and the papacy pro tected it once it was captured by caesar borgia but soon regained freedom napoleon recognized its independence garibaldi great ital- lian patriot fled to san marino on his first retreat and there disbanded his army yellowstone largest park largest bark in the united states is yellowstone it exceeds in size the state of delaware is mostly in wyoming but extends into montana and idaho its creation as a park at the suggestion of a montana businessman cornelius hedges in 1870 was the start of our national parks system almost beyond belief are its natural wonders and indeed early explorers who reported boil ing springs geysers were called liars sick or half alck animals are a drag on your efforts to make farming pay it ta comparatively simple- to pre vent your stock from getting many of the ailments that lay them up or lesse their market value a few daya treatment with pearsons condition powder will do wonders for it ia a tested and proven spec ific for keeping faxnismlmala in prime condition o c p condition powder a jvjpealga nbak you s dreg store georgetown radio repairing we specialize on tibs work j sanfard son gkobobtowif w the sliitpeby stane wade canny thro this weary worl an pick your steps wi care neer wi your neebors quarrel but aye do what is fair folks fa an never rise again wha never fell before for there s aye a muckle slippy stane al ilka bodys door gin your neebor chance to slip ye maunna pass him by but len a ban an help him up dlnna let him he the case may some time be youd aln tho ye hne wealth in store for there s aye a muckle slippy stane at ilka bodys door there a slippy stane where ex ye gang at palace cot a ha an ye maun watch an no gang wrang or owre they ye may fa for emperors an kings hae fa en an nobles many a score for there s aye a muckle slippy stane at ilka bodys door selected mrs blue how do you control i your husband while you are away mrs black i leave the baby with him fifty years ago o much water to grow sugar as about 4i000 tons of water are required to grow one ton of sugar some of the cane fields in the less rainy sections of the hawaiian is lands are obliged to maintain ex tensive and costly irrigation sys tems says collier a weekly one of these sugarcane plantations uses throughout the summer about half as much sara terjas is consumed dur ing the same period in the city of philadelphia fifty years ago when the ortanlsetl ilkbt against tuberculosis started about 300 penoni out of every 10ooo0 then ii tin died annually from uus disease today in canada only so persons are dying of tuberculosis out of every 100 000 and ithe demth rate is steador declining it the same number of persona in proportion to populauon were dying from tuborealosistonuiet- be in ontariolasttywrthor wrcl s27 loathe from tuberculosis a death rste nf loss than 3fl per 100 ooo population wh prol owj sod or more ilhrtng victims of this disease within the prov loon tbo saddest part is that more uisn half otlhoeo who die or now suffer trom this disease ara young people ta the prime productive period off life in spite or the strolagposu facuiuca offered the public t and the irnnroted methods employed it la stul true that ontr 1w pr torium admissions are foundtone in the oarly stages of tha disease toa means lost fartbo many unrecognised oases ara o o reisti itotskoln and the eaa hary oonsnmpute ouutran srsavrss