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",., # .,,>V r -A 7«- -- - ' -«r mmm 'C-¥ SWtT IN AL FIRE u¥ farmers RarelyHit the Mar- Wtth ff„i- 3 ply of Porkert. <%»;• br tk* United StttM PtpMfWt •C A|rt«iUart.) It to not news to the American farmer that the hog Industry in this counfar back as its history runs, has a cylindrical character. Every hog raiser knows that his business la j |i(UWri by violent apt and downs that rin loss to him, and extra expense everyone that sells, buys, handles, " •tores or consumes pork products. So . periodic are the movements of the ,.fcog cycle that economists can forecast them with something of the same Confidence with which astronomers calculate the orbit of a comet or predict ;«sn edipse. VVhat the farmer wants to know . .^beut the hog cycle is not so much , low it works; he knows that to hla r:. He wants to know what can done about it. That is not such «n idle question now as it might iiave Ijbemed a few years ago. Studies made gfecently by the United States Depart- Sient of Agriculture into the nature •If hog cycles have brought out the ^positive declaration,not only that the fjycle can be eliminated, but that it * 4San be eliminated by the American log producer, without the co-operation :/if producers In any other put ofthe World. Worth Studying. On the face of it a proposition like 4vV>at aiiould be worth studying. With Xjjog production swinging in a fairly Regular alternation from over to underproduction, farmers practically %ver hit the market just right with their hogs. At one stage they have litany bogs to sell and make but Small profit or perhaps suffer a loss an them. At another stage they have fut few hogs to sell, and this is al- \j#ays when liogs are bringing the highfist prices. Any practical method of gauging hog production and marketing in such a way as to level out the ' peaks and depressions of the market Would be as good as a gold mine to Hfce American farmer. The possibility of regulating the ^og cycle, according to economists in ^ #ie Department of Agriculture, lies In Yflhe fact .that this country dominates '4he world's hog market. The United ' .States has as many .hogs as all Eufope. American liog production contributes nearly two-thirds of the sup- Xi»y of hog products entering Into international trade. It therefore dominates hog prices even though the mar- Het In which those prices are made |p world-wide. Steadier production in this country, besides eliminating the • pastes Inseparable from uneven production, would tend to establish the , .hog Industry on a stable basis in «very country where it is functioning a commercial scale. =£ Make Industry More Stable. ' Economists In the Department of Agriculture believe that the hog industry coo'd be made more stable If producers would drop their present method of ganging their production plans on the basis of current corn and hog prices, and instead base their breeding operations upon the official outlook statement issued perMBcally by the Department of Agrfiaattare. That may look like Ml invitation to speculate. It is really a proposal that the speculative element. width la large In „ the Hog business atiyway, should be eUatfaated as Iter as possible. The present alternation of overproduction Ad underproduction 2n the bog Industry results from the farmer's practice of looking at the current market prices for corn and hogs when he haa to decide how many sows to breed. ' This plan falls to allow for th« time that must pass before the rOsuits of breeding decisions thus made will be felt in a larger or smaller movement of hogs to market. The number of hogs on the market at any given time is not adjusted to the price conditions then existing, because the amount of the supply was determined months previously on the conditions preva^g at that time. Here is where the hog cycle starts. Boosting production when prices are at their peak and cutting it down heavily when they are low means a bog supply nearly always too large of too small, since price conditions almost invariably change before changes in breeding policies have their effect in an Increased or lessened supply of hogs. If the farmer could know what prices will rule when the hogs from the sows they are breeding will be ready for market, they could better adjust the supply of bogs to the demand. They could diminish the ups and downs of production that are the bane of the hog Industry. Economists In the Department of Agriculture hnve worked out a method of forecasting hog prices whtcli has been thoroughly tested, and which makes It possible for the trend of the hog market to be foreseen far enough ahead and with enough general accuracy to give the farmers a better and safer basis for gauging production than they can ever get from watching the currant markets. Fbmnon Find the Boy on Floor at Fmi Alter &«f Patient*, j Engtewood. N. J.--Fifty patients were- carried safely from a biasing hospital recently while a substitute office boy enacted the role of hero in true movie stylo. The boy is fifteen-year-old John Macrls, who was sitting at the hospital switchboard when flames shot out of the X-ray room. A nurse told him to stick by his plugs aa long as he could, so that all wards might be notified of the fire. John is a sticker. Half an hour later when the patients, most of them surgical cases •nd helpless, bad been removed from tlio building, and all the volunteer Wheat Hay Not Favored for Feeding Dairy Cows Wheat hay contains a little more digestible nutrients than oat hay. It contains more carbohydrates, hence is not quite so desirable for dairy cows and growing stock. A mixture of oat and wheat should make very fair horse hay. It would have about the. same feeding value as timothy. Any green crop should be cut tor hay when the kernels are in the milk stage. It is not difficult to cure in good weather, but It is difficult to get such a crop put up without getting more or less dirt in it from the field, as these crops do not form a sod as do the^permanent grasses, like timothy and bromus. Cure as yon would timothy. A little more time is required. SPRAYING POTATOES IS MOST : PROFITABLE, STATES EXPERT ^Bordeaux Mixture Properly Applied Is Best Plan. ., Tests made each year on a series - ^f from four to twenty plots of Irish '.potatoes during the past ten years ^ .llhow that it pays to spray this crop -\-?-<ior most profitable yields. r *V' During the years from 1916 to 1020, « series of six tests was conducted at ' Various places in eastern Carolina on "j 5 - the early crop by Dr. R. W. Leiby, . '#f the North Carolina experiment sta- (ion staff. In this section the pota- ^•-•'loes are hurried to maturity, being ' fdanted early and heavily fertilised. jHere the most important factor is v ^ the potato beetle, though early blight : Ct Occasionally attacks the vines and bills ."before the potatoes are ready to hartest. In each of the tests, certain 'f2:'v-^ows were sprayed, some were dusted 4knd others were left untreated as a Srheck. In checking his results. Doctor Leiby found that where the vines per acre. In dry seasons, Doctor Leiby also secured good results with dusting, using ofie part of lead arsenate to six parts of finishing lime. Doctor Leiby says, "Aa a rule it Is safest to uae the poisoned bordeaux mixture at leaat in the last two applications, though the first application may be a dust. Our experience shows the grower should not spray sparingly, but must use enough material to cover all parts of the vine thoroughly. This will require front 100 to 125 gallons of liquid per acre. Any grower can secure the good results that we did if he will use a good bordeaux mixture and efficient spraying machinery." w Jvprayed with the poisoned bordeaux r ^mixture the yield was at the rate of f 144 bushels per acre. Where the , 1 vines were not so treated, the yield fe^^jfcraB only 70 bulbels per acre. This a gala from spraying of 74 Increased Consumption Seen in Milk and Cream ^ Consumption of milk and cream haa fy been steadily increasing In the United t, ^ jStstes for a number of years, reports ti; the Department of Agriculture, which PS- ""estimates consumption at 52,772,000,- pr '. <000 pounds in 1824 compared with 50,- %.440,000 pounds In 1923. The larger part of the Increase was In consumption of cream, and all of the increase was In cities inasmuch as ^ consumption on farms was assumed to t>e the same as In 1923. L' The Increase, says the department,'^ • • la due to improvement in quality of | product, delivery In sanitary containft- ers, and a general increase in knowledge of the value of milk in the diet, the result of milk campaigns and spe- . clal advertising. v T h e a v e r a g e p e r c a p i t a c o n s u m p t i o n f " • for the country as a whole last year A was 64.75 gallons compared with 53 * gallons In 1923. Dally average per 'capita consumption la estimated at 1-2 1 pints, being .951 of a pint In cities, and pints on farms. ^ ; j Hie figures are based upon reports • / from boards of health of 354 cities having an aggregate population of 35,- S0S£96 people. The quantities of f cream reported were converted Into % milk equivalent and added to the milk - 'to securing the total used for boose- BQnMMi . Cheap Feed for Hogs • feed shortage for hogs, mainly of corn, is a present problem of real importance to most farmera. Even with farmers who have plenty of corn the present and advancing market for corn is likely to take most of it to market All this means that any crop which will help to supply cheap feed for hogs until the 1925 corn crop is ready to harvest will tend to give hog growers more of a dunce to make a profit Deep Soil for Orchard Plant an orchard in deep soil on a high site. Avoid slopes too steep to get over easily with a spraying outfit. Plant clean healthy trees; yoa would not buy a diseased fruit tree? Choose a few varieties adapted to your section, then cultivate low-growing crops among them nntll they are of bearing age. Protect the trees from insects and from disease by spraying. Every thistle cot this year msans a lot less next year. • • • Undo Ab says when dollars begin to get scarce Is a good time to save l/rtfCJIfriMh Saomi Nf#"-?'-ihillft-l&BNJped by flamli ta' their gfth-floor bpartmeat, Edward Koffenberg Ufa td rescue natil firemen had taken his invalid wife to safety. The couple are each sixty-five years old. Koffenberg, with escape eat off by way of the stairs, was crouched on the fire escape when the firemen arrived, under command of Captain Relgh. An aerial ladder waa run up, and Firemen Hawkins, Bayard, Biggins and Cook mounted to the level of the fife escape, where Koffenberg . stood silhouetted against the glare of the flames within. It took Hawkins and Bayard but a moment to leap from the ladder to the frail, steel balcony ami then step into the sniokeflHed room, where Koffenberg pointed out his bed-ridden wife. They lifted the woman out and passed her to the two firemen on the ladder,, who carried her down to the street. Then Hawkins and Bayard helped the .husband down, while the crowd in the street clteeVed. CARRIES DEAD BABY IN TRUNK Needy Mother Is Freed Baltimore Coroner. by On the Floor Lay a Form. helpers had been withdraws, a fireman took a last look, just on the chance that some one had been overlooked. Kicks When Rescued. Sure enough, on the floor of the office lay a form, almost obscured by the smoke. At the height of a man's head tlie smoke was thick enough to suffocate one who breathed it The fireman Immediately put his rescue training in use, grabbed the recumbent one's heels and yanked him toward safety. "Lemine go!" bawled John, "Lemme go. I gotta tend the switchboard and I'm just lying on the floor to keep out of the smoke." The fireman explained that the firo was over so far as John was concerned and dragged him out. Only the wooden portion of the hospital was burned. A mother with a day-old babe was one of the patients removed. Jl. club next door was turned over to house the homeless sick ones for the time being. Englewood is discussing a medal or something for John. Hsfttmore, Md.--Having no money 'j to bury her baby when It died in 1919, and not knowing that the city would bury the child for her, Mrs. Mary Urban told Coroner Hennessey that she had placed the body in a trunk and had carried the trunk around with her for nearly five years. Mrs. Urban was arrested In Philadelphia following the finding of the body in the trunk at a boarding house here, where she had left It for a board btll. Coroner Hennessey, on hearing her story, assured that the child died of natural causes, ordered her released. Her husband, Adolph, who now ts In Germany, put the body in the satchel and locked It In the trunk, she said. That was In 1919. Since then, during their frequent movings from place to place, she carried It with her, she •aid. Last May. however, she was forced to leave It because she could not pay a board bill. The trunk was sbandoned by Mrs. Urban, who is a ship stewardess, at a rooming house tin the 700 block of Park avenue, eleven months ago. Mrs. Mary Haas, who recently took over the management of the place, called police to open the trunk Thursday. In It they found some clothes and s handbag. In the handbag was the baby. cattle state. » maay dairy as beef eatUe to Hew Tori Ton like salt with your meals; try It on Tom and Nellie oat in the horse A grsass coating on plowshares and mold board comes off a great deal easier than a rust coating. • • * . * Put a spring-bottom can full of good machine oil on every wheeled lmplement that has a placa to carry one. Creeps Through Fire Bodin Locomotive Furnace Syracuse, N. Y.--Horace Harris, forty, went to sleep about two o'clock In the morning In the firebox of a laid-up locomotive at the Solvay yards of the New York Central railroad. His stint--he is on the railroad payroll as a boiler Inspector--was done for the night. He was tired. It was bitter cold outside, and he figured the firebox provided a comfortable place to snatch a few winks before quitting time. At three o'clock in the morning he was sound asleep. A fireman got on the locomotive, placed oil-soaked waste and other kindling In the firebox and applied a torch. Harris awoke to find himself cut off by a wall of fire. He scrambled through the flames over six feet of burning kindling. Once outside he fainted, and the firemen and other railroad workers beat out the flames enveloping him. He Is In a serious condition in Good Shepherd hospital. Aged Man Fall* Into Bath Tub; I* Drowned Chicago.--While preparing to take his Sunday morning bath, Carl Holmes, eighty-three years old, fell on his face Into the water and was drowned. Holmes lives alone in a rented room at 1218 Melrose street. Town Hall police were called. A few minutes after they had gone to the Melrose street address they were called to 623 Buckingham place, where James Kuchuris, forty-eight years old, had dropped dead of heart disease. Charge* Hu*band Wed Six and Gave Vow to Seventh New York.--Six times wed and ready for a seventh bride--such is the status of Louis Klee, If one accepts the word of his wife, Rose, who has informed the police her husband Is wanted In Cleveland for bigamy. Mrs. Klee No. 1 says she married Louis In 1911 at Bloomlngton, Del., and that after a rather hectic married life he left her, she says, to wed Margaret McKay at Stamford, Conn., in September. 1913. The following year, she states, he married a girl named Helen in Chicago, and in June, 1921, he married a Helen Smith, at Klkton, Md., under the name of Louts Klats. Wife No. 5, she claims, was a Rose Ohlbaum of Cleveland, and there was a sixth whose name she couldn't recall. * After all these marital experiences, Mrs. Rose Klee charges her husband met a pretty New York girl whom he has promised to marry. Klee is In the Tombs in defsult of $3,000 balL MM to Writ* Dupofcfca* Mr. Prank Seadamore, who recounta this delightful story *n his book. "A Sheaf of Memories," is one of the most celebrated of wur correspondents, and, naturally, has had many Interesting experiences. During the Greco-Turkish war ha was watching the opening artillery duet from Inside an important Greek fortress, and when the firing ceased at dark, he and a fellow correspondent sought a quiet spot where they might write their dispatches undisturbed. This was not easy to find, as everyone was so pleased with the results of this first day's work that merry parties were being held all over the place. At last, however, they tamo upon a storeroom of sorts, In which was'- a profusion of great and small cases, and long boxes, together with innumerable bulging sacks. "This," writes Mr. Scudamore, "was obviously the place for aa. We aettied ourselves on a couple of sacks, and placed two candles on another sceh bag that lay between ns. "We had been work lag for, I suppose, a couple of hours, when suddenly s curious noise came from the doorway. I lvOked round. At the entrance stood a Greek officer, his face ghastly white, his eyes dilated, and his lips parted. For a moment I stared st him, perplexed. Then he pulled himself together. *"Mr. Scudamore,' be said In Greek and very quietly, *wlll you bring me that candler I hastened to pick whst was left--It wasn't much--off the sack. " 'And the other,' went on the dull voice. I picked that up also an<i strolled toward him. He seised them both, flung himself back against the wall of the corridor, and laughed long and hysterically. Then, after a moment, be took me by the hand. '"This is the powder magasine,' ha said, 'and your candles were planted on a sack of explosives. Had they burnt another inch, not only would the fort have been blown up, hat with It the whole Greek causa."* New Idea for Mot on A Polish Inventor, *n engineer, has succeeded in building a car of bis own design for which very important advantagea of construction are claimed. The Inventor's name is M. Kerpowski and his machine has been called "Folonla*' (Poland). The most important feature claimed for the Pol on la car Is the facility with which various parts can be removed and the whole motor taken apart In the official tests given the machine by the ministry of war, two automobile mechanic-, helped, by a boy, took apart the motor, gear set, universal, and rear axle In fourteen minutes and assemoled the same parts In thirtysix mli.utea. The Polonia car has a six-cylinder motor of forty-flve block horse power and cylinder displacement of 90 x 125 mllllujeters. The maximum speed claimed for thts car is 100 kilometers an hour. AffortsMi'oa Earnest effort Is being made la many parts of the country to plsnt forests to provide lumber for the future. More than 35,000 acres Is replanted every year, and about 1,- 900.000 acres of land has been thus restored. Fully three-fourths of this total a.*ea has been planted by farmers and other land owners. The federal government has replanted 12 per cent and the stste governments somewhat less. Many municipalities are also engaged tn the work. Among the other agencies engaged in forest planting are tlmberland owners, operators of ^rood-pulp Industries, railroads. pulp companies and milling companies. TRICKS or MEMOKT HARD TO EXPLAIN RtcoUeetfotu Smjrf by Condition at Mind. I have had my full share of those emotional experiences which are supposed to make indelible records on the memory, yet they are Imperfectly remembered. I have been operated on In a hospital, and have had my days of fighting wltli death, yet of all the faces that surrounded me, and particularly of the great surgeon's bent over me In such anxious care, I have no clear vision. On my oath, I could not answer he were dark or fair, and If I met one of my nurses In the street, I should not know her; but the thing dearest in my memory is that as I went to the operating room my surgeon played a Beethoven sonata on the grand piano which stood in the corridor. To speai£ of something even more Intimate; my father's face has grown dim to me, but the face of a young girl I sav7 st a concert when I was nineteen or twenty floats up detached and lovely, like a white illy on a dark pool; or like an apparition made immortal b> an artist's brush. And it is th® same with nature. The great panoramas have become dim and clouded, but some humble feature of the landscape stands out as though all the lip-ht of day were concentrated on it. There is a valley In Wales which I saw but once; It lies deep abd silent between two conical peaks of volcanic origin, and through It runs little river which sends up a tiny thread of sound; yet this valley impressed itself indelibly upon my memory. For years after I chanced upon It I never ran the water into my bath without the sound of that mysterious river echoing In my ears. It gave me a strong sense of something occult snd secret and at times I dreamed of It And, again, on a road I took almost daily in New England, I came suddenly one day upon a maple which was a mass of yellow flsiqe against a lilac sky, and while I remembered nothing else about the roa<*, I always see that torch of flre burning quietly against the evening sky. Why a: i such things remembered, when so msny more important things have been dimmed by timef I can only suppose that at the moment when I saw them I was peculiarly plastic to their Influence, or, to put It another way, was sensitized, like the plate of the photographer, to their impression. --W. J. Dawson in the Century Maga- Kan*a* Vigilantes to Kill Off Bank Bandit* Kansas City, Kan.--"No work for the jury!" is the slogan of a vigilante committee organized to protect local banks against robbers. Distribution of arms to members of the committee, which is composed of bank employees and business men In the neighborhood of banks, is under way. Two hundred and fifty rifles, sawed-off shotguns and .45-caliber revolvers will be placed in the hands of persons who are being trained to use them in sn emergency. , Each bank is being equipped "with sn alarm that may be set off at a'number of places In the building. When the alarm is sounded, under the plan, each vigilante will take his station snd open flre on the bandits. EnglUh Town Ban Jamm. Word comes from London that jass music ba* been barred at all municipal dances by the Edmonton urban council, this being the first London suburb to take such action. The council took this step because of numerous complaints from dtlsens who objeded to dances of **tbe wild, body-waggling type " T. J. Harrington, council chairman, said jas# would not be permitted hereafter at the town dances chiefly because jazs dancers during waltzes took up too m ich space, their movements Interfering with the orthodox dance-j and, besides, "JaMliy^ was neither graceful nor dignified.* SmeU Elme Did Not Want Another Oyeterf Oysters, llke oUvea, are aa acquired taste, snd a taste that some persons never acquire. There are many, says & E. Whiting, writing cheerfully la the Boston Herald, who sympathise with the oft-quoted young woman who said: "I'm glad I don't like oysters, becauae if I liked 'em Td eat 'em, and I hate 'em." There are many also who will feel akin In spirit with the little girl who was making her first appearance at a home dinner at which there were grownup guests. " ;* , The first course was Oysters on the . 4^4 half-shell. Her mother observed ap- : provlngly the pladdlty and exemplary demeanor of her daughter, and thought -c - to remove some of the solemnity and * restraint of the occasion by letting the L' child into the joys of the dinner. 8a she said: . fi? "Would Elsie like a nice oyster?" ^ Elsie looked doubtful, but dutiffelly| ! <.,:- opened her timid mouth, and mother popped an oyster into it. Elsie dosed fher lips, and the mother turned her - t. attention to her guests and her oystera. She got to the iast oyster oa her plate and then remembered her r - €<' ^ child, whose silence and sustained -• good manners continued to make a most delightful Impression. So she • turned to the child and asked: "Would Elsie like another nice oyster 7' A look of anguish came Into the face of the patient little girl. She gently and cautiously parted her lipa Liona Attack Meter Care A lion charged a motor car in the bush in Kenya, British East Africa. An American millionaire visitor was out driving in an eight-cylinder twoseater car when, without warning of the presence of the lion, bis attention was attracted by a sudden crashing sound. The next second a lion appeared, rushed at the motor car, caught hold of one mudguard with its teeth, bent and tore the stout metal, snd disappeared In disgust before a shot could be fired. Lions seldom charge motor cars, but the Incident is not without parallel. On another occasionV a lion and a motorist met la mutual surprise round the corner of a patch of bush. The Hon took s flying leap, rested on the hot bonnet for s moment, sad tbea jumped off before the driver had recovered. just far enough to reply: 'ant 'is 'un!" MI don't Ha* Loan of Booh* . Reduced to System I was much interested to read an appeal In the personal columns of the London Times for the return of any book8 borrowed from the late William Archer. There must have been a great many, or this advertisement would scarcely have been worth while. I do not suppose there ts a reader who has not suffered from book borrowing, and yet we all borrow books upon occa-' slon. The trick of It I have found. Is to have a distance limit If the borrower lives within five miles of my house, I lend with pleasure, as I know that I. can always get the book back when Iwant It. If the borrower, on the other hand, lives some- distance sway, X say: "My friend, I make my living with my pen and my books. You are asking me for one of my tools, a tool that I may need at any moment Should the need arise when the book is still with you I should curse you, and that would spoil our friendship." Preserved Charter , The Charter oak Is a tree famooa> In American history.^ It stood In Hart-? j j ford, Conn., and derived its name from;; th% following circumstance: In 1687, Sin, ; I Edmund A n d r e s , t h e r o y a l g o v e r n o r , ; appeared at Hartford and demanded * the charter of the colony in the name ; of James H of England. While the as-> sembly. In session at Hartford, wasp ' J c o n s i d e r i n g t h e g o v e r n o r ' s r e q u e s t , t h e f j g | lights were suddenly extinguished;! and. In the darkness and confusion that ensued, the charter was snatched^ from the table by a patriot Capt William Wadsworth, and secreted In the hollow of an oak tree. This tree,' which waa ever after known as the Charter oak, was carefully preserved. until 1856, when It was destroyed in a violent storm. The charter was re» newed when William and Mary cended the throne la 1680;--Kan City Tlmea. as- - Kissed Too Much Chicago.--"Cruelty of too much love" won for Mrs. Tessie Menze Frit* a divorce from Leo Frijz, an official of the Commonwealth Edison company, signed by Judge Sabath In Superior court. • "He klpsed me till my lips bled and bugged me till my ribs cracked," she ssld. "I had to go to California to get my health back.** Likes Metals Shellsburg, Iowa.--Margaret Freeman, five, returned home recently quite well after the surgeons at Iowa City extracted a collection of one brass button, one salve box lid. snd a salt top from her stomsch. Fatally Injured Clarence, Iowa.--A. K. Kelly, wealthy retired farmer, was fatally Injured in an explosion which resulted when a box of dynamite caps dropped out of his pocket Kelly intended to use the capa to blast tree* stumps in his yard. Cow Derails Train Houston, Texas.--Several cars of Onlf Coast line train No. 3. Houston to New Orleaaa, were derailed near Harmaston, Taxaa, when the engine hit a cow. •ife.: 'f- * - Crows New Scalp Sparta, Wis.--Mrs. George Freeman Kendall, who suffered the loss of her scalp when her hair became entangled in the belt of farm machinery in August 1923. has completely recovered, even to- the growth of a new head of hair, according to reports from St Mary's hospital, where she has been a patient since the accident Convict* Win Prize gaa Francisco.--A prize-winning entry In the annual exhibition of the California Spring Blossom and Wildflower association, which opened here recently, were flowers grown by convicts in Quentln prison. The bloomsroses-- were given a conspicuous place In the exhibition. Another "Peeper" Warsaw, Ind.--"Jack the Peeper" la •.••Hug life miserable for residents of the east part of Warsaw. On numerous occasions policemen have been summoned when the man wss seen peeping Into windows. > ., -j ' Fall Is Fat# Tulsa, Ok la.--D; D. Kohte. thirtyeight a professional parachute jumper, was Instantly killed at a flying field near Tulsa when his' parachute failed to remain opaL •••?*. -mm--mm Cotton Gin Fire* Static electricity is the principal caoie of fires In cotton gins during the ginning process, according to the United Statee bureau of chemistry. Mr. Hurry E. Roethe, development engineer in that bureau, hss pointed out the fsct that In the seasons when the greatest number of cotton gin fires occurred electrostatic charges have been abundant. At such times low humidities have prevailed and the cotton being ginned was particularly dry and dirty. During the periods when few flres occurred, electrostatic charges bave been conspicuously absent.-- From Tycos (Rochester, N. Y.J Found Old Burial Place An urn holding charred bones and ashes of a human being of almost 2,000 yeert ago was discovered by a fanner of Rahdaistown county, Antrim. Ireland, while he was digging on his farm. Having the appearance of an ordlnar- vase the urn was resting seek downward on a large stone, and another stone had been placed on the top. The urn is about eighteen inches In width. Right up to Christian times It was the custom for burials, especially to take place in this fashion-- the body being burned and then the cremated remains placed In an urn which would be turned on a hill or height facing the rising sun. The spot at which the find was made, wua also on a height dlredly facing the rising sun. The find, which may be a relic of an era aa far back as the Stone sge, has aroused much Interest la the district. Safe That Screams A young English inventor has Just brought out a new device which will add to the difficulties of the burglar. It Is a safe which screams as soon as It Is touched by an unauthorised band, and goes on screaming for four hours, or until some one who knows how to stop It comes along. The scream Is set in motion by delicate and secret mechanism connected with a vigorous motorbooter, and la loud enough to arouse the entire neighborhood within a radiga el a Quarter of a mile or more. Transplanted Eyk A one-eyed fish with apparently normal vision hns been produced In the experimental laboratories of the University of Chicago, according to a recent announcement. In the experiment the eyes of the fish were removed and one was transplanted Into the forehead. This operation was performed Ly Dr. Theodor Koppyani, famous European eye specialist, and J. Franklin Pearcy, research student la tbe university, searching tor bllndoew. Ferns and Evergreens Some of the country's most beautiful ferns may fall under the ban which the government Is placing on gooseberries and barberries, according to C. A. Weatherby, noted fern specialist He reports that species of rust attacking balsam firs with destructive force are found to have ferns for their alternate hosts. Both eastern and western balsams are infected and ferns guilty of transmitting their disease are found on both coasts. Among them are the beech fern, the sensitive fern, the marsh fern, the western ladyferna, brackens and poly- Good Story, Anyway Tha popular story of how the Spanish province of Andalusia acquired its name is told by Eleanor Eisner in one of her travel books. "Early explorers^: entering the province met a peasant indolently driving a mule over a pase:v thejr begged him to tell them the name -> j, of this sunny and pleasant land, pre- " sumably in a language or dialect of!; which he understood never a word. Hej^.^^ looked them over, silent and atUlnfl in the usual Spanish fashion, then, ' ' turning to his mule, called out 'Anda# Lucia,' which simply meant *Go on, Lucia'; but the strangers took It to b*» ^ the name of the country, which they registered oa their rough charts aa Misplaced Sympathy When Sir Henry Hawkins, the fa* mo us judge, was practicing at the bar, on one occasion having the prisoner's children present In the courtroom during his summing up, by his pathetic references to these weeping children he so worked on the sympathies of the jurors that they promptly set the prisoner free. A few days later a friend told him he had been walking In neighborhood of the prisoner's during the early days of the trial aad^ bad seen these same children playing . < at hanging a cat. at the same time slng-t ~ Ing at the top of their voices: "Thiols the way daddy will go." Saving Bird tiHk To save the lives of hundreds of birds which nightly batter themselves to death against tbe great lighthouse on Heligoland, the former famous German Island fortress In the North sea, an expensive set of six large searchlights has been Installed around the base of the structure. The lights Illuminate the body of the lighthouse snd make It possible for tbe birds to see and avoid It. Heligoland stands la the main north and south air lane for migratory birds. Lighthouse attendants have identified as many at sixty different vaifetlea of daad btrdi In one night. Gave Name to Fruit Shaddock is snother name tst a 'grapefruit. The pomelo, shaddock, or grapefruit (Citrus decumana) Is a native of southern China. This fruit Is more sour than an orange but leas sour than a lemon. The name pomelo $ Entitled to Hi James Madison Is called tbe "Fathei of the Constitution" because be wu the author of the resolution of the Vlr giola legislature that led to the calling of the convention ot 17S7, the authoi of the Virginia plan, which formed tht basis of the Constitution, and one Ot the moat #«ttve SMsahias et the cai ventlaa. \ - I Shaddock waa the name of a captain who brought the fruit to the West Indies. By some authorities a distinction Is made between shaddock andr". grapefruit shaddock being that larger, the grapefruit the smaller.! ^ having a fine flavor. They are grown : * plentifully In Jamaica. Cuba. Califernia and most Oriental countries ... Gets Attention , jll ; Willis--That's Joaas, the advertising^ - ^ man. They say ho caa write master* ful letters. t '. tUia--How does be do It T Wills--Starts ' " ** .. % In the Ctfrfi A' Mechanic--There's a in a pasachata. Aviator--IV see If I It laat often we w» fellow 1T3 *i• ;-