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Show THE BULLETIN Using Telescope in Search for New Light on History Keeping Up mm , cience m M I Adventurers' Club Fascinating Studies hv Ml. W ilson Scientists envce e Science By WATSON DAVIS Service. WNU Service. WIDESPREAD search that extends to the limits of the visible universe is being pur sued in the hope that new light will be shod upon history, scientifically speaking. A Coking of Coal Is Greatly Improved iiijw by New Method "Junple Nightmare By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter Hetter ami Cheaper Product Promised adventurer for sir, here's a real, WELL, A. . New of Jack Matthews London, Conn., says money. Cheaper, Pittsburgh, Ta. and more versatile cokbetter he ran away from home in 1895, and one year later, on his sixof coal is in prospect as teenth birthday, he was shooting Indians in the Sierra Peri j a ing the result of five years of funmountains of Venezuela and Colombia. damental research at the Coal And that was just the beginning ot a life of adventure in the South Research Laboratory of the American jungles, prospecting for gold, and hunting for rubber, which, of TechnoloInstitute in those days, Jack says, was worth a dollar a pound and as good as cash. Carnegie The jungles were full of rubber then. All you had to do was go and get it. gy here. traditional dyed-in-the-wo- ol But the jungles were full of Indians, too and animals, and snakes, rnd fever and a whole lot of other things. The man who went hunting rubber earned every cent of the dollar a pound he got for it. And it's the story of something that happened on a rubber hunt that Jack is roing to tell us about today. head-huntin- g On the Trail of the Rubber Hunters. Jack takes a sock at explorers of today who come back from the jungles claiming to be the first white man to set foot in a certain region. "Why," he says, "we cut the trails for those fellows." And I can believe it, too, for Jack speaks of places I've never heard of and of riven I can't even find on the map when he tells of the route he and his party of adventurers took to get to the rubber country. They paddled through a seven-mil- e canyon where Jack says the water roared with a sound like ten subways and ran so swiftly through the narrow gap that h crowned itself higher in the center than on the sides. "We got through with our canoes," he says, "by following the eddies and back currents along the canyon walls. The sharp projecting corners were tough, as the water hit them with such a force as to turn over like land being plowed. The navigation was dangerous but we made it" And then, on they went, down through the territory of the Jivaro Indians, who cut the heads off their victims and shrink them down to the siie of oranges. They passed through the Jivaro territory, and, at length, found rubber trees and settled down to the job of collecting rubber. Ran Across a Beautiful Jaguar. "My job," says Jack, "was to find the trees and blaze them, and sometimes I would trail the roots of a rubber tree for hundreds of yards through dense jungle. On all these trips I carried a machete in a The Snake Wrapped Himself Around the Jaguar. scabbard, a bolstered .38 six gun and a shotgun slung across my shoulder. I was usually alone on those trips and I had to be able to fight my way back to camp if I were attacked by Indians." One day on such a trip Jack was cutting a trail to one of the biggest rubber trees he had ever seen. Half way to the tree he got tired and sat down to eat a lunch he had brought with him. He had just finished when he heard leaves stirring down the trail, and, mindful of the ever present danger of Indians, he grabbed up his shotgun and slipped into the growth behind him. He had no sooner reached cover than he heard a sound that explained the stirring of those leaves. The cough of a jaguar. "It was so close that it startled me," Jack says. "The Jaguar walked slowly down my newly cut trail, stopped where I had eaten and sniffed at a sausage skin I had thrown there. lie was such a K?autiful animal that I didn't want to shoot. I eyed him through the grass, and he must have felt my eyes boring into him, for suddenly he faced me with a growl. He had discovered me." Still Jack didn't shoot. "I think I forgot to," he says. "We stood gazing at each other for a moment, not three feet apart. And then, suddenly, a long snake fell from the tree tops, and; with a lightning-lik- e motion, wrapped itself around the beautiful animal. ten-gau- ge Battling With a Huge Snake. "In an instant the silence was broken by a crashing bedlam. The jaguar leaped almost got free. It bit and clawed and screamed. But the scream was a hopeless one, for the snake had the jaguar tight in its grasp now and was squeezing it to death. The jaguar fought furiously, striking and biting but the loops were tightening on him. He had one paw on the ground and he caught a root began dragging the snake to one side. The snake lashed out with its tail for something to get a hold , on, and" And that's where Jack, standing a scant three feet away from the struggle, began to take an aetive part in it. The snake's lashing tail reached into the undergrowth and caught hold of Jack. "It touched me," he says, "and immediately wrapped itself around me. Then I pulled the trigger of the gun in my hand. I heard the impact of the buckshot, but I had shot the jaguar. And the snake's powerful tail was dragging me right out of the grass. I was knocked off my feet and the gun was scraped out of my hand. Immediately the snake let go of the dead jaguar and went to work on me. "I reached for my machete and got it out just as the snake got a loop around my waist. I could feel the breath going out of my body as I swung the machete. If that blow missed I might not get a chance to swing another. But the blade hit the snake squarely across the body and almost cut it in two. Another swing finished the job. The loops relaxed and I was free. t "The tail end of the snake quivered and the head slashed about in all directions, but after the squeezing I had taken I didn't have strength enough to move. I lay with my head on the jaguar when the men came from camp. They had heard my single shot and had come from thai river expecting to find me with an Indian arrow through me. They carried me back to the landing, where I soon got over the squeezing. The natives skinned the jaguar It was nine feet from tip to tip, while the feet long." snake, when measured, was thirty-eigh- t NU Odd Marriage Rites Are Observed by Canadians Ancient matrimonial customs prevailing in certain sections of some French Canadian provinces probably would amaze prospective brides in the United States. Much of the form and tradition harks back two and three centuries to the mother country, France, says a writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer. In some outlying districts and villages a wedding assumes 'he character of a festival One of the picturesque customs surviving among the "habitants." or rural residents, is that of the pub Service. Astronomy is not usually consid ered a branch of history but telescopes can look out in space's depths and sp what hanoened there a hundred million years ago that is, light from a stellar outburst tnai ancient takes that time to reach the earth. Dr. Frit Swickv. voune and bril liant California Institute of Technol ogy physicist, is investigating history in this Fcnse with the help of Mt. Wilson Ohsprvatorv's Drs. W. Baadc, Edwin Hubble and M. L.Hum Baade. Edwin Hubble and M. Humason. Scientific Meaning of History. Scientifically speaking, he says, historv means the chance in time of dimensionless ratios of significant as ior inphysical quantities. in the shift red the famous stance, rainbows or spectra of distant star aggregations as compared with nebulae relatively neighbors to the earth. Interpreted under the theory of relativity, this is a historical effect on a large scale. The assumption that History must be onerative succests clearly to Dr. Zwicky the necessity of an investigation of all those dimensionless ra tios between significant physical Quantities. Onlv after this invests gation has been completed does he believe a final understanding oi me red shift and other cosmic phenom ena will be possible. Suggestive Discrepancies. Other effects are being investi gated bv Dr. Zwicky. There does not seem to be any significant dif ference in the speed or ugni irom distant parts of the universe compared with light from nearby stars. But there are suggestions that great exploding stars, distant supernovae, spraying light ana parucies oui inw snaro. are seen or "received" im perfectly here on earth because some kinds of their radiations travel more slowly than others. Sug gestive discrepancies have turned up in astronomical studies Dut noi so positively that conclusions can be drawn. This is the stuff that philosophy is mad of. As vet the researches stay within the bounds of relativity theory's principles, but this invesu-entin- n on fundamental reference systems for physical measurements on a cosmoiogicai scale may weu m hpvnnH tht classical theory of general relativity. It promises to fYj il iSm I l . By breaking with methods of turning bituminous coal into coke, gas, tar and chemicals. William B. Warren explained here recently to some leading industrial ists, it should be possible for coke oven operators to decrease cost, cut operating time by a third, while improving Quality and yield of coke. Mr. Warren recommended that coal be preconditioned before cok 0 degrees ing by warming it to 0 degrees FahrenCentigrade heit). This precarbonization treatment could be carried out in low temperature aonaratus that is much less expensive than the coke ovens themselves. Mr. Warren's Theory. Delving into just what happens when coal is heated ana caroon-izeMr. Warren evolved a theory. This theory, applied to practical operation of coke ovens, promises the 200-40- (400-75- d. large economies. First, when coal is heated the large molecules break apart into much smaller units. At slightly surface hieher temperatures, changes take place within the10 coal that cause the little umis into larger ones once This takes place slowly more. and this temperature must be held for a time. Then as the tempera ture is raised real thermal decom position takes place. The surfaces of the molecules are attacked and portions torn off, appearing as tar and gas. By manipulating the process so that the molecules have large sur faces, which means the molecules are small in size, more tar is produced at the expense of coke. Or if tar is not desired, the high tem peratures can be used when the molecules are large. There is hope that the new knowledge of coking will allow the mak ing of coke from coals which are not at present considered "coking coals." the coal produced in the United States is coked and the new methods promised by the Carnegie Institute's researches are for that reason of great economic importance. From coal, in addition One-sixt- h Talk About Smart Frocks of all reiauvny. out-uinsie-in difficult junior age; slenderizing. well-cpatterns for the mature figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons and other patterns for special occasions are all to be fojnd in the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Send 15 cents today for your copy. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. Praise From Auntie In a quaint old cemetery m the East is a marker erected to the memory of a man whose life is reckoned successful. Upon the marker has been carved an epitaph that should be a tonic to our day. It reads thus: I tried and failed, I tried attain and failed, sew-my-o- "I think you do wonderfully well with your sewing, my dear. You'll be making my clothes the first thins I know. I feel especially pleased with my new spring dress and I have both of you to thank for suggesting this style. It does right well by my hips, and it's so comfortable through the shoulders. I guess I should diet but in this dress I feel nice and slender. Don't you see, girls, how important it is to choose a style that's particularly becoming? It's abiding by this theory that gives some women such enviable chic." The Patterns. Pattern 1280 is designed in sizes 0 (30 to 40). Size 14 requires 3 yards of 39 inch material. Pattern 1233 is designed in sizes People of This Day Are Taller and Mature Earlier Part of Earth declares that requires 5 yards of 39 inch material. The collar in contrast requires of Pattern 14-2- 1284 is designed in sizes (32 to 44). Size 16 requires 3 0 yards of 35 New inch material. Pattern Book. Send for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, practical and becoming clothes, select ing designs from the Barbara Bell well-planne- d, easy-to-ma- ke pat- terns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the fourteen-- both boys and girls, average nearly four inches taller and more than eight pounds heavier than they used to, as shown by older records. He has also found evidences of earlier sexual maturity. His general conclusion is that young people grow up faster, but that their final size is not greater than their ancestors'. A colleague in the military medical service, Dr. Hans Muller, takes issue with Dr. Koch on the latter point. His measurements on army recruits have convinced him that young men keep on growing until they are twenty years old or more, and that their final height is appreciably greater than that of their forebears. year-olds, Berlin. Gold in "them thar hills?" Certainly. There is gold in every hill, in the dirt under your feet in fact, gold in every mineral particle on earth. Not only gold, but radium, nlatinum. common iron and lead, and every one of the whole list of 92 elements known to chemistry. There may be so little that they can't be measured by even the most delicate of commonly used chemical methods of analysis, but they are all present just the same. This doctrine of the omnipresence of all elements" is put forth by Drs. Walter and Ida Noddack German chemists famous for their discovery of the two exceedingly rare elements, rhenium and masurium. The Noddacks are mas ters of some of the most sensitive methods of analysis ever devised so that they are entitled to speak with authority. Mixed hi Fluid Form. This complete mixing of all the earth's ingredients, they hold, took place bak near the beginning of geologic history, when the earth was euu in nuia iorm, ana Donins" actively. The practical significance of the idea of elemental omnipresence is that chemists should always state to how many decimal places they have carried any given analysis. They are not entitled to say of any or "con element, "noi present, centration zero," but only, ''no found in the concentration exam lic wedding procession which passes through the streets to the church. At the head of the procession is the groom, his two nearest of kin walking with him. Next come his friends and relatives who are married, marching in pairs, and then the single men of his entourage. Behind them comes the bride, escorted by a large assemblage of her own relatives and friends marching in the same order as those of the groom. Another quaint custom is the wed- ined." This point of view, the Noddacks ding feast. The bride is seated at believe, has real significance for the head of the table, but the groom chemical analysis as used in instands behind the chair and serves and many other medicine, dustry, her throughout the dinner. daily-lif-e applications. - Brain Waves Are Found to Be Quite Consistent Brain waves are consistent. Moods and mental activity and accomplishment may vary from day to day, but not the wavy lines on paper that tell scientists about the electrical energy that accompanies activity within man's brain. New York. consistency of a The person's brain waves is reported by Drs. Lee Edward Travis and Abraham Gottlobcr of the State University of Iowa to the journal, Science. g scientists reThese cently reported that one person can be distinguished from others by his brain waves. Brain waves vary according to whether a person is sleeping or awake and working at mental problems or awake and just sitting idly with nearly "blank" mind. The last condition is the one in which the Iowa scientists made their studies. day-to-d- ay brain-probin- O Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. On the Seventh Try I tried again and failed, I tried again and failed, f tried attain and faiUrd, I tried again and failed, t trird again and w:m. Dr. Pierre's Favorite Prescription Is a tonic which has been (wiping women of ullsgesfor neurly 70 years, Adr. Debts of Honor I pay debts of honor, not hon orable debts. Reynolds. Size 36 34-5-2. Dr. Ernst Walther Koch of Leiplarge numbers of zig, measuring school children, ut 12-2- five-eight- hs earlier, and attaining larger body size, recent physical measurements in Germany indicate. Found in Every A UNT ALMA, there's just one thine I don t like about my new dress it's so attractive I'm afraid Sis over there will appro priate it when I'm not looking. Outside ot that I'm crazy about it, and I think you're swell to make it for me. Why" 'What's this, what's this? If that isn't a laugh. Aunt Alma! Imagine me wanting anybody's dress. Why since you ve taught mc to I never want anything. I just make it and that's that. This sport dress, for instance, took me only one yard. Berlin. The present generato coke and gas, come ammonia of young men and girls is tion of vast drugs, per and a array fumes, chemicals and dyes made growing faster than its parents from the coal tar. and grandparents, maturing All Elements Are " Gas. Gas All theTime.Can't Eat or Sleep "The gat on my stomach wao so bad could not oat or Bleep. Evan my heart aamad to hurt. A friend aug- The flrat doaa I took 8tited Adlerika. mo relief. Now I eat aa I wiah. aleco fine and never felt bettor." Mrs. Jaa. Filler. Adlenka acto en BOTH upper ana lower bo well while ordinary laxatives act on the lower bowel only. 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Real Reverence ""THIS is the thing which I know, and which, if you labor faithfully you shall know also; that in reverence is the chief joy and power in life. Reverence, for what is pure and bright in your own youth; for what is true and tried in the age of others; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, and marvelous in the Powers that cannot die. Ruskin. Train trees when they are saplings and men and women when they are children. Help Them On me the Blood of Harmful Body Wast Tew kidneys are eonstsnSy flterta waste matter Irom the blood etiwsm. But kidneys sometimes leg la their work do ot act as Nature Intended fafl to re move impurities that, if retained, may poison the system and npeet tee whew body machinery. Symptoms may be osteins: barVaeho, pmiaunl beedsftie, attacks of diasineaa, getting op nights, swelling, pufflaam under the eyes Ming fat nervous anxiety and Ices of pep and strength. 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