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Show TIIE SUGARnorSE BULLETIN, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1937 Perspiration Regulates Bodys Heat Production There is no human life without perspiration because it is a basic factor of the normal physical life. Dr. James O. Nall declares in an article Perspiration The Thermostat of the Body" in Hygeia, the Health Magazine. It is absolutely essential to the proper regulation of heat in the body. Normally this eliminated water cools the body as it evaporates from the skin surface. The temperature of the sweat at the moment it appears at the body surface is slightly lower than the temperature of the blood. This is a natural decrease in temperature that takes place during the short time required for the sweat to traverse the sweat gland tube to the skin surface. As the perspiration reaches the surface its temperature changes to that of the surrounding atmosphere which under most conditions is lower than the body temperature. An increase in the surrounding temperature normally stimulates an .increased production of sweat. This is a compensatory response by the body and is necessary in the maintenance of its temperature at the average normal figure.. .. Normal sweat helps to keep the skiq ,mqist soft and pliable. It is aided In' this by sebum, ..the natural oil produced by the. sebaceous glands of the skin and constantly secrete on to the body surface. The sweat also serves a definite but the primary excretory function of perspiration is the heat regulation of the body. Perspiration, may.be classified as normal, excessive, fetid, colored and cold. Excessive sweating is common in extremely nervous per- sods. It may be concerned with the state of mind and often is based on fear. Some persons .have excessive sweating of the palms when meeting strangers. Free generalized sweating may also occur if there is too much salt in the food, for this may cause a natural cycle of excessive drinking of water and excessive sweating. It is not detrimental to good health unless it extends to the point of weakening the i . - . body. Two Women Sought U. S. Presidential Nomination Belva A. Lockwood, who headed the ticket of the Equal Rights party in 1884 and again in 1888, was not the first woman nominated for the presidency, of the United States. That honor belongs to Mrs. Victor Claflin Woodhull, who in 1872 was nominated for the presidency at Vineland, N. J., by a convention styling itself the Equal Rights party. Frederick Douglass, the negro reformer, was the candidate for vice . president. The campaigns of these two women amounted chiefly to suffrage propaganda, since neither could have held the office had they been elected, asserts a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Lockwood, lawyer and reformer, was bom in 1830, at Royal-toN. Y. She was educated at Genesee college, Lima, N. Y., and taught school for eleven years. Then she studied law and was admitted to practice before the Supreme court, under a law which she had been instrumental in getting passed. Bom Belva Ann Bennett, die was married in 1848 to Uriah H. McNall, who died five years later, and in 1868 to Dr. Ezekiel Lockwood. She died in 1917. n, Turtle Can Live a Long Time Without Any Food The snapping turtles body is in- mostly Mohammedans because the Prophet laid down that it should be so. The Sikhs, too, a fine, upstanding race in northern India, will die rather than submit to the insult of a haircut or a shave, says London Answers Magazine. Their magnificent locks are curled into under their turbans, while beards, carefully waved and oiled, repose in elaborate nets under their chins, top-kno- ts Mammoth cave is described by a s writer in London as follows: Mammoth cave, largest in the world, is situated in Kentucky. It has five levels, and included in its explored portions are 225 avenues, more than 150 miles of which have been charted; 47 domes, 23 pits, 8 cataracts, 3 rivers, 2 lakes and 1 sea. It is estimated that the actual space worked out of the limestone embraces 12,000,000 cubic yards. The main cave is three miles long, varying in width from 40 to 125 feet. Its greatest enlargement, however, is the "Chief City" or Temple, an oval room 541 feet long, 287 feet wide, and 125 feet high. Here in days gone by the Indians either lived or else used it as a rendezvous, for many relics have been soft-shell- ed won-.derf- Eligibility to original membership in the Society of Cincinnati was the privilege of all Continental officers who had served with honor and resigned after three years service as officers, or who had been rendered supernumerary and honorably discharged, in one of the several reductions of the American army, or who had continued to the end. of the war, and all French officers who had served in the army under Count dEstaing, or auxiliary army under Count de Rochambeau and held or attained the rank of colonel for these services, or who had commanded a French fleet or ship of war on the American coast. This privilege descends to the oldest lineal male descendant, if judged worthy, and, in failure of direct male descent, to male descendants through intervening female descendants. Lodgepole Pine, Slender Tree The lodgepole pine (P. contorts) is a slender tree, usually 70 to 80 feet high. It bears yellow-gree- n leaves and small prickly cones. This is a common species of pine from the volley of the Yukon in Alaska, southeastward through the Rockies to New Mexico, Arizona, in the Cascades and Sierras to Southern California. The lodgepole pine takes its name from its former use by the Indians in building their tepees and lodges. It is used for ties and for telephone and telegraph poles. wolf-ban- ul . silk-cott- on . ch'em-lcall- - - How Abnormal Object Is Made to Appear Normal A queer contrariness" pervades all our sensations, according to Dr. James J. Gibson, Smith college psychologist, as reported in the Philadelphia Record. Most of us are acquainted with one illustration of this. When the eyes look at a blue card for a long thpe, they develop the "desire to see the opposite color yellow. So a deep blue appears less blue, a weak blue appears gray, gray appears yellow, and yellow appears more yellow. Dr. Gibson reports in the Psychological Review that he found a similar reaction where colors aren't in- Gold Is One Metal That Is Usually Found Pure Society of Cincinnati GREAT PLAINS SEEN EXPERT FINDS RARE FOSSILS IN CHINA ! GUARDED BY TREES Tit-Bit- olive-brow- Gold is the only metal, except for a few extremely rare ones such as platinum, that is usually found pure. Occasionally a piece of naturally occurring metallic copper or silver is found, and once in a while someone finds an iron meteorite before it has rusted away. But most of the time the metals less noble than gold are found combined with other elements as ores. To convert them to free metals, says a writer in the Chicago Tribune, it is necessary to give them rather drastic treatment, such as that of the blast furnace. Gold can be made to combine with other elements by the use of indirect methods. These compounds are so unstable, however, that they can be converted back into the metal by heating them over a candle flame. Gold is almost completely resistant to the ordinary processes of corrosion. Consequently it usually occurs in one of two ways. It may be found as metallic granules dispersed through some type of igneous rock. Or, if the original rocky matrix has been worn away by weather, the unaffected gold particles are deposited in the gravel of some river bed. Milkweed Supplies Milk, Poison, Dyes and Fibers Milk from milkweeds is used by human beings! In its native Ceylon one such milkweed is called cowplant. The leaves of several are cooked and eaten as greens. Tender growths of others are eaten as salads. The milky sap of several is used for medicine. The juice may be tonic, emetic, purgative, or even a deadly poison. Some aborigines use the juice to e poison arrows. The names of or dogbane have been applied to some milkweeds because they were employed to poison these and other animals. In East Africa one plant variety is thrown into, pools to poison fish. Not all, however, arS toxic or noxious. Some milkweeds supply dyes, basts and others fibers. But tfie found. Sodom apple of the Bible is supMammoth cave abounds in posed to have been the fruit of domes, pits and grottos, each such a plant native to India, a plant bearing a special name, such as that has been grown in local garCleveland's Cabinet, the Star Chamdens. ber, Bottomless Pit, Mammoth Milkweeds form a large and inDome, Gorin's Dome, the Maelfamily because of their vateresting strom, and so on. These domes ried uses, writes a correspondent in are adorned with natural decora- the Los Angeles Times. In the tions of crystals formed into fanAmericas we have kapok or Oval depressions tastic shapes. trees, but in other parts of known locally as "sink holes," drain the world "kapok" of exports is the pits and chasms, forming sub- from the pods of milkweeds. terranean lakes and rivers, the largIn a family of 2,000 different inest of which is Echo river, so called dividuals or species we must expect from the remarkable reverberations a wide range, and children who heard along its course. have opened ripe pods of milkweeds The waters abound in several have been delighted with the silk species of eyeless fish. Other in- floss. It is not used locally only behabitants of the cave are blind cause of lack of volume and the cost crawfish, flies, beetles and spidjers. of harvesting it. But giant tree-lik- e y milkweeds fifteen or more feet high Strange to say, the air is and optically pure,- even in promise a j;ich reward to natives of the deepest pits, and the' temperaIndia. These species have been ture is about 54 degrees Fahrenheit planted in our country and, in the West Indies,- have escaped from throughout the year. gardens to the wilds. closed as in a box between two bony shields.. The skull of the turtle is more compact than that of other reptiles. There are no teeth, the jaws being encased in horny sheaths, usually with sharp cutting edges. The eyes are furnished with two lids, and a nictitating membrane or fold of skin similar to that with which birds cover, their eyes. Turtles breathe by swallowing air. The common snapping turtle inhabits the rivers of North America east of the Rocky mountains from Canada to Mexico. It attains a length of 25 inches or more and is dusky brown with dark spots on the head. The head and tail are long and not capable of being drawn into the shell. The common turtle, n with dark spots, the head and neck olive .green with lighter stripes, lives in some sections, says a writer in the Indianapolis News, in shallow, muddy water and is ferocious, throwing itself on its prey. There is also a species of leather turtle. Its general, color is olive, spotted in .the young. It has no spines or tubercles, and grows to about 12 inches in length. Turtles excel most animals in their tenacity of life. They can live for a long- - time without food; they are difficult to kill, and even after the brain has been destroyed, life lingers sometimes for a long while in the body. It is said that a headless turtle has been - bbserved to walk 200 yards 24 hours after decapitation; the heart, removed from the body, will, if carefully suspended in a moist chamber, beat two or: three days. All turtles are oviparous. The eggs have a firm shell, and usually are laid in the sand or mud to be hatched by the warmth of the sun. Palm, Bamboo Useful Although the palm tree is generally regarded as the most useful plant, bamboo runs a close second. Not a tree, but a grass, bamboo sometimes grows 100 feet high, a foot thick. Chinese probably use it more than any other people. A Chinese tills his fields shielded from the suns rays by a bamboo hat. In the evening he goes to his bamboo house and may eat the seeds of young bamboo shoots. Then he lies on a bamboo bed and rests his head on a bamboo pillow. The yellow, tough stalks even entered into sports. Once hardwood poles were used by pole vaulters. But after such a pole split and impaled a jumper on the jagged point, bam' boo was substituted. Though the Electricity to define Hard in a scientific no way latter may break, it leaves sharp, it can simply be said that electricity points. is composed of electrons, the unit iff negative electricity, and protons, the positive electron. Both units are The Gensing Plant The ginseng plant is ten to twenty so inconceivably small they may inches tall with a single stem from be regarded as mere charges of a spindle shaped root that is often energy. To Dr. William Gilbert, who From the top of the became physician to Queen Elizabranched. beth in 1601, goes the credit of callstem three compound leaves radiate, each composed of five leaflets ing that "something electric. He the term electric as a radiating from the top of the pe- originated tiole. The two leaflets next to the name for any substance such as petiole are much smaller than the amber that was stimulated by fricothers. From between the leaves tion. "Electric" comes from the rises a cluster of small whitish flow- Greek Elektron, meaning amber. ers followed by berries that are This was because Thales, a Greek bright red when ripe. The roots re- philosopher, way back in 600 B. C., quire six to ten years to become discovered that a piece of amber full size. The Chinese provide the .rubbed with cloth possessed the market as they believe them to be power of attracting feathers, pieces important in the cure of many dis- of paper and other light bodies. eases. Ilaircut Insult There are about 200,000,000 people on this earth who keep beards Mammoth Cave Described by London Magazine Man , St. George Dragon Myth 'One of Many in History According to the Roman Acta Sanctorum, St. George was born in Cappadocia and received from his parents a careful Christian training. He early showed a fondness for war, joined the army of the Emperor Diocietian, and soon rose to high rank. But when the persecution of the Christians became bitter, he went to the emperor and, confessing his faith, remonstrated against his cruelty. He was immediately' arrested and suffered martyrdom April 23, 303. Around the few facts of his history volved. many traditions and myths have Examples: gathered. Among those is the story Look fixedly for about five minutes at a slant line. Then look at a of his slaying a dragon which had a certain neighborhood and vertical line and it will seem to haunted off carried beautiful maidens. Acslant about two or three degrees. one account, he is said to to cording With your eyes blindfolded, have some one draw a rough belt across have reappeared nearly 700 years after his martyrdom and fought your arm, then suddenly stop it. with the famous crusader, Godfrey For a moment the belt will seem to have begun to move backward. of Bouillon, at the battle of Antioch, and to have revealed himself to The biological explanation? Dr. Richard the at the Gibson suggests what we have here is a miniature version of the age-ol-d seige of Acre, predicting the hero's The latter narrative led to process of adaptation to environ- victory. ment. We tend to become used to his being more highly honored than ever in England, of which he was any persisting condition such as the patron saint. slant in lines. That becomes our In the Saxon martyrology April 23 "normal." Now when we see a ver- was held sacred to him alone of all tical line which is ordinarily our the This feast was celebratsaints. "normal it appears abnormal or ed with jousts and tournaments as askew. long as chivalry endured, and for years afterward, until after the Reformation, when Queen Elizabeth Jute Plant in India a stop to it. put India is the only place the jute been has plant successfully raised. Experimenters tried it in Florida, The Aet of Thinking but the fiber wasnt up to snuff, says of thinking is extremely The act Ala writer in the Washington Post. as neurologists describe though huge machines finish the formidable, a it. Under microscope, the cereof a into process changing plant cortex is seen to be made up of rope and so forth, native hand labor bral vast quantity of tiny cells, some plays a big part. Stripping jute fiber a the ends of long nerve-celapparently from the stalks is a job for husky passing up from underlying natives. They clutch handfuls of slender stalks, stand waist-dee- p in white matter, others long cells lystreams and flay the water until the ing parallel to the surface. These latter are believed to be paths of rope-lik- e strands are loose. association. Through them, says a writer in Literary Digest, various stored in sensory impressions The Roman Gladiators "memory that is, other cells are At first prisoners, slaves or condemned criminals were used to af- connected. Something we see, hear ford entertainment for the citizens or smell may prod a whole series of cells into consciousness, creating of Rome by feats of swordsmana memory picture, swaying our contests other and ship, wrestling to suicide or .of strength. Afterwards free men judgment,howdriving to make $1,000,000. showing And so arena in the popular fought did the exhibition of skill and strength become that persons of Atlanta Had Other Names senatorial rank, and even women, In 1821 the land which was the enrolled in the gladiator class. At site of the founding of Atlanta was one show given by the Emperor by the Creek Indians to the Trajan, 5,000 gladiators were em- ceded The first cabin was built lri state. one time. at ployed 1833 and in 1836 engineers drove the stake which was to mark the end of the proposed state railroad. Freaks of Lightning Lightning has traveled down a For that reason the towns first lode of ore and shocked miners name was Terminus. In 1843 the working at a depth of a thousand name was changed to Marthasville feet; it has removed all the hair in honor of the daughter of Governor from a man without injuring him in Lumpkin. In 1847 it was incorporatany other way; and it has altered ed as a city with the name of Atk the compass of a ship. lanta, probably suggested by tho In this last case, says Colliers railroad which was called the WestWeekly, the vessel itself was also ern & Atlantic. It was made the "reversed" by the storm and the capital of the state in 1868. wheelsman steered back over his course for a considerable distance Body Mast Have Salt before realizing the error. Perspiration is chiefly water, but it contains a fair amount of salt which is discharged from the body. Invented Electric Bell In 1736, a Scottish monk named The body is constantly absorbing Gordon, then teaching in Germany, salt and getting rid of it again, but invented the electric bell. It had the operation of absorption and distwo little gongs, between which was charge must be so balanced as to suspended a metal ball on a silk insure a regular quantity of salt in pendulum. The charged ball struck the body at all times. Salt is necesone gong, gave up its electricity in sary for the body and lack of it may doing so, and, being repelled, struck be serious. Human blood contains the other gong, and, the cycle was exactly the same amount of salt as repeated. Then the monk invented sea water unquestionable evidence a motor with which he electrocuted that man originally came out of the scores of chaffinches.' It was the sea, says a writer in Pearsons London Weekly. forerunner of the electric choir. 100 Million Shrubs Planted by Forest Service. Date Back 80 Million Years, Says Scientist. i D. C. More than trees planted in the great plains shelterbelt are affording efWashington, 100,000,000 ls stem-struc- San Francisco, Calif. Discovery by a wandering missionary of a rare fossil deposit in Shantung province in China r.s been revealed by Dr. Ralph Char.ry, paleontologist of the Carnegie institution and the University of California, who will study the fossils at the request of the Chinese government. For more than fourteen years samples of the deposit lay among the belongings of an obscure mission worker. A party of Chinese geologists, when shown the rocks, realized their significance and reported the discovery to the Chinese geological survey. The specimens, which belong to the Tertiary age of 80,000,000 years ago, are a scientific rarity, according to Dr. Chaney. "The Shantung discovery consists of fossil mammals and plants occurring together in the same formation which is very unusual, he said. "They usually occur separately. "The most significant thing so far, said Dr. Chaney, "is a fossil deer apparently related to a species which formerly inhabited the southeastern United States. Fossil plants occurring in the rock similar to those which grew in that region millions of years ago also were found." With a party of Chinese scientists, Dr. Chaney will go to the southern part of Shantung province to study the lake deposits where a missionary picked up' a strange looking "rock" nearly fifteen years 1 fective protection against winds, according to the forest service. The shelterbelt, at which many persons scoffed, is a "complete success," Earl W. Tinker, assistant chief of the forest service, said. Tinker made a tour of the area to inspect growth of the trees. The shelterbelt extends from Texas almost to the Canadian border. It ranges from a few hundred yards to several miles wide. In places there are several strips of "belts." From 700 to 1,000 trees were planted per acre. CCC EnroUees Aid. The forest service has planted apof these proximately 35,000,000 trees. About 30,000,000 were distributed to farmers for woodland and shelterbelt planting. Not all of the planting has been done in the great plains. CCC enrollees have planted other millions in many states. Federal and state nurseries have produced an additional 150,000,000 trees for planting. The forest service has distributed more than trees for private plantings during the last two years. Tinker said a check of trees planted in the western shelterbelt showed 81 per cent had survived under adverse drouth conditions. Their effectiveness will increase as they grow, he said. .'Many thousands of young trees planted during the 1935 season are now six feet high and already are bringing about a lessening of wind movement within their protective range," Tinker, said. Some Sixteen Feet High. "Heights up to 16 feet have been noted in some instances,. he said. "I saw fields of cantaloupes and watermelons growing in what were formerly dust fields, protected by rows of newly planted trees. Tinker said more than 1,281 miles of shelterbelt strips and 6,415 acres of farmsteads have been planted. More than 4,500 farmers participated in tree plantings. Trees found to have made the best growth were the green ash, cottonwood, Chinese elm, red cedar and Ponderosa pine. The forest service said farmers who had seeded their land in trees valued it at an average of $i 046 per farm. "Experience gdined thus far in shelterbelt and windbreak planting demonstrates the value of this type of work in the great plains region where an urgent necessity exists for an extensive program," the forest service said. mid-weste- 00 tree-planti- Lion-Heart- - Blood rresiure Is Found Affected by Two Glands St. Louis, Mo. High blood pressure is due to a lack of balance between the sympathetic system governing the circulation of t h e adblood and the renal and thyroid glands, according to Dr. George W. Crile, one of the founders of the Cleveland clinic. Dr. Crile told the American College of Physicians meeting here that a close relation between the two is found in all animals and in man. He said the relation exists because the glands, in speeding up oxidation and increasing energy through a substance poured into the blood stream, create a demand for an increased supply of atmospheric oxygen brought to the tissues by the blood stream. Relief from high blood pressure consequently may be obtained by reducing the activity of either the glands or the sympathetic system, depending upon which is the offending mechanism. Dr. Crile reported that in eighty-fooperations high blood pressure had been reduced by first reducing activity of the sympathetic system. However, he said further observation of the patients would be necessary before a final judgment on the value of the operations could be made. energy-controlli- ago. Scientists hope to learn from the new discovery whether conditions in North America paralleled those in Asia when the earth was in the "cooling off" stage. The similarity life in the specimens uncovered bears out this theory Dr. Chaney said. of plant and mammal Oldest Fair Leipzig. The Leipzig fair which opens its one thousand nine hundred session August doubtless the oldest fair in the world. It has been held without interruption for more than 700 years. The fair will comprise over 6,000 exhibits and will be attended by about 200,000 business men from 72 countries, including the United States. and seventy-eight- h 29 is Meaning of Astrology of is the "science reading the fate of human beings in the stars. Astrology has a very long history; the first attempts to read the future by this means were made by the Babylonians, and thence spread to India and China. It reached Europe in the Middle ages, and became so prevalent that, in the Fifteenth century, no court was complete without its astrologer. Most of the monarchs of those days had the stars read before they started ppon any plan or fight, says London Answers Magazine. Astrology must not be confused with astronomy, which is the science and study of the heavenly bodies and their relation to the earth. This also was a subject studied by the ancient races, and as early as the Seventh century B. C., students began to separate the true science of astrone of asomy from the trology. Astrology pseudo-scienc- For INDIAN HOUSE TRAILERS O MOTOR 8 FINANCE CO. 702 So. Main St. MORGAN Was. 6107 Grant Morgan, Mgr. Buy Only Canada Plans Its Own Factories for Munitions The British and Ottawa, Ont. Canadian government's huge armament programs may lead to early development of an important industry in Canada, it is believed here. The Canadian government has just placed orders for $10,000,000 worth of airplanes and other war equipment under its $35,000,000 defense program, and it is expected that they will be greatly augmented by orders for munitions from Great Britain. The department of defense, it is understood, believes that Canada has, or can develop, sufficient technicians and plant facilities to manufacture all types of armaments. It is even thought possible that guns up to caliber soon will be manufactured in the dominion. ng NEW and USED CARS AUTO LOANS and INSURANCE SEE ur arms-buildi- r GOOD COAL Call Hyland 2520 H D CASTLE GATE BLUE BLAZE ABERDEEN KING COAL Agents for Sentinel Stokers ft Prepared Stoker Coal LOBBS ch Prince Alberts most nifty nineties, United States senators wore Prince Alberts. The frock coat was a symbol of statesmanship and a beard was the mark of a man of maturity and substance. .i on the . JOB SUGAR BOUSE GOAL CO. Wore In the - t 871 Hyland 2520 - |