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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD !P'"g iic hacience . StVk? rs fe "g S aendeServcc ce Service. 'iositj pseudo-scientifi- t. ionial Building and Other Houses Within ding, Utah. Is of a trail over which 'Johnson, custodian of .adtf tural Bridges National tent, Utah, has walked ty. than 20 years, he emeijjcovered a ledge full 0 01 ustoric houses, includ-y- t rare find, a kiva or ss nial building with an j complete roof and h apparently the origi-:dfor entrance still wmed . actk-r- e I er e. ihnson was engaged In re-th- e trail between the Caroline and bridges two I aree natural arches which knal monument was estab-- o protect and lunchtime m in a narrow canyon In Jere Is little sunshine at this he year. ucky Find on a Cliff. J the sun bright and warm 9 about 30 feet above, he up to eat his lunch in hine. ine my surprise, he says, saw a ledge full of houses, yards of the trail over x'have walked for 20 years, one large kiva with the g 'Qst complete and a fine in the hatchway with willows stiU holding the lelKh place. ,fr:,Well Preserved Houses. ;'es the kiva, Mr. Johnson lad-Zdin- 11 there are two weU--' yto(, Asp. d stone and adobe houses 1 a roofs but walls which state of preservation. cc ary,E are A .)arrel shaped structure gainst one t e houses. Dr'ight rooms with walls of ct ',onry but partly torn down ledge. There is a lot i usi!' on nnllffl pottery and flaked stone Tl soround. I picked up six ar-a- t Yc nts and several broken sore the recent conference at Princeton university on molecular structure, however, a true scientific basis for linking magnetism and life was discussed. And the link appears to take place in the blood and makes possible the bodys respiration. Dr. Worth H. Rodebush of Illinois universitys chemistry department, told of the role the magnetic property of oxygen plays in life. Oxygen, he pointed out, supports respiration by permitting the oxidation of the bloods impurities at relatively low temperatures. But if it supported aU forms of combustion as it does respiration the whole world would shortly burn up. Oxygen Behaves Queerly. Something of the paradoxical behavior of oxygen is shown, Dr. Rodebush Indicated, by its position in the periodic table of the chemical elements, where it stands between the inert gas nitrogen, on one hand, and the extremely reactive gas fluorine, on the other. Oxygen, in other words, has a considerable amount of chemical activity and affinity and yet not too much. A possible clue to- - the paradoxical behavior of oxygen is found in the fact, declared Dr. Rodebush, that,' of aU the common elementary diatomic gases, oxygen alone is paramagnetic, gathering in a magnetic field, and hence reacts readily with other magnetic materials, such as the iron in the hemoglobin of the blood. Not Easily Explained." Because of the magnetic characteristic of oxygen, explained Dr. Rodebush, it does not react so readsubily with the stances like cellulose and the hydrocarbons. And thus spontaneous combustion does not occur at orYet within dinary temperatures. the human body, the reaction between oxygen and hemoglobin, by which the impurities in the blood are burned, takes place readily without raising the temperature above body heat. . - oprov? Irugc ' its fi in" History Is Traced in Adobe Bricks of Old Missions a ot I rairie 5 Grow at phishing Rate es Roots are at rate of two the IZEN an day by average a 24 of one of the wild j grasses of the West, the plant is two years UJfhas a total of nearly les of roots, probing a mass of soil seven 'eep and four feet Jhington. tinreas lotuw figures on the root mile-jl- d to crested wheat grass were 1 at the meeting of the r Society of Washington by imisi lychenko of the University IanVch'ewan- - Mr. Pavlychenko in Ukrainia, but for sev- rirv. as been a Canadian v cum -- i 1 tt a Wheat Grass Valuable. wheat grass, the study, was from western Siberia into ''rati0 area several decades means for combating i itiier: a taiitoich were spreading at an tne-- ' rate in the old cattle coun-Soi- v Srass proved to be not last ei ry successful weed control also a i wonod forae plant but itheiMly efficient binder of the nst be wiad erosion that mxHi Ii st storms. i; n ke really thorough of the cord-likroots :ass, Mr. Pavlychenko onlud 1S8 jo I sub-speci- in-)- Adobe Berkeley, Calif. bricks from ruins of a Dominican Mission in Lower California have preserved evidence of a smallpox epidemic that ravaged the Indian population in 1781. Two California scientists who have been examining tricks from old missions made the discovery of bones in bricks from San Vicente Mission. It is supposed that builders of the mission must have shoveled in bone fragments from unmarked graves of smallpox victims when they were getting earth to make the brick. Yield Many Clues. Mission bricks are yielding many clues to early western history, according to the two brick investigators, Prof. G. W. Hendry of the University of California, and M. K. Bellue of the State Department of Agriculture. On some bricks are footprints of men, dogs, coyotes, birds; and in other bricks have been found nut shells, leather trimmings, pottery, copper fragments, and seed of in the plants grown in early days west. African Skull Cives Man a New Relative A prehistoric London. job, has come skull that human digging of a geologist Africa East pro' delicate technique of a to light in vides man with a brand-nedel- e SUE? relative for hi3 proud old Rowns Invent New family tree. Batki . combin-:,.ir$;itie- w i yl Instruments I j 1 33 An instrument the oigan, which sounds of oriental '"as well as those of music, has been in- by A. S. Ogoltevets, TFl ave of this instrument intervals. -- Arated before the Academy wes of the U. S. S. R the fo ;0 fument won high praise, "Ucial Soviet news agency, ipi Ifjrir nuMeal inventors have proby using ,i,t ni' to intensify the sound of p'll1 teres"S results ;M" guitar music. Recent elec pciui'tal instruments introduced Emorilon, Violena and & if ui 3SSI" I By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline nonter Enthusiastically hailing the skull as "of the greatest importance, Dr. L. S. B. Leakey, noted British anthropologist, gives his opinion that this early African was an entirely different genus of man from any heretofore known. Dr. Leakeys verdict, if generally accepted, means that an unsuspected extinct branch of the human race is now known; and that this distinct type of man, low in type, was among a number of genera and on species of humans who were earth, but who died out, leaving only Die species Homo sapiens to which all mankind alive belongs. The skull, which Dr. Leakey has examined In Berlin at the Natural History Museum by special arrangement with the discoverer, was unearthed during a scientific expedition to the Eyassi lake basin in Tanganyika territory. know, Ive' heard it said that drowning is one of 1 the pleasantest ways there is to die. I dont believe it. Ive seen men die in half a dozen ways. None of them were pleasant, even to watch. But it strikes me Id take any of them in preference to drowning. 7"OU Dickering for Wool Prepared by National GeocrrapMc Society, aslnngton, I). C. W N U Service. may stroll through the lanes of Canton, the streets of Peiping, the bazaars of Cairo and Stam-b&u- l, the climbing alleys of Algiers, and the vaulted souks of Tunis; but Fez, Morocco, so near to the Atlantic ocean, no doubt will seem to you the most oriental city of them YOU all. few years ago, it would surprise a visitor to see any but Moor, Jew, or Negro in the crowded souks of Fez. To discover a French officer was a novelty. And it was stranger Eustill to behold a ropean girl standing before a silk merchants booth calmly feeling a length of shining material between finger and thumb. . But now, sightseers are not so rare. Alien women winder safely through the dim and crowded alleys of Fez, where, two dozen years A well-dresse- d ago, Frances sons officers, sol- were cruelly diers, and civilians massacred. Yet this change has been achieved without harshness or injustice to the native inhabitants. Their prejudices are ' deferred to, their religion and customs not interfered with. No Christians may enter their mosques. No European is allowed to visit their beautiful theological colleges, by the resident generals orders, because of some visitors' irreverent behavsight-seein- g ior. There are the shops of the sellers of belts for women beautiful girdles, two or three inches broad, of padded velvet heavily worked in gold wire. There are - the venders of leather articles large, square, red bags with rings by which tney are slung like satchels over the shoulders; long fringed bags stamped in quaint designs or worked with colored thread; purses, and adorned notecases, with cut-ou- t designs on a colored background. Most of these leather articles smell like polecatsl Baying Heelless Slippers. In the Street of the Slipper Sellers are stacked columns of heelless some with fronts beautifully ornamented with gold, silver, or silk embroidery; others just plain yellow leather down-at-heslippers. This Eastern footgear is so speedily worn out that the trade in it should be lucrative. You may chance upon a wild rush of men crowding about some shops, clamorous and holding out eager hands to snatch at long lengths of thrust one within another. Then you will see them scurrying from these wholesale establishments, for such these booths are, to the shops of the retail merchants. One rushes up to the grave, bearded vender sitting floor, and thrusts on his counter-sho- p a yard of yellow slippers at him. The retail man looks at them languidly, shakes his head, and the middleman hurries on to the next, to be succeeded by another and another until the squatting figure in the square pigeonhole makes his purchase to replenish his stock. Such a scene, and an excited aucmob of women at an open-ai- r tion of wool mattresses screaming out offers, are the two most animated glimpses o native life that the souks can give. The Street of the Coppersmiths resounds with the musical clang of their hammers on the rounded pots. The Street of the Silk Sellers glows with color. The Street of the Brass Workers shines with the golden brightness of the artistically shaped vessels, huge kettles, the stemmed banqueting dishes with their tall conical covers, and the hanging lamps vith colored glass sides. Then there is the Street of the Dyers. Half - naked figures, faces, arms, and bodies stained all colors, stir big earthenware pots of bright-hue-d liquids, dip into them or haul out cloths, masses of silk thread, or lengths of flimsy material The camera rarely can help the pen in depicting the quaint native life in the souks, so gloomy are they under the shading mattings overhead, so incessant the coming and going of the passing throngs that will not halt their hurrying steps. Beautiful Mosque There are things of greater moment in Fez than the varied crowds and the fascinating souks. A sudden turn in a narrow covered lane, and arched door you see a wide-opethat gives a view into a marvelous mosque, the Karouiine. A vestibule glowing with bright tiled walls and floor, a btoad, central, tiled court, triple-foldin- e ow. '1 iing Drowning in the Dark At - wjo; AIIAT human life i3 in some way bound up with has long beer, a speculation of man. Personal magnetism is a c phrase which shows one form of this type of speculation. i: to Trail re Design in Cutwork the great force of magnetism Ad in Utah ant, f c Striking Wild Rosa University of Illinois Scientist Tells IIow r WNU Service. ent Ruins Are think Oxygens Magnetic Property Plays Role in Life g cross-legge- n d In a Fez Market. a graceful fountain spouting water, a forest of carved pillars 270 of them with their long vistas showing masses of white and black. There white - robed men kneel, swaying forward and back together, bending until their foreheads touch the tiled pavement, rising to their feet, bowing, sinking to their knees again, prostrating themselves with faces to the ground all in perfect unison. And never a sound! Picture the scene on a Friday when fifteen or twenty thousand Moslem men fill this great mosque. Women are not admitted, except into a corner of it But you will see them come to the gateways there are fourteen of these and, putting their heads timidly just inside, kiss the lintels of the open doors. t The Karouiine mosque was begun in the Ninth century and finished in the Eleventh; but successive sultans further embellished it One of its gates, covered with bronze ornaments, dates from 1136. Besides serving as a place of worship, it is the seat of the Fez Mohammedan university, to which hundreds of students from all parts of Morocco flock to study theology, grammar, Moslem law and jurisprudence from . its renowned professors. There are many other mosques in Fez, but none can compare with this, the largest in Africa. Madrasahs, ecclesiastical colleges, and Zaouias, seats of religious confraternities, abound. The former are .generally housed in beautiful buildings. The . bronze gates and the tiled halls and courts are all that can be seen by the Infidel now, unless he be highly favored. The many fonduks dotted about the capital, like the caravansaries of farther East, are the oriental equivalents of our hotels. Many are architecturally fine and date back hundreds of years. Only Hotels Are Fonduks. You enter one through a massive gateway leading into a square courtyard surrounded by two or threestoried buildings. On the ground floor are lock-u- p shops in which the traveling merchant can display and sell the goods he has brought, perhaps from distant lands. Carved wood galleries run round the upper stories and off them open rooms in which the wayfarer can lodge until he has sold off his stock or finished his business and is ready for the road again. No food is supplied. The common fonduk has stables on the ground floor or else the travelers horses, mules, camels, and donkeys are picketed round the court, making the place noisome with stench. A curious relic of the past is to be seen on the front of one of the houses in the Tala Souk. From the ornamented plaster and wood facade Jut out thirteen carved wooden beams; on the end of each rests a large green bronze flattened bowl . or gong. Above each is a narrow Window in alignment. All these are supposed to have formed part of a timepiece constructed in 1337 and the are called in consequence . Clock of Bou Inania. Through Fez rushes tumultuously the little River Fez. You will cross it over one bridge in the heart of the city without noticing it; for the bridge is lined with shops and seems just part of an ordinary souk. For a space the stream runs swift in a deep chasm of houses. From the garden of one a solitary date palm rises, sharply outlined against the sky. . Flenty of Water There. The city seems well supplied with water, which rushes noisily underground down the steep slopes; and you wonder how the water carriers do such a good trade with their skin bags and the two bright brass cups linked by a chain to their belts. For all day long you see them giving drink to the pigeonhole shopkeepers and the passers-by- . In a little recess in the wall beside the door of a dentists house (you cannot fail to recognize of an Arab for he displays a small glass case filled with molars and grinders that he has pulled) a column of clear water bubbles up fiercely like a geyser. It gushes out of the spouts of the t.Ied wall fountains; sparkling jets shout up in the marble basins in the courls of the mosques; it into the rectangular stem baths at the doors of the sacre buildings where the Faithful pe form their ablutions before entern to pray. - Yes drowning is bad enough. But its one thing to drown in the open water where youve at least got a chance to fight for your life, and another thing to face the sort of drowning Mack Tanner did shut up in the dark, in a place from w'here there was no escape. In a place where fighting for your life wouldnt even so much as prolong the agony. Mack lives in New York City. In September, 1917, he was working at the boat building trade, over in the big shipyards at Tort Newark. Mack had been woiking on the job about three months when it happened and what happened was that he was assigned to tighten the vacuum tanks of a ship steel plated inside of one of the water-proo- f they were building over there at the yard. Water Was Flooding the Tank. The tank was down below the lowest deck of the ship. Mack crawled down through the hatch and into the interior. The Inside of that tank was honeycombed w ith heavy steel plates three feet square, and In the center of each plate was a hole just about man to crawl Uirough. big enough for a medium-size- d Mack worked his way down to the place where he was to do his work. That was about twenty-fivfeet from the place he had entered the hatch cover that closes the tank. He went about his job of tightenat it an hour or more and had the work half finished ing plates-i-w- as when suddenly he looked up and saw water coming through one of the plate openings. Mack s wrung his flashlight over on that trickle of water and immediately he knew what had happened. His heart stopped beating at the thought. They were FLOODING THE TANKS to test them, unaware that anyone was down in them at work. ' Says Mack: I realized that my only chance lay in getting ' to the hatch cover opening where I came in. It took me only about two minutes to crawl through the various holes and reach the batch, but it seemed like a lifetime. When I got there, I got ' another shock one that was greater than the first. The opening' was shut tight and bolted down and the water valve was ' open full force. tooth-drawe- d r, flow-freel- y cut-wor- k. your name and address. . e , blank-walle- Simplicity of design simplicity of needlework combine to make these wild roses effective in Do the flowers in applique, too its very easy to combine with cutwork. Use these designs on sheets and pillow cases on scarfs and towels on a chair back. Dress up your own home or make them as gifts. Pattern 1337 contains a transfer pattern of a motif 6!Y by 20 inches, two motifs 5 by lUi inenes and pattern pieces for the applique patches; illustrations of all stitches used; material requirements; color suggestions. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave, New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, No One Could Hear His Calls for Help. Mack started to shout for help, but it was no use. The men up on deck were all busy, and the noise of a half dozen riveting guns drowned , , Skat! dear, whos broken my lovely china vase? The cat, maam, replied the new maid. Whose cat? Oh, Oh, lor, havent you got one? So Thats Who Passenger (to cook on me, sir, are you the mate? Cook Oim not. Oim the man that cooks the mate. ship)-r-Te- ll Ribbon and All My dog took first prize at the cat show. How did he manage that? Well, he look the prize cat. Farsighted Gamekeeper (to friend who has missed a rabbit) Why didnt you shoot that rabbit? I didnt see it till it was out of sight. The Opening Was Shut Tight and Bolted Down, out all other sounds. Frantic with fear now, Mack began to bang on the steel deck with a wrench he had brought out with him. That did no good either. Up above dozens of men were banging and hammering, too. Macks pounding couldn't be distinguished from any of the rest of them. By that time, the water was getting high. Mack was lying on his back with his head as close to the hatch cover as he could put The water was up to his chin, and his only hope the hope that someone would open the hatch cover was such a dim one that Mack didnt believe, himself, it would ever come true. There was only one thing to be glad for. Macks helper wasn't with him that day. He had hurt his hand the day before, and Just a short while ago'had gone up to the infirmary to have it treated. That was a break for Mack's helper. But it was small consolation to a man who knew he was about to die himself. it Then the Rush of Water Stopped. The water was up to Macks chin, and it didnt take two minutes for it to get UP TO HIS NOSE. At that moment, Mack gave up all Hellhole alive. hope of ever getting out of that cast-iroAnd then all of a sudden the rush of water through the valve stopped abruptly. What did that mean? Certainly something was wrong. The water was still an inch or two from the top of the tank, and in any kind of a vacuum tank test, they filled those tanks right up to the top. Whatever the trouble was, it was a break for Mack. It gave him a few more precious seconds of life. But maybe he couldnt hold on even to those few precious seconds. The air was bad in the few inches of space still left in the big tank. And the strain and tension were beginning to tell. Black spots weie floating before his eyes. He Mack didnt know why he was fighting now to remain conscious. was fighting. It wasnt going to do him any good. It must have been sheer instinct, at that stage of the game, that spurred him on to keep-i- i g his head up and out of the water. Then Mack began hearing sounds on the deck above him. Hope leaped in his breast once more. Were they opening that hatch cover? THEY WERE! The hatch cover came off. Light streamed Into the dark tank. That much Mack saw and then the black curtain fell in front of his eyes. Ilis body relaxed. IIis head slopped spinning, lie was unconscious. n ' IIow His Helper Saved Him. When Mack came to he was in the shipyard hospital wondering what had happened to save him from being drowned like a rat down there in the tank. He didn't find that out until his foreman came to visit him. Then he learned the whole story. IIis helper the one who had gone to the hospital to have his was hand fixed up came back to the ship and saw that the hatch-cove- r closed. He went looking for Mack and couldn't find him. Then he realized what had happened and ran to the foreman. The foreman had shut off the water and opened llie cover. And there wus Mack too weak to hold up his head and save his own life. The men had to drag him out to save him from drowning. Mack was in the hospital a week after that episode, and he missed seeing the launching of the ship that had so nearly cost him his life. But that didnt bother him. As a mutter of fact he hopes he never secs the doggone tub again. WNU Thomas The Beryl known as the stone of St. Thomas, is one of the varieties The Chinese beof the emerald. hoved that this stne worn In the ears would cuie deafness. It was also a charm against treachery. The Italians of the M.dile ages his it brought the wearer The Slone hearts desue. of St. Srrvlc. Largest Dlnosaurlan Reptile An Atlanlosaurus is the largest dinosaurian reptile of which any remains have been preserved. The femur Is more than 8 feet in length. The size of the bone indicates a length for the anim-- of nearly 100 feet and a height of 30 feet. The remains were obtained in the Jurassic strata of Colorado. Don't Sleep When Gas Presses Heart If you want to really GET RID OF GAS and terrible bloating, dont expect to do It by Just doctoring your stomach with harsh, Irritating alkalies and gaa tablets." Moat GAS la lodged In the stomach and upper Intestine and is duo to old poisonous matter In ths conatipated bowels that aro loaded with bacteria. If your constipation la of long stand. Ing, enormous quantities of dangerous bacteria accumulate. Then your digestion la upset. GAS often presses heart and lungs, making life miserable. You can't eat or sleep. Your head aches. Your back aches. Your com. and pimply. Your plexion la la sallow foul. You aro a tick, grouchy, preath wretched, unhappy person. YOUR SYSTEM IS POISONED. f Thousands of sufferers have found In Adlerika the quick, scientific way to rid their systems of harmful bacteria. Adlerika rids you of gas and cleans foul poisons out of BOTH upper and Give your bowels a lower bowels. REAL cleansing with Adlerika, Get rid of GAS. Adlerika does not gripe la not habit forming. At all Leading Druggists, Character and Intellect Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. It. W. Emerson. Now That Colds Are Here Again Bo what you eaa to prevent cough, j congestion and bronchial irnlatioa by using Denver Mud. A remedy that doctors havo been prescribing for years. Just spread it on. cover and see how promptly rebel .will come. Excellent lor burns, bruises, skin irritation. 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