The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 186, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 11, 1933 Page: 3 of 4
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Name
Century Plant Used in \
Manufacture of Liquor j
The century plant belongs to an ex-
tremely useful family, the Amarylli-
daceae, the best known species of
which is the Agave Americana, some-^
times called the American aloe, re-
calls the New York Times.
The sap of a certain variety, when
fermented, yields a beverage resem-
bling cider, the Mexican pulque. By
distillation it yields two intoxicating
liquors widely used in Mexico—mescal
and tequila. The leaves are used for
feeding cattle; the fibers of the leaves
(called pita, sisal hemp or henequen)
are formed into thread, cord and ropes.
The leaves, roasted, were formerly
used for food by the Indians.
In the warmer parts of Europfe the
American aloe is cultivated as an ob-
ject of considerable utility. Plants
are set out in rows as hedges or fences,
especially in Spain, Portugal and Italy.
In some parts the leaves are employed
for scouring pewter, kitchen utensils,
and floors.
The accepted notion that the agave
does not bloom until it is one hundred
years old is erroneous. Its (lowering
entirely depends on the rapidity of its
growth. In hot countries it will flow-
er in a few years, but in colder cli-
mates, the growth being slower, it is
longer in arriving at maturity.
The stem of the century plant, which
bears the blossoms, rises from the cen-
ter of the leaves and when the plant
is in a vigorous state it frequently ex-
ceeds the height of 20 feet.
Spider as Webmaker Is
Marvel for Measurement
Although the most symmetrical web
ever made by a spider is not really
perfect, according to human standards,
scientists marvel at the accuracy with
which angles and distances are “meas-
ured.”
The spider starts her geometrical
web with perimeter lines connecting
objects around a space large enough
for her purpose, according to an ob-
server in the National Geographic
Magazine. From these lines she sus-
pends a few threads which converge
at the center of the future web. Now
begins the process of spacing the
radii.
She attaches the end of a new
radius at the center and runs along
a spoke already laid down, spinning
out the silk for the new one as she
goes. When she reaches the perimeter
line, she takes a fixed number of
steps along it and attaches the new
thread. This process is repeated un-
til all the desired radii are in place.
If the foundation lines should
chance to form a wheel rim accurate-
ly circular, the distance between
spokes would be equal; but, since the
perimeter is usually an irregular quad-
rangle and never circular, the spac-
ing varies somewhat.
Godhead of the Earth
Geo is the godhead of the earth and
every science based on its structure
and mass relates thereto. Geodesy is
the science of ea‘rth measurements,
and it is this measurement which Is
the particular function of the Survey.
But such nice measurements cannot
be related solely to the earth. As-
tronomy must have a part. The Survey
keeps in the field, when its appropri-
ations allow, parties of surveyors who
constantly check and recheck their
measurements and carry out the trian-
angulation on which the system is based.
The entire country is covered by a
network of these triangulations. In
the Survey’s offices at Washington, ex-
perts are incessantly going over the
field notes and making their immense
calculations which establish the shapes
and levels, the magnitude and the fig-
ure of the earth.-
Fishing for Lost Anchors
One of the strangest industries that
has grown up around large harbors
in various parts of the world, is that
of fishing for lost anchors. So valu-
able are these anchors that ships often
mark the place where they lose them
on their charts, and engage salvage
companies to recover them. It is not
at all uncommon for a ship to lose
an anchor, owing to the enormous
strain upon it and the chain. While
modern science has eliminated most
of the hazards of the sea, vessels must
still heave-to when mountainous waves
and . howling winds put too great a
strain on the hull for continued head-
way. There is then only one thing
left for a vessel to do—drop its heav-
iest anchors. Despite all modern de-
vices for ship’s safety, the anchor is
still the emergency brake.
American Boys Grow Fast
American boys grow faster than
those in any other country in the
world, says an investigator at the Uni-
versity of Virginia. Up until he is
seven years old his growth is much
greater than the German boy or the
boy of eastern Europe. From the age
of seven to the adult period he finds
that in many cases the growth of the
American lad is as much as 200 per
cent over the Europeans and 07 per
cent greater than the negro who is
his closest rival. His slowest period
of growth is from twelve to fifteen
years.
Natives Preserve Heads
Natives make models of the heads
of the important men of their country
after their death in southern Malekula
in the New Hebrides islands. If the
man is important enough they may
even glue his hair fast to the dummy
head and provide a body. The heads
are then placed on posts or kept in
the men’s clubhouses.
Progress Being Made
in Fight on Leprosy
Science is making definite head-
way against the “living death,” which
made so many people untouchable
during Biblical times, says Dr. E. L.
Walker of the University of Cali-
fornia medical school, as the out-
come of extensive investigations in
Hawaii.
A lazaretto outside of Garacas,
Venezuela, used to be (and may be
yet) a city of people who were le-
gally dead: men, women and chil-
dren, walled off from the world with-
out a ray of hope. Almost every me-
tropolis in the tropics has its laza-
retto, and not all lepers are-in the la-
zarettos ; many are at large, peddling
fruits and flowers on the streets. Be-
tween two and three million people
are still afflicted. And the sorrow of
it is that a few injections of soluble
sodium salts obtained from chaul-
moogfa oil might, even yet. cure half
of them.
Doctor Walker says leprosy is no
longer the dread disease it used to
be. There is now more danger, he
thinks, of germs getting into the sys-
tem through scratches in bare feet
from contaminated soil than from
physical contact with lepers* He
also found reason to believe that rats
carry germs from house to house and
the same rats might carry the germs
from ships to distant shores, provid-
ed port authorities should allow the
rats to land.—Los Angeles Times.
A Lady’s Letter
Selwyn, the wit, once declared at a
dinner that no woman could ever
write a letter without adding a post-
script. “Nonsense !” said Lady Garv-
ice. “My very next letter shall re-
fute it.”
Within the week Selwyn received a
missive from Lady Garvice. And be-
low her signature she had written:
“P. S. Who is right, now, you or I?”
—Boston Transcript.
Address
CUTTERJ^%
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40—38
Covered Bridge Era Passing
Requirements of Modern Transportation Doom Pictur-
esque Old Structures So Long Landmarks in
Vermont; Many Date From Revolution.
Well in the foreground of the
fugged scenic beauty of Vermont are
the covered bridges, which lead many
roadways over turbulent streams and
link the Green mountain past with
modern transportation. Thousands
of motorists -who have passed
througn the state will remember the
rumble from floor planks which
echoed into the roofed spans, ns they
passed from sunshine into gloom,
then out again into the sunlight.
These quaint• structures often served
as landmarks, some dating hack to
days of the Revolutionary war.
Previous to' 15)27 there were ne
tween ftOO and (>(K) bridges ot the cov-
ered type in Vermont. The flood of
that rear, however, destroyed more
than half of them Today there are
only 240 remaining Approximately
fifty have been replaced with mod-
ern structures during the last six
years.
The Vermont department of high-
ways. being aware not only of the
picturesque appeal of these ancient
structures, but of the sentiment at-
tached to them, has shaped a policy
to retain as many as practical from
an engineering standpoint. However
increasing volumes of travel and
mounting traffic speed have necessi-
tated the removal of some of these
spans, especially those on main-line
highways.
Almost all of flie covered bridges
have exceptionally strong trusses, but
the floor systems are usually too
weak for heavy motor traffic, it has
been reported in state wide surveys.
Often times new floor systems may
be installed without great expendi-
ture, it has been found, but the chief
locations of serious disintegration
are at the ends of the structures,
where wood supports have been in
contact with earth. In a number of
cases, it has been discovered, that
disintegration has progressed to such
an extent that the bridges must be
rebuilt. These structures are, of
course, very old and as time goes on
more anti more of them will become
unsound.
The principal, reason stressed for
the replacing with modern, epen
structures is rlie guarding of traffic
safety, The old bridges were built
during times when traffic was light
and slow In almost every instance
they were constructed at right angles
to the streams which they crossed,
with the result that dangerous,
sharp-angle turns existed at each
end of the structures. This, togeth
er with the fact they were narrow
and often low-arched, made many
unfit to meet the requirements of
modern travel.
Pride in these covered bridges has
become deep rooted in the state, how
ever, and when safety requirements
are fulfilled the spans ire not re-
placed unless the expense connected
with necessary repairs or mainte-
nance becomes prohibitive or loca
tion or design cause traffic hazards
which cannot he remedied.
An important move toward the
preservation of the bridges was made
by the Vermont legislative assembly
this year, when a law was enacted
which specified that the'state might
pr” two-thirds the cost of mainte
nance on state aid roads.
Although there is distinctive at-
tractiveness to the covered bridges,
traffic experts now declare that their
days are numbered. According to
unofficial figures motor travel in Ver-
mont this year has established a new
peak, and an increasing interest has
been evinced by motor vacationists
throughout the nation to tour the
Green mountain -territory. With these
facts ii. mind, road builders have as-
serted that in order to meet ever-
mounting traffic conditions, main line
covered bridges will have to be re-
placed in the futile. Yet there will
be a great many on secondary and
town roads which will continue to
support traffic and which will be pre-
served as long as possible. However
as no covered wooden bridges are
now being built, there will come a
day when these types of structures
will become extinct, as far as Ver-
mont is concerned.
Skyscraper Found to
Have Its Disadvantages
The aimless way in which sky
scrapers have been crowded together
not only in New York, but in other
cities, is causing much congestion
For that reason,- in the opinion of
Flavel Shurtleff, secretary of the na
tional conference on city planning,
the skyscraper is haying the fight of
its life to justify the enormous cost
with which it has burdened the tax-
payers for traffic facilities.
“Skyscrapers have been generall.v
accepted on tilts side of the Atlantic
as both necessary and desirable.'
writes Mr. Shurtleff in Progress Mag
azine. “Theoretically, the height of
buildings is immaterial, except that
height is deprecated when it creates
excessive bulk in relation to the traf
tie capacity of the area.
“Even in Texas, where land is so
abundant and cheap that fen acres
are allotted to one steer for pastor
age, at least four cities boast home
made sky lines, which are assumed
to be the hallmark of metropolitan
distinction Houston’s skyline in
eludes five buildings of more than
twenty stories in height, housing
thousands of tenants on less ground
than would suffice to nourish one
steer elsewhere in the state.”
Inspiration to All in
Really Spiritual Life
Something was said in my medi-
tations a few weeks ago of the art
of living, of which so many people
ki.ow so little, a writer in the Indian-
apolis News comments. It is one ot
the greatest of the arts, and also one
of the most difficult. Strong, clean,
pure, beautiful and self-denying liv-
ing is a supreme work of art and, as
such, a if inspiration to all who come,
and especially those who live within
the sphere of Its influence. Delight
as we may. and should, in a superb
literary style, it is after all. the su-
perb fife—and it may be superb, no
matter how humble—that exerts the
greater influence. Is this also “the
gift of God”? _ Very obviously not..
Such a life is the expression of char
acter, and character is the fruit ot
self-culture, self-renunciatmn and
self-discipline. Its cost of produc-
tion. measured in pain, sacrifice, suf-
fering and hard work, is enormous-
ami yel so great is the result—char-
acter—as to he worth all it costs.
Perhaps there are few of us who
have not known people who lived
nobly, seriously and yet joyously, un-
aware of their own goodness. We
:,ave also known people who were
selfish, flighty, without dignity, de
void of any sense of responsibilitj
for the outcome of their own life or
the lives of oihers. The first class is
made up of serious artists in the dif
ficnlt art of living. In the seconc
class arc the botchers—and there are
many of them. The most hopeless
folk are those who would and do di-
vorce beauty and morality and hold
that they are natural enemies. Such
misguided and misguiding souls know
little or nothing of “the beauty ot
holiness ”
Aye, That’s the Rub
“How much would you give for
hair like mine?”
“How much did you give?”
Poplar Lasted Long
Water does not affrays cause de-
cay of wood, as is shown by the fact
that a bell tower in Venice was built
on poplar piles in 900 A. D., and
these piles needed only re-enforcing
to be used when the tower was re-
built a few years ago.—Kansas City
Times.
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