WAX 



WAYNE 



draws back again. Thus, they are caused to 

 vibrate rhythmically. To the eye, it seems that 

 the water moves forward, but this is not true. 

 The separate particles of water, instead of ad- 

 vancing with the advancing wave, simply rise 

 and fall on the same spot. This fact may be 

 shown by tossing a light substance into a pool 

 whose surface is ridged with waves. It will 

 alternate between the crests and the hollows, 

 but will not be borne forward by the passage 

 of the wave. Even the greatest and most pow- 

 erful waves, such as those in the sea and the 

 Great Lake-, do not cause water to move for- 

 ward with their motion. Not all waves are 

 Me, like those that travel over the surface 

 of liquids. Sound, heat and light, for example, 

 are propagated in waves that are invisible and 

 are known only by their results. These waves 

 reach the senses from some body which is 

 k or otherwise agitated. See SOUND; 

 HEAT; LIGHT. 



WAX, a solid, easily melted substance ob- 

 tained from various animal, vegetable and min- 

 eral sources, and used extensively for com- 

 mercial purposes. The most common variety is 

 beeswax, secreted and used by insects to build 

 their cells. It is yellow and has a honeylike 

 odor, but when purified and bleached becomes 

 white, odorless and tasteless. Certain kinds of 

 bark lice, particularly the Chinese wax insect, 

 secrete a similar wax. Upon the leaves of a 

 number of plants, among them the wax palm, 

 a varnishlike substance is found, from which 

 fine waxes and lacquers are made. Bayberry 

 candles are made from the wax which covers 

 the berries of the candleberry, or wax myrtle. 

 Paraffin wax, which has dozens of practical 

 uses, is obtained from a distillation of petro- 

 leum. Spermaceti, extracted from the oil taken 

 from the whale, is largely used as an ingredient 

 in toilet creams. Wool wax, the sweat of the 

 sheep, is obtained in the wool-washing process. 

 - a dark brown substance uith a di~mrcc- 

 able odor, and is used as a dressing for lc 

 good* 



Wax, in all its varieties, is insoluble in water, 

 l>u t dissolves slightly in alcohol and ether. At 

 about 80 it softens and can be easily molded, 

 while at 145 it melts. 



KH*t<Mi subject*. The more important kinds 

 of wax. and their properties and uaes, are dis- 

 cussed In thene volumes under the following 

 headings : 



Beeswax 



berry 

 Paraffin 



Spermaceti 



WAX MYRTLE, mur't'l, or WAX TREE. 

 See CANDLEBERRY. 



WAXWING, a beautifully-tinted, soft- 

 plumaged bird with a high, pointed crest, a 

 band of yellow across the end of its tail, and 

 red, waxlike drops on its wing feathers. The 

 familiar cedar waxwing is found throughout 

 North America, nesting as far north as Labra- 

 dor and Southern Alaska. It is commonly seen 

 in small flocks, which fly quietly about and feed 

 on berries and fruits, or dart from some high 

 perch for n the manner of flycatchers. 



The birds build a bulky nest in fruit or shade 

 trees. The eggs are three to five in number, of 

 a pale bluish-gray or putty color, speckled with 

 black. The Bohemian waxwing, a slightly 

 larger bird, is found in far northern latitudes 

 in both hemispheres, nesting within the Arctic 

 Circle. In winter it appears in the United 

 States as far south as Kansas. 



WAY 'CROSS, GA., the county seat of Ware 

 County, situated in the southeastern part of the 

 state, about sixty miles from the Atlantic 

 Ocean. Jacksonville is fifty-seven miles south- 

 east, and Savannah is ninety-seven miles north- 

 east. The city is served by the Atlantic Coast 

 Line, the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic 

 Waycross & Southern and the Waycross & 

 Western railroads. In 1910 the population was 

 14,485; in 1916 it was 19,869 (Federal estimate). 

 Waycross is the center of a fertile agriciilt 

 section in which are grown cotton, fruit, li\< 

 stock, pecans and supar cam-, excellent syrup 

 being made from the last-named pro: 

 There is an abundance of timber, and conse- 

 quently the city has larjic- sawmills, cal 

 works, shingle and lath mills, turpentine pi 

 and one of the largest cypress sawmills in the 

 South. It also has the largest railway car and 

 repair shops in this section of the country, 

 those of the Atlantic Coast I I county 



courthouse, post office, Bunn office building, a 

 high school and th Y. M. C. A - arc 



noteworthy buildings. In addition to the pub- 

 lic schools, the city has Bunn-lVll In>ntute. 

 iimli r Baptist supervision. M 



WAYNE, wane, AjlTBam (1745-1796), an 



pit not, called "Mad Antl 



Wayne because of his reckless bravery. He 



was th< h. M. nf one of the most daring attacks 



of the Revolutionary War, the recapture of 



Stony Point. Wayne was bora in Easton, Pa. 



II- MiM.i in the Pennsylvania legislature, 



la regiment for the Canadian campaign in 



1775, w:i> in command at Ticondcroga, led a 



if lira ndy wine, and commanded the 



