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BEDSTEADS THAT SAVE SPACE! I Three-Story Sleeping Place# Are the Latest (dew to Be Plaeed on the Market. Two-story beds, that Is to say, bed steads containing two beds placed one above the other, have been in use for years, but something rather novel in this line is the three-story bed, con taining three beds, one above another, I which was placed upon the market not so long ago. These bedsteads, which are made entirely of iron, are so constriicted that they can be knocked down to oc cupy comparatively small space for j convenience in handling in shipment and transportation, \ the three-story | bed separating into nve parts, the head and foot sections and the three beds, I each bed section having a wire mat tress permanently attached to the side and end pieces. At the ends of each mattress frame are pins that fit into slots placed at suitable heights up the head and foot pieces. To set up a two or three-story bed one simply stands up the head and foot pieces and drops the pins on the mattress frames into the slots and there is the bedstead with its wire springs in each tier ready to receive the mattresses. Bedsteads of this sort are intended for camps, apartments, steamers or wherever the floor space is limited. "rt)KEN OF THEIR GOOD WILL 8ovlet Government Made Present of Entire Train to American* Whom They Excelled When the soviet government took control In the Urals, writes French Strother in the World's Work, the workmen at Kyshtlm organized their soviet. They waited on the American staff at the mines and said they were sorry, but a new day had dawned, in which the workers would be able to own and operate everything them selves. Regretfully, because they liked them, they would have to send their American friends away. Hie day of their departure arrived and the workmen and their wives and children ii mm *m v cocurieu iue siau, us a guani ui uuuur, to a special train which they had pro vided to take them away from Kysh tlm. The train was decked with flags and loaded with flowers and delicacies. Just as it was about to pull out, amid the friendly shouts of the newly en throned proletariat, the leader of the soviet In great excitement called the senior American back to the platform. "I almost forgot to tell you," he gasped. "The special train?don't bother to send It back; it also Is a present from the soviet to our good friends the Americans." European Airplane Service. Two Danish airplane companies have made application to the Danish government for permission to estab lish a regular passenger and mail service by airplane between Copen hagen^anC Warnemunde, Germany. The shortest and most U6ed.passen. ger route from Copenhagen to Berlin is by way of train to Gjedser, Den mark, two hours by ferry to Warne munde and theh by rail to Berlin. At present practically all of the Scandi navian and Baltic passengers and mail traffic to Germany is carried over this line, and during the last few months all trains have been crowded and the airplane service if established It will operate in co-operation with a German company, which will estab lish a regular service between Warne munde and Berlin. Electric Plant on Coal Fields. The modern method of building an electric-generating plant directly over a coal supply, and transmitting en ergy instead of fuel to the point of consumption, is to be employed by the state of Victoria, Australia, for supply ing the city of Melbourne. The field of brown coal to be used Immediately Is at Morwell, 80 miles away, and is accessible by open cutting. There is, it is estimated, 20.000.000,000 tons In the district and 150,000,000 tons in one square mile, enough to generate 100, 000 kilowatts for 150 years. A 40,000 t<? 50,000 kilowatt station will be built first, which will be sufficient for three years, but later the development will be extended, and finally include the utilization of the Kiewa river and oth er water powers.?Popular Mechanics Magazine. Corn-Cob Industry. The United States produces from 2, 500,000,000 to 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn every year. That means 18,000,' 000 or 20,000,000 tons of cobfi. A large percentage, of course, Is not available f^r manufacturing purposes, being scattered over the farms or fed with the com. Large quantities, however, are concentrated at central points and are easily available. The establish ment of a plant for the manufacture of corn-cob products In the Ohio valley Is being contemplated. Three shelters will furnish 24.000 tons of cobs a year. The plant will operate on a basis of 100 tons a day. It will turn out cob adhesive, furfural, acetate of lime and cellulose.' Concerts by Wireless. The Philadelphia wireless school gives a concert between 9:45 and 10 o'clock every night to everybody In n-lpolaic ran?p rhflt hoc ? recflvinp1 set and wishes to listen, and the music is enjoyed regularly by at least 5,000 persons sitting comfortably Id their homes, some of them as far away as New Brunswick, N. J. One man In Ches'.ntt Hill made his own receiving set and The outfit, outside of the re ceivers, cost him about $7.00, [50,000 HUNGRY BOYS AT GATE I I " * They are Clamoring To Get a Seat At The Harding Pie Counter Washington, Mar. 5.?Upwards of 50,000 appointments to public of fices carrying salaries aggregated more than $100,000,000 a year are to be made by President Harding. Some of these were made today, many others will be announced dur ing the next few months while still others will be made as the terms of present Democratic office holders ex pire. ! The first fruits from the shaking of the official 'plum' tree were.cabi npt. officers whose salaries are '$12, 000 a year each. Others to come in clude nearly a dozen ambassadors, whose salaries, are $17,500 each many ministers at $10,000 each, as sistant .secretaries, federal judges, attorneys and marshalls, custom col lectors, members of various govern ment boards and commissions and postmasters by the thousands. In contrast to the huge patronage roll of Mr. Harding are the appoint ive perquisites of Vice-President Coolidge, whose mmediate appoint ments comprise only his secretary, clerk, page boy and a private tele graph operator. Their salaries total $7,700 year. Tht vice-president him I self receives $12,000. As is the usual ciistom, ambassa I dors and ministers now serving are expected to present their resigna tions to President Harding imme diately so he may have a free hand in creating his own diplomatc corps. There are 44 ambassadors and mini sters but* some of these who have risen from the ranks in the diplo matic service may be retained and G?prW? 19% TW Hw 4 tJqjrnkmm markets now chandise at tl are down to . / In meeti: past fall and and thus wer of a season b New Spring Styles in You'll be . p1 ufgjgiggEEEEEJBJSJHJSISIBJBJBJSJSJSJSEHSJSJc practically all those now in service will continue in officc until succes sors are named to qualify. Among ambassadorship regarded as certain to be filled by Mr. Hard ing are those in Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Belgium Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Peru. Many new ministers also are to be appointed and when full relations are re-established with Germany Au stria, Mexico and Bulgaria, appoint ments also will be made in those countries. Among ministers now holding of-1 fice who have come up from the ranks in diplomatic ervice aretWil liam Phillips, at the Hague; Hugh Gi'bsen, at Warsaw; Richard Crane, at Prague; Joseph G. Crew, at Copenhagen; Peter Augustus Jay, at Salvador; Hoffman Philip, at Bago ta, Colombia, and Arthur Bailey j Blanchard, at Port-Au-Prince; Haiti. Among appointments in immedi ate or early prospect are seven members of the shipping board at $12,000 each; two members of the interstate commerce commission at $12,000 each; five members of the federal reserve board at $12,000; three members of the tariff commis sion at $7,500 each; two members of the federal trade commission at $10 000 each; some of the nine members of the railroad labor board at $10, 000, and four members of the feder al farm loan board at $10,000 each. Four of the nine supreme court justices also may be appointed by President Harding. Chief. Justice White alld Associate Justices Mc Kenna, Day and Holmes now ate eligible, by both age and length cf service, to voluntary retirement. , selecting our new sp le same moment whe where they should be I ng the unsettled cond winter, we revised ou e able to reduce our iy any merchant. Kuppenhei delighted with the ne mat PARKE !l2J2MSJ3ISJSJ3J3JSJSJSISJ3JSM3M3ISJSI3MSIS.f3JS 'The salary of the chief justice is ! $15,000 and that of asso^ate jus- i tices $14,500. '' j Postmasters comprise the bulk of ] Presidential patronage. There are nearly 50,000 postma.sterships ic- < mairiing in the Presidential class, a/.? < though President Wilson placed < man/ on the civil service. All have four year terms; and it is estimated , that President Harding will appoint something like 15,000 during the next year as the Republican majori tv in the Senate refused confirms tion to several thousand postmaster!! , as veil as other officials including; , members of the shipping board, dur ing the last session of congress. Although not classed technically as patronage, the President has the selection of officias for many choice places in the army and navy through ( recommendations for promotion. A- , mong these are chiefs of War De- ( partment bureaus, including the ^ chief of staff, and eleven major and 22 brigadier generals. Selections of general officers made by President j Wilson -were held up in the senate this year in the Republican blockade of Mr. Wilson's nominations, and | these appointments now will be njac e by Mr. Harding. I;i various executive nranches of the government, the Department of Jus ice leads in patronage, with a roll of about $130,000 including a solicitor general at $10,000 one s.? sist int to the attorney general at 1 $9,000, seven other assistants at $7,- : 500 and solicitors for the other de payments. In the Treasury Department, tie 1 principal plums are trea^irer at $3, 000; the Commissioner of Internal Revenue a $10,000; the Prohibition < Enforcement commissioner at $7,- ' The mos if EVER new s mnrp _cs young men th The reason: merchandise, ring stock; and we ai n the clothing market itions which existed ii r. prices to even less 1 stocks to a point, se imer and Sty :w models?the grace erials; and the low pri R & JSMSIEI3JSJ2JSJSIt2I3ISMSISfSJSMiSJSfSJSMSMSJSJc 500; the Comptroller of the* Trea sury at $6,000; the Director of the Mint at' $5,000; and several depart mental auditors at $4,000. Four assistants to the Postmaster General are the best jobs in the post affile department subject to political change. In the Interior Departm^pt, an as sistant secretary and commissioner of lands, patents, penisons and edu :ation at $5,000 each, a commission er of Indian affairs at $3,500 and di rectors of mines and geological sur vey at $o,ouu eacn are tne cream 01 appointments. In the Department of Laoor, an assistant secretary at $5,000; com missionerg of labor and lighthouses at $5,000 each, the director of the census at $6,000; the immigration commissioner general at $5,000; the commissioner of fisheries at $6, 000 and the chief of the children's bureau at $5,000 comprise the prin cipal patronage. tfhree members of the Civil Ser vice Commission?one at $4,500 and( two at $4,000?and a public printer" at $6,000 are other choice presiden-j tial plums. Also there are Mexican and Canadian commission members with big salaries. Many positions of honor without salaries also are to be filled by Pres ident Harding. Among these are appointments to the commission of fine art!}, the national advisory com mittee on aeronautics, the geogra phic board, the federal electric rail ways commission, the^ pan-American commission and the Hague court. We spend $200,000,000 more for cigarettes than for the salaries of all the tefachers in the United States. >t important a iteresting spi nouncemen ev< in our history have eason in a conditior itisfying clothes-servic ian this spring season * The decks are cl and- nnr hnvpr is in e able to present fr< has become stabiliz V n the clothing indust :han the downward fdom, if ever reache Ieplus Good and smart lines?the ces. REESE iISJ2JSJ3MSMSMSJSMSM3M3JSI3J3MSMSJEJS COTTON SITUATION ASSEMBLES BANKEK& Columbia, March 5?The executive committee of the South Carolina. State Bankers association, at a meet ing in Columbia Wednesday decided to call a meeting of the entire asso ciation, at an early date, to be held in Columbia for a discussion of the cotton situation and a program far ? > acreage reduction. The bankers take a serious view of the situation audi hold that unless the farmers, large and small, reduce their cotton age this year, cutting their produc tion in half, the South will be ruined. Cotton Bill Alive. Columbia, March 5.?The bill te create a cotton marKeting bureau, which the senate a few days ago vot ed to continue to next year, is back on the senate calendar today mni stands a chance of passage. (\n mo tion of Senator Johnstone, of New berry, who moved to continue it ? few days ago, the bill was restore! to its place on the calendar. The bill would provide for cotton graders throughout the state and its advocat es sfate that it will save the farmer* millions each year, guaranteeing high er grades for their cotton than they get on thevsale of their product. . V-i Abolish Budget Commission. * I . 1 Columbia, March 5.?The senate Wednesday oight voted to abolish the state budget commission, created by the 191j9 legislature. Rivets for structural iron work may now be heated by electricity Experiments have shown that lime water is the best preservative fer eggs. tnd most ring an it we've made r we entered a 1 to render a :e to men and 1921. eared of old the northern ;sh, new mer ed and prices / - ry during the market trend, d, at the end f5J2JSJMSfSJHSJB/B/SJSJSfS/SJ2J5J5JSJSISI21BJ39ti