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jjumonros. Department. A Bluffer.?A colored nutn named Sam had worked for his boss about five years and in that time he had just about run things. His good friend Ben said to him one day: "Now, Sam, you have worked up there and made your boss rich. You ought to ask for more money or else you quit. You just go up there and tell him: 'Look here, boss, you pay me more or else." " ' Sam tried his friend's advice while sweeping the next morning. He began. "Say boss, you'll have to gib me mo' money to' dis job." "Well, Sam, I'll see about it," replied the boss. "See about nothin', you pay mo' or else." "Pay more or else? Else what?" The boss* eyes flashed and his tone was sharp. Sam's eyes blinked as he detected his boss' anger, and in a soft voice he replied, "Else I wuck fo' de same money." Eyo For Businoss.?Jimmy Clerken 'well and the boy next door were discussing Christmas and Christmas j presents. They had mentioned most of the articles that they would like to receive themselves and then turned to the presents it was necessary to give to other people. "What are you going to give your I mother for Christmas?" asked Jimmy. "Oh, I don't know!" was the reply. "I thought of giving her a paperknife." "A paperknife!" echoed Jimmy scornfully. "What's the good of that?" "Well, what are you going to give yours?" questioned Jimmy's friend. "Oh," answered the young sage wisely, "I believe in preparing for war in times of peace; I'm going to give her a pair of s!ippers with soft soles." if- _ Boom!?At a certain church it is the custom of the clergyman to kiss the bride after the ceremony. A young woman who was about to be married did not relish the prospect, and instructed her prospective husband to tell the clergyman that she did not wish him to kiss her. The bridegroom obeyed. "Well, Harry," said the young woman, when he appeared, "did you tell the minister that I did not wish him to kiss me?" "Yes." "And what did he say?" "He said that in that case he would charge only half the usual fee." The Nut.?A man visited the village shoe store and purchased a pair of shoes. A day or two afterward he encountered the shopkeeper, who asked him if the shoes were comfortable. "Oh, yes," was the reply; "they're quite comfortable." "Well," said the vendor, "if that is so, why do you shuffle so slowly?" "Oh," said the yokel, "that's because you forgot to cut the string which tied them together." Prido of Race.?Laughing hcarti'y, the man with the bruised nose and blackened eye was stopped by a friend who asked: "What are you laughing at?" "A man stopped me," was the reply, "hit me three times and said: 'Take that, you Norwegian.'" "But I don't see anything to laugh at In that." said the other. "Why, don't you see the Joke? I'm not a Norwegian, I'nra Dane." No Tact.?"Tact," said t e lecturer, "is essential to good entertaining. I once dined at a house where the hostess had no tact. Opposite me sat a modest, quiet man. "Sudden'y he turned as red as a lobster on hearing his hostess say to i her husband, 'How inattentive you are, ! Charlie! You must look after Mr. I Brown better. He's helping himself to J everything.'" Father's Idea.?"Who is the wisest man mentioned in the Scriptures?" asked a teacher of one of her Sunday school class. "Paul," exclaimed the little fellow,' confidently. "Oh, no, Johnnie, Paul was a very good man, but Solomon is mentioned as the wisest man." "Well, my father says Paul was the wisest man, because he never married, and I think my father ought to know," replied the boy. The Brute!?Waiting impatiently for his delayed breakfast, u man called upstairs to his wife to hurry down, as he had to get to "pianess" ear'y. No answer received he rushed to the bathroom and banged loudly at the door. Still no response. He burst open the door, only to discover that his wife had fallen into a faint. Without further ado he went to the landing and called kltchenward: "Itachel, only boil vun egg this mornin'!" Wanted Help.?A motorist came upon another whose machine had broken down on the road. In the aisameu car siit a woman. "Need any assistance?" inquired the newcomer, courteously. The other man lifted his flushed and grimy face from under the hood. ' Yes," he replied. "I wish you'd answer my wife's questions while I'm fixing this engine." Show Cause.?"Do you think I shall live until I'm ninety, doctor?" "How old arc you now?" "Forty." "Do you drink, gamble, smoke, or have you any vices of any kind?" "No, I don't drink, 1 never gamble, I loathe smoking; in fact, I haven't any vices." "Well, good heavens, what do you want to live another fifty years for?"? Selected. SIX NEW TREATIES (Continued From Page One.) sages only, except in emergency. Agreement to exchange full information among the nations regarding all international commitments that affect China. Creation of a board of reference to consider cases arising- under the open door and railway provisions of the general Far Eastern treaty. Convening of a special commission of the five powers to meet in the near future and consider rules to govern the use of new agencies of warfare. By a second resolution on the same subject it is declared that the commission shall not "review or report upon" the submarine and poison gas rules laid down in the treaty on that subject. Recommendation that "better protection" be given the Chinese Eastern railway. Another resolution attached, but not subscribed to by China, declares the Chinese government must be held responsible for its obligations regar ling the road. Expression of hope that the Chinese railways may be developed toward a unified system under Chinese control. Request on the part of the other j powers that China reduce her military forces. Supplementary agreement to the naval limitation treaty, deo'aring the nations "in honor bound" not to dispose of ships which are listed for scrapping, Derore me ireaiy is rauneu, Supplementary agreement to the four power Pacific treaty, excluding the islands of the Japanese homeland from the treaty provisions. Of "the declarations'* made by the various delegations and formally spread on the records of the conference chief interest attached to those relating to Siberia and the "21 demands." Regarding Siberia, Japan disavowed any territorial designs in Russia, and pledged herself to withdraw her troops from Siberia as soon as stable conditions warrant, whi'e the United States reasserted its hope that the withdrawal would not be long delayed. The famous Group 5 of the "21 demands" was abandoned by Japan, along with other concessions relating to economic and political conditions in Manchuria and Mongolia. China filed a protest against the remaining portions of the "demands," and the United States reiterated its intention not to recognize any ' ***??> Infli oKri/ltro A . UI IIICJ1I W IIIV. II lliisill IIUIIUAV .....v. . can rights. The British declaration of readiness to withdraw from the leased territory of Wei-Hal-Wei was not elaborated, but will be taken up in diplomatic exchanges between London and Peking. As a supplement to the Far Eastern treaty, China declared her intention not to alienate any additional portions of her territory, and, as a supplement to the tariff she agreed to retain the present maritime customs system. In two supplements to the radio resolution, China declared she recognized no right to install foreign radio plants without her express consent, and the powers other than China declared that in future wireless disputes the open door policy must be applied. AFRAID TO SPEAK Time Was When Billy Sunday Feared to Face the Public. Time was when Billy Sunday now recocnized as the boldest and most earnest of all evangelists, was too timid to speak on the platform, according to Dr. C. II. Woolston, pastor of the East Baptist church of Philadelphia, who arrived here today, says a Spartanburg dispatch to the Greenvil'e News. Dr. Woolston, who is pastor of one of the leading churches of his denomination in Philadelphia, and is also a member of the faculty of the Bible school at Winona Lake, Ind., knew Mr. Sunday when the evangelist was then | custodian of the tent for Dr. Wilbur Chapman, the great evangelist of a few years ago. On several occasions, Dr. Woolston | said, he heard Dr. Chapman urge Mr. Sunday to say something from the platform, but the former baseball player was timid, and ho refused to do so. "It is no use, Doctor," Mr. Sunday would say, "1 was not cut out for a speaker.'' Dr. Woolston does not remember the exact year that he met Mr. Sunday, but it was nearly 30 years ago and a short time after Mr. Sunday was converted. Mr. Sunday was then serving i as advance agent, tent custodian and | a kind of general utility man for the late Dr. Chapman. Mr. Sunday, it will be remembered j has several times referred to Dr. ChapI man, saying that it was largely to him that the credit goes for becoming an Ic v<( UBVii.il. "No one ever dreamed then that Mr. I Sunday would become the great evange'ist that he now is," Dr. Woolston stated. "Nor did many ever belive Mr. j Sunday would ever become a public speaker." "However, I can say this," Dr. Woolston continued, "while Mr. Sunday was not a speaker at that time and shrank from speaking in public, I can say for him that he was full of pep. He was a human dynamo then as now and possessed of tire',ess energy. However, he seemed possessed of the idea that he could not speak in public j rather than any opposition to taking j the platform and saying a word in God's cause." Federal Aid Projects.?Eleven thousand nine hundred and thirty miles of Federal-aid roads were constructed under the joint suj>crvision of the Federal government and the states during 1921, according to reports of the buI reau of public roads of the United j States department of agriculture. Federal money amounting to $94,057,089 was allotted to these roads, the total 'cost of which was $231,963,682. In this mileage there is included 8,595 miles in projects wholly completed and the equivalent of 3,335 miles of work done on projects which are not wholly completed. Every state shared in the benefits of this work. The projects under way during the year amounted to 31,228 miles, which was about one-half of all the road work carried on in the United States during the year. A fair idea of the magnitude of the road work done un; der the supervision of the department of agriculture last year may be gained when it is understood that the total mileage is considerably more than enough to encircle the earth, that it is equal to more than 10 per cent of all the improved roads previously existing in the United States and that it is equal to nearly 8 per cent of the entire road system of France. At this rate we would be able to build the equivaj lent of France's entire road system in I 12 vcars.?Department of Agriculture Clip Sheet. SCANDAL IN THE MOVIES. ^ Great Industry Needs to Be Reformed or Destroyed. Investigation of the murder at Hollywood of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, says the Greenville Piedmont, bids fair to reveal as much moral rottenness as the notorious "Fatty" Arbuckle case. Despite the fact that one of the lemale stars compared Taylor to God, from what the police have found out about this custodian of elegant nightgowns it seems that he bore a close resemblance to the devil. A special dispatch frcm Los Angeles to the Kansas City Star says that the murder of this man may never be solved, adding: "There are hundreds of substantial citizens who see in the case the iron hand of the moving picture giant, holding down the curtain that the police and the newspapers wou'd lift. "They believe the movie interests would spend millions of dollars not to catch the murderer, but to prevent the truth from coming out, to avert the exposure of Hollywood, to squelch, before it is born, the scandal of the century. I "Taylor,, who seems to have deserted his wife and baby fourteen years ago, who lived under an alias, who surrounded himself with people of doubtful character?men who new, crochet and embroider, women of queer reputation?and who lived the typical life of the movie director as pictured in t^ll the gossip of the studios, was the "saint of Hollywood," according to his friends. "It is quite true that the movie world would prefer to have this case handled in silence, even ignored. "Associates regret the death of Taylor sincerely, but they feel the least said about it the better. "They fear the world may come to know all about the little parties that help to relieve the tedium of studio [ life, the unconvontional companionship between extra girls, assistant movie directors, and many instances, between stars. "They fear that there might be some misunderstandings if the fans learned about these very free moonlight parties sometimes held in the Beverly Mills district, where nymphs dance in cosI tumes madfe purely of melting sunbeams. "Hollywood is content with itself, its morals, its views of life. It wants no change. It wants no chastisement. It wants to go on. "The movie bosses are in power in T.na Anf?#?le<t "They have been able so far to keep down the blinds. Did an exposure threaten they vowed to leave Los Angeles bag and baggage. Los Angeles can ill afford to lose the millions of dollars spent and Invested by the movies. * "If the movies leave Los Angeles the city will suffer." Most people, however, will agcee with Herbert Brenon, well known motion picture producing manager, who declares that the moving picture actors' colony at Ho'lywood, California, where Taylor's murder took place, should be broken up. But will that put an end to the rottenness among some of the movie picture actors and actresses? Will that stop some of the moving picture directors and magnates who compel women to purchase employment at the price of their virtue? At any rate, every scandal that comes to light is bound to hurt the moving picture business and create a public sentiment that will insist on e'eaner people and cleaner pictures.? Greenville Piedmon.t MAN USES SHORT NAME. Only One Letter in That of Chicago Restaurant Owner. The shortest name in the world has been found. Mr. O owns it. He's a restaurant proprietor In Evanston, a suburb of Chicago. And that's his whole namesimply O. Of course he has a first name too. It's William. Hut he never uses it. The signature he puts on Checks is simply O.* And all the mail addressed to O comes to him. "I'm the only O living," says O. "I was born in Ireland 54 years ago. O's a Gaelic name. It means 'royal blood." "Just a circle written on paper?that means me. 1 figure my short name has saved me millions of pounds of energy in writing. "And folks never forget my name, either. That means I have lots of friends and everybody addresses me by name. 'There's only one drawback. . Women don't seem to want to,adopt my short name. Maybe there's not enough poetry in it. "That's why I am still a bachelor, at 54. There's never been a Mrs. O." PRUSSIAN ISM CHARGED. Officer Declare* Men Rise by Favoritism and Not Efficiency. Declaration was made this week by Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson of the 3rd United States cavalry, that hp had sent a letter direct to President Harding charging that "the army is suffering from a reign of Prussian Ism," but at the White House and war department it was said that no such letter had come to the attention of officials. Major Wheeler Nicholson, whose home is In Portland, Oregon, but who at present is a patient at Walter Reed army general hospital, Washington, made public copies of the letter, which he said he had directed to the president at the risk of court martial and insubordination. His letter declared that "a veritable reign of terror exists among the junior officers of the army today," and that "this is caused by unhindered power of the clique to have any officer discharged from the service by operation of what is known as the class B law." "Prussianism and inefficiency flourish in the army because men rise to power by favoritism instead of efficiency," the letter said.- 'Class-mates and friends are appointed to lead instead of the most efficient men for the job." Secretary Weeks said while he had heard of the letter, he had not seen it, and he was informed It had not reached the department. White House officials stated emphatically they had not seen the letter, although Maj. Wheeler Nicholson said He had mailed it ..1.1 J.I 1 , l_i.. Bpct'iui uru vci j mat ounn ua/. Officers in the adjutant general's department looked up the record of Major Wheeler Nicholson and found, they said, that he had been a patient at Walter Reed hospital for several months, having been transferred there according to the records "for observation and treatment" after having been shot by a caretaker while attempting to enter the quarters of Major Colby at Camp Dix, New Jersey, one night to sleep, after finding his regular quarters locked. Officers said the records also showed that the major had been sent to Camp Dix from Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, where he was attached to the Third cavalry, for trial before a military court on charges of being absent without leave and making false official statements. The major denied these charges, saying they were but a part of "a plot to get him." MONEY FOR TRAPPING i I . u i . Thrift Enthusiasts May Take Lesson < Fpftm Ethel Tavlor. Enthusiasts for thrift among young women will find few more interesting Btortes than that of Miss Ethel Taylor, a musically inclined qlneteqn-year-old girl of Woodinville, who took to trapping last November to.make money to pay her music Iessons^relates a Bothell, Wash., dispatch. ^ Miss Taylor made a reputation for 1 herself as one of the-A most talented ( singers in Seatt'e during {he winter of ' 1920, but her father foynd 11 necessary to abandon his city " business for a small ranch in the country. Miss Taylor was determined to help 1 herself in the training and improve- 1 ment of her voice. She had always known several men who had trapped fur-bearing animals years ago. From them she got some pointers and tried 1 out tlie scheme. During November she caught several mink, some muskrats and an otter along the sloughs bordering Lake Washington. The old trappers showed her how to take off the pelts and dry them for the trade. A Seattle fur 1 dealer paid her a good price for the catch, amounting to over >50. In December she was bolder and doub'cd her earnings, and she related this week with great glee that during January she will have first grade pelts enough to bring her in more than $200. Several farmers who had. learned of her industry gave her pelts from predatory animals they had caught or shot about their buildings. Among her own catch is a cross fox, one of the first caught In recent years. Every Wednesday and Saturday she goes to Seattle, twenty miles away for her music lesson. Each lesson costs $3. BIGHAM TO APPEAL. I | Florence Man to Ask Supreme Court I for a New Trial. Edmund D. Bigham, Florence county man, convicted of murdering his brother and sentenced to the electric chair, and also charged with killing his mother, his sister and his sister's two adopted children, will, it is understood, appeal to the United States supreme court from the decision of the South Carolina supreme court which recently refused his appeal for a new trial. It is not known on what grounds the new appeal will be made. An order staying the remittitur of the recent decision of the supreme court has been issued by the supreme court, Bigham asking for a rehearing of the case. However, the court has not yet announced whether it will grant a rehearing. Bigham was sentenced to die, but appealed, making numerous exceptions to the proceedings in the circuit court which convicted him. The supreme court recently dismissed the appeal, and Bigham will be resentenced at the next term of court in Florence, unless his appeal to the United States su- | | preme court is allowed. Bigham is in the death house of the ! state penitentiary. His main comment j about his case is a repetition of the I statement that he is innocent. He. talks very freely about his case. i ^ What He Thouflht.?James J. Montague said that he knew a man out in Portland, Oregon, who was a firm believer in faith healing. One day he met the son of a friend who still resorted to doctors for the treatment of disease. "How's your father?" he asked. "He's real sick," the young man replied. "Pshaw!" the firm believer said, "he only thinks he's sick." A week or so later he met the same young man. "How's your father today?" he asked. "He thinks he's dead," the young man replied. USE CONFEDERATE BILLS. Berlin Merchants Victimized by Money Venders. Another issue of United States Confederate money in $10 bills has been put on the market in Germany and several prominent merchants have been victimized to the extent of thousands of dollars, according to information from Berlin. Scores of others have accepted the bad bills In smaller amounts. A few months ago the Confederata money, suspiciously bright and clean, was passed quietly around to unsuspecting shopkeepers and to even a few visiting Americans who displayed carelessness in making change. At that time a warning was Issued by the banks and the newspapers advised rc.'.ders to use discretion. The latest known victim is a merchant who sold a bill of goods for $900 in cash and accepted the Confederate currency. He appealed to the Amcri#in n t i. ?r\/. i n t i /if f.VfT O tuii ?'\aauciaiiuii ui ^uuiiuwtv,u uuu Trade in Berlin. The association, as a result of these raids on Gertnan marks and German goods by the Confederate money vendors, has issued a warning to its clientele declaring "the only way to avoid such losses is to effect all payments for goods through a bank, especially where foreign currency comes into question." German merchants recently also have been accepting counterfeit German 50-mnrk notes, many of which are still in circulation, although tho police succeeded in capturing the counterfeiters. MAY MODIFY TRAINING. Japanese Princes to Have a Say In Their Education. Princes of the Blood, who at present have no choice in the matter will bbrought up and trained in conformity ivith their inclinations if a modification of educational regulations gov:rning male members of the imperial family is adopted, relates a Toklo dispatch. A meeting of officials of the imperial household department to deliberate on the question was held recently at the official residence of Viscount Maklno, minister of the department. i I , According to the regulations all male members of the imperial family and princes of the blood must receive a military education and become officers after a regular course of such education. A factor influencing the authors of the motion is reported to be Ihe consideration that existence of bucIi regulations encourages misunderstanding about the aspirations of the nation. A person in close touch with the Imperial household department in the course of an Interview with the Chugai Shogyo, said: "In the event the present proposal being approved by the higher author ities, the imperial princes win ue enabled to receive the education they desire and will become trained business men, writers, university professors and so on." SILVER TIP GRIZZLIES. Few Zoos In the World Have This Species. The park commissioners in Seattle, Wash., have just received a pair of half-grown silvertip grizzly bears from British Columbia. Very few zoos in the world have these species, for they are now nearly extinct. The zoo at Woodland Park has had an over-abundance of hayeating animals, such as deer, elk, buffalo and moose, so in an exchange with the zoo at Victoria, where there were too many carnivorous animals, the local park gets the pair of grizzlies, two cougars, three lynx and two young tigers. The Woodland Tark zoo was the recipient the past year of many wild animals and birds from tourists and busnonnio from Alaska. The group of full-grown polar hears number seven, and are the attraction of the zoo. There are. now eleven species of eagles, ten kinds of owls, many hawks and buzzards. An interesting exhibit is the field of kangaroos of five species, ranging from the smallest to the glnnt, standing four feet five inches high. These are from Australia and number twenty-four pairs. The herds of buffalo, elk and deer multiply rapidly, so that every few years it is necessary to sell some of them or trade with neighboring zoos for other specimens. Disciples at Sea.?A naval recruit was having the lead. "What water have you got?" asked the officer of the watch. There was no reply. "Come out of that!" ye'led the officer. "I'll show you how to heave the lead." But just as he got the lead on the swing he fell overboard. At that moment the captain appeared. "What soundings?" he asked. "I dunno," said the recruit; "an officer has just gone overboard to see, and he hasn't come up yet."?Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. ? Fifty-three railway cars were required to carry the furniture of the ex-Kaiser to Holland. | The Wrath of jj Honghi ! | By WINIFRED DUNBAR | o?SHSZSS5a5HS?Sa5ZJ2SZScSZSlSSSSSa Copyright, 1941, Waatera Newapaper Union. "Hide me!" The words were spoken In fairly good English amid a Jargon of many tnncnps Hp who lift prod tht'in cauie | jolting through the window of the lit* j tie hut I hud called home for u number yt weeks. I hud troubles of my own?mostly Arllne?as you will discern luter, but a chord of human sympathy was touched at the forlorn appearance of the man. 'Under the cot," I directed quickly; "I will try and protect you." Then I resumed reading a book, and when a mandarin and half u dozen soldiers flitted about the pulace and searched all of Its odd corners for the fugitive, my indifference or quiet dignity repelled a direct invasion and the mob pussed on. It was later that Foochlng explained?it wus fj-orn that moment that he attached himself to my intereats?luckily for Arllne. The man was a half native, his father an Englishman. He had mixed In political matters and was proscribed in Tong. He had lied, pursued. I had enabled him to slip the meshes and he showed fidelity by staying with me. I had been part of a surveying party stranded at Lochun. Boxers, revolutionists an-' adherents of the Chang dynasty w?re embroiled In a three-cornered fllg..t. It was dangerous to try und leave, it would be doubly perilous to remain, but?Arllne! She was a singer. What odd fancy reckless experiment, irrational calculation led her brother, Itupert Lisle, t< Jump from Canton, 90 leagues ucrost a desert, to try a motion picture venture In the squalid poverty-stricken province of Lochun, I could never fig ure out. I only knew that after a week of a vain attempt to work up business ht found his funds gone. Then happened the tragic. I had become slightly acquainted with tin Llsles. We arranged to stick togeth er and get back to Canton as best wi might. Meantime I had fullen in love with Arllne, and she wus worthy of It. One duy a messenger came to mj poor quarters In a vast hurry. "Please come at once," read the note, signed "A," and I placed the precious screed next to my heart and hastened tc respond In person. Now this was what happened: Tin brother, an artist, had gone to Amoy one of the sacred towns of Tuam oc eupled by an exclusive tribe and 10( miles distant. He had been dlscov ered In the temple of the great god Honghl, sketching Its detuils. Thl> was sacrilege. He had been seized Imprisoned and was to die. Miss Lisle had appealed to the con sular agent, to the local authorities They were helpless to rescue tht doomed man. Looking back now, that secret fur live tramp to Amoy, constantly men oced by wandering train bands, the midnight arrival at the great temple the scaling of a broken wall, the find Ing of a suitable hiding place up neai the roof?it is all like a dream; but then Foochlng and I shared a thousand perils. The most vivid feature of that retro spect Is the event of the second night We looked down ut the sombre robed priests, at the victim, Arllne's broth er, whom they led In. Then, as the sacerdotal rites were about to tain place, Foochlng spoke the quick word: "Ready!" Whlr-rr! Flash! There was a broad blank wall at the front of the temple, affording an admirable screen. Unmasking the projector output, I threw the picture of Honghi upon It in a broad clear disc. There were affrighted cries from the priests. "The script?the message!" spoke the quick-witted Foochlng, and I llured out the sentences that ordered the priests to Instantly release their victim or encounter the wrath of Honghi The idol hud spoken \ Trembling with superstitious fears the chief priest released the captive and bade him de part. I do not know what the priests thought if they ever found the outfit, for we abandoned It to join the rescued artist to regain his sister?then Canton. The fnithJul Fooching piloted us all that dangerous journey. My love's brother went off to Australia, where a good business prospect was offered, and took Fooching with him. Arline and myself returned to America. Why not? My latest letter from my dear old mother had concluded? "We are all waiting to welcome your dear, sweet little wife." Tea Wagon as Baby Buggy. The wicker tea wagon was a wedding present and untfl the head of the house in a hilarious mood tried to coast down the hallway on it one night, breaking the glass tray, it performed its social tasks faithfully during the trying first year, the New York Sun states. Then Mrs. Lackawanna wheeled it to the attic and left it there. Its career appeared to be ended. But ufter Betty was born, somebody discovered that the small-sized clothes basket which served as her movuhle crib would just fit in the top of the tea wagon, after the tray had been remove! So it was brought down from the attic to begin a brand-new career las au indoor baby carriage. ? It takes forty men twelve months to break up u warship that has been sent to the scrap pile. WOULD ABOLISH SENATE. Texas Legislator Says It Would Mean Economy and Efficiency. A movement has been started to abolish the state senate and to reduce the membership of.'the house, at Austin, Texas. Lef Satterwfilte of Amarillo, a member of the Tower house, is leading the fl&ht and declares that when the next legislature convenes he will immediately offer a resolution calling for an amendment to the Texas constitution to provide the elimination. ^ "The time has come when this step should be taken," said Satterwhite. "By abolishing the senate and reducing the house I am certain that the state's business will be despatched with more alacrity than in the past, with more efficiency and with far less expense. I am opposed to the plan as launched in San Antonio to limit the house membership to 40. I believe it should number a little more than 100." The plan is receiving favorable comment over the state, more capecially because of the many special sessions that seem to be necessary. The legislature meets once every two years, but already three extra sessions have been held, and It is expected that Governor Neff will be forced to call another session to deal with the financial situation of thjC penitentiary system, as the system la without fiends and Ih operating on a credit scheme. CAROLINA CEDAR USED \ , , This Stato Had Part in Making of KOrtnoiaer usea xo oign i rraxy The "flag: ptoff" penholder used by Secretary 'JEfjRShdg, Tuesday in signing: 'he five treaties will be preserved in .he custody of the Daughters of the \merican Revolution, probably in Memorial Ccivtlnental Hall where the rtaties were signed. The penholder, made of native ,vood8 from states and territories, >vas decorated wit h^ miniature flags of 28 nations, including the nine repre;cnted at the conference and several the allied powersin the WorUl war. The woods werq collected and fashoned into a penholder about 15 inches ong, by David Bairbanks, of Chicago, vho brought it to Washington and In ompany with Samuel Gompcrs, preented it to the secretary of state on December 21,; 1921. Two of the' small pieces of wood :scd in its manufacture" fcre of especial historic interest. The section of cotlot, v/ood frorh, .the state of Michigan' was taken frdr.v a tree standing on the grounds where the old Indian chief 'ontain fought his last battle with the British in 17^3, and the piece of red :edar from South Carolina came from a tree plantod by the statesman John C. Calhoun, unLtaaa*P13Ba<a3ted to the "haker by the faculty cf Clemson col lege, South Carolina. m '? * False Reports About Banks.?The 'ollowlng hasrf.beeh law since Februiry 3: "Thar^any. person who shall nlsely and wilfully'and with intent to njure," says the act, "circulate any eport, nr m?ke any false statement is to the assets' or liabilities of any >ank In South Carolina, or to its sol cncy or ability to meet Its obliguions, or as to its soundness; or who jhall make any other false statement, :aleulated to effect the credit or standng of said bank, or to cast suspicion '.pon its solvency, soundness or abiliv to meet Its deposits or other obli nations In due course, shall be decm d guilty of a misdemeanor and upon onviction thereof shall be fined not ess than one hundred ($100.00) Dol'ars, nor more than five hundred $500.00) Dollars, or be Imprisoned for >ot more than one year, c? both, In the liscretion of the court." ?After more than 100 years of manufacturing bibles, the American Bible Society has announced It will soon ?lose down its plant in the old bible louse in Astor Place, New York. 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