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7;; I TK IIKHTI N<? MKJBTINf; XH WCu> Are Worklhg Fvr The Hospital Fund. flier* wu a large meeting of the Hospital Auxiliary at the Court House on Saturday, the 24th. to dls tuii the constitution and other Im portant matters. Mini Cora Ritchie wan elected corresponding secreta ry, and will addreea circular letters to every part of the county, urging the formation of clubs to help raise funds for the Auxiliary. The city has been canfassed by blocks and memberships solicited, and the re sponse was generous, as the fee is only 26c for the year. A letter was read by Mrs. A. C. Ancrura from Dr. ^lmou Baruoh, of New York, in /jyhlcb he offered a lot of to l-z acre* in the city limits to be rent ed or sold for the usa of the Aux-. lllary-Mhe fund to be known aa the "Baruch Fund." and he makes it conditional that a rough stofte shall be placed at the north corner of the lot with an Inscription to this effect, to incite others to do" like wise. A time and place was Chosen for the regular monihly meeting h< after. Another meeting was held at the home of the President, Mrs. D. A. Boykln, a few days later, to devise ways and means of raising money, and it was deoi^Mi to serve dinner during the March term of court at the Armory at the popular price of 25c per plated -and five la dles of the executive committee were put In charge* of committees, selected by themselves, to serve. It was suggested to have a "Tag Day," and the suggestion was adop ted, but the day decided on is not to be made known, but to be "sprung" upon us suddenly and ev ery corner will be found policed \>y a pretty maiden, who will be strict ly enjoined, simply tQ hold out her pretty hand to th? passers by and say "for the hospital." There will be no Injunction against her "look ing unutterable" things, to open, the hearts and purses of 'men, but no one will be Importuned If he is not inclined or prepared to give. i One of the members proposed we form ourselves Into a "calendar," and explained how we could raise $260 by only"- pledging one cent a week for a year. Some of the mem bers were quite puzzled by the ma thematical Calculation Involved, but "followed the leader"' blindly, and at once the months chose their weeks and the weeks chose their days, and Jthe Treasurer became a "year," and we all pledged the in Bignlficent one cent a week, that In some occult way will become such a large sum. In the midst of the meeting a ring at the phope*brough the great news Qf Mr. 0era*rd Ba ruch'B generous Intention of build ing the hospital, and when we look in the idea of wtoat it meant, all the women jumped from their seats and began to talk and to congratulate each other and- t ho meetng, wh ich a moment before had -been proceed ing with due decorum and subdued enthusiasm, became a . hysterical mob of happy women, and all bus iness was over for that evening, as we wanted to get out and spread the joyful news to evet-ybody we met. What had seemed almost hopeless undertaking Ijy a few en thusiastic women a very short time ago, had- been crowned with success sooner than we dared dream of thru the splendid gifts of the Baruch's ? father and son, and it will give us courage to work with more zeal than ever, to accumulate a sufficlen sum to help materially in furplsh ing the hospital and beautifying the grounds. There has been a most earnest spirit in all that has beeu done so far, and it seems true that "God helps those who help them selves." * Liet Zomp'g Drays do your haul ing when you move. ' . The Rock Hill Plan. I #? John Porter Hollis; representing Col. John G. Anderson, originator of the "Rock Hill Plail" for reduc ing cotton acreage, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Hollis stated that he secured three men to act on the Kershaw committee, Messrs J. T. Mackey, chairman, A, D. K?nned and J. H. Bu^ns. 'the Immediate duty Of this Goun ty committee will "be to raise a fund to pay canvassers who wHl pass among the farmers and secure pledges. The committee will undert take the-~ raising of the necessary funds at once^ It is thought that there 'wil^ he no difficulty in doing so. The plan is taking hold all ovefc the cotton belt of the South in great shapes. It seeks to benefit the farmer by .curtailing the acre age planted to cotton and thereby devoting this former cotton acre age to other crops. The following is a list of sul^ scribers to the fund for Installing the "Rock Hill Plan": ,> S; P. Brasington . . . . ; $10.0 L. X. Ouion . .... . . 10.0 A. D. Kennedy . . ? . . . .v . . 10.00 Springs & Shannon 10.00 Bank of, Camden .. .. .. .. 10.00 Loan & Savings Bank . . . . 10.00 First National Bank r 10.00 J. Sheheen A Bro 8.00 Camdefa Drug Co . . . 5.00 Rhame Bros. , . .... . . 6.00 Zemp & DePass ... 5.00 fyhTO Aj_Co. . . .. ... 5.00 ?? L. Getty?- w . . . . . rr~7T~tfc00 Burns & 1 Barrett . 5.00 L, Schenk-ft V 0 Watklns Bros 3.00 Baruch-N?$ttle& Co 2.50 W. M. Shannon 2.00 o. C. Bruce.. .. 2.00 T. J. Arrants 2.00 SHHKw .. .. 1.00 HOW HISTORY IS DISTORTED Russian Text-Book Shows. Curious l?v ?tan c? of Tampering Wltli . Prenoh Hlatory. Reasons of church, state or othei policy have frequently ' caused the acholara of one country to tamper with the hlatory of another with which It has been Intimately connected. A curloua lnetance of such a distortion* of French hlatory was that found In a Ruaetan textbook, used In all Russian public schools, and edited by a great Russian scholar, llovalskl. The fol lowing may be olted as an illustra tion: "Louis XVI. waa a good and peace ful king. After a long and famous reign, In which he waa moat happy In his choice of minister of finance, he died quietly In Paris, beloved by all his people. Hla death waa cauaed by a hemorrhage. "The successor of Louis XVI. was hta aon, Louis XVII. During bis reign the bravo rbyal army, commanded by General Napoleon Bonaparte, captured the larger part of the European con- j tlngent for the French crown. But the faithless Napoleon ahowed ten dencies toward misusing bis power, and waa suspected of harboring d la honest schemes against the legitimate ruler. Wjtb the help of hla majesty the emperor and autocrat of all the Russlas, hla plans were frustrated, and he waa deprived of all hla posses alons, honors, and lights to a pension. He waa then exiled to the Island of St. Helena, where he died."? The Bun day Magazine. TO LAUNDER PAPER MONEY Indians Man Dsvlees Msohlns That WHI Waeh and Iron Soiled Bills. It costs the United States govern ment one and one-third cents to manu facture a $1 bill. When the bill be comes soiled through continual han dling It Is sent to the treasury departs ment, which destroys It and Issues s nice new clean bill In Its plaoe. The 'same may be said of all other paper currency of large denomlnatlone. ? Now comes a Sbelbyvllle, Ind., In ventor, F. B.- Churchill, with a ma chine for washing, Ironing and other? wise laundering paper money. Accord ing to the Inventive Age, Washington, I the treasury department, redeemed $1,183,000,000 in aolled bills laat year and Issued new ones in place of them. Eighty per cent of the "bills might have been washed at a cost of one tenth of a cent per bill and reissued at a considerable, saving In cost to the treasury department. Mason and His Precious Gold Plecbs John Mason, the player, has carried three $20 gold pieces In his change pocket ever slnco the npw Issue of that specie, the two new coins, St. Gaudens* with and without "In God We Trust," and the old piece with "Liberty's" head. At the stage door of the Thirty-ninth Street theater In New York recently an old man begged the actor to help him secure a night's lodging. John tossed the beggar supposedly two silver half dol lars, but Jn reality two of. his favorite gold coins. The old man, noting the denominations, actually ran after his benefactor and pulled at his coat, In tending to Inquire If the gold were really given him in earnest. Before he could open hi* mouth, however, Mason pushed him back, exclaiming, "Not twice in one night, old man." "But do you mean it?" asked the beg gar. "Certainly," answered Mason. "Forty dollars, mister," cried the man. ?"Not on, your life," called Mason, as his cab moved away, and then to his P companion, "Think of that ? because I give him more than he asked for he thinks I'm easy ? demands $40." The Growing 8ou4h. The south is forging ahead at a great rfUe. The fourteen southern states, with Missouri and Oklahoma, have aft population of 32,000,000, or only" 18,000,000 leBS than the tstal pop ulation of the United ^States in 1880. , Since. 1880 the sixteen Southern states have increased the annual value of their mineral production from $20, 000,000 to 8340,000,000, as against 8450,000,000 in the whofe country in 1880. Their manufactured products have a yalue within $2,000,000,000 of the value of the whole country thirty years ago. In 1880 the rallroadB of the !' country had an aggregate length of 93,300 miles. The southern states now have 87,000 miles. From southern tports were exported last year goods to a value only $100,000,000 less than the value of all exports from the country in 1880. ? Chicago American. Good Thought, Anyway. Little John Brice loves to walk with his daddy through the woods. Last Sunday these two fyid a famous walk together, soaring up a rabbit or two, and looking for squirrels. , Suddenly John stopped, in a listen ing attitude. Then, "I know what makes the wind," he announced. "Jt's the tr?es whispering,"-! he in: .{tivrnad his father, who had been wait-, Ing for thft result, ; Perhaps ha is right? Cle^land Leader. VJOOO FROM WASTE PftPEH Ohio Inventor Claim* to H*vo PerfeO ? i Machine Whlsb Will Accom plish Just That Purpose. Tttcro to &n old ?sw to i>t? ollwi that* "Nature works iu circles. Kvcry one agrees; Tree* grow out of doors. Doors are made from trees." dotue one ? with "% gift For ihymlng may add another verno about paiwr beiug made from 'vood and wood now being made out of old paper. An Ohio Inventor, Oliver 11. liarber, has perfected a ma* chine which does this. Ho taken old newspapers aud straw and puts thorn through hts machine mid they emerge in the shape of artificial boards of any deBlred length or thickness suitable for building material, for railroad ties or for furniture. For many years the ever-Increasing demand for ; white paper for newspa per printing has boon making seri ous Inroads on the available forests of this country and Canada, and the problem of where to find timber to meet the demand has been growing more and more menacing. This also applies 1 to wood needed for building construction, furniture and railroad ties. Turn about Is fair play, so today the old newspapers are being converted back again into wood which Is claim ed to be even more suitable* for many purposes than natural lumber. Spe cimens of the new artlflolal wood thai have already been made out of old newspapers and Atraw vary In thickness from an eighth of an Inch upward, and range from narrow mold ing to 7 boards four feet wide and twelve feet long. The Inventor claims that it can be Impregnated with cer tain chemicals to render It fireproof, can be made waterproof, can bo per meated with any desired color during the manufacture, or can be given a highly polished surface finish. He further asserts that, it Is susceptible to all kinds of tool treatment, Is free fifom knots and shakes, with their frequent waste, and It can also be used in embossing. , BADLY AFFECT THE HEALTH Serious Ailments Have Been Proved to ^Be Direct Result of Labor In , Household. - One possible explanation of the rea ?.on why cooks, housemaids and other domestic serv ants are not, as a class, the healthiest von earth, Is of fored by the Vienna corre spondent of the Journal of the ? American Medical Asso ciation. He re ports that a union of household serv ants is being formed in Austria. One 5f the earliest results of the move ment hos been the gathering of valu able and interesting information re garding the susceptibility of house workers to ailments which others seem able to avoid. Cooks, it has been discovered, suf fer from? gastric disorders because of the too frequent tasting of the foods they are preparing. Anemia is "readily explained by the long stay In badly ventilated rooms and the rare walks in fresh air, as well as my the Insufficient amount of sleep. Rheu matlo affections are very common among servants, partly on account of the frequent exposure to cold and bad weather, with insufficient protec tion. partly from working in unheated kitchens, washing kitchens and scul leries. A frequent complaint of house hold servants is static flat foot with varicose veins, while a great, propor tion of housemaids suffer from nerv ous diseases and neurasthenia, or kys teria. The Austrian union of household servants is seeking to Improve the conditions under which its members are employed in' order to reduce the percentage of ailments to a mini* I mum. a BEETLE MUSHROOM FARMER Scientific Investigation Has Shown That Insect Possesses High Order of Intelligence. Scientists have known of mushroom growing ants for a long time, and it was generally believed that the ant was the only insect possessing suf ficient intelli gence to make : A successful m u s hrooip ? farmer. Prof. J. BouvCrle, the French tomologiest, has found that" a certain wood-boring beetle known u the Bos* trjrchide is as familiar with mushroom cultivation for home consumption aa | the ant Prof. Bouverle discovered that the beetles bore holes in wood and half fill them with a prepared fungus which makea an ideal mushroom bed. The garden is carefully spawned and bonded and in course of time the munh rooms appear. In this wajrtbe beetle provides itself Wit* a t6od Sufficient ly tender for Us ' SILK MADE FROM WOOD PULP Mltirial It Brought From Norway ?nd Manufacture le Carried On In United States. la the manufacture of artificial allk, wood pulp (row Norway Ih util ised, being shipped hero la bales, ac cording to the Textile Manufacturers' Jouraal. This pulp is cut lato thin ?hoets, each individual shoot la care* fully weighed and a cortalo quantity placed In a metal tauk (or chemical treatment. The varloue chemical aolutlons used are mixed In huge Iron tanks, from which they aro pumped under grouad through a series of Jead pipes to the departments requiring the various compounds. This pulp having been maoeruted and digested, is submitted to tftill further chemical action under certain fixed temperatures which aro not allowed to vary even one-half of a degree. When it Is ready for final trans formation into allk the solution ploee ly resembles molasses la color and consistency. At this stage It la pump ed from the taoks to the spinning frames. Here specially ooaatruotod pumps are attached to each spindle, which carefully measures out the re quired quantity of the solution. This 1# forced through tubes with an outlet containing Just as many perforations aa there are U> he file* ments in the thread. Through these It is passed to a tank running the length of the frame and containing a chem ical mixture whloh fixes the solution Instantaneously Into a thread. This strand la carried over a wheel down through a tube to a rapidly re volving spindle; the rate of apeed is about 5,000 revolutions a minute. Prom this the straods are afterward unwound oh reels Into skeins. The air In tho spinning room Is complete* ly changed every three minutes, being pumped off through hoods placed over each of the aplnnlng frames. This la done to remove any possible fumes and to provide thorough ventilation for the operatives. One of the interesting featurea in connection with the entire operation is the fact that the yarn is handled aa little as possible. The specially constructed stoves and bleaching ar rangements are ideal, and when tho skeins are finally carried to the large drying room on the fifth floor one marvels at tho change which has so rapidly taken place. From here they -are taken to tho sorting room, where each individual skein is carefully ex amined by skilled operators. Office Holding In China. In some respects the Chinese ap pear to haye distinct advantages over us. For instance, when a Chinese pub llo office holder has failed to give Satisfaction in his offlceholdlng? - ? when he has shown that he Is the wrong man in the right place ? he la Invited to commit Bulclde, so that a better servant of the people may suc ceed him. The request is not a mere formality. When it is made in the proper way and backed by a proper expression of public opinion it has all tho force of a decision of the supreme court. The man who Is condemned has no escane save flight, and if he runs away hiB family is forever dis graced and degraded. If we could import this Chinese cus tom there would undoubtedly be a great improvement in tho geoeral business of office holding. It would make muckraking almost unneces sary, and senatorial investigations would become obsolete. Moreover, it. would give the offloe a real chanoe to seek the man. The task of the voter would be simplified, because there would cease to be a multiplicity of candidates for each office. If the Chi nese system could be adppted with-, out the accompaniment of the pigtail it might be worth trying. The Public 8hakespeare Wrote For. Literary fame as a dramatist trou bled Shapespeare not; but present ne cessities could not be flbrgotten; chief among them the necessity of pleasing his publlo. His average public, the one he had chiefly in view, whoa* av erage heart and mind he had to-tonch and delight, was that of the Globe, a large, much-frequented house which drew popular audleaces, and where accidentally some ambassador might appear; but the fate of the play would depend not upon the ambe^gsador's ap plause or some learned crltio's blame, but on the Impression of the crowd ; A boisterous crowd, warm-hearted, "full blooded, of unbounded patriotism, a lover of extremes, now relishing the sight of tortures, now moved at tho death of a fly, a lover, of the improb able, of unexpeoted changes, of coarse buffooneries, quibbles, common witti cisms easy to understand, of loud noises <Jf any sort, bells, trumpets, cannon; men, all of them, of an en cyclopaedic ignorance. ? From a Lec ture, "What to Expect of Shakes* pearo-" by J. J. Jusserand. - . . The Tall Nor Chinas*. J-% If the Chinese revolution triumphs" and the "pig-tall" goep at last, that will be an outward and vlalble sign both: of reform and of emancipation iLQW Mapchu rule. For it must be rel&etnbered that what all the modern world regards a a the chief distin guishing nifcrk of the Chinaman la not Chinese at all* hut a badge of eubmlaslon to the Manchua not throe centuries old. Whan Liao-Yang was captured by the Manohus in 1618, the inhabitants shaved the front part of their lteada In token of allegiance, and all China ffottSwad, though the people of Amoy and Swatow district* long concealed the mark of conquest ? ? - -r - ' Wmmmam GARDNER & COMPANY % ? ? ? . y ,.TrTT,^.; Heavy and Fancy Groceries, Fresh Meats and Country Produce HIGHEST MARKET PRICES PAID FOR hogs! and cattle ? rr~ ? ? ?? . . . ?. Near Hermitage Cotton Mills 'Phone 221 -J. Warm Weather * _____ Demands That Mp hi Be Absolutely Fresh and Clean ? jm . ? , ' THE PLACE TO FIND THEM CAMPBELL BROTHERS 'Phone 300-L MOULDINGS BOARDS JUST RECEIVED . . . ? , ? : . ?. : : ? ? ? ? : ? , ? ~v ' *'? A large assortment of Sash Doors and Blinds We have your size ? Phone 81 or write ~vr SHAND BUILDERS' SUPPLY COMPANY DeKALB STREET ? V: ,v, : FLOORING CEILING For Your Breakfast % ' . ' White Rose and Gold Medal . " , / ?' ?? ?? v'V ? ' : V -Av Coffee, Baker's Breakfast Cocoa, f : -:v- ' - ? .V. :~a Tetley's Teas. SPECIALS: Old Fashion Country Lard Premier Oat Flakes at 10c T * Jf- - LANGS' a OtOCEli "WHERE QUALITY COUNTS" Phone 2. Camden, S. C.' That quest services, if y< More BAN ness colleges SBookkMpeMMiU?aver tea say that Draughon'a Bookkeeping saves them ir cent In work and worry . 5j^<g"rt J^rtSfSS5?the s^rtem^f the Unit NewSyj from 25 Horn- Study. ro rl SaSs^^T" 1 alofftio on oottrte AT C Emjsinbss kngu*uf?im*m