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FINANCING CONSUMPTION FIGHT. Red Cross Seals Furnished Needed Funds. Now that South Carolina has in Migs Elizabeth Sumner, of the National Red Cross association, a trained secretary to lead the anti-tuberculosis crusade, this State has joined in an organized movement which is beipg furthered in all parts of the country and which has as its objects: 1. The education of all the people with regard to the facts. 2. The establishment on an adequate scale of: (a) Dispensaries for early diag ? ? - ? ? ? /k/\ QOSiS iiuu. auuic. (b) Hospitals for advanced and incurable cases. (c) Sanatoria for treatment of curable cases. (d) Open air schools and provision for children predisposed to tuberculosis. (e) Visiting nurses for home su. pervision and instruction. 3. The securing of proper State and municipal legislation. 4. Cooperation with all sound movements for the betterment of living and working conditions. The growth of the movement may be seen in the fact that there were in the United States on May 15, 1915, over 1,400 anti-tuberculosis associations and committees, about 550 special tuberculosis hospitals and sanatoria, 455 special tuberculosis dispensaries, over 800 open air schools; and more than 3,000 nurses giving some special attention to tuberculosis cases. Before January 1, 1905, there were 24 associations, 115 tuberculosis hospitals and sanatoria, 19. special tuberculosis dispensaries and no open air schools and no visiting tuberculosis nurses. Miss Sumner finds South Carolina decidedly backward in all methods of caring for the tuberculosis and she emphasizes the fact that the sale of the Christmas Red Cross seals is the means of very direct and immediate improvement in this respect. It raises the funds whereby district nurses are employed, clinics are opened and the sick oeople taught and nursed. "There is a special work for individuals and for groups and organizations to do," declares Miss Sumner. "Women's clubs can spread the gospel of health by anti-tuberculosis lectures and addresses; school teachers can instruct their pupils as to the nature of tuberculosis and the means of preventing its spread. Trained nurses can organize leagues of the Modern Health Crusaders which will inspire the children to sell the seals and to fight the powerful enemy, disease, by investing the business with some of the romance of the mediaeval crusader. Clergymen, physicians, fraternal orders and labor organizations all have an opportunity before them." Celebrates Birthday. Catherine, the beautiful little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Jones, celebrated her sixth birthday yesterday afternoon by entertaining a number of her small friends at a delightful party given at the home of her parents on Mcintosh" street. The entire lower floor of the Jones's attractive home was given over to the pleasure of the young guests and was very pretty in its decorations of pink and green with many beautiful roses and chrysanthemums and house plants. Games of all kinds entertained the children until fivethirty, when delicious refreshments were served at a table set beneath the softened glow of many rose shaded electric lights and with pink shaded -jit-oc.no filial mith lnvplv C<tllUlCS> a 1111 VQOto n uvu ? iv>4 . ?v pink blossoms. The big birthday cake was elaborately iced in pink and held six tell-tale candles which the small hostess blew out before cutting. The arch of the door leading from the parlor to the dining room bore in pink hearts "Catherine, Six Years." Many lovely presents were taken this beautiful child and her birthday was one of the happiest that will ever befall her. Catherine received her guests wearing a frock of delicate lace over pink silk, and was. as she always is, a picture of beautiful childhood. Mrs. Jones was assisted in entertaining the guests by Miss Ellenor Schweickert. Guests present were: Carrie Winter, Margaret Mennis, Nell Trowbridge, Annie Jones, Bettie Jones, Louise Davis, Annie Faulkner, Margaret Wood. Pickens Greneker, H. Campbell Vaiden. Jr., Mildred Lorick. Ruth McAuliff, Eugene Gren eker. Virginia Williamson, Neville North, Louise Wilson, Dorothy Lansdell, Leonora Buckley, Herbert C. Loriek. Jr., John Sevier. Wallace North. Martha Miller. Bovkin Sanford. Sherwood Hedgepeth, Alacoque Feagan. Amelia Sheftall. Catherine Jones.?Augusta Herald. The forestry department of Pennsylvania is this year setting out thousands of seedling black cherries. Last year it set out many thousands of wild grape vines. "IXKTOKED." Why (iold l*ieces Cannot lie Melted for Jewelers' Uses. Why don't jewelers melt up $10 and $20 gold pieces in order to use the metal in the manufacture of gold jewelry? Indeed, gold pieces were used some forty years ago by enterprising jewelers and with success, too?until the practice was stopped in a very novel but effective way, according to the Popular Science Monthly for November. In those days jewelers bought enough $10 and $20 gold pieces for the work in hand. The gold was melted, the necessary alloys were added, and all manner of fine Etruscan work was turned out. It was not long, however, before the government began to wonder what was becoming of its gold pieces. The officials knew the people were not hoarding gold, so a quiet investigation took place. It was then discovered that the makers of gold jewelry were to blame. Having found the cause, it was not difficult for the officials to find a cure. They did it by "peppering" the coins with iridium. Resembling black emery in the crude state, iridium requires a heat of 3,542 degrees Fahrenheit. It is easy to see, then, how the unsuspecting jewelers, melting up his gold pieces at the temperature required, got a large number of unmelted specks of iridium in his metal when it cooled. You can imagine his dismay when his analysis and deductions revealed that he had been trapped. Illumination. When in need of light we push a button and, presto! "there was light," thanks to electricity. Only a little while ago, however, we had to turn a tap and apply a match before we had light, and before gas light our fathers and grandfathers struggled along with kerosene lamps, which seemed to them a big improvement over the candles of their fathers. Taking it by and large, we are pretty fortunate, living in such an advanced age, but it was not always so, as the development of illumination will show?our forbears deserve a great deal of credit for their improvements in artificial light. A series of curious and apparent ly disconnected objects displayed in a case in the new building of the national museum at Washington, illustrate the fascinating story of light, and Dr. Walter Hough, curator in charge, can tell much more concerning this interesting subject. Glancing into the case before reading the labels one is apt tc wonder what it is all about; there is an egg-shaped object punched full of holes with a small door in the top, a dried up bird, a tiny fish stuck into a forked stick, a bundle of sticks, some odd stone and earthenware dishes, a roll of birch bark, a waxed rope, and several old candles and lamps. But as the labels are read a connected stOiy begins to unfold. We can tell but little concerning what man did for light before he first made camp fires, because no re mains of man have Deen discovered antedating the use of fire, but the probably relied upon the moon and stars to a great extent, and may have been benefited in his nocturnal work by heat lightning and polar light, or by certain plants and animals which emit phosphorescent light. We know that fireflies were used under the last division and that this is still done in certain countries, for example, Siam and Brazil, where the large and most brilliant species occur. Prof. Samuel P. Langley, late secretary of the Smithsonian, found by his researches that the light emitted by the firefly was the cheapest and most economical form of light known to man. Could we but solve the secret of its production we would have a brilliantly illuminated world at scarcely any expense whatever. The first object in the national museum series, described above, is a perforated cocoanut shell, which when well-stocked with fireflies makes a very good lantern. This is the only form of natural light known to have been employed by man; probably at about the same time he also discovered that his camp fire was portable, or that a burning brand -1- ^ >- - 11 C HrrV.+ nngiu ue lahen uicicuum iu ugiu him on his way. Bodies of fat birds and fish, such as the stormy Petrel and the candle fish, included in the series jvere also burned for light, in j the Orkney Islands and in Alaska j respectively. Then came the forerunner of the i torch, including the rolled birch J bark, used by the Iroquois Indians,! and split fat pine knots from Vir-j ginia. The true torch was first made: by the Southern Indians, who used ! bundles of splinters of fat pine i knots, while the Malays manufactur-' ed a torch of dammar gum, a resi-i nous substance, wrapping it in palm | leaves. More candle-like lights fol-| lowed, developed in the Middle Agesj by Europeans, who soaked pieces of; > rope in resin and saturated- cords and fibers with grease or wax. The primitive candle of England was a rush soaked in melted fat. In Mongolia and India a mass of grease was burned on the end of a splint or stick. By thes steps it is seen that man was beginning to apply his ingenuity, after having found that lights could be had, and to realize their value. In England a plan was evolved whereby a cord saturated with wax or fat was coiled about a vertical stick, which also supported an iron holder for the end of the wick-like cord. Dipped candles with a cotton wick soon put in their appearance in the United States, followed by moulded candles. Some recent examples of moulded candles of stearine, paraffin and wax are shown in the museum collections, a number of them artistically decorat-i Unlike the perishable early candles and torches, lamps or many forms have arrived for our archeologist to study, indicating that their development dates back to the time when our ancestors began to use oil instead of fat or grease and wax. The first samples shown in the museum are of stone. One from the Aleut shell heaps appears to be an unworked beach stone, with a slight i natural concavity, in which the oil was placed, the wick resting along the edge. Another is Eskimauan, and consists of a hollowed beach stone, which had a moss wick on one edge. These were superseded by | simple lamps made of shells, or terra cotta, some of the latter having their reservoirs covered and special gutters for wicks. Next came the bronze lamp, followed by iron and! brass lamps from Italy, with two orj more wicks, some of them mounted j on rods and standards, and equipped with several instrument for trim-; ming the wicks. The discovery of j petroleum gave rise to numerous in-1 ventions of chimneys, burners and wicks, so that during the year 1870 I the United States was probably the; best illuminated country in the world. I i Coal gas illumination was evolved between 1792-1802, but it was not until about 1884 that it was brought to a high state of efficiency' by the Welsbach mantle, and further developed by the inverted burner and the use of pressure gas. In the age of electrical illumination, the first light was an arc made by Sir Humphry Davy between 18011808, but electric lights were not employed in this country until much later The open arc was supplemented, in 1893, by the enclosed arc, and later. The open arc was supplementtrodes. The brilliant flame arc was an invention of Bremer in 1898-1899, and in the meantime a mercury-va-, por lamp was^ introduced in 1892, followed by several other types, in-,1 eluding the Cooper-Hewitt light, still in vogue. The first practical incandescent lamp was the carbon filament lamp' brought out by Edison in 1878-1879, although a platinum filament lamp j was experimented with much earlier.; Filaments of osmium, tantalum, he-1 lion and other metals were intro-; duced, but none of them equalled the' efficiency of tungsten, invented in j 1893, and perfected in 1912. Many! other lamps were made during these ! years, among them the Nernst. Onej of the latest improvements, effected by introducing nitrogen into the bulb, is known as the Mazda gas lamp, which is made in very large sizes, and has become an efficient competitor of the arc light. Nearly every year has brought out a better, and at the same time, a cheaper, form of light. Nobody knows when experiments in electrical illumination will be terminated, or when some unknown form of light may be brought into use. The museum ethnological exhibit goes as far as the simple carbon filament light, but in the division of mechanical technology, .in the other building, there are many interesting examples of early electric lamps and lighting apparatus, together with later improvements showing the many phases of development in the art of illumination. More Army Training Camps. The training camps for citizens will be an important subject which Secretary Baker will consider during the next month in order to make some important recommendations he has in contemplation and which will be presented to the military committees of congress. The details are now being worked out and contemplate a larger number of camps than last year, perhaps as many as ten or twelve. It is hoped to have -r?0.000 or 60,000 citizens under training, and it will be necessary to provide funds for the r\f K,i i'Minora o n rl nttiov panin I dCVUUll UUIiVllUJ^O Ultu UlUVt VWitif/ facilities at the places designated for the training and for furnishing uniforms. subsistence. transportation and medical supplies for those attending the camps. The first year's expenditure in that direction is bound to be larger than that required for subsequent years, inasmuch as it must include the cost of such items as water, fuel, light, temporary structures and so on.?Army and Navy Register. pi?_ioi i oaooaoi ioe Electric Light and Power for ; T/jP^ Farm and Country Home : Here is a light developed by the makers of the famous Delco Starting and 1 Lighting systems used for years by builders of the finest automobiles. 1 It contains in a single unit a gas engine and dynamo?with ample capacity | for lighting the average country store, farm or village home. I With batteries charged and engine running, DELCO-LIGHT will contin- I uously operate 40 to 50 lights and also furnish power for small machines, , 8 y such as are used in tne rarm ana nome. ^ Delco-Light ? ? ' D Press the button and Delco-Light pumps the water, lights the home, runs J the vacuum cleaner, does the washing, operates the cream separator, lights I the barns, runs the electric fan, does the churning, etc, etc. p Q The 80-ampere storage battery will carry eight 20-watt 16-candle power ? ' M Mazda lamps four hours per day for four days, or half that number of M - - - -TV TT\T\TT%t/-< mTTn n\*/lT\Tn fi I Ulignts for eignt aays, wiihuui kuininiini* l-tin. The engine used to generate the power can be operated with either gas, \ Q gasoline or kerosene. ^ i Delco-Light will operate any motor up to 1-2 horse power. Delco-Light is made in two sizes and sells at $275.00 and $325.00. Convenient payments if desired. Write for further information and ask for demonstration. 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