The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 17, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
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SHOWED CAUSE FOR ASSAUl
Stonemason Really Had Good Reasi
for Smiting HI* Impertinent
Son-in-Law.
A stonemason and cutter who d
I odd Jobs for graveyards while not ot
erwise engaged, was arrested for stri
lng his son-in-law. Prank Andrea
over the head with a mallet and re
derlng him unconscious.
"Jim Renfrow, stand up," comman
ed the judge.
"Here I be, your honor," answeri
'the Belf-possessed prisoner, a grizzle
brawny man of fifty years or more.
"Did you strike Mr. Andrews wil
a mallet >"
"1 did, your honor."
"With what provocation?"
The defendant fumbled in his poc
et for a moment and finally dre
forth a bit of torn, soiled paper upc
which words were scrawled.
"It was just this way. Judge," coi
tinued Renfrow. "I was working i
the yard, cutting stone, vesterda
afternoon, when Prank came up t
me and asked if I'd cut th' inscri]
tion of his wife's tombstone. Bein' u
It was my own darter, 1 allowed
would, tho' I knew I'd never git n
money fer th' Job. What do you suj
pose he had writ out fer me t' cui
-judge. Read this:
" MRS. ELIZA ANDREWS.
Died Aug. 12, 1915.
" 'She was a purty woman, but sh
had the wust temper of anybody ii
Stark county. Her mother was i
sweet lady, so where she got it fron
everybody kin guess.'
"That's when I hit him, judge."?
Case and Comment.
MAY RECLAIM WASTF SPfll
Efforts Are to Be Made to Restore t?
Fertility the Famous Roman
Campagna.
Wo book on Italy is complete with
out some reference to the Campagnt
di Roma, a district upon which a curs<
seems to have fallen. It is a grassj
plain, something like an Americar
v-airle, about forty by seveuty milei
in area, Rome being near its center
This district was once the prov
ince of Latium, and was then the rich
est and most populous country in the
world, but it is now nearly destitute
of inhabitants. For a part of the
year shepherds and herdsmen make
It their home, but even they do not
linger longer than absolutely neces
sary. In fact, the Campagna is the
home of malaria, so deadly that stran
gers dare not to pass a single niernt ex
posed to its influence.
The trouble with the Campagns
arises from its being underlaid by s
bed of stone impervious to water. Th<
spring rains All the soil, a vast quan
tlty of vegetable matter is accumu
lated, and the summer sun evaporates
this foul water, filling the air witt
malaria of the most deadly sort.
The ancient Romans knew the dan
ger, and averted it with extensive
drains; but the moderns suffered thf
drains to become choked, and the
finest portion of Italy became a wil
derness. The soil is very rich, and
it is pleasant to hear that an effort if
being made to reclaim the Champagns
lor the uses of man.
Turtle Captures Hawk.
The fable of the hare and the tor
toise is surpassed by the feat of s
land turtle at York Springs, near Han
over, which captured a hawk. Thf
story is related by Miss Mabel Griest
who killed the hawk.
Miss Griest was walking througi
a field, when she noticed a bird in thf
grass frantically beating its wings. Ap
pronehing she found it to be a hawi
witn one leg securely caught betweer
the Jaws of a turtle Though strueli
violently by the hawk's wings, thf
turtle held on until the girl strucl<
the prisoner a blow with a stick, kill
tng it.
How the swiftest of birds was
caught by its sluggish adversary is s
mVSterV. Thf* nnlv nlanalliln nvnlatin
tion ifl that the hawk must hav?
alighted close to the turtle and beer
caught by its powerful jaws.?Yorl
(Pa.) Dispatch to Philadelphia Record
Making Resin in a New Way.
A new method of extracting resit
from pine wood has been discovered
by Newton Crites. a student in th(
University of Washington. In th<
South the solvent used is gasoline
but from 25 to 30 gallons of gasoline
are lost in the treatment of each cord
of wood. Crites substituted am
monium hydroxide for the gasoline
and worked out a process by whict
complete extraction of the resin li
possible, together with the recover]
of practically all the ammonia.
Prof. H. K. Benson, under whose tu
teiage me young inventor worked, ex
presses the belief that the waste o
Seattle lumber mills will supply 12,00i
barrels of resin annually at a lowei
price than it can be made for in th<
southern states.
HI* Dear Young Friends.
"Ah?h'm?my dear friends," sail
the statesman, who had kindly con
seated at the earnest solicitation o
the superintendent to address a fe\
helpful words to the Sabbath school
"looking back over ray long career
am convinced that the only way t
win true success is to deal honorabl;
with one's fellow men, to follow th
dictates of conscience, to heed th
teachings of the golden rule and t
walk in the straight and narrow waj
But?ah!?would any little boy or gli
like to ask me a question?"
"Wel!, say, "spoke up one of the dea
young friends, "ain't you kinda sorr
you didn't And it out sooner?"
-T PLAN NEW CITY TOR CHINA
9n Hankow, Destroyed in Revolution, May
Bo Rebuilt In the Form of a
Triangular laland.
id The recent agitation regarding the
b'I proposed rebuilding of that part of { \
it' Hankow, China, destroyed during the ,
revolution, has developed into plans j
n* | which may make the city a triangular| ,
island, and for this an English com- j
d- pany offered (In July. 1914) to furnish j
960,000,000 at the close of the war > (
-d then pending. ; (
d, Commissioner Yan Tu has drawn up ,
a comprehensive plan of improve-! f
th ment. One preliminary survey and one ,
minute survey have been made, and all j
preparations for laying out the sites, ^
digging the new canal and constructlng
the river bridges are being active- j
w ly pushed on.
'Q The best part of the city is now a %
strip of land along the river Yangtze, t
a- and this has been tuined into conces- c
u sions, so that nothing can be done in s
V .cgard to it. ; ^
0 Noxt in importance is the land be- g
?- tween the river and the old market (
s place, which is the only area on which
1 developments can be made. As the g
o lower end of the market place is con}
nected with the concessions, no exten- ^
It slon can be made on that side. r
At the rear is a shallow lake, and c
without great effort it cannot be ^
turned into a market. .
u A comprehensive review of the situ- t t,
a ation which recently appeared in the ()
a Chinese National Gazette has met
u with widespread approval. It savs: '
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"The strip of iand behind the conces- (j
- sions and the site of the lake are all a
distant from the river, hence trans- (]
portation is difficult. Chinese com- ^
p merce should extend and expand, and w
other undertakings must be effected. j n
"Those in charge of the project jr
now intend to open a canal, beginning w
at the upper part of the Han river,
extending along the rear of the con- ,,
cessions and joining the Yangtze river, i *"
1 Thus Hankow will be a triangular
3 island. , R
r "On every side of it vessels will
i be able to cast anchor, and the de3
velopment of industries and com
merce will go forward by leaps and E
- bounds." tc
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; WAR RELICS HELD OF VALUE
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, Gruesome Mementoes That Have {,]
I Brought High Prices When Dis- j
posed Of at Auction Sales. rv
There was sold by auction a few tli
years ago the spear that was used g?
by a rebel dervish to kill General Gor- 01
don. tli
On another occasion the sword used tb
by Lord Cardigan in the battle of Bal- vi
aclava was disposed of at the same M
auction mart. si
A very different war relic realized d<
a very different price. This was the pi
silver-giit table service used by Na- lil
poleon in the course of his many w
campaigns, and it went for $3,250. tu
A really extraordinary war relic el
was brought to light in an English a
court some years ago. A woman ap- lo
plied to the magistrate for a sum- m
mons against a pawnbroker for dam- fa
age to a hearthrug. She explained m
that during a campaign on the Indian hi
frontier, her son had made a large m
hnnrthmrr * ? 1
VUI ?6 Mill U1 IUC ?<ll LUCUIH UI U18 <SJ
slain comrades, and sent it home to of
her.
A few years ago a relic of the
siege of Paris was discovered in a
windmill near Besancon. This was cc
the mummitled body of a pigeon, to in
one of the wings of which a quill be
was attached. Inside this was a ai
brief message, dated 1870, which th
read: cc
"Darling?All well, but starving.-i? is
P P. G." The pigeon was one of the
homers which had been released dur- te
ing the siege, and maybe shot by the er
Ge-.ni an s. to
Bunyan a Typical Hypochondriac. P1
"If Hamlet, the Dane, is the prince w
of psychic miserabies, then surely 01
John Bunyan of Bedford Jail takes tc
rank as the king of hypochondriacs," *n
writes Dr. Howard D. King of New us
. vu<;aug in me i>?w iorK medical
t Journal. Doctor King analyzes Bun- u
yan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and calls bis fo
"Grace Abounding Unto the Chief of 88
t Sinners," the most vivid picture extant 8*
I of a hypochondriac. tn
j After quoting Bunyan's words, "I be?
held the condition of the dog and re
the toad and counted the estate of hl
> everything that God had made for bet- 1
I ter than this dreadful state of mine." 8<
. he says: ; r8
i "No normal individual ever felt like I tc
i that; but to the hypochondriac, alone
i in creation, no past, no future, can be
r so bad as the present."
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upnoias Mia Cab's Honor.
It cost James A. Ryan $25 to upI
hold the dignity of the cab which he w
) drives. Judge Knowles, in the mu- e1
i* nicipal court, imposed a tine of that ti
& amount as punishment for the beat- ft
ing Ryan inflicted upon Charles P. rt
Milltgan of Ninth street, near Butler, tl
when the latter referred to the con- it
i veyance as a relic of Noah's ark.
i- Milligan, who is an undertaker, had w
f solicited the services of Ryan's cab cl
v for a funeral which he had in charge, U
I, but when the vehicle appeared he si
I jeered at its appearance. Ryan re- *
o sented the criticism so vigorously that t<
y the undertaker caused his arrest for w
e assault.?Philadelphia Record. n
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o Gloom for the Early Riser. o
"It's always darkest Just before b
*1 dawn," quoted the readymade phlloso- tl
pher. d
r "Arl ^et," rejoined his pessimistic < ]
j friend, "some people say "early to bod ?
| ind early to rise.' " *
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THE LANCASTER NE
CUTTING OUT WASTE MOTION
Unnecessary Fatigue May Be Avoided
and Much Greater Amount of
Work Accomplished.
"There Is no waste ot any kind in
the world that equals the waste from
needless, ill-dirocted and Ineffective
notions, and their resulting unnecessary
fatigue."
This remark was made in a talk before
the American Academy of Political
and Social Science by Frank B.
3ilbroth, the man who discovered lost
notions in bricklaying and who has ;
lince devoted bis time to scientific i
notion study.
Devising ways of preventing this
vasto is now occupying a great deal of
ittention, and bringing to economy of
abor the application of scientific prin:lples
has caused x readjustment of
vorklng conditions in many induBries.
The application of so-called effllency
methods in business means
imply showing an exact regard for
he relation of labor to a given task
o that there shall be no waste efTort.
)ur offices and factories are being redjusted
so that time and unnecesary
steps shall be saved.
Establishing motion standards for
he performance of routine work has
esulted in increased output and in- \
reased wages, with an accompanying i
ecrease in cost. Mr. Gilbreth points
ut that most of us do not stop to
hink about the time we waste in the
erformanee of ordinary duties.
It is declared that what motion !
tudy has done for the industry it will !
w iui uu iiuiiuiu activities, and that
little moro clear thinking about the
lings wo do?a little loss senseless
urry?and at the end of the day we
ill have attained greater accomplish- j
tent, with less fatigue, and will be ;
1 better Borts with ourselves and the
orld.
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IISTORY ONE OF BLOODSHED
ecord of Serbia Has Been a Continuous
Tale of Atrocity and Wrongs
It Was Powerless to Avenge. '
The characteristics of no people in (
urope are probably so little known
> the world at large as those of Serla.
The Serbians are a primitive
aople with strong passions and in- '
"lirnri na nrn oil nrlmltUfn
?ivr w*t |/..IUJUTO pUUJ/IO UJ ^
10 clan spirit. The vendetta and j
lood feud prevail among them. Of
i? seven Serbian princes who have ,
iled the land since the beginning of
le nineteenth century the first, Kara- *
jorgevitch, was murdered; the secid,
Prince Milosh, was expelled; the J
lird, Prince Michael, was murdered;
le fourth, Alexander Karageorge- ,
tch, had to abdicate; the fifth. King *
ilan Obrenovitch, was expelled; the
xth. King Alexander I, was murired;
the seventh. King Peter, the ^
esent ruler, has spent much of his t
fo in exile. Serbia is a peasant state (
ith a liberal and progressive consti- (
itlon. Tho national parliament is (
ccted by universal male suffrage and .
large proportion of the members be- ,
ngs to the peasant class It is a hoogeneous
nation of independent .
xmers. It has been called "the poor .
an's paradise," as there are inex- .
lustible mineral resources in the
ountains, but Serbia has been less
tplored than the most remote parts *
' the United States.
Listening for Bullets.
X-rays have enabled doctors to ac- ,
implish miracles in the way of And- .
g foreign substances in the human
>dy and of treating internal wounds,
id now there has come an invention ,
mt actually enables physicians to dis- ,
>ver embedded bullets by sound. It .
described in Tit-Bits:
The apparatus consists of a special
lephone. with double receivers. One
id of the telephone wire iu attached
? a small piece o platinum, which is
aced on the patient's skin near the
ound and held in position by plaster ,
by a bandage. The other end of the
lephone wire is in the form of a dlsfected
thread of silver, which is
ted because it can be readily attached (
' any of the surgeon's instruments? '
knife, a probe, a needle or a pair of
rceps. The only precaution necesiry
is that the terminating wire
lould be very firmly attached to the j
strument.
When the surgeon puts the telephone
(ceiver to his ear and begins to use ,
is instrument on the tissues, he will
?ar with great distinctness a grating J
>und that is known as a microphonic
ittle the instant the instrument {
tuches any metal Imbedded in the paent's
tissue.
The value of this apparatus to sur3ons
on the battlefield is naturally
sry great. | ,
Art and the War.
If every work of art existing in the '
estern world were obliterated, and j
rery artist killed, would human na- |
ire return to the animalism from |
did wnicn art nas in a measure
lised It? Not so. Art makes good in
le human soul all the positions that
conquers.
When the world is over, the world
HI And that the thing which has
langed least is art. Certain wltherQd'
aves, warts, dead branches will have
loughed off from the tree; the sap
ill run at first a little faster for the
jmporary check, and that is all. The
ind of war reeking with death will
either have warped nor poisoned it.
he utility of art, which in these days
f blood and agony is mocked at, will
e raised again into the view even of
ie mockers, almost before the thuner
of the last shell has died away.
Beauty is useful," says Monsieur
odin. Aye! it is useful.?John Oals-orthy.
in Atlantic.
WS, JANUARY 17, 1916,
HOME TRAINING TO BLAM!
Northwestern University Professo
Points Out What He Considers
One of Crime's Chief Causes.
Prof. Robert H. Oault of Northwest
era university, in a report submltte<
tOL the crime commission of Chicago
declares that mental deflclencles ant
unfit homes are the contributor,
causes of crime.
Another report submitted by Pro
feasor Gault constitutes an attack 01
the present law by showing that crim
inals whose history should excludt
them from probation are given theii
liberty. The cause of the latter, th<
sociologist says, is inadequate investi
gatlon.
Compulsory education until tho age
of sixteen is one rfimmmnnilotlnr
made by the professor to solve the
delinquent boy problem, and anothei
suggestion is that vocational training
should begin at any time, optional with
the pupil and his advisers?meaning
his parents or guardians.
In the statistics compiled in the
report, it is shown that many delinquent
boys on probation in Cook county
are not working at all, others work
only half time, and of those that work
many are errand boys, wagon boys,
bellhops, and have other occupations
that contain no future for them. Society
would best be served, it is contended,
if the delinquent boy had work
where he realized he had a chance to
make something of himself.?The Living
Church.
NEGRO WAITER A DIPLOMAT
Was Fully Alive to the Importance of
Keeping His "Mouf Shet" at j
Sundry Times. ^
Here is a story about a diplomatics
uegru wuuer; aiso aoout two well*
known Kansas men, who can go by the
names of Smith and Jones, Just to tell
the yarn:
Smith and Jones look much alike,
and are frequently taken for each
other. One day Smith waB in a certain
big hotel not a thousand miles
from Kansas City and went into the
lining room for dinner. The negro
waiter busily brushed off the crumbs
ind said: "Why, how is you, Mr.
Jones, how is you? I'se glad to see
pou. I hasn't seen you since I waited
an your table when you all used to
Save a little game upstairs."
"I'm afraid you are mistaken," said
3mith very quickly. "My name isn't
Jones. You have the wrong man."
"Nuff said; nuff said," smiled the nejro.
with much bowing and scraping.
'Ah knows all right when to keep mah
nouf set; ah knows all right, Mr.
Tones."?Unidentified.
Risk Anything When Duty Calls.
There seems to be no limit to which
:he moving-picture man will not go in
he search of novelties to be thrown
in the screen. In order that he may
Eet pictures at night or in dark places,
luch as in dense forests, one company
laa had a complete electric light plant
juilt on a motor truck, which is taken
iround the country wherever there
lappens to be a demand for Ita servces
The portable lighting equipment
ncludes a number of projection lamps
which may be connected to the power
plant by 2,000-foot cables. This pernits
the projection lamps to be taken
nto caves, ravines or other tnaccesal)le
places that may be found suitable
is backgrounds for the photo plays. A
13-inch navy type searchlight Is one of
he features of the portable lighting
plant. It Is mounted at the side of the
lrlver's seat#that its rays of light may
ie played in any direction. If need
pe, this searchlight may be employed
:o Illuminate motion-picture settings in
%nninnr?tlnn with tho I*rT"u
.. IVU vitv UVHCI iaaj|iO. iUfJ
intire portable plant outfit weighs approximately
four tons.
Defense Against Zeppelins.
An English military expert writes!
'The question of how far aircraft can
tie utilized for defense against Zeppelins
appears to be still under consideration.
If they are to be used effectively
for the attack of the enemy airship
it is generally assumed that they
must operate outside the London area.
[>r between the capital and the coast.
It would hardly do .to have them passing
through localities covered by gunfire.
There Is also the difficulty of
descending at night to be met. Important
subsidiary questions which ars
yet to be settled by consultation between
the bodies concerned are the
control of lights and traffic, as well
as the alien problem. Perhaps of more
personal Interest to Londoners Is the
question whether the greater danger Is
incurred by being In the streets or In
the houses. Upon this point the
authorities might do well to publish
figures showing the number of casualties
in either circumstance."
Draw Power From Air.
The mission settlement at Mt. Hopf,
100 miles north of the arctlo otrolf,
iu ;\iiutKu, m conrempiaung too mstJUlatlon
of an electric lighting plant to
be drlren by large windmllle. Daring
the long arctic winter the oteady
winds In that region seldom fall bglow
20 miles an hour, which it ample
for driving the power plant Since
fuel of any kind is exceedingly expensive
in that region, the power will
serve the dual purpose of lllumlnatlnc
and heating.
Clever Invention.
William Beach, the New 8outh
Wales trooper who Invented the rifle
periscope which has been used In
OilltpoU- Is the second son of tbe
>i\ champion scullr.r of tho world. He
'.r tv/cnty-three yet-a old
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for all Nervous disorders.
It is particularly
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