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2 SHOWED CAUSE FOR ASSAUL 8tonemason Really Had Good Reasoi for Smiting His Impertinent Son-in-Law. A stonemason and cutter who dii iodd Jobs for graveyards while nototb erwise engaged, was arrested for strili ling his son-in-law. Prank Andrewi over the head with a mallet and ren dering him unconscious. "Jim Renfrow, stand up," command ed the judge. "Here I be, your honor," answere< 'the self-possessed prisoner, a grizzled brawny man of fifty years or more. "Did you strike Mr. Andrews wltl a mallet?" "I did, your honor." "With what provocation?" The defendant fumbled in his nock et for a moment and finally drew forth a bit of torn, soiled paper upon which words were scrawled. * "It was Just this way, Judge," con tinued Renfrow. "I was working in the yard, cutting stone, yesterday afternoon, when Frank came up tc mo and asked if I'd cut th' inscrip tiou of his wife's tombstone. Beiu' as it was my own darter, I allowed 1 would, tho' I kuew I'd never git no money fer th' Job. What do you sup> ,pose he had writ out fer me t' cut, Judge. Read this: '"MRS. ELIZA ANDREWS. Died Aug. 12, 1915. " 'She was a purty woman, but she had the wust temper of anybody in Stark county. Her mother was a sweet lady, so where she got it from everybody kin guess.' "That's when I hit him, Judge."? Case and Comment. MAY RECLAIM WASTE SPOT Efforts Are to Be Made to Restore to Fertility the Famous Roman Campagna. No book on Italy is complete with out some rererence to the Campagna di Roma, a district upon which a curse seems to have fallen. It is a grassy plain, something like an American prairie, about forty by seventy miles in area, Rome being near its center. This district was once the province of Latium, and was then the richest 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 necessary. In fact, the Campagna is the home of malaria, so deadly that strangers dare not to pass a single nigut exposed to its influence. The trouble with the Catnpagna arises from its being underlaid by a bed of stone impervious to water. The spring rains fill the soil, a vast quantity of vegetable matter is accumulated, and the summer sun evaporates this foul water, tilling the air with malaria of the most deadly sort. i ne ancient Kotnans knew the danger, and averted it with extensive drains; but the moderns suffered the drains to become choked, and the finest portion of Italy became a wilderness. The soil is very rich, and it is pleasant to hear that an effort is being made to reclaim the Champagna lor the uses of man. Turtle Captures Hawk. The fable of the hare and the tortoise is surpassed by the feat of a land turtle at York Springs, near Hanover, which captured a hawk. The story is related by Miss Mabel Griest, who killed the hawk. . Miss Griest was walking through a field, when she noticed a bird in the grass frantically beating its wings Approaching She found it to he a hawk with one leg securely caught between the Jaws of a turtle Though struck violently by the hawk's wings, the turtle held on until the girl struck the prisoner a blow with a stick, killing it. How the swiftest of birds was caught by its sluggish adversary is a mystery. The only plausible explanation is that the hawk must have alighted close to the turtle and been caught by its powerful jaws.?York (Pa.) Dispatch to Philadelphia Record. Making Resin in a New Way. A new method of extracting resin from pine wood has been discovered by Newton Crites, a student in the University of Washington. In the South the solvent used is gssollne, but from 25 to 20 gallons of gasoline are lost in the treatment of each cord of wood. Crites substituted ammonium hvdrnxldA fnr tho mmnllno and worked out a process oy which complete extraction of the resin is possible, together with the recovery of practically all the ammonia. Prof. H. K. Benson, under whose tutelage the young inventor worked, expresses the belief that the waste of Seattle lumber mills will supply 12,000 barrels of resin annually at a lower price than it can be made for in the southern states. His Dear Young Friends. "Ah?h'm?my dear friends," said the statesman, who had kindly consented at the earnest solicitation oi the superintendent to address a few helpful words to the Sabbath school, "looking back over my long career i am convinced that the only way to win irue success is to deal honorably with one's fellow men, to follow the dictates of conscience, to heed the teachings of the golden rule and tc walk in the straight and narrow way But?ah!?would any little boy or girl like to ask me a question?" "We"!, say, "spoke up one of the deal young friends, "ain't you kinda sorry you didn't And it out sooner?" v' ' JVfjA T PLAN NEW CITY POR CHINA n Hankow, Destroyed in Revolution, May Be Rebuilt in the Form of a Triangular Island. 11 The recent agitation regarding the '* proposed rebuilding of that part of, Hankow, China, destroyed during the ' revolution, has developed into plans l* which may make the city a triangular island, and for this an English com pany offered (in July, 1914) to furnish 960,000,000 at the close of the war 1 .then pending. Commissioner Yan Tu has drawn up a comprehensive plan of improve1 ment. One preliminary survey and one minute survey have been made, and all i preparations for laying out the sites, digging the new canal and construct* lng the river bridges are being active' lv DUflhnrl nn 1 The best part of the city 1b now a strip of land along the river Yangtze, ! and this has been turned into concest sious, so that nothing can be done in ' regard to it. Next in importance is the land between the river and the old market > place, which is the only area on which developments can be made. As the 1 lower end of the market place is connected with the concessions, no exten> sion can be made on that side. At the rear is a shallow lake, and without great effort it cannot be i turned into a market. 1 A comprehensive review of the situ* ; ation which recently appeared in the Chinese National Gazette has met with widespread approval. It says: I "The strip of land behind the concessions and the site of the lake are all distant from the river, hence trans- | portation is dillicult. Chinese com' merce should extend and expand, and other undertakings must be effected. "Those in charge of the project now intend to open a canal, beginning Dt tha ? - * " ?? - v ?uv j/at v ul iuc nun riverf i extending along the rear of the con- I cessions and Joining the Yangtze river. Thus Hankow will be a triangular i Island. "On every side of it vessels will be able to cast anchor, and the development of Industries and commerce will go forward by leaps and bounds." WAR RELICS HELD OF VALUE Gruesome Mementoes That Have Brought High Prices When Disposed Of at Auction Sales. There was sold by auction a few years ago the spear that was used by a rebel dervish to kill General Gordon. On another occasion the sword used hv T nrrl PqrH 1 wo n i? ?j v/Uiviieaii in iuc uamo ui i>Ulaclavu was disposed of at the same auction mart A very different war relic realized a very different price. This was the silver-gilt table service used by Napoleon in the course of his many campaigns, and it went for $3,250. A really extraordinary war relic was brought to light in an English court some years ago. A woman applied to the magistrate for a summons against a pawnbroker for damage to a hearthrug. She explained that during a campaign on the Indian frontier, her son had made a large hearthrug out of the garments of his slain comrades, and sent it home to her. A few years ago a relic of the siege of Paris was discovered in a windmill near Besancon. This was the mummltied body of a pigeon, to one of the wings of which a quill was attached. Inside this was a brief message, dated 1870, which read: "Darling?All well, but starving.? P. P. G." The pigeon was one of the nomers which had been released during the siege, and maybe shot by the Germans. Bunyan a Typical Hypochondriac. "If Hamlet, the Dane, is the prince of psychic miserables, then surely John Bunyan of Bedford Jail takes rank as the king of hypochondriacs," writes Dr. Howard D. King of New Orleans in the New York Medical Journal. Doctor King analyzes Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and calls his "Grace Abounding Unto the Chief of Sinners," the most vivid picture extant of a hypochondriac. After quoting Bunyan's words, "I beheld the condition of the dog and the toad and counted the estate of , everything that God had made for better than this dreadful state of mine," | he says: "No normal individual ever felt Hlr? that; but to the hypochondriac, alone ! in creation, no past, no future, can be so bad as the present." ! Upholds His Cab's Honor. It cost James A. Ryan S25 to uphold the dignity of the cab which he M drives. Judge Knowles, in the mu' nicipai court, imposed a tine of that ? amount as punishment for the beating Ryan inflicted upon Charles P. Milligan of Ninth street, near Butler, when the latter referred to the con1 veyance as a relic of Noah's ark. Milligan. who is an undertaker, had ^unciiR'i me services or ityan's cab for a funeral which he had in charge, , but when the vehicle appeared he Jeered at its appearance. Ryan rei sented the criticism so vigorously that the undertaker caused his arrest for i assault.?Philadelphia Record. i __________ ? Gloom for the Early Riser. "It's always darkest just before 1 dawn," quoted the readymade philoso' pher. "ArJ ?et," rejoined his pessimistic r friend, "some people say "early to bed j ind early to rise.'" " THE LANCASTER * CUTTING OUT WASTE MOTIC Unnecessary Fatigue May Be Avoid and Much Greater Amount of Work Accomplished. "There Is no waste of any kind the world that equals the waste fro needless, 111-dlrocted and lneffectl' motions, and their resulting unnecc sary fatigue." This remark was made In a talk fc fore the American Academy of Po tical and Social Science by Frank Qilbreth, the man who discovered lo motions in bricklaying and who hi since devoted his time to sclentii motion study. Devising ways of preventing th waste Is now occupying a great deal < attention, and bringing to economy < labor the application of scientific pri: ciples has caused a readjustment < working conditions In many tndu tries. The application of so-called efl clency methods In business meat simply showing an exact regard fc the relation of labor to a given tas so that there shall be no waste efTor Our offices and factories are being r adjusted so that time and unnece 3ary steps shall be saved. Establishing motion standards fc the performance of routine work ha resulted in increased output and ii creased wages, with an accompanyin decrease in cost. Mr. Gilbreth point out that most of us do not stop t think about the time we waste in th performance of ordinary duties. It is declared that what motio study has done for the indimtrv i? do for all human activities, and tha a little more clear thinking about th things we do?a little less senseles hurry?and at the end of tho day w will have attained greater accompllsl ment, with less fatigue, and will b in better sorts with ourselves and th world. HISTORY ONE OF BLOODSHEI Record of Serbia Has Been a Contini ous Tale of Atrocity and Wrongs It Was Powerless to Avenge. The characteristics of no people i Europe are probably so little know to the world at large as those of Sei bia. The Serbians are a prlmitiv people with strong passions and ir spired as are all primitive people b the clan spirit. The vendetta an blood feud prevail among them. 0 the seven Serbian princes who hav ruled the land since the beginning c ine nineteenth century the fitst, Kan georgoviteh, was murdered; the se< ond. Prince Milosh, was expelled; th third, Prince Michael, was murdered the fourth, Alexander Karageorgt vitch, had to abdicate; the fifth. Kin Milan Obrenovitch. was expelled; th sixth, King Alexander I, was mui dered; the seventh. King Peter, th present ruler, has spent much of hi life in exile. Serbia is a peasant stat with a liberal and progressive const tutlon. Tho national parliament i elected by universal male suffrage an a large proportion of the members b< longs to the peasant class. It is a he mogeneous nation of independen farmers. It has been called "the poo man's paradise," as there are lnei haustible mineral resources in th mountains, but Serbia has been les explored than the most remote part of the United States. Listening for Bullets. X-rays have enabled doctors to a< compllsh miracles in the way of find ing foreign substances in the humai body and of treating Internal woundt iiuu how mere naa come an lnventioi that actually enables physicians to dif cover embedded bullets by sound. I is described in Tit-Hits: The apparatus consists of a specia telephone, with double receivers. On end of the telephone wire is attache) to a small piece e platinum, which i placed on the patient's skin near th wound and held in position by plaste or by a bandage. The other end of th< telephone wire is in the form of a die infected thread of silver, which 1 used because it can be readily attache) to any of the surgeon's instrumentsa knife, a probe, a needle or a pair o forceps. The only precaution neces sary is that the terminating wir should be very firmly attached to th< instrument. When the surgeon puts the telephon receiver to his ear and begins to us his instrument on the tissues, he wll hear with great distinctness a gratlni sound that is known as a mtcrnnhnnt rattle the Instant the instrumen touches any metal imbedded In the pa tlent's tissue. The value of this apparatus to sui geons on the battlefield Is natur≪ very great. Art and the War. If every work of art existing in th< western world were obliterated, am every artist killed, would human na ture return to the animalism fron from which art has in a moasur rained It? Not so. Art makes good ti the human soul all the positions tha It conquers. When the world is over, the worl will find that the thing which ha changed least is art. Certain wither* leaves, warts, dead branches will hav sloughed off from the tree; the sa will run at first a little faster for tb temporary check, and that is all. Th wind of war reeking with death wll neither have warped nor poisoned li The utility of art, which in these day of blood and agony is mocked at, wil be raised again into the view even c the mockers, almost before the thur der of tha last shell has died awaj "Reauty is useful," says Monsieu Kodln. Aye! It Is useful.?John Oali worthy, in Atlantic. gr- 1 news, JANUARY 17, 1916. |N HOME TRAINING TO BLAME ; Northwestern University Professor ed Points Out What He Considers One of Crime's Chief Causes. Prof. Robert H. Gault of Northwest* in era university, in a report submitted m to the crime commission of Chicago, ve declares that mental deficiencies and >B' unfit homes are the contributory causes of crime. ie' Another report submitted by Proll" feasor Oault constitutes an attack on B- the present law by showing that crim8t iuals whose history should exclude 18 them from probation are given their lc | liberty. The cause of the latter, the | sociologist says, is inadequate investi* Is gation. of Compulsory education until the age of sixteen in ono ? ? m vvvuiiuoiiuaiiua ?- ' made by the professor to solve the 31 ; delinquent boy problem, and another B~ I suggestion Is that vocational training n~ should begin at any time, optional with IS the pupil and his advisers?meaning >r his parents or guardians. k In the statistics compiled in the t- I report, it is shown that many dellne' quent boys on probation in Cook counB" ty are not working at all, others work only half time, and of those that work ,r many are errand boys, wagon boys, s bellhops, and have other occupations v that contain no future for them. K i cioty would best be served, it is con8 tended, if the delinquent boy had work ? where he realized he had a chance to c make something of himself.?The Living Church. n ; "'negro waiter a diplomat e s Was Fully Alive to the Importance of e Keeping His "Mouf Shet" at j j. Sundry Times. * e Hero is a story about a diplomatics e negro waiter; also about two welllinnivn Ifonoo, ?1* " , .....niw uicii, nuu LttH KU uy mo names of Smith and Jones, Jurt to tell 3 the yarn: Smith and Jones look much alike, j and are frequently taken for each other. One day Smith was In a certain big hotel not a thousand miles from Kansas City and went Into tho n dining room for dinner. The negro 11 waiter busily brushed off the crumbs ^ and said: "Why, how Is you, Mr. 0 Jones, how is you? I'se glad to see 1 you. I hasn't seen you since I waited J on your table when you all used to have a llttlo game upstairs." p "I'm nfraid you are mistaken," said f Smith very quickly. "My name isn't t Jones. You have the wrong man." "Nuff said: nuff said," smiled the ne0 gro. with much bowing and scraping. "Ah knows all right when to keep mah ' mouf set; ah knows all right, Mr. R Jones."?Unidentified. e Risk Anything When Duty Calls. r" There seems to be no limit to which e the moving-picture man will not go in p the search of novelties to be thrown f' on the screen In nrH<>? ?>?.? ?>? "?? get pictures at night or in dark places, " such a8 in dense forests, one company has had a complete electric light plant built on a motor truck, which is taken >_ around the country wherever there 1 happens to be a demand for its servr ices. The portable lighting equipment ' Includes a cumber of projection lamps I which may be connected to the power s plant by 2,000-foot cables. This per8 mtts the projection lamps to be taken into caves, ravines of* other inaccessible places that may be found suitable as backgrounds for the photo plays. A 13-inch navy type searchlight is one of the features of the portable lighting plant. It is mounted at the side of the ' driver's seat, that its rays of light may II be played in any direction. If need [' be, this searchlight may be employed 1 to illuminate motion-picture settings in , conjunction with the other lamps. The entire portable plant outfit weighs approximately four tons. s Defense Against Zeppelins. An English military expert writes! "The question of how far aircraft can | be utilized for defense against ZeppeH llns appears to bo still under consldj eratlon. If they are to be used effectively for the attack of the enemy airf ship it Is generally assumed that they must operate outside tho London area, or between the capital and tho coast.' (> It would hardly do to have them passing through localities covered by guntire. There Is also the difficulty of descending at night to be met. Important subsidiary questions which are yet to be settled by consultation beB tween the bodies concerned are the c I , . _ CVUU VI Ui ugnis ana tratnc, 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 y the houses. Upon this point the ' authorities might do well to publish figures showing the number of casualty ties in either circumstance." J t- Draw Power From Air. n The mission settlement at Mt. Hope, ? 100 miles north of the arctic atroip, n in Alaska, is contemplating the ittstalt latlon of an electric lighting plant to be driven by large windmills. Daring d the long arctic winter the steady a winds in that region seldom fall be* d low 20 miles an hour, which Is ampler ? for driving the power plant- Since w | iuoi or any una is exceedingly ex* ? ; pensive in that region, the power will ? serve the dual purpose of illuminating II nrd heating. 9 Clever Invention. 11 William Beach, the New South '' Wales trooper who Invented the rifle k* periscope which has been used In ' 0'illiroU is the second son of the r champion sculler of the world. He * I; tver.ty-three vea-e old. ... /: v. . i.. ' , 1'x . ..... - ** .. I*-v | "I buffered with nervous atwomen. Kegmate your tacks and headaches. Then my I a * liver got out of order and It Sfiwpl^ Kir Iicinrr seemed as though my whole uuweib Dy using system was upset. I com menced using Dr. Miles' NervDR, MILES lno anc* ?'so took Dr. MlPes' Diver Kills and now I feel per- | ? ??7?p?? DVT ? O fectly well In every way. My g 1/1 V EsA * ll/l/O bowels also are In good shape | now." 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