The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 17, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
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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?"
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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.
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? 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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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MILES lno anc* ?'so took Dr. MlPes'
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