Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Letter From Mrs. Snuggs. Dear Dr. Cody: Last week I had a letter from IM Snug'gs, asking me to write to Tl Bapt.st Courier (as he is away on long itinerating trip, he is not ahle write). I fear he does not know wh he is asking of me, for I have nev written to a paper and would n . know how to begin. So, after mu< prayer, thought and anxiety (< course wanting to "obey" althoug I nev*;r promised that) finally d eided to write to Dr. Cody. I am alone here now 'for near four long weeks on my "Isle of pa mos," its so lonely. Do you know have noi spoken a word of English i all these weeks excepting to myse and my Chinese yellow dog. Yeste: day a real American flag came to' m through the mail. What do you thin was the first thing I did on openin it? Yes, I cried for joy, to see a b: of real home, and I am not ashame to say that tears flowed freely for while. I am only human, am still i the flesh. Oh! how we need help her among these three millions souls an more. And only two lone Baptis Missionaries (and I can hear yoi say, "yes, and they are getting old." Our Chinese workers here ^ were s disappointed on our return finding w had no re-enforcements. On our arrival here October 15th we were met on the wharf by our twi . schools, Boys and Girls with thei drums, bugles, flags, etc., escorting u to our little rented home here. Com ing into the yard they had speeche of welcome. All this cheered us s< much. The next day we were thi guests of our members at a Chines* meal, we ate with chopsticks, wisl you could have been with us; an sure you would have enjoyed th< meal, "sticks" thrown in. After the feast, we all went into the well fill ec chapel where speeches of welcome were made by the men, . and jusl think ! for the first time in the historj of our Pakhoi work a woman spoke jp the mixed audience. I was real fearful, but Mr. Snuggs told me 1 did well, (wonder if he only said thal to cheer me?). We have over 70 mem bers now, nearly 15 of these are from the Boys and Girls schools. We have the envelopesystem and it works well. Last Sunday, on roll 102 we had a collection of $1.05 this is outside of the 75 Million- Campaign. We think that is fine, considering the extreme poverty of our people here. Shall I write you the average wage of a workman? $9-12 per month is fair pay. One of our preacher's salary in On Po is $22 per month, that is $11 in U. S. A. money. Out of this he provides for his wife and four chil dren. How can he do it, I don't know. They only exist. The two eldest sons are in our boys and girls school here, the eldest one is a pupil-scholar, teaching half a day and studying the other half, he gets $3 per month for his help, and that is scarcely suffi cient for his rice. These two lads are so emaciated. I will try some day to take their photo and send it to you. Most of our scholars are so slim and thin. "Underfed" I can hear you say. Yes, and that is the usual sight among these poor people. Yet, out of their poverty they are willingly'giv ing their mite. We are having a "Giv ing" Christmas again this year, help ing our orphans and the lepers. Last year the extra collection was over $25. We hope for at least that much this year. We are enlarging the chapel, it's too small to hold all who come to hear the Gospel Message. Our Boys' school is too small. We are looking for a larger building. The Girls' school is having an extra rQom added for our kindergarten. I wish you could hear our school boys take part in our Sat urday night Prayer Meetings, also leading in turn, as some have a Sun day school class ' on the Lord's day, teaching 'the smaller boys. The work is encouraging. We are cheered. God is good to us. Praise His name. Mr. Snuggs writes: "Work is progressing in the outstations. It's healthy. Yet with all this, the masses are still un touched by the Gospel Story. The scenes he is seeing these past few weeks would make you weep, Dr. Cody. He wrote about a little girl of . y about 6 years of age, the cry of dis tress and pain witnessed on one of the main streets of On Po, then a wo man sitting by the wayside, begging, with a face half gone from an awful disease. It's heartrending. I wept too, as I read his letter. If only' a nurse could have been available, how she could have ministered at least to this poor, little girl. . The sad part of all is, that we dear people in the home land (having so much in luxuries) would help more if it was only un derstood. Oh! when will our own folk awaken to their privileges and joy of helping these poor creatures for whom our Saviour gave His life. For give us, Lord! was on my lips as I read that letter. Do you know we are without any medical aid whatever? The Church of England doctor is home^ on fur lough, The French Government doc tor is aflso'away. We are about 4 days journey from Hongkong, the nearest to obtain aid in illness. How we need to lean upan the Great Physician. If we could have a beginning, say a nurse first, how much she could do. Pray with us that our Board may be able to send us the nurse, kindergar ten teacher and a man and wife for Educational work which we have been so long b?gging for. The "Baptist Courier" is a most welcome letter in our home each mail day. We read every word of it and often translate bits to help our Chinese brothern here. We pray daily for you all. God bless our workers in dear old America. How we need you at the Throne. Yours in happy service, Mrs. E. T. Snuggs. -Baptist Courier. PATCHING UP KING'S SPEECH Serious Omission Recently Gave Brit ish Parliamentary Authorities a "Bad Fifteen Minutes." William Cobbett, who used to com plain of the bad grammar and the in different English of the king's speeches to parliament, surely never contemplated the omission which marked the king's speech at the open ing of the recent session. The speech itself was remarkably short-139 words all told-and it came to a sud den stop without the usual invocation of God's blessing on the labors of par liament. When the king had departed, the officials were horrified at the omission ; an! hastily sent up a verbal addition to the press. Some of the newspapers used it and some did no't. Nor was this all, for when the lord chancellor in th? house of lords and the speaker In the house of commons read out the speech at the afternoon sitting, the invocation was there, but the words were different from those sr.pplled earlier In the day. The se cret history of all these changes would make interesting matter for a modern Pepys. Future Monarch Reared Simply. In an article describing the train ing of the fourteen-year-old prince of the Asturias, King Alfonso's heir, the Madrid Heraldo says he is being brought up in the atmosphere of home life that his parents love. Queen Victoria, as well as King Alfonso, dis likes all forms of ceremonial, and the prince ls being trained as simply as possible. He has many tutors with whom he visits factories, dockyards, engineering works, newspaper offices, museums and all centers of culture and activity. The customs of the Spanish court have prevented him from entering a university or military college, but he will probably be sent later on to a military academy. Tlie prince is fair with blu? eyes, and for this reason he has the ap-, pearance of a "foreigner," for Spain ls a country of dark-eyed people. But those who speak of his foreign ap- ' pearance maintain that he Is thorough ly Sanish. He speaks English and French fluently and takes an active Interest in science and art.-London Dally Mail. Fashion':-, Pilgrimage Begins. What the fashions, both feminine and masculine, will be in North Amer ica next May may be known now by I anyone who is in Buenos Aires. A news letter from the South .American metropolis announces that all the spring styles from Paris, and London, too, are to be see? in the shops there and on the streets. The straw hat of 1922 is there, beginning its march northward, arriving at Havana in January or February, New Orleans and Palm Beach by March, Atlanta and Charleston in April, and the rest of the continent in May. All the fashionable world in Buenos Aires can furnish advance informa tion on fabrics, colors and modes, and an enterprising correspondent or two could very well supply interesting pointers to the curious in the midst of our northern snowdrifts. Studies Ant Control on Ships. An odd assignment given to a scien tific research worker is that of making a study oMhe control of ants on ship board. As guest of the Pacific Mail Steamship company, Warren T. Clarke, professor of agriculture ex tension In the University of California, has sailed on the steamship Columbia on a two months' trip through the Panama canal, coming on by way of Havana to Baltimore, to study the problem at first hand.-New York Eve ning Post. As Guaranteed. Mr. Henry Carr-You guaranteed that the engine of this used car would develop 60 horsepower. Look lt over. Deal;:-Th? 60 horsepower Is all there only they appear to be pulling In opposite directions. STRAYED: Three red shotes about 50 or 69 pounds, strayed from my home February 12th. Any infor mation will be appreciated. R. E. MORGAN. 2-22-lt FOR SALE: Dry pine wood, four feet, $1.59 per cord in woods or $2.59 delivered in Edgefield. Also several mules and horses. M. C. PARKER. 2-15-2t. Represents About 3 Per Cent of Total Gasoline Produc . tion of Country. IS VALUED AT $20,340,000 Report of the United States Bureau of Mines Tells of Many Other Inves tigations Made During Last Year. Washington.-Investigations conduct ed by the United Stutes bureau of raines, in the course of a special effort to aid the mineral industries to re establish themselves on a safe basis to meet the renewed foreign competi tion and the changed conditions of sup I ply and demand of the post-war period, point the way to the possible saving of vast sums through the application of improved methods in the production of various mineral materials, according to H. Foster Bain, director, in his an nual report, just made to the secretary of the interior. An Investigation of losses of crude oil through evaporation in storage and in transportation, conducted during the year by the bureau, disclosed losses of startling magnitude. It was found that in the few days in which crude oil is stored on the lease before being taken by the pipe line, the agr?gate loss per year from evaporation amounts to about 122,000,000 gallons of gasoline in the mid-continent field alone. This has a value, at 22 cents a gallon, of $26, 840,000, and represents about 3 per cent of the total gasoline produced in the United States from all fields and all sources. The bureau found that a large percentage of this loss could be pre vented by the use of efficient equip ment. The bureau of mineo jas pointed out the considerable losses which have re sulted from the failure of many refin eries to recover gasoline from con-. denseds still vapors. The significance of this investigation Is shown by the fact that one refinery In the mid-con tinent field ls now recovering from still vapors approximately 400 barrels of gasoline daily which, before the instal lation of this equipment, was either lost or burned as fuel under the boilers and stills. The value of fractionating towers at petroleum refineries, by means of which some companies have increased the yield of gasoline from crude oil by as much as 5 per cent, or 16% per cent of the total, is now gen-1 erally recognized. Low-Pressure Waste. Large quantities of gas are now be ing wasted in the Osage Nation in Oklahoma because of low-pressure con ditions, and the bureau of haines is in vestigating the feasibility of utilizing this waste gas by the use of low-pres sure burners for oilfield boilers. The demand of the export market for "sweet" gasoline led to the develop ment of a process for treating gasoline to remove the objectionable sulphur compounds, by which treatment some grades of American gasoline heretofore objectionable were made suitable for export. Under the arrangement by which su pervision of the drilling and production ol' oil and gas ou the public lands is vested in the bureau of mines, the bu reuu hus supervision of about 100 pro ducing oil properties, which are pro ducing ut the rate of about 12,000,000 barrels of oil per annum. Even at the present reduced price of oil, the gov ernment royalty from this should tptal perhaps $2,000,000 per annum. A spe cial process, devised at the San Fran cisco station of the bureau, for crack ing heavy oils and tars promises the recovery of large yields of gasoline and other lighter products, hitherto regard ed as unrecoverable. Investigations made by the bureau in Colorado and Utah indicate that the oil-shale de posits of the Rocky mountain states contain a potential fuel supply of al most unequaled importance. The experimental helium plant at Pe trolia, Texas, conducted under the au thority of the army and navy helium board, was in operation during the year ut various times, and helium was pro duced for short periods. A study of the practicability of storing this rare and noninllummable gus in mine work ings wus made at the bureau's experi mental coal mine at Bruceton, Pa. At the cryogenic or low-temperature lab oratory iu Wushington, D. C., liquid air in quuntlty is now being produced. The primary object of tills laboratory Is to investigate gases and liquids at low temperatures, with special reference to the separation of helium from natural gas. Field investigations of possible supplies of helium in natural gas were completed during the year, every known gas field in the United States having been tested. Results were mark edly successful, as they have shown that this country contains the largest supply of helium-bearing natural gas in the wo ri dr Scrap Losses Investigated. An investigation of scrap losses in aluminum alloy foundry practice showed that the annual losses in the United States amount to $1,200,000, and that universal adoption of meth ods recommended by the bureau of mines would probably result in a sav ing of about $600.000 per annum.- Melt ing losses In this Industry, which are largely preventable, aggregate about $3,000,000 yearly. A new method was devised to simplify the collection o? rad?jn ?Minnatlon from radium salts. Experiments nre noW In progress to perfect the process and to develop an pararas that can be recommended for public use In laboratories and hospitals The bureau investigated the proper ties and possibilities of molybdenum of which the United States possesses the largest known deposits, although the country ls relatively poor In high grade deposits of some other important alloying elements used in alloy struc tural steels, such as automobile steels. The bureau conducted studies directed toward^devIsing means for utilizing ex tensive deposits of low-grade iron ores that cannot be smelted profitably by present methods. Thes.* studies In cluded investigations of lue low-grade iron ores of the Birmingham (Ala.) district, the manganiferous iron . ores of the Lake Superior district, and the iron and steel situation in the Pacific Coast states. The cost of production of zinc, with the standard retort process, is now so high that it endangers the position of zinc as a cheap metal. Plans have been formulated for an investigation of pro posed methods for the electrothermic metallurgy of zinc, with a view to in creasing the recovery of metal and low ering production costs. The results of an investigation regarding the losses of mines in tko tailings of zinc metals In the Wisconsin district indicate that the use of concentrating tables of a certain type will greatly increase re covery.' It is estimated that this prac tice would have added about $1,000,000 annually to the value of zinc output in this district, had it been in operation in 1917. Important results in the utili zation of the low-grade and complets ores of copper, lead, silver and zinc, which constitute a great problem in the mineral development of Utah, Colorado and other Rocky mountain states, are promised by the utilization of the chloride volatilization process. The sul phur dioxide leaching of porphyry cop per ores of Arizona holds the promise of important developments for the mineral industry of the Southwest. Recovery of Coal From Refuse. As about one-quarter of the bitum inous coal produced in the United States is used in Industrial power plants, the waste of unburned 'coal and coke in the ashes from boiler plants has been investigated by the bureau. It lias been possible to re cover the greater part of the unburned fuel by washing the ashes on a con centrating table. As the result, of a study of coal washing problems in the state of Washington, one mine has built a table- washing plant to treat a pile of refuse amounting to more than one million tons, estimated to contain 200,000 tons of recoverable coal of coking quality. The bureau conducted studies re garding the use of liquid ojcyffen ag an explosive. In co-operation with the Department of Agriculture an In vestigation was made of the use ol cellulose from corn cobs In the manu facture of dynamite. Investigations were conducted to determine the best and safest conditions for the Industri al use of 13,000,000 pounds of picric acid, held as a surplus by the War department. During the year" the bu reau called attention to the danger Aa using certain low-grade foreign det ' .xmetors, which had been coming Into the country In large numbers. A universal gas mask has been de veloped by the bureau for protecting the wearer against all poisonous gas not exceeding 2 or 3 per cent con centration in air where a safety lamp will burn. A fireman's gas mask for the use of train crews In railroad tun nels was devised. Investigations made in connection with the problem ol ventilation of vehicular tunnels showed that from 20 to 30 per cent of the heat of the gasoline used as a fuel for au tomobile engines is lost in the form of unburned gases in the exhaust, due to Improper carburetor setting. Investigations at the ceramic ex periment station at Columbus, Ohio, indicate that some American clays will yield products closely approach ing the English china clay. At the same station it has been demonstrat ed that better graphite crucibles can be made with the use of domestic bondini; clay than have hitherto been made with imported clays. Classifying Export Coals. During the year the bureau, In co operation with three of the largest seaboard coal exchanges, developed scientific systems of classifying ex port coals into pools by systematic .sampling and analysis to supersede the arbitrary classifications used In war time. Further progress was rriade in the investigation for preparing and utilizing lignite, which constitutes the greater part of the (nation's fuel re sources. The bureau completed work on prep aration and analysis of special alloy steels tor the navy. A comprehensive report on recent developments in elec tric brass melting was finished. Methods; for preparing caustic mag nesia were investigated, which deter mined that high-grade magnesia can be made from some varieties of'mag nesite hitherto believed to be unsuit able for this purpose. The bureau in vestigated dolomite as a substitute for the more costly magnesite in pre paring refractories, and demonstrated that there can he obtained from Ohio dolomite a product superior In mag nesia content to Imported Canadian magnesite. More experimental work on mining explosives, with reference to Increased safety and efficiency, was performed. Plans we:? initiated for an interna tional conference on the standardiza tion of mine rescue apparatus. Meth ods for reducing losses of anthracite in mining operations were studied, Timbering methods for metal mines were instigated. In the course of the year the bureau trained l/.,f?2r? miners in rescue and first-? ii1 methods, the largest num ber so trained in any fiscal year sine? the beginning of the training work. THE FARM OF EDGEF THE STRONGEST B SAFETY FIRST IS AND Open your account with us for Savings Account wjth us, or invest ING CERTIFICATES'OF DEPOS1 Lock boxes for rent in which to All business matters referred handled. 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