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CLEMSON COMMADANT CHOSEN Capt. J. C. Minus to Secceed Capt. Clay-Capt. Minus is a Citadel Man and a West Pointer. News and Courier. Washington. August 3.-Assurance was given The News and Courier cor respondent today at the war depart ment that by the detailing of Capt Josiah C. Minus. 16th in-fantry, as professor of military science and tactics at Clemson college, which has just been done. all trouble at that place over the "Clay" report is at an end. and that everything hence forth will be carried on there. so far as the Government is concerned, as if Capt. Clay had made no report. As already stated in The News and, 'Courier. Capt. Clay. then detailed at Clemson. became angry just before the last commencement at the action of some of the students, and wanted the diplomas of the graduating class withheld. This the faculty refused to do. He then made a detailed report to the war department recommending that all guns and other equipment, the property of the Government be called in and that no military instructor be sent :ere in his place after his de tachment. That was just after com mencement. Nothing further was done in the matter until President Mell, G. Dun can Bellinger, Alan Johnstone and W. D. Evans, of the board of trustees. came to Washington a few days ago, and took up the matter with the war department. They were assured that everything would be made all right, and the detailing of Capt. Minus seems the last chapter concerning the much talked of Clay report. Capt. Minus is a Citadel graduate and also a graduate of the West Point Military Academy. He was born in Texas, and was appointed from South Carolina as second lieu tenant in the 20th infantry, in Febru ary, 1899. He has seen seven years' service in the Philippines. WILL NOT NBED TO CRANK. A New Device of Fiuancial Value in Automobile Service News and Courier. Dr. Robert S. Cathcart, of this city, has worked out an idea and perfected a 'device which gives every promise of proving not only a boon to automobil ists, but of g'reat financial value as well. He has devised a means of start ing the engine of his car without the - eacessity of cranking it. Mr. Cathcart has been using an au tomobile for about eight years, but it was not until something like two months ago that the idea which he has now developed, and upon whieh he has asked for a patent, came to him. Like every other automobilists,w he has wished time and time again that he could be relievedeof having to erank his machine every time he wish ed to start it. Cranking a machine is never very pleasant, and sometimes it is both difficult and very disagree able. It did not occur to him, how ever, that the matter could be remed ied until some six or eight weeks ago, when, working upon his machine one day, he chanen to notice that follow ing the exting. .ishing of the sparker the'fly wheel continued to revolve for several seconds and then there was a ree'oil. Dr. Cathcart came to the con clusion that if he could only stop the fly wheel precisely at the moment of rest, and prevent the recoil, that he would thus hold the piston on corn pression, and that the main cylinder would remain charged with gas. Those uniniated~ unto the myster-' ies of automobiles should understand that the gasoline, used by most auto mobilists for motive power. first pass es into a earboretter, wvhere it is mix ed with air and passes into the cylin ders. The gasoline unmixed with air would not burn. When the automo bilist turins the crank that sets the mixing process into the cargoretter in motion, the electric sparker is then called into action and ignites the mix ture of gasoline and air. the piston be gins to work up and down, the fly wheel revolves, the whole machine quivers and throbs like a restive horse champing at his bit, and every-I thing is ready for action. When the electric sparker is turned off again the fire dies away. the fly wheel con tinues to revolve a few more times throwing the force of its own momen tumn, there is a slight recoil, the gas passes out of the cylinders, and in or der to start the machine it is neces sary to go through the eranking pro cess once again. What Dr. Catheart 's invention does is to prevent this gas, formed through the mixing of gasoline and air, from passing out of the cylin ders. By preventing the slight recoil the fly wheel referred to the cylin r is kept on compression, the gas nain1S in the cylinder and all that n.,.5ary in order t" start the ma whereupon11 the gas. alre:'ty in i- ':i i , ii-nite!d and 11hin.g- be(!-in I hum once more. It is all very simple. In fact lt very simplicity at first made Dr. Catheart doubtful. He was afrait! lest there might be some reason wh., it was mechanically inadvisable. he cause it seemed more than passing stranze that none of the mainifactur ers of -asoline engines of all descrip tions had not thought of it and adopt ed it. But his doubts as to its value have been dissipatedby the enthusiasm evidenced by every machinist and ev ery automobilist who has seen it. They all pronounce it thoroughly practi eable, and. of course. its desirability and value, if it is practicable. are be yond question. Dr. Catheart has asked for a patent coverin the idea as it has been at tempted to outline it aboNe. includin any and all devices which may be con trived to prevent the recoil of the fly wheel following the extinguishing of the sparker. Of course. it does not matter how the recoil is prevented, just so it is prevented. The method adopted by Dr. Cathcart is in its sim plicity thoroughly in keeping with the original idea. He has had rachets made all around the fly wheel and has arrbnged a pawl so that while not in terfering at all with the direction re volution of the fly wheel, it prevents the fly wheel from recoiling. This invention of Dr. Catheart's, it should be noted, is applicable not only to automobiles, but to marine en gines, moto boats, and in fact to any stationary engine using internal com bustion for the motive power. This fact, of course, enhances greatly its value. Of course, it will be necessary for the cylinder of automobiles employing this device to be thoroughly tight, preventing all leakage, in order for the device to be effective. But if a cylinder isn't tight it ought to be, anyway. The idea is, of course, ap plicable to all makes of machine. Dr. Catheart uses a Maxwell, and he has been able to start his machine twelve hours after having used it simply by starting the electric sparker. the cylinder having remained charged for that length of time. WArED OLD PIANOS AND ORGANS for which we will allow tLa highest prices towards now Instruments. No Club rates to offer, but we Fledge better Instruments for 'lie s:a or less meey. ! han those ait club vue offers. Write \Thhlo,es Music House, Ce' lumbia. :4. C.. i'or speedi prices and termi'. You will save money and get a better roof by using PAROID. Slate colored-contains no tar e asily laid-a roofing kit free. Spark, water, gas, heat and cold p roof. L.asts lon~g ad looks well. 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