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OL. XXVIII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1916. A t. SOLDIERS LEARN TRICKS OF TRADE COAST ARTILLERY IS LEARNING RAPIDLY IN PRACTICE AT CHARLESTON. MANY BUSY DAYS FOR BOYS Volunteers Who Knew Little of the Big Guns or War Game Soon Be come Experts. Charleston.-A notable feature of the first annual encampment of the South Carolina volunteer coast artli. lery corps, in progress within the boundaries of the government roer nation on Sullivan's Island. is the smoothness and lack of confusion with which the program of training is pro. greasing. The percentage of the vol unteer artillerymen who had even as much as seen a big gun before this encampment was undoubtedly small, as all of them come from a country where guns larger than squirrel rifles are as scarce as hen's teeth. And yet to see them, after only two days of training, swing one of Uncle Sam's 6-inch rifles into position and load it, the layman would be inclined to think they were regulars. Only they and the regulars instructing them know that the things they still have to learn are almost too numerous yet to enumerate. But this does not detract from the credit doe them for the progress they are making with their lessons in coast defense, the progress oeing the result of their unflagging willingness and commendable eagerness to master the art so many of them have given up their vacations to learn. The fact that they soon becoce efficient enough to "pull the lanyards" of the big guns and set off a full ser vice -charge sending a giant projectile whirring toward a target, with regu lars looking on only for the purpose - of seeing that the gun is pointed sea ward and not toward the island rest dences of the city and that nothing goes wrong, is evidence of the prog ress being made. The fact that the target will be a stationary one instead of the moving target fired at by the regulars will detract little from the pleasure the privates will take in put ting a hole through it or the pleasure that their officers will take in direct ing the fire and watching for the hit with field glasses. "Chumships" between the regulars and volunteers Is one result of the encampment so far. They enjoy leave together, go bathing together and drill and work side by side. The regu lars have that admirable tact of over looking greenhorn etunts, some of which are laugh provoking, while they are at all times showing a friendly feeling for the volunteers. The reg ulars know the sights on the islands and in the city and take pleasure in showing the militia around. The officers of the fort and the Na tional Guard officers have found each1 others' company pleasant and there' .have been calls and return calls and informal affairs that make the hours ,off duty rounds of solid pleasures. Col. M. K. Barroll, commandant of the post, has had all the visiting officers for his guests on more than one occa slon, taking them for a harbor excur -sion, sightseeing trip and later enter taining them at his home. Cherokee Cotton Poor. Gaffney.-Farmers from all sections of Cherokee county are complaining about the poor prospect for a cotton. crop. Large fields of cotton have a lourishin~g appearance, but a close ex amination will disclose the fact that there Is .io fruit on the stalks to speak of, and many farmers say that it will make practically .iothing. The only hope that farmers have is that the fall will be late, In which case they may hope for a small yield. Named as P'ostmaster. Washington.-At Long Creek, Oco nee county, Ina Uora Phillips has been appointed postmaster to succeed L. Mi. Singleton. Bennett Retains CommissIon. Columbia.-George M. Bennett of Olympia was appointed first lieutenant, Company G, Second South Carolina infantry, National Guard of the United States, and now awaits orders to pro ceed to El Paso, Texas. Lieut. Ben nett has been in the National Guard Sor a number of years and was first lieutenant of the Columbia Light In fantry, which is Company G, when the troops were ordered to mobilize at Styx. But Lieut. Bennett was turnei down on the physical examinlation. Prepare for Boll WeevlU. Columbia-In a recent Interview W. W. Long, state farm demonstration agent, stated that the boll weevil might reach Anderson county within the next 12 months. Several days ago it was announed that Clemson College will send a commission to the bell 9ee vil territory in the South to study con ditions. Gav. Manning will be a mem ber of the commission. The com mission will very probably make re port to the legislature and urge the passage of such laws to combat the *crop pest. The 1 * -33,538; Ci TROOPS COULD LAND JUST OUT NEW YORK REPORTS ON WAR GAME OF U. $. -T N4AVY WHICH IS JUST CMi P'.ETED. ADMIRAL KNIGHT UMPIRED A Attacking Fleet Cdttd Come to With in Twenty Miles- of Metropolis Un der Favorable Weather Conditions, Says Knight. Newport,R.I.-The war game just B completed by the United States Navy t proved that under fairly favorable weather conditions an attacking fleet a has an excellent chance to land troops g within 20 miles of New York, Rear t Admiral Austin M. Knight declared. d "Nothing of this sort would have been t possible," he said, "if the defending g 'blue fleet' had had an efficient scoat- a Ing force." Admiral Knight, umpire in the game which ended in the virtual annihilation t of the "blue" or defending fleet. arriv ed on the battleship Pennsylvania at e the head of the victorious "red" fleet which represented the invading enemy. Throughout the week, he said, the b weather was misty and with a visi- 0 bili-ty rarely exceeding three or four 0 miles. This condition is characteris tic of the Atlantic coast at this time I of year and should be reckoned with in future plans of naval strategy, he said. d The "red" fleet will be joined here by the "blue" fleet which is believed to , have anchored off Rock Island. o ti VILLISTAS TAKE TOWN f SAYS MEXICAN REPORT. w ai Satero, 50 Miles South of Chihuahua a City, Said to be in Possession of T 300 Bandits. tl Chihuahua City. Mexico. - Three 0 hundred Villa bandits captured the P town of Satevo, Chihuahua, 50 miles V south of here, according to reports to I Genoral Jacinto Trexino. The out- w laws, under Uribe Arango and Martin a Popez, surrounded the town and after a six hours' battle, the garrison, num- c bering 200, under Captain de La c Fuente being without ammunition, a was forced to evacuate. Villa him- g self was not with the outlaws, it was said. to A second engagement with Villistas w was reported by General Apolonio E Trevino from Torreon. He said that 20 bandits under the leader Fernizza n attacked a small detachment of Car- e ranza troops at Hachienda Coyote in a the Laguma district but were driven a off, their leader and six others being g killed after three hours of fighting. v Letters from Villa under a recent date. were found in Fornizza's pockets, it was reported. CHILDREN MAY PASS THROUGH VIRGINlA ~ ________a: Richmond. Va.-State Health Comn- H missioner E.'G. Williams, who has ~ harge of enforcement of the quaran- i tine against infantile paralysis, ruled * that children unler 16 years of age t4 comning from New York. New Jersey 0 and Pennsylvania may pass through ~ Virginia enroute to some other state ii provided they do not stop at any point C longer than is necessary to make con " nectione.h SENATE REJECTS PROPOSED INCOME TAX LAW t Washington.-A proposal to lower D the present income tax exemption, ' written into the administration reve nue bill by the Senate finance commit- a tee and then stricken out when House u leaders indicated they would not ac cept it, was voted down 31 to 19, by the Senate when Senator Underwood C offered it as an amendment. k NAVAL CADETS BACK ti FROM PRACTICE CRUISE h Annapolis, Md. - The liattle:>nips Si Ohio, Missouri and Wisconsin, corn- V posing the Naval Academy practice e cruise squadron have retirned to An- s napolis. UBMARINE BREMEN C ON WAY TO U. S. WITH DYES. ' Berlin.--The Cologne Gazette, as a: uoted by the Overseas News Agency, C says the German merchant submarine Bremen is now on her way to the t( United States with a cargo of dyes. 0 The Berlinger Tageblatt prints an in- a terview with Director Lohmann of h the company owning the submarine u~ Bremen in which he says the Bremen is on her way to Baltimore and that trade by means of a submarine fleet d soon will be increased materially. -- - 01 HEAVY FIGHTING ON: THE MACEDON IAN FRONT' r B London.-Germany and Italy at last G are at war. Italy has ended the anom alous situation that has existed for months by declaring that from Mon- tl day she considers herself the enemy of her former ally. Heavy fighting con tnues between the Entente and Teu tonic Allies in the Macedonia theater, in the region of Lake Ochrida east-t ward to Kavala. on the Aegean but with results beclouded by diverging j statements of Berlin and Paris. test returns t >oper. 25.195:D: IRAGONS BLJME REAL CAVALRYMEN ROOP A GETS HORSES ANC BEGINS TO RIDE IN ARMY STYLE. lEWS FROM BORDER CAMP Weekly Letter, Prepared Especially For Our Readers, From the South Carolina Guardsmen Encamped al Fort Bliss, Texas. In Camp with the South Carolina rigade, in the El Paso Patrol District -The Charleston Light Dragoons drew ieir horses immediately after their rrival on the border and are i'ew en aged in learning to ride like cavalry ten. Four hours are devoted eacb ay by the men to riding bareback ith only a halter on their horse. The reater majority of the Dragoons went t the bareback riding witho&t any fficulty but several sustainedl falls afore learning how to stick on owever, those who were unaccus >med to bareback riding soon acquir I the art and the whole troop is now roficient. Four hours each day are devoted y the Dragoons to the horse work ae hour to the officers' school and ae hour to the non-commissioned 'ficers school. A regular officer comes over from ort Bliss to instruct the men each ay in the cavalryman's school. Pleased With Horses. 'he Dragoons drew their horses out the big government corrall where Lere are some 5,000 horses gathered >r the army. They took the first hich came out of the corrall but the aimals they drew were very good ad they are well satisfied with them he Dragoons number 85 men and tree officers and each man takes care his own horse. When this corres andent visited the encampment of the ragoons he found Capt. Manning, ent. Wells and Lieut. Porcher out th the men overlooking the feeding ad care of the horses. The men were 1 lined up with brushes and curry )mbs and they went at the work of eaning the horses systematically ter the work which they had under. mne during the day. Capt. W. M. Manning, directed at ntion to the "Charlie Chaplins' hich these Weastern horses affect ach has a well developed mustache. There is not a single case of sick ess among the Dragoons and they rpress themselves as well satisfied ad delighted with their camp. They ra glad to be on the border and have )ne at the work of training with a m which promises good results. The South Carolina field hospital o. 1 is encamped with a similar or tnization from Rhode Island just in te rear of the Dragoons. The Pal etto organization is under the com and of Maj. A. Moultrie Brailsford id the camp is commanded by Maj enno of the regular army. The Pal etto boys were engaged in practic g pitching the hospital in the field d have entered into a competitive St with the Rhode Island and similar ~ganizations from the regular army id the National Guardsmen stationed this district. Although the South arolinians have been here only a ek they entered the contest OIL invi tion and the speed with which they ave been doing their work gives romise of putting it all over some of te organizations which have been re for several weeks. The tests in .tching the hospitals in the field ere made on the Fort Bliss parade -ound before regular army officers id the South Carolina boys showed splendidly. The Bantam Squad. There are eight short men in the amden company which form what is own as the "runt" squad and they occupy the same tent. This was te only squad which had started a wer garden around their tent an~d Id built a rock protection raised to >me feet around the side of the tent then the big rain swept over the tmp on Thursday night the "runt" iuad found their tent flooded, the all making a nice pond. All the dec ations and flower garden were wash I away and the men had to bale the ater out of the tent. This squad is mposed of Corporal W. P. Huggins id Privates Lewis. Jordan, Purvis, rosby. Hasty, Medlin, McLeod. The Second has erected a mode] nt showing the three different kinds inspetions and all the enlisted men e studying the model to see just w their equipment Is to be made y for the different kinds of inspec Ps and all the enlisted men are dying the model to see just how tir equipment is to be made up for a djfferent inspections. There are a great many South Car inians in the regular army nnd sev -al o them are stationed with the gulars which are encamped at Fort liss and In and around El Paso, Mc owan Littlejohn, a native of Jones lIe in Union county and a graduate West Point. is a first lieutenant in e cavalry. He Is an old Clemson an. Alan Lester of Prosperity, who as graduated at the Citadel and who et to West Point and graduated ith the class of 1915, is a first lieu cant in the Fifth field artillery. hav g received his promotion from a cond lieutenancy on July 1. p~ to 5 o'cloc uncan242: D CONGRESS PLANS TO ADJOURN SOON JOINT RESOLUTION IS EXPECTED I FROM BOTH HOUSES DURING WEEK. TO END FRIDAY PROBABLY House and Senate Leaders Plan to Close Session as Soon as General De ficiency and Revenue Bills Can Be Gotten Through. Washington.-Congress is getting ready to adjourn next Friday, if pos sible. ignoring all threats of members to press spe:lal bills for consideration over protests of administration lead ers. It is expected that a joint reso lution to provide for adjournment Fri day evening will be submitted to both houses next week as soon as general deficiency appropriation bill has pass ed the house probably on Tuesday. Democratic leaders declare the resolu tion will be adopted and that this will operate to check a threatened pro longed fight in the senate over the Owen corrupt practices bill. Senator Smith of South Carolina, intends to seek another opportunity to pass the immigration bill. To clear the way for adjournment Majority Leader Kitchin sent urgent tclegrams to all House absentees, ask ing that they return at once for the final legislative drive of the session. The House has the shipping bill as amended and the forthcoming reve nue bill conference report to dispose of next week. In the Senate It Is planned to lay aside the revenue bill to pass t! e d' ficiency appropriation bill as soon as it gets through the House. "When that is done," said Senator Simmons. chairman of the Finnance Committee. "all general debate on the revenue bill will halt, and it will be rushed through." If anything should happen to pre vent adjournment next Friday, it will be necessary for Congress to stay over until the following week as President Wilson will be in New Jersey Satur day receiving formal notification of his nomination for re-election. GEORGIA MILITIA CAPTAIN KILLEC IN CAMP BY WOMAN Officers Say Stayer Accused Victim of Wronging Her in His Office In Atlanta. Macon. Ga.-Capt. Edgar J. Sprat ling of F. Company. Fifth Regiment, National Guard of Georgia, was shot and killed in his tent at the state mobi lization camp near here by Mrs. H. C. Adams. an Atlanta woman, who, ac cording to officers at the camp, ac cused Captain Spratling of having wronged her. At the Bibb county jail Mrs. Adams asserted that Captain Spratling, who was a physician, had caused her to shoot him by attentions paid to her while the was in his office in Atlanta for treatment before the Georgia troops were mobilized. Mrs. Adams. who is about 30 years old, came from her home in Atlanta and going to the state camp, inquired! the way to Captain Spratling's tent. Reaching the tent she asked he offi-; cer it is said, if he were Captain Spratling. On being answered In the affirmative, she fired twice from a small calibre pistol, both shots taking effect. The woman, according to Liieut. Samuel A. Kysor, of F. Company, who seized her a raomenit later, cried out as she fired "ycu have ruined my home." Mrs. Adam.:' husband is em ployed at a laundry in Atlanta .accord Ingt to information received here. COWBOY SAND GREETS HUGHES IN CHEYENNE. Cheyenne, Wyo. -Charles E. Hughes reached Cheyenne. Wyo.. from Salt Lake City. The nominee stopped at Laramie en route and made a brief Iaddress. At the station here Mr. Hughes was met by a cowboy escort and two bras's bands. The nominee and his wife headed an automobile parade through the streets. FIRST BORDER SESSION AT NEW YORK SEPT. 4 Washington-Secretary Lansing will attend the first meeting of the Ameri can-Mexican commission to adjust bor der difficulties which will be held in New York September 4. An official announcement of this decision follow ed conferences between Mr. Lansing and Seeratary Lane and Judge Gpo. Cray. two of the American commis siont-rs an~d Pri of. Lee Rowe, secretary. of the American group. KITCHIN HAS BILL TO REDUCE BANKING COST Washiington.-Representativ'e Kitch in, the Democratic leader. introduced a bill to authorize member banh: of the Federal reserve system to make 'reasonable" instead of the actual cost charges no0w alowed by law for ti clearing or collection or cheeks. Repre sen :ative' Gla:.s. chairman1 of the banking conmmittee. intreduced a mecas tire whic-h wcuid facilitate the transfer of lr.rge sums~ of money between l'ed eral rese:"-c ba::ks. k Wednesday esChamps. 226 .HE STOCK CONFERENCE neeting of Much importance Will bi Held in Orangeburg Week Begin ning October 16th. Orangeburg.--Secretary W. A. Lii agston of the Orangeburg chamber o ommerce announced that an arrange Gent had been perfected for holdini , state wide conference on live stoci alsing at Orangeburg during the wee] Beginning October 16, next. The con erence will be held under the join .uspices of the Southern settlemen .nd development organization, whic1 s conducting a South-wide propagand, a the interest of live stock raisins *nd diversified farming, the extensioi epartment of Clemson College, the tate department of agriculture any he Orangeburg chamber of commerce he conference will last two days. There will be an exhibit of Sout larolina bred cattle and hogs, a ni he sessions will be devoted to practi al discussions of the vital questioni elating to animal husbandry, instea f too set speeches which too oftei ,haracterize meetings of this kind iperts in various lines of live stoc1 alsisg and marketing from the fed ral government and from those sec ions of the country where live stocl s raised successfully will be In al endance, and preparations are bein nade to handle the largest crowd o ts kind ever assembled in this state To Reorganize Parker Mills. Greenville.-The stockholders of th ?arker Cotton Mills Company at thei tnnuai meeting held in Greenvill elected a committee to draw up lan of reorganization for that con any. This plan will be submitte o the stockholders by letter within ew days and will be considered at neeting of the stockholders which wil )e held within the next two month. a letter of explanation will accon )ay the proposed plan of reorganizE ion. This step is in accordance wit he general plans of the corporatio: ormulated when the sale of th {ampton group of mills was propose nd consummated. Big Fire at St. George. St. George.-One of the most disa: xous fires that has ever occurred i: 3t. George was when the residence c Dr. Daniel F. Moorer on Railroa tvenue was completely destroyed wit tll of its contents and the same fir spreading in a few minutes to th >eautifui residence of Mrs. F. ! Woorer a few yards away on the sam street destroying not only the tw esidences but practically all of th ,urniture and contents of Dr. Moorer residence and with it an outhouse i :he yard where the furniture of hi ;on, Daniel F. Moorer, Jr., was stare few days ago when he decided t ove to St. George. Lightning Kills Veteran. Greenville.-L.Whitfield Bridges, 3onfederate veteran aged 72, wa tilled by lightning a few miles out c jreenville, near the Easley bridg road. He had stepped into a cotto 'ouse to get out of the storm whe he lightning struck him causing i tant death. Elliott Johnson, a sma olored boy, who lived near Coneste Mill was also killed by lightning. South Carolina Pays Least. Washngton.-In 29 of .the 48 state f the Union the excess of expend ures for governmental costs, inclui ng interest and outlays for permanex mprovements, over revenues, durn ;he fiscal year 1915 was $55,283,404, c 16 cents per capita. In the remainin L9 states the excess of revenues ove xpenditures amounted to $18,608.91' r 54 cents per capita. Taking th antire 48 states as a whole, the excel >f expenditures over revenues wa $36,674,487, or 37 cents per capita. Preparing Poultry Exhibit. olumbia.-Gold medals, purses, pr1 niums and ribbons will be awarded fo he best poultry exhibits at the stat 'air to be held at Columbia Octobe 3-7. The long list of awards fo he poultry department includes six le specimens, breeding pens and dit >1ay pens of practically every bree Lnd variety of chickens, turkey4 reese, ducks, pheasants, pigeons, bar ams, games and eggs. OUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS New cotton ha~s been sold on th lexington market. The figures on the illiteracy amon; oters in Greenwood county as con piled for the state superintendent c ducation show that a total of 33 oters out of 3,238 had to or did mak heir marks. The percentage in th :ountry is 10.2. The trustees of the Burroughs hig; ichool of Conway are planning th !onstruction of a four-room addition t he present building in order to mee he demands of the increased enroll ment and to furnish physical accon nodations for the teacher trainini C. E. H-okc of Columbia has bee ppointed a scientific assistant in th Earm field service of the Federal di artment of agriculture at a salary c p1,620 a year. "In my opinion the eight hour di mand of the men Is just and right. said Gov. Manning in a statement a York, in regard to the pending diffel nces between the railroads and the! gnployes. Another case of Infantile paralyei as reported to the state board c ealth from Greenville county, whic: nakes a total of 40 cases reported dw ng the month of August. afternoon ar C, .Cansler an4 Engineers at Work. The engineering company, know] as the Johnson Engineers, under Capi Peniell, is encamped close by the fiel hospital corps and also just behind the Dragoons. The engineers are goin through drills and other training ever day and are showing up well. Th men and officers, like all the othe South Carolinians, are determined t make the best use of this opportunit to get first hand acquaintance wit actual field conditions and are In proving every minute of their tim The engineers expect to draw nel equipment shortly but in the mear time have got right down to hard worl Col. H. B. Springs of the Secon has received Instructions to detail on officer and two non-commissioned of ficers to take four months trainiig a the school of musketry at Fort Sil: Okla. The selections will be mad from among the men who expect t continue in the National Guard an I who will be expert instructors for th mlitia after they return home. Several persons in South Carolin have evidenced a desire to supply th soldiers with reading matter, writin material and other things which wil bQ of use to them here. Sun glasse are needed by the men and anythin like magazines, newspapers, etc would be of great benefit and woul be very much appreciated. The Smyth Rifles of Pelzer hav built around their spigot in the con pany street a cavity four feet dee and four feet square and filled thi in with rock. The water seeps awa through this and this prevents it froz running over the ground and leavin little mud puddles. This arrang ment has been designated by Co Blythe as a model for the regimen and all the companies are now fixin theirs in the same manner. Lieut. John E. Ardery of the Twelft infantry, which is stationed at Nogales Arizona, on the border, was a visits in camp and ate dinner with the Fo M.lll company under Capt. Park: Lieut. Ardery was born at Pinevill< just across the line in North Caroln but is really a Soutn Carolinian excel for that slight geographical difference He was greeted by many of his friend who are members of the First Sout Carolina infantry. The band of the First would lik ' to have some new band music an any one who feels interested migt send them some, but don't forget th orchestrations in selecting the m' ail e The bands of the First and . .on are constantly improving an.. thos who are interested might mail the] just such pieces as they think woul fit the occasion. e The officers of the Second hav formed a club where magazines an other periodicals, writing material: and other conveniences can be founi The officers will use the club for lounging place. The officers of 'tb First have been invited to make us of the club whenever it suits the: pleasure. R A Diamond Rattler. s Just to the left of the car.p lies I range of hills which are called moue e tains in this country. This chain < hills lies diagonally to the Mexica border. They are bare of vegetatic - except for sage brush and cactus I 1 the ravines. Some of the South Car, elinians have already climbed to the tc of this range of hills which are aboi eight miles from camp. It is in the! hills that rattlesnakes and the othe reptiles reside. On Sunday First Se .geant Hughes of the Smyth Rifles < .Pelzer climbed the hills and brougi back into camp a diamond Mexica rattler. This snake is about 15 incht rlong and the one he captured had button and two rattles, indicating th: iwaforyears old. No snakes hai ye enseen in camp hut there ai eplenty of horned toads, c'ntipeds an sants. The bother from this sourc however, is insignificant so far ar nothing like what one would expe' from the stories heard before comit here. Carranza is nominally the ruler Mexico, but there seems to be co: asiderable doubt as to just how muc rauthority he has. He seems to 1 rthe leader by virtue of the favor < his generals, but there is strong doul as to his ability to control his ge: Ierals. They obey him when the want to, and when they do not the pay not attention to him. The ide here now seems to be that Carran2 Is finding his position shaky and the before long some other leader wi arise and depose him and d::r: .i Sleaking Mexican ship of state for brief and stormy period, for that: the record of them all for the past se eral years. The men of the First are bein Sequipped thoroughly with clothin, SEvery man is drawing two hats. t'w Spairs of shoes, two pairs of leggin two shirts, four pairs of trousers, fot suits of underwear and six pairs < socks. Lieut. Col. P. K. McCully of ti SFirst "bagged" a horned toad and shi ped it to his home folks ini Anderso: Capt. Hieyward of the Pelzer compas has also sent one of these home for pet. They are plentiful about tI camp. t is no wonde~r that there are a Skinds. of wild rumors hatching aloi the border. All kinds of people ar fall classes4 and conditions can be see and every one has something to sa: Of course there is lot of "stringing lone for the benefit of those wb have come a long way from the bo de and who know nothing of it e: rcept what they have read, but th South Carolinians are skeptical an sare not readily taken in by 11: f"yarns" which are daily handed out I the L:cters around here in larn numbers. The Palmetto boys ai studying the situation for themselve as follows: ] I Fant run ov BY-PRODUCTS AND SAVINGS Science Has Done Much in Consev Ing Materials That Once Were Wasted. Hurrah once more for science!- It has hit the bull's-eye again in a case r where the target appeared to be be yond the reach of man, "Girard" writes in the Philadelphia Ledger. 1 A wise manufacturer from Ohio is making sewer pipes, and good ones, out of the molten lava scooped from a r Hawaiian volcano. Can you beat it? Why, it seems that on every side of us there has been something valuable lying around loose which has millions in it. An official report shows that northwestern farmers have been throw t ing away flax straw every year worth a sixth as much as their total crop. I Cottonseed, which a few years ago was considered a nuisance, has become so valuable it can be made to liquidate the entire expenses of producing the cotten. Coaltar products derived from coke -once a total waste-are now worth more than the coke itself. From the Geodetic survey I learn ' that 2,000,000 barrels of gasoline can 9 be squeezed from the shale rock of northwestern Colorado and, if yon i drive a car, you know Mr. Rockefeller is not giving away gasoline today. e Ask President Samuel D. Warriner about it and he will tell you that the P Lehigh Navigation company built a ' vast power plant. Why? To convert coal at the mines which was too small 1 to be marketed profitably into elec l tricity, which is shipped by wire scores of miles, and so does the werk L of thousands of horses. t Instead of paying a contractor to re I move street refuse most live cities now make the contractor pay big money for . the privilege of removing it. There is money even in garbage. r Fortunes have bfeen saved by cutting logs into lumber with fine-toothed saws instead of the old-fashioned saws with the big teeth. Indeed, getting an extra board out of every log, which the saw t dust-saving fine saw does now, spells the difference between success and s bankruptcy in many lumber opera tions. WIRELESS OUTFIT FOR ARMY e United States Soldiers Are to Be Sup plied With the Latest and Best d Yet Devised. e! a A new set of wireless apparatus d has been designed for the United States signal :orps, with a number of e advantages over any now in use. It d can be knocked'down and shipped in , packages, 300 pounds in weight., It . can be carried on the backs of mules a or by men if necessary. If shipped e by railroad it can be packed in a box e car or on a flat car. If needed for r emergency use it could either be set up and operated on a flat -car or in the box of a large wagon. It is therefore a well adapted to maneuvers in moun tainous countries. It is of exception ,f ally high power, being capable of n transmitting and receiving messages n within a radius of at least 260 miles; y Carried Bogus Talisman. p ThIrty-eight years ago when Charles Lt Wagener first saw the light of day in e Pittsburgh, he was presented with a r ten-dollar gold piece by a fond rela r- tive. And when he budded into man. f hood he carried the coin wrapped up t In paper. He made a vow that he n never would spend the money, but s keep it as a token of remembrance of a the giver. His one consolation was, t "I am ten bucks to the good as long e as I have It." Recently 'uck went e against him. He was down at the heel d and out at the sole and the Inner man 3, was rebelling. So he concluded to d part with the coin. But he didn't :t He still possesses it. The reason is g the coin Is a counterfeit. "Now wouldn't that jar you," said Wagener. >f "Here I have been carrying that colm 1- for 38 yeax's and didn't know it was a h counterfeit until I became hard up, e Talk about luck-" Thi's being a >f family newspaper, the balance of the it sentence cannot be finished. Y Installments. ' Mrs. Boardmian Harriman, who ii a the recognized authority In New Yorli a on social decorum, was complaining al eta Colony club luncheon about the serv 1ant problem. e ''Too many of the servants who come a to us," said Mrs. Harriman, "h'ave a s record like the girl who applied at a -Madison avenue mansion for a positioz as chambermaid. g "The mistress of the house, in an in | terview with the app~cant, inquired: 0 "'Did you say you were a month ix a' your last place?' r"'Yes, madam-a week with the Sfamily on the top floor, a week witI the lady on the thirteenth floor, a weell C on the fifth and a week on the third "floor.' " Y What She Liked Best a M!adam Melba, the singer, visited the Sexposition at San Diego, Cal., the othel Iday. She was taken through the art i gallery, over the beautiful grounds ani gthrough many of the buildings. d "What did you like best?" she wal n asked after the visit. r.Melba replied that the thing thai "I struck hecr fancy most was a slice 01 o watermelon in a glass jar. C'War Profits Beet Sugar Farmers. e Colorado beet farmers are profiting d immensely by. the" war. Last year they a har'vested ;.e2.'io tons of sugar beets 7 which sold for $10.1l?,000. This year e they ev'ge7 n m v vest more thai e 2,500,: 0 t4n.,1~ a 'l them for more S than $15,5i0,000. 3ease, 49,925; er R. R. Corn WAR FROM ITS LIGHTER SSIDE Newspaper Correspondents Tell i p morous Stories of incidents in Which They Have Figured. The war correspondent's life in mer days was not wholly made adventures that called for had also much of humorous these episodes will show: When the British army, Roberts at its head, was dras Bloemfontein, and it was contrary to expectation, would make no opposition, prising correspondents, Gi Reuter's agency and Pa Sydney Herald, rode ahead i umn with the object ofbe to enter. As they approached BI the sight of these heralds of isb power caused such women and children 1"nd i' t a couple of bicyclist:, --.. of th chines and held up their token of surrender. Preceded scurrying inhabitants with cries of "The British are coming!" they en tered the town with the air of con querors, and -were received by the mayor, Landrost, and other adalsm all tumbling over one another in their eagerness to be the first to offer their' submission. And it was by the two' - correspondents, shaking with internal laughter, that the rulers of Bloemfon- . tein were escorted to Lord Roberts'' headquarters, to make their formal r surrender. G. W. Steevens was Mr. Gwyie companion op another occasion, when; together they were the first to enter Volo, during the war between Greece and Turkey, in-1897. So anxious were = the citizens to capitulate that, at their request, Mr. Steevens drew up the' proclamation of surrender, which the mayor read to the Inhabitants from the balcony of the town hall; and when the sultan's troops made their appearance, it was to learn that the town had been peacefully "captured some hours earlier by a couple of .war correspondents. cSOUTH AMERICA DOING WELL Republics Are Regularly Shipping Vast Amounts of Food to the Allies. The financial depression In South America which followed the outbre - of the European war has disappeared and conditions there are improving daily with the Increase of vest ship- - ments of supplies to the allies, accord ing to B. R. Martinez, a piano Im porter, who returned recently from a tour of South America, says the -New SYork Herald. Exchange rates with Europe on the - part of Chile, Uruguay and Argentina are rapidly approaching normal, Mr. Martinez said, and yast oreditae-bel - ing added to the account of the vari cus countries in London and Pgris for supplies shipped. These supplies, he added, would go In far greater quan tity but for the lack of shipping facil Ities. "Every vessel which leaves Argen tina," he said, "carries from 3,000 to 5,000 tons of meat for the European armies. Chile Is shipping vast quan tities of copper to thie allies, and Urn guay is the center for the allied pur chasing agents who want alfalfa bay and wheat The South American countries, Mr. . Martinez said, are ready to ship to this country all kinds of raw material for manufacturing purposes if the ratio of exchange can be bettered and cash prices obtained. Two Questions. A good story is told by aLverpool officer back from France. In the rear of the British lines d, concert was be ing given for the entertainment of the *Tommies. Among the contributors was a soldier who purported to be a piper, but whose performances In Ovitably invited a challenge. He was vigorously hooted by a section of the audience, and amid the din a raucous voice rang out: "Send that silly fool away!" The nkind aspersion, cou pled with the violence of the language, moved one of the army chaplains, who was "running" the concert, to pro teut. He asked who had insulted the piper. There was no response. He persisted: "I want to know who called the piper a silly fool." A mo mentary silence was broken when a burly Irishman rose from his seat and. said: "And what I want to know is who called the silly fool a piper!" Electric Poultices. A substitute for hot, water bags, poultices, etc., is a 400-watt incandes centyap having a carbon filament de signed to produce much heat and little light. This lamp Is provided with a wooden handle and Is inclosed in an elongated reflector, with a five-inch opening bringing heat and light rays to a focus two inches beyond the edge. The lamp Is connected by an extension cord to a plug fitting any ordinary lamp socket. The parts of the body re ceiving the usual applications are heated only by convection affecting the surface, but the lamp heat is trans mitted by radiation, reaching various depths in the tissues up to two inches. Greater healing effect is therefore claimed. Urge Use of White Materials. Spokane (Wash.) laundrymen have begun to urge their patrons to use white goods. A printed notice reads that since the war began many of the dyes used to color wash goods have, -proved to be inferior and will not stand wasging. Red and black dyes are the colors that "run" the most, ao cording to the laundrymen. Manning, mi1ssionle r