The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, September 22, 1922, Image 3
\ , Figures snow mm, at a .east m New
v. York City, There Are More
'* V ' Sufferers.
Disease \if; the heart Is increasing
In this city, according to a report
made recently by ?>r. I/nils 1. Harris,
director hf the barman of preventable
diseases, 'to Acting Health' Commissioner
Dr. Frank Js. Monbghnn of New
York, says the New York Times.
"It pas been observed that.females,"
the report states, "show greater Incidence
of cardiac defect up to the age
of twenty-four than is found In malea
of similar age groups. After twentyfour
years of age, however, the IncltfiAfira*
liPPAmAo Inoranal^tfhr hrnnnnuna/1
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"What we are particularly concerned
about B8 n public health problem Is
pxe early recognltlop.of cases In which
any one or numerous tjauses may have
operated to produce damage upon any
part of tlve heart or the vascular system.
so that we may shield such persons
from physical and mental strain
?o far as possible and prevent their
exposure to subsequent Infections.
"For adolescents there ought to be
ample provision to ascertain whether
or not a child may be suffering from
a cardiac defect, and If bo to make certain
that such children are not permitted
to enter into Industries In which
they are luevjtably dooihed to snlTer nil
aggravation of their cardiac diseases,
with all the menace to health and life
which Is Implied. Such adolescents
should not he permitted to he employed
In an Industrial environment in wthlcli
excessive heart or physical strain or
other causes of fatigue may operate
niono or in conjunction with other
factors to cause a cardiac ^breakdown.
"The time may not he far distant
when some organization having a keen
regard for the sanctity nS well as the
?"<juiiwiiii<- vault* oi mil.1:111 me win
carefully consider <?neh case of death
reported In a community and place
the blame for such death upon tlte public
authorities, parents or employers,
. each in proper measure as they may
have been responsible for failure to
conserve the lives of those who are
exposed to the development of cardiac
disease or are' already so hundl- I
capped."
Tells of Green Fields of Arctic.
It Is the absence of glaciers which
tttukes , .the -dlflference between the
North and. South poles, and gives the
Arctic the . "friendly" disposition to^
wards man which Mr. Stefansson haR
divulged In his book, "The Friendly
Arctic." "If you fl-avel seven or eight
hundred miles overland from the glacier-Infested
South T'oaat northward,
you come to the.Jprattles bordering the
Alaska North coast," says Mr. Stefansson.
"On the great triangular coastal
plain of 50,000 square miles there
are no mountains, consequently no
glaciers. The explanation is that
northern Alaska is lowt> flat land, with
a precipitation so light that the snow
which falls In winter Is all thawed
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The Arctic grass lands, he says, have
earlbou In herds of tens of thousands,
and sometimes hundreds of thousands
to ii single herd, with leaser numbers
of musk oxen here and there. There
ore the polar foxes, both white and
blue, that feed In summer on the unbelievable
swarms of lemmings that
ulso form the food of thousands of j
owls and hawks and gulls. There are i
the goose and brant and swan and !
crane and loon, nnd various species ;
of duck. When you add to thik picture I
iho ItninhlAlutOQ hlnaluitHn 1
abundant Insect life, of which the ,
clouds of mosquitoes form t/ie most !
impressive nn<l least tolerable part, j
you net n picture of a country that |
in summer certainly is not without |
life.
Where to Buy One. i
Hetty, jane three, and Jean, age
lour, were playmates. Hetty started
the usual morning argument. "I have
u new dress and you haven't."
Jean promptly came buck with the i
reply: "Hoys don't wear dresses. I
have, a new suit, and you haven't."
Hetty did not hesitate. . "I have j
new slippers and you haven't."
Nothing daunted. Jean answered: j
"Well, \ have neyv oxfords and you I
haven't/', .
Hefty, determined to have the Inst j
word nnd said: "Well. I have a little. 1
baby--]>r??ther.- and you- haven't.."
Jeaq was stumped, . then, leaning
forward, wtyapqred.*,, "Say, . B-dty,.
what store djd ytmj' buy Jiijij at?" ,
The Limit.
"There Isn't -.much -;I <don.'t "know j
about the English language," boasted
the long-haired, man . in the ho.tel<.
lobby. "I'll test you," a friend picked
him up quickly.' "I'll dictate a para- j
graph to yoti." ' With an assured air,
the boaster seized his penctlwdtut his (
Jaw drop j mm! as.. he heardr. Hugh !
Hughes-wus hawing a yule log.from a I
ft yew tree, a mp dressed In clothe*
o# dark blue hue came , up to Hugh
/aid kniit: 'Have you aoen ithy ewes?'
'If you will wait until 1 hew thl*
yew tree I >x'i]l >go with you anywhere
In Europe for, j.onr. ewe*.' said
Hugh." "" ' _
Looks' Like' beorfle.
Mr?. R., Jp. JA,. writes : < "Last Sun* j'
day afternoon. I tqld, my.ljtjtje girl that {
ker father was asl^p, gnd . that I j.
wanted her ahd her hrother to, be p* j
silent a? tHfi fliihlW. 'A' moment later i
I hearA'he/f fepenit'nty WfcMln?!to Wi- j"
hrother, aged ?eveh, sbd Ifetgtitra'wiiM'>
a 'Spink*' ..MjMlili'\'fh
Whj^4^;t;.f?u knowr smwered
Robert, who la quits a student for
Ma ago,"'A "HsUiUc* V a Ha tivtog that!
grvrws W WW* bcJhniW ' '
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Worn by Stevenson, According to'
Writer, as Protest Against the
Tyranny of fashion.
Thus gallantly. he appears In my
mind's eye when I pause In rereading
one of his books and summon up a
fnntasm of the author?Robert, Louis
Stevenson, gentleman adventurer In
life and letters, his brown eyes obtain
pf in a swarthy face, his lean, longenduring
body Adorned with a black
velvet Jacket, Henry Von Dyke writes,
la Scribner's. V . , ^
This garment Is no disguise, but V
symbol. It Is short, so as not to imped#
him with entangling tails. It Is
unconventional, aB a protest against
the tyranny of fashion. But it Is of
velvet, mark you, to match a certain
niceness of choice and preference of
beauty?yes, and probably a touch of
uiemou chu u? appiiKU commercially ;
on a lnrge scale. - . t |
Chiclia nuts are grown In South !
America. Their dense, strong shells !
were used during the war to make j
charcoal for gas masks, and the oil ;
from tiie kernels Is a valuable food ;
similar to copra. ? '
Ail of That. ;
When my small daughter became j
Interested In our ages I laughingly
told her that I was sixteen and daddy '
twenty-nne. After she learned to coutil .
she added a year as the birthdays .
cume around.
One day while she was playing at'a
neighbor's the woman of the house j
said: "Mary, do you know how old
your mother Is?" v.
Mary answered: "Nineteen."
"Oh, she is older than that. Mary, j
I'll hot she is twenty-six or twenty- ;
seven."
Mary eatneuionie and told me of j
the conversation. After my resent-'
merit of my neighbor's Inqulsltlveness ,
had subsided I was amusect at the tin* j
Intended compliment. I am thirty-five.
?Kxehange.
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American Silk?. < i +-v
There nVe some interesting phased
of the otflclnl statistics with reference
to the manufacture of silk goods' in ;
the United-' States, particularly those I
that Itavu to do with the early history
of thuf.- Industry. '
It appears that the making of silk
goods, In our wuntry has grown rap-idly
since the year- bSjlp. At that Upte.
only tf> per cent of the silk used in.
the United States was homemade. In
1870 the percentage of home manufactured
silk- hath doubled; in 3880
It bnii lieervme mmo Th?i? r.o nor .-^r>r
In 18SX), 70 per cent, while at present
It fa estimated to he In excess of 85
per cent.
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Putting Her at Ease.
We were being: entertained at dln-j
tier tit the home or a. friend who had,
prepared h inoat delectable meal.
Her dessert had fulled and she hhd
substituted prune whip for which she j
made apology.
I said: "Xhere la nothing we like
better?whenever 1 .haven't much tn |
eat for a meal I serve prune whip.ami]
bur family think they hnd a fine din |
ner."?Chicago Tribune. f
Heroic Measures.
'Vbu and your husband awaj '
every summer, don't you?"
yes. but I dislike doing it."
"Then wltR- dOi/jKipvfiuV"' \
"1 fmve t# hpte.!lbtui.llre ln
hotel for * few'M&S Wtf. ?eaf4Jt?
' k ' Im m' >>bi\i iti gsJUasfHa? ?< *
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in itvum iu mi us weurer s vagaries.
'Tis like the silver spurs, broad sombrero,
and gay handkerchief of the
thoroughbred cowboy?not an element
of the dandiacal, but a tribute to romance.
Strange that the* most genuine
of men usually have a bit of this
in their composition; your only Incurable
poseur being the fellow who affects
never to pose and betrays himself
by his attitude of scorn.
Of course Stevenson did not always
wear this symbolic garment In fact
the only time I met him In the fleBh
his clothes had a discouraging resemblance
to those of the rest of us at
the Authors' club in New York. And
a few months ago, when I traced his
"footprints on the sands of time" at
Waiklki beach, nenr Honolulu,, the
picture drawn for me by those who
knew liliu when he passed that way,
was that of a lank, barefooted, brighteyed.
sun-browned man who "dnundered
along the shore in white-duck
trousers and a shirt wide open at the i
neck. But the velvet jacket was IrtW
his wardrobe, you may be sure, ready j
lor Lilting weatner ami occasion.
EASY WAY TO CRACK NUTS
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Scientists Recommend Use of Liquid |
Air as Best Means or' Getting
at Delectablo Kernel. (
Liquid air for crocking nuts is the '
latest application of science. Science
and Invention relates that At'
the national bureau of standards in
Washington were appealed to for a
method of breaking the sheila of
chlclia nuts withdut1 damaging the
kernels. - They found- that'-' it .took 'a
weight of nearly n ion t? crack the
shells, and that after that effort the
meat of the nut was broken in ntaoy.
small pieces.
Then they applied liquid air to the
problem. They did not freeze solid a
piece of rubber and use it as a hammer,
as is done in the classic stunt-of
physics, but they simply Immersed the
nuts in liquid ulr for 30 seconds and
cracked them easily without damage
to tho kernels. Noyv the physicists
are trying to find out 'whether ^ thlS;
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hOLD BED SCHOOLHOlfcE GONE
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The little red s^hoolhoujse Is passing.
In its place is springing up a
pretentious handsome affair of stone,
brick or gtucco, with two or more
rooms, with modern equipment, a library,
and an advanced curriculum for
the education of boys' and girls of the
fanning districts.
(There are still, of course, many of
the old one-room school houses, of
i frame constfuctlon. sliabbv and for
L salteu-appeuring standing in the counI
try, but tlie~ consolidated school plan,
| und the rapid settling of farm lands
I in th's section particularly, hus
{ marked ihe doom of the old-tlmc In|
stltutlon.
i moit? does a slieep's-tall, split
and xastened, wool out, on a block of
l.wood serve as an eraser for bumpy
! blackboards in these schools; no more
, do a tattered dictionary and a few
i outdated text books constitute the "11j
brary."
Standard school equipment, coming
up to regulations set by the state, is
! to be, found in practically all the:
| rural' schools In any but remote dlsj
trlcts today.
A- marked contrast can be seen' be'
tween representative schools, of today
In the country and those of a generation
ago.
Then the boys carried stovo-wood
from the outdoors and corded It along
the walls of the room, to feed the box
stove In winter; today a hot-air or
steam furnace, fueled with coal, provides
lieul In the modern district
sclluol.
I Then a tin wnsh-busin In a corner,
provided a place to wash at noon,
or to thaw out frost-bitten fingers; today
a pressure water system or artesian
well empties into a modern luvI
.ntory.
Then there was one teacher for all
trades from lirimnrv in pk'lilli To
<lay schools are graded, with separate
rooms and individual teachers in many
country districts. - .? I
Then the subjects offered were read|
Tng, writing and arithmetic, with a
few added such as geography and Rome
history. Now the hoy or girl may
study agriculture, domestic scleuce,
manual training and other supplementary
courses. ?
Truly, times have changed for the
farm schoolboy since the end of the
last century. i
Beautiful St. Helena.,.
Napoleon Bonapurte drew public attention
to a hitherto little-known island
in mid-Atlantic, almost opposite
the southern extremity of the Portuguese,
settlement of Angola, next door
to what Used To be Clermun Southwest
Africa.- Pew of the general public of
thut day kqew of 1*31 ba, not far from
Leghorn, where the French emperor
was first sequestered; and when, after
Waterloo, he went to St. Helena people
looked in vain upon most of the
' maps for that tropical dot, with an
. aren of only-47 square miles and with
but few inhabitants.
After the Boer war the English
turned to St. Helena as a safe spot to
send Boer prisoners of war, and so
many thousands were transported
there that the. inhabitants of Jamestown?the
only town theu on the island
?became suddenly enriched, for British
soldiers and sailors brought money,
and their prisoners were rarely poor
men.
Next to the lted seu ports along the
African const. St. Helena nrohahlv en
ttTtainj** in its waters the greatest ng-.
gregation of sharks in the world, but
the Boer prisoners discovered that
these sharks always slept when the
sua reached the meridian; and many
of these prisoners were rescued by
their friends, who brought small vessels,
apparently laden with provender,
but steamed rapidly away when their
confederates had s\yura a few yards
from beneath the towering cliffs to
the awaiting boat.
Standard Time Zones.
The United States standard eastern
time zone is front the Atlantic ocean
to a line through Sandusky and Mansfield,
atul between Columbus and
Zanesyille, O.; thence through Huntington,
\V. Va.; Norton, . Vu.; Johnson
City, Tenn.; Asheyille, N*. C.; Atlanta
and Macon, <?a., and Apnlnchlcola,
,,Fla.
^Standard -central r.oue is front this
first lino to a--line through Mandan.
N. L).Pierre. 8. IX; McOook, Neb.;
iWlge City. Kan., and along the western
boundary of Oklahoma and Texas.
Standard mountain zone is front
the second line to a line that forms
the western boundary of Moiitana. and
thence passes through I'ocatello,
Idaho; - Ogrlen lind Salt Lake City,
Utah; Barker-and Tuiiih, Ariz.
Pricking tho Bubble.
"Deacon. tSumme#.? seems to hhrf
lost ' considerable prestige in your
church circles since he permitted himself
to he drawn into that, rough-andtumble
; bar-room ; fight the other
nigm, ouserveu nn r.aKiern visitor to
Arkansas.
.. /'I sh'd say lie lias." replied a native
djepiistedl.v. /'Th' hull . congregation
flggered him a light sight htimber with
n razor Hum what lie turned out to ,
be."?American T.pglon Weekly.
Limit to Hia Appetite.
Hobble had -dinner with his uncle
<m? evening, who gave him a goner.ptifi
led pi rig of ewuythlrtj;. <<'
At the c)iv?e-<tf rbu. meal IteuwranAsked
why be hud not eaten
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Miss Faith M. Snuggs (1). born or mi
home during her American residence
missionary work; II. H. SnuggB (2), b(
who has "been educated in South Caro
work at Pakhoi, South China; Rev. J
China; Mrs. John T. Littlejohn (4), i
Lawton' .(5), Greenville, likewise horn
to do educational work at Hwang Hp
who will sail in the early fall for roisi
f 11 nprviao all tho nrt?hlfor?*?tral ^
who will do Sunday School work In B
.do general missionary work at Pernan
for Orlint departed from Seattle Sept.
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WITH the sending out this season
of fifty new missionaries by the
Foreign Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention, 250 new
workers have been sent to foreign
fields during the 75 Million Campaign,
or one-half the goal that was set in
the number-of workers to be provided
during that movement. It is anticipated
the remaining 250 will go out
during the.remainder of the Campaign
period <hat Will expire in December,1924/,
The workers going out this seaBon
will elitbr the fields of China, Japan,
Africa, Palestine, Brazil. Argentina.
Uruguay, Chile and Mexico.
Inasmuch as the largest missionary :
effort of the denomination is centered !
In the Orient, the larger portion of the ;
workers sailed from Seattle Saturday, |
September 2, oq th> Admiral Liner'
President Jackson for stations in j
China and Japan. The missionaries |
for fields on other continents sail j
from I'Vw York on various lines and I
some of them wi.i v.ot depart until :
September 30.
Varied Type*} Workers Sent
Included in the list of missionaries ,
are. preachers ami evangelists, teach- ,
ers, djfrtors, nurses, one architect, one .
expert in domestic science, and spe- [
rial workers among women and chil- i
dren. Willinin Earl** Hines of Spartan- !
burg, S. C., who goes to Shanghai to :
B.ipinvise the construction of all mis-'
aionsxy buildings in China, enjoys the ,
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AXI> HAKUF.l lM.
The ""I^idies School Improvement
League of Cedar Qrovfe. w:ll give a
fair and barbecue at Cedar Drove or.
.Beptenvbpr it). Some 1 prnrh'
nertt speakers are. expoete<l.. All ;i:*? in.vited
to come and enjoy the 'day wl:?,
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On September " 12th while mmviiv.
peavine hay on his farm D. M. Khunipert,
came in contact with a rafb
snake which had eight rattles and a
button- The large reptile was beheaded
by the, mowing machine..
CARD OF THANKS.
' I wish.io extend my full apprecia'tion
to each and every voter in the let
Mflglstria) District for their vole,
which elected me to fill thin office. .
I wish to ray also to tlmae who
voted Kir me. and those who did not,
thnt I will perform the duties of thin
office w ith j he best of my judgnjtnt
for all. hKAV'IS 1J. ROOF*.
Tin-sr.ulK NOTKT: .
AH pohfco^hsi are hereby "warn'.I V ~'
to treapn'ss" ibrtJ the lafctH of t in- uri
derslgned in any maimer whrit?i.i.o,
The tutor1' w-flV-' lrt? '"?trirtVv 7>rVV'?{> < +>
jiK-'iin*? : 1? viri'ln tin1^ i hi.4 ri<V.ir
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tist work in that country. Mo^e than
half of the total numbfer of missionaries
in the employ of this board are
located in China, where the results of
their labors are very gratifying to the
officers of the Board.
Barge interest centers, also, in the
launching of art - intensive missionary
work in Palestine to which country
there go Rev. and Mrs. Fred Bunyan
Pearson of Moulton, Ala., and Rev. and
Mrs. J. Wash Watts, of Laurens, S. C.
Some native missionaries are already
at work in Palestine, and the outlook
there is conside.red very encouraging,
despite the present complicated political
and racial controversies.
Campaign Brings Enlargement
In uddition to the sending out of 250
new workers to foreign fields the 75
Million Campaign lias made it possible
to increase the number of native
workers from 771 to 1172, to practically
double the missionary oquipment in
:ho older fields of China, Japan, Africa,
Italy, Brazil, Argentine, Chile,
Uruguay and Mexico, and to enter the
new fields of Spain, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary.
Rouniania, Southern Russia, Palestine
and Siberia. Southern Baptises
now have a practically unbroken
string of mission fields enoircling the
globe, and a possible mission audience
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nsiouary parents In Hong Kong, China,
while obtaining her education, who r
>rn of missloiiary parents on the Islan
Una, and who leaves Bailey Military* 1
ohn T. Littlejohn (3), Scranton, who
Seranton,-who will be associated with
of missionary parents in China, but
Ion, China; Mr, and Mrs. J.. Wash V.
sionary work In Palestine; William B
f the Foreign Mission Board in China
razil, with headquarters at Rio; Rev.
abueo, Brazil; Admlrffl Liner Prealden
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distinction of being the first; architect
ever sent out by the Foreign Mission
Board, and his appointment indicates
tho vnnt ortnnf nf f Vi r* Qaii* V*
1732 Main St.,'Oppoi
The Clcane.ft and most up
in the State. When you*
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. wu.wiMll^ ,) */ll CliXl I ^ C'V II
will find it horc. .. "
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iow goes to Pakhol, South China, for
d of Singapore, Straits Settlement, but
[nstltute, Greenwood, to do educational
will do evangelistic work at Tsl-nlng,
her husband in China; Miss Mary E. >&"'
educated in this country, who returns
^atts and young son (6), of Laurens,
a'rl Hlnes (7), Spartanburg, who will n
; Rev. T. B. Stover (8), Heath Springs.
J. A. Tumblin (9), Laurens, who will "
t Jackson (10), on which missionaries * - r
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of 900,000,000 people, or one-half the .
total population of the globe.
And the results on the field havs
kept pace with the larger Investment
in the work and number of workers.
Since the outset of the Campaign the
Foreign Mission Board reports the or- K
ganlzation of 117 new churches, 21,728
baptisms, 211 new Sunday schools
with ootn 1*7 c"/! -?"?n ? ? ^
wl jl ,u i u puyun, uuilfl
contributions to Baptist work of $1,003,390.68,
and 529,642 treatments r-*"
ministered by missionary physicians.
Churches on the foreign fields, exclusive
of the new territory 4n Europe
and the Near East, now number 621
with 64,251 members. There are also
971 Sunday schools with 53,691 pupils,
: and 694 mission schools of all grades
with 26,507 students.
Expense Rate Is Low
More than $6,250,000 net has gone
! from the Campaign into foreign mls:
sion work, and so economically havs
' these funds been handled, the Board
I reports, that 96.24 cents out ^f every
dollar has actually reached the fori
eign fields, only 3.74 cents qut of eacb
dollar being required to card for the
S total cost of administration. . But with
i these larger receipts and economical
! administration the Board is unable to
meet the demands upon it, and at its
last annual meeting 't was cdmpellsd
to reduce the requests of the.4nissionurieB
on the field for appropriation*
by more than $1,000,000.
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