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of WaMngton'9 Sister I* Home /tgoin AfU'i more iH& 140 yt'iii'ii uf wiiii. derlug, IU*? desk at which Hetty VVukJi higton U W 'st of Ueorgo W; di lution. *ai ivjlti penned the courteous epistles of Iter d?y hus-come buck to her old home, Kertniore, fc-rvdericks- , hurt,', Vjy(, i'or nioiv than a u ,i ilu women svho have iift'n aunggiiug to | h?ivo Keuhior'e ?.s on?, of tin* M*forle slrin< s In America, have been shuU lug out 1 1 1 ?i'u i u re, describing ihe j j h> ho' of the keumore u8K0etutl<)lY. to i tic yiiriouS 1>. A. It, chapters, s;i\ Detroit News, One of These up; tea Is < reuchcd the regent of Hit' Old TriiHs chapter in Minneapolis, Mian >? !m communicated; with tlio registrar of Ihe .Vya^lilngion l.ewls chapter at j Fredericksburg, t el Hiik Of the old { desk. After leaving Ken more the ma hogany desk i)rst 1'ouhd a home with a son of Colonel Lewis at Munition, one of the best-known of the coloului place* -In' Virginia. Next it went to* Alexandria, then to Washington, 1). C., from there parsing to New York city. Finally it found a place among the possessions of Mrs. Maurice Alnsworth of Minneapolis, who kept it until she knew that it would be restored to Its rightful surroundings. Digging Machine That Uee9 CompreBMed Air An unusual digging machine that combines the processes *of shoveling tun! loading Is finding its way into hundreds of mining and construction Jobs. It ifi* opera ted and driven entire ly by compressed air. The speed of the loading can be controlled so as to throw the material to the farther end of a long car, or merely to drop It Into a short one. The mechanical shovel will dump its load into the center of the car from any position, even extreme right or left. It Is claimed. Compresspd-alr power Is applied through direct-thrust cylinders. Three ?control levers successively crowd, dig und dump the shovel. The two noddle cylinders, acting a* one, which do the main digging, are provided with cataract oil escapement plunger pistons. This arrnngente^ Is declared to give a steady and con trolled but fast movement, from the first of crowding to the last of dump ing, permitting no building up of pressure and consequent Jumping, or throwing out of the load. ? Popular Mechanics Magazine. New Mint Plant for America In Mentha citrata,. a plant belong ing to the mint family, the United States Department of Agriculture ?be lieves it has Introduced ' a new crop which, under suitable conditions, may bring an acreage return eqjiial to that now obtained from other cultivated mints. During the past year the crop was* grown at Arlington farm. near Washington, on a scale large enough \ to give definite indications of its pos sibilities. The yield of oil from the plant when distilled was at the rate of 80 pounds to^the acre. The oil Itself is very fragrant and when., fraction ated yields 50 per cent of llnnlyl acetate, a compound extensively used by manufacturing perfumers. Huge Output of Pig Iron The output of pig iron In the United States in 1023 was neurly 40,000,000 tons, an amount that surpasses tTven the war-time production of 1016; yet the exports of steel and iron wer? much lower than they were in 1013, and the lowest in the history of the in dustry in America if compared with the quantity produced. Hpw long will it take American blast furnaces, keyed up to war-time pitch, to supply the demands of home consumption! Or has home consumption so Increased that it can keep this great Industry going ot its present gait? ? Youth*! Companion. ' " Plana Hothouse for Human t Human hothouae plant* will be more tbun ? figure of speech If a Chicago engineer ran carry out a project that he 1b urging. He wants to build In some city a residential section per haps half a mile square, put a glass roof over It and have one central heat ing plant for ltr He promises to pro duce nn Hawaiian climate all the year round, roses In winter, no rain on wash days, and other alluring advantages He thinks that the cost of the super structure would he offset by the lower cost Of building Inside the enclosure J and by the lessened expenditures for heat. ? Youth's Companion. Clerk Sought to Please Father, accompanied by his little flock/ walked into a hotel and sought speech with the tlerk. "Can yon nrrange for accommoda tions?" "House \ ery full, sir. Ue*t we can ghre you is a telephone I ooth." "Don't spring that old gag on me. My wife and two daughters can't l!vf .n a telephone booth." "(Hi, p -t to that, we can give yoc four boojhs and will also insert a para graph in the society papers to the ef feet that you bnve engaged a suite." The Materialist Old Siuuer ? Ciood morning, parson, had only u sumll congregation last night, I MIeve. ttmhg ,CJ#ff3rtjwn? BSSH congrega .Una. >**, m fbe church ' wn? ! wi 'i nnr^n nnd nrchnng .??*. *'>n, ???*yb?; - tk* mL BIG. SAVINGS MADE THROUGH RESEARCH Modern Laboratory Supplants Garret Genius. Herbert il<fmer'? recent nssertJou that dlseov ej*y ami Invention niv no. luuger Ihti function of the guiTit tfCM.iiiiK borne out by ( lit* 4,f una.iepu uceord.lui? to ih% .\ ,,n i icjtM Oht^tnicnl sjx U'tv, a\- l ? i ? h ifis assembled <liifn showing nnttniml rlehment throuju'h organised research. Kuguj.v vvni.er supply. brvud making, X'i'ii.vs, electric lighting, i ? ?- 1 ? ? uuitc riuj nod artificial silk are spheres In which research has earned iia^ divi dends. it is declared. MTlie life of l??courotl,ve hollers has been . lengthened sevenfold and the coal consumed in operation reduced by many millions of tons per year through the application of research to water supply on our railroads," says the so ciety la a summary , of American achievements In research. "The life of a locomotive tirehox costlirg $1,700 on a certain had water was two years. After treating the water properly to prevent Corrosion the steel lasted 14 years, making a saving of more than $700 per locomotive per year. "Waste utilized to prevent other waste Is often the result of research. Ten tons more cane an acre, equiva lent to one ton ra\v sugar, and 50 to 70 per cent less labor In the field, has followed the use of a paper made from waste cane bagasse In the cane fields of Hawaii to preveut the growth of weeds. "Organlxed and continuous research on the lighting problem has produced types of lamps with which this coun try's lighting bill In a single year is $1,500,000 less than the cost of the same amount of light If the best lamps available less than 20 years ago had been used. This represents a saving, among other things, of 25.000,000 tons of, coal. "Through research wood pulp and other cellulose materials valued at ap proximately 5 cents a pound have been converted Into artificial silk valued at an average of $2.50 a pound. The value of the artificial silk produced In the United States Is now about $45, 000,000 a year. "The modern efficient X-ray tube Is distinctly a product of research, and is becoming more and more a tool for further research. Its uses In treating disease, In watching the functions of the vital organs In the human body and In dotectlng foreign substances in living and Inanimate bodies are well known. The use of X-rays In deter mining the constitution of matter (space arrangement of atoms In the molecules) Is still In Itrf' Infancy, - but results already achieved indicate that future accomplishments In this field will be of extreme importance In the solution of this problem." Four generations of rats have sub sisted normally on a new bread prod uct developed through research, It was said. These rats are far more robust on this "complete diet" than another group of rats fed on the bread of pre vious processes. : Experiments on hu man beings are now In progress. Another triumph of" research, says the society, Is a food for yeast con sisting of a mixture of mineral salts, which, It Is claimed, prevents a yearly waste In the fermentation process of 200,000 barrels of flour, 30,000 barrels of sugar and 15,000,000 pounds of yeast. The total savings aggregate $5,000,000 annually. - r Deaperate Case. "The medical student was listening to the conversation of two hospital surgeons. "After the crash," one of them was saying, "I ran over to where It lay on the pavement, and when I raised It up I saw at once that several ribs -were smashed, while a gaping hole was torn In the?" The student was keen on accident <ca6es and here he broke in; "Excuse me, doctor," he said, "but If you have no objection I'd like to take a few notes of this case." He pulled his notebook out of his pocket and asked : "Was It a man or a woman?" "Neither," the surgeon Informed him. "I was tulking about my um brella." Fair Warning to Muskrats. Fur fashions will keep muskrat trap pers busy again tills season on the south Jersey marshes, as prevailing high prices for pelts will he an Incen tive for natives to set many trap lines when legal catch eg are permitted after November 15. The trapping season will be shortened by a month. Under the new game laws It will close on March 1. M>adow Hnd marshowners are muk lng their leases to trappers at annual rentals that exceed the profits from the best of their field crops on high land. Several of the trappers clean up from $2,500 to *4,000 in the winter. ? Phll adelplila Public Ledger. Haiti Eradicates Rabies. When the American sanitary service j found Itself confronted with an epi demic of rabies In fort au Prince It went to the heart of the matter by going after the dogs, the numberless dogs that fafest the city street*, and remind -wotyd travelers of C <m stantlnople. so. they tell as. The cltl sens were give? doe notice, and the* a liberal supply of poisoned meat was distributed throughout the city. Tbe rceelting mortality met I he o*>*t-ea? gntoe expectations, l&d the meascv mi Locals Ship* at Set by A few Radio Method A description of h means of locating the position of a ship at sea by the eiljlhfitui of a radio "dash" simultane ously with th? tiling of a email charge In lit*- seu Is contained In tlio "Pro ceedings" of the Physical society, says the Scientific American. A station on shore records the arrival of the radio ! signal and also of the explosion wave at a number of hydrophones suitably disposed In known positions on the sea bed. Tho times of travel of the explosion wave, and hence the dis tance from the charge to each hydro phone, are Indicated by an Klnthoven galvanometer photographic recorder. J Although great accuracy Is attainable, j for navigational purposes It Is sacrl ! flced to speed ? it "being possible to give a ship her location within a radius of half a mile inside ten minutes from receiving her r&iuedt for a position. This method hasl>een thoroughly test ed under, service conditions and h.a* been found absolutely reliable. A nine-ounce charge can be located at a distance of 40 miles. In hydro graphic survey work the method baa been tested successfully in fixing ac curately, the positions of certain buoys and light vessels. The possibility of screening and distortion effects pro duced by sand banks has also been In vestigated. Synthetic Food Would Put End to Farming Now we know what's to become of the farmer. The word Is passed along that J. B. S. Haldane, an English scientist, predicts chemical synthesis of foods within 120 years to a degree that will rate agriculture a luxury, and mankind will be completely ur banized. A hard fate for the agricul turist and a hard living, for poets and artists If such thera be in that distant day, says the Nation's Business. And what of the gardens tilled by subur banites and commuters? Ill fares the day when no seed catalogue may pro claim man's kinship with the soil. Chemistry thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt. But Invitation to choice is only empty fealty to courte^ when meals hold a single course. Jf ttie doctor had his crystal in good kelter the folk who are up and about when this fore cast falls due may as well take their oslorles from a needle. And who Is to take old Judge Palate's place? "Dame Science," you say? Well, well, so it goes, so It goes. Poor old fellow, he made mistakes, but no one can hope to please all tastes. "Good Old Days" Club The good old days. The feverish round of daily existence leaves us but little time to reflect upon them. And 'tis pity. . At all eyents. a JittJe group of Vien nese appears to hold this opinion, for a club l as Just been founded there Which does not lack originality, if we may Judge by its name, the Club of the Good Old Days. ? There are two main" qualifications for admission to this club. First, the applicant must be not less than sixty years of age. Second, he is formally forbidden, tinder pain of expulsion, to speak of any.'hing that has happened since August 1, 1H14. The Viennese are trying to forget. Of course, we Trench have not quite the same reasons for wishing to for get as the Viennese. ? Le Petit Parla Electric Power Development Interest in projected super-powe? development in the northeastern states, with high ? tension. electric transmission lines running from im mense power plants at the coal mines to the great Industrial centers, has overshadowed the real progress to ward super-power development which has been made In other parta of the country. There are now only four gaps with a total of twenty-five mllea in a continuous electric power system along the Pacific const from British Columbia to Mexico,. a distance of V 400 miles. Five of the southeastern states are included In another super power development which flurntshee hundreds of thousands of horse power, and extensions are projected Into neighboring states. Liberal Tip , If Found A mean man ate a good meal at a restaurant and then, when he had fin ished. dropped a half crown on the floor. j ? "Walter," he said, as he paid his bill, "I Junt dropped two half crowns. Find them for me, will you?" The waiter disappeared under the ' table and In a shprt time emerged very red In the face. "I've found^one of them, sir," he ?aid. "^Iianks," said the mun as he pock eted the coin and rose. ' "When you find the other keep It for yourself ? tip, you know." I Contradicting a Proverb - "You can't get something for noth | Ing," remarked the ready-made phi losopher. ''Maybe not," answered Mr. Duatln Star, "but I'll say the man who took, my good money in exchange for forged masterpieces came very sear it." Force of Habit Tfbtm?1 That barber la * fa re bird. Jetts ? Why throw the spotlight <m hlmf ' ' ir Mum Hm ?elf. tm can't atap untU *? hte #alf !?(? a halrcvt aatd * afaampao Many Killed By Explosion. San Pedro, Cal., Juno 12, ? Two pre mature explosions killed three oft'i ceis and 15 men of the battleship Mississippi today and injured a score of others, and the. menace of death still hounded the crippled dread naught tonight as she left her dead and injured behind ami headed out. t?> sea to pjoteet life and shipping from the effect of a third blast. A shall in one of the I 1 imh nuns of the ship's No. li turret exploded prematurely, according to semi-official information' given out * from the U. S. S. New Mexico, flagship of division four of the licet. Nearly a score more were injured by the flare back that carried the 'terrific charge through the breech of the gun instead of out through the muzzle. The gun crew were prepar ing to fire as one unit in the great *t*a - fighter's powerful broadside, when a sailor ea lied for the electric ity to be turned on for the charge. The switch was thrown on to ignite the shell before the breech was locked and in another moment the interior of the turret was littered with dead and dying. The big ship was hurried to port , and just as it passed the break-water, another "hand fire" went off, causing some injury though the shell fell harmlessly into th? soa. Sam E. Henderson, who dis appeared from Greenville on Wed nesday of last week was arrested in Danville, 111., yesterday ort a telegram from Sheriff Carlos Rector, charging forgery. Sanitary Water Anal) sis. Charleston, S. C? J vine H, lUU l Sanitary Water Analysis No. o$56 of water received June 8. 1021, front Municipal Water & Light Plant, Camden, S. ('. Puvt.s Per Mill in.)) Color ^ . r.,00 Chlorine 0.00 Free Ammonia ....... 0.02 Albuminoid Ammonia 0,02 Nitrogen as nitrites . . ... ..... 0,00 Nitrogen an Nitrates , 0.00 Total Solids 05,00 H A GT E IU A I. A X A LYSIS Uacterial indications of omtaminn l ion-- -Negative. ' Remarks Analysis indicate water to be of good quality and free fron) t outainmation, # iiespert fully submitted, F. I., l'AKKKK, M. 1). TUB CITADEL*. THE MILITARY COLLEC E OF SOUTH CAROLINA VACANT SCHOLARSHIPS. A vacant scholarship in KershDW County will be filled by competitive examination to be held at the eounty siat ou Friday, July Uth. Appli cants must be at least sixteen and not more than twenty years of ago, and must meet the educational require ments for admission to the Freshman cluss, which is a certificate from an accredited four-year high school cov ering fifteen units, or an equivalent examination. This scholarship covers tuition, board, uniform, hospital, laundry and room. The Citadel is a liberal arts col lege, offering electives in civil engi neering, sciences, language and liter , ature. It has a splendid new plant I with modern laboratories ami equip ment. It has an excellent military sys tem, having been rated by the War Department continuously for many Baby's Colic and Distress (lone "If r.u->i}Hr#i ntv?> Toethina to their l?i?bh<s I a hi hui?> it will sav? t jnuvh tumble nr. well as ?uf ? w Mr; .1 10. Mv-Klnnoy, Hovilv :<?< .Hry.rnouiv Twvts. , "I iiuv. t u <i In t )?> nr ??>; i?hd Iboy had ct'lto, cniiiif; . and J.??u i.l uonMe. 1 ifiiv; them Ti'iihioii w li it tlm r?jtu|tH ami they n r<y bi?1 li li vely an?J bea-lthy as you pKai-t'.." . Mrs. M?Klti??y if I ? 1 1 1 oi>e uinotig housaiulH ot grate ful mothers all over the Imul who. kU\UI> t oh I j fy to the HtorlliiK ?(ualitU r. oV 'Toothliut. In ro Ucvli?K .Piillt autl distress imldtuU to babyhood. Ttolhina Is i?? 1 1 >? val uable for use during; toothing to roduca inflaiwjpSailon ?> t' tlx; gum^ and fuv.orn lfih conditions. , Teetbioa In sold by all druggists, or ?end^"iUc^?t?> Moffett laboratories, Columbus, (in, for package ami FREE BOOKLET ABOUT BABIES TEETH I NA Builds Better Babies years us "distinguished military col lege." It provides thorough physical train ing under competent supervision, and cncourages all athletic sports. An Inspector says of it: "It is so superior in all its methods, it must be classed alone." For catalog and blanks, write to 4 COL. O. J. BONI), President The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. Miller Rhoadj s? Helen in the Gift Shop buys prizes and gifts TTELEN glanced at her shopping list and remembered IT! that she wanted to get' a few little things for the house ? some neckties for Tom, a wedding gift for Winifred and prizes for her card party. While Helen went off to the housewares department in the down-stairs store, Louise went < to the information desk on the' niain floor to mail a letter and incidentally to look up the drains for Helen. Helen was having a perfectly glorious time shopping. She marveled at the broad, roomy aisles, and the absence of crowding. , She was intensely happy in this great, big beautiful store. There was something new, something to please and fascinate her on every side. The salespeople were pleasant, willing and helpful, and, after all her shop ping, she didn't feel a bit tired. In the housewares department she found just the things for Winifred's wedding present ? a set of water glasses beautifully hand-decorated, of very thin glass and blue stems. Winifred would be pleased beyond word, she knew, because these were the very latest in table appointments. Louise met her again at the Gift Shop nea,r the Sixth and Grace Streets entrance. In the Gift Shop there was every imaginable sort of thing suitable'for gifts and prizes. There were charming costume beads, pretty and inexpensive, from Czecho-Slovakia; leather novelties from England ; beaded bags from France ? an almost endless variety of articles, nearly all of them done by hand. Helen selected a small flower-holder for the ladies' prize and & leather match-box for the men's prize, and her shopping was done. It was five o'clock. The last train home was to leave ?i five-thirty ? but Louise and Helen hadn't half finished their visit. Louise wouldn't listen to Helen's going away like that. She insisted that Helen stay over at her house and return home the next morning. Helen agreed and decided to send a telegram home. This was attended to without leaving the store. It was a convenience appreciated ' by both Helen and Louise to be able to send a telegram directly from the information desk on the main floor. So Helen ended a day of adventures in shopping. Helen is just one of the thousands of women, some of them in your own community, who do their shopping at Miller &c Rhoads while in Richmond. ^