The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 08, 1926, Image 3
FRENCH- GIRL'S ODD
POWER OF VISION
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Apparently Able to See
While Blindfolded.
Mauy times there hud come to the ?t>
t< mi. .11 of .it .in i.iiii;uii??, noted French
.iiiKi-i, i tir enves of men and wimioi
who claimed theumnnny ability of \
Ins white lltntfoMcil ; an.1 *11 eat I. ?*?
the claimant had proved i<> t>.
fraud. So ll was with two grains of
wait that ho read, a few weeks ago.
the report of a young woman of t'arla
who demom-iraied the strange power
which seieiiUsiM call "pnroptle vision."
la this <tate, however, a group of
doctors in the I'mis hospital hat) tea
tilled that the young woman actually
was able to .read through the akin of
lief face, wljtti her eye# covered. If
alte were a fraud she mu?t .he clever,
Labadie decided. ao he got permission
to teat her himself. '
He took the utmost precautions to -
dose her eyes. Then he went into a
dark room and with his hands Inalde
a black box tore off at random a sheet
? of calendar pad. Without seeing thia
himself (for he wanted to do away
with the possibility of unconscious te
lepathy) he showed It to tha young
woman.
"What do you see?" he asked.
"It Is n sheet of a calendar," she
said. "It Is the twenty-nlpth of July."
Labadie looked nt tho pnper. To
big amazement, she was right.
Then he took a small wodden box
and removed the lower half of one
aide. On the lid he attnehed an elec
tric light so tbat It Illumined a play
ing card laid flat on the bottom .of the.
box. He held this box before the
young woman so .that her , bandaged v
eyes were on a level with the bottom
of the box. Any light rays from the
card could not possibly reach her eyes
In a direct line.
"Do you see anything now?" Laba
die queried, ^
"Tee, It is a playing card ? the three
of dflUnonds."
Once more she was right Seem
ingly the only explanation was t^iat
?he had seen the *ard through the
skin of her forehead.'
Now profoundly interested, Labadie
npplled similar tests to three little
girls, eleven, thirteen and. fourteen
years old, living In Nay, southern
France, who were reported to have
even more remarkable powers. He
found they could read pages of books
opened at random, thread needles and
detect colors of cloth without using
their eyes.
How was If done?,, Labadie does
not pretend to know, says Popular
Science Monthly. He does not be
lieve, however, that there Is necessa
rily a special organ of paroptlc vision
In the skin. It Is merely some pe
culiar sensitiveness of, the skin
nerves,, which receive Impressions of
light and convey them tcT the brain
In: the form of definite images.
) English in Urtifumy
English is a popular study In Uru
guay, according to a report Jnat re
ceived by the secretary of state from
C. Gaylord Marsh, American consul at
Montevideo, saya School Life. For a
long time Latin was lan obligatory
study , for the student* of the univer
sity of the country V then English was j
permitted as an elective instead of
Latin ; finally Latin was suppressed j
as an obligatory stydy nnd English
was required of all. All students tn J
secondary schools must take either
English orf German, and comparative- J
ly few elect Qerman.
The study of English has become j
more and mofe fashionable, says Con
buI Marsh. Private students of Eng
lish, especially women, have largely
increased in numbers, and this baa
caused * great Increftsfe in the number
of teaehers, but really Competent
teachers are few.
I Treating "Srdk" Trmms
(Transfusion operation* on sick
trees, with a solution of ferrous sol
phdp assuming the character of ar
boreal blood, are being made success
Pmf - to California, the Associated
Prsss reports from Auburn, C?l. Dis
eased trees have* been brought Into
vroUllc bearers.
Pr. O. B. Ltpmsn, professor of plant
phjplology at tbs finlrerslty of Cali
fornia, said that the treatment prom
ise# to elimiaate such plsnt scourges
?* aphis and the Might
The tree Is treated as gently as a
human. A hole Is bored abont three
quarters of the way ^-through the
tmnk and a glass tube Inserted and
sealed In with specially prepared
wax. A bottle reservoir Is placed at
the height of the tree top and is con
nected with the glass tube by n hose.
Thus the solution flows gently Into
the tree and la absorbed.
:
Millionaire s in Pri?on .
Commonly It Is said to be Impossi
ble to put n millionaire in prison. But
times have Changed, snys Conner's
Weekly. Five millionaires were dls
charged from the Atlanta p^rm<n?tlnry
in oue day recently. Wh?*n Lincoln
was President there weren't Are mil
lionaires in the - country, either In or
out of Jail. ? Tiroes hav? changed in
that respect also.
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" Spotter a" Cot Bu?y
Four hundred official# of the Tokyo
elsctrlc bureau In .disguise discovered
that they could "beat the con>pariy*! Is
*u$iXmtr cMea on the street care. Re
ports 6t many free rides had received
MM* credence ontll this
f** MM
All Parties to Suit
Played Bluffing Garni
Tow lAcNeal knew m deaf man who
had an account against another deaf
man and brought suit before a justice
of the peace who w?is deaf. When tbo
.1, P. culled On the plaintiff to state
his cane the plaintiff guesattlVcUat the
J. 'I*, was saying from the movement
of Ids lips. "This defendant," said the
plaintiff, "owes lue $11 for- gnjcerle*
|nd refuse# to pay me." The J. P.,
seeing the plaintiff** mouth had quit
working, turned to the defendant, ask
ing what ho had to say. Not hearing
what either .had said ^ut guessing It
was up to him to say something, he
.stated his aide of the case. "Your
honor, it wasn't uiy dog. If a dog hit
this man I'm sorry, but he ought to get*
after the owner of the dog. not mo."
The J. P. hadu't heard what either
man said, but as both had Quit talking
felt It was his duty to render Judg
ment. After pondering a few mlnutea
and apparently weighing the evidence,
he said, "Well there's a good deal to
be said on both sldea of thla case, but,
(turning to the defendant), she Is your
mother,, and you will have to support
her."? Capper's Weekly.
Honor to Those Who ,
Grow^Old Gracefully
Everywhere* about us are to "be ob
served young and middle-aged men and
women who palhfully exhibit the im
minence of age and Itp'lnflrmltles.
They present sorry spectacles. They
excite our wonder, but they Inspire no
emotion of sympathy within us. They
have bowed to the Indictment of age
without presenting any. defopse. They
become old in fact while <yet the years
of age are far from them. They have
not the will to live life as It should be
lived. They have permitted the spirit
of youth to atrophy within them.
? Ho>v altogether Inspiring and en- ?
couraglng lfr it to consider those who
have learned "how to grow old grace
fully," how to keep In touch with the
tides of life, functioning constructively,
winning from existence the priceless
boon of contentment by an unswerving
devotion to ratloual living, that living
which Is baoed<upon rational and con
structive work.
Pity the wretched old young men-1
they are the pathetic flotsam of thla
rushing age.? Cincinnati Enquirer.
Arizona Grand Canyon
But ItTls no mere cleft or. chasm or
simple gorg$ or canyon ? it contains
unnumbered hundreds of thpse mases.
It is a terrific 'trough, 6,000 to 7,000
feet deep, at some places nearly fifteen
miles wide, more than 300 miles long,
peopled with hundreds of peaks taller
than any mountain east of the Rockies
? yet not one of them with Its head so
high as your foot upon the rim ? and
all ablaze with such color as no East
ern or European landscape ever know,
even in its alpenglow. It Is a con
densed i river system, with this tre
mendous mountain system counter
sunk and Imprisoned liv Its deep-cut
channels. - Jt you take a big palmate
leaf, and look at Its reticulations,. tak
ing the midrib for the main channel of
of the river, you will have a plan re
sembling ft.
Ramblers
"We used to say to one another U i-*
millarly in Streathani park," wrote
Mrs. Thrale, "'CJoine, let us go ifltd
the library, and make Johnson speak
Kamblers.' " Let us, as a' second best,
sometimes still go. Into the library 4n4
read Johnson's Ramblers ? and Idlers
and Adventurers; wherein, as Bdswell
says, tfre shall find "a true representa
tion of human existence.*' "In too writ
ings whatever, " he adds with ? equal
truth, "cafe be found . . . riiore that
can brace and Invigorate every manly
lind neble ?entlment."-k-t-From Preface
to "Johnson the -Essayist," by O. M.
Ghrlstie.
Mixture of Languages
1 Yiddish has Its origin in 'the migra
tion of J#irs from Germany into Bui
? Sla and Peland during the Fifteenth
| century. These Jaws spoke and Wffte
German with facility. But In the Slavic
country they ware compelled to learn
a new language. Several centuries
later the descendants of npny of these
Jews returned to Germany, in each
country the Jews absorbed part of |)m|
local language which was ntfo04d
freely with the original Hebrew: Ti4
dleh has jui extensive literature? Path
finder Htgaztne.
Moving Continents
The idea that the continents of the
world are moving is eipbodled In the
"Wegener vhypotheals," suggested by
Prof. Alfred Wegener of Austria ^n
his book. "The Origin of Oontine&t*
and Oceans," published in 1012. This
theory Is that the continents of the
world are drifting, the rate of move
ment being necessarily very slow, and
during recent conferences of scientists
It was decided that certain tests. In
volving radio, were to he msvde during
the winter of 1926-1927. \
Nothing in "Stalling" #
Robbing Teter to pny Pnul may work
for a time, but eventually Peter has
to be repaid, for he is just as deserv
ing as Paul. No one liquidates indebt
edness by paying one creditor and
"standing "off" another ? all must b4
paid. ? Grit.
A Horrible Person
"It ha the kind of a man %ho kisses
and telle?" } *
nKataa. U* Jdaeae aa ha aan mlU J
a beat It far a ?s*m*ms> magtMlMk
mirmy nifit
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MERCHANTS WILL PROTEST.
Greenville Merchants Revolt on pay
ing 42 I'er Cent. Tax on Goods.
v.xcwillc.-I t a state government
persist* in levying an obviously dis
crimatory and unfair tax against A
certain lino of business carried on
within its borders, can not this busi
ness bow up. refuse to pay the tax
and bring about a show down, once
and for all in this matter of taxes and
government? . .
At least some Greenville merchants
believe so, and they have gone about
the business of making up their minds
to show the stale ami* the State Tax
Commission a thing or two about
taxes. . The thing which they most
earnestly expect to ahow is that
there is no earthly reason for a mer
chant paying the state and county i
levy of so many mills on 42 per .cent,
of the actual, hard 'cash v.alue o< his
goods when the real estate owner next
door pays on from f* to 8 per cent o
the actual value of his property.
"It isn't fair," says the merchant.
"And-'we won't pay the tax if there
is a way under heaven to keep from
having it extracted, from us," chime
in brother dealers in Greenville.
A number of leading local dealers
are turning this matter over in their
heads and looking out through their
minds' eyes at the State Tax Commis
sion and wondering if that crowd of
kingly souls cannot be forced to giv?
some relief.
O. M. Benton, manager of the Jones
Furniture Company and Walter H.
Keese, president of the W. H. Keeae
Company, of Greenville and Anderson
yesterday said that they would join
other merchants in flatly refusing to
pay taxes for 1926 unless, the next
session of the 'legislature brings
some relief from the evident iniqui
tous system.
< Dr. W. D. Simpson, president of the
large Belk-Simpson department store,
said that merchants were being bled
to death almost by the present sys
tem and that he was ready to joiri irt
a concerted effort to force some rt
lief. , 1L . .
: Dr. Simpson did not say whether
would refuse to pay, the taxes, but
added that he would gladly pacticipatQ
in a movement to carry the case to the
.supreme court to find if the Tax Com
mission has the power to collect more
tax from $100,000 worth of merchan
dise than it has from $100,000 worth*
of real estate.
A number of other dealers were
thinking the matter over yesterday,
and some were on the verge, it was
said, of going on record as refusing to
pay taxes for 1926 unless the next
session of the legislature and the Tax
Commission bringing about some
thing of an equalization of taxes in
South Carolina.
Apparently should the dealers re
refuse to pay the taxes, the commis
sion could force this action eventually
through the hard hand of -execution
and forced sale. However, the dealers
believe that , public opinion has been
aroused and. that it may,be further
aroused, even to the point of forcing
some construction reform at the hand
of the lethargic Legislature and Tax
Commission. ....
As is well known, not only mer
chants, but banks, cptton mills, rail
roads and general commercial and in.
dustrial enterprises are forced to pay
tax on 42 per cent of the actual value
of their properties, v Real estate and
other property either, fails to get on
the books at. all. or is returned at
from 3 to 8 per cent of its real value.
The merchants are tired of it^
And why -not? i
Muapanr Gcto Bulk of Eat ate
New Ybrk, Dec. 30. ? The . Metro
politan ^Museum of Art in this city,
will receive the bulk of the vast
estate of Frank A. Munsey, publisher,
under the terms of Ris will, filed to-.j
day. The trustees of the estate are
given five years, or more if necessary,
to dispose of his newspapers, the Sun
and the Evening Telegram, as well as
his other interests and to convert his
considerable assets, including real es
tate, banking interests and other
properties, into cash "or securities/
Mr. Munsey never married. His
'nearest kin, a sister, Mrs. John M.
Hyde, of Lewiston, Maine, and her
children, were bequeathed ni/ie thou
sand shares of stock of- the Munsey
Truat company of Washington, D. C.
Cash bequests of $650,000 were made
to relatives, friends and business as
sociates. v
Bowdoin college, receives $250,000;
the Maine State hospital o i Portland,
?$100,000; and the Central Maine Gen
eral hospital at Lewiaton $50,000.
s The value of the estate was not
indicated in the document which was
executed nearly five years ago, but
friends recently estimated it $40,
000,000.
The only radio station in the world
known to be owned and operated by a
woman is . at FUgftaff, Aritona.
X?ry M. ?a*tifan km* this distinc
tion.
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? R1 M Rl'NNING 18 COSTLY.
'England's Titled Liqtter Dealer S|y?
He Lost Greet Fortune, v
, London, Dec. 30. ?The 700 investors
(\vho took a "flyer" in liquor running,
??any of t,hem Women, got little com
fort' out of a statement w)?ieh Sir
Brodruk Hartwell, England's titled
rum runner, made today at a meeting
of his creditors.
Sir Brodrick appeared in the bank
ruptcy court. lie declared his liabil
ities as 260,000 pounds (f 1,200, 000)
and said that his only assets were
amounts due from dealers who g<ot
the liquor in the United States and,
who apparently never would pay him.
His final shipment to the United
States, he asserted, alone was, worth
*250, 000 pounds, but in thja case his
partner and the dealers to whom the
liquor was turned over, never paid
him a cent.
The barbnet explained that he met]
un American in 1923 who asked him
to ship him liquor to the .United
States. Eventually several shipments
Were made, and in September, 1924,
the seventh and last shipment contain
ing 5Gf000 cases of proprietary brands
of whiskey was dispatched.
Pessimistic reports about tho
weather and the activities of prohi
bition officers reached him; then came
the report from the captain that tho
ship's crew was in mutiny and he had
put int<^ Halifax. Later he was ad
vised that the liquor had been trans
ferred to smaller ships and that 36,
000 Cases had, been seized by prohibi
tion officers.
The creditors gloomily passed a
resolution for bankruptcy, and ad
journed for the appointment of u
trustee.
\
Contrary to widely circulated re
ports that the American Indian is
dying; off at an alarming rate in the
great Southwest, the Pueblos and
other Indian populations are holding
their own and increasing at a rate
nearly as high as that shown by cen
sus figures fpr the white population.
Documentary evidence has been
found in Spain of the existence of
Dulcinea del Toboso, the lady love
>of the immortal Djon Quixote. Her
real name was Aldonza Lorenza,
Cervantes paid a doubtful compliment
to the lady he loved, Dona Ana Mar
tinez Zaro, in making her the heroine
of his book. ' r
George Washington was born at
Wakefield, his father's plantation.
GOVERNOR'S WIFE INJURED
Mrs. K. lee Trinkle Badly Burned Ks
c-aping From Building
Richmond, Va., Jan. 4,^The off ?< ial
residence of the Governor of Vir*
ginia was transferred tonight to
Memorial Hospital here, where Mr*.
E. Lee Trinkle, wife of the executive,
lies in a very serious condition Jfrom
burns sustained this morning, when
she dashed through a wall of flames
on the first floor of the executive
mansion and up the stairway to
arouse her sleeping son on the next
floor. An operation will be perform
on Mrs. Trinkle tomorrow morning to
relieve her suffering ?_from^ burns
about face, neck and arms, artd the
Governor, deprived of his home by ^he
fire that gutted virtually the entire
lower floor of the mansion, has taken
a suite of rooms in the .hospital to he
near his wife.
Mrs. 'prinkle is suffering from
what physicians described as "first
degree" burns about the face and
neck and "second degree" or more j
serious bums on her arms. l)r. j
Murat Willis, of this city, will operate
on her tomorrow morning to relieve |
her suffering and in the hope of
keeping the burns from leaving scars.!
The Governor's wife was in such a
great pain today and tonight thai
physicians confined their efforts en
tirely to* relieving her suffering, and
have not as yet made a thorough ex
amination of her injuries.
An examination this afternoon of
three-year-old Billie Trinkle, whose
spajkler ignifed the Christmas tree
in the parlor of the mansion, and
fourteen-year-old Lee Trinkle, Jr.,
whom his mother was trying to
arouse when she was burned, showed
that neither was burned, nor was the
elder boy hurt when he was forced
to follow his mother in leaping from
his bed room window to the ground
three stories below. Mrs. Trinkle als#
was not hurt in the fall from tho
window. Irreparable damage was done
to the 114-year-old structure by tho
fire, which destroyed priceless paint
ings, antiques and other, heirlooms;
The building itself is /not believed to
be seriously darfiaged, but the mas
sive columns, parquet flooring and
beautiful woodwork placed in the
mansion by James Monroe, when he
had the structure built after the Jef
ferson style of architecture, either
was destroyed or badly damaged.
The saxophone was recently intro
duced in the Chicago Civic Opera Or
chestra.
laberty Hell Kin^s Again
Philadelphia, Jan. I. ~The Liberty
Bell, which in 1776 sounded the call
to anna that resulted in a new nation
rang forth again today for the first
;iir?e in 90 years to welcome the New
Year.
In 1776 the lusty ringing of the
old watchman in On* tower of In
dcpcndeuce Hall was nudible for only
a short distance. As 11)20 arrived
strokes with a gold hammer by Mr*.
W, Preeland Hendricks, wife of the
mayor, were heard throughout the
country. Kadio carried tho sound
into countless American homes.
The last time the bell was heard
was on the occasion of the funeral
of Chief Justice John Marshall in
1836. On that occasion the bell was
cracked and it was feared that it
would Jor^ver remain silent.
There are Kentucky mountaineers
who hftve grown old in years and
have never seen a negro in their hig)t?
lands homes district.
With nearly 522,000 visitors, more
people visited the British . Natural
History Museum last year than any
year since 1920. ,
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2,000 New Telephones
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1/IORE than 2,000 new telepbonet
to the Bell Telephone
| System in South Carolina last year.
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This was a splendid achievement, ,
requiring the best efforts of a highly
trained organization, and the expendi
ture of more than $759,000 for ) plant
additions and replacements
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There are now 39,370 Bell tele
phones in South Carolina, a . striking
evidence of the substantial growth and
progress of t)ie State.
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