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ass?ssssssssgsfc TO MAKE FIRST fSfrlAXE. 1^=3. Daniels Signs Order tor Construction of Aircraft at Washington Yard. Washington, Oct. 27.?Secretary j % i 1 Daniels signed an order today for the ^ "Construction at the navy yard here of a giant biplane for the navy, the1 first aircraft to be built at any gov-1 ernment establishment. Plans for j * Ki? nli'V I the, macnine were cu u * u? j i I r engineers under the direction of Navy Constructor H. C. Richardson,; a qualified air pilot. The craft will have a carrying cat pacity of 2,200 pounds and will make! from 50 to 80 miles an hour for a! / period of seven hours without stop. It will be driven bv two SO-horse power motors. When completed the machine will almost equal in size the great French battle airships recently constructed, and it is understood the j navy ordnance bureau is at work on! the design of a three-inch gun with which it can be equipped if desired. k In a statement describing the aeroplane Secretary Daniels said its carrying capacity could he used for, transporting fuel, weapons or high j explosives, and it would be of great ir\npr Tanee scouting. Itj vaiuv ivi >uuS ??_ has been suggested, too, that an aeroplane of this character might be ,/" used to carry a torpedo. % ; _ VIVISECTION, Attention Called to Address of Cincinnati Health Officer. & . The Sun desires to call attention to a recent address by Dr. Landis,; v -health <officer of Cincinnati, before; u the American Public Health associa| tion on the "Influence of ExperiL ments on Animals on Mortality." The, f -^ doctor offers some data that must convince our readers and imbue them with the importance of encouraging - . their representatives in the legisla'f . . " ture to resist the inane pleas of those who are honestly but stupidly opposed to vivisection, says the New York Sun. When the Almighty placed Adam into a deep sleep, says k ; v . this doctor facetiously, and extracted a rib, He qualified as the first and C greatest vivisectionist of all time. i ,v- y- Not man alone, but animals of ? great value are rescued from disease ; and death by vivisection experiments. " " - - * , ? _ o > "v In England $450,000,000 worm 01 cattle succumbed to pleuro-pneumonia in the first quarte/of the last p? ; - century, and in our country the cattie industry was almost ruined. Its ?' ; prevention by experiments on living animals resulted in an almost entire elimination of the disease. Although it cost the United States $1,500,000, it brought about the almost entire abolition of the disease, ceitainly the possibility of fatal epidemies. Glanders, hog cholera, boV \ tuberculosis have destroyed millions worth of food and draught animals that are now saved through animal experimentation. Since these zoophils love and re; . gard more sympathetically their fa^ vorite animal than their own fellows, such facts should convince them of their folly. The discovery of antitoxin through vivisection has comJ pletely reversed the mortality from > this dread disease.' The inestimable value of tetanus antitoxin is daily . :V-V ,. ! demonstrated in the European war. : The triumphs of modern surgery i:-\ have been made possible only through vivisection ;' the buried suture cost the life of one horse, the ? catgut ligature cost one calf, the > < electric bath cure of lead poisoning cost one dog. Dr. Flexner was compelled to sacrifice 25 little monkeys and 100 innocent guinea pigs to produce the serum that is robbing meningitis of its terrors. How many rats and fleas were sacrificed in the discovery of the cause of bubonic plague we hesitate to state. The most vile and destructive blood disease is now controlled through the 606 animal experiments of Ehrlich. \ Although the an$is are less interested in the expenditure of human life and- suffering, it is revelant to mention here that three experiment ers. found it necessary to nave mm-1 - selves bitten by infected mosquitos! to demonstrate the cause of yellow; fever. Thus did Drs. Carrol, Reed and Lazear become martyrs that their; fellows might be able to live in the; tropics and that a new South might; arise to bless thousands. What has' been the reward? One of these benefactors of mankind, Dr. Carrol, would turn in his grave if he knew that the meagre pension allowed his family precludes the proper education of his children. Here is a fruitful field for jeal philanthropy. The South would do well to reward the martyr Carrol posthumously. It is to be hoped that the convinc* ing proof of the life-saving value of; animal experimentation above fur-; nished may sink deep into the minds; of our readers, especially those whoj will next winter be besieged by ex-: cited reformers. ^ | In Frankfort, Germany, household : ; waste is collected and burned in a plant that provides steam to dynamos that produce about 1,000 horsepower. * i r . WE ft LATE IX I DECEMBER. Statement Issued at Wliite House to ' Quiet Speculation. Washington, Nov. i.?It was formally announced today at the white house that the marriage of President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait will take place "near the close of December" and that it will be private at Mrs. Gait's home here. This statement was issued by Secretary Tumulty: "In ordei* to quiet speculation, President Wilson and Mrs. Norman ffcalt. todav authorized the announce ment that their marriage will take place near the close of December, Their plans are for a very simple ceremony. It will be quietly performed at Mrs. Gait's residence. No invitations will be issued, and it is expected that the only guests will be the members of the two families," The Rock of Gibraltar. The rock of Gibraltar, taking into consideration the far-carrying guns that are now being cast, will be even of greater importance because of its commanding position at the mouth t of the Mediterranean, where that sea is little more than 20 miles wide? about as wide as from Calais to Dover. Gibraltar was captured by the British July 24, 1.704, and from that day has not been out of British hands. At first little was thought of the importance of this stronghold. For the succeeding nine years the Spaniards made repeated attempts to recapture it. On one occasion they nearly succeeded. A French and Spanish force having been collected on the'isthmus' that joins the rock of the mainland, a } goatherd offered to show them a path up the sloping sides of the rock, which he had reason to believe was unknown to the British. This offer was accepted. Five hundred troops ascended quietly one night and took shelter in a hollow called by the Spaniards "the little chair/' At daybreak next morning they ascend, ed higher, took the signal station, killed the guard nand. anxiously looked for expedted reinforcements. The reinforcements failed to arrive. The armed garrison sailed out and drove the invaders down the rock. "The little chair" was filled up and the place made stronger than ever. All subsequent attempts to capture the rock have failed.. One of them was a siege by Spain and France, beginning in 1779, and not terminating until September, 1783.?Chicago Journal. Split~Lo? I)rag Needed. It was pleasant motoring from Denmark to Barnwell yesterday (Friday) after the rain that had fallen all of Wednesday night and Thursday. The roads were good, but not ideal, t They needed dragging, which have hw?n done Friday morn DUUU1U X*M.?V ing. Such work would have put the road from Blackville to Barnwell in first class condition. Why should we do a good piece of work, then let it go to pieces for lack of proper care? This is the poorest kind of economy. It is a practice that has been the cause of much of backwardness, private and public. . The road from Denmark to Blackville, while tolerably good, is no such a highway as the Blackville-Barnwell road. It is not as well made nor as wide. On this trip one notices that the county roads are better kept than the streets in the towns, Denmark, Blackville and Barnwell. The streets of Blackville, though, are better than the other two. This trip takes one through as fine looking country as one could wish to look upon?fine for its possibilities. As it is now, the agricultural condition is anything but agreeable to see. Farms for five miles out of Denmark are fairly well worked and the crops are good, but thl lands along the balance of the way have been turned out to weeds and grass, or where planted hate been poorly worked. And, furthermore, there are too few people living on the roads especially from Blackville to Barnwell. What a garden this would be were there a farm home for every 100 ares of land, both sides of the way between these two towns. When we think that there are plenty of industrious white men in South Carolina, without homes, who, if they had half a chance, could purchase these lands and make them blossom, we are depressed. We people of South Carolina must suffer a change in our ideals of life. Where one owns great bodies of land, rented out and poorly tended, caring, thinking nothing of others, just so he gets his rents and can live in ease and idleness, that country will not prosper. Put the lands, by ownership, into the hands of the people and then we will have good homes, good schools and good churches all along these desolate stretches of country roads; and fields that are smiling under the touch of real human interest and industry.?J. D. Huggins, in Barnwell People. Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. I JHsgusted. \ i t One day, while her grandfather was paying a visit to Florence's home, the little girl said to him: "Grand'pa, your talk about 'pe'rserverance winning' is all nonsense." "Well, well, child!" cried the i grandfather, "why do you say that?" J "Why," said the little girl, "I've worked all the afternoon blowing soap bubbles and trying to pin them in mother's hat." Two Hundred and Fifty Stories. j I I And every story a good one. They j are entertaining, but that is not all j you can say about them. You know i there is hardly a periodical published , that is -nof full ^ of time-wasting j stories, but not a single story in The j Youth's Companion is a time waster. Take the stories of C. A. Stephens. It would be hard to pick out one from which you cannot learn something j useful and yet entertaining. Some of The Companion stories refresh your knowledge of geography; j some tell you the mysteries of chemistry, some reveal the secrets of forestry and of general farming. They cover a wide range. They are chosen with an eye to the possible liking of every member of a Companion family?stories of vigorous aotion and stirring adventure for boys, stories of college life and domestic vicissitudes for girls, stories that range all the way from sheer drollery to deep seriousness for men and women. There are no -stories quite like those in The Companion. If you are not familiar with The Companion as it is today, let us send you sample copies and the Forecast for 1916. New subscribers who send $2.00 for 1916 will receive free a copy of The Companion Home Calendar for 1916, in add' in to all the remaining 1915 issues from the time the subscription is received. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. Boston, Mass. ( ' HllllllB Fj 4jffl 1111 |HBnpjA^H BG^^kS ' * ' ' . *' ' ' V Vn The RAYO LAMP SAVES TROUBLE YOU don't have to spfend the greater part of your time cleaning it?and wondering why it won't burn. The Rayo is simnle in construction and in design. It lights without removing the shade and gives the best sort of light?the kind that won't hurt your eyes. Iteyb Lamps Rayo lamps are an ornament ( to any home. They require ^ very little attention ?yet always add to the attractive- 1 ness of the room. I The Rayo is the symbol < of efficiency?economy? I convenience. 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