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SIMMS HEADS CAROLINA BAR. Barnwell Man Elected President S. C. Bar Association. Columbia, Jan. 28.?Charles Carroll Simms, since 1885 a member of the Barnwell bar, was this afternoon elected president of the State Bar Association for the ensuing year. One of the new officers is a woman, Miss J. M. Perry^of Greenville, a member of the local council from the 13th circuit. Other officers were elected at the same meeting. Colin S. Monteith and Alfred Wallace, Jr., both of Columbia, who have served the association so well as secretary and treasurer, were re-elected. Vice presidents of the general and local council were iij.su uameu. Other officers elected: Executive committee: Charles Bennet, J. E. Belzer, and M. C. Lumpkin, all of Columbia. Vice presidents: First circuit, Legare Walker, Summerville; second circuit, A. H. Ninestein, Blackville; third circuit, D. D. Moise, Sumter; fifth circuit, L. L. Mills, Camden; sixth circuit, J. H. Marion, Chester; seventh circuit,. Ben Hill Brown, Spartanburg; eighth circuit, D. A. G. Ouzts, Greenwood, ninth circuit, A. R. Young, Charleston; tenth circuit, T. Frank Watkins. Anderson, eleventh circuit, B. W. Crouch, Saluda; twelfth circuit, Henry Busk, Marion; thirteenth circuit, W. C. Cothran, Greenville; fourteenth circuit, D. R. Biers, Walterboro. INGERSOLL'S NAME EFFACED. i _______ Lightning Continually vStrikes Illinois Capitol and Infidel's Name. There is found in the Savannah Press an intensely interesting article which tells of some mysterious agency which has made way with the corner stone of the Illinois state house. We are told that when the capitol at Springfield was built in 1868 the corner stone carried the name of all state officials. The attorney general of Illinois at that time was Robert G. Ingersoll and many people protested against the inscription of his name, because Ingersoll was a bold and unblushing atheist. The remarkable thing abou tthe building is that from the time the stone was laid, say the people of , Springfield, lightning made the building its target. Once, even before the walls were complete, the stone was moved from its place by a terrific stroke of lightning. Year after year, it is declared, almost every summed clouds floating over Springfield hurled down a bolt at the state house. Old residents declare that each bolt seemed to aim itself at the corner stone, and that in time the nam? of Ingersoll was almost effaced. Finally, in 1905, the zinc covering of the dome was melted so seriously by the incessant lightning strokes that it was replaced with copper sheathing. Recently some one discovered that the plain, unlettered block now at the corner stone was not the original stone. Common rumor charged a fraternal order with chiseling away the name of the atheist. There was prompt denial of the charge. Whether the electricity has burned out the name of Ingersoll or whether the corner stone has been removed does not seem to have been settled. The official records of the state architect do not show when any official change of the corner stone has occurred.?Augusta Chronicle. mm mm mi __ a Mr j.ne island 01 lap. Col. E. M. House in his latest article tells of Yap, the bit of island in the Pacific where the cables are handled. Yap is a painful spot for the United States, for no one was on watch when its fate was decided. Its importance Colonel House emphasizes, but he slips away from the details. He says: "The question of Yap is largely a question of the control of communications, a control wholly within the hands of any power," and he adds: "It is full of the possibilities of danger." Not o(|ly that, but it is full of delays and exasperations. It was not so many weeks ago that it required days for i a cablegram to reach China from Baltimore, and even now there is in definiteness about the service. Yap and Jap ryme nicely enough, but they should not be left together without company. Sues Husband. New York.?Suit for $5,000 has been started by Mrs. Charlotte Heidelberger against her husband, Herman, whom she has not seen in 26 years. Th? last address she had of her husband was Riverdale, Md. Mrs. Heidelberger claims she spent her money to support herself and her son. seven years later her husband deserted her, she says. The couple were married in 1887 and Frost Bitten Congers. IT IS TO LAUGH. Funny Judges and Many Others Taken Up. About the safest thing in the way of a reputation for humor is the name of the "funny" judge. At the theater the audience can take the jokes or leave them. The punning professor may get his meed of perfunctory snickers, but he gets little more. The judge, master of all he surveys in the court room, has only to hint at anything remotely resembling a joke to send clerks and the learned counsel into hysterics and get a sympathetic chortle from all present. But the reputation ought to be left to the oral testimony?to print his honor's witticisms in bare type is to expose his nakedness to the winds. Witness, for example, that learned artist and most witty of all British judges (by reputation), Judge Daring of the king's bench division. The record before us is from the Westminster Gazette and the heading a "Mr. Justice Darling and the Process of Pickling Sprats." (Hold your sides, here comes excruciatingly funny stuff, is the plain inference.) And what follows: "Well, it seems that the action was about a quantity of anchovies (trade same for pickled sprats, it appears) supplied by one fish merchant to another. Counsel asked one of the witness 'if he had heard of Mrs. Beaton's process of pickling sprats.' If not he had the lady's book with him and would read it. Whereupon there follows eractly this: 'His lordship: Who was Mrs Beaton? (Laughter.)' And when counsel had explained that she was 'a great authority on food preparation, my lord,' the merriment reaches its climax in two (Laughters) thus: 'His lordship: Then are vrm frnincr fn mil Mrs "Rpp+rm (Laughter)?because I donft know that Mrs. Beaton can be read in a court of law as an authority?' (Laughter.)" A little more follows in which his lordship gets another score by observing that an anchovy is really "a kind of embalmed fish," and the uproarious scene is over. We picture the weakened counsel wiping the merry tears from their eyes and endeavoring to go on with their argument. Another big day in the humor of the British bench has passed into history. Is this to be explained as simply British humor at its morn? Alas, no; for the one perfect parallel that leaps to mind is our own Congressional Record. Wherever you see a (laughter) coming there, you can be confident of a particularly sad utterance. The trouble plainly is with all humor from on high, with every wit who knows in advance that however poor his jest he can be sure of (laughter.)?N. Y. Tribune. ? is> ? Puzzling "Green Ray." The socalled "green ray" is the green coloration sometimes seen for a second or two in the narrow bit of the sun's disc projecting above the horizon at sunrise and sunset. Some irregular dispersion of the rays of ] lig'Tit hacj hpem assnmpH tn flfrnnnt for it, but it is found to be explainable by regular dispersion. In the latter view, the earth's atmosphere acts as a prism to form a vertical spectrum of the sunlight. A. Danjon and G. Rougier, who have experimented at the Strasbourg Cathedral, show that the blue and violet rays may be absolved in traversing the great depth of air, and the green, being thus left at the end of the spectrum, is the last color seen. With a telescope, ^ green fringe around the upper portion of the sun's disc at sunset has been seen for ten minutes under favorable conditions. ^ i>> wm -Copper and Steel. The use of a small portion of cop per in all iron and steel products exposed to air and moisture is advised by D. M. Buck, metallurgical engineer of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company. The use of 0.15 to 0.25 per cent, in normal open hearth or Bessemer steel greatly lessens corrosion, but heretofore the use of copper steel has been chiefly confined to sheet metal. It is estimated that the life of the sheet metal is at least doubled by the addition. Copper melts at about 700 degrees Fahrenheit below the average tapping temperature of the steel, and it diffuses readily through the metal, without tendency to separate out afterward. King George a "Black Pig." London.?King George has just been elected a member of the large Black Pig society. 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