Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fAGB OX ■ " ; ■ iMf'*- *■ • , rr?^T 'T^r't - f THE FUMBLE FAMILY “Second Childhood" POOR UTTLE > 60 HELP TH 1 PELLEC. /UTTLE CHAP LEMUEL 'SMATTER KIDDIE. CAWTCMA REACH IT ? '—THERE VA ARE,BUD. X THURSDAY, NO^ By £. Courtney Dunkel C’MON MISTER RUN 9UI0K BEFORE THEV CATCH US? COunikJ AC30K3A«s POES VOUB WIPE ^sountL/! 'VOU SHOULD SEE HER JUMP AT . CONCLUSIONS! }, « [*■ m AGAIN VESUVIUS MAKES A THREAT I ' i Gives Warning of Fiery Activ ity Going On. Naples.—Vesuvius Is fretful. She Is flashing red by night and by day pouring Into the blue sky a column jof sulphurous smoke which floats off In a breeze for mile upon mile, or in calm air rises straight toward the vault of the sky for many hundreds !of feet Vesuvius in normal., mood shows only a wisp of smoke and docs not jinake the night over her red with sud den flashes of tire nor does she rumble so. A few weeks ago she was, to all appearances, sound asleep. She takes ilong sleeps: she has been known to Sleep for ftOO years. So long did she Sleep after her destruction of Pompeii snd Herculaneum that It became ul* most a legend and was forgotten by the peasant* dwelling about tier, floats grazed In the crater upon the rich green grass that grew along the shores of two lakes deep within that mighty hole. Then suddenly she gave warning ‘Which few heeded, and poured seven livers of fire down Into the surround Ing villages, destroying them air! killing hundreds. One of these river* rushed pell-m#ll Into, the Hay ot Naples, where the water hoiled for days. This was the great eruption of 16111. The iN'iisants dwelling In Torre del Greco and In Massa di Roihuih and other small settlements that were wl|»>d out look it tlial de mons lived somewhere under the mountain. Now Vesuvius Is again In eruption; Dot a tremendous one such as the recorded eruptions of the past, hut one Ht least showing she still has vl tullfy. She has not driven the popu latlon away from her base, hut her grand pyrotechnlcal display has again beconu a lively attraction for visitors Novel Greenhouse Has Own Coal Bed and River Estevan. Bask.—Near here. In the Souris river valley. Is to he established a novel greenhouse. Not only will it grow flowers, potted plants and vegetables under the larg est glassed-in space in western Can oda. hut its owners will mine on the greenhouse property the coal to keep Its roses and carnations, lilies and all the other species of growing tilings blooming In the chill winter months, it is disclosed by the department of col onization and development of the Can adian I hid tie railway. The various units of the greenhouse •will cover 160 acres of land and the enterprise has been Incorporated at $400 .000 under a dominion charter, the railway states. U. C. Mitchell will [head the new firm, which will ship Its flowers and produce to all the markets of the Canadian west, as well as many In the western United States. Through the property winds the Souris river, so there Is not only coat but water nt hand. According to the report there are nine acres of coal land with a seam of good coal nine .feet thick close to the proposed site ;of the central steam-heating plant of !the establishment. 1 1 ■ -■-• i [Test Duralumin Bars i for Use in Airplanes Washington.—Small, precisely mens nred bars of duralumin, vibrating at jthe rate of about 700.000 cycles qn .toour, maintain a continuous loud hum in one of the laboratories of the hu- renu of standards. Driven pneumatically, each bar Is -kept in vibration until it cracks, or 'has withstood two or three hundred t million cycles of this rapid slight bend- jlng to and fro which subjects the imetalllc fibers of each side to alter mate stresses of compression and ten sion. The purpose la to ascertain Just •bow much stress this aluminum alloy [qbo be expected to withstand without [“fatigue” failure when used In the construction pf aircraft, where light ness, dependability and strength are important considerations. Reason Enough Reon, Nee.—One of the reasons given by Mr* Charles W. McHose of Los An *e!et tor wishing a divorce Is that her baa been a had loaer. burling or./throwing low cards on She obtained a decree. MOVE OXYGEN GAS IN LIQUID FORM New Process Cuts Cost of Shipping. Berlin.—Oxygen used In highly com pressed form in industrial undertak lugs can now be delivered in lighi brass containers instead of the heavy steel bottles formerly used and requir Ing two men to carry. Hr. Paul lleylandt. Berlin chemist and Inventor, has discovered a-process by which the gas can he manufactured and delivered in liquid form. His In ventlon has won for him the lion orary degree of doctor of engineering from the Churlotteuhurg Institute ol Technology here. The oxygen gas Is reduced to a liquid by Doctor Heylandt's process, Is then poured Into specially devised eon tainers on automobile trucks and is carted from plant to plant much as gasoline or oil Is delivered. The needs of the customers are supplied by merely opening a faucet and letting the desired quantity run into the small containers supplied to each customer At a nominal rental the customer Is also supplied with apparatus for converting the liquid oxygen Into compressed gas. which Is then stored in the steel bottles that were hitherto transported hack and forth. Ultra-Violet Ray* Soon Fade Paintings Saranac Inn. N. Y.—Exposed paint ings. and especially (hose which are conserved as a national treasure, should never be lighted more than Is necessary, and, preferably, they should be lighted through an firtlficlal Illum ination so corrreeted ns to approach daylight In quality. This is the Suggestion of J. A. Mac Intyre find 11. Buckley of his ma jesty’s office of works and national physical laboratory of England. w!h> have made an extensive study of pic ture fading. Their findings were pre sented in a paper, “Protection of Pic tures and Museum Pieces from Fad Ing,” which was presented at the ses sion of the International Illumination congress here. Ultra-violet rays are In general the dominant cause of fading, the scien lists set forth, and the elimination ot these rays was urged. Because the modern paint manufacturer does not require his pigment to last more than a few years at the most, the subjeci of fading is most lm|>ortnnt, it was pointed out, if any of the present-day masterpieces are to be preserved for posterity. Day Coach Passengers Sleep at Their Own Risk Sioux City, Iowa.—Train employees are not obligated to awaken passengers who fall asleep in day coaches when nearing destinations of such passen gers and railroad companies are not liable for damages If loss results to the passengers If they are carried be yond their destinations, JudRe A. O. Wakefield ruled here in the District court The ruling was made In the case ot Clyde Vanderbick of Sioux City against the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad. Vanderbick sued for $2,700. Cotton Is Successful on Islands Off Virginia Urbana, Va.—James Barnhardt, a young farmer, has been so successful in growing cotton on the Islands oft the Virginia coast that old-timers, who at first disdained his project have emulated his example In this region. .Some believe cotton definitely has re placed the Irish potato as the main crop. Because of the milder weather along the coast the bolls are brought to feuition before the frost, which would kill them farther Inland. As yet the hoi) v?eevi) has not found its way into this vicinity. Expensive Fish New . York.—On* hundred • pounds British gold for one fish was the top price paid at the recent British Aqoar tsts* association exhibition in London. The fish was a Mue, telescopic-eyed velltall, one of the new forma of goldfish bred by the Japanese. Gold, white and Mark In these forms are common, but blue la a rarer color. Sleeping Coach Links London With Liverpool London.—A motor sleeping coach- said to be the first In Europe—mode its first public Journey recently when It left London for Liverpool ot 11 p m. with a full complement of 12 pas sengers. The coach was built by the Alba tross Roadways company, and is fitted with upper and lower bunks arranged as one on a ship, but with curtains Instead of doors. *A touch of a hell brings a steward to the Entrance with a tray containing breakfast. Hoi wu ter for washing Is also provided. Only one coach has been put in commission so for, but the service will be extended if the patronage Justifies It. Long Time at It - Oullanovsk, Russia.—It took Cnth erlne Sorokina 121 years to become a voter, but she has done It. Bom a serf and sold at the age of fourteen for a hunting gun, she Is a free voter In the local Soviet now. / Lack of Bathing Suits Prevents Lake Rescue Detroit.—A Detroit doctor, while driving by a I ake Huron beach recent ly, saw a knot of people looking ex citedly out into the lake. He stopped his car and three young men came running up to him. ‘‘There t a fellow out there,” they cried, pointing toward the lake. He was swimming alone and he went down. He drowned!” “Well, why doesn’t some one go In for him?” asked the doctor, and then almost suffered apoplexy when he was told: ‘‘Why, we would, but we haven’t any bathing suits.” Having no such respfetff for tonven lions, the doctor stripped to his un derwear and plunged In. but his efforts to rescue were fruitless. What he told the very modest young men, when he emerged, nearly blistered off their hides. TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER Beggars Form Trust Moscow.—The city’s best beggars have organized a trust It has 150 members whose monthly Income vp.rles from $15 to $250 each. The president of the trust gets a rakeoff. There are 7,500 beggars in the city not affiliated with the trust. • - TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER Cobb in New Role San Francisco.—Prof. Tyrus Ray mond Cobb is to teach the young idea of Japan to wallop. He is to tour the country, lecturing on baseball and playing with various university teams. ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. LONG TERM MONEY to LEND 6 per cent, interest on large amounts- Private funds for small loans.i BROWN & BUSH LAWYERS BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. From th« Northern Gateways at Washington, Cincinnati and Louisville . .. from the Western Gateways at St. Louis and Mem phis ... to the Ocean Porta of Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick and Jacksonville . . . and the Gulf Ports of Mobile and New Orleans ... the Southern Serves the South. Over the Pole - - to Pekin IjAID in one line, the Southern Railway System would stretch over the top of the world from the capital of America to the^capital of China. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, it would span the United States three times. But the 8000 miles of Southern lines are laid in a network of service to the South, linking nearly all important Southern communities with each other and with the markets of the world. The Southern has grown with the South. Its development into one of the most efficient transportation systems in the world has been made possible by the growth of the South— and has in turn laid the foundation for greater and more-rapid progress of this great section in the future. 4 * ' , A ^ With a firm belief in the South’s future, the Southern is constantly building ahead of present needs. Tomorrow, as today and yesterday, the Southern will be prepared to serve the South. % / OUT ' HAIXWAr RN SYSTEM « * « • THE SOUTHERN, SERVES THE SOUTH • * - > .r. ,