The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 05, 1913, Image 8
COUNTY TRUSTEES* MEETING.
AT WNVAL FLFCTl?>\ OF OFFI
i'KKS Mit. J. M \. WII.HKH WAS
HfcXFCTFH As Fltl.S
DK39T,
Meeting Was Well Attended and
Proved Ver> Interesting and In
atrctlve?Msn> Muttor-s of Interest
to i oiint> s hooU Discussed.
The Sumter County S< hool Trustees'
Asso< ..;te>n no t W< . at noon
In the /rund Jury room of the eourt
fcouee, thin being the regular quar?
terly meeting. Th president. ..lr. K
F. Miller, being unable ? ? ??<? pres
ent on account el Bgejffl duty. Mr. J.
B. Hysn was elected temporary chair?
man.
The following members gsjswered to
th*. roll rail:
J. M. N. Wilder. J. W. BrutiM.n, T.
E. Hodge. 8. Weinburg. M. L. Parier.
K A. Hair. J. Frank William. II A.
Itaffield w I'horn T
Htuckey. K. M. Mcl-'.lwen. It. K
Brown. J K Terr>. W. K McCoy. M.
D .Weaver. H. T. Goodman, Hugh
M*?'<aurin. J. B. liyan
lilts being the regular nv-eting for
ths election of ortl? er*, th?' following
officer* were eleeted for the ensuing
year:
President. J. M. .V. Wibb r.
Vi< ? geesaa>egd s. a ii ?rvin,
Secretary. J. II. Huynsw -th.
Mr. J. S. Kweurlngen, State Su?
perintendent of MW at Ion. wan
Invited to add re** the meeting, but he
was unable to be present on aceount
of a meeting of te trustee* of the
?oath Carolina Fnlversity.
The secretary read the minutes of
tbe but meeting, and then read the
recent acta passed by .he 'es'slature
in regard to the schools. H? also read
a letter which had just beon sent to
all the teacher* in the eo .nty In re?
gard to certificate* being rceorded, and
proper enrollment of pup is. He ex
plaJaed 'hat it was dlttlei it to secure
all certificates, and that unless a
teacher made inquiry puoil* were
often enrolled several times Curing
one school session.
Dr. M. Ii Parier made a motion,
which was carried, thai the asso?
ciation put it -?elf on record as thor?
oughly endorsing the county super?
intendent in his effort to se? nr.- cer?
tificates to the extent of positively re?
fusing to pay any claim of a teacher
who had failed to have her certificate
recorded.
The matter of colsonldation of
schools was discussed, and legislative
acts encouraging the same were ex?
plained.
Dr. Parier, in a forceful talk, show?
ed that little earnest attention was
gdvea by the trustees to their schools.
Inssmuch as they 4ebb.ni met together
to discuss improvements or to visit
the school* He also believed in hav
Ing the count*, superintendent stay a
week or nu.*.' st a time at a school in
order to th >i..ughly acquaint himself
with all conditions.
I.i reply the county superintendent
agreed with I >r Purler, but insofar
as bis duties were con< erfjed stated
thst there were over fifty white
schooln 11 ih. uiiv and that it was
Impossible to give that much time to
any one school and get around. He
also expressed his belief that the
great dc ect in the rural school system
was in not having the necessary super?
vision, and that for one man. with a
hnrao to travel with, to supervise
properly fifty odd schools wns accord
inj to up to d ite Idess of supervision
aext to impossible. He said fur?
ther, thst with an automobile trips
could ?..? madv li-t.r ,irul offener and
that improvement * < <>t||d then bi W"
quired, now to vltdt the schools once
a year as Is required by law. is more
or less a farce, fur suggestions may
or may not be curried out, and be
none the wiser.
The superintendent expressed him- |
self also ms being In favor of the us
Aislan.I .i i cU Rupert MoT. believ ?
ing It to be against the interest of the
Schools, to be opposed to any help
which might bring about the mm b
gssded Improvem* nts.
Dr. M. U Partef made Hie motion
Which w is curried, that the district
boards of truste?M be reejnneted by the
County Sebo.d TraeteW Association
to visit their schools ejtd to hold at
least thre,. sssstlags during the
school yeur. the minutes taken by the
clerk, to hg sent. as ? report, to fin
Fountv Superintendent of IMu? atlon.
of their actions iit these meeting*
This is to be ilmn at the end of the
school yeur. These several rports
sre to b. r? i I b) Ike County Super?
intendent before the County Tfueeee1
Association, pa Ifcel e.e h and e\ety
set of distru t triMl. es mav be. OlltC gC?
sjgggdMed with edJsnl good is belag doae,
and so l?e spurred to t*renter thin^*
for education.
Mr. S. Weinberg moved that the
mbnutes of ihm meeting be gerate*! ig
the form el a biter, and a Copy be
sent to every trustee is. ige count)
This motion was carried.
Adjournment was1 lo xt In Oftb r.
( Signed i .1 Hat bt 11 ILi n woi th,
Beeret ?rs
PAY VISIT TO MAYFSVILLF.
Number ufl m. i>i?m i- of (.amc Cock
Lodge Fiitcrtaiitcd by Brothers of
gStattty Lodge.
The following delegation from
dame Cock Lodge No, 11 went from
here over le Mayeevllle In can last
nlghl to confer the rank of Knight on
two aiqttlref In "long form:
Prof, s 11. Edmunds,
Dr. Walter Cheyne,
l?r. (I.o. W, l>iek,
II. L Scarborough, .
W. C. Wise, 4 j
Jas. C. Bryan,
ft m. McLeod,
c. m. Huret, j
J. F. Tisdale,
K. 1? Rnau,
C. H. Wilson,
J. W. Shaw,
W. H. Strickland,
1>. U. McCullum, Jr.,
It S. Churc hill.1
They were most hospitably enter?
tained with supper at the hotel.
The work of the evening was car?
ried out to the pleasure of all, and
tho evening was also greatly enjoyed
gg the members who went from here.
So. ial Ia>dge was found to he in a
flourishing condition and its mem?
bers very much interested in its
progress.
NOTES BY THE WAV.
Mere Mention of Some of the Workers
Who I'repureil for the Sunday
School Contention.
A detachment of the Boy Scouts un?
der the command of Scout Master
Carl A. Wlthcrspoon made themselves
particularly agreeable ami useful dur?
ing the rush incidental t.# the recep?
tion ami assignment to homes of the
hand rode of visitors attending the
South Carolina Sunday School Con?
vention.
The scouts met every train in com?
pany with the reception and regis?
tration committees and accompanied,
in automobiles, the visitors to the dif?
ferent homes provided for them, ant?
otherwise made themselves useful.
The young "Gamecocks" whose so gal?
lantly looked after the welfare of the
visitors are as follows: Graham
Howman, Aubreth Bradham, K. I.
Reardon, Jr., Marlon Hurst, John
Itlanding, George Tribble, Alston
Brown? Henry McKagen, Jr., Charles
Met; lew, Herbert Tinsley, Raymond
Th;?rn, Junious Nelson, La land Ed"
munds and Marion Cothran.
Secretaries A. G. Waterman and H.
L. Hire hard, of the Chamber of Com?
merce and Young Men's Christian As?
sociation, and Mr. Bartow Walsh, WON
certainly exceeding the speed limit,
and working over time during the last
five or six days preparing their mag?
nificent card index system of registra?
tion and assignment of visiting dele?
gates, and in other work connected
with the success of the hospitable en?
tertainment of the visitors
DINNER FOR VETERANS,
Will lie Green by Dien Anderson
Chapter. F. l> C, at Court House
\\ edncsday.
Ol Wednesday. April Ith, the
tablet erected at tin- Dlngle'i Mill
bridge by the Daughter! of Confeder?
acy will be Unveiled With appropriate
Ot t . monies.
decoding this, the Daughters will
ntrvt a dinner to tin- Veterans. Every
Veteran In the county Ii invited to at
U ad this dinner and is asked to ? \
tend this invitation to all of his old
Comrade! in arms, The dinner will
be served on the court house grounds
at 1 P, M.
The public is invited to attend the
unveiling ceremonies at the bridge at
\ :;u p, m
TABLET WILL BE UNVEILED.
Dingle*i Min Battle Site to Be Mark?
ed?order of Eacreisee.
The tablet on t he bridge whit h
marki the site of ihe battle of
Dlngle'i Mill Will be unveiled Ml)
April I nt 1.30 o'clock. The follow?
ing will be the order of cxercliei:
Music. Sumter Band.
Prayer, Rev, J, B, Wilson.
Unveiling of tablet
M u or, Sumter I bind.
Address, Mr. s. ii Bdmunds,
Music, Sumter Hand.
News f rom Timlal.
Tlndal, April :: Tin- farmers in
thi ??? lion are now pushing forward
with their nnoik Much corn has been
planted .nice th',- land- h.ive tilled
off.
Tin- oats ere looking well and bid
fair to make a good ? rop,
Nathan Pierson, s colored tenant
on Mr. W. L. Osteen'l place, had tin'
misfortune t.. loose his dwelling and
barns wllh their contents by lire on
Wednesday, About Iwti and a ball
Ion i o teiuilaer woe in* luded In
the l< i b
CONFEDERATE ROME MUDDLE
( apt. .1. Cut Caldwell, Former Com- '
jiiamlant, Charges Trouble is Duo
to Course of Richardson*
Capt. .1. Pat Caldwell, former com?
mandant of tin- Confederate home,
yesterday gave out the following
statement!
"i have been asked by a number
of citizens?not merely my friends
hut people generally?to make a
statement ahotit the cause of all the
trouble at the Confederate infirmary
for the past year. It is perfectly plain
tl ai it is all due to the c ourse of
ad?j. II. \\\ Richardson.
"1 was commandant, with the
duties of superintending and being
reeponalbh for everything, for three
months, from December 6, 1911, to
March 1, 1011, under Dr. F. S. Harle
as chairman. 1 dispensed with the
services of an adjutant and tints saved
to the State Iiis salary, and myself
performed tho duties without addi?
tional compensation. Hut in March,
lilt, Maj. Richardson came in as
chairman and immediately assumed
also the title of treasurer and a sal
gry of $100 per month, although there
were, no duties for the treasurer to
perform, and I continued to do all the
superintending, The matron con?
tinued to keep the books, and the
only change was that the pay checks
at the end of the month which had
always been signed by the "chairman"
were now signed by the same man as
"chairman and treasurer." For this,
and for constantly camping on the
grounds, Maj. Richardson drew $100
per month.
"He began to meddle with every?
thing and to say that he was the
board. The old men got dissatisfied,
and said that everything was going
to salaries. if an old soldier dared
to express himself he was in danger
of being dlsmieeod. Severe rules were
made to prevent the inmates front
making any communications to the
public without the O. K. of the com?
mandant. Dissatisfaction increased.
"In the Investigation by the legisla?
ture and in his affidavit! in court
proceedings, Maj. Richardson has told
many things that tan not be verified,
one Is his claim that he put a new
'?over on the houfo. Another is that
he put a substantial wire fence around
the 18 acres of Jand owned by the
home. Anybody can see that there
is no fence there. Similarly he is
wrong in his statements that he had
the home screened, and had water?
works put in the new rooms.
"All this is about like Maj. Rich?
ardson s sworn testimony of the ex?
penses of keeping up the home?
where he says the cost is about lt?
cents per inmate per day. This would
he about $'JJ each. My daily records
show that the average number pres?
ent was 57, which would make the
maintenance cost $5,187. As the ap?
propriation for maintenance was $17,
000, that leaves nearly $12,000 unac?
counted for, besides the $:;,?Hi0 for re?
pairs and building."
Cleveland bicycles at Tisdale's.?
Advt.
flic Small Farmer can be a Good
Farmer.
It is not necessary for the farmer
to imagine, however, that he must
work out all of his problems for him?
self. Jf he waits to do that, most of
them will never be solved. The poor
man who w ishes to get ahead should
be a reading man. He should read
about his work?in farm papers, in
experiment station and national de?
partment bulletins, in books on ag?
riculture as he gets ablo to buy them.
Such reading, if done with judgment,
has a direct cash value. It will
bring in the dollars.
For I example, every man who ha?
read The Progressive Farmer for a
year knows that it is not a safe plan
to depend on one crop alone; that it
does not pay to plant crops in a poor?
ly prepared seed-bed; that he can
get nitrogen for his corn and cotton
by the growing of clover and cow
peas, much cheaper than he can by
buying it In a fertilizer.
The man with little capital has
these facts at his command. He
wants to apply them. A man does
not have to have two horses, or im?
proved implements to enable him to
rotate his crops They make it
? asier for him, of course, just as It
is easier for him to make a good
seed-bed or tend his crops properly
with two-horse Implements. Yet be
can take his one-horse tools and do
good work.?The Progressive Farm?
er.
The man who lives m ar a good
slsed town can start a vegetable
wagon on the streets and very soon
work up a good fade with the best
people m thai city, for when they
find i hat his wagon comes regularly,
that they can depend un it to till their
orders, and thai the products are
tu t class, they are only too glad to
give that man I heir p ironage,?.f.
<!. Huxdlson, In the Progressive
I'a rmer.
Anywa) Ihe wageworker always ha,;
a |h>SS to blame il on.
BROWN CASE CONTINUED.
Fudge Gary C ontinues Case Until Ap?
peal to Supreme Court Can Be
Heard.
A caae ??i much interest to people
here and throughout Sumter and Lee
Counts, that of s. w. Frierson againat
the Atlantic Coast lam* railroad com?
pany, better known as tin- Brown case,
because ?.f tin- fact that the suit \a to
recover damages alleged to lie due the
plaintiff because of the killing of
Brown by the railroad company at
Lynchburg last winter, lias been con?
tinued by Judge Qary until a later
term of court.
The case came up for a hearing to?
day, the motion for a (.'hange of venue
made by the defendant last week hav?
ing been refused by Judge Gary. The
defendant asked for a dismissal of the
case on the ground that Frierson had
no right to bring suit, as ho was not
legally the administrator of the es?
tate. It seems that a brother of L. V.
Brown, the dead man, was first ap?
pointed administrator of the estate,
but later that Frierson was made ad?
ministrator. An appeal was made
from this change of appointment by
the probate judge of Lee County to
the state Supreme Court and x decis?
ion in the matter has not yet been
handed down and the question of who
is the administrator of the estate ha^
not yet been settled. < In this show?
ing Judge Gary continued the ease un?
til BUCh time as the appeal to the Su?
preme Court Is decided by that body.
WONT SIGN SC HOOL NOTES.
Paper Negotiable Without Govern?
or's Signature? tin* Question.
Columbia, April 2.?Under the pro?
visions of the Act of the General As?
sembly imposing a one-mill tax for
the State Treasurer, the Comptroller
General and the Governor were em?
powered to borrow as much as $ 1 ?U.
000, and pledge the payment of the in
come from this tax to the loan for
the support of the schools if needed.
Requests for aid have been pouring in
on Superintendent of Education
Bwearingen, and he asked the offi?
cers to borrow $30,000 at once.
The State Treasurer and Comptrol?
ler General have fixed up the notes
and signed them, and they were then
turned over to the Governor, it was
?tated at his office today that he hail
sent them to Cashier Matthews, of
the Palmetto National Bank, who had
made a bid for the loan, and told
him that he (the Governor) had no
objection to the bank loaning the
money on the signature of the Treas?
urer and Comptroller General, hut the
Governor would not sign the notes.
Attorneys for the bank are loking into
the question as to whether the paper
Is negotiable without the signature of
the Governor, and on this decision
rests the fate of the loan.
Manning Wants New Railroad.
Manning Times.
We have a letter from some citi?
zens of Turbevllle who express the
opinion that now Is an opportune time
to put forth an effort to negotiate
With the Seaboard railroad, now
building into Tlmmonsville and should
go through the towns of Ohm tu.
Turbevllle, New Zlon, Sardinia, Man?
ning and Summerton from thence to
Furgeson over the Santee bridge. We
agree with these gentlemen that it is
an opportune time for all of the towns
over this contemplated route to in?
terest themselves and arrange for
committees from their respective com?
munities to Confer With the railroad
authorities and ascertain from them
what would be necessary to Induce
this road to come to us, It was sug?
gested In this letter that a meeting
be called alter the campaign meeting
of yesterday to take this matter into
consideration, but thinking that it
would be be hard to get such a matter
Its proper consideration alter a poli?
tical meeting We wrote the gentlemen
suggesting that another date be fixed
for the purpose. We would suggest
that the several municipal authorities
agitate the subject in their respective
towns by calling meetings of their cit?
izens, and then a tpolnt committees
with nuthority to go to the railroad
people with certain pledges. There
will be, iti our opinion, no need to
present requests with nothing sub?
stantial to urge the requests, and no
committee can be of much Influence
unless it has the authority to make
pledges for the community they rep
resent. We would also suggest to our
town council to begin taking action in
this matter at onae, and for the May?
or to see the primer persons who are
in a position to be of help, and get
them Interested in the scheme.
.Municipal House-Cleaning.
Dirt Rpd disease are go closely link?
ed thai it is impossible to separate
them. The Ices dlrl and tilth these is
In Sumter the less disease we Will
have to combat.
Knowing this the Civic League has
appointed Thursday, April the 10th,
as a day to clean-up the yards and
streets of the city.
Tin y would like to have everv bit
of rubbish and dirt gathered up, ruin
every yard, and carried awes, as
well as femes repaired and white?
washed, w In i possible.
All householders and chlldn n are
invited to help clean up Sumter and
afterwards help to keep it clean.
Let us all turn in and In lp make
this a city any one would be proud
to live in and, starting with this day,
April Hlth, let us each resolve anew
I,, urid tn the appearance of our yards
w hat v\ ill I.i general i?? netll to our
pretty little sout hern t??a n.
ITnting Kngllsh Lord <to American
millionaire, who has been giving him
-111 account of his liebes? And all
these HtOC'kS iind bonds will later he
Inherited by vom daughter?
Anc-ri? an Millionaire I am sorry to
a\ I have ho daughter.
Voting KJngllsh ls?rd Then what
was the good of telling me about all
this stuff?
1J.000.000.OUO HOltSK IfJWKlt..
Combined Electrleal Power output of
7,500 Central Station* in I . S.?Sta?
tistics of Growth.
Twelve billion hois.- power?that
is the combined electrical power out?
put of the 7,600 central setations In
tin- United States. Can you conceive
what these figures actually mean?
One literal soul to whom the ques?
tion was recently put objected that
"there aren't that many horses in the
world!"
There aren't. The objection was
perfectly sound. But the fact remains
that the power output of this coun?
try's central station is just about
equal to the energy of thoee twelve
billion hypothetical equinee.
And that is not one half of the to?
tal electrical power produced in the
United states. The tewlve billion to?
tal includes only public service com?
panies and does not includes the
great steam railroad and manufactur?
ing companies Which produce and
use their own power. The total pow?
er thus produced is easily double the
output of the central stations.
It is a little difficult for the mind
to grasp what such vast amounts of
power really mean. Take it this way.
The largest standard locomotives
which pull the fastest passenger trains
are rated at about 6,000 horse pow?
er. It would take nearly 6,000,000
Of these big locomotives to equal the
energy produced by American elec?
trical power stations. Take the big?
gest transatlantic liner, nearly a
thousand feel long, with i'.: engines
rated at 70,000 horse power. To
equal the electrical power output of
the United states would take 342,857
of these liners, with a combined
hngth that would reach men- than
twice around the globe.
Tiie figures of the census of 1910
on tin- electrical industry are astound?
ing, and yet these statistics are ad?
mittedly Incomplete.
"The growth of electrical indus?
tries has been so rapid." recently de?
clared, Dr. Bchuyler Skaats Wheeler,
President of the Crocker-Wheeler <'o..
"that no method has yet been devised
by the government census takers to
classify its ramifications In the cen?
sus of manufacturers. Xo matter to
what extent the 'steam railroads elec?
trify, they are still classified under
steam railroads. The thousands of
poles used to string wires are classi?
fied under the lumber indutry. The
great copper companies, producing
practically exclusively for electrical
industries, are classified under the
copper industries."
l>r. Wheeler estimates that the total
business in electrical machinery in
the I'nited States was in the neighbor?
hood of $300,000,000 for 1912. This
estimate seems conservative when we
realise that the last census reported
the total business for 1910 at $243,
UUO.000.
Pacts and figures like these make
one realize how rapidly and com?
pletely the practical application of
electrical power is revolutionizing all
modern life and industry.
GRAVES OX MARSHALL.
The Saving Grace of The Yice-Crcs
Ident.
(John Temple Gravee, in New York
American.)
I am setting no n tie store by
Thomas H. Marshall, Cie Vice-Preel
dent.
lie grows upon the capital and upon
the country in a personality that is
set to especial usefulness and timeli?
ness for this era.
Vice-President Marshall is the sav?
ing gra' e of a strenuous Administra?
tion. He is the only thing that "rests '
the country. He is one of the few men
I ev? r met high up in American poli?
tics who do< sn t take himself too seri?
ously. He is neither burdened with
his mission nor oppressed by his tre?
mendous responsibility.
Following a long and ponderous list
of Superfluous Kxeelleneies in the
Senate ( hair, here- is a real human be?
ing, sc? natural, so easy, so quaintly,
softly humorous, and ?so homespun
kind, that he is already kin to all the
Senat?> and half the Capitol.
Tom Marshal' of Indiana, thought
he "sank into a four years' silence"
when he said his salutatory on March
4. Hut he was mistaken. He has just
begun to talk. The Lord be praised
for his sense of humor.
The Senate is going to be better and
happier for that man. He will get un?
der Wilson's jac ket, too. and Bryan's,
and even the tense, stern Burteeon
and the rest of them, and make them
glad when the Mexics arc- fretful and
offtceseekers rage.
The Vice-President's humor is not
so hard and sharp Q thing as wit. It
is the real thing. It gets under the
cockless of the heart and never stings.
It does not make a noise, but it re?
laxes and it warms.
He wraps it ofteneet about himself
and all about his station. The Vice
Presidency is a soft human joke to
Tom Marshall. It really tickles him
to death, with a kind of shamefaced
merriment at having nothing to do.
He is a good presiding OfHcer al?
ready and will be line. Hut it does
not worry him. lie was a "corking"
good Governor out in Indiana and did
big things strongly and can do them
again.
Hut the humor of the Vice-Presi?
dential chair has got into his boms,
and he'll never get it out. It is tin
most humorous place in all the civil?
ized world, and 1 ant so glad Tom
Marshall found it.
There is one office in Washington
around which there isn't going to be
any friction for the text four years.
And. mark nie. when the lime of
tension comes anywhere else in this
Administration, there is a reserve
power of force, and kindness and tac t,
and the saving grace of humor in this
Indiana Second Kiddle that will do as
much as the mightiest to reunite the
chords and reestablish the harmonies.
The country is just beginning to
know its Vice-President. It has a
pleasure in store.
A woman stopped tin- car at one of
tin- avenues and, upon reaching the
platform, attempted to get off on the
W l ong side.
"The other side, madam." said the
< onductor.
"I want to get off on this side," ex?
claimed the woman.
"You can't do It, madam." was the
reply,
"Conductor," she said, angrily, "I
want to get off tin this sab- ol the
? at"
In a loud voice the condtn tor i rled
"Gentlemen, please stand aside and
lei tin lady climb the gate.1.
''Everything has ita drawbacks, as
the man said when his mother in law
diet!, and thej - iiuie In him for tile
funeral exp? m es."
<>i i i Ki i> s.mkhkkki rot; ( im:
Diu? Concern, said 10 be After Fried
matin's scrum.
X? w Y<?rk American.
,\ drug concern with headquarters
in thin city, it was learned last night,
has made Dr. Frederich Frans Pried
mann an offer ol I2.000.00S for the
exclusive privilege of distributing: the
German savant's turtle germ vaccine
for the "cure' of consumption.
I ?r. F*rledmann and his "cabinet**
held a conference with a representa?
tive of the drug tirm late yesterday
afternoon, at tin- conclusion of which
the bactertotherapist stated briefly:
"1 shall announce plans within the
next two or three days for a country?
wide distribution of my vaccine. i*r.
tii then there is nothing to he ^aid "
Tin- drug firmrepresentative, it is
said, told Dr. Friedmann that if the
initial offer of $2,000,000 was not sat?
isfactory to the savant his company
would raise the bid "up into the mil?
lions." The company will allow Or.
Friedmann to set the retail price of
the preparation bims? If. only speci?
fying that it be allowed a reasonable
profit.''
Plans were discussed for holding
huge medical clinics either in KOW
York or elsew here to instruct scores of
American physicians in the methods
of injecting the vaccine.
Friedmann probably will discon?
tinue the experimental clinics after
this week.
Today Dr. Friedmann visits the
Hospital for Deformities and Joint
Diseases in order to select patients
to be treated at the "monster clinic"
tomorrow.
Referring to the death of Prof.
Frank ostrander. after he had receiv?
ed the Friedmann culture, the Merlin
savant stated that it was not at all
decisive as Ostrander was practically
dying when he received the treatment.
TO REMOVE STAINS.
Various Ways of Rr snoring Pat ipofl
ctl Defacement?.
It is hard for even the housewife of
large experience to remember exactly
Ihe Simple agents for removing vari?
ous stains, says an exchange. Knowl?
edge of the average maid or laundress
is still more limited, hence a device
which serves in our house as a con
stunt jog to the memory. It is a seit
Of rules printed upon a yard of the
blackboard cloth used on schoolroom
walls.
Instead of writing with chalk, print
the rules neatly in the form of a ta?
ble in while oil paint, thinned with
turpentine. This medium, if properly
dried, is permanent; it can not be dis?
turbed either by steam or by rubbing.
After allowing it to dry for four or
five days it may be tacked on the
kitchen wall, inclosed in a frame of
plain pine picture molding.
Here is a copy of the table for nny
one who may care to make one:
Ink Stains?Soak in our milk. If a
dark stain remains, rinse in a weak
solution of chloride of lime.
Blood Stains--Soak in cold salt wa?
ter, then wash in warm water with
plenty of soap, afterward boil.
Grass Stains?Saturate the spot
thoroughly with kerosene, then put in
the washtub.
Iodine Stains?Wash with alcohol,
then rinse in soapy water.
Hot Tea and Coffee Stains?Soak
the stained fabric in cold water, wring,
spread out and pour a few drops of
glycerine on each spot. Let it stand
several hours, then wash with cold
water and soap.
Iron Rust?Soak the stain thorough?
ly with lemon juice, sprinkle with salt
and bleach for several hours in the
sun.
Grease Spots?Hot water and soap
generally remove these. If fixed by
long standing use either, chloroform
or naphtha. All three of these must
be used away from either fire or ar?
tificial light.
Pitch, Wheel Grease, Tar Stains?
Soften the stains with lard, then sjak
in turpentine. Scrape off carefully
with a knife all the loose surface dirt;
sponge cban with turpentine and rub
gently till dry.
Mildew?Soak in a weak solution of
chloride of lime for .several hours.
Rinse in cold water.
Sewing Mac hine < >il Stains?Rub
with lard. Let stand fur Several
hours, then wash with cold wa^er and
soap.
Scorch Stains?Wet the scorched
place, rub with soap, and bleach in
the sun.
Fruit Stains?Stretch the fabric con?
taining the stain over the mouth of
a basin and pour boiling water on the
stain. In cold weather fruit spots eun
frequently be removed by hanging the
stained garments out of doors over
night. If the stain has been fixed by
time, soak the article in a weak so?
lution of oxalic acid or hold the spot
over the fumes of sulphur.
Soot Stains?Hub these spots with
dry cornmeal before sending the
clothes to the wash.
Vaseline Stains?Saturate the spot
with ether and lay a cup over it to
prevent evaporation until the main is
removed, use the ether with very
great care.
Chocolate and Cocoa Stains?Wash
with soap and tepid water.
Varnish and Paint? If the stain is
on a coarse fabric dissolve by saturat?
ing with turpentine; use alcohol if
on a line fabric. Sponge with chloro?
form if a dark ring is left by the tur?
pentine.
Stockings at ?210 'Jake Parti Hebel.
Paris Correspondence New York
American.
Luxury In woman's dregs has
reached such a pitch in Paris that so?
ciety women here are proposing to
organise a simplicity campaign.
It is not SO much the prices paid
for the dresses themselves as the
money aske d and paid for accessories,
which arc exceeding the powers of
all hut the deepest purses. The ex?
travagance in Stockings has grown
in inverse ratio to the thickness of
the material.
A shot* mar the opera sells stock?
ings at 925 a pair at th.' c heapest. An
Inquiry for the most expensive pro?
duced sonn at $200 and $240 a pair,
made of Chantllly lace, Mechlin lace
or tissue of gold.
Where Was He?
< 'htcago He? ord I ferald.
A widow, win. was a believer in
spiritualism, wishing to communicate
with her deceased husband, who had
departed this mundane life some time
ago, consulted a medium. Alter the
connections wa re obtained tin- follow?
ing conversation occurre d
"Hello."
"Yen."
"Are voii happy, John?"
Yes."
Arc you as happy as you wa re on
earth. John?"
"Yes."
"Are you as happy tts you were with
me, John "
"Yes" This time the answer came
ttvmuhoisL
?\Y< II. \\ hat-' it like to f, in Heat -
en lohn ?'
Heaven! I'm no! in Heaven