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Hl?HtS r mm Mounu(| Climbers Discuss Possibility Of Daring Rare Atmosphere Above 24,000 Feet At a nqeetlng of the Royal Geograph? ical society, Dr. A. M. Kellas presented on elaborate discussion of the question whethcr.it Is possible for well-trained mountairjeers to ascend to the sum? mits of the loftier peaks of the Hima? laya mountains, more than 25,000 feet In altitude, none of which has so far been curbed. The jresent altKude record in mountaineering Is 24,000 feet, by the duke ofjtfce Abmzzl's expedition to the Karakogsm, 19tt>. The altitude of the highest .fountain in the Himalayas and in i^ie world?Everest?is 29,141 :reet AI that height the barometric pressureV and the oxygen supply Is only abyat one-third as great as at sea level, seas the Scientific American. The e$f>eriences of balloonists is not conclusrse as to the physiological diffi? culties od such an ascent, because the rapid rise of a balloon does not give the aenniaut time to become acclima? tized to great altitudes. On the basis of a large amount of data Doctor Kel? las (himself an experienced mountain? eer) expresses the opinion that a man in flrst-fUtte training, acclimatized to maxhiiuna possible altitude, could make the ascent to Mount Everest, provided the phyjfcal difficulties are not insu? perable. A supvy of sodium peroxide, to pro? vide oxyjfcen an an occasional refresh? ment would be of much assistance. At present She of the physical" difficul? ties of ascend ng Everest Is the fact that the government of India will not let travsJ>rs approach within one hun? dred mUgi of t ie mountain. J SILENT MUSIC FOR HOSPITAL 5/stem Arranged So That Patients May Hear Phonograph Without Dis? turbing Others Near By. A syst?!? of '?silent music," installed by a Chicago firm In a hospital at Ottawa, 111., is described as consisting of a spring-motor cabinet with a turn fable similar to the ordinary phono? graph without a horn. Attached to the cabinet is a special music-transmit? ter, corresponding to the tone-arm and reproducer on the ordinary phono? graph. The transmitter is energized by the vibrations of the needle travel? ing on the record, and transmits these el<*tricaj? vibrations over a system of wires throughout the hospital. The wiring torminates at outlet jacks alongside/ of patients' beds. The patient can be furnished with a head receiver attached to a cord and plug. When the plug is inserted in the Jack alongside of the bed, the pa? tient may* hear the music by placing the receiver against the ear,. The re? corder Isunless the* receiver is held close to the ear, and conse? quently one patient may receive enter? tainment while the patient in an ad? joining bed may sleep without disturb? ance. Far Too Rich to Be Safe. Madame Lebaudy, who lost secur? ities to the value of ?165,000 through the capture of the Prlns Henrik by the Ge rmans, will not be very seriously ln<H>uvenicnced by her loss. In j>re wer days her fortune was estimated at 18,000,000, so she is the richest woman in France and, next to Fran Krupp von Bohlen, the richest in Eu roi?ie. Miae. Lebaudy holds her wealth !n horror, and lives under an assumed name In order to avoid publicity. Her residence all the year round is a small flat In Versailles, where the domestic staff consists of one servant, who is assisted In the work by her mistress. Mme. Lebaudy distributes in charity nearly the whole of her income, most of her donations being made anony? mously. One Miracle Led to Another. A man with huge smoked goggles and a pitiful stoop groped his way along a street In Buffalo the other day. Patrolman McXnmara watched him from ufar. He stopped two soldiers in uniform and told them that he was a victim of the Mexican war, and after describing the horrors of the struggle that had cost him his sight, held out a tin cup. But his story did not move the soldiers, and they passed on. ?*Oh, you think thit Just because you wear uniforms you're somebody!" he shouted after them. Patrolman McXa mara thought it so remarkable for a blind man to sense the presence of a uniform that he restored the sight of that war victim by the laying on of hands.?Buffalo Express. Vicar as a Farm Laborer. Rev. Reginald James, vicar of St. John's church at Watford, England, writing In his parish magazine, says: HI have chosen the part of helping my nation by offering myself for most of the week as an agricultural lahorer to a neighboring farmer, who Is hard pot to carry on without help. Fortunately I have been brought up to manual la? bor, and the farmer thinks I shall do very well. I think I shall look very well In my new vestments. I have al? ways longed for a smock. It Is quite In keeping with my 'high church* ways, for the monks of old were great agri? culturists." What Crusoe Forgot. Mother was reading the story of Rob? inson Crusoe and Albert was trying to , think of what he would have done un? der the same circumstances. "Mother," he said, "there was one thing thrt they forgot." "What Jrae that, dearr W hy, a can opener." NO HAflMN SPRING EEVEfi It Rather to Be Cultivated Than Com? bated With Tonics, Declares Medical Writ: rs. "Spring fever"-?a true spring fevei ?is something to be cultivated, accord lag to the New York Medical Journal It is not to be combated with laxatives or tonics. The feeling of lassitude ant: lack of tone Is expected annually about this time of year, consequently 11 comes. We unconsciously choose this season as an excuse for giving way to "an in? dolence which is always seeking to turn us out to play. This pleasure de? sire withdrawn from the task, that abundant flow of interest which right? fully knows neither times nor seasons, and which truly exercises the body away from fatigue and malaise. The law of conservation of energy, how? ever, teaches us that withdrawn ener? gy is only at work somewhere else." It is, in the medico 1 writer's opinion, man's Immemorial and somewhat magical feeling of identification with the world of nature that brings out at this season a "renewed impulse of self expression, and for exercise of crea? tive pouer." The restraints and con? ventions of a complex civilization, how? ever, make us repress and Inhibit these Impulses. Hence the unrest. But if we would cultivate the "spring fever" by pitching energetical? ly into creative work it may be made to supplant all periods of default of energy, and we may have spring with us always and under all circumstances. HAS BATTLE FLAG OF CORTEZ Mexican Living in San Antonio, Tex., Owns Pennant Carried by Con queror 400 Years Ago. The battle flag carried by Herman Cortez, conqueror of Mexico, when he vanquished the Aztecs, overthrew the dynasty of the Monte zum as and en? tered triumphantly into Tenocbtitlan, now the City of Mexico, 400 years ago, thus planting, European civilization on the Western Continent, is now in San Antonio, says the San Antonio Light. The pennant, one of the most re? markable works of art extant and a historical relic that has no counterpart in the world, is owned by Senor Ernes? to Fernandez y Arteaga, 520 West F iid street, former Mexican minister to Honduras during the Madero re? gime. It has been in his family nearly a century, and its history la well au? thenticated, not only by private docu- . ments, but also by free mention in the j archives of the Mexican nation. All Over an Umbrella. An elderly old gentleman kicked up an awful fuss at the Vanderbiit hotel eostroom In New York recently. He had presented his check for his coat and hat, had went away and returned, demanding his umbrella. The hoy asked him for a check and he ex? plained that he had presented the. check in order to get his coat and hat. The boy told him to look over the rack and see if his umbrella was there, and inasmuch as the elderly ger? man was nearsighted, he found It nee bJary to take all of the 26 umbrellas, one at a time, over to the window. He rec? ognized none of them. The boy, ex? ceedingly patient, told the excited searcher that little remained to be done. There being no check, and the man finding it Impossible to Identity his property, the hat boy was quite right. There was a pause, after which the elderly man slammed his hat down on his head, drew over a chair and, announcing that he would sit there un? til his umbrella was found, sat down violently. It happened that his um? brella had been hanging from the in? side of his right overcoat armhole dur? ing the discussion. When he sat down the ferule of the umbrella hit the floor, the handle hit the complulner's chin ttnd his hat bounded quite out of the room. He followed it. New Peas and Beans. Up In New York a veritable human dynamo, sixty years young, is evolv? ing for America finer races of peas and beans than the world has ever known, says the World's Work. Future gen? erations will come i ? '.now C. N. Kee ney as the man who took the string out of the string bean. All his life he has worked over beans. Almost thirty y ?ars ago he evolved the first hush l'??ans that were really fit to be eaten ?striugless, green podded. Since then almost a score of new varieties liave been evolved by him, some green, some yellow, some flat, some round, some early, some late, but all without firings. Pavements From Straw. A pavement that Is claimed to be resilient, dustless, sanitary, waterproof and not liable to become slippery, If made from fibrous materials in the process patented by J. E. Clark of Toronto. Substances like straw, corn stalks, sugar cane and wood chips? hut not including woodpulp or saw dust?ure boiled with water, pressed betw- en rollers to remove the excess of water and then Immersed in as? phalt, bitumen or olher binding ma? terial, heated from 20 degrees to 1<M' degrees Fahrenheit. Removed fron this bath by suitable mechanical means, the product Is compressed and allowed to harden In the sun. Proof of the F:\ct. "I can prove to the satisfaction of the court that my client lu stealing the watch of the complainant was actuated by the most laudable motive of economy." "What was that, sir?" "He merely^ wanted to gain time." | MOVIES TO TEACH HISTORY Will Make It Gorgeous Pageant in? stead of Meaningless Succession of Dates, Says Writer. Brian Hooker, who believes in a fu? ture for the "movies," writes in the Century on their possibilities in re? vivifying history and converting it, out o^ a meaningless succession of dates and names, Into a gorgeous pageant. "History will be known as never be? fore, for it will be seen and not heard, revhified before us to the very life and re-enacted in our presence. We shall watch Babylon fall and Rome not builded in a day. And as with history itself, so with the whole wonder of legendary and historical story. Wo shall' see tall Troy burning, Robin Hood hunting the king's deer in Sher? wood, and Lancelot and Tristram rid? ing through Broeeliaunde; the sun shall flash on Caesar's armor, the foam about the bows of the Argo, and through fire as veritable as himself Sigurd will go to Brunhild. So with a viv dness beyond words and an illu? sion beyond paint and tinsel we shall review the wars of heroes and the loves of gods of other days. Nor need the new field be confined to the seri? ously beautiful alone; there will be room enough for all that is merely fanciful and entertaining. Gods are no better material than fairies, and George Washington would look as well cutting down the cherry tree as cross? ing the Delaware. If Lancelot would make a fine figure In the pictures so would Don Quixote, the Iliad would show no better in its kind than the Little Mermaid or Hansel und Gretel. For the special power of the screen Is to present more actually than the novel or the play can represent them whatever may be wonderful to behold. Its motto must be 'seeing is believ? ing,' end its office is to verify before our sight alike all history and fable and romance." JAPAN IS PAYING THE PRICE Development of Industrialism Lower? ing Physical Efficiency and Moral Standards of People. This move of the population from the maple-clad hills and rice fields of beautiful Japan to the crowded quar? ters, low resorts and inhuman factories of the cities is lowering the physical efilciercy, the meatal horizon and the moral standards of the people. Tuber? culosis Is taking Its toll from frenzied industrialism. A prominent Y. M. C. A. worker, Mr. J. Merle Davis, whose study of the social problems of an in? creasing urban population in Japan has been thorough, says that an ex? pert ir. factory conditions makes the statement that often one-half of the girls employed in certain mills become depraved within;'..linear after entering the mills. Theylrrae their health soon after, ho that the price of a broader commerce and a sun flag in every port is being paid by weak womanhood and hollow-chested men.?Christian Her? ald. Short of Flag Material. According *o a manufacturer of flags the deriar ' ' "Old Glory"' never was so great at present. If this con? tinues?and there is every reason to believe it will?manufacturers are wondering what will happen. "Of course the war is responsible for the increased business in lags," said he. "If it keeps on we arc won? dering where we are ;, ug to got the bunting that Is used in making fln?s. With but two places in the country where it is possible to gel material, and the shortage in dyes, we are sure? ly up against It. Everything id>out the business has gone up In price. Poles are dearer?they say because of lum? ber shortage?and castlron 1 rackets likewise have gone skyward. Tim men who made the brackets quit and went In for munitions?which explains that increase."?New York Globe and Com? mercial Advertiser. Hygiene Taught by Movies. North Carolina is carrying the prop? aganda of disease prevention from the laboratory to the rural home by means of a motion-picture show on wheels. The out It consists of a railway car fit? ted up f jt the purpose. A lecturer and an operator, under the direction of the state health department, give free en? tertainments in every community that can be -eached. The campaign Is in? tensive; that Is, after an exhibition In a given county the car returns to the same community, a week later, and still again two weeks later, with a complete change of program. The whole oVJeet is to Impress the public with lessons of hygiene und sanitation that would be learned slow ly. If at all, from printed reports or bulletins.? Youth's Companion. Woman Preachers in France. French clergy are not exempt from military service, and many of the Protestant ministers' wives have cour? ageously stepped Into the paps thus created and have taken up their hus? band's work. They preach on Sundays, teach the catechism, visit the sick, and even cor duct funerals. In more than one case in English Nonconformity als., ministers' wives are filling the places of their husbands, who are serving in the army either as chaplains or as com- i batanta, A Matter of Choice. "Mamma, nru you as old as Aunt Maria?" "No, (b ar, she Is ten years older than I." "Then, mamma, don't you think It was sclflrh of you to take all of us chil? dren and not give her first choice, as she is the oldest?" | Help Your Country By joining the RED CROSS! This great organization is a vital neces? sity in carrying on a successful war, and its up to all of us to do our bit in putting and keeping it on a sound basis. s Help Yourself By opening a Savings Account at this bank. A dollar deposited with us every little while soon grows into a hundred?hundreds into thousands. The Peoples Bank. N. Main St.. Sumter. S. C. 1? mteittnwuBttmmnuwm^ i A Call To Arms Let us help you to an? swer the call by selling you Belber and Para? mount Trun''3 and Bags at GOLDBERG'S 8 Worth Main Street Sum tor, S. C The First National Bank o ? o o Would like to see every one of its patrons enr olled in the Red Cross. We know of no way by which you can invest a dollar that will bring you greater returns. Just think of your Son, Brother, a near relative or neighbor wounded on the battle field, and your dollar invested in Red Cross material may be the means of saving his life. If our people could only s^e it in this light there would be no need of urging them. Think il over, deprive yourself of some little pleas? ure, send your name and your dollar to Tlrs. C. L. Stubbs, Chairman Membership Committee, or if you prefer we will handle it for you. 0 L. YATES, NEILL O'DONINELL, Cashier. President.