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Booth To Jennings Comments on Mr. Jennings' Re cent Communication in Ref erence to Highway Bonds %k ' and Various Other j $ Matters Pardon me for requesting space of you again, but I would like to make some comment on Mr. Jennings' ar ticle of May 24. Circumstances over which 1 had no control caused this delay; however, 1 hope to be brief. ' Mr. Jennings enumerates my sub ject under four heads and 1 shall attempt to try and follow him in this order, if it is possible, but when you reflect it covers period of about two t; thousand years it may be that I will be somewhat rambling. Should 1 do so it is With the assurance that 1 w ill not trespass further on your space and time. . To the public I wish to apologize for such irrelevant and personal ref erences as may be required to make up a connected story. In future any discussion of personalities between Mr. Jennings and myself must be face to face. I do not think it fair to the public to deal in personal references of this kind that are neither enter taining nor enlightening. I feel, however, that I am somewhat excused on this matter as I have been drawn into this discussion in order that Mr. * Jennings can reach the balance of the members of the hard surface road commission in their policy of con servative handling of their duties as a commission, over my .shoulders, I be ? ing the only one of the eight that has a public record that he can at tack. At the outset I stated that the eon- j tract between the county of Sumter I and the bank was a bonafide propo- j sition betwee nresponsible parties in : an open competitive bid. The bank complied with their contract and the county is complying with theirs, that is all there is to it, and no amount of discussion can change these facts. He attempts to disprove what I had to say as to this rate being as high, or higher, than the discount rate that the reserve bank was charging dur ing: almost the whole period that the ? bank has had the jail fund of twen ty-five thousand dollars. If he would take the trouble to ask his cashier he would find that no reserve is required of a member bank other than 7 per cent of the amount of its demand de posits and 3 per cent of its time de posits. The fact of borrowing has ab solutely nothing to do with this re serve, whether a bank borrows one dollar or ten times its capital is this reserve decreased or increased. He treats thi3 matter of 4 per cent compound interesr in a very light vein. He knows very well that 4 per cent compound quarterly as against 4 3-4 simple interest yields practically the same return.' Mr. Jennings seems to be very anx ious to know if there has been any recent estimates gotten on the cost of this jail. I was inclined at one time to bo mean and ont enlighten him, but upon reflection will pass this infor mation for his satisfaction. Mr. Rowland, who is chairman of this jail commission informed me some days ago that the architect by his di rection was figuring on the cost of this jail based on today's prices of mater ial, etc. Mr. Jennings says that brick, lime and cement is about half price to what it was a year ago. As usual he knows nothing about what is requir ed in the construction of a jail. More than 65 per cent of the cost of a jail is the steel compartments or cells, built of the toughest type of tool steel which is very expensive. The steel mills have reduced their prices very little, so it is clear he is talking about something he knows nothing about again. As there are only two members on this commission now there can be a deadlock when it comes to the question of building or not building, so 1 again suggest to him that he have himself appointed on this commission and thereby ref eree the job of building or not build ing. Since I am in the humor of pass ing information to him I will add that my taxes for the past several years have amounted annually to several times my holdings of bank stock in the National Pank of Sumter, so an other one of his inaccuracies is nailed, for certainly if 1 was acting from selfish motives my action would be different from what it has been and is. If Mr. Jennings will pardon a sug gestion?If he will leave off irrelevant and irreverant references to the Bible in newspaper discussion, and live closer to its teaching possibly all of us would be more benefited. Next, Mr. Jennings refers to my connection with the commission that built the sewer line some years ago. Mr. Jenr.ings knows as well as I Co that there was a sharp difference, of opinion between the members of the sewerage commission as to the em ployment of the engineer for this job. He knows further thta Perry Moses and myself disagreed with the r?-si of the commission in the selection of the engineer and by way of protest did not sig-n the contract employing him. I cannot understand why he should refer t<> a matter of ibis kind when he has been given repeatedly this information. I will add that this sewer was a most diftteutt enginering proposition, however, as the level in which the pipe had to be laid was in a water bearing strata of sand and seepage has occurred and would have ! occurred regardless of who had the I job in charge. He makes reference to a decision j of Mr. Rowland and myself in put ting a short piece of concrete it "eet on the west end of Liberty during ins illness and upon its discovery wh -n he got out of bed entered Iiis protest and had it noted on minutes of coun cil. This I assume is as he says it is _^1 have no recollection .>* this mat ter. He voted with council to have the half mile or more of concrete on Manning avenue put in a ad ;>is-> from Liberty, to Hampton in front of the Fire House, both of which js yielding to wear. The only difference in the three pieces of road-way was about 5e worth of asphalt to the square yard was spread on the Liberty street end purely as a matter of experiment to determine if it would protect the sur face for any considerable length of time. The specifications for these :three pieces of work, the price paid 'for same and the contractor that did the work was one and the same, so he has balled himself up again in trying to dig up non essentials. Mr. Jennings has reference to a conversation that 1 had with him with regard to his candidacy last summer for mayor. I wish to say to him that this process of frost bitten feet is all in his imagination as about everything else he says in his article is. I had perfectly good and valid reasons to quit council last summer when I re signed and have never entertained for a moment since the remotest idea of offering to serve the city either in the capacity of mayor or councilman, al though having been urged for both since my resignation. I have ail 1 can say grace over in financing my own private affairs and assisting in the affairs of the financial institution with which 1 happen to be connect ed and certainly I would not under take the strenuous job of financing the city of Sumter in its present debt-rid den financial condition. About a year ago Mr. Jennings stat ed that the tioating debt of the city was about one hundred thousand dol lars. 1 find from the records that it is now something over two hun dred and sixty thousand dollars and still growing. Mr. Jennings refers to my quitting council on account of a divsiion of opinion in the purchasing of a fire en gine. He knows very well that this was a mere incident and the last straw, as there was a sharp division of opinion in the council on the pur chase of the electric light plant. It was not my purpose to refer to this angle of the city's affairs, and 1 regret to have to do so now, but inasmuch as my policy of waiting for more normal conditions in the expendi ture of public funds and an analysis of the way this matter was handled would not be out of place. Mr. Roosevelt who conducted the negotiation for the sale of this plant for the lighting company offered council three options, one being to put the plant in thorough condition, enter into an agreement to sell to the city within two or three years if they still desired to purchase, or if the raze was deemed too high they would be willing to revise this rate to a fair basis, or if the management was ob jectionable to replace it with new management, all of which was re jected by Mr. Jennings, as he stated that he had a council pledged to purchase the plant and it was his pur pose to buy. The upshot of the whole I nTatter is instead of having a ; lant equipped for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, being the proceeds of sale of bonds for this purpose, the cost is up around twice this amount: jth*. interest alone on this investment amounts to some three thousand or more dollars per month or $100 a day. Take the power house for instance: estimated to cost considerably less than one hundred thousand dollars, now up to one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, "and everything else bought at the peak of high prices. I Had a conservative policy been adopt ed these half price brick, lime and ce ment that Mr. Jennings speaks of would have been available for this job. Doubtless machinery could be bought for much less today, so this matter of building, regardless of mar-, ket conditions, is evidently an expen sive passiime for the taxpayers. It is his idea to adopt this identical pol icy for hard surfaced roads and the result would be the same. Referring to the one hundred and twenty-five miles of road promised, he makes reference to it in his former article. I have heard h im myself refer to on e hundred and twen j vy-hvc miles as the approxi mate mileage and it has been contemplated by all parties that one hundred and twenty-live miles was what would have to be built. These statements about cost of material and road construction b< ing down about half is pure fiction. Just two or three days ago the city of Columbia let a contract for eleven thousand dollars worth of four inch sidewalk, with quite a number of contractors bidding, and the price was $1JI0 per yard, just twice what the city of Sumter paid, in conversation two or three nights ago with tlm contractor on the con crete road from Florence to Timmons I ville, he stated their priee was more than $3.00 per yard, exclusive of excavation, so this is additional evi dence if he needs it in his imagina tion of this great reduction he speaks about. Mr. Jennings most beautifully side steps my reference to the favoritism shown the Peoples' Rank, as I ' new he would do. He blunders around and has something to say about. I drawing ( hecks on the otiic banks causing this large difference to go to the Peoples' Rank as a matter of fact there were only ninety-one thou sand dollars deposited in ali of the banks, exclusive of the Peoples' Bank for the period stated by me, i. e.: from September to May. He digs up this b<?nd proposition with the banks again. The banks complied with their part of the contract: they insisted on the exemption promised by the city in the matter of taxes which Mr. Jen nings objected (o and by a divided vote of council the city stood by 'ts contract; just a case of complying with an agreement between respon sible parties. Mr. Jennings refers to an occasion that I offered to buy corn from him for the city's us.- and he declined to sell for the reason that he was con nected with the city government* 1 wondered at tin- time if it was not like most of my agricultural friends, as it was in the dead of summer his corn pile was so low that he was pos sibly in tie- market for corn himself. With regard to the stable manure thai we .asked for sealed hids on. I have an idea that the intimation that 1 gave him oft what I expected this manure to bring per ton had some thing to do with his conclusion not to bid on it. I subsequently sold this j manure to my friend Mike Goldberg j (he having gone into the agricultur al gaiue) at a price that he has' not recovered from yet, Mr. .Jennings hav ing been in the game a little longer" J was a little wiser and a little more ! foxy. Now Mr. Jennings refers to cer tain deals that 1 had with the Booth iBoyle hive Stock Co.. when I was ion city council. He takes particular (pains t<> indicate the percentage of [ownership of stock that each of us 1 owned at that time. I thank him. J however, for his generous suggestion [that doubtless the city bought at a good price everything that they bught from them. 1 cannot under stand why it did not come to his at tention at some earlier date, as all bills at that time were O. K'd by the entire city council, he had full knowl i edge of what was going on. Whether j this law he referred to was a recent lact of the legislature or had been ac cidentally dug up by him I do not. know. As the city's legal advisor he stated it was law and the prac ] tice was discontinued by unanimous {consent as he says. However, about a year as:o when the city was in need J of a large mule for one of the san litary wagons, the Booth-Boyle lave Stock Co. had a mule that suited the job, the only one in town at that time. Mr. Jennings found a way to secure this mule for the city. I can not quite understand v. hy this con sciencious objector should have changed his views in the not very re mote past, as he is such a stickler for form, however got his own consent ;o purchase from one of his corporations in which I understand he owned about 1S-30 of the stock. In this j transaction the city, I am informed, t lost about $150 on a ear purchased j by the city manager when it was re turned to. the Eastern Carolina Motor jCo., in order that the city could use the car purchased by Mr. Jennings; ithey very rightly taking the position I that when an accredited employee of [the city bought this car and pa5'a for I it they considered the transaction closed. However they agreed to handle the car for the account of the city, tbe city corning out loser on this transaction around $150. Another trade took place with a corporation. I am informed, in which he owned about two-thirds of the stock. I do not know why this trade did not stand. I only refer to these transac tions to show the inconsistency and unfairness of Mr. Jennings In certain matters. 1 offer no criticism of these transactions and have always felt ? that the spirit and not the letter of J law was all that should be required, 'especially when the city was the bene ficiary. Mr. Jennings makes reference some where between page one and page seven of "sore heads" in Sumter and 1 certain acts of theirs. I do not know what he refers to or whom he refers to as "sore heads" or why it should be brought Into this discussion. I as sume however, that this has a politi cal significance. As I do not knowthese men of straw. I hold no brief for j them. I did not hear the criticism i as o the cost of the power house, hut I am frank to say it is legitimate sub ject for criticism; in fact the whole electric light proposition could be criticised very justly from the st^nd I point of cost. Reverting back to this floating in debtedness, now approximately two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. It has been a known fact for years that the water supply of the city is very deficient; in fact it is an open secret that there has got to be an expendi ture of possibly a hundred thousand ! dollars, or more, before an adequate j supply of water will ever be obtained, j We also have about two and half to i three miles of streets, embraced in N. Main, East Calhoun, East Liberty and Green Swamp road to connect up with ih? hard surface country road pave ment when these are commenced, which will be at city limits; tins will be an additional hundred thousand dollars or more that would have to be spent, go it looks like this Moating indebtedness of a year ago that Mr. Jennings predicted would be wiped j out within a short time will be in creased to approximately a half mil lion dollars, that is if he can find some law. or excuse for a law, that will permit an indebtedness of this amount over and beyond the taxable income of the city. To my mind he has balled the city's financial matters I up pretty thoroughly and if he is al lowed to have his way in the mat ter of road building he will have the /county in about the same tlx. How ever, unless I misjudge the temper of the hard surfaced road commis sion, no amount of coercion on his part will avail. I havePwondered as a matter of fairness, why he did not send the commission each a copy of his resolution, ?hat he offered at the recent mass meeting, directing that I the majority take his view and sell the t bonds and go to work; it does seem to me that this would have been the ethical course for him to pursue. The trouble with Mr. Jennings is, he i is a hard loser?nothing cheerful about him and when fairly voted down in any proposition, tactics of the above nature are no new thing with him. I venture to predict "tat the wis dom of the hard surfaced road com mission's action in this matter will be fully sustained, possibly within the next twelve months. Reverting back to the policy of Mr. Rowland and myself in this jail mat ter. Mr. Jennings saye he would have ! built this jail at a cost of sixty thou Isand dollars, if need be. The taxpay j ers have paid in twenty-five thou sand dollars during the years begin ning in 1917 of 5(>c dollars, cotton i then being worth 35c to 40c these 50e dollars have increased in value to 100c each, plus five thousand dollars that tbe bank will pay interest. The jail will likely be built for from thirty hive to forty thousand dollars with no outstanding bonds or notes to he paid except possibly five or Jen thousand dollars, whereas had Mr. Jennings' plan been adopted at least sixiy thou sand dollars of taxes would have been levied for the construction of this building. It can readily be seen that our action will save from twenty to I twentv-five thousand dollars. . ... I -i J. P. BOOTH. Cows Held in Quarantine 'Germans Suspicious of Cattle Donated by Charitable Ameri cans ! ' - I ; Berlin. June 3.?Cows donated to ? Germany by American farmers are being held in quarantine at Bremen. Experts say that bloood tests have disclosed bacteriological bodies ca pable of transmitting Texas lever but that the animals "are otherwise in tfood health." The Bureau of Animal Industry in I [Washington has held that the mos- J [quito which transmits Texas fever in fection does not exist in Germany, but the experts here have decided there is a possibility that mosquitos were brought over with the cows and have recommended that the entire shipment be kept in communal stables in the large cities. The German Red Cross, which is directing the distribution of the gift ! cows, has consented to this arrange- ! ment and milk from the cows is be ing distributed among the poor e*jiJ dren of Bremen. The situation, however, has again revived discussion of the advisability of donating cows to Germany, where there is such a shortage oi feed that native livestock is suffering J College For Socialists i ??? j Plan To Establish Institution in Florida in Honor of Debs _ Oberlin. Ohio, June 1?A living memorial to Eugene V. Debs, in the form of a college '"'where lack of money will be no bar and where all may live in a Socialistic atmosphere," may becime a reality, according to Mrs. Kate Richards 'Hare, prison re form agitator, in an address here re cently. , The proposed institution of higher learning would be located in North ern Florida, and definite plans for it sestablishment there have been made, it was asserted by Mrs. O'Hare who said the plans were drawn up by herself and coworkers, with Debs in the Atlanta prison, where they vis ited him just before coming here. Students will have to earn their way through college by manuel la bor, giving over their afternoons. Air Service Program. Washington, May 24.?With Atlan tic and Pacific fleet air forces mob ilized i . bases on the two coaste, an intensive program of summer and fall maneuvers is being planned by Captain William ?. Moffatt. director of naval aviation. Starting with the joint army and navy bombing tests off the Atlantic -coast from June 15 to July 15, designed to test the* offen sive value of aircraft against naval vessels, naval fliers will be put through several months of stiff exer cises. Early in July the naval Airship ZR-2 purchased in Great Britain, will fly to this country in charge of Am erican crew. A great aerial demon stration will mark her arrival. De tachments of seaplanes, flying boats and dirigibles will fly out to sea to meet the big airship and escort her to a point on the Atlantic coast jusr north of Boston. The ZR-2 will then skirt the coast southward passing over the principal cities to Philadelphia, then proceed to the giant navy hangar at Lake hurst, X. .1., and "anchored" to a "mooring mast," the first device of this kind to be erected in this coun try. Experts from Great Brifajl will superintendend erection of the mast which will be a steel structure, about 150 feet high with a swiveled bridle at the top to which the rmse of the dirigible will be moored permitting the ship to swing always nose to wind. The structure will cost about $50,000 and probably be fitted with an elevator to carry the crew ?>f the dirigible to and from the ground. After being thoroughly overhaul ed, the ZR-L' will undertake a cross country cruise to show the ship to the people. Present plans call for a trip to Chicago and return, at least by way of the southern border of the Great Lakes, and if cities west of Chicago provide mooring facilities the cruise may be extended indefi nitely. The Ship can make a round trip to Chicago without refueling. Basing on Lakehurst, the ZR-2 is to operate along the coast later and participate in an air Meet mobiliza tion and extensive maneuvers and tactical drills, during the fall. On the Pacific coast similar ma neuvers will he conducted in con nection with the Pacific flee'. It is possible a squadron of naval aircraft may attempt a trip "around the rim" of the country from a point in Wash ington state to Maine, during the year, the longest airplane cruise ever attempted. Plans for a flight from San Diego. Cal., to this city have been aban doned as Captain H. C. Mustan. commanding the Pacific fleet air force, who would have led the expe dition cannot l*e spared from sum mer exercises of the Pacific air forces. Marriage License Record j A marriage license has been issued I to M.r. James E. Hunter. Jr., of Co lumbia, and Miss Sara D. Edmunds i of Sumter. ; Conditions in the European mar j I ket.v are similar to those now in force in this country. The depres sion there is extending under condi tions of the severest competition, j Many British blast furnaces and steel ! works are idle. Wages are being re I duced for the first time in several j y. a i s. A Louisville young woman, admit tedly a fine singer, has just married, saying she "preferred matrimony to j a vocal career." There is, then, a dis?rlis|ion??Kansas City Star. | " m ; Loss on Kansas Crops Estimated That Farmers Are Out of Pocket ?75,000,000 on Wheat Held Over From Last Year j Topeka. Kuns., May 3J.?Shrinkage in values of lust year's crops still in the bin on Kansas farms represent a loss of approximately $75,000.0oo to Kansas farmers, comparing prices at present with those prior to when I the slump set in last fall. This fig- j ure is based <?n a recent report is - I sued by J. C. M?hler, secretary of the i state board of agriculture, showing the enormous amounts of grain still i unsold. On the 25,850,000 bushels of wheat, or 3 8 percent of the entire I last year's crop, the best price in the J last six months has deterioated on an | average of $1 a bushel; on the 63, 352,000 bushels of corn. 4 7.7 per cent j of last year's crop still on hand, the price has shrunk an average of more than fifty cents, and on the 23.929,-; 000 bushels of oats still in the farm er's bins, the price shrinkage has been 23 1-3 cents a bushel?"an aggre gate shrinkage on these holdings alone of $65,526,000, while the dec reased value on other retained grain crops would agregate more than $10, 000,000 according to secretary M?hler. This does not take into consideration the decrease in prices on grains mark eted during the past few months. One western Kansas county? Rooks?alone has nearly 1,000,000 bushels of wheat still on the farms while fourteen Kansas counties have in excess of 500,000 bushels each. To move to market the volume of stored grains would require 100,000 cars. There was a fifth more wheat and four times as much corn and oats on Kansas farms on April lt>, than on that date a year ago. A year ago it was freely admitted by railroad offi cials that it would be aphysica! im possibility to move the old crop and at the fame time take care of the avalanche of wheat which begins moving from the farms about July 1. Thi., year, however, railroad officials are now optomistic about coping with the situation, altthough the conges tion, admittedly is far wrorse than it was a year ago. They point to the fact, however, that there were no cars available a year ago while this year there are plenty. I udergronnd Oysters. If you do not know the vegetable oyster, and for a vegetable of so deli cate and delicious a flavor, resembling that of the oyster, it is remarkable how few people do use this easily grown plant in the fall and particu larly in the early spring when it is at its best after spending the winter in the ground, try a small row in your garden this year. It is an ideal plant for the small home garden because it takes very little room and it is one vegetable which, despite the efforts of horticul turists, has never greatly increased .in size, the roots with the exception of the mammoth Sandwich Island variety remaining small. The oyster plant is also known as salsify and there are three kinds of oyster plant all with strange names, the salsify, the scorz onera, and the seolymus. The latter, of which much was predicted when it was introduced from Spain, has not made any headway in American gar dens. : Scorzonera' is generally known as black salsify because the skin is dark while the salsify, proper, is white. Sal sify does not attain its best and most delicate flavor until it has been frozen but is perfectly hardy and ready to Jig as soon as you can get a spade nto the ground in the spring.1 It. needs jnly fairly good garden soil, can be planted as close as six inches, although ten is about right in rows and about four inches apart in the rows and will yield a fine dish. It is cooked in various ways, in stews like the oyster, creamed, breaded or dipped in batter and fried, mashed and baked in cakes, scalloped and a pecul iarly fine way is cooking it with salt cod fish. When the root is scraped it will turn black and have an unpleasant appearance but it is easy to remedy this condition. The pieces should be dropped into vinegar water as soon as scraped and if unusual care is wanted, washed in water in which a little vinegar has been placed. Avoid bruising the root in digging as the bruises will leave black spots. Try a row of salsify, this spring if you have never planted it. Three varieties usually are offered, the Sandwich Island, which produces the largest roots, the Jong white and ihe black salsify or scorzonera. The scorzonera is harder to .raise than the others and is not recommended for the general run of gardeners al ii though many connoiseurs believe it to be of superior flavor. The importation in Latvia of pat ent leather, chevrs, chamois and white tanned leathers and articles thereof, is prohibited. I'nexposed cinematographic films can now be imported into Italy with out first obtaining a ministerial li cense. I India with its 300,000,000 popula tion, has only about 140 enemas. Republic: A state in which 17..'! per cent, of the national energj is consumed in the effort to acquire government, jobs.?Baltimore Even ing Sun. Homeward the plowman plods his .-. ? ry way to read the box scores ere j he. bits the hay.-?Baltimore Evening _Mm Lima Beane says the fellow who ' knocks is in no danger of being mis taken for opportunity.?Toledo Blade, Wood row Wilson hay derive some measure of satisfaction from the fact that Senator La Fol let te is now going Mr. Harding a faint conception of how disagreeable an irreconcilable can be. ?Columbia Record. BROADER CREDIT FOR SOUTH Secretary Hoover Expresses Opinion As to Warehouse Receipts Washington. June I?Herbert Hoov er, secretary of commerce, takes tin- position today that credit facil ities of the government should be greatly extended in Southern states, iand that a warehouse receipt should I pass as actual delivery of cotton. I Mr. Hoover expressed himself in a letter addressed to John L. McLaurin I of South Carolina. Mr. McLaurin [brought to the attention of the presi jdent conditions in the South, and the president referred him to Mr. Hoover. I The secretary agreed to express his [conclusions in ? letter. Excerpts from the letter follow: "l. 1 consider it vital that credit facilities to producers and legitimate business be greatly extended in southern states. The curtailments through the reserve system have ? served their purpose in reducing speculation and over planting. They are now causing great hardships. This is more a question of volume of credit extended than of the rate of interest demanded, and requires the cooperation of both reserve and member banks. 1 believe most bankers are now agn ed that this pol i icy is necessary. "2. We need better organized ex pert credit machinery. The north j ern bankers will, I hope, succeed in 'joint efforts with their southern colleagues in creating larger insti tutions under the Edge law for han dling cotton. It appears to me that some measure of safe credit could be established by Americans placing cotton in European warehouses un der their own control for delivery to European buyers against cash. Perhaps cooperation among producers and bankers could accomplish some thing in this direction. ?*3. For better | marketing arid ifinaneing of the cotto-t. industry the warehousing system nould be im proved so as to permit the issuance of a cotton warehouse certificate of such form and character that'it not only can become the basis of mobile credit but also pass as an actual deliv ery of the cotton. This impUes not only guaranteed warehouse integrity but acorn plete determination of grade, quality and < uantify. This is already current in some states and needs to be extended;. "4. The prospecttvely much reduc ed acreage and yi$\&, will, I h?heve, contribute mater-ally to stabi-tee the situation over the next year." A New Roger Bacon Manuscriipt; More than six hundred years ago, harassed by his Fran; iscan superiors. Friar Roger Bacon wrote a manu script in cipher embodying many . of his most distinctive scientific conclu sions. In this way he hoped to 'out wit those enemies of learning who thought him a necromancer, a jug gler with the devil's own fire ,a bol shevik disturber of Church discipline, and all the rest of those disorders usually attributed to a man much la advance of his times. ' . He was a canny old medieval, this Roger Bacon with a sense of humor which must have endeared him to his students. Loving truth and having a fearless tongue, this Roger 3acon uttered fearless and fearful criticism of the religious orders, kings, nobles, scholars. In consequence he spent many years in prison under the ban of his ieligious order. In such times of enforced quiet, he set down on parchment a monumen tal, encyclopedic survey of his learn ing and wisdom. Professor William Romaine New bold, of the University of Pennsyl vania, has come upon the key to the secret cipher?out oi his knowledge of the Kabala (the book of Hebrew mystic philosophy). Now the truth of six hundred years f.go Is coming out! We find Bacon, from evidence, fur nished by the drawing,; in this new manuscript, competing frnth oar pres ent-day advanced medicil men; there are hints in some of 5 tie diagrams that our pharmaceutics! books may be put to blush by Bacon's knowledge of herbs and roots. We find Bacon writing on the pro longation of life and examining into gland structure, just as we today are experimenting with graftnig of new glands for old. We find Bacon outlining the methods of embry?l?gy? when only yesterday, it seems, . we ourselves were announcing it as a new field of investigation. We find Bacon evincing advanced methods of vivisection, bringing to bear on tis tue and fluid?not a mere magnify ing glass, known at the time, but a series of lenses long before the com pound microscope was invented, and showing, by the detail he discovered, that he was acquainted with methods of specimen-staining v ?ch are en tirely modern. g! it is calculated that w icn the work is done?after a period of many years?Bacon's manuscript will r?? quire ten volumes for adequate translation?" and annotation.?June Hearst's International. Colonel Harvey has crossed the At lantic :17 times. Just one trip short of enough.?Arkansas Caaette. The most famous waterfalls in Pa rana. Brazil, are those of Iguasau or Santa Maria. The oldfashioned man who use to j borow your lead pencil, now car?4 a a fountain pen which never has any ink in it.?Jeferson City. Mo.. Demo crat-Tribune. Statistics show that tire average in i'O" e of the class of 1911. Cl?cago University, is $ f?. 73 2. f ot bad for mere college graduates. 1^' it Thomas? ?Cleveland Plain dealer. The British Industries Fair, Lon don, for 1921 opened on February 21 its doors at the White City, Shep herd's Bush, to the buyers of the world.