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N?ws Notes of Mayesville S?le-of Large Lot of Cotton ' Reported?Local News Briefs ! ; >XarcPvrne, Jan. 12.?Mr. J. F., &and~i* selling some of his cotton. ; He states that five hundred bales; are- being moved at a price a little j above seventeen cen-.s. We. would', like to see five thousand iJales get oh-"the move, for business might j pick ' up, and business here is cer- ; fainjy. oniet. ; v&iss Ruth Taylor, formerly of \ fhe Atlantic Coast Line, as freight clerk, was cut off here by the com- ! pany*iit reducing the force January j Jrtt. Kb* she is still with the com pany a* clerk in the A. C. L. yard, oifeeaf Sumfer. ? . Mr. A. F. Ragan. clerk-operator\ stt^Si&Zk. C. jL. railway office, has j .bid. W$ on the Pinewood agency \ and~/^3:uects to move very soon to j h^'jgew position. He states this ,wilF??it him'-much better as it is | Ms)jfeie town. \ .Tjg& Masonic Lodge here elected new -officers for -the coming year , a^te?&-good series of meetings and ! ?ddlfig a good many new members j icr^?? year 1921. The past of-j uSerE'E. A. Alexander, W. M.; J. i jkv?yes, Sr., S. W.; J. C. Parnell. ! i.yVt^lR. 1j. Grier, Secretary: Joe ! &aft ii> treasurer: Lucian Keels. 1 T|fc*.* New officers: Joe Kahn. W. I Mit X' C Parneir, S. W.; Lucian j E. A\ Alexander. Sec- ! rH&ry: J. R. May es. Jr.. Treasurer: i j; Mw&ooper. Jr., S. D.: D.'A. Ber- ; Jr;P^. G. A. Simpson, Tiler. Wei ^p^?f-have a successful year and ! w liflptv that the new officers will; Z.& their best in making it so. ; '-'Mjvv Hunt from Columbia, the ; ?tate^'eompany representative, was ; itv tew today looking after bust-; i-css^for the paper. Glad to have \ hlin,^th us. j . The Farmers' Supply Co.. of. the j city ihasr moved from the store re- '? ceut^^ccupied by them to the SteTJfcfcen store, under the Kineen * We had quite an excitement here : f.irst of the week. It. seemed that ; lour men irom the- Sumter carni- , \ at hired ? taxi and drove over to! Lynch burg, S. C. . On returning. r hey stopped at the st?re of * The ; pi P. Tv Co.. just out of town, and; t^urchased smokes. After ihey had j fcrft. the clefk noviced, a* five dollar j i?iil they had given him for" a ten j and "he - and the proprietors raced ! \rt their car to town and with the j police department-halted them on! tl^ej'..corner of Lafayette street,! '4?^gih,g them to the city jail. I They plead not guilty and after j ?ontte time they were turned, loose i ?4>on: a', payment of $25.00 to The! B: P. T. Co. The impression got ^nt-?hat.they had captured a band ? of - robbers. V." " j-^h?t incessant cracking sound; you- hear is the breaking of Xew I *T??e resolutions, j ? ? ? ?? 1 ; .The' :bobk that has the greatest iii?uehce on the average man's life! yS the; cook book. -- . * Sorte men work always under fitgli-..pressure, and some think they? a^^rtheir jobs cinched. -~ ? , ? ? + '--IjetX-see: what was'it we used; headlines for before we thought up; ^S^fr?rd "crisis?" , :?. .. ? ?? ? t '^^^Peration restores sanity." says; '^.V-fe&dline. Huh. We've seen an! ^ci^dKtai do that. \ "- ? ? ?i ."? Another reason why it is bad fprm/to talk about the weather isj Treatise cussirrg isn't polite. ?* V " ' . ? ? C A-historian says the chorus is ' f?str thousand years old. This is a r^btrfd ron with the original cast. # m # : %ii ? small town, a social leader ;?..any woman who can say "coif- ; fHrar' ? without looking self-con- 1 *eious. i - ?.Whatever else the 100-per-cent ' Aiaerican may be, he is a chap who ' jfoesn'f know now to make a bomb, j ?.\nother difference between death an?-caies is that death doesn't ap- j pca> to-have a suite at rich men. j - ? ? . rS5ubbmg a high price will make ! it-feet cheap. ?is. ? .A man with a frown had better; taTie another look. Th<? Xew Year is producing its: ?pu?'l number of propheteers.? EYtutsville (ind.) Courier. In America Ernst Lubitsch. the greatest tttovfe director in Europe, recently arrived in America to study film conditions. Kc says Germany now believes that Chaplin is the greatest comedian hi the world. Wireless Market Reports Used; Department of' Agriculture Providing Valuable Service to Public ^^^^ i The wireless is now being used j by state and federal agencies to i broadcast national and local -agri- j cultural market reports throughout j virtually the entire country. Re- j ports on the national markets are \ dispatched daily by the United , States department of agriculture j from wireless stations of the post office department at Cincinnati. ' Omaha. Washington. North Platte, j Xebr., Rock Springs. Wyo., Elko, j Nov.. and Reno. New These re- ] ports are received by hundreds of amateur wireless operators. Xat- ; ional market reports are also re ! ceived by state" bureaus of markets j i and agricultural colleges, supple- i ! mented with local market reports, ! and relayed by wireless telegraphy and telephoned to farmers, ship- j i .ping associations, newspapers, , I banks, and other agricultural in- j ferests. and a 'telephone company j in eastern Illinois which receives j j the reports telephones the news j j to its 5.000 subscribers. At Lincoln, Xebr., the University j ; of Xebraska anxl the Xebraska Wes- ; ; leyan tfnlversity are cooperating in j i broadcasting crop and market re- j ! ports furnished by the, state bureau ! I of markets. Both radio telephone j land telegraph are used. At Wis-i I cousin the state ' department- of j I markets broadcasts national and I local market reports from the Uni 'versify of Wisconsin wireless station j at Madison. At Minneapolis, crop ; and market reports are broadcast i i from the University of Minnesota | : radio station. The' Minnesota Col- i lege of Agriculture has also as- j signed an extension representative to instruct the farmers in the use ; I of wireless receiving apparatus. | The College.of Agriculture of Cor-i r.ell University has assigned an ex- ! pert for similar work, and to assist rural radio clubs that are being or- ' ganized in Xew York. A high-powered transmitting! wireless telephone is being install cd in the office of the Missouri State! market bureau at Jefferson City, I Mo., and will be ready for disse- j minating market information about j January 10. Government reports j from the larger market centers of the country will be recieved by means of a "drop" from tue leased wire system of the United States department of Agriculture, and transmitted by radiophone to all sections kof Missouri. Demonstra tions mtend^d to interest farmers, dealers, * and shippers in install ing the necessary wireless receiv- i ing apparatus will be held in vari- j ous rural communities of the state. ? and it is anticipated that telephone ] offices, newspapers, chambers of commerce, county agents, banks, high'schools. and cooperative mar keting 'associations will be among; the first to install recieving sets. ! A most complete program in the 1 dissemination of market reports by! wireless is being planned by the j State bureau of markets in Ohio, j a 'specially constructed radiophone ! transmitter of the most improved j type k? being installed in the radio i station of the University of Ohio for that purpose. The Texas mar kets and warehouse departments j are also planning a market news service by radiophone for farm ers, dealers, and shippers in Texas, arrangements being made to use the radio equipment of the Univer- ' sity of Texas at Austin. The firn national market re- j port to be broadcast by wireless: anywhere in the world was sent out by the United States Depart- j menr of Agriculture from the radio ; station of the P nited States Bureau j of Standards only a little over a year ago. The department soon | demonstrated the practicability of I utilizing the radio for disseminat- j ing market information, and rapid progress in expanding the work i has been made possible through the cooperation of State and Fed eral agencies. To make the Ariieri- j can farmer the best informed farmer in the world is the aim of) these agencies, and equal progress! during the coming year will go ! far toward securing that result, 1 say officials of the Federal depart - ' ment. Satisfied With Partisan Whitewash! Detroit. Jan. 13.?Tve political; leaders who were associated with j Senator Xewherry in the 1919 elec- j tioii joined in declaring that the! vole of the senate giving Xew berry his seat was a vindication of the charges of corruption brought] against him. ? ? ? The Smallest Town. "How big is Terrapin Ford'/'* "Small, very small." ."A one-horse town, is it?" "Wors? than that." '-*] low come ?" "A one-auto town." - <???>?? The Swiss have an arm;/ "2G?.000 stron.;,' and cheese stronger th.au that. -? ?? -? "l>ont Have Gray Hairs." says a dyeing request. One time you certainly pay .-is you jc?> is when you ride on a train. Thin people are said to be ;h> hardest workers, but fat <>n< < say that's why !'-.<?>? are thin. It'-s nice to think a girl is as white is she is powdered. --c?<?> U. S. Flyers set world's record for endurance. ?Headline. ('bu ll ing: the laurel wreath from the brew of the golfer's wife, as 'twere. Buffalo Express. f m w *> Learn one thing every dav: Or dinary scissors may useti i<> re move* grease spots from Irish lin en. j Red Cross Holds Annual Meeting _ i Officers of Previous Year Re elected. Reports Read and Filed The annual meeting .of the Red Cross was held Thursday night, January 12th at the Girls' High j school audirorim. The following1 officers were re-elected: L. I>. Jen- ! m'.p.gs. Chairman: Mrs. A. C. Plielps, j vice chairman: "Miss Annie Purdy. j Secretary and Mr. EL L. Edmunds, j Treasurer. The following reports were sub- j ojiiUod. received as information and j ordered published: Report of Home Service Section fori October. November, December, j 11)21. The work of the Home Service j Section was resumed on October j 1st. after having been discontiued j for two months. During October, j November and December 10S cases were handled by the home service section, 54 of these n involving as sistance to ex-service men in filing claims with the government: 32 being civilian families, and 21 cases involving only information service. Four hundred eighty-seven visits ! have been paid throughout the town and county in connection with ; the work, an average of 102 visits a month, and 2 71' interviews, an av erage of !>3 a month have been held in the Red Cross office. Thirty-six disabled veterans have been assisted with claims for com pensation"; 3 with applications for vocational training: s with claims for unpaid allotment, and hospital treatment has been secured for eight men at the expense of the government. S5f*.3S was spent during the 3 months for relief to ex-service men. One man repaid a loan of $13.00 as soon as his first compensation check was received. $113.24 has been spent from Red Cross funds to aid civilian families, in addition, to donations from individuals and organizations. The Needlework Guild gave a great quantity of new clothing of all kinds, which has been a tremen dous help, and various individuals have given second-hand clothing in good condition, and warm bed covering, all of 'which was greatly needed. The contribution of Mr. Korn, president of the Sumter Hardwood Co., deserves special mention. Pie has donated a hun dred loads of wood, to be distribut ed to families recommended by the Red Cross, and is paying for having this wood delivered. The missionary societies and "Bible classes of the various churches have co-operated splen didly, not only by assisting with financial relief to families in which they were interested, but by keep ing in closer touch with these families than the Red Cross Secre tary is able to do. Through -the generosity of some of the citizens of Sumter, a Ford car has been purchased, and has greatly facilitated the problem ol transportation throughout the county. The car expenses, gasoline, oil. license, etc., for the three months, have amounted ot $16.o'J, and of fice expenses, supplies, etc.. to $27.41. The total spent for direct relief to needy families was $172.62. Treasurer's Report. Receipts. Koine, service section _$17 8.03 l!>2t> membership fees, 1-2 Of $1,043.00 .321.30 Donation, per L. D . Jen nings .218.73 j Sale of coffee urn 7.30 | _! Total _ .. ... .SU23.3S j Balance Jan. 1, 1021 __$1,392.0S j *-i Total.$2.31 7.0 G3j ? Disbursements. Home Service Section __$2,034.77 .Miss Mamie Chandler, Secretary.__167.50 Stenographers. Clean-Up j Squad. 3".'!'' j Supplies. 7.15 1 J. 1. Purdy, milk '_ 17.2s i Groceries for M. Glvver_. 7.<>5 | Medicine for M. Clover _. .60 Medicine for Joe Wells 1.50 Total.$2,2"'5.S5 j Jan.. ] balance._ . .$51.si Credit of Mrs. Heath, Chair man membership com mittee _._827.05 Collected by L. D. Jennings for automobile feu- Home* service secretary _ 750.00 i Paid for automobile 750.00 1-2 of membership roll call 1921. 413.50 Balance. 51.Slj $46 5. 3! j It wa> brought to the attention of the meeting thai the Junior Red Cross is doing splendid work*. Miss Wheeler. Home Service Secretary, presented before the meeting some! of thed eplorable conditions sur-j rounding several of the cases which ; she is handling, it was the sense of the meeting that these condi tions be brought before the public*' and methods for doing so were de cided upon. j ???<?>?t?* Tim second big meeting at Pine wood, t" carry ni;i the ideas of the! meeting lie Id there couple of weeks ago to organize a truck grow- ' inu association, marketing corpora- 1 tion. and sweet potato storage and curing house will be held nexi week, the date to be set when tin- hor ticulturist '?:' (Temson College wires what day he can be there t<? or ganize the farmers, bankers, and merchants. Messrs. I >. P. Lide, j <?. I?. Harvin. and X. L. Broughton <>.' Piwwood were in Sumter Kri day conferring wi:h Chamber of Commerce officials aboui this meet ing. Two meetings have l><---n held recently about planting sweet peas, and these gentlemn say thousands | of pounds ni se? d peas have been j ordered. -^-^c?o?? These millionaire movie directors ] can thank 4heir lucky stars. Sumter Cotinty Budget Recommendation of the Coun ty Board of Commissioners to the Legislative Delega tion For Budget For Cur rent Year 1922 Roads and bridges _$25.00400 Chaingang ~ -'- - - - -35.00o.u0. Road & chaingang equip ment -- -. 5,000.00 Salaries: ? - Clerk Of court .. -- -- 400.00 Sheriff .2,200.00 Treasurer.- 750.00 Clerk to treasurer -50 0.00 .Auditor -- - - - - . 75ft.00 Clerk to Auditor- 500.00 Supt. of Education l,??o.?0 County Attorney_ V0 u') Coroner. 500.00 Janitor.- 4S0.0U Rural policemen .. (J.O00.-O? Commissioners __ - 900.00 Clerk to board._ 1.S00.00 Magistrates..- 3.10 3.90 Constable, 3rd Dist._ 4S0.00 Jailor._ 900.00 Tax assessors _ 600.00 Engineer .. ._ .. _. 3,000.00 City-nurse .- ISO.00 Board of Education. 120.00 Fiscal agent . ?00.00 Clerk to Judge Probate .. 300.00 Alms House and pryuper.. 6,000.00 Public buildings _2,100.0'J Jail. _ 1,200.00: Books and stationery _. 1,500.00 Camp Alice ? _ 3,600.00 Coroner and itfnacy L. .. 1,200.00 Disinfectants . 200.00 Gas. expense Rural Police 1.2?O.00 Gas. expense Supt. Ed... 300.00 Interest on money -borrow ed '.. 3,500.00 Interest on bonds. 1,400.00 . (Plus provision for road highway bonds and bonds assumed from Clarendon county). Official bonds . 450.00 Orphanage .. ... SOO.OO Telegraph and telephone 350.00 TranspVn. sheriff. 500.00 Vital statistics._ (iOO.OO Vaccinations. 250.00 Traveling expenses Auditor 25.00 Rent, Master . 100.00 Court expense . _10,060.00 Confederate pensions_2.O00.00 Court House, f?r. & fix].. 400.00 Alms House repairs (spe cial) .... 1,000.00 Police equipment. 26.50 Election expense _ 250.00 Total .. .. ..$129,375.40 Memoranda of bonds: Permanent road bonds_500,000.00 Interest on pennant road bonds at 5 1-2 pc.27,500.00 Clarendon county bonds assumed 49,114.56 ' The rate of interest on the Clarendon cotm,t,y bonds assumed is not of record and therefore not ' ob tainable. Grand total exclusive of interest on Clarendon county bonds assum ed ...$156,875.40 - ? c ? ' Public Installation. The regular monthly meeting of Hollywood Camp Xo. 19'W. O. W. will be a public one and will be held Wednesday, next, at $ p. m. sharp. The officers arc to be installed and we are to be entertained with music, short talks and light re freshments are to oe served. The Hon. Max G.. Bryant, head consul of Ihe society in'this state, will be with us and give,us a talk. The wives and daughters of all members of the tV. O. W. are es pecially invited to be with us. Let us all turn out for a good time. R.'S. Hood. Clerk." - ? ? ?? Game Cock Strutters First Dance The first dance which was g"iven by the members; of the Game Cock Strutters club last Friday night was a big success. This club was gotten up by the boys of the senior year of the high school. Jt includes "twenty five members of good standing. The club is trying to give one big dance a month. The music being furnished by a Boston premier pianist. These dances aro well chaperoned by the mothers ot some of the members. Naval Limitation Treaty Not in Shape Washington. Jan. 1-3.?Although the arms delegates had given up hope of putting the naval treaty in final shape for announcement at tin- plenary session this week, it appeared probable, when the big five resumed their discussion, that the completed treaty would be ready for tin- full naval committe tomorrow or Monday. Nations Invited To Genoa Conference Cannes. Jan 13.?Invitations to tin- Genoa economic conference have been forwarded to the va rious nations. The I'nited States ami more of the important na tion-- have been asked to send a minimum of three delegates and a maximum of five. March 8th is the date tentatively fixed for the meet iti^. ? <? ? House Ihidorse* Marketing Plan. Columbia. Jan. 13.?Cooperative marketing of cotton was sfrong lv endorsed in a resolution passed by the house of representatives to day and <-wry farmer in the state urgred to sign the contract. The extension forces of cieni**on College were requested to continue r<> lend their full cooperation and assistance In the movement as were the bankers, merchants and business men of the State. It had ion been acted <>u in the senate to night. Farmers Need Help Now Secretary Reardon Writes To Senator Dial Concerning Conditions i Secretary Reardon has again ! taken up with Senator 'S. B. Dial the question of the possibility of I and the great necessity for tin War Finance Corporation doing : something to help thousands of poor white and negro share-crop pers and heretofore tenants to get ? some assistance in farming. Mr. 1 Reardon has very plainly told (Senator Dial that unless some thing is immediately done t<i as 1 sist thousands of this class of I farmers to get money, fertilizers, j and other facilities to farm with, [that hundreds of thousands of .-?eres of fertile lands will be idle jand that thousands of farm lahor ers will either have to leave this [section or go hungry. At a meet | ing of the Young Men's Business I League of Sumter yesterday. Mr. \ L. D. Jennings, president of the I Peoples Bank, of Sumter. suggesf i ed that something ought to he done i immediately in the shaped of a j temporary organization of farm j ers and other business men to see [if the War Finance Corporation I will let these farmers have money. LbeCause there will he thousands 'who will not be able t<> do a thing | j unless somebody or some number, I of responsible men take the lead j I to see what ean be done to help i them out. Secretary Reardon has' ;sent copies of his correspondence | to the Young Men's i Business , j League and Senator Dial has been | urgently appealed to to see what can be dente along the line suggest ed by Messrs. Jennings and Rear-j don. The Sumter secretary thinks j that if every member of the Sum-: ! ter County Committee of Progress; Sumter County Chamber of Com merce. Young Men's Business League, and many other business! men ; id farmers will write to 'Senators Smith and Dial. <Con | gressman Fuller and other South Carolina representatives endorsing the appeals for War Finance Cor poration assistance, as far as pos- , siblc. that these letters wilf, 'strengthen the appeals of .the] South Carolina representatives. I and also cause our representatives to' get busy trying to do something. ; In Writing these letters the actual distress as known by the writers should be legitimately and candid- j ly expressed, because every letter written will be just that much more ammunition and informa tion, and indorsement for our rep resentatives in Congress to work on. There is no time to * e lost as it is nearly time for the thousand*? of helpless farmers to get busy ; planting 1-922 crops or get busy moving to some other sections, j Farm laborers movinpr away in considerable numbers will prove as niuch of a menace as the boll I weevil. Jt, will only require a few j minutes to dictate a letter to these ; {representatives and will only cost; two cents to mail the letter. A Noted Russian Prison. &h?lmogori. Near Archangel, I Russia, Dec'. 8.?Famine and priva- I tibn are killing off the 6.000 j or; T.0O0 men and women political ' prisoners here, mostly sent from I Baku. Tii.'lis and other points of the Caucasus republics. Unless j released under the clauses of the conditional amnesty. published November 7 it is believed all will perish of hunger during the winter. Many of the J.5-00 who came here last March have been robbed of their clothes and valuables, and their hunger is such that they are how in the swelling stage of famine that precedes death. They are confined in a monas- i jtcij", with red pickets posted sev eral miles distant so no one can approach the place, of a group of l'ii sent here from-Baku, many of whom were companions of the '.'.'hglish prisoners there, all bur en* have been executed. This Tittle town, the sire Of the first English trading settlement in ? Russia has been long noted as r, I I * ison. Anna Leopoldovna. wh<> . v*as regent of Russia in 1746-47. j-ictinR: for her infant ?on. Ivan VI. ?died a prisoner here in 1746. -~~?- . Being Driven. i "I saw you out driving yester I day. '' j "So, my wife was driving." "But she was in the baCk'scat." ! "Just the same, my wife was (driving." ^ ? ? r ; When every dog has his day he wants to make a night of it. , Fine motto: Keep your mind on your work but not your,work on your mind. - .lot/less don\ want t<> l>c helped out: they want to be helped in. Ryder's Alley rind Jacob street j are two of the oldest Xew York streets that few Xew Yorkers can 'direct a stranger to. That St. Louis man named Will rain *rh'o married a Miss Doyle need not be surprised if she keeps him in hot water. People might gel enthusiastic about building houses if they could build 'em to pass neighbors on a hill. Charity also covers a multitude of skin games. .\b>\i.- beauty is only screen deep. ? ? ? Quickest way to reduce is weigh on the coal dealer's scales. They don't have Sleeping cars on t he road t o success. ? ? ? The < orreet use of "lie" a i d "lay" a!s>> worries a farm* r every time a hen cackles. - ?#? ? ? Some tiii-ti are wise, some other wise. Soft Lines Enhance Oval Face Soft lines arc the thing for the girl with the slimly oval face. Per haps it was the consciousness of this which influenced Miss Ailsa Mellon, daughter of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew "vT. Mellon to select this hat with softly rolling lines rind a suit with a similarly soft neck line. A Solution of the Bath Problem Recip0 for the Saturday Night Bath: Take or.p.tub. fill it with water, flavor with soan. Place in <that one child. If child cries, add one pup. Never rrind y&p or ?up> child will stop crying: Jennie Mahoney, of New. York, wants to bathe twice a day since l?r mother followed this recipe. A.nd who thought there were still tin bath tubs in New York? The Jamit. On the Boad. "My husband is laid up for re- Frank?My engine is missing, pairs.*' Wift?Oh. Frank, and the garag* "Exceeding the speed limit?" isn't locked! "No. exceeding the feed limit." Frank?What's that got to dc ? o ??- with it? There is $1.05 worth of silver in Wif<?The engine will bo.stoler. a dollar. And s.Sf worth of steak. : before we get b&ck. She' "Rotates the Seasons" Pe?*gv II >yt. N w Eork milliner, sell* spring rats 12 months a year. When the spring season is ended in America her stores get busy in other countries where it is spring. So with other seasons. She will leave soon for China where o: e of her stores is located. Chinese women are de manding up-to-the-minute American hat styles, she says. ^ Ravenna _ I Shrine of Dante and Reliqu ary of Rome I Washington. Jan. '12.?"Many a mean place marKs the shrine of ? '?great man: but in Ravenna' crowds aj'c honoring Dante in a cky as nearly unique as the singular gen ius of that poet," says a bulletin from tire Washington. D. C. head i] lartcrs <u the National Geo graphic Society. ? Us geographical position once rendered it an 'impregnable City .of the Sea' and preserved it as a ? "Pompeii of the Byzantine" Era.' Its Jl resent interest is associated with the 'Jettth anniversary of the death [of Dante who is buried there; but ? its permanent significance lies in the fact'that it was 'the death bed* oi tin- (Roman) Empire and its J tomb.'k * ? Ravenna is the Hamlet of Ita! ; ian cities. To its isolation and? ?solitude it owed the presence of I the emperors of declining Rome, and the same quality has preserved the mystic spirit of the four cen [turies. the fifth to eighth, which it clone typifies. t How Goograplry Made Ravenna ' Recall that ^he Apennines cut ( across* the upper pa:t of the Ital i ian boot from Genoa to Rimini." just ! north, of Ravenna. There the rantce j tarns south, short of the Adriatic. I Ravenn? therefore has a stretegic ; position in relation to CisaUyn? Can?, the Italian peninsula and the Adriatic. ?j "This position, in conjunction ? with its inaccessibility made' the [little town ol Gallia Cisafpina. Caesar's rendezvous to plot with Roman-adherents while he cam-" j paigned in Caul, into the mighty, Ravenna, when* Honorius first ! established an imperial residence. Odacer set up a kingdom, and The? iodo-rfc the Ostrogoth finally es . laMishod a Versailles of ,the mecft ei.i I world. "Ravertua was inaccessible be [cause .1 was laid out along canals hamohg marshes. The tide' was the | sanitary <igent. The principal com I plaints in this respect were against ! flies and frogs and an inad-e. ej ? water supply, one writer i\ .s. i *\Ve were ttiirsty in the midst of j the waver'. .Martial wrote: ! "That landlord at Ravenna is i plinly but a cheat. I paid for wine j and water, but he served wine to t mo nent.' The Brooklyn of Europe J "Architecturally Ravenna is the j Drooklyn of Europe. Its churches jan- unique because they" exhibit 'the threefold influence of Roman. I Byzantine and Christian art. A I dozen or.more'of these edifices are I counted of high artistic and his torical merit, and about them en j tire volumes have been written, j No place affords >such an oppcr I tunity as Ravenna to study the years Just before and after the break-tip of the Roman Emigre. "Ravenna long -had passed the i zenith of her influence and power ; when Dante spent the last^years of j hh: life there. He was the invited guest of Guido Novelle, lord of the I city, whose patronage of art and j letters kindled a. flicker among fKc j. embers of the city's great past. Byron's Description of Danfc's Tomb "It. is paradoxical- that in a city, noted chiefly for its architectural treasures the ashes of its most famoi's resident should repose in a shrine described by Byron as 'a. hi tie cupola more neat than solemn.' ?Byron, it will be recall ed, lived at Ravenna in 1S20-21 during the time he was enamored by the Countess Guiccioli. "The sea has receded from Ra fVenna. its lagoons flow are marshes. Two streams which a& not navigable and a canal connect* it witn the Adriatic. It is capital j of the modern province of Ra [vehna. in tin- compartment of 3 ? Emilia, and lies 45 miles east o> ! Bologna. It was among the first ?. cities to cast its vote for Italian umty in 1 5i?. Ten years earner [Garibaldi's wife. die4 in the 1 marshes outside the city while she accompanied her husband in his^ flight from Rome." o? ? Autos Before Trains. The first automobile was built and tested 50 years before the i first railroad track was laid. Cap | tain Nicholas J. Gu^not. in 17<5f>. is j credited with having constructed |thO'.fii*t motor-propelled road ve ; hide that actually ran. ' Steam was j the power. A doctor says jazz is a germ. Well, the air Ms eatchv. Tf Woman's place is in the home, lots of thorn .ire but of place. The needle Ts mightier than the pin. Greatest overhead expense is a roof. Would you call a clock that fails to go off ,-i false alarm. Chicago man who claims rela tives robbed him of his two hotels didn't km.w much about hotel k eeping. ? -? ? ? Most self-made men made them selves at home. hots of people are on the right" track. pU[ headed the wrong tray*. AH the king's horses ami ah the king's then "can't get Hunipty-, Dumpty back down again. Monks in the" middle ages owned not a single thing of their own. One manufacturing plant has in stalled a chewing gum stand for the benefit of its girl employees'. Some girls think they have got to ho fast to ;itcb. a husband. ' ? ? < un- dou n and olit club is the war lub. Lookout will help the outlook. '