XXV1L_'_YADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 3921 ~~ Nq.14 NEW SOLVENT IS GREAT FIND f «. ' k Removes » Paints, Varnishes, Enamels and Shellacs With out Injuring Wood. WAS DREAM OF ALCHEMISTS Dissolves Rubber, Glues, Hydrocar bons and Many Substances Here tofore Regarded as Most Re sistant to Chemical Agencies. Lincoln, Neb.—New properties of a liquid described before the students of the department of chemistry of the University of Nebraska show that it almost realizes the dream of the al lchemists of old who sought the uni versal solvent. As described by Dr. Victor Lenber, professor of chemistry at the univer sity of Wisconsin, who has come here fto deliver a series of addresses on the subject, further tests have shown that selenium oxychloride, as the solv ent is called, is more powerful even Thanr was indicated in his preliminary ^announcement made before the Amer ican Chemical society. I It dissolves rubber, glues, enamels, hydrocarbons and many other sub tetances which hitherto have been re garded as most resistant to all chem ical agencies except tire. ; Other Substances Dissolved. Such products as redmanol, bakelite 'and eondensite, which are used as substitutes for amber in the making |of pipe stems and for many other Industrial purposes, and have been until now regarded as insoluble in all known solvents, are readily dissolved by selenium oxychloride, according to [the announcement of Dr. Lenher. By its use ordinary paints, varnishes and fhellacs can be removed from furni- ( ure and carriages and other objects ; jwithout injuring the wood, and enam- I Jels can be taken from automobiles iwithout affecting the steel body. ‘ “Its solvent powers are so vigor ous,” said Dr. Lecher, “that it will xemove the bitumen from soft coal, but will not attack the pure carbon of anthracite.” Dr. Lenher also sees a military pow er in this powerful solvent, as it ean tbe employed in making more porous chareoals contained in the filter ma terial of war gas masks, a process known as activation, f “The coconut charcdfcl used in the |ggs mask,” continued Dr. Lenher, “can foe activated by this new reagent by treatment at ordinary temperatures, [which is a considerable advance over jthe older steam activation at a white foeat.” The use of activated charcoal in the extraction of gasoline from natural gas is oqe wliich is interesting chem ists today, and still leaves the gas available for household and industrial purposes. As a laboratory reagent, Dr. Lenher said that the properties of [selenium oxychloride are so unusual ithat it is likely to come into common •use wherever research is conducted. The solvent, 7 which was formerly regarded as merely a laboratory curi osity, is finding its nlaco in many in dustries. T :■;!? cori jcerning its exceptional powers have foeen amply verified, the speaker as serted, by him and a group of students (who have been attracted to the lab oratories of the University of Wis consin during the last year. Once a Waste Product. The raw material from which it is Obtained was once a waste product ifrom the electrolytic refining of copper, for until recently the selenfum from these electrolytic slimes, while known to the chemist as a rare element, had veen considered as almost valueless. The solvent itself is a heavy liquid, •nd nearly odorless. It can be readily lhandled In a commercial way. how ler, for were it the “universal solv senE* 5? alchemy it could not be trj(ns iported, as no vessel could withstand I Jh discovery of everyday use.^ for stance formed from disoe-rJed material is regarded by scientists as fa typical Illustration of value of research. '' * ___ HELPS BLUE ("'’ASS PASTIj'-E Drilling in Mixture of Red Ciov. sike and White Clover ■' oed ' creases Yield. In the case of rough, btuc *' *s ture land which has always ‘ a pasture and which should, new e plowed, it is possible to gei a i e more feed per acre by going on toe land in late March or early April wi h a clisk drill and grilling in a mixture of red clover, a 1 sike and white clover seed. It some ca> *s it helps a great deal to go on wit* a disk harrow and tear the pasture up thoroughly. — NEW LIFE-SAVING DEVICE A successful test of a new life saving device, the invention of M. Pans, a veteran of the great war, was made at the Eiffel tower in Paris re cently. The apparatus makes possible a complete stop while climbing a rope or using it in descent. The demonstra tion was performed by M. Pans for the Paris fire brigade, which is con sidering the adoption of the appara tus, 'which consists of a sort of har ness and seat, and a steel pulley which slides over the rope. It can be manip ulated by the person ascending or descending or by persons on the ground. The photograph shows the inventor, M. Pans, with his apparatus i after the experiment. BULLDOG AND COON CHUMS Pets Remove Potatoes From Box to Make Bunk—Live in Perfect Harmony. Wiggins, Miss.—T. J. Martin, mayor of Wiggins, whose affection for strange and unusual pets is well known, has in his possession a pet coon that was brought up with a bull pup. The two animals live in per fect harmony, the bulldog playing with the coon and the coon accepting h's cuffs with the greatest playful ness. Martin’s potato bin was directly un der the cage of the coon. The coon ty:d been in captivity about three months and was often seen during the day playing on the walk with the may or’s bull pup. One night the coon escaped from the cage, it is believed with the aid of the dog. Several slats were pried off. and the little animal could not have done the work alone. The next morning every potato in the bin directly below the cage of the coon had been removed and placed In a box on the opposite side of the store. In the old potato bin the coon and the bull pup were sleeping. CIVILIAN USE OF UNIFORMS War Department Suggests Ways tc Avoid Violating the Law. , Washington.—World war veterans who are wearing parts of their service uniforms ptuI otv?—-.who have her ght 1. ... Uiii .ij.S U1...V e law is to remove the military but tons and insignia. To dye the uniform or change the cut will also give im munity. The War department does not con Rider that dyeing is the only way t<> make a coat or overcoat lose its dis tinctive character. Any radical altera tion would have J^ie. same effect as for example, a distinct change tb cut of the collar, the addition of differ ent-colored cuffs or collar-er of a cloti belt. Any of these changes, provided that all insignia and buttons have been removed, will satisfy the War department. Watch Won’t Wake Dead; Owner Jailed •; Miami, Fla.—Failure of a 1; watch, buried at the si ’ of * ; Laura Miller’s husband’s ?nive, Q ! to awaken the dead spouse ; caused the arrest of Joe Thomas. & i; The woman gave Thom $15 ?•/, ; and a gold watch when the lat ! ter promised to resurrect her $ ; dead husband. ; The aas buried the watch at I the side of the grave, saying 'his » ; actio would arouse the dead # !; man |: Several days of “watchfuV Vg ;■ wait'og” failed to produce » !; suits Thomas was charged >*cv zj s emh d raent and., bound « ’ under a $t»00 bond. c tj > -V. . ~ , \ j STATE NEWS Oliver Meares, of Robeson county, attempted suicide by eating rat-snap. He still lives. Col. Ike Meekins, of Elizabeth City, has been appointed assist ant alien .propejt.y custodian. Rev. Mr. Privette, of Jen nings, was touched by pickpock ets while in Salisbury. They took $300 from him. Miss Neta Harris, a school teacher, committed suicide last week by hanging herself near her home at Greenville. The two-vear-old daughter of Mr. and M rs. A. T. Jackson, of Salisbury, wandered onto the railroad and was run over and killed by a train. Albert Green, aged 20, was killed near his home in Wilkes county recently by a falling tree. Wife and two children [ survive. Louis Graves, a North Caro linian who has won exceptional success in newspaper and maga zine work in New York City, comes to the University of North Carolina next fall as pro fessor of the college of Journal ism. Police officers dug up ten gal lons of good Craven county corn whiskey on the premises of Casev Watson, colored, at New Bern Monday. The “buried treasure” was smelled out by an officer and Casey now sleeps quitely in the county jail. Two North Carolinians will be con idered by Presi lent Harding to succeed the late Judge Pritchard as Federal judge. They are Judge W. P. Bynum, of Greensboro, and J. J. Britt, of Asheville. Both men are well qualified for the circuit judgeship. N Col James H. Young, one of the state’s best known negroes and a leader of the colored race in North Carolina, died at his home in Raleigh Monday. He commanded the Third North Car^ina Regiment (colored) iD the Spanish American war. At the time of his death he was an honored member of the Odd Fellows, Masons and Pytnians PLAN BRITISH ISLES CENSUS Count Will Cost Mors Than $2,000,000 Says the New Registrar Genen»l. London.—Details of the decen-dg ceissus of the British isles were an nounced here recently by S. P. Vivian, the new registrar general, showing that the enumeration of the people, which is to begin in April, will cost approximately from $2,000,000 to $2,500,000, ami require a staff of 400 workers in the London headquarters alone. There will he 38,000 enumeration dis tricts with a separate enumerator for every 200 or 300 households. “The war has cut clean across every branch of our national life,'' said Reg istrar General Vivian. “It has broken up and redistributed all local popula tions. It has violently upset all birth, marriage and death rates. “It has altered the whole occupa tional and industrial configuration of the country and completely changed many of the customs, habits and con-! ditions of the people. There is hardly a single question upon which we can look back to the results of the last census for guidance.” OLD SAFE HELD “TREASURE” % North Dakota Blacksmith Used Chisel When It Was Learned Booze Was in It. Fort Yates, N. D.—After years of exposure to the weather, a large safe, j\ locked and combination unknown, J yielded to the efforts of a blacksmith’s | chisel and hammer here, when it be i came known that a pint of whisky I was a part of the contents. The safe has been a roosting place i for story tellers in the past, as it j rested upon the porch of the office i of the chief clerk of the Indian agency. Recoiti., pertaining to the agency from J early days of the settlement were re covered. The Dancer In a round ■■ d dell like a woodland well, Shm in by a wall of trees, \ Where i e turf is laid like a caipet made To capture the roaming: bees, The opaline sun looks down upon The , vre .i with warmifig smile, And a spider fiings his silver strings Through the new leave's all the while. On the glistening:, green where the sun is seen, The brighter lor circling shade, A dancer turns like a flame that burns, In a fretted chalice laid. White as a pearl are the robes that whirl Round her rosy limbs and breast; So swift end fleet are her dainty ieet, They , ;arce break a daisy’s rest. One moment she stands with outstretched hands. A figure of frozen sprav, Then away she goes on her silken toes, To some unheard roundelay. The she! ring trees turn in the breeze, And flowerets tiptoe, glancing With faces shy, and wondering eye. To watch Spring’s darling dancing. CAROLYN M. LEWIS, in NT. Y. Times. Tax Machinery Starts On One Mora Hound About the time we get through i paying taxes tor one year around comes the tax lister get-! ting ready for another year. I The county commissioners! have outlined a plan for review ing the land values of the coun ty and a Board ol Review has been appointed to assist the teg- j ular tax listers in reviewing the j different 1: nds. This board is * composed of Messrs. R. B. LoogJ W. H. Renegar and W. L. Kel ly. Mr. E. J. Vestal, of Knion Cross, was appointed Supervis or of the listing of personal pro perty and he has appointed the following persons: Boonville, Frank Hinshaw; Knobs, ]r>o. L. Br.iy; Buck Shoals, B. C. Shore; Deep Creek, N. L. Hudspeth; Liberty, L. W. Dixon; Forbush, i J. H. Eddleman; Little Yaakin, J. F. Haynes; East Bend, T. L. Long; Fall Creek, J. T. E: Nor man. Here He Is i Do you remember the oltd fashioned workman who used to come down town on Satur day ni 1 D'.: ' Oast how! much w ork he could do in a day?—Golden (Colo.) Republi can. His place is ssow filled by the workman who comes down town smoking cigarettes and bragging about working oniy four hours of the eight hours he drew pay for. The Pare in Heart Admission to a Catholic church at North Adams, Mass., is “strictly forbidden to women and girls wearing short skirts, low necked, or transparent gar ments, as well as immodest ap parel," by order of the pastor. To the pure in heart ail things are pure What Elijt: Carried i * Danny a little Mulvane boy, was looking at the picture of Elijah ascending to heaven in the chariot of fire. The halo around Elijah’s head puzzled him for a moment, then he found the answ er, “Oh, look, mamma,” said Danny, “look he’s | carrying an extra tire. ! >Rev. McMillan, of High Point. ; was robbed of $105 while on a street car iu Charlotte. A Homan's Arm Is Found On Sfree! Much excitement was created in Yadkinville Saturday morn ing about 8 o’clock when news was circulated that Mr. William Reynolds had fo^nd a human’s arm and hand in one of our main streets. Mr. Reynolds was walking along the street near the Roller Mills when his attention was at tracted by the gruesome object lying at his feet. He at once re-1 ported the finding of the arm tp | Mr. A. t. Holton, Jr.r and Dr.. T. R. Harding. Dr. Harding j took the arm to his office whera it was viewed by a great many people. $ * The arm isxthe right arm of an adult person and had bee® uaijointed at the elbow, and had evidently been severed front the body for some time as the fiksh had become very dry. No one knows from where the arm came and the whole af fair is shrouded in mystery. -.. . i -■ Judge Pritchard Bead Federal Judge Jeter C* Pritch ard* of the United States circuit court for the fourth 'islriet, diprt «i ms Home m AbUeviUe eari^ Sunday morning. Death was caused 6v pneumonia, although he had been in failing health for many months. He was in his 64th year. Judge Pritchard came up from a poor mountain boy. He was for many years a leader of the Republican party io this state, and was always a leader in church and eaucationalwork. He is survived by his widow, three sons and a daughter. German Empress Dead Former Empress Auguste Victoria of Germany died a Doom, Holland, Monday morn ing at 6 o’clock. She had beta in declining health for a year < r more. A tew days ago she suf fered an attack of heart trouL t and gradually grew worse un 1 the euQ ca m. The ex emperor stood v\i bowed head by the bedside « hisconsoil while she breath her iast. , Iredell officers destro3ed big steam distillery in that cot fty last week. The plant was full blast when found but e operators made their escape. Old Tim: Singing I • Was 'Greafctvent « Ao old tin v siagin^.ui^jxeld at the couri . - awe Sunday after * • • *»% -43 . noon and s\u were sdiigefrom old Chr v. iinnhdny son" books and t uu real*tllosic in them. it was we i something to he ;r them s, iiese good old people, who j- rneyed to Yad kinviiie from /cry section of the county and from Iredell and Davie countit to hear and sing the songs they sang when they were boys on the old camp grounds, and ’ding to the meet ing house on horseback, and in buggies and a courting of the gin that could ride hoiseback the best. Ard a good many ladies were r esent, the good old ladies \vh* gave so this coun try the sturdy oung folks who compose the populataon of to day. I hvse Xid women cacae up in the good old days when, ah on skirts a-; the display of ankles were dis-grace. and Virtue weue their own reward. 1 hose old so igs, and they are good ones,, ww*e a reminder to. them of tl.se 1 upy days of the old camp grounds and now and then a lean could be seen to roll, down a eke eh. when, some- fa miliar old L mn was baring, snug. i ne smgjiag w as fed by ihree persons, *ach taking hG turn,. Mr. G. L. White of. Cana, Rev.. W. \ . Br«*vc or Cj?cle, and Mr. Stones trest jane M©x.Wy sai'g.aomtt: lu*e aim, a ad. the choir cousastetj of about 40 peo ple. 1 his, skewers w ouid not be complete if >v,: did rot say something atfboan Unde Peter Green,, the *>rvat base singer, Mr. Green is a church leader in his c©mmunity, nebi Mocks* viile, stands ix ieet threp, weighs J5U poemds, with a voice to match. He ’a a good man ana a goo#l sir/Mi, We noticed a 1 so/ in t toe cl\< >•; r M essrs. D. E. Masthews of Smithtowli; I. S. Reavis and G */rge Reavis of Route L. wiio sceuied to enjoy the old son? gs. This writer delights in these gatherings, sin,My' because it • . the oil* people and |what we would*-.nt do for the £ood oKi peopi >f this country it any time it va»uM biiag hap piness. or good cheer to them is not v/orth tali :ng about. They deserve some Eng good; they har e given their lives to hard wt)rk and have in most cases set a large famil} out into the world tn good circumstances and that is doing more th in the average person knows anything about. Let them sing; let them rejoice; let them gatin' together and talk oi od times, their life’s •vork is behind them; they have been masters of a few things, let them rejoice over many things, and it is the duty of all to nake them happy when it can be t. me. h :fd Men Over 24 Marry rcnstaniino • — Al.tun-d t die gro'vit r r ■ ;._ ful-t’ ' ' ”t. • i ’ k*v,::: \ i i vr n */tarry unk ..ivu oy sv :s OD of fn>p ivt“' . ;»'th Tkicl;"s *. *ku n v i! ..1 h • ’ . >. viS\ * > ■ v 'nV ’ ‘ ■ '• f* , S-*.« .» ill . I -