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Washing-tan's PotBouilIe In the.Boiiing Pot you have all the news From Smart Set gossip to lawmakers'" views. By ALICE LEE MOQUE. ueer old bracelet upon her shapely arm. I There are silver napkin rings and solid silver knives and forks, vanity cases and smelling salts, gold cuff links and brooches of every epoch from the time cf grandmamma down to today. 1T L.

A. Rogers fiends to tt.e Melting Pot a fine silver mesh pure which has a delightfully romantic story, and among other valuables a bangle bracelet with a history. Among the foreign coins which dangle from the bracelet is one coined in ancient Egypt. Mrs. Rogers laughingly points it out and confesses that years ago when traveling abroad as a young girl he attended a grand ball in Cairo at which she met the son of the Khedive.

She was wearing this very ornament upon her arm and the gallant oriental seeing it craved the honor of adding a coin from his own country to the fair American's collection. Men To The Front. The men. too, who in the words of Secretary Bryan, ask no political rights for themselves that they are not willing to grant to their wives, also come to the front. Several geld watches were received besides cufflinks and half a dozen scarf pins.

Dr. George F. Bowerman, the learned and popular librarian of the Carnegie Library, in his charming wife's absence from the city, gave as his personal donation a handsome signet ring. Mrs. Helen It.

Tindall, the noted suffragist, responded to the national's call for contributions with a generous collection for the melting-pot. She sent beside silver knives, spoons and forks a heavy gold clasp and an antique brooch woven from exquisitely fine human hair in which in the long ago some skillful goldsmith cunningly enmeshed a number of precious stones. But Mrs. Tindall herself confesses that she parted with none of these things unwillingly. Her self-sacrifice took another form.

It was simply a few pieces of a dainty chain a little chain which her father clasped about her neck when she was a wee little girl. The chain" is dark with having laid away so leng but the gold is as pure and untarnished as the love of the woman who in the name of her adored father donates her precious memento to help the onward march of progress. GATEWAYS OF INFECTION STUDY WEEK FOB DEMISTilfllS Experts to Discuss Agricultural Subjects at Gathering at College This Week The North Carolina Farm Demonstrators Week of Study will bejrin at the Agricultural and Mechanical College here next Wednesday. Th program will be concluded the following Monday. Leading t-xprtft will sjcak each day.

The farm demonstrator have been doing a valuable work for the 'agricultural classes cf the State ami work continue to brouden. The farmers generally are apprermttni; tb aid of thee experts. This week of study immediatly proceeds the meeting of the State Farmers Convention, which will hold ils first session on Tuesday, Aujoint 2Ii. The demonstrators program follows: Wednesday to 9:30 a. Soil Moisture, Profesor Sherwin; to 11:00 m.

Trying to deter mine the Fertilixer needs of our soil. Professor Williams; to 1:00 p. m. Cover crops. Professor Newman; 2:30 p.

m. Studying grass dein onstration plats on college farm. Professors Williams, Newman, c-Nutt. Sherwin. Winters.

Curtis. Pate. Salisbury; 3:00 p. m. Marketing.

Professor Camp. Thursday 8:00 a. ni. Insects injurious to Cover crops. Professor Met-calf; 9:30 a.

m. Fungus diseases cover crops. Professor Fulton; 11:00 a. m. Cover cris.

Professor Newman; 2:30 p. m. 'Truck" Crop notation, Professor Pillsbury; 8:00 p. m. Corn growing, Mr.

Hudson. Friday 8:00 a. m. Soil acidity. Professor Sherwin; 9:30 a.

m. Fertilizers for cover crops. Professor Williams; 11:00 a. ra. Grasses hay.

Professor Newman; 2:30 p. m. Or-Dairy cattle, Professor McNutt. Mi. Salisbury; 3:30 p.

m. Feeding cotton seed meal, Professor Withers; 8:00 p. m. Cheap pork. Professor Gray.

Saturday 8:00 a. m. Insects hurtful to grasses. Professor Metcalf; 9:30 a. m.

Soil diseases, Professor Fulton; 11:00 m. Grasses hay, Professor Newman; 2:30 a m. Orchard management- conference, Prof-fessor Pillsbury, Mr. Stoddard, Mr. Detjen.

Monday 3:00 a. m. Live stock selection, Professor McNutt; 9:30 a. m. Fertilizers for grasses, Professor Williams; 11:00 a.

m. Grasses pas ture, Professor Newman; 2:30 p. m. Hog cholera. Dr.

F. D. Owen: 3:30 p. m. Visit to serum plant injection of seium, Dr.

B. B. Flowe. For information of any of the following subjects not included in the program consult: -Diseases of animals Dr. Roberts; plant breeding Dr.

Winters; farm management Professor Johnson farm drainage Mr. Lynde; tobacco culture Mr. Mathewson; poultry Mr. Ross; eountiy roads Profeaor Riddick: gas machinery Professor Satterfield; light plantSf-Profossor Browne. the women of the warring nations to show the war-lords responsible for the awful conflict that it is the women and children who are the innocent victims of their lust of conouest.

War robs women not only of the sons they havd torne, desolates their homes and orphans their children but casts upon them the financial and industrial burdens consequent to the great war-game in which the powers are now engaged. And 'tis Christian kings who combine and plan To wantonly murder their fellow man. For nations have 'arms' the Powers pride While lust of conquest is each warlord's guide But th' world's fearful loss in th war-game they play To th' last jot and tittle women must pay." The Suffrage Meeting; Pot. National headquarters in Washington was besieged by an ever-increasing crowd of suffragists bearing gifts for the Melting. Pot as August 15 approached, the date set apart as self-denial day- There is a marvelous collection of gold and silver articles, ranging from the tiniest baby's ring to the gold rimmed spectacles of some long departed grandfather.

What a pathetic story these old time trinkets tell, and who can belittle the self-sacrifice of the women who give up with a pang of regret the long -hoarded souvenirs of other days to help their sisters' work for recognition in the suffrage battle this fall in the seven campaign States. Mrs. Helen H. Gardener, the noted author and lecturer as well as prominent member of the Congressional committee of the National Association which had in charge the Melting Pot campaign in Washington, not only contributed largely herself but influenced many of her friends to look over their keepsakes and send whatever they were willing to donate lo be melted up for the good of cause. In just one of the huge boxes carefully guarded at ihe national headquarters in the Munsey Building were gathered together as unique a collection of old jewelry and ornaments as can be found in any of the curio stores of the city all souvenirs of the "days that are no more." Mrs.

Wesley M. Stoner, who recently returned from a most successful trip through the Sunny South, in which she most ably accomplished the purpose of the Jational Association, which sent her out to form suffrage organizations in the Southern States, gave her most unqualified approval of Mrs. Medill McCormick's happy inspiration in suggesting the idea of self-sacrifice day and the Melting Pot. Mrs. Stoner's donation includes many articles of value, among which are a solid silver manicure buffer with beautiful repousse' top, gold and a faded old Da-guerrotype set in an old-fashioned chased gold frame.

The gentle old lady's features are now but dimly seen, and the treasured memento of the past is turned over to the Melting Pot that the gold frame may ie utilized to aid the enfranchisement of the long, long departed little old lady's sisters of today. She would wish me to do this," Mrs. Stoner declared as she looked lovingly at the old Daguerreotype before she gently placed it in the big box, which when quite full is to go with many others to the mint, where all the old rind useless trinkets will be -exchanged for crisp new bank notes fresh from the presses. Mrs. Funk has been in receipt of so many odd and pretty trinkets of real beauty and rare artistic merit that she has decided that before the donated articles are melted up those which are of exceptional value in their present form shall be offered for sale.

In this way a larger sum will be realized, for in many instances the articles will bring a far greater price than would be secured from the value of the precious metal alone. Already there is active competition I vahington, D. August 15. i Witb ut regard to race or political Irty the whole nation joins in I heartfelt sympathy today -with, the Prpc'dent in his loss by the death of vWn Axson Wilson not only the wife nf his but his helpmate, lov-inc counselor and true friend for twenty-nine years of happy married life Mrs- Wilson in all the quarter (I a century -as the wife of -a prominent man never sought her own personal aggrandizement, caring nothing for the limelight of publicity but like Mrs Hoo.se velt, Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs.

(Iladstone and other modest -wives of famous men preferred to be the-pow-r behind the throne. Like them she bent all her energies to further her husband's career and with most unselfish devotion used her prestige as 'the first lady in the land' not to attain social distinction but to work diligently to -succor the unfortunates compelled By poverty to dwell in the 6qualid purlieus bf the city. When the very hour of death drew near, when her daughters knelt beside her dying bed and her husband clasped her hand in a silent agony of Krief she Looked up into his face anf said faintly "I will go away more cheerfully, Woodrow, if the Alley bill is passed." And these were her last WOnls words of thoughtful love for the poor and friendless. And soft as was that faint whisper from the dying lips it was heard in the -great Congress on the hill and with one voice the Housing Reform bill -of Mr. Smith, of Maryland, which he had introduced months before was unanimously passed.

A bill which will forever rid the capital of the nation of the alky pest-holes and squalid rookeries in Avhich the city's unfor- tunates have been forced to dwell. The President's strong desire for privacy in his personal affairs and his express request that no publicity be given his wife's long and dangerous illness caused the news of her- serious condition to come like a "blow to the people of the country, for Mrs Wilson's long battle with an insidious disease and her ebbing strength had not been known save to the loyal Washington scribes who respected-the President's wish for secrecy, and in epite of every temptation to publish the news not a line was printed in a newspaper in the land. By the own command the funeral at the White House was conducted with the utmost simplicity, and he only yielded reluctantly to the closing -of the governmental departments "for the customary half day and the ad-journjnent of Congress during the funeral services. But while Mr. Wilson is right in many things, he is wrong in believing the loss he -suffers is 'a private The death of such an unselfish, broadminded woman is a loss to the whole country.

"In the invaluable aid she gave the President she befriended and served the nation;" says the Washington Post truly. the guns and drums' and the diabolic slaughter the s'ill small voice of a dying woman's Prayer for peace, even though it may not be heard by the imbattled warriors, has spoken for the heart and soul of all America." Bravo Swiss and Hungarian Amazons. While the fearless women- of Ar-jooie Canton in Switzerland and the fair Hungarian amazons are ready and eager to fight for their countries, Jomen of Servia, Egypt, and even lurkey are as diligently preparing to serve as Red Cross nurses. Premier Yiviani has addressed an appeal to the heroic women of France, in which he says 'j I appeal to your hardihood aM to that of your children whose sex or age alone withhold them from jne fighting line. I ask you to life of our fields, to complete uie-work of gathering the harvest," and the premiers adds truly "no sol-er can give greater service to the country." Mme.

liona Timko, a native Hun-Karuin resident of New York, connected with the splendid 2kof the Y. W. C. A. of that city, proudly declares "The women of my win ruare brave an1 fearless.

They 2i Just as they did in the offir of 1840 when they WIlt RtrwT J. an1 common soldiers and fatw oulder to shoulder with their Eon? nusands, brothers and HurL, wonder God is with the the ansL Mme- Timko declares the Turk exclaimed when fight or bravest of The Brave. andUfenimerican women, as brave orld i any women in all the tng V0t God favors any-'InL mble as war. and count-eekin 111 many organizations are to tnZ fvery means in their pow-foreic conflict or the tional A 8 now at war. The Na-tion Wom Suffrage As- Peal to stiTi! reaay issued an ap-VoriH women In the civilized lo demand peace.

It calls on How Ixxjal Areas of I isea.se Affect the Whole Body. Dr. Joseph C. Beck, Gf Chicago, addressing one of the sections of the American Medical Association at Atlantic City, said that chronic focal infections of the nose, mouth, ear, and throat do their damage locally as well as through the system, in reducing the vitality. These infections show all sorts of symptoms- particularly loss of weight, strength, appetite, inability to do the best work, and there are aehes and pains in different parts of the body.

This is ofen spoken of as rheumatism, neuralgia, etc. The acute outbreaks, such as tonsilitiea, are well known. The germs that may cause these chronic conditions are of many varieties, but particularly are those of the pus-forming organisms. No matter what organism is the cause, it is their poisons, called toxins, that cause the trouble in the system. Anything that tends to improve the general health of the patient, as medicine, diet- hygiene, exercise, rest, mental quietude, will have a tendency to increase antitoxins and so eontrol the effects of the chronie focal infection.

By introducing specific anti-bodies, known as bacterins or vaccines, more effective results are obtained. The most rational procedure, however, is to remove the infection, and the striking fact experienced by Dr. Beck is that it is not necessary for all the chronic foci of infection tobe removed, but only the most potent one. By this means the body will acquire its normal fighting powers and destroy the other foci of infection, especially if in addition to the mode of living mentioned above are added the use of the vaccines or bacterins made from the removed focus of infection. Domestic Diplomacy.

A young married man was talking to an old married man yesterday, and was complaining that he could hot get his wife to mend his clothes. "I asked her to sew a button on my vest last night and she hasn't touehed it." And then his older married trend remarked: "Never ask a woman to mend anything. When I want a shirt mended I take it to my wife and flourish It around a little and sa.y, "Where is that Then my wife says. What do you want of the 'I want to throw this shirt away, t's worn 'Let me see that my wife says. Of course I pass it over and she examines" it.

"Why, it only -needs' and then she mends it." Chanute tKans.) Tribune. The Thirtccner. The Mississippi man who walked twenty-four miles to his home rather than ride on a train pulled by an engine numbered thirteen, had never heard of the foundering of a steamer entailing the loss of all on board except one man who occupied stateroom number thirteen. Austin American. Don't think that just because a man isn't in jail that he must be beaest WATER RIfKo ENLARGED.

Ten Thaasand Acres of Land Purchased By Astievillc. (Special to Th niiU Hi-nrrr. Asheville, Aug. 15. Asheville's water shed is considerably enlarged as the result of a deal announced yesterday whereby the city becomes the possessor of a tract of 720 acres on the-Little Lower Fork," which has been bl'ld by J.

H. Martin. The land which 'ijhas just been purchased forms an ilnportant part of the intake property and the city has felt for some time past that the land should belong to the municipality an Asheville will need the water from its streams eventually if the growth of the city is as rapid in the next ten years as it has been in the past ten years. The land which has just been purchased is heavily timbered and the water from its streams has been shown by analysis to be. equally as pure as that of the Fork, which is-now used hre, coming to the city of Asheville through a pipe line more than 20 miles in length.

CURED BY MOUNTAIN AIR. Asheville. A us. 15. Hannis Taylor, regarded as one of the country's leading authorities on international law.

who is representing Colombia in the compilation of a new treaty with the United States a visitor to Asheville for a few days. Mr. Taylor is the author of several widely read and studied It gal works. "The History of the American Constitution" and "The History of the English Constitution." both of which are used as text books, being among his most important works. Mr.

Taylor was minister to Spain during the administration of President Cleveland. He told a isecret that isn't generally known last night stating that he came to Asheville 20 years ago to die. received treatment here and left a few months later a well man ax the result of living in the open air of the North 1 among the ladies to secure certain ar ticles. A quaint old oatterea-up silver spoon of the severely plain pattern in vogue in the days of Washington, is one of the popular donations. Mrs.

Gardener, who gave it, states that it is "older than the United States." Miss Alice Fletcher, the celebrated friend of the redman. has also ent in as her contribution a number of interesting articles. There is a aolid gold thimble, a silver knife and nti-o. nwi rtase. and most attractive of all, an old-fashioned hair hracelet with a heavy gold clasp, me hair is still soft and brown, but the clasp shows the years which have flown, since some fair young garl the days of curls and hoop-skirts danced in the candle light with one of the swains of long Ago With this.