The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-05-26
testimony. C. w. Koons appeared at Q 40
and went up stairs.
A GREAT SOAP DISSERTATION.


worth OF assorted soaps, given 20 the
Womans Relief Corps for an advertise.
ment in the Roster that Mr.. Biechele was
called, And what historic memories did
this testimony call up.
Soap is unquestionably one of the
cleanest cut indications OF our modern
civilization. Neither the ancient Egyp-
tians, Greeks, Spartans or Romans knew
of the use of soap. The Spartans,
one of the foremost races of the Pagan
world, only used sand for securing and
cleansing purposes. This is why the
Spartan soldiers exhibited so much sand
course this has no connection with the
soap now In use in the W. II. c., as that
was some 1915 years ago. Pliny who
wrote some excellent history in Latin
some 1850 years ago, says soap was in
vented by the Gauls, and that the Romans
learned the art OF making soap from the
then barbaric Germans. None of the an
cient poets make any mention of soap.
Even as late as Shakespeare time, 1t is
known that soap was only used among
the nobility of England. For instance in
MacDetn! ACT D, DEC. Il
"out damned spot out l say"
1t is evident that there was no soap
handy, or the damned spot would have
bee n speedily washed out.
Tom Hood is the only English poet of
note who mentions soap In his poems. II
occurs in Miss Kilmansegg, written as
late 1925, where he says:
= Seemed washing his hands in invisible soap,
In imperceptable water"
Soap is a compound, formed by the I'M
ion of alkalies with oil or grease.
Lord Byron, when he visited Greece in
in 1923, and espoused the cause of tie
Greek Republic, doubtless referred to the
wrote =
"Tbe isles OF Grease. the isles OF Grease;
Where burIng Sappho loved and sung;
Where grew the arts OF war and peace,
Where Deos rose and Phebus spring"
With these explanatory remarks let us
return to the more modern soap issue in
the W. II. c.
JOSEPH BIEoHELE's TESTIMONY.
As Mr.. Biechele entered the room he
bowed gracefully to the President of tho
Court, and cast wandering glances
around the room. He took the oath, and
a slight tinge, blush as it were, suffused
his cheeks as he sat down before the
array.
Mrs. Morrison, the Judge Advocate,
asked him all the questions on direct
examination. The questions were read
. alt 80 III Nth ha
attorney sat on one side, while Mrs.
Rooms with her attorney on the other.
After a few preliminary questions, Mr..
Biechele was asked
Q. Did you give this $40 worth of soap
to the Womans' Relief Corps, or to Mrs.
Clark personally?
A. l gave the soap to the w. r. G. for
advertising to the amount of ten dollars
in pamphlet that Mrs. Clark called
Roster.
Q. Was this soap put in at Wholesale
or retail price?
A. 1t was put in at Wholesale price.
Q. What would this soap be worth at
retail price?
A, This would be hard to say, as some
druggists sell this high grade of soap at
higher prices than some Rrocers.
Q. Would you have inserted this adver-
tisem snt in the Roster merely as busi-
ness venture2
A. Probably not.
Q. Was this advertising done all in the
name of the Womans' Relief Corps?
A. AS 1 remember, it was.
The above is the substance of Mr..
Bechele's testimony. He was on the
stand twenty minutes.
MAJOR vIGNos CALLED.
Major Vignos was next called. His
testimony was brief, and fully confirmed
the testimony given in his affidavit, which
was published in the NEWS. Democrat. He
gave the S5 as he supposed to the
Womans' Relief Corps. He would not
have given a cent had it been known that
the money was to be used on private ac-
count. His testimony only occupied ten
minutes.
MRS TENNEY ON GUARD.
Mrs. Belle A. Tenuey, Past President
of Canton Corps is steadily on guard. 1t
is a sort of poetic justice that this sterling
Massachusetts woman, one of the first
members of the first Corps of Massachu-
sets, who was treated so shamefully by
Mrs. Clark, in the late unsavory Canton
Court of Inquiry, should be called to the
duty of assisting the National Court in the
line of duty. Calm and courteous and
polite, Mrs. Tenney still refuses to give
away any State secrets but greets all with
/ pleasant word and "sorry you can't
get in"
MRS. CLARK's ATTORNEY.
Mrs. Clark's lawyer, Mrs. Della Jones,
presides over tho little Corps at that nice
little town of McConnellsvlle, and it was
| this Corps, the only one out of the 3l8, In
the towns and cities of Ohio, that sent her
vote Of confidence, which was printed
in Mrs. Clarke's organ, the Repository, al
| the time of the Xenia whitewash. Mrs
Jones sits at Mrs. Clark's side as lawyer
but our reporter observes that Mrs. Clark
does nearly all the talking. Mrs. Jones is
a middle aged woman, OF weight 12t
pounds. She wears spectacles and has
very luxuriant red hair, which she wears
in roll behind her ears. She watches
the case very closely and is said to be
loaded for bear, when the oratory com
mences, after the evidence is all in.
GEORGE CLARK ON DECK,
Young George Clark, who figured 50
| prominently in the Canton Corps trial o.
Mrs. Koons, made himself very prominen
yesterday. He escorted the pretty Mis-
Wallace, the court stenographer, from thu
hall to the Hurford House and passing