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MYSTERY SHROUDS ROBBERY. Detectives Trying to Ferret Out Disapearance of $71,9(H). Savannah. Ga., Sept. 11.?Tonight a small army of detectives, special agents and express company officials are working is an endeavor to ferret out the mysterious disappearance of $71,900 from a portable safe en route from New York to Savannah. Of this amount, fifty thousand dollars was consigned to the Savannah Bank and ?r?.?r,4. fiv-o thousand dollars liUOL \_<Ulll^/aiA.' , " v- . to the Real Estate Bank and Trust Company, and the remainder was destined for banks in smaller cities in South Georgia and was to have been reshipped from Savannah. A dozen clues have been discovered, it was stated to-night, but nothing tangible has as yet been developed. The express company officials declined to give out the nature of the clues obtained and are extremely reticent in discussing the affair. J. B. Hockaday, of Atlanta, general manager of the Southern Express Company, and other officials are here directing the search for the missing money. Suspicion that the money had been stolen was first aroused when the Savannah Bank and Trust Company failed to receive $50,000 in currency shipped from the Chase National Bank, New York. They wired the New York institution asking if the money had been shipped. A reply was received saying it had been sent by the Adams Express Company and was turned over to the Southern Express Company by the former at Jersey City. In the meantime a portable iron safe had been received at tne local offices of the Southern Express Company. The waybill was missing. When the safe was opened only a few packages of currency were found. The seals on the safe were intact and the key to the safe had been mailed to the Savannah agent of the company. The Jersey City office was communicated with and it was learned that the safe, containing the currency, left that city Monday night over the Atlantic Coast Line Railway. Express messengers, who had charge of the safe between New York and Savannah, were given a severe grilling by the officials and rumors were current here this afternoon that an arrest was about to be made, but this was denied by the officials. Claim Agent Weaver was hurriedly dispatched from the city trict of South Carolina, to determine is unknown. It is stated that in the event the money is not recovered the banks will not be the losers, but the loss will fall upon the express companies. The money was in two packages. Local police have not been called into the case. Man Lifting Magnet. An interesting experiment was recently made at the works of one of the large German manufacturing firms with one of their lifting magnets. A chain secured to the ground at one end and carrying an iron ball at its free end was raised to a vertical position by the approach of the lifting magnet suspended from a crane, says Scientific American. The chain throughout its length remained in vertical position below the magnet. A grown-up workman climbed up the chain without disturbing its rigidity. The chain seem-1 ed to float in air. The magnetic pull on the ball was greater that the grav-! itational pull on the man. This remarkable experiment shows the enormous power of attraction exerted on industrial lifting magnets as used on an ever-increasing scale in iron and steel works for the transport of iron materials of every description. In no other field of metallurgy are the economical advantages of transport by electricity so conspicuous as in connection with the use of lilting magnets, which enable the operator to seize the iron material at any point desired, conveying it to any other point within the range controlled by the crane. Incidentally, it should be noted that the use of lifting magnets eliminates much of the risk of accidents formerly connected with manual transport and the use of hand-operated cranes. Cranes with lifting magnets are, of course, used on a large scale also in connection with the loading and unloading of railway wagons with all sorts of iron material. He Took the Cake. A man went to order a wedding cake the other day. "I'm getting married," he said, "and I want a cake." "Well, it's the latest thing," said the shopgirl, "to have wedding cakes ir harmony with the bridegroom's calling or profession. Thus, a journalist has a spice cake, a musician an oat cake, an athlete a cup cake, a man who loafs on his friends a sponge cake, and so forth and so on. What is your calling, please?" "I am a pianist." "Then, of course," said the girl, "you'll wai;t a pound cake."?New York Globe. THE WONDERFUL SUBMARINE. Interior of Dreaded Craft I*resents Much Interest. ' l Few people who stand on a pier at i the Charleston navy yard or view the j passing of the craft about the harbor, I have any knowledge of what the inj terior of a submarine is like. Coni| paratively few have ever been aboard j of one of these much dreaded vessels j of war time which sink below thp surI face, slip upon the enemy and then | launch a torpedo into its side. The interior differs entirely from the view that the average person forms of a t-nKmovina onri tho nmft is rpallv one ^'4 Uliia: iuv uiiv* v AA ^ v%*Av ? v of the most interesting of the fleet of war .vessels. Climbing down ten rungs of an iron ladder into the interior of a submarine is like going into a boiler shop where there is one continuous, deafening, ear splitting racket like a dozen trip hammers chattering a tatoo amid a grind and rumble and thump of machinery as if especially designed to burst your eardrums. At first the noise in that narrowly* confined place is painful and bewildering. To make yourself at all heard you must shout into the ear of a companion. So intense is the strain, says a write in St. Nicholas, that you marvel how day in and day out human ears can withstand the ordeal. You find yourself inside what seems an enormous steel cigar painted a neat pearl gray, a color which is serviceable and does not dazzle the eye. Light comes to you partly through portholes and in part from incandescent lamps placed fore and aft in the darker parts of the hull. You have expected, of course, to land in a tangle of whirling machinery that fills the inside of the boat from stern to stern, threatening with every revolution to take an arm or a leg off. Instead the first thing you see is an uninterrupted "work ing space," or deck, measuring 7 by 25 or 30 feet. At the stern, far in the background, are the machines and engines. In fact, this section of the vessel is nothing but machinery, a rumbling mass of silvery steel and glittering brass, revolving at the rate of 500 times a minutes, so compact that you wonder how the various parts can turn without conflicting or how it is possible for human hands to squeeze through the maze to oil the machinery. But this economy of space is as nothing to what you will see. The floor you stand on is a cover of the cells of the storage batteries wherein is pent up the electricity with which your boat will propel herself when she runs submerged. The walls amidship and the space in the bow are gigantic ballast tanks to be filled with water. The four torpedoes, measuring sixteen feet three inches long, eighteen inches in diameter and weighing 1,500 pounds each, are lashed end for end in pairs at either side, and directly over these are tool boxes and hinged bunks for the crew to sleep in. The very air which is taken along to keep life in you in case the boat should be detained beneath the surface longer than usual, is compressed in a steel cylinder 2.000 pounds per square inch, a pressure so intense that were the cylinder to spring a leak no larger than a pin hole and were the tiny stream of escaping air to strike a human being it would penetrate him through and through and drill a hole through an inch thick board behind him. And yet everything about the in[ terior arrangement of this boat is so simple that you can see at a glance its purpose. Away forward, where the tip of the cigar comes to a point, are the two torpe .0 tubes out of which the gunner will send his deadly projectiles seething beneath the waters at the rate of thirty-five knots an hour against an unsuspecting hull. Directly under the conning tower is a platform, three feet square and elevated three feet from the deck, upon which the captain stands, head and shoulders extending into the tower, so that while at his post he is visible to the crew only from the waist line down and at the feet of the captain and on a level with his platform is stationed another of the officers, in charge of the wheel that controls the diving rudders and the guages that register the angle of ascent and decline and show how deep the boat is down. The two officers are in personal communication, so that in case of heart disease or other mishap either can jump to the other man's place. VICE CONSUL WAS SAVED. American Rescued by Dogs of Monks Was Dawson. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 13.?That the I young American rescued by monks with dogs in the Alps yesterday, according to dispatches, was William Dawson, Jr., of St. Paul, vice United States consul at Frankfort-on-theMain, was the word received here today. THE GNAT OF DEATH. An Insect of Central Africa That Has Cost Thousands of Lives. Surgeon General Sir David Bruce, head of the Sleeping Sickness commission which was sent to Central Africa nearly two years ago, has returned to England with Lady Bruce. Sir David will remain in England a few weeks before returning to Nyasa land, where the remainder of the commission is still working. The work will not be completed for another year. The object of the commission is to study the relationship of the African fauna to the spread of the sleeping sickness in that continent. The work has been carried on in a wild and remote region in Angoniland, about fifty miles from the shores of Lake Nyasa. where the members of the commission lived and worked in mosquito-proof huts. Lady Bruce took her regular turn with the others in laboratory work. Every precaution was taken, and Sir David Bruce was the only member of the party who suffered from fever. The natives were regularly dosed with quinine. Sir David Bruce finds that the so-called sleeping sickness in Xyasa-land is not the same as that of Uganda of the West Coast, although it belongs to the same category. It is more rapid and even more fatal. There has been no case of recovery. It is now established beyond doubt that the disease is carried by glossina morsitans, a fly which is widely spread over the whole of Africa. Sir David Bruce's work has been carried on in a proclaimed district of Xyasaland on the eastern shore of the lake, extending fifty miles from north to south and twenty-five miles from east to west. Animals were shot early in the morning and specimens of the blood, while perfectly fresh, were carried back by motor-bicycle to the laboratory for examination. Half the wild animals shot in the area were found to be infected with sleeping sickness in some form or other, and in all probability the whole of them may be said to be affected. From this it will be safe to infer that the commissioners are of opinion that the game in these areas should be regarded in the same light as mad dogs, and destroyed as a standing menace to natives and whites alike. Sir David Bruce does not believe that there is any danger of the disease spreading. He is of the opinion that it has probably been in these areas from time immemorial, and that it will never assume the terrible proportions of the sleeping sickness of the Congo or Uganda.?London Uhronicie. AMAZONS ASKED NO FAVORS, Women in Dahomeyan Army Were as Formidable as Men. An interesting account of the prowess of the Dahomeyan Amazons, the female furies who fought the French during their struggle with the refractory King Behanzin, is given by Mr. Frederic Martyn in his book, "Life in the Legion." The author, a former English officer, enlisted in the Foreign Legion of France, and saw sharp fighting both in Tonkin and in Dahomey. "The turn of the Senegalese Tirailleurs came next. A battalion of Amazons attacked them, and gave them a very rough time indeed, but the Tirailleurs stood their ground until reinforced by some marine infantry. Any one who is inclined to sympathize with the Amazons on acnt of spy ran he assured that their sympathy is misplaced. Those young women were far and away the best "men" in the Dahomeyan army, and woman to man were quite a match for any of us. They were armed with Spencer repeating rifles, and made much better use of their carbines. For work at close quarters they had a small, heavy-backed chopping sword, or knife, very mucn like a South American machete. "They fought like unchained demons, and if driven- into a corner, did not disdain to use their teeth and nails. A marine infantryman seized and disarmed one of them in this fight, but she was so far from being beaten that she turned on her captor and began to bite his nose off. "The uniform of these female warriors was a sort of kilted divided skirt of blue cotton stuff. The garment barely reached to the knees. It was supported at the waist by a leather belt that carried the cartridge pouches. They wore little or nothing above the waist, but on their heads they wore a coquettish red fez, or tarboosh, ornamented with an eagle's feather. These women were all exceedingly well developed, and some of them were handsome in their own way. "We of the legion had a good opportunity of seeing them in action, and we were much impressed with their dash and gallantry."?Youth's Companion. CHARGED WITH ROBBERY. Two Negroes Bound Over to Court in Hampton County. Brunson, Sept. 10.?An interesting ; preliminary hearing was held here1 yesterday before local .Magistrate i Dowling. On Sunday a salesman of dry goods was accosted by two negro men, Dex I Saxson and Jake Young, on the pub-; lie highway, assaulted and robbed, ac- j cording to the testimony of the plain- j tiff. While Saxson held the peddler j and placed an open knife against his i Vnnne tnnk emods from the I wagon, butpreventedSaxson from do- \ ing other harm than striking the man i in the face. | t Deputy Sheriff Lightsey and Con- j I stable Cleland hastened to the scene of the difficulty, about five miles distant, and first found Jake Young, i who hastily secured a gun and held I at bay for a time the two officers. His capture, however, was soon made, and after arresting the negro Saxson without difficulty, brought both prisoners in and presented them for trial. The magistrate, after a careful hearing, bound both over for appearance at court in October. "Unfairness of Newspapers. The Bamberg Herald writes about the unfairness of newspapers not on[ ly in politics but toward persons or I interests they do not favor, and that1 j paper affirms that they will take advantage of any incident and attempt ! to distort and twist it to full disad! vantage. Alas this is true of not a few newspapers, but it must be remembered that a newspaper is the mouthpiece of its editor and that if the editor of a paper is sordid and mean and slanderous in heart the paper he edits will be likewise. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. We are glad to note there are papers in the State unwilling to lend their influence to evil and slander. One of Dr. Carlisle's aphorisms was, "Verify your facts." How few comparatively there are who heed this! How many there are who "back biteth with his tongue, doeth evil to his neighbor, and taketh up a reproach against his neighbor."? Southern Christian Advocate. Iowa Well Cultivated. Iowa has 189,696 farm with a to- 1 tal acreage of 30,914,178 acres. The average size of an Iowa farm, according to the most recent figures, is i 162.8 acres. More acreage was devoted to corn in 1912 than to any other grain crop, the total acreage in corn being 9,- ? 420,434 acres. The total acreage in pasture was 8,968,644. The total acreage in oats last year was 4,874,752; the total acreage in winter wheat was 497,938 acres, and in I spring wheat 389,371 acres. The total acreage in barley was 389,410 acres. There was a big acreage in tame hay, the total being 2,635,744 acres. The acreage or wna nay was 754.374, and the alfalfa acreage 46,644. There was 120,035 acres in potatoes. More than 95 per cent of the land of Iowa is in cultivation. There is no other state in the Union that has such a large per cent of its total area in crops. Not alone is the acreage large, but from one end of the state to the. other the soil is fertile and practically all of it is adapted to growing varied crops.?Kansas City Star. WILI) HOGS OF LOUISIANA. Novel Method of Capturing Ferocious Beasts. The wild hogs of Catahoula parish are declared by natives of that part of Louisiana to be among the most ferocious and aggressive of beasts. To capture them dogs are trained in . I a special manner. The only other thing required is a strong pen or corral. [ The start of a hunt for a drove of hogs in the thick and tangled Cata! houla woods is made by the dog. It is { his business to find the drove. After j that the hunting is all done by the ! hogs, for they industriously pursue the dog. The hunter himself does nothing but sit on the corral fence and wait. Keeping always in mind the direction of the pen or corral, the dog goes into the woods and flushes a drove of wild hogs. Then he yelps out an aggravating challenge which the hogs instantly acept. They make a furious dash for the hated enemy and the hated enemy turns tail and flees, heading straight toward the corral, and managing at all times to keep a sufficient distance ahead of the angry drove. In their mad chase they follow him through the open gate of the corral. 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