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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED 184*. Published every morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Whltner Street, An derson, 8. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays ?. M. GLENN_Editor and Manager Entered as second-class matter April 28, 1914, at the post office at Anderson, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, Vol*. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES Telephone .821 SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY One Year .IMO Sis Months . 2.60 Three Months . 1-26 One Month.42 One Week .? .10 SEMI-WEEKLY Ona Year .$1.60 Six Months .76 The Intelligencer ls delivered by Barriers In tue city. Look at the printed label on your paper. The date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, and lt not correct please notify us at once. Subscribers deelring the address of their paper changed, will please state ID their communication both tho old and new addresses. To Insure prompt delivery? com plaints of non-delivery In the city sf Anderson should be made to the Circulation Department before 9 a. m. and a copy will be sent at once. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. ADVERTISING Rates will be tarnished on applica te. ' No tf advertising discontinued ex cept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief sad rational letters on subjects of general Interest when they are ac companied by the names and ad dresses of the anthon and are not of . defamatory natara. Anonymous communications will, not.be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not ho re turned. In order to avoid delays on account sf personal absence, letters to The intelligencer Intended for publication should not bo addressed to any indi vidual connected with the paper, but simply to Tho Tntelli^encpr. SATURDAY. AUGUST 14, 1915.~ WEATHEE FORECAST "Partly cloudy Saturday and Sun day. We had rather be wrong than pres ident-of Mexico, --O-fr Our Idea of perpetual motion ls a Collier's collector. -o What's the matter, are wo to live through thc whole Bummer and not have a mad-dog touro. There's no danger of Truth ever exceeding Ute speed law when travel ing 1s the wako or a Lio. "Carransa shows his teeth." says tho Washington Post. Also his ears. -The State. Now let him bray. ?-o--'.' Up to the timo this paragraph was written Uncle Sam had not complied with Villa's'InJunojtJkm. to go to hell. We have had tomato ontBup for some time, 'hfW'' now we-havo apple catsup. Whct'll be tho next thing to catsup? -o You can explain your lack of an automobile by saying that you are saving up your money, to buy an aero plane. -o The fur dealers are all wrought up over the war. Hold on, friends, we , haven't yet squared off with the Ice man. o ? ? One good thing about this hot weather 1s that you dont hear so much'protesting against the "Oallon a-Month" law. Hatti's new president ls named Darttcgiuent*'*, .Unless ho's expert at rio'ng what dir first part of hie'name indicate, he may jot lice long. -o Tba Mexican bandits invading Texas evidently don't intend walting for tho United States to go to hell but are bent upon brlngihs) ns a 'sample of lt ~-0-" Tbs Columbia State asks, "If you kissed a girl white out angling, would that te a fishing smack?" It might cause a "squall."-Greenville Ne-.va. Yep, a squall for more. ' We expect to hear any day now that Ed VoCamp has moved to Anderson. They aro to have three circusses over there this year.-York Saws. And Ed's coaling would give us four cir WHO'S YOI'H HEAL FUI ES Dt It must be a source of gratification to tho responsible people of the com munity to note that Operation? were resumed yesterday morning at the Anderson Cotton Mills after a shut down of two weeks brought about by u few dissatisfied employees making demands for an Increase in wages and for other concessions on the part of the mill management which were ira practlcable. And we sincerely trust that another episode of like nature will never come alon*? to disturb the pea? ?. and harmony of relations that much erist between employer and em ploye If the cotton mill business I-? to be a success. It ls pretty generally believed that there has been u "nigger in tho wood pile" in thu labor troubles which have occurred at the milln of thin community in recent months. In these times when In the largo centers of population HO many thousands of people are out of work it Is llttlo short of criminal for meddlers to come around Interfering with people who are contented and whose Btation In life Is for better than that of the average wage earner in the manufac turing plants of the country. And wo believe that when the employes are made acquainted with the fact that the meddler who comen poking lils nose into their affairs is socking to bet ter his own fortunes, and at their ex pense, they will ceaae to listen to these false leaders but will turn to tho mill management, who has been their friend all the while and who will stand by lils employes In times of trouble when all others have forsaken them. To tho mill people we would say: suppose this great war should take some unexpected turn that would force tue mills In thia country to sus pend operations. You would bo thrown out of work, and, provided you are like the most of us who have to work for our daily bread, you would have very little monoy laid aside with which you could tide yourself Over the period of Idleness. Who' do you Huppose would be the first to come to your assistance?. Don't you believe the mill management would moko every reasonable effort to take caro of you, even If it was no more than charging you no house rent? Or do you believe that the "agitator" or the meddler who came around and in duced you to quit your work would I come across and pay your house rent, [for you, guarantee the payment of .your grocery bills and other accounts you were obliged to contract while out of work? And in the future think well before you ullow yourselves -to be Influenced by the words " meddlers. We be lieve the world ls growing better, but wo don't believe . that "politicians" have become missionaries nor that taber "agitat?-H" are willing to quit mei i- work in ' other cities and come herc at a sacrifico to be a missionary unto you. No, mankind still has that streak of selfishness in it; and you can put in your pipe and smoke R that these self-styled "friends of the working people," "defenders of thc rights of the pcoplo," etc., otc. are in terested In a Ettie gamo all their own. H? AMINO EVERYTHING ON NOAH. Noah's reputation has always been homewhat dubious, on account ot hts being credited In the Bible with hav ing Introduced alcoholic liquor into tho world. The latest historio revela tions, however, are a knock-out blow for him. According to an old brick tablet now In Ute museum of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, lt was Noah, and not Adam, that committed thc original sin for which man was ex pelled from Paradise. The record ls written tn the Sum erian language, which preceded tho Babylonian. The brick ls considered the oldest -book In the world, at least 1,000 years older than the most an cient Hebrew scriptures. Anyhow, It antedates the book of Genesis, and by profane historians ls considered as trustworthy as the Mosaic account of the creation and fall of man:- How ever ?than may be. here is the story told by the old Babylonian bi-l^k: After the creation, the race lived happily for nearly halt a million years. There were ten kings In that time. roo. t of whom reigned about 40,000 years apiece. Finally the gods for some reason or other decided to wipe out the race and' start over again. So they sont the great flood (which ls a tradlUon among ail the Semitic peoples) and drowned every body except Noah and his Immediate relatives and friends. In Babylonian his name ls Nuuh. and Sumerian, Tag? tug. Hs was saved In a big boat that tho goddess Nlntu built for him. After the flood the god Enki made a new Paradise for Noah, giving him permission to eat anything In lt ex cept the bark of the cassia. He yield ed to temptation and ate che cassia, whereupon he and all his posterity were condemned to uicknesa and carly death. Mr?. Noah doesn't seem to have had anything to do with lt. So -the mem ory of Eve is vindicated, and we can no longer blame ali our misfortunes on woman. No wonder the suffragists are gleeful over the revelation." A VOU'NTKKB A HM Y ItKSKKVi; There ls a conspicuous sign of the times at Plattsburg, N. Y. Many hundreds of business and professional men from various parta of tho coun try have gone into military training. They include Mayor Mitchell of New York. Collector Malone of the Port of New V'ork, sons of Theodore Roose velt and Elihu Root and J. P. Morgan and scions of many other famous fam ilies. They are paying most of their own expenses. For a monih these men will live in tents, eat army grub, march in the hot sun, dig trendies as if they wer?, on the llring line In Europe, and obey ali the burdensome rules of the army. They are under the instruction of reg ular army officers. They will have to work harder than ordinary re cruits, for tlie officers are going to try to crowd into four weeks enough in struction and exercise to make them flt for military duty in an emergency. This need not be mistaken for a proof of aggressive militarism. Thero ls no such thing in the country. It ls, however, a Btriking proof of tho new Bpjrlt that has swept through the nation within a few months. It ls evidence of "the determination of all intelligent Americans that there must be larger and better preparation for our national self-defense, and a. willingness on the part of men wlto might "live sortly" to do 'the hard work and lighting themselves. TIIIB voluntary Bervice is more im pressive and more admirable than jingo demands for a huge army. It is in Une with American traditions and principles. It shows the inevi table trend of development. We do not want a big standing army, or compulsory military Bervice, and do not need either. What we do need ls a large body of "citizenry trained to arms," and trained in the shortest possible term of service, so that thero will be little time lost from their reg ular employment. And for the drilling of such volun teers In time of peace, and of the far larger volume of recruits there would be In time ot war, thero should be a far moro rapid production of officers In tho regular army. Th? Plattsburg training school ts a beginning. It would be well to open several more schools in various parta of the country. They alone would not supply us with an adequate array re serve, hut they would serve as excel lent models, and point the way to a proper development of our miltla sys tem. PANADA'S SACRIFICE. Canada is feeling the effects of the war. She has already raised aa many! coldlers tor lt as we raised for our Revolution, and has lost 11,000 men in killed, wounded and missing. That -a mere beginning-ls a large num ber for a population no larger than that of Belgium, and is especially im pressive becauso it represents blood drawn from a new country whore every man counts more than he would in an older community. Tho enlistment goes on steadily. The growing seriousness ot Canada's sacrifice ls indicated in a recent or der depriving women of the right to veto the enlistment of tholr husbands or sons when they are of military age. j This meant} that the supply of com paratively unattached men Is being exhausted, and from now on tbs re cruiting will draw those who are the dependence of families. > j Can lt be that our neighbor Canada, drawn into the war solely by senti ment, is to be "bled white" Irke the .European belligerents? Charles Davis, an old negro 70 years of age, arrived In Anderson yesterday morning from Athens, Qa., on. his way to his former home In Gaffney and seems to have struck bad luck. He ht blind and not able to work and the people bi Athens made up enough money to send him this far on hts way home. He reached here, with 60 cent? in bia pocket and start ed to begging. Yesterday morning he bad an attack of heart disease and for a time It seemed that he was going ta die. Dr. Herbert Harris took charge of him and stated yesterday that tba old negro was tn bad shape. Dr. Harris ls trying to R ise \ enough ' ------? money to send the negro on to Gaff ney and will appreciate any contribu tiona. These may be left at Ow Drug company or at lils office. -o Manager Pinkston of the Palraette and Dijou theatres stated yesterdaj that W. H. Frlcrson, a former ?ra ployee, was coming back to work witt bim and would be chief operator al these moving picture house?. Among the visitors in the city yes terday was Mr. Mack Healy of Iva Mr. Heaty stated that the rainB around in his section had been very light and that as yet a good season hod nol come. He stated that several show ers had fallen but not enough to call a good rain. -o Manager Trowbridge of The Ander son stated yesterday that Mr. Smith of Greenville would have charge ol the piano at his moving picture house in the future. Mr. Rice huving been employed temporarily. The music at Thu Anderson is good. . Mr. J. P. Daly, formerly of thc Daily Mail staff, and well remembered here, was in the city yesterday shak ing hands with his many friends. Mr Daly went to Spartanburg when he left hore, then to Augusta, then to Co lumbia where he has been employed on tho ('oiumhia Record. He was on his way to Atlanta yesterday when he ls going to take charge of a posi tion on the Atlanta Georgian. -o Hutchison Musical Comedy companj will be the attraction at the Palmetto next week. A letter to Mr. Pinkston from the booking agency in Atlanta states that they will present on Mon day, "The Girl, Man, ?the Money," and that all during the week they will have first class musical comedies. Thc company is composed of 10 people and comes here highly recommended -o Thore will be a special meeting ol the board of trustees of the cit) schools some time next week to eleel a teacher to succeed Miss lies sit Tucker who resigned because of hei marriage. iSeveral application.- have been received and the "people will await the election with interest.' The fire department was called tc the residence of Mr. Thomas opposite the West Market street school build ing yesterday morning. A, stove flue was burning out and .ibero was nt damage. ',. BE WARDS AND PUTT. ..Citizen" Writes of Officers and Theil Sworn Promises. To the Editor of The State: If not altogether out of order, 1 will be very glad If you. will nublisl the following: I understand that Gov. Manning U being censured for offering rewan tJr the arrest of a negro who killed ti young white man in Abbeville count] recently one paper claiming that the governor should have offered a re ward for arrest of a murderer whose crime was committed there last win ter.. But that as it may, In the first place, let "a horse get accustomed tc his harness" before commencing tc lash him and pass upon his pulllnt qualities. It ls Gov. Manning's written pol ic j to require every officer In this State to carry out the laws to the letter. But We bellew that the governor, ir cases where prisoners, and criminal! escaping from justice get beyond thc expense accounts and jurisdictions ol our county officers, will gladly alwayt offer rewards or recompense to thoBi making arrests. Our State is heavily tn debt; whj shouldn't the governor of South Car olina cut expenses as much as poa Bible and lighten the burden for" UK taxpayer? The present administration require! that every man do his duty wlthoui fear or favor. Why should an officer or a citlzer be paid a bonus to do Bomethlnt which he ls already paid to do, or i duty which he OT.OS to his country and fellowman? A man was heard to say In thli county last week, "t \kaow where i certain criminal, at large, ls locater and I could take officer*.'.to his hiding place in a few hours, but I will not put myself to that much trouble, be cause there has been uo reward of fered for his arrest.** -Now where does duty come in with.such a fel low? Duty? It takes a bribe to opec the hearts of some folk. Let ns have peace at home for soot wo may be at war abroad. Citizen. Lowndesville, Aug. 1. PANAMA-IX CASS : OF WAR. The Pnama canal has always ex cited Interest among Americans, whe have rapidly, seized tn* Idea of unit lpg the two oceana, hat perhaps the most powerful appeal, which the canal'has to most ot ua ls Us. connec tion with our navy. There has beer published an excellent work on th? canal by Ira <E. Bennett, and from t recent review In the New York Timei we take some of the most interesting conclusions In regard to the big dltcl In times of w-r. . While Admiral Dewey f>Ued te contribute s chapter on the nava values ot the canal, as .he had prom ised to do, he substituted an article by Captain Harry's. Knapp, tr. 8. N. with the comment that it fully ex pressed his views. Ode ot the firs1 1 tilings which the captain does is to I shatter the popular faith that thc i j navy 1B made twice as strong by the Panama canal. ' j While the canal makes the naval ' distance from New York to San II Francisco only 5,000 miles instead ol ! 13,000, thia advantage does not altei , I the necessity of maintaining both an Atlantic and Pacific-fleet, ead' * capable of doing business with it; I most probable adversary. Quaranta j namo, the nearest nattai base, can be , I reached in fifty-eight hours from thc I Panama canal; but Manila is thirty L three days distant from Panama, anc > I thOBC days would be ample for ar . I enemy to do things in the Phillip . pines. Says Captain Knapp: The canal will be a great mill 1 I tary asset In war, and an equall] I great one in anticipation of war; I but it 1B quite beside the mark U leay it will double the effectivenesi I of tho navy, or do anything ap ' I ((roaching that. . . . Our policj ? j should bc to have eventually, anc , I tm soon as possible, a total strengt! not lass than that of the St andan M Atlantic Fleet plus three-uartera tba I of the Standard Pacific Fleet. I I These so-called standard fleets, ii I plain words, .-.re fleets like those o I Germany or France in the Atlantic * j and of Japan in tho Pacific. Admira I Mafaan long ago laid down the prin I tiple, which has been adopted by ou [ I navy, that we need not try to com i pete with the British in sea powei I but that lt is our duty to be preparei s j to meet the next largest navy o I Europe. r According to Captain Knapp am r Admiral Dewey, this means thai i canal or no canal, our Atlantic flee - alone should be a match for the Ger > man fleet. The canal, however, en . ables us safely to get along with II Pacific fleet only three-fourth a ) large as that of Japan. Here come ) I one point: ; Our total naval strength at th) minute is not equal to that of whs . ls called the Standard Atlantl i I Fleet. For a considerable time t , come whatever building prograx i may be adopted, lt will be necessary t i concentrate our ontlre fighting Heat i > I time of war, trusting in Provident 11 that the p?rt sent to the threaten? 11 ocean will not be needed in the aces j I from which it ls withdrawn. In c I feeling this concentration the cam r I will be of very great military at . I vantage to us. . I Suppose that we- had a full-slcc , Atlantic fleet and that it had to cop I with the German navy; and suupot 11 were were attacked at the same tire 11 by Japan. Captain Knapp Bays I would be hopeless to try to mal 11 even a defensive war in the Paclf r I under such circumstances without 11 fleet three-fourths aa strong as tl r enemy's. We should lose the Phi I lippines, Guam, Hawaii, and tl , enemy would begin knocking at tl 11 coast defenses of California and Pit 11 ama. ; I Thia bringa us to the ' other eng 11 of the subject-the defenses of tl . j Panama canal. Major General Leo; . ard Wood contributes to Mr. Bel > I nett's book a scant page on th . j theme, but does not go into detai t j beyond saying that steps have be< Itaken. J To provide a garrison adequate hold it against any force, exreptli I such loree sa might be landed i a result ot our losing sea." power I that ia to say,-'the garrison will. 1 sufficient merely to bold ?the can against raiding force from fleets. . j we should lose sea control so ns > j permit the free transport of troo . I by the enemy, then tbs orce requin ?Ito hold the canal securely would ! > I a very large one. Captain Phillp Andrews, U. S. N ! [discusses oar new responsibilities u I der the Monroe Doctrine, andi i i marka: II Just as soon as oar naval strang ? ( falls below that of any European n litton that needs land, for her sur pl {population, we invite, and may ' g ) I a defiance of the Monroe Doctrine. % 11 deed, the opening of the canal Use . I by gradually Increasing commet i I and opportunity In Central and Son , I America, will Invite such agmresslo: We have guaranteed neutrality tithe Panama canal; we must mal You can't possibly anywhere, any til will not be able to Day in and day c who have examin sale in this city prc ance of ours peerle $10.00 Men's Si 12.50 44 15.00 " 18.00 44 20.00 44 $ 3.50 and $3 B 4.50 44 $4 5.00 44 6.50 44 $6 7.50 44 $7 9.00 44 $8.50 10.00 44 12.00 44 $11 And mar y other ductions. I lain it by force if need be? against any and ali. We have bound ourselves to do this. What this may mean no one yet knows; the need for force on this score would probably arise at the Haine time as other diiticulties. What bas been done to safeguard the canal against seizure by a hostile power? to this question Mr. Bennett'3 charger on "The Canal Fortifications" pfleia a satisfactory answer. There is a lC-lnch gun at ench end of the canal. These are the largest weapons In the possession of the United States, and among the largest In the world, lt must be remembered that a gun increases in power as the cube of its calibre. Thus a lG-incb gun ls not twice, but eight times, as powerful as an 8-inch gun. At an elevation of forty-flvo de grees these Panama monsters could ?shoot twenty-four miles, but as they are mounted their range is something over eleven miles. They fire a six toot projectile weighing, more than a -ton and containing 140 pounds of high explosive. One-third of a ton of smokeloss powder sends this shell out of the fifty-foot gun with a muz zle velocity of l.f'UO miles an hour. This shell will penetrate any armor plate in existence at elevn miles' range. The secondary defenses - on each side of the Isthmus consist of six 14 inch guns, six 6-inch guns, sixteen .12-lnch mortars, and eight smaller howitzers. The mortar shells have a range of eleven miles and they would have to go eight miles up into the sky before coming down on the deck of a warship at that disten co. All the guns are mounted on disap pearing carriages of the latest model. Preparations have also been made for mining the waters at both en trances In case of war. These powerful batteries, com manding the narrow entrance to the canal at olthor end, make it impos sible for any vessel to get in alive. Even in case of attack by ai large fleet, so many battleships would be disabled that no eneny could afford to take such a risk unless lt had first met and defeated the ' United States uavy. Tho garrison consists of eight com panies of coast defense troops quar tered on Naos Island on tho Pacific side and four companies quartered at Toro Point and' Margarita Island on the Atlantic side.1 There are also three regiments of infantry, one squadron of cavalry, and one bat talion of artillery on the Isthmus Besides, there are quarters for 20, 000 extra troops in case of war. Aa for tito chances, of a hostile ves Bel's eintering Limon Bay under cover of night, the author says: "Surprise attacks are guarded against by a complete searchlight equipment at the fortifications. There are fourteen searchlights, each with a 60-inch reflector, capable ot swoop ing the entire horizon. Each of these searchlights was built at a cost of more than $20,000, the mirror alono requiring a year fot Ita construction The lights are operated by electric plants independent of the main plants at Gatun and Mi raf lor es. Th? guns also are operated -by electricity gene rated at these Independent stations. "A supply of more than $2.000,000 worth of ammunition will be kept on the Isthmus at "all times. Each IC inch gun baa a supply of seventy 1 rounds of ammunition. "The fire con trol stations by which the guns find the range of tho enemy are as com plete as those of any other fortress la tho world." An inland battery of eight howit zers wilt be stationed permanently at the Gatun locks. At both ende of the canal 12-lnch mortars are so ^lioed that they can sweep the country In land as far at Gatun on the Atlantic side and Mirafiores on tho Pacfflc Slope. If called to Uko part tn land defense they will be loaded with shrapnel. The smaller howitzers also can be moved from place to place to repel land attacks. The military author I ties at Wash ington believe the Panama canal for tifications have been made impreg i nable provided tbs navy ts strong j enough to do ita .art. lu ease our Atlantic or Pacific fleet has to be moved through the canal In the face equal these values ne-and probably equal them again. >ut, shrewd buyers ed every clothing mounce this clear ys. lits Now $ 7.45 9.45 " 10.95 12.95 14.95 oys Suits $2.45 2.95 3.75 4.45 4.95 : 5.95 7.45 7.95 lines at similar re -rr if a hostile armada, those big share ;uus will bc a comfort to us and a ? ..ilat iv-:- to the enemy. Another In cresting point ls touch upon by Ar. Bennett thus: "Many persons have expressed 'ears concerning the danger of the le8truction of the locks by high ex plosives, secretly placed by one 'dr wo men. Colonel Goethals is not me of those who entertain such fears, n order to accomplishe the dastruc ion of the locks it would be necessary o place the charge very carefully, ind even in times of peace the canal >perators and watchmen are always >n guard. "As to airships, they could do no lerioun harm unless tlfey wore able o drop a huge explosive directly bo und a lock gate. Aerirll tnnviga ion has not. yet reached the degree )f skill required for such. accuracy >f aim." ?vi While all this has been done for Panama, tho authors note that con gress has thus far failed to appreciate he equal necessity of a well-equip jod naval base at Guantanamo, the niter gurd for the canal and for oar coast. ' Much more mus"t bo done for ts defense and equipment before it :an furnish adequate protection. An other point in Captain Knapp's arti cle is that Mare Island navy yard in San Francisco is doomed. The wat sr s too shallow for the big battleships >f today. .A new location in deep water near the city must ultimately be provided. Our Pacific squadron uses 100,000 tons of Al legh any coal a year, on which there may now be an annual saving of $360,000. A coaling plant las been established at the Atlantic terminus of tho canal tor storing 200,000 tons, half of it under water, another coaling plant at Balboa, on the Pacific side, is almost equally large, and both are capable of In crease 300,000 fonB. The facts given in the above arti cle are accurate and shouRl give an adequate Idea ot what the canal nena in war and how it ls defended. ODD BITS OF *??Wtt** ; Banor, Me.-Hal Lissenblnn, a re sident of this city, who had been miss ing for several days, was found mired '.o ' the) waist in mud near Stillwater ind unable to move. He was nearly ?xausted from lack of food and sleep. Windor, Ga.-The McKleduff sist ers hold the record of this state for ttay-at-homes. With their father they settled os the land'which ls now part >f Winder lu 1835, and have never >oen ten miles from the pl ?e nor lave either of them ever been Inside i railroad coach. Muskogeo, Okla.-Frankie Lily, JO rears old, ls making; a small fortune earning In the oil fields. The heavy iftlng ia done by cranes, but the girl (rives her team and ls said to be one if the best "horsemen" In this section if the country. San Francisco, Cal.-The Pan American Medical Congress is made ip of physicians who are brave men. ["hey are trying to atop kissing. Dr. 3. V. Otis, o faStna Domingo,- the tu lerculosls expert, says it would be far tetter for sweethearts to greet each ifcher with a gentle slap on the cheek ?atead of an embrace and a kiss. The loci ors accepted the hand-slap kiss as heir ' future rule and It Is believed hey will he alone In their misery. Towsnda, Pa.-Mrs. Luella J. Packard, 64 jtear-old, swallowed a itock nearly 10-tnchea long and in lead. She had no recollection" of wallowing tlie wood, hut lt was found rhen doctors operated for appendl dtlsv. Milwaukee, Wis.-Joseph Gillett ls he "oldest schoolboy/* He.haa just urned eetsanty-two and is one ot Ute >eet acholara in the engineering ourse ot the continuation school. Bessemer, Mich.-When Andrew .bppl and family returned homo from call at one of their neighbors, they ?und a huge hole In the ground rhere their home ought to have been. he ??round had given way and the ouse had dropped Into an old shaft 00 feet deep.