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* IARWG MODIFIES POSTMASTER RULE CANDIDATE FOR APPOINTMENT NEED NOT STAND AT THE HEAD OF LIST. . THIRD HINGEST NAT GET JOB About Thirteen Thousand Postoffices of First, Second and Third Classes Are Affected by This Order, Washington. - President Wilson's order for selection of first, second and third class postmasters under civil .service requirements was modified by President Harding to give a wider Aeld from which postmasters may be chosen. Instead of being required, to select the candidate standing highest ir a civil" service examination for any .specific postmastership, the adminis tration may, under this order, give tke place to any one of the three, at the head, of the qualtfied list. About 13,000 postofffies of the frst, second and third class are affected by the order which, it was announced at tde White House would be applied to all selections made for those ces. In making the announce a l .t, President H arding issued a -- tatement saying he hoped, congres ould take a further step in the same diretion by placing first, second and third class postmasters under the classfied civil service. A Record Sugar Crop. Washington.-Final figures on 1920 sugar production in the United States, issued by the crop estimates bureau gmd covering both cane and beet su gar production, confirmed previous in dlications of a record crop, exceeding the best previous. crop in 1916. Britain Denies Russian Rumor., London.-There has been no formal recognition of the soViet government etRussi aby Great Britain and the situation with reference to recognition has not changed since the conclusion at the prellminarY Anglo-Russian trading agreement, the foreign office nnounced. . S. to Lose $1,200,000000. W gton.-Loss to the goverm ration of the railroad un. fed control will be about $,. A00,00,, r $300,000,000 more than t r)Twer Director General S United Orders Decrease. New York.-The monthly tonnage ~. eport of the United States Steel cor poration, made public, showed 5,845, 324 tons of unfilled orders on hand ~April 30. This is a decrease from~ 1mfilled orders in March. Germany Accepts Ultimatum. Washington.-Germlany has accept ed the allied ultimatum. The reichstag, by a vote of 221 tc 1'75, yielded to the final demands o1 the allied powers, and, in so doing, agreed to fulfill the terms of the treaty of Versailles, "to the capacity' of the nation to do so. Rally In FroreIgn Exchange. New York.-Cables received by the internatianal bankers from L~ndon~ and Paris indicating that Germany Swould accept the reparations ultima F'tum of the Allies stiffened the local foreign exchange market perceptibly. Natural Gas Discovered. San Juan, Costa Rlca.-Dicovery pof valuable oil and gas territory neai jPuerto Limon, on eastern coast of Costa Rica is reported here. Four Brothers Cremated. Cambridge, Mass. - Four brothers 'ere burned to death in a fire here which partly destroyed their home. No AccIdent to 16,000,000. - hicago.-Du1ring the past year the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail rd handled nearly 16.000.000 pas segers, not one of whom was killed. LaPorte Damaged byStorm. .Houston, Texas.--The town of La orte, Texas, was damaged to the extent of aproimiately $35.000 and several persons were injured in a wind storm which swept inland from the Gulf of Mexico near LaPorte. 'Agree to ArbItrate. Geneva.-The Swiss Federal Coun. e il has agreed to arbitrate the long standing 'boundary dispute between Venezuela and Colombia. It Is 01 pected that a decision will be ren dered within twelve months. Beaufort Will Entertain Denby. Beaufort, S. C. - Edwin T. Denby, secretary of the navy, will be tha guest of Beaufort May 30 and will at tend the exercises to be held at the *national cemetery in Beaufort inc dent to the celebration of national Memorial Day. Bankers Promise Assistance. New York.-Co-operation in finanmo in~g cotton exportation was promised 1yy import.ant New York bankers at a meeting with the committee of Se'h ... bkors and cotton exporters. STATE HISTORY IS DEPICtE Irobably Seven Thousand Spectator Learn Numerous Facts in South Carolina History. Rock Hill.-Representative men an women of South Carolina, probably si or seven thousand strong, sat at th feet of the students of Winthrop co loge and learned numerous facts ii South. Carolina history, hitherto ol scure, were vividly portrayed. "Come, See Your State," was the ft vitation sent out by the college in ax nouncing the presentation of the pz geant, "The making of South Cart lina," and from every county in th state they responded by the 10s, 201 50s and 100s. It was conservatively estimated tha there were 3.000 visitors from outsid of York county, while from the cit and county there were several thout pnd in attendance. From' aged vet( rans of the army of the Confederac to school boys in their teens, the came, the veterans being the.especia guests of the college. It was the most gigantic spectU cle ever presented in the South an on all sides were heard the words c commendation for all concerne< from President Johnson on dow to the school boys and girls who too part in the scenes. There were 1 episodes in the pageant and eac scene was most realistic of the tim represented. Charleston. - Property owners c land along a section of the Blnehous road, near Charleston, have obtaine an. order to show cause against th Charleston sanitary and. drainag committee the phlintiffs seeking - permanent injunction to prevent th sommission from, it Is alleged in th complaints, diverting the present roa< way to another that will conne< Charleston with the state highwa: The order is returnable on May 18. Manning.-Violators of prohibitiol operating stills in Clarendon count: are being promptly 'arraigned befor the authorities. Sheriff Gamble ha captured 11 stills and nine men wer charged with operating these still! The sherit is doing excellent work i the cause of enforcing the law of pr< ibition. He sent up 24 cases at th last term of court and has alread listed 15 cases for the June term. GreenwoA. - Positive denial wa made here by Joe W. TolDert, nations committeeman, and republican stat WaIrman of South Carolina, that pal 1 leaders in Washington have in col templation the matter of turning ove federal patronage in South Carolin to a referee, who -was formerly "prominent democratic politiciaii. Tork. -- Representatives . of' th Young Men's Business league C Greenville and of 23 other South Cart lina cities and towns will visit Yor on the' afternoon of May 16, on thel "get aqane"tour of the stati The visitors. will be met .by a delegi tion of York business men and give an automobile ride over the pretties town in the state. Greenville.--His skull fractured b a blow with a singletree, Andy Welli a young farmer of Travelers Rest set tion of the county, Is in a critical cot diton in a hospital here. Walter Boi iprs and his son. Carl Bowers, hai been placed in jail charged with hal ing inflicted the wound. Richmond, Va. (Special)-Afirmin the judgment of the district court a Columbia, the federal circui~t appes court held that Dr. Laouis D). Barbo physician, of Charleston, S. C., mu! serve t'hree months in jail and pa a ine of $1,000 for violation of th Harrison antj-narcotic act. York. - One hundred and fitee white persons took the teachers' e3 amination conducted here by the couw ty board of education, this being th~ largest number to apply for certif cates In years. About three-fourths the applicants were Winthrop stt dents. Greenville. -Policeman George 2 Burroughs died from an internal hen orrage caused by a bullet said to hai been fired by William Thompson, negro, whom the officer attempted t arest. Farmers Diversifying Crop. Orangeburg. - Farmers arouni Neeses have gone extensively into th growing of truck and new cropi Quite a large acreage of tobacco ha been planted in that section, say Farm Demonstration Agent L. 2 Wolfe, and they have cut their cotto acreage about 30 per cent. Beside tobacco they are plantinig cucumbers watermelons, cantaloupes, sweet pota toes and lima beans. Farm Demot Istration Agent Wolfe is arranging meeting to be held at Neeses in th near future. Sumter and Chester Win. Clinton. - Representatives of nin high schools competed in the nint annual state high school declamatio: contest under the auspices of th Presbyterian College of South Cart lina. Three medals were awardet The first of these went to MortimE IKahn of Mayesville, declaiming, "W Have Stoned the Prophets;" second( Donald Russell. Chester, "Citizer ,ship;", third, Frank Clarke, Sumte: I"The Fatriot's Sacrifice." Dr. D. M. Douglas, president of th FiGURLNG ONE~S IINCOME TAXI Directions That May, or May Not, Be I Helpful in Making Out a Cor rect Return. In the direction of helpfulness the Winstead Saturday Night suggests that if your income is $2,400 a year and you have a diamond ring and an automobile and are married to a bru nette girl twenty-six, years old, you take the amount of your income, add a your personal property, subtract your street number, multiply by your height, add your wife's height and divide by . your telephone number. You will then carry your minus, sep arated from Tour plus, to schedule G, - on the tenth line of which you will a subtract the multiple, which you put i, on line X, schedule K, entering in col umn A. t If you have a child in the family 0 subtract $200 from your income, add V the amount of your personal property, - multiply by your waist measure, sub tract the size of your collar, add the 7 child's age, multiply by the amount Y you have given the church during the year and divide by the number of your automobile licensetag. If there are two children you de duct $400 from your income, add the weight and age of the second child, divide by the date of your birth, mul tiply by the size of your hat and sub, tract the weight of your mother-In 1taw. e The result of the above computation e should be darried to line VIII., sched ule I, after deducting from the total of G, P. and A, and adding F, C and I L, carrying it to column D, 'which will 8 cover .all taxation except the normal d and surtax. NO RAINBOW AFTER DELUGE e Johns - Hopkins University Professor V- Explains HoW the Historic Mis t understanding Came About. The rainbow after the deluge, de scribed in the book of Genesis 9:13, was not a rainbow after all, but a collection of great fly-brushes of the ancient oriental gods, declares Prof. Paul Haupt of Johns Hopkins univer e sty. Announcement of his discovery was made by Doctor Haupt at Gouch er college, at g session of. the American Oriental society, which held its one hundred and thirty-third conclave in Baltimore. The mistake in Genesis, said Pro fessor Haupt, probably is due to a & 'misunderstanding of a character on I one of the old cuneiform tablets. The g wor is "bow," which could very ,. asily be mistaken for "By brush," he L. said. These huge feather brushes r were in vogue among the old rulers ii & Assyria and Egypt, and were regard ed 'as ancient symbols of sovereignty In the Orient. According to Doctor Haupt, the an cies naturally gave their gods credit t for having fly-brushes, and, in fact, in I Une 184 of the ood tablet the word k "fly brush" appears as big, as life. * r IThe passa;:e says that "When Istar I sees the gods gather around the of Sferer like a swarm of flies (because a there had been no offerings during t the flood), she is so incensed that she takes the great fly-brushes of her fa ther, Anu (king of the gods), to drive 7 away the gods." Britons Have New Telephone. '- A new telephonic device already in - actual use in England is the larynga e phone, a transmitter In which a disk r- is, placed against the throat of the speaker and the sound is transmitted by the vibration of the vocal chords, g says a London dispatch to the NewI ,t York Tribune. It is suitable for use in noigy factories and workrooms! t where the ordinary telephone mouth t piece transmitter would pick up the y other sounds in the room and so pre 8 vent conversation. In appearance the laryngaphone re semnbles the ordinary telephone except that there is a smooth rounded rub 'ber disk Instead of a mouthpiece. The ' receiver is the same and the messages e are received in the ordinary sekn Land for Canadian Soldiers. The forest reserves held by the Ca ;*nadian federal government and all sit . uated in the West, comprise an area 8 of approximately 27,500,000 acres, and a consist of tracts of land uasultable for o aculture which have been set apart permanently for forst production. At the request of the soldier settlement board areas totalling about 480,000 d acres were withdrawn from the re e serves in order to be made available . for soldier settlement. For the most a part these areas consist of small tracts of a few hundred acres, withdrawn. L from a number of different- reserves. n Only in the cases of the Riding moun a tain and Porcupine reserves were the' i, areas larger, about 220,000 acres be -. Ing withdrawn from the former and I about 240,000 acres from the latter. e Dres and Insurance Rate. Swiss women who wear short skirts and low-necked gowns will have to pay higher rates of life insurance than athose who do not. The Swiss insurance Icompanies have a'nnounced that in fix 0Ing the premiums on policies of womn en's lives they will take into considera tion the women's wearing apparel. The ,shorter the skirt or lower the deco1 lete, the higher the insurance rate will The Swiss companies justify this ac tion on the ground of a great increase of illness and disease among their women clients which they claim Is due MAGAZINES A FULL LINE OF THE BEST AND LATEST COPIES ALWAYS ON HAND.' COME AND SEE OUR LINE TENNANT BROTHERS Main Street Winnsboro, S. C. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that Eliza Nelson, Executrix of the estate of Rebecca E. Rice, deceased, has this iay made application unto me for a inal discharge as such executrix; and hat the 6th day of May, 1921, at 10 o'clock A. M., at my office, has. been appointed for the hearing of aid petition. April 6, 1921. 2-5 W. L. HOLLY, Judge of Probate, Fairfield Co., S. C. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that all per ons indebted to the estate of John C. Mobley, decease, are required to make pavnient to the undersigfh ed, and all '.ersons claiming against said estate are required to present the same duty verified to the under signed. (Signed) C. E. Mobley, Executor of the Will of John C. Mob. ley, deceased. NOTICE. State of South Carolina, County of Fairfield. n the Court of Common Pieas. Ex Parte: Lucinda Giles, Petitioner. Notice is hereby given that the above named Petitioner has filed. a Petition in the oftive of the Clerk of! the Court of Common Pleas for Fair field County, praying that the Judge of Probate for Fairfield County may be appointed Guardian of the estate of Anna Belle Boyd, an infant under the age of six yars, upon the ground that no fit, competent and responsi le person can be found who is wil ing to attend to such Guardianship. The estate of said Infant consists of th3 sum of about Eight Hundred and Fifty Dollars in Cash. Luinda Giles, Petitioner. G. W. Ragedale, Attorney for Petitioner. 5-6 "THE GREAT REDEEMER" . 'COMING MAY 6th. MULES AND HORSES-I have two mules and two horses that will work anywhere you hitch them. If vo have to buy one see these before you trade. W. R. Doty, Jr. M~iThe 'A1Mo The C World's Cha significance 6-66 model < When thisec at the rate.o fast car, but SYou can esta 6-66. 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