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News of EUROPE'S; An engineering feat that also 1 Southern Germany. The plans are reservoir with an insured ivater si me mountain, me water 's carrieu during electrical current. The plai the railroads, light all the cities, as Bavaria. Photo shows working pa PARLOR, BEDROOM A! George H. Bell, a retired busin editor, believe they have the mos Bearing every resemblance to th? it is on wheels, it boasts of a co space and every convenience that their "up.to-the-minute" apartmei iNUMBER OF SUICIDES SHOWS SOME INCREASE More Homicides For 1921 Than For 1920?25 Killed By Lightning Columbia, July 11.?Suicides in South Carolina in 1921 totaled 78,! or at the rate of 4.5 per 1,000 pop ulation, according to figures taken from the records of the bureau of vital statistics. In 1920 the total number of suicides was 58, which was a rate of 3.4 per 1,000 of population. nujiuciaes in iyzi totaled 301, which was a rate of 17.5 per 1,000 of population. The number of homicides in 1920 was 256, or a rate of 15.2. These figures have recently been compned by the bu reau of vital statistics, of which C. Wilson Miller is chief clerk. ' Legal electrocutions in 1921 totaled seven or a rate of .41 per 1,000 of population. In 1920 the | number of legal electrocuitons was three, or a rate of .17. Deaths from automobile acci r?pnta in 1091 ?0 ? - ??W -avMA auuiwicu \JL?y UI it rate of 3.6 per 1,000 of population. The number of deaths froirf auto mobile accidents in 1921 number ed 62, or a rate of 3.6 per 1,000 | of population. The number of. deaths from automoble accidents inj 1920 was 82, which was a rate of 4.9 per 1,000. Deaths from railroad accidents { i The Day 1 WONDERFUL ENGINEERING FE as political significance is well undei to empty the Iscar River into Walcl pply and is emptied into another lak to the lower lake where water turbi it when completed will produce enoi well- as furnish enough current to ties meet'ng in the centre. ID?IN A "FLIVVER." >ss man, and his w^'fe who is an t compact home in existence. modern bungalow, except that mfortable eating and sleeping the landlord banditry orer in it houses. in 1921 totaled 58, or a rate of 3.4. Tn 1920 deaths from such accidents totaled 63, which was a rat-i of 3.7 per 1,000. Lightning killed almost twice as many people in the stare in 1921 as in 1920. In 1921 the number of deaths from lightning was 25 and in 1920 the number was 14. Diseases of the circulation brought about more deaths in 1921 in the state than any other one cause. The number of deaths at tributed to this cause was 2,865, or a rate of 166.7 per 1,000 of popu lation. In 1920 the number of deaths from diseases of the circu lation was 2,873, which was a rate of 170.6. Pneumonia also claimed many victims in 1921. The number of deaths from this disease was 820. In 1920, however, the number of pneumonia deaths was 1,725. Pulmonalis tuberculosis in 1920 claimed 1,468 Victims. ,Jn 1921 the number was 1,405. Pellagra, ac cording to the statistics, claimed 334 victims in 1^21 and 257 in 1920. Diphtheria took 146 lives in 1920 and 156 in 1921. Typhoid fever in 1921 claimed 372 victims. In 1920 the number of deaths from this disease was 314. Smallpox in 1920 killed two per 3 iaoi ft nr_i? 1920 brought about 254 deaths and in 1921, 212 deaths Diseases of the kidneys caused many deaths in each of the two years. In 1920 the 1 nlrl in Ph A. V/1VI XX A M. XX :at. way in the Bavarian Alps in len Sea. This lake serves as a :e?Kochel See. By tunnelling nes are being erected for pro jgh power to light supply all run all industrial planst in WORLD'S LARGEST COA One of the two huge 320,000 p:>i Reed Arsenal, near Troy, N. Y., fo .many coast defenses of Uncle Sam, aboard flat cars leaving New York ine guns are 01 id incn oore, ana being built in the world. PASTE TO PREVENT STEM-END ROT IN MELONS Clemson College. July.?Recently * the Extension Service published In- , formation Card No. 21, "Prevention of Stem.End Rot of watermelons" giving a formula for making paste to be used for treating watermelons to > prevent stem-end rot. This paste is i applied at the time of loading in | cars. The proportions given in Card ( ! No. 21 were incorrect in that only I four ounces of starch are given as the correct amount. The proper pro portions are 8 ounces of bluestone and 8 ounces of starch to 1 gallon of water, this quantity of paste be ing sufficient to treat two or four carloads of melons. The error men tioned above also appeared in an ar ticle on this subject in the Weekly News Notes of June. Sea otters sleep on their backs on the top of the water or in ice with the young otters in their paws. number of deaths from such dis J eases was 1,491 and In 1921 was 11,451. Tetanus is ckarged with 19 | deaths in 1920 and ten in 1*921. j Deaths from influenza showed a | sharp falling off. In 1920 this malady claimed -674 lives; in 1921 it took 118. "General accidents" caused the 1 death of 313 people in 1921 and ' of 308 in 1920. I olographs UND CURE FOR HOOKWORM DISEASE 2,000 natives of the Fifi Islands e been successfully treated for kworm by a method discovered Dr. Maurice C. Hall of the U. S. >artment of Agriculture. What is eved to be the positive cure for kworm is a chemical known as )on tetra-chloride. .ST defense gun and guns built at the Walter r Fort Tilden, one of the , located at Rockaway Point, en route to their destination, are of the largest type guns N V V SMITHVILLE > \ After a very pleasant visit to home folks here Mrs. F. J. Mann and little Miss Eleanor have re turned to their home in Fairfield. Mr. and 'Mrs. 'Ben Frazier were called to the ibedside of their uncle, Mr. James Anderson, Satur day. Mr. Anderson has been in failing health for sometime and re cently suffered a stroke of paraly sis. Miss Martha Jones is in Abbe ville visiting Miss Anna Jones. Miss Josie Tolbert is visiting her aunt near Bookman. Mrs. W. 0. Cromer, accompanied by Miss Helen and Mr H. W. Crom er of Greenville, has been on a visit to friends in Columbia. Miss ?>. K. Morton visited Mrs. Lucy Tolbert iFriday. J. R. Tolbert spent Sunday with C. B. Tolbert. Refreshing showers are falling and farmers are 'busy sowing peas and working their crops. -Gardeni are holding on well and all have plenty of fresh vegetables. Mrs. John Beauford visited her daughter in Greenwood Sunday. The modern silk hat was first worn :n England about 1840. MOUNTAIN CLIMBING A daring mountain climber, ju called "chimneys" in the wild regi ton of the Grisoons, Switzerland, feat, and only the most daring moi PRESIDENT. Patrick McLoughlin, said to be I the oldest living Confederate veter an of the Civil War, at 101 years of age, called on President Harding at the White House. He attended the Confederate reunion recently at Richmond, Va. BIG HELP TO EDUCATION Rural Schools Consolidation Is Praised Boston, July 4.?The movement on foot for consolidation in rural | schools is the greatest fprward movement' in the nation today, J. B. Snyder of the Board of Educa 1 tion, Perrypolis, Pa., said in an ad dress today before the National Education Association here. "We must save the rural ! scnoois II we are lu aavc UU1 ?? tion," Mr. Snyder said. "To save our rural schools -we must consoli date. Many things can be done and many things will be done, and by 1935 75 per cent of all the rural schools of the country will have been consolidated. "To bring about this consolida tion as rapidly as possible the dif ferent States should frame binding laws on the subject; appropriate t, money enough to put these laws . into effect, and put on a big pub , licity campaign in favor of the boys and girls of our rural dis , ricts. "The attitude we have had as a i nlation towards consonaaiea schools has I?d, year after year, thousands of our rural 'boys and i girls up to the altar of ignorance i J and there sacrificed them to the 11 hard god of wealth. We cannot long perpetuate a democracy if we treat our rural population in the I future as we have done in the j past" Watch the label on your paper. HAS ITS HAZARDS. mping across one of tiie so ion of the Val Bregaglia, can The leap across, is quite a intain climbers would chance it. Copyright Underwood & Underwood RAILROAD MEN TO BALLOT SOON Photo show4 B. M. Jewell, head of the railroad employees' department of the American Federation of Labor, who sent word to Chicago headquar ters to speed up printing and distri bution of .strike ballots. "The .new wages," he said recently, "do not permit a minimum living wage, and they are wholly at variance with th?. savinc wacp chanmioned bv Sec'tv of Labor Davis and President Harding." Mr. Jewell will be an important figure in the present strike. FORMER SERVICE MEN Greater Comfort to fee Provided at Chick Spring*. Washington, July 4.?Greater com fcit and a more favorable environ ment for 250 disabled former ser vice men listed as neuro-psychiatric cases will be provided with establish ment of a resident vocational school at Chick Springs, S. C., the United States Veterans' Bureau announced today. ]t is thought that the new build ing, equipped with machinery for teaching the men various trades and provided with special facilities for caring for them mentally and physic ally, with the healthful surroundings and natural advantages of the sec tion, will bring about a more easy response to training on the part of the nerve-torn, shell-shocked victims. An experienced corps of instruct ors, two physicians and three nurses, the bureau added, will be assigned" to care for the student patients who,, because of their disabilities, are un_ able to respond to training under normal conditions in ordinary schools Cooperative arrangements for a shipping point inspection of fruits and vegetables in California in common with other Western states are ibeing effected by the United (States Department of Agriculture and State marketing officials in California. A conference <xf Wes tern State commissioners of agri culture was recently held at Sac ramento to discuss shipping point inspection work.