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ililli AND LABOR Religious federation Takes Up Issue of Working People CHILD lABOR OUR DISGRACE Federal Council of the Churches of l?hrist ia America Endorses, the Work of thc Labor Orjranizsiions. Philadelphia, Pa., Special.-A clear ?onc?ption of what the Federal Coun ?il of the churches of Christ in Am erica hope *o accomplish through Church unity was conveyed through the actions of the body in session here fa adopting resolutions placing itself Ita record as favoring active work in the interest of the laboring man and organized labor and also urging a better distribution of churches and the missionary workers. Rev. Charles Steltzer, of New York, tuperintendent of the department of church and labor of the Presbyterian efcurch, declared that the relation of the laboring man to the church was one that dared not be ignored. He said that topics must be introduced to interest the working man in tne ehurch and keep him away from So cialism. He declai?d that Socialism tad token the lead irom the churches in taking up the fight for advance ment in behalf of labor and placed himself on record as favoring organiz ed labor.. No matter what the evils nf thevlabor organizations, bo said, they were necessary in protecting the working men against organized cap ital. Br. A. J. McKelway, of New Or leans, secretary for the Southern States of the National Child Labor Commission, declared that the greatest '-shame of the country was child labor ?and that the greaetst shame of the church is its disregard of this indus trial and social problem. The resolution of the committee on ""The Church and Modern Industry" was adopted, recommending the aboli tion of child labor; the regulation of the work of women so as to protect : the physical and moral health of com munities; the suppression of the i "sweating system;" the protection I of the worker from dangerous ma : chinery; a reasonable reduction of the ; hours of labor to the lowest practica ble point : a living wage as a minimum in every industry'anet for the highest ; wage that each industry can afford. Memorial to Cleveland. . New. York,- Special.-Notable exer I cises in memory of the late Grover Cleveland, former President of the United States, constituted the feature at ?the opening session in this city of tihe Association, of Life Insurance ." 'Presidents, of which he had been L.ehainnan during the year and a half between the time of its organization aud his death. The programme in cluded addresses by President Paul Morton, of the ' Equtable Life Assur ance Society, and Dr. John RV Finley, president of the College of the City of New York, and the reading of let ters which had been received from former Vice President Adlai E. i Sevenson, and Governor Hoke Smith, and Hilary A. Herber^,- members of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet. Works on With Broken Neck. Granville, Mass.. Special.-Bub bard Hollister, an elderly "farmer, has. been performing routine duties about bis place-since July 31 with a broken neck . Friday he decided to consult a physician relative to his "stiff neck." Dr. A. T. Schoonmaker and Br. H. W. Van Allen applied X-rays and found that two vertebrae were fractured. Hollister may live indefi ' nitely it is stated. Killed Daughter Then Suicided. Memphis, Tenn., Special.-A hand somely dressed woman, supposed to be Mrs. Nicholas P. Errington, of Chicago, fought a desperate battle with her 12-year-old daughter, The resa, in the Peabody Hotel, killing the* child and herself. Carbolic acid was the weapon used and both were terribly burned. Half-Million For Pier. Atlantic City, Special.-Sale of the Steeplechase Pier, whose principal owner is Councilman William Riddle, to a New York r/ idicate for $500,000 bas set anew value on property out side the Boardwalk, and will prob ably almost double the price, which city officials intended to pay for con demnation of the beach front. The new owners of the pier are not yet known, but are understood to have in mind the rebuilding of the pier at the end of the lease now held by George Tilyou. Bold Burglars Blow Safe. Pepperell, Mass., Special.-Although the police of every city asid town within a radms of fifty miles were keeping a sharp lookout for traces of the,five burglars who early Wed nesday blew open the safe of^thc ffirst National Bank herc and escap SL with $14,000 in cash, no clue to Bf identity or whereabouts of the Bfe Blowers has been discovered. Haitien Euler is Depend, Port-au-Prince, By Cable.-Presi dent Nord Alexis has been deposed and is now safe on board the Frencl braining ship Duguay Trouin, am Port-au-Prince is in the hands of the revolutionists. General Antoine Sim on, thc leader of the insurgents, is marching up thc peninsula with an anny of 5.000 and a new President General Legitime, has been proc?aim RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE Second Assistant Postmaster General Reports Upon tte Amount of Mail Matter Zandlcd During the Fiscal Year. "Washington, Special.-Exclusive of registered matter, the railway mail service during thc last riscal year handled 21,650,S49,745 pieces of mail matter, according to ? the annual re port of Second Assistant Postmaster General Stewart. Because of prac tically illegible addresses 35,565,361 nieces required special attention, with the result that 1S,9S8,626 were re turned to senders or corrected and forwarded. A now d'vision of the railway mail service, embracing the States of Ore gon, Washington and Idaho and the Territory of Ala dca, is recommended. Favorable consideration of Con gress is asked to a recommendation that postal clerks be allowed travel ing expenses while away from their homes, and also that postal clerks who have become unfit for active ser vice by reason of advanced age or physical disability incurred in the line of duty be retired with suitable pay. For the transportation of all class es of mail matter the department dur ing the year expended $81,157,720. A considerable saving was effected in connection with the weighing of mails in the Southern States. In consequence of the use of the new divisor the railroads received $434, 730 less than would have been paid under the old system. Altogether the new system of weighing has re sulted so far in a net saving of $2, 229,108 per annum. Because of the equalization of the rates of pay to transportation companies, the report states a more equitable basis of com pensation bas been reached, with re sults mutually satisfactory to carrier and the department. Still further economies are record ed. A review of the railway post office car service resulted in the re adjustment of the car space on a num ber of routes, thereby effecting a sav ing of $272,040 dnring the year. So-called half lines of railway post office cars-that is, where the postal needs in one direction warranted the authorization, but in the opposite di rection did not-are dealt with at length. Numerous protests arose over the action of the department reducing certain lines to half lines, and these led tb the appointment of a commission io inestigate the whole subject. The Postmaster General ap proved their recommendation that full pay be allowed for a line of forty' foot cars in all cases where a forty foot car must be run and returned. The report calls attention to the factNhat provision has been made to transport additional weights of mails from Valez to Fairbanks. Alaska, in the four mid-winter months, so as to allow 48,000 pounds increase. The weights on other main lines in Alas ka also have been augmented. Efforts of the department to estab lish semi-weekly sailines between New York and Porto Rico, it is stated failed, the steamship com panies refusing to make any changes in their practice of having sailings only on Saturdays. D?rings the year additional parcel post conventions were negotiated with the Netherlands, Urguary, Italy, France and Austria, and the parcel post rate of twenty cents a nound to Bolivia. Chile, Ecuador and Peni was reduced to twelve cents a pound. Trial of Carmack Slayers Postponed to January. Nashville, Tenn.. Special-On ap plication by the defense the trial of Col. Duncan B. Cooper, Robin Coop er and ex-Sheriff John D. Sharp, in dicted for the murder of former United States Senator Edward W.Car mack, has been postponed until the January term of court. The case had been set for trial December 8th. W. J. Bryan May Move to Texas. Dallas, Texas, Special.-W. J. Bryan has purchased 160 acres of land near Hidalgo, Texas, paying spot cash. He has given orders to have 40 acres planted to oranges, figs and pecans. He has made other real estate deals and there are rumors that he intends moving to Texas. Kellogg Brings Out Details. New York, Special.-The processes through which the Standard Oil trust was liquidated and its thirty subsidi ary companies brought under control of the present Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, w?re developed in in teresting detail bv John D. Archbold under cross-examination in the-Fed eral snit to dissolve the Standard. Mr. Archbold declared that -the trust had been liquidated in the period of years from*lS92 to 1899, with all good faith obey thc mandates of the Ohio Supreme Court ordering the trust dissolved. All-Night Bank. Philadelphia, Special.-Despite thc general belief that the Quaker City goes to bed at 9 o'clock. Philadelphia is soon to have an "owl" or all-night bank to accomodate those who prowl about during the night watches The ner institution will be conducted on thc continuous plan and will have counting room and offices in the northwest corner of tho Bellevue Stratford. Strikers and Soldiers Clash. Portimac, Portugal, By Cable. Three regiments of soldiers are try ing to suppress a riot of hundreds of striking workmen of tho numerous sardine canneries here. Several clashes have occurred between * the strikers and soldiers and many per sons have bren injured. The strike is general md unless it is suppressed shortly there is danger of other workmen becoming involved. The Conservation Commission Completing inventory GOVERNORS MEET NEXT WEEK Movement Inaugurated by President Roosevelt Nearing Fruition-Com mission to .Hold Joint Meeting With Governors of States-Making an Inventory a Tremendous Task. Washington, Special.-With the opening day of the *rst fall meeting of the National Conservation Commis sion, the movement inaugurated by President Roosevelt for conserving the nation's resources, is nearing fru ition. At Tuesday's session the first steps will be taken towards putting into tangible .shape the results of the six months'; hard work on taking stock of the country's waters, forests, ?ands and minerals. Next week after the commission has gone over the inventory, it will hold a joint meeting in Washington with the Governors of the States and Territories, or their rpspresentatives. At the meeting the Governors will discuss the work which the National .Conservation Commission has been carrying on during the summer and fall. The outcome of this work is the first thorough inventory of the nation's natural resources the Feder al government has ever made. The inventory is now practically com plete. On this inventory, which the conservation commission expects to lay before the Governors, the report which President Roosevelt has re quested the commission to make to .him not later than January 1, will be based. With less than six months with which to make up the inventory, the four branches into which the com mission is divided, aided by the co operation of the government depart ments have brought together what is probably the most useful collection of facts about the material things on which national industry and pro gress" are based that has ever been assembled at one time. Reports pre senting these facts and pointing out their significance have been prepared. These reports, summarized and in dexed, will be submitted to the com mission at its present meeting. The work is now practically done, The facts are ther^, in dollars and cents, tons of coal, board feet of tim ber, acre feet and horsepower of wa ter, acres of land. And the possible reform measures have been weighed. The fiscal report to the President will be the necessary supplement to the .:ddresses at the White House confer ence. The note of these addresses was a note of warning. The report is expected to show that the warning must be heeded if the exhaustion of natural resources it not, one day, tc impoverish the nation and it will also undoubtedly bring out how the coun try's resources can be developed so as to last the longest possible time and serve the greatest good to the peo ple. Next week will be a conservation week > in Washington. Besides the , meeting of the Governors the Country Life Commission will hold a meeting. The Southern Commercial Congress will be in session December 7 and 8, and will then merge with the Nation al Rivers and Harbors Congress, which will hold its annual meeting December 9 to ll. Street (tar Held Un in City of. New York.' ( New York, Special.-Three men armed with revolvers held up a Third avenue surface car and robbed the conductor. One highwayman forced the iLo.torman to keep the car mov ing at the point of a pistol while the other two seized the conductor and forced him to turn over his money. The robbers then made their escape. Metcalf Quits. Washington, Special. - Another change in the Roosevelt cabinet took place when Victor H. Metcalf, .of California, formally relinquished the portfolio of Secrcfarv of the Navv, and was succeeded by Thurman H. Newberry, cf Michigan, who had !"een assistant secretary in name, but secretary in fact, since November, 1905. Depot at Milton Broken Into. Milton, Special.-Wednesday night the depot here was broken open and it is now minus a chewing gum cabi net with all its contents, which in cluded $5 or $6 in pennies. There were two white men, strangers in town that night, supposed to b? ho boes, and there is no doubt but that they are the thieves. This is the sec ond time the Milton depot has been broken into within the past few years, the express office having been robbed two years ago and the criminals are now serving a two years' sentence in the State penitentiary. Georgian Acquitted of the Murder of Hie Cousin. Macon, Gr., Special.-W. N. Kitch ens was acquitted in Bibb county Su perior Court of the murder of his cousin, Daws Kitchens, in this city. The jury reached a verdict in less than half an hour after being ?riven the case. Both men were from Jones county. They met on the streets here and the shooting resulted from an old feud. Souherr. Power Company to Build Big Dam Across Broad River. Columbus, Ga., Special.-R. IT. Hardaway, of Columbus, .has bern awarded Tic contract by the South ern Power Comnanv, of Charlotte. N. C., to build a dam on the Broad river near Blacksburg, S.'C., 1.1 O?) feet long ?Hid 90 feet iii depth. This dam, together with the building of a power house, will represent, it is said, an expenditure of ?1,000.000. The dam is planned to develop 20,000 horsepower. CHINA WELL PLEASED Sends Special Envoy to Bring Friendly Greetings TONG DtLIVERS FORMAL THANKS Special Ambassador From the Flow ery Kingdom Presents to the Chief Executive of tho Umted States a Letter From the Late Emperor Ten dering That Country's Gratitude Fbr the Remission of the Indem nity Incident to the Boxer Rebel lion. Washington, Special.-"Long may your excellency enjoy good health and happiness. May the American people be ever blessed with prosper ity and peace. These are our heart felt wishes." The above are tue sentiments ex pressed in a letter from the Jate Emperor of China to President Roose velt, presented to him by Tong Shoa Yi, the special Chinese amabassador, thanking the United States for the ?e mission of $14,000,000 of the indem nity guaranteed by China for dam ages resulting from the Boxer rebel lion. The Emperor's Letter. "The Emperor of China to the President of the United States of America. "Greeting. Mr. President: China has always maintained the most friendly relations with the United States since the establiohment of in tercourses between the two countries. By taking the initiative in proposing the remission of a portion of the in demnity as provided by treaty your excellency has won the respect of mankind for magnanimity and just dealing. Furthermore, the Congress has given si<mal proof of friedliness by giving effect to your excellency's recommendations. In sincere appre ciation of this generous action, we hereby appoint Tong Shoa Yi, an of ficial with the rank of president of a ministry and governor of the pro vince of Feng Tien, as special ambas sador to proceed to the United States for the purpose of presenting this out letter. We have always placed entire confidence in his eminent ability, clear perception and sterling integ rity. We have specially commanded him, in the discharge of his duties, to convey to your excellency the expres sion of our grateful thanks, and tes tify to oui* lasting friendship. It is our hope that the relations of the two countries will be further strengthen ed by mutual confidence. Long m?y your excellency enjoy good health and happiness. May the American people continue to enjoy prosperity and peace. These are our heartfelt wishes. "Given on the 24th. day of the.Rth moon in the'34th vear'of Kwang Hau (September 19th\*190S)." In presenting the letter, Ambas I sador Tong. said every line cf it breathes friendship and good will for the government and people of the United States and voices the senti ment of all China. . "The action of the United States in remitting a portion of the in demnity as provided by treaty has touched the government and people of mv country with a deep sense of gratitude," said Ambassador Tong. The President's Reply. In reply the President said: "The letter which you bear, I re ceive Arith great appreciator ; and on beh?lf of the government and people of the United States I accept it with quite exceptional sentiments as a message of especial friendship from your august sovereign, whose death and the demise of her imperial majesty the late Emperor Dowager we lament. I receive it with the more profound sentiments- in that you bring it now no less from the Emperor, the celebration of whose accession makes this day doubly auspicious, and from that enlighten ed government which all thc world feels will add new lustre through his reign to the immemorial history of China. "It is very gratifying to me to receive as his imperial majesty's special ambassdaor so distinguished a statesman and so worthy a repre sentative. I know you have been in the United States before. I hope your present sojourn will be agree able. "I ask you to express to your au gust sovereign and to the Chinese gov ernment my appreciation^ and that of the government and people of the United States of the sending of this special embassy, which so finely signalizes a fresh manifestation pf that sincere confidence, good will and friendship between the United States and the Chinese empire which it is a cherished aim of this government to foster for nil time." Maddox Atlanta's Mayor. . Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Robert F. Maddox was elected mayor of At lanta Wednesday b}7 a majority of more than 3,000 votes over James G. Woodword, regular Democratic nomi nee and twice mayer of the city. Mad dox carried every ward in the city except the third and fifth. Thc elec tion passed off quiellv. Negro Removed to Penitentiary For Fear of Lynching. Spnrtanbnrg, S. C., Special-A spe cial dispatch from Aiken says thal Quitmnn Johnson ,a negro, wa*? taken from custody there charged with thc murder of a prominent, farmer in Barnwell cornily, and hurried (o i he penitentiary for safe keeping, thc authorities fearing lynching. On his way to prison he confessed that hf had bren hired to take the life ol another man and that I12 had mis taken his vi:lim. Hov? to Kill Roadside Weeds. Weeds growing along country roads may do much damage, for the weeds of farms are caused in part by roadside weeds that have been al lowed to go to seed. Many States have laws dealing with the extermin ation of weeds along the roadside, and the Manual of the Iowa Highway Commission gives methods of de stroying various weeds. In that State rag-weeds and thistles are common, and the squirrel-tail grass is becom ing very abundant. Says a writer in Engineering-Contracting : "The squirrel-tail grass is an an nual or winter annual, appearing abundantly in the fall. To prevent its seeding in the meadow, grass should be cut early. In this way blue grass will have a chance to grow and it will not be necessary to plow up the roadside if the grass is cut in this way for a few years. "The mustards may be extermin ated by treatment with copper-sul phate solution. This is< made by the use of one pound of copper sulphate to four gallons of water; fifty gal lons should be used to the acre. 'The horse nettle as well as the thistles are perennials and hence it is more difficult to exterminate them. The following method of extermin ation of the Canada thistle may be applied to this class of weeds: "The only method of treatment is to cut down and remove all of the 'roots' as far as it is possible to do so. .If done frequently and thoroughly the weed can be removed. If the patch is a small one, cutting off the parts below the ground several inches as sopn as they aopear above the ground several times during the sea son, will certainly destroy it. In large patches plow the ground, har row and remove the thistle; either burn the material or put into com post-heaps. This should be done five or six times during the season as oc casion may require. "The best mode of exterminating the horse nettle is to smother the ?? plants. This is probably the most ef- j fective and least expensive method of I removing this plant. For this pur- . pose clover is the most suitable plant, j The soil should be harrowed or culti- ' vated frequently until the time of seeding, which may be any time dur ing May and June. Planting to corn or oats is a method also used in de stroylng the horse nettle. The plant should be kept down before seeding time. The removal of the nettle when in a well-advanced stage, but before the production of seed (as when cut, with clover or early cer eals), is often resorted to, the idea being to kill the plant by shock. This method is simply an effective means of preventing the production of seed "Dock, which is a common weed everywhere along roadsides, can be exterminated as follows: The most efficient means of destroying this weed is to root it out by hand, and this is done very readily in the spring when the soil it wet, by taking hold of the plant just at the surface of the ground, giving the root a slight twist and at the same time an up ward pull, and the root will readily come from the soil. Where it is common, however, it is sometimes plowed, or a spud i3 used. This meth od 'is not, however, so efficient as the pulling method."-Literary Digest. Dustless Road. Interesting are a number of ex periments now being conducted by the office of public roads of the United States Department of Agri culture, one being the effort to build a dust proof road by combining the heretofore little used blast furnace slag with asphalt of tar. This en deavor is of the utmost economic im portance, because if the hoped for success is attained unsightly moun tains of slag will soon disappear from score of cities, and a ready market will- be established for vast quantities of this material. For several years the scientists in the office of public roads, as well as in many of the more progressive States, have been working to achieve two objects, the utilization of by products in road building and the development of dustless roads. Ex periments already conducted indicate that crushed rock, combined with tar or asphalt preparations, bids fair to solve in a measure the dustless road problem. Exhaustive laboratory tests have indicated that slag in com bination with .preparations of tar or asphalt may be made to serve as a substitute for crushed rock. Sec tions of experimental road are now being constructed which will subject the materials to actual service test. If the results are as satisfactory as tho preliminary conditions indicate, the slag-asphalt or slag-tar roads will realize the hope of the scientists for both the utilization of by-products and the attainment of a dustless road, -New York Tribune. Oiled Roads Saved Millions. The oiled roads of California have saved millions of dollars to the farm ers and fruit growers of that fertile State in the last few years by sup pressing the dust that formerly arose in blinding clouds with the passing of every vehicle. Those dust clouds, floating to adjacent fields and or chards, depreciated the price of farm produce and lowered the values of real estate to a startling degree. The sprinkling of oil was tried, and the dust was held in check. Then some of T.he roads were plowed and the oil diixcd with the earth and the mass firmly rolled to a properly crowned surface. Splendid results followed in mest instances.-New York Tribune. Thc Burden of a Great Name. Kow many heartaches and failures and disappointments; how many slurs and sneers there are for the "sou of a great mnsrer. " And it is likely that in the entire world Siegfried Wagpor is the greatest example of tue difficulty of struggling against such a reputation, because his was the greatest of fathers, and his mcth er, toe, was a geniu3.-Nev/ York Evening MaiL AND READY TO SERVE YOU. Mens Suits and Overcoats. Boys Suits and overcoats. IN OUR LADIES DEPAETMENT The most complete line of Ladies Tailored Suits, Shirt Waists, Skirts and Raincoats ever brought South. Call and take advantage of the waiting rooms we have provided for the ladies. Look for the New Store. The J. Willie Levy Co. 822 Broad Street, Augusta? Georgia. Cotton is Cheap But our goods are marked very low which alflo enables you to purchase a large quantity of merchandise with a small sum. Our stock ie chock full of CLOTHING! Dry Goods, Shoes, Notions and Millinery Goods. Tbeee goods were bought right and will be sold right. We can clothe and shoe the men, and supply the ladies with etyJieh dreee goode and hats at very moderate prices. Full etock of styJieh millinery. We iuvite our Edgefield friends to call to see us wheu in the city. It will be a pleas ure to show you through our etock. Augusta Bee Hive, Abe Cohen, Prprietor. 916-918 Broad St., Augusta. Georgia. GO TO SEE HAELING & BYKD Before insuring elsewhere, Wegrepresent the 'Bes! Old Line Companies. v HARUflG 8c BYRD* At The Farmers Bank of Edgefield We Carry a Large Stock of / Tin, Rubber, Tar Paper Roofing, Hard Wood Mantels, Grates and Tiles, Parian House Paints. e Black, and galvanized corrugated iron, tar and rosin sized building paper; Tin Shingles, etc. Estimates cheerfully furnished on tin roofing, gutters, etc, galvanized iron cornices, and skylights. David @lusk3T, s? Two car loads of Brick, One car of Lime, One car of Cement, One car C. S. Meal and Hulls. I have also just received 125 dry cell batteries ter Gasoline engines. I solicit your patronage. E. S. JOHNSON, THE T.HX. ENEME" You want an engine that runs like a top, smoothly and uninterrupt edly. If an engine balks or stops and you huve to fool away your tine to find out the cause, you don't want that engine because it means a waste of time and energy. -:- -:- -: I. H. C. engines are so prac tical and so simple that when you start them they run until you stop them whether you arc watching or not Never out o? repair; don't waste fuel, dil on ns and we will gladly exploita the good points of the I. H. C. engine. -:- -:- -:- -s* ? Norsrls 3