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%uck" Is Only G Scape goat for Inefficiency By Beatrice Fairfax *9 w w w HF WV* : i ltm""1 0 you know that "luck" ls a word wif ? might well be dropped from the dictionary? It is generally misused ana D? made a sort of scapegoat for inefficiency. t ? Not long ago I overheard a group of #rls talking about j 5 a girl who had just been invited to Europe by a friend. "Isn't she the luckiest thing?" said one of them, envi ously. . "This is the third lovely trip she has been invited toUke." "Yes,"' said another, -with a sigh, "she certainly does have great luck. Last year Mrs. K. invited her to go South with her, and the year before she went on that lovely cruise with the L--s. I wish I had her luck." They simply thought of her as being lucky, but I happened to know that it was her extreme sweetness, cheerfulness and unselfishness that won her all of those delightful trips. There was no luck about lt. It was entirely a ques tion of popularity. f "How lucky to be so popular!" you might say; but don't tor a moment Imagine that popularity is a matter of luck. There is no chance about lt. It must be worked for, and worked for hard. Men will look at the successful man and exclaim, "What a lucky beggar lie is!" They don't stop to consider how bard he.has worked for his-success. Luck is the ability to recognize an opportunity and take advantage or it. Just let "lack" take care of itself. Hard work and good judgment will help you along.better than all the so-called luck in the world. If you are lazy and slipshod in your methods, you will in all probability be ? failure, and" you will weakly blame your failure to had luck: Write out these words and paste them above your looking glass: "There is no such thing as luck, what, 1 am and what I achieve is owing to perseverance and ability on my part." People often say to me, "Oh, Miss Fairfax^ you are so lucky to have work that you like, and that you can make successful!" I am indeed fortunate in being able to earn my living in a thoror^hly con genial occupation, but it was not by any .means easy when I first began it, and there were many hours of discouragement. It Is. hot hick that has "brought me any success that I may have found, but applicatiou and interest in my work. ? Forget that there is such a word as "luck," and just go ahead trying your best to succeed In wbatever you* may be engaged in. If yan wait for luck to come your way, you may find it a long wait. Luck comes to those who work for it, not to those who walt for it-New York Eve ning Journal. What Happens lo a Million aire's Mon ey ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ty F. IV. H ewes GREAT reservoir of water, undistributed, leaves men and women to perish of thirst and growing crops to parch and die. So. also, vaults bulging with stagnant money leave men and women to perish in abject poverty, and ripehed crops to rot within the fields and orchards that grow them. Therefore, what happens to the dollars* ol the millionaire Is a question of the first importance. : Those of us who believe In praying ?or mater lal bless ings will do well to pray long and earnestly that rlo.1 women will never cease to buy (100 hats and $1,009 gowns, with diamonds and other Jewels to match. That they will continue to give balls and teas and enter -"<r pynpnfsty? fcjnd. That they will be recklessly extrava " <fren~no~noir?pt;nap-Tii<?jr pu?, miu DO,W>U W_._ "the wage-earner's money-channels. Let us be. thankful, too, that neither the ?Dllars of the poor are of any value save as they go into the wage-channels of active circulation.-Harper's Weekly.- . Survival of the Fittest I By Slr Ray Lankester .?..??.o NLY one oyster embryo out of every five million produced 0, % grows up through all the successive stages of youta to the ? adult state. Even in animals which produce a small num % ber of young there is great destruction, and taking; all the J individuals into consideration only a single pair , of young arrive at maturity to replace, their parents. There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally multiplies, at So high a rate that if not destroyed the progeny of a siai?e pair would soon cover the earth. The elephant ls reckoned the slowest breeder of known animals; it commences to brew at thirty years of age, dies at one hundred, and has six young in the interval. After seven hundred and dfty years, supposing all the offspring of a single pair fulfilled the rule and. were not destroyed In an untimely way, there would be nearly nineteen million elephants alive descended from the first pair. v J Luxury By Ramsey Benson EASTS are 'denied the light of reason, and for that their comh rt waits simply on the indulgence of desire. With man, on the other hand, since reason is his especial gift, comfort waits on the reasonable indulgence of desire. But reason is "such a bore that we enjoy almost nothing better than throwing It to the winds,-there's no denying the delight of going on' and indulging our desires without let or hindrance. Of course, it isn't comfort which we taus obtain,-only luxury, which is of comfort the caricature. Luxury, then, is another fruit of responsibility, that gift in virtue of which the humankind^may the good profer yet ah! the worst pursue,-may Tauntingly account inferior beings not dowered with it, and end by so using it as to raise a doubt whether its bestowal on'themselves was not a huge, grim joke.-From Life. Something New. "I notice the stage lawyer In that play didn't carry his papers in his lat" "Well, maybe the author of the play used as his model a real lawyer. They're getting realism down pretty Une these days."-Kansas City Jour nal, Y' '? ? Irish agricultural associations are moving for the introduction of ad Tancred farming appliances. Pleasures Ahead. "Beware!" whispered the fortune teller, "your bitterest enemy* will shortly cross your path "Hooray!" cried the man, delighted ly, "my new. motor car won't do a thing to him."-Philadelphia Press. Do Not Speak as They Pass By. He (after the quarrel)-I Was a fool when I married you. She-Yes, but I thought you would improve.-Independent. Items rf Interest Gathered By > . Wire and CabEe CLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events of Hore or Less Interest at Home and Abroad, / Miss Gladys Young was killed and Miss Mae Smith was critically burn ed from an exploded giisoline tank in New York Sunday, when two au tomobiles crashed together. John Goode, the lasi; surviving member of the Confederate Congress, was striken /with paralysis at Nor folk Saturday. S. Cox, -while viewing the ascen sion of a balloon at Big Stone Gap, Va., last' Saturday, became entangled with the ropes of the parachute and was carried up 35 feet then fell head foremost and was killed. }. At Detroit, Mich., last Saturday, in a crowded 5 and 10 cent store the false alarm of fire caused a panic in which one girl's skull wa.s fractured, and 20 or more were injured. Col. H. C. Thurston, known as the Texas giant, believed to have been the tallest American, 7 f set 9 inches in height, a Confederate soldier un der General Price, died at his home on Saturday, aged 77. Thurton toured America and Europe wkh a circus, and made a competency) came to Texas and buying farms and ranches spent his declining years in quiet. He was a conspicious fijrure at the recent Confederate reunion at Mem phis. George Fuller, his wife and three children were drowned Saturday af ternoon in a lake 12 miles north of Fort Collins, Iowa. The parents and two boys were drowned while trying to rescue a little daughter who had fallen in while trying ito get a bucket of water. At Woonsocket, .R. I., last Satur day some unnoticed person threw a bomb in the midst of a crowd and one man was killed and five were more or less seriously hurt. , The Tennessee Supreme Court has ordered new trials for the eight Night Riders convicted in connection with the Reel Foot Lake case on the ground of errors. ? . Five Chinese were sentenced to death in Boston last Saturday for the murder of four Celestials in a war of tongs. . A family of four was murdered at Aberdeen, S. D., last Saturday,, pre sumably by tramps who were after a sum of money. Eight men were shot at lone, Ore., last Saturday in .a battle between a sheriff's posse and an alleged ex convict, who surrendered only when his ammunition became exhausted. Rev. E. L. Langley was fatally shot at Grayson, Ga., Monday, while ---*-'--1 ll* ? ? Ll_ ana ner six-weeks old infant and tore off the top of a 17 yearsi old boy's head and injured the man handling the cannon. At Goshen, Ind., a Fourth of July sky rocket went through a livery stable roof and burned it and along with it a young mah who was sleep ing in the loft. Southern Congressmen will appeal to President Taft to appoint no ne gro census enumerators in white dis tricts in the South. York, FA., had an ah.rming fire Sunday,, which did $20,000 worth of damage. The former Miss Silvey Spear, an heiress of Atlanta, who doped with her father's chauffeur, ha? secured a divorce. Mistaking pistol firing 3?or signals, a parachutist at Portland, Maine, cut loose too soon and was dashed to death Monday. Supt. Moses Friedman issued a statement Monday defying the charges of cruel treatment at the Car lisle Indniaa School. John R. Early, the alleged leper, now in a New York hospital, was allowed to mingle freely with other patients and received his family Mon day. His case is pronounced as not being leprosy. Wasltington News Notes. President Taft delivered the ad dress at the unveiling of the monu ment Saturday to Dr. B. F. Stephen son, found f?r of the Grand Army of the Republic. Senator Daniel Saturday succeed ed in securing the elimination of tea and coffee from the maximum re taliatory provision of the Tariff bill. The . "weighthouse" for tho Wrights' aeroplane at Fori; Myer was blown down last Saturday. The President and Mrs. Taft went to Beverly, - Mass., Saturday, where the President*s family willi spend the summer. After, only six hours' debate the Senate adopted the "maximum and minimum" provision of th<? Tariff bill 36 to 18 last Thursday. Experts estimate that the new cor poration tax will. yield about $50, 000.000 a year. Senator Bailey attacked Hitch cock Saturday for his alleged inten tion to appoint partisan census super visors in the South. The Senate completed its consider ation of the Tariff bill in committee of the whole Thursday. Not a single person was seriously injured in the Fourth of July cele bration in ?Washington. President Taft and Ambassadors Bryce and Jessaserand took the fore most part in the Champlain celebra tion. TR??BIE IN BOLIVIA Bolivia is Disquieted-Mobs Attack Peruvian and Argentine Legations -Minister From the Argentine With His Wife linn For Their Lives. / LaPaa, Bolivia, Special.-The guards protecting thc Peruvian and Argentine legations were suddenly withdrawn Saturday evening, for some unknown reason. When this be came known, street mobs renewd their attacks on the legations, caus ing serious damage. The Argentine minister, Senor Fen seca, and his'wife, had'a narrow es cape from injury. They made their way out of the legation, and ran a dis tance of eight blocks, finally seeking .protection in the home of the Presi dent of Bolivia. No explanation has been made as to why the strict measures ordered by the authorities at the first sign of trouble have not been enforced. Man ifestations have- been numerous in public places, and at a meeting held Saturday, a . portrait of Figueroa Al corta, President of Argentina, was placed head downwards on a pole and stoned to pieces. It is reported here that consider able excitement prevails at Lima and Buenos Ayres, and the Argentine government's silence in the face of Bolivian protests is . regarded as ominious. La Paz was given over Sunday night to riot. The people swarmed in to the streets and did! much damage. The electric wires, were cut and pil laging was begun on all sides. Shots were heard, in every direction. The situation for foreigners, especially Peruvian and Argentine residents, is extremely serious._ Hurricane ?weeps Panama. Panama, .Special.-A hurricane of unusual severity occurred Saturday night, doing much damage to prop erty. The electric, plant in Panama was put out ,of commission and the city was left in darkness, whv?h serv ed to increase the alarm. At*he time there was a great crowd at the Na tional' theatre. The performance came to an end hut the audience re mained comparatively quiet. Many of the residents, who were unaccustomed to such violent storms left their houses, seeking safety with in the churches, the doors of which were thrown open to shelter ,> the icroAvds. It is feared that the interior and coast towns have suffered consider ably. The government has dispatch ed two steamers. Gets a life Sentence. Marianna, Fla., Special.- His wife's story that Dr. H. Alexander had kissed her while she was a pa tient in his chair caused J. V. White to kill the dentist several months ago and Saturday the resulting trial ended with the jury's cerdict of sec ond degree murder, which carries with it a sentence of life imprison ment. White's plea was that of self defense/ .he asserting that after the trouble had been ..patched up" he peupie .vere hilled, ??t?fln were in-1 jured and- much property was stroyed Sunday by a tornado whici passed over this section. - The tornado demolished two dwell ing houses, the round house, coal sheds and five boarding cars of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail road. About 40 Italian laborers were in the cars and of these, five were killed and 15 injured. Phillip de Griff, a bus driver, was killed by being hurled against a tree when his vehicle was blown over and crushed. The tor nado was accompanied by a heavy rain and hail storm. To Avenge Black Hand Murder. New Orleans, La., Special.-The first execution in Louisiana for a crime carried out under the sign of the Black Hand will take place at Hahnville next Friday when Leon ardo Gebbia will be hanged far ocm plicity in the murder of little Walter Lamana, two years ago. Six Italians are how serving life sentences in the State penitentiary for complicity in the crime. Three Trainmen Killed. .Grand Junction, Col., Special. Three trainmen killed and one fatal ly injured and traffic tied up for more than 12 hours are the results of a head-on collision early Saturday near Cisco, Utah, between a west-bound passenger train and an east-bound sheep train. Elks bound for Los Angeles were passengers of the wrecked train. The engine crew and baggageman of the passenger train were killed. Fourteen special trains carrying Elks to Los Angeles were held up all day. Toxaway Train Wrecked. Asheville, Special.-Train No. 7, on route from Toxaway to Asheville, Saturday afternoon at 4:45 p. m., left the tracks on a curve at the 11-mile post of the Transylvania division, near Etowah, turning the entire train composed of a chair ?jar, a first-class coach and a combination car, over down an embankment. Ten persons were injured, none of them, however, so seriously but that they will re cover. Revolutionists Stand Between Ameri can Minister an His Post. Bogota, Columbia, Special.-The American minister to Colombia, Elliott Northcott, has been delayed at Barranquilla, on his way to Bogota, owing to the fact that the revolu tionists have control of the lines of communication, including I the steam ers. Official statments with regard to the uprising, issued by the govern ment, continue to assert that the rev olutionary movement is merely a lo cal affair at Barranquilla. Notwithstanding the fact that Monday was a legal holiday the Sen ate put in a full day 's time, and busi ness proceeded from 10 o'clock in the morning until 5:35 o'clock in the afternoon with punctilious regularity and exceptional celerity. The result was marvelous. Not since the tariff bill has come, into the Senate has so much been accomplished within a day. Indeed, when the sitting came to an end a summary of the proceed ings showed that there was very lit tle left to be done. The principal item still to be considered was the tobacco tax, the figures on which had not been completed by the committee when the Senate adjourned. There was only a small part of the members present when the House met. Chaplain Couden offered a prayer expressing patriotism appro priate to the day. A message from the President rec ommending an appropriation to pay the claim of a subject of Montenegro for the loss of certain property, in Texas in 1865 was read and referred to the committee on appropriations. . . . Completing the tarin" bill in the committee of the whole, that measure was Tuesday reported to the Senate, so that legislation providing for cus toms duties is now regarded as on the home stretch. The question was brought (o a clos? temporarily by a motion to adjourn for the day to af ford Senators an opportunity to look over the reprint of the bill before tak ing further action, The adjournment was with the understanding that when the body reconvenes all sections of the bill that Senators do not desire to reserve for further amendment shall be agreed to en bloc. The Sen ate will then consider the tobacco tax, the only amendment not adopted in the committee of the whole. The i Senate jogged along in uneventful fashion, until Senator Smoot stated that he had an amendment reconf mended by the committee on finance, fixing duties on tobacco. He sent it to the desk to be read. This1 preliminary procedure conclud ed, Senator Daniel, of Virginia, rank ing minority member of the commit tee on finance, disputed the state ment of the Senator from Utah that provision had been recommended by the committee. He characterized it as another "bogus committee amend ment," stating that the minority members of the committee had never seen it until it had been completed. Senator Bailey moved his iucome tax amendment "Wednesday as a sub stitute for the finance commitee's provision. A vote was taken upon it and it was rejected by a majority of 19, the ballot being 28 to 47. With the corporation tax provision thus established as a part of the tar iff bill, there was considerable effort to amend it. In one notable case this effort was successful. Senator Clapp, of Minnesota, who has been a severe " Jim' .mn ce itfL rot ?n the amendment lu cuu^^... . nator Daniel offered a nfew plan i fo . taxing corporations with gross in comes above $300,000 at the rate of ' 1-4 of 1 per cent, upon their gross incomes. Refering lightly to the "pretended weariness'' of the Rhode Island Sen ator, he described him as "a wizard" at whose sign "insurgents marched with tread of Roman soldiers to bring him victory." . . . . No time was lost Friday by the conferees of the House and Senate in getting together to map out the program for the many sessions that must be held for the purpose of put ting the finishing touches upon 'the tariff legislation. Chairman Aldrich, of the Senate finance committee, and chairman Payne of the House ways and means committee, agree that is may be pos sible to reach an agreement within 10 days, but are not sanguine of their ability of getting the conference re ports adopted speedily after they have been presented to the House and the Senate. An amendment by Senator John son, of Alabama, declaring the inten tion of the United States eventually to grant independence to the Philip pines was opposed as being out of place and was rejected. By the adoption of a House resolu tion, an invitation was accepted by Congress to be represented at thc Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Before adjoining the Senate re ceived official announcement of the death of Representative Cushman of Washington, and adjourned out of respect to his memory. ? ? ? ? . Making a tariff law that will most nearly meet the wishes of the great est number of people and at the same time raise, sufficient revenue for the expense bf the government-that is the task with which for four months both houses of Congress have wres tled and which has now reached what might be called the semi-final, or con ference stage. Eleven men, five Re publican Senators and six Republi can Representatives, have shouldered the responsibility of evolving from the two tariff bilis passed by the Sen ate and House, a law that will be ac ceptable not only to both houses of Congress but also to the President, and above all, to the mass of the peo ple. While each would like to carry its point it is realized that conces sions must be made and the Senate and the House must get together. Strong efforts will be made by Con gressmen and State officials to have the President stop, for a few minutes at least, at nearly all of the towns of appreciable size through which his train will pass in the daylight hours. Ten Republicans Cast Tl Bill While Only One McEnery, of Loui. "Washington, Special.-The tariff bill passed the Senate just after ll o'clock Thursday night by a vote of 45 to 34. Republicans voting in the negative were Beveridge, of Indiana; Bristow, of Kansas; Brown, of Ne braska; Burkett, of Nebraska; Clapp,j of Minnesota; Crawford,, of South Dakota; Cummins, of Iowa; Dolliver, of Iowa; LaFollette, of Wisconsin; Nelson, of Minnesota. McEnery, of Louisiana, was the only Democrat re corded in the affirmative. As it passed the Senate the bill con tains almost 400 paragraphs. The Senate made 840 amendments to the House provisions, many of which were added Thursday. . The closing scenes in the Senate chamber were tame indeed. Mr. La Follette's three-hour speech Thurs day night was earnest, but not es pecially animated. He had a slim au dience. Senators remaining in their seats only when required to be there to vote. The results of the vote on the bill had been long discounted. There "was no doubt of its passage by the usual finance committee majority. Following several hours' of mon otonous discussion of the general features of the tariff bill, the closing hours were characterized by a spirit ed controversary between Senator Aldrich on the one hand and a num ber of the insurgent Senators on the other as to the standing of Republi can Senators, who might cast their votes against the bill. The bill being put on its passage was passed. Upon motion of Mr. Aldrich, the Vice President announced the Senate conf?res as follows: Senators Ald rich, Burrows, Penrose, Hale, Cullom, Republicans; and Daniel, Money and Bailey, Democrats. The tariff question now has been THE ANTI-PROH1BITIONI5? Bristol, Va., Special.-By the nar row majority of 32, out of a total of 844 votes polled, the anti-prohibition ists won the local option election held| here Thursday, following one of the most hotly contested campaigns of its kind in the South. ?Pandemonium reigns here Thurs day night in that part of Bristol, which lies in Tennessee as well as in the half of the city which has declar ed for the sale of liquor after a dry ness of two years. Preparations are already being made for opening up saloons and wholesale houses for suppplying not only the immediate territory but that of the dozen near *?-n< ? ? nriainii nm in-the prohibition . -_0 fluence toward prc roads of the prc Son th. They say, ning of the fight is but the op-1 ening of the greater fight for recla mation of lost territory in the South. Locally, the contest was intensely exciting, but it was more than a local contest. With -the liquor interests of the entire country it was a pivotal fight.? Driven out of the surrounding Southern States, the whiskey people fought i tenaciously for a foothold hera. Against the influence of the pro WOUNDED BURGLAR ?DMI1 NewYork, Special.-Frank Schmidt ,alias John Smith, the wounded burg lar, who admits that he killed Mrs. Sophia Staber in her bedroom early Thursday morning when he was caught robbing the Staber house at Flatbush, said Friday: "Mr. Staber and his son are to be blamed for this killinsr," he said. WESTERN TOWNS ALMOST St. Joseph, Mo., Special.-Death and destruction followed the sudden floods sweeping over DeKalb,Davies, Grund}-, Mercer, Harrison and Liv ingston counties in Northern Mis souri. It is believed ll persons hz.ve been drowned, and the -.?opertv loss will reach more than $1,000,000. The flood extends through Kansas and Nebraska and a part of Colora do. Train service is demoralized in Nebraska and Kansas on acount of washouts, and in Colorado, the land slides and floods from mountain tor rents have caused train schedules to JOHN R. EARLY GIVES AK New York, Special.-John R. Early the young Southerner heralded about the country as a leper, gave a recep tion Friday night to prove that he is untainted. It was held at New York skin and cancer hospital and was at tended by medical men, a number of Early's friends and a sprinkling of the general public interested in the case. Early, who lately came from Washington, where he was quarantin FEDERAL AND STATE COU1 Savannah, Ga., Special.-Despite the order of Federal Judge Emory Speer, citing Receiver W. V. Davis, of the Electric Supply Company, of this city, to appear before him in Macon on Monday next to show cause why he should not he held in con tempt of court refusing to turn the property of the company over to United ' States Marshal White, on Judge Speer's order. Chatham coun ty officers are yet guarding the prop erty, and are calmly awaiting the ?ieir Ballots Against the ? Democrat, Senator siana, Votes for lt ? shifted from both houses of .Congress : to a\ conference committee. The House Friday adopted a rule -whereby all of the 840 amendments of the Sen ate were disagreed to and the confer ence requested by the Senate granted. When the House met. Friday in terest" was at fever heat. The leaders I on both sides had notified their re spective forces to be on hand. The de bate which at times waxed warm, disclosed the fact that there were some Republicans, in addition to tho so-called insurgents, who were yet to be pacified before they would give their votes on the final passage of the bill. The Democrats accused th? ma jority party of having violated it? ante-election pledges. A feature of the discussion was ian appeal by Chairman Payne to his colleagues 'to send the conferees to the Senate un hampered by instruction. He prom ised to rigidly exact an explanation of every amendment made by the Sen ate, in order that . the House' con ferees might report back a bill which would meet the approval at large. His appeal was granted. In the course of the debate, Repre sentative Mann, of Illinois, declared he would vote against the bill on the conference report if the Senate provi I sion on wood pulp and print paper i was retained. Messrs/ Randell, of Texas, Pou, of North Carolina, and Henry, of Texas, characterized the measure as break ing ?the Republican pledges to the American people. Speaker Cannon announced, the fol lowing "as the House conferees: Payne, of New York; Dalzell, of Pennsylvania; McCall, of Massachu setts; Boutell, of Illinois; Calderhe*d, of Kansas; Fordney, of Michigan; Republicans; Clark, of Missouri; Un derwood, of Alabama; Griggs, of Georgia, Democrats. TS WIN IN BRISTOL, VA? hibitionists and their unwavering allies the women and children,- the leaders of the opposing forces spent ^thousands of dollars. Nearly a hun* dred representatives of the saloon, distillery and brewery interests were here to witness the election and lend what assistance they might to cor* railing votes. Many of them came \ here with a view tc starting in busi ness. Half of the business buildings in thc city had been optioned for sate . or Teni at very Ililli prices, penlin^' Thursday's result. And these option*: were paid for in cash, too.. I.'tt campaign was ht gun a !i cue over a month ago when Judge Johja W. Trice, of. the corporation court, ordered the . election on petition of one-?burth of the qualified voters The temperance people brought manj oui-of-lown speakers here and foi Itma -iroclfg maatirigs have been held '.treets, in churches 'undreds of women ; on the grounds at i a ce all day, singing ".he success of the. 'he women served e near the polls -enching rains ork from early ? closed. The anti-prohibitionists conducted a "still hunt" campaign and worked under cover until within the past week, when they suddenly burst into print and flooded the city with liter ature opposing prohibition and seek ing to show its ill effects on Bristol. The Abingdoni dispensary, 13 miles east of Bristol, doing an immense business, largely from local trade, was used as a chief argument by them. TS HE KILLED MRS. STABER "They were fools to try to stop such men as us when all we wanted was to make a get-away. , "If Mr. Staber will take a gun I . will let him shoot till I drop dead. That's how I regret this affair." Schmidt's pal, Carlo Giro, alias Metzler, made a confession in which he tried to lay all the? blame on his mate._ SWEPT AWAY BY FLOODS be abandoned and hundreds of East ern people are marooned in the State, Iowa and Illinois are also flooded, though the damage in these States is not so great as it is in Missouri and Kansas. Half a dozen towns and cities in Northwest Missouri are cut off from communication with the world and are in danger of being swept away. In many places people are in want of food and supplies'and are in grave danger of being swept away in their homes, but the current is so swift that no skiff or small boat V can get' to them._ ECEPTION TO HIS FRIENDS / ed for nearly a year, received his guests cordially and discussed his recent isolation. Early related a humorous in cident at the expense of the Wash ington authorities. "What did you do when they had you shut up?" he was asked. "I rais ed chickens," he said, "and both tho chickens and their eggs were sent to Washington and sold in the open market." HTS CLASH AS TO ORDERS Federal court's next move. Receiver Davis has not yet stated whether he will answer this new sum mons, but state's that he is awaiting tlie orders of Judge Charlton, of tha Chatham County Superior Court, I who appointed him receiver and will ict as he directs. No further o?der. Ins been issued by Judge Charlton. lT.e has not directed the deputy sher iffs to yield up the property to the. Federal officers and the former are still on guard, equipped with pistols?