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?apmg . ?.-? (jg " y " Aojantes Wilson, S?cr?tWf-l?ttmkstc?es Department pf Agriculture i??k'Gate8,isvright in Ms assertion that this country is ?airablo sl 'tfj^upnorting a vastly increased population, bu. it can only ; | . :'be done with C. improved and more scientific methct's of , farming.and better conditions all around. :. I agree .AVlth afr. Hill; We are not producing foodstuffs in proportion to. the increase' ba popblation. The chlei rea son for'this is that the number of those engaged in agricul tural pursuits is Vut of proportion to our ever incret.sing population. . The. trouble lies, as I have often said, in the fact that the cities have igrowtrin population at the expense of the rural communities. , The.people jhave moved from' the '.country tb the towri, and in-consequence the. farms iave not produced as they, would if the people had remained to work them The history, of the country for the last fifty years gives abundant reason ff ox this state of-affairs. J, We began to develop our manufacto??s about that time. We gave these manufactories ample protection -with ?''tariff which was a good thinj; for '.?them, and ?or' farmer, who found thereby a ready home market foe his product ls;.. But the factory offered better inducement to the youth of the farm, bet /ter. wages, shorter hours, the attractions of a' town or city life, lights at right, ?xcitement, recreation,' many things which'the farm had not. This tended to ,idraw the life bloodsof the farmand did much to begin the trouble.. Thea we "ibegan to build railroads. These in their building .and operation tool, the hone, and sinew of the farm" throughout-the.-region they traversed. True, the farmer today is in, a better position than he has been for years. ?He is getting good prices, and we should not begrudge them to him af te: the Song lean years through which he passed. . He has .to work hard, sixteen hours ,a day at least, but he is getting a long deferred1 return fOr. his labor. The way to get the people from the city "?ito the farm,,is a broader and wider distribution .of agricultural educatior.. Most-of "our/ colleges \tpday:.are strenuously at work'turning out lawyers, doctors, preachers and typewriters, but few df them make any effort to grad uate a farmer. " I -would-'have agriculture bi some form taught in every-seat ?of learning and.in our public schools. ' . ? Starting with tnt? fact that while the farmer has to work hard he has as a reward better h??ith, ? 'longer life and a more independent existence than . any other man.oh earth, it ought to be easy to make life attractive. Then I would have the young men taught'the newest and latest met hods ' of agriculture. Show them how they can produce more from an acre than their fathers did, prove to them how to make $2 where their fathers made ?but$l, and you will have offered the inducement needed to check the aban donment of the "farm for the-city. " - ' Ravages of Cancer Rapidly Increase Worst Physical Scourge with Which We Have to Contend ty** Ey Dr. E. M. Foote HAVE no hesitancy ic pronouncing cancer the worst physi cal, scourge with which we have to contend to-day. Cancer 7 is far more to be dreaded'than tuberculosis, for, although the death'rate'from cancer ls not yet as great as that from tuberculosis, it. is steadily on the increase, while tie great white plague-has been partially conquered by medical ex '^erimentation,. and is on ?the decrease. Do your" know $hafc one man out of every thirty-two and i?ne woman out qt eleven how die of cancer in this country? Dolyou know that,-after the age of thirty-five, one man out of seventeen and, one woman out of nine die. of cancer? And that during this period more women die in the United,States, of Cancer than of consumption? According to Dr. John A. McGlinn, of Philadelphia? who has Just compiled data for the Philadelphia Medical Society on the subject, the age of greatest . frequency has come to he between the ages of fifty and 'fifty-four, when one man in fourteen and one woman in five die of cancer. Tf the disease hac been exterminated in 1906 in this country, according to Dr. McGlinn, a saving of life .equal to 373,574 years, or a total saving of more than ?224,000,000 in earn . lng capacity wouldbei the result, / , \ Out of the total population* of the registration area of males and fe nales more than thirty-five years old in 1906, there have died, or will die of cancer, ' 28J?909 men and 518,185 women. / And not only in this country, but in the world at large, is the excessive mortality from- cancer appalling.. It is increasing everywhere. In the last decade it increased 12 per 100,000. In this country ir, increased from 53 to nearly 71 per 100j,000 of population. Prom 1901 to 1906 the increases in various kinds of cancer . were 'as follows: Stomach and liver, 1.08 percent; ' mouth, 0.4 percent; intestines, 0.6 percent; skin, 0.1 percent The dew eases in the various forms of the disease were: Breast, 0;1 percent; other organs, .25 percent D??pfSeq ?jioers By Sir Ray Lankester HB bottom currents of seas and oceans, such as those which, possibly bring-amber to our shores, are strangely disposed. The Seigneur pf Sark some fifty' years ago was shipwrecked tn his yacht near the island of Guernsey. He lost, among other things, a well-fastened, strongly made chest contain ing silver plate. It was found a year later in deep urater off the-coast of Norway and restored io him! / % the .really deep s-?a, over 1,000 fathoms down, there are . we ii-marked broad currents which may be described awlT ers of very cold.'water (only four degre2s?:or so above freezing point). They flow along the deep sea; bottom, and aro sharply marked off from the warmer waters above and to the side. Their inhabitants are different from those of the warmer.water. They are due, to the melting of the polar ice, tho cold water so formed sinking at once owing to its greater density below the -warmer water of the surface currents. These deep currents. originate in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions. ty Eilis O. Jones NEW fad among women is .reported; namely, the buying of small farms; To some extent the fad ought to be en couraged, but let us hope It will not extend to the lower strata of society. If the dwellers of the tenements should take It up and commence to migrate, the.great cities would be depopulated, much to the'annoyance ef those who'are depending on these dwellers to do their work, as well as of those owners .""of the tenements themselves " who are sojourning in Tarlous parts bf the world confident that their rent-collectors will keep duly fective and forward periodical checks in ample time to/ pay recurrent hotel hills and tip the servants/,-; ' " Anyone who has influence with these dwellers should go to them a); once and, in a kindly way, persuade'them. not to desert the paths of duty at this Juncture when everything is getting'-along so. ni?ely. Even the prospective lowering of th? price of corn and. wheat would not warrant such an exodus._ (From Life. ' '" ' Locusts in Panama. The rmethod of exterminating lo custs, most generally adopted in Pana ma has been to dig a trench about fifty .'feet in. length, two feet, wide and one foot deep, with . perpendicular ?ides;;.in which the locusts are driv en by. naen beating the grass and* trees with switches. In this way millions are collected and are .destroyed with a solution of strong lye soapsuds. The trench, is then refilled with earth so ?A ta allay the,-odo*.-Argua. .' . A Thoughtful Girl. Probably the most . thoughtful daughter in the world Jives in Atchi son. Although 25 years of age, she still wears her hair down her back to keep her mother looking young. Atchlson Globe. At-the present rate of increase in travel lt is estimated that the rail ways of Manhattan and the Bronx Will .carry 1,700,000,000 passengers in 1920. " PALMETTO HAPPENINGS .. .?. **. .?.1 . <?.?..??*..- ' . ..- '.. '.' ' ... . News ' Notes^^^o.r'General .Interest T' .from Ali Parts of the State, . EX-GOV. M'SWEENEY DEAD. Rose From Newsboy to -Highest Office . ia His State.. . Columbra,. Speeinl.-^For'mer Gover nor Miles B. McSween?y of Soutlr Carolina, who had been under treat ment at Mount Hope retreat,' in. Baltimore, Md., since July 18 last, died at that institution at 1:30 o 'clock Wednesday morning. For the past week it had be?n known that the for mer Governor' was critically ill and ?his wife went to Baltimore to be with him. She was present at the time of his death, as also was his sou, Eugene B. McSweeney.. The body was brought to his old home at Hampton, Thursday and in terred there. . Former Governor McSweeney was a native of Charleston,^. C., where he was born Ap?l 18, 1855. He rose from a newsboy lb be Governor of th- State, and held many political f> . in South Carolina. Ie was one of the very few in oouth Carolina to start out as a strictly poor boy . and attain high political position. He was left an orphan in Charleston at the age of 4 years, his father dying there of yellow lover in 1859. At 10 young Miles sold'newspapers, attending night school the "while. He clerked in a bool: store a year or so tateri-He served an apprenticeship as a job printer and later, worked on newspapers in Charleston and Columbia. HP won the typographical union's scholarship to Washington and Lee university, but had to return from there in a sh^t time on account'of his money givi , out. He established The Ninety Si . Guardian in Abbeville county in 1877, which became the present Hampton Guardian in 1879. He was chairman of his county Democracy from 1884 to 1894, when he, was elected-a mem ber of the Legislature. He served as Lieutenant Governor from 1896 to 1899, succeeding to the governor ship on. the death of Gov. W. H. Ellerbe, being elected to a full, term to succeed himself. He was for eight years president of the South Caro lina Press Association and has al ways been popular with the news paper men throughout the State. Farmers Unite in Union. Union, Special.-Saturday a large mass-meeting attended by represen tative farmers of Union county was held in the court house here and re sult?d in the organization of a County Educational and Co-operative union. The object of the meeting was pre sented in an interesting speech' by Mr. W. X. Mahaffey, the State or ganizer of this union, which ? has similar? organizations in almost all the States in the Union. The following" officers were elected:' President, D. J. Gregory; vice president, J. B. Tinsley; Secretary, J. M. Greer. The meeting of the county union will be held in the court house on each Mon day, satesday,. at 12 o'clock noon. Burnett Released on Bond. Aiken, Special.-Mason Burnett was released Tuesday night on $600 bond from the county jail, C. K. Hen derson and Dr. J. H. Burnett, father of young Burnett, going on his bond. Burnett is charged with the alleged shortage in the bank of Graniteville Burnett having formerly been book-, keeper. It is rumored here that the shortage in- the bank is much less than was at first estimated. An audit ing company has been employed to check'the accounts. . Negro Bolled in Greenwood. Greenwood, Special.-Ed. Turner,* a negro, died hera Tuesday as a re sult of a pistol shot wound received from J. T. McDowell, a young white man. The shooting took place Sat urday evening in i:he store of Rautoh Bros. here. The verdict of the cor oner's jury was that "he came to his death on September 27, 1909, from the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted on his body by J. T. Me-, Dowell on the evening of September 25 in tile State and county afore said." Woman Murdered and Mutilated. Spart&nburg, Special.-The discov ered early Thursday of the mutilat ed body of Mrs. Martha Foster, con cealed beneath a mound of brush and pine needles in a s^rip of woodland north of Beaumont mill village in this city, has revealed a revolting murder and left the police authorities at sea. Poe Foster, her husband, is held in the county jail awaiting further in vestigation of the case. Four White Men Jailed. Greenwood, Special.-Four white men, Henry R. Williamson, Sloan Williamson, Ashby King and Sam W. Cooper, were arrested and lodged in jail here Tuesday on the charge of having caused the' death of Gus Gil crease, au old negro, by whipping. The crime is alleged to have occur red near Dysons,this county, on Fri day. Th? men arrested deny the charge. '?J Fire Near Alcolu. Alcolu, Special.-Mr. James M. Montgomery lost his residence with almost all of its contents by fire Tuesday afternoon. It seems that the fire started from the stove flue of the cook room,' and being fanned by a strong wind, rapidly spread to the body of the building and before as sistance could reach the scene it was nothing but a mass of flames. The barn and other outbuildings caught several times, but were saved. DlffERENCyXPLAINED Confusions as to State School Fund3. .. . oie?r?d Away. Colombia, /Spe?Ufc-Ti?ere . seems to be some: misun??Hsanding'as to the funds appropriated by the legisla ture for the aid To weak schools and the money given io the high schools. ?The.-legislature last, year appropria ted $60,000 for the high schools of. !the State and $20,000 for aid to the weak schools of the ?tate. The funds are not connected in any wa}'. Since .the first of ,the year 256 schools in 31 counties have been aided "Dozens of applications could not be honored, because i:he last check was sent early in Sep^mber. Horry county alon?, received $4, 715.97. This was distributed among 58 schools in am?tints of $100 or less. >In several instances the districts have voted a special school tax in order that th'?y may benefit hy this^appro priation. One school in. Horry coun ty enrolled 75 pupils, was apportioned $85 from'the regular, school fond, an?Npaid the teacher a monthly salary of $40. The patrons, subscribed $16, and received $32 from the" e. thereby lengthening. the ? ter^ one month. , ' Bethel in Pickens county enrolled ,18 pup;ls, was apportioned from the regular fund $42.50, and paid the teacher a salarv of $28 per month. P?tronu subscribed $7,. and received $14. Red Hill in Edgefiel'4 county en rolled 60 pupils, was apportioned $340, and paid tte "salary of $85 to two teachers. .The patrons raised $5C and secured $100 from the State. Similar dllustrafcions might be given from Marlboro,Jh?>richest agri cultural county in the State, from Spartanburg, a cotton mapufacturing centre, fram Anderson, the leading county in South Carolina in the pro duction of cotton, as w?ll as from the less prosperous sections. The Association of County Superinten dents ht its meeting in Spartanburg. strongly endorsed this appropriation to weak schools. The experiment'of 1909 w;'I probably *becom? a ' fixed policy in the next few years';*; At least $50,000 is needed to-supply the demand made during t?i? present, and, an appropriation, . of $100,000 would liol; be too.large. din the opinion of. State Superintendent of ' Educa tion' Swearingen, a local tax should be mace the "basis, for a distributing' this' fu'id. Subscriptions are unsatis factory, because they/must be solicit ed every year'.'. Tide High School Law. The high school.law was am?neded by the general assembly last Febru ary by. adding an amendment requir ing every' high school district to lew for school purposes at least.a^imill tax. This requirement will probably be extended tb elementary common schools, for weak scflools and y high schools are both included in the: pub lic school system and differ only in the gri.de of work. The demand for. this appropriation to the c iimon school has been made repeatedly; and the smali beginning . authorized by the Garr?s, act has r?ceiv?d: general indorsement throughout the State.' The State,board of^ education at its meeting September -7, passed on high school applications for" the com ing session. Thirty-eight ' counties will share, in the high school appro priation next year and several appli cations could not be granted because of the 5 per cent limit imposed on .each county py the high school act. Morei than 75 rural high schools will be in operation this year. It'is stat ed that farmers are beginning to, real ize that it is better to build up their local schools than to move to town in search of educational advantages. The $20,000 appropriated" by the Car ns act for weak schools should not be confounded with the $60,00 appro priated for the high schools. .Mulligan Pleads Guilty: Sparenburg, Special -- "Bud '' Mulligan, a former police officer, pleaded' guilty to the charge of house breaking and larceny in the court of general sessions Saturday and was sentenced to a year in the pepitentary or on the public works of the county. Mulligan was caught robbing a cash drawer in a book store here some weeks ugo. At the time the case was the sensation of the hour. " . ; ' . ' , Possum Hunter Badly Hurt. Waterloo, Special.-Mr. Jam?s, M. Mundy, a. prominent- farmer living two miles from Waterloo, was ; the victim Friday night of a very p?culiar and almost fatal-^accident. Mr. Mun dy was possum hunting and while one of the aunters Was cutting-a tree, Mr. Munday was Cn the ground nearby holding a dog. The axe left' the han dle, striking Mr. Munday in the neck, the blades penetrating deeply, inflict ing an ugly woiuid| The large ves sels in the neck were not severed. Mr. Mundy was prostrated hy the. loss of blood and by shock. His conditiop is still serious, but it is thohght th?? be will recover. Mistrial in Black Case. Columbia, Special.-Judge R. W. Memin jer Friday dismissed the jury in the case of John Black, accused of accepting bribes while a member of the old State dispensary board of directors, and ordered a new trial. The ground for this action was that the jurors had seen a copy of a local paper,, which contained an account of the first day of the trial, and a num ber of extracts from other papers condemning action of Farnum jury. Joii Bates to Die October 29. Spartanburg, Special.-Joe Bates, the former police officer convicted in the court of general sessions here this week of the murder of Mrs. Doria Boiter, was sentenced Saturday by Judge DeVore to be hanged on Octo ber 29. Attorneys for Bates will ap peal to the supreme court for a new trial oa the grounds that the jury, after having heard the testimony and argument and prior to being charged by the court, was allowed to disperse until the following morning. PRESIDENT TAFT'S TOUR Enthusiastic Thonsands Greet Him On His Western Trip, i During Saturday forenoon at Port land, Oregon, the President received from 20,000 school children a tribute which, brought tears to his eyes.- The boys and girls were banked in red, white nad blue rows in the grandstand on Multnomah field to form a "living flag." . ' ' ? The President entered/ ?he field through a gate at the crest of a hill and the view of the clyldren bursting upon him all at once called out an ex pression of wonderment and delight. His entrance was the signal for an outburst of cheering from the fresh young voices which continued until Mr. Taft had.taken the-place arrang ed for him on a stand directly facing the "flag." Then he witnessed a drill by the children which combined with their cheers inspired him, he de clared, as had no other sight in all his travels. Following the motions of a leader the children stooped from view, then sprang to their feet wi^h a cheer which fairly pierced the ear and waved red, white and blue banners in a perfect storm of fluttering colors.* Then at the command of the leader to spell "Taft" one set of children with a loud shout of "T" held hp yel low banners to form that letter. Then came the "A," "F" and the nani "T" followed by a crashing cry of "Taft" which soomed to echo back again from the far distant mountains. During the exhibition the President stood with eyes fixed upon the child ren. He asked that the spelling be repated and it was then that the tears came. The children were a mass of mov ing colors, which caused Mr. Taft t%n eonsciously to nod his h?ad from side to side in unison with the music and the flowing picture before him. When the drill ended and the children had been called to attention, the President addressed a few words to them. The Portland tribute was one of the most enthusiastic he has ?jad. The ride through the city was made the occasion of a military display by the United States forces stationed at I Vancouver barracks, the troops being reviewed by the President at the con clusion of their escort duty. On Sunday he preached another sermon, this time at the cornestone laying of the First Umversalist church' in East Portland. The Presi dent handled the silver .trowel and worked hard to see that the stone was. properly adjusted. He referred to his various church experiences and in concluding said: "No church in this country, however humble it may be, that preaches the doctrine" of true re ligion and true morality ,will lack my earnest support to make it more in fluential whenevr opportunity offers. ' ' The President's train left at 10:10 p. m. over the Southern Pacific for i Sacramento," Cal. i v Mr. Taft attended the morning j i services at the First Unitarian church in Portland and listened to a sermon by Rev. W. G. Eliot, Jr. Afterwards he was the guest of honor at a lunch eon tendered by Senator Bourne. - In the early afternoon he visited St. ; Mary's Roman Catholic school and made ' a five-minute address to the school children in which he declared . that loyalty to the Church meant fideL- , ity to the country. The-line of march followed by the presidential party to East Portland was crowded and there was cheering all along, the-way. Later in'the day when he was ad mitted tp membership in the Arctic Brotherhood, an international organ ization, made- up* of Canadians and Americans interested in the develop ment of Alaska, the President an nounced that, he intended to visit Alaska next summer and to go as far into the territory as time would permit in order that he might come into contact with the people and see for himself what might best be done for their welfare. The President frankly, told the members of the brotherhood that he did not believe Alaska at this time is ready for entire self-government. "l^am as much in favor of popular government as anybody," declared the President, "but I am in favor of popular government only when the conditions exist under which popular government may be a success and work for the benefit of the people and the government at large. When there are limitations growing out of various circumstances we must take other means until poular government becomes possible, and then, of course, it is the best government in tho world." After passing two days in and about Seattle, President Taft went to Tacoma Friday night and received from an audience that thronged the big armory one of the most cordial greetings of his trip. He was enter tained at dinner at the Union Club. Before leaving Seattle the Presi dent paid a last visit to the exposi tion grounds to view the live stock exhibition. Apparently he found great .interest in the exhibit, for he passed more than twice the length of time allotted to it. Finally, from the judges' stand he made a brief speech amid a chorus of bleats and grunts and towings, com plimenting the exhibitors on their fine showing and the progress that had been made in this country in the last 15 years in the way of scientific farm ing and breeding. The President lunched at the Seat tle Country Club and passed some time on the golf links. He promised to attend another ex position to be held on the Pacific ^ coast in 1915 in celebration of the completion of the'Panama canal. He said the date was beyond his term of office but that his interest in the Pan-, ama canal was so great that he would come. When the President turned south from Tacoma he had compleled 5,000 miles of his 13,000 mile journey. In elapsed time, however, his journey was less than one-third completed. NEW YORK MAKES-MERRY 20,000 People and 54 Floats in' the Parade to do Honor to the Memory of Hudson and Pulton. New York, Special. - Through streets ablaze with bunting and lined with the greatest crowd ever gathered in New York throughfares a parado of 20,000 men and 54 floats passed be fore the envoys of twenty-one nations participating in the Hudson-Fulton celebration. And in its passing, which occupied two hours time, the epoch-making scenes of three centu ries, represented in gigantic figures of wood, plaster, paint and tinsel, were reviewed. The day was bright and' the cele bration was held without an untoward incident. Along the route of the pa rade, a distance of over five miles, it is estimated that more than two mil lion people gathered. As a parade it was as democratic as it was historic; as cosmopolitan as it was democratic. Mayor George B. McClellan and Herman Ridder, vice president of the Hudson-Fulton cele bration, headed the line and covered the entire distance afoot. There was no military show, no distinguished personages in vehicles; all, with the exception of the platoons of police' mounted on their shiny-coated bay nurses, were afoot. . A'number of the patriotic scenes were wildly cheered. Among them were "Pulling Down the Statue of George 111," "Publishing the Consti tution;" *l Storming of Stony Point;" "Capture of Andre," ami "Washington Taking Oath of Of fice."' It was before a distinguished gath .erang that the paraders passed. Vice President James S. Sherman was flanked on either side by the admirals, Lepord and Seymour, of the French and British squadrons, respectively Governor Hughes, Seth Low, Prince Kuni of Japan, and . the German grand admiral, von Koester, were seated nearby. Others in the official reviewing stand were Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, of the Atlantic fltet and his staff; Major General O. O. Howard, and Supreme Court Justice Brewer. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the explor er, Governor Hughes of New York, and Governor Fort of New Jersey, were among the guests at a banquet tendered by the citizens of uptown New York to distinguished visitors at the celebration. There was also an other official banquet at a casino in the Bronx. OFFICER KELLS HIS MAN. Resisted Arrest and Opened Fire But Falls When Officer Shoots. Sylvania, Ga., Special.-In a pistol duel at close range Tuesday morning, Clinton Overstreet, a deputy sheriff, shot and killed L. A. Bragg, a planter, on the latter's place, near Wood cliffe, this county. Bragg fired first but his aim was poor and the officer's first^shot dropped him. The men were standing but a few feet apart and firing almost in each other's faces. Bragg is wealthy and Overstreet is a. relative of former Congressman Over street of Georgia. The officer held a warrant for Bragg's arrest. Over street went out to the plantation tp make the arrest and when he found Bragg the latter began firing. The of ficer was compelled to shoot, killing his man at the first fire. Six Dead in Railroad Wreck. Chicago, Special.-Six men were killed and a dozen seriously injured early Tuesday when an outbound Panhandle passenger train crushed in to the rear end of a Chicago, Milwaur kee & St. Paul stock train at Twelfth and Rockwell streets. The victims were stockmen, many of whom were sleeping in the caboose of the stock train and members of the stock tram crew. No persons on tL.e passenger train were injured. While the acci dent occurred a few minutes after midnight, the stock train was so com pletely demolished and the victims so mutiliated that six hours later only two had been identified. Four cars were telescoped and the wreckage set afire. Many of the injured were ex tricated with difficulty from the burn ing debris by firemen and others who hurried to the scene of the work. Federal Government to Aid. New Orleans, Special-Col. S. M. Foote, in command of Jackson bar racks, left New Orleans late Monday for a personal visit to the stricken section in Louisiana. This step was taken in pursuance to orders from Brigadier General Albert L. Mills, commanding the department of the gulf, with headquarters at Atlanta. Colonel Foote will immediately report the results of his investigation to the War Department at Washington. He says that he already has on hand a large number of tents and that rations can be procured very readily. MERELY INTIMATING. "Do you mean to say that poli tician's opinions are for sale?" "No," answered Senator Sorghum, "I won't accuse him of selling his opinions. But I 'will say that his at titude toward some cases resembles that of an expert witness."-Washing ton Star. GO TC H ABLING Before insuring elsewheri Old Line Companies. HARL/filG At The Farmers ! Items Gathered and told While I You Mold Your Breath. S SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar nered From ?.he Fields of Action at Home, and Abroad. < At Jersey City, N. J., black hand stories had gotten the children in. a parochial school in nervous condition. Some fire works were pat off Mon day near the building in celebration of some event whereupon 1,000 chil dren stampeded for the doors and fourteen -were seriously hurt. Rain seriously interfered "with the Hudson-Fulton celebration Monday afc New York. The Federal government will aid the storm stricken people on the Gulf coasts with the loan of tents, and with provisions and means of sanita tion . where decomposed animals threaten the health of the survivors. Minnesota's late Governor, John A. Johnson, left his entire estate of $25, 000 to his widow. President Taft seems to have ac complished the feat of so adjusting matters in the department that Mr. Ballinger and Mr. Pinchot will both remain in the service though still un friendly. He emphasizes his adher ence to the Roosevelt policy on. the conservation of resources. i. disturbance occurred, last Satur day morning that interfered with all telegraph lines over the world. The pr?nom en on is said to be due to the same cause as that of the aurora. . Mr. and Mrs. Abraham, Gold, of Baltimore, celebrated their 65th year of wedded life last Saturday. President Tait, on last Monday at Helena, Montana, went 1"200 feet down a copper mine therein beating: all previous presidential reords in America*. A Norwegian ship was founded near the Winter Quarter lightship out. .from New York Sunday and 12 out of a crew of 18 were drowned. Canada will place no duty on wood pulp shipped to the United'States but will charge for pulp wood shipped out. Her principal is, "All timber to be manufactured in Canada." Judge Campbell, in the Federal court at McAlister, Monday issued a temporary order restraining the State officials from interfering with the pip- ! ing of gas out of Oklahoma. An explosion occurred Monday m Pittsburg, Pa., in the Columbian film exchange by which fifty or more per sons were more or less seriously in jured and a loss of $200,000'was suf fered. G. W. Goethals, chilman of the . Isthmian Canal Commission, says the work on the canal is progressing sat sifactorily. A lad of seven years is to. be tried for murder at Spartanburg, S. C. Five white men and ten Negroes expiated crimes of larceny at' Wil mington, Deleware, last Saturday at i he whipping post. The fifteen men received the aggregate of 190 strokes of the lash. Judge W. A. Poe and Banker Rob ert H. Brown, at Macon, Ga., Wed nesday, were discussing the compara tive merits of Cook and Peary as to polar honors, till they engaged in a .fight. .At Montgomery, Ala., a fire prac tically destroyed 500 bales of cotton Wednesday. Wilbur Wright flew around the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe Island,. Wednesday, as a part of the programi for the day in ihe Hudson-Fulton cel ebration. Ex-Governor McSweeny, of South Carolina, died Wednesday at Mount Hope Retreat Hospital, Baltimore. The estimate of Gov. Johnson's estate grows. At last reckoning it was $37,000. A boiler at a 6aw mill near Caney ville, Ky., exploded Tuesday killing two and seriously injuring three. There were flurri?s in the wheat and* oats pits in Chicago Thursday by which wheat ran up $1.00 to $1.20 and oats from 411-2 to 50 cents. Commander Peary stood on the Roosevelt with Mrs. Peary by his side Friday in the Hudson-Fulton parade and was showered with honors. Spain is rejoicing over recent vic tories over the Moors in Africa and the hope of an early termination of the war. In an ambush by the enemy Friday Gen. Vicoria and three officers and 14 men were killed. i (THE EXACTING BOARDER. Letter Carrier-Rainy weather, far mer. Farmer-Yes, eur -boarders are au kickin'. Letter Carrrior-They can't blame you for the weather. Farmer-Can't, eh! Gosh, some ot 'em seem to think I ought to furnish moonlight nights.-Boston Transcript. ) SEE r & BYEJ) We??represent the Best & BYRD* Bank of Edgefield