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Edgefisld Adve tisor. Oldest Paper in South Carolina. EDGZFIELD. S. C. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY KAN - ? KOOT IV. PORTANT EVENT3 OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern* Tho biggest COCK nght pulled off since the Civil war was had about two milos from Augusta, Ga., when a main for the championship between Ncrth Carolina and Mississippi was fought for a side purse of $1,000 on the main and 3100 on each fight. The championship was won by North Car olma. There were nine fights, and 1,500 fanciers attended. . On million dollars has been sub scribed by Boston capitalists for the proposed merger of nine big cotton mill industries, all valued at $10,000, 000, to be knowtf ' under the consoli dation as the Parkers Mill company. This will be the third largest concern of its kind in the- world. The mills which it is proposed to merge are ali in South Caro' aa. A series of robberios culminating with the burglary of the home of Mrs. Heger Whtnfield at Seabreeze, Fla., is estimated to have netted a gang of burglars more than $50,0U0 in jew elry. According to the report of Mrs Whitfield, jewelry valued at 523,000 was secured from her home, includ ing a pearl brooch and two diamond pendants worth $10,000. This robbery followed the burglarizing of the homes of E. R. Hotchkiss and J. D. Price at Ormond, Fla. With the shadow of a life sentence in the penitentiary of Georgia nang ing over him, Edgar Stripling, thiel of police of Danville, Va., arrived in Atlanta to face the sentence for mur der which was imposed upon him 14 years ago. It was discovered thal tho chief of police of Danville, whe has passed under Gie name of R. E. Morris, a highly respected citizen ol the city, is the man who escaped from the jail in Harris county in lb97. after receiving a sentence to life im prisonment for murder. Two masked and heaily army roh hf?XB held up an express car on an lion Mountain train within St. Louis <ity limits, escaping with several packages and the money box, whicn they removed from the safe after ?binding and gagging the messenger. M*. M. McRobbiss. That the train robbers obtained a large amount ol morey is believed, though no approx imation of the sum has been yet ob fained. ? Population statistics of the thir teenth census announced included : Thomson, Ga., 2,151; Demopolis, Ala.lV 2,417; Unlontown, Ala., 1,836; Grena da. Miss., 2,814 Idabel, Okla., 1,493 Troy, Ala., 4,961; Bridgeport, Ala., 2. Izo; Scottsboro, Ala., 1,018. oeneraL Five men trapped in raids which covered three states, are charged by the secret service with counterfeiting live-dollar bills on the German Na tional Bank of Beloit, Kan. Thomas Clarw, in jail at Huntsville, Ala.; J. C. Durham, under arrest in Licking, -Ma; Bode Payne, caught at Roi'a. Mo.; Carl H. Evers, under arrest at Chicago, and Harry Burke, arrested at Alton, III., are accused of making and passing the notes. Charles F. Murphy, the leader ol Tammany Hall, broke a precedent and issued a 90-page typewritten statement bitterly attacking Edward M. Shepard, w-ho characterized Mur phy's dominance as a "voting trust' in his letter withdrawing from the United States senatorship fight. He holds Mr. Shepard to blame for the deadlock at Albany an dsays he is inclined to believe that Mr. Shepard and his friends would not have critl "cised Tammany Hall had it supported .Shepard. . In a terrific running battle between . & band of Shoshone Indians, who were teing pursued by a squad of state police officers, because they were be lieved to have murdered four stock men recently, eight of the Indians and J?d Holfie, a member of the police force, weer shot and killed at Kelly ?creek. The battle waged for three .hours and only ended when four bucks, two squaws, two children and one officer were killed and one young ?squaw and three children captured. Henry L. Myers (Dem.) was elect cd United States senator from Mon tana to succeed Senator Carter. Governor Cary of Wyoming vetoed the Umshler bill legalizing prize fights of 25 rounds in Wyoming. Princess Di Tr?gona, a lady-in-wait ing to Queen Helena of Italy, niece of Marquis Di Sangiuliano, the Ital ian minister of foreign affairs, and cousin of Prince Di Scalea, secretary of state in the foreign office, wa.? murdered, in a small hotel in Rome Italy, by Lieutenant Baron Paterno, s cavalry officer, who then killed aim self. In a 16-page pamphlet bearing the title "Refutation of the Statements ol President Taft," Jose Santos Zelaya, oxilcd former president of Nlcar?gua, indulges in bitter denunciation o. President Tait and this government. He brands President Taft as a slan derer, accuses the United States gov ernment of having "shamelessly aided the rebellion" in Nicaragua. All of the Chicago morning papers were published in abbreviated form because cl differences between them and the Typographical union. The Ttrike was unauthorized by the In ternational Typographical union Mrs. Maicwin Drummond, formerly Mrs. Marshall Field. Jr., of Chicago, v/as robbed of a fortuno in jewels iboard a transAtlantic liner. Dia monds, pearls and other gems to the value approximately of $130,000 dis appeared mysteriously Prosecuting Attorney Hayden ol Ingham county, Michigan, has discov ered, he asserts, that a majority ol the members of the Michigan legis lature have been smuggling liquor in to Lansing, which is situated in "dry' territory, and he says that after the ses-ion for the arrest of the repre sentatives. It is reported that the German gov ernment has inquired at Washington and Ottawa whether the kaiser's gov ernment will be entitled to the bene fits of the American-Canadian reci procity agreement. The plague Is ravaging Pel Chaun Unto, about fifty miles north of Har bin, China. Deaths there are report ed to number 2,000 daily. The dis ease is raging* at Kirin, Hulanchen, opposite Harbin, and at Bodune, 10C miles southeast of the Manchurian capital. Bread riots have occurred throughout the stricken district The foreign consuls are preparing to leave The troops have refused to march into the plague places. Martial law has been established. Prohibition of profanity and vulgar ity on the stage by a city ordinance is being urged upon the New York aldermen by many religious societies. Washington. A valuable food resource of tho na tion which so far has not been de \ eloped is to be found in the mussel beds which extend on the Atlantic coast from Maine to North Carolisa and on the Pacific coast from Wash ington to San Francisco. Irving A. Field of the United States fisheries laboratory of Woods Hole, Mass., in a bulletin, says tho natural beds ol' sea mussels are capable of supplying wholesome food to thousands of per sons at the expense of but little trou ble in collecting them. In the retrospect the Sixty-first con gress, which has Just expired by con stitutiosal limitation, appears to have been distinguished by three things : the revision of the tariff in the so called Payne-Aldrlch bill, which was passed at an extra session in the sum mer of 1909; the larg?* amount of Im portant legislation, much of it upon the recommendation of President Taft enacted at the regular session of 1909 10, and the exceedingly small prod uct cf the "short session," so-called, now closed. The question concerning the valid ity of William Lorimer's title tc a seat in the United States senate from Illinois was decided in Lorimer's fa vor by the membership of the sea ate itself. The vote was 46 to 40. Thirty-five Republicans and eleven Democrats voted for Lorimer. Seven teen Democrats and twenty-three Ito publicans voted against the Illlnol sian. The house of representatives gave its formal approval to the constitu tion of New Mexico, advancing the territory another step toward state hood. The constitution of Arizona has not yet reached Washington, and cannot be acted on until thc next ses sion of congress. The house passed the bill recom mended by Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh, providing that none of the $290,000,000 of Panama canal bonds authorized in the Payne tariff law shall be received as security for the issue of circulating notes. The pur pose of the legislation, it is said, is to protect the $700,000,000 of 2 pet cent. United States bonds now out standing from depreciation. The new bonds are to bear a rate of 3 per cent., but without the circulation priv ilege. The Borah resolution for the pop ular election of senators, with the Sutherland amendment tacked on, fail ed of passage in the senate. It lacked four votes of securing the requisite two-thirds majority. The vote was 54 for the resolution and 33 against iL. Eight Southern Democrats voted against it. John Hays Hammond has been se lected to represent President Taft as special ambassador at the coronation cf King George V. The special committee of the house appointed last summer to investigate Senator Gore's charges of attempted bribery in connection with J. W. Mc Murray's Indian attorney contracts in Oklahoma, made its final report to the house. The majority of the commit tee finds that Jake L.,Hanlon actually did, about May 6, 1910, make an im proper proposal to Senator Gore re specting the McMurray contracts. , President Taft, by inference, was charged with using his appointive powers to intimidate the members ol congress. The inferred charge was made in a speech by Senator Jona than Bourne of Oregon, and until re cent trouble over an Oregon appoint ment the intimate friend and golfing companion of the executive. Tho sur prising thing was that, although all of the senators as an attack upon the president, not a word was uttered in reply. The "magazine war" is ended. A compromise has been reached and President Taft and Senator Penrose, chairman of the postoffice and post roads committee, agreed to it. The rider to the postoffice appropriation bill increasing the magazine rates will be eliminated ana a provision substituted creating a commission to investigate the entire subject and re port to congress at the next session. The magazine "rider" proposed to increase tlie postage rates on the ad vertising sections of magazines from the present rate ofv one cent a pound to four cents a pound. Ambassador O'Brien and Count Ko mura, the Japanese foreign secretary, have exchanged congratulations on the ratification of the treaty between the United States and Japan. There are not lacking evidences that the high est officials and entire press of this country, as well as the general pub lic, are deeply stirred by the early acceptance by the American govern, ment of Japan's assurances that she desires a continuation of friendly re lations which have always existed and by the confidence shown in the sin cerity of Japan's undertaking regard :ng emigration. COUNTY TO COUNTY SURVEY OF NEWS CONDUCT OF THE CITIZENS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF ->OUTH CAROLINA. A VALSE IDEA OF BRAVERY. judge Sease in His Charge to Grand Jury Talks of Pisto! Toting. Saluda.-The charge of Judge Sease who was presiding here, in the court of sessions, to the grand jury was a strong deliverance. He emphasized the duties of grand and petit jurors He traced to the prevalent pistol toting habit much of the lawlessness In the state. In this connection he stated that when a man puts a plato] in his hip pocket and goes out among bis fellows there was an understand ing with himself deep down in his heart to murder upon the slightest provocation. In getting at the cause of so many homicides in South Caro lina he gave it as his opinion thal society had false idea of courage and bravery. Public sentiment some times applauds the killing of a mar. as an act of bravery when it should condemn it in no uncertain tones. The man of the highest courage is the man who conquere himself Such an one is greater than the mar who? taketh a city. If a man, espe cially a white man, he guilty of steal ing,, public sentiment condemns him He ?B scorned. But this same senti ment is often guilty of excusing, up on the false theory of courage and bravery, the man who slays his fel low man. INFORMATION IN QUANTITIES Winding-Up Dispensary Commission Sends Letter to Governor Blease. The commission to wind up the af fairs of the state dispensary for warded its reply to Governor Blease'e request for information. The reply was ready earlier, but there were some typographical corrections which Dr. Murry, the chairman, had made. The communication vouchsafes to Governor Blease the information he asks and concludes by saying that if he wishes any further explanation of the matters the commission \will be pleased to have the chairman, Dr. Murray, go over the entire transac tions with the governor. There is no desire evidenced on the part of the commission to be stingy with infor mation. In addition to reports already made by the commission to the governor, to which his attention is called, a spe cial . financial report since the 1st ol January of this year is j submitted. There are' a number of exhibits, in cluding copies of contracts and set tlements with B. L. Abney, attorney, ind the Atlanta firm of lawyers. "Who's Loony Nov?" Lancaster.-Governor Blease ii quoted In the daily papers as sayinc that he declined to commission C. P Quattlebaum as special judge to hold court at Conway, as recommended bj the supreme court, because Judger Copes and Memminger were disen gaged. The supreme court knew, thougl not by any member of the court, be fore making the Quattlebaum recom mendation, that neither Judge Coper nor Judge Memminger could be as signed to hold the Conway court, I' knew that upon his qualification Judge Copes would preside at th' Richland court, in Columbia, It alsc knew that Judge Memminger war sick at his home in Charleston, thc judge having Informed the court upor its inquiry, that in the opinion of hi: physicians he was not physically abk to go to Conway. * Florence.-Mr. William R. Kuker of Durham, N. C., son of Mr. John Kuker, and brother of Mr. L. C Kuker, Florence's postmaster, haE purchased from the Wilson, N. C. road commissioners the railroad and its entire equipment that runs fron? Wilson to the rock quarries, a dis tance of about five miles. The pur chase price represented several thou Band dollars outlay. To Mark Confederate Graves. Orangeburg.-A plan is now on foot headed by Camp Thomas J. Glover U. C. V., and Paul McMichael chap ter, U. D. C., of this city, to mark all the graves of Confederate veteran? in this county. The graves are to bc marked with crosses made of iron and a facsimile of the cross of honoi which are conferred on the old sol diers by the Daughters of the Con federacy. The work of marking th' graves will be commenced as soon a: the crosses get here. There are prob ably over 500. South Carolina Senators Divided. Washington.-Senator Smith voted for the resolution declaring that Sen ator Lorimer was not legally elected to the senate of the United States and Se^-cor Tillman voted against the resolution when the vote of thc senate was taken. South Carolina was but one of the several States whose delegations In the senate were divided in voting. Senator Tillman is credited wit! having been won over to the caus' of Lorimer by the speech of Senato: Balley in Lorimer's behalf. Terminal Stations in Greenville. Greenville.-One hundred and fifty thousand dollars of new money war dumped into Greenville and 60 fam Hies are seeking homes, this righi welcome catastrophe being brough ?*out by the Piedmont & Northern r .ilway company exercising options Q t a large number c. lots, stretchinr f) nm west Washington street across M est McBee avenue to Reedy rive: a. id up the river toward the Southern ruilway's main line which will be cenverted into a site for tho com pmy's terminal stations. CURED 14 YEARS. Remarkable Recovery From Serious Kidney Trouble. Jacob See, 199 Prince St., Newark, N. J., says: "I suffered until I thought I would be better dead. I was in con stant pain, incapacitat ed for work and could not sleep. The urine passed too freely and I was obliged to arise many times at night. I 55'was growing gradually worse. Nothing helped me and then I began with Doan's Kidney Pills and was cured. This took place fourteen years ago and I have had no trouble since." Remember the name-Doan's. 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"Destitute, abandoned and unpro tocted" children, for whom no othei special provision is made, will here after be committed to the care of th< Rescue orphanage, Columbia, whor ever they may be found in the state The act so providing has been ap proved by Governor Blease, and the affixing of hlB signature made lt ef fective. The measure provides: "That wher ever any girl under the age of 14 or boy under the age of 10 years shall be found by any policemen, sheriff, constable or other person in any county, city or town, in circum stances of destitution or suffering, 01 of abandonment, exposure or neglect or of beggary or in any house of ill fame, it shall be lawful for, and thc duty of, such officers to make report thereof to the probate judge of saic county. Thereupon, such probate judge shall forthwith fix.a time for th' hearing and Investigation of such case, as speedily as possible, and give notice cf such hearing to the paren, pr parents, if known, or to the guar dian or custodian of such child, ii known. And such probate judge shall hear all the evidence offered befor< him and investigate fully the circum stances and surroundings of such child. And if, upon such investiga tion, the said officer shall find tha' said child is abandoned, or withou any adequate or proper care or cus tody, it shall bc lawful for, and thc duty cf, such officer to issue a war rant of commitment committing sale' child to the custody, care and rearing cf the Rescue orphanage, situated a Columbia, or to any similar orphan age in the state, devoted to the re lief and care of such children. "The said orphanage and any oth er orphanage devoted to the relie: of children who are dstitute, aban dened or being raised in immora' and vicious surroundings, shall have full care and control over any chile' committed to it, as herein provided; subject always to the right of thc courts to Inquire into the propriety and sufficiency of the care and main tenance being provided for any nuch child, and;to modify or chance the care and custody of any child, ar the court may deem proper. "That any such orphanage, tc which a child bas been committed as provided in . the two preceding sections, shall have the right to en trust any such child, for its cares, maintenance rearing, education and adoptier}, to the care7 and custody ol any Individual or family, which it may deem proper, upon such guaran tees as may be required by .sud orphanage. But this right shall be subject to the supervision, investiga tion and control of the courts o' common pleas for said state of South Carolina, upon application made tc the courts." Pardons Refused by Governor. Young Springfield, the Greenville county boy, who it is alleged killed his father in defense of his mother, in 1903 and who was last September sentenced to serve two years in the state penitentiary, has been refused a pardon by Governor Blease. The boy has served eight months of his sentence. Richard Kennerly of Lexington county, colored, who robbed a blind man of $6.80, was refused a pardon by Governor Blease. Kennerly was given six years in the penitentiary for having held up an old blind man and taking the money from him. He has served three years of his time. Special Judge George Johnstone wrote, on February 25, that he could not recommend clemency in this case although "I have always favored the side of mercy." "This negro," writes Judge Johnstone, "Richard Ken nerly deliberately planned and way laid his victim, an old blind man, and robbed him of all he had." Insurance Amount Saved. Insurance to the amount of $330, 000 will be renewed this month on the buildings of the State Hospital for the Insane by a committee con sisting of Dr. J. W. Babcock, the superintendent of the institution, J Wright Nash of the board of regents and J. W. Bunch, tho treasurer o the asylum. The policies are for three years, which means the saving of a censidsr ahle sum. Under the law $6,500 is appropria ted, for the Insurance. Town Needed for Veterans' Reunion. The question the Confederate vet erans are very much interested in at present is the selection of a city for the next Confederate reunion, for thus far no town has put in a bid for the visit of the veterans this year. The sum of $1,500 has been ap propriated for the use of the town inviting the soldiers to aid in the entertainment and this will go far toward defraying the expenses. Thif Is usually left to the commander and the committee in charge and orders issued afterwards. Requisitions in Certain Cases. * Governor Blease will in the future refuse to issue requisition papers for criminals wanted on minor charges. He said that no more requisition pa I-.-^rs would be issued for those con-j vlcted cf misdemeanors unless the r -un les paid the cost of bringing the prisoners back to the state. When a requisition is issued the expense of bringing the prisoner buck to the state is paid out of the contingent fend cf tho governor. He would issue requisition papers for a criminal wanted cn c. serious charge. ?tate Gapital :e-Wide Interest Picked m the Gongaree. WORK OF MISSION BOARD. Methodists Will Contribute Over $50, OOO-Bishop Kilgo'ft Sermon. The board of missions of the South Carolina conference held its sessions i u the Washington Street Methodisl church. All of the 12 clerical mem bers of the board, two of the 12 lay members and six of the 12 presiding elders were present The collection and distribution of the $50,000 mis sionary offering is the business of the board. The members of the board think the outlook for the larg est missionary offering ever made by the South Carolina conference ii good, and will be made this year. Rev. M. B. Kelley is devoting his time as missionary secretary to thc. matter of missions throughout thc conference. Bishop Jno. C. Kilgo, a native ol Sou?h Carolina, and the son of a Methodist preacher, addressed thc board. His subject was "Evange lism." The bishop also preached at night to a mixed congregation. The text chosen was 1 Tim. 1:15: "This ir a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus came into the world to save sinners." The bishop said, in substance: "Thc words of the text are the only ex planation of tho incarnation and atonement. The one great fact evei present to the consciousness of Christ was the salvation of a sin cursed world. The one great fact ol salvation is the explanation of hie mighty works. He spoke with finality concerning himself: 'No one cometh unto the father but by me.' "The one passion of Jesus was the salvation of sinners. Their cry com manded his instant attention. Thc l?per, the sinful woman, the thie? on the cross, a penitent Peter, all called from him instant redemption. "The church which does not possess such a passion for sinners is organ ized hypocrisy. The professing Chris tian who does not share the passion of his master is a hypocrite. "The passion of the master is thc ground of all the science of missions. As the church shows the passion of the master so will the world be brought to Christ." Problem of Criminal Insane. "A" far bac?" PP I*07 I rn'Unl attention to the facility with which lliui>.w._alb ,u II..o ~ nile ? ?il ^ v-u judged insane after committing t crime," says Superintendent Bab cock of the 'State Hospital for the In sane in his annual report "This mat ter has gone on year after year, with out recognition on the part of the law making body. It seems to m< that after committing a crime, in any form, the alleged criminal, even ll insane, should be subject to the grane! jury and criminal court, at least be fore being sent to this hospital as e lunatic. As it now stands, such easer are frequently sent here by the judge of probate, without regard tc the officers of the law charged with the handling of criminal cases. I do not mean to say that all of these cases are not insane. Some of them have had attacks of insanity prior to the criminal act. But my point is that even lunatics, when they commit crimes, should by that very act, pass beyond the jurisdiction of the probate courts and become subjects for the criminal cpurts. I have appealed to judges of pro bate and other officers in vain in these matters. Some solicitors, to my knowledge, have also protested against the practice, but to no pur pose. More Hope for Heyward County. The Heyward county movement was given a new lease on life when Gov ernor Blease refused to sign the mea sure passed at the last session of the general assembly which was aimed at ill-formed counties. "In my opinion the act ls in con flict with the constitution and I de cline to sign the same." This was the telegram addressed by the governor to D. Si Henderson, representing Aiken county and George T. Jackson of Augusta, rep resenting Heyward county. Charleston Editor to Lecture. Columbia friends of Thomas R. Waring of Charleston, editor of The Evening Post, will be pleased to know that he is to deliver a lecture to the students of the University of South Carolina and citizens of Columbia some time in the near future. The date for Mr. Waring's appearance in Columbia has not been decided upon, but It is expected that he will go there April. The subject of Editor Waring's lec ture is not made known, but it will be worth while. Not Any Special Investigation. Governor Blease, in a letter tc Comptroller General Jones denies that ne said that the comptroller should go ahead and spend the $5,000 for special investigations. This was the item that Governor Blease vetoed in thc appropriations bill and upon which the senate sustained his veto. "I thought it was a needless appro priation and cut it out," writes the Governor. The criticism by the chairman of the ways and means committee called forth the letter. How to Get New Stock Certificates. Whenever a stockholder in a cor poration misplaces or otherwise loses his original certificate, the corpora tion, under the terms of a new act which Governor Blease has signed, must issue to him a new certificate, upon compliance with certain condi tions. These are that the stockhold er shall make application for a new certificate, after having caused to be published once a week for six suc cessive weeks notice that such cert! . . ate has been loet or destroyed, and eating appiicaticn hc.3 hf en made. Hoods Sarsaparilla Will purify your blood, clear yoiir complexion, restore your appetite, relieve your tired feel ing, build you up. Be sure to take it this spring. Get it ia usual liquid form or chocolated tablets called Saraatabs. 100 Doses $1. IN HER LINE. Jack- w nen you play whist, do you not play for money? Edna-No, for kisses. Jack-Ah, how I admire a cheerful loser! HEAD SOLID MASS OF HUMOR "I think the Cuticura Remedies are the best remedies for eczema I have ever heard of. My mother had a child who had a rash on Its head when lt was real young. Doctor called it baby rash. He gave us medicine, but it did no good. In a few days the head, was a solid mass; a Tunning sore. It was awful, the child cried continually. We had to hold him and watch him to keep him from scratching the sore. ' His suffering was dreadfuL At last we remembered Cuticura Reme dies. We got a dollar bottle of Cuti cura Resolvent, a box of Cuticura Ointment, and.a bar of Cuticura Soap. We gave the Resolvent as directed, washed the head with the Cuticura Soap, and applied the Cuticura Oint ment We had not used half before the child's head was clear and free from eczema, and lt has never como back again. His head was healthy and he had a beautiful head of hair. I think the Cuticura Ointment very good for the hair. It makes the hair grow and prevents falling hair.** '(Signed) Mrs. Francis Lund, Plain City, Utah, Sept 19,1910. Send to the Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Boston, Mass., for free Cuticura Book on the treatment of skin and scalp troubles. A Woman's Letter. Women, lt ls generally admitted, write better letters than men. M. Marcel Pr?vost has discovered the reason for this Luperiority. "Tho obvious meaning is never the one we 6hould read into a woman's letteT. There is always a veiled meaning. Woman makes use of a letter just as she employs a glance or a smile. In a way that is carefully thought out and with an eye to effect. And; after all, does a woman's hat serve to cover her "head? Does a woman's parasol keep off the sun? Why, then, should a woman's letter serve to convey her real thoughts to the person ad dressed, just like letters of some* honest grocer, who writes: 1 send you five pounds of coffee,'* because he really does send you five pounds of 2offee?" "' Consumption Spreads in Syria. Consumptives In Syria are treated today much in the same way as the lepers have been for the last 2,000 years. Tuberculosis is a comparative ly recent disease among the Arabs and Syrians, but so rapidly has lt spread that the natives are in great fear of It Consequently when a'member of a family is known to have the disease, he is frequently cast out and compelled to die of exposure and want A small hospital for consumptives has been opened at Bey rout under the direction of Dr. Mary P. Eddy. Fighting Tuberculosis In Hungary, The anti-tuberculosis movement was started in 1894, and rn 1898 there were five institutions for the treat ment of consumption. Today the cam paign is encouraged and financed by the government, and over 200 different agencies are engaged in the fight A permanent tuberculosis museum has been established at Budapest and a carefully conducted campaign of edu cation is being carried on. r The Taste Test Post Toasties Have a dainty, sweet flavour that pleases the palate and satisfies particular folks. 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