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Edgefield Advertiser Published Weekly. EDGEFIELD, 8. C. : BRIEF NEWS NOTES \ _ MOST IMPORTANT EVENT8 OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings ef Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. Galveston, Texas, shipping interests mre preparing to handle record-break ing early shipments of cotton to for eign ports. There are now bookend'.to .arrived there during the remainder "bf ^UCTSt?tforty-two^.teams^ijf \o take T\? ^r^IPnTT^ro^^1:o Liverpool.- Manches . MTOe?r?'st, ?avre, Bremen, Hamburg, ^ A?n?werp, Genoa, Naples, Christiana and other foreign ports. Receipts of new cotton to date are 24fi664 bales against 5,007 this date last year. The problem of the high cost of liv ing is being solved, at least so far as farm products are concerned, for the farmers are getting lover prices for their products this year than they re ceived a year ago. According to of ficial figures issued by the department of agriculture, potatoes were the nota ble exception, their price having more than doubled. Potatoes averaged 109.6 per cent, higher and hay 29.9 per cent, higher. With wind at 90 miles an hour ac companied by a terrific downpour of rain, Pensacola. Fla., experienced the worst storm since the West Indian hur ricane of September. 1906. A number Xii barges were blown ashore and num erous bessels suffered severely. The heaviest loss will be to the timber in terests, immense quantities of export timber having been strewn along tho shore for miles. The city ligating plant was damaged slightly. A special delegation of citizens will leave Memphis, Tenn., shortly for Rochester, X. Y., armed with an invi tation from the South for the surviv ing soldiers of tho Grand Army of the Republic to visit Memphis on the occasion of the first national reunion of the "Blue and Cray," to be held in Memphis, September 27. George W. Gordon, soldier, lawyer and statesman, died at his home in Memphis, Tenn., Tenn. Worn by an Illness datin,? from his last political campaign, when he was re-elected to the national house of repr?sent?mes, the last general of the Confederacy to serve in that body, answered the summons to join the invisible major ity. George Washington Gordon was horn in Giles county, Tennessee, Oc tober 5, 1836. The Mississippi Democratic state ex ecutive committee met, canvassed the returns and declared results of the contest for state officers in the pri mary on August 1. James K. Varda man's majority for the United States senate over Leroy Percy and C. H. Alexander is 26,378. Theodore G. Bil bo defeated both opponents for lieu tenant governor by a majority of 24, 455. A second primary for railroad commissioner was ordered for the Northern district. Prof. Henry J. Cox, the weather forecaster in Chicago, returned from a survey of the North Carolina fruit belt. He brought word of a new scheme promulgaied by the weather bureau to help settle the North Car olina mountain slopes. The nain pur pose of the survey made bj' Profes sor Cox was to designate sites for the location of weather forecasting sta tions to warn fruit growers of the mountainous section of the periodic ?rosts w?ich occur there. General. John W. Gates, the American finan cier, died in the arais of his wife and son, Charles G. Gates, at Paris, France. The end was peaceful, and it seemed as though he was falling asleep. The usual restoratives failed in the last crisis. His iron constitu tion and courageous resistance, back ed by every resource of medical sci ence, failed to save Mr. Gates. He had battled for weeks heroically with a disease of the kidneys and when it was believed he was almost sure to recover contracted pneumonia. The state of Maine lost its senior United States senator and an almost life-long faithful servant when Wil liam Pierce Frye died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen White, in Lewiston, Maine. Although he had been ill for a long time, death came suddenly. Bearing boxes filled with gold, An toine Simon, son of the deposed presi dent of Haiti, and six other Haitians, officials under the Simon regime, ar rived in New York from Port-au Prince en route for Paris. Empress Auguste Victoria of Germa ny has recovered from the heat pros tration she suffered recently. Scientists have begun a series of ex periments calculated to determine ev ery effect of altitude upon the human system. They are choosing persons who have never before climbed to a great height. Far-reaching rerults are expected. The Mexican Federal soldiers who shot to death three Americans in Alamo, Mexico, are accused of wan tonly murdering the men in a report made to President Taft by Frederick Simpich, United Slates consul. General LeConte occupied the presi dent's palace In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, while his ministry prepared for the transaction of state business. It is believed that LeConte will resist the landing of General Firmin, comman der of the other big wing of the rebel army, who is a candidate for presi dent and who has many fololwers in the Black Republic. Angelo Mareno, six years old, who was returned to his parents in Chi cago, after a ransom of $500 In mark ed bills had been paid the kidnapers, was closely guarded^by hisparents. The boy sat on his mother's lap greet ing his playmates and neighbors who called, and seemed unable to realize the .grief his absence had caused his parents. He said he was well treated by the kidnapers. They bought new clothes and gave him candy and cake. Dr. Francsico Gomez announces his willingness to become a candidate for the presidency of the Mexican repub lic. It became known that the old fight between church and state would be resumed in Mexico. Notwithstand ing the separation effected by Benito Juarez, almost half a century ago, the Catholic church, acting through the National Catholic party, has issued a call for a convention to nominate a candidate for president. The most severe earthquake shock felt in San Bernardino, Cal., in years shook the business buildings with such severity that the occupants fled Into the streets. The damage was trivial. A previous shock had been felt. A slight earthquake shock was also felt I in Los Angeles. The French steamer Emir foundered five miles east of Tarifa, Spsin, in th^gatoa^s of Gibraltar. Ninety-three persons \?r~e n?jbwned. In a dense fog she collided with the British steamer Silverton bound from New port, England, for Turanto, Italy. The crew of the latter rescued 27 of the Emir's crew and passengers. The Emir sunk a few minutes after the collision. Sixty-nine passengers and 24 of the crew went down with the ship. Twelve of the crew and 15 pas sengers were saved. All the passen gers were French. Thomas Midgeley, whp prides him self in the title "Yankee hater," pub licly burned the Stars and Stripes In the streets of the town of Woodstock, Ontario. A few hours before some one in a spirit of mischief had nailed an American flag above the door of his shop. When Midgeley saw the flag he called his neighbors around him and walking to the middle of the street lighted a fire and burned the flag. Then he scattered the ashes about the street. Pope Pius is suffering from a se vere and painful attack of gout, and ls keeping closely to his charmber. Doctor PctaccI, private physician to his holiness, and Doctor Marchiafava, consulting physician, are prescribing a treatment of alkaloids. If there ls a change to cooler weather, they hope for the patient's speedy recovery. The doctors declared that the case would not be considered of the slightest im portance were not the pope an elderly man-77 years old. Washington. With a view to constructing a na tional highway between Washington, D. C., and the Mississippi, there was organized in Bristol, Tenn., the Bristol to-Washington Highway association in a meeting attended by many promi nent Virginians. The purpose of this organization is to take up here on the Tennessee-Virginia borde rthe matter* of extending the Memphis-to-Bristol automobile and tourist stone highway to the national capital. Startling evidence of the pernicious activity of foreign spies is in the pos session of the ramy general staff, which accounts for the serious con sideration that is now being given to the most trifling report at attempts to discover the military secrets of the country. Some of these incidents are of comparatively recent date, and it was upon the submission of such In formation to a secret session of the judicial committee of the house that legislation was secured at the last ses sion of congress providing for the se vere punishment of spies in time of peace. Doffing their coats and for the first time in history inviting the press to be present, the conferees on the wcol tariff revision and farmers' free list bills sat down in conference to com promise their differences. Finally they effected a complete agreement on wool and began consideration of the free list bill. President Taft is expected to veto the bill as it now stands. The committee will now take up the free list bill. Word was received at the capitol that President Taft unquestionably will veto the New Mexico and Ari zona statehood bill passed by the sen ate. His objection is to the judiciary recall feature, which was left in the Arizona constitution. Democratic lead ers of both the house and senate de clared, however, that they could mar shal enough votes to pass the measure over a veto. The president favors the New Mexico constitution. Now that most horses no longer are frightened at automobiles, a new ter ror in the shape of the aeroplane is causing trouble, which may result in municipal air navigation regulations. The need for such regulations is ap parent in Washington, where areo plane flying has become almost a daily occurrence, through an accident caus ed by a flying machine frightening a horse which ran away and injured the occupants of the carriage lt drew. The bill granting statehood to New Mexico and Arizona, legislation that has been for many years the dream of the people of these territories, was passed by the senate-53 to 1&-after rejection of the Nelson amendment, which proposed striking out of the Arizona constitution its judiciary re call provision. The bill as passed by the senate differs only slightly from the house measure, and lt is said may be unsatisfactory to President Taft. The indications are that the bill will become a law without the president's signature. Although Senator LaFollette declar ed his conviction that there would be a wool tariff revision bill at this ses sion, both he and Representative Un derwood were no nearer an agreement on the measure. President Taft traveled 400 miles through Maryland and West Virginia by special train to appeal to the peo ple of the United States to use their moral influence to have the senate ratify the British and French arbitra non treaties and the treaties with Nicaragua and Honduras. His appeal was made direct to the Mountain Lake ?ark (Md.) chautauqua \ STATE GEOLOGIST FOR GOOD ROADS DOCTOR TWITCHELL WILL GIVE HIS ASSISTANCE IN IMPROV ING THE HIGHWAYS. HOW HE PLANS TO HELP WORK ls Prepared to Give Expert Advice on the Availability of Material For Road Building-Makes the Finest Road beds Available. Columbia.-Dr. M. W. Twitcbell, State geologist, has just returned to Columbia from Sparfanburg where he attended the convention of the South Carolina Good Roads association.; Dr. Twitchell, who is a professor in the University of South Carolina, deliver ed an address before the convention on "The Relations of the Office of State Geologist to the Good Roads Movement." in which he set forth the plans he has formed to give practical aid to the cause of good roads. This aid will be given in the following ways : First. The state geologist will make it a point to visit, inspect and help to make known and develop de posits of road material of especial im portance and value, worthy of bting shipped throughout the state and into adjacent states. In illustrating this point, Dr. Twitchell stated that he had made just such a trip, having visited the important "cement-gravel" pits along the Charleston & Western Caro lina railroad, south of Augusta. The company operating the largest of these pits, which is located near Hat tleville, in Barnwell county, ships on an average of 125 carloads of mater ial a month, considerable of it going into North Carolina and Georgia. At lanta used 540 carloads on her auto mobile race track, and Whiteville, N. C., recently ordered 300 carloads for its roads. If this material is good enough to induce road men as far away as Atlanta and Whiteville to send for it, ought not the people of South Carolina to know about it and use it more in the cities nearer at hand? It makes one of the finest roadbeds obtainable, and is of especial value for such places as parks, race tracks, etc. Nurses Who Passed Examination. The state board of medical exam iners made public the list of nurses who recently passed successfully the examinations. The examinations were held under a legislative act and there were several requirements interpreted by the attorney general, one of them being that a nurse could stand the ex amination provided she was nearer 21 than 20 years of age, but that she was not entitled to practice until she was 21 years of age. The list of those who passed are: MISPCS Ber nice D. Day, Elizabeth C. Ligon, Kath leen M. Nolan, Sadie H. Robinson, Alice L. Davis, Elizabeth G. Wright, Mary E. Evans, Lola M. Todd, Dora Q. Harrison, Kitty R. Owings, M. M. Happboldt, Jessie V. Kleckly, Lena H. Strauhs, Margueret D. Barnes, Mary P. Greylish, Semphronia C. Cloyner, Emmie M. James, Sarah C. Hey, Pauline Pierce, Louisa Scott, Maude C. McMillan. Special Agent Will Tour State. A short time ago the announcement was made that the Hon. Bardford Knapp, special agent in charge of the United States farm demonstration work, had promised Commissioner Watson to come to ibis state during the last two weeks in Agust, to at tend a number of farmers' meetings and rallies and get in personal touch witli tlie people of this state. Mr. Watson received a letter from Mr. Knapp, in which he wrote: "I have been trying my best to get loose from work here so as to meet some engage ments with you in South Carolina. I have it now planned so that I think I will be able to be away for the week beginning the 20th. The pressure of work is so great and the demands up on my time so persistent that I do not think I can spend more than a week with you." County Board Inspects Alms House. The county commissioners of Rich land county inspected the alms house and took dinner with the inmates of the home. V. C. Gates is superinten dent of the alms house and the board were very mucli pleased with the con ditions and the way the place was conducted. Plenty of vegetables have been made this year to supply the table and tho watermelons are being very much enjoyed. A fine corn crop is expected and from present Indications the home will make enough corn to make all the meal used next winter. Farmers' Institute at Clemson. The farmers' institute opened with hundreds of farmers present. Dr. W. M. Riggs, president of Clemson col lege, was introduced by Prof. D. N. Barrow, who is presiding. Dr. Riggs made a strong address of welcome. Alan Johnstone followed in his usual eloquent style. G. F. Honneycut, edi tor of The Southern Cultivator, made a short address. Prof. Archibald Smith showed the farmers how to judge dairy cattle. E. J. Watson and Prof. J. N. Harper are scheduled to speak. Election Carried For Bonds. A new turn was taken in the Sum ter good roads bond election, when, at the meeting of the county election commissioners held to officially i de clare the election, the statement was given out by them that the election providing for a ?50,000 bond issue had been carried by a majority of 35 votes. This unexpected announcement about . TS the result of throwing out the Mayesville box on the grounds that ersons were allowed to vote there ho were not registered or who were ot eligible to register. VVUKK UU TUNED KOKREUNiON Committee ls Buey With Plans-Ap preciation Will be Sufficient to Entertain Veterans. Columbia.-The local committees are hard at work on arrangements for the coming Confederate reunion The executive committee met at the office of the chairman, Col. U. R. Brooks, and several of the members went later to confer with the Wade Hampton and the M. C. Butler chap ters, Daughters of the Confederacy, meeting at the same time at the Y. M. C. A. The executive committee resolved at its meeting that the $1,500 appro priated by the legislature be used for the entertainment of the veterans ex clusively, and that they further de cided that the sum is sufficient for en tertaining the old soldiers no addi tional appropriation from the city being necessary. The committee re peats the request that those Colum bians who expect to entertain any of the veterans free or who are willing to take them at moderate rate will notify N. 0. Pyles, head of the bu reau of information. Mr. Pyles can be reached through the general de livery, Columbia. The committee were assured by the women of the two chapters, U. D. C., of their hearty co-operation In the en tertainment of the veterans, and were offered some practical suggestions by the women. Several cf these sugges tions will doubtless be adopted, bring ing about minor changes in the ar rangements. The committee decided that each of the old veterans, before he can be served to meals, must report to the bureau of information, giving his name and regiment, and receiving one of the reunion badges. Meals are to be served each day of the reunion. Miss Adelaide Hood of Chester is sponsor for the First brigade. South Carolina division, U. C. V., Col. U. R. Brooks, commanding, and Miss Kath erine Lumpkin is maid of honor. Farmers Urged to Hold Cotton. In an address issued to the farm ers of South Carolina a committee of the Sumter County Farmers' union urges the holding of cotton until a higher price is obtained. The address is prepared by a committee consisting of E. W. Dabbs, president of the State Farmers' union, and J. M. Brogdon and S. N. Welsh. It is as follows: "To the farmers and all the busi ness interests that are affected by the price of cotton: The Sumter County Farmers' union at its last meeting unanimously directed us as a committee to call your attention to the serious condi tion that confronts us in the outlook for low prices for this crop of cotton. Thirty or forty days ago cotton sold in Sumter for 151-2 cents (spot). Now a holder who would not then sell was glad to get 121-2 cents. These are actual sales. What has brought about such a slump in this short time after ' cotton had held steady for nine or ten TOonths at 14 to 15 cents? They say because there ls a prospect of over 14,000,000 hales. Is is not more because the world, judging by the past, thinks it can stampede the farmers and the mer chants, and buy below 10 cents be fore Christmas. The men who are predicting such prices are working with mi?ht and main to bring about 10-cent cotton hy telling their farm er friends that the crop is the larg est on record. Seek Help For Good Roads. A committee consisting of A. H. Wherry. R. R. Gill. L. M. Wooten. Wm. Wooten and Wm. Biggers. from the Lewis Turnout neighborhood, R. B. Caldwell, president of the Com mercial club, and Mayor Wise, appear ed before the county board in an en deavor to get the co-operation of the county authorities in building the Chester-Rock Hill highway. They had hoped to get the chaingang to assist in the work, but as that party is engaged in building a steel bridge over Turkey creek, and working on the road to Lockhart, it would be im possible for the present, as the gang would not begin their work in that township before September 16. How ever, the board will assist in every , way possible, and do all they can I when work commences. Delegates to Law Convention. Governor Blease appointed the fol lowing solicitors to represent South Carolina at the third annual Con I vention of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, to be held in Boston, September 1, 2: Messrs. P. T. Hildebrand, of Orange burg; Robert L. Gunter, of Aiken; Wade Hampton Cobb, of Columbia; J. H. Peurifoy, of Walterboro; J. K. Henry, cf Chester, and R. A. Cooper, of Laurens. The meeting of the In stitute will immediately follow that of the American Bar Association. Member of One Hundred Committee. Gen. John D. Frost, of Columbio, former Adjutant and Inspector Gen eral, was appointed by Governor Blease as the South Carolina member of the Committee of One Hundred, an organization of national r presenta tion, having for its purpose the in troduction of reforms into the class ified governmental services. Oen. Frost was designated at the special request of the chairman of the com mittee; Senator Charles Dick, of Ohio, who said he knew Gen. Frost very well personally. Handed Resignation to Governor. After having served as sheriff of Lexington county for a period of nearly eight years. Patrick Henry Corley handed his resignation to Gov ernor Blease. This announcement will come as a surprise to the thou sands of friends of the Lexington sheriff throughout Lexington county, as well as in other parts of the state, 'ils reputation as an officer extend ng throughout the Commonwealth, mmediately upon receiving the resig ation of Sheriff Corley, Governor ?lease appointed another sheriff. RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS OF MINISTERS' UNION ATTRACTS ATTENTION. SAYS HIS POSITION IS WISE Reterates He is Ready to Carry Out Whole Law-Believes Certain Class Has No Recreation Except on Day Under Contention. Columbia.-The resolutions and ac tion of the Ministers' union as to the enforcement of the Sunday ordi nances attracted considerable atten tion and there was some speculation as to the attitude of the mayer and, council on the matter. Mayor Gibbes gave out a statement as to his posi tion. The mayor said: "In the first place, before I was ever approached by the Ministerial union, I had discussed the question of Sunday closing with coun cil and had expressed my purpose to carry out the law, should council deem such a step wise or practicable. The section quoted by the ministers as to the closing of barber shops and liquor saloons on Sundays are in cluded in the general law, more fully expressed in section 610, which is as follows: 'Any person who shall pub licly work or labor, cr- employ an other person to do io, on the Sab bath day (except in cases of emer gency), shall be subject to a pen?lty of $10 for each and every offense, or be imprisoned for a period not to ex ceed 15 days.' Under this section I am satisfied that we would have to begin by sweeping before our own doors and putting an end to public la bor by employes at the citywater works; the standpipe could be filled for fire purposes on Saturday, and private citizens could fill their ves sels with .vater on that day also. It would next be in order to make cases against sextons, choirists and organ ists working for hire in the churches on Sundays. I am informed, by those who have seen the decision, that the supreme court has decided it to be unlawful to sell and deliver ice on Sunday. The same ruling would probably apply to milk and other things. "I reiterate that I am ready to carry out the "Whole law-the whole law-without showing favor to any. My position is that I am the hired servant of the people, and I must treat them all alike. In ray report on conditions at Des Moines, made in June, 1910, my position as to Sunday closing was plainly set forth. Protest Route of Glidden Tour. Columbia.-The Automobile Club of Columbia at a meeting freely discuss ed the protest of the club at the route selected by the American Automobile association for the 1911 Glidden tour. The A. A. A. has elected the national highway for the tour from N?w York to Jacksonville, while the Automobile Club of Columbia submits that the shortest route and the best from a standpoint of good roads and other wise is the route via Columbia, Au gusta and Savannah. The Automobile Club of Columbia F. A. Coward, pres ident, and A. McP. Hamby, secretar)', were urged to prosecute vigorously the fight to bring the Glidden tour via Columbia. These officers were urged that in the event it is found impossible to direct the tour this way to exert every effort to have Colum bia included in the route chosen for the return trip. Planters Conclude Negotiations. Charlesion.-At a meeting of the sea island planters cf Charleston, the scheme of entering into negotia tions with the Mississippi Warehouse corporation, looking towards the erec tion cf a warehouse at Charleston for the storage, handling and sale of the staple was practically concluded fol lowing nn address by President High tower of the Mississippi corporation. The corporation will erect a branch establishment here for the handling of both long and short staple cotton. H. T. Morrison was elected on the board of directors of the corporation and also on the local with T. J. Ham lin, a third planter, yet to be named. A Campaign of Education Was Begun. Vinnsbcro-Under the auspices of the Fairfield Agricultural society, the county public schools, the farm de monstration work and the county good roads club, a campaign of education was begun in the Wateree section of Fairfield county. The meeting was opened by the Kev. J. E. Isenhower, and T. L. Johnston as chaiman in troduced first Miss Carrie Hyde of Winthrop college, who discussed the many problems of house keeping, em bracing cooking, washing, sanitation and labor-saving devices. Department Will Advertise For Bids. Charleston.-The department of riv ers and harbors will advertise for bids within the next few days for the com pletion of the inland watpr way be tween Charleston and McClellanville. There is about $40,000 available for the completion of this work. There are two gaps at present in the water way. Between Bull's Narrows and Van Ross Creek one has to go outside by way of Bulls Bay. The second gap is at McClellanville. The work of constructing the water way has been under way for several years. Veterans Have Chosen Delegates. Lancaster-The veterans elected tho following delegates to the state reunion to be held ?n Columbia Au gust 22 and 23: J. M. Hough, W. T. Vanlandingham; alternates, W. G. A. Porter, J. E. Rowell, Miss Eula Cas key has beenThosen sponsor, and Miss Alma Vanlandingham maid of honor. It is estimated that there are only '.4 veterans now living in th? county, of which number 54 attended the annual county reunion in Heath Springs. NEW YORK-CHICAGO . FLYER WRECKED SECOND TIME PENNSYLVANIA EIGHT-HOUR TRAIN HAS BEEN DERAILED. FOUR PERSONS WERE KILLED Thirty Persons Were Injured in Acci dent Which Hap-ened at Fort Wayne Indiana While Train Was Going at Rate of Fifty Miles Hour. Fort Wayne, Ind.-Four persons were killed and thirty injured when the Pennsylvania eighteen-hour train, jumped the track on the western out skirts of this city, while going at the rate of 50 miles an hour. In leaving the rails the two engines en route from Chicago to New York, pulling the passanger train sideswip ed a freight engine and the three piled up in a mass of bent and twisted iron. The dead: William E. Arrick, Fort Wayne, buried under wreckage. Peter Malone, Fort Wayne, engineer on flyer. W. Creigh, Fort Wayne, fireman on flyer. Unknown passenger at St. Joseph's hospital. The police department, fire depart ment and every ambulance In the city were called to the scene of the acci dent and the injured were soon taken to hospitals. The main track and the track on which the freight train was located, were torn up for a distance of 200 yards. The two engines of the flyer were torn from their tracks and thrown down the embankment while the engine of the freight reared up over the trucks of the flyer's engines. The injured were seated in the diner and smoker when the accident occurred. The list of dead may be more than the number reported. The thirty or more injured are now in the hospitals and it ts believed that at least four or five will die. C. C. Chattell, Chicago, was in the dining car when the accident occurred. He escaped with only slight injuries to his head and face. "The train was running at a ter rific rate of speed," he declared. "Thc first intimation I had that anything was wrong, was when all the passen gers in the dining car were thrown headlong, the entire length of the car. The next thing I realized men were fighting like beasts to get out of the car-and the steam escaping from the kitchen was choking us. Another man and I fell to the floor and crawl ed along in the semi-darkness and among the screaming women to a win dow through which we escaped." Girl Performs Remarkable Feat. New York.-Rose Pltonof, the 16 year-old swimmer of Boston, succeed ed In her attempt to swim from East 26th street, Manhattan, to Coney Island. Last year she had to abandon a similar effort because of adverse tides, but although forced at times to swim so far out of her course that she is estimated to have covered some 21 miles in making the distance of eight een miles, she finished strong, actu ally sprinting as she neared the goal. Miss Pionof was In the water eight hours and seven minutes. She took no stimulants or food of any kind on the long trip. Most of the way she used the breast stroke but for two stretches she resorted to the speedier overhand. The young woman's feat had not before been accomplished. Will Sell His Tongue to Lady. Kansas City, Md.-J. W. Yynch, a 22 year old prisoner in the Wyandotte, Kans., county jail, has written a letter To L. L. Long, father of Miss Inez Long. who?e tongue was almost bit ten off when she was thrown from a motor car and alighted on her head, signifying his willingness to part with he tip of his tongue, for enough money to pay for a new trial.' Lynch is serv ing a sentence for breaking into a postoffice. The condition of Miss Long has improved so much, however, that her physician announced that a grafting operation will be unnecessary. Will Tackle High Food Price Issue. Washington.-A country-wide inves tigation of the wholesale and retail prices of all foods, walch will require nine months to complete, and which will represent the most thorough In quiry of its kind yet attempted, has been begun by the bureau of com merce and labor. This Investigation will cover the years 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911. By comparison with records of the department of agriculture for the same period, it will be possible to know j?st what prices were paid for every commodity now used. Spectacular Stunts By Aviators. Chicago.-Lincoln Beachey, in a Curtiss bi-plane, "Bud" Mars in a Baldwin, and Tom Sopwith, the long legged Englishman in a Howard Wright, split the spectacular honors of the first days events in the aviation meet at Grant Park with Hugh A. Robinson and his astonishing hydro plane. Beached went fifty miles and never left the ground more than fifty feet at times flying so close to the earth that the flagman had to lie down to let him over and at other time go ing higher. Agreement on Publicity Bill. Washington. - Agreement on the campaign publicity bill was reached by the senate and house conferees. The measure as agreed on was prac tically the same ?s that adopted by the senate which amended the house bill by providing for publicity in primary as well as other elections. The limita tion of campaign expenditures to $5, 000 for a congressional and $10,000 for senatorial candidate is retained. The conference report will bo submitted o both houses. JEREMIAH CAST INTO PRISON Sunday Sci M.! Leeson for Anf. 20, 1911 Specially Arranged (or This Papar LESSON TEXT.-Jeremlah 37. MEMORY VERSE, 15. GOLDEN TEXT.-"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute* you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake."-Matt. 5:11. TIME of this lesson was B. C. 588-58?, 18 years after our last lesson during the> lasf. siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnez zar, from the 9th to the 11th year of Zede kiah's reign. PLACE.-Jerusalem, surrounded by th? besieging armies of the Chaldeans, and suffering from famine and pestilence (Jer. 38:2). Jeremiah had prophesied nearly 40 years (?ince 626) and was a prematurely old man. Zedekiah WKS the last king of Judah, reigning ll years. Nebuchadnezzar, 18th and 19th y?ar of his reign. Jeholaklm reigned six years after be had burned the roll of Jeremiah's prophecies, which, like the fabled phoenix rose anew and fresh from the ashes. He was slain in 597. The first blow of the threatened doom of Judah had fallen during the fourth year o? his reign, the first toll ing of the bell of judgment which should have summoned the very dead In sin to awake. But they gave no heed. Jehoiachln, his son, ascended the throne, a bad, weak boy, utterly unlit to cope with the situation. His reign lasted only three months. Upon Je hoiachln descended the full force of the divine vengeance incurred by previous generations. He was scarcely on the throne when the Chaldean forces, which had been ravaging Ju dea, were joined by Nebuchadnezzar himself, and closed around Jerusa lem, and Jeholachin surrendered at discretion. The arm of Babylon raised to strike his father fell on him, and fulfilled the prophecy against Jehola klm. "He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David." Jeholachin was kept a prisoner in Babylon .for 37 years and was then released. Ezekiel was carried away with him, and the great-grandfather of Mordecai, Queen Esther's cousin. This was the second blow of divine judgment, the beginning of the second captivity, when 10,000 people were car ried captive to Babylon. Among them were the king's wives and officers, and 7,000 that were strong and apt for war, and 1,000 craftsmen; and a large part of the 5.400 vessels of gold and silver from the Temple and pal aces. The policy of Nebuchadnezzar was to remove out of the way all those who might be able to organize a re volt when he and his army had de parted. Such men lt would have been dangerous to leave behind. It would seem as if all this would have been sufficient to prevail on the people to repent and be saved. Zedekiah, the brother of Jeholakln, was placed upon the throne by Nebu chadnezzar, "a shadow king over a desperate band of men. During the first nine years of his reign the na tion, instead of embracing the oppor tunity of repentance, plunged more deeply ,into folly. The dregs of the people, left behind in Jerusalem, laid this flattering unction to their souls:. "We have been spared by Jehovah, therefore we are righteous in his sight." During a brief respite while Nebu chadnezzar left Jerusalem free while he fought the Egyptians Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin. His home was at Anathoth in Benjamin, three or four miles north of the city. It was apparently to secure his share of the tithes and produce of the Levitical glebe of the village, due to him as one of its priests. Knowing that the Chal deans would return, it was imperative that he should obtain the means of subsistence to take back into the city, so soon to be beleagured afresh. Oth ers think it was to secure himself In the possession of an inheritance. There was a natural rush to get out of the city after so long a confine ment. Jeremiah went with the others. When Jeremiah was in the gate of Benjamin, the north gate of the city, that by which any one would go to the country of Benjamin which ad joined Jerusalem, a guard said: "Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans; you arc trying to desert to the enemy." His well known prophecies of the de struction of the city, and advice that the people should yield the city to the Chaldeans, gave color to this accusa tion. Then said Jeremiah: "False! A lie! I fall not a way to the Chaldeans." He was arrested by the guard, and brought to the princes, the officials of the government, who were wroth with Jeremiah. He had compared them to rotten figs. He was the strongest and most resolute opponent of their war policy. But for him they would have had it all their own way. Jeremiah was placed in a dungeon under the prison building. Jerusalem was honey-combed with subterranean cisterns, vaulted or arched overhead, and cabins, vaults, the subterranean, arched spaces of a cistern, containing water. At last Zedekiah, the king, secretly took him out to inquire: "Is there any word from the Lord?" Jeremiah re plied: "There is." The word was: "Thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon." At Jeremiah's request, and to escape from the guilt of being the murderer of the prophet. Zedekiah had him cared for in the court of the guard, and supplied him with dally bread. We are not all called to be martyrs, but all are called to have the martyr spirit, to be ready to suffer for the Lord and the coming of his kingdom. There are many martyrs not known to history, but whose names are recorded In heaven. Persecution is the very opposite of Christianity. Christianity bears bur dens, persecution loads them on. Chris tianity loves, and persecution hates. Yet persecutors are often well-mean ing men. Jeremiah's enemies thought they were patriots and he was a trai tor. It is easy even for a Christian to persuade himself that he ls right and his opponents are so terribly wrong that they must be suppressed by force instead of argument, by worldly weap ons instead of truth.