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Edgefield Advertiser Published Weekly. EDGEFIELD, & C. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS 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. Voters of Jefferson county, Alabama, in which is located the city of Bir mingham, declared for the open sa loon and rejected the plan to establish a dispensary in this city. The "wet" majority is estimated at something over 1,000 votes. The county beats gave the dispensary a small majority, but this lead was soon killed when votes in the city wards were counted. Under the Smith liquor law Birming ham will have 44 saloons to be con trolled by an excise commisssion to be appointed by the governor. Commissioner of Agriculture Kolb of Alabama has heard from six com missioners of agriculture of the South, in answer to inquires, in which the information is given that a general crop deterioration is noticeable. The average is given as 20 per cent. Ten nessee is the only one of six states which announces no depreciation of the crop, while the commissioners of Corida, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississip pi and Arkansas announce a deterio ration of 20 per cent. each. Reports received by Secretary Reid of the South Carolina Farmers' union indicate that the cotton crop in a score of counties of the state will av erage from 50 to 80 per cent. The general average for the counties is about 75 per cent. A report of all counties and a general average for the state will be announced later. The . information is being gathered by the State Farmers' union to prevent the fanners of the state from selling cot ton at a price too low. While three thousand men, women and children stood by, shouting their approval, Peter Carter, a negro, who had previously been baptured by three members of his own race, and idtnti fied as the man who had attacked Mrs. Minnie Spraggins, wife of a farmer, was burned to death on a brush-pile in the main street of Purcell, Okla. Two deputy sheriffs who attempted to rescue the negro from the crowd were overpowered and locked in the courthouse. Internal revenue officers in search .of illicit distilleries near . Winston-Sa lem, N. C., have discovered that a new weapon is being used to discourage their investigations by two revenue officers, who just missed stepping into a large steep trap presumably set for them by "moonshiners." The officers had destroyed an illicit still recently, and were pursuing their investigations when one of them saw the trap just In time to avoid their being caught. Representatives of 66.000 farmers of the bright tobacco belt of Virginia and 3iorth Carolina, allied with the Farm ers' Educational and Co-operative un ion, in executive session at Greens boro, N. C., entered into an agree ment to pool the 1911 tobacco crop until a price of not less than 15 cents per pound is obtained in any section; the "bright" grade of tobacco will be held for 20 cents. Details of the agreement were withheld. "Hold cotton for 13 cents." is the Advice to be formally given to farmers' organizations by a committee consist ing of Senator Williams of Mississippi and Senator Owen of Oklahoma and Representaive Burleson of Texas, rep resenting a conference of senators and representatives^ from several cotton growing states. A committee will urge the state banking associations to co operate against "the bearish move ment of the speculators." General. Sailing serenely over New York, Harry N. Atwood, the Boston aviator, arrived there in his aeroplane, the first man in history to travel 1,265 miles in a heavier-than-air machine. He not only broke the world's record, covering 1,265' miles in an air line, or perhaps 100 more miles with his detours, but he flew all the way in the same bi plane, and with no important mishaps. Atwood's flight is comparable only to that made by fast trains, for he cov ered the distance from St. Louis to New york lu un actiial flying time of 28 hours and 31 minutes. The Marquis of Queensberry, who landed in New York several days ago to "make his fortune" in America, has gone to work as a special sporting writer for a Chicago daily newspa per. The members of the Federation of Railway Employees of the Illinois Central voted to strike. Ex-president Roosevelt in a letter to the editor of the Pittsburg Leader says: "I must ask not only you, but every friend I have to see to it that no movement whatever is made to bring me forward for the nomination o? 1912." The national monetary commission will close its work on March 31 next. The senate accepted the house amend ments to the senate measure and the bill was then ready for the president's signature. Governors of twenty-three states have declared themselves in favor of uniform divorce laws. hTe jurors who convicted Capt. Pe ter C. Hains, United States army, of the murder of William E. Annis, three years ago, it wajs learned, have sent a petition to Governor Dix asking the pardon of Hains, who is now serving a sentence in Sing Sing. J. Prank Skinner, the tallest '. the world, died at his home in J ta, Ga., after a long illness. H seven feet and four inches [ He was at one time with a circi j traveled Europe as the "tall but for the past ten years has a drummer. While he was ] than the ordinary man, still he from a family of tall people, his i father being the tallest man G< ever produced. He was nearly feet tall. That New York can already claim to be the largest city ii world is shown by a comparisi the census just completed in Lc with the health department's est of Xew York's numbers. The lation o fthe administrative count city of London is 4,522,628, as pared with 4.9S8.3S5. the populati the administrative boroughs of York City. London's death ra given as 19.1, while Xew Yori only 14.8. Speeding eastward behind time high Valley passenger train No. . into a spread rail on a trestle Manchester, N. Y., and two day c es from the rear section of the plunged downward 40 feet, str the east embankment like a pa projectiles. In the awful plunge crash at least forty persons killed and more than eighty inj The mortality was high among cider passengers, most of whom veterans of the Civil war and wives. Rioting occurred at Bargoed, OE Giamorgean border, near New England. A dozen English and ish shops were wrecked and lo? Troops were called to the assist of the police and dispersed the wi ers. No further rioting has occu in the Monmouthshire valley to but the threatening attitude of mobs at Tredegar and Rhymney cessitates the continued presence t of soldiers. Many Jewish families leaving the country. An answer was filed by Harrj Thaw, through his attorney, to the tition of his wife, Evelyn Nesbit Tl in which Judge L. L. Davis was ai to appoint a lunacy commission take charge of the income of Tha? Pennsylvania and provide for the port of his wife. Thaw's incomi said to be $60,000 a year. Thaw cia the verdict of the jury in New \ state was not a finding that he insane. An interesting feature of thc minion election campaign was a orous denunciation at Winnipeg. \ itoba, of the Laurier government Joseph Martin, M. P., for London, E land, former attorney general of ii itoba, and ex-premier of British lumbia. Martin is strong for recipi iiy. "Reciprocity will undoubte mean more money for Canada, ? more money for Canadians, and wo be a good thing for Canada in t respect," said Martin. Washington. President Taft has selected so of the subjects on which he will sp? on his Western trip that will be next month. He told callers that tariff, peace and arbitration, currei reform, reciprocity and conservati probably, would form a nucleus for . speechmaking. He will make dresses on many other subjects, 1 the topics named would make a si of "big five" around which speed that he deemed less important mif be made. On the eve of nis forty-day swi around the circle, on which Reput can leaders expect him to define t issues for the campaign of 1912, Pr ident Taft announced himself unalt ably opposed to the "nostrums" nf : form, which, he declared, "den gogues" and "theoretical extremist have advanced for the solution of t problem of concentrated wealth in tl country. The president spoke to t veterans of the Grand Army of the B public at Rochester, N. Y. The first session of the Sixty secoi congress ended, and immediately tl exodus of members began. Preside Taft joined with several hundred tin legislators in the hegira, and offici Washington was comparatively desei ed. Every outgoing train bore sen tors and representatives on the homeward journey after being toget er 121 days and setting the livelie: pace of any legislative session i years. The adjournment was featur less, despite the strenuous activil that had gone before. The presidei vetoed the cotton tariff revision bil President Taft signed the joint re olution for the admission of New Me: ico and Arizona into the Union. Ther was but one resolution, so the pres dent used three pens in order ths some of the relic hunters might be sa isfied. "Well, it's done," the presider said, as he signed the parchment. Th resolution provides that Arizona sha! elimnate the judiciary recall clause i: its constitution. Some 880 initial "doses" of typhoid vaccine have been distributed to phys: cians throughout South Carolina, b; the state health department since th distribution was commenced about tw< weeks ago. Senator LaFollette electrified th< senate with a vitriolic attack on Wal street. Addressing his colleagues ii the upper chamber on conditions ii Alaska, be charged that a conspiracy is being hatched in Wall street arnon; the money kings for the "upbuilding of a monopoly equal, if not greater than that in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania. Senator LaFollette did not mince words nor was he back ward in his allegations. He declared the gigantic powers in Wal! street were using the government to help tht min tying up Alaska for their own exploitation. The department of state has become interested in securing relief for the cotton industry of the South from the Injustice resulting from the present cotton "tare" system in operation in the cotton market of foreign countries. J Congressman Brantley's activity in the matter is due to the passage by the Georgia legislature of an appeal to the president and congress for re lief from the unfair and arbitrary dis crimination against the cotton grow ers in the matter of "tare." Secretary Knox's letter is of vital impor.ance to every cotton farmer of tho South. SONS OF VETERANS ESCORT]! LINE MARCH IN THE PARADE WITH/ WARRIORS OF '61-'65-MANY ATTEND MEETINGS. AN ENTHUSIASTIC GATHERING Held Meetings in City Hall Council Chambers-Many Good Addresses Were Made by Able Speakers-A Committee Was Appointed. . Columbia.-With a session in the morning and escorting the United Confederate Veterans in the parade in the afternoon, the annual meeting of the United Sons Confederate Veterans' came to a close. The morning meeting was held in the city hall council chamber, and was well attended. A. L. Gaston, divi sion commander, called it to order, after which Rev. K. G. Finlay, pastor of Trinity churcu, led in prayer. Christie Bennet of Columbia, on be half of the citizens of the city, ex pressed the gratification of having the sons as guests of the capital city. His remarks were well chosen, and much befitted the occasion. He told of an incident in the "Long Roll," by Miss Mary Johnson, which he said in the book was cre? ted to a Virginia .eglment, when soldiers from South Carolina performed the deed. On behalf of the United Sons Con federate Veterans, Dr. A. M. Brails ford, commander of the second bri gade, Camp Gregg, Mullins, expressed the pleasure of the organization of meeting in Columbia, Dr. Brailsford is an enthusiastic son and takes much interest in the welfare of the organi zation. William G. Prichard, commander in-chief, United Sons Confederate Veterans, formerly of Virginia, now of Charleston, was introduced by C. M. Felder, formerly department comman der, Army of Northern Virginia, Blackville. Mr. Felder's remarks of introduction were very appropriate. Mr. Pritchard compared the num ber of camps of sons with the number of camps of veterans and said there should be a camp of the former in each place where there Is a camp of the latter. He discussed the part of Elsen's United States history which was condemned at Little Rock, in which the cause of the war and espe cially the position of the South on the slavery question is misrepresented. This history is being used at one Southern college, an institution in Virginia. Mr. Pritchard said that the author had agreed to eliminate some of the objectionable statements, but not all. A committee was afterwards appointed to read this work and criti cize it. The committee is composed of F. H. Weston, Columbia; A. M. Brailsford, Mullins; D. A. Spivey, Con way; G. W. Quattlebaum, Anderson. The Free Typhoid Vaccine. Some 880 initial "doses" of typhoid vaccine have been distributed to phy sicians throughout the state by the state health department since the dis tribution was commenced about two weeks ago. The typhoid vaccine is given free to physicians applying for it, and it is expected that the good results of this preventative work will soon be apparent in South Carolina in a lessening of the number of cases of typhoid fever in the state. The dis tribution of this vaccine is under the supervision of Dr. F. A. Coward, who it will be remembered, has also in charge the state laboratories for the Pasteur treatment of hyrophobia. The vaccine is prepared at the state labor atories at the University of South Carolina, where all the laboratory work of the health department is car ried on. It consists essentially of dead typhoid bacteria. The bacilli are grown in the regular incubators, then meassured and numbered by technical processes, Mid made into solutions, which are injected underneath the skin with a hypodermic syringe. Three doses are generally given. Expects Good Attendance. W. S. Peterson, president of Orange burg College, is making preparations for the opening of tne college on Sep tember 20. Some changes hsve been made in the faculty. P-of. T. L. Tins ley and Mrs. Della Gilbert will have charge of the departments ol piano and voice, respectively, insuring a high grade musical department. The rollej:iiite faculty will be the same in main ar '??t year. Over -JO students were enrolled last session, aad Presi dent Peterson expects a much larger attendance this year. Preparing For the School Opening. County Superintendent of Educa tion E. P. Waring has been busily en gaged during the past few weeks in getting things in shape for the reopen ing of the county school system this fall. Although the schools, both white and colored, enjoyed an unusu ally successful season in 1910-'ll, it is expected that the 1911-'12 will eclipse it by far, both in the matter of attendance and in results achieved. Several of the larger county schools will open their doors during the last part of September. To Tell of Sumter's Worth. Work has been started on a book let which will be published with a view to advertising the city and Coun ty of Sumter. A number of photo graphs for the pamphlet have alreadv been secured and a sufficient number of others will be secured to show the beauties and advantages of life in Sumter. The advertising committee of the chamber of commerce is hav ing this work done, and hopes to be able to begin the distribution of the booklet at an early date. MR. KNAPP SPEAKS AT AIKEN Would be Better Country Life-He Points Out What is Needed to Make Farms More Attractive. Aiken.-''The natural resources of South Carolina are equal to those of any state in the Union, and it will be known as a great agricultural state, where the lands are capable of great possibilities," said Dr. Bradford Knapp at the farmers' meeting herc. Dr. Knapp added that the earning capa city for the man on the farm is too small, which accounts for the people leaving the farm for the cities. Farm life lacks the educational, religious and social advantages. The meeting was a part of the auto mobile tour of the state by Dr. Knapp, Commissioner Watson. A. G. Smith of the demonstration werk and Ira W. Williams, and was largely attended. Mayor Gyles presided over the meet ing, and the keenest interest was tak en in the addresses by those present. As a remedy for the lacks of coun try life, Dr. Knapp said that drudgery must be taken from farm life, good roads must be provided, rural tele phones must be installed, rural mail delivery, better schools and churches, and a beauty of surroundings to at tract the boys and girls must be fur nished. Farm literature, said the speaker, is very helpful, but does not accom plish results. It takes work to instill into the farmers and country people generally the intelligence needed in the work. He depreciated the farm ers' failure to keep their accounts, and said that any business man who pur sues the same methods of keeping ac counts as do the farmers would go bankrupt in a year. Dr. Knapp re viewed the work of the local agents of the demonstration work, and urged the importance of this branch, stating that the local agent is most Important in disseminating the investigations of the department. The agents must themselves he practical farmers, whose farms must show results from their labor. They must keep out of politics. No man is employed who seeks office or is active for the elec tion of any candidate. The Campaign Against Hook Worm. Through the aid of the churches ol Marion county, hookworm dispen saries are being established in that county under Dr. L. LaBruce Ward, who is the South Carolina representa tive of the Rockefeller santitary com mission, established for the eradica tion of the hookworm disease. One dispensary has already been estab lished at Mullins, and it is probable that others will be put in operation within the next week or two. This makes the fourth county to come into line in the hookworm treatment, the others being Clarendon, Beaufort pnd. Hampton. The treatment is given free to individuals, the Rockefeller commission paying practically all the expenses of the work. The counties are, however, asked to pay for the actual cost of the medicine required. In Marion county, the county commis sioners were willing to make the ap propriation,, but found that they had no authoriS'to do so at this time. Fol lowing a big church rally recently, at which the subject was placed before the people, private subscriptions from individuals and churches, etc., were raised to pay the expenses of this work. It is estimated that since the beginning of the dispensary system of hookworm treatment in this state, on July 1 of this year, at least twelve hundred cases have been cured. Some Transfers of Real Estate. The following transfers of real estate were recorded In the office of the register of mesne conveyance: . Rebecca Holmes et al., per Master Mitchell, to William H. Cokins, prem i?p<i on routh of Pnring street, consideration $80?. William H. Co kins to August Di-scher, premises on south side of Spring street, consider ation $810. Kate Simons to Charles F. Pepuette. premises on west side of Smith street, consideration $1,50). Julia E. Munn to Rosa Leo Simmons, two acres at the Four-Mile House, Georgetown road. Christ Church Par ish, consideration $10. Eva E. Har rod to the trustee? of School District No. ll, two ant* one-half acres on Longhill road, Raven road and Mary Ann Plantation Creek, consideration $75. A New Grand Jury Has Been Drawn. A new grand Jury has been drawn for Orangeburg, the old one having been adjudged illegal and thrown out. The new grand jurors are as fol lows: E. B. Martin, O. L. Elkand, E. C. Slater, Orangeburg; A. M. Tyler, E. J. Bates, J,. D. Pearson, J. H. Clarke, W. E. Young, Dr. C. T. Dowling. Wil low; J. H. Woodbury, Sumter Salley, J. S. TJlmer, Elizabeth; W. O. West bury, Orange; D. B. Wolfe, Limestone; B. C. Fanning, A. P. Fanning, Good land; T. Lawson Conner, Eutaw; C. C. Kennerly, Zion. Ask to be Heard Before Commission. A letter has been received at the offices of the railroad commission, from General Manager John B. Hock aday, of the Southern Express Com pany, asking to be heard before the commission in regard to the recent order of the commission to the ex press companies doing business in this state to furnish information as a basis for a full investigation to be made into their affairs. The railroad com mission will hear the express com pany's complain at their next meeting. Woodruff Will Have a Fair. At a meeting of the board of direc tors of the Woodruff Fair association it was decided to hold the fair Octo ber ll, 12 and 13 this year. The fair was not held last year on account of the buildings being In bad condition. The repairing of the household build ing, poultry building and grand stand will be commenced shortly. The other buildings are in a very fair state. The letting of the stands and places on the quarter stretch will be the last Thurs day of this month. A TARIFF ON HOCK SPECULATION AS TO THE EFFECT OF THE SUSPENSION OF THE PHOSPHATE TARIFF. WILL AFFECT SMALL MILLS To Have Gone in Effect August 20th, But Has Been Suspended Until De cember 18-Does Net Involve Change In Actual Rates. Columbia.-Some speculation exists among the' various fertilizer manu facturing interests of this city as to the effect of the suspension by the Inter-State commerce commission of a tariff on crude ground phosphate rock, which was to have ^one into effect Sunday, August 20. The tariff was suspended until December 18. Accord ing to information secured at the of fice of the state railroad commission, this suspension affects South Carolina, but will have little or no effect upon the fertilizer mills of Columbia, since these for the most part grind their own rock. Those fertilizer factories which are most affected by the tariff changes are the smaller mills, which have their phosphate rock shipped in already ground and ready for the treatment with sulpimric acid. The tariff, which was to have gone into effect Sunday, the 20th, it is stat ed, involved not a change in the actual rates, but modified the rules governing the shipment of the crude ground phosphate rock. The new tar iff, had it taken effect, would have re quired all crude ground rock to be shipped in sacks, instead of in bulk; thus entailing extra expense both in cost of the sacks and in freight on same. Only the smaller mills have their crude rock shipped in already ground, and hence these are the only fertilizer factories affected by the rul ing. Although there are none of these in Columbia, it Is stated, there are many of these smaller mixing mills lo cated at various points through South Carolina, as at Greenwood, Ninety Six, Florence and many other points. Scholarships at Winthrop. Columbia. - Names of Winthrop scholarship winners, as follows, were announced by state superintendent of education John E. Swearingen: At large: Inex Lomberg, Beaufort; Mary E. Hill, Abbeville; Essie Iola Eargle, Graniteville; Frances Riley, Ander son;; Eulalie Coleman, Bamberg; Jes sie Armstrong, Barnwell; Grace Bon neau, Beaufort; Harriet Alicia Palmer, Charleston; L. Frances Stickney, Charleston; Harriet Herbert, Charles ton; Elizabeth Weston, Charleston; Nannie Randall, Kings Creek; Sarah Elizabeth Lowery, Chester; Doris Hartzell, Cheraw; Maybelle McLaurin, Latta; Pearl Riggs, Summerville; Mary Ella Jacobs, Johnston; Alice Martin, Simpsonville! Mary Helen Helen Martin, Fountain Inn; Ellen Hunter, Greenville; Virginia Jennings, Greenwood; Alma Lewis, Gallivants Ferry; Beaulah Moore, Conway; letta May Harrellson, Mullins; Grace A. Stribling, Westminster; Olive Dukes, Rowesville; Sarah McK. Watson; Eth el Christine Wise, Saluda; Nellie Elise Smith, Spartanburg; Agnes Bryan, Sumter; Amy Louise Eaddy, Rhems; Isabel Strait, Rock Hill. Gates Will bc Closed at Night. Columbia.-Tue grounds will not be open at night during the forty-third annual state fair, October 30, Novem ber 3, as was the case lasi yoar, the experience showing that tho atten dance after dark would likely be small. This was the statement of Mr. J. A. Banks, president of the State Agricul taural and Mechanical Society, upon his return to St. Matthews after the meeting of the executive committee here. Last year the grounds were kept open until 10 o'clock at night and the carnival shows and other amuse ment places evidently did not receive as much patronage as was expected. Last year the officials of the Society announced that the openi.ig of the grounds at night would bo undertaken more as an experiment than anything else, and the experiment failed to prove profitable. Coroner to Investigate Matter. Columbia. - Coroner Walker has ?one to Bookman ,a station on the Southern Railway, 17 miles north of Columbia, to investigate the death of a negro, said to be Ed Foster, of Columbia, whose dead body was found beside the Southern's track. Reports to Southern Railway officials here were that the negro lived at 1011 Blossom street, but when Coroner Walker visited that address he could find no trace of such a person as Ed. Foster. It is thought ' at Bookman that the negro was killed by a train. An Ingenious Tiger Fined. Sumter.-K. J. Davis, a negro, who has been operating for some time a blind tiger in his buggy was caught, and fined in the recorder's court to the extent of $75. Davis lives in the country, but adapted the novel meth od of bringing a plentiful supply of booze to town every few days in his buggy. He would hitch in a back lot after reaching the city and then pro ceed to dispense his drinks to the thirsty multitude. The authorities are after all blind tigers and hope to clear the state of them. Fourth Homicide in 20 Days. Aiken-The fourth homicMc to oe? cur in Aiken county, according to the coroner's inquests, within 20 days, oc curred near YvTagener, when Henry Lightsey shot and killed John Jones, both negroes. Lightaey came to Aik en and surrendered to the Jailer, and is now in jail. Ho maintains that he killed Jones in self-defense. None of the details are k??own, as the inquest was held by Magistrate H. B. Garvin of Wagener, and the papers have not been sent to Coroner Johnson yet A HORRIBLE PANIC AT PIC1E SHOW NO NECESSARY CAUSE FOR DIS ASTER AT THE CANONSBURG OPERA HOUSE. DEATHS FROM SUFFOCATION A Mass of People Fought For the Exit and Twenty-Six Die In ';he Struggle -Many More Were Seriously In jured. Canonsburg, Pa.-Twenty-six dead from soffocation, twenty-five seriously injuVed, thirty suffering from minor hurts, is the human toll exacted dur ing an inexcusable panic at a moving picture show in the Canoncburg opera house. The moving picture machine developed a slight defect. A small boy shouted "Fire," at the same time starting for the narrow exit. Bolus1 Dubrowski, a foreign miner, one of the dead, a giant in proportions, jumped from his seat and ran wildly for the same exit. In a moment there was a fighting, struggling mass after him. At the head of a narrow stairway, which led to the street, the foreigner tripped. As he rolled down the stairs he swept along others before him who were waiting their turn to enter the theater and soon there was an in describable pile of human beings at the foot of the steps, battling like mad. With the exception of three per sons all of the dead are local people. It was all over within a short time. Volunteer firemen, several policemen and a few level-headed citizens un tangled the human mass. The unhurt and those slightly injured were pulled from the top of the pile. As they gained the street, they ran screaming like maniacs to all parts of the small town. Next came the more serlouly injured, pnd these were sent home or taken to nearby houses, while a few were rushed, unconscious, to the hos pitals. Then the rescuers came to the silent forms of those who had reached the fatal stairway first. One after an other, the victims, many of them women and small children, were car ried to the sidewalk. All had suffo cated and the faces showed terror. Coroner James Hefran has begun a rigid investigation. He arrived at the scene early and within a short time had selected a jury. The moving picture machine opera tor was about to conclude the first performance when a film parted. Some of the audience already had commenced to leave the building, and other persons were on the stairway coming up. Many Person?? Hurt in Wreck. Middletown, Conn. - Sixty persona were Injured, eight of them seriously, when an express train on the Valley division of the New Ycrk, New Haven & Hartford Railroad was wrecked by spreading of the rails. The train runs to various resorts and returns at night. The train consisted of the en gine, two baggage and eight passenger coaches. The engine was thrown on its side into a sand bank; the two baggage cars went down a 35-foot em bankment and the first passenger coach ran into the tender of the en gine and was badly splintered. It was in this car that most of the injured were found. The engineer was caught in the cab of his engine and had to be chopped out but escaped with a dis located hip and bruises. Designated More Postal Banks. Washington. - Postmaster General Hitchcock designated fifty more post offices of the first-class as postal sav ing depositories, among them were: Montgomery, Ala.; Texarkana, Ark.; Athens, Ga.; Paducah, Ky.; Shreve port, La.; Jackson, Miss.; Greensboro, N. C.; Greenville, S. C.; Bristol, Tenn.; Austin, Tex., and Petersburg, Va. The receipts in the postal sav ings offices at New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Boston, which opened for business on the 1st of August, lt was announced at. the department, amount ed to a quarter of a million dollars at the end of the first three weeks. Mutilated Body is Found. Knoxville, Tenn.-The vicinity of Etowah is greatly excited over the discovery of the mutlllated body of J. Li Miller, aged 65, a well-to-do farm er who resided within 2 miles of that place. Miller's son Roscoe, Thomas Senter and G. W. Rose and wife, the last two tenants on one of Miller's farms, are under arrest charged with the murder and have been spirited away to the Jail at Athens on account of the high feeling against them at Etowah. Officers claim that one of the quartet has confessed. Another Long Distance Swim. New York.-Elaine Golding, a Bath Beach girl, swam from the Battery in New York to Coney Island, 15 miles. Miss Golding is 20 years old and weighs 190 pounds. She has won many championships at short and middle distances, but this was her first effort at such a long distance. Her time, one minute more than 4 hours, is regarded as very exceptional as a heavy rain fell all the time and the sea was very choppy. It was thought she would not be able to make it. Have Agreed to British Plan. Chicago.-C. K. Dunlap, traffic man ager of the Harrlman lines in Texas, in a statement announced that the Liverpool cotton bill of lading agree ment would be signed by all of the Hardman Texas lines. Cotton dealers and bankers object seriously to the Liverpool method, he said, but the rallroadc have found lt necessary to sign if they would do business. For mal announcements have not yet been made by the other lines in the state of Texas. Review of the Kingdom of Judah Sauday School Lesson for Sept 3,1911 Specially Arranged (or This Paper GOLDEN TEXT.-"Depart from evil and do good; seek peace, and pursue it." -Psa. 34:14. Tlie principal characters and the leading events of these Bible lessons should be impressed on the memory of all. This should be done in such a way as: To show what were the marked characteristics of each per son, thc relation of each person to the course of the history, the relation of each event to the movement of the history, the bearing of each person and event on the progress of the world toward the divine Goal, the com ing of the kingdom of God, the prin ciples which each one sets forth clearly to shed light upon the path of life and progress today. Rehoboam. First king, B. C. 982 first year of the kingdom. Bad Ad vice. Folly. Threw away five-sixths of his kingdom. Event Division of the kingdom. Asa Third king, B. C. 962-twenty first year of kingdom. Reformer. Prosperous kingdom. Event Great revival of religion. Jehoshaphat. Fourth king, B. C. 921-sixty-second year of kingdom. Strong character. General, successful, religious. Events. Intellectual, mor al and religious progress. Suffered from bad alliance with Jezebel. Moab ite stone. Several bad rulers. Jehoram, Aha ziah, Athaliah. Introduction of Baal worship. Temple desecrated. Decline in morals and prosperity. Joash. Eighth king, B. C. 886 ninety-seventh year of kingdom. The bad king. Good so long, as under good advisers. Events. Temple re stored, and its worship. Black obe lisk. Ahaz. Twelfth king, B. C. 738 two hundred and forty-fifth year of the kingdom. Events. Assyrians come in contact with Palestine. Dial of Ahaz. Isaiah prophesying. Hezekiah. Thirteenth king, B. C. 723-two hundred and sixtieth year of the kingdom. Good, religious, active reformer. Taylor cylinder. Events. Fall of Samaria-end of Israel. De struction of Sennacherib-wide ex tended revival. Life prolonged 15 years in answer to prayer. Manasseh. Fourteenth king, B. C. 694-two hundred and eighty-ninth year of the kingdom. The bad king suffered captivity-changed life. Events. Assyrian domination-par tial reformation. Josiah. Sixteenth king, B. C. 638 three hundred and forty-fifuh year of kingdom. Youthful consecration, cleansing of temple, widespread revi val. Events. Finding the book of the law. Bible study, Jeremiah. Jehoiaklm. Eighteenth king, B. C. 607-three hundred and seventy-sixth year of the kingdom. Weak, wicked, defiant of God. Events. Burns the bock of Jeremlth. Beginning of the ' captivity. Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem. Daniel carried to Babylon. The second captivity began at the close of his reign when many captives were carried to Babylon, with his son. King Jehoiachin. Zedekiah. Twentieth and last king, B. C. 596-387. Weak and false to his agreements. Events. Jeremiah im prisoned. At the close of his reign Jerusalem and the temple were de stroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the end of thc kingdom of Judah came in B. C. 586, after 397 years of existence. There were three deportations by Nebuchadnezzar: 1. The fourth year of Jehoiakim, Daniel, etc 2. 10,000 at the close of his reign. 3. 4,600 in the three deportations of the final cam paign. Georgraphy. Study the map for the three kingdoms involved. Egypt, Pal estine, Assyria, the great routes of travel, and the situation of Palestine between the two world powers; Jeru salem being off one side from the routes between the other two. This is the key to the situation. Note, in this history, what were the things that urged or attracted the na tion to the downward course. What was the essential element that would have enabled the nation to move up ward to true success and character. No nation and no individual can at* tain the highest good from life with out supreme consecration to God, a lofty ideal and a holy enthusiasm in the service of God and mam Trace in the history what God did for the people to inspire and move them to the upward course, as prophets, writ ten scriptures, revivals prosperity, re wards of obedience. What obstacles did God put in the way of the down ward course of the nation and puts them in the way of sinners today; as warnings, adversity,- losses. The rise and fall of Israel ls a picture of what is going on continu ally among individuals. The whole course of the history is a magic mir ror in which sinners may see them selves. On the bank of tho Niagara river? on a piece of land extending into the river, where the rapidi begin to swell and swirl most desperately prepara tory to their final plonge, ls a sign board which bears a most startling legend, 'Past Redemption Point,' be cause it is believed in the neighbor hood that nothing can pass that point and escape destruction. One day a vessel was being towed across the river when the hawser broke and she drifted helplessly down ntream, in full view of the horrified thousands on the shore. Just as she reached Past Re demption point a breeze sprang up, all sails wer . set and she escaped. The wind of God's mercy blew upon the Hebrew 6hip of state, but no sails were set, and she was engulfed. Ideals. Every young man has a montai con ception of character which is his ideal. The statesman, politician, edu cator, philanthropist, inventor, mas ter mechanic, orator and writer are ideals after which young men of to day mold and fashion their lives, build characters and shape their destinies. -Rev. Z. E. Bates, Disciple, Alle gheny.