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FREE) DELIVERY MAR. BRVIOE. Throe Billion Letters a Year Go Over Rural Routes. Tlie rural free dellvory service of the United States moans tho distri bution of nearly 3,000,000,000 let ters and parcels annually along the highways and byways of every State and Territory from Maine to Alaska. A force of 41,000 carriers dally go over thc routes assigned to them. Bringing the mail to tho farmer now costs the nation $30,000,000 a year in salaries for the carriers, ex pense of examining new routes, maintaining post offices, payment of inspectors, special agents, clerks and chiefs of bureaus. To secure information to make changes In routes and carriers where deemed necessary, to establish new routes and to record and tabulate statistics and data for the postmaster general, as woll as for tho public, a force of only 110 persons ls required lu Washington in spit0 of the great amount of office work that must bo finished dally. Over a million letters aro received and answered by the department of rural free delivery lu a year. Many of those received are merely address ed to the department. To savo timo of opening and reading missives not properly directed ls a part of the work of the mailing section, lt in cludes a private post oillce through which every letter received or sent relative to rural free delivery must pass. Every one of the half million and more letters sent from the depart ment is copied for record by a me chanical system which saves tho la bor of a hundred collying clerks, eve. where the hand copying press or the carbon method has been em ployed. A force of only seventeen clerks ls needed In this section, yet in addition to handling and copying mall they keep a dally record of all the outlay for postage expenses of the department, and sort and exam ine the hundreds of letters daily re ceived, which must be returned to the post office where they should have been directed. , What the service does In receiv ing applications for new routes, peti tions for carriers, decisions of the depart nient, the payments and re ceipts, ts told by the post oillce news paper, published every day by tho accounting section. It ls a record of what every one In this postal count ing house, including the assistant postmaster general himself, ls doing. Every Important item of statistics ts tabulated In type. The esprit de corps of the rural free delivery ls best known by the last annual report. During the year it states that out of the 41,000 In the service the total dismissals for cause were only 165, less than the total number of deaths. Locals from Rattle Creek. Battle Crook, May 30.-Special: The farmers are generally In line against general green, as we have had some rain in this section. Crops and gardens are needing some atten tion at present. I have Just been to Athens, Ga., where I spent four days last week. The Grand Dode, Independent Or der Odd Fellows held Its session on the 25th and 26th. The order was well represented. Georgia has 402 lodges,with a membership of 30,000. The next session of this grand order will be held at Rome, Ga., In 1911. Athens ls a fine old city, founded In 1801, being 109 years old, and has a population of 20.000. lt ls also not-Ml as ii seat of learning. The people gave the Grand Dodge the. open hand and heart, and a royal welcome. Married, at the residence of Rev. D. F. Carter, on May 29th, Miss Ad die E. Rholetter, daughter of 10. G. Rholetter, and Wallace Hare, both of Oconee county. We extend many good wishes to the new couple. D. F. Carter. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children? The Kind You Have Always Bought Signaturo of Fine Rural Telephone Dine f Anderson Mall.) Tho Sandy Springs Telephone Company, of Sandy Springs, has been formally organized by tho election of the following officers: D. D. Held, president; T. P. Hobson, secretary and treasurer. Directors, D. L. Reid, T. P. Hobson, M. H. Moore, Aug. D. Moorebead and C. D. Sum mers. If you haven't tho Hmo to exercise regularly, Doan's Regulets will pre vent constipation. Tboy Induce a mild, easy, healthful action of tho bowels without griping. Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents. ACROSS TIIIO ENGLISH CHANNEL And Huck Again--Marvelous Feat of An English Aviator. Dover, Eng., June 2.-Charles S. Rolls, the English aviator, to-day Hew across tho English channel from here Sangatte, Franco, and returned without stopping. This ls an unprecedented feat. Louis Rlorlot and Count de Lesseps crossed the channel from France to England, but never before had a con tinuous Hight between England and France and return been made. He Made Splendid Time. Rolls loft Dover at 6.30 o'clock and in splendid time had roached the French coast. Ho circled twice over Sangatte Cliffs, near Calais, and then without stopping his engine turned his aeroplane back to the Rrltlsh shore. The distance across the channel ls twenty-one milos, so Capt. Rolls ac complished an over-water flight of forty-two miles, making a new rec ord for this particularly dangerous course. After circling tho cliffs ot San gatte, Rolls headed straight to sea, and made the return at a rapid pace. Three torpedo boats, which had been strung across the channol lu anticipation of Hie flight, started simultaneously with the bird-man when ho set out for France, bxit though the boats were driving at full speed they wore soon overhauled and passed hy the aviator. Sketch of tho A viator. Capt. Chas. S. Rolls, of the Lon don section of the Anny Motor Re serve, has successively followed the sports of bicycling, automobiling, ballooning and aeroplanlng. At Cam bridge University bc was the captain of the bicycling team. Later ho com peted successfully In numerous auto mobile competitions, and was award ed the gold medal for .ns perform ance In the 1,000-mlle trial of 1900 in England. He has made more than 160 balloon ascensions. Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won't cure them. Donn's Ointment cures itching, bleeding or protruding piles after years of suffer ing. At any drug store. FRANKLIN'S LAST HOPE (?ONE. Ornngoburg Negro Loses His Appeal itt Federal Court. Washington, Juno 3.-In a decis ion of the United States Supreme Court Tuesday, rendered by Justice Day, the court affirmed the decision of the South Carolina Supreme Court in the Pink Franklin case. Franklin murdered Constable Val entine in Orangeburg county In tho year 1907 while the constable was trying to arrest him for violation of an agricultural contract. His case j went to the South Carolina Supreme Court, and from that court came to the United States Supreme Court. Outside of the fact that Attorney General Bonaparte appeared as one of the attorneys for Franklin and at tacked the laws of the South, there was nothing unusual In tho case. Justice Day, In rendering the opin ion of the Court, said that the court could only inquire into Federal ques tions, and that Franklin's plea rais ing Federal questions came too late and could not avail him. Except in a general way he made no reference to the elective franchise of the Southern States or to the allegations contained In the bonaparte brief that Franklin, and other persons who signed agricultural contracts, were worked under a legalized form of slavery. By the decision Franklin loses his last appeal and apparently will have to die on the gallows. Foley's Kidney Remedy .tay be given to children with admirable re sults. It does away With bed wetting and ls ?Iso recommended for use af ter measles and scarlet fever. J. W. Bell. , The First Cot (mi Report. Washington, June 2.-The first cotton report for the year was Issued to-day by the board of statistics of the Department of Agriculture. It shows that the area planted this year ls about 102.8 per cent of the area planted last year, equivalent to 33,196,000 acres, as compared with :*?2,290,000 acres Inst year. The condition of the growing crop of May 25th was 82 per cent of a normal condition, as compared with 81.1 per cent nt the corresponding date In 1909, and 80.9 as the average condition for tho past ten years on tho same date. The Conservation of Nature's Re sources applies as well lo our physical state as to material things. C. J. Hudlong, Washington, R. I., realized bis condi tion, and took warning before It was too late. He says: "I suffered se verely from kidney trouble, tho dis ease being hereditary in our family. I have taken four bottles of Foley's Kidney Remedy, and now consider myself thoroughly cured. This should bo a warning to all not to neglect taking Foley's Kidney Remedy until lt ls too late." FA HM PROSPECTS AHE BETTER. Some Advice About Farm Work Practica* vs. Theoretical. Editor Keowee Courier: The out look for farming 1B brighter. Small i grain (s a great deal better than It j promised ten days ago, and while corn is very small for this timo of I the year, lt has rooted firmly, and j will vory likely make a small stalk. It is a very Important matter to j know how best to cultivate. Corn should be plowod deep with a small plow and let that plow go deep. If convenient use a fender, but do not throw very much dirt to the corn unless tile corn ls suckering. If this should be tho case, scientific mon will tell you that your corn ls not thick enough, or lt might be you have too much ammonia under lt, but from a practical standpoint it ts the lack of depth of earth. To con vince yourself, take up a stalk that has suckers by the roots, and also take up one that has no suckers. Measure the part that was In the ground and you will get the lesson in a nutshell. I am going by what I have been watching for five years. Now another very Important thing about corn growing Is to thin your corn to suit the grade of land and the preparation made. You cannot expect to make 4 0 of 50 bushels of corn on land that made 1 2 or 1 6 last year, or at any rate you will not be very likely to do so. . That Is more than double, you see. First, the land must be 3tlrred 6 or 8 Inches or above that to get above 15 bushels, and some food must be put where lt can get lt In developing and matur ing. In regard to cotton: It is a crop that ls easy to develop and ls easy to cut short. Some deep plowing with a gopher ls needed as soon as lt gets four to six leaves on lt, and a side application by the 20th of June or before. Use surface cultivation after one time plowing deep. Use a small gopher and sharp sweep-say 10 or 12 Inches. Straighten the gopher nearly straight so as not to leave a deep open furrow. In applying fertilizers do not use a distributer, but spread the fertili zer by hand If you haven't a spread er. If a distributer is used run a plow following and mix well Immedi ately after. And one other thing: Do not put peas In your cotton at tills season. If at all, wait till July 1st. Pindars are best to use. M. G. Holland. TAO TAX BRINGS $'?50,000. Indications that Sta to will (?ct S43, 000 More Than Last Year. The fertilizer movement as shown by the tag tax receipts will aggregate $250,000 In receipts at the State Treasurer's olllce in Columbia, or about $43,000 more than last year's receipts, on the basis of 25 cents per ton. Tile tag tax received to date is $212,050.03, which ls $41,545.01 more than to the corresponding date last year. The figures for last year to March 29 were $170,504.12. The total for the last fiscal year (1909) In tag tax receipts was $202, 741.31. From May 2S last year to the end of the fiscal year the receipts were $32.237.18. It ls considered very probable that this year's receipts from now until the end of the fiscal year will equal if not exceed last year's receipts for the corresponding period. By adding last year's after-May receipts lt will be seen that this year's receipts will probably reach the $250,000 mark. As the tag tax is 25 cents per ton the amount turned in to the treasu rer's olllce represents nearly 850, 0 00 tons. "In my opinion," said Judge J. Fuller Lyon, who handles the ferti lizer tax in the office of the State Treasurer, "the reason for the In crease In the fertilizer sales as shown by the tag tax ls that the farmer In South Carolina ls now using more fertilizer for the small crops; that ls the grain crops, corn and so forth. 1 have noted a general disposition to Increase the fertilizer used on thc carly fall crops." Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S O A 3 T O R I A Befriended Peddler; Gets $10,1)00. Washington, Pa., Juno 3.-George White, a farmer and rural mall car rier at Rea, has delivered to himself a letter from a lawyer In a Western State informing him that one Patrick Sullivan lias left to him In his will $10,000. White, who first took lt ns a Joke, has remembered that fifteen years ago ho befriended a peddler whose name was Patrick Sullivan. He had often treated bim to meals or lodging. White is now negotiat ing for tlie $10.000 which is said to have been left him by tho old ped dler. 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Sabbath School, 10.30 a. m. Gothel mi. Rev. T. B. Bptlng, Pastor. English services every Sunday morning at ll o'clock; Sunday School at 9.4 5 a. m. Missionary Society meets on Wed nesday after the first Sunday In each month. Ladles' Aid Society meets on Wed nesday after the third Sunday In each month. A cordial Invitation ls extended to al' 'o worship with us. First Baptist Church, John Knox Hair, Pastor. Preaching at ll a. m. and 8.30 p. m every 2d and'4th funday. Sunday school at 10 u. m. every Sunday. Prayer meeting every Thursday at 8.30 p. m. Woman's Mission Soch ty on Wed nesday after the 3d Sunday In each month at 3.30 p. m. The public cordially invited to these services. Lives Lost in Hurricane. Victoria. B. C., June 2.-Many lives were lost and several ships were wrecked tn a hurricane which swept the Loyalty Island In March, according to belated advices brought by the steamship Manuka from Aus tralia yesterday. 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Satisfaction Guarantee?!. PAINTS-ALL COLORS Va E. ALEXA NDER, The Land Man WALHALLA, 8. C. THE BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY CO. Between Belton and Walhalla. Time Table No. 9,-Effective 29, 1910. May KABTIIOUND LvWalhalla. LvWoat Union. LvHonoca. Lv'Jortlanla Junction Lv?A<lamu. Lv?Chorry. Lvl'orulloton. Lv*Autun. LvHnndy Springo. Lv"l)cnvor. Lv?Wn8t Anderson.... ArAnderson-PassDep LvAmlnrson-I'assDop Lv*Andersoh-FrtDep ArHolton. 12 A M 7 00 7 05 7 38 7 20 7 41 7 44 7 60 8 01 8 07 8 IV! 8 20 10 I IB I ac j 8 8 31 8 31 0 0(1 P M 3 27 3 32 3 60 3 52 4 07 4 10 4 22 4 30 4 33 4 38 4 52 4 57 5 01) 5 27 AM e 5Q 0 63 7 20 I'M A M 10 30 1035 1130 11 83 1163 11 64 12 26 12 38 ?12 42 19 50 1 08 1 15 2 20 2 23 2 60 WKHTMOUNn - ll j 0 j LvPolton. Lv,Aii(lorflon-Kr't Do ArAndorson- l'a?8 Do LvAndorson-PMS DO Lv?WcHt Anderson.... LvM)nnvor. LvSandy Springs. Lv*Aatun. Lvl'nndloton. Lv?Chorry. LT* Adams. LvMordanla Jtuictlon. LvHonooa. LvWoat tJtilon. ArWalhalla. PM 5 36 G 00 0 03 0 08 6 20 A M ll 22 ll 47 ll 60 ll 67 ia io C 25 12 15 6 27 12 18 6 34112 26 6 44 12 81 0 46 01 7 03 7 21 7 2? AM 7 30 7 67 8 00 12 itt 12 67 1 00 i SS ::: 19 AM. 3 00 3 27 3 30 7 00 7 08 7 26 7 33 7 86 7. fl? 8 ll 8 14 8 35 9 20 0 45 0 50 Will also stop nt the following stations and take on and let off pan songors: Phinnoy's, James's, Toxa way, Welch. A. B. Andrews, President. J. R. Anderson, Superintendent DH.KINO'S NEW DISCOVERY Will Surely Stop That Cough?