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^tumorous department Why Hs Wat Fired.?"You ran a story a day or two ago," says a correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "about a fellow who quit his Job because his boss called him a fool, thereby proving that his boss was right. It reminded me of another fellow I used to know. This one got fired and didn't know what he was fired for. "I met him on the street, and he was looking pretty seedy, so 1 asked him what seemed to be the trouble. And he told me he had been fired from his job. And I asked him what they fired him for, and he said he didn't know. "'What?' says I; do you mean to say that the boss discharged you without explaining why he did It?' " 'Oh, I guess he explained it all right.' "'Then why don't you know?' " 'I was too drunk to understand what he said." The Mark of Him.?Mrs. Jones was a W. C. T. U. enthusiast and, as with all enthusiasts, was inclined to be zealous for the cause in season and out. relates the New York Evening Post. "Huh, I don' want to go to Sunday school this mornin'," growled little Tommy, as his mother was hurrying him into his Sunday regalia "Mrs. Jones'll get to talkin' 'bout her old 'emperance, I don' care what the lesson Is." "Now, Tommy," remonstrated his mother, "you know she did not talk about temperance last week, when the lesson was 'Cain and Abel.'" "Didn't she, huh! She said Cain acted like he'd been smokin* cigarettes." Executive Ability.?"You ask for the secret of success. Well, one secret in executive work is putting the right man in the right place. Like Lord Claud Hamilton, you know," said a Washington visitor, to the Star. "Lord Claud was traveling over his line when a brakeman?or guard, as they say in the old country?shouted at Action station: "Hactlon! Hactlon!" "Lord Claud smiled. A little further on, arriving at Hanwell, another guard shouted: " "Anwell! 'Anwell;' "Quick as a flash Lord Claud said to his companion: " 'You see how difficult It is, Thornton, to get the right man in the right place. We must have that Action porter brought here, and w'e'll send that Hanwell fellow to Action.'" Off the Course.?A good many years ago a steamer was sailing down a certain river, with a shrewd old Yankee captain in command. Suddenly the engines stopped and the steamer remained motionless for several minutes. The passengers began to talk among themselves, and one of them, a portly, pompous person, advanced to the captain. "What seems to be the trouble, captain?" he inquired. "Why have we stopped?" "Too much fog," answered the cap tain, curtly. "But I can see the stars overhead quite plainly," argued the persistent individual. "Mebbe ye can," admitted the captain, grimly. "But unless the b'ilers bu'st, we ain't goin' that way!" A Wish.?Papa was sitting by the table reading his evening paper. Generally, when he came across an item of interest, he read it aloud to mamma. Little William, a typical "little pitcher with big ears," as a rule was not in the least concerned about the items his father read aloud. But the other evening he was mightily interested. "I see, ma," said papa, "that the ' fishermen around Cape Cod have gone out of the whaling business and?" Up spoke William promptly: "Gee whiz, papa, but I wish you was a Cape Cod fisherman." Diplomatic.?The new lodger had an idea that the bottle in the far corner of the cupboard was suffering from sly visits. "Mrs. Brown," he said, "my late landlady was a most dependable woman. You see that bottle?" "I 'ope you don't 'ink that I'd stoop to touch it," said the irate lady. "I come from honest English parents, I do. and"? "Excuse me," answered the lodger, suavely, "I am not grumbling at your English parents; it's your Scotch extraction I complain of." Sold by the Quart.?Mrs. Fletcher went up to the city one morning to 4o some shopping. She was looking for some house furnishings, and went to a large department store. Walking up to a tall blond floorwalker who was walking slowly up and down in a languid elegant manner, she said: "Will you please tell me where I can see the candelabra?" "All canned goods two counters to the right," replied the official guide, briefly. Not Enough Sides.?According to Pathfinder, W. B. Trites, the novelist, said at a tea in Chicago: "Writers have a hard time at the beginning, but on the other hand, after they arrive they live in clover. "But the beginning is hard, indeed. I met in the park yesterday a beginning poet. " 'My dear boy,' I said, reproachfully, 'that coat needs turning.' "'Ah. go on!' he said. 'Do you think it's got three sides?"' A Courageous Physician.?Doctor? Mrs. Knagg, your husband needs six UoO ..r it m net iiiviuiio jtoi. iiau ui iv uv. iuunv spend in Europe. Mrs. Knagg?Oh, splendid! We shall be delighted to go there. Doctor?That's what I've planned. You can go for three months after he returns. That will give him a full six months' rest. He Needed It.?"Do you love sister Clara. Mr. Simpson?" asked the little brother frankly of the caller. "Why, Willie, what a funny question?" replied the astounded Mr. SimpsJXb "Why do you ask that?" "Because she said last night she'd give a doilar to know, and I need the dollar." "Ain't It the Truth?"?Teacher? The sphinx has eyes, but it cannot? "See!" cried the children. "Has ears, but it cannot? "Hear!" they Responded. "Has a mouth,\ but cannot?" "Eat," said the "fchorus. "Has a nose, but cannot?" "Wipe it!" thundered the class. \ \ \ \ \ FACT, FASHION AND FANCY Paragraphs Calculated to Interest York County Women. A young child is just a bundle of uncorrelated forces, nothing more, nothing less, and the one who expects little children to act as sages or saints is apt to receive a severe shock at times. For, in addition to "trailing clouds of glory," the child brings with him the uncut stones and the unhewn timbers, which in days to come may be built into a splendid temple of character?or the reverse. And no person has such an opportunity of studying the child in relation to his different traits, as the school teacher. If teachers are in the least observant, they can aeie-mme just what sort of man or woman the boy or girl will become, by watching this picture play daily unreeled before them, whether in the way they do their work in the schoolroom, or play their games in the school yard. But in no way does the child reveal his traits more than in the way he sharpens his lead pencil. Here is seen whether he is impulsive, destructive, wasteful, impatient, criminal or easy going; considerate, economical, thoughtful or careful. The child who gouges out great pieces from the sides of his pencil, shows impulsiveness and generosity. If he breaks off a chunk with his finger nails, he shows destructiveness and an utter disregard of the feelings and rights of others. Should he smooth his pencil down to a long point, he shows an artistic temperament and a considerate disposition. If he cuts his pencil off in a stub, he shows economy, carefulness and quickness. In fact, the way children sharpen their pencils is a very clear indication of what sort of men and women they are likely to be. It is so easy to pronounce judgment on persons and things without any real knowledge of either. Girls in particular are apt to judge hastily, very often wrongly, without inquiring into any of the particulars of the case. Women have the reputation of being most unfair to their own sex, and unfortunately it is all too true. There are, to be sure, many who do not come under this head at all, but they are lost in the big majority of women whose love of gossip and of criticism oveoaiances tneir sense 01 justice. ?ien are far from perfect, as every one knows, but they do not, as a rule, share this mania for groundless knocking with their better halves. The men are Inclined to be sarcastic and hasty criticism of their fellowmen are few In number and are not popular with either men or wo:.ien. If this could be only said of the gentler sex. Girls, do not pronounce judgment on other members of your own sex. If you canot speak well of them, do not speak at all. This is a lesson which you can learn from your brothers, perhaps. Do not be a "knocker." ? In the July Woman's Home Companion, Frank A. Waugh writes a very interesting article on "The Country Woman's Opportunities." Among other things he urges country women to invite their friends to eat with them, whatever they happen to have; without the fuss and worry of special preparation. On this subject he says, in part: "I shall be sorry to see the day when the country woman thinks she must give a guest grapefruit with scalloped edges, and salads made after an embroidery pattern. Potatoes boiled with their jackets on, and eaten with salt and butter, a slice of ham from your own smokehouse, a Jar of last summer's preserves, a loaf of homemade bread and a pitcher of milk form a meal that any country woman can offer a guest, with a minimum of labor and a maximum of pleasure for the guest. Don't let us superimpose city fashions upon the country table." If you see a tall fellow ahead of the crowd, A leader of men, marching fearless and proud, And you know of a tale whose mere telling aloud Might cause his proud head to in anguish be bowed, It's a pretty good plan to forget it If you know a skeleton hidden away In a closet?guarded and kept from the day? In the dark, whose showing, whose sudden display, Might cause grief and anguish and lifelong dismay, It's a pretty good plan to forget it If you know of a thing that would lessen the joy Of a man or a woman, a girl or a boy, That would wipe out a smile or the least way annoy A fellow, or cause any gladness to cloy. It's a pretty good plan to forget it This is the recipe for the famous Boston brown bread: One and onehalf cupfuls graham flour, one and one-half cupfuls sour milk, one cupful molasses, two teaspoonfuls crisco (melted), one cupful nuts broken, one and one-half cupfuls meal, two teaspoonfuls soda, one teaspoonful salt, one cupful chopped raisins. Sift flour, meal, salt and soda together, add molasses, crisco, nuts and raisins and lastly sour milk. Put in criscoed molds and steam three hours. Raisin pudding: Put one-half cupful of washed rice, one teaspoonful of salt, three tablespoonfuls of sugar and three-fourths of a cupful of raisins with one quart of scalded milk. Let stand in pudding pan on the back of the stove or over the simmer of a gas stove until rice is swollen and raisins are plumped. Bake in a moderate oven until soft and creamy: serve with cream. Always when mixing a milk mixture with another pour the mother mixture over the milk. This prevents curdling. For instance, in mixing tomato and milk, add the tomato to the milk. In mixing meat stock with cream sauce, pour the meat stock into the other. Add also a small pinch of soda. * As soon as macaroni has been drained and blanched by throwing it into cold water, mix with a little butter to keep it from sticking together. Don't peel apples for apple sauce. Wipe them well, cut up without peeling, add water, and cook till thoroughly soft, then rub the pulp through a coarse sieve. For early chrysanthemums an ideal compost is three parts good garden loam to one part of well rotted manure, with a sprinkling of bone meal. BANKS FIGHT NEW COMMISSION i (Continued from Page One.) ( of other individual property owned by { him?and the valuation already fixed , by the board of equalization of the . county, is in proportion to its value, , and the proposed increased assessment of the said shares is inequitable, ( unjust and illegal and places an illegal and unjust burden of taxation on the ' said shares and is not in proportion to the assessment upon other property in said county and state, in like situation and condition. ( Denies Jurisdiction. This bank respectfully submits further that this honorable commission is without Jurisdiction or power to as- i sess property, either real or personal, i for taxation or to alter, change, in- i crease or otherwise in any way modify < assessments made pursuant to law under the authority of the provisions i of the statutes contained in the code I of laws, 1912, and amendments there- 1 to in this behalf, because: (a) The act approved February 20, i 1915, entitled, "An act to create a tax i commission and to define its duties < and powers" in so far as it undertakes i to confer such power and authority on i the tax commission is unconstitutional, i null and void in that it violates section 17, article 3, of the constitution which provides: "An act or resolution having the force of law shall relate to but i one subject and that shall be expressed in the title," and the power 1 given said commission to assess prop- 1 erty for taxation, to alter, change, increase or otherwise in any way modify assessments made in pursuance of i existing laws is not germane to the I title nor expressed In the title. (b) The said act creating the said commission undertakes to and does modify and change the entire tax system of the state of South Carolina as heretofore fixed by the laws of the : state and the purpose to change the said tax system is not expressed in the title of the said act, and is not i germane to the title of the same. (c) That in and by subdivision 15 of section 8, of the said act of the com- ! mission is given the power to annual- i ly make such levy upon the assessed valuation of property subject to taxa- i tion as is necessary to raise the an- i nual appropriation made by the general assembly, which provision is in i violation of and in conflict with the provisions of the constitution of 1895, section 3, article 10, which provides that "no tax shall be levied except in - M ? 1 UJ ?UnU A(a_ pursuance ui a xaw wiihju ouuu uiatinctly state the object of the same to which object the tax shall be applied" and also in violation of section 2, article 10, which provides: "The general assembly shall provide for on annual tax sufficient to defray the estimated expenses of the state for each year," etc. (d) That the said act in and by section 2, provides: "That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed and provisions of the said act in reference to the assessment of real and personal property, the valuation, equalization and reassessment of the same, are in direct conflict and inconsistent with the provisions of the entire body of the code of laws, 1912, and amendments thereto, on the same subjects and more particularly with section 344, 345, 423, 427, 428, of volume 1, code 1912, and wholly repeals the same and no such purpose is expressed in the title of the said act, nor is it germane to the same. (e) That said act violates the provisions of section 5 of article 10 of the constitution of 1895, providing for the assessment of shares of stock in banks and banking associations. (f) The said act abolishes the state board of equalization and the state board of assessors in violation of section 17 of article 3 of the constitution of 1895, in that such purpose is not expressed in the title of the said act and is not germane to the same. Unconstitutional. 6. This bank further respectfully submits that this honorable commission is without jurisdiction or power to assess this bank on the shares of its shareholders, or to increase, alter or change its assessment which has already been made pursuant to the provisions of law, because: (a) The act of the general assem- . bly of the state of South Carolina, approved February 20, 1915, is unconstitutional, null and void in that subdivision 16 of section 8, undertakes to confer on this commission the right to assess and equalize taxable value of property and franchises of banks and banking corporations which is in contravention of section 5, article 10, of the constitution of 1895. (b) The said subdivision 16 of sect inn s of the said act embraces na tional bankers as well as state banks, and thereby contravenes the act of congress in reference to the taxation of national banks. (c) The attempt of the South Carolina tax commission to fix the assessment of this bank for the year 1915 for taxation and the attempt to increase its assessment fixed by the county auditor and the county board of equalization of the county of its location is illegal and void, and in contravention of the act of congress in reference to the taxation of national banks and with the constitution of the state of South Carolina, section 5, article 10, in reference to both state and national banks. (d) The act of the general assembly of the state of South Carolina of February 20, 1915, undertakes to confer on this commission the power to assess and equalize taxable value upon the property and franchises of certain corporations including banks and ' banking corporations and to classify the same for the purpose of taxation, which contravenes and is in conllict with section 5, article 10. of the con- 1 stitution of 1895, and i.s in conflict with and contravention of the act of 1 congress in reference to the taxation 1 of national banks which said act of congress, among other things, directs 1 and requires that the assessment of the shares of stock in national banks 1 and in assessing taxes imposed by au- 1 thority of the law of the state in which the association is located shall be and is subject to the restrictions ' ?--- ?-- .......?n| ? mill IIIC UlAUllUIl 011(4.11 IIUI l/v 1< v u greater rule than is assessed cm cither moneyed capitals in the hands of individual citizens of said state, and that tlie said shares shall be taxed in the city or town where the said bank 1 is located and not elsewhere, that the 1 real property of the said association ' shall lie taxed according to its value j as other property is taxed. 1 7. That an act entitled, "An act to create the South Carolina tax commission and to define its duties and i powers." approved February 20, 1915, is void and has no force and effect i because it was not passed by the gen- 1 eral assembly in accordance with the provisions of the constitution of South Carolina, article 3, section 1, vesting the legislative power of this state in the senate and house of representatives, and hectlon 18 of article 3, providing, among other things, that no bill or Joint resolution shall have the force of law until it shall have been read three times and on three several days in each house and has had the great seal of the state affixed to it and has been signed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, in that: (a) The bill to create the South Carolina tax commission and define its duties and powers was Introduced in the house of representatives and passed the same, when It was sent to the senate and the senate made certain amendments in the bill and returned the same to the house for its concurrence. (b) The house of representatives refused to concur in the amendments made, by the senate, and thereupon the bill was Sent to a free conference had by the appointment of certain members of the senate and certain members of the house, and the ffee conference reported in favor of the senate bill which was sent back to^he senate and duly passed and ratified by It. The bill as ratified and passed by the senate does not conform in terms to the act passed by the house and approved by the governor, and the act as approved and signed by the governor is not the act passed and ratified by the senate, and the senate of South Carolina has never passed and ratified the act as approved by the governor, and as shown by its records, an entirely different act was passed 'and ratified by the senate. (c) That the senate bill which was passed and ratified by the senate provided, among other things, for a tax board of review to consist of seven members appointed by the governor from each congressional district who had power and authority to review the action of the state tax commission, and differed from the act approved by the governor in other material respects, all of which appear by reference to the journals of the senate and house of representatives. (d) That the senate having ratified one bill and the governor having signed and approved a different bill the approved bill lacks those t essen tials necessary under the constitution to give it the force of law. WHEN DUST G0E8 BANG. Some Domestic Commodities As Ex> plosive as Gunpowder. Many mysterious explosives which at one time baffled the ingenuity of our keenest detectives, have been recently explained by the cold, methodical researches of our chemists, who, It will be remembered, also warned the government not to let Germany have cotton to manufacture gun-cotton. The men of science have not been able to wipe out the miseries that have been caused to the thousands of persons who have been convicted or condemned of arson, and other similar crimes, without a cause, but they have certainly succeeded in teaching the police to be very careful before they blame any householder or manufacturer or servant for an explosion and the key to their researches haa been always the same?dust. How many cooks for example, realize that the ordinary everyday flour they use in their kitchens is one of the most dangerous of explosives? Recent calculations show that the contents of a 25-pound sack of flour mixed with 4,000 cubic feet of air, will, if ignited, throw a mass of iron weighing one ton 45 miles through the air. Indeed, many disastrous explosion* have occurred in big flour mills from this cause, wrecking huge buildings and causing heavy loss of life. Unhappily flour is not the only domestic commodity that is as dangerous in its destructive effects as gunpowder, and hourly threatens our homes with red ruin. Every now and then a sweet factory gets blown up in spite of the vigilance of the government inspectors, the watchfulness of the insurance companies, and the zeal of its foreman. Such an explosion occurred not long ago in Boston. It originated in a room where marshmallows were being made. These sweets are coated with finely pulverized sugar, and the hot and dry air on a summer's day, laden with sugar dust, with the result that the mixture ignited, a lot of workers were injured, and many of the buildings were set on fire. It is nothing new to hear also of explosions of starch in starch mills and of rice in rice mills, and in each instance the blame is to be attributed to the innocent-looking commodities, and not to the malice or carelessness of the employes. Oatmeal, too, has been known to go off with dire results, and a great breakfast commodity mill not long ago was sent en bloc heavenwards owing to some maize dust mixed with air. Spice dust in spice mills has also wrought similar damage, and all linoleum is now manufactured under spe clal precautions against fire because sad experience has shown how easily cork dust and the cement used in linoleum manufacture will ignite, or even take fire of their own accord. Soap is another domestic suspect. It has set tire to a ship in the mouth of the Thames. Only a few years ago there was a great explosion in a soap factory engaged in the production of finely powdered soap. "Some enemy hath done this thing!" muttered the proprietor, but as a matter of fact he and the detectives who hunted for criminals were for months on the wrong scent. "Soap is fat, and therefore combustible, "the chemists reminded him. "Your soap powder was dry, and it got freely distributed through the air when it exploded with more violence and greater heat than flour or starch." Zinc has been known to cause explosions. The story is often told how a workman once handling a quantity of finely powdered metallic zinc when he got a spell of laziness, and to save further trouble, threw a shovelful into a flaming furnace. There was a terrific explosion. The blade of his shovel was driven Into the root of the building, and be got half-killed. Malt mills are also not immune from perils of explosion. In fact, detectives nowadays, when they are faced with explosions, the origin of which they eannoi iamom, are always iiisirui-ieu by their superiors to remember human agency may not be the cause, but? dust?Pearson's Weekly. By offering prizes to motormen for efficient operation of their cars, an English electric railroad effected a saving of 2f> per cent in current in 12 weeks. HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE Items of Interest From All Sections of South Carolina. L. M. McEee has resigned the presidency of the Vardy Yarn mills of Greenville. Portions of Florence co-unty were visited by a severe hail storm Monday. W. P. McMeekin of Columbia, has been appointed dentist for the state hospital for the insane to succeed L. L. Toole. The People's Savings Hank of Glendale and Clifton, Spartanburg county, has been commissioned with a capital stock of $5,000. Governor Manning has granted a ninety-day reprieve to Willie Bethune, a Clarendon county negro under sentence of death. William K. Blake, one of the best known citizens of Greenwood, died at his home In that city last week, aged 83 years. Y. P. McQueen was elected mayor of the town of Loris on Tuesday, defeating M. M. Stanley by a majority of fifteen votes. There was no term of the court of general sessions for Darlington this week, because there were no cases to i be tried. The police department and city officers of Spartanburg, have moved into the new city hall, recently completed in that city. Clarendon county has purchased a movable prisoner's stockade, such as has been in use in York county for several years. W. S. McCarthy, one of the best i known engineers of the Southern railway in this state, died at his home in Columbia Monday,-aged 53 years. Governor Manning has appointed Isaac C. Hough, sheriff of Hershaw i county, to succeed W. W. Huckabee, who was indefinitely suspended several weeks ago. Citizens of Rockton, Fairfield county, have subscribed nearly $100 toward a fund for a memorial to the late Sheriff A. D. Hood of Fairfield county. Henry Eoatwright, a young mill op erative of Columbia, is in the state penitentiary charged with criminally ssaulting an 8-year-old white" girl last Saturday. Mrs. B. B. Kelly was shot and seriously wounded by a bullet from a 22.allbre rifle in the hands of her young son in Columbia Monday. The youngster didn't know the gun was loaded. The semi-annual meeting of the South Carolina Sheriffs' association will be held in Greenville, July 20. The chiefs of police of the state will be invited to meet with the sheriffs. The Duncan drug store and the Chaney grocery store at the Duncan mill In Greenville, were robbed Tuesday and goods valued at about $100 were taken. Two negro boys have been arrested, charged with the crime. I Several hundred delegates from Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina are attending the annual convention of the Southern Retail Furniture Dealers' association, which is being held in Columbia this week. Major Johnson Hagood, a native of South Carolina, who is now on duty in 1 the Philippine Islands, has been ordered to Fort Washington, September 15, to take command of the coast Jefenses of the Potomac. At the annual meeting of the South Carolina Bankers' association at the Isle of Palms last week, J. W. Simpson of Spartanburg, was elected president of the organization, and Ira B. Dunlap of Rock Hill, vice president. , Miss Elsie Hill, a daughter of Congressman Ebenezer Hill of Connectl, cut, and herself a teacher in a Washington school, has been making u .lumber of addresses in this state the past few days in the interests of woman suffrage. George L. Lyons, a white man, was convicted of perjury in the court of i general sessions for Charleston, Monday. and sentenced to six months' im1 prisonment. It was charged that he registered on the enrollment books for Ward 7 in the city of Charleston, and falsely swore thereto, i The city council of Beaufort, at a i recent meeting strongly condemned the shooting of young James Carberi ry, son of Prof. J. L. Carberry, for merly of Rock Hill, by a policeman in that city last New Year's eve, and 1 agreed to pay all expenses incurred in connection with the treatment of the ' young man's wounds. 1 Lewis W. Parker and O. K. Mauldin of Greenville, have filed a petition in the name of J. W. Little, a Greenville county citizen, asking that an injunction be granted against the Greenville county highway commission to prevent the issuance of $950,000 in bonds for road improvement. Special Judge Ansel has ordered the highway commission to appear before him tomorrow to show cause why such inJunc tion should not be grunted. T. II. Vaughn, formerly superintendent of the Odd Fellows' orphanage at Greenville, who was convicted more than two years ago and sentenced to death for assault, has lost his appeal to the supreme court of the United States and must pay for his crime with his life. Vaughn has not ;pokm a word in two years and many people connected with the penitentiary are of the opinion that he is insane. Pee Dee Advocate: J. E. Quick, one of the largest colored farmers in this , section, who lives four miles south of Osborne, planted 300 acres in cotton last year and used 800 pounds of fertilizer to the acre, hus reduced his cotton acreage to 250 and applied only 500 pounds this year, but will use a hundred pounds of soda later. Last year he put 60 acres in corn. This year he has 90. He also sowed eight bushels of wheat and forty of oats, all of which are promising. There are a number of colored farmers in that neighborhood who own farms and do good farming and who will raise home supplies, planting less cotton. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN SPIES Plan of Fort Tattooed on Back of Soldier's Sweetheart. Long before the war it was known that Germany employed hundreds of feminine spies?beautiful society wo men, in many cases, says Answers. These women have played important parts in the present campaign. Here is a typical case: Hy accident a woman handed a sentry the very note that she was to have given to the Germans, in mistake for the permit that she was to show in order to cross the bridge between Varangville and St. Nicholas. She was charged be fore a court martial of war, and later executed. Another woman dropped a letter which read: "Hurry up; the twentieth corps arrives this evening." She dropped it at the gates of Nancy, and was straightway arrested. During the battle of the Aisne a woman was one night discovered signaling from a window to the Germans by means of an electric torch. Perhaps the most daring espolnage exploit by a woman at the front was that of a pretty Italian in the pay of Germany. Until her arrest In November she traveled about in a motorcar and managed to give the enemy much valuable Information about the French troops. She had somehow provided herself with faked passports bearing the forged signature of Sir John French and General Joffre. Attneherl tn the pnrrlnnn nt Posen was a young officer named Schorveder, who was very poor. He was deeply in love with a girl named Ida Mullerthal, but, owing to his poverty, the prospect of their getting married was very remote. The lovers' trouble was known to a Russian secret agent, who approached the lieutenant and offered him 5,000 pounds for a plan of the fortress of Posen. Dazzled by this offer the lieutenant agreed, but he found it difficult to carry out his task. His sweetheart then suggested a cunning way out of the difficulty. "You shall tattoo a plan of the fortress on my back," she said. "I shall easily be able to travel to Russia with it without being discovered'." They carried out their fantastic idea successfully, but the silly extravagance in which the newly wedded couple indulged after the girl returned to Posen aroused suspicion, and they wei? both arrested. "You were trapped by a woman who is the agent of a foreign power, and so I am going to show leniency toward you; but it cannot be much, the crime is too great." These words were spoken by Mr. Justice Darling some time ago before sentencing George Herbert Parrott, | formerly a gunner in the navy, to four years' penal servitude for divulging British naval secrets to a Gerihan woman spy. The man met this beautiful woman at a London music hall, and soon beoo rwo rvnoolnno to1\7 I? 1 AV'O U/lth hOT uainc paoaiwuavvi/ ?w?v He was so completely in her power that, forgetting honor and duty, he complied with her demand for information. It is owing to a woman's wiles that Germany possesses some plans of Gibraltar. These were made from rough sketches supplied by a pretty young German girl who stayed at Gibraltar a few years ago, ostensibly for a holiday. THE CITY OF MITAU . Russian Town Has Long Been Seat of Learning and is Great Distributing Point. Describing Mltau, reported to be the latest objective of the Germans' Baltic campaign, the war primer of the National Geographic society says: "Mitau is the capital of the government of Courland, is 116 miles from the port city, Libau, said to have been captured recently by the Germans, and about 385 miles by rail southwest of Petrograd. It is a great distributing point for the Import trade of Libau and Riga, as well as a point of assembly for the export commerce of these ports. It is situated on the river Aa, in a fertile plain, more than 110 miles northeast from the German frontier of East Prussia. It was the capital city of a famous Duchess of Courland, who became Empress of Russia in 1862, bringing her duchy under the two-headed eagle of Russia, and who lives in history as 'Catherine the Great.' "For more than seven centuries, Mitau has been a seat of aristocracy and learning. Some 300 years ago, when Courland had some importance in the councils of Europe, and possessed distant tracts in Africa and other foreign colonies, Mltau was a cosmopolitan gathering point "for scholar and artist and patrician; and the plan This Is Top Dre If you have fertilized lacking in potash, it Side dress with a fer necessary elements c Do not make tne n (Ammonia) only, sue as well as stalk and : not only provide ami acid and POTASH. I I TO Will stimulate the ? unfavorable seasona blight and shed. PRESTO TOP I I ROYSTER'S SP I MAGIC TOP D Royster top dressers, compounded on sciei proper time and in Look for the trade-m Send postal for t F. S. R< Norfolk. Va. Spartanburg, S. C. At of the city then developed provided for future dignity and greatness, the streets being laid out broad and straight, ample provision made for parks and promenades, and the security of this ducal residence assured by formidable fortifications. Mitau remains today one of the fine substantial cities of the north, and the traditions of its heydey are persistently upheld in its many educational institutions. "Mitau has a growing industry. Its leading manufactures are iron products, linen, soap, wax-cloth, Ink and flour. Its trade in grain and lumber is very large, these products being assembled at Mitau from the interior governments and, then, sent to the Baltic porta As throughout the Baltic provinces, a large percentage of the people of 'Mitau are of German descent, and the German language was heard with greater frequency upon its streets before the war than was the Russian tongue. Mitau counts some forty thousand people, mostly Germana Letts and Jews, with but a slight sprinkling of Russians. It is supposed to have been founded by the Brethren of the sword in 1266, becoming a port of Russia in 1795." A Warning,?"I wouldn't trust him." she argued. 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Montgomery, Ala Baltimore, McL GARDENING IN GERMANY Every Available Plot is Planted to Food Crops. The gardening season has been marked by unusual scenes In the outskirts of Berlin, according to an Associated Press dispatch. Everywhere on unoccupied lots people have spaded up the earth. The lots have been divided up into smaller parcels, and the latter turned over free to families willing to cultivate them. Berlin and several of the adjacent municipalities have helped by making appropriations of money, and Berlin has also contributed some 15,000 loads of manure from the city stockyards. Thus Greater Berlin hopes to contribute considerably toward solving its own food problem, and what is going on at Berlin is being repeated in every town in Germany. In this way It is expected that the potato crop of 1916 will be the largest ever grown in f Germany, and that the supply of other 1 vegetables will also be greatly increased. At present all food products continue to advance in price. Even the commonest vegetables are from two to threefold higher than they were before the war began. Coffee and tea, though they cannot now be Imported into Germany at all, have risen considerably less than vegetables. Among meats, pork, the staple meat of the working classes has risen most markedly. FT W^^obs99 two "Bobs" for a r stands and stores. > the idea in " Little One? to give you a w, a mintier -a bit of class Made heart you'll know t and nobody thing else to u say "Bobs." 'cm?"Bobs" time, or used fertilizer vmi Tnn r?r I r. V. ->portions of all three Ammonia and Potash, at contains Nitrogen ie increase in fruitage, 1 DRESSERS, which t, but also phosphoric s RS j the yield, overcome endency in cotton to 4 Ammonia Potash 10. 4. 7.50 250 ; 9. 3. the plant at just the I il condition perfect. I ; Royster Dealer. PANY, C. Columbia, S. G Columbus, (to. J