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COLUMBIA SEMINARY. Synod Votes For Removal to Atlan ta-Warm Arguments. The State. Clinton, Oct. 20.-Synod met un 'der cooler skies this morning, but a burning question, the proposed re moval of Columbia seminary to At lanta, keeps things warm. Devotional exercises and minor matters of busi ness were first dispatched. Reports on publication and Sunday school work and 'on the address of Dr. Hemphill were received. The question of the removal of the seminary was then taken up. Motion to limit speeches to 30 minutes, except those of the signers of the majority and minority reports, was carried. W. F. Stevenson moved the adoption of the majority report. J. C. Scott as a substitute, moved the adoption of the minority report and the battle was joined. Rev. W. G. Neville spoke in behalf of majority report. He said: "The removal would not change the rela tions of the synod to the seminary, that there were no moral or legal obstacles, that a moral obligation to remove the institution did e::ist if it would do a greater and better work for the church elsewhere." He spoke of the hopelessness in the air at Columbia; the excessive cost ot the work there, about $8oo per stu dent per year; of similar conditions at Clarksville, of the magnificent offer of $250,ooo by Atlanta, of the central position and accessibility of Atlanta, of the enlargement of the sphere of the institution from foui to seven synods; that such a great school would stimulate the establish ment of other colleges. "Even should failure come we would not have lost much for we have not that now," he said. Rev. W. J. McKay, D. D., then spoke for his minority report. He showed *that certain of Clarksville's funds, to the amount of about $x86, ooo, could not be removed; leaving about $16o,ooo which could be brought to Atlanta. A vital part of the plan of consolidation has failed. The opposition of the synod of Te.. nessee has been too little regarded. It is more than merely one, of five controlling synods; it has more Pres byterians than the other four com bined. The opposition to the trans fer of the Clarksville funds comes from the men whose efforts and generosity created them. He ar gued from the deed of trust that the McCombs gift of $1oo,ooo was made specifically to the Southwestern Pres byterian university at Clarksville and could not be transferred to Atlanta. This may be held by the courts and in that case only $60,ooo would be left, and even that to be fought over in the courts, to be taken to, *Atlanta. He opposed consolidating the seminary with anything. It ought to maintain its autonomy; its funds were given by godly -mren for the training of ministers and for nothing else. Should no legal ob stacles emerge, there are other ques tions. Is it necessary to remove the seminary? Are there incurable ob stacles to its success in Columbia? Is its financial condition such as to excitc apprehension? Is its faculty inefficient? Is education there too costly? Does the small number of students make a change necessary? Would the removal be of benefit to the seminar, ? Would it add to its finances, to its number of students? Would it bring it into closer touch with its source of supply? Is its geographical location such as to make a westward removal advisable? He answered each question in detail negatively. He thena asserted that there is a hindrance to the removal; piighted faith is sacred. Synod has pledged its word against removal. He read a report from Dr. Thornwell adopted by synod transferring the seminary to the general assembly, one of the conditions of the transfer being that the institution should not be removed from Columbia. General assembly retransferred the property with the same conditions. and donations have been since mad under those conditions. Faith' is pledged to them. It is quibbling, trifling with truth, to say that such gifts were made for the general cause of education in church. The question was called and the roll was ordered called and the vote was taken, for removal and againsi removal, three minutes being al lowed each member to explain hih vote. Dr. Thornwell led the synoc in prayer for divine guidance. The vote resulted as follows: - For re moval 96; against removal 52. Synoc has therefore consented to the re moval of Columbia seminary to At. lanta. CASTING LOTS. A Curious Military Custom Thai Was Once in Vogue in Europe. In the armies of the seventeent and eighteenth centuries the custom f casting lots to decide what soldiers should be punished for the offenses :f all was common. At Winchester England, in 1645, complaint was made that after the surrender there Ead been unfair plundering. Six sol diers were tried and found guilty and it was decided by lot which one of the six should be hanged. At Tan gier in 1663, and again in 1665, twc soldiers had to cast dice on a drum head, and he who threw the leasl was executed. Thomas May's trans lation of Barclay's "Icon Animorum' gives a curious story of this sort. Speaking of English courage, he says that during the war in the Ne therlands some soldiers of the Span ish party were taken prisoners b3 the Dutch, who decided to make re prisals for the previous cruelty ol their enemies. Out of four and twen ty men eight were to be hanged "There were lots, therefore, throwr into a helmet,"says May, "and the prisoners were commanded to draw their fortunes-whoever should draw a blank was to escape, but whoevei should draw a black lot was to be banged presently. "They were all," says May, "pos sessed with a great apprehension ol their present danger, especially one Spaniard. Their pitiful wishes anc tears in some of the standers b3 did move pity, in others laughter There was besides in shat danger ar Englishman. a common soldier.whc with a careless countenance, express. ing no fear of death at all, came boldly to the helmet and drew hi! !lt. Chance favored -him; it was ; safe lot. Being free himself fron darger he came to the Spaniard, wh< w:as yet timorous and trembling t< put his hand into the fatal helmet and receiving from him 10 crowns h< entreated the judge-oh, horrid au :acity-that, dismissing the Spaniard they would suffer him again to tr3 his fortune." May further relates that "th' judges consented to the madman': request, wvho valued his life at sc low a rate, and he again drew a saf< lot." May seems rather to regre the second escape of the foolhard3 Englishman, whom he denounces a: "a wretch unworthy not only of tha double, but even of a single preser vation, who so basely had under valued his life." PLAN TO UTILIZE NOISES. Have Them all Properly Attuned t< Each Other and Made Agreeable The proposition of Mrs. Amelia Holbrook before the Professiona Woman's League that children shoul< be taught not to scream off the ke3 but that mothers should carry tuning fork and give them the prope: note, or if there are several of the:n they should be taught to cry it unison, is not, to acoustics, a prepos terous proposition. "We know little of the laws an properties of sound and what migh be done with discordant and unrelat ed noises,'' says Mr. Kitchings, wh< makes acoustic apparatus for instruc tion in physics. Take a tuning forl of large size and set it vibrating, an< one in the same key across the roon wil soon give out the same sound The disagreeable noises of a city the roar of wagons. street cars. th< 'L' road. the cries of peddlers might. if properly attuned to eacl other, he rendered agreeablc instea< of discordant and a nuisance. ? municipal league of harmony, lik< the one for art, might 'n time bring it about. There is considerabl< waste energy in noise that might be possible to arrange th . combination of a safe lock so as to open it by singing a certain melody. The notes would set corresponding metals vi brating; these would communicate with electric power which, in turn, would move the tumbrils of the lock and the bolts would turn back. "A set of whistles on board ship might be arranged to stand for the different points of the :ompass. In a fog the whistle corresponding to the direction in which the vessel wat sailing would be blown. On board other ships there would be a set of reverberators indicating in the same way the points of the compass. By runing over these the one in harmony with the whistle would be pickd out, and at oncc inform th second vessel the direction of the first and so a collision would be avoided. A war ship might communicate with its consorts and the enemy be unable to read the signals."-Chicago Tribune. The directors of the Agricultural Bank of Bulgaria will soon decide up on the quantity of agricultural ma, chines and implements which it will be necessary to purchase for use next year. What tco do with the copper pen nies taken in by street railway com panies is getting to be more and more of a problem in English cities. In London many of these coins are disposed of in fiv'-shilling packages to hotels and other places where change is needed, but much remains to be disposed of otherwise. NOTICE. 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