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RECEIPT FOR PARCELS FOR FEE OF ONE CENT Change in Regulations, for. FourthClass Matter to be Effective Soon. Patrons of the postoffice after September 1 can secure a receipt for all parcels they mail upon payment of a fee of one cent, according to orders issued by Postmaster General A* S. Burleson. An extra postage stamp of one cent denomination will be affixed a 4!'* a t\ot?aa1 Ia AAXTAt* t n a AAClf rvf +Vi o tu U-C yCLl V/Cl WU VU?Ci kuc WO(, VI buv receipt. These receipts will be issued on all fourth-class mail. Another order issued by the postmaster general increases the size of packages that will be accepted under parcel post rates from a maximum combined length and girth of seventy-two inches to a maximum length and girth, combined, of eighty-four inches. Tie copy of the orders is as fol lows: Order No. 8,977: The postal laws and regulations are amended by the addition of the following: Section 458 1-2. On and after September 1, 1915, the postmaster at the mailing office may, on payment of one cent, give the sender of an ordinary parcel of fourth-class mail a receipt therefor. A postage stamp to cover the charge for the receipt shall be affixed thereto. T-e name and address of the addressee of the parcel shall be written in the receipt by the sender. Postmasters desiring additional information on this subject should address the third assistant postmaster genedal, division of registration mails. Order No. 9,005: Paragraph 1, section 454, postal laws and regulations, edition of 1913, is amended to read as follows: Section 454. Fourth-class mail mat ter snail emDrace an oo;er mauer, including farm and factory producs (and books) not now embraced by law in the third-class, not exceeding fifty pounds in weight (when mailed for delivery within the first or second zones, nor exceeding twenty pounds in weight when mailed for delivery within any of the other zones), nor greater in size than eighty-four inches in length and girth combined, nor in form or kind likely to injure the person of any postal employe or damage the mail equipment or other mail matter and not of a character perishable with in a period reasonably required for transportation and delivery. Paragraph 1, Section 454, postal laws and. regulations, is amended to read as follows: Section 454. If a parcel of fourtJ':class matter exceeds the size in length and girth combined, prescribed in paragraph 1, section 454, it shall not be accepted for mailing, no matter ho^ small the excess may be. A. S. Burleson, Postmaster General. SLAY LEGION'S FATE HANGING IN BALANCE A Strong Rearguard Resistance May Possibly Saye Army of C-l* J. roiisn sanenu London, July 31.?The fate of the Russian armies in ti:e Polish salient still hangs in the balance. No official confirmation has been received up to a late hour tonight of the evacuation of Warsaw by Russian troops, but that tJ'rey are withdrawing eastward is certain. What portions will succeed in getting hack to the new line is a matter of speculation. The arrival of Austrian -cavalry at Lublin, wi'iich is officially frAm Vionn'3 cVl ATX' 3 thnf the southern line of retdeat is entirely barred, as Field Marshal von Mackensen has previously crossed this railway. There remains, however, the main double track route through Minsk 'and an equally good road from Ivangorod ti_rough Lukow, and the north ern line, which runs south of the Bug river, to say nothing of innumerable smaller roads which enter the Polish capital from the east. Still Has Chance. Therefore, so long as Field Marshal von Hindenburg is prevented from crossing the Bug from the northeast, it is believed Grand Duke Nicholas has still an excellent chance of saving his "whole army. - _ _ 1- ATI ? ? (When the Russians ao reacn u^e new line of defense they will be faced by another danger?that arising from the advance of Gen. von Buelow's army, , composed largely of cavalry, which is approaching the fortress of Kovno and . which is within three days' march of the Vilno-^Petrograd railway. The retirement, although described fcy Petrograd as voluntary, is accom- . panied by -very hard fighting, reminiscent of Gen. Kuropatkin's retreat from Ldao-Yang, when he inflicted on the , pursuing Japanese losses greater than his own. "Wtbile the main army, with the field artillery, is making its way to the rear, infantry and cavalry are , ??" protecting the flanks and making repeated attacks. In this way a few f iiours are gained, which are of inestimable value to the retreating forces, j Several Days Yet. It probably will be several days be- | fore the struggle finally is decided. ( With the capture of Warsaw ti'.'.e Ger- i mans will score a victory which will; not only put the Russians on the de-J fensive for many months, perhaps well! into next year, U.t which will greatly j h.^rt-pn rhp -iviiiaii DODulation of tl':e central powers ar.-d release an army c.f one million or more men for an offensive in the West. Th'?re continues to be sharp fighting at various points in the western / ne. but this is initiated by one side or the other simply to gain the best point for the big offensive wfcich seems certain to ccme. SO WE NOTES FROM WINTHROP SUMMER SCHOOL Having finished our work at Winthrop summer school, we use a leisure moment to give our friends an idea of tl:e way in which we spent our time. First, we will state that the Y. W. C. A. has been a very important factor in the summer school.' Vesper services were conducted on Wednesday evening by the students and members of the faculty; on Sunday evening, by Rev. F. G. Greggs, who- gave us some 1- ~ i _ r._ i A i~ v Trr n very utfipiui taitvs. Aisu, tuc i. >v. A. entertained the faculty and students in their playroom. TLe general lecture course was very interesting and instructive. Among the lecturers were Dr. Hodge, author of "Nature Study and Life," and Dr. Swope, educational field agent of the National Association of Audobon Societies. Dr. Swope conducted out-door exercises for the study of bird life. We left the college at 4:30 a. m., as "an early hour is the best time to get acquainted with bidds." Mr. Livingston Barbour rendered the readings, "David Copperfield" and "A Christmas Carol." IMiss Laura Combs, & noted soprano, accompanied by Miss Campbell, gave a splendid entertainment one Saturday night. The pupils in ti-e departments of music and physical education entertained us most delightfully on Friday and Tuesday night with folk dances, choruses, solos and duets. The exhibits in the art and manual training department were splendid and give evidence of nnich work on the part of botli teacher and pupil. . Last, but not least, were the plays given by the Coburn Players, "The Yellow Jacket," 'The Imaginary Sick Man" and "Jeanne D'Arc.' Each of these plays showed remarkable skill on the part of the actors and were a source of much enjoyment. Leila V. McTeer, Maggie Lee Swindler. HAS A CHEWING GUtf TREE Slow Grower, But Experimenter Believes It Will Pan Out, Eagle Lake, Miss., Correspondence to New York Herald. Nearly 200 professional gum cnewers and others who were disappointed yesterday, when they went out to Joe Sheppard's experimental grove, near :-ere, to get some natural chewing gum fresh from the tree. Joe is a sort of Luther Burbank in matter relating to peppermint and gum; and unless he is kicked by a horse or falls off a roof before next fall, intends to pctonnd the "known world with the re suits he obtains. The reason for the disappointment yesterday was that he Las not obtained the results yet. Mr. Sheppard's entrance into the project of gum building occurred by the merest chance last fall, w'hen a mass of ligl tning splattered out over the woods edging his property. A cottonw*ood tree was split in two, a big sweetgum next to it was splintered and a slippery elm adjacent was hewn from branch to base. Joe looked them over for less than 20 minutes, and promptly went into the natural d'r-ewing gum business, with his entire plant and equipment on the spot. Ho yanked the two other trees over the sweet gum tree and tied the whole collection up tightly with heavy canvas, winding it tight and supplementing a whole lot of rope and chain. Then lie sat down and waited. After about 15 hours he decided that he could trust the trees to look out for themselves overnight and went to bed. He got better at his new profession every minute, and after a week had made up his mind tibat it would De spring?ims spring, in. lact?utiuit; he could expect the tree to turn out the finished product all ready for the Jaw. Since then he has sat up nights with tfte tree and made every effort to keep it well and ambitious. It has grown together, and he was so satisfied with development a couple of-weeks ago that he notified his friends that If they convened yesterday he would give them something to think about and cfcew over. ""Qtiite a throng collected and looked askance at the bandaged tree, while Joe walked around it a couple of f times and patted it in a friendly way, i just to show that he and the tree un- j derstood each other. Then he took off j the splints and let every one see the tdee. It had grown together in uneven fashion, but there was no sign of the packages of wrapped-up gum in cotton piles that Joe had led everybody to! expect. Un imnofiDTit when ixv u\y v\,u i ?? hvm j some one up and said so, and after . snorting a couple of times in rage, bandaged the tree up and told a?l that by next fall he would have some gum worthy of the name. He asked them to come around in October, but a lot of t throng said that they didn't think they would. GREAT EiASTERN RUSH \A LOSING IN MOMENTUM Teutonic Movement Against the Russians Has Slowed Almost to Halting Point. London, July 27.?Austro-German attemps to envolope tl':e Russian armies defending Warsaw and to capture the Polish capital, which for a time progressed almost with the momentum of the offensive that cleared Galicia of Russians, have been almost ":alted. Where the Germans are moving it is only yard by yard and at tremendous cost. T':e German Field Marshal von Mackenzen has taken a few villages on the way to the Lublin-Cholm railway, between tfre Vistula and the Bug rivers and the Austrians, by a counteroffenske at Sokal, have captured positions which will make the German flank safer, but Berlin once more reports that "otherwise the position of the German troops under von Mackenzen remains unchanged." All along the western bank of the Vistula from Ivangorod to 'Novogeorgievsk even a smaller advance apparently has been made, while along the Xarew van Hindenburg, who has been trying to drive a wedge in behind the city, is largely occupied in meeting' Russian counterattacks. Conflict of Claims. T':ese counterattacks, according to Petrograd, have forced the Germans, who had crossed the river, to return to the northern bank at some points, but Berlin asserts they have failed and at the German advance is moving eastward. The Russians, defeated in the Baltic provinces recently, also have turned, but Berlin says an attack from Mitau was repulsed. Farther south the Germans con| tinue their advance eastward towards i the Vilna-Petrograd railway, but there is a lot of territory to cover before ! tftas is reached, and it is considered | more likely that Gen. von Buelow, in ! command here, will turn to the southi west to threaten Russian armies facing von Hindenburg. 3Iost Critical Moment I Everywhere the battles are at their heigi t, especially that in which -von Mackenpen is engaged. Military criti ics here believe that this is the most critical engagement of the campaign, for the whole German plan depends on von Mackenzen's reaching tfce Lublinf* V? rtl-m Y*a 11 Tl'O T7 V^JJ.VSJL'JLU. X Uii f? VfcJ . With interest centered on the East, the important French offensive in Alsace has been almost disregarded. Paris reports another success north of Muenster, wt:ich apparently is the French objective, and the repulse of a series of German counterattacks. Th* French have concentrated artillery in this region and with high explosives I ave been tearing up the German defensive works, among the strongest along the whole line. Artillery aiso is piaying an important part in the battle on the Isonzo. where the Italians are reported to have concentrated for three days -tfceir fire on the Austrian positions. This fire is said to have exceeded in -violence that which the Austro-Germans employed against tlhe Russians in western Galicia, which up to that time was the most terrific ever known in war. Rome's Colossal Fish Pond. LLondon Chronicle. The Duke of Sermoneta, who is act ing as president of the committee formed in Rome to promote tlhe independence of Poland, ranks among the greatest landowners in Italy, Fogliano, his estate near the Pontine marshes, extending to 80,000 acres, mainly under grass, for the duke owns vast herds of cattle. The most productive portion of the estate, however, is a lake several miles long and about a mile in breadth, wIMch, from the time of the Roman empire downward, has supplied fish for the market in Rome. Whenever there is a flood caused by rain on the "hills, the lake overflows tfcrougli a narrow channel into the sea. The sea fish find their way through into the lake, remain to fatten in the fresh water and then are captured on their return by an ingenious labyrinth constructed of reeds into wirioh they swim. They are of the best kind?c&iefly -gray mullet. NV": ' To Loan on Sfinnno $1200 an J. A. B VIVIAN MARTIN IX ' IHE ARRIVAL OF PERPETCA.* The fast growing armies of Vivian Martin's admirers will surely be increased by the latest World film offering, "The Arrival of Perpetua," which is to be shown here on August 3. The picture is in five yarts and it is the first production of Mons. E. G'.autard, the new French director of the company. Vivian Martin's dedicate style of acting, her personal grace and beauty are so distinctive and piquant that it is necessary to provide specially for her in respect of the story of the picture in which s:' e is cast, and of course, | her own part must be similarly unique. i Miss Martin, in fine, must be just iber-! self; the public wants Vivian Martin, and 'Vivian Martin in a suitable photoplay. Perpetua is a rich little girl, an orphan, with a guardian very much older than herself. This man is an ; absent-minded dreamer, unaware of j his responsibility to Perpetua. The, girl wanted to live in her guardian's ' house, but instead went to her father's ! half sister's, Miss Majerdie, an angular j spinster of 60, with a predilection for j monkeys, parrots, cats and dogs. Perpetua is not happy in this an-1 tique environment, so she runs away' and forces herself upon her moody j guardian, Thaddeus. He endures her j for a time and finally ships h.er back ' to his sister's. The prefty girl is pur-' sued by several suitors whcse ardor she cools wi':en she is said to be not worth a cent. I i And here the moody guardian steps in. He has loved the girl, but her | wealth has prevented him from declaring t';is affection for her. But now that she is poor, he doesn't hesitate to offer himself. T1-1 ?s of/-vttt r\f t.Viic T?> A+OV it Tc I I'll tt O LV-TA J VI 1/UilJ VUUiMVI/V* ?w obvious that the refined artistry of Vliss Martin finds adequate scope. This beautiful girl shines in every film in wfich she is seen, but when the entire framework of the pla yi':as been especially designed for her, her pleasing personality stands out all the more markedly and distinctly. SHERIFFS WILL HAVE CENTRAL NEWS BtTBEATT Accounts of Crimes and Descriptions of Criminals Will Be Furnished Throuh This Agency. Journal. Plans for a central information bu-! reau, from which accounts of crimes and descriptions of criminals will be disseminated to every sheriff of the State immediately after the crime's commission, were set on foot at the semi-annual meeting in Greenville of the State Sheriff's association. Ti.e plans for the bureau have not; been worked out in detail, but the oth- I er sheriffs were impressed with the idea that such an institution would x ~ 1 J fV? A dlllOUIlL IU a giCclL QCcti UL 5UUU 1UI UUC I State. No reports of minor crimes and misdemeanors will be made to the bureau, as that would only cause useless labor, but in t)':e case of a serious crime, when the criminal is not apprehended immediately, by notifying the central office every sheriff in the State can be warned to watch for the, person wanted. tfO>KEY ATTACKED CHILD. 3Tother Sues Owner and Gets $2,000 Yerdict. Los Angeies uispatcn 10 .New iofk World. Two thousand dollars' damages for the attacks made on tf:em by "Charlie Fuller,' an educated chimpanzee have been awarded to Mrs. Lillian Lindley and her little daughter Miriam. E. W. Knowlton, a Pasadena millionaire, owner of the animal, was defendant. Mrs. Lindley testified tlhat the chimnanzPA entered iher home throush an open window, tore little Miriam from her arms and threw her on the floor. With the aid of a pet dog, Mrs. Lindley said, she finally rescued the little girl and locked "Charlie" in a closet. Knowlton declared ibis chimpanzee, which wears clothes, smokes cigarettes and carries a cane, meant no harm to the child. J Real Estate <t7 nn nn i VV/.VUj d $3000 iurton !! ?>$><&<$><& <?''$><$><&<$><$<$$><&<$><$><$ 3> <$> <S> CHICORA COLLEGE FOB WO- <S> & . >IE>', Columbiu, S. C. <$> e> <? <?><$><?><?><$><$> <S><3><^<?>3>3><$><$><^<S><$' The success of Chicora college, at Greenvill, S. C., has been so great during the past nine years, and its growth so rapid, ti-at despite frequent enlargerviAnfo o r*? A iwnrATrorrtQnfc r\ P 4-Vi H ill ^ 11 I/O ClllU \J L Lll^T um plant, the board of trustees found it imperative to seek a new site. Coincident with their negotiations in Greenville, the board if trustees of the College for Women in Columbia offered its magnificent property to Chicora, according to the terms of t)':e original charter under which the College for Women operated. The Chicora board accepted the offer, deciding on t'.e consolidation of the two schools, the consolidated institution to be located on the Columbia property. The Presbyteries ratified mis action ui uie uuaiu, seven vi/uug for it, only one against it. Dr. 8. C. Byrd, for nine years the efficient and successful president of iGticora college, will continue as the executive head of the new school, and with him practically all the Chicora faculty and as many of the tead-ers of the College for iWbmen as were available at the time of the consolidation. The friends of the college are enthusiastic and certain of its greatly increasing success. The alumnae association of ti'.'e College for Women voted to continue taeir organization, and graciously offered the contribution of their donations to the Kelley Memorial library. Both of the organizations are assured of the warm interest of the C i cura uonege lor wvumu, aim uit; yrc?ident begs that each will feel assured of the permanency of their own alma mater. The college will be a standard school, conducted along modern lines of highest educational efficiency. President Byrd in a recent interview said, "One thing is certain, there will be no backward step." The many friends of the school who know tf:e president and his ideals bespeak an immediate sucppss in flolumbia. and are haDDy to think of the great service that tf:-e in stitction will render to the church and the cause of education. , Columbia seems to be in every way! an ideal location for a college for women. The winter climate is mild and recognizedly healthful. The location there of the Theological seminary, the university and other educational institinnc prmtrihnitPR tr> an academic at mosphere that is at once a spur to ambition and an aid to achievement. TT'e political life of a State capital adds greatly to the brilliance of a city's social life, and affords opportunity to study the processes of government at close range. The great interest and belief in the college is widened by the large number of inquiries and applications already on file in the president's office. Easy Money. An automobile dashed along the country road. Turning a curve, it came j suddenly upon <x mail w Jill gu?i vu I his shoulder and a weak, sick looking old dog beside him. Ti:e dog was directly in the path of the motor car. The chauffeur sounded his horn, hut the dog did not move?until he was struck. After ti:at he did not move. The automobile stopped and one of the men got out and came forward. He had once paid a farmer $10 for killing q pjiif t-hat hAlons^ed ro another farmer. Mr V,*-.*-. ~ I This time he was war}-. "Was that your dog?" "Yes." "You own him?" "Yes." "Looks as we'd killed him." "Certainly looks so." "Will $5 satisfy you?" "Yes." "Well, tfaen, here you are." He handed a $5 bill to the man with the eun. and added pleasantly, "I'm sorry to have broken up your hunt." "I wasn't going hunting," replied the other as he pocketed tibe bill. " Not going hunting? Then what were you doing with the dog and gun?" "Going down to the woods to shoot t':e dog." Summerland College I For the higher education of young women H Healthful location V Every modern convenience ? A competent, worki*_g faculty I For catalogue or other information write to P. E. Monroe, Leesville, S. C. ^ REGISTRATION NOTICE. The board of registration for Newberry county will be at Waitmire on <g August 10, 1915, and at Prosperity on fl August 13, 1915, for the purpose of registering voters. And at the office in Newberry on the first Monday in August, which is the last day for reg- * istering for the general election la September. 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