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WILL COME SOON' Wireless Station Will Be Estab lished in Several Cities IN SOUTH CAROLINA The United States Wireless Tele graph Company Begins Work Up on the Great Inland Southern Ex tension of Its Commercial Dispatch System-Instraments Ordered. The January number of The Aero gram, a magazine devoted to the wireless telegraph and telephone bus iness, will contain an interesting ar ticle on the proposed extension of the business of the United Wireless Telegraph Company, and from ad vance proofs it Is learend with.pleas ure an . interest that Columbia is on the list of new offices to be es tablished. The company is making preparations to form a complete sys tem for over-sea and over-land bus iness and expects in the course of time to be in active competition with the wire lines in business, social and official transactions of messages. The following from the article men tined will be of general Interest: The eastern operating department of the United States Wireless Tele graph Company announces the plac ing of an order with the companysa manufacturing department, for 250 complete sets of wireless instru ments, all of which are soon to be installed at stations to be establish ed in cities east of the Mississipp' river. L This is the largest order for wire less apparatus and to manufaeture.. erect and put the. stations Into op eration, will require an expenditure exceeding $600,000. The majority of the stations will be of one or two k. w. capacity, with a range from 100 to 300 miles, but some, which are intended for long distance serv ice, will be of from 5 to 20 k. w. to transmit wireless messages, under all conditions of weather, for a range of from 50 to 2,000 miles overland and from 1,000 to 3,000 miles over the water. The United Wireless Telegraph Company's manufacturing depart ment embracing three complete fac tories, two of which are located in Jersey City, N. J., and the other in Seattle, Wash., have a combinad capacity of over $1,000,000 worth of wireless apparatus per year. The larger part of the entire output .,f these factories has heretofore been needed in filling orders from various governments and for the United Company's marine department. It is probable, nowever, that with an extension of this factory equipment. which will be made In the near fu ture, the 250 sets will be completed4 and the new stations be ready for operation in 1909. The company promises to erect stations not only' in the States east of the Mississippi river, but also in~ the Western States from the Pacific coast eastward, until they complete an intercommunicatinlg wireless sys tem covering all important commer clal minIng and manufacturiag cen ters throughout the entire U3nited States. -Inasmuch as nearly all of such cities are connected with many smaller places by local telephone sys tems. it is expected that the United Wirelsss Telegraph Company wilt he in a position, by the end of 1909. to receive and deliver messages at several thousand points where the wire companies at preset-t maintain offces. The operating department of th? -company is now organizing its forces to begin the select26n of locatione for these new stations. Contractt and leases will be entered into and1 the advanced work completed, ready for the installation of the aparatus as rapidly as suitable sites can b' secured and satisfactory arrange ments made. Among the stanons proposed are the following: North Carolina-Elizabeth City. Cape Hatteras, Beaufort, Newbern. Raleigh, Wilmington, Greensboro. Charlotte, Asheville, Henderson and Winston-Salem. South Carolina-Charleston, Sum ter, Columbia, Spartanburg, Green ville, Anderson and Abbeville. Georgia-Savannah, Brunswick Valdosta, Albany, Augusta, Griffn. LaGrange;, -eathens, Atlanta an( Rome. Florida-Jacksonville, St. Augus tine, Gainesville, Ocala, Tampa, Key West. Tallahassee and Pensacola. SAlabama-Mobile, South West Pass. Selma, Montgomery, T-:scaloo sa, Birmingham, Anniston, Gadsden and Huntsville. Mississippi-Columbus, Greenilla, Meridian, Jackson, Vleksburg, Natch ez and Biloxi. Louisiana-New Orleans , Batoi. Rouge, A lexandria and Monroe. Tennessee-Chattanooga. BristoJ. KXnoxvllle, Columbus, Nashville, Ciarksville, Jackson and Memphis. The article further states that the announcement of the western operat ing department will be made in a short time, giving the location of station contemplated in the States and territories west of the Missis sippi river. As rapidly as these sta tions are completed they will be put into operation with the stations al ready established, of which there are now about 200, including sea coast stations and ships equipped. The business to be handled by th's extensive wireless system include' commercial messages to and from boats, between boats and shore sta tions, "over-sea" cable business, commercial and land service betweet cities and the distribution of press matter in competition with the wire< systems.1 Made Solemn Pledge. Cleveland, 0., Jan. 4.-A move ment which has been in the course of preparation for several weeks was C put into effect here today when 1,-i 800 young people pledged then:- I selves to "live as Christ would have r lived." The pledges were made at the Epworth Memorial church, where 3 hundreds of members of the Ep- c worth League, -Christian Endeavor t and Baptist Young People's Society s WORK OF RESCUE. 1 LEROIC RELIEF PARTIES STRUG- T1 GLE NIGHT AND DAY. Ling and Queen of Italy Share Un- T1 flinchingly in Dangerous and Heart-breaking Task. Messina, Jan. 6.-Although con used and without system, the work lc >f rescue has been carried on brave- 1n y by night as well as by day. Seach- h< ights on the warships flood the ruins tc with their rays and give light ta fr .he salvage parties. A The king and queen of Italy. on c. >oard the battleship Regina Elena. A ave given a notable example of de- e: votion. The king, with some of his ninisters at his side, has been di recting and suprevising the relief work, yet he has found time to visit ,he field hospitals and speak words a :f encouragement to his stricken sub- a ects. The queen has been spending t] 15 hours a day beside the sick beds a Dn the Regina Elena, attending and b consoling and encouraging. c The brunt of the work of rescue t] has fallen on the sailors, foreigners n as well as Italians, and all have done ih their duty nobly. Praise of the Rus- t: sians are on every lip. They hest- n ated before no danger, digging un- g der tottering walls or entering tne h unsafest shells when asked to do :o h by some frantic woman who had not a lost all. hope that husband or child was still ai:u. Althodgh the air in Messina is b heavy with the stench of putrifying i bodies several groups of Sicilians t have camped out in the cleared spac- t es of the city and obstinately refuse e the invitation of the authorities to 1 move away. I The survivors of the disaster are so dazed and worn out that they are t quite incapable of describing their I experines connectedly. but the ac- i counts of all agree that the devas- 11 tation was accor plished in less than t one minute. -'he strata below the s strait slipped, then a tidal wave rush ed in and out and all was over. I Those capable of expressing their i sensations say that as the shock came c they felt an upward thrust of the t earth. This was followed by an I oscillary motion and the crust of the earth vibrated. Few of the survivors are able I to explain how they escaped. They I know only that amid falling plaster I and mansonry they managed to iump safely from windows or turn bled down crumbling stairways. * SLAIN FROM AMBUSH. North Carolina Farmer Killed After Nightfall. Danville, Va., Jan. 4.--Charles Brown, a widely known farmer of near Selma, N. 0., was hol and in stzntly killed last night near his home, supposedly; from ambush by a party lying in waiting for him. He was, returning home from a visit to a tenant on his plantation, when the report of a gun followed by a1 cry, "I am killed." -was heard.f Brown was found by neighbors in a dying condition. His assailant es~ caped and today bloodhounds were, placed on the trail. No motive for< the shooting is known, though there are rumors that there is a woman 1 in the case. The dead man was be-t tween 35 and 40 years of age, and'] leaves a a'idow and seven children Why Do Men Advertise? The wran who conducts his busi -ess on the theory that it doesn't I iay and he can't afford to advertise. ~ets up his judgment in oppbsition o that of all the best business men In the world. Says an experienced ad vertising authority: "With a fe'wC years' experience in conducting a., m.l business on a few thousands of I capitals, he assumes to know more 1 than thousands whose hourly trars actios aggregate more than his do' in a year, and who have made their millions by pursuing a course that s he says doesn't pay." If advertising doesn't pay, why is C It that the most successful me" chants of every town, large or small. are the heaviest advertisers? If ad-t vertising doesn't pay, who does thle 13 most business? If it does not pay, business firms in the world sperA f millions in that way. Is It becau: they want to donate those millions: o the newspaper and magazine pub ishers, or because they don't know s s much about business as the six for-a-dollar merchaut who says nmn y spent in advertising is thrown away or donated to the man to whom it is paid? Such talk is sim'lyv ridiious, and It requires more than the average patience to discuss :a the proposition of whetter adver tsing pays or not wlin that kind of a man. His 'ormplacent self-conceit is assuming thaL he knows more than the whole world is laughablo, ad reminds us of the man who prov- P ed that the world doesn't revolve by xv placing a pumpkin on a stump an,I :n watching it all night. Snmidt Got the Idea. "You see, Mr. Smidt," said the tl tank cashier. "there is plenty of uoney in the bank, but all the banks tave agreed in order to prevent a S panic to pay out only a part of the s. ctual currency demanded by depon- g tors. Your money is here ail 'ight, and you can have it as soon ts it is safe to let you have it. In he meantime we will give you in :tead of actual cash, clearing house ecrtificates, which wia serve the ane purpose. This is the third ime I have explained this matter o you. I have gone into it thor ughly because I want you to explain he conditions to the rest of your ellow-countrymnen who are our die- of positors. Do you think you under- di tand now?" "Yees. yees.' replied Smidt. ''I tC xplain it shust like dis. Mr. Casch. c~ r: 'Matilda uind I haf a littlr tih aby. The little baby she cry foi ch ailk in de middle oh ce night: v-e O' 'et up -ind ye say to dat litie baby. or es baby, der iss plenty milk irn e er kitenen. but ye cannot give it p1 a you now, but ye vill give you c omething shust as good. Here iss H' -HAT LEPROSY CASE JE PEOPIL OF AUGUSTA 4W Ft' IX S'AI ED. le Lady Who tins it Will Be Se qnestered in a Specially Built House Three Miles From Town. Discovered to be afflicted with rosy. Mrs. Mary V. Kiri:., an aged dy of Aiken, is to be removed from r home in the center of the town a smr U ihouse buli: three miles om Aiken by the town authorities. s we stated in Saturday's paper, the ise has wrought'up the citizens of iken to a high degree and for sev -al days armed guards have been a duty around the house to pre ant the possibility of contagion. On this point the people of Aiken re at variance with the physicians tending~ the case, who contend that le malady is Anaes:hetlc Leprosy ad is not contagious. The doctors ave brought to strengthon Itheir tse a letter from the chairman of 1e board of health o. South Caroli a. saying that Anesthetic Leprosy not contagious. Notwithstanding ais the people of Aiken are deter lined to take no crances and are uarding the Kirke residence, and ave already begun building the ouse of detention in an isolated spot. way from the town to which Mrs. :irke will be carried. The following letter is submitted y the Aiken Physicians, who have ad the case in charge, to sustain heir position. The letter is directed , Dr. Kirke. a nephew of the strick n lady and is signed by Robert Wil ins. Jr., Chairman of the State loard of Health of South Carolina. "In reply to your inquiry in regard a the contagiousness of Anesthetic .eprosy, I have no hesitancy in say ag that a patient with this disease s in no ways dangerous to the com aunity in which he or she may re ide." Mrs. Kirk was at one time an piscopal Missionary to South Amer ca. She came to Aiken a 'number f years ago and buying a residence here took up her abode and has not coved since. For three years Mrs. Kirk ha een blind. Common report has it hat at the time she became so af licted she gave up hope that her nalady was other than leprosy, and penly announced- that she had tha lisese. Since then she lived alone 'ith a Mrs. Edmonson, who )ecame attached to her and rho remains in the guarded house vith the stricken lady in the apacity of nurse. For the last sev ral rears Mrs. Kirk has been at ended by Dr. Croft, a local physi an who says the lady has leprosy. The evidence of _ome disease have ecome gnore manifest during tht: ast seve'ral years. Since her blind iess, Mrs. Kirk has lost the fin ers on one hand and one on the ther. Her limbs below the knees Lre without feeling, even boiling wa er making no sensation which is erceptible to her. It is said to be irs. Kirk's belief that her limbs vil drop off below the knees as he; igers have done. For several years he has made her appearance on the treets being led by Mrs. Edmondson 'ith her hands encased In bandagos r gloves. Neighbors who had for a long time Leen curious about the lady's condi ion have recently begun to make nore searching inquiries which cul ninated a few days ago in a repod if the matter to the State board of ealth. Th' .Aiken authorities decid d to place the guards around the ouse simultaneously with the report nd the gtiardls have remained there ince. Mrs. Kirk's residence is on the nain street and within two blocke f the business portion of the city he house is a large two story build rg situated on the main street. It painted white with green trim ings and it is surrounded Uy an vergrcc bedge. The house is about Iteen feet from the street and has mall porches on each side of the ouse. The house is in the middie f the lot, which is well shaded and .eatly kept. Mrs. Kirk is known as a most es imable lady, and the fears of thy~ eople of Aiken are mixed with deep eeling of regret that she is so af icted. Mrs. Kirke is 60 years old. * CRAZED WIH HUNG;ER. tarving Dogs Constitute Grave . Mennees to the Refugees. Messina, Jan. .-Doges now con :itute cne of the dangers to the irthquake refugees. These ani tals, starving and often rabid rough lack of water, knaw corpses ke hyenas and frequently attack e refugees themselves. Among thc woodedcd who inf-. for alomo last nigh- was a young mat; hose eyes and right chek had bee rribly mutilated by dogs. Afte-' te earthquakE he w'is buried int de is up to his neck and while thus aable to move he was attacked by ree of the animals and seriously rt before his eries a'ttracted h p. ithn her, which he refused to d., fter returnidg from the walk. ekes resumed his work. while his ife seated herself nearby. In ai w minutes he noticed that she was oaning as if in great pain. -.'e *mpanied by his hro:Aer. H. 0. okes who was also employed in tilding the house, he went to his fe side, and discovered that she. ed drunk all the- contents of on Lce bottle of carbolic acid. Work This Out, Boys. A father left at his death a number children and a certain sum to be vided among them as follows: to el.dest to receive $10'0 and one ath of the remainder: the second ld $20"' and one-tenth of .wha' en remained: and so on. eaco ld o receive $1 00 more than the e immediately preceding and then -tentia part of that which still re tined. W\hen the <diviion took ic. it was found that all the idren received the 'same amount. i many children were there, and DONATES $800,000 3EN)S LARGE SUM TO EARTH QUAKE SUFFERERS IN ITALY. F Special M essage From the President Recommending Aid for the Strick en Sister Nation. Washington, Jan. 4.-Bountiful provisions for the earthquake, suf ferers of Italy was made by con gress today and that, too, by un animous vote. In the house there was vigorous handelapping as the bill carrying the appropriation was sent en its way. The munificent sum of $300,- a 000 was granted almost immediately d after the reception in both houses e of a message from the president call ing attention to the calamity and the r pressing need of aid for the stricken sister nation. S The president's signature was not affixed tc the bill tonight, as it did not reach him, neither the vice president nor the speaker yet hav ing signed it. The house haj ad journed and Speaker Cannon had ief t the capital before the seiate passed the measure. President Roosevelt wil sign the bill, making It effective when it reaches him, which probably will be tomorrow. But for the fact that the national legislature was adjourned for the usual holiday recess when the earth quake occurred earlier action would have been taken, although by the president's direction and with con fidence of congressional approval supplies aboard the naval ships Celtic and Culgao, intended for the battleship fleet, were diverted and ordered to the sufferers. No such generous help ever was extended to a stricken people by this government before. The legis lature received the message and filled with a sympathetic desire to lend their votes to anything which would bring relief were early in their seats and prepared to take immediate ac tion. Confident that the further con tributions of the American public will justify Its assumption of respon sibility in authorizing Ambassador Griscome at Rome to charter and load with supplies a relief vessel and also to transport refugees, the American National Red Cross ad vanced the necessary means where with to meet the suggestions of the ambassador and his committee of Americans in Rome. Over $330, 000 has been collected through the Red Cross alone, of which $60,000 represents the advance referred to, one-half of which -The Christian Herald has agreed to raise. Because of the belief of the prime minister -of Italy, expressed in a mes sage today, in response to a cable gram from the president to Ambas sador Griscom, transmitted last Sat urds~y, that the American fleet of rattleships will arrive at the scen of disaster too late to be of great assistancs, 'qonferences are being held with the view to rearranging their sailing programme, especially as it has been determined that the fleet's visit to the several Italian ports where preparations were mak ing for Its appropriate reception would be Ill-timed under the present circumstances. President Roosevelt In a message to congress today asked for a direct appropriation of $500,000. At the conference at the White House last night, attended by Spe'.k er Cannon, $500,000 was agreed up on as the amount which should be appropriated. Ten minutes before the aouse convened the speaker re ceived a letter from the White House suggesting that the amount be increased to $80'0,000. Before any action could be taken by the committee on appropriations the house was in receipt of the presi dent's message on the subject. At the hurried meeting of the commit tee in front of the speaker's desk, the $500,000 which had been placed in Its measure was increased to con form with the president's later rec ommendation. The president's mes sage follows: "To the Senate and House of Repre sentatives: "The appalling calamity which has befallen the people of Italy is followed by distress throughout al wide region among many thou sande who have escaped with life, but whose shelter and food andi means of lfe are destroyed. The ordinary means for supplying the wants obf civilized communities is paralyzed and an expectional emergency exists which demands that the obligations of humanity should regard no lini; of national lines. "The immense debt of civilization to Italy; the warm and steadfast friendship between that country an~a our own; the affections for the'ir naa tive land felt by a great number of good American citizens who are im-: 1 migrants, from Italy; the abundance with which God has blessed us in our safety-all these prompt us t0 o immediate and effective relief. "'Private generosity is responding ;obly to the demand by contribu- 1 ions through the safe and efficient channel of the American Red Cross society. r '-Confident of your approval I have ordered the government sup ply ships Celtic and Culgoa to the scene of disaster, where, upon re eving the authority which I now ask from you. they will be able to dispense food, clothing and other c supplies with which they are laden 0 to the value of about $300.000. Thea Celtic has already sailed and the Culgoa is at Port Said. Eight ves els of the returning battleship fleel re already under orders for Italiana waters and that government has beent asked if their services can be use ful. "I recommend that the congress c ipprove the application of supplies ' above indicated and further appro ~riate the sum of $500.000) to be h pplied to the work of relief at the 'h iscretion of the executive and with he consent of the Italian govern nent. "I suggest that the law follow Z he form of that passed after thec ia ~Iount Pelee disaster in 1902. iC - "-Theodore Roosevelt. o. 'The White H~ouge, January 4, vi 190n. di e STILL QUAKES.s Is requent Shocks Keeps the Poor Sufferers In Terror. m in sty A AUVE IN THE RUINS. n ne to m sme Are Being Taken Out and May p1 Be Saved--Dreadful Desolation on c All Sides--Corpses Floating in Bay ra s of Reggio--American Fleet Send ing Relief. Messina, Jan. 5.-Earthquakes m re continuing here, though they are A iminishing in Intensity. At night a: specially are they frequently felt. S 'res in the city also are being grad- it ally extinguished. Thirty thousand t( ations were distributed yesterday. W Official figures compiled thus far tr how that 14,000 bodies have been o ,uried in the four cemeteries,. that e ,000 refugees have left the city and e hat 9,000 persons still remain here. 14 nstead of excavating in an endeav- n r to find .he bodies buried beneath r: he ruins It has been proposed thai very house in which it Is believed >ergns are buried shall be covered b with quick-lime. The Associated ci >ress correspondent has made a vis- t. t to Reggio and carefully inspected P he town. It has 1een found that L he number of persons killed here o tnd damage done to property is e nuch less than at Messina. Only ' he central section of the city is lamaged. The official figures place the vounded at steggio at 1,u00. The 0 1umber of dead in the ruins is not e nown. Reggio is practically aban- i Toned. The bay of Reggio is still f trewn with broken boats and other f lebris. -; Numerous persons still liv- t ng were taken today from beneath s he ruins, while the voice; of other's 1 .ould be distinctly heard, appealing C or aid. The tottering building wil i be raised and the bodies that have 1 ot been buried will be burned. t The Associated Press had the first < :orrespondent on the scene at Mes- t Tina. The bodies of the dead lay t everywhere on the surface of the 3 ruins' and limbs protruded here and there from the wreckage. In the t amp of the refugees piteous scenes were enacted. Constant light shocks followed thc rst great disturbance until forty five were recorded. The home of 'e American consul, Dr. Cheney, was crumbled in the first shock and is inmates were almost inextricably I buried beneath the ruins. The escape of Vice Consul Lup ton, who was in his room in th Hotel Victoria when it collapsed, was remarkable. He had only his trous- 1 ers on, and, carrying his shoes and 1 overcoat, he groaped his way along the quay knee deep in water toward the American consulate. On his way he three his coat over the shoulders of a woman. Clambering over the ruins of the consulate he became conscious that his feet were cut and eeding. Later be raised the united States flag over ias new con olate and began an industrious seareh for Americans. All Americans not yet heard from may be considered safe. Probably all are in the south of Sicily. SHOT AT NEGRO. Was Attacking Two Ladies WThen Drove Off at Pistol's Point. Rome, Ga., Jan. 4.--At the point f a pistol. Mrs. Bradley .4rove off and fired at a negro here today, who was atempting to assault Mrs. R. D C~ampbelI and her daughter, Lilly. s The two women were on the back veranda of their home wher the ne- t gro came Into the yard. He seized V~rs. Campbell's dress and pulled her from the porch and also her aughter. Both screamed, which ~ttracted the attention of Mrs. Brad- -1 .ey, a next door neighbor, who sei' d a pistol, went to the rescue. Pointing the pistol at the negro, she a rdered him to leave the place. Not ? ~oing fast enough, she fired at him ~everal times, none of the shots tak- 1 ng effect. A posse was soon organized an~d Is c ;earching the woods for the negro1 )ne negro was arrested by the mob I ind brought: before the two ladies C rho salid that he was not the man. a serious trouble is feared If he is t :aught. PRIEST CATCHES BURGLAR. $ hvers Intruder With Pistoi andt prevents Robbery. . i. e New York. Jan. 6.--WhIle seated a n his study reading, the Rev. Fath- r r Peter D. Lill, of West New York, 1 7. J., heard the burglar alarm which re.ects the altar and poor boxer n St. Mary's Roman Catholic churc... ingg. Arming himself with a revolver he priest quietly slipped into the T hurch, where he found a man ampering with the -boxes. With ittle ado the priest covered the in ruder with the revolver and heldI im a prisoner until the police ar Try This One. t Among those who like to mingle el ought with their sports a pleasant ol our may be spent transforming o1 ne word to another by the changing K a single letter at a time. For ex- B mple, one of the company writes sj pon the board the word "beef" ani n< y it is to be changed to "pork.' K second person goes to the board es nd by the change of one letter & takes it beet. The third persor ft :2anges it to beat, so by each one's w anging one better it becomes sue- Ca ?ssively: Beet, beet, beat, peat. nc ert. port and pork. Or change ose to hand thus: Nose, hose. st, hast, hart, hurt, hint, hind. and. de Se Killed His Grand-tather- at Bridgeport. .N. J., Jan. 6.-Walter fa aller, the nineteen-year-old Vine- Ui d youth. who wiLI two compan-- ac ns was charged with the maurde' Te Zeller's grand-father. was con- TI cted today of murder in the firt oli ~gree.hb RAISE YOUR OWN MEAT. the Advice of the Progressive Farmer. Years ago I wrote of visiting a in's farm, where all the land was cotton right up to the house inding unpainted in a bare field. hopeless-looking woman was fry ; some Western bacon for the din r, while the man toiled in the cot s. And I got to thinking over the tter. There was no stock on th. tce but the mules that worked the tton. And as I saw that bacon, t ought that some farmer out West Ised that hog, and probably made mething out of it. Some railroad rried it to Chicago, and certain1y ade money. Some packer bought and cured the eat, and grew co be a miilionaira. nother railroad brought it South id paid dividends by d.oing it me merchant bought it, and sold to that man out tnere in the cot n field a+, a big profit-and he orks all summer in the cotton aking all these people prosperous it of his one crop, while at tht id of the year he is as poor a; er, and his land' grows less and ss productive, while he might have Lade all those profits himself it Lsing the bacon at home. The Western farmer makes corn ie railroads haul it, the merchan1 uys it and seuts it to ..e man wh yuld raise the corn at more profit ian the Western farmer if he im roved his land. Yet he goes on ft ie old hopeless way imagining tha1 >tton is the only :tning Lo get mon y out of, and that eorn, oats, ant 'heat are only "supplies, and the estern farmer gets rich supplyini im. When will the cotton farmer ge ut of this slavery to everybod: Ise? Not till he goes to farmini ast as the Northern and Westeri armers do. He has a crop that i! ir superior as a money crop to an' ie have, and a crop that fits int< n improving rotation of crops ful r as well as any they have Nortl r West, and while they get rio] t sending him "supplies" he, get oor furnishing the crop that main ins the trade balance between thi ountry and Europe, and sellin he cottonseed that fatten the cat le that make the meat he buys i arious forms. Now, then, is the t.me to resolv o change all this. Plan a rotatlo: or your farm and stick to it, grol lenty of forage and make manurE nd when you once have manur nough to cover a corn-field. yo rill be on the road out of this slat ry to the North and West. Nine-tenths of the letters I ge rom farmers ask what fertilizer hall use for this, that or the othe rop, when the man who farms righ ill need to buy little, and that onl f the mineral forms of acid pho! hate and potash, or but one of thes erhaps. I have been hammering away a hq for many years, and yet how fe' a taken the idea. But I do hea low and then from farmers whio hay >roken loose from the old ruts, an Lre succeeding. Would to God tha could get all of them to do so! A GENIUS AT FINDING MONEY. Jinois Carpetner's Instinct Lead Him Right to It. When John Ehlenfeldt, a carpei er who has I'ved in Elgin ft r yeari was arrested yesterday en a wai 'ant sworn out by Mrs. Ehlenfeld t became known that he has a ges us for detecting the whereaboul -f money says the Baltimore Sur The wife and her .two daughte'r vent to the office of Assistar ;tate's Att->rney Robert B. Phillip Lnd asked him to tell them how t ae their money. Phillips to.i hem to hide i~t until a deposit i: ie bank could be made. "We have hidden it In the mos mpossbie places we could think of. aid Mrs. Ehlenfeldt. "This. hu~i and of mine is a genius.- I hay Lot reported it until It became at~ olutely necessary, but he has a: bnormal instinct for finding money lo matter how wel' hidden It Is b' :oea right to the place and getsi rthout any search or trouble." A test in .the State's Attorney' ifice was then arranged. Mone ras concealed in a desk drawer hlenfeldt was then taken into th< ifice. He looked around the roon n instant, then suddenly walked t< e drawer and drew out the hidde2 ioney. Mrs. Ehlenfeldt says she sayis' 9, which she expected to pay .oi iortgages. She divided the sum mnt< n portions and hid it In as man: laces-in a bole in a flower bed i a hole in a closet wall, under tothes' ches' in the isra and it bag at the bottom of a flour bar 21, on- which she ihre'w more thar 0 pounds of flour. The next morn g, she said, all the money wa TO ACCIDENT AT SAVANNAH irginia Millionaire Burt in Collision. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 4.--David unlap, million~ire horseman andi bacco manufacturer, of Petersburg. a., was injured tonight when his uring car was wrecked by his auffeur, who chose that method preventing a collission with an her car, driven by Mrs. J. N. night, wife of a local physician. oth cars were 'moving at high eed. Dunlap's car tore away >rtion of the guards on Mrs. night's machine, so narrow was thet cape. Dunlap, with George Van >sbeck and. M. L. Lynch. twc lends, were'* huried out of the -cked car. Dunlap struck on his ce and was badly scarred but is t seriously hurt. Roosevelt Defies Senate. Washington. Jan. 6.--The Presi nt in a special message to the nate today declines to permit the orney general to say why he har led to bring action against the ied States Steel Corporation on ount of the absorption of the nessee Coal and Iron Company. e message is in response to a res RECEIVES MESSAGES E FROM ONE WHO DIED LONG N SINCE. A Woman Claims She Has a Spirit So Friend Who Helps Her do Wonder ful Things. London, Jan. 3.-Seeing the an nouncement, emanating from New York, that a Plymouth lady spiritu- il alist intended claiming the prize of P $5,000 offered by the American c Phychical society to anyone who could prove having received a med- b sage from the dead. I have inter- n viewed the lady, whose name is C Martin, at her home at Plymouth. t] address should not be given, she 1: readily consented to the interview. "I have made no effort to prove n that I have received a message from y the dead," she said, "but-I am cap- r able of proving it." She had, she asserted, received very good mes sages from, the dead on several oc- i casions. The lady explained that she re cently saw in a London paper a tel-. egra'm from New York containing an announcement by the Metropoli tan society of New York to the ef fect that they had raised $5,000 nos in the hands of David Goldberger, 747 East 136th St., to be given :, any person who would shut his eyos and with the help of a spirit or by any other means, count a few i oranges split on a table behind him. She wrote to the address given and offered to accept the' challenge To the remark that this would in volve her going to New York, she repfied, "Oh, no; with my spirit friend, I can go there and return again-that is, in the spiritual sense. From my house here I could count tne oranges as they are spit on the table in New York." Questioned as to the 'identity of her spirit friend, she said, "I would not like to give the name. I never knew my spirit friend when she was alive, but I have seen her many - times since. It is with her aid thai I claim that I can do what I have offered to do. She added, that, as - a rule the message from her friend 1 came to her when she was in bed and were communicated in 'vhispers. As an instance of her powers of 1 claravoyance, she mentioned some c time ago a friend of hers attending a dinner at Exeter... Although she remaine4 in Plymouth, she was able' to repeat the conversation whicb - her friend had with another friend at the dinner, tell what wine was t drunk, and give other "etails. All I this, she said, she did with the aid r f ..er spirit friend.' REVOLUTION REPORTED. Stated That Nicaragua, Salvador and Guatemala Are Against Honduras. 'New Orleans, Jan. 4.-The Times rDemocrat publishes today a story Sbased on reports received from Cen tral America which are to this ef Sfect: "Nicaragua is marchmng troops from the frontier into the yicinity of Cholucteca of Mignel Davilla, president of Honduras. It is report Sed that the Nicaraguan, Dr. Arrias, has recently received almost $40, 000 in army supplies, medicines, -etc., shipped by secret agents of Zelaya in this city, and 'that all preparations are being made 'for a long campaign. "The informants of The Times -Democrat stated that it eras general ly understood ithat the revolution was a four-cornered affair, with the Honduran malcontents attacking' the Zelaya forces, backed by supplies and men from Salvador. It is also al leged that the Guatemalan govern Sment had supplied men and arms.' IThe consular representaltives in New Orleans of the governments cona cerned deny any knowledge of the movement reported. -SHINGLE MILL BURNED. Damage Will Amount to Abont $415,000. Bellingham, Wash: Jan. 4.-The plant of the Puget Soundi Mill* and Timber Comptiny, said to be the big gest shingle mill in the world, burn ed last night. The damage was about $415,000, with insurance 'of $150,000. W. L Cleveland, a saw filer, was burned to death, and sev eral persons had narrow escapes. The fire started from a hot box. Cleanliness of Honey-Making. Science has recently demonstrated many things of which the beekeeper might well take note and use to ad vantage in popularizing hone/. Sci. cntfic investigations and close ob servation have determined that the bee. with its strong instinct for cleanliness, puts the cleanliest housekeeper to shame In the thor oughness with which it polishes and lisinfects the comb cells, the recep ~acles for storing noney. It gathers he aroma-laden nectar distilled by he blossoms and, in all its purity, )accs it in the honey sack. After eaching the hive, it is placed in the1 'omb cell, where the bees blow a urrent of air wvarmed by the inmates 'f the hive continuously over the pen cells, evaporating it to the eon .istency of ripe honey, and in its marvelous process making the vari >us methods Invented by syrup ano sugar manufacturers appear crude i unclean.1 Stood the Shoeks. Reggio, Jan. 8.-At Sinopoli all 'he houses were destroyed except hree, built after the earthquake in 1905, of hollow brick, with a wire passing through themu and uniting them in a verrtical line while at the t) top, and wire united the different c tines horizontally. thvns making the ~ vhole building compact. * tl Questions Right of Roosevelt. t' Washington. Jan. S.-By a viv-t1 voce vote the Senate today passed t( Senator Culberson's resolution in- P structing the committee on the ju liciary to report to the Senate wheth er president was authorized to per. mit the absorption of the Tennessee q1 Coal and Iron Company by the Unit.. B ed States Steel Corporation. * T The owenr oi a .,mart dog does st DOST IN DIVORCES ) REASON FOR SLUMP IN MAR iJA(*ES. )uth Carolina Charged With Mak in Augusta Clearing House for Her Mis-Matches. The Augusta Chronicle says: "A slump is marriages and an crease in' the number of divorce roceedings"were registered in the yunty of Richmond last year. Richmond county has for years een a sort of a clearing house for cis-matched couples from South~ arolina, and this fact has caused. ie large number of divorce proceed igs in the county each year. - The ordinary last year issued 665 carriage license, against 689 of the ear before. There is no especial eason given for the slump in mar lage licenses for the year.- The di orce mill showed that there were 9 divorce proceedings filed for the ear, as against 72 of 1907. The record shows that one out of - bout every Dine weddings in the ounty pan out bad. The per-cent is etween 12 and 15 per cent for the, ounty. All of this, however, may show up he outside world very bad for Rich nond county, but when it is taken ato consideration that so many case re dumped on the county fr-am Caro ima, the record is not so,-bad after ill. HITS TEDDY HARD. - louse Laid Part of Ills Message oN the Table. Washington, Jan., 8:-Having given consideration to the president's further views regarding the secret service, coutain/ed in :his .niessage to the house * representatives last Monday, the special committee ap pointed to deal with the subject brought in its final report Fridays. Accompanying it was a resolution which declared -it-to be the sense of the house that it shall decline to consider any communication frioin _ any source which is not respectful, recommending that the - objectional portion of the . president's annual message be laid on the table and: that similar action be taken with respect to the message. of. Monday, because of its being "Unresponsive to the inquiry of the .house," as to what the -president meant when he - said, referring to the limitatln' placed upon the field of operation of the Secret Service, that "The chief argument in favor of the pro vision was that the congressmen did not themselves wish to be. investi gated." The resolution was adopt ed by a large majority. BRO. CHARLES FALLS OUT. With His Preacher on Account of Bro. Bill's Religion. Cincinnati, Jani'S.-Charles P. Taft has severad his connection with the Presbyteriai church of the Coy enant as a result of a letter written by the pastor, Rev. RI. L. .Watson, during the national political c:am paign. ,In his letter of resignation. Mr. Taft also asked to be released' as one of those guaranteeing the sal ary of the pastoi'. The action: of i Charles P. Taft was the outgrowth of estrangement between himself and Dr. Watson, which had IC origtn IR a personal letter writen' to a Chicago minister by Dr. Watson some time previous to the presidential election, in which the latter express ed regret at ithe 'liberal religious views of the presidential candidate,' William H. Taft. STONED PEDDLER TO DEATH. School Boys Arrested in St. Louis on Murder Charge.' St. Louis, Jan. 8.-Five boys, ranging in age from eight to seven teen years; were arrested in ~their class rooms in the. Shaw school so day; charged with the murder of Win. Wachter, a peddler, who was found with his skull crushed Wed nesday. The man wars found dyings by neighbors. He kept so much to hiin self that he was known in his neigh borhood as a miser and herm'it. The arrests -followed information, given to the police by Mrs. Mary - Goebehart, mother of two of the prisoners. The boys told the police that they had stoned Wachter "just 'or f ur?' Gets Two Years. Spartanpurg, Jan. 8.-Ursa All an, a young white raan who several weeks ago shot . and killed James Burgiss, near Greer. today pleaded uilty to manslaughter and wats entenced to serve two years in the >enitentiary. It will be re-membered hat Aliman had been hunting and. eturning home, fired at young B ar ~iss, who was in the poultry yard, he load from the gun killing the oy almost instantly. * Fight Offlcers.. San Diego, Cal., Jan. 4.-Advlces ust received from Mesa Grand, for y miles from here, tell of a pitched attle thirty miles from there, be ween a gang of cattle rustlers and iembers of a vigilance committee. 'wo Mexin'ar~s. an. Indian and a white 1an, all members of the band, were hot and killed, and one vigilant was riously wounded. May Bridge the Santee. A dispatch from Washington says le house has just passed a bill re ently introduced by Representative ever, for Mr. Legarge, authorizing ie Santee River Cypress Lumber Co y erect a bridge over the San e river, near Ferguson, in Berke y county. The bridge will be close the mill of the company and wi'. ove a considerabb- convenience. Fresh Shocks. Reggio, Jan. 8.-Fresh earth . ike shocks are being felt here, at racaleone, and Messir-a each nig':t. ey are preceded by explosions, and liidings that were rot totally ce royed in the big shpocks are being