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CAME TO LIGHT mcient tecofds About BabjI@! Being Fod and Deciphered. UERESTIG STUDY Everyday Affairs in City Long An tedating Birth of Christ-The Arahtu Canal Fully Described Vital Importance of the Waterway to Welfare of the People. A correspondent of The London Standard Cives some interesting de tails of a store- of cuneiform written tablets recent y discove red at the an cient town of Dilbat. near ;aoylon. The tablets tell in graphic manner the story of the citizens, their busi ness transactions. disputes and ev eryday life. They are not the usual royal edicts and records. but what may best be termed family archives. They re !ate to a very early period. being mostly dated in the reigns of the predecessors of that mighty mon arch Rammurabi. who codided the Babylonian laws. and so were com posed at the period of the first Baty lonian dynasty. From these newly found tablets and previously deciphered references in the records of Babylon we now know that Dilbat was a small Baby lonian town on that great master piece of Mesopotamian engineering. the Arahtu canal. "The canal." says the correspond ent. "must have kept near to the great river Euphrates. for it washed the southern face of Babylonian's ramparts and upon it opened one of the great city's gates dedicated to the god Uras. It led away south ward to Dilbat. which, as the newly found records Inform us. was built between the canal and the Euphrates, for some of the tablets refer to pieces of property in land or houses. de scribed as within the city or its sub urbs. as bounded by the river, and others by the canal. As the present natives of the district will not re veal the site of their find we unfor tunately do not yet know precisely where Dilbat stood. "The Arahtu canal not only wat ered the soil and so produced the crops, but carried upon Its surface the harvests It had created. Thus an old tebt says It was the 'bringer of the life to Babylon.' Dilbat was probably the great southern granery for the capital. for Hammurabi. in his long autobiographical panegyric boasts that he 'extended the planta tions of Dilbat and accumulated corn for Ip.' "When the Arahtu was frst con structed it would be 4ifficult to say. but its benefits to their people caused the kings always to keep It in re pair, and vice versa, Invaders of Babylonia In war time damaged it as a preliminary to starving out the capital "The special deity of Dilbat was 'Ip, probably a shortened form of Nimip, and his temple was called lmb' A.num. 'Proclaimed of Ann.' There xas a city wall coeval with the foundation of the city, and restored by King Samu-Abu, predecessor of Hammnurabi. The town appears to hatve possessed three harbors or dies and a market, and one can imag ine the busy hum of commerce upon its streets and wharves. "The documents rescued from its ruins almost all concern the sale or renting of houses and lands and fields or the hire and purchase of cattle and crops. Dllbat being the center of a rich agricultural district. The terms employed are common to all the Babylonian cities. The ground and the houses are clearly defined by the enumeration of neigh -boring properties and ..e. names of the vender and purchaser, and at the end of the bargain the deed discloses comes the oath sworn before the god of the city in the temple and also an Invocation of the reignin; king. The Dilbat scribes also added a clause placing the ones of any subsenent dis pute of -the deed upon the seller. 'For all the contests concerning the property A. B.) Is responsible.' Fin ally follows the names of the wit nesses. and often also the scribe of the tablet, and generally several sig nets of the persons concerned. "Legally the vender should always seal the tablet' but if he has not a signet then some or all of the wit nesses applied theirs. Properly speaking also, the tablets should have been in duplicate. The first was fn scribed and baked and copied, then a cover of soft clay placed over or around it and the document re-en grossed upon this cover from the copy, so that it could be referred to at any time by paying the requited fee at the record office. "In case of a dispute as to its ac curacy for an extra sum the outer envelope was broken and compared with its Interior duplicate text, and the litigant who proved to be in er ror In his allegation that the two versions were not Identical paid a considerable forfeit.-and a new outer case was placed over the original tablet and reinsejribed. This pro cedure is mentioned in the Old Tes tament as Inquiring of the outer and the Inner tablet of a deed. "The fellahin with their picks and shovels have, however, broken most of the outer covers of the Dilbat documents. These methods for the enregisteriastlon of transactions ne cessitating legal formalities to en able them to ba cited as 'eviderre' In the law courts, or the miunicip al tribunal (for in one na-e. at i~sast. the MaIyor was the Ji:dge. were sim ina' to those a:t othe'r contemporary neighboring cities, but they possess their own peculiar phraseology, pro riding' that Dilbat had his own type of citizen. though comparatively an insigtnineant town. So a ilourishing school of scribes and soltiiors dnut less crowded the shady corridors 3: its temple and the halls of the god s tribunal. "Truly its properity was but a re flex of that of Babylon. but the city's extstence was not ep'hemerai. for' i commenced with the Erst regions of the great neighbon"ng cit~es' Kings and endured untIl the Persizan era. "The majority of the tablets found: often tuerely register plots -"reas or locations, for most of the lutigation was about boundaries. Others, how' ever. are for loans or hiring arree .e.t . one bein for a perio of CURBING CRIME. SOUTH CAROLIN NOT SO TEN- 1 DER WVITH CRIMINALS. Many More of Them Are Convicted j and Punished Than is Generally Suppod Notwithstanding the charze brought against this and other Southern States without du- consid eration. that convictions are rare. especially in murder cases, the re ports in :he o:fice of Attorney Gea-: eral Lyon do not bear this out by a great deal. On the other hand. conv!ctions in murder cases are frequent in this State. and by comparison with other Southern States. South Carolhna is way in the lead. As pointed out last year in this correspondence, the pci rentage was about 50 per cent. C This year the number. in mair der cases, has been about 40 per cent. ' in the case of manslaughter there has been but one verdict oi "notz o guilty." according to the record and there were 51 convictions in the yeaz N 1910. cl There were 205 murder cases in 1910 In this State. Of this number p 16 *no bills" were returned: 10" t1 were declared to be not guilty and 1 .3 were convicted. For manslaughter there were 52 cases, including one acquittal and !)l I convictions. Thirty cases were brought for ar- C son. and of this number eight con- h victions were had. The convictions in cases of assault v and battery with intent to Kill and t aggravated assault were large. There n were brought 481 cases and :i4S o wire declared "guilty:" SI "not I guilty." and 100 cases were die- b continued or "no bills' rendered. o There was one conviction under the Cotton Tare Act of 191 -. Tbis y was the case that went up to the Su- ! preme Court from this count.. Housebreaking convicted 235 out of The good old practice of lareeny d caught 219 out of 27C cases and con victed them. Out of 32 cases of criminal assa:-It ' 16 convictions were secured. For violations of the dispensary t law. there were 407 cases and 20, ' convictions were had. a It is dangerous to disturb religious V worship in this State. for out of eight t cases eight convictions were secured. ARRESTED FOR MURDER. I - I Two Negroes lodged in Jail in For Killing Two Womer. Two negroes were brought to Or angeburg Tuesday evening and lodged in jail charged with the mur der of the old woman and her niece i found in a tenant house that was C burned on Mr. W. L. DeHays' place ' in the Providence secticn last week. lI It will be remembered that the char- i red remains of the two women were t found in the ashes of the house. it t now turns out that they were mur dered and the house set on fire to r conceal the crime. We do not know L what proof there Is that the persons committed the murder.--Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Has Voted It Out. The Circus Owners' Association has voted that billboard advertislin is no good and that its members will I use the newspapers exclusively here after. If the billboard does not give the circus satisfaction. what value can it have for any one at all? It b emphatically is an eyesore and a pub- F lic nuisance in var'.3us other ways. When the bverage person became able to read its end was near at hand. Falls Heir to Fortune. The News and Courier says L. H. Adams,. a yeoman in Uncle Sam's ser vice at the local naval plant, has been informed that he had fallen heir to a fortune of $27.000. left him through the death of a distant relative. Yeo man Adams' home is in Renton Har bor. Michigan. He has been in Char leston about nine months. * Train # reck. More than twenty passengers were injured, several seriously, in the wreck of Southern Pacific train No. 10. east-bound, near Palisade. N< h'.. Tuesday evening. Seven of the cars left the rails and were tumbled in a confused mass of twisted steel and' iron.0 -1 Rock Feli on Them. At Bl!rmingham. Ala.. Frank What iy, boss at - the Songo Ore Mines. ind Riley Dumas, a colored con tractor, were instantly killed Tue day when a rock fell on them while they were at the bottom of a slope. The various German states main 'tain 70 schools in horseshoeing. with courses of iron one to six months.* three months only. H-uzulum hires . bull from the :treat temple gods c .ippara. Shanmash and Ala for a year Doubtless the joint deities had a shrine a: Dilbat and a farm for sa e!fcial cattle and did a thrivin~t trad in stud cattle and raims. "Peo;de' also hired our char~at nd agricultural im:plements. bu :oans were mostly in tooney and'~ seedI orn. The me~erent for th.' latte'r sometimes amounted to 36 per 'een b't it was payaible in kind out o what it provided, and if the f-trme had parted in the pr.-vious. se'nse, with his reserve of seed. hocause o a specially high offer for it hoe ouhi afford to pay such interest to o~'t a a fresh supply. "Some deeds cocern the hirnt n' harvsers. and they wre of:- n r.n itered before the enganen..ent raa tured byv -hI. craps ri:,enin:. .\ rase was theretcrr inserted tha: 1 th.' men contracted for failed to ap pear the farmer corld hire .others at he price paid that season by th King or his own estates, and it ma. e presumed that the person wh~o had promised to supply the men miadle up. the differ'nce. if any. "Su-h was lif.- at Dilba:t abou:t l.*f .' y-ars beor th-. Cfian ir. - as revealed by th'e an,'Vg chy r .iL'. hat the patt industry of many in tellects have for the love of science ( - THEY WORK WELL INDUS AltE IEING -SEI) IN THE (OTTON FIEI.l)S. ('alifornia Woman Claims to Have SSolved the Iadlr I'ropositiion to Her ;atisfaction. Mrs. S. P. Wiles. a wealthv resi eit of !.0-. Cal.. who has v.ral thou-anl acres in cotton wreaots. has solived the laibor -o'lei to her own s:.tisfaction by n;,loying Hindus. She spends much 'her time on her plantation super tendnz the wor:. :,n! she says the indus do their work well and cheer Mrs. '.is har already met with ffiulties. not the !Pa.: of which is .e feeli:g of at::5:is a:none the hites toward her llinld cotton ickers. smii.ir to. though not as rong as. that felt ai.nst the Chin se and Japan-se. Mrs. Wiles is the aiy cotton r::iser -n the valley em loying Fli!dus. and the recsut of er exaerim--nt is awaited with ;n -ri-st by fthcrs who are- havinz: th--ir wn trorbles. Robeort E. Geo-pl. of Port Gibson. in.whos- a.H has *--een raisingl )ton for nny ye-ars on their plan Lion in Caiborne county. Mssissip is at Tos Anzee. arranging for ve building of a eottonseed oil mill. e sticks to the- ohd Southern nt roes and will us them on the hig lantaion his family has puirchasll iere. *N.croes on our plantation in laihorne county will be brought re as soon as ve ein begin plant 17 cotton.'' he said. "The boil eevil has written the doom of cot mn in Mississippi. The planters are oving aw:y. I know of P. numhaer :alanters who have bought land in r;perial Valb-y. Cal.. and they will ring hun'r-e:s of n4-groes from the !d pIn:::ns to work the fields. A few voars i-o Calihorne county ieldel 2~.O ba!es of cotton in a %aon. The last crop was only 4. i b:-es. At one time the Port Gib yn oil works crushed 40.00o0 tons eniton seed a ye-r. That has wind ld aimost to nothing. The aasng of cottcn in parhs of the outh i a tragedy which the planters o no- know how to meet. The ne -or-s know cction and cotton alone: iey wi!l not tenel any other crop. f, only reco-:rs.- is Immigratian. na:! the piinters when they emitrate -ill take their negro workers with 31UST CCT RATES. rportan Order INsued About Freicht Charges. k-fendant Railways Iu-.t Establisha and Mfaintain rates From Charle ton Not Exceeding Ialtimore'-s. In a decision handed down Thurs ay a: Washington bay the Interstate om.merce Commatission. the freight ates on vegetables from the Char -ston. S. C.. district to Duffalo. New ark atnd Pittsbur--:. Pa.. are found > ',e unreasonable to the extent that :e' exce--d the combaina'.ion of rate., y It-ltimore. MId. The decision was eached inl the case of the National eagrue of Commission 3Merchants of :e L'nited Stat-es against the At entic c~oast Line railroad and other arriers. The defendant lines are ordered > establish before April 15 and iintain ini force for at le-:st two ears, rates on vegetables from Char ston to Duffalo and Pittsbaurg which all not exceed the combination ites on Paltimore. and it is ordered mat the rates on veuetables from the elow named points to Buffao au:d ittshurg rhall not exceed the follow ig di'ferent hals in cases per l00 o':nds over contemporaneous rates com Charleston to the same poin:3. From Meer:ts. Wadmalaw rivet nd Youn.:'s Island. S. C. on potatoes cents: eabbage. 2.5 cents, and on e.-tahaes not otherwise spaecified. S ents: fromt St. Andrews. S. C.. ->n otatoes. 2 cents: on cabbages. 2.5 ats. and on vegetables not other ise spcified. 4 cents. These rates i1. no doubat. hec appliead to points ithis county where ye.;;etables are rown for market. Our folks should ae the same rates that other truck rowers enjoy. W II tW'S (LAI H.1IaSPI'TED). ehold. AnotheCr Arie-. anid Compz-1 The St. Matthews correspondent of he News and Corier says he ofie f J. C. Re-dmtan. Probatat--.Jnd::-e. Cai oun county. pcresented! an animated 'ne Mondaty aft ernoon :and remind t one of a mi ni:cture ('hicage Di :'re Court. F-rankX Simp~s-,n. col red. a holder of considerable vacl :bie re-al e-ste:- near i;:aton, dieda bo::: six tronthsa-tr. wit ha..t a win. e stoed hi:..:h :aou-: th.- whit s .no I wr- u. .s t a'o e-!.ence Of :h si' dte-j :;le~ upon the dom-.,tic waters. Hie 1left a snug insuran:ce polte.- to m. wife. \-icey Sin~ason.' A law-I er appe-ar'-d upon thle scene and for ide Mr. Symmnes. the insur:znc? ent. ;-ayin:: the money upon the r-nd oft a ne-v i disover--d wife yri.:ht of priority. Ti.. company nn::ati.!Y proceal.ed to pa.: e morney as direc'tedl. The wife. Cf d. then instituted legal proeeedin~ ens:Z~ the it. widlow. in shoney eq.3.. :, s:: -.:::i: r atr iy a nd heiress th id w.-ns broa: acres. The in:wy.,rs concerned in the ras" --A H \Mess. of Oran::ehzrr.. tA WV Holmtan. .Mann and Sta 'er. of 5t M : tews. The ratse w-:s r fougat and the jud-te fecio e-ni'ly th r.siility of bein~t a irin .:ch :a:hirs: he h:;: served his aleri-ion. Such cases a sis soa'.-.h a:n :s'tai in these art-. bu:the I:- ob up o:Casionlaly. The Ito::::::m (:w uer ne::t decid I to ::0,~ th:e :emzi.rati.-a or nie t,-,. a! -.h. boundary a Tat hi- in'en.tedl to gi TO Weosternz a-a T no ro'- are repaaredied 1h- la! in 'o reck. A railwa?y : rain j-imp-d the tr-tu< .ie. -m :r the \muerica:n ra a.-C. 1- min-- 21 r? e Friday and ..! i-e th a r i'n blow. Fif n n-r- ; acr wo-:o!'-d. S .iA n-rie: -;a re amtong tneC aal .2 . REAL TEST OF LOVE DOROTHY DIX GIVES THE GIRLS AN INFALLABLE RULE. How to DMstingnish Between the *Near" Conplaint and That Which is Chronic. A young woman. says Dorothy Dix. asks me if I can give her any reliable recipe by means of which she can diagnose her own feelints and tell whether she is in love or not. She says she is engaged to be married to a nice young man, but that she does not thrill at his approach as the he roes of novels do under such circum stanc.-s. and this leaves her in doubt to the real state of her feelings. First. I should say. by the amount of a man's yawning. A poet has said: "Unless you can muse in a crowd all day on an absent face that ha' fixed vou. then never say you love." Rats' Anybody can muse on an -ibsent face. It's the present face :nat i the trouble. and unless yxi .an spend. say. a long. hot, summer day in joyous conversation with a man.. and still pine for more of his society when it is over instead of feeling that you are a candidate for a rest cure, then you may be ver) sure you are not In love. The second test is' to call a halt on the love making. and see If you'll like the man as well when he is dis cussing the politca. situation. or the financial outlook. as you do when he is telling you that you are the most beautiful creature on earth. with the most fascinating ways. and that he fell in love with you at first sight. All of us, little sister. just warm up to a man while he is flattering us as a kitten snuggles up to a hot brick. Unfortunately, however, the lantiuage of matrimony is not couched in complimentary terms. and the quest.ion is whether a man has a charm for you that will makt. you hang upon his utterances. no matter what he says, or whether you merely enjoy him because he jollics you. A third test of love is to be found In whether the man, alone, Is suf ficient to you. or whether he has to be perpetually offe'ing a chromo with himself. to get you to take him. if you prefer spending the evenings .-1th him. quietly conversing In the back parlor. you may be sure that you are hard hit for keeps: but If you like him best when he is taking you to the theater, or out to suppet. or doing something else for your amusement. you are not genuinely in love. You care more for the good times he gives you than you d.o the man. Talked to Them Straight. Senator Owen. of Oklahoma. gave the Republicass in the Senate some s:raight talk when the subsidy steal was under discussion in that body. In a forcible. bitins speech against the measure he advised the Senate to adjourn and go home. "This con ress has been repudiated by the American people,"' said Senator Owen, In a clear ringing voice, "and yet it continues in session In an efort to put through discredited legisation~ like the ship subsidy bill. The people repudiated the party in power because of its advocacy of ship subsidy and other subsidies, and its subservience to the special Interest.' This speech grated on the sensibil ies of siuch eminent trust advocates ind defenders as Vice-Presidt.nt Sherman. Senators Lorimer. Depew. Aldrich. Lodge and others of that ilk, but they could not say a word in re>ly. as they knew Senator Owen was telling the truth, and if they de nied it. he would prove It by reading the returns of the last dection, when the Democrats carried everything. even Teddy's baliwick. Easter is Comning. Lent begins next Wednesday. Hinw Ash Wednesday and the Lent season are reckoned seems to be a mystery t some peopi". l.ent always is reek oned from Easter Sunday. but to ;nany people this is equally mysteri ous. Easter Sunday always is the first Sunday after the first full moon aftor the spring exquinox, March 51. if the full moon is on Sunday. Easter is the Sunday following. Easter comes April 1 6 this year. Lent al vays is forty days~ before Easter. There usually are six Sundays inter vening, but they are not counted in the forty days. This makes Lent al ways begin on Ash Wednesday. It -rways is preceded by Shrove Tues day. which is the last day before ent. Coal ('hute Burned. Tuesday morning about 2 o'clock h coal chute of the Southern Rail :a: companly ait liranchville was de troyed by tire. The fire wrs di~. v.-s ' b' an enezineer and firemzan3 s they were taking coal. It Is sup .'sed to have caught from a spark from an engine. There were about 25fl tons of coal In the chute, and .hen it fell it covered the main line touit t ' feet deep, and delayed traffic about six or seven hours. un -la track could he buaild around the :ass .of burning coal. A water tank -iot3yards from the chute. whi-!- his just been completed, was Held for Court. Geor:.' Anderson. leader of the and which held up %uthern pas; s'-ncr train No. ZM. near GaInesville. , ai. tCommitted to jail there by Judae sims in dlefauilt of $10.00O bail. Charles Hunted and James Hanford. t~her bandits, who have confessed h-ir pa'rt in the robbery, waived the 'reimnary examuinatio. Blandits Not Found. A Gainesville. Ga.. dispatch says 'wo pos'ses of the three that went Out n search of the live m.n who on Sat ud:y morning held up and robbed Soithern passen.;cr train No. 2R near :here, returned without having dscovred a trace of the hold-up gang. To include the counties of Ker haw. Calhoun and Orangeburg in the- rchibition of the killing of wrs was one of the new acts passed .xthe le.:islaturP. A !o':rteenl-'orV sym"aper nnned for \ildn will be the highest business builn in southern Europe. AIMED AT SOUTH Want & gro Vote in This Srecion Count ed in Senator's Elecion. A REPUBLICAN SCHEME vie Senatorial Elections :n Even of Passage of Resolution-May le feat the Resolution for Diirect Election of Senators. In less than an hour Friday the Senate voted the Sutherland into the resolution providing for the electi.o of United States Senators by direct vote: fixed next Tuesday as the t~t~ie for voting on the resolution itset. nade the case involving Senator Lor imer-s seat the unfinished :usi:-s ind received the Canadian reciproe ty hill from the conimittee on finance. No sooner had Senator l1everid :e -oncluded his speech, in op;>sion to Mr. Lorimer. at 4:2' o'clock, thin Senator Hale asked that the unt ished business be laid before th Senate. This was the resolution providinz for the constitutiona! amendment for the election of United States Sena tors by popular vote. This dema.ndA met the approval of the Chair an! the resolution was taken up. Almost before Senators could have' time to realize what was taking plare. the Vice President directed the be inning of the roll-call on the amend ment offered by Mr. Sutherland. liminating so much of the resolu -ion ac takes from Congress the 7int to supervise Senatorial elections. f he vote resulted in favor of the amend ment. 50 to 37. Seven Republicans. Messrs. Dora'h. Bourne. Bristow. Brown. Cummins. Gronna and LaFollette. were record ed with the majority of the Den.o crats. in opposition to the amend ment. Immediately fo!iowing the an nouncement of the vote. Senator Ba con. of Georgia. declared his op:mp sition to the resolution as ainend-ed. While he had favored the measur:- as reported from committee. he siid that now it would be impossible for him to vote for it. and he gave noti-e that on Monday he would addr- ss the Senate in explanation of his o sition. It is understood that the adoptor, of the amendment will have the e, fect of alienating the votes of a nui ber of Southern Democrats. as the result of the new law would e.- to force the South to count the ne-gro in all elections for United Sta.tes Sen ator. This Is a direct slap at the South. and should have the effect of causing all Democratic Senators from defenr( Ing Ljarimer. who, with the oth--r stand-pat Republicans, is in favor or 'the movement to make the So-uth count the negro vote in the Senia toial elections. EVEN NEW YORKERS "RItlllE-".' Girl in "Harem" Skirt Almost Caus~e of Riot. Brooklyn Bridge broke its reczurd as a scene of dare deviltry Friday. A suielde or professional junmper nev er thrilled the throng of bridg~e promenaders more than did the at; pearance of a dashing young blo :e on the great bridge late in the after noon. She was attired in the ne "harem"~ skirt-the first of the mi! lions of New York women pu'hli:it. to venture the new affectation 'f mens- clothes. which has stirred cou tinental cities to riot. it nearly canec to thr.t on the bridze Friday. Pedestrian traffic was bior-ked9 the crowds which collected in h wake and followed her hold Ie d, right into newspaper row. PostoWT. square and down Broadway:. fina!> vanishing into the undergroundl s'ta tion of the Hudson Tubes. The boldest of newspaper repolrters fell down on the story, all baltkin: at the suggestion that sorae on. .n quire the heroine-s name. There were few who even observed the de tail that sne as a blonde. that h--r eyes were blue and that she: wetre a black fur coat. The foec::s of :1: tention was on the split skirt, a la it below the knees disclosing blz'. bloomer-like contrivances ti;;huy gathered up about the ankl'-s. CAN'T BE FOL~NI). T. Hawkint Mie-ed Since Thursd'ay on PBroad River. The States says fri'-nds of I Aughtry llawkins of Sheito:: er'-- .r much worr:ed og-.r hi t dismi; :. i: - d. M. Scott of the Scott Lros. to ' pay. by whom Hltv-kins was - eloyed. was in Columbi.t Friday ni:i. making inquiries. The last seen of Hawkins was '6 oclock Thursday ev-ning. Hie wa. out on the Broad river in a ibate:!. Th regular ferrymnan was in Won .oro .:ttendinc court :ad I lawn~ al poled somec passengers aic ferr. iH- was weatr:na ~.:isa the tim.-. his other ev.-the~s e.an : the store. Het had no mion:- w:ith Hawkins !s a ne;-how of T. i:. Aughtry and a bro h,.r-in-e:ew ef i Lerand Guerry of Co::-a. :z : is ahojt 2- or 2% y oar ae. -~ Scett Is vexv anious to' 1:- dn--.: formation of the whereanenuts Hawkins. The boat which he 'a -o'ing. or poling, has not h.s Follows Wife to Grae. Unbalanced by poignant iri-f! ove he death of his wife. which ~c;rr Friday mornng at her h-on-. Wi..rreiton. N. C . MM. i!-nI>b ired a bull- t into his te::;ei and! pired in :to minutes. Their mi.rrn ife was an ideally happy on-. Murdered Electrocuted. James B. Allison. of Astrvi wa.s ot!lcially electrocuted :a: 1l eigh. N. C.. Friday. .Flor-d Mce-.:. a urrel over a woman. H.- wa : . first white man electrocut.-d ini Nor:~ 'arin~fa.* Ant international exposition (of N' vext'ns will be hel'd at St. Louis the DMING GOOD WORK P '..TI-: I TItI-:.T'.J-NT- GIVFN [N Ninety-Nine Per Cent of I'ermons Bit ten by Rabid hi;s .Saved ;. ay% Rieport. Th.- C,,umbia Record says since tie be:in: of th, ;.rest-nt year. 19 JWrson-. of var:ous azes. have re i.- d :: api.'--ur tr. tent for hy !rophobia at the State laboratory in ci Lit:. at nio expense to themselves h-t of th.e cost of living. For a year or so past this department or !he University of south Carolina. un .the e ienmanaenteat of Di. F. A. Coward. has been treating this di''ise most effectively. and it ia b-y.ad 'ustion that through its in -Truni.-n*alit y. a number of lives h:i. e been s:.-d from this disease. which 0en o(e.. dev-loped. can not be cured by any means now known to : .e i-: .science. -ivo p.tients are now taking tne -r--atm-nt under Dr. Coward. This ::w:hod of s-%ving human beings f:oai dIe:Ith by bites from the so-cailed --mad do::s" was discovered by the fazmo:s Fr.-neh scientist whose_ nam-e' hears, and since that time, all th 1ki1l an.I kt::W!edt ef scientists have been devoted to perfecting the meth ods em;ployed. It has now been re :It:,-ed to a systern by which 99 per: c.-nt of those bitten by mad do:s have been zaced fro:ni the dread disease. which inevitabiy res-ults in deatn. The process is interesting. The treat mnt is pr-ict:cal!y painless. and dur in;;:ez r -atlment the patients are at liberty ex-ept for a few minuLes e..ch day. The tr.-atner.t consists essentially in inaoeti I itn-, the *a i'nts w-th the viri:s cnta.ning hydrophobia ;ernas. .ery weak at first. but becoming gradually stront-r. until finally the syste-m is ac~ustomed to the poison. A :Ind rendered immune. :Thus when te disease develops, i/is :endered practicaily hbirm less. Furthermore, tie p.:t*ent is immune fron further mad do, bites for a period of nearly . y.-a . When a person is :itten by a so aled aiid do.:. the first step is to c .:>m ini'- the brain of the dog for erms of hydrophobia. If thes- are fouid. or even if not. if circuni- a stances ar., suspcious. the trcatment -* i. -:iv.-n. Or-!intrily. the disease will . v.-lo. in a humnan being in from three we. k to :-ix m.onths. By be- b :inning: tI;- tr.-atment at once, the t patient Is saved. tT To bgin with. a rabbit is innocu lated with hydrophobia virus taken a from the bran of some animal which has died with the disease. The virus a is placed in :he brain of the ra:)bt. and he is s. t apart for the disease to develop. T!i., takes place in about --- a-. th- a.mal 'econing par- 0 alyzed at the end of that tine. The 0 .pial cord of the rabbit is then re- a movedl. cut in pieces. and placed in ~ the coolinit incutiato~r. which is main -ain".d at a :emwperature of i3 de -rees centigrade. .\t th.- end of the first day a small ~ particle is taken out. and preserved 4 on ice in glycerine. Another por- h ien is taken out at the end of the a second day, and preserved In zlycer-t a..a~ -'o on. for *ight d::ys. the bottles being numbered to show the n number of days in the incuzbator. Those particles which have remained I eih't days are the weakest. being practically inert. In ::-n.-ral. the patIent has first In .c:e-I into him a small riuantity of a he eit~ht-day spinal cord. around u o the~ consistenicy of human blood. Th.- next d:iy. the seven-day piece is injected. and so on down to the I on.-day pieces. if th.> bites Indicate a - dnerous c:xse. The next week. -e tr' .:tu-i Le-:in a;:ain with a four or fie day pio:-e of cord. The C ir..a::.-n : ..rally lasts threeI w -ksa the ,-r:! of which another e,. -ionoa'--day viris is mad.. P.c rhis time the system of the pa- a -i "''..he. aradtr- ily acustomted -..:9. -,enint its strongest form. nn-i no"r wh.-n the germs from theK (.I..:,tod .,.lot. t hey are pr.lc tic lvy artle'. It is a caye of '-:nnecvi o wih pohsan. This is ci -h1 on- . naw 'ino" n to tre-it by --.,046sue-fa!y.but the suIc- n e~e 4 of thi mo-ed is~ proven by the ..nb. e whi: h ha've taken It and ..- :---'..* :-v fro~n death. ( n,. ir dev'io' in the normal~. u. n vst. m.t hyd:-o'h:.i iis incur w.The. tre' '"'.nt enn do no harma. when-nei mn ge. i-ven if there' ae. r .odi -s g.rns ori::inally in Th depart-:wnr is "p.rated unde-r e r : 9:0 gv--n~nnt.and all the t! ., - m~r- ?-- 'Pa nts who ha-. a T st r-a: nen tis t he a.. .* .y :t.-pa te::r insti a n -79-:, ;.jr of the cou'ntr. n . - -r. : o .ydrolobi'. scie - - I : . :: an . the s als .s.- V. a a-jn:: hap;ines. u t w:! p'urchatse a l'et of subsit e m:- o.' t e h!:h -..hoo'! at l It -n o' ox n II::n a. .m " - .n .cho on~ Was5 in= ata - e t deons r:tion of p~- - bo:t -. t--rw n f h -ror twdo.'.rs. Makes the tious food dainty an I Ro1 BAX POm The only Bakin from Royal Grap No fussing or the biscut-m is the aid cook's: Royal Cook Book-800 Reets ROYAL BAING POW1 MAY MEAN MUCH I...... 4 -- .ARrH FOR POTASH MAY PROV i- OF Gi:FAT VALUF. mendment to Appropriation Hill Sugz.wsted by Congre-ssman Lever Affects Fertilizer Situation. A special dispatch to The State om Washington says James Wil )n. secretary of azriculture. does t hesitate to express the- helief that ie amendment to the azricultural proriation bill. offered by Repre ntativ. Lever of So;uth Carolina, ill be of national benefit. He h.Ls itten to Mr. L-ver ex;ressing th.Lt ief and corrat:i-ting him up.n important work he has accom lished for the far:iers of the c'oua -y. The amendment provides for an -propriation for an invest!fation t termiine a posible supply of pot h. nitrates and other n:tural fer iz-ers within the 'nited States. That this aniendm.nt is re:arded the beginning of an u:nder:aking vast importance to the farmers the nation is shown by the favor Ae way in which this niatter has en receiv'ed by the agricultural entists of the co:matry. Mr. L..ver himse!f brves it to be e of the most importaint undlertak s ever ;,ut on foot b:y the depart nt of agricultur.-. lIn arguing for samendmenit. he set out ctatly d con~cisely the fnets that the en e s.-:ion of cour.t:-y which he in rt represents i t the absolate rcy of a great G;eraLn syrndient -r its supply of potash. one of the ess-ary ingredienats of a comlete -rtilizer. It was sown that thi:. cot:'ry 's::mnos SS.'i'."o. woirth a .4: d it is of int- rest to know that af s amount at le:-st !.' per cent i ,sumed in the So';th. Accordin.e to a ::.-tement of Pro.) rper of Clemson C:-llh::e about $i* 0.000', are exlt..('ed for ;po'ash ir uth Caro!!na. whiie Comn:i:ssone. tson maks the e" 'as.' ' Sout' rolna for thi- f.'rt l'.er initrdien. ihtly more than ?Ms. The !ro-izht frtom the G-rmn: nes to this co::ntry amou'nts t out $. a ton and th:9 !;!e. it i' red by the~ aen interested in th-. rome of :he :nve sti;.:t 'ns aua rized1 in this amit:. eatnt is no con erble- itemn tha- a::y be sajfed i ash dei~-Olts :ire dis-'ov--re-d in th.a ~:ntry. eretary Wi.l-on of the veenr nt of axrin!:r.- is enthusiaauk out his investr:::'n. O. TH.AT H.WItFIi il!tT. Mus-t G(: 'kari, a WXOnnan' --'ro~wnin;:r t.lory .' Th.- eminin.- worMd is exer--ised er the possible fr' .sion of t- hr kirt. or troa:.:r5. Ca -rn cnew strt. the. fahioc - - I ltinrore :,-t. h t4i6e n' s : t is r i riar '- a: :: -: ;' , of this enluabt know f.:Hi w.-B t:ino n.'rmal :::In led woman w: *-r w'ear su~ch a 'ie :h. hb:.- lir: -kirt - :n 'insical fi. .'e.-pt Dr. .'ary Wa'e h:-s -e:e .-n kn~o'~n to d..:h--rateiv to a e -rouser'-tn! e f:'r ;::rposes o' use- not e;---' :: -': r: e''* on:a;: '.,.: .'r....o..-:h :n: h.r It h.-l;s her to :' -- in' var:O:: Zraetrs. Th's :: -' :s ,n-tre'-s. a'd . a- a:t inc7 y to im r a s t he ::' h a'-. -:: - k d1own :n ..: trila in t: k~ when sh' i: :: i aui Trots. r. .re u:: 're zr~-ar. - ti he; are t' ..; n .Xc o na wha cri"1 -f th^' f.mnmen t!in :sr v-n' . . to:- -h :. sh I :o 'r com.a-. :t.-el diks no"w are en.:raved:.y mostnti nd the most I delicious, INS DER 84y Pfrt g Powder made Cream of Tartar fretting over aking. Royal to many a -Free. Sad Nme ad Ad . - X(f CM. NEW YomK WRL DA OE DESTITUTE CHILDREN CAN NOW GO TO COLUMBIA. Governor Blease Approves the Act Entrusting Children to the Fec Orphanage There. "Destitute, abandoned and unpro tected' children. for whom no other special provision is made, will here after be committed to the care of the Rescue orphanage. Columbia. wher ever they may be found in the State. The act so providing has been ap pro'ed by Governor Blesse, and the adixing of his signature made it ef fective. The act provides: That whenever any girl ur~der the ac- oi 14, or boy under the age of 10 years, shall be found by any po lice:. an. sheriff( constable or other reson in any county, city or town, In -circumstances of destitAtion or suffering. or of abandonment, ex posure or neglect, or of beggary, or in any house of ill-fame, it shall be lawful for. and the duty of. such oncer to make report thereof to the probate judge of said county. Thereupen. such probate judge rhail forthwith Ex a time for the h 1earing and investigration of such I care. as speedily as possible, and give netice of such hearing to the parent or parenzts. if known, or to the guar -'dian or custodian of such child. If known. And such probate judge shall 'hear all the evidence offered before him and Investigate fully the circumstances and surroundings of such child. .ud it. upon such investigation, the said officer shall aind that said child is abandoned, or is being brou:;ht up In Immoral or vicious -urroundings. or without any ade ,uate or proper care or custody, It ha!! be lawful for, and the duty of uch .officer to issue a warrant of -ommnitmnent. committing said child Sthe custody, care and rearing of i'. Rescue orphanage, situated at solumbia, or to any similar orphan - In the State, devoted to the re ..: and care of such children. The said orphanage and any oth - orphanage devoted to the relief of hildren who are destitute. aban- - 'oned or being raised in Immoral ad vizous surroundings. shall have '.ll care and control over any child r.:mitted to it. as herein provided: wtbject always to the right of the -ourts to inquire Into the propriety tnd sufficiency of the care and main enance being provided for any such -hild. and to modify or change the .are and custory of any child, as the -ourt may deem proper. That any such orphanage to which achild has been committed as pro ided in the two preceding sections hall have the right to ::trust any -: ch child. for its care, maintenance. ring. education and adoption. .0 he ere and custody ot any individ .al or family, which it may deem .roper. upon such guarantees as may Srouivred by such orphanage. But his right shall be subject to the sur r.isio'. investigation and control of - courts of co:nmon plaefor said ate of South Carolina. u,>an appli :ttien made to the courts.* TWELVE YEAR OLD BRIDE. WtPrets Consient She Weds Boy WihPrnof Etchteen. The youIngest bride ever led to the :ar in Cin~-.nat! was Sarmella Al : ar ai:rl of it, who became the ,'id.- of Frank Stone. a youth of 14. yh,- l:'ense to wed was obtained by he pa?ren:s of the children in New or:. yv. .and the ceremony was per ormed.' !.y Father James McNerny, the Church of the Immaculate 2Qone.ptionl. of Cincinati. At first i.-1.. L. Bryan. of the Kentucky C -urt refused to Issue the licenre tbe ruse of the age of the bride-elect. ut the father of the gLrl showed him -.r h' was obliged, under Kentucky !is. to comply with such a request a: h.tthers of the contracting arti.s. Ro:h fathers were present en the rense ws scured. " Th.- ikedly Auto. .A: Fort Worth. Tex.. Harry Sears, :ry 0 T. Ramos. is seriously' injur i and the latter's hanshand and 'diss taudec ..erry are sufferipn Internal nures as a result of the wrecking r.t their ,utomobile when the ma chine skidded. turning turtle.* En tire Village Deasd. A .'-wram: from Harbn reports r:: ' enom" dis-uovery of a Ci - 91,2.-n~artere in whic'h t he ea -n popul. rion w 's dead fromn the '!a::u.. 31any bodies !ay in the open