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X MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9'. 1910. O.XXVIII. J S 3 p HEAK TETOIC LINEI CAPTURE SIX VILLAGES ANI MORE THAN 3,000 PRISONERS SOUTH OF BRODY. VERDUN FIGHTING BITTEI Eriti:h Capture 2,500 Prisncers Whet Turks invade Suez Canal Region Apt:r rians Plunge Through Ger man- Ranks. Petrcgrad. via Lot-don.-Russian at t 'c t S:r. th a::d Graberk IUec:-. south of Brody. in northern Ga licia. broke the Tectonic resistanc4 and rezatted in the capture by the Rus s?..... ofnix : illages. More than 3.001 pri:o:ers v:ere taken. South of ';:oly the enemy offere< deterri::ed :"ei :ance and made sev eral counter-a: acks. In the street of the v:l=:e: :i'-ce firhting took place and it was :::cesa:y to drive the ene my out frm houase to house. On the r a: tn' of the Meuse, ii the Ve-d..n . - the fighting be tween the -:nh' and Germans con tinues to be i:tter. Paris says th, forces of the German crown princ! made unsu :.::__ul effarts to drive th< rrench from the Thiaumont work, re cently cep:urcd. The -Germans -als rnbar.ir heavily the sector of Thiau mont a:; :I clry. Brelin : ntions bitter fighting e Thianmont work and reports the can tn:e of 4: prisoners during Germa: counter Zt.aks in t:e Fleury sector On the Etnnsian front the most in tense fizhting i: re:arted as takins place sou:h cf Drcdy in Galicia. Th Russians crop rd the Sereth river captu:-ed rc- 'ns in the region of Pe riak-Tchis.t dy and repulsed Aus trian-German counter attacks against thera. London. - Strong Turkish force which attacked the British at Romani 22 miles east of the Suez Canal on Au. gust 4. was defeated and put to hight by a counter-attack, says an officia] statement. The Turks, adds the statement. are being vigorously pursued by the British. who have taken more than 2.500 prisoners including some Ger mans. With the British armies in France, via London.-Under the merciless con centration of shellfire. the Australians are hocding on to their gains after their advance on a front of two miles. The Germans already have delivered three powerful counter attacks to retake the lost ground and all have failed. DEMOCRATS PLAN LOWER SCALE INCOME TAXATION Senate Finance Committee Rccom mends Tax For Single Persons of $2,000, Married One of $3,000. Washington.-Reduction oi the in come tax exemption from S3.000 t< $2.000 for single persons and fro: $4,000 to $3.000 for persons with fau flies was ordered recommended to the Senate by Democratic members c the finance co:mmittee who are revu Ing the house revenue bill. The change is pr-oposed in a3 amendment r'iich would put the ad ditional $t,000 tax in a separate clat sificatio'n and impose on it a norma mx of one per cent ins'ead of tw< per cent, assessed against income: over $3.000. for single persons, an< $4,000 for married persons. The exe mption amendment. afte: an all-day discussion. prevailed by majority of only one vote. Some c the Democratic Senatcrs said that the decision was- a tentative one an< might be overturned with the amend ment was submittel to the full memz bership of the committce. FIRE CRIPPLES PRESSES OF THE NEW YORK SUN New York.-Five large presses et which The New Ycrk Sun is prinret were so badly damaged by a fir which started in the :.ub-cellar of Th Sun building that sever.l editoion '-:.ll be run off on the presses of Th Evening Mail. There were no em ployes in the press r oom when thi blaze started. CLOUDBURST STOPS ALL STREET CARS JN ASHEVILLI Asheville.-Asheille was withou power or street car- service for abou ':wo hours Sunday as the result of :-loudhurst in the '.avera. sectio: erhich tu.ued the. I"..ar.C r L. small. stresta.t . g torrentL docded a large . i h vieliai si ..ue creek t:1l de 'eyd.anub at poles of thle \ - A. E " a panty. which s. ~ie the city witJ power at lrc-:nt- L. BRITISH FORES~E SUCCESS AND TRiU'2APHANT PEACI Londcn.- "We look forward wit confidence to su-ase and triumph: peace." v-as the conclusionl of an i spi:n g t l;:C~ from General S Deuda Hi g. c:ronawler of ti Brit-h 'rmic i-: Fra::ee read at AUTO BANDITS OUT A$4'OOO PAYROLl FIVE UNMASKED MEN SNATCO MONEi BAGS FROM GUARDS. A BOLD DAYLIGHT HOLDUI Hundreds Look On As Theft Take Place on Crowded Street in Motc Factory District of Detroit.--Mone For Burroughs Adding Machine Ci Detroit.-Five unmasked automobil bandits held up an automobile i which $50,000 pay roll noney was b< ing taken to the plant of the Bu: roughs Adding Machine Company an before astonished guards could offe resistance snatched five of six bag in the car, said to have containe $33,000 or $34,000 and escaped. The hold-up took place on Bu: roughs, between Woodward and Cas avenues in view of hundreds of en ployes of nearby automobile fact< ries and the usual afternoon throng on Woodward avenue. Rudolph, a Burrcughs guard. wa shot through the thigh and struc on the head with the butt end of pistol, when he tried to intercept th robbers. Witnesses declared the five bandit apparently ranged in age from SS t 60 years. No one. however, seeme able to give a good descriptioa They were armed with rines and ai tomatie pistols. Witnesses of the daring robber declared the apparent failure of th pay car gaurds to realize what wa taking place aided the bandits' sui cesses. One guard said he thougt a motion picture scenario was bein staged. Although policemen on motore: cles and in automobiles were quickl sent in pursuit of the bandits. the had not been rounded up. Eleve machines filled with officers wer scouring the country in every dire+ tion after a fruitless chase of 3 miles. The bandits were thought t have been cornered about 30 mile northwest of the city, but when off cers closed in the bandits' car wa not to be found. The amount obtained by the bar dits at first placed as high as $45 000, later was declared by P. C Chapman. secretary-treasurer of th Buroughs Company to have been b( tween $33,000 and $34,000. A car fo lowing the one held up. carrying S75 000 was not molested. GENERAL CARRANZA'S NOTE AT WASHINGTOl Wilson Will Proceed at Once to Nan1 Commissioners. Washington.-Indications were the President Wilson would appoint thre commjasioners within the next fe days to meet a similar delegation a ready selected by General Carranza1 undertake settlement of the intef'n tional differences arising from disturi ed conditions along~the Mexican bo der. In a note delivered to the state di partment General Carranza named hi commissioners, but did not answi specifically the suggestion of ti Washington government for enlarg ment of the powers of the commi sion. It is believed, however, that tt reply is generally satisfactory to th administration and that negotiatior will proceed without delay. General Carranza says in his noi .that -the Mexican- commissionet "preferably" will discuss the thre points outlined in the Mexican cot munication of July 11, which a: withdrawal of American troops trol Mexico, the framing of a protocol1 cover future border operations, and a investigation of what interests has promoted border raids. State Depar ment officials are understood to r gard this as at least leaving the wa open for broader considerations su( as they desire. Carranza has appointed to represer his government Licentiate Luis Ca rea, Engineer Ignacio Bonillas at Engineer Alberto J. Pani. VERDUN AGAIN CENTER OF FIGHT!NG ON WES London.-Verdun, almost quiescer during the Anglo-French offensivei Lthe Somme region, has again becorr 1the storm center on the Western ha te front. The French forces have tal en the offensive on the right bank the Meuse and now hold the Thia mont work and the greater part of tU village of F-leury, according to Pari SThe Thiaumont work, already i scene of many combats, was twicei French hands during twelve hours The first time that more than regimental parade has been held sine the National Guard mobilized at Sty bwas when the Second infantry. th ~tsanitary corps of the Second regimon ~field hospital No. 1 and the Charlestc rLight Dragoons. Troop A. cavaiT apassed in re'view. The men made splendid showing. ~Blanhard. official photographe ,~plans to show his moving pictures< the camp in manny places in Sout Carolina. Hec took a mov-ing pictut of the h'g parade and he has previou ly made individual pictures of man f the compani~es. "THE A] TOBACCO MARKETS OPEN FOR SEASON - BRIGHT PROSPECTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA BELT FOR FARMERS. , WEED BRINGS GOOD PRICE ,rowers in Many Sections Have Reas ons For Rejoicing in First Sales r of the Season. Columbia.-Opening for the season with bright prospects, the big tobac e co markets of the Pee Dee section of [ South Carolina began operations august 1 for 1916. Something less than a million and a. half pounds, ac d cording to reports. was sold, the weed bringing very good prices. Prices paid ranged from 4 cents for d the lowest grade of "sand lugs" to the high mark of 60 cents a pound for the - best tobacco gathered and cured b fore the storm which recently swept the Pee Dee section. Sumter reported 100,000 poundk e sold; Timmonsville, 200,000; Harts ville. 106,000; Darlington, 100,000; Marion, 50,000; Lake City. 224,000; Conway. 125,000; Aynor, 65.000; Loris. a '5.000; Kingstree, 125.000, and Man e ning. 75,000. All signs, according to reports from the tobacco markets, point to a sum mer of good times in the Pee Dee, with high prices for tobacco making dup fcr th destruction caused by the Srecent storm. Delegates to Rcad Meeting. Columbia.-Commissioner Watson. at the request of the governor, has appointed delegates to the convention of .the Southern Appalachian Good t Roads association in Lexington. Ky., September 5-S. The delegates gamed are: LaCoste Evans, Columbia; Thad C. Coleman. Whitmire; Paul V. Moore, Spartanburg, Dr. R. H. Smith, Glenn Springs: C. 0. Hearon. Spartanburg; W. F. Robertson. Greenville; P. F Patton, Greenville; J. W. Norwood, Greenville; J. Thos. Arnold, Green ville; Dr. B. F. Goodlett, Grenville: J. 0. Wingo. Greenville; J. C. Cothran, Greenville; W. H. Willimon, Grccn ville: R. L. Hartley, Glenn Springs; Z. F. Wright, Newberry- Dr. W. E. Pelham, Newberry; F. H. Shirley, Westminster: W. M. Brown, Wal halla; H. F. Watson. Greenwood; A. F. McKissick, Greenwood; J. Mack King, Anderson; Arch B. Calvert. Spartanburg; John M. Jenkins. Gaff ney;J. E. Sarratt, Gaffney;- J. E. Plaxico. Blacksburg; J. B. Humbert, Laurens; J. B. Hitt, Laurens: J. C. Sample. Newberry; J. J. Verrnon, Spartanburg;' H. Stribling. Spartan burg: J. C. Cook. Lancaster; T. Y. Williams. Lancaster; John T. Ste' "s, Kershaw. A. Patterson. Jr.. Ctudlbia; t W. A. Stevenson. Abbeville; W. T. Magill. Abbeville; M. H. Mundy, Ab beville; James B. Craig. Pickens; J. 1M. Laurens. Calhoun; J. L. Jeter, Union; B. F. Alston, Unian; J. C. Mobley, Whitmire; Thos. W. Bond, Lessie; John R. Hairt, York; John T. Roddey. Rock Hill; R. E. Grabel. Gaffney; W. F. Timamonis. Rock Hill; W. R. Bradford. Fort Mill; B. F. Ramseur, Blacksburg; W. C. Foster, Richland. eTo Urge Rate Making Bureaw. -Columbia.-"My position has been ethat inasmuch as there is so much complaint as to rate making, It would Sbe but a proper step for' the state to smaintain a fire insurance rate making bireau. I have carefully worked out ea plan along this line," said Gov. sManning in a letter to James A. Co efeld, well known insurance man of eSpartanburg. The governor in his letter presents his views~ on the fire insurance situation in South Carolina. ".s a mat:ar of fact. the irnsurance laws of South Carolina should be ':om e pletely revised and brought up to the ~requirments of modern business lfe."~ the governor continues. Coy. Manning states that lie will 2make such recommendations to the next general assembly as "will lead to ta satisfactory settlement of the di? dfculty." Big Timber Cargo For AIlles. Charleston. - Whleni the i teamer Westbury sailed from here with 1.500,000 feet of timber and croties, her cargo comleted a total o bout 7,000.000 of South Carolirna egroirn andl South Carolina sawed timt. b~r th'at has passed through this port con-ined to tile allies "somewhere n -noe in the last few months atd ev thousand feet of this tinm ber that has panssed through this pert eha mean the expenditure of SIS to $ 0 to total expenditure or some tig like $1.400.000. aFINANCE COMMITTEE WAIT TO HEAR FROM COUNTRY Wahigto.Democrats of the . Senate Finance Comniittee who voted 1 t lower tJe income tax exempt ions ma , the revenue bill are anxious waiting a o bear from the country on the r-ecom-i mendation. Protests against it already -,have been heard within the party. Is i propoilets will use as one argument 1 . sggetion from President Wilson a In his annual message to the sixty - urth congress for a reduction in the exemption. BRAM FARMERS' UNION MEETING Name Member on all Weevil Com masior.-Officers Re-elected-Ten ant System Evils. Colunii.,a.-Problems of vital inter est to th. far: nrs of the ate were discussed at the regular annual meet i.:g of the South Carolina State Farm ers' Union. held in the chapel of the University -of South Carolina. The next meeting place will be selected bv the executive committe. The following officers were re-elect d: F. T. Morrison, president; J. Frank Wiliinai, vice president, and J. Whit ner lneid. secretary and treasurer. B. Harris was elected a member of the excrutive committee for three years. Thcre w:ere few delegates in attend ance upon the meeting of the union as a resuit of the recent flood waters Presi'lent Morrison in a short ad dress reviewed the progress of the union during the past year. He ex plained the advantages of the rural land credit system. W. S. Currell, president of the Uni versity of South Carolina. extended a wehcnme to the union and discussed the evils of the tenant system of farming. W. M. Rigg.-. president of Clenson College. discussed *tie farm, iug system in South Carolina and the educational system. "We have the natural resources in this State." said Mr. Riggs. "and we need the enterprise to engage in sci entifie marketing through co-operative agencies." Mr. Riggs told of the pro posed trip by the commission to study the boll weevil situation in other sec tions of the South. Acting upon re ques: of ir. Riggs. President Morri son was named as the farmers' unior rcnre:entative on the boll w'eevil com mission. T. B. Thackston, of Spartanburg was indorsed by the union for a placE on the federal farm loan board. A resolution indorsing Mr. Thackstor for appointment will be sent to Presi dent Wilson. Cotton Crop Short. Harvin.-Replies to 2,000 inquiries sent to every cotton growing count in the cotton growing states as to the condition of cotton for the month o: July, counting 100 per cent as a per feet crop, shows an average conditioI of 66.1 per cent. All states east c! the Mississipp River show excessive rainfall. ThE states of Texas. Oklahom. and Arkan sas the rainfall is reported light an( scant. The crop averages 2.8 week: late and the average area abandone: is 10.7 per cent. These reports show the crop effect ed by insects in the area reported a: follows: Sixty-two per cent, no in sects; 30 per cent, boll weevil; 2 pe: cent. leaf lice; 1 per cent by cotton wilt: 2 per cent by boll borer; 2 pe: cent by root rot and 1 per cent b3 red spider. A majority of these reports sho' the stands are poor, plant is weak cultivation fair to good and in the Atlantic states the nights too cool fo; the best growth of cotton. The average condition by states is as follows: Alabama. condition. 54.i per cent; Arkansas, 77.8; Florida 59.S; Georgia 65; Louisiana. 77.5: ississippi. 57.8; North Carolina. GE Oklahoma. SO; South Carolina. 57.7 Tennessee. 72.5; .Texa, 62. Pee Dec Crops Damaged. Columnbia.-TheC recent heavy rains and the flood waters caused consider able damage to the crops inthe Pci Dee section of South Carolina. accord ing to L. L. Baker of Bishopville, statt director of the boys' agricultural clubs Mr. Baker said that the farmera an< business men were facing the situa tion bravely. There has been great damage to th. tobacco crop, lhe said. The continu'l rains prevent the farmers from curing the leaf. The rr.arkets will opeI August 1. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS. Jube Moseley, a well known farme residing about two and orie-half miles east of Aiken, was kicked by a mult Iand fatally injured, dying two days later. Curley and Grant Johnson. negr< boys, six and nine years of age re spetively, and brothers, were drown ed in Cox's creek near Anderson. rc cently. MIore thni 75 girls took the shor: course in canning at Abbeville. Licenses to do a lire insurance busi ness in this state were issued to The Individual Underwriters of New Yor1 and to Lloyds of New York. The MceCormick Chamber of Corm merce has undertaken the work o having wvaterworks. electric lights anm sewerage installed in the town. itlepresertatives and officials of ser eal of the larger railroads and of thi South (Carolina Cotton Seed Crushiers association met in the offices of th tae railread commission in Columbit io di-wuss. or set a date to discuss. rednetme i he freight rate o:n pea Gaffnny to Have Ccurnty Fair. Gaffney.-Announcement has bee: made from Gaffney Chamber of Cont merce that Gaffney will have a tw< days county fair this year. R. E Gabel of the Chamber of Commnere ha outlined preliminary plans an vao:: com'mittees will soon take ui teir w"ork i *nrest. October ' Newto3n D. F~aker, secretary of war, replying to an injuiry from Gov. Man ning as to the intentions of the war department respecting the South Caro lina units in the National Guard of the United States. now cacamped at Styx, near Columbia. intimated in a letter to the governor. that the organi zations in question would likely be held until they are "completely equip ped and ready in every respect to mov2 . . . both as to strength and equ=pment." Whether or not this means that the units at Camp Moore will be held there until recruited to war strength nobody in Columbia or at the camp was prepared to say. The infantry regiments are far below war strength, which is 150 men to the com pany. Secretary Baker writes the governor as follows: "I take pleasure In acknowledging your personal letter of the 17th in stant, on the subject of the readiness of your troops to go to the border, and their great desire to see service there. "In reply thereto, I want to expres appreciation of the spirit animatifg c ths South Carolina troops, together with the hope that their desires and your own may be speedily realized. "On a recommendation from Gen. e Funston. commanding the Southern department. and in order to relieve that department as far as possible of the work of completing the equip ment of the troops of the several states orders were issued July 15, 1916, to department conanders. by whom the movement of troops to the border is regulated. to hed all organi zations until they are completely equipped and ready in every respect to move. I take it. then, that as soon as your state troops are completely ready, both as to strength and equip ment, the commanding general of the Eastern department. who will be not! fled by the mustering officer on duty In your state, will promptly issue or ders for their movement." Officers in high authority at Camp Moore realize that tMe one big prob lem before the National Guard is that of recruiting. More men must be' se cured if the two regiments are sent from South Carolina at an early date. Col. Blythe of the First regiment, commanding officer of the camp, be lieves that the regiments will be call ed for just as soon as they are needed on the border. Camp facilities will have to be provided and everything made ready for the reception of new units. Nobody in the military service of the United States, whether in the com missioned or the enlisted personnel, may act as a press correpondent, ac cording to a ruling from the war de partment. p Field regulations prohibit, under severe penalties, not only the acting as a correspondent, but the giving of in formation to the press or to civilians, except by permission of competent au tority. But a qutstion has existed whether this rule was applicable in times of peace and members of the service hare been tacitly allowed to serve newspapers from mobilization points and training camps. The department's ruling makes it lear that this practice can not con 11 tinue. W. S. Curell. president. and Leon ard T. Bak:r. dean. ,,f the University of South Carolina. visited the camp1 tr. ma ke arrangements for a di~mer to~ be give'n the alumni and undergrari enuate Carolina men who are mem he:s of the National Guard. Private DeLoach of. Camden will be a member of the committee from the First regl ment. and J. MIcB. D~abbs, who is see retary of the camp Y. 31. C. A.. will be thec member of the committee for the Second regiment. The dinner will be ivn in Columbia. A baseball league is planned for the cmp, and a regular schedule will be adoted. Mlany companies will put -teamas in the field and there will be 1 daily game:3. The baseball diamonds have proved favorite rendezvous for the men. Rifle range continues on the range I and the men are making some right I good scores. They arec sbooting from the 100 yard line. Few Seek Relief. Only 24 men fromi both regiments i have filed petitions for relief from 1 duty under the personal dependence rule recently issued by the secretary1 of war. Mlen in the service having I familie.s dependent upon them are ex- 1 -cusedl from duty. Col. Blythe said that the number asking for relief was unusually low. Since the mobilization of the two regiment.; of the National Guard at Camp M1oore. Styx. S92 Bibles and 1 beos of gospels have been distrihuted' amoig the soldiers. These have been . paid for largely by donations. Garriston inspecti-on is held each Saturday to see thait each soldier has Ihis full equipment. R. B. Pegram. general agent. 1 Sotheiirn railway. who is (camp repre e~tative of the American Railway soiaion, has returned from a week nd visit to Charleston.t 3aj. CaldwelI completed the pay mient of the Charleston Light Dra goons. the engineer company and thel Ten registeredi nurses. Four from th Columbia hospital, have gone to1 flNew York city to assist the nursing i-complement of Riverside hospital ini Shandling eases of infantile paralysis.< IA. J. Williams was runi~ over and eInstantly killed by an incoming trol i ev car from Anderson. in fi-ont of his I rhome, 100 yards north of. the Pied mont ard Northern: deport -1. Beltoni The Peabody scholar.-hips of the1 Uni ersity of South Carol-na for the sessioni of 191G-17 have been conhe.: el on Jonn W. Weeks of Aiken and Jon J. McFall of Picns. Both of these. are tnerssful vounr teachers. ELL STIMULATE RIFLE PRACTICE iEDALS FOR MARKSMANSHIP ARE OFFERED TO SOLDIERS CAMP MOORE. IEWS FROM CAMP MOORE nteresting Happenings About Pal metto Soldiers Who Are in Camp at Styx, the Mobilization Point for the South Carolina National Guard. Camp Moore. Two South Carolinians now en amped here will win handsome gold aedals that have been offered for ri'e rork in the military course. A jew Iry firm of Columbia will present a edal to the guardsman making the est record on the rifle range during he course. The adjutant general of outh Carolina. W. W. Moore, will lve a medal to the recruit who had ever shot over the butts before who aakes the best record during the ourse. These medals are of beauti ul design. Melon Patch Raided. A great battle has been fought on he hills of Lexington between three rivates of the National Guard and a cell known farmer (name deleted by er.sor). The farmer..Won the battle. he guardsmen retreating in disorder. )ne private was sprinkled with bird hot and two privates badly scared. In the afternoon just before, the un began to descend over the sand ills, three privates went for a'stroll. ts a result, rules have been promul ated by the commander of the camp, ol. E. M. Blythe, that the circum tances require but which will work hardship on every man of five units n Camp Moore. After proceeding a mile from camp, he privates found a watermelon >atch. Lexington melons have a big eputation and the temptation was too p-eat for the men. Over the fence hey climbed. right into the melon ield. The inspection of the crop was iegun with dispatch. The private on entry duty spied the farmer and gave he alarm. The farmer fired one shot. t was enough to cause a general re reat. One of the men stumbled and ell. Another private rushed madly >ack to camp and reported that one f the men had been killed. It devel ped later that the bearer of the sad iews was the only man wounded. - He vas given medical attention and later aced the summary court. receiving a ieavy sentence. The others received roper punishment also. Recently fetr yrivates were given sentences of 30 lays each at hard labor for invading a nelon patch. Col. Blythe is determined to break ip the invasion of melon patches and strict set of rules was issued. A cay Lry patrol has been established about he camp and any man leaving must ;ecure a written pass from his corn >any commanders. The cavalry patrol till be maintained about the camp by he Charleston Light Dragoons. The >atrol ill1 be in force night and day. "I have given the people notice," aid Col. Blythe, "that they must not ake the law in their own hands and expect them to obey the law as well L the men in camp. I shall take strin ,en't steps to prevent further depre lations." Col. Blythe realizes that the nident might have resulted serious v and he will take every precaution o prevent further -trouble. Joe J. Marshall of Columbia, offi ers' reserve corps, National Guard, ias been~ transferred by Gov. Man iing to tae active list and assigne'to he command of Company H, Second nfantry. The company is from Brook and. Capt. Miarshall succeeds Capt. 1. II. Fulmer. who was recently trans erred to the officers' reserve corps at Lis own request. It was pay day for the Second regi nent and there were many smiling 'aces about camp. It is a lo:rg time etween pay days and the joyous event et many of the men to Columbia. Four recruits were received inl camp nd three passed the medical e'ni aaion. The officers in charge of the 'cruiting stations at Colunmbia. Spar anburg. Florence and Greenville tre rorking hard to get men. The new hysical test is severe antd a large >roportion of the men are beitg turn The applicants for commissions as t and second lient em:?a ha' com >leted the mental tests and will be rien the field tests. The board will .eport as sotan as pa.~sible thereafter. The Sceand herta~lin. First infan r. went on dress parade and made m ost creditable showing. Maj. F. Schmiitter, medical corps. 7. S. A.. the camp surgeon. was h lisprsed 2"a f"~- days In heavy-.marenjing or'der. the First >attalion. First infantry, under com-, nand of Capt. R. C. Heyward. Comn >any C. Pelzer. left camp 'for a night >f bivoacing. Capt. Henry T. Thomnpson, com-. naufding Company E, Second South 'roli na infantry (Darlington Guards). rho has: ben sick at the Baptist hios >dtal for he last month. is decidedly >etter, ar.i was discharged from th.' tospital. H~e is now with his 'o'n-in aw W. C. Str-wart. Columbia where te will recrate for a few days be ore retrn :g to Sty. to :-esume ie GREAT AIR ?AFT ALTITUDE Italian Balloon Goes 104,082 Feet, or Eighteen Miles, Above Actual Ground Level. According to the geographical in stitute at Pavia, Italy, the highest al itude so far reached b? any balloon was 105,090 feet, or slightly over 18 miles above sea level; and 104,082 eet above actual ground, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The balloon was of rubber andwas filled with hydrp gen gas. The actual distance traversed meas ured 11G,064 feet. At a height of 59, 196 feet the temperature fell to minus 43 degrees and maintained that figure all the balance of the way up with only slight variation. The aviator Giaccomo Piccolo, was compelled to utilize his oxygen in halator after he reached the height of two miles, and reached ground In a collapsed condition nevertheless. Prof. Pericles Gambia, in the An nali di Ufficio, states that the benefits to science from that ascent were i calculable, as it proved mainly two things: That the assumption of a 15 mile atmosphere above the ground is erroneous, and that the theory of ether outside of that limit is not ad missible, "if it does not altogether do away with the ether theory at any height." The word "ether" has been formed to express the medium for light beyond the assumed atmosphere. This ascent establishes beyond per adventure that the medium is uniform after the height of about 50,000 feet was reached. "If the a'tmospheric consistency remains the same 55,000 feet after that altitude, the assump tion that it will r6nain the same far ther up reaches the dignity of a pre. sumption." The Annali suggests that the data furnished by this ascent must, imper atively, be substantiated by further ascents before definite conclusions should be drawn from this one alone. OBJECTS TO PUBLIC DINNERS Writer Unable to See Any Good Pur pose Served by Custom That Has Become General. Why do men give dinners to other men? And why do still other men en courage those dinners by their pres ence? "You cannot be sure of any man's success until he dies," is an old say ing. If it is necessary, therefore, to give a man a dinner in order to cele brate something that he is supposed to have done why not issue invitations on the morning after his funeral? 'The man himself, if he be a decent man, would undoubtedly prefer to be a guest at any dinner under these circum stances-when he cannot hear what is said about him. You cannot get acquainted with any one at a public dinner evenlif you should desire to do so. The purpos'e at every public dinner Is to - avoid any thing sensible and to clog the'syste with nicotine, alcohol and indigestible food, not to mention bromides. The American people are dinner mad. In view of their obsession, their passion for giving dinners, why not reverse the process and give one to every man who makes a failure? This would increase the number of dinners and would add materially to the gen eral foolishness.-Exchang'e.I His Weight. A certain retired. tradesman admits that- he is "a very poor judge of a good horse," while the local blacksmith claims to be "a good judge of a bad one." And in this connection an amus ing story is being told at the expense of the former. He had bonaght a very old horse ver~y cheap, and took the animal down to the blacksmith to be shod. "Bow many shoes am I to put on?" asked the blacksmith, critically sur veying the antiquated steed. . "Oh, four," said the owner; adding, doubtfully. "if he's worth 'em." The blacksmith put two shoes on and then stopped. --Mind you," he explained to the proud owner of the "equine wreck, "I'm not saying as your 'oss isn't worth another couple o' shoes, but I'mn quite certain as he's got as many as he can carry away." Chinese a Peaceful Race. The prevailing spirit of China is a peaceful spirit. Though having con quered in many wars, China does not look upon itself as a warring nation. Its pride is in its scholars and its sages.. It has always put the scholar first in the social scale as the molder af the ideals of the people; the farmer second in a social scale as the pre server of the necessities of the physi al life; the soldier lowest in the so rial scale because, as the Chinese say, he is a taker of life. The Chinese say it is idiony to kill a man because you bhave a difference of opinion with him, for to kill him settles nothing. The enius of the Chinese race is for peace. [n a quarrel they get toggther through middleman, a peacemaker. Each con edes somsthing, and an agreement is arrived at. . Cails Not Professional. "How much does that stylish doctor of yours charge?" "Two dollars a visit." "Gee! How often has he called at your house this mo'nth?" "Twenty times." "Gosh! You owe him forty dollars No: cuily two dollars. He's made the other nineteen calls trying to col ect it." SORE. GREAT WR(TER IM HIVAL "g Elizabethan Age Memorable for it s Drama Without Shakespear, Scholat" Sas. The score f: bgsy playwrights who preceded Shakespeare and' Pre the ground wflr elgerife nts in wh1501 be was to- trintapli, have been viewed b'y Prof. Felix Sche1(Ip& of the English departmkent of the versity of Pennsylvania: Doctor Sclielling's lectirea .w "Shakespeare's Competitors Drama." . M "For, had Shakespeare's d untimely like that of Marto tor Schelling 'said, "we mi Lion his' primacy. Had never lived, his age wo.tld been memorable in the. drana group of playwrights of e stature-a group in which tle names can easily match our Barries or Pi:.crds." o= compared th2 moder .-.o.lem ists unfavorably w:h those of past. Doctor -Schelling expressed that it has been the habit pgf theold er scholarship "to disregard the en vironment of Shakespeare and'to neg lect the lesser lugiinaries mko sur round him." He said, in p4rt: "Shakespeare is not. the inve tor o Elizabethan drama. He -did not tnd - his dramatic London brieg and.leae it marble. Shakespeare added single new form to the variety t . ' already flourished on the stage: "We have to~aeal with .the goup Of writers known to ever'y schoo Book as the predecessors of Shakespeasre Lyly, Peele, Greene, -Loge, %yd, Nash and Marlowe. "Among the conpetitors of Shakes peare none was' so important as Bea Jonson." LIFE BETTER AND BRGADER Recent Years Have Seen .a Vast in. proyemeht in Conditions Under Which We All Live. The spirit of democracy, states Prof. Jamejs Q. Dealey in'Case and Comment;implies a kindlier and more :Y sympathetic religibn and higher stand ards inamoral life. This is shown lby the growing kumazitarianism of re igion, and the rise of nimerous' agn cies fpr the a1i4vIation and banish ment of human snidrigg" Crininal codes are becoming iumine, ditles are. vigorously pushing' the liettefient of vicious conditions is, social ljfe,.and labor organizations countenaced 4y the state are working earnestly for the social and, eeondile fapiovement of their members. Intellectual dev lopment, freied from the incubus of dgirais, has broadgned out into an attempt to uf.- : .derstard the whole' , ghroth its aciievementa-m scieace 'as blade. modern civilization' pogress 'y.1eas and' bdunds. The siti ' ad the esthetic 'side of life' he been deep ened by a truer'insit Into.Ideals of harmony ahd beauty, dexriv fzoin a wider 'experieice end k owledgeo physical and mental phenomer.. Life for the average rfihas be. - come a happier, broader, and more generous exsteice 'thga' st endured by his fatger's. We realize now the futility of the old belief that geoilness and wisdom are isnate only in the privileged classes. Elephants. Curious Teeth. Whoever has lookekinsi4 an ele phant's mouth -has sedn a strang0 sight. Elephants have noeront teeth, and they never eat Iesh, or any food that requires itearin apart. Eighit teeth are all they have, two above and two below on eaech side, hig yeH~w molars as wide as a man's hand,. Over these hay or fodder is shiftell by the queerest, ~agliest tongtle in thf'wifole animal kingdom,a t'ongue that' is lit erally hung at both ends having no powerk of "movement- ex'eept in the middle, where it shifts baek and forth from the side, arching up against the roof of the big'mouth like an immense wrinkled pink serpest. Elephants, like human lseings, have two sets -of heth.5$h'- milk feeth, whichi are srmaller than the Terma nent molars, fall out when the animals are about fourteen years old. Th'ese baby *eeth-which are, neverthelgss, enormos-arse occasionally pickted up by cit~cus inen"amo'g the fadder 'aid preservedI. as_ curiosities. Power of Love. The poor, weeping woman stood be fore the judge, and tbQe sympathies of the spectators went out to her. She looked muscular, But so misei-able. "You' are charged," said the migis rate stern-ly but kindly, "with aesadlt ing your husband." Gulping'down her sobs, the prisoher wiped away her tears with -a brawny arm and replied sadly: "Ye's, your worship. I only ask-ed the brute if 'he would ever cease to love me, and he''was so loi in an swering that. I hit hirn in the. eye with a breoxm. IPn only a def-enseikss .wom an," she went'on in a broken voiee, "and a woman's l'fe without love is a mere blight?" Saved Room. Merchant-Ilid you-post my letter as I tol'd you, John? John-Yes, sir; but I ho '1 it weighed first, and, as it was double weight, I pt another st-amp on it. Merchant-That's right. Only I hope ou didn't put 'the extr'a stasip on so thar. it would cblitarate the ad'dress. Jhn-I-ndeed, I didn't. sir. . I~just stuck it on top of theo other stamp se