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VOL. XXVII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1916. PREPARE FOR BOLL WEEV!L SAYS GOYS SHADOW OF APPROACHING PEST HAS ALREADY BEEN CAST OVER THE STATE. PALMETTO CAPITOL NEWS General News of South Carolina Col lected and Condensed From The State Capital That Will Prove of Interest to All Our Readers. Columbia. That the shadow of the approaching boll weevil has already been cast over South Carolina and the dread pest will arrive within another year and within three years will overrun the state was the prediction made by Governor Richard I. Manning on his return from a tour of the boll weevil stricken territory of Lousiana, Mississ ippi apd Alabama. The godernor says the farmers and business men of South Carolina must prepare for the weevil or else dire ruin and disaster may re st, t. Those who shut their ears to the warning voice brought from the farm ers of the Mississippi valley may reap the whh-lwind and where today they are living in ease and plently with good lands and good cotton crops they may find themselves with no cotton. their lands worth less than nothing, their labor gone and ruin staring them in the face if they do not prepare. "Prepare! Prepare!" declares the governor of South Carolina fresh from a personal trip through these sections of the cotton belt which have been ravaged by the boll weevil. Here is an instance of what the boll weevil means: In the parish of West Felciana. Louisiana-a parish being a county in 1904 there was produced 22.497 bales of cotton. Three years after the boll weevil invaded that county in 1910 only 31 bales of cotton were rais ed ins.the whole county. Governor Manning visited that stricken spot and saw the conditons himself. In the Parish of East Feliciana. Lousiana, In 1904 35,000 bales of cot ton were grown. This same county last year after the coming of the wee vil raised only 2,830 bales of cotton. Governor Manning and the commis sion to inspect the boll weevil terri tory first stopped at New Orleans. where they were met and entertained by the business men. Thre they stud ied the credit side of the conditions brought about by the ravages of the boll weevil in the cotton districts. The governor talked with John M. Parker, the vice presidential nominee on the Bull Moose ticket, and a promi nent business man of that city. From New Orleans the governor and his party went to Baton Rouge where they met the farmers and business men and talked with them of the boll weevil conditions. Th governor and his com mission visited the territory where the weevil has wrought its worst and in terviewed the farmers and their wives. the merchants and bankers and gath ered first hand information about how to meet the conditons which arise with the coming of the weevil. The governor found that co-opera tion between farmers merchants and bankers enabled the people to adjust themselves to the new conditions and save the country from ruin. The mer chants there, as here, had made ad vances on cotton but the weevils ruin ed cotton. They called in the farmers and told them they would co-operate and either sink or swim together. They made advances and the farmers bought hogs, cattle, put In food crops such a~s potatoes, beans. etc., increas - ed their grain crops and made the cattle business their principal indus try. By- patronizing the creameries they soon got a good steady income from milk. As a result while the volume of business isi smaller it is all cash. the credit system is a thing of the past. Lands which decreased in value when the weevil first came under the new conditions are climbing back to their original prices and the people are thriving on diversified and intensive farming. Lousiana, which has grown 1,031.000 bales of, cotton dropped down low as 245,000 bales in one year but this year will probably raise 400.000 bales. The weevil's ravages are the worst in three years and after that they do not seem to do as much damage but they are always present, once they arrive they cannot be gotten rid of. They lay their eggs in the cotton squares and eat out the bolls. No cotton blooms are. seen after August and the wel years are the ones in which the wee* vils get in their worst work. In one weevil ravaged county in Mississippi the governor found that the farmers had turned to the cattle industry and two creameries were paying at the rate of $18,000 a month, the milk furnishing the one steady source of income for the farmers. "Everywhere the ->eople advise us to keep cool and by no means 1e1 our labor get away from us when the weevil comes," said the governor. He advises the farmers to prepare this fall for the coming of the weevil by economizing, increasing their grail planting, plant more foodstuffs, gel some hogs and cows, plant clover! wherever oossible, and should encour .Eve rybo age the creameris wnerver .ob lished and patronize the packing plant in Orangeburg. He advises them to plant soy beans and velvet beans. - The cotton seed oil mills furnish a ready market for the soy beans. which extract the oil from them, while the velvet beans are ;reat soil builders and make fine feeding for stock. "Above all, hold your labor." is the governor's advice. He does not want the people to become panicky but in sists that they must prepare for the changed conditions of disaster might befall them. Governor Manning picked some of the boll weevils out of the cotton bolls in Lousiana and brought them back with him in alcohol. He plans to make speeches to the farmers over the state on this subject and will have something to say on it in his message to the general assembly. Catawba County Defeated. Catawba county project was defeat ed when the supreme court en bane. by a vtoe of nine to six. upheld an ad verse decision below. based on the act to prevent the formation of illshaped counties. Rock Hill was to have been the county seat. The territory was to have been portions of York. Chester and Fairfield counties. The act was sustained and the in junction affirmed by which Judge Moore forebade further proceedings under the governor's order for a sur vey. The style of the case was: "Septi mus Massey et al. petitioners, respon dents. vs. J. L. Green et al, as com missioners. respondents and appel lants." Eugene B. Gary. chief Jus tice, whote the ruling opinion, in which R. C. Watts. associate justice, concurred with the circuit judges: R. W. Memminger, John S. Wilson. H. F. Rice. I. W. Bowman. T. J. Maul din, Mendel L. Smith, James E. c aeri foy. A dissenting opinion by T. B. Fraser, associate justice. n con curred In by D. E. Hydrick. asso ciate justice, and the following cir cuit judges: George E. Prince, S W. G. Shipp, T. E. Sease. Frank B. G.:y. AROUND THE STATE HCUSE. Gov. Manning has agreed to rec ommend the erection by the state of an institution for the custodial care of the feeble minded. " " " McDuffie Hampton. chairman, and J. P. Darby, secretary of the railroad commission, have returne' from At lanta, where they attended a rate hearing before the Georgia railroad commission. * * * Maj. Frank W. Glen of Columbia: recently papointed property and dis bursing officer for the National Guard of South Carolina .has qualified for his new work. " " " Meeting in the office of James A. Hayne, state health offcer. the state board of health gave consideration to the testimony that members of the board gave at the trial of the case of John M. Graham against the state of South Carolina for $24,300 because the contract for convict labor at the pen itentiary was abolished. The board made an examination of the hosiery mill and it was largely on the findings of the board that the hosiery mill was abolished. H. V. G. Cooley of Williamston, J. C. Cothran of Toney Creek, G. B. Greene of Anderson and J. C. Derieux of Greenville have been t.ppointed by Gov. Manning as commissioners in the matter of the proposed new county of Williamston, to be formed out ,>f parts of Anderson and Greenville counties. * * * J. A. Whatherly has been appointed by Gov. Manning as a rural policeman for Marlboro county, to take the place of E. J. Alsbrook, deceased. * * * Gov. Manning has appointed E. P. Seabrook, Jr.. a member of the board of township commisioner of James Island. Charleston county, to take the place of E. 3. Alsbrook, deceased. The Penny Savings and Loan Com pany of Columbia has been commis uoned with a capital of $10,000 to do a general banking business. The pe titioners are: I. S. Leevl, B. A. Ever ett, H. H. Cooper and John Cornwell. The Beaufort Development com pany has been chartered with a cap ital of $20,000. The officers are: Ru dolph Murdaugh, president; J. S. Wil liams. vice president, and WV. E. Rich ardson, secretary and treasurer. LIQUOR LAW SfANDS TEST Gallon-a-Mouth Act is Confirpied by Decision *of Supreme Court En Banc. Uphold Webb-Kenyon Bill.. Columbia.--The gallon-a-month art the Webb-Kenyon law- are upheld ini decisions of the supreme court en banc just filed. E. J. Bremen of Co lumbia brought an action in the Rich land circuit court to upset the gallon a-month act and on losing there took an appeal. The Webb-Kenyon law was brought into question ini action. brought in Greenwood by the Charles ton & Western Carolina railway against Reuben Gosnell. chief of the county police, and others. The court en banc held that a dis crimination .complained of in the Bennen case did exist under the dis pensary system in force at the thme the suit was begun, but that the state being "dry" now no discrimination existed. In the Gosneli c-ase the court isus taned the right of peace officcrs to seize liquors in transit for unlawful purpose, without awaiting either ac tual or constructive delivery. The shipment in question was shipped 4c Leag iy come out a order notify" n::;d on its bing semiu. the railway sou'ht to recover it un 6:r claim and delivery proceedings. The court's opinion in the Brennen . ase. written by D. E. Hydrick. asso late justice. was concurred in by chief Justice Gary, Associate Justices raser and Gage and Circuit Judges John S. Wilson. H. F. Rice. Nendel L. Smith. Ernest Moore. T. S. Sease, James E. Peurifoy. R. W. Memmin er. Frank B. Gary. A dissenting op inion by R. C. Watts. associate jus tice. was concurred in by Circuit Judes George E. Prince and J. W. Devore. A separate dissenting opin ion was filed by S. W. Shipp. circuit fudge. Chief Justice Gary wrote the ma jority opinion in the Gosnell case. As sociate Justice Gage concurring. with the following circuit judges: Ernest Moore. T. S. Sease. H. F. Rice. I. W. Bowman, F. B. Gary. John S. Wilson, James E. Penrifoy and Mendel L. Smith. A concurring opinion was filed by Associate Justices Hydrick and Fraser. The minutes note dissent thiereto on the part of Associate Jus tice Watts and Circuit Judges George E. Prince. S. W. G. Shipp and J. W. Devore. New Hotel for Gaffney. Gaffney.-Through the efforts of the chamber of commerce and agriculture. Gaffney has recently placed subscrip tions to the amount of $50,000 for a new modern hotel which will be erect ed on a commodious lot near the Southern railway station. At a meeting held in the chamber of commerce one night recently a board of directors was elected as follows: J. N. Lipscomb. president; D. C. Phil lips. vice president; Ed H. DeCamp. secretary; George G. Byers. treasurer. Two Accidents Near Same Spot. Clinton.-Two * accidents occurred within one mile of Dover Junction here about three hours apart. A Sea baord train was wrecked resulting in injury to two passengers and the fire man. Three hours later a train on the Columbia. Newberry & Laurens line struck an automobile containing nine passengers. One occupant of the car is believed to have been fatally in jured. The accidents occurred al most at the same spot. Jonesville Baptists to Build. Jonesville.-The congregation of the Jonesville Baptist church recently de cided to build a new house of worsnip. There was not a dissenting vote when the question was presented in confer ence. Immediately a larg amount of the money was subscribed. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS. Governor Manning attended the convention of the Episcopal church at St. Louis last week. He was accon panied on the trip by Mrs. Manning. J. E. Swearingen. state superinten dent of education. was in Anderson last week to attend an educational meeting. A case of infantile paralysis has been reported to the state board of health from Bennettsville. The dates have been fixed and defi nitely decided upon, and next month November 20. 21. 22, 23. 24. 25 will see the Red Rose county enthusiastically holding its third annual fair. A charter has been issued to the Carolina Auto Top Co. of Columbia, with a capital of $5,000. Cherokee county feels fortunate that Lueco Gunter,. state supervisor of rural schools, has promised to vist the county again this year and spend a week, beginning November 14. Whether South Carolina shall sue to enforce rights the state may have in the Columbia canal is a question which will be left to the general as sebly. Coy. Manning and the at torney general, Thomas H. Peeples, have decided that this is the best MEXIANS IN LlASH~ WIHU. S.8SOLDIERS~ AMERCAN AND MEXICANS EX-1 CHANGE SHOTS NEAR SAN JOSE ON R|O GRANDE. IN A 45-MINUTE ENCOUNTER Firing Skirmish Formation From Coy ered Positions in Big Bend County. No Casualties Are Reported.-\\ill Investigate. San Antonio. Tex.-American troops and Mexicans clashed near' San Jose in the' Big Bend country. according to a report received by General Funston from Col. Joseph G;aston, commander of tihe district. 'rie fight lasted for 45 minutes. No losses were suffered by the Americans and information is lacking regarding loss among the Mexicans. C'olonel Gaston's report said that a band of about 30 Mexicans opened fire on a detachment composed of 23 aen of the Sixth Cavalry and Texas National Guard Cavalry squadron en gaged in patrol duty between Pr-esi dio and Ruidosa. Lieutenant Gud ington, of the Texas squadron, comn maning the troops, ordered his men to return the fire. A vigorous exchange of shots con tinued for a period of 45 minutes. the Americans and Mexicans firing in skirmish formation from covered po sitions on either side of the Rio ue Fash nd see the di Grande. Information from Colonel Gaston did not indicate that the United States tro- - - crossed in pur suit of the Mexicans. After the fight Lieutenant Cudington returned to Ruidosa with his command. Whether the Mexicans were de facto Government troops or members of a bandit band was not know by General Funston. COMPANY OWNING BREMEN REGARDS SUBMARINE LOST. Great Anxiety Prevails Among Fami lies of Crew-Difficulty in Obtaining Sailors For Other Vessels Feared. London.-An Exchange Telegraph Company dispatch from Amsterdam says a telegraph received there from Bremen confirms the report that the German Ocean Navigation Company has received no news from the com mercial submarine Bremen and that she is regarded as lost. Great anxiety prevails among the families of the crew virtually all of whom reside in Bremen and it is ex pected difficulty will be experienced in obtaining crews for other com mercial submarines which may un dertake trans-Atlantic voyages. According to this information the sailing of the Deutschland on another voyage across the Atlantic has been cancelled. Baltimore.-Paul G. L. Hilken, Am erican manager of the company own ing the German submmarines, admit ted that the Bremen was a month overdue, that he feared an' accident had happened to her machinery and that she had been lost with all her crew. PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR U. C. V. REUNION BEGUN. Washington.-Preliminary plans for the 1917 reunion of the United Con federate Veterans-their first gather iug in Washington-were discussed here at a meeting of the finance com mittee of the general reunion commit tee. The exact date for the gat! cg has not been determined, but mem bers of the committee said it probably would be held in May or June, the plans being to have the entertainment of the veterans spread over a week, with excursions to Gettysburg and other nearby battlefields. 4 KILLED, 1 NEAR DEATH, AS TRAIN STRIKES AUTO. Altoona, Pa.-A woman and three girls were instantly killed here and the woman's son probably fatally in jured when a Pennsylvania Railroad train struck an automobile in which they were riding. EDISON GETS DOCTOR'S DEGREE BY TELEPHONE. Albany, N. Y.-A degree of doctor of laws was conferied upon Thomas A. Edison over the telephone by Dr. John H. Finley, president of the Uni versity of the state of New York. Mr. Edison was in his laboratory at Orange, N. J., while Dr. Finley was in the auditorium of the New York Educational Building here. Eight hundred 'persons, using as many tele phones. heard Dr. Finley confer the degree and Mr. Edison accept The secretary of state has issued a commission to the Flash Chemical Company of Greenville with a capital. of $1,000. The petitioners are: A. M. Rickham. M. C. Westervelt and E. G. Fowler. The Swannanoa Company of Colum bit has been chartered with a capital of $3,000. The officers are: T. F. Dial. president.,and O. P. Loyal, vice president. secretary and treasurer. The secretary of state has issued a commission to the Home Building a'id Loan A nocciation of Union with a minimum. capital of $10.000 and a maxmum capital at $1,000, 000 ASTRIAN PREMIE DIS ASSASSINATED D.FRIEDRICH ADLER, SUPER RADICAL SOCIALIST KILLED COUNT STUERGKH. POLITICS WAS THE CAUSE Shot When He Refused to Convenle Parlament-Special Meeting of Cabinet Held After Killing-Adler Was Newspaper Man. Vienna. via Berli n.-The Austrian preier, Count Stue-rgkh, who was as msisnatedi. while at dinner by Arthur Adler. a publisher, was shot three tie,:. (Count Stuergkh was diining at a hotel when the eublisher attacked ia. Three shot. weore fired, all of which took effect, the premier dying instantly. The assassination of the Austrian premier. Couat Karl Stuergkh. was ptrely political anil was induced by his refusal to convene parliament. ac cording to the admission of Dr. Fried ich Adler. hiis assailant, shortly after his arrest. Dr. Adler is an eccentric and su~er-radcal Socialist sometimes kown as the "Liebknecht of Aus tria." Hie is editor of Deer Kempf At first he declined to r-eveal his mo tives but after being locked up he broke down and declared the Prem iers political policies had led him to ion Shc spays made do the Geea. Doctor Adler's arrest was not ac complished without the wounding of two men who leaped at him after he had fired on Count-Stuergkh. He dis charged the two remaining chambers of his revolver at these men kefore Austrian and German officers, with drawn rabres ,overpowered him. Count Stuergkh was at luncheon with Baron Aehrenthal, Count Tog genburg, Governor of the Tyrol, and two others when a man unknown to the Premier arrived and took a seat three tables away. He ate luncheon and paid for the meal and lingered at the table. Shortly after 3 o'clock the man arose, advanced quickly toward the Premier and fired three shots. The first missed. The next two struck the- Premier in the head. Without a word, Count Stuergkh fell back life less in his chair. Baron Aehrenthal sprang toward Adler. The head waiter ran up from behind the as sassin and grasped the hand that held the revolver. 221 DROWNED AS STEAMER GOES DOWN IN LAKE ERIE. Wreck Reveaied When Captain, Sole Survivor, Is Picked Up Off Life Raft. Cleveland, 0.-Twenty-one members of the crew of the steamer James B. Colgate were drowned in Lake Erie when the Colgate bound from Buffalo to Fort William, Ont., with coal, went down in a storm off Erie, Pennsyl vania. The tragedy became known when Capt. Walter Grashaw of Cleve land, sole survivor, was picked up by a car ferry and taken to Conneaut, Ohio, after being afloat 24 hours on a life raft. Captain Grashaw, who was master of the Colgate for only two weeks, became unconscious soon after being picked up but was able to tell part of the story of the disaster. Nineteen of the crew, he said, were drowned when the big whale back vessel founded and two others, Sec ond Engineer Harry Ossman of Cleve land and an unnamed coal passer, were washed from the life raft after exposure and exhaustion had render ed them helpless. EARTH SHOCKS FELT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Fresno, Cal.-According to reports received here two earth shocks that were felt throughout southern Califor nia were severe at Barkersfield and in the oil fields in that district. Power lines between Bakersfield and Los Angeles were said to have been damaged and it was reported that a Santa Fe Railroad ticket of fice at Tehachapi was wrecked. LLOYDS ANNOUNCE LOSS OF 3 LIVES AND 5 SHIPS. London.-The sinking of five steam ships, two British and three of neu tral nationality. with the loss of at least eight lives, is announced by Lloyds. The British steamers sunk were the Huguenot of Newcastle, and the Marchioness, of Glasgow. The crews of both steamers are reported to have been landed. The neutral steamers sunk are the Athens and Haudrot, of Norwegian registry, and the Swedish steamer Alfhild. FRE INSRANE AGENTSCONFER UTLINE REMEDIAL LEGISLATION THEY WILL SEEK WHEN AS SEMBLY MEETS. McMASTER IS CONSULTED Proposals Will Be Laid Before Gove& nor Manning During the Weeke Details Are WIthheld. Columbia.-Recommendations look ing to legislation remedial of the fire insurance trouble in South Carolina -were adopted at an executive session held by 50 "full time" fire insurance agents. A committee from the meet ing of thd agents conferred with F. H. McMaster ,insurance commissioner, and he approved the recommendations. The resolutions as adopted will be presented to Gov. Manning, when he returns from St. Louis for considera tion. The plan for legislation will be sent to the legislature for action by the agents. L. M. Pinckney of Charleston, Au gust Kohn of -Columbia, Sam M. Grist of York,. James H. Frazer of George town and A. G. Furman of Greenville were named as m'embers of a special committee to present the recommen dations of the committee to Gov. Man ning. Practically all agents attending the conference will return to Colum bia for the hearing before the gov "The meeting was very represen tative" said a member of the con ference. "Between 45 and 50 'full time' fire insurance agents were pres ent. It was not an 'experience meet ig,' but was called for the purpose of formulating some definite plan looking to the passage of remedial legislation by the general assembly. The recommendations were laid be fore Insurance Comsmissionier McMas ter and he indorsed them. We dis cussed the manner in which we should go about getting satisfactory legisla by the busin n. hen the cnera: assemy .1nes we will have something definite to propose." L. M. Pinckney of Charleston acted as chairman of the conference. H. G. O'Neall of Charleston was elected secretary. Among the agents attending the session were: D. B. Henderson of Charleston, A. G. Furman of Green ville, James A. Cathcart of Columbia, J. R. League of North Augusta, Wil 11am Goldsmith of Greenville, Sam M. Grist of York, A. S. Gaillard of Co lumbia, W. D. McCain of Anderson. John Laird of Aiken, H. R. Deal of Columbia. A. W. Fogle of fColumbia. W. D. Smith of Orangeburg, L. S. Trotti of Brookland, August Kohn of Columbia, J. D. Dail of Columbia, F. M. Robertson of Charleston, George L. Dail of Columbia, J. T. Reese of Columbia, E. B. Shelby of Charlotte, L. M. Pinckney of Charleston, H. G. O'Neal of Charleston, H. Moses, D. M. Dick, Waldo Welch,. R. S. Hood, G. E. Henderson, all of Sumter; L. S. Geer. J. S. Foye, Ellison Capers of St. Mat thews, J. H. Frazer of Georgetown, George Bogle of McColl and Perry Moses of Sumter. Suffrage League Adjourns. Charleston.-Josiah Morse of the University of South Carolina address ed the concluding meeting of the state suffrage league covention at the Y. M. C. A. Judge M. L. Smith was unable to be present and sent his regrets. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Harriette Lynch, Cheraw, presi dent; Mrs. John Gary Evens, Spartan burg, vice president; Mrs. Henry Mar tin, Columbia, recording secretary; iss Susan P. Frost, Charleston, treas urer; Mrs. J. B. Salley, Aiken, auditor. Orangeburg to Have Creamery. Orangeburg. - The committee in charge of raising stock for the Orangeburg creamery, was out a while recently calling upon the business men of Orangeburg and the necessary stock was subscribed in lesssthan two hours. The Orangeburg creamery will have an authorized capital stock of $5,000. Rebuild Old State Road. Orangeburg.-Work has started to rebuild the old state road into a high way. This will be the highway be tween Charleston and Columbia, and is the route that Is receiving much publicity of late. The work of re building this highway in Orange burg and Berkeley counties is be ing superintended by John B. Wig gins of Holly Hill, who is an enthu siastic worker and promoter of this highway. A lot of free labor is being donated by farmers who live along this road. GOT PRIZED STOVE ESKIMO EARNED POSSESSION DEAREST TO HIS HEART. Big Steel Ship's Range Subject of His Adoration-His Igloo Now Easily the Warmest in All the Terri tory of Alaska. Penaski was an old Eskimo who ruled in feudal fashion a little settle ment about 30 miles away, between our winter quarters and Port Clarence. He had a wild yearning to possess our stove. It was a big steel ship's range that weighed 400 pounds, which, by in finite labor, we had brought up the Cruz-ga-ma-pa river by flatboat. When you consider that the Eskimo gets along with one fire a day in the middle of the dirt floor of his hut, the smoke of which goes out through a hole in the roof, and the rest of the time relies on hermetic sealing and animal heat, you will see that it was a noble and worthy desire. Further more, Penaski knew an Eskimo down the coast toward Nome who boasted of owning a little cast iron heater ; he wanted to outshine that fellow. Penaski was rich according to his own standards. He~ had a home-made still made of a coal-oil can and a gun barrel, in which he made "tunguk" from a mash of flour or rice. That he sold to his neighbors at a large profit. He had four wives, a good dog team and plenty of furs and fish. When the end of winter drew near the stove became an embarrassment to us. Our claims lay 60 miles iarther inland, and it was hard to get provi sions in to them. If we carried our big range over we might not be able to take anything to cook on it. We ap proached Pennski Ca the matter. After some negotiation he agreed to earn the stove by transporting seven loads of provisions over the divide by dog Bright and early the next morning there wvas a howling of dogs and a chatter of voices, and into our camp came all the inhabitants and dogs of the little village. They loaded up and started, 50 poundas to the dog. The trip was a weary one to me, but to the Eskimos, gorg'ng on our grub, it wa a glorious pienic. They would travel only as fast as I would. lead. Th' slowver we went the better they likeu it. We bad to break trail by slowsh'aes, and I l d the wvay. By the second night I was worn out. So was Pennski; but at every stop he wud comie up and start an eager jar gon, Ile would hold his hands five feet apart. I would nod. Then he wo~ld jindiate the height and breadth of the' stove with his hands. I would reassure himi, and he would start off with fresh vigor. The third day was like a nightmare to me. I was dazed with fatigue. Ev ery time we stopped to rest I threw upsef domnon a sleda nipnothiJ 'sayNi, ss houses, ROi BAKING I Absolute No Alum-N hearing nothing, knowing notliing. E ery time we started again I moved stif fly, like an automaton. About midday we reached our goal, unloaded and started back. We returned light and quickly. On the fourth day we pulled into camp in the half light of midnight. Pehaski demanded instant payment. We dumped the fire into the snow and de livered the goods. The Eskimo lashed two sleds together, hitched on all the dogs, loaded on the hot stove and started off, howling and shouting, for their village, 30 miles away. The last we saw of our mammoth cooker it was taking a flying leap down a ten-foot bank, and dragging all the Elkimos with it. Alaska Joe was over that way the next winter. He told me that Penas ki's Igloo Is the warmest in all Alaska, and that the Eskimo sits day and night with his aged limbs crossed and his rheumy eyes half shut, adoring his stove.-Chicago News. Desert Cisterns. Perhaps nothing could better illus trate the difficult nature of Persia as regards military operations than the knowledge of the extreme measures that have to be adopted for the con servation of water over a large 'part of the region in which the Turks, Russians and even a considerable por-'] tion of Persians are now in conflict. I The Caspian watershed of Persia Is fairly well watered and wooded, but I all the region south of about the lati- 4 tude of Teheran-the central and southern zones-are almost absolute desert, the largest cities being near I the base of the mountains, where the o rivers have not had time to be ab sorbed in the burning sands. At other points there are occasional wells and I springs, but the principal sources of i water in these desert regions are the I strange cisterns. Stone conduits carry water from the mountains to the cisterns on the des- I ert plains.-Popular Science Monthly. The Swiss Post Office. .1 The Swiss post office saves its old stamps, and this month it offers 10,- 1 000 used copies of the current high I value Swiss stamps, 3, 5, and 10 I francs, for sale. Last year a similar offer to the trade was realized. The I three denominations are offered at I 10d per stamp in what is styled "first I quality," and 7d per stamp in the see ond quality, or 2s 6d and 1s 8d the i set of three. The first quality stamps were only used on dockets, etc., which never left the post office; while the i second kind were used in the mails. I The stamps are only supplied to the I Swiss dealers, but British dealers can obtain them from the Swiss trade at j a small com'missioni of these prices.. Advocates of Catawba county, pro posed to be formed out of parts of York, Chester and Fairfield counties, iil carry their fight to the general1 assembly, according to R. H. Welch, attorney, who represented the move ment In the recent test suit. The legislature will be asked to repeal the "shoestring county" act which was enacted at the 1912 session of the1 legislature. The state board of education A-' journed after a two days' session when appeals from the decision relative to scholarships in state Institutions were heard. Routine matters were discus red.1 INFANTILFE PARALYSIS IS STILL DISEASE MYSTERY. Milwaukee, Wis.-Infantile paraly sis still remains a mysterious disease to the medical profession, particularly as to its origin and to a great degree In Its transmission, according to med ical men who discussed the subject at a meeting of the American Associa tion for Study and Prevention of In fant Mortality. Dr. Wade H. Frost, past t~edstant surgeon ~of the Unitea States Height Service, was the prin cipal speakers. CARRANZA'S WIFE AND DAUGHTERS VISIT U. S. Laredo. Tex.-Mrs. Dona Virginia Carraza, wife of General Carranza, accompanied by her two daughters, and M~rs. Alvaro Obregon, wife of the de facto government's minister of war, arrived at Nuevo Laredo on a special train. The party left for San Antonio. Alonzo B. Garrett, United States Con sul at. Neuvo Laredo, has been in structed by the State Department to show the party every courtesy. Charleston Jury Frees Cantwell. Charleston. - James R. Cantwell, former chief of police of Charleston, tried In'the court of general sessions on a charge of assaulting Henry J. Brown with intent to kill, was found not guilty by the-jury, which was out1 about half an hour. and as Solicitor Henry nol prossed the case. on a sum iar charge, against F. E. Lafourcade, the last of the election trials in the1 circuit court was disposed of in the1 Cantell occuiitta1- The charge against Cantvwell grcw out of the com mittee room shootinlg last October. I ght, No~ Ld hear goo rAL "OWD o Phosphate fCENZA OF IMPORTANCE TIME OF THE ROMANS. Its Achiecements in . ans ond to Its.ArchiteaUral flora: -Once Capital of a Loi bard, Duchy. Closely amassed on both bah' t the small Bacehiglione river Vi ea y with an urban .populationU o35'OOO has been an important town o an Italy since the early Roman;.n then it was known as Vicetia. ot played a thrilling roleinflrn history, however, but Is-noted or its architectural splendorth ts achievements in'arms. The surrounding plain, whose u iriant mulberry trees, wit th armies of silk worms, so-soon D38Y upplanted by the cypress fronds v sorrow over countless soldiers g5cii" xtend to the north through Te a a d Schio, tr--manufacturg to n the Leogra valley, aind to:the:easy s is far as Venice, 40 miles sLxteen miles to the west, beyond 3erici mountains, lies- veOfl ts many Shakespeareanass eoutiful villas and blossog ire a feature of this - landscape nO vercast with,the shadow of: nva4 wustrian-s. Vicenza' s share 4n the b]stor ng of the early iniddle ages was ,apital of a Lombard duchy It c i e rne of the cities which fnnd'h~ ombard league in the twelfth z ury, opposing Frederick Barb Luring the several campaigns whe ; .e attempted to re-etablish the es ern empire on a Chnarlemas n 1236 the city, was stor ~V aged by the Sicilian emperor 'rick II, a catastrophe wbbic hn aabitants were able to beat: taore quanimity after this rulr' over rheling defeat before the arma, when his imperial )laced in mockery on .the he& munchback beggar, who.was 'triumphal' entry" into ? own. Early in the fourteezit 5e ury Vicenza asserted and sm ndependence from Padua,but - Ired years later it came n tensive sway of Venice. The most distinguished nab"=ires ricenza's hall of fame Is that .f ones f the greatest architects of the:tal an renaissance, Andrea. Palladlo;h roke away from the excessir , rnate style of his cnepSiS nd turned, perhaps, tooreeftY-f be simple, stately standards ncent Rome. His handiwork is pre mninently doeminant in his birthplace, - o much so, in fact, that I famnous amercn novelist has :comp1Aine hat "the cold hand of that fflendME~ rirtuos poverty in architectue 1le menvy upon his native. city." Oeo e most Interesting; structures~te ;igned by him is the Immense O1 BjiCo beater, modeled -after uthe aucient heaters, and dedicated in 1584. Another great artist of VicenzaWa a~ he precocious peasant boy atgm rho left his flock of sheepat )f eleven in order to becomie a.~~t ainter under the panronage o snique Squarcione, a -tailor- famos )th as art connoisseur and teaci 'le stiffness of Mantegna's draperies s said to be accounted .for by bis ustom 'of drawing from models clhd n paper or in gummned faprics. As. n -engraver Mantegna's fame is as lured by his, plate, entitled "Entomb rent," said to have had a greater in luence on art than any other ever ex meuted, for its cornposition was dopted by Raphael, Holbeih an: . Black Cat in Four Wreeks. - One closed Northern Pacifiefreigit' ear, in wlfich a black cat -was locked it Auburn, was held responsible- a few fays 'ago for four accidents. The train had two derailments on the west Bide of the mountains, the same car iguring in both. he ill-omened car jumped the rails In the Roza canyon and spilled a ship-~ ment of flour and automchiles. After passing this city it caused another - wreck i the lower valley. - When the car was opened at Pasco the cat !eapcd out and disappeared, and no mops trouble was en'countered.-, North Yakima (Wash.) Dispatch t. ortland Orcgo-nian. -- - nate for Road Building. E. . Watson, commissioner .of -agrl uture, has invited every county sn ervisor in the state to witness the lemonstratini Cf the use of dyna mit . a stump excavator and cana? digger ,o be given in connection -with the 'e-. bia~lltationl of the old state read fro 'lumbia to Charlestonl. In th er s -e of the work to be don n th o ad the United Sta"-a enginer: to- d at there wee thousands of tum o be rsOcCed an:d tw;o main "anas > be dug for the drainage of pri.-cipal - -ram2. ci111siC.