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soils APPROVE MANY MEASURES LARGE NUMBER OF LOCAL MEASURES AND A FEW STATEWIDE APPROVED. BOTH HOUSES ARE BUSY Revenue Act is Being Beaten Into , Shape and Fnai Vote is Expected Seen ? Many Changes Made. Columbia. ? Both houses of the general assembly are showing speed and numerous measures are being eliminated either by ratification or the striking out of the enacting words. Only a few of the statewide measures have been disposed of but action is expected very soon . Bills providing for a revision of the code of the government of dental surgery, requiring the Southern Bell Telephone company to reduce its rates, for the teaching of fire prevention in the public schools, and permitting Clemson college to borrow $150, 000, were approved by the house and ? sent to the senate. The Sapp resolution, providing for a constitutional amendment placing in the jurisdiction of the general assembly the establishment of a system of raising an equitable revenue unanimously was passed to third reading. Bills provid)ng a schedule of auction fees for the disposal of tobacco, placing trees, plants and bulbs for propagation purposes under the state pest commission, and providing a system of reporting for paroled convicts were introduced. On a compromise, the senate bringing tc a close the most heated and prolonged debate to the present session of the assembly, passed the Miller bill revamping the present railroad commission, increasing its personnel frcrm three members elected by the people to seven members elected by the general assembly, one from each congressional district. The bill would have been rejected had the author not submitted to the three elective members remaining in office, with Frank W. Shealy, of Lexington, as chairman. at their present salaries. Should the bill pass the house four members of the commission will be elected by the legislature this year on a per diem basis. The telephone bill, which was introduced by Representative M. C. Foster, of Spartanburg, was given its , third reading and sent to the senate without opposition, having come through unscathed the fire of opponents 'debate on second reading. This measure, which provides that the telephone rates which were in force t throughout the state January 1. 1921, shall be the maximum charges to be asked in the state, would reduce telephone rates approximately 20 per cent, according to Mr. Foster. The tax resolution, fathered by Sen ator M. P. Wells ot Edgefield, was also sent to the senate despite me opposition of Representative Belser, the only record vote on the measure showing a majority of 49 to 41 in favor of the resolution. The house amended the resolution in minor details on second reading and therefore its final passage sends it hack to the senate for action on these amendments. The bill is imperfect in its present form on account of an error in its title and the senate is therefore expected to refuse concurrence in the house amendments so as to throw the resolution into free conference where these errors can he corrected. The Pickens and Anderson delegations' measure to require the clerks of cqurts of the various counties in the state to issue and collect for motor vehicle licenses and to empower the county authorities to retain 85 per cent of the moneys so collected was committed to the ways and means committee, which now has under con sideration a bill to accomplish much the same end. The motion to commit the bill was made by Representative O. A. Hydrick of Orangeburg. A divided majority unfavorable report was made on the bill establishing a board of examiners for chiropractors. The joint resolution to provide for loans to Clemson college was also passed on third reading and sent to the senate with minor amendments. The unamended bill has already pass^ ed the senate. The Sapp bill to provide for the creation of a board of engineering ex| amincrs was ordered recommitted to the judiciary committee for amendments The bill as originally framed received a majority unfavorable report from the committee, but with the j amendments to be proposed it is expected to receive the unanimously favorable report of the committee. Favorable committee reports were made on the Leopold bill, placing a , license of $50 a day on cotton and stock exchanges; on the tax luxuries; requiring executors to enter into bonds the same as administrators, and giving priority to artisan's liens for boring and equipping wells. Unfavorable reports were made on the bill allowing graduates of the CharI--A - II 1 ..?ll/v?,v 11/mnoA ,..U U?..l lesiuil .1:*;UH(1I cunrnc mcuor miuuiu standing the state medical examination. and 011 the bill making insur anee polit ies incontestible after two years. Tax Money Slow. State taxes are not coming in at a desirable rate and the machinery i Table to be dogged and with the indications strongly pointing to an extension of time, little hope for a ? s-needing up of taxes is held out by S T. Carter, state treasurer. South Carolina has several eoodv'zed notes coming d ie during Feb ri'.arv and a lot of money will bo needed to meet these obligations. Some $4,000,000 was borrowed in 1921 ;>*vl a large part is yet to be paid. More borrowing may be needed. The Sapp resolution, which is identical with the similar measure now before the senate, would provide for the amendment of the stale constitution so as to empower the general assembly to establish a "just and equitable system of raising public revenue." This amendment, which will be submittc-d to the qualified electors of the state at the coming general elec- j tion, should the resolution pass both | houses, would empower the legisla- j ture to vary the tax rate upon different ! classes of property taxed. The reso- ! lution had hitherto been held up on < the calendar on the objection of Representative L. C. Wannamaker of Cheraw. Mr. Wannamaker withdrew his objection and the measure was passed without further opposition. rnu ~ TK.okAA.UiKlQr flontol nrqftirfl 1 11U DUauCCUJUlU uvuiui |/>MV%.VV I bill was also passed on third reading and sent to the senate. This measure would continue in existence the board of medical examiners, but carries various changes in the present laws governing the practice of dentistry in the state. It would allow a dentist to quit the practive of dentistry in the state upon notification to the hoard of examiners and would not provide for the cancellation of licenses if ihe holders fail to practice for a period of 18 j months as under the law now in force. The bill would also require that applicants for admission to the practice of dentistry in the state pre- ; sent uncontestable evidence of their I identity before they will be allowed to stand the examination. The act to require tobacco warehouses to pay an annual license of j $5,000 if they handle or sell ungraded and untied tobacco was among those ratified. This $5,000 is said to be j practically prohibitory. The fines I would go to the county school funds. | Penalties of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000 and not less than six months or more than one year are provided in the act. Senator Lightsey's bank slander measure, providing for punishment of ail persons who circulate false state-1 ments in regards to the solvency of1 any bank, was also ratified. If any person so circulates an oral statement, ! wilfully and with intent to injure, if convicted, the punishment will be not less than $100 or more than $500 or not more than cne year in prison. Senator Williams' measure to appor- j tion fines imposed by mayors, magis-1 trates, intendants, etc., where part of the sentence has been imposed was j ratified. This act provides that if a j prisoner has served part of his or her -1 J ^ nnt, tKa fin o ! lime awi iaeu wains iu yaj uic nuv, that a proportionate part of the fine shall be reduced. The bill to permit graduates of the Funnan university law school to be ; licensed for the practice of law in | the state without examination before ! the state board of law examiners, was recommitted to the judiciary committee upon the motion of J. R. Bryson, of Greenville, the author of the meas- ! ure. The University of South Carolina law school, the only state law school, | is at present the only institution so j favOed by the state, applicants from all i her law schools being required to stand the regular examination. Mr. Bryson proposes to amend his bill to provide for the admission without : examination of the graduates of all accredited law schools, approved by the state board of law examiners. R. I. McDavid. of Greenville county, is the author of a bill to provide that j insurance policies shall be incontestable after they have been in force two years. Under the provisions of ; this measure policies, when they have been in force two years, can be cancelled only when some of the provisions of the policy are violated or the premiums not paid. The bill was referred to the committee on banking and insurance. Representatives Hydrick. Glenn and Kennedy are the authors of a bill to repeal the present military code of j the state. The bill was referred to the committee on military affairs. I WO IKCW 1/nanci a. The Carolina Piggly Store, of Green- j wood, was chartered by the secretary ; of state with a capital stock of $60,000. Officers are: A. W. Allison, president; N. S. Allison, vice-president; J R. O. Fochall, secretary and treasurer. The Weiner Construction company of Charleston was chartered with a capital stock of $5,000. Officers are: E. P. Weiner, president; Judah Weiner, vice president; Ila Weiner, treasurer; Archibald Weiner, secretary. Cooper Names Tax Commissioner. Governor Cooper appointed J. F razier Lyon, of Columbia, former attorney general of the state, as a member of the South Carolina tax commission to succeed A. W. Jones, its chairman. whose term of office expired. Chairman Jones, with the other two members, W. G. Query, of Spar- i tanburg, and J. P. Durham, of Con way. have constituted the personnel of the commission since it was established by an act of the general i assembly in 1915. Williams Gets Third Reprieve. Abram Williams. 55-year-old negro, i convicted in October of attempted ; criminal assault on a young white girl of Orangeburg and sentenced to death, was reprieved for the third time. Sentenced to die in the electric J chair Friday, the governor today ordered that the sentence be reprieved until April 7. The negro was convicted in October and sentenced to die October 2S. The i sentence was deferred to December 4, and then to February 3. Parole for Martin. Stepney Martin, convicted of violat- i ing the prohibition laws in Georgetown county in March of 1921 and sentenced j to serve IS months, was paroled dur- I ing his good behavior by the governor. Martin has served 10 months of his sentence, it was said at the governor's office. Judge Memminger who heard the j case and imposed the sentence, stren- ! uously objected to any parole or reduction of the sentence Ho wrote that lie thought th? sentence was just ana should he enforced. 111... 11 N 1111) i 11111111111 i 111111 n ii in: 111 ii 111 | By ^lillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllll HIS FIRST LOVE. Synopsis.?With his grandfather, small Ramsey Mllholland is watching1 the "Decoration Day Parade" In the home town. The old gentleman, a \eteran of the Civil war, endeavors to impress the youngster with the significance of the great conflict, and many years afterward the boy was to remember his words with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a few years afterward. Ramsey is not distinguished for remarkable ability, though his pronounced dislikes are arithmetic, "Recitations" and German In shorn rnntrast to Ram fev's backwardness is the precocity of little Dora Yocum, a young lady whom In his bitterness he denominates "Teacher's Pet." In high sciiool, where he and Dora are classmates, Ramsey continues to feel that the girl delights to manifest her superiority, and the vindlctiveness he generates becomes alarming, culminating In the resolution that some day he will "show" her. At a class picnic Ramsey, to his embarrassment, appears to attract the favorable attention of Miss Milla Rust, a young lady of about his own age and the acknowledged belie of the class. i> :Q CHAPTER IV.?Continued. * "I don't see It," lie murmured husktly, afraid that she might remove her hand. "I can't see any fish, Milla." She leaned farther out over the bank. "Why, there, goosie!" site whispered. "Itight there." "I can't see it." She leaned still further, bending down to point. "Why, right th?" At rliis moment she removed her hand from his shoulder, though unwillingly. She clutched nt him, in fact, bat without avail. She had been too amiable. A loud shriek was uttered by throats abler to vocalize, Just then, than Milla's, for in her great surprise she said nothing whatever?the shriek came from the other girls as Milla left the crest of the overhanging bank and almost horizontally disappeared Into the brown water. There was a tumultuous splash, and then of Milla Itust and her wellknown beautlfulness there was nothing visible In the superficial world, nor upon the surface of that creek. The vanishment was total. "Save her!" Several girls afterward admitted having used this expression, and little Miss Floy Williams, the youngest and smallest member of the class, was unable to deny that she had said, "Oh, God!" Nothing could have been more natural, and the matter need not have been brought before her with such Insistence and frequency, during the two remaining years of her undergraduate cureer. Ramsey was one of those who heard this exclamation, later so famous, and perhaps it was what roused him to heroism. He dived from the hank, headlong, and the strange thought in ills mind was "I guess this'll show Dora Yocum!" lie should have heen thinking of Milla, of course, at such a time, particularly after the little enchantment just laid upon him by MUla's touch and Milla's curls; and he knew well enough that Miss Yocum was not among the spectators. She was half a mile away, as it happened, gathering "botanical specimens" with one of the teachers?which was her Idea of what to do at a picnic! llnmsey struck the water hard, and in the same Instant struck something else harder. Wesley Render's bundle of hooks had given him no such shock as he received now, and If the creek bottom had not been of mud, Just there, the |op of his young head might have declined the strain. Half stunned, choking, spluttering, he somehow floundered to his feet; and when he could get his eyes a little cleared of water he found himself wavering face to face with a blurred rtsion of Milla Rust. She had risen up out of the pool and stood knee deep, like a lovely drenched figure In a fountain. Upon the bank above them, Willis i'arker was Jumping up and down, gesticulating ' and shouting fiercely. "Now I guess you're satisfied our tishln* Is spoilt! Why'n't you listen me? I told you it wasn't more'n three foot deep! 1 and Heinle waded all over this creek gettin' our bait. You're u pretty sight!" Of Milla he spoke unwittingly the literal truth. Even with her hair thus wild and sodden, Milla rose from Immersion blushing and prettier thnn ever; and she was prettiest of all when she stretched out her hand helplessly to Ramsey and he led her tip out of the waters. They had plenty of assistance to scrunilde to the top of the bank, and there Milla was surrounded and borne away with a great clacketlng and tumult. Ramsey sat upon the grass In the sun, rubbed his head, and experimented with his neck t?> see if It would "work." The sun shine was strong and hot; in half an hour lie and his clothes were dry?or at least "dry enough,' as lie said, and except for some soreness of I lend and DDI PHONE THAT W( New York Police at First Distrusted Important Message That Came From St. Louis. The telephone has frequently played Its part in catching thieves, hut here's a case In which it was almost Instrumental in letting a man accused of embezzlement go unmolested?and all because it did its work so well! The telephone in the New York detective headquarters rang one morn vnjr recently and a voice said. "This is peteetive Aylward of St. Louis, speaking." The voice asked the arrest of a certain man who had pine to one of the New York hotels, ami that he be held for further instructions. ]] 11111II111111111!11111111111111111111111!1111111i111:111 BOOTH TARKINGT< o 11111111111111i 11111111111111111111II1111 i 111111V1111111 nook, and the general crumpledness of Ids apparel, lie seemed to he in nil k ways much as usual, when shouts and s whistlings summoned nil the party to w luncheon at the rendezvous. The it change that made him different was invisible. v Yet something must have hcen seen, a for everyone appeared to take it lor It granted that lie was to sit next to h Mllln at the pastoral meal. She her- n self understood it, evidently, for she drew in her puckered skirts and with- II out any words made a place for him s beside her as lie drlftingly approached l> her, affecting to whistle and keeping his eyes on the foliage overhead. He n still looked upward, even In the act of b sitting down. h "Squirrel or something." lie said feebly, as if in explanation. d "Where?" Milla asked. s "Up there on n branch." lie ac- s cepted a plate from her (she had pro- a \ided herself with an extra one), lint t he did not look at it or at her. He I continued to keep his eyes aloft, be- f cause he imagined that ail of the class r were looking at him and Milla, and a he felt unable to meet such publicity, v It was to him as if the whole United I, States had been scandalized to atten- h tion by this act of his In going to sit v beside Milla; he gazed upward so long li that his eye-balls became sensitive un- ii dor the strain. He began to blink. "I a can't make out whether it's a squirrel s or just some leaves that kind o' got h fixed like one," he said. "I can't make tl out yet which it Is, hut I guess when s there's a breeze, if it's a squirrel he'll o proh'Jy hop around some then, if lie's n alive or anything." h It had begun to seem that his eyes I must remain fixed in that upward v stare forever; he wanted to bring them h down, hut could not face the glare of e the world. Rut finally the brightness of the sky between the leaves settled n matters for him ; lie sneezed, wept, and p She Had Risen Up Out of the Pool * and Stood Knee Deep, Like a Lovely Drenched Figure in a Fountain. for a little moment again faced Ills , fellownien. No one was looking at n liiin; everybody except Milla had other v things to do. Ij Having sneezed Involuntarily, he t added a spell of coughing for which s there was no necessity. "I guess I j must been wrong," he muttered thickly. "What about, Ramsey?" "About it's bein' a squirreJ." With n infinite timldRy lie turned his head v and encountered a gaze so soft, so ha I- t lowed, that it disconcerted him, and ? W dropped a "drumstick" of fried n chicken, well dotted with ants, from l-1 ? l!/.n??lAf It/* nlnlro/1 If- ur* l*nt IIIS pimc. OV.IUICI lit |utotu .1 u|,, uut J did not oat It. For the first time in g ids life lie felt that ^ntln^ fried chick- v en held in the fingers was not to he t thought of. He replaced the "drumstick" upon ills plate and allowed it to remain tliere untouched, In spite of j. a great hunger for It. I Having looked down, he now found v difficulty in looking up. but gazed steadily at his [date, and Into this limited circle of vision came MUla's j delicate and rosy fingers, hearing a ? gift. "There," she said in a motherly ( little voice. "It's a tomato mayonnaise sandwich and I made It myself. I want you to eat It, Itamsey." His own fingers approached- treinu- " lousness as he accepted tiie thick sandwich from her and conveyed it to his j mouth. A moment later his soul tilled with horror, for a spurt of mayonnaise 0 dressing had caused a catastrophe the scene of which occupied no inconsider- f able area of his right cheek, which was the cheek toward Mllin. He groped wretchedly for his haitdker- I1 chief hut could not find it; he had lost it. Sudden death would have been re- ' lief; he was sure that after such gro- v tesquerle MUln could never hear to 11 have anything more to do with hint; 1 1 he was ruined. v t era;; )RKED TOO WELL j! So clear was the tone r.s the mnn | made liis request flint the police were j at tirst in doubt as to whether tlie | j : call could have come all the way from ! a ) St. Louis and were inclined to the I fi theory that they were being hoaxed > by some New York practical joker, j c However, detectives were sent out to j p make a tour of the hotels of the city, 1 1 and in the meantime further particu lars arrived from St. Louis. I The man was finally located and when arrested had in his possession $1*1,1 MM), according to the police. The j charge against him In St. Louis was , the embezzlement of $14,000 and receiving stolen property. 111111111 )i 111111111111 m 11111111111111111111 n | DN f 1 I c ipyrlght by Doubloday. Pago & Company 5 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir In his anguish lie folt a paper nap- r In pressed gently into his hand; a * oft voice said In his ear, "Wipe It off 1th this, ltanisey. Nobody's notic- h ?B." n So this Incredibly charitable creature b as still able to be his friend, even t, fter seeing him mayonnaised! Hum- i, Jy marveling, he did as she told him, ut avoided all further risks. He ate r othlng more. v He sighed his first sigh of inexpress- t, ileness, had a chill or so along the ^ pine, and at Intervals his brow was edewed. j Within his averted eves there dwelt g ot the-Milla Itust who sat beside him, a ut an Iridescent, fragile creuture who 8 ad become angelic. He spent the rest of the day daw- p ling helplessly about her; wherever n lie went he was near, as near as posible, but of no deliberate volition of p is own. Something seemed to tie him p o her, and Mllla was nothing loth. t le seldom looked at her directly, or ( or longer tlinn an Instant, and more c arely still did he speak to her except s a reply. What few remarks he entnred upon bis own initiative near- J, y nil concerned the landscape, which j e commended repeatedly in a weak n mce, us Kinu 01 preuy, uiougn uuee e said he guessed there might be bugs i the bark of a log on which they sat; ml lie became so immoderately per- c onal as to declare that if the bugs IJ ad to get on anybody he'd rather hey got on him than on Milla. She e aid that was "just perfectly lovely" 11 f him, asked where lie got his sweet e nture, and in other ways encouraged s im to continue the revelation, but J tainsey was unable to get forward ,ith it, though he opened and closed 11 is mouth n great many times in the e ITort to do so. r At five o'clock everybody was sum- ^ toned again to the rendezvous for a f eremony preliminary to departure; lie class found itself in a large circle, funding, and sang "The Star Spangled u tanner.' Ordinarily, on such an openir and out-of-school occasion. Itamsey .*ouhl have Joined the chorus uproar>usly with the utmost blatancy of ;hich his vocal apparatus was enpale; and most of the other hoys ex? a iressed their humor by drowning out he serious efforts of the girls; but e sang feebly, not much more than 1 uniming through his teeth. Standing ' eslde Milla, he was incapable of his ornier lnelegancies and his voice was a a semi-paralyzed condition, like the est of him. Opposite him, across the circle, f)ora n ,'ocum stood a little in advance of a liose near iier, for ot' course slie led a he singing. Her clear and earnest J1 olee was distinguishable from all tliers, and though she di<J not glance oward Ramsey he had a queer feeling a hat she was assuming more superior- ? ty than ever, and that she was Icily cornful of him and Milla. The old esentinent rose?he'd "show" that girl 1 f et. some day! When the song was over, cheers; re re given for the class, "the good ole | lass of Nineteen Fourteen." the chool, the teachers, and for the pic- r lie, thus officially concluded; and then he picnickers, carrying their baskets v nd faded wild flowers and other sou- r enirs and burdens, moved toward the I s ilg "express wagons" which were to j n alee tlieni buck Into the town. Ham- j n e.v got his gultJir case, and turned to j a III la. "Well?g'hy." j } "Why. no," said Mllla. "Anyway, iot yet. You can go hack in the same vagon with me. It's going to stop at r he school and let us nil out there, r ind then you could walk home with 0 ne If you felt like it." ? "Well?well, I'd he perfectly will- * ng," ltainsey said. "Only I heard we ill had to go hack In whatever wagon n ve came out In, and I didn't come In 1 he same one with you, so?" Mllla laughed and leaned toward him ^ i little. "I already 'tended to that," r he said confidentially. "I asked ^ ohnnle Fiske, that came out In my vagon, to go hack In yours, so that 1 nakes room for you." 8 "Well?then I guess I could do It." 3 Ie moved toward the wagon with her. '' I expect it don't make much differ- 1 nee one way or the other." "And you can carry my basket if 11 on want to," she said, adding solicit- ? msly, "unless it's too heavy when you 1 .1 ready got your guitar case to carry, s tnmsey." This thoughtfulness of hers almost ,J ivercame him: she seemed divine. "I?I'll he glad to carry the basket, oo," he faltered. "It?It don't weigh nythlng much." , "Well, let's hurry, so's we cun get Jaces together." Then, as she maneuvered him ' n hrougli the little crowd about the r ragon, with a soft push this way and * gentle pull that, and hurried him up s he improvised steps and found a place rhere there was room for them both ; o sit, Itamsey had another breathless e ensatlon heretofore unknown to him. tl Ie found himself taken under a dove- .4 ike protectorship; a wonderful, inex-| u ressihle Iteing seemed to have become ' r ]> 111?t[fi n'iin , (. "Isn't this just perfectly hively ?" : 0 he said eozily, el use tn his ear. : jj lie swallowed. hut found tin words, or lie Inn I tin thoughts; lie wjis only j ^ n ineulierent tiiinnit. This was his , i ' irst love. l| "Isn't it. Ramsey?" she urged. The | (j ozy vuiee had just the hint of a reJ' irnneh. "Don't you flunk it's just crfeetly lovely, Ramsey?" "Ves'tn." I c I e ~ =j] b The acquaintance progresses, Ramsey and Milla openly n " kecpir.r company." 0 J tl l'1'U UK CONTi.VL'EU.J JRIEF NEWS NOTES i exr VHAT HA8 OCCURhED DURING 1,10 lar WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN- de[ TRY AND ABROAD 1 Of [VENTS OF IMPORTANCE ~ pas Uth*r?d From All Parts Of Thf adj Gl?be And Told In Short hoi Paragraphs wit * the -oreign? The Panama canal was not affected nai / the earthquake of recent date. The jud movement was not strong enough to ? e apparent generally, but was regis- am ered by the seismographic as a pro- per Dnged tremor. to A general strike of 260,000 German 00C ailroad workers, called for recently cur ras expected to tie up all long dis- tre ance and Berlin passenger and freight ma raffic. pai Famine has reached such a terrible egree in the Orenburg district of Rus- ' ia that people are killing each other 1,0 nd parents are eating their children, 235 ays a telegram recenved at Geneva, ve( rom a representative in Moscow of ^ )r. Fridjof Nansen, head of the inter- 1 iational committee of Russian relief. reI Preparatory to an invesion of Soviet aPI tussia, Herr Stinnes is conducting a tei omprehensive economic survey of Pr< hat country through a number of m' lerman experts representing many C01 allings and professions. The spokesmen for the German peole's party are unhesitating in accus- 8^li ng Chancellor Wi:th of breach of ] aith in appointing Dr. Walter Rathe- ? iau as minister of foreign affairs with- pr< ut awaiting the outcome of negotia- tll< ions for the extension of the present "*a oalition to the inclusion1 of the peole's party led by Gutave Strassman. Release and deportation of foreignrs now serving sentences in Cuban " irisons and pails, as part of the gov- ( rnment's economy program, will be pe uggested to the chief executive, it or< fas announced recently by Manuel Al- j8. onso chief inspector of prisons. The ? neasure, it is added, would serve to ^ vitate complaints by foreign governnents concerning the treatment of ^ hese prisoners who, with Cuban of- pr enders, are alleged to be suffering ^ rom the action of the many state con- Th ractors in refusing to furnish supplies . ntil their bills are paid. The Prince of Wales arrived at In- Bq lore, British Ind'a. He received a cor- ^ lial welcome, thousands of persons ^ ining the streets to greet him. The president of the Italian senate r<? nd chamber of deputies have advised Cing Victor Emanuel to ask former 'remier Giolitti to form a cabinet ini n succession to the Monomi ministry, ce I is understood, says a Central News vii lispatch from Rome. of Five hundred ruble notes are no tei onger legal tender in Moscow. A ecent decree of the Moscow soviet an- co ounces that hereafter street failways bil nd other government institutions will pr ccept nothing less than 1,000-ruble at lotes, worth half an American cent at er; he present legal rate of exchange. Suddenly becoming violently ineane, ni: member of the pontifical choir creat- lo1 d a sensation in the Sistine chapel m) uring the celebration of solemn re- pa uiem mass for the late Pope Bene- ha ict XV by shouting "Down with the ope!" He was finally overpowered p0 y the Swiss guards. fir Berlin repbrts are to the effect that co lerman civilians and French soldiers N? ecently had a clash at Petersdorf, Stasia, in which several French soldiers Jo rere killed and several Germans se- Zii iously wounded. The allied commis- to! ion has ordered a state of siege each th ight between 8 and 5 o'clock in the w< lorning, to prevent future disturb- tai nces. ire Washington? Reports compiled by the eastern bu- as eau of the department of commerce th; ecently indicate that there was a loss if population in Sovit Russia of 18,- tei >00,000 people in the period of 1915 to mj 921, the revolution-torn years. po Bootleggers throughout the country at< ,re evolving a new Industry?the rec- 1 Ification of denatured alcohol?pro- ha tibition officials said recently, which vil irobably will necessitate a complete ce evision of the government's system of re* listribution. Plans to form a federation of Cen- be ral American republics have collap- N< ed. according to word received by the of late department recently from Amer- m< can Minister Morales, at Tegucigalpa, ur londuras. inj On the eve of delivery to congress 1 >y Secretary Weeks of Henry Ford's tic ffer for the government properties at po luscle Shoals, Ala., Frederick E. Eng- po trum, of Wilmington, N. C., presented re! he war secretary with an amended Co proposal to complete, lease and oper- an te the Muscle Shoals properties. ! Payment of $10,000,000 on surplus set upplies purchased after the war was set nade to this country recently by Hi 'ranee. Mc The nomination of Arthur G. Froe. ] egro attorney of Welch, W. Va., as trt ecorder of deeds of the District of foi 'olumbia. was indicated recently by en lenator Elkins, cf West Virginia, af- tei er a call at the White House. 50i CO! The charge of certain railroad executives that the government "ruined"' 1 lie roads is groundless, William G. Mc- foi Ldoo, former secretary of the treas- pa rg and wartime director general of kn ailroads, told the senate interstate wa ommerce committee recently in con- cir luding his testimony in its inquiry dU rito the transportation situation. thi Secretary Weeks directed recently j hat Jackson barracks, Louisiana, be soi >ased to the authorities of that state ma nder a revocable license transferring fro lie post to the jurisdiction of the ad- sot atant-general of Louisiana. be* The campaign lor enactment of a t o-operatlve marketing law was open- bui d recently in the senate by Senator ; Be iellogg, republican. Minnesota, who 1 pis eclared one of the greatest move- esc tents in modern times for the relief wit f the agricultural population was str hrough the foundation of co-operative oui marketing associations. is Exports to Europe during the past ir fell off by more than two billion lars, as compared with 1920, while ?orts to South America declined by re than three hundred million dols, is the statement of the commerce )artment recently issued. The bill authorizing the refunding the eleven billion dollar foreign )t into securities maturing in not re than twenty-fiye years has been ised by the senate?39 to 25. Final ictment of the measure must await fustment of differences between the lse and senate, which is expected hin a week or ten days. Senator Kenyon of Iowa, leader of i agricultural bloc and chairman of ) senate labor committee, has been ned by the president to be circuit Ige for the eighth circuit. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon lounces the offer of an issue of 4 3/4 cent three-year short-term notes the amount of approximately $400.>,000. The issue is to provide for rent expenses, the retirement of tttsury ceruncaies 01 inucutcuucoa luring February 16, 1922, and as a rt of the treasury's program for reIng notes maturing May 20, 1923. The independent ofices approprian bill carrying a total of $494,304,1, most of which is for use by the terans" bureau has been passed by s house and sent to the senate. By fairly decisive votes the senate used either to require congressional / proval of the agreements to be en ed into with debtpr nations by the jposed allied debt refunding comssion or to limit the authority of the mmisslon in the matter of deferring } time when interest payments on 3 eleven billion dollar foreign debt all begin. Railroads which earned more than per cent upon the value of their aperty used in transportation during 2 period from September 1, 1920, to nuary, 1921, are required, under orr of the interstate commerce comssion, to turn half of the excess so / _ rned over to the government. Anent the recent Knickerbocker jater tragedy. Washington newspars have gathered in tabloid the rec1 of many theater disasters in the st seventy-five or eighty years. They low: 1836, Lehman's theater, Petroad, 700 dead; 1847, Carlsruhe, Peigrad, 200; 1876, Conway's Brook), 293; 1887, Opera Comique, Paris, ); 188S, Banquet, Oporto, 205; 1895, ont Street, Baltimore, 23; 1881, Ring leater, Vienna, 640; 1891, Central ieater, Philadelphia, 100; 1887, Tem3 Theater, Philadelphia, 170; 1903, >quois, Chicago, 617; 1908, Rhodes, yerstown, Pa., 170; 1911, Canonsrg, Pa., 26; 1913, Calumet, Mich., 72; 21, Rialto, New Haven, 6. domestic? E. Lee Trinkle, of Wytheville, was augurated governor of Virginia rently, succeeding Westmoreland Das. Judge Joseph L. Kelly, president the state supreme court, adminls ' - -1 rea me utuu ui uuiue. Discovery of a. tellumicra gasoline mpound, which increases automole mileage one hundred per cent over esent gasoline fuel, was announced the research laboratories of the Genal Motors company at Dayton, Ohio. Nine bodies, crushed to an unrecogzable mass by a fall of slate folding an explosion in the Gates Ine of the H. C. Frick Coke comny a few miles from Brownsville, ve been brought to the surface. Counterfeits of the familiar 2-cent stage stamp have appeared for the st time since 1895. One of the new unterfeits came into the hands of a iw York collector. Wilbur Burr Voliva, successor to hn Alexander Dowie as overseers of on and head of the Christian Aposlic church, Zion, 111., has completed e fixing of dimensions of his flat irld, existence of which is now ught in the Zion schools. ( Fifty tons of Birmingham slag from in furnaces at Birmingham, Ala., is w being shipped to Florida for the ondatlon of 33 miles of standard phalt roads, which will be built In at state at a cost of $6,000,000. Jonas Marsh Libbey, editor and inrnational authority on industrial itters, plunged to his death from a int high up on the twenty-fiv^- , )ry Municipal building at New York. The Southeastern Express company s extended its lines to take in Nash* lie, Tenn., according to a wire reived at New Orleans, La., dffices cently from Atlanta, Ga. Evelyn Nesbit, once one of the most autiful leaders of the gilded life of ?w York, central figure in the killing Stanford White by Harry Thaw, but jre recently one of the tragic figes of Broadway, is missing, accord* S to published reports at New York. Twelve companies of Kentucky nainal guardsmen were ordered to Newrt, Ky., where a strike in the Newrt Rolling mills has been in prog* 3S for sometime. The tank corps of vington was ordered to move in d take control of the situation. Solon H. Borglum, nation - wide ilptor, and head of a school of ilpture at Stamford. Conn., is dead s most recent work was at Stone luntain, Ga. Mew owners of the Tennessee Cenil railway h?ve agreed to take over $145,000 rolling stock and prop:y which was not included in the tos of the sale of the road for $1,* 3,000 recently confirmed by federal Lirt at Chattanooga, Tenn. William D. Taylor, director in (.'all* xia for one of the largest film eomnies in Los Angeles and nationally own in the motion picture industry, s found dead at him home under oumstances that the police said incited murder. He had been shot -ough the neck. K mine explosion killed four pep* is and may have killed or entombed my others at Layman, twenty miles m Pineville, Ky. How many peris were in the mine has not yet jn determined. V woman bandit entered a Chicago tcher shop run by Mrs. Rebecca 11, felled her with the butt of a tol, took $240 from Mrs. Bell and :aped. The robber threatened her :h death if she made an outcry, then uck her down and calmly walked t of the store to freedom. There no clue r