Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Oar Job Printing Will l*leuM) You. Chronicle A Wwkljr Worth Whllo, VOMJMH XXlll. CAMPlUr, Hi<n HI cakoijw. NOVKMUKB 10, 1011. M MHKIt W. consult Us Before Placing Your Next Order For Printed Stationery !* " 1 'J, '? . Lll'XIJ _'l 'JL 1. i _j.ii ? i . i ? ? ?AN!> JJ Alt FKItltY Ufuplilr Htory of Fatuous Du^iiuf QrMlBd Vihih Ago. Sunday^ Augusta Chronicle. Wow thut the old Hund liar Ker i y about to past* I u to the dim, dismal punt , by the old swamp bo rn;-, turned into a fertile field, and the old boat being discarded for the more moderu Btoel draw bridge, it will bo interesting to many, to road tho following account written more thifn forty years ago by Col.' "? -Ian. JT. B'icOn, editor of the Edgefield Chronicle, Col. Bacon was well in formed ... about the old duelling grounds and the code used in thost M.aye, an?l for that reason bin arti cle i: oud oil authority on tho sub ject. I Tho following 1b what Col. Bacon bud to Bay regarding the historic duelling grounds: "Thore la not a spot of great er interest in any part of our coun try than the spcluded glade known in tho history of {.he South, of South Carolina and .Georgia, especially, as Saud Bar Ferry. A commonplace name enough, but attached . to a glade of fairy ring set apart f6r the conventional duelling ground when thej Code Duello was the first resort of a gentleman in settling personal difficulties. "In some respects it would seem that this spot were fashioned for gome such purpose, so quiet, so (>erfoctly secluded, so easy of ac _cess and! at the same time so out of the way that a most bloody duel could be fought to a finlsA before authority from any point could ar rive to interfere. "This historic duelling arena lies three miles southeast of the city o? Augusta, over1' what was once a wheel scarred hnd rugged road, in * places heavy with fine sand, and again marshy where it. dipped into ft bit of lowland or struggled thru a tongue of undrained swamp." The road lies along pleasant farm lands and plume like elms meet in? leafy arches overhead. Now it runs deep into tho heart of the dim swamp, now close along the margin of the rushing, muddy, turbulent Savan nah, bordered by thousands and .thousands of finest specimens of the- trailing water willow. v ^ "This duelling ground lies on I either side of the river. With thej belligerent s of the ? Carolina side, I who wished to settle differences with leaden .argunftfots, the fairy ring beneath, the hoary moss-draped trees on the Georgia side was chos-'i en for tho scene of action.' With those already! trouble on the lat- ! tor Bide, the clean, firm sands of the w'uite river bank were preferr ed. On the Georgia side the fam ous Hpot might well have been mis taken for the artificial work of man fashioned with a view to the pur pose whldh it served. The ground is as level as a dancing floor; a soft carpet of moss covers it, thru "Which the vivid fruit of the part?, ridge vine or ground Ivy glows like the crimson stain of blood. All around tall cedarsltfeathery elms and towering guml, interspersed with a few black - boled pines, draped wltJitlong streamers of fu neral gray^ moss, shade the travell er from the too ardent rayB of the Btomi-tropical sun. ^ "On^he left the river runs, broad ening out Into wide shallows, the sand bars shoaling out from either bank, until at low water, or during ' the summer months, persons stand ing on the further end of the bar fcould clasp hands across the bed of the then placid river. On the right a thick hedge of flowering Juniper shut? off the cview of a most prosftta object, a railroad tres tle, poised high and spanning the river , from bank to bank. On the Carolina side white chalk cliffs loom up* cut by jt road' that winds .up and up until lost to sight over tha high brow of the white bare hills."* It) 1b a singularly quiet place, this [ famous Southern duelling ground;* the natural face of which seems never to change. No sound breaks the stillness but the occasional flutter of the winged inhabitant of the bushes, the lap of the water over the siand b&rs, or the grinding wheel of an occasional vehicle, that has Just been ferried over. For- 1 merly when the only communication ' between the Georgia and South Car olina coasts by means of this ferry, a much traveled highway skirted th duelling grounds between the glade and the river, butt now that route to the sister Is praotically abandoned for a nearer road to Au gusta from the Carolina side. "Nevertheless the ferry still re mains a primitive, old-time, ram shackle affair, consisting of several small boat h, stTungr 'together on n Kort off ft tsable, and resting at equal distances On th^ uneasy water. These boats in some manner propel the huge raft ? 'flat* as we South Carolinians and Georgian* call it ? which when pushed off from the 1 bank by a pole# slowly wavers or wobbles acroser the itreanu It tafces many iqomenta to malce the journey between the shores, so leisurely is| the motion of the primitive raft. And the ferryman, what an object o D novel Interest to a northern man or northern woman! He Is pie-? turesque to the laar??M?=^irirt?; way. He Is quite a* primitive and ramshackle as his raft ? and --many lrftfc many years, hi# email, black, KIMiUU II V AUTO. .MiuibU'ix Wifo Killed l?y Automo bile In Dolttmbla, Columblu, B. C., Nov. 4. ? Mrs. W. S. Hameter, of Blackstock, w?h struck by au automobile belonging to Mr. J. Caldwell Robertson short I y after noon Saturday on uppor Main street, and knocked down, her skull being crushed. Bhe tons re moved at once to a hospital and given medical treatment, but sho died at ,3:30 o'clock without recov ering consciousness. In the car at the time of the accident were Miss Olive Robertson, daughter of Mr. Caldwell Robert son, a girl friend and thei negro drl ver, Horace Jones. The , automobile had Just turned into Main street, about opposite Smith'*- drug store, when Mrs. Hameter, Just at this spot, alighted from a hack and In an endeavor either t6 dodge some vehicle or 'catch a street car, ran in front of Mr. Robertson's car. The force of the contact thr^w Mrs. Hameter to the ^sidewalk, lu?r skull being crushed by the blow. Mrsi Hameter's husband Ih pas tor of the Presbyterian church at Blackstock and the news of the terrible accident was learned with horror by the people of this city, in addition to the husband several chlldreu survive. Mr. and Mrs. Ha meter only recently moved to Black stock from North Carolina. An lnuuest was held Sunday an<J the coroner's Jury returned a ver dict that the deceased came to hor deffth by being run ovor by an au tomoblle driven by Horace Jones, the colored chauffeur. Jones war held and committed to Jail charg ed with murder. weazened face as soasoned, dried and wrinkled as a decayed prune. In former times he was wont to manage . the ferry alono, ? but now a -small, black bead-eyed gnome au Hlsts him? at lejist nominally; and the ancient manner says: 'Fore God, Marster, dla p.lgger boy bin tor ment my life outen me.' " "But hear ye that Sonorous hum ming and buzslng?^ The inosqultos in. the lagoons below the ferry. We (mve said that all is silence on the shores of the horrible lagoons. While the sun shines this so, buj when he sinks to rest, and' the inky shadows creep between* the over hanging, . close growing trees, a sound, long-drawn, shuddering, tor ?Ible, echoeBv aiyd- Te-ekUbe s' on the dense silence of the. desolate waste of noisome greeting things and blue-black turbid Crater. This sun is sinking behind the horilson at this moment, and our companions, rather guides, two stalwart negro men, say: 'Marse Jeems, dls trip aint gwirie be no fun fur you.' Through all the hours of twilight and early nlghtt you hear the hor- ? rlble ,hqot of the foreboding owl ? - ' the great, staring, death foretelling night ow|. This- unhply hoot racks jthe silence interspersed with the clash and1 clangor, the shrill pipe,! the hoarse horn and rattling wills- ; tie of many millions of frogs of all possible sizes. k . "Sometimes, we have been told, <*nd it has been safd by hungers who have passed much time among ' the lagoons that they are bottomless that no sounder they could devise has ever touched bottom. Yet they tfwarm with many kinds of fish, yielding them generously, but they, the fish, are" valueless, because of their bad-tasting flesh. "Many of the lagoons have never been explored, and just how many there are cannot be ascertained. Dense canebrakes absolutely as im pregnable riH a stone wallr shutting out daylight in their vicinity, cut oil from communications except where the tilled lands skirt them, or where a narrow, and ^tortuous pas sage leads into the Savannah. It is a curios phenomenon that, how eveer hlgftt the river rises, or how ever low lfc?slnks, the waters in the lagoons remains the same ? weird, ghostly, mysterious, a freak of na ture in her most sombre moodt ? spot 8 of eternal mourning mayhap for bygone transgressions ? blots up on tha fair faces of pature beneath the ardent Southern sun. ~ "But let us climb up to the top of the high white cliffs, of Beech Islandon the Carolina side, whence spreads out the level duelling ground. The September moon is I rising, and th esllence Is intense, almost palpable or .tangible, as It werer The reddening gum leaves flutter in the la?y breeze ? flurring lightly over the moss with a sound that might be made by the ghostly footsteps of the things unseen. Ev en bird voices seem far away and huahed; tlio moOnUfWrnilers thru i the-whisperlng ptnea thnt complntn in far-off hushed undertones; and standing there one feeta as though civilisation and the fret of life and the itrlfe of man had been left many rallcAf behind,' and that the land in which it is always afternoon b=s=if not' black night?were well at hand. t "We do not shudder, but we feel intensely sad. and as the red ?nd yellow' gum leaves flurry- over our feet, we loo)c, almost longingly, for i the fair shades of our two slender "WKS' pirished rhere ? on the fitfld of honor ? long before we-jrere borm^---4~ ? - "Some of the bloodiest duels of modern times have been fought hens ? duels that make up WU of fateful - - ,*? ?? ?< -i J | ^ ,-^.y r-V ??.. c r f*fr. :? \ CITWK.M IN LUOKi Mr. Pcarce May 1W> |?<M*H?*Mior of Vttltml)K' Coiiib, : Being a close reader of The Chronicle may be the means of <t <?itiy.cn of our county gaining a small fortune. Lout week we reproduced au article from the Atlanta Geor gian, telling of ah Atlanta police man having"* fortune in one eoin. But the Atlanta man cannot claim the distinction of being the only (tioeeessor of so valuable a pocket piece. Mr. B. M. Pearce of our county after reading the artiole In T&? Chronicle last w<;ok told Mrs. Pearce to get out three half dol lars he had hpd stored away for pver 40 years. ? The date on eaoh of the three coins, "1868" talllod with the policeman's coin whloh' Is said to be "worth $2,500. Mr. Pearce came into possession of tho three coins at Johnson's sur render in North Carolina, he being a mombor of Pel'ass' artillery. The money Is the same which was paid him for his services in the Confederate army and which he has kept at home until this day. Mr. Pearce wfell make. Inquiry in to tho fnatter. and hl8 many 'friends hroughout the county will rejoice lai IiIf good fortune If the coins prove to be wouth tho amount stat "(l- _? . ki? m:i? ? ' ??< n fn/imd In W.ocTt ???> 1 titi v. tty. Seaboard Mr Line Train v . 4 ? known ftp. tho "FlorHa Pl/'.c a M b pasties N^amd . n ai i 1 : .1 & .li-'hi, da&bod into an ? p >11 awl, c' ?it Swansra Monday raoinln; an o.h a result Ed- Pritchard, the om;?1 neor, was killed and II. G.- For*'-' man, express messenger, wae bad y hurt. Thos. \Y. f -T 1 :Jjj ? I'.te, '?Via., was Injured.-. H' wr??" Ibe mall clerk. Prince Da I - iffi negro fireman. of Savannah, bad bis right arm broken. r ?i The wreck was caused by some one breaking the lock on the switch stand and throwing the train on the siding. The train" ran into oome box cars, one of which was knocked into splinters. Another was thrown on its side across the main line and seven cars were shov dd about 200 yards down the sid ing, which Is a down grade. The boiler was partly on its side and tbe 'fender, which was along-- ' side the boiler and tho baggage- j car which was next the engine was j beside the tender and the south) end of it thrown beyond the pilot of the boiler. ? No passengers were Injured. Conductor Bates, who was In charge of the train, said that the train was not running over twenty miles 6.n hour. When the news of the accident was received at Colum^a blood hounds wore sent for and Lawrence Robertson was trailed to his home. In order to prevent trouble the ne gro was carried to Columbia and sent through to" Lexington to the county jail: He denies having any thing to do with the mattejr. The coroner's Jury held an lnqtiest in the oase and a formal verdict v as to the cause of the death was ren dered. AllMY OFFICERS Here ? Monday Inspecting Sites for Aviation School. = Captain Chandler of the United ?States signal corps was here Mon day overlooking the proposed sites for the aviation school and signal corps camp. Several members of the Chamber of Commerce took Cap tain Chandler out to a number of proposed sttes near Camden. The Alford tract, the polo field 'and .Gulnard's field near Camden seemed to suit for the purpose. I Captain Chandler said that all the aviators coming South this win ter are amateurs and will need a plenty of space to land atfer a flight, and these tracts would fulfill these wants, as they are open. He lis to inspect locations in several other towns before deciding defi nitely where the camp will be. Captain Chandler seemed to be **ery much impressed with 'Camden as a location for tho school. Pas senger Agent Coloman of the Sea board accompanied Captain Chand ler here. "V" ? : :? ? ?- ? - a-1 1 : Two. hundred and fifty bales of cotton on 60 wagotie, strung along Main street, three abreast, was the unusual sight that was witnessed in Rook Hill last Friday. Tho cot ton belonging to Mr. Claude. W. Ratterree, of Ogden. and was boln " brought Into Rook Hill to be stored in a warehouse. ? Yorkvllle Enquir er. and "'dramatic histories of South -Carolina and Georgia ? -affairs of ironor, frlvalrleg; personal and poiu leal feuds, broken hearts of moth ers,' vain tears of women? all cul minating In this quiet spot, and faraid these scenes, it i* not bard to conjure up a , vast and weird |p h a n t a smagorla. of . .victim* of- tho Code Duello ? victims of human fol ly and walling and long despair, k? "Beedh Island is * fair and bles sed land, but there bangs a dark and bloody fringe along some of -her borders." ??? .... ,4: ? ' -wr *? - ?il.ftO FOIt 7 KI88E8. Woman Changes Her Mind And Now Wants 'rwctily TliuuMund. St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 4.-? After having accepted fifty cents apiece lor seven M1bb Margarettte Chano, uii attractive youuK woman of South St. Joseph, believe* she Bold too cheaply and has sued W. T, Magot, a wealthy farmed of Dear born, Mo., for $20,000 additional compurgation. Back of the ault, It la said, lu a change in mind on the part of Magot, which leaves hlin still a bachelor, for Miss Chase al leged that ho promised to marry her. Maget admltB ho enjoyed the kiHHi'H, und ho aays Miss Chase ap peared to enjoy them also, ho much; bo, in fact, that he kissed her Boveral times again. When he tobo to go, Magot declares, she playful ly Bald that hor kisaoB wore worth money, and that, having kept tally, Manoi owed hor $3.60 for aeven kisses, at fifty cents each. The kisses wore worth the money, Ma got admits, and ho promptly,, gave her $3.50. "Hut whatever aald k&scs were worth, If anything," ~Tno defend ant 'a anawer concludoa, "they were fully and completely paid for In ac cordance with the plaintiff's esti mate of their current value." ^ \ . COTTON PICKER. r Man Inv nts Machine Which Wi.l bo of Immense Service-. uauer, S. Nov. 1. ? An Inven tion' that may prove successful and .1 so, of Immense sorvdee to cotton growers of the South, is that by V. M. i.inklna, a young man employed n Mr. L. 1). Jennings' place sever al mil a out from this city. The ln ^ . lion la a co.ton picker operated on the auction plan. The picker a. oeen given a trial and several ..L-i. pulniH hu.'o boon found in it, .;i|t 1c is reported to have cleaned approximately yo per cent of the co.ton out of the bolls where It went along? , ? The trial given the picker came .17 last week, but as no patents covering the invention has yet been applied for, no information as to ihe workings of the machine will be given for publication yet. The .machine Is worked by placing a g'as engine which furnishes the p?pw er1 for the auction on an ordinary >l> nine horse wagon, the latter be in* used aa a rcccptable for the cot ton as it la picked out of the field. The trial took place on the Jennings fi\rm whore there are sev- i oral hundred baleB of cotton open 1 n the fields and where a machine i for peeking cotton would prove of Immense value. A number of farmers of this sec tion have a Urge amount of cottoii t in the fields which ought to be picked out, but as cotton pickers are very scarce this year, it is 'possible that much of this cotton will never' be gathered. Several of those farmers have been heard to express their anxiety that the ma chine prove a success as a success ful contrivance for picking cotton would mean an Immense saving .for them and would enable them large ly to dispense with negro labor. AEROPLANE MAIL SERVICE To lie Established at Atlanta l>ur ing Aviation Meet. A special dispatch sent out from Washington, . dated Nov. 6, says: "The postmaster at Atlanta, Qa., was authorized today by Postmas ter General Hitchcock to collect and deliver mall by aeroplane at the aviation meet to be held at that place on November 16, 17 and 18. A temporary postal station will be established on the aviation field and . deliveries of mail will be at least once a day by aeroplane from there to a point as near as possible to the city postofflce. All needed clerical assistance will be furnish ed by the Atlanta postofflce. "It is stated that the same will bo done at Savannah, Greenville, Camden, Aiken, Augusta. or wherev er the new school of aviation, to be located in the South, Is estab lished. The difference, however, will be that in the present case the station will bo for only a few days, while It will continue perhaps five or six months when the winter headauarters of the school are de termined upon. This will be a big innovation for the South, as noth ing of the kind has yet been at tempted in that section. Hay Roraovo Boattie. Richmond, Va., Nov. 7.- ? Unless the State supreme oourt of appeals grants a new trial for Henry Clay Beattl?, Jr.. before tomorrow the youhg man, convicted of the murder of his wife, will be moved from the Richmond city Jail to murderers' ro m In the death house at the State penitentiary. According to the Uw a man condemned to electrocution must be lodged in the penitentiary 16 day* before the date set for his ddath. ? -The ceurt, which has under ad visement Seattle's petition for a writ of error, sits tomorrow b?fe may not. jtre Its decision. If It should not decide the appeal before the dato set for the execution, that POSTAL HAVINfJM HV8TKM. Information Concerning |*?w(?i Hmv '?*? Uondt to be 1m?u?x1, The Camden postoffice 1m In re ceipt of the following communica tion signed by Postmaster General Hitchcock relative to postal sav ings bond* to be issued January 1, 1912: "Oepoaltoru of the Postal Sav ings Hystem may exchange the whole or a part of their deposits on January 1, 1912, far United States registered or coupon bonds in denominations of |20, flOO and ?600, bearing interest at the rate of 2 1-2 per cent per annum, pay able semi-annually, and redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after one year from the date of is sue, both principal and luterest payable 20 years from that date In United States gold coin. "Postal savings bonds are exempt from all taxes or duties of tho U, 8., as well a* from taxation in any form by or under State, municipal or local authority. "Applications for the conversion of depdSTir into bonds on Jan 1, 1912, must be received before Dec. 16, 1911, by the postmaster at the depository office where the certifi cates were issued, Tho postmaster will supply an application form which must be made out in tripli cate. The depositor must Indorse and surrender with his application postal savings certificates covering the amount of the bonds desired, for which the postmaster will give him a receipt. When the postnuis ter receives the bondB applied for he will notify the depositor and will deliver the bonds on presentation of the receipt for the certificates surrendered. "The conversion of deposits into bonds at a date less than one year after the certificates began to boar interest forfeits Interest ' on the depdqlts as in the case of with drawal for any other purpose. "Postal savings deposits convert ed Into bonds are not counted as a part of the maximum of |600 al lowed one depositor, and there Is no limitation on the amount of available postal savings bonds which may be acquired finally by a depositor. Tho exchange Is con sidered as taking effect on Janua ry 1, and a depositor who has ap plied to convert into bonds all or part of the maximum balance of $600 may deposit an additional mount fn January, tho' the bonds may not yet have been delivered. "Postal savings bonds can be procured only by the conversion of postal savings deposits and will not' be Issued to persons who are not depositors. They may be sold or assigned to $ny person, however, by the holder,; and when a register ed bond is assigned a new bond will be Issued in the name of the own er. "The depositors application must indicate whether bonds are desired In registered or coupon form. Cou pon bonds are preferable for a de positor who intends to hold them for a short tfme only and who has ample facilities for their safekeep ing. These bonds are payable to bearer, and the title will pass by delivery without Indorsement. In terest on coupon bonds is collected by means of interest coupons, de tached by the holder as they be- i come due. "Registered bonds are preferable for persons intending to hold them for a considerable period, and they differ from coupon bonds in the following respects: "'They have inscribed upon their face the names of the .persona to whom they are issued. "'They are payable only to the persons to whom Issued or their aB ?lgnA "'The ownership of registered bonds can be transferred only by assignment in proper form. "Registered bonds are assigned by the use of a form printed on the back, properly dated and ac knowledged. When the assignment is made by mark, it must be wit nessed by at leatet one person oth er, than the officer before whom it la made. A ledger account is open ed in the Treasury Department at Washington with each holder of one or more registered bonds, and when such bonds are assigned (hey should be transmitted by the new 1 owner to the Secretary of the Treasury (Division of Loans and Currency) for transfer on the books of the department. Registered bonds can not be exchanged for coupon bonds. Coupon bonds may 'be converted into registered bonds, without charge, a? the request of the holder. "Under the regulations of the Treasofry Department a minor can not assign registered bonds with out the consent of a duly appointed guardian or trustee, evidence of whose authority must be submitted. A minor has the right to eon vert his postal savings certificates Into registered bonds, but if he should desire to assign the bonds Jdurlng ?his minority he must comply with this regulation. This difficulty does not exist "IB the case of coupon bonds, which are transferable by mere delivery. ) r ? . .-.v "Interest on < fogfstered bonds is paid by cheeks drawn at the Treas ury Department in favor of the reg istered holder. These checks are ?eat mall to the foet office ad . dress, of ths holder, and the hoM*** UtiNHKAL NIOWH NOTUH Gathered From l^(<hnn|{?? and I'ut ill Paragraphs. Fffty bales of ootton belonging to tho McCowan Clark Co., woro de stroyed by firo in Florence, Walyer Hayes, caught hold of :i 11 vo wlro In tllw Manchester mill In Hock Hill and bin bund was burned to u crisp. The Rev, F. M. Satterwhite, who Decently resigned hh pastor of the Yorkvllle Baptist church, on account of bin health, died In Humter last Friday. Col. Frank M. Mlxon, woll known Confederate veteran and command ant of the Confederate Home In Co 'lumbia, died Sunday at bin homo In that city, after a short Ulnoss. "Old IH11" Miner, the notorious train robber, who, with "Tom Moore, escaped from the Georgia convict camp recently, waa capturod In a box car near Waynesboro, Ga., Bun day night. Moore resisted and waa killed. A patent waa recently granted to Laura Kmnia Hudson, wife of Chas. I'. Hudson,' a well known negro citi zen of Lancaster, for an Improve ment on an Ice cream freezer. The patent ha* been aold to the North Polo Ice cream Froozer company. Aviator Rodgers haB completed his trans-continental trip. He land ed In I'asHadcna, Cal. Ho flew 4, 231 miles in 4,924 minutes actual flying time. He atartod from New York on Soptember 17th. Thla Is the world's record for cross coun try flying. Henry A. Ulrlch, the white man charged with boating Booker T. Washington In New York last 'March, waa tried Monday and ac-?, quitted. According to tho evidence Wnshlngtoh wns pooping through a keyhole, and Btruck tho struck the flrnt blow. . Ho denied the charge. The Government's experiments in toa farming thlB year woro highly satisfactory to tho department of ficials. On the 100 acreH In South Carollnt, where the bureau of plant industry Is conducting the work there were produced this year about 12,000 pounds of tea, worth fully $1 a pound. R. Chestnut, who was sentenced to fifteen years' Imprisonment at tho last term of Criminal Court at Orangeburg for the killing of W. R. Sabin, wqh taken to the state Penitentiary Monday to ' begin ser vice. , Directly after Chestnut waB sentenced council for the defence stated that tho caso would be ap pealed, -but the appeal was never perfected. An. inhaled drunk is the latest thing in prohibition Georgia. When nearly a thousand gallons of blind tiger whiskey which had been seiz ed in raids were burned at tho * garbage incinerating plant by the police at Macon a large crowd of negroes gathered to leeward of tho flameB and sniffed the vapor with evident relish. Many went their ways with swimming heads cheap ly bought. 2 Lawyers for Henry C. Beattle, Jr., under death sentence for the mur der of his young wife, filed with the Supreme Court of Appeals on Monday a petition for a writ of er ror. This constitutes an appeal from tho- judgment of the Court at CheBterfleld, which sentenced Beat*, tie to be electrocuted on November ?24. Unless the Court gives a de cision before the day set for Beat tie's execution, this move will act as a stay. of a registered bond should notify the Secretary of the Treasury (Dl- . vision of Loans and Currency) of any change in his postofflce address aU lonst 16 days bofore the interest 'falls due. Checks for Interest on registered bonds,- as well as inter est coupons detached from coupon bonds, aro payable on presentation at the United States Treasury or at tho office of any assistant Treas urer of the United State?. Interest chccks and coupons Covering inter est on postal savings bonds may be cashed by postmasters under tho same condition? as other Govern ment paper. "Payihent on registered bonds that have been lost or stolen may be stopped by notifying the Secre tary of the Treasury (Division of Loans and Currency) at Washing ton. If coupon bonds are lost the Government does not undertake to protect owner against the wrong ful holder, but recognizes the bear er only. The owner h&s recourse only td such meanB as he cottld use to recover any other valuable prop* erty. When bonds, either register ed or coupon, have been destroyed wholly or In part, or defaced, a claim may be filed with the Secre tary of the Treasury under certain prescribed conditloni tor their re placement. Such clAims will not be allowed for coupons which have been detached from coupon bonds. "United States bonds are lsaued, transferred and redeemed under stteh 'h regulations as the 8eofetary of the Treasury may prescribe.- Rwwiti by holders for aditional informa tion after the delivery of the bonds should be addressed to the' Secretary of the Treasury (Division ? of Laons and Currency), at Wssh t lug ton, D. C. " . ...