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Lorn soma Job Is 7hat of Lighthouse Keeper OUMl is < "UNUh-i.-.l (t? la- H -??ytl Mil 11<>u ; * oone-Hlnt|>?*tl roi'k M'piini'od noli) our vVh'fi ashQJpe by Just one! lulle of turbulent won. ' j |?Jver.v man bus Ivyo lipinos; thero are excellent houses on Hie Isliind wiiii plenty of lueoinmutturlou for wive* and fniniiies. But soiim? year* ago the wisdom of Irish Lights tie* rjtled thni we were belter apart, and provided ".shore" houses for our fain- J llles. We go there in the relief spells, '.\iniJ and weathor permitting... It Is better ?o*Yor the children, who tan go JO MlMKitx am' belter for the I wives. who are no loiiKt-r c^it oft from the world. I Wo three lonesome men en the rock ure thoroughly sick of the sight of each other's face#. We have far too much of our own company. There is not a surprise possible among us. tOor long periods we exchange never a word. In every way a woman as constant companion Is Infinitely to bje preferred. At any rate I have never thrown used to my wife or tired of her In this way; perhaps because in 1& years 1 have never had u chance. We are handy men; for our wives we can do almost anythlng-~mend clocks, make or mend clothes, chairs and tables, toys and mats. Any one of us can cook and serve up the Joint of meat passably, after the manner of men. The rest of our cooking l? done mainly with a can opener. One of the reasons why this Is a de sirable station* Is because we can get ? weekly joint of meat and post, and regular relief. At the Skelllgs, off the coast of Kerry, rightly selected by the monks of old as a safe refuge from women, we sometimes lived for weeks and mouths on rabbits and sea fowl. We bad, luckily, a cocker spaniel who would catch a rabbit on request. By the aid of a glass we can see plainly from this rock the front doors of our homes across the water. The whitewash is rubbed off our landward wall, and there is a groove on the top of it. There are no dilapidations on the seaward wall. Only once have I known*a man who joined the lights to get away from womeh. Soon, by marriage, he did his best to' return to one of them.?Light Koeper, In London Mail. i Instinct of Bees Bees are remarkable for the pos session of Instinctive qualities that lit them for almost every emergency of their lives, but in some circum stances their instinct falls to protect them. A writer In an agricultural pa lter says that in northern Massachu setts there is more loss of bees from llying in chilly .weather than from any other" cause. Bees that fly In fleecing temperature, or when it Is too' cold for them to fly except for a short distance, seldom survive to get back to the hive, he says. His remedy to discourage the bees from going out when the weather is cold or snow is on the ground is to shade the hive from the direct rays of the sun. Unless this is done they apparently think summer is coming and It Is time for them to be on the wing.?Outlook Mag azine. ? ?, Electricity on Farm* Fourteen Minnesota farms have been provided with every knoyrn elec trically operated household or labor* Having device, without cost to the farmer. In a three-year test supervised by professors of the agricultural college of the University of Minnesota to determine whether It Is practical to .use electricity on farms. The farms are in the Mississippi river val ley, near Red Wing, Minn., and about twenty miles south of Twin Cities. They are situated along a trial power line which measures 0.2 miles. The farm homes are being equipped with electric ranges, washing machines, manglers, toasters and other devices. The farmyard Is to be equipped with electrically operated cream separa tors, milking machines, feed grinders, conveyors, thrashing machines and wood sawing machines. Natural Thought He wore a long-tailed coat, a frock tie and a stiff hat that marked him as ai small-town aristocrat of the old school. At the hotel he strolled around the Jobby with an air of own ership that was very impressive. But in a three days' stay not a nickel had been scattered among the help and the word has spread fast that the colonel was not all that he seemed to be. lie had Just had his "boots" sbined, and as the boy brushed him off, he remarked : "George, what would you think If 1 cave you 50 cents for this shine?" George answered right up: "Ah would think you wanted fo'ty cents change, suh."?Kansas City Star. ? History of Candy It is impossible to say when candy is such was first used. The word fcandy" wa,s orlgnally derived from inskrlt "khanda,". meaning "break." one Kense candy Is as old as the of extracted sugar. Sugar was >bably flr?t manufactured in India, ience Jt was Introduced Into Arabia. " through the Mocffr* spread to Spain the rest of Kcirope. - But the man kctura of candy In the modern sense comparatively new. Candy was la Israel and In ? the Seventeenth Eighteenth c*?tTaWee when it by apothecaries and the taste of a ifuttjTj that HAS ,NEW DEVICE TO RECORD QUAKES Creamer Accuracy Is Also Promised by Savant. Washington.--The (ir<>rgetownk uni versity srislnolo^uul uhst-rv atory, which 111 the Inst l;< \ ?'iirs hits to tin* world first news of many .earth quakes, now assures the public that Its reports In. the future wtU b0 even moiv dependable. Tin' university todny lias anions Itm instruments a now sol.sinograph, known as the Gal it/, in vortical seismo graph, the only one of its kind on this side of the Atlantic. The special features of this delicate piece of apparatus are mugnetlc regla trutiou and photographic recording, whereby the element of friction In the other types of machines is- entirely eliminated. Accordingly, the machine will permit of the recording of many more of the world's quakes and permit of a more accurate Interpretation of the writings of a shaking eurtlj. Doctor Sleberg of the Jena selsmo logical station places the number of qtjakes felt sensibly or Instrumental!? the world over from 0,000 to 10,000 yearly. Of these In the past only from 00 to 110 have been annually recorded of Georgetown. Father Francis A. Tondorf, director of the observatory, hopes that this number may now reach from 300 to 400. When It first was founded in 1011 the Georgetown observatory had only one seismograph?of tho Welcliert type. It carried a stationary mass of 80 kilos. The rocking during wind storms of the south tower of the Healy building* in whose baset the instru mcnts were at (irst placed; necessitat ed their removal to a cave beneath the quadrangle. Father Tondorf Inaugurated the work at Georgetown when, in 1910, the International Seismological society requested the Jesuit order, with many colleges in the United States, to estab lish a chain of stations In this coun try. rv Pilot Willing to Be target for "Death Ray" Walter Sutter of Elizabeth, N. J., an experienced army pilot, who baa come forward expressing his willing ness to fly a plane into the path of Grindfell Matthews' "Death Ray" and claims that the ray will not bring him down in his plane even at the mean height of 1,000 fee^t. lie also states that an experienced flyer would not have his plane wrecked by the ray without some sort oi a struggle. Refugee Family Tells of Hardships in Mexico Norfolk,/ Va.?Deprived of their ranch" and property accumulated in 10 years of hard work and forced by the Mexican revolution to flee penniless and without food, Wllhelm von Wal denfels and his family of four have arrived here en route to Germany. They brought a harrowing tale of flight from, their home In the interior of Tabasco, a 48-hour trip down the Grljalva river to Frontera in a dilapi dated sailboat steered by a Mexican girl; of lost direction and the piling of the craft on the rocks and the flght against drowning and. Anally, of the long Journey afoot from Frontera to Vera Cruz. At Vera Cruz the refugees, hungry and sick, had their first bit of good luck in the presence in the harbor of a steamer. They had no money, but Captain Grashoff, a fellow country man, waved aside the question of passage. Dec'ares New Glands Give Sheep More Wool Liege, Relgiuin.?Dr. Serge Voronoflf, famous French sur geon, addressing a scientific con gress here, claimed It would be possible to Increase the yield of wool by applying big gland transplantation operation to siieep. Although the operation cannot h$ performed successfully on nil blfecp. he said, he hoped to be nble to create a special breed by operation on the direct descend ants of a certain number of picked specimens. < The experiment was already hein* made, lie announced, on a flnrl fff .TW> thccp. Is Alf?rt?. ?n.l ?_!?. OH ? number of jpwt* HISTORY "OF Kl'KAI. 8KRVICK l'(jrow? From Small Beginning to One of (ireut Mugnitude Few institutions in the history of American progress can be credited with a more salutary effect upon the march of that progress than the rural mail service of the Post Office department. No other single instrumentality has done more than the rural mail service toward "bringing the city to the country", and relieving the prosaic existence of farm life, or has been as effective in establishing closer contact between the farmer and hiK markets. It has been the most important factor In making ag riculture an exacting business in stead of its one-time precarious clas sification which conveyed no broader meaning than "tilling the soil." Twenty*nine years ago the farmer, and his wife, and children, led an existence of almost complete isola tion, living upon widely scattered farms, soine of them miles apart. They had comparatively little com munication with their neighbors or the outside world, except that de rived from weekly trips to the adja cont village. More often than not the farmer lost a full day's work and his crops were neglected in order to1 obtain expected mail at the village ! post office. . ? .1 In those ciays the farmers' mail consisted largely of communications from relatives and friends. Today the daily mail includes, usually on the very date of publication, the met ropolitan newspaper, containing mar ket reports and agricultural news; the weekly and monthly farm jour nals and magazines, and business let ters from the village merchant and the more pretentious establishment in the distant city. All of these are now brought to his door or to the box a few yardg away. The rural carrier is the farmer'.* post office and his agent. Through him he conducts transactions for the sale of his live stock, grain, and other farm produce. From him he buys stamps and pays his bills by postal money order. In short, the letter carrier is the medium that has transformed the once Secluded habi tant of the rural district into a cos mopolitan citizen, conversant with current affairs and 'occupying a lar-< ger place in the destinies of a great nation. , ? ?It was Postmaster General John Wanamaker who first officially sug gested in 1891 the rural mail idea to Congress. The plan was fought in the legislative branch of the govern ment for five years before it was given a tryout. The first bill authorizing the es-! tablishment of the service was intro- j duced in the House by Representa-, tive James O'Donnell of Michigan, January 5, 1892. It carried an ap propriation of $6,000,000 but failed of passage. A year later Congress was induced to appropriate $10,000 for experimental purposes followed in 1894 by $20,000 more. Mr. Wanna maHer, believing the amount insuffi cient even for experimental service, declined Jo use the money, On January 8,' 1 Sim;, |10tQQ0 was added by Congross and on October 1, the same year the first experimental jural delivery service was established simultaneously on three routes in West Virginia, one from Chartcstown, one from Uvilla, and one from llall town. From this small beginning, nine months later found the service operating on 82 routes emanating from 43 post offices in 29 states. Twenty-eight .wars later, or June .U), 1924, the liurl Mail Service Jiad grown to 44,260 routes with a total mileage of 1,205,714. In comparison with the insignifi cant ppropriatiftn of $10,000 made by Congress more than a quarter of a century ago to inaugurate the ser vice, it now requires an annual ex penditure of $89,260,000 to keep it functioning. ,, The first county to be completely covered by Rural Mail Service was Carroll County, Maryland, where county service was established De cember 20, 1899. There are very few counties in the country today that are not honeycombed to the utter most with free mail delivery. By 1915, 20,080 fourth class post offices had been discontinued as a result of the extension of the Rural Mail Service. It is estimated that, an annual saving of $1,013,040 was I accomplished by the discontinuances of these offices while the elimination of star, or contract routes is esti> hiated to save $3,482,670 per annum. When the service was first inuag urated the salaries of, rural carriers was only $200 a year. They may now get as much as $2,100 a year, depending on the length of the routes, while the motor routes of 50 miles or more pay salaries of $2,450 to $2,000. .Under the administration of H, H. Billany, present. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, a marked^ in crease .in rural delivery facilities has been made, the number of routes climbing from 43,049 to 44,760; the mileage from 1,159,239 to 1,205,714 and the number of individuals served from 29,113,883 to 29,921,128. Accepts Pastorate at Clover Rev. John "K. Hay, a native of Liberty Hill, who has been pastor of | the Presbyterian church of Brevard, j N. C., has accepted a call to the | Presbyterian church of Clover, York : county, to succeed the Rev. J. Blan | ton Belk who recently moved to Or lando, Fla., to become pastor of the Presbyterian church at tfcat place.?^ Lancaster News. Wild geese cast their feathers in ' summer, losing almost all the feath ers from their wings simultaneously. During this season they are helpless and the natives of Northern Russia take advantage of the condition and net them by the thousands. They are buried in the mud of the swamps and left to rot. Later they are dug up and fed to the half-wild dogs and are even eaten by the undiscriminating native. MKMM1NC.KR KKKLECTKO (jtwrty Hill Man Also lie-elected Railroad Commissioner Columbia, Jan. 1(5. Elections to fill fifteen places in judicial an<l ex ecutive department* of the state gov eminent were held here, today by the State Legislature in joint assem bly. Moth houses met at noon in the hall of the House of Representatives and nominations were made and bal lots taken for a two hour period. Lieutenant Governor Kdmund B, Jackson, by virtue of his office as president of the Senate, automatically became presiding officer of the joint assembly. - On motion of .Senator Stewart, Lancaster, the prevailing rule was suspended so as to permit election of unopposed candidates by vote of ac clamation, saving the General As sembly considerable time in the elec tions. Alfred A.* Richardson, of Colum bia, was reelected chief game war den, over R. Hugh Belser, of Sum mertori, and W. J. Muldrow, of An derson, on the first ballot. The vote was Kichardson SS; Muldrow 01; Belser 16. Marvin M. Mann, attorney of St. Matthews and clerk of the Senate, was ynopposed for judge of the First Judicial Circuit, succeeding the late Judge I. W. Bowman, of Orange burg. . Solicitor A. J. Hydrick, of Orangeburg, who previously had an nounced, had withdrawn from the race. For judge of the Fifth Circuit, W. H. Townsend, of Columbia, incum bent, was reelected by a vote of ac clamation. He was nominated by Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, mem ber of the House of Representatives and former judge. Judge Thomas S. Sease, of Spar tanburg, was reelected judge of the u Seventh Judicial Circuit. In the Ninth Circuit race, Judge H. W. Mcmminger, of Charleston, defeated Oetavus Cohen, also of Chav lesion, for the place, 135 to I t. Four railroad comniisalonors wore, elected, They were John C. Coney of Ueeve?>ville, reelected; James &I. Peatman, of Anderson, reelected over John M. Uagan, of Due West; John Ileftry Nance, of Laurens, who de feated the incumbent, II. H. Arnold, of Woodruff, for reelection, and John (J. Richards, of Liberty Hill, who succeeded himself in office. Dr. Wallace W. Fenm-ll, of Itoek Hill, chairman of the board of trus tees of the State Medical College, was - again named a member of the board. Other trustee.*, chosen wero I)r. W, A. Tripp, of Anderson; Dr. O. A. Matthews, of Bennettsville; and Dr. Thomas H. Pope, of Newberry. Others nominated but not elected were Dr. S. H. Fiahburne, of Colum bia, Dr. Clarence M? Workman, of Spartanburg, and Dr. K. H. Wo.y man, of Kstill.. Wallace C. Bethea, of Orangeburg, was elected a member of the board of trustees of the State Negro Col lege at Orangeburg, succeeding F. W. r. Butler, of Columbia, deceased. South Has Come Into Own New York, Jan. 16.?The South is sound and finally has come into its own; the poople are cheerful and* they, all are making money, accord- ' ing to Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern railway who predicted^ today that the road would have its greatest year in 1926. Earnings in 1924 wero slightly more than in 1923 he said, it being too early to determine the amount accurately^ No new equipment will be bought this spring. The suit of the Southern's preferred stockholders for back divi dends probably will come up for-ar gument in February. yplarine The Depositors The depositors are the real builders of this bank. They make the bank possible and there is no success for this bank which does not depend upon the success of its depositors. The First National Bank