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NEW METHODISE WAS BU House of Worship Rises With All Material Rea Trades Speedily.?A Spartanburg, May 1.?Spartanburg's Methodist church was built to-day between sunrise and dusk. In a handsome building at the corner of South Church street and Crescent ivpnne nnt n stirk of which had been standing 14 hours before, 800 people vorshipped to-night, while three : ^es that many stood outside, vainly seeking to enter. Although built in a single day, El-Bethel church is as substantial a structure, the carpenter agreed, as if six months had been devoted to the job. It is a far handsomer building, according to Major Augustas H. Kirby, 83 years old, than the first Methodist church erected in this city, which was dedicated in 1836 and took a year to build. With carpeted aisles, mission style pews, an altar decorated with flowers, a piano in the choir loft and all the other requisites in place, the interior of the church last night presented as finished an appearance as the exterior, which was neatly painted in white, with green trimmings. Thousands Watch Work. Tilstimntps of thp nnmhpr nf non. pie who watched the building of the church vary, but it is believed by some that as many as 18,000 persons visited the place during the day. Many people came from the country in buggies and wagons to see the unusual spectacle. Moving picture men reeled off many thousand feet of i film. System, carefully prearranged, enabled the 150 carpenters, mechanics, painters, paper hangers, plumbers, electrical workers and other artisans! to perform the feat. Every man! knew exactly where to get the ma- j terial needed and where to put it. The Rev. J. M. Shell, who formerly j was in charge of the work of the | Methodist church in the section: where El-Bethel stands and who was j one of the prime movers in the! project, was the first man on the i scene this morning. He reached the; lot at 5:15 o'clock. Five minutes later tne Kev. jno. w. speaKe, pastor of the Bethel church, the mother of El-Bethel; C. P. Hammond, chairman of the building committee, and J. M. Crawford, of the Magness Trust company, general superintendent of i the enterprise, reached the scene. The First Nail. Maj. Kirby, patriarch of local Methodism, who was to drive the first nail, arrived with a number of carpenters, about 5:30 o'clock. The brick foundation was already in; place, having been completed Tues-1 day evening. The building material i had also been assembled on the lot, j every piece was numbered and laid where the workmen knew they would j find it. At 6 o'clock Mr. Shell invoked the ' divine blessing on the undertaking | and prayed that there would be no \ accident. Five minutes later the carpenters raised the first corner post and Maj. Kirbv drove the first nail. He used an ancient hamer which, he said, had been lost in 1845 andnot found again until 1865. Maj. Kirby made one or two false strokes i and his grandson, A. M. Chreitzberg, offered to hold the nail for him. Maj. Kirby declined assistance, however, and proceeded to drive the nail j without further trouble. At noon all the rough work except the raising of the roof had been fin- j ished. At this point the bugle sounded for lunch and the 150 workmen filed to two long tables, spread on the lot by the ladies of Bethel church. The Rev. Dr. S. T. Hallman, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran church, i said grace, after which the men fell to the bountiful dinner with keen; onnotit-oc IVhilp wnrkmpn's heads bowed the camera men took j motion pictures of them. McSwain's Baraca band had marched to the scene at 9:30 o'clock, playing "Onward Christian Soliders. "i It took a stand on the piazza of Jesse > Mahaffey's house, opposite the church, and played lively airs all day. At 5 o'clock the pews were brought in and the work on the drop ceiling completed. The staining of! the doors and windows and the installation of the molding was finish ed by 7 o'clock. The carpet was then laid in the aisles, the pulpit furniture installed, a piano was carried to the choir loft and carnations and lilies placed around the altar. The trash was carried out and the house was ready for worshp. Worship at 8 O'eleek. The artisans were given their supper on the ground and at 8 o'clock, still clad in their working clothes, they assembled for worship. The lights were turned on and they were given their first opportunity for j an inspection of their work. The | church looked as if it might havej r CHURCH ILT IN ONE DAY Rapidly in Spartanburg, idy, Workers Ply Their .11 Finished by Dusk. been used for several weeks, so thoroughly had all the details been attended to. Mr. Shell presided at the meeting. Mrs. Speake, at the piano, accompanied the opening hymn, "Praise God From Whom All Bless ings Flow." The singing was conducted by John C. Brewington. The Rev. A. J. Cauthen, presiding | elder, led in prayer, after which Mr. Shell read the scripture lesson. Mr. Hammond made an address, thanking the carpenters and other worki men for their labor, which was given j free. Four carpenters in their overi alls then took up the collection. A flashlight photograph was then taken. | Mr. Shell then related the history of j the church and presented the deed , for the property. Mr. Speake men-1 | tioned that the Rev. W. H. K. Pen- I | dleton, rector of the Church of the I Advent, slipped into the church while j if was being erected and nailed to I the wall an envelope containing a | contribution to the church. The benediction was pronounced j by Dr. Hallman. Mr. Speake will at once begin a two weeks' revival services at El uetnei. Vote a Heavier School Tax. "I would vote for a heavier school tax in my community," you will sometimes hear a man say, "but I don't want to pay money to educate negroes." It is about time to drop this silly and false pretense. In the South as a . whole to-day, statistics indicate that the negro gets little more school fund than his proportion of the public revenue entitles him to. Striking testimony on this point is brought out by the Charleston News and Courier, which quotes official statistics to show that in the South Carolina schools the expenditure for each white child is $12.62 a year and for each negro child only $1.71. It points out furthermore, that there are ten counties in South Carolina where expense per white pupil exceeds $15, and only nine counties where the expense per negro pupil exceeds $2 a year. So far from believing that the negro is getting more than his proportion of school funds, the News and Courier believes that not enough is being done for the education of the negro, and that the time will come when liber al appropriations will be made from the public treasury and "the best obtainable skill and instruction provided with the especial view of increasing the industrial efficiency of the colored race."?Progressive Farmer. Reflections of a Bachelor. A little romance in a man goes a heap further with a woman than much wisdom. A man feels about being a good example just the way a boy does about wearing curls. Nobody will listen to advice for which he doesn't have to pay as professional opinion. Nobody forgets to drive a nail in his own coffin lid ever so often, but nobody remembers there is only so much room for them. A woman never gets so indignant with anvhnriv in an arernment that she can't get much more indignant with a peacemaker who steps in. When a girl runs away with a man it's proof that if he was worth it he wouldn't let her. One per cent, of men are somewhat popular, but the whole 100 per cent, think they are strongly so. A man's family keeps him from putting lots of his money into bad investments by spending it for him. A man will spend three times as much on getting a pass to something as it would cost to pay his way in. The Big Light. The most powerful light in America is housed on a promontory near Sandy Hook, two hundred and fifty feet above the beach, where it acts as a safeguard to all ships entering or leaving the harbor of New York. It is called Navesing Light, and is of ninety-five million candiepower? nearly one candle for each inhabitant of the United States! At fifteen or . ? ~ ^ , + p fioel-i is 'j c n n irt T f (1 IWCULV lim^O uo nuon *o .* and brilliant as a star. On a perfectly clear night its shaft of light can be seen one hundred miles at sea. When it was erected it was operated at twice its present candle-power; but ocean pilots obejected to its strength, saying that so amazing an electric flash actually blinded them and interfered with their work. Uncle Sam heard the prayer of the pilots and turned his pet lamp to ninety-five million candle-power. New books at Herald Book Store IMPERSONATED CITY OFFICER. Spartanburg Man Accused of Collecting Fines for Auto Speeding. Spartanburg, May 1.?Impersonating a plain clothes detective, Bufort Trimmier, a well known young man of this- city, held up W. R. Carr, in his automobile, and charged him with violating the speed limit. He offered to "make things right" with Mr. Carr, it is stated, upon payment of $5. The autoist, not wishing to cause his friends who were in the car at the time to appear in court as witnesses, paid the $5. It was subsequently learned that Trimmier was not employed by the city at all, but used this method of extorting money. It i9 said that he has obtained money from other automobile men living out of Spartanburg and that 1 A r> tvi q ne gUl awa> tvuu mc v*ficers of the city tried to induce Mr. Carr to cause a warrant to be issued for Trimmicr's arrest, but he refused. Mr. Carr further attempted to persuade the young man's employers to re-employ him. Trimmier claims that he had been drinking. House Passes Postoffice Measure. Washington, May 2.?The postoffice appropriation bill carrying approximately 5275,000,000 was passed by the house to-day, 227 to 5. The measure carried, in addition to the appropriations necessary for the conduct of the department, a number of radical additions. Among these were federal aid for good roads, the compulsory publication by newspaper, magazines and I periodicals of the names of their A*? ? /sMi. ^ c ? owners ana rne esutunsmiiem, ui a parcels post in connection with the rural free delivery service. The good roads provision added between $16,000,000 and $18,000,000 to the appropriation and this amount, it is expected, will be materially increased in the next postoffice measure. Xotes from Labor World. | In the course of ten years the British trade unions have increased only 23 per cent, while the German unions have increased 240 per cent. The men's trade unions of Denmark have opened their ranks for the admission of women. Equal pay will be demanded for women who do men's work. The world's largest trade union composed entirely of women is said to be the Cotton Operatives' Union, of Lancashire. This union has 80,000 members. Ten thousand working girls of the Chicago Woman's Trade Union League have contributed $1,200 to the league in dimes, nickels and pennies as the result of self-denial week. Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, reports that the average membership for October, November and December, 1911, and for January 1912, was 55,000 more than the average membership of the previous year. In Texas the churches and the trade unions are getting together. According to the plans agreed upon between the pastors' association and the Central Labor Council of Dallas, each of these bodies will have an active representative in the official work and deliberations of the other. The Local Newspaper. A good local newspaper is one of the surest signs of a progressive community and it is to every farmer's interest to do what he can to make his county paper a good paper. It tells him things which he should know and which no other paper can tell him. Often it will be the best advertising medium he can use and if the editor realizes that the farmers in his territory are trying to help him make a good paper, he is more than likely to be willing on his part to do all he can to advance the interest of the rural sections. We realize that too many local papers give practically all their attention to the town and neglect the country districts, but we wonder sometimes if this is not almost as much the farm- . ers' fault as it is the paper's. Get in touch with your local paper. Send in to it any item of news you may have. Let the editor know about any good farming that is being done in your neighborhood. Help him to see that the prosperity of a town is founded upon the prosperity of the farming country about it. In this way you can help him make a better paper and enable him to be of more service to you and to the community. ?Progressive Farmer. $1,000 Fine for Selling Whiskey. Atlanta, May 2.?Sam Loeb, the Atlanta merchant, who has gone to greater lengths than anybody else in his efforts to prove the unconstitutionality of the Georgia, prohibition 1 *"* "" A nrill VimrA law, nab iubi nib 115111, aim. win nave to pay his $1,000 fine or serve one year on the chaingang. The supreme court of the United States, to which he made a last and final appeal, has dismissed his case. He only took it there after exhausting all procedure in this State. SWALLOWED 19 TEASPOONS. Surgical Operation Performed to Recover Missing Silverware. Bangor, Me., May 3.?A surgical operation has just been found necessary to recover a lot of teaspoons which disappeared one at a time from a ward of the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital here. When the mystery was solved by the discovery that one of the patients was swallowing the missing articles, Drs. W. C. Mason and E. B. Sanger recovered from the man's stomach 19 teaspoons. Seventeen of them belonged to the hospital and two had nrociimahlv Kppd cwn 11 ntvprl hpfnrp the man was committed. The Flood Situation. The flood waters which had been threatening the levees broke through the artificial barrier last Wednesday afternoon and within a few hours more than 300 feet of the levee had crumpled away, turning loose great volumes of water on the lowlands of Point Coupee parish. Sections of Torras flooded rapidly, and by yesterday morning the Texas and Pacific railroad was out of commission. As soon as possible after the break occurred all the towns in the threatened territory were warned by tele phone, and horsemen were sent out to advise the people on the plantations. The flood is now pouring over large sections of St. Landry, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, and Assumption parishes. The section affected includes the generally conceded garden spot of the whole Mississippi valley. When the news reached Washington the house committee on appropriations, voted $700,000 additional for the benefit of the sufferers, and more army officers were ordered to the distressed district to superintend the distribution of supplies. The desperate conditions now prevailing are expected to continue for several weeks. The Weak Boom. Medill McCormick was talking in Washington about one of many feeble booms. "That boom is as feeble," he said, "as feeble, ah?well, I can only illus- = trate its feebleness by means of a story. "A drummer was waiting at Nola Chucky for the Southern Cannon Ball Limited. The train crawled in at last, nine hours late?a ramshackle, clattering thing, as ridiculous as an old-fashioned high-wheel bicycle. "The drummer got aboard. There ? seemed to be only one other passen- I ger. The locomotive hooted, the bell clanged, the wheels spun around and steam hissed, but the train failed to move. Then there were more hoots, more puffs and hisses and still the train didn't budge. Finally, after a third vain effort, the engineer got down and shouted to the passengers, whose heads stuck anxiously out of their respective windows: " 'Say, I'll have to ask you two gents to climb off till I get her started.' "?Washington Star. The Sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. John Drew, the actor, was moved to talk about the Bible at a society dinner one evening. On his way to the club with a friend later on, he said: "Nobody reads the Bible any more. The ignorance of the average person about the Bible and Biblical | things is absolutely amazing. After I I had talked my head off regarding the Scriptures this evening, a young ~ lady said: " 'I have enjoyed what you said. But, do you know, I always thought Sodom and Gomorrah were man and wife?' "An older woman made this comment: "'Oh, well, I suppose they ought to have been if they were not.' "? Popular Magazine. IV Appeals to Government. Chicago, May 3.?Fear that her daughter and her son-in-law have been murdered by Yaqui Indians in ~ Northern Mexico, has led Mrs. E. J. Gilbert, of Chicago, to appeal to the State department for assistance in finding out from the Mexican government whether her relatives are safe. Mrs. Gilbert's husband was slain by members of this tribe ten years ago. The daughter, who is Mrs. _ Thomsa J. Shumate, has not been ? heard from in six weeks, although I previous to this letters were received frequently by her friends here. She \ is 18 years old and has been travel- u ing in Mexico for several months. Man Ends Life. Waycross, Ga., May 3.?Leaving a jl] certified check to pay his board and funeral expenses, Jonathan Hawkins, ^ 25, unmarried, of Andrews, S. C,, killed himself here to-day with a 38 calibre revolver. He is a brother of si E. A. Hawkins, of Raleigh, N. C. The ^ deceased left a note requesting that none of his relatives be notified. No |, cause for the act is known. 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