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APPOINTMENT OF POSTMASTERS. Congressman Stevenson Discusses the Civil Service Idea. The Columbia State had the following addressed to the editor of that paper by Congressman Stevenson: Your editorial, "Are Examinations /Travesties?" based upon the editorial of the Rock Hill Record, stating that no matter how meritorious a candidate may be proven by the examination, he will not be named, unless he be acceptable to the senators from South Carolina, I think is based on an inaccurate understanding of the situation. Unless there is special cause shown, the man who makes the highest mark in the examination will be appointed, regardless of the wishes of the senators or their likes and dislikes. Then if they make it a personal matter when it comes to the confirmation and he is "personally objectionable" to the senators, they can have the appointment rejected. The appointee does not have to be personally acceptable to the senators, but if the senator makes the plea to the senate that the appointee is "personally objectionable" he can prevent his confirmation?and that is nothing new. Postmasters above the fourth-class have always had to be confirmed by the senate, and there are many instances where the senators have exercised the right to have appointments rejected on personal grounds, but they have absolutely nothing to say about appointments until they are transmitted to the senate for confirmation, and I will say that there never has been an appointment made in my district since I have been in congress, which the senators have hesitated to confirm at once and I apprehend that there will be no candidate for the Rock Hill office who will find any difficulty after he passes the inspection of the civil service commission and the postoffice department in being confirmed by the sen: ' ate; but I have no brief for the senate V tors and do not undertake to speak for them. The examinations are not travesties, but are a business way of selecting an important officer of the government and I have not only approved the same but have insisted on the results being accepted in good j faith and the winners in the examinations being appointed and confirmed whether personal or political friends of mine or not, and I hope the confidence of the country in the honesty of the government in endeavorig to get the highest order of talent suitable for postmasters will not be imit ' * paired by any misunderstanding of the situation. ' W. P. STEVENSON. Cheraw, S. C. Minister Shoots Feathery Intruder. Sandersville, Ga., June 9.?There was something of a sensation created by a jay bird in Sandersville Sunday morning. The bird entered a Baptist church and flew to the top of the interior of the building. It uttered the jay bird cry when it found that it could not escape by flying upward and would not come down low enough to escape through the open windows by which it had entered. ^ The morning, services had just begun and the collection had been tak rr,'t v 3 fl^vTrr fwnm nn o nni'nf f n en. 1 Lie UJUU ucn il uill uuv t/uuv V? another. The preacher, Rev. W. A. Wray, stated that if, the bird made another outcry he would kill it. At this juncture the bird said "Jay." Mr. Wray procured a gun loaded with small shot from the pastorium near the church, and while ^ the congregation was engaged in singing, he took careful aim and killed it. The report of the gun was not very loud, as it was of small calibre and lightly loaded. As'soon as the bird had been disposed of the morning services were resumed and Mr. Wray preached h's sermon. It is thought that the jay bird had a nest near the church, as its mare was answering its call from the outside. The incident was the general talk in Sandersville after it became known what had happened, y ? American Buyer Brings Platinum. Platinum worth $2,415,000, and weighing 23,000 ounces, was recently brought into this country, says the June Popular Mechanics Magazine. It traveled from Russia as the personal baggage of a Massachusetts business man, who had undertaken on his own "responsibility to secure it for the government. To this task he gave over a year of his time without remuneration, advanced his own funds, overcame an uncounted number of dangers, obstacles and hardships. and sacrificed his health. A tragic ending to the story of commercial romance is supplied by his death, four hours after his return, from exhaustion. m ? All size loose leaf memorandums at Herald Book Store. "i OPPOSED TO FREE LOVE. Women of Hungary Rebelled Against Ooiranunization Law. It was due to a family quarrel, writes an Associated Press correspondent from Budapest, that Hungary escaped having its women "communized" after the fashion in the Russian "republic" of Sratoff, rather than to the abhorrence of Bela Run to the scheme, as the latter afterwards stated. The law to com munize women was actually framed and in the printers' hands, ready for publication when Herr Weltner, one of the cabinet of bright young men. who are now ruling the fate of the former kingdom, went home for supper. During the meal he told his wife and his mother-in-law in glowing terms about the projected reforms. \ "What are you doing for women?'* they asked. Weltner then explained that in future women would be free too; that they, too, would be permitted to choose their own husbands and discard them if they liked by the simple process of paying a few cents for a legal paper declaring their "unfitness" for married life. Further conversation developed the fact that the new law also gave husbands the same right; that children might be turned over to the care of the State so that both husband ajid wife would get rid of the duties and responsibilities of roorino- thpir nwn nffsDring. "Do you mean to tell me that you can get rid of me from one day to another and marry the next day if you like?" demanded young Frau Weltner. "That's how the law stands," replied the husband. Then the storm broke. Both wife and mother-in-law began to scream and a frenzied scene followed, the upshot of which was that the women de- ' manded that Weltner should get the law stopped or they would leave him at once and would, moreover, get all the wives, mothers, and mothers-inlaw of all the ministers to do the same. Weltner in the interest of his home comfort and peace, eventually promised to do his best to get the law rescinded. He went to the telephone and had a conversation with Bela Kun and the other ministers and then called up the printers, telling them | that no proof needed to be "pulled" ! from the forms where the law lay. He also ordered that the type should be melted up and the copy destroyed. It was thus that the law died. Advanced to Second Class. Walterboro, June 11.?Postmaster C. Henderson Praser reports that he has just received notification that the Walterboro postoffice has been advanced from a third class to a second class office. This will* become effective July 1. The gross receipts of this office during the year ending in June were approximately $10,000, and the requirements for a second class office are only receipts of $8,000. The advancement of this office in class will mean that the postmaster will receive a higher salary and ' be permitted to employ more assistants. CHESTER WOMAN ARRESTED. Warrant Sworn Out Charging Her With Assault on Husband. 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