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CENSUS AGENTS Special Men Will Be Needed to Collect Data From Manufacturers. ? DO YOU WANT TO BE ONE? If .So, lloml <)v?*r This Article (Jnrof.illy ?ut<l Then KnCor the (U?uw for KAUinintiUon al (VSunilWa? T^l?/via tikiik. Will 1 * C^'UIV \/? & ai? m (jottd Sulturirs. A competitive examination before the hoard of civil service examiners for gp<v?.ial agents In conm^ction with the collection of statistic of manufacturers and mines and quarries, will 1 >o hold In Columbia on November Thoao who moat successfally suxnd the exam 1 nation will bo mil" tg the eligible of the 1,600 to I 0 persona who will bo employed by the national govtvrninout for the puruoso indicated. 1 he applicants will be required to take a practical toet in (11 ling out a schedule, such as la used in the actual work of a Hptvciul agent Applications for a card entitling persons to take the examination must tie Beat to the director of tbo census at Washington. Applications will be rocoiA^il from women having the required oxporienco and education, but tke opportunity for the employment of womtn In thin work in slight and but few, if any, such appointments will be made. As far an possible ft is den iron to obtain for thin work persons who havo had collogo or university courses in statistics or oconomlcs, and porsor.s win> have had service In I ho Recounting department of some imuiufaoturing or olhor business establishment. Applications will bo roOeivod by tip) director of the census wnt.il the <'.losc of business, on October 26, 1909. Hlank applications may bo obtained by addressing (he director of the census. Washington, I). O- Applicants must be between the ages of 2 0 and 60 years, nuist be citizens of the United Stales, and In good health and physical condition. (rood character and habits must be vouched for by at least two persons personally acquainted with the applicant. Generally speaking, the duties of sjhx ial agents will couhIhL In obtainiug in person, from manufacturing establishments and mines and quar. ties, the statistics roqui rod by law as indicated In the printed schedules with which they will be furn. ished. These statistics cover Investment. quantity and value of products and of raw materials used, number of omployiv* and their wages, character and quantity of power, 'He. Specie! agents will bo divided into two classes: Glass 1, chief special agents, who wllJ collect statistics and supervise the work of assistant spiv c4al agents within a given territory or district; and Class 2, assistant special who will ho assigned to the collections of statistics under the direction of. and substitute to, special agents of Class 1. Special agents of Class 1 will receive compensation at the rate of from $4.f>0 to $6 per day (including intervening Sundays.) Special agents of Chuis 2, if paid by the day. will receive from $3 to $4 for (*ach day (including intervening Sundays); such Agents may, however. I?e compensated on a piece-price basis. Special agents of CIabs 1 will be employ**! from 6 to lf>f> months, and those of Class 2 from three to six months. ICach special agent will, uj*>n appointment, bo assigned an official station, and no expenses of sut>sistarce will bo allowed any apecial agent wbtln working In the immediate vicinity of hla station. Special agents who are nooeesarily absent from their designated statlons, engagod on otllclal business, will be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses and a per diem in lieu of subsistence under regulations to be hereafter promulgate. No appointment of Class 2 will bo made until about .January 1, 1910. There will bo two separate toeta In tilling the schedules, designed for special agents of Classes 1 and 2 respectively. Any applicant may take either alone, or both, and failure to successfully pass the toot of Class 1 will not necessarily pre elude eligibility for appointment in Class 2. The test for special agents of Olast 1 will coiiHiHi principally oi ino nil In.; out of a sample schedule from the details given in a typical balance ehiot and Income account, aupphv mi -iitod by other data in tabulated form necessary to complete the ached Ule. The test for special agents of Claai 2 will consist principally of the fill Ing out of ft schedule from a slmph narrative statement of facts rela tlvo to a manufacturing esahlibh mi at, la which statement will appea all the figures and facts necessar; to the completion of the schedule. At loaat several days prior to thi test each candidate will be furnish ?d a copy of the schedule and a so of printed Instructions regarding tfc ? MINERS KILLED Thirty Die From Explosion of Fire Damp in Canada Coal Mine. SHOCK WAS TERRIFIC ()??* I'lfly Mcb KntoinlH'd in Con Miiio, I'lunnlwiH Kxt?n< Under the und Only Twenty. Ave Am Rescued?Flames Kotart] the Rescue Work. Thirty lives are known to havr boon U?Bt in an explosion that ento in Ixvl more than fifty men in the Extension Mine of the Wellington Oolliory Company at Nanaimo, it. Tuesday. Twenty-five of the Imprisoned men were rescued, lint the rapidly spreading tiro prevented the rescuers from completing their work. Eight bodies were recovered and the workers wore making every effort to force further entrance Into the two levels affected by the explosion in an effort to save any who may he living and t*? recover the bodies of the dead bofore th?>y are consumed. The tire was constantly gaining headway, and while it continues, there is little hope of the rescuers being able to reach the imprisoned rn?Mi. All the men rescued were badly in fu rod. Tlw> I I ! - ? * 1 1 ' i up iiufi pui|Miijfi!(i in i in) I'oiners c?n Vancouver Inland am of the hot lor class of British minors, are well paid ami have comfortable homes. The Wellington Colliers Company, which owns Iho Mxtenslve Mine, is (UHtlrolled by British Columbia capitalists, Lieutenant Governor .fames Dtinsiniiiro being the head of the corporation. The shook was territic, but its effect was confined to the slope wherein it occurred. All of the men .n (he other slope** and loveles escaped. Kffty men were engaged in rescue work. Hundreds of inhabitants and minors volunteered aid, but the nature of the rescue work precluded more than fifty being engaged. The rescuers hoped the flames would dio down so as to permit the rescue of the entombed, but their chances seemed hopeless. The explosion was due to fire damp, the timbers in two levels at once igniting and the lire spreading with great rapidity. Holdouts of Nauaimo have been prevented from going to lCxtension, where the disaster occurred, and only resetters, miners and officials are on ino scene. The mine in situated sixty miles north of Victoria, near the seacoast. Some of the chambers run under (ho Hea. More than throe thousand men arc onjfployed (in theee colliers, which iiw the sccoud largest in Canada, and ha to been operated for forty years. Tbey have boon the scene of several disasters "in recent years. tiAbliAPIT POKS HONORED. +. Memorial Unveiled to Soldiers Hurled iU Newborn. In the preeenco of Gov. Pothier, of llhodo Island, and other State and government officials and a number of veterans, the monument erected in the national cemetery to the volunteer soldiers of Ithode Island, who fell during the civil war at Newborn, N. C., was dedicated Wednesday. The monument was delivered to the commission by the sculptor, Hon. William W. Douglas, chairman ol the monument commission, in an appropriate address, presenting tie. monument to the Governor of Khodi Island, who In turn, presented It t< the United States. The superinten dent of the cemetery accepted th< monument on behalf of the Unitei States. School children sang nut ionnl hymns during the exercises. In the evening the Daughters o he Confederacy tendered a receptioi to the visitors. method of illliiig them in. The papers prepared by the candi dates in these tests will be grade* and a perfect mark will represent f? (mmI)LH OI It Ki'liic 01 1UU iiuiurmimn I ho final grade of a candidate. Th grading of the remaining 50 point will depend upon the evidence c the candidate's experience as showon his application blank. All aj pllcants who receive a combined rai i Jag of 70 will be placed on the ellg * bio list. 1 Selections from the eligible regis 4 tor will be made as the needs of th * service require. Eligibility Is nc I of iteolf a guarantee of appointmen - but selections will no made solel with referenco to equipment an * availability for appointment. Thero will be no geographical a] i portlonmont of appointments as sue - It will bo the policy, however, as fi - a? practicable, to ussign appolnte* r to duty In the localitres in whit V they reside, and It therefore follo\ that the number of agents to be a & pointed from a given State or 1 - oalitjr will depend largely upon tl t amount of work to be done in th & State or locality. DREAD DISEASE > Pellagra Now Said to be Dne to Impure Water by Surgeons IMPORTANT DISCOVERY I The Dread Disease .May Ik' Cuum-O by I Spoiled Com Also, but the latUt is not Thought to bo the Ouljr I Cttu?e or ICvcn tine Main Cause of the Disease. , | The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says army , surgeons have just made important discoveries as to the origin of the dread disease "pellagra." These discoveries have been made at Peoria, at the Illinois State (Joneral Hospital for the Insane, where a close study of the disease has been conducted by Surgeons Joseph l'\ Siler and Henry J. Nichols. It has been found that spoiled corn or corn which has fermented does not cause the trouble. It appears that patients alllicted with pellagra have first undergone an atllictiou of the intestinal tract, resembling dysentery, which is often brought about by an impure supply of water. It appears that the army surgeons found great ignorance at tlie Peorlu Hospital as to the nature of pellagra. It is alleged that several hospital attendants were discharged because of the belief they had scalded pellagra patients. The pealing cuticle on the hands and arms, the authorities thought, was caused by scalding water instead of by a disease. I Mat the disease at the reoria Hospital was due to impure water is said to be well established. According to Capt. Slier, pellagra lias lately been discovered in New York. He expects other communi* ties, however, soon to he heard from. The army surgeons do not consider they have found out all there is to be found about the origin of the disease. They still look on corn as one of tin* food products that may cause it, but it is considered that many eatable foods of a starchy nature may also be responsible in part. It is thought pellagra is caused bv the action ot starchy substances on the damaged linings of tlio Intestines. It is said to bo now pre* valing in North Carolina at an alarming rate. FOt'N I) IN TIM 10. Discovery of Dynamite Curtridgo Saved Trouble. At Anapolis, Md., while coal for the heating and power plant at the Naval academy was being unioadel, a cartridge coitp'ning about two pounds of dynamite was discovered. Had the cartridge been thrown under a boiler the resulting evnlosion wnnul l>robably nave caused a considerable loan of life end property. The pr**sence of the cartridge among the cai 1h believed to hove been entirely accidental. It is probable that it was used for mining the coal and failing to explode was overlooked by the miners. The cartridge was examined at the Naval academy laboratory, where it was stated there was no> doubt that it was loaded with dynamite. * QUKKK CASK IN LEXINGTON. Drug Company Sued tor Wroog Iain-ling Bottle. > A dispatch from Lexington says a case without precedent in that [ county, and with hut few, if any, in } the State has recently becu filed In > the office of the clerk of court, " It Is a suit for $10,000 damages iu* sltuted by Louis Ernest Spanu, Jr., | ' by bis guardian ad litem, L. Erueat - Spann, against the Crosson Drug company of Leesville, for the alleged f wrong labeling of a bottle of modl1 cine purchased by Mr. Spann for his child, an Infant of two months. it - is alleged that the parents gave the medicine to the child, believing It to - he one certain kind of drug, when d in reality it was not what it was 0 labeled on the bottle, and that the k mould no rnauo mo cniui ill. * ? iu i;m;d to di<:ath. >f n Five Persons Cremated in ah Ineondiary fire. At Nashville, Tcnn., on Friday night, five persons were burned to ' death in a fire that destroyed a brick >t t dwelling house. The lire broke out ly t while the occupants of the house id were asleep. Great headway had been gained when it was discovered p- and so intense was the excitement h. caused by the horrified screams of ir women that no organized attempt at [?s rescue was made until after four fire jn companies had arrived on the scene, vs In spite of heroic efforts to entei p- their apartment in face of the flamef o- bursting from tho windows, ever] he member of the Flshman family per at] lshed. Two negroes were arreeto< for setting the fire. * rilAIhMN HIS IUVAIi. Cook r?jrs (in*4it Tribute to Peary in Speech <U Ohica^. I>r. Frederick A. Cook, the Arctic explorer, told the story of his discovery of the North Polo to an enthusiastic audience in Chicago Friday night after he had been extended a welcome by a special committee from the Hamilton Club. The coliseum where Dr. Cook lectured was crowded and the speaker was given an ovation as he appeared on the rostrum. In his lecture Dr. Cook referred again to his polar rival, Commander Robert S. Peary, as one of the greatest of Polar explorers, mentioning him in a galexy of Arctic scientists whose names will live in history. IMKiiS KIM) Negro ArrestoU Charged With Ilurnin Kttrmcr'N House. A dispatch from Statesboro, Oa., says tracked from the burning home of Mor4jfi ILendr'icks, a wealthy farmer of that county. Jack Mobcs/, a negro, was caught l?y bloodhounds a few days ago and is locked up, charged with arson. The home and stables of Hendricks were burned. The tiro began at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning, the family being aroused just in tinx' to stagger to safely through the smoke and tlames. The blood hounds wore put on the trail [ at the house and followed without r losing the trail to Mercer's house. A quantity of corn, the barn, stables k and residence, all wore burned. a # ? / Little Hoy Killed. David Haulbrook, a i>oy of 0 years, was killed a few days ago at his father's home, near Walhalla. He was shot in the breast and died instantly. No one was present, but < a brother, aiged 8, hoard the report q of a gun. Reports are meagre and details cannot bo had. it is not known whether it. was accidental killing or homicide. ? ? ? ? 1 Hu I let-in ltuhhlo*. Court circle ?engagement rings it's a plain fact that some people do not recognize the fact that they are plain. It is a great pity that the South-." ern cotton mills fool called on to go to th? aid of the bears In depressing the price of the South'g - Tuberculosis Conquered Writ? for testimonials of prominent i>eoplo and booklet why nature's creation saves consumptives. 10. T). Morgan, Suite f> 10, Hippodrome Building, Cleveland, Ohio. A FEW TESTIMONIALS. Copy of a letter received from a 1 .. ... * /W..1 ... .r. n.H mum mi'it i. liUMUVHw ukiku nun iui ur i ture dealer. of Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland,. O., J u I j 2 8, 1909.? To whom it may concern: This ia to certify that I, Houry A. Abel, was afflicted with lang troublo and on bolng advised by a frleud, tried 'Nature's Creation," and cheerfully recommend the medicine to all thus afflicted, as it has benefitted me very much. Youth Hincorely. Henry A. Abel, 12G4 Addison Road, Cleveland, Ohio. ~ Copy of m letter just received from a gentleman who in the general Bales agent of the great Morgan Kn-gineorlng Company, Alliance, Ohio, probably the rargeat coucern of its kind lu the world. ] Alliance, Ohio, July 2f>, 1909.? Mr. K. D. Morgan. Columbus, Ohio, My Dear Mr. Morgan: Enclosed And check for $t*, for which please send me another bottle of "Nature's Creation." !' Am feeling tine and working hard- or than ever. Am able to stand 12 hours grinding over my desk without feeling any bad effect. Fee] stronger how than I have for four or Ave years. Everybody here that was familiar with my case thinks it wonderful how much better I am. I attribute it entirely to "Nature's Creation" and wish It all the success It deserves. With best wishes, f am, yours truly, S. F. Kallenbaugh, Alliance, Ohio, cfo. M. E. Co. idiakt 4 KJA cn*ni \s^F T%ULLEV s^han ger| PttdtlnK, LKIHK. LOMRAR ,? COMPANY. AUGUSTA. GA. A Baptist preachor at East Laki Ala , named J. M. McCord, wns hard !y aWo to attend to his dut'es. A friend put him on Johnson's Tonic and ;u three weeks he wrote he va. well and heavier than he had b^ei in 15 years. The half-well kind can put on flesh only by driving out ma'arfn. ? It was in this very cotts from Birmingham, Ala., died of Fever. They had ! son's Tonic cured them i i | ( The two physicians her? had 3 very obstl wore Italians and lived on a crook GO yp months standing, their tomporaturo rangir thing In vain. I porsuadod them to let mi i ed matter and lot the medlctno go out In a f feet In all three cases was Immediate and p was no roourreooe of the Fever. j y Write to THI JOHNSON'S CHILL TIMBER Al FARP In Hnbershnm, Stephens and 1 produce a bale of cotton, 60 bui potatoes, 30 bushels of wheat | accordingly that is raided on a fa acre, depending on improvement s, meat. 1 have 1.73 5 acres la South ( 550 ticrcs 1n cultivation, balai will cut six million feet of morel houses from 1 to fi rooms each, I houses and all necessary burns, on terms. I also have 7 50 acres n?N\r al feet of yellow pine and hardw acres 2 0 miles of nrunswieW (1 million foot of yellow pine and < oak, I can soli for per aero. Writ? for lint of property t a desirable location and a bargi ing land. A J. H. H CfiAHKSVIIJ.K, :: Send for our )ry and steam j 30CIETY.KEAR KING leaning of all ! Jo WK DYK TO LI VIC, A. Southern States i RUT FRO* IV1 t: o hi 1 n ry - ? ->.., ??**aa PlLirrih>!riy BEHS-XSsL-.. tuiNtlfcttaMdKXB COLUMB CLASSiREO COLU MN 'flow to Publish Your Book":?Tbda most interesting booklet, just out, mailed free. Send postal to Broadway Pub. Co., 835 Broudway, N. Y J?i Don't Ship until you got a fro? list of reliable produce dealers In leading markets from the National League of Commission Merchants, Dept. O Buffalo. N. Y. __ For Sal??3,000 bushels pure Appier ^ oats grown from selected reed. I Free from wheat, rye, grass and J weed seeds. J. It. Fairey, Fort Motte, S. C. Wanted?Men. women, boys and girls ? If you are not making a good sala- p ry write us at once. Wo will put yon to work. C. C. Laundry, Co lumbia. S. C. Mh-Miian Wanted?On commission or $75 sr.d up per month, with tec pen rs, ns per contract. Kxperienee unnecessary. Prc^. ?er Cigar Co.r Cincinnati. Ohio. ry|N*v.w'f*pv, -Special low prices on ~ rebuilt and second-hand machines, *' ?)1 kinds, for fall trado. Write for price list. General Supply Company, Dept. O. Augusta, Ga. r%grni** v-iiop peuuuug: 1 ry our plan of dealing with merchants only. Steady work. Workors easily earn $10 dally. Write quick for attractive plan. free. J. W. Dilwortli, Gisbonville, N. C. Here's a (iooii One?The Funny Dutch Bod sot of post cards, tine o and dandy. Nuf cod. By mall, t< postpaid, 2f?c., silver or stamps. >Iu hi in *8 Big Dost Card Store, At- ti lantic City, N. J. li Genuine Rescue Grass Seed?Annual fall, winter and spring grass for a hay, pasture or lawn; yields 1 to * 4 tons dry hay por acre; no peat; analysing 8.69 prolein starch and, ft fi II , 'ftil I You'll make no mi) <55^ (J COMBINATION . JUL > nner and ftminr *COLUl ige in Brookside, 15 miles that three Italians nearly been sick 3 months. Johnquickly?read letter below: BroofeRlde, Ala., May 4,190CC Inato case* of continued Main rial Kovor. All irds from my Htore. Thetso caeca were of threo kg from 100 to 10-1. Tho doctora had tried ovorya try JohnHon's Tonic. I removod all the printplain bottle aa a regular prescription. The ef ermanent. They recovered rapidly and there 8. It. 8HIFU5TT. j & FEVER TONIC CO., Savanna*, On. ) J yd III LANDS 4abun countlcN, (in.. that will *hols of corn, 200 huahclN of per acre, nii?l everything oIho inn, at from $0 to $15 per u ii*t on your tor ma of payJoorRln. all under wire fence, rice yellow pine timber, thut mutable lumber; 6 f ruined tvealilou a number of tonent 1 cau hoII thin for $10,000 Im>vo that will cut 4 million ooil for $8,000, anil 1,130 a., on It. U. that will cut 3 one million feet of poplar and ^ mil full particulars If you want Un in either timber or farmiiil rt?s? iCKS. :: OlOOIUilA. Price List. Ladies* Coat Stiils dyed all \ colors. Moum| j Wazks ^ mmmxm gcial! imiaomiKEigv j \l) 1,1 MO TO DYK. SUPPLY CoMPftNY ?v? H1WM *Sttfejc*mm |9 I A. S. C. Hag. 52.04; how 2f> to 20 lbs seed p<>r store, any time 19t Sept. to 1st Jan. Price 8c per 11)., 100 lbs or more 10c less quantity. J Win. Roberts, R. F. D. No. 1, Tallahassee, Fla. r<*tty Kinuoiovs delivered prepaid for less than material costs you. Snap for lady agents. Free samples. Horr Mfg. Co., Dept. N, 2806 Downing .street, Denver, Colo. . i i i i i ^ fanted?Salesmen to sell our guaranteed Oilw and Paints. Expo i ii'uru unnecessary. Extremely profitable offer to right party. The t'lloa Uolliilng Company, Cleveland, 1 Ohio. * arm for Hale?2,750 acres fine land In Mitchell county, South Georgia. Plenty of horses . on property. Well stocked with tools, horses and malos and 50 head flno cattle; 6 t-2 miles from county seat on A. C. L. Ry. Artesian water; healthy location; price $10 per acre; lino for stock-raising, cotton, corn, cantaloupes, etc. J. W. Butte-, Camilla, Ga. Lake Your Own Will?Without the ^ aid of a lawyer. You don't need one. A will is necessary to protect vmir fa m 11" " - - ' - " ,-vi. tuuuij uiiu i tMHuveB. Fornu and book of instruction, any State, one dollars. Send for free >lterature telHng you all about It. Moffetta' Will Forms, Dept. 49, 894 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York City. Announcement. This being our twenty-fifth ynaf f uninterrupted success, we wish tt o lxi our "Banner year." Our thousands of satisfied cua* omors, and fair dealing, is bringing us n<iw customers daily. If you ure contemplating the pnrhaae of a piano or organ, write M ,t onco for catalogues, and for on* nec'al proposition. MAIX)NB'S MUSIC HOUNR, Columbia, S. C. Reversible Ratchet n<T2m , stake in buying this the best and only made. Three Ratchets in one, taking e Shank Drills?Long and Short Feed, DNE CHEAPER ? ASK FOR PRICE. WBIA SUPPLY CO. Columbia, S.C. t