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? GROWTH OF CHURCH ? i FR8GREESS OF METHODIST IN SOUTHJAROLINA WOAT THEY ARE DOING K? v. II. IT. Ciowiu Writes Interest* agly ami Kntortainiugly in the Anderson Mail of the Meeting of the South Carolina Conference ol the Methodist Church, South. I The South Carolina annua, conference of the Methodist Episcopal K Church, South, is now in session at H Anderson for the third time. 1: is a I' much larger body than it was in I 1S72, or even in I iS90, and tho Meth* J odists in South Carolina are much I more numerous than in those earlier jj years. Tho following interesting ar| tide from tho pen of Rev. K. B. j' Browne In the Anderson Main will he p read with interest: a Forty years ago tho conference p met here for tho lirot time. The sesy sions were held In tho old wooden i church building that stood on the Bite of the present elegant structure, Bishop Robert Paine of Mississippi, presided. Ho was not present the first day of the session and Dr. A. M. Ohreitzberg was elected president. The bishop arrived on the second day, i December 18, and presided for the rej mainder of the session. Dr. Willi in \ C. Pooser was the ollicient secretary [ with O. A. Darby, A. J. Stafford and [ W. D. Kirk land as his assistants. At the conference of 1872, there ' weie 147 clerical members enrolled, ' and 32 lay members. Of the 147 clerical members composing that con' fercnce only 18 are still living and in connection with the conference; viz, ( W. A. Clarke; Win. C. Power T. .1. Clyde, H. A. Weber, It. R. Dagnall, J. H. Traywick, R. D. Duftle, O. L. Harraan, J. S. Beasley, Geo. M. Hoyd, Toland Hodges. D. 1). Dantzler, J. K. , McCain, J. B. Wilson. R. W. Barber, .1. C. Davis, C. I). 'Mann, Geo. H. Pooser. Only five or six of these 18 are on the effective list. Of the 32 laymen who represented ; the eight presiding elders districts at i that conference, only three are now living; viz, J. 13. Humbert, It. II. Jenninirs and Dr. N. F. Kirkland. I At this conference there were reported 3 6,163 white members, who owned church property valued at , $627,499. At the conference in Ilennottsvillo in December, 1911, there were rej ported 9 1,200 members who owned church property valued at $2,494,2.70, showing an increase in memberi ship 037 and an increase in value of church property of $1,896,! ' S 7 0. When the reports are tabulated l'or 1912 at Anderson the increase will be | still greater showing the development for forty years. At the conference of 1872, there were only eight districts (there are now twelve) in the conference and to those were appointed as presiding ! elders: \V. P. Morrow. H. A. C. Walker, Win. Martin, Win. H. Fleming. John W. Kelly, Thos. Her bort, Henry M. Mood and Robert P. Franks. These have all passed away. The methodist conference met for the second time in Anderson November 2f>, 1890, eighteen years after tho first conference hero. Bishop W. I\V. Duncan presided and mado a profound impression both on the conference and on the community. His sermon on Sunday was ono of great power. If. F. Chroitzborg was secretary with Samuel Lander, T. C. Ligon and 10. O. Watson as assistants. This conference lasted one day longer than usual at annual sessions and so did not adjourn till Thursday, December 2. Of the 215 clerical members then composing the conference only are row members of the body. Within 22 years over one-half have ceased their labors on earth. I recall the fact that the reports from the churches that year were exceptionally good. I recitil another fact that the young city of Anderson was then forging rapidly to the front as an enterprising, progressive, commercial center. There had been organized a Hoard of Trade, and the conference passed this resolution of thanks. ''Resolved, That we heartily appreciate the thoughtful attention of the Hoard of Trade and the citizens of Anderson in securing to the members of this conference a drive thro' their growing city and its suburbs." As I recall now, I think that a son of Abraham was one of the leaders in that carriage drive. "We will show you all the varied and interesting things in the progressive and hustling city," and they did and hosts and guests quickly formed a mutual an Imitation society on wneeis. I At this conference Itishop Duncan was presented with possibly the cost-( liest gavel ever used by a presiding officer in South Carolina. His friends among the clergy and laity raised the money wfth which to procure this emblem of authority and the bishop treasured the gift ever afterwards. This has been a prosperous year and the reports from the churches throughout the State will show decided progress along all lines of church activity. The following items reported at the Dennettsville conference a year ago will indicate somewnat tlie strength and work of Methodism in South Carolina: Church members 01,200 Church organizations 804 Value of church buildings. $1,081,820 Va'ue of parsonages. . .. 512,550 Total churches and parsonages 2,494,370 Superannuated preachers. 10,600 The amount contributed for mis-, ions, home and foreign, follow: Paid for foreign missions. $24,255.58 PARCEL POST STAMPS ? SAID TO RE THE FINEST EVER ISSUED ANYWHERE. They Are Being Sent Out to the Sixty TtiouHnnd I'ostoffiees in the United State*. The Washington Star says the parcels post stamps now being distributed among the sixty-thousand post I offices of the United States is the finest &orie8 of postage stamps, engraving and printing, ever issued by any government of the world. That is the expressed opinion, also, not only of Director Ralph of the bureau of engraving and printing, but or every engraver, printer and division chief who has had anything to <?o with the issue of parcels post postage stamps now being distributed for use on and after January 1, 1013, when 'lie law authorizing their use for forwarding packages in bulk is effective. One hundred millions of stamps probably will have been distributed at that time. There are twelve different designs of stamps of as many different values ?one, two, three, four, five, ten,4fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five cents and one dollar?all printed in red ink. There are postage due stumps printed in one, two, five, ton and twenty-five cent values, in green ink. Tho 8tamj>s nt the line of perforation are one inch by ??ne and one-half inches in dimensions. All but the postage due stamps are ornamented with exquisitely delicate engravings representative of the varied activities of the postal service or of the industries whose productions will be benefited by the privileges of the parcels post. The post oTce clerk is tho subject ?1... Il?? nrnnmitntu 'Ji LIU? LI 11J ' II f, 1 <1 ? J n L*??*v ui the one-wnt stamp. The cierk is ihown distributing mall in the many bags of a mail rack illustrating the system in vogue in all big post offices. On the two-cent stamp is shown the city letter carrier at work. He is at fho front door of a city residence, waiting for response to his ring to deliver the mail. 1 The railway mail clerk is the subloct of the three-cent stamp. On the four-cent stamp is shown the rural carrier and his wagon and horse. The mail train is pictured on the ' five-cent stamp. A fine, piece of engraving is the steamship and mail tender, the subject of the ten-cent stamp. The automobile service illustrates the fifteen-cent stamp, showing the quick way of collecting mail in the cities. An aeroplane carrying mail, depicted on the twenty-cent stamp, is i forecast of what is certain to he a great factor in future mail service. The othc*r stamps are devoted to illustrating big industries. Manufacturing the titles of the twenty-fivecent stamp shows a steel plant. Dai.ying is the occupation exhibited on Ho flftv-cent stamp. Harvesting is tl.T agricultural scene on the sevenry-five-cent stamp. Fruit growing, rho ornament for the dollar stamp, is mother of the engravings noteworthy for the perfection of the miniature figures. Kach of these engravings is crowded into tho tiny space provided on so small a piece of paper as a postage stamp, leaving space for margin uul engraved border. The first, design was approved in October. Since fhen all the stamp plates have been engraved and many deliveries made ro the Tost Oflice department for cir- 1 mlatlon amonjt the post offices. The preparation of an issue of stamps for the Post Oflice department (s an Interesting procedure. The Post Oflice department, in complimce with law, declares its needs. The designers are put to work by tho bureau of engraving and printing, and prepare drawings of subjects supnosed to be pertinent to the occasion of the issue. These drawings are themselves miniature, contained in a space of four by six inches, approximately. These are photographed down to stamp size, and submitted as designs to the Postmastor-Oeneral. IT is approval is given, when the work of engraving is taken up. Tho printing follows; the delivery of the stamps to the postal authorities is the next stop, when that department of tlie I government does the rest. These stamps, which are to be used exclusively for sending merchandise through the mail under the | terms of the new parcels post law, have not as yet been received at the Orangeburg Postofhce, but they may come in at any time. Tried to Take Life. Despondent because of an indictment against him charging forgery, < T. H Ennis of Hopkinsville, Ky., arrested at Peoria, 111., at the request of West Virginia authorities Friday, .attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Physicians say he has a siieht chance for recovery. Paid for conference missions 23.038.10 Special for missions?dirortod 7.7 R 3.1 3 Paid bv Sunday schools GROWTH OF A CHURCH for missions 2,780,88 Paid hv Fmvorth Leagues for missions 625.85 Paid for education .. .. 14,404.00, Paid for church extension. 8,873.00 j 'I1!-? C..n.ln<. cnlinnll) riiliilll nvor ! I in* nuuiifi.* ot iiiiwio ,, , $30,000 for various benevolences and the worn on raised $30,000 for home and foreign missions. Besides tho foregoing tho Fb>worth Orphanage was sustained and liberal amounts were raised for other benevolent en- ' ternrisos. The Methodists of South (Carolina own and control three colleges and two fitting Rchools. valued at f7f?1.-! 2r>0. with an endowment at $136,900. Sixty-six professors are emploved and ihere are 1.047 pupils In attendance on these Institutions of learning. / TELLS STORY OF WRECK SUIIV1VOKS TELL OK THKIK AWFUL EXPERIENCE. The Hteamor South Shore Wrecked j in Great Storm on Lake Superior Last Sunday. Survivors who reached S&ult Ste Marie, Mich., Tuesday, told thrilling stories of their last moments on the1 steamer South Shore, and of their rescue by life-savers just before the boat plunged to the bottom of Lake Superior, near Grand Marais Sunday. ' I have sailed the lakes for years and have never beforo encountered such an experience as this," said Arthur King, lireman on the steamer. "It was not long after the boat struck the heavy seas that her seams opened and the water poured through them. Two men and their wives were aboard as passengers. The women were remarkably cool, but they did not know their real danger. We, down below, knew we were right in the graveyard of the lakes. "The windows were soon smashed and the stern torn away. As the boat began to till the fires got low. I was standing in water up to my waist and deck hands passed coal. As soon as they would get a pile of it together water would wasn it away anu nnauy We threw into the fire boxes, a number of pads of hard coal wo were carrying as freight. "All night we tossed around the lake in that condition. Just before neon (Sunday) the life-savers on shore, six miles away, saw our white tlsg and came to the rescue. We all jumped Into the life-savers' boat and made for the shore. The wheelsman lashed her wheel and headed her straight for shore. She started in as prettily as anything you ever saw and then suddently dropped out of sight." m'HNKI) SKIiF TO DKATH. Daughter of Former Turkish Sultan Saw Dishonor. According to the story of a war correspondent at Constantinople, Zekie, the oldest daughter of Abdul Hamid, tho former Turkish sultan, was overcome with despair on account of her country's disasters and L-.'amaticnlly committed suicide in the garden of her magnificent palace at Abusheir. Her husband was Noureddin Pasha, a general of a division of the army und a son of the famous Osmpn Pasha Ghazi, "the victorious". Ho was flsrhtim? under Nazim Pasha. rlie Turkish minister of war, who although he declared to the sultan that ho would (lit? on the battlefield rather than return in defeat, has been overwhelmed with defeat and is now advising the Turkish ministers to abandon the war. Ah the news of the successive Turkish defeats came in Princess Zekie became morose and refused to converse.with her friends. After the defeat of the Turks at Lule Burgas became known in the Ottoman capital, the princess determined to commit suicide. She built a funeral pyre with her own hands and decorated it with flowers and priceless tapestries. The servants were very anxious over their mistress' behavior, but they did not dare interfere. The princess spent a long time in her apartments in silent prayer. Finally she came out, her hair flowing and attired in a long garment, ascended the pvro and then applied fire to it. She was burned to death while the servants stood around lamenting but with characteristic Turkish fatalism did not attempt to prevent the 3addened woman from taking her own life. STRANGE PRISON TARE. Fail Oflicials May Ilavo Honied the Wrong Negro. Leonard Lewis, sentenced to four years on the CJeorgi.a state farm for burglary, may have been hanged at Douglasvillo by mistake for Leonard Lewis, who was sentenced to be executed for murder. If the wrong man was hanged, the mistake was due to the fact that two negro convicts, both named Leonard Lewis and very much alike in personal appearance, were confined in Atlanta jail for safe keepink. One Lewis was from Coweta county and the other from Douglas county. One was taken from Atlanta jail to Douglasville and tliero hanged. Soon after the execution rumors became current that the wrong man had suffered death for ihb crime of murder. The prison officials say the right Leonard Lewis was hanged but admit the difficulty of proving the assertion. Stockings Cost Fifty Dollars. Miss Laura M err lam, whose marriage to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, James Curtis took place at Washington Wednesday wore at the ceremony a pair of white silk stockings given her by Mr. and Mrs. JosI AILxw f/>? nrlv ioh F hnv no { il " ll <: | it i i * i r 1 i \' i , i \ ' i n iiiv ii i uv/j i^t" i w The stockings are of the finest silk weave and are inset with point lace and embroidered in rhinestono and pearls. Kills His Pretty Sweetheart. At New York, Margaret Schroeder, a pretty nineteen-year-old girl, was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon In West 4 6th street by her sweetheart. Michael Grayson, 2 1 years, who attempted suicide by firing a bullet into his head. He was removed to a hospital unconscious. Train Went Down. Five men were killed Monday and several hurt, some fatally, when a logging train went through a 17bfoot trestle at Hear Creek, Oregon. The boiler of the engine exploded when the locomotive fell. The bodies were burned under the wreckage. / HOW TO KILL HATS lll'LLKTIN I KOM CUBMHON TKLI S OF SKVKRAL WAYS. Tliiw In the Sctwon of the Year When it is Easiest to Get Kid of the KaU>. At about this time of year when the chilly nights begin to give hints of colder weather to follow, the barns and the house as well often become infested with rats and mice seeking warmer quarters for the winter and tho problem of how to get rid of these pests is soon under consideration. The following which is sent out by Clemson College will be of interest: Many means of killing these vermin are open to the householder, but also many of these while effective are impractical from one cause or another. The two means to be considered are primarily the use of trap and use of poison. Traps are useful but in preparing those they should be handled with gloves rather than bare hands to avoid the warning human odor. They may be baited with bread or better with a piece of toasted cheese and placed near openings where the rats or mice enter rooms. The wire spring traps are very effective form as they are flat and inconspicuous and have nothing particularly suspicious in their general appearance. For mice the box traps also answer very well. Where obtainable, the new type of glass jar traps which have recently been put on the market appear very desirable. In poisoning, especially about the house, there are certain considera 0\??cj uiliinli chnnTrl V-vr? rnVl>n into MO count. First, such strong poisons as strychnine, while it will kill the pests, is a source of danger to mankind?especially to young children who might be poisoned by accident. There is also another fault with many of the strong poisons due to the fact the animal is killed too quickly, thus dying inside the ho are frequent ly dying between the walls or in other inaccessible places and causing n stench which will be a source of great discomfort or possibly of disease. A poison which acts slowly, allowing the animal time to get outside the buildings in its frantic search for water to relieve its agony is thus much better than those quickly acting poisons so often used. Many patented compounds are upon the market which are said to be prepared with this idea in view, but every householder may rapidly prepare his own and at less expense. The poison most generally recommended for ibis purpose is carbonate of barium or as it is more commonly called "barytes". This may be bought in powdered form at most drug stores and is relatively cheap in price. For preparing, the most common method is to mix up olio part or trio barytes and six parts of corn meal and oat meal with enough water to form a thick dough is placed where the posts can readily get it and left to do its work. The uarytes has no taste or odor and kills very slowly often requiring several hours, during v hieli time the animal will leave the house to seek water. Another point in regard to this poison is comparatively harmless to higher animals. The method of use may be varied by mixing the barytes with grated particles of toasted cheese, etc., or some other palatable material. ? ? l.M l'OKTA \T POSTAGH Itl' LING. Ordinary Stamps Will Not be Good on Packages. Postmaster A. D. Webster gives notice that on and after January t, 101 ordinary postage stamps will not he valid for the transmission of packages of merchandise through the mails. A distinctive parcel post stamp must be used on all fourth class matter, and any package4 of merchandise or fourth class matter hearing ordinary stamps will be treated as ''held for postage", and returned to the sender. In addition to the above, every package of merchandise hearing parcel post stamps must also bear the name and address of the sender, or otherwise they will not he accepted for mailing. T b AHA t h i\ !*/> n II ?r* /? f { 1 i A 11 If r>i; (VI i : c 11?* I r'niu t-mnun \?? in* now parcel post law, an J t ho public is asnod to boar this in min i. We are re nested to give the widest publicity o (tie now requirements so as to i\\ id 'noonvonionce to the public. Boa' in mind that all fourth class matter must boar the distinctive parcol post stamps, and must also show the name and address of the sender, mailable. Kinsman Was Killed. Flagman Womnioek, of the Sonboard. was killed at Alamo, (la. He was flagging on an oast bound freight, and it is stated that, while uncoupling cars near a seed house, the doors of the seed house knocked him down and the engine ran over his body. He lived about one hour. Mr. Wornmock had been with the company for some time. He married one month ClfeV/. Ilriifal Act of Unite. Peter G. Hanson, a farmer of Winnipeg, Man., is under arrest, charged with attempting to murder Maggie Warniziki, who was in his employ. It is said Hanson tied the girl to tin1 horns of a cow and lite frightened animal ran through the woods, dragging the ulrl for a long distance. Gives Martin a Present. Elhort E. Martin, ?ne stenographer who grappled with John Schrank after he had shot Theodore Roosevelt In Milwaukee, is the proud possessor of a handsome gold watch, a Thanksgiving gift from Roosevelt, in appreciation of Martin's act. i'Aiu:UiiS l'(wf sVMTK.vr Will be? Put in Operation on the First of January. On tho first of the new year the parcels post law becomes effective. The Instructions from tho postofllco 'lepartment In reference to this new service says: "That hereafter fourth-class mail matter shall embrace all other matter, including farm and factory products, not now embraced by law in either the first, second, or third class, not exceeding eleven pounds in weight nor greater in size than seventy-two inches in length and girth combined, nor in form or kind likely to injure the person of any postal employee or damage the mail equipment or other mail matter and not of a character perishablo within a period reasonably requirud for transportation and delivery. "It will be observed that the rates of postage are. largely reduced and that tho limit of weight is increased from four to eleven pounds. Parcels will be delivered at all free-delivery oll'oes and to patrons residing on rural and star routes: they may be registered and may bo accorded specialdelivery service on payment of the usual fees, and they may be insured against loss in an amount equivalent to their actual value, but not to exceed $2.1, upon payment of a fee of fivo cents. Dl^inctivo stamps may be used on all parcels, but tbev may be mailed in quantities of not less than 2,000 identical pieces without stamps affixed, the postage being paid in money. '' By January first all postmasters "* * ' - : ? ,it.. I WIN nave IIUII issuru iu un-m uintinctlve parcel post stamps. Distinctive parcel post stamps are to he used on all fourth-class matter begin* ning January 1, 10 1.J, and that such matters bearing ordinary postage stamps will be treated as "held for postage." That parcels will bo mailable only at postoffices, lettered and local nanie'd stations, and such numbered the postmaster. That all parcels must bear the return card of the sender, otherwise they will not be accepted for mailing." (Y1VVKVT Itl'ltw I ? ' ? Nuns Save the Lives of One Hundred \iirl Students. Huddled in their night clothes into a shrinking, terror-stricken line one hundred girls, students at St Joseph's convent, near Washington Ga., were drilled by two courageous: nuns to the street and safety, when fire completely destroyed the con vent shortly before dawn Wednesday. The Maze was discovered by one of tho students. AwaKoned from sleep by smoke which filled the entire building, she hurriedly alarmed the inmates, going from room to room, unmindful of her own safety, caring only to rescue her sister stu/intuo frnm fhntr imnendinir neril. Among tho first awakened were two nuns, who immediately set about to the task of maintaining order. Tho husdred girls were quickly drilled into line, and while fervent prayers were offered the long line of students clad only in their night clothes, marched to ihe street; and out of danger. , 4* COUNTY SHERIFF KILLED. Farmer, Resisting Arrest, Radl.i Wounded in tiie Rattle. W. T. Ifnrris, sheriff of DeSoto County, Miss., was killed and (J. W. Treadway, a fanner, probably fatally wounded in a revolver battle .Monday at the Treadway homo, where the sheriff and a posse had gone to arrest the farmer. Treadway was charged with driving oilicers trom his home at the point of a revolver Saturday. They had called to seize some cotton to satisfy a judgment. Members of the posse stated that Treadway Monday Invited Sherifi Harris to enter his home; as Harris reached the doorway lie was shot down. An exchange of shots between the posse and Treadway, assisted by his two sons, Earl and Murel, followed. The elder Treadway's arms and shoulders were riddled with bullets. Earl surrender Murel escaped, the latter is | being pursued by posses. I '.CM I'AMINE AND FIKF. lurk:;') Soldiers and IVopIo in Ad* riauople SuiTcr. j Eire, famine, tlood and anarchy ; afflict tho besieged Turkish fortress I of Adrianople, according to reports hy fugitives f'-om that besieged city. Those refcgvfs who have managed tv> escape through the lines of investment, which are being drawn closer every day around the Turkish strong hold, declare that many buildings in (lie vicinity of the Selim mosque arc oil fire. Other districts with the city are deeply inundated with the waters of the rivers'Maritz, Tunga and Arda, which have overflowed their banks. The civilian population is declared To be short of food and among some classes a state approaching anarchy 1 ON ists. Cashier Commits Suicide. At Paducah, Ky., Emmet S. 11abhy, assistant cashier of the City NaMonal Hank of Paducah, shot and killed himself in the basement of the bank Friday. Officials of the bank refused to make a statement, hi!t it is Known mai two examiners op working on tho institution's books. * Motorcyclist Sentenced. Convicted of "assault with a deadly weapon," Jlernard Tollinski, a motorcyclist of Chicago, was sentenced to 3 0 days in the house of correction Wednesday. He failed to stop his motorcycle before passing a haltlei street car. Tollinski soriously injured a 10-year-old boy. GAVE UP HUBBY GOT A DIVORCE SO AS HE COULR HARRY ANOTHER HE WEDS HIS NEW LOVE The Flint Wife, Her Former Husban i aiul His New Wife 4re the Best of Friemls, ami Seem to 1m? Ileal Foml of Kuch Other, Says toe Story. Complete self-sacrifice and almost inconceivable devotion to lifelong ideals is the keynote if tuj remailiable story which Mrs. Marion CJrai^ Wentworth, the noted dramatic leader, playwright, and socialist, told o! her reasons for obtaining u divorce from her husband, Dr. Franklin IT. Wentworth, author of the "Woman's Portion," in order that ho nrght be free to marry the woman he loved. When Mrs. Wentworth discovered the lovo which existed between her husband and Miss Alice Chapman, whom Dr. Wentworth has now made his wife, she planned to set her husband free. She went to Reno, Nev., established a residence of one year there and secured a divorce last June on the ground of desertion. On November G her husband and Miss Chapman with married in Washington. "In order that the slightest hint of scandal or criticism should attach itself to the name of the woman my husband has married," said Mrs. Marion Craig Went worth. "1 think it only fair that I should make the exact situation known which has, up to this time, not been understood even by our most intimate friends. "I bad known Miss Chapman for some years, have always been and still am very, very fond of her. * love her for the very quality which my husband saw and admired in her. So when I discovered?and I did no* need to be told, for I have always possessed a remarkable intuition? that I)r. Went worth and Alice loved one another I made up my mind that the only fair, the only Christian thing for me to do was to obtain a divorce and sot them tree to marry each other. ''My husband and I discussed the situation in all its phases, and Alice herself was present at many of our conferences. She protested at first that tho only thing for her to do was to go away from us both forever, but that would have been useless for it would not have been eliminated their love in tho slightest degree. ''Alice is gentle, kind and loving 'f V* .-v ( .1 I h ! n i* \irh a 1 nt/or 1Y"* /-v on i /4 I til l c" lo uv'Vinu^ ?> invn. y u j vvj uu puivj against her or the step she took in marrying ruy husband. "I cannot conceive of a woman fighting to keep a husband when she realizes that his lovo belongs to another or of her trying to win back the love that has departed. I have far too groat respect and reverence for love and for the feelings of others to do such a thing, and it means far too much to me to do the thing that 1 feel to be just and right. "1 still love and .respect my husband and our Intellectual friendship, which has always been one of the keenest ,'oys of my married life, will not i>e denied me, even under the existing circumstances, for I have seen. Or. Wentworth since my return from the west and shall see him and Alice after their return from their wedding trip. 1 regard my former husband as one of my very best friends and I know that ho feels the same toward tue. "Roth Dr. Wentworth and Alice now regard mo in the light of an elder sister or guardian angel. People need not be in the least surprised if we are not seen in public together. I have had several letters from Alice since their marriage and 1 am glad, through and through, that they have found happiness together." Franklin Ilarcourt Wentworth, who was born in Chicago in 180(1 and is a well known socialist writer, and Miss Marion Jean Craig of St. Paul were married by Samuel M. Jones, the "Golden Rule'' mayor of Toledo, on March 31, 1900. Roth believed marriage to be a purely civil contract. It was the first marriage ceremony performed by Mayor Jones, and he did It in what he called the ''Goldew Rule" fashJon. The parties were not required to answer any questions, tho mayor saying their presence indicated their desire to be married. Ho reviewed the Riblical storv of the creMf?op of vnmjjn and quoted from tho Rildo on the subject of marriage. He bade the couple to be diligent in bringing about a bettor condition of social affairs. He did not deem it necessurv. lie said, to tell them to ho faithful to each other, as anything ho might say would amount to lime if their souls were not congenial. ? ? m Millions of I'iggs in Storage. Although "eggs of various grades are selling in New York at prices ranging from 65 cents a dozen for "strictly fresh" down to about 38 cents for the cold storage variety, an official report made public shows that more than 1,4 4 7,000,000 eggs are being held in storage warehouses in New York and vicinity Killed by Stone Itruise* At Ann Aroor, Mien., Amort innalor of Buffalo, a freshman student at the University of Michigan, died Sunday morning from blood poisoning received from a bruise on his heel 8ustined by stepping on a stone in a cross-country run in October. * ? ? Hand on Car Step. When a passenger train reached Lnnsdalo, Pa., a few night age, trainmen found a human hand on a car step. Investigation showed the front of the engine bespattered with blood. Later the mangled body of D&Tld, Haule was found along the track.