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W'\ SENDS OUT MONEY CROP FUND IS DISTRIBUTED BY THE TREASURY IN SOUTH AND WEST Government Agents in This State, I%1Henry Scbachte in Charleston, Henrj W. llriggs in (ireonville, August \V. Smith in Spartanburg, ami Win, II. Lyles in Columbia. Secretary McAdoo announced Tuesday the apportionment as far as it had been completed of the $50,000,000 to be deposited by the government in national hanks of the West and South to facilitate the movement and marketing of crops. The total amount allotted to date is $4 6,500,000, of which $21,800,000 goes to banks i 11 the 13 Southern States and the District of Columbia, and $24,700,000 to fourteen Western States. Southern banks asked that their share of the funds ho deposited in August and September and those in the West want the money apportioned to thein during September, October and 'November. Tito money will be allowed to remain on deposit on an average of four or five months. All of it is to be returned not later than April and Southern bankers who get their money first will begin turning it back into the treasury in monthly installment. In a statement announcing the apportionment, Secretary McAdoo said: "The funds are deposited in the banks in the. West and South at this tun? because it is believed them is a special demand for the money to assist in marketing of the crops which are now being harvested in these particular sections, hut if in the east or elsewhere it should be shown that there is need for the temporary use of funds for similar legitimate purposes the government will ho quite as ready to extend similar aid." Many factors were taken into consideration in arriving at the apportionment of deposits in the West and (South. "Among these," the secretary eaid, "were the immediate needs of the localities as reported by the committee of clearing houses in the conferences held with them in Washington, the capital of the different national banks and the character of business transacted by them The amount of money which these banks -are at present time advancing to their country bank correspondents and the additional accommodations which they expect to extend to those correspondents; their present condition as shown by the last comptroller's call; their outstanding circulation and the amount of rediscounts they may have made in their efforts to meet tin4 legitimate demands upon thorn of customers and correspondents." Jn each depository city the government has chosen a special representative who will servo in conjunction with the clearing house committee of five to pass on all commercial paper recommended as security for deposits and all paper before being accepted must ho recommended by this committee. Following are the amounts allotted to each Southern State, the cities designated as depositories and a partial list of the government's representatives; * Alabama, $l,r?00,00ft; Birmingham, E. M. Tutwiller; Mobile, Albert Ilush; Montgomery, W. A. Gayle. Arkansas, $000,000; Rittle Rock, W. M. Kavanaugh. Florida, $1,150,000; Jacksonville; Ponsaeola, J. R. McNeill; Tampa. Georgia, $1,700,000; Atlanta, W. K. Orr; Savannah, J. R. Anderson; Aueast a, Wiljiam II. Barrett; Macon, William H. Felton Jr. Kentucky, $1,650,000; Lexington, J E. Cassidv; Louisville. Ixniisiana, $2,600,000, New Orleans, W. T. Hardie; Rhrevenort. Maryland, $2,200,000; Baltimore, William C. Pago. Mississippi, $0,000,000; Jackson, W. Q. Cole; Meridian, J. II. Wright; Vicksburg, P. M. Harding. North Carolina, $1,200,000; Charlotte, E. R. Preston; Greensboro, R. R. King; Wilmington, Hugh McRae; Raleigh, Charles E. Johnson. South Carolina, $1,500,000; Charleston, Maj. Henry Sehachto; Columhia, William H. Dyles; Cireenvillo, Henry W Rriggs; Spartanburg, August W. Smith. Tennessee, $1,050,000; Chattanooga, W. F. Kalb; Knoxville, Samuel ]i. Lutterell; Memphis, Samuel P. Head; Nashville, Joseph II. Thompson. Texas, $2,500,000; Dallas, Alexanler Sanger; Fort Worth; Houston; Galveston, I. II. Kempnor; San Antonio. Virginia, $1,450,000; Lynchburg, A. S. White; Norfolk, Walter H. Taylor; Richmond, E. L. Remiss; Roanoke. District of Columbia, $500,000; Washington, J. Sol win Tate. / Overdose Causes llliiidncss. Ninety grains of quinine, self-prescribed for chills and fever, caused total blindness to Charles Pittsmeyer at Camden, N. J. Tuesday. Doctors found the overdose had paralyzed the optic nerve. lirXTlXCJ SliOKTDK 1U/ITI0. ? Proposed State Highway 1'ii.sm^ lry llolly Hill. A quicker and shorter route from Columbia to Charleston, and one which can easily be frit in tirst-elnrtH shape, was the proposition laid hefore Commissioner R. J. Watson Saturday by a party of gentlemen who travel the State in automobiles for commercial purposes. The new route to the City by the Sea as advocated by these gentlemen would cut the distance of 90 miles as against 122.(1 by the present short route and 138.2 by the longer route The road, should it be decided to follow the present Capital-to-Coast highway until it crosses Hate's Ferry. This ferry, by the way. is to be improved, permanent landings made on each side of the river, the causeways improved, the addition of a motor to I>e made to the boat and the wiring to bo fixed so that the ferry can cross the Congress without interfering with navigation. At present it is m;i trsrsur.v I or 1IK' lOITV I <) 110 Oil tllO Uichland side of the stream nil Untune. After crossing the Congarce Hiver the new road, instead of going from Fort Motto to St. Matthews, would take the straight road bearing to the left and crossing the tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line half-way between Creston and Lone Star, then cross the line into the eastern neck of Orangeburg County and follow somewhat the tracks of the Pregnall division of the Coast Line, crossing the tracks of the Coast Line at HUoree and Holly Hill and then going due east from Holly Hill into Herkeley County. Turning south between Pinopolis and Monks Corner and coining back close to the main line of the Coast Line the road would go from there direct into Charleston, making the distance from Columbia to Charleston only ninety-nine miles. A study of the map of this proposed short route will show that it follows more or less of a ridge all the way from Columbia, the lower end of the road being a natural hard pan. Tho road can bo put in first-class shape, it. is said, with little effort and little cost. Thirty-seven and one-half miles of this road on the Columbia end is as iiino a piece of roadway as can he found in the whole State. If the people along the route, the farmers and the residents of the towns, are interested the work can he easily done. Commissioner Watson says if the people show any willingness to improve the highway he will chart and map it and sign post the road just as ho has .been doing all over the State. ? ?? TALKS Ol'T 1'IjAIX. LaFolletto I'riMliots Itepuhliciui CJnlli tiger's Retirement. In a verbal tilt marked by intense bitterness on both sides, Senator LaFollette Thursday predicted tho retirement of Senator Galllnger, of New Hampshire, the Republican leader, and others of "his type'', because of their alleged failure to adjust themselves to changing industrial conditions. "Tho Republican party has been put out of power by tho people of this country who sympathize with the views which I am now expressing," cried Senator I^aFolletto, shaking his hand, "and they will put more men out of the Senate of the typo of the Senator from New Hampshire before wo get through with the disposition of theso issues." ? llot Weather Out. West. A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch says lato Thursday afternoon the government thermometer lion* nrrjitn ronoii. od 1 Oil. This was the end of a steady climb froth 86 at 9 o'clock Thursday morning. The nights are stifling. There was not a cloud in the sky Thursday, and the water problem is getting inoro serious every day for many Kansas towns. I Woman, Scared by Thief, Dying. Mrs. Orlando Kepler, wife of a Philadelphia manufacturer, is dying from a blood clot on her brain, caused by fright when a burglar attacked her in her bedroom. Mrs. Kepler grappled with the intruder and then lapsed into unconsciousness. The burglar, William Tallont, an old offender, was captured. Tied l*p for u Year. An Atlanta dispatch says the Frank case can not reach tho supreme court on appeal before tho third Monday in December, according In nfticbila Ihol Ivllumol r*.1 1* vi umc %- i imi ii u 11 <11111 it m hardly likoly any disposition of It will bo made until some time next year. In the meantime Frank will remain in tlie Fulton County jail. Hil(l(?o I In i I ( in Twelve Days. One of the most important bridges near New York city was rebuilt, after it had been burned down, in 12 days, record time on such a structure. It is more than a mile long and 1,500 men worked on it continuously. It is most time for Felder to break out again. How the Frank caso ran in the courts of Atlanta for over a month without Felder getting in the newspapers about it is a mystery. Like all humbugs, Felder likes the limelight. ? m:m:k-nkvkh land. Wo who are oh! shall never go . Adown a way wo used to know When we were young, and merely fools; Shall never stand by moonlit pools And mark the poplars thin and stark. Tall sentinels against the dark, Nay wo shall never go again Hands held In hands down Lovers' Lane. We who are old shall never go When lights in windows are aglow, And 'neath a branch the night-wind stirs Haze on that window which is hers. While yet the light holds out to burn; And never blink, and never turn Until the shadow of the maid Is wiped by darkness from the shade. We never by the pasture bars Shall stand again and count the stars, Nor for each falling star shall take The old, sweet toll which used to ninko Us richer than a millionaire, Which used to wipe out every care, Which sent us homeward from the bars With our head tip among the stars. We ne'er1 shall mark where she hnn put j Tn the white (hist hor dainty foot, Nor shall wo treasure up a rose That lately her tip-tilted nose Was hurled in. nor tell our love To a worn and discarded glove, Nor mark the glory in her face When meeting in the trysting place. We for whom now all years are gray Shall never take the winding way 1-p the high hill to the old beach, Where once as high as we could reach We carved within a crooked scroll, While heart to heart, and soul to soul We stood, the maid's name and our own ? Those names must now ho overgrown. We, standing in life's sunset glow, In till our lives shall never go, Her hand in ours down Hover's Lane; Shall ne'er keep tryst with her again, Nor watch the trees across the pool, And never he the world-loved fool We used to he?we ne'er shall st and In love In Never-Never Hand. A HI I F. IIF.KOIC. I life the man who faces what he must With step triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who lights the daily battle without fear; Sees his hopes fail, yet unfaltering t rust That God is God?that, somehow, true and just His plans work out for mortals; not a tear Is shed when fortune, which the world holds dear, Falls, from his grasp?better, with love, a crust Than living in dishonor; envlei not Nor loses faith in man; but does his best, Nor even murmurs at his hHmbler lot; iTTut with a smile and words of hope, gives zest To every toiler. lie alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate. ? Negro Shot in Court A moment after the Jury at Montgomery, Ala., had acquitted him, Will Smith, a negro, was shot twice by Robert Sears, a constable. Smith was being tried on the charge of shooting at Sears while the latter was trying to make an arrest. The judge and jury hid behind benches while the fusillade of shots was going on, then arrested Sears. Kincniun Killed. Tho first fatal accident to happen on tho Ohio ranges in tho National ltifle Association shoot at Camp Perry occurred Thursday when Francisco Zerarra Ballon, of the Peruvian team, was killed by one of his fellow countrymen, Juan Ezguerra, who accidentally pulled the triggor of his loaded rifle. (V?nffwuou in - ..... ii w iji Ilarry Haines, with several aliases, alleged to be a safe-blower, arrested at Birmingham .during the past week, has confessed that ho is one of the men who hold up and robbed the mail car on the north-bound Louisyille and Nashville Railroad, between Catera and Birmingham on tlie night of August 8. ? ? Their Work is Over, Within a month from now the government will bo compelled to face the problem of handling about 10,000 laborers whoso work in the various departments of the Panama canal construction will have been completed. Train Kills Family. J E. Rowan, aged 35, his wife, and two children and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Allen Wood Smith, all of Rrackenridge, Pa., were killed when their automobile was struck by a train on the Pennsylvania lino at Lanevillo, near Freeport, Pa. .. MILLION AND A HALF OF CHOP MOVINO MONKV SKXT TO THIS STATE. ? Charleston Cots $.*>00,000, Columbia $ too,000, WiiJle Spartanburg and Oreenvillo Each (Jet $:t(H),OOOf While the treasury department would give out no Information regarding the crop moving money going to different South Carolina banks, The Columbia State's Washington correspondent was able to ascertain Monday that Charleston will get $500,000 and the share of that city will bo divided among the following banks: Peoples' National bank, $175,000; Hank of Charleston, $175,000, and tho First National, $150,000 Columbia, it is learned, will get about $4 00,000, and as far as could be ascertained this amount will be divided between the three following banks: Carolina National, National Loan and Exchange and the Palmetto National. (Jreenvllle and Spartanburg, it was also learned, will each receive $300,000 and this fund by agreement will bo equally distributed among all the national banks of those two places which want it. When the treasury department officials were asked by the State's correspondent if these amounts were correct, it was stated that for the present it was not desired that any figures be printed and therefore nothing of confirmatory nature so far as the officials named are concerned, could be had, but the information hero given was secured from those 011 the inside and is believed to he approximately correct, except that the total amount going to Columbia may bo slightly more than here given. It is considered that $300,000 for Creenville and Spartanburg is a good si'/.ed amount, whent it is considered that Charleston gets only $500,000 hut the two first named places were placed prominently Tieforo Secretary M eAdoo. This information Is believed to be as nearly correct as It Is possible to secure 11 at tins time, out not being secured from official sources it is given subject to changes by the treasury department hereafter. Church and Public Health. "No social agency is more earnest in its demands upon the church for co-operation than public health, and no agency offers a greater return for such co-operation," says Dr. lOnnion VV. Williams, health commissioner of Virginia, in a bulletin just issued by the United Suites Bureau of Education. "Public health asks the church to join hands with it in giving men better bodies, and it promises that when men's bodies shall he stronger, their spirits will he nobler. Public health asks tho church to assist in it making sanitary the community to which tho church ministers; and it pledges the experience of the world to show that when this is done, none will benefit more than tho church. Other things equal, the healthy man is the moral man, and the sanitary community is tho spiritual community. "The first means of co-operation on the part of the church Is In preaching tho dignity of the human person, the sanctity of tho individual body. This will enable the church to Justify tho health officer in his de iiKiuii hji it miuimry com muniiy will, indeed, make that demand Irresistibly logical. If the body Is sacred, then the body deserves a sanitary surrounding and depends upon it. The permanence of oxr fight for bettor health must rest, in part at least, upon an awakened public con-1 science which will view disease as, second only to sin, cleanliness as next to godliness. "The church should, in a very practical way, illustrate the necessity of sanitation by being itself a model of sanitation. It should bo well ventilated, well kept supplied with proper outhouses and with a safe supply of drinking water. Many of our rural churches fall far short of this. Cleaned only when filth becomes unbearable, ventilated by chance or accident, generally without any outhouses and supplying water from a rusty bucket and a dirty tin dipper, the church oftentimes is a focus of infection. If it is to stand as the evangel of good health, It must be sanitary. If it is to preach the gospel of fresh air, it must be well ventl lated." *, Pool linns Auto. Fearing evil luck would hofall him tho rest of his days, if he ran over a cat that meandered leisurely across the road In front of liis speeding automobile, Fl. C. ll.rown, of Oakland, Til., ditched his car, containing five persons near St. Mary, Tnd., breaking one person's arm, and severely shaking up tho others. Georgians Tjynoh Negro. The bullet-riddled body of Virgil Swanson, a negro, was found hanging from a limb in a lonely spot near Greenville, Ga., late Monday. As this seems to be a set time for investigations of all kinds, we hope one will be set on foot to find out tho age of Ann and who struck Billy Patterson. s i c ;<; i?:st i \ k qr estion s. On the Sunday School lesson by I)r. liinscott. August ill, Ibid. (Copyright, 1912, by Rev. T. S. Linscott, I). I).) Israel at Mount Sinai. Ex. xix; Hob. xii: 18-24. Colden Text Let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well pleasing to Cod with reverence and awe. Heb. xll: 28. 1. Verses 1-2 ? How had the children of Israel spent the three months since they left Egypt and what experiences had they passed through? 2. Versos 3-4 ? Is Cod more accessible or not, and why, from one place than he is from another? 3. What is the meaning of the statement, "And Moses went up unto Cod"? I. When wo pray or make requests or ask questions of Cod should wo or not expect such a clear cut answer from him as Moses bore received? (This is one of the questions which may lx> answered in writing by members of the club.) T>. Verses 5-6?Are Cod's promises conditional or unconditional? Why? d WJint is flic unhnlnnPA nf find's promisee for time and eternity to-day to liis obedient children? 7. Versos 7-8?If those people when their hearts were stirred with penitence promised God to be true to Him, but afterward were not true, would God bless them at tlie time of making the promise ns if they had subsequently fulfilled their vows? 8. When a sinner turns to God in good faith is he always at the time accepted regardless of what the Binner's subsequent life may be? 9. Verses 9-11?How does God come to the people in these days and what is the necessary preparation for us to meet him? 10. How do the people now recognize when God litis spoken to a man who says he has a messago from God? 11. It is possible to-day for God to Work eff oct nn 11 v t ti rrni trli n phnpuli whose members are living in known sin? Why? 12. Verses 1 2-1 H?Why did God mako it a capital offense if any of the people should attempt to touch this mountain ? 13. What did it mean then, and what does it mean now, for the pimple to "sanctify" themselves? 14. Verses 1G-25?If you have been on a high mountain, or can imI agino what it feels like to be there during severe thunder and lightning, then describe the feelings of awe 1 which the Israelites likely experienced at Sinai. 15. What would likely bo the religious effect of these awe-inspiring phenomena? 10. Are religious resolutions formed under exciting Influences liable to be lasting or not, and why? 17. Aro all God's spiritual blessings or revelations for every Christian, or aro some of them for the select few, as In this case? Why? 18. Hob. xli: 18-21?What scene does the writer here depict? 19. What would you say is the difference between God's appeal to the Israelites at Sinai, and His appeal to us now? 20. Verses 2 2-23?What are the ultimate spiritual ideals or conceptions at the present of every devout man when he comes to God? 21. Wo properly cultivate our Reuse or uod's presence, should we also cultivate the sons" of tho presence of this "Innumerable company of angels"? Why? 22. Vorse 24?What Is the Rigniflcance of coming to "Jeans, the mediator of t.he new covenant"? Lesson for Sunday, September 7, 101?,. The Ten Commandments I. Ex. xx: 1 -1 1. Her Holey Postmasters. Two fourthelass postmasters wore Wednesday appointed In Herkeley Cqunty, South Carolina, by Postmaster General Purleson. They are: Herbert M. Anderson, at Mount Holly, to succeed John A. Garner, resigned, and Joshua Tt. Guerry, at Palmervlllo, to succeed S. H. GrlfTln, deceased. Kiddles lluild a Dynamite Fire. Clarence, aged ten; Luela, aged six, and John, aged three, children of John Clutter, wore seriously Injured when they built a fire of dynamite sticks and caps near their home in Chester, W. Va. Their bodies were terrribly lascerated by flying pieces! of medal, stone and dirt. To Investigate S]>cot. The House Thursday passed a resolution of charges against Judge Emory Speer, of the federal court of fJeorgla. The investigation will he conducted by a sub-committee of the judiciary committee, which originates impeachment proceedings. ? +. Hoy Whitecenp Sentenced to Clang. ..Joe Callahan, charged with being a menbor of the masked band that whipped John Shannon, a Tipton Oa. farmer, some time ago, has been sentenced to a year on the chain gang. Shannon says that lie recognized Callahan The Mexican policy of President Wilson Is endorsed by Republican and Democratis Senators and Congressmen. MAN-TRAILING DOGS KANSAS SHE1UFF HAS PACK OF FAMOUS HOUNDS. Scout From tiie Handle of a Paschal! Hat Results in Apprehension of Murderer. Six bloodhounds owned by Carl Moore, sheriff of Cloud county, Kan., are famous in the four states of Kansas, Mississouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma, in different parts of which they have tracked 108 criminals to their hiding places. Recently in Jetmore, Kan., a threshing machine was burned. The indications were that it has been set on fire because thoro had been a quarrel between the different owners of several machines that were competing with each other for business. Sheriff Moore placed Red Panther, one of his hounds on the trail, having discovered the prints of a horse's shoes in the ground near the burned machine. The dog ran nine miles, stopped at the door of a stable and whined. The owner of the horse was asleep in his house. When awakened by the sheriff he confessed to the burning. An incendiary burned the granary r?f ;i fjirmnr .'it UlnHenw K'fin niwl rlo_ st.royed 2,1)0 0 bushels of wheat. Sheriff Moore was sent for and he appeared with a bloodhound, which picked up tho scent and followed it six inilos to a house that had three bedrooms. The dog went to the bod in one of the rooms and pawed tho covers off. Then he took up the scent again and followed it to a shed whero' two men were playing cards. It was found that one of them had slept in tho room searched out by tlie dog. Tho man confessed and was sentenced to six years in prison. In Glen Elder, Kan., an old man who lived with his son disappeared and no trace of his could he found. Sheriff Moore was on the scene tlftyslx hours later and one of his dogs took un the scent, and followed it to the rivor bank five miles away. Three days later the body of the old man was found lodged in a trunk of * a tree fifty yards below tlie spot where tlie bloodhound had stopped on the bank. In Wellington, Kan., a man, his wife and their daughter, who lived in a tent, were found murdered, their heads crushed with a baseball bat. Sheriff Moore's dogs took the scent from the handle of the bat and followed straight to where the son of the slain man and woman worked in a car repairing shop and he was arrested. In Lathrop, Mo., a man killed some horses and mules by putting poisons In their feed. Moore's bloodhounds trained him from tho feed lot, thru the brush and twice across the creek to his home, where ho was taken in charge by the authorities. Ilis shoes were found to fit. exactly tho tracks in tlie soft mud of the creek bottom and ho was convicted. In Pratt, Kan., a banker was shot in his home by a man who stood outside and fired through the window. The lawn was roped off until Mooro and his hounds could arrivo. After a lapse of llfty-threo hours tho dogs took the scent at once and followed it around town, finally stopping at the jail where a man was confined who had been arrested a few hours previously for brandishing a knife and threatening to kill a man. Ills shoes fitted the tracks in tho banker's lawn and later he confessed to the shooting. ? 1 Sell Pre-Cancelled Stamps. Postmaster General Burleson signed an order Thursday which provides that p re-cancelled postage stamps mav be snlri fr, n.,. 1.11~ >? IV V11C I'll.llilC, IJII and after September 16. Pre-can|celled stamps have printed upon the name of the post office before they are sold. Such stamps will be valid for postage on second, third, and fourth class mail?newspapers and magazines mailed by the public, books and other printed matter and merchandise or parcel post matter. Stablx-d by Madman, i While working at his desk Monday I the American consular agent at Tluelva, William J. Alcock, was stabbed in the back by a madman. Mr. Aleoek's assailant was a Spaniard named Bejarano, who apparently is suffering from the delusion that Americans have stolen patents of an important invention belonging to him. "What a groat and glorious commonwealth this old state of South Carolina would he if every man would determine to obey the law and to do his duty hy his Cod and his neighbor," says The Newberry Observer. Such an ideal condition would surely be a foretaste of heaven itself. Yet, it is possible. ? <? . Wo would like to hear what, kind of argument the so-called Democratic Senators of Louisiana could advance to justify their vote to tax the cotton growers of the South for the benefit of the sugar growers of Louisiana. Cut out the ten billion dollars that ' the farmers will contribute this year to the wealth of the nation by tho crops t.bey have raised we would have little left. The man with the hoe is the real business man of the country.