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'HE LAST D?YS OFTHE CZAR" Is Title of: Newly Published ^Book Which Tells of the Murder of Czar Ekaterinburg:, Russia. Jan. 10? .4?y the Associated Press)?A Bol shevist account of ihe execution of ihe late Emperor Nicholas and his . family which took place here on '? the night of July ::6. 1918, has been made public in a pamphlet written \ by P. Bykoff, former chairman of the Ekaterinburg Soviet. f-v*-lt was inspired by the Commun ist opinion that the story of the execution should be told from, the Bolshevist side. But apparently it ;^ dfd not meet with the approval of .the higher officials for, although it * was pujblished in the closing days - of 1921, it was immediately with drawn from circulation- The book .. was printed by the state printing department of the Ural district government in this city andrgives a general review of the labor revolu *tjpn xn the Urals. The last chapter" io. it records the emperor's death and is entitled, "The Last,Days of . Hie Czar." The book was obviously censored carefully before i:: was published as it lacks many details of the exe cution which ordinarily would have j . been given by eye witnesses. It at- j * tempts to justify the execution by j explaining that the Orenburg Cos sacks .were then threatening Ekat- j erinburg from the south: the | Czechoslovak forces were pressing I " in from the cast and letters had j been received showing that plots 1 were being formed to deliver the j ? imperial family^to the counter-rev- ? clutionists. Two extracts from let ters are quoted as evidence of the exstence of these plots. kt Accordng to BykofTs account the Ia*;t words of the emperor when he j and hs family were lde unexpected- ; ly into the basement of their pris- j - on and told that all the Romanoffs j ; must die, were: "But are we not to ~ taken anywhere?" . The empress and her four daugh ters (the Grand Duchess Qlga, Ta tiana. Anastasia and Marie) and the little Czarevitch and the re maining members of the house hold of 11. were so stunned that they ! J said nothing when Avdieff. the | commandant of the house ordered j them to line up against the base- j meat wail and pronounced the sen- ; tence. Bykoff says that a firing squad of . f5ur shot the former imperial.fam- | ily with revolvers. The identity or the, members of the execution squad ! is not revealed. { The pamphlet places the respon- j sibiiity for the execution of the! Romanoffs directly upon the Ural j dsitrict. soviet which decided early i r" in.July, 1918. that the Czar and j :' his family must die and entrusted! the execution of the sentence and j - the destroying of the bodies of j Peter Ermakef?, an old workmt.n of! the Upper-Issetsky Works. ? Avdieff,. commandant of the ? house, read the sentence, accord- , rag to Bykoff's .story, and there j were only four witnesses. But it; |a not indicated whether Avdieff j shot or even witnessed the death j o? the imperial family. . There were no statements in! ?: fekofTs account which indicate that; the.Ural district soviet carried out j the execution under direct orders from Moscow. - The Romanoffs were in their or-' dinary clothing when shot. It was j no; their custom to retire nntil : long after 10 o'clock at night. Con- j s^Hiuontly all were still dressed when the ill-fated group of 11 was unexpectedly ordered to thv base mcnt and shot. BykofTs story says the guards^ outside the house and the public: : were kept in ignorance of the; shooting by a noisy-automobile out-j side which drowned the pistol re-: ports. * At one o'clock the next morning j the 11 bodies were secretly rcmiov-l cd from the house and ta^ken to a j neighboring wood. There the . clothing was removed. The bodies, were .burned first and Hv-n the' clothing. JBykoE says the jewels' and fragments of jewelry which ; Admiral Kolchak's officers later, claimed' to have found in tju> ashes j ^verc probably concealed ia the clothing and overlooked oy the i men who disposed of the bodies. In addition to .the Czar and! Czarina Alexandra and their four ' daughters and one son. the persons who met death in the basement were Prince Dolgoroukoff. Dr. Bod kin, who was physician to the Ro manoffs, a lady-in-waiting and a man who was nurse to the Czare vitch. The names of the last two | are not given in Bykoff's pamphlet. Grand Duke Michael, brother of the. late Czar, was shot at Perm fci July. 131S. according to By koff's account, and the ('rand Dukes Sergius Mikhailovit? h. Igor Konstantine-itch. Konstantin Kon stantinovitch and Ivan Konstantin mitch were killed about the same time at Alapaievsky. north of Eka terinburg. These members of tin Romanoff family had previously l^een held as prisoners in Ekaterin burg, but were transferred because of the uncertain position of Eka terinbrrg with the approach of th< Czechoslovaks. Swedish Prince Sent to luily for Health. Stockholm, Feb. 2. ? Prince William has been ordered by his fhysician to leave for southern Italy to recover his health which v as badly shaken by fever contract ed in the course of his hunting and scientific expedition into Central Africa. This, however, did not stop the royal scientist and big game hunter from filling engagements to lecture before the students and faculty of Lund University, Swed en, and the University of Copen hagen. He had promised to deliv er the lectures, and this he did. ^hen left for Italy. For that matter, the proof of the janitor is in the heating. CAMP FIRE GIRLS ! National Field Secretary To Be in Sumter, Monday, March 13th I - i Miss Edith M. Kempthorne, na : tional hold secretary of Camp Fire I Girls, an organization of 150.000 ; members between the ages of 12 and 20, will arrive in Sumter on [Monday. March 13th. She will ' stop at the Imperial Hotel. Miss Kempthorne will be the i chief speaker at a public meeting j to be held that evening to which ! all are invited. Miss Kempthorne 1 [ will talk on "The Aim and Scope | of Camp Fire and the Girl." There voll be a council tiro in addition j round which the Camp Fire Guard- j ians of Sumter will sit. For the ! first time, Sumter will see her I Camp Fire Girls in ceremonial cos- [ tume. An exhibition of Camp Fire | handicraft will be another feature j of this meeting. Miss Sallie Rembcrt of 109 X. | Washington street, will be chair- j man of the meeting. Swedish Diplomat Reports Startling ; Famine Conditions. Stockholm, Feb. 1.?Sweden's Premier, Hjalmar Branting has re- 1 ceived a telegram from Consul Gen eral Ekstrand. head of the Swed ish Relief Commission at Samaria. Russia, telling of cannibalism in , the Volga famine district, previous- ; ly reported by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. He says. "The terrible sufferings of the j population here forces me to ad- ! dress a flaming'.appeal to Sweden's 1 government ana people to help still i more in lighting one of the cruel- I est and worst disasters in the his- J tory of humanly. There are places in the famine district where the people endure such misery that it j leads to dementia. Corpses have 1 already been eaten. They are now i beginning to kill people to eat them. In spite of Sweden's pres ent difficulties I beseech the Riks dag in the nanu- of human chari ty to grant the support requested. "The reward will come." A report from the Swedish Re lief Expedition announces that 19.000 people daily are being fed in the Swedish public kitchens in the famine district. Fieid hospi tals have also been established in the villages of the same district. The head of 'the expedition ex presses his hopes in sufficient sup port from home is forthcoming to increase the number of people fed daily up to 40.000 The cattle in the district are dying from starvation in large numbers every day and have decreased since J'.'Ja from about 35.000 to 7.500. Egypt Dissatisfied With British. Alexandria. Egypt. .Tan. 27.? England appears entirely to have lost the good-will of the Egyptians, both individually and collectively, as a resul', of the failure of the [Anglo-Egyptian negotiations for a treaty and ihe refusal of the Brit ish government to withdraw troops from this country. Egypt is again quiet after tin failure- of the revolution in De cember and tourists may now come ; and go withour fear of danger, but I Egypt is not in normal cnodition. Marshal law is enforced and many [newspapers, including the leading English daily, the Egyptian <'<;? i zett?-. have been suspended for the ! publication of criticisms of the pol icy of the i;riti>!: government. The Egyptians arc resentful over Iwhat they characterize "of i fensivc language" of memorasti ! dum sen' by General Alien-by. the j British iiigh Commissioner, to j Sultan .notifying him that Egypt was a link in the British Empire ? and that her troops could i.oi be withdrawn. Egyptians are indignant also over the arrest and banishment ol Zaghloul Pasha and other Nation alist leaders and <-.v.dingly ansrrj [over th?- deaths inflicted during the Christmas revolt; ion. In order to '-vent Zaghloul's followers from u.ing that indispen sib!e weapon of modern revolutions, money. Lord A lien by has issued a military decree directing tht* no bank of Egypt shall pay out any 'funds belonging to Zaghloul Pasha. ;or to tin- Nationalist party, o;* whh-h he is president, without the per mission of the High Commissioner. Again we ask the phone company for a book showing the wroitg numbers to <-all to g, ; the i ighi ones. Bryan started running for the senate early: but perhaps li- .i long way io run. "FUNERAL" TOO SOON Man Shows Up Years After Skeleton is Found Ozark. Ark.. Feb. 21.-1:110 Terry, who suddenly disappeared from his home neai here fifteen years ago. for whose "murder" two men were indicted and tried several times, each trial resulting in a hung jury, and whose "funeral" was held years ago. died yesterday at his home near Charleston, Franklin County. Alter he bad been missing more than twelve years Terry Avas found in a sanitarium and was brought to bis former home, where he died. Terry was a saw mill employee. He drew his wages one afternoon and disappeared. Some time later a skeleton was discovered near the saw mill wheie he had been em ployed. It was "positively identi fied" by relatives and Terry's fu neral was held. The owner of the mill and another employee were tried several times on charges of killing Terry, and it was more than i wo years before they were acquit ted. Yellow Fever Eradication in Ecqua dor. Bloomington, Ind.. Feb. 11?Yel low fever, the scourge of South America for centuries, lias been eradicated from Guayaquil on the coast of Ecquador, according to an announcement received heyc. by Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann, head of the department of zoology of Indiana University and an authority in South American fishes, from the Sanitary Commission of Ecuador. The? announcement was accompa nied by specimens of litte- fishes discovered for the prevention of the disease, with a request that they l>e classified and that the "in formation be g!% -n 'row ti.iXn col lected in various Indiana Univer sity expeditions of South America as to where these fishes are to be found. The fishes have been, iden tified and detailed information has been forwarded which will enable other South American countries to locate tin* fishes and use them in dealing death l a the yellow fever mosquito. Yellow fever is carried from one person to another by a mosquito which lives in the barrels in which the natives of South America keep their drinking water. Each family has kept its own supply of yellow fever carriers, so to speak, and many times ports of the west coast have been closed against ships on account of outbreaks of yellow fever. Recently the Sani tary Commission of Ecuador be gan experiments with various fish es which would cat the mosquitoes in tlie barrels. Some fishes ate the "wigglers" which develop into mosquitos. and it was found that two fishes, called "chalacos" and "huaijas" by the natives, did the work effectively. The "chalacos" is found every where along the tropical part of the Pacific coast and will be avail able for mosquito control along with, the entire danger zone from Peru to Caljfornia. others of the same species is found in similar situations over the entire danger zone in the West Indies and hot Atlantic coast. The second species. called "iiuaijas" would be even better able t(? control the situation than tii" ''chalacos" if it did not have tile habit of jumping out of tin barrels. This fish is con lined to freshwater from Central Equador to Central Peru, according to the records of the Indiana University expeditions. -? o. ?? Urges Women to Vote. To the Editor of Tin- State: Our women of South Carolina have always done their duty in ev ery deserving cause, when called upon. During our last war our wo men did their "bit." by assisting in every wa> with the various drives for the sale of war savings stamps and Liberty bonds and in aiding the numerous organizations for helping our soldiers who were fight ing on the front. Whenever and wherever our women could be of assistance to our government and our people they have come to the from and done their duty. Today ihe war is over, but peace still has its duties to perform, and tin- need today is even greater in sonn- instances than during; the war. Our coming election promises to be quite an interesting one. as it seems that various questions of utmost importance to our state and to our people are to be decid ed. Personally, I have never been an advocate of woman suffrage, but now that we have the fran chise I ihirik it is nut only the priv ilege but the solemn duty of every woman who has the welfare of her country and her people a? heart 10 lay aside that cloak of false "re finement" and register her name among the registered voters of her county. When the time for election comes if sue does not feel i: her duty to go to the polls and east her ballot tne registering of her name among the voters can do her no barm, but, on the .other hand, if she feels ?aal she can do her "bit-' for h?*r government and for the uplift of her community then she lias the privilege of go ing to tic- polls and casting her bal lot for what is right and just. If our right thinking women good soiiFid Christian character do not come to tie- front and cast their bailors for what is right and jus: r !i< ri woman suffrage is going to )?>? one <?:' the v. to st curse.- our country has ever, known. If you have not already regisu red do so ai once so thai wh -n 'lo- time comes to vole you '..!!! be I..- qualified to vote, w b< I her you do so or not. .v South Carolina Woman." Successful wife: Any woman whu ?an manag?- to look awed while her husband i- doin?, hi: selling bragging. SUMMER EX CURSION RATES Southern Railway Announces Reduction to Mountain and Seashore Resorts Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 21.? General Passenger Agent II. F Gary of the Southern Railway Sys tem announced here today that the Southern will put on round trip tourist rates to mountain and sea shore resorts for the coming sum mer season, eight per cent Of the double one way fare which is n very substantial reduction under the tourist fares in effect last sum mer. For example where the one way fare is ten dollars the round trip rate this summer will be six teen dollars, last year the round trip rate would have been eighteen dol lars plus one dollar forty-four cents war tax, making a total of nineteen dollars forty-four cents. These rale.-; will apply from all stations to all mountain and seashore resorts reached by the Southern and are expected to have a great effect in stimulating tourist travel. Red Revolution in Persia Subdued. Moscow. Jan. 22.?Ehsanulla. the chief of the red revolutionary movement of Persia, who last June made a daring raid that all but suc ceeded in capturing Teheran, has escaped the Shah's Cossacks and is now here. "The people's struggle against the Shah and the feudal landlords has failed. There'll be no more." he said. His comrade leaders in the revolution were killed. Ehsanulla is rated the most pic turesque figure of all the bandit and revolutionary leaders of the Middle East. Educatctl and daring, for It! y. ars he has fought the established order in Persia. His long hair ami shaggy beard are known to thou sands of Persian peasants. lie is known as the Karl Marx of Persia, but in many ways re sembles Makno. the peasant leader of South Russia. He has never been captured, though he has talc en part in every armed struggle of Persia since 1905. lie might now be master of Teheran, and of Persia but for quarrels between two of his associate leaders, Kut chik and Haiuar. With a peasant army strengthen ed by Russian Communists, he struck from Rcsokt to Teheran, while many of the Shah's ."iu.UOa troops were putting down risings at Tabriz and at Horoshan. and was within 35 miles of Teheran when a betrayal in his own ranks gave news of his whereabouts and forc ed his retreat. '"After the Anglo-Russian treaty, by which both nations agreed to leave Persia alone." said Elianulla> "I realized that the Sayyid Zia-u Din government was a reversion to the- old, corrupt law of the feu dalists, each of whom is a sort of a little Shah, and that the rule, of the combined peasantry and educated class wottld go under, perhaps for ever, unless I made u last despor ate effort. "So I got together a few thou sand peasant soldiery and by se cret paths and rapid marching tried to reach Teheran. The Cos 1 racks of the Shah began to attack me and the Russian Communists with me lost heart. I fought until I was surrounded and then retreat ed. "An Englishman no longer dares to go into .Vorth Persia, but this is not much satisfaction for nie since they will again control in Teheran. My pity is for me tin poor peasants. I built schools and hospitals for them. "There need be no fear that Persia will join the Pan-Islamic union projected by Envcr Pasha. The Islamic religion has ruined the Orient ami we have no desire to fern: a union that would again place us in subjection to the Turks." -? ?? ? Gypsies, Invade Parts of Germany. Berlin. Jan. 21*.?North and Fast Hanover. from Oldenburg to Brunswick, have been invaded by an army .' gypsies, traveling in bands comprising sometimes lau wagons and camping in fields and woods. They invade the market places in towns and on market days crowd out German vendors. The authorities in the several communities are faxed beyond their resources to control these hordes and prevent them from beating the Germans in trades, at which they are adepts. Members of the Reich stag have asked the government what steps were to he taken to drive out or control the unwelcome guests. Wln-ie they have come from the authorities do not know, but many of ihem are rich, travel in state in luxurious -wagons, equipped with rich oriental rugs and line furnish ings, and ice-boxes in which there are always supplies of good wines, liquors and costly champagnes. .Men of these gypsy bunds have adopted modern European apparel, bul the women cling to ihe quaint and picturesque original costumes. The young girls are beautiful. Communities through which the invaders pass usually are cleaned out through trade, purchase, or theft, although it is next to impos sible to fix crimes upon the gj*p sics. Railroad asks ['. y. for $31.000. When did our government ?;<> back under railroad control".' Some auto owners think a street car ought to turn up an alley when it sees : hem coming. '!'!*?? proper time to buy more coal seems to have been last fall. Paris. "Xothmg-Xothing" gown was probably named when a man's wife asked him what he was look ing at. Time lie >; it ^- nearly By lij'uc RUSSO-JAPA NESE WAR Trotzky Compains of Japanese Encroachments Moscow, Jan. 23.?The possibility of a new Russo-Japanese war. j?e eause of mutual encroachments in the Far East, has In-.-on:,' a sub ject of diseussion: in military cir cles here because of the shipment of army physicians and large num bers of ollicers for troop training I purposes to Chita (Siberia) and other points. Also troops s.object 10 discharge at the expiration of service terms arc being held. George Chitchcrin, Soviet j Minister uf Foreign Atiairs, has sent many notes to the Japanese, none of which appears lo evoke an acknowledgment. Leon Trotzky in his speech at the Ninth Ail-Soviet Congress, plainly slated that Russia could not indefinitely endure the advance of Japanese troops on territory of its ally, the Far Eastern Republic. He iiad reference, in particular, to i the menace to Chita from Mon ; golia, by Japanese. ; It is felt here that Russia will j not and cannot enter into any real ! war with Japan, partly because of the great distance from Moscow ; and also the lack of food Co: any j large bodies of troops, but that in the spring 'here' may be more ad; \ vance guard skirmishes. Tri the meanwhile, the weapon of Russia will continue to be prop aganda against Japanese militar ism by working through the Third internationale- among the Soeial ] ists and Communists of Japan, Korea. Mongolia and China. I This is the main purpose of the l forthcoming congress here of Far Kast.-rn Peoples. Many inspired ar i tides continue to appear in the .Moscow press in. an effort to show that the interests, of Russia and the j United States are identical, as re ' la ted to Japan. " At the Armament Conference in ; Washington Karon Shidchara, made j a statement declaring that-Japan : had no territorial designs in Rus sia and giving assurances that Jap ! anesc troops would be withdrawn . as soon '6.< a stable government : could be established there. Baron Uchida. "the Japanese For ! eign Minister, had announced to i the Japanese Diet a few days be ! fore that Japan intended lo evacu ' ate Russian territory as soon as ! guarantees could "be given for the ! safety of the lives and property of j their nationals, j No date when this could be ac complished was suggested in the j Japanese statement to the Washi j ington conference. Secretary ; Hughes announced in the confer , ence, that these Japanese assurances i were taken to mean that Japan did ! not seek through her military oper ation in Siberid"fo impair the rights ! of the Russian people in any re [ speck.> . . --< Norway Extends Territorial Sea fane. Copenhagen. Feb. 2.?Norway undertook a short time ago to cx ? lend her territorial waters to ten ?miles (instead of three miles) in fan endeavor to cope with the or jganized and ever-increasing smug gling of spirits into the country, j . The extension meant that all [ships venturing inside the territor ial waters were subject to searcn bv Norwegian customs cflicers em powered lo confiscate any cargo oi spirits a ad under certain circum stances, authorized to seize the ship. Roth Denmark and Sweden have protested against the Norwegian extension of her territorial waters, and certain other powers nave noti fied the Norwegian government that they wiil not tolerate any search of ships Hying thier Hags and engaged in bona tide trade. These protests have resulted in an amendment to the new Norwe gian law on territorial waters to the effect that only ships anchoring within the teu mile limit are .sub ject to search. Fraternal ist to Stage Rig Conven tion. Chicago, Feh. tu.?More than eight million members of the fra ternal beneficiary system of this country and Canada will Ire repre sented at a meeting of the National Fraternal Congress of America when it convenes here February 20 for a :j-day session, in addition, the Kratern Society Law Association will meet on February 2'2. Fra trnal legal authorities wiil be pres ent to discuss their phases of this work and the Press Section of the National Fraternal Congress ol America will convene. Most important will be the meet ing of the Presidents" Section, over which H. J. Dunn, of Chicago will preside. Insurance commissioners of Iowa and Illinois will address Lhe meeting, and there will be ad dresses and talks by W. A'.'. Bry ant. Karras <'i!y. M<>.; Henri Loy. Montreal. Canada: W. E. Futeh. Cleveland. <>.: Owen West. .Mrs. Frances Buel.l Olson, St. Paul. Minn.: Walter Basye Rochester, N. V.: Miss Bin a M. West; Port Huron. Mi'h.: A. C. McLean. Sha ron. Pa.; and D. A. Helpman. To ledo, 6. important addresses at the sce iN'tarios" meeting will be made by W. C. Futeh. Cleveland. (>.: George l>yre Eld ridge. Boston. .Mas.-.: E. A. Myers. Toledo. <>.: R. L. Blo.l eeti. Madison. Wis.: E. L. F.alz. Mason City. Ja : Orrin Thompson, Net nah. Wis., and others. Physicians arc looking for the most beautiful back in America. What aboul the come-back-? - Divorcing armament is about the on I; way to keep Mars from ha v ing custody of the children. "Congress doesn't approve con cessions in Russia." Congress provides its own sessions of con. -o-o?> When a woman speaks of her new -nil ihese days you don't knov\ if she has nuht or brought one. All you need to look for in buying fertilizer A small percentage of southern farmers obtained n bale of cotton per acre last year. Plenty ot fertilizer plus hard work overcame the boll weevil, crop diseases and adverse weather conditions?and made money for them. This year it will not he a question of whether you will buy fertilizer, but what make of fertilizer is the best buy. Swift's R^d Steer Fertilizers are backed by the Swift reputation, maintained for more than fifty years, of making every Swift product the best of its kind. Swift & Company has the resources, the equipment, the raw materials and the ^knowledge nec essary to combine and process different car riers of plant food to insure the right kind of fertilizer for different crops and soils. Swift's Red Steer Fertilizers for cotton contain the right amount of quickly availa ble plant food to cause a quick start and a sufficient amount of more slowly available plant food to insure the continuous growth and the early maturity which in most cases will get ahead of the boll weevil. The famous Red Steer bag shown above is your guarantee of the highest possible quality. It is all you need to look for ia buying fertilizer. Buy Swift's Red Steer Fertilizers?con taining 14?c or more of plant food?from your local Swift dealer, or write us direct, Swift & Company (FERTILIZER WORKS) Atlanta, Oa. Charlotte, N. C. New Orleans, Lsu Albany, Ga. 1 Communist Parly Elect Two Wo men. Moscow. Jan. 29.?Only two wo i men were elected members of the I Central Executive Committee, the : real governing body of Soviet Rus i sia, at the last All-Russian Soviet congress recently held here. The two women members are ; X. K. Oulianova, wife of Prem.ier ! Lenine and President of the Chief : Political and Educational Commis j sion. who is active in organizing women's Communist organizations, 'and Mme. Alexandra Kollantry. ? who formerly was minister of the Commissar of Social Welfare. The committee has SSO mem bers. Among thorn are Rela Kun. who was leader of the Communist movement in Hungary; G. E. Zinovieft and Karl Radek, all three I of whom are especially active in the affairs of the Third Internat ionale. The great attention that Moscow is paying to the Ukraine, which is : daily becoming more independent I in its altitude and takes its orders I less and less from Moscow, was in 1 dicated by the election to the Cen tral Executive Committee of three , Ukrainians. They were Rakowsky, I president of the Ukraine republic: i Manuclsky, the Ukrainian Commis : sar ?*?>r Agriculture, and Skrybnik, !'Ukrainian Commissar of Home Af i fair.-. All the other well-known Bolshe vist loaders were returned to mem bership on the committee. Among tin- number were Premier Lenine, i Leon Trotzky. General Budcnny, cavalry leader; George V. Chicher in. commissar of Koerign Affairs; L. B. Krassin. Commissar of For i eign Trade: J. V. Stalin. Commissar t of .National Minorities: and Leo Kameneff. President of the Moscow So\ iet. -? ? o >' Hal Tests <^uaP*iy Street Car Mot orificii. rf??vv psychological tests, employ ed to sele?'l . '.reet car niotormcn of Berlin, are reducing operating costs and accidents is tald in the March issue of Popular Science Monthly. Before the men tire entrusted with cars. they must prove that their visual and muscular reac tions are iitticker than those of the normal man. Standing on practice platforms resembling the platform ol ;t rar. the candidates undergo rigid examinations. Everj conceivable emergency is reproduced, such as breakage, electric shocks, and accidents. The actions, of tie- novices in meeting such emergencies and the time it takes them to respond are careful ly* recorded. At Last Outdoor Sleepers Can Keep Heads Warm Outdoor sleeping is likely to he more popular with the use of a r.ewly designed electrically heated ;>;t<i keep the sealp warm: for? particularly ir: the damp air and changing temperatures of spring? ii is sometimes difficult to sleep comfortably without putting the head under the bed clothes. To fill this need, the new electric pad. described in the March issue popular Science Monthly, is shaped for the head and designed so that the temperature never rises enough !<> injure the hair. The conection cord is attached to any el? etrie-light socket. The plan to abolish money was probably started by some female communist who discovered it made .i bulge in her stocking. "A s;ood man is hard t-> find."' \ v everyone. " Xot a< hard as ,i Lao one. says the police. DEATH RATE HAS DECREASED Washington. Feb. 21?The death rate in country decreased to 1006 per hundred thousand of population in lt-20, according to the census bu reau. Government Sues in Columbia Postoflice Case. Columbia. Feb. 21.?Tin- case of I the government against TV. M. Max well and the Globe Indemnity Co.. involving the contract for comple tion of the Columbia post office I within the time specified in he ; original contract for the consfruc j tion of the post office, is to come i to court at the .March term of fed I oral court in Florence, starting I March 14th. The amount involved I is $120,000. ' Mr. Maxwell is < n the Pacific [coast. He had a contract with the ?government before the war started for the erection of the new post of fiee iii Columbia After the speci fied time had lapsed and the build '? ing was not completed, the govern I ment let another contract and a j different firm completed the struc f iire. The Globe company were I bondsmen for the contractor. Bf by Left in Boom of Columbia I Boaitling lfousc. Columbia. Feb. 21.?A three-i weeks .-Id baby was today turned over to the city detention home, the infant having been found at a boarding house on one of the city's best streets. A couple called at the hoarding house Sunday and ar ranged to rent a room. They took the room immediately. The lady I who owns the home went for I ah automobile ride, and when ! she came back the couple was gone, hut site found tiie baby in the r om. I She turned it over to the police. _? ? m - i ! Xcw Fossil Discoveries in Kentucky I Lexington. Ky.. Feb. 11?Dis | covery of the remains of a mam [moth of prehistoric days at Pig ' Bone Lick has furnished fresh trail for scientific research, accord | ing to Prof. A.M. Miller, head of : the department of geology of the I University of Kentucky. The state':; licks and caves contain a (larger variety of mammalian re mains, including those of pre-his i toric Juan, than are to be found ; in other states, he says. Tit, jawbone of an Indian, skel eton of bears and wolves all of !'which lived maity hundreds of years a^o. are among the recent I discoveries in the state. Mr. Miller says. These relics were unearthed on the Breck Smith farm, on the, old Frankfort pike. ? / - ? + Richmond. Feb. 22. ? James Brown Potter, the father of Mrs. Fifi Potte*- Stillman. of New York, died suddenly at the home of Frank Powers here today. Eat, drink and be merry and to morrow you will have to reduce. 4> ? ? Chicago says she has only 10.000 criminals. Lots of her jail birds must be south, for the winter. One argument against cheek-sto eheek dancing is that by midnight all have the same complexion. L may not he a hard winter 'en at times we feel pretty shaky. Little brown jug ano little town jug .-.re never empty the same day. Russia claims we owe her Sev ern! million rubles. That's almost Why Lawyers Arc. I? a man were to give another an orange he would simply say. "I give you this orange," but when the transaction, is intrusted .to.,the hand? of a lawyer,to put in writing, he adopts this form: *T hereby give and convey to you. ail and singular, my.estate and interests, right, title, claim and advantage of and in said orange, together .with all of its rind, juice, pulp and pits, and- all rigjus Und advantages therein, with full power to bite, cut, suck and otherwise eat the same, or give the same with or without the rind skin' juice, pulp or pits, anything hereinbefore or herein after or in any other deed or deeds, instrument or instruments of what ever nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in any wise, n?ih withstattding."?Latkin News. An attorney was examining a wit ness and chanced to ask him about the character of the dead man who figured in the case, to which the witness replied: ? . . "lie was a man without blame, beloved and respected by ail. pure in all his thoughts and?" "How did you learn that?" de manded the judge. "I read it on his tombstone." was the disconcerting reply.?World Recorder. A Georgia politician. Ions: in the pubiie eye. is quoted as having con tributed the following jest to the b>ng list of "railroad jokes": "One day." said he. "I was wait ing for a train. One hour,, two hours, three hours passed, but no Irani. Just as I was about to make arrangements lor a vehicle to drive me to the next town, the station agent said: "I wouldn't go to that trouble, sir. That train will be along* coon now." "What makes you think so?' "Well." he said. 'I'm pretty cer tain it will. Here comes the con ductor's dog now." ? De Laval Mo nt tily. Mr. Goodsoh?Cadger tells a piti ful hard-luck story. Mr. Pstuhge?Yes. it's quite a .ouching talc.?Retail Ledger. The Boy Scouts were telling their scoutmaster of some of the good turns they had done during th" last week. He was having this done for the benefit of one of the city school teachers who was visiting the meeting. One of the' little scouts said. "I helped an old lady across the s; rect." . . The next little scout looked at the visiting teacher, who happened to be Ids teacher, and who also was in the early thirties. "I brought my teacher a pitcher of well water irh' t: she was not feeling well." he -old the scoutmaster. The teacher smiled. "Why didn't Vou say you helped another old lady'."' .she asked. The retort that came back stag gered her. The little scout aid sweetly, "A scout is courteous:" - Indianapolis News. it was a big cotton manufactur ing t<>wn in Lancashire, where a revival service had been held. At the close the minister called upon all those who wished to go to Heaven to stand up. All rose to their feet with the exception ? f Hi"' vr>png man. "Don't you want to go to Heaven, my friend?" asked the preacher. "Oh. aye. T want to go. rect enough.' the young fellow replied. "'?iu n*vi wi' this trip.**?London Tit-Bits., Twinkle, twinkte, movie star: how we wonder what you arc.