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ON STD cMBl?NVHLE Appearance When Con fountain Across W is Silently Dekatur,. Ga., Sept. 23.?In. fash Jooiri^Stiine Mountain, in Georgia, into , a stupendous monument to . ib,e Southern Confederacy, , Ameri cans are about te* attain what the. ancient Greeks and Egyptians dreamed of but could never real ise, according to- Giitzon Forgium, the noted American sculptor, who ;: has undertaken this work as his life's" masterpiece. The mountain-of pure granite, a mi? from base to summit and the largest sohd- rock in the world, has been dedicated to the people of the r/nited States for the purpose of pe^etually honoring the memory of the Confederacy. Every state has'contributed to a fund of $2, ?00;??0 which is being used in con verting t"tW mountain into a tne "morial that will make the Pyramids, rhe Colossus of Rhodes, the Hang ing "Gardens of Babylon, and every * other' work of man look small in ?'cofaparison: '. _ v . An. army of nearly a thousand *?' men will be carved into the moim tamside. . Some of the. ngures will '^e^more than fifty feet in height, in tull relief, and features of Xee, Jackson; Johnson and other of the v Confederate leaders will be recog nizable two to three miles from the %.<? oi the mountain. The appear ance of. the work when completed will be that of the "natural m?un tain across the surface of which the " gray army is. silently marching. ' The cutting of the memorial was begun - early in September, and' will be completed probably' by 19S0. The first section is to be finished and unveiled in about three years, and the second probably in five ; - ,-j?rs," ' '. At :the base of -the mountain a monster hall will be cut, ?s a me morial to the wotnen of the Con federacy, the wives, mothers and * sisters of the men whose figures are curved in,the mountain:above, Who f! reinained.-at - home apd' kept their ^la^ies together. . ^?f^te &a$[.:2MKfeei in, length^.will I r^O?f^^p^the' ?ra^fcfp^ the .^i?^te^iny base, to a disgrace of. $0 -| *fee?^The' roof ^wiil be 50' feet iigr 'I TJse hali will be turned over to th* I t^n^^ j?angbtfers of; the. Confeder * acy , and wXil be'used as their meet ?| ing^?$^^?si? JSor keeping the *i priceless d^Kaiihents and mementos * ?f tat} Confederacy. .> ~ xsohjiiade of thirteen states, |Jfiawfenfing the. ?thirteen states of I e4er^cjv. will. be cut out I ti^he irvingrrocl^ ~* These will ei | tend the -full lenglhi of the ha,?, wiir be Stf.-feeVin height. A ht?ge stone stairway will lead up to :*m? hall.. . The hall, with its colonial facade, ^yi^^the southern home1 ot the j sixties.* The sculptural work of He I n.a^sive bronze doors will perpetu ate the many beautiful stories of f heroism arid.sacrifiee of southern \ womanhood. l The cutting of the figures is all $ beisg done by pneumatic chisels. >*^An idea of the magnitude of the' 3 work may be gained from the state * ment that the thousand. figures * will reach along the perpendicular ^ gianite cliff for a distance of 2, I ?00 feet, and that some o? the I figures will be more than 50 feet in % height and cut to a depth of eight I feet. An air- compressor on the fivii of the mountain furnishes air I forth* operation -of the tools. ?e The work is done from a cable * suspended by a. steel cable. Tbk? I i| moved from place to place on * u2e face of the cliff as thje work f TtrogressesL Mr. Bor^ium Lays out ' action of work on the cliff, aiid '% is fb?awed , by the "workmen who I man the pneamiantic chisels. The ;iinishihg touches w*il be put on by: i itr. Borglurn himself.-* ' I The base of the- workmen is on ?the summit ot* the mountain. ? where three 'frame buildings have : been erected for the storage of 1 tools and.'materials. A series o: % fairways tends down the sheer ? precipice to within 4G0 feet of the I ground. The height *of the cliff from jjj ^bich the memorial is being carveo it 7a7 feet. This* is a greater ' height than "that of any work of amen, except the Eiffel Tower of Z France, which is SS,^ feet high but v in compaiison \rith Stone Mountain J the latter looks like a mere needle, v ifteking both beatity and j?er \ maneucy. The largest of . the / Pyramids is but 451 feet, and the -Sphinx only 65 feet high. : *"A raemprial to a movement."' * is. Mr, BoijglunVs description of the i work. "It represents the first e?' ** f ort in this'country to build a me-; ? morial to a cause without singling *>put some individual or group of in- ' j dividuals," he said. f ^* That is what the Greeks did, ; and they were so conscious of do ling ir that it was against their v law to erect a statue to a person. ? Thtfy were alway? buildics to an :iaeal. - "That is what interests me; ,'t ? is the first effort in this country to build a monument to a nation; t oa movement of a hundred tr?.cu : sard or ten hundred thousand peo-: i vi* I "li Is a monument to the two or f three million women who worked ^jTjst as hard and suffered more ? Than their husbands and brothers.: I It is a monument to a movement. *~**$y great hope is that'before this ~ thing is half done.this country will * have decided to stop sticking up : Matties to a Dr. Cooper or Bill! ^tfpith. The perpetuating of ai t rattle, of a defeat, of a movement " ?that is what is needed." y J>\iring the summer of 1915 Mr. t f*#>rglum first visited Stone Moun " tain cm the invitation of the United NE MOUNTAIN gJNEIGHT YEARS [tpleted Will Be Natural Tiich the Grey Arniy Marching I Daughters of the Confederacy. He (immediately became enthusiastic about the plan*' for the memorial, and was easily induced to under Itake :he work. He described .the j mountain as of solid' granite, and [below the frost line. ? "This", said Mr. Bonrlum. re ferring to the work to be done at Stone Mountain, is what;' the Egyptians tried to do and the ! Greeks wanted, to do: neither had j ihf time nor the place, j -'Stone Mountain, in its colossal [proportions, makes the Pyramids \ small and insignificant In compar [ isom They were built out of stone, j and long since have fallen into de cay. The large figures of Egypt'are i little more than symbols, and awak J en little interest in modern 'man I beyond the spiendici intention and t mysteiy they suggest regarding the (civilization and' culture of their ! day. ' However,, had' the Egyptians possessed Stone Mountain they would have made of it one of the j first 'wonders of the world.' j "The Egyptians would have j thrown 1?0.0Q0 workmen upon its [side and reshape:} it into a 'monster [ pyramid, cutting ;i ntmdred tho.u [shd steps leading to its top. I ^Thie Greeks would have. Ter raced its sides and mounted upon its cornices rows upon tows' of little statues of their dieties." ' . The ground' around, the foot ->f Stone Mounia-ii hhs been dedicated as ^Confederate Par&" Several i hundreds acres, deisely 'wooded, .being parked tor walk3,.dri-.-es. a [ small lake "and other embeip.sh f ments in keeping with "thS'memo.r tial." - ? ?? " iOh a smooth space on the moun tain has been carved these words: 'The face "of this granite moun tain arid the adjacent land was pre sented" by Samuel HoytVenabkV in behalf of William Hoyt Vencble and himself to the men and: wo men of America "for the purpe's^'of perpetually honoring **e memory of the Southern Confederacy^" SHEEP RAISING FATC^REP Well ManagecL FL?dts Mean :.? Much .ta ife Farm ??The. natural advantages of sheep on .the farm are too well known ' to require mention," says Mr. John <i A. Murfcin, Publicity Director of the ; Southern Packing Corporation of Orangeburg. : Itj, is generally appreciate*! 'that wek- managed flocks return to ; their owners:good incomes on com I paratively small investments. Sheep eradicate _ weeds," help greatly, to keep up soil fertility."* require in expensive buildings and necessitate 1 a minimum amount of labor. There 1 is no reason to believe that the j sheep industry of the frontiers of j t^e world has reached its-.maxi ' mum. In this, case/ it means that. ? we. must 'look\m?re and more'"to ?other sections for both wool and ; mutton. Sheep raising is ad important branch of the livestock industry. There is a demand ?for every .pound of wool and tnutton produced, i There are .millions of . acres of land in the South which' produce good feed for sheep which are not being utilized. Sheep are natural ly the inhabitants of high and dry areas. They wiH thrive on. ahj kind of land except wet, swampy land. They graze" over wide areas and seek a variety of plants. They do better on short and fine grasses [ than on coarse and high weed. fTfiey. ^ill; eat .brush and will d? ? j fairly good, job at cleaning up land, j Grain feeding is seldom profit [?b^e when good gyazing : ean ? be [had. Under some ? conditions Ulocks can be kept in the best con dition; and lambs marketed without the use of grain. The gross annual returns from ewes of breeding age may be ex pected to lange from $S.OO to ?15.00 a head, depending upon the i percentage of lambs raised, the . weights of the fleeces, and the j, value of the product. -The lamb I and wool yield depends upon the ; breed selected. Late summer and . early fall is . the most favorable time to make a start in the sheep business. Select ewes that are well grown, healthy, and spirited, sound in mouth and milking organs, from one to four years old. See that they are covered with a dense coat of marketable wool, and are uni fform in size and breeding, straight (in body lines and showing capaci jty for feed. Get a ram that is bold in head ! features and strong in constitution, active, vigorous, and from one to three years old. Let the ram be symmertical and evenly developed, and covered with firm flesh, legs strong and -slraiprht, evenly cover ed with a dense fleece. Start with a few purebred* and gradually build up your flock. It will pay f.you handsomely. Shoe Men to Hold Exposition. Chicago. Sept. 21.?The Shoe ^ Travelers' Association has an nounced its sixth semi-annual ex- j j position, known othcially as the [Chicago National Shoe Exposition.! I to take place here October 2-C. The i Chicago Shoe Trades AssociationI rwin be represented among the ex hibitors. The Chicago Association of Com merce reported that through its, trade department reduced rates; thave l.-een obtained for all retailers! r who attend during the exposition, j May we call the coal shortage a grate danger? Thanks. ' j ONE BILLION ! DOLLARS A YEAR j (By X. L. Wiilett. in Augusta Chronicle) On September the I4th. 1022. the Congressional Record carried a speech of Senator John Sharpe Wil liams, a big Mississippi Delta cot ton planter, on the boll weevil and x comment on it below: The weevil, in' fact,' is the only force in America that is continu ously at work and who never lets up. The weevil's menance is an ihsec.t's menance and the. 'greatest menace in the world is not the hu man menace but the insect menace and this menace is one before which science quails and falls down. The weevil menace is not a" southern or'a' national question but a ques tion that' concerns the whole world. In this country here cotton fail ure affects the landowners, the la borers, the merchants, the bank? and the1 manufacturers but in a stiU larger way it affects every cot ton consumer on this round world ?-a .consumer whose chief comfort depends upon reasonably priced cotton! England herself could not pay her debts without the Man chester cotton industry. How quickly the weevil works is shown by the' fact that deteriora tion'in the first two weeks of Au gust" amounted to a hundred mil lion dollars or a dollar for every inhabitant in this country. Today boll _ weevil ravages' equal the amount of cotton which this coun riy. manufactures and consumes Today cotton production is falling far behind consumption and one can easily see in the distance a clothing panic all over the civilized and the uncivilized world. Con sumption today, in fact, is twenty five per cent above the year's crop. - While the boll weevil today is de stroying annually Oner billion dol lars of wealth yet this nation has been indifferent to ihe question. Our national agricultural depart ment, our congressmen, and our national and state governments have been either blind or have been afeleep at the post. Without any doubt if the boll weevil:trag edy had been one not of the south but one north of Mason's and Dix i on's line then this question would I have been solved long ago. I There never will be a personal, a southern state or a national agree | ment as to the limiting of cotton i growing by means of. a Sabattical year. To make the Mississippi river ad hiding line and growing cotton on either side every other year would solve the problem until science can come to the rescue of the country but there will be no j agreement on any Sabattical year l in cotton growing. - But science i could do. this job! Science how ever to date , has seen no personal ; profit in trying to solve it.- The question Is necessarily^ a solvable : one. The government it-self has not tried to. solve this problem. The pitiful sura of less than one hun dred thousand dollars per annum spent on weevil control,, and. most ly, cohsmed in salaries, shows that the government has fsimply been making-child!s. play of this amaz ingly monstrous matter. Senator Williams believes that'if a sufficient reward were offered, then individual scientists would solve 'the: question and he believes .that this is the only way out of this exceedingly great difficulty. But why did not Mr. Williams, as senu tor, offer a national reward, say of a hundred million dollars for an adequate boll weevil remedy? If science failed to find the remedv then the nation would not be out anything. If science succeeded this hundred million dollars would be the best spent money ever put?out by the nation. Senator Williams, by hot offering this reward, has signally failed just as every other man who has touched the weevil [problem has also failed. True it is that the weevil still lives. She defies the world and her menace iikCreases with flic years! One hundred million dollars would be the greatest reward ever ksown in the world, but the world has never had before any agent that destroyed annually one billion dollars worth ?of wealth. '' . . ?>.'?? daomol in Haiti Becoming Pros perous. JacmVI. Haiti. Sept. C.?Haiti is fast wresting from the island of Curacao, in the West Indies. the -monopoly in the exportation of sour orange peel used for the. flavoring of Curacao. Amer Picon and oth er liqueurs made in France, Hol land apd Denmark. In July Jacmel exported 000 pounds of the dried peel val ued at $42,f?f?0 tr? Hamburg, from which, ir is in turn shipped to the principal European 'markets. This amount Is sixteen times greater tli.au the total for any one month in the last nine months. Sour orange trees grow here with -practically no care, and the Jacmel district- is especially pro lific in the type held in sin-h high repute in Europe. The price pan to the peasant averages between two and three cents a pound, and for each pound the peasant must pick and peel and drive into mar ket 50 oranges. In Hamburg the selling price l". o. l>. is 22 cents a pound, and Jacmel is enjoying a boom in her"rapidly-expanding in dustry. Reports from Hamburg from a trial shipment made several months ago were to the effect that the Jacmel peel was superior to the Curacao peel. .Jaemel's. exportation* of the peel to the United States, where it is used for flavoring extracts and medicinal preparations, also more than doubled last year. This year's ?gtnceS will show a "considerable in crease over the ?.">.pounds ship ped in 1921; We have sent Europe $22.000. 000,000. One man with this much ? could live at a hotel. A new dancer is called Wladislau, j but not very often. \ j Miss Corc-Lee Heed, Little Ree] Christy as the most beautiful girl ai sworn fame and a stage career. She and live with him in'an obscure ecus Few- G^ood Oriental Rugs in Turkey: Prices Are High 'Constantinople. Aug. 2S'.?Good Oriental rugs in the local' market are hard to get nowadays, and the principal reason is lack of trans-j portation facilities from the pro- j dueing centers. Hence prices on j good stock are being maintained. ! The city abounds in rugs, how-1 ever, the demand from the United ] , States and England giving a. stim-! ulus to the trade.- but many are of poor quality. This grade is cheap, and there are few buyers. When the Russians got into the Caucasus the authorities confiscated large .stocks of good quality. As these rugs cost them nothing^ they sent ? them to Constantinople for sale at very iow prices. The first? i shipments from Batum included} some of the finest Kasacks ever seen in the public market, and j the buyers v?ft not have a similar! opportunity again. Later, when the . best stocks had been exhausted,-the Russian authorities exported what j may be termed the sweepings of j the rug districts, and most of the ! Shrivans received here were of very I poor quality. Prices on these goods, j now are low. A large number of Bcluehistan, rugs came to Constantinople earlyj in 1022 and . were all sold at once j at a fairly low price. But one had j difficulty in finding ."?0 good pieces ! in. a thousand, and not more than ] three, or four pieces of what pri-I yate buyers call "Blue" Beluchis- ! tan.-. '. ? >. j Germany is out of the market, j the import , of Oriental rugs bei?g'1 prohibited, Italy bought a limited j quantity of a poorer quality, and ; Switzerland and Czechoslovakia also ! took a few. \ ????? ? \ j Tourists in Washington Pay Horn-! age to National Heroes j Washington. Sept. 9?Homage to j Washington and Lincoln is-being I shown by more than 1,000,000 peo- | pie a year. Washington's home, ! Mount Vernon, the mecca of vir- j tually all Americans and foreign-.; ers who come to Washington, r'isi being rivaled as a shrine by the! beautiful Lincoln Memorial, while! the Washington Monument is the* most popular- of the three shrines.' Visitors numbering 34.ll2 went; during July to the iop of the Wash-j inglon Monument, conveniently lo-i cated a few hundred yards south of! the White House. More than one-j fifth of them climbed up the 80S; steps in order to see the memorial! tablets on the various landings in -! side the shaft. The remainder j rode to the top in the electric ele- j valor which has a capacity of 35 I persons. More than 5,250.000 peo- | pie have visited the top of the j monument since it was opened for' observation purposes October 9. ; 1888. No entrance fee is charged. ? The Lincoln Memorial, recently j completed and opened to the pub-j lie. was visited by 31,383 persons during July. Loeated in Potomac Park directly west of the Wash ington Monument it is rather inac- j cessible for pedestrians: visitors us- j (tally go there by automobile. Oni a recent Sunday 2.00ft.persons were] recorded as entering the great! building. It is rapidly becoming a shrine for tourists. Xo entrance fee is charged. j General George Washington's j old home at Mount Vernon on the] Potomac River in Virginia, l?; miles j from Washington, long has been j the meeca of pilgrims from every; part of the world, who go by i steamboat, electric train and auto- j mobiles. Kept as nearly in1 its original state as pos-' sible by the Indies' Mount Vernon ; Association \\ is :i delight to all j Americans. During July approxi mately 29,000 persons visited Mount; Vernon and during tre iise:il year admissions numbered 236,000. A ! l'\ cents entrance fee helps'to keep the estate in first class condition. The house where Abraham 1-in eoln died, located opposite Ford's' Theatr?- ;it ??I? Tenth street, north-: west, this city; is another shrine vis-j ited by many tourists. It w;i* bought by tin- United States in 181>G j for $-30,00. Pancho Villa is the new ny-.l' weight champ. It is not the old!: Mexican fly-by-night champ. I le for Love Is, Arie," picked by Howard Chaudtoi t the University of Illinois, has for* 'U wed Robert Earle, Morrflton; A?? itty't??k:." ' Claims Glider to Climb 20,000 Feet :Cleveland. Sept. 20'.?A motor less airplane, capable of climbing to an altitude of 20.000 feet, is forecast by Dr. George; IT. Made lung, designer of the successful Hanover glider, which, in a recent glider competition in the Rhone valley, broke all records by stay ing iu the air for more than three hours. Dr. Madelung now is a member of the designing stall' of a local airplane company. Describing the phenomenal development of the machine, in Germany, he explain ed its operation. The machine has a gliding angle Of sixteen to one. that is, in still air it glides sixteen. feet to every foot .it descends. It has a still air speed of twenty miles an hour. If the wind is twenty miles an hour, the glider remains stationary, and if more than that, it goes back wards, but if the air current is upL ward, the glider ascends. It is up on upward currents of air that the. glider places main dependence for keeping aloft for more than brief' periods. In sailing for a considerable dis tance the .glider pilot must know approximately where he will en counter upward currents. Plowed fields and 'Other'open spaces wh ere the heat of the sun creates a con siderable up current, are favorable places. It is for this reason that the charting' of the air current? has become necessary for the com mercial development of the, glider. ' "When the places along a certain route where air currents may be encountered become known, flights of hundreds of miles and ascents of more than four miles may be ac complished, Dr. Madelung said. He pointed to the hawk and oth er soaring birds as an illustration. The hawk will sail down to a field whence it will cycle in ascent, forc ed upward by the rising air caused by the reflected heat of the field. When it has reached a sufficient al titude it soars away, to repeat the process miles away. In this connection, Dr. Madelung commented, that the ? hawks and other soaring birds do not fly at night, stating that the reason is because all air currents are down ward, at night. Night flying is im possible with gliders for the same reason. Dr. Madelung said. With the application of the prin ciples discovered in gliding a new type of airplane, far more effi cient and safe than the present types, will result. Dr. Madelung be lieves. Dr. Madelung's designs are being used extensively in the con struction here of a new type sea plane. It will have a wing design similar to that of the Hanover glider to be used by the United States INTayyT Dr. Madelung was. assistant en gineer before the war, in the Ger man Institute, of Aeronautical Re search at Aldershoff. He was call ed to the front as a pilot but was later recalled to Aldershoff. Barbers' Guild Members Xever Trimmed a Beard London. Sept. 4.?A reminder of the survival of the ancient trade guilds in London, long after their members have ceased to have any connection with trades they Osten-; sibly represent, is provided by the election of Sir Samuel G. Shead as chairman of the Company of Bar bers for the ensuing year. Sir Samuel never was a barber, and if any of his ancestors ever were he lias forgotten it. And the same is true of all the members of the company. P.ut they are very proud <>f the old traditions which the company once maintained, and. get together on stated occasions to eat a generous dinner, washed down with good wine, and listen to speeches ahout the good old times. The company is an ancient one. It was incorporated in 14??I. and 50 years later an act. was passed which prevented any persons not members of the company from practicing surgery within seven miles of the city of London unless [hoy had been licensed by the Bishop of London. Barbers were versatile folk in those times, combining the avoca lions of surgeon and dentist with che work of trimming hair and beards. YOUNG MASHERS IN TROUBLE Greenwood Boys' Call (Jirls - Endearing Names and Start For jail Greenwood, Sept. - 25.?Calling two young girls of this cky "sugar" and "honey" and inviting them to go to ride last, night Drought a mob on the heels of five white boys j in a battered car. and it took half' the police department to avert trouble after the boys were safely I lodged in the city'jail.' The boys are being held in jail, charged with disorderly conduct. They are Rogers McFerrih, ? Earl Walker, j Carl Thomas, 'Eugene Walker and ] j .te?sie Cahfield. The girls who; ! claimed to have been accosted Said j [they were On their way honte.in a ! local mill village when the- boys< 1 rode by them, asked* them to 'ride and called them ""sugar" and; "honey," and r other endearing, terms. ? They complained to rela tives and soon a mob of infuriated , kinsmen and friends were 6nrthe boys' trail. - The boys headed for the city jail when they realized the mob, I was after them, but abandoned; f their car about three blocks from the station house and sought ref-, uge in . nearby, residences. They j were later arrested, and placed be hind protecting bars. ; The nipb formed in front of the, city hall, but a force of police of ficers was marshalled and the mob, quelled after Chief of Police M. B. Chandler had talked to parents of the girls! " ' ' "'? '"? '' ' ? j "' ?V ? ' ' ? ' Bulgarian Premier Foresees a, G??eral *Eit?pesui. Cphea?a 5 Sofia', B'?lgariaC'r^thig'.i- 2 5 .^--Alex ander Stamboulisky, since hi * ad vent to pbwei ?s Bulgaria's peas ant-premier, has been furnishing Europe with no little' amusement by the unceremonious and defiant way he has been treating King Boris, and ny his indifferenc at titude toward the ever-pre3eht question of reparations. < Xot long ^ago he told the king if he did not do the bidding of the masses, he might find himself without a throne and in the midst of a republic. He added a'warning that young Boris must not keep his eye On both sides of the fence; that he could give his support only to one party, and that party the group' in power. The stalwart Agrarian leader ! also has given voice to equtlly novel 'expressions on various ques tions of the day. "My: enemies," he says, "asked the king to throw nie over. But that would not be fin conformity with constitutional usage. And then they do not know the king. I have him well trained. I treat him like a son. I have been teaching him politics' for three years, and he is quite devoted to me. We are* going to amalgamate the Agrarians, Radicals and So-^ial Democrats for the elections of 192-f, unless I am assassinated in the meantime. "I like the Bulgarian Commun ist's,".' Stamboulisky declaresj "be cause they support me witho.it any engagement on my part, which is convenient for nfe. The, Commun ists are practical' people, and ti?.ey will shortly become ? parry fit tc govern They are forgetting their principles more and ~raor-?, and they know how to accommodate themselves to circumstances. They know how to talk so as to please people." The premier ''? says he does not care a snap about reparations. "Reparations are humbug. My connections abroad are much stronger and more riuriierous than were those ofr' King 'Ferdinand. Ferdinand -" knew only crowned heads of no' importance,' while I jam oh intimate terms with the I ruling politicians of the whole wor'd. There is no danger. No body will touch Bulgaria. I have got promises. And then we have I come to an understanding with i Kristo Rakovski, Commissary in ! the Ukraine. The Soviets will not abandon its." M. Stamboulisky has voiced a j warning as to the future. "Even ! should nothing else happen," he declares, "there will be a general j mix-up before long. Russia is per ^stently preparing a debacle which [is inevitable. We shall plunge into this upheaval too, and some thing is sure to come out of it. Wait and see." Buddhists and Christians May Save the World -? Oxford, Eng.; Sept. "Bud- j dhism is the probable rival of! Christianity in the Far East," said Professor Soothill. who at one-time ; occupied the chair of Chinese at ? Oxford University, in an address, before the Conference of Modern Churchmen. His remark has ere- i afed something of a sensation in church' circles. "Buddhism," the professor stat- , e<T, "can adopt and adapt at will. It has recently adopted Christian j methods wholesale. 'Its ideas are at work in the west, even in oui churches. Buddhism call? for Sympathetic study, and the day may come when the best men in Bud- j dhism and Christianity will meet . together to discuss the possibility of working together for the salva- ? fion of the world. "Buddhism, originally little more ? than psychology and ethics, is to day a religion and the only prob able world rival to the two other propagandist religions, Christianity i and Islam. Islam has a closed | creed. Christianity is writhing in its own bonds but will burst them. ; Buddhism has none. Kuddhi^m is spreading in China." j The country is less wicked than j the city for the same reason that the sum of two and two is less than I the sum of ten and ten. -?^ People who walk in their sleep j should know the town. 1 DENGUE FEVER IN CHARLESTON Nearly Three Hundred Cases j ? Reported by Physicians j Charleston, Sept. 26.?Fifty-one j new cases of dengue fever ha/e ? been reported to the eity health officer since yesterday, mak ing' the total recorded *by 16 physicians. 233. The disease is not confined to any particular sec tion of the city and is affecting all those in comfortable circumstances as well as the poorer citizens. The city health officer ' recommends screening and destruction of mos quitoes'as the best methods of com tro1- , . A REAL BENEFACTOR. . (Charleston Post), . \* If King George V of England f (by the grace of God) were to die! tomorrow, the great newspapers of * the world would, each '? probably; have a full page about the event j and on subsequent days the story would be carried on and on and on till the public had its fill; and if the ex-Kaiser Of Ger- f many. Mr. of Count William Hoh enzoHern, were to die, the quantity of space would be about tripled and 'the resulting hullabaloo fearful. The first of these men has done virtually nothing ' for the world during his lifetime and is likely to do little more for it before his death.' He exists and is for that and no other service, paid great; sums by the free British peopie. The second of them has to his credit-ho achievement except havr frig' plunged' the world into the most disastrous war in its history. 5 Neither as men," as factors in civil ization, nor as characters can the two of them compare with Dr. I William S. Halsted. who died in Baltimore the other day, yet Dr. {Hateted's death was scarcely no jticed outside his own city aud, I what is more, the general public I knows more about at least a hun ]dred movie stars and two hundred ball players and prize fighters than it knows about the Johns Hopkins surgeon. - \ j About the only things Dr. Hal sted did for surgery and-the medi cal profession and humanity were to introduce numerous antiseptic methods, such as the ' use of rub ber gloves; to' invent a : forceps which "is known by his name; to discover how to use the knife in treating goitre,: how to operate for cancer of the female breast, how to unite the intestine after removing a section of it, how to minimize the' 'danger of gangrene in amputations, a new.hernia operation; to present the 'world with what is' known j as [ heuro-regiorial or '?block*; anesthe sia, which revolutionized the sci . e/hoe Of 'dental surgery and bene fited other branches of the pro fession almost equally; and to make/a large number of other con tributions to science, some of j which, as the Baltimore Sun says(1 ("are now so common that they arel j taken for granted'' and "to point but th'?ir inventor strikes one al most as it would: to point out the man who first decided that it is best to come indoors out of the rain."' *'?? - * The benefits this man conferred upon mankind in his long career; are amazing for 'their number and magnitude. They are benefits of the truest kind and by reason of them millions are annually relieved 1 from' suffering and many thou : sands, perhaps, from death. There jis ho ?Roy in such-a gift to man I kind. It' is pure gold. By the side jof Dr. William S. Halsted, when i good %e mankind is the standard, ' most of the world's kings and sol diers and politicians are mere ] pygmies, undeserving of a pass ing thought. ? Yet hardly known to the mass of his felkvw-countrymen even now;-his name in ? few short {years will have- been well-nigh for ? gotten ;by all but scientists, al-. j though a century hence school j hoys will probably be able ' to re ; cite the favbrite recreations of j George Y. and the names of all his j previous family/ Dr. Halsted is i but one of :numerous benefactors j j of mankind who must suffer thi31 ifaie and that h is so is a sad com-^ j mehtary bh those traits of human i f nature, which make it so. : Anificiall.y Grown Japanese Pearls Defy Expert Detection j ?? Paris,- Sept. '"".?Owners in Paris! i of valuable strings of "pearls have I i been thrown into something likel ! consternation by the- published I opinion of Dr; Louis Boutan. pro ; fessor of science at the University I of Bordeaux and- an expert in pearls, that he and other pearl ex , peris are unable to distinguish be i tweeh real pearls and those ar I tificially grown by the Japanese. : The statement of Dr. Boutan, made I at* the Frehch Academy of Sciences ! removes the last .hope concerning i ! Japanese pearls, which have been ! grown in quantity since M. Miki- j moto. the Japanese scientist made j his discovery. Pearls normally are grown by j accident, through a fine grain of j sand entering the shell of the oyster. The white substance, call- ! ed a pearl, grows inside the oyster | and is a secretion caused by the ef- j fort of the shell fish to get rid of ] the foreign substance. _ Mikimoto conceived the idea of ! opening oysters and inserting the j foreign ?ubstance, or grain of j sand, that formerly came there { act-identally. Since Japanese began to gro^' ' pearls -artificially, there has been i much discussion as to whether t these new pearls would affect the value of the accidentally grown pearls. The only difference would appear to be in the pearl seed, or grain of sand, and now it is claim ed by Dr. Boutan that even this difference cannot be detected. The statement of Dr. Boutan is categoric: "if I did not have a certificate of origin when sections of pearls were shown me. pearls cut into sections for testing pur- i poses. -I would not be able to say i which pearl is artificial." Beauty hint: Never eat water melon in white shoes. WITHOUT OPTION OF FINE Judge Rice Gives feoofief&ers Straight Sentences, . Laurent?, Sept. 26.?Seventeen defendants, ten on charges of vio lation of the Honor laws, were con victed or entered pleas of gui'ty in court of general sessions here today. At one time in the day Judge Rice paused in the trials long enough to sentence a line-dp of fourteen, seven of them on li quor charges. All were given sen tences without an option of a fine, the sentences ranging froth two years to twelve montns in the whiskey cases. * Too "Much "Politics? Then-Why Xot tighten the Load? (News and Courier) The Abbeville Press and Banner thinks it a reflection on the peo ple of South Carolina that they should consume more time, and energy in electing a governor ^nd other state and county officers than many men do in earning a living. : ? The Pre*ss and Banner says that "all the hurrah' and stir may "suit the fortunes of the politicians, but it is not profitable to people . gen erally:"' : Why should it take:from May to November to settle our politics every two years? asks the Press and Banner, which would like to do away with the present system altogether. It says: "We believe the people'of Ab beville county by a system of town ship meetings ^ould elect in one afte'rhoon " delegates to a counts', convention, which in turn could select oflicers*'for the county in an art equally short time, and at the same time name delegates to a state convention to 'nominate state, offi cers, and that neither "the county nor the state would suffer by so do ing. We might be' spared a - good deaf Of unnecessary excitement'by so doing as well as get rid of meet of' the demagogues and ? al! the time-serving -politicians who h?Ve done so little for the state in the past several years. We might; in deed, hope that men would be named for office who have real convictions on public questions, and who are' not all things to all men." There may be a good deal-of sense and truth in what the Press and Banner says, but it is useless to "talk about doing away withHiae primary election plan in South'Car olina. If the priinajy election sys tem should be smashed' it. would' be only a matter of a short time until the negro would be back in politics, and .that is' something j which is not desired aither by~the white'people of; the state br by "trie mass of the"-heroes. ' ? Yet -it "is undeniable that politics has beebme^a burden and a xiulfe jance to the average Son* h Caro linian. ? The people are anxious for sbnle, relief from almost" incessant |: political conflict arid the question i is how such relief can be secured, I To us the answer seems clear land simple. It can be summed up ! in threse sentences: j X. Elect all state oflicers every [four years instead of every twb. j 2; Have the legislature meet ev j ery other year instead of annually. 1.2. Let no one vote in any eiec h ion except upon presentation of-a ' county registration c ^rtificate. j The arguments in favor of each I of these "reforms are overwhelm? ling.- V " 1. I If elections were held every four years, the people would not ?nry be given a welcome rest between political campaigns, but it would be possible to get -better men to run frir office because the expense at tached to winnih^tnd holding of fice would be'reduced. ir the legislature met biennially the people, would have a better j chance "to digest the laws that were i passed, the cost of la making ; would be reduced, business" would I not be kept on tenter-hooks every ! winter while hills of ail - descrip I lions were up, and more ?bod men would offer for the ' legislature since the burden of service in that body would become less of a sac rifice. I If the privilege ot voting In vahy I election were .dependent upon . pos j session of a county registration cer j tiiicate the voters might be re ilieved of the inconvenience of hav [ing to re-enroll for each-and eyery felection in a Democratic club and ; the danger of fraudulent" votes be I ing cast by "floaters" would be I greatly reduced. There is plenty of sentiment in j favor, of these* reforms. ' But. this j sentiment, is not effective because [ it has not been crystallized. It will ; do ho "good to talk about the bur I den of politics unless we do schae ! thing to reduce this burden; and the burden will not be reduced un less the ball ban. be started rolling in the legislature by the enactment of legislation "directed to-hrroging about the three reforms we have here outlined. Along with this legislation tliere should be enacted also a law mak ing it possible for persons away from their polling ?places on elec tion day to cast their ballots under such conditions and restrictions fits other states have found useful-and practicable. If the press of the state, which surely should l>e even more weafv of the present condition of affairs than is the public at large, will get behind these reforms vigor ously, and if the average citizen will make it a point to talk to his legislators along the lines we have suggested. South Carolina can be freed of a good part of its present political incubus. If you feel, as we do, and as do so many others, that we have too much politics, why not exert yourself to lighten the load? ?: Riekenbacker. famous aviator, is married. While he works his wife will look up to him. Many cultured people wish th*y could grow wild. m ? ' The consumer gets a raw deal because the cards are stacfctt?