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Two Sailors Sacrificed to Save Sub marine Crew Stoc&holm, August 21?Two men -were drowned from a submarine under singular circumstances dur ing the recent Swedish coastal fleet manouvres. They were really sacrificed to ensure the safety of the whole crew. The submarine Illern, it appears; fired a torpedo at a movable target and then came to the surface in order to see the effect produced. ' Four of the crew came on deck, but trouble suddenly appeared, in the ballast tank, and the comman der immediately closed the hatch and submerged, leaving the four to their own resources. Three of the men were washed off the deck, hut the fourth clung to the submarine's periscope.. The submarine rose again quickly and j this man was rescued. Two of the*' men in the water, including the son ] of Admiral Ancarerona. were; caught in the wash of the bat tleship Sverige and drowned. The other man was picked up by a naval cutter. It is reported that the entire crew of the submarine would prob ably have been lost if the com mander had failed to submerge immediately the trouble was dis j covered. Kifle Shooting Contests Stimulate Actual Warfare Aldershot, August 23?The com- j plaint is made of rifle shooting! competition, not without reason, that they afford'little practice in! marksmanship under conditions; that approximate those of actual! warfare, and that "proficiency in j the kind . of shooting that winsj prizes is not the sort of shooting] that is most needed to win battles.! To meet this criticism the Company j Cup competition was devised. The idea underlying this com- j petition, is that an putport of nine men, under a nqn-cOmmissioned of ficer, is suddenly stacked by an] equal number of hostile force, rep- j resented by nine 12 inch khaki j discs, which appear over the top of i a trench 20 ? yards away. The outpost opens fire and when j a disc is hit it disappears. Butj more of the enemy is conshmtly ar- i riving, three more discs appearing.* every ten seconds during the minute; the contest is being waged. When: the number of discs in view exceeds; that of the outpost, the whole team is put out of action. The team with the fewer number of discs ex-1 posed at the end of'the minute, win3. It is a most interesting meth-j od of competition, and it has at- j tracted a large number of entries.1 Columbia Theological Seminary j The Columbia Theological Semi-, nary, under the joint-control of the synods of South'Carolina. Georgia ! and Florida of the Southern Pres- j byterian church, will open on Wednesday. September 20th. at five! - o'clock in the afternoon. The pros- | pects" for a full junior class is very' promising. It will be one of the! largest classes matriculated in > many years. The total enrollment; for the coming session will be about j : seventy students. Practically every! member of the student body has; been engaged in some form of reli-! gious work during the past sum- j mer. They have filled vacant pul- j pits in many of our groups and the; report comes of many accessions to &ax church membership through I their efforts. Their services extend ' from Virginia to Alabama and ] Mississippi. The Faculty for the coming sea- j son will be unchanged. At the \ present time, every member is in j splendid healt^and spirit for the j work of the cominsr winter. Each I has spent a busy summer. Dr. Wells, the ^president, in ad dition to looking after the inter-1 ests of the Seminary, has filled : many engagements at our Bible j -conferences, and preached practi-; cally every Sunday. Dr. McPheeters has spent a quiet { summer at his residence in Char- ' iotte. X. C. Dr. Reed has filled a number of i engagements at our Bible confer-! fences and has preached practically ! every Sunday during the summer. Dr. White has spent his vaca-l tion at his residence in Richmond, Va.. filling the pulpits of the Rich- J mond churches for a number o? Sundays. Dr. Melton Clark has spent a very busy summer delivering a se ries of lectures at our Bible con- j ferences in Florida. Montreat and j Georgia. Dr. Green delivered a series of lectures at the Christian Work- j er's Conference of the South Caro- j Una synod at Clinton. Dr. Kerr spent several weeks in! study at the University of Chicago, j Mr. Murchison has been kept busy for the most part in super intending the improvements on the! campus and filling a preaching en- , gagement in Haddonfield, New Jer sey. Altogether, it has been a sum mer filled with fruitful activity for the church by the entire faculty. The new students as well as the j old will be delighted to know of the improvements which have been j made on the campus during the; past summer. A nice new dining room has been completed and the kitchen and pantries greatly im proved to add to the efficiency of the dining department. The old dining-room, to which the new is] attached, will be used for a read-sM Ing and recreation room by the students. The dormitories have i all been freshened up with calso-j mine and paint, and lavatories with hot and cold water placed between each suite of rooms. The beds and ' other comforts will be new and fresh for the incoming students. I fn addition to the old dormitories, a nice residence has been rented and is located just across the street from the refectory to care for the \ additional students, in order to be ? able to give each student a sep arate rooms if so desired. All polished x&an don't shine. Glamor of London's Chinatown Has Gone London, August 22?London's j Chinatown is fast disappearing. ; Four years ago 2,000 Chinese sea | men _were living within a stone's j throw of the West India Dock j gates. Xow it is doubtful whether j there are 700, says the Daily Times. During the war London's China j town Had its most prosperous days, ; for quite^a number of British ships I were manned by Chinese crews, i But when the war ended the edict j went forth "British crews for Brit iish ships." and as the Chinamen ; were paid off they either went back ; to China, or to some other country ' where their labor was in demand. The result was that Chinese traders in Chinatown began to suf fer, and one after another had to j put up their shutters. Then sud ? denly there came a boom. A beau tiful actress died while attending an j opium smoking party. Stories were j printed about the thrills to be ex-j perienced in Chinese opium densi and public attention was focused on.] the sinister alleys and by ways of j Chinatown. Restaurants in which j Chinese dishes could be obtained j opened here and there in China- j town. Many Americans visited them j to see how they compared with' ?similar places in their own China- j town and curiosity led a number of English folk and various European j visitors to do likewise. At night they were often filled to overflow ing. ^Commercially minded Orientals invested their money~in the exploit ation of what was a new craze and for a time they prospered exceed ingly. But gradually the novelty wore off, the glamor faded, and i people came to the conclusion that J there was all sorts of cooking that j was much nicer than Chinese cook- i ing. Visitors became fewer and ; fewer and now there are only one or j two shabby restaurants left in Lon- i don's Chinatown. What remain's j of it is but a shadow of its former ! self. \ 1 Seekers of El Dorado Dragged, Robbed and Abandoned! Havana, Cuba, Aug. 28.?Nine j emigrants from Central Europe j and' one from China recently paid j $150 each for a 10-hour,motor boat \ ride, a cup .of drugged coffee and j and the privilege of footing it "35; miles back to Havana after being robbed of $1,500. According to the story they told J the police, three men agreed to '? land them "on the "Florida coast! without bothering the American immigration authorities.' Boardings a motor boat at dusk near Maria nab they put to sea. At dawn the j next day, after several hours deep s slumber brought on by what they j believe wias drugged coffee, they i were landed in a desolate cove, j told they were on American soil, j left to shift for thmeselves after j all their cash and valuables had been taken at the pioht'of a pistol. A little scouting located the Cuban I village of Jibacoa and a rural' guard who pointed out the road ; to Havana. j The police are holding a man j who says he is an American, and] a Cuban, charged as principals; ] the third man has not yet been , found. English Women Campaigning For! More Seats iu Parliament. _ -j London, Aug. 23?The women j of England are preparing an in-<j tensive campaign with a view to j securing more woman merrtbers of;J parliament. They are quite satis- j fled with Lady Astor and "Mrs.j Wintringham, but they want more! women in the House of Commons to j keep these two from feeling lone- j some. They have now formed a i committee to embrace all parties ] ?except th* Communist. They call it the Women's Election Commit tee. Any one who sends along, more than a pound can have it j earmarked for the support of a > candidate for any particular party. ? The Duchess of Atholl has her j eye on a seat and although her j aristocratic friends are trying to j dissuaded her from engaging in-an electoral contest, it is understood she is preparing to stand for the j parliamentary vacancy that will] occur if the expected promotion of i the Lord Advocate to the Scottish Beneh takes place. Robert Cecil Says Fear Breeds: Wars. London, Aug. 25.?"When we 1 c ome to analyze the situation close- j ly we. find that the fear of war is' the beginning of unwisdom," said j Lord Robert Cecil recently discuss ing conditions in Europe. "Russia's; apprehensions have been translated j into vast armies withdrawn from ' reproductive work ill-fed, ill-! clothed, ill-disciplined, and conse- j quently a greater menace to their friends or fellow-citizens than to ? their enemies. "In France the fear of war has led to the establishment of those! armies of occupation on the Rhine j that are costing bankrupt Germany more than a million pounds a week j ?more than two thousand million J marks. "Fear of war is leading a section j of public opinion in England to demand a vastly increased air ser- I vice, and still further concentration ! upon scientific methods of slaugh ter. In all directions we find that knowledge is still harnessed to de- ; struction; that the readiest means: of money making is to invent some- 1 thirty that can destroy life and the products of life-energy faster than nature can replace them. Be hind all these manifestations lies ! fear.'' ? m ? Summer romances are dangerous. They may become serious. foal and the coal situation are about the same color. There can be no universal peace while neighbors have phonographs. People born boys seldom outgrow it. Harding says he would like to ride on a roller coaster. 1 England Stow in Organizing Radio Broadcasting London. August 23?England has been struggling hard to initiate something like a system of wireless broadcasting, based on American lines. The Post mast er-General has [announced in Parliament that no licenses yet had been issued to [ broadcasting stations, but it was the [plan of the manufacturers of wire } less apparatus in Great Britain to form companies to provide broad casting service. Any bona fide man ufacturer, he said, would be ad mitted to the organization. "I have been informed." said the! j Postmaster-General, "that the! broadcasting companies, when; formed, will probably desire to im- j pose on their members the condi- j tion that Britih-made- apparatus j only shall be-sold by them, and Ij have iniimated that * I will assent I to this condition for a period of j two years. It will rest with mem- ; bership of the companies to deter- j mine to what extent this condition shall apply to the component parts j { of the apparatus. [ "The functions of the Postoffice j ! will be limited to approving types j ! submitted by members of the com- j I pany, and inspection of individual; ! sets will not be necessary. Provi- ! sion.w\ll be made under which ama- j [ teurs who construct their own re- j j ceiving sets, and licensees* who; have already imported receiving, i sets, will be allowed to use them." ; The Postmaster-General "said thej j revenue required for broadcasting j 'would be derived partly from a i contribution'by the manufacturers to the company on each set sold by them, and partly by a proportion of the annual .license fee which j would be paid the companies fur-J nishing the service. The cost ofj erecting the stations and providing, the service, he added, would run In to millons, and he had received no j intimation from any firm that they j were willing to undertake it without | guarantee of payment from the I government, Canning Figs a Coming Important j Commodity The increased acreage which has j been planted to figs in California j during the past few years, in which j the new- acreage ? is ?o very large \ proportionately to the ? previous! acreage, makes it inevitable that ; there will in a few years be a tre- ? mendously larger output of figs, in : this state*than we have ever had. i As against a probable bearing ac- j reage of a little over ,12,00? in figs ; now, there are between 3$,000 and j 40,000 acres of., nonbearing trees j in the state, of this variety. We| should consequently have, if the old j acreage is'>kept up, a production, within . few years of four times as j many.figs as we have been having, j One answer^to the question. "What j are we going to do with them,** isj "canned figs." The fanning of .figs has been under very active consid eration repently. and .nufny cannersj here haveheen preparing to put out! in the near future a material pack of canned figs. There may be some ! good sized business in this this! year. This will be in addition to the j preserved figs of the Kadota and ' other such varieties. The Cali- j myrnas will be used largely for1 canning. It is predicted that Cal ifornia canned figs, put up in syrup, J will in a few years be as common ? a. commodity as canned apricots,' peaches or.cherries. Preserved figs in heavy syrup will also be in ample j evidence -at the grocery stores.' Cal- ! ifornia has a practical monopoly! on this situation, and whereas, be- j cause of the difficulty of shipping | fresh any distance and the restrict- J ed area in which figs are produced.! many people have never seen a fig' other than the dried, they will shortly be able to enjoy the can- , ned whole fig. . The Kings County-Packing Co., j of Armona. Cal., along with other canners here, has been giving con- ; siderable attention to the preserv- j ing of figs through canning, also | fig jam a?d a line of syrup from j figs not available for canning j whole. This company, advises of [ making good progress with thes* j lines. Other canners. as well as j the California Peach and Fig j Growers, are developing the fig | canning and preserving possibiji- j ties. The trade may expect to find i products on the market in quantity j in the near future.?California ! Exchange. -? ? ? Cubans, Wailing for. a "Tiger Cat'* j From General Crowder I Havana. Cuba, Aug. 28.?Nearly as many editorial comments were j aroused by the fact that the ill; omened number "13" appeared on ! the last Crowder memorandum as j resulted from the note's sugges- j tions for radical financial and ju- ' dieial reforms. But Cuban superstition has] fraught the expected appearance of! Memorandum No. 14 with dread ful possibilities. For gambling! purposes in Cuba, every number! from 1 to 99 has a name. Thir-i teen is tin* peacock. Naturally a! note of arroganee and pride was discerned in the requests contained in the last memorandum. But 14 j is the tiger cat. There are few who do not believe that Crowder .Mem-\ oradnum No. 14. if it ever is writ-j ten, will have teeth, claws and a peevish disposition. The fact that congress has not acted definitely; on the five-part Crowder program | since the presentation of No. 13 more than a month ago strengthens the belief that the claws of No. 14; are being sharpened. In Des- Moines. an auto was stol- j en from the jail garage. None of the policemen were taken. They had to chloroform a New I York waitress to close her mouth. This, however, is nothing new. Hunt the bright side. If your; clothes were better, people might. mistake you for the bootlegger. i I Shakers. Suffrage and Spiritism i The idea of equal rights for wo : men was introduced in America ? *wo years before our Declaration I of Indenpendence declared "all; j men are created equal." Spirit I manifestations, akin to the recent ! popularity of other world commun- I ication. had a vogue in the colo-1 nies before the Revolutionary War. j These facts are recalled by the proposed abandonment of the Shaker Community in Enfield, New i Hampshire, which is reported to! have dwindled from 359 members I to only 6 survivors, says a bul-! letin from the Washington. D. C, headquarters of the National Geo graphic Society. now an Idea Survived "Of all the groups that found sanctuary on the soil of colonial America the most remarkable, per haps, were the Shakers with their customs that were partly medieval and partly far ahead of their day." the bulletin continues. "And the persistence of a firmly grounded religious belief is aptly illustrated by their survival to this day al- i though their virginal vows provid ed no younger generation to carry on their tradition, and their delib erate isolation in self-sustaining communities gave few opportuni ties to make converts. "The Shakers never had more than 5,000 members and tb,e twelve communities remaining today re ported 367 members in,1916, which means a population of not more than a thousand. The longevity of individual members, combined with their abstinence from meat and fish, their prescribed manual la bor and hygenic living, have made their communities interesting hu man experiment stations for the biologist as well as the geographer. The bodily movement's as they wor shipped closely resembles the noon day gymnasium of many an Amer ican business man. Arrested ? for Gyrations "Ann Lee. self styled, 'Ann the Word* but known among her fol- j lowers as 'Mother Ann' founded the Shakers whose oflieail title is j 'United Society of True Believeres in Christ's Second Coming.' Af ter four children died in their .in fancy Ann Lee sought solace among an offshoot of the Quaker sect in England which had been | influenced by the early eighteenth | century wave of "'manifestations'! among what we would call med-' iums. Ann could not read or write and her husband later ^deserted her. J For her shouting, leaping and bod- j ily gyrations during her ? exhorta-! tions she was arrested in Manches-. ter. : j - "While in jail the young w^man / asserted that the Christ appeared to her in a vision, told her he was one with her, and upon serving her sentence she gathered a few follow ers and set out for America to pro- V claim herself the embodiment of | Christ in His second coming. A Modem Miracle "On the way across the ship's! captain forbade the Shakers? to in-j dulge in their athletic form of ^worship. Whereupon, according to 1 Shaker literature, a storm arose, a' plank was sprung, and the vessel 1 began to fill. 'Mother Ann' re- j i assured the captain saying two an- j gels had appeared before her in a!i vision to promise her safe voyagej j Just as the crew was becoming ex-;( hausted from pumping a huge], wave came again, .struck the ship!, and jammed the plank back; into place. "For two years Mother Anni] worked in New York as a washer-1; woman, then, in 1776. she founded;, the first Shaker church at Water liet. New York. ! "In such strange fashion was in- j stituted, the year that America dates her national birth, the Wes-> tern World's first experiment in j! communism. Later societies, of;1 families, grew up in New York/: "Massachusetts. Xew Hampshire,- i Maine, Connecticut, Ohio and Ken- ; tucky. The Siuiker Platform 11 "The cardinal priniciples of the,1 < Shaker religion are virgin purity, j' confession of their sins, complete j < separation from what they term. < the world's vanities, and a com- i munism which aproaches political socialism. If a man and wife join a Shaker community they are >up- r< posed to live as brother and sister, jj "Until recently they prohibited * the taking of photographs and for-j | bade pictures of all kinds as idol-!^ atrous. Even the cultivation of!j flower gardens for decorative pur- ? < poses was frowned upon in former j, years."* And there is still doubt |, among the older members about] the propriety of musical insttu-' ments. "The Shaker community is as!, nearly selfsustaining as possible L and about the only importationsL in their beginnings were iron for; their plow shares. In their Indus- I trial and agricultural development ! they have contributed many valu able ideas which have been siezed ' upon for general use. They are J credited with the revolving harrow, 1 ctit nails, and the planting ma- ( chine. liaising herbs for medicinal use was one of their early major 1 industries. ' ' Their Towns Spotless "A famous description of their ' central community; that of Mt. Lebanon, X. Y.. is applicable to a>4l j their settlements. 'No Dutch townj* has a ttenter aspect, no Moravian!* hamlet a softer hush," says this j$ writer. 'The streets are quiet: for j1 here you have no grogshop, no beer i house, no lockup, no pound: of the!1 dozen edifices rising about you?i1 workrooms, barns. tabernacles, ? stables, kitchens, schools and dor- t mi tori es?not one is either foul or 1 noisy; and every building, what- *y ever may he its use, has something i of the air of a chapel.' i "An elder anti an eldress are the p. patriarchal heads of the villages. In Ft the larger villages two of each sex jj are chosen, and their authority is j, unquestioned. The recruits of the j societies are from world weary ]"?>'-, sons to whom isolation appeals.! and children attending their schools who are imbued at an irnpres-. sionable age with their religious teachings. Each member of the j community is expected to perform l J a share of the work, and by work j the Shaker means r\tnual labor. Many attempts to carry out the j1 economic ideas of the Shaker vfl- i Inges have foiled, apparently; he cause the absence of the religious tie allowed members to depart too Cosily." The Inside Story of a Coal Mine The householder is noi shoveling coal in these piping times of sum mer, but because of the strike and fears that his favorite winter in door sport will be interfered with when the snow flies, coal has bee i uppermost in his thoughts, none the less. , A bulletin from the "Washington. D. C, headquarters of the National Geographic Society presents a lit tle known.aspect of the coal indus try to stay-on-the-surface users of this modern necessity?the working of.a big anthracite mine when op erating full blast. Describing a visit to a. mine in which there are eighty five miles of underground railway, the bulletin says: Need Air for Human Fuel "One thing above ground we will be even more vitally interested in when we go below?the ventilating fan, for without it we would be in danger of being 'gassed' in times of peace. The fans in this mine fly around with a rim speed of a mile, a minute. Every mine has two shafts; the hoisting shaft and the air shaft. To keep the mine free enough from gas to permit work in safety, enormous quantities of fresh air must be sent down the one op ening and corresponding quantities of gas-laden air drawn out the other. "To start on our downward jour ney we step on the 'cage' or ele vator, the mine superintendent gives a signal, and the floor drops. Down. down, down we whiz past stratum after/stratum of rock Mine Planned Like a City "Arriving at the bottom, we soon! find that a coal mine is planned like! a city. There is one main street, or entry, and it has-been iaid out with the nicety of a grand boule vard. Parallel with this are-other entries, and across these entries run other streets, at right angles, usually, which are called headings. Lining all these headings as houses line the streets are the chambers, or rooms, in which the miners' work. "When we stop at the bottom we j feel ourselves in a small-sized hur- i ricane. It is the air rushing down j the shaft and starting through the] mine on its mission of purification. "We walk and walk until we be gin to feel as though we might be coming out over in China or France and then we come to the rooms of chambers?for all the coal in the neighborhood of the hoisting shaft has gone up .in heat and smoke j long before now and this mine is! farflung. ? Catacombs of the Living "These rooms or chambers might be monk's cells in some catacombs for the living. Here the miner bores and blasts and digs away the coal and loads it into the mine cars. If he has a helper he does not need to do the loading himself. I The car holds about 6,000 pounds! of run-of-the-mine coal, and a min- j er is supposed to fill two of them a] day. "When the car is loaded the min er puts his number on it. and pre sently, without much ado, there J comes up the heading and into the passageway leading to the chamber a string of mules walking tandem. 6r single file, and dragging an empty car behind. They pull out i the loaded car. set the empty one where the miner wants it. and go back the way they came, with the load of coal. "There are other strings of mules, also, and they distribute the emp- { ties and mobilize the loaded cars I from and at given points. Thenj ihe 'Compressed-air engine comes f along and makes up a train of j loaded cars after dropping one of j empties ready for distribution. The roal trains are pulled down to the hoisting shaft, and one by one the cars go to the surface, an empty coming down as a loaded one goes up. How; the Coal Came to Be "Having seen the harvest in the r-oal field, let us turn to the seed time. Millions of years ago Nature stored away billions of tons of coal | for us, and then left us a record r>f her processes written in a lan- i ^uage that all ag?-s and tongues | \m understand. It is a story so svonderful as almost to defy belief, j md yet one so plain to him who j reads it as to defy unbelief. "Vegetation grew rankly, leaves j md stalks settled into marshes, md were carbonized, almost as though it had been for our bette lt. Those were happy days in the vegetable kingdom. Plant life was piiokened as animal life is stirred by the ozone of the sea, for the lir was laden with unimaginable j nipplies of carbonic "acid gas, | ivhieh was inhaled by the Brob-j iignagian jungle. "Indeed, so rieh was the at- j mosphere in its supply of this gas ;hat while it made vegetation grow extraordinarily rank it would have suffocated man. Furthermore,' here, was warmth exceeding any-! hing we know in the tropics to-j lay. and there was moisture inj ibundanee?more than the most i q->endthrift of plants could wish i tor. ? How amazingly dense was the ,-egetation of the coal-forming era nay be shown by comparisons with j listing forests. Should nature, by j he process of the coal age trans-j (?iin the densest jungle in the! .vorld today into a coal seam, it; ?robably would be only a few| nches thick: yet there are coal; jeams which mv .sixty feet thick, i hough ten feet is regarded as a fine, seam, and three feet will produce nore than five thousand tons to: he acre." If winter comes, can heavy mi lerwear be far behind'.' _-a m- m Truth crushed to earth rises j main. Pedestrians don't. We had forgotten about chest ?mis ripening until we saw a worm joing somewhere. ' Tiou Diamonds Are Mined A "rush" such as frontier Amer ica knew its free-land days, but in this case to petr out claims in a newly discovered diamond field was mentioned in recent dispatches from South Africa. This new dia mond country opens up possibili ties of a rival to the great Kim berly diamond field in the same general region, the world's great est source of the sparkling white gems. j The methods of mining diamonds I at Kimberly, which may be fol-i I lowed in the new fields if the for- ; mation proves the same, are out- , lined in a bulletin from the Wash- I ington. D. C. headquarters of the National Geographic Society. Like- Needle in Haystack "The mines at Kimberley," says j the bulletin, "are in very ancient { volcanoes which ages ago lost all! sembiance of activity. But during! [,their youth the great heat and.pres- j sure of these volcanoes created gi- j gantic laboratories in their depths I in which thousands of the hard j white carbon crystals, which are j diamonds, were created. The'pre- j cious little lumps are embedded in! a great volume of worthless rock j known as 'blue ground.' and un- j der old conditions were as hard to \ I find as the proverbial needle in a! haystack. But just as a clever j searcher could probably locate his needle with a powerful magnet, de spite the straw, so engineers have evolved mechanical means clever-1 ly to separate the few tiny din-1 monds from the many tons of dirt j j in which they are hidden, i "The effectiveness with which! ! Nature has concealed the crystals is j evidenced by the fact that the 'blue ground' brought up from the depths of the mines and carrying its price i less gems, is spread out in the open [ for four months to a year to the j weather. The diamonds are per- j ! fectly safe,- for officials who have walked over the weathering 'floors' |f?r many years assert that they have never found a diamond in this | way. As the 'blue ground' weathers it . crumbles, and great harrows like those used on the bonanza! farms of the West, are dragged j over it to. facilitate the process. Gems Trapped in Grease "Eventually the material is! .broken down into relatively fine; particles. It is then taken in truck-1 loads to the mechanical plant of j the mine for treatment. The j ground is mixed with water in greet ! mixing machines and passed over j screens of fine wire meshing. J "When as much as possible of j the foreign material has been re- j moved in this way the coarse resi- | due, containing the diamonds, is passed over sloping, vibratng ta bles covered with thick grease. Be cause of some little understood physical property, diamonds stick to the grease while the worthless I material flows over the edge of the j; tables. The grease with its load -; of crystals is then scraped into a j perforated container and heated by j; steam. The grease melts away and j leaves the small but highly valu- j1 able object of these months of work, j "How widely spaced the dia- ( monds. are in their matrix of earth j can be shown best perhaps by a j' comparison of volumes. The earth taken out in a year by the largest mining company in the field, would form a cube more than 430 feet in each dimension.i This would fill a. large city block to a height of j' more than thirty stories. The dia- j monds found in this vast amount j of earth would fill only two or } three desk drawers or a cubical box J' less than three feet in each dimen-r j son. But these few pecks of stones j ? for which a mounatin was 'moved ? . were worth perhaps in excess of i! $25,000,000. ^ \] Laborers V?lnhtary Exiles "One of the most striking fea-]' tures of the mining of diamonds j by the large companies in*Kimberly j is the existence of the unique labor j compounds. Since diamonds are ; j so easily stolen, only those native \ > laborers are employed who will i' agree ot 'enlist' for at least three [ j months and remain for that pe- j ^ riod, (when not in the mines, or j * on the 'floors') within a walled, en-j clo.'ujre. In the largest compound, i covering more than four acres, 3.- j o00 men live. Not only are these!, compounds surrounded by high j walls, but they are also covered j ^ with fine wire netting so that dia- j, monds cannot be thrown outside to i * confederates. ' { "Laborers entering or leaving a ! compound must go through a pro- j ' cedure not unlike that when enter- ;, ing a foreign country having strict '" immigration and customs laws, j * They must pass a health examina- j tion and if diseased are rejected or j placed in quarantine. Only" certain \ articles may be token into a com- j pound, and no boots, shoes or other i hard or solid materials may be tak- j en out?only clothing which has i S been searched. In the largest of!* the compounds, where some labor- (S ers have chosen to stay for years, j f are stores, a church, a school, a ! < hospital and dispensary, athletic i j grounds and a swimming pool. The \z manager of the compound is a sori *j of mayor and judge -rolled into one t and is called upon to decide innum ; t erable disputes." ; c Russian Court Curbs Harsh Mea- t surest x j I Sevsk. Province of Briansk. Aug. ; j 9?For turning a group of old nuns ^ out of a convent and into the street t the chairman of a Soviet committee j here has been sentenced by a tri- jq bunal to be shot. The ten other , committeemen have been xent to t prison. a i Society to exterminate cats is started. It could be done by teach ing doss to climb trees. Virgina farmer ILM? years old is dead. They claim he could remem- j ber when farmers were not having ic a hard time. I "What is hell?" asks the Ney j Tork Herald. Buying school boota : s George Returns to Belgrade and Worries Alexander Belgrade. Jugoslavia, August 15. ?Prince George has come back to Belgrade from Paris and there are some people here who wish that his indolent; care-free life in the French capital of recent years had proved sufficiently attractive to keep him there. George is the eldest son of the late King Peter. As for the throne, he has renounced it, and his broth er, Alexander, is sitting there with his new queen. Marie of Reumania, at this side. Together they are busy with the formalities of court life. George has said in substance "Here am I; George, son of Peter. 1 would like to have the status of my relationship to this government definitely fixed. I have not the means to live properly, either here or abroad. My brother the King has denied me my legitimate allow ance. In the meantime, 1 would like a commission in the army. How about it?" And of course George has friends, some of whom have interpellated parliament as to why George is not granted the position to which his birth entitles him. George presents a knotty prob lem, n King Alexander is credited with wishing that he would go to United States, or some other dis tant land, and refrain from em barrassing the government. Prizefighters Becoming Popular In 31cxfeo Mexico City, August 26?As re cently as three years ago a form er heavyweight boxing champion attempted to make boxing popular in Mexico City and failed. Today the spott is intensely popular and the bouts which are held regularly every Friday night in Mexico City attract crowdsv that fill the Fron ton, a huge structure in which the Spanish game, of pelota is played. The promoters are so enthused over the prospects of the fight game here, that they are planning a combination gymnasium and arena, and they have already set up a school for boxers in which Mexi can youths are given free instruc tion in fisticuffs. These students, in return for this, instruc tion, furnish all the preliminaries to the main bouts and that they do well is a tested by the fact that the popular verdict so far has always been that the youngsters^are better tha n the older principals. Invitations have been sent to sev eral well-konwn boxers to the United States inquiring as to terms for a fight here, and the word -has evidently been passed around that the game is looking up in Mexico, because during the past few weeks there has been a great Invasion of "ham and egg" fighters who are perfectly willing to be- .mauled aroimd for a few^ rounds* in return, for a few regular-meals. Persons who have watched box ing rise and fall in popular fancy here say there is more interest now thar ever before.- For the first time Mexican boys' are being taught to j box and their cleverness is undis- \ puted. The Mexican spectators are! also commencing to learn the game, and the job of .referee is not; the hazardous-task it was a tew years ago when an unpopular de-! cision usually meant gunplay. Adverse Foreign Trade Increases Difficulties. Tokio, Aug. 15.?-The continued ! adverse condition of the country's; foreign trade justifies anticipation; of further difficulty that will be at- < tendant on the recovery of capital j invested, said Mr. Hikikata. pres ident of the Japan Industrial Bank j at the annual meeting- of the i shareholders. He added: "In order to counteract the un easiness ' thus instilled, the bank made a proper choice of an -oppor- J lunity for the flotation of public! loans. The debentures so far is-! med by the bank for such pur- j poses amount to 595,000,000 yen! for the first half of the current; rear, which means an increase of; 14,000.000 yen over the figures for! :he preceding, term. 'The absorption of capital in; he public money market thus real- \ zed naturally tended to tighten the j narket tone until interest on fixed j leposits was raised by 2 to S rin ill around. This however failed! 0 go any long way in lowering the ? irice of commodities. The famine! ?)rices that a%? still maintained, j 'oupled with the unfavorable bal-j nice of foreign trade, has proved 1 serious impediment to the early ? *ecov%ry of normal economic fane- | ions." Archbishop of Sweden Ascribes War to Fear Stockholm, August. 21?Nathan 'oederblom. Archibishop of Swed- I m. who is going to the United! States next year, in an address be- j 'ore the assembly at the World: 'ongress of Churches which has | ust been held in Copenhagen, made | in appeal to ail creeds and congre gations to unite in restoring peace \ hroughout the world. Representa ives of nearly every Christian : hutch and creed were present. "The world is infested with the; wo microbes of hate and fear." he Bishop said, "but we are gross y ignorant of how to turn our in lerited curse into a blessing." He ; lenounced those servants of Chris- ! ianity who pause to ask about ] >arty or creed when there is a [Uestioh of saving perishing bu na nity. The churches must stop . heorizing and arguing about trifles nd must unite in definite action: n the cause of peace." ??? ? ? * ? Dempsy says rest makes a box r. Now we know why he is; harap. <> ? ^ t New York state has 8,000 hiking lubs. This is another evil result of i he rail strike. * ? ? If more hunting licenses are is- j ued, we predict i milk shortage. | POTATOES FROM I THE NORTH One Example of Profit Los?&y Southern Farmers v _ I Mayesvilie. S. C. Sept. Jl~We .cannot but notice that the. farmers I in the south are making ?ptato^*'. : and shipping them to north??? ., I markets for four-and five dollar** ! per barrel when the crops a't'e ? i gathered, and within four or -five ? months the northern markers/ are [shipping the same potatoes ba^k [ to our southern markets with *a ; great profit added to the. potatoes . shipped batk in sacks, for which: - we have had to^pay wholesale ntke dollars per sack. It will take two sacks to equal ore barrel, making a total cost of our barrel back jtb i us of eighteen dollars. Wake up, farmers, get your stor- ' a?re house and do not let so jhi>f$rl ; money be taken from your pocJS%$?; The railroads get a haul from the south to the northern market and I then the return haul. The freight rate is mighty liigh, so why should - you allow this extra expense. This' looks like we just love to see the locomotive wheels turn and >furn . ish the commodity to turn them for the fun of it. I have today seen a train of about seventy-five caps pass with carioads and carloads 'fit I potatoes in sacks going south. Please dp not kick this fall when you go to your grocery store and the merchant asks yon ten or twelve dollars per sack. You could have held these potatoes and saved this extra mpney. That's why the south cannot get rich , any faetjsr. -; D. A. Berry. Enemies of the Bolshevik! To Me Shot I Semiealatinsk, . Aitgust, 9 ?Five out of 238 officers^of the BakhJfcb army, who were tried by, a revo lutionary tribunal for waging, war: against the Bolshevik^ im the Far East, have been sentenced* to he ; shot. v Most of the others were jj$y^ eu prison Jerms of five to. ten years. G eneral Bakhitch and General Ti gern, the" leaders, were put to death j s?me time ago. Russia Xo Longer Offers Bargains in Diamonds Warsaw, August 1%?Diamonds are in such demand , amon^ for eigners visiting Russia' in \Se^reh of bargains'- that the nearby, bord ing. ?eitles are being -drained^ of ~ tones for the Russian markets, beording to dealers here, : jJ$er- ~ chants have been active for months n Bucharest. ^Vienaa, Riga, -Reval? Warsaw and even Berlin, and other'? ities, buyi ng up the cheaper cut ? ?tonest By . ingenious ways these diamondsv^if spm&;~of .the'm can be called diamonds-r^are'sent to Mos cow; and there put on the market: Russian diamonds have .bfiSfTjgk tensively advertised in Europe' as?d the United States. Owing to nju>^ fortune may wealthy families, wbjea v reverses' came, sold their jewels hi prices far less than they were worth. But times has brought about a Change in conditions. Th*r* were many diamond bargains in P.ussia in the early days of th? " volution and the hard times which followed^ . This ou^te vr?r . turally attracted- the- atention of foreigners,1 and for years every vis? itor went with the hope of finding a'nice "pick up" or two for hjaf- N-j self or his wife^ or for speculation. Merchants too came in' droves. As a consequence most of the better diamonds, rubies and other* pre cious stones gradually passed isrto foreign hands, and on out of the country. > <;z Merchants contend that there are probably more yellow and jspecj?&d diamonds in Moscow today than in ? any other city in Europe. A?d many of these, through speculators, came from the outside especially ?or the trade. Eventually through bar gain hunting foreigners, . the?e stones will be taken out of Abe country again at $150 or $209 a carat when on the open market they-would not bring half that . price. v IA. It. A. Says Russian Famine Is Over Moscow, Russia; August 8?One of the surest indications that the famine has t>een stamped out ^n Russia, according to the American Relief Administration, is the rate at which letters of gratitude and expressions of thanks have bsbn pouring into the Moscow office of the administration during the^ last few weeks. Communication* by wire and post continue to come from every district signed by vil lage committees, parent?, distact and local government heads. Flg gures just compiled at Moscow headquarters of the A, R. A. show that in all the districts AraerWn food is now reaching nearly liL- , :i00.000 people?the highest polit yet reached in the famine opera tion. ? ^ ?i? ? Sales of 'Honors Frankly to be Whitewashed London, August 23?The distri- ? $ bution of British honors, the wards of peerages, baronetcies, and lesser, distinctions, is to be investigate4. but in this wise. * A Royal Commission has bee$ j appointed and will inquire into the^ matter, which savors of scan dal, for it is known that honors, have b?*en more or less openly sold; But the committee will make no public record on what it learns. Neither political party has a clean record in this regard.. TheHe iore. to prevent the wreckage of many glass houses, it was decided no rue should be allowed to throw stones. There is to be no delving into the past, so far as the public is concerned. The commission vdll simply advise on future procedure in the awarding of honors in years ggj to come. 1 - ? ? ? ? V Mexico is talking prohibition again. So are we.