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THE CHATHAM RECORD ft A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year . Strictly in Advance THE C HATH AT J RECORD Rates of Advertising On Square, em kwrtiMi One Square, two insertieM One Sauare. one montk " JLOO For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts vfllt be made. VOL. XXXV. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY; N. C, FEBRUARY 26, 1913. NO. 29. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY ill MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings ef Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. After twenty-one days spent in in vestigating the failure of the Citizens' Trust company of Augusta, Ga., in volving approximately $105,000 unpro tected by assets, the Richmond coun ty grand jury returned thirty-five in dictments, charging violation of the state banking laws, forgery and em bezzlement. The' indictments include several local men, B. Sherwood Dunn of New York, D. H. Willard of Phil adelphia and former Cashier Moy C. Dowling, now in Barnwell county, South Carolina. Neal Borum, deputy marshal of the town of Collierville, Tenn., near Mem phis, was shot and probably fatally wounded, and two unidentified ne groes were killed at Colliersville as the result of an attempt of Borum and two other officers to ar rest Henry Wilkins, a negro, charged with disturbing the peace. Wilkins escaped, but is pursued by a posse. If he is captured it is anticipated that an attempt will be made to lynch him. Borum was shot as he entered Williams' house. The national forest reservation com mission authorizes the purchase of 9,000 acres of land on the Savannah river in the states of Georgia and South Carolina. In South Carolina the buyer of whisky from a blind tiger is guilty of a violation of the law and is pun ishable just as is the seller, accord ing to a decree handed down by Cir cuit Judge Shipp at Anderson, S. C. Ed McWilliams of Griffin, Ga., had a thrilling experience near Columbus, Ga., while carrying a heavy engine across the bridge at Mulberry creek at Kingsboro, Ga. The engine was intended for 'use at a sawmill in that vicinity. As it entered the covered wooden bridge, with Mr. McWilliams at the wheel the bridge gave way and the engine fell into the ravine below. McWilliams in falling swung to a sleeper, but, being forced to release his hold, caught on a bush. He crawl ed out amid a cloud of escaping steam from the engine. A machine gun of the Thirteenth United States cavalry platoon at Ha chita, N. M., has disappeared, accord ing to reports, received at El Paso, Ttxas. It is believed that Mexican rehels came over the border and stole the piece. General Ye Ho Xa La, empress dowager of China, died at Pekin. She was the widow of Emperor Kwangsu, who died November 13, 1908, and was 48 years old. ' The report of the special commis sion to fix the bounadry lines between Texas and New Mexico, approved by the president, decides in favor of the Texas contentions. The point in d.s pute was as to where the bed .of the Rio Grande existed in 1858 when the boundary was originally run and then known as the Clark boundary, the monument marking it having been washed away since jthen. The report settles a dispute of fifty years' stand ing. President John H. Patterson of the National Cash Register company of Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced to serve one year in the county jail at Troy, Ohio, and to pay a fine of $5,000 for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Twenty-eight other officials and employees of the, co'uany were given jail sentences. Ocean pressure ttyfst the bottom of the great caisson which had been sunk for the construction of the Pearl harbor dry dock at .Honolulu, Hawaii, There were no fatalities, but the loss in .machinery was heavy. Loss of the caisson also dissipated years of work in the attempt to. build a firm founda tion for the huge dock. Joaquin Miller (Cincinnatus Heine), "the poet of the Sierras," died in his cne-room cabin, which he built in the Piedmont hills many years ago. The end came with warm sunshine flood ing the room, near Oakland, Cal.. here lay the author of "Songs of the Sunland." . The senate campaign fund investi gating committee decided to send a commission to Franklin, Pa., to take the testimony of former Representa tive Joseph C. Sibley, whose letters figured conspicuously in the Standard Oil correspondence. All of the five exploration parties which started for tire South Pole three or more years ago have been account ed for. News has been received tha't Lieutenant Fletcher's antarctic expe dition had reached civilization. Prof. Henderson of Harvard endors ed the views held by Prof. Lowell that the planet Mars is inhabited. At the approaching session of the Cordon county, Georgia, superior court indictments against sixty-two men and boys from the community of Red Bud will be presented, charging drunken ness and disorderly conduct. The country residence of Chancel lor of the Exchequer David Lloyd-Garrison at Walton Heath was practical ly destroyed by a bomb, which, the police say, was placed under it either by militant suffragists or their male sympathizers. Nobody was injured, as the residence had not yet baen oc cupied. Mrs. Emeline Pankhurt, a suffragist, says she personally as sumes responsibility for the deed. Gen. Victoriano Huerta was elect ed provision president by the Mexi can congress at a special secret ses sion. The former president, Madero, was exiled, while his uncle, Gusta vo, known as the "power behind the throne," was executed. The new president of the Mexican republic assures President Taft that peace and prosperity will reign from now on in the Mexican republic. Rush hour throngs on Broadway, in New York City, witnessed an attempt ed hold-up, gave first aid to the vic tim and captured one of the assail ants. The hold-up was attempted by two men who had entered the jewel ry establishment of Henry K. Bicker & , Co., in the financial section. They wanted to buy diamond earrings, they said. A clerk brought out a tray con taining $5,000 worth for their inspec tion. They .knocked him down, grab bed the gems and bolted for the door, but the clerk regained his feet in time to catch the man with the tray. Governor Wilson of New Jersey signed the seven anti-trust bills pass ed by the legislature and which were drafted at his request. With one ex ception the bills become effective at once. The bill defining trusts and prohibiting agreements ahd acts de signed to directly or indirectly restrain trade and making officers and direc tors of corporations criminally re sponsible for violations of . the act, wil lgo into effect July 4. Three hundred and fifty clergymen of New York City representing more than forty denominations met at a luncheon in honor of James Bryce, who has announced his impending re tirement as ambassador from Great Britain. Washington Anti-trust legislation of a radical character is to be recommended by the senate committee on interstate commerce in a report. Amendments to present laws will be urged to take away from the Supreme court the "dis cretionary power" it now exercises in adminstiering the Sherman law and to define clearly forms of illegal com bination, so business interests will know when they violate the law. The Porto Rican citizenship bill that would give citizens of Porto Rico and certain natives permanently re siding in the island citizenship in the United States .received the approval of a senate committee, and will be reported to the senate for passsage. The bill has already passed the house. Under the proposed law any person on the island might retain his pres ent political status by making a dec laration under oath that he did not intend to become a citizen of the United States. The largest pension bill ever re ported to congress, carrying appro priations aggergating $180,300,000, was passed by the house by a vote of 219 to 40, with an amendment which will make necessary an additional appro priation of more ' than a million dol lars. The Burnett-Dillingham immigration bill vetoed by President Taft because it imposed the literacy test upon im migrants, was passed over the pres ident's veto in the senate by a ma jority of 72 to 18. The overwhelming majority given at the end of a short debate, in which Mr. Taft's attitude was vigorously attacked, has strength- i ened the probability that the bill will be passed over the veto in the house. Support of the president's position was voiced by only a few senators during the debate. With the government of President Francisco I.' Madero fallen and Gen eral Victoriana Huerta proclaimed as president of Mexico, it devolves upon American Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson at once to treat with the de facto government of Mexico for the protection of, Americans throughout the republic. With several Americans killed and many wounded from the bullets of the contending forces in the City of Mexico and thousands render ed homeless, Mr. Wilson's first duty will be to treat with the . new presi dent for amelioration of the condi tions imposed upon Americans. Amid great rejoicing and in defiance of the conservative members who urg ed retrenchment and the cutting down of expenditures, the house passed an omnibus public building bill, common ly called a "pork barrel bill' carry ing $25,800. The vote on the bill was 184 to 46. . Attorney General Wickersham, when he heard the sentences in the cash register case, declared them " eminent ly just. It "is the second case in which jail sentences have been imposed un der the Sherman law. Two ' thousand United States ma rines from various barracks along the Atlantic coast were ordered . to Cuba, there to.be held in readiness for pos sible use in Mexico. Half of them will leave from Philadelphia "on the army transport Meade, already on its way from Newport News for the pur pose. Guantanamo is the present ob jective point o fthe marines, who will be established in camp in connection with the fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Badger. Whether these men w;ll get further than Guantanamo will depend entirely on Mexican de velopments. , LAWMAKERS OE NORTH CAROLINA WHAT IS BEING DONE BY STATE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT RALEIGH. INTRODUCE MANY NEW BILLS Six Months' School Term Bill Passed 3y Senate and Sent to House. Bill To Aid Road Building By Counties Passed by House. . '' Senate Monday. The Senate had a long argument over whether the Daniel bill for the state to issue $500,000 bonds each year to take county bonds for high way construction on the plan worked out by W. S. Wilson, corporation clerk in the Department of State, should go to the Finance Committee, after com ing with favorable report from the Joint Committee on Highways or take its place on the calendar. The result was that it went to the calendar as a special order for Tues day of next week. A number of new bills were intro duced in the Senate. House Monday. Representative Witty, Wooten and Sheek were named as the Commit tee on the Journal for the week. Bills reported '.-enrolled for ratifica tion and signed included: Rural policemen for. Robeson County; to amend the charter of the Watauga Railroad Company; to pro vide funds for freight-rate prosecu tions through the Corporation Com mission; to regulate pay of jurors in Hertford County; to regulate the pay of jailors; to regulate Superior Courts for Forsyth County; to establish the Asheville police court; joint resolu tion enlarging the powers of the commission to confer with the rail road officials in amicable adjustment of freight-rate discriminations; to ex tend the time for organizing the North State Central Railway Com pany; joint resolution of thanks to Colonel Home for the monument to Confederate women. A number of new bills were intro duced in the House. Senate Tuesday. The Stewart mileage bill as intro duced in the House, to require rail roads to pull mileage on trains, and finally gotten through that body with this feature stricken out and the re quirement substituted that family mile age books be provided at two cents a mile, under penalty of a flat two-cent mileage fo rthe state, was killed in the Senate. The Senate passed the bill to re quire certification to clerks of courts of names of all partners in partner ships for information of the public. Also, the bill to empower the state commissioner of insurance to refuse or revoke licenses to insurance agents was passed. Petitions were presented from cit izens of Pender against state-wide stock law; from the Junion Order Council of Henrietta for six-months school; from farmers, in Rowan and Daughters of Liberty of Salisbury for six-months school and compulsory at tendance. House Tuesday. .. The bill to amend the builder's lien law came up and was amended by striking out the clause that gave architect lien on the house for ser vice and that requiring bonds by build ers. As amended it passed second reading. There was a long discussion on the bill to increase the number of direc tors for the State ; School for the Deaf and Dumb and requiring that one of the directors shall be a grad uate of the institution before it was finally defeated, 55 to 13. The Senate bill definrag the crime of bigamy was passed and ordered enrolled for ratification. v A number of new bills were intro duced in the House. Senate Wednesday. The senate passed the Ivey bill for the regulation of automobiles, fixing the scale of taxes at $5 up to 25 horse power, $7.50 fo 40 horsepower. Motor cycles will be taxed $2. Speed limits will be 10 miles an hour in business sections and 15 miles in residence sections of towns "and 25 miles on country roads. Dealers are to pay $10 registration tax for number to be used on demonstration cars with exemption for 15 days. Municipali ties are allowed to impose additional taxes. The bill fixing minimum punishment for carrying concealed weapons at $25 fine or 30 days imprisonment was defeated after a spirited argument. I House Wednesday. t ' The bill by Hall for tax of $1 ojn male and $2 on female dogs for bene fit of the school funds in the counties was discussed, many Representatives asking exemption for . their counties. Tt was then referred to the judiciary committee. The compulsory school attendance bill, pending as a aeterrea special order for today,, was meerly ordered .printed and set for Tuesday of next week. The Kellum bill ' to give the cor poration commission power to regu late rates of power, light, gas and water companies," both corporation and municipality-owned and empower ing the . corporation commission to J require physical connection of com peting telephone lines passed . and It was sent to the senate. The house voted to have a special committee ap pointed to investigate the hiring of convicts by the state to railroads and other enterprises and report relative to the advisability of passing the pending bill to require state convicts to be hired to all counties wanting them for road work before letting them to railrooads. ' Senate Thursday. Of routine matters little was done Thursday in the senate. The session was interrupted" by a Joint session and an executive session. Senator. Law son called up his compulsory educa tion bill again, with the provisions of his own measure Inserted after the enacting words of the McCravey house bill, but debate was adjourned as usual. The 1 mill school tax bill whictt was passed by the house is in the sen ate, faborably reported with amend ments. House Thursday. The senate bill to. provide for the sale of the property of the State Hos pital for the Insane by the sinking fund commission and the transfer of the hospital to State Park waa passed to third reading by the house. By a vote of 63 to 37, the house sustained the veto of the governor on the act to hold an election in Jas per county for the purpose of voting JO,000 in bonds with which the su pervisor and county commissioners could build a court house and jail. The original act creating Jasper county provided that the buildings should be erected by a commission of five. The house refused to pass over the veto of the governor the act to em power the municipal authorities of Greenville to destroy alcholic liquors seized by them. The Berkeley delegation bill to re quire timber to be returned 'as per sonal property for taxation was pass ed to third reading bu the house. Senate Friday. The Senate passed the bill to work convicts on the public roads after a lengthy discussion by members on whether the state is not throwing away its money in leasing convicts to build roads for stock. The six-months minimum school term bill from the house was further discussed by th'e senate and passed on second reading 44 to 1. Or rather, this was the vote on the adoption of the Bryant amendment empowering counties to levy special five per cent tax for county purposes when county authorities deem this necessary in connection with the operation of the school term act. The bill passed sec ond reading unanimously. House Friday. By a. vote of 81 to 5 the house pass ed the Kellum bill providing for, the semLannual issuance of $300,000 four per cent state bonds, to be used in financing road bonds issued by coun ties at five per cent for road building; the bonds to run for 41 years, by which time the one per cent sinking fund will have provided for liquida tion. The house received from commit tee and passed immediately, after considerable argument, the bill to in crease the membership of the Warren County Board of Education. Mr. Stephens of Wayne presented and procured immediate passage of a joint resolution authorizing the plac ing of a bronze statue of Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock in Capitol Square. Another bill received from commit tee and put under immediate consid eration was the Bolick bill to protect human life by prohibiting persons from walking on railroad tracks. Senate Saturday. The six-months school ' bill was passed on third roll call reading and ordered sent to the House for con currence in Senate amendment." The Jackson county seat removal bill was passed on final reading and went to the House for concurrence in Senate amendment. Senator Jones introduced a resolu tion declaring it to be the sense of the General Assembly that the School for the Blind at Raleigh be removed to another site. A committee of three Senators and five Representatives is called for to investigate and re port to the Legislature. Bills passed final reading as fol lows: - . Senate bill for water and light bond issue by Benson. Senate bill ratifying call for elec tion on', the county farm in Iredell county. House bill amending the Iredell county road law. House Saturday. The House passed on final reading the Kellum bill for the state to issue semi-annually $300,000 state 4 per cent bonds to cover county 5 per cent bonds for road building, and the bill goes to f the Senate. The House passed the Kellum bill to regulate elections in Wilmington, a comprehensive corrupt i practices act. Great numbers of public local calendar bills were, passed. The house passed bills as follows that go to the senate for disposition by that body: . L To incorporate Pine Bluff school district. -. - To fix boundary of , Marshall school district, Madison county. Good road bond issues for Cleveland county. MADERO IS SHOT IN STREET MOB ATTACKS OFFICIAL AUTOMO BILE CARRYING HIM TO PEN- - ITENTIARY. INVESTIGATION TO BE MADE Vice President Suarez Was Also Slain During Melee. Accounts of Death of Victims Do Not Conform in All Cases. Mexico City. Francisco I. Madero and Jose . Pino Suarez are dead. In a midnight ride under guard from the National Palace to the penitentiary they were killed. , The circumstances surrounding the death of the deposed President and Vice President of the Republic are unknown, except as given in official accounts, which do not in all cases conform. The only witnesses were those actually concerned in the kill ing. The Provisional President, Gen. Victoriano Heurta, says the killing of the two men was incidental to a fight between their guard and a party at tempting to liberate them. The Min ister of Foreign Relations, Francisco de la Barra, adds that the prisoners attempted to escape. Neither makes a definite statement as to which side fired the fatal shots. It is not impos sible ,that neither knows. An official investigation has been ordered to determine the . responsibil ity and solemn promises have been made that the guilty will be punished. Not unnaturally a great part -of ttye public regards the officials versions with doubt, having in mind the use for count for centuries of the noto-, rious "ley fuga," the unwritten law which is invoked when the death of' a prisoner is desired. Aftr its ap plication there is written on the rec ords "prisoner shot trying to escape." Senora Madero, widow of the Ex. President, received the first definite information of his death from Senor Cologan y Cologan, the Spanish Min ister. She already had heard reports that something unusual and serious had happened but friends had en deavored up to that time to prevent her from learning the whole truth. Soon afterward, accompanied by her brother, Jose Perez and Mercedes Madero, a sister of Francisco, Senora Madero drove to the penitentiary but was refused permission to see the body of her husband. Senor Suarez also was denied admittance to the mortuary, where physicians, in ac cordance with the law, were perform ing an autopsy. Turkey. Ready .to .Quit' Fighting. London. The Sublime Porte has instructed Hakki Pasha, 'Turkish peace envoy in London, to request the good offices of the foreign office in London in bringing about the open ing of Balkan peace negotiations, ac cording to a special dispatch from Constantinople, The Turkish govern ment ' has agreed to accept, in the main, the recommendations of the great powers, which were that Turkey meet the demands of the allies. Castro Has Gone to Cuba. New York. Cen. Cipriano Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, left New York for Cuba on the Ward Liner Saratoga. He said there was nothing secret about his trip, that it was mere ly for pleasure and that he would re turn to New York some time in March. The general said he felt con fident that he would defeat the gov ernment in. its appeal to the supreme court from the federal court decision allowing him to nter this country. Grey Likely to be Premier. London. The cabinet has now defi nitely settled the vexed question as to who shall have the reversion of the premiership when Mr. Asquith finds the burden of his office too great for his years and seeks the repose In the house of lords. The choice has fallen almost unanimously on Sir Ed ward Grey. Asks Resignation of Keefe.i Washington. Secretary Nagel has made a report to President Taft on the official conduct of Daniel J. Keefe of Detroit, commissioner general of immigration, and has recommended that Keefe's resignation be demanded. The reports alleges that the head of the immigration service has accepted free transportation for himself and family from railroads and steamships. These alleged acts were considered by Secretary Nagel as sufficently se rious to) be called to the president's attention.' Gonzales Being Held Prisoner. El Paso, Texas.- Governor Abra ham Gonzales virtually is held a pris oner in Chihauhau City. . It was re ported that Gonzales was prevented by regular troops from leaving the state capial anad combining the va rious Madero factions of Chihuahua. Gonzales was a strong supporter of Madero's revolution and always re mained a loyal Maderista. -In "', his capital, however, are stationed some 2,000 Federal troops, the majority of whom are rurales. Gonzales so fax has not dared to resign. DEAD NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Latest News of General Interest That Has Been Collected From . Many Towns and Counties. : Scotland Neck. The convicts have been here for the past two weeks and the roads around Scotland Neck are Improving at a rapid rate. The roads which before have been almost impas sible at times, have been repaired and are now good roads at ail times. Greensboro. Following a session well attended and which extended for several hours, the City Commission ers definitely and unanimously refus ed the petition of hog raisers and oth ers allowing hogs to be raised within a less distance than' one-quarter of a mile of the city limits. Charlottel The condition 'of the road leading to the $100,000 reinforc ed concrete bridge across the Cataw ba at Sloan's Ferry on the Gaston county side is said to be fearful, in fact almost impassable to motor cars attempting to make the trip between Charlotte and Gastonia. Scotland Neck. The boy scouts of this place who have been, organized for only two weeks are making things hum already. On account . of this movement cigarette smoking has been almost wholly discontinued by the small boys and it has been an in fluence for good in more ways than this already. . . .. Charlotte. Seeking a constitutional amendment 'which w.iil give to towns and cities, greater powers in levying special taxes against public service corporations, Mayor Bland and the other members of the committee rep resenting the North Carolina League of Municipalities appeared recently before the Finance Committee of the Legislature. Gastonia. Cherryville, Gaston coun ty's second largest tow.n, wants a bond issue of $60,000. for for municipal im provements. Attorney John G. Car penter of this city has drafted a new charter and a bill providing for amendment, revisal and consolidation of the charter of Cherryville and auth orizing a bond issue in the sum of $60,000. Washington. At the request of Mr. W. A. Erwin and others Senator Over man blocked a scheme to unite the postoffices at East and West Durham with the Durham office, making one main office and two substations. The change had been ordered, but the or der will not be executed until East and West Durham people have an op portunity to protest. Asheville. E. F. Carr, the former express messenger of the Southern Ex press Company, whose car was robbed several months ago, and who was ar rested a short time afterward charg ed with embezzlement, will not be tried until the May term of the Su perior court here. It was stated that the Indications are that the case can not be reached at the present session of the court, and Judge Steven G. Bragaw ordered the continuance. Dunn. Jarvis county is not dead, but is only taking a nap for a couple of years, when she hopes to make her debut into the list of progressive coun ties of the state. The citizens of the proposed county feel that they are entitled to what they are asking for, and all of them express determination to vght until they win. A train load of enthusiastic citizens went up be fore the committee last time. Sever al trains are promised for next time. Salisbury. Under the direction of Prof. R. G. Kizer, county superintend ent of public v instruction, a county commencement has been arranbed to be held In Salisbury March 28. It is expected three thousand school child ren from all sections of Rowan will be on hand for the exercises. A long list of cash prizes have been offered for the best work in declamations and recitations. Much interest is being taken in the coming event. ' Asheville. For the purpose of con ducting all corn contests in this sec tion of the Btate under the same rules, and in? order that - all boys may have equal chances to win the prizes offer ed each year for the greatest yield Western North Carolinians who are interested in the growing of corn held a meeting here recently and request ed the Greater Western' North Caro lina association to take charge of the constests in the seven western counties of the state. . Greensboro. Acting v upon the re quest of the Women's" Christian Temperance Union . of Greensboro, Mayor Murphy, for the Board- of Com missioners, sent a messageto Presi dent Taft urging hinl to sign the Webb-Kenyon liquor bill. Asheville. Dillard prr, a 12-year-old orphan, the adopted son of Hicks Rob- erts, while playing, on the railroad track, was struck by a freight train and severely' crushed by a freight train about the head and chest. He was rushed to a local hospital and it was statdd that there is little chance for his recovery. .' ' Durham. At a meeting of represen titives of the board of trade of Chapel Hill and the Merchants' Association of Durham here steps were taken looking towards the building of a trol ley line from this city to Chapel Hill. Asheville. During the early part oi next month the 2,000 Cherokee Indians on the reservation near Bryson City, N. C, will receive $32,000 from the Gov ernment, each Indian getting about $16. The pleasures of anticipation are keenly felt at the present time. Tha is usually about the biggest part of it the money rarely lasts long with tht iQost of them. CROP YIELDS INCREASED Work of Southern Railway , Farm Agents Help Farmers to .Double Corn and Cotton Yields. - Atlanta, Ga. An average yield of : 46.6 bushels of corn per acre was secured by '498 farmers in Alabama and Mississippi who cul tivated 6,352.5 acres in 1912, follow ing the methods advpeated by the feld agents of the Department of Farm Improvement Work, maintain ed by the companies that make up the Southern Railway System. On neighboring farms where the ordinary- methods were followed .the av erage yield was 531.5 pounds of seed" cotton per acre. C. A. Lawrence of Plantersville, Ala., averaged 109.25 bushels of corn per acre on 35 acres, A. Henderson of Greenwood, Miss., av eraged 100 bushels per acre on 25 acres, H. Killian of Collinsvillef Ala., averaged 2,132 pounds of seed cotton per acre on 6 acres, Dr. C. N. Parnell -of Maplesville, . Ala., averaged 2.313 pounds on 20 acres, and a long list of other farmers who made splendid yields of both corn and cotton by fol lowing the methods advocated by the dgpartment could be given. These figures from the annual re port of Mr. T. O. Plunkett, manager of the department, show what is be ing accomplished by farmers living along the lines of the Southern Rail way and affiliated companies through the aid of the agricultural experts, the farmers In all cases -cultivating their own land with the resources at their command. The work of this de partment has been , extended to all states served by the Southern Rail way and affiliated lines, field agents having been placed in Virginia, North and South" Carolina, Georgia, Ken tucky, and Tennessee In September, 1912. ' They have been cordially re- . ... a a 4.1 A. 11 1 work will prove as successful as that of the agents in Alabama and Missis sippi' . , The Department of. Farm Improve ment Work grew out at the movement aid the larmers in the territory threatened by the Mexican boll weevil inaugurated by President Finley to learn how to grow cotton in spite of the weevil. For this purpose prac tical farmers who had grown cotton. In Texas under boll weevil conditions were employed and their work proved so successful in not only aiding farm ers to successfully combat the weevil but also In teaching them how to get larger yields per acer by the adoption of proper methods of culture, rotation of crops, and greater attention to live stock raising, that President Finley determined to extend the benefits of this work to the entire territory along the Southern and affiliated lines. The field agents in the service of the De partment are agricultural expert whose services are given without any cost to the farmers and who work in full co-operation with the state and federal departments of agriculture and the various state agricultural colleges. More Money For Postoffices. Washington. An increase of near ly $3,000,000 in the annual postoffice appropriation bill was made by the Senate ' Committee on Postoffices, which reported the measure to the Senate. The total asked , for Is $283, 487,442; the sum Including an in crease of $2,500,000 in railway mail pay occasioned in part by establish ment of the parcel post. A new weigh ing of the mails, covering a period ol 30 days from September 10, 1913, Is provided by the bill as reported to th Senate. This step is recommended because the parcel post has greatly in creased the weight of the mails and the railroads claim they are entitled to compensation on a new basis. $25,000,000 For Public Buildings. Washington. After ecrimonious de bate, the House passed the buildings bills authorizing erection of $25,000, 000 worth of public structures through out the country. The vote on the bill was 184 to 46' and the opponents of the measure were unabe to muster enough votes to secure a roll call to insure a record votel Representative Fitzgerald of New York,' chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Representative Hardwlck of Geor gia vigorously attacked the Democrat ic side for their support of the bill. .. Want Schools as Social Centers. , New York. The Russell Sage foundation, through its department' of 'recreation, hassent letters to the heads of the various, State federa tions of women's clubs urging them to begin campaigns to secure legisla tion authorizing the use of public schools for social centers. Miss Mar caret Woodrow Wilson." daughter of President-elect Wilson, is interested in the movement and is assisting in the preliminary work to secure the use of all public school buildings af ter school hours. The Twilight -State. ) . Boston. A Harvard professor who has not slept for 20, years, but has taken his rest in the "twilight state," is the subject of investigation by the psychological laboratory of the uni versity and the state psychopathic hospital. 'Twilight state," in which the subject retains consciousness is declared to be a scientific relaxation more satisfyingthan sleep,, restoring the bodily vigor in about half the time required, by sleep. The identity of the Harvard professor is kept se cret. - '