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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered aa second-?iass matter at tost office in Aobeville, S. C. ? e-L HO* uI guBwri|iuv?i One Year $2.00 Six months $1.00 Three months .50 Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION \ ' WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1921 | THE GREAT SEAL I OF THE CONFEDERACY James Jones, said to have been a servant of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America died recently and it was published throughout the country that he alone knew where the great seal of the Confederacy was buried. This was incorrect, since the seal is in the Confederate Museum at Richmond. When the Confederacy fell, the seal was taken from the Confederate cap ital by the wife of one of the clerks in the State department and secreted in Washington. Her husband gave the seal to Thomas 0. Selfridge, then a lieutenant in the United States Navy, .. now rear admiral, who sold it to cer tain citizens of Richmond who in 1912 gave it to the Confederate Mu seum. There has been a tradition around Abbeville, South Carolina thai Secretary of State Judah P. Benja min had it with him when he attend ed the last meeting of the Confeder ate Cabinet^there and that he in his t flight from the place dropped it into the Savannah river, but there is no foundation in fact for this ver sion. There is no mystery as to the whereabouts of the silver symbol of the sovereignty of the government that was.?Greenville Piedmont. By a joint resolution, approved April 30, 1863, the Confederate con gress adopted a "seal for the Confed erate states/' This seal was to repre sent the equestrian statue of Wash ington in the Capitol square and was to be surrounded by a wreath show - ing the principal agricultural prod ucts ftf f!nnf(y?prflcv. Soon after the resolution was passed, Judah P benjamin, secretary of states, in-1 etructed James M. Mason, Confeder ate commissioner to England, to hare the seal cut in silver. Mr. Mason en J J . trusted the work to J. S. Wyon, mak - er of the great seals of England. On i July 6, 1864, Mr. Mason notified the V, state department that the seal was| ready and, with its equipment was being shipped to Richmond. It passed the .blockade and arrived in Septem ber. Here it remained until the time of the evacutation, when the seal was parried from Richmond by the wifei of William J. Bromwell, clerk in the state department* Hidden for some time in a barn near this city, the , seal ultimately was secreted in Wash ington. In 1872, John J. Pickett act ed as Mr. Bromwell's agent in to sell mg me umrcain arcmves 01 xne con federate department of state which Bromwell had removed from Rich .'1^ ' A mond at the same time his wife es caped with the seal. The agent of the United States government in negoti eting for the sale of the papers was Lieutenant Thomas 0. Selfridge. As a "token of appreciation" to Lieuten ant Selfridge for Bis activity in pro moting the sale of the papers, Mr. Pickett gave him the great seal. The jrj/t was kept secret, however, and Was not known uhtil the personal pa pers of Mr. Pickett had been acquired by the library of congress and had been examined by Galliard Hunt. Ref >- \ erences in the papers indicated the true facts. Selfridge, who by that time' was a rear-admiral, retired, ad mitted that he had the seal. Mr. Hunt . rightly enough thought that such a treasure should be in Richmond andi communicated the whereabouts of the treasure to Eppa Bunton, Jr., of this city. With William H. White and Thomas P. Bryan, Mr. Hunton began negotiations and purchased the seal for $3,000, subject to proofs of its authenticity. J. St. George Bryan carr ed the seal in person to England and showed it to Allen J. Wyon, en graver to the king, who had succeed ed to the business of his uncle, J. S. Wyon, maker of the original seal. Af ter inspection of the seal, Mr. Wyon Wrote the following certificate: "I have carefuly examined the seal, I sent to me by Thomas P. Ryan, an impression of which is affixed above, together with the hall marks thereon and the engraving on the rim. I have also compared it with the wax impris sion which hhs never left my studio, and I have no hesitation in stating that in my opinion there is no doubt that the seal which I have examined is the Great Seal of the Confederate States of America, which was en graved in; silver by uncle, Mr. J. S. Wyon, in the year, 1864." The seal itself, the various certifi cates and all the correspondence were presented ^he Confederate museum in 1912 and have been seen by tens of thousands. The more's the pity that nVvoiiwrJ o+ivrtr nf Jomaa -Tnnpc bUC OUOU1 U OVViJ V 4- VMMVW V VW should be circulated once more?and least of all in Richmond, where the facts are common property.?Rich mond NWs-Despatch. p v *; ?i-,j t; 1 >- h I - 5 i WOMAN'S ECONOMIC EQUALITY. . ? ' ^ *\l I it'U ' State ,iiicome-tax figures as pub lished , continue to illustrate a re markable development in the earning capacity of women. Of the 309,604 individuals returning incomes of from Jl.o'clo to $2,000 for 1919, 82,344 were single women not heads of families,' epd 20,208 unmarried women filed returns as heads of families. Of the total of 746,000 per sons making returns, the single male not the head of a family had an aver age income of $2,459, while the av erage income of the single female with no dependents was $2,394 and the average income of the male head of a family was $2,857. Thus the average income of the unmarried female taxpayer came within $65 of equalling that of the unmarried male, while it fell short by only $463, or a little more than the exemption allowed for two chil dren, of that received by men who have assumed the obligations of mar riage. No doubt these conditions are pe-1 culiar to New York and are due largely to the fact that the city which contains approximately half the total population of the State offers excep tional rewards for feminine talent attracting -to it women of unusual | capacity from all quarters. But re garded with these reservations they throw an interesting light on the tru I ly astonishing progress of the "weak er" sex toward economic equality with man. It may be left to sociologists to say what effect this larger earning power of women has on their attitude | toward marriage and the responsibili I ties of family life and as respects the encouragement of habits of luxury and extravagance. But even those who are not expert in social diagno sis may see in it a condition calcu lated to exercise a profound influ ence on' female character, an influ ! ence decidedly for the better in de veloping self reliance and independ-. ence, though possibly not so bene ficial in its presumptive effect on old masculine ideals of feminine en deavor.?New York World. SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Hon. Robert A. Cooper, Governor of South Carolina, has accepted the invitation of the South Carolina Sun day School Association to give the opening address at the forty-fourth annual State Convention of that or ganization to be held at Winthrop College Rock Hill, June 8-9-10. His theme will be 'Building Chris tian Citizenship in South Carolina' and it is expected he will discuss the development of the moral and reli gious interests of the State, especial ly through the agency of the Sunday school, in tfhich work he is deeply in terested. In a recent statement re garding the Sunday School, Governor Cooper said: "It gives me pleasure to commend the South Carolina Sunday school Association and its work to the citizenship of our State. This or ganization, with its strong Christian leadership, its educational program, and its practical and efficient meth ods, is rendering a distinct service to moral and religious interests. It deserves the support of all public spirited citizens." Information regarding the Con vention can be obtained from the headquarters of the State Sunday School Association, Spartanburg, S, c. A taxpayer of Georgia whose total tax is four cents insist on his right to pay it in four installments. For his first installment he bought a one 1 cent money order for which he paid three cents. ROOSEVELT A HUNTER AT 141 From "My Brother Theodore Roose velt," by Corrinne Roosevelt Robinson in Scribner's Magazine. In conection with these same shooting trips in the Nile (second trip of Roosevelt's family to Eu rope, 1873, my father writes; "Ted die (Theodore) took his gun and shot an libis and one or two other specimens this morning while the crew were taking breakfast. Imagine cpoinc nnt onlv flocks of birds, re garded as so rare by us !n days gone by as to be selected as a subject for our game of 'twenty question," but also of storks, hawks, pelicans, and above all, doves innumerable. 'I presented Teddie with a breech loader at Christmas and he was per fectly delighted. It was entirely un expected to him although he had tfeen shooting with it as mine. He is a most enthusiastic sportsman and has infused some of his spirit into me. Yesterday I walked through tfie j bogs with him at the risk of sinking helplessly and helplessly for hours,, and carried the dragoman's gun,, which is a muzzle loader, with which I only shot several birds quietly rest ing upon distant limbs, and fallen^ trees; but I felt I must keep up with Teddie. The boy of 14 with his indomita ble energy was already leading his equally indomitable father into new fieds of action. He never rested from his studies in natural history. When not walking through quivering bogs or actually shooting bird and beast, he, surrounded by the brown faced and curious sailors, would seat him self on the deck of the dehadeah and skin and stuff the products of his fport. I well remember the ex citement and, be it confessed, anxiety and fear inspired in the hearts of the four young college men, who, an another dehabeah, ac-' companied us on the &ile, when the ardent young sportsman mounted on an uncontrollable donkey, would ride unexpectedly into their midst, his gun slung across his shoulder in such a way as to render its proximi ty distinctly dangerous as he bump ed absent mindedly againsft them. When not actually hunting, he was willing to take paxt i in exploration of the marvelous old ruins. GOV. MANNING BRINGS BACK , SOME COTTON RESOLUTIONS Columbia, April 19?Former Gov ernor Richard I. Manning, president of the American Import and Export Corporation, has returned from New Orleans where he attended a confer ence of bankers held to discuss the cotton situation. Yesterday he made public a resolution adopted by the di rectors of the Federal International Banking Company at a meeting held in New Orleans last week urging a heavy reduction in cotton acreage. The resolution follows in full: "Whereas, the very large amount of cotton grown last year and pre\i ous years now estimated at from eight to ten million bales, to be car ried over into the new cotton year beginning August 1st has had a de pressing effect and is still holding down the price of cotton, and: "Whereas, from present indica tons it is believed that the greatly reduced buying powers of the world will not be able to consume much, if any more cotton the coming year than consumed this year, and: "Whereas, the only apparent hope to maintain the price for the present! stock, and to secure a fair price for) the next crop, is to produce a small I crop this year: "Now Therefore Be It Resolved by ! the Directors of the Federal Interna i tional Banking Company that we be lieve the efforts to induce the cotton j planters to reduce the acreage in cotton about to be planted, is now of1 paramount importance to the So)uth, and that we believe the reduction, should not be less than" thirtyTfive per cent, and: "Resolved Further, that a copy of this resolution be mailed to each stockholder of our company with the request that they use their influence at once to secure all the cooperation necessary, looking to the production of a new crop, which together with; the carry over, will command a rea-; sonable price." An American botanist, after years of experimenting, has succeed-; 1 * --i j ?xa t :~u*. 1 ea an gTowing coioreu tuwuu, mgiu J brown,/ light green and dark green are the four colors so far produced.' , The botanist is now woking to pro-! I duce black cotton from seed. A WHIFF OF HELIOTROPE , SAVES CONVICTS DAUCHTER Novel Revenue Foiln Blackmiiler in New Corauopolitiia Pbotop Jay The chief attraction at the Opera House ne:rt Friday night belies its name in one resftect. It is called "Heliotrope," and -one might from the title jnfer a sweet-scented light romance. Instead, the picture un i -P/O/Iq o vi*r/vr/Yim_ thrfllinfl' ft'sorv of father-lov'j and the sacrifice made by a regenerated convict to save the happiness of his daughter. "Heliotrope Harry," so called be cause of His fondness for the scent of heliotrope, is serving a life sen tence, in a penitentiary. Learning from a pal that his daughter wbo be lieves herself an orphi.n ,1b a'bont to be married to a rich young irian and that his .anscrupulous wife iS plan ning to blackmail) the happy pair, "Heliotrope" pleads for his release from poison to protect the girl. It is finally granted, on condition that no harm will befall his wife at his hands. a The es -convict embarks upon a shrefwd scheme of intimidation that1 soon has the adventuress shrinking with terror and at his mercy . Then, by a final heroic act, 1 he forever eliminates the wicked woman from being a sinister menace to his daughter's happiness. How this is accomplished makes one of the greatest thrills ever shown on the screen. NO BOBBED HAIR IN CHINA (From the Chicago Tribune.) Shanghai.?The Chinese ministry of education, fearine the advance of modem ideas among young girls, has forbidden bobbed hair and bound feet. No girl student may be mar ! ried without parenta} consent, ( and no girls more than 14 years old, will be permitted to attend co-education al school;;. v HOPE TO SAVE FRUIT Macon, Cra., April 19.?Through out the Georgia peace belt smudges; and bonfires were built early to night and were kept going through out the xdght in an effort to save the crop from threatened frost. Whei Comi You That ffl Slart m a< (he STAN and have th< when the time RF. W. H. White AKhi OFFICE Z. V. TAYLOR DIED ON BOARD TRAIN MONDAY MORNING Was Enroute To New York With J. B. Duke on Latter'* Private Car. harlotte, N. C. April 19.?Zebu. lon Vance Taylor, president and general manager of the Southern Public Utilities company and the Piedmont Northern railroad, with headquarters here, died suddenly a1 1 A +Vie? VMJVOTlivwV A# OMlfA fit. AV U tlUVA HUii9 uiviaiu^ v* ?*vww ?? digestion near Fredericksburg, Va., when en route to New York, with J, B. Duke, president of the American Tobacco company, on Mr. Dukes pri vate car, according to information received here. Mr. Taylor's wife -dropped dead here about three months ago while attending a reception. Although bom in Sparta, Tenn., Mr. Taylor spent his youth and his mature years in the native county of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Taylor of Stokesdale, Guilford county. After limited school oppor tunities Mr. Taylor began his careex kaa a practicing attorney in Greens boro and while yet a young man be came mayor of that city. He was en gaged ten years abo by J. B. Duke, head of the Southern Power and Southern Public Utilities companies, to take a prominent place of re sponsibility in connection with the development of these properties. Mr, Taylor's initial efforts with these corporations was largely in connec tion with the development of the Piedmont and Northern railway, an electric railway line in the two Caro linas, bat later he became president and general manager of the < Sou thern Public Utilities company. COTTON BAN LIFTED. Washington, April 19?The prohi bition. agahwt the importation ol cotton and cotton waste into Czecho slovakia has been removed, Trade Commissioner W. A. Geringer, a1 Prague, reported today to the De partment of Commerce. License ap plications will be granted automatic ally he said and these commodities will be admitted free of duty. Persia has no distilleries, brewer ies or salooYis. e is the A rr llg' 1 1U1I1 ) Want to Boy to Col xount in dTI $ 1 ( IDARD ei?] net yoi ; m?ney ancj sm? comes.... proporti GIN TOD. Pres. Otto sville, South Cai IN THE PLANTEF JAPANESE TRADE PACT SOUGHT BY RUSSIANS Moscow Ordori China to Cease At tacks and Work for a Trade > Agreement. Washington, April 19.?The Far i Eastern Republican at Chita has re i ceived orders from the Botahevaki i government at Moscow to avoid any i possible conflict with the Japanese ; and if possible to undertake the ne gotiation of a trade treaty with the , latter government, according to ad , vices received here today in official i cirdes. For this purpose, Sereguikov, for i merly secretary of the Russian trade mission in London was reported to I have arrived in Vladivostok from , Moscow to assist in the formulation of the terms. Yourin, representative of the Far Eastern republic for ( some time in Fekin, and who was en ; deavored to negotiate a trade agree ment with the Chinese government, , according to the same advices, has been informed that two conditions , preliminary to any understanding , between the two governments were: Promise of abstinence from any Bol eheviki propoganda in China .and the adequate protection of Chinese | in Siberia. By an agreement con cluded between the Bolgheviki gov ernment of Moscow and the Far Eastern republic ,the boundaries of the latter country were reported to hovo #/vr fVn fivof fimio and to include the northern part of island of Saghalien, recently occu pied by Japan, despite the protest of the American government. . \ ? The wholesale prices of vege tables and fruits are so in New York markets that many producers who shipped produce there received noth ing in return but a bill for the bal ance due on the freight charges. W. A. HARRIS FUNERAL SUPPLIE8 EMBALMING and Auto Hearse Service. PHONES Day 395 Night 134 floney When Send liege? ) per month for tity months will i $1,000 larger iller amounts^ in on AY : | oanAsso. j i Bristow, Sec. rolina >C DAMk"