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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 as second-iiass matter at 90ft office in Abbeville, S. C. Three months i. .59 T?nw of SsbMriptiMi > One Year .. Six months. - $2.01; - $1.01 ' Foreign Adverting Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION : / 1 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1921 >' BACK AT HOME. .? . ? ?? t * i ' Judge Benet is back at home W-f day. After many years he comes back amongst the people where he <lWelt for so long as a young man. He i views again the scenes of his early triumph* in the law. fie visits those who knew him gladly and by whom he Was always gladly honored. New faces have come with the intervening , years. New scenes confront him as he passes along our streets. Old things have p?sed away. But the hearts of his friends are the same. T&ey still love him. And as they love him, they welcome him back to the ctyy to which he contributed as much as any man in his day. They Welcome him back to his old home. (Yes. we are all glad that he is * * here. We deljghfc to shake him -by the hand again. We live with him the years of the past when he opens to ?. us/again the things which are kept in his great storehouse of knowledge. We are glad to hear him talk as he r ( used to talk. - ' Let us make him to know that with tHe passing years he has not been forgotten by his own people. Al ways we have counted his as one of f, us V We are hoping that he may stay a ' ( long time with us now and that when" he goes away it will not agajn be for so long a time. ' We are honored by his presence amongst us. ? ' 7 : . The people who owe you have not collected their part of the bond monev. Ji ' / o ' While in Abbeville Judge Benet is making his home on Greenville _ / Street. 0 r It looks like the 'weather never ? *?/. will give the farmers another chance to come to town to find out about the country. 0 Son Bill has been fishing every day since school closed, and finds it harder work than studying his les eons. The salad supper which was to have been given by Corp. Kerr has been postponed. The little brown hen got out. There is one good thing about the present emergency. The oli yellow ?ow is not being loaded up with as . many mortgages as heretofore. 0 * ? - How do the merchants here expect us to attend the Due West com mencement when they have purchas ed no new straw hats. * . 0 .If the merchants in Abbeville are. determined to make Abbeville the same kind of a business town as Lowndesville, why was Lowndesville. 0 It begins to look like Daley and Col. Pat Roche will be forced to &o; to Valdosta if they go anywhere at 4l. T^^jfa'led;; to quaU?j5>fc& >#9; 1 tfrp to Level Land. tf ?! In the middle ages we are told that they encased drunkards in barrels, with only the heads protruding. Now the drunkards encase the barrels with only the liquor protruding. -0 As we read of the commencement exercises at a nearby institution it occurs to us that the man who gets a monopoly "in the manufacture of medals in that vicinity has already made his fortune. o We notice that there is to be an other way for the escape of the members of the Highway Commis sion. This time the road leads to Georgia. Does anybody think that all (' the rascals still go to Georgia? . 0 Well, if all the customers quit trading with the local merchants and move their accounts to Greenwood, 1 we suppose that we can turn the old tpwn into a nice summer resort. ........ 0 THE GREAT OR BROAD SEAL w OF THE CONFEDERACY r i rvere are many uwuiuum tuii centing-the great or broad seal of the Confederacy. Every now and then an article appears in some per' o? ttiagazine, the wrter claiming to h&ve discovered the whereabouts , of this relic of the Wat Between the Sectors, and interest is once again roused in this silver seal which was made in England, engraved there by Joseph Myron and shipped to Ameri ca .with materials for the use. of the , seal;- uader the care of Lieutenant i <Jhapman,-C. S. A., in 1864. i I T>i?i ?vMsf. t>u? ?pal. which ineas ^ red'f approximately four inches ; $<om -rim to rim, was 122 pounds and 10 . shffings or about $700 in < United Stytes currency in round ' nuiribers, as gold was then valued ; and was paid for in two installments partby-caah when the work was be gun on the seal and the balance by i check, July 6th, 1864, when the seal ; was done and packed with great care : in a "separate small box." \ After being used during the Con- < federate war this matrix ,the im- < pressoin from wlich is to be found upon all official documents of the * Lost Cause, was brought southward -1 from Danville, Va., when President ' Davis and his cabinet retreated to : escape capture after General Lee < had surrendered. Speaking <xf that < moment in Southern history Mrs. Chestnut in "A Diary from Dixie," \ says that worshippers in church in Richmond were in the midst of the i communion service when the news of the surrender came. "Then the ' president was summoned and dis- 1 tress of mind showed on every face.' Davit Not Careful 'Mrs. Chestnut later records the fact that Mr. Davis seemd "utterly 1 careless whether he were taken prisoner or not," and that with his ' wife he was traveling leisurely at ' the rate of 12 miles a day. Other ' writers tell of Mr Davis stopping for 1 a short rest at the Gary home but having to push on toward Abbeville after a (brief stop of 24 hours. In Abbeville Mr. Davis had a warm personal friend and Mrs Davis also claimed a friendship with the wife of her husband's firend, Armis tedd Burt. It was Mr. Davis' desire to place himself under Mr. Burt's protection for a ibrief respite and col ' fleet his shattered energies before pushing on .to "Georgia. It is said that nothing more pa thetic than Mr. Davis' entry into ' the little town of Abbeville can be imagined. Soldiers, .citizens and ' refugees from the low country stood silent and with T>ared,-heads as the president rode into the town 1 square just at sun down and made his wav to the Burt homestead at the ' parting of the roads. It was indeed a parting of roads, 1 for that night a courier bearing the news of the coming of Federal for ces dashed into Abbeville. Then in- ] deed did Mr. Davis feel that the end ' had coane. He summoned the few re maining members of his cabinet and ' held in this house the last meeting of the Confederate cabinet. Thus did Abbeville witness the last of- 1 ficiafl act of the Confederacy within : a stones throw of "Secession Hill" Where Mr. Wardlaw had vainly ' pleaded for some other way than war:to be found to settle the differ ences between the North and the South four years previously. Relates Tradition ."YTradition has it, that after Judah i P. Benjamin (that brilliant Jew who fjitst the*yoj|tfpn-,of^secretary $f. j' war ana later secretary 01 state * -the Confedrate catfinet) had for tire: j> last time used the great, seal of the : Confederacy. Mr. Davis gave in structions tnat an errorr snouia ue made to secrete the original matrix, *i accordingly the great seal was thzwn into the well in Mr. Butt's orchard. Another tradition states ' that the seal was thrown into the river across which Mr. Davis and his baggae train made their escape later that same night en mute to Willington. Mr. Davis was captured on May 10, while encamped near Irwinsville, <Ja., and taken to Fort- 1 rtss Monroe and there confinel * r tvo y<rars when he was released on ; "bail for the sum of $1,000,000, the J first name on his bail bond brfr.g be ing that of Horace Ciecjy. Mr .Ben jamin remained with the presiden tial cavalcade until it reached Geor gia, when he separated from his companons,, eventually made his way to the Florida coast, thence to the West Indies and after a remark able series of adventures he made his way to England, where he subse quently was admitted to the bar and won recognition on every side. PRESIDENT HARDING RETURNS TO CAPITAL - ?- * ft a n !j^i JN W XCTK, Juay vrrtasKinu Handing w?s today on his way to Washington on board the Presiden tial yaoht .Mayflower, which left here late last night. Early this corn ing a message was received saying the craft had passed SpndyMI??k on a moonlit, sea that was made: moder ately rough by a.-fresh awnttawast wind. : The yacht was accompanied by the d^troyer Truitt, while the New York police boat John F. Hylan, es corte*! her as far as the Narrows. The President and members of his party retired soon after gain# on board. " - The departure followed a day fill ed with activity. From early in the morning when he attended a cere mony in Hoboken to honor more than 5,000 fallen war heroes whose bodies were there until he had con cluded an address at he 125th anni versary of the New York Commer cial last night, the President was busy. Following this address, he was whisked to the Mayflower, which immediately put to sea to carry the chief executive back to his official dirties in Washington. But one hitch occurred in the pro grom for the day. This was caused by a fire which practicaMy destroy ed the third oldest fighting craft in the navy. The Granite State, now used as & naval militia training ship, which was lying near the Presiden tial yacht, caught fire when oil on the water about her was fired <by a spark from a passing motorboat. Flames swept aJbout her and fire fitting apparatus had to be placed on the pier at which the Mayflower was lying. The yacht was removed to the foot of Eighty-Sixth street, the pier of the Columbia Yacht Olub, where the Presidential party board ed her. '' TO ISSUE FRENCH BONDS New York, May 23.?J. P. Mor gan and Company announced today that the French Government has au thorized it to issue in the United States $100,000,000 of French twen ty-year external Joan 7 1-2 per cent bonds. The loan is to be underwritten fey a syndicate now benig formed by the Morgan firm. The bonds will be of fered at 95 and interest, yielding sligtly over 8 per cent. The bonds are not subject to re demption prior to maturitybut t'he French Government covenants to pay $9,000,000 annually in monthly installments of $750,000 as a sink ing fund. These payments will com mence July 1, 1921. The sinking fund is to be used to purchase bonds in them arket at not to exceed par and accrued interest. The proceeds of the issue will be used to meet obligations of the French Government maturing in the United States during the current year, and for such purchases of foodstuffs and raw materials as the French Government may be requiT era i/v/ uiiuvt? ah wiujuou WHITE LAD SHACKLED PLACED UNDER ARREST Spartanburg, May 24.?Clyde Scade, an 18-year-old white boy, was arrested Sunday at East Spar tanburg by J. H. Floyd, rural police* man,- iQx- 'hoboing,- -When, searched, Scade was found to be carrying shackles on each Jeg. He. hacl suc ceeded, officers stated, in filing the shackels apart, but being unable to get them from around his legs had fastened thean to his thighs in order that his trouser legs would conceal them from view. Officers state yesterday that upon questioning Scade admitted that he was an escaped convict, having made his getaway from Savannah where he said he was serving sen tence on the chadrijgang for car rob bery. Brains can be trained, but can good sense be taught? PROHIBITION FUND MAY BE INCREASED House Adds Two Hundred Thousand Dollar* For Enforcement? May Not Be Pasted la Time to Serve. . Washington, May 24.?After heat ed discussion - of the prohibition question during which Commission er' Kramer was bitterly criticised and as vigorouBly defended the house today voted an additional $200,444 for enforcement of the Volstead act, until July 1. Represen tative Volstead propose the increase in the total of the d^ficieufcy appro pnatxm dm wmcn tne Jiouse was considering to permit retention on federal payrolls of 100 prohibition agents, who Mr. Kramer had an nounced* would he dropped- for. th$ renumder of the fiscal year because of shortage of funds. , . \ The? Volstead amendment, was adorprted 77 to 38, less than one fourth of the house membership be ing on the floor at the time, but an other vote on the increase can be demanded before the hill is pissed. Even the members who favored the amendment, however, doubted wh^rfcher it would afford relief in time to foe of mudh value, inasmuch as the bill alter passage by the house must go to the senate. Criticism of Kramer During the wrangle over the ques tion, Chariman Good of the appro priation committee who opposed the Vol seta d amendment, said Mr Kram I ed had volated penal provisions of law fby incurring a deficit and "had made himself liable to jail sen tence." "I want Mr, Kramer to obey the law just as much as bootleggers," he declared, "adding that $6,900,000 already had l>een appropriated for prohibition enforcement during' the current fiscal year." .Representative Madden, Republi can, Illinois, said Mr. Kramer should have appealed for funds to congress .through the secretary oi the treas ury instead oi through the newspa pers and aserted that he "ought to be discharged. Won!'* in Defence. Mr. Kramer on the other hand, was defended by Representative Byrns, Tennessee, 'ranking Demo crat of the appropriations committee as a conscientious official doing his best to (enforce the law. The Ten nessee member said he never had heard it charged that Mr. Kramei was not conscientious and jwas guil ty of malfeasance in office. Mr. Volstead defended Mr. Kra mer's administration declaring there was no ground for criticism. As the house milled through the deficiency bill today a provision foi f /irAofinti an /vf fircit assistant secretary of the treasury at a salary of $10,000 a year and a amendment by Representative Davis, Democrat, Tennessee, provid ng for purchase by the government of $100,000,000 of farm loan bank bonds, were (iliminaied on points or order. ' One provision approved would per unit the treasury department to spend any part of the $18,600,000 appropiated last session for addition al hospital facilities for disiabled service men in the improvement of existing facilities. The original bill provided that $12,500,000 was to be expended for new hosptals. CAUGHT TOO MANY FISH, TWELVE MEN ARRESTED Spartanburg, May 24.?-A dozen farmers were arrested yesterday by Rural Policeman J. B. Cook^y on the charge of violating the fish laws. They were Edward Ray, G. F. Mills, J. W. Snjth, Irving Jackson, Belton, Blanton, W. B. Scruggs, . P. Mills, i 6. Jenkins, Rayniond rtarris, JjTr jCooksey had tfeen laying ifor them 'for some time, and yesterday . he says he caught them red-handed. The men were fishing with a balloon-like net in what is known as Cowpens lake. The net, with the wings to it, completely obstructed the stream, the officer states.. It had been re pored to Rural Policeman Cooksey that these men had caught eight hundred pounds of fish recently at one catch. Several days ago five men were arrested in the vicinity cnargeu with violating the fish law. According to the latest tabula tion, France .has decreased in pop ulation a Jittle over 5 per cent since 1911. MEAVY LOSERfJ ON SUGAR ASK GOVERNMENT TO PAY Washington, May >4.?A claim for approximately $1,000,000 a gainst the government for 5,000 tons of sugar imported from the Argen tine to this country last year at the suggestion of a. Department of Jus tice agent, was pressed before the Senate Agricultural Committee Tues day by Philipp do Ronde, a sugar im porter of New York City. -i., De Ronde said his firm had been induced to bring the sugar from Ar gentina by a Department, of Justice agent named Ril?y when the govern-. roeni was- seeniug u> encourage sur I grar importations in an effort to I "break" prevailing high prices' for | domestic sugiir. When the Cargo reached the porl; of New York., in 1 August last the sugar market had "broken," he added, end his .firm found the sujga* thrown back upon them at a he;iyy loss ?. 1 Congressional steps already- .. have been taken1 to reimburse the Ameri- i can Trading Company for approxi- 1 mately $1,000,000 for sugar < losses ] under circumstances similar to those O described by De Ronde. < Oak piles under bridges built by \ the Romans 2000 years ago have been found to be as sound as when they were firnt put into position. ? n o T ,, j All persons having against Abbeville C t 1920 may receive pi calling at the office' person or by lawful j 2t L. W.Kel SPECIA Feinstein's B< FOR SHORT Men's Union Suits.... Men's Heavy Overall* all sizes . Men's and Ladies' All Colors.... SPECIAL PRICES O SHC ^i5jgJ2J2JSMSJSISISf2MSI2EISIS?SIS13fSJSEiSJ3f You Can' The Price of Flour ha am holding the price < Best Self Rising Flou Best Plain Flour !... _< Everything in Groceri ly Low Prices. 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