/Wl NEW YEAR'S DAY TIIK Storm-wind sank, the moon rode high. Set round with sliver haze. Where, late, sky-spaces wonderful Showed green us chrysopruse. Within the old gray church anon The gathered folk would sit; 1 met the old year on the hill. And bade farewell to it. The woods around stood stark and dint. Hut at my feet white birds Fluttered, the wraiths of kindly deed And sweet, remembered words. /.hove me, from Orion's belt. A great gem Mashed and fell: Was it a seraph prince sped by, Michael, or Gabriel? Then, though my lonely heart must mourn For some that come no more. White sails of Hone 1 seeme.i Set to h sapphire shore. As lie who dreamed a New World sailed On an umharted sea. l'rom I'alos with his caravels I-ured by a mystery. So, under flamlns Asian skies. Or by the still, white I'ole, That Great Adventure, the New Year, Be:. :ona the human soul. ?L. M. I-lttle In Boston Herald. Old Iflik / and |PI -Zk - Neru Uear ITlan) Qraham Bonner %:t VHTtlN NfVV?m VNICN well, well," snhl the ?:? < >1(1 Year. "it is so nh-e to ? fljfflyR see you. New Year. 1 c??n^ratulate you, and as the wofSShifl good people say. I wish you a llappy New Year." ^s!?' KfJ "Thank you, thank you," ?VJP*?^AJ ill tlu> V..v.. V...... I ? ...... ? - ...... ...V ... .. mi, III l| sweet young voire. "I have grout respect for yon, < >ld Year. You have been s>o wise and so good. You have done so much ttint is tine. Now, how 1 shall be I do not know at all. I feel so uncertain of myself." "Oh, you'll get over that," said the Old Year; "you are a little nervous row, but you will be all right in no time at all. "Why, I remember last January? my very first month of all?I was all over my nervousness before the month was over." "Were you, indeed?" said ihe New ear. "Well, that is most onoonruv. Ing to hear." "Yes," said the .v, and tin* host of lurk." The Old Year was gone, and every- j i one was shouting "Happy New Year," | and the New Year felt esperlall.v I happy to think that the old Year, too, would he happy! | BEGAN NEW YEAR MARCH 25 I March 2.r> was the usual New Year I OIIUklKf ln/tL't ( '!? t*l ?J I ? ? ?' - I ......... ..I...... . I-.IUUI m enriy medieval days, hut in Anglo-Saxon i Europe December 21, was New Year ilny. William tin* Conqueror, ordered j tin* observance on January 1, at the time of the Derman conquest, but , later England, with the rest of Christj endoin, began her new year on March J 2.r?. THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR The adoption of the Gregorian calendar, In l.r>82. restored January 1 as New Year day and 'his was accepted by all Roman Catholic countries at once; by Germany, Denmark and Sweden about 172<) and England In 1751. 1 .. ?- ' - ^ - - - ' Jgj ~ \ S^SSBS^^SS HI 11111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111 | | Pulling I; 1 the Throttle || ^ A n -? ? i ? 1 oy vnniiopner ? = VD V Q. Hazard E ^llllllllllllllll I lllllllllllll 11111111111111(7 (?. 1922 Western Newspaper Union.) IT IS rhp custom of n cortnln railway engineer to have his hoy with him now ami then in the engine cah. The young-'er states that he has "ringed the bel and blown the whistle," but that be has not yet "pulled the throttle." This seems to be the matter with a good many older ones of the present generation, and it may explain their lack of progress. They have rung the bell and they have blown the whistle, but they have neglected to open the throttle. That invisible force that Is in us all responds wonderfully when we call ,twin l? I.II* lo .... I.. 1 .11 ... ixii 10 < uncican uiiii uiminlshlng energy until we do. Bell and whistle may advertise that we have steam up, hut they cannot get us along. They may hoth he active while we are really slowing up, like the train that approaches a stop. The station may he a permanence for us when we could go a good deal farther, we may arri.e nl a dead line In life while yet young, because we have shut the throttle instead o' opening it. turned off steam instead of turning It on. i lien: nrvrr was more ClUtnce for progress tlmn tills Now Year Is offering. Never before did opportunity beekon more earnestly. Never was talent so much In demand, never was capacity so much needed. Never was ability so largely rewarded. Great positions wait for those who can till them. Ambition may plan. Aspiration may hope. Hut. I wouldn't want a fast young man on my road. I wouldn't have a loud young woman In my oflice. Cigarettes shut off steam. The call is not for noise, but for efficiency! I can watch a young man's smoke when that Is about all there is of him. I can hear a belle ring when I would prefer to have Iter busy ! I MARSHMALLOWS Years ago mnrshmnllows were pre| pared from the root of the inarslrtnallow, which secreted a mucilage like Kum tir.ddc. Today, however, <11111 sirtildc lias taken its place. Mnrsh.uillows made according to the following rule are delicious, especially when toasted over a roaring camp fire. Dissolve one-half pound clear white mini urnhic in one pint water. Tills mny i take all day or all night. Strain anil add one-luilf pound sugar; place over the fire and stir constantly until the mixture is of honey-like consistency. As there Is groat liability to burn, keep tlie pan tipping from side to side as you stir, never relaxing vigilance, i Some cooks prefer to cook ttie sirup j in a double boiler to void mischances ; o{ this s<,rt, hut It Is hotter to cook r# ,,ldl.v. i?o\v add the whites of four j eggs, previously hen ten, and stir as he- ! 'o>-e over tiie fire for six or seven minutes, being more careful than ever not to let It burn. Test by pouring a tenspoonful on a piate dusted with cornstarch. If in a moment It seems firm, yet tender, the niarshmnllows are done. ( The hot mixture should be rattier thin I unt o/llmofpn -?' - ??? ....I .-..c. >111 voi nun rose or vanllln. and pour Into pons dusted over with cornstarch. Square puns are best. The paste should be shout three-quarters of nn Inch In thickness. Set on the lee to chill, and when cold cut Into squares with a knife dipped In starch. Separate the squares as cut, and pack, when cold, in layers In small tin boxes. i _ . - fi l II ^'| I?r??si6hidfc.v,> THE WEEK'S EVENTS IMPORTANT NEW8 OP STATS, NA. TION ANO THS WORLD RISPLV TOLD ROUND MOUTTHE WORLD A OtwNwMd Record Of Happening? Of Intereet Prom All Point? Of The Werid Foreign? Premier Polncare's plea to the chamber of HermHen for ? trim In n?rf? ? -? ? ? ?v ? r? */ strife because of pending foreign negotiations resulted in the chamber expressing confidence in him by a vote of 612 to 76. George Bernard Shaw raised the question whether women should not be permitted to murder their husbands and husbands to murder their wives as long as present laws remain ir force making it so difficult to b< divorced. Commenting on the Uv? topic of capital punishment for women which is agitating all Great Britain now that three women are awaiting to be hanged, Shaw begun bj saying the women in question would not be missed by society. If tho Triflh T?ron Qtoto la nnrocaftil in itB campaign to supplant the English language with Gaelic, the city o( Dublin will be known as Bail Ealha, Ollath. A feature of the general elections has been the strong labor vote throughout the commonwealth, but the actual re suit is unknown at present owing to incomplete returns and the need to await allotment of the various prefer ence votes. Benito Mussolini, anti-socialist pre mier who rode into power as head ol 400,000 armed fascist!, has ordered the mobilization of his forces to combat "political Intriguers.'" The "black shirt" prime minister announced that his fascist! followers were being or ganized into a national militia ol which ho would be commander-in chief. He will call out the militia, Mussolini stated, any time that na tional interests demand its services. Gabriel Narutowicz. first president of the Polish republic, fell before an assassin's bullet recently, just one week since his election and only 48 hours after actually taking on office. Voicing the sentiment widespread throughout the United States, tht American delegation entered a pro test at the Lausanne conferenct agalilst the Turkish plan to expel the Greek patriarch from Constantinople No decision was reached by the dele Kates. The dispute over the Mosul oil fields, suddenly hiouRht to the front again by the British memorandum insisting on Great Britain's mandatory rights, has likewise made no progress. The continued rise of sterling ex change in London is displayed promt nently by the newspapers, some ol which enthusiastically anticipate a re ductton of prices of food and cottor importation from America. The Orient Express, due in Athens Greece, December 11, was snowed i? by a blizzard in the Macedonian moun tains. Three feet of snow fell in the mr.nntnJn HlotHrts Count von Bernstorff, former Ger man ambassador at Washington, gave Maximilian Harden's writing's credit for being chiefly responsible for his re malning as long ae he did in that post according to Herr Harden, who test! fied at the trial of Herbert Weichard! and Albert Grentz, charged with at tacking and seriously wounding Harde. last July. _1_? m. vv asmngion? The house flood control committee voted to report the Kopp bill extend ing the jurisdiction of the Mississippi river commission In flood control work to Rock Islund, III. The Central American conference thai disposed of the troublesome question ol the proposed Union of Central America by agreeing to call a conforenc to con sider it in January, 1926, and proceeded to work on the revision of the ll)0"< treaties. Senatorial investigation to ascertain "the true state of affairs" In Nicaragua was proposed in a resolution introduced by Senator Ix)dd (Republican) of North Dakota. Under the resolution, the sen ate foreign relations committee would Investigate the facts concerning American occupation of Nicaragua in 1910; why American forces are still quartered ,ther\ and "the connection between cer lain New York commercial houses and the Chamorro clan" of the republic. Necessity for expediting the government's new hospital program was em phasized recently by Director C. R. Forbes of the veternns' bureau, in hie annual report to congress covering the activities of the bureau for the year onding June 30, 1922. Nine of the hospitals have arrived at the point where deterioration will be so complete tnat repair will be Impossible and they must be abandoned. The charge that war fraud records in the department of Justice had been stolen before the present administration took control was made on the floor of the house by R?prftsentative Knutson, Minnesota. Representations have been made to the Chin ?e government by Minister Schurman at Pekin, in connection wllh the serious shooting and wounding by Chinese soldiers of Charles Coltman, an American merchant, at Kalgan, a town northwest cf Pekin, Just beyond th" great wall, while in an automobile with Samuel Sokobin, the American consul at Kalgan. Hearing in the nomination of Pierce Ilutler, St. Paul, Minn., attorney, to be associate Justice of the Supreme court wero recently concluded by a senate Judiciary sub-committee, which voted to unanimously recommend Mr. Butler's confirmation. More cars were loaded with bituminous coal December 11 than on any day in the last three years, the total being 45,886 cars, according to reports filed by the railroads with the car service division of the American Railway association, which said it had no record of daily loadings prior to thres years agoi X.1, v' ' The naval appropriation bill carrying a request that the president negotiate with foreign powers relative to limiting construction ot war craft under 10,000 tons was passed the other afternoon by the house. William Rannie, proprietor ot the Little Club, raided by the police and prohibition officers in Washington, is at liberty on a $1,000 bond. The police and prohibition officers broke many flasks of liquor, and arrested 78 men. A constitutional amendment providing for the election of president and ice president by popular vote was proposed in a resolution Introduced by representative Ldneoerger, uepuDiic* an, California. Demotion of army officers and seps| ration from the secylce of 1.868 commissioner personnel, ordered by congress in effecting a reduction in the officer complements, has been com' pleted by the war department. Blunt notices that the United States ' cannot avoid a new naval program in t swift cruisers and fleet submarines un> less treaty limitations are extended to i such craft have been served by the i house appropriations committee in re? porting the $293,806,538 naval approi priation bill. A six line provision plac. ed in the bill by the committee re. quested the president to negotiate with Great Britain, France, Japan and It, aly for such an extension of the treaty, limitation of alp- craft to be included. Domestic? Masked bandits, heavily armed and without regard for human life, staged the largest and most sensational daylight robbery the other day in Denver, i Colo., In police annals, right on the noorsieps 01 me united states mint. . Charles Linton, a guard for the federal t reserve bank, was killed by a rain of > bullets from the guns of the bandits, who escaped with two hundred thousand dollars in currency. Reports to air mail service headquar ters at Salt Lake City, Utah, say the i airplane of Pilot Henry G. Boonstra, who has been missing several days, i has been located 20 miles southeast : of Coalville, Utah, and it is thought Boonstra has made his way to safety. Because he said his wife nagged him. ' Walter Jaroski of Chicago faked sui cide. The police arrested him on a " charge of disorderly conduct, and he was promptly fined by the city re: corder. 1 J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, issue ! a statement in which they state that ' they have informed the German am baseador to this country they cannot I even consider a German loan until the J reparations question has been definite ly settled. ' Fifty men dragged the drainage ca1 nal at Chicago for the body of Mrs. Kate Mitchedll Trostell, pretty young widow, who disappeared from her Chi' cago home, but without success. Carl Caraway, 19 years old, Kaneas , City, was sentenced to one year in Jail atyl fined $1,000 for striking his mother Anthony Gram in and his wife, Cleveland, were awakened by the barking of j their pet dog, and got out of their burning home without any mishap. The , dog sacrificed his life. The imprint of a hare hand on his i automobile fender is the onlv cine no. [ lice have in th.-tr search for the slayer . or slayers of Ralph E. Esmond, an , agent of the Chicago Motor dug, who was found shot to death near Starved Rock. 111. , The other day there were seventy I fires in Chicago, and many families . were driven out into zero weather by the flames. Harry T. Graham, a 50. year-old printer, froze to death, result; ing, it is believed, from one of the . fires. ;' Three men were burned to death and four others were injured, one probably fatally, recently when a fire destroyed a cottage in which they were sleeping at Little Wadsworth, near Akron, Ohio, i Sinking when a rescue boat was within six fe'et of him, Ellis Potter, 25 I years old, an attorney, was drowned in ; Lake Mendota. near Madison, Wise, i He broke through the thin ice while - hunting ducks. r; Following torrential rains in this i territory, the Tennessee river is ris ! ing rapidly and Observer Pindell pre I] Uitioii uiai u aiufie ui it it-l'l woili(l soon ho reached. An eastbonnd A. C. L. through freight was derailed recently in west | Bainbridge, Ga.. demolishing thirteen cars, two of which contained live stock. There were four tramps stealing rides in an empty car Just behind I the ones wrecked and were not awakened or hurt in any way. Sworn to protect the lives of their members who have testified for the prosecution at the trlnl of five men charged with murder in connection with the Herrin mine riots, a secret organization oi farmers was reported to have been formed. The schooner Salvatrice with 2,0o0 cases of alcohol aboard, flying the French flag upside down as a sigal of distress, and the Boston schooner Star, well stocked with ship's supplies, were captured together off Sandwich, Mass., by the coast guard crew commanded by Captain Chris Sullivan. Twenty persons were killed and fifty injured in a Houston, Kast and West Texas train wreck at Humble. Texas 17 milee north of Houston. Two ambulances and a score of 'physicians w?re sent from Houston to the scene of the wreck. Georges Clemenceau, his missionary speaking tour to the United States ended, has sailed for Prance, much pleased. Prohibition enforcement and the Ku Klux Klan are the important subjects before the fourteenth annual conference of governors which is In session at Whttn Xiilnhnr SnrtnsrH W Vn The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad and branch lines were bought in by the firm of Randolph Bluementhal of New York, for $28,000,700, at an auction sale held at Colbert, Okla. The price was Just $500 more than tho minimum bid for which the lines could be sold. Lopping oft $11,000,000 from the valuation fixed by Its engineers, the Alabama public service commission has banded down an opinion fixing the total value of the property of the Alabama power company, in Alabama, devoted to the service of the public, as 918,849,262. ' GLEMENCEMI IS BAM PARIS FORMER PREMIER 8AY8 THAT AMERICA 8TILL LOVE8 FRANCE. GREETED BY MANY FRIENDS BanlM Yk>? U> r>k l-~>- 4. *r u ? *?v wwj?wi? ?v r i vnvfi Occupation of the Ruhr Region of Germany. Parla.?Ex-Premier Georges Clemen' ceau, France's noted war-time premier, returned to Paris from a 39-day trip to the United States. He brought back with him what he termed happy remembrances that the people of America still lore France, and also two boxes of grape fruit which he deft clared would contribute to his longevity. Although he seemed to be in a rarely good-natured mood, nevertheless close friends affected to see evidences that his itrenuous tour in the United States had left its Impression upon | him. No official welcome awaited Clem; enccau, either at Havre, where he i lonied in this industry, If he can. Will I. Hays, head of the ptcture industry, announced that all restrictions against he actor were at an end on January 1. The Famous Player-Lasky corporation, which distributed Arbuckle's pictures, announced that no effort would be made at present to market some films that were withdrawn, or others that were never^relensed. Jo] a?ph Schenck, producer, said he would | employ Arbuckle and the latter said I he was thnnlffnl fnw ? ... ...? *vr. iilVJ 1 liaiK U IU : work and would strive to make good. Report Is Made on Employment. Washington.?Employment increas| ed in IS Industries and decreased in 12 during November, the bureau of labor announced in making public its monthly survey of conditions in 3,233 representative establishments in 43 manufacturing industries. Payroll increasi es for the month also were shown in 31 Industries, but in four cases these were not identical with those in which ^ ii>iu/iucui ^allien, me report covered 1,555,537 employes whose wages I during tho payroll periods considered ' amounted to $48,961,271. , The car building and repairing in! dustry continued to lead the increase in employment, with a gain of 7.9 per j cent. This, however, was half the . September increase and considerably j less than in Octoger. Stamped ware, I cotton manufactures and agricultural ! implements required from 6.3 to 7.5 per cent more workers in November i than in the preceding month. The : greatest payroll increases were reported In car building and repairing, cotto nmanufac'.urlng, agricultural implements and ship-building, ranging 1 from 12 to 13.8 per cent. Tim nolto.u :.1..J * , . uv |/u?vi ; luuunu J , IIUH ID I III! COD' tlnuation of the strike in November, showed a decrease of 38.3 per cent in i the number of employes, and 42 per 1 cent in the total of payrolls, as compared with October. Prohibition For Japan is Seen. San Francisco.?Japon will be dry within a few years, declared David Starr Jordan, chancelor emeritus of Stanford university, who has Just rej turned after three months in Japan, j "The people over these foresee the ad vent of prohibition," Dr. Jordan said. i "Manv nt Ihom ?w. wui hiv aiuiu^ iu uring it about." A donation of (50,000 to endow a ! chair of alcoholic research in a Japanese university was promised by | Shyo Zu Aoki, a retired merchant of Tokio, Mr. Jordan said. I uimu ocuai ^nrnimai lirectlngi. Now York.?President Harding aent i ChrfstmHs greetings to the children | of the United States in the form of a I telegram to the Santa Clans association, a national organization which re* eelvea letters written by children to Santa Clans and sees that they are suitably answered. "Merry Christmas to the children of the United States,* the President's message read. The words were sent by radio to each of the 48 branches of the Santa Claus association In the country. SHOULD PUNISH ? SOMEfRISONERS TH08E WHO VIOLATE RULES MUST BE HANDLED, 8AYS GOVERNOR. NO PAROLES FOR CHRISTMAS Chief Executive Not to Grant "Dining Out" Parole* to Men In the Penitentiary. Columbia. Offenders of the rules and regular tions at the penitentiary and prisoners who do not conduct themselves aa prisoners should, ought to be, and must be punished, Governor Harvey said in connection with a statement he issued regarding his non-issuance of paroles for prisoners to "dine out'* for Christmas day. The governor stands for giving the prisoners every reasonable consideration, looking to their having the necessities of life, but above all be regards the penitentiary as a place of punishment and a place where the sentences of the courts should be carried out. The chief executive Is being beseiged with requests for Christmas paroles. In order that prisoners may dine with, their families here or over the state. However, the governor does not intend to grant any of theae requests. does not feel that he should shovr favoritism to a few to the exclusion' of the vast majority. To let a dozen go home would mean favoritism to them and would not tend to build up the discipline of the other 499 or more, the governor says. In connection with his idea as to the treatment of the prisoners, the governor made the following statement: "The governor stands for absolutehumaneness in the handling of the prisoners, but he believes in punishment where there are offenders, Just as children have tn ho nnnlohn/l If they violate the ordinary rules of home life. He stands for giving the prisoners every reasonable consideration,, looking to their having the necessities of life, but he regards the penitentiary as a place of punishment and: the verdict of the courts, looking to the' men being placed there for a special time, should be carried out with only such exemptions as are pertinently proper and right. In order that there should be no misunderstanding of the situation the governor is making ihisannouncement in advance* Whiskey Cases Triable Twice. The supreme court again held that conviction of violating the prohibition laws in the federal court does not bar trial and conviction in the state court on the same charge and on factsarising out of the same transaction. The court affirmed the conviction of Arthur Moseley and Calvin Spencer In Cherokee county for violating tho whiskey laws after they had been convicted on the federal court and hadserved sentences Imposed by the federal court. spencer and Mosley entered a plea of former conviction when they were arraigned in the state court, alleging that the atate and federal authorities had concurrent powers and jurisdiction. The presiding judge overruled the plea and the two men were convicted and sentenced. They appealed to the supreme court in an opinion written by Chief Justice Gary affirmed the action of the presiding judge in overruling the plea. Several cases have been decided similar tp this in past decisions. The court affirmed the verdict of involuntary ninna'aughter against T. , | J, Tally, of AnrfcrHfin ? ? . ? wuuv/, auu no will have to servo two years. Tally was indicted for the murder of Iralo Brown. Ho claimed Brown was trying to get a pistol away from him to kill Rich Wynn when ho fell and the revolver was discahrged, killing Brown. G. S. Derrick, respondent, vs. City of Columbia, appellant. Judgement affirmed. Opinion by Eugene B. Gary, C. J. W. C. Haddon, respondent, vo. Spartanburg county highway commission pellant. Judgment affirmed. Norman Boliver May Be Paroled. Governor Harvey has under consldprnHan ? * *-r ... ........ w,c tooc ui ,-Norman uollver, the Orangeburg county man convicted of attempted criminal assault, and wilt likely take Home action within a few days, poBsibly extending clemency. Bollver was all but paroled by Governor Cooper the day Mr. Cooper resigned as chief executive, the papers having been made out, but for some reason never recorded In the office of the secretary of state. They were later destroyed, It Is understood. Five Road Projects Finished. During the past month five nrnWf? , were completed by the state highway department, the total length being approximately 34 miles. The actual mileage graded waft about 25 miles and that surfaced 34 miles. Expenditures for the month amounted to approximately $391,000. Among the projects completed was the Wateree river bridge at darner's ferry In Richland. A 15-mile section of road In DorcheRter connty and an 1Imile section of road in Chesterfield county were completed. New Charters Issued. Elliott A Davis, of Columbia, a real estate and Insurance Arm, was chartered by the secretary of state with a capital stock of $10,000. Officers are: Stephen Elliott, president and treasurer; Claude P. Davis, rice-president and secretary. The Atlantic Turpentine company of St. George was chartered with a capital Stock of $10,000. Officer* H. Gross, president; W. C. Wolfe, vlco- * president; M. 8. Conner, vice-president, secretory and treasurer; T. A.' Patrick, vlc*t~/?14ea%.