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It Dernberg were only a Kronprinz Wilhelm or a Prinz Eitel Frederich. By the way. wonder what's :he Italian for "manana?"-The 8tate. Banana! The new president of Portugal has been shot already/ Mexico had bet ter look to her laurels. Perhaps the farmers after all are not going to cut the cotton crop o.ut not so with the watermelon crop. -o Those fellows who were caught smuggling opium into this country In barrels of pickled herring probably think they are in a dickie. After reading all comment on the sinking of the Lusitania we have come to the conclusion that it wasn't exactly the right thing to do. While the farm demonstration ex perts are telling us how to rid -?.> selves of pests they might tell us a way to demolish book agents. o Now that passenger trains have been put In operation on Charleston's new Bonsai line, what are th? ?ows papers there to do for local "coiy." About the time we get ready to vent our wraUi upon the wild Kurdish hordes for massacrelng the Armon? tans we think of the Lusitania and don't say lt. It would be a mighty poor time for someone to start another revolution lu Mexico aa. the folks enrosa the pond seem to have front page tlncned for ab indefinite time. "O' A Florida maa desires to present Atlante's chief ot police with a wild cat, but the chief doesn't know wheth er ft is desired for him to do'some thing; with the wildcat or the wildcat do something with him. Down in Jacksonville tnt; are ar resting druggists for the Megs', sala of dope. It ta hard to make Jackson ville a law-abiding town.-Savannah Press. We uuppose Jacksonville will think Usia a case ot pot calling the kettla black. ) ST.VKVE THU HhlOIANSf Stace Hie Inaugur?t ion of the Eng llsli blockade of Germany and the lat ter's submarine warfare all vessels Hying iii*- Mag or tin- former nation, regardless of whether there were nvutrulH aboard, no little bas been said about the efforts of tb? allie? to starve the Hermans into submission. As to Hie possibility of HUH being accomplished, there seems to be seilous doubt, or at least on the purl of one very ably edited newspaper of this section, the Augusta Chronicle, which sets forth some of Its reasons for thinking so in these words: The Isolation of (?erinany from the Importation of raw material and food stuffs has set her scientists to work to solve the probl-":>s thus created, by dis'overing new uses for things which have heretofore been cousin* r ed as waste producta or of small value. And. to an extent, they luve donn this already. A Herlin chemist, Hans Kriedenthal. for Instance, has suc ceeded in extracting the nutritive val ues contained in straw and convert ing them into fond for man and beast. This lie does by laceration of the cell walls, which are in themselves In edible, thus freeing the nutritive sub stances contained therein, such as albumen, starch. BUgar. dextrine, vegetable acids and the accompanying calorics. Thus ls prepared a flour which contains cellulose, vurious sugar-; an?! all the mineral salts and alkali . nec essary for the human body. Dr. Friedenthal had bread, soup and por ridge prepared of the (lour Huts ob tained and they proved to be not only nutritive but palatable. In the meantime, we arc told that' wheat in longland has risen 72 per cent in price, flour 75 per cent and sugar 72 per cent, as compared with thc prices pretailing a year ago Meats and foodstuffs generally have risen In price throughout England, from 12 1-2 to 19 per cent, as com pared with Ju'v, 1914. But. without stopping to discuss England's food problem, it appears to us quite unlikely that the allies will be able to starve into s ubini ? . n a people who can eat Btraw-pine straw Included-by converting it Into palatable soups, flour and porridge; and who, at the Bame time, can make a goodly supply ot alcohol with which to run their engines of war and faru machinery out of the garbage wb'ch all other people throw away and de stroy; or who can take from the air albumen aud phosphate-food itr man beast and growing crops. Say what we . please, therefore-, about your Herman's methods of mak that he is quite as ' efficient"-and do ing war. we aro compelled to admit cldedly more admirable-when lt .-ornes to chemistry and economics. Who knows but that he may yet be able to make "noodles" of thc bark of trecB, or a first-class break fast food of the leaves? At any ra?r all things considered, starvation ls not yet insight for Germany. IN DEFENSE OF SMOKING. In appealing for a generous supply of tobacco for British soldi,TS and sailors at the front. The Lacet, tho EngllBh medical authority, tells those who object to the use. of the "we?d" to lay aside their prejudices and con sider what n source of-comfort lt ?8% bow even at home lt "does t?nch to allay the restlessness and mu-.cular Irritability enegenered by mental and physical fatigue." It s ayn th -re can be little doubt* that tobacco fills an Important place tn psycho-physologi cal affairs. Smoking IB a custom that has wide ly prevailed among men distinguished by their judgment and by their suc cess In the worlds of art. ?dence and literature-men who have played a part in solving the problems of exist ence In Ita many difficult details. Huxley once confessed that among'his fellow students at the hospital he was exposed to considerable temptations to ?moke, but on essaying to acquire the habit he soon found himself on the floor. He gave it up for 40 year?. On the occasion of a (our tn Brittany. however,? ho found on a very wet and cold day a> companion who looked so happy with his cigar before the warm Ore within the inn he thought that he would try to smoke again. a|? 'And then I found myself a changed man. I found that I waa in the position of a lamentable pervert, although the person who led me astray was roost distinguished and a late president of the Brltlah Asocia Hon. From that day I date my ruin. For from that day. vrhenever smok ing ls going on, you may be pretty sure that I Join lt. " "Abnae ot the nablt ls, of coarse, pernicious, but to quote Huxley again, .'Anyone could undertake to destroy himself with green tea or any other article of diet."* Topics of 1 Mr. Hobson** Latest Sensation. Klchniond Pearson Hobson, some Ime bero, later representative ii? tong ress, ami now, as the histrions ?ay -an tl??' ol her histrions say, 'ino ls templed to put it, hut won't "al liberty," lias been obliged, in recent rears, to compel the attention that mee went to him voluntarily ?ind gladly. The device he adopted to al ain this object ?H only to familiar, lt s- that of suying ever mor? and more (turtling things in order to produce in effect that became ever more ?lui nore difficult as the public'? respon siveness to stimulation from him :rew weaker. At last he has had lo resort to the reully desperat?' meus ire of charging that tlx- British gov ernment, if lt ilid not actually pint hi- destruction of the Lusitania by rman submarines, at least know? ngly allowed her to be destroyed and lellberatoly refrained from taking my measures io save either the ship >r the ives of those on board of her. As Mr. Hobson, In his previous statements as to assorted war? only i week or two ahead of us, has never l>eon suspected of the insincerity which, whatever else it might have lone, would have increased respect 'or his personal Information and prlv ite Judgment, so now it need not, ind indeed cannot, be doubted that ie really believe? in this amazing is [donation of the greut disaster. lt <ooniH to be easy for bim who so nugniflcently risked his life in Hie ortunately futile attempt to rios - the nouth of Santiago Harbor to believe untiling. A like straining of the urge possibility of human credulity nay be within the power of one or :wo dozen other people In the United States If they put their minds to the :ask and use all their energies In its ?jer?ormanee. Hut the rest of UH are oo busy, some in doing things and jthera In thinking ubout them, to nake any such effort, and will have :o dism'sa Mr. Hobson's theory - well, cull lt ubsurd and let it go nt hat. Other characterizations might be used if he had not taken the Mer rimac in under the guns and if he iud not been brutally maltreated af ter it by certain stupid commentator* m certain perfectly innocent and larmlesa kisses. That was enough to make people with a sense of justice leal very gently with bia subsequent cagarles, and to say nothing harsher to bim than "Oh, do hush!" Here, Also, a Hong Can Excite. When Mme. Marte Chenal, last winter, sang the "Marseillaise" on the stage In Parla, she created, night af ter night, in the hearta and minds of her crowding auditors, an emotional atorm of patriotic enthusiasm that de manded-and received-the use of all the descriptive powers possessed by the foreign correspondents in the French capital. They regarded her performance, probably not without reason, aa a really important part of Grace Replies to (Charleston Post ) 1 Mayor Crace has replied to a letter written him Saturday by Governor Manning, concerning the liquor situa tion ber?'. The governor suya the statement Chief Cantwell sent him us to placea closed here, ls "erroneous and misleading." The governor men tions two Instances that cause bim to draw thia conclusion. Mayor Grace has replied fully on Up? points raised by the governor. The following ls the mayor's letter to Governor Manning: May 15, 1913. Honorable I'lchard I Manning, Governor, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: I am Just in receipt of your letter of May 14. and hasten to answer lt. The chief of police la in my office and hears what I say; I having summoned him as soon as I read your letter. He ex presses aa much surprise SB I now ex press to you, that you should In the slightest question the good faith with which we are dealing with this situa tion within the linea I have n any manner led you to believe that we would deal with lt. I have been exceedingly careful in my negotiations with you in this mat ter, never to ovor-state either what we have actually done, os what we actually intended to do; and what I have especially sought to avoid is any semblance of hyprocrisy or make-be lieve. The report of the chief of police was handed to you In person by me only because SB you know I was prac tically summoned to Columbia sudden ly and unexpectedly. 1 had intended forwarding it to you with a letter or transmittal-not, however, as a "re port," but as a renly to your Inquiries. It had been on my desk for several days, as 1 explained to you, unattend ed to because of the absorbing busi ness of our city convention which In tervened. It was called forth by let ters and telegrams to me from you (which I In turn communicated to the i chief of police summarily demand ing a "report" on what I was doing. I have put ?aide a gread deal of tech nical dignity which adheres to my of fice, under which I might have in sisted that nothing requires me in law or courtesy as mayor of Charles ton, to "report to you In order to pre serve at least an appearance ot de corum on the record. I have adopted the word "reply," rather than your word "r?port," as you wll find In my telegram ot April 22. Of coarse, I have more or less surrendered the digni ty of my office for the sole purpose of avoiding the much greater indignity and humiliation thai otherwise waa to be heaped upon our city by con stabulary invasion, which w^.at I have ) the Times Ute military "situation," and gave her more than a little credit for helping to arouse the fervent devotion and readiness for selfsacrlflce that mark ed the French people. Aline, ( henal baa a voice and pr?s eme, und though something of her effect i veness was due lo an adroit use of coutume and scenery, the critics agreed that still more of it was the result of the utter sincerity with which her ai fceal was made. Over here few of us are "Latin." sud we are not participants in a great war. but nevertheless our emotions are at least ready to be stirred in much the same way as were those of the Parisians. More than that Mi;-s Geraldine Farrar, at the Metropolitan Opera House Thursday night, both proved our rcadiuebri to he moved ami her own ability to repeat, in tills same held. If occasion should urlse. the triumph won by the French singer. ' The Star-spangled Dunner" is not, it must be confessed, in either words uf music, a means os well calculated us is the "Marseillaise" to inspire patriotic devotion, but it has merits, both intrinsic and from association, of no poor quality, and Miss Farrar made them count to a degree that has a significance either ominous or re assuring, according to one's view of the future und its possibilities. Are College Hoys Now Different { Some of us whose lingering in aca-. demie ?hades was done ? good many yeats ago are deeply my st i Ind-aud, to tell the dreaTul truth, are more than a little disquieted-by the news, coming now from one American col lege after another, of 3tuden\s who gather in great numbers and iraw up and sign petitions to the president t'.at half implore and halt command him on considerations tn let this country he dragged Into war. There is something queer about these proceedings-something that seems to hint a change in college boys that has hitherto passed without notice. Of course it is a fine thing to he wisely calm, and fine, also, to love peace and hate war, but-well, the college boys of other days were not ?jlven to demonstra'ions o' just this sort. There was about them a cer tain pugnacity, a certain instinctive uagerness to get into any convenient trouble that took the form of romb.it, no matter what the kind. 'Ibis wis nut wise, and it was not m all or even in many ways commendable, but ti was Youth, while petitioning for peace, with a perilous implication in many cases of 'ut any price," that is, or used to be. Old Age. So there be those who are wonder ing rather anxiouslyi what bas hap pened to put old heads on your, g shoulders. Those who thus wonder try to like the chang?, but ?bey ?im ply can't do lt, and they suspect "ac celeration" of 80UH? kind when heroes of the gridiron an.l the diamond ;;nd the track raise the noble but incon gruous cry of "Safety tirst!" Manning's Letter feared was impending above and be yond every development in this mat ter. You are correct in assuming that I "received this report in good faith," etc. I transmitted it to you in good faith, and I am convinced that the chief of police submitted it to me in good faith. Of course I am not per sonally a spy as to whether or not liquor is being sold in Charleston. Neither ls he. His office ls also one of some dignity, in view of which it has been the custom to act only through agents employed for detail work in de tective matters, unless where a case ls of such criminal grlvlty as to de mand his personal uttentlon. Frank ly, I must tell you that I do not be lieve lt was ever contemplated that a chief of police sbr-uld be held cate gorically responsible to such an ex tant as to Impute, on bis part, bad faith whenever he fails to define with precision the status of every man ac cused of being in, or the *xa?.i time of his going out ot Hie liquor business. lie advises me, however, that upon the report of his officers, and by a comparison with the "fine" list, made up from the records, the two parties you mentioned, indeed, went out ot. business only since the policy of raid ing began. They paid or were sche duled to pay fines up to the time when our .aids begun. The fact that L. Williams "died some months ago" as you said, only proves the tenacity with which the liquor business per sisted in Charleston; for I can tell you that on March 8 m summons was Issued calling him into court for vio lating the liquor law, although he had died on February 2. The place which he ran didn't die. which is the point in issue. At this time the police force had already begun thc policy of raid ing, under which we abandoned tue service of all summonses; the sum mons policy, ax you know, being mere ly a "Londonement of law breaking," and, of course. Incompatible with the nev; policy that you have compelled us to adopt, and under which so many thousands ot dollars are lost to the city In fines; but, ander which I am afraid some blind tigers will still exist. When raiding began, the business owned by L. Williams was still going on with a liquor adjunct, and was raided by the police and ceased to exist, not on account,, qf Mr. Wil liams' untimely taking off. but simply because his immediate successor de cided that for reasons of peace he would no longer wear the shroud of Williams In the liquor business. I am advised that the place which Mr. Wil liams ance kept, and which la still conducted by bis estate, managed by one ol his Immediate relatives, has, urtu very lately, and after hts. death, sold liquor, am? sold lt until the policy ot ratdtag began, and that it waa given Great news in Underwear! This little advertisement will be a means of your enjoying underwear comfort if you'll only follow its sug gestion and take a peep at these gar ments we're showing. Yes, union suits are being favored. We have 'em in many styles, sleeve less, half sleeves and long sleeves; in the healthful, hygenic soisette, pongee and mercerized nainsook. Union Suits in our own label and by the famous Manhattan Shirt makers ranging from 50c to $2. Thirty styles of garments in two piece suits a' from 50c to $1 a suit. "Tia Sion U&h m Caudate* up simply and solely because of the policy of raiding; and not because Mr. Williams waa dead. As to the case of Hackett it appears from the records of the lire depart ment that his place ct: ught fire on April 3, and from the records of the police court that lt wus 'partially burned." Uefore this, the police had persistently raided it, and he was so discouraged that he said "he was go ing to give up business," which so far as the liquor end of it was concerned, the police department has every rea son to bel levi? had really happened before the fire occurred. In a short while thereafter, the place took fire. You can draw your own conclusions whether or not the close sequence of the fire had any relation to the per sistent raids of the police force. But the fact remains that before the fire, and because of the raids, he did go out of thc liquor business, which is as the chief of police has reported. None of us mortals can know wheth er poor "Lewie" Williams, who died in Greece on February 2, but who was up to that time running a liquor busi ness, even from that great distance. In Charleston, thereupon went to his eternal reward, or went to that place of "everlasting fire," which waB Only intended for very bad people, unlike us. Being very good people ourselves, we cat. without presumption, assume that he must certainly have met with the latter fate. If so. then my only comment ia that, notwithstanding the eternal fire. Mr. Williams, through his heirs, atill persisted in the liquor business until the police raids be gan. After the police raids began, Mr. Hackett's liquor business ceased to exist and in a few days his general business was completely demolished by fire. In neither the case of the Hackett fire here nor the Williamr. fire hereafter, did the Gre havo any thing to do with their going. Each went out of business because he was raided out. I stand upon the report of the chief. By the way. in the Hst of those fur nished me as being in business some time ago by you, do you, not recall that, aa I showed you In Columbia, there was the name of one man dead for three yearB? If because Williams is dead, you conclude he is no longer in business, why do you net apply the same inference to your cwn Hst, which you told me you han gotten from "reliable" sources? I hope I have covered these two cases to your satisfaction. Very truly yours, (Signed) JOHN P. GRACE, Mayor of Charleston. The following ls Governor Man ning's letter: "Hon. John P. Grace. Mayor, Charleston. S. C. "Dear Slr: In regard to the report of Chief ot Police Cantwell, dated April. 1915, to you, and by you trans mitted to me. This says: "I beg to report the following parties and places who have discontinued business. "I, like you, received this report in good faith, and took it to mean that these parties had discontinued busi ness a? a result ot the activities of the police squad. On looking Into this, however. I find that the statement ot Chief Cantwell is erroneous and mis leading, and I will mention but two Instances-*,. Williams, who died some months ago. and M. Hackett,: who was burnt out. Many ot the placea said to be cloaed are selling liquor. 4. , ,. "This seems BO serious to me tnat n Bhould demand an Investigation, and I suggest that you layestlgate thia re ^"I have not received any subsequent report. . "I am very truly yours, ?RICHARD I. MANNING. "Governor." Sayn Mr. Calhoun. Our former minister tb China, Wil liam J. Calhoun, wan'a to know if our compensation for building the Pans ma Canal ia to be "the pleasure of sit ting on th? banks of the Canal watch ing foreign fleets sailing through IL" Not even that for some ot the moro cautious of os. we fear. Mr. Calhoun; we are too much afraid ot landslides. -Syracuse Herald. PRESS CO (Philadelphia Record.) 1 A dispatch from Madison. Wis., says ] that the duPont Powder company has 1 been (Hiing at its Wisconsin plant an 1 order for high explosives from Ger- i many, reputed to amount to $5,000, OOO. It is added that the company I has ceased working for Germany and ls now "throwing its resources to the ] filling of a big contract for the United i States government. < It is not explained why the chango 1 has been made; it may be that the ? Cern?an contract has been (Hied. The explosives for Germany are said to i have been shipped by "underground" | routes through Italy. We make no conjecture as to thc reason for turning from a German to a United .States contract. The Inter esting thing 1B that this plant has , been shipping a large amount of 1-tgk j, explosives to Germany. Americans j ; have a right under international and j i domestic law to malee war munitions . for any customer. This ls not oven \ denied by the Germans, who denounce the sale of war supplies to the u : Ut But Germany has also been getting supplies here, though not having cou- j trol of the sea. Their inability to get ? supplies direct is no affair ot ouro. , They have been buying hera. New j England papers have referred o very considerable contracts with G-rniany thal have been held by manufacturers in that region; though from fear of interruption by allied cruisers, the manufacturers are reticent o! details and give no indication ot the .* Mites by which the products are forwarded. The Countries adjacent to Germany I have increased their importo of cop per and other articles of military uso i from thia country. Some of these sup plies are probably for domeatle con- i sumption. Sweden has explained largo j Importations of copper by the elctrifi cation of railway lines. But Germany bas repeatedly boasted that elf ..r..; to cut it'off from sources of supply had tailed and that if Imports were not BO : large as might be desired they were yet sufficient. There ls no doubt that the Germans, j as well as the allies, have been get- j ting military material from thia couti- ' try. If tho export ot these articles : could be absolutely shut off Germany i would suffer as well as the alli-s, ?nd would probably suffer more, for tho I allies have more sources to draw on. 1 The complaint that we sell to the : allies ls without an basia -n law, md 1 partiality therein ls without basts in law or in fact. Germany has been buying In this country. Attacking Daniels. (Ohio State Journal.) Ex-Secretary of the Navy Meyer la making himself conspicuous by at- 1 tacking the administration of Secre tary Dent?is. Thia la about the only i way he ha? to make himself con spicuous. A writer In the New York Times thus speaks ot him: "Mr. Meyer bad while at the head of the navy department a wonderful : grasp ot the detail affairs of his office. Mr. Meyer's office hours were from i li a. m. to 1:20 p. m. and again from 4 to 4:80 p. m., when he came by on ODDS A> To take out iron met, dip the spot Into a strong solution of tartaric acid and expose to the sunshnne. When dry wash the article with Warm soap ends, rob the stain with ripe tomota Juice, expose to the sunshine again, and when the stain is nearly dry wash in more suds. When bolling old potatoes add a lit tle "'Ilk to the water in which they are boiled. Besides linprovcing thc tho flavor this prevent them from turning dark in the cooking. Don't peel applies for apple sauce Wipe them well, cut up without peel ing, add water, and cook, till thorough ly soft, then rub tb? pulp through a coarse sieve. IMMENT .orseback and in riding boote, aton ing at the department for thia half lour to sign any mall that was ready 'or him. Mr. Daniels reaches the de partment at 9:15 a. m. and remalna until 6 p. m., with 15 minutes for bis lunch, which is sent to his deck." George Von Lcngerke Meyer was a particular friend and supporter of Senator Lodge and became a member jf Taft's cabinet through lila influence He was thc dilettante member end wanted to build endless warships, which Daniels doesn't and therefore Meyer comes out from his well-earned privacy to attack him. Safeguarded Arbitration.. (Charlotte Observer.) The first Intimation from' Berlin unofficially and speculatively, of course, augeata an adjustment of the Lusitania affair by a court of arbitra tion. A suggestion of. that sort, was lb nave been expected; and likewise Its reception by the administration ut Washington. The acceptance of any such proposition would flrac ?nvolva ibo abandonment by the German government of its tactics of Warfare nn neutral shipping pending the out come of arbitrament, it would be R guarantee first, the dickering after ward. Arbitration proceedings, prop erly, safeguarded, might ?mint the way out for Kermany. A Job We Don't Need. (Charleston Post.) Says Hudson Maxim-and he Is an Inventor and manufacturer of arms o? war-"the United States of America should be in a position to take any nc*.on that doesn't obey the Golden Rule by the throat and make that na tion listen to reason. If we were ai big a military power as we are u money power," he concluded, "wo would be able to prevent unfair me thods of warfare, and able also to prevent a system of submarine retal iatition that endangers the lives of all neutrals cicsing the seas." Wo Bhould need, under that prescription to be strong enough just now to take by the throat every one of the great powers of Europe, one or two of the Bm al 1er ores, and apan in the East, and, in seasons of peace we should have to be seizing upon every nation except ourselves, every day, to com pel adherence to the code. Of course our own country is a strict observer -we refuse to discuss the case of Colombia-of the rule and an exem plar to all nations, but even we wotld soon be unfit for the great role lt wu were strong enough to enforce lt up on all the world. If any nation were able to enforce the Golden Uulc up on every other nation lt wouldn't. The United States has enough to do in an endeavor to keep itself' in paths of righteousness and Justice, and when lt reaches perfection in that condition, it wi^by beauty of ex ample, be sufficient impressive upon the rest of the world-If that portion hasn't arrived!! rat at the sarne point -not to need the gigantic strength urged by the excellent gunmakar. The Job of conscience keeper for the world is one we are not looking for. W ENDS Lac that is desired to have an "old lice" shade will soon do so lt after washing it is dipped nv the water po tatoes have been bolled in; care moat be taken not to get this too stiff. For waterproofing boots and shoes, equal quantities of white wax. 'oliva all. and rectified lard, melted down, make an excellent mixture, but a little oil of turpentine should also be added. To make smelling salts, procure an ounce of rock volatile and break it in to small placea. Put ft into small pieces. Put lt into the bottle; and then cover I twlth aau-de-cologne. Let lt stand for a few days, am? lt la ready for uss.