GLEAVES SAYS JAPANESE
NAVY WILL EQUAL THAT OF
AMERICA BY 1928
Baltimore, Md., Mar. 26.?The
United States will be matched by that
of Japan in 1928 according to Rear
' dmiral Albert vileaves in an inter
\iew, who has just returned to Am.
t rica after a year and a half as com
r-.ander of the Asiatic fleet
Admiral Cleaves termed the naval
holiday talk "absurd."
v "With all her liabilities and the
great disparity in wealth as compared
with this country," the admiral said, |
"Japan is carrying out an '8-8' pro_
? gram, calling for eight battleships,
< eight battle-cruisers and all the sub
marines and other vessels which go
with them by 1928. No one knows
how many submarines she is building
that fact is kept secret. Considering
the differences in wealth, her '8-8'
program is equivalent to one of '64
64' here
"'Our 'eleaborate program' is not
nearly so elaborate as it is supposed
to be. Going at the present rate, our
navy in 1928 will only be roughly
equal to the Japanese."
TWO TRUNK LINES
IN S. C. MADE MONEY
Southern Earned More Than Four
Millions of Dollar*, While Sea
board Operated at a
Deficit.
Columbia, March 26.?Two of the
trunk lines operat'ng in South Caro
line earned money last year, the <At
iantk Coa^t Line, over a quarter of a
million, and the Southern, over four
million dollars, while the Seaboard
Air Line operated at a deficit, of
nearly a half million, according to
annual reports just filed by the trunk
line railroads with the South Caro
- lina railroad commission.
The annual reports show that the
net earnings of the Coast Line for
. 1920 were $368,635; the net earnings
of the Southern were $4,392,084;
< while the Seaboard operated at a de
ficit of $438,607, its operating ex.
penses in South Carolina exceeding
its gross earnings securing in-this
?tate by that amount.
The Southern's net earnings in this
state for 1920 were nearly four time*
what they were in 1919, the Coast
Line's earnings were only about twen
ty per cent of what they were tne
year before. The Seaboard's losseS for
1920, according,to the report, were
nearly four times greater than their
earnings for 191.
. The three trunk lines operating in
state spent last year for operat
ing expenses in South Carolina in
cluding maintenance of ways and
structures maintenance of equipment,
taffic and transportation expenses and
taxes $40,960,858. The Southern and
the Coast Line spent approximately
fifteen million each.
The three trunk lines hauled dur
ing 1920 a total tonnage of 16,680,
472 tons within the state, both inter
state and intra-state freight. They
L/oast i-iine s tonnage was o,^ou,oiij
the Southern's was 7,529,890 and the
Seaboard's was 3,879,741.
Trench-digging machines used
during the war are now being em
ployed to construct a pipe line from
Havre to Paris.
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WOMAN SEES NEGRO
ELECTROCUTED FOR
HUSBAND S MURDER
Columbia, March 26.?Mrs. Earl.
Wadford of Lone Star, in Calhoun'
county, was a witness to the electro
cution of Feetie Fogle, negro, who to
day paid the death penalty at the
Penitentiary for the murder of Wad-j
ford on January 12. Before he was!
electrocuted Fogle made a statement!
to the effect that Harvey Whaley, i
r.ow in the death cell and awaiting!
electrocution on April 8, as accessory
to the^ crime is not guilty.
In the trial of the caees Whaley
,vec Qf>r>n?pfi hv Focle of having told
Fogle to shoot. Before dieing today?
Fogle denied that Whaley was guilty j
to this extent and it is probable that
his statement will probably bring
about some change in the orders for
Whaiey's electrocution.
At the time Earl Wadford was
killed, Mrs. Wadford and her baby
and Corbett Zeigler, a neighbor, who
was at the Wadford home, were
wounded. This is the first time wom
en have ever witnessed an electrocu.
:on. \
WHITE HOUSE ZOOLOGY |
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i
President Taft had his famous j
cow Pauline, a highly bred Guern- j
sey. By accepting the offer of a|
Libertyvllle, 111., breeder, as he is in
clined to do, President Harding may
have a champion Jersey to make her
way to milky fame at the White
House. Between our latest Republi-.
can Presidents there has been Mr.
Wilson with his little Democratic
flock of sheep.
Some day it may occur to some
body to write a measurably full
story of the White House pets, use
ful and otherwise. The man of these
is legion, for nearly always there
have been the children or the grand
children of Presidents in the Execu
tive Mansion, and little folk are the
true and catholic lovers of animal
playfellows. One remembers the pet
badger given by a little girl of
Sharon Springs, Kan., which became
the delight of the young Roosevelts
in the Rdugh Rider's administration.
Horses there were always at the
White House in before-the-motor
days and for a few years after,
There was a coachman of color, one
Albert H&wkins, who in 1890 was
able to boast that he had driven
spanking teams for six presidents,
beginning with Grant. One- of his
charges was the gentle bay called
John who used to eat sugar from tye
frail hand of Mrs. Harrison. And
of course there have been ponies.
Records at hand show no humble,
practical pig among traditional prop
erties at the White House. On the
other hand, there is no listing of the
vain, imperial, peacock. These ex
tremes may be reached yet in the
process of making complete the
zoology of executive Washington.?
New York World.
A contrivance to deaden the noise
of their, aeroplanes has been adopted
by the French army. This device is
attached to the exhaust pipe and it
not only muffles the roar but it also
stifles the flames should any petrol
explode through the pipe becoming
overheated.
The Old
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SHOP
ODD BELIEFS OF JAPANESE
Popular Superstitions Have Mostly
Sprung From Moral Precept#
and Are Quite Harmless.
There are many popular, as distin
guished from religious, superstitions
m Japan. These originally sprang
from mostly moral precepts and are
onifp harmless. They prevail more
widely among people In the rural and
mountain districts than v among city
dwellers and among the older and Ig
norant classes than among the young
and educated groups. Some of these
superstitions are:
At a marriage ceremony a dress of
purple color is taboo, lest the mutual
love of the bride and groom be soon
? * 1I?K1a
lost, as purpie is a coior musi imuio
Jo fade. v
If while a person Is very 111 a cup
of medicine be upset by accident, it
Is a sure sign of his recovery; ht
needs medicine no longer.
Fire Is the spirit of the god Kojlln.
It Is supposed to have a purifying ef
fect and must be respected. To step
on fire, to throw refuse In It, will
cause the wrath of the god and hence
a calamity. The bore is not unknown
In Japan, and the Japanese are pes
tered with visitors who sit their wel
come out and drive their hosts into
a frenzy of eagerness to get rid of
tliem. The Japanese recipe of getting
rid of them is as follows: Go 1:0 tne
kitchen, turn the broom upside down,
put a towel over it and fan it lustily. |
The tedious visitors will soon depart.
Japanese babies and '-children are
not allowed to look Into mirrors, for
If they do, when they grow up and
marry they will have twins.
When monslos, ohlckpnpox or whoop
ing cough prevails In a neighborhood
and parents do not wish to have their
children become infected they put a
notice on the front door stating that
their children are absent
KILL RICH IN HIGH-GRADE ORE
Mound in Mexico That Is Said by Ex
perts to Be Worth In Nelflhbor
hfvoH of S5.000.000.000,
Primitive peoples have an uncanny j
Instinct for naming things accurate-1
ly. Centuries after the natives had
named a hill outside the city of Dur
ango, Mexico, "The Devil's Finger
Tip," scientists came along and sol
emnly announced that It was formed
of hematite, and had apparently been
Jabbed up through the earth's surface
from molten masses far below. "
This Iron hill rises for 700 feet sheer
above the surrounding plaifi, and Is
said to contain 000,000,000 tons of
high-grade ore rated at 70 per cent
in iron content. In a report made
just before the >Vorld war a British
expert said that the iron in the hill
worth ?5{000,000,000 or would "be
k so located as to assure protection
In the operation of the property.
Puf in another way, Mereado moun
tain, for the hill Is so r$m?<l lifter
iho Spanish eiqiToref "who was
first white rann to see it, Contains
iron yhich, if marketed today, would
bring more money than the entire
sum represented by all of the gold and
pllver taken out of Mexico between
1603 and 1803, when the exploitation
of Mexican mines was at its peak.
True Trachoma Easily Transmitted.
At a recent meeting of the Ameri
can Medical association Dr. JoJin Mc
Mullin, surgeon, IT. S. Public Health
service, started a lively debate In the
section on preventive medicine by
reading a paper in which he asserted
that much of the so-called trachoma
which afflicted the eyes of American
children is not trachoma and not con
tagious.
The original cause of this Inflamma
tion of the eyelids Is unknown, but
it Js known with certainty that It Is
transmitted with ease from one eye to
another. There is another type, called
folliculitis, which is not contagious
and can easily be cured, while the
true trachoma necessitates a slight
surgical operation and careful treat
ment; and, even with this, It Is by
'no means certain that It Is ever per
manently cured.
Paderewskl'a Descent in Life.
Jo Davidson, the sculptor, who re
cently returned to the United States
after many months in Europe, where
many great men posed for him, relates
the1 following passage between Cle
menceau and Paderewski, which, Da
vidson says, occurred in his presence:
"Clemenceau Is a gruff old sort of
fellow," Davidson relates. "He was
receiving Ignace Paderewski.
" 'Are you Paderewski, the great pi
anist?' he asked.
"'Yes,' replied the artist, bowing.
"'And you have just been elected
premier of Poland?'
"Again Paderewski bowed and an
swered In the affirmative.
"Clemenceau looked at him a rno
mant nnrl fhnn chnnb1 hlo h?orl CQ HI T7
saying: 'My God, what a come
down!'"
Preserving the Salmon.
Completion of an improved $40,000
salmon hatchery at Madison, Conn.,
for' restocking eastern streams with
the valuable food fish that disap
peared from that region practically
a century ago, is awakening renewed
Interest in the cause of that early de
pletion, according to Popular Me
chanics Magazine. The too common
construction of dams without proper
fish ladders, blocking the seasonal as
cent of the salmon from the sea, ex
plains uie unpenning iuss ui una \
f?reat natural resource, a condition j
often technically difficult of eorree- i
tlon because many of the streams ure
not listed as navieable waters. '
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TRAVELS 50 YEARS
ON PULLMAN CARS
Chicago, March 29.?Soon James
B. Newsome will receive his tenth
silver sleeve stripe which will indi
cate fifty years of continuous active
service as a Pullman porter. He is
the oldest porter in active service
with the Pullman company.
When Newsome first went into
the Pullman service as a young man,
he had the Burlington's Omaha-Chi
cago run. The trip was a 24 hour
one, now it takes 14 hours.
\
In those days a train carried only
one sleeping coach. Now the fast
night trains carry sleeping coaches
and diners only.
Newsome has ridden approximate
lv 1 fl.flAlVflflft flftft Wis mm
now is on the Chicago and Alton's
fast mail train from Chicago to St.
Louis. It has been his experience
that:
Women tip more liberally than
mei^
The richest men are the worst
tippers.
The unaccustomed? traveler pays
what his neighbor tips.
The best tippers are the sales
men, whose tips go on an expense
account.
More on Tipper*.
"I had rather have, so far as tip
ping goes, four women on my car
than a train load of bank presidents'
says Newsome.
The richest men sometime do
seem the stingiest men.'I have car
ried millionaires and multi-million
nvflo w rvcf nf flinm fin a filiflvfiii'
Ui VO II1IU WA MlVill U V[WMJ. V\.I
or less. One multi-millionaire not
long ago tipped me just 18 cents, a
dime, a nicket and three pennies.
Just to illustrate, one time I car
ried twenty-six bank presidents on
a run. I collected from those men
exactly $5.50. ?
"A few days later I carried a car
load jof American Legion boys who
were getting only a month and
they made up a pot of $27.50 for the
porter."
Distinguished Riders.
Newsome has carried many dis
tinguished passengers, including
Ulysses S. Grant, William WcKinley
William Jennings Bryan, Admirals
Schley and Samson and Woodrow
Wilson. He has carried. generations
of the Alvin Saunders, J. Sterling
Morton, Edward Rosewater inid
jHenr;/ W. Yates families.
I He is known to thousands of
travellers and he knows by name sev
eral thousands.
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W. A.
STATE FIREMEN WILL
MEET JULY THE 14-15
Greenville, March 26.?"the S>outh
Carolina Firemen's Association will
convene in Greenville July 14 and 15 (
:he dates having been selected here]
at a conference between Chief Louis J
Behrens of Charleston, president and
Mayor Hajrvley and Col. Holmes ~B.
Springs, chairman of the convention
committee of the Young Men's Busi
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convention days between Greenville
.nd Charlotte. Because nearly all the
fire departments are motorized, it
vas decided to abandon the annual
ournament. The convention wSt
bring between 150 and 200 visitors U
Greenville.
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