Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?^Evei\i.\? Fairy Tale ^M!Y GRAHAM BQ/WER. . THE HOUSE MICE. "Dour Little Mice," said Mother House Mouse to her seven small chil dren, "you cnn uot see ns yet because you bnve come Into the world quite bllud. That ls the way you all do. It ls the way I did. "So you did quite right. You took after your mother, and she took after her mother before her. "Rut In a short time you will be able to..see. Now you are quito helpless and can not do anything for yourselves. "You will stay In the warm cotton nest your mother has for you in tho little .corner of this cellnr. "You won't stay bore for long, though. You will not even wnlt to grow up. You will go forth by your selves when you aro only partly grown -and you will seek your fortunes In the great world of houses and cellars ?and pantries. "As yet you do not know what it ls to seek your fortunes. "You do not even know what the word means. Hut in time you will learn. You will kuow the smell of cheese and you will And lt a very pleasant smell. "You will care for all sorts of good ies and you will hope that people will let you eat of their food quite free and without wishing you any harm. "Of course, lt is rather natural that people will pot care for you, for after all we wouldn't care for creatures that came and took our food. "Many of you will be able to 'make sweet little sounds. You will chirp and even sing I "Yes, the little house mice cnn sing. Many, many of them cnn. "And you will not need a great hall in which to give your concerts. You will not want to stand upon a plat form and have a lot of people sit In front of you ready to clap their bands when you are through. "You won't care to have a great deal of attention when you sing. "You will be perfectly satisfied to sing your little songs In the pantries or In the china closets or In the cellars. "And yon won't ask for clapping. In fact you wont care for clapping. You will not want praise. You will rather care to sing your songs when you think no one is listening. "It seems strange to many people that you sing. But we, Mother House Mice, know that you can and the peo ple will learn that you really sing little *ongs, or at least chirp little songs. "And often you will warblo little :8ongs, tool "You will never grow to he very "big. It ls better that way. Then you .can get In and out of smaller holes. "You will wear such nice, simple, gray suits and you will become very proud, each of you, of the nice, long, hairless tall which ls a part of you, and a most Important part. "You will all have thin little bodies, for who wants to be fat? "Not a mouse certainly, and most especially not a house mouse. For, as I sold before, lt ls better to be small, as then you can get through smaller spaces. "Now, the House Rnt ls often un able to get through a hole that you can get through. That ls when we can laugh at the House Rat and can say, 'Well, fine fellow; ls lt the best you can do? And we cnn go scam pering off gally. "Don't go where the weather Is too, cold. You needn't be too fussy about the weather, but you don't want to go way, way up north, where you might freeze. "I do not be lieve there ls any danger of your going too far north, though. You can go pret ty far without coming nenr any of the bitterly cold, polar re gions. Regions m e a n neighbor hoods yon know and when I say - ' you don't want to go to nr.y of tho polar regions I mean you don't wnnt to go up to tho North Pole part of the world. "I will let you leave me before long and before the year ls through I will pride myself upon having raised sev eral families of denr mice children; I like to welcome lots of little mice and tell them how they should act and what they should do In thc big world Into which they're soon going alone." Saw Catskill Mountains. Fresble-When I was on n farm last summer I saw a cat kill a chicken. Sophomore-Huh, that's nothing ; when I was in New York last summer I saw the Catskill mountains." Daddys Subscribe for The Courier. (Best) INTERESTING FARM STATISTICS Collected by B. B. Hare, S. C. De partment of Agriculture, i Saluda, S. C., March 31.-A re cent Investigation conducted by B. B. Hare, agricultural statistician of the buerau of crop estlnjates, Uni ted States Department of Agricul ture, relative to food requirements in South Carolina, shows the follow ing avorago quantities of foodstuffs consumed per person per month: ll pounds of flour, 7 pounds of pork (oaten or utilized in cooking), 3 poundB of other meat, 4.4pounds of sugar (Including that used in cook ing, canning, preserving fruits, etc), 1G eggs, and 7 gallons of milk (in cluding cream and whole milk.) It is observed from tho report that 3 2 per cent of the wheat flour con sumed last year was grown within tho State, while G3 per cent of the moat, 82 per cent of the vegetables and 8G per cent of milk and butter consumed wore produced within its borders. It appears that each person with in the 'State consumes an average pf 132 pounds of Hour annually. There , foro, If wo have a population of 1, 690,000 it will require approximate ly 6,600,000 bushels of wheat to supply our yearly needs. Tho total production for?the State in 1920 has boon estimated at 1,785,000 bushels, or about 3,GOO,000 bushels less than our annual requirements. Tho average pork requirements per person is shown to bo about 8 4 pounds annually. In other words, it will require ono hog netting 168 pounds to supply tho needs of two persons each year, or it will take about 845,000 of such hogs to meet the State's annual requirements. However, should the hogs net 250 pounds each, the number could be reduced to about 560,000. It would be of interest to know which would be moro economical for the State as a whole-to raise 560,000 hogs net ting 250 pounds each or 845,000 hogs of 168 pounds each. Further observations made from this Investigation are to the effect that tho average distance of all the farms In the State from market is approximately seven miles, and tho average size load from farm to mar ket is 1,579 pounds; the average size load from market to farm being 1, G22 pounds. Tho average number of days spent annually per farm in hauling pro duce, fertilizers, etc., to and (rom market is estimated at 27 days, or a little less than 9 per cont of all work days. Tho total number of mo tor trucks in the State, used exclu sively for farm purposes, is estimat ed at 1,833, and tho number of farm tractors at 2,956. Mr. Hare states that another Inter esting feature of the investigation, as shown by the tabulated results of a largo number of reports of farm ers from all sections of the State, is that only 36 per cent of tho amount of commercial fertilizers used in 1920 will bo used in 1921. How ever, a very largo percentage of the last year's crop of cotton seed will not be sold or exchanged for fertil izers, os h as boon the practice here tofore, but will bo put back on the farms from which they were ob tained. "Sure Did Pool Those Simps." Hagerstown, Md., ' March 31. "Wo sure did fool those poor simps" ls Crover Cleveland Bergdoll's com ment on his escape in this country from military guards and secret ser vice men, written on the back of a post, card from isberbach, Germany, and received by Owen I). Sherley, proprietor of tho Vivian Hotel boro. Tho card shows a street in Eller bach, where tho millionaire draft dodger ls residing to escape prosecu tion iii tho United States for evading the draft. The card was posted In February and carries the following [ mossage: "Wo are flolng fine. Regards to your wife and daughter. We sure did fool those poor Simps. Hopo to soo you again when Harding gets in." While Bergdoll was dodging mili tary sorvico be spent several weeks at tho Vivian Hotel under an as sumed name. Storm Damuge in Louisiana. Now Orleans, March 31.-Consid erable damage ls reported In Tangl pahoa and Arcadia parishes result ing from the storm oarly to-day, es timates ranging from |$40,000 to $75,000. No casualties wore roport od, however. Tho greatest damage ls repotrod In Arcadia parish, whore many of tho buildings were wrecked by tho high winds. At Ponchatoula, in Tanglpahoa parish, several buildings were de stroyed and a number unroofed. tn Now Orloans tho wind caused damage to a nurabor of buildings, while street car sorvico was dolayed by damage to tho tracks. Big game ts almost extinct in tho Transvaal. A SENEGA WOMAN'S HUSBAND Seeks Divorce in Virginia-She Asks Largo Alimony ii Divorced. Richmond, Va., March 31.-Chas. Hod inger, 56 years of ago, widely known salesman for the Standard Parts Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, ts seeking annulment of his marriage to Mrs. Cecelia Ramoay, 4 8 ye .?rs of ago, of Seneca, S. C., member of an old South Carolina fnmily, which marriage was performed in Balti more on July 10, 1920, just 18 days after he had obtained divorce on tho ground of desertion from his first wife, Verna Bell Hetlinger, in the city of Norfolk. lie is asking that his second mar riage be annulled on tho novel ground that a new Virginia statute prohibits remarriage after divorce until six months have elapsed. The action, it was learned to day, is pending In Hustings Court, Part II, and involves the question as to whether the Virginia law could reach out and control marriago In another State. Mrs. Hetlinger is not only resist ing the action, but is pressing ?i cross bill, in which she seeks a di vorce on the ground of cruelty. .She sets forth in her papers that Hetlin ger has an earning capacity of be tween $20,000 and $30,000 a year, and in addition has an esta'i worth fully $75,000. She asks liberal ali mony in tho event that she IJ grant ed divorce. Hetlinger charges in Iiis bill that while he was sick in a hospital here last fall ,she took possession of val uable accounts and papers belonging to him, and also an automobile which he was offering for salo. Mrs. Hetlinger is living here at the Jeffer son Hotel. CARDINAL GIBBONS' VIEWS ON Prohibition-Statement Made that Shows Him Opposed to Liquor. Recently published statements at the time of tho death of Cardinal Gibbons tended to leave the impres sion that if tho cardinal wore not a real advocate of tho use of liquor, he was at least strongly opposed to pro hibition. The following dispatch would seem to indicate, however, that his opposition to prohibition, if really such existed, was not found ed on any advocacy of the use of alcoholic liquors. We quote the dis patch as it appears: New York, March 26.-William H. Anderson, for seven years super intendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Maryland, now In chargo In New York, issued the following statement about Cardinal Gibbons: "Cardinal Gibbons undoubtedly sincerly desired to reduce the evils of drunkenness, and labored in that direction as he thought best. He personally told me some thirteen years ago that ho pledged to total abstinence till they were of age tho members of every class he confirmed. At this interview ho gave me for publication a signed statement which I still possess and most high ly prize--in which, while question ing the wisdom of prohibition for cities, ho doplared strongly for the right of the people of rural sections, by county units, and even in residen tial sections of cities, to close sa loons. The two most strongly Cath olic counties of Maryland were car ried dry by Catholic votes under the leadership of Catholic priests, with tho public approval of the cardinal. "Becauso of this lt was an occa sion of deep regret to mo that those upon whom ho rollod for information should hnvo misled him >nto utter ances upon some phases of prohibi tion that I believe to bo utterly at variance with his real heart on the question." Gives Land for Childrens' Home. New York, March 31. - NV. W. Burgess, wealthy manufacturer of Greenville, S. C., hus donated 107 acres of land near that city as a sito for a children's village, to be estab lished by the Salvation Army. Th a Salvation Army plans to develop a children's colony there within tho next ten years, waifs from tho big cities to bo sont there to grow up amid congenial surroundings. Burges? gave the land as a memo rial to his small son, who died re cently. Attended Church Instead. Albany, Ga., Mareil 31.-Refusing to grant thc request of a Jury trying an arson caso In Dougherty Superior Court boro, that they bo permitted to attend a moving picture show, Judgo W. C. Worrill said that, as lt was Wednesday night, lt would bo proper for Hiern to a tend prayer mooting. They took advantage of the suggestion and attended the mid week sorvicos at tho First Presby terian church. Brigandage flourished in Groeco under Turkish rulo. On open ground kangaroos aro more than a match for the flootest dogs. WIMdAMS' FA I IM HANDS ll El/l) As Material Witnesses-Many Are Arrested by Federal Agents. Covington, Ga., March 30.-Fed eral agents raided the farm in Jas per county to-day of John S. Wil liams, charged with having caused the murder of eleven negroes, and arrested several negro farm hands, whom tiley wanted as material wit nesses in the investigation of alleged peonage conditions on th? farm, which condlt'ons are said to have caused the killings. Williams, it was announced to day by Judge 13. Hutchison, the pre siding Judge in the Newton County Superior Court, will be placed on trial here next Tuesday on one of the murder Indictments which followed the finding of the bodies of throe negroes In a river in this county. More than 100 veniremen have boen summoned. Governor Dorsey has suggested to olllclals that Williams be tried on each of the murder charges sepa ra I ely. Throe Murders in Jasper. Thore are throe murder charges in this cohn ty against Williams, who, according to Clyde Manning, lils ne gro farm boss, brought three negroes into this county and had them drowned. Tho Jasper county grand Jury, will meet April ll to inquire into the deaths of eight negroes whose bodies were found in that county, and the Governor has asked the Jurors not only to indict Wil liams ftnd Manning, but also the three younger sons of Williams. Reports that the three younger sons of the plantation owner had sought to Incito white residents against tho negroes by spreading reports that the negroes planned an uprising were investigated again to day by the grand Jury here, which recessed to-night without taking de flinte action. It was announced that the inquiry would be taken up again at an carly date. Stories alleged to have been told tie grand Jury by Floyd John son, a young white man, that there had been a concerted effort to cause racial trouble and to make it appear that negroes killed the men found dead, in the hope of inciting public sentiment in favor of John S. Wil liams, were discussed to-day by Dr. Gus Williams, a hero of the Somme retreat, whore his services won him the British war cross. Refuse to Discuss Case, j The. elder Williams and his three yeungpst sons, Julian, Unland and M?nfvin, have consistently refused tc discuss the case since the father is sued his first statemene after arrest, categorically denying the charges, but the oldest son, Dr. Williams, called newspaper men in to-day and offered to answer any questions that they might ask. Dr. Williams declared that his fa ther and brothers were innocent of tho murders, and also of the allegod attempt to incite trouble following the exposure of alleged conditions. "The first they (the three younger sons) knew of the latest attempt to arouso public sentiment up against us," the physician said, "was when I told thom tho other night about rumors 1 bad hoard In Covington. The truth about the situation is this: "Johnson carno to my father's house the day after father had been arrested and told of meeting a car filled with negroes on the Allen bridge ovor the Yellow river. "He stated that be had seen two black bodies in the car, and that thc negroes had told him if lie told any ono they would kill him. At thc timo they told him this, bo said, they held their guns on him, and since HOW DOCTORS TREAT COLDS ? THE FLU First Step in Treatment la a Brisk Purgative With Calotabs, the Purified anti Rermed Calomel Tablets that arc Nausea less, Safe and Sure. Doctors have found by experience that no medicine for colds and infla onza cnn be depended upon for full cf feet ?venosa until the liver is made thor Mighty active. Thal is why the first step in tho troatmont is the new, nausea' less C alomel tablets called Calotabs which aro freo from tho sickening ami weakening effects of tho old style calo mel. Doctors also point out thc fad that an active liver may go a long way towards preventing iulluenza and is oin of tho most important factors in ea nhling tho patient to successfully with stand an attack and ward off pneu mouin. Ono Calotab on tho tonguo at ber time with a swallow of water-that's all. No snits, no nausea nor the slight est intorforonco with your eating, pleas ure or work. Next morning your colt has vnnishod, your liver is activo, yow system is purified, and you oro fceline fine, with a hoarty appetite for break fast. Druggists soil Calotabs only ii original soiled packwges, prico thirty five cents. Your monoy will bo cheor fullv refunded if you do not find thoa tbdi'ghtful.--(Adv.) Ks easy top The first s the supe quality Here's whi TT works smooth? better, wears lt their brilliancy and from the weather fo real economy. Th aboutit-i t's just be paint and all paint way from 100 percei More Pure. L Than Any D. E. I WALHA tlicu ho has boon sleeping with his ' gun. Ho told my mother that he had decided to como voluntarily to 1 her and toll of the occurrence, be cause he wanted to help father. And now thoy toll me ho has confessed in Covington before the grand Jury Unit lt was all a frame-up." Or. Williams then described con ditions on the farm, saying it had become badly run down during the war, as he and the three younger brothers were all in the service. He suid his father latoly had paid lines of negroes who otherwise would have gone lo tiio chain gang to got labor. "Are the peonage charges against your father and brothers true?" he was asked. "Well, if they are guilty of peon age," Dr. Williams replied after a lengthy pause, as though studying his answer, "there are many other farmers in Georgia guilty of tho samo crime. It is true they have bailed negroes out of Jail, but they have paid thom wages and given them clothes to wear." s Federal Agents Give Advice. After F?deral investigators made their trip to the plantation in Feb ruary, Dr. Williams said, and told the negroes they "should be making more money nnd working only eight hours a day," tho elder Williams de cided to let all the dissatisfied ones leave. Some of them owed him somo money, but had funds enough to get them out of tho county, and for these he cancelled their debts," Dr. Wil liams continued. Dr. Williams received tho news paper men at the Williams homo, a typical Georgia country place, sltuat J ed on a commanding hill and sur i rounded by Heids in a high state of j cultivation. Tho house is not par j tlcularly large or imposing, but ap j pears to havo been well built, and ' contains many ot tho conven ! lencos that were formerly pecu j liar to the city. Flower gardens j made the yards beautiful, and there ? were four automobiles on the place, 1 including that of Dr. Williams, Tho i younger sons did not make their ap ? pear?nce, and when tho physician was asked where they wore he said they did ont care to talk pending ? their possible trial. They have not ! yet been arrested, although warrants ! have been sworn out against thom at tho request of Governor norsoy. The father is ill jail at Atlanta,where he and the negro, .Manning, were tn ' ken for safe-keeping. The fate of Manning, whoso state i ments regarding the killings result j od in tho Indictments against him self and Williams, was tho subject i of speculation boro to-day, and tho court houso attaches voiced tho opin ion that Solicitor General A. M. Mrnnd would recommend morey If tho negro is convicted when trlod hero. ! When tho solicitor was asked his plans about Manning ho declined to reply definitely, but referred ques tioners to the logal codo of Georgia covering persons "acting under fear" In committing crimes, ns Manning claimed ho did. Tho section roads: "A person committing a crime or I misdemeanor undor threats or mon i aces, which sufficiently show that his * life was in danger, shall not bo found j guilty; and such throats and men r ace hoing proved and established, r thc pqrson compelling by said throats - and menaces tho commission of tho 1 offonso, shall be considered a prin * cipal, and shall suffer tho samo pun t ishment as If he had perpetrated the offense." i .PURE PAI NT troke of the brush proves srior covering (hiding) of Kurfees Paint. / it it will do r, goes farther, looks triger. Colors retain protect the surface rmore years-that's ere isn't any magic tter paint. It is pure ;-made the Kurfees it pure lead and zinc. ead To Gallon Other Paint. GOOD, LI*^r\, ?S. C? TAXICAB DU IV KU FOUND DEAD. Two Bullet Moles In Head of Spur tunburg Man. Spartanburg, March 30.-Guy Mc Dowell, 21 years old, a public car dirvor, was found dead in a pasturo on the farm of J. C. Lanford, two miles west of this city, near Camp Wadsworth, late this afternoon with two bullet holes in his |#ad. Tho officers are searching to-night for Glenn Foster, another public car driver, who was seen with McDowell Tuesday afternoon. Foster has not been soon since that time and has not boon heard from by members of his family. The cars driven by the mon were found stuuding by the rail way station hero In tho city this af ternoon, where, it is said, they have been since Tuesday afternoon. There are those who advance the theory that Glenn Foster has also been killed and that his body will be found. Foster has a son ftfteon years of age who says his father left home Tuesday afternoon with Guy McDow ell, walking. Other persons have been found who saw the two men to gether near Spartan Mills. "We only Bought Rat Poison Twice**' tvritei Jess? Smith, N. J. "I threw the first kind away; couldn't bf bothered miling it with meat, cheese. Then I tried Rat-Snap. SAY. that's the stu ni It comes In cakes, all ready to use. And lt sure does kill rata." 35c. ?Sc. $1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Burton's Drug Store, Whitmire-Marctt Hardware Co. SEVENTY CENTS OF THE DOBLAR Woes to tho Workers, Docloros Mali nger of Big Railway System. Pittsburg, Pa,, March 31.-It has heroine impossible to operate the Pennsylvania railway successfully and continue to pay tho "abnormally high wages" fixed by the Railroad Labor Hoard, so C. S. Krlck, gen eral manager of tho Eastern region, doolared to-day in opening a series of conferences between officials of tho company and representatives of its employees to discuss proposed reductions in salaries and wages. Mr. Krick maintained that tho entire world rapidly i:: getting back to normal, and that K'IICO the mid dle of last year the cost of living ba3 boon stoadily going down. "At present," bo declared, "nearly 7 0 cents out of every dollar tbo Pennsylvania railroad receives from operation is paid out in wages. Tho remaining 30 couts Is not sufficient to buy fuel and other materials and pay our taxes and othor obligations. Operating expenses In February ex coodotl operating rovenuo by moro than $2,300,000. lt cost the Penn sylvania railroad $1.05 to take in $1.00, without considering taxes and flxod charges and othor obligations. "Without toking dividends into consideration tho Pennsylvania sys tem wa. oporated in February at a loss of moro than $8,500,000. March rosults will show no improvement, although tho number of omployoes is loss now than it has been since 1915. Such a precipitate falling off in business as has occurred in tho last month cannot be recalled by railroad, men to-day, and the only remedy for the situation la to roduco salaries and wages." In Franco 500,000 womon either live on interest from invested capi tal or aro active in agriculture. Ot the other womon moro than one-half support themselves.