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1 ^^^issqgp sam-wEgKL^ ^ "" l. M. grists sons, publishers, j % djnnilg 3tW*M: 4[or th? |!romotion of th? |3oHti<;at, goqiat, Agricultural and (Commercial Interests of the f)eogt<. j TER"?^0?P^fi"JN0^ANCB ____ ? 1 ' ESTABLISHED 1855 ~ ~ YORK, S. C., TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1919. NO. 60 - ? FARMING IN FRANCE Modern Farming Implements Are Not Used. FRENCHIE FAR BEHIND THE TIMES Four Wheeled Wagons Almost Unknown?Horse Meat Is Not Such Bad Eating?Rain Does Not Interfere With Farm Work?Cattle More Popular Than Horses and Mules. By Lewis M. Grist. If the average French farmer should come to York count* and inspect the agricultural methods pursued here, his eyes would open wide with wonder and amazement. My eyes certainly opened wide when, a year ago, I had c my first opportunity of giving tne methods of the French farmer the once over. A wagon drawn by oxen coming through the streets of York- 1 ville would prove quite a curiosity; but v not more so than a wagon drawn by 1 a couple of fine horses or mules com- 0 ing through the streets of La Pallice or 8 any other of the average French vll- * lages. Buggies and four wheeled vehicles of all kinds were almost unknown 0 to the French people in the rural dls- ? tricts until the coming of the American troops. One sees hundreds of cumber- 1 some two wheeled carts, the wheels 8 eight feet in diameter and the body r built of 4x4; drawn by poor, measly 0 looking horses or mules or, in most 1 cases, oxen, which from their pitiful 1 condition would leave one with the r Impression that the animals should 1 Ha rMine- in th* narts in view of their F weakened state Instead of attempting ' to draw them. 8 The Frenchman does not take the F same good care of his stock that the r American does. The American so- f ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to b animals could do a lot of mighty good missionary work in France in this re- * gard, and there is no question of the c fact that the society's labors would be c much more valuable over there than F here. Horses and mules and oxen and 0 dogs and other beasts of burden, and 11 the list could go on to include goats. ^ Even the milch cows have a hard time t of it. Poorly fed, they are required * to draw heavy loads from early morn- r lng until late at night and seven days 8 in the week at that. ^ When the Frenchman realizes that c the days of his horse or mule as a * beast of burden are finally numbered: * when the hard-worked animal reaches that point in its tortured existence t where It is only a question of a few r days until the end comes, the French- 8 man very humanely takes an axe or a r knife or other implement and kills it. The poor beast's usefulness Is at an ' end when that occurs, you say. Well, r hardly. The carcass Is turned over to * the butcher who carefully carves It 1 Into steak and roasts and the like just * as our butchers do cows. Then the * meat Is offered to the French at so a much per pound, just as other meat Is t offered. It Isn't such bad eating. I have tried ' quite a bit of It myself and while it is not to be compared with real sirloin or y porterhouse steak or pork or anything like that, it isn't so bad. I have eaten tough beef steak that wasn't as good as some of this horse and mule meat. 8 Such meat is held in esteem by the <3 French people, because of long custom, 1 I guess. I have heard some of them r say that they really prefer it to beef- 1 ""* steak. To tell the truth were a choice piece of it put on your table beside a f choice portion of beefsteak, you could 1 hardly tell the difference, the season- c ing and the cooking and all other I things being equal. I Dogs are very much in use as beasts r of burden in France and much more so d in Belgium. It is a common sight to see French women from the rural dis- 8 tricts coming into the towns and vil lages in the morning bringing in their * dairy products or the products of their c truck farms on a small, two-wheel f push cart, probably by a dog securely N harnessed underneath. The dog which ' does most of the pushing is guided by x ^ means of the handle on the cart as 8 the case might be. ' Mr. Henry Ford and the rest of the 8 builders of the farm tractors have quite * a fertile fleld In the south it is true. ^ In the course of a few years however, t at most this territory will be fully c covered. But France and the most of v Europe will still be open to them even o as it is now. The average French b farmer never heard of a farm tractor a much less saw one and the average i' two horse plow that the York county farmer uses in breaking up his land f would be as much of a curiosity and 8 innovation to them as would be the o sight and use of a tractor. French F farming lands are naturally more b adopted to the use of a tractor than i are those in this section because of the o fact that hills and rough places are I practically unknown in that land. Yet t the Frenchman today cultivates his v soil by practically the same means b that were used in the days of Abra- H ham, and until the outbreak of the ii world war there was little evidence of n any indication or inclination on his n part to change any of his methods in a even the slightest degree. In break- a ing up their lands the farmers of t France use a clumsy old wooden plow, c The only iron about it is the point and i it isn't much of a point. It is a com- li mon sight to see them driving a horse, a mule and an oxen to a plow, the o ? farmer calmly taking his time, driving t his trio at a rate that would cover an r acre or two a day. t fc Commercial fertilizer Is also prac- 8 f tlcally unknown In France. Stable c . manure Is the only fertilizer used by t them and it Is used in abundance, i: The French farmer Is as careful c about the preservation of stable ma- e nure as our farmers are careful about a *... gathering corn. None of it Is wasted v and every bit Is Intelligently utilized. \ Strange as it may seem to American s farmers, the French farmer never s worries about wet weather. When he I decided to plow he does so regardless \ of whether it is raining or not. When f he decides to sow grain or plant truck i I he does so, regardless of the weather. ^ That is quite natural however, be- j cause if he waited for dry weather to i sow his seed or harvest his crop he would never sow his seed and never i garner his crop. It rains about eight t months out of twelve in France. Tell s him that there are sections of the i United States where no rain falls for i six months at a time and that even r Fork county has gone dry for a month ind longer, he would think you were loking. Wet weather does not worry the Frenchie. It Is all the same to him. He has been used to it all his life and fiis clothes are hardly ever dry. The American soldiers soon after going >ver dubbed the French people a:> 'frogs." Perhaps you have heard them jailed frogs. That's how they come to ret the name, because they virtually ived in water, although there was nighty little of it to drink. A wonderful people and a most pe- I :uliar people they are. And yet they hink those same things about us. GOVERNMENT INSURANCE Secretary Glass Makes Liberal Offer to Discharged Soldiers. Discharged service men wno > ji heir government insurance lap .8 irere given the privilege of reinstating heir policies within 18 months withiut payment of back premiums, under in order signed last Friday by Secreary Glass. The new reinstatement regulation, >ne of a number' under consideration lesigned to make -it possible for very discharged soldier, sailor and narine to continue government inurance after return to civil life, is egarded as the most liberal ever iffered by any insurance organizaion. The only requirement is that he man requesting reinstatement nust be in as good health as at the ime of discharge and must pay the iremium for the one month of grace n which his insurance was continued iter he stopped payment and the remium for the month in which he equests reinstatement. Premiums or the intervening months will not ie required. "Many service men have been deerred from reinstating policies beause they did not wish to pay or ould not pay the accumulated remlums," .Director L-noimeiey uunco, if the war risk bureau, said. "The lew decision permits a man to relabilitate himself Pnancially after reurning to civil life and then take up lis insurance as an investment. The eason payment for the month of ;race is required is that the insured vas protected by having his policy :ontinued in force that month, and if le had died, his dependents would lave received the face of the policy. "Should a lapse again occur, after he 18 months from date of discharge elnstatement may be made provided uch insurance shall not have lapsed nore than one year. "I want to make it clear that the lew ruling does not automatically elnstate anybody's policy. Every nan who allows his policy to lapse s without protection until he volunarlly applies for reinstatement, rhich I strongly urge all men to do * *' 1 ? ?mOV it once, wnue rneir reineiaivmi,,., ...? ?e made-" BLEASE WILL NOT RUN. Vill Take No Part in Democratic Primaries. Former Governor Blease is out in a tatement in which he says he will unler no circumstances be a candidate n the approaching Democratic prinary to succeed Congressman A. F. ..ever, resigned. Mr. Blease has told many of his riends during the past few months hat he did not expect to be a candilate for office again in the democratic >rimaries until the rules governing the >rimaries are changed. The rules have lot been changed since he made this leclaration. "Many of my friends in Columbia ind elsewhere in the district have ask>d me to run for congress to succeed dr. Lever," said Governor Blease tolay, "and offers of support have come rom a number of men who have never mted for me for anything. After careul consideration I have decided that I vill not he a candidate ir. the primary, ind, further that I will not even vote n the primary. I will not be a bolter, ind I want to leave myself free for fuure action. If I should be a candilate, and should receive two-thirds of he vote cast, the democratic executive ommittee, as it is now constituted, rould find some way of counting me iut. I am through with the primaries n this state, as the rule.} now stand nd as the state executive committee 3 now organized." Mr. Blease has told many of his riends he would be a candidate in the ;eneral election against the nominee if the primary. He did not go into larticulars, but the infe-ence is that le will wait and see who is the nomnee, and also get a line on the number f voters who take part in the primary, f some man of his own political facion should be nominated he probably rould not feel like antagonizing him; iut he may run if some one not to his iking is the nominee. Th:s is the plain nference of his declarations. As the lational house of representatives is iow in control of the republicans, and s hundreds of negroes in Richland ,nd other counties in the Seventh disrict have been securing registration ertificates during the past few weeks, t will be readily seen that there are irge possibilities in the situation. Governor Blease has openly declared n more than one occasion that unuer he rules of the democratic primary, nore white men were disfranchised han under the laws governing: the ;eneral election. He made serious harges, it will be remembered, against he state executive committee followng the primary in 1916, when he laimed that he had defeated Govrnor Manning and was counted out, tnd it was generally thought for a vhile then that he would bolt. He vas a candidate in the primary last lummer, however, when he ran for the senate and was defeated by Senator Dial. Now he declares openly that he vill never run for another office in the jrimary unless the rules governing the jrimary are changed, and he says he vill not even vote In the approaching jrimary for congressman in the Sev>nth district. This leaves him free to do as he Jleases. He will not say what he inends to do, and there the situation itands. Naturally there is a lot of talk imong the politicians as to what he nay or may not do.?Greenville Plednont. j HICKORY PROVE NOTES Agriculture Will Likely Be Taugbt Id Public School. COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE WORKING Prospects of a Cotton Mill Gone Glimmering? Fine Crop Prospects ? Blockaders Behaving?Other News Matters. j Hickory Grove, July 28?If plans on which the trustees and some of the patrons of the Hickory Grove school are now working on mature, Hickory Grove school will next year include a teacher of agriculture who will also be superintendent of the thriving school here. The trustees are now in correspondence with President W. M. Riggs of Clemson College in regard to the matter. A teacher of agriculture for the Hickory Grove school can be secured with but little cost to the district according to Dr. W. F. McGlll of the board of trustees. The ynited States government and the state would pay three-fourths of the salary of such a teacher, leaving the remainder of one-fourth to be paid by the district. For several years past there has been some demand for the services of a teacher of agriculture in the Hickory Grove school and it is practically certain that such a teacher will be had for the ensuing school year. He will devote all of his time to classes in agriculture and will have general supervision of the school. In addition four lady teachers will be employed. Three of these. Misses Annie Lyle Allison, Ella Wilkie and Mary Wylle, all residents of Hickory Grove, have been elected. The fourth teacher will be elected at an early date. Will be No Innovation. Compulsory school attendance provided for by the last general assembly will prove no innovation in Hickory Grove school district wheye compulsory attendance has been in force for the past two years. In fact Hickory Grove school district was the first In South Carolina to make effective the local option compulsory school atten dance law passed by the general assembly three years ago. Realizing Its Importance, the district adopted the system soon after it became law with the result that every child of school j age in Hickory Grove has been going j to school during the past two years at least. There was some little opposition to the law at first and more than I one family who didn't think the state or rather Hickory Grove people should have a say as to whether or not their children went to school, moved out of the district. Thanks to two years of experience under the old local option compulsory attendance law, the attendance officers will meet with no trouble at Hickory Grove in requiring attendance on the part of truants because there are no truants and no opposition to the system. No Cotton Mill for the Town. Hickory Grove's prospects for having a cotton mill and a decided Increase in I population should a mill be built have gone glimmering. For several years past there has been more or less talk of the erection of a mill here, and this year, especially, it looked for a while as though something might be done toward beginning construction work onH nf vear. a large I UCIUIC IHV VMU ? ? F ? _ number of people of the town and | community speaking their interest in the proposition. Hickory Grove people got into communication with the Southern Power Company in regard to furnishing the power and the company informed them that it would be glad to furnish the same if the local promoters would pay for the installation of a line from Ninety-nine Islands to Hickory Grove, a distance of I about seven miles at a cost of about J31.000. That knocked the pr>posed mill in the head. Hickory Grow people not being able to see the point in having to pay a stiff price for a power line and a stiff price for the power too. So the proposed mill just died a natural death and there Is no pros- i pect that the local people will be 1 identified in the cotton manufacturing business locally for quite a while at least. Fine Crop Prospects. Crop prospects in the Hickory Grove section are about the best ever, according to well informed people of the town and community. Although a tremendous lot of rain has fallen in the past ten days, there has hardly i been too much and little damage has been reported on account of creek and branch overflows while Broad River has been behaving itself admirably. Mr. G. W. Wilkerson who lives near the river said Friday that the crop prospects in his section were never better and that the farmers were expecting to make a bumper crop of both cotton and corn. Mr. John Whitesides is well pleased with prospects over on liis side and other farmers around say that they have no complaint to make. Dr. W. A. Hood of Hickory Grove whose practice carries him over a wide scope sf country in this section says that the prospects in practically every section were never better. Ac ordlng to Dr. Hood, the acreage de- 1 voted to corn is larger this year than last year and there are a number of "big" farmers who planted more corn this year than over before. The wheat crop is rather poor, although the farmers set out to grow more wheat this year than usual. ( Blockaders Quiet, niockaders operating in Broad River township seam to have crawled into their holes and pulled the holes in on top of them here of late. According to Magi?' rate It. L. A. Smith and other lending spirits on the Broad River Township Improvement Association, if there is any liquor making going on just now it is being kept mighty quiet. In fact information coming by grapevine from some of the blockaders and their friends is to the effect that they are lying low or "resting up" as it were for a bit because the Improvement Association and others interested in the enforceme'.t of law ant' order ire making li a bit too warm for them. Of course there is stlil some liquor being made in the township and some of the moonshiners are a trifle careless still. Otic Broad River township man told the correspondent that while walking over his place a short time he ran upon a two gallon Jug half way hidden in a terrace. Upon draw ing the cork It was found that the Jug contained about a quart of moonshine liquor?pretty good liquor, too, as moonshine goes, according to this i man. He took a stiff swig or two of ' the stuff and put it back in its half concealed place, expecting to come back next day for some more. But the next day it was gone. That was | several weeks ago and according to the citizen they have ceased the practice of letting the stuff lie around loose. Personal Mention. Prof. W. T. Slaughter, last year superintendent of the Hickory Grovsf > 1 1 n sunuui Iiua U puoiuuil nau a iiavciuatr insurance company with headquarters in Charlotte. Stark Slaughter left Friday for Atlanta. Mrs. Reola L^ech and children have returned home after a visit to relatives and friends in Spartanburg. Miss Mary Calhoun of Greenwood, is visiting the family of Mr. W. T. Slaughter. Mrs. Estell Anderson of Waterloo, ia visiting the family of Mr- J. W. Leech. Mr. and Mrs. Claud Wilkerson are visiting Mrs. Wilkerson's parents in Tipton, Ind. Creighton Slaughter has secured his discharge from the navy and returned to his home here. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. News Happenings Gathered from All Sections of South Carolina. John H. Lewis, supervisor of Marlboro county, has resigned. Raymond Boswell, 14, of Ropers, r,J ? woo onr?Mf?ntl V fihot riU^CUClU twuilbj nuo wvv^vtvM..,, and killed Wednesday afternoon while playing with a shotgun. Hundreds of farmers from all sections of South Carolina are attendant upon the short course for farmers which is now being held at Clemson College. If influenza runs true to form, South Carqjina may expect another invasion of the disease this fall and^winter in the opinion of Dr. James A. Hayne, state health officer. Archie Perkins, a negro, escaped from the state farm in Sumter county, Friday. The negro left the farm armed with a repeating shot gun and a Krag rifle. The Winthrop Summer school at Rock Hill, came to a close last Thursday, ana the school was characterized by the authorities as being one of the most successful ever held, more than 800 students being enrolled. Men of the Thirtieth division who are to hold their first reunion in Greenville September 29-30, will be presented with badges in commemoration of their service. Approximately 5,000 of these badges have been ordered. Lieut. Col. W. E. Welsh has been as signed to South Carolina for duty as Inspector-Instructor for the National guard of South Carolina. He will report at Columbia and co-operate with the adjutant general. Eleven warrants were issued in Columbia Friday before Magistrate Met ford for Columbians who are alleged to have given worthless checks, most of the worthless checks being given for gasoline. Chie'f of Police Whittaker of Camden, has received an anonymous letter, believed to have been sent to him by moonshiners and advising him that he had best beware. The police chief was with Constable J. F. Batesman when that afficer was shot and mortally wounded a few days ago. John P. Grace, candidate for mayor of Charleston had a fight with J. R. Holleman, manager of a sewing* machine company at a political meeting in Charleston, Thursday night. The lie and several blows were passed but neither of the belligerents were seriously injured. , According to L. A. Hawkins, prominent negro Republican of Columbia. t the Union Republican party will likely put a candidate in the field for the seat in congress from the Seventh Congressional district made vacant by the resignation of Representative A. Frank Lever. k Hundreds of people attended the j funeral of the late Congressman J. , Willard Ragsdale, which was held at , Florence Friday. All the members of , the South Carolina congressional del- , egation were present and the attend- j ants included ex-Speaker Champ y Clark. s The South Carolina Democratic Exe- 1 cutive committee is scheduled to meet in Columbia at noon today to fix dates t for primary elections to be held in the c Sixth and Seventh congressional dis- \ trict for successors to Congressmen i Ragsdale and Lever. W. B. Wilson, 1 Jr.. is Democratic executive committee- t man from York county. ( A national bank is to be organized ( in Beaufort with a capital of $50,000. 1 The South Carolina branch of the ? American Legion, composed of officers and men who saw service in the late war is to establish its headquarters in Columbia. More than 50,000 South 5 Carolinians served in the late war, according to fighters compiled by the le gjon. "The White Shield" 13 to be the title of a statewide organization which is being organized for the suppression of venereal diseases in South Carolina. An effort will be made to organize a chapter or local in each county of the state, all the chapters of course to be affiliated with the state "association f which will have its headquarters in Columbia. Son Stewart, a Columbia negro ( pawned a pint of "whisky" to a negro t woman of Columbia for $3. Tho negro r woman opened the bottle w.iich con- j tained the liquid in order :o ascer- ] tain whether or not it was real liquor. r It was not. Son was arrested and fined j 1200 by the recorder of the city of Col- j umbla for breach of trust and vagrancy. * Elisha Harper, a 25 year old negro t who recently returned home after serv- j lug overseas, the son of Rev. T. F. 1 Harper, a respected colored minister t of Newberry, narrowly escaped lynch- i ing Thursday, following his alleged insults to a white girl of Newberry. A mob went to the Newberry jail with j the idea of lynching the negro but She- j riff Cannon G. Blease had already moved him to the state penitentiary r for safe keeping. j GARNERED WITH SCISSORS News From Within and Without the County. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Some Items of Fact, Some of Comment and All Helping to Give an Idea of What Our Neighbors Are Saying and Doing. Chester Reporter, July 24: A threejornered deal as follows was made by Messrs. Sims & Carte: and R. R. Hafner Tuesday: Mr. Philip Adelsheimer sold his lot on Saluda street, adjoining the home of Mr. J. A. Wylle, to Mr. C. ? * - J u. U* Iff- ITT A (iiauaen, ana uuugm mi. ??. n. Sladden's house and lot on Hinton 3treet. Mr. W. A. Gladden bought the 2. S. Ford house on York street Miss Ada Carroll, who recently relumed from France where she saw javeral month's active service as an army nurse, is spending a few days n Chester, Miss Carroll expects to leave in a few days for Charleston to lake charge of the operating room at the Roper hospital. Fort Mill Times, July 24: Capt. F. Murry Mack was honorably discharged 'rom the service of the United States irmy during the past week and has eturned to his home here from Camp Jackson, where he has been stationed dnce his return from overseas Iruce D. Culp, was recently discharged 'rom the service of the United States lavy in which he has served for the mst 18 months, and is visiting reladves in Fort Mill Through the intiative of W. B. Ardrey, the state ilghway commission has apportioned ? mntnr truck for use in York county. Mr. Ardrey has referred the matter to :he county supervisor and hopes to se:ure the use of this truck In working :he roads of Fort Mill township. He vas advised that probably six or more >t these trucks would be apportioned ;o the county of York. Rock Hill Record, July 24: Dr. J. P. HEollis and family will leave this afterloon for Washington, where they will nake their home. Dr. Hollis holds in important position with thegovernnert Capt. T. W. Huey has gone ;o Atlanta, Ga., where he expects to >e discharged from government service James Parker came in last light from Charleston where he was lischarged from service in the U. S. Mavy. He has recently returned from ^rance The many friends of Miss Mary Jenkins will be glad to know hat she is expected home this week 'rom Johns Hopkins hospital, where ihe has had a most successful operaion performed Will Brown, a neg o who has been employed at the ^rledhelm home on East Main street, 'or'3ome time as a cook, etc., was beore the Recorder this morning and hen thirty days on the chaingang or indecent conduct C. B. Fowler, ,vith Williams & Co. of this city, had he misfortune to be seriously hurt resterday afternoon at the cotton varehouse of the company. He had iome hands stacking cotton and in some nanner a bale of cotton fell as he had lis back turned, knocking him across i pair of scales, breaking one of his egs and his collar bone on the right tide. He is said to be getting along ;ery well today. Gaffney Ledger, July 26: Recent narriages performed by Probate Judge >V. D. Kirby include: Miss Fannie 3elle Abernathy and Claude Hodge of -oute 8. Miss Lula Bland and John .^vender of route 8. Miss Junie Florence Mooney and Barks Everette Reynolds of Grouse, N. C The crops ilong the ling of the Southern Railvay between Blacksburg and York are lot as good as they are in Cherokee :ounty, but for the most part they are veil worked out in our sister county. We accord to every man the ight to his own opinion, but we do not lesltate to say that we believe the initigators of the petition to oust J. -Tarvey Witherspoon from the posl:ion of superintendent of the public ichoolu of School District No. 10, are lursuing the wrong course. No one vill deny that Mr. Witherspoon is a nost capable man for the position he low holds. Without purpose to reflect ipon the ability of any who have held lie job previous to his coming, we vill say that as an educator?a school iuperintendent, a disciplinarian?he is lead and shoulders above any of them. IVe sincerely trust those circulating he petition will receive so little en:ouragement that they will gracefully vithdraw- It's time this spite work ihould come to an end Walter Jorton and Fred Atkinson, young men >f the Battleground section of the :ounty, were bound over to circuit :ourt on charge of assault and battery vith intent to kill Thursday as a remit of a hearing before Magistrate W. .. DaiOel. The lame young men were Ined $10 and costs each on charges of simple assault. The case grew out of ?ome trouble with Carse Blackwell and Sari Blackwell several weeks ago when ^oung Horton smashed the eldest llackwell's jaw with a rock. A large lumber of interested spectators atended the hearing Thursday, the trowd growing to such size that the :ourt had to move from Magistrate r*or?iol'a r\Pf\r>a tn tho nmirt hnil?3P PRINCE OF WALES COMING -leir to British Throne Will Visit America. It has been arranged that on the occasion of his coming visit to Canada, he Prince of Wales will also pay his -espccts to America- He will come to S'ew York on the British dreadnought itenown, and during his stay there will nake his headquarters on the warship, rle will not be the guest of any private ndividual. According to the official explanaion of his residence aboard the batleship, the prince desires to return American hospitality "in his own lome." It is stated in court circles hat the prince's American programme s entirely in the hands of the United States government. President and Mrs. Wilson, it Is exacted, probably will be guests of the irince aboard the Renown. It is doubtful if the British heir will nake a tour of the United States. At jresent his plans do not provide for more than a fortnight's tour. The prince is most eager to visit the middle west, but this part of hi3 trip has | not been decided. Official Announcement. The official communication from 8 Earl Curzon to American Ambassador r J. W. Davis follows: 8 "I am desired by his majesty the 1 king to say that he has received with especial gratification the Invitation ' which you have conveyed to his eldest * son, the Prince of Wales, from the 8 president of the United States to visit 8 that country as the guest of the Amer- ' Iran government on the occasion of 8 his forthcoming visit to the Dominion c of Canada. 8 "It eives the king the greatest 1 pleasure to accept this invitation for the Prince of Wales, both on personal grounds and as a mark of the inti- . mate relations that so happily exist between the American and British peoples, drawn ever more closely .together by the imperishable memories of comradship in the recent war. "The king would propose that at 8 the close of his Canadian lour the 8 prince should accept the hospitality of the United States government for c a few days at Washington, and that J from there he should proceed for a ^ further brief visit to New York be- * fore embarking at that port on his r homeward journey. At New York the * Prince of Wales, while a guest of the f American government ashore, will live ^ on board H. M. S. Renown in the harbor. "The Prince of Wales looks forward a to these arrangements, If they are h agreeable to your government, with v the keenest anticipation." Renown "Hush" Shi^. The Renown is one of the famous n "Hush-Hush" ships which did such ef- 1 fective work in the war. Her com- n panion vessels in this category were " the Glorious, Courageous and the " Furious. ' She is a huge fighting structure of 26,500 tons and has a length of 794 a n feet and a beam of 90 feet She was built by the Fairfield Company and was begun under the 1914-15 navy c programme, was a Royal Sovereign, r but it is said that after the work had ^ commenced the plans were changed, and she was lengthened some 170 feet 8 c and altered into a battle cruiser. A ' sister ship, the Repulse of the same r tonnage and general specifications, was '' built with her. She is propelled by e oil driven turbines and can make 31.5 r knots, making her one of the fastest 8 fighting ships in the world. Her en- 1 gines will develop 112,000 horse power. Her appearance is Justified by the r armament which she carries- This consists in part of six 15-inch guns, 3 eighteen 4-inch, two 4-inch anti-air- f craft and four 3-pounders. There are 0 two 21-inch submerged torpedo tubes. The composition of her armor plate still remains a secret. v BIGGEST SHIPS AFLOAT, * America is to Have Some That Will 1 be 1,000 Feet Long. Two gigantic ocean liners, swifter v and larger than anything afloat will be built by the United States Shipping y board, has been announced from Wash- n ington. \ Each vessel Is designed for a speed j of thirty knots, .making it possible to j, cross the Atlantic in less than four ^ days, the board said. They will meas- v ure 1,000 feet in length, fifty feet more n than the Leviathan, now the largest q vessel afloat. The new liners will have a beam of 100 feet, a gross tonnage of 55,000 a y draft of 35 feet, a depth of 75 feet, and 0 are each to accommodate 3,000 first s class passengers, 1,000 saloon pas- ^ sengers 800 s?cond cabin and 1,200 e steerage. a To Have 7,000 Miles Radius. The crew will number 1,000 officers f and men. The ships will each be 0 driven by four propellers upon which c will be thrown the strength of 110,000 v horse-power. They will be of the oil g burning type with a steaming radius j, of 7,000 miles. This means they can t make a round trip across the Atlantic without wasting an hour's time in renewing fuel. c The vessels will be built with a view s of converting them immediately into L commerce destroyers In the event of c war*. g The liners are to be divided and sub- t divided into compartments so as to a make them unsinkable. They will be t fitted with an inner and outer "skin," s The decision to build the racers t came after a conference of Chairman r Hurley of the shipping board, the s chief constructor of the navy and i presidents of the shipbuilding yards. s Navy to Superintend Construction, t Mr. Hurley asked the navy depart- t ment to lake general charge of construction work, while a committee ij consisting of Admiral D. W. Taylor, jj chief of the bureau of construction; j< Homer L. Ferguson, president of the \ Newport News shipping company; s Joseph W. Powell, president of the a F'ore River shipbuilding company; N. A. n Neolands, president of the New York c shipbuilding company; N. G. Mull, j| president of the Cramps shipbuilding e company; and W. F. Gibbs, navy arch- h itect, would supervise all details connected with the undertaking. n Architect Gibbs drew the plan for c the ships and the shipping board will v pay all expenses. t What company will build the ships u is not known. Fort Pond Bay at the p eastern end of Long Island may be y selected as a terminal for the ships. A t: commission has been appointed to in- fi vestigate and report on the feasibility y of this feature of the plan. a C In New York there is one auto- t! mobile for every 20 inhabitants. 1< , - tl A machine invented in Europe for fi grinding steel balls for bearings re- h tains possession of them until they t< arc perfectly formed and sized. Ci The postofhce department has been advised of the return from Cuba of a large number of packages of mer- fi ehandise mailed in the United States, for the reason that said packages were closed against inspection. d ? e After It years of experimenting an g Illinois mechanic has produced a bit tl that bores stars, crosses, hexagons, t! triangles and holes of several other a shapes in metal as well as wood. \ THE TOWER OF LONDON Description of Famous Building Where the Ex-Kaiser May Await Trial. The Tower of London, suggested as i place where William Hohenzollern night be held pending his trial, Is lescribed In the following bulletin from he National Geographic society: "Palace and prison, once noted also or its menagerie and its pageantry, >irthplace and death house of monirchs, scene of hairbreadth escapes md- reputed hidden treasure, ghastly n its memories of tortures and killings md sacred for its martyrs, the Tower ?f London amply warrants description is the 'most ancient and most poetic 1 >ile in Europe.' "William the Conqueror gave Lonlon a charter but built the White 1 rower to show the people how little hat charter might mean. Like the Snglish constitution the rambling xmdon Tower of today is a product of enturies, and not one, but many tow- i irs, now are scattered over some 13 teres. The site had been a fortress i ince Roman times. "To the Middle Tower Elizabeth ame back queen five years after her ealous half-sister, Mary, had kept ler there in prison. The hump-backed lichard III hired three assassins to nurder his nephews in Bloody Tower. Jot until years later were their bones ! ound and taken to Westminster Abiey. "Lady Jane Gray, she who had the 1 ilrth of a princess, the life of a saint, ' nd the death of a malefactor,' was beeaded in London Tower. Henry VIII i waited to hear a gmn fired from White < 'nwpr slcnnl of th? oYAontlnn of Anne Soleyn, so he might marry Jane Sey- i lour next <Jay. Henry's minister, ] 'horoas Cromwell, sent hosts of ene- \ tiles to London Tower to be butchered intil he helped pick Anne of Cleves | or his much married monarch, but ] irhen Henry saw his prospective bride , ie pronounced her 'a Flanders mare' nd off went Cromwell's head with the est. "Relieving such stories of royal 1 ruelty arfe the immortal 'last words' of he brave men and women who laid leads on the axeman's block. 1 " 'God forbid the king shall use anv 1 uch mercy to my friends', laughed ( Sir Thomas Moore when told that Heny VIII had 'mercifully' consented to ' et him be beheaded instead of hang- < d, and, to the executioner, as he i noved his beard aside, 'Pity that hould be cut that has not committed ( reason.' "The countess of Salisbury proudly efused to lay her head on the block ( ecause she had committed no wrong, o that, says an observer, apologising , or the executioner, 'he was constrain- 1 d to fetch It off slovenly.' "'If you strike me twice, I cannot , romise you not to stir,' warned Monloutte Asked tp-ralife Ma Head a bit LlgeirWT Sfdnfyretorted, T^ot until ' he general resurrection; strike on.' ' Peter,' inquired Sir Walter Raleigh, 1 o keep up the spirits of his attend- ! nt, 'Dost thou know of any plaister o set a man's head on again when it 1 /as cut off?' 1 "Consigned to the tower for some IS ' ears Sir Walter set a fashion which lade a salon out of the palace-prison. Vhile he was not attending his gar- | ( en, and distilling essence from plants, i ie wrote his quaint 'History of the < Vorld,' and there, too. William Penn11 /rote 'No Cross, No Crown,' not to lention the writings of the Duke of , )rleans and Sir John Eliot "About the main entrance to the ( ower was a managerie until a hundred ears or so ago because Frederick II ( f Germany sent Henry III of England everal panthers and Henry did not :now what else to do with them. Latr James I, who liked bear halting, dded those animals to the zoo. "The warders, known "as 'beef eaters/ 1 robably because they once were fed ! n rations of meat, from one of. the urlosities for London visitors. They rear Tudor costumes and like the 1 jwlss body-guard, of the pope, they :eep their ancient costumes, undlsurbed by current fashion. < "Just before midnight the head warlen and the porter, carrying a bunch if huge keys, go to the guard room, i ummon 'the escort of the keys/ made | ip of 'beef eaters' and then proceed eremonlously to lock the great outer rate. The pass word Is given formally 0 sentries as the procession passes, .nd in conclusion the detail salutes he keys as the porter cries, 'God preerve the King/ Every three months he reigning king or queen sends the >assword of the tower to the constable, igned and sealed, and the mayor of x?ndon is the only other outside peron supposed to know it. Thus cusom Is a relic of the time when the ower was primarily a fortress. "Like the Bastlle, London tower has ' een stormed. Desperate efforts have ' ieen made to steal the royal relics ept there, which Include the ancient : inointing spoon' and Queen Elizabeth's alt cellar. One famous effort, in which . Col. Blood, disguised as a clergyman, early made away with the bejewelled rown, is thought bi some to have been nsplred by Charles II because he need- 1 d the money the rare gems would 1 ring. 1 "One of the less well known, but < lost spectacular incidents, was the es- 1 ape of two priests by a ruse that rould have done credit to Monte Cris- j o. One of them, having been strung i p by the hands for (lays, and then < iut in a rack while his wrists still l fere swollen, without making him be- i ray his faith, wrote in orange juice to i riends outside, for a light rope with a < /eight at one end. He also asked that i boat be brought to the river below < hadle tower on a certain night. On hat night he made his way to his fel>w prisoner's room. The two flung 1 he weighted end of the rope to their 1 riends in the bod, pulled bji a heav- < ;r rope, climbed from the steep walls 1 1 the boat, safely and made their es- 1 ape." ' J ARE GERMS DEADLY? ] linnesota Doctors Will Soon Settle j The Question. , To prove that his theory that germs o not cause disease, Dr. H. A. Zettel, lectropath, of St. Paul, today cl.allen- i ed D. H. W. Hill, executive officer of i le Minnesota Public Health assocla- < on, to a duel to the death of germs, i lys a St. Paul, Minn., dispatch of t londay to the New York Times. Dr. i Hill accepted the challenge and the two will expose themselves to the most virulent of contagious diseases, Including typhoid, smallpox and bubonic plague. Dr. Zcttel will use in his defense against the germs only sanitation pure air, and sanitary food and drink. Dr.. Hill will expose himself after scientific innoculatlon and vaccination. The survivor is to be honorary pall- ^ bearer at the funeral of the victim, ac- ? cording to Dr. Zettel's challenge. ? The challenge grew out of the acceptance by Dr. Hill of a similar challenge issued by Dr. J. B. Eraser of Toranto in an article, "Do Germs Cause Disease;" published In the Physical Culture ltagaalne. Dr. Zettel Is on ex ponent of Dr. Eraser's theories and offered to substitute himself In Dr. * Fraser's place in the duel. Dr. Hill was a bacteriologist in Boston from 1898 to 1996. The two doctors are to expose themselves simultaneously to the s&mo disease and will then enter quarantine to iwalt the result CURRENT EVENT8. News Happenings Gathered from All Around the World. The exportation of coal from Cardiff, Wales has been prohibited^ by the British government The annual reunion of United Confederate veterans is to be held in Atanta, Ga, during October. Elections for a new French parliament will be held on October 12, when 500 deputies will be elected. It is estimated that there are a quarter of a million coal miners in the British Isles on strike at the present time. Rabbi Isaac Minsky of Danvil'e, Va.. hios filed a suit for divorce against liis wife Esther on the ground of desertion. Heavy rains during the past two weeks have caused severe damage to crops in western and south-western Georgia. Eight hundred natives were killed md 1,600 were wounded during recent disturbances in Egypt according to dispatches from Gen. El H. H. Allenby. Representative Fess of Ohio is advocating the appropriation by congress of $1,600,000 to be used in fighting mother possible epidemic of influenza. The Georgia senate on Thursday by a. vote of 39 to 10. voted against ratification of the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment to the Federal constitution. % It Is possible that William Hobenzollern of Germany will not be tried in London, according to announcement made in the British house of lords by the upper house. No license allowing the Importation Into the TTntted States will be issued for the present, the war trade board section of the state department has announced. Thirteen thousand ounces of platinum have been sold by the ordnance department of the army. The metal was withdrawn from the assay office and was sold for 1105 an ounce. The house committee on temperance of the Georgia legislature has recommended that the sale of cigarettes In Georgia be made unlawful and punishable as a misdemeanor. Fifteen thousand employes Of street railway lines of Chicago are demanding an increase in wages from fortyeight cents to eighty-five cents an hour. The car men also want time and one-half for overtime. Edward Boyer of East St Louis, has filed suit in the United States dls? trlct court against Dr. F. S. Thurman, a physician of Potosi, Mo., charging alienation of his wife's affections. He >oalro Hamacroa In th? nlim Of S100.000. Clinton Jennings, a negro was lynched by a mob at Gilmer, Texas, Thursday. He assaulted a young white woman who is now in a serious tondition. Before he was hanged the negro confessed his guilt. Two gigantic ocean liners, designed to cross the Atlantic ocean in four days are to be built by the shipping board. The vessels will be equipped for use as commerce destroyers in the event of war. Hattie Helton, a white woman of Buncombe, N. C., is suing her hus-. band, Marion J. Helton for divoroeon the ground that she did not know until several months after her marriage to Helton that he was a half breed Indian. The Standard Oil company of New Jersey has announced a proposed increase in Its capital stock of $100,000,000 which virtually doubles the present capitalization. The new stock will be at seven per cent preferred, but nonvoting and will be offered to present share-holders at par. The war department has sold to the United States sugar equalization board 37,000,000 pounds of refined sugar, it was announced Friday by George A. Zabriskie, president of the board, who declared there was "abundance" of raw sugar in the country, that retail prices should not exceed eleven cents i pound and that tfiere is no need of boarding. President Wilson informed the eenite Friday that the presence of American troops in Siberia was "a vital jlement" in the restoration and maintenance of traffic on the Siberian rail oad and that under the agreement with Japan they could be withdrawn inlv when the American railway ex perts operating the road were withirawn. Lake Bower, a Dea Moines automoPile salesman, has been away from fiome for 30 years, and in all that :ime has never missed a Sunday In vriting to his mother or the folks at pome. Forestry experts have found that i plant growing luxuriantly in the Philippines and heretofore thought a weed is used in other parts of the ^ar East for the production of camphor. President Wilson has been invited :o come to Charleston during his apiroaching speaking tour in the inter?sts of the league of nations. His secretary has informed Charleston people hat the president will visit that city f possible.