Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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cigarettes io* They are GOODt KERSHAW NEWS NOTES. Interesting Happenings as Told lty The Era of That IMuce. Sheriff John J\ Hunter, his deputy, Udbt. P, llonton, Constable II. A. Mont gomery and J. B. fOonner, of lvanoa?ter were in Kerahaw Thursday, having come 'from the eastern section of I*an ? ouster county, where they captured three Afty*gaUon barrels of mash alKuit one-fourth mile from Cook's Mill on Lyneh's river. Other evidences wore present that it was .the location of a Killing plant which had l>een very re oontly in operation t>u?t. It was gotten out of the way (before the arrival of the officers. The sheriff is determined to break up the business in Lancaster county at all cost and ?sk? that the good people of (the county lend them their help in givlug him the informa tion as to"where the busineess is l>eing (afRoif'on and he will do the rest. 10. W. Coy lost a barn by tire last Saturday night, August 5th, on his place adj^ning the Highland Farm in fhe Westvllle neigli*>orhood. The ham contained a load of guano, some barbed wire,, i>eas and fodder, the loss amount ing to about $5(X). ?It is reported fhat the lightning struck a colored man, Mose Washing ton, who was plowing cotton on the farm of Mr. S. A; Marvin during the storm of Tuesday afternoon. The man and the mule were instantly killed and a1>out a quarter of a'ni acre of $>tton badly damaged.?-Sumter Herald. COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. ? MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PLAIN & HULER STS. Ph?ne 71 * COLUMBIA, S. C. Dr. C. F. Sowell DENTIST (Office Over Bruce's Store) CAMDEN, S. C. Your doctor ; will sanction it? Many a case of typhoid and other illness have been trac ed to tainted foods, to re frigerators not built so that they can be kept perfectly clean rt"?) impure ice which was put in drinking water. Your doctor will quickly and gladly recommend the Au tomatic. ' It prevents all these dangers. For food saving, for ice sav ing, the Automatic cannot be equalled?and it is the only refrigerator with a water cooling system. Be sure to see it! HOME FURNISHING CO. CAMDEN. S. C. Telephone 46 COUNTERFEITING IS ONJNCREASE Entry of Women Into Profession of Making Spurious Money Adds New Problem, SECRET SERVICE IS WORRIED Increaea in Counterfeiting Began Shortly After the Armietioe and Haa Been Growing Noticeably Since?Mora Opportunity. Washington; D. C.?< punterfelting of money has InciVased to hitherto un precedented proportions in the United States and Is canning much concern to the secret service of the treasury, (the federal agency charged with sup* pression of this species of crime. Of particular Interest Is the fact that for the. first time In history, womon have entered the counterfeiting profession, presenting new problems for the gov ernment experts. The Increase In counterfeiting began shortly "after the armistice and has been growing noticeably since. It is regarded as a part of the phenomena of crime which every great war brings In its wake. War Draft Thinned Ranks. A curious effect of the war while It was being 'waged wmi that it resulted in almost complete suspension of money counterfeiting In the United States. There were two good reasons for this. First, native-born Ameri cans are seldom found In *he profes sion. It is a department of crime in Which foreigners, and especially south ern Europeans, engage. Under the re servist system of military service which obtains in nearly all European countries, these foreigners, living and counterfeiting in the United States, were called to their home colors and thereby forced to abandon their pro fession here. In the second place, the war upset the channels of distribution of counterfeit money, and turned the thoughts of all men, including counter feiters, to other things. Hut after the war the profession came back stronger than ever with many recruits. Four million Ameri cans were under arms. They were taken to the war from theli# accus tomed vocations and pursuits and put Into a life which, despite its manifold hardships and dangers, was a life lacking in responsibility. No one In the army had to worry about earning money for his next meal. It came from the govertfment, as much a mat-, ter of course as the sunrise. Also, the very Idea of an army Is the destruction of property and life. To be sure, it Is the enemy's prop erty which Is to be destroyed, but among many youthful and Irresponsi ble persons the fundamental idea of contempt for property rights persists and mnkes few bounds for Itself. It was natural that among soldiers who for a year or two had followed this ir responsible existence there would be some who lacked the force of- char acter to return to the drudgery of hard work. They wanted easy money, so counterfeiting as well as other de partments of crime received fresh re erults. More Money to Counterfeit. Another strong reason for an in crease in counterfeiting resulting from the war was that there was an In crease In the number of kinds of money and securities to counterfeit. When there are only a fexfr kinds of money In general use. the people be come s?> familiar with their appear*, ance that they quite readily detect any fault in design or general appearance. Rut when there are many new and unfamiliar kinds, the people arc at a loss to know whether they have gen uine money. Twelve federal reserve banks were established at the time the war began, and all Issued currency of two kinds: federal reserve notes and federal re serve bank notes. Also,, the treasury issued billions of dollars In Liberty bonds. Victory notes, war savings cer tificates, thrift stamps and treasury certificates .of Indebtedness. These were all new to the people and of un familiar design. They constituted a paradise for counterfeiters. Reprint on U. S. Paper. One of the most difficult obstacles for the counterfeiter is the distinctive paper on which government notes are printed. It is made by a secret process and has so Individual an appearance and feeling that almost every one can detect a substitute. All denominations of American money are printed on notes of a uniform size. Therefore a favorite device of the counterfeiter \n to take a *1 bill and raise Its denomination. He will bleach it and have a piece of nearly white dis tinctive currency paper on which he will print a note of a higher denom ination. Such notes are hard to de tect. especially tf the counterfeiter prints a $.r>0 or $100 note of a new and unfamiliar series. Another scheme is to take a note ?nd change only the figures This proves a snare to the counterfeiter it he gives such a note to a man famll la- with the designs of money. Such a man knows that a *20 note has a buffalo on it* de*i?n. hut no $'>0 or $100 Issue has. This sort of counter feiting has increased with the new money because the counterfeiters know that few people are familiar \slth the designh of the various new ls?ues. same is true of the Liberty bnnd 1?eae*. No two Issues are alike, and ? Counterfeiter ctianginf the clenotnlm# ni u $v*> bond to $1,000 coVlu ?va<lil.v be detected by wl o hu* studied hoju.i designs. Experts In 'Secret Service. t ?Th? aucret service at Washington Iijik many experts who are very hard to fool with even the cleyerest coun terfeit, un<l while counterfeiting has Increased to a great extent, the clrcu l?tIon of counterfeit money has not done so. The new counterfeit Issues are detected very early In their ca reera and the source discovered and stopped. It means more work nnd constant vl^Jlunee for the government agents and greatly Increased Investi gatlve work. d'he appearance of women In the counterfeiting profession has caused the secret service many difficulties. The women are not engaged In the actual manufacture of counterfeits, hut are confederates In the passing of the spurious currency. Counterfeiters seldom work alone In spite of the fact the records ahow that only the counterfeiter who plays a lone hand meets with sucoeaa for any . extended period. Hut It la hard to practice the profession singly. The great difficulty Is In getting the coun terfeit money Into circulation. To ac complish this the master counterfeiter has accomplices. The general prac tice Is for the counterfeiter to sell his spurious money at a substantial dis count. He will sell a $100 counter felt bill to a passer for $50 of gen uine money and of courSo no one Is more expert In detecting spurious money than a counterfeiter. . The passer then may make another sale, getting perhaps $75 In real money for his $100 counterfeit. Great care Is taken not to let many of. them get Into circulation at the same plpce. Women Plead Ignorance. It Is In this passing branch of the 'profession that women are being em ployed. They make valuable confeder ates because when detected they fre quently escape arrest by claiming to know little about handling money and therefore are easily Imposed upon. A curious psychological mystery about the whole profession of counter felting is that a really good counter feiter requires skill of, such a high or der that he could earri a better living by honest employment of his talents than by the manufacture of spurious currency. Counterfeiting is a lo*g. tedious process, beset with hard \rork and difficulties and it Is jarely Indeed that a counterfeiter maftes as much money before he is apprehended as he could from regular honefct employ ment as an engraver.?Freaferte?Jr* Haskln In Chicago Dally News. WOMAN SURPLUS 25,000,000 Feminine Majority in European Coun> triee Greatly increased by the War. Berlin, Germany.?Man's minority on earth as compared to women, fact even before the war, has been in creased by that conflict until today it is estimated there are 25,000,000 more women than men in Europe alone. Official statistics published here show that the surplus of women In Europe has increased by 15,500,000. Before the war there were 1,038 wom en to every 1,000 men; now the pro portion is 1,111 to 1,000. The rising surplus has been most marked in Rus sia where the number of women has grown from 1,042 to 1,209 for every 1^000 men. This Is on the basis of figures for 52 provinces. The situation has also been notably changed in Germany, Austria, Jugo slavia, Great Britain, Luxemburg, France and Italy. In Germany, exclu sive of Upper Silesia, (here are 1,100 women to every 1,000 men, whereas before (he war there were about 1,020. The 'number" of * surplus women has decreased in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands, hew ever. An outstanding feature of the sit uation is that girls of a marriageable age are in the minority In the surplus, most of those In the excess classifica tion are of elder years and many of them widows. Girls Must Not Smoke There. ? Media, Pa.?Cigarette smoking by young women has been banned at the headquarters of the Media Swimming club on Broomall's lake here. He cently officials of the club discovered smoke curling up in the air from be hind the club house, and to their sur prise learned for the first time that members of the fair sex frequenting the club had acquired the cigarette habit. An order was Immediately posted banning (be use of cigarettes on the'lake property. Race to Lose Power of Walking, Warns Doctor Los Angeles.?The humau race Is destined to lose the power of walking If the present tendency continue* to Its ultimate con clusion, according to Dr. R. Kendrick Smith, who read a pa per here i>n Friday at the na tional Osteopathic convention. Trolley cars began the retro process, lie declared, and au{nm??blles, elevators and in numerable other contrivances conspire to keep human beings off their feet. As a result, he *ald, wo are becoming a race of weaklings from the hips down. Hack Co *he wood*, ki bare feet. wltl\ plenty of running, would make over the race, !>r. Smith said. CHINESE CITY WORTH SEEilNG Hong Kong, Though In Control ?f ths British, |? in ? Way Pecull ?rly Oriental. The recent visit of the prince of Wales.to Hong Kong has drawn atten* tlon once more to that Island, known by ? Its residents at the "Island of Sweet Waters," tlreat Britain obtained Hong Kong, 80 years ago, by the treaty of Nun king, and though she took care, In 1808, to lease nearly 400 tulles of the adjacent Chinese mainland, In order to make this out pout more secure against attack, the Far Hast has come to think of Hong Kong lens aa a Brit* iah fortified naval station than as a commercial port, admirably admin* lN(?'??*d by -a Rrltlwh governor, serving South China. Victoria, the city, stretches for four miles along th^ northern shore of the rocky Island and faces the Kowloon peninsula, separated from it only by a narrow strait only half a mile wide. Above the city rises the famous I'enk, where the lucky people have houses, high up out- of the beat, and whose summit can be reached quite quickly In a miniature train that Is hauled up Its steep sides like a lift, and Initiates the visitor Into one of the classic examples of relativity for while one la In It, the houses clinging to the hill all seem t6 be stuck on sideways and in Imminent danger of falling off Into the abyss below. The view from the Beak Is ex quisite, especially at dawn or before darkness falls. Down beloSv all is busfle and noise. The streets are thronged with hun dreds of Jostling Chinamen, and the native part of the city, by night, lit up with lnnterns and gay with open shop fronts, Is a stimulating welter of color and strange sounds, and peculiar, baffling odors.?Montreal Family Herald. PRAY BEFORE STARTING WORK New and Excellent Custom Spreading Among Business Men in Coun try's Financial Center. The church that Is located in the business district of a city Is developing? a new form of use. Within the past year Trinity church, standing at the Broadway end of Wall Btreet, New York, and having a great curb market Immediately behind it, finds a steadily increasluK number of business and pro fessional men in its pews from 8:30 to 9 o'clock of each week day morning, except Saturday. There Is no service at thin hour, and no ministers are about. It is immediately before a busy day. A year ago there were not enough men In the pews at this morn ing hdur for the sextons to take note. It Is to be remembered that at all hours Trinity has people In Its pews, regardless of services. Recently this morning custom has grown, until at present the numbers in pews at 8:60 o'clock will reach forty to fifty. They never bring In newspapers or books, ' They do not come to read or to rest. They come In, kneel, and pray. Then they go out and to business. No invitation ever was given, save the general oner, of opening the doors to all people and making all pews free. New Cattle Feed for Army. Compressed forage, composed of pure oats and other grains, pressed in to bricks made with a binder of molasses, has been successfully devel oped at Camp Lewis. The bricks are 12 Inches long, 0 inches wide and \*A Inches thick. Perforations make it possible to break up the bricks by hand if only portions are to be fed to the army horses or mules. With the new compressed feed, it Is pointed out, a horse can go into battle carry ing its rations as the soldier carries Ids own. Tests were made on 50 an imals at Camp Lewis, and all but four took readily to the new* compressed feed, according to tne report of the chief camp veterinarian. With the ex ception of two of the unlmals, all gained weight and maintained their working efficiency. No sickness was observed. One stallion gained 40 pounds in 30 days.?Popular Mechan ics Magazine. Famous Foreet of Zurich. Out of every 100 square miles in Switzerland 17 arc covered with for ests?the result of a policy now cen turies old. The municipal forest of Zurich, fa mous throughout the world, has been producing timber continuously during the laxt 000 years. Crop after crop has been grown and marketed and new crops started. It ts a common saying in Europe that "Switzerland holds her mountains up and her taxes down" with her for ests. These forests, largely municipal, protect farms and towns by preventing landslides. In addition they pay divi dends whl<^i materially reduce tax levies. Moroover. it is her forests, as well as her mountains, which make the men of Switzerland strong and self reliant. It is her forests, too, which help to attract and charm tourists. Permanent "Umbrella." A oew kind of uipbrella Is the broad "bungalow hat" worn by a ma terial checker In a shipyard of Port land, Ore. It Is made chiefly of wood and measures 3?r>% Inches long by 21 Inches wide. It has n supporting frame which rests on the shoulders, and It is steadied hjr straps which connect with a chest belt, and a wooden strip which extends down the back Its purpose Is to protect not only the wearer but also his tally ?beets to stormy weather. FRUIT JARS We still have some Half Gallon, Glass Top Fruit Jars at a very low price, $1.25 Per Dozen W. Robin Zemp's Drug Store I'lioHf 2W. K?<lnk Films no 1<1 and developed. ? Delivery. Wreck on Seaboard. i? ... fo'Uinhia, Aug. l!l. .lohn W. Preach* or. aged about titty, of Savannah, en gineer'o fealauird niiSAL rebgktibggkk giU(?or of KoalnMird Ail' l/lno passenger train No. 1', northbound. .Jacksonville to Now York, was kiled mnl Ids nogrt> fireman, I>avo Stevens, badly injured, when Ills Oiigino Jo lhiH'd I ho track and turned turtle tino-lial? mile .south of lMxiana, this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Bt'wraI nogro passengers wore siighll.v injured by breaking glass. According to information given <ho State Railroad <'ommision by SoatHMir^l officials, fhe cause of tlie wreck was attributed to tho rails being covered by sand on a road crossing Whore the en gine jumix'd ?tho truck. Tho mail oar attached to tho train was shunted Into an o|>on Hold and re mained upright, The baggage oar jam mod into tho over-1urued engine, tin' tank of which had overturned at right angles, ami this ear was tilted upward* at right angles, The ne?ro combination oar was derailed but did not turn over, remaining on tho erosnfies. The -Seaboard made arrangements to detour Its trains flietween 4'olrtndda and Savannah by way of the Southern rail way and an emergency passenger train was made up bore to Jake the .north noMnd passengers on through. They were transferred ?at the m?no of the. wreck. The pony trucks of the engine mount fed the orostfties at tho road orossing, which was on a curve, and went for fully lf>0 yards before the engine turn ed over. It fell into an excavation, pinning Mr. Preacher to his seat. Ho was scalded lo death, si a t **<l Seaboard officials* The negro fireman Jumped and was injured but to what txx<tt?nt tho local hospital to which ho was taken has not Imh'ii able to ascertain. Tlio hotly of tho rion.il engineer Wax brought to Columbia shortly after H o'clock tonight anri was plaiceri in n lo cal undertaking establishment to ho prepared for burial. Mr. Preacher, according to local Seaboard officials, -wa* unmarried. Atvordhig to Jnest available figures, tho Seaboard thinks It will he well after midnight before tts 'tiutlu line can he cleared for traffic. The South ?Carolina Kailroari Com* mission, .1. I). l)nrhy, wt'ivtary, stated tonight will make an investigation into the cause of the wreck tomorrow. Conductor J. ]). Lane had \*hargo of the train. ' ?? ; *. t> THK CONFKDKHATK COLLEGE. No. 62 Broad St., Charleston, S. 0. A hoarding and day Kchool for girls begins its session September 20, 1022. Historic institution Nituateri itx a hcalt]iy location. Advantages of city life with large college yard for out door sports. A well planned courso of studies in a homelike atmosphere. A business course open to seniors and elective course to juniors and seniors. A domestic science course open to seniors, giving' practical theoretic' knowledge of cooking. A sewing course for seniors and Juniors. A well equipped library. Primary de partment for day pupils. For cata logue and further information apply to tlie college. 666 quickly relieves Colds, Con stipation, Biliousness and Headaches. A Fine Tonic. 7-26 For Future Delivery We are now making Importers Nitrate of Soda Contracts for Spring and Fall delivery. Write or phone us for prices. F. M. Wooten HERE ONE WILL FIND A YARIEB STOCK OF SILVERWARE LASTING REMEMBRANCES AND SUITABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS, BUT REMEMBER, WHETHER YOUR DEMANDS MAY BE SILVER OR DIAMONDS OR ANY OTHER LINE OF JEWELRY, YOU ARE ASSURED SATISFACTION AT THIS UP TO DATE ESTABLISHMENT.