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AN AUTO CH ASK L" J Town Turn* Out In Search of Wreck less Drivers Quite A bit of excitement -was dented in BUhopvlUe Monday night by the driver of an automobile who succeeded in outmaneuvering the po ice officers and others chasing him. The chase began shortly after 8 o'clock, and after the car had crash-, n\ into the automobile of R. L. Hearon n which was Mr. and Mrs. I lea ron iid their little son. The crash oc curred in front of the residence of J. M. Hearon on Main street. The car of Mr. Hearon was moving very slowly on the extreme right hand side of the road, it is said, a light touring car, going in the direc tion of the business section of the own at a rapid rate of speed seemed to swerve .abruptly to the left just . ;i s it came opposite Mr. Hearon's car and crashed into it. Mr. Hearon's little son, Roland, Jr., received an ugly cut in his forehead, from the broken windshield, which necessitated four stitches to close up. Mrs. Hearon was completely unnerv ed from the shock. . ' It is said that two men were rid ing in the car at the time of the wreck. One of them got out when the wreck occurred, and looked over the situation, then getting back mto the car, they drove off. The -police were notified, and the chase was started. It is also said that the two men in the light car doubled back and went in the direction of the old school building, and shortly after that the car came back up main street but one of the men had left the car. The chffse continued for awhile in Hishopville with other cars joining in, when finally the light car with its -killfiil driver, left town on the Luck now road. Tho other cars continued the pursuit well into the night, until the gasoline gave out of the offend ing car, and its driver deserted it. Tuesday morning Archie Hall was arrested by the police, who alleged that he is the man who was in the tar when the accident occurred, but left before the chase began. They are searching for Walter Stokes, who they allege is the owner of the car, and was driving at the. time of the accident. Mr. Hall was released Wed nesday morning under $200 bond. These two young men are residents uf the Lucknow section of the county. Last reports are to the effect that the injured lad and his mother are .loing nicely. Mr. Hearon escaped without injury. ? Bishopville Messen ger. A Pathetic Story from Real Life All funerals, of course, are more "i li'ss tragic, but there was a funeral not many miles from Hilton Farm the other day that had about it an especially poignant and almost heart- j breaking degree of tragedy. The story is well worth telling as a warning to all other farmers, no matter whether young or old. It was the funeral of an old man, ?nce one of the wealthiest and most prominent farmers of the county, a x'ood man who had once expected to leave his 1,100 acre farm and other property to his church, who, losing all his wealth, was finally buried in homemade coffin on the day that a room had been made ready for him at the county poor house. I shall let ?'? friend .tell the. rest of -the story: "The old man wad well along in "is eighties, and died just in time to - scape going to the county home, al though a few years before he had >een considered wealthy and had probably been worth $75,000 or *80,000. All his life he had worked nard, denied himself, and saved money ? ittle by little, handling his savings carefully because he knew how much ? ach dollar had cost in actual lahor. In the prosperous days following the World war, however, when everybody *e?>med to be making money easily, he fell a victim to the ambition to get rich quick,' and glib, smooth 'alking stock salesmen found it easy to persuade him that he could quickly make a fortune by buying stock in "il companies, fisheries companies, 'and development companies and com panies making automobile tires. He gave notes covering everything he owned to put money in these worth less slocks. The salesman took hi3 notes, had no trouble discounting 'hem at banks where he was known 'o bo a man of considerable prop erty, took the cash, and vanished. W hen the notes came due, everything ?"tt- possessed had to be sold to meet ? hem, not oven a homestead being -aved for him. The broken old man 'inaliy applied for admission to the county home, but just- as this wa3 granted, he died." And, of course, none of the slick 'ongued scoundrels who are now prob ably riding around in fine clothes and fine automobiles paid for by the money of which they had rokbed the ?ld man ? none of these sent a flower for bit -grave or lifted a finder to *ave him from the poorhouse. ? Pro srothre Parmer. ; RADIO 1)R! VKN AUTO Wire less Directs Car in Wobbly Course Though Traffic (S'ew York Times, Juty 28) A radio driven automobile, CQlitjCOll* ed by apparatus in another motorcar some yards behind, steered u wabbly course through heavy traffic on Broadway and Fifth avenue yesterday noon, narrowly missing a speeding fire engine and crashing finally into a ear in which moving picture men were grinding their cameras. Blowing its horn, starting the en gine, and sliding into its various gears, the radio automobile, as if a phantom hand were at the wheel, be gan its bigzag career at Broadway and Sixty-second street in front of the Hulett Motor Car company, which supplied the exhibition automobiles. Motorcycle policemen furnished escort to tho novel caravan and Francis P. Houdina, demonstrator of the latest use to which wireless has been put clung to the running board of the leading car, ready to take the wheel in an emergency. A crowd lined the sidewalks to watch. A loose housing around the shaft of the steering wheel in the radio car caused the uncertain course as the procession got under way. As John Alexander of the Hqudina Company, riding in the second car, applied the radio waves* the directing apparatus attached to the shaft In the other au tomobile failed to grasp it properly. As a result the radio car careened from right to left, down Broadway, around Columbus Circle, and south on Fifth avenue, almost running down two trucks and a milk wagon, which took tq. the curbs for safety. At Forty-seventh street Houdina lunged for the steering wheel but could not prevent the car from crashing into the fender of an automobile filled with camera men. It was at Forty-third street that a crash into a fire engine was barely averted. The police ad vised Houdina to postpone his experi ments, but after the car had been driven up Broadway, it was once more operated by radio along Central Park drives. The telegraph keys of a radio transmitter in the second car, con trolled the operations". The two radio waves of 109 and 120 meters, each operating one set of circuit breakers, were picked up by apparatus in the tonneau of the radio car. When the control has been perfect ed, a tour across the continent 'will be made, Houdina declared. He is the head of a radio specialty company at 1426 Broadway. Sumter Concern Faces Charge New York, July 31. ? Theft and fir# insurance policies covering automo biles sold by the Chrysler motor car corporation and included in the sell ing price of the firm's automobiles under a blanket arrangement with the Palmetto Fire Insurance company of Sumter, S. C., from the basis of an order issued today by the New York state insurance commission requiring the insurance company to show cause why its license should not be revoked. James A. Beha, state superintend ent of insurance, set the hearing for next Wednesday morning. The commission charged evasion of the state insurance laws designed to regulate and tax risks located within the state and claimed that the Pal metto company intended to defraud the state of taxes on the insurance issued on the Chrysler cars, failed to file its rates and submit its under writing rules, concealed and kept from the knowledge of the superintendent of* insurance an important portion of the insurance contract. The summons issued today by Mr. Beha called the plan "subversive to sound insurance underwriting methods." What's The Use? This story comes from Dayton, Tenn. : A New Yorker was visiting in a southern village and he sauntered up to a native sitting in front of the general store and began a conversa tion . "Have you heard about the new manner in which the planters are going to pick their cotton this sea son?" he inquired. "Don't believe I have," answered the other. "Well, they have decided to im port a lot of monkeys to do the picking," rejoined the New Yorker. "Monkeys learn readily. They are thorough workers, and obviously they will nave their employers a small fortune otherwise expended in "Yes," ejaculated the native, "and about the time this monkey brigade is beginning to work smoothly, a lot of you fool northerners will come tearing down here and set '?m free." ? Central Press. * The great-grandfather of Tom Mi*, the movie ?Ur, translated the Bible into the Osage Indian dialect. 4 - V? ...i I T tu%s. Aiii'&fii' 3>i <5/1 ?** , .'. ! They had shut i- ? wt. well in Auicri<<\ Omv ?>,i> > . ?<ro. There were r.??i enough p <?* inn;.* to i bundle' the fh>w. U Itutl i?!le<l a M*i?? fcarrel tank in 20 mlnuio; tb.cn. to pruVO Unit It* i>ti; ri?rrn?ui \va> no flush pruductlon freak, had tlll'W three more tanks in exuctly om* bunp, \Vlten we arrived the num-jtor was >1(1,1. but preparation* were being nude t> open It up. wrltM M;i\ r.i inlv in They opened U up rauiii'Msh wheu they were ready. They though! thoy were ready. The drilWr whw<I an. im perious signal. The, chief roughneck on the rig swung a lover, "Stand back, everybody!" G???, faintly blue and transparent, ?pr?y<Ml thinly from the flow pip*. With an ear-tilling roar the oil came. A Ml*- Inch stream shot from the pipe against the splash hox. The pipe tr?tn? bled, buckled, reared backward, Then wh we looked, rooted to tho apot, came disaster. The top of the well blew off. Through every obstacle that man had assembled the ruthless mounter tore Its way to freedom. A Jet-black stream leaped cleanly upward until It attained a height of S4U0 feet. As the oil began falling the deep green of the plue trees was blotted away. On the Instant they were turned a greasy black and their befouled branches lit erally rained oil. The owner of the largest oil well In America had watched the proceedings from a convenient hillside. Bitting loosely in his saddle, hat pulled down, he had Idly overseen the preparations. It meant a lot to him to save that well, but he gave no sign. He could only lose; It Is to his everlasting credit that, losing-, he lost cleanly and gamely. Mad* Stable in Cellar for Hit "Nice Mulct" William Conquest no loves his two , mules that he keep* them In the cellar of Jilt house at Queens boulevard tod Tremble street, Winfleld. Queens and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals worried about them so that Conquest was taken before Maslstrate Doyle In the Flushing court, says the New York Herald* Tribune. L. Hay, an officer of the soci ety, said that somewhere in the case there was undoubtedly cruelty to ani mals. but Conquest said not. "They are nice mules," he sahl, "and they have a good time In the cellar. They IJke to stay there. Every time I put them In the stable they are uncom fortable, and as soon as I leave the door open they go back to the cellar." "Why not put them In your dining room?" asked the magistrate. "Well, I might," ( said Conquest. "They're nice mules. Hut they prefer the cellar." "But the officer says their health Is endangered," said the magistrate. "You can't hurt a mule," said Con quest. "They're jus' mules. They haven't any health. Mules don't get. sick. They're Just nudes until they die." As no evidence was offered to show that the mules were other than frisky and happy, the magistrate dismissed the charge. He directed the officer, however, to keep an eye on the mules and see how they were treated. Qne of the Reef a Mra. Richard C. Cabot of Boston, the society leader who conducts a course In "human relations" in a fash ionable girls' school, said at a. dinner p* rt y - ; I ? ?'The object of my course Is to bring Sbout happy marriages, and I have been very successful. Indeed. I point out the re<*fs on which the marriages are often wrecked. "A man," Mrs. Cabot went on. "said to a group, of women at a tea: " 'Before I was married I could never save a cent.' "The women above their teacups ex changed triumphant smiles. M 'I managed to keep out of debt, though,' the man added." ? Pittsburgh Chronicle. Operatea Itaelf Operating without human control, baiting while minor difficulties are ad justed, and stopping altogether If something goes seriously wrong, a new electric power* station at Searaburg, Vt., embodies astonishing mechanical intelligence, says Popular Science Monthly. The turbine of the plant drives a generator with a capacity of 0,900 horsepower. The only help from hu man beings is occasional inspection, lubrication and regulation of the gov ernor mechanism. The turbine starts when sufficient water arrives, and shuts down when the flow falls below an efficient limit. Fifth Reel A friend who had been reading about a well-known director's divorce case, thinking to set himself lit strong with rtie director, ventured to say some uncomplimentary things about the wife, whereon, to his surprise, the director replied: "Man. she"?< ?n an gel !" "But." stammered the friend, ''I thought ? " "She"* an angel," continued the di rector, "because she was bIwh.vk up In the ?li-, she whs always harping and stie never had anything to wear " Matter of Judgment Huecesx is gauged by a person's judgment percentage. If your Judg ment is 00 per cent good, it won't be long before you'll get ahead ; if yonr judgment le per cent bad, you'll continue to be In debt and work for the other fellow, fclver tfcink at it UuK , <L TWO ON ON K *?IyVc; Marion Fisherman Should He Killed : Out of The Gante This is no'' fish story, for "I.ige" had the witnesses along and can sub stantiate every word . of it! Last Tuesday, Mr. K. K.' Johnson, one of the proprietors of the (jood year Shoe Hospital, of this city, went a'fishin' in Kittle Pee I river, ac companied by M.r. A. G, Rogers, local contractor and others, In casting for trout with rod and reel Mr. John son got a tremendous rise and when he had played his victim to the point where he could bring him to the boat and take "him" in, lie wax amazed to find that two trout, one weighing about 3 pounds and the other about two pounds, had taken the hooks on his > plug at the same time. Mr. Rogers was in the boat at the time and substantiates the entire story, or "Lige" would be in bad reptyte. Speaking of Mr. Johnson ? few peo ple in Marion know his war record. He never tells it himself, but this writer, having known him when he was only a lad, happens to be fam iliar with the story. . To be brief, "Lige", a citizen of the Ualivants Ferry section, disappeared in 1914 or 1915 and no one knew where lie was. After America entered the World war it was found that this Horry boy had been in the British army since the - beginning, and hati fought through those ugly first days i>f the war against Germany. He was wounded more than once, and carries the scars of battle like a true veter an. Modest, unassuming, but fear less and patriotic to a degree ? that'? "Lige" Johnson. Now go tell him he has lied about those fish!? Marion Star. The latest piscatorial experience heard about town has feathers on it, one might say. Two fishermen were making their way through the bushes alongside a creek, one of them hav ing a bob hanging down in front from the end of his cane. Suddenly a hawk darted down at the bob and be came fastened on its hooks. The other man had a paddle in his hands and killed the bird before it could escape from the hooks which had caught it. Messrs, R-rice and Geddings of WedgefieJd had the hawk to show as proof of the incident.? Sumter Item. -CIIESTKItFIKM) IE ADS hi t arload Shipments ot Poultr) in Tour States Chesterfield, July 2r>. ? Tho Sea board Air Line Railway Company has i<HA iltl> i ? -vu-ii a bulletin covering thvj shipment of poultry ii\ carloads from Virginia, North Carolina, South Car olina ami Georgia. , The 15)21-25 w port is given by states and counties, which place* South Carolina first and also places .''Chester 'field County first, in the shipments in the four states. Chesterfield county shipped dur ing this season 77,340 pounds of poul try for which it received $lG,148.0t>/ Kuthet fordton County, X. C., was second with 60,7t)i> pounds of poul* try for which it veceived Si J, lli?.82. Chesterfield county lias awakened to the fact that it must hold the lead in the shipment of poultry and also improve it at the same time and the poultry raisers are going about it in [a very business like way by replac ing the common barnyard fowl with the pure bred stock. U is possible in the near future to ship solid carloads of one breed of poultry from here and it is thought that an exceedingly fancy - price will i>Q received. Tho peach orchards thoughout tho comity are ripening fast and packing and loading are well under way. By the first of next week twenty-five or thirty cars will have been shipped. Th'tf prices that are obtained are re ported to be satisfactory. The boll weevil situation over the entire county is reported to be seri ous and is being made more serious daily because new weevils are rapidly coming out and in great numbers. Showers throughout the past two weeks have also helped the weevils in their work. Considerable interest is being manifested in poisoning, espe cially in the eastern section of the county where the work is being done intelligently; good results are being reported by those using the dusting method. The cotton crop is finer than in many seasons at this time of the year though with the weeril infesta- . tion as heavy as it is tho crop is by n?j means yet made. ? Never before in this county has ? a better corn crop been made and with the recent rains a bumper yield is expected. Gold has been discovered in the Cassia l district of British Columbia. HUFF AM) FA It FROM EXTINCT ? -V .... .. , .VJ .. . . ^ L ' " I Canadian (iovernment Now Moving ? Illtc Herd Northward Two hundred buffaloes, first of ,v consignment of 10,000 fronij the great natural park at Wainwright, Albenu, to he shipped 1,000 miles north to the haunts of the wood buffalo. hav been freed in the new preserve almoa'v in the shadow of the Aretie cirele. This yoar, and for the four follow ing years 2,000 plains buffaloes from the Wttinwright herd will be taken to the north by rail and scow, those hugo cousins of the smaller plains buffalo, have as neighbors 10,000 of the Wainwright animals. There they will road the confines * I of a natural preserve in a territory twice as huge as the state of South Carolina which is as ideal buffalo COUfltry as exists anywhere on the American continent. Half a century ago the once count ess he/ds of plains ? buffalo which roamed the prairies of this continent from the Kocky Mountains to the Mis sissippi river and the great lakes had dwindled to a mere handful. Indis criminate slaughter by Indians land white men alike brought the inevita ble result ? the lordly buffalo, once monarch of the plains,, was gone, ' Then Michael Pablo, a rancher in the Flathead Indian reservation, Mont tana, gathered a small herd together and sold it to the Canadian govern ment, which placed the animals on the greatest fence inclosure in the world, at Wainwright, Alberta. Here, under excellent natural conditions, the herd thrived and grew until in 1 024 there were more than 11,000 buffaloes of-all ages in the park. For so many animals even the great Wainwright park proved too small to provide each yoar the grass which is the only food of the buffalo. By winter each year hand feeding was necessary. Consequently it was nec essary to provide another range. Then Fort Smith, on the Slave river, was set aside for a herd of wood buffalo and it was decided to transfer all but 1,000 of the plains buffalo to the Fort Smith preserve. An egg was fried on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D. C., during the recent hot periocf, by an inquir ing reporter who placed the egg on the asphalt at 12:42 o'clock. At 12:51 the egg was done to a turn. Sver had the magnefc wchatgedP" "She shouldn't be to hard to crank. How long have ? you had her? Two years? Well, the magnets have probably weakened. They call them, 'permanent magnets* but that don't mean they'll last forever. We'll test these for you and recharge them if they need it". The experienced Fleet Boss knows that poor starting is often blamed on the "gas" when as a matter of fact it is the fault of the spark. Oil gets blamed for lots of things, too, that are not its fault. Take carbon, for instance. Do you know that often over 6CX> of the alleged carbon in your cylinders is just plain road dirt? We know, because we've had it analyzed. Of course some oils leave more carbon than others. That is why it pays to buy the best oil. Ask for "Standard" by name. Have you tried our special brand for Ford cars only? Easy start. Easy stop. Quiet bands. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (N ew Jersey) "STANDARD" Joanna