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ABHKVIIXK WOMAN GUILTY Mrt. Montague Given From Twelve U? Twenty Yearn for Murder Asheville, June 28.WTwelve to twenty years at hard labor," was the Hentence imposed upon Mrs. Anna K. Montague in superior court at y 40 o'clock tonight by Judge Thomas J. Shaw. Mrs. Montague was convicted of "murder in the second degree" in connection with the death of Mrs, Mary R. Cooper by a Buncombe county jury late this afternoon, after three hours and twenty minutes deliberation. A last minute plea for merry was made by attorneys for Mrs. Montague and during the climax of an impassioned plea by Robert ft. Reynolds, head of the defense counsel, Mrs. Montague broke down and cried, her convulsive sobs rising strangely above the choking silence that gripped the paralysed spectators in the court room. The defendant screamed piteously, breaking down completely for the first time during the trial. She was given a glass of water and secured control of herself after a few minutes. When sentence was being imposed by Judge Shaw, sho sat with a child-like I stare, looking directly in front of her and apparently seeing nothing. I>efense counsel entered notice of an appeal ami bond was fixed at' $10,000 by Judge Shaw. Throughout' the session tonight, which began kt 1 8:30 o'clock the defendant did not' speak. Texas Stockmen Kill Buzzards Ranchmen of Menard county, Texas, feel no envy for the sportsmen who shoot the live, heavy-winged pigeons at Monte Carlo. They get their sport by shooting buzzards. As u germ carrying bird, the buzzard U the particular enemy of stockmem. Hence traps are built to catch them. Two thousand were caught in one . trap during two years. . After a number have been collected, they are released before a squad of shotguns in the hands of thq ranchmen. The buzzard that gets away is welcome to his liberty. Smith-Jones A beautiful wedding was solemnized on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock when Mis* Lilah Stoke# Smith became the bride of Mr. Bert Tain Jones, both of Sumter, i The wedding took place at the borne of the bride at J108 Went Oakland avenue. The spacious reception hall in which the ceremony was held ' had been beautifully decorated for the occasion with a profusion of cut flowers and ferns. The wedding was characterized by its extreme simplicity as well as its beauty, i Promptly at the appointed hour the tiruial party entered from an adjoining room, the bridal chorus being softly rendered by Miss Kolllns. The bride and groom t'ook their placea at the foot of the stairs which had been banked in ferns and immediately above their heads hung u huge pendant of lilies. There were no attendants. The brother-in-law of the bride, Rev. J. R. Johnson of Andrews, S. (/., performed the impressive ring ceremony. The bride wore a lovely gown of Biege georgette with accessories to match and carried a shower bouquet of snapdragons, set off by Ostrich tips in the center of which was a huge lily. The bride is one of Sumter's most popular and attractive young ladies and was for a number of years employed by the Peoples' Bank of SumI ter. Of a disposition to make and I keep friends by the score all of whom I will follow with a great deal of in, terest and best wishes, her career. She was one of the twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. S. K. J. Smith and came to Sumter from Camden about ten years ago. The groom is a rising young clothing merchant of Sumter, having come to this city several years ago from Conway, S. C. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and groom left by motor for Asheville, Hendersonville and other points of interest in the Blue Ridge mountains. After a short bridal tour they will be at home to their many friends at 21 Harby avenue. China had what seems to have been a serious influenza epidemic in 1641. frelty Legends Told About 44Fairy Crosses'' "Fairy are natural crosse* formed ,f ?rt*? pyfllo*. iilumiuum aijj. cute or other mineral* and are mtp* jm>**m1 by wmw) i**ople to bring piort good lurk than the proverbial rabbitV foot. 'They are found In great ubun dance In certain parta of Virginia Georgia and other hi ate*. The ntoun talneera of the Blue Hldge mountalii* have an Interesting myth an to the origin of the*e "fairy at one*." They aay that in the dim paid, when the red men were uiHMtera of America, the Great Spirit showered down theae rroaaea hn a sign of coming aalvatlon to the navage race. Another legend the one which glvea the croaaes their name, saya that when Chrtat waa cru clfled faJry meaaengera carried the Had new* to all part* of the world. When the tldluga reached the falrlea In the mountain* they ceaaed their merry pranka and began to make theae crosses a* mementoes of the event.? Exchange. Hoop Skirt Burnished Electrical Men Idea The Empress Eugenie's hoop skirt* made a contribution to the advancement of electricity, according to Frank H. Stewart, a Philadelphia veteran of the electrical ludustrj. The beautiful consort of Napoleon in. Just prior to the birth of the prince imperial, created the new-fangled fash loo In skirts. At once the fashion pread alL over the civilised world But the wire frames for theae skirt* mated and atalned the cloth. It there upon became necessary for these frames to be wrapped In some sort of protective textile. The machinery designed to wrap this wire was at hand aad waa converted to a new use when electrical men decided that cop per wire for carrying electric current ought to be insulated. So the Insulating Industry evolved out of the hoop aklrt Industry. One of Oldest Games The game of lawn tennis, as played today, la not particularly old, but ten nls la ancient, for it was played by kings and nobles of olden times. How ever, the king's game was what today 1? called court tennis, an indoor game, requiring an expensive building. I>awn tennis was an outgrowth of a game of 1873, called sphalrlstlke, but this clumsy title was soon dropped and by 1877 the game had emerged in Its modern form. In that year the first championship was established at Wimbledon, under rules that approximate those of to day. The game waa brought to the United States early and the keen rivalry between the United States and England began and has continued without Interruption. From that rival ry has sprung International competl tlon at first compassed within narrow limits, but ultimately extended to cover the world. At Least One Improvement The phrase "Neither rhyme nor rea son" has a very Interesting historic origin. A pompous and pedantic author took his ponderous book to Sir Thomas More, -author of "Utopia," and asked his opinion of It. The chancellor of "Bluff King Hal" Is one of the most attractive characters In our history, so gentle and sweet-tempered was he, and he let this pedantic upstart down gen tly by suggesting to him that he mlglr with advantage turn his book Into rhyme. It Is related that the author wen' away highly pleased, and, on complet Ing his task, returned to Sir Thomiu for a final verdict. "Aye. a ye." said the witty satirist, "that's better. "TV rhyme at least now. and before It wn neither rhyme nor reason." Neuter Possessive Originally the pronoun "his" served as tha neuter singular possessive About the Sixteenth century this began to be replaced with "It." Thu* Ben Jonson wrote, "It shall fright all It friends with borrowing letters." and Shakespeare. "Go to It rrandnm child." About 1000 this form. In turn began to be replaced by "it's," wit1! the apostrophe. Bare In Shake speare, and not to be found In th King James Bible of 1011, this fort became the common literary one b 1623. Later In the same century th* apostrophe was dropped, cooformln to the possesslves of the other personal pronouns, and since then It h* almost always been written "Its." Mysterious Spleen There Is still one bulky organ lithe human body about which we knov little?concerning what Its function Is. at leust. That organ Is the spleen The English ph vslologlst. Barcrof* pointed out recently that Its use i a mystery to us even now. The nnclent Greeks, he said, ar said to have Improved their athletl prowess hy cutting out the spleen their argument being It was the caus? of the stitch In the side that aome times stops the host runners. This however, does n??t appear to he fled by the record*. Mended '*Basted** Egg What the old story-book legend de Clares "all the king's horses and al the king's men" could not do by wat of repairing "Hnmpty Dumpty." hai been accomplished hy an expert of tin Field museum of natural history tr assembling the frngment* of an ns trich* egg believed to be some 6 00( years old It was found In the an dent ruins of Klah Popular Mf-han lea Magaatne LOCATING THE FINANCIAL LEAKS THAT TAKE THE PROFITS OUT OF FARMING By DAN H. OTIS Director Agricultural Commission, American Banker* Association INDUSTRIAL lines suffer because of inefficient firms, whose officers cling to old methods and place goods on the market, even at a loss, to compete with the more efficient institutions. Agriculture, too, has this problem to face. We find farmers who fight new methods They retard the prosperity of other farmers by throwing on the market poor quality products, frequently produced at a loss. The n-cure of the banker's business places him in a position to help this type of farmer as well as the more progressive farmer. At the same time the -banker can assure himself of good loans based on tht farm as a going concern. A study of the investments, sources of in come and expenses of the successful farm ers in his community will give the banker a measuring stick by which to gage the hazard entailed in furnishing loans to other farmers. This study is readily accomplished through the use of summaries of farm records. In the absence of good records, survey blanks which can be obtained from the airri cultural colleges, may be used for collecting the information. A banker in a dairy district would use data similar to Farmer A'? summary in the following table as a measuring tick to Judge the condition of Farmer* n . 1 o Hcma D . Karmet farmer A B farm receipt* 22-214 farm expenses 2.122 1,079 SM'pls above iiMniM 22.242 $1,125 terest on total Investment O I p*r cent.. 1.079 9S9 Net Income after deducting Interest 22.271 1146 Aeree 127 ISO Total investment 121.400 119.771 Operating capital (machinery. livestock. equipment) 2,262 6.471 Number of cows 16 11 Investment In cowa... 12.201 II.20b The total Investment of Farmer A It moderate with a large percentage (17 per cent) of operating or working capital. Farmer B la low In operating capital. The number of cows It also lew, which It reflected In the farm receipts, these being $3,201 lent than those of Farmer A The expenses of Farmer R, although about one half of those of Farm or A, are, uevort heless, high In the ratio to receipts The only way to safeguard a loan to Farmer B Is to consider assets and not Income. Before any loan should be considered at all the hanker and the farmer should go over the situs tloa, uncover'Hie leaks and outline a definite program of Improvement Diversity of Business Good Sign Farmer Farmer A U Income from sropa 21.476 |X5I From dairy product* 2.241 To2 Sale ef livestock (Including Increased in ventory) 1.4SS ?8tf Miscellaneous Income . 227 121 A good diversity of Income serves la protect the farmer against years of overproduction of any one rarm product FariA?M A has a good diver Hity of income Notice that the lead ing source of Income, dairy products, constitutes less than one-half -of the total income. The various enterprises that make up Farmer B'e diversity of business all show marked decreased income. Quality of Business Shows Leake Farmer Farmer A H Receipt* p?t cow... 11 SO to* Receipts per livestock unit* other than COWS S4 SI Under the beading, "Quality el Business," Farmer B shows thai his cows are bringing in 962 less per yeat than Farmer A s. The |6I a year which thoy are producing is undoubtedly be low the cost of feed and keep Th? Income per livestock unit is stll. worse, and while this farm neud> more cows to Increase its volume o> i business. It would t>? financial sulcldt to Invest In the same type of tow This poor farmer must weed out hit poor cows and feed the balance pro perly to get insults before money le loaned to him to Increase his hero with good stock An analysts of the farmer's records will orlng out many other leaks which (he farmer may not have noticed lie may be paving hlrh prices for feed when less money spent for fertilize and ilme may enable him to raise th* rlght kind of feed on hie own farm and stop this drain on hts pocket book. Barring temporary emergencies farm loans handled on the basle ol income, indicating t going concern would hasten tremendously the day ol a permanent and prosperous agn culture Liu i. u.' u t-UllMS Or 4 I Hi whiskers Ftnner SliucJk While on Plow / Ha? Narrow Escape. w Alliance. Neb.?Struck on the hand fDynijthttilnf, Joe W Kennedy, fortylive, farmer, Hfill lives to tell the tale unci the unending pli\nl<-lun Maya he will recover Kennedy whs riding 11 gang plow pulled hy four horses. He huw the storm approaching. hut Hot regarding It un particularly threatening, he kept on with hlti work. He saya he nuw no fiuah and lieurd no thunder, hut tiie next tiling lie knew was when he found a doctor bending over hint In (lie hoHpltal here. The llglitnliig Htruck Kennedy ahove tiie rlgiit ear, burned the crown of hia hut, scorched the hair from Ida head and plowed Its way across Ida cheek. Jumping from there to his cheat, which whm Neared. and onto Ida legs, where deep hums were left. From there It entered the Iron neat of the plow on which he wus riding, melting the metal Into a iuhhh and then pasted i aloag the Nteel cable to which hlii lead team of horses was attached to the plow. One of the four was Instantly killed. J^ennedy was knocked unconscious and was found a half hour later by his wife and daughter. The lightning put out of commission most of the tele phones in the neighborhood. The course of the lightning could be clearly traced from where It struck Kennedy to where It leaped from hie body. A full set of whlakera that adorned his face went up in smoke. The accident occurred on the man's farm five miles from town. Woman on 17th Annual Hike Acrott Bridge New York.?The Manhattan bridge has at least one true friend and admirer?Mrs. Joseph Woolstot. Ualon City, N. J. ' "I have done It again,'' said Mrs. Woolson. 'Tou know I waa the llret woman to walk across the Manhattan bridge, and since then I have walked across It, rain or shine, every year on the annlveraary of the opening of the footpath." Mra. Woolson was aaked the reason for her attachment to the structure. Had she lived formerly In the neighborhood of the span? "No," she said. "I used bo live In this city, but that was years before the btfdge was opened. But the day they opened It I came to New York alone to be at the ceremonies. When the bluecoats took down the bars I started across. "When I got to the mlddie of the bridge a big, fine policeman said to me: 'Madame, you are the -first woman to walk across Manhattan bridge. If T were yoa I would celebrate that by coming here every year on July 18 and walking across It.' "Since then," continued Mrs. Woolson. "I have not missed a year. I used to walk over and get a drink of water at the little fountain on Nassau street, at the Brooklyn end. but I could not get that dringfcoday be cause the fountain Is gone." Shuttleless Loom Is Invented by German London.?A shuttleless loom hither to regarded as an impossibility, has been Invented by a German named Gobler, according to a report from Berlin and has been already thoroughly tested and proved feasible in German factories before being publicly announced. The mechanism is described as the simplest and works on two rods which carry threads and weaves all kinds of cotton yarn and Jute with the same apparatus. The claim is made that production Is quicker and safer, that the number of operatives is reduced, that the complicated preliminary steps before winding the threads will he obviated and the coet of the loom construction greatly lessened. Lancashire has not yet heard of the new Invention and is not likely tc adopt it unless Its weaving skill handed down through generations, it equally applicable to the new nin chine as with the old well-tried Ark wrlght loom. Blade in Man's Skull 23 Years Is Removeci Birmingham, Ala?A piece of knlf? blade two inches long was remover by surgeons at Opellkn Al*^fp*ro th? head of R. P, Waller ?>f Auburn, aftei having been in Waller's head for thi last 28 years. The <u>"Mtton i* scored a remarkable one. Waller said that when he wus shoo ten years of age h* wns sr,,hbed Wit! a knife In the hands of ? drunker man. At the time Waller was stahbe. It was ssld by doctors that only at open wound was left This qulckl' healed 4 For many yeara Waller suffer* with severe headaches, and did no know the cause. Recently X-ra 'examination was Mkdn of Waller* head and the piece of broken knife blade was discovered. The operatloi waa a success, and Waller aaya hi headaches have disappeared and tha F he feels better than for years. 1 Loses Leg to Save Dog f Mlddletown, N. Y.?To avoid kllllni , a dog w) ich stood i?n the tracks b the Now York. Ontario A West ' >%rn railroad .Tocch h?<iW ap ,,I,M h"?k -In - rscl r. nnv'a* I ... ? , , n ti#.IIfl( rr?l.' i< . ' -d j'i*? riiup'i tatlor o* one of il > Nobody's Business1 Written for The Chronicle by (Jee MeGee, Copyright, 1927. 7 ' I There are two ideal ways of getting rid of a friend, provided, of course, that you have such a remarkable thing: Lend hiui 5 dollars or shoot him through the head with a 44 automatic. After all, short dresses ain't saving us men much money. Why, just look how much longer the stockings have to be, and stockings are higher than dresses, by gosh. ltussiu wants the whole world to become communistic and Bolshevik. That country reminds me of my Uncle Joe: When he had the smallpox he hoped everybody would catch 'em from him. 1 am the unluckiest man in the United States. I was invited out to dinner the other day, and I helped myself to chicken pie twice: the first time 1 got a foot, and the next time ?I got the neck. The man who sat next to me got a thigh or a breast every time he poked a spoon into the pan. Wonder what an undertaker is thinking about when he asks Doctor Brown how his neighbor, Mr. Smith is, and if he thinks he'll pull through. This is indeed a grave matter. The last South Carolina legislature appropriated 25 thousand dollars for the purpose of investigating the State Highway department. The report of the findings of this investigating committee will be engraved on the back of a postage stamp, and turned into the governor just as soon as all the money can be spent, or used, or done away with. Political investigating committees have proven to be worth about as much to our country as a German mark will now fetch^ on the Stock Exchange. I must confess that I lean a little toward evolution every time I sit off and watch my Uncle Joe eat goobers. He does it with so much monkey dexterity, and ape rapidity, and baboon sincerity, I cannot help but think that maybe, after all, Darwin's theory has a basis worthy of some consideration. I If votes could not be bought?the democratic party and the republican party would remain about the same size from year to year but Vare > the man who is willing to make it a misdemeanor for a citizen to sell his right of suffrage at a reasonable price? Smith still says that each and every individual can do just as he Bleases about this matter. I heard a sermon last Sabbath night on the subject of?"The Uselessness and Sinfulness of Cursing." I made up my mind that from that time on I'd never utter another oath. I have never been an habitual cusser I no-how,1 and naturally I thought it would be easy to resist any and all 1 temptation#, so I took that resolution home with me, but? About 4:22 a.m., Monday morning the telephone rang, I jumped out of bed and one foot lit on an English walnut hull, the door to the sleeping porch was ajar, and it gave me a jar right between niy eyes, and when I got to the phone, Central, in that early morning type of voice, said? "Excuse me, please?there's no one on the line." I hobbled back bed, Ward. I Just about the time I thought I , was close enough to my bed to jump into it, I tried it, and missed the t same about 2 feet, and busted my ? head nearly off on a rocking chair, j and that awoke the baby, and she wanted some cold water, and a piece of toast, and she also cried. I finally got back In bed after UaiIlg : bottle of liniment and 50 cem6 Jm of Halve. Things rocked along pretty Well M ifcarly 16 minutaa, and the phone Jagain. 1 crawled to It on ah-fSB and never ran into or over onythS Somebody waa at the other ejfl the line this time, and Wanu<J J know what I would charge to flu^i into a stationary ?u>?n? SS I told him I waa not in the business, ao did not make f|Ufc4 ^ ] then he informed me that CtgyJ evidently gave him the wrong | ber, and I agreed with hiiu^mJJJJ I'' on back to bed. ; I had counted 078>54& ^ ' aheep, and waa on the verge oft^ | back to aleep when the door beU *29 I went out to aee what else y ! pening. An old negro greeted n* JlS wanted to know if Mr. Jude Br2| lived there. I told him not knew of, but I would ask the jS;l down in the baaement about it. f far, I had not quite cussed. I w the old colored gent found 1 Brown, and delivered those 2 to him. It was now nearly 6;30 a.m. ij| elded to get up and drees andW ready to take care of future calk.1 pulled one sock in two trying to J them on, my ahirt had only 1 butyl on it, and that one was near the t3 my BVD's were minus a leg, e0w| body's dog had carried off myj3 lot of collars which the laundry m?J| to tear up for me but I finallyjj presentable, and waited two hourifl the cook to come to warm me a iul of toast, but she didn't. I startfl my office, and found that one ftjfl and one rear were flat on my 1{9 so I walked all the way, and c9 most of the way. Oh, what's theil Snow in Montreal Montreal, July 4.?Snow in jM a. record just established in Montlfl After two days of stlfliug heat ItB night the city waa visited with a mil? almost imperceptible snowfall. It lasted only a few minutes. University of Sooth Carolina SCHOLARSHIP' AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award ol vacant scholarships in the University of South Carolina and for admisskn of new students will be held at tin County Court House Friday, July 8th, 1927, at 9 o'clock a.m. Applicaw must not be less than 16 years of ag Scholarships are vacant in the fo lowing 23 CotriNtfca: . AIKEN GREENWOOD BAMBERG JASPER BEAUFORT KERSHAW BERKELEY LANCASTER 4 CALHOUN LEE CHARLESTON MoCORMIGK \ COLLETON MARLBORO 4 BILLON NEWBERRY 1 EDGEFIELD PICKENS FAIRFIELD SPARTANBUM FLORENCE YORK i GEORGETOWN Applicants for scholarships ikfl write the President for Scholifl application blanks. These shoifl filed with the President by Jul^H Scholarships are worth $100 pluifl tuition and term fees. The neztH sion will open September 21, 192?. For further information writs t#? I PRESIDENT D. M. DOUG&AS 1 I University of South Carolina I Columbia South CaroKml COLUMBIA LUMBER &l MANUFACTURING Cftl MILL WORK I SASH, DOORS, BLINDS I | AND LUMBER | PLAIN A HL ER STS. Ph.n*Tl I *. ~~rv;- . :?3 SEASHORE EXCURSION J ?TO? 50l! CHARLESTCW^I ^ ' -"S Thursday, July 14th | Following round trip fare in effect from: :3 Camden M.0o Lancaster $*S| Kershaw $5.00 Other Pointa in PreportioiV; (Return limit to reach original starting point prior to mldnigM?jji July 20. This is an excellent opportunity to visit historic Olty 6f Cher**8*! ton Iale of Palms, Folly Beach and (Sullivan's (Island. Mil euMl the fine surf bathing, boat excursions, good fishing, etc. Excursion tickets sold for all trains (except Cfescent Liwi^!^ Thursday, July 14, and for train 16 leaving Columbia 2:80 s ro*? | July 15. _ *7j| For schedule and other information, see ticket agents. Southern Railway. System! a H. TOI>l>. I).1*.A., Colanbia, S. c.