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Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Ce? MtCee, Copyright, 11*27. Picnics The word "picnic" conjure* the mind? child/vn #.tid cuius** crossfires of ecstasy irt the thought* of adults. It is the most deceptive thing in the worid, unless, perhaps, you consider this ?ugar-snow-candy that is sold on a stick at carnivals and eircusses*--which looks like a bunch of lusciousness, but when you happen to snceTte ori It--it's gone. Well, 1 was made the guest of honor at a ftunset picnic a few weeks ago, ami the joy of going flew all over me like feather* m a pillow fight. 1 longed for the hour to roll around that W HJ d convert my worries into pleasure and my nonchalance into delightful expectancy Everything started off all right, i was wedged in between 2 robust flapper* of tlie demure type and that was the only time I ever recall being glad that a Ford seat was so narrow. We hit the road in high places only, and inhaled enough dust to build a dozen dirtdobber nests. We reached the place selected Just about time for the sun to set, but it was so cloudy we couldn't tell whether it was setting or standing up. We unloaded the food, and loafed around a few minutes waiting on the sun to make up its mind what it was going to do, hut we finally decided that the long looked for hour had arrived. We unpacked the pickles, and mustard sapdwitches, (I'm on a diet), aid fried chicken from which we blew 2 or H hundred red ants, (and I can't cat fried chicken), and a pound cake arid .'1 custards, (they both sour on my stummick), arid poured out the icedtea, (which keeps me awake for 30 hours after I taste it), and some light bread and rolls, (buf I cannot cat anything in that line except toast) and a few other things of more or less importance, which my doctor forbade me to eat. I smelt around over a few plates, nibbling here and there, and the menu was finally fully absorbed, but just aH we were coining to the main eats and the desert, one of the hardest rains fell I ever saw, and washed nearly everything and everybody away. (It always rains duriag picnics. In fact, picnics will break up any drowth ever heard of.) I discovered that we had invaded a rbigger dm. ami they were all hung; y. and bit with precision, alacrity, and consistency. I wiggled around and Scratched as much as I could and remain decent but the girls were all too modest to scratch, so they squirmed] arid twisted as much or little us pj.ssi-.' bio without exciting attention. or make somebody think they were tuning up for the back-bottom. The mosrh'oc n iiinced on u>. and bit us from han ' o Bees sheba. \\ i* got bome alite but we!, woin-out, ami mudiv. I be next tune 1 go to a picnic it w i'. 1 b- in a hou<e in the winter time and when there are no funerals I run attend instead. ' '1 "Mr half or the fools are in the uio. lb" other half must be the guv- who drive up behind you and tout and toot thejr horn* whe/? they ought to know that traffic i* Jammed just ahead of you and you can't move on, or that you are trailing an ice wagon with a snail hitched to it. Jiinijiie June* u home from college, and claims that he got a diploma. Krom what 1 know of him along the line of natural am! inherited intellectuality, the only way 1 can imagine that he got through college was for a mad dog to chase him in the hack door and out the front. Right now it will push him to spell "c a t" in car-box letter*. My folks must have had an awful time catching the chicken they used yesterday for a chicken pie. According to a careful analysis of the fowl, he had two feet, two wingfe, one neck, I and one gizzard On level ground, 1 believe that chicken could have easily made 75 mile* per hour running in low ((If he possessed any other part* not enumerated herein they certainly didn't put any of them in that pie.) We had pretty good luck through] the month of June. My wife's kinfolks carne up and spent only three days with us all told. I begged them to stay longer, hgt explained to them that our town was hit by several cyclones last year during June, and that there was a good deal of whooping cough around, (their babie* had never i had the whooping-cough), and if anybody in town ever caught the measeles or mumps or any other catching or contagious disease, the board of health quarantined them in doors for two months. So they explained that they'd better hurry on back home as their protracted meeting began the fourth Sabbath, and they went. (Boohoo-hoo ?) Cotton letter New York, July 25.?Spots broke sharply on a report from Alabama that two bales of the 1923-cotton crop had been overlooked in the last government's estimate, but it rallied considerably near the close when a despatch from Egypt reported the devastating work of the jungle bug which was cutting off the bolls and rolling them into the river. Boll weevil infestation in Texas and South Georgia has created some interest in Leverpool, but New Orleans says that the recent flood damaged three turnip patches and-one chicken house in her vicinity, and that a bumper crop of lung staple will be grown this year in Louisiana. The shorts were covering last week. (N. B. This does not apply to the short dresses the women are wearing, and up to now, not much is being covered.) We predict a large enough crop to warrant the mills getting our cotton for about half what it actually costs. A Five-to-Ten Anaoforth Fortunately for me (and them too), my folks at home never discuss any of their plant for parties and dances and missionary meetings and other gatherings of a female nature. They simply go on and do as they please an l tell nie about it later. Well, they nulled off a big event * few'tiays ago. I suspected that something was in the wind at least 48 hnur> before the thing actually took place. I began, smelling floor wax, and seeing furniture disappear, and the window curtains were washed and 'st: etched and re-hung, and several other stunts of a more or less noticeable nature were indulged in about the house. The nrospect of trouble vamoosed from my mind though in a short while But I went home from the office on 'hat eventful evening, and I saw 15 automobiles and 17 Fords parked about my premises. I first thought that maybe a funeral was being held there, but seeing no hearse, I changed my mind. I crop up t ? the back door and was informed by the servant (we have one nearly every Thursday dur:ng the summer) that a party was in progress in the eight rooms beyond the kite:.en. I smelled compacts and perfumes from a distance, but never mustered up sufficient courage lo venture within. 1 discovered many different vessels and silver-ware that didn't belong ' our >u*o. but said very little ibuit it. (It is now stylish to bor>w everything everybody's got with, v. a mile of your house when you're | to have a party). About that time, 1 a ittlo lady walked ir. on me and I a-ked me if I didn't want to go down | the "receiving line." I happened just phin to -py an ice-cream churn over ! waist high sitting In the breakfast i room, and I told the lady. "No. Ill iju.-t wa.t till next week, and go down' the disbursing line." The party finally got over The | cost wasn't much over 35 cents per i head, and as a neighbor joined us in ' the matter of "spreading it on" I got out pretty light, but nearly every merchant in town had a bill against ] us. I found exactly 84 quids of chewing gum sticking on the piazza columns the next morning. I couldn't aeount for the other 16 quids. (There were 100 girls at this party. You see, >t is now fashionable not to chew gum at tea parties, and on that account, the visitors parked their "Spearmint" , outside, and forgot it). I got a peep or two at the girls, arwi they looked | like angels (and me married.) of them had on long dresses, but | they were so thin from the knee 'down, you'd have to look twice to see if they were really long dresses after all. Everybody had a good time but me, and that was my fan)'. I didn't go in and try. Drowns la Effort To Sava Another Rock Hill, July 24.?While attempting to save the life of a youth who called for help, Earnest Floyd, a young married man of Red River community, several miles eaat of Rock Hill, was drowned last night in Catawba river. The tragedy occurred near the Southern Railway trestle over the river while a party were swimming. A youth named Jackson is said to j have cried out for aid and Floyd started to his rescue. The boy was brought in safely but Floyd went down before help could arrive. The body was recovered. Funeral services were held today. He is survived by his widow and several brothers. He is said to have come from Gaffney. Blinded By Bottle L. G. Bridgman, grocer of Broad street, suffered the loss of his right eye Tuesday morning, when a bottle, filled with a popular soft drink, burst, the neck and crown striking him in the eye. Mr. Bridgman had just opened the ice box when the bottle burst. He closed his eyes to keep the glass out but was struck by a heavy piece with a sharp edge. The glass cut through the eyelid and punctured the eyeball. He was carried to a doctor wbo,sewed the eyelid but sent- him to a specialist in Florence. Upon examination the specialist found the eye to be badly mangled and to be out. Mr. Bridgman returned home Tuesday night and is now in the local hospital. It is hoped that they will be able to save the eye, although he j will never be able to see out of it again.?Bennetts ville Advocate. After a two months' trial at Stephens Junior College for Girls, Columbus, Missouri, the midday siesta has been adjudged a success and put into effect permanently. The coeds are not competed to sleep, but most of I them do, while all find relaxation. DAMA6B BY JACK BABBITS In Western Bute* <3on??tH up to Million* Annually Jack rabbit* cause damage to forage and crop* that amounts to several million dollars annually in some states. Control by mean* of th# bounty system has not been very successful, although the expense lias been great. In some counties in Kan! sas, for example, bounties on jack rabbit* totaled from $4,000 to $8,000 in 1026. Hunting the rabbit* for meat and skins has its limitation*. In many situation* poisoning i* the only practicable method of control, and now that the skins have a fair commercial value the poison method need no longer be considered wasteful. The most noticeable damage by jack rabbits is that done to wheat, since the rabbit* often graze the winter wheat down to the roots, even pawing the earth away and biting at the crowns of the plants, as well as cutting the stalks after stem formation begins. They are also constant feeder* on growing alfalfa, ,although their grazing is aeldom localized enough to be apparent, Such special crops as sugar beets, soy beans, melon patches and others also attacked and the losses are easily seen. Five to eight jack rabbits are said to eat a* much as one sheep, or an equivalent in the cattle and horses that might have been supported by the t forage destroyed. Since the jack rabbit is regarded as a game animal, it is not desirable to exterminate it completely, as is the case with the prairie dog, but adequate control is important. The rabbits themselves can be made to pay part of the cost of controi, if used as a meat supplement in feeding poultry and hogs, says the Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture. A woman placed her savings in a tin container which she concealed in a stove. It was forgotten during cooking operations and all that remained of the currency was charged bits <^f paper. Experts of the redemption division of the Treasury identified most of the embers and refunded her notes amounting to $1,200. Because of the unusual cold summer, the warmest temperature so far being 35 degrees below zero, the natives of northern Siberia, thinking the gods are angry, have sacrificed scores of precious reindeer. Sharkey ? Dempsey DEMTSEY COMES BACK Ex-Champion Wins From Sharkey in1 New York Fight ? j Yankee Stadium, New York, July, 21.?The rip-tearing Jack Dempsey^ of old came back tonight to smash his way to a spectacular knbe^out victory over the young Boston heavy-: weight, Jack Sharkey, and gairjjfthe light to a return title match with i < Clene Tunney. While a vast, deliriously excited ^ throng of 82.000 spectators cheered .him on, the former heavyweight I champion rallied after a wobbly 1 start, bored through Sharkey's defense with a slashing attack and brought the '24-year-old sailor down I for the count of 10 in the seventh j round of what was to have been a 15 round match. A terrific right hook to the pit o?| the stomach doubled Sharkey up and a crash ng overhand right to the jaw | brought the Boston giant down., for the fatal count after only 45 seconds of fighting in the seventh round.^ So close to the border-line was Dempsey's crushing left?the really decisive blow?that Sharkey started j to claim a foul, only to go tumbling down in a moment from the impaet of ! Dempsey's right hand. The referee, Jack O'Sullivan, at first seemed putzied as to what to do, but finally decided to ignore the excited yells of Sharkey's seconds. He finished the ( count in unison with the knock-down timer and waved Sharkey out. Sharkey's handlers persisted in their protests after the fight, but their attempted action was drowned in the wild outburst that came from the huge throng, most of which had come to cheer the 32-year-old ex-champion in his colorful comeback. It was a sudden climax to one of I the most dramatic heavyweight bat| ties ever staged. A slashing, maulI ing struggle in which Dempsey ,defy! ing the craft and stamina of SharI key's youth, demonstrated that he had | come a long way back from the | foundering form that cost him his title last fall. I Staggering and badly shaken up by vicious left hooka to the jaw toward the close of the first round and jarred frequently by Sharkey's stiff counter wallops, Dempsey fought on and Won because he refused to be ! beaten hack or balked. , Stunned or shaken as he was at first-Dempsey had the resources to come back, kept plunging in, breaking through Sharkey's guard with short left and right hooks. His right eye out and stream* ing blood, his lips split by vicious jabs, Dempsey nevertheless had the power to keep plunging in until he won. The vast crowd, which paid close to $1,100,000 to see the spectacle, was thrilled by Dempsey's sensational . doggedly peis's.cn; ; ght to victory I against odds that seemed all ag\ln\t him at the atari. 1' NEGROES HOLD UP COUPLE Mmn Killed and Robbed and Wife Badly Wounded Macon, Ga., July 24.?Threatened by a mob, three Telfair county Negroes were brought to the Bibb county jail hero today, charged with the murder of W. T. Andrews prominent citizen of Alamo, G?., and with probably fatally wounding his wife early this morning in l>odge county. The tragedy occurred within short distance of Milan, just across the Telfair county line early today. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews were in their way to Perry, Fla., where Mrs. Andrew's father is reported to be in a dying condition. Mrs. Andrews is in an Eastman hospital in a critical condition. Her husband was killed by a bullet fired by one of the Negroes from the back seat of the automibile in which they were riding. The Negroes are Wilmer Galioway, William Kountree and Mose Banks. They were brought here this afternoon by Sheriff C. N. Mullis of Dodge county and Deputy Sheriff H. | C. Williams after a mob of more than 1,000 person had threatened to storm the Telfair county jail at McRae and seize the prisoners. Mrs. Andrews' story, as related here by officers, stated Mr. Andrews stopped the car at a filling station a short distance from the scene of the shooting to put some water in the radiator. "While we were there three, Negroes approached and asked to ride to their shanty up the road, a short distance," Mrs. Andrews is quoted as saying. "They boarded the car, one in the back seat, the others on the running board. But they did not get off at the shanty. It was about this time Mrs. An-, drews said, that the Negro in the | rear seat fired and killed Mr. Andrews. The Negro whom Mrs. Andrews identified as Galloway, officers said then ordered Mrs. Andrews out of the car. He flung her onto the ground a few minutes later he ordered her to stand up. "When I arose he shot me down," Mrs. Andrews told officers. The Negroes, thinking Mr. and Mrs. Andrews dead, left the couple lying on the ground by the side of the road. Mrs. Andrews regained consciousness about an hour later and made an effort to obtain help. Aboutj a mile from the scene, she said, she knocked on the door of a farm resi-i dence but was refused admittance i and later arrived at the home of R. i L. Kitchens, a farmer, who notified Z. W. Dowdy, chief of police at Milan. Soon after the incident was reported. an armed posse, led by of- 1 ficers of Telfair county, began to ! searc h for the Negroes. One of them ! hftd been fully described by Mrs. j Andrews. The three were apprehend-1 ed in a little shack a mile from the scene. When officers approached, Banks ran but was stopped with a bullet from the pistol of a member of the posse. His hands and feet were found covered with tar when apprehended. Officers said that was ; to put bloodhounds off his track. Galloway is said to have been j ?I identified by MrtTAndrc^l N eg roe who killed her ^9 robbed htm of $125, whicb^B he had in his possession, ^B shot her. ' Mr. and Mr?, Andrew# ?9 off main highway loading <r,9 to Milan and inquired of tJTB the direction. V Drowned in <oa|^H Columbia, July 22. The J river claimed its second the conetruction forte on ^JB Gervaia street bridge her?th*B ing, when Thoa. E. MullinsjMB pi uter, became ovcibak^^B at work on the bridge (ell qJI the water, reappeared about JB down the stream, where )*^B the water from his face along a ledge of rocit and tJI appeared under the surface,^! ing parties began dragginm^ for his body. Another worlmB drowned several months s|$^B Mullinax seemed to be pj with fear, according to U^B workmen, and made no effattB I Mullinax was a native 0f <9 it i? understood, and is j,uivi*9 I wife aiul several children *9 in Anderson 8. C. ... H J Tarheel Hoboes KioaergB Columbia, July 23. ChsrluB was last night by a coroner's)! solved of blame in the death cB Rimer of near Blythewood killed just over the city liB on North Main street wh?|H by a car driven by Beach 9 morning. Beach with his companio^M Gray, who was riding in tht9 the time of the accident, being held on a charge ceny in connection with the theft of the machine which men were driving when M was struck. 9 Both Beach and Gray prl be in their 'teens. They hj9 be 16 years old and say ttyH from High Point, N. C. B * - in W t A9la Western 1 Not high-hatting the WM' wearing the head-piece it Mm derstands. President CooVtJRj his new Ten-Gallon hat M photographer*. Wyoming is attempting toAM the thousands of wild honsJH state. J Trl^'1' ;1 Southern Railway System Announces Greatly Reduced Round Trip Excuni* | F ares to ATLANTIC CITY AND NIAGAKtA^FALL$ 3 The following round trip fares will apply from stations ; shown below: ? To To From: Atlantic City Niagara Falls Camden $22.95 $32.80 Chester 22,20 _ if?05 Columbia 24.15 , 34.00 Lancaster 22.95 -#2.80 Winnsboro 24.15 34.00 Proportionate fares from intermediate poiiite. -iMg Tickets good for 18 days including ditto of ?ak ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. '0% Selling dates : via P.R.R., June 21; July0 5, I August 2, 16, 30; via B.&O., June 29; July 13, tT; August 10. 24; September 7. Excursion fares as above also apply via Norfolk,;^*?.' Reduced round trip fares to other New Jersey W*shore resorts. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. Selling dates: via P.R.R., June'22; July 6,;$^ August 3, 17, 31; September 14, 28; via B.&O., Jun*J 80; July 14, 28; August 11, 25; September v8, 221 October 6. 1# Stopovers permitted on return trip not to exceed,!^ days within final limit at Philadelphia,^ Baltim^fj Washington, etc. < Call on nearest ticket agent for further information reservations, etc., or address: P- H. TODD, D.P.A. W. E. McGEE, D.P^: Columbia, S. C. 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