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KEPT COPS BUSY LAST_M YEARS, Secret Service Agents Capture Cobbler and Now He's in Again* New York.?Four secret service agents opened the door of a room in a Times Square hotel recently apd (dipped Inside to arrest a man who has been giving all kinds of trouble to ail kinds of police off and ou for 23 years. The man, apprehended, a weighty but agile Htyd convincing resldeut ef' Vermont? Is ?uld to have been collecting guns, (ear bombs and hardware suitable for penetrating to the heart of one of his native bauks, while his presence is also desired in the jail house at St. Johns, Newfoundland, from which he made a discreet and romantic exit down the side of a wall last December. Joseph A, Palroa, head of the secret service for this district, and Agents Kuban?, Goody and Uodney have undertaken to deliver hitn to Chief Inspector Philips of the royal Northwest mounted police. 8tarted as Cobbler. The man arrested described himself as Francis M. Polrler, forty-nine years old, married, of Burlington, Vt Twenty-three years ago, according to his own story, he was a dull but honest shoemaker, unaware of the peculiar talents which since have stirred up so much admiration, envy and apprehension. In the year 1006 he was framed, he says, by a group of crooks, who handed him ov?r to the police untruthfully as a "fence," or receiver of stolen property. So Poirei1 spent 18 months in the Rutland Jail maturing the plans for his future. On his release he and another ex-resident by the name of Hooper, went Into business. They set up the Hooper Detective agency and proceeded to take th^ shrewd Yankee officials of Vermont ior a long and painful sleigh excursion. Builds Big Business. The state of Vermont paid these two ex-convicts $10 a day each to investigate the records of criminals under arrest. The method of investigation, as Poirier explains, was for himself or Usoper to shake down the man under arrest for every cent he had and th?n announce to the trusting police that the prisoner was innocent. In this way the enterprising firm built up a business amounting to $40,000 or $50,000, when Hooper fell ill. On his deathbed he confessed all and Poirier was sentenced to serve six years In the penitentiary. At this point soipe federal agents gathered around Polrler to charge he had been buying stolen postage stnmps. They took him to Leavenworth for two years, and at the expiration of the term a couple of sheriffs from Vermont went down to escort him back to tboir own Jail. On the way back home the sharpwitted Vermont constables became overcome with sleep, due to the effects of some of the high-powered liquor they used to sell In those days, so Poirier left them snoozing on the pullman and departed. Hands were laid on him some time later and he served out his term. Passed Bogus Money. History next records that Poirier was stealing mileage books in Salem, N. Y., for which he served a two and a half year term in Dannemora prison. Refusing to be downhearted he appeared In New York city last year with $4,000 worth of counterfeit money and took the boat for St. Johns, Newfoundland. In pne hour he and three confederates passed $3,500 worth. Bloated with success, one of the confederates returned to pas? another bill at a store where he already had done famously. The proprietor got susptf clous, called a policeman. In came Poirier, saw the cop and dashed out straight Into the local canal, where he tried to empty his pockets of guns and money. But when the dripping figure was hauled out and searched, these was stm a phony hill in his pocket, which resulted in his confinement on a sixyear term. Takss Frtnoh Leave. Lust December, when this term was only a few months old, Polrler and a tellow prisoner got tired of the prison's Christmas fare and departed, via a vlndow from which they removed the hars. They made a makeshift rope, which broke as the first man swung 35 feet above the ground, but "When I'olrier'8 turn came to depart, no such catastrophe occurred. The other, injured, was left on the ground and the Vermont grnduute Shoemaker stepped out in the world, with ull kinds of police Just one Jump in back of him ever since. Now they have caught up. He wlil go back to finish out his term, which will be added to because of hi* flight. -Then be will* return here to answer the charges of posses sing burglars' tools, guns and such. An up and coming fellow, tide Poirier, a chap with a rent future. 80-Foot Towers to Aid Fighting Forest Fires Hoqulnm, Wash,?Lightning proof standard observation steel towers, rising 80 feet, are being Installed in many sections of the Northwest forested areas, equipped and available t?r during next fire season. *-nough spare at the top of the towJ* >8 provided for an observer to sit. rei'Ul*. ?*t and sleep. Tifr? <'.V^ Soybeans Fatten Hogs Cheaply Clemson College, AprlJ, 14.?.Soybeans solve the question of what to plant for green grazing for hogs during the hot summer months, declares J. R. Hawkins, extension animal husbandryman, who says that beans planted ctirly^(| narrow rows and close in the drill will be ready to graze when about 18 inches high. Soybeans planted in good soil about April.! will ordinarily reach this height early in June. "A heavy rate of seeding is ad-, visable so that a good stand will be secured," States Mr. Hawkins. "Apparently n greater number of plants per acre gives more forage and thus furnishes more feed on a given are*. Rows as close as 24 inches with plants two inches apart in the drill have been used to good advantage. Next to alfalfa, soybeans have given the best results of any forage for hogs during the mid-summer months in South Carolina. This crop is adapted to all soil types in the state and stands excess wet weather and droughj better than most crops. It produces a relatively large quantity of excellent forage which is tender, succulent, rich in protein and ash, and very palatable to hogs. "Three years experimental work at CI em* on College show that hogs make remarkably cheap gains when fed a lirpited ration of corn and grazed on soybeans. Pigs weighing 40 pounds and more, receiving a pound of corn for each 40 pounds of weight have made gains ranging from one-half to three-fourths of a pound per head per; day at a feed cost of less than ,five cents per pound. Green beans when grazed by,bogs made a saving of feed ranging from $30.46 to $46.03 per acre as compared with dry-lot feeding. Greater saving of feed resulted where the hogs were full fed on corn and tankage than when the grain ration was limited. On the other hand, the feed cost per 100 pounds of gain was least when a limited ration of grain was provided while the hogs had access to abundant forage. Results have not indicated any great advantage from adding tankage to corn for fled growing shoats running on green soybeans. "Besides reducing the cost of gains soybeans keep hogs growing during hot summer months, keeps them -irt the fields where they are less " jeCt to parasites, are more.contented and less likely to try to break out ibf their lot. The grain required to keep them thriving is greatly reduced and they are able to gather much of their bwn feed." Sad Ending of Fool Joke Someone in Chicago thought it would be lots of fun to see the fire engines brought out although it was not April 1. He turned in. a false alarm. The great fire trucks shrieked through the streets. At the intersection the fire truck on which Connick was riding sideswiped the automobile in which the person who had turned in the alarm was driving away. - . Connick's skull was fractured and he was injured internally. Doctors said he hadn't a chance to live. Out at Mount Olivet Cemetery lies a baby son born to the Oonnicks Friday. The little casket was taken there Saturday by the father. At St. Anne's Hosptial, critically ill, lies Mrs. Connick. She doesn't^ kno^her husband is dying. ' * Suicide On Train Columbia, April 4.?-H. M, Rossof Washington, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head on a southbound Southern Railway train last night en route from Washington to Columbia. The body was taken from the train here this morning. A note was left'which stated that "for some reason not known to me I was put on wrong train. Furthermore I am not feeling well as I have offended so many people unintentionally, which ultimate object was for betterpient." The ' note requested that the body be cremated. W. Frank Hipp, Greenville business man-has' contributed $25,000 to the Newberry College endowment campaign fund. ADVERTISING CHAIN STORES (Walterboro Press and Standard) The present attitude on the part of many who seek to condemn the chain stores, js the best advertisement these stores can have. The more one talks about such, the more they become known arid the more business is driven their way. "Every knock is "a boost" said soiAeone, and this is tru# as to chain or other stores. As long as'Chain stores sell'cheaper, or advertise more, than other stores do4 they will continue to draw a goodly portion of the patronage,, and this ib the economic side of the question. I No amount of knocking will make over human natury to the extent of ' causing the averse buyer to pat- ] ionize any store when they believe they can get better goods, or save i money by buying at other stores. | Walterboro and Colleton county do , not know the real chain stores, t While we have several stores here i which are aimilar to the chain stores, j they are locally owned 'and operated ] and cannot be classed as obnoxious. , The chain store which hurts the local j merchant is in the citiee near to Wal- 1 terboro and in the trade zone of the 1 town. And the chain stores in these j cities are no more injurious to the t merchants of Walterboro and Colle- , ton county than are other stores which are patronized by yte buyers j here. The Press and Standard has been i a consistent advocate of buying at | home, and we have practiced it. We ? believe in it. But, if this is to be ( enforced at all, there must be the ^ ability to secure the same kind of , goods at the same or better prices , than are offered elsewhere. Mer- 1 chants must clean up their shelves ] and display their goods in the same attractive manner as other stores display theirs. They must advertise what they have and give enough thought to their advertisements to make them selling arguments?in other words they'must meet competition. The day of the "store-keeper" is passed?he must be a real merchant, and know the game, and go after the business aggressively. The automobile and good roads have revolutionized business, und the merchant must expect the same treatment which he himself gives. This is brought home to The Press and Standard when we see ' stationery printed out of Walterboro?when mail order houses are given preference over the home concern which maintains a plant and pays employees who are buyers from these same merchants who order printing from out-of-town concerns. Let us keep our money at home hut let us have a square deal from the home merchant and business so that there shall he no need to shop elsewhere. The merchants and business men of Walterboro who are planning a chain* Imto of commerce are doing well, rhcre should be a strong organization of our businesses in order that there can be united effort against the ommon foe?the mail order and dis.ant chain stores. We trust that there shall be a great organisation perfected here, Hnd that there shall t.e real booster spirit behind the movement. Let there be plans for making.the stores and businesses >etter places and more helpful in their attitude and above all more progressive and better boosters of their businesses. The Marion Stat ?ays: "Home merchants now have an opportunity to build up their trade. They cannot do it by pointing to unfair tactics used by chain stores, nor standing on the street corner 'beefing" about folk who trade in Charieston, Cloumbia, Florence or Now York. They must clean up theif stocks, move merchandise for cash and stay everlastingly on the job. They must offer merchandise that is new, fresh and desirable, at prices the public \vill pay. While they are not expected to meet chain prices, in ell cases, they are expected to give such values to their customers us will justify the loyalty of their friends. Merchandising has been revolutionized in recent years, and the merchant who expects to sit still and wait fgr the ravens to feed him may as well go out of business now, before he is forced out. If his stock does not contain the things his customers wish to buy, he cannot hope t.o hold their trade and if his prices are so badly out of line that to pay them would entail loss to his friends, there is no agency in the world which will keep him going. The people of Marion are aroused on the question pf supporting the home.? merchant, and they will be loyal just as long as they can, but in order to justify this loyalty our merchants must be up and doing and make it easy for the public to remain loyal. We publish this article, because it would be unfair to the merchants themselves i to lead them to believe that this paI per is foolish enough bo contemplate ai;y such manifestation of patriotism on the part of the general public as would allow merchants to thrive while attempting to do a cross-roads, business, which methods went of stylo in 1881." 1 - - -J--1 , ;? *-? ., Iodine Products Stores I I H Backed by people living in (he Slate of South j Carolina. A HOME owned organization in the truest sense of the word. You are always safe when buying ; in our itorA. Clean stores?highest quality goods. t I U^est\pric?|?100 per cent courtesy. Buy South ! Carolina products from South Carolina owned stores. I Some^ Specials For This Week I OLD VIRGINIA Blackberry Preserves, 1 lb. .. .. 25c { I OLD VIRGINIA Strawberry Preserves, 1 lb 25c i I HEINZ APPLE BUTTER, 1 lb 22c ! I j MUSSLEMAN BUTTER, 2 lb. 6 oz 24c SWANS DOWN CAKE FLOOR 29* I J&LLO, 3 for 25c I ' BARTLET PEARS, Rose Dale, 1 lb. 4 oz. ...'. 24c I OLIVES, Leader, 3 oz 9c j j STUFFED OLIVES, Lippencott, 6 oz 23c I CIGARETTES, All Kinds, per pack 15c 1 i CAMAY SOAP, 1 cake free with every 3 cakes for 25c j | CELERY, each 10c I | POTATOES, Irish, per pound 5c; 6 pounds for .... 25c 1 , j MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE, per pound 36c * I j ! DILL PICKLES, Alabama Girl, 26oz 26c i j! SWEET PICKLES, Alabama Girl, 26 oz. for .... ... 26c I ftUKKS RELISH, Home Made 11c I j DUKES. 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