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—0~ i Can Play Sunday Golf But Cannot Buy M Gas’ Supreme Court Hands Down Decision in Famous Sabbath Observance^ Cases.—Richards Pleased. Gasoline cannot be sold ondSundav . .V in South Carolina, except as a*1ieces sity, but golf can be played, according Jtp decisions handed down Friday by thci State Supreme Court in the some what famous caseswhich went to the highest tribunal oh _ appeal during Governor Richards’ campaign for ob servance of the Sabbath., In each in stance, however, the Court reverses the Circuit Judge’s restraining order, holding that a court of equity has ho jurisdiction in a criminal case of. this nature. In thei golf case the Court makes it very plain that it does not consider the playing of golf on Sunday unlaw ful, but it does'-hold that it is unlawful for one of the age of 15 years and up ward in any way or manner to engage in golf as a worldly labor or business on Sunday, which means, among other things, that* the caddies must be under that age, . ' In the gasoline* case, the Court holds that the burden of showing a sale to have* been a work of necessity or char ity must rest upon the sellerj and that the guilt or innocence of any person, charged with violation of the statute, must depend entirely upon (he facts and circumstance of the case, as is the general rule in all prosecutions for criminal offenses. Thti golf cake, it will be recalled, arose from Aiken; the gasoline case from Charleston. Governor Richards expressed pleas ure over the decisions of the Court, v ' ■ —J The cases grew out of a campaign by Governor Richards shortly afteriac took office January 18 of last year\to stop all golf on Sunday, and to pre vent tho sale of all articles of, mer chandising except a few classes he v recognized as necessities, which in cluded milk, ice, drugs and prepared meals. Golfers were arresttd at sev eral points in the State, and all were acquitted by juries in magistrates’ courts. : The gHf question calhe.to a crisis ~when Circuit Judge Hayne F. Rice ^s- suod an injunction upon the petition of Thomas Hitchcock, internationally known sportsman, and others, restrain ing officers of the law from interfer ing with the playing of the game on the Palmetto links and the Highland Park course of Aiken. ~ T ~ r ~ A short time later, the Charleston Oil Company of Charleston sought the same lemedy by obtaining an injunc tion from _Circuit Judge William H. Grimball preventing interference by officers with tho sales of gasoline and motor oils. On instructions of Govemor Rich ards, Attorney General John M. Dan iel appealed from the orders of Judges Rice and Grimball, and in its opinions the Court dissolves both in junctions. .. . X The opinion in the gasoline case is unanimous, except that Justice Coth ran does not express views as to con stitutionality; in the golf case, the ' Court agrees upon the result, but Chief Justice Watts and Associate Justice Cothran fikd dissenting opin ions as to certain phases of Justice - Bleases’s controlling opinion. * The golf case, the Court says, re solves itself into two questions: Is the playing of golf on Sunday a violation of the criminal laws of this State? To which the answer is “No.” Can a court of equity enjoin officers from prosecuting parties for violatioif of the criminal laws of the States un der the circumstances alleged in 'the complaint herein ? To which the Court = MEADOWS Macaroni Factory in Naples. answers, “No: 7 ^ / . ^ The gasoline case, the Court says. falls into four-divisions: Do sections 713 and 714 of volume 2 of the Code, 1922, apply to sale of gas oline and motor oils? To which the Court answers “Yes.” .\ Can gasoline and motor oils be sold on Sunday to any and all persons, un der any and all .circumstances, upon the theory that the sale thereof is to \ y « be considered a work of necessity? To which the answer la “No.” Do the provisions of the sections be fore referred to apply to corporations? To which the answer, is “No,” but as to the ei^ployes, officials, etc., of cor porations, “Yes.” ^ ' Was it proper for the Court of equiy ty to grant the order restraining peace officers from prosecuting ties for violation of the sections jhen- tioned ? To w^ich the answer is/*‘No.” (Prepared by the National GeograohlP Society. Washington. D. C.) APLES, Italy’s largest south ern city, cannot boart the architectural beauty of the northern cities, but its peo- v pie, whether rich or poor, are strik ingly beautiful physically. From the storied heights that sweep in a mag nificent amphitheater around the bril liant bay theidd city struggles down ward In a picturesque huddle of dense ly-packed houses and other buildings, tortuous streets full of color and bun- bling with the nervous activity'of th^ South, black canyons of stone stairs. Often slippery with damp and dirt, across which the teeming houses gos sip an^ quarrel in neighborly wise. Nowhere are fisheffolk more pictur esque in habit and costume; nowhere is there so salty a dialect, spiced wlth such quaint and startling phrases and exclamations. Bare and brown ofleg, dressed in ragged, parti-colored mot ley, a stout canvas band about each sinewy body for hauling in the net without cutting the hands to pieces, they bring ashore their shimmering Silver quarry right along the widest, finest promenade In the city—the handsome Via Caraceiolo.. Across that broad street “the charming yilla Na- zlonate, not a house. T>ut a public park, wholly conventional in design, con tains an aquarium which may fairly be considered the most remarkable in the world for both the variety arid in terest of its finny end monstrous ex hibits and the thoroughness of its scientific work. To it many of the great universities of the world con tribute annually for the privilege of sending special investigators in zoo logy. The commercial activity-of this sec ond seaport ”of Italy clings close about thO skirts of the enormous royal palace—-800 feet long on jfhe bay side and 95 feet high—and the*naval basin and dockyard. Every smell and sound of a thriving seaport may he smelleo and heard, multiplied generously; ev ery flag seen on the ships that ride at anchor near the stone wharves.) On the streets men of every race mingle tongues and costumes aud man ners; Babel itself was only mildly confused compared with this jumble of Naples; and throughout all the throng piny the street musicians the maca roni eater—that is a trade, and a sat isfying one, apparently—tiie piratic cabman, the guide; and the baggage- smasher—all seeking >vhom they may plunder with a gracious twinkle of *humi() black eyes. Street Singers Are Numerous. Street singing is an especially Nea- oolitan institution, and when for the first time one hear® beneath his win- /'dow the more often than not off-key versions of the snappy, lilting, inex pressibly infectious Neapolitan songs, he is enchanted, and throws pennies freely. After a week br so of it as a steady diet, day and night, he in clines much more toward heavy crockery! - *' Tire entire Neapolitan littoral is voi canlc, from Vesuvius on the east to the rtoried tufa heights of Cumae on the west. Between Cumae’s ruins and ^Naples Me- those famed’ and mystic „ Phlegraean fields of mu? school days^ ‘ which’" nobody remembers anything about. They have-a.lways been a the ~ater of tremendous voTcaific activity. ' but the disturbances here have no eon uection, curiously enough, with Vesu vlus; also, the two areas are wholly different in geological ‘character and formation. The spongy nature of the rock of the Phlegraenn/fields allowed the In ternal steam tjhd gases to escape with relatively ll(tle resistance at numer ous points; so, Instead of one tre mendous peak being formed, as in the - case of Vesuvius many little craters wart the ground. Thirteen stiil exist, among them Sol fat a ra, bellowing out a ygporous combination of sulphur, hydrogen, and steam, an/f producing s/artling little special eruptions when feased with a lighted ^tick; dried-up Lake Agnauo, with its famous, or in famous, “Dog Grotto/’ where about 18 inches 'of warm, /bluish, foetid car bonic acid gas’snuffs out torches even more quickly thgn It used to the pool dogs kept there for show purposes: and somber Lake Avernus, in ancient bank. Her room and others In the rock are probably part of the remark able harbor works built by the Em peror August us. In this same region is the Monte Nuovo, 400 feet high, thrown up iu three days in 1538. Dominated by Vesuvius. On the east Vesuvius dominates the whole splendid region. He is the Cyclops standing, blind and massive and treacherous, in the midst of his rich vineyards, olive groves, and vege table gardens; for, though he spreads destruction in his blind rages, the fact is that this entire plana is the mar velously fertile soil that disintegrated lava and volcanic/ashes. make. It bears hufje crops, far greater an»l finer than ordinary good soil can pro duce. Among other things, it fields the grapes whose spicy juices are so precious their wine is termed Lacrimn —Cristi—Tears of GhHitTT" After the great eruption of A. D. 79 there were occasional eruptions which varied in intensity, until" 1500, when the volcano became quiescent. The crater walls grew up thick with trees and scrub, while cattle jand wild boars roamed the grassy plain inside—all but an ominous lower level of.-ashes and pools ofliot, gaseous water. Then, in December of 1631, the Whole In terior was blown violently out, and 18,000 people are said to have per ished. Since then Vesuvius has never been entirely quiet. . It was horrible hot mud that over whelmed fashionable Herculaneurii in 79, belched from the crater as torrents of steam, boiling water, and scoriae. Herculaneum is a rich and tempting bait to the archeologists, for from a single one of the ruins came most of those exquisite bronzes in the Naples museum, and 3,000 rolls of papyrus, part of the owner’s private library. What a contrast id Pompeii, de- . stroyed at the same time, but b\ ashes I Though these gradually hard ened into something like cement, they are much more easily removed than the stone at Herculaneum, and most of what we know of the details of ancient Latin life we have learned from the stark, scarred, roofless lower stories spread out before us in deathly pan orama within the old city walls. Stabiae and Capri. Where the pretty little modern wa tering place of Castellammare dl Sta- bia, with its cooling sea baths and strong mineral waters, lies snugly in a^ little bight on the neck of the Sor I rentine peninsula, Stabiae once sfood. It Is one of the very loveliest parts of Italy, a region of tumbled hills dothpd w ith luxuriant groves of orange ami lemon, whose golden fruit adds luster to the gleaming foliage. Entic ing roads of .milky white wind and wind, now between high-walled grove and vineyard; now along open, skyey heights^ witli the blue sea as a back ground hundfeds of feet below, and the beetling cliff rising straight be hind; now beside villa gardens, where every brilliant color on nature’s palette seems to have been poured out with prodigal fullness. The air is f perfumed, the skies are soft aqd balmy, the roads superb. ___Capri, a great, twin-humped camel of an island, kneels in the blue just off the tip of the peninsula. From the sway-backed huddle of white, pink. their views \of the modern girl! t that doesn’t Wop the rest of us* rom wanting to l\ave our own views too. y Arthur Brubane AGE BEING PUSHED BACK. EXTRA WEIGHT TIRES HEART. RAT-PROOF BUILDING. An expedition of the California Academy of Sciences returns from the mysterious Galapagos Islands bringing giant lizards, tanly sur vivors of the Mesozoic age, ant!, more interesting to the youth of America, “flightless” cormorants, huge birds that have lost their power to fly because they have not flown for so long. What applies to flying for your self. applies to thinking for your self. It’s easy to lose that faculty. Darwin visited those islands more than seventy-five years .ago, and would have'liked to explore the inaccesible mountain tops that no one thus far has visited. -B: C. Forbes says that great banking houses, notably Morgan & Co., biggest cf the aggressively enterprising firms, admit to part nership men about forty years old. r Davison, - Lament, - Morrow and other important Morgan partners were taken in at about forty, the age supposed to combine sound judgment with power to carry a heavy load. In 6ther days forty began the “graybeard” age. Great careers, Alexander and Napoleon/ the two most spectacular, were over at that age. Age is pushed farther and farther back, and the J, P. Morgan of 200 years hence may be selecting seventy - five - year - old* partners for their “combination of mental and physical strength.” .jr _ , ' •» ’• Senator Capper, of Kansas, seeks-* reduction in railroad freights oil grain. Not all farm ers realize that . Uncle Sam’s money has been spent tp make it impossible for farmers in some parts of the United States to com pete with Canadian" farmers. Northwest :Canadian w h e a t^ reaches our East Coast and Europe, through the Panama Canal, at low freight* rates.^ This country built the canal, taxing its citizens, and hts th* whole world use the Cana! it -.me r,.te a$ Americans pay. /_ Famous Pitcher of the Pittsburgh Pirates, tvrites: "It requires splendid physical condition and steady, nerves to take your regular turn on the mound season after’season and in looking for my ciga^ rette I wag anxious to find one which could he smoked without taxing my wind or irritating my throat. I decided upon Luckies and I can safely say that I am never troubled with > a cough and my wind is in splendid shape.” If you are too fat, you treat your heart unjustly. So says Dr. James McLester. The heart works harder to carry extra weight, but that is only part of it. Fifty to one . hundred useless pounds of weight represent endless billions of living cells that demand 4ipur- ishment, heat, water, and their added share of the energy that causes metabolism, or change of tissue. * ’ • . Extra weight tires the body, brain and heart, constituting a "loafer class,” or idle rich class in the systerp that shortens life, diminishes comfort and useful ness. In that, a human body is like a government. Idle rich that consume and contribute nothing, except silly opinions, are harmful to the entire body politic and a way should be found to make them work. . The Cream of the Tobacco Crop “Here in the Southland we know good Tobacco. It4a born in us and it is the livelihood of most of us. *1116 Cream of the Crop* is bought for LUCKY STRIKE. 1 know for it has been my duty to pup- markets for years for this i brand.’ No Throat Irritation-No Cough * 1 Y Manv DeoDle the«e davs arer.resent, L tln,es •UTOuSded b y dense forests and Many people W>ese days ar^ present, J, dark trad mons, one of which declare,! i fly across it because ol )ous exhalations. * no bird Its poll The Curaqean Sybil was supposed to inhabit a gloomy cavern in the south blue, cream, and drab houses along the large harbor, up the breakneck road to the fascinating town nestling among the hills, ° white-roofed and. Moorish, and on, still higher, by the winding road or up the nearly perpendicular flights pf rock stairs, which furrow the frowning crag with their sharp, zigzag outlines, to Anacaprf, 500 feet or so above, every step of the way breathes the pride and splendor and degradation of the island’s greater days. , J - Here a cyclopean mass of shattered masonry in the warm emerald water tells of^ Roman emperor’s bath; yon der on a chlraneylike cliff the‘sinister ruins of a stout castle keep whispers of ancient garrisons and pirates, not armed with automatic rifles or high- powered artillery; and here, overlook-. Ing-the sea, the vast ruins of a villa recall “that hairy old goat” Tiberius and his wastrel voluptuousness that turned fair Capri Into satyrdom. Capri 'today is richly dowered for Sightseer, artist, historian,^antiquary and geologist. On every hand are shaded walks and sequestered bowers in the thick groves of orange and lemon, laurel and myrtle; wild back gLoundx.,pf tumbled r<x*k; titani? rifts in the crest. Into which the sea has thrust^Jong, insidious blue fingers. Mr. Remus, who interrupted a bootlegging career to kill his wife, and was congratulated, rather strangely, by some of~ the , jury that acquitted him, i^ to have* “a period - of rest under scrutiny.” That’s to see how his mind is and decide about letting him loose to resutne business. His wife is^hav ing a longer “period of rest” un der the ground. , ’ .. ' •v . ■■ ~~ ♦ * Los Angeles sets a good exam- ple^to other cities, ordering rat- proof features in all new buildings. It would he an excellent idea, and economical. in the long run/ to make old‘buildings also rat-proof* the city paving the cost. Modem destructive gases might be used for rat, mouse and insect extermination, * including- the de struction of the. dangerous flea carrying ground squirrels and gophers. r . , Professor Ross, of Wisconsin University, i^ worned about over- population of the eartji. Let mar ried people have four children to a ; f anily. let the children marry and do likewise, and population doubles every twenty years. AtV/ ?hr.t rate, this countrv, in forty years,* could have 460,000.000 pep - pie, more than China, aud in one ivynrired years, our population J would he 3,840,000.000, more than twice .the earth’s present popula tion. x A doctor of Manhattan, Kan., believes he has found a cure for pyorrhea. Mr. Gundlach of Chi cago thinks he also knows a cure. A real cure of that curse would be worth fifty millions to its dis coverer, and would be cheap at twice that DR. A. H .MEREDITH OPTOMETRIST and OPTICIAN Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted Artificial Eyes Matched - - /w— Inserted. 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