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M ~f Oft the HdmewSt? Journey Bad Roads in Kentucky?North Carolina and Indiana Roads Best Since writing from Chicago, I thought your typist had ample time; for rest arid got over his cussing' spell, so that he' will be able, by the} use of magnifying glasses to plough j through the raggexi futrows of the.se | jtm-eit. , : We have made it three straight to- : day. Ate breakfast in Tennessee, din-! her in Alabama and just finished a; ;grand old Georgia supper. Traveling through three States in j One day is very interesting; when one J travels on'the ?highways and can see j not only the eities and main stopping j p?mts, b-it going through the country! iiei&k, villages, towns ar-d cities as j well and observing the gradual} Changes in every walk of life, from ! the humble soil tiller to the multi- j iaiiHoiiaire. Yesterday we spent almost the en t?le day in Kentucky, where they have fast horses, fair women and plenty of booze. God fcless the women, may their fast horses multiply and delight ?the worl?j but their highways may be'* * *. When we traveled through Eastern Michigan I used up all the psalms and Sunday school les son* that the King of Hades has ?v?r composed, but when I tried it on the 1 Kentucky roads I found these ^erses entirely insufficient to be ap propriate to the demands and' I leave it to the -coining tourists to finish the 3ofc. I have tried to give you an ap proximate idea of the Michigan roads. ]$?ow if you will multiply it by 612 ybji: may have, a slight idea of the Kentucky roads. About the best roads for comfortable travel are those in North Carolina and Indiana, where they have clay-sand and fine gravel roads and despite . the rolling and h?ly c?u?try the going is easy and in vesting: Tennessee, Kentucky and ?iadafc&ia are simply rotten, and whiie they have all some stretches of es c^?ent roads, the great majority is very bad. ' VVe have gehe through some fine country, beautiful cities, as well as some poor country and dilapidated towns in. every State, and while we have had some hard work, we feel fully repaid in what we have seen and" learned. "Since leaving Chicago on our home stretch, we have met nu merous, tourists from all parts of the country. Th one day's travel we have come across tourists from nine States. At one time, climbing up the hills near C^ncmriari,' S. C, (my car), Florida, Georgia, California and New York .were following each other, so that we had an inter-State reunion on the top of the'hill. ? Cincinnati is a unique city. It is | beautrfnl as a. whole and very dirty in spots." Some streets are so rotten it is almost impossible to travel. ' The main tfu^iness section is located in valley, while the residential sections are' huiltTup> on terraces of the hills and on top Of hills and some of the sec tions are on such steep hills, that they are using cable cars to get up there. tn coming in the city I have traveled down hill without motive power a little over 2 1-2 miles and many times 'LjL? to use the brakes" to keep from going in too fast. But the gas bline saved in coming in did not/re pay for that it took to get out. / . .L?st night we anchored at Nash ville, Tenn. The people here call tjafs .place the ^gateway of the South.. This may be so, corning, frowi the West but I hardly think it applicable coming from the U?.st. Nashville is A .very neat city. It is clean and commodious and the people are very accommodating. It is hilly and roll ing but-ji well graded and kept nice, '^ttenorrow I will reach Atlanta jptt my last lap home. Respectfully, S. L. Krasnoff. j Rome, Ga., June 28. Krupp's Works Lose Coders On Aeount of Strikes > Essen, June 4 (Correspondence)? Krupp s works here have had issued a statement to their workers drawing attention to the fact that by their jtrikes and the consequent unrest in Germany important orders have been lost. A case has been cited of a con tract with a great Dutch concern Vilich w?s lost and went to England, despite the much lower prices quoted by Germany, because the Dutch mis trusted the ability of Krupps to car-! ry. put the contract. Similarly steel ; deliveries for the Norwegian ?tute railroad were given to an American j firm." This also at a far higher price I i Cabinet Changes In Japan! _ - Tokio, May 23.?Official advices from Omsk indicate that the follow- j log changes have recently taken placp j in the cabinet of the Provisional j Government: The Ministers of inter- j ior, justice and public instruction, Messrs A- Gatenbe.g, S. Stankevitch I and Professor Sapogenikoff, have re-! signed and have been succeeded, re- j Spectively by the Vice-Minister of In-j terior, Mr. Pepeliaieff of the Cadet i Party, former member of the Duma;j Professor TaUberg, and the Vice- \ Minister of Public Instruction. Mr. J Pr'eobra.iensky. As all these men j were already serving in the Provi-j ?ional Government the changes do not j indicate any modifications in the j policy followed by the cabinet. By an order from the Omsk govern- j ment. General Ivanoff-Rinoff has be* n '? recalled from Vladivostok. H<=- com manded the Siberian armies of th' Eastern provinces. Marriage Licenses White?Mr. Grady T. Call of Snm ter to Miss Margaret Mail, of Mocks yxile, N. C. This couple were mar ried in the office by Clerk H. L. Scar borough. ' Colored?John Flowers of Sumter 1& A4ft White of Sumter? Select Di-o Coleman As Own Suceessoi ?aptist Young People Reeled Charleston Pastor President. Other Church Bodies Meet. Greenville, June ^50.?Dr. C. C. Coleman. pastor of the Citadel Square Baptist Church, Charleston, was re elected president of the South Caro lina Baptist Young People's Union to day at the annual election of officers held in the Greenville Woman's Col lege. The Rev. Joseph A. Gaines was elected general secretary. T. J. Watts was elected treasurer and Miss Smyrl recording secretary. With the excep tion of Dr. Coleman al lof the officers are from Columbia. The attendance is increasing at the fifth annual convention of j the South Carolina Eaptist Summer Assembly and indications are thai a| record breaking crowd will be present j during the remainder of this wee!-: j and next week for the main events of j a highly entertaining program. The assembly opened Saturday with the 43d annual meeting of the State Bap-j tist Voting People's Union and this! meeting, highly successful in every i respect, came to a ciose today at noon with an address by Prof. L. P. Leavall on the subject. "The Call of the World to the Young People of America." The election of officers, the transaction of miscellaneous bus j iness. the Rev. J. Dean Crain's ad- ! dress and campus conferences con- | ducted by Miss Velma Tanner and C. S. Lea veil marked the closing session. 1 The assembly of the Baptist Young j People's Union training school, to be j in session through July 4, began this i afternoon with a presentation of the I plans for the B. Y. P. U. by Sec- j retary Joseph A. Gaines. Other classes j are to be conducted by C. S. Leave!i and Miss Velma Tanner. The Baptist Teachers' Association of South Carolina will begin its fifth an nual convention tomorrow, with Lueco Gunter presiding. The convention will be in session through July 4 and aii the sessions will be held in the audi torium of the Greenville Woman's Col lege. The summer conferences for older girls, including Y. T,\ C. A. and G. A. I conferences, also began today. Dr. C- C. Coleman, paster of the! Citadel Square Baptist Church of Charleston and president of the Bap- j tist Young People's Union of South I Carolina, delivered the annual conven tion sermon before the Baptist as-1 sembly in the First Baptist Church. } Dr. Coleman chose as his text. "1 Am ' a Debtor," and in an able and under- j standing manner showed to the young j people the debt they owed to their j Creator and to the world. He dwelt i at length on the need of workers in! the foreign fields and stated that this call should not go unheeded by young! persons of the present day. Dr. Coleman occupied the pulpit of the Central Baptist Church at night, while this pulpit was filled this morn ing by the Rev Thomas J. Watts, gen eral secretary and treasurer of the assembly. ? Buys Camp Lands Government Acquires Real Es-J t?te at Cantonment i A disbursing officer of the govern ment was in Columbia yesterday mak ing ,%ttlements for -land recently ac quired -by the government at Camp Jackson. A considerable area was purchased and. the officers were busi ly engaged during the greater part of the day in carrying on the work. Definite information as to the num ber of acres bought and as to the price paid for the different tracts was unavailable yesterday, though it is: rumored on the street that one dr-alj comprised the transfer of some 1,500 acres. The disbursing officers will bei in Columbia today, and in a short time the list of tracts will probably be made public.?State, July 1. Don't Want Stamps Postoffice Can Not Redeem Three Cent Denominations Columbia. July 2.?With the re sumption of the Did postage rate of one cent for \ >stal cards and two cents for letters of one ounce, yester-j day the Columbia postoffice was flooded with foresighted citizens, who had purchased a large supply of three cent stamps in anticipation of an ad ditional rise in the price and who now wish to receive cash for said three cent stamps. This can not be done as the government issued orders some time ago directing postmasters not to redeem any three cent stamps. Stamped envelopes of the three cent variety and two cent postal cards, however, will be exchanged pro rata for on.- cent cards and two cent stamped envelopes. Xo cash will be paid for any stamped envelopes or cords, but exchanges will be made. While the blue three cent stamp can not be exchanged or redeemed it is still good for letters and if t!.-- parcel weighs enough to require over two cents the blue stamp is should tie used. This will enable purchasers to ri.i themselves of -le- stamps They are also good for any letter if the sender is willing r'o donate the extra one cent to Uncle Sam. Tragedy in Abbeville Edward Smith, Discharged Sol dier, Takes His Life Abbeville. July 1.?Edward Smith, aged 22, son of .1. Allen Smith, com mitted suicide here this morning i! an early hour. At the time of .the tragedy no one was with Mr. Smith and he left no information as !<> the cause of his rash act. He wa ; im mediately rushed to Atlanta for lr? ii nient. but expired before reach ins that city. The body was brought !>? Abbeville this evening where inter ment will be made tomorrow in Mel rose cemetery. Mr. Smith was re cently discharged from the United States army. Old Postage Rate In Effect Three Cent Stamps Will Be Re deemed by Government T'ncle Sam no longer demands a three cent stamp to carry- lirsi class mail anywhere in the united States. Section l.l<:"> of the revenue act of 1917 increasing the postage rates to three cents for letters and two for postal cards as weli as an increase on second clLss matter has been repealed and the old rate'in existence prior to October 2. 11* I 7, goes in effect todaj throughout the Cnited States. A paragraph from government or-1 ders r? eeived by the local postmaster relative to the redemption of out standing three cent stamps and en- ! velopes and two cent postal cards] reads: "Postmasters shall red< em from the public all unused and im-j damaged two cent cards and three cents stamped envelopes, printed or imprinted, at full vaiue, provided they' are convinced such cards and enve-| lopes arc presented by the original! purchasers but two cent stamped en- | velopes and one cent cards will be ex-j changed pro rata for the three eent ! envelopes and two cent cards. Great Welcome For Prohibition; Bryan Heads Celebration at Columbus Columbus, Ohio, July l.?With Wil-j liam Jennings Bryan, the principal speaker, the advent of nation wide , prohibition was celebrated at the j Methodist Centenary exposition here ' today by more than 7 5,000 people. Mr. Bryan spoiie twice to crowds that overflowed the grandstand be fore the oval and the Coliseum. Other speakers included Congressman Henry! T. Rainey of Illinois; Bishop James Cannon. Jr.. chairman of the commit tee on temperance of the Methodist Church. South: Dr. P. A. Baker, na tional superintendent of the Anii Saioon League: Bishop William F McDowell, chairman of the board of temperance and public morals of the j Methodist Church; Miss Anna? Gor don, national president of W. C. T. ! U. and Dr. Clarence True Wilson. 'John Barelycorn funeral" proces-1 sion, headed a spectacular "world out- ' look parade" in the afternoon. "As I war time prohibition continues unti; i demobilization is completed, "declared! Mr. Bryan, "and as we have yet in ! the service more than a mPlion emer- I gency soldiers, the chances are many : to one that demobilization will not be j completed before constitutional pro hibition begins. The longer the nation j is dry the greater will be the pres- j ident's reluctance to reopen the grave ; in which a long suffering but at last , aroused people have buried man's greatest enemy." j Speaking of the peace treaty Mr.j Bi..an said: "The senate is quite sure to ratify the treaty, including the league of na - j tions. If it does not ratify, a senate will be elected that will ratify. The i American people will not turn back t* i the old ways of blood and slaughter."' Centenary days will be celebrated tomorrow with John R. Mutt, head j of the Y. M. C. A. as the principal j speaker. ' j .-:-? j S^sion at Clemson Lasting Over; Month Offers Number of Courses to Those j Attending Clemson College. June 30.?Accord ing to previous announcements, the J farmers' summer school opens at \ Clemscn College on June 30 and ex-j tends to August t? with courses for) farmers, eluh boys, poultrymen, dairy-j men, horticulturists, cotton graders; and teachers of agriculture, ladies be ing offered the opportunity of taking] any of the courses or of coming as) visitors. AH courses, except those for club j boys, are open to citizens 18 years of j age or over. Club boys other than I the two winners from each county! may attend by paying the regular fee j of SI per day. j Those who do not care to come for! the entire time are urged to come for [ such weeks as will give them what j they are most interested in. The fol- | lowing schedule will show dates: Dairy week: June 30 to July 5. j Animal husbandry and horticul- j tui<- week: July 7 to July 12. Poultry week; July 8 to IT. Agronomy week: July 1 ?! to 19. General farmers' week: July 21 to I July 2C. Agricultural education: June 30 to' July 26. Cotton graders: June 30 to July ! i> \ C-2rv. club boys: July 7 to July n>. The Way of Communists. Berlin. May 21 (Correspondence*! The firsi Sparticisi disturbance in or near Berlin for weeks took place last ni-tht when they invaded democratic! meeting in th< suburb of Schoeneberg, attacked an ! beat speakers and lead-] ers, smashed the furniture and turned] the meeting into one of their own. They destroyed the German flag, rais-j ed the red banner, shouted "down j with Germany-" and hailed Lieb-! kriecht. Thi presiding officer of the demo- j '? era tic nioetinc saved himself only by! ] wielding .< heavy bell effectively ? [against the invaders. j As soon the democrats were dis possessed, the communist leader,1 [dressed in stolen finery with fingers covered with diamonds led frantic de tuunciation again t the government] leaders whom they c:-.:l?-d rascals and I bloodhounds, and ^ ii.i Germany was [solely responsibh for ihe war: A democrat remaining, attempting to raise a "hoch*' foi the German fatherland, to which the Spartiacists replied "down with i:.-' Communists announced they intend to break up every meeting of ths bourgeoise in the future. I Mrs. C. P Exum is spending some* ' time in Saiu?a, N. C. House Cheers Lloyd George Great Reception for British Premier London, June 307? Premier Lloyd ft'-oree received a rousing ovation when he appeared in the house of commons today. The premier had been cheered by crowds oh his way from Downing Street to the house, but the reception from his fellow members in ili'- house eclipsed tin- cheers la- hail: received elsewhere since his return from Paris. A great majority of the members) arose and cheered when the premier entered and accompanied their cheer ing by waving new.spa.pers. For aj moment th'* liberal and opposition laborite members remained in their seats. im? after repeated demands from the other members they rose and joined in the ovation winch con eluded with the singing <>:" the nat ional anthem, in which ail the mem bers and spectators in the galleri? | joined. j Tin- premier announced tin- peace treaty signed with Germany would I? ; brought before the house of commons Thursday. He seid he would introduce i a bill to ? nable the government to put the provisions of the treaty into ef fect. At the same time he will take the opportunity to discuss i+s terms and the methods or" its execution. Tin- treaty, he said, is the ir.ost com- [ prehensive and far reaching ?>f any document, whether regarded by thei number of mighty nations' parties to j it. by the infinite variety of interests concerned, or the vastness of ihe ter ritories affected or whether regarded as a great new experiment which might alter the whole character af fairs of the world and give a new titrn to destiny. JFiask Goes Dry Patent Medicine Evaporates Be tween Towns The fast approaching dry spell caused a sick person in a smaii South Carolina town to want for doses of a patent medicine which was shipped by express from Columbia. Last wee] ?1 well known citizen bought a dollar bottle of medicine, containing a per centage of alcohol and sent it by ex press to a relative who was nursing a. sick child. The package reached ite destination, but the fir.sk had been emptied of its contents. Yesterday the Columbian received notice that he had shipped glassware instead of a soothing, healing reme dy and he was at a loss to under stand how it happened. The paokag'~ was carefully prepared for shipment and the flask was filled to the brim when it was wrapped. Not a drey was in the bottle after it had traveled less than 100 miles. Riveted on Them. (Charleston Post.) In his cable message to congress at the opening of the present extraordi nary session the president recom m* nded that legislation be enacted re pealing the war time prohibition as far as it related to beer and light wines. He state,] that he WOUld, if he had the power, lift the bah on these beverages, but he could hot act with out authority of congress. The con gress is in complete control of the Re publican party. For six weeks thai party has been stewing in the pan Mr. Wilson put on the congressional Sr< by this recommendation. There is a powerful demand, particularly from the ranks of labor, for repeal of the prohibition, especially upon heer. There i.~ also a tremendous force highly organized and skillfully direct ed, for maintenance and even for ex tension *of the ban on liquor. Be tween the two forces the Republi cans are being worn thin. They are in the last stages of distress. They are crying out in agony. Latterly the} have been trying to pass the issue back to Mr. Wilson. He. they say. can declare demobilization of the army to be accomplished, which is the statutory, prerequisite to repeal 01 the restriction. They have set up an agitation tohave the question brought to the president in this form. Mr. Wil son has met it. In a statement, issued on Saturday, he declares his concur rence with the opinion given by thc attorney general that he has no legal authority to lift the ban on liquors, since ii < annot be held that the de mobilization has been terminated, a million men being still in the military ;ervice. according to figures supplied by the war departm: :>.:. "ft is clear, therefore." says the president, "that the failure of congress to act upon the suggestion contained in my message of the 20th of May, 1919, asking for a repeal of the act of November, 1912, so far a:, it applies to wines and beer, makes it imposible to acj in this mat ter at this tine-. When demobilization is terminated, my power to act with out congressional action." he adds, ? v.il! P.- exercised " And that may no! be until the constitutional amend ment making piT.hibition a perma nent condition, has become opera The responsibility for continuing the ban on beer and wines is upon congress. The responsibility for the action of congress ;?? upon the Repub lican party. Tie- chiefs of thai party j have i.een declaring for months that Mr. Wilson has employed the powers conferred upon him, for the exigen cies of war autocratically and has usurped legislative functions whenev er he desired to accomplish thin-;-: not provided vor. Well, the vra.: over, thr president assumes nothing] of his own authority t ut, enforce ? th? I acts of congress; C.ohgr? =s has de - | rreed prohibition until demobiliza- j tii.ii terminated. Demobilization is hot terminated and he cannot lift '}:?! han. M" congress would could repeall th. law and permit the nse of beer] arid wines :?! Once. There is no es-j rapine the responsibility. Mr. Wilson has riveted it upon the .Republicanj con gress.?Char 1 es ton Post; Mrs. Silas Mellette and daughter. Kathryn. left last night for a visit to relatives in Iowa ES South Carolina farms can be sold to better advantage now than ever before Crop values in 1918 increased Ninety Mil lion Dollars. Money is plen tiful. There is a demand for . small farms. By subdividing your farm or idle land we can sell it at auction for you quick ly and profitably. Note the prices brought by these South Carolina Farms sold through us. Location Near Mull ins, S. "C. " Lake City, S. C._. " Manning, S. C Darlington, S. C _ Hartsville S. C " Timmonsville,S.C. '' Kingstree, S. C... Amt Sold For .$42,999.16 _ 66,723.66 _ 35,294.62 . 25,134 56 _ 10,116 20 . 71,589.85 . 19,206.72 . 11,331 25 . 17,500 00 Date of Sale Owner Aug-. 31,1918 __C. O. Dixon, Esq_ Sent. 10, 1918 ..H. N. Singietary,Esq... Sept. 11, 1912 __Durant, Horton & Floyd Scot L3, L918__Mrs. Mary J. HarrelL Sept. 14, 1918 _.J. D. Coker, Esq. On. 1, 1918._F.L. & John Wilcox.. Get 9, 1918._W. T. Wilkins, Esq... Nov. 49, 1912 ?York Real Estate Co... York, S. C May 7, 1919_Catawba Real EstateCo. Rock Hill, S. C. ! If we ran sell property satisfactorily for the other fellow, and hundreds of en dorsement letters testify to that fact, dosen't it stand to reason that we can seil your land to advantage? In 1913 our total sales of Ninety-Seven Thous and ii>: liandred and Eighty-Eight Acres of Farm Land amounted to Qi^. Five Million Dollars We are comr.etely equipped with an efficient corps of publicity experts, accurate surveyers, energetic auctioneers and sales force. Write today for booklet explaining our methods. Farm Lands Our Specialty ? Territory Unlimited Atlantic Coast Realty Co. "The Name That Justifies Your Confidence** Petersburg, Va.-Greeaville, N. C. Reference: Anybankin Petersburg, Va. or Greenville, N.C. Camden Negro jWeston and Dr. Bunch of Columbia to. [examine the'prisoner.. The majority AW?ltS Trisl of The commission reported that _ j Hudson was irresponsible and unfitted Peter Hudson Shot and Killed110 SV? 1^ and the case ^'as con" j tmued. Another commission compos Policeman Latta ieo" of Cr- DuB?s^ an<3 Dr. Watson of ? Columbia was appointed at a later Columbia, July 2.?Peter Hudson, j date to examine the negro and they legro, who shot and killed Policeman I are expected to report on his condi Robert Latta at Camden last Jan-1 iion. at the approaching term of court, nary, is a prisoner at the penitentiary; Judge W. H. Townsend will preside awaiting trial at the next term of'next week at Camden, and Solicitor criminal court which convenes at! Spigner will represent the State. Camden next Monday. Hudson trasj The shooting and death of the Cam being pursued by officers and barri- j den officer created considerable excite eaded himself in a small building. He meat and much interest is centered in opened fire on the posse and the po-ithe trial. liceman was killed. The negro was J .-'?-: .' hot in several places and was suppos- j Dublin. Maay 19.?The high tax on ed to have been killed. Life was not whiskey has increased the activity of ?-xtinet when the sheriff took charge'the Irish potheen makers and the of the negro and he was rushed to hunt by police and excise agents for Columbia and taken to the State pris-! illicit stills is constantly maintained, on where his wounds were treated. During the past year the official re Hudson pulled through and when] port shows that 412 illicit distilling court convened his attorneys entered i plants were discovered by the customs a plea of insanity. The presiding!and excise officers in Ireland and only judge appointed* Dr. Munnerlyn, Dr.: 2 in Scotland. Was organized in 1SS7 with a capi tal of $50,000.00, which was subse quently increased to ?75,000.00. From $75,000.00 the stock was increased to $100,000.00 by a stock dividend. It has paid In its stockholders in dividends ?266,750.00. Every dollar of its surplus has been earned. The Capital Stock remains at $100,000.00. The Surplus and Undivided profit account at the close of business er. June 30th was $153,656.17. We have added 406 new accounts since January 1st and still have room for a few more. Neill GDoniiefl PRESIDENT 0 L. Yates CASHIER