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MEXICO EVADES - RESPONSIBILITY ^Officials Will Refuse to Vise Passports in Event of Re v fusal to Waive Washington, .Sept. 6.?Apparently convinced that the United States is in "5 .^earnest in demanding proper treat ment of Americans in Mexico, ihe Carranza government has adopted a novel es pedient. in an attempt to re lieve itself of responsibility. Americans going to the Tampico re gion, here after, wiU be compelled-to sign a formal release of the Me* in government's responsibility for t may happen to them. If they ref;rse Mexican Officials will refuse to vise their passports. The condition raises a peculiar sit uation for under international law a - government may refuse travel per mission to foreigners into a region wjaere it may not be prepared to guarantee their safety. vA-v Americans going to the Tampico re gion are being asked to make oath to fcuch-an aiffidavit as follows '"The undersigned, undi?r oath, oe . poses and says -that he has been warned that the Tampico oil region is ?;dangerous district on account of the 'activities.of bandits operating in said ' region; that deponent, by reason of fcis business as employee is on his way to that region and travels at ihis own risk. , That in case some acci dent mighl happen to him hereby he formally renounces thd right that he or his heirs might have to pre sent a 'claim to the M-exican govern ment either directly or through any other channel." , This affidavit is not only required of workmen who are American citizens hut also^of American citizens in the United States holding passports from the State department authorizing them to visit the Tampico region. MINERS STRIKE IN PENNSYLVANIA "Scrantdn, Sept. 9.?Fourteen thou sand miners struck today, making a total of thirty-five thousand men now out in' this district. WHEAT 3'TJROP' IS GREATLY REDUCED Washington. Sept. 8?Further de- j cline of the spring wheat crop reduc ed the prospective production 17, OG0.000 bushels during August, but corn had a good month and shows a prospective output of 70,000,000 bush els larger than indicated last month,; according to the government's Sep-j temter crop report issued today. There were reductions in the fore- j casts of oats, white potatoes, tobacco and hay,; but an increase in buck- j wheat and sugar beets. The condition of the corn" crop was described as irregular, ranging from j . extremely good to extremely bad, but j for the country as a whole, a fair-sized | crop of good quality is in prospect, to-1 , tiling 2,858,000.000 bushels. The loss in the spring wheat cropj was caused by blight, rust scab and j grasshoppers. The total crop of spring and winter wheat now is placed at 923,000,000 bushels, cwhich is more than 300,000.000 bushels below the crop as forecast from conditions pre vailing* in June. Southern States corn crop forecasts follow: * Virginia, 48.S87.?00 bushels: North j Carolina. 58.769,000; Georgia- 66.367.-1 000; Tennessee. 75.473.000: Alabama. ; 70.153,000; Mississippi. 61.341.000; j Louisiana, 34,438.oOO; Texas. 201.287,-j 000; Oklahoma, 65,774,400; Arkansas, j 48,355,000. j DLakins MUi News. Rembert, Sept. 3.?A lot of our: people are away just now. It is a bit late but better late than never. . All osr ginneries are busy, and cot-! ton is being gathered in fairly good ! condition. - Some people have good corn as S. i W. Alien and W. S. Thompson, but moj?rt of it is quite ?r?inary The Y. W. C. A. camp is broken up ?but they will return another year, i having made .arrangements to that ef- j feet. There is a youth in our community, j the son of a Methodist preacher inj Pennsylvania, selling stereopticans I with views of the great war in order | to get money to finish his education j at a medical college. This mention is to introduce him to our good people, white and colored. He does not knew 1 am writing this. He impresses me as a fine young man, only nineteen years old/' The gardens in our community are very poor indeed. Sylvester Allen has the largest bunch of hogs I have seen, about forty or more. I understand he has a nice lot of cattle abso. In the long aco a young woman just eighteen years old was stricken With typhoid fever and died in spite of.all medical skill could do. In her last moments she sang: "O heaven, sweet heaven, when shall I see? O! when shall r get there." Through all these years the words and music have stayed with the writ er. The religion of Jesus Christ is a blissful reality. An old preacher in antebellum days (the war between the States) went into the pulpit of Shiloh. now a negro church, one Sabbath when every thing was parching and birds were dying for lack of water, and prayed for rain. x He rose unsatisfied, again be knelt and prayed with the same result. The third time he prayed that if God would not be merciful to sin ful man at least remember the brute and the birds, and there came a great flood of water. There are peo ple who will say this just happened, but some of us know that (Jod an swers the prayer of faith. "Ha good." Athens. Ga.. Sept. 9.?A thousand armed men are surrounding a swamp near here where Ohe Cox. who is ne cused of murdering a farmer's wife, is?Jiiding. The victim was killed With * garden hoe, _,_ ; AIR TO BRAZIL Fare For Passengers Will Be $5,"006 Each j London. Aug". 24.?Twenty passeng ; ers and a small cargo are to be car ried on the first airship journey from ; Farrow-in-Furness to Rio de Janeiro isome time this fall, according to an announcement here. Owners of the aerial leviathan intend, if the initial ; voyage is successful, to maintain a i regular four-day service, between the two points. i The airship it is said, will be routed via Lisbon. Sierra Leone (West A.frica), and thence across the Atlan tic to Rio de Janeiro. The return Itrip will be made by way of the same j points. Sir Woodman Burbidge. is reported to have booked three berths for the j flight?for himself, his wife and a j friend. The price of these tickets .was $5,000 each. I The airship is known as the R-80. ; It has a gai? bag capacity of 1,2~>0, 000 cubic feet, more than half the ; size of the famous R-34. She is con jsidered the most perfectly constructed j steamline type of airship and has a j speed of sixty iniles per hour. She is [533 feet in length. Passengers' living quarters, are sit iuated on top of the hull and consist ! of cabins, of sleeping berths, a roof j garden and a shelter deck. There is ian observation car below the hull j which is connected with the living ; quarters by means of a.passenger lift ! through the middle of the craft. In I connection with the progress of aero- j nautics in England, it is interesting j i to note, that announcement is made j ! by the Air Ministry of the opening j next February of a Royal Air Force j Cadet College for the training of the j permanently commissioned officers of i the Royal Air Force. Only fifty- j five cadets will be ^ admitted to the | opening class of the'college. Exami-j nations will be held in November, j Candidates must be. between seven teen and one-half and nineteen years of age upon entering the school. A two-years course is prescribed. Com petitive examinations will govern ad- j mission. FANCY PRICES j ASKED FOR LAND ? Good Roads Send Value of Lands Skyward (Jaffney, Sept. 7.?Numerous- auc- \ lion sales of land in Cherokee coun-1 ty recently demonstrated the fact! that real estate here is very high, pur- j chasers in many instances selling the land at higher prices than they paid without even having the land trans ferred to themselves. More than ?1,000,000 worth of land will have; changed hands within less than sixty | days. It is the consensus of opinion that the principal reason for the high prices which have prevailed is that j most of the land is situated either; on or in proximity to the good J roads which have been recently con- j structed in this county; EXPLODE AMERI CAN AMMUNITION! Shells Sold to Germans By Americans Destroyed Coblenz, Saturday, Sept. G.?(By thej Associated Press.)?Property valued! at approximately 10,000,000 marks, j sold recently by the Americans to the j Germans, was destroyed today by a i series of explosions in ammunition j dumps near Xieuwied. Among the ma- j terial destroyed was ammunition j worth 3.000,000 marks, which was sold j Friday to a German company for com merical purposes. Fire followed the fii"st explosion and : destroyed about fifty buildings seat- ! tered about a forty-acre tract, used for years by the Germans^and then '. by the Americans for storing shells: of various calibers. Thousands of! large shells and millions of rounds of ' small arm ammunition which were \ abandoned by the German army were ! exploded, but there were no American : casualities. Six German girls employed in a; dump were rendered unconscious by; the first explosion. They were rescued j by American soldiers. CHAIRMAN "FAIR PRICE" COMMITTEE ? Oliphant Agrees to Head State; Committee j Columbia. Sept. 6.?A. 1). Oliphant of Columbia, according to a letter' from Attorney General Palmer to j (Jovernor Cooper, received today, has j accepted the State chairmanship of I the fair price committee. This corn- I rnittee will be one of the instrumen- j talities through which the State and j the Federal ^authorities hope that the! present standard of prices will be forced down. ; The creation of these committtees was decided upon at Washington re- j cently at a conference between a com mittee of governors, of which Gov ernor Cooper was one, and the attorn- j ey general. Mr. Oliphant will appoint fair pri<-^ 1 committees in every community of I the State, the duty of which will bei to have a price list printed at fre- i quent intervals showing the prevail ing costs of necessities to the consum- : v?rs. These committees, it is presum ed, will bo composed of merchants and consumers. _ j London. Sept. !?. Tin- occupatio?-! of Petropavlossk. one hundred and j r.eventy-fivc miles west of Omsk, i v the Bolsheviki army is claimed in; a Russian soviet official statement. Paris, Sept. !?.?The supreme! council will draft a note to Germany i demanding the suppression of Article ?11 of the German constitution, which j allows Austria representation in th"! German parliament. 1 NATION-WIDE ;, CAMPAIGN Not a Campaign For Money I Onry?World Service For Christ the Ultimate Goal ! It cannot be too often repeated that the Nation-wide Campaign of the Episcopal Chureli is not a twenty mil lion dollar drive. Contradictory state ments to this effect are constantly niade in the public pressA and are sometimes made by individual speak ers who do not know whereof they speak. Tbc Diocesan Committee of the Nation-wide Campaign in South Caolina reiterates its statement, the Nation-wide Campaign of the Episco pal Church is not a "twenty miller, j dollar drive," and it takes pleasure in j presenting to the general public the; purposes of this National Campaign! as outlined by those in authority. | j. To bring the spiritual power of; the Church to bear upon the church'*?! whole task. 2. To secure and train an increas ed number of persons, clerical and lay, ; for Christian leadership and work. i 3. To care for. on a yearly basis, , for three years, the financial needs of j all the General Boards, viz: The Board oA Missions. the>General Board of Religious Education, the Social Service Commission, together with such general agencies as the Church j Institute for Negroes, the Brother- j hood of St. Andrew, Church Temper- | ance Society, Seaman's Church Insti tute. (Church Periodical Club, Girls" Friendly Society, Daughtersxof the, King, etc. j 4. In consultation with the prop-' er authorities, to care for the financial j needs of all the Provinces. Dioceses! and Missionary Districts of a mission ary, religious, educational or social service nature. An eminent leader in the Episcopal Church has called this a campaign for ?"Ships'' and says that means win ning the war. just as the ships for which Mr. Hurley and Mr. Stewart asked, meant winning the other war. The Rev.. Mr. Stewart suggests that other ships may be added to the fleet, but that the five in ? the lead are ?'Membership Discipleship. Fellow ship. Stewardship, Leadership." These are indeed the ships that will bring the Christian Church to the 'Heaven where she' would be.' The Episcopal Church does not for a moment say that its campaign is not a financial one. for no great work can be ac complished in this world without the expenditure of money, and yet, be cause "the gift without the giver is bare," She wants it understood that I her primary objects in this campaign \ are "Information, inspiration and vision." She would teach the people of her membership*^ the work which she has already accomplished, of the work which she has in the past neg lected, ^and of the opportunity for world service that is hers today if the men and the money are forth- j coming to grasp them. CAMDEN FLYER WELLED IN TEXAS, Camden, Sept. S.?Lieut. " Maicolm A. Bateman, who was killed\ in an airplane accident at Austin. Tex., Saturday afternoon, was the son of the late J. F. and Mrs. Janie Nettles Bateman of Camden. He was twen ty-three years of age, a popular young man with a brilliant mind. Receiv ing his commission the early part of last year, he was ordered to com-1 mand an aero squadron overseas, i where he saw service until the sign ing of the armistice. After returning to the States his value as an instructor was recognized and he was kept in the service and for several months had been stationed at Kelly Field, recently doing border duty as an observer and instructor. Lieut Bateman' was married in May of this year to Mrs. Nell Robertson, of Savannah. Ca., who was at San j Antonio, near Kelly Field, at the Lime of the accident. He is survived by his j widowed mother, one sister. two younger brothers and a large family } connection. He was a member of fhe : Cadmen Baptist church, the Masonic ? order and the Woodmen of the World" ; The father of Lieut. Bateman wnsi killed about two months ago by j moonshiners while raiding a still near j Camden. Learning to Read. He was a tall young man of 24. and he walked up to the^desk of Miss Mary Ann Abel in the Red Cross headquar ters in Atlanta aail in wie hand he earied a First Reader. This he held up for Miss Abel's inspection, and his eyes were fairly dancing. "isn't it grand, to be able to read?" he inquired. He was a discharged soldier who j had been ill of tuberculosis. In the | hospital h" had asked to be taught j ??something about reading and writ- { ing". "I was in a line of men. waiting to ! to sign bonus checks." he said. "1 j watched man after man write his; name?and 1 knew I couldn't write! mine. 1 droped out of the line and I went to the foot of the class, so no- i body would see me make my mark, i I knew then 1 had missed something." | This boy had been in the fields near-J Iv all his life, until he went into the t army. Then a little later he found Luit what he had been missing. As ?Victor Vaughn once said: ?'Mow can you hunger for food you never have tasted?" But having discovered his ?nek. the government was ready to j remedy it. Any Red Cross Chapter or office ran tell} you what the government of fers to men---and women?disabled in | the service. New York, Sept. !?.-?Gen. Pershing has planned a review of the Boy Scouts in central Park today. He ?will alsf) be the mu st of honor at a celebration of the Elks, of which h?* is a member. _______._ 1 Paris. Sept. 9.? The Rumanian] delegation to tin- peace conference announced it would not sign the peace treaty tomorrow. - ' HAVE PROTECTION Regulation Measures Unneces sary, Thinks Witness Washington. Sept. 8.?Independent packers of tll*- eouniry can protect themselves from the **big live" pack ing companies without the aid of the Kenyon ami Kendrick hills, the sen ate agriculture committee was told today by .John J. Felin, representing the independent concerns of Philadel phia. * "We are able to take care of our selves.' said Fehn. "Leave us alone. We have had our troubles during the last t\vovyears with the license sys tem and we don't want air.' mure of it.'J Felin denied the statement of Fed eral Trade Commissioner Colver b'_* fore the committee tnat the smaller packers existed "at sUnTrarice" of the larger concerns. "This is radical, vicious, class legis lation." Felin continued. "It will put us under the domination of bureau employes, it will hurt us smaller fel lows becau.se no bank is likely to take the paper of concerns whose doors are likely to be closed any minute at the whim of individual officials." Dr. J. M Wilson, president of the Wyoming Wool Growers Association, another witness, was almost as severe in his strictures of the trade com mission. "Their report was the basis for these hills," he said, "and I'd like you to know that throughout the West theer are a great many r?mors to the effect that the board was not fair. Certainly if the evidence you have secured so far in this hearing is to be credited, their report was wrong." Dr. Wilson, during a discussion with Senator Kendrick. Democrat, also of Wyoming, said he had no objections as a- stock raiser :o packers owning stock yards, but deprecated attempts to take refrigerator cars from the "big five."! "Why, the Federal Trade Commis sion's report itself shows that it is better to allow them to operate re frigerator cars than to turn .the cars over to any one else." he added. "They get more mileage than others can out of the cars." Criticism of present livestock and meat prices would be stopped, he said, "if we had some authority to prove to the public the fact that they will never be able again to get meat as cheaply as they did years ago." Chairman Gronna said today the committee's hearings would probably be recessed within two or three days but would be resumed later. FATHER DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR-ROY James McGill's Son Was Killed In Mexico - Chicago. Sept. 9.?-James McGill, the father of Herbert McGill. who was killed by Mexican bandits, appealed to the senate foreign committee to bring his son's murderers to justice. "Some Have Entertained Angels Un awares." In the long ago one chill winter's; evening an old man begrimed, trav elstained. drew rein at the door of what was then a pretentious home in Tennesee. and asked shelter for the nighf, but they declined to receive him. Repressed his case, saying j the country was strange.vtho houses Jew and far hetv n. that already it was nightfall and ? old; ?aal to get lost or belated meant hardship, possibly death. Still they refused. In desper- I ation he asked that if they would not stable his horse at least they would allow him to come in and sit by the fire, so that he might not freeze. To this they gave a dogged consent, so that h<- dismounted, hitched the horse1 securely, came in saddle bags and all. j The host and his wife gave hirn* scant welcome, and left him to the tedious mercies of their two daughters and a young man who was stopping with them. Many were the jokes and merry! dings at this old hayseed indulged by j all. asking him if the .price of pork , was good, if the hay crop was acund- ' ant, etc. When bed time came he was put! with the young man, who was no soon er undressed than he jumped in* bed without a word of prayer. Not so with our wayfarer, who knelt rev erently and prayed fervently, giving an occasional deep long drawn groan. Our young man became uncom fortable and cculd not lie still. Who was this any way? Where did he come from? Whither was he bound? Our young man ventures some in formation to the effect that he was a preacher on his way to conference where Bishop So and So would pre side and ventured the opinion that he supposed him to be sour and crab !<ed. "If you knew him you would be of a different opinion" ventured; our aged wayfarer. "Do you know him? asked the young num. The re ply was "1 am well acquainted with' him. traveled with him today."' "W$i re is he?" was next asked. 'I am he." What, you the bishop, and these people. .Methodists.' gave you such scant entertainment. Besides, my own conduct has been very repro- ? hensible." Tim young man was pro fuse in apologies, begging the bish op's pardon. Early the next morning the l.i.-.h-j op was up and out. The young preacher was up too and told t he j host he had sheltered a bishop ;vho! was then in the act of leaving. "Stay , tor breakfast. bishop." cried the host. "Whoever ran": entertain a poor wayfaring traveler ear.'t enter-| lain me." the >P r.iiu. and rode.j awa v. "I'agoo.i" j Rernbert. S. C, S<-pt. .r.. __ Knoxville. Sept. 3.?Machine gun-] ners and deputy sheriffs are guarding tie- jail to prevent the release of ftf;v| prisoners who are held on charges growing -111 of the rioting when the, unsuccessful attempt was made to get 1 Maurice Mays, the neyro accused of murdering a white woman. 1 FORREST'S CAVALRY AH Members of This Command Urged to Attend Reunion in Atlanta i i - ! Atlanta, Sept. 10.?Dixie's bravest, ? the boys who rode with Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in the War Between ithe States will make a great showing at the Atlanta Confederate reunion I October 7-!'?. despite the gaps that time has cat in their ranks, j .Major General Joe N. Johnson, eom i mander of the First Division of For i rest's cavalry, was in Atlanta today ? opening headquarters for the eaval ! ry which will be maintained from now until the reunion. Messages will be : sent to every survivor of Forrest's ; band throughout the United States, I urging him to attend what may be : the !r?st reunion, and it is hoped to j have between, four and five hundred : her* when the roll is called and the ? veterans bivouac around their camp fires at Piedmont Park. These veterans, in- common with all ; others, can come to' Atlanta* on one j of the cheapest railroad rates ever j granted for a reunion. To all veter ans and members of their families, 1 to all Sons of Veterans and members j of their families, to all Daughters of the Confederacy and members of the I Confederated Southern Memorial As '? sociatiori, to all maids and sponsors and others, in fact, to any relative of a Confederate veteran, whether the veteran be living ov dead will be given certificates showing they are entitled to the rate of one cent a mile. .Reservations already are being made for the reunion at local hotels and boarding houses. Certificates should be procured at once from di vision departmental and camp com manders, by those who wish to use the one cent a mile rate. Marriage Licensed. White?John H. Sessons of Sum ter and Nettie Matthews of Sumter. Colored--Franklin T. Burroughs of Sumter and Liliie Anderson of Sumter. ? ii?i mum ~wiih mil ?b {CYCLES The best makes. Reasonable prices. Hide a bicycle. v You will feel better and live longer. REPAIRING of all kinds promptly done. Complete stock of parts car ried. Repair, department is in charge of A. J. Hatrield. We give you satisfaction. HatfieM & Cato 26 E. Liberty St. RATS DIE so do mice, once they eat HAT SNAP. And they leave no odor be hind. Don't take our word for it? try a package. Cats and dogs won't touch it. Rats pass up all food to get RAT-SNAP. Three sizes. 25c size (1 cake) enough for Pan try, Kitchen or Cellar. 50c size , (2 cakes) ..for.. Chicken House, coops, or small buildings. $1.00 size (5 cakes) enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage buildings, or factory buildings. Sold and guaranteed by Sibert's Drug Store, CDonnell & Co. and Du nau Hardware Co. Sumter. S. C Washington, Sept. 10.?The liouse agriculture committee reported favor ably on a bill limiting the cold, stor age of foods to t velve months/ V am. L'r. J. H. Huff, well-known street railway, uian of Athens, Ga., says: "?! have read of some wonderful*eure3 tan niy wife's beats them all. ^> "She was just about a nervous wreck and practica dy an invalid?too wt-ak and nervous to perform the usual household duties. She couldn't Sleep and what food she dkl eat did no good. Her kidneys were very U'?tiidesc?ae and bowels constipated. "After taking four bottles of Dreco her strength returned alons with her appetite and ner stomach was digest ing tne food and nourishing her body. The pain.-, in hor !>aeft were jrone and her kidneys normal. The constipa tion disappeared? she now eats aay rhinjr she . raves and, never suffers from it; sleeps sound and is doing be* housework." Dreeo is made from .iuices and ex tracts of many medicinal herbal plants, which act on the vital organs in a pleasant and prompt manner. YOUR farm land, subdivided into small farm* and sold at auction by our method will pro duce quick and profitable returns for you. Many South Carolina owners realize the advantages of our me thods and are selling their farms through us. Here are a few South Carolina Sales made last year. . Date of Sale Owner Aug. 31,'18.C. O. Dixon, Esq. Sept. 10/18 _H. N. Singletary,Esq.__ Sept. 11,'18 _Durant, Horton & Floyd Sept. 13,'IS .Mrs. Mary J. HarrelL. Sept. 14/18 _J. D. Coker, Esq_ Oct. 1/18._.F. L. & John Wilcox.. Oct. 9/18.-_W. T. Willems, Esq... Nov. 19/18.York Real Estate Co.__ May 7/19_.. Catawba Real Estate Co. Location Amt Sold For Near Mullins, S. C_$42,999.16 " HLake City, S. C_ 66,723.66 " Manning, S. C_ 35,294.62 " Darlington, S. C. 25,134.56 " Hartsville S. C_10,116.20 " Timmonsville,S.C._ 71,589.85 " Kingstree, S. C- 19,206.72 York, S. C.11,331.25 Rock Hill, S. C.17,500.00 South Carolina Farms can be sold to better advantage now than ever before. Monty is plentiful and there is a demand for small farms. Quick Action?Satisfaction to Seller ?Satisfaction to Buyer 5 are three principles that have made our organization the largest and most in demand for selling city, farm and ?uburban property. We have hundreds of endorsement letters that emphatically express the satisfaction of our customers. Write for copies of these and booklet explaining our methods. Farm Lands Our Specialty ?Territory Unlimited Atlantic Coast Really Company 44The Name That Justifies Your Confidence" ij Petersburg, Va. I Greenville, N. C. Reference: Any bank in Petersburg, Vu. oi Greenville^ N. C. Offices