The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 08, 1920, Image 2
mm
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?reu* the Site of Edward the Con
fc?j^eat tSe discov
s been inaae of what appears to
site of Edward the Confessors*
$!?*$4LO ^e-^^erer, .(^k.yaughaa
^ittlftms, 'bad,. v?t^ti9tt town , to
^twp. moats wfeftritfebits^^ been par
a?^nff?^?nd. ?erje h,e naearihed some
^ ..ike Nomai brie^ He next
?v.
upon flinty, sandstone and tiles,
he Is coatiai.mg the searth. . In
tfie d^?iOf -4>M^. ^c^oria a tower
yifth wails -22 feet thick was polled
1 ^own. whfcj^ -ara* said Jb? arcbeologists
t^liave beeo hniltJ^JMw?rd the Con
? lesseeJ^ae^^ylef ?? ?er?sn!re
; ^r^ee^ei^x s^^ty.; in , ejection
^ttlve?ptal? .^ptJ^s: Jnd,.s^.tes;that
there ;waa: before the. fo?ada#on ..of
" &:s?r:,~caatt? ft apaiice. .4? Windsor
where many notable even ts hap
"^^wjliitd a tower at ft
se^JEa ? ^rlelap ^S.
^ ^occors wh%h.vreprer
'?^ri>'^ady.li seen gr*
^*ain.g for, ?erai*.t?e
? ;;or: "ioar^e^V.- ai^ojc of
'gfgj.^wa^^jfc. Conf essor ,cer
3c*&s^ !
*wjfcb a$r would ha*e |
bis Sb?rhey. He then ga ve
i^^tae mos&s, biit tae-glft
^}1&To|ed ?. William the C?ti
^?^^^hoi(feid Wia$&r c?nvenieat
buats In; the forests.
.';;V .'Dakar/ Africa, Promises to
-r;iLike
- f*. *- -vT?
> ; v>v j; - Another LiVierpoot,
Ti--^l? iimr?n&?roflnd t)^- stiee|s .4pd
-k'rr^^?fft;#o^g with ^eftstscpped
* ";npen their back?, has suddenly coioe j
^^m^ce a* -/the &m#&th
_* " ^1^*^ will hare
..- r?iFrea<fc*i5e^^^y;;m%ing
" much Ba^^^to;-'eslarj^Bj^':
la&ng the barror I
?s rhereasmg^aie tacit- 1
en^^carg^ dfanJrtaj'
?5a?iSe;-ate,. However, great
^liiiaft^ t^ogiP fact^aiy
:y been tile laas
^?3*^-fiar. ^evfonidins otvDaifcar.
?^^jwy know a great deal more abOQt
1?;
X
flavV* Great Atri}rf|> Hufltr.
Se it .a J^Clg^ ^BpJS3LT\4S to i
^^O^^m^de, j
^^^haye^ ^ear inside -height,, of
^t^m^t^ the to^al he^t -fr^m
^ir^?lo ibe peak 4he roof w4B
?j|w#r 28fc Jfeet 123ie ^ed^fraxne
-ii??:wiH*fc%er^^^ Two ele
vfito?s-atid sererftVstairways-will lead j
^??4 .ro?l!.: The many shops neces
.be^wUt-.^w^Br.een ihe
jK6at:^r^p; 'jfi^^'i^'lwlpj^ - tbe
fe^^i^r^^^^5* Hin
^^^int^^pj^i \o h$ld
or two 5,(KW^)0. cubic f^et ships side
V -
. ..V,; Lesgers Um. Electricity.
^^vJ-j^her '^mjo^^.^a^ft-' timber
frooi'^ne'- of - tie national forests has
{ ^^gf_ .^?^^^trans.
l^f;.camj). ,Cur
,?p1*^^p^ ftjlll..?Si>ce
na?iy ^ea^^ea s^art,. from;, loggias
e^u^meat as? -camns, the government
fores-ers reipird the iatroduetl?n * of
>tbeat wi?^uch favor.
sa^^s%op,?d^iga^^
. Ww^^yf^ fi^ of the, Operator;?
jray,:-^e-*piBdle is. bon?d. with;a ftye
^e*>alh-inch hate, to receive m ad
J?ls^^e 'sl^t far interior isrla^ag,
ana iljfe us? ja ^?rcha?_reabte grind
itig wheel2 adapts the little machine
te a wide r^e ^ VOTkv
Practical Economy.
_[e eter get an economical
"f?ie j5oes; g Only tafs sammer she
iS^sS?iMj^-W^^yf la ?n?
j doing her bwa housework.*'
?w.;djii .jtjp&jwt?' ^
^ got a .cook book; I "got dya
a and the doctor got the $8."?
Boston Tran sen pt.
3fc
Unavoidable.
dwiTt worry aboat.
s craakiftess. Don't take ftaj
the
any ao
fri!^-I a?*e for saeia Just given It
irt&*rtea^ Trfisertpt.
SHtcin vOw#s ^?^p Debt of ?ratitud*
to Patrick Qu man, of Whom
1 tittle Is Known.
! ? . . T v. ?? v i
: .One of the most vit? and at tns
j M?he time mysterious figures In the
war <wr the British side was Patrick
j jfcffijiTt,. pn American of. Irish descent
ifnal because he planned _aii tfc? great
!" munition works which enabled Great
: Britain, to supply not only her own
I lit her allies* needs in munitions;
; in^sterjoos because his namewas
new aliowed to be mebtiio>ned during
the -war^atjd. .because he would never
be'fBterriewe?.
Mr. Qainan reached England by way
.of Sooth Africa* Trained at du Poht's,
ffcejv.eat to the South.African . Explo
sives, coippany.. at Gape Town, then the
largest In the British empire, owing to
the demand for explosives for mining
purposes. The vast factories laid out
la England^djorUxg jthe0^r~npwsome
.wjiati.^.a^wfa^^ete^Dant; as their
ex?r^fpn to peace purposes is still
unse|tled?-were all ? designed by Mr.
? <&Tflac,:.
Qii!^^ of age,
and since the close of the war has dis
appeared.;. His'name was.neTer in any
"honor ji^^wl^|^;taL rather a.^dls
tlwtfonV these l3mes.^ JHewasr.. never
^ypn ..acy ^iwe^H^t^^l^ aV
inemb^r'..?f the,, government or the
ans3^. JSttU no one man did as much
. td: help win the war as this retiring
Mr, jfcuinan.
W?? t?u?ht Ktt! something
Returned Doughboy Convinced, Among
Other ThlnaW That There; Is Llttlo
Gained in Kicking.
,~ ?Tte re ? are thousands., of rehffned
apfenere. t?i whom ?e war was a spir
iro? unfrer^ty.^ ;*ays.~ Maude. ^?d
for^^arw^to J^er^ody/s. /TThey
S*a?eJ wj>n^aji^ and a
pi^hpj^o^ fieir jea?, ThYJest
ajge^^^^i^^od. endowed through
'tb^^^\.^jB^ofe^^'.^|^8he? with
^^^'o^J^'?ft 3 used to kick
If things didn't go right Well, sitting
around m tile mud >over here I ?avc
fcejh?n to,&inV a lot about some -of
^i^A^pwpie I know. They take
?|^^;'^st^aA:'tbe^ "come, I noQce;
a^onT'fack much. Ofe seems to feacn
snu fi^it .well,, the war strikes me
^^^.WtbC^.<^i^ed life, It's
?:^;'.^ijM^.?e*--go.":*|^ .*-gri% and ?
ifi??fcy ?et .teeth, and X try not
'^^?^^^i^yr,^^ good luck I
?pnnl .gja^car velvet. ...,It,vi?ay not
be a .iogicaUBray otlooking at Hfe, but j
i^? ^M?icai .w.f - SttJJng here in j
# mute and getting o!d.',njyse)i I -fig-:
aW,-:tbi^a>&o?t.-lJ?e''^ay lihe. nice j
:m^0^^^p J tod^ ^. home
^nfs. '^:e'in|;|' g^o^sjport ''is |
aboiifc a^goqd a thing as anyone can ;
<^atribut?;to;tfa? t^rloV;?'
. .^aori?a^ % home ofv. the dodovfe
in...tk)liticai^^;Jiroeligh^, or, so,, Ijt
T^nli. anp^^fiom, ta^nBopncen^ent j
that .the Bordeaux ? chaanber. .01 own- j
mercf^has requeated tho..^ench gov
ernnient.to^eh'ter intb^rle^?gs with
Britain with a view to restoring for>
^in(
rat^f^si^^./pi i'^uriijns as ?g^e
tiuVji^m^ of'^a^oV. ahnpstJa^ujous ]
i^ea^irg... ^jm^^^^j^g^^
5^- Gerne, :a.^Aj|ime^wj^i -it; Is^aald^to
Ja^aJderiTejdJ frp^,^e^"asx^e.,.d^,
oc^njore n^r^man^eally^tha gronnd
pigeon. Portuguese, French, Dutch, j
and ' B^tish Jiave allw been ^connected
wfi*. :^|^oi^pf ^a^t^ It was
d^orerod by tie^Portuguese. It was
Fcencn-'for 4/K>->ears arid then British.
It;became British in 1814 but during
t?ic i^et^h ;|^?6hitiojDt^ it aad served
as a ^uj^for^ niany en^ugres4tp whom ]
the" Emerald isle of tne Indian ocean
Was known as the scene of Bernadia
de St. "Pierre's "Faul et Virginie.w In
aize; it eqaal^about the eighteenth part
of.the area of England and Wales..
Was Varietyrthe Spice of Her Life?
It ;i| commonly ^^fhojught that a very
long series of ? names, is ^.^sjiryed^, for
kings and the sons^nd dau^ters of
kings. We ba^^e^n^nilst exclaimed
over the seven names with which King
.George's eldest'.s?;n\is,affiicted, or the
f^ormer crown prince, for that matter,
^^^babl^^eton^l name jn. /be
wori? Is attached fto ? mere laundry
man^daa^bter^ S^e.^as born ,jn 1883,
aod.;nef parents, suralyr from a sense
of the I 'jdlcrous,, ga^e her a name for
eyjB^etl^fo^^
^^ni^^erj^ Dj^yqa.' Emily
^th?ine 'LouIsa^aud. Nora jQphelia
pa'tienceu:?u^?ce,r|^
esa Ulysses. Venus Winifred Xehophon
j tetry Zeus Pepper. What will Miss
1 Pepper do, when it comes to finding
[ new names for her own future fam
! Hy??Boston Post.
y* Maichine Does^Work.Qylckly.
A piece of jarudgery that has been
assigned to. machine labor is .applying
?rfcnjccp, A. netr e3ecjtric machine, with
pid^s making l,50p revolutions per
j minute puts on the".material, and the
opera0r and .an ,assistant feeding the
hopper, corer the .space rapidly and.ef
j nciently. The plastic substance is pro
jected with such force that a thin flIra
of moisture is squeezed out behind it,
causing a waterproof protectire coat of
enarail to form upon the surface.
W*?er* to Dodg* Tips.
I? T?4Ja a native bdrber can shara
i person while ?sfrep Without awaklaj
bAfli, so g^'t'c is Ms taiick
TAKE PRIDE IN UMBRELLAS
I .?:?i
1 indo.Chinese Workers in France Never
Fall to Carry Them on Sundays,
Rain or Shine.
I Riding along through France on a
Sunday Id these times, one Is reason
[ ably certain to meet many Chinamen
j under umbrellas.
I They mostly hail, from Indo-China.
J The French imported them by thou
j sands for service in the labor battal
i iona behind the lines. During the
j week, dressed in nondescript mixtures
j of native garb and cast-off uniforms,
. they >rp& , at road mending or at
ditchi di?Xai\or at truck loading jobs.
On Sundays they dress themselves
up In their best clothes and stroll
'about the countryside. And,.rain or
shine, each one brings along with
him his treasured umbrella and carries
it; unfurled above his proud head. It
never is a Chinese umbrella, either,
but invariably a cheap black affair of
local manufacture.
Go into one of the barracks where
these y*ltow men are housed, and at
the head of each bunk there hangs a
black umbrella, which the owner
"guards a* his most darling possession.
If he dies I suppose It Is buried with
him. , , . ........
'.fVobody knows why every. Sunday
the Chi^anaVu sports, an umbrella, un:
less It be, that in his" Oriental mind he
has figured it out that possession of
such a thing, stamps him as a person
of travel and culture, who, like any
true wsmojpo?tan/ is desirous of con
formjailtd the custom of the country
to which he has been transported*. A
Frenchman, if careless, may leave his
umbrella behind when he goes forth
for a grnmenade; a Chinaman never
does.?Iryin S. Cobb in Saturday Eve
ning Peat.
HOW WOMEN HAVE ADVANCED
1 t
interesting Now to Recall Their
Status in Great Britain Less
Than a Century Ago.
. &pAili women be whipped?
ten?ry??o wiseacres, poli
ticians iau\ noble lords of Great Brit
a^^ere,debating the point It was.
suite a naw idea to worry about what
was happenic? to women, but after
iouie discussion It was decided that
|w/J^^ nbt to be whipped?that
i&iS^war_to handle them was oV
^'i^^^e?b^^rmt, method?and In
tnt wiieacres, politicians and
nobit iords_passed a bill known as
thsr W.hJjpp^g act, oYohibHinji the cor
pxjfai.panlahjnent of women.
Hating made this exertion on worn
^'a^hahalf they: returned to. the dis
cneilon of things which interested
them.
Fifty years passed. The seed which
had been planted in 1820 began to
take root in 1870, and the question of
special legislation for women again
bobbed up. This time an act was
paSaed alto wing women to be posses
jf?rf^.^^fieir.jyfcn:^properfy^-a mag
nan^?^I^;. dorament known as the
marlrt^ ^wamen'S p/roperty act.
J&oi>.ifitro>cts^ small in tiemselves,
wer?, irf^pq^^w?ei?
^?r? .the ^t kimiskoh that women
bad; *ny rights.or legal status,
^ia the Ijsat .jttfis years women have
corse to the foreground in leaps and
boands. ?y the iaterpretatioa a:ct of
1SS9 the goVerament weat so far as
& .allow that ^ords in. any act of
'ffilltmmt passet? after 1S50 imputing
tne^ maacaftne Igender shall Include
ra?^esvunrote the contrary intention
apj?re."~t*ndon Mail.
. Open Avowal.
. There Is aae family la Washiagton
tj?tt. has a Oennanic name. There are
?'ttaay; mare families with, cognomens
smdting of Teutonic extraction, of
canrae. .
particular family has a. very
?ttia\Wy in it, who, in paying. witn
tiic oper ooy3 of the neighborhood
h^aa^beea fibed more, or less . on ac
.?ggaai of ijs name. The aatfjes are
sa.aii affairs, oi course, since the par
ticipants .are very smalL .
. Perbtps the young man saw the fu
tility of war. Perhaps he Is a phi
loinpher.. Anyway, his latest reply
speaks of genius.
<Teu*re a German! You're a Ger
man?* a playmate yelled at .him.;;
The fnur-year-old grinned peacefully
and drawled:
*Tm a German spy, I am."
Material'.for Paving Bricks.
\ The, slag- of British. blast furnaces
\ con tolas paj per. cent of silica and 22
of aij'.mjaaand ma^es excellent paving
b'riAs^^.l^o^Vt&t^e; . but bricks
j tjrjim ;^^an* slag7:wh'ich ha^s.;34 per
! ginjf 'of ??* and .14 of, alumina,,are
I ilaasy ~Mi& ;>ritil.e:- The , American
|/ick5 Aiulc^ly^olidify in a thin outer
skin. In ^-grocessvpateated] by B.
I Sha^' a .product .of improved texture
is attained by immersing, the hot
brinks iu red hot sand and cooling
slowly for twelve to eighteen hours,
to' aolidify the Interior as rapidly aa
- the outside.
American. Kindergartens Abroad.
'Froth New York city a body .of kin
dergarten workers has started for
France. They will strive to bring hap
piness Into the lives of French or
phans and to start .anew the streams
of young' folks who must ffi) the
schooltibuses of France. The unit will
be under the direction of the feed
Cross, With the National Kiudergarten
association behind it.
No Newa.
*T tell yen. youiig Jones Is a narked
man."
. "Oh, I^oeyv that the moment I %tk
U* .eagle he has tattooed.*u,;ki*
*n%v?BsiUpore American, .
PROUD OF "LAST GOOD TALK"
Brave Little Jap Wrote Hit Record
High, and Died as a Soldier Would
Wish to Die.
J 'Tamato Hykashi, familiarly known
?s Togo in the battalion, joined up at
j Vancouver. He was a bright, attrao
. tlve little Japanese with a beatific
! smile and some quaint knowledge of
I English. 'Most honorable . consclip
tioa no catch me,' he told the recruit
ing officer with a wide, disarming
smile.
"He put 'married' opposite the ques
tion,..'married or single,' on the attes
tation form, and favored the officer
with a pictorial view of his family?a
pretty almond-aped girl and two doll
Hke babies. He accepted the assurance
that they wonld be looked after by
the Canadian government with beams
of delight. Then, squaring himself as
if he were going to fight the whole
German army, he strode away happi
ly\ with a sergeant to the military de
pot ;
"Togo became a Lewis, gunner, the
&ist3STo, V in the unit. He developed
a, passion forthe. weapon that amount
ed .almost to idolatry, and^ during the
j training days astonished the Instruc
I tors, not infrequently, by scoring pos
sibles on intricate landscape targets.
<Hua feel peevishly when lonorabla
Lewis talk with a full mouth,; he used
to boast, and then proceeded to spray
bullets at a a amazing rate and with
tincanny accuracy on indicated post
t!ons-rth? make-believe of the ma
chine-gtu school.
"The lorin transit from, Japan, of
letters from .the almond-eyed girl _in
spiled, .converlsations with ?honorable
T^eiHsr-saii. crooning, Httle ^alks that
none of the gun team understood. But
they would not intrude upon or inter
rupt him.
\ 'The Lewis gun posts, pu&hed well
out iia the crater area of th<? neutral
ground, had been put out of action, the
guns, destroyed,, and the crews mangled
byjLhurricane barrage?all except one.
Toward evening, as the German infan
try advanced to complete the work of
the Bigh explosive and shrapnel, this
one gun stuttered defian ce and pecked
little gaps here and there In the on
j coming waves of field-gray. Its spas
| modle rat-ta-tat ^ndicated to the anx
1 Joualyv listening men ln: the front line
j &t el?ex. tne gun or the gunner had
; not entirely escaped the shrapnel hall*
Tien silence,
; a "A. tent, burdened iignre emerged
from a shell crater, 75 yards in ad
vance of the oncoming Hone, and stag
gered towards the Canadian lines.
Twice he fell, bat struggled gamely to
his ftet, pursued by scattered rifle ?ra
It was Togo. A doxsn volunteers
leaped the parapet to his assistance;
a hundred rifles held up the enemy.
"They lowered him gently into the
trench, marveling at the vitality that
had animated the terribly.torn body.
The (run he saved lay, smeared with
blood, beside him. His shattered arm
mov.ed,;towards It, as his spirit Cov
ered, on the brink of the shadow, a
smile lighted up the drawn face. 'Him
j have last good talk. Hun no catch
j honorable Lewis/ he said?and passed
J out"
First Patents for Steamboats,;
! By a number of curious whiddences
< the; ?idted States government issued
I its first patents for steamboats on An
j gust 26, 1791, to Nathan Read, John
I Fitch, James Rumsey and John Stev
! ens. Some time previous to the issu
| Ing of these patents Read invented
j the necessary machinery to adapt
? Watts' steam' engine to boit and land
carriages. In 1789 he exhibited to a
committee of the. Am er ican Academy
of irts and Sciences a mb?el of a
t steaMoat ,With paddle wheels, which
I he designed to connect with as high
! pressure engine. Read also Invented a
multitubular boiler and still another
form of boiler on the same principle as
Is used at the present day on our loco
j motives.' The fire piissed through
small spiral tubes, kn? In this way
consuming the smoke and several oth
er forms with many apartments to
which the ? water was to be gradually
admitted as fast as it was evaporated.
I Wooden Shipbuilding i!n Australia.
j ^ Th<? lack of Bhipbuilding and . the
] pressing need of providing cargo space
for; the?^,000 tons of wheat and the
large quantities of oiiner . products
awaiting shipment in Australia is caus
i Ing a revival of woQden shipbuilding
j which was comparatively important in
j the days when wooden sailing ships
were the dominant type of vessel. Con
I tracts have been let by the common
j wealth government for the construc
I ttoi} of 12 wooden vessels of about
2,000 tons each at Sydney and sir of
2,300 tonst at Fremantle, West Aus
i trails, with a possibilty of arranging
for a considerably larger number. It |
I is also proposed to build 20 vessels of
j from 500 to 2,000 tons In Tasmania.?
j Scientific American.
The Simplest Way.
Mrs. Flash went away to spend a
1 fortnight with a friend, and while she
j was away Mr. Flash wrote to ask her
J where she'd put the key of the billiard
i room.
"In my bolero pocket," she wrote
back, "somewhere in the wardrobe."
When Mrs. Flash got back she found
the wardrobe absolutely empty.
"Where have you put all my things?"
she asked her husband.
"My dear," said he sternly, "you rmd
me that key was in your bolera pocket I
la that wardrobe. I searched, and as j
I don't know a bolero from a box plait
1 just took everything into the garden,
set nre to them, and recovered the key
from the ashes 1"?Adelaide, Australia.
Chronicle.
TO HONOR GOLD DISCOVERER
Project for Establishment of a Mu
seum at PlacervMIe, Cal., in Mem.
ory of James Marshal I.
Miss M. A. Kelley of Kelsey, instruc
tor in EL Dorado county schools, has
undertaken the establishment of a
Han#own museum at Piacerville, and
a similar Institution to be erected sur
rounding the blacksmith shop of the
late James A. Marshall, discoverer of
gold in California, as it now stands in
Kelsey. The Hangtown museum as
contemplated is to contain exhibits of I
the days of '49 and the various ar- !
tides used in gold production during j
the early days of Hangtown. i
A large assortment ce these exhibits j
is available from old residents or de- j
scendants of the pioneer families in j
El Dorado county. Piacerville will
support the location and maintenance !
of the museum. At Kelsey, where the i
old blacksmith shop of Marshall now j
stands almost ready to fall to pieces.
It is desired to build a stone wall and
covering .iround the old shop to pre
serve the remembrance of Marshall.
. MJss Kelley . knew Marshall inti
mately. Many people have it that Mar
shall died a pauper. This, Miss Kelley
says, Is untrue, and that he not only
possessed the hotel where he died,
but had two gold mines known as the
"Big Sandy" and "Gray Eagle," both
of which are productive mines and
now owned by the Breyman estate of
Toledo, O. .
TOY DOG HAS HIGH VALUE
Brussels Griffon, Practically Unob
tafnabfe Just Now, Is Likely to
Become Popular Favorite.
The Brussels Griffon Is popular^
known as 'tne monkey-faced toy dog/
and he is one of the brightest, sharpesl
and gamest of all toy breeds. Tht
Griffon is .a .cross between Irish ter
rier, Yorj?shlre: terrier and Yorkshire
spaniel *nd only the fortunes of wax
and the difficulties of getting any dogs
out of Belgium have prevented the
Griffon from becoming a leader amonj
the toy breeds that are so fashionable
just now.
American breeders, of Griffons have
a bit of advantage over their Euro
pean confreres,, inasmuch as cropped
dogs are allowed to be shown in this
country and there is no question that
it does improve the appearance of
this breed when the ears are carried
erect
The smaller these dogs are the
more valuable. A Griffon weighing
three or four pounds, that is to say,
so small that he . ?in be . carried in a
lady's muff. Is worth almost anything
the fortunate possessor wants to ask
for him. At the present time it is
almost impossible to obtain such a
dog.
What Emptiness May Do.
When a large shell is fired into the
air it leaves a wake more or less like
that of a, boat rushing through: water.
Immediately behind the projectile as
it moves many miles a minute through
the atmosphere there is a vacuum. The
air family Is a quick mover at filling
such space, but of course it is more
or less confused and flustrated by the
unexpected arrival and passage of the
projectile, and the vacuum is ireal for
a fair portion of time. If there is an
airplane going full tilt across the wake
of that fired shell immediately behind
the projectile, it must run into the
vacuum. Then it may be more seri
ously damaged than if it had been
struck by the shell. The air shuts to
gether with a force that hurts all with
in reach. Such aflapping of the hands
of air In a simflar vacuum made by a
holt of lightning makes the thunder. It
is better to fiear it than to feel it
Airplanes have been brought down in
i the world war by that means. Those
long American navy guns did that Jo a
German two-seated plane, and it came
crashing down tnto the Yankee lines.1
The pilot was dead.
The Queer Leaf Insect.
It is called the leaf insect, and until
It starts to crawl it is quite impossible
to tell where the leaf leaves off aud it
begins. It comes in all sizes from three
inches long to the length of ? little
finger nail. And it is not a leaf come
to life, though that is what it looks
like. It hatches^ out Of tiny, square,
brown eggs.. What would be the ieaf
stem is its backbone, and the point
where the leaf attaches to the twig is
Its head. Its legs look like bits of der
cayed and ragged leaf, and no tyro of
them are identical in length, size or
shape. Its wings are irregular and
veiny and have small discolorations on
them, as though they had been touched
by early frost You could not tell the
creature from the leaf it was sitting
on to save your eyes. . Most extraor
dinary thing I ever saw!. It.gave me
the creeps and made me think of hor
ror stories I have read about vampire
orchids and boacoustrictor vines that
yearn for human blood.?From "The
War in the Cradle of the World," by
Eleanor Franklin Egan.
Australia's Wool Crop.
For the first time the whole of the
Australian wool clip has been valued
on a scientific basis. Some 604,000,000
pounds have been handled, and the
?result, based on the all-round flat rate
of lij^d per pound, Is said to be
14.6-Sd. Last season the appraise
ments worked out at 14.15d, which
shows an Increase for this season of
0.5 per cent. The new clip has al
ready commenced to move into Syd
nejr, 8,355 bales having been received.
Freight is still a problem and no;
muck relief Is in prospect, but some
relief will he afforded by the govern
moat stores.
COTTON LETTER
(John F. Clark & Co.)
New Orleans, May 7?The iregulari
ty of the opening and subsequent ac
tion of our market were characteristic
of the influence at work. July open
ed a few points higher but when New
York quotations showed 30 points ad
vance in that position, the later posi
tions here opened as much as 25 points
up, and the market soon traded to
36.70 lor October on small buying, but
a decided scarcity of sellers, owing to
the contrast and the action in New
York. Then, there was a sharp re
action to last night's closing level1 on
advices of more general rains in Tex
as, and when they were confirmed by
the weather map, liquidation, increased
and the market broke to 36 cents, but
support was then applied and good
rally resulted.
Support at the opening appeared in
the light of a tactical move by bull
interests to break the effect of the
favorable change in weather condi
tions. ?
NEW YORK COTTON.
Yes'td'ya
Open High Low Close Close
May .. 40.60 40.70 40.10 40.10 40.50
July .. 38.50 38.60 38.03 38.03 38.27
Oct. . . 35.60 36.82 35.85 35.S8 36.51
Dec. . . 35.95 35.95 31.98 34.98 35.6S
Jan. .. 32.28 35.47 34.50 34.50 35.12
Mar . . 34.85 34.85 33.88 33.88 34.60
NEW ORLEANS CJOTION
. Yes'td'ya
Open High Low Close Close
May .'. 39.50 34.79 39.42 39.42 39.50
July . . 38.15 38.40 39.99 38.08 38.04
Oct. .. 36.50 36.70 35.83 35.83 36.34
Dec .. 3-5.60 35.92 34.99 34.99 35.52
Jan .. 35.14 35.30 34.45 34.45 35.02
iMar .. 34.94 34.94 34.03 34.03 34.54
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Close: May 25.66; June 25.43; July
25.26; Aug. 25.51; Sept.. 24,64; Oct.
14.25; Dec. 23.51; Jan 23.35; Feb.
23.16; Mar. 22.97; April 22.8.1. ?
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
CORN?
High Low' Close
July. 1.95 1.88% 1.73%
Sept.1.74% 1.71 & 1.63
OATS:
High Low Close
July.94 .92 & .93%
Sept. .78% .77% ,77%
LARD:
High Low Close
July..'? 21.30 21.12 21.20
Sept. 22.10 21.92 21.97
RIBS:?
High Low Close
July. 1?7 18.80 18.92
Sept..-....19.55 19.50 19.50
SUNDAY SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION
Greenville, May 6?R. D. Webb, .for
the past five years general secretary
of the South Carolina Suhday-SeJ&e^'
.Association, resigned on the closing
day of the State Convention of the As-'
sociation here today to accept a sim
iliar position in the State of Georgia.
Leon C.A Palmer, general secretary of t
the Alabama Association, was. elected
to succeed Mr. Webb. The announce- <
ment of the resignation was inade ?t
this morning's session at which time
a handsome shyer service was pre
sented tor Mr. Webb.by. the executive
committee of the association. The
Rev. W.rH. JC .Pendleton, chairman of
the committee, spoke highly of Mr.
Webb's work and of the (deep regret
of the association at his departure.
At the closing session tonight, Hor
ace L. Bomar, of Spartan burg, was re
elected president of the association
|for the ensuing year. W.- E. Willis
and ex-Governor M. F. Ansel, of Cot
tageville and Greenville, -respectively,
were elected vice presidents; , S. T.
Reid, was re-elected as treasurer, and
J. T. Fain, of Rock Hill, was re-elect
ed recording secretary.
MRS. SAMUEL
< GOMPER&
Wife of Labor President Passes
Away at Washington
Washington, May 6-?Mrs. Samuel
.Gompers, wife of the president of the
American Federation of Labor, died
.at her home here tonight, after a long
illness. She was sixty-nine .yearsvpf
age and had been .married for more
than half a century. Funeral services
will be conducted here and the body
j will be taken to New York for burial
Sunday.
RACING IN
KENTUCKY
Enormous Crowd CoBecting^aT"
Lo?Tsv?Te for Revival of
Derby
Louisville, May 7.?An enormous
crowd is reaching Louisville for the
46th renewal of the Kentuck derby at
Churchill Downs tomorrow.
CLOTHING AT COST
Kansas Firm Offers to Sell With
out Profit for Twenty
Four Days
Topeka. May 7?An old established
clothing store, which advertised it
would sell all men's snits for 24 days
without profit to the store, stated that
the fair price commissioner will audit
its hooka.
BankHoliday.
The banks of Sumter will,bo closed
Monday, May 3 0th, Memorial Day,
the day being a, legal holiday, M