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and S&tnrday ?by? ? ^ ?? i^xmsmmsa- companyI Terns: ?ij^er anemzsa?in ikrfance. . ~. advertisements. J, first insertorn ....51.00 subszqHeat insertion .- .50 tor three months o? iong s&r .he made aV redneed rates. *:. Ajf communications which subserve |^^ate mterests wiU -be charged for <JkStaajd$* and trihutes of respect "7$i*e Sttic w Watchinan was. Joucd *d in 18?? an* the True Southron in ?*-8;??. ; Tb)e; ?Watchman and Southron .i*ow h^ the c^mihined circulation and | iJ^ttenee-,of both of; the old papers, Lcls. manifestly the best advertising :ifc. Sumter. -lOSW; l^OBK. IiOSES. sw York, is much, concerned just} ixow by thf loss of freight destined ej^i?rom About 80 ptr cent of ftellrht which was originally tod t> NewYork, or would tve been under ordinary conditions, to faikve;been diverted to other It is - going to Philadelphia,' >re/ Xorfolk, Newport News, .p^ber prjrts "farther south. is :made^ecessary by the traf fe^cn,: due; ^specially of. late |^e:'T?2tO?d' tie-up, but also due .^e, gs^eral causes of inadequate ^facilities and interminable j e Metropolis and .costs off J?nd other transfer charges are .Mgner there than else i;^i^;^^;-is,:;a?. the New York ?Iw^?ains, that the port of or^l^rmost wonderful natur America, and perhaps in r neyer been properly de iiend now nnsuited 4> the ordinarily entrusted to it ports on the eastern, southern wes^^v^eaJtx>ard, far less richly] ^ed ;^y ; nature, have been im pf OM^ght, liberal. expendi "and ? real, civic ~ spirit, until ;^^f^c.%icii'iwork better than H;YA|ic'cai^ - They are now reap H^B^fiti?i? may expect to reap ?S?%e> ?Qr hereafter, fc Hen?fV: ince described Manhattan a^fa-r tongue thrust down into ^S^^fe^;.and/ "lapping up fhe lxs^^^/f^af^ev^c . That mo i^TBOt- -H&ely; to continue, and igoqd reason why it should IpK-^^^iTorfc may expect .to ^i?tever it. deserves, but, other that- -are more enterprising -a^; wS2 get their share. 3iife,3WE^ENTION WEEK. governors^ of. California, Colo Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, vlbakota,. Utah, Oregon and j >a have officially designat k ol May 23 to May 29 as ?B: Week. Those States the way in a great cam ? almost prevexrtable forest fires. ^w?jfe'-S; being carried forward byj s> business organizations,' ^schools arid colleges : tjie West Every State in L.^oi&T'get into the game :ahou|d educate its citizens, old in the necessity of saving forests, - public and private, big little, from devastating fires, a letter to the nine governors, T. Meredith,' secretary of ag wrote: "Opr decreasing tim aiid paper supplies are beginning} to an the need for con The States and the ?rost join hands in the ef-| " to halt forest destruction. Not as sources of permanent sup of , timber, but also as'conserv o? water supplies, our forests essential to our industrial, eco and social welfare.^ National Forest Service, which ivmg streng support , to the work Prevention Week, presents covering the fire loss of the 'years ending with 1918. In period the average annual loss rectify from forest firea in the Uni States was $20,727.000?a figure represents a "- small part vthe-damage done," The areas de yed^KWigedr^a> annual tota? of 9.0n?t> acres. burning for the purpose of land for cultivation was re ible for more than 5,000 fires, campers caused more than 0. ; Malicious incendiarism, rail carelessness in lumber opera &$d lightning added their share jtfe^ appalling total. excellent service of* the forest era does much to check the Sj^yfires which are detected enough. But even this service ^protection in the face nee, ^carelessness and- iadif the public. Educating that] purpose and hope of i Week. lie Ol: e?stover?! the sigha-1 ^ of ^ 23rd ^instant, and reproduced in this issue, raises a-point in the contro versy over:the proposed Garner's Fer ry Bridge that merits serious coh ^sideration. A public highway to be worth what it costs nfust serve a large number of people, amd the high way that serves the greatest number of people most conveniently is more valuable than the one that serves a less number less conveniently. On the face of the statements made by Lower Richl?nd it appears that a strong case has been made out in fa f or of a Sum ter to Columbia highway j via WedgefieM and Bastover rather than by way of Stateburg and Gar ner's ; ferry. The Wedgefield-East oyer route would certainly be morej convenient, serve a larger population j and be less costly to Richland county than the Garner's Ferry route. On the other hand the> -Garner's Ferry j route would .serve practically as many people in Sumter county as the Wedgefield route and would be less costly/to Sumter county, for the road from. Stateburg to the swamp is now in fairly good condition and needs only improvement to make it a stand-j ard highway; while the;adoption of the Wedgefleld route would necessi tate the construction of three or fourj miles of road through a hilly and dif ficult country between Wedgefield and j the river swamp. The construction; of a standard highway, with easy] grades, from Wedgefield to the swamp | would be an e~*pensive proposition, as any one who is familiar with the country between Wedgefield and the; Camden Junction , will .admit. .The more one considers the Gar ner's Ferry -. Bridge proposition the stronger becomes the coni'iction that it is not an undertaking to be xushett into precipitately. Not only the first] cost, but the future expense, to make the' causeway an all the year road above the flood stage and the actua^' value of the proposed highway to the public must be seriously considered. Its value and advantages relative to and in comparison with the alterna tive route xia. Wedgefield and East- j over must atoo be carefully weighed. THE "PEAK" AT LAST. So often has the "peak of prices" J been prophesied or discerned by op timistic economists that the public hasj almost lost hope. At last, though, the' peak does not seem to have been reached.' The average'level of prices' actually appears to be failing, and inj some lines prices are tobogganing.' This development has Bpread over] the .country with 5 surprising rapidityj within a week or, two. New Tork, Boston. Ph?Sadeiphia, Washington and j other eastern cities led the movement; with striking reductions made by de partment stores. It spread quickly! west and south, affecting the smaller cities as well-as the large ones. Scores of cities from the Mississippi to the Pacific Coast report reductions rang ing from a flat 15 per cent to prices j eliminating all profit. St. Louis de partment stores have advertised "un derselling campaigns.' Dealers in Ta ooma, Seattle, San Francisco and oth-j er Far West cities have announced cuts of 20 per cent. It cis much the same, throughout, the Middle West In some cities no formal announcement Is made; but store advertising tells the tale. * The cuts affect primarily ready-to-wear clothing and shoes, but in, many cases extend to nearly all kinds of commodities. '"Tight money and inadequate trans portation" are given as the chief rea-i sons. ' Merchants explain that on ac count of delay in delivery of goods] in which tney have money tied up, they are having difficulty in meeting | their obligations, and so are forced to sell at a sacrifice. This is true, but it is not all of the story. .Poor transportation with its attend ant evils is probably half of it, and the growing disinclination of the pub lic to pay high prices is the other half. There has been an impressive let-up | in extravagant and unnecessary spend ing and closer scrutiny of the price; of* necessary commodities. These facts have had ,their effect on merchants and will have their effect in turn onJ manufacturers. The price-slashing i^said to arouse fear in the minds of some financiers that there may be too sudden and drastic a drop. If prices did fail too J quickly and too far, it/would mean panicky times, with eventual hard ship to everybody- Any such ten dency is to be deprecated. It will be better in the long nr., perhaps, if the price levels sink rather slowly and uniformly. It will make the neces sary re-adjustments of prices, wages, profits, etc., easier all along the line. But the public is not Jikely to take any such philosophic view ef the mat ter. The quicker and farther pi drop, the better the ordinafy^h' er is pleased. THE SUGAR There is 3. goo d deal of personal satisfaction in^} jumping onto the 'p^ofiteewt" for ifce scarcity and high: eost of ?ga?.; But when all'* said At a thue. when the world's sugar production has not yet caught up to j the normal 'demand, the American I people are eating more sugar - than jever before. \ It is the consumer?the average ;American?who is chiefly responsible. If it were not for his abnormal de mand for sugar, the supply would go around much .^more easily, there would be lessyof the "international i bidding of up prices," that Mr. Hoov er speaks of, and the growers, refin ers and speculators would have less [incentive to take their toll, and find it harder to take, v j We are eating far more sugar than, rfhe English, who rank next to us' as consumers of sweets. We are eating three times as much apiece as the French and ten times as much apiece as the Italians. Recent consumption in this country,, in spite of the diffi culty of obtaining the commodity, is estimated at the*rate of nearly 100 pounds year per capita. What is needed in America more than anything else is temperance. If sugar were used^ temperately, there would be little difficulty-about it. The nation has gone on a sugar debauch, eating and drinking abnormal and un wholesome quantities of sugar in the form of j candy/ cake, ice-cream and soft drinks, in addition to the essential supply, for .household purposes. The results of this debauch , are now mak ing tbeffiselves felt. Economically it is tragic in the cos? of sugar and in the threatened canning failure. For the nation's'physical health, and for the moral lesson, it may be a .good thing. s MANY NEW WARE- - HOUSES PLANNED ??? Farmers and Business Men Pre paring to Properly House Cotton Columbia, May\26?Plans for ,the! erection of warehouses for cotton inj all parts of the State are being sent odt from the offices of the State warehouse system in- Columbia, and already about one" hundred ware houses, m addition to those already! in operation within the State ware house system, are under contempla tion and soon to be constructed. These ! one hundred warehouses; to be erect-'j ed, ..are distributed all over the State, | practically every, county , being repre- \ sented in the list. . The warehouse commission is furn ishing without cost plans, and specifii-; cations for the construction of the warehouses Which will be part of the enlarged State system.' These plans are approved- by the Southeastern .'in spection and rating bureau and theK rates of insurance obtained are the( lowest! to. be had. it-is stated. There are two kinds of warehouses for which the State warehouse com mission is furnishing plans. One is i/ community Warehouse, of cheap con struction. It is estimated that the erection of these warehouses will cost about $1 per bale to be stored^ i.The rate -of insurance is 1.57 y?'i The oth er type is designated for county use/ to be of . permanent construction; equipped <with sprinkler, system and fire-proof in every detail. These ware houses, it is estimated roughly, will cost about ten dolars for every bale of capacity.' The rate of insurance for this class of building is 18 to 20. -The plans of the warehouse com mission is that these more permanent warehouses are to be used as assem bling' places, in the county seats or larger towns. Of the hundred^ new warehouses bing * planned, there are a dozen of this assembling type. One of these; already incorporated, is at Dillon, and will cost $50,000. There are-now 140,000 bales Of cot ton stored in the warehouses of the State'system. : On July 15th a campaign for ware houseswill be started will be started in the State, the warehouse board, the cotton' association, the State and na tional departments of agriculture and Ciemson College - co-operating in the movement, which is intended to urge the importance of building cotton warehouses. There will be meetings in all the counties in the interest of this campaign. PALMER ANSWERS QUESTIONNAIRE Opposes Government Ownership of Railroads and Present System of Taxes Washington, May 27?A reply frorif Attorney General Palmer to the ques tionnaire submitted by the National Board of Farm Organizations, was re ceived today. It opposed government ownership of railroads, favored the elimination of) excess profits taxes, in favor of higher taxes on incomes from investment, and federal control of the manufacture^and distribution of nec essary commodities. The first step in fighting the boll weevil, according to the Department of Agriculture experts who have been studying the problem for ? nearly twenty years, is to begin picking the weevils from the cotton plants as soon as they appear in the spring and' to do this job thoroughly and-regularly be fore the cotton begins to put on lares. Every weevil killed at this ge means millions less weevils to the forms and bolls late, in the The weevils that are now liv ?ixng cotton plants, will the fetipfl adult: The cotton weevils Just as hunts tobacco Worms?; AUS! EOR HUMAN J^AILTY' City Editor Was First Victim ?f Kls Own Stern Warning Against ,$ the "Booze." Speaking of booze: A few years ago, when Colorado was as wet as the great Sahara is not, the city editor of a Denver daily was having no inconsid erable trouble in getting out a news paper- the day following each pay night Finally, in desperation, he is sued the following- mimeographed- let ter for distribution to members of the staff: "Any member of this staff who is found under the influence of liguof, or with any Indication of having been drinking during working hours, will be: Fined for the. first misdemeanor; suspended for the second; fired un-v conditionally for . the third." These mimeographed letters were plaeed on the copy hoy's desk with in structions, to distribute them as soon as the staff appeared for work the next afternoon. ' ' On the following afternoon there was heard a snort from the office of the society editor,, and a usually meek little red-haired beauty came dashing out of her room, waving a piece of paper in her hand. "Where's the city editor?" she demanded. "TO see why I have to be insulted like, this." The assistant city editor tried to calm her. But nothing would do but , that she see the city editor himself. . ^ell," said the -Ju C. E? "it can't be done. He was stewed and we had to send him home," .Needless to say, there was a new city editor the next afternoon and the staff gloatingly drank its way to the .days of proMbitioiL?Lorry A. Jacobs* the Dallas Dispatch, in "Pep." Be OPERA SUCCEEDS BULL FiGHT -'?~?TT* Famous Arena In Mexico City Will No Longer 9e Sbeno of Brutal Slaughter. The Teatro el Toro in Mexico City, once one of the most pretentious of bull fight arenas, is now ^he home of grand opera as a result of President .Carranza's decree that bull fighte should cease. Interspersing grqnd opera, dancers and concert artists have appeared in the arena,, and it is stated that these various forms of amusement will be offered until some aefuitie Vtion is taken as to the fu> tare,j& bull fighting. n n It was in this arena that what is' said to be one of the most remarkable spectacles in the history of -the.sp&t' was staged. A bull, El Bonito, known as one of the fiercest fighters, on being brought into the arena charged and killed ' three horses and injured .= as many men without being touched by the estoque of any matador. As- the bull stood bellowing defi ance and with no one apparently bill ing to attack him, Miguel Ballo, a picador who was a spectator in one of the boxes, leaped unarmed intd the Inclosure. In his outstretched hand fie carried two Jumps of sugar, which he nonchalantly offered to the bull. .The animal suddenly ceased its bellowing and In a few moments docilely licked the sugar from Ballo's hand, n The latfer returned unharmed to his box amld the plaudits of the spectators;; Anglo-Irish Tunnel. Not only is It thought that the long talked-of tunnel between England and France will be constructed at no re mote date, but there is also talk of ? tunnel between England and Ireland. This would restore to a slight extent thergeographical union that existed be tween the two countries in one geologi cal age thousands and thousands of years ago. Great Britain and Ireland were then.separated only by a great valley. It Is. proposed to carry the tunnel from some point on "the coast of Lan cashire to the nearest point in Antrim or down on the Irish coast, a'subma-* rine length of 24 miles. One of the great benefits of the tunnel would be that it would shorten the transatlantic journey by at least 48 hours. It would also help the Irish cattle trade and the shipping of perishable goods, especialr ly fish, to English markets. Estimates, of the cost of the proposed tunnel vary* from $35,000,000 to $80,008,000. -?- ? X He Had One Better. \ One of our honest old farmers came home and found a sewing-machine man In the house demonstrating, to the women what"fine work It would do. The agent asked the farmer to brfng In a shingle, and/said.: "I will shofv you that the Wo&der Worker machinW will do heavy yrork, for I will stitch* right across tKe. tip of the shingle where It is at', least one-sixteenth of an inch thick.'/ "Not interested," said the farmer. "Over 'crosl, fiere 'bout three miles northeast a young man built a house last summer, and I'll be durned if his wife didn't take her Mechanical Mar vel sewin' machine and stitch on ev'ry blame "course of clapboards, from gable to eaves, clean down to the sills." j As the a/gent slammed his machine Into his Ibiht truck and chuggedaway, the farmer turned to. his wife and said: "Well, Bita, I sewed that agent up all rt?:ht, didn't I? Now let's have supper."?Bangor News. -' -. ,i , > t Indian Village Unearthed. A - ?fried Indian village site, be liev^ffio have been occupied T>00 years ago^JFas discovered by M. A. Cramer, Aubdrn city forester, in digging after a wiodchuck In the town, of Cato, ga county. New York. The site ?ne? skeletons and many bone lin ehts believed of Iroquois origin.? k Kfoabuf Journal COTTON LETTER^ (John F. Clark & Co.)" ? New York, May 27?Cotton hung [around last night's close until the af ternoon when it firmed on scattered local covering and some trade buying iof December. Outside business was [probably the lightest of the year. The map was good and forecast favorable.; There were three private condition; reports; 65.4; 66.5; 6*8.9. ?The market appears to have dis-j counted a low Bureau, and traders do'i not look for any great change in prices until .ft comes out. Washington, May 27?Without tak-j .ing a record vote the house foreign j affairs committee voted down two re-1 solutions seeking to commit Congress] to recognition of the Irish Republic. ' NEW TORK COTTON. Yes'td'ys} Open High Low Close. Close ' July . . 38.05 3S.3S 37.S6 38.18-38.13 j Oct. .. .. #5.30 35.75 35.05; 35.45 35.34 | Dec. ..- 34.25 $4..^t) 34.05 34.45 34V29 j Jan. .. 33.70 34.07 33.40 33.75 33.70j Mar. .. 32.25 32.65 32.0S 32.32 32.25; i ? I NEW ORLEANS COTTON j _ . Yes'td'ys ! Open High Low Close Close July .. 3S.14^3S.3S 37.91 3S>20 38.10 Oct. 25.2.0 35.60 ,35.02 35.42 35.23 Dec .. 34:29 34.60 3 1.09 3 J.41 34.23 Jan .33.77 34.00 33.53 33.80 33.62 Mar1... 35.10 23.40 32.90 33.20 33.00 -? ? - \ ' / LIVERPOOL COTTON . * Close: Mays 25^0; July -24.23; /Aug 24.03;: Sept 23.82; Oct. 23.52; Dec. 22.79; Jan. 22.52.; Mar. 22.00. .. CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. CORN:? 4 ? High - Low ? Close July.1.72% 1.61 1.6S& Sept.1.59%' 1.55 r 1-56 OATS:? . ? Iftgh - Low .- Close July.\:- .92V* .89.% .' \ .9,0 . Sept.;,'.77?s ' v-7r'# LARD; High ? Low. Close July .... .... 21:35 vtl.OX, . '21.2* Sept ....<... 22.20 21.90 22.07 RIBS:? High Low Close July .... ..... 18.50 18.35 1S.45 Sept..19.50 ? : ?19.10 19.17 ?' ?_'_._ . / ;?; II^ESTIGATION OF ? CARRANZA'S DEATH i ' -? ?' ?-1 Herrero and Others To Be Ex amined By Commission .... " ' f: ?:~~ . ? ? ? ?-'?? Mexico City, May 26?Formal in vestigation for the purpose p? clarify-: ing the-part taken in the death of President Carranza by Colonel Her rero and members of the Carranza party was recommended by the com mission named by Generals Obregon and Gonzales. < ? :. -: Father Murphy To Visit With Bishop Spartanburg Priest Selected by Bishop Russell as Secre tary for Visit to Rome Spartanburg-, May 24?Father N. A. Murphy, pastor of St. Paul's church" of this city will accompany Bishop / W~n. T. Russell on his trip to Rome. E\ ery five years Cat holic bishops must go to the "Eternal City." and report on the^affairs of their diocese. Father Murphy will go as 3ishop Russell's secretary. In the Bishop's party will be Father Tracy, of .Boston, and Fath- { er Murray, of Boston. The party will sail from New York, June. 10, on the steamer Patria,. of ihe Fabre line. A stop will be made at the Azores, Gi braltar and Palmero, Sicily.-They will' land at Naples and preceed thence to Itome. The objects ofthe visit aro to pay hbmage arid respect to*the Apostles - and to makf reports on the affairs of the diocese. The party will visit the tomb of St. Peter, whose remains are in the famous St. Peter's Cathedral, the largest'church in the world with a^seating capacity of 80,000 and con taining the greatest art treasures off? the Holy Father.- The law* of dhe chureh requires every Catholic,Bishop \ih the world to-"appear in person every five years in Rome, and to bring a ! minute account of .all the activities^ of j his.diocese. The bishop is always ac- , j compa-nied by his secretary .who at j tends to the clerical work required. I Father N. A. Murphy, pastor of S^t. , j Paul's church, Spartanburg, has been selected to accompany Bishop "Russell. After the transaction of official .bus- -' iness in Rome, Bishop Russell and j party will .visit several .. European j countries., among them ?Switzerland, ? j Fiance, Spain, Belgium and Holland. iThe Bishop expects to return early, in ? [September. Father Murphy, while orr : this trip"; .will take the' opporunity' of j visiting relatives'm Ireland. " - - j Catholic Bi?boprics are so ,divided .. j in bo sections that every five" years the . s [entire Catholic hierarchy- appears- -at; ?; .Rome, to present their reports to Pope: s Benedict XV. Fayetteville Negro Has Siurendered * _i?;- . ? ; . Raleigh, N. C, May 27-?-Geo. Hobbs v. al?eged .leader of the negroes who k ed twoiofficers at Fayetteville, surr. de red to officers there and has heen>;-V brought here for safe keepings? * .':r --___ . ?r ?;?? ? FOR SALE-r-At a bargain, one Colt'S ' generator complete with all firture|":\*s It's all hew'and never been^uncrat ' ed. See J. P. Commander. ? ? v..- ?;?;--?!??-~? HAVE A FEW Ford Starters that Ve can install at once. If you have a " Ford without a starter, see us. - Shaw Motor. CJompahy. . . * iHAl'EviCAR IX)AB- Ford one ton j trucks in transit Still *have one or [ - two unsold. , See u? at >once. Shaw I iMotor 'Company. > %"y:^v^i^^r>f shekel o'tonstellv President O. I*. "STATES. Cashier "HELLO PAPPY" r j ? V'-vV:v*V . ; r'-Don't' forget your Kiddie." Per . .mit us to suggest a substantial way - of remembering-' "Kiddie." . Com- . - hrvence Monday morning and "deposit ? one .dc-ttar to his credit, and . keep this ; up e^cry week until* he is 21 years of r age. We will compound it quarterly at four per cent, and by the time 'the boy reaches the age of maturity, he will have a bank account sufficient . to start him in business. < The First National Bank SUMTER, S.v C. i The National Bank of J South Carolina 3 of Sumter, S. C. Resources $2,600,000. Strong and Progressiv? r The Most Painstaking " SERVICE with COURTESY Give us the Pleasure of Serving TOU The Bank of the Rank: and File C. G. ROWIiAJVI), President ?1 I i i ll 1 ? I i 11 ttf I* I