The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 03, 1920, Image 3
Cotton Crop Condition
Haw York Journal oi Commerce
keports Show That There ll^
Been Deterioration During
Munth
Mew York. Oct. 2?.- The New York
J * I*.. I of 'Niinnii'itv will have the
f?il?>.vn k >.? ??^ Im Um issue tomorrow
iei- ft ? Antun >t km l '.mi
??tton flop
^Noturns received fiom iicuil) son
? I"4* ml corn nts of this Journal,
uudet ?n h\ . t
w< ? "H?lte the almost uui
'?rv f weather which Las
4th-,I luring tta?? vre?ter put of
rgo portion t?i the
cotton belt, there h i> >>u u detei loru
. UOU of 4 & from hut month* per cent
atdnkm of ?3.r. This, however, coin
eor k k-s* In IM? of 1.7, from
? . , .ft figure of fif.H per i ? Kt.
lu M18 n ?muH Inerouae?10.;'. per
cent we* reported, although in the
rear preceding th.it cotton condition
fell s.9 per cent, or the past ten yearn
average det? i loratAon dam been I
per cent: picking, while not up to
Ul a little ehvtui of hurt year, ladng
estimated at *!? per cent, against i?."?
pee cent a year ego. Thle compares
with SI per omit pftrk>d In If 18,
per ceiu the year previous and S4 per
oent m i??ii.
I^^^Mbjfialdet Wik tie ha. k wtirdnessj of
tbe l?it crop, this show I ok is rather
better thai iputed. although it
leaven neurtj run third ol the crop
to h k i .I, lh< refoi ? . ?tili
In dagger of frosts v . ireful ans i Is
ef tbe returns showH this year's cot
tan tvp to have been one or the most
uneven ever w \ lew ? I
In so ottou made
wholly lavot khle progress. Practically
throughout lbs glowing season re- ?
turns from reliable sources haw |
shown oitt-u In the same localitv, good
ootton. ?et| grown with normal n ull?
age, wh .vnere the plant has
been either overgrown and tank or
* undersis* and poorly fruited. At not
a few point* c.-tfor Im report? d . 11111 ? ?.-*!
a total failure. This has increased
the difficulty of determining the sise
of tbe crop, snd in the opinion of
snauy competent i Servers the final
ybrld will resaadji u mallei foi con
Jectare until uU'kmg has been ?om
p toted
t aken by states the h* avbsft Iomm
In per cent con4Hk>n la shown In Klor
ida. whk'h deter h i - ? I i <?. i.. ? .i , (
also f*red b.?dly. lo.int s; M tastsslpp.'
I C; AlMlMtma, 6 1, und Louisiana.
In North Cat' uu South Carolina
losses were small, <f and 3.7. r-spe.-t
tvely. with \ ? n i .i?;.i hihi a
lose hurt year of lt.I.. Arkansas also
de ited 8..1. against 7.8 a' year
ago. Tennessee showed ihn stnallcst
kv**? I *. while Missouri registered the
which romp ires u Ith a
i Otaeluu Umi year of 1.8. As to the
?wont ) siaoa heuds the
Vait *?th >? per v em. Plorldu eomes
With .Hfi. Ala ha mi ' and M: <i?
I 19. The Texas crop is 7 7 per rent
gathered. Missouri is tb?? mo
ward, showing only 33 per cent.
a#s4au*t 43 par coot
ose has 38 per een >kl ihom
tj North Carolina and Souih
i fell pfborl of last year's i
erd with i'l per o-nt and ??S pel t it
reapsiTin I. but Arkansas
per cent, against 4H per cent a year
earlier.
*\4eobedlng to an overwhelming ma
JgSHy Of returns weevils have contin
Ued tb?-4r dewiructiveness and In Urge
area* damage has esci eded eat Iter ? x
pesjtattnno. banc* mile or no tup ? rop
ih itk. ry.
"A r?- ui !?* n. . Ii- i ? u,d I here. n<.?a
In "fa>e?di lad ??kiahonm of exces
ster r?m* and ebmdy. ?bo\\er% \s .i
thrr Hi esnuiinff a lo?eering of grade*,
which in conjunction with the prea>
cut P?w tW'?? s of COtUm and scar, it y
..? jdrkris IS espected to Induce con
sidcist-b* bbbademnient Many e.-ne
- . nd< SU* thai very little low
grad-'-MUlor, Nv ,1, d this > 'II
In r.e. f^la the Carolinas and Ala?
bama the-Ibeeawint rains of July and
AugUMt and iniif* oi H?*|iteinher Were
fuUoW'^l Vf h month of drouth, Which
baa had twe effect m numeromt ?n
stanoes 4*f T*educiHf; earln-r es?..
? f nnal vie1 ) Nearly everywhere
OuMSjtelsjts are h.: of the fill in
the pfleJ^Vo* tie -Miple, and the rlalra
bjL^SjS^s^lbat cotton sold si p?? ?'itt
tfKtlBfwfff bring onl> about hah thu
? ??mis ui i lir'?duetton. *'orreM|h?ndentH
? ?aWy^lirts of the rsjtton la-It pre
diet Vjffk unless the lals>r Situation
I fit iMtujMdA and Motile inninii" W Intro
duoedtofnore succt*ssfully combat the
ar??e\ |l no no. .Id or, .01 ? aye mil
year I* pretty sure to heavily nit.
At present vun>iu wi, little cotton
is hoteff? marketed. In a few isolated
es**? farmers are nal<l to be foftuv
ins; t?* plek until >ndili<>ns
Improve, hut f,,r it,, iin.-^t p.ul cotton
u? being pielted and stored in ware?
house pending an advance In prices.
"individual estimate* by obttim cor
MfjfJfjssadents of in?* entire crop range
from lO.Cne Sou to I '... ?ni.oov bales,
with the Renem! average It.ftbO.SOti
lajles."
Troops Guard PoUs
In Cuha Presidential Elect on is
Held I nder DifTiculties
K?vaiu*. Nov. I.?-Cuba l?,voting tor
a ureshtrnt and rro?ipeyde? guarding
Ibe poll* to pr? \enf ibyci.iene I d. ul
d-r.
FishhrTg Boat Race
Amerigt;^ and ( anadian ( ?nlfn
fler.H^tiri Second Knee Today
H*'yaJr Nov. I.?The V.h\0 mnlo
and T?,.|,(VV in.* Amerh m nnd Caiia*
dbin funte ittints for racing elt m
p1??nsh|,, 0| the in 1 ernational llalnng
?eete. ????, 1 \ d on ?, , oiul rue. 1111 tut
nine ?'Vii
Ofl ih- 4?st tap Canadbin enlrj
lendind wi'pi I'.u" 1 *: > ? ? 1
id IA v
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Straw Vote For
President
Nation-wide Ballot by RexaU
St?ren Indicate That Harding
Will Have a Walk Over
The straw vom conducted by tho
more nun eight thousand Rexall
Drug stores located It all Hl? towns of
an\ alSe m .ill ihe states gives a decid?
ed majority to Ihr Kepubllcau Uctoet
aUd, indicates the election of Harding
on?l Cooildge. In every stau- tin- ma
Joritx for ?o- against Harding is v? r>
?b i Ided, ? xr. pt in SV. Virginia whcir
Hai w' ng and ?' > \ run m-ck and nook
aith on I) i i< a votes In Harding'*
fnvor. According Ihr Itexall straw
\>>'. th. electoral vote will be as fol
lowi
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a
c
?6
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Alabama.
Ark iMae .
Arizona.
California.
t'olomd.
Connecticut
Delaware .
Florida .
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Idaho .
Illinois .
Indiana.
Iowa.
Kansas.
Kentucky .
Loufaftaita .
Maine .
Maryland .
Massachusetts .
MU liignn .
Iflnneeota.
Migaiaaippl ....
Missouri .
Montana.
Nebraska .
N? \ oli .
Neu Hampshire
New Jersey . .
Neu Mexico .
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Nod i' i' irotlna
North l?.iKota
Ohio .
Oklahoma .
Orego.i.
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Rhode Island .
SomiIi CktrOlina
BoUtk l*ikot;i .
TU musses .
Texas .
Utah .
Vt rm.iut.
VI reinla .
\\ ashington . . .
W SCJl Virginia .
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Total .364 1G7 531
Puritans Usrd No Wedding .Ring.
The Puritans of the seventeenth
century used no Mllf st the wedding
tereinony, ss they considered It "a
pagan s.\ mbol nnd superstitious con?
trivance." All they required wn? that
the mnn aid woman should Join
hands when stating their purpose to
IfVe together in wedlock.
Horrow-ble.
Calico Hook Progress (reporting IV
htstiated ItCfere). "You would he boa
row stricken to sc. some of tho plo
tnres that are full of blood and bor?
row."?Boatos Transcript
Regrst.
There Is such a thing ns noble re?
gret, nnd there Is one wli oh Is Igno?
ble, for there may be virtue snd vice
even in n memory. Bcwaro of "chew?
ing tne cud" of part wrong doing.?
Dum ton.
West Australia's Vast Size
West Australia, the Isrgost state Id
the continent, has an at. a vt over 073,
ftf*) square miles.
Men Not Practical.
Ifen are seiilmeuial goSilpg, They
are not practical enough. Women arc.
Since lite beginning of Htm? it's wom?
en that have had to do tie practical
things. - (Jeorge Bernard Shaw.
Misplaced Sympathy.
Many a wife dusts the billiard chalk
from her husband's coat and fei eds
tears of sympathy because of the late
hours he must spend nt his desk close
to s whltowsshed wall.?Rxchnnge.
Africa's Big Rivers.
Of tlafl African rivers the Zambesi,
?J.tKK) lUll* ih length, III the largest
rher In Mouth Africa ; the Urtltlgs i\v
jr comes ncxi with 1,200 tulles ami .the
UsgpOPC "?'it with 'J00 mile/
?ubmarins Coal Mines.
There are many submarine coal de*
posits off the British Isles, but so far
they tire not much worked. The tun?
nels of the mines at Whltehuven ex?
tend tome four miles froiu shore under
I he Irish sea hOWCI *r. and there also
n eoue submarine coal mining at
ttotneas near the Firth nf Kor'h und
%x Mail' h i iiiuitl b in I Icon,
Brought Down to Date.
"Mnn winds but little here below
nor wants that Httle long.1' Is whal
they sang Hotur yearn nvo bin it'i
now another eobg rhe words we u??
aio at tlulb. Ihougli fullj at
sublime, *alnri want* eveTjihlng Ii
Sight, and wnnt? || all I he (i me."
Tungsten in Portugal.
TUa?Sten Cam-rally Is called wolf
ram In Portugal mid i< sold h> ihi
mines us !ni,.'si.-n trloxidi m?i the ha
sis of Ms richness in tungstic m id Th<
production im<- been from '.o;i? p. i.r??k
bms a year, as near us can be uscef
?ailncd.
CUT OUT THE EAVESDROPP
New Device It Expected to Eliminate
"Listening in" on Wireless
Messages.
Successful demonstrations of a new
wireless Invention, which marks a
Step toward the secrecy of wireless
telephone and telegraph messages,
have take\t place In Great Britain,
and Slgnor Marconi Is at present con?
ducting further tests at sea In his
yacht Blectra with a view to Its wid?
er application.
Details of the invention are secret,
but It may be stated that, according,
to the Continental edition of the Lon?
don Daily Mull, an apparatus has
been devised which, by what experts
call an "electrical method of concen?
tration," propagates the electric wire?
less >inve In a "beam" In any desired
direction and In that direction only.
Hitherto Hie electrical waves sent
?ur from wireless stations have !
spread out In all directions and all |
who "listened hi'* could hear. The
new Invention will mark the end of
the wireless ?'eavesdropper." When
It Is perfected a wireless station will
be able to send out Morse or spoken
messages which will he heard only by
those for whom they are Intended.
The now apparatus which Is being
worked at an experiment station In
Great Britain with a short wave
length, has recently been demonstrat?
ed hy a number of experts who ex- I
pressed the greatest Interest In the
discovery.
It Is known that German wireless
research has been lntely closely di?
rected to this problem of the "eaves?
dropper," for the Qennani realised
that wo were able to pick up with our
listening sets much valuable infor?
mation about Zeppelin movement!
during tho war.
HOW DOLLAR WORKS FOR YOU
Benjamin Franklin's Fund of $5,000
Grew to $431,383 In One Hun?
dred Years.
How the dollar Invested works for
the Individual himself has been best
Illustrated by that .llrst great Ameri?
can teacher of thrift, Benjamin
Franklin. In 1701, he bequeathed
?1.000 ($0,000) to the common?
wealth of Massachusetts and to the
city of Boston as a mark of his appre?
ciation for having appointed him as
agent in England at the "handsome"
salary of ?2,000 ($10,000) and to
make his bequest really valuable with
his great foresight. Franklin provided
In his will that this ?1,000 should be
pur out at 5 per cent interest for one
hundred years; Muit at the end Of
that time 31-131 of the fund accumu?
lated should again he put out at In?
terest for another hundred years and
then the fund be divided one-fourth to
Boston and three-fourths tp the state.
Let us show how well that ?1.000
of Franklin's has worked. At tho end
of the first hundred years It had
grown to $431,888.02. It was then di?
vided lu accordance with the will;
$820,300.48 was set aside for "public
work" and $102,083.14 was started on
Its course of canting Interest tor an?
other hundred years. That was In
18UL January 1, 1018, this sum had
grown to .?207.805.10 and at this rate
of increase the fund should amount
to at least six million dollars when
the second period Is completed, and
may be considerable more.?World s
Work.
Title Fits the Duties.
The colored caretaker of a small
town library boasted the title of
"Custodian," which he had embroid?
ered on the front of his cap, a source
of lasting pride. Having marked
diplomatic ability, he deserved a
four-syllable title. Ohe morning
while he was sweeping off the front
walk a wandering loafer, also of Af?
rican extraction, paused In front of
him and scrutinized the cap closely.
"Cuss-todlnn!" he ejaculated.
"l>own whah I came from they calla
common niggers like you Janltahs."
"Ye-es," observed (he ebon-hued
diplomat, pausing a moment from his
labors, "dat's all right in Memphis.
But on a job like dls, 'custodian' b
mo* appropriate. You Bee, you Inn
to cuss half de patrons und toady l<
de rest of 'em."?Judge.
Not All Blind.
Two charming sisters tire engaged
to two brothers, and their neighbors
have been Interested In this dual love
affair. The young girls live In the
second Hat of a house, on the south
side of the street, nnd the other day
the elder sister was stopped In the
street hy the young scion of the fam?
ily who occupy the second Hat lu tho
house Just opposite.
"Oh, Miss Mlggs," said the toy.
"my papa said last night that some?
one ought to tell you to pull down
the blinds, 'cause if love Is blind, lhe>
neighbors are not!"?London Tlt-Blts.
From Ear to Ear.
Willie was away from home for the
first time, staying with some friends.
He was allowed to "sit til)" for dinner.
The servant came round with a plate
of slices of melon, and the hoslfsa
noticed Willie hesitate about helping
himself. "Don't you like melon?" pski il
his hostess encouragingly. "Very much,
thank you," replied Willie, "only th-Mr
make your ears so wet."
On the Dry Bathing Beach.
Mabel That's a lovely bathlny stilt
voii're ?curing. But aren't you afraid
water rill take the color out?
Jogli II might, so I always uuvt
it dr/ cleuued.--.Detroit New*.
SAW^MIRAGE ON SIDEWALK
College Professor Records Interesting
Observation He Made on the
StreeU of a City.
A curious case of sidewalk mirage j
was described by Prof. F. W. McNalr ;
of Michigan College of Minin?. Prof.
McNalr wrote in Science:
?'1 wns walking enstward on a ce?
ment sidewalk on a street running j
nearly cast nnd west, and moving up
n moderate erode which Joins a nearly
level stretcli of walk. On reaching
n point which brought my eye slightly i
above tue level portion, nnd at which
normally the level stretch would have
been seen In its entire length, but
much foreshortened, I observed In?
stead what appeared to be a stretch
of clear dark water covering the en?
tire width of the walk and brilliantly
reflecting moving persons and other
objects in sight beyond It.
"The sky was clear, the nlr cool,
the sun high. It was about 8 o'clock
p. m., local time. There was a moder
ate breeze. The angle of observation
was very small, probably not above |
three degrees. A step or two either
cast or west, and the water was gone,
but within the proper limits, the Illu?
sion was definite and continuing. The
weather bureau report for the day
Indicated that approximately '.\0 feet
above the spot where the mirage was
observed the air temperature was
about 00 degrees F. and the humidity
ahout 03 degrees."
The resemblance between conditions
here described and those which pro?
duce the mirage on the plains Is ob?
vious.
BELIEVE DEVIL RULES EARTH
Probably Queerest Religious Faith Is
That of Tribe of Kurdish and
Arabian Blood.
One of the strangest religions sects
In the world is known as the Yezedl.
a race of mixed Kurdish nnd Arabian
blood. They worship rhe devil, and
believe he will rule the earth for
10,000 years, 4,000 of this number hav?
ing already passed. On the theory
that Jesus Is good, and will not harm
them, they give most of their devotion
and sacrifice to the devil who. they
assort, will nt the? end of the nC\t
0.000 years, be put Into bell, where
ho will weep so hard he will put out
the fires, nnd then will be pardoned
nnd given back his rightful place in
heaven.
The Yezedl believe that there were
71 Adams and a similar number of
Eves, and that the originala once had
n great dispute as to who was the
most important, the man or the wom?
an. To prove the matter the women
spit In one great Jar and the men in
another, nnd the jars were the sealed
for nine months. At the end of that
period thoy were opened, and from
the women's Jnr leaped a pile of
snakes and worms, while from the
tnen'fl Jnr came a beautiful boy and
girl. In spite of their strange beliefs
they are very Industrious, honest, hos?
pitable nnd kindly, nlthnugh steeped
In dense ignorance, one phase of their
religion forbidding thein to learn
letters.
Words in English Language.
The number of English words not
yet obsolete, but found in good au?
thors, or in approved usage by correct
speakers, Including the nomenclature
of science and the arts, does not
probably fall short of 100,000, says
George Perkins Marsh. Few writers
or speakers use us many as 10,000
words, ordinary persons of fair Intel?
ligence not above 8,000 or 4,000. If
a scholar were to be required to name,
without examination, the authors
whose English vocabulary was the
largest, he would specify the all-em
braclng Shakespeare, and the all-know?
ing Milton. And yet in all the works
of the great dramatist there seem not
more than 15,000 words; in the poems
of Milton not above 8,000. The whole
number of Egyptian hieroglyphic sym?
bols does not exceed 800, and the en?
tire Italian vocabulary Is said to be
scarcely more extensive.
Egg Shows Miracle.
One cannot *'iid among the multi?
tude of wonders m nature anything
more marvelous than the development
of an egg, writes Flsa (i. Allen, in the
American Forestry Magazine. Whether
It be a butterfly which flourishes for a
day, only to die after depositing its
eggs, or a reptile which lazily leaves
Its eggs with only the warm sand to
mother them, or a Ash, like the sal?
mon, which with Incredible strength,
lumps the rapids to spawn in the
upper reaches of rivers, or most ap?
pealing of all a bird which builds a
beautiful nest for Its treasures, the
egg in every case is structurally the
same, and the miracle of life unfolds
according to the same laws of cell
division.
Modern Words Traced to Trees.
While the ancient Creeks fancied
that every tree was possessed of Its
own peculiar spirit, and nature lovers
insist, that trees have personalities
even as men ami women, it Is only nat?
ural that men have paid tribute to
the tree. The leaves of |>lautf
named the leaves of books, and the
word ''folio'* traces hack to "foliage."
Tin* word paper come* from the old
papyrus plant, and the word "Uible'*
is the Creek name of tin* plant, accord
ins b> Ihe Minneapolis Journal, The
word "hook" Is derived from "beech,"
and the "codex" originally meant tree
trunk. It Is because men have found
I he ttfja kind friends and interesting
IttbJeCtH thai they have been paid so
mil' h tribute.
HAMLET MODEL YOUNG MAN
Writer Declares That Melancholy Dane
Was "Perfect Lady's Perfect
Gentleman.**
We nre told in so many words that
he was a model young man. He has
presented tho English language with
two of its stereotyped phrases for the
marking of a standardized perfection;
he Is called "tho glass of fashion and
Ihe mold of form." The titterunce of
these words by Ophelia is as Illumina?
tive as the words themselves. It Is
plain that the youthful Hamlet lives
up meticulously, not only to conven?
tional, but to feminine, to maidenly,
standards of propriety and excellence.
He is the perfect lady's perfect gentle?
man, O. W. Firkins writes In the North
American Review.
But we do not need Ophelia's testi?
mony; listen to the young man him?
self. His mother urges him not to re?
turn to college. "I shall In all my best
obey you, Madam," he replies with a
filial decorum which Samuel Richard?
son or Hannah More could not have
mended. Observe the nature of his ob?
jections to suicide:
Oh, that the Everla-tlng had not fixed
His canon 'gainst bcif-slaughter.
He condemns the act, not because it
Is cowardly or simply immoral, but be?
cause It Is uncanonlcal, unscrlptural.
Hero is a young man In whom his
cateehlst or confessor* may rejoice.
With such a person it is obviously
hazardous to joke. When Horatio, his
fellow student, calls himself a truant,
Hamlet solemnly defends hlra against
the charge:
I would not hear your enemy say bo.
Clearly this Is a young collegian
who never "vext. the souls of deans."
We see him assiduous at lectures,
methodical in his notes. Shakespeare
has not forgotten to Inform us that he
kept a note hook. Within two minutes
after his father's ghost has ended the
appalling tale of the murder in the
garden, the young prince Is Jotting
down by moonlight an invaluable
memorandum about the relations of
smiles to vlllany. Do I mean that
Hamlet is a fool? Not at all. Hamlet
has a strong mind, but Its strength is
shown at the outset In the docility and
thoroughness of Its assent to the
proposition of its teachers.
FIRST VENTURE OF LIPTON
Friend Tells How He Took Chance
With Patrons of a Rundown
Grocery.
Dr. J*. H. Ostrauder, a personal
friend ot Sir Thomas Upton, b id re?
cently for the first time the story of
Llpton's Initla 1 business venture, an
exchange states.
Upton's first business venture was
an event in one little corner of Glas?
gow. He bought for n few pounds a
srfrry old rundown provision shop that
had changed hands a score of times;
everybody had failed. It was In a
neighborhood where profits were
meager and housewives close traders,
and where sharp practice and indiffer?
ent ethics precluded credit. So when
LIpton announced that he would trust
any decent neighbor once all foresaw
his doom.
LIpton, however, did not mean that
he would carry accounts 30 days, for
tit this period five such accounts would
have swamped him. As he himself
put it: "In misfortune I will carry
any decent chap till Saturday night.
I will he a friend to you In spite of
prevailing business rules; but if yon
break faith with me you will lose a
friend nnd 1 will lose my -business."
Thus ho put them on their honor. And
It won; won because sympathy nnd
fellowship dominated the hoy and ex?
cited like attributes in others.
Of the Eye of a Frog.
The smallest camera In the world
which has actually "taken" pictures Is
doubtless the eye of the frog, sars
Boys' Life. It has been found that If
a frog Is kept In the dark for some
time the retina of the eye, on being
dissected, Is found to have a purple
reddish color which fades away or be?
comes bleached on exposure to day?
light. If the eye be placed In front of
a window and left there, or "exposed"
for some time, and then fixed In a 4
per cent solution of alum the opto*
gram Is partially fixed and retains an
inverted picture of the window. It is
claimed that by a similar photographic
process the last picture or Image re?
tained by the eye of a dead man or
animal may be preserved.
Natural Thermometer.
It was a wonderful sapphire, so It Is
said, that led the celebrated Doctor
Sorby to the discovery of the nature
of the liquid sometimes found In?
closed In the cavities of crystals.
The Kent In question contained a
tube shaped cavity, a quarter of an
Inch long ami an eighteenth of an inch
lu diameter, which was so regular in
Its bore that It served, hy means of
the liquid partially filling It, for a
thermometer. The contained liquid
half-filled the bore at 50 degrees F.
and completely filled It at SO degrees.
A study of the rate of expansion of
the liquid led to the;conclusion that It
must be carbonic acid.
A Pious Man's Consolation.
Dr. Lynian P. Powell gives some
examples of the lengths to which pet
ty bitterness between sects will some?
times carry men. "A visitor In n i^r
tain town which had four churches
and adequately supported none asked
a pllWtr of one poor, dying church
'How's your church getting on?' 'Nm
very VNdl,' was the reply, 'but, thank
the Lord, the others are no I dolpj- hii>
teller.' "?Uirlstlsti ItegJ der.
Smuggling
Dutch Government
Dead Line on Gei
The Hague. Oct. 31.
govornrrjent has establish?
line 3uo yards w ide along t|
border in an effort to curb'
idling whieh has assumed ti
j proportions, particularly in
(and rubber goods goii g into <*ertS|
[Soldiers are constantly on watel
the dead-line but. in spite of tl
measures, the smuggling continue
j Dutch stores in all the fror
towns have been prohibited by \
eminent order from carrying n
stock than is necessary to supply
Dutch villages and the holding
markets in the streets has been
bidden.
Berlin Taxicabs Idle
* c.
Herl in*. Oct. 31. ? Taxicab ftl
droshky drivers in Herlin, as numer?
ous now as before the war, have so
little to do that many of them stf nd
ad day at their plares without a Sin?
gle fare. They have increased ^Jielr
prices 10 to 15 time;; the old rate but'
the cost of living lias kept pace with
the increase and some of them are in '
abject poverty. There are a few smart
equipages, the obvicus pride of tra
owners, but most oi their vehicle* j
present a battered, forlorn aspect.
A droshky driver, whose ,tail hat was
dirty and broken and whose clothes
were patched in many places, perkfrd
up eagerly at the prospect of a fare
but when he discovered only a queo
tioncr lapsed into his customary leth?
argy. ,
"I've had only three fares, in two
days and have not earned enough to
feed my horse," he said.
"Before the war w-? were very busy.
People then went pleasure riding,
and always called a cab to go to their
offices. Now the Germans cannot a '
ford it and the majority of th? for?
eigners have their own automobiles,"1
?>r, either side of tin parkway down
the middle of Unter den Linden hun?
dreds of taxicabs and roshkles are
parked, waiting for customers. They
take their turn at calls from the ho
|tels and they consider they are lucky
to get one "long-haul" customer a
day.
France's Birth Rate
Paris, Oct. 15.?France's efforts to
raise the birthrate and lower the
death rate, by means of the new min?
istry of hygiene, are too recent to be
judged by comprehensive statistics.
The importance of thf problem, how?
ever, is given pessimistic proml
1 nenoe anew by publication of labor
ministry's statistics for i919.
There were three deaths to two
births last year. In only one dapart?
ment, Finisterre. did births eace^d
deaths. In a number deaths we e
double and even neatly treble the
number of births.
Tyrol Joins Italy
Innsbruck, Austria. Oct. 31.?Ti e
commune of Kriechen which is bisee -
cd by the Tryol boundary, has just
voted to be Incorporated Into the Ital?
ian South Tyrol. Under the law the
Austrian government must accede arid
lose this community.
Under the leadership of the Sumter
County Cham be? of Commerce and
the Sumter County Fair association,
two bodies of "livewire" farmers,
merchants, manufacturers, bankers,
professional men and women, *iy>aL
estate and insurance agents, automo?
bile dealers, and other business men.
Sumter county is going to put on what
the promoters believe will be the big
rest and best county fair and bargain
iml gala week ever staged in this
part of the country. These "never say
dies" as they class themselves say
they will keep up the "old guard of
Gamec ock county, that never .surren?
dered" boosters to any foe or to any
conditions of times, and that they are
going to kick gloom out of Sumter
and clean out of Sumter county. That
is the "Sumter spiiit" that has male
Sumter and Sumter county what they
are.
Every business establishment that
stays out of this procession of progress
and boosting will undoubtedly be talk?
ed about a great deal, some who have
played the role of "the quitter under
lire cd" threatened adversity" arc al?
ready being talked of with pity by nu?
merous "live wires" who are willing
to fight against adversity and just
create good times any how. It nev?
er pays to hang back against an over?
whelming majority. You just get into
a kind of separate limelight of em?
barrassing and unprofitable publicity.
Why not run with the crowd of
'democratic, majority rule, do it any
how boosters."
New York. Nov. 1.?Requests from
all part* of the United States that the
great westward tide of immigrants be
diverted from the fastly-growing cities
to rural districts to populate abandon?
ed farms have led Commissioner of
Immigration Wallis to reply that Im?
migration authorities lack this power,
tin migrants, lie raid, plan their desti?
nation before leaving their home
countries.
Delegations from different states
have called at Elba Island to urge
that steps be taken to prevent im?
migrants from r?ing to certain cities.
Representatives of the Chamber of
Commerce of Detroit, which new
census figures advanced from the
ninth to the fourth laigest city in
the country, isked that immigrants
be sent to northern Michigan. Pres?
ent labor conditions in Detroit ar? not
such as to warrant an influx of for?
eign labor, they de? tared, as many
Maltese, barred from entering Cana?
da by a recent order, have located in
Del roil.
A Louisiana delegation visited the
immigrant station in an endeavor to
induce Immigrants to go to unoeu
pied farms In that state.
Commissioner Wallis has conferred
with railroad agents with h view of
speeding the westward departure of
immigrants to alleviate crowded con
1 ditions at the island.