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The British in Ireland t the Program of Tarleton md Others in the American Revolution Limerick. Ireland. May 5?Miss XJnk. Daly has given a graphic de ?^ptt?n?. of a Black and Tan raid Vv?an Irish home in an affidavit she ;1u?t field here. Miss. Daly wil led; the destruction of the fur nishings of her house and describes tie special delight which, she says, *^e* British army seemed to. take in t&eir work.' ? Mise Daly ^declared that the officer iff^ceaEmniuid' informed her that the t y&risal was carried out be i?? owner of the house. Miss Madge, -Baly, Unae sister, failed to sdtify? the British authorities of an Irish ambush mad? about a mile away fr$>m their home on the previous night. \ . )' <"An officer told us that they were 'going to burn-the house and that we hid \. 15. minutes to clear out," said Una Dftljrl learned that we could 1^ take what family photographs, ad dresses, etc, that we could get in that : time. ~ Most of the time was spent in helping^my aunt down from her room a$ ;thertc<p of the house. Then we were ordered to the back garden while the building was search ed by the military and the police. Who, armed with sledge hammers and - unplenisnts of destruction, set to work to .break every piece, of furniture in I the hoaie. -'*Tha- conduct of Sergeant Ho ran . w$s particularly painful to us. He danced about in a silk hat belonging to my ttncle, the late John Daly. The memory of . this, uncle who reared me aid my orphan sisters and brothers g is^/veryv dear to us and -all his ef fects were held as treasures. :" "&ot content with wounding our feelings, this Sergeant Horan poured v.-a torreiit ot-^?ma? on me and my eas ier- and mother while all those chiv iijrout officers'and: soldiers of the glo rious British army seemed to enjoy r, tte^lo^MK ' J can say- that I did not see a kngie/afct of courtesy or m?nli jiess from tfny individual of- ail that " tiff force. ? "The officers of the British army seeihed to take a special delight in ? th eir work. On a took a fur coat and collar from my sister and threw them into the fire; another picked up a j pair of new shoes and did the same. I One. soldier paraded at the window j : iw. a ?. lady's corset, another decked j 1: h'fjnseil in a -.suit of pajamas which "belonged to" n y dead brother. -^"For ;two> and one-half hours we -were forced to listen to the blows that' destroyed our home, to see. the t^dtrws being smashed out and the farnituTe, glass, 'bedding, clothes, china, etc., pelted out These wer* tkkzri to the road where a huge bon firewas made and the remnants were consumed. ? Slack: as& Tans* went to the bot he?5*,adn .broke every plant in it with mallets. The gas brackets in the house were;bent and torn down, the ? $fc4ss fitting m the hall , torn out I and all fixtures broken and dam c^te had a lovely home, 11 rooms beantifuliy furnished and when the British wreckers, were finished we had a few pictures of our dead. "Aa oldish, officer accompanied by another came to us in the garden during the process of destruction and asked for Miss Madge Daly. When told that she. was in Dublin, he pro ceeded to read from a paper that as Miss Madge did not give notice to the military of an ambush which took plice in John Streeet on the previous night, all contents of the house were to be destroyed by military order. V^^owv bur house is over a- mile ?of?'-thft place where -this supposed ainbush took place, with v the river t^freenl'. Ky sister Madge was in Dublin at the time, yet our house is destroyed because she did not give i?eticei of what she could not possi bly l?ve knowledge of, even sup posing* that she was despicable enough to turn spy and traitor to her own. Variety tests With Cora. ? -'? *-. '-? ?__ ? Cle'mspn College, May 2 a.?Do you know wluch ot the standard varieties of corn: most commonly grown in South' Carolina are best suited to the climatic and soil conditions of your section of the state A publication recently issued by the South Carolina Eirp^'riment' Station win help you to .iotp^sr that question and will give you re?able information as to yields and merits of' the different varieties. . The publication referred to is Ex periment Station Bulletin 207, entitl es; "Variety Tests With Corn." by C. P.> 31aokwell. agronomist, and Gil beart H; Gottings and W. B. Rogers, assistant-.. agronomists, and it shows the results of variety tests at the main ?^?n^ at 'Clemson College, the Pee r>e^/'shtKStation' at Florence, and the Coast. sabstation at Drainland. There are1'ih the" bulletin a score of tables sfcbwfng\ comparative yields, with date' aS^ to weight' of ear corn, per cent of grain, weight of grain, bush sis per acre. etc. There are also tables showing average yields for cer tain periods of years, physical char acteristics of varieties, sources of se^d used, and rainfall at the three sta tions. The average yield of six varieties that appeared in tbe tests at Clem son College, 1916-20 inclusive, are given as follows: Douthit, 37.4; Co ker's Garrick, 35.3; Coker's Marlboro, $4.2: Lowman's Yellow. 31.1; Coker's Wiiriamson, 33.8; Belmont. 33.0. - At the Pee Dee station the average yields of five varieties. 1917-20 in clusive, were: Douthit. 56.9; Pee Do<? 2Co. 5, 5.M; Weekley. 54.1; Coker's Marlboro, 53.1; Lee County. 44.6. A;. Tests at the coast station have been failures during several years because of. drainage conditions. The 1919 tests there showed the following yields: Douthitk 28.1; Pee Dee No. 5, 2$.6; Chappell's Garrick. 25.1; Coker^ Williamson. 24.1: Lights*;;. ?23.6; Coker's Marlboro, 23.2; Low tvUow, IS.3* Demand That Atrocities Cease Near East Relief Committee Calls on Congress to Take Action to Save Armenians New York, May 25?The United States' Congress has been asked to ex ert pressure on the Allies and upon Turkey to stop the 'state of anarchy" in the Near East and to avert impend ing disater to the Armenians under control of the Nationalist Turks. The appeal is made in the form of a memorial addressed to Congress by a committee of the beard of trustees of the Near East Relief, "in behalf of at least 20,000,000 of the people of thi United States who have contributed to American relief work in the Near East." The committee is composed of Dr. James. L. Barton, secertary of the Am erican Board of Foreign Missions; Dr. .' Stanley White. Secretary of the Pres | byterian Board of Missions, and Wal ter George Smith of Philadelphia. They ask that congress and the United States government take im mediate action and insist that Eng land, France and Italy shall restore the Christian minorities; in Asia Mi nor to their homes and protect them. In addition, the three trustees of the Near East Relief have sent an ap peal to about 110 000 contributors to American, relief work in the Near East asking them' to bring pressure to bear upon congress to obtain the ac tion urged by the committee. In explaining the action of the- com mittee, Dr. Barton said, that the Near East Relief had disbursed over $60. 000,000 in money and supplies con tributed by the American people and, he added, "we now see that enormous humanitarian investment of American philanlhrophy in danger of coming to nothing on account of continued an archy in the Near East. We have, therefore, decided to try to bring the < force of those who gave this money I to bear upon our own government and the governmenths of our Allies in the late war to put an end to the present state of affairs in the Levant." The memorial reviews political de velopments in the Ottoman Empire since the aimistice. and continues: "It is reported by absolutely trust worthy Americans that Turkish Na tionalists have proclaimed that the mosques and minarets destroyed in their conflicts with the French they will rebuild with the skulls of Armen ians. "Women and children declare that they would choose death, in whatever form it might come, to such a state of distress, of hopelessness and of per petual terror, and yet no way of es cape opens before them. Among these distracted Christian peoples a statj of panic prevails. Their safety seems to lie in flight. *? "There appears to be no protection for them in territory controlled by the Turkish Nationalists and the French protest tueir going into Syria. They : seemed condemned by circumstances beyond their control to certain death. "America Is in a position to secure ! the protection required, if it acts [promptly and decisively. We can in ^sist that England, France and Italy, who have incensed the Turk by de priving him of much of his territory and created in him a spirit of re tvenge, shall now demand and en force the demand that exiled and tmenaced peoples be restored to their j homes and protected there." The memorial states that "all Europe and the Turk know that the United States neither seeks nor de sires territorial acquisitions or control 1 m any part of the Turkish Empire: but they should all be convinced that1 the people of America cannot and will not remain indifferent when inhu manities of such character are openly practiced upon a helpless and unpro tected people. "Thiat can be done without parti sanship, since the recent platforms of the two great political parties de clared in favor of readiness to render every possible help to the suffering Armenians. There has never been a time when that aid was more impera tive than it is today. Delay is per ilous." The board of trustees of the Near East relief which, the announcement says, approved this action of com mittee, includes former President Taft. Major Genera! Leonard Wood. Elihu Root, Oscar S. Straus. Ambas sador Myron T. Herrick, Henry Mor genthau. John H Finley, Cleveland H. Dodge. Charles R. Crane, Rabbi Stepher S. WTise. Vance C. McCor mick. Abram I. Elk us, Frank A. Polk. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Major General James G. Harbord and Hamilton Holt. ? - i ?? m ? ??.? .? 09 ? Gov. Cooper's Summer Home Columbia. June 1.?While Govern or Cooper will spend a large part of the summer on Paris mountain, near Greenville, with his family, as guests of the city of Greenville, the state capitol will not be moved from Co lumbia, according to a statement made at the governor's office today. I The governor's secretary, James C. j Derieux, and his offic staff, will rc j main in Columbia and handle the executive business of the office as j usual, communicating with the gov i ernor when necessary. Mr. Derieux j will probably make several trips to j Greenville to confer with the governor on matters of state. Toe governor's j health is not the very best and he j desires to take a complete rest. He and Mrs. Cooper and Cooper children j will spend ab<>ut two months on ! Paris Mountain. fJfjft j Auburn. N. Y.. June 1.?John D. j Rockefeller who is on a visit here I showed his grand children where he Jearn'd his first dollar. j Washington, Jone 1. ? The depart : ment of Justice is making investigation j of reports that wounded war veterans j have been charged excessive fees by j law firms when seeking advice as. to ! obtaining government assistance is in dicated by Assistant Attorney General I Goft Marshal Foch in Civilian Clothes ? Attends Meetings of War Vet erans as a Plain French Citizen Paris. May 30.?Marshal Fayolle. in the full regalia of a Marshal of France, decorations, baton and all. was presiding over a meeting of French War Veterans at the Invalides the other night, when he espied Mar shal Foch in civilian clothes, seated about the 10th row from the platform and trying to appear inconspicuous j between a former private and a cor poral. "What are you doing there?" he (called from the stage, "your place i? jup here, come rght here this minute," [he added in mock serious tone. J After the meeting, a3 they were j leaving the hall, some one overheard Marshal Fayolle ask Marshal Foch something to this effect: "What was the idea of occupying a hard bench in the audience when you could sit on a nice easy cha,ir on the platform?" Foch replied: "I just wanted to see how a Marshal of France looked in uniform to a mere civiilan". Marshal Petain is a great admirer ! of Shakespeare. When Jacques Co peau's company put on "The Twelfth Night" at the Vieux Colombier The-! ater recently, he attended the per-1 formance four times. He appeared to take especial delight in the seen ev. here the two soldiers in the scene where the two soldiers courage by bomba stic and war-1 ike utterances while shivering with ter ror. - - Young Boy Hangs Himself Sunday Twelve-Yea* -Old James Graddick Found Dead Bishopviille, May 31.?This entire town wa9 shocked Sunday afternoon, at 6 o'clock, when the news spread that James Graddick, the 12 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam L. Graddick, had been found in his father's garage; suspended on a rope dead . He had evidently been dead for two or three j hours as his body was stiff. He was last seen alive just after he ate his I dinner and soon disappeared but his parents thinking that he was only playing with his little friends did not become alarmed. The mother took the other children to Sunday School and returned about 6 o'clock and prepared to take an automobile ride but did not care to leave little James at home alone, so she told the other children to go out and see if they could find him. and his little sister thinking that he had gone to the ga rage to play, went there and found him hanging on a rope dead. The supposition is that he was playing with the rope and accidently fell and hung himself. He was a bright boy and was a member of the Methodist Church. He was also a momber of the Boy Scouts. He had just finished the fifth grade and was promoted to the sixth. The funeral services were held at Hebron Meth- i odist Church, yesterday afternoon, and was conducted by the Rev. W. V. J Dibble. Homes Desired For Many Children of State Just at this time the work of the j child placing department of the State Board of Public Welfare is coming more and more to the attention of all social workers and also to the atten tion of State officials and the import ance of this office in Columbia is being vitally realized . There is a demand at present for homes for many chil dren of the State and it is through this office that arrangements can be made necessary to the adoption of suitable children. The placing satisfactorily of many children of the State in | splendid homes is to the credit of this office. The work of this office mayi be summed up in the following: The first requirement of the office is to get in touch with the children in the! State of South Carolina in need of out side attention and to place these chil dren in good foster homes. There are three distinct phases to the work being done by this department. The first phase of the work is the investigation of cases of needy and dependable children who are reported to the department. The investigation includes the survey of the case as completely as possible with the view of .determining the cause of depend ancy and aiso the family history of the child. All children accepted for placement are given a physical and mental test to determine whether or not they are normal. Many children cannot be accepted for replacement in foster homes because of some mental or physical defect or a very bad fam ily history. The second phase of the work has to deal with the investiga tion of the homes of applicants who desire children. Not only are refer ences required but a personal visit is made to the home before a trial placemen* is made. Applicants must meet certain requirements. Their homes must come up to certain stand ards and they must be able to give a child fair educational advantages and religious training and above all such love and (are as they might bestow upon their own children. The third phase of the work of the Child Plac ing Department is the supervision of all children after their placement. The children are placed with applicants whose homes are approved on trial. This gives the applicants an oppor tunity to determine whether or not the child is going to fit into their home and also gives the department the op portunity of better safeguarding the future of the child by making sure that it is happily placed before giving consent for adoption. Information will be furnished inter ested parties upon their communica tion with Mrs. Mildred L. Wooten. Child Placing Agent. State Board of Public Welfare, Columbia, S. C. -? i New York. June 1?Eleven hun dred members of Rotary clubs have sailed to attend the international as sociation convention in Scotland. MINING TOWN DESERTED Slump in Copper Market Causes Shut Down of Greatest Mining Camp Tyrone. N. M., May 23?Tyrone, queen of the mining camps of the slate, built at a cost of $3,0C0.00<> and given an artistic atmosphere through the influence of Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge, is an empty shell. A few short months ago 4,500 men, women and children worked, lived and enjoyed life in what probably is the most beautiful mining camp. in the world. Now the Phelps-Dodge cor poration big copper mines are closed, there is no ore awaiting shipment, no means of livelihood remains, stores have been closed, inhabitants are leaving, the railroad has served notice that trains no longer will run. Within a short time only a dozen men, left to guard the mines and their expensive machinery, will be left. E\-cn the Phelps-Dodge Corporation general store ha3 closed and the en lire stock has been shipped to Doug las. Tyrone boasts the most beautiful railroad station in the state, built by (he mining corporation. Homes of miners are bungalows, not the usual shanty type of western mining camps. Company houses were not built of one type. They are all different. The camp was the pet of Mr3. Dodge and largely through her influence a Southern California type of building was carried out. Closing of the town, however, is considered only a temporary measure, according to ocmpany officials, who point out that the shutdown will con tnue as long as the copper market remains in its present state of stagna tion. A hospital, theater, library, elabo rate school building and one of the best electric lightning and power plants in the state are among the town's attractions. The Value of Cowpeas There are unusually strong reasons this year why farmers in this state should follow the annually offered ad vice of the Clemson College agro nomists to plant cowpeas. Always a more valuable crop than the South h?s ever yet fully realized, the low ly cowpea can at a time like the pres ent make up for lacks in many other directions. Sown after wheat, oats or rye or between the rows of sum mer crops or together with grasses or certain grains?in almost any combi nation or alone, in fact, cowpeas will be of value to the farmer and to his farm. Ther advantages are almost too numerous to list. To begin with they are easy to get. easy to grow and will grow anywhere, provided the right varieties are used. As a le gume the cowpea can be used to put nitrogen into poor soils and also to provide humus to aid in releasing other fertilizing elements. . It is es I pecially valuable for this purpose on poor soils in the coastal region and when grown to be plowed under it will effect important savings in ferti lizer bills. At a hay crop, of course, its importance has lo?ig been recogniz ed in' the south and there are few hays in this section lhat will equal or surpass it. It will imke excellent for age for livestock <?- all kinds before haying. Finally, and not tbe least consideration at present, it has possi bilities as a food crop for human be ings that only a gounnet who had ex plored them could adequately discuss. Families in the south who are so un fortunate as to lea've the cowpea out of their kitchen calculations are un fortunate. On this last poin' the agricultural authorities who arf seeking ways to help southern farmers in their pres ent dilemma, and apparently not making very great headway, might well consider some movement for in creasing the populai Ity of the cowpea as a food among *he people of all section^ of the country. There seems to be no good reason why a broad and dependable market cannot be estab lished for cowpeas and the south thereby have on? more money crop I to offer the nation. As it is now and for the past few years hos been, it is frequently hard tor housekeepers to find desirable cov peas for table use even in a city U>n Charleston, while there are many housekeepers, espec ially among the newer elements of the population, who would never think of trying to find them. The problem is laregiy one of advertising and educa tion. Spending a little less t:me in fruitless worrk about the shady past and uncertain future of cotton and a Jittle more in trying to develop the possibilities of several valuable crops neglected as the cowpea is neglected might result in more real benefit to the south than a great many of the. plans and schemes with highsounding names and ninny complications.? Charleston Post. Taming ilie Wild Flower*. Ar a flower show hHd in New Y'ok city. on?* naturally expects to see hothouse plants or at most such pampered exotics as appear in cul tivated gardens. At the recent an inual .show, however, there was an exhibit that was a veritable wild gar den, comprising exclusively plants that are native to the New England fields and woodlands. The developer of this garden Edward (lilleit. has made a hobby of bringing the wild ings into the dooryard. and teaching them to make themselves at home there. The result is highly gratify ing, for not only do a large number .of these plants lend themselves to j decorative and ornamental effects, j but. quite apart from this, there is an ?inherent interest in the indigenous j flora that gives oven a very modest j plant precedence in the affections of I many of us over tho most gorgeous [visitants from far-off lands. Now that Mr. Gillett has shown the way, there will be many an ama teur who will not be satisfied unless a considerable corner of his garden is given over to wild azaleas and laurel and hepaticas and lady-slip pers and trilliums and sundry other modest but winsome native flowers. ?June Hearst's International, MILTON WON I AUTO RACE Pilots American Over Tape First in Indianapolis Race?Roscoe Sarles Second Indianapolis. Ind.. May 30.?Tom my Milton, world champion speed racer, today piloted an American car lo the finish line first in the ninth re newal of the international racing classic, the 500-mile dash around the Indianapolis speedway. Milton's vic tory came through a beautifully driv en race which was own after Ralph De Palma, popular favorite for the victory, had set such a terrific pace during the first 200 miles that all but one of the foreign made cars, includ ing his own, were forced from the track through mechanical troubles or minor accidents. Of the twenty-three entrant?, on'j* eight completed the 500 'miles and I seven of these were American made machines. Ralph Mulford. driving another American built machine, was awarded ninth position without fin ishing, after all the others had drop ped by the wayside. Milton estab lished a new track record for cars of j not more than 183 inches piston dis placement by completing the 500 ! miles in five hours. 34 minutes and 44.65 seconds for an average of 80.62 [ miies per hour. The fastest time ever hade in the speedway races was but twenty hundredth* of a mile faster per hour, this mark being made by De Palma in 1915. The victory brought Milton nearly $3 6.000 in prize money. $20,000 for first place. $6.200 in lap prizes and the balance in special prizes given by acessory companies. Less than four minutes behind Milton came Roscoe Sarlps who had fought a bitter race with De Palma in the early hours and held second position most of the way. Railway Chiefs Not Satisfied Chicago. May 31.?Railway execu tives tonight expressed disappoint ment at what they declared to be the inadequate wage decreases announced by the United States Railroad Labor Board. B. M. Jewell, president of the rail way department of the American Fed eration of labor, refused to make any comment, but declared the deci sion would be taken up at a meeting of the executive committee probably in Chicago, within the next few days. "The reduction in wages granted i3 not. in my opinion, sufficient to meet the demands of the situation," said H. E. Bryan, president of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. "The railroads in good faith asked for and expected that the labor board would riiake a reduction of wages equivalent to the advance which it granted on July 20. 1920. That ad vance proved to run at the rate of almost SSOO.000,000 a year when the railways were handling a normal business and averaged about 22 per cent. "The reduction authorized by the labor board to be made on July 1 is just about one-half of this sum." S. M. Felton. president of the Chi cago Great Western Railroad, de clared the "railways believed that the reductions in the cost of living and in wages in other industries would justify an even larger reduction of railway wages than the advance granted last summer, and that the financial condition of toe railroads and the condition of general business demanded it.' MARION WOMAN CLAIMS INSANITY Marion. May 31.?The case of Mrs. Lizzie Jones, charged with die poi soning of her husband, was postponed today until the tal Iterm of court in order that she might be placed under Dbcsrvation at the South Carolina State hospital. Dr. James E. Boone. alienist from Columbia, made a cur 'aory examination of Mrs. Jones yes terday and was of the opinion that she wa3 mentally deficient but did not care to make a final diagnosis until he could make an extended ob servation of her case. Mrs. Jones complains of lengthy I spelts of sleeplessness and ensuing physical exhaustion. She states that for weeks at a time she is affected this way and that prior to the death of her husband she had these spells. Her emotional tone has been low. it is said, and she has looked upon her coming trial almost with indifference. She has not seemed to be depressed over the possible outcome of her trial and often appeared in a happy frame of mind. Sheriff .1. V. Rowell states that Mrs. Jone? will bo taken to Colum bia either tomorrow or fh"e next day. Papers for her transfer are being prepared. Jim Amnions, alleged to h ?ve given Mrs. Jones the strychnine, with which to poison her husband and to have incited her to administer the. dose, was also not brought to trial today. He. is held under $2.500 bail. At the time of the alleged killing of her husband. Mrs. Jones admitted without hesitancy the administering of the poison. Physicians of this city are divided in opinion as to her san ity. j Tokio. June L- - The newspaper I Nichi Nichi declares thai Great Hrit ain has suggested her alliance with j.Iapan be continued for another year. J Washington, June 1.?The house j judiciary committee has agreed t<> re port a bill to prohibit the sale of ? beer on physician's prescription for I use by the sick. ! Charlotte. June. 1.?The strike of textile mill workers has begun I throuhout North Carolina. The or ganization members employed in local j establishments all walked out. ? j Halifax. June I?The crew of the j wrecked schooner Esperanto were (brought here by the Cloucesterman 1 Elsie. Cotton Growers' Campaign Join With Manufacturers and ? Affiliated Interests in Calling on Federal Government to Aid in Rehabilitation of Industry ? Situation Discussed in Reso lution New York. May 31.?American cot ton growers, manufacturers and af J filiated interests, at their national conf^ren^e today, called upon the fed eral government to aid in the rehab Jilitation of the cotton indusry. The (government was urged in resolution: To authorize and grant a . ore lib eral expansion of credits I|i farm loans. To lower the federal reserve bank rediscount rate without delay to a figure not in excess of 5 per cent, on the reduscounts of farm products and all commercial paper. To instruct the war finance corpor ation and department of commerce to render all possible aid in opening up exports for cotton and other American raw products, so as to stim-. ulate the movement and consumption of such commodities as rapidly as possible. Restriction of credits ^nd high rate of rediscounts chargec. on farm loans, the resolution said had ren dered it impossible for farmers to plant and cultivate a normal cotton crop in 1921 and indications wer** that the cotton acreage would be the smallest planted in the last 25 years. ''The cotton growing industry and the entire agriculture of the nation." the resolution added, "are suffering from unspeakable losses in price val ues and stagnated markets in Amer-. ica and restricted exports. Deflation In farm values which was so unexpectedly precipitated upon the country in August, 1920. found 'the cotton growers with their crops ready for harvest and without power to protect themselves from the de< bacle of constantly lowering prices. "The crop was product. 1 at the peak of high cost and th x growers found themselves facing ?, nkruptcy values. From an expectaimy of $2, 500.000,000 for the cotton cftp in July, of 19 20. when cultivation ceased, the growers of that crop sustained a loss of SI,500.000.000 net. part of which was profit but represented a net loss deducted from the actual cost of- pro duction." It is proposed to have governors of cotton growing states appoint ? commission to work out a plan of co operation in stabilizing cotton price? President Harding's message to the convention extending the coop eration of the administration in im proving conditions in the cotton in dustry was declared to bs one of statesmanship and true Americanism. A message wa3 sent to the presi dent thanking him for his interest. All departments of the industry were asked to "cooperate along sound and conservative business lines for the speedy enactment of those? economic and efficient reforms in the production handling and marketing and distributiion of the t ;>tton crop which are essential to the future suc cess of the industry." The American delegates to the world's cotton conference to be held in Liverpool and Manchester from Juno 12 to 23, were instructed to urge, the adoption of the United States standard of cotton grades in the international marketing of Amer ican cotton between American ex porters and foreign purchasers of the. staple. About 200 representatives of the in dustry will sail tomorrow to attend the London conference. Gifts to Columbia College Large . I* Two Men Give $25,000 *nd $10, 000 Respectively Columbia, June 1.?Two large gifts to Columbia College, the state Meth odist college for women, to be used for new buildings, were announced during the commencement exercises, of the college yesterday. One is. a gift of $25.000 from a prominent South Carolinian, to be used in erecting a building, as a memorial to his son who was killed in France. The man's name is withheld, but it is said he is from the Pee Dee section. W. R. Young, of Lake City, gives $10.000, to be used for a building in memory of his daughter who died while a stu dent of thp college several . ?ars ago. Miss Mable Crouch, of Safuda, re-5 ceived the Sylvan medal, for the best four-year average in scholarship. She is the honor graduate. Miss Nellie Hurt, of Augusta. Ga.. had the second * highest four-year average. Mass Winnie Jones of Nichols, won the medal for the best poem: M^ss Ida.Ua Padgett, of Smoaks, won the essay medal, and M.iss Marion Kolland, of Columbia, won the short story medal. EN COURAGIXG R ESCI/TS IX METHODIST DRIVE Charleston. May 31.?Encouraging results continue to be received by Mr. Leland Moore, conference financial director, relative to the Christian ed ucation campaign being carried on by the Methodist Episcop; Church. South. Th*- results achieve % yesterday ami the totals to date in Sc district* comprising the South Car? Ina con ! ference were announced night as, follow:;: Orangeburg, $905. $.38.349;" I Sumter. .$8,885. $49.565.50; Florence $13.604.70, $44.455.70; Marion. $0,279. $66.174; Kingstree, Sl.tfOO, $:$9.000. j Yesterday's results in the Charleston district had not been reported last i night. A tleegram received from the head j quarters at Nashville reports that the j progress beinig made is very encour aging. Figures from less than 20 per cent of the charges total over $5,00?, 000 for the first day's work, it is an nounced. The goal for the whole jterritroy covered bv the c 'ipaisn-is ?133,000.-000,-\-j? I