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More Business is Needed In Farming Industry, Says Sec retary Wallace New. York, June 7.?The period of "agricultural exploitation" in the United States is practically at an end, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said tonight in an address at a dinner given *by the Standard Farm papers publishers association to a group of New York business men. If production is to be maintained he declared, every effort must be made to put agriculture on a thor oughly sound business basis, in order that the farmer may be able to get prices for his products which will give him a fair rate of interest on j the money he has invested and a fair labor wage.' Constantly increased production will not, alone, accomplish this end. Mr, "Wallace said, but mus* be sup plemented by better methods of dis tribution which will give the con sumer in the city the farm products with less waste and at less 'relative cost." "We. have come to a time when consumption h*j practically overtak en production," the secretary said. "Just now we are in the midst of a serious agricultural depression caused toy unusually large crops and the breaking down of our foreign market and. in part, to our domestic market. This depression illustrates how in , timately agriculture is connected with the business of the nation. **W?t must learn to take some of the speculative risk out of farming." Bail is Denied Women In Connection With Death of Ohio Publisher New- York, June T.?Miss Marian McArdie and her mother, Mrs. Eva Kaber, tonight were being held here without bail in .connection with the slaying of Dan Kaber, wealthy pub lisher" stepfather of Miss McArJle at i his home in Lakewood, Ohio, nearly two years ago. Shortly after, her mother had been arraigned here and her grandmother. Mrs. Mary Brickel, had pleaded not guilty in Cleveland, Miss McArdie was brought into court. Although she had appeared this morning wan and hysterical after a sleepless night, the girl was calm when she entered the. court room. She listened with interest to a po lice statement that she had been in dicted with her mother and grand mother in Cleveland on a charge of ? first C degree murder. After a regular questioning. in the court, she S3id she had no objection to being held 48"v~ hours pending receipt of papers from Ohio, on suspicion of being a fugitive from justice. Fojrmer Soldiers Now Wave More Waist Than Chest, Say Tailors. London, June 4.?The tailors say thaCthe former soldier is losing his soldierly figure. His chest which, in wartime, was where a soldier's chest . ought to be, has now slipped down to wizere it ought not to be and his waist measurement has developed exten sivejjr.. The result is that the beautiful fig ure Of the man of 1919 has become rare~and fatness and flabbiness. says the tailors, have takten the place of thinness and muscle. "It makes my regimental heart bleed to see the sloppy way in which former soldiers now carry themselves." said one who served as a sergeant tailor in the war. "Look at that old tape measure hanging on the wall. Note the' finger marks about the 32-inch line. That was the average measure- j ment of the war waist. Compare it j with the finger marks on this peace j measure which shows that the pres- j ent waist is from 36 to 40 inches. My customers used to be like the letter L Today they are like an S." Death. Mrs. Mary A. Nichols, wife of Mr. John M. Nichols, died shortly arte*; noon yesterday at the Tourney Hos pital. Mrs. Nichols, who was 58 years of age, was a resident of Sum ter county, the family having moved to this section from Columbia. The body was sent, to Lamar this morning where the funeral services will be held. The Price of Gas in Sumter. Editor Daily Item: The advertisement by the Sumter jftfling stations explains most plasi ?t>ly why gas costs more than outside < the city. Will they explain in like manner why gas costs 27 cents in Sumter and can be bought for so much less at other points, with the same rilling sta tion service? Gas is selling for 23^ cents in Cam- j den, 23% cents in Darlington. 2f? cents in Columbia, 25 cents in Charlotte and 27 cents in Sumter. It < ^ld not be a matter of freight rates bee :use certainly Camden hasn't a better rate , than Sumter, neither has Darlington tout if they had, it should be correct ed. Charlotte, N. C, is certainly further from port than Sumter and 1 presume has a higher freight rate, yet I bought gas in Charlotte retail at 25 cents in station last week and was told th*-y expected . it would be lower this week It the tilling stations cannot answer this perhaps the Chamber of Commerce can if Sumter is being dis criminated against in freight rates, Automobilist. Marriage License Record. A marriage license has been issued to Mr. David C. Gamble of Turbeville and Miss Marnie McKinney of Brog don. Business is looking u,p? to see it taxes are coming down.?Brooklyn Eagle. Events in Upper Silesia teach us that nature probably knew what she was doing when she flattened the poles.?-Wichita Falls Record-News. Austrian Tyrol j _ j Which Wants to Be a Part of Germany Washington. June 7.?Austrian Ty rol, the most mountainous part of Austria, which voted unofficially re cently to join itself to Germany, is described in the following bulletin is jsued from the Washington, D. C, headquarters of the National Geo graphic Society: "Tyrol is a second Switzerland, about equally mountainous, though not quite, so well known to the tour ists of the outside world. Still, as the home of snow-capped peaks, deep val leys, and sturdy, yoelding peasants, it had its meed of fame among those who search out the beauty spots and quaint localities of the world. And to the Austrians themselves it was the pleasure-ground par excellence. In the care-free days before the out break of the world war 350 Tyrolean health resorts and recreation centers were listed. Einpeio;- Francis Jo seph who was an ardent mountain climber, had a summer palace, at Ischol in Tyrol, and at other places in that mountainous region he main tained hunting estates and lodges whKh he considered the hnest in Eu- j rope. Tyrol Only Half Pre-War Size ?'But Tyrol of today is far differen: from the Tyrol of ten years ago. Then the region under Austrian control ex tended far south of the main crest of the Alps almost to the plains of northern Italy. This southern region was known as Trentino to the Italians and was one of the most important parts of 'Italia irredenta.' When the victorious Allies wrote the Treaty of St. Germain which closed the war with Austria, the Italian border was moved north to the position claimed by the Italians for centuries; and so more than half of the old Tyrol was iopped off. ?i flfrrjttfltt "The present Austrian Tyrol is a re gion of approximately the area of Connecticut and with a population of less than half a million. While the old southern Tyrol, on the south slopes of the Alps and exposed to the sunshine and warm winds of Italy, has a rather mild climate, the part which has remained to Austria, north of the highest mountains, has rigor ous climatic conditions. In some years hardly a month is free from frost, and heavy snow covers much of the ground for seven months of the year. The pasturing of cattle on the Alpine meadows is the principal industry, but sparse crops of rye and oats are rais ed throughout the arable portions of the country. "The main water-shed of the Alps which now marks the southern bound ary of Tyrol is the linguistic as well as the logical geographic boundary. To the south, even under Austrian domi nation, Italian or a mixed patios in which Italian predominated, was the language in general use. To the north however, the country had been thor oughly Germanicized since the fifth century. The doorway between these Latin and Teuton worlds is the Bren ner Pass, famous since the Roman le gions used it in passing north to con quer the barbarians. Since 1867 a railroad has traversed it. Touches Germany on North "On the west, Austrian Tyrol in ef fect is bounded by Switzerland, though the westernmost part of the region is called Vor?lberg. It is gov erned with Tyrol. To the north lies the southernmost country of Ger many, Bavaria. Eastward Tyrol is bordered by other of the few remain ing provinces of Austria. "Innsbruck, situated at about the center of the present Tyrol, is its cap ital. With its population of approxi mately 60,000, it was the largest city in the old Tyrol. Most of the other cities of any size were in Italian Ty rol: Bozen, Rovereto and Trent. The latter city, with a population of 30.000 though in what was Austrian territory before the world war. was almost wholly Itahan in language, architec ture, and the names of streets, build ings and public places. Among the towns lost to Austria by a revision of the southern boundary of Tyrol was Meran where is situated Tyrol castle, the seat of the counts of Tyrol, from I which the entire region tool: its j name." Reorganization of The Oiban Army. Havana. Cuba, June 4.?Reorgani zation of the Cuban army is one of the tasks facing the new administra tion of Dr. Alfredo Zayas. The Men oca! government which preceded that of Dr. Zayas took a preliminary step by abolishing the custom of promo tion of officers by selection. The presidential decree effecting this re form will become operative on July 1. but no selection will be made between the present and that date. The motive for army reorganization is economy and was discussed at con ferences between .Major General Enoch Crowder special agent in Cuba for President Harding and both President M. G. Menoeal and Dr. Zay as. then President-elect. WhiP* the armv itself numbers only about 1J.?00, the high salaries paid and the cost of supplies has run the total cos', of this branch of the na tional defense to more than Sti.OOO, 000, a figure considered excessive. Some sentiment has been shown lor the abolition of the army and the creation of a fore- of rurales, bin the general trend seems to be for a .-mail er force than at pres. nt but of greater efficiency, tie result of the ac quisition of the most modern forms or automatic rifles and machine guns. Anti-Trust Prosecution New York, June 9.?Samuel Untre meyer, counsel of the legislative in vestigating committee, has announc ed that he would write the depart ment of justice asking if *'< could spare the necessary men and money to prosecute violators of anti-trust ! laws. Carpentier should wear a German helmet while fighting Dempsey. It might frighten Jack into an uncon scious state.?Detroit Journal. Cave Mai) Laughs at Rent Man. Washington. June 7.?Cave houses uro coining in style again. Scarcity of housing accommodations in the district along Lakes Maggiore and Corio, Italy, has driven many peas ants to dig houses for themselves in the hillsides where they live in primi tive simplicity, newspaper dispatches say. "The inhabitants of most of the countries of the world have at some stage in their development lived in cave dwellings. A belt of such duellings extends from China across India to Asia Minor and Arabia, thence along- the shores of the Med iterranean to the Canary Islands, the West Indies, Mexico, and North and South America. In a few places tu day mankind still lives in (his simple and inexpensive fashion," says a bul letin from the Washington. D. C. headquarters of the National Geo graphic Society. "Have a Cave." Welcome to Traveler "On Kaster Island, in the Pacific, where innumerable caves and grot toes have been formed by the wash ing away of soft, deposits which lie beneath the bard volcanic strata, housing- accommodations present no problem. Many of the natives sleep in the open or in these caves and cheerfully point them out to the trav eler as the logical shelter for him dur ing the night. "In one of the wildest portions of northern Africa, near Guermessa, on the top of a. sugar-loaf mountain whose sides rise precipitously for hundreds of feet a fierce and warlike race now live for three months in the year in stone eaves hollowed out in the mountain sides. The trail to the dwellings has been worn as smooth as ! glass by centuries of constant use, ' which mak^s an approach difficult for j man and beast. These mountain men have cut separate establishments for themselves, their wives and their children, and have furnished them with rugs from Kairowan nad Persia and numerous leather cushions stuffed with sheep's wool. Troglodyte "Trusties" Guard Homes. "Suspicious of other cave-dwelling people near them and hating the stranger, they spend the remaining nine months in the year wandering with their flocks of long-haired goats, broad-taiied sheep and camels on the herders of the Sahara. Down in the valleys too there are plantations of su perb olive and tig trees which they protect from the other troglodytes during this season, while their houses in tlie mountains are being guarded by a few trusty men. "At Matmata and Medinine in Tun isia are extraordinary underground pit dwellings. When he is told that he is approaching' one of these villages the traveler experiences a queer sensa tion ar seeing nothing on the land :cape except crater-like holes in the earth which look like they might have been caused by the explosion of enor mous shells. As he peeps over the rim of these holes in the earth he sees below him the intimate life of the family, their dogs and camels. This is their common living room, which is entered from above by a slanting ^.ubterraean channel. Other rooms enter into it by means of lateral pas sageways, ar>d are sometimes excavat ed one above the or her for two or [hioe Stories. It is said that as many as 1,200 people live in these pits, tone Dwellers Have Sky Scrapers. "There have been cave dwellers in Asia Minor since long before the time of Xenopbon, who says that their houses were, underground with en trances like wells, and thut in them the members of the household lived with goats, cows, and chickens. Here too they stored the hay for their an imals and their own supplies of wheat, barley and vegetables. In the region around Mount Argaeus in Oappadoeia. southern Turkey, there are cone dwellers living today whose habita tions pei haps more nearly resemble the American cliff houses to be found in Arizona and New Mexico than any others in existence, and were used as habitations as far back as 2,000 B. C. The chambers of these dwellings hol lowed out in the solid stone are spacious, and the stairways resemble^ round tunnels leading from each floor to that above it. Houses have been in some instances made nine , stories high, but usually they are not! so pretentious. ' ? The countrj of the troglodytes of Asia Minor is inaccessible, and the visitor must make his way over moun tains and past rivers when his path is discernible only a few feet in front of hilf!. "Perhaps the greatest and most beautiful of the dirt' cities built since the beginning of time is Petra, on the old caravan route from Damascus to Mecca. Though ? is unoccupied to day. Edomltes, Phoenicians, Egyp tians, ami Romans have carved in ar tistic designs on the rose-red walls of its temples, amphitheatres, shrines, and houses records of their successive occupation^. Fi'criu li Cave Houses Vow Store Rooms "Europe too has her cave dweller.:. Near Tours. Prance, there are a few caves that arc inhabited, but for the most part the old cave rooms, pos sibly used by the Aquitani of Cae sar's time, are used as storage rooms with the dwellings built out in front, .?t' them Hi Spam there are many artificial caves, formerly inhabited, ] which are now used by Spanish g-vp- j sies. "in the interior mountainous region l of Gran Canaria in the Canary islands1 there are numbers of tin- natiA'es liv- j ing in cave houses whose doorways! stare out like huge black eyes on the! face of the cliffs. These mountain J hep herds have built little terraces in flout ..t their dwellings and hedged ! them about with cactus and yucca i" keep the children from tumbling down the side of the mountain. On the ter races they have ??? t up primitive ovens and here for the most part the fam ily lives. "Many of the American Indians lived in natural cartes and excavated dwellings in cliffs, some of Che most noteworthy being those of the Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde regions. <\> lumbus found cave dwellers In cer tain portions of the West [ndies, and even today on King Island in The Aleutians a colony of hardy Eskimo I I fishermen lives in a settlement of j about forty dwellings cut in the cliffs (overlooking the sea." A Huge Irrigation Scheme. Pocatello. Idaho. June 1.?Removal of the entire town of American Falls, Idaho, with its population ol 2,000, two or three miles to new site higher than its present location, is to be at tempted within a few months by en gineers working on a huge irrigation project. Waters of the Snake River, on which American Falls is located, are to be dammed, according to present plans, and will be used to reclaim some 300',00u o more acres of arid land now given over to the sage brush. Engineers say the project is one of the largest ever attempted. The big dam itself will have an abutment of one mile in length, will be sixty feet high and will have a base sufficient ly strong to stand an additional thirty feet should it ever be deemed neces sary to add to its height. The big reservoir to be filled by the waters backing up from the dam will cover some 7t> square, miles and will have an impound of 3,000,000 square feet. Its waters will extend from American Falls to Blaclcfoot, a distance ot about twenty miles. The reservoir will have a shore line of nearly 100 miles, and at its widest point, it will be four miles across and. in places, PG feet deep. Pesides moving the town of Amer ican Falls,, it will be necessary to tear up the Oregon Short line railroad and move it to higher bench land. A railroad bridge will be razed and a new one constructed farther up the Snake river. The Idaho Power Com pany's plant furnishing light and power to th*e southeastern section of the ntate will be removed. The dam site has been surveyed and preliminary work in torn, of drill ing for a solid rock foundation has been started. Austrian Financial Situation?Hard Times Predicted. Vienna, May 12.?Sir William Oocde, chairman of the Austrian section of the Reparations Commission, which has just gone out of existence, who has made several attempts tq obtain British loans for Austria, sees some signs of improvement in the internal situation of this country, but holds out no hope that the foreign credits the Austrians desire will be granted them in the next few months. "Trade is better, wages are begin ning to approach the internal pur chasing value of the crown and the people look healthier." Sir William said to The Associated Press. "The sunply of coal is now mainly a mat ter of money and at the moment can be identified with the question of credits. Raw materials are more easily obtained on long credits and the import requirements for these should be financed without any ser ious demand upon state funds." Sir Wiliam pointed out that neither the League of Nations nor the Repa rations Commission can grant credits to Austria for they have no money. Xeither, he said, can foreign credits be obtained solely by Austria's initia tive, since she has no assets to pledge except by permission of the Repara tions Commission. "Only by a combination of all these factors can any result be achieved," he continued. "When the League of Nations have concluded their inves tigations and made their proposals which are to be based upon private credits, it will still be for the hank ers to say if they will put up their money." These foreign credits, if granted, he caid could not be made available until the claims against Austria for repa ration and for relief loans had been postponed and this involved obtain ing the consent of several countries who have not yet had an opportunity even to study that question. There fore, he concluded, that no foreign credits would be available, for Aus tria for the next few months Hard times are ahead for Austrians, he declared. Military Control of Stricken City Pueblo. June 8.?With the arrival of 200 additional national guards men it was announced here tonight that ali civilian guards on duty in the area swept by the floods of last week, will be withdrawn immediate ly and control of the city would parts directly into the hands of the mili tary until the emergency has passed. In addition to the troops, 41 army trucks are on the way to aid in distributing supplies and in cleaning up. A refugee camp that will accom modate 2.000 persons today was or dered constructed at once. A seven waid hospital is now ready and can accommodate 1,000 persons should diseases such as smallpox and ty phoid fever develop into any epi demic At present the number of these cases is nol alarming, it was said. The city council has established a tree employment burer':. Wages f.u labor we:.- fixed at 4">. rents an hour and all persons are prohibited from paying more or less than that until further notice. Funerals oi the unidentified .lead :i; to start at once. These, officials ?aid. will he without ceremony so that sorrow may be put behind as J >.<...M as l'"'Si ihie. Washington, June 9.?The treasury departmcnt is mapping out plans to relieve ? ?:?if!? - raisers without the ne . e! sitj of legislation. Great things are being done in Eng land, by George! -Nashville Terihes sea n. Twice the world has been free of iaeia.l hatred: when Adam was a young fellow, and when N"ah came ..ut of the Ark. -Washington Herald. "Is there anything wrong with the girl of today"" asks The Literary Di gest. Not with the one we have in mind.-1?Charleston Gazette. ! Killed and 2 Injured in Auto Accident Car Containing American Legion Officers Goes Over Embank ment Near Indianapolis Indianapolis, June 9.?F. W. Gal braith, Jr.. national commander of the. American Legion, was killed and Henry J Ryan, director of the Le gion's Americanization work and ?Milton J. Foreman, of Illinois, mem ber of the Legion committee, were in jured when an automobile in which they were riding went over a steep embankment. Galbraith suffered a fractured skull and died enroute to j the hospital. CITIZENS TRAINING CAMPS Expressing the. opinion that the Cit izen's Training Camps to be estab lished throughout the country this summer are a vital asset in the broad scheme of national defense. St^retary of War Weeks has addressed a letter to the governors of the nation ask- > ing their cooperation toward making | these camps a success. The Secretary j of War requests the various state ex- j ecutives to bring the camps to the at tention of their communities by offi cial proclamation or in some other manner. He declares that the up building of the National Guard and the organized reserves depends in great measure on these camps. The secretary's letter follows: "Plans have now been completed which provide for a month's course in Citizens' Military Training camps this summer for 10,SOU physically fit citi zens between the ages of 18 and 35 years. These citizens will be drawn from all parts of the country and quo tas in proportion to' population are being allotted to each state in order to assure a thoroughly representative body of candidate. I am most anx ious that the men who takes train ing come not only from every part of the country but from all walks of life. "Procurement of candidates is in the hands of the Commanding Gener als of the nine corps areas and the locations of the camps and all other general information is contained upon the application blanks, copy of which I enclose. "It is my opinion that these camps are a vital asset in the broad scheme of national defense because they ad vance the upbuilding of the National Guard and Organized Reserves. "It is my belief and hope that these camps wiil develop closer national and social unity; will teach the privileges and responsibilities of American citi zenship and will stimulate the inter est of the youth of the country in the importance of military training. "My purpose in adressing you on this subject is to request that you bring these camps to the attention of the people of your state by proclama tion or by any other means you de sire. I make this request because I am convinced of the lasting benefits to be derived from these camps both ?by the nation and the individual tak ing this training.' How to Determine That Cattle Are Flee From Tuberculosis. The clinical or physical examination of cattle to determine if they are af fected with tuberculosis is of yet very little value. The best diagnosticians can only diagnose tuberculosis in its advanced stages, and it is absolutely impossible to. diagnose it in its in cipient and early stages. Many reactors are among the fat test cattle, which would appear to be in the best of physical condition. The only way to bo at all sure that your cow or cattle are free from tubercu losis is by means of the properly ap plied test. This test does not in any way interfere with the healthy ani mal and is considered very efficient to diagnose diseased animals. John H. Morse. Home Garden Fertilizing. Don't make the mistake of trying to garden year after year without manure or some sort of fertilizer. There are very few soils so rich that they do not respond to good treatment in the form of manure, fertilizer, and or ganic matter of one kind' or another. Manure is valuable for at least two reasons.?because of the plant-food elements it contains, and because it supplies organic matter. Use it by all means if you can get it; but if you cannot, do not become discouraged, for commercial fertilizers properly used are effective substitutes. Many large truck growers depend entirely on fertilizers instead of manure. For ease and convenience of application commercial fertilizer has much to commend it for the home vegetable grower. As to the kind of fertilizers, prob ably the best all-around formulas are 2-12-2, 3-10-4 and 4-8-6. These con tain all the necessary dements which arc usually lacking. The first men tioned fertilizer is adapted for the richer and heavier soils where manure has been used. The other two will give better results on the average gar den soii. Nitrate of soda and sulphate of am monia are fertilizer materials which can be used to good advantage later in in the growing season to force growth. Mote c ue c. required in the use of these. After you have the soil well pre pared ami ready for the seed, broad < asi from four to eight ooueds of fer tilizer for every hundred .-qu :re !eet, and mix it well into the sod before j planting. After the crop is three to four inches high, another application can be made of ;( smaller quantitj along <Ji<- rows on each side, taking the young plants. Cultivate or stir care that tin- fertilizer does not Louch the fertilizer into the soil as soon a:.- possible. Fertilizers hasten crop growth.?the resuh being earlier vegetables Fer tilizers, however, . tnic ; take the place of good seed-b**d preparation, good cultivation, or water. All of these things are essential for the high est success m the family garden. Chicago, June 8 -Bandits lined up dancers at Evanston and escaped with nearly twenty-thousand dollars worth of jewelry and cash. Aid For Flood Sufferers j Provided in Joint Resolution Adopted in Congress "Washington, June 7.?-A joint reso I lution was adopted iate today by the house and the senate authorizing the secretary of war to extend all pos sible relief to Colorado flood sufferers. Previusly Senator Phlpps, of Colo rado, had announced that ne and Rep resentative Hardy, of the state, would seek an appropriation of $1,000,000 for flood relief. The resolution directs the secretary of war to take aii possible sanitary measures to safeguard the health of the population in the flood district, to furnish subsistence and shelter and to give all other forms of aid. Interment Camp for Irish Political Prisoners, Ballykinlar, Ireland, Kay 11.?The internment camp for Irish political prisoners established here last Novem ber is now filled with 1,727 men. tt was originally used as a training camp for Ulster troops in the war and 2 divided into two enclosures which are called cages. Within each of these are rows o' brown huts and an extensive recjre tion ground, the whole ringed abtut thickly with barbed wirf and over looked by a number of high sent y boxes. There have been no escapes fi n Eallykinlar and no attempted bre? i. "Tunnelling would be impossible,' an officer said, "because the wa er comes close to the surface of the ground." The men are housed 25 to a hut, each being provided with a plank bed, straw mattress and four blankets. The Associated Press correspondent and a representative c? an English news agency was the hrst newspaper men ever allowed to v-isit the cazhp, which is about 30 miles from Belfasjt. Scarcely a drearier spot is to be found in Ireland. The camp is pitched on a fiat which is swept by all the winds that sport on Dundrurri Bay. "W* have a lot of rain here," 3aid one of the British army officers in charge. "We get the maximum rain fall." The prisoners were shy of the news paper men. Joseph McGrath, a mem ber of parliament from a Dublin dis trict, a prisoner who holds the post of the Irish Supervisor of Interneesr," voiced his distrust of the correspond ents who sought to interview him about prison conditions. .'^ "How do I know who you are?'*,he asked. "Any outsider allowed -to come into this camp is bound to be suspect from our point of view. Tpu could not come unless the military au thorities consented. "Even if you are what you say you are, anything I told you would be sub ject to censorship before 'ou were al lowed to publish it. I a tn willing.tb gire you a written state.aent if "yo?. can undertake to print it as submitted The Irish people will never learn the truth about conditions here until we are relased and can tell them our selves." Dr. Hayes, another member of the Dail Eireann, also refused to make .p, statement, but both men. talked, it some length with the visitors. Two sleeping huts inspected by thfi newspaper men were clean ami well kept and there were stove firea bunk ing. Prisoners do the cooking under the supervision of a British army,?er geant. The interned men were at their evening meal in the messroom and locked up with curiosity' at the sight or strange civilians. They ranged in age from youths to elderly men. - One of the first prisoners encoun tered in the camp was a Dublin barri ster whose long white beard gave him the look of a patriarch. He complain ed to the escorting officer that he had failed to reecive the literary supple ment of a London paper to which he had subscribed. Except for supervision by the mili tary authorities, the prisoners "run their own show." They 2 ;e organized in units of about 100 each under a captain. Each of the two cages has a supervisor of internees who, until a few weeks ago, was known as ?'camp commandant." The prisoner* had regular military drill daily and, according to Mr. McGrath, they were "ready for rifle practice," when the authorities put a stop to the drill ing and changed the titles of the "commandants" to something less military in sound. Football is the principal diversion of the internees. A reading room-is provided and the men are permitted to subscribe to recognized magazines and newspapers, which are delivered daily. They have their own chaplain, a prisoner, and anothe* priest living outside the camp is also available. The colonel in charge of the camp read the following scale of rations for internees: Bread, one pound daily; meat, 10 ozs. 5 days a week; baosn, S ozs. one day a week; fish. 3-4 lb. one day a week; beans, lentils, peas... 2 ozs.; potatoes. 10 ozs.; vegetables, 4 ozs.; tea. 3-4 oz.; sugar, .2 ozs.; oat mea: . 2 ozs.; salt. 1-4 oz.; margarine 1 l-L' ozs.; milk, three men to the titt. This could be suplerp'-nted from the prisoners* canteen, whose stocks they were permitted to select themselves "No limit is placed on the number of incoming letters. From 600 to 7?0 are reeieved daily. A prisoner may send out. three letters a. week About 400 prisoners' parcels arrive daily;" the colonel said. It was stated that} lit men had been discharged from the cam]) since it was opened. After seven days' internment, prisoners may appeal for release. Those released; were usually required, it was said, to sign a paper stating that they had never been members cf the Irish Re publican Army and that they were I loyal British subjects. It seems almost impossible for edi tors and owners of um?r 'las to save anything for a rainy ?ay.?Ambridge (Pa.) News-Herald. ! Personally we have considerable j egotism, but something tells us that I if we were a fish we would nab the 'hook.?Dallas News. ? 1 " ... ,.v\