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The Watchman and Southron Bmered at the Postpffice at Sam te?, S? C4 as.Serond Class Matter. ? ' 'II H, J U .-.It. PERSONAL. Mr. K. C. DesCharops and family have returned frfom Myrtle Beach where they h?ve--been -spending same time. t Mrs. R.-Gr. Smith, and her little daughter and son .Mary Francis and R. -G. Jr., of Orangeburg, are ^pending the day in 'Suniter. :. Mr. S. R. Smoak, of-Rock Hill is spending a few days in the eity. :. Mr. and Mrs. H. G: Osteen and _ Miss Annie Osteen have gone to Murrell's Inlet where they will be tb* Soests of Mr. and Mrs.O. H. Folley for several days.. *, Mr. p. F. Paiton- w^s, ^sailed to his father's home m Ttei 'Rock, X. C, yesterday en account of his lather's illness. Misses Susie and Esther ; Osteen Helen China, ;Maiy, BeuJait and Ida Cwttino have gone to Miss Lula Barton's on a house pasty.*. Misa Beniah WiSces, and .iMrs. C. W, McG,rew-returned this morning *^.%Pfeilade^hia.. They als?^ visit ed Richmond,; Baltimore; Washing ton, Atlantic City, Coney Island and 2&w York while away. >h 'A Miss Beuiah WiHiams of Marion, and Miss Emma Alford of Mullins, are yisiting their aunt, Mrs. Julian Chandler; ; ... ,. ';'V;; / Mrs. Lydia Mju^rcheisonV of Cam den- is visiting^ at the home of Mr. 'a?dI Mrs. -'S,R. J. S^itib'// Mrs. J. W. I^yejoy of Dillon is Visiting Mrs. W. H. Gibson on Blanding street. v, A. K. Barber , a^nd,, little daughter have returned* hxmie from a months'. visit to relatives in Raeiord* ST. C. r: Mrs. A. ..?. Williamson has gone \?e* -Richmond,. \a., wbeTr?.. she w?l remain Jor sometime ?nder care of a.sp^ecialist for her health. Misses Myrtle and:->.Margarite WiPanrison, also Master /Wjinfred Williamson left for^Fredericksburg, Va,> t$ attend school .ttee coming session.. . Mr. A. C. Williamson left today fof.-JfayetteviQe, N. CM .on (business for the. next ten days. ' *vu. Mr. Baynard . B. Wilson 'and I?aue daughter Lucile Qf. Washing?' ton, D. C, are in the. city, visiting relatives. Mr. N. A. Mainey of >Cajih Dry Goods Co., is. .now visiting the northern markets in the. interest of his firm. Mrs, C. C. "Leek, and /daughter Miss Bertie Lee ^turned ^home this mprnjng from Atlanta, after spend in . gfour .weeks in that city with Mrs. Becks* brother Mr. ^Geo. A. Bland. Messrs. X. A. and M. A. Matney, who operate the Cash Dry . Goods Co., have received a cablegram trem their brother in f Beriut, gy*ia, whVleft here in March to visit t*is'old home and , 'the Holy Lands of Jerusalem and Damascus," He repctrts a wonderful trip "and ?ri? return in October. I If??; W. M, - Wolfe has returned I feonse after a stay of several weeks | rc-Roanoke, Va. , -.. i,?. in O l ?uK, Englaad, Aug. -27?A f ur-j ther search, of the Weekage of the ZR-2 failed to reveal, any more ho&i?B. f Three Americans which, were recovered are being prepared; for transfer to th e United States; ,,. .,, . ?,? ? :.. v'; ? In the old days passengers were robbed in the coaches. .But now it is done at- the. ticket bXfice be fore they get< ahpard.r^EXmira Star Gazette, Another Bad Fire in Sumter Sumter's Second Dangerous Blaze in Three Months Early Sunday morning the worst and most dangerous fire which has taken place in *Sumter for many years, with the exception of the fire which destroyed the Osteen Publishing Co., burned out five I stores rn. the heart of Sumter's business section. The alarm was rung in about three, fifteen Sunday I morning but when the fire trucks j reached the scene of the fire flames were already leaping from the i buildings. At the time of the fire it was raining and this was prob- j ably n? small aid to the firemen in.j their work. The fire department | With its usual efficiency was on the job in a very short time and quickly j overcame the danger of the fire I spreading to large proportions. The j stores occupied by The Postal "Tele- j graph Co., The Su-mter Hat Shop, j Barnett's Shoe Shop, and. the of fices of Dir. D. Lr. Wilhams were completely ruined while only the ! rear of the grocery store run by Mr. Evans Bruner \jas damaged. Xone of the parties burned were fully protected by insurance but all had some insurance which partially covered the loss. " ?-*****-? Fire on Hooser Street j , .... j ? .'v j i Home of Clarence Fleming Completely Ruined Yesterday afternoon the fire de partment was called .put about five; thirty to" put out a fire on Hauser street, hear the coffin factory. The house in which Joe and Clarence I Fleming, white, were living was a j mass of flames when the fi-e trucks reached it and it .seemed hopeless to-try and stop the blaze. Fortu nately there was no wjnd and the houses on either side were not damaged. The house was too far gone when the blase, was first dis covered to save very much, only a little furniture and bedding being saved. The fire department is to be commended on their prompt ac tion in getting to the scene of this fire and for their fine work after they reachced it. -. ? <" ? Fire in Mayesville W. B. Weinberg's Store Com plete Loss ; The st?ret of U. B. Weinberg in Mayesville caught , on fire. about ! 8:30. last night. Af?r the alarm ! was given one of the back doors i was opened and the fire didn't seem I to make much headway until about I 9 o'clock. Everyone wanted to help but failed. There was no insur ance on the stock. The store and stock were a complete loss. At the time of the fire the: store was in bankruptcy. ?? ? ? ? Death Mr. Calvin W. Chandler died Friday at his home, near Wedge . field after a long illness,. The de ceased was born and raised in Sum ter and was w:eil known to the old er inhabitants of the city, being a brother of the late James H. Chan dler and of Rev. J. C. Chandler of Columbia. He leaves a large fam ily' most. of whom reside in the Wedgefield section.. The funeral ! services were held at the Sumter [Cemetery at 11 . o'clock Saturday i morning, August 27, 1921. ? , . ' Father and Son Found Guilty Greenville Jury Convicts of Manslaughter Greenville. Aug. 26.?Walter and Carl Bowers, father and son, who were placed on trial in the court of general sessions here Wednesday on the charge of murder for the killing of Andy Wells, young farm er of Travelers . Rest, were found guilty of manslaughter with rec ornmendation to mercy this after noon by a jury that deliberated over three hours. Notice of a mo- j tion for a new trial was given and i the motion will be heard before . Judge R. W. Meniminger Monday. Andy Wells died two days after he was struck about the head and chest in a fight he had with Wal tr and Carl Bowers in a garage at Travelers Rest on May 7 last. The fatal blows were inflicted with an iron axle. ? ? ? Shriners to Give Outing at Sumter Columbia Nobles Get Cordial Invitation Sumter Shriners are planning a celebration for Labor -Bay and the Al Araf Shrine club has been given a cordial invitation .to be guest Of the occasion. "Walter F. Going, shekel grafter, received a notice Saturday from the Sumter Shrine club in which the' wearers of the fez are asked to journey to the Gamecock city for a real outing. The communication to the Colum bia Shriners reads as follows: "he- Sumter Shrine club ccordi ally. invites the Columbia nobles and ladies to be their honored guests at a celebration to be held in Sumter, Monday, September 5. Kindly extend the invitation and advise how many nobles and lades we-will have the pleasure of enter taining." ' Columbia Sbiriners are asked to notify Walter F. Going or O. Frank Hart at once of their inten tion to take the trip. Mr. Going said if 125 compose the Columbia party a special train would be char tered for the occasion. Death of Miss Ixm-der. Died at Camp Ahce on morn ing of the twenty-third, Miss Mattie Lowder, in the bloom of young wo manhood. Three or four years ago she came to Sumter just after the death of her parents, that the ad vantage of a larger place she would be able to take care of her younger brother and sisters. Being expos ed after a severe attack of* ipflu eaza, the energetic but frail body, was not able to take up the re sponsibilities to earn the livelihood again. Her body was taken to Wilson's Mill the following day where it was buried in the old family ground by her father and mother. She leaves many friends, who are I sorrowful over the death of this] noble young woman. ,?' ? ? *j ? > Death & Mr.' M. Joyner who was hurt sev-> eral days ago. while at work at the Veneering plant died yesterday at his home. Mr. Joyner was hurt Wednesday morning and was im mediately taken to his home where he has been ever since the acci dent. He will be buried this after noon at the city cemetery. pipe?s a pal packed with P. A.! Seven days out of every week you'll get real smoke joy and real smoke contentment?if you'll get close-up to-a Jimmy Buy one and know that for yourself! Packed witheool, delightful, fragrant Prince Albert, a pipe's the greatest treat, the happiest and most appe tizing smekesknt yo? ever had handed out! ; You can chum it with a pipe?and you will?once you know that Prince Albert is free from bite and parch! (Cut out by our exclusive patented process!) Wfcj^?every^uff of P. A. makes you want two more; every puff hits the bullseye harder and truer than the last! iYou can't resist such delight! And, you'll get the smokesurprise of your life when you roll up a'cigarette with Prince Albert! Such entic ing flavor you never did know! And, P. A. stays put be cause it's crimp cut?and it's a cinch to roll! You try it! Prince Albert la sold in toppy red bags, tidy red tins, handsome pound and half pound tin humidors and in the pound crystal glass humidor with sponge moist encr top. White Population Gains on Negro Former Will Soon Exceed Lat ter in State Washing-ton. Aug. 26.?The pop ulation of the State of South Caro lina, as recently announced by .the bureau of the census, department of commerce, is 48.6 per cent, white and 51.4 per cent negro. In 15)10 the percentage negro was 55.2. The negro population, which was 835,843, in 1910, increased to 864, 719 in 1920, an increase of 3.5 per cent. The white poplatiori in the same -period increase from 679.161 to 818.538 or 80.5 per cent. The white population of the state consists almost entirly of native Amercian born or native American parents, the total native white of native parentage being 799,418, while the foreign element is repre sented by 6,401 foreign born whites. 7,f*25 native whites of for- ! eign born parents, and 5,694 who ! had one parent foreign born, the ! other being native. That total pop- j ulation includes also 30-i Indians, j 93 Chinese and 15 Japane j, ffiBflffij In most eounties oi uie "state tire percentage of negroes has decreas ed and in 19 of the 46 counties there was also a decrease in the number of negroes. Children Make Toys Public School of Boston Has Workshop Where Children Learn to Make Things Boston, Aug. 19.-^?Hundreds of boys and girls of the Mary Hem ingway public ^school in the Dor chester district have gone into com petition with Santa Claus in an open air workshop here and Christmas time will find their handiwork scattered in many gift packages. With work benches set up under fragrant fir trees in a natural park on Lonsdale street, the youngsters whittle and saw away making toys, furniture and unique gewgaws out of any material that comes to hand. SIX FIRES OF IN CENDIARY CAUSE Long Branch, X. J., August 27? Six separate fires of incendiary ori gin destroyed two schools, railroad station, automobile plant and two homes with a loss of sixty thou sand. Burlap soaked in kerosene was found in each blaze. TURKS CONSIDER DIPLO MATIC RELATIONS Constantinople, Aug. '.27.?The resumption of diplomatic .relations with the United States is being considered by the Turkish govern ment. ,'. . -? ? ? MAN FOUND BURIED IN ROCKS Chattanooga, Aug. 27?Buried beneath a pile of rocks in a cave near Harriman. the body of Rice Edwards, a wealthy citizen of Roan County,1 was found last night by the chief of police. He has been miss ing for four weeks. Six suspects were arrested. School Attendance in South Caro lina Washington, Aug. 25.?Accord ing to the census of 1920 there are 315,069 children 7 to 13 years of age in the state of South Carolina and of this number 274,429 or 87.1 per cent were reported as attending school. In 1910 the percentage attending school was 67.6 thus indi cating a decided improvement as regards school attendance between 1910 and 1920. Of the children 14 and 15 years of age in 1920, 78.0 per cent were attending school and of those 16 and 17 years of age 49.2 | per cent. Of the white children 7 to 13 years of age 78.0 per cent were at tending school in 1910 and 93.0 per cent in 1920. For colored children of the same age the percentage in the same interval increased from 60.4 to 82.3. The percentage of children at tending schools was considerably larger in the cities than in the coun try districts, the percentage for ehildren in the urban population 7 to 13 years of age being 92.3 while in the rural population it was 86.3. . "Urban" according to the census definition includes all towns or cities and other incorporated places of 2?500 population or more. SOCIAL EVENTS. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Handcock en- I tertained their friends to a chicken supper on Thursday night at their hospitable home near St. Charles. Dancing and games were indulged in. All enjoyed themselves im- ; mensely,- and much credit is due j Mrs. Handcock in the manner in which "chicken" was served in j many different ways. Her "miscel- | laneous pies" were most delicious. Those present were: .Misses M. McCoy. B. Handcock, P. McCoy, Carl Handcock. Inez j Handcock, Mrs. I. Blackwell, Mrs. ! M. D. Handcoek, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. J Brown, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Mat bis. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Mathis, 1 Messrs. B. Beasley, W. Amerson, E. | McCoy, B. Tallon. M. Handcock. W. : Elmore, D. Handcock, G. Bradley, A. Carrigan, Roy Handcock. -? o ? State Prohibition Officer Eichel berger located another good sized still yesterday afternoon just a short distance from PocaUa which was destroyed and part of the re mains brought to Sumter. About j two hundred gallons of beer was ' also found. The outfit was espec ially well equipped with all the lat est devices known to the industry, including an expensive pump which was used in place of swamp water. No arrests were made. NatureHealing Scars of Wari ?r The War Zone of France is] Being Rapidly Restored Soissons, France, July 28.?Na-i ture Ls making such rapid progress ! in healing, the .scars of war in I France that, outside of towns j where ruins are still standing, it j will soon be impossible to discover I the famous front line of four years of war without close examination. It has become evident that the j abandoned project of maintaining1! intact, as it existed at the close of j hostilities, the line from Nieuport, j in Belgium, .to Eelfort, as a lesson J to future generations, could not j have been carried out excepting at | an enormous expense. Forests, that were supposed to; have been annihilated have shown remarkable recovery. Positions that were upheaved repeatedly until the subsoil covered the surface almost l completely, giving every appear ance of hopeless aridity, have been slowly covered by vegetation. Even the famous height along | which runs the Chemin des Dames (.the Ladies' Way), is covered with thick herbage, that remains green in spite of the drought. In order j tc preserve certain famous war j scenes such as the Bayonet Trench i at Verdun, it was necessary to erect a shelter and protect the trench from the slow but sure work of na ture in order to preserve it as it was during the great battle. ? ? ? Made in the Carolinas The Exposition to Be Held in Charlotte Will Demonstrate Our Home Products Charlotte, N. C, Aug. 27.?No better means of advertising the Car olinas appears available than that offered by the Made in Carolinas Exposition, which will be held in Charlotte, September 12 to 29, in the opinion of Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, director of the North Caro lina Geological and Economic Sur vey, with headquarters in Raleigh. In a statement given out here at headquarters of the exposition Dr. Pratt declared "I believe that an exposition such as is being develop ed in the Made in Carolinas Expo sition will advertise to a . greater extent the products that are made in the Carolinas, and in a better and more conclusive way than has eyer before been attempted. "It should be able to emphasize to the homa.^onsumer that it is not necessary, to go outside of North Carolina k to obtain the greater part of the various products that are used. If will emphasize and call to ^ihe attention of the jobbers outside the Carolinas ' and throughout' Eastern and' Southern States what the Carolinas are pro ducing and have for export, and will attract business men front the Eastern and Southern States, who will. come ,here to find but just what the Carolinas have to put on the markft.., ...i. "Many instances could be cited in North Carolina and South Caro- j Una of people, purchasing materials abroad .w-h.kjh they considered bet tea* than what could be produced in. the home state, only to find later that the product was made here and sold under another name. There h.as been too great a tendency on | the part of retail merchants as a whole, due probably to the de mands of their customers, to buy their supplies away from home with the idea that the consumer would consider them better -i.an the home produced articles. The Made in Carolinas Exposition will go a long way, I believe, in combat ing this tendency and feeling. "There is no question in my mind but that the Carolinas are able to produce and are producing just as good grade products as are produced anywhere, and it is sim ply a question of the people know ing what these manufacturers have. They soon will be brought to a realization that it is more ad visable, from many viewpoints, to buy the home products in prefer ence to out-of-the-Carolinas pro ducts. - DEBS MAY RE CEIVE PARDON Washington. August 27?Eugene V. Debs may know whether he is to be pardoned and released from At lanta penitentiary before the day is over as recommended. The case of the Socialist leader will be discuss ed with the President by the Attor ney general and a decision will be reached. TAX BILL TO GO HEAD OF TARIFF Washington, Aug. 27.?The Sen ate Finance Committee decided to day to put the tax bill ahead of the tariff. STEAMERS Ta BE RETURNED TO U. S. New York. Aug. 27.?Federal Judge Manton today ordered the receivers of the United States mail steamship company to return im mediately to the shipping board nine chartered,steamships seized by the board for nonpayment of rental and restored ..to the company by a temporary injunction. DEBS PARDON * NOT REACHED Washington. Aug. 27.?No deci sion was reached regarding a par don for Egene Debs or a general nesty for the prisoners convicted under war time laws will be reach ed by President Harding until the peace treaty with Germany is rati fied. Crosstie Placed on Jt?ilroad Track Negro Held in Orangeburg Jail on Charge of Trying to Wreck Freight Orangeburg, Aug. 26?Spencer Oliver, negro, was arrested early this morning by officers of the At lantic Coast Line railroad, charged with attempting to wreck a through freight train near the coal chute, just west of Orangeburg. This was the fourth time a cross tie had been placed upon this sec tion of track. As a result of close vigilance, the offender was caught Oliver is.now in the Orangeburg .county jail awaiting trial, .. The Desolation of Keil Where Germany's Pride Has Been Humbled ' Kiel, Aug. 8.?German-Ameri cans, who frequent the lobbies of hotels in Berlin can often.be heard remarking that Germany has won the war. If they were to visit Kiel and other German naval bases they would probably get a decidedly different Impression. Nothing could be more complete than the desolation which hovers over Kiel harbor, formerly the pet war har bor of the German.navy and pro bably the best haven in all Europe. The great shipyards which cre ated most of the craft for the Ger man navy are silent. Rusty sheds mark the scene of former activity. Idle, deserted docks stand as sad reminders of days when Kiel was the point to which all German eyes, and in fact all the eyes of Europe j were directed. All machinery which the Allied commissioners regarded as useful for war purposes has beep dismant led. Floating docks, cranes and other expensive equipment have been moved away to recomvmse Germany's enemies for the damage done by Admiral von Tirpita' marines. In normal times. Kiel had 50,000 naval officers, sailors and employe* in the harbor all, the time. Now the naval personnel is less than 1,000. The city which formerly had a pop ulation of 250,000 has lost all its great government payroll and one fifth of its population. Fort Falkenstein and the other batteries which covered the Baltic entrance to the Kaiser William Q%? nal have been , reduced to piles of crumbled- concrete and twisted steeL . Their great guns have been sawed into bits and pitched into scrap heaps. . The naval academy is closed. An empire without a navy has no use for more naval officers. The at tendance at the university has dwindled. The castle of Prince Henry, overlooking the naval har bor, has been taken over by work ingmen for a club, and there are no warships in the magnificent water way, where the former Emperor William , used to review his navy with pomp. It was here that the flower of the German navy lay, safe behind torpedo nets, during most of the war. At present there . are only two antique cruisers lying at the imperial naval docks. These were so far out of date that the English and French didn't think it was necessary to scrap them, and hes-. itated to offer such craft to any of the nations which had helped win the war. Small commercial shipyards are operating and the commercial har bor still has a little business. ? The Kiel Canal is still quite ac tive. But Kiel derives little benefit from the business passing through the canal and cannot revive mater ially until exchange conditions be come such that it can again buy timber from the Scandinavian countries and resume its import ance as a lumber depot for Central Europe. FOUR CHINAMEN KILLED IN FRACAS Quebec, August 27?Four China men were killed and two injured during-warfare among the crew of the collier Maskinonge, anchored here in midstream. BURGLERS T?KE . ' SAFE FROM HOME Los Angeles, Aug. 27.?Burglars early today stole a 400 pound safe containing $120,000 of bonds, sil ver, etc., from the home of F. L. Mosher. GUSSMAN HELD FOR ? ALABAMA OFFICERS Peorio. Aug. 27?A man nameid Piedro Gussman held by the Bir mingham authorities for the Peoria authorities is not the Piedro Guss j man wanted here for the slaying of his wife. Mathis Erzberger Slain. Berlin, Aug. 26. <By the Asso ciated Press)?Mathis Erzber^er, former vice chancellor and minis j ter of finance, was assassinated to day while walking through the Black forest, near Offenberg, Bad en. Twelve bullet wounds were ;tound in his body, j The assailants of Herr Erzber ger. two youths who accosted the I politician while he was walking with Deputy Diez, have not yet been found. Just what was the mo tive is not known, but it has been definitely ascertained it was not : robbery. j Erzberger. for a long time one jof Germany's most powerful poli ticians. had for some time past been the object of a violent oam ipaign. sponsored by Pan-German ! circles, which accused him of be jing the author of the policy of the j present chancellor, Spanish Morocco Sketch of Country and People Where Spain Has Suffered Defeat Madrid, Aug. 14 (The Associated Press) ?That part of Morocco call ed the Spanish zone where Spain's I troop*! nave Just suffered disas-. trous i.'verses at the hands of the I Moors with the loss of thousands ! of men and thousands of square miles of territory is part of the no torious Barbary Coast whose pi rates preyed on European com merce for many years and car ried Europeans into slavery. In the present generation it has ; been made famous by the opera tjons of r.he chieftain Mulai Ahmed I er-Raisu?, who captured and held for ransom Ion Ptrdiearis, an American citizen, in 1905. This was in the administration of Pres ident Roosevelt and evoked from Secretary Hay the historic phrase 1 demanding- "Perdicaris alive or \ Raisu.- <eadl" It resulted in the j almos immediate release of Per- j dicariiff The jgj st of the world knows com paratively little about Morocco de spite t.*e fact, that it has been the ground of intermittent fighting for centuries. It occupies the extreme . northwestern part of Africa, hav ing an a.rea estimated at about 300,000 square miles and a popu lation of 5,000,000 to 10,0,00,000. Its people contributed to the arm ies which once invaded Spain and conquered Granada. v The country is an absolute mon archy with a sultan or caliph as its head. The present occupant of that position is Mulai el-Mehdi but his control over the shereefs, or nobles, has been for many years only nov-imai. Various European ; governments have negotiated with j the sultans in an attempt to paci fy the Moors, but these have only ' resulted in outbreaks by numer ous le/ders such as Raisuli, who j have fSommitted outrages which again brought the Moorish ques tion before the European cabinets, j Three races inhabit Morocco, the ; original Berbers, or mountaineers, j who conquered Spain on three dif i ferent occasions; the mixed race^f ! Arabs and Berbers known as Moors, both of which races are generally Mohammedans; and the i coloniv of Jews which inhabit the coast (j.t:ies and control the major ity of*the country's commerce. The opanish zone, where the fighting is now in progress, is a .narrow strip of land along the northwestern coast fronting on the M .^Uterranean Sea. It is about 200 m >es long, east and west, with an a&rage breadth, north and j south, of about 60 miles and ex tends Tom Algeria, under control of the French, to the Atlantic, Ocean ? on"the west. It does not, however, include the extreme northwestern tip of land on which is located the city of Tangier. The French nominally control the ter ritory further south. Spanish troops have fought the Moors for centuries but it was only in 1912 that the northern littoral of Mo rocco was assigned to Spain un der the terms of the Franco-Span ish tre ty signed in that year. Since then.sjain. has been engaged at in tervals in sporadic attempts to maiatesa her authority with vary-' .Botrfthe French and Spanish governments decided in January, 1920, to make military demonstra tions In their respective zones for the purpose of preparing the way to more orderly government. The French zone was soon pacified. The Spanish territory which is admin istered by General Damaso Bereng uer, as high commissionerr was not so submissive. Spanis". troops at first m. tie their base on the Atlan- j tic co-Mi of Morocco at El-Arish, also krown as Laraiche. From \ there they penetrated well into the interior and captured a number" of j Moorish strongholds, including the so-called secret city of Sheshawan. For some time k,.. *e activity has i been reported in that western dis trict of Morocco. The Spaniards, however, sent another expedition under the com mand of General Silvestre, who es tablished a base at Melilla, midway on a promontory which extends and failure. from the eastern, end, jQk^e-^ppi ish zone northward into* the Med iterranean. From ttiatTJotnt, Gen. Silvestre's troops anemptedWfteV etrate southward into the interior. Early successes were^efcorfeffd, but last spring the Spaniards encount ered strong native troops and hos tile tribesmen, estimated to/Uum ber 20,000 and said toube well arm ed and equipped with, artillery..'; The present reverses: 4 of -the Spanish forces had thejjjjeg^rdj&g early in June when sijx: companies of auxiliary or native troops-mu tinied, killed their Spanish officers and then joined the rebels.' Since then the 'Spaniards x^ve'.,.sai?ered several other disasters and'"Save been thrown back upon"'Mililla. General Silvestre was^ either 'killed or committed suicide while endeav oring to maintain one1 of txie !p\ft posts. The Moors in that je'dSQn are headed by Abdel-K^in wfi? 'is about 35 years old, ^?'^dn^t^d in France and Spam and is an ac complished linguist.' His 'airhvis said to be to civilize Moroeco:1h &c cordance with European ideals but without losing, the essen^a^^f Moorish culture. He was once a judge of a native court in MelilLa and loyal to ^pain: During the world war he became-actively?prp Gerraan and Spain, actbag .on, the protest of France, interned him, but he escaped and' was saioTto have sworn, vengeance^upon ";the Spaniards and' particularly upon General Silvestre. ' ; . Raisuli has not figured in the re cent fighting. His territory seems to lie further westward^'and; he-is said to have his stronghold m the native city of Wazan whjch lies, be low the line of the Spanish,zone. ?^?^?^ ' Large St?l Captured ? : on Stateburg Read a Part ?f Sumter^s Liquor Sapply Cut Off by Officers This morning one cf. the largest stills that has. been captured in some time was taken in the swamp about five miles from Saimter- on the Stateburg road and k^wn as Green Swamp. The still was . a complete twenty-five "gallon, .outfi't and when captured it was in full operation. Fifty gallons of' mash and one and a half quarts, of cprjp liquor were'also taken, along .wth the outfit. Two negroes,' Tom Lock wood and his sone Willie Lock wood were captured operating! the still. The officers state .that ' the two negroes were sitting down., by th estill when, they slipped up" on them and were -unable- to- 'make their escape the officers~ were rso careful to conceal their..abroach. The officers who made .this import ant capture were: Shenfr";it? Hrst, Deputy Sheriff H. 'G: Mcl?a gen, R. S. Griffin and- E. -U-Sew man. ... * "? ....llv.,^u,... : motor boat races mvsm.Q^ Detroit, August 2 T-^iRifti?l *heat in five events marked-.the-opening of the ten day speed bpak.regatfa on the Detroit river that wiU deter mine the championshjlp ^*1w?7 o? the world's power boat' classics and eleven othjer. events. ? .-- . hungarian DffXO Budapest, August* 2.7~Dir^ Alex ander Wekerle, five times the pre mier of Hungary, died, here today. ^3 For Best Results Use LIVE STOCK ;j ? a^ Sold by Druggists end Dealers LOST NEARLY $60,000.00 j le Columbia State under date of the 17th., reports the M i los| by a farmer living near Lake City of $30,000 in bonds and an almost equal amount in mortgages. The robbers actually -"?.j carried away his iron safe. Had he exercised the privilege a$- j lowed him by his bank of taking care of his securties, it could not have happened. We are fully protected by Burglarly In?v.-4 surance and cur patrons are at liberty to make use of our.I vaults for the safety of such stocks, bonds, or other valueable ' " ""3 papers, which they may own..? A Satisfied Customer is our most Dependable Asset. \ ? FIRST NATIONAL BANK : \ S?MTER, S. C XE^HL O'DONNELL ARCHIE CHINA O. L. Y?TER | .President Vice President Cashier j t .? The National Bank of South Carolina j OF S?MTER, S. C. i>>. ? - . The Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY ^ ? .\ ... ^ i Capital $300,000 Surplus and Profits $280,000 STRONG AND PROGRESSIVE \ ! Give us the Pleasure of Serving YOU '% "\ \ The Bank With the Chime Clock. ^ j C. G. ROWLAND, Pres. EARLE ROWLAND, Cftsh^ j