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The Watchman--and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur ? day by Osteen Publishing Company, Sumter, S. C. Terms: ,., $2.00 per annum?in advance. Advertisements: .One Square,, first insertion __$1.00 Every ^subsequent insertion ;50 ? Contracts for three months or longer will he made at reduced' rates. ? Ail communications which sub serve- private interests will oe charged fop as advertisements. Obituaries and. tribute^ of re spect will be charged f?r. The Sumter Watchman ?wafl founded in 1850- and the True Southron in 18G6. The Watchman and Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of .both of the old papers, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. " * "_ TRUCKS AND TRAINS. Good rpads propaganda is al ways well'received, despite the in creased taxes which follow. Tie farmers accept it because highway improvement simplifies their mar keting problem and renders their property more accessible. City folk are .friendly, for it tends to make their. Sunday? drives more enjoyable. Shippers are in accord, for shipping by truck has many obvious advantages. - But figures recently collated in Iowa- indicate tJ^at, in the course of a single' year, 489 public service .trucks'produced 6,440.210 ton-miles of transportation. Allowing but one. man to the truck, for loading, driving, repairing, soliciting busi ness and collecting bills, this means 13,170 ton-miles to the man for the year. In 1918, which may be tak en for an average year, the nation's railroads produced 220,500 ton '>3fies an4 23,700 passenger miles -of -transportation to the man, Counting everyone connected with them from section hand to" presi dents N What does it mean? Everywhere we hear how the motor truck helps to solve the na^ ti?Vs transaltation problem, yet the railroads are suffe""ring for lack .of business. Have we forgotten how large a share of the -cost of truck transportation falls upon the tax payer? _ - * There is not a highway in the United States today that will stand up under truck traffic. No one has yet discovered how to'build one .that will, and, even did we know, the cost would probably prohibitive at present. We d< know that roads which cost $50, -?Q0 a.miie will net stand up undei "the pounding. " Now the statu of Iowa is consid ering .building up its necessary secondary -roads with gravel or macadam, purely in the farmer's interest It does not propose to build 550,000 roads where $5,000 roads will serve. Every state in the Union will watch with interest. ? ? m THE BIG LITTLE GIVERS. A worker who had been active In raising the community chari table fund for the coming year id this town comments on the givers thus: "Without detracting from the credit that "goes with the large gift, it ?vonIy fair to point out that thoseAvho came through with the "small donations actually repre sented more real sacrifice. "The; man or woman who has only ?' weekly pay envelope and -must skimp and plan from day to ? day, and still has a heart big * enough to..give when it actually ; hurt3,-is the big giver*/' It is a good thing to think about in this winter when, because there is much want, there must be much giving. It is good to remember, too, that every great public fund made - up of contributions is made pos * sible not only by the few who give v-iaxge isums but by the manv who give.small sums. - T?. the person who ha.1? nothing ? a very little help will mark the - borderland between hope and de soair. The giver of that little looks big . to him} . BOOZE SUFFOCATION. .~" Many a man who would be ap palled and. start a supreme battle ^or. life'if his doctor told him he "must die^vSrifhin five years of tu l^berculosis or cancer will keep right -on bu3'ing'-and consuming illicit li ~<tuor. Yet'death within five years ? is promised for the majority of --^those who persist in drinking th* supposedly "pure bonded" liquors with which the country is now flooded. Analvtical chemists, and not ail ? .-. j of them the sleuths of prohibition. ' have been analyzing sarn p.'es" of the alleged pure stuff now I being sold all over the country. They find it to be cither green Twhiskey or gin. improperly com pounded,* or old stock adulterated and tampered with to increase the ' quantity. Almost without excep tion the resultant beverages are found to contain chemical elements which have the pleasant faculty of driving the oxygen from the blood as surely, if a little more slowly, than suffocation. Five years of this process, say the chemists, and then the graveyard. <? The persistent patron of the bootlegger who thinks he is smart er than the government may be right in I that he is not apprehended in his law-breaking. But he isn't any smarter than the Grim Reap er, for the stuff he prides himself on getting away with is gradually getting away with him. CHRISTMAS TREE SLAUGHTER. Now is the time to prevent the annual Christmas tree slaughter. If every family wich proposes to buy a tree will insist that it must come from a proper source, the ruthless destruction of evergreens which mars most -Christmas sea sons may be controlled to ? a con_ siderable degree. Great shipments of trees come to this country from Europe every year. These are mostly from.coun tries where careful forestry is the custom Trees are raised for the ] Christmas market and new plant ing goes on constantly. There are many American dealers whose crop of Christmas trees likewise repre sents forest conservation instead of waste. These are the legitimate sources of supply. If getting the tree is to be a mat ter of personal hunting and cutting, the choice should be made with Care. Unless the prize is taken from a spot which manifestly needs thinning; there should be provision for replanting. There is an ample supply of Christmas trees to be ob tained without waste or mih. ^ m ? ? GOOD WILL THE CURE. ? - - ^ it m a an Many causes are assigned for dull times, all of .them containing some thruth?the need of repair ing war's wreckage and waste, the dependence on German reparation, the sad plight of foreign exchange, the difficulty of re-adj?sting indus try to a peace basis., the "Overpro-. duction" of this or that commod ity, ^the cost of labor and credit, profiteering, legislative delay, inter national rivalry, burdensome arma ment, etc. But when airs said and done, the situation boils down to this: Times are bad, and continue bad, because people quarrel and hinder each other instead of working to gether. Rivalry, where there j ought to be co-operation, does the * damage.' Industrial and social! classes foster *jeaiousy of other] classes, and thwart their efforts. Nations foster jealousy of each,<fth- | er. Envy and suspicion and fear and h'atred prevent the reconstruc tion that everyone, in his heart, desires. rn-wfll is the great obstacle. Good-will is the cure. If the peo ple of this country and the na tions Of the civilized world could only cleanse their hearts of hostil ity and pull together, the situa- , tiou would change in ? week, and in three months there would'be a wave of prosperity. This may sound visionary. II is , plain common'sense; Snd any intel- i ligent effort to revive industry [ I should work along this line. j KITCHEN PARKING SPACE. i ? - ? ?? ( "If ever I have a chance to build a kitchen, I'm going to fly in the 1 face of the efficiency experts and have plenty of waste1 space in it!' says a woman who has been try ing to adapt modern factory meth- : ods to housekeeping. "The com- , pact kitchen is all right up to the point of getting the meal on the table. Then there's no place to park the plates of salad while , they're waiting to bo served, and when the table is cleared there's : no place to park some of the dishes while you're rinsing and stacking the others. Parking space for kitchens is my motto!" The homely truth which many : women in modern kitchens are dis covering is that the roomy old ! fashioned workshop had a few ad vantages after all. Women who I build today are apt to make their j kitchens a little bigger than those | recently constructed They route J them so that the preparation of the j i meal may be done in a small and U j compact space, but they leave a lit [tie room to breathe in. ! A writer in the Ladies' Home | j Journal pleads for the same space. though she uses another figure. ? She says: "Before each meal there is at--"! ways a fleet of vessels laden with j foods, some ready for sailing direci I to the dining table, some to go to : j the range for cooking. All those! ! vessels have to be docked while \ waiting, and when you have, no ? room to spread out in. finding; dockage means shifting and Hir ing, pushing this aside, setting that somewhere else, looking! around and around, and finnlly put - ! iitng the stuffed tomatoes on the' window sill, the peeled potatoes on the floor, z id the salad in the rot ic ing chair?oh. yes! I have seen it: I have done it! All this shifting around and hunting for places means more than extra work; ii means extra thought, extra attention, extra ef fort, completely nonproductive mental energy at that, for nothing comes of it in the end. In the compressed kitchens this waste of effort goes on" all the time." In working away from the too compressed workshop, women are not going back to the pioneer kitch en, by any means, but simply add ing some of its pleasant space to the modern comforts, thus keeping what is best in both. j.-o-s? ?? BUSINESS SUCCESS. "How many men," inquires a popular writer on business topics, "would rather have successful sons than a successful business?" Imagination suggests a business man's chorus: "I'd rather have both!" To have both of these blessings, however, is exceptional. The aver age man, and indeed most of the men above the average, have limit ed energy and time and interest. Business success is won usually by focussing these Qualities on the business. That leaves little for the sons. The result is that exception ally successful business men seldom have sons fitted to follow in their footsteps. Suppose the father devotes him self to his children as his success ful friends devote then selves to their business. He is pretty sure then to have a successful son. He may not have so successful a busi ness for the son to step into; but the right sort of son can make his own success, and thus justify his father eventually on both scores. ? ? ? Comn^RefoiTsicsrNccdcd. Editor Daily Item: The fact that Col. Dargan has a plan which he- is advocating as a step toward effecting needed re for min our court processes. Has cauKed me to suggest a matter that I believe would assist in remedy ing the evils that exist. Of late years I have felt within me a lack of confidence in our state courts, enforcement of justice, because of the fact that it is xeceedingly easy for those charged with crime to ob tain bail and^have their cases post poned from court to court until the public grows weary of it. and when the trials do come off they are scarcely ever, in this section giv en justice if they are men of means or influence, or have secured the services of Certain sharp, shrewd lawyers. In the federal court, with Judge Smith presiding, guilty men are brought to trial and convicted promptly. In my judgment the reason for this is two-fold: The judge is appointed, not elected, and he does not have the temptation to favor lawyers who are instrumen tal in electing him. to office. I am not intending to make any unjust insinuations against our judges. They are usually high-toned honor able men, but they arc but hu man and want to be re-elected again at the end of their terms of cmee. Let's make those terms at least ten years and give them a better chance to do their duty fear-; lessl'y. Then, another reason is that criminals are tried by juries composed of men who are their i neighbors and friends and who. no matter how just they may try to be,; are almost certain to be influenced by feelings of friendship on the | one hand or of prejudice on the other. The remedy for this would i be to draw the juroi:; for Sumter j county courts, not from this county: as^we arc now doing, but from the ! entire Third circuit, composed of Williamsburg, Clarendon, Lee and: Sumter. This would enable us to ! have much more impartial juries., juries like those drawn for the fed-i ?ral courts, where as we all know, it' is very difficult for the guilty man to get clear. I have stated that it was not my | intention to reflect upon our judges and I want to include our solici tor in this statement. The records show that in a very large'per cent: of cases under his management either convictions or pleas of guilty ! were secured. The trouble has l>een ' mainly on the side of the defend ants. I have heard it said that where a certain prominent politi cal lawyer defended a man, it was hnpossile to secure a conviction should even one of his political ! friends bo found on the jury. Such a condition of affairs need remedy ing. Col. Dargan's plan or the other plans outlined above will not ap- ; peal to tiie legal profession as a body, not .to the criminal elass, ; but unless some relief is afforded along these lines our country is likely to breed more "bolshevists" ? than it has now. We should act j before it is too late. (Jive the peo ple JUSTICE. -m ? m Chinese Cabinet Quits Its Post Peking. I>e<\ IS.?The Chinese cabinet resigned today. Xo official reason for the resignation is ob tainable. In unofficial circles, however, the] decision of the government, is in terpreted in three ways; first, as a protest against the reactionary re gime proposed by Gen. Chang Tsao I.in. Governor of Manchuria: sec-! oud. the demand of Chang Tsao Lin for material support l?y rbe government, and thi^d, a confes sion that, tin financial situation i< impossible of solution. -? m) ? Sioux City. la.. Dec. II?.?Deputy Sheriff Lewis .Jones n<i Hessen Kaled. a packers" strike sympa thizer, were killed todav in a gun fight. Tobacco Growers' Marketing Asso. South Carolina Farmers Have signed Up Three-Fourths of Quota Florence. Doc. 16.?South Caro lina has contracted for 75 per cent, of the minimum quota of tobacco which is required of her to become a party to the Tri-State Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Marketin : association, which will include the ; states of Virginia. North Carolina ; ! and South Carolina. Headquarters i ; of the South Carolina Tobacco I association made this official an ' nouncement tonight, through its j secretary. T. Benton Young.. The contracts to date represent | more than 20.000,000 pounds of to bacco. This is approximately one- j third of the production of the year ! of 1920. Florence county with 500 j contracts and Darlington with ; nearly as many more have signed their minimum quotas. Williams- ! burg and several other of the small er producing counties are running close to their minimum require- I ments. "We have three-fourths of our ; minimum requirements under con tract. 1 am certain," Secretary Young stated officially tonight. "We are very near the goal, but the help of every individual who has ! signed a contract thus far is im- j perative to put over the campaign i by the first of the year, when the j campaign will close. "Beware of persons who are op posing this movement." Mr. Young! also said tonight. "As our cam- ; paign is growing in success the j agitation against it is growing I stronger." he said. "There is op position and it is more active today j than ever before. To every tobacco ! planter I would urge this precau tion: Ask yourself what is the mo tive of the man who advises you not to sign. Don't be misled. If you have any doubt ask the men who grow tobacco and are backing this movement. "As the time for closing the con tract approaches interest is be coming more pronounced. An in stance yesterday: L. H. Lewis, dis trict agent in marketing, was in j Johnsonville superintending the ! shipment of a carload of sweet po- I tatoes. A couple of tobacco grow- < ers, discovered him, demanded a ! meeting for growers, arranged it and the section signed up 100 per i cent." ?' ? - Fkrming Program I Schedule of Crops Recom mended For Boll Weevil Conditions After careful consideration, the following schedule of crops for an average one-horse crop has been agreed upon, and is recommended for use under . boll weevil condition*. It is intended, of course, that each individual farmer shall make such minor changes as the J needs of his farm require. The ! number of a?aes of the given j crops and the number of cows, sows and poultry, should be | multiplied by the number of j acres in your farm. / The acreage and estimated j average return, and the num ber of livestock per one horse i farm is as follows: 5 to 6 acres of cotton, i estimated value (5 acres...$250.00 j 6 acres of corn, with velvet beans, at 5J35.. 210.00 j 5 to 6 acres of oats and wheat, (1 acre wheat) followed by peavine hay. at $30.00_180.00 1 acre sweet potatoes.. 100.00 j 1 aero Irish potatoes. followed by peanuts 100.00 j! 1 acre snap beans, fol lowed by peanuts 120.00 1 acre in sorghum, su gar cane and similar crops _.'. 50.00 j 2 acres in tobacco, or 1 some substitute money crop-_. 200.00 And live stock as fol lows: 1 cow, increased to two as soon as feed is available, estimated value of milk and cream, one cow_150.00 1 sow and pigs.100.00 Flock of poultry, 20 to 25._ 40.00 ' Estimated total yield per one horse farm, under this plan j&.$1,500.00 Boy Scout News, Troop 2. All members of the Boy Scouts; of Troop 2, on account of the post ponement of the meeting which was to 1 e held 1mst Thursday night, are requested to be present Th?rs day nigh; at <\::)t> o'clock. There are important plans to be i discussed, and we wish to have larger attendance than usual. At our last meeting Alston Stubbs was enlisted into the troop ns a tender foot scout, and is now busy on his second class test. At this meeting we expect to have some real fun. for we have Maxie Alpert and Mertoek Walker on the ] list to he initiated. The troop is greatly in need of some money, and ;it this meeting) w?* will make plana to gather holly and mistletoe to sell, so if .\ou want any holly oi mistletoe tyatch for us. We offer our services in any way ttj.it we can help t<? deliver pack ages to the poor of the city. Phono !''?7. i JAMES BROWN. Senior Patrol Leader. -q>- ?t> ?< Montross. Ya.. Dec. 1 f?.?The de fense in the Trinl of Roger East? lake. wfvo ]?< charged with r!i?' murder of his wife, rested without i Kast'ake testifying. The may j ko to the jury tonight. ' France Proposes New Naval Policy Only British Willing to Say Anything at All About the Latest Problem Washington, Dec. 16 (J3y the As sociated Tress).?The negotiations for reduction of naval armaments struck an unexpected obstacle today while the Km- Kastern discussions were making unexpected progress. France furnished the latest com plication in the naval problem, and although details of her attitude were carefully concealed, she was represented as desiring to launch a capital ship building program on a scale that would scrap the whole ship scrapping plan agreed on by the United States, Great Britain and Japan. In the Far Eastern conversations the question of Japanese with drawal from the Kiaochow railroad in Shantung, which 24 hours ago seemed to have reached a stage of considerable delicacy, was brought suddenly to the point of a tentative agreement between the Japanese and Chinese delegates. Other issues of the arms confer ence remained at a standstill, al though in the senate the attack on the four power treaty was renewed by Senator Beed (Democrat) of Missouri. and administration spokesmen took notice of the de bate long enough to say they did not regard the treaty as obligating the United States to take military action. In the naval committee of 15 the British formally presented their' re quest for abolition of the subrarine but discussion was deferred and it was indicated that the points wouH not be pressed with any hope of success. The request was all but lost sight of in the stir created by presentation of the views of France. What actually happened with re spect to the French proposal was screened behind the interdiction of secrecy that surrounds tr:e meetings of the committee of 15?a secrecy which was agreed upon today by the committee itself. An official spokesman of the British delega tion, however, made bold to say that the French had presented a building program that would give them ten 35.000 ton superdread naughts during the ten years subse quent to 1925 and' the.t Great Brit ain, the United States and Japan all had objected. Developments that followed this disclosure gave evidence of a brew ing storm over the question of se crecy for sessions of the commit tee. The Fronen declined to com ment, saying that "under the disci -! pline of the state department'' they were pledged to ke q> quiet. An '? official American spokesman fol lowed the same course, saying that the situation was thai the commit tee met at II o'clock and adjourned at 20 minutes to 2 to meet again tomorrow. Both the French and Americans j expressed surprise that any one had ventured to reveal what hai transpired behind the closed doors of the committee ro.u-.i and thero were hints among the French that an investigation should be institut ed. Out of the tangle the only nation al attitude to be clearly anuneiated was that of the British government. I They said frankly they could not approve the French plan, since It would give to France by 103.". a great preponderance of new. first class ships over every nation in the world. If France ouilt. they .said Great Britain must build too. Italy was also represented as disapproving the French plan but j as insisting that she must ke? p abreast of France in any rear- j rangement of naval s-length. Five Years For Kelly Auto Dealer Sentenced to the Penitentiary Raleigh. N. C. Dec. 16.?C. U Kelly. Sanford automobile dealer, was sentenced to five years in the Atlanta penitentiary and fined $55.000 in United States District Court today for interstate traffic in stolen automobiles, when the jury, after four hours' deliberation on the case started Wednesday. December 7. brought in a verdict of guilty against Kelly. A. W. Hoff man, major in the New York Na tional Guard, and Harry Crai.r. "f Germantown. P.a.. George Scott, suspended member of the Now York automobile squad, and Frank Maron. <?f New York, involved as the defendant in the sale ind:.i ment. were acquitted. - ?? ? <t ? Germany Called On For Explanation Paris, Dec. ?7.?The allied rep arations commission has refused to consider Hie German request for a time extension on the January and February reparations payments un til the German government explains its inability to pay. Savannah Bank Closed by Examiner Savannah. Doc. 17.? The Com mercial Panic today posted notice that ii had been closed by the di rection <>i" I'"- state bank examiner. Cashier ReiHy is under iiidietmeni fur alleged shortage. Belfast. !>? c. 1 ' - One person was killed and six wounded in re newed rioting in t1"- cast Belfasi section. Street car service has been suspended and Lewis guns are be ing used against the rioters in crown forces. -?????> ? The distribution of the Christ mas saving funds by the severa banks within the past few days ha turned loose a goodly sum of money that lias been felt as a stim ulus of retail trade. The South Carolina Tobacco Crop This Year's Production Far Below Previous Year in Quantity and Value - Columbia, Dec. 17.?South Car olina produced 50,000.000 pounds of tobacco during the present year with a value of k$4.500,000. accord i ingtsto figures of F. B. Hare, agri cultural statistician of the federal j government for South Carolina. This was a considerable decrease from 1920 whn the production was 60.775,000 pounds with a value of $15,800,000, according to ZJr. Hare. Williamsburg county led the state ; in acreage of tobacco wilh 15.000 acres, while Florence with H.ihh) j was second. Dillon- produced the i most per acre with 650 pounds and I Darlington, Horry and Marion were i tied for second place with 640 ! pound", an acre. I ' Mr. Hare's figures also show that j Williamsburg county produced the j largest amount of the weed with j 9,-ISO.000 with Florence a close sec i ond with S,540.000. j In the value of the weed Wil ] liamsburg also led with $853.200 j and Florence was second with i $768,600. Irish Treaty Ratified _ 'Emphatic Majorities Are Re j corded in Both Houses at London in Favor of Free State London. Deo. 16. ? Prolonged j cheering greeted the announce ? ment this afternoon that both i houses of the British parliament I had ratified the treaty creating : the Irish Free State by emphatic majorities. I The House of Commons imme l cfiately after the vote was taken approving the reply to the king's speech from the throne, which meant ratification of the treaty. ; recessed until Monday to await i action on the treaty by the Dail j Eireann. which is deliberating in j Dublin. ! The Ulsterites and "die-hards" ; fought bitterly to the end in a last ; desperate attempt to turn the tide, j which it was clearly seen from the ) first would overwhelm them. I Charges of broken pledges were hurled at l>oth Prime Minister Lloyd George and Austen Chamber lain, government leader in the House of Commons. Major Robert O'Neill, Speaker j of the Northern Parliament, and other Ulsterites emphasized that ; the provision of the treaty relat ing to the appointment of a bound ary commission to draw the line ' between North and South Ireland in ca.se Ulster decided to remain aloof from the treaty, was inserted without the consent of Ulster. Irish to Vote Monday. Dublin. Dec. 16 (By the Asso- j ciated Press).?A vote on the ques- I toin of ratification of the peace j treaty between Ireland and Great i Britain will be taken at a public i session of the Daji Eireann Men- i day morning at 11 o'clock, accord- j I ing to an announcement made pub- j lie tonight, signed by Eamon De j Valer* ind Arthur Griffith. ?, g ft_ Co-operative Marketing Four Essentials Emphasised in Atlanta It is extremely gratifying to see j how rapidly public opinion (or ag- j ricultural opinion at least) is reach ing a practically unanimous view j about the things that are necessary j to put the selling of farm products j on a modern business basis. At the Atlanta meeting (of the American farm Bureau Federa tion) speakers discussed the mar keting of several very difficult pro ducts, but it was interesting to see ' how all of them came back time af ter time to the same fundamen- ? tals. 1. There must be "commodity marketing." The growers of a single product must unite and em ploy a selling organization wholly devoted to the profitable selling of that product. 2. Along with effective selling must go a modern system of stor age or warehousing, and accurate ' grading. 3. A sound system of financing rhe marketing plan must be work ed out. Without such fiancing an orderly and well-regulated selling of any crop is impossible. 4. The farmer in connection j with his marketing system must have bureaus of trained experts ; vho will collect information the .vorld over relating to the supply )f and demand for each particular farm product and so help prevent SflUtS. And it was a Texan?Mr. C. O. Moser?who told the members of the American Farm Bureau the <tirring story of the campaign for ?o-oporative marketing of cotton n the south. "Our first year finds these as :ociations doing a $50.0.00,000 for 00,000 members." Mr. Moser de dared, "and this is but a beginning. Simply because we can offer the cotton-buying world cotton accu rately graded and stapled in large annuities of even running lots, we ?an get the farmer 2 to 3 cents nore a pound for his lint, to sav tothing of other advantages/'.[)r. 'larence Poe, in ['regressive Farm ?r. Huntsville. Ala.. Dec. 19.?Will ticketts. a safe proprietor is dead, ?'red Mauterer is dying and fix-1 iris have been jailed, charged with nurder and assault as the result >f a light last night. Tho police say it was the climax to a g;:y party where whiskey flowed freely. Demand Made For High Tariff Artificial Silk Manufacturers Ask For 38 1-2 Per Cent. Protection Washington. Dec. ? Protection j Cor the artificial silk industry was! asked of the senate finance com- j mitfee today by Roland i-. Taylor of Philadelphia, representing the ] Tubisc Artificial Silk company, I which recently established a large plant at Hopewell, Va. The wit ness produced various samples of i clothing made from artificial silk for 'lie inspection of senators. The | capacity of the Hopewell plant is about 17.000.00 0 pounds of yarn! annually, Mr. Taylor caid, the pro- ! duce being mad" wholly from ! cotton Hilters, in order for his con cern to compete in the American j market with foreign manufactur ers it must have a duty of S3 cents j a pound on yarns, he said or 3s 1-2 per cent, ad valorem on the American valuation. The rate in j the ^jfc'ordney bill is 45 cents a pound or 23 per cent, ad valorem i on ?American valuation. Conflicting views as to the effect of silk imports on the American j industry were presented by other witnesses. Horace B. Cheney of New York city, representing the j Silk Association of America, said ; the industry was "seriously men aced," while Samuel Kridel of New j Vork_City, representing other man-! ufacturers as well as traders and importers, testified that, since the! imports constituted only 6 per cent I of consumption, they could have | little effect und on Lie- whole would j be beneficial by stimulating man-j u facturcrs. Hearings on. the sUk schedule vir tuallywere closed and it was an-! nounced that all hearings on the Fordney bill will be closed January ; 3rd. ?? ? ^ Boy Dies of Hydrophobia - Spartanburg Child Was Bit-1 ten by Mad Dog Two Weeks Ago - Spartanburg, Dec. 16.?Edwin! IT. Tuck, the nine year old son of; D. S. Tuck, died of hydrophobia; this morning at the home of hisj parents, 103 Bonaire avenue. The ; child was bitten by a rabid dog two ' weeks ago. The dog disappeared after biting the child, and has not. been seen sine, though a do?r an- j swering the description was seen on : the national highway, where it bit ? several other dogs. The rabid dog was the property of a neighbor, and had shown no symptoms of being mad up to the I attack on the boy. The boy was bit j just above the right eye. He was; given the Pasteur treatment at once. He had taken about 12 treatments but it was of no avail. The wound was so near the brain" that it made i it difficult for the treatment to be' effective. ?? <t? o Crime Traced To Lawyers - New York. Dec. 16.?Wall street's $5,000,000 bond theft plot was "ad vised" by certain lawyers, who shar- | od in the procedes of the sale of the j stolen securities, according to an admission which Saul S. Myers, counsel for the National Surety, company, a heavy loser, said to- : night had been obtained from VV, I W. Easterbay. Easterbay, who is under indict- | ment in Washington in connection ; with the case, has been corroborate ; ed by certain other witnesses, Mr. ; Myers said and "it tiow looks as if ) some of the stolen securities or the j proceeds of the sales will be locat ed/' David W. Sullivan, who was con- i victed at Washington last May with Nicky Arnstein. Nick Cohn. Norman S. Bowles and Easterbay :n con nection with the alleged bringing I of a stolen securities in the Dis trict of Columbia, was arrested here yesterday on an indictment charg ing .srrand larceny superceding one returned against him a year ago. He was rearraigned before Magis trate Koenig and committed to the Tombs in default of $10.000 bail. The six men had been released on bail at Washington pending ap peal. The report of the certified ac countant named by city council to make a complete audit ot> the hordes of the Sumter Gas and Pow er company for the purpose of establishing what is a fair rate for .eras, has been completed and filed with city council. In accordance with the understanding between the city and council ami the offi cials of the Gas company the rate that the company will be allowed to charge for ?ras will be fixed at cost cf production, plus a reason able profit oji the actual invest ment of t!ie company, the report of the auditor being used as a basis for determining what is a fair rate. ? o--g> ? The fire department answered one call on Sunday which was turn ed in at 4:3U o'clock in the after noon.. It proved only to be the burning out of a chimney to a house on the corner of Bartlen and Biandihg streets. The fire alarm was sent through tear rhat the bouse might catch from the sparks which wer? falling in large quanti ties. No assistance from the trucks, however, was needed; -o?>?> Let's see. How was i: this coun- j try .m its affairs before the Ma line Corps was established??Bal timore Sun. Buenos Aires. Dec. ] ft. ? Vast! clouds of volcanic ashes from erupt ins Andes peaks are sweeping! across Argentina, obscuring the sun in many sections. The "dust film! can be seen here. 1 Honored By Vi f College Mates M. A. Durant Awarded Stick Pin as Most Influential Student at Clinton Clinton, Doe. 16.?A very unique and ple.-isant exercise took place after chapel on the morning of December 9. when P. H. McMaster of GoUimbia sent T>r. Douglas a beautiful sin k pin requesting that it be presented to the member of the senior class whom the fresh man class decided had the best in fluence noon it. Mr. McMaster di rected that the selection be made as follows: Without previous notice to any one, each member of the freshman class was asked to write on a slfp of paper the name of the mem ber of the .senior clat53 who had the greatest influence for good in th<- college'. No nominations were to be made and no time given for consultation. There was to be just one open ballot unless in case of a tie. M. A. Du Rant of Aicolu, a mem ber of the senior class and a grad uate of Sumte? high school, re ceived nearly h^If the votes in the first ballot, and was immediately presented the pin by Dr. Douglas. This gift from Mr. McMaster was greatly appreciated by Dr. Douglas, and he feels that a great deal of good can be accomplished in this wa y. -?~o? ? Bootleggers Sell Water Jack Russell, registered Jack sonville. Fla., and S. X Kennerdy of Jasper County. S. C, were ar raigned before Judge Harby this morning at the city court on the charges of transporting and of sell ing contraband whiskey. Both men plead guilty to the charges prefer red aganist them and were fined one hundred dollars each "for each of the two charges. Neither of the men, according to their state ment, are able to raise their re quired $200. This particular case is a unique one in the police court annals of Sumter in that the bootleggers at tempted to pull quite a neat and premcdifatively clever trick to fraud their customers who desir ed to ptirchase some bottled Christ mas spirits. The men were suc cessful in placing one of the three of their cases of "real rye" but , were checked in their sale of the remaining two cases and in their get-away by the workings of the city police. In each of the three cases! was one bottle of the regular stuff, ah excellent brand of red rye whiskey, but the remaining eleven quarts in the case were nothing but water colored to a nicety irr the re semblance of rye. When arrested by the police the men stated that they couldn't be bandied because they were not selling whiskey and by way of demonstration broke the seal of one of the pure water bot tles'"and offered it for inspection. The police, however, found the real stuff and thereby were able to make out a city's case. The parties who purchased the first case were got ten in touch with by the police and after having examined their $75 buy reported the presence of eleven to one water. ft*-is1 understood that there was another man connected with the selling of the deceptive fluid but he has no far made good his ab sence. O ^ ?2? ? Mayesville News Notes Mayesville. Dec. 16.?We are glad to sec Mr. P. C. Chandler back . with us from an extended visit at Ashevitte. N. C. He is looking fine. Mr. .lohn K. McElveen. who is a candidate for state senator, was in town today, with that long Scot tish smile as long as he could, pos sibly" stretch it. feeling confident that he will be elected by a large majority. . He stated he felt and knew that his Mayesville friends were going solid for him. We are positive that' Uncle John wouid make us a good senator; he is the farmers' friend, the merchants, the bankers, and in fact a friend of all of us. why not let us give him a run lie" also stated when asked how he was traveling. "Oh, I am on my one cylinder HudsoE. c ?lored sorrel horse, as this was the kind we all had to acknowl edge, very soon, and he is taking the lead." Mrs. I". V. Weinberg and Mrs. D. A. B* rry spent Thursday in th? . city ofYTimmonsville shopping. Mrs. E. M. Davis and Mrs. R. F. DesChamps were visitors in Tim men s vi He Wed nesday. The following stores will go out >f business January 1st we have learned: J. Denemark. Mayesville Cash Dry Goods Co., T. D. Kahn and A. Mazursky. That will only leave us with about ?5 stores; no special lire carried by any of those 1? ft. nothing out general merchan dise ^ j Our farmers, it seems arc still bent on planting that staple which has caused so much depression this year. Wonder what will be t^jp outcome next year? - Tokio. Dec. 1 s.?The retention by the United States under the agree ment on naval limitation of the battleships Colorado. Washington and Maryland, has called forth Vio lent protestations on the "part of several of the Vernacular news- ; papers, -<*?^> ^ Washington. Dec. 10.?The arms f conference naval subcommittee . meeting was postponed until tomor row. -O a? ? Adrian. Miss.. Dec. 11>. ? Mrs. Matic K. ;j temperance workeg. * who is charged with manslaughter in connection with the disappear ance ol her nameless grandchild, was oonvicted. A new trial motion ? will be argued tomorrow. I