Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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An rmvarranteil Attack on the! South, i iXew York Commercial, Bee. 20.) j ? Regrettable as was the govern- j ^ment's failure accurately to fore wcast the cotton crop, it is still \ more regrettable that a paper of! the standing of the Journal of ] ?Commerce which, through its long, and honorable career has ever; maintained the highest standards j of journalistic ethics, should make j it the- basis for a bitter attack i upon the cotton, interests of the | south, its southwide organization | ?of cotton, producerSt a,nd personal-j abuse of one of the south's most; esteemed citizens. This is a new j era for our distinguished contem- | ,porary. /t is a far cry from the dignified editorial management of that polished and scholarly gentle-: man,- the lire William Dodsworth. aud. it is inconceivable that it j would have been approved by his i able and conscientious, successor; Mr- John W. Dodsworth. ? The attack, upon the American Cotton Association and upon its president. Mr. J. Sko.ttowe Wan-1 na.makor. whose personal character i jdnd business reputation are above j reproach, is predicated/ upon the; campaign made last fall for a re- j duet ion in. acreage to prevent the j rising of another large crop on top ' of a record-breaking yield, at. that ? tinje largely unsold. The manu factwrer.. whether o.f cotton goods or pi arty other commodity, when he finds himself o.verstcokod, imme- t ^ia^eiy* shuts down his plant until ! ^? su^pius is disposed of, or else) wjns at reduced capacity. This is | plain business sense. Wir.*, then* | should the cotton producer., when | confronted with identically the ! same situation, be denied; the same j remedy ? The economic condition j of.the south during the past year! is the best aztwer t.^ the question, j Scarcely anyone'has been ablie to get his money back, let alone make i jji proHtv while the vast majority of; Voxton raisers have lost money to | an extent that has been disastrous, j Many- have lost their homes, and ail ? Jhey ,possessed. To them it has not ? bfien. a matter of statistics, but of j dceadfuj r^toWuty. The backing j situation baa been distorted through '? frozen, loans,, and the "hut-iness of the entire country has suffered through. ih,e absaa.ee of purchasing power-from the. south. The" campaign for the reduction j of acreage. hJs had the .sanction of j banking " officials everywhere, and ! in the highest government circles I sjt was* declared, to be suicidal for the south to raise another large crop on -top of the one already on hand. This was. the sitUi{rion con fronting, the south, a year ago, and Its plan of procedure was goo-. nomically sound. The Journal of j Commerce admits that the govern- | ment's, low estimate had a beneficial effect, in that it advanced the pr"?e of-cotton long enough, t? liquidate many of the frozen loans, and j tfterefcje ju.s?itying the attempt of 1 the southern cotton raisers to re-j ?ort to ail" legitimate means to raise j the price pi their product. ? The motive behind,. this attack j is] not altogether clear. The Jour- j rial of Commerce has not been con- i * splcuous for Us friendship to the ' ?seuth, ?s has been, shown, foi ex- J ample, by its hostility to the south- j ern wholesale grocers.' Apparently I it is its desire to keep the price of ! cotton as low as possible, regard- j less of the impoverishment of j those wh4 producet it. If the a$- i ia.ek wast calculated to win favor | ^kh ?he" speculative element, it j was- poor business, because, there J *4*re\ always two sides to a market, j tixid- wherever there is., a bear there j is also a; bull, If_ it. was in the inr ; jer.e^s of the British "buyers, it is ? ' f* tnore understandable., for from that i itendpoint it is successful enter- f l*^*- j ? If it was the intention to curry ' Avor with the American manufac- \ turers on the fheory that it desired | to help them buy cotton at the low- j est possible price, the Journal of' m Commerce has miscalculated. Mill j owners are naturally keen business j men, but as a class they are honor- j able men and sticklers for ethical I i business practice. They are willing j * that the farmers should get a fair i price for their cotton, for they j know that if the south is impover- ! ished a large portion of the buying ; power of the country is gone and j -with it a proportional outlet for j f the- finished goods. They are hu- | man enough nos to be willing to make their profits out of suffering j feliowbemgs. Furthermore, they ! are not so much interested in the ! price of raw cotton being low as j thi7 arc in having it upon a stable ; basis, for the cost of the raw ma- j terial is always absorbed in the sell- j iag price, nor can there be an | abnormal difference between the ! price of the raw cotton and the finished goods. Hence, a campaign \ tor cheap raw cotton is silly. The Xew York Commercial has ; understood, probatdy l>etter than j any other northern newspaper, the i problems of the south and has sympathized with its people in their j efforts to solve these economic questions. Surely the principal in dusiry of fourteen states is entitled to ? hearing. While, nat irally. we have not al ways agreed with the American J Cotton Association, we have always recognised its sincerity of purpose in its hone.st efforts to# benefit the BO.utb. As for its president, Mr. Skottowe Wannamaker. who has been, singled out with particular bitterness, the Journal of Com merce could not have known how highly he is revered throughout the south or it would have been more temperate ki its criticism. Far from making any money out of his efforts to save the farmers of the south, he has expended almost ! $100,000 of his own money In their behalf. In bis zeal he is sometimes j called a crusader, but no one has ever questioned his personal integ rity. It would be just as] well be- j tore making any further attacks | Upon the southern people for the j Journal of Commerce to try to un- j derStand the subject, from the southern standpoint, or, for that matter, from the American stand point. -? ?. ? . Two can live steeper than one. Cilicia: Gateway Between East arid West. /Washington, B. Q. Dee 22?Cili cia, one of the most important re gions of Asia Minor, from which French troops are being withdrawn as a result of the much discussed agreement between France and Mustapha Xemal Pasha, dictator of Asiatic Turkey, is the subject of the following bulletin from the Washington, D. C headquarters of the National Geographic Society: "If an artist, a** engineer, a far mer and a mining prospector were sent to find the most desirable re gion in Asia Minor they probably | would come nearer to agreeing on Gilicia than on any- other section." j says the bulletin. "In hardly any j portion of Europe or America has nature been so generous as to this ? relatively small area at the ex- j treme northeastern corner of the j Mediterranean and . though man j has not made the most of his op- | portunities on the material side by j turning potential into actual riches. J it is only a question of time?and perhaps of world politics?until he j will. I "Along most- of the southern ; coast of Asia Minor the lowlands j form a very, narrow strip. Near the ? extreme northeastern corner of the i Mediterranean, however, at the ! southern base of the Asia Minor : peninsula, the sea plain broadens j but. forming a fairly level region i more, than 75 miles long and f^om | 20 to. GO miles broad. At the sea's j 'corner' the highlands close in again, and the coast through Syria and Palestine for 500 miles to Egypt is rugged except for occa sional narrow strips. Cilicia. there- t fore, is a sort of coastal oasis. '.'Back of the Cilician plains rises j the semicircle of the Taurus Moun- j tains from whose heavily wooded j slopes timber has been taken for ages to meet the needs of treeless Eigypt and relatively treeless Syria. From the Taurus flow numerous streams the year round watering j the- fertile plain and making pos- ; sible extensive irrigation whenever ; the necessary dams and canals I shall be. furnished. Even under j the b?srhtinsr rule of the Turk ami with the handicap of a semi-noma die, . semi-agricuttural populace, which has. lei rauch, of the' country ! becme swampy, Ciliciha as pro- j duced good crops of rice, maize, sugar-cane, fruits, tobacco and cot- . ton. , Its. climate and soil are es pecially good, for the production .of the latter crop. "Some of the streams flowing I from the high Taurus offer excel- ; lent opportunities for power de- i ve*sopmen?, and in the mountains is much untajpped mineral wealth. The Taurus are famous for their scenic beauty and they, have been a . practical, boon tbrpugh the cen- j turies. to the city folk who have j dwelt in the Cilician plains sin^e j the beginning of recorded history. I Villas were constructed among the foothills and in the pleasant val leys that-extended, upward into the mountains in both the Greek and Roman area's. In this favored re gion the Germans planned to ore ate a great base for the realization of their dream of expansion into the East. .Vameless De Lcsscps of the Past "The Taurus have iormed in their time one of the most important military frontiers in the Old World. They were practically impossible except through a deep gorge known j as the Ciciiian Gates. For a long j time the road, capable' of use only j by beasts of burden, ran . in a nar- i row. stream bed. But more than j 40O >-ears before Christ some name- j less De Lesseps constructed a i roadway through the deflle for j wheeled' vehicles, a ' work which ' probably changed the whole j cqurse of history in that part of the world. Cilicia became the half way house for commerce between Egypt. Syria, Arabia. Mesopotamia and even the Far East on the one ! hand, and the- Greek and Roman 1 worlds on the other. Almost ex- ] actly over this great caravan route the famous Bagdad Railway has j been constructed in late years mak ing Cilicia again an important way { station. British soldiers, prisoners of the Turks, performed much of the labor in constructing the diffi cult section of the road through ! the Taurus. "Whether conquest ebbed east ward or westward Cilicia was sure to be in its path. The Persians held the country 1,000 years before Christ. Xenophon and Cyrus pass-J ed that way. Alexander cauie'i through the gates to Cilicia in 333 j D. C. and defeated Darius on the* ; plain of Issus, After his death a Greek kingdom sprang up there. ! Rome set up her standard in Cili- I cia in 103 B. C. to remain for sev eral hundred years. Tarsus, the home of St. Paul, was the principal city of Cilicia in Roman times. It'" was made a free, city by Mark An thony: and there he was visited by. Cleopatra.' "The Arabs had tb'ir inning at the ownership of Cilicia, retaining control from the seventh to the tenth centuries. During this pe riod Byzantium held sway beyond the Taurus, and the Cilician Gates formed the bulwark of Christen dom against the Moslems. French Interest Dated From Cru sades. "France's interest in Cilicia. which was recognized after the worl-i war when she was given a mandate for part of the territory, may be traced to the Crusades. A Frank kingdom was maintained in Syria for more 'San a hundred year.: in the tw< ' t and thirteenth centuries. Prie?- this large num bers of Armenian.i had moved from the north beoaus- of Turkish en croachment., and had set up the kingdom of Lesser Armenia in Cilicia. With this Christian king dom the pranks had close rela tions, and in later years many of the officials of the Cflician kingdom were Franks. "After the Turkish Empire gain ed control of "ili'ia in tin- six teenth century the Arm< nians in the population suffered much ;ti the hands of the Moslem fanatics. Adana, chief modern city of the plain, has been the scene of one bloody massacre after another in which women ???ml as men have been the thousand. Ke< rhiidren as v sla ughl ? red n memories ( I: the massacre of 1 **??:? when the Young Turk movement arose. of that during the world war when the British, left Galipoli. and es pecially of that of I1?10 to cele brate the growing power of Musta pha Kcmal Pasha, are no doubt re sponsible for the fears of the Christian inhabitants of Cilicia as the French evacuate the territory and leave the country to occupa tion by the Kemalists." - The Kitchener Myth. (From the London Daily Mail). The tale that Lord Kitchener met his death through treason has been revived l>y a melodramatic him. It is one of Those absurd myths which ought to be interred once and for all. That the Ger mans knew of Lord Kitchener's in tended journey 10 Russia from Rus sian sources is probable, as every thing leaked out at Petrograd and the place was full of German spies. That they were able in consequence to sink the Hampshire and kill Lord Kitchener is sheer non sense. The Hampshire sailed from Scapa in the afternoon of June 5. 19iG. slt had been intended that she should go out by tin- channel generally used and pass up the eastern coast of the (Orkneys. On the eve of Kitchener's departure a strong gale was blowing from tin east, and at the very last minute it was decided that the Hampshire should take another rarely used channel to the west and pass up the west coast of Cue Orkneys, so as to obtain some shelter from the storm. Xo one could know of that change of plan in London, Petro grad or Berlin; By a mere accident some days previously a German submarine j had dumped a number of mines off the west coast of the Orkneys and into these the Hampshire steamed and was sunk. By another acci-j dent, as the Hampshire was going out, the wind changed and blew violently-from the west, so that no mine-sweepers could precede her. . These facts pro> . that no deep-laid I plot was responsible for her de struction; but the tragic shifts and changes of the weather. The Ger man submarine had been dispatch ed, to "mine in" the XS-rand Fleet, ; not to kill Lord 'Kitchener: but un less this is now definitely and clearly placed on record there is the risk that posterity will accept a foolish fiction as the truth. "Xo Friend in Need** Pat Lambert and John Morrisey, both from Ireland, but at present living in Xew York City, had never ridden in a taxieab?that is, until recently?and they have both sworn never again. They went out to a little party where some real Irish stuff was decanted, and after the party broke up, stood on a corner debating how they would reach their homes,, away down town. A friend, who had been at the party, solved the question for them by hailing a taxieab. telling tin- driver to go to 4Cth Street and Broadway, stating that* he was going down in another taxi and would join them there. The ride was fine and Pat and John enjoyed it so'mudi that they had the chauffeur drive through the park. Later they park ed at the meeting place, but the friend failed them. Still later they were hauled to the pplicc station, and when they con fessed they had not the where withal to satisfy the taxi driver's claim they spent the night in a cell. REAR ADMIRAL DAVIS DEAD Washington. Dec. 27.? Rear Ad miral Charles Henry Davis, retried, died here today, aged 7'L lie was a brother-in-law of Senator Lodge. O ?y~^-> A man who goes to jail for th ? lime of his life doesn't have it. ? ? o Fat men never do esthetic dances because they are too easy to hit. You must sing a song of exp< use to get a hottle full of rye. ?? o?? Peasant Touch The naiv.' ? .'iar and puffed si* eves of the guimp.-. tou< bed with vivid embroidery the hat with its bright colors, are evidence of the Ruman ian peasant origin -.fat j.-r,r ;i ll tJ of this delightfully youthful Claire model A Princess Dances for the Crowd tttXX?*:*<>^&&ZVi*t ?WIKS IP Princess Kouzvitska. a former Russian noblewoman, is delighting Parisian audiences with her dances with her partner, Gabriel Hainmaux. She is known on the stage as Sophia Korty She will soon come to America.. Peace Advocate From Japan Miss Marion Irwin is"in Washington for the arms parley as a me ber of the executive eommfuee of the Women's iv-are Association Japan. She is a. descendant of Benjamin Franklin. Ler father being Philadelphian while her mother is Japanese. Arms Conference Beautv rn in -? ? . mrawK,, _ :_ - ? .? jjmaJMHjj pic i International interest dis< ussed informally 'luring the arms parley at Waskingt n is the most beautiful woman at the confer . e. ' Ti ?? hon? r gi a; rally goes to Mine. 11. M. Van Haersma Do With, wife of a Dutch representative. Learning Fast rixed up in :' v ' J as! I he Stagger . oddle Parker, rm ruined so light at the ball ! :i * 1 iiriand w> re looked ni>. Next morning they appeared before she drank t<"> much and staggered inf< judge. The first was ^:v--:i three j cv.erbody. oiohths. and beeomir-g abusive up- ?Scarcely that. sir. Everj on hearing his sentence. the judge <? ??? -; ??? Iking of y>?u as inventing tn< reased it t?: si\ months. The a new dance.? passing Sh?>\. (T.on seeond v.as given six months, he- d n>. ii i 1 .in ? (!!:??. Source of Opinions ?V. :,r - ;?-.;;!? 1 e .i t: !? >;::. on 1111 r ,f fie "Vi, h::J s\;l.-j< <i :i hoj siar Sena:"i Angeles Times. '. : Sorghum, s in trom in ; haven't yel ha Washington L-tar A 1--I ' ?' mail has e< constitiK-iits thtit i:t?l time to open. Stills Captured Tii" siez?re of ty-'s stills and j about 84U gallons of mash and the j finding of the location of another .<-;jU v.as the result 01 a day's work by a raiding party made up of Sheriff Hurst, Deputy Sheriff H. G. McKagen and Rural Officers Sam I Xewmah. Alex Xorna and Hamil ton Boykin. which p trty paid a ] visit on Thursday to the Day, bet ter known at this point as the "Dark Corner." This place, located abotft fifteen miles from Sumter I and some five or six miles from I Pinewood. has long been known to be the lodging place of a number ' -.;' distilling outfits and as a moon shiners headquarters. The swamp is said to be exeep.tio.ial>" ihn k at this point and also very wet and boggy. one of the stills captured was a solid copper outfit of the capacity I of about fifty gallons and the-other ? still was als;? of a fifty gallon ca pacity, but this still was made from steel gasoline drum. Both of these stilis were capturea complete. ! The steel still was destroyed but the copper still brought to- Sumter iand is at present m the Sheriff's off-i- e at the court house. The lo : cation of the third still was found but not the still itself. A great deal j of the equipment tor the running j of this still, however,1 together with j a quantity Of mash was found and destroyed by the officers. From all ; of the stills, fourteen barrels of mash were found totalling about 840 gallons. The mash was de ! stroyed and ail of the barrels brok en up and rendered uusless for fu ture use. Xo arrests wer - made in ? 'connection wit-h the < pirating of j the still;:. o ? ? Protection of the* Water Supply. Editor of The Daily Item: When the parties interested to ; establish a water works system in ! Sumter came to consider the ques tion of location, they stated that . they desired to procure a site that j would be as free as possible from contamination- They purchased the ?and on which the pjant is now ! located, regarding as ideal, and a ; much larger tract was purchased than was actually necessary for lo cating the plant. This larger area v,as obtained in order to protect the water supply. The first pur chase was a little over 21 acres. Later, for Lhe same reasons, "> acres more were purchased. Sever al years ago, large quantities of ? stable manure were placed upon the land, and the city farmed the land. I am reliably informed that ! ammonia appeared in the .water, and upon the suggestion of the ? member of city council then, in ?special charge of the water works, , placing manure upon the soil was ? discontinued, and that ammonia diil not afterwards appear in the ; test. I am also informed thai the j underground flow of the water sup ply is across the property from i the northwest, hence eontamina : tion from the main residence por 1 tion of the city is not probable. While sewerage .arrangements ; might be established on the pre.m : ises for the convenience of the ' temporary occupants, in the na ture of things there would be some seepage from this source, and, some danger of contamination. If hogs and cattle roam at large upon the premises now, the remedy is to keep them off. A large area of land has been deemed necessary to protect the water supply. It was bought by thosen ot living in Sumter, yet for the purpose, of protecting its citi zens, and the pi*omoters evidently thought , that so much land was necessary for that purpose. The city now owns the plant, and should be no lese careful in deal ing with this subject. The ques tion of revenue or of convenience, should - not be considered along with any question as to danger to tlie water supply. ' R. O. PFRDY. O The masses will be elevated when airplanes get common. Flies are said to avoid places where bunches of common stinging nettles are kept hanging. Popular Crepe From Paris cr.me the great vogue I of popularity for ^utin crepe in its | \; rious guises but America has de? j veloped it to perfection. Crepe is j made up on either the right or the j wrong side. The lovely gown of I "Molly O" satin crepe is exceedingly j srraceful with its, deck draped effects. Woman Burned to Death Before Dying She Says Hus-i band Put Her into Fire Braiiehivlle; ? Dec. 29.?Rachel j Cunningham was burned here Mon day night and died Wednesday. She i claimed that her husband, Kivy | : Cunningham, threw her into the j t fire. Cunningham claims that she had a fit ant fell into the fire while I he was out in the yard cutting j wood and when lie heard her he ; ran into the house and about the \ same time two other negro men got there and helped get her ?..ut ef t he fire. o o o i Baalbek: City of the Sun-God Baalbek, in Syria, which in the j days of Augustus Caesar would have been given a full column on , : the front page of a newspaper, had | ! there fe^ren such a medium for the transmission of news, now presents a plea to the public in n small! ?stick in newspaper dispatches to j note that it prefers attachment to the Grand Lebanon rather than an- I I nexation by Damascus, j "This namesake ?? ity of the sun | ! god once enjoyed a position of great -commercial importance, as it was! I on the direct route rto Syria from Egypt and the Red Sea. as well as j from Tyre to Syria. Asia Minor and thence to Europe," says a bulb-tin j of the National Geographic Society, from its Washington, D. C, head-j quarters. "Though its earliest history is shrouded in darkness, it is certain I tinti at a very early date it was j a chief seat of sun worship. Dying in the plain of Buka'a about 40 I ? miles from Damascus in a well wa- j i tered area which forms a watershed | '. for the Qrontes River, along whose j ; valley the armies and traffic of all, ! ages have passed to and from I Egypt,? it at rained a position of j prominence in the early Christian ;.era. Cleopatra's Xfcodle ? "The Creeks, during the Seletici-! i-dian* dynasty, changed the name of ; Baalbek into the Greek equivalent ; ; for 'city of the sun-god/ Heliopohs, j j and this was subsequently adopted j by the Romans. The city, however,' j is not to be confused with the eele ; brated Heiiopolis of Lower Egypt,! j which was the scut of the Egyptian worship of the sun. In the latter \ the two obelisks, known as Cleo i patra's Needles, which now mark ? the skyline in London and in Cen- 1 rtral Park. New York City, origin-' : ally stood. ? ; "Above the heterongeneous col-' i lection of low fiat-roofed mud cot- : j tag? s that constitute the present j city of 2,000 inhabitants, the state- j i ly ruins of what must have been i : one of the most magnificent of Sy- j I rian cities now stand out as a tri I bute to the energy and culture of j a people, the long arm of whose! j power was felt throughout the then J j known world. j "Most of the known^ history of I ? the place dates from the time when j [Augustus planted a Roman colony; there, as the coins of HeKopoiis in . the first century show. The temple, j ! which legends among the inhabi- j ? tants suy was built by Solomon, was j in reality founded by Antoninus j ! Pius, that adopted son of the Em- j peror Hadrian whose reign is al- I j most blank in history because dur- ' ! ing it practically all wars, violence j land crimes ceased, his thoughts j i and energies being dedicated to the j I happiness of his people. I Imposing Ruin a World Wonder J "The imposing ruin well might: be classed among the wonders of i the world. Upon a base which still] shows the names of Antoninus Pius j and Julia Domna, the architects I reared the Temple of the Sun. a 'rectangular building, 290 feet long ? |and 1G() feet wide, whose roof was ! supported by 34 Corinthian col-] j umhs. the circumference of which ?was 22 feet and height SO feet.? giants in comparison to those on the j IT. S. Capitol in Washington. It .stands upon a platform on the Ac i ropolis which measures 1.000 feet j by 450 feet, and was originally en- I i tered by a broad flight of steps, 1 j but when Kaiser Wilhelm was en- ? i gaged in restoring the ruins in 1?05 I he put in the place of this stately j ancient approach a narrow modern : staircase. i "With the exception of six of the ? [columns, little of the temple is j now standing. Perhaps the n -st i remarkable feature of the stt jc j turc, notwithstanding its size and j the beauty of its conception, is the j fact that such enormous blocks j of stone were used in its construc j tion. Some of them measure 60 i feet in length. I "The god, Baal, whom the ".reeks i identified with, their sun-god xlelios and the Roman with their Jupiter j ; of HePopolis, to whom the temple [was erected, is usually represented! as a beardless youth, wearing a long ? (drapery of scales and carrying a whip in his right hand and thunder bolts and ears of corn in his left. "Constantine used the temple as a Christian church. Theodosius the Great wroujght havoc in it, using portions for another church which he built nearby; earth quakes have done their deadly work to its walls and columns: the Arabs used ;i :<s a fotress, when ! they sacked Baalbek in US A. D.: Timm- the Lame pillaged it in 14??!'; and the Turks took possession of it in ir.t7. the pashas of Damascus tearing down the magnificent pil lars tor iron with which the stones were bound together. In spite of the misery and misrule which the city has experienced sine?-, i: stands as otic of the most stately ruins ;>f the ages." -? ? ? Why envy the neighbors who have more when i: is so easy to move into a neighborhood where they Imve less? When some people appear to be horrified t.\ the nicked, they uro but calling attention to their own righteousness-. A good mixer has lots of friends, ?specially a yood drink mixer. Four Fire Calls Sunday Fire Department Has.-'Busy New Year's "Day If the old adage be .' true which is to the elTec* that whatever hap pens on the first day of the new year is apt to 5* continued throughout the year, we may as well get ready for a year of fires, for oil Sunday, January 3. 3L922, the fire department of the city was called upon' to answer four fire calls sent in on this day. The first alarm came in io fche fire station at ^:C'J o'clock in t-fift, wee "small hours of the morning. The fire trucks in response to' this call re ported to Manning Avenue, and good work' was required by the firemen to put out the ?ames which had already taken , a considerable hold on a large two story negro residence, Xo. 314. The water pump on Seagroye truck Xo. 1 was used and two streams of water thrown on the fire with pump pres sure. The fire was""finally extin guished but not until..the roof had been burned entirely off of the house and a considerable amount of damage done to the entire upper story of the house. The residence is said to he the property, of W. T. Andrews and was being occupied by a colored mail carrier by name of Bruner. Th?- next alarm gave* the trucks n run on Liberty ; street. .This alarm was turned in at. about D o'clock in the morning. Th:s fire proved to be only rv shingle 'tire on the kitchen roof of .a negro -hou^e Xo. 619 W. Liberty street. Xo noticeable damage was done by.this fire which had practically been put out when the fire department- ar rived. . . ,. .j? Fire alarm number three called the trucks back on Manning Ave nue where they found another roof fire near the chimney of a small restaurant. This restaurant was located directly across the street from the house which was burned in the early morning of this day. The blaze on restaurant roof was soon brought under control by the use of the chemical equipment on the trucks. This fire /occurred at about 3:3u o'clock in the after* noon. v... :> At five o'clock in the, afternoon came an alarm from fire alarm box Xo. 24 at the corner of Washing ton aud Calhoun streets. This proved the only unnecessary alarm of the day. The only, fire in the neighborhood that could' be locat ed was a burning trash pile in the rear of the rcsider.ceruf Mr. Walter Harby, Xo. ?16 WashfugtOn St. * The trash was left undisturbed and harmlessly burning. . Young Folks Entertained. Miss Jesimine Scott entertained at her home Thursday evening hi honor of Miss Mary Kolman who-is in Sumter for the Christmas vaca tion. The young folks'enjoyed the dancing and conversatiohs and the refreshments consisting of am brosia and cake which was served. Present a: the party were: Misses Willie. Baker, Edna Friar, Lucy Clack, Sarah Belser, Aleen McKay, Pearl Reams, Carolina-Harby and Mary Holman and Messrs. .Robert Witherspoon, Charles Green; Rich ard Wilder, Richard Wright 'and Malvin Parier of Wedgefield. ?. r- ; . ^ . . _ Maies His Whiskey on Stove. Willis Vincin. colored, is how in jail and his little outfit for the manufacture of his private 'drinks is resting in the sheriff's .oiftc*!. His plant, from which his favor ite fluid drips, is made from a live gallon kerosene eaiaj with only a clumsy coil exiting from, the spout of the can. When the. outfit was found by J. C. McELveen, magis trate at Shiloh, and W. J. Frier son, the can was on the stove ^filled with mash and was yet wann. Vin cin w:is arrested and ls now in jail pending his triaJL. .,j ., ? rnt ? ? '?? Rome, Dec-. 30.?The Banca Ital iana di .Sconto. which was closed yesterday, lias been: granted a moratorium by the court. o ? ? Mexico City. Dec. 30.?The Mex ican chamber of deputies was in vaded by armed forces, yesterday for the first time in history when troops were called into quell fac tional lighting in the galleries. Mustang. Okia., Dec. 30?E,. W. Brindk-y; president of the Mustang State Bank, was called into his yard last night and assassinated. His slayer was not identified, o ? ? London. Dec. 30.?The Euro pean staff of the United States shipping hoard will be composed almost entirely of Americans at the beginning of the pew. year- as compared with twenty-six per cent .st June. Greenville, Dee. 2a.?A Macy, superintendent for a road con struction company, was shot and dangerously wounded th'is after noon about 4:3o o'clock in Ander son county, a haut seven miles from Easley. U is alleged, by a. man said to be named Calhoun Ware, who is understood to be in the j.:il at Anderson., ? Chicago, Dec. SO.?Grand jury indictments of three women pro prietors have been announced by States Attorney Crowe as the be ginning of a ?ampagir. to rid the .-.!y <u' scores of massage parlors. Milwaukee. Jan. 1?The boxing hout between Benny" ^Leonard and Pin key Mitchell, has been declared ofl because of a muscular affliction suffered by Mitchell. -4+ 4P ^? Pasedena. Ca!.. Jan. ' i? D^s.v-tc rain :: large crowd is ejected io witness the foot ball gam.' her?; to lay between the University of tVJ fomia ami Washington and Jeffer bn College; -? ? ?? iron Mountain. Mich., Jan. 1 ? Henry Ford declared that indus rial eomiitions this year will be de ermined largely by the trend of retail prices.