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Changes in A. C. L. Time Schedule Four Trains Affected by New Schedule-?Better Connec tions For~ Northern Points Assured 1 Changes have been made in the schedule of four Atlantic Coast Line railroad trains touching Sumter -which now makes it pos sible -to make direct connections with trains for'' northern points and also better connections with Augusta trains. The trains affected by the * new schedule which went into effect on. January 3rd are: Train Mo. 52 from Charleston to Greenville: Old schedule, arrive 9:255.lieave 9:40: new schedule, ar rive 9:40, leave 9:5'! a. m. Train Xo. 6S. Columbia to Max ton, old schedule, arrive 9:20. leave ?:30; new schedule, arrive 9:30, leave 9:50 a. m'. . Train >*o. 53, Greenville to GharH lesion, eld schedule, arrive 6:55. j leave 7:05: nevr schedule, arrive; 6:20, leave 6:30 p. m. ? Train -No. 32, Augusta to Sum ter. old schedule, arrive 8:IS. leave -6:20: new schedule, arrive 6:15, leave 6:25. By-the putting up of the sched ule'of train Xo. 53 40 minutes parl ier, connections to all northern points from Columbia can be con veniently made in Florence by the use of this train. The railroad ?rmpahy is anticipating giving bet ter accommodations, on this train by the putting on of a chair car and ) malwing a faster -schedule for the train. -?? May Form New Policy ? ...... [ w Fighting the Boll Weevil,.; Is Official* View Washington, Dec. 31.?Possibil- ; i;y of a new policy to be followed in fighting the boll weevil as a re-' .* alt; of the national conference on | agriculture soon to be called by ! Secretary Wallace was suggested i Iir-re today from official quarters. The conference, it was said, un- , doubtcdly would name a commit- J tee on cotton which would consider i ways and means of more effective ly combatting the boll weevil \vhich produced widespread damage ih>. ?portions of the cotton- belt -the last season.N v The; weevil in its march through ifce belt has reached the borders of North Carolina and cotton men here today said that some more effective means of fighting the pesr was'necessary. Conditions'in those sections of the belt which have been-: ravaged by the weevil, it was indicated, will be laid before the conference, the delegates to j which will have all the experi ence and expert knowledge of the -g^Yjernment on this subject placed j at their disposal. 1 i Crops to. be produced jn sec tions of . the cotton States where , the ?weev? is so numerous as to< zaake growing of cotton financial ly impossible are expected to form ? part .of the discussion. ? ' ? ? ^ ? ? Opportunity is the only welcome i .. 55v<e.ry once in a- while you see a h\e?*Jline that doesn't say anything, aboopt anybod-y getting killed.?Ak ron, Beacon Journal. - J5ock.efeUer's income jfc $19 per minute. He got rich while we fig ured it out. ^ ?: > m ? . Mother misses father when he is out_. hunting because she is afraid j the hunters will not. Try This, Girls Xow*? a good time to ti*y to stand -Oflf your head?the snow will break the fall if %'ou tumble. Miss Ida Schnall, campion all-around wo man athlete of America, is showing you how. She plays in the snow ?yfeliehever there is snow and tak-^s Ta fclp at Brighton Beach. New York, aUiiOft't daily. i 1 'Convict Attacks Chain Gang Guard \ Negro Chain - Gang Trusties Smash Plot For Big Escape i _-___ i -. j York. Jan. ">.?"Hard Boiled Jim" Robinson, captain of York County chain gang guard, was sav ed from death and wholesale es cape of convicts was prevented this j morning by Bub Daniels and Jack ; Johnson, negro trusties, who held I the prisoners at bay after Capt. Robinson had been felled -with |in j axe wielded by John Reid, negro convict. The incident occurred on a road near a piece of woodland one mile east of York while fourteen con victs were riding in an automobile truck to work. Robinson was seat ed in f?ont beside Daniels, the chauffeur, when? Reid struck him twice with an axe, rendering him unconscious. Seeing what was up Daniels stopped his truck, seized., * Robinson's shotgun and held it on j the convicts while Johnson, who: was in the rear, jumped to the i .ground and prevented them from [ leaving. Officers were quick !y no-| tided and the situation was soon j wejl in- hand. \Robjnson\s injuries.' while painful, are not serious. _ \ Daniels, the trusty, has only about j three months^ to servo. Johnson, who served overs :as as sergeant and was twice wounded in Argon ne. has about six months to serve. Governor Cooper will likely be ask-j ed to pardon both negroes. \ Burgcj?and: The Graustark ? of ] 192J. ! ? -. ' ~ Washington, IX C. Jan. 4.?Bur-I genland, scene of Europe's most \ recent "side show war." might just j ?as well be Graustark so far as its j existence upon the usual map or! in the general reference work is' concerened, according to a bulletin j from the Washington. D. C, head- I quarters of the National'Geographic j society. Explaining what and where Js ! this scene of hostilities between j At. trians'.-?nd Hungarians the bui- j let in says: "By Burgen land is meant the I West Hungary of L.GS4 square miles and gome* 343,000 people which | w*as carved from Hungary and giy- j en to Austria by the Treaty of St. j Germain. t The strip resembles ? nothing so much, perhaps, as an old shoe, | with its flattened heel touching the Danube opposite Pressburg (or Pozsony), its instep arched along the Austria-Hungary border, its toe nearly tipping Jugo-SIavia.' "In Burgenland the parenthesis comes into its own. The map or time table which neglects to give one alternative for a. city or town, and sometimes a third choice, will j handicap its user. Tact also would ! require that if one speak of the/ principal city of the region to an Austrian he call it Odenburg (also spelled Oedenburg); but that if he mention the same city to a Magyar he speaks of it as Sopron. "Odenburg has claim to fame on its own account, notably its Church of St. Michael, completed eight years before Columbus discovered America, and its cattle markets of the days of before the war. But its principal association is with the names of Esterhazy and Szeohenyi. "Both north and east of Oden- j burg are castles of the Esterhazy j family. Along the Neusiedler See I is the 'Hungarian Versailles' ! where Hay?n was conductor of the j private orchestra of one Esterhazy. 'j Nicholas Joseph.. At Mattersdorf ? (Nagymarton), where Austrians 1 have established a provisional gov- j ernment, is the chateau of the fam- j ily among whose scions were a pal atine of Hungary, one who refused the kingship of Hungary, another who was the emissary of Louis XVI to Marie Antoinette, and one who. in 1017. formed the Hungarian cab inet representing the parties oppos ed to Count Tisza. "The castle of the Szechenyi j family is nine miles southeast of i Odenberg. Kossuth. his political j opponent, called Istvan Szechenyi 'the greatest of the Magyars.' and time seems to confirm this unbiased judgment. Figuring first as a sort of Paul Revere, in his ride through ? enemy lines to convey a message j of two emperors to Blucher and Bernadotte, then as a Magyar L'En fajit, in bis effort to make Buda a capital beautiful, - this nobleman has to his credit such other di verse achievements as placing the j first steamboats on the Theiss and j Danubef suggesting canals between j the two rivers, writing a book on j horse racing, and giving a year's in come to furthering the wider use of the Magyar tongue. "The principal concern of both Austria and Hungary with Burgen land probably is the coal region at Brenberg. near Odenburg. In the vicinity, too. are the towns of' Ruszt and Laif, centers of wine j production. "Neusiedler See. not far from I Odenburg, is a shallow body of j water more than 20 miles long and j averaging seven miles wide. At j times it shrinks to half its size. About the time of our own Civil j War it dried up altogether.' Wheat to Be Hungarian Money' Basis. Budapest. J>ee. '. J.? Wheat as ;t stabilizing unit of exchange in stead of money?bnsed on imaginary j reserves of frold or / silver, whs suggested by Secretary of State Vician to the Syndicate of Hun garian Farmers at a recent meet ing. He proposed that banknotes of ;h?- value of ;i "quintal" or pounds of wheat, be Issued. Wheat as a standard of value already has i received some recognition. Many farm leases are made on that ba sis and, in the new agrarian reform measures, taxes have been specified ts payable in wheatr.values "Boodle," according t<> the Thieves Lexicon published in 1S5S. meant counterfeit money and a "boodle carrier" was one who car ried the counterfeit money and handed it out a bill at a time to ili-isc- wl*0 passed it. I Kenya ' j i A Museum of Strange Races j i "His hair is the most precious, heritage that can be left to his son j by a man of the Suk*. one of the ' i tribes of the Kenya colony, British ! ! Bast Afrtea, where, dispatches state' [ the natives are claiming equal re-j i presentation with'the whites." says; ; a bulletin of the National Geogra | phic Society. I "It is unwomanly for the Suk wo j men to have any hair at all on their j j heads, but the increasing supply of, I hair passed down from father to j ! son is woven into a great chignon. I in which he can carry all of his | ! valuable possessions, such as his, ornaments and his snuff box. This head covering is the only garment j which he deems necessary. " The Suks belong to the Nilotic J race group, which is only one ef i the divisions of the interesting in-! habitants of this newest colony of I Great Britain. We find the Swa- j hilis, or coast folks, a hybrid race j formed by the union of Arabs who have pushed into the country with the negro tribes, the Somalis and j the Callas. There also are the J Bantu-speakyig population, many . of whom dwell in the regions round Mount Kenya which was for a time' j believed to lie in the fabled re- j gions of the 'Mountains of the j Moon,' as well as more of the N- j lotic group, consisting of the Ma- ] sai, the Nandi ana others, "Though Kenya calls itself the newest of the British colonies, it is one of the oldest lands of the earth. Theodore Roosevelt, in speaking of his African hunting trip, said that" the Masai often re minded him of the pictures of the | soldiers of Thoihmes and Rameses J made by the ancient Egyptian i sculptors, in that their faces were 1 resolute and had clear-cut features. 1 The same noted traveler'said of this tribe that though the women were I scrupulously clothed, 'the husbands] and brothers, very ostentatiously j wear no clothing for purposes of ' decency.' "Reports concerning this parti cular people have constantly made their app* arance in the civilized world because they persistently pillaged neighboring tribes, having decided that they no longer cared to till their own fields, buf would get their sustenance by taking the cattle and supplies of weaker tribes and in this way have been respon sible for the depopulation of large districts of British Bast Africa. To day, however, they are ^oing excel lent work in cultvatng the soil. "The greater portion of the Ma sai now live in the districts around Nairobi. They have perhaps the most de-nnite religious beliefs of the East African tribes, praying to ? two gods, one black and benevolent ' and the other red and cruel; but they believe that when they die. they go out like a puff. Some of the Bantu tribes, however, hold to i witchcraft and the witch-doctor's business is to detect the culprit so that she?for the accused is nearly always an old woman?may be put to death. "The Gallas, - though they are now-of little importance either jjo litically or economically, take great pride in/their past. They say that they once had a sacred book, like the Bible or the Koran, but a cow ate it, and not being certain about the particular cow, in their search , they are still opening the stomach of every cow that dies. "The most effective weapon of the Masai and Andorobo is the ar row which they poison with the Ac cantrera schimperi, a small tree. They boil the leaves and branc hes until the .mixture becomes thick and pitch-like in appearance, and place it on sheets of bark which they hide high on the branches of trees away from the children, until < it is needed. When an animal is ! shot with an arrow dipped in the ! poison, it dies almost immediately. The natives cut ont the flesh I around the wound as soon as pos- J sible an^ throw it away. The re- j mainder is eaten and-the blood is drunk. This love of blood as an I article of food is common among j many African tribes, several of them going so far as to bleed their J cattle and drink the blood hot or I mix it with their porridge. "The mixed breed known as Swa hilis, who live along the coast of the mainland and amot'g llw thou-i sand and one representatives ofi other peoples of the world to b? ; found in Zanzibar, have one claim ' to prominence among Kenya tribes '. their language is the one in com mon use in the Colony. If one speaks Swahili he can tind some one to converse with him from Na tal to Aden and from Mombasa to the Congo. - , Seaboard Air Line Asks For Loan Washington. Jan. G?The Sea board Bay Line, a subsidiary of the i Seaboard Air Line railroad has ap- j plied to the Interstate Commerce I Commission for a loan of four mil- j lion, six hundred thousand dollars ; to purchase new railroad lolling | Mock. MEXICAN VOLCANO IN ERUPTION Mexico <'ity. .Jan. (?.? The in habitants of the surrounding ! country are fleeing because the 1 volcano Popocatepetl is showing signs of renewed activity. ? ? -o JAIL DELIVERY IN NORTH CAROLINA Asheville, X. C, .Ian. ?Every prisoner in the Cherokee county jail escaped la^t night alter the bars had been sawed. Theti'avfn boy can still hitch his wagon to a star Hi rousine and Ket five dollars for puiiing it out of the mud. ? ? ? ? Lots of girls think the dishes wash themselves'. BRATISLAVA: A PTAR MIGAN-LIKE CITY Washington, -Liti. ".t?",lust now' it would foe very' had 'form to t all it Poszoriy, and scarcely less so to call it Pressburg. Bratislava, the Czechs insist, is the nam.* of tin city they are developing to he their country's principal port on that commercial Mediterranean of Central Barop.cs. the Danube.*! With this introduction the Na tional Geographic Society issues u bulletin on r * Bratislava, which continues: "This city of many names carries its age, lightly and never lets history interfere with business. One may look out upon three countries from the plateau above it. and view six . or seven raees in its busy market place. Its diversity of interest for the traveler is comparable to the range of its pre-war industries which sealed down from dynamite making to pastry cooking. Ducks and Dynamite "Bratislava is a ptarmigan-like city. It has a happy faculty of sinking into "its historical and scenic background. Vet it does not capitalize these factors overmuch. It makes furniture, paper, leather! goods, chemicals and candy, and ' ships grain and cattle and wine, j Its market not only deals in fresh] vegetables and fowls and other] foodstuffs, but al?o discloses shoes,! and suits, and haberdashery of all; sorts. Many ducks are sold?evi dence of" the excellent .hunting a little farther down the river. "Approaching .the city , from Vi-j enr.a, which is thirty-five miles to j the west, one first passes the ruins j of the castle crowned promontory j where the slow moving March j drifts lazily into the faster flow-! ing Danube, seven miles above] Pressburg. Come upon it by rail ! ami you leave the train far above I the city, as one does in some of our ' own West Virginia towns, and find j your way afoct. "or by tram, or! along a winding carriage road down ; into the community ^f some SO,- j 000 people which huddles at the! foot of a hill of historic memories. ? Ruined Castle ITsed by Smugglers j "Atop this spur of the Little I Carpathians Hungarian kings were crowned until the years toward the close of our Revolutionary War. a very recent event in the perspective of Magyar history. The ruins of the royal palace, burned during our War of 1912 because, one story has it, workmen grew tired of carry ing supplies up the 270-foot climb, still crown the hill. Smugglers used these ruins, in the last few years, as a signal tower. And among the 'kings' that /Bratislava knew was 'Maria Rex* so called because the fierce Magyars of that day, like the feraelites of old, could not fore go the national precedent for x titular king. "Today there stands near the Danube an equestrian statue of Maria Theresa with the inscription 'Vitam et sanguinem.' words which j recall the occasion when the Em- J press made to Hungarian nobles her eloquent plea beginning, *De-; serted by my friends, persecuted j by my enemies, attacked by my nearest kin. my last resource is in your loyalty, your courage, and in my own unshrinking constancy.' There the pledge was given, with drawn swords, and that loyalty was evinced which Pozsony later exhibited to make the Hapsburg dynasty .secure on the Austrian throne. Bitterly one writer de scribes that loyalty as 'the eagle lending his plume to wing the ar row that was to drink his own life-blood.* The Gateway to Hungary "Inevitably linked With Brati- j slava is Theben, or Deveny, as the promontory at the confluence of the March and the Danube is known. For this magnification of our own Harper's Ferry has been through the ages the military gate way to the region which has hung its commercial hinges upon the j Bratislava of today. The history of/Thofoen disapi>ears in the.mist of I legendary Arpad. King Arthur of Magyar annals, who is reputed to have driven the Moravians away f?rom this river peak. German em perors and Turkish sultans beat against it in vain: it remained for "Napoleon to conquer it a little more than a century ago. # "Lacking any single architectural j wonder Bratislava discloses storied ; structures galore. Its town hall, j dating from the thirteenth century, j has a tower which had to be pawn ed for a short time because the j city could not pay for its construe- ] tion. Among the curious carvings' on this tower are evidences of a ! municipal c ontrol of standards and j measures. There is a knife to be 1 a guide to butchers in purchasing j cleavers, and an iron measuring ex- j actly a yard, to be us."l in settling j disputes over the sale of goods. City of Sidewalk Tables "The first superficial impression j of Bratislava is its flair for the! Paris passion for sidewalk cafes. , Older residents of the city will show visitors an ancient house in a | narrow str?'<'t where the ghosts of j j twelve city council men appear j nightly at tin- stroke of twelve.' They have been condemned to eter- j ' nal discussion of the town's busi- i In ess because they were derelict inj j their duties when alive. I "A monument has replaced a! i simple mound of earth, collected! i from each of the ancient kingdom's I j four provinces, and to that mound j I tin* kings of Hungary would go im- I I mediately after their coronation. I There they would cut the air four J times with their swords ? north. ; east, south and west?to pledge j i protection t" all parts of their\ j kingdom." The chief fault of our immigra- j tion service is that it makes no { effort to distinguish between com mon stock and preferred stock.? j Birmingham News. ? * * One hotelman. who has a sum mer resort at CniOntown. Pa, an i j a winter resort in Florida, has , banned dances in his hotels on the grounds tbat-t-hey attract "only1 vampires and boot loggers." ? -. Perhaps a lightning calculator is] on.- who calculates where it will Int. | Did This Dog Tell The Time fi >-p Cat[s Bait forj Birds?Parrot Was Decidedly Puzzled The parrot is regarded as an amazingly clever bird, because of its power of .speech, although the owl, that doesn't talk, is the sym bol of human wisdom. Every per son who has an animal pet thinks it the cleverest in existence and is always telling oi its latest^clever ness. A .British author writes of. a dog j that he claims could tell time. This dug. a terrier, had been in the habit of jumping on his master's bed and waking him up every morning at 7 o'clock. Whe^i daylight saving time went into-leffeei the man was anxious to see What his dog would do. Next jnorning when the clock struck seven, although in reality it ; was only six o'clock, the terrier woke his master. His master ex plained that he: was able to count the strokes of the (dock. A bird fancier made it a practice to throw crumbs on his lawn to the birds every morning after break fast. The bird-lover saw to his dis-4; may one morning a bird fall victim ; to the cat. lie decided to stop throwing the crumbs and was sur prised a few mornings later to see the cat spreading crumbs on the lawn and then retiring to his hid- ? ing place to wait for the birds. Dog's Religio as' Convictions At the Disruption of the Church in Scotland in 1843. the bulk of the I shepherds' went over to the Free' Kirk. But a collie did not agree j ivith his master about this. He held I by the Established Church, and j would not leave it. Every Sunday he went alone to j this church. His master refused ; to coerce him. saying, "Xa. he's a i wise dog; I'll not meddle with his j convictions." f The collie's conviction had a dis astrous end. He used to lie during the sermon on :he pulpit stairs. Below him were the stove-pipe hats ! of the elders. One day he fell j asleep and rolled off the step, and managed to get his head fixed in i one of the hats. He immediately fled out of the church, and ever ; afterwards, as his master said, j "had nae trokins wi' releegion." For many years a pair of swans lived on the lakes in the grounds of a wealthy man's estate. One day i the male swan, who was getting j lame and evidently feeling his age. while sailing along with his mate, seized .hold of her head and held i her under the water until she died, j Shortly after he himself was found , dead near the same spot. Puzzled the'Parrot Once a young eagle was observed having a great game. It had found a clump of grass, and. lifting a sod ? in its claws, it flew up to a great j height. It then dropped the sod i and swooped down upon it at a j terrific pace, catching it in its claws i again. And so the game went on. i A parrot had its cage near the door connecting the drawing-room ; and the dining-room. One evening j as the men of the party were filing | into the dining-room, the parrot ] eyed each entrant as if trying to; recognize them. As most diminu-' tive of the gentlemen passed in. the I pa/rot. evidently puzzled, said dis- J tinctly', "And who the deuce are i you?" j .Iiigo Slavia Feeds Unfriendly To wards Entente Zagreb. Jugoslavia. Dec. 5.? (The Associated Press)?America j is regarded by Jugoslavia as her: best friend among the big nations. England and France, long ardent I supporters of the little Slav state. . are row strongly disliked for their alleged favor shown toward Italy, : Hungary and Albania. The Ser- ; bians feel that the Allies have I dealt very harshly with Judge slavia in all disputes arising with the three countries just mentioned. "Why." they ask. "does the En tente impose such severe eondi- | tions upon us in all these matters when we have so loyally carried out the terms of the Peace Treaty and have fulfilled every request ' they have made of us. even when it involved "sacrifices? Our great friends seem to have abanadoned us. at least they appear to be indif- ! fercnt t<> our welfare, and we are i now content to work out c*ir own destinies. "The United States is the only country that is '..sympathetic and i helpful toward US. It is the only ! country that understands our j problems and struggles and that! ret'oghizes the justice of our claims." The Jugoslavs feel the Allies were especially severe with them in ; the recent Albanian*boundary dis-t pute. They assert that England | ordered certain territory, especially in the Lake Ochrida region, given j to Albania because British business . interests had secured from the Al banians important concessions in. that area, and it was vital the ter ritory should remain In Albanian hands. They affirm also that England and France have been favoring Italy En that country's territorial and strategical interests in Alb&jiia. to the great detriment of 'Jugo slavia. The Jugoslavs feel they ^>t the "thin end of the horn" in the Fiume bargain, and that they also got the worst of it in tho various territorial, economic and j><>1 iti- '. cal disputes in which Italy. Hun gary. Rumania and Albania we're involved. "The Allies," said a patriotic Serbian business man. "have alien ated, if they have not forfeited, our friendship. In our disputes with Hungary. Albania. Bulgaria and other of our late enemies, the .Al lies have ruled against us. They have shown greater regard for the interests of those who opposed us during the war than they have for us. We are getting rather tired of it all. You will not be surprised then, it" I tell you thai somehow we Slavs feel that our real interests, our real future destiny, lies in join ing hands with Russia. We be lieve Russia will one day rise out of the ashes and regain :ill its old strength, power and influence.'' DeValera Resigns as President "Must Have Cabinet to-Stand With Him" is Cause Dublin. Jan. t;.? Famon de Va lera has resigned the presidency of the Irish republic, presenting to the Dail Eireann also resignation of his cabinet. He told the Dail lie would offer himsoVf for re election, but said he must have a cabinet which would stand with him. Macao: The Naples of Cathay. Washington. . Jan. 4.?Cida da Nome de Deos. Nap ha outra mais leal. October 23? Telegraph editors are reasonab ly shock-proof, yet a date line like the above might arouse curiosity, if not consternation when the bill for cable tolls rolled around. Yet it would be accurate enough, accord ins: to a bulletin from the Wash ington. D. C. headquarters of the National Geographic Society. For that is the corporate name of the Monte Carlo of the Orient where dispatches, more modernly dated '?Macao." toll how the Southern Chinese government is trying to break up opium smuggling' and church lotteries in this Portuguese city. Macao's longer name means "City of the Name of Cod. most loyal of the colonies." "From all the controversies rag ing around the baker's dozen for eign holdings on China's coast modest Macao has remained im mune until the Canton regime re cently endeavored to "clean-up' this first European conquest in China, perhaps with the added po liteial motive of ; thereby insuring Portuguese recognition of the Sun Vat-son**regime." the bulletin con tinues. Where Portuguese Chaucer Wrote. ".Not only is Macao the site of the first European claim staked out on Cathay's coast, but it has cultur al ties with Europe closer knit than the political relationships of controverted areas ? ?- rhe north. It contains the oldest ruin in China :hat is associated with Europe, and the tamarind and banyan shade the gardens where the Por tuguese Chaucer, Camoens, com posed half of The Dustads; one of the half dozen of the world's great epics. "Inevitably, too, one associates the location of Macao, on a scant three mile peninsula jutting from an island in the delra of the Can taa River below Hongkong, with ...iat colony of Portuguese Ameri cans on rhe very tip of Cape Cod. made famous by Joseph Lincoln. In Macao, as in Provincetown and at Goa. on the west coast of In dia, it seems as if the Portuguese had left the very edge; of Europe and all but missed landing on the headlands of other continents. But if history did not record the lasting debt'that Europe owes to Portugal for reaching out to every quarter of the globe. Camoens. here at Macao, would have left in his im mortal epic a noble monument to Vasco da Gama and other heroes of Lusitanian caravels. "Once in Macao the traveller may remain to contemplate an out of the way shrine of European history. But that is not why most folk board" the daily boat from Hongkong to go there. Jt is a sum mer resort for the Cantonese be cause of its exposure to the cool ing monsoons in mid-summer. Opium smugglers and gamblers, in recent years, have loomed large among its transients. Formerly the Chinese coolie traffic- also had a headquarters here. Within a cen tury its waters may have war ranted the characterization of one traveller who called them "the most dangerous waters of the world, from a police standpoint, and added "a river trip is spiced with the rsk of piratical attack." Fan-Tan and Opium. "Present day Macao is not mar red for the casual traveller by either its flair for fan-tan or its opulent opium industry. The lat ter is shipped away to wreak its havoc: the former brings the bi zaare and the adventurous. From an airplane the mile-wide,tongue cl" land between the two rocky hills that mark its boundaries is splotched with brilliant colors, ra diating from the tile roofs of its blue, green, red. and yellow houses. "He who lands on a steamer is captivated by its blend of Portu guese and Chinese people, by pa goda and western church, and when the summons of hunger leads him" to a hotel that has been called the cleanest and most beautifully sit uatedNin the Orient, the contrast persists. He may order the fa mous Portuguese Colares with his yellow water chestnut pasties, and choose either ultra-occidental game dinners or pudding of eoagu^ued duck's blt>od and sugar-preserved bamboo shoots. There are but 4. (Kiii Portuguese resident there but they represent a four century im press their nationality lias made upon the 11?tu 1 population of about 7i?.0O0. "After dinner the visitor may stroll along the Praya Grande, both the Broadway ;md the Riverside Drive of Macao. Having shopped ;tnd slummed, he Anally will be led to catch the deeper romance of the city in the grotto where other poets.mave carved lines of praise to the one-eyed soldier p<>et who wrote rhe glory of farthest west Europe on an island of nearly farthest easi China, and among many ad ventures beside, was shipwrecked on his way to Lisbon and .swam ashore clutching some five or six cantos of his poem." A statesman says the interests of Candida and the L'nited States are identical. Fine. Now when states men concede that the interests of .ill nations arc identical, the world will be civilized. -? ? ? The man who chuckles over the prospect of a hard winter may not hv a coal dealer. 'lie may be a plumber Warfare Continues in Belfast Belfast. Jan. 6.?Despite the in crease <>' the military force, tiring was renewed here today. A child and a man were wounded. The soldiers dispersed the rival mobs that clashed in the streets. The Lost in Found Athens. Ga., Jan. G?A. P. Sexton, of Royston.-1 'Ga., who has been missing since his blood spattered automobile was found abandoned near Maeon, is under treatment at Hot Springs. Ark., according to a telegram received by Sexton's wife. Xo explanation of his disappearance was made. Geographic Knowledge. (Oakland. Cal., Tribune. Nov. 20.) Never before has the desirability for a working knowledge ov geo graphy been so acutely evident. Mr. Edison's disgusted amazement at\the ignorance of college grad uates of the most ordinary geo graphical facts is only 6ne of the smaller incidents which have di rected notice both to the inade quacy of attention given to this branch of knowledge in the schools and the inefficient, indifferent meth ods of teaching geography gener ally prevalent in the schools. Events of the last live years have stimulated the desire for knowledge of geography, just a's they should have emphasied the need of information regarding oth er lands and peoples. In rhe po litical contests of the last few years, international questions have been important issues. The League of Nations was the dominating issue of the last presidential campaign. The Monroe Doctrine, Pan Amer ican political, cultural and com mercial solidarity, the problem of collecting debts owed by foreign countries, the setting up of new states with which this country has established official relations, all have been given deservedly wide discussion. Xow we have the all-important questions of an adequate mercantile marine and a settled policy of for eign trade, which must inevitably remain important questions. And at this moment an international conference in Washington is seek ing an agreement upon naval pol icies for the great powers and upon some very vexatious problems in ; the Pacific area. Salutary .popu lar knowledge of these matters is I impossible without a working foun j dation of geography. ; What was once considered a ! school* study that had to be gone throug: with as a mental exercise. I the utility of which was doubtful, \ -has been given the vitality and I lively interest that springs from necessity. There is a call not I alone for closer study of maps, but ! for other means of illustration and [ more comprehensive texts than j have been available in the secon dary schools. There is scarcely a land on the face of the earth for which there is not to he called forth an apt and informative topic of current news interests. That the general public is more keenly interested in geography than ever is proved to The Trib une by the cordial response to the articles which this newspaper prints regularly by arrangement with the Xational Geographic So ciety at Washington. These time ly articles, devoted to some city or land which has been pushed into the news columns in one way or another, are meeting a real want. Incidentally the magazine which this society publishes is one of the most tuseful supplementary works for the study of geography. School systems and students must at once readjust, if they have not already done so. their attitude to I ward geography. It is a live sub [ ject of growing importance. Ig norance concerning it will prove J a serious handicap in the future. I Misses Aid and Commander Enter tain. j Tuesday evening the third, Misses I Elizabeth Ard and Xell Com i mander entertained a bevy of their j young friends with a Xew Years" J reception at the home of the form? i er on East Liberty Street, i The evening's silvery stars seem i to shine in harmony with the j gleeful songs and, laughter of the I happy girls and boys on the eve of j returning' to school on tomorrow. The past day of the holiday always passes before the dream is finished. Many games were enjoyed, some new, some old. while dates and cnoversation was not forgotten, j like a reminder they too would be I sweet sixteen with patience to i climb a few njore mile posts. ? A delightful course of ice cream and cake were served by Mesdames Reid Ard and Palmer Command er, the mothers of the fair young i hostesses. j The following were the fortu , nate friends present: Misses Vir ginia Moise. Audrey Schwerin, I Helen ComnTTthder, Lucile ('on. i Mary Boyle, Leslee Wright, An I drena MOran, Helen "Hunt. Kath ' leen Costin, Leilah Brennan, Vi , vian ('ox. Frances Bradford, j Elizabeth Ard. Louise Batoman, ; Sarah Wilder. Xell Commander. Catherine Wilder. Olivia Hargrove. I Messrs. John Brennan. Guy War ren. Sammie and Horace Harby. j Jack McKiever, Paail Fagan of ! Chicago. William Thompson. All tstqn Stubbs, Douglas China. Maxie jAlpert. Vernon Wilder. Marion j Wilder. Lawrence Cuttino, Fred ? Ducker, C. Joye "'and Marion Ard - j Science numbers, the muscles in : the human body at 44t! bur it is held by some that there are more : than this number. ; Some superstitious wives, when their husbands go forth i<> play looker on the night out, stick a pin j in the lapel of their coats to bring I them luck. A split of the win nings, if the pin helps, is the re ! w:i rd. + m +_ Still, it's a lot easier to love our fellow men if they are women. Irish Peace Confer ence Deadlocked _ I Dublin, Jan. <;?The effort of the peace committee to bring about an j agreement on the Anglo-Irish peace i.treaty failed and the Dail Eireann . after a private session, adjourned until forenoon. ('In ist mas Island: Where The Sun May Yield a Secret. Washington. Jan. 2.?Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, one of the several bits of land that 3<?i<-ly vo>agers have come upon in the holiday season and have named accordingly, may play an important ? part in the further I checking up of the Einstein theory, i according to press reports from. I London. The Royal Observatory i at Greenwich is planning to send to !h.- tiny island shortly after the i first of the* year an expedition I equipped with good-sized t?;.e j scopes to observe next September's ? toral eclipse of the sun. A Dutch . astronomical party may also install :;s instruments there, j The island is the subject o?* the ; following bulletin from the Wash I ingron. D. C. headquarters of the National Geographic Society: i "Christmas Island has been de j scribed by travelers as at once one j of flic lohliest and loveliest spots in the world. And its possession of I tree-climbing crabs and. a super scented tree gives ir a right to be classed as one of the queerest, j "Java, its nearest neighbor to ;the north, is 250 miles away, the I little Cocos Islands lie more than : t;oo miles to the west. Australia j is 1.000 miles to the southeast-' j ward, while to the south the waters : of the Indian Ocean are unbroken j by even the smallest islands until 'the lands around the South Pole ; are reached at a distance of nearly ? 4.00f> miles. The island. 12 ^iles long by 0 miles broad, is in real I ity made up of the slopes and top of a huge mountain peak. Sound I ings show that if the waters of ! the ocean were drained away a i rough* pyramid 15.000 feet high ! would stand alone in a plain, the present island forming the last !, 000 feet of its slopes. "The island is believed to be j unique in that it is probably the j only tropical island capable of sus j taniing of enosiderable population ! which had never been peopled until after its discovery by Europeans, i Except where sheer rock walls oe ; cur it is heavily wooded from the water's edge to the summit. Co con urs and sago palms as well as. many other tropical trees grow in j profusion. ' Beneath them is a tan j gle of tropical undergrowth, but j in this jungle are no wild beasts I arm only a few harmless reptiles, j "But one pestiferous creature is j omnipresent-?a wicked looking red crab. Some of -these creatures at tain a size of D inches across the hack. They do not confine them selves to^the shore sands, but range all over* the island, and always in groups. ? Sometimes armies of them march along. They even climb the trees and feast on the, succulent nipa palms. As an off set to the crabs the islnad, unlike practicallyS every other Tropical i land, is mosquitoless. This boon j it owes to its porous soil and steep, { slopes. Even in the rainy season there is no standing water, j "For one of its features Christ j mas Island may be said to^ be in ' famous rather than famous. It is j a tree, believed not to exist else where, which is described by One j disgusted visitor to the island as j Emitting 'the most disagreeable I odor in the world.' With a tru%k { as sturdy as an oak and leaves as graceful as those of an aspen, it ; gives to the eye no' indication of its true character. But its scent per meates the air for hundreds of feet in every direction: and if one is*un fortunate enough lo so much as ?touch its ? hark or leaves, nothing short .of repeated scrubbings with strong -carbolic soap will make him again lit for human society. "Rich deposits of phosphcte v of ? lime occur on Christmas Island, a fact to which it owes , such im portance as it possesses in non?* eclipse years. A phosphate com pany regularly takes shiploads of the-mineral from the is.and to.Sin I gapore where it is marketed as fer- 1 ! tilizer. .More than l.ooo coolies. I mostly Chinese, are engaged in.the ^mining operations, and with - the j overseers. Sikh police and com- * ; pany agents. constitute the is j land's made-to-order population. 'The island is a British possession, j having been annexed in 1888 after I the discovery of the rich fertilizer deposits.. ?'Christmas Island has l>een chosen as the chief observation j point for the 1922 ediptt of the ? I sun because it is not only in the ! belt of totality, but the sun will be ohseured there at a time when if i is high in the heavens. The pencil ; of shadow in connection with which " ?scientists are basing high hopes j will be touched to the earth in j Abyssinia, will he drawn over nar i row Italian S*omaIiland, and from there onward will trace its way aj : most entirely over landless portions or' the Indian Ocean several hun j dred miles south of the Asiatic i mainland. It will cross Australia : mainly in the unsettled northern regions and will be lifted in the* (neighborhood of Norfolk Island 1 northwest of New Zealand." ? ? ? Calls Old Belief a Fallacy It has long been held by house i wives generally that thunderstorms ; sour milk. Now science comes along I to prove chat sour milk is merely a forecast of the coming thundet storm and that neither the lightning nor the thunder will sour the milk. According to the explanation ' given by weather observers, the fall * of the barometer, due to reduced air pressure, and high temperature and humidity are the breeders of thunderstorms. It is these three elements that cause the souring of ' milk, as well as the deterioration of ? meat and fermentable liquids. h is said that the Scotch regard the souring of milk not as coming from a thunderstorm, but as a ; warning that a thunderstorm is about ta occur.