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Too Busy to Improve! i ???? When Opportunity Knocks at I ... Your "Door Do Yoii Answer, H Haven'* Time"? There is.the age-old excuse that has kept many a man from making I his nfark. In its capacity for cov-i cring a mill tit tide of short-comings, I it has no equal. It's the world's greatest alibi. i Whoever admits that he is too I busy to. improve his methods, has! acknowledged himself to be at the j e*nd of his rope. And that is al- j ways fhc saddest predicament i which any one can get into. For there is a vast difference be tween being busy and making pro gress. When we see that clearly, we have gained an important bit t?f .wisdom. The easiest thing some people do, j to keep' busy. ' You have seen the person Who is J always busy?-doing trivial things. : Opportunity comes to him as to i all others; but he is so occupied j with sharpening his lead pencils, ? reading the mail or attending to j other ordinary duties, .that he has ; no- time to listen.^The routine of j Iiis work swallows him up, and he ' forgets wfiat he is busy for. Kis ? I favorite ide,a, ^itnd his -response to I alT rcxp>ests is. "I haven't timW The man who makes progress is > of a different stripe. He doesn't 1 steal the office boy's "work m order j * to keep engaged. He .docs not": thnffc of his job. as soruething to j . ii 12 up his time; but as something i to'accomplish. He has'a goal; and j' lie ? is. always thinking, planning ; und seeking the quickest and best' way to attain it: r Man must often choose between j the trivial and the worth while. j s When a proposal is put to him? by"- hrs co-workers, who wish to ^utde and help him. haw easy it is to reply, haven't time." But I that is not the i>athWay to'pro-I x gf? ss: ? ' k tff should rather say to himself, ! ''Let's assume that here is oppor- j tunity. -L must consider carefully < what it has to offer. "Maybe III! - have to re-adjust my time; per- j fcapsj I'll have to change my i methods. But 1 am ready for any- j :hing that will help the- business." j Whoever reasonsvand . acts thus [ cannot go far astray in the bU6i* j ness world. The man who is eager to im- j prove, does not ignore? requests, i When he is asked to do something 'that he believes to be less import a'Pt than, the - things (that already *Vcupy his time, he will think the subject through and then prove his point. - And: "Ir haven't 'time*' docs not prove it: . All of us have .time to improve? riot'only at the suggestions of others, but of our own initiative. - All' of 'us- wish .to improve?for therein ? lies the greatest. ? pleasure of~jS?nesT^v?rk. \. ? ? All of us can im-proxe-^for around" "all about us are mdny ttiirigS on which; we may . start right now. ' . - :, Here Is ..the . most .inspiring - thought I can* bring you at the be giimHig of a New 'Yeah3 And. if wC' are^all agreedvon ;this. we can round out 1922 *with results which will iCAte us dH relpice." J.. Ogden Armour. - Keep tlie Jfc'ork Going. . % (?Rock. HiH' Record j. The Record hopes the York county delegation will pay due heed to the recommendations made ?t the meeting" h*ere last' Thursday. It is undeniably a fact that .the work of the^ York co?nty /farm ! demonstration agent and the home j <!amonstration agent is a great fac- j. ttor in the affairs- of the farms' and j ine- farm homes, .and .the work; should be kept going. It. "would j ' be very, false (-couomy for cither! one of ! hese officers to be' enminat- J, e? from'the county supply bill. ProgreKs in county affairs means j, taxes, of course, ljfrt ttc cannot ' have progress without -paying for: itT and we must have .progress. ' Mrs. Roosevelt ft?* Visitors to Washington may see Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt almost any fair morning cantering along bridle paths on her white mount. The wife of the assistant secretary of the navy still uses the side saddle. Mari ?f Mystery Dead at Rocky Mt. AJren Watt Lived a Life-, of Isolation and Mystery Kooky Mount. Jan. 11.?With simple services at the grave by Rev. Frances Craighill. rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd. Al len Watt, found dead early Thurs day morning in the one-room hovel at South Rocky Mount, where he had lived in solitude for a number j of years, \Vas laid to rest in Pine ; View cemetery yesterday afternoon. The remains /of the dead man ; had .been in charge of a local un- j tiertaker since having been discov- j ered by authorities Thursday morn tag after death had claimed its { victim during the preceding night. : Correspondence found in his per- j ssonal effects contained many let- i ters from the,- Bank .of Montreal. ! and the funeral yesterday follow- j ed instructions from the "dead I man's sister, his only known sur-i erring relative with whom^ com- j munication was secured through j rhe Montreal bank. The remains were laid to rest in j a. steel vault and every precaution j taken so that they might be remov- ? ed in the future if relatives so de sired. The passing of Mr. Watt con cludes a life of mystery and isola tion here. He 'was a native Eng lishman and drifted into this city over a Quarter of a century or about the time the A. C. L. shops fame to Rocky Mount and the boom hit >he city. During the years that he has been here he has revealed nothing of his past nor has he had any form of employment, boasting on .frequent occasions, it is stated, [hat he had never done any work, rfis home at South Rocky Mount was a.mere one-room hovel where he lived in miserly and isolated fashion. Those who knew him and were caquainfed with him* how ever, declare that he was keenly intelligent and highly educated and especially well versed in minerology ind .kindred subjects ana that he had traveled over the entire world. Correspondence found in his per sonal effects tells nothing of his past, being devoted almost entire ly to business deals and coming from banks and brokers who have transacted proportions and -busi ness affairs for the deceased. Suffi cient figures are given^to indicate .hat the dead man was the posses tor of considerable wealth. Other letters were from his sister in Mon acal, Miss Edith Watt, these per sonal letters being written upon Bank of Montreal stationery and lealing largely with business trans actions. * Stocks and bonds were prominently mentioned in many of :he letters, the evidence being that ;he deceased was a man of means md member of a prominent Eng ish family. - Instructions were received Friday light from this sister that inter nent be made here, that her brother be given a "first class bur al and a bill of" all expenses be >cnt her. Her wishes were carried nit yesterday, and without,any rel itrve present to mourn his death, llr. Watt was interred in Pine View ;emetery yesterday afternoon. Any fecret or tragedy that'the man's ife may have contained remain ing forever locked in his own >feaJst; ? POINCAffi WILL COM PLETE CABINET TODAY . Paris, Jan. 13.?The impression prevails that Raymond Poincare Kill complete his cabinet today } md submit the names to President I Vlillerand for approval. .-~~*-? 1 Developing Dairy Industry Expansion in Sumter county flong dairy lines is gradually coni ng about. Many more farmers ire selling cream now to the creamery than were doing so a rionth ago. and from the, inquiries hade at the Creamery it is safe to ia^.- that'more''will yet do so. The ?t?npaigrt for publicity along these ines has attracted notice not only n this county, but further off. To t?ndle cream in quantity a separa or is needed: The DcLaval Sep arator Company. 165 Broadway. iCo'.v- York. Writes that they cover his territory regularly, and will be jlad to cooperate in pushing the lairy movement. The International Harvester company writes the Young Men's Business League that they have *oted the movemeat in this coun \ and then proes on to say: "We maintain an Agricultural Extension Department, and we are tnxious toN oo-operafce with* you in my effort to promote better farm ng. We are especially interested n dairying, and we find that tvh>rever the majority of the farm ers are interested in dairying, and >\vn from three or larger herds of jotes that it is always a prosperous county.' "We ore sending you a copy of >ur new booklet entitled, Tin- Cow. lie Mother of Prosperity. "From the many excellent testi monials which we have received with reference to this booklet we ir*? led to believe that it is an ex ceptionally good one when it comes to the subject of dairying. No ioubt a distribution of this booklet j in your county would do consid erable good. If you will give us your list of farmers who have cows, we will be glad t mail all of them who request it a y of this book let free of ch?ri?,. Fours very truly. "International Harvester Co., of America. (Signed) C. A. Donaldson. Adv. Dept. The booklet referred to is quite interested, and anyone wishing one mould write the International Harvester Comany, Columbia, S. C. Columbus, Ohio. Jan. l Z.?Go v. Davis has issued a proclamation urging the people to use Ohio min ed coal in an effort to alleviate suffering. Many idle miners are described as facing extreme desti tution t his winter. ?lue ilibbon Editorial Text of One of the Best of the Late Henry Wktterson Since the death of Henry Wattcr s-.?n there have been many refer ences to his "To Hell With the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollems." It was printed in the Louisville Cou rier-Journal of April 7. i:?17, aYid was awarded the Pulitzer prize for the best editorial of the year. ^ It was headed "\"ae Virtus'" (Woe to the Vanquished.) 31 r. Watterson wrote as follows: " >, "There are times.when feeling must be sent to the rear: when duty must toe the line: when the aver sion brave men have for fighting mu#st yield to the adjuration. 'Give me liberty, or give mc death:' That time is now upon us. "Unless Patrick Henry was wrong?unless Washington and the men of the Revolution were wrong, that time is upon us. It is a lie to pretend that the world is better than it was; that men are truer: wiser; that war is escapable. that peace may be had for the planning and the asking. The situation which Without any act of oujrs rises he fore us is as Exigent as that which rose before the Colonists in Ameri ca when a mad English .King, claiming to rule without account ability, asserting the'right divine of kings and sent an army to enforce it. A mad German Emperor, claiming partnership with Cod. again elevates the standard of right divine! and bhls the world to worship or die. AFrom the beginning the isstte : was not less o'urs'than of the coun tries first engaged. Each may have had ends of its own to serve. | Nor were these ends precisely alike. At least France?to whom we owe all that we have to sovereignty and j freedom, and Belgium-, the .little David' of Nations?foogrht to resist | invasion?wanton, cruel invasion:.] to avert slavery, savage, pitiless slavery. Vet. whatever the anima ting purpose?whatever the selfish interests of England and Russia . and Italy-<-the kaiser scheme s of ; the world conquest justified it. "First of all on bended kr.ee we should pray to God to forgive us. Then erect as men. Christian men. Soldierly men. to the ting and the i fray?wherever they lead us--over j the ocean?through Flanders? | across the low countries of K?ln, j Bonn and Koblenz?tumbling the j fortress' of Ehrenbrestein in to the i Rhine as we pass and damming the I mouth of the Mozclle with the deb- j ris of the ruin wc make of it? ; then, on to Berlin, the Black Horse j Cavalry sweeping the Wilhelm- I Strasse like laya down the moun tainside, the Junker and the saber | rattler flying before us, the tunes ; beipg 'Dixie' and 'Yankee Doodle,' \ the ery being 'Hail the French Re- I public?Hail the Republic of Rus- ; sia? welcome the Commonwealth of the Vaterland?no peace with the Kaiser?no parley with An- ; tocracy. Absolutism and that di vine right' of Kings?to hell with the Hapsburgs and tluy Kohenzol lerns." The Owls in The Attic. ?? ^ i (George Ballard Bowers, in Our Dumb Animals). A California gentleman from the city purchased a big country home ; that had been vacant several years. After spending a large sum for im- \ provements. he moved in to find , that . rhe rats made ' his nights j hidedus and the gophers destroyed his lawn, garden and trees as soon ' as they were planted. To add to his discomfort, a half-dozen barn owls chose his house for a ' meeting- j place. They flapped." stamped.: fought and hissed on the roof, and m the attic, while the rats, in in creasing numbers, scurried, squeal ed', and fought in his bedroom and kitchen.. Cme night the exasperat- j ed man went out with his gun to fife at an object in the moonlight, and wi'h a c'ull thud a heavy body fell on the veranda roof. When morning came, he climbed I into the attic to find an open win- j dow leading out to the verandaN where he found the big owl he had j killed, but. on the floor under flu rafters of the attie. another blinked her big eyes to see what danger was near. She left her nest with two wiiite Cggs to crowd into a corner. The cjrsrs and the bird did not interest the man so much ! as the materials of the nest, built of bits of fur and bones of his ene my, the rat. The attic floor was; strewn with bits of dried rat skins \ and bor.es. He now understood and stroked the hissing, frightened bird affectionately. That night a half-j dozen owls celebrated for hours flapping, hissing and stamping, but the disturbed sleeper only smiled. He was glad his friends wire hav ing a good time. After another week the noise of the house ceased, not a ?rat or a mouse was to be seen, the only sound heard in the night was a gentle swish of wings mingled with low hisses: then noisy shrieks had gone with the squealing and scur rying rats. Fearing- that his friend- had gone, he returned to the attic one evening to find the mother owl guarding two funny little halls of whitish gray cottony down, with hooked beaks and tiny talons re sembling those of the big fellow he had killed, and reminding him of two tiny white monkeys huddled in a corner for warmth. lie snapped oul his ?^'ht to watch. Noiselessly an owl friend entered with supper for the little family. The meal was a big gopher. The man watched an hour while owl friends brought into tin tic six gophers. :i rat. 'and seven field mice. Now the two little owls have grown up. and the owner smiles and wishes lho\ were a dozen. His fields, lawn and garden are free of gophers, rats, and mice Mexia, Texas, Jan. 13.? .Martial law has resulted in the exodus of undesirables from here, according to national guard officers. It i-? easy to work on the level: uatoh a man when he hits a hill. To Teach China U. S. Ways _'_ m Miss Winnie Wong of Hong Kong is studying at Radcliffe College. She likes Americans and. American life, bufr she is going back to China when she completes her education. "I hope to give all that I have seen and all that I have learned to those who have no opportunity to ccrnc to .America." she says. Her father is founder of the Specie Bank ol China. Her mother is a leading educator. Miss BJeibtrey Has New^Job ? Ethelda. Bleibtrey, called the world's greatest woman swimmer, has a new job. But she hasn't laid aside her swimming suit. She'3 playing ball in it?that's Ethelda batting?at Atlantic City, where che has taken charge of the Ambassador Swimming Club. Aids Famine Stricken for Russian Famine Belief, in New York. .. Mi s FORMER KAISER Widowed Da lighter-in-Law i>< mauds Maintenance Allowance >m promise the court. > ttlement out Iterlin. Jan. 7. Pri im <?:' L'mssht, widow of ib.- C? s icntists says the moon is slowing up the speed of the earth. ? Joach- and here we had been placing the blame on Mr. Volstead. Richmond it;!-'- Emperor's youngest son Times-]>:spat eh v.ii<> ??< i ii i;; <-d suicide in n?2": i bringing ;i against IVHTian Holienzollern f? r :?? maintenance al -~a ?? >> Jnngary to Name County h? nvi ' said :i headline the lowanoe. ? ii the ground thai h r ojher day. IVurrah for Rungary I marriage <?< ntriu-T. concluded in a<;- We"v<- always Llmug.lt: that man c??rd:?nee with laws of !!<.'.- shVVCtd f>? named again and morn ?/i.iiii' l>oalcr enzoller? t ;,i j- i- s her I" the. menns <>?" rnrbsiste.nce. The C;is:- j's begun b? fore i Berlin <"ti!; Triursdny. <'?>,;...! for i?ie defense argued thai thene laws wen- no longer valid-. The hearing v. as adj'turned aftor a brief c?ngres? is ioafing it really thinks <:i: .-L. ..I-:; to rcrmh of:;.: attempt i; is deliberating. The funny par! <?i" ii is that when Arms Conference Continues M. Sarraut Will Remain at Head of French Delegation Washington, Jan. 13.?President MHlerand has ? directed M. Sar raut, head of the French arms I delegation, to continue in that ca pacity until the end of the con ference. Soviet Will Feed Professors Moscow, Jan. 13.?Aiming to ; get more efficient work from pro fessors and scientist, the Soviet placed seven thousand of them on I full government rations in Mos i cow in hope of inspiring work cal culated to lead to an improved eco nomic situation. ?-? ? o Irish Released J From London Jails London. Jan. 13.?Irish political prisoners in London jails were re leased under King George's amnesty j proclamation. Instructions were sent to provincial jails for similar releases. A Study in Taxes (News and Courier) I Governor Cooper's message to j the Legislature gives a statement ! showing the aggregate tax levied i in each county of South Carolina! I for nil purposes. It can be studied j with profit. The figures show a j total of $18,257,021.35 of State and j county taxes. The constitutional I three mill and special school tax total $6.467,92S.71. The tax for I ordinary county purposes and for i roads is $6,335,438.67. The total State tax for all purposes is $5,-1 j 429.027.13. ' These are the figures for 1921. j They take no account of the taxes assessed against the people of : South Carolina last year for Fed 1 era! purposes nor do they take any account of the city taxes. Governor i Cooper in his message-to the Lesris jlature yesterday stated that "On November 1 1921. there was un J coliectedt from taxes of 1920, prac tically $1,250.000." Information is j not available as to what part of the ; 1921 State and county taxes re mains unpaid. We imagine that it i is considerable. The burden of : Governor Cooper's message is that j new methods of raising tax money Imust be found. We heartily agree as to that but those who will study the figures which Governor Cooper gives and along with them will j study the cotton figures for 1921 ! will go further. They will be driv } on to the conclusion that the State i budget of ?6.466.S34.53 which Gov ; enor Cooper approves for 1922 is j utterly beyond the reach of. the j people oT South Carolina this year, j no matter what new methods of I taxation may be devised and agreed upon. ? The two main sources from j which South Carolina gets its cash : money are its cotton crop and its : cotton mills: Most of the cotton 1 mills are in the Piedmont country. , Most of the cotton 141 1921 was ; made in ,the Piedmont country, j There were eleven counties of ? the j State which, according to the gin ! ning figures, suffered no damage ; from the boll weevil in 1921: that i is to say. they made practically as j much cotton in 1921 as they did [in 3 920. several of them more. These counties were Anderson. 1 Chester. Chesterfield. Cherokee. .Dillon. Greenville, Marlboro. ! Oconee. Pickens. Spartanburg and ? York. In these eleven counties ? 4Q4.4-^1 bales of cotton were ginned j in 1921. In all the other counties of the State only 353.876 bales were ! ginned. The cotton crop of thirty five counties lasf ; ear had a cash j value at eighteen cents a pound of j $31 .S4S.S40. The State and county j taxes assessed against these thirty ; five counties in, 1921 amounted to $ 11.7 15.095 S7. That was more I than a third of the value of the 1 money crop of these counties and it ! leaves out of account the city taxes and the Federal taxes which the ! people of these counties had to i pay. The members of the Legislature ? have but to study the figures coun ; ty by county to be convinced that \ no shifting of the tax burden will I take care of the situation this year. 1 There are counties in South Car olina, quite a number of them. whPre the State and county taxes ! more than double the total revenue j of thee ountry i n!921 from the cot I ton crop. There is a long list of : counties where the State and coun ty taxes were from a third to a : half the county's income from cot ! ton. This being the e.ase the fact should be apparent that neither the property owners nor anybody else in .counties where such conditions exist can meet tax hills such as South Carolina has had the past two or three years. Those tax bills were based on the flush years of 1919 and 1920. The flush period having passed the appropriations simply must come down. With no sure money crop yet established in place of cotton the Legislature dare not this year impose taxes. State or county, totalling, as did the taxes last year, in most of the counties, over a third the value of the cotton crop. Governor Cooper does well in his annual message to urge tax reform but* more important at the present time than tax reform is tax reduc tion. The money is simply not available to maintain such appro priations as have been made in the pas! two or three years for State :nai county purposes. Some of the work which the State and the counties have been undertaking must be discontinued, regrettable as it will be to do this. In the case of institutions. State and coun ty, there should be sharp cuts and under the conditions which now ex ist these cuts in most instances ought not seriously to impair the usefulness and efficiency of the institutions. A dollar can be made t. go a good ways now by good management. Clarendon Coun ty Roads Gravel to Be Put on Road to Sumter The regular morith-ly meeting of the Highway Commissioners .was held in Mayor Davis' office last Monday. Four of the five roads being built by the Commissioners are nearly completed, and final set tlement will probably be made in February for these roads. The gravel for the Sumter road has beeji ordered out and the spread ing of this will be started in the next few days?Manning Times. -*>?o?o Koritza and the Disputed Area in in Southern Albania Washington, D. C. Jan. 12?j "Any other coutry would be non plused 10 awake some fine morn- : ing with two wars on its hands; I but such a predicament is but an ? episode in Albania's history." says j a bulletin "Of the National Geo graphic Society concerning the i skirmishes between Albanians and Greeks in northern Epirus and ; the reported attack of .Serbians upon Albanian towns along the j River Drin. "The country was created in ( 1912 to avert a World War. and ; when World War did come the I troops of five countries occupied various sections of it. Germans. : Austrians and Bulgarians were in i control in the northern districts j where Serbians are now making attacks, while France and Italy; held the south, including the area I about Koritza. which now forms j the bone of contention with Greece. Durazzo, chief Albanian" port, was seized by d'Annunzio. Began Remaking Europe's Map i "Perhaps history will recognize ? Koritza as the scene o." the first! definite step toward remaking the ; Map of Europe. For there in J December. 1.916. was set up a gov- j vernment, generally referred to as! the Republic of Koritza. While j most of Albania was in Austrian j hands this little republic, under I French military protection, started to function as an Albanian ropub- i lie, issued paper money, postage ' stamps, and established a national army with a fighting strength of ! 600. I "Before 1914 Albania was the! newest country of the Old World, j and it is peopled by the most an- j cient race of southeastern Europe. Edward Gibbon called it 'a country within sight of Italy, which is less known than the interior of Ameri- j ca.* And more than a century af-' ter that characterization, before j the war helped introduce the Bal leans to America, a letter addres- t sed 'Albania' was sent" from Eng-i land to the United States, and was j was returned from Albany N. Y., i with the notation 'Not for Albany, j try Europe.' "Few travelers visit Albania and ; information al)out the present day j aspects of the country is measer." Some First-Hand Impressions The bulletin then quotes the first hand impressions of Brig. Gen. George P. Scriven. U. S. A., who was in Albania during the war, and wrote to the National Geographic Society as follows: "The towns of Southern Albania are few and. though strange and picturesque in appearance, are in reality poor in comfort. Of cities there are not any. Koritza. with some 20,000 people, is the 'largest place, but it is far from being a ? city. However, if the towns are j somewhat mean and squalid, they j are interesting to the eye and have j the charm of old-world quaintness. j There are but four worth mention- j ing: Arjirokastro. so old, at least in appearance, that its origin falls \ back into the mists of time: the I pleasant village of Premati, lying! in a fertile valley along the riveri Viosa; Koritza. held by the' French: and Yalona. clean and; thriving under the Italian t^rmy. j **They are all pleasant places to j Took upon, nestling among the I mountains, in the valleys, and byj the sea. with their old gray walls] i and roofs of stone ^dotted with j storks; hut they possess none of, ; the comforts or conveniences ofj modern life. Modem Conveniences Lacking ! ! "Such matter-of-fact things as] trams, hotels, or cafes do not exist; ^in Albanian towns and would! seem wholly out of place. Water' is drawn from the wells as it wasi I 1,000 years ago. or maybe from' ; sonn- nearby stream. Inns are rep-' resented by the khan, a stone i^uild-; j ing, half house, half stable, where! caravans and pack trains stop to. j rest. ; "Albania belongs to a time as far back as the annals of the! I world can reach and is as primi- ; '. tive as if it were in central China. | almost as difficult to penetrate as! j Tibet itself. It is a land unfamil- i iar to the* traveler and shunned! ; by the tourist of today. "If the three or four-centers of 1 population in southern Albania are !a little disappointing as cities, this is not true of the country or of the j picturesque villages which gather ; like gray splashes upon the gray ; er hills, where they appear to have nestled since the beginning of 1 time. Rough stone huts they are for the most part, with fiat stone roofs. For purposes of defense, they are usually situated half way up the lower hills, and the houses and out-buildings are often sur rounded by strong stone wails. ? The valleys are rich and well cultivated, chiefly bj the women, but present a desolate, deserted appearance, except in the day-light working hours. Not a farmhouse nor a stable is to be seen amidst all the fertile acres. The crops cannot be stolen: no bandit would think of destroying them, ami so they are left Unguarded.** Scranton, Pa.. Jan. 13.?Four are known to have been killed in a cavein of a mine at South Scran ton. which affectefl the surface area of five blocks. Genoa Conference f?'Be Held ?? Cabinet Crisis in France Will Not Affect Agreements at Cannes -n. ? Cannes. Jan. 13.?The^ supreme council at"N?r examming situation created by the de}>adrttrre of the French preftsier roleri'that the de cisions on wlrvh-r complete agree ments had been* '. reached should become operative; -i especially the Genoa conference: ?>?? '. ??> - . rv Ford and Wgeks Meet this Aiternoon Washington. Jan. . 13.?Henry Ford will confer late ' today with Secretary Weeks ?&jx.'In* offer for the government's nitrate and water power projects a$>'3&$cie Shoay Alabama. Mr. Ford said he was confident he would roach an agreement with Secretary Weeks. ? AMERICAN ?P*>ISONS WIFE IN PARIS Paris, Jant 13.?Thomas Stewart Ryan has bee:i arrested charged with forcing his wife,- Mrs. Aud rey Creighton Ryan, the Califor nia violinist, to take poison tablets. The woman is reported to be dying. Ryan later stabbed himself, but not seriously. Ryau-'. denied the charges. i ?<> -?? Building Permits. The following building permits have been issued irf the city of S?mter since December 1, 1921 by Building and Fire Inspector, J. D. Chandler: ' to* Repairing top to store on Oak land Avenue. W. 'D.' Carnes. $30. 1 Recovering a fWo~T?bom house on Walsh Grove. A. B. 'Btickner, $75. Building ' three'houses' on Wil hams Street. $4.~>0 each. Miss Pau line G. Mecham. : Repairing of office '.on" N- Main Street, Mrs F. K.';Hoiland, $25. Construction of ' one room to house on Calhoun Street, E. Murr Hall, $100/ Construction of.' house on\S. Main Street, B. Walsh. $350. Construction of; shed Harvia Street, X. W. R. R. ofSSi C, $130. Repairing six room rhouse, Joe White, $150. Building house on Magnolia St., P. B. Leonard, $400'. Construction of -automobile ga rage. H. L. Tisdale, $30. Repairing officev'6n>Washington ' Street, Dr. E. R. Wtfson,- *75. Recovering house , on Hampton Avenue, E. R. Wilder^;$J25. Recovering four room house on Oakland Avenue, R.' ''?? "' Roberts, $92. tut v Constructing fiye.room hiiirnJMiTWi Purdy Street, Sam Sumter, $1,000. Building gasolines-filling- station, Eastern Carolina; i?dtor "Co., $125.* Construction of two'room house on Manning A^nue^. Mattie Winn, $100. , . 'y ' Repairing of store on W. Liberty' Street, C. G. Rowland; $225. Construction of room to house on Northwestern ;4Are., A. Wright, $G0. \ '_.." , Erection of colored church on W. Liberty St., $700. ' Repairing house on W. Liberty street, T. S. Drayton, 4$ 1,000. Repairing of fivV'roorm house on Bland in g Street, W. A. Wailing, $360. - - ' Building house .on. E. LiVrty St., J. J. Brennon, '$0,000. Building two stores . on Main street, McCallum ReaftyXo., each $4,000. ?:;?.-?? ? o ? . - London. Jan. 13.;?Georges Car pentier may ask for another fight with Jack Dempsey ^+*Ar meeting Ted Lewis, the Evening' Standard was informed by, Francois Des Camps, Carpentier's manager. -. ? ? ? I Straight of Line Tbc vogue for the wrap built on ch]>^ Yw.o continues This Bandler wrap n lichter modoTof duvetyne r<n?i m^TCskin is straight ef line and distinctive in that it droits from Tb* shoiitders v"lhcnit the flare M-birh usually ac-omiv3nie? such garments