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LivftJNews From ,i the Lawmakers ? * * ? * ' T#?,; Gasoline Bill and Work Hours a Week Arguments. Columbia. Feb. ?Success of the tax reform'program of" the present legislature, the burden of whose w\>r"K ?k allevation of the tax bur de'n.. appears at^jthis date in the session to be somewhat doubtful, thaugh part of the program has al ready carried. None of the bills has passed all stages in the pro cess of legislation and several of them have apparently struck a sHag; ??The gasoline and ?he inheritance t3x bills have gone further than any-of the others. They have both .passed both banches of the as sembly and are now in the house for action on amendments made by the senate. Both will pass in some form. ? ?-The corporation license tax bill has developed strong Opposition. It was called up in tht senate Thursday night, but ?t rar. against a snag the first thing.' A motion was made to strike out its enacting words, which would have, if car ried, .laid it to rest for this ses sion. " However, this motion was withdrawn, to allow the bill to go to third: reading.,subject to amend ments there, and for debate at :hat final stage. There are sena tors strongly opposed to i: and who propose to tight it. / The income tax bill, which has parsed the house, is on the senate calendar, and has been for a good while, for second reading, and it sterns to be standing still. .The luxuri?s tax bill has bf-en ' rogjQrted twice by the ways and mcan?/corn mit tee with favorable r?pjo*t. It went to the committee the second time to allow for pub lic hearings. It is being opposed, bur-will likely pass. The hydro-electric power fa., bill., is in- the hands of the finance committee of toe senate, where : irong ,opposition on ? the part of tttaraufact u rers. large and small, Iras, been registered. There are members of the finance committee ?.ut^pf sympathy with this tax. and a strong lobby is being waged agdjusr it. . Xhe^b?l to create a tax on mov 1^4'^Ctitre films is also in the Itands of the senate finance com mittee, nor having as yet been reported back. Columbia. Feb. :)?The ??fifty five hour bill" to prohibit the em ployment of cotton mill workers for more than fifty-five hours a WftaV,pfrt>*more than ten hours a day. w?s passed by the House of Rep resentatives Thursday night after ujong and ardent debase, a vote ??f i*J to 4 beinsr recorded against a n*Kion to kill, the bill. ^The, only change from the ISlfi !?w irov in effect..as provided in t?e new bill is that the textile week e^all be fifty-five hours, the day t^*n hours, and that loom-fixers and s^rtion men shall not be classed a? "mechanics" who" are exempted fjHom the provisions*6f the law now o{ the statute books. The bill, as passed by the 'House, allows ope reives who work at night to worl* a? much as eleven hours in one fright, not to exceed five nights a vjek. Representative Hamlin, of U?ion, atjd Representative Blease. of .\ew b*rry. authors of measure, spoke wflrmly in favor of its enactment. li|presentative Leopard, of Picker-. a?o spoke strongly in favor of the T*fU. and said he had petitions fron, cotton, mill men and cotton nvl! operatives asking *for enactment ofj the .measure. ^t was pointed out by those who stroke for the bill thai the majority of?the cotton mills of the state are operating now. under an agreement o45 the part of the members of the textile manufacturers* association. u+*fifty-five hours a week, and the pijrpose of the proposed law is to mftke all mills comply with the provisions of this agreement. JA. proviso in the- bill would allow the making up of lost time to the extent of" sixty hours' per annum, where such loss of tome has been due to accident or other unavoid able (3*U? . The ?bill Also provides th^t no wages shall be docked, be cause of absence, to an amount in e^ess of the amount the machines operated by them would have pro dw-ed in the time of the absence. ?f- _ . > "~ Columbia. Feb. ?The slate convention of the South Carolina League of "WoAWn Voters will be hefd in Columbia, at the V. W. C. A.j on "Wednesday <?f next week, with matters of legislation the chief concern of the gathering. The con tention will start at 10 o'clock in th2 morning. Women voters, it Is announced, whether members ??:" rhjg" League or not. will be welcom ed* ?^The lf?22 elections will be the chief topic, and it is possible that ihm women will discuss candidates. A ^>iil t<i rquire women to pay poll taiS?s will likely be discussed. A. res$$ufck>n for bi-?jnnial sessions of the legislature will also interest the wcTftf-inr-as will other important ni^aswFes. There is talk of the wo m?n putting at least one candidate in'the. race for se nn- offn e this year ami this may be discussed yt the coli vent ion here. pEiTH OF CAPT. UFT Tifton. Oa., Feb. 4 < 'apt. H. II. Tiw. one of tin- wealthiest men of Central Georgia, died here today. j^ext war might not impose such heavy burdens on us. We might have the luck to lose if. Wal! Stceet Journal. ? - ? i? ^ A short tinu- ago, recognizing nu>sij?. would have required only the scratch of a. pen. Now it will reouire considerable Imagination. -? o ? - Health hint: "When a girl prom ised to be a sister she often means she'll be her brother's keeper Business Changes For M?nth Slight Seasonal Slackening Noted by Federal Reserve Board, Monev Rates Easier Washington. Feb. 2.- -Business land financial conditions through I on? the country during January j wore without striking departures I from the general Situation existing (in December, according t<? the i-jwontlily review issued tonight l>y the federal reserve hoard. Sea sonal slackening in various lines I of industries has taken place dur ! iug 'it ? month, the hoard, declared, I but such recessions have not gone |beyo?d the proportions to be ex : peered at rhis time of the year. ! Prodwtivity in a number of lines ' h s been unusually well sustained. ; it was added. ? Some improvement in the iron jaml steel trade was noted by the [board and in other manufacturing lines a similar tendency, but'in cot j t..a and woolen textiles no material J change was declared to have taken j place. Little recovery in the de {pre ssion in silk is yei to be seen, j the board stated. j Little change in crop conditions can be expected during the win ter, it was asserted, but prices on staple farm products have about held their own. with interest to the agricultural situation now center ling on preparations for the new J season. j Wholesale trade lines have shown 'great variation, but in the retail 'trade the buying demand in the f manufacturing districts in the i j East and North still shows im provement, while demand in the agricultural regions of the West ; and South indicates :i sharp de ; crease as compared with the . cropping period of a year ago. i The general price level, the board [added. has shown but little j change. Commercial demand for < redit during the month, the ?oard re ported, has tended downward. ] while market Quotations for mon I ey have eased, forcing exchange 'quotations fluctuated-within a nar I rower rang- than during Decem j hi r, while export trade has show led a tendency toward a small I volume of business. Basketball Victory For Sumter Florence High School Team j Outplayed by Gamecocks Another victory in basketball was ; won by the Sumter High School team when they outplayed the quin tet representing the Florence High School in the local "Y" gymnaium j Friday niglit. The score results ! of the game were: Sumter 42, FJor j ence 1?. Florence put tip a game ;tight but were unable to Overcome ?the superior pass work and speed displayed by the local lads. Sum ter at all tines had the edge on their visitors and showed superior generalship and experience in their game. The exhibition of Friday night was witnessed by a larg? au dience thai was usual bur the Sum ter spirit has to grow some it the expectation of keeping their team on a self supporting financial basis is ever realized. Th- lineup follows: Sumter (-CM Position Florence i 19) Green -;-_F_ Waters Chandb-r._F_Brunsen Wright _..C..McElveen Wray .G__. Kafer Planding -G_.Hicks Jieferee Heidt. ? ? ? Report of Carnegie l ibrary For Jan nary 19*22. New members _ 4 2 Previously reported_. 1.7(>" Total ._. LSA2 No. Books lent._iA-j<; Previously reported .46.543 Total_. ..48.393 Fines, rental fees and rural membership ._. $20.10 Financial Report Palanee January I, 1922_$59.44 Checks: A. L. A. for booklist S 2.00 P. Witcover for magazines ._ 2-i.oo Book Review _ LOO $26. GO S3 2.x 4 Deposit in bank._$20.10 $52.94 Jessielyn Smith. Librarian. Februaryq 4, 1022. Leave Germany For Home Antwerp. Feb. 4 - The transport Caniigpy with eleven hundred of ficers and men of American forces in Germany on board, sailed for America todav. COSTLY FIRE AT NEW ORLEANS New Orleans?. Feb. 4 Fire gutted two iini>i\ of the building occupied by the New Orleans Lighi ?V Power Company, causing :i loss estimated at one bund red and fifty thousand dollars. The man who tried marry on a hunting license took her for a dear. Nothing mnfc?*s a .uirl laugh III> dimples y.t'l good teet h. The use of ^'?ai glands may help some, but what the world needs now is more enthusiastic use. of the sweat glands. When it comes i<> :< cold wave there are a few t<? join in singing long may it." -Toledo Blade. Additional R'eascn Given Mr. Belser Opposed Postpone ment of Payment of Taxes For Protection of the Schools Id au interview with Mr. I>. B. ['iJscr Saturday, a further ????a Son was giv< n by him for iiis oppo sion tu the resolution passed by the j.house extending the date of exe i v?ti?n for the non-payment of I ^taxes until after September I. Mr. | Belser stated thai by this meas- j lure he believed the entire school j ; system would be ?ie sufferer. By J j the extension <>;" the time limit.; until Septeniber 1. with only the per cent penalty in 'January ? and j I an additional one per cent for each j ? m<>nth up until June 1. and seven j 1 per cent penalty in January and [mean that about one-half of the tax payers of the state will have j j the us*' of their tax money at the ; rate of seven per eon;. This money, for a good portion of it. will not be collected until very late in the full. . probably as late in the year as December, and consequently the schools of the state may perhaps I suffer for the need of their neces sary funds upon which to open. tMr. Belser thought the measure an [injustice to those who have already ! paid t heir taxes. -m ? c Fine Results of Club Work in B)2t ; Clemson College. Feb. 4.?Two ( thousand and ten members of boys' j clubs in South Carolina grew crops and animals in lt?21 valued at $S9. 565.33. according to the'report of L. L. Baker, supervising agent. [These figures show something of I the concrete value of boys' club i work. The instructional and iu j spirational values are inestimable, j Club work was conducted in 27 I counties in 1921 and the total membership was 2<*ei more than in 1 CO?. The work included corn clubs, cotton clubs, peanut clubs. :and pea clubs among farm crops, .and pig clubs and dairy cattle clubs .?among livestock. The member i ship in each of these was: corn [ clubs. 7:;.'!: cotton clubs. SI: pea nut clubs. K4: pea clubs, J' 1: pig .clubs. 1039; dairy eattie clubs. 32. i Of the corn (dub members enroll [???1 2:*?". sent in complete records sh wing :i total production of 14. [61] bushels with an average yield I of 4*.s bushels per acre and an [average ' est of 4.1 eet.ts per mushel. The total value of this yield was | $11.231.40 and the profit $4.861.?? j 1!?. The estimated total value of the com produced " y members not i completing reports was $12.204.09. i < >f the 31 members enrolled in I cotton, clubs C5 turned, in complete .records, showing a Jota! produc /1i?>ri <>f i: I.:*? 1 n pounds. the \jeld [ averaging l ."2-4 pounds ner acre at an average cost of _.'?> cents per pound. The total value of their ( cotton was sl.TX] ',i and fthe total profit was $ 1.2 7V4 i The total value of all crops pro duced by club boys was $34.151.85. i One hundred and fifty-six pitr j club members reporting completer I Jy produced 12.036 pounds at an {.average cost of 10 1-.*; cents per pound, the total valu ? being $8.718. ! 32, and the total profit $3.623.54. The estimated valu? of the produc tion of members not reporting com pletely was $40.610. Fourteen members is reporting completely in the dairy catt'e eluh produced animals valued at $2.945. of which ?.1,011.4 S was profit. The total cost of production of all livestock club members wa" $7.61i1.40. the I total value Si 1.5.63."2. making a total profit of n 4. 2. The esti mated value of 1v<s'<ia produc tion of club members not report ing was ?33.830. .vl'-icli added to itbe value of crops produced. $34. 1.11.sr.. makes the grr-nd total of $jfT?>?<I5.33. Slight Damage To Residence of B. lj. Jackson\ The hone of ?dr. It. L. Jackson. .'54 io. Calhoun street, was som< - what damaged by a small fire which was found at eight thirty o'clock ! Saturday morning! The family was; at breakfast at this hour and what led to the discovery of the fire was ; J the smell of burning clothing in the j ; bedroom closei in which the fire seems to have had its beginning. ! A bucket of water was tirst thrown [on the tire and it was thought to ! ! have he<-n put out but within the next few minutes it was found that the lire had burned its way' into the ce?iag. The tire depart ! me;;: was called and t!:<- u*-. of the ' big chemical tank on the Reo truck and a small hand chemical was re : sorted to. The fire at one lime looked threatening and the hose [.connections to the water pump on ? truck Xo. ! was made. This safely measure, however, proved unnec essary for the fire was extinguished by the chemicals. The damage done eonsist in the loss of a number ol articles of Clothing and also in the burning of th<- interior of a wall. A small port ion of the ceiling ami root" over one of tie- rooms was damaged. The damage is covered by insurance. JAPANESE RAILWAY WRECK KILLS ."MANY Tokio. !-\>b. ?. < >ne hundred ahd l< n persons were killed and a num ber of (?thers injured when a rail- i way train was buried by an KENTUCKY STRIKE ZONE IS QUIET j Newport. Ivy.. Beb. 4 -Las! night passed quietly jn the Newport io|l ^il; mill strik? zone where four hundred and liftj soldiers are on guard duty. ?. ?? ? If .lac k I ?empsey i : gt'dhg to I'laiee to fight., that settles i!. The war is oy.-r. Detroit News. xico is discussing a prohibr law: but not as much v.*? M tion Officer Arrested As Moonshiner Commission of C. P. Reed Re voked When Caught Ope rating Still in West Vir ginia ??harlestOn. W. Va.. Feb. 4 The commission of prohibition otlieer Charles l\ Ii? ? -?I was revoked by the stale prohibition commissioner Brown when he received rein.its thai Ib-ed was one of the nine men arrested in a raid a! Coal b?rg on a charge of operating a moon shine still. Did Africa People Prehistoric Eu rope? Washington. IK <*.. Feb.3 ? The j recent discovery in a cave in Xor Ithern Rhodesia of a human skull apparently many thousands of ! years old seems t<? pin Africa on the map for the first time as the probabh Held of development for iinen who played''an important par; iiii the life of prehistoric Murope. j Win-re the most important old hii I'man skulls have been discovered heretofore and what rheir locations [seem to indicate is 'add in the fol lowing h?llet in from the Washing It on. f). C. headquarters of the Jxational Oeagraphte Soc iety, i "'Europe has long been recog I titled as merely the stave on which late aeis of the great drama of the development of man a ad .his civi lization have heen> played." says ! the bulletin. "Xone of the races ..that have lived in Europe during [the long period of man.- life on [the earth is believed to have origi jnated there, Hitherto all evidence [/pointed to Asia as the source of 'the succeeding waves of human ?immigrants as it was the source, at j b a<t proximatoly. of the thou sands of horses, deer and cattle that swarwued into the country 1 during interglacial periods. j . i Africa Considered 'Only Bridge In j . Past. 71 laces had come across the [land bridges from Africa, but for the most pari they merely used northern Africa -as a path, com ing from Arabia*..or farther Asia! ? The one exception, known was tin (strange appearance along the j southern fringe of Europe at one tinie of a race akin to tin- negro pygmies of present-day central Africa. But these small negroids were an unimportant factor and . soon vanished. ? "So far as Europe is concerned, the Heidelberg men were the ear j liest known inhabitants. A single jaw-bone discovered in Germany I re] resents the data from which j conclusions have been drawn in re gard to this race which is supposed ' to have livd ^sono- 200.000 years J ago. They are classed as the tirs; i wholly human beings of whom fos sils have been discovered, and are j supposed to have been later by ! probably a quarter of a million .years .than the ape-man whose skull was discovered in .lava, i Europe's Inhabitants 72.000 Ii. ('. "The Heidelberg na n were ap parently succeeded about 75.00-G years ago by a long persisting type of whom .many fossils have been J found?the Neanderthal man. Skulls and bones of this widely .diffused people ha\e been found in ! France. Oermanv. Belgium Cro | alia, on the Channel rsles, on the [ rock of (Gibraltar, and in .Malta. ? They were cave-dwelling hunters and for more than 30.000 years lived off the herds of horses, deer, and cattle that abounded in Eu rope during that period. "These Neanderthal men were much more advanced than tin- tuen of Heidelberg, hut still they were lower in the scale than any savage of the present day. They were sount. burly. big-headed and thick-skulled. Their brows pro jected marke, "ly over cavernous eyes, they were almost chin less; and their knees wer" permanently bent. The first skull of these peo ple discovered more titan GO years ago was so widely divergent from existing skulls that one scientist insisted that it was a malformation. Jt was only after the discovery of other fossils that the former ex istence of this race was generally accepted. I'irst Xeaiidcrtlial Discovery in Africa "Though X< awlerihnl remains have been discovered at the very edge of northern Africa, notably in Cibralta and Malta, there has been no general tendency to look upon Africa as the source of I li.it people. The skuil and bones v ccntly discovered in northern Rho desia, hoyvever. an believed to be of the general Xeanderthal typ? and their discovery opens up the possibility that it was from Africa that Europe's Xeaiiderthnl horde eanve. The 'Broken Hill Skull.' as the African fosil is called, is in sonte ways tirore primitiv?' th-t-n the European Xeamb riiial skull though P is believed to be more recent. These facts give added weight to the belief ti.ai the skull recently found was nearer,than the Euro pean fossils to the original point of dissemination ot the X".-?nderthal men. "The Xeandertha! men represent thou: the I.;st known type 6? hu mans skull development low ?r than that of present day sav iges. Wie n they disappear! d 2'-. '.r '?"" years ago they were iieceeded by the Cro-.YI ngnoti men, in liters and also artists, who have eft remarkable drawings o! ani nals on the walls of certain eaves n Franc?!. They were a tall, fine y btiTlr. intelligent race, the first ?:?ibwn men generally rated as be onging to the same vj.,-. j. v as our ?wti I lorno sa pb'ns." ly> rshing h is declined a hero uedal. This indurates that he is omci hing ot a lo t" tollnslown ?ejilbi la i . "When has milk to., much wa eV" is puzzling rite officials. W. j vottld say. '"When its delivered." | City Council Meeting Ordinance Adopted to Make It Unlawful For Public Utilities Corporations to Overcharge Custom ers At a called meeting of council, which \v:is held in the OtfU't- "! the clerk in the evening of February-: ::t(l. then- were present Mayor I .Jennings and i'niiiii'?i?f!) McCal-1 iuni and Ka.ttleld. T'a. request "t' Mr. S. .1. Rumph to operate his tilling stations under the wholesale license was denied by ? council. Councilman Raffield fa | cored changing the tilling station i license from Class - to ("lass hut did not favor allowing them to operate under one license. The following ordinance was ; passed, having dispensed with the second and third readings: An ordinance making it unlaw ful for any public utility to over charge its customers, and provid ' iir-r a punisbj i? nt for the violation l hereof. Be ii ordained by rhe Mayor and I Couneilmen of th< city of Sumter in Council assembled: I Sec. I.?Thai from and after j the passage of this ordinance, it siiail he unlawful for any person, tirm or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing heat, light, water, gas. electric current, tele phone service or any other public utility to the residents of the city of Sumter. within the city limits thereof. 10 charge or collect or at tempt to charge or collect therefor from any resident of said city, at 'any rate in excess of that establish ed ?by law or prescribed in the or dinance or franchise under which such person, tirm or corporation may be authorized to conduct its 'business in said city. See. 2.?That anv person, tirm 'or corporation violating the pro visions hereof, shall, upon convic tion, be subject to a tiro- of not . less than ten dollars, nor more i than one hundred dollars, or im prisonment for not less than live days or more than thirty days. See. :;.?That the ; rohibition and [penalties imposed by this ordi ! nance shall extend'" 10 and are here by imposed upon the officers, agents, servants :nd employees of 1 every such person, tirm or eornor . ation which may he now or here ; after so engaged in the furnishing j of the public utilities enumerated in Section 1 hereof. Done and ratified by Council as sembled, and under th<- authority thereof, tiii- 3rd day ot February. (.Signed > i L. D. JEXXIXGS. Mayor. J). R. MX'ALLUM. Councilman. I.A. RAFF I ELD. Councilman. Attest: (Signed) .1. W. Brunson. , l' 1 ? ? rU and Treasurer. In connection with the above ?ordinance. Councilman Raffield registered his objection to passing [same without the second and third readings: further; because ho does j not see the necessity for passing at 1 this tim?* in view of the injunction j proceedings instituted in the Fnit ] ed States eonrt. The requests of Messrs. Mc j'Collum and Rumph to erect tem | porary buildings on Fast Liberty I street was again denied by council ; for the reason that such buildings j would not conform to the state law as being constructed wholly of in I combustible material within the I closed fire district, t AU automobile repair shops must ? pay a license of ?*T.C?0 per year, whether repairing a special make I of ear or any and all cars, j V<,y cleaning carpets. a license ! charge of MO per month will be [charged transient cleaners. J Council refused to accept drafts ; on the Insurance Company of X. A. i for $24.7s and ft lobe .Vc Rutgers Fir* Insurance Co.. for S4G.^'.* as tendered by their local representa tive. Henry 1*. Moses & Co.. in set tlement of tlie license charge i : against these companies tor the ; year 1I?21 for rhe reason that these j drafts cover *2 per cent on prem I itims collected within the city lim 1 its instead of on all premiums paid Ito their local representatives. 1 Council denied the rcquesi oi the [Southern Railway for a refund on j the license paid by them for the I year ]'.'-] for the reason that this j request should have been made [more than a year ago and all such j receipts for licenses were closed in the fiscal y?ar ending June :pub. jiy2i. The same reason applicable ! to a refund t< the. Seaboard Air Line, both of these requests having j *i? ? -? ? tr made through Lee & Moise. j Io? a I counsel. ! Council denied the request of the [Sumter liar Association embodied 'in their resolution passed Friday. January 2*?th. reading as follows: i "Resolved: That it is the sense j of the Sumter Dar Association that [the Iicvnse :'???? charged attorneys I at law I"- changed so as to in- as sessed upon the income of the past [years practice in exact percentage on the whole ins;.-ad of a perectl j tage varying on the first and other j i iionsa niis." Alter a general discussion of j other routine matters, council ad ? jonrtred. -? ? ? - Chicago Jeweler Gag-ged and Robbed Chicago. l*< o. -i. Txvo bandits entered a jewelrv store here, hand i cuffed the proprietor, and gather in v. up l-n thousand dollars worth of jewelry and fought a pistol oat with the poliee. One policeman ?i.) one Ntndit were wounded, tin latter b-im: captured. -<? ? *r of course the battleship is a men ace, but the ship that business dr? a?Ts. most in these times is a re e. iv.-rship. -? ?. ? '? <>u ? an also judse a man by the stenographer he keeps. What 7 An officer killed privates in the line oi actionV What was ah ofiicer doing waj up there? Cannes Playground of Fashion and Meeting Place of Premiers "For rrui1 a opropriateness Can nes might Initcr be chosen for a discussion of Irish affairs than for a a attempt to so!v?- European fi nancial problems." says a bulletin from the Washington. D. <*.. head iiuarters of the National Geograph ica 1 Soci.-ty Tri regard to the French Mediterranean winter resort at .vliich tic Allied Supreme Council i- meeting. "Cannes has its tie with Ireland."/ the bulletin goes on to explain, "because it was in a monastery on a little island just off the Cannes shore that St. Pat rick received' the religious training which fired him with missionary real and led to his conversion of the Irish. "Hut tin-re is an eminently prac tical reason for any meeting at Cannes in the winter and espec ially a meeting of Londoners and Parisians. While cold fogs hang over London and the mercury is low in Paris. Cannes, flooded with sun shine; protected from northern winds by a crescent, of hills at its back, and with its shore bathed by the warm waters of the Mediter ranean, is one of tic most delight ful spots in the reach of residents of the old World. Sapphire Waters and Emerald Isles "Altohrsgh . t.be. French Riverja is supposed to beg::: a* Marseille.--, rbere are Iov< rs of this beautiful const who fee} that not until one has passed east ward of the prom ontory formed by the Estertd hills so that the glorious bay of Cannes ? breaks into sight has he realjy j reached T.a Cote d'Aur. as the French <-all their playground of wealth and fashion. The waters are like sapphire, and in them. ?several miles off shore, nestle two low-lying islands. They are the Isles de Lerins-Lero and Lerina to the Romans, and to the Trench Ste. .Marguerite and St. Honorat. "St. Honorat founded, in 4Hb on tlie smaller of the two islands which bears his name, the monastery in which St. Patrick studied and which was one of the fountains of learning and missionary effort during the Middle Ages. Accord ; ing to a legend The island was in fested by countless snakes and St. ? Honorat miraculously drove them out?an example which his follow er St. Patrick is supposed to have put to good use in Erin. A mod ern romance clings about the is : land of ste. Marguerite, for in its fortress,was confined for twelve years that mysterious figure of French history, the Man in the Iron ' Mask. "It is from the Islands of Lerin or !>etrer still from a boat enroute to them, that the best view of ?Cannes can be obtained. From that vantage point the town and its surroundings form a pleasantly colored crescent rising from the litte sea. while villas dotting its green slopes, while to the north 'amid a purple haze rise the summit of the Maritime Alps. A City of Hotels aud Villas "The vogue of ?"annes is a mat ter of the prosperous late-nine teenth and twentieth centuries. The j town was little more- than a ham I let in 1834 when Lord Brougham ! built a villa there in which to spend : his declining years. He became an ! assiduous advocate of Cannes cli mate and scenery and to him much of the rapid increase in popularity of the place is due. A statue to him occupies the principal plaza of ('a nnes. "Present day Cannes is largely a community of stately and expen sive villas and. modern hotels. The "JO or more hostelries in fact, arc supposed to include, some of the best in Europe. Most of the villas are built of local white stone so .Sit that it is sawed rather than chiseled into blocks. A distin guishing feature of Cannes is its spaciousness. Most of its villas and hotels are surrounded by exten sive grounds and gardens and it i? considered perhaps the most no bly built of the Riveria resorts. A f avorite With Crowned Heads "From the days of Lord Brough am Hie dominant note of Cannes as a resort has been its exclusive ness and iis aristocratic tone, in which regard it has been somewhat in contrast to the more turbulent and more democratic Nice and the more "sporty* Monaco. One cyni cal writer has drawn the contrast epigram mat ically by saying that "Cannes is of the world. Xice of the flesh and Monaco of the devil." "Among themselves the younger of the fashionable winter sojour ners at Cannes carry on an eternal round of balls, 'at homes.' garden parties and picnics, but there are many of the older members of the colony who live in quiet dignity in the seclusion of their rub-em bowered villas. The town has been the favorite Riveria winter resort of many notables including Queen Victoria. King Edward VII. and numerous lesser lights of the va rious courts of Europe. Equipped For British Sports "The large British colony at Can nes has resulted in a marke?! an gh'cmns of the place. Nearly all the hotels and many of the villas have their tennis courts, and there is an excellent golf club and a polo ground". In the spring there is a racing meet on the Cannes race course and regattas in the harbor. "In late year-: something of the ?xtreine exelusrveness has passed from tiic atmosphere of Cannes. A municipal casino has been erected in which ihose not members of e\ hiive clubs may seek amusements if desired. Music and food are \aliable and those wishing to. try their fortune without making the hort journey to Monte Carlo may dace thier bets on tire little hors ?s which cavort around their di >until i\ e race course. "In spite of its many letters Ca tr ies is properly pronounced a single yibiblc. like the English verb "can'. Ge, sc v. di oc geese. They ha\> tarted north for the summer. American Legion News and Notes Permanent Committees Ap pointed. Post To Have Club Rooms The Sumter Post of the Ameri can Legion is looking forward 10 and working for the establishment oi" their club rooms in the city and toward the livening up of ihings. hi general and the making of a red hot and live is^m- of the local post. t Special preparations are under way regarding the eluh rooms and ali ex-service men will be kept post - led from tine- to time upon the pro greys being made. i Tlx- following permanent eom ;"mittees have recently been ap i pointed: i Aii executive committee compos ed of the following five Post mem ? hers: Messrs. .Lack ET. Korl.es. [chairman: Cleorge I?. Levy. Samuel V. Dinkins. John Duffie ami f Capr. Robert T. Brown. . Finance Committee: Messrs. Frank M. Cain, chairman: Waverly ! B. Levy and James G. Jeffords. Membership: J. Mott Lawrence. [Chairman: Herbert Morris and M. ? B. Cox. -? ? <t j Change For Worse In Irish Affairs . Craig-Collrns Boundary Ne gotiations Fail Dublin. Feb. Z.?The pressure it i was contemplated t*j apply to Fi tster 1?. bring her Into an all-Ire ? land parliament wai |;ostponed in jthe hope that a friendly arrange ment \\ it h Sir James Craig, the i Ulster premier, might render it i unnecessary. Xow that the Craig ,(.'<dlins negotiations have failed, it is declared that the original policy : is likely to be resumed. S The basic principle of the treaty regarding LTster provided that Ul ? ster might stay out only if con tent to retain what- sic has now. ; and subject to revision of her 'boundaries, which r.-.ght mean the j handing over to Southern Ireland i of large areas in tht North, i Sir James' ciaini last week to additional powers and t<- the ex i isting boundaries, with merely for j mal changes, has. in the opinion 'of Sinn Centers generally, chal i lenged the essence of the treaty. The provisional government, it is '??contended, would be powerless to ; maintain itself against IV Valera's [opposition unless it stood firmly by jits own treaty. Members .of the provisional government - maintain j that ii never had any intention of iacting otherwise. y j -? o ? Would Purchase Home Products i _ i Senator Wells Favors Caro lina Supplies I Columbia. Feb. 4.?Senator Wells yesterday introduced in the senate a bill fo require all state colleges and other state institutions and county supervisors to purchase as far as practicable supplies from the homey-products, grown by the farm ers of South Carolina. The bill was ! referred to the committee on fi j nance. Provisions of the measure I at e: ? '"Be it enacted by the general [assembly of the state of South Car j olina: Section i. Thai It shall be ithe duty of all the state colleges .and. state institutions supported by [appropriation from the state treas ury and all county supervisors, to j purchase, as far as practical, the ! home products from the farmers of South Carolina such food sup j plies for maintenance as < an 1 ; grown and produced upon lb J farms of South Carolina. ; "'Sec. 2. For carrying out tlv j purposes of tnis act. it shall be f duty of said ofiio-rs and agent-? ? from time t.. time, giving reason able notice, to make a list of sv? n supplies as can be~prodnced in i s [state, and will be needed, an i e [quantity, quality and time of < 'cry. and the same shall be pul ii i jed free in the bulb-tin which sh II be issued by the depart mer f agriculture, and distributed ar. ^ ; the farmers in the several coin es ; of this state. j ??Sec :;. it shall be lawful for ?Cm- officers and agents of said, in istitutions to enter int(> a contract, [with farm. "s. or any associations .or organiations of farmers of this state for the production and deliv ery upon sta b terms as may be ! agr.-ed upon, of such farm pro !duce as may be needed, and can : be grown in this state, sufficient i notice as far as practical being [given, to give time for planting, 'growing ami harvesting, j "Sec. 4. It shall bo the duty of i all county stipervi ?. ???-? make a list from time to time of all coun ty supplies that mya be heeded, and can be produced in their re spective e .juries, and purchase the isaroo from ;he fan ?? rs in their re spective counties, an?' may enter into contracts w'th said farmers, or any association or organization jj of the same to pr. luce and deliver [said supplies, and said list of sup . plies may 1?.- published in said agricultural bulletin, by testing or : publishing in a n*w?p:-per within the discretion of Lite eounty super i visor: provided, no <n*ra< t shal' be entered into to purchase anv supplies at a greater price than ib.- market price at the time of de livery of sa id supplb s.*' -? ? < Big Drive on the Liquor Smugglers NVashmgton. Feb. Plans for a concerted drive on honor and *lrug smuggling along the Florida ? oast are announced by acting Chief Xutt. of the general prohibition agents. And so the price of paregoric has increased!. We noticed those infant republics wer?.- having internal troubles. Three Held ,* For Murder Coroner's Jury Charges Dr. Rice B. Harman and Two Accessories * Lexington. Feb. ?Two more men. one white and the other a* negro, were arrested late today and are being held in the Lexington county jail in connection with the fatal >:h?><?ting yesterday afternoon of Olm M. Price, white man. Dr. Ttlee B. Harman. in whose drug store the shooting took place, was placed under arrest soon after/ the killing. . * The inquest was concluded this afternoon and the verdict return ed by the jury was that "Olin M* Price came to his death from gun shot 'wounds at the hands,of Dr. I Rice B. Harman with Ben Teal and Sara Perry as accessories before : and after the fact." . Teal is a white man and operates a blacksmith shop in Lexington' Perry is a negro painter. At the inquest witnesses testi fied that they saw Teal and Perry with Dr. Harman a few minutes* after the shooting of Price. The two nn-n claimed that they were'in the lot just to the rear of the drug store doctoring a sick hog. Witnesses also testified that they saw Dr. Harman coming from his : home to the store with his gun only a short time before Price was I killed. < Quincey Hendrix, clerk in the drug store, testified that he heard , Dr. Harman order Price out of the istore. He was where he could not? see the men. but he recognized the voices To the order to get out of the store. Price is alleged to l ave declined and to have cursed ;Harman. Mr. Hendrix also said he then heard Dr. Harman exclaim. "Don't." which was followed by the \ two shots. ? Price was killed about 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. He staggered ! from the drug store into an adjoin ing building. He had been shot in. ;the chest and only managed to call : for help. He expired within a few minutes. The funeral was held thi3 : afternoon. The World Court I The Hague. Jan. 2M?For the first ^ ?'time in history a permanent World' I Court will come into actual being I tomorrow when the 11 judges chos I en as members of the Permanent I Court of International Justice by* i the suffrage of .11 nations will meet j in the Peace Palace here. ! its earlier sessions are expected J to be devoted to organization. Latt er it is understood the court may i take up puestions involving the., j interpretation of some existing coar ventions and afterwards involving disputes between states as may be I referred to it. f Eighteen nations have agreed to I give the court compulsory jurisdic-' : tion over all disputes thaj: may arise j between them. As concerns all the 1 ."?1 states which are members of the ; League of Nations, the court will, j have jurisdiction over disputes re jlating to international labor and ?transit conventions, to the treaties ; about liquors in Africa, the traffic ! in arms and a protection of minor j hies. j The' II judges composing the j court are elected for terms of nine j years. Although the United States j has given the court no official co- - Operation, one of the judges is an j American, .lohn Bassett Moore, for I merly Counsellor of the State De { partmcnt. president of the Pan-Am- . j eriean Siciety. i The court must meet at least once (a year, on June 15, or in extraor dinary session on call of the pres : idem. Thai official, who must re [side permanently at The Hague will receive a salary of GO,600 Dutch florins, or approximately $24,One. ! while the vice-;,resident and the ; judges will get from 15,000 to 4?>r- * j florins, depending on the num } her of days of service. ' The members of the first court are Viscount Finlay, former Lord* j High Chancellor of Great Britain: I Andre Weiss. .luri scon suit to the j French ministry of Foreign Affair-: j Commendatore Dionisjc Anzilotti. i international lawyer of Rome. Italy, i Rafael Altamira. Senator of Spain: ? Ruy Barbosa. Brazilian statesman: [Max Hube;- of Switzerland: B. C. -J. iLoder, member of the supreme [court of the Netherlands: Did rick ' ? Caltrup Cjedde Nyholm of Den mark, president of the Mixed court i Of Cairo. Egypt: Yorozu Oda, of j Japan and .lohn Bassett Moore, of I the diked States, and Dr. Antonio ; s. de Bustamente of Cuba. The four deputy judges are Du miiru Negulescu of Rumania. C. ! W. Wang, president of the Chinese j supreme court; Nikhaile Javono ? vich. of the Serb-Croat-Sloyene i State and Frederick V. N. Bcich mann. Norwav. Wall Street Also Interested in Farmers New York. Feb. ::.?Wall Street's interest in Washington events has drifted rapidly from international affairs to the agricultural bloc and the position of the farmer in the country's social and economic scheme. Almost every recent ut terance of hading bankers has dwelt with emphasis on this sit uation. Owad sonn- power the Giftie gie. us to see collectors ere ihev see us. It is easy enough to get the bare necessities of life, but man does not fliv by bread alone. The alibi would be the most sat isfactory form of defense if the witnesses didn't cost so darned much. " I '.'L*i! w ill pass the crisis." Also, we fear, the buck. America's ship won't come in un til her ships begin to go out.