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'tragic Story of the Wife of a South Carolina Governor It was in IS 12 that Col. Aaron Burr returned to New York, at the "?'?' termination of his four years' exile ?-for treason, and one of his first acts was to send for his daughter, f 'xi&rs. Theodosia Burr Alston, wife ? of Governor Alston, of South Car ? ohr.a, relates the Greenville Pied "?? moht. As the state law prohibited "':the governor from leaving South Carolina during his tenure of of Gbvfice, it was necessary for Mrs. ? Alston to make the journey alone, - s?ve for her physician and a maid, ? and she sailed from Charleston on > December 30, 1S12*, on the pilot ? l&af "Patriot." As the time drew near for the --"Patriot" to arrive at New York, *~ Gol. Burr took up his post on the battery, eagerly scanning the hori . 2fon for the first sight of the little ? boat that was bringing his daugh " ter to' him. But day after day pass : ed without any- news of the ship and finally she was f>osted as "missing," in which category she remains to this day?one of the t- - unsolved mysteries of the sea. Only ?" ? a short time afterwards-Alston, one of the youngest ? governors South v Carolina ever had, died, supposed ??ly -of a broken heart and the > double tragedy added the final cli max to the career of Burr himself. The loss of the "Patriot," how i, - wer, w?ls not one of the usual rid? h dies of the sea, a case of a vessel -putting out from port never to be heard of again. It was surrounded by a ' number of circumstances ? -which-were peculiar in the extreme, ? . starting with the well-defined ru ??- morsthat the pilot ship had been s boarded by pirates shortly after \ ? leaving Charleston and that Mrs.. Alston had been sold into a life of j f slscvery. Two sailors arrested in ? New York several years after the j disappearance of the boat, declared k that they had lured a vessel a.n-j r swering the- description of ?.ke "Patriot" on to the rocks at Nag's Head, North- Carolina, and that, after seizing the cargo, they had ? blindfolded the passengers and crew and had forced them to walk the j plank: At the time this was , .thought to solve the mystery of the Y A*anished ship, but only a few* weeks u later a sailor at Galveston, Texas, confessed on hrs death-be.i tnat he ? ? had-*een a member of th.3 crew of U the. .?'Patriot" and told what ap i -pfea'red to be -.a-circumstantially correct story of. the mutinyv fol ; Jbcrvsred by the murder of the officers 5 -of the "ship and all the passengers. j For^more than half a century the;.siddle of the pilot boat remain ? -edt'a-snbject or discussion when ever matters of the sea w?re dis -cussed, oirty to be brought once i more into the limeligat of public .notice shortly after the civil 'war when Dr. W. G. Pool, of Eiiza i beth City, N. C, chanced to visit .-..the -cabin of a poor woman at r Nag's Head, N. C, whore he saw ! I ?an toil portrait of a handsome wo-; man: on the. wall. "VVheri asked ' I aboTit it, the dying woman declar- j i*. ^ed that it was a reiic of a strange 1 ship which had'come ashore at j Nag's Head about the time of the1 war ' of 1812. Her husband she ' sa?'iyas one of a crew of wreck-! r epc^hb had boarded ? the craft,! ?,bi|y*?t? find that she had been ?o?ndoned and set adrift with all sails set and her rudder lashed against ~ her stern. ? Nowhere was i^tj^Q^ishtest sign of. blood or disor der save for the fact that some of] ;hie,baggage had been broken open: The portrait; she declared, had been brought ashore by her hus band who had found it in one of the cabins and it was at once re . .called that Mrs. Theodosia Alston had taken an oil painting of her * 'self with her when she' left Char-' Jeston. intending to give k to her . father as a birthday present. There . . was no name on the picture which jDt. Pool discovered, but it bore a f striking likeness . to the existing *'portraits of Col. Barr*s daughter. . ^ Still another angle to the mys tes*y appeared only a few years ^9$P in the discovery of J. A: El liott, of Norfolk, Va., of documents \tefiing of a female corpse which . was washed ashore at Cape Charles ^ early in 1813. The only identify j/.ihg marks were three valuable rings which corresponded in de v sign with those which Mrs. Alston r?wore. : tf . It appears, therefore, that there " are four distinct and different ac , counts of the final fate of Mrs. t Alston?the pirate theory, the mu : *t?;ny and its accompanying mur .t ders, the myserious deserted ship and' the body found on the beach at Cape Charles. If the pirates had,looted the ship why had they left valuable silks and laces on board? If the sailors forced the passengers to walk the plank, why . did they overlook Mrs. Alston's rings? Where did the oil portrait which' Dr. Pool found come from,' for the other residents of Nag's! Head had never,, beard of the j /strange ship from which it was! : . supposed to have been taken? Fin-j ally, what became of the pilo' ; boat "Patriot" and why was no] trace of her ever discovered. There are some who claim that p Mrs. Alston wafr the mysterious "female stranger" who lies buried { in the churchyard at Alexandria, Va... but fhis opinion Is founded on Jtttle more than a slight coin-j cf?ehce of dates and cannot be said ! to throw any real Ight on the mys- J tery surrounding" the disappearance j of. the. daughter of Aaron Burr. - ?, < f .Now if all the humorists are! through telling magazine readers} how they reduced fat. let's talk a- j '"bout'something else. ( - m> ? m A man never looks on the bright when r e "has "cramp colic in the middle. The trouble about these farmer . movements is that they make ii 'J necessary for the delegates fo neg lect their law practice. -? ? ? ? Once they saw everything after ? a drink; now they see nothing. CHARLESTON BANTAMS WIN GAME Gamecocks Make Single Goal in First Half But Stage Big Comeback and Outpoint Charleston in Last Period In their last game to be played on the home soil this season, the S?mter High school basketball team met with defeat at the hands of the Charleston High school team by the score of 30 to 18. This game, played in the Gymnasium of the Y. M- C. A. Friday night has the season's record for the most inter esting game and for the hardest fought of all of Sumter's battles of the year. During the first half of the game, Sumter was unable to penetrate the strong defense put up by Charleston's crack team and scored only one lone basket during this period, while the bantams had accumulated 16 points. There was another story to tell, however, in the second'half of the game af ter Sumter had niade their strong comeback, making during this half 16 points to the 14 points made by Charleston. This score is very creditable to Sumter in the light of comparisons, when it is known that Sumter now has the record of making the best showing of any high school of the state against tne Charleston High School quintet. The bantams have the record of defeating every basket ban team in Charleston inclusive of" the Citadel team.' They have twice defeated the team of the West End Athletic Club of Char leston which team has won over the University of South Carolina by a big score. Sumter is to have their return game with Charleston in Charleston on 'Friday night. This will end Sumter's- basketball season. Every member of Sum ter's team will be bac? next year and on the job. Here's to better luck Sumter. The game of last night was wit nessed- by a large crowd in spite of the very bad weather and the members of the High School Ath letic Club want to thank Sumter for its splendid backing. Line-up: / Charleston (30) P. Sumter (18) Weeks, T.F.Green Hunekin, G. F.Crom be Weeks, G. __C _Wright Drowota G ..Blanding Hunekin, F. _. _.G -- __ __Wray Substitutions: Charleston, Brink er, Kilpatrick and Long. Sumter, Chandler and Green. Referee: Heidt. Stars: ' Charleston, Weeks, T. and Wray of Sumter. A Modern Nebucanezzer. Minder Gaiflard, colored, has been acting very peculiar lately, and Monday afternoon she was on j the street "bowing to the electric [light poles and acting in a way to lead the officers to believe she was : crazy, so she was locked up. hTe j officers then went to her house to get her husband, Calvin, to sign an affidavit stating that she was crazy, and on their arrival at the j house, they found Calvin was also I crazy so he was placed in jail. Cal vin did not have any poles to bow ! to, so he proceeded to eat the grass in the yard as if he were an ox. Both will go tc the asylum.?Man ning Times. ? ? + Reforming Philippine Morals. Manila. P. I., Jan. 20 (By Mail) ?The licensed saloon, cockfight ing, commercialized boxing, public dancing and* uncensored picture films were condemned in the re port of the public morals commit tee of - the annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church which is now in session here. The report described cocknght ing as one of the greatest corrupt ers of public morals and asserted that it "must go." The report de clared that because the accessories of the prize ring are the licensed bar, gambling and brutality, it too must he prohibited. Dancing in the public schools was designated as a bad influence conducive to immorality. The com mittee reported that movie films are now censored by one man only, a policeman, and recommended "an adequate censorship" for the pro tection of the morals of children. Sweden Preparing for Prohibition. Stockholm, Feb. U.?Advocates of prohibition in Sweden have in troduced several bills in parlia ment intended to clear the way for making the country wholly dry or at least dry in spots. Both reuses of parliament have adopted t* bill authorizing the gov ernment to submit to a general con sultative referendum the prohibi tion question or any other on which the parliament desires a popular vote. It is understood, however, the government will not ask parlia ment for a prohibition referendum in this session. As the referendum is only consul tative, the approval of parliament will be necessary to enact its de cision into law. One measure introduced in the Rigsdag would confer power upon municipalities to prohibit the sale of alcoholic liquors. The experience of the United States under the prohibition amendment is being watched close ly by both "wets" and "drys" and both sides of the campaign to out law John I.arleycorn are making use of reports from America. Sweden is now under a rationing system limiting the amount of in toxicants any person may purchase in any month. Women who roast others are not always good cooks. ? ? o Georgia has a peach king. We thought all Georgia peaches wen queens. A building boom will bring down the house. CIVIC LEAGUE MAKES REPORT Annual Statement of Activi ties of the City Nurse * ?: i The Civic League nurse has come j to the end of a very strenuous year, 1 having had almost twice as many patients as usual, it is needless to! harrow the public with details of j the poor, conditions, we all know: that they exist everywhere. We | only wish to state that in an effort to offset the unbalanced ration among the . children, we have strained all our -resources to give ; as much milk as-possible. Our nurse Miss Gibson, thinks that tubercu losis among her.white patients is on the decrease; hut she suspects an increase among the negroes, though it is impossible for her to get accurate statistics. We do not seem to be facing the immediate peril of race suicide, judging by the birth rate. There have been com paratively-few cases of contagious diseases. Only one typhoid, a sub ject for common thanksgiving, and due largely to the efforts of the city nurse, who leaves no possible stone unturned to better conditions and prevent the spread of disease. [ Following are the statistics of the nurse work, which speak for them selves: Total number patients, 445. Total number visits, 2,728. Number of births, 45. Still born infants, 1. Tuberculosis patients, 6. Tuberculosis deaths. C. Total number deaths, 9. Pneumonia cases, 15. Colitis, 40. Typhoid,- 1. Sent to Tuomey Hospital, 75. Adenoids and tonsils, 25. * Mrs. H. C. Haynsworth. Chairman Nurse Committee, Civic League. Financial Statement of Civic League Nurse Fund. Feb. 1921-Feb. 1922. Contributed by City for Nurse's salary.$ 600.00 By campaign and collec ? lion through year.;? 1,498.75 Interest __ ._ _ 14.94 Earned by Nurse and from Metropolitan Health In surance cases _ 129.75 Elks for milk at school-. 50.00 Church Societies for milk ? at school ,. 31.25 Total .._$2,324.G9 Harby fund -(-int. on $4. 000 endowment given by Henry J. Harby) _ 274.00 Total receipts.$2,59S.69 Paid nurse's salary _$1,380.00 j Commission on collec- / I tions made by boy_ 37.47 ) Upkeep of car. 293.85 'Drug supplies _-_ 119.73 Dry goods. 36.62 j Refund to Tuomey Hos pital for Metropolitan 25.00 Paid for milk G46.6S Total expenditure _$2,53^.35 Balance.$ 59.34 In addition to the $1,380.00 re ceived by the nurse as salary, the county pays to her direct $ ISO.00 I per year, making her total- salary $1,560.00. - Although the item for milk is so j large this year, $646.68. the j League has not been able to an ! swer the demand for this form of J nourishment, but has had to supply i it in many cases a much shorter J time than the nurse thought it ; should be given.- Originally the j j Harby fun# covered more than one I year's supply of milk, but with the j increased price of milk and the in- j creased demand for milk as a nec essary food, this fund covers now less than one-half the expenditure I for milk. The item drug supplies does not cover medicines for patients, as the League is rarely able to supply these; but includes those articles necessary for a nurse to have in handling patients and not found in the homes she visits. The same with dry goods, which item covers sheets and so forth that the nurse has to keep in her office for use in emergency: Attention is caned to the items that go to make up the total expen diture for the year. These include no sundries, office' supplies or extras of any kind. Those who handle this public fund see to it that no un necessary cent is expended. The year has been a hard one in which to keep any work going and the League is appreciative of those who have co-operated with it so wil lingly. Their continued support is earnestly requested. There are out standing February bills for milk at school and for babies and sick persons about town, also a large automobile repair bill. The League j will not have a campaign just now in the hope that the public will j help without that. Do not wait to be calh-d upon, send your con ! tributions to the treasurer of this I fund, or any member of the Civic j League who will turn it in. Our work has suffered by the loss in this past year of four gen erous supporters: the Rev. Dr. C. C. Brown, Dr. M. .1. McLaurin, .Mrs. W. .1. McKay. ('(.1. it. D. Lee. Dr. Drown gave more than file money which he contibuted reg ularly since the early flays of the I work; In- gave his advice and help ? in getting the department started i and in keeping it going and by his ; personal effort settled more than j one vexed problem of the nursing committee. ? Armida .Moses, Treasurer I'uhlic Xurse Depart - i ment. Civic League of Sumter. As w?- understand it. tin- busi : ncsN of a social secretary is to j ?keep a card index system so thai ; Madam may not become confused I {concerning the identity of her la ! test husbaml. Health hint: JCcver cuss a no- j [liceman or drop a box of T. X. T. ? ?? ? ? Trouble in getting rich ?mm? i, i Iin getting away quick afterward. A single large flower is .often t] the newer and smarter hats. This Pej with satin with* one large white garc PROHIBITION tOM ING IN POLAND Warsaw.-. Feb. : 11.?The "wets" j and "drys" are having a hot con flict over proposals-to restrict thci use of intoxicants in Poland. The movement"or more rigid control;! over .the use of liquor is becoming] more active. Newspapers are full of discussions" of the'question and there are numerous lectures on al coholism while moving pictures are shown to promote the reform movement. The example of America is con tinuously cited with heated argu ments as to whether prohibition is effective in that country. The "drys" advocate a regula tion cutting down the number of places where liquor is sold by re stricting them to one for over 2. 500 of population. Another pro posal would abolish all places where liquor alone is sold but. grant permits to cafes and restaurants. - A Steadj dry movement has been going on for some time in the national parliament and the debates there have lately been made more heated by enforcement of an or dinance establishing a dry Sunday in Warsaw. It forbids the sale of liquors from Saturday noon to Mon day noon and is being enforced by the Warsaw police with an iron hand, despite the protests of cafe and restaurant proprietors. One of the active figures, in the campaign is General Josep "Haller. president of te Polish Red Cross and Polish Boy Scouts, whOrorgan-j lzed and commanded the (famous j Haller army in which thousands; of American volunteers of. Polish j blood fought in 1917 and 191$. \ General Haller. is now leading a j fight against raising the percentage j of alcohol in beer. This is now tix-! ed at two and one-half percent.; The brewers have consented to this j restriction. Poland has just put a tax of 20 | per cent on all retail liquor stocks, j Polish law, makes a liquor dealer. assume the re'spons'bility for drunk- ! enness by providing that when an intoxicated person is arrested, the | proprietor of the place in which he purchased his intoxicants must go j along with him to jail. - ? Q ? Frenchman Praises American Ar- { cWtCCtSL Paris. Feb. 12.?The praises of j American architects, whose work j he describes as a "new art in the j truest sense of the word," arc sung 1 by George Wybo. a young French ! architect, in the columns of the! Intransigeant. The old skyscrapers of New York, I he says, "are not always the hap piest examples of architectural con ception," but the ciewer office buildings erected within the last ten i or 15 years are described as "im- ' peccable in execution, well propor- j tioned. possessing harmonious lines, j with decorative elements of sober taste, constructed of splendid ma- ! terials finely fashioned." The sight of these buildings! causes the Frenchman to recognize the existence of a new art "in the j truest sense of the word, an art j capable of making us feel strong; emotions similar to those awaken-j ed within us by the power and splendor of our cathedrals and cor- j tain monuments of the past in Eu rope." Referring to the "tremendous! temples of commerce." M-. Wybo' says, "all these buildings are dif ferent from one another, but each in its own style, in its construction.; form an architectural lines is un deniably a masterpiece. "It is regret table that we French,] so ready to welcome decadent art,; do not even know the names of the ; decorators, sculptors and architects; of modern New York. All these ar tists, working with intelligence and! method, have progressively freed themselves from worn out conven tions and discarding simple ele ments of decoration, have succeed ed rapidly in laying down the rules} of an art of which wo are seeing! now only the early manifestations and which, to our honor, is a direct emanation of our own French styles. Another difference between aj doormat and ;i diplomat is that it's the doormat's business t<> r< move the earth and the diplomat's to acquire it _. -? ? ? You Can't keep a good man j down, nor can you keep a good man when he's down. Tiit- wagons hitched to movie stars now are waggin" tongues. Blessed are the poor in salnr> for they shall pay no income tax. >r Trimming ae only trimming used on some o{ rgy Hoyt hat is a milan model faced ienia poised at the side front Vladimir Korolenko Noted Ukrain ian Novelist. Moscow. Feb. 4.?Vladimir Koro lleirko, Ukrainian novelist and so cial worker, who recently died at Poltava, was buried with all the honors of the Bolshevist state which has also endowed Iiis fam ily, for life. This in spite of his firm repudiation of the Bolshevist regime and his insistent refusal to support the Communist program as a means of effecting reforms for which Korolenko suffered exile and had battled throughout his life. - Even the radical Communists who made up the membership of the recent All-Russian Soviet Con gress at Moscow honored the mem lory of Korolenko by standing in silence for three minutes when th<? news of his death was received. Korolenko was known through out the world for his stories of Siberian life and his struggle for social betterment. In the terrible famine of 1801. he was one of the most prominent relief workers among the distressed in the Volga area, and his book entitled "A Tear of Famine" describes the horrors of that period. The name of Korolenko was for a generation to the Russians the symbol of nobleness and embodi ment of justice. He was called the "conscience of Russia". Jewry is greatly indebted to him for his protest against the Beiliss .trial, alleged to have been insti gated by the Czar's government to expose Jews to fresh pogroms, 3-hd no less memorable was Knrolenko's defence in the Multen trial where a winde community was falsely ac cused of cannibalism. Indian Delegate to World Confer ence. Lawrence. Kas., March 2.?Ruth Muskrat. a Cherokee Indian girl from Oklahoma who is a student at the University of Kansas here, will visit China this spring as a delegate to the World's Student Christian Federation Conference at Peking, April 4. The hope of the conference, Miss Muskrat explained recently, is to get students of various parts of the world in vital touch with each other and. among other things, solve-the problems confronting Chinese stu dents who have become imbued with Occidental ideas. Miss Muskrat. who is 17, has done 1*. W. C. A. work in New Mexico and worked among her peo ple in religious and educational work. "The primary need of my peo ple." Miss Muskrat declared, "is trained native leadership?Indians, themselves, who understand the peculiarities of the tribe and can work with them. ?'Indian women are more cap able in most respects than the men. They know better how to barter? they are shrewder. This is an out growth of the time when women raised the crops. The men go in more for social activities. If I have a party. I can always count on the men attending. But if I want to put on a financial drive, i appeal to the women." Fifty seven nations will be repre sented at the student conference in Peking, and will represent more than 200.000 students throughout the world, she said. After the ( on ference, delegates will visit the principal universities of Japan and China Miss Muskrat. who says her father is Cherokee and her mother Irish, will be the sec ond Indh.n ever elected a delegate to an interna tional student conference. She goes as a guest of the national board of th<- young Women's Chris tian Association. Aviation Regulations for Hawaii. Honolulu. Jan. 25.?(By Main ? Only citizens of the Cnited States are permitted to pilot or fly.in an airplane over the territory of Ha waii according i<> the aviation reg ulations prepared by Attorney Gen eral Harry Irwin and incorporated in the territorial aviation licenses. ;iie first of which was issued to day. Xo pit Lures or sketches may be made while in the air, carrying of passengers is limited t<> the horn's between sunrise and sundown and no i>ri\.-it.' plane may fly :ib<>\?- any fortification, military <>r naval es tablishments in the islands. The regulations also limit pilots t<> per sons honorably discharged from Lhe army <m navy dying corps, members "i* the signal or reseive ps and those who have unre ?oked licenses issued by :i state. Charles T. Scoffer, commercial iviap-r. received the first license. TRAPPED IN A BOARDING HOUSE ????? Three Persons Burned to Death at Norfolk : - . New York. March 4?More hope ! ful financial, commercial and m j dustrial conditions which were re { ported from various sections of the i country found expression in active [dealings on the. stock exchange ! this week. The trading exceeded j any like period this year and a j record for the current movement I was established by many issues. i EXHIBIT OF WHEATS j Many Varieties From Many i I Lands Shown in Museum j _ ' Chicago. March 1.?Wheats i which are known to have been used I by primitive man 10,000 to 15.000 I years ago and which are still cul tivated in certain parts of the world, form part of the new exhibit of cultivated wheats which has recent ly been added to the economic col lections of Field Museum of Xa- j j tional History here. ! Modern cultivated wheats from various parts of the world complete the exhibit. Most of the wheats have been acquired through the co- j j operation of the office of Cereal Investigation of the Department, of Agriculture. This department is constantly, engaged in growing new and old varieties of wheat in order j to determine their suitability under various conditions in the United j States. j Wheat was first introduced into j this country in 1520 by the Spani ards and later into New England | and Virginia by the early settlers, according to Director D. C. Davis, ! j of the museum. '?In Europe and Asia it has been grown sin^e prehistoric times." Mr. Davis stat< s. The beginning of its cultivation belongs to an early pe riod in the history of the human race. "Mankind has probably always used the seeds of the wild grasses j for food. Some of these furnish I very fair-sized grains and from j such our cultivated cereals are un [ questionably derived, though botan j ists cannot now always trace them j to their wild prototypes. An ex- J ! ample of such is the wild Emmer j of Palestine, a large grained wild ! ! gr? ? which has been claimed by ! j sonic to be the ancestor of our i I cultivated wheats of today." ( "Certain primitive wheats are f still grown in places in southern J Europe. Such are the Einkorn, i : Emmer and Spelt, each of which J j probably represents a group of J ; wheats of separate origin. The i , Einkorn still grows wild in Siberia ; ; and elsewhere in the south o? Eu- J ; rope. Spelt is the oldest of the j 1 cultivated wheats. It was probably j j the wheat of ancient Greece. Rome i ; and Egypt. "Together with these forms there are to be seen such unusual forms as Polish Wheat, which in spite of i its name does hot come from Po land, but from the mountainous 'regions of Spain; Alaska Wheat 'which is of the type known as the i"Miracle Wheat" or "Seven-headed ? wheat of Egypt": and Club Wheat j grown in Chile and in our Rocky I Mountains. "The Durum Wheat from Russia, which furnishes flour for maca- \ j roni and pastes looks much like \ long bristle barley. The small i bristly Turkey Wheat has become j one of our leading hard winter wheats of the United States. Wil ! helmina, a north European soft j wheat may be seen together with {the chief American types. The ; hard spring wheats of the north western great plains region of the 1 United States and Canada are rep j resented by Marquis, Red Fife, and Kitchener varieties. Particularly I remarkable is a huge-eared wheat i called Dicklow, grown under irri j gation in Idaho. "Adjoining the wheats at the | museum may be seen some of the main kinds of barley. Ordinarily the most bristly of the grains j j among these is a perfectly bald va- j I riety, which is grown for hay and may survive, as a fodder, long af- j ter cultivation of the others be ! comes obsolete with the cessation i {of malt-making. "There has also been added an j [interesting case of wild grasses, ?ranging from Alaska and Canadian j 'fodder grasses to the Silver Pam pas Grass of South America and j Natal Crass. This South African j I grass now helps io impart a roseate j hue t" the plains of the sandy pe-j : ninsula of Florida." 0 0 0 j Burn Up Last Years Pests In getting ready to make garden ithis spring, it is an excellent plan j to see than all the stalks of last j years vegetables which may have been left standing arc removed and burned. In the first place the ashes will make good fertilizer as the stems of nearly all vegetables contain ex cellent fertilizing material their ash land ;m even more important con sideration is that by removing and: destroying them the insert pests are] likely to be checked. Many insect pests find refuge un- j der boards, among the dried leaves . or stalks over winter. often the : spirts of fungus diseases which: create havoc are only waiting in these old stems to get into action with balmy weather. By burning the refuse a great quantity of them | will be destroyed. j !t is ;t good plan when ordering seeds for the early garden to lay iti n supply of insecticides and bor- | deaux mixture for fungus pests., along with the seeds, as they will :ill b.e found catalogued in the seed j catalogues and will be oh hand j ready tor an emergency. What, by the way, has become of the old-fashioned man who kepi an overhanging mustache to strain his soup and coffee? REPUBLIC OF UKRAINIA j _ ^Claims to Be Independent of Soviet Russia I - Moscow. Feb. G.?The Ukraine I has scored a diplomatic victory over j the Russian Soviet government j which made it necessary for the American Relief Administration to sign a separate- agreement with the Ukraine before it could legally open food draft warehouses and general relief work in that southern republic. American workers were distribut- J ing food packages at Kiev, Odessa and Kharkov for some time with out any agreement other than that i entered into with the Moscow gov ; ernment. The Ukraine insisted thaf it was | j an independent republic-fully com-; j petent to conduct relations with foreign powers and entitled to be dealt with as an autonomous nation wholly free from Moscow control. President Rakovsky, of Ukrainia, i [ recently conferred in Moscow with | j American Relief Administration of-j I ficials and made his postion clear, j The Ukraine wanted, food pack-! ages and relief from America but I I it wanted to sign agreements with | \ the Americans just as the Moscow [government did. Furthermore it! ! wants to negotiate with Americans i for a loan to relieve its economic j distress. As the American Relief Admin- j i istration. is in no sense a diplo matic or official organization, its! [ signature of a separate agreement j I with the Ukraine was not regard- j ed as an official recognition of the j ! Ukrainian government, although ! I there seems to be a general im- j pression in Russia that the Ameri can relief organization is the fore j runner of diplomatic relations. The Ukraine seems to be to the [Soviet federated republic of Russia j what Bavaria is to the German re public and there is the same deli j cacy in Moscow about handling the I Ukraine that Berlin shows in deal ing with the Munich government, j j Ukrainia is the granary of Euro- j I pean Russia, just as Bavaria is the j granary of the German federation, i j The Ukraine has two very flirta-! j tious neighbors in Poland and Ru- j j mania. It also has valuable assets I j in Odessa, Xikolaeff and other ice i free ports. All in all Moscow is facing many j of the interesting problems in fed- I I eration which the United States | j confronted after it cut loose from j I England and found it necessary to ! j harmonize the interests of its va- ! I ried states. ? ? ? The Shah of Persia a Poet. London. Feb. 11.?The young! Shah of Persia who recently left j his capital, Teheran for another \ trip to Europe, is said to hold' a high opinion of himself as a poet. In fact, according to a story told here, he puts himself in a class with Omar Khayyam and considers j himself, if anything, a. trifle better ; than his great countryman. As the story is told by the Morn ing Post, a British minister at'Te heran called on the Shah at the re quest of English admirers of thel great Persian poet and asked that better care be taken of his grave at Xishapur where, as Omar pre dicted, "the north wind still scat ters roses on his tomb." But Shah could not be impressed with this need. Persia, he declared, had lots of poets and he. himself, was, pos sibly, a little better poet than Omar. Ahmed Mirza. Shah of Persia, is only 24 years old and this, some say, may account for his opinion. lie knows English and Russian and talks French fluently and accu rately and has been reported as eager to learn western ways and institutions. In appearance his majesty is short and stout. Ke takes a lively interest in sports, plays a good lawn tennis game and, in order to en courage open air sports in Persia, founded the Imperial Sports Club at Teheran, placing at its dispos al a piece of crownland. His father, Mahomed Ali, lost his throne in consequence of his at- i tempts to stamp our the constitu tional system in Persia and regain the absolutism of his ancestors. Ahmed, who was then in his 12th year was proclaimed sovereign in j 1909 and his father was sent into exile on the famous island of Prinkipo where President Wilson proposed that the allies hold a con- . fcren.ee with the Russians, as a part of the after-war peace nego tiations. He has been credited with hav ing kept Persia from taking the side of the Central Powers in the world war. Not as Crazy as it Sounds. Moscow. Feb. 4.? A. V. Luna charsky, the Commissar of Edu cation, knows how to smile and is La less of a killjoy than many of the Communist leaders who believe j party members should have no di version outside of party meetings. Lunacharsky was recently invit ed to speak at a meeting of Mos cow employes of the Ministry of Education. At the end of the ad dress the young men and women who composed the entertainment committee came to him in distress. They had planned to close the j evening with dancing, but an or- i der had been received from the Soviet committee of the district forbidding dam ing. Lunacharsky took the order and; wrote at the button.: of it: "I take! upon myself responsibility for the { sins of these young folks for to- I night and permit them to dance." j ?-? Senator Smoot says Congress is; going crazy and the general opinion j is it will be a short trip. -? o ? "U. S. Has Half of World's j Gold."?headline. If you dent believe it look at people's teeth. -? ? ? .Jehu TVs grandaughter will marry a riding teacher. Why not a . hauffour and boon the gas busi ness. WANTS SAFE INVESTMENTS People Turning to Govern ment Securities For Their Savings More'than one-half million. dol lars has L-een saved and invested in United States Treasury Savings Certificates in the Fifth Federal Reserve District during the month of January, according to statement made by Postmaster Doar of the Sumter Post Office. The postman ter has just received a letter from Howard T. Cree, Government Di rector of Savings at Richmond, Vir ginia, in which he states that sales*, for January have far surpassed ex pectations. From 226 post offices reporting and mail orders received at the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond, the sales total $562,650. Ths new offering of certificates has proven very popular in that they are issued in denomina tions of $25. $100 and $1,000 and^ may be purchased at a flat discount' price of twenty per cent off their maturity value. People seeking a safe investment, with a guarantee as to both r'i*inicpal and interest; f have been quick to take advantage* of this attractive issue of "baby bonds" and have bought them in large numbers. Postmaster Doar says, "For those seeking investment of funds, noth ing is more attractive than these new .savinprs certificates-which-yield. tour and a half per cent interest on purchase price, compounded semi-annually, if held to maturity, live years from the daterOf issue." ' The Governorship. (From the Greenwood Index-Jour nal). Probably never before in its his tory certainly not in the . past three-quarters of a century, has South Carolina needed more a man, a real upstanding, two-fisted and sincere man, standing-for cer tain definite and constructive is sues, to offer for the- position of chief executive of the state. We are unmindful of the man ?Wade Hampton and the vital is sues which were personified in him in estimtaing the need of, the time. ? v . .. The people of South Carolina, business men both large and smaO, are in such a state of mind that real leadership can- make or mar the state's material, prosperity for years to come. A demagogue may be a born leader of ? men, in one sense, but his leadership is dan gerous and destructive, not uplift ing and constructive. The state of. public morals needs, as it has not in a long time, a man who..can and will uphold-the best traditions, of the past: who will not be-afraid to tell law-breakers 'where they get off: who will not be afraid to tell certain overzealous reformers when they have reached the point to dig in rather than keep on charging: who will not be afraid to put his fingers on weak'spots of inefficiency and demand, im provement: who will not be afraid to invite and encourage outside capital to help develop our natu ral resources: who will- not be afraid at sometime to say in all friendliness to business that'it must bear its part in supporting the State: who will not be afraid to be curt to weaklings who have on ly ambition enough to be found in public office but no ability to ren der the service such honors de mand: who will not be afraid to be just though the heavens fall?in a word, a real he-man with both experience and ability, mel lowed and ripened by sympathy and an understanding of human nature as it is found in South Car olina. Any reader of this probably can name such a man and more than one but such men do not hunger for the political fleshpots of Colum bia. Any reader cf this probably can probably formulate a platform which would include what we have outlined above and probably other things which are of greater im portance But such selections of individu-. al preferenees for leadership and such individual views on issues will not solve the problem. The State needs a man big enough to command support and big enough to recognize and form ulate the big issues of the day. The public mind is hazy on what the State needs. There are al most as many suggestions as there are minds. And suggestions have been advanced with, little evidence of any mind back of them. Most of us are floundering. We are wil ling to press on if we can only get out of this Slough of Despond. We can never persuade Mr. Obstinate to struggle through with us and we know that Brother Pliable can not be depended on in the pinch. One Talkative always has a descen dant ready to offer his services in this State but never leads us any where. Somewhere there is a Great-heart who should be willing t" had Iiis fellow South Carolin ians away from the gins and pit falls which are before them. Would it be practical to ask as many patriotic citizens, those with out political ambition themselves? and there are a considerable num ber we knew?as many as would do no?to gather without fear and without any secrecy in a voluntary ma$s meeting in Columbia and see it sufficient pressure cannot be brought to bear on some real lead er to offer his talents and time to the stare in her time of need? Could such a gathering of patri otic men and women forget per sonal preferences and unite on such a leader? If Mellon desires new source of revenue, why not try import tax on visiting celebrities? The frontispiece in the book of knowledge is mually a group pho tograph of hard knocks. -? ? ? Suggested amendment: Fllv ' ind let live.