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NEGRO OPENS FIRE ON CITY POLICEMEN Officer Lawrence is in Hos pital as Result of Wound Received at Hands of Negro \ Desperado. Officer J. H. DuRant Has Miraculous Es cape from, Serious Wound. Reward is Offered For, Negro - Officer J. M. Lawrence is now; iu. the Tourney Hospital suffering: from a very pain.ful wound which i he received early this morning at! the hands of a negro desperado,! identified as Willie DuRant, and ? the escape of Officer J. H. DuRant; from a vey serious and in all probability a fataLwound from *he pistol in the hands of the negro, i is stated as being nothing short of miraculous. I The unfortunate-altair occurred j at 4 o'clock this morning on Din- j gle street, between 1 Sumter and : Main streets, not far from the' Main street corner. Officers J. H.; DuRant and J. M. l^iwrence, both ' riding bicycles, were coming back ^* to ward Main street from making their rounds at the warehouses of I that district, and saw two negro: men ''walking down Dingle street. ? Both police officers, got off of their wheels, Ofliec-r Lawrence being in advance of Officer. DuRant. One of the negroes stopped, when he came up to Officer Lawrence but. the other negro walked on past, i When this second negro walked a I short distance. Officer DuRant i turned his flash light on him. Zm-; mediately at this instant the negro' drew his gun and opened lire upon Officer Da Rani from a distance ; of about ? .vent j- feet. Officer Du-; Rant had also drawn his gun and began exchanging .-shtos with the negro. The first bullet from the pistol of the negro hit Officer Du Rant direct ly"m the-side, the bul-; let passing through his thick over coat and being then deflected after it had struck a piece of steei on a l^elt-which the officer was wearing. Officer DuRant felt the inpact of the bullet but was unscathed by ir. The second bullet from the negro's pistol hit Officer Lawrence: in the middle ot his chin and passipg through his neck came but just at the base of his right shoulder. The wound is a very painful one but not extremely se rious. Both the negro and Officer DuRant continued to exchange shots until both had emptied their guns. - The negro, was all the while retreating, and managed finally to evade the officers in the darkness of the early morning. Officer J. H. Lawrence required - immediate attention as his wound was bleeding freely. Assistance was rendered by employees at the . Southern Railway^yard. and Offi cer Lawrence taken \o the Tourney Hospital, where he tvas given the best of medical attention. The negro is well known by Of , fieer DuRant and was positively identified as being Willie DuRant alias Pkiney DuRant. The city is offering $S0 for.his arrest and con viction and the police department of.tbe city is offering an additional f.-yO- reward for information that will-lead to tho arrest of the ne gro"'by the police department. His description is given as being a dark ginger colored negro boy of about 21 years of age. Round face and thick lips. Height about G feet 4 inches. When last seen was . wearing.a cap and a brown suit of clothes. He is an ex-convict, hav ing been convicted and sentenced to serve f? years for attempting to wreck a Seaboard passenger train near Florence about a year ago but made his eceape after only *erv:as a short time. The negro is one of the most -desperate of criminals that this neighborhood #Iias*h?d to deal with;in some years. Reports from the hospital state that Officer Lawrence is resting as well as can be expected. His friends are everywhere expressing their regret at his having received this wound and are wishing for him 8 speedy recovery and are hoping to see him out again soon. Everyone is rejoiced- at the es cape from injury of Officer DuRant, who has a souvenir of the occa sion both the bullet that hit him and also the bullet which wounded Officer Lawrence/ thin latter bullet having fallen out of Officer Law rence's collar when he was getting out of the automobile which had carried hint to the hospital. The bullets were from a .3S caliber pistol. It is. the hope that this vile and desperate criminal is soon to be brought to account for his des perately murderous designs. ANTHRACITE COAL CONFER ENCE TUESDAY Xew York. March 1*.?The ar bitration committee of anthracite **oa.l miners arid operators charged with negotiating an agreement in time to avert a strike on April 1st reduced the margin of safety to ten days by deciding to delay the first session until Tuesday. GRAND JURY TO MAKE INQUIRY Xew York. March IS.?Charges against the American Cotton Kx change made during the bucket shop investigation will i>e present ed to the grand jury, according to District Attorney Danton. It is eharge<l that southern cotton men suffered through bucketing of or ders and wash sales. Cold baths may be fine; but your never hear a cold bather lacking about spring coming. SALVATION ARMY TO START CAMPAIGN John B. Duffie is Appointed Chairman For Sumter County. Miss Roman of Columbia to Assist in Work Here The Salvation Army is soon to put on a national campaign for funds to maintain its operations throughout the country. All plans for the launching of this campaign, the date for which has not as yet been set, arc being carefully worked out in detail. Columbia is to be the headquarters for a number of the nearby counties and Mr. J- Pope Matthews, president of the Palmetto National Bank, of that city, is to be the financial agent for the Columbia zone. Mr. John B. Duffie, attorney of this city, has been appointed by the headquarter office in Colum bia, to act as chairman of this ! work in Sumter county, and he has already expressed his willing ness to serve in this capacity. Miss Marguerite Roman, of Columbia, has been appointed to assist Mr. Duffie in this work throughout the county for several weeks if neces sary. Sumter county is considered ? very important county, and is ex pected to take a very prominent and a leading part in the ad vancement of this work. The mat ter of a suitable chairman in each county for the conducting of this work was given the most careful ? consideration and no chairman named until after the most thor ough and painstaking inquiries ; had been made. It i3 felt that the I committee upon the appointments has made no mistake in the selec tion of Mr. Duffie as Sumter coun ! ty's chairman and that he will en | ter this work in a capable, whole hearted and thoroughly efficient manner. Miss Roman, who is to assist Mr. Duffie, has been active ; in campaign work ever since the ' war and has proved herself an ef ficient organizer arid an earncsi worker. The quota for Sumter county has been set as being $1, : 000. OBENCHAIN , JURY FAILS TO AGREE Nine Said to Have Been For Conviction i - j Los Angeles, March 19.?Mrs. j Madulynne Obenchain, charged : with the murder of her sweetheart \ J. Belton Kennedy, must go to j trial a second time. The jury in ; her first trial was discharged to I night by Judge Reeve upon report ; ing that iL had been unable to j agree after being out nearly 0t> ? hours, of which about 24 were .'spent ta actual deliberation. it I took five ballots and stood nine to j three for conviction on each. Two of the women members voted for ! conviction, the third for acquittal, j one juror said. j Mrs. Obenchain. her face white j and drawn, came into court at j 7:43 o'clock in response to a sum , mons from the Judge. Immediate ! by afterward the jury filed in and ; the foreman Frank VY*. Crockett, a j retired lawyer of Pasadena, re ported: "We have stood nine to three from the first ballot." j Judge Reeve then asked each of j the 12 if he thought there was any i possibility of reaching a verdict j Each replied in the negative, yThereupon the judge pronounced ; their formal discharge. ' The case was reset for next Tues ; day when Deputy District Attorney ; Keyes announced for the setting of i a new trial date will be made. j DODGE FACES HARD WEEK _ [Young Millionaire Works Fast i in Prison ? Detroit. March 10.?John Du i val Dodge, millionaire speeder, J will leave the Detroit House of j Correction tomorrow morning to ! face a fresh series of tribulations. Tuesday he will be arraigned in Kalamazoo on the charge of driv ing an automobile while drunk. He will later be arraigned on a charge of illegally transporting li quor. Miss Emelinc Kwackerneck. ; Grand Rapids Normal School stu dent, who was seriously injured when she jumped from Dodge's [automobile on March l!. after be ing offered, she alleged, a drink of whiskey, will be sufficiently re covered to appear against Dodge. Young Dodge was sentenced here to serve Gve days rn prison, pay a tine of .$100 and his driver's license was revoked for one year after he pleaded guilty to speeding in re corder's court last Thursday. He earned the admiration of the other prisoners Saturday by the vigor with which he shoveled coal, his first prison task. He worked so hard he became ill and had to b< transferred to clerical work. Throughoul his ordeal Dodge was cheerful, ate heartily of prison food and did not complain because he was hoi permitted any s;??-.;;ii j>riv i!et;es. When he leave.-- the prison he will hi master of a fortune of $l.t>??. <".:<>. Circuit Court Saturday having admitted \<> probat.- the amended will of his father, tin- late John !'. Dodge, permitting the son to share in the estate. Under the original will young Doilgn wus cut on* with j a monthly^allowanee of $ir>0. Sorn. liov. a star doesn't seem convincing as an unsophisticated country girl after her name has' been mentioned in a few scandals- 1 \ CHARLES D. ! JONES TRIAL IS OPENED i_ I '! Court at Lancaster is Crowd-1 j eel?Much Interest Shown ______ i i Lancaster. 1 March 17?With i room at a premium the Court of; General Sessions of Lancaster! ? county today commenced the case I of the State against Charles D. : ! Jones, who is charged with misap- : I propriation of funds and breach of j j trust with fraudulent intent on live ' 'counts while connected with the: ? i^ancaster Mercantile Company : from 1017 to July of last year. ! More than $30,000 is involved. A I warrant sworn out by Leroy Springs ' and John T. Stevens, codirectors j with Jones in the mercantile com pany, was served upon him in De- j j cember. Owing to the extensive ?business connections of the prose- ; i cut ing witnesses and the defendant j 'and the agreement to excuse any! 'talesman who was under obligation ; ' to or employed by any of the firms I ; it required practically all of the j j morning session to draw a jury and | j the panel was exhausted. A new j I venire of seven was drawn by the | j jury commission. The State and1 j defense both exhausted their chal-) \ lenges. 1 The array of counsel is very bril- j j liant. including besides the entire j ; Lancaster bar, former Judge M. L. i Smith, of Camden; David W. Rob-! 1 inson, of Columbia; Thomas F. Mc- j j Dow of York: Claude X. Sapp, of j Columbia, and J. X. Hemphiil, of; ? Chester. On motion of defendant's j I counsel all witnesses except the two : ; prosecuting witnesses were ordered j separated by the court. Taking of I I testimony began at 12.30 on count \ |Xo. 5. V. E. Croig, who is credit man I i for the mercantile company, waa; j the first witness called. lie tea-: I titled as to certain entries Of fc. j $7,500 item authorized by the de- ; fondant. A check covering this . item and the bocks of the company : through which the item passed : i were offered in evidence and the; j entries contained therein concern- j > ing this item was explained in de- ! tail by the witness. Court took a j : recess at 1 o'clock and reconvened ; [at 3 o'clock with the witr.e-s still! on the stand. A number of papers! ; bearing on cotton future transac- j tions were introduced in evidence, j (among them being account sales! j from Cwathmey & Co., and Munn, : Rogers & Stack pole. D. A. Boyd, a certified aceount j ant of Leroy Springs, *was the next ; witness, lie testified that in an audit I of the books of the mercantile ? [company from July 1017. to Au- j [gust 1021, he found certain irregu- '? j larities. During the examination ! lot* this witness numerous tilts oc ! curved between Mr. Sapp for the; ? defense and Mr. Robinson for the I ?state. These were the only two. I witnesses evamined today and the [case will in all probability run into ' i next week. i SAYS CONGRESS ! j IS RESPONSIBLE ; Bonus is Not Child of Legion, j McNider Asserts j I Orlando, Fla.. March IS.'*? j 1 "This bonus was phe child of con j gress and not the child of thej ! American Legion." declared CoL i H?nf?rd MacXider, of Mason City, j j Iowa, national commander of the j i American Legion, tonight in ad-j : dressing Orlando Memorial Post, j ?The compensation act. now called j ? the bonus, was created two years; I ago by the politicians who told : ?the people that they were going to] ; square things up for the service! I men. The bonus is not the legion's! i batth? it is a promise that must be ; j carried out. It is not a price on j patriotism and no ?.man can say j that, because Washington took his and also Lincoln. i "The colors .are the best assur- J ; a nee that America is going to stay! j the way the American Legion put j jit. We are going to see that thos< j men who wen? blinded and disabled ! get a square deal from the coun-j j try they fought for. Every bit of j legislation^now in effect for the ; benefit of the disabled soldiers was , ! put through congress by the Amor- I ; "can Legion and by nobody else, j , Nothing in congress in the way of j legislation for the ex-service man j I has been done, except that accom- i I plished by the legion. Under thej adjusted compensation act the ex i service men must be given their j I chance." j Commander MacXider closed his I [address by referring to March 20 ? as national unemployment relief 'day for the ex-soldier. He de I clared that the 11,000 posts in ; j America were composed of 1,000,- ! 1000 members "all standing for the same purpose. A purpose so big ; and strong and tine that we shall | go straight. And when we say j ; we are for a cause or measure it I shall go ; brough." .. . .? ? ? The reason men brag about thej [bee's industry is because tuet get ? the honey. -m^m^ Smart money won at a Havana j race track. bV>o'I>-h money lost. - m - + Xo man should he elected t<? pub lie ofiit e unless he has sufficient intelligence (.? hire the right Clerks to do the work. Britannia spemlx toorc time w:ii-.? - ["iiig the rules i!::?! ruling the waves. Those whom pat riot is; n sent . ! flying t?? .ship yards have not yet demanded a bonus. It's nice to have a maiiopoly <>i" ', tlie world's gold :i" one could forget 'the band writing on the tariff vvali. J French are having ' Wine Week" we are having "week wine".' A man who tills all he knows often tells more than he knows. PARENTS AS "The Child's First School Issued by the National Kindergart< I\ew Vor;: City. These articles are The Call of t By Volia Card Dear Mother: Have void- children ever said?'*L can't come* just now. Mother?I'm busy with my blocks!" Xo doubt the buildings of blocks was at that moment very important,?more im portant than we can realize. Put more important still should be the response to the demands of time. Some of us are martinets?always insisting on the accomplishment of a given task at a given time, till our children come to look upon time as j a relentless, hateful giant. 1 think a. great deal of the slothfulness of this world comes from that arbi trary insistence that things be done: on time. The things hated in child hood are gladly east aside as soon as maturity comes. But isn't there 'some way to make punctuality and a well-order- j ed life a beautiful and desired in- j stead of a dreaded thing? For it is j beautiful. Time is not hard and re- ! lentless; it it is used rightly, life becomes smooth. peaceful and ! happy: if used wrongly, life is a tangled mass of fretting and dis cord. You've seen folks who al ways had to rus.h to get to places on time?who rushed to get their meals ready?who rushed about their cleaning and their sewing. It is an unlovely quality. It is nearly always when you come down to the facts the result of previously net having done things on time. Their clothes weren't in order for calling?the dishes needed weren't clean?their materials had not all been purchased for the proposed sewing?there wasn't any scouring powder on hand for scrubbing. Not one of UK wants a child to grow up to be that kind of a person, who neither gives nor sets happiness. However, that state is only a natural one. arising from a failure t<> appreciate the importance of time. It is not the 'rusher' who has the most leisure time. It is the one who does each task as it comes, does it thoroughly, leaves nothing for 'some other time.' Of course, we're all only human and we all have lapses, but it's just in so far as we meet duties unafraid and wil lingly that our work becomes easy, a pleasure instead of a dread. Put how can we get our children to see the importance of this? First, I think, emphasis shoulld be placed or. the pleasure that accompanies Chat instant response to the call of the clock. The "Come this instant STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Doctors to Meet in Annual i i Convention in Rock Hill Columbia. March 20.?A strong program, containing the names of some of the most prominent doc tors of the state and a number of the leading medical authorities of the country, has been announced for the annual convention of the state medical association, to be held at Kock Hill. April IS, 10 and 20 Among prominent speakers will be Hr. Thos. S. Cllllep, of Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, who will de liver an addess on surgery; Dr. Henry Boswell. of Sanatorium, Miss., who will speak on tubercu losis, and Dr. William A. Mulhcr in. of the medical department of tin- University of Ceo rgjd. at Augusta, who will speak cfn pedi atrics. Among t!ie South Carolina phy sicians and specialists whose names appear on the program are Dr. T. II. Dreher, of Si. Matthews; Dr. c. T. Taylor, of Greenville; Dr. George 11. Punch, of Columbia; Dr. T. Russell Littlcjohn, of Seamier; Dr. William A- Boyd, of Columbia; Dr. Robert E. Seibels, Columbia: Dr. Sophia Brunson. of Sumter: lb-, s. c. Glover, of Greenville; Dr. Milton Weinberg, of Sumter; Dr. W. F. R. PhillopS, of Charleston: Dr. M. IL Mobley. Florence; Dr. Ii. M. Smith. Columbia: Dr. (.'has. J. Lern men. Sumter: Dr. Wm. P. Cornell, Columbia; Dr. Lindsay Peters. Columbia: Dr. H. W. Lice. Columbia: Dr. D. M. Crosson, Lees ville; Dr. F. W. Carpenter. Green ville: Dr. Carl P. Kpps. Sunlter; Dr. T. B. Reeves. Greenville: Dr. Baxter Haync, Columbia; . r. Ma rion H. Wyman. Columbia; Dr. George 10. Thompson, Inman; Dr. F. M. Durham. Columbia; Dr. Francis D. Johnson. Charleston; Dr. Win. It. Burron. Columbia: Dr. II. A. Mood. Sumter; Dr. Ed ward F. Parker. Charleston; Dr. J. W. Jervey. Greenville, and Dr. George B. Wilkinson, Greenville. There will be several reunions of classes- of Die medical college dur ing the convention. Winthrop Col lege will assist in the entertain ment of tiie doctors. An attei'.d-i a ace of several hundred is expect ed. Dr. IL L. Shaw, of Sumter, is president of the association; Dr. D. M. Crosson. of Leesville. and Dr. D. W. Die.-, of Columbia, vice presidents; Dr. Ihnes, of Semen, is secretary. Drs. A. F. Baker. Charleston; S. C. Harmon, Co lumbia: 'I'. I.. W. Bailey. <"!ioion: !.. O- Mauldin. Creenvillc: T. W Dnlin, Vor'*: <:. B. May, Bennotts ville: T. ' I ttlejobn. Sumter. and L. A. Hartv:ug, Olar, are district councillors. ' It. J. B. Miller. 01 Kock liill is chairio.ii! of ihe com mittee on entertainment of the iron v**ni i < ? ?! -?V _ . . . The new., thai tiny dollar bills aie heing countreieitod will cm in ter* st \ cry many. Lots of peace has been made; but the supply is still short. EDUCATORS is the Family"?Froebel. n Association. 8 West 4'uh Street, i ' ! appearing weekly in our columns. he Clock. nor White. or you won't gel ;t bite of supper!" is only too common. It seems to! me it's only fair, while the child is j young, at least, that he should be told that supper time is near, that shortly he'll be called in from play. j Perhaps von can let hirn know of : something he likes that's going to be for supper. You'll find that he j comes much more readily when it; is time. And soon promptness he- | comes a ha hit. Pleasant habits cling to us. Why not work to make into pleasant habits all necessary j duties that have to he observed | through life? Wonderful results come from the expenditure of a little patience and time. Von can have a game of going-! to-bed time, an exploring trip of :r. Soap <d' wash-up time and an independe-nt, grown-up event of dressing' time. Punctuality really isn't hard if we can only remem ber that the accomplishment of things at a certain time is what we desire, not the accomplishment of things because we order them done at a certain time. Let us keep this lesson in our mother consciousness if we want our children to become men and women whose Mives are smoothly peaceful, ordered so that they may find lime for things that make for culture and soul-growth. '?The average citizen must be a good citizen, if our republics are [to succeed. The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source: and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the. average citizenship of th* nation. There fore, it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average eiligen is kept high." ? Theodore R?>ose velt. Large numbers of our children are obliged to h ave schooL. and go to work at an early age. The kinder garten, utilizing two years which are of no economic- value, decidedly raises the mental, moral and physi cal standard of our youth, fitting it to meet with greater intelligence and efficiency the duties of man hood and womanhood. If no kindergarten has been pro vided for the children of your community, work for one now. The National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street. Xew York City, will furnish information, advice, and leaflets upon request. Works Out Unfairly Prom the Bamwedl People The People agrees with Senator Davis Moiso. of Sumter County, that the distribution of the $400,000 iuml guaranteeing a seven months' school term to needy schools is neither fair nor equitable. For in stance. Barnwell County taxpayers contributed $4.273.90 u> the fund last year and received in return only ?<S3S. or about 2u per cent. Char leston contribute! c more than $34, 000 arid received nothing in return, while Horry county paid in $4.000 and received $42.000. Jasper coun ty paid in more than $3,000 and rc | ceived nothing in return, while Chesterfield paid in a little more than $3,000 and received more than j $29.000. ! It is argued that all that is nec essary to receive the benefits of the ; seven months' fund is to levy a lo I eal tax of eight mills, have an ac | tual enrollment of twenty-five I children and a <h> per cent daily attendance. This, of course, means additional taxation on people al ! ready over-burdened in order to get back money thai they have already ! paid as taxes. We are in favor of I amending the lau in order to effect a more equitable distribution of the j fund, or i Ise abolish it altogether land let each county control the dis bursement of the money collected for school purposes. Fraudulent employment Scheme Disclosed Washington. I). <\. March 13- - Large numbers of persons have been made victims of fraudulent advertising for labor in connection with the Muscle Shoals project near Florence. Ala., it i< said in a state ment issue*} today by the United Siates Civil Service Commission. It is stated by the Commission that there has been brought to its attention recent advertising throughout the country in which persons out of wark have been promised positions at the Muscle Shoals project, conditioned upon their paying :i registration fee of I one dollar each. M is said that large numbers of unemployed men have responded, paying the required registration fee and reeieving noth ing in return. It is understood that the matter is to he presented.) to the Department of Justice and! possible pr<?secuJi"n. The Civil S. j-\ tec. Commission j states that furrber operations .-it Muscle Shoals depends upon action j of Congress, and that no nne can! say ;it ibis time whether the Gov ernment \\ill resume the work. or whether it will be conducted under private ownership or contract. In any event, the Commission s:iid.' tie re is no justification for ad vertising for labor t<? he employed ni ti>e project. If the Government undertakes to complete rhe work, stu b labor as may he hoccsf-ary: will he secured in the usual way through lie- Government agencies..] h is said, ftmhermore, that :? is; rertain th.tt no private person or. eompam Is m.king si-i-s ;?> secure j labor !???? Mu>cle Shoals in the present uuci rtamty. The ?'i\il Service Commission warns the public agiiinst the pay in ; ?.i mom y in I ho hope of seem - ins employment at Musie Shoals. \ THRILLING BATTLE WITH FIRE AT SEA Panic - Stricken Passengers Locked in State-rooms and Stokers Forced to Hold Posts Under Drawn Pistols New York March is.?A thrill ing- tale of fire at sea, with 104 panic-stricken men and women locked i:i their state rooms and [stokers held at their posts under jthe threat of drawn pistols, was rc | lated l>y passengers of the United States liner Botornao when she ar 1 rived h? re today from Bremen. It was a tale of Yankee pluck an<i ingenuity?of a skipper's re ; fusal to give up his ship until every ! hope had been abandoned, and of i his acceptance of the "thousand to : one chance" which turned a [threatening catastrophe into a : merely harrowing experience for ; ihose nhonrd. i The fire was discovered at mid | night March 2, a few hours after the Potomac, with Capf. William ? McLeod in charge, sailed from Bre men Up the coast of Holland into ' ! e North sea. She had been steam | ing along on a smooth sea when I suddenly, with howls of warning. ! the Spanish and Filipino stokers j hounded from the hold and started i for tiie lifeboats. ! Officers, with revolvers, order : ed them back to the fir.- room. [ which had become an inferno of j smoke with flames billowing from an adjoining compartment where mattresses, life preservers ami ships stores had mysteriously taken fire. ; The dread cry of. "fire" spread [ quickly through the ship. The 104 ; passengers broke from their state rooms and made for the lifeboats, i Capf. McLeod sent stewards to ? herd them hack and prevent the ; frenzied ones from leaping over ? board. , Chief Engineer E. M. Garland already had placed guards over the i boiler room crews, and streams of those wore spouting tons of water j ! on the blaze. I Huge clouds of smoke pouring i from the hatchways and the al most unbearable neat around the [stokers, next to the fire, gave evi-l ! dence that it was gaining head | way. At 1 a. re.- the tire had become | j so tierce that the decks we're hot. I At 4 o'clock the Potomac slowed down to half speed. At 4 :."><) Capt. j McLeod ordered the engines j stopped and the 1 dazing craft roll- ! ;ed sluggishly about while the crew] I turned tire fighters; j Seamen went over the sides in ' j hos'n's chairs with sledge hammers, j smashed in the east iron port lids, and directed their hose into the j j heart of the fire, but without effect. ' i Even live steam, turned into the i hatchway, failed to retard the ' I'.auu s. j At S:20 a. m. after the S. O. S. ; had been sent out and a rescue vessel was heaving to. to await the' ; result of the battle. Capt. McLeod \ i decided that, rather than beach his '; 'ship he would try a stunt he j [learned during the war. while j j dodging enemy submarines, j Hi steamed at top speed, until 'the whole ship throbbed with the! I vibration and her outline was al [most obscured by the dense smoke sweeping astern. Suddenly he or-j dered the rudder hard-over. As [the vessel careened in the "come-; ' about" her starboard side lifted so . : sharply as to throw trie tons of I ? water in her hold up along herj [sides and over the heart of the1 fire. Immediately the (lames sub-; ! sided, and at 4 p. m.. sixteen hours i I after the alarm was sounded, the I fire was under control and thei vessel resumed her voyage. : Chief Engineer Garland was; I overcome by heal and fumes in : the last hour of tiie fight ami was; ? under the care of the ship's sur- I : geon for several days, according to i passengers who narrated the tale. Richard Albecht. chief officer, and ' ? I a seaman were slightly injured. : Tiie Potomac still had about j thirty ions of water in her hold ' i when, with a list to port, she steam- i ed in toda v. Artistic temperament: A small portion of genius with the swell head. *? ? ? The smaller the town, the great er tiie enlargement caused by the germ of swellhead. -?? ? ? ? Apparently there is no dnager of European buyers exceeding their quota for the month. A jitney is just as good as any if adorned with a sign reading: "I can afford eight cylinders, how - < ver." 'file world gets raster. In half the magazine pictures the girls didn't even have time to dress. .-<>???..? Uncle -Joe musn't think there was anything personal in tie- world's determination t.? scrap its cannons. There is ^r.>*.vir\>j belief that discussion of the amount Franco must pay lias only academic inter Perhaps you have noticed that tie- girls made immoral by the styles are the ones you don't k now. Only age condemns the frivoli ties of youth:" This isn't true, oi tdd Man llattan. When the furnier doughboy plays i patriotic reeord, tin- scratching of :h ? needle reminds him of some thir.-r rather unpleasant. ravonte summer resort tins year ill i.e : \tv \,.:u i- cooler. A single-track mind can't detour. ver rough places. LIVESTOCK METING AT :R, S. L MARCH 24TH WILL OUTLINE PLAN OF FINANCIAL. ASSISTANCE FOR LIVESTOCK GROWERS A meeting will be held at Sum ter on rim. 2 Ith by the South raro lina Go-operative Livestock Asso ciation under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce to present a plan for the financial assist a nee of livestock growers. The following gentlemen will speak: Senator Xiels Christensen. Ft. C. Home, Jr., secretary of the Livestock Association: Mr. \V. A. Campbell, president of the Asso ciation and L. L. Barrett, manager. This association is organized ander the South Carolina Co-oper ative Marketing Act of 1921 of the State of South Carolina. Under this a?d the South Carolina Live stock Association is enabled to borrow money from the War Fi nance Corporatoin, which thee in turn loan to livestock gl ?wers ] for agricultural purposes, includ ing the breeding, growing, fat ten - ? ing and marketing of livestock. T The association will loan money to its members and it is planned that they will loan them as much as 7:7 per cent of the value of their livestock in some cases. The association will also market co-operatively the livestock of its members and will not only help them to get the highest, price for their ivestock, but will asssit them to raise the grade of their stock, and loan them money to hold on to their livestock until a better market is available. Every man who owns livestock or contemplates owning livestock is urged to attend this meeting and . learn just what the association can; do for him. BEST COUNTY MISSISSIPPI UP FLOATS GETS TO FLOOD STAGE $50000 PRIZE ;Weather Bureau Predicts Five Chance to Advertise County's Feet More of Water at Resources in Columbia Dur- j Memphis ing Bi<r. Festival Week, Ar _. ~7 ^ , . * ? Memphis, March 19.?Flood stage April 17 to 22 on the Mississippi river at Mem phis was passed early today, when the gauge topped the 35 foot mark. A prize of $300 for the best coun-jThe rivor is risjns with a stage of ty float entered in the big Palma-. 40 feet here and 49 at Helena, festa Parade in Columbia next i Ark;, predicted hv the United month has just been announced by;j State's weather bureau for the lat James G. Holmes, parades chair-. ter part of this W(?ok man. The Palmafesta Parade will Th(. river hcre fa rising at a m^ be made up of three sections, prac- of about a half inch an hour and tically three parades m one. the j; thLs wijL pr?hably be increased djrr floral parade, trades display, and (ing lh(. niffht, piver mon ^ ^ county floats. The big parade will !heavy rains norlh of here lajc ^st be headed by the queen's float and : n|ffhl and carlv this morning have followed by the section devoted to * hceri reported. The crest of the county floats. This division will be ohio river flood pass^ Cincinnati in charge ot Jas. M. Green, Jr. ^ ri?hJ. and the river .here has * -The idea/' says Mr Green, -is to j ^gun tillUnSm The river is still give each county in south Carolin.. ; rlsing .u Lo,liKviIle> whiIe the a chance to bring before the peo- i Cumberland and Tennessee are pie of the enure state some out- ; li0th stin cUniDingf and con_ standing features of its resources. . t|hne [Q dQ sQ ^ |n ^ history or commercial progress. ; upper wat0M ^ ])0lh ^ hu Last year's float parade was wit-: The gaug0 at Memphis stood at nessed by thousands of people from j 34 $ at g oV1ock thi3 morning and all over the state and was carried \ a;few hours. latei. toppcd C3 feel to every section of the country as] whioh is rtood gaagtf here> a part of the Pat he Weekly moving ? ? ? picture news. The advertising to a jjmo ? * * P1?I> be secured in this way being well ? xiu X vl JL\I\.\jlht& worth the effort even i: the $500 j TlTT^^J TTV Yl/T?!^/^!^ prize be left out of the considera- j UlEdB 111 TV JVCi^/IY tion." Commercial secretaries or clubs wishing to enter county floats j Willie Wiles Loses Life in* are requested to write Mr. Holmes ' . ^ or Mr. Green. , A?tO Races Forty-five South Carolina coun- ? _ ties are now actively engaged in lo-' Greensboro, X. C., March 18.? cal contests to secure the candi- Willie Wiles, automobile racer of dates for Queen of Palmafesta. Columbia, was fatally injured when The local queens will feature in the ; the machine he was driving turned , big parade, each county queen tak- j over here this afternoon. ErneJt ' ing the prominent position on her , Brown, his mechanician, escaped county's float. Richland, the homo [with slight injuries. Mr. Wiles died county, will of course put up no iat 6 o'clock in a local hospitaL candidates for queen, but will fur- j ;v{r. Wiles was completing the* nish attractive maids of honor to | first lap of a 10 mile race when the grace the queen's float in the big .accident occurred; He attempted parade. As usual, all expenses of !to turn his car at a curve and lost the county queens, such as railroad - control of the machine with the re- ' fare, accommodations and enter- !suit \t turned over four times. Tak tainmorit for the week will be paid cn fr0m beneath the wrecked auto by the Palmafesta association. The j mobile he was removed to a local grand prize for queen of Palma- hospital. His skull was fractured festa is to be a diamond ring and he is belived to have been in valued at $300. Ijured internally. The commercial and industrial] Lewis Marino of Columbia, who exhibits at Palmafesta this year j drove an automobile in the initial will be more varied than ever. The! rac<* was directly behind Mr. Wiles* big steel building at the State Fair, machine and saw it tum over.*' grounds is now being decorated Marino brought his car to a stop and arranged to accommodate sev- j and hurried to the assistance of the era! hundred different displays and, injured man. He assisted ambu already well over one-third of the J lance men in taking him to the available space has been spoken.j hospital. Mechanician Brown said for. The Palmafesta programme.; he felt the automobile skid as it an elaborate affair of 200^' pages,? turned the curve and realizing that! is now in course of preparation and the accident could not be avoided will contain pictures of the county] he made an effort to crawl from queens and interesting reading mat-1 tbe seat. However, in the twink ter relative to each county in the. iing ol- nn eye lho rar had turn(Kj slat". j over and lb-own was thrown high A dozen active committees of the- int0 the air. "falling on the side of Columbia Chamber of Commerce j the race track, are now busily engaged in carry- m + *> _ ing forward the plans for the galaj \ Substitute for Celery. week and additional funds have _ been taised to bring to the capital! Celeriac or root celerv for those city the best stellar attractions the who do not h.,vfl the timo to at_ country has to offer in the way ol ton<1 l0 the building up and culti musical stars, high-class vaude-; vation of celery offers an easilv ville a^ts. bands and other lea-., ^own substitute which needs no tures. The style show will be one, more aare thnn a t..,rr0T> tllrnip or of the most elaborate affairs ever ether root crop. It has become, put on in the south, a tire works rather common in vegetable mar di-piav costing several thousand !-h^t year or two and is . . : used chxefly as an ingredient for dollars will be the teature o: the soups artd st<.u.s wW<? may ^ opening aighr. kept in the cellar as easily as the* , commoner vegetables where it would i?e impossible to keep celery. ?n hats. There arc children in Xew Vork i: *?> Piveisely the same flavor. ,h? think birds and flowers grow Uc'u"\ fdTfC<^ ^oM it ,s used as a salad. It should be planted _ now in a Pox or hotbed and the young plants transplanted into In their efforts to prevent war. the open ground as soon as if is nations seem to have thought of j warm enough. Its culture is much everything except weaving a tittle the same as celery and it needs. !,;)<j of asafetid?*. j the same conditions of soil and ? ??- : moisture. The Iks! results and ia ihe (dd days, "polite" peon].- the largest roots arc obtained if were comparatively few. Fan there the seedlings are transplanted into w. re no dress suits for tent at individual pots before they are set ? into the ground. ? in order to make the root grow A Kansas man bitten by a dog deeper and develop more substance took <>ne of its pups as eompensa- many gardeners rake the soil away tion Will the heir ?>f the dog from the top ofthe root as it devel"* will euro the bite "',s ,:n'^ nearly the entire root is _^ ?, above the ground. This sends the Stockholm March L- The Kus- feeding roots down deeper and d?e^ sian Itolsheviki continue to expori \ ? greater depth of root, large amounts of gold. It: one vv.ek VI -i gold <?'ius ar- t-*ady says there are tew movie rix<.,\ uero from Iteval while in 'bb- in jail. Rut why knock our , . ?? . . .V n.cra ;; n system <>: im isprudence?. a not her weeK :?. n i-..'inoi.i.iii < ? _ ?_ ker brouglM 52.0 ca?es valued hat tim; ? re a I < ^ ?' IMMt.tMUl. I- j-; understood that th< A cook in a .New York hotel hae been found to pos^-s* a won?Jertul operatic tenor voice. He ought to parcels of gold onl> pass through have a line range.?Southern Luia Ic-n on theh way to America. berman,