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ARMY TO STAND BY THE'IRISH REPUBLIC" Votes to Enforce Drastic Boy cott on Belfast : r London, March 26.?The con vention of merabers of the Irish /.republican army/held in Dublin - :? today decided to confirm its alle " g?tnce to the Irish Republic, to / ^maintain the army as the army of the- Republic under an executive committee of sixteen members and to-enforce a drastic boycott on Bel fast, says an Exchange Telegraph .dispatch from Dublin* Capture Orange Hali. Dublin. March 20.?<By the As sociated Press.)?Forty men last ? night took possession of the Orange party's headquarters, in Parneli street, Quietly conducted the right ful %ccupants to the street and then closed the doors of the building. Th'e men were .st?l in possession later this afternoon. " It was jsaid they had, been identified as work men who were expelled from Bel fast. The interlopers viire reported to have taken food into the build ing with them. One report dur ing the day was that, the building had been "commandeered by the Irish republican arrays' During the night :Fowler Memo rial Hall and the fi'j?jjf market also were seized The taking over of Orange Kail was the first instance of such an attack on Southern Orangemen as retaliation for the treatment to which Nationalists have been, sub jected in Belfast. It is a large and ; handsome building and had been -prepared Saturday night for a dance and supper. When the seiz ure took place the occupants of the hail* were expelled and the Belfast ^Nationalist workmen, who now are destitute in Dublin through having -t>een discharged from the ship "y'ards, ate the supper prepared'for the Orangemen. -GERMAN WAR LOSS -. -? ?? Forty-six Killed and Hundred and Nine Wounded Each Hour of War ? Berlin. March 26 (By the Asso ciated Press.)?Forty-six men*were "Silled and 169 wounded on the Ger man side during every; hour the world wa^r was raging, -according to an estimate arrived at by. General von Altrock, a statistician. This iyas made from a study of official records. Germany's losses totalled in dead 1,S<?S,545 and in wounded 4.24G, 779. Men to the number of 13, 900,000 were under arms during the course of the war. of whom about one in seven-were killed in battle. The officers corps I lost 33,000 men killed and-SU.QOd wounded. German soldier and. civilian losses through death causexi directly or indirectly by the -war are estimat ed by General von Altrock at 12, 000,000. INCREASE ? IN CRIME Jails and Chain Gangs Are Filling Up ~~~A marked increase in crime in .South Carolina is indicated by the county jail commitment statistics just given out by the State Board of Public Welfare. For the statis tical year ending June 20, 1921, the total number of commitments to the. county jails of the state was lo,S96. an increase of almost 48 per cent ovorthe year before when the commitments totaled only 7.3SC. The population of the cornty chain gangs shows a correspond ing growth of population. In 1920 on the days on which the camps were visited by the representative of the Board of Public Welfare the population was ?7"? negro and white men. In 1921, however, the population showed 1240 negroes and 200 whites, a total growth of approximately 40 per cent. The alarming increase in crime that these figures sfyow may be attributed, in large' par*, to the economic reverses suffered by the people of the state. Money can with difficulty be obtained by justi fiable methods so the unprincipled and needy have oftentimes resort ed to illegal means of getting a livelihood. Besides, the number of persons arrested for violation of the prohibition law has swelled the number of commitments. This increase, however, doesn't seem so serious when viewed in comparison with the statistics for other years. In 191 ii, for example, just five years previous, the com mitments totaled approximately ] 1.743. The commitments for 1?21 are actually 7 per cc nt less than they were for 191?. 'even though the 48 per cent increase over those for 1920 is quite unprece dented, c MURDERS IN NEW YORK CITY New York. March 27?Three men were shot to death mysterious ly last night and early today. One who was lured by a fashionably dressed woman, was shot down by two gunmen, w::o tired from a taxi cab. Another was shun walking through a crowd of pedestrians. The third was shot between two men standing in a Brooklyn thorough fare. He was loaded in a taxicab and rushed to a hospital hut died on his arrival. London, March 27?Major Ron ald Troe, an aviator, is charged with the wilful murder of Ger trade Yates, whose body was found in a bathroom. ! CONGRESSMEN VISIT MUSCLE j SHOALS I Party Stops in Chattanooga j En Route to Government Plant Chattanooga, March 2?. ? The j congressional party en route to j Alabama to inspect the great pro i jeers around Muscle Shoals stop i ped here for an hour tonight and I several members took occasion to give their views on the proposal now pending in congress for the disposition of the property. While it was the consensus that i the work at Muscle Shoals would I <ot be abandoned. Chairman Nor ' ris of the senate agricultural com j mittee said that in his opinion the ! fight over the offers to purchase had only begun. He added that nothing would be left undone"in an effort to facilitat. the solution of the problem. I Senator Xorris said that the chief ; obstacle to the proposal of Mr. Ford i was the option held on the Gorgas plant by the Alabama Power com pany, which he declared was to all intents and purposes valid and binding. He said he believed that if Mr. Ford would agree to take the property without any reference to "this plant, the question would be easily solved. While there was a difference of opinion as the rights of the Ala bama company, said the chairman, consideration must be given every' phase of the proposal to purchase the plant. - He declared that if the propo sition was one that could be work ed without legal complications, Ford's proposal was the best for : the American people, j Representative Almon. who is ? championing the cause of the De ; troit manufacturer, made a strong j defense of the Ford proposal. I pointing out the advantages that pwould accrue to the farmers of the j country. STATE HIGH WAY SURVEYS I New "Work Announced by Commission i Columbia, March 27.?Several ! important announcements are made j by the state highway department j today. ^ During this week surveys a^e to be started for a new piece of ! road .eading out of Charleston, on j the King street extension, to con ! nect with the old State Road near j Magnolia crossing. This piece of ? roadway will be constructed with I the point in view of relieving the i heavy traffic that now moves from j Charleston to the Old State Road I by way of the Meeting street ex i tension. This will be a costly piece of t construction, according to highway j officials. It will be paved. The i distance between a mile and a half ?and two miles, but the kind of work j necessary will make the cost rather j high. It will be several months 1 before work is started on it. j The commission is this week ad | vertising for bids for the construc j tion of the road from Allendale to I ward? Augusta, a distance of 10.3 j miles. The construction will be ; sand-clay and will cost approxi I mately $25,000. 1 The commission will soon adve'r ; tise for bids for the construction j of a concrete arch bridge over the Pacolet river at Converse, the cost being estimated at $75,000. Plans for this bridge have been complet ed. j A bridge is also to be built soon i over Lynch's River, between Lan caster and Chesterfield counties. ' Surveys for this job have been j completed. i PUTTING OVER A BIG ENTERPRISE j Sumter is indeed to be compli j mented on having such a man as i Mr Reardon in his present posi ; tion. Due to his splendid coopera ; tion and work, Sumter has landed j the headquarters of the South Car j olina Livestock Association, and has ! made it an assured success. Much j credit for the successfully putting j across of projects in the past can i be correctiy laid to his enthusias ? tic efforts:. I know of my own knowledge , that Mr. Reardon's intensive coop eration in promoting the South Carolina Cooperative Livestock turned defeat into victory. I wish to say in this connection ! that you do not want to overlook Mr. L. D. Jennings. In him Sumter has one of the . strongest and most vital driving ] forces in the whole state of South : Carolina. I take this opportunity I of complimenting the Sumter ag ricultural section for having two j such meii'of vision and force as i? : was necessary to successfully launch 1 oiir association, which will bring i ? ; million of dollars to the. relief of the livestock growers of this state. South Carolina Cooperative Live stock Association, By L. L. Barrett. Mgr. 'Clothes Not Good For Hawaiians. I Honolulu. T. II.. Feb. 1", -Belief ; rbnt introduction of clothing into the Hawaiian Islands by mission aries a century ago caused tln> Ha [ wiians race to lose its former splendid hardihood was given here. in ah address by Judge Sanford B. Dole, first and only president of the j Republic of Hawaii and first ter rit oi i;i 1 governor. Use of clothing, Judge Dole de [ elared. caused the natives t<i de I velop a previously unknown sen ; sitiveness to slight climatic changes [-which h.'is created havoc among j them and has resulted in a bale : ful deterioration. ? m ? Lots of people object to tin- days j being longer because it makes the nights shorter. DRIVE BY FARMERS NEXT WEEK Two Thousand Farmers Will Work For Marketing Association i Columbia. March 27.?With "It i Shall Not Fall" as their slogan, j over 2.000 farmers are preparing to : take the fr?ld in South Carolina be- j i ginning the first week in April to canvass for signatures to tho cot- ! j ton cooperative marketing con-! i tract. The two thousand canvass- : tors represent those who have ai I ready signed the contract and who j i are. convinced that the future pros-| perity.of the state depends in a j very large measure on the success- | j ful completion of the campaign for i j tho formation of the South Caro : lina Cotton Growers' Co-operative j Association. ! The month of March has been i ? one of great activity in practically ! jail counties and great headway; : has been made. Over 100,000 bales ! have been signed during this I month and the machinery has been ? perfected for the jrreat drive which j i is expected to bring victory next J I month. j During the month of March j bankers, preachers, lawyers, doc I tors and teachers have joined with i the farmers in making speeches over the state in behalf of the movement. The plans and purpos es of the association have been ex plained in every cotton growing county of the state. ! Last week was a great week in ! j many of the counties. Marlboro has j ; now signed up 20.445 bales: Dar- j j ling* on 19.529 bales, and Sumter! ! 17,000 bales. These are the three! ; leading counties. Lee county comes I fourth with 7.327 bales and Dillon! Kis only 100 bales behind her. The. J j four leading counties have signed j up over 70,000 bales or more than i i one-sixth, of the quota for the whole state. These four counties expect; to sign a total of 100,000 or one fourth ofr the quota for the whole state before May 1. Greenville, j Spart an burg, Anderson and Lau i rens in the Piedmont section are j expected to sign up another 100, j 000. Reports from over the slate tell j of enthusiasm everywhere. The (bankers and business men. reaiiz-.] ; ing that the prosperity of the state ! ]- is dependent to a great degree upon j [the formation of the association 'are throwing themselves actively i into the fight. .-? ? ? SECOND NOTE TO ALLIES i _ i Washington. March J". ? The j i American government has sent to ?the allied powers another note! j supplemental to that recently dis-j [patched and designed to support its j claims for equality with those pow- ; } ers in the payment of costs arising j I from the lihincland occupation. j The new note, copies of which \ were presented today to the British. French. Italian. Belgian and Japa nese governments by American dip ; lomatic officials in the capitals of j those nations, declared that wheth- \ er or not there should be a deficit j in the French account for its oc- j oupation army costs as of May l.j 1921', the claim for equality on the i part of the I'nited States would not thereby he affected. The American government in 'its Isupplemental note in words char acterized by one official as plain I if not diplomatic notifies the al- i lied governments that no juggling] of bookkeeping as regards the i lihincland occupation costs will! deter the (Jntted States from press-! ing what it considers a just claim. \ High stale department officials in making public the new note explained that the original iden tical notes delivered to the five al-j lied powers early this week stated that according to information and accounts in possession of the American government it appeared that the amount due Co France for j its occupation army costs to May; 1 had been paid in tail, as had ; costs of the armies of Belgium and Italy. Recent dispatches from i France, it was said, had intimated! that the American government ; made a mistake in saying that j France had been paid in full, and the supplemental note delivered to day was designed to forestall any such suggestions. ?? * ** Government's Oil Lands Pay Well "" Washington. March 24.? Nearly ane million barrels of oil were produced on government-owned ! lands in 1921, resulting in more than $2,000,000 being paid into the! United States treasury as royalties.! according to the annual report of, A. W. Ambrose, chief petroleum technologist of the Bureau of! Mines. The government receives royal- j ties on all petroleum and natural ga.s and their products sold from government lands. The; mininmum . oil royally rate of "? per cent is | that for land leased as t reward! for discovery. Most of the leases; have been awarded, it was sain., na iler a sliding scale of royalties ranging from 12 l-i' to i?; 2-3 j per cent. The rate on casing head gasoline is 1 2-3 per cent of tho value of the gasoline extracted from the gas produced and sold. More than G,000 permits for prospecting foi oil and gas have been issued by the general land officer. ih<- report stated, while I 207 leases were .-aid to have hten: Kranted for producing oil and gas I properties. Most ?>i iln- oil produc ed on government lands is cred ited to Wyoming. California, Mon-i lana and Louisiana. Natural g-as i comes from Wyoming and <'a!i fornia. and casinghcad gasoline from Wyoming and California. -?? ? ?? The man who blows his own horn can't hear others for the noise. Saddest words of tongue ?>r pen | The fly will soon he hack again." NEW ENG LAND STRIKE SPREADING Seven Mord Milis Announce Cut in Wages?Woolen and Cotton Mills Affected Boston, March 26.?The New England textile strike situation takes on a new angle this week with its extension to the import ant cotton and Woolen mill center of Lawrence. Seven mills have announced a 2'i per cent, reduc tion, effective tomorrow, and some of the operatives have declared a. strike. Another mill has announ ced an indefinite suspension begin ning tomorrow and the Lawrence Textile council has declared this to bo in the nature of a lockout. The big mills of the American Woolen company have not joined in the wage cutting. The largest plant affected is th* Pacific, employing some 10.000 operatives. The six others at which, wages are reduced employ a +otal of about :;.0(>0. The wool sorters affiliated with the United Textile Workers of America and first to declare a strike are plan ning to picket the Pacific and Everett mills tomorrow. The strike situation in New Hampshire ami Rhode, 'Island, where thousands of operators have been idle for many weeks, appears to be deadlocked. The special state bonrd of medi ation and conciliation in Rhode Island has been dissolved after sev eral futile attempts to bring about a compromise between workers and mill owners on the matters of wages and working hours. Efforts to arrange conferences between strike leaders and manufacturers in New Hampshire have failed. Minor strikes are in effect at Lowell and Fitchburg, Mass. The declaration that the strike in New England mills "will go to the limit to see whether the stock holders, by refusing to #cut fat dividends, can force workers to reduce their meager wages." was made by Thomas F. MoMahon. president of ihe United Textile Workers of America, today. Mr. McMahon was in this city on his way from Rhode Island to strike centers of northern New England. Citing the case of the Pacific mills at Lawrence, he said: "The strike against the Pacific mills which begins tomorrow morning would never have been called if the company had treated its workers with a degree of jus tice which would stand in com parison with the company's gener osity to its stockholders. In 1921, a year of depression, the Pacific mills paid to its stockholders enough to have given every one of its 10,0 00 employees a 25 per cent, wage increase instead of the 20 per cent, wage cut they are trying . ro force tipon its. "This company paid out $2.400, 000 in dividends in 1!)L'1 and conr tinned the same rate of dividends in the first quarter'of 11)22. They are paying 12 per cent, a year on their capitalization in spite of the fact that the capitalization in 1010 was increased by .$5.000.000- in stock dividends?a 2.1 1-2 per cenr. increaso. They have a surplus! of over $14.000,000?enough to pay the entire wages of the operatives for a year without a penny of other income anil at the end of the year they wold have a surplus remain ing equal to more than 2f> per cent, of their capitalization. "In llcjj the Pacific mills made a profit of over eight cents on every dollar of their sales, not much below their "average profit for the war years. "The trouble with the textile industry in New England is that it has capitalized its huge war profits by stock dividends. Now with sales slack iiie mills determine to in crease the margii. of profit on their products so that dividends as big as in the war years can be paid. "The figures which 1 have given will stand the most rigid test for accuracy. They were secured for the United Textile Workers in the course of an investigation of the industry which we are having made for us by the Labor Bureau. Inc., of N?-\s York and Boston." Now York. March 26.?Charges that "New England cotton mill owners are driving away and starving out the human capital on which industry rests, in attempting to enforce wage reductions," were made here tonight by Russ?-ll Palmer, secretary of the Amalga mated Textile Workers of Ameri ca. W:igcs in the Northern cotton mills, even liefere the present cuts. stated, were lower than those in many other industries in the en tire country e\<:<-pi hosiery and knit goods. He declared the year ly earning of male skilled opera tives in the North averaged $1. 0S5.4-I before the recent cut with out allowing for any unemploy ment whatever, whereas tin* "mini mum subsistence level." based on :i study made by the national con ference board, :ni employers' or ganization :it Kall River in J?19 and taking into account present prices, was $1.1 Off.0 j. "This means." he added, "that wife ami children as well as hus band must work in tie- mills in or der t<> k ? j? body aint soul l? get her." Comparing cotton wages in the North ;iinl South, .Mr. Palmer quot ed W. I >. Adams, secretary and treasurer of tin- American Cotton Manufacturers' association, to the effect thai cents must be added to Southern wages to account foi housing facilities provided in the South. With addition. Mr 1".-1111??-1 said. Southern wages actually II to 1'" per . em higbi i than those in the North afU-i the receni cuts. Columbia, March 27. Jak?-' Woodward, state hotel inspector has been elected president of the Columbia post of the Travelers' Protective Association. WHAT THE MINERS WANT President Lewis Explains the Six Hour Day and Five Day Week Indianapolis. Ind.. March 24.? [President .lohn L. Lewis, of the I Tniicd Mine Workers of America, I today gave his interpretation of the miners' demand for a six-hour ; day. five-day week, being a part of any new wage agreement affeet ; ing the soft coal industry. In a formal statement he said: j "There has been so much mis Cunderstanding among tin- people as to the real meaning of tin- posi tion of the United Mine Workers of America with regard to the pro ' posed six-hour day and five-day I week that 1 believe something [should he said that would set ihe j public right on the subject. It has I been charged by coal operators : that the miner* are demanding ! more pay for leys work. The prin ciple of the shorter work day does [ not mean anything of the kind. , They ?lo not ask for the six hour i'day as the maximum bid they do ask that they he given reasonable assurance that they will have rea i sonably steady employment six i hours a day throughout the year, j "Under present conditions the j miners work eight hours a day Only a small part of the time each I year. In 1 f?? 1 they were empioy led only about 4<> per cent of full j time and were idle ?O per cent of Line time. They were employed jonly an average of about 125 days ! n 1921. out of the 300 or more work ; days of the year. They cannot 1 make a living for their families under such conditions. Last year they earned an average of approx : imately $7no per man. "The bituminous mines of the country have a capacity of 700, [00.0,000 to SOO.OOO.OOO tons a year, in normal times the demand is for approximately SU?.??0.O?O tons a year. If the miners had reason ably steady employment they could [and would easily produce in a six hour day enough coal to fill every j possible requirement. If it can ] be done in a six-hour day. why should miners be required to work j eight hours a day only a part of [ the time ,' "Many years ago miners were I compelled to work ten. twelve ori ! more hours a day. and when they j made their fight for a shorten ! ing of the work day to eight hours' 'they were met with the same kind of fight they are now facing in j j their request fur a six-hour day.' ; But they won. and the country has; ' had all the coal it could use ever | since. "Tile six-hour dav is nor a i >scarecr<.w. nor is it a menace to the! ? country, as some employers would j j have us believe. It is simply a I ! humane principle." GOMPERS LAUDS WILSON Declares Ideals Will in Future Guide World ; New York, March 2?:. ? The i ideals and principles of Woodrow I I Wilson in time w ill be recognized ' ; as spirits guiding trie world, Sam 1 del Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, to ; day told a gathering of labor men 'and representatives of the Wood row Wilson Foundation, who met | to discuss the plan to honor the! former president. He characterized Mr. Wilson as "the firm friend of the laboring! man," citing tin- Seaman's Act and' j the Clayton anti-trust law as in jstances of his efforts toward bet tering the toiler's condition. Expressing disappointment that Mr. Wilson's admirers had not al- ! ready oversubscribed the $l,uu0,000 j required for the endowment, Mr. Gompers said: "The American people, and par : ticularly the working people, owe it to the country to see to it that ithis honor to Woodrow Wilson shall I be successful, if there has ever been a man in responsible cilice j in this country who had th*j under i standin;; and the vision of labor's; j rights, it was Woodrow Wilson, j "We are living today in the spir-! 'it of Wilson and our efforts toward! future will be directed toward! mobilization of (he public sentiment j j of this republic to his work in i '.order that his principles may be-' .come daily rules for the conduct of j our lives. "Tin.- ideas, the hopes, the aCtivi-j ties of right-thinking men today will be expended in an effort to make the world understand, not merely for today, that the prin ciples of ideals ror which Wood row Wilson lived and still lives, will go on and on, and in lime will' be recognized as spirits guiding the' whole world. "Whether we have a small pact; or treaty of four or rive, or an j agreement among all ihe nations of | the earth, ihe initial step has been taken. Mr. Wilson has pointed out! the way in international under-; standing and we are following ih?| path he silently emblazons." CRAZY WOMAN IN A TREE] Washington Police Have as Problem on Their Hands i Washington. Mandl ::7. A wo-j man inmate of St. Elizabeth hos pital lor ihe insane is in a precar ious perch on the branch of ;i tree! in tlx- in-.t ii ui ion's grounds, d.ul in I a night dre: .; only. She threat-j ens to jump* imp a ravine if ihe! officers attempted to dislodge hei -? ?, Mad det Ks are going to take a hog census. Hope they list all the. road bogs. ! A man who is always making ?xcuses hasn t tim< to make a sue-; DECREASE IN AUTOMOBILES Automobile License Figures Show Considerable Fallin?; Off Columbia, March 27.?Ar first glance along the country roads and in the towns and cities it seems that there are now in operation about as many automobiles in South Carolina as were running last year, but according to the registration at the offices of the state highway department, the number of cars has dropped off considerably. For the whole of last year the total registration of automobiles was S2.349. For this year up to March 12 the. total reg istration of cars was 63,249, a de crease from 1921 of 20.100 auto mobiles. Ii should be borne in mind, however; that the figures for 1022 cover only a little over two months and that there are prob ably many cars which are not yet provided with 1022 plates and that many cars will be bought before the end of this year. The deereas. in the number .of trucks for this year, as compared with last is 1,857. Last year the total truck registration was 7,-j Hi?; this year up to March 13, it was r..:J40, according to figures from the highway department. The figures by counties for auto mobiles for 1921 and iD22 fol lows: 1922. 1921. Abbeville.1,020 1,335 Aiken.-_ .1,548 2.015 | Allendale_ ... 331 541 Ander ...._4.4*;8 5,363 Bamberg.5 SI 002 Barn we 11. 580 914 Beaufort. 3.SI 497 Berkeley._ 261 235 Calhoun _ 495 772 Charleston.3,189 4.227 Cherokee_1,138 1,40 7 Chester _1,040 1,366 Chesterfield.1.380 1,772 Clarendon . 73!> l.lnf)1 Colleton -. _ 527 807: Darlington._.1,959 2.669! Dillon._. 947 1.294 j Dorchester _ 533 677 j Edgefield_._ 402 S17j Fairfield .. . 503 765 Florence._2,219 2.853 j Georgetown. 464 618 Greenville.5,776 6,834 j Greenwood.1.724 2.296 Hampton ... 650 881 \ I lorry. 808 1,052 i Jasper. 1 TO 20 7 , Kershaw. S7S 1,213 Lancaster. 840 1.129 1 Laurens.l,65j 2.4S7J Lee. 753 1,231 j Lexington.1.698 2,259 McCormick. 32 9 533; Marion. 718 963; Marlboro ...1.448 2.0S1 j Xewberry....1,428 1.754 Oconce.1,1 U 8 1.510 ? ?rangeb?rg 2,312 3.214, Bickens .1,275 1.573' Richj?nd.4.337 5.734 i Saluda .. _ 4 82 995 j Spartnnburg .. _4.8t;0 5,518 Sumter.1.51 7 2,053 i Union. 89? 1.179 j Williamsburg . _ 6i?l 2,4i)2 ! Dur ?f state .._ f. 7 104 : Total._C3.249 83.343 ! Texas Has Unique Bird Preserves j Brownsville, Tex.. March 23.? j Texas' bird sanctuaries, set aside . by the last legislature in Canter- i on and Kleberg counties, bid fair j to become world renowned among naturalists inasmuch as one species that exists in no other part of the j United States and several species i that are very scarce, have been found there. ! J, Gilbert Pearson, president of: the National Association of Aud-I ubon Societies visited the sanctuar ies recently. The "bird cities" are j located on Green Island, on North j and South Bird Island and on j the Three Islands?all small bodies j of land in the Laguna Madre. Among the birds that seek ref- j uge on these islands are blue bills, j teals, mallards, red heads and | canvas backs. The wild birds, ac- , cording to Mr. Pearson, apparent ly realize that they are safe on j their reservation, for they remain; unruffled and unf right ened by visitors or noises that otherwise would frighten them away. Came birds not found elsewhere in the United States live in this1 section. The islands are distant | from human inhabitation and rare- j ly are visited by hunters. There ; are no predatory animals on the islands to destroy the eggs. Green Island at high tide has not more than 12 acres of ground and So to 4n acres at Tow tide. It is about 3?> miles south of Corpus Christi aud North and South Bird Island are a little further south. There is a large number of roy al lern and la?nghing gulls on (?reen Island aud a colony <>i'; brown pelicans on South Bird Is land, according to visitors. Other birds on South Island include Ward's heron. Reddigh egret. Lou isiana heron and Great Tail grackle. On North Bird Island, Mr. Pear son found white pelicans, a bird he said the Aud ubon societies wanted to conserve, and several varieties of falcons, which he said were found no place elsewhere in the United Stales. Tin* chadcalaca, resembling a chicken and a mem-j her of the pheasant family, is an other bird found on the reserva tion. ' The islands are leased to the National Association of Audubon Societies for tin- purpose of pro-! leoting ami conserving the birds. Washington says l.OOO.OOn home.-* will be built In 11)22. liaising roofs lowers tents. Still, why shouldn't BockelVllei milbons have a Swiss guardV The American woman's esti mate of a European celebrity is thai the more clever she is the more brazen she seems. , BIG FIRE AT STATE FARM Fertilizer Warehouse at Rail road Siding Destroyed Sunday Columbia. March 27.?Col. A. j K. Sanders, superintendent or.' the! state penitentiary, was advised yes-j terday by J. B. Harting, manager: of the DeSaussure farm in Sumter county, that the state farm ware house on the railroad had been de- i stro3red by fire. Colonel Sanders said that the fire : was discovered about ten minutes after two passenger trains, which j met at the station, had departed. I The warehouse was of frame con- i struction and had a shingle roof. A ; considerable quantity of s d o a, j which was on a car on a side track, I was saved. The warehouse, Col onel Sanders said, contained ap proximately 5!? tons of cottonseed meal, 40 tons of acid and 20 tons' of soda. The value of the house; and its contents was about $3,000. At this station there were two warehouses, both the property of; the state farm, and as they were adjoining the probability was that both were destroyed, Colonel San ders said. Colonel Sanders will go to the state farm today to look into the | matter. FLOOD ON THE MISSISSIPPI ????? Streams in Central West at Flood Stage?Leeves En- ! dangered - Memphis, March 26.?With heavy! rains reported today throughout the. Missouri and Ohio river valleys and additional rainfall in the cen tral Mississippi valley expected to day and tomorrow weather bureau officials stated tonight it was tm-j possible to issue a forecast on the probable rise in the lower Missis sippi until the extent of the rainfall was determined. The gauge at Memphis tonight stood at approximately 41.5 with the river rising at the. rate of about o.S foot a day. The crest of the present flood reached Cairo, 111., las: night when the gauge saowed r.3.0. Rainfall ttbove Cairo is ex pected to bring another rise within a few days, according to A'eather bureau officials. The. crest of the present high water is expected at Memphis Thursday night or Fri day. Heavy seepage developed in the levee above Mound City, Ark., ear ly today and a force of workmen with l"),0i?0 sacks was rushed from Memphis. Tonight, however, it was stated there was no danger of | a break. A large force of men. are j at work on an old levee near Peters; Ark., where minor trouble has been reported. Between Ilickman, Ky., and Tip-; tonville, Tenn., on the east bank, where the levee is very low the wa- \ ter is running over the embank-; ment and spreading out over the i low lands. No damage of import- j ance has been reported although j many farmers have been forced to j move. At Ilickman the water is almost four feet below the top of! the levee although the streets of j the town are flooded with backwa ter. Reports from Clarksdale and Greenville, Miss, the headquarters of the two stati levee boards, say, that no trouble has developed any- i where along the state line. FJngi- j neers in charge at Greenville have i ordered men and boats to various points where they can be in close touch with any situation which I may develop. Guards are patrol- j ling the Mississippi levee at inter vals of five miles. Backwater from the smaller streams has covered the highways at many points in the j river counties; Owing to the back water in the lower delta, the Yazoo j and Mississippi Valley railroad to- I day c: ncelled trains on several : branches. Thousands of acres of farm land in lowlands south of j Vioksburg are under several feet; of backwater, it is stated. . j Harry N. I'harr, engineer of the St. Francis levee board in charge ! of the embankment on the Arkan- j sas side of the river from the Mis- j souri line to the mouth of the St. Francis river, said tonight that no I serious trouble has developed any- j where, along the line although | "sand boils" have appeared at sev eral points which have been promptly repaired. Some seepage is occurring at the Oldtown levee, north of Helena, he said, and a force of men was kept at work last night strengthening the levee at that point. Backwaters of the St. Francis river are spreading rapidly. Mr. Pharr said, although no serious, damage has been done beyond ' forcing the residents in the low-j lands to move and compelling sus pension of work In numerous small saw mills in that section. Vicksburg. Miss.. March 2?: ? With a steady rainfall last night and scattered showers throughout ? the day the Mood situation in this district became worse today. The gauge in the Mississippi tonight' v\as slightly over 4-t feet, a rise of ; ipproximately one-half a foot dur-; ing the past 24 hours. Officers of the third river dis tri?*t are making constant inspec tion of the levees and guards have l?een placed on duly da> and night. : Trains on Ihe Kelso branch of. he Yazoo and Mississippi railroad; were discontinued today on account j ?f high water near Silver Creek. i If the farmer cries vainly for a square deal, it is only a question ot Lime until tin- public will < ry vainl> ? tor a square meal. The young inan who has money! to burn is seldom consumed by a j ? ?Urning ambition. - One thing that never scents to ; [day out is the neighbor's phono- | fraph. THREAT OF EPI DEMIC GROWS MORE SERIOUa Famine Regions of Russia Are a Menace to Central Europe ??.??_ * Washington, March 26.?The [danger to eastern Europe from [epidemics attendant upon the pre. , valence of famine in Russia "is rapidly becoming serious." accord ing to a report compiled by the league of nations health commir tee. Basing its conclusion upon information gathered from many| : reliable sources, the commission declared the entire frontier zone I between Sovieit Russia and the Ukraine on one hand and central* ; Europe on the other is less pre i pared to stand the probable shock I of epidemic than it has been for several years. : The situation is gradually becom ing more grave, "the committee (found and * predicted its culmina j tion when the famine reaches its crisis, probably in April." The threat -of disease to Euro peans was said to be due to the tremendous waves of migration caused first, by the flight of peas-* ants from the famine stricken areas toward districts where food produc tion is possible, and second, mass j repatriation of hundreds of thou sands of Poles and others who were dislodged from their homes j during the great retreat of 1915. [While exact figures-were not avail , able, it was estimated that just in-? ' side the Russian frontier no le.s* than 120,000 caravan* are concen j trated, some of them having been on the march for four or fiv>* \ months. Through one quarantine? I station, Baranowioze, 301,278 refu j gees passed between March and December, 1921. The greatly increased repatria tion was said to have resulted in a> i preak in the Polish sanitary cordon with the result that typhus has spread further west than ever be fore, even reaching Lithuania an& East Prussia. The famine, more over, is now known to have spread I into the most fertile districts of I the Ukraine, to which tens.- of j thousands of refugees from ^the ? northern province had fled in hope of finding food and shelter. ! The Polish government, in an ! effort to meet these * difficulties, lias named a former prime minis ter as special reparation commis ; sioner while the city of Warsaw ! has appointed an extraordinary j epidemics commissioner. The epi demics commission of the league of nations i* also cooperating, to strengthen the sanitary cordon, and a conference is now in session kinder call, of the Polish govern ment and under the auspices of j the league in this effort to coordi ? nate the preventive measures, of 'all the states contingent on Rub sia. Many Members of Fraternal Orders Cleveland, O., March 24.?More than one million people join va-, fious fraternal beneficiary societies each year, according to Secretary W. E. Futch, of the National Fra ternal Congress of America, whichp has a membership close to ten mil lion people, a?d embraces 93 or ganizations. According to Mr. Futch, the protection carried by this membership reaches nearly $12.000.000,000. The million peo ple jo:ining these - societies each year adds a billion and a half in surance for the protection of fam iiieg. "It is estimated that in excess' of $3.500,000,000, has ? en paid by societies of the congress during the past fifty years," said Mr. Futch. 3 Oxyacetylene Torch is Automatic and Accurate. Oxyacetylene cutting can now be done automatioaily. even on Ir regular shapes, with a new ma t hine in which the cutting torch is attached to an arm resembling a pantograph, guided by a thin wood en template or pattern. The accu racy of the devise, explained in the, March issue of Popular Science Monthly, is such that the flame may be used to cut gear-teeth. The cut may be controlled to a few, thousandths of an inch, so that the work turned out is ready for finishing on the lathe. No highly skilled labor is re quired, and it is claimed that 15 inches of half-inch plate can be cut accurately in any shape in less than one minute at a cost of less, than one cent for oxygen. When opportunity starts knock ing it's time for others to quit. The Most Profitable Acre on the Farm Th<| garden spot is recognized V,\ many as the best paying parr ..f the farm, bin is often neglected. A good garden means money in your pocket, and from a health standpoint, there is nothing better than green, fresh vegetables. ALWAYS PLANT WOODS SEEDS The right variety of vegetnbiefS i.. choose for eariim-ss. yc-Id* or flavor is ?ie.jrly shown in our49S2 Catarpg. Mailed free on request. WOOD'S CROP SPECIAL, giv-. ing.seasonable information for CW? f:<rni :oid e:;rren| prices of atl rifdd seeds. rnaj*?*d tree. T. W. WOOD & SONS SEEDSMEN Ito. 17 S. 14th St., aichmond, Va.