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OFFICERS AND '! Three Moonshiners in St?!, Mash and Wh Result of Success, In a pitched battle* taking place . -Tuesday . morning between moon shiners of the "Big Hoy" district and a raiding party of officers made Up of Sheriff C. M. Hurst. Deputy Sheriff 11. G. McKagen. Rural Of ficers Alex Norris and Hamilton. : ^??ykin, Su rut or T*n* police Offi cer Henry Mims. $f Pinewood, our officers got the best -end of the affair and come cut of the fray Ngfeje decided and undisputed victors. * ~ " Joe Andrews, of Sumter, "Boy" ' Ludd, a negro of the Privateer section, and Jessie Geddings, who . v.as wounded by the 'officers, have ^atl been lodged in the county jail, -and George Smith, a 'negro, very "--Seriously shot has ^feeen placed in ?"the Tourney Hospital, beddings is suffering from a bullet wound in his side. Ti e condition of the negro Smith is reported as being critical, however, nothing definite can be determined about him un tomorrow morning. -"T^The officers were fired upon . Sf?va. ambush and without the ^"Slightest warning when they had gone but a short distance into the swamps in the direction of **Balti - more Island", a point some fifteen -miles from Sumter. is stated * that the bullets fired-'frem the rifles - of the moonshiners only very nar rowly missed the .o/liee-fs. Con cealing ? themselves as* r best they * -could behind the bushes and trees. . the officers returned the fire of the moonshiners and very )sbon after - saw two men running oft into the ; Thick swamps. It is- thought, how ? ever, that the>e men escaped in t^ary. Undaunted by their recep tion of the rain of bullets, the of ficers delved deeper"-.; into the *.?wamp and came upon the still in . operation with four*'men sitting --?-?round it. The men were called to land told by the Deputy Sheriff to Citadel Alumni Criticise Al leged Methods of Certain Colleges .'^Greenwood. April 12. ? The ^Greenwood Citadel club at its ^monthly meeting Monday night ?went on record as being bitterly ^opposed to alleged methods of cer ; 'Jam colleges of South Carolina^ in secaring athletes and vigorously i denounced' the so-called athletic -?scholarships and athletic loan funds by means of which certain insti tutions of this state are said to ob tain athletic material. , The Citadel club passed resolu tions Indorsing the rules of the S. I. A. A. and the Southern confer ence. It condemned the commer cialization of college ^athletics by offering financial inducements to players. ~ The Citadel club voted to sen;? delegates to the state meeting of the alumni association at Charleston in June. FaKh That Sticks and is Stuck, -"""""Many people seem- to have lost \ ^faith in everybody except the fei- ? -low who promises to make them rich quick.?Toledo Blade. m m Well-dressed on a Moderate Income9' Unusual lecture demonstration by Evelyn Hansen Q Miss Hansen approaches hersub ject from the vari ous viewpoints of beauty, utility and economy. FOURTH AFTERNOON Redpath |j Chautauqua 7 Big Days SEASON TICKETS $2.75 Chautauqua Week Here, May 6 to May 13 Jail, One in Hospital, iskey Destroyed as fill Raid on Camp - surrender. The men instead o." putting: up their hands drew their: guns and began running off in all ; directions. Officer Boykin covered Joe Andrews and the negro Ludd. i George Smith jumped behind a tree and was taking dead aim on Offi- I eer Boykin when he was fired up on by the Deputy Sheriff, and wounded by this shot. The negro then ran, still carrying his gun. i and was again wounded, this time | falling. Jessie Geddings had in j the meantime leveled his gun on Officer Boykin and he was fired upon by both Officer Minis and Deputy Sheriff McKagen. receiving ! a wound from one of the bullets fired. When hit. he cried out with j pain and fled out of the clearing j and into the swamp. George; Smith, the negro who had been shot down had meanwhile crawled ; off into the swamp and could not J be found. The attention of the! officers was then directed to the j destroying of the still, a seventy five gallon complete steam outfit. | the still being found in operation. Nineteen gallons of mash ready for j the run were found and destroyed together with the ten gallons of i whiskey that had just come from the still. Joe Andrews, when arrested, was found to be armed with two Smith I and Wesson pistols, one of a .38 j caliber containing three loaded I and three empty shells. Joe 1 Andrews and the negro Dudd, were brought back to Sumter Tuesday j afternoon and were then placed in ; the jail here. The arrest of the j two wounded men was not made I until Wednseday at a return trip; by several of the officers acting | under Deputy Sheriff McKagen. , Geddings was placed in jail that morning and the negro George. Smith taken to the hospital. HOMICIDE AT CHESTER Richard Peay Shot to Death by Joseph P. Queen Chester. April 10.?Richard Peay. a well known young man of this city and a veteran of the world ] war, was shot and instantly killed j by Jo?-pa P. Queen, also a veteran | of the world war. about 2:20 j o'clock th.s -morning at the Glad- | den apartments on Hudson street,1 conducted by Mrs. Maggie Adams, a sister of the dead man. Ou?- j shot, which was evidently the first, i struck Peay in the nose, and pene- j trated the brain: another went! through the heart: a third pierced; the abdomen. Another .shot went wild. Coroner J. Henry Gladden was' notified at once of the homicide, and empanelled a jury, which j viewed the remains, and will meet ! tomorrow morning at the court house at 9:30 o'clock to hold the inquest. Dr. George A. Hehnies! performed the autopsy. Queen was a member of Com- ! pariy P. One Hundred and Eight- ! eenth infantry, Thirtieth division, j He was sent to the Pryor hospital | here for treatment, and had un- j dergone an operation for appendi- | citis. Recently he had injured his | side and had been forced to re- : turn to the hospital. He is learn- i ing the shoemaker's trade, and was employed in the shoe repair shop, j The young men were both lodg ers at Mrs. Adams' and were room mates. The tragedy occurred on the landing between two (lights of steps, one communicating with the street and the other with the rear. Peay had no weapon on his person, | but there was a small stick lying at his side. Queen was armed with two revolvers. Officer Gregory who was near! the filling station at the head of the 1 street when the four shots were heard, hurried to the scene. He met Queen, who surrendered. Of ficer Tongue also arrived in a few mi mit es. To one of the officers Mrs. I Adams made the alleged state ment that Queen had killed her brotmVr, but that he had been forc ed to do it. To Coroner Gladden she is alleged to have made the statement that she was not an eye witness to the shooting, but was on the spot in a moment after the shots were fired. The police found a gallon or motv of whiskey in the room said to have been occupied by the two young men. Where Pat Was. In a small village in Ireland the mother of a soldier met the village priest, who asked her if she had had bad news. "Sure. I have," said she, "Pat has beer killed." "Oh, 1 am very sorry." suid the priest. Did you receive word from the war office??" ??\o." she said. "I received word from himself." Tie- priest looked perplexed, and said: "But how is that?" "?Sure." she s:iid. "here is the letter: read it for yourself." The letter said: Dear Mother I am now in the Hole Land." The Argona ut. With the doughboy none, official Germany may breathe easier; bur what will the marriageable ntrls do now, poor things? -1? ? ? This would be a great V. S. if politicians worked as hard on the job as they work after the job. MOTION TO DISMISS TELE PHONE CASE Attorney Gen. Wolfe Files Papers in the United District Court Columbia. April 1 :L?A motion to dismiss ihe bill of compalint of the Teh-phone Company in the telephone rate ease was filed in the United States District Court in Charleston. Wednesday, by Attor ney General Samuel M. Wolfe. As sistant Attorney General John M. Daniel, and Attorneys Stephen D. Nettles of Greenville. F. A. Miller of Hartsville, and D. W. Robinson of Columbia, it being alleged in the motion that there are insufficient grounds in fact to constitute an ac tion in equity. Announcement of this made from the Atorney Gen eral's office today. 'PHONE RATE LITIGATION G#v. Cooper Requested to Em ploy Special Counsel to As sist Attorney General Columbia. April 13.?Governor Cooper has been requested by i citizens of Greenville and other; parts of the Piedmont section to employ special counsel to co-oper ate with the attorney general's of fice in handling the state's side of j the telephone rate case, which is to ' come before United States Judge H. A. M. Smith, in Charleston on April 24. Whether the governor will secure additional counsel i? not known, as the chief executive \ has announced no plans in this di- j rection. The governor referred the re quest for the extra lawyers to the] attorney general's office, but thai; official has no money allowed for! extra attorneys. The governor has i no such fund, either, unless the state contingent committee would approve of the use of part of the j contingent fund for the purpose. | This would probably meet with | some opposition. Assistant Attorney General John J M. Daniel will go to Charleston | to represent the state in the case. | It is also understood that several J lawyers will attend the hearing of | the case, as representatives of the telephone subscribers. Several law- . yers have asked the attorney gen-j eral if he had objection to their participation in the ease, and the! attorney general has agreed that : these shall participate, with the itn- \ derstanding that the state has no J funds to reimburse them for their services. It. is not known what arguments; the state will raise in defending; the recent act. of the legislature to reduce telephone rates. The first \ question to be settled by the court; will probably be that of jurisdic- j tion. The telephone rate case is the) sequel to the enactment by the reCent legislature of a law provid-j ing for the operation of the same i telephone rates as were in effect January 1, l'.*'2l. prior to the rate; increase authorized by the railroad commission. The act was signed i by the governor last month, and i within a few days th^telephone company instituted injunction pro ceedings to stop the attorney gen-; era! and the railroad commission from pulling them into effect. | Judge Smith has fixed April L'4 as! date for the hearing. i - EARTHQUAKES OCCUR IN CHILE - i Information of Recent Vol canic Disturbances Valdivia. Chile, March 1.?Entire! mountains were destroyed in the] violent earthquakes and volcanic j eruptions which took place inj southern Chile near the Argentine; border last December, says Eric ? Folkman. who has returned from ' a visit to the desolated district.1 Details of the volcanic disturb-! unces ' which destroyed pasture ; lands, forests and cattle are only ? now becoming known here. "The <'enter of the disturbance was in tile region known as the Cordillera Pelada, southeast of; Puerto Monit." Mr. Yolk man >aid. ?The lava composition is almost entirely volcanic, covered with hot: rocks whose heat had parched the forests and destroyed pastures. "The surface is strewn with ! [laming gases and steam from : which arisen ;i strong odor of wood j vinegar. The rocks have no con-i sistency and the lava field, about j Ll<?o feet above sea level, appar-] emly still is in process of forma-j ;ion. Subterranean rumblings are j -till very violent." The affected area is sparcoly populated and no] casualties have been reported. The vv; ters of the Limbao river. Mr. Yolkman reported, have been poisoned by the gases and acids de rived from the eruptive material including huge stones that fell in its, bed. He said anoiher eruption had occurred in the Los Azufres Cor dillera, also in the Pelada valley. The ? rupiinns' in Chile last De cember were attributed to ih>- vol canoes of Call lie and Uinehtia They were accompanied by violent 1 earthquakes ana ii was staled that deep crevices had formed in the mountain sides from which steam w;ts pouring. Enormous damage aas caused to grazing lands mi the Argentine side of the frontier which for leagues aas covered with cinders and volcanic ashes from the erupting qeak?, which swept across Argentina obscuring the sun. Ashes were reported to have fallen all the way across to the Atlantic Ocean. NAVAL BUDGET BEFORE HOUSE Battle in Congress Over Nav al Strength Waxes Hotter Washington. April lj.?The Ci-'S naval budget ran through the hos tile waters in the house today. As the weary end of ihe solid hours oi' dehnte was reached to night, with loss than a corporal guard on th.- floor, the air was filled witli claims by leaders op posed to the bill's provision lor an enlisted force of 65.00-0. th;?t votes enough had been pledged to bent it. This' prediction, coupled with violent attacks on the measure, took the edge off Chairman Kel ley's smile, and once or twice hej put on his fighting clothes. Time; and again the chairman broadly; charged that back of the movement for a bigger navy was the desire i of members from navy yard dis tricts ro increase the total appro-; priation so that the activities of these establishments might not be! curtailed. Suggestions from some sources that the committee add a little to its personnel strength were cast aside by Chairman Kelley with the declaration that the bill had to stand or fall as reported, and that! if the enlisted strength figure was raised to 86,000 there would be a I record vote in the house. Most of the speeches today were 1 against the bill. Representative Mc Arthur. of Oregon. Republican.; member of the naval committee, in ' announcing that he would offer an : amendment providing for 86,000 men. told the house it ought not to shift the responsibility of writ ing the bill to the shoulders of the senate. There was a constant squabble over the enlisted strength of the British and Japanese navies, the statement being repeatedly made! and denied that their figures were greater than those alloted the American navy under the bill. Rep resentative Rogers, Republican.' Massachusetts, intimated that the; committee had obtained its esti- j mates from the British embassy! here. Asked by Mr. Rogers if he had! been "in direct personal contact I with the British and Japanese em-: bassies." Chairman Kelley said he would refuse to answer any such j *'ites; ion. The measure will be taken up to- | morrow for consideration, item by item, and if there is smooth sailing: and not toe r*iuch live-minute de bate a vote on amendment to the: personnel section may be reached ? late in the day. The first vote'will; be on the proposal to make the, total St>.dint unless somebody steps' in with a move to split the dif ference between that total and the committee figure of 65,000. Mr. MeArthur said tonight l!)4 i members had given pledge to sup- [ port his amendment. Telegrams have hern sent, it was said, to members from eastern states ab sent from Washington, for an ear- I ly vote. GENTLY SARCASTIC Some English Comments of American Lecture-Goers London. March 11.?The recep tion accorded in America to Mrs. i Margot Asquilh, and other Eng lish lecturers this winter has prompted some gentle sarcasm at! the expense of Americans and of the lecturers. Mrs. Asquith's failure to identify j Jane Addams evoked pointed re marks from the Xew York corre spondent of the London Star who says that "if Jane Addams had lived in England Mrs. Woodrow Wilson would have known about her." "Interviewed Mrs. Asquilh has j been delightful." he continues, "f-Ter View of the yellow press was that it must be read by tic Chinese. Was Lloyd George as popular as j ever? 'I wonder.' said Margot. ; with a smile through her cigarette smoke which, by the way. is crim inal in Kansas even for men." of the audiences, the Star cor-j respondent says that instead of reading books for themselves they | learn by ear. "The results must j be shallow." he adds, "but at least it means that in a very real sense ibis whole nation never leaves j school. Ii is always trying to pick np knowledge hut most of the knowledge is .and must be super ficial." He calls the United States the "clover land" for English lecturer.-, and says that agents there have j done "an excellent wholesale trade in Philip Gibbs who usually comes to America with some new Euro pean country in his pocket as a rule ruined, broadly speaking, by The Big Four. Ladies listen to him with rapt attention and unwrapped shoulders. It is generally believed that he is the only Knight of the Gamer too modest to wear it. "Oliver Lodge was the smartest of all visitors for he talked not only about the old world and the new world but about the next world on which he established a monopoly. Wherever he wander ed, therefore, he found the streets paved with gold." ; <;. 11. Chesterton was referred tu by ih>- correspondent as **oui biggest consignment" and John Galsworthy was reported n^ quiet ly meandering among universities while ll. O. Wells was credited with a certain sensitiveness which restrained him from undue mix i n a. -? ? ? Plan i";- writins a modern com edy: First furnish your bedroom. People seldom object to the length of a sermon, however, if it has depth as well. Tile poet who sings of "the shade uf night and the eloquent palm" knows the yr?.-at American porter all right. INHERITANCE ACT IN COURT Question as to Undistributed Estates at Issue?Will De cide on Jurisdiction Columbia, April 13.?J. Edwin Belser, administrator of the estate dt" the late John K. Lowry. and also Milton & Belser. attorneys for the administrator, yesterday earried the recent inheritance tax .?:<?: to the supreme court On a petition for a writ of injunction against the South Carolina tax commission from forcing Mr. Belser to appear before the commission with all the records of the Lowry estate so The commission could determine what tax the state is due, if any. Mr. Belser presented his petition for a writ of injunction, praying that the court assume original jurisdiction of the case. The court, it was announced late in tin- after noon, took the petition under ad visement, but had not issued an or der or injunction a> prayed for. Action may be taken today. Some time ago the tax commis sion summoned Mr. Belser as ad ministrator of the estate of John E. Lowry to appear April 12 and present all facts in regard to the Lowry estate. Mr. Belser is con- \ testing this summons on the grounds that Mr. Lowry died be- ! fore the inheritance tax was ef fective and that tin- act is not ! retroactive. The main question at issue is j whether or not the act effects es- ! tates in the process of settlement j at the time of its passage. This is I a vital point in the act and the! tax commission is anxious to get at decision on the point. Mr. Belser contends that the act does not ef fect estates in the process of dis- j tribution at the time the act was! signed by the governor. February | 23, and therefore that the Low-j ry property is not subject to the! tax at all. Mr. Lowry died in j 1?20: . I In case the court assumes orig- ( inal jurisdiction of the case as pre-j sented by Mr. Belser an order will! probably bo issued directing the tax commission to show cause why! the injunction prayed for hy the petitioner. Mr. Belser, should not j be granted. ? >m ? PILGRIMAGE TO ORPHANAGE Episcopalians to Visit Insti tution in York York. April 12.?The hosts of South Carolina Episcopalianism. from the mountains to the sea. will move on the White Rose town Sunday. April 23, for the second annual pilgrimage to the?"Church] Home Orphanage of York;. From]' every part of the state comes word' of deep interest in the approach-; ing event, together with the infor mation that preparations are being made for the journey here. Inaugurated last year, the pil grimage proved such a signal sue cess that the decision was unani- < mously and enthusiastically reach-; ed that it be made an annual event.; Last year's attendance was approxi-i matcly 5?0, which will be com-j pletely eclipsed this year as the' result of wiib r publicity given the I event, coupled with the fact that; all who mad?- the trip before will be eager to come again and will bring others with them. j, The principal feature of the day's j program will he religious services held it) the open air. conducted by! Bishop Guerry of Charleston and h Bishop Finlay of Columbia, assist ed bv visiting clergymen. The! beautiful green lawn, studded with towering oaks now in vernal dress, will furnish for this service an in- , spiring setting-. other activities of the day will in clude an inspection of the physical equipment of the institution, such as the various buildings, printery and farm. The object of the pilgrimage is to j ' give the laymen of the ?:tate an opportunity of seeing the actual work being done by the orphanage and to enabh- them to familiarize themselves with its needs; also to bring about a (doser acquaintance between them and the wards of the church, which will result in a bet- | ter understanding and prove mu- j tuallv advantageous. No collection: will be taken for the institution. Victors from Columbia and j points in the upper part of the state can easily make the trip in a day by automobile, while those j ' from the low country can statt ' Saturday, spending the night at } such places as Columbia, YY'inns- 1 bore. Chester and Camden, coming;' on to York Sunday morning. If C people from the low country com- i ing by railroad will notify Cal II. Hart or \Y. 15. .Moore, committee- t men. provision will he made for j 1 their entertainment over Saturday, night. j The pilgrims will bring lunch \ with them and it will be served on i the orphanage green, people of the community dining in the same . i style. j I In future years the pilgrimage will he held on Mother's day. I which is ihe second Sunday in : May. The latei date was chosen j t largely on account of the well i known vagaries of April weather. \Y. fear lie- Irish Free Stale will i be of feud days ami full of l roil hi.-. - ( They say ihe plesiosa.it rus. agej: l?V.utio.Oiu?. may I.nlv a glypto doi,. age Lrti'Mi.Ooo. U'e. j bought j ? here \\ .is a mistake. i s Some men are so tree of carnal nature that they can't even work1 up an interest in garden hose. jl i In ihe idd days, the chorus direc tor used shape notes; now he mere-, |y note- the shape. i i The mere fact thai the driver j you pass bristles with indignation doesn't prove thai he i^ a read ; < hog. I J NEW ANGLE TO MUSCLE SHOALS Part of Cost of Development Can Be Charged to Navi gation ______ Washington. April 12.? Between $8,000,000 and $25,0G0.0<?0 of the | money required to complete the j Muscle Shoals (Ala.) water power, project program can 1??- charged directly to navigation improve-] ments on the Tennessee river and j subtracted from the sum needed j for other developments in th>-; shoals,territory, it was announced; today before the senate agriculture; committee. ; Col. W. .1. Harden, army engi-j neer in charge of the Sheffield (Ala.) district, and government en- ? gineers had recommended $8,500?- ; 000 for navigation improvements; in the river in the vicinity of Muscle' Shoals, hut the exact amount chargeable to navigation could not i he definitely fixed when consider- j ed as a part of a lump sum for! financing all developments at Mus- I ole Shoals. In considering the ones:ion of de- ! veloping the shoals projects. Sen-1 a tor Xorris of Xebaska declared' congress should differentiate be tween those of an industrial char-; acter and" others that would ordi-' narily be considered as river and : harbor im provemen ts. Colonel Barden said, in conclud-j ing his testimony, that engineers, believed the traffic would justify the expenditure they had recoup- i mended. Both Chairman No/ris and CoL | Barden agreed that navigation! should be opened to Chattanooga.' Maj. W. 11. Burns of the ord- j nance bureau told the committee I the war department had decided to . salvage nitrate plant No. l and I had approved n policy of keeping i nitrate plant No. 2 in a standby j condition for manufacture of ni trates for the army. Senator Norris said he had writ ten to organizations of engineers, | chemists and power interests telling j of the hearings being conducted, and extending the privilege of hav- I ing their representatives appear. j In addition, it was decided, to, begin probably next Monday, with ! examination of officials of the ' Alabama Power company which! has submitted an offer to develop the power projects at the shoals. Later the committee will ex- | amine representatives of Henryj Ford and others, who submitted ; proposals for privately developing ] the properties. j At the conclusion of this work, the senator said, the committee planned to take up his resolution j proposing creation of a government i owned and controlled corporation I for Muscle Shoals administration | and development. Members of the house military j committee continued today efforts : to reach an understanding be- ? tween themselves on the private of- ; fers already investigated by them. Solid Cars of Fruit by Parcel Post. Washington, March 24?Ship- i ments of fruits and vegetables in ' great quantities by retail merchants j to all sections of the United "States 1 is steadily increasing, according to reports made to General Superin- ! tendent W. H. Riddell, of the Rail- j way Mail Service. As an illustration of the use to I which the parcel post is being put ? by merchants it was asserted by | Superintendent Riddel that re- i cently an entire freight car of as- i paragus was shipped by parcel j post rates. Fach parcel however, ; conformed to weight regulations j and it would not have been possible ; to ship car load as a bulk, it was j explained. Department officials said that \ there appeared to be no reason why j sufficient numbers of crates to make up a half car or a car load, can- i not be shipped in the future as parcel post. Parcels of a perish able nature, however, which are likely to spoil within ihs time rea- ( sonably required for transporta- j tion and delivery, will not. it was | said, be accepted for mailing. The j rates for parcel post matter depend | upon the zone to which shipped : and the weight of the package. ? ? ? It*s easy to find fault, but who ivants it*.' The bows on the hats are to , catch the beaux on the streets. -? ?? m Everything comes to him who ! waits- -unless he is waiting for timself to go to work. Scientists have a serum that makes you tell the truth, but it; ,\ ill never be popular among fish ermen. Some people think our rising generation is our rising degenera i< >n. The first wireless outfit was a \v? man's club. Trouble in Africa may cut off our ; vi.? ry supply: but our reformers) lave pb nty of i'. A boat load of Bussirin ex-gener iIsm lias arrived in NeW York so here will be no waiter shortage. Lenme is said to be at death's loor and has called a German doc <.r to pull him through. Another good way to expand the ?best is to carry a roll of Ion:; jreen in your pants pocket. _m m _ i Some marriages are happy. :nid >ome people think two families ran ive lit the same house. There is a general suspicion that muds across the sea itch a little n I he palms. At thi^ season of the year, con nubial bliss is largely a matter of spring hats. ? ? ? ? You can hear almost everything hi the radiophone now except a Hollywood party. 1 The Egypt of 1922, A. D. King Fund succeeds Cleopatra. "When Great Britain abandoned its protectorate over w and the Sultan <u' the Nile cot. ry changed his title to king, he became the first king of Egypt since the Ptole maic regime." says a bulletin is sued from the Washington. D. C. headquarters of the National Geo graphic Society. "The eld Egypt of millenniums ago is in many ways more familiar to the world at large than the I Egypt of today.'* continues the ; bulletin. ?'Pictures of its great '? pyramids and sphinxes, its column ed temples and rock-hewn tomhs ? Til) histories and encyclopedias; and inevitably the reader's attention is <-entereu, not on the problems of today, but rather on the evidences of a dead civilization. Monuments Background for Hard Life "But aside from tlie fact that , mummy hunting was for many j years one of tlie leading private industries of the country; and that now convicts, instead of building roads, excavate tombs and temples . for the government, the old mon uments are merely a background for a life hard enough to center j local thoughts mostly on daily bread-winning. "Superficially Egypt seems a ; large county. The eye sees its col or spread over a considerable part i of the northeastern quarter of the ! map of Africa, and statistics credit j it with an area of more than 350,-j 000 square miles. But the real Egypt?the habitable part?is like ; a cord with a frayed end: the nar row valley and flaring delta of the Nile. Except a few scattered oases, most of the rest of the nominal; Egypt is parched resort sand, i gravel and rocky hills. Of its more! than a third of a million square1 mile of territory, about I2,00?i are estimated to be capable of culti vation, and a considerable part of this has not vet been actually till ed. * ! Peasant f.ike Figure From Carvings "In comparing the Egypt of to day with that of the dawn of his-j tory one is divided between wonder j at the marked changes on the sur lace and the lack of changes in some fundamentals. The Egyptian ! of today does not speak his old . tongue, but instead. Arabic; his old gods are forgotten, and he has ?with the exception of a small minority?adopted the religion of Mohammed. But in spite of num- : erous invasions, the blood of the ' great majority of the population; has been altered hardly at all. j Practically the fellaheen, or peas ants, might have stepped from the I ancient carvings: they are but a| fresh generation of the men who j dragged the great blocks of stone; into place to build the artificial; mountains of the Pharaohs, or who dropped seeds into the mud of the j receding Nile thousands of years i ago. even as they are dropped to day. - j "Egypt's resources are air.iost wholly agricultural, and in the agricultural schme the millions of; fellaheen are the ultimate units, j They work long hours scratching j the soil with crude implements, or: tediously raising water in sjcin j buckets attached to pivoted poles j that the thin stream may save their plants from parching. Taxes are ' heavy, and it is the lowly fellaheen! who keep the treasury supplied, i Living conditions are very poor: : mud huts house most of Egypt's' thirteen millions. In the fields- they : wear little more than a loin cloth, and the younger children of the I villages go naked. When the fei- j lah is 'dressed up' he-wears a rough shirt and loose trousers. One of Earliest Governments "There is little cause to marvel ' at Egypt's checkered history. A simple reason is that she began early. Here is one of the earliest places in which man lived an or- j dered life and left records of his i activities. Some anthropologists, in fact, look upon central Africa as the place oi origin of men. and up- . on Egypt as one of the first way stations in his diffusion over the j ether continents. "After the long reign of the Pharaohs Egypt had its Grecian and Roman regimes which brought hut few changes. Then in t'4l A. D. came the invasion of the Sara eens. trom which time began Egypt's Mohammedan history. For a time the country w;i< a province of the Arabian Caliphs; later it was' independent, though still Moham medan, under the Mamelukes; and finally, in inn>, it became a pro-] vince of Turkey, which controlled it i first through a governor and later through a sort of heredit?re vice roy or khedive. Khedive-Sultan- King. '"For the third time Europe took! a hand in the affairs of Egypt in I7!'n when Napoleon won his battle of the Pyramids. The British : drove the French out in ISO] ami turned the country back to Turkey. In 1S6H came the building of the Suez ('anal by De Lesseps. which has given Europe an ever-growing interest in Egyptian affairs. To proteei European bond-holders! France and Greai Britain made a ? joint intervention in 1S79 ami for a while controlled finances. The up rising of l ns i against the Khedive was suppressed hy the British ilone. and alter that they controll- ! ?d finances without assistance. The government was in effect Egyptian with British assistance and with he nominal suzerainty of Turke\ 0 k now lodged. ?When the World War began Jreat Britain established a protec- ' orate, abolished Turkey's suz erainty, deposed the Germanophile Chedive. and appionted another! ?rinee of tin- family to be Sultan. 1 he British protectorate is now ?eing withdrawn, nut instead of the ormer Turkish inter* st being re stored. Egypt is set up as an in iependent kingdom.? Friday is one of "the seven un Ucky days on which to cuss a cop. BOY SCOUTS ASSIST IN CLEAN UP Youngsters Busy Gathering Old Tin Cans in Competition For Prizes Through arrangements made with Mr. White, manager of the Rex theatre and a troop of Boy Scouts, the clean-up week com mittee has added another working force in helping clean up the eiry which should prove an important asset. The hoys are busy gathering up old tin o.in.?, er?--.. and bringing them in in competition for free admission to the theatre. Four prizes are being offered by Mr. White for the boys who gather the l?gest number during the bal ance of the week. The first prize is to be a two months pass to the theatre, the sec ond a one month pass, third, a two weeks pass, and fourth a one week pass. What boy would not go out and work hard for the chance of a two months pass to the pictures? ran you imagine any old cans around the city being left in sight after this week? in addition to the theatre tickets, other prizes to be given are: One baseball glove donated by DuRant Hardware company, one regular league hat, donated by H. L. Tis dale, and one official league base ball and one D. & M. official 'le book, donated by W. B. Burns &. Sons. Following are the rules gov erning the campagin: Each hoy scout desiring to enter the contest will register his name and give the location of his pile of cans. Object is to assemble the largest pile of cans, empty bottles and any thing that will hold water and breed mosquitoes. This trash must be secured with in the city limits and from any place, except tin cans and trash already placed for the street clean ing department to handle. The work will be done under the direction hi the Health Officer. The campaign will close at six p. m. April 15th. The scout having the largest col lection .or im 'cans, empty bottles, etc.. will..get' the first prize. The second lajrgest pile will get the second prize, and so on. Notable Tennis Player Nit e, If ranee. March 6 (Asso ciated Press Correspondence)? Whether* Suzanne Lengien ever "comes back" and opinion is even ly divided, France is destined to reserve her claim as the home of sensational women tennis players, as two youthful stars have been developed^on. the Riviera this win ter who."'according to experts might even now give the mighty Suzanne at her best, a very hard game. Mademoiselle Jung, an IS-year old player from Havre and Made moiselle Desclares. aged 16, born in Paris, are the two outstanding feminine stars of the winter. The worth of Mile. Jung was al ready jc^o'w.n,.1 for she was ranked, seventh among'the French women players for 1021 but such has been the improvement in her game that she is certain to be among the first three this season. She has perfect strokes, judgment and is exception ally good ?s a singles player. Mademoiselle. Desclares, how ever, appears to have the greatest undeveloped qualities of the two. She already serves with wonder ful control, and length, has a "per fect backhand stroite and is able to lob with uncanny accuracy. Pair ed with .Sam Hardy of Chicago, the 1020 United States Davis cup team captain, in the mixed doubles, she defeated such veterans as Mrs. Beamish and A. IT. l*amh of Lon? don for the championship. Sh? still lacks tournament experience as most of her opponents on the Riviera were playing tennis befor? she was born but she is already acknowledged to be a better doubles player than Miss Lengler. and not much below the hitter's standard in singles. Many Decorations for Service. Manila. P. L. Feb. 14 (By Mail) Major Samuel I. Johnson, who was in command of the international police force at Vladivostok in 1910. has just received his 27th decora tion, the last one being the Chev alier Order of the Crown of Italy. This is the second decoration the Italian government has given Ma jor Johnson who has medals from nearly every important govern ment on earth. Major Johnson is now manager of a large lumber company on The Island of Negros. Colonel Charles D. Rhodes, chief of staff of the Philippines depart-, an :u also received the decoration of Commander of the crown of Belgium, the citation being read by the Belgian consul. Major Johnson's decorations ha\ ~ome from the folio wins gow ...oents: Titree decorations from the Argen tine Republic; the distinguished s. rvice cross and Siberian campaign medal from the United States; distinguished service order from Great Britain: the eroix de guerre'' with palm from France; emblem of the knight of the crown and order of the crown of Italy from Italy: distinguished service war cross from Czecho-Slovakia: the rising sun. Imperial order of Moiji from Japan: striped tiger of the order of Wen llu from China: order of the white eagle with sword from Serbia, and officers order of St. George and a dozen other decora tions front Russia. ? ? ? So Long Smiles. Down on iho depot platform. Bathed in the bleak wintry breeze; Shy. long ago. of its contents, With nothing inside to freeze; Shorn of its former glory. Tapped of its last amber dreg; Bungless. beerless and friendless,. Stands an empty old eight-gallon keg. ; ?Trumbuli Cheer.