The Watchman and Southron Ottered at the Postoffice at Sum ter> S. C.t as Second Class Matter. PERSONAL-. Mr. Jake Dixon of Bisbopvffae passed through Sumter Friday - morning while en route for Co *umbia on a short business trip. Miss Martha7 Williams left this morning for Columbia for a visit of a few days. >Mr. a?d Mrs. J. M. Lawrence spent today in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Xeill O'Donncll itave returned to their home in the city from Kot Springs, Ark., where they have been visitors. . Mr. T. M. Andrews, of the Char if^ron Medical College, is spending ihc week-end at his home in Oswe* go. ? The friends of Mrs. C. M. Hurst ^e delighted at the contents of a wire received in Sumter Friday morning which stated that Mrs. Burst had successfully stood an operation at the Frances Mont gomery Hospital, in Greenville I. CV, and was getting along very nicely. Xo complications are ex pected and it is hoped that she is &?on to be well again. Mr. and Mrs. A. C, Renfrow and family,, of Hartsville, spent the week-end in Sumter with Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Renfrow on Bartlette1 St. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Jennings and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Rhame motored to Columbia Friday for a short stay. Rev. J. B. Walker exchanges p?ipits tomorrow with Rev. W. S. Payner of Florence. . Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bynum mo tored to Rock Hill and to Charlotte, X. .C, where they will spend the \veek-end with relatives. Miss Mary Belle Burgess is a Tweek-end visitor in Columbia. Miss Mary Wilson, of Mayesville, spent a short while in Sumter while on her way to Gray Court, S. C, where she will be a visitor for sev eral days. ? * Misses Grace and Emma * Rey nolds left Saturday for Society Hill where they will visit their aunt for several days. 'Mr. W. S. Morrison, of Clemson College, was a visitor in Sumter Friday and attended the Clemson College Alumni Banquet, which was held at the Ciaremont Hotel last evening. Mrs. J. Walter Dbar, of George town^ is a guest of Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Booth. ? Miss Bessie Farr and Miss Minnie Sistrunk, of Blond. Fla., are visit ing- Mrs. W. M. Lee, of this city. Misses Emily and Kaihryn Platt of Aiken, S. C, and Miss Emma Rose, of Greenville, will arrive in Sumter this afternoon to be the guests of Miss Elizabeth Osteen, and to be present at the Osteen Platt wedding. Mr. W. W. McKagen returned to 5?i*Maome in Sumter Friday night Utrai^Spartanburg, S. C, where he jt?s .been for several days attend ing the Tri-State Water and Light Association convention. Mr. Mc Kagen . states that he has had a most pleasureable trip and praised' in the highest of terms of hospital- j hy shown the delegates to the con-j mention by the citizens of "The City| of Success." Mr. L. C. Moise is a week-end \ visitor in Xewberry, S. C. Mrs. S. W. Stubbs and Master1 Wilbur Stubbs. arrived in Sumter! Friday night from Captiva Island, j Fla., at which point they spent the : winter. They will be the visitors i in Sumter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. j Subbs for severa* days before leav-! ine for their summer hame at Lake i Junaluska, X. C. Mr. G. W. Slaton, of Columbia. ; traveling representative of thej Brunswick Fire Insurance Com-! pany, of which the H. P. Moses Co..: are the Sumter agents, is a business visitor in the city today. Mr. A. K. Lewis has returned to; Sumter after having been a visitor! during the week of several cities in j Xorth and South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Xewhall. of < Lynn, Mass., returned to their j home this morning after having! been the visitors in Sumter -fori several weeks of Mr. and Mrs. A. j T? Heath and of Dr. and Mrs. H. M.' Stucky. Both Mrs. Heath and Mrs. j Stiicky were class mates at Stetson j College. Deland. Fla., of Mrs. Xew hail. A short visit was paid to Mrs | Frank Wooten. of Camden. also a j classmate of Mrs. Xewhall. This was the first visit of Mr. Xewhall to the Southland and he states that the visit to Sumter. Camden and j other towns of this vicinity have afforded him untold pleasures. Mr.: and Mrs. Xewhall will spend a t rljort time in Charleston, and make j a trip to the Magnolia Gardens, b*k- ; fore embarking for Massacuhsetts. j ? Mrs. J. C. Heaner - and Miss1 Florence Heaner of Orangeburg \ are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hal Scott.: Mr. Davis D. Moise left Satur- j day night on a business trip to 1 Mississippi and Xew Orleans. Mr. Fitz Stork of the eircula- j tion department of the Columbia: Record was a recent visitor in the! city on business. Mrs. I. C. Rowland and Mrs.: James Rankin have returned to their homes in Henderson. X. C, j after having been the visitors in ! Sumter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W.; Rowland. Mr. Hubert D. Osteen. of Fur- j man University, has arrived at his home in the city to be present at the marriage of his sister, Miss Elizabeth Osteen. "?Mics Jaunita Lawrence, Palma- j festa Queen for Sumter county, j e- i turned to her home in the city i Monday morning after having had j a*jnost delightful week's visit in the; capital city. Mrs. S. K. Rowland left Monday morning for Henderson, X. C, where she will be a visitor for sev eral days. .??Mr. Ansley L. Yates of Charles ton was a week-end visitor in Sum ter. Mr. Cecil Brearley of St. Charles! parsed through Sumter Monday; morning while returning to Colum- < ! bia; where he is at school at the ! Presbyterian seminary, after hav i ing spent a few days at his home, j Miss Ethel Bateman has return ed to Winthrop College. Rock Hill, i after having spent several days at ; her home in Sumter. j Mrs. T. W. Vaughan and Miss iCreighton were week-end visitors in [Rock Hill. ; (Furnished by MaoDowell & Co.,! ;IS South Main St., Correspondents! i of H. & B. Beer, Members New j j York and New Orkans Cotton Exchanges.) Morning Cotton Letter. { New Orleans. April 24.?Liver i pool was due 8 to 15 up by New i Orleans most on distants. Satur I day was holiday in New York. Exports from United States Sat jrrday were again large, 43,000 vs. 13,000 making total so far this sea |son 70S,000 larger than to even idate last year, 4,650,000 against 3, ' 948,000. Washington's long distance fore cast is generally fair, normal tem peratures for whole cotton region and upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys, which is favorable for crop and levees. First break in Louisiana levee occurred Saturday morning just be- j low Myrtle Grove plantation, a j sugar section about 35 miles south j of New Orleans on west side of I river in Plaquemine Parish, i Crevice about 60 feet wide. While I the break is unfortunate for peo-1 I pie in that section, which is thinly I ! populated however, it will likely i j tend to make the water flow more i [ rapidly to the gulf, affording some j j relief to upriver levees. Tomorrow will be first May no tice day in New Orleans and New York, light tenders expected here I but heavy tenders predicted in New York. Weather, river, political, la bor and trade advices likely affect values today, as will attitude of I Liverpool, and may have some li I quidation of May in advance of no jtice day tomorrow. This situation is such as to make ? for higher markets if news is cheer J ful or if bad weather develops in ithe interior. Sentiment apparently more bul lish than otherwise. Chicago Tribune on Grain. Chicago, April 24.?The grain trade of the \ world is closely j watching the market for May wheat I in Chicago and will continue to do. j so until maturity of that delivery, j j It is a world's proposition ? and j ? prices are dominated more by this j j fact than by "local changes that; j occur from day to day. There is a j I big open interest in May with for- j ; eigners active on both sides. They ] I are also getting into the July and! j September and a local exporter es- ! itimates that around 30,000,000; ? bushels new crop . wheat has al- I , ready been contracted for July- i : August shipment. There are claims thai May longs are working to get I prices of July to a level where they I can hedge against their May hold- ] j ings to net them a good profit. ' Today's statistics are expected to j be bullish with a big decrease in j southwestern stocks, a reduction in ' the United States visible and in the ? quantity on ocean passage with j world's shipments showing a mod erate volume. It is an impression among careful J students of the corn market is that i prices are to work irregularly high- j er. xIn a large majority of the last j 25 years May corn has sold higher j during the month of May than in j April. j Stanley on The Weather. Memphis, April 24.?Light show- j ers Saturday in the Carolinas along I the coast, light to moderate rains j scafered western belt during Sun- | day; temperatures continue rather! cool at night. ' j Monday eastern and central belts j generally fair witu western belt j mostly cloudy. COTTON MARKET HEW YORK COTTON. Testers upn High Low Close Oos? Jan.17.60 17.73 ?7.57 17.61 17.60 . May .17.90 18.04 17.88 17.99 17.91 ; July .17.65 17.72 17.60 17.64 17.58 | Oet.I,.62 17.76 17.62 !7.66 17.57 Oee.J7.66 17.78 I7.6i 17.65 17.62 Spots 10 ui>. 18.13. Kew Orleans Cotton. Y'st'dy'a Opea Hieb Low dose Close Jan.17.00 17.08 16.94 16.94 17.00 May .16.95 17.07 16.81 16.81 16.99 July . .. 17.04 17.17 16.96 16.96 17.08 Oct.17.03 17.15 16.96 16.96 17.06 Dee.17.66 17.78 17.61 17.65 17.62; Sjxrt* 12 up, 17.00. ! Liverpool Cotton. January .... . 10.06 1 March . 10.03 **y .*. 10.19 ; July . . 10.21 October . . 10.13 December . . 10.08 ; Sates 7.f officers held the chief in terest of delegates to the congress] of the Daughters of tin- American] Revolution. Balloting is to follow the reception this afternoon. Washington, April 21.?Grain! exports during March increased! ten million dollars, compared with February* '*nl decreased s*ixtevn million compared with March of last year, the commerce depart ment announced. Gainesville, Fla.. April Warning against .i growing ten dency towards speculation through out the country as business condi tions improve . wa" sounded by Comptroller of the Cu rrency Crh ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IS IN BRIEF ! singei' in an address before the Florida Rankers' Association. He urged bankers to use their influence to prevent tly-by-night schemes. Baltimore. April 21.?The ap pointment of women to public of fices, regulation of hours and work ing conditions for wage earning women and the prevention of the white slave traffic were discussed at the Pan-American conference of women. Belfast. April 22.?Michael Col lins was met at Kilarney depot by a Republican officer with a revolver and told he would not he allowed to speak until the firing on one of the officers and men at Listowe! had been cleared up. Washington. April 22.?Various plans for financing the soldiers' bonus was discussed at a confer ence of the senate finance commit tee of Republicans. No definite decision was reached, Chairman McCumber said "and do not think under any .circumstances we will make a bill to provide for addi tional taxes." Bar le Due, France. April 24.? France will, if necessary, under take alone to see that the treaty of Versailles is executed, if the Germans default in the reparations payments, Premier Poincare inti mated in a speech. New York. April 24.?Marshal Joffre. the hero of the Marne, has arrived here for a week of feasts, dinners, military reviews and spe cial celebrations before departing for France. Genoa. April 2-i.?Once more to day the gyrating Genoa confer ence, which has been alternating between fears and hopes and punc tuated with political crisis, which threatened to destroy it altogeth er, set itself grimly to the task of readjusting the economic life of Europe. The announcement by the Germans that they would nor re ply to the second allied note bo cause it threatened the success of the conference was received every where with relief. Jack Power at Trinity. (Contributed). --r--1 One of the largest audiences seen in a great while was present last night at Trinity Methodist church to hear Jack Montague Power when he delivered his forceful sei rnon on "sowing and reaping, or chickens come home to roost." Power spoke for about one hour, but many declared that they could have remained for an hour more to hear this fearless speaker as he rained blow after blow upon modern vices; especially the dis solute dance, joy-riding, gambling and bootleggers. He said he must take a shot at. some of the modern dressed, daz zling dames, with their abbreviat ed frocks and bobbed brains. Power lived up to his reputation as the most fearless speaker on the platform today when it comes to denouncing vice of all kinds, and he knows the human family like A. B. (Vs. Regarding dance halls and joy riding autos, Power declared that they are twin sisters in crime, in cubator of vice and vulgarity, and with bright lights and seductive allurements they were beckoning the callous youth and careless, maiden to a speedy and certain death, when in the end they would lift up their voices and in an an guished yell, damned and lost for ever. He begged fathers and mothers to beware. He protested vigorously against folk calling themselves Christians who would stand the bond of a damnable bootlegger, or moonshin er when they were conviced of the guilt of the party, and urged heav ier sentences upon those guilty oi such nefarious practice. At conclusion of the sermon many came forward for a closer walk with Jesus; and there were several reclamations. Power classified church members as Fords, and real Christians as Packards and Piercc-Arrows. He injected sufficient humor into his discourse to keep the immense con gregation in a splendid humor, and all went away well pleased and glad they were present. It has been a long time since Mexican bandits killed an Ameri < an, except by booze. The way they shed tears in the movies shows that spring onions are back in Hollywood. Prosperity is turning the corner ?but you've already heard that one. Jevve.r hear the one about the Pullman porter and the old maid? DOINGS OF THE DUFFS FEDERATION OF [ WOMEN'S CLUBS; Mrs. Adam Moss, of Orange-: burg, Elected President? ! Summary of Reports Columbia, S. C. April 21.? j Mrs. Adam Moss ?>f ?rangeburg; was yesterday elected president of! the South Carolina Federation of! Women's Clubs succeeding Mrs. S. O. l'louden ot Stateburg who, with a year more of her term still to run, tendered he ? resignation. The re- i suit of the election was announced j immediately before adjournment1 for luncheon, but Mrs. Moss de- j clined the office, declaring that it! would be' impossible for her to i serve. However, while the lunch-: eon given the clubwomen by the; chamber ? of commerce was in j progress, it was announced that Mrs. Moss had been persuaded to j reconsider and that she would ac- j cept the election. Mrs. Moss' change! of mind was brought about by the j gaining of her husband's consent) to become the federation head, one j of the clubwomen having communi- j cated with him by long distance in: Orangeburg and brought the word I to Mrs. Moss that he had given his j approval?an incident which, re- i lated in connection with the good j news of Mrs. Moss' acceptance, was; regarded by the few men present, at the luncheon as being a hearten- i ing symptom in this time of wo- J men's freedom and independence. Mrs. John Drake of Bcnnettsville. who has been the recording secre tary for four years, was elected.; vice president at large to succeed Mrs. Moss, who was elevated from the office. Mrs. James A. Cathcart of Columbia, who was formerly! treasurer, was elected recording! secretary; Mrs. A. C. Ligon was! elected corresponding secretary: I Mrs. R. B. Furman of Greenville.J treasurer; Mrs. N. R. Goodale of! Camden, vice president of the] North central district. The other! vice presidents hold over. I Convention Adjourns. '. The convention adjourned at 5! o'clock yesterday afternoon after; an all day session beginning at 9 a. m. and suspending only an hour and a half for lunch. At the morning session Mrs. Lc-; roy Springs reported that the fed-i eration endowment fund of $5,000.; for the support of federation work ! in this state, is still $300 short. The] clubwomen have made it known j that they will be grateful to receive) contributions to this from any per sons, .men or women, who are in-( terested in the federation. Again the convention expressed! its pride in an approval of the work i for education which Miss Wil Lou .Cray has done by giving her a ris ing vote of thanks. Miss Gray made a striking report as chairman of the department of applied edu I cation. The convention decided at ; j Miss Gray's suggestion, to present j ja que.stipnaire to all candidates for; office in the state primary next i summer to be prepared by Miss! Gray's department for the purpose! of learning of their positions in re- J gard to education. The women in dorsed Miss Gray's recommendation to put women <>n the county boards of education. Miss Zena Payne made a fine re-j port on American citizenship. The: clubwomen v.ill make an effort to have July 4 observed more fittingly in this state. Mrs. Duncan Mc- j Konzie of Timmonsville, in her report on community service pled for an effort on the part of the federation to improve the stand- j ard of moving pictures. Mrs. John! Drake added to this a plea for a j higher standard of "road shows"! presented on the legitimate stage. Department Reports. One of the outstanding reports! of the morning was that of Mrs.| Ruth A. Dodd. chairman of public j welfare, and under her department! excellent reports were also made by j Mrs. N. R. Goodale on civics, Missj Lottie Oiney of Charleston on child 1 welfare. Mrs. Donald McDonald of] Columbia on health, Mrs. J. E. Walmsley on the conservation of ; natural resources. Mrs. Ethel M. Rest of the wo man's bureau. United States de-) partment of labor, made a talk on\ industrial conditions among women in South Carolina. At the invita- j tion of the governor and the state; League of Women Voters she has! made a survey of this state, cover- j ing 11,171 women. She declares1 that, compared with other states,! wages are low and the hours long, j but conditions tinder which women work are fairly good. In the mills. I where S3.4 of the women in indus-i try in this state are employed, she,' found the general equipment and j conditions good, especially with re-1 gard to cleanliness. Miss Leila Russell, field agent! for Winthrop college, gave an out-! line of the summer course for club-l women which has been arranged again this year by Winthrop, and which is more than ever full and attractive. Miss Russell declares: that the fame of this clubwomen's' school has gone far beyond the boundaries of this state and she! is frequently receiving inquiries from other states. .Mrs. .1. E. Ellerbe's gratifying re-| port on libraries concluded the j morning program. Final Session. At the afternoon session the federation pledged a minnmum of 1 $1,000 towards the national head quarters, which the federation has bought in Washington, this to be paid in three years. The president appointed Mrs. Cora Cox Lucas, chairman of the department of fine arts and presi dent of the Afternoon Music club of Columbia, as the federation's rep resentative to take part on the music program at the biennial of the general federation in Chautau qua this summer. Also during the afternoon session in convention gave Mrs. Lucas a rising vote of thanks for her work In arranging the musical features of the con vention program. A short talk was made by Mrs. Nellie Mason Miranda on the Trav elers' Aid and one by Miss Hough. Southern director of the Girl Scouts, on the work of that organi zation. The convention indorsed the movement for the Woodrow Wil son fund and passed resolutions of thanks to Columbia, its chamber j of commerce and its clubwomen j for the hospitality and considera tion shown the convention. Mrs. Plowden. in her gracious, pleasant manner, called the new officers upon the stage and present ed them to the convention, and with a few words of thanks to the federation for the cooperation ac corded her as president and a word ol encouragement to her successor, she turned the gravel over to Mrs. Moss. A meeting of the directors im mediately followed the adjourn ment of the federation. Our Ties With Tunisia "A visit to a fruit store with its: dates, oranges, lemons and al- j monds; the singing of 'Home Sweet Home'; the theological background of the services at any Christian church?these are some of the links that bind an American, though he may be unaware of it, to desert-fringed Tunisia." With this introduction the Na tional Geographic Society issues from its Washington, D. C. head quarters a bulletin on the regency of Tunis, one of the three North African countries which the French contemplate placing under a single administrative control. "In Oak Hill Cemetery in Wash ington lies buried John Howard Payne, the homeless actor and au thor of 'Home Sweet Home*, whose first resting place was in the City of Tunis, where he died while he was American Consul at the Tunis ian capital. A tomb like that erected to him In Washington marks his former grave in Tunis. Africa's "Farthest North" "Agriculture is the chief indus try of the region, about the size of the State of Mississippi, which lies between the Mediterranean and the Sahara, and projects farther north than any oilier point in Africa. Citrus friuts. almonds and pistachio nuts form a large proportion of its e xports. Cork and henna are other important products. "Some ten miles from Tunis are the ruins of Carthage, cradle of Christian theology, where St. Au gustine, most influential of the fathers of the early Latin Church, taught rhetoric and produced im portant dogmatic writings. The praeiteal lady traveler who assured \ her companions that the site of Carthage was hound to "come back' ? because it afforded excellent sites for hotels and such splendid op- ! port unity for a golf course between i it and Tunis was more,accurate in I geography than imbued with rev erence. The harbors which Appian described still are to be seen; the rest of the city has succumbed to Cato's edict. 'Delend? Est Car- ] thago.' Once Rivaled Rome "The present thriving City of Tunis, however, is reputed to he older than Carthage, one-time rival | of Rome both in importance and corruption. Indeed, to the Roman world the littoral of Tunisia was Africa. The very word "Africa" is a Latinized form of the Berber i name for this region. 'Ifriqa.' The! gypsies of Africa, the Berbers, still j are to be found in Tunisia, praeti- ; cally unchanged and unchangeable, as when they defied Roman now- j er and Augustinian persuasion. Even today Tunisia is an uncon quered country, since France as sumed a protectorate upon native invitation. ?"Tunis might be called a voo^-1 ed-over city. Many of its streets j are wholly or partly arched over, j and its famous bazaar is a vast I market place under cover. The] women folk of the city are strik ing to the first time visitor, wheth er they be rotund Jewesses, with pantloons and funnel-lik hats. ?.*?; New England Male Quartet Here at Chautauqua The New England Male Quarret, which appears here at the coming-Jledpath Chautauqua, has established a reputation throughout the entire country-?* rep utation earned through its first-rank vocal attainments and originality in en tertaining. An exceptionally harmonious blending4>i voices is the feature of .the vocal ensemble. This splendid harmony is equally gratifying- in the songs from"the classics and in the rollicking music of popular airs. In addition to a wealth of vocal features, the program is rich in capital character impersonations and amusing monologs. This is essentially a high-grade singing organi2*tfcji. It can be depended upon to please any audience. .. . ... . _._^_ . \-? : ? -if ladies of the Arab harem, com pletely obscured by clothes, or the bronzed, lithe figures of. Berber girls. The- attire of the men often is more colorful. Their love of col ors, especially of lighter and more delicate shades, gives a chromatic impression of an American city's Easter parade. "A physical curiosity of Tunisia are the salt lakes.