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He Watchman and Southron Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Publishing Company, Somter, S. C. Terms: - r|?.ed per amram?in advance. Advertisements: QnS Square, 'first insertion _.$1.00 ?**ery subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or linger will be made at reduced rates. A?. communications which sub serve private interests will ae chirged" for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re ipeet will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850 and the True! Strethron.in 18$6. The Watchman j end Southron novr has the com- j hine4 circulation and influence of j both dt the old ^papers, and is man- j " - ' ? *~" the best advertising medium Sumter. STOP THE COAL STRIKE _ . -? j The reported intention . of the I Secretary of Labor to undertake; ih? task Of bringing the coal ope rators and miners together for a peace conference is- timely. to put - i 3te-mHdly.- The public has been an- j ?ctp?trng some such , action for I weeks. . It there ^vias anything to be gain- ] ed,i economically or politically, by ! a handsoff poMcy, that is certainly the case no* longer.'? The strike has rtUr for-nearly three months. Coal reserves are near exhaustion, and* wUl not last another month. Indus try is threatened, and in some cases is said to' be already slowing down. The operators, at first reluctant to j h*?et :the miners.' are becoming testrve. and would probably we.l ??J?e an invitation now to meet %^Stex< under the auspices of an im ^M&t government. <_, ft &oes not matter whether ac tion taken by Secretary Davis, or isy-otber federal official, is official ^unofficial, as far as the govern- | ?ment'3s concerned. The main thing is to get action in a place where ac tfpn is needed, and stop the non sense-of ? great key industry, mark- j ?ug- ?me :while industry in general 'is - on' the march and afraid of a fcaH beinsr called for lack of fuel. . vi? tae two .parties tp the dispnte ?ft? be brought together, in mind i as weR as body, peacefully and vol- ; ?Uistarily, so much the better. If: JS?t,r they, ought to be brought to litlieT'anyhow. If persuasion fails; it witt soon be time to use a big CHASING JAZZ i- The tray-'to drive out jazz, is to l^tker-grairi<T -opera popular/ says ^ Juidreas Dippei, who is trying to do ?Sfc - Bfome supports 11 operas in .^k^ ? days^-why not any large American city a dozen, perform-, "ica&S a season? - 5*8= to the music itself. Mr. Dippei ife right. People accustomed to rtfiliy good music almost invariably j their taste for bad. But there j v*T?nOther factor?youth's love of I ^Sr?re'se. When there is* a choice j ; Of .sStt?ig still to hear the most at t??etivev music in the world, or ,-dahcing to any noise with rhythm enough to dance to. youth will 3jfin?e-'" Yet it is possible that youth "teafeed to love good music might -be more discriminating in its choice JixjLtivces. ? ? \ . Most modern things are better j than- their predecessors, yet there j ~?te' exceptions. One is the eigh- I HS^ntn century dance music, now so j :^fefdo3n heard. If Mr. Dippei, or j ~*an*e* phonograph company or \ jJiher ^ubfic-spirited group, could familiarize the'growing young folks -the loures, gavottes., pavanes *n4 other charming dances of that Jjfertotf, much might be added to the j^?asurc and beauty of life. Clean cut; melodious, built by people who i :>fe?d not learned to substitute ' a ,l*a!f-dozen cheap chords for real ?structural craftsmanship, many of are models of fine artistry, possess withal the irresistible ; Jure-to fun and motion which ?makes dance music compelling to young and old alrke. . . When the makers of dance music . "fear? to put masterly workmanship first, as those old fellows did. andt will1 then utilize the great modern range of tone color and volume j"f$SSib!e to the modern instruments, there will be a dance music before ?which jazz?but why mention it? >In those days no one will know what the word means. KNOWING THE INSECTS *- The vacationer who finds his out int in country or fcrest marred by ; the* presence of queer buzzing little insects, might lessen his annoyance by packing a volume of nature lore into his luggage and reading it oc eas?mallyy in a restful hour. Al TMOtt ?- any of the books of Henri FAbre would serve the purpose, for it* would open his eyes to the fact that in every burl, and pond, under fh>e leaves and stones, in crumbling logs or in a sand pile, there "h* thrilling, vibrant, interesting life. In one of - Fabre's books be de scribes a deserted ?, garden thus: "All the insect trades have made ii their - raHying aground. Here come the hunters of every kind of e^wre, --bnftders- in*day; weavers of Cotton goods, collectors of pieces cut from a leaf or a petal of a Soever, architects in pasteboard, plasterers mixing mortar, carpen ters boring wood; miners digging underground - galferies, workers handling goldbeaters' skin, and many more. The mason bees had chosen the interstices between the stones for a dormitory. The pow erful -eyed ?zard had selected a cave wherefn to lie in wait for a passing scarab. - "Bolder still, the wasp had taken possession of the dwelling house. On the door-sill nestles the white banded sphex;' The embrasure of the closed window provides an apartment of a mild temperature for' another species of hunting wasp. The earth-built heat is fixed against the freestone wall." There is more of the same, fas cinating,- marvelous in the inter ests to which it turns'the mind. Perhaps the mosquito cannot be made more endurable by the mere reading of a book on ifs habits, nor the spider which drops into the camper's coffee cup be made wholly welcome. * But ? ? good deal of fretful impatience at these and other little creatures", and a cer tain amount of ignorant fear ? of them can be eliminated, while at the .same time may be - learned the secret of -vision/ the lesson of the joy of anyv observation and- study which brings one close to the heart and life of nature. 'We hope that "new hero'" that Conan Doyle says he is going to create won't be a ghost. " '# * * ?>;-Don't be -tOo critical-Of congres sional oratory.- -Suppose you - had to get upland argue in public every couple of yearW to' hoid your job. ? '?* * The -mad who obeyed the in junction, "Buy till it hurts!" in the -iiS&erty Bond drives, now has salve for the pain. ~" * v . . . , ? That $506,000 to prosecute war grafters may put a few of them in jail; but how much of'thegraftr ed $500,000;Goodwill"it get back? - MORE'MONEY ACTORS s ..A: committee .of the House . of Commons recommends a remark able program of reform legislation for' the protection of animals^ used for human entertainment, as - follows: * - - "First, the appointment of a committee of supervision to watch the training and performances of trained animals*;- second, the regis tration of ail animal trainers and places of training; third, the right of. access of local officials, police and cif?cers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to training quarters and perform ances; at alt times, without previ ous' notice; fourth, the right of the committee of supervision to pro hibit the per-formance of animals trained abroad, if it believes they i were trained cruelly; fifth, the pro- ! hibition' of training and perform ances by Chimpanzees and all an thTopoha apes; sixth, the giving of special attention by the committee of supervision to the training and performances of lions, tigers, leop ards and hyenas; seventh, the pro hibition of the use of mechanical and other appliances in animal con juring tricks involving cruelty: eight, the revision and increasing of the penalties for cruelty." Nearly all of these suggestions commend' themselves to any kindly person. It is not a matter of "slop py sentiment** but a matter of hu man self-respect! There is no ques tion that the training of wild ani mals for the performance of amus ing tricks is nearly always attend ed by cruelty. In the case of the chimpanzee and apes, the performances them selves are unpleasant to most peo ple because of the distant but dis- j quieting resemblance of the crea- j tures to hum?h beings. Whether man is descended from a monkey- J like ancestor, or monkeys are' "degenerate men", as some hold, or whether there is no relation except the general relationship of man to \ the brute creation, it is unpleasant just the same. ' ? ? ? IDLE ARSENALS If, as the International Associa tion of Machinists insists. $100. frOO.OGO can be saved to American taxpayers by the more extensive operation of government arsenals, certainly the government should give the "matter its attention. A saving of that size is not to be sneezed at. even by a $4.000.00 0, 000 government.-* ' According to an exhaustive re pWt representing six month's work the army and navy have manufac taring establishments worth $8.50, $00,000, comprising many enor mous plants equipped with thou sands^ of the finest machines lor making ammunition, weapons and other war- supplies. These estab lishments, says the report, are capable of turning out $300,000,000 worth of products a year, at a cost only two-thirds as high as the gov ernment is now paying private manufacturers for the same pro ducts. The federal plants arc said to be operated at only 10 per cent of their capacity. In this case the usual objections to 'the government going into bus iness in competition with private I enterprise" are lacking. The gov I ernment is already in business, in these lines, and expects to main tain the arsenals and their associ ated plants for war insurance. Why not also utilize them profit ably for current needs, and thereby make their value as insurance more certain? Conan Doyle's a pretty good necromancer, but can he make the ghost walk every Saturday? * * * Nowadays most people and coun tries think they've paid their debts when they pay them with borrow- I ed money. * * * When Gen. Ludend orff an nounces that America started the war, he isn't any more wrong than usual. He's merely mistaking the beginning for the end. * * * Lenine broken and dying, and j Russians eating tree bark. What j next? , ? ,. ? ? m mr ? ?'?? Negro Spirited Away Richmond, Va., June 25.?Long distance telephone advices from Matthews court house this after noon were to the effect Mack Tabb, a negro who attacked with an oar and fatally injured Henry B. James, a salesman of Matthews, had been removed ;to the Middlesex county Jail as it was feared another at tempt would be made by citizens' of Matthews to lynch him. Feel- j .ing is said to be running high inj the community where the attack j took place. With the negro spirit ed away, however, no further vio lence is anticipated. - ??* The Attempt to Climb Mount j Everest. I London. June 7.?Sir Francis: Tounghusband, president of the Royal Geographical Society, is au- ? thorify for the statement that the expedition which was to attempt the conquest of Mount Everest had left Darjelling at the end of March and had arrived at the mountain in good health-. So far as the con figuration of the mountain was concerned there remained no se rious obstacles to oppose the climbers. "But there sti'l remains," he added, "the incalcnlable factor that ; may prove fatal to success?the debilitating effect' of high altitudes on the human constitution. "We have sent out the hardiest, pluckiest and most experienced mountaineers we can find. But can they, with all their courage and determination, skill and re sources, successfully contend against the paralysing lassitude which the I rarification of the air beyond 23, 000 feet is certain to produce. "Experience?the experience of these next few weeks?alone can j determine. The weakness is oc casioned by the lessening quan tity of oxygen in the thinning at- j msophere. And to make Up for j this want of oxygen we have sent out special apparatus for supplying j the precious gas. Even this may t not avail for the apparatus is j ? heavy, and of necessity the 'climb- I ers themselves must carry it. j I And no one can say whether the advantage of breathing the oxygen will outweigh the drawback of j having to carry the apparatus." With every condition favorable. Sir Francis concluded, the ? task j might prove beyond human capac : ity- I F. D. C. Scholarships. ; The following scholarships are to I be awarded in September. 1922: j Division scholarship at the Uni j versify of South Carolina, value $175; division scholarship at Con federate college, Charleston, value jS250; division loan scholarship, lvalue $100 (information concern ing this scholarship may be had '.from the committee): Ridge dis I trict scholarship at Winthrop col !lege, value $140: Pee Dee district scholarship at Winthrop ccollegc, value $140. Rules governing the award of these scholarships: Section 1: Applicants must pre sent affidavits of two Confederate veterans or Daughters of the Con federacy as proof of eligibility as worthy descendants of Confeder ate ancestry. Sec. 2. Present physician's health indorsement and testimonials of good moral character, worthiness and need of assistance, from recent teachers, and at least two other j prominent people of thei rcom l munity. Must be indorced by lo cal U. D. C. chapter. Sec. 3.?Applicants must state age, residence, postoffice and coun ty, parentage,e Confederate ances try (maternal and paternal), school advancement, pledge themselves to abide by the ruies of the institu tion and to make the best use of opportunities offered. All applications (there are no blairks) must be in the hands of the committee on or before July 10V Applicants must stand regular exearuination at county seat court house \n July. Miss Mary E. Williams. York: Mrs. Herman Wright, Ncwherry: Mrs. Ja nie R. Flower:-', Btshoprille, educational committee, ?. D. C. mm JTOTfflNG Dead Mine Superin tendent is Charged With Murder, 'Un known. Parties" Are Blamed For Deaths Herrin, 111.; June 25 (By the As sociated Press).?C. K. McDowell, the one legged superintendent of the Southern IllinoisCOaT com pany's strip mine half way be tween Herrin and Marion, III., was the only man charged with j murder by the coroner's jury which concluded its investigations to night. The non-union men. the coroner's jury decided, came to their dea'h "by gunshot -wounds at the hands of parties to this jury unknown" as the result, of activities on the part of officials of wrecked Les ter mine. The remaining verdicts, 20 in all, stated that each individual "came j to his death by gunshot wounds at > I the hands of persons unknown." No additional information con cerning the identity of the 16 un known dead was unearthed during the course of the inquiry, which took the jury to the local -hospital and into the rooms of wounded non-union men. Allen Findley, wounded thnev keeper for the Southern Illinois Coal company, now in the Herrin j hospital, gave the jury the infor mation on which it-based the? ver I diet of murder" returned against McDowell, the dead superintendent. "McDowell and I were standing on the edge of the* pit .when he asked, as lie pointed to a dark ob ject in the nearby* woods, 'Is that a man?' " quoted Findiey. ? " 'No,' I replied,' he continued, "but he fired and the man threw up his hands in the air and fell. McDowell was a good shot." "We recommend that an investi gation be conducted for the purpose .of fixing the* blame personally on individuals responsible." This was the verdict of the cor oner's jury held here today. "Georgie" Henderson, one of the union men slain, was killed by C. K. McDowell, superintendent of the Southern Illinois Coal com pany, according to the verdict of the jury. This was the only mur der verdict returned. . The verdict of the jtory, accord ing to the coroner, "Bill" McSow en, and Joe Barringer, the foreman j of the coroner's jury, represents I tlie "united sentiment of Williams son county on the massacre of Thursday and the events leading up to it." Members of the jury were: Rob ert Clem, superintendent of the wa terworks; Louis Gibbons, union miner; John Arms, merchant: Phil ip Nokes, union- miner; Joe Bar ringer, union miner; Tom Thorn ton. Herrin. TIL, electrician. The first witness heard was Wil liam A. Thornton, a Marion, III., policeman. "You don't know who did the shooting, do you?" asked Coroner William M. McCowan. [ "No, sir," replied the witness. "I don't know anything about it"' That was the substance of his j testimony and of those who fol lowed him. Colonel Hunter was the next wit mess. He told of being held up by mine guards and taken ? to Mine Snperintendent McDowell of the i strip mine of the Southern Illinois j Coal company last Sunday Tiigrht. Colonel Hunter testified that he) urged McDowell to confine the ac- '? tivities of his guards to the mine j property and that he also urged j that these sentries walk their posts without arms. McDowell agreed to carry out ithe?e suggestions, Colonel Hunter I said in his testimony. I A member of the jury asked Col. Hunter: "Is it true, colonel, that they had machine guns mounted?" "1 searched the mine property three times and failed to find any," Colonle Hunter replied. J. H. Henderson said he was in side the power plant of the coal belt railway between the mine and j Herrin when he heard shots Thursday morning and later heard that bodies had been found in the woods. 1 "Of course." interjected the coroner, "as to how they got kill ed, you don't know anything about that, do you?" "No sir, said the witness. Other witnesses made similar statements. Eliza Cash and Albert Strom, undertakers, told of the bringing fn of 19 bodies and the finding of six. men in the cemetery, two of whom later died. PERRY ARRESTED AS BIGAMIST! Columbia Man Lived With ! Young Girl at Darlington and Summer Columbia. June 26. ? Arthur Perry, a white Columbia man was arrested at Darlington yesterday and lodged in jail here today, charged with bigamy and marrying a girl under sixteen. The girl is \ being detained by the sheriff here today, pending the return to her home in the city with her father. The man Perry has a wife and children here. He took the young [girl to Sumter and also to Dar lington, and lived with her there under the name of Anderson. In a few months the busiest fei- J low in town will be a lazy man try ing to dodge work. What the average man needs is a non-pullnble leg. ' Gas is so high John D. must have given away a quarter. J an^ Stories Zytbum is the last word in malt beverages. Also in the dictionary. The bald man has disadvantages, but he never fai's to shine in so ciety. The porch vines should now be dense enough to conceal the ham mock from the street light on the corner. Prayer alone won't - deliver you from temptation. Prayer needs the assistance of a little lively foot work. Another good way to preserve the teeth is to refrain from mak ing insulting remarks to a hard boiled egg. The second baseman we saw yes terday will come in handy when the elephants are killed off and there is no other source of ivory. If given her choice between brains and beauty, almost every woman would have brains enough to choose beauty. The chief objection to knicker bockers for women is that some fool will be sure to call 'em "mas culine" attire. Among the delightful features of summer is the fact that the saw edge the laundry puts on a collar soon melts. The wet interests must laugh heartily at themselves when they remember how long , and bitterly they fought prohibition. This fad of having -the .teeth out to cure everything isn't new. They began that experiment with the laws some years ago. Just when we begin to be recon ciled to the human race, we meet a man who thinks he is a hit with* the ladies. Another good thing about radio sermons Is that you don't have to feel in your pockets for a nickel just before they begin. There's one thing the man who knows it all doesn't know. He doesn't know how near he comes to, getting smashed at intervals. . A wife may not hear what her husband says, but when six femi nine .guests are talking at once she doesn't miss anything they say. We regret very much that* women are beginning to use tobacco. In a Httle while all of-.it will be mixed with mayonnaise dressing. No. matter how sorry he may be, he always thrills to his marrow with conscious rectitude when some woman tells him he is such a good . man. Now that daughter has finished high school, mother doesn't-know whether to send her to college or encourage that young man at the bank. There is- something about a fa mous woman's husband that re minds us of an appendix. Apparently her critics never will be able to forgive the flapper for being young. As business revives, the put-and take craze will, be replaced by in terest in the output and the in take. Another explanation of the Eu ropean situation is too much plain passion and not enough compas sion. Books on etiquette are painfully silent concerning the graceful way to scratch a musquit? bite in pub- [ lie. One reason why the pioneers were hardy was because they oould n't organize a group and assault the Treasury. The common people are not par ticularly wise. They just appear that way in comparison with their I leaders. j .. - f Some day a popular song writer will g^ve the automobile blues in four flats. About the easiest way to rehabil itate Europe would be to encourage tourist travel and let Nature take its course. Another way to stimulate travel j is to tell the guests that the next number on the radiogram is a ser- j mon. - However, the two million people J in America who can't speak English never need an interpreter when! money talks. With most people, the art of rais ing children consists in furnishing rations and clothes and trusting God for the rest. When a man becomes very proud of his ability, he moves to New ! York. His ego shrinks at once, but he soon becomes equally proud of ! being a New Yorker. i Ludendorff insists the Germans j were not beaten in the field. There! [ Is official data, however, to prove j j that they were beaten in the wind up. ? ??? I COOKING APPLES ? 40 cents a peck. Phone Mrs. White, Ru ral Operator Phone 5004._ POISON the Boll Weevil. Make a cotton crop. We can supply Calcium Arsenate. (Government standard guaranteed). Also "Dorsh" power two row and hand dustcrn. Harby & Co. Inc.. Sumter, S. C, Distributors. dtfridsES PRESIDENT Committee Charges Industrial Feudal ist ajid Doctrine of Conspiracy in White House Cincinnati, June 25.?Industrial feudalism supported by political bureaucracy. seems to have made its. way into the White House, de clared the report today of the spe cial policy committee of the Amer ican Federation of Labor in set ting- forth^ organized labor's stand against the Kansas industrial court and other proposals for compulsory submission of labor disputes to state tribunals. President Hard ing's declaration to congress last December, suggesting regulation of labor unions prompted the com mittee's criticism. "It would seem," declared, the committee, "that propaganda for industrial feudalism supported by; political bureaucracy has found its way into the White House. It is most regretable tO; note the utter ances of the president of the Unit ed States wherein he disapproves of! labor's reluctant but necsesary re-j sort t o the right to strike against j industrial oppression. It may - be well to recall in this connection a most appropriate utterance upon' the same subject by another pres ident, Abraham Lincoln, who said, ! "I am glad that a system of labor : prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to." The report was made public-to day as an aftermath of the federa tion's1 forty-second convention, which in adjourning yesterday or dered that unfinished committee reports should be included in the convention proceedings inasmuch as they were not subject to dis pute. This action, it was announc ed, was tantamount to adoption for the convention directed the re ports should be referred to the fed eration's executive council for ac tion, if any were necessary. . For the purpose of cleaning up these odds and ends, the -council met here today, received the re- : ports and adjourned with the an- \ nouncemenfthaf further discussion I of them would be had at the coun cil's meeting in Washington in-Sep tember. Politics, international re* lations and a shorter work-day were among the subjects touched by the reports presented to the council today in addition to that of the special policy committee. - The special committee consid? ered the Kansas industrial court | law, the compulsory incorporation of trade unions, President Hard ing's suggestion of regulation ami the attempt to pass the duel-Miller bill in New York; "Interwoven throughout all of these legislative enactments and legislative propsoal3," said the re port, "is the insidious attempt to j extend the doctrine of conspiracy to the whole trade "union move ment and thus to prevent the con structive, effective and efficient application of the principles of or ganizing and cooperation of the wage earners. What else may be said of jthe Kansas law, the facts remain that the wheels of indus try cannot be mvoed by anti-strike legislation any more effectively than coal can be dug by injunc tion." The committee declared in favor of the federation's continuance with ? renewed energy of its fight against the Kansas and Colorado} laws, asserting that there could j be no compromise for the ? issue was one that "e?uld not be tol erated by free men." Congress was subjected to crit icism by a supplemental report of the executive committee, which de clared that its attitude against la bor had "frequently been evi denced on remedial labor legisla tion." "Kather than spend .our efforts trying "to change the attitude of the present congress," said the re-' port, "we should endeavor to change its personnel. Now- is the opportun^ time to do 30. There are at least fifty congressional dis- j rtlcts now represented by men who are generally hostile to our objectives, from which trade ttn- | ionists might be selected. What j we need is a realization on the part of the organized wage earners that seats in congress do not belong, by divine right to lawyers and capi talists." The executive committee also at tacked the United States'bureau of efficiency, declaring that "since its inception, it has not made a single worthwhile contribution to public services." The shorter work day commit tee also filed a supplemental report with the counsel, declaring the union coal miners, the printers and the textile workers as "the shock troops" of organized labor in fighting for a shorter work day. j This one rhymes itself. Scholars have studied women since the days of Methuselah's youth, and learned everything that is to be learned, ex cepting, perhaps, the truth. UNDERTAKING THE CHERRY CO ' 18 N. Main Street Motor Equipment KELL BR?NSON Licensed Embalmer. Night Phone 798-L* H?S?AND. DROWNS AS WIFE LOOKS ON Oscar Owens,-of Near Bam well, Seized With Cramps Barn well, June 25?Oscar Jones, a farmer, about twenty-four years of age, drowned at Patterson's Mill stream, about seven miles from Barnwell, this afternoon, while his wife, his father-in-law and' a num ber of freinds and acquaintances looked on. No one in the party being able to swim well, no at tempt it is said, was made to rescue him-. The drowning occurred be tween 2 and 3 o'clock, and it was about an hour and a half later that two young men from Barnwell, Le Roy Molair and Bennie Owens, passed-by the stream. They dived doWn for and brought up the body, . It is believed that Mr. Jones was attacked with cramps, as he did not come to the surface but once. He is survived by-his widow and. three brothers*. He had no chil dren. He livedl-jiear .Barnwell. LYNCHING AVERTED Negro Woman Who Caused the Pontiac Killing Sent Out of the State Columbia, June 26.?The.story of how Governor Harvey averted what would in all probability have been a lynching came to light here to day,-and when asked about the matter the governor corroborated the facts. .The story is all told, two weeks ago, a sequal to the re cent'killing at Pontiac, in Richland county; of Clarence' King, by his wife, Mrs.- Ail en e King, and the story is full of interest. A negro woman, who, Mrs. King has stated, had- consumed the in terest and attention of her hus band, to her own embarrassment, for which she shot him, left Rich land county and went to her fath er's home in a-little Darlington county town. Two weeks ago a delegation of respected .white citi zens from the little town called on Governor Harvey and told him they, wanted t the woman to leave their community. .The men told the governor they had told the-wo man to: leaye their town and her father had resented the-order. The negro parent had secured arms and prepared his home for a fight and was prepared to barricade him self in the. house, making it known to the white men of the town that he resented their ordering/ his daughter away and he proposed to fight for his rights. /Feeliing In the community was intense, arid the governor was-told that the sit uation bordered on an eruption. The delegation told Governor Harvey that they ' did not wa:at trouble, but that they proposed to see their original order enforced; that the woman must leave, but that they feared trouble would re suit, and that while they wanted to prevent bk>odshed> they could not retract** from their :" order. The governor told the men he would prevent trouble, if it meant calling the" troops. Governor Harvey says he sa w that there would be serious troub!let and he "set about to work out a plan. He told the men to go back home and let the matter stand, un altered, for forty-eight hours. In the mean-while Governor Haar vey called in a state constable, one with whom- he is closely coifver sant. He laid the matter before him, and the matter was discussed thoroughly. The constable went to Darlington and investigated the situation. The father of the negro woman iepeated to him the threat that he WOUl<i figbt to- protect bis daughter from the white citizens. The constable then consulted the woman. He told her the governor would call out troops, if necessary, to protect her. but that in any event there might be blood shed, pos sibly the loss of her life. He told her that he might bring her to the penitentiary for safe-keeping, but that she would not want to be lodged in the prison, there being no charge against her. He offered to give her safe conduct to the bor der of the 3tato, and finally she ; agreed to leave. The officer toolc I her to the North Carolina line, ana she went on to Virginia. Candidates Cards FOR CONGRESS. I hereby announce myself a* i candidate for Congress from the i Seventh Congressional District, sub j ject to the rules of the Democratic j party. I also wish to take this.'op* j portunity to say that if elected ':X shall endeavor to faithfully dis charge the duties of the office and to merit the confidence and sup port of the people. ANDREW J. BETHEA* > Candidate for Congress. rXIVERSITY OF SOUTH \ CAROLINA Entrance Examinations Entrance examinations to the University of South Carolina will be held by the County Superintendent of Education at the County Court House, Friday, July 34/1922; at 79 a. m. . The University offers varied courses of study in science, litera ture, history, law and business. The expenses are moderate ar& many opportunities for >self-support are afforded. Scholarships are j available. For full particulars write to President W. & Currell, University of South Carolina, ^ Columbia, S. .C. Five Meet Death iii Arkansas Hartford, Ark., June. 25.?At least five members of a picnic pafty were suffocated today in an jahan doned mine near here. Three-Oth ers, who attempted to rescue, the victims, were overcome and. .are re^ I ported to be in a serious condition*. The mine which had not been in operation for six. months j3 locate ed six miles from Hartford.. ...ft % believed the deaths were caused by fan accumulation of black damp. The death resulted from a, scaall boy's exploring expedition, it is said. The boy entered the. mine and is supposed to have opened a door leading into the. abandonee: shaft. When he failed to reappear other members of the. party , who were picking blackberries nearby ijyerft after- him and were either [killed or injured by the poisonous vapors. . - R?PT?RE EXPERT HEKE Seeley, Famous in This Sp afity Called to Sumter . F. H. Seeley, of Chicago.-and Philadelphia, the noted. truss" ex pert, will personally be at ..the. Claremont Hotel, and will remain in Sumter this Sunday only. July ? Mr. Seeley. says: "The Spermatic Shield will not only retain any case of rupture perfectly, but con* tracts the opening in 10 days on the average case. Being a vast ad vancement over all former meindds ?exemplifying, instantaneous ef fects immediately appreciable, and withstanding any strain or position no matter the size or location.. Large or difficult cases, or racis sional raptures (following opera-* tions) specially solicited. This in strument received the only award in England and in Spain, producing results without surgery, injfec?ons* medical treatments or prescrip- \ tions, Mr. Seeley has documents fror? the United States government. Washington, D. C., for inspection. He will be glad to demonstrate without charge or fit them if de7 sired. Business demands prevent stopping at any other place in tfc^ section, t p. s.?Every statement in .fob- no tice has been verified before t#*e Federal and State Courts.?F. $C Seeley. Home Office. 117 No. Dearborn St.. Chicago. The National Batik of South Carolina Of Sointer, S. C. The Ifsct Patartmktar SERVICE wttfc COURTESY Capital $800,000 Surplus and Profits STRONG JOT PROGRESSIV* Gire 80 the Flea iure of Serrmg YOU. The Bank With the Chime dock C. G. ROWLAND, Fre*. ROWLAND, Acorns Produce Large Oaks. The same i:; true of a bank account. Many people wonder why we. are so anxious to secure small accounts, some of which are, started with deposits so small they do not pay the cost of handling. Our answer to this is we are building for the future for we know many of these accounts will grow and in time become very profitable. The small depositor may be one of our most valued customers in the future. The boy who starts a savings with a dollar may grow in a few years to 5e a business man of commercial importance. . We would like to have you boys get in the habit of bank ing with us now, so that we can count on you in years to come. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP STJMTER, S. C