University of South Carolina Libraries
The Watchman and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur day by ?steen Pubh'shins C?i?paiiy; Suriiter, S. 'Ok' Terms: S2-.0? per annum?in advance. Advertisements: Q?V Square, first insertion __$1.00 Bvety subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates* . Ail 'communications which sub serve ?'. private interests will oc charged for as advertisehients^ ?bitirafies and tributes of re spect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Wat oh man andH Southron now. has the com bined' circulation and, influence ,of both" of the old papers, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium in Sirmter! ROAD PAVING" WIDTH. Serious attention should be giv en .everywhere to the recommen dation :of the Federal Bureau of ? labile Roads that, all road paving hereafter should be at least 18 feet wide. JESverybody who drives any kind of vehicle on the highways nowa days knows how difficult and ex aggerating it is to pass a steady stream of traffic on the narrow paving. strips that many communi ties hive built. It is common ex peHence that 14 feet is not wide enough. Sixteen feet is better, but not really adequate. The Bureau of f*ub?c Roads, after careful ob servation, -says that nothing less than 18 feet will give sufficient room for an automobile and a big truck to pass each other with go ing at : a?y_ speed. That provides the.edesirable, clearance- of 3 1-2 feet and _ a: safe margin at the edge of the pavement so that the enter Vehicle is not forced off into the mud in bad weather. Where two trucks have to pass each other freq^entljv a 20-foot paving is ad vised: " It Should_.not be necessary in the tB.ture;:jasJSh.'. has been so often late ly, -to ^JridenTa paving after it has been built. It is much cheapei and better- to. be generous in the first. pJaoe. ..Traffic grows steadily, ^ferrpwer pavements will never needed, and-Tider pavements pro! /ably -q?li be, everywhere. ? ? ?-? zA&cm vwixs ix co^rt ?Jt was pointed out, when the TJnited States Supreme Court ren dered its -famous'. Coronado deci sion, that if labor unions were liable to be sued for damages don? by them in an industrial contro versy, they * were also eligible to ?ue. Few labor leaders were so open-minded or .far-sighted as to .see or admit this, but proof that the principle Works ?oth ways -comes;with unexpected celerity. In a decision by a common pleas Wirt in Cuyahoga County, O., la bor Itself "derives the benefit from its corporate responsibility. A lo cal labor union, consisting of sta tionary firemen employed by breweries,, was threatened with a wage "reduction in defiance of a wage agreement the union had with the employers. The . union brought suit; with the result that the brewers'* were enjoined by the court .against cutting wages dur ing the term of the agreement. Thete pras a somewhat similar case last fpring in New York City, wher??j?$g[ court, on the suit of garment workers, enjoined the garment -manufacturers from con spiring, tft violate an agreement with the bunion. But h\ the pres ent case-'iihe court goes farther, actually forbidding the individual manufacturers to reduce the pay Of .the ura?n workers. The expla nation of*the court is worth read ing by.^wery citizen: "As long? as such a contract (en tered into- in the best of faith by both parties) continues in force, it ought to--fee the duty of a court of equity* to enjoin any conspiracy on the part of . either side to breach it, and the aid of the courts ought to be extended as freely to the em ployees as to the employers. "If a court of equity cannot en jgjn a,, breach of such a contract, then.the system of collective bar gaining may as well be abandoned, and such advantages as come to both employer and employee by reason of such a system will be lost. r "It is elementary, and yet some times needsremphasis. that the door of a court of equity is open to employer and employee alike. It i? no respector of persons. It is keen to protect the rights of all. Heretofore the employer alone has prayed the protection of a court of equity against threatened irrepar able illegal acts of the employees. But mutuality of object compels a mutuality of remedy. "It is a hopeful sign when labor does appeal to the courts." In Il?Tiois n gunsmith was held up and robbed. Von can't always get by on your reputation. SHELL EXPLCM?N KILLS EIG?T Children Were Playing Cro quet With Souvenir of War Watcrtown, N. Y., July 12.? Eight children, ranging in age from 11 to 16 years, were blown to pieces late today by the explosion pf a 75 millimeter shell on the back porch of-a house in Dimmick street, occupied by Edward W. Workman and William iL Salisbury. The dead: Morris Salisbury, 16; Frances Wilney, 13; Vivian Jones, 12: Olin Brown. 11; Anson Work man, 13; Edna Workman, 3T4; Sa rah Barden, 13, and Donald Hor ton. 12, of Pulaski, ? Y., who was visiting the Brown boy. ? The: shell, which was owned by Mr. Workman, was one which he had kept as a souvenir and- used on .the rear porch to . hold the door from closing. It was believed to be "dead." The children were playing cro quet in the back yard. The shell is-believed to have either been set off by the hot/ sun or to have been struck by one of the victim's with a croquet mallet. Windows within a radius of two bloeks were shat tered by the -explosion. Practically all of the clothing was blown off the bodies of the chil dren. Fragments of it, lodged in trees and house tops in the vicin ity. The bodies were horribly mu tilated,- but identihcation was pos sible in every instance. One of the first physicians oh the scene was Dr. F. W. Jones. Lifting a covering which had been placed over one of the forms, he recognized the body of his 12 year old daughter, Vivian, by means of an adhesive dressing he had placed on a cut on her Teg barely a half :hour before He did not know his daughter was in the group* and was almost overcome with grief. The bodies of the children were found apparently at places near where they had been standing in their croquet game. Near them lay fragments* of the croquet mallets. Several of the balls 'used in the game were blown to bits and the wickets were torn from the ground. The shell apparently let go with out warning. Two carpenters at work, on a house next door to the Workman home said .that a second before the detonation they had heard the voices of the children laughing at play. The two men were the first to reach the 'scene. They were greeted by ? scene of utter desolation. The Workman house is of concrete and. the con cussion had reduced the entire rear. of. the house to powder. On the ground lay the eight bodies and over all a .gray, pall of concrete dust was beginning to settle.v Fragments, of. clotliing were sus pended from trees a:id house tops. Two automobile-^ tires which had been pn the back porch, were blown to the roof, of a building 200 feet a:way. y Blocks of concrete were blown against neighboring houses and into the streets and surround ing, yards. . The shell, was what is . common ly known as a "dud." The pro jectile had been fixed from one of the three..inch guns during target practice of the One Hundred and Fourth Field artillery at Pine Plains reservation last summer. It had not. exploded by fuse or con tact, and. lay in the sand fully charged when Mr. Workman found it and* brought it home as a souve nir. \ He. kept ,it, in his. home during the winter and this summer used it as a weight .to. adjust the screen door on his rear porch. Capt G. H_; Schumacher, con struction quartermaster temporar ily with the First Field artillery at Maiscn barracks, was asked by po | lice to inspect the remnants of the shell tonight -Captain Schumach er believes the excessive heat beat ing down on the projectile caused the TNT charge to expand, and made the shell liable, to ^explosion j at a much less concussion than i normally. j Presence.of the concrete wall of t the .house behind the shell, Capt. j Schumacher said, threw the force of the explosion forward and direct i ly against the eight children, al I most as if they had..been standing ! directly in,the path of the gup. Po ?lice tonight are honeycombing. the j city for souvenir shells and already j have found six, all of which were : picked up. last summer on the sands j at .Pine Plains v 4Tljey were drop ped in the Black river on advice of ! Captain Schumacher;. Special Judges Will Be Appointed j Columbia, July 13.?The two va I eancies on the circuit bench, j caused by the recent deaths of j Judges Ernest Moore and Edward Mclver. are not to be filled until the legislature of 1923 elects. This is the interpretation of the law plac ed by Governor Harvey. The gov ernor will make temporary ap pointments of "special" judges, on I recommendations of Chief Justice Gary, of the. supreme court, for all ! terms of court over which these ! two judges would have presided. ? Prominent lawyers of the state will i be named for the various terms. . At present one special judge is j presiding, E. P. McGowan, of Lau - j rens. who it? holding court in York. ! Several other special judges have ! already, been appointed and have ] held court. ? m ? Mr. M. J. Moore who served sev eral times as Magistrate, prior to entering the contest two years ago as a candidate for County Treasurer. ! announces his candidacy for election as Magistrate. Magis trate M. Archer Wilder is a ! candidate for re-election. j Our objection to the office boy I losing sleep is that he tries to find !it at the office.. ? ? ? Lots of future convicts are liv i ing on Easy Street now. There is always room at the top ' for a big strawberry. money from::?: Game warden Surplus Fund Distributed to Counties For School Pur poses j _ j Columbia, July 12. ? A. A. j Richardson, chief game warden, j announced yesterday that lie had : forwarded vouchers for $47,505.20 to Various county treasurers. The ?vouchers cover the amounts earned by the state game'department over and above the upkeep of the de j partment and the' payments made ; for law enfotcement in the counties I throughout the state and are to be ! used for school purposes. The vouchers were forwarded yesterday I except, the .counties of. Calhcun, 1 Darlington. Dillon, Hampton, Lau i rens, L.xington, Xewberry and I Union, which counties have already received their proportion, accord ing to Mr. Richardson. Following is the list of ? amounts 1 sent to the various counties which is j to be credited for -school purposes: Abbeville, $687.15; Aiken, $758. 30: AUendaJe, ?351; Anderson, $L 616.40; Bamberg, $397.80; Barn j well $477; Beaufort, 603.45; Berk eley $713.70: Calhoun $330.30; I Charleston,. $2,243.70; Cherokee $739.35; Chester, $1,039.95; Ches jterfiel'd, $S71,20; Clarendon $614. 70; Colleton $373.95; Darlington $918.45; Dillon $2S6.20; Dorchester $489.60.: Edgefield $275.40; Fair I fieid$786.15; Florence $1,255.05; Georgetown $1,568.70; Greenville I $3,037.05; Greenwood $1,626.T5; (Hampton $733.05; Horry $721.35; [jasper $1.076.85: Kershaw $1,005. j 30; Lancaster $808.65: Laurens, ;$2,359.35; Lee $433.80; Lexing ?ton, $1,528.65"; McCormick $540.45; {Marion $389.70; Marlboro $473. 85; ' Newberry $1,284.75; Oconee $67.5.9.0; Orangeburg $1,257.30; Pickens $1.167.30; Richland, $2, 686.95; Saluda $864.45; Spartan burg $2,816.55: Sumter $933.75: } Union $1,076.40; "Williamsburg $8.77.95; York $1,7.31.60; Total $47, 505:20. - ? ? ? Water-Lifting Device Inventor Makes Water Run ?p Hffl .-'mm London, July 8.?A- water-lifting apparatus which seems ^to flout the natural law that water cannot run uphill, and by which the tremen dous energy of the rising tides" may be harnessed for use by man, is an invention of Thomas G. Allen, grad uate of Washington University, St. Louis, and now a British subject. The "Hydrautomat," as the appara tuses called, is the result of two years of experiments. A working model has been viewed by scores ; of engineers, some of whom have been baffled by the simplicity of j the cycle of operation. It has lifted I water twenty feet above the river level. > ... The hydrautomat is. designed to raise water in any quantity from a running stream to any desired height, with the use of standard equipment such as pumps, rams or water-wheels. The apparatus har nesses two natural sources of ener gy, the weight of a column of water and atmospheric pressure. By means of a series of tanks, one above the other, and a sluice gate, j which alternately brings suction J and pressure forces into play, 80 j per cent of the energy of the pres j sure water used is obtained. The j height required is reached by car rying the series of tanks, alternat ] ing open and closed chambers, to J gether with air conducting pipes, I to the desired height. It is believed there is unlimited I scope for the hydrautomat on j streams.where dydraulic power de velopments are not feasible because of the small amount of fall. One of the first applications is expected to be on irrigation projects. In a broad sense, according to J the inventor, the purpose of the ; hydrautomat is to convert the con j tained energy of large quantities of j water at a low head into that of a smaller quantity of w?ter at a j high head, or to compel a stream j to hoist part of itself up over the ! land for commercial or-agricultu i ral purposes. The principal is fix led; the application is to be determ j ined by local requirements. ! World patent rights have been j issued. It appears . that in the ! world's inventive records, the prin ! ciple of the hydrautomat has been I remotely approached, but never at : tained; ? -m^mm- . I Grants Jeffords Time Extension f - ? - p Camden, July 12.?Frank M. i Jeffords, convicted murderer with j Ira Harrison and Glenn Treece of ; John C. Arnette of Columbia, will ! be allowed until Saturday, July 22. ! to complete his appeal to the su j preme court from the verdict and j sentence of the Richland circuit court. The extension of time was ! granted by Judge W. H. Townsend ! today upon the petition of Barron, I Barron & Barron of Union, attorn j eys for Jeffords. Harrison's appeal ! must also be completed bv Julv The voluminous transcript of the j testimony taken during the five ; days' trial was completed by John j K. Aull, court stenographer, last j Friday and was delivered to all per I sons concerned Saturday morning. I The testimony ran over 600 pages and totalled approximately 375.000 (words. The additional ten days was [allowed in order that the convicted j men might not suffer because of the time lost while the transcript of the ! testimony was being made. Columbia, July 13.?The Augus ta-Aiken Electric Railway must ; provide ice writer in its cars from I March 1 to October 1. according to j an order issued Wenesday after I noon by the South Carolina Rail ! road commission. This is .to pro I vide drinking water fori passengers : during the summer months. I Fourth of July picknickers nl ! ways make the country mosquitoes i put in their bills for overtime. CHARLESTON OWNS DOCKS AND TERMINALS City Takes Over Property of Charleston Terminal Com pany Charleston, July 10.?A tele gram sent by Chairman M. Rut ledge Rivers early this afternoon from New York City, where the deal was consummated, announc ed the formal transfer of th<* Charleston Terminal company wa terfront properties to this city, ex tensive holdings on the Cooper riv er front becoming municipally owned when Mayor John P. Gracp received from President J. R. Kenly of the terminal company the title deed, and Chairman Rivers tendered in payment a certified check for $1,255,953.22. General Manager H. M. Gallagher, elected to this position by the utilities commission some weeks ago, and who recently arrived in Charles ton, on receipt of the announce ment, assumed active charge of the terminal operation on behalf of the city and now has his desk in the former offices of the Charles ton Terminal company. He said there would be for the present no change in the employed personnel of the. city terminals and belt line. Ewen Davidson, former general manager for the company, will con tinue his duties in cooperation with Mr. Gallagher for the rest of this month.... Mayor Grace, in commenting on this purchase, characterized this as' la red letter day in the history* of Charleston, marking as it does the j taking over by the city of the con ; trol of the chief port facilities. For j a number of years he had advocat ! ed this step, and formal proceed ings of various kinds, including agreement on purchase price, is suing of bonds, legislation for pur chasing and operating/ and many other matters of importance, have been going ahead steadily, culmi nating today in the actual pur chase. The city, through its com mission of nine members, includ ing A. F. McKissick of. Greenville and Bright Williamson of. Darling ton, will from now on pursue a policy of permanent development and expansion of port utilities and has in hand about $1,250,000 in cash for future expenditure. Gen 1 eral Manager Gallagher, experi enced in . waterfront expansion, forecasts a new era of prosperity for this city through municipal op? eratiori of docks and belt- line-; Chairman Rivers, Mayor Grace and representatives of the terminal company and official bond pur chasers were at the conference td ! day in New York when the final I transaction was completed. ! ? m* Mbftey for Soiitft C??roliri? Cotton ?rrowers^C^b^ rative Association Columbia, July 13.?The' war finance corporation at Washington yesterday approved an advance .of $10,000,000 to the South Carolina ? Cotton Growers' Cooperative assp : ciation. Announcement of its ac ! tion was made after a hearing in j Washington yesterday morning at which were present H. G. Kaminer ? of Gadsdcjt, president and general j manager of the association: L. j D. Jennings of Sumter, member of jthe executive committee; W. Rog j ers Scarborough of Bishopville, [treasurer, and J. Pope Matthews j of Columbia. Harold C. Booker, ! secretary of the association receiv ! ed a telegram yesterday afternoon I from Mr. Kaminer stating that the j application had been approved, j . The $10,000.000 will be used in j making advances to members of j the association on the delivery Of their cotton. -Each member will get j 60 per cent of the current market value of the grade of cotton deliv ered to the association at the time of its delivery, it was announced yesterday at the offices of the asso ciation. Great satisfaction that. the war I finance corporation had seen fit to j approve the loan was expressed by I officials of the association last night, j They anticipate no difficulty in j financing the association, i With the officers and many of the j technical heads of the association j chosen, the financing problem solv ed and headquarters secured, the I directors will now tackle the ware house problem. Many warehouses over the state have already, been offered the association and no trouble is expected in securing ample storage space, according to ! officers of the association. Washington, July 12.?Advances j totalling $24.000,000 to assist the j marketing of cotton have been ten J tatively approved by the war fin I ance corporation, it was announced j today by Director Meyer. The two Carolinas are to share the major j portion of the sum. the advances j providing $10,000.000- for the North I Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooper ative association and $10,000,000 for j the South Carolina Cotton Growers' J Cooperative association. Of the j other. $3.000,000 will be allotted to j the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton j Growers' association. In announcing the approvals, Di j rector Meyer said it is expected that only a portion of the amounts au thorized will be advanced by the j corporation and that the banks in j the interested districts will do the I greater part of the financing for the i associations named. -? y ? i } Democrats who wish to vote in ! the primary for state and county : officers must enroll before July ? 2.">th. Enrollment must be in the jclub of the ward or district in which ! the voter resides. ; Th<* Farmer's Warehouse on E. i Liberty street is open for the sea ? son and has already received one i tine load of tobacco from a farmer near Manning, which is now on the ! floor. -? Tt Jakes a marriage license to get i married on and it usually takes an auto license also. To-d?y's Best J?kes and Stories < ?. - Man's inhumanity to man makes eountless umpires dodge. Even if Ireland were a Pacific island, it probably wouldn't be. About the Only thing the ama teur driver can dodge successfully is a bridge. Getting sophisticated is simply a slow.and painful process of losing one's appetitte. Small towns have one . thing in common. Each of them has the fastest baseball team in amateur baseball. New York beats Belfast, at least. Over here the man in the street is given a sporting chance. .'After people get married a few times, where in the world do they park, the sugar spoons and gravy ladles received as gifts? Open diplomacy has reached the point where reporters can get in to a conference with a jimmy. The twanging harps in heaven may become monotonous, but think of the saxaphones at the other terminal. A mad rush of tourists to Eu rope seems to have been observed by everybody except the steamship companies: A flapper, as we understand it, is a young female with rouge on the outside of her face and gum on the inside. And too many executives think efficiency consists in fluttering about in the way of those who are doing the. work. < Girls used fewer cosmetics in the old days. But courting was done in.-the gloaming and taste counted for .more than looks. If she were smaller and more easily [ trimmed, ? it wouldn't ta"ke the^nations long to decide what to : do, about Russia. ?_.. ? ..Statesmen are reminded that something unpleasant, happened to Noab's neighbors who were con tent, to "await developments." It becomes increasingly evident that; deciding what to do about' RuijSi?^ is simply a matter of de- I cjdiBg'what Russia will stand for. i r.-? If true Americanism consists in prowling about in a nightgown,, the somnambulists can get by . .without. contributing to the Grand Kloo cam. ..We judge, by examining the ''in- ? tellectuals" we have met, that an i intellectual is one who can,.talk; about .nasty things without embar rassment. Some trust in Hoover, and some are buying their coal now while it j is cheaper. j ?;- j Stlil. if Russia ever gets out of j the woods, where will she get the I pulp for her currency? Still, the chap who said skirts! were coming down . hit it about as ! well as the chap who said prices \ were. * 4 ' [ Remember, however, ; it. is the pursuit of happiness that is an in alienable right, not happiness it self. : ' It is very pleasant to get up at 6 o'clock. It gives you time to enjoy a delightful nap before breakfast. Speaking of endurance tests, there; is the stunt of listening until the amateur gardener has finished J telling about it. Detectives are an industrious \ lot. When they haven't anything i else to do, they rush out and get j baffled again. Now that women are to be ad mitted to the Hall of Fame, we nominate that wonderful creature who invented lemon pie. Lloyd George has played in un usual luck for years, but now the London Times shows signs of sof tening its attacks. After three years of experimen tation, any amateur can grow enough lawn grass to justify clip ping with the scissors. If America has ho international sense, why does she squirm when the allies talk of an "Internation al" loan to Germany? Of course the elections must be pure, but it wouldn't be fair, to; deny a man a seat in the senate1 after he has paid for it. I So live that when your sum mons comes you can establish a j satisfactory alibi. It must be fine to be a he-flap- i per and have nothing to do but light another eigarette. Another good way to keep from eating too much is to buy a used car and keep it in running order. "Let's go," was an excellent war j slogan, but it is playing thunder with home life in America. Love is the quality that prompts ; a sweet-breathed wife to kis*s a husband who has been smoking that kind of a pipe. Slogan for American tourists In Europe: "Tip till it hurts." Why shouldn't Tuba go bank rupt? She might as well moke it unanimous. END OF HAGUE CONFERENCE INSIGHT Two Stormy Sessions Held Wednesday on Russian Aff airs The Hague. July 12 (By the As sociated Press).?Two stormy ses sion Of the conference cui Russian problems today disturbed the calm of the Carnegie peace palaqe and. apparently ended, all chance of'an agreement between the Russians and the other powers. . Another session .will- be .held tomorrow, which is generally expected by Russians . and ?non-Russians .alike to condemn The Hague conference to absolute failure. The chasm between the Russians and the other powers apparently is far wider than at Genoa and the i non-Russian group is not divided, as i it was at Genoa. The British and French are acting now in agree ment on the demands concerning nationalized property, which the Russians say practically amount to insistence on absolute restitu tion. . ; This position was developed at the meeting this morning. of the s?bcommission on property after which Maximim Litvirioff, head of the Sonets, stated emphatically he believed that the conference h?d exhausted its usefulness and would end without results. .This afternoon the s?bcommission.,on debts- had equally unfavorable results. The Russians insisted on having the. present conference fix the total amount Of pre-w?r debts Russia would be expected to pay, but the non-Russians stood out for fixing this sum through mixed commis sions at a later date. At the conclusion of this meeting M. Litvinoff granted an interview iii which he declared that the non Russian delegates had clearly agreed to mike the. conference a failure and were trying to pin the Russians down to answer questions in order to justify, breaking up; the meeting. M. Lityincff criticised the organ ization of the conference; saying its division in committee, which was arranged before the Russians ar rived, was destined to complicate the negotiations and prevent their success. Capitalism and, communism were pitted against each other in bitter battles today, which demonstrated the difficulties'of harmonizing the two economic systems. When the non-Russians *were insisting' that the amount of pre-war debts which Russia shall pay must be decided by a mixed tribunal^ M. Lityirioff objected, saying: "There are two worlds now, capitalistic and com munistic. One world would name a communistic arid the' other a capitalistic judge; it would require angels to do justice on such ^a tribunal and I haven't met. any angels arid doubt whether they can be found. So I want this, confer ence to 'decide upon the amount of pre-war. debts we shall pay.** In this coriiiecti?n, j Lityinoft also declared that. the Soviet gbvern irieht must know the amount of its obligations,' as it expects to pay j them. [? "Many respectable governments admit their-responsibility for debts and interest arid don't pay them;" she said, pointedly. "We intend to 'pay if we enter into an agree ment." :' - PENALTY IS PROVIDED Law in Force to Protect Or ganized Fanners Raleigh. N. C, July 12.?May nard Mangum, supervisor of graders for the Tobacco Growers' Coopera tive Association; with his :head quarters at Durham. N. C, has suc ceeded in signing up all of his ten ants with the association. Sixteen tenants signed, within one hour's time when Mr. Mangum visited them recenlty. . % . That there will be no chance for dishonest growers to' . play both sides..is evidenced by the suit, of the Kentucky Burley Tobacco Growers' Association now in pro gress against a member who was induced to sell a part of his crop on. th'j auction market ;. < The strict law of South Caro lina. - ailed an act to promote and further cooperative marketing, im poses a fine of from $100 to $1. 000 upon any person or persons who induce or attempt to induce any member of the association to break hi3 marketing contract with the association: The laws of North Carolina and Virginia protect the organized farmers in a very sim ilar manner. Norwood L. Simmons, president of the Washington-Beaufort Land company, one of the largest con cerns in Eastern Carolina, recent ly signed the contract of the asso ciation and wrote:- "I am request ing and suggesting to all of our farmer friends whose paper we are carrying and advancing against the crop to join the association, as I realize that the success of it is de pendent upon cooperation and all pulling together." The action of Mr. Simmons is in line with that of many merchants in Easter North Carolina and South Carolina. It must be awful for this woman who speaks 17 languages to keep a secret in all of them. One graduate got through col lege by writing short stories. May be he wrote them to his father. Say what you please, a short skirt always wins in a walk. 666 quickly relieves Colds, Const i pat ion. Biliousness and Headaches. A Fine Tonic. RA?LK?ADS ; REJECT B??&D'S ? PROPOSAL -TT? S S?, .. Officials-Will Not Discuss the Strike With Union Leader Chicago, July 12 (By the Asso ciated Press).?A flat refusal to meet with B. M. Jewell, head of the sinking shopmen,' to discuss peace proposals was the answer tonight of railway executives to a proposal made by Ben W. Hooper,, chairman of the United States rail road labor board. ? In a letter to7 Mr. Hooper, the executives declared that ?'the issue raised is not one for consideration between the carriers and the rep resentatives of the organized crafts on strike except through the further orderly processes before the United States railroad labor board." Asserting that the strike was a refusal to accept the results of the arbitration of the labor board the letter "declared that ho conference contingent upon the abandonment of the- decision of tHe board was "permissible -nor tolerable, because it would* place? the carriers partici pating therein' in apparent coope rations with those* on strike in seeking to find means to subvert the decision of the labor board." The letter added, however, that "? prompt recall of the strike or der would permit the resumption for former, methods of conference and permit the consideration of any matters which representatives of employees might desire to Sub mit" * The . letter is" signed by Samuel M. Felton, president of the. Chica go'& Great1 Western, L. F. Loree of . the Delaware & Hudson,- B. F. Bush of the Missouri Pacific and Whitford R. Cole o% the Nashville, Chattanooga .&? JSt. 7ujOUis. ? RAWL TO SERVE : ELETOf YEARS _. Plea of Gufity* Efttered in Edgefield % Edgefield, July 12.?At the hour of convening of court this morn ing the court house was .'crowded with persons'-. who were eager to witness the trial of. L. K. Raw! on the charge of house -breaking and larceny, he haying been implicated in the robbery, of two s stores in Trenton Sunday night, March 20. Tne other party to the crime, J. C. Moore of Columbia, was killed by the policeman of Trenton. The throng that gathered was greatly surprised, and in a measure disappointed when Bawl, upon; be ing arraigned,, confessed to his guilt, thus suddenly terminating a case that had aroused considerable I.inter est. In-passing, sentence upon Rawl, Judge DeVore said to him: ? ."You are so set in your ways and in your determination to violate the criminal laws -of this state that . I do not. know that it would be of any benefit,to you to give you a lecture and. therefore, I am going to dis pense with that, although this is a terrible crime you have pleaded guilty to. If -Mr. Crouch the po ! liceman, had not killed your partn er^ Moore, no doubt you and Moore would have killed him in- order to effect a robbery of the-store at Trenton." He thereupon gave Rawl a sentence of 11 years at hard labor in the state penitentiary or upon the public works of South Caro lina. Soon after sentence was passed upon "JRawl, Sheriff Heise and Ru ral Policeman Dunaway of Colum* j bia, who had come to Edgefield as witnesses against JRawl, 'carried him I to Columbia to be placed in the penitentiary. ' ;- ? mjm ; Washington, July 1-3?Mayor W. A. Coleman, of Columbia, S. C, ; has' been' appointed federal direc tor of."employment service for the state of South Carolina, and W. T. Wiliihgham, of Columbia, examiner to represent the erfiployment service it is anounced.j ' ' All of the city, people go to the country and all the country people come to town. PAZO OINTMENT inst?n?y JBsb* Ifeves rrCHING PILES and yoa can get restful. sleep after the first application. AH druggists are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINT MENT fails to Cure any case of ITCHING, BLIND. ?ZJf?XNG or PROTRUDING PILES. Cares GERMAN SHIP IS SEIZED Following Arrest of Engineer at Jacksonville Jacksonville. Fla., July 12.?The German steamship Ala din was seiz ed by United States Marshal Djf son here today fbUdwing" the arrest of the engineer, Albert Rettick,. <m^ a? charge of violating the prohibf tion laws. Rettick was arrested, today af ter a federal agent alleged he pmj^. chased a quart of liquor from htm~ ! Rettick denies, the change and as |serfs that although several I sons have visited the Vessel sinceNt I came into port and made overture^ i toward the purchase of* liquor, none had been sold. He will be given a, preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Noble tomdr^ row. The Aladin arrived here in bal last from Wilmington, N. C, Jury 3, m command* of C?pt.; X. R. Sperling. According to the vesr. sel's manifest, ? she carried 118' quarts of liquor, and following Ret}-, tick's arrest today a search ftwr-' intoxicants was m&de. The amount called for in the manifest was afl^ that could be found aboard; offif" cials said. Capt. Sperling and bfe crew are living asnore>pending th*e^ f disposition of the case. ? ---v m ' ' Sheriff R&% ^ Liquor Maker Walterboror July 12.?John Brh>. ton,' a son of Chief of Police- Bxit: ton, of Branehvilie, was killed .by Sheriff Ackerman.. at noon today while resisting arrest. Britton was; said to be operating a still -in the i Edisto river swamp. When Sher-, iiff Ackerman attempted to . place jhim under arrest Britton shot at Ithe sheriff and his deputies, G. C. jBenton and J. B? Ackerman. Foi>" Itunately, they were near enough to. 'take shelter .'behind trees and. re j turned the fire. ? .. . \ ] Several shots - had ? been . ex^i : changed, whea Britton^ in an. j guarded moment, exposed Wmself j and was-shot in the side by Sherp iff Ackermany*. who intended ?fe shoot only to force him to-grtve up; but one shot went high enough j strike a vital organ and death re^ ( suited in an hour. The body was j brought to Walterboro and Magis I tr?te Pellum held an inquest, the j verdict of the jury being in accord-f.* jance with the foregoing. Britton and Talmadge Edwards, j were together at a forty-gallon cop j'per still and eight sixty-gallon. ! barrels of ?mash. Their alleged I violation of, the law was reported j to the sheriff and he was armed [with a warrant.. Edwards denies ! complicity, stating that he was ? only a visitor to Britton. . j; Sheriff Ackerman has reported j the killing to Gov. Harvey. -~ i "Every gir! can be beautifttL", j says an advertisement. Yes, feat ! suppose she is broke? ...' ...... WANTED?Setting of turkey Address "Eggs," care. Item.; Cures Malaria, Chills, Fever, Bilious Fever. ' ^ D)Ws and LaGripne. Si. The National Bank of South Carolina OfSamter.SoC. The Bank With the Chime Clock* .JThe Most Painstaking SERVICE trith COURTESY . Capital $300,000 Surplus and Profits $S00,00O ;' STRONG ? AND PROGRESSIVE , .. Give as the Pleasure of Serving YOU. C^a ROTPra^VJ^ Pre?. EARLE ROWLAND, Cashier > ' -\ ?:." ? ? * , ;\ . ?* ? . ? rr ?* **-*" ? *?*----??' ^^^^^^ I HE HAS A FORTUNE, \ We mean the boy who has one hundred dollars that he himself has made and saved, he feels like a millionaire, 3 He has learned many a lesson by this. He has caught the 3 thrift habit. He has learned to do without unnecessary i . ... - * i jj things. He ceases to squander his money. His judgment 3 of values is better. He is all in all a much better boy. How I about your boy. Has he got the habit yti? If not better j jj get him started at once. This bank will be pleased to handle \ 3 his account. . ? J j THE FIRST NATIONAL BANE j