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PSRSONAIa.
Miss Jimmie Smith, of Bish?p
.. ville, is visiting friends in the city
Messrs. Harold DeLorme and
ajack Wright returned, from the
University of South Carolina Thursr
d^.y afternoon for the holidays.
Miss Florence Hurst, who has
been attending Columbia College,
has returned home for the hohdays.
Mr. W. L. Williams- has gone to
New Bern. N. C, to spend the
holidays with his mother.
Mr. Aaron Green, who is attend
ing the University of. South Caro
lina, has returned home for the
holidays.
Messrs. George Sibert. David.
H^azel and John Witherspoon have
returned home for the holidays
from Bailey Military. Institute.
? Mi&s Jeanette White, who is
teaching in Gastonia, X. C, is home
for the holidays.
"Miss Harriett Temple, who has
been -visiting..Miss Irene Dick, re
turned to her home in Lake View
Friday morning.
Messrs. John R. and Charles
Haynsworth arrived in the x-ity
Friday morning from Clems?n Col
lege, for the holidays.
> 3ir. Jenkins 'Knight, who is at
tending W^fford College, has re
turned, for the holidays. .
?Messrs. Charlton Walsh and
Charles. Kolb have returned from
Pufnaan University for the holidays.
Mr. Arva Green left Friday mom
Jjftg for. Savannah, Ga.
Mr. B, R. China, who has been
working in Chicago, is. home for
the Christmas season.
Mrs. Nina M. Solomons, who is
taking a special course at Converse
College, is at home for the holi
days.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Newton left
this morning in their car for a
Ohristirias holiday trip to South
Georgia and Florida where they
will, visit relatives.
Miss Helen-Commander returned
Thursday evening from Columbia
College for the holidays.
Misses Ellen Virginia Stuckey
and Mary Alderman have return
ed home from Goucher College for
the holidays.
Misses Corinne and Frances De
Lorme are spending the Christmas
holidays at -home.
Mr. <*nignard Wilder, who is at
tending school, in Georgia, is at
home for the Christmas holidays.
-Mr. Lowell Mayers, of Mobile,
Ala., is spending the Christmas
hohdays with his mother and sister:
Mrs. Rosa Mayers and Mrs. Ri E.
Wilder, on W. Liberty St,
Mr. and Mrs. Orin F. Crow and
children of Hartsviile are spending
the holidays with Mrs. Crows par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Cuttino.
-Miss Louise Austin, .who is at
tending . Southwestern College of
Winfield, Kansas; - has returned
hoihe -Hot the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Andrews
left Saturday morning for Wil
mington to spend *he Christmas
holidays- with the former's par
ents.
Miss Marguerite Roper has ar
rived in the city from Richmond,
Va.. where she has been attending
University of Richmond, ? to spend
s holidays.- *
" Dr.-and Mrs. A. China and daugh
ter Louise, will spend a fe.w days
in New York during the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. William Purdy of
Moncks Corner were in the city
Saturday.
Miss Minnie^ Pringle of Charles
ton .is visiting- in Sumter for the
l*oidays.
The following students of Clem
son -are spending the holidays at
home: Jack Chandler, Earnest
Priar, James Felder, Sam Wells,
Nelson Bradley, Edward Buck,
Clinton McGrew, EMdge Kennedy,
"Sonf Davis, arid Cariton Whilden.
Mr. Shake McFall, who is work
ing in Columbia, was at "home last
night.
Mr. Hal Clarke is spending the
Xihristmas season with bis parents.
The following cadets of the Cit
adel are home for ?he holidays:
Messrs. Pinckney Bradley, ,Bert
I>eLorme. Alexander Ti.sdale. Hosie
Wilson, James Biunding and Ran
dolph Guthrie.
Mi?s Helena Bultman has re
turned home for the holidays.
Mrs. Ellis Duke, of South Clinch
-fie?d, Va., is vLsiting her mother,
Mrs. B. E. Bultman.
? Dr. Robert McKay has returned
home for the holidays.
Mr. J. M. Dick, Jr., who is doing
mission work in Weston, W. Va.,
L*..spending the holidays with his
pa rents.
Miss Caroline Dick, who is teach
ing at High Point, N. C, is home
for the holidays.
Miss Daisy McGregor is visiting
rafe sister, Mrs. Thomas Boyle. ,
? Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Clarke and
Miss Margaret Grow, of Philadel
phia, are visiting Mrs. M. I. White
head.
^Messrs. Eugene Purdy and Mar
ion Burkette have returned from
Carolina for the holidays.
Miss Elizabeth China, who has
been teaching in Portsmouth, Va t
has returned home for the holidays.
Mrs. O.'.V. Player and children
have gone to' Florence to spend
the Christmas holidays.
Mr. H. W. Shelor, Jr., who is
^irorking in Atlanta, is home for
the holidays.
Miss H. ?v Walker is visiting her
brother. Rev. J. B. Walker, on Cal
houn street.
Miss Virginia Thomas, who is
teaching in the Greenville Women's
College is visiting Mr. and Mrs. C.
L. Cuttino.
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??A bootlegger tells us he bought
his wife a bar pin.
Don't get mad at a man for carry
ing a cane. It may be a present.
If you hear a noise it may be
tlft? loud Christmas ties.
A wise man and his money soon
buy Christmas gifts.
Many Rumors Circu-J
lated But No Facts;
Developed. Indica
ting Hope' of Settle
ment
Washington. Dec. 22 (By the
Associated Press).?The situation
relative to extension of American
aid toward, an European repara
tions settlement continued , today
to present , a badly beclouded pic-,
ture, on which little- ?ght was^
thrown from any quarllr.
j American officials reiterated
: their denials of government back
; ing at the present stage for the"
j American Com mission plan spon^
j sored by commercial leaders, and
; of ^various, published statements re
garding the direction; in which.
American official opinion was tend
in^.
; But .there was no clear-cut ' de
nial that high officials in Wash
ington? had discussed the commis
sion's 'proposal among themselves
and with, others, and ho one at
tempted -to give the impression
that the United States govern
ment would be displeased should
"the discussions now_ in progress re
sult in an agreement.
Xeither did any official come for
ward to explain the true character j
Lot the mysterious movings behind J
the scenes of world diplomacy t? \
which allusion has been made re
peatedly in official outgivings both
in Washington and in ther capitals
of Europe.
In ail of their negative comment
on the subject, state department
authorities seemed most anxious t?
jdeny that the government itself,
1 despite, the close touch it is maih
j taining with the situation,' was In
I any way a party at present Ume to
j the plan for a survey commission^
i suggested first in this country by
officials of the chamber of com
merce of the United States. It was
said flatly that the American gov
ernment, at the present stage -tlf
the discussions", has ho "connectics
with the commission plan," "which
contemplates creation of a body of
experts to inquire into the ability
of Germany to pay reparations. *
Furtherrnore "one official indicat*
ed that if the commission plan ever
came to the point where a proposal
for its acceptance could be made
through diplomatic channels, the
UPited States would not be the
proper power to make that pro
posal. It was pointed out that
treaty rights are involved in ' the
reparations difference, and that no
formal offer to mediate would be in
place from any go^rnment except
pa "the solicitation of the govern
ments involved in the controversy-.
As the commission plan now* is
explained here, the commission
would he a wholly unofficial body
so far as the Washington gov
ernment is concerned, and would
have to do only with reporting
its findings as to Germany's eco
nomic ability to pay. What actual
figure would be fixed on a repara
tions total would of course be a
mauer that the allied govern
ments must decide for themselves.
J But with the economic report on
? Germany available, known to rep-;
j resent *he views of industrial ex-1
! perts without any national bias; it
has been the hope of sponsors of J
the American commission plan that J
there could be an agreement as to j
! the amount and form of German }
payments which would finally set
tle the question.
The only inkling as to the hopes
of the American government in' its j
efforts to find a way to a repara
tions settlement was a prediction
made today that if it ever .became
; passible to announce any official
I plan, it would be- found tc 'he a
?very practical proposal, lacking in
i any sensational quality. Anything
! that is being done officially in the
?way of getting a clear understand
! ing of governmental attitudes
I abroad, it was indicated, was aim-j
j ed at such a conception of the j
j problem to be solved.
New York, Dec. 22.?In messages
j to President . B:u*ding, Secretary j
j Hughes and Julius H Barnes, pres
ident of the United States chara- j
j ber of commerce, "strong approval j
,of the present movement to offer
|.American aid in the solution of
! the underlying economic problems
! of Europe," was expressed today
.: by the National Association of
j Credit Men.
The imss&ge to the . president j
] said: . j
; "Heartiest congratulations on the j
i leadership you are supplying to the
j movement which will enable compe- j
'tent American business men to aid I
j in the solution of the reparations '
* problem."
And "no real prosperity can come ]
j to this country until fundamental)
economic difficulties in Europe I
have been removed."
To Mr. Hughes the association ]
said:
"When this is disposed of the i
world will be a long way on the j
j road toward normal economic con
j ditions."
j Mr. Barnes was lauded for "the
I initiative you are taking in the pro- j
J ject," the message continuing, I
j "the chamber (United ? States I
i chamber of commerce) could not |
j set its strong hand to a larger or j
1 more appropriate task."
After landing a job the first
j thing some men think about is
j getting business cards printed.
Frank Chance will manage the
Boston Red Sox next year, giving
this team at least one chance.
The U. S. S. Pittsburg has gone
to Constantinople and may smoke
cut or outsmoke a few Turks.
Friday's Session o
Lausanne P ? a e e
Goiiference W a s
Debate
Lausanne, Dec. 22 iBy the .As
sociated i^ress).--Christmas threat
ens to be a stormy time at the
Lausanne Near East conference.
Thursday was a bad day; today was
worse. A temper . which... did not
seem to harmonize with .the usual
spirit, of the-Yuletide pervaded to
day's session of the subcomirnssion
on minorities.
Efforts were made to get Dr.
Riza Nur Bey. the second Turkish
delegate who formerly was accred
ited by the Angora, .government to
represent' It" at Moscow, to agree to
the exemption of the Christian mi
norities in Turkey from the mih-.
tary serrice. But he refused flatlyj
and seemingly-.sullenly. He ;de-|
clined to give any reason; for ? this
declination and several . others
equally as. flat. j
M. Laroche of the French dele
gation made an appeal to Riza Nur
Bey oh military exemption, saying
"Come on; make the allies a 'lit
tle Christmas present on this
point." The Turkish delegate,
however, retorted angrily, ' ,cWe
don't believe in Christmas " pres
ents." ?
Riza, Nur Bey also refused to
agree to a provision for the pres
ervation of - Christian cemeteries in
Turkey. -This caused much sur
prise-among the other representa
tives, as the -Tu*ks '??Ordinarily are
extre^nely carefulto protect all
cemeteries.
; The allies insisted upon consid
eration of-tha clause providing that
the "Turks "must "respect .the -work
done under the league of nations;
in recovering and restoring totheir
families Christian women and chil
dren who,.were seized: and. Islamiz
ed- by the Turks before close of
the world war. The Turk also de
clined to agree to ;this- provision,
and the subcommission, ended ;the
session seemingly with a feeling cf:
utter disgust at the attitude of - RizaL
Nur' Bey? which several members
of the subcommission described a3s
?^highly insolent;"
The Turkish delegation has re
ceived instructions - from Angora
that no ^agreements are to be made
at Lausanne on; economic questions
Which are to lie over for negotia
tion at some later time.
This has created, dissatisfaction
among the allies, especially the
French,, -who are anxious that eco
nomic questions should be settled
at this conference. Control of the
straits still is being - considered in
pri vate: sessions. LoroV Curzoh, Mr.
BarrereSignor Di Garroni. and
Ismet Pasha were in conference
on this subject yesterday and again
today. The representatives of
three great powers have made." it
clear to Ismet that if they give the
special guarantees Turkey seeks: to
protect Constantinople from' - at
tack, Turkey in turn must give
the allies jurisdiction over the
straits and the entire demilitarized
zone. Ismet has this under con
sideration. 1
The intransigeant position of the
Turks on capitulations, straits con
trol and the rights of minorities is
generally regarded by Vibe allied
delegates as beinjg due, at least in
part, to their desire to hold as
many questions as possible in re
serve for the purpose of future
trading and that they may yield
many moot questions if they are
able to get strong guarantees
which ,will prevent the invasion of
Turkey
The outlook for "a .satisfactory
outcome, however, is far from
bright. The prominent delegates
are so uneasy about the situation
that few of them are planning to
leave. Lausanne for the Christmas
tide. Meetings will be held again
tomorrow but Christmas day will
be a holiday and the sessions will
resume next Tuesday.
Rear Admiral Bristol of the
American delegation left for Paris
today, but Ambassador Child and
Joseph C. Grew will remain in
Switzerland for Christmas.
GOVERNOR
^HARVEY ILjL
Suffering From an Attack of
Influenza
Columbia,* Dec. 22.?Governor
Harvey was directed today by his
physicians to stay at home in bed.
He is suffering from an attack of
influenza, in which symptoms of
pneumonia appear.
Governor Harvey was directed to
take, to his bed Wednesday, but he
continued to work until last night,
taking, the position that he should
remain in* his office as long as he
possibly could, particularly as the
Jeffords execution matter was be
fore him constantly. He has not
been able to speak above a whisper
for the past few days, and his
friends have cautioned him that
he was hazarding his health by re
maining "on the job."
His physicians think that, with
can*, his illness will be short-lived,
provided no further complications
arise.
The Governor is directing the
work of his office from his sick
bed. He has had his secretary send
him voluminous reports' and cor
respondence, and is personally di
recting the details of the; executive
office.
Turkey says she will grant no
divorces to foreigners. What for
eigners ask is a divorce from-Tur
key.
Marion, JH., .Dec. . 22,?The de
fense in the trial .of the five. men
charged with murder' in connec
tion with the Herrin riots, moved
for a directed verdict of acquittal
today. The court denied the mo?)
ti?n and defense then began intro
ducing evidence. ..
Quebec. Canada, Dec. 22.?A fire
believed to have started from a
short circuited electric wire de-'
stroy.ed; the famous Notre .Dame
ch?rch here. The church was es
tablished in 1647.
- The fire is'heleived to have' heen^
of incendiary origin, chief of police
said later. The loss ,is? million'
dollars?
Lausanne, Dec. 22.?The / Turks';
today opposed an effort of the allies
to have Armenians to appear be
fore a minorities' subcommission/
It was "finally 'arranged to have tha;
Armenians appear without the
Turks being present. . ;
Steubenvllle, .O^hio, Dec. 22?Boy
Ledson was killed and his brother,
wiSiam was ?severely wounded ?s:
t^e'result ;of a feud battle hetwee:n;,
Ledson and Pearson families today
near Weirt?h, West Virginia. James
A. Pearson was being sought by
the state police charged with the;
murder. '
New York, Dec. 22-?Deputy
Chief John F..'0-Hara and -twelve'
firemen.were injured today by fall-r
ing walls while fighting a fire in
a Brooklyn factory. Fifty faml-'
lies were driven from their nearby
homes.
Berlin, Dec. 22.?Official denial
was made here today that Chan
cellor Curio or any other gpyern
ment ofiScial had suggested an
American' commission to investi
gate the; German economic condi
tion.
-Monroe, La., Dec 23..? Open,
hearings in the Morehouse parish
kidnapping case will start Janu
ary >th; it was learned 'here today,
the attorney general conducting
them. The attorney general with
two companies of troops reached
Bastrop today.
Columbia, ^Dec. 23.?L. P. Bos
well,, a painter "of; Eastover, died
yesterday morning at Eastover as:
a result of a Self-infUcted^gunshot
vvpuiid. Mr.Bos^ell was found
early, in the morning in the. MnaU.
h^Pse .which He occupied and was
still breathing; without, speaking,
he lived about an hour and passed;
away.
'Doom, Holland^ Dec. 23.?Form
er Raiser J^nh^eim l^ .sold world
rights in " what lie.; .calls; the first
official photograph : of ; bis recent
wedding for ten thousand doltere.
It shows him in a field marsjhai*?
uniform/ -The Princess 1 Hermine
j is wearing the ' famous Diadem,
the ;kaiser's wedding'' gift.
I Rocky Mount, X. C, Dec. 23.?
I Fifteen ..passengers were ? injured^
I today when eight cars .on' the .Atx
! lantic Coast line railway trafo
i $2 were ? ..derailed near Lufama,
{ None were seriously-hurt.
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Washington, JPec. 2 3 .^rSenatpr
Heflin of Alabanxa in the senate,
today declared thirty cent cotton
was warranted by the known con
dition^ of American supplies. ' He,
said the present pirce indicated
that speculators were in control of
tbp market and were depressing'
the price.
Marion, Ills., . Dec. 23??rThe de^
fense witnesses today charged that
armed guards of the " Lester strip
mine had terrorized the country
side and killed an^ unarmed union,
miher, at the trial of the five,
men in connection with the Her
rin riot - After three witnesses were
heard, court .adjourned until Jan^
uary the second.
(FINANCE
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(^aii-man 'tisM&e o? Board of
Health Says Proposed Sum
ter Ordinance Will Avoid
Mistake =of Charles
ton Ordinance
Editor of'The S?mter Daily Item: . .
Your issue or December 21st,
carried a report of Judge Mem
mingers' order sustaining, the. ap
peal taken by Jake E. Bell from
a conviction in the Recorder's Court
of the City of Charleston for the
violation of. section .4. of the "Meat
Ordinance" of that city. Your re
port was printed under the follow
ing head line:
^M?EAT ORDINANCE IS
RCLED INVAJuTOJ
City's Law in Conflict With the
Constitution of the State Of
South Carolina, Says Judge
Memniinger".
From comments heard Upon the
street today it is obvious that the
use of the head line just quoted J in
conjunction with expressions con
tained in a paragraph which ap
peared in your "Local Items" col
umn under date of Decejnber 20th,
has,'\:ery naturally, created a gen
eral impression to the effect that
the courts of the state have de
clared invalid the vital provisions of
an ordinance similar to that pro
posed to be enacted for the City
of Sumtes in connection with the
establishment of the municipal ab
battoir, and that the City of Sumter
will, therefore,, find itself without
power to prohibit the sale, or of
fering for sale, within its limits
of meat or meat products other than
those obtained from animals
Slaughtered in the city abba'ttoir or
under conditions similar to those
which will there exist.
Such an impression 4 utterly at
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variance .with the true facts.
Even a hasty reading of Judge
Memminger's .Order will make it
plain that the conviction there ap
pealed from was under a section
of the ordinances of .the City of
Charleston which attempted to pun
ish by fine or imprisonment any
person who should "have in his
possession' within the City of
Charleston" any meat procured
from an animal not slaughtered in
the City abbattoir or under certain
approved conditions. The in
dividual convicted had not sold, or
.attempted to sell, any of the meat
in. question. He merely had "had
it'-in* his-possession within the City
limits/' Judge Memminger's or
der holds that to make such an
act criminal violates the guarantees
as to personal liberty and enjoy
ment of property contained in the
federal Constitution.
The proposed' "Meat Ordinance"
for the City of Sumter contains no
provision which purports to make
punishable the mere act of "having
ih possession" meat from animals
not slaughtered as therein 'pro
vided. It does, however, under
take .to forbid the sale, offering for
sale, or having in possession with
Intent to sell, Of any such meat
within the City limits, judge Mem
'mlnger's order, so far from casting
?ny doubt upon the constitutfon
:a$ity of such ah ordinance, clearly
recognizes its validity.. ? In so do
ing the >rder merely gives effect
jtb aV long line of firmly established
?decisiohs.
" 1 If you will be kind enough to give
to this communication the same
publicity which you accorded the
report of . Judge Memminger's or
:der in your issue of the 21st, it may.
serve to save 'some . worthy citizen
*firom later becoming guilty of a
violation of the provisions of the
hew ordinance under the totally
erroneous impression that ? "the
whole thing is no good anyway".
Respectfully yours,
H.. L. TISDALE,
Chairman Board of Helath.
CHICAGO
V STATION
DESTROYED
^ld Park Street Passenger
:';;St#lon Burned Thursday.
, .. Nigftt ;?? .
Chicago, Dec. 21.?Fire, ?tarting
; a. .few minutes before 4 o'clock this
| afternoon destroyed the Dearborn
; Street'railroad station, formerly
! known as the Polk street depot, and
?Jeft eight ^railroads homeless ia
Chicago.
:.The .balding erected in 1S84. was
vaiued* > at \ $ 3<M> ,00 0,. but will cost
more .than . ? 1.000,0 00 to replace it
was said.
'.[-Within a little more than ah
hour after a traffic policeman saw
[smoke issuing from the roof, the
^flames swept - through the 3? year
i^ld brick and wood structure, once
,the ipride. of railroad men, and left
^oniy asmoke blackened brick shell
jj^eh^nd.
.' ^Hundreds of passengers and .200
men and women clerks fled to
safety. Mrs. Hazel .Locker, ^2^, a
woman clerk, fainted and was
jtrampled on by-the wild rush of
; J?(erks from the upper floor. A po
,Liceman found her lying uncon
scious on the stairs and carried
^,er out.
' Postal clerks with motor trucks
i rescued 150 tons of holiday mail
?nd railroad, employees saved all
passenger cars in the train sheds.
' ^ The' station was owned by . the
j Chicago & Western Indiana rail
, /oad; and was used by trains of
gfct line and. the ;Santa Fe, Monon,
^Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago
. & Eastern Illinois, Wabash and
: Canadian Grand: Trunk.
. ... Crossed wires are believed to
have started the fire. Within 15
^minutes after the fire**was discov
ered and while apparatus was still
arriving in response to a series of
general alarms, the roof of the
friorth wing fell in.
P. As the swirling columns of fire
j Wrapped around the tall clock
towers nearly 250 feet above the
Street, hundreds of pigeons deserted
their -nesting place and took to the
air.
The firemen .were hampered by
poor water pressure and the crowds
of Christmas shoppers. Their
streams barely reached the base of
the tower and. at times the crowd
became so.dense they were forced
to abandon their; work to assist po
lice in driving the onlookers out
of the danger zone.'
. Fire Chief Seyf erlich ordered ex
tra apparatus from . all outlying
stations, but the later arrivals were
tangled in traffic jams, which ex
tended for blocks from the scene.
The eight railroads began reor
ganizing their service while the
fire was still at its height, estab
lishing offices in. the station an
nex, a onestory .building across the
alley.
Plans have been considered for
several years' for tearing down the
huilding and either erecting a new
one on its site or moving the ter
minals to other, stations.
Textile Imports on< Upgrade.
Tokio, Dec. 1.?Imports of tex
tiles up to the end of October
amounted to 46.000,000 yen in val
ue and it is expected that the to
tal for the year will reach 50,000,
000 yen, a marked increase over
previous years. Approximately 90
per cent or more of woollen tex-'
tiles Imported come from England.
Motorists will be glad to learn
an auto derailed a train in Illinois.
-? a jm . .
It would be great if we knew who
was sending us Christmas cards.
Clemenceau says hell is brewing.
A neighbor tells us brewing is hell.
Silo: Listening Post for Pacific
Disturbances.
Hilo, second:fcky of the Hawaiian
Islands, into the- haTbor of which
tidal waves swept on .two occasions
following the recent Chilean earth
quakes, is the subject of the fol
lowing bulletin from, the Washing
ton, i>. C, headouarters of the
National Geographic Society.
"Situated oh land which rises to
ward a wonderful background
formed by JLhe highest ? island
mountains in the world," says the
bulletin, "Hilo is in -little danger]
from ten or twelve foot tidal waves
such as those which recently- bath
ed its shores.. But because of its
location on the southernmost island
of the chain,-- facing eastward, it
was in a most favorable position to
observe the results of this ? mighty
phenomenon .which raised the level
of the earth's greatest ocean seem
ingly as easily as a careless bather
can splash water from his tub.
. City in Beautiful Setting:
?-SHiloans claim that their, city is
the most beautiful in the islands;
and it would he difficult to find a
more ideal setting. The shores of
a broad .bay sweep away on both
sides of .the town like the lines of
an hyperbola. In the foreground
as one approaches from .the sea is
an idylie tropic islet that its -dis
coverer might have been forgiven
for naming 'Enchanted"* Isle/ but
which in matter-of-fact English is
called 'Coconut Island.' Back of'
the city and' its bay fringed with
tropical verdure rise tire highlands
of the interior to their apex in
Mauna Kea, often snow-capped,
the highest of island peaks. To the
right numerous-- streams rush to
the sea, several of them leaping:
down in graceful waterfalls.
"One reason why Hiloans refus
ed to become alarmed because of
an unusual phenomenon in the
sea is that they live next door# to
two of the world's greatest land
w;onders ? the active volcanoes.
Kilaueau and Mauna Loa?and not
only have not suffered from their
nearness, but have profited great
ly because their city is. the gate
way through which thousands of.
visitors pass to view these 'tame
volcanoes.' An excellent automo
bile highway leads from Hilo
'through, a majestic forest of tree
ferns to a ? hotel on .the brink of
Kilauea, about 30 miles away; and
a supplemental road actually- des
cends into the huge crater so that
motor cars may be driven to the
very brink of the bubbling lake
of molten lava in the smaller, in
terior crater.
Beneficiary of Hawaiian "Magic."
"The highway continues,: on to
Mauna Loa from which have come
the great lava flows of prehistoric
and iiistoric times that have built
up Hawaii, yodngest of the islands
of the Hawaiian group, and make
it.still an island -'in process of
manufaetu^e., -The latest of these
lava flows, occurred ih 1919 when
a river of molten stone rushed
down the mountain on the oppo
site > side Of the ? island from Hilo
and plunged hissing into the sea;
For many c'ays the waters bubbled,
while steam clouds rose. Fish,
boiled to & turn, floated nearby
and could be picked up and eaten
by those, venturesome enough to
row into the hot waters near the
firey 'cataract.
-fin 1880 when Hilo was still
largely , a native town, its existence
was threatened by one of the
greatest flows rMauna Loa has ever
*sentfc forth. Slowly the white-hot
stream advanced straight for the
town- until it was less than two
miles away. The people* were
panic-stricken and as a last re
sort appealed to the only surviving
princess and priestess of their
greatest royal line. ' She took her
stand a mile from the town and de
clared the flow would stop there.
It did. There are Hawaiians who
maintain still that Hilo was saved
from destruction only because
Pele, goddess of-the volcano, stop
ped her fires when her daughter
interceded."/
The size of the box of candy you
should, give a- girl depends upon
how many brothers she has.
DOINGS OF THE DUFFS
TOM fM SORRY I DID
THAT BUT I DIPN'T KNOW
WrJAT VOU WERE DOWG -
THE HOUSE -IS-WONDERFUL
ICAH HARDLY BEUEVE IT
AND VO? DID IT ALI. FOR.
ME AND MY CHRISTMAS
[Lawyers Made
Clean Up1
I Sparlanburg Attorneys Alieg-!
Jeged to Have Failed to Re- j
turn-Money ]
* i
Spartanburg, Dec. 22.?C. P.
Sims and L. G. Southard, local at- j
tomeys, have been ordered to ap-?
pear before the supreme court of;
South Carolina on December 30 to]
show cause why they should not be\
required to refund to W. W. Rhame,;
a former client. $2,000. it was
learned here today, when it be
came known that Associate Jus
tice Cothran of Greenville had is
sued such an order December 15.
Rhame alleges that $3,000 was
turned over to the attorneys to
be used in paying a fine imposed
upon Rhame after his conviction j
of a charge of maintaining a dfe- Tokio, Dec. : Japanese man
orderly place, and that the at-1 ?
torneys failed to return to him ^actnrers.nave heeh':w*
$2,000 after his fine had been re. ?uri*eS?L the>' -^r; their
duced by the court to $1,000. - )ari<* reduce^cost^ pro?ucmn ^
The order directing Attorneys- *J?"1ose ?^r~:toreign^tr^r>m^
Sims and-Southard to appear be- Aloyama, of the ;com
fore the'supreme court was - sign-: i*iustrml bureau of Tokio, ou
ed December 15 by Associate Jus- from a foreign tour; fc
tice T. P. Cothran. re]70rt ^'' ^ CMn* **1
_ ; are very low andthat for;;
' reason Japanese goods are 11
forced out by Chinese manufa:
ers which are, he says, just >aS;j
as Japanese. He also ' dec i
that in the S?uth jSe?:-;^n>ft]f
jChinese goods are slowly.sufflS"
to secure a reduction m a sentence]ingr Japanese merchandised
of-the- citystoday and-witt-berserT'-'
ed with -the order on his- return
which is expected' tomorrow.
Must Reduce Production
Costs or Jj?se;T3ra4e
Spartanburg,-.-Dec. :"22.?A verbal
agreement to the effect that the
sum of $3,000 was given to C. P.
Sims and L. G. Southard, counsel
for W. W. Rhame, by the latter
of three years imposed in the court
of general sessions, which reduc
tion was secured- in the December
term in'the-form, of a three year
sentence with an alternative fine of
$3,000, all of which was suspended {
Unless Japan, is to lose these ;
jkets entirely , production
must "be reduced in 'this connt^
The hard thing^ about ska?hg"
oh payment of$i~?W;~was cralnied I *?" keep dcfc* >| ^ding up. ?
to have existed *y C. P. Sims today,!
after he had been' served with an
order summoning him. to appear
before the supreme court of South j sailors and getting seasi^.C
Carolina on December 30 .to show
cause why he should not refund
to or pay W. W. Rhame the sum
of $2,00 0: L. G. Southard'.was out
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