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bread has been glad to sell his valu-
ables for a miserable pittance. COM
pared with their true worth. The
state of the country has been such
that he is glad of an opportunity to
get something rather than to perhaps
give up his life to the Bolsheviki
Some of the gems represent ransoms
which the Russian nobility gladly gave
to save some one near and dear to
them from death. Diamonds and
emeralds which had been seized by
some soviet in 1.-THE name of the State"
were diverted to private hooters who
sold them to the bands of camp follow
ers. Often the vultures themselves
fell a prey to the wolves in the trail
of the national ruin. Thus from hand
to hand and often through bloody
hands the precious stores which came
out of Russia and are still coming are
reaching this country.
How much of this loot comes from
the devastated regions of France 1t is
difficult to say, but unquestionably
much of 1t has that history, for 1t
would be possible for syndicates of
German adventures and followers to
dispose in this way of the spoils Of
carnage. Many a ring with a crest
and often brooches which in their de-
sign reveal that they were once owned
as symbols by proud families of
France may be seen in the masses Of
so-called heirlooms which are now be-
ing received in this country and are
fading their ways covertly to the
adornment of women of fashion. In
the same way pictures and bronzes
from stately homes beyond the seas
are beginning TO appear in the melauge
which is being brought to the United
States.
RubIes Exchanged for HeirIOOms.
The smugglers who started in about
year and a half ago to reap profits
from European war loot went well
provided with rubles which they had
obtained in the United States through
exchange before they started. Others
! had considerable gold at their disposal.
II is estimated that these Adventures
gave scarcely more than 10 per cent.
OF the value for the articles which
they purchased. There are instances
when they took such advantage OF the
dire want of the Russians Of all de-
grees that they gave only enough
money to enable the unfortunate sell
ers to keep body and soul together for
a few days. Although the returns on
the sale OF such articles with the pay
ment of duties would have been enor.
nous, the greed Of the scavengerlike
host Of ghouls and thieves wse not
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sugar simple of ITSELF" as Falstaff
said of sack, and took 1t mixed with
other substances.
The artistic diagramatic representa-
ton OF how the sugar habit has grown
upon the American people is from n
water color made especially for the
American Museum of Natural History
and on exhibition in its exhibit on the
first floor of its building. The display
is entitled THE Food Supply of the
World" One OF the features is a chart
showing how the United States con-
sumes about 20 per cent. of all the
sugar produced on the globe. There
are other nations which consume more
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sugar per capita, but in quantity this
country leads.
The English have in recent years
been large sugar eaters, and the Danes
have always had a strong appetency
for sweets. The actual dimensions of
the sweet tooth of a nation cannot
always be told. however, by the sta
tistics on sugar which are based on
the stores of cane and beet manufac-
tured products. The Greeks and
Turks. who are proverbially fond of
sweets, apparently eat little sugar, and
yet they get considerable quantities of
the dulcet ration in the form Of honey
and in fruits.
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n y O1aAN uo q soDSllluIC lOi OIL Oi6
drink is coming to the fore in
these days of prohibition.
Chains of candy shops are being I'M
wound all over our city with their
linked sweetness long drawn out. In
e1numerable pastry resorts where cakes
and CONNECTIONS of cloying sweetness
are served are now to be seen in places
where once fiourished the beer pump
and the cocktail shaker. The legion of
soft, sweet drinks has been recruited
and the ice cream parlors are multi
plying, while the soda fountains play
with renewed vigor.
To Americans sugar plums are no
longer sour grapes. Although the
world supply of sugar will probably
be per cent. below normal for 1919,
as far as production is concerned, the
increase of shipping facilities is bring
ing more sugar out of storage in dis
tant Java and other realms Of the sue
culent cane.
Americas Growing sweet Tooth.
The sweet tooth Of the American
people has been gaining in size for
the last century, year by year. When
many business men, bred and other
wise, began to cut down their supplies
Of wines and liquors about ten years
ago the demand for candy and sweet
drinks piled up the per capita con-
sumption of sugar throughout the
United States When the European
war broke out in 1914 Americans
were then consuming sugar at the
rate of S9.14 pounds year per capita,
which represented the highest point
ever reached. Prohibition has been
more or less of a gradual growth in
this country. and whenever a people
tries to overcome a craving for alcohol
it just naturally takes to sugar.
Australia, land of local option and
OF early closing, for in most provinces
the rum shops swing their doors to at
o'clock in the evening, the dulcet
ration is consumed at the rate Of 157
pounds year for every man, woman
and child in the country. This may
be partly accounted for from the fact
that in the Antipodes comparatively
little sugar is produced and the
natives crave 1t as a rare exotic.
In the dear, damp days beyond re-
call when there was not even an excise
law in this country and good old Med
ford rum and choice Monongahela
could be had by the dipperful without
any questions asked nobody cared SO
very much for sugar.
Probably in the time Of Washing
Affaarirafna la
on two or three pounds of sugar a
twelvemonth.
AS late as 1928 the per capita con-
sumption Of sugar just at time when
mutton leg sleeves were going out Of
date and men no longer wore small
clothes of plum colored silk the peo-
pie of these United States were con-
suming only S.S pounds Of sugar a
year.
We find In 1870 that the annual al
lowance had grown to IA pounds,
that in 1850 it had been augmented
TO 20 pounds and that In 1860 every
american was demanding an annual
allowance Of 81 pounds.
Following the civil war a new life
ana energy pervaded the average
American. We became a quick, excit-
able race, craving excitement and
amusement, living at high pressure
and demanding more alcohol and more
sugar. Thus in 1870 our ration OF
sweets was 81 pounds a year; a
decade later is was 43 pounds and in
1890 1t was ten pounds more than that
Tha longing for sweets and the de-
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the United States Treasury as detec-
tives is world wide, and in the quest
for smugglers OF war loot and of fam
lily heirlooms they are living up to
their reputation. In the task of de-
tecting Illicit importations of emeralds
and diamonds from the Russian clear
ing houses they are greatly aided by
the jewellers of the United States. The
legitimate trade cannot afford to com
pete with fly by night dealers who are
able to buy fine merchandise at one
tenth of its value or less and evade
DUTY in the bargain.
Close Watch on Gems.
The Government is likely TO get
quick information, therefore, when q
mysterious person with gems of quail
ity appears in Maiden lane. The great
diamonds and emeralds of the world
are, o. course, known to the high
class trad. 1900 cvcn when emeralds
are unmounted, Ur On from their set
tings by ruthless Bolshevik hands, the
sharp eyed experts of Maiden lane
are likely to instantly detect the stone
OF supreme quality and to tell from
just what Russian Archduke 1t may
have been wrested.
These precious stones are easily
taken from place TO place. An aviator
rose in air the other day with the
crown jewels of SaXony, according to
cable reports, but was unable TO get
away with them. His attempt is only
one of many along this line when
thrones are falling and every effort is
being made to get quick returns for
the turnover OF crime.
1t may be that the smugglers COM
ing over in the steerage and financed
by syndicate OF their kind are cast
ing little buoyed boxes overheard neal
Fire Island or at the Hook, there TO be
picked up by some confederates in a
launch. Such things have been done
Again, 1t may happen that another
clever smuggler, In the guise of sol
der or diplomat or what not, may
conceal in some German helmet or
other trophy certain purchases or
nichings which he has gathered be-
yond the seas.
Ingenious as are the methods for
bringing the Illicit wares into the
United States, the methods for keep
ing watch on the smugglers are none
the less daring and complete. With
the opening up of the usual communi-
cation with Europe the Collector OF
the Port of New York. with the aid OF
his highly competent STAFF, Is we'll able
to prevent any considerable amount OF
valuables getting into this country
without the payment OF imposts duly
made and provided.
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By JOHN WALKER HARRINGTON

- UGAR as substitute for strong
drink is coming to the fore in
~ these days of prohibition,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
NOON HOUR PLAN
At DEPOTS FAIL

The agreement Of the Memphis rail-
roads to close the freight depots dur
ing the noon hour did not hold Two
railroads notified James $ pavant,
commissioner of the Memphis freight
bureau Thursday morning that their
freight depots would not close at noon.
Other roads are expected to take the
same action.
At a meeting Of the local executive
committee ahout two weeks ago II was
decided that all freight depots should
be closed from Il noon until / p. m.
in order that all freight handlers might
60 to lunch at the same time, it being
contended that better service could be
rendered with a fun force ready to 60
to work at l p. m. than under the
present system where the men. take
their lunch hour In shifts and about
one-third Of the force is away from II
a. m. to 2 p. m. when the handling
Of freight is the heaviest.
shippers maintaining large motor
trucks objected that this would cause
Them great Inconvenience and los by
reason of their expensive equipment
being idle for one hour in the middle
of the day.
A meeting of representatives Of the
Memphis freight bureau and the rail
way officials to discuss the matter has
been announced for next Tuesday. but
in view of the fact that the railroads
are abandoning the plan Of their own
accord, the meeting may not be held,
The J.. Il n, and the \. G. & St l.
railroads have declined to close theii
depots and it is understood the Roci
Island has decided not to close. witt
three lines declining to enter the
agreement, it Is believed the matter
will be dropped by the other lines.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
TO BE POSTMASTER.

CONWAY, Ark, July "a. (Spl)-
The appointment of +. A. Brennan as
postmaster at Conway will be sent to
the senate for confirmation within the
next few days, according to private
adviCes from Senator William f. Kirby,
Mr.. Brennan's appointment is to fill
the vacancy OcCasioned by the resig-
nation of II. r. Ingram on June 30, 1915.
In the interim the office has been filled
by B. c. Th0mason, acting postmaster.
Mr., Brennan is a native OF ireland an1
until recently was professor OF mathe-
MATES at the State Normal school.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
DEATHS.

A, NJ. and Beulah Todd Smith, 1872
Florida, July % boy.
James p. and Maud Plesky Mize, 26O
West Jackson Mound, July II; girl.
Morris and Bertha Kline. 3l4 Beale,
July Is girl.
Carroll l.. and Lebye Jackson Andre.
98112 Saxon, July lS boy.
Palmer and Margaretta Allen Barfield
Henning. Tenn, Baptist hospital, July
16; girl.
Frank and Kathryn Egan Coles, 625
Greenlaw, July /; girl.
Fred and Malinda Owens Barrett,
Batesville, Ark, General hospital, July
"a; girl.
George l.. and Helen Tyson TNomp-
son, l54 Vance, General hospital, July
%; girl.
Richard and Sadie Coleman Johnson,
1888 Cottage. July 20, boy.
Alex and Maud Locke Richmond, 1875
Michigan. July 20: hoy.
Goley and Nora Owens, Weeks Alley,
July % girl.
viii and Annie Carter Harris, 6l2
Beale. July 10; boy.
o. p. and Bertha Richardson Hicks.
2S2 Calhoun, July 10: boy.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
CHANCELL0R'S RULING
IN WILL CASE UPHELD

Chancellor Peres was within his legal
rights IN hearing the injunction suit Of
the William X. Moore School of Tech
nology against the heirs and admins
traitors OF the late Charlotte Blood
Moore, according to the decree of Chan
cellor Heiskell announced Thursday.
Thomas NJ. Scruggs, attorney for the
heirs and administrators of the estate.
challenged Chancellor Peres' right to
hear the suit on the ground that he
had interest In the case being stock
holders in the Bank of Commerce and
Trust company, which was named as
administrator ad lttem for the estate. Z
Chancellor Peres showed that he had
stock in other banking institutions as
we'll as the administrator bank, and
Chancellor Heiskell was convinced that
what stock he held in the Bank Of Com
merce was too small to have received
any -- consideration while the
litigation was pending,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
DEATHS.

Mrs. Nellie NJ. Rapp. ~, baptist hos
pital, July %; pneumonia.
Peter Raymond, three days, Baptist
hospital. July %: cerebral hemorrhage.
Haywood Erkin, go. General hospital,
July 20: uraemic coma,
Carrie Roberts, 81, rear $50 South Sec
ond, July 20: tuberculosis.
Annie Matte Wright. 81. Alma and
Keel, July 20; gastro-enteritis
Matildy Coger. 81, n. r. u. Q, Neshoba.
Tenn, June IA; e~ndocarditis.
Matte Spraggins White, SO, 3I2 Jones.
July %; tuberculosis
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
SEEK TO END STRIKE.

force OF the explosion shook buildings
two miles away.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24

LONDON, July 24-The executive
committee of the miners federation
met Premier Lloyd George and other
members of the government this morn
ing in an effort to settle the dispute
in the Yorkshire coal fields.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
NeWs of Riuers
River Bulletin,

Memphis. Tenn, July "a, 1919.
Flood Rain.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
FIRE AFTER BLAST DOES
BIG DAMAGE TO PLANT

BAYoNNE, N, j., July 2A--A fire,
which resulted from the explosion Of a
q of gasoline, seriously damaged the
plant Of the Texas Oil company here
early today, Three employees OF the
trying to extinguish the flames. The
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Viola Wilson to L. r. Bayne, EstelIa
w. Butler to J. Linton Weeks, Mrs.
Verna X. Murphy to L. clyde Going,
katherine Theresa Hughes to Richard
u. Conway, Evelyn Williamson to Ed
ward Curry, Nal r. wilkins to W. +.
Harris, Jacqueline Noite to Jack Liwai.
Rosa Pool TO Emory Upshaw, Pattie
Lee Wright to William Henry Watson.
Emma Washington to Allen Thomas,
Nancie Ann Johnson TO Walter Lee, Ka-
tie Belle Temple to Edward Tally, Pearl
Pettis TO Joe Perry, Essie Lee TO John
yIFpnluyard
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
VET, AGED 1O2, l E

LEAVENWORTH. Kas. July "a
Marquis Golf, l02 years old, Il veteran
Of the Mexican and Civil wars and of
many Indian campaigns, died at the
Soldiers home today. He came here
from New York in 1909.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
DAILY ALMANAC.

Length Of day IA hours s minutes.
sun rises N Friday at 6;04. =
sun sets on Friday at 500.
Moon rises on Friday at ABB a. m.
New moon on 26th.
Evening stars, Venus and Saturn.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24
PERsHING NOW DOCTOR.

CAMBRIDGE, Eng. July ,2A-Gen.
John j. Pershing, chief
of the American forces, yesterday re-
ceived the honorary degree of doctor
of laws from Cambridge university.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-24

"Rise. Fall.
The river at Memphis will remain
about stationary during the next "a
hours, then rise slightly.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05
new RECORD MADE
in TOBACCO PRICE
Good Leaf Unloaded at Abbevlile
For AZ Cents to 8 Cents.
Average Price is 28.11.

Abbeville, Aug. ALL records for
high priced tobacco was broken to-
day. A. P. Petway, of Eastman, sold
two cars on the market for ten thou
sand dollars. Over one thousand
pounds of it averaged forty-eight
cents. c. Sims, Of Pembroke, sole
over one thousand pounds at sixty
three cents. Mr.. Sims and his neigh
bors shipped solid car which
brought from forty-eight to siXty-three
cents. G. T. Holland, of McRae, sold
thousand pounds acknowledgements
There was lot OF sorry tobacco
on the market which cut the average
to 2S.11. The buyers have all arrived
in Abbeville and they are anxious for
good tobacco for which they are Will
ing to pay fancy price.
Abbeville is proving to be one OF
the strongest markets in the state.
Tobacco is shipped every day from
both Bulloch and Bryan counties and
as far as Stewart county from the
west.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05
NEGROES WELCOME
If FREE FROM faint
North Cardinals Reply. Tar Heel
State Can Use $4,000
From Illinois.

Raleigh, N. c., Aug. 3.-Gov. T. w.
Beckett today, answering query of
Chicago newspaper, says tn, srth
Carolina can absorb $4,000 negroes
who want to return from Illinois to
the South, unless they have become
tainted or intoxicated with dreams OF
social equality or political dominion.
The governor was asked by the Chi
cago paper ma telegram received
here Friday how many negroes this
state could absorb, the negroes having
appealed to the Chicago paper during
the recent rioting in that city. The
message to the governor said that
those desiring to return were negroes
who went to Chicago to engage in
war work and were of the industrial
class.
Returning from a mountain trip to-
day, the governor wired the Chicago
paper that this state could absorb
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05
CHILD'S own WISH
INFLUENCES COURT
Judge Long Awards Custody of Little
Mamie Lovett Fletcher to
Aunt, Mrs. B. Bragdon.

Quitman, Aug. 4.-This afternoon at
3 O'Clock the dramatic climax came
in the Fletcher habeas corpus case
when Judge w. H. Long awarded
temporary custody of Mamie Lovett
Fletcher to the aunt, Mrs. B. Brag-
don, OF Quitman, and denied the
claim of the father, George S. Fletch-
er, of Miami Fletcher's counsel i'm
mediately announced that the case
would be taken to the supreme court.
Interest in the case has been i'll
tense throughout the tire edays hear
ing and at the conclusion the court
room was packed. Arguments of
counsel took up the entire session to-
day. Judge Long stated that under
all the circumstances he felt the
childs interests were best in the
hands of her aunt at present, but
ruled that she should not be adopted
by the Bragdons and her name chang
ed as he felt the natural and legal
rights Of the father forbade. The
child had stated that she could run
away if the judge awarded her to her
father and he admitted that he state
of mind influenced his decision.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05
LOST BABY IS FOUND
IN RAILROAD YARDS
Thrce-YearOId James Short Picked
Up After TodIing Among Switch
ing Freight Trains.

Macon, July 31.-A 3-year-old child,
abreheaded and barefooted, and wear
ing nothing but thin, once white cot
ton rompers, was found toddling along
the railroad tracks in the yards at the
foot of Poplar street yesterday after
noon. The child had lodged the
switch engines and the moving cars
without a mishap. H. G. Griswold, OF
the Griswold Supply Company, picked
up the child and carried him to his Of
fee at Poplar and Sixth streets. Then
he notified the police.
Fifteen minutes later A. Short, re-
siding at Manchester Mills, telephoned
to Acting Sergeant Stripping that his
little son, James had been missing
for an hour.
The sergeant told the father where
the little fellow was and in another
hour the boy was on his way home
again, ~o~ssi!aess ID n
The police believe that the child fol
lowed the railroad tracks all the way
from the mills through the bury rail
road yards to the point where he vas
found He knew in a general way the
direction where he lived, but he could
not give his name or street address OF
his parents home.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05
HITS LIQUOR HEADS
In JURY'S CHARGE
Muscogee County Judge Thinks
Potash liquor Puts Arson in
Brain of Those Who Use it.

Columbus. Aug. 4-Judge G. II.
Howard took for his text today the
illegal liquor ira ic in this county in
his charge to the Muscogee grand
jury and declared that certain ped
dlers of whiskey have snapped their
fingers in the faces of officers and
courts
Referring to recent series of in
ccndiary fires in Muscogee county,
Judge Howard declared that there
are men in the county who for
moneys sake would load up on potash
li1uor and burn club houses, county
bridges and school houses, and as a
more convincing and conclusive proof
Of their extreme depravity, would re-
due to ashes the house of God"
Judge Howard stressed the fact
that the recent Federal statues rela-
tive to liquor do not nullify the Geor-
sia laws,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05
BUILDING ICE PLANT
AND COLD STORAGE

Hawkinsville, GAG. w. Dobbs
and w. C. Curry, Of Marietta, Ga,
have purchased the old ice plant site
here and purpose to. bull plant to
manufacture ice enough to supply the
city and then the neighboring towns.
For the last several years Hawkins
vile has been dependent on outside
manufacturers for its ice and many
times right when it was worst needed
there was no ice to be had in the town
And during the warm spells this sum-
mer Hawkinsville has suffered many
times for ice.
In addition to a regular ice plant
these gentlement will erect a cold
storage, which will be a great bene-
fit to the town and county.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05

twenty-five thousand negroes "who
may desire to come to this state for
honorable employment at renumera-
tive wages" He declares, however,
that social equality and political pow
er in the South is forever impossible
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05

A farm engine invented in Europe
is driven by gas motor and"is equip
ed to produce its own fuel from
such waste material as bark. sawdust
or dry leaYes.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05

666 has more limitations than any
other Chill and Fever Tonic on the
market out no one wants limitations.
They are dangerous things in the
medicine inc.-Adv.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05

Eugene King, OF Kennebunk, Me-,
estimates that in fifty years as a
blacksmith he has shod more than
100000 horses.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-05
RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Arrival and Departure OF Passenger
Trains, CordeIe Union Depot.
The following schedule figures pub
lshed as information and not guaran-
teed:
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-12-02
BAPTIST drive
GOING WAY over
Shenandoah Association Has
Made Fine Record.

The Rev, DR.. ". C. Taylor, organ
izer of the Shenandoah Association
in the rs million dollar drive in the
South, received reports today which
indicate that the amount has been
largely oversubscribed. No definite
reports from Virginia are at hand.
but the outlook is very encourag-
ing. The following Is a partial re-.
port of the Shenandoah Associa
ton:
Winchester, quota $3.50, sub
scribed, S6,S03.50; Stanley. quota.
$4,000 subscribed $5,559.50: Shen.
andoah $50 members), quota. $3.50,
subscribed, st,S0o; Happay Creek.
quota, $500. subscribed, S6.30S:
Front Royal. quota. $1,000, subscrib-
cd. SS.470.50. a report of the local
churches was given yesterday.
DR.. Taylor today received tele
gram from Richmond. Va. which
stated that the reports are extreme
" good, and the indications we're
that Virginia would oyersubseribe
her quota of s7000.0O0 from % to
90 per cent. The message also stat.
ed that many churches already
over the top were still pressing
the canvass.