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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-29

cotton this in addition to whatever
warehousing plans may be put into
operation. Senator Dial of South
Carolina, who has been in Washing
ton and New York for some time
working on this matter, today ad-
dressed letters to the French consul
general, and the Japanese consul
general and the Belgian consul gen.
eral, calling their attention to what
the South has to sell.
In this letter, the South Carolina
senator said:
GAS you are aware, the people of
South Carolina raise large quanti-
ty of cotton, something like 1,400,-
900 bales annually. For reasons of
which you are well aware, exports
have fallen off greatly and we have
a surplus amount of cotton on
hand.
"I am anxious for our producers
to sell direct to foreign merchants
or manufacturers to the mutual ad-
vantage of all. We now have splen-
did warehouses all over the state
with plenty of congresses and can
obtain a through bill of lading to
any part of the world. AS you know,
we have augmented our shipping
facilities from the Southern ports
in the last few months. r
"If you know of any one who
would care to consider purchasing
in the above mentioned way I
would be glad for you to put them
in communication with me-"
In the opinion of Senator Dial the
most important question before the
cotton producer today is that Of
creating an export market for his
product.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-29

"The rapid growth of the legion
has been phenomenal. Such thing
has never happened before in either
this or any other. country. This
great growth has been due, first to
the fact that our ideals as laid
down last year but also practical
and, second, to the spontaneous de-
sire Of nearly every veteran of the
world war to keep alive his wonder
full spirit of service to his country
and service to his comrades, and,
third, to the sound Of unselfish
leadership of the little groups of
willing workers in every community
who appreciate the amount of work
necessary to make a success of this
great movement.
"To the American Legion there is
no East or West, no North or South,
no Jew or Gentle, no Protestant or
Catholic, no capital or labor, no en-
ployer or employee, no Republican
or Democrat. The American Legion
is the only organization in which is
represented every good element in
the entire country. 1t is the, nearest
attemtp at organizing public opinion
and we all know that when public
opinion speaks it speaks without au-
thority. And so. during this past
year, you have played fair with
every element in the legion and
have thus gained the support OF
public opinion, and so the closer, we
stick to sound public opinion, the
greater will be our service to our
country and the better able we will
be to look after our comrades need
ing our help" !
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-29
OFFICIALS DISCUSS
CALIFORNIA LAW
Which Bars Japanese From Owning
Land In That State. ...

L washington, oepI. Ao'- auiii'hi
stration officials continue to discuss
for publication any Of the phases of
the negotiations with Japan growing
out of the. proposed anti-Japanese
land law in California. but the i'm
preston has gone out that propos-
al from Toxic that the question be
referred to a joint commission for
solution would be unacceptable.
The conversations regarding the
California law which have been
going on between Ambassador
shidebara of japan and state de-
partment officials are continuing
and so far as has been learned, the,
proposal for joint commission has
not been formally communicated to
Washington by the japanese govern
ment.
What progress, if any, has been
made in the negotiations has not
been disclosed. The attitude of the
state department is described as one
calculated to prevent the develop
ment of feeling of alarm in the
United States that might approach
even approximately that which ap-
pears to 1be growing in Japan.
Conflicting opinions Of both Am
erican and Japanese authorities on
international law are said to have
made the task of the state depart
ment officials and the Japanese am
bassador more difficult. Proponents
of the California law say that
California enacting measure
barring the japanese in this country
no rights or privileges which are
not refused by japanese law to Am
orleans in Japan.
Japan contends that the Califor-
MIA law, which is to be voted in No
vember, is discriminatory because it
does not apply to all foreigners
alike as does the Japanese law. The
suggestion was made in Toxic that
after the law is enacted to be tested
in the United States supreme court.
Some japanese authorities on inter
national law about that this would
be effective as they state frankly
that the proposed California law
conflicts neither with the constitu-
ton nor with the terms of the Am
erican-Japanese treaty.
DR.. X. Kobayshi, writing of the
proposed law in "the japanese re-
view of international law" says it is
futile to attempt opposition by
legal methods.
Neither the present California
alien land law, nor the proposed
hasty and CRUEL initiative law" says
DR.. Kobayshi, "can be dealt with as
legal questions. All that can be done
is to soften them by political and
diplomatic methods"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-29

TEACHERS.-Fifty to one hundred
requests daily from all classes SOU
thern schools. If you want rural
work, graded, high school or prin-
cipalship, salary S75 to $3.50, write
us today for special enrolment.
Offices: Columbia, 81 c., Richmond
Va, and Chattanooga, Tenn. Sou
thern Teachers Agency, Colum
bia, S. c. 9-2O-4wks.ei,
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CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS

Save 10 to 25 per cent on Floor
ing, Ceiling, Siding, Laths and
Shingles. Buy in car lots. Send list
for delivered prices. Greenwood
Sales Co., Box 435, Greenwood, S.
C. 9,13.-26wks.-c.
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FOR SALE-One brand new Groom
Bungalow with all modern conyen
fences, on Magazine Street.
The Home Building Corporation.
See T. G.. White, Pres. g. -tf.c
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MARKETS
NEED OF FARMERS

Senator Dial Acts To Enlarge De-
mand For Cotton-Writes To
. Consuls' ...
. Washington, Sept. 2S.-Thor-.
oughly convinced that one ofrthe
greatest needs Of the South at the
present time is to create export
markets in foreign countries for our
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Legal Blanks for Sale Here.
The Press and Banner Company.
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WANTS

FOR SALE-Good piano, in splendid
condition. A bargain. Apply at
this office. 9, 29-tf. c
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MCCALL FASHION PLATES and

Patterns on sale at J. M. Ander-
son Co.'s Clothing Store. 9-24-3tc
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
Unrest at the Barton farm.
(TO BE CONTINUED
RESEMBLED AN UNUSED HOME
Entering Egyptian Tomb More
Than 5000 Years Old.

In February, 1905, an American ex-
plorer in Egypt, Z. Nj. Davis. discov-
cred the tomb of Yuaa and Thuaa, ia
Their and mother of that Queen Tyi
whose influence played so great part
in Akhenaten's religious reformation.
The tomb was intact and the OBJ
jects 1t contained were as perfectly
preserved as if they had been shut up
only few weeks. One of the archie
Ologists described his sensations on
entering the place as being very much
like those of a man who enters a town
house which has been shut up for the
summer. ArmchairS stood about.
beautifully carved and decorated with
gold, the cushions on one of them.
stuffed with down and covered with
linen so perfectly preserved that they
might have been sat upon or tossed
about without injury. Two beds of
fine design, decorated with gold, oc-
cupied another part of the chamber,
while a light chariot in perfect preser-
walton stood in corner. Most star
Ting of all was the discovery of a jar
of honey, still liquid and still preserv-
ing it's characteristic scent after 1890
years!
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10

By MEREDITH NICHOLSON.


! struck me as pretty decent, square
| sort of chap, and not at all the
familiar grouchy uncle of fiction and
time to time with a view to building
play around him-the perfect uncle,
unobtrusive, never clustering at his
nephew; translating the avuncular
relationship into something remote and
chaste like a distant view of Mount
Washington in winter. 1t was just
like him to retire from business on
his sixtieth birthday and depart for
the Orient, there to commit the
shameless indiscretion of matrimony."
Like him! It was the greatest
shock of my life. To the best of my
knowledge he never knew any women
except the widow of his partner in the
importing house. She was about
eighty and perfectly safe. He spent
twenty years in the birmingham, the
dullest and most respectable hotel
in the world and his chief recrea-
ton was leisurely walk in the park
before going to bed. You could set
your clock by him. Pretty thin pick
He used to take me to the theater
regularly every other Thursday-it
was date-and his favorite enter
tainment was vaudeville with black
face establishment preferred. But in
his shy fashion he was kind and
generous and mighty good to me-"
IF you hadn't gone to war. but had
kept right at his elbow. the marriage
might have been averted," suggested
Searles. HE did leave you some
thing, didn't hep
Fifty thousand cash and the right
to use the garage at the Barton farm.
Calling it q farm IS joke; it's rocks
mostly. He bought the house to have
place to store mis- prints and Jap
ceramics. He hated motoring except
in taxis up and down town, and when
1 urged him to set up a machine, he
told he to go ahead and buy one and
build the garage. Told me I'd better
fix up the studio in the garage and
have it as place to work in. His
will provides that l may lodge in the
garage for life"
1.-THE estate footed million, as I
remember, so can't praise his gener
osity. But the widow, your unknown
aCntie, the body-snatcher who annex
ed the old boy-what of her?"
1--WE asked the trust company peo-
pie whether she's in sight anywhere,
and they assure me that size is not OH
these shores. Terrence. the third
vice president-you know TORY; he
was in the class ahead of us at col
lege, the man who never smiles
TORY said she acknowledged the last
remittance three months ago from
Bangkok-wherever that is. suppose
the old girls resumed her tour of the
world looking for another retired
merchant to add to her list"
VERY likely. To what nation,
tribe, or human group does this pred
atory person belong?"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
WIND CAVE NATURAL MARVEL
South Dakota Able to Boast of One
of the Greatest Curiosties
In the World.

Wind Cave National park. South Da-
kota, containing 10.S99 acres. consists
of series of long, narrow passage
ways having variations in height and
width. and opening into irregular
chambers ut intervals. There are
three principal divisions. the first, into
which the entrance descends, being a
long, narrow tunnel leading southeast.
1t extends 300 feet lower than the en-
trance and $50 feet below the surface
of the ground above.
The trail then ascends by stairway
to the upper level of the cave. and
thence through other chambers to the
Garden of Eden. the end of this route.
From the crossroads on this division
there is a branch passage leading to
the northeast. Here it joins the third
division, nOrthwesterly to the Pearly
Gates, parallel to the entrance passage.
There are several branches, the
largest leading upward into the Fair
Grounds, 100 feet higher than adjoin-
ing portions of the cave. 1t is reached
through hole in the roof of passage
way. In the game reserve are buffalo,
elk and deer.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
SCOUTS HIKE 225 MILES.

A hike that last IA days over an
estimated distance of 225 miles and
included the climbing of Mount Con-
stance and an adventure with a bear
was enjoyed by three Seattle boys.
The mixers were Phil Keller, age
fifteen; Forest Crosby, age sixteen,
and his brother. Harold, age eighteen.
Leaving Seattle the boys went to
Brinnon, from which point they made
their way to the head waters of the
Dosewallips river, distance of 40
miles. They then hiked over Hayes
trail for IS miles and then up the Ell
wha river for the same distance.
While on the Dosewallips trail the
boys took time to climb Mount Con-
stance, making the ascent in five and
one-half hours.
On the Elwha trail they met big
black mother bear and her cub. In
stead Of making for the boys the moth
er ran, while the cub sought refuge in
the branches of tree 30 feet from the
ground. The boys contented themselves
with photographing the cub and went
on.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
SEAT OF SCOUT BROTHERHOOD.

The head of the boy scouts in
Switzerland, Maurice Och, is in this
country to suggest that the world
wide boy scout brotherhood have its
headquarters at Geneva, as a sort of
Junior League of Nations. Mr.. Och
says:
ST am here to suggest an interna-
tional bureau, located at Geneva, which
would serve as bond between all the
scouts of the world. The center of
the Red Cross organizations of the al
lies is at Geneva, and that will also
be the seat of the proposed League OF
Nations.
1.-The international scout bureau
might take upon itself the organizing
of an international encampment in
different country each year.
ST wish to express my admiration
for your splendid American organiza-
ton. I happened to meet several OF
your scouts and I was impressed by
their good appearance. These young
boys have a frank and loyal express
SiOn."
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10

"Oh, I'm Not Knocking the Dead"
Dewing trial. She was well liked
by her associates in spite of the fact
that she was a bit offiSh and vanished
from their world the minute the cur
tain fell
"A clever governess out of a job,
satisfying a craving for excitement
and playing the mysterious role as a
part of the adventure. Am / to as
sumo that you've burned your play
and that the incident is closed?"
''Oh, l didn't burn it; have copy
locked in a safety vault, and Dalton
left one heavily sealed at a small ex-
elusive London hotel where, he found
after much difficulty. the girl had
lodged during her two engagements
you're morbid" said. "Show me
her photograph"
He laughed ironically. "Never a
chance, Singleton You haven't yet
got the idea thai this young
woman is out of the ordinary
She refused to be photographed
wrote it into her two contracts that
this was not to be asked. never
saw her off the stage, and can't give
you description of her that would
be of the slightest assistance to the
keenest detective alive. In that panto.
mime she was a frolic, the clowns
daughter. and. although nobody saw it,
she was the whole piece, the elusive
sprite that could evoke laughter and
tears by gesture, lifting of the
Dxy
ent methods in Honorable Women
she proved her wide range of appeal.
Hers was the one true characterize
ton in the piece. When Terry was in
her prime YOU remember how We used
to say that only one bird sang like
that, and from paradise it flew? Well,
this bird sings on the same branch!
Her voice was her charm made audi
ble!'
Rave some more! ~ I pleaded.
"You never talked better in your life"
Don't be an ass" he said sourly.
Lets forget her and take squint
at your affairs. Just what do you
mean to do with yourselfT'
MY shoulder still ereaks a little, and
the doctors advise me 20 sit around
for a while. They offered me some
jobs in Washington. but desk work
and inspection duty are too tame after
a couple Of years spent in star climb
ing. I'm going up to Barton-on-the-
Sound and I'll camp in the garage on
my uncle's place."
your uncle played you nasty
trick" interrupted Searles; getting
married and then adding to the crime
by dying. You couldn't beat that for
general spitefulness."
"Do you remember he immortal
lines:
"'Oh. skip your dear uncle!
The Bellman exclaimed
AS he angrtly tinkied his belI''?
''Oh I'm not knocking the dead!' he
protested. Mr. Bashford always
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
MAY BE BONES OF HEROES
Uncertainty as TO Human Relics Re-
Gently Found Near the Famous
Alamo at San Antonio.

Recently workmen have unearfhed
in portion of the Alamo grounds at
San Antonio bones which may be those
of the heroes of Texas whose bodies
were cremated by the victorious hurdes
under Santa Anna.
No effort was made TO gather the
bones nor 10 remove them TO the in
closure of the Alamo. They were per-
mitted TO remain where they were
found: and ii garage is to be built over
rhe spot. the ground where the dis
covery was made being outside the
walls and part of the property which
has gone to commercial use.
The bones were found some 200
feet south of the wall of the Alamo:
and the inquiry made has not fully de-
veloped whether they were those of
the Texans ar whether they were those
of the Indians who were used TO huild
the ancient mission and who formed
the colony which the friars gathered
about them TO till their fields and TO
provide the food and the feed they re
quired.-Houston Post.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
BOY
SCOUT
Conducted by National Council OF ths
Boy Scouts of America.)
SCoUTING's SECOND DECADE

Colin III. Livingstone, president OF
the Boy Scouts of America, gives them
this message at the start of the sec
Ond decade of scouting in the United
States:
"a fellowship of nearly 100000 boys
and leaders drawn by a common bond
at the same hour for the noble pur-
pose of renewing their second oath is
the most significant patriotic act of
the times. ....=.
"a tenth birthday is always a mile
stone. We are proud of the great
things already accomplished, but we
must not rest content with the things
we have done. The future is our op-
portunity.
First of all, fellow scouts, let us
celebrate our tenth birthday by more
intensive scouting. Tenderfoot, on to
second class! Second-class scout, on
to first clas; first-class, on to the
merit badges, and then through
Life, Star, Eagle! BY such progress
you will serve yourself, your fellows,
your country!
"Get in more and more outdoor
work. Outdoor scouting is real scout
ing. Life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness under open skies is every
scouts birthright.
"At this significant moment in our
history we should each and all deter
mine to make the good turn habit more
and more a part of our lives, for with
out the good turn spirit in our hearts
and the good turn practice in every
day living, all the rest of scouting is
of little avail.
"For God and country, and the serv-
ice of man, carry on!"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
CHAPTER /.
he Troops


1T was hard luck, said Searles.
''that / should spend a year writing
a play for woman only TO find that
she had vanished-jumped off the
earth into nowhere This was my
highest flight, Singleton, the best writ
ing l ever did. and after the vast
pains / took with the thing, the only
woman l ever saw. who could possibly
act it is unavailable worse than that.
absolutely undiscOverable Nobody
knows l have this script; I've kept
quiet about it simply because I'm not
going to be forced into accepting
star I don't want. / have a feeling
about this play that l never had about
my other things. The public has been
so kind TO my small offerings that
I'm trying to lead 'em on TO the best 7
can, do; something little finer and
more imaginative, with a touch of
poetry. if you please. And now"
He glared at me as though / were
responsible for his troubles. AS he
knew / had been flying in the French
aviation corps for two years and had
Just been invalided home, didn't
think it necessary to establish an
alibi. Fate had been Kind to Dick
Searles. In college he had written a
play or two that demonstrated his
talent, and after rigid apprentice
ship as scene-shifter and assistant
producer he had made skilling with
Let George Do IT, farce that earn
ed enough to put him at ease and make
possible an upward step into straight
comedy. Even as we talked a capac-
ity house was laughing ar his skit,
"Who Killed Cock Robin?" just around
the corner from his lodgings So his
story was not the invention of a re-
jected playwright to cover the non
appearance of a play which. nobody
would produce.
isn't it always a mistake to write
play for a particular star?' / sug-
gested. Seems to me I've read some
where that that is among the beset-
ting sins Of you playwrights."
"Old stuff. my boy: but this isn't
one of those cases. The person had
in mind for this play wasn't star.
hut beginner. quite unknown. 1t
was wien | was in London putting on
Fairy Gold that saw her; she had
small part in a pantomime, and
pantomime IL the severest test of an
actors powers. you know. little
later she appeared in Honorable Wo-
men, capital play that died early.
but there again I felt her peculiar
charm-it was just that. She was ex-
Quisite! No one ever captured my
imagination as she did, / watched
her night after night. I was afraid
that when I heard her voice it would
break the spell, and I actually shook
like a man with an ague when she
ripped out on the stage as the in
genue in Honorable Women And
her laughter! Il on know how hollow
the usual stage -2irth is, but that girls
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
JUNGLE DAN" HITS THE TRAIL.

One very slippery da- this winter as
Daniel Carter Beard, the veteran ma
tional commissioner of over 375,OOO
Boy Scouts of America, was confidently
swinging along with an Indian stride
across the ice, three sisters who lived
in the convent in the neighborhood
approached.
Everybody in Flushing knows Dan
Beard, and one of them jokingly
quoted, 1.-THE wicked stand in slippery
placesr Just then "Uncle Dam went
down with a slam that would have laid
up any other septuagenarian.
From the refuge of the sidewalk he
remarked, "They may, but don't know
how in blazes they do it,
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-10
LADY .LARKSPUR

LADY Larkspur" is a de-
IightfuI little Whimsey of a
story by Meredith Nicholson,
author of "The House of a
Thousand Candles" and
other charming romances
that nearly everybody has
read. It's short and sweet
and full of the fanciful
charm which has made
Nicholson deservedIy popu-
lar.
Bob Singleton is the hero.
He's an aviator invaded
home. His Uncle Bashford
has married an English
woman in Japan in his old
age, died and left a widow
whom Bob has never seen.
Said widow, present where
abouts unknown, is mystery
No. /. Mystery No. 2 is VII
oIet DeWing, an entirely
charming English actress,
also missing from public
view. Bob's friend Searles
has written a play, Lady
Larkspur,'' especially for
her and naturally is combing
the universe to find her.
Bob goes to the Bashford
farm" at Barton in New
England to recuperate. The
household is made up of
broken-doWn hotel en-
pIoyees befriended by the
unCle-c0me0y material.
A young and attractive
woman arrives and says
she's the widow. Bob is
quickly captivated. Appear
in due course a puzzIing
S tr anger, a remarkable
fan, and a suspected Ger
man SUPERNATURAL fol ad-
venture and incidents both
exciting and entertaining, to
say nothing of mystery deep
and dark.
In the end-but what's
the use in spelling it! Read
it for yourself.