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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Indian Rites Dying Out.

The Hepi Indians, more than any
other tribe, have long-cherished forms'
SAYS a correspondent. Still here In
the isolation of the cleaning desert
and mesa country one may witness
still the corn dance, the snake dance
and other picturesque ceremonials
which the influence Of the white man
has as yet little changed. Among all
of the Pueblo people there has been
preserved much of the old Indian cul-
ture This is easily understood when
one considers the character OF the
pueblos. Dwelling in ancestral VII
lages century after century, avoiding
war when possible, and in their re-
mote mesa homes resisting even the
disintegrating influence of the white
men. these interesting tribes have pre-
served some magnificent art, poetry
and religious sentiments which are
now in danger of extinction, just as
the white student of Indian life Is
beginning to appreciate their value.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Saw First Tobacco Smoke.

1t was Christopher Columbus who
discovered tobacco, and he did 1t on
his first voyage in 1892. according to
q little brochure which George G.
Dempsey of Boston, has prepared for
distribution among the members OF
the Algonquin club. Mr.. Dempsey's
account says: "He was not only the
first European to report tobacco, but
he saw the natives smoking rolls Of 1t
-cigars-to light which they carried
burning brands in their hands. Popu-
lar impression makes Sir Walter Ra-
leigh, the dlscoverer. History dis
closes the fact that the distin-
guished nobleman was closely and
unfortunately identified with the fra
grant herb, but at the same time
shows that he did not begin to play
his dramatic part on the worlds stage
TILL years after the great admiral had
Qylt it.
> "At all events the pipe Is insep-
arabic from our vision Of Raleigh, but
we know Columbus saw cigar smok-
ing years before him. Unfortur ate
discoverer, indeed, Columbus found a
new continent, and another gave 1t his
name. He discovered smoking, and
the name Of another is linked to the
romance Of It,"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Good Record for Co.Ieqes.

Thirty-six per ce of the members
Of congress, 90 per cent of the Pres
idents of the United States, and 81
per cent Of the vice Presidents have
been college graduates, according to
an announcement made by DR.. G.
Borst, dean Of education Of the VAL
paraiso (Ind.) university.
Doctor Borst also made the state
ment that there Is only l per cent Of
college graduates in our male popu-
latien Of graduate age.
"Nearly IS per cent Of all cabinet
members, SO per cent Of the justices
Of the supreme court and IS per cent
Of the chief justices have also been
furnished from this l per cent" said
Doctor Borst.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
BEAUTY IN OLD AMsrERDAw
Canals Of Dutch City Have Caused It
70 Be Named the Venice Of
the North.

Amsterdam Is hotable for two pos
sessions shove all others: its old
canals and its old pictures. writes E.
v. Lucas in "a Wanderer in Holland"
Truly has 1t been called the Venice Of
the North; but very different Is its
somber Quietude from the sunny Ital-
Ian city among the waters.
There Is beauty Of gaiety and a
beauty of gravity; and Amsterdam in
its older parts-On the Kei2ersgracht
and the Heerengracht-has the beauty
Of gravity.
In Venice the canal Is, Of course,
also the street; gondolas and barcas
are continually gliding hither and
thither; but in the Keizersgracht and
the Heerengracht the water is little
used.
One day, however l watched a cos
termonger steering boatload Of flow
ers under bridge and no words of
mine can describe the lovelineSS Of
their reflection. l remember the incl
dent particularly because flowers are
not much carried in Holland, and 1t
is very pleasant to have this impres-
sion of them-this note Of happy gal
ETY. in so dark setting.
In the main Amsterdam is city Of
trade, of hurrying business men, OF
ceaselesS changing tramcars and
crowded streets. but on the keizerS-
gracht and the Heerengracht you are
always certain to find the old essen
tial Dutch gravity and peace.
No tide moves the sullen waters Of
these canals, which are lined with
trees that in spring form before the
narrow, dark, discreet houses the most
delicate green tracery imaginable; and
II summer screen them altogether.
These houses are for the most part
black and brown, with white window
frames, and they rise to great height,
eliminating In that curious stepped
gable with a crane and pulley in it)
which is, to many eyes, the symbol Of
the city. I know No houses that so
keep their secrets.
In every one, I doubt not, is furni-
ture worthy Of the exterior; old paint
ings Of Dutch gentlemen and gentle
women, a landscape or two, girl
with a lutte old silver wind
mills; and plate upon plate Of serene
blue Delft.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Growth Of Christian Endeaver.

The Christian Endeavor, young
peoples society, was originated by
Rev. Francis E. Clark. pastor of the
williston Congregational church In
Portland, Me. On February 2, 1881.
about so boys and girls met In the
pastors study and pledged themselves
to attend and take some part In q
weekly prayer meeting and once a
month to hold a conservation meeting.
Other duties, social. religious. literary,
and of various kinds. were assigned to
different members. They met with In
slant acceptance, and today there are
more than $4,000 societies in the
United States and Canada and in
other lands.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Ionu Train.

There were 67s.211 ,904 tons OF coal
mined In the United States In 1918,
saws a correspondent If all this coal
were put into one train Of 50-ton cars,
this train would consist of 1852, ,23s
cars, and it would take 271,2s4 en-
gines to pull it. This Is based on the
hauling capacity Of the average Amer
lean engine. This train would De
s42,722 Eliles long. and would encir.
Gle the earth over Is times at the
srrst~s
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Chorus Girls, Waaes.

The wages Of chorus girls in New
York range as high as 500 a week,
according to their good looks. The
average pay, however, Is nearer S25 a
week. The minimum wage for chorus
girls in England, as fixed by the Act
ors' association, Is SIS a week, al
though In q few cases, as nigh as S25
Is given.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Situation Wanted.

Mamma, what did you say papa did
all day?"
"Why, he samples coffee, dear-that
is, tastes It."
A pauEe.
HMamma, do they ever hire ice cream
samplersT"-Chicago Tribune.
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To prevent a cold take 666.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
Returns After Separation,
is Killed; Wife Accused
From a Special Correspondent

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Feb. ID
Mary Schultz. thirty mine years cd, OF
II Madaria Street. South River, N. j.,
was lodged in the county jail here to-
night, charged with the murder of her
husband. Frank Schultz, this morning
in their store in South River.
Schultz returned home to-day after
being separated from his wife Tor about
three months. Neighbors heard re-
volver shot in the store at IL o'clock
this morning, and saw Mrs. Schultz run
out of the place. She told q police
man her husband had shot himself.
The police found Schultz on the floor
in a room in the rear OF the store
4 pistol, a bullet from which had en-.
tered the right temple and passed
through the head, was lying near him
He died few minutes later.
Questioned by the police, Mrs: Schultz
said her husband had chased ner into
the room behind the store with 9
butcher knife, and there had dropped
the knife and started TO argue with
her over an unpaid tax bill. She said
she was starting TO leave the room
and had her back turned toward hin
when she heard him shoot himself.
The police said they were not salts
fed with her story and she was ar
raigned before Recorder Van Norder
and held without bail on q charge o.
murder
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
Bank Robbers Foiled by
Sounding of Fire Alarm
Four Armed Bandits Flee After
Firing at Bookkeeper; Three
SusDects Arrested

MANSFIELD, Mass, Feb. 14.--An at
tempt by foSr armed men to rob the
Mansfield Cooperative Bank was frus-
trated to-day by a bystander who
turned in fire alarm. The robbers be-
came frightened and fed in an auto
mobile. Three men were arrested later
at Pawtucket r. /. and two of them
were identified by the bank treasurer.
The third man arrested was the chauf-
feur.
Five men, in in touring car, halted
in front of the bank soon after it
opened. Four drew their pistols and
ordered the three bank employees to
throw up their hands and deliver the
bank cash. Charles Crane, bookkeeper,
Immediately dropped to the floor,
crawled to a door and crept into the
cellar. A shot was fired at him, but
ms ed its mark. Crane opened win
dow in the cellar and shouted for help.
A passerby turned in the fire alarm,
and it is supposed the chauffeur noti-
fed the bandits, who quickly departed
without getting any cash.
The number of the car was obtained.
When q car bearing the same number
later drove into Pawtucket the police
held it up and ordered the chauffeu
to drive to a station. Two of the men
jumped out and escaped. Guns were
found in the car.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
Denies Coal Association
Tried to Influence Prices
Morrow Challenges Evidence OF
Excessive Profits Before
Calder Committee

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-J. D. A
Morrow, vice-president Of the Nationa
Coal Association, a.. organization G
operators, testifying to-day before the
Senate manufacturers committee on
the Calder coal bill, denied that the
association ever had attempted to in
auence prices, to cut production, or to
regulate the industry by q combination
of its members.
Challenging other evidence produced
before the committee, as to excessive
profits on coal production during 1920
Mr.. Morrow introduced q statistical
study which showed, he said, that the
larger mining companies received low
er prices than smaller concerns during
the year and made smaller profits. At
present prices of coal, he said, the
AGA corporations included in his study
would not average 3 per cent return
on capital invested.
Prices now prevailing on coal, Mr.
Morrow said, would hold operators
profits to a low level.
1t was indicated tonight that the
hearings on the Calder bill were near
ing close. Members of the commit
tee said that it was their intention to
take additional evidence on only one or
two details.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
Upstate Traction Line
To Hire Strike Breakers
Arbitration Talk Ceases and
Men in Seven Cities Prepare
for Finish Fight

ALBANY, Feb. 14.--All talk of arbi-
tration between the United Traction
Company and the 1900 men who went
ON strike seventeen days ago appar-
emily evaporated to-day. when Harry
B. Weatherwax, vice-pres ident of the
company, announced that employme mt
offices would be opened to recruit new
working forces to operate trolleys in
the seven municipalities affected by
the walk-out.
This would be done, he said as soon
as strike breakers now at work open
lp service on all lines in Albany and
Troy, most of which still are clogged
by snow.
preparations for waging their fight to
finish. They called public meetings
at Troy and Watervliet to discuss the
situation and the company's refusal
to arbitrate the % per cent wage re-
duction which precipitated the strike
Entertainments and other fund raising
plans were included in sheir program
Strike breakers Gle red the snow
from several miles of track in both Al
bany and Troy. Subnormal service on
one of the eight lines here was re-
sumed in the afternoon, but no one
was seen patronizing the cars. Only
one passenger was carried at Troy. No
disorders occurred.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15

Three men who were said 10 be run.
ming the place were arrested and de-
scribed themselves as Milton Prince
swenty-elght years old, of 500 West
Ilotn Street, manager; Michael Fitz-
gerald. thirty-tiSe years old. of 455
Ninth. Avenue, floor manager. and
Nicholas kotsikas. twent r-eight wears
old, of 600 West i15th Street. assist
ant. They were charged with running
a disorderly place. 1t is said the
proprietor is in California.
The fifty men patrons of the place
we're taken to the West Thirtieth Street
station and locked up. The women we're
taken to the West Forty-seventh Street
station and the Night Court was tele-
phoned and an immediate hearing for
them was arranged. Most of the wom-
en- gave out-of-town addresses, Newark.
Hoboken and other New JERSEY places
prevailing.
All of the women were DISCHARGED bv
Magistrate Bernard Douras in Night
Court. Many of the young "instruc-
tresses" were weeping when the charge
was made that they were found in the
company of women known to be of bad
character.
"There is no place l can send them
except to jail" said Magistrate Douras
to Detective Hepner, who brought the
charge. However, there is no charge
against them except your statement.
They all say they have homes. There
fore, am going to discharge them"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
'Trainrnan Ascribes
Long Island Wreck
To Delayed Signal
Public Service Commission
Inquiry To-day; Confu-
sion ON Atlantic Ave. Line
in Morning Rush Hour

Service on the Atlantic Avenue
branch of the Long Island Railroad,
which was halted Sunday even ng by
collision in which 1t was estimated
that 200 persons were more or less
hurt and shaken up, did not become
normal until 10 a. m. yesterday. 1t
was resumed only about an hour before
that sine and the morning rush hour
brought confusion to the Jamaica sta.
tion. Those living this side of Jamaica
had TO reach their businesses by troll
leg or elevated.
Edward Costello, motorman of the
local train was released in $4,000 bail
in New Jersey Avenue police court or
examination next Monday on the
charge of felonious assault on which
he was arrested early yesterday morn
ing.
He asserted that the. signal was set
"ciear" for him and that he did not
see it shift to danger" Sometimes,
he said, the delay in shifting the sig
mails was so long that motorman
would be almost under g semaphore
when the red light suddenly flashed in
his face. He entered the employ of
the Long Island Railroad as a fireman
in 1905 and became an engineman in
1912.
The Public Service Commission is to
hold a hearing to-day with a view to
determining the cause of the wreck.
The Long Island Railroad had one ye--
terday at Jamaica, but would not ad~
NIT reporters to il.
One of those injured is still in a
serious cop6jtion. He is William Van
Twistern, of 2O53 Washington Avenue,
the Bronx, who lost an arm in the
crash. He is at st. Mary's Hospital,
Jamaica.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
Admits Fooling Husband
With S Adopted Children
Mrs. Swain Says World Would
Be Better OFF if Other Women
Also Took Wa;fa

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. 14-Mrs
Eva May Swain admitted to-day that
her five children were not sher own
and had been adopted, and asserted that
the world would be better off if more
women would follow her example and
t4ke care of the children who had no
mothers. She did not insist that
women should deceive their husbands,
but admitting that she had deceived
her own, she said that he had for
given her. Mrs. Swain is the daughter
o. Mrs. A. E. South, of Atlanta, who
for fourteen years deceived her hus-
band, making him believe that the
eleven children she had obtained from
founding homes were her own.
II believe it is better to take care
o. suffering humanity already here
than to bring other children into the
world when there are already so many
WHO need care" Mrs. Swain said.
William H. Swain, the husband, said
he loved the children and the knowl-
edge that they had been adopted from
a home would make no difference to
him. He said he believed his wife's
intentions were of the best.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
iheatergoers See 80 Seized
In Broadway Dance Hall Raid
ih'rty-nine Women ''Instructresses'' Among Those
Locked Up After Complaints That Wilson'S
Academy Was Public Nuisance

Ahlrty- nine women, who were said
oy the management to be "instruc-
tresses,' and fifty men, who were dane
ing with them. in place known as
Wilson'S Dancing Academy, on the
tenth floor of 1856 Broadway, at Forty
sixth Street, were arrested last night
shortly after II o'clock, while theater-
goers from nearby show houses looked
on.
The academy is declared by the po-
lice to be public nuisance. 1t used
such advertising catch lines as 1.-TWO
hundred Teachers" "Big Jazzland,'
To-night's the Night" and set forth
that. instruction in the latest dances
was only 1914 cents an hour.
The dance instructresses" who were
arrested last night were all Young, and
the detectives who have been watching
the place say that some of them have
not been in the academy" more than
three or four times.
rive detectives mingled with those
on the floor and at a signal others
came in and made the arrests. The
men and women were taken quietly out
on the Forty-siXth Street side of the
building, but this did not prevent a
4arrge crowd of theatergoers from gath
erlng and watching proceedings.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
DIR. Simon's Agent in
Paris I ads n. 7. Is
Drug Trade Center
Reports High Prices Paid
Are Making City Clearing
House for the European
SmuggIers of Narcotics

Dr.. Carleton Simon, Special Deputy
Police Commissioner, yesterday re-
ceiyed from Paris the report Of a man
whom he sent abroad few weeks age
to work with the Paris police in check
ing drug traffic TO this country. The
report indicated, according to DR..
Simon, that the lure of high prices
here lad made New York a clearing
house for narcotics coming from for
eign countries.
It was learned also that cocaine is
smugpled from Germany, by way of
Holland. and opium through Marseil.es,
from Constantinople.
DR.. Simon withheld the name OF his
representative, but said that ne was
acquainted with international police
matters, was an able linguist, and in
Paris had helped organize a special
narcotic squad among the gendarmes,
similar to DR.. Simon's staff here.
Accompanying his report were phcto-
graphs of men supposed to have been
aiding foreign vendors in getting drugs
into New York. Detectives will use
these pictures IN their effort to run
down members of the drug nrg.
Crews or. ships from the Mediterranean
will be more carefully watched.
Magistrate Joseph Z. Corrigan held
Daniel Norris, twenty years old, of Is
West 101st Street, on charge OF hav-
ing heroin in his possession yesterday.
From the bench in Jefferson Market
Court Magistrate Corrigan said 10 DR..
Simon:
you are winning the thanks Of tha
entire law-abiding public, as we'll as
the unfortunate users of these drugs.
by your aggressive campaign to check
this evil traffic, and / wish to promise
you full support and cooperation"
Magistrate Corrigan said he believed
that drug peddlers should be impris-
oned for life. He was informed that
Norris, bookkeeper, who was held in
$500 oail, had given information lead
ing to the arrest of three men suspect
ed of being vendors.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
Rents Room, Tries Suicide
Landlady Smells Gas Few Min.
utes After Woman Moves In

A ''room for yent" sign was placed
or display at / o'clock yesterday after
noon at 169 East Sixty-third Street.
An hour later neatly dressed young
woman rang the bell and told Mrs.
Marie Keilbert thae she wanted to en-
gage the room.
She was shown to room on the
third floor. In few minutes Mrs.
Keilbert smelled gas, She found the
door of the Young woman's room
locked. She smashed the door and
entered. Her new roomer lay across
the bed, clutching a gas tube in one
hand. The room was filled with escap-
ing gas.
The young woman was removed to
Flower Hospital, where she was identi-
fed as Miss Josephine Doerher, of 319
East Sixty y-ninth Street, by her sister,
Mrs. Albert Werner. 1t was said at
the hospital that she will recover.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
Sing Sing Prisoner
LIS Indicted as One
OF Eckert Slayers
RUSSELL Brice Had Pleaded
Guilty and Smilingly Ac-
cepted Ten. Year Sem
tence on Burglary Charge

Russell Brice, who has served lust
ten days of term of not less than ten
nor more than twenty years in Sing
Sing, has been indicted as one of the
murderers of Frederick P. Eckert, the
oootlegger who was found shot to
death in an automobile on Old Town
Road, Staten Island, August 81, 1920.
Brice, laboring at the coal pile in
Sing Sing, knows nothing of the new
charge against him. The authorities at
Sing Sing decided not to tell him until
they receive word as to when he
should be tried, lest the information
render him desperate and inspire him
to make 3 break for liberty.
Two other men have been indicted
on the same charge, it was announced
yesterday by Joseph Maloy, District
Attorney of Richmond. The indict
ments were returned Friday, but were
kept secret in the hope that the other
defendants might be found. Brice is
accused Of being a member of the
party that compassed Eckert's death.
at is not established just who fred
the shot," said District Attorney Maloy.
IL 10 pLODdDlS llldl DLlCS was uSpQ
merely as a decoy to lure Eckert to
Staten Island"
Mr.. Maloy said that the name of
Frank Walsh, of Passaic, Jersey boot
logger and highwayman, who was found
shot dead last week under circum-
stances similar to those surrounding
Eckert's death, had not been brought
into his investigation. 1t was posi-
BILE, Mr.. Maloy said. that Walsh was
operating with the Eckert gang under
another name.
Brice, arrested as footpad in Brook
lyn, pleaded guilty to a charge of
burglary, and when arraigned for sem
tence before Supreme Court Justice
Cropsey February he smiled as
though he held the severest possible
sentence lightly.
mo wonder you smile," said Justice
Cropsey graphically, ''you probably
tn nix you fooled some of us. You
know you killed man, but you forgot
to mention the matter"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-15
Dies Shielding.
His Slayer in
Gambling War
Victim of a Card Game
Quarrel Succumbs in
Hospital After Refusing
to Tell Assassin's Name
Message Led to Death
Five Men in Room at Cigar
Store When Shooting Oc-
Cured Made Their Escape

Ascher Bloom, alias Jack Gordon,
twenty-sfx years old, a clerk, 1874 West
l66th Street, was shot through the
head last night, the outcome, the police
say, of gamblers quarrel in the rear
of cigar store at 109 Lenox Avenue.
Bloom was taken to Harlem Hospital,
where he died without revealing the
name of his slayer to the police.
The cigar store in which Bloom was
shot is owned by Louis Levine Jack
Levine, a brother Of Louis, was tend
ing the store at the time of the shoot
ing. Patrolman Kenna, of the West
123d Street station, arrived q few
minutes after BLOOM was shot. There
was no one in the store except Jack
Levine, whom Patrolman Kenna says
he found bending over Blooms body.
After calling an ambulance Kenna took
Levine to the West 123d Street police
station.
Shot at Card Game
Bloom came to the store about 6:15,
according to Levine, and. without stop
ping at the counter, passed into the
room at the rear where. Levine says,
five men were playing pinochle. Le-
vine told the police that he could not
identify any of these men.
About five minutes after Bloom en-
tered the rear room, Levine says, he
heard two shots. A minute later the
FIVE men rushed out of the store and
disappeared. Levine says that he then
v ent to investigate and was examining
Bloom when Patrolman Kenna arrived.
Detectives from the West l23d Street
station communicated with Mrs. Estelle
Bloom, wife of the slain man, who in
formed them that several nights ago
her husband had a quarrel with man,
whose name she could not give. The
quarrel ended, according to Mrs. Bloom,
when her husband threatened to get"
the man.
Asked to Keep Appointment
At o'clock yesterday, Mrs, Bloom
said, a man called on the phone and
asked for her husband. When told
that Bloom had not returned from
work. he left a message for Bloom to
meet him at the corner at night. When
Bloom, according to his wife, had fin
ished his dinner, he hurried out to
keep this appointment.
Bloom, when questioned by the police
at the hospital before he died, refused
to tell the name of his assassin. The
police announced, however, that they
we're looking for a we'll known gam
bier and bootlegger, who, they said,
would know something of the shooting