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Evening star., 1921-08-11
READING TRAFFIC LOW.
Car Report Shows Marked In
activity Since 1902.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Augu

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. August IL
The Philadelphia and Reading railway
announced today that at no time since
July. 1902. has the number of its cars
on other systems and the number of
cars belonging TO other roads on its
system been so low as on July "a.
On that date. the statement said, it
had 1915 cars on other lines and
1896 foreign cars Were on its lines.
During March. 1920. the average num-
ber of Reading cars on other lines
was 3S.991, and the average number of
foreign" cars on its rails was 35.001.
There has been a steady decrease
since.
ST. PAUL, AAr II. - Railroad
men here see poss.Ses of rate
war in the recent app cation of the
Great Western road to reduce pas
senger fares between Omaha and St
Paul and Chicago S1.50 each.
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LEATHER.

NEW YORK August 11.-Business
in leather continues of a routine char
acter, with little increase in the op-
erations of 4, tanners. IN view OF the
increased Production by shoe manu-
facturers a scarcity is predicted i'll
some quarters.
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TOBACCO.

PHILADELPHIA. August lire
cent rains have helped the tobacco
crop in the Lancaster section. Pack
ers report "a brisk demand for the
1920 leaf. On January tobacco firms
here employed. 6.l62 men. This force
has now been reduced one third a
cut-rate war among retailers has been
in progress here
HARTFORD. Conn. August IL
Now that the tobacco harvest is on, it
is evident that while "wildfre," the
tobacco plant disease has hur1 sew
eral big fields. its damage to the crop
in the Connecticut valley has not been
heavy. The round-tip tobacco, "A new
type, is proving fine crop. resisting
wind and rain storms better than
other varieties.
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HOPS.

!. SACRAMENTO, Calf, August IL
Hop picking is in progress here and
growers are holding their crop back
from the market in hope Of further
advances in price.
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ders for drop in prices. 1t is pre-
dicted that the volume of silk bust
hess here will not increase for eight
or nine morths.
NEW LONDON. Conn. August IL
The Brainerd & Armstrong Company
has been forced by heavy orders to
operate its silk mill on an overtime
basis. Five hundred men now are. en-
ployed, the largest number since the
war.
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COTTON.
Bl'RLAP.

NEW YORK. August 11.--Local
hurtap traders are anticipate ting an
upifft in prices now that the harvest
ing 'seasonsis on and the bag manu-
facturers have bought. their lighter
weight cottors. and. may turn to the
cheap burlaps,
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JEWEL.Ii Y.

NEW YORK, August 11.-There will
be few. if any, reductions in prices Of
1eWclry this season, according to lead
Ing Wholesale jewellers here. Statesmen
are turning in a satisfactory volume
OF orders especially from the middle
west. Demand for diamonds continues
TO be the feature of the,market.
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= GRAIN.

GHAIN.
NEW ORLEANS, August 1.-THE
wheat movement to Europe through
this port is now at Its height. About
300 cars of wheat are passing through
mere each day. or NOR. than double
the amount hfpdled at this time last
year.
PHll.ApELPHIA, August 1.-THE
ioltowlng quotations, are current here:
No: 2, red winter wheat in export eie-
vator, f.30 to- l.35 bushcl: No. 2. corn,
69 20 20: No. 2. white oats, 46l@ TO 49,.
buShcl; new timothy hay. 1890 to
zoo ton; -four ranges from 6.l0 to
500 for western winter straight in
l33-pound sacks. to 1925 to 1850 for
city mills patent
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COLLARS.

TROY. n. ". August 1.-The Cme:t-
Peabody Company and thaGeorge p.
Ide Company collar manufacturers.
have announced that the annual vaca-
.tion of their employees will be extend
ed week and that the plants will not
resume operations until August -.
They have been closed since August l.
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NOTES

CHICAGO, August 1i.-Frorn nearly
every Quarter in this sectiAp come
complaints from manufacturers -and
dealers in various lines over the bur
den of present freight rates. They
declare rates are too high. and are
holding back business reA&yal AS
prices of commodities eredueed and
costs are more carefully fSnFed by
producers and manufacturers, these
rates, thsy say, become constantly
more bItAensone. -.
PHILADELPHIA, August I1-Al-
though new building. is almost at a
standstill here, many alterations are
in progress, which will give addi-
tional use to standing buildings.
Large storerooms are being cut up
into small shops In the center of the
city and are yielding greatly in-
creased rentals. Large old residence
hare being transformed into house
keeping apartments and for rent
signs are becoming more numerous.
PHILADELPHIA. August 11.-Fol-
lowing reductions in the working
force at the Philadelphia navy yard.
it is reported here that the local wage
board at the yard has sent to Wash
ington a recommendation for a Is per
cent reduction In the pay of all
classes of employees to be effective
Sept ember 1. Three hundred painters.
riggers and helpers have been laid off
for a week.
: NEW YORK. August IA new
record for the passage between New
York and Rio de Janeiro is claimed
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CHICAGO. August 11.--Ninety per
cent of the orders in the silk trade in
this section are for i'm m ediate con-
sumption and advance order business
is far below seasonal average. 1t is
well known that a powerful japanese
syndicate has begged the price of raw
silk. but buyers expect that this
means of maiptaJniug prices will ulti-
mately fail and they are delaying or
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COAL.

NEW. YORK. August 1f.-The rail-
roads are buying more coal now than
at any time this year, and will enter
the winter with a seventy five day re-
serve stock on hand, according to
leading railroad executive here.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-04-14
FORMER EMPRESS
OF GERMANY dies
QUIET LITTLE VILLAGE GREAT
LY AFFECTED By NEWS
OF DEATH.

Former Empress Augusta Victoria,
of Germany, died at Doom, Holland,
Monday morning. By a strange CO.
incidence the end came just one year
after she suffered her first serious at
tack of heart disease.
It was while she was preparing to
enter the house of Doom the present
home of the former emperor of Ger
many, after her long residence at
Amerongen that she was stricken with
what at the time was believed to be
a fatal attack. That was on April
IL, 1920. For few days there were
reports that her death was momen-
tarily expected but she rallied and ac-
companied her husband to Doom on
May Is, last.
Attacks of her fatal malady occur
sed at frequent intervals each sap
ping her vitality and multiplying the
measures taken by specialists to re-
store her health. When her son, for
mer Prince Joachim, committed sui
eide in Berlin last July, she was in
such a nervous condition that the news
of his death was kept from her for a
long time, and it is said she never
learned her son killed himself.
Late last autumn, the former en-
press condition gradually became
worse, and on several occasions her
children were called to Doom but her
strength was such that she rallied
bravely when the end was believed to
be near. Since the first of this year,
Il had been known that she was grad
ually sinking.
Former Emperor William and also
Prince Adelbert were at the bedside
when the former empress died. They
had been called by DR.. Haesner, who
attended the former empress through
out her residence in Holland.
The death came as shock to the
dwellers in Doom Castle as last week
the patients condition had seemed less
serious. Last Saturday DR.. Haesner
after consultations with Prof. Hymans,
the Dutch heart specialist, thought it
advisable to send a message to Prin-
cess Victoria Louise, the only daugh-
ter, of the former emperor and en-
press, calling her to Doom. The prin-
cess who was then in Vienna had not
reached Doom when death came to
the ex-empress.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-04-14

said that she walked several hours
looking for the minister who had per-
formed the cermeony and that she
became so exhausted that she had to
get transfer to take her home. She
said that Vaughn attended Baptist
church in the country and taught
Sunday school, Mrs. Vaughn was ask
ed if Vaughn ever feared recapture
and she said that he had said to her
on several occasions that the people
in South Carolina had other things
to do and were too busy to fool with
him. Mrs. Vaughn would stop in the
middle of the conversation and say,
oh, he was good to me and loved me. ,
and then become hysterical.
"The Vaughns had furnished
room with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Clark
at Port Tampa, ten miles below Tam
pa city, Vaughn was arrested by E.
2. Suddoth, marshal and deputy
sheriff at Port Tampa. The city de-
tectives had the report on his being
wanted in South Carolina but as it
was out of the city limits they called
on Marshal Suddoth for assistance.
When first arrested he claimed that
he was from Ohio and that his name
was Earl. Mrs. Vaughn says that
after she recovered from the shock,
that she will use the name Of Earl
for the present and follow her pro-
fession of nursing. tn an interview
with Mr.. and Mrs. Clark they stated
that the Earls or Vaughns were very
nervous on the Sunday following the
night they were seen in Tampa by
Coleman and that Vaughn did not
leave his room all day. Vaughn was
arrested on Monday, April 4th.
"Mrs. Vaughn said that she was
| in a nervous state almost all the time
as she feared someone would recog-
nize Vaughn and turn him ovei' TO The
authorities"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-04-14
In Defense of Nicotine

"A woman's just woman, but a
good cigars smoke"
In all likelihood Mr.. Kipling does
not know that tn. Florida legislature
i, in session, and certainly he is not
aware of the provisions of house rule
number 40, but Commodore" Perry,
representative from Lee, famous
throughout the state for his devotion
to Raleigh's weed, at least approves
the sentiment, "a good cigars a
moke;" and indeed it must have been
an admirable fight he staged in behalf
of suspension of this rule!
Men smoke because they enjoy the
effects of tobacco. Anywhere this is
the accepted explanation. But the
majority of men fail to register thef
delight. They are selfish in their
pleasure. Not so with Commodore"
Perry! Not by a boxful! He is IA
nous for registering comfort with ev-
cry puff; each ring he blows is trim
med with satisfaction and lined with
smiles, and difficult will it be for his
friends to recognize him with the con-
slant presence of "stogie" between
his lips.
And now, despite his heroic protest,
Commodore" Perry must discuss and
hear legislation discussed without the
gentle and soothing fumes to inspire
him to feel that the destiny of nations
is not involved, and that beyond the
oratory the sun still is shining! The
friends of Mr.. Perry, and they are
many, will learn and regret that
henceforth Lady Nicotine cannot ac-
company him into the legislative halls
of the grand old state of Florida.
Perhaps it is best. These are mo-
dern times in which we are living. We
must judge cur actions and our smok-
ing accordingly. "Smoke screens" are
confusing when important matters Of
state are under fire. The targets must
be- clear and the throats of orators
uncontaminated. Mr.. Pope spake i
Runiaor-full when he gargied, "What-
ever is, is right"
As De Wolf Hopper would say is
"a Ia "Casey at the Bat.
Oh somewhere in this favored land
of ours
The sun is shining bright;
Somewhere children sing and some
where hearts are light;
But there is no joy in Law-ville,
For Lady Nicotine has struck out!
The. Florida Metropolis.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-04-14
Watermelons an Important Crop

Many people living in South Caro-
| lima do not know the Importance OF
watermelons as commercial crop III
this state, says F. L. Harkey, Ex-
tention agent in marketing, who has
recently had many inquiries concern
ing such questions as the best COM
mercial varieties, the shipping period,
the number of melons required to
make a car, etc. Figures from the
office of the marketing agents show
that 5000 to 1000 cars of watermelons
are shipped out of the state annually,
the majority of these being produced
in Barnwell, Allendale, Hampton, and
Jasper counties. Indications are that
the crop planted this year will be a
large one.
The chief commercial varieties III
South Carolina are the Excel and the
Tom Watson. Shipments usually be-
gin about July l and end about Sep
tember /. The 1920 shipping season
was at its height from July 20 to
July 20. On July 29, 1920, 300 cars
were shipped.
When the South Carolina movement
of watermelons is on, sharp competi-
tition is to be expected from Georgia.
Some shipments are also moving at
that time from Alabama and North
Carolina, and few from Florida,
though the Florida movement becomes
comparatively unimportant after July
18th.
The majority of melon shipments
from South Carolina 60 to eastern
markets, though many cars are sold
in southern territory throughout the
shipping season, for almost every town
of any size handles one or more cars
of watermelons.
For the advance instruction Of those
planting watermelons commercially it
might be said that watermelons are
usually loaded in ventilated box cars
four to five layers high depending on
the size of the melons. When melons
average 1s pounds, 900 to 1900 are
usually loaded to a car. All cars
should be clean and bedded with cry
pine needles or grain straw. Shavings
and sawdust can be used if absolute
ly dry but not the most desirable bed
cling.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-04-14
Card of Thanks

Mrs. A. D. Pendergrass and family
wish in this way to express appre-
ciative thanks to friends and relatives
for kindness extended during the sick
ness and death of her son, Mr.. E. c.
Pendergrass, of Salters.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-04-14

During the early stages of the Buyers Strike the American
people felt that they being duped by those with whom they
did business The continued high prices longer us
fed by actual conditions Its loss of confidence in prevailing
business practices very real and painful to business
Restoring that latent confidence too long neec is the pres
task business Every movement has it's leaders, In
the present Of dsus and suspicion clear sighted busi
ness leaders realize the necessity for strengthening weakened
loyalty They know that they must reclaim the ground lost
when patronage easy to and little appreciated This
is no job for pke rather the task for the fighter The
business be but the days gone when they hand out
silver waiter.
It's no evening banquet with servtor behind each chair
Far otherwise it frugal buffet breakfast with all present
milling around serving themselves Even more proposition
Of first come first served.
Keep selling, keep buying keep working and keep
on The essential thing is to take stock Of ourselves
problems times and shape forward looking program
accordingly
With TRANSPORTATION costs reduced wages revised meet the
proper Of adjustment Short with the dream OF na
ton over the world will awake to stern reality Thus WILL the
hack of the now country wide buyers Strke be broken
stores standing eversng at it and some how or other
keeps putting out than the average volume every DAY
Needless say this will continue be schedule with efforts
increasingly intensive if required to carry on handsomely
We want the confidence Of the people, In order to get their
rights be respected and their met Prices and quail
y stand out alone with value in spent
Whenever you buy want to you that your
dollar has purchased its value.
We are offering great bargains daily We placed sale,
beginning Saturday. 1000 barrels of high grade sesng -four
fresh from the mills and unoaded from papeed and sealed
at price of $500 per barrel $1O0 for b sack When
YOU buy from have the that fresh and
We guarantee every article bought from stores be rep
resented refund your money:
Call and see u.s. We you pleasure to you
SAVE IT. = ! sEF
- =
The Cash & Garry Grocery
& Feed Company
On Court House Square, Beside Dr. BronAingons Drug Store
The New York herald., 1921-11-05
u. S. LINE TO DROP
GERMAN CONTRACT
Will Not ReneW Agreement
for Ship Operation.

The contract between the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship Line and the
United States Mail Steamship Company
will not be renewed by the United States
Shipping Board and the United states
Line. which is operating the ships OF the
Mail company on behalf Of the board.
This was learned yesterday after
conference in the offices OF the board be-
tween Chairman Lasker ana the opera
tors of the United states Line.
The ships already being operated by
This line, however. VIII continue TO run
under the working agreement between
the North German Lloyd Line and the
United states Mail Steamship Company.
under which each line uses the others
piers Mt New York and Bremen, but
neither the Shipping Board nor the
United states Line will act as agents In
this country for the North German
Lloyd.
Mr.. r.asker would not discuss the con-
tract with the German concern, but II
was understood that II Is not assignablc
either TO the Shipping Board or to the
United States lines. and therefore Will
not be renewed.
This contract was regarded as the
only valuable asset the Mall company
had when Il went into receivership. IL
required that after January ]. 1922, at
least four ships must sail each month
to ports Of the North German Lloyd.
The New York herald., 1921-11-05
Seekers for Election Frauds
Find Suffrag.ists Intrude
on Mems Preserves.
MANY CASES ON EAST SIDE
300 to 400 Illegal Registra-
tions Found in Fourth AS
sembly District.

Alexander, Wolf. Special Deputy At
torney-General, who is investigating
alleged frauds in election registrations
yesterday announced that he and his
assistants have found evidence OF
wholesale colonization in the Second
and Fourth Assembly districts, adjoin-
ing sections Of the lower East Side
He said that illegal registrations in
large numbers have been found in
other districts also, and the registra-
ton of women "fioaters" was widely
prevalent. Mr.. Wolf stated that war
rants will be issued at once.
The deputy estimated that there are
between 900 and 400 illegal registrants
in the Fourth Assembly district and
several hundred in the Second. Many
subp9nas, he said, have been returned
by the police unserved because the
registrants could not be found. FIRE.
quently, he explained, the police re-
ported that registrants were unknown
in the houses from which they were
registered.
One hundred subpnnas were issued
yesterday and twenty five householders
were examined. One householder living
in the Fourth district. Mr.. Wolf said.
was unable to identify the three board
ers registered from his house. Another
householder. from whose house a woman
was registered, admitted that ne had no
woman boarder. Eight boarders were
registered from two fats of five rooms
each which were occupied each by
families consisting Of man and wife
and several children.
In the Eleventh Election district OF
the Tenth Assembly district. Mr. Wolf
said, he found that woman who reg
lived there for a year.
A householder of the Fourth Assem-
bly, district. according to Mr.. Wolf. ad-
mitted that five persons who had not
lived at his house for more than a
year had been registered from 1t "as
a favor to somebody"
A householder In the Third Assembly
district, from whose address six board
ers were registered, could account for
only four.
Many persons registered from busi-
ness addresses. Mr.. Wolf said not a
few such registering in Manhattan while
they actually reside in Brooklyn.
Mr.. Wolf is being assisted by Cort-
landt johnson. Deputy Acknowledgement.
and Arthur J. Hayes, a special deputy.
The examinations will continue to-day.
The New York herald., 1921-11-05
FRANCE FIXES SUNDAYS
TO OBSERVE ARMISTICE
Except This Year, When Gel
ebrofion Will Be on Nov. II.

Special Cable to THE NBw YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1921. by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris. Nov. e.
AS result of a double protest that
France already is observing too many
holidays and that Armistice Day is full
OF horrors for thousands OF families
here. the French Chamber Of Deputies
to-day passed law providing that the
annual celebration Of the signing of the
arrnistice shall be observed on the Sun
day following November II. except this
year. when II will be observed on No
vcmber IL.
One-time combatants. headed by Col.
Picot, ridiculed the idea OF celebrating
Armlstice Day except on November IL.
and 1t was because of their action that
the Deputies voted to observe Novem-
ber IL this year instead of the following
Sunday. The veterans declared that the
Observance Of Armistice Day on Sunday
was merely movement to strengthen
clericalism.
The New York herald., 1921-11-05
Plaintiff Asking S25, 900 From
Ships Owners Says Room
mate Dived Overheard.
2 LOCKED IN STATEROOM
Companion Beat Him and
Caused Great Anguish, AS
serts Emil Goldberg.

The notion that the life of passen-
ger In modern steamship approx
mates life in a luxurious hotel except
that hotels do not foat is controverted
by Emil Goldberg plaintiff in the
Supreme Court. who filed suit against
the Baltic American Line yesterday, in
which he asks $4,000 recompense.
His complaint sets forth that he
look passage on board the Estonia of
the defendant steamship line on June
23 of this year, and at the end Of the
first day of the voyage repaired to the
stateroom he had engaged and found
mother and her child asleep there.
He complained to the head steward
and then the purser. and ultimately
was assigned to another room. He
climbed into the berth and pulled the
coverlet to his chin. Then the door
was flung open and a wild eyed man
stalked in.
The stranger, according to Goldberg.
locked the door and put the key in his
pocket. sniled bandly and produced a
formidable knife. Explaining to Gold
berg that the police we're after him. he
looked at Goldberg and seemed to make
up his mind about something. Presently
he and Goldberg we're rolling about the
stateroom floor the stranger beating a
tattoo on Goldberg's skull with the
handle of the knife and occasionally in
serting the point Of 1t into his flesh. Ul-
tot.. xoi~
and Goldberg rolled into the corridor and
all but under the feet of ships officer.
Goldberg insists that he received no
aid or comfort that night beyond a gen.
eral assurance that he must be mistaken
about his roommate. At all events he
slept In the ship bar. On the following
night he went back again TO the state
room which he and the maniac shared
In common. He found his roommate to
be In a state Of vivacity which left his
behavior of the preceding night pale and
only vaguely interesting. BY morning,
after the nadman had worked his will,
Goldberg had lost teeth as we'll as sleep.
Hunting up n ships officer as soon as he
could crawl. he insisted that he and his
roommate be separated and for good.
The maniac. he declares, and not
some one IN authority on the vessel.
brought Him surcease from this final sit
uation. for later in the morning the man
went TO the stern rail. took a good. hard
look at the ocean and dived In and
stayed.
Among the internal and external In
juries OF which Goldberg complains are
nervous dread. anguish and mortifca-
tlon. and doctors and dentists bills,
which. he insists. are chargeable to the
steamship companys negligence. and
$4,000 will repay but can never repair
him.