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Mil. FLANNIGAN IS HACK AGAIN. Had Doon Off Oil .'Visit," Having Es- cn|MMl from Gang 2 Mondia Ago. E. C. Flannigan la back with thc working forces of tho county once more, after an ahsenco of some two or two and a half months, ho having escaped from tho chain gang after serving about three months of a six- months' sentence for violating tho Slate liquor laws. Flannigan was taken into custolly by the sheriff of Laurens county, he having neem captured while circu¬ lating around ill territory in Ibo vi¬ cinity of the Groeiivllle-Enurons county line, and Sheriff Alexander, of Oconee. was notified to come and get the escaped Oconee convict. Ho went over at once and returned with Flannigan last Wednesday night. Flannigan was originally a Fed¬ eral prisoner in the Oconee Jail, but both tho State and Federal govern¬ ments had warrants for his arrest and trial for violation of !he liquor laws. Hoing in tho Oconee jail, and tho State ('oort convening in Oconoe before the Federal Court could han¬ dle the case, he was transferred to the State Court docket, heard and sentenced to six months on the pub¬ lic works. Of course Flannigan ls aware of the fact thal as soon as ho completes his sentence serving In Oconoe he will bo turned over to tho Federal authorities; hence evidently his desire to escapo tho penalty bo has already received and "t">:e wrath to come" as well. Sheriff Alexander, ns tho original custodian of Flannigan whllo a Fed¬ eral prisoner awaiting trial, feels a decided desire to be ablo to turn his man over to the higher authorities when ho is called for, and ho hopes that the gang will hold him more securely In tho future. Hoon Andrews Also at Thargo. Hoon Andrews, another white con¬ vict, recently escaped from the gang and is still at large. Andrews was convicted of larceny and was given 00 days at hard labor on the public works, ile was sentenced at the July tern of Court. He served about two weeks and made his escape. His of¬ fense was stealing a number of me¬ chanics' or carpenters' tools from the workmen at tho Walhalla plant of the Vlctor-Monaghan Company. Wo are informed that on August. 8 Andrews hoarded a Hine Ridge train at Seneca, and that the conduc¬ tor in chnrge of the train recognized him as tho man who had escaped from tho chain-gang. One door of the coach lu which Andrews sat. was locked, and tho conductor instructed one of the train employees to guard the other. The conductor telegraphed ahead to Sheriff King, of Anderson, to meet the train at the coal chute out of that city and get Andrews for the Oconee officers, hut In some way the wily Andrews suspected some¬ thing was wrong, and at an oppor¬ tune moment, when tho train was down to a speed of something like 20 miles an hour, bo raised n car win¬ dow to Its greatest height and made a Jump out of lt, escaping and leav¬ ing the Anderson sheriff to greet only a prisonerless train. Andrews, how¬ ever, we aro informed, left his grip on tho train. Another Itcport wi Wednesday. Wednesday night the report that fl prisoner lind escaped I rom the county jail caused considerable ex¬ citement among people on Ibo street, but it was learned thal the report had gotten confused with a report of another escape from the chain gang. This report was thal a neg rp had escaped, but we have been unable to learn who it was. or. in fact, whether the report was correct. THE ('HACK O' DOOM FOR NASTY CALOMEL. Folks Abandoning Old Drug for "Dodson's Diver Tone" Hero in South. Ugh! Calomel makes you sick, lt's horrible! Take a dose of tho dan¬ gerous drug to-night, and to-morrow you loso a day. Calomel ls mercury! When lt comes In contact with sour bile, lt crashes Into it, breaking it up. Then is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you aro sluggish, if liver is torpid and bowels consti¬ pated, or you have headache, diz¬ ziness, coated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, Just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tono to-night. Here's my guarantee: do to any drug storo and get a bottle of Dod¬ son's Liver Tone for a few cents. Take a spoonful, and if it doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous, go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying tile sale of calomel because it cannot salivate or make you sick. adv. Legion Checking Crime Wave. Spokane, Wash.. Aug. ML Crime is on the decrease in the United Slates, ami the nfter-tho-war wave Ol' hold-ups. murders, bunco games and robbery is wailing, according to Win. .1. Rums, master detective, who makes the stab nient after a long trip through Western cities. The en vi ron ment of war turned many ex-service men into the crimi¬ nal path, says burns. On the other hand, he avers, the American Logion ls the greatest force against crime in the country to-day. "No man ever was born a crimi¬ nal." he says, "hut the environment to which men were subjected in the army made them careless of human life atul property. That's one reason why hold-ups are thc most common crime to-day. "Hut tho principles and workings of the Legion will go a long way to¬ ward restoring these boys who have turned, temporarily, from the right path, hack io ways of honesty and hard work." Piles Cured in 6 to M Days Droflftists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fulls tocuroltchlnfl. Pllnd, lllecdlnHorProtriullntf Piles. Instantly relieves bellini! Piles, find you cnn Act restful sleep after tho first application. Price GOc PÓNZ1 TALKS OF IIIS BIG DEALS, And Tells Some of Gio Features Gmt Characterize His Scheme. Heston, Mass., Aug. ll.-Charles Fonz!, who claims to have jumped from comparative poverty to a mul¬ timillionaire's estate within a few months through dealings in Interna¬ tional postal coupons, told members of the Kiwanis Club yesterday some of the steps in tho process hy which he claims to have amassed his for¬ tune. I'onzl, making lils Hist appear¬ ance as an after-dinner speaker since ho became one of the most-talked-ot men in tile country, was a luncheon guest of Hie club. Ho was invited, some time ago, before he was com¬ pelled to cease payment in his "50 per cent in 15 days" proposition be¬ cause of the orders issued by the State Hank Commissioner to the llanover Trust Company yesterday to pay no more of Ponzi's checks. In opening his remarks I'onzl re¬ iterated his claim that he was sol¬ vent, and expressed confidence that this would be substantiated by the Fed.cral and State Investigations now in progress, and that he would be able lo resume business within a few days. Small Office to Start. He related how he had hired a small nineo, used his small capital in various business schemes, and then, with an International reply coupon always in front of him on his desk, "began to do someihlng." He finally obtained financial assist¬ ance, he said, to develop his Idea and spent thousands of dollars in foreign correspondence. "I found out," he said, "that the postal coupons were being sold in foreign countries for the equivalent of six cents and could be converted into postage stamps. Then all 1 had to do was to figure how many nickels made a million. "I got in touch with mon-that's as far as I'll go-who were able to secure for me large amounis of cou¬ pons In différent countries. They bought them with our money and used them as collateral to be re¬ deemed later. "When conditions wero right 1 of¬ fered to borrow money from the pub¬ lic. I offered fifty per cent in ninety days and would not promise to re¬ deem notes in forty-five, though I thought that three weeKS was about the right time to bank the money here, send it abroad, get the stamps and convert them Into cash. President and Olllce Hoy. "I started the Securities Exchange Company. 1 was everything from president to office boy. "I decided that if 1 redeemed the stamps in the United States the Fed¬ eral government might decide that it cune within its jurisdiction, though lhere was no Federal or State law against, it. Dut the exchange rate was the same in Swltezrlaiut nm' Norway and some other count ri» I decided to redeem them thorn Somo one In the audience asked why the postal authorities-Y l unable to lind any evidence OL o..sp¬ lurge dealings In reply coupons. Pon- zl replied that foreign governments realized a profit on the issue of these postal certificates "and are not going to disclose to other governments how many coupons they have issued." "And the International Postal Fnion is not going to do it." he added. Asked if foreign governments had not stopped this, he replied: "Yes. they are stopping- they have stopped the sale of coupons for public use. Hut that does not stop my business. My money in Europe is working to-day. even if it is not here." Sayst Nobody Will Lose. In the transactions in coupons, he insisted, nobody suffers a loss. "1 buy to-day." he said, "a dol¬ lar's worth of Italian exchange. At tho present rate I get IS lire. I would get live under normal ex¬ change. With the ls lire I would buy 00 international reply coupons. These coupons can he sold for $3 In American money." Ho maintained that no govern¬ ment need lose, but transactions be¬ tween governments may bo delayed until exchange is normal, and he pointed out that there has been deT- lay in the payment of interest on American loans to the Allies. "I haven't found anybody who will have to, make good," he asserted, when somebody wanted to know who would have to stand the loss. Charles Moorer Paroled. Columbia, Aug. 10.-Governor li. A. Cooper to-day granted two paroles -one to Chas. M. Moorer, of Char¬ leston, the other to Oliver Hall, of Kershaw, both wh'io. Moorer was convicted of Involuntary manslaugh¬ ter, while Hall was serving a two- year sentence for forgorky. CThe joy oíMotherhood explains, \vhy~ Is a veritable balm for thc nerves; in Intensely penetrating application thru softens thc muscles, relaxes nervous tension of the delicate organ¬ ism involved in maternity, and pre¬ pares thc way for an easier, quicker and more practical delivery. Such reflects so markedly upon the unborn child. Mother'/) Friend is tiscd externally. At all Druggists. Special Dooklet on Motherhood and IUby free. Bradfield Regulator Cu, Dcpj, f^, AtUnta.Oa. 30x3% Gc Fabric, All 30 x 3V2 G Fabric, Ant XEW FREIGHT HATES WIEL ADI) Only Six Cont» to Hair of Shoes-De¬ partment Makes I Hast rations. Washington, Aug. lt.-Just what Hie increased freight rates which will go into effect by thc first of Septem¬ ber mean to the average consumer in the way of contributing to the cost of necessary articles of clothing and standard food products is shown In some interesting illustrations made by the freight traffic department of the Southern Railway system. Tho rate on shoes from Boston to Atlanta is now $1.6-1 per hundred pounds, making tho transportation charge of a pair of shoes which, with its share of packing, weighs three pounds, approximately five cents. The new rate will he $2.1SVfc per 100 pounds, making the transportation charge of the same pair of shoes ap¬ proximately 6 2-3 cent?. Everyone knows that the pair of shoes which formerly sold for $7 is now selling around $15. . Shirts are shipped from N'ew York to New Orleans hy freight for $1.54 per loo pounds, making the trans¬ portation charge on a live-ounce shirt about half a cent. The new rate will be $2.05 Vi per 100 pounds, making the charge on the same flve-ounce shirt about two-thirds of onb cent. The old $1.50 shirt is selling for $3 and up. nothing manufactured in Chicago can now he shipped to .Jacksonville for $1.83 per hundred pounds,or less Iban 11 cents for a suit which, with its share of the packing, weighs six pounds. The new rate will he $2.33'/à per hundred pounds, or about l l cents on the six-pound reiUy-made, which formerly was offered for $30. but now cannot bo taken home for less than $60. Coining to articles of food, the rate on fresh beef from Chlcngo to Birmingham is now 82 cents per 100 pounds less dian one cont per pound. The new rate will he $1.06 Vz per 100 pounds, or slightly more than a cent per pound. Beof that for¬ merly sold for 20 .cents per pound has boon bringing 35 cents. Sugar can now he shipped from Xew Orleans to Greensboro, N. C., for 55 cents per 100 pounds, or just about half a cent per pound. Tho new rate will be 60 cents per 100 pounds-still less than three-quar¬ ters of a cent a pound. And sugar, which formerly sold for five cents per pound, has been retailing above 30 cents per pound. These illustrations, which aro of articles and commodities takon at random, may he considered as fairly representativo of the addition to tho transportation cost of articles used in the South which will result from the inoroaso In rales. Similar illus¬ trations could be mndo on almost every article used in tho household, Money- es on Yoi Avoid disaj sold at sen Goodyear mileage at r The high r Tires, of thc sizes, results experience the worlds these sizes« Such facts c sizes, were Goodyear r If you driv Dort, take enjoy true equip youri Tourist Tut »odyrar Double-Cure *150 .Weather Tread_ÀmtO- oodyear Single-Cure $^-| cn i-Skid Tread._ *LL¿- Goo you cash 30 x /. ?-. r it m :?? W Wk CRKAT COHN ( KOI» IS FORECAST Intimate of Three Uillion Hushcls is Made-Spring Wheat Smaller. Washington, Aug. ll.-A three- billion bushel com crop for the third time In the history of the country .was forecast to-day hy the Depart- j ment of Agriculture on the basis of j conditions existing Aug. 1. Inasmuch ! as August ls the critical month for the crop In the great corn heit of the Middle West, it 1/uncertain whether the promise of a crop almost equal to the enormous ones of 1012 and 1017 will bo fulfilled. Improvement was reported during July in the im¬ portant corn States, with the excep¬ tion of Illinois, and as a result a crop forecast of 224,000,000 bushels larger than that predicted July 1 was issued. Spring wheat was adversely affect¬ ed during July, principally hy rust, and production forecast of thc crop was reduced 20,000,000 bushels from a month ago, or to a total of 262,- 000,000 bushels. The preliminary estimate of win¬ ter wheat production was 15,000,000 bushels larger than forecast in July, making the combined crop of winter and spring wheat only 1 4.000,000 bushels smaller than estimated a month ago. A total of 705.000,000 bushels was predicted in to-day's re¬ port. The tobacco crop, which has been promising from the start, has shown additional improvement, and proba¬ bilities are that it will exceed the record crop produced in 1018 by abont 200,000,000 pounds. Tile total production forecast is placed at 1 ,- 5 l l,ooo,ann pounds. habitual Constipation Cured in M to 21 Days -LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially- prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly but should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. It Stimulates and Reculâtes. Vciy Pleasant to Take. 60o per bottle. Eight Years for Hilling Trespasser. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 13.- Race Kerry, a negro, was rushed to Wo- lumpkn early to-day to serve a term of eight years for tile killing of Cor¬ don Oglotree, aged lt'., white, who, it was charged, was in Kerry's water¬ melon patch when he was shot. The shooting took place on July 12. Kerry was put on trial yesterday and was convicted of manslaughter, and at 3.30 this morning was sen¬ tenced to the State penitentiary. except coal,which, being shipped and sold by the ton. will show a rela¬ tively higher transportation cost in proportion to its value. T -Put Goo ur Small spointment with tires m; sationally cheap prices Tires built to deliver ii ciinimum cost. dative value built into ( 5 30 x 3*, 30 x 31/2*. and 31 from the application of ( and care to their manuf ? largest tire factory de explain why more cars, us factory*equipped last y lires than with any od e a Ford, Chevrolet, Mi advantage of the oppor Goodyear mileage and c :ar with Goodyear Tires ai >es at our nearest Servia dycar Heavy Tourist Tube» cost no more are asked to pay for tubes of less merit-i iga when such sure protection is avalla 3Vi size in waterproof bag_ r, DEATH OF MKS. Iv. L. DEAUDHX.i Young Italian Woman Who Married Ono of Oconco's Soldier Hoys. (Tugaloo Tribune, Aug. 10.) We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Keith L. Dearden, which sad event occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Dearden in Westmin¬ ster Inst Tuesday afternoon nt 2.30. Mrs. Dearden was brought here from Asheville, X. C., only two or three weeks ago. Her health failed several months ago at Roanoke, Va., where Mr. Dearden located after coming back from overseas. She was carried to Asheville with the hope that the climate and cure at the sanatorium would prove beneficial. She grew worse and was brought to her husband's home to spend the last days on earth. Mrs. Dearden was before marriage Miss Honorine Lucia Carmina!, and she wns born at Ratauori, Italy, on March 30. 1000. Her parents later moved to Paris, France. She and Mr. Dearden were united in marriage at Paris on Aug. (ith, 1010. Desides her husband she leaves father, mother, two brothers and two sisters lo mourn her death. Mrs. Deanlen was of the Holy Catholic faith. Her body was inter¬ red in Eastview cemetery on Wednes¬ day afternoon at 2 o'clock, the ser¬ vices being in charge of Eather Mackin, of Anderson. The pallbearers were as follows: S. C. Moon, J. K. Dillard, G. M. Mar¬ tin. \v. s. Dearden, Raymond I'itts and Dr. K. T. Simpson. .Many friends deeply sympathize with the husband in his sore bo¬ rea vernen I. Although Mrs. Dearden was far away from her home-land, she was tenderly fared for hy loving friends, physicians and hy feather Mackin, of the Catholic church, in her last hour \ Her body was embalmed and buried in a metallic casket and steel! vault. In order that it may be disin¬ terred and returned to France in the event that it is so desired. Mother Shoots Two Children. Petersburg, Va., Aug. 10.- Mrs. Maude Westbrook, wife of C. W. Westbrook, a prominent farmer and deputy sheriff of Surry county, shot and killed her six-year-old daughter to-day and probably fatally woundod her son, aged five years. When her husband, hearing the shots, rushed Into the room, the mother was re¬ loading tho gun, saying that she "wanted to finish the job." Her 3- weeks-old baby on the bed was un¬ harmed. Mrs. Westbrook lind been In 111 health for some months. Tho wounded boy died about three hours after being shot. ade to be by using ciaximum Goodyear L x 4-inch Soodyear acture in ;voted to dng these ear with 1er kind» ixwell or tunity to iconomy; ad Heavy ï Station* i than the price why rijk costly ble? HOPES VOR A HI« OATH EH!NC Sunday School Convention ¡it Seneca Next Tuesday, Aug. tilth, Clemson Collège. Aug. ll, 11120. Editor Koo wee Courier: The Oconee County Sunday School Convention will be held on Tuesday of next week. An jr. 21th, at Seneca, in tho Presbyterian church. The program will soon be publish¬ ed and malled from the State Asso¬ ciation's office at Spartanburg. Let me urge all workers interested to write at ohce to General Superinten¬ dent Leon C. Palmor, 714 Allen-Law Building, Spnrtanburg, S. C., for pro¬ gram and other literature. Among the speakers already se¬ cured are Miss Cora Eolian 1, Prof. R. D. Webb (now of Georgia), Rev. W. E. Davis, of Clemson, president of the Dickens County Association. The others will be announced later. Other counties are breaking rec¬ ords. Lot's move forward, too, Oco- neeans! Sunday school workers ar *r!endS of tho cause of Christian eduction, "Let's not plot as rivals, hut pian as allies!" Wm. S. Morrison, Pres. Oconee County S. Assn. SAY "DIAMOND DYES" Don't streak or ruin your material in a} poor dyo. Insist on "Diamond DyeS.'* Ktxoy direction» in package. "CORNS" Lift Right Off Without Pain Doesn't hurt a blt! Drop a little "Freezone" on an aching corn; in¬ stantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with tho nugong. Truly. Your druggist Fells a tiny bottle of "Kreezone" for a fow cents, suffi* clent lo remove every hard corn, soft corn, or coin between tho toes, and ibo calluses, without soreness or irritation, adv.
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Mil. FLANNIGAN IS HACK AGAIN.
Had Doon Off Oil .'Visit," Having Es-cn|MMl from Gang 2 Mondia Ago.E. C. Flannigan la back with thc
working forces of tho county once
more, after an ahsenco of some twoor two and a half months, ho havingescaped from tho chain gang afterserving about three months of a six-months' sentence for violating thoSlate liquor laws.
Flannigan was taken into custollyby the sheriff of Laurens county, hehaving neem captured while circu¬lating around ill territory in Ibo vi¬cinity of the Groeiivllle-Enuronscounty line, and Sheriff Alexander,of Oconee. was notified to come andget the escaped Oconee convict. Howent over at once and returned withFlannigan last Wednesday night.
Flannigan was originally a Fed¬eral prisoner in the Oconee Jail, butboth tho State and Federal govern¬ments had warrants for his arrestand trial for violation of !he liquorlaws. Hoing in tho Oconee jail, andtho State ('oort convening in Oconoebefore the Federal Court could han¬dle the case, he was transferred tothe State Court docket, heard andsentenced to six months on the pub¬lic works. Of course Flannigan lsaware of the fact thal as soon as hocompletes his sentence serving InOconoe he will bo turned over to thoFederal authorities; hence evidentlyhis desire to escapo tho penalty bohas already received and "t">:e wrathto come" as well.
Sheriff Alexander, ns tho originalcustodian of Flannigan whllo a Fed¬eral prisoner awaiting trial, feels adecided desire to be ablo to turn hisman over to the higher authoritieswhen ho is called for, and ho hopesthat the gang will hold him moresecurely In tho future.
Hoon Andrews Also at Thargo.Hoon Andrews, another white con¬
vict, recently escaped from the gangand is still at large. Andrews wasconvicted of larceny and was given00 days at hard labor on the publicworks, ile was sentenced at the Julytern of Court. He served about twoweeks and made his escape. His of¬fense was stealing a number of me¬chanics' or carpenters' tools from theworkmen at tho Walhalla plant ofthe Vlctor-Monaghan Company.Wo are informed that on August.
8 Andrews hoarded a Hine Ridgetrain at Seneca, and that the conduc¬tor in chnrge of the train recognizedhim as tho man who had escapedfrom tho chain-gang. One door ofthe coach lu which Andrews sat. waslocked, and tho conductor instructedone of the train employees to guardthe other. The conductor telegraphedahead to Sheriff King, of Anderson,to meet the train at the coal chuteout of that city and get Andrews forthe Oconee officers, hut In some waythe wily Andrews suspected some¬thing was wrong, and at an oppor¬tune moment, when tho train wasdown to a speed of something like 20miles an hour, bo raised n car win¬dow to Its greatest height and madea Jump out of lt, escaping and leav¬ing the Anderson sheriff to greet onlya prisonerless train. Andrews, how¬ever, we aro informed, left his gripon tho train.
Another Itcportwi Wednesday.Wednesday night the report that
fl prisoner lind escaped I rom thecounty jail caused considerable ex¬citement among people on Ibo street,but it was learned thal the reporthad gotten confused with a report ofanother escape from the chain gang.This report was thal a negrp hadescaped, but we have been unable tolearn who it was. or. in fact, whetherthe report was correct.
THE ('HACK O' DOOMFOR NASTY CALOMEL.
Folks Abandoning Old Drug for"Dodson's Diver Tone" Hero
in South.
Ugh! Calomel makes you sick, lt'shorrible! Take a dose of tho dan¬gerous drug to-night, and to-morrowyou loso a day.
Calomel ls mercury! When ltcomes In contact with sour bile, ltcrashes Into it, breaking it up. Thenis when you feel that awful nauseaand cramping. If you aro sluggish,if liver is torpid and bowels consti¬pated, or you have headache, diz¬ziness, coated tongue, if breath isbad or stomach sour, Just try aspoonful of harmless Dodson's LiverTono to-night.
Here's my guarantee: do to anydrug storo and get a bottle of Dod¬son's Liver Tone for a few cents.Take a spoonful, and if it doesn'tstraighten you right up and makeyou feel fine and vigorous, go backto the store and get your money.Dodson's Liver Tone is destroyingtile sale of calomel because it cannotsalivate or make you sick. adv.
Legion Checking Crime Wave.
Spokane, Wash.. Aug. ML Crimeis on the decrease in the UnitedSlates, ami the nfter-tho-war waveOl' hold-ups. murders, bunco gamesand robbery is wailing, according toWin. .1. Rums, master detective, whomakes the stab nient after a longtrip through Western cities.The en vi ron ment of war turned
many ex-service men into the crimi¬nal path, says burns.On the other hand, he avers, the
American Logion ls the greatest forceagainst crime in the country to-day."No man ever was born a crimi¬nal." he says, "hut the environmentto which men were subjected in thearmy made them careless of humanlife atul property. That's one reasonwhy hold-ups are thc most commoncrime to-day.
"Hut tho principles and workingsof the Legion will go a long way to¬ward restoring these boys who haveturned, temporarily, from the rightpath, hack io ways of honesty andhard work."
Piles Cured in 6 to M DaysDroflftists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fullstocuroltchlnfl. Pllnd, lllecdlnHorProtriullntf Piles.Instantly relieves bellini! Piles, find you cnn Actrestful sleep after tho first application. Price GOc
PÓNZ1 TALKS OF IIIS BIG DEALS,And Tells Some of Gio Features Gmt
Characterize His Scheme.
Heston, Mass., Aug. ll.-CharlesFonz!, who claims to have jumpedfrom comparative poverty to a mul¬timillionaire's estate within a fewmonths through dealings in Interna¬tional postal coupons, told membersof the Kiwanis Club yesterday someof the steps in tho process hy whichhe claims to have amassed his for¬tune.
I'onzl, making lils Hist appear¬ance as an after-dinner speaker sinceho became one of the most-talked-otmen in tile country, was a luncheonguest of Hie club. Ho was invited,some time ago, before he was com¬pelled to cease payment in his "50per cent in 15 days" proposition be¬cause of the orders issued by theState Hank Commissioner to thellanover Trust Company yesterdayto pay no more of Ponzi's checks.
In opening his remarks I'onzl re¬iterated his claim that he was sol¬vent, and expressed confidence thatthis would be substantiated by theFed.cral and State Investigations nowin progress, and that he would beable lo resume business within a fewdays.
Small Office to Start.He related how he had hired a
small nineo, used his small capitalin various business schemes, andthen, with an International replycoupon always in front of him onhis desk, "began to do someihlng."He finally obtained financial assist¬ance, he said, to develop his Idea andspent thousands of dollars in foreigncorrespondence.
"I found out," he said, "that thepostal coupons were being sold inforeign countries for the equivalentof six cents and could be convertedinto postage stamps. Then all 1 hadto do was to figure how many nickelsmade a million.
"I got in touch with mon-that'sas far as I'll go-who were able tosecure for me large amounis of cou¬pons In différent countries. Theybought them with our money andused them as collateral to be re¬deemed later."When conditions wero right 1 of¬
fered to borrow money from the pub¬lic. I offered fifty per cent in ninetydays and would not promise to re¬deem notes in forty-five, though Ithought that three weeKS was aboutthe right time to bank the moneyhere, send it abroad, get the stampsand convert them Into cash.
President and Olllce Hoy."I started the Securities Exchange
Company. 1 was everything frompresident to office boy.
"I decided that if 1 redeemed thestamps in the United States the Fed¬eral government might decide that itcune within its jurisdiction, thoughlhere was no Federal or State lawagainst, it. Dut the exchange ratewas the same in Swltezrlaiut nm'Norway and some other count ri»I decided to redeem them thornSomo one In the audience asked
why the postal authorities-Y lunable to lind any evidence OL o..sp¬
lurge dealings In reply coupons. Pon-zl replied that foreign governmentsrealized a profit on the issue of thesepostal certificates "and are not goingto disclose to other governments howmany coupons they have issued."
"And the International PostalFnion is not going to do it." headded.
Asked if foreign governments hadnot stopped this, he replied:
"Yes. they are stopping- theyhave stopped the sale of coupons forpublic use. Hut that does not stopmy business. My money in Europe isworking to-day. even if it is nothere."
Sayst Nobody Will Lose.In the transactions in coupons, he
insisted, nobody suffers a loss."1 buy to-day." he said, "a dol¬
lar's worth of Italian exchange. Attho present rate I get IS lire. Iwould get live under normal ex¬change. With the ls lire I wouldbuy 00 international reply coupons.These coupons can he sold for $3 InAmerican money."
Ho maintained that no govern¬ment need lose, but transactions be¬tween governments may bo delayeduntil exchange is normal, and hepointed out that there has been deT-lay in the payment of interest onAmerican loans to the Allies.
"I haven't found anybody who willhave to, make good," he asserted,when somebody wanted to know whowould have to stand the loss.
Charles Moorer Paroled.
Columbia, Aug. 10.-Governor li.A. Cooper to-day granted two paroles-one to Chas. M. Moorer, of Char¬leston, the other to Oliver Hall, ofKershaw, both wh'io. Moorer wasconvicted of Involuntary manslaugh¬ter, while Hall was serving a two-year sentence for forgorky.
CThejoy oíMotherhoodexplains, \vhy~
Is a veritable balm for thc nerves;in Intensely penetrating applicationthru softens thc muscles, relaxesnervous tension of the delicate organ¬ism involved in maternity, and pre¬pares thc way for an easier, quicker andmore practical delivery. Such reflectsso markedly upon the unborn child.Mother'/) Friend is tiscd externally.
At all Druggists.Special Dooklet on Motherhood and IUby free.Bradfield Regulator Cu, Dcpj, f^, AtUnta.Oa.
30x3% GcFabric, All30 x 3V2 GFabric, Ant
XEW FREIGHT HATES WIEL ADI)
Only Six Cont» to Hair of Shoes-De¬partment Makes I Hast rations.
Washington, Aug. lt.-Just whatHie increased freight rates which willgo into effect by thc first of Septem¬ber mean to the average consumer inthe way of contributing to the costof necessary articles of clothing andstandard food products is shown Insome interesting illustrations madeby the freight traffic department ofthe Southern Railway system.Tho rate on shoes from Boston to
Atlanta is now $1.6-1 per hundredpounds, making tho transportationcharge of a pair of shoes which, withits share of packing, weighs threepounds, approximately five cents.The new rate will he $2.1SVfc per 100pounds, making the transportationcharge of the same pair of shoes ap¬proximately 6 2-3 cent?. Everyoneknows that the pair of shoes whichformerly sold for $7 is now sellingaround $15. .
Shirts are shipped from N'ew Yorkto New Orleans hy freight for $1.54per loo pounds, making the trans¬portation charge on a live-ounce shirtabout half a cent. The new rate willbe $2.05 Vi per 100 pounds, makingthe charge on the same flve-ounceshirt about two-thirds of onb cent.The old $1.50 shirt is selling for $3and up.
nothing manufactured in Chicagocan now he shipped to .Jacksonvillefor $1.83 per hundred pounds,or lessIban 11 cents for a suit which, withits share of the packing, weighs sixpounds. The new rate will he $2.33'/àper hundred pounds, or about l lcents on the six-pound reiUy-made,which formerly was offered for $30.but now cannot bo taken home forless than $60.
Coining to articles of food, therate on fresh beef from Chlcngo toBirmingham is now 82 cents per 100pounds less dian one cont perpound. The new rate will he $1.06 Vzper 100 pounds, or slightly morethan a cent per pound. Beof that for¬merly sold for 20 .cents per poundhas boon bringing 35 cents.
Sugar can now he shipped fromXew Orleans to Greensboro, N. C.,for 55 cents per 100 pounds, or justabout half a cent per pound. Thonew rate will be 60 cents per 100pounds-still less than three-quar¬ters of a cent a pound. And sugar,which formerly sold for five centsper pound, has been retailing above30 cents per pound.
These illustrations, which aro ofarticles and commodities takon atrandom, may he considered as fairlyrepresentativo of the addition to thotransportation cost of articles usedin the South which will result fromthe inoroaso In rales. Similar illus¬trations could be mndo on almostevery article used in tho household,
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Made-Spring Wheat Smaller.
Washington, Aug. ll.-A three-billion bushel com crop for the thirdtime In the history of the country.was forecast to-day hy the Depart-j ment of Agriculture on the basis ofj conditions existing Aug. 1. Inasmuch! as August ls the critical month forthe crop In the great corn heit of theMiddle West, it 1/uncertain whetherthe promise of a crop almost equalto the enormous ones of 1012 and1017 will bo fulfilled. Improvementwas reported during July in the im¬portant corn States, with the excep¬tion of Illinois, and as a result acrop forecast of 224,000,000 bushelslarger than that predicted July 1 wasissued.
Spring wheat was adversely affect¬ed during July, principally hy rust,and production forecast of thc cropwas reduced 20,000,000 bushels froma month ago, or to a total of 262,-000,000 bushels.
The preliminary estimate of win¬ter wheat production was 15,000,000bushels larger than forecast in July,making the combined crop of winterand spring wheat only 1 4.000,000bushels smaller than estimated amonth ago. A total of 705.000,000bushels was predicted in to-day's re¬port.
The tobacco crop, which has beenpromising from the start, has shownadditional improvement, and proba¬bilities are that it will exceed therecord crop produced in 1018 byabont 200,000,000 pounds. Tile totalproduction forecast is placed at 1 ,-5 l l,ooo,ann pounds.
habitual Constipation Curedin M to 21 Days
-LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially-prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for HabitualConstipation. It relieves promptly butshould be taken regularly for 14 to 21 daysto induce regular action. It Stimulates andReculâtes. Vciy Pleasant to Take. 60oper bottle.
Eight Years for Hilling Trespasser.Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 13.- Race
Kerry, a negro, was rushed to Wo-lumpkn early to-day to serve a termof eight years for tile killing of Cor¬don Oglotree, aged lt'., white, who, itwas charged, was in Kerry's water¬melon patch when he was shot.
The shooting took place on July12. Kerry was put on trial yesterdayand was convicted of manslaughter,and at 3.30 this morning was sen¬tenced to the State penitentiary.
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DEATH OF MKS. Iv. L. DEAUDHX.i
Young Italian Woman Who MarriedOno of Oconco's Soldier Hoys.
(Tugaloo Tribune, Aug. 10.)We regret to announce the death
of Mrs. Keith L. Dearden, which sadevent occurred at the home of Mr.and Mrs. L. D. Dearden in Westmin¬ster Inst Tuesday afternoon nt 2.30.
Mrs. Dearden was brought herefrom Asheville, X. C., only two orthree weeks ago. Her health failedseveral months ago at Roanoke, Va.,where Mr. Dearden located aftercoming back from overseas. Shewas carried to Asheville with thehope that the climate and cure at thesanatorium would prove beneficial.She grew worse and was brought toher husband's home to spend the lastdays on earth.
Mrs. Dearden was before marriageMiss Honorine Lucia Carmina!, andshe wns born at Ratauori, Italy, onMarch 30. 1000. Her parents latermoved to Paris, France. She and Mr.Dearden were united in marriage atParis on Aug. (ith, 1010.
Desides her husband she leavesfather, mother, two brothers and twosisters lo mourn her death.
Mrs. Deanlen was of the HolyCatholic faith. Her body was inter¬red in Eastview cemetery on Wednes¬day afternoon at 2 o'clock, the ser¬vices being in charge of EatherMackin, of Anderson.The pallbearers were as follows:
S. C. Moon, J. K. Dillard, G. M. Mar¬tin. \v. s. Dearden, Raymond I'ittsand Dr. K. T. Simpson.
.Many friends deeply sympathizewith the husband in his sore bo¬rea vernen I.
Although Mrs. Dearden was faraway from her home-land, she wastenderly fared for hy loving friends,physicians and hy feather Mackin, ofthe Catholic church, in her lasthour \ Her body was embalmed andburied in a metallic casket and steel!vault. In order that it may be disin¬terred and returned to France in theevent that it is so desired.
Mother Shoots Two Children.
Petersburg, Va., Aug. 10.- Mrs.Maude Westbrook, wife of C. W.Westbrook, a prominent farmer anddeputy sheriff of Surry county, shotand killed her six-year-old daughterto-day and probably fatally woundodher son, aged five years. When herhusband, hearing the shots, rushedInto the room, the mother was re¬loading tho gun, saying that she"wanted to finish the job." Her 3-weeks-old baby on the bed was un¬harmed. Mrs. Westbrook lind beenIn 111 health for some months. Thowounded boy died about three hoursafter being shot.
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Sunday School Convention ¡it SenecaNext Tuesday, Aug. tilth,
Clemson Collège. Aug. ll, 11120.Editor Koowee Courier:The Oconee County Sunday School
Convention will be held on Tuesdayof next week. An jr. 21th, at Seneca,in tho Presbyterian church.The program will soon be publish¬
ed and malled from the State Asso¬ciation's office at Spartanburg. Letme urge all workers interested towrite at ohce to General Superinten¬dent Leon C. Palmor, 714 Allen-LawBuilding, Spnrtanburg, S. C., for pro¬gram and other literature.Among the speakers already se¬
cured are Miss Cora Eolian 1, Prof.R. D. Webb (now of Georgia), Rev.W. E. Davis, of Clemson, president ofthe Dickens County Association. Theothers will be announced later.
Other counties are breaking rec¬ords. Lot's move forward, too, Oco-neeans!
Sunday school workers ar *r!endSof tho cause of Christian eduction,"Let's not plot as rivals, hut pian asallies!" Wm. S. Morrison,
Pres. Oconee County S. Assn.
SAY "DIAMOND DYES"Don't streak or ruin your material in a}poor dyo. Insist on "Diamond DyeS.'*Ktxoy direction» in package.
"CORNS"Lift Right Off Without Pain
Doesn't hurt a blt! Drop a little"Freezone" on an aching corn; in¬stantly that corn stops hurting, thenshortly you lift it right off with thonugong. Truly.
Your druggist Fells a tiny bottleof "Kreezone" for a fow cents, suffi*clent lo remove every hard corn,soft corn, or coin between tho toes,and ibo calluses, without sorenessor irritation, adv.
