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WOMEN TAKE PLAGES OF MEN IN ENGLAND Government Urges Their Substi tution Where Men Are Avail able for Army. London, Miay 7.?All departmektt? of the British government service are officially thrown open to women for the first time in n circular issued by the cabinet through the board trade. The circular urges all gov ernment departments to replace, wherever possible, men employes mi military age with women, and offers to obtain suitable women substitutes for various clerical ami other posi tions, through the government labor exchanges. The circular follows up a recenl War office statement appealing for the release of more government employes for the front. In this statement Lord Kitchener was quoted: "I confidently look to the heads of departments 10 arrange by filming suitable substi tutes, for the necessary permission to be given freely to their subordinates who are prepared to joint the col ors." The board of trade's circular points out that "a large number of women clerks have registered at the lah . exchangjs, and considerable num* bars of these have already been en grged by certain government dephrt-. tnenta. In addition, a special register Is being compiled of women who have signified their willingness to under take service during the continuance of the war, to release men for com batant duties. This register already contains 30,000 naines, and will sup ply a large number of women quali fied to take the place of officials who may be released." The board of trade has itself re leased over 1.000 officials for the army, and In a large number of cases their places have been taken by wo men. It remains to be seen what reply will be made by the heads of the various government departments to the board of trade's circular. Many of these depa. "merits have hitherto drawn a lino very rigidly against any women employes. All of them will now make a careful survey of their work and ascertain to what ex tent men of recruiting age can be re placed with women. It haa been /or years the aim of various women's organizations to ob tain from the government an equal opportunity Tor both sexes In the gov ernment employ. The board of trade circular is regarded as an official de claration that for the y>rIod of the war at least, the barrier of sex nul have no sanction from the cabinet. Pretty Slow. The congressional race will have to get more lively than this if it \muiIs public attention.?Spartanburg Her ald. The Sanitary Market (Successors to O. P. Fowler) Freeh Home Killed Meats, Fresh Fish, Dresed Poul try, and Country Produce. Rouda and Dobbins 'are the Two Meat Cutters; both are ex I perlenced butchers, and know ! their business well. ? Tender. Juicy and Nutritious : Meats, killed and handled in the ; Most Improved Sanitary meth . oda will insure the best of ; meats. We have secured the ser H vice8 of B. L. Rouda, formerly r with Mr. W. A. Powers; and Mr. Rouda wishes to announce to his friends that he will he glad to welcome them at the Sanitary Market. Sanitary Market Cor. Whltner & >rc Duffle Phone 755. DONT CARRY A HANDICAP THROUGH LIFE. Did you ever atop to think that your every action, every thought, your disposition, and chMacter arc influenced every day by The condi tion of your Liver? Failure In life may be the direct result of a disor dered Liver. Dr. Hilton's Life For The Liver and Kidneys will keep your liver in per feet condition. Get a bottle. For Sale by all Druggists. MURRAY DtiUQ CO., Distributors, Columbia, S. C. -a - - -'-_! FRESH FISH ALWAYS FRESH Last evening we received a shipment of fine fish, including . the following: Shad, Red Fin, Crokers, Butter Fish, Black Fish, Salmon Trout, Sheephead, Span ish Mackerel, Red Snapper, Pom pano, Shrimp, and Whiting. Fish Dresses Free of Charge? and De Hreres- Promptly C. F. POWER & SON Phone 117. Cor. Benson and McDuffie FOOD CONDITIONS III BELGIUM UNIMPROVED Over Two Hundred Thousand Are Fed Daily By Charity. London, May ^. A sinking picture of tin- condition of affairs in Belgium : Is given by an article in the Berlin VorwuertH, protesting uKainl too op- : timislic views In the German press ot I the Belgian political anil ?conomie situation. Tin extracts of the arti cle as published in Ixindon ure: f "The attempt to apply tin- slogan : 'Business us usual' to the pi'oKonl , ?t?te m' things in Belgium Ih du?' in ; pan to tin- inability of the newspa pers to make the nocessary Investi gations there. We are told that the boulevards of Brussels an crowd'Ml and that great numbers, of people ' occupy the ( hairs iiifgrotit of tit** < cafes; therefor*, we deduce that bo ciul life Is*going tin as usual through oui the country. "Hut we ran correct such a judg ment promptly from the Hgures 01 the public relief institutions. 1-Hr an appreciation of tin real economic sit uation in Brussels and of the psy chological situation of the ptopli there, a knowledge of public relief i>' more important than the uppeurancc of the boulevards "it is undeniable thut in Kr?ssels the number of burghers forced t> fetch their food from one ul the re lief centers is growing. In Septem ber the ligures were 16.2 per cent,; on April I they were 28 per cent, of the population. "Another point of Importance is the Increasing dearness of tilings. "It Is an exaggerated view to take that normal conditions nr? returning to a city where 210,000 people aie fed daily by charity. For this purpose over 113,000 a day is required, and this does not provide for the distri bution of clothing, .relief of unem ployed, ami t are of children. Private charity is almost exhausted, ami vol untary collections produce less ami less. "In the Beigen, provinces the sit uation is about jhe sutpe. The tier man authorities are willing to im prove these conditions, hut there are many difficulties. Hallway 'ariffs are constantly altering, so that business people are unable to regulate their traflie in the light of knowledge of the cost of transportation. Public telephone communication is not al lowed. Business letters are subject to delay and rigid censorship. Tele grams frequently take three days for delivery. "Another difficulty is the uncer tainty into which industry is thrown by the constant requisition of ma chinery. The possibility of such ro tiulsltloning by the military authori ties does not encourage the setting up of new machines or the malntain ence of old ones. The revival of Bel gian industry of which many of our newspapers speak amounts to this: a number of businesses are working two or three days a week. "These facts should be a warning against exaggerated optimism as to ameliorations in affairs in Belgium. In neutral, count ries such tulk can only bav? an unfortunate effect. "The greatest organizing genius would not be able to restore the crushed industries to this most' troubled of all countries by a wave of the hand, or raise again the cour age of a people who are as deeply attached as Germans themselves to their political Independence." ODO MT? OF NEWS. Lancaster, Mo'.?J. Kelly Wright, lecturer for the State board of agri culture, was here last week inspect ing the elephant farm of William I*. Hall. (Diamond Bill.) Although not i generally known, -Hall has the only j elephant market on this continent, ; and since tho war, the largest in either Burope or America. Ho con trols the elephant trade of this hem isphere. '* , Des M?lnes^ ta.? In bankruptcy proceedings here it came out that a Miss Dottie Morgan, a former resi dent, had for ? loan of $10. pawned her body to Moses Levlch. to be de livered to him after death. The wo man moved to Denver and Levich ha; asked the court If the pledge can be counted as an asset. Oakland, Calif.?Alex Jacobl nnd his daughter Grace were motoring on a boulevard last week when a bee stung Jacob! on the face. The sur prlce and pain caused Jacobl to lo:te control of the car, wjtich overturn-d and fatally injured his daughter. Columbia.?Miss Clyde Yarborough has been awarded $3,000 damages for the loss of three Inches of skin from h?r rosy cheek. She was thrown from a street car and sued for $10, 300 damages. Brooklyn, N. Y.?Caroline Klink, only IT. of a respectable family, col lected $2,375 in 30 days from friends for whom she promised to get jobs in the customs service. Her own father paid $r>0. She had no means of mak ing good and she is now doing 30 days nt Blackwell's Island. . \ Yonkers, N. Y.?Peto. a monkey, owned by Mrs. Ltbbie Dixon, saved her and her guests from death by lire when he dragged her down from her room on the top floor to the base ment where a brisk blaze was burn ing. If a man went down town with his head dolled up In a three-corner ed digus with turrets and curlycues and a cat's tall and a chicken head pinned on one side and a young whisk broom and a bunch of spring onions on tin'. other side and two. strip's of red flannel hanging down in the rear, he would bo arrested nnd slammed in the booby hatch. But a woman can do It and get away with lt.?Orlando Sentinel. STOirnsniNC FOR XJtOME! SERIES W, Anybody can ma ?hut at the end of for it unless they s: Join Us Do You Own a 1 I lomes are in ea the Building & Lo: Investig Series No. 1 mat Series r MOTOR IMPORTANT FACTOR IN WAR British Officers Believe Without | Motor Traffic Great War Would be Impossible. General Headquarters. British Army. France. May 8.?"A nation which hail exclusively the Beeret of the internal combustion engine could conquer the world. Under present circumstances, a nation which could corner the gasoline supply would ho the dominant military power. The automobil? lias without question been the n> .81 important factor in modern warfare." !t was ut headquarters ^.f the First British army that nn eminent rtrlMsh staff officer madj these obs?vations. Ho had been delivering a quasl-lec tut( *o a group nf correspondents, explaining the many us?s of motor transport. ' Vlthout motor traffic the present l.rcat wn >r Europe would have been Impossible There would have been g .'eat bnttlo3, to be. sure; great bat tl'.- such :s Ccttyaburs and Water Ion, but an r.rmy ct'tutted would re nt .i:, crushed To??ny rn.iforeements can be thrown here and there almost us a man would tting a handful of grate. Thousands ran be moved miles jov might: ihni*ait<)a can bo poured into the trenchej tr a few hours. ClM has out to motor ovci the shell" pocked Rgbtink i.r?'a of France r\nd Belgium to appreciate the importance of the automobile. Painted dull grey, olive drab, or daubed zebra-like, on the principle that the splotched col ors prevent observations, they lum ber or whiz/, according to their load and power, over the magnificent roads of France, most of which are still In superb condition notwlthstand the traffic of war, bearinK food, ammuni tion and supplies, at a rate that the general of old never dreamed of. A correspondent of the Associated Press, motoring southwest from Ypres, a few miles behind the lines of parallel trenches, passed hundreds of motor lorries, making their way to rail-head there to collect supplies IS KNOCKING Can You Afford to Miss It? NUMBFj FfAT ARE vioU ARE YOU ke a living or live 011 : the year what hav<| ive? Home? Do You sy reach of ;i!l worlj in plan. 12 BEGINS JUNE 15, 1915 DOING WITH YOUR MONEY? SPENDING ALL YOU MAKE? what is made they to show A few dollars paid each month to the Building & Loan means Independence in Old Age. You do not have to die to win?you receive the Cash at Maturity. In Investing In First Mortgages of Real Estate Want One? ing people bv Just a little more than rent each month and the house you live in is yours. Money to Loan From the Start ate The I^erpetual Building & Loan Association Lired in 1912. vlo. 2 matured in i^ll 3 series No. 3 will m?ture in 1915. More than $150,000.00 paid to withdrawing stock holders. More than $400,000,00 worth of stock sub scribed now outstanding. ' .See At Once For Details P. E. CI&NKSCALES, Sec. & Treas. Perpetua) Building & Loan Association ANDERSON, S. C. . I" which they would carry t< front the next morning, bus chauffeurs from the S Piccadilly, by taxicab driv the four corners of the ea from Canada, some from Chicago and Pittsburgh, tlj cars, light skimmed, creptf,*6ng in an unbroken stream for mil's, re minding one of the scene ;hn tho roads of Long Island tho ni gig before the Vanderbilt Cup race. ird "the ven by nd and from . many rj York, K great 11 ? ich Princess Start* to School. The Hague, May 8.-?-The Princess Juliana, only child of Queen Wilhel mina and Prince Henry, her consort, began* her school on her sixth birth day, April SO. The queen has decided to have i regular school class form ed com;*osed of children of tho same age bclougit^* to aristocratic Dutch families-and'daring the studies no difference is to be made between the princess and the other children. i iii it' T?IVfE TO XHi rS?M OF YOUR HOME AND OFFICE FOR THE OFFICE SPEED UP WJTH AN ELECTRIC FAN ; Sir, you can do moro business and do It better ^if you provide ' electric tana for yourself and your clerks. The cost is Teaily trifling com pared, with tho'net profit In com fort and actual, business accom plished. Heat saps vitality and slows up work.. Others are cool?you ought to be too. Our fana have bussed Into rapid ly increasing popularity. Prices From $10.00 to $27.00 Southern Public Utilities 118 W. White* FOR THE HOME KEEP YOUR HOME COOL A household electric fan is .very economical and very refreshing. Yen can ope/ate it Tor a ve^f small amount. It blows away the depressing ef fect of hot weather. ' All the members of your family will be healthier and happier If you buy one for your home. Srsrythltag lu electrical comfort for the household end office.