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ttr?jr? RECRUITING OFFICER IS MAKING AN APPEAL The following letter is self-explanatory: The Editor: The naval recruiting officer reports that results are beginning to show from the President's appeal for the navy to be recruited to war strength. Since Sunday, the 2 5th, over 12li men have applied for enlistment; about 35 of those being Charleston lans. However, due to the urgency of this call and the enthusiastic re Bponse with which it is being met by the North and East, the recriutim officer expressed himself as being a little disappointed with the results tc date. Lieutenant Cooper stated that "while in no manner wishing to de iran irum iue iiiipnauic iun ? * duty which is urgent and ever> American owes his country, he again appeals to eligible boys and their parents to consider the navy as a gateway to unlimited opportunities for personal advancement. The life of a man-o-warsman should appeal to boys of spirit. Its healthfuluess, wholesomeness, efficiency and future should appeal to their parents. It furnishes adventure, ever changing scenes, new coun tries, new people, a chance to serve the country in an honorable profeseion. The nary also offers steady employment, good practical training, promotion, provision for old age, health ful life and opportunity for travel end education. All pay received is clear of all living expenses. The food is excellent. No military service in the world spends the money or care on food that is given by the U. S. Navy. The navy maintains numerous schools for the instruction of its recruits. There are four large training stations: At Newport, It. I., Norfolk. Va., Great Lakes, 111. <North Chicago) and San Francisco Cal. Every recruit who enlists af apprentice seaman is immediately transferred to one of these training stations for instruction before he is assigned to a seagoing vessel. The navy maintains trade school: as follows: The Electrical School for the Instruction of electricians, both general and radio; the Artificiei School, for Shipwrights. Shipfltters Carpenters, Ftlacksmiths, Painters etc.; the Yeoman School, for sten ographers, typewriters and book keepers; the Commissary School, foi cooks, bakers and commissary stewards; the Hospital Corps Training Schools, for the instruction ol men in nursing, first aid, drugs, etc.; the Coppersmith School; the Machinist School; the Aeronautic School; the Musical School; the School fot Dining; the Torpedo School, and the class for instruction in gasoline engines. It is hoped that the subject matter of this letter will receive your ver\ serious consideration; that you wil publish this letter either in wholf or in part; that you will give thi: subject continued space; and thai you will furnish this oillce with ; copy of your paper. Assuring you thai any publicity you may give to this measure will be greatly appreciated, and extending to you in advance, the thanks of the iinviii service in Rcnerai, ana or mif office in particular. I ant. Yours very truly, O. F. Cooper, lieutenant, U. S. Navy, Recruiting Officer for South Carolina. Colds Relieved COT7 Without Dosing If yon hiVe^riod *lnt<Tfahr' medicines without BucAeas, w<* .von to try tlio 'External" kick's "Vap-Otowels over (liujit/l cloth. wkjrurtti releases itro jjrtffuod with each brcut f> ,>iuU) j In additffijp Vick's is absorbed through the pores Cue, 5')c, or ,*1.00. WW'S w?,!> SALVE w?t*> Vt fMitas OU Back l?Mt rat* twilil mt1?, tly btliacW kmaim?&1AAN MMMHY wma twa. J r?r Ink kr Dealers Everywhere. ?/'? ? i , i 1/1 j 1 t ISOUTH'S COI IN THE i lT E Map of Southern Railway lines i Washington, D. C.?(Special.)?Th la graphically shown by figures and a fiscal year ended June 80th, 191fi. "A notable feature of Southern ma the rate at which the consumption ol Southern mills. United States census South consumed 3.626,78V bales, a bales, or 16.61 per cent. The > months this year, as oompared with 2. seventy-five per cent of the cotton spl and its associated companies." HANDLING OF U. S. TROOPS WAS DEST IN ALL HISTORY ? Report Of Quartermaster General Compliments American Railways. 1 ? , | MILITIA MOVED PROMPTLY .Splendid Results Attained by Cordial Co-Operation of Railway Em. ployees and Officials With War Department Washington, D. C.? (Special.)? There has been no case in history > | where troops nave been as well handled and cared for as in the movement to the Mexican border during the summer of 1916, says the annual report of the Quartermaster General of the U. S. Army, which has Just been made public. On behalf of the railways, supervision of moving the troops was in . the hands of a special Committee on Co-operation with the Military Author! lties appointed by the American Kailway Association, at the request of the War Department, and composed of Fairfax Harrison, president of the r Southern Railway, chairman; R. H. Alshton, president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway; A. W Thomp, son, vice president of the Baltimore , and Ohio Railroad; W. G. Besler, pres, ident of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The report tells of the uniformly 1 excellent handling given troops and supplies through the cooperation of ! railway officials and employees of every rank with the War Department ;' officials. It states that to carry the first 100,000 of the National Guard ! moved to the border, 360 trains, which, ! if combined, would have been nearly 90 miles long, were required, and that i they included 3,000 passenger cars, ! 400 baggage cars, most of them equipped as kitchen cars for serving hot I meals en route, 1,300 box cars, 2,000 j stock cars, and 800 flat cars. Approx imatoly 4,900 road locomotives and crews had a part in handling this movement, in addition to a large number of yard engines and crews. Striking sentences from the report are as follows: "Considering the great distances ! traveled by the militia from the various camps to the Mexican border, the fact that there was but a single aocident, and that of a minor character, the celerity with which the trains were moved and the entire absence j of congestion or delay, it Is believed I that there has been no case in history, where troops have been as well and safely transported or as well cared for while en route as in the recent mobilization." "Every assistance possible was rendered the Government by officials and employees of all railroads concerned, from the presidents of the comoanies down to the minor employees." "Although the movement of the Organized Militia to the border came at a time when the commercial traffic on rallroada of the United States | was the largest in years, the tranaI portatlon of the militia was performed with very little Interference with regular train aervlce and with no congestion whatever, either at initial or terminal pointa or en route." "It Is, of course, impossible to compare the concentration of the United States Militia on the Mexican border with the mobilisation In Europe In the aummer of 1914. In Europe all civil traffic was stopped and the entire railroad system given over to the mil HLH; jUAI^UAPTJKiJX JWBWP VI MAN DING P( COTTON MIL . *? m* r_ ; y A ihowing location of cotton mills, each d( ie commanding position of the South w1 k map presented In the annual report o nufacturlng development," says Preside f cotton, oae of the principal raw matt figures show that in the twelve month b compared with 3,026,969 hales la mills of all other States const 670,393 bales last rear, an increase of 2 ndles of the South are in mills along tl Itarjr movement. The distances involved in this movement of the Organized Militia are very much greater than those in Europe, the longest run in the German Empire, from one froa tier 10 me otnor, Delng about 700 mues and those In Franca much leas. The distances traveled by the militia or- ' sanitations of the United States vary ! from $08 miles, in the case of the Louisiana troops, to 2,916 miles in the case of the Connecticut troops. The majority of these troops came from North and Northeastern States and were carried over 2,000 miles; in most cases in remarkably fast time. "When it is considered that these trains were, as a rule, heavy trains of from 17 to 22 cars each, and were composed of freight, passenger and baggage equipment (which wae necessary in order to enable each unit to proceed to its destination intact with all its equipment and impediments), it will be Heen that the movement was mads with exceptional rapidity." tool) < ltoi> MiOI/LD I1K riKST UO.NSlDKH.VTIO> Atlanta, (la., April 5.?That every Southern farmer who grows a food clop this year will be able to dis pose of it at handsome prices either in its original shape or as live stock was the unanimous opinion of the fifty experts of the Development Ser vice of the Southern Railway system and affiliated lines who met in Atlanta to discuss plans for farm market irg, immigration, and the agricultural and industrial development of the South. The mrrket and farm products agents are aiding the movement foi increased production of food crops in the South by their efforts to pui growers in touch witli dealers and consumers desiring their products and have been so successful that th? farms has greatly exceeded the sup ply. ItrKlljw I i- ? nuiic n?t- mut K piuwum is lie ill) advocated earnestly, farmers are urged to provide food crops bofor? buying live stock. Any farmer in the territory served by the Southern Railway system o rafflllated lines who desires aid in disposing of any crop will be given all possible assistance if he will communicate w'th the farm products agent located in his section or with Roland Turner. ch!? t farm produces agent. Atlanta. Ca. I Fo- ifc^-are. llT A.'< Arsamcr. Ala. t >" 4>*rt act he* Irnr^Waw hat ho ntCfni "1 d*?ir# to sdd iny endorsement of Or*ny*r IJrsr RernUtor. I b:.> net u??d any other madiona for f if l??n year*. 1 know it is tha h#?t for all liver rriil'l-*' ^ ?* Will ear* any? of indi|<Ntlun I Jn"W?. When I first commenced v> tok* you# 'wmW Urcr Hc/-"U|r r th# Pcrrsm-Patlnn Imif Co, was htiyiij ItTf thado^sR. H ?| am told thay buy it by Dintrto^ I u*? on# l?.? ##ch mouth sad la atrlHv ve?et?fcj4p rk*n?*^ <-oh<dlcp repnrmtion. nndWnUrhTy racomnifudad for lek haadai-hc, tMtia?aliun. btlhrfaite# bnd all atomarh and IfvWeomplatnte. Tfcan-iirugsiat can supply you?26c a box. Gr?a(*r Mtdiclat Co., CitHuMit, Tm. . * r lUBPiyjriTairiiiinu,^ r DSITION L INDUSTRY Cm* Oat ?<Mtn MM (WH* IfMlH fcmtwmMi SvuVKvm M| vail *?f' "f aaaWi(Mil eVi iti Ml )t Indicating 10,000 cotton spindlea. Ith respect to the cotton mill industry f Southern Railway Company for the nt Fairfax Harrison in the report, "la trials of the South, has increased in r ended July 31, 1916, the mills of the at year, an Increase of 499,818 lmed 2,869,186 bales in the twelve 98,792 bales, or ll.fi? per cent. Fully le lines of Southern Railway Company CLOSE MARGIN OF PROFIT IN OPERATION OF RAILWAY Large Amount Of Capital Risked Fer Very Small Returns OF VITAL INTEREST TO PUBLIC Investors Will Not Provide Money for Improvements Unless They Are Assured a Reasonable Profit on Their Investment Atlanta, Qa.?(Special.)?The close margin of profit for a railroad under present conditions is strikingly shown by figures submitted by President Harrison in the annual report of Southern Railway Company for the fiscal year ended June 30th, IS 16. In the most prosperous year of the Company's history the net operating income ($21,004,006.09) represented only 6.31 per cent on the investment ($396,722,786.00) in the railroad and equipment which produced It. "It may perhaps be said," said Mr. Harrison, "that there is no industry except a railroad in which so large a capital is risked for such a return in its most successful year." At a time when the newspapers daily are printing articles in regard to increasing railroad gross earnings, as indicating a rising tide of general prosperity, it is well to bear in mind the very small return on money invested in railroad property.. Many persons are misled into believing that the railroads are fabulously prosperous by the mere size of the figures in which the earnings of large railroads are expressed, but It should be remembered that an enormous Bum of money was required to construct and equip their plants and that the return on each dollar invested is relatively small. It is manifestly in the interest of the employees of a railroad and of the public served that the railroad secure new capital for additions and Improvements to its plant so that it may give better service and offer en | wikcu employment. However, this can be accomplished only by allowing the railroad to earn an amount on the capital already invested sufficient to promise a return on the additional capital desired. Governmental agencies may depress rates and enact restrictive legislation which will deprive the man who has already invested in railroads of a fair return on his investment, but no plan has been devised for forcing the man with money in the bank to put It into railroad construction or improvement. Unless the investment appears attractive to him Mid oilers a fair return he will put hiB money in some enterprise that cannot be affected by governmental agencies. fcJvery employee of the Southeni Railway and every shipper served by it who recognizes his true Interest will do what be can to insure such a return on the capital now invested in the Southern Railway as will make the securities of the Company more attractive to investors, so the Company will be able to secure the additional capital needed to carry on a consist1 entiy constructive program which will mean increased prosperity for every interest In the territory served by It? Southern News Bulletin. v ' ' J. . ' . ' < |^; . B V ^y 4 r.p oaltey cok or new vork . ?= ' hKIt .HAW COUNTY NOTES. There w.ll b* an Kaster egg hunt 1>? at Timrod Baptist church next Satur- P( day afternoon and an ice cream sup- ei per at night. The proceeds will be tc used for the benefit of the church. M Douglas Mayes, John Bethune, a| Thornwell Clyburn and Flynn Kelly tc of Bethune went to Columbia last week to enlist in the United States navy. $ 10. D. Duke, a flagman on the Sea- w 'hoard's through passenger train, was c< accidentally killed in an unusual u manner near Camden Monday mornIng of last week while on the run 1 from Hamlet to Columbia. It is thought that he was standing on the n car steps leaning out and looking 01 backward when the train passed un- 3 dor the overhead bridge, and that ,r his head struck one of the support- ri ing posts of the bridge. He was c found lying beside the railroad C( track, with his skull fractured and his neck broken. The body was prepared for burial by a Camden under- ^ taker and was shipped to his home in ^ Mchraond. W. M. Young, who has for about I ten years been a lieutenant in the I Kershaw Guards, has been elected i itiuuiu ui me company, in piaco oi r E. J. McLeod. recently resigned. First lieutenant Harold Birchmore was nominated for the office but de%, . cllned to stand for election. Eighty men are needed to recruit the Kershaw Guards to their lull war strength of one hundred and " men, and a call has been issued for" ~ ncruits. Henry East, an Englishman among the tourists at Camden, collided with another player in a F'olo game at Camden last week and was knocked from his horse and rendered uncon- ' scious for several hours. He was taken to the Camden hospital for treatment and was greatly improved at last accounts. With ideal weather and a record breaking attendance Camden's ninth annunl Horse Show was the most successful yet held. The music was furnished by Schumaker's band of Columbia. Invitations have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Yates of Camden to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Lucia Gibbon Yates, to John C. Villepigue. in Grace Episcopal church 8:30 o'clock p. m., Wednes i day, April 11th. Of course, 5*ta no paint. But we always reeom ~~"'^L|fl?pse we can j MARKtMp^el v^ COi Vi ROfilio, much fu 1 ... 'thanjordinary pa Come in and lei you to paint wit! LANCASTER MERC, m_?1 L AN CAST! V \ r * / , . l" ' . tys faVOfit? Efsiestf ^ITEJAN |0? I V JjHH i icurc INC. BUCPALO^.V. I EXPENSES INCREASED. \Vushington. D. C., April 4.?Ex-" enses of the Southern Railway Com- ' any increased twice as much as irnings during February, according > figures showing results of operaon, exclusive of interest, rentals nd other income charges, announrtd >day by Comptroller A. H. Plant as iIIowr: Gross revenue. February, 1917, 6,998.107, an increase as compared ith 1916 of $276,371, or 4.83 per snt; operating expenses, taxes and noollectable railway revenue, $4,38,336, an increase of $646,398, or 3.35 per oent. Gross revenue for the eight lonths' period, $52,696,02 6 an inrease as compared with 10 16 of $6.20,068. or 13.63 per cent: operatlg expenses, taxes and uncolleetable tilway. revenues, $36,657,242, an inrease of $4,025,487, or 12.34 per snt. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days four dnigjrisl ?iii~*>?iund money If PAZO UNJCMjajtr fills to ctirevMUMt*** of Itchinc, ItlnXT,BiBedinK Sif'a'wl4Vng t'U?sl?*6?oI4dBy?. QTSl They*!ttU lo catWi and pneumonia. They weaken the entire system and leave it un- 4 the s u d d e n Jm T^jgy^B^nere with . ^ v^Uy. Neglected they soon become dreHR^oiseaseiltnown as systflviic,. catarrh. Pop't rteglect them. It's costly as well *4dangerous. PERUNA WiH Safeguard You Hav&p box ef Pemoa Tablets witn you.(or sudden rotn or\exposure: Ton# your syatem up yttb a regular course of the liquid P#runa, fortify it against' colds, get yoer digestion up to normal. take care of yourself, and avoid danger. If you are suffering now begin the treatment at once. Give Nature the help she needs to throw off the catarrhal inflammation, and again become welL Peruna has been helping people for 44 years. Thousands of homes rely on it for coughs, cold and indigestion. It's a good tonic for the weak, as well. The Perns Company, OUa term's a good, ^ country it's pl^oiYvr^ farjpprs who are pro iiiu i y*i i LUjJP / ' > Mill i less man is buildings t<n\flJt-omc shabby and -beaten. Thcrffrifty farmer keeps ing neatly painted with ^INC^AW MONI - WKAftS bONOSft ydt^jiut on is better than ffWLjong arttTSatisfactory service "B'^^^zTPaint ^ Qnte^it r<Njt Arablutely pure. * HHjfcg.' tKo^^hca, Jr?r any other ranti?%?iU|(^J['wl?LDevoe paint* irther andlTsfSMy much lorifceif t us tell you how little it will tost b Peyoc. \ ANTILE COMPANY ER, S. fe" I(f