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It Star Morning 1916, an every o1 the valu( lar will so come get first Every piece of that it would be sheet Men's $8.20 Sni $5.00 Men's $15.00 Su $8.98 Men's 50c Shirl 29c. Men's $1.00 Shii 59c. Men's 15c Triangl 7c 3 For. Men's $5.00 Rain 2.98 Men's $3.00 and $3 $1.98 42 Ladies' Serge, Sil: din Dresses, worth uj $398 180 Ladies' Coats, w $12.00, at $2.98 MAIL ORDI s PROMPTLY Fl JANUARY 17,.119 I LOUIS APPEur'. MANING. S. C., JAN. 19. 1916 PUBLL41ED EVERY WEDNESDA L. I. APPELT, E DITOR AND PRoPRE1!oR - 20TASEOUL01D BE CBEA?. Why is potash selling at $4 00 per ton when there is enous *of it available mn the New En land States to supply the whc world for many centuries? W1 is it that is keeping this fa from becoming generally knov and what is the reason? 0 State Agricultural Colleges w< aware,or should be, of its treme cheapness and solubili for agricultural purposes, f many of them made tests as I .back as 1889 and proved witbc a question the value of this en mous potash supply at our ye door. The Agricultural Departme at Washington has made ye extensive tests and fo-md ti this silicate of potash is solul In the soil and as easily a *quickly available for plant 1 as the German Potash Sal These tests are all scientifica described in Bulletion 104. B1 ean of Plant Industry, Agric tui-al Department, Washingt< D.' C., entitled "The use Feldspathic Rocks as Fei In the most of the mid< States and a large number the Southern States there is inexhaustible supply of pots feldspar that will run from to fifteen per cent potash. the State of Georgia large posits of potasL feldspar can found in Cherokee, Lumpk Rabun and several other coi ties. In North Carolina, dep ; its can be found in Alexand Buncombe, Hickory, C I a Cleveland, Gaston, Hay wo< Mitchell and many other co ties in unlimited quantities. Prof. Allerton S. Cushm formerally with the Uni litate Agtricnltural Departme ts Friday AX Jan. 21, U .d nearly ie knows of a dol be here, early and choice. Sr Winter Merchandise in our store mus folly for you to miss any day of this ts, at ' Men's 50c Unders 10c its, at Men's $2.00 and $2.50 98c ;s, at Boy's Fleeced Unde '17c -ts, at Men's $1.00 Ovel 69c a Collars Men's 10c Grey ] 20cc -0 Men's Work Shi Ceats, 29c Boy's $4.50 to $6.09 Su .50 Pants, sizes, at $2.98 k and Pop >to $(5.00, rth up to 11 Don't forget this Great RS I LLED. states in the Bulletin above men tioned that the potash in these feldspathic rocks, when ground soil, becomes soluble and availa ble for plant life very rapidlly. There is scarcely a county in all New England that has not many -large deposits of feldspar rock which will analyze from six to -twelve and fifteen per cent pot ash. The cost of quarrying and pulverizing on a fairly large scale should not exceed $3.00 to $4.00 per ton. -I would advise every farmer in this country to send to the -Bureau of Plant Industry, Agri 0 cultural Department, Washing 0ton, D. 0., and secure a copy of hBulletin 104 if he has any desire to obtain a supply of potash al le most for the asking, which is 20 without a question, soluble and et available when pulverized as nabove stated. If he is unable to lobtain this valuable bulletin, ow ling to its being out of print, I -would suggest that he make a re ty quest tchrough the Congressman rfrom hisDsrc that another ar edition be printed immediately ut by the Government for distribu or tion. ry The old doctrine claiming that plant food must be either water nt soluble or soluble in dilute acids ybefore being mixed with th~e soil at in order to become quickly avail-. >le able has long since been explod nd ed. It wa s always a delusion. ife The bacteria of the soil do not t function or thrive properly ex ycept in the preser-ce of an over ir- abundance of igorganic plant -food and a liberal amount of m humus. -ti- CMPETITION IS THE I.IFE OF TRADE. HWhat do you know about the ofsubject of "Ccmpetition"? Is nthere anything left for you to hlearn? It is true that "-compe tition is the life of tr-ade." ILet us see A merchant in a certain town be as no competition. He has everything his own way. He n- thinks he has the people right where he wants them and that er. they will have to go to him or go without. -d, He runs along nicely for a un- time and then begins to get care less. You notice that his floor an. needs sweeping, the windows ted could stand soap and water, dust D NOW COME [HEWi 0*LEA [ARTS FRID) t go at cost, or below cost, its imme Anneal Clearance Sale. irts $1.25 Suit Case 79c Hats at 10c Homespun. per 6c rwear 6c Calico, per yi alls 4c 10c Sheeting, per; lose & 103 Gingham, per irts 8c its, large 15c Double Width Su yard, 10c -U Ladies $1.50 Waists, 89c Ladies Suits: worth up to $80.00, at $7.98 Clearance Sale will last but Ten D ' counters, and cobwebs are seen ai in the corners. in Soon he thinks he ought t3 make more money with less fi1 work. He pushes prices up a bi cent or two and his . pocketbook ti gets fatter. That looks good to ii im and he shoves tbe price up ti again. He doesn't take the trouble to, study his customers, their needs, y and the conditions that prevail, s. because he has no cbmpetition. b: His store gets dingier and less ti inviting, and it lacks that home- a' like appearance of welcome p when his customers call. g In time customers begin to get i tired, for they feel that they are o being stung. Some turn to the a mail order man, while others go lI miles out of their way to reach another town. rThey want some a thing for their money. 'k Soon the merchant notices a t shrinkage and wakes up. He b makes desperat ' efforts to en- t tice his customers back to him. b But it is useless. They have had enough.a This merchant's business has el been irreparably damaged by U his indifference, neglect and ti greed. caused by the lack of com t petition. P But there is another side to b this picture--one that is bright er and is seldom turned to the tl wall.h Where competition e x i s t s P there is life, and energy, and P brightness, and where these o' thigs are the people will go..h Competition brings to the sur- f face and into use the best that is in every man, where other. C wise these qualifications would b often lie dormant and without s avail. And these qualifications. I' when brought into play, attract and draw and hold the allegiance of the people, The public asks no more than i a fair return for its money, and I if there is not sufficient compe- a tition in tbe borne town to insure s this then they will look else- v where. s No man can expect to secure and hold the trade or any class I of people just because he is him- f self. He may look good to him- t self, but if his goods are of prop t er quality and the price is right c they will discount his personali- '1 ty a hundred per cent.a And competition forces every i man to keep the right kind of c .p.ices, ai s mainly quality 1 S THE SAVIh IREC RAN kY MORNIN terial, but the goods must go in s 10c Cotton Flanne! & Good Sized T yard,. Large Turkish rd, 8c Ladies' 75c Nigh yard, 39c Ladies' 75c V yard, 49c Children's 50c iting, per , 19C Children's 75c ] 39c OND Ladies $4.00 wai $1.98 54 Children's and Mi worth up to $8. $2.98 ys. so we urge you to come as ea VRE id price that keeps the trade S the h.ome town. - .ir The more competition you d in a town the cleaner and E -ghter the stories will be, and e tastier the displays, and the ore attractive the price. These v sings spell life, and liife is al- E ays appealing to the people. ti It is competition that has de- I loped our magnificent school o stem, and developed and s roadened our religious institu- o ons, and our railway systems, d the thousand and one enter- o rise s that are making this the e reatest commercial nation of 'I ie globe. It is the outlet and erflow of unbounded energy a d ingenuity superinduced sole- a by necessity and competition. To compete sixccessfully with a adversary a merchant must now his people, and anticipate h, eir desires, and meet them aif way in every step they ke. The people can be won, ut they can not be bought. The most successful merch ats the world has ever produc l are consistent and persistent sers of advertising space in 2eir local papers. Thbey adver se because they know the peo le demand it and insist upon aving what they demand. The local merchant- who uses xe advertising eolumns, of his ome paper, keeps the goods the eople wants, and makes hisa rices right, need have no fear f competition, 1t will make im, as it has made others be are him-. But failure to advertise when ompetitioni is in the field is the estand most effective means of ending the buyer to the other allow. cLAURI IS FOR THE FARMER. While others have been wast g time in talk, Senator Mc aurin has, as usual, been going a head building something. A ystem of direct sales from farma arehouse to mill has been in. tituted. There is a State warehouse at 3ennettsville which consists of our units under one manage ent. This house being so sit ated that Senator McLaurin ould assume personal supert ision of the venture, he has in ugurated the system there. The ,lan has met the approval of ne of the most experienced and et kenown cotton buyers in the rG EVENT OF (: ST CES I, JANUARI 10 days regardless of former vale, per yard, Children's Small Q 104 owels $1.90 Sheets, , 59' Towels 15c Woodbine P 9c t Gowns Blankets, size 89< aists, $3 00 and $3.501 $1.2 Caps, Ladies' Wool 154 resses, Ladies' 50c 394 FPLO sts, at 671 ses Coats, 00. at rly as you can, as we will place : CK 4 Late, as is shown by the follow ti g letter: b "Union, S. ta., Jan.. 14, 1916. al Lon. John L. McLaurin, Colum-'tl bia, S. C. Y Dear Sir:-I was in Bennetts- r< ille buying cotton for the Union uffalo Cotton Mills and inves. S gated your system of selling. b wish to express my approval a; f same. It is the best I have ti sen, involving no loss of time tl r useless expense. 0 I found the samples in an ti ifice up town, with a. card in 'a ach giving weight and grade. 8 'he cotton is delivered on the e rading tags and it is not nleces- o ry to go into the warehouse t nd tear it down. t As a cotton buyer of many V ears experience, I unhesitat- it igly say it is the best system I r ave seen. Yours truly, Y A. M. Wyse. The advantage of -the plan hich has been adopted is ap arent to everybody. When a d otton buyer is buying cotton U or a mill, under the system now e i vogue, he has to buy grades L bat he does not want, and a birefore heis not inposition to ay full price for those. grades ~ ihich he does want. Under the ytem of selling by the sample, t towever, each individual lot of r otton stands on its own basis. 0 nd the low grade cotton of one erson is not allowed to affect P be price of the cotton of another erson that the mill wants. Un .er the present system of buy- ~ rg, the cotton buyer forces the C w grades on the mill at the ex iense of the sellers of good cot- a on. This evil is remedied under t he plan adopted by Senator Mc aurinl. It would be a shame and a dis race to South Carolina if the ~ aan whose broad vision brought ~ he State warehouse system into C meing. and whose constructive a ,bility continues to develop and ' o build it, should by a combina . ion of export cotton buyers and ~ e insurance trust, be defeated. t is a square issue bet ween the >eople of South Carolina and the arasites who toil not, and ieither do they spin, but live on he fat of the land, at the ex >ense of those who labor. They picked up a Columbia ~ awyer first, and they have ropped him like a hot potato, t mad nowme ee from the papers i THE SEASOT IRE'S 21ST, 1916. e, In order to move our entire Wit ze Dresses,at Ladies' Colored 31 ,ize 81$90, Mens' Double Sb llow Cases, $1 60x72, at A Large Lot worth up 91 Jomforts, at $3.50 -and $4 ( Sho Shawls, $1 Waists, 400 Pairs Chil 9 Infant's and Children's Coats. worth up to $5.00, at $1.39 Ladies $3.00 Skirts, at $1.98 new Bargains on Sale every day w at a cotton buyer is to be ought forward to "develop hi d build up" (?) a system for tt e benetit of the farmers. Do tii u expect wolves to nurse and ar lambs? The most important part of enator McLaurin's report is the story given of the fight made o~ ~ainst the insurance trust in c uis StaLte. We call attention tow e very singular fact that not e of the daily papers mentions i is matter. We are face to face o ith a sad condition of affairs in uth Carolina when the influ uce and power of a trust which presses the people debars:e ea from getting such informa- jTi on through the daily press, !hich alone is able to handle sa fully, as that contained in the 4o port of Senator McLaurin. Read it, farmers, and see for urselves how you have been bbed1 The Columbia Record of Sun y comes out with a triple cot mn editorial in behalf of Gov ror Manuning, and boosts him igh as the sky, just because the vernor offered to pay to Dr. Villiams over two thousand dcl rs in excess of the salary al-.i ed by the legislature. and Lke the cnances on this body imbursing him. but these gen emen did not see the use in this igli salary, therefore refused to hb y the governor for his folly. he Record is nowv trying to aise this money by private sub ripionls. and offers to start it : with $25.00. Why should then ope of South Carolina be sed for such aid? Did anyone ', dl the governor to make this1 peeta inducemueut to Dr. Wil ams? He madec a bad bargain, ierefore he should be made to ick to it. The governor sees1 is mistake now. and says he anot pay this extra salary nother year. What will he do ith Dr. Wilkamns? This institu-b ion has made such a fine show g under his regime, and now| ) drop him, would do the doctor! gross injustice, as he has just egun his hard labors in this de artment of his profession. If h Record WAnts to help a iorthy cause, they might take p a collection for the poor or ome charitable institution, but e see no need of passing around he hat for the governor, who is itl LOW snory he spoke. ow THE STORE'S ition for ues, so SALE it nething. priced things so low ladies' $3.00 and $3-50 Shoes, at $1.98 avy Work Shoes, at $1.49= 3.00 Boy's Shoes. at $1.49 [en's and Children's Room Slippers, )c TO 98C Zen's and Children's Rubbers, )c To 59c y is $1.50 Skirts, at 98c. $5.02 Raincoats, at S$2.98 :t to Post Office. ONE 601L SUMTER. S. C. P J DeLain. 1 lot. Estate A C Dickson. 1 lot; 1 build ing Elmnore Evans, 1 lot; 1 building. Lillie James, 11lot; 1 .building. Annie Jenkins, 1 lot 1; building. J. C Lynch. 1 lot; 1 building. Thomas Miller, 1 lot. Preston Pearson; .1.lot. JToe Richardson, 1 lot. Mary Robersbo, 1 lot; 1 building. Mt Zion. Estate S. A. Ballard, 42 acres; 1 building. W. Md. Havvin. I2 acres. Plowden's Mill. January Roberts, 19 2-3 acres; 2 -buildings. Rosa- Lee James, 15 acres. Bettie Tomblin, 100 acres; 1. build Mary E Washihgton, 23 acres; 2 buildings. Harmony. -P. J. DeLain, 100 aceres; building. Frances Taylor, 18 acres. .Midway. Sallie Moore, 5 acres. - New Ziod. Automatic Machine Co., 157 acres. S G. Mc:Kiunney, 65 acres, 1 build ing. Samuel M. Wheeler,~ 120 acres; 1 building.E. B. GA MBLE, Sheriff Clarendon Couniy. Italics In the Bible. Words in the Bible printed in italics Indinte that the words so prinled do not rightly form a part of the original text, but were adopted by the transla tors to make the sense of the original clear, remarks an exchange. As used in the Bible, italics have no relation to the common practice of using them for the purpose of emphasizing cet tan words. In the early history of printing those portions of a book not properly belonging to the main work. such as introductions, prefaces, in-, dxes and footnotes, were printed In italics, the text itself being in Roman. Lost Humor. Mark Twain was once asked by an English clerk in a London bookstore to write his autograph. "My chirography is becoming less and less "distinct." complained the au thor whim'sically as he compled with the request. "If this keeps on I'll have to be getting somebody else to write my autograph for me." "But. sir." seriously responded the clerk, "nobody would want It then." Safe From That. "Now that you have been married a year what can you say of your experi ence?" "Well," he replied solemnly, "I can truthfully say that I am sure that big amy is one crime that I'll never comn mii"-Detroit Free Press. Idyllic Love. "Daughter, don't marry that young man. He'll never bring home the ba con." "How foolish you are, dad! What do I care about the bacon If he'll only bring home the bonbon."-Pittsburgh Brown Study. The term "brown study" Is a corrup tion of brow study, brow being derived from the old German "braun," meaning the brow. We make our fortunes. We call them fate.-Alroy. Kep-wa e,.... o.- -n~ai-BR ed1=r You kn WRECK 4 big repute Real Val we say I means soi ter Stock in Ten Days we have Underskirts. at 600 Pairs I ?C Soled Worked ~ . Ladies' He; oes . .49 Ladies' Shoes, $2.50 and I to $3.50, at SC Ladies'. IV 30 Moa's Dress Bed es, at 4 ,98 Ladies', b ren's Shoes at 8c 3! LadiE Ladies bile this Sale lasts. Nei W"o will pay Dr. Williams' extra salary this year? Not governor, unless the collec n plate is passed around first. How's This i Ve offer One Hundred1 Dollars Reward for ~case of Catarrh that cannot be cured be l's Catarrh Cure. F. 3. CHENEY & Co., Props., Toledo, 0. Ve, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney the last 15 years, and believe him perrectly rorable in albusiness transactions and finan ly able to carry out any obligations made by s & 'rauAx, wholesale druggists. Toledo, 0. fLG, KJS~AY & MARvLa, wholesale drug ts. Toledo, 0. tall's Catarrh Cure I3 taken internally, acting ectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of ytem. Price 7%c. per bottle. Sold'by all ~ggsts. Testimonials rree. [all's Family'. Pills are th~e best elinquent Land Sale. y Virtue of Sundry Executions me directed by .L L. Wells. easurer for Ciareidon CJounrty, I II offer for sale on Mionday the dy of Febe'nary 1916. heing lesday, the~ followin. real estate Taes for 1914:-. Fulton Trownship. Peter Brown, Admimstrator, 5 Laura Green. 7 acres. Estate of Martha Green, 30 acres; il tI(in)g. Estate of itnom~ Hampton, 2lots. Robert Jattmes, 3 1.ots. Estate of' Mary Antu Reed, 10aeres; builditg. Louisa Thomas. 10 acres. Calvary. ain Baker, 1 lot, sf Shannrou-. 12 1 2 aer.s; 1 bulilde. uls Shtannon,. 317 atcrs; 1 builder e'.l .iia.3 7 ,cres. FrIend-hip. l'tate' of Jamues Conductor, .3 3-4 h i'le.. Gavmutn 5 neres. -M V. Hlanberrv. I lot; 1 build Powell 0. Johtnson, 35 arres. Jerry .lobuono. 1 lIt. TA I Martin. 18 acres K'.notn, I lot Sarah Anti MeBride, 2 23 acres; 2 Ii v ier. Jr , 8 :3-4 acres; 2 iidi:.s l)yer Rive'r-. I lot; I butiding Sd Stunk-s. 1 lor: 1 buildinir W itdalJ. 1 :ot: 3 b~uildinugs oht M Feldetr. 10)7 aeres, 1 build Santee. l~rate David Felder', 15 acres; 1 ra.e Doublin Felder, 26 1-2 acres; Etae Henry Frierson, 30 acres. Moses Marratnt. 45 acres. Estate David McKinney, 25-acres Elon MeKnigrht. 35 acres -tatte Jake Thomas, 61 neres; juilding. Concord. Lottie Brunson. 34 acres. ose Dinugle, .5L acres; 1 btuildingt Wash Richard,.on, 94 cres; 6 mildns. tnmter L-dge. No. 50, 1 acre. Louis Wells. 30 acres, 1 building. St Jamnes. Miller Har vin. 25 acres. Parris Garris, 2 acres. Riah Gi bbs, 27 acres. Julia House, 1? acc'es; 1 builditng Conor Parson. 1 1-4 acres. Ahby Parson, 20 acres. ~Sammy Swatmp Calvin Baker. 1 lot. Louise 0. Holladay, (67 acres. Rebecca Hatrvit. 1 lot. 'hedore Harvin, 1 lot. Samaritan Lodge, 1 lot. James F Tindal, 1 lot; 1 building Julia A Conyers. 4 acres. Eliza J. Jackson, 10 acres; 1 build g. Manning. :,.y Etta Bradley, I lot.