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SECOND RED CROSS .WAR *nesth gt d ople were swept alon onthe teay grind of work and UND Cuntiring effort to win this War. Notn UN IGNT ing else matters quite so much. Two suer ssful Liberty Loans have been N Y 2 foated * the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. MAY A and other worthy organizations ON MODAY, iutnhave asked for and secured great sums of money to carry out their re Once again the Red Cross War spective programs of War work; and Council presents to the American now again comes the Red Cross, ask people its appeal for a large sum of ing for another hundred million dol money. The conditions under which lars. But it comes 'with no hesitancy this appeal is made, as compared no uncertainty as to the success of wvith that of almost a year ago, ar its campaign. decidedly different, for last June the The Red Crosa has a record to show Red Cross appeal was made without to the American people. The first a definite record on which to base that startling statement in this record is appeal. The people of this country that every cent of every dollar re were asked to contribute one hundred ceived for the Red Cross War Fund is million dollars, an amount that had spent for war relief. The interest never before been asked of ajiy people .which accrues from the banking of for any purely relief purposes. At funds has, in actuality, made available that time, the War to America was a for every dollar contributed. Children Cry for Fletcher's The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of . and has been made under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good " are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic su>. . nce. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea ; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea--The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTOR IA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, Why Suffer with the 'Grippe ? " Try a dozen of our LaGRIPPE CAPSULES At 50c. a Dozen. If they don't cure you just tell us and we will qiadly refund your money. Could anything be fairer ? PHONE 61. MANNING. S.C. Sanitary Dry Cleaning. Quality is the First consideration With Us. You've had your clothes come home smelling of gasoline, and you didn't like it. We didn't do that work. We don't do that kind. Your clothes leave our house perfectly clean ed, with no odor about them, and sanitary in every respect. Then, too, our prices are very reasonable. Don't discard that old soiled suit until we have looked it over. A few cents may make it worth a few dollars. SHoffman French Dry Cleaning Ce,, E. W. ROWLAND, Prop. What has been the nature of this war relief? It has included relief to the bodies and minds of French and American soldiers and their families at home, through its established in firmaries and rest<t ations along all routes followed by the American troops in France; through its can teens at the Front, at a railway junc tions, and at Paris; through its hos pital distributing service, supplying 3423 French military hospitals, and its surgical dressings service which supplies 2,000; through an artificial limb factory, and special plants for the manufacture of splints and ni trous oxide gas; through its casualty service for gathering information it, regard to wounded and missing; through its children's refugee hospit als in the War zone, its :nedical center and traveling dispensary to accommo (late 1,200 children in the reconquered sections of France. 50,000 children throughout France are being cared for im some measure by the Red Cross. When the war opened, there were 24,000 physicians and surgeons in the French Republic. 18,000 of them went. to war, and 40 per cent of these 18, 000 have fallen in the last three and a half years. There are comnmunities in France of 25,000 population, without a competent doctor. To meet this emergency, Red Cross relief work has included the equipment of twenty-eight Red Cr:'ss dispensaries and in addition, there are now throughout the Republic probablI three hundred clinies and minor dlis pensaries operated by the Red Cross. In addition to this work, seven hos pitals for chiliren and tubercular pa tients are being conducted. It has included relief to the physi cal discards after they are returned from conquered territory from Ger many, through Switzerland, and reaching France at Ivian. Up to January 1, 1918, more than three hun. <IBred thousand repatriates had passed into France through this town near the Swiss frontier, and the stream continues unbroken, at the rate of more than a thousand a day. These repatriates, all helpless, many sick some dying from lack of necessary medical attention, are cared for by the Red Cross. Red Cross relief has included ware. houses and stores to serve as centers for relief distribution in Belgium; re construction work in reconquered territory; supplying repatriates wit, temporary dwellings, tools, furniture. farm animals cad supplies .ssential to giving them a fresh start in life. This relief work includes an organ ized effort for the removal of Belgian children from territory under boim bardment, for the establishment and maintenance of them in colonies. This relief includes the supplying of surgical dressings to Italy; the open ing of relief headquarters in nine re gional (listricts of Italy; the establish ing of a hospital for refugees at Mim. mi; and extensive work among refu gees in all parts of Italy. The relief work of the Red Cross has extended to Roumania. Surely the story of this little kingdom pre sents what is probably the saddest example of the tragedy that follows in the wake of warfare. Three mil lion of the eight million once pros perous inhabitants, are dead-victims of battle and disease. In .Jassy, the provisional capital, the Red Cross Commission found civilians sick, and wounded soldiers, dying in the streets. There was no room for then to (ie in-doors. Wounded soldiers, that is, the for tunate ones, were lying three in a bed in the hospitals. The less fortu nate were piled one upon another on the cold floors without proper cloth tag or covering. There was no means of disinfecting clothes or destroying vermin. An epidemic of typhus had already started. On the streets one found the so called "convalescent" soldiers, dis charged prematurely front the hos jpitals to make room for the constant stream of .incoming patients, wvandcer ing dIrearily around, mere shadow~s of amen waiting for the relief of dleath. With the civil ian it was the same story. Food and imedicine were at a premium. Only the- strong, those w~ho had a surplus of vitl ity, rould expect to survive. In the little village of Seltiu, in the district of Putna, the Comm ission found a squalid shack of wood and muld occupied by three chb i 1ren. Thei mother had suiccumbede to t ypihus. 'l'heir father was a sdli er at the front. The elest, a niril of ten, wa acting as mnothler to a boy of four and a little sister of sevenl. The boy was lyving helpldess on a bag on the stone floor, hiis face partly eaten away by a mahl gnant skinl diisease. Thel bones stuck out all over his tiny bodly. The girl was little better off. There were neither relatives, frieiius notr any gov. er neint agency toi give rel ief to Iief to these tinfort unate babhies. It was ino easy thing to cei relief to Roumania. Transportaition facili ties hadl broken down. Ii Roumanias itself money wats prmIally worth less, as no food or mei(d ical Isupplies were left in the remanant of the king dom. IEverything had toi be broiught bty way of IRussia. What has fte Red Cro ss done ? lDe.. 1pi te htandica ps ,t he work oif irelief wais ca rriedl on. A Red C ross medical unit, coamprising twelve doctors and twelve .nurses, had accomniedhlic the Comins.. sion, bringing with them suchl supjplies as cocub: h a aried. A ddit ionid sup pl1ies, incluiding sertiims, vaccine aind such foodstuffs as were most tiigentry ne(eed, were shipped at thle samein time1. Penin ig thetir arrival, a cargo of selected goods cointa illing imedicalI supipl ies andic foodlstu ffs was putrc'hased at Archangel and rushed into the stric'ken Country. Tlhen, on October 10), 1917, the Brit.. ishm hospital at Roman, forty miiles from the Rcumanian battle front and aeventy imiles from Jass5y, was taken over b~y the Amterican Red Cross. T1his hospital has a capacity of 600 beds. To assist in getting proper food for the patients a poultry ail stock farm is being condcuctedl at the rear of thte hospital. T1he Commission al so arrangedl for a second hospital at Jassy, with accommodations for 200 patients. Meanwhile general relief wvork was carried on in every portionl of the refutgee territory that could be reached. On January 2, 1918, this general relief work received stimulus from the arrival of a special Red Cross train of thirty-one ears at Jas sy, This train carried assorted sup.j COULD HARDLY STAND ALONE Terrible Suffering From Headache, Sideache, Backache, and Weak ness, Relieved by Cardui, Says This Texas Lady. Gonzales, Tex.- Mrs. Minnie Phil pot, of this place, writes: "Five years ago I was taken with a pain in my left side. It was right under my lcft rib. It would commence with an aching and extend up into my left shoulder and on down into my back. By that time the pain would be so severe I would have to take to bed, and suffered usually about three days ...I suffered this way for three years, and got to be a mere skeleton and was so weak I could hardly stand alone. Was not able to go anywhere and had to let my house work go...I suffered awful with a pain in my back and I had the headache all the time. I just was unable to do a thing. My life was a misery, my stomach got In an awful condition, caused from taking so much medicine. I suffered so much pain. I had just about g!ven up all hopes of our getting anything to help me. One day a Birthday Almanac was thrown in my yard. After reading its testimonials I decided to try Car dui, and am so thankful that I did, for I began to improve when on the second bottle...I am now a well woman and feeling fine and the cure has been Iermanent for it has been two years since my awful bad health. I will always praise and recommenti Cardul." Try Cardui '.oday. E 78 plies of all kinds. The country could use a hundred more like it, but the recent break between Russia and Rou mania an(d the probable cessation of hostilities with th Central Powers makes the possibility of keeping .up such s.ipments rather discouraging. Ten thousand persons are now beingr Supp!ied with food and clothing and the number needing such relief is In creasing weekly. The Red Cross relief work ha: in eluded here at home the building and maintaining of four laboratory cars for emergency use; the stamping out of epidemics at cantonmnts and training camps; the work or eradicat ing unsanitary con<'it ioes in the -m.! surrounding the cantonments; estab lishing Camp Service Bureaus to look out for the comfort and welfare of the soldiers in training; supplying two nillion sweaters to soi(iers and sail ors; mobilizing fourteen thousand trained nurses for the care of our men; establishing the Department of Home Service; the opening of training schooln for Ilome Service workers and of convalescent houses at all canton men's and training camps. When the Red Cross appeal was made last .June, it was apparent that it would be many months before our Army could play its full part in the War. During this period, it was all important, that America's help be ex ,tended to our Allies, who for so long had carried the burden. This has been the, let of the Amer ican Red Cross--to fill this gap, to bring comfort and relief to those na tions, and thus to begin to play this country's part in the War. Surely the record of accomplishnm nts, to de just ice to it, would take volumes. Dclide now, as a Chapter Officer, worker in or member of the Red Cros:, what your share of tin. and effort wvill b.' in making a great sue.. eess of thcis Second Ried C'ross War lFunud Drive. ----0 - TWI~'NS HiRING C'iA)SElI lHOND) BIETlWEEN U'. S. AND) (ANAD)A Montreal, Quebec, March 25--A c'loser 'bond of friendship exists be tween Canada and the U n ited States as the result oif the bir-th of twi as to Mrs. Peter- Mclenztie, of this -ity. While the military trini in which she was riding with her husband, Private Pet ei- McKenzie, touched -the border line of the United St ates she gave birth to twons. The first arrival, ai bcoy -- was born in the tUnitedl States, whtil(e the)( gi rl-who) arrived 15 in - utecs later-- -was born on the Ca nad ian side. -II '1M --a - IN SI!~l M11'%ONTi'i Whalut A merican O rgani zat ion is I0) inzg for Soldiers in F'rancce IPariis.- - Some'thing of' tna sc'ope ofn the act iv it ies; oif the A mnericacn Rted (C'ro's :n Frmance may lbe gat heredI fronm the offtic ial tot Ils showing tht wvorkl during l'ebruary in h''!ping sol d ieirs, and ('xclusive' of civ I a ffa irs. ( anmt('ens in the M etr'opol itacn d ictrict supp~l food and drnink to 440,000i~t m 'n; 11 1ra~vel ing can te.'ns at the front suppliedl 439,000( drIinik:, while 7 c'antee'ns on the French tines of c'om n-.nui~at ion su plied 4i75,000i( me'als. TIhe hospitacl supply serv ice furnished 1,.465 hosp it als with 4 ,00; caises con - ta in ing 257,86:3 iarticle(s. TIhe bureau of home' coinmunicationt found 26 men of the Ammr.ca n expe dIitionar'y forces whlio were'( repor(iited( mnissing and obt ainedI in format ion cont cer'ning six otheirs. Tihe bureau also wrote 118 le'tter's to r'elative's of sot dier's killed or wounded in France. Distributions by the miliitar'y supply sei'vice totalled 5,580 pair's of socks. :3,216 sweaters, 1,560 ponchos, 6,000 pairs of gloves, 1,110 mufflers acnd 13,000i comfort bags. D~onations The bureau of donations to hospitals for American soldiers supplied 1 99, 600 pairs of flannel pajanmas, 22,500 For Indigestion, ConstIpation or Biliousness Just try one 50-cent bottle of LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN. A Liquid D~igestive Laxative pleasant to take. Made and recommended to the public by Paris Medi cine Co., manufacturers of Laxative Biromno Quinine and Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic. handkerchiefs, 130,000 pairs of socks, I Houne of Austrian Parliament says s 51,000 shirts and 1,040 cases each co Vienna dispatch to te Cologne Gat. taining 122 cartons of tobacco and cig- zotte. arettes were distributed among the American soldiers. SEVERAL PREMIERS IN Three rest stations were opened by NEW SPANISH CABIN' the Red Cross on the lines of Com' munications. Each station is feeding Marid-Antonio Maara, Cie former 600 men daily and contains an infirm, premier, has succe'd in forming a ary in charge of a Red Cross nurse cabinet to succeed that of the Marquis for soldiers taken ill and unable t, de Alhucemas. Senor Maura will be continue their journey. It also estab- premier, former Premier Dato will be lishes one emergency canteen to feed minister of foreign affairs; Count Ro. soliers on leave returning to and ianones, minster of justic and Gen fromn the front. eral Marina minater of war. The --Marquis de Alhucmr.s will take the FOR THE GERM ANS interior lortZOlio. Coui Ronanones EXPLOSION COSTLY also is a former premier. London, ---Thirty Germen soldiers CJlINA'S RAILWAY PROFITABLE minjured and 500 munition wagons were PekingReports on China's rail.. blown up by an explosion at the Mev- way and telegraph services for 1917 rignies station near Mone, Belgium, just mle public show profits of S13, according to an Exchange Telegraph 500,000 and $3.800,000 respectively. dispatch from Amsterdam. according to the inistry of comamun The Germans had stocked enormous ications. munition trains under camouflagei A VT sheds at Mevrignies. o ---- .---. Compulsory Labor in Austria To Cure a Cold In One Day. Amsterdam - Iie government's Take LAXATIVs i(OSTO Quinine. It stops tilt bill relative to general compul:;ory la- Cough nd ieninche nd works oft the eI4 bor ha, been introuucesi in the a uruagist refiamad one iiox.ure. VCienna W thOVsac o ac Cologn Ga-. A. J.ARD,. Sanitary PlumER! Water Systems and Electric Light Plants For Country Homes A Specialty. We would be glad to go over any aroposition with you and give you estimate FREE OF CHARGE. A. J. ARD, 24 East Liberty St. SUMTER, S. C. Fertilizers! We are Manufacturing this year our old line of High-grade MEAL MIXED FERTILIZERS. Ammoniated goods with a Pot- d ash content as high as 3 per tris forw t the whoisalos(1 their fowne prmier. Peii-eotso Cias.al Se0u0bfoe 0oub0 and s380,0av setiey I~e AoeCuil HaColineI Day Tryihas beeinsnilldiced inethe lowe Hrwarer aSyTools andver ( E cri ticLigmuht Plts ul ity tCauntry boeesewherpeioty We W de lae logo l er knyw arpsito wth youa agi ousimate HArdar an. TolsRDte foras Lberty St. aSiclUlTr. 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