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UKItAIAHMJ FA It It A it SIN?S FOIt I'l.ANTKIt. Prima Ifoiioa Crooned Smviiy for mill I'nrnliiiiaii in New York .Hut it l'o>t tftl.OOO ask. Although any one rati licar Geruldiue Purrar sing tor a i\.?- nabl* sum paid at the box o'li ii rust $l,Ot>U in lilirrty bonds to lu.- the famous prima donna load yoi: by the hand to tiio piano, ami I Su n , roon to you soft and low, win an raviolis ciowd strains its ours t _> hea'. At least that is what it cost Wallace Moore, a prominent young planner of Cheraw, to get the experience, cording to New York newspapers. Following is an account of the affair gleaned from three of i he loading Goth an*, journals. (Mr. Moore is u son of (lie late Clarence Moore who w.r well Known in this section.) The Sun tells it thusly: "Aliss Farrar stood up helore the crowd and let her well known .oice out in the "Stai Spangled Hunter" as a reminder to thos - who heurd that they liad a duty to perform. Her mother, who chape:..mod her. stood by and held Sniffles Tellegeu (Miss Farrar's dog), a" 1 the star's fur coat, although sh?- disapproved of Geraldiue's taking on t:r> eo-.u and said it would certait !> mean her "tiealh of cold.' ' 'Pshaw, what do 1 care for the old voice? 1 can't sing in my coat!' exclaimed the star. "Enthusiastic applause greeted th-* song which so fascinated il. > turtle cop at the corner that he < ar-ed his efforts to keep Fifth avenue cleat and let trallic clog, while the fi?nr*i :i lid PiihiiiPii vvhn h; it Jn??.n swearing a minute before just sat still and drank in the golden stream of melody. Then followed a tiuasu-ial golden stream. The last inspiring notes had barely died away when a prosperous looking man who said his name was Max Lowenthui of '? > Hast Forty-second street, wod .d hiv way forward through !h dense throng and said he was prou 1 to buy $25,000 worth of bond- 1:011, Miss Farrar, who had given him some nappy nights at the movies, and here was the money down "So the sale started with ecl.it, . $1,000 bond to Sniffles Telegen, live $1,0)00 bonds to his mistress and twenty-live $1,000 bonds to Max Lowdenthal. and it went right op w'th a swing. Miss Farrar and Sniffle: were escorted to the table in the back of the tiny theater. v.i Hi'.1 songstress undertook to sell ! ' ? bond.. sjgu . applications nno ba;id out i.iit- >:. her autographed photos I o each buyer oi a $1010 bond. "Hut the crowd that had filled Fifth avenue immediately surged up the steps to the entrance of the library apparently harboring the delusiiin byt 10.000 persons could get 'into the 11 "1111 lor a table and five persons. Loud cries of alarm from Miss Jane Arthur, of the State women's war relief of eleven Hoy Scouts rent the air. So Miss Farrar went hack to the front of the tli?-utei and the crowd singed down to the s(?o?.| "Thioi the prim-.: donna annoum -d that .she'd help any man intending t<? buy a bond right over tin- top witli her own hands, j'he 'lop* was the three-1 'et liigti oarricade between the !''? .i*-r and the terrace, and so dtany imploring palms were stretched 011 to Miss Farrar that it looked as il the wnoli- immense throng was a srli-iol and ;h<-> \v?-re ;:11 trying to say siim.-l!: to tie- ti-ache.r "The diva io;:.o ; ? f.-w maie heavj w-oglits ovi-r :i. top, when a all.nt i-a\. lii-i 11 on' tin- South. !>. \V. Miiih e of South 1 .11 < *;iua. h-api-d up all by himself. stating That h< would oin o 1 t ;!: 1.. 11 > h 1 1; 1 him. .> "ti |?1,1 j?l?1;i<_r : l>: ri-1 '!>. i ' -iiiii; o:i"' uioi ?t<an- i mi) id li i I :(< , ! .on v. i:i.' . dill. ' i'li < i <' i : r w ;i: jo t>usl> < r.i 1 i.'M-:. hut Mi !': : ! ?\.: u o ? f.? : . r. " v-'o. alio Haiti, milium into iin fcyp.H ill |||?> h!>. !:in\ Stililllt'l'llt V ' I 11 I - I <11 i .! ' III tinimti' ?ii - linii-i in pay i'oi i: ' Thfli I' 11 11Mi Moi.it !i\ liar 1 lis- piano In -a' ?!?>\\ . a in! ji! ij -d In ; . i !;i i ' mil i a :ni im " i in- Star Span) : 'i Hannnr. iotv in : vv I'i'i so i ha' : 1 V M' ?r- oiihl la l' il YWII, v ... a >.: al a' .In public Hlmiry Snit'flo.H Tell - n woil lioinn onlin lj '1 in 'It 1 tin r-'il Willio tlll'l 1)1 111- ribbon ill. IVOIp I' I In- sab*. t' >r ii ail n a?l in a ml I in i i o ' i 'i in s. an l ha 1 In- ha'l In a ioi. ,] ;. \. \ er> i nrii of 11 .i way ' Kil t li avonm- v. as < 1 ?>-*-i] t> ' ratlie id front <>: 111 - pubis hhran yesterday noon. ond all \vi per .sonants who t!i->r.nlil < sit on toj of a "bus ami set- lloraldino Karrai at tli?' Liberty Theater wore earriec throuRh on Madistin avenue as mat <is wet ht'iis Ton fonts was jn-t wasted Noth iiiR loss tlian |f?n was of any uso a all With T.??. however. otto ootih purchase a smilo from tho prim; donna, an application for a libertc bond, made out by hot own fail hands, and a liborty button pinnoc on by the same. For $10o one tie came tho proud possessor of an hii tliORraphed photoRraph "It was a younn man from .Soutl C.irolina, I) W Mc>oro, who really spent his money to some effort, how over 1'. was aft' ? Far: had am Lj_ ^ jtioned off her signed photographs to' everyone in the crowd who had $10(0 hat the young man edged liis way Si to a place below the little white' platform, hung with laurel wreaths where the stars of the theatrical and mu^i'.il world have been giving their i. ( : \ .n >. to the Liberty Loan Com.'ie - oi the Sta.e Women': War Is*-: I-'und. i'? '1*11 buy a $ I.torn bond, il you'll -nu again.* said he. hi "Light!" said Miss Farrar. 'Come ti ; right up.' gi "There was no way to go around s< for the crowd was packed tight lj ' around the little theatre, so Miss a j Farrar put down her tiny I'enkinese s< and gave the young man a hand h j'over the top.' The cheers that rose d [then from the delighted crowd o I brought about ten thousand more'it I people on the run, but they couldn't il j hear u word of what followed. ib | " "This man has paid one thous- I 'and dollars to hear me sing," cried tl Miss Farra, turning to the audience, b and you folks haven't anything to n jdo with it. I'm going to sii.-g for K him alone.' a "She took the young man by the t' hand and led him to the piano at h | the back of the stage, where she h i sat down on the battered old piano w stool and sang in her lowest, softest o tones "The Star Spangled Ilanner.' b The young man will be a happy g young man until he meets up with a one Max Lowenthal. who bought a g twenty -live thousand dollar bond a i'roiii Miss Farrar first thing, before /.I all the accessories had been thought w iof. and walked off with nothing but li a Farrar smile to distinguish him n from all the unromantie people who g buy their twenty-live thousand dol 1! lar bonds at banks. H "The happiest man in New York i today is 1>. \Y. Moore, a cotton a plainer, of C'heraw. S. li "He wa> in front of the Public Li- n hiruy when annonneement was made 1; that tier. Mite Farrar would singl'or a :i 11 one who boiiirlit :r ? 1 llllll l.ili- 1? jrrtv bond. g Mr. Jloorr nearly tore the lining w out ot liis waistcoat in his baste to i| igc. ilia wallet out. "Miss Karrar sang for him and ,, jthen ?t the suggestion of some one. t. the .meat songbird ami the south- i, enter posed ami had their pictures i 1 taken. (l "Mr. Moore, in showing his respect t. tor Miss Karrar. bowed so many t ' times as he was about to depart that < i he had a difficult time in getting his j, ; back-hone straight again. j; o fi South Carolina Cotton Conference. '* iTo the Cotton Farmers of South a i fi Carolina: f 1 hereby invite to a conference to * i be held in Columbia on Tuesday. u ! May 14. lb IS. at 3:00 o'clock I\ " JM.. all the cotton producers of 11 !South Carolina -and all others in- h Jterested in the ginning and the ^ warehousing, in the financing and *' the transportation, and the market- j' jing of cotton. 11 These are some of the purposes of the proposed conference: i 1 i To formulate workable plans " for the State wide organization of ,l tin cotton tanners of South Caro- '' I - linn: l?n their nun protect ion ami benefit. ||' t L'i To i?r??\ Me for the lormulinn of community dubs in each county ' of the State these community clubs '( to effect a count> association, -anil ? then all the count v associations to " ij combine in the formation ot the South Carolina t'otton Marketing 11 < )> aanr/.at ion. i i To establish in the ollice of '' State Warehouse Commissioner a A 1 ISureau of Information on Cotton this state bureau to be in constant ' touch with a similar bureau at the '' county seat of each county ami each 1 county bureau in daily communicalion with tie- e\? ral cotni.limit y ceil- ' tefs iif 11,. I'ouuty. A complete chain i ia'< t mat ion to lie formed so : . will be kept fully '' ad\i : \.! :> ms: proposed ami i . i i1 iV tie :. nite! - la | COUIitle 0 South i-troliiia. 1 a rra to - : lie- nrtnl i n : 1 . :.<1 It St. pli!;u .?! all I Otton on a -t'U.'ae t .. S!'l|e| SJIijetU . \pe||> coil Iiecletl with the otlii . of State Wal'e 1 n Hi - 'otii mis- .i mi ami without " O t to I |>e owtiel - al'.l lio I dels of t lie 'I i ,itou 'fin- will liable farmers to II then ...lion Oil ee| t i tied crmb's v I ami direct in constitniiiK plants, tmd 1 I v a> - . .t hiyle -t market price-'. To promote the d> v< lopim-nt . It. 'ami" t ! ie | n sel \ e- u! t he , <ot!!h Carolina System of Cotton Market mu ' ' i'hi will mu lie a meeting for 1 peecil making, ion -.1 business coll , I r n? o tanners. for farmers, and by faille i . and o| all other- who are 1111 I i -st ed III the I ! I v >t ton ciop t.ei every one who can at lend, notify in" at once Von are espei i. li\ invited to atW C. SMITH, 11 State Warehouse Commissioner Titi:si?.\ss notici: t __________ t Huntin,'. (lulling 01 trespassing in ' ' any way 01. place known as McLaurin 1 1 or Cousar ltros. lands is positively ' ' forbidden .and mean to enforce our 1 rights in tlm premises. 1 J I) KDENS. N J II. IIENNKTT, 1 2-2 S-tf |:I p ' rally Thought. < When anyone has offended me I try |f to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.?Descartes. SOLDI Kit WHO HAS SKKN. | ai ! y? ?ys tin* American Soldier is the C) llesl in the World. ! 01 t 1 hissed by the Cei'SurJ '} las. 1>. Crist in Yorkville Ennuiier) '! t'ainp Savin, S. I'.. April IP. -If " m tak? tlia trouble to look around ' ;< tin "it, ha v ill nit' tiisrny ' Idiots at Gamp Sevier who will not <> a crossing the pond tor tha lira i ma whan tha DM Hiakory Division n i>es over to take a hand in the bit; rap soma time this year. Especial- s< among National Cnardsmen here tl re many fellows who have been s' aldiers of fortune for years and who D ave crossed the Atlantic and wan- b ered over Europe scores and scores C f times. Take "Dutch" Tilton. for " istance. "Dutch" is now a soldier of ? lie line in an infantry regiment and, b y the way, he's a good soldier, too. p to the time Uncle Sam got into i' liis war or rather just a little while f efore, "Dutch" was sailor on Danish e lerchanttuan. He has had berths on b luglish, French, German, Swedish tid Spanish vessels. In fact., about { welve of his thirty years of life ave been spent on the sea and in oboing in every country of the . orld. Pronunciation of the names f the places where history is now eing made in connection with the real war doesn't worry "Dutch" at 11. ile is authority on Europen eography in his company am! it is n every day occurrence for puz- j led soldiers to come to the "Dutch" itli their newspapers for informaon. And he rattles off French nines and German names of Helium and those Italian and those; ussian. just like one of these new \\ irownitig guns shoot steel bullets. CI "The Dutch" was never inside of school house in his life except for t ie purpose, as lie says, "of attend- , i" some little old concert or other .ugh producer that my best girl had 0 hand in." His kick of training, ,..i. .... e......... ii.. ...... otten his from knocking around tin1 oild and his education has been nite thorough. j ii?- has seen the kaiser a number f I times he says, and none of his (, oinlades have reason to doubt it.. t ecu use nobody lias ever caught "the j tutch" lying yet. and he has done a t owerful lot of talking. He has look- t d the crown prince over on one or',, vo occasions and he has also hauced to be around when the pres-i lent of France, the queen of Holind, the king of England and the Drnier czar of the Russians happen-', "I to lie passing by. I, "There ain't nothin' remarkable ; ^ bout any of 'eui as 1 was able to seejj, roni the long ranges I have had at ^ t Mil," he said one day to a bunch of e s who were gathered around him rying to get a little "dope" about je tie country where the present great fj truggle is going on, as well as in-1 v urination about things European, L enerally. "They are just folks' j. Hough all of them are better look-jC( lg than 1 am t the Dutch has a long j awk nose and his legs are bowed, bile he is tatooed from head to j >ot I and their ribbons and badges nd one thing .and another helps; leir looks. The Herman kaiser inks like the picture you see ol him ( i i lie newspapers, lie's a pompous, ard-looking guy. and honest, those trtoons that depicit him as the devil j ink most like him. The president f France is a little bit of a fellow , ot much taller than 1. The king of (j irituin looks a lot the fellow that , I i< se<l I?> boss 1Cu sia well, you nave ^ to.tli t'.w.i.' iifoe Tim l.oet lokim; one of -.ill tin* erowned heads ho are now especially on the billoards because of the war, is the nerri oi Holland. It she wasn't a m en and if I wasn't a soldier, ami appened to he in Holland and trad ehan<, v. Ii\ I niiuht set up to "r " .1 "The Hill h" \ ei tail-is niueli j hoot tHerman arinj .Maybe it is ( an e le- p.. , -n'i know nint h or ' ii anything alnnii it, and mayhe i is beeattse lie feels that be should . ot -a\ anytime' on the subject. ||< a> nr. at respi et lor :h*- I'.ritish as mliteis. especially tie :- navy; Hu' j a In lieves that when it < omes to ( oldiei ot the line. Frame has all ! lb- in in F.tirope l.eat to a frazzle, lid nolle oi I helil ',11'c equal to the 1111< i t' iiii as lighters it in an indi eliii.l land;-"int. thou all up to the inn- onr eotintry went into this war, we didn't have no army and no mil- *' tar> won h speakin' ahout," lie says. v The Hutch ' just 'as confident as ' .. I.. it... ... \ ii:. ' ' iii in tli:> v.,i*' now since America ' i intiii' into li. Slit1, lit" is lookng ! i :i lot ?>f i?i-??i (\ lighting yet, ' I.<1 ii iirniif.v thai lltcfi' is going to 1 " a lot ot weeping in every little ' own ami 'oniiiiunity in the I'nited ' ;i:ri?s aloinsi, before the wind-up. ' lie is t horoitghlv American ami lioronulily patriotic, llis pay is $110 ' i month, $ 1of which lie allots lor ' lie support of his mother, $10 is f" levoteil to monthly payments on two 1 teeond Liberty Loan bonds and $7 1 toes each month in payment of the ' lie premium on $ In,nun insurance * m the Dutch's surety against Fritz's * ullets lie blows himself to a good ' into with the other $:) each pay * lay I've often wondered why he is ' tick-named Dutch, lie is a native of ' ,Va\ne county. North Carolina and * here is no Dutch blood in hint. I isked him one day why the tnonack r, and lie explained: "Well, buddy, 'on know that no matter in what ] iitfit you get in this army or any't >ther army, there is 'always some)] mart fool who ain't satisfied with)1 our name what your mother gave < n't so. I'd hate it if I made a mis>u and wants to give you another, ne day a guy calls me 'Dutch' and .civ other pink hus ooen calling J o 'Dutch' i vcr since. D don't wor-1 ? r me rno.e much. though it is a ' ;i"' trouble some time. M\ right ' .i. 'e is Kdward i.<'e TiMon. 1 get ?'! * 'Dutch' so nnfh that sotne ;.i" I almost sign n y lame 'Dutch' 11 i !i?- payroll before i recollet'l it ike on tha jv.iyrool some day and ot draw my I have run across a good many ddiers at Sevier who could be made , tie subjects of stories like this ketch of the ltutch." While nine-! r per cent practically of the soldiers ere are native North and South irolinians and Tennesseans, many! f them have already been every- ( here, and crossing the Atlantic will J ( e no new experience to them. < Hut to the great majority of us'J will be a new and most wonder- < ul experience, and one that is look-'* d forward to with the greatest in-, < crest. ;< o XTItAlNKI> MKM TO HK UK Itt'SHKI) AHKOAIK ( 0 j < Estimates el XuiuIhts Newltil Stsm-'j (jci* Shipping?Hoard To Cut !< Naval Tj|K's. \ ?o? Washington. April 27. Estimates i| f the men needed abroad prepared < ince Secretary linker's return f 1*01111J 'ranee, fairly staggered the Ship-J | ing Hoard -and Ship Control Com- j ( littee at their important conference wlay. |< The liuures coincide with mtmetn v The figures presented coincide!' itli the estimates which are ready | oncerning the probable movement j 1 drafted men to the camps during i: lie present summer. It is believed j hat the call for more men is so ur-j cut that they will be moved, trained i j r untrained, -as rapidly as ships can j e provided to carry them. It is thought that the work on! ertain types of ships for the navy | j an be halted temporarily while the teel which has been located for leet of cargo ships which are being ulit. In view of the exigencies of he situation it is believed to be : >1 rector General Schwab's idea to j urn the steel which lias been allot- j ed for this class of vessels to the j ses indicated. o 1 Ml feet of Gas. ] 1 < Returned American otlieers. fresli j| : oni me ironi line trenches, have no , ive tor the deadly German gas. A j roup of these ollicers, each wear- < ng on his sleeve the insignia of ( rench service were asked about the j iTects of the fluid. < One of them culled attention to his . yes, which looked somewhat in- i lamed and unnatural, lie said that 1 ras what gas did to him, and some : ay will entirely disappear, although j t has been weeks since he came in j ontact with the fumes. Another ollicer declared that when wounded man falls in the mud in 1 gassed district he must be treated >1 burns as well as 11 n effects of iling gas. Men retreating from ui assed district find the sol??s of j heir shoes burne<l. A gas drill for members of the ouse was staged by Representative ilson of Connecticut. Three soldiers, 1 ergts. Day, Kirkman and Emmons,' rom the defense service of the war epartiiient, stood in til" press gal-, my and obeyed the orders shouted j \ Mr. Tilson. u former colonel, who! ised a stick in lieu of a sword. Mr. Tilson declared these masks.! iseil by our forces abroad, are the j lost up-to-date and ellicient of any sod since the war began. "No one," lie continued, "can be I ure that they, perfect as they are, j .ill not be obsolete before niidsumncr. All we can say is they are tinlost thai can be produced now and. bai I hey serve tin present purpose'*! Mr. Tilson added that .. y? ar ago 1 rinan gms masks contained rubber, v mask captured showed that prings b.'.i been substituted ' i am S.ei. ' he said, "to sec some ovi- ? leliee t 11 a7 tl e> al e short of sotlle- j hing." 1.Illicit tiaruied li\ "lllue l.eltci'v. : ; I Families of tli*? soldiers training; !t tin- I niii-d .Stales were asked t?>- . lay by lite war department not to vrite a latin mp or diseuuraKinx leters lo the men Division eontinund rs it it \ e reported tliiit in many as? s siirh letters Ititve so worried to soldiers that tin > have hurrietl tome without leave, thus violating dies and making i iteiuselves liable [ o punishment la some instances,' lien, reluetiiiit to face tie- penalty.' ia\e deserted. "Kvery soldier wants to receive etters front home," saitl the war lepttrtmeiit's statement. "They diouhl he fit-<|tient, cheerful, hopeill anil appreciative of the sac ilice that he is making for his otintry. They should he full of; it it i i 1 y in ddents iinil cheerful home; rossip. riiey should protect hint rom t te trifling alarms and the unall : tnoyances of every day life I'ltej s oulil encourage him hy giving; mi ' alidenee that his family and lis t ends stand behind him in the trea' enterprise he has undertaken " ________________ ' "English as She Is Spoke." The wife of n worklngmnn In the ^'ildlands (England) was describing n Ijunrrel between two other women, and l\er final comment was as follows: "If VtM said t<> 'er what 'er said to 'er How Man Is Blessed. Homemade Floor Polisher. I.and is nature's gift to tnan. If When polishing floors make a thl^^^^^^H 'ou own some you are among the fav- pud of felt or velvet and fasten it red children of nature. One gift calls an old worn-out broom. This or another in exchange. Brain and an excellent polisher and saves the rawn is man's gift to nature. trouble of kneeling on tbo floor. w?mmmmm??mmmm? ? ws????^ i fW&Sl 1 | I viirrm statu | flovkimmekt | I Buy Them And ! | | Help Win The War, 1 l FOR SALE EVERYWHERE' 1 ^ ( ) The above space contributed to War Savings | | Committee by The Peoples Bank. I I ~ ; J Our advice is to buy War Savings Stamps, i t Liberty Bonds, then deposit your other funds in k I 1 The Peoples Bank > _ w 5 ???W^ ?*' >iX?>. ? xSXs>iX?>'sX2> | PEE DEE MILLING COMPANY 1 I I | We have flour to sell with corn meal accord- S | ing to government food regulations. Let us grind j your own corn into pure fresh corn meal. ? We have 1,000 bushels 90-day early speckle | Ga. Raised Velvet Beans 1 for sale. Price $2.50 per bushel. Germination f guaranteed. Cheaper and better than peas to plant in corn. Every acre in Dillon county should have Velvet Beans planted in the drill the last of | April. | PEE DEE MILLING CO. 1 Dillon, S. C. 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