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UKKATK8T I1ATTLK OF WAK A |i? u?K Www! For Capture of *\>r IWUhI City of Verdun. ?r?>.>j?s l???lonuflnu to seven army corps I,. i Crowu Priuce Frederick Wll ,1. !IIV aloiiK a twenty tlve front? north of Verdnn in a dex ale clVort to drive hack the French WuHiii? forces, probably nn Itli ( li?> ipire of the great fortress of Voir. , In ylew. ;inTi> ha<l boon very heavy (Ik h ting n considerable period in this dls ?i of I lie French war zone, hnt wlth i lie last few days the attacks of the mains have taken on adde<l strength Iiiiltle line has been extended and ^ reaches from Malaneourt, on the s|, |(? I 'tain, on the east, with Vcr , in Hie centre, only a few miles illiward. 'lie (icrmans claim to have made im t.int advance's, and , to some extent Ke'aro itdmlted by the French war - v , M. Kstridtfe I). K. llinson istridge & Hinson COAL AND WOOD We are handling Coal and rood at the S. A. L. freight rpot and respectfully so cit your orders. Prompt ml satisfactory service giv n all orders. Machine to Cut Wood t We also have a machine ) cut wood in your own ml. Rates reasonable. Call 5 up for anything you need. I Phones : rd 28 Residence 2105 tombstones & Monuments ? When in need of Tomb Bones and Monuments see Be before you place your or Br. Representing the Dixie Barbie Co., of Canton, Ga. pimples of marble shown. J. D. SINCLAIR, O. Box 35. Camden, S. C. Dr. E. H. KERRISON - Dentist Ollice In The lann Biiiiding Phone 185 oMUv. which (tescrthOH the bade as '?lic of Increasing Intensity. The Genua U preparations w;ere ex ?enslve and tho bombardment of ttto French i?osUlons with thousand* of shells was lutorrupted. As t li?* French had foresetm the battle all their avail uldo mms Wert) culled into action and responded to tho heavy shelling t?f (ho Germans. While ut some iKuuts the French ?vore unahlo r<? resist tUu onslaught of tho attacking forces, along much of (ho front, according to tho l?arls com munication, tho attacks were well sus (allied and very heavy b isses \\ i? r** In flleled on the Germans. Attack has followed attack against tho French lino after bombardments Incessant and torltlle, continuing for several days. W'Ullo tin* Germans have not boon lido, despite the rain < ?f shells and furious onslaughts by tho infantry, to break the French lino, nevertheless the French on their right and loft wlugs have boon compelled to withdraw their linos, respectively to the south of ornes and behind tho town of Sam ogheux, six miles north of the fortress. Only between Malancourt and the left bank of the Mouse has there been any diminution in the Intensity of the artillery lire. With Brabant, Ilau inont and SainogneuX and the wooded sections, north and northeast of Beau? 111011 1 In their possession, tho Germans from the Mouse eastward to Fromezey are forcing the lighting seemingly re gardless of tlve <*ost of life. The French guns have answered the Gorman guns shell for shell, and cas ualties on both sides are very great. The French official report describes the battlefield between the Meuse and Ornes as plied with German dead. In Champagne at several points and In the Argonne forest; Gorman works have been pounded by thO concentrated fire of the French guns, while In Lor raine the French repulsed German re eomiolterlng party which attempted to capture a French post north of St. Martin. On their end of the line, near Pul luoh, the Hrltlsh exploded a. mine and occupied the crater, and also bom barded German trenches nWir Frellng hein and Boeslnghe. On the Russian front, from the Riga region to East Galacla, there have' been engagements at various points, but no great results have been attained by either side. In the Caucasus Petrograd reports that the Russians continue successful ly to press back the turks. Tho usual activities by the A us trlans and Italians on the Au*tro-Ital tnn front continue. The grenf battle raging around Ver dun, in which a half-million men are engaged, still is being fought at some points with the same fury as charac terized It several days ago. Cliamp liou v tiler* f<> t lie west, and the fortified works of Hardaumont, to the east of Fort -Doucaumont, have been captured by the Germans. Berlin also claims to have captured the Qote de Talou, to the west of Douaumont, hut, atvordiug to tUe l'ruuoh statement, the ar tUlery liro coming fr^nu both sides has rendered this |to*lUou untenable for either French or Hermans, The I 'rench arc hurling attack after i attack upon the Ooutiumont positions held by the Germans, who are declared to tie maintaining themselves there with ditllculty, hut In the \V(M^vre re gion, to the east of Verdun, the Vreueh advanced posts have been withdrawn. Largo reinforcements are heing brought up, hrohahly hy both French and Gorman*. and It is reported that the Hlltish lines art' being extended In .Belgium and France in order that I'Vein h troops may he released fyr lln* Verdun battle. In the Vosges Mountains the tier mans also started a lienvv offensive southeast of Cellos, hut it was com pletely checked hy the French, On the other extreme chd of the line around Vpres a British attack was repulsed hy the Hermans. Hot ween SoIhboiik and Hhclms a -vljjt orous homhanlinent has been earned out against the German positions. 'J>n Men to ;* Foot. Paris, Feb. 21.? -The Temps est I mates that the Germans are employ - Inn on the average ten Infantrymen to every three feet of front where the attack is fiercest north of erdun? that is over a line eight miles in length between Krahant and Ornes. The reviewer maintains that the operations are not necessarily pre liminary in an attempt to besiege Ver dun, but comprise an attack on a wide part of the front of which Verdun forms a part of the rear support. The attacks, he declares, are Ktlll held within the tirst line works, while there are three other lines r' strategic In tervals behind the first. Fighters Who See No Itatle. During a sea light the engine room men tend the great engines of a bat tleship with all the care that they would bestow upon the same delicate yet mighty mechanism In time of peace, roaming listlesly yet with a definite purpose, around the engine room with oil cans In hand, bestowing drops of lubricant here and there as required. Theirs and the stokers' Is almost ? not quite-1? the hardest part of the whole grim drama of a naval battle, for they are absolutely cut off from the light, and are only cognizant of It by the quivering of their ship as the groat turrets over their heads tire or as the enemy's shells thujl against the -armor or when some stray shot find? Its way through the steel wall and the bunkers to the boilers. Such an event blends a whole stokehold in one from zled orgy of death ? death by explod Ing shell and scattering fragments of steel : death by awful wounds from flying, burning coals, or death by scald ing, hissing, blinding steain as the water tubes burst all around them. ? Tit- Bits. Julian II. L6vy, for nearly a quar ter of a century one of the leading Hebrew merchants of Sumter, died in that city Sunday afternoon. He was 73 years of age and a Confederate veteran. Puff your way into the ioys of Prince Albert! Go ahead, quick as you lay in a stock of the national joy smoke! Fire up a pipe or a makin's cigarette as though you never did know what tobacco bite and parch meant! For Prince Albert is freed from bite and parch by a patented process controlled exclusively by us. You can sinoke it without a comeback of any kind because P. A. is real tobacco delight. will do for you what It has done for thousands of men, not only in the States but all over the ! world! It will give you a correct idea of what ft pipe smoke or a home rolled cigarette should be On ?W rmr m AUaTlMi tidy r*a Ik yoo will r?di "Proctw P.Umtrd Jul y 30th, 1907," which has a>d? thtmm tnioko ptpm wbere omm txaakmA b*for? I Get you men who Copyright 1116 by R. J. Reynolds / Tobacco Co. M AN ANCIKNT ItyTTMg (.KOl'M). Britain ami Turkey Struggling For hwMtMtiMi of llbtorir I ami Koule, 1 ' ' ,f \ riir most picturesque part of the world war Is t li*> present campaign In Me '<i>poiiii(ilu. If there were n.>t mi Hill' tt '(.III;' Mil III Knrope. III :( oh st*u r*? enterprise would rppe.'tl power fully to the Imagination Tlii r?? are really I n* Issues ai (at e in luiii distant mVoh of Turkey 'n \-''i The , British and German hi.u llliu^ ami Turkish 'to.ip.s arc struggling' for po> -csslon of the historic land route from Fairope to lii'lia In tlnit direction lies Ccr nuiii.v's liojntl for "I'Uoe In the Sun." She has sought to establish direct raiiw:i,\ communication from Ifc-rlln to Ihigdad. and Ihciue, perhaps, to Bombay. That would provide quicker access to India than Cuglaiid has through the Xuo? Canal and the Red Sea Tli.' Kritlsh exiHslltlonary force has draggled up the Tigris valley through !(>? miles of desert country, bringing its sH|. piles from oversea. The Turks have had to bring supplies all the wa\ 'from Constantinople, hy wagon over the Taurus mountains and f>(H? miles through the desert hy caravan The historic pictures conjured up hy the events of the campaign are , unequalled anywhere else In the war zone. The British, with their brown j Sikhs ami Ghurkas and Bengal}*, al [most took Hagdad, the famous old city , >f llnrotin al-Raschld 41ml the Thou sand and One Nights. They have en cn 111 1 ?ed near the traditional site of the iiarden of ICden.' They have seen the l'r of the Chaldees, Abraham's original home, and the ruins of ?indent Babylon ajul Nlnevah. The are fighting for the possession <?f the eft ra van route, thousands of years old. along the world-conquerors Assur hanlpal and Cyrus and Darius and Al exander the Great ftnd Mohamet and Tamerlane. While the British are struggling for Btfgdnd, the (Jrand Duke Nicholas former commander in chief of the Russian armies, is pressing down from the Caucasus mountains, be tween the Black and Caspian Seas with the ultimate Intention, appar ently. of effecting a Junction with the British forces. The two allies, If the* succeed in this great adventure, wlP not only effectively bar the German*' ami Turks from attacking India, but ?vlll take them in the rear, and i>os dbly move against Constantinople from the east. These ot*erations will not decide the var, hut If they succeed they may be 'he decisive factor in settling Tur iev's fate. ? Anderson Intelligencer. Thomas Lorlng and Ralph Rrlttln vhlte men,- were arrested In Murfees Soro, Tenn., last week charged with tea ling a hulck touring car, the prop ?rty of \V. R. Ilarbcck, In Columbia 'wo weeks ago. ONIONS FORM SETS. More Satisfactory to Use Sets Than Seeds in Spring. Ciemson College, March 1. ? In olantlng onions Iti spring on a small scale, it will bo found more satisfac tory to use sets than seed, accord ing to the Horticultural Division of Ciemson College. Seed planted in cry early spring will under favora ble conditions, make good onions, hut this is not the host time for planting <eed. * Sets, on the other hand, plant ed in early spring will do well. Plant sots from February 15 to A pril 1,. using very sandy loam. Pre 'tare the land with deep plowing and related harrowing, tlion apply ferti lizer and manure broadcast and har row it into the first three or four Inches of sol! thoroughly. Use- 1-i 'tounds of fertilizer for each hundred feet of row. Plant the sets three to four inches apart In rows fifteen Inches apart. White Pearl, Prize Taker, and Yel low Multiplier are varieties recom- , mended for this region. Two quarts >f onion sets are enough to plant to lo"4?Feh;( t fbr shrdlu shrdluiiuu supply a family of six. THE POWER OF THE PRESS. An Unfair Tendency to Belittle The Modern Newspaper. The man in the street, on the train at the club, after dinner, is fond of his cheap and easy fling at what he stvles the waning influence of ,the press. Amid Impressive silence to some socio llterary assemblage he announces over the top of his collar that the old days of inflexible integrity and personal ac countability in journalism are forever at an end. The newspapers are cor rupt and venal. You cannot trust a line. They are under the advertisers golden thumb. They are rap Just to make money for a proprietor whose eHcutcbeon is the dollar sign. They have no conscience, no ideals, no ethics. The highest bidder can pervert or prevent the news and taint the edi torials and command the policies; and every editor has his price, and each reporter is ready to be suborned. Yet every man who seeks a place in the sun of publicity comes and tries to shout for it a little louder than the rest in the newspaper's ear. Tie sere nade* the sanctum with every trivial detail and wants it nil f<> |(f In, The remainder of the | M |H'i' Is mere spare (Uitlill juuk, It AoeMft ; this man's dar linu enterprise I* of transcendent 1 in porta mv, Perhaps he brings you a letter (hat must see light. I^uvo out a word, or a 1 1 no, or a few linos, i >f his incalculably precious present at Ion, or make a single misprint anywhere, <>r a minute misstatement of facts. and I'U'ii thouwh tils purpose may have been completely accomplished b(\ tho publication, ho hi aggrieved. ami seems t<> fool that t )io * debt ?>f gratitude Is \ holly cancelled hi any case. sub c<pient thanks to iho newspaper U the last thltii; thought of, though before, haiul thoro was no stone loft unturned to oh t alp tho favor Why ?lo t hose who lm\ e every thin;: to gain from a newspaper selssc evor> t opportunity to roh It of Its good nauio, to disparage and doory it. to make It i lafgel 'of v illltlrat Ion V \\ h\ do they I Continue to impute tho lowest and u'loxt ' ordld motives to Its promoters? Why do they not aeeord a clean and dignl lied newspaper, as a valuable asset Hill ornament of tin* eonwnuhitv Ihej same right t<> respect and cha.rltx | would give to an honorably conducted niereantlle establishment or a trust worthy lawyer, <>r a faithful doctor. or a consecrated pulpit ministry V Newspapers are fallible because' they are put together h,\ fallible agencies They are human, and It Is human to ?mt. Tiie reporters have neither the hamls of Hrlareus nor tho winged sandals of Mercury; they are not om niscient. omnipresent. Kdltors are of Mke passions with other mortals, and ?re sensitive 'to abuse by letter and by telephone. They are not quite blind to ? he fact that the criticism leveled at the form of What Uu'y write Is fre quently Illiterate; and "rot!" Is' a veak answer to a carefully wrought expository argument. Kditors resent, as any other man, an asj>ers|on on |K?rsonal honor, The newspaper merely asks the same recognition of the rluht to II v?v and let live that It freely concede*, to every one of Its readers. It does not seek to take their <lally bread out of their moot lis, to rob them of a good name, to deprive their lives of happiness and II?bt It \voul<) 1 1 k?* friends, but fur the truth's Hftko Jt mUHt tncur o?inith*s now ami then. Iii Hiking Hides mi tm p. riant (atl'li. ?|M?siioiiN it nuisi lue\ it iU\ run roiuii.M mi iIiiion (?> llu> l.?> lief* am) t lit* w Islie* of those with whom It Is pain to disagree, Hut a iH>\vsimj?or has a duty to Its loaders that is a hove' ptjr^oiuilltleH, or parti saushlpf or any Hellish consideration, a in! that duly to the roudi\r is um? am) tlu> sumo thing with the ohllga (Ion ti> he fearless and to ho true, tu Millie hi) ril when Justice anil right re quire,, no mutter who is wounded- ot> what powerful interest complains. There tfci- iu?\\ <|?apoi'w whose hlooil runs pali> and thin with a cowardly opportunism tind a . contempt ihle syco phanr\ , . I uk in en who conduct or write for an honorable Journal would a ?. hiooir si^'u away thelv souls to the devil as >rl I their poll* or slUto the \olee >v It'll In Philadelphia l,edgei\ The '4riu1.1l Jury at I'ulon lias return ed a "no hill" lu the ease of l>r. Then (lore MaddOx, recently charged with mauslrtUjk'htor 'for alleged failure lo properly attend young Hurley Stoddard, a l>o\ accident ally shot by a t-oiupatihm. MO N-1CY TO liOAN ON UtOAL K9TATE - WAST TERMS . , , , K. C. vuul'n)tmki>M. TO FARMERS! What About Your Planting Seed? Be Sensib'e. Don't work all year on top of ordinary, poor seed and expect results. Last year I bought Webber No. 82 pedigreed seed. I ginned all my cotton on a water driven gin ? slowly, carefully. I have taken care of my seed and offer a few bushels at $2.00 per bushel. Send me your orders. A. A. STRAUSS SUMTER. S. C. 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