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IJSK ( OI'NTV TfiKWB v\. K ,r In(?rM( < ? .* 1 1??-? ??? From Bhd? Opvlllf Vindicator It 1* a t v '<> f|W manv -curios t<iul Mr 1 1 (Jallo wuy t>gff baok wit h him av jwoivenir* from Krgnce. Hr. Harvey Mol^unv M< ?!.??"'! " ajVd Mr, '<? . \\" .(./iifhvt i have ahwv .<!jm i many thing* In ijK fjt'ii. the front .. thai' are . not : . f.ikjy . intertvifting ?'? Wok tit now. I?nt ! will bv tuot'' r.0 year* hence. I. it tie Ktel K?u,,>"'1. ol Mf< and *> Mr-. \V. ({.?<?? i?s, w ho was m? vv. rr lv bui'lU'l ah ???HI lvv:)vt> Wci'V* ttgw hp* recovered sullicniury t-? bo brought l???m ?* .'/Wat r)w Hoi'miiv 1 ufirmiirv, where he ha- bi'vn for fh.fi '>??t week* Miv I'tiiC' GiyX'ttl got lioiMc !? rulay . tiighf, having ^Hryiv^i lii> hrimrublo dl.#* charge. Il?? wat? *fn the front at Ver dun, when thf a rni.istio- W## ?< nli-red. II*' was iuii>>ux the hr.st frOCU 1 CoUIity to go to camp, am! vuw about ujue lAoilth* service. Mis* Ada CanroM. who reecflily re turned from ovm-^ea#, after spomling 11 few diiyw in NVw Vork, arrJted here lawt week, and will npeivd gome time with b"?* fitter. Mm. 0. S. Ilea me*. Mrs. J. Manly Smith aim! Mis* Hara Nm Mb have retmriwd from a trip t?? Indifana. Mrto. ftuijfch'a health 1* much improved by the trip. The editor in company with Mmmi?, T. O. M<?I,eod, Bufney Crane, pf Athens, Oa., and H. R. Renin* went down in the lower wedtiwi of R??irtter county la*-t Tuesday. They went hy Mt. Zkfn ctmivb and* MaycWvUb* and cairio hack by; Elliott. That morning aoout day lightt there was almost a cloud burst ffojn May***?!!!? to the Briek Church and lllack H vor was nearly at high -water mark. Abortt five rnileis below Elliott up to \Vi#acky,< th#y did not have rain enough to netftb' the du^t. Tbe crops of- eof^n, corn and tohuoco. 'tt both the wet ami dry ?treak? are remark ably fine and farmci*8 are busy coring tobarxm. Tlw editor attended the funeral ser vice of his frl.Mid, H.? ert C<?oper, ":?st Tncdny at fhe old brirk church in Snmtqr County. Tt has been nearly fifty years ?ince he attended service there ami the nbl chniroh wlt'h its hi?? torU' graveyard and Wtlately oaks around it. is one ,if the. otd land marks fhat tbn?? with the prevailing progressive ideas has changed but little. Within th1* otd bistiirj*' Man<r*t^a.ry the -soen ? in evi*rt^TTi<)re imprexs-ive of ".ye olden day*" of half a cetntury aj?o. 'pbe high straight- j bacjt pe\\T? witfli closed eiols and" gallery h>lt. are but reminders <?f <h>vs by gone. Tin' only thing Talking to make the inside antebellum wfi? the absent** of rho old hifh round box pulpit whueh hn* been supplanted by hi ino<lorn ron trum. We (knibt if there ifi another Churvh in any of the prenbyterle? ii* the Statt' that lias preserved it* Unit century Identity a? thl* old Church. Hut. alas! wjvere ,are. tho people that he met there nearly Wty yt?uw afoT Male "Sk?wterfcM Do Not ll|t?. Mr. Mosquito (loea not bite; bin bill irf so blunt that be iVmM not be a bloodsucker if be wished. It 1? Mr*. Monqufto who doe* all the deadly work ??f fevor ftropajfuuda- She i? uioett active around dawn and after sunset. She avoids strong litcl't Htxl prefer* dark (*>pners. Hhe in essentially a domestic creature, staying around houses by pref erence. In the autunun tlie males <lie, and t)ho?f?nal?'8 ?eek winter quarters. They hibe^n'ate in dark corners of cellar and Knrr??t>, and </n the lir*#t warm day of np riu k are out layinK their eggs. Save when expended by the arrival of thia hibernating period, t.he life of the fe maje in one or t\tfo uiontbs ; the male, on the other hand, Jrrvea Tjuft a few day*. The food <tf 'the mosquito ie the juice and neqtor of pfantft and, of course. blood ? though not necessarily that of man; animaiN, reptiles" and even caterpillar* are bitftetn with the same friNsbmi. The female ni<Ks<|ui,to lay* from fif ty to one hundred eggs at a time, 'ran any quiet bit of water. In about threo days they ha tab. and though at first the larva j* very small, it Krows rap id ly ami attaint full development in n few days. We have then the familiar wriggler of the oW time rain barrel and the uncovered (Oltrter1!!, During the larval *4tat(c, which lusts from seven to' fourtew day*, the ma larial Variety <ran be distinguished from all others by the curiously -inclined, by vlrtuo of the fact tJhat it lira with hw body parallel to tl?e surface of the wa ter, while the other species hang with tihelh heads downward. ? Scientific Amer ican Illiteracy In South Carolina. Whcu the larft cettHua was takou Sou'tfh Carolina t/tood aecdnd to bottom iti illiteracy. We do not want to he there next year, 90 u nfoveimrnt has heeu started to eliminate illiteracy. Every conscientious pennon is asked to help hw lews fortufnate fallow citizen t?? throw off the bouds of illiteracy ami beconne a more useful citiaeu in the cvjumilnitv in wliKili he lives. 7'o do this the leadin* citizens. teachera and coHe^ce t/tudcu'ta will each have to do their alia re1. There were Quite a n tim ber of night -Schools successfully taught the i>ast scholastic term by tlve teach ers who lived iii their di.^trikJts. lu Charleston County a Woman was taught, to read and write1 who was sixty-eight year* old ami in our county a woman' who was ?ixty years old was taught to rtsad and write. If these woin??n can be taught nt their ages are there ii<Vt others waiting .for tfhe opportunity. (,)iir organizer of Night School's has an exhibit at Wkrft-h rop, showing tne, work that luifc beon done in the night st'hool ; everyone that has aueti it. is. Wonderfully t*urprised at the progress that was made. " ? Every- county in Koirfth Carolina is trying to teadh two hundred awl eighteen people to read and write this summer. We .hope Kershaw county will "go over the top." The ^tate wiH ,j>ay any peraou who will tea oh twelve nitfbtfa two hour* and will enroll a* an wit y as ten people and ! have an att?w|aa?ce of 50 per c<*irt, two J dollars per nifbt. When' our boy* fcerw ?lra ft ?>d one out) of every four could n<>t read or write. We ksnow it w?a* embarrassing to tbom to have aoine one. writing their inotlhorti and utill miff their sweethcara. ' IVo you want your boy huuuliatea like thi?? I>o ^ou want others to point tibe ftnjfeT of acorn at your community your state, your country, all because of your ni\tfleCt? , Of course* everything cannrit be dc/ne in one ye'ar, but when ye art* are added 4to years and efforts arc .piled upon efforts our tftabe will *tanVl flor*t)h at the head of frhe list. Let us then be up and doing With a heart of any fate ?Btil) ueM'evlaf and pursuing Learn to labor and to wait. ? Ixjngfellow Camden. S. O.. July 0, 1019. I)r. John II. WUjhoii 1><??d. Sumter, July 11. ? The Ret. John H. Wilson. D. D., pastor of the Lutheran church tot Summer, died this morning ? few minutes past midnight. Dr. Wil *on had >rfot been ill an'd his death wan sudden, the end -ooming about .ten min utes after he hfad^.jdiown symptoms of heart failure. I-Ie was bom April 10, 1854, and abox|t four years ago came t?o Sumter firom Orangeburg to become pastor of St. J'atnw' Lutheran church. I>r. WilsHm Was behoved by his con gregation. and was popular with the m arty w.hlo knew him only lightly At the itime of this dcrfth he was pres Mont of the association of Protestant ministers of Sumter. \< <TSKI> OF fVj)l-LTKR\ \ I Younx Mdii and Woman .Ym-steri In J Florence OjuiK), \ Florence, July 10,? <lii*?v!?X the hn?me lof the hmbaiid wtawn tfhe manried ahont. U? yea* ago, Mr?. Mary Etfta liarfiold li)f l>ar 1 i it >. t< u went t?> Winona iu this K*f?'vn ty and ^rhriv rvi'W.'d & fanner Ipb'asan'fc acpiaintaucwhip with Otis ;MjcKi& Ick, who had receutly returned Ifrojm the war, with the result that the itwo tw*?n aftei*ward name to Florence la t*d were marled by tOie judg? of pro Ibate. The woman in securing the li t^ime gave her irfamc a* HarreJl. Now whe is in tlx* Florence Courtity jail, her hii'ihaod, W; H. Hariiokl of I>ar- j lingUm, having *?worn out a warrant for j f'vr arreM on tip* ciblarge of adultery. I Otis McKlswick wan alwo named in ?tin* . indictment aiwl 'he was arretted HvitU Mrs. llurtield at their home near ?W'infonn. MaKuuick to<5ay Rave bond ?for bin lcnpenrfliH<? ftt the next teum r>f "ourt. Mr?*. P.artteM ha') not been ?able so far to arrange bail. The case ?ha?? . att?rac4t?ld much Interest in Flor 'fiiicn. Tt M'Xfc-' ntf.ted tcAay by .an of r?cor tlvit McKisteick knew of Mr<* Bar .Jfield'fi marriage and had visited at the ih. me in Pai'lingt* n. The parties to itb?' marraige arc scarcely more than i22 years of age. MeKissick is a fanney and wfl i plowing When hhe officers ar retted 'him. Mrs. Rarfield wa.* wash ing the *fami^ clothcw. >Wd Service To Germany. Washington. July 15, ? Resumption of mail service between the I'nited States atad Oeririany effective immediately, was provided in an order signed late today by Postmaster General Rnrlfeon. Neiiro Lowvet I^vr?e Sum* to Charity. Jlhi? only iu*ro u.illionaircvs in \ur>f , ca died reewrtjv iui i h . wil|.-\:?<t |in>. bated In New York ( it.. ,s a |4rw l>;U-t i f her f? U.u t<? clinritv. Th? PSt.lth i> Vafll.vl M l)'l!)())). \ fUJl'i t'f $100 .(MM) t ut, | f ; ;? >ilna, thiopif eiuVs ; $28,000 U h>"t ;?> varum nohooh for UPjrrsM-s ; abultt $1,000 to nrjjviu M't'tltMiuMU work; ami st *iuu t? inaln'taln an industrial mission so^ in Africa, lit nd'liti- n ? f-n.t k t.? bt invested in twodel domes for ucert? r#a. -litis. .T>K<t before the tt st;,tn <lnft die jcave S5.00O toward* a national rjii lyndhinK eatmuicn Iriesuect'.w ?f n<* ' or section. This woman br*an Itfe a<' a woman, and amazed h^r fortune hv hinl work and business ability. Slip wa< kn.twin among her people aa "Madame* Walker. .toroorietor of various f-ilot :v ration-?. It?r 'home. On tlio Hii(l*w? river UoHt over S'2.~>0 0<M). It i? left tu Uor dau?l?ter for iifr. sftpr which it I* to he ketft 'a* a museum of the be*; m life and a memorial to the aohipv men* of a woman of the rae* A $208 Cat. The Union Time,* said reoftfUy. \Y\ H. Iiasor. a well-known autoino Idle dealer of 'this* cit^v, has. it j$ uuv drr^tood closed a contract for one thou sand automobiles, which will be within ithe reach of almont everyone a* they will crist *$y $297 F. 0. li. the fac tory. This is a new car. a two-pi* s^bgrr runabout, weighing 750 pounds, Htid 'has a two-cyUraler ino'tor eydf ? fcine. -The oar tias wire wheel*, and it i? eftalmed can make 35 miles an hour, and mil 50 mile* to the gallon <)f jaw line. > . Have You Seen the New STUDEBAKER CARS? / 4 *:? ? ?. CALL AT THE Carolina Motor Company's Show Room and let us demonstrate the most up-to-date and beautiful car_of the season to you. We don't ask you to take our word for it ? come and st^for yourself. We are here to show you the car? whether you buy or not. We are making preparations to operate a fir^t class Service Station for your convenience and will soon have one of the best equipped Automobile Garages in this part of the State. REPAIR DEPARTMENT Does your car need the service of a first class mechanic? If so, give us a trial and let us convince you that we can repair your car promptly and without having to charge you for a lot of time spent in looking for your trouble. Our Mr. Rogers will be glad to look your car over and tell you its trouble, and remember, all our work is guaranteed at reasonable prices. CAROLINA MOTOR COMPANY, Inc. "Come and See Us ? We Want to Know You" - , "" *?* ? ? -T-J t ? ?' ? " 1 HAVOLINE OILS ACCESSORIES TIRES AND TUBES