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> V OUR GOOD FORTUNE. Causes For Thanksgiving On Part Of The United States. If there is such a thing as luck,this ! nation is the luckiest one on earth. For a generation we have been as unprepared for trouble as anew-born ; babe, and no powerful nation has at-! tacked us. And now that we have stirred up a powerful enemy, that enemy is too busy at home to give us a great deal of trouble. Moreover.the enthusiasm for pre-1 pared ness occasioned by the existence of an enemy bids fair to put the country in shape to care for itself in the future. There is little prospect of serious trouble with Germany, now or later ?not now.because she cannot get to us; not in the near future, because she will be bankrupt and whipped to her knees before the Allies have finished with her. There is no prospect whatever of serious trouble with Mexico,because j that nation,for all its millions of population, could not muster and equip an army of formidable size. Its socalled government is worse than bankrupt, and is existing on forced loans secured from foreign bank9| operating in Mexico. The soldiers of Carranza and of the other chiefs who owe no allegiance to him are little1 paid and poorly equipped. There are ; not one hundred pieces of artillery ( in the entire "republic,"and the few modern pieces have been abused and overworked. Of small arms there is a sufficient quantity to equip a respectable army.but they are of many makes.and in all of Mexico there are not enough ammunition factories to j provide shells for one engagement. | Moreover, the people are destitute. | weakened, starving. The little Jap on the western horizon is the only one from whom we may expect trouble in bunches, and from present indications we will have an army and navy in condition to handle Japan before the end of this good year 1917. More than that.once I J ? we nave ine army auu uuvy,uic piuspect of trouble with Japan will disap-! pear,for little nations do not court j $ trouble with bijf nations unless the! * big fellows are asleep at the switch. Two nice, wide oceans stand between us and attack by any nation big enough to cause us uneasiness, and now that we have got ourselves excited about the subject of war,we will have our armor girded on and our spurs sharp before any nation decides to cross one of thoW nice oceans looking for trouble.? Fountain Inn Tribune. Items from Black River. Andrews, R F D 1, May 15:?A shower of rain and warm weather arrmlH hpnpfif f?rnns in this spetion Mr E McCants of Johnson Swamp spent Sundar at the home of Mr and Mrs P J McGee. Miss Lee Haselden was the guest of friends and relatives near Earles last week. Mr and Mrs Allen McCants and children of Johnson Swamp spent Sunday with Rev and Mrs M E Powell. Mr and Mrs John Poston of Bloomingvale spent last week-end with their daughter, Mrs C H Benton. Rev Louis Moore, of the Trio section, was called from the home of Rev M C Powell here Sunday morn- j incr th? horlsiHo nf his f?hiiH who i took very ill after lie left home Saturday afternoon. Rev B Oliver preached at the Free Will Baptist church Sunday morning. Death of Ned Keels. Mr Ned Keels, a well known citizen of the Greelyville community, died last week at a hospital in Columbia where he had been taken two weeks earlier for treatment. The remains were taken to Greelyville for interment last Friday afternoon. Mr Keels was about 60 years of apre and a man of splendid personality and unassuming manner. He was well thought of by all who knew him. Dont Let Your CoughCHang On. A cough that racks and weakens is dangerous, it undermines your health and thrives on neglect. Relieve it at once with Dr King's New Discovery. This soothing balsam remedy heals the throat, loosens the phlegm, its antiseptic properties kill the germ and cold is broken up. Children and grown-ups alike find Dr King's New Discovery pleasant to take as well as effective. Have a l>ottle handy in your medicine chest for grippe, croup and all bronchial affections. At druggists, oOe. IDLE LANDS ARE EYE-SORES. Food and Feed Crops First?Put Every Acre on the Farm to Work. Idle acres, like idle folks, are up to little (food. This year, particularly, every faimer in the South should aim to get the utmost possible returns frcm every acre on the farm. Let's see some of the ways in which this may be done. 1. Drain the wet spots. There's hardly a farm but has wet spots that are making nothing and are eyesores as well. A good ditch or a line of tile through these spots will not cost a great deal and will make of them some of the best land on the place. If they cannot be drained in time for general crops, plant them in sop beans in June or July. 2. Kill the pasture pests. If our pastures, so-called, are to furnish the best of clovers and grasses for our stock, it is high time that the robber weeds, bushes and briers be dug out. To leave them to shade the land and steal plant food is sheer waste. 3. Follow all oats and wheat with another crop. To leave stubble land idle is another form of waste that should be seen nowhere this season. Cowpeas are excellent crops to use, but if seed of these cannot be had, plant corn or sorghum. Let every man work every acre to its utmost capacity. ? Progressive Former. Successful Meeting Closes. The meeting at the Methodist church, conducted by Rev Geo T Harmon, of Kingstree, closed last night. It has been in progress eleven days, with good congregations and strong sermons each day at 10:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. The house was crowded Sunday morning when Mr Harmon preached on What It Means to Be a Christian," and again Sunday night, when his text was Pontius Pilate's question:"What Shall I Do With Jesus, Which is Called Christ? In these sermons.and in all others during the meeting,the gospel was presented in an earnest, clear and forceful appeal. Last night Mr Harmon preached an able sermon especially for men, though ladies were not excluded' It is believed that much good has been accomplished by the meeting. ?Bennettsville Advocate. Did Not Pay to be Kind. By a decision of the court of appeals, a railroad will have to pay for a kind act that cost a life. In October, 1911, Nicholas J Fajaran boarded a train "stupidly intoxicated," it is alleged. At first the trainmen could not learn where he was going. He finally handed the conductor a ticket to Carson,Va,a little town just south of Carson, Va. The express train was not expected to stop there, but the conductor, employed by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company, accepted the ticket. He and the porter assisted Fagan .to a plank at the side of a woodpile, about 149 feet north of the station at Carson. > The following morning Fagan was found a little farther up the track so terribly injured that he died later. A train had run over him. Mrs Margaret Fagan, as administratrix of his estate, brought suit in New York State under a Virginia statute permitting her to do so. After pass* ing through several courts, decision was handed down by the court of appeals that the railroad had a right to eject Fagan as a trespasser, but having accepted him as a passenger, it was charged with due care for him and was negligent in leaving him in the dark, endangered by his condition and his situation.?jVcw York Eceninn News %7 Visit Odom & Dennis' Cash Store, at People's Mercantile Co's old stand on Academy street. Notice. All persons are hereby forbidden to trespass in any form or manner upon the lands of the undersigned in Mingo township, Williamsburg county. South Carolina. Any person or persons disregarding this notice will be prosecuted according to law. 5-3-3t L C Kellahan. Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that the underi signed will apply to the Court of Probate for Williamsburg county on the 21st day of May,1917,at 12o'clock noon, for letters of final discharge as Administratrix of the estate of II B Browne, deceased. Mrs M B Browne, Administratrix. April 19, 1917. 4-19-5t * There are thousands of children who are bright but frail?not sick but underdeveloped?they play with their food?they catch colds easily and do not thrive?they only need the pure, rich liquid-food in trnrrc JWI J EMOISIOM to start them growing and keep thorn going. Children relish SCOTT'S and it carries rare nutritive qualities to their blood streams and gives them fleshfood, bone-food and strength-food. \ Nothing harmful in SCOTT'S. Scott ft Bowse, MwidS, M. I. iH THE WOMAN'S PART. ! Noble Work of the Gentler Sex of America in the World Conflict. j Women play an enormous pait in every war. Nothing in America has i been more notable since thiacountry (entere 1 the great conflict than the good sense. as we'l hs the unselfish patriotism that our women have shown in preparing to do t.ieir part. There has been, of course, some of the spectacular, notoriety-seeking ! sort of patriotism that sets women j to posing for tneir pictures in the act of aiming a revolver or of crouching behind a machinegun in a trench; but that has appeared in negligible quantity. The real women know the i seriousness of what they have to do, 'and are goingaboutitwithastraightforward common sense that no body of men could surpass. Take,for examplp.the "war letter" lto*t the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association has issued to its members. The suggestions in it are as useful to women in other States -J ? ~ .If U as 10 resiufiiLS ui massaciiuscrtLs.auu to those who oppose the franchise for women as to those who favor it. The keynote of it is organization. Do not try to do alone what you can do better through cooperation with others: and do not duplicate machinery. Join some organization already in existence, and work with it. Do not seek the spectacular work, like driving a motor ambulance. A few women of wealth and leisure can attend to that. The important things are enlarging the food supply, eliminating waste and preserving the public health. The best way to enlarge the food A - 1 ? * iL. supply is to get aavice irom ine state agricultural experiment station and from practical farmers,and then to create the local mgchinery for establishing supervised back-yard gardens, supervised boys' and girls' gardens and supervised gardens in vacant lots ploughed by the community. To make an individual back-yard garden does not require any machinery?only will power and work. Eliminating waste falls naturally under three heads: saving in food, saving in clothes and saving in material. You can save food by studying the markets and buying chiefly those things that are in season; by purchasing only what you need and not hoarding; by efficient cooking; by canning fruits and vegetables, and by sending nothing to the garbage pail that can be made palatable for the table. ' In clothing, the chance to save is ! almost wholly personal, and in large j part a matter of temperament; but ! proper economy in clothes will add : more to the sum available for worthier uses than saving of any other kind. The saving in material touches waste paper, old clothing, shoe9, rubber, bone3, and all the other things that make junkmen 83 a class o.\ topnro in orirth unit an nhpprfill J In the days of chivalry when I knights went forth to war the chatelaine stayed at home and kept the castle. Time has changed neither the necessity nor the relative value of the service; and, to paraphrase Stevenson, here is room for all that a woman has of fortitude and delij caey.? Youth's Companion. j We have several new style sec; ond hand Singer Sewing Machines j that we will sell cheap. 15 17-2t Kingstree Furniture Co. To Cure a Cold In One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stop* the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. ' B. W. 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Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. L.WETHERHORN ?S0K 1 i charleston.Tc. Sole Distributors of "Black Rock Wall Board" , Moisture resisting and special manufacture makes it the best Write us for samples and prices. Registration Notice. The office of the Supervisor of Registration will be open on the lsi Monday in each month for the purpose of registering any person who is qualiBed as follows: 1ITL L.1I a .AjiHnne A t Liu 9II2&U uavr uccu a icoiucuh %ji the State for two years, and of the jounty one year, and of the polling prejinct in which the elector offers to rote four months before the day of election, and shall have paid, six"# months before, any poll tax then due ind payable, and who can both read ind write any section of the constitu5ion of 1896 submitted to him by thd iiipervisors of Registration, or whqjjfr an show that he own8. and has paid^ ill taxes collectible on during the present year, pioperty in this State issessed at three hundred ^dollars or more. BE ClaRKSON, ' lerk (ft Board. 1^1