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SALVATION ARMY IN TRENCHES. ! Four Women Equipped with Gss Masks, , p Helmets and Revolvers. ; t New York, February 20:?Four '* Salvation Army lassies,equipped iike || soldiers with gas masks,steel hemets and revolvers.have been admitted in ? the actual battle front of the Amer- e ican army in France and are carry- 0 ing on relief work under fire, according to a cablegram received by the Salvation Army headquarters here, t The young women are Ensign' t Helen Purviance, Gladys Mclntyre, 8 Mrs Hammon and Mrs Hickey, and ., 1 c so far as known here thev are me c first of their sex to sro to the firing ? line. They left for the front lines at j night, January 24. the message said. T Better Farming rHREjEwi^ FELLC HELP OUT IN THE throughout the en- j o times the farmer J. N. HARPER valuable a com- j v nodtty as labor. It must not be wast- e d. Now is not the time to employ I r iabor to clean out fence corners, and I to do other kinds of the less produc- * Ht? work. There must be no lost mo- * lion. Every liok must be made to I tount in answering the call of our na- 1 don and her allies, who are calling out a to the farmer "Give us bread! Give us * slothing!" The best way to economise labor c m the farm today is to produce more t per acre. The southern farmer will j set most unwisely if he tries to cnlti- i low^ witfi tViA nrnasnt I W ?ir IVW WUVli I?wu n?Mi V*.v r. apply of labor. A better plan would c be not to increase the acreage devoted to cultivated crops, but to produce t more per acre, by the use of fertiliz- t m, manure, good seed and improved c machinery, all of which will save labor. s One ton of good fertilizer will do r more work in growing crops than will f Get some fey GARDEN TOO J HOW CAN YOU EXPF.C "GROW" UNLESS YOU HAV WITH WHICH TO WORK IT? DEN WILL BE JUST FUN IF YOU WITH NEW GARDENING WE HAVE MANY "LABC WHICH WILL KEEP YOUR I WHEN YOU WORK YOUR GAI OUR GARDEN TOOLS A1 THE TEST. King Hardwai The Popular Ha Chin?M Ideograph*. Chinese characters do not exireas sounds, although the piteli of he voice is siguifieant. Their leters are ideographs or writings of deas or things. Hence the Chinese lave no alphabet, strictly speaking. Kor this reason, says the Popular Icience Monthly, the Chinese must mplov an astoundidng number of ha ratters. It lakes about 10,000 haracters to print a book in the ^hinese language, yet sometimes ;n entire thought or a whole sen i_.l 1 ,.i. enee js repreecnieu ?? umi aver. The word "black" is one eliaricter, and so i-s "mother," "dead," 'ves," "yellow" and a great many it her words. With such a conglomeration, is it any wonder that the Vnicriean printer wonders how it is tossible to print anything in Ohitese? in the South >WS READY TO LABOR SHORTAGE ix times this amount of money exiended in labor. For example, one on of good fertilizer will now oost . bout $46.00. The plant food in this uaatity wnen appneu to inree acres f land will give an increase of about 50 pounds of lint cotton and 1,500 >ounds of seed. The lint at 30c per lound amounts to $225.00, and the eed at $80.00 per ton amounts to 60.00. making a total of $285.00. Few business concerns net 50 per ent increase on money invested in abor, but, granting that the farmer fill net 100 per cent on his investnent in labor, and supposing that he ays $1.00 per day for labor, the 46.00 invested in fertilizer, when inested in labor, would net him $46.00; rhereas, when invested in fertilizer, it ,-ives him a net Increase of $239*00. rhus it can be seen the tremendous dvantage of supplementing labor rith liberal applications of plant food Likewise an improved piece of machinery that Aakes it possible to culivate an acre of cotton or corn with lerhaps half the labor ordinarily cmiloyed, and cultivate it better, should >e looked to at this time as a source if help in facing the labor shortage. Good seed of a strain known to do veil in a community will do much toward increasing yields, without an in :rease of acreage. la this not a time when the fanner ihould be sure to use these three crop nakers, to the fullest extent, to off:et the labor shortage? T YOUR GARDEN TO 'E OUR GOOD TOOLS WORKING YOUR GARYOU LET US FURNISH IMPLEMENTS. )R-SAVORS" FOR YOU JACK FROM BREAKING iDE.V COME SEE THEM. *E BEST: THEY STAND i *e Company. rdware Store. I COULD HARDLY STAND ALONE Terrible Suffering From Headache, Sideache, Backache, and Weakness, Relieved by Cardui, Says This Texas Lady. Gonzales, Tex. ^ Mrs. Minnie Philpot, of thia ^lace, writes: "Five years ago I was taken with a pain in my left side. It was right under my left rib. It would commence with an aching and extend up Into my lcfl shoulder and on down Into my back. By that time the pain would be ao severe I would have to take to bed. and suffered usually about three days .. .1 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 paiD in my back and I had the headache all the time. I Jr-f' nnablo to do a thing. My life I was a ir.iso^r, ruy stomach got in an awful condition, caused from taking &o much medicino. I suffered so much pain. 1 had just about given up all hopes of our getting anything to help me. One day a Birthday Almanac wrs thrown in my yard. After reading its testimonials I decided to try Cardui, 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 permanent for it has been two years since my awful bad health. I wiil always praise and recommend Cardui." Try Cardui today. E 78 NAVAL HEAVYWEIGHTS. And th# Way Ona Bit of Official Rad Tapa Wai Untiad. Since the chief requirement in a torpedo boat destroyer is speed, speed and yet more speed, it has always been the aim of naval constructors to keep the fittings of snoh vessels as light as is consistent with strength and to dispense with ail fittings that are not absolutely necessary. Some time in the year 1904, says Lieutenant F. H. Koberts in the Army and Navy Journal, a flotilla of destroyers sailed from the Atlantic coast to the Philippines by way of the Mediterranean and the Suez canal. It so happened that the commanding officer of one of the dectrnvors woiorhorl nboilt 230 OOUnds. His two assistants, both of them ensigns, each weighed more than 200 pounds. Out of a half dozen petty officers three were heavyweights, and in the crew were two or three others of the same size. When the flotilla arrived in the Philippines the weather was hot and sultry, and the sun kept the steel deck of the vessel like a stove. The vessel's original allowance list had included one electric'fan, end eo the commanding officer immediately submitted a requisition asking that a fan be furnished for the wardroom and one in each compartment In which the crew were quartered, five fans is all. Tile request in due time reached Washington, and tome three months later was returned disapproved, siijce the bureau "did not wish to add any unnecessary weight to the vessel for fear of reducing its speed." Nothing daunted, tna comnianuing officer returned the requisition with a statement thereon of the weights of himself, his two commissioned assistants and other members of the crew and requested that one or two of the heavyweights be transferred, and that a man weighing about one hundred and fifty pounds be assigned to his place, and further requested that the disapproval of his requisition be reconsidered. Needless to say, the fans were forthcoming, and no one was transferred, not even the commanding officer. AND NOW THEY ARE COOKING TOBACCO TO MAKE IT BETTER For a good many years The American Tobacco Company have been conducting a series of experiments having as their object the improvement of smoking tobaccos* And it is interesting to know that one of the greatest of their discoveries was one of the simplest, and that was, that cooking or toasting tobacco improved it in every way, just as cooking most foods improve; them. They took a real Burley tobacco, grown in this country; toasted it as you would toast bread; moistened it to replace the natural moisture driven off by toasting; made it into cigarettes, called them "LUCKY STRIKE, the toasted cigarette," and offered them to the public. The result has been the greatest demand ever created for any tobacco product in a similar length of time. The change produced by toasting is not only most wholesome, but the flavor is greatly improved, just as cooking improves meat, for example. Break your Cold or La Grippe with a few doses of 666. tx UNDER J Undertakers' Sup] Coffins ai lVUk lVi?kA WW till VI WW A ' Prompt service render* done on short notice. 1 FLOWERS 1 represent two floral ho and funeral designs on sho p. s. c< Prices Down We ought to be raising rest of the people, but V selling at the very close 1 since we opened up. It: to buy here, where price down. Remember our stock o] is always complete and w is possible to give. We have recently unloj of Hay, a car of Hori quantities of other provif THE CA! ODOM <a DEI Phone 120. 1 Kingstree, ? l. s. den: |?4mnaanHi MI IMIII IM? I Sacked hulls convenien PUTTING Buckeye H important little thing this roughage an im This makes PhI lii easier to handle when putting 1 ure out when mixing feed. It help think of them as forage?: Even though sacked, Buckeye old style hulls. It costs us mo anything that will help you us worth the expense. Other < Buckeye Hulls are free of li: which has no food value. 2000 pounds of real roughage 1 the ton ?not 1300. Buckeye Kuils al'ow better a similation of food. Kimbraugh Bros., Jnd:or.clc "Wc are usir.j Buckeye } vnth them. We think I hulU." To secure the best results and to d thoroughly twelve hours befa wetting them down night and morni this cannot be done, wet down a< feed the hulls dry, use only half a Book of Mi Gives the right formula for cv South. Tells how much to fee tening, for work. Describes Bi using them properly. Send for Dept. K The Buckey< Atlanta Birmingham G i Augusta Charlotte Jt *1 Local Items from Salters. Salters, February 20: ? We a having delightful spring-like weat er after the severe cold of the ps two months. A number of childrenof the Kins tree school enjoyed a stroll over he Wednesday afternoon, returning i train 78. Mr S P Britton, who is in Toum hospital, Sumter, undergoing tret ment for malaria, is improving ra idly and expects to be home in a fe days, we are glad ho report. Mr T C Nettles, who was call I - ???? $ TAKING VND jlies of All Kinds, nd Caskets ut Hearse Service. ed day or night. Embalming relephone numbers 91 and 17. FURNISHED. uses and can furnish cut flowers rt notice. [2-7-6m DURTNEY. 11 m Cash Store. I 0 our prices, along with the VE ARE NOT. We are still nargins we have been making is therefore to YOUR interest s are down and always stay I Staple and Fancy Groceries e offer you the best seryice it ided a car of Rice, a car * a j se ana rauie c eea anu sions. 5H STORE fNIS, Proprietors Academy and Mill Sts. iouth Carolina NIS, Manager ___ I mean ice and economy nils in sacks is just one of the js that have been done to make provement over the old style. A?C MAJM SSYF ILLS N ^TLCSS them in the barn and easier to measkeeps them clean and makes your not as bedding. : Hulls sell for much leis than loose ney to sack them but we believe that j c th:3 product to best advantage is Advantages it No trash or dust. They mix well with other food, co They take less space in the I barn. s- Every pound goes farther. Miss., say: lulls and are very much pleased \hrj are superior to old style Icve'op tlie ensilage odor, wet the halls ( re feeding. It is easy to do this by < ing for the next feeding. If at any time t least thirty minutes. If you prefer to s much by bulk as of old style hulls. xed Feeds Free cry combination of feeds used in the d for maintenance, for milk, for fatuckeye Hulls and gives directions for . your copy to the nearest mill. ? ? Cotton Oil Co. Dept. K IS ratnwood Little Rock Memphie i ckton Macon Selma here on account of the death of his re father, Mr T A Nettles, has returned h_ to his home in New York city, ist Mr W C Mason of Oliver, Ga, has returned to his home after a pleasfs ant visit to relatives here. re Mr B L Montague of Sumter spent on Thursday here on business. Mr J:G Lifrage has been at Camp ey Sevier, Greenville, visiting his son, J it- G Lifrage, Jr. who is suffering from p- malaria but is better,we are pleased ?w to note. Mr E E David is visiting his brothed er, Mr J T David, at Camp Sevier. : i 1 : read the label on : ; this paper care- | ; i fully. :iv <f i > i j ^ T | If your subscription bus i | expired, or Is past due. a ] { remittance to advance your I | date Is an honest obllga* A ? lion, and will be thankful- \ | ly received. | | - ???? / Dr. D. Zed Roweli Dental Surgeon Kelly Building; First Room in Front Andrews, South Carolina M.D.NESMITH, DEMIST, Lake City, S. C R. K. WALLACE ATTORNEY-AT.LAW FLORENCE. - - S. C. J?^Offlce Second Floor Masonic Temple. 9-27-6mp 1' A. M. SNIDER T Qiifrroon Hanfist k/UI g wil &/V11UOI. Office at Residence Railroad Ave., K1NGSTREE BENJ. McINNES, M.R.CV.S. B.Kater McINNES, M.D,V.M. D. VETERINARIANS. One of us will be at Kingstree the first Monday in each month, at Heller's Stables. 9-28-tf i If you need Glasses, come -4 to me. Single and double ' lenses fitted correctly at lowest prices. Broken lenses dunlirsfsd. J T. E. BAGGETT, Jeweler I ' ' vjB KINGSTKE" lodge, No. 4S /Sg$f\A.F4!il. meet*Thursday before foil mooneach * month. Visiting brethren are cordUUy invited. MJH Jacobs, ff. S B McGill. See. 1 R?e?Jw aMtiaathW month. VWtte*eluit- ' ) \fjjffliBWCy P?n nro covdiaBr B\jy^3?Ky vited to com? up and sit on a stamp or hut boat on tho ih"!" p h stokl, j M Brown, Clerk. Con. Com. i Undressed Lumber. . .*r ; I always have on hand a lot of undressed lumber (board and framing) at my mill near Kingstree. for sale at the lowest price for good material. See or write me for further information, etc. F. H. HODGE, Registration Notice. The office of the Supervisor of Registration will be open on the 1st Mon- ; Hor in oo.h mnntk frtr the nnviUMa ft/ registering any person who is qualified as follows: Who shall have been a resident of the State for two years, and of the | county one year, and of the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote four months before the day of election, and shall have paid, six months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both read J and write any section of the constito- A tion of 1896 submitted to him by Ike ^ Supervisors of Registration, or who S can show that he owns, and has paid all taxes collectible on during the JM present year, pioperty in this State jH jaaaaad at. thrua hnndrad flnlldrn nr more. B E Clarkson, f.lerk of Board. ???. Abdul Hamid, for 33 years Sultan of the Ottoman empire, sprawling over Europe, Asia and Arrica, died last week of inflammation of the lunes. He had been paid homage by nearly 100,000,000 subjects. Deprived of power, he died a prisoner, J pitied, if not despised. He lived in ' % constant fear of death, yet so miser- J erable had his existence become that in later vpurs he attemnted suicine.