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SECOND BONUS PERIOD STARTED YESTERDAY. 125.000 Extra Votes Awarded on Every Club of $15.00 Worth of Subscriptions Turned in Before May 10th. Every Contestant Will be Given Credit for as Many of the 125.000 Bonus Ballots as She Can Secure. Largest Bonus Votes for Balance Contest. \nw jntllJC \<>Tl s ARE LAUGE Is TOffl TO PI T FORTH MM Wkpn EfVORTsV rut; fhifndk of THE many Candidates are beeoinllug ile< ph Interested In their favorite* ami a ft hm I many of them m.- out nolle! ting and aiding young ladles \*h<>-c chances up to the present time ?IUI not sinn i,i tin* liest. In fa?i rMiiiu> of tli*'H4* friends are tielplng candidates who up to this time have dont' nothing to help tlieinsehce. Such ones should make up ilo'lr mind* to go In In earnest and do their part and ? take advantage of the friendly hel|> *o freely given, repaying It by putting forth such effort u* will result in pleasing your help? ers by winning out. tiet )<>ur friend*. a<h|iiulntaiiees. and neighbor* to do their cash trading with merchants who arc Issuing \otes on the auto, the Winter A Co.. piano ami other prliea. Two hundred vote*, are Riven on every dollar spent with mer? chant* and professional men who are affiliated with The Dally Item; Watchman ami Southron. I.M HI Ml Hi II WIN WHO OIYF ((dl'OVS: M. < ulhiui liros, 'Hie Kcady-to- W. II. Miel ley A Hon. The Furnl Wrar Htore. (ore Store Xceoiuniodalliig. Wlnhnm Studio. Photos that please. Carolina Furniture Co. Olobe Joa. M. Chandler. Shoes aud CienU Wernleke Agency. FumPdUngs. V. II. rhelps' tiro. Store. Service W. A. Thompson Jewelry Store, that Is Itlght. Everything In Jewelry. Parrot tH Hook Store. Office Out ClUara's Meat Market. Meat that a Utters, it i.. eat. Hearon's Pliarmacy. The guieL Carolina Grocery Co., i.I things Delivery Specialists. to eat. J. D. Cralg Furniture Co. House K??y?l Woolen Mills. Made to Meae- Furnishers from Cellar to CJarret. ara Clothiers. Boot It-liar by Live SpH'k Co. Feed Sointer Deutal Parlor. The Popu- and (.ruin 1>( ahm. lar Dentists. Zemp's Pharmacy* The Place to Do Rant Hardware Co. Long-wear go for Toilet Articles. Hardware. D. C. Shaw Co. Carriages, Ford J. P. Commander. Tin* Ice Man. tars, Horses. s| <iiM> BOM'S PFHIOD i LOSFS SATl'ltDAY, MAY It, Ifta. \T MM: O'CLOCK P. M. DI'HINO THIS PFJIIOD 115, o(m? I \Tlt\ VOTFS WILL hf til YEN on FVF.hy ( LI B of $15 WOltTII OF si'HSt HIITIONS TO F.ITH Fit THF DAILY ITFM oil WAIX IIMW \NI> SOCTIIItON. The Contestants and How They Stand District Number One. This district includes all territory within the incorporate limits of the City of Sumter. At least two prises will go to this district with opportunity of winning one or both of the grand prizes. Mrs. Richard Wilder. Magnolia St.?2.;i25 MI.w Georgia Beetham. S. Salem Ave.. 11,130 Miss Kathryn Stubbs, 11 Washington. 11,141 Mrs. JuUan l>. Wilder. Magnolia St. 41,111 Mlsa Mabel Myers. W. Bartlette St... 46,111 Mrs M. M. Hoggins. 24 Lev! St. 11,111 Mrs. K. C. Lord, s. Sumter St.&,2lu Mlas Boucher l>eI*orine. Hartlette St. 1,111 Mise Helen Hroughton. W. Hampton. &.0U0 Mrs John Hatcheil. Magnolia St. 1,111 District Number Two. Distrl- t Nnmher 2. All territory north of the Columbia branch of the Coast Una It. It. on tin* west of Sumter and the Darling" ton brain h of the (Vast Uli FL lt. on the east of Sumter. At least two prises will go to this distrl< t with opportunity of win? ning one or both of the k> and prizes. HIsllOPVILLF. Ut* CMgdOfl l??ion. 41,110 Miss Noale Si-**i borough. 11,121 Miss Mlldr?<j Hunter. 49,131 KIMHFKT Miss Juanita M? l.eod. 11,111 Miss Mary Harllee. ?.^?#0 Mr* W. J Spsncer. 11,14)1 sr ch \HLi s. Mlai Jusnlta Wilson. 41.711 Miss Jennie McCoy. 11,111 Miss Bertha Tsllons. l.lfl OsW I gm, Ml*s Med? Brown. 2r,,::7S WFDGFPIF.LD. Miss Hess!? Itysn. :.4.7oO Miftn Salbe Norrls. 1,14)1 CAMPE*. ,.JJ Miss Lota M< l .end. It f. O. 6.?0U II \(.OOD. Mrs Crawford Sanders. . .. 11,111 Holt M io. Mu J It Corbett. 0.2?;-, tg^m/tm9" **1 * ? * Wlivit h> V. M*s W. W. DcsChampx. 11,1 Ii aWMTER No. | Mrs 1 ?o i?* M Jofev. T,-uU DISTRICT No. TURKU. District No. 3. All territory south of the Columbia branch of the Coast Line R. 11., on the wem of Sumter und the Darlington branch of the Coast Line lt. R., on the Fast of Sumter. At least two prizes will go to this district with opportunity of winning one or both of the grand prizes. PAXVILLE. Miss Pearl Pritchard. 15.450 Mrs. Ben Pack. 5,025 MO'lT BRIDGE. Mrj. W. J. McNeil. 35.05? PINEWOOD. Miss Bessie Geddings. 7.170 Miss Leo B rough ton. 36,120 MAYEKY1LLE. . . Mrs. J. H. Wilson. 44,168 Miss Minnie Chundler. 89,400 Mrs. Hugh Wlthsrspoon. 7,3t0 MlSS Carrie Anderson. 6,235 SUMMERTON. Mrs. Mary Lsnham. 32,05? REM1NI. Miss Alma Felder. ?,410 LYNCHRURO. Miss Annie O riffln. 5.025 Miss Docia Keels. 3 5,0 25 Miss Floia Bell McLeod. 6,000 DTJRWOOD. Miss Coio Truluck. 46,490 OLANTA. Miss L. Bell Moore, R, F. D. 59.100 Mrs. J. D. Hinds. 6,000 ELLIOTT. Mrs J. O. Rodgers. 10,076 Mrs. J. O. Sullivan. 6,050 SUMTER, R. F. D. NO. 1. Miss Lessie Jones. 12,255 ^ TURBEVILLK. Miss Pauline Jones .. . *. 4 3,00u HARVIN. Miss Maggie Keels. 55,405 RROGDON. Miss Kate Brogdon.- ?. 60,485 MEMORIAL RAY EXERCISES. Ron. T. G, McLeod of RlshopvlUe to Miikr Aniiiiul Address. The Memorial Day exercises will he held at the cemetery on the 12th of May this year and the Hon. T. G. Mel.eod of Hlshopville will make the annual address. The exercises as usu? al will he held under the auspleeH of Dick Anderson chapter l\ D. C, and the Sumter Light Infantry, and the Sumter Hand will participate. A pro- I gram will he announced later. Rafting Creek so hool Closing. i The closing exercises of the learn? ing Creek school (Remhert) will take place Thursday e\eniiiK. May S. The public la cordially Invited. WE'VE A SANER VIEW OF LAW. - The American People are Regliinlng to sQl Rid of Inegal Mystery. "We don't call them courts of Jus? tice now; we call them courts of law," j says the attorney in Hayard Vellier's play, "Within the Law"?and the au- J dience applauds with startling vigor. Americans cannot truly be called a lawabiding people. In big matters1 and little, by force and by fraud, for gain and for fun, we evade and vio? late our laws with a cheerful alacrity i that has made us the wonder and the I i scandal of the nations. Rut what we 'lack in obedience to the law in the concrete we have boon in the habit j of making up by the fevor of our re? verence for law in the abstract. Law Is simply the will of the sov? ereign, whoever the sovereign may be. Judges are men like other men? ? Matures largely of class environ? ment ami spokesmen chiefly for class interests. There are no eternal and absolute principles involved. The question always la, Whose will shall Ibe law? Who shall, in fact, be sover? eign? The playwright "ahows the form ami pressure of the time." if that speech about the courts brings down the house, it Is because the American people are beginning to gel rid of ihe legal mysticism - the habit ot think Inf ot law and Justice as abstract and transcendental things beyond human Control ?which has so long made them impotent to solve their social problems by lawful method i. Whenever they clear!) see that law i is just what the wlelders ol power \s ihIi u to be, the wa) is open for ihem t<? make it what they wish. Industries Thriving, ii Is certainly a strange thing thai in this Community there is not an In 'iiisiis that is not Increasing Its ca? pacity for work and enlarging its Held of operation; not a merchanl who is Increasing bis spues and his stock, and vet not a man who is m?t as hard up as a pool boy at a < hur< h festival, and Ihe banks nre more sh) of loans than sn old lady's nag ol automobil. * ii ig a str?ng situation, bill n shows thai there is a deep and striding confidence In Ihe development ami the possibilities of this Hectlotl W.' are going to come out all right, but none ol us but is pinched s?i Hat that he can not tell whether the man with Ihe bill bits bim in front or buhuoi Kluieucn Tlmet I Blood On No Burning Deck. Another idi?l wrecked. They tell ii.-. now that Casablamu stood on no burning deck, whence all but him had fled, because his papa had bid? den him to do. Kather, as u chronicler puts it, he jumped overboard "to save himself for another day." The published pa? pers of Sir CharleH Tyler, a eaptaln serving under Nelson at the battle of the Nile in 1798, contain the fol? lowing passage: "Commodore Casabianca und his son (only 10 years of age, who dur? ing the.action gave proofs of bravery and intelligence far above his years) were not so fortunate. They were in the water on the wreck of L'Orlent'l masts, not being able to swim, seek? ing each other until three-quarters past ten, when the ship blew up, and put an end to their hopes and fears." "If this be a trustworthy account." remarks The Maeon Telegraph, "then the immortal lines of Mrs. Hemans, telling the story of the blind, unrea? soning but beautifully heroic stead? fastness of a boy are based on myth, lit is gratifying to find that even by Sir Charles Tyler's account, young I Casabianca was as brave and devoted as his friends could have wished i him to be, and that the dear o'.d story is not really spoiled." I The Montgomery Advertiser is right. The human race instinctively reseats tho operations of the icono? clast. It disappoints us and de I pressses us for an old belief to be as? sailed by some one who prtetends to have discovered new evidence; but ! fortunately the 'boy who stood on the burning deck' will continue to in? spire youthful readers and remain a lesson in the minds of men, who are 'boys grown tall.' " The shock Is too rude. We will rather doubt this historian's accuracy rather than reject Mrs Heman's lines. ? Augusta Chronicle. Freak Newspapers. Baltimore Bun. A newspaper which can be eaten after tin- Information it contains is Sbsoibed, thus affording nourishment for tin- body as \seii as the mind, i; called The Regal, it Is printed with an ink or coloring guaranteed non poisonous on thin sheets of dough. Another freak newspaper, the Luntl nuarla, Is published In Madrid The ink with which it is printed contains a .small percentage of phosphorus, so that the letters are visible in the dark and the reader does not need to make a light to enjoy its contents. At two Krench seaside resorts news papers called I.e Courler des Balg netirs and La Saide are printed on waterproof paper, so that the Nim ecrlber ran take bis morning paper with him into the sea ami read it w bile enjoying his bath. in Tails a paper called I.e Mon i hoir is printed on paper such as the so-called Japanese napkins are made of, and ma> become useful in case the reader has forgotten or lost his handkerchief. The < it\ force still at work trim* ming treef in various parts ot th* ? u> TWO KINDS OF PRAMS, Intelligence ami Industry Against Ig? norancc ami Thlrftltsaineaa. To the Ofllceri end Members of the Union: a farmer driving to the city with a load of cotton, produce or on some errand is itruck by the general neat? ness of tome cottage, probably tbe home of a worklngman. Flowers bloom In the yard, well-kept grass growl on the lawn, the fences are neat ' and painted) and there is an air of distinction about the place. You say, "A sober, honest, industrious man must live there." Next door is a dirty, unktpt place, cans and trash in the yard, fence falling down, and a gen? eral atmosphere of unkemptneas. Yo' say "A shiftless, drinking, no ac? count Chap lives thfltt " Bui how much more noticeable these thlngi are out In the broad open; country, where the air If tweet, the sunshine free of smoke and the <?tt nch and filth of a great i Ity. You drive along a country road, and come to a farm. Distinction marks it in a hundred little ways. The fem ea are all up, and no totting or tumbling tails are seen; the fence turner* are tree of bushes, briers and weeds; the ditches are clean-cut, with no wide hedge of rank weedi growing along either ?ide, t.nd the land cultivated close up; the stumpe and rocks are out of the fields. Even the tows and appearam e ol the fields themselves show the thrifty care of intelligent ap? plication. Presently you ? ome to the house. Flowers grow in the yards, which are ! clean and well-kept, with ? neatly graveled walk leading up to the front porch. Harns and out-houses are in good repair, and no rusting farm tools or machinery clutter yards or barn lot. And you know without a question that here a reul man lives, a man that will do to trust, a business man; he pays his obligations, and, more? over, is a real neighbor and a help? ful one. You will generally find, too, tlint he is thoughtful of his wife, j daughters and sons, that the boys ! want to stick to the farm because dad j is all right and he made a good llv i ing out of it. i So you drive on, and directly get a ; shock. You come to a place with the , fences down, corners growing up in weeds; land washed for lack of prop? er drainage; stunted, weedy stuff struggling to survive in the fields. No palings surround the house, no flowers grow in it, but a litter of every sort of tiling encumbers it. The roof of the stable and barn are leaky, the doors propped up, rusting farm tools and machinery stand about corrod? ing In the weather. Four or five lazy hounds sleep about the door or yard, ? and everything about is desolate and depressing. You will And without querry that a shiftless, indolent, pur j poseless, don't-care man lives there. , He couldn't get a cent of credit from anybody without security. His wife is a hopeless drudge with just er^rgy enough to crawl about; his daughters run away and marry at the tirst op? portunity, and his boys go to town or away from home as boon as they are big enough to know enough to leave. Up and down this nation I nave traveled, and I have seen hoth types everywhere, and I have never made inquiries yet that I did not confirm i views between the two?the hustler j and the drone. And often, too. both men have equal chance in so far as productivity of the land goes. I see in my travels something In this connection that makej me hope jful. The first-named < lass is getting more numerus, and the last-named fewer and fewer. Of course, we will probably always have the don't-care tarmer. but his class is vanishing at a gratifying rate, to be replaced by alert, hard-working farmers who realize that farming is ? profession, calling for high Intelligence and com? mon sense. And as the profession ol farming becomes higher and better, you nill see u powerful and a contented na? tion. C. S. Barrett Union city, da. Two-Horse Implements Must Suc? ceed One-Horse, The vital ned of inoal Southern farmers is mote ami better ma? chinery, and what Impresses one moat In looking o\<-i the farms of the South, is the almost total lack of ad? equate farm machinery. The fOi or 1,000-pound mult- ami Boy Dixie plow does not, and never can, mean good farming. The heav> mule ami disk or nang plow should replace l hem as fast as possible. The two-row, or cheek-row, corn planter and pivot-wheel riding cul? tivator should replace the hand cul? tivator and one-row planters. And on the level lands of the South, the six or seven-fool cut mower will be a better Investment than the four or rive-font Aso the wide two-horse lake will do much faster work than the narrower one-horse Chas s Wadsworth, in The Progressive Farm t-i BLACK HOT OF SWF FT POTATOES AM) ITS < ONTHOL. (Tenseon Collage Fitenslon W?lk ? South ( arollmt F*i>erliiient station ?Pre? No. III. The black rot of sweet potatoes teems to be S/ldsly distributed through South Carolina and In many eases is causing serioui loss. This disease where present Is readily recognized in the fall when the potatoes are dug. At this tints it occurs as blac , mot? tled ureas over the surface of tse po? tatoes. The dissent does not seem to cause trouble in the fell, but when potatoes affected with it are stored in banks or houses, the disease be? comes more active and causes a rot? ting of the pots toes. In many In? stances we have found whole bank>> of potatoes destroyed by this rot. It frequently happens that all of the potatoes in s bank aie destroyed. In such instante;-: the ones that keep through the winter and are not badly rotted are used In the next erop. The disease wa* earned back to the field on these slips. It remains there, at? tacks the potatoes when they form, and is brought back again to the bank after digging time. In thits way it continues from year to year. Since this troublesome disease H spread through the blips which grow from diseased potatoes, it is very necessary at this time of year that WS se< ure seed potatoes for bedding Which are free from disease. Where no lUCh seed potato* ? are av ailable, it is advisable to plant a small por? tion of the patch from the earliest slips you can get and then as soon as these put out vines, making ? Utting? from the vines with which to finish i the planting. Black rot Is a root disease and vines taken from diseas? ed plants will produce other plants free from disease. Where the dis? ease is present, it Is of course nec? essary to practice a rotation. When you grow sweet potatoes free from disease, you will find that It Is an easy matter to keep them. A Boy Sc not and H ? Native Flag. , Here stands a Hoy Scout, Writh his heart open and true, i For he stiek? to the Flag (if red, white and blue. ] ; I He always has a smile, j And ne'er a Boo-hoo, ! For he sticks to the Flag , Of red, white and blue. j When his Scout Master tells him Anything to do, He does it under the Flag Of red, white and blue. We all like our Scout Master; You will like him too, Join his troop under the Flag Of red, white and blue. We are Boys of Uncle Sam, I hope everyone knew, And we are still standing under the Flag, Of red, white and blue. We help many people, We will help you too, To learn the oath under the Flag Of red, white and blue. I Now I will close, Hoping you will Join us too, And stick to the Flag Of red, white and blue. "A Scout." (The above has been received with [a request that It be published.) Slgniflcent Lines. The other Sunday evening, when church services was over, a young minister started on his journey home, accompanied by two young ladies of the choir, when they began a conver? sation about hymns. "What is your favorite hymn ?" ask ; ed the curate, turning to one of his fair companions, "Draw me nearer," she replied, not thinking of the double meaning At that moment h*-r companion, who was walking on the other side of the curate, to make matters worse, said innocently. " That is only the chorus; the com mettcement of the verse is, 'I sm thine.' " At that the ? mate laughed heartily, and the ladles are always very care? ful now when they att* talking about hymns, Wilson's Working Principle. I am not afraid of a knave. 1 am not afraid ot a rgsogj. 1 sm afraid of a Strong man who is wrong, ami a*hose wrong making can h? impressed upon other persons by his own force of character snd force of speech. If Qod had only arranged it that all tin- men who ure wrong Were last als, WS could put them out of business very easily, because they Would nive themselves away Boonei or latei , but Uod has made our U-sL heavier than that?He haw made some good men who think wroiiK We cannot fight them be? ta use the) are lied, but because they are Wrong. We must overcome lb em by a I tetter force, the genial, tin- splendid) the permaneni force of a Lwiivi reesoa?~Woodrew w ,i> ..