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Christmas Greetings.
e e e
A merry Christmas to all, both
young and old. to whom this greeting
comes.
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< Mice again we welcome the Christ?
mas season with feelings of joy and
anticipations of pleasure. The world,
at all times a sad old place for ?hose
who bear the burdens of life's str ig
gle and endeavor, has been, for more
than a year, sadder than ever before
for many millions of people, and
Christmas to them Is a season of heart?
ache and sorrow for their loved ones
sacrificed on the altar of the god of
war and hate. Only In this country
of burs have the people been blessed
with peace and the privilege of fol?
lowing their accustomed callings un?
disturbed. There have been hard?
ships, anxieties and disappointments,
but we havo been spared the horrors
of bloodshed, rapine und pestilence,
and It Is with grateful and thankful
hearts we should observe the natal
day of the Prince of Peace. Christ?
mas should be a happy day in this
peace-blessed land, for It is a day of
peace, loving-kindness and the sim?
ple Joys of a home loving people.
The Turks and their German allies
now admit that the attempt of the Al?
lies to force the passage of the Dar?
danelles with a fleet of warships real?
ly succeeded, but tho cbramander of
the Anglo-French fleet did not find it
out. Th* attack caused tho low? nt
three of the Allies' ships, and beeom- '
ing 'tineou^age ? ihcy esSMdoned tnekl
attempt. The Germans and Tin!?:'
expected the attack to be continued
the next day, and were ready to
abandon the Dardanelles forts, as
their ammunition had been exhaust?
ed, save for seventeen shells. In the
first day's battle. The Allies failed to
press the fight and lost the oppor?
tunity to take Dardanelles and cap?
ture Constantinople, which at that
time was not in a condition to be de?
fended, both men and ammunition be?
ing lacking to withstand the assault
of the great Anglo-French fleet. The
Allies lack either competent leader?
ship or have nothing but bad luck,
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The decision of the Supreme Court
In the case growing out of the remov?
al of the sheriff of Kershaw county by
the governor le Just one more Illus?
tration of the haphazard work of the
legislature. The legislature enacts
laws, in total disregard of the consti?
tution, directing the executive depart?
ment of the government to do certain
things and when the governor under?
takes to carry out the law as declared
by the legislature, he finds that the so
called law Is unconstitutional and
void. There should be some means
devised to protect the State against
the carelessness and ignorance of the
legislature In regard to the constitu?
tion.
a e e
W J. Bryan's position on prepar?
edness Is not generally understood.
He does not stand for peace at any
price, nor does he advocate the dis?
continuance of all military prepara
t.ons ami the abolition of the army
and navy. He is in favor of the main?
tenance ot the army and navy on the
present basis, including the building of
new end more powerful warships, in
accordance with the programme al?
ready adopted by congress. He as?
serts that the navy and army thus
maintained in a state of efficiency at
a roMt of I.TiO.oOO.OOO a year, are
ample for the defense of the country
against any nation that might attack
us. He -isserts that those who de
msnd a larger army and a greater
navy are either ssttnittoa makers or
those who have been iSSOtVCd by
those who seek to protlt from equip?
ping Um nation for war. Reduced to
simplest terms the difference between
Bryan and thoHe who stand for i
greater army and navy is merely a
matter of opinion. Th .van says he be?
lieves a big army and navy unneces?
sary, the prepareilnens advocates sav
the present army and navy nre inade?
quate and the money spent on them
la worse than wasted, since in time of
real need the military branch of
the government would break down.
rlIKlsTMAS CHARITY FUND.
Tho Christmas charity fund has
Itch increased since Sunday by tho
following subscriptions:
Previously acknowledged.. ..$511.33
S. M. McLeod. 1.00
K. B. Belser. 1.00
Mrs. J. B. Ugon. 1.00
Miss Martha Sutherland. 1.00
D. R. McCallum. 1.00
J. C. Cooper. 2.00
Total.$577.33
Messrs. J. \V. Jackson and Geo. L.
Rickor have also contributed one car?
load of wood.
Mr. Walsh, chairman of the commit?
tee, requests that all persons know?
ing of needy cases will please report
such cases to him or to other mem?
bers of the committee tod' or to?
morrow, so that they will be acquaint?
ed vith them in time to make suitable
preparations in the distribution of
Christmas gifts.
CORN STALK BORER.
Clemson College, Dec. 21.?Do not
let the winter pass without tak?
ing steps to control the corn stalk
borer, is the advice given to farm?
ers by the entomologist of Clem
?on College. This is o) * of the most
wide-spread and Injurious corn pests
of the South, and although its period
of greatest activity and injury is in
summer, measures to control it have
to be taken in late fall and winter. It
is not yet too late to take steps which
will materially reduco the damage
from the Insects next summer.
The corn staWc borer spends the
winter as a creamy white grub in
the bottom of old corn stubble,
whero he has fed since summer on
the. pith of the stalk. The grub
changes to a chrysalis in early spring
and emerges as a moth a little la?
ter.
Three plans of control are sug?
gested by Clemson College, as fol?
lows: 1. Plow deeply and plant
cover crops. In late fall or winter,
plow up stubble, rake up with hay
rake, and compost or burn after it
in dry. 2. Plow up stubble in win?
ter so that It will be on the sur?
face of the soil over winter. This
causes the grubs to dry out and
die. 3. Bury the stnbble in fall or
winter to a depth of eight inches
with a disc plow.
Any one of these measures is ef?
fective, but thoy do not help the
situation very much when prac?
ticed only by a few farmers here
and there over t+i# stare To cet I
t^e best results *'ron> ?hesr r<?< o:n
i
mendations, all the farmets in * !
commum'v Hho?,V? eOOperftte.
NEGRO SCHOOL III. HNS.
Florence, Dec. 21.?The negro
graded school building was burned
here at 1 o'clock today. Fire started
in the roof from a defective hue, it
is supposed, as the fire was first dis?
covered in the roof of the building.
It spread rapidly and before the de?
partment could be summoned and get
water on the building it was doomed.
There were nearly 1,500 children in
Uxe building when it caught fire and
they were marched out in the fire I
drill in one minute and one-half. Some
of them, in spite of the most energetic
work of the teachers, went back into
the building to recover their books
and to help save the desks and furni?
ture. Many desks were saved, but in
a broken condition.
This was a large and commodious
and one of the best lighted and most
conveniently arranged school buildings
in the State. It contained 16 large
class rooms on two floors. It was
insured for $10,000 and there was
$1,000 on the furniture.
Administrator's Sale.
Khtate of B. R. Hodge, Deceased.
By order of the Judge id' Probate
km Sumter County, South Carolina, I
will offer for sale at the residence of
said deceased, Privateer township, S.
C (near Tindals) on Tuesday, Jan?
uary 4th. 1!?1?;, at 12 o'clock M., at
public auction, to the highest bidder
for cash, the following personal prop?
erty belonging to said estate, to wit:
Five mules. 1 big ox in good order,
one yearling. 12 head of hogs, 2 (2
horse) wagons. 1 (1-horse) wagon, 1
stalk chopper. 1 disc harrow. I mower
and rake. 1 corn planter, and various
? Hot articles, farming untensils. gear
plows, etc.
T. B. HODGE,
Administrator.
Sumter. S. C, Dec. 2... ItlS.
Trespass Notice.
Boginning January 1st. 1910, nil
persons are hereby forbidden to
hunt, tish, trap or Otherwise tit- pass
On the lands of Dabbs and Ml hide.
The hunting Ashing and trapping
privileges on these lands are for sale
f"i ? term of years, in the mean?
time a written permit for a day's
hunting, ftohlng or trapping. In season,
Will DSJ ".ranted for a small lee upon
application to
E. w. DABBS,
BUY iMERIGAN MAGHI
CHINESE COTTON MILLS T?
UNITED STATES.
Country's Consumption of Ya
From Supplied by Factories
peel?Chance for This Com
Tien-Tsin, China, Nov. 25 (Cor?
respondence Of the Associated Press).
?Contracts have been signed with a
Massachusetts concern for $900,000
worth of machinery for the establish?
ment of two modern cotton spinning
mills here. The mills are to have
2-6,000 spindles and are to be capable
of expansion to double that number
after sufficient labor has been trained.
The Chinese minister of agriculture
and commerce is a shareholder in
one of the companies, and the minis?
ter of finance is interested in the
other.
This is the first time that Ameri?
can cotton manufacturing machinery
has been sold in China in large quan?
tities. Heretofore the Chinese manu?
facturers have looked to Europe and
frequently have bought second-hand
machinery from Japan. It was
through the effort of Julean H. Arn?
old, the American commercial attache
at Peking, that the American manu?
facturers were persuaded to enter into
competition in the sale of machinery
for the two mills.
China imports annually about $28,
000,000 worth of cotton yarn, chiefly
from India and .Japan. There are
probably about 1,200,000 spindles in
China operated in 25 mills, but the
cotton consuming power of the
Chinese would probably justify 20
times as many spindles. The depart?
ment of commerce and agriculture
has recently invited J. N. Jobson of
the Texas agricultural experimental
station to come to China to show the
natives how to grow better cotton,
and it is expected this expert will be |
here in January.
Most of the cotton now raised in
China is from inferior seed. Tn some
sections of the Yang-tse valley Amer?
ican missionaries have imported high
grade seed and enabled the natives to
grow a better variety of cotton.
"V^hilo there is a considerable acre?
age in north China, the conditions are
ndt ei.actly favorable and the plant
has a stunted growth.
)Cotton is used almost exclusively
by the coolie class in north China for
clothing. With the approach of cold
wiather, the coolies who have been
naked to the waist during the sum?
mer ^radii.tllv piV 'n hea-Vj >'.:--.<u!
gttrtncnts padded with quilted rotten.
Wjpoien cloth Is beyond the cool!
purse. As ihe Bi vere wii ter np- 1
prpachfs tU- ?" neat of the poorer
class become rounder and rounder in
appearance. Many of the children
are so thickly waded with cotton
tlu>t the linos of their bodies are en?
tirely obscure.
CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING.
Friends and Relatives of Mr. and Mrs.
H. M. Spaain Gather With Them on
Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary.
It was a goodly company that as?
sembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
H. M. Spann on last Monday, 10th
inst. to pay their respects to, and en
joy tho hospitality of this aged couple
on the fiftieth anniversary of their
wedding day. He is eighty and she
is seventy-three and both, are still
hale and hearty for their years. Mr.
Spann served the whole four years in
the Confederate army, and I have
heard people say no braver man. ever
entered the* ranks.
There were the children, two boys
and two girls, tho grandchildren,
eighteen in number, with the bo*oth?
ers, sisters and other relatives of, Mr.
and Mrs. Spann, all there to do honor
to the occasion.
Then the dinner, tho hams, the
turkeys, the barbecue, tho cakes, the
pies, nuts and fruit; in fact almost
everything that one can think frf
good to eat, a real old time wedding,
feast, served with good clieer and
open-handed hospitality. Wre all en?
joyed being with them at this time,
for these occasions seldom come to us.
May Mr. and Mrs. Spann have many
years addod to their long lives of use?
fulness, and may their last days be
their best day a.
?L. F. D.
Privateer Netra Letter.
Privateer, Dec 20.?There is not
much news In this section. Christ?
mas is only a few days off with pros?
pects Of Its being; a very quiet one.
The liethel school will give a Christ*
mas tree Thursday evening, aft if
which the teachers will go to their
?I?
homes for tho holidays. V.
Miss Beatrice Ardls of Pinewood
spent the J>U8< week at Mr. H, H.
Hat Kiev's.
Mr. W. I >. Lynam of La it re
visiting In the neighborhood.
Mr, and Mrs. George Nea<
Batesburg niro visiting In tho nel|
hood.
Dr, It. Bl Fur man spent Ihe
< ud in Asheville, N. <\
Mrs. lv W, Osteen, who was r
?-? l ill at last writing, is convah
NEW SOTTON TRADE RULES.
OUSTON AMENDS REGULATIONS
ON FUTURES.
langes Designed to Lessen Cost and
RedUOO Amount ol* Clerical Labor
Needed.
Washington, Dec. 21.?The sccrc
stary of agriculture has amended his
rules and regulations under the Unit?
ed States cotton futures act by mak?
ing changes designed to permit the
filing of what are known to cotton
exchange brokers as "replacement
disputes," to reduce the amount of
costs which may be assessed for
hearing a dispute involving a small
number of bales and to lessen the
clerical labor in connection with the
determination of disputes.
The first change permits the parties
to future exchange contracts to refer
to the secretary of agriculture dis?
putes involving the grade, length of
staple or quality of cotton tendered
in replacement of other cotton pre?
viously tendered which has been re?
jected by the party receiving the ten?
der. Complaints or stipulations in
connection with those disputes may
I be filed on or before the fifth busi?
ness day succeeding the date of the
tenders.
The second change reduces from
$10 to $5 the minimum amount which
may be assessed as costs in any dis?
pute. No change is made in the rate
where the total charge would be
more than $.r> based on the rates per
bale set out in the regulations.
The third change makes it optional
with the office ol* markets and rural
organization, instead of mandatory as
in the past, to furnish the parties with
the examiner's memorandum of con?
clusions, this change having been
made for the reason that ordinarily
the formal findings of the secretary
are prepared and sent to the parties
on the same date as the memorandum
of conclusions, making it unneces?
sary in such cases to prepare and
send out copies of the memorandum.
Christmas Charity Fund.
Previously acknowledged . . . .$677.33
Cash.: 1.00
lt. L. Wright. 1.0a
J. K. Crosswell. 2.50
Total.v$ 6 81.8.1
Nyack, N. Y., Dec. 23.?Countess
flda von Claussen, who once attempt?
ed to sue Roosevelt for a million dol?
lars, has won ho- release from a in?
sane asylum for the third ih ?.
We will open Ute ?rst of January with a complete line of Over?
land Cars. The Overland people ore making a new No. Ii Five
Pnesengcr Tonring Cor, complete with electric lights and starter, at
$615.00
(F. O. B. Toledo, Ohio)
This model ear will he ready for delivery some (into during the
Orot of the year. Any one wanting one of these ears will please
place their order with us at once, ns this So, 75 cur will be very'
popular. Cur temporary neu quarters will be at The II & C Garage
on Council Street, Phone Xo. KM). AI night call W. J. Shaw's resi?
dence, Phone Xo. 7:t7. Our new place which Is BOW being con?
structed, will be on the Rowland block, on liberty Street.
WILUE SHAW,
Sec. & Troas.
.ES CO.,
WILL J. SHAW.
Pres. & Manager.
MSB
Kttttttt
PAID $51.32
Per Share to their 1915 Subscribers. This included
amount paid io $50.00 plus interest and fines.
For your 1916 New Year Resolution: Resolved to
join The Peoples' Savings Fund.
Our Savings Dept. Pays 4 per cent
On Time Certificate 5 per cent.
HENRY FORD ILL. called a doctor. He has postponed
Christiania, Dec. 23.?Henry Ford, his trip to Stockholm until New Years.
Will Arrive Monday, Dec. 27th.
<1 Twenty mules, all sizes, and seven horses in
this car.
^ We will have on hand about one hundred head
of good young mules arid horses from which to make
your selection.
^ Our Mr. J. P. Booth spent this week on the St.
Louis Market selecting this car of stock for Sumter
territory's special needs, and his well know ability
is a guarantee of their quality.
<f Come in and look them over. We will try and
make prices and terms appeal to you.
Sumter, S. C.