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MTmmi M. Dy lttt alflt night for New York where ehe will purchase goods lor the au niter Millinery Co. , Uftes, Annie Norlns West of Ben netthv(T1s is the tuest of her aunt, AN**. #;ifeMlum. on Washington Iii * esst atrs. J. K. Bradford re from I a Kniend and in Florida, where they ??een for several weeks enjoying s^esa weather in that section, ejhjpb dhseWtat Bradford recovered d*ap* e, tooent laesepoaltron. sheriff ^ft#N /resorts that much of the bJIssMtSh whtrh wow killed by the *W+A? esetndpns cut again and save dfcMlftm djnad fruit under the citrus fjppw fmA.dbhd trees and vegetables there are lew signs of the leg? ay the cold. M WeweM, of Rocky Mount, *. ?? ObhOSbi superintendent of n of the first division of Coast Line railroad, was bp the city today, coming in of the road. Mr. Newell to fep> et ehe veteran Oeest Line men bom hjpg *aa*r friends here, who were gmd to sec him during bis brief stay, tjo p)f| S)no afternoon to continue his . Me .and Mrs C. IL. 1. Brown end sen, of Charleston, are the et Mr. end Mrs. <*eo. F. Bppei - Wilson end Alva e?e speeding a few days at Friday af? ter Wnehmstwhore he WtB Ojtgsad the inauguration and visa Ijpp nwter. As will be pens a week ' The condition of Mr. J. F. Glenn who ?PS so he some belter this rooro - engt when he was able to swallow eppse panrmbimnl. the first he has Sftjpjaj nmop he received the second Wtppfce Of parsiysis Friday sight. Ho #> ntUt an n crtwont eoadMion, however, bpd there fto pencOJcssly no hope ef Mr. J. N. shewn has returned to the ore/ frone SW a*>w*a> where ho went to psjstuna a oar lewd of moles for the W. B. Boyle Company. 4SI Mr C. Brno Stwbbs, Strmter, 8. C. ? Wr Beer Sir: I thank you for fwev favor of Itth. I note what you Shy albebt fhe city of Somter as a ejmtrnl point for storing and market dJag eofton. There can be no doubt #at womftoi Is very favorably sltuat bft for surh a ptrrpoee. Indeed with ?f. Rowland*! new warehouse I think SPA In the beet eqntpped interior town # the 'Rate, to become a great cot ifo haarest four banking facilities 4M base pOeWtlarly good. I feel very webttp reword* Somter end her peo {?m\ nwt after all It Is the people. dJnai make a town. You have some WJ Somter. they would b Boot .town anywhere. Sincerely. John L. MeLaurln. lie. March ?. hies ?? War Recover. March f.?f. N. Norrls. Chester c it Iren, created a sensation today when he took In the form of strychnine tab a time it seemed as though to revive him would prove fettle. Tonight he Is in a serious con fjfeotv It |? supposed he took the tfcbPJb With sbftcidal intent. He was in transacting legal bus! w wiwpbr^ owice wesb ab fhe time B. M. POWELL DEAD. End Came to Confederate Veteran ae He We* Seated * Chair Beadhig Benjamin M. Powell, a well known citizen of Sumter, died' this morning at his home on North Washington Street, where he hue been ill for about tea days. Heart disease is given as the cause of his death. Mr. Powell was seated in a chair in front of the fire reading a paper, when he gave one gaep and life left his body. Mr. Powell hi a native of Cheater county, but has lived In Lancaster and elsewhere before coming to Sun. - ter about twenty years ago. He en? gaged in various occupations and for the past, few years has been operating a shooting gallery, where he saw many peple, all of whom liked him for his friendly greeting and un? failing courtesy. He was 77 years of age and a Confederate veteran, hav? ing served throughout the war as a sharpshooter, being generally report? ed to be the man who killed Oen. Sedgwick. The deceased is survived by the following children: Mrs. W. W. McKagen, Mrs. J. W. Bradford, Miss Nettle Powell, Mrs. J. K. Drakeford, Sumter; Mrs. H. H. Oillespie, Ports? mouth, Ohio; Mrs. Marie Player, Scott'? Perry, Fla.; Med, Newton, Miss; Ben, McKeysport, Pa.; John, Jacksonville, Fla.; Edwin, Salisbury, N C; Cuttlno, with the Second South Carolina infantry at El Paso. MBS. HEMLBERT ON TUBERCULO? SIS. Mrs. Annie I. Rembert of Columbia, special agent of the State Health Board in the fight against the spread or tuberculosis, was in the city yesterday and made an effective talk on ways and means of carrying on an educational campaign concerning the disease and measures for Its pre? vention. Mrs. Rembert is discussing tho matter all over the State and is working1 hard to aid in the fight against the great white plague. Mrs. Rembert urged the establish? ing of a camp for tuberculosis pa? tients In Sumter county, as she has boon urging in other counties, and for a campaign to teach the school children how they may aid in the fight on this dread disease'. The State camp at Columbia is sm all at present and only patients w,.th the disease in its Inclplency are taken, there now. Recently the leg slatu re appropriated $40,000 for establishing a large addition to the camp for tak? ing more patients. Mrs. Rembert is ahm trying to got tho counties to es? tablish camps for treatment of pa? tients ,ln order that persons afflicted may be seggregated from others, es? pecially children, thus preventing the spread of tho disease. Mrs. Rembert came here under the auspices of the Civic League arid there were a number of members of tin league, some doctors, the health of? ficer and members of the board of health present to hear her talk. She will visit Sumter again next week to speak before the County Medical As? sociation. . Marriage. Mr. M. J. Davis of Manning and Miss Lily Douglas of Wlnnsboro were quietly married Saturday evening at the parsonage of* tho First Baptist church, the Rev/ W. E. Thayer olTl clatmg. Miss Douglas has been teaching to the Singleton school for the past two and a-haif years, but decided to give op this work to become Ura. Davla. She had made a number of friends in Sumter and vicinity, who wish the young couple much haupl ness. ^ Rub-My-Tlsm?Antiseptic, relieves rheumatism, sprains, neuralgia, etc. PRESIDENT SAYS IT IS NO USE TP CALL. EXTRA SESSION UNLESS SENATE RULES ARE CHANGED, Adjournment of Congress Loaves Wilson Without Power to Act as Ho Deems Best in Meeting Subma? rine Menace?Country in Perilous Situation by Reason of Minority Act/?Cannot Limit Rebate in Up* per House. Washington, March 4.?President Wilson tonight informed the country I in a statement that he may be without i power to arm merchant ships and I take other steps to meet the German submarine menace, in the absence of authority from c?n?ref An extra session of confc 5ss, th? president says, is required to clothe him with authority but it is useless to call one while the senate works under the present rules, which per? mit a small minority to keep an over? whelming majority from acting. Tho president proposes therefore, that the special session of the senate which he has called to meet tomor? row revise the rules "to supply the means of action and save the country from disaster." "A little group of wilful men" says the president in his statement, rep? resenting no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and con temptible. The president's statement In full follows: "The termination of the last ses? sion of the Sixty-fourth congress by constitutional limitation discloses a situation unparalleled in the history of the country, perhaps unparalleled in the history of any modern gov? ernment. In the immediate presence of a crisis fraught with more subtle and far-reaching possibilities of na? tional danger than any other tho government has known within the whole history of its international re? lations, the congress has been unable to act either to safeguard the coun- j try or to vindicate tne elementary | rights of Its citizens. More than 500 j of the 531 members of the two houses were ready and anxious to act; the house of representatives had acted, by an overwr elming majority; but the j senate was unable to act because a little group of 11 senators had de? termined that it should not. "The senate has ro rules by which debate can be limited or brought to I an end, no rules by which dilatory tactics of any kind can be prevented. A single member can stand in the way of action if he has but the physi can endurance. The result in this case is a complete paralysis alike of the legislative and executive branches of the government. This inability of the senate to act has rendered some of the most necessary legislation of the session impossible at a time when the need for it was most pressing and most evident. The hill which would have permitted such combinations of capital and of organization in the ex? port and import trade of the coun? try as the circumstances of interna-l tional competiton have made imper? ative?a bill which the business judg? ment of the whole country approved and demanded?has failed. "The opposition of one or two sen | ators has made It impossible to In j crease tho membership of the Ittttr I stato commerce commission or to gi"?? it the altered organization necer^ni v for its efficiency. The ton^ervntloi bill which should have released for immediate nse the mineral POroOroea which ftre tftH) locked up in the pub? lic lands, now that their release 1.* more imperatively nocensary than ever, and the bill which would have made the unused warerpower of the country immediately available for In ?????^???? i j dustry have both failed though they have been under consideration throughout the sessions of two con? gresses and have been twice passed by the house of representatives. "The appropriations for the army have failed, along with the appropria- j tions for the civil establishments ofj the government, the appropriations for the military academy at \Vesl Point and the general deficiency bill. It has proved impossible to extend the powers of the shipping^ board to meet the special needs of the new situa? tion into which our commerce has been forced or to increase the gold reserve of our national banking sys? tem to meet the usual circumstances of the existing financial situation, "tl would not cure the difficulties to call the Sixty-fifth congress in extra? ordinary session. The paralysis of the senate would remain. The pur? pose and the spirit of action are not lacking now. The congress is more definitely united in thought and pur? pose at this moment, I venture to say, than it has been within the memory of any man now in its membership. There is not only the most united pat? riotic purpose, but the objects mem? bers have in view are perfectly clear and definite. But the senate can not act unless its leaders can obtain un? animous consent. Its majority is powerless, helpless. In the midst of j a crisis of extraordinary peril, when fell!? definite and decided action can make the nation safe or shield it1 from war itself by the aggression of others, action is impossible. "Although as a matter of fact, the nation and the representatives of the nation stand back of the executive with unprecedented unanimity and spirit, the impression made abroad will, of course, be that it is not so and that other governments may act as they please without fear that this government can do anything at all. We can not explain. The explana? tion is incredible. "The senate of the United States Is the only legislative body In the world which can not act when its majority is ready for action. A little group of wilful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. "The remedy? T"here is but one remedy. The only remedy is that the rules of the senate shall be so alterjd that It can act. The country can bo relied upon to draw the moral. I be? lieve that the senate can be relied on to supply the means of action S9j< save the country from disaster. ' At the same time the president authorized the further statement that what rendered the situation even mor? grave than it had been supposed that it was, was the discovery that while the president under his general con? stitutional powers could do much Of what he had asked the congress to empower him to do, it had been fouur that there were certain old statute? as yet unrepealed which may raise insuperable practical obstacles and may nullify his power. The old law referred to by tin president was adopted by congress in 1819 and referred to the resist ance of American merchant men against the attacks of private rs and pirates, but excluded from vessels which might so attack a "public armed vessel of a nation in amity with the United States, and subma? rines are "public armed vessels" of Germany. The president's statement followed a conference at the White House be? tween Mr. Wilson, Secretary McAdoo, Postmaster General Burleson, Col. R. M. House, Vance C. MeCormie!:, , chairman of the Democratic national ; committee, and Secretary Tumulty, j It will be noted that the president referred to the opposition group as containing 11 senators, Whereas the ' 13 who had opportunity to do so fail? ed to sign the manifesto. Senator Penrose did not sign, but said he would have voted for the armed neu? trality bill had opportunity been af? forded. It was assumed that the president had eliminated also Sena? tor Stone !n his list, because Stone announced he opposed the bill, but did not oppose a vote. In the Police Court. The following- cases were disposed of in the police court today: A. H. Barber, disorderly conduct, two cases, $25 or 30 days on each charge. Horace Seale, exceeding speed lim? it in auto, acquitted. M. B. Cox, leaving car unlighted at night, $3 or 6 days. Willie Young, gambling, $5 bond forfeited. A. L. Shaw, leaving car unlightec at night, $?, bond forfeited. Fire Sunday night at about 9 o'clock caught in an out house on East Calhoun street back of the residence of Mr. Bell, but was extinguished by the fire department before much dam? age was done. THE SUBMARINE HARVEST. England Congratulates Herself That Germany Sank Only Half KffMoii Tonnage. London, March 3.?Germany failed by slightly more than a fifty per cent, margin to make good her threat to sink a million tons of merchant ship? ping during the first month of un? restricted submarine warfare. ? Ac? cording: to reliable figures the total tonnage of ships sunk during Feb? ruary was approximately four hun? dred and ninety thousand. Geo He Hurst, Urierttfttf itf EitatitT. '-TT Preiept Attentlen tsOay er wifihi.Call?; AT J. 0. Cralf Old ft***, N. Bali Phones nTJJRoi Will agree, that your greatest asset from a business view is the welfare of your neighbor; as he thrives and prospers so will you; on the other udc we find that much of your neighbor's business and prosperity is successfully piloted by your wife counsel; these conditions call it what we may,'co-operation, gel-together or reciprocity it the factor in the making of self-sustained communities. The church, the schools, the social intercourse; belong to you and your neighbor each in common, the same ambition which arouses you to interest in civic betterment is shared alike with him. What influence steals between you to the destruction of one reflect ruin to the other. THE MAIL-ORDER BUSINESS ANTAGONIZES YOU, as well as others. Yet, perhaps in your mail you have received a communication from a self-styled "Credit Rating Agency,'* soliciting your aid to secure for them, information as to the credit risk of some individual whom they already have bound body and soul by statements made in con-j tracts which have been forwarded by them through the mail. To accept these agencies as your clients is legitimate and your privileged But is it wise; is the insignificant fee offered of importance> Beware/ for this is the influence stealing in to destroy your neighbor, 'tis the same influence that tend%to rob your profession of ?ts prestige by imposing on the public a mail-order product, the unfinished student of the law correspondence schools of New York, Boston, Chicago. There is something you owe your neighbors; something he owes you, CONSIDERATION. Won't you join the Boosters to whom we send best wishes? North. S. C._M. O'RILEV. THIS BANK Gives a dollar's worth of real service for every dollar deposited here. 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