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-Arm < vv#s>fn nmow. Motmm to 9 .Shown in Attends imo larch If.?Everything is for COssden's ninth an w??eh token plan \ March 2ft anil Bai ban put In per y entries have with a great In before the rio >? Over seven hundred doi SlWarued as prises, ?es?,K , trophies from the private part leu stop fOr the winter. '* tourist travel hai records for Camden, many having opened their OOfiOinmodate the ln?*oT \y all of the visitor? far the horse show which extraction. Many visi by towns are also ax outlook for an un Jdfeudance Is encourag Fill l>e shown. RAMBUM; MARKS. ke and Crops at It. in? ns Home Sage Ad v ice. March 27 ?Mrs. S. W an unlucUy fall, was bert that she was < o.i *eem and bed. We ate avnVlently recovered to to household du* Brown, quite sick for a improves very slowly, ?fencer, for a long time rmed invalid, is well ?if!**1 prevail In our community UM children of W. u. boon prostrated by it. Atkinson is visit and friends at Dalaell. m goes to Columbia Vt#>V ?rybody here has an auto, get about easily when the {food. |gy kinds of oars are there? of a brand new one the g Henry. What next? are quite nervous ever r. we missed the daily mall In darkness as to the tff too warv W# ars.aver.;? il moan the rank ar.d Hi' but If It Is Inevltal U the quicker the bette" OOS oosp us ?n painful sus H Is to be hoped tnat out ?Sdeuttve and bis advisers will OOonsel of George Wushint: enter a foreign alliance, everything mounting to t!v behooves our people to try ought to have a gard in make It cut the cost of Uv a war on where will pi-ic i wmn always talking about theli ?, are unconsciously talking the truth, not so much what you know you donf know that hui L fool can be a farmer." That'1 Did you ever seo a real that wax a fool? You mider rs. are busy putting down fcr The beat fertilizer, li'.ri >n. is the home-made, planting Is the order of th Put plenty in the ground, and mi strong, put no fertilise1 fm a sissy." snd she turned av.u\ ll with a curl of her ro \ took of t ontempt. Sim coul?; lore him. What was the mat it Is a stinging lash with whe?' a young gentleman Is drive: In he's too slow," and that set* The word passes on down and so does he. o clcvet line* sober. Industrious youtV every whit. By dint o. itlon he rises in the world im him to sit in his saddle ego a lassie said: "Men an women triako them." is tin; If a troth? "Hn^'ood." m notiOSJ TO PHOPFMSOH. Rector ffalsni for Agrh u'.n. Cttslr In I nl\entity. Ma. March 27. ? Ropn sr-it . tor I?. Rect<>r. of Dnrlli Offered the professorship ?> ure in the t'niverslty or ifterejfcs .this hsvin ; l.c n rp . .,!. .< .. lesley by the eomui.tt?< of the hue Of frnsJses having fins fSjtjgi?e. This chair wan author,/f ? ?OO HbSSnt session of thr leKi.nl I nod will be available at the br;'ii u1 Of the nest session. Mr. Rector i* gradoete *? the .ynfvorslty and ? ?secher of sXate-wlde nmown. r A member of tSO house from I'.r it W county -Better Farming in the South HOW CROP YIELDS ARE LIMITED 1 The Weakest Element of Plant Food Fixes the Crop Yield, Just as the Weakest Link Fixes the Strength of the Chain?-Only By Fertilisation Can the Weakness Be Removed. Plants muRt feed to (row. Four es? sential food ?ila? ments come from the air and sis from the soil. Only three of those that cone from the soil fall short of crop ve qulrments and have to be sup? plied by man if the greatest yields are to be obtr.in J. C. PR1DMORE These are \ Agronomist PhosplT ric acid and pot? ash. Every soil may be said to havo a limiting factor of production. This may be a shortage of some plant food element. If so, this should bo sup? plied through fertilization if the larg? est possible yields are to be obtained. No matter how much of other plant food a soil may contain. If there is a shortage of nitrogen, for example, then nitrogen will fix the limits of produc? tion. Likewise with phosphoric acid or other elements. Plants differ from animals in taking food, in that plants will take foods only when the elements composing them are in soluble form, that is, when they are dissolved in water. When one element is deficient, the plant ceases growing. To Illustrate In another why, ob? serve the picture. Here Is a vessel made of staves. Each stave may represent a food ele? ment or other factor of crop produc? tion. Some of the staves are shorter than others. Does not the short:*r stave then determine how much war er the vessel can hold, and does not the shortest plant food element represent? ed here by e stave, limit the possible production of a crop? If, for Instance, there is only enough nitrogen In the soil to produce -2C bushels of corn of 175 pounds of cot? ton per acre, while there is enough plant food elements of other kinds to produce enormously more, how then can greater yields be obtained than the nitrogen will permit? The problem of plant feeding is., therefore, no simple one. It has en? gaged long and most careful investi? gations of scientists, who have dehed deep into the mysteries of how plants feed and what they feed upon. On the basis of the most exact knowledge thus obtained, modern fertilizers have been manufactured. Soil deficiencies, or "Uniting factors," modern fertilizers are designed to remove, and to call into fullest action the natural re? sources of the soil. Since there is a limiting factor in all soils, it is worth while for each farmer to undertake to remove that limitation. Intelligent use of fertilis? ers will accomplish it, if food elements be this limiting factor. In no other way can it be done than by the help of man. He must bring to the plant the food it needs and cannot find when this is the factor limiting producton. The plant, of course, must be given the best of surroundings. It must not only have plenty of plant food, but the soil must be properly drained cf excess water. It must be well supplied with lime, and organic matter;, its moisture must be conserved, and weeds killed through proper cultural methods. These things man can pro? vide. Therefore, if man is not the "limiting factor" and be looks after the plant food requirements, the great? est possible yields will occur. PA8TURE VELVET BEAN3. Inquiry?"What is the most profit* able use of the Velvet Bean?" Plant the velvet bean in the com and get a double crop. They do well together. Plant an early variety and fertilize for a good growth. The mo&t economical use of velvet beans is to let cattle feed on them in the field and then to turn under the vegetable matter remaining. If there are not sufficient cattle on the place, get them and feed them. Why go to the expense of gathering beans, grinding and shipping the meal off to some one else to feed and get the benefits??J. N. HARPER. ADVICE TO GARDFNFRS. .- ?! Iloow to Obtain ?nrly Maturing W - etablcs. Mr. Kditor: The freeze several weeks ago di ? siroyed practically everything green in the gardens of Sumter and en; a fluently our people are without feSO* tables. If they want truck to grow rapidly, nitrate of soda* should be ap i piled as soon as danger of frost H past. We usually have light fro.:t between the 1st and 8th of April and after that date soda can be applied i I the rate of a small teaspoonful to sa< cabbage, corn or tomato plant, care b?lng taken not to let the soda COOK in contact with the plant when th foliage is at all moist. Now, what I started out to suggest was that some of our store keepers should put 01 soda in small packages of 5, 10 and 21? pounds for sale to those who ha < oily small gardens and who coul? not afford to buy a 200 pound sack I believe the gardeners of Sum', would welcome such a move and Ihft4 it would result in having early v? ._? tables mature much more quickly than if only the ordinary Aomsstlc manures wore used. The ami:. >n ? contained in t'icse manures bdl lo undergo a chemical change and be come a nitrate before it is a\ailai ;c for plant food; soda bring ahead:' I nitrate, is ready to feed the plans ? once, and Its use on truck is nlv.? ? protltable. Home Gerdener. rUVKn ON COTTON Sill). Census Bureau Announces Statistic on Product. Washington, Match IT.? Cotl I seed and QOttOTtSSSS' produetl , tistics for the seven months end ? February 2H, announced by the i o ? sus bureau today, include: Cotton seed received at mil] 1.-IS,102 tons; ?lUOlnd ::. t ? T.V J tons: on band at SJtlltt 1111,001 ton Crude oil produced l .?> I i. : I, I. pounds: on hind. ?i.sn/.sTi pound! Refined oil pTOdueed IOS,181,?0< peejnae; on hand. ISl.tse.918 poum hinters produced !????.?. I:;s (<|iii..| ? : oOO poun<l bales; <>n band. IV.'"' bales Hull fibre pt od need IC0,| I .*. I on band. IS,lea bales on iisjorti M01.M1 pounds; . ports. lO.llf.OOl pounds. Lintorf exporta onbleached, P< rnnalni ?alee; bledohed, 7.?..ar,s i>n! Washington, .March St.?The >\ ^lepa rfiiient today called foui National ftuarri regiments Into t? federal service. They are th ? West Virginia. Seventy-fourth York. Hecond Conneelk ut, and I New Jersey. INTERNES) SAILOKS IN STOCK AU1 Men From Cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm In New Lodgings at Fort McPlier son. Atlanta, March 27.?The crew o the , Oerman auxiliary cruiser Kr?v prim Wilhelm, 411 officers and me* arrived at Fort McPherson today, de? clined to give any pledges whatto ever, saluted the United States flat Hi the band played "The Star Spangloc. Banner" at "retreat" and were placed In a stockade. Those brought here from Philadelphia, where th*v ha< been interned, included only the pt licers and crow of the Wilhelmn, th? remainder of ? the 750 sailors bein^ taken to Fort Oglethorpe, near Chat tanoogn When the train bearing the sailor j arrived at the post, Capt. Thier l folder and eight German officers we;? ! met by Capt. H. S. Wagner, of th< i Seventeenth infantry and informs ! that they were to be immediately ta\ i en before Col. Charles R. Noyes. i I command. After a curt introductio ; of himself, the captain presented one of the other officers and then wa: told by Col. Noyes that "I havi j sent for you that I might know yo and that you might know me." H had proceeded no further whe ,d Thierfelder interrupted to say "My ' men are military men just the same as you and we will give no pledgee," The Germans will be housed in fl\c barracks surrounded by a barbe wire stockade 13 feet in height. DUTCH SHIPS CONFISCATED. Great Britain Reported to Have Seiz? ed Grain Shi|>s in Knglisli Port. Washington, March IS.?The Dutch steamships in British ports are re? ported here to have been confiscated iy Qreat Britain, Th* Informatior which couid nol be confirmed at tht Netherandt legation. Is understood t< I have come from a grain house whirl sold the Dutch government the grail 1 .board many ol the vessels. Greai Britain has been insisting thai it oer tuln percentage <>i Dutch merchant mop carry cargoes to Qreat Britain i which request 111 * * Dutch goverumeu refused, There uro about forty Dutcl ?'ossols now in Hrltlsh ports. OLJVKH APPOINTED GOVKRNOR Hear Admiral Will llulv Danish W?s! Indies. Washington, March *js?Bee rotary Danlsll has named Rear Admiral Oli vor, ehwf of the bureau of nnval In lelllgence, to eel us governor of th< Danish \Wst Indies, which the I'nit ed States wil take over on Saturday Important fortifications will be con? structed, and the Islands will be US j as a Mt ill bifao. *.*?.. . ?>?>? Tile Merchants Enter Into Agreement to Close Their Stores at ? o'clock I?. M. Eveiy Day, Saturday Excepted, l'Yom April 1st to September 1st. We the undersigned merchants of the city of Sumter, hereby agree to close our stores at six o'clock p. m. every day except Saturday, beginning on the flrtt day of April and contin? uing during the months of April, May. June, July and August of the year 1917: ' The Sumter Clothing Company, McCollun Bros. Cuttino & McKnight, I?evy & Moses, Shaw ard McCollum Merc. Co. . Moran (k Co. . w. h. Shelley & Ron, Carolina Grocery Co. Wreck Store, Stubbs Bros. The D. J. Chandler Clothing Co. W. B. Burns & Son, Bultmar Shoe Co. W. M. Folsom Co. ? Cash Dry Goods Co. L,. W. Folsom, Mclnvail & Zeagler, Sumter By. & Mill Supply Co. Ducker & Bultman, DuRant Hardware Co. M. Green, McClellan Stores Co. J. M. Chandler, V. H. Phelps, E. R. Taylor, V. Baula, Spann's Cash Grocery, The O'Donnell Dry Goods Co. O'Donne: 1 & Co. L. F. Ntmce, The Sunder Dry Goods Co. Geo. H. Hurst, Is. E. Led rand, B. J. Bat nett, Columblc. Tailoring Co., W. A. Thompson, W. L. Lester Furniture Store, American Tailors, M. H. Flaum, The following stores agree to close at 6 o'clock after their Easter sales. The Battery. The Boston Furnishing Co. I* Alpert, J. Denmark. ?Close at I all the year: ?Schwarte Bros., ?The Ladies' Shop, ?The Misses Wilkes, ?Lev! Bros. ?*U. S. Woolen Mills Co NATIONAL GUARD SUPPLIES. iff Quartermaster's Department Busy As? sembling Stores. Chicago, March 27.?Quantities of military stores, equipment and food were being prepared here tonight by the Chited States army quartermas? ter's department for dispatch to the National Guard units of Illnois, In? diana, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Min? nesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming and Ohio, being mobilized under the di? rection of Major Gen. Thomas h Barry, commander of the Central De pa.rtment. Details of the prepara? tions were withheld under the army censorship regulations. Unofficial: y it was stated that prep? arations also were under way to care for the neel3 of the guard organiza? tions not now under arms. While no figures were announced as to the number of recruits, Ion;? lines of applicants were ? about the re? cruiting stations, the Illinois National Guard armories and the naval reserve headquarters. SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER AR? RESTED. Roat Loaded With Dynamite Discov? ered in New York Harbor. New York, March 28.?The discov? ery of a motor boat containing forty pounds of dynamite, and sixteen de? tonating caps within a half mile of Curt Totten. not far from a United Slates destroyer oil neutrality duly, resulted in t lie detention of a man who gave his name as Mathias John? son, of Perthamhoy, New Jersey. Johnson asserted that he was i wrecker who had pdt in for, shelter Police said be had no license as n wrecker or to cany dynamite. On Do?viuan-IIarby Case. The Bowiiian-Harby cotton case for $325,000 has and is attracting niu^h interest in court this week. Yester? day afternoon the testimony given by F. C. Hubble, as taken in Texas week before lest, iraa gone OVSr und sub? mitted to th<* court' ?nd jury. This morning Mr, B. Mttn Hall, one of the book-keepers of Harby A Company was on the stand for the plaintilf to tCHtify as to the accounts of BOW man und Hubble us shown by the books. Messrs. Purdy A Bahd, .1. II. Clif? ton .*!..<I II. D. Molse ure representing thn plaintiff, Bowmen, and Messrs. L. It. 'Jennings, Davis D. Moise, N. W. Robertson, It 1). Fpps and F. A. Mr I^'cvdv/ne representing tho defendant llurby, PAXVILLE NEWS BUDGET. . . - ? ut.*m win -w. ?i . K. Brenden Delivers I<\jrcefal Ad dross to W. C. T. U.?Flower De I mi it men t Active. Paxville, March 28.?Quito a large udience greeted Mr. John K. Breedln, of Manning, a representative of the Anti-Saloon League, on last ?unday evening at the Methodist church, when by special invitation of the Wo? man's Christian Temperunco Union he delivered a most forceful address on the life of Miss Frances K. Wil lard. Mr. ,Breedin's messages car? ried profound thought, were ably pressnted, and were favorably recoiv od by the audience. Special music was rendered by Miss Jessie Curtis, and Lea t ha Ed wards. A generous contribution was received for the ben? efit of the Willard Memorial Fund. Under the auspices of the Flower department of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, a chysanthemum club has been organized by the la? dies of the town and community. It is not necessary to become a member of the union to .join the club The president, Mrs. N. G. Broadway, will be glad to take the name of any one and is very desirous for a large mem? bership. She will also give any de? sired information. An exhibit of the blooms will be held in the fall and some valuable prizes will be awarded the most successful growers. Mrs. Hattie DuRunt came last week from Bishopville to spend awh.le with her daughter, Mrs. W. R. Keels. Several of the young people are re? hearsing a play entitled "A Kentucky Belle," which they hope to present very soon for the benefit of the Methodist church piano fund. Mrs. G. H. Curtis, Jr., and children are back from Columbia, where she took Master Henry Beach for special treatment at a hospital there. She was accompanied by Mrs. Madge Curtis, of Chesterfield. Mrs. Marion Cox and children from Florence are visiting at the home of her mother, Mrs. H. McLeod. Miss Pearl Broadway has closed her school near Pinewood, and is at home to spend her vacation. Mr. H. S. Boyd, ot Lamar, was here for a short visit to relatives last week. GERMAN FOOD FAMINE. Canvass of Food Supplies Shows Un? favorable Situation. Copenhagen, March 28.?A recent canvass of grain, potatoes and other food crops on hand in Ger any re? vealed so unfavorable a coi. iton as to cause general apprehension, ac? cording to the Berlin Vorwaerts, which quotes Socialist Deputy Ehert as saying that the 1916 yield of broad grains was only fifteen pounds per capita above that of the 1915 harvest which was regarded as almost ca? lamitous. MISSIONARY SOCIKTV MEETS. Officers Elected for Ensuing Quurter ?Next Meeting With Mrs. Spencer. Horatio, March 2S.?The Woman's Missionary Society of Bethesda church met at the home of Mrs. S. W. Allen of Rembert on Saturday, March 3. One of the most important features of the meeting was the election of of ? ficers for the ensuing quarter. Those elected were: Mrs. J. L. Jack? son, president; Mrs. T. R. Moody. 1st vice president; Mrs. C. A. Jackson. 2nd vice president; Mrs. D. O. Mc? Leod, treasurer; Mrs. W. M. Lenoir, Jr., secretary, Miss Courtenay Atkin? son, assistant secretary and Mrs. W. J. Spencer, agent for the "Missionare Voice." The amount collected as pledge money was $5.75 and duet $5.45, total $11.20. Among the other enjoyable feature of the meeting was the delightful course of refreshments served by the hostess. This is one of the most progressive societies of the community and is do? ing an eificient work in Foreign Mis sions. The next meeting will he held April 1 at the home of Mrs. W. J. Spencer. Mrs. W. M. Lenoir, Jr., Secretary. STORM IN ALABAMA. Fourteen Persona Killed at Pctrcy and Much Damage Done. Montgomery. Ala.. March 27.?A storm at Potrey, Alabama, early today destroyed virtually every house there, killing Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Middle brooks, Thomas Hanby. the school teacher, his daughter, Ethel. Robert .Tetter, and nine negroes, according to a message received bete. The storm did Considerable damage to crops be? tween Petrey and Providence. CRETIC COMES IN. A White Star Liner Arrives From Europe. New York. March 28.-?The arriva' at an Atlantic port of the White Star Line freighter Cretlc from a European port is announced. Constipation, if Ntfbet* Causes Serious Ulm Constipation, if negiectcd, leads to almos*: innumerable complica? tions affecting the general health. Many cases of typhoid fever, appendicitis and other severe dit easet are trace? able to prolonged clogging of the bowels. Regard the effects of constipation. C ? E. Ayers, 6 Sabin St., McJntpeh'er, Vt, says: "I was adUctai with conitlpatioO and biliousness for yean;, and at times became so bad 1 would become unconscious I have been found in tlmt condition many times. Physicians did not stem to be abVe ts do me tnj good. I would become weak and for days at a time could ds no work. 2\'ot long ago I got a bos of Dr. M11??' Laxative Tablets, an? after using them found 1 had never tried anything tbat acted in au<*h a mild and effective manner. I believe I have at last found the remedy tbat suits my case." Thousancs of people are sufferers from habitual constipation and while possibly realizing something of the danger of this condition, yet neglect too long to employ proper curative measures until serious ill? ness often results. The advire of all physicians is, "keep your bowels clean," and it's good advice. Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablets are sold by all druggists, at 25 cents a box containing 25 doses. If not found satisfactory, your money is returned. 7 MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. - Nothing Succeeds Like Success. "Be sure you are right and then go ahead, say the producers of Sutferro Sol," you can make the trip. The average medicine vender doesn't belong in the main tent with the regular zoological exhibit, he stands on near the main entrance, yelling and hawking himself to death* endeavoring to attract the attention of the maim, the halt and the blind. Like the country boy's muskrat trap, he must "kech 'em goin' an' comln." 'It's too had that such an efficient remedy as Sulferro-Sol ever has to be advertised," says Mrs. Lena Bagley, 107 1-2 North 24th St., Birmingham, Ala., "but then it's the only way of letting everybody know Suiferro-SoJ healed me. I am cured of pellagra. I used no other medicine or treatment in conjunction with it. It's all right, and I heartily recommend It." "And me, too,' says F. P. Schlos? ser, a watchmaker, 409?19th St., Birmingham. For years t had ca? tarrh. I used Sulferro-Sol. It did a great deal for me, and it deserves the good testimonials it is getting every? where." Sulferro-Sol Is sold and recommend? ed by every Druggist in Sumter and vicinity. Murray Drug Co., State Dis? tributors.?Advt. EXAMS FOR POSTMASTERS. Wilson Soon to Direct New Plan to Take Effect. Washington, March 27.?President Wilson will issue within the next few days an order requiring examinations for candidates for nominations as first, second and third class postmas? ters to go into effect April 1. Postmasters of these classes now are named without any sort of com? petitive tests, usually upon the recom? mendation of the member of congress in whose district the office is located. The recent announcement that the change was contemplated stirred up a row at the capitol which will be re? vived upon the return of congress next week. It is understood that the new plan has not been perfected. There has been no statement as to whether the civil service commission will conduct the examinations. MANY JOIN THE NAVY. New York, March 27.?Almost swamped by the rush of applicants for enlistment, the recruiting officers of the United States navy in this city have appealed to the municipal Civil Service Commission to supply finger? print experts to take the prints of men enlisting in the navy. In the metropol? itan district today 101 men enlisted, it was announced. Recommended by Doctor Cothram Dr. T. E. Cothram is a well-known pharmacist of Alexis, Ala* And when he gets bilious or needs a purgative medicine, what do you suppose he does? Out of his whole big stock of liver medicine he selects and uses Granger Liver Regulator. Ho says "There is none better." That's a pretty strong endorsement, den't you think, from a man who knows all about the merits of the different medi? cines on the market? Granger Liver Regulator is purely vegetable, does not gripe nor irritate the delicate lin? ing1 of the stomach and bowels r.r.J ilways river, quick and pleasant re? sults. It is the best system puriticr known. Your druggist can supply you-^25c for large box. Accept no substitute.