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HOHR DEMONSTRATION INSTI? TUT!* of Instruct km June Ii for Tosnato Club Girl*. Mary Ummon and Minnie home demonstration agent*, at Sem t er Qbojnber of Commerce rooms, fcave entered Important and instruc? tive government and Winthrop Col Mfjp pullet Ina on canning, preserving, gloflMrg eo4 drying fruits and vege fpplil which wUl be distributed free 14 Aose who call at home demonstra tjQsj department or phons Chamber of ros. Phone No> 200 to have availed to theo?. Chamber of Commercs has also Iber of bulletins of poultry squab raising, home garden it Ion which will be mailed out or #ven to thoe* who apply for same. Minnie Jones, assistant home itien agent is now In charge et Use securing of homes for 150 girls ei the oasjejng and tomato clubs of this county who will attend the three ofeg short course of Instruction In en June ltth. 20th. and 21st. requests that those ladles of who promised to assist In Se? thes* homes will kindly gst sejey leek log after earns as the time MirtaQlPir when the girls will be here ae the) guests of the hospitable people The Sumter Chamber of Is helping in every way, and one who will entertain a tomato club girl is requested to phons the Chamber of Commerce, phone 200 Without unnecessary delay. The people of Sumter have an ex? cellent opportunity presented to them to do a good work for Sumter, and to aastet In cementing closer the ties of friendship ar 4 good will between Sum? ter and the rural districts of Sumter county by doing everything within tsvslr power, as city people, to wel? come and entertain the young women from the country from which the city of Sumter largely derives its support m many way a That Sumter's hospitable women and men are fj^tng to meaaure up splendidly to tlte opportunity offered no oas doubts. But business Is busi? ness even where hospitality Is con? cerned And the home demonstra? tion department and the Chamber of Commerce must necessarily know, well in advance, just who will take ae their guests these young women so that a list can be made of hostesses and assignment* made of the guests. Theer must be system in this en? tertainment, and those In charge of the short course must know in ad? vance what to expect of Sumter In the of hospitality. Lemraon an<* Jones have promised that a g* . many sum? ter ladies would cheerfully assist in securing these homes. This is pe? culiarly a woman's duty and a wo? man's peculiar sphere of usefulness. It is going to call for quick, co? operative and efficient team work among the women of Sumter. That Hamter's public spirited women will do their full duty end do It quickly and well 1* a foregone conclusion to all who know Sumter women. A Mit hem Break fast Food. While stopping at a hotel in South Carolina I noticed on the breakfast menu, among the cereals. "Yam Nuts." Being of an Investigating turn of mind, I ordered some and got a dish of something that looked like and tasted like "grape nuts." I knew that there was no grape In grape nuta, end was. therefore, susplcloua that there might be no yam in yam nuts. I'pon Inquiry I found that the yam nuts were manufactured in Greenville. B. C. and so when I visited that city I hunted up the yam nut factory, which I found to be a modeat estab? lishment. Mr. Will?,iron, the inventor of the process. Informed me that they had been manufacturing on an ex? perimental scale, but had met with auch success that a company with ample capital had been formed to manufacture thie new breakfast food. Tarn nuta have got yam In thorn, thr principal ingredlont being sweer. po? tatoes. It Is proposed to manufacture ysm fHtkfSj as w>d| ua>yam nuts. The yam nut folks have already contracted for 140,000 bushels of sweet potatoes to begin on next fall.?Southern Bu? rs list. The people of South Carolina may he ready to expect a reduction In pas? senger service, made necessary by the demands of the war upon the railway systems. The Southern railway will within 30 days take off six trains and It Is expected that appeals will be nied later for further reductions In servlc*. when the war materials begin to move. The Pre. ??vterun College of South Caroline. Clinton, conferred the de? gree Doctor of Uten? u re upon Hupt. H H Edmunds at the annual commencement Wednesday of last week. Dr. Edmunds was similarly honored by Wofford Collego last year. STORING BWKET POTATOES. < me-Fifth of Sweet Potato Crop An? nually Ixmt by Decay. one fifth of the sweet potato crop of the Southern States?10,000,0400 bushels of the average crop of 60, oo ),000- is lost annually by decay. Careless handling at harvest time and Improper storage cause almost the entire loss. To save these 10,000,000 bushels to the food supply this year and also take care of the probable Increase In production le the object of efforts specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture are making to induce growers In the South to prepare well-ordered stor? age houses as soon as possible for the coming harvest. I Storage can be provided by con? verting vacant buildings into stor ago Mouses, or in specially construct? ed buildings. Two things are essen? tial in the store room?good insula? tion and provision for thorough ventilation. The things are provided for In plans fcr a model storage house given in Farmers' Bul? letin 648, "Storing and Marketing Sweet Potatoes." The plans there des scribed are for a building: of 2,500 or 8,000 bushels capacity but the principles of construction can tie as readily followed and applied in pro? viding storage for 500 bushels or for 50,000 bushels. It is economy to build a substantial sweet potato storage house, because It will last longer and require less attention than a cheap, poorly con? structed one. It would be possible to keep sweet potatoes in a cheaper and less carefully constructed house, but the attention required and the ad? ditional fuel used would soon exceed the cost of the extra care and mate? rial required in a better one. The chances of loss are much greater in a poorly built than in a well-built house. Storage houses may be built of wood, brick, cement or stone. Wooden buses are preferable becauso they are cheaper and easier to keep dry. It is difficult to keep moisture from collecting on the walls of a cement stone, or brick house. The house should be built on posts or piers, so as to allow a circulation of air under it. The "dugout," or a house built partly under ground, falls because it is practically impossible to keep this type of house dry, and moisture in the storage house will cause the po? tatoes to rot. The sills should be placed on posts or pillars 12 to 15 inches from the ground, or Just high enough so that a wagon bed will be on a level with the door of the house. On many farms in the south there are buildings, much as abandoned ten? ant houses, that could be converted Into sweet potato storage houses at very little expense. Where there are such buildings they should be used rather than to build a new house. These houses will usually need to be celled on the Inside. For this purpose 8 by 4 inch scantlings should bo set against the wall and covered first with building paper and then a layer of matched lumber. The windows and doors should be made tight and ventilators put In where needed. The bulletin already mentioned describes how these may be made. EP WORTH LEAGUE CONFERENCE. Committees on Arrangements for Meeting Juno ll-Hth. For sometime the Epworth League of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church has been making plans for the enter? tainment of the Lower Conference. The following are the chairmen of the various committees: Decoration?Miss Hassle Parrott. Reception?-Miss Olive Sturgeon. Music?Mrs. F. A. Ltnam. Entertainment?Miss Anna Brown. Information?Miss Hattle Phillips. Transfer?Mr. Hallet Burns. Publicity?Miss Ellen Beach. Anyone wishing to aid these young people by entertaining one or more delegates from June 11th through 14th will please notify any of the above named chairmen. Beyond Human Control. (Christian Register.) Children were discussing "what we'll do when we get big." One want? ed to bo a milkmaid and ride around. The second wanted to ride ort freight cars and "make the round things go." The third could not decide whether to be a minister on a grocer. The fourth child, a girl of 14, did not care to tell. "Aw!" cried he for whom tho min? istry and confectionary had equal at? tractions. "You want to ?et mar? ried. ?? When the boys had run off, the girl's ambition was confided to her favorite aunt. "I wouldn't tell thorn," she said scornfully. "They couldn't understand, but aunty, I want to be a Justice of tho supreme court, and"? her \olee became solemn- --"beyond human control." Let's Feed the South Before We Raise ' Cotton. ] Progressive Farmer. Some of the cotton factors and oil mill operators, in some sections, seem much exclied through fear that the South will not produce its usual full crop of cotton this year. Wo think their alarm unfounded. More cotton in proportion to food and feed crops will be planted than should be, iu thla serious (shortage in food and feed supplies and in the face of the certain demand for food to feed our armies. In fact, the South should be forced to more than feed herself this year, if ahe will not do It voluntarily and as a patriotic duty. And it is not too much to say that any man who as landlord, .supply merchant, banker, or adviser of the farmer offers any discouragement or hindrance to the planting of food and feed crops, is no patriot. We need a cotton crop, it is true, but we do hot need a large one. What we need in the South is the largest possible food and feed supplies of a staple, non-perishable nature. Such crops will certainly be profitable, al? though possibly not so profitable as cotton. But no patriot will seek tc reap large profits at the. expense of the needs of the nation in time of war, for food and feed supplies. The South must not in this year of short food supplies and increased de? mands by our armies and our allies continue as a parasite on the food supplies of the nation. If it is be? neath the honor and patrotism of the South to take for her own use food supplies produced in other sec? tions, while our army and our allies are suffering for food, then the indi? vidual farmer of the South who per? sists in growing cotton at the ex? pense of food supplies should not be permitted to buy and consume the foodstuffs prduced by his more pa? triotic countrymen. There ia no need to advise cotton planting. An ample crop will be planted and It will receive attention at the expenses of all other crops. It Is true that the cotton crop has food value. That every ton of cottonseed is equal in feeding value to a ton of corn, there Is no disposition to deny. Or that from each ton of seed may be obtained 300 pounds of oil suitable for human food and 1,500 to 1,60? pounds of high-class cattle feed; but the statements of some of the advo? cates of cotton in these war times are, to say the least, somewhat ex? travagant. For instance, one daily paper states that the seed from a 14-mllllon-bale crop of co(ton would equal 1,260,0j00,O0O bushels of corn. Estimating a pound of cotton seed equal to a pound of corn in feed value?it is not nearly equal in hu? man food value?the seed from a 14-mllllon-bale crop of cotton would equal about 260,000.000 bushels of corn. But only about 16 or 17 per cent of cotton seed can be or Is used for human food. There is no need to advise the planting of cotton or to proclaim its great value as a money or food crop. Enough will be grown and too much whenever it displaces that proportion of food and feed crops necessary to feed the whole South. We are under duty bound to not only produce the food and feed supplies for Southern farms, we must also grow enough to feed the whole South and stop our drain on the food supplies of the North, which are all needed for our own and our allied armies. LYNCHBl KG CHAPTER RED CROSS. Organizes for Work by Electing Col. J. A. Rltamc Chairman and Miss McNeill Secretary. Lynchburg, June 1.?In accordance with announcements from the pulpits of this town a number of people met at the Methodist church Monday af? ternoon to organize the Lynchburg chap*T of the American lted Cross. Among the number assembled were 25 who had already paid the annual assessment and were enrolled in Wash? ington. The Rev, J. W. Guy was called to the chair and Miss M. S. McNeill was requested to act as sec? retary. After a comprehensive statement by Mr. Guy and the reading by the Rev. F. U Glennan of an article In The State hearing upon Red Cross work, the chapter election was held, resulting as follows: Col. J. A. Rhamc, chairman; Mrs. C. B, Tim mons, vice chairman; Miss Mary S. McNeill, secretary; Mrs. Simon Grif? fin, treasurer. Suitable committees were appointed. The enrollment num? bers 40. TAX ON ADVERTISING. Senate Has Agreed on Two Per Cent Tax on New simpers. Washington, June 4.?The senate flnanot committee has adopted a res? olution against increasing the second class postage rates and In favor of levying a fiat two per cent, tax on advertising receipts. The decision is tentative but is expected to be final. What of The Farm Loan Bank? Spartanburg Herald. Within the last few days The Her? ald has been asked what of the Spar? tanburg Farm Loan Association. It is stated that no loans have been made In this county and that mem? bers of the association and others are anxious to know what to expect. We are not in possession of the facts, but we find that The Progressive Farmer, one of the best agricultural papers in the South, in its current is? sue, replies to a correspondent ad? dressing to that paper much the same inquiry that Ijas come to The Herald. We are reproducing what The Pro? gressive Farmer has to say on the subject: "The National Farm Loan Board is now sending out the actual cash to national farm loan associations. The rural credits law is no longer a mat? ter of theory, the wheels are actually running. With little more delay than will always be necessary you can now borrow up to half the value of your farm at 5 per cent, interest and have 30 to 40 years, if you wish it, in which to repay the loan. "But don't forget that if you are to do this you must join a national 'farm loan association and file your application in due form. Only a few days ago we had this despairing com? plaint from a reader: " T joined the association when it organized,' he wrote, 'and was told at the time that the money would be available by the 1st of March, but read an article in The Progressive Fanner later to the effect that it would not be ready before the 1st of May. That time has now passed, you know, and no one seems to have heard anything from it. I was in town last week and talked with sev? eral business men in regard to it. but they don't seem to think that the money will be put out now since the war has been declared. I also saw our local secretary and he said it would probably be three or four months before an appraiser for this section is appointed and it may be fall or later before we hear .anything from it. I had intended increasing my livestock considerably and want some of (hit money to put down additional fences and build a silo, but from the way things look now it don't seem as if we people in this section arc go? ing to get any benefit from this source any time soon.' "We promptly took up this Com? plaint with the Federal Land bank au? thorities and found this situation. On April 10 they had sent the secretary of this man's local association all the necessary blanks, but this secretary hadn't sent them in. Instead of doing his own part, he was delaying and 'guessing that it would be three or four months' before an appraiser would be appointed to serve his peo? ple. As a matter of fact, the Federal Lahd bank assured us that it had ap? praisers waiting for work. "If you own land and need 5 per cent money for improvements or to pay off debts on your land, you can get nine other people to join with you and organize a national farm loan associa? tion any time now, with the assurance that the money will be forthcoming with reasonable promptness. But you must be sure that your local secretary attends to his work promptly and in a business-like way." Closing of the City Schools. The public schools of the city will close on Friday of this week. The commencement exercises will be held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock. It will be remembered that the schools have had the out-door drills for the girls and the boys and the musical festival of one afternoon and two evenings. The regular exercises for the class will be on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, at 8 o'clock in the Girls' High school building. On Wednesday evening there will bo the competitive drill and the declamations of the boys of the class and on Thursday evening the girls will have the principal place In tho picture. Both of these evenings promise to bo very interesting and ii is hoped that a large number ol friends and patrons will be present on both evenings. One ne/vcr gets a complete idea, unless he is present at the exercises of both evenings. As is customary a nominal fee of ten cents will be charged, any surplus going to the purchase of books for the school library. A set of books has already been purchased in anticipation of this fund. Pear in mind the place?Girls' High School. The time: Wednesday and Thursday evenings at S o'clock. Moth Balls for Sparrows. If the sparrows build in the eaves of your house or underneath the win? dow cornices, try making a few cheese-cloth bags and filling them with moth balls. When hung near the places where the spnrrows are nesting, they will avoid the vicinity as if it were tho plague. Kl IU I) ON RAILROAD TRACK? Leo Boy k in, Young WJiilo Man of Co? lumbia, rouiul Dead on Atlantic Coast liine Sunday Morning. Sunday morning shortly after 8 o'clock the body of a young white man was found beside the Atlantic Coast Line track near the brick yard, with the head fearfully crushed, the indications being that ho had been struck by a passing train. Coroner Seal was notified and he took charge of the body. The only means of identification was a time slip issued to Lee Boykin by the Pacific Cotton Mill, of Columbia. Coroner Seal call? ed up the manager of the mill and received the information that a young man by that name had been in the employ of the mill and that his father lived in Columbia. The father was notified and he came over Sunday afternoon, identified the body as that of his son and after having it embalmed took it back to Columbia for burial. He stated that his son was between sixteen and seventeen years old, and that he had been working in the Pacific Mill until Sat? urday afternoon, at which time he was paid off. He was in Columbia until 5 o'clock Saturday, but it was not known when he left there. He had tried to enlist in the navy, but was refused on account of his age, and his father was inclined to believe that he came to Sumter for the pur? pose of making another effort to get into the navy, thinking that he might be accepted where he was not known, as he was large for his age and could easily pass for several years older than he was. The only testimony offered at the In? quest was by a negro man who stated that early Sunday morning he found the boy asleep beside the track about three hundred yards from the point he was killed. He waked him and ad? vised him to get away from the track if he wanted to sleep. The boy ask? ed him far it was to Mayesville, say? ing that he was going there to see an uncle. This was the last time he was seen alive. The nature of the wound indicated that he was struck by the step of the locomotive, only the top of the head, from the nose up? ward, was injured. He must have been asleep, and was roused by the approach of the train, and raised his head, just in time to be struck bV the step as the train flashed by. The en? gineer of the 7.20 train, which is sup? posed to have been the one that kill? ed young Boykin, did not sec him and knew nothing of the accident until notified of the matter by the coroner. The jury of inquest rendered a ver? dict to the effect that the deceased came to his death by being struck by an Atlantic Coast Line train, as the result of his own carelessness. * GEORGE W. M'LAIN DEAD. Highly Respeeted Colored Citizen Purled Tuesday. The people of Camden were sadden? ed at the death of George W. McLaln, which occurred on last Sunday after? noon at his home on Lyttleton street. "Uncle** George McLain, as he was known was a famiilar chai'acter to our citizens?polite, courteous, and in ev? ery way conducted himself in a way that commanded the respect and con? fidence of all the people of Camden. He was among the old citizens of our community; born in 1846, and for nearly fifty years conducted a very successful barber shop in this city. He was twice married; eleven chil? dren of his first marriage and five of his last survive him. Thus he reared a large family all of whom have con? ducted themselves in a way as to be well thought of by both white and colored. While many of his children are living in other cities, fifteen of them were present to see their father put to rest. His funeral was conducted from the Trinity M. E. Church, Tuesday morn? ing at ten o'clock, by his pastor Rev. G. W. Moore. A large assembly of people attended the funeral to pay their last respects to this very worthy and respected colored man. A good portion of the church was occupied by the white people?probably more attending this funeral than ever before on an occasion of this kind. The barber business which he go successfully built up will l?c continued by his throe sons.?Camden Chron? icle. SUMTER COTTON MARKET. Corrected Daily by ERNEST FIELD, Cotton Buyer. Good Middling 22. Strict Middling 21 1-2. Strict Low Middling 20 1-2. l*>w Middling 20. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Yee'dya Open High Low Close Close July . .22..'10 28.81 21.87 22.22 .17 Oct . . 21.88 81.83 21.45 21.71 81.70 l>ec . . 21.so 81.88 21.R0 21.80 21.78 New York spots 22.70. ON YOUR OWN II KARS. (By Rudyard Kipling.) (The failure to heed this warning by Kipling has caused Great Britain" untold suffering. Shall we also be blind?) Fenced by your careful fathers, ring? ed by your leaden seas, Long did ye wake in quiet and long lie down at ease; Till ye said of Strife, "What is it?" of the Sword, "It Is far from our ken"; Till ye made a sport of your shunken hosts and a toy of your armed men. Ye stopped your ears to the warning ?ye would neither look or heed? Ye set your leisure before their toil and your lusts above their need. Given to strong delusion, wholly be? lieving a lie Ye saw that the land lay Yenceless, and ye let the months go by Waiting some easy wonder; hoping some saying sign? Idle?openly idle?in the lee of the forespent Line. Idle?except for your boasting?and what is your boasting worth If ye grudge a year of service to the lordliest life on earth? But ye say, "It will mar our comfort.'* Ye say, "It will 'mtnish our trade." Do ye wait for the spattered shrapnel ere ye learn how a gun it laid? For the low, red glare to southward j when the raided coast-towns burn? (Light ye shall have on that lesson, but little time to learn.) No doubt but ye are the People?ab? solute, strong, and wise; Whatever your heart has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies! ________________________ F ? CIVIC LEAGUE MEETING. Organization Requested to Provide Monies for Canning Club Girls. The May meeting of the Civic League was held last week at the girls' high school building. The League was asked to find homes for the canning club girls for home demonstration week, June 19-21, and the following were appointed a com? mittee to find accommodations for the hundred and fifty expected: Mrs. W. L. Brunson, chairman; Mesdamcs M:ms, Flaum, Kinard and Henry Moses. The attention of the league was again called to the good work of Dr. Bragg Anthony among the colored t people of the county, and the co? operation of the members asked. A vote of thanks was read from Dr. Anthony thanking the league foi a contribution to the home she is try? ing to establish. Reports from committees showed they were active in their departments, and it is hoped within a few days definite announcement can be made as to plans for the children's play grcund8 for the summer. The league was asked to use its in? fluence in teaching the inadvisability of taking infants and young children to the night performances at the mov? ing pictures and the matter was dis? cussed with much interest by all pres? ent. The president called the attention of the league to the fact that the June meeting would be the election of of? ficers and the last meeting for the summer, and asked that there be a full attendance on the 4th Monday in June. '*hT fs_*i Permanent Embassies. It was not until the close of the fif> teenth century that the permanent em? bassy became at all common, and not until the end of the sixteenth that It became a generally recognized insti? tution. In 1487 Dr. Roderigo Gon desalvl de Puebla was appointed per? manent Spanish ambassador to Eng? land, and, as he was still In London In 1500, the Spanish embassy in the British capital must be regarded us the oldest among the permanent em? bassies of the world. Chance for All. * There Is opportunity for almost everyone to be superior if superiority consists in performing some kind of useful service In an exceptional man? ner. There is almost certain to he some direction In which an Individual or a race may be of greater service than in others. ^ 1-" Geo. H. Hurst, jSjSjSS sj jjsjsjs. Prompt Attention to Day and Night Calls. At D. J. CRAle Old Stand. N. Main. Phones: BtfSi