The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 18, 1917, Image 4
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Weekly Weather Forecast.
For South Atlantic and Bast Gulf
States: Fair weather will prevail
early In ths week followed later by
eeesaoonal thundershowors; seasonal
temperatures.
THINNING PLANTS.
PtessuUlosi of Crowding Makes for
Bettes Yield and geallty?Advice to
If nous Gerdeners.
Do not allow garden vegetables to
crowd each other in drills or rows.
This Is a bttof timely cultural advice
offered to home gardeners by special?
ists of ths Unltsd States department
of sericulture. Unless each plant has
adequate room for development and a
chance to receive all tho sunlight,
air, moisture, and plant food which
if needs, the specialists point out. It
will be stunted, and Its contribution to
the food supply of ths family, there
fore, will be low In quantity and In?
ferior in quality.
it is well enough to plant seed
sssrs thickly than tho plants should
LMHaMjUow fee fauHy germination
sWtlu skfliluisil I ml tho sets
p?lruuWW,iiWms the crop* to sro*
ee thickly as they come up must not
he made. A good time to thin out
surplus plants Is a few weeks after
tho plante have come up, when they
have become large enough to show
which are most thrifty and before they
hare begun to crowd seriously. Wher?
ever possible, the thriftiest plants
should be left.
In thinning lettuce and beets some
of the best-rooted plants may bo set
out to fill up any spaces which may
havs occurred In the drills. Lettuce
also may be permitted to grow fairly
large before thinning and tho sur?
plus plante eaten. The plants should
be from 8 to I Inchss apart at tho
first thinning, and before the plants
crowd a second toinning should be
msds which will leave the plants from
I to I Inches apart. The plants rr
moved at the second thinning should
bo large enough for table use. Gar?
den beets ahould be gradually thinned
to f or I inches apart, the plants pull?
ed seine; used for greens. For this
purpose the whole p*ant Is used. Youn.;
turnips may be used in the same way.
Radishes* usually ars not thlnnei
until they are large enough to bo
?aten. Radish tops also may be cook?
ed as greens or, If especially tender,
may be used In salads. If radishes
have been planted to mark drill? o
parsnips, carrots or other slow-grow?
ing vegetables, they should be remov?
ed before they crowd the permanent
occupants of ths drills.
Onions should be thinned before
they reach a quarter Inch In diameter
and should be left about 3 Inches
apart.
Turnips, carrots, parsnips, and beeti
usually are left 3 to 6 Inches apart. If
they are to be harvested while fairly
small, they may stand somewhat clos?
er.
Thin hills of muskmelons and cu?
cumbers to three or at the most live
plants Only two or three pole beann
should be left to each hill.
In all thinning operations choose.
If posslbls, a time when the ground Is
mellow, so that little damage will be
Cone to the plants that remain. If
tho ground surface about the plants to
be thinned Is hard, wet It thoroughly
long enough before operations are be?
gun to allow the moisture to souk to
the ends of tho roots.
Fine Coop*.
Ptsgah. July 14.?Mr. Vernon Keels
of Rembert hss the finest corn I have
soon this year. It to planted In rows
about six feet apart and about two
feet in the drill, peas In the middle of
the rows. Laid by perfectly level.
With good seasons, forty or fifty bush
sis would be a leasonabls ylsld.
Y. M. C. A. IX WAlt.
WMr Work Secretary ICbcrsolc Toll?
of Experience In Austria.
Blue Ridge. N. C, July 13 ?Freeh
from his work in Austria among the
Russians and Serbian prisoners, and
after having left Austria, traveling
with the American embassy on the
special train just after the break be?
tween Germany and America, Mr. A.
A. Ebersole. Associate Warwork Sec?
retary of the International Commit?
tee of the Young Men's Christian As?
sociation, gave the following Interview
at Blue Ridge, North Carolina, at the
close of his address last night (Sun?
day) to the army Young Men's Chris?
tian Association School and to the
Secretaries' Rummer School of the
City Young Men's Christian Associa?
tions, numbering in attendance two
hundred persons.
"You ask me just what Is the sit?
uation In Euhope and how long is the
war likely to lest. In answering that
oft repeated question, one who has
Just come from Europe hesitates, be?
cause there are so many factors that
enter Into the situation. If I were to
Judge entirely from what I saw my?
self and heard In Austria, I would say
that It would seem Impossible that
they could hold oun another year. I
am betraying no secret when I say
that Austria Is becoming depleted, not
only in her food supplies, but In ev?
erything else that Is essential to car?
ry on the ordinary activities of a coun?
try's life. Stores are empty, many
of them being closed permanently
and others opening only for certain
hours of the day, simply because
they have nothing to sell. Every avail?
able man Is being used In the army.
So great Is the demand for men at the
front that they have found It neces?
sary to call In men past the age of
fifty, farmers who have never carried
a gun, to act as guards In the va?
rious camps. It wm almost pathetic
to see those men try to do their duty,
and yet one could not help but feel
ths>t they were utterly out of place,
and many of them broken hearted
men, because of the first time in their
life, they have been torn away from
home relationships and are having
to do military service. Just what
Austria's military strength Is at the
front, of course even those of us who
spent the better part of the year mov?
ing back and forth across the coun?
try from one of the prison camps
where we worked to another, It is im?
possible to tell. Whet we de know
m that the supply, both of men and
material, throughout the country Is
being completely exhausted."
"But. having said that much, one
immediately must add that- Austria
has already endured so much and
held out against overwhelming odds
so long and so bravely that It is
hard to say how much longer she
may endure, and then, too, it must
not be forgotten that Austria, at ev?
ery point where she is about to
break, la Immediately reinforced by
Germany, with her seemingly Inex?
haustible resources. Germany! the
marvel of the age?Who can estimate
her power? I simply stood In amaze?
ment, as I often did, and watched
tralnload after tralnload passing
through Austria to one or the "other
forts on the South to see the stal?
wart men In the rank and file of her
army, well fed, cheerful, hopeful, op?
timistic, every last one of them. In
this respect, one noticed a marked
constrast between the armies of the
two countries. The Germans seem to
continue to be in a better condition
than the Austrlans. Somehow, we.
can harjdly conceive It. Germany still
succeeds In proxtdlng adequately for
her troops and over and over I was
assured by those who seemed to speak
with authority thrt even with her
tremendous loss, she in able to mus
ter In each year enough men who
have Just come to m?'Uary age to re?
place all of the men that she had
lost, so that she has today, after
three years of war, aft large and as
efficient army as she had at the begin?
ning.
"How long will the war last?" Per
sonall' , I do not estimate to give an
answer, but it is my candid and in?
nermost opinion that it is likely to
last several years, and as I return to
the home-land after an absence of
nearly a year, It Is with mingled
emotions that I see what Is taking
place here. Utile did anyone sup?
pose a year ago America would be
compelled to take her share In win
nlng this war, but It comes to one
as a real surprise to see the wonder?
ful response that one sees on every
hand on the part of the American
people. I would not have believed it
If I had been told in Europe that In
so short a time the wholo country
would he so thoroughly sroused and
so completely devoted as thn Ameri?
can people now seem to be to the
great task before them.
"One of the most encouraging as?
pects of the kind spread abroad In
the country lo me is the wonderful
response which the Young Men's
? Christian Association Is meeting In
Its endeavor to take over the task
assigned to it by President Wilson ?
the task of providing suitable educa?
tion, social and religious activities at
all the various training centers here
at home where the men are soon to
be put in shape for the great fight
that they aro to help the leaders to
make, and in the training centers
that are being gotten ready for the
troops in France, where they still will
have some months of waiting and
preparation before they actually go
to the front. Throe million dollars
was asked for and four milliion is
already subscribed. A thousand sec?
retaries arc needed and five thou?
sand of the choicest of America's
Christian young men have volunteer?
ed. Among them, able young business
and professional men declare them?
selves ready to leave all, if need be,
for the present time, to help in this
great work. Was there ever in the
history of the world such a response
on tho part of so many of the best
men of the country.
"But, to offer men and money to
this work is just the beginning. The
immediate and most Important task
which now confronts the association
is to train these men who have offered
their services for the work which they
are to do through the Young Men's
Christian Association m the various
military camps. I was more than
delighted to learn upon my reaching
NVw York that already training
schools had been organized for this
purpose in different parts of the coun?
try. It was with great pleasure that
I accepted the invitation to visit one
of the largest of these training schools
here at Blue Ridge. N. C, which I un?
derstand to be the center of the train?
ing of the Young Men's Christian As?
sociation workers for the Southeastern
District, under the command of Gen.
Leonard Wood, and I want to express
my thorough appreciation of the
splendid work that I found In pro
ireess here. As for location and
equipment, it seems to me that Blue
Ridge equals, if not surpasses, any
of the training schools that it has been
my privilege to visit, and what a
wonderful outlook one has from this
point, and the splendid wide veranda,
high pillared Robert E. Lee hall, over?
looking twenty-five moutaln peaks.
Impresses one above words. How
wisely the association leaders, select?
ed their location and how attractive
ly the equipment has been assembled,
but better still than grounds and
building is the spirit which J found
pervading this institution. The earn?
estness and thoroughness of the men
who are giving th< r time to this
training school as leaders, and the
splendid type of young men who have
volunteered and will go from this
training center to the various r llitary
camps in the country, indicates better
than anything elso could the response
which good old Southland is making
to this supreme call. What higher
patriotic service could the Southland
render than to support this institution
in even' way? There should be no
lack of funds to maintain It thor?
oughly. Wrhen this term of school
Is over there should be a second
group of young business and profes?
sional men. who seeing the great op?
portunity which this form of servio
offers, will have offered themselves to
their country in this capacity. Wbtlo
a large number of men have volun?
teered, there Is as yet a lack of men
of maturity who can he at once put
Into these centers as executives, and
who we shall have to send In eye.l
larger numbers than we yet have
Into France to properly command our
work in the centers there. The In?
ternational Committee Is turning to
this training center for the South to
furnish its quota of these more ma
ture men, and we believe that tn Ulis
as in all other times of testing, the
Southland will not be found wanting. '
N1IMTKK ?XrTTON MAKKWT.
F. O. BOWMAN, Cotton Buyer.
(Corrected dally at 12 o'clock Noon.
Good Middling 24.
SCtrlct Mlddllnf 23 7-8.
Middling 23 3-4.
Strict Ix>w Middling 23 1-2.
Low Middling 23 1-8.
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
Yee'dyn
Open High Low Clowe Close
July . . 27.30 27.30 20.95 26.90 27.30
Met . . 25.40 25.44 25.13 25.19 25.87
Dec . .25.41 25.32 25.12 26.10 25.81
New York spots. 27.40.
Cleaning up Now.
In dress fabrics, embroideries, laces,
etc. Read the ad. Schwartz Bros.?
Advt.
Geo. H. Hurst,
Undertaker and Embalmtr.
Prompt Attention to Day and
Night Calls.
A* 0. I. CRAI0 Old Stand. N. Main.
Phones: Sgft, I
gone GOOD.
Result* That Last Are What Appeal t?
Sumter People.
Kidney sufferers in Sumter want
more than temporary relief.
They want results that last
Results like Mr. Vogel tells about.
His was a thorough test.
Two years is a long time.
Doan's Kidney Pills nave stood the
test and stood it well.
Why experiment with an untried
medicine?
People here in Sumter have shown
the way.
Read the story of e. W. Vogel, 401
e. Hampton Ave. He says: "For
several years I suffered from pains
through the small of my back and
whenever I stooped. I was in mis?
ery. My back became very weak and
several times I had to give up work.
A physician treated me, but his med?
icine as well as a number of others,
brought no relief. After using one
box of Doan's Kidney Pills, the pains
disappeared and six boxes complete?
ly cured me."
A Permanent Core.
Over two years later, Mr. Vogel
said: "Doan's Kidney Pills made a
permanent cure In my case."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy?get j
Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that
Mr. Vogel has twice recommended.
Foster-Mllburn Co., Props., Buffalo,
n. Y.?Advt. (43)
Aeroplane Measure Passed.
Washington, July 14.?The war de?
partment bill appropriating $640,000,^
000 for construction of 22,000 aero?
planes was passed by the house to?
day without a roll call. It was amend?
ed only In minor details.
Amendments adopted included one
by Representative Fitzgerald, of New
York, providing that enlisted men
drafted for the aviation corps shall he
within the same ages, twenty-one to
thirty, inclusive, ns applying in the
general conservation law.
If your enemy is too big to whip
you should forgive him.
The Scarcity of labor
^mammwmmtm^mmmmwmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmmm
Makes farming on a
large scale nearly im?
possible. Employ us to
subdivide your farm in?
to small tracts We
can find the buyers
quickly, c o n v e r ting
your land into cash and
interest bnarini? notes.
Our representative will
call to see you at our
expense, and explain
our method. '
Write us tc<-day.
ATLANTIC COAST REALTY CO.
"The name that justifies your confidence"
0?FICES:
PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA
And Greenville. N. C.
Dil APT NEXT WEEK.
some Facti Concerning the Method
of Drawing Recruits.
Washington, July 14.?With nine
hundred and fifty-seven exemption
districts not heard from it is impos?
sible to accurately predict when the
drawing will take place. Most of?
ficials believe it will be next week
however. Most of the mussing dis?
tricts are from the large cities. As
many numbers will bo drawn as there
are registrations in the most populous
region district. Any number drawn
that is higher than the number regis
tared in a district will nut ?fftet that
district. Should the lowest registra?
tion in the smallest district be tw >
hundred every numbe r under tw >
hundred drawn will alfect every dis?
trict in the country.
Thirty-live Cent Cotton.
Mr. J. M. Kolb. of Privateer, today
sold a bale 01 staple cotton to O'l>on
nell & Co., at IS onts per pound.
There is considerable staple cotton
planted In Sumter county this year,
and it is to be hoped that the pric? s
will be equally as high when this
year's crop comes on the market.
12 Years Ago
We Organized. 1 o day We Have
About 2000 Depositors, Assets over
$1,100,000.00.
The Bank that puts ATT. NO in
ATTENTION.
We Invite Your Account.
The National Bank Qi South Carolina
OF SUMTKr*.
C. G. ROWLAND, Preside. F. C. HlN>ANf, C?hl?r
Let Nothing Be Lost
4 It is not in expenditures thai
extravagrance and waste get
in their most effective work.
(I It is with the small snms
v the loose change that is too
handy in the purse or pocket.
<I Save the pennies.
<[ One hundred cents make
a dollar?every dollar saved
is an added step toward finan?
cial progress.
(f A Savings Account in this
Institution encourages thrift.
The National Bunk
of Sumter.
A BIG CLEAN - UP
Begins Tomorrow at Schwartz's
19c 100 pieces Fancy Voiles 40 in., 25, 30 and 35c goods, all at 19c
12c 200 yards Pa jama Checks 36 in., worth 16c, sale at 12c
1 Oc Table of Embroideries aod Insertings, worth up to 25c, at \ 1 Oc
1 Oc Table of Wide Lace, worth up to 25c, all at_ 1 Oc
IOC 40 pieces Colored Lawns and Batistes 36 in., worth 15c, sale lOc
25c 10 dozen Ladies Union Suiis, cheap at 35c, sale 25c
10c 50 dozen Ladies' Fine Ribbed Vests, extra sizes worth li/C, all at 10c
25c Table of Ladies'. Misses' & Children's Dresses, worth up to fl, sale 25c
$1.50 Ladies Silk Petticoats 75 in lot, worth up to $3 00, all at $ 1.50
20 pieces 40 in. Sport Skirtings, 25 & 35c goods, at 19c
Table of Fancy White Voilles, Crepes, etc., 38 in. goods, 25 & 35c goods, at 19c
Lots of Other Money Savers Too. Sale Starts TOMORROW
NO CHARGES NO APPROVALS
SCHWARTZ BROS.