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iMt fi?an|}niait anD jSoutJjroiL PtiMkUMHl Wedmuday and Saturday _ ?BY? OHXKKJf PUBLISHING COMPANY SL'MTKK, S. O. Teems: ?1.00 per annum?in advance. AdTortLnementa, Ona Square flrat insertion .. ..$1.00 Kvary subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub. serve private Interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obltuarlee and tributes of respect will bo charged for. Tho Sumter Watchman was found? ed In 1160 and ths True Southron in lit*. Tho Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and Influence of both of tho old papers, end la manifestly ths best advertising medium in Sumter. Weekly Weather Forecast. For South Atlantic and Bast Gulf Ihotos: Fair weather will prevail early In tho week followed later by n sessional thundershowsrs; season J temperatures. THINNINC PLANTS* of Crowding Makes for Yield and Quality?Advice to O Gardeners, Do not si low garden vegetables to crowd each other In drills or rows. This Is a bitof tlmsly cultural advice offers horns gardeners by special , 1st? of the United States department of agriculture. Unless each plant has adequate room for development and a chance to receive all tho sunlight, air. moisture, and plant food which H needs, ths specialists point out, It will bo stunted, and Its contribution to tho food supply of the family, there? fore* will be low in quantity and in f trie. In quality. It Is well enough to plant osed thickly than tho plants should germination, ^lirdtiirf the crops to grow as thickry as they eome up must not be mode. A good time to thin out surplus plants Is a fsw wseks after tho plante havs corns up. when they havs become large enough to show which are moot thrifty end before they have begun to crowd seriously. Wher? ever possible, ths thriftiest plants should be left. In thinning Isttuce and beets some of the best-rooted plants may be set out to All up any spaces which may have occurred In the drills. Lettuce also may be permitted to grow fairly large before thinning and the sur? plus plants eaten. The plants should be from I tO I Inches apart at tho first thinning, snd before the plants crowd a second thinning should be made which will leave the plants from ? to I Inches apart. The plants r. moved at the second thinning should be large enough for table use. Gar don beets should be gradually thinned to f or I Inches apart, the plants pull ed being used for greens. For this purpose tho whols plant Is used. Youn turnips may be used In the sams way Radish set usually are not thlnnei until they are large enough to bo eaten. Radish tops also may be cook? ed aa greena or. If especially tender, may be used In salads. If radishes have been planted to mark drills o parsnips, carrots or other slow-grow? ing vegetablee. they should be remov? ed before they crowd the permanent occupants of the 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 beet* usually aro left 3 to 6 Inches apart. If they are to be harvested while fairly small, thev may stand somewhat clos? er. Thin hills of muskmelons and cu? cumbers to three or at the most five plants. Only two or three pole beans should be left to each hill. In all thinning operations choose. If possible, a time when the ground Is mellow, so that little damage will be Cone to the plants that remain. II the 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 soak to the ends of the roots. Fine Crops. Plsgah. July 14.?Mr. VSrnon Keels of Rembert hss the finest corn I have seen this year. It Is 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? els would be a leasuuabls ylsld. Y. M. C. A. IX WAR. War Work Secretary Kbcrsole Tolls 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 Hlue Ridge, North Carolina, at the close of his address last night (Hun day) to the army Young Men's Chris? tian Association School and to the Secretaries' Summer 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 t.?ey could hold out 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 la 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. Bo 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 was almost pathetic to see these men try to do their duty, and yet one could not help but feel that 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 ripent 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 IgSjS.lble to tell. What we do know Is that the supply, both of men and material, throughout the country Is being completely exhausted." "Hut, 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 r avely 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. Is Immediately reinforced by Germany, with her seenrungly 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 set 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 Austrians. Somehow, we. can hattdly conceive It. Germany still succeeds in providing adequately for her troops and over and over I wan assured by those who seemed to speak with authority thrt even with her tremendous loss, she is able to mus ter in each year enough men who have Just come to military age to re? place all of the men that she had lost, so that she has today, after three years of war, as large and an efficient army as she had at the begin? ning. "How long will the war last?" Per? sonally, I do not estimate to give an answer, but it In 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 taklmr place here. Little did anyone sup? pose s year ago America would bo compelled to take her share In win ning this war, hut 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 whole country would be so thoroughly aroused and so complete! v devoted as the 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 eocntry to me is the wonderful response which the Young Men's Christian Association is meeting in its endeavor to take over the taslc asalgnsd to it by President Wilson ? the tusk of providing suitable educa? tion, social und religious activities at ull the vurious training centers here at home where the men are soon to be put in shape for the great fight that they are 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 miUiion is already subscribed. A thousand sec? retaries are 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 the 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 tho 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 N>w York that already training schools had been organised 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 tho 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? gress 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 moutain 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 their time th's training school as leaders, and the splendid type of young men who have volunteered and will go from this training center to the various military camps in the country, indicates better than anything else 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 every way? There should be no lack of funds to maintain it thor? oughly. When 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. Wht! > a large number of men have volun? teered, there Is as yet a lack of men of maturity who can be at once pur Into these centers as executives, and who we shall have to send in evei 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 m this as In all other times of testing, the Southland will not be found wanting." MUMTKK OOTTON \4A KH WT. P. G. BOWMAN, Cotton Buyer. (Corrected dally at 12 o'clock Noon ? Good Middling 24. SCtrict Middllnf 23 7-8. Middling 23 3-4. Strict Ix>w Middling 23 1-2. Low Middling 23 1-8. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Yes'dy* Open High Flow tlose Clow July . . 27.30 27.30 2G.95 26.90 27.30 Oct . . 18.40 25.44 25.13 25.19 25.87 Dec . .16.41 25.32 25.12 25.10 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 Embalmer. Prompt Attention to Osy and Night Calls. At 0. I. CRAIi Old Stand, N. Mils. I IV"it S . NlaMiOl GONE ion GOOD. Results That Last Are What Appeal to 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 tost 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 13. 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 Cure. Over two years later, Mr. Vogel said: "Doan's Kidney Pills made a permanent cure in my case." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mr. Vogel has twice recommended. Fo8ter-Mllburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.?Advt. (4 3) 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 be within the same ages, twenty-one to thirty, inclusive, as applying in the general conscr'r.tion law. If your enemy is too big to whip you should forgive him. The Scarcity of Lahor 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 tintf vour land into cash and interest bearing notes. Our representative will call to see you at our expense, and explain our method. ' Write us tcnlay. ATLANTIC COAST REALTY CO. "the name that justifies your confidence" OeFICES: PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA And Greenville. N. C. im A FT NF XT WFFK. Some Facts Concerning the Method of l>ra\ving ltccruits. Washington, July 14.?With nine hundred and fifty-seven exemption district! 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 missing dis? tricts are from the large cities. As many numbers will bo drawn as there arc registrations in the most populous region district. Any number drawn that is higher than the number regis tered In ? district will not affect that district. Should the lowest registr.-i tlon in the smallest district he twj hundred every number under tw > hundred drawn will affect every dis? trict in the country. Thirty-Arc Crest Cotton. Mr. J. M. Kolb, of Privateer, today sold a bale Of staple cotton to O'Don ncll & Co.. at 3."? cents per pound. There is considerable staple cotton planted in Sumtcr county this year, and it is to f>c hoped that the pries 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 ATTI NO in ATTENTION. We Invite Your Account. The National Bank Of South Carolina OF KUMTR*. C G. ROWLAND, Presldttt. F. I HIN ? AN t. C<th(tr Let Nothing Be Lost <| It is not in expenditures that extravagrance and waste get in their most effective work. (f It is with the small sums v the loose change that is too handy in the purse or pocket. (f 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_1 9c 12c 200 yards Pa ja ma Checks 36 in., worth 16c, sale at_12c 1 Oc Table of Embroideries and Insertings, worth up to 25c, at \ 1 Oc 10c_Z?b,e of Wide Lace? worth up to 25c, all at_ 1 Oc 10c 40 pieces Colored Lawros 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 wonh Ita, all at 10c 25c Table of Ladies', M isses' & Children's Dresses, worth up to $1, 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 Voiiles, Crepes, etc., 38 in. goods, 25 & 35c goods, at 19c Lots of Other Money Savers Too. Sale Starts TOMORROW NO CHARGES NO APPROVALS SCHWAR.TZ BR.OS.