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C? ea smmmsmJ Cmm Matte*. PERSONAL. Mr. C. J Juckson. of Horatio. ?U la the i lty today Miss Edith Parrett, of Winthrop College. Ii m the cit>. ^'i ? \ Keels. Of Rembert. wan In the city on business today. Mra U. M Mead or*, of Savannah, and Mra. H. C. Williams, of Celunv bla, are visiting their sister. Mr?. B. -J Uhaine. Jr. Burg*** Bultinan and Joe Unehun .??ft th.a morning* for Uehnont College. Belm on t, N. C, Judge T K. Richardson has gone to Charleston on business. J. D. and W. H Blending have gone to Fayettevllle. N. C. on busi? ness Mra Kirkwood Olsy. of Chappells, is visiting hsr brother. J. C Halford. at til W. Bsrtlstt St. Eugene K. Jones returned to Rich? mond last night, after spending tho holiday* with relatives in the city. NOTICE. l * ats I fuel Admlidscrator Takes Ac? tion on Closing of Basinets Houses. Since receiving a second com i indention from State Fuel Adminis? trator R. B Ooseett. under date of January Ind, In reference to the ob -?r/inrt of shorter hours by mer ? ham* end buslneee houses for the rurneee of controlling the consump? tion of fuel the local Fuel Adminlstru ?n for Sumter has given the matter ? ireful consideration and it has been - elded to make the official request that all st?re? and business establish? ments cloee at ? o'clock p. m. every ?eefc day. Saturday excepted, and not later than 1.30 o'clock p. m. on Saturday. This is a measure rendered neces? sary by the scarcity of fuel and the saving affected by early closing of die etoree will materially help In re? lieving the situation. R. B. BGL6ER, Chairmen Local Fuel Adminlstra tlos. Kxplnwive* liternaing Agent. Magistrate M. J. Moore has been sppointed Expioeive Licensing Agent * for . Sumter county. All dealers in . explosive* are required to obtain a i license and all buyers of explosives ( aa* reuujrjd to_pbtaln a permit before^ j they ea?i purchase explosives. Those i whs wish to obtain license to sell ex- < p'ndlvee and those needing permits to < ireh/ne should apply to Mr. Moore . st his office in the Court House. - Rcsjoeat to Hospital T^e Tourney Hospital receives a tiefet* bequest by the will of Mr. K. F. Uleker. who died last week. The tabgnre of the estate, estimated to be not <**n $200.000, le divided among his relatives. The drug stores have agreed to an ?tarty closing schedule and notice of ? he hours is given today. ** e Trie Cltailel cadet* who have been (>t home for the Christmas holidays hate returned to Charleston, the Cit i del reopening today. Several atoves h*v# exploded on ac oeet <>f frosen water-backs during rhe east few days, bat fortunately so results occurred. Mr. Oeo. E. Rollins, general yard meaner of the A. C. L. for four vears at flu inter, has been promoted to gen? eral yard msater at Columbia. Mr. Rollms will be greatly missed and we wish him much success. Mr. F. H Theme will succeed Mr. Rollins. ffhe action of the Local Kind Ad ministration in n aklng an official re "Usjs* that the stares be closed at 6 P 'in , Saturday txcepted, and at 9.30 p.'ra. on Saturday, throughout the remainder of the winter should clari? fy the situation and all the mer hartte. without a single exception, vfll undoubtedly immediately fall in 'tee. There has been no objection to ? toeing at C o'clock during the week, by several merchants have been of tee opinion that it was not neces? sary to cloee at 1.30 on Saturday and that to do so would be a serious in? convenience to main <?r thotf custom - ? rs who d<> not get from work tin tV| i o'clock and base been in the habit of doing their trading after sup? per Saturday night. An a compromise between thoee who wished to close at 1.30 Saturday and those who held dpi-for 10 o'clock, the cloning hour h** been fixed st 1.3 A Montltd>n Cnleea the governments runs the railroads better than It haa the malls under the Burleaon regime the peo sde won't gain anything by a change from corporate to government con? trol. Greensboro News. SaV ?' ? The Interest of \nicrlon in I lie iivv.n W?r. (By Frank J. Goodnow, President John? Hopkins University.) I'.iiH in three weeks. London in three months, New York in thre. years, wns the uceep-.ed German pro? gram. The Fan-German propaganda which had bet>n going on for the last 2l> >enrs proved beyond the peradventure of a doubt that the only reason wh> the attempt had not been made be? fore to realize the grandiose concep? tion of German world domination is to be found in the fact that those re? sponsible for It were not ready. The had not-yet come. Hut In Aug? ust. l!Ut, it was believed that the hour had struck. A short aggressive and successful war and the dream of centuries would be a reality. Paris In three weeks, London in three months New York in three years was tho ac? cepted German program. That the Germans might thu* dream of world domination We may possibly comprehend. But that the German people should be willing to resort to the practices of which they have been shown to he guilty in or? der to realise their dream was hard? ly to be believed. They have, how ever, under Prussian influence, adopt-' ed a philosophy of lifo which make: it impossible for other nations and j peoples to coexist on terms of equal? ity. The pride indicated in the cla% sic boast of Homan citizenship is al-, most abject humility when compar? ed with the belief of the modern Ger? mans in their superiority to other peo? ples. For the Roman was willing sc long as his political power was recog-1 nlted to permit conquered races t< live In a condition of at least an up proxlmatlon to social and economic quality. The modern German, how? ever, declares with a contemptuous frankness all non-Teutonic civiliza ? tlon to be unworthy of perpetuation I and announces his intention to dis? perse its degenerate followers to those parts of the earth where they will least Interfere with the spread oi Deutsche Kultur. To him the Teutons are tl\e people chosen of God to re ' deem the world. Those who resist the will of God are guilty of impiety and for them no fate is too nard. With them no engagement however sacred 1 need be kept. No means is too vile to \ resort to If it is thought to aid In Hie accomplishment of the divine pur? pose. Never since the times of the Old Testament has a nation so de j Bplsod its neighbors as do the Ger- ( mans of this day and hour. We musi , ro back to the days of Assyria and ftomo \o find examples of inch treat nent of subjugated peoples asn mod-', ?rn German policy presents. Either j, Germany must be taught to see the , arror of her ways or we non-Ger? mans must reconcile ourselves to be- , come the submissive slaves of Ger- , man masters. The fate of Belgium and northern France may well be ours. But detestable as the German phil? osophy of life is, no one can doubt the triumphs of Teutonic efficiency. Probably never in the history of the human race has so large a body of men become capable of such efficient action as has the German nation in recent years. From a scientific point of view from a military point of view, from an economic point of view, from a social point of view, Germany has shown great strength. Opposed by al? most the entire world she is still un conquered. To teach her the lesson she must he taught will require tlx devotion of all the power of those al? lied against her. The non-German world is. then, at the present time confronted by an ad? versary who combines unboundinp ambition and insufferable arrogance ! with unexamplod efficiency and un- j scrupulousness without limit. We Americans far removed as we are from the scene of Germany's first ef forts to realizo her ambitions, form an Important part of the non-Teu? tonic world. We must not lull our? selves into security because of the re? moteness of our geographical sltua tlon or the pacific character of our purposes. Tho Germans of the pres SHI day despise our capacity, envy our prosperity, and are not Inclined to comply with our desire to pursue the even tenor of our ways in the con? tinents which we have colonized and developed. We have further in German preten slons a dtfOCt attack upon the kind of life which we have chosen to live. Two characleristics have distinguish? ed the modern European life in which W4 have a : hare. The first Is inter tu tlonallsm, the second is democracy Internationalism Is the solution which we have been endeavoring and successfully endeavoring to reach, of the problems ineldenl to the national state. The most noticeable phenome non of modem European political life has been the development <>f the na? tional slate While the ideal of the notional state has be. n only approxi? mated, while all races have not been politically organised, and while some races have found a home in more than one state, at the same time the OOOX kNencu oi a number of politically sov erolgn organizations has of itself been o denial of the idea of world domina? tion. Internationalism is the method which has been adopted tor regulat? ing the relations ot* these separate po? litical organizations. Rules of conduct have been generally adopted to which all members of the family of nation have In the past rendered obedience The ideal of internationalism has o course not been completely reailzed but enough progre? had been made i I prior to the outbreak of the present war to justify the belief that a rea? sonable approximation to that idea would ultimately be reached. N< country perhaps has in the past cen? tury contributed more to the realisa? tion of the ideals of Internationalism than tho United States. This coun? try has always stood for those prin ciples the application of which would on the one hand, lessen the probab? ility of the development of hostile re latlons between states and on the oth t ?fi would offer a means for the peact* ful settlement of such disputes a" might arrive. America's past histor> thus causes her to have a peculiai Interest in the further developmen; of the principles of internationalism. The maintenance even of the ac? cepted principles of internationalism is, however, inconsistent with the con? ception of world control which is ai present the mainspring of Germar policy. That policy can not recogniz* any such thing as equality amon; political groups. All must bo subordi noted to the one great power. If therefore, we are to hope for the fur? ther development of an internationa* life we must light to the death Gor man pretensions. Tho second characteristic of mod? ern European life has been the de velopmcnt of democracy. Democrath ideas originated in England. The;, were brought to this country when t was colonized and received a de velopment which was hardly dreamed of in tho land of their birth. Thenct they spread to France and through France to most of western Europe The seeds of democratic ideas fell j however, in Germany among tht j thorns of autocratic government and tho thorns sprung up and choke, them. Just as tho French revolution and the Napoleonic wars brought de? mocracy to most of western Europe BO the present war has given it t< Russia, where autocracy In its e.\tre:m form had been able to maintain it? self. We have therefore allied agalns. German autocracy practically all 0 western Europe, together with Japan Russia, and the United States. If th ;oitocratic governments of the centra j powers are successful in this war, di mocracy will be judged a failure an the struggle and agony of centurh ; will have gone almost for naught. In other words, most of the thing? ! for the realization of which the found era of this country struggled and foi which Americans have stood durini our century or more of independent political existence are at issue in thi war. The national State with its In cidents, internationalism, self-govern ment, and democracy, all are im periled. The war is thus an Ameri? can war even if no stngle bnrttle \t fought on our own soil. If, which Gor forbid, through the victory of the cen tral powers over our European allies tho conflict were brought to om shores, our efforts would in all prob? ability bo but the desperate struggle of the victim whose fate was du< 1 to the fact that beguiled by the fail speech of the oppressor he began to?< late to light. Coal Shortage?Continuous Working Hours. The M?nchner Neueste Nachrich? ten of October S writes: "At i meeting of the Central As soclatlcil of Clerks at Munich on th' Ith October, the following resolution \.as passed: "This meeting agree with the suggestion of the war office at Berlin that It is necessary to ex? tend as fag as possible the system of continuous working time. The mold? ing further holds that all places Of public sale except those of food should be closed on four days a week at dusk-?i. e.. at 5 o'clock." \\ OM AN SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT. House Committee Begins Hearings for Suffragists Today. Washington. Jan. 8.?The first of a series of bearings on the woman's suffrage constitutional amendment by the house suffrage committeei began toduy with the session devoted to the presentation of the suffragists case by women representing the National Woman Suffrage Association. CONGRESS IN SESSION. Meets for Few Minutes and Adjourns lor Hay. w mhlni ton, Jan. ? Congress re assembled today after the holiday re CeSI und both hOUSeS, alter .session <-i a few minutes, adjourned until to nun-row out of respect to the mem Ory Of Senator NswiundS and Rep resentattve Bathrlek, who died dur ing the holidays. SATAN WRITES TO THE KAISER. Fearful Arraignment of Che Gernisii Ehnperor. Delta (Col.) Independent To Wilhelm von Hohensollern, King of PruMlU) Bmperor of All Germany ami Envoy Extraordinary of Al? mighty God. My Dear Wilhelm: I can call you by thai familiar name, for 1 have always la-en very close to you, much closer than you could know. From the time that you were yet an undeveloped being I have .shaped your destiny for my own purpose. In the days of Uome I created a rough neck known in history as Nero He was a vulgar character and suited my purpose at that particular time in these modern days a classic de? mon and etficient super-criminal waf needed, and as I know the Hohenzol lem blood 1 picked you as my spe cial instrument to place on earth ar annex of hell. I gave you abnormal ambition, likewise an oversuppiy o! egotism that you might not dlscovei your own failings. 1 twisted you. mind to that of a madmun with cer? tain normal tendencies- to carry you by, a most dangerous character plac? ed in power. 1 gave you the power o' a hypnotist and a certain magnetic force that you might sway your peo? ple. I am responsible for the de? formed arm th'it hangs helpless Oil your left, for your crippled conditio' embitters your life and destroys al noble impulses that might otherwise cause me anxiety, but your stronr -word aim is driven by your ambi? tions that squelch all sentiment an pity. I placed in your soul a dee; hatred of all things English, for o all nations on earth I hate Englan most; wherever England plants he. (lag she brings order out of chaos and the hated Cross follows the Union Jack; under her rule wild tribes be? come tillers of the soil and in due time practical citizens; she is thi great civilizer of the globe, and I hat? her. I planted in your soul a crue hatred of your mother because sh< was English, and left my gooo friend Bismarck to fan the flame 1 had kindled. Recent history prove how well our work was done. (1 broke your royal mother's heart, bul I gained my purpose. The inherited disease of the Hohen zollerns killed your father, just as i will kill you, and you became th ruler of Germany and a tool of mint? sooner than 1 expected. To assist you and further haste my work 1 sent you three evil spir? ts, Nietzsche, TdeitschUo, and late Bernhardii whose teachings inflame he youths of Germany, who in goo line would be willing to spill theii )lood and pull your chestnuts, your tad mine. Tito spell has been pol? led. Vou cast your ambitious eye: oward the Medlteranean, Bgypt, in ha and the Dardanelles, and you be $an your great railway to Bagdad r>ut the ambitious archduke and hi; more ambitious wife stood in youi Way. It was then .that 1 sowed th Mted in your heart that blossomed int the assassination of the duke and hi ivife, and all hell smiled when it sav BOW cleverly you saddled the crir.v into Serbia. I saw you tat sail fo: the fjords of Norway, and I knev ou would prove an alibi. How clev ?rly done; so much like your nobl? Grandfather, who also secured an as tiutin to remove old King Frederic' >f Denmark, and late robbed - tha' Ountry of two provinces that gav< '.ei mane an opportunity to becom i naval power. Murder is otfty wor.% but it takes a llohenzollern to mak i way and get by with it. Your opportunity was at hand; you <et the world on lire and the bells o bell were ringing; your attack oi Belgium caused much joy; it was th beginning, the foundation of a per feet hell on earth; the destruction o noble cathedrals and other Infinlb work! of art was hailed with joy h. the infernal regions. You made Wai >n friend and foe alike, and the mur ler of civilians showed my teaching: had borne fruit. Your treachery to? wards neutral nations hastened a uni vernal upheaval, the thing [ most de sired. Your undersea warfare Is ; master stroke from the smalles mackerel boat to the l.usitania. Yoi show no favorites; as a war lord yoi Stand supreme, for you have no met ey. you have no consideration fo the baby clinging to its mother' breast as they both go down Into th de? p together, only to be torn apar and leisurely devoured by the sharks down among the corals. I have strolled over the battlefield of Belgium nnd Prance. I have seei your hand of destruction everywhere it's all your work, super-fiend that l made you, have seen the fields of Poland, now r wilderness fil for t i prowling beasts only; no merry chll dien in Poland now; Ihej nil succumb to frost and starvation. I drifted down Into tJulicia, where formerly Jews aim Oentlles lived happily together; i found bul ruins und ashes. I fell ;i ? Ul'ioUB pride in my pupil, for it was above m> expectation, i was in Bel gium when you drove the peaceful population before you like cattle into slavery; you separated man and wife and forced them to hard labor in the trenches, i have seen the most fiend? ish attack! committed on your wo? men, and those forced into maternity were cursing the father of their off? spring, and 1 began to doubl if in. Inferno was really up to date. You have taken millions of dollars from Inndcenl Victims and called it indemnity; you have lived fat on the land you usurped and sent the real owners away 10 Starvation. You have strayed from all legalised war moth* 'nls and introduced a code of your Own. You have killed and robbed the people of friendly nations and de? stroyed their property. You are a liar, j a hypocrite and bluffer of the highest j magnitude. You are a pupil of mine, and yet you pose- as a persona, friend of God. Ah, Wilhelm, you are a wonder. You wantonly destroy ill things in your path and leave noth ng for coming generations. I was amazed when ' saw yd fcrm partnership with the impossibh Turk, the chronic killer of Chris ttanSi and you a devout worshiper in he Lutheran Church. I confess, Wll lelm, you are a puzzle at times. A i Mohammedan army commanded by Prussian offtcerts nssislng one anotb er in massaorolng Christians Is a ne'.\ tine Of warfare. When a Prussian ot fleer can witness a nude woman who Isemboweled by a swarthy Turk committing a double murder with tie cut of his saber and calml; stand by and see a house full of in? nocent Armenians locked up, th' house saturi ted with oil and fired then my teachings did not stop with OU, but have been extended to th hole German nation. I confess my Titanic soul grew sick, and there an hen I knew ^the pupil had beco:, | the master. I am a back number ind, my dear Wilhelm, t abdicat In your favor. The great key of 1.' will be turned over to you. The gave1 hat has struck the doom oi damned souls since time began is ours. 1 am satisfied that my abdi atlon In your favor is for the very I est interests of hell. In the futuri 1 am at your majesty's sec ce. Affectionately and sincerely, Lucifer II. Satan. GOVERNMENT FOOD CONTROL blOOVOr Suggests Purchase and Sale Ol SogUr and Control of Public Kat? ing Places. Washington, .Tan. ?Food Admin stratpr Hoovers statement on the ugar situation which was begun yea rday before the senate commits Md elaborated into a declaration i' avor of the government purchase and :ale of sugar and government con rol of foods- in public eating pi- c< i ngaged the attention of the com iltteemcn toiay when the hearing was resuniod. RECALLS WINTER OF 1852. aureus Citizen Says Snow Remind* Hi.ii of Long Ago. La tu ens. Jan. -.---The remarkable cries of snow storms which begun .st Saturday continued throughou his section early this morning. Th bird fall of the series^ blanketed tin dher two with a two-inch coverin, nd this afternoon and tonight ther Sas been another half inch added. It vas remarked today by an aged citl on of the county that so many snow ther recalled the white wlntei ixty-live years ago, when seven snow alls visited this section, covering srtOd of three months, during Whlcl here was snow on the ground. SPRINGS-RICE TO LEAVE. iritish Ambassador Will Leav< Washington Soon. Washington. Jan. 2. ?The report from London that Sir Cec:l Springs liice, the British ambassador, will r I le from his post h ie was confirm d today in official circles. Th.> am? bassador arranged to see Secretary Lansing this morning, und it w.i. understood be would inform the boo secretary of the change. Iiis retire ment will not be followed by ans ?hange in policy at Washington by the British government, it v\as said. The members of the local bar are' riving up a large part of their tint* "ach day in assisting drafted men in lining out the questionnaires. There la a crowd at tho Court House every lay and practically all day. Some ol ?he drafted men bring their entire families, as it is necessary for the Wives and children to sign sonn? of the affidavits, All lie Had. Mamma?Why, Harry, what's the matter? Harry -My new . ! oes hurt m> feet Mamma Xo wonder, dear; you bave them on the wrong feel Harry?Well, I can't help it i ti got no other foot?Exciivtm,e. The Const?? itioi Evil Thor? is no ailment to v/hich tiw body is pj 'j' et I hat i so far reaching in its in juri I c PPecfc a < constipation. It means a congestion of the bowels and usualry caused cick l*?adacae, < pains in the back, ?rur Btom?cu, *e> low con . off<?sivo breath or i of s '; :l y?a w ' r from any of these is, take ft few doaca cf Ciir.n,v;r \ . 'v K^il-Uor. Yoj will be Burnri v d bot? qu?ck!y it restore a your normal health. Graoget Liver Rep^ilator con linsno calomel end produces none of Its dtotrcsnng effects, Unas, bow w, fell the cor? rective value of call siel, an?maynS freel7 given to ehil&en as well a3 to adults Granger L' /er Kojnilotoria all q e from ale \ A nog of it lasts lo: 5 airaafcwdoaeeidleeaai*- ?? dinarycases oxbiUcuanesa, Graupe? Liver Regulator is i oldby drugguTti efOrvVvV'rc : *c a ???r.. P.'-ui-e a'l lubatitutefl aa 1 hew Uno other luect cine iustli'ro (Iran .:c.: Liver Iterator. Notice Teachers1 Examination. An extra teachers' examination will oc held in the Court !lou^ gStUlday, January 19ih, beginning at 9 o'clock. The questions will be taken from tho newly adopted textbooks, J. H. 1 [AYN8WORTH, County Superintendent of Education. By order State Board of Education. Early Closing .Agreement. Jos. M. Chandler and Btubbo Pros, igreed to eloae at <> o'clock every day ixcept Saturday, but did not agree to lose at 8, SO on Saturday night, herefore their names were omitted rom the list print 1 yesterday. They will close at 10 o'clock Saturday nights, if all Othe stores close at ;-.it hour or earlfcr. Birthday Party. On Friday, December 28, >Mrs. Ju Elan Chandler entertained a number * !" little friends i i honor , of her laughter, Nell's, tenth birthday. Af ? l a lot Of merry games the hostesT invited the guests into the beautiful y decorated dining room where de ightful refreshments were served. The color of the season, green and cd. were used as Jecorntions. After wo hours of merry chat and play the children returned to their hon es with he memory of their jolly afternoon. I OR KALE?Under authority of the Court I have sul divided a thousand acres of the Ja' uo lands of estate Of McBride into tracts of about 50 to 100 acres. These lands are same as the famous Pudding Swamp tobacci lands adjoining. Nine tracts fron* on the proposed Bumter-Turbeville road ywhich has been surveyed nnd partly opened, the shortest and most direct route from Sumter to the heart of the"" Pudding Swamp tobacco country. 10 tracts have ? Jin lands now un? der cultivation A lot where neighborhood n id crosses the main road has been reserved for school and ehurch purposes. But theue lands ore only three to four miles from chui hes at Salem, Shl loh. Xew Zion.. Tuibeville and Sardinia. Three or four miles from railroad at Xe Zion, on line of 1 roposed Bumtc ? and Olanta rail? road. Prices and terms reason? able. i;. w. Dal at, Trnetee, Mayee vttle, s. c, R. I. r\>R SALB?P. < >. B. cars. Camp Jackson, stable manure; very little straw. k>a? lots only. Chcmi i\ and Fertiliser value rated very high by Clemson college. A. A. Strauae, Sumter. S. C. NOTICE w ? PUBLIC The undersigned Drug Stores have adopted the following opening and closing sched ale, beginn tig on* January 3rd, U>13. Opeu at 8.00 A. If.i Close at n.oo p. M. Saturday, ek,eat 10.00 P. M. Sunday, Open at 9.00 A. If., Close 2.00 P. M. Sunday, Op< D at 3.00 P. M., Close s.oo P. M. MITCHELL'S Dlil'ti STORE, rOKLOKMEX PHARMACY. /.iMP's PH VIOIACY. W atson s DRUG STORK, ill AKON S PHARM ICV, >i mti i; Dil (; CO, PEOPLE'S PHARMACY. I Geo. H. Hurst, Dilertiher and EMikNr. Promp Attention to Day and Night CaHt. At 0. j. CRAM Old Stand. N. Main. TMv Pre* c?y83S I lb - Lit.?? . NightiOl