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PERSONAL. Mum Agnes Bryan is at home for a few day*. 8he was one of the pas? sengers on the train from Qreenvllle which was wrecked above Columbia, >-esteriluy. Her friends will be glad tu learn that though bruised she cams out without serious injury. lira. H. 3. Pitts has returned to Orangeburg after a visit to her sisters. Mr* Mane Cunningham and Mrs. E. P. Pitts. Mr. and Mrs W. C Harllee have moved from Atlanta, Ua., and aro liv? ing on Sumter street Mr. Harllee has taken a position with Oeo H. Hursl im cashier and book-keeper. Mrs. l<ee Boat wick and Miss Hanna Krlstianson are spending the day In Columbia. Second Lieut. Lucian ! Strauss, quartermaster's department, at Camp Jackson, has been promoted to a first lieutenancy along with thirty-seven other second lieutenants of the same department Lieut Sam Dinklns, who has been stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan? sas* Is In the city on a short furlough valting his mother. Mis. Joseph II Karle, of Greenville, who has been visiting Mrs. C. G. Row? land, returned horns this mc rning. Mr. F. C. Manning returned to Newark. N. J today. Cloaintf of Colored Schools. In compliance with the orders of the Beard of Health, the City Board of Education through Its chairman. Or. J. A. Mood, has directed that the colored school* of the city be closed until the ninth of March. After the quarantine la lifted these schools will make up all time that may be lost by teaching on Saturday* 8. H. EDMUNDS, Superintendent of City Schools. Hers Is a little paragraph we take from the Frx nk Stanton column of the Constitution and he gives credit for it to the Commerce Observer, and he says It covers the ground, and we offer It to some of the live merchants of this little city of our own. Read It carefully and see If It applies to \S hen a local newspaper appears without cheerful, well-prepared and attractive advertisements. It leaven the Impression on the mind of . read? ers that the town Is lifeless, that the stores and shops have no good oft'er ipprlae^eks t-sdlng public, and arc just waiting for something to hap As soon as the government finish? es mobilizing volunteer laborers for war service snd finishes the draft for military, service, some attention should be paid to round up the vag? rants who will neither ficht nor work. There are thousands of this class, scattered throuichout the country, ev? ery community having its share. Horace Sealea. colored, was arrest? ed Monday on tho charge of falling to roadster for military service. He is being held In Jail In default of It, 000 ball. Scales claims that he was not twenty-one years eld when the draft registration was h ?ld last June, snd that his father gave him this In formation. The My?-The Inhuman-Vaturo Prlm ?? " ? ? (By Theodosia Garrison of The Vigilantes. > The bearer of fool-stones. I Would liken to the Household Fly, 'A ho Is. considered at Itu best, A Oerm-Conveyer and a Peat. "The Red Cross sells the things we knit" "Our camps are evil-wien unfit!" Thess are the g?rnis th*y hear about To spread dint rust and gloom and doubt With Sense and Science let us try Elimination of The Fly. SUMTEJt CXKITON Id AHRRT, P. O BOWMAN, Cotton Buyer. (Corrected dally at II o'clock Noon Good Middling 31 3-4. Strict Middling 31 12. Middling 31 14 Strict Low Middling 30 1-2. Itf YORK COTTON MARKfcTT. year dys rsrvw Hirt? cio*# rfio?# Mrh . 31.44 3. HO 31.44 31.?4 31.43 Msy . . 11 20 ll.SI 31.12 11.11 .1106 July . .30.70 30.94 30.64 30.80 30.65 Ort . 29 60 lfc.il 29.60 30 H2 30 63 Dec . . 21.40 29.3? 29.f.I 29.3!? New York spots) 32.66. Aale of Rats Tomorrow, la:dies. Over 200 secured I?. our Miss Hebwarts. No two alike The prices are |3.60, ICflO and Vou \5pll do well to Invent. H?<vnrt* fcftltftV Wf,* Advt. MAYOR JENNINGS ADVOCATES OWNERSHIP BY CITY OF EliECTRIO POWER PLANT. Council Authorizes Employment of Engineer to Prepare Estimate of Cost of Municipal Light and Power Plant?Turkey Creek to Tlio Front Again. /_ At a regular meeting of council held February 26th there were pies eut Mayor Jennings and Councilman. Rowland and Booth. The minutes of February 12th were read and approved. Clerk read letter from Mr. R. L Scaffe offering the name of John W. Scaff of Baltimore as surety on his bond for $1,000 to the city require*: of plumbers.. Council agreed to ac? cept Mr. Scaffe as surety. Cler* presented application of the Southern Railway Company for a re? duction in their license to $100 as has heretofore been allowed. This was granted. Clerk presented report of Civic League nurse department for the year together with thanks for the annual appropriation of $300 by council. This was ordered tiled. A delegation of business men ap? peared before council in the interest of the Smith Greater Carnival Shows which had been quaxtered here this winter asking that this company be allowed to show here under the aus? pices of the Chamber of Commerce. Members of the delegation stated that considerable business had been done with local merchants by this company. After the delegation retir? ed council discussed the matter at length and decided not to grant the request. Mr. D. D. Moise appeared before council and called attention to th. bad condition that Turkey Creek ca? nal waa in. He stated that the drain? age district, proceedings covering the territory adjacent to the city had been abandoned and asked council tc take some steps to relieve the situa? tion. Council discussed the matter at length and expressed itself as willing to do something In this line provided the county authorities would cooper? ate. Council asked Mr. Moise to lay the matter before the County Board of Commissioners and see if it would be willing to stand half of the expense of cleaning out the canal. The application of the Palmetto Fire Insurance Company /or a reduc? tion on Its license on account of beim' i borne company and bringing mo:ie> nto the community was discussed The clerk reported that the only replv lie had rece'ved was from Greens? boro, N. C, which stated that no con? cessions were made such companies Council decided to allow settlement this year to be made on a basis of 1 per cent of premiums written instead of the usual 2 per cent, with the un? derstanding that hereafter no furth? er concession would be asked for or Allowed. Application was received from J. H. Dougherty for the position of engineei of water works plant, should a va? cancy occur in this place. Ordered tiled. Clerk and treasurer presented bill of L. D. Jennings against the city foi $2.25 fur amount paid for long dis? tance phone messages in connection with negotiating loans for the city during the years 1912 and 1914. Or? dered these paid. Application was received from W. B. Hair for a license to run a lunch counter. Council decided not to cre? ate a special classification for lunch counters as distinguished from regu? lar cafes. , Manager Shuler presented a re? quest from M/s. Davis to be allowed temporarily to retain some hogs with the county limits. Matter was ordered referred to the Hoard of Health. Mining-1 Shuler reported that W. D. Cost in asked permission to Install a gasoline tilling station on East Cal houn street near Seaboard Railroad crossing. Discussion developed the fact that these filling stations were in? juring the asphalt paving at other points where they were In service and the requeet was refused and the man? ag??? was Instructed to have stations at such other points removed. Coun? cil decided that hereafter no Installa? tion of these stations would be allow? ed on asphalt or blthulithio paved streets. Application for the position of city physician was received as follows: Dr. ('has. Andrews bid $50 per month: !>r. C, P BpfSJ bid $50; Dr. C. P Oeteen bid at the rate of $400 per year. Dr. C. P. Oejteeil was elected to this position for the remainder of the year. letter was read from City Managet' Shuler asking that his salary he in? creased lo ILMIO per year. This was granted increase to date back to Jon? uary 1st. Mayor Jennings stated that he thought the time had come when steps should be taken looking to the city acquiring Its electric light plant and advised that council authorize hin to obtain the services of a competent engineer to come and look over the ground and estimate on the cost ol construction of a suitable plant witli a view to going to the citizens and au? thorizing by petition an election to be held to issue the bonds necessary I Council authorized him to take the j steps necessary in this direction. Councilman Rowland again pre? sented request from R. A. Brand that a street known as Second Street be opened up across Atlantic Coast Line Railroad property till it Intersected with Hauser Street. He stated that in company with Councilman Booth III had looked over the situation. He recommended that deed to the prop? erty bo acquired and street opened up. This was ordered done. Councilman Booth reported that in? vestigation had been made relative to the city purchasing a truck to use in place of horse drawn carts for handl? ing street garbage and for handling the street sweeper. The lowest prices obtained was $64 8.75 for a Ford truck chasis and $57.50 for a suitable body for same. Council decided to pur? chase this outfit and give it a trial. Council went over a certain portion of the applications for licenses for the current year. In several instances they instructed tho clerk and treasur ' er to make further investigations re? garding the returns submitted. Council then adjourned. Mares Should Ik* Bred. Clemson College, Feb. 27.?Eco? nomic conditions existing both in this country and, Europe make it espe? cially Important that our farmers do more breeding for horse and mule production. Unfortunately Southern farmers follow too much the custom of buying their horses and mules ar needed for farm work. A great many mares on Southern farms are not bred each year when in fact they should be. On many farms at least two colts can be raised each year where none j are produced at present. The trou blo and cost of raising them would j be small compared with the cost when l i bought on the market. However, it must be understood that the rearin? of colts demands special care. The value of a colt depends large- J ly on the qualty and merit of its sire. Ntaurally in most instances the sire is superior by far to the mare or dam as the sires are ?anal ly purebred and of special merit Without exception good, purebred sires should be used if available. Do not make the mistake of breed? ing to a scrub stallion or scrub jack, merely because the service fee is less. The service fee of any good stallion or jack is reasonable at j from $15.00 to $20.00 and in some! instances materially more than that, j Scrub sires are frequently stood at i from $5.00 to $10.00 and many! farmers conclude at once that there i3 a saving by breeding to the cheap- j er sire, when in fact the offspring by the purebred sire will command j an average of about one hundred ' dollars more when old enough to v/ork than by the scrub sire. The time for colts to come depends on circumstances. Spring is the natural time. The mare and colt could then be benefitted by new grass which aids materially In stock raising. However, where mares must be worked hard during the j spring and summer it may be advis? able to breed so as to have the colt come in the fall when the mares ami more or less idle. Fall cots require more attention especially as to i shelter and feeding. Under average conditions the mare will foal .140 days or 11 months from date of breeding. A Texas poet has written a son-; in which he says that while his body |fl in Texas, his soul is in Tennessee He |l not the first poet who has had trouble in keeping body and soul to gether.?The Toledo Blade, Civilization must get rid of some of its myths." "Good idea. I hope It'll be as eus\ to dispose of old Jack Frost as i* was to put John liarleyeorn oat of business." ? Washington Star. American troops are on the Champagne front. Xow listen for ru? mors that they are spending all their time drinking the champagne. Less foundation has been the basis of gi eater absurdities. Nashville Han nor, "Caruso pays $61,000 income tax." !!?? can f ive some high notes to make payments.?Greenwood Index. Ship carpenters "bent on securing closed shops," says the news. Un3le Sam ought to close the shop to them and fmward them to the trenches. Tamps Tribune, The large income that the office nl Judge of Probate now enjoys from li quor permit.'; renders it a much more desirable position than heretofore, and the office will not go begging In man;, counties. SUMTER MAN KILLED. Unidentified Man Proved to be John A. Calhoun, Jr., nml Not Mnthine. The State. The body which had lain at the Mc Cormiek undertaking establishment Since the Southern Railway wreck Monday afternoon, the identity of which had not been established, was late yesterday found to be that of John A. Calhoun, Jr., of Sumter. %A bill container, bearing the name of J. F. Mathias in gilt letters caused that name to appear in the list as the probable name of the young man when the bodies of the 12 rpen were Identified Monday night. He was 25 years old and was to have come to Camp Jackson with a . group of Sumter boys within the next few days. Knowing that he would be called into the army within the immediate fu? ture, he had gone to Ninety-Six, his former home, last week for a brief stay With relatives and had started home on train No. 18 Monday noon. He saw service on the Mexican bor? der last summer, being a member of Company L, Second South Carolina Regiment. He was later discharged honorably from the service. He was the nephew of T. C. Turner of Ninety Six, for a number of years clerk of court for Greenwood county. Parents of the young man came to Columbia last night and the corpse will be taken to Ninety-Six on the 1 o'clock train today for interment. J. S. Perry of 41 Vance street, Ashe Ville. N. C, was largely instrumental yesterday In producing information which led to the identity of the younr, man. The letters "J. C. A." were found on the young man's collar. On the ihirt bosom were large worked let? ters "J. C." After prolonged search it the baggage room at the union sta? tion, scraps of a suitcase were pieced together .and the initials "J. A. C, Ninety-Six," found thereon. Commu nicatlon with Ninety-Six established unquestioned identity and the parents of the young man notified. Mr. Perry thought the unidentified man was possibly some traveling man far from ; home and no effort was spared In At? tempting to gain a clue as to identity. Mr. Perry travels for the Benjamin T. Crump Company of Richmond. Vra., selling automobile accessories. BEES AND HONEY;. Also Beekeeping; Supplies. Honey is the best substitute for sugar, and by keeping bees you can have your own sweetening. I have colonies of Bees in improved hives that I will sell, and now is a good time to move them. I also have a number of the Government Bulletin on Bees for distribution to parties interested. Still have some honey for sale Also Beekeeping Supplies. N. G. OSTEEN. 320 W. Hampton Ave. No Special Privileges. William and Mary college, the old est college In the United States, has become CO-educational. If William can ottend, Mary should he allowed the same privilege.?Spartanburg Journal. After all there really isn't any? thing in a name. Mr. W. B. Waste of BpartaUburg, is doing splendid service here for the conservation of food. -Spartanburg Journal. ? ? i ? ? j The March Delineators and patterns are now on sale at The Sumter Dr> Goods Co.?Advt. Ten thousand workshops In Great Britain are engaged i" the produc? tion of munitions, of which 5,000 are j controlled and 150 are national fac ! tories. Nearly 20,000 British South Afri can natives have been recruited for service behind the lines in France and Flanders. You Buy one We are Sure. 100 stripe satin skirts of finest qual? ity cheap at $7.:>n. Go on sale tomor? row at $5.00. See window. Be quick. Schwartz Bros.?Advt. Which Way? Traveler (in London Hotel)?I'd like a room on the third floor. Clerk?Up or down, sir? ?Life. Wife?This paper tells of a man OUt in Ohio who lives on onions alone. Hub?Well, any one who lives on onions ought to live alone.?Ex? change. Republicans lK>int with pride D the fart that President Lincoln chose a Democrat ror his secretary of war. Well, hasn't President Wilson also put I DeniOCSat en that job? ? Daily okla homla. I Horace Reale, colored, who was ar? rested a lew days ago for failure to I register for military service, was re I leased yesterday afternoon on $50(1 j bond. A hearing will be glveTi him next week. Why Universal Service. (By E. E. Harriman of The Vigilan? tes.) Yes, why? Stick up a peg there and skirmish for reasons. Why? I hear a voice say that it is not fair that one should hear the burden of two, therefore all should share alike the burden of defense. An aixom. Not one in ten will try to cbmbat that theory. Another says that acceptance of protection from the commonwealth obligates the citizen to protect the commonwealth in turn. Surely. The disciple of physical perfec? tion tells us that the training makes better men and hereby hurries us nearer the ultimate goal of perfec? tion; that this good result is manifest in the next generation and is the real highroad to follow. That the training makes the trained more alert, selfreliant, keen of wit, therefore bet? ter fitted for any activity of life. All of which seems established The man who hates war, yet retains a modicum of stiffening in his spine and gray matter in his brain, believes that universal service will give to the United States a body of trained men that will be an effective warning to trespassers. Which is true provid? ed that we eliminate the Wilhelm strass propagator! of rottenness that are striving to weaken every part of the national structure. But none of these things have touched the greatest good of all, sure to follow the adoption of universal service under our form of govern? ment. All are good, all are true, but the best and truest of all, that which will bring the most lasting good to ev? ery part of our nation is this; that sectional, racial, and class distinctions will be wiped out; that men will get to know each other's true value and to know thenuselves in truer light. When the boy from Atlanta and the boy from St. Paul, the one from Boston and the one from L?os Ange? les, the one from Naples and the one from Moscow, the one from Auhl Reekie and the one from Belgrade are thrown into daily contact, doing the same things and learning the same things, there will be a breaking down of prejudices and an opening up of confidence. Isn't it the vordict of the camps today? Have we not seen the Jew from the Ghetto and the son of the millionaire learn new and lasting re? spect for each other? Have we not seen the college bred American boy and the son of a Chinese truck gard? ener learn to see the good in each oth er? Can we go back of the verdict of the boy from an old American family college bred and proud of his blood, who said of a bunch or tor ^ign born, "You've got to hand it to those guys. They're in dead earnest and they're all man, all the way through. Just crazy to prove them? selves good Americans, and -ake it all with a grin. You like 'em when you got to know 'em." Ah, thai is the point, getting to know them, and where do men get to know each other a<> they do in the training camp, unless it is upon the field of battle? And to prove that we need to know each other, just hark back to the remarks made before the war. "It is always the poor man who has to do the fighting, while the. rich loll at home and get richer." "You can not expect anything from these uneasy Laborers in case of war. They won't do a thing but snarl at the men who do the work of war preparation and then they will hang back and let us do all the light ing for them." That is the way certain men of two classes talked. I heard them. What are they doing now? 'Training hard in the same cause and with sin? cere respect for each other's virtues. There is no better way to break down the wall of partition that stands between rich and poor, educated and ignorant, native born and foreign horn, than to set them at the same tasks, under the same conditions and accord them the same treatment, with national safety as the goal be? fore them. So we may sum the matt?r up in this way. Universal service means beating our own burdens, not shirking them. It means doing our duty by the com? monwealth which protects us. it means building a wall too Inch and strong for tyrants to attack. It means giving our young men stlonger bodies, more alert minds, more self reliance. It means teaching them to value their country and all its government means to the world. It teaches them self discipline. It brings to them a better under? standing Of each other an 1 keener appreciation of national aims and af falrs. It wipes out sectionalism. It brings home to every man native born, the truth that all the man from a foreign country needs, in the main, is to gel a thorough and impartial Understanding of us and our ideals to j make one with us. Tt is the heat What fuses the mass within the melt ' ing pot. I That's why UNIVERSAL SKRV1CE. Death. 4 From The Daily Item, Feb. 27. Mr. Jno. M. Owens, son of Mr. Tont C. Owens, who resides on South Mag? nolia street, died at the naval hospital in Philadelphia on Sunday and the body reached Sumtor this morning'. Funeral services were held at the residence at 3.30 today. Mr. Owens volunteered in the navy last spring. He was recently taken from his ship to the hsopltal to be opearted on for apendicitis. The op? eration was unsuccessful and another was performed, from the effects of which he died. He was a nephew of .Mi. \V. D. Owens, of this city. From The Daily Item, Feb. 26. Mr. Chariten L. Burkett died in Columbia last night after a protracted illness. The body will be brought here for Interment and the funeral services will be held from the resi? dence of his mother, Mrs. A. G. Brown, West Bartlette street at 11 A. If, tomorrow morning. Notice. I wish to announce to the public that I have secured the services of Mr. D. L. Cox, to assist me in my un? dertaking business. This change is necessitated by my son, Mr. Geo. H. Hurst, Jr., leaving for the army. Mr. Cox comes from Mali ins, S. C, and is a graduate Funeral Director and Bmholmer of the Renard College, New York City, holding South Caro? lina license. He has had several years experience and is a man of known ability in his profession. GBO. II. HUPST. The Millinery t ails You! To a sale ladies, beginning tomor? row of over 200 smple hats (no two alike). They will be arranged in 3 groups as follows, for quick selling: Group 1, hats worth $5; sale at $3.50; Group 2, hats worth $6.50; sale $4.50; Group 3, hats worth $S.50; sale $5.50. This is a rare sale just in the begin? ning of the season and we invit? you to participate. Schwartz Millinery.? Advt. Those who never go beyond the city limits may imagine that there Is no need of a good roads campaign, but they will change their minds if they take a trip out in the country. Tho public roads are bad and getting ?.vorre. The condiion is due to three causes, principally?poor enstruction and lack of drainage, lack of system? atic repairs, rapidly increasing and heavy automobile traffic. The hit or miss plan of building and main? taining roads has played out and to have better roads it will benecessary to spend more money and spend it wisely. 0 FOKD TIRES?30x/ $8.90; 32x3 1-2, $13.75 to $15.00, 31x4 $20.00 to $123.00. All other sizes in propor? tion. Largest stock cut rate tires in State. Standard makes. The Cheap Tire Co.. Columbia. S. C. FOR SALE?F. O. B. cars, Camp Jackson, stable manure; very little straw. Car load lots only. Chemi? cal and Fertilizer value rated very high by Clemson college. A. A. Strauss. Sumter. S. C. I Geo. H. Hurst, Undertaker and Embalmer Prompt Attentin to Day and f Nfght Calls At J. 0. CRAIG Old-Stand. N. Vain Phones: SfJ? rrmtrrn immum????nm?im We Grind Lenses, examine the eyes scientifically and fit eye glasses perfectly. I^et us work for you. We have all prescriptions tdc. Broken lenses replac? ed promptly. Graduate Opto? metrist and optician in charge. W. A. Thompson, ,11 AM .I E A OPTOMETRIST. ^mnn:uj:?mnw?mt?$mrmtm$m$$$i