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? I I Mill i? THUKK IMHMS I\ \ \\ I I K. OiImt Counties inr (limbing TOO anil a letup M? an- sumter (joes I;.i< K ? \ Pull Ml louethcr Takes Hii * ?... The statement Just issued from the Male Director'* ortlcc shows that during the wi i-k of Man h 1 tith- March , .id Sumter county rime from ixth in tlir rank o> ?oiinties to i Ith. The pet capitn rise was five cents; in other word* during that week Sumter eoun- ) . bought stumps to the extent of live ? ?vntH worth for every man, woman rnd ehdd in tin- i entity. The counties \ e |fa>scd weie ITnlon, Kaluda and Florence. Tliese counties, you may he sure are m.ing to hustle to ?.et. K t.ai I; on us.' Su.liter county hei le hustle to hold hoi own and to Ko hlghOf up. Join Ihe Tip Top Clllh. Little Hampton < entity 11. the .-an., tun?- rov?. four places; we aie not tin < nl\ crowd that is climbing. Ho fur. thirty war savings societn In this county have sent in their pa ! per a. of this number twenty eft front nchools outside of the city of Sumter. two uie from adults In the country mul eight aie Horn min ts In the city Manv more societies aie m piece of organisation. Hy this lime in ^ month Henri nhouM oaalty he L#| . saving eoetotles In His eotnsty. The really truly grownups out Sa **m way have lornied a War Savings Hoclety. This is the second grownup #eessty formed in the countv. The Hen. Sumter at Statchurg being the first. Miss \ \. Cat row is president of the ?eJeni gocieis. md Mrs. C, M Hovkm i i.-iary. The Other lie in bei? are Mr A M Andrew -. Mrs. A If. Andrews. Mr i:. w. l>aia.s, Mi ? W. I ?:.? a.s. Mi . .1. H . \\ d on. U I Sophie tlnJbh . \Ii-h Kli/.abeth Dahhs, ami Miss Virginia Warren. Why cannot our Sumter people fol? low the example of Stahdiurg on one fflde, and Salem on the <dher and tin Sumter ladies in the centre, and form War Having Societies? And why can not the men mio lln-se .ties' Wh\ onl\ the children and the wo gel el Have the men so moen mono] they do not need to save" lias the government so much surplus that the no n do not feel it their duty to lend to the government? Will not a live year saving \>><> good when ? i In d m .l.nua \. If 23 ? The formation of man-. War Saving Societies did a lot to pusli forward the sales of stamps in Sumter during March. The memhers of these SOOtO tleii nave and encourage savings among others, and 1he\ ?< cu i n pi ish a lot of gootl work In raising revenue for the government. Without revenue the government cannot keep gOUsg for? ward a steady IfOtMfl of supplies to the Vnnriean ho\s in !? ranee, and the/ are flgMtag an army that is e\ ceedlngly well equipped with ev ?y thing. The smc'sses that the Her? mans hnve won so far have not bOOtl cause?! hy the fact that Oerman sol? diers let la tter than other soldiers, for th. y are not. hut tlroy atS gell or? ganised, well equipped, and the na Iflgfl nehind Ihe in is just as well or? ganised and is sending to the front till the time the supplies that are n*e?|**d. r'ethel School has four War Savings Sim iff n-s, and these held a nice OClC brat OH on March tfth which was Thrift Day. All the school sung \merica and then there was a reading b Mast*-!' s. a Rarvln, Jr., and by Master Dwlght Cain, Jr. Then the. ? hool rang Columbia? the Gem of the Ocean, after Wtaleh an address was delivered to tin- audience of sehoo* d ildit n ami grownups from the neighborhood by Mr. H, C, Hayns worth, Mr. tlaynsworth made a stir ring appeal to the patriotism of hi* le a * r'. and it may he added that the patriotism of the people of Bethel i eigb bor hood is never slow to respond to \* i stover < :ii Is inh.de upon it. .\ Short talk was made ?.,. Mr. .1. M Kolb, and iio-n superintendent of Ku ucntlon Haynaworth made a talk, af i? r which benediction was prenounc* <> b] Rev, William Haynsworth. The four Bethel school societies hi \? already i>iui.;iii a large number oi stamps ami for the number of pu pllS m tin school In going to make a might) good showing when the repor< <?j ail ihe aehdbls ars read at Count! S? hool I *a\ on thS 1 !'th. 'I he ladies and gentlemen of Dal tell are forming a War Saving Society. I heir roll Will he pUhMshSd as soon a it is sent III. Tin- merchants out in the country arc slowly (Illing In agency appllea f,i n binnks and sen.line. them in. Agencies i i me country are eapeetall) desirable because the peopls do no* f i t as ol ten to the poslotlire as they do in town. These merc hants tan do a lot of gOOd patriotic work by ihOWlng Thrift Stamps to the people, if they M'll onls realise that fact. Dttling I he post week l^ancaster counts Jumped from BOX! to ths bot ton to ju ;t below BnmtSr. If some Of our good people do not buy stamp.' thl ; w? ek we arc very much afraid that Lanenater win gtvs another jump and go clear OVCf us. * ?- / Saving Sammy says: Iftet " fin buy Liberty Bonds with rour big money put your nnal! change Into Tbl il t Stamps. Boost ths bonds while they are with h but don't forget the little stamps Two KalSSr killers?Liberty bonds and Thrift Stamps. t.F.HMW LOSS F.STIM \TFJ>. \inoricun OsueUtU Place Cost of Dfftv? nt aon.OOO. With American Army in Frnnee April 8.?An American olllcer who h just returned from the battle fleldl of northern France estimates that the Germans thu* far have lost at least thr? e hundred thousand in killed WOUndSd ami missing. , Lichim.ml Pierson llobsoii. A great man will be in mir ntldsl Wednesday evening ?f> deliver a lec tin* on "Wartime Prohibition*1 01 "AmsrlCS in War" and the people oi this city OUght to turn out in full force to hear this meat orator of na? tional reputation and fame. Captain Hohson will lecture at Trln Ity Methodist Church on Wednesday a . ning at I O'olOOk. It has long Ceased to be remarkable that so small a country as Japan COUld lie victorious over so big a conn ti\ as Russia. Washington Star. FEATHER YOUR NEST VV7HRN you invest your money in Liberty Bonds you are not giving money to your country. You are making the safest investment in the world, and your money will come back to you, with interest, at a time when you may need it far more than you do now. And remember? Etfery 'Bend $?ou Invest in May Vu* . a Soldier's Life ThU 5ptc? Paid For and Contrihutrd By LEVY & M0S?5. 1,1 MHER FOR SHIPS. War Industries Board Issues Orders tu Curtail Ouhcr industries. Washington. April 5.?Further measures were taken today by the war industries board to speed up ship? building and aircraft production. Pri? ority orders were issued in favor o. lumber shipment'.* from saw mills foj this work and an agreement was reached with thp piuuo and musicV Instrument industry to curtail produc? tion u ) per cent, during April and May. By a 80 per cent, reduction In the output of piano end instrument tue torleoi officials declare, vast fuciiiti'c win become available for aircraft! arid other war work now behind schedule. Representatives. of the industry have been In conference with the wa. industries board and a voluntary agrement e/ei reached. As soon as possible war work will he transferred to these factories. This move Is said to be a part of a general policy o: the war industries board to restrict production of the less essentials wherever necessary to speed up th< war preparation. The automobile industry already hat agreed to cut down pleasure car pro duetion SO per cent. The glass Indus try recently curtailed its output fd per cent, and box board manufactur ore agreed to close down one day k week and brewers curtailed their brewing 90 per cent. While aircraft production is chiefly affected by this action both the ship? ping hoard and the aircraft board wil benefit by the lumber priority order. F\Pl.osio\ AT H ATI MORE. Hilt Noise Hut No Damage and No Fatalities. Baltimore, April 8.?Hot slag he ing dumped into the river at the Sparrows Point works of the Peth lehem Bteel Company early today caused a terrific explosion which shook the lower part of the city. 1? was flrsi thought that there had been a serious accident, but no one Was hurt. Work or Quit. ( from the Oregon Journal.) Chicago breathes an aspiration to loin the galaxy of cities which have grOWh great and virtuous under "tyorl. or quit" town ordinances. The "wor".. or quit the city" ordinances wilKJn wholesome If they are wholesomely enforced. If they apply to the hobo without money and pass over the hob*? with a big bank account they are like? ly to do more harm than good. The people will submit to any law within the bounds of reason that is impar ilally applied, a law that is not im partially applied may deepen the chasm between social classes und tend to dissolve the unity of the na? tion. If rich Idlers and poor ones can he set to work together everybody will rejoice except the idlers. All That Was Left to Do. An Ohio man whose son was an ap pllcant for a position in the federal civil service, but who had been turn? ed completely down, said: "It's sure hard luck, but Pill ha i missed that civil service again. H took a like they just won't have him that's all." "What's the trouble?" asked the friend. "Well, he was kinder short on spell in' ami geography, an' he missed 0 rood deal in arithmetic." "What's he going to do about it?" "I don't know/1 said the father, 'rimes are not so good for jjs, nn* I reckon he'll have to go back to teach in' school for a UvlnV Everybody's No t'ay Needed. ' I done had to go out collectln' fob de missionary society," explained the obi Colored woman who was wanted i<>r some housework, according lo Marlis IMckson. "RUt 1 have WOl'k lor You to do, md you med all Ihe money sou can what do you gel paid for col? lectln?" asked Mis Dlckson. "I don't gel paid," said Mainly. "I onlj RetS what I collects." Atlanta JOUl n il. H.id Heard it Before. "I'll attend to you ill a minute ' vas the was her mother addressed lleth e/hen she was to be punished One day she sent the little girl to tin Ntore on an errand, she returnee1 ci \ ins 11< was goln' to 'pans: me in' i wunned home "He wouldn't do that." said mot he t "Ei um WOUld," sobbed the child "He kep' Sellin1 to odder folks, an i me. to me I'll attend to you in I mlntlte." Atlanta .1 oni uaI. in the saving of daylight we cai <i the clocks uheuil, but what are w? ulng to do with the tun dials'; - ,\i i i nsaa < Issette. KILLING' FROST NOT LlKF.LV. Average Ihme March 20, Imtcst Date April 17?What Weather Man Kays. Richard E. Sullivan, tne meterolog ist at the weather bureau, gave some interesting figures yesterday showing the average number 'of growing days obtained by the difference in averages existing between the latest sprin*: killing frost and the earliest autumn killing frost. The average date of lat? est sparing killing frost around Co? liimbld is March 20, according to the records and as that is 12 days past the chances are with the growers. The following, Interesting facts are glvei concerning Columbia, Charleston and i rVeenvllle, In this section the average numbei of growing days is 24 3. The averag date Of the latest spring killing fros. is March 20. The average date of tin earliest autumn killing frost is No rember 18, The latest spring killing lrosl based on a temperature of 3 2 in Columbia occurred on April 17, l!?or? 0 The thermometer registered 30 on that date. The earliest autumn killing frost on same basis occurred on October 30 1010, The difference between the two average dates is 249 days. In Greenville, the average lates killing frost since 1SU3 based on a tern perature Of 32 was April ?i. The av erage date of the earliest killing all tumn frost on the same basis was Xo vom bet 1. The latest killing frost a Greenville on a basis of a temperature oi" 32 was on April 24, 1903. The earliest killing autumn frost was Oc tober 11, 1906. The difference be? tween the two average dates Is 30V days. The latest killing spring frost in Charleston sines 189] occurred ot. ?February 11?. The average early au tumn killing fros? according to al records is December 11. No autumn killing frosts occurred in 1X71, 1890, 1SU3, IK!?7 and 1908. The latest kill? ing frost ever recorded in CharlestOI occurred on April 2, 188.1. No spring killing frosts occurred in 1S80. The eat liest autumn killing frost was ro. corded on November 17, 1872, 188:. and 1901. The difference in average* Is 896 days. A llhapsody. More good, constructive thought comes through the haze and the smoke of a cigar or pipe than then would ever have come had they been absent. Tobacco chewing is a bad habit, but iiome mighty great men ol this country have chewed tobacco. To bacco In moderate use leads to a sere? nity of mind which places it in posi? tion for analytical thinking, and that is what this country is short on al present and has been for the las generation. If tobacco la good foi the boys in the tranches and help them, it is good for the boys back home. When it becomes necessary for us to give up tobacco in ordei that the soldiers may have bread, we will give it up, but serenity of mind is 'ust as necessary as a full stomach and we know of nothing that is o greater comfort to one than tobacco used moderately. ? Memphis Commer eial-Appeal. Hertdtty. *T)o you believe In heredity?" ?'Yes." said the school teacher. "There's a little bov in my class who bus to return home every day for Hit books, pencils and pens. His father's a plumber,"?-Buffalo Bxpress. Better Now. "When I 'was a boy I was glad , enough to eat dry bread for my ! dinner," said father, at the head Ol I the table. "Well, daddy," piped up his Small daughter, "you ate having a 1 muel i ? Her time now you ore living will US." -Life. Rome of our people do not yet real ! i/c fully that this country is in tin War and that our own boys are it France lighting to the death for lib city and safety. Perhaps the nex list of fallen heroes that comes fron across the sea may contain the namei Of BU niter boys, When they d< come to a full realisation of whal w? have at stake the) will count nothlm j too great to do for the cause of de inocracy, They will not counl dollar when Am? i n a calls upon them b buy Liberty Honda. We nre walling to hoar German; say that she Invaded Itussin to pro toct the Rolshrvlkl from Japan. HI Louis Slur. I Geo. H. Hurst, Undertaker and Embalmer I'tim pi AlUntln to Day an I Night Calls AI I. 0 CHAlU Old Stand. N.'tfaln i nones, rsigm ?ot KING II \KOU>. Cantata to He sung by The ?hor.il dllb Thursday Night. / The cantata to be sung by the Cho ral Society of Butnter on Thursday evening. This work was written by Ml'. Wood! for Queen Victoria's jubi lee. It was sung lor the first time by three thousand voices Since then, i ha sbeen used many times hath In thin country and abroad. The libretto was taken hugely from Lord Lytton's "Harold," and Lord I Tennyson's drama, Bcveral deviations having been made for effective niusi cial treatment. in order to ncighten the apprecia? tion of the audience, the Interesting argument ol* this work is given below. Th" program for the evening will be published later. Keep in mind th> date. Thursday evening the lith. and tlie visiting artists: Miss Florepe? Visanska, violoniste; Miss Elsa Barg man. soprano: Mr. Itichard Voight, tenor; and tin orchestra. Vrgnment. (>n the eve of the battle of Hastings (Saxon, Ben lac) King Harold receives Ian ovation from soldiers, camp fol? lowers and country people, by whom he was much beloved. Among the moie timid there is a presage of com? ing disaster because of various strange portents. The soldh rs dispel thes fears by reminding them of the King's recent victory over the dreaded Viking host. A contingent Of monks and nuns from Waltham Abbey (Mar old's foundation) arrive In the camp, among whom Is Bdltli the fair. Harold has been led In to a mar? riage with Aldwith by carefully laid stratagems, although his heart has long been given to Edith. ? A meeting takes place between Har? old and Edith, both of whom seem to rogard it as a farewell one, since the King asks of Rkllth a farewell blessing, while Edith speaks of a speedy union, not. on earth, but at celestial altars Where "true love is a virtue." So they part. Harold's rest Is disturbed by visions o: Norman and Saxon Saints and spir? its of the Sea. predicting death and disaster on the following day. The King prays that punishment may fall on him alone and not on England. 1 The next day the battle is watched from a neighboring hill by an anxious crowd of camp followers, country peo? ple, monks .etc.. among whom is Edith. Victory seems well within the grasp of the English wheji the crafty Norman, by a pretended flight, turns and throws the English Into confus? ion. The King is seen to fall, pierced by an arrow. The English wives and mothers seek their dead by moonlight, and Edith obtains permission from the Normans to search for the body of the dead King, Bo disfigured were the faces ol the dead that their recognition was inly effected by certain marks on the body. < Mi the breast Of Marold were tattooed the words "Edith and Eng? land," on reading which Edith falls dead over Iba* body of the King, rejoic? ing with her last breath at the eon summation Of that union to which sh?| had so long looked forward. The Spirits of the Sea predict that in one grave on the sea shore shall reat their two bodies, undivided in death, over which they will wall the Initial death dirge: ? Let his corpse guard the o-ista which his body madly defended. Left the sea wail ?is dirge and girdle hie -rave." Remarkable Manifesto. Following Is a remarkiblc manifes? to that was recently Issued by a nuiu* boi" ol t?nghind's most noted minis* ters: "First ?That the present crisis points toward tlie clause of the llmsa of the Gentiles, Second - That the revelation of tin' Lord ma; be expected^ at any mo? ment, when lie will he manifested as evidently as to His disciples on the evening of His resurrection. ?Thud That the completed church will he translated, to be 'forever with the Lord.' "Fourth?rlhat Israel will be re? stored to its own land in unbelief, and be afterwards < on verted by the appearance of Christ on its behalf. "Fifth That all human schemed of reconstruction must b^ subsidiary to the second coming of our Lord, be cause ail n:-ions will be subject to Iiis rule. "Si\th?That under the reign of. I brist there will lie a further grSsUI effusion of the Holy Spirit on all flesh. ? Seventh? That the truths em bodb d in tl s statement are of the utmost prat leal value in determin? ing Christian character and action with reference to the pressing prob? lems of .he hour." This statement was signed by A. C. Dtxon and P, B. Meyer, Baptists; George Campbell Morgan and Alfred liyrd, Congregattonalists; William Puller (Touch, Presbyterian; TL Webb Peploe, .1. Stuart Holden, Fpiscopal lans; Ihnsda'v T. Young, Methodist. Iiis Lite's Mystery. There is a man in Hozeman, Mont., who will probably go through life be? wailing the Injustice of the draft hoard that certified him for service despite the fae. that he presented a letter writ ?n by his wife to prove that he had a dependent family. Here is the letter: "Dear Uu'*ed States Army: My husband asi me to write a reckom mend that h? supports his family. Ho can not read so don't tell him. Just take him. lie ain't no good to me. lie ain't done nothing but play a labile and drink lemmen essence since I married him, eight years ago, and I got to feed seven kids of his. Maybe you ?w get him to carry a gun. He's good on squirrels and Satin.' Takt him and woleum. I need the grub and bis bed for the I kids. Don't tell him this but take him." New York Tribune, Mean So Much More Titan Money Your money would be of little use to you if the Germans should win the war abroad and come over here to complete their work of world subjugation. Invest your money in Liberty Bonds?one Bond arms a soldier and may save his life. "It's civilization against dcvilization" THIS SPACE PAID FOR AND CONTRIBUTED BY THE ODONNELL DRY GOODS CO.,