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(X ?? Sse^cd Ciaas Matter. PERSONAL. ; ."W. H. Commander, of Florence ' Ife^t thfe morning- after a visit to hit son, Mr. J. P. Commander. Mr! Major Shelley has been accept ?e?:;fOr the Officers' Training Camp -?nd'^wHl leave for Camp Fremont, NS^ornia, November 18th. Miss Inez King has returned tc Lake City to resume her work in the music department of the school there. < Death. ? From ^e Daily Item, Nov. 11. Mrs. vT^iam Yeadon died today at nooaR after an illness of several days. The funeral services will be held at the house at 3.30 o'clock Tuesda> ' afternoon. : Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Tennant died at .4 .o'clock this morning at the h^jme of her nieces, the Misses Gib son, ;after a short illness. The funer al. tv^1u be .held from, the residence, ?&p^;3ft^oiia street at 10.30 o'clock tomorrow morning, interment at the eeaaetery at 11 o'clock. TWO JXTERESTTNG LETTERS Suggestions That Should Serve to In sure the Workers in Tfee United War Work Campaign. District Chairman. S. U. Edmunds, ^-ot ..the United War Work Campaign reeefVed today the two letters .that follow.^ They should prove of very ^ , gjf^at .^interest just at this time: . "- -"Mr.WlHiam ~D. Melton offers trophi' ofvajdesk set of AlHed silk <hOTrto -the District first raising its quota, and authorizes you to offer a ??IlBSftr trophy to be furnished by "him :tx> the county in your Distric: that goes over the top first. :'Mt. Egan, Chairman of the South eastern ? Department, offers a State '". to the State which first repots ilte??anta the raising -of its quota, -i?jff - a United States flag to the State ?which "over-subscribes its quota in the largest $er cent. <rSTou have already had notice that iiuts -were to "be named in France af ter. ..thfe first ten States subscribing , ? therr quota. . T am sure: "1st: You will want the name of South Carolina to be one of the 'huts. ^2nd. Ton will want South Caro lina's emblem to be on the State flag **3rd. You will agree with me thai w% ought to have a United States "4th. You will "Want to claim the District trophy. - foul's for the success of the cam l>a$gn. "A. A. Protzman, ? ,.. "State Director." .-; "On the eve of the great United War Work drive, We desire to ex press 'our complete confidence in you and your associates and to tell you that we?appreciate heyond measure t&e splendid work you have already accomplished in preparing for this P^-ia your section. Tou will be to know that from every i^xtf the country, despite the we face, there comes as surances that the goal of $250,000,00e w^H^ -reached. It will give you par v tieuiar pleasure to know that prac - tically every county in the South eastern Department has assured us that a B?rge oversubscription may be ?' ?"We cannot emphasize to you too &*ongly The fact that, if peace is as tar?a tomorrow, the seven agencies interested will be compelled to put on fwft? as Mg a program for a period of at least eighteen months as has oeisSS carried on in the past. "The real 'job is now in your hands and hoth here and at headquarters in New York, we look with confidence to you to rally our people to the fact that the hearts of our boys will be made glad as result of your work. " *Wlth kindest regards, "Yours fraternally, "John J. Eagan, department Chairman. "R. H. Kmg, "Department Director." SOVlHERN NEGRO'S STATUS AF TER WAR. Reconstruction Era Following Close <8t World Conflict to Demand Sec tion's Best Thought for Proper So hsftSon. ^Professor at Virginia Mili **Sry Institute Suggests Work for Christian Churches. <lBy J. C. Hemphill.) -jLfter the present war is over and the peace of the world has been re stored, there will follow inevitably a long period of reconstruction. There - mast be many readjustments?eco nomic readjustments, affecting the ownership of property* the acquisition of wealth, the ownership and man agement of public utilities, the regula tion of private initiative; constitution al readjustments, affecting the most ' cherished theories of government; 1 legislative readjustments, affecting the'enactment, administration and in ' terpretation of the laws; political re ??dj?stments, affecting the rights of citizenship and the conditions of suf frage. The Just solution of all these ... Jsroblems will require the exercise of ? the ^wisest and most far seeing states manship and to such solution the genius of "the country will be challeng ed. 'One of the most difficult of the ??B?es that must be dealt with, frank ly and fairly, will be the status of the negro?not his strictly racial and so cial relations, which he must deter mine for himself, but his political status in the country at large and ^ittletrlarly in the Southern States. The people of the South know what reconstruction means when it is di rected by well meaning fanatics, un balanced Samaritans, and power lov ??' fihg politicians. The horrors of the reconstruction period in the South Were burned into the very soul of i?s people and in the new reconstruc tion that Will follow the present strug gle the people of the South?and par - tfcs?arly the white people?must . Uk? tht initiative. Sensible of the infatntms- coursB"at the managers ov| the first reconstruction and its bittet ! results and adapting the language o! the president, they might very well say: "We do not think the samt thoughts or speak the same language of agreement." In round figures there are 11,000, 000 negroes in the United States pi whom 9,000,000 live in the South. The problem belongs to the South anc must be settled by the South?the white South and the black South working together and in the spirit oi exact justice between the races. The question is pressing itself foi consideration in advance of the time when it must be settled, and man} thoughtful men among the leaders oi Southern public opinion are alread> giving serious attention to the sub ject. At a recent meeting of the Fortnightly Club of Lexington, Va., the question was discussed in a pa per read by Col. J. M. Patton, profes sor of modern languages in Jhe Vir ginia Military Institute, the great school of the Southern soldier made famous by Stonewall Jackson. Colone. Patton's address was based largely upon conversations with his brother, the Rev. R. W. Patton, who has mad*, a sympathetic study of the subject contending that "there must be a re adjustment along lines different from efforts formerly tried to adapt, th. negro to circumstances and environ ment and to place upon him a revalu ation as a member of human society. The revaluation of things, ideals anc persons is being forced upon all peo ples by the sacrifices and blood anc self abnegation of the world. Nom calls for a graver consideration and t fairer judgment than that which w<. of the South must inevitably fac. when the war is over. If man's mos. precious gift, life itself, counts fo nothing in comparison with, as We learn, the principles of democracy when sons and fathers, including th?. negro, are giving their lives?not t say joyfully, but deliberately and un grudgingly, when mothers, including the negro mothers, commit thei: sons* lives ungrudgingly, also ti. their country's cause?that of de mocracy, it may naturally be aske what is the value of this democrac. compared with their precious lives'. We know the value of lives, what then, must be the value of that de mocracy for which the exchange i. made? "The disintegration of the nation al life of the Jews at the time of th*. coming of Christ was due to the fac. that in the supreme hour of their na tional history they failed to recogniz their true responsibility; that the doom Christ pronounced from th Mount was due to the fact that the} failed to recognize the day of thei: importunity; that they insisted upon keeping the divine revelation as i provincial and national asset rathe. :han as a boon to be shared with tht luman race." After sketching briefly the war. hat have been waged for freedon. jince the human race was divided int.. ribes and nations and kingdoms ant ne never ceasing struggle for tin. imancipation of man from the domi lation of force. Colonel Patton sah iiat the War Between the States it. iie United States was the greates contest that had then been waged fo. ;he preservation of the principles c "reedom and that now the struggle lad been renewed on the blessed field >f France. "The black man," he said 'was called upon in the War Betwee: :he States and right nobly did he de fend his master's family in the Soutl and provide for it. But in this worb war we find standing at our sides th> supposedly weaker or backwart races, lending their strength to pre serve the ancient traditions of ou. race. *Thou shalt not see my faco c; the hilltops of freedom, except th: brother be with thee.' He is not oru} the black man from the French col onies, the German colonies, the dark er races of India, but the negro o the South. <^ne in nine is the ne? o He not only gives his labor in th; fields of peace in war work behind th< lines and at home, but 200,000 of then wear the uniform of the United St-.tt*1 army. Again, he stands one in nin< when the roll is called?an arm: larger than either side had in th< War Between the States in any bat tie. Thousands volunteered. Whei peace is declared these negro mei will return proud of their achieve ments and conscious of the fact thai they offered themselves in the cause of freedom; many thousands will havt made the supreme sacrifice, the las full measure of devotion to then country as with their fellow whiti soldiers?the Aanglo-Saxons, the lead ers and teachers of the meaning o freedom. They should naturally ex pect to be full sharers in the fruit; of victory and partners in the glorie: of triumphant peace?a heritage justly claimed. They will seek fo: themselves and their children, ant rightly so, not social equality but po litica)'-and educational opportunity They Xd.ll demand education and?po litic A justice. We have proclaime; the salvation of the oppressed na tions of Europe?what shall we do fo: the negro of the South? This is t very serious question, and one tha we must face. Shali they not havt equal opportunity? To deny the de mand would be to belie our faith v. democracy as the solution of th< world's ills and to spit upon th< cherished ideals of the past ant present. "Every being of whatever fact j must be given the opportunity to en j joy the life of freedom. The Ameri- j can Church Institute for Negroes fos ' tered by the Episcopal Church ha: begun a crusade in this direction * *- | While education may be the function j of the State, the heart of the negro j I as of the white man, is not reachec J I by academic education alone. H( j must be reached through the prin I ciples of the Christian religion. It is therefore, the duty of^all Christian: to take a hand in the negro's develop ment. alon.v these lines. The church as a body must act. About 4 0 pei cent, of the negroes are illiterate and a much higher percentage arc without any restraining influence ex cept the example of the whites view ed from afar. The little educatim they get is more harmful than other 'vise. We should rise to a sense of a nigher responsibility and give then the chance to emerge from savagery, and help to save the State and what the latter represents. - "What'shari w~e^ad to rrreet'trie* Sit uation? .We shall have to confront the situation?we must not aliow i. to drift. The soul of the negro is at white as the soul of the white man? they have qualities capable of high development. The question resolve: itseif into this: What is the value o. a man? As a unit in the State he i: all important to the State, and as such he is a part of the State?a neces sary part of the democratic whole, a pillar of democracy; one of thos* who guarantees and stabilizes the lift of freedom. Shall we make the sacrifice? Or shall we like the chil dren of Israel confess a lost oppor tunity?" Only among what were known a scalawags and. carpetbaggers wouk such plain speaking have been possi ble in any company .of white people ir the South 30 or 40 years ago. Regart the setting of this remarkable deliv erance at the Dutch Inn in Lexington Va.: Subject?"The Negro in the Soutl i and His Status as Affected by the Wa. for Democracy." Speaker?A Southern white man, & Democrat in politics, a former slavt holder, a Virginian of Virginians. Company present?Twenty whit* men (only two of whom were bon north of the old line), teachers, sol diers, bankers, lawyers, one clergy man, and all intent upon the issui under discusion, differing widely as t< the means best adapted to the en< in view, but agreeing that in th<. new reconstruction the white peoph of the South , should take the initia tive and follow in sympathetic ant unselfish spirit a new and just real ignment on the race issue in the South. Noted among the difficultie in the way of a satisfactory settle ment of the issue is the utter lack o race pride on the part of the negr and the vivid recollection of the hor rible conditions resulting from aliej interference in. the political affair of the South 50 years ago. Another difficulty is the growin estrangement between the whites an blacks that has followed the failur of reconstruction in the South. 1 would have been easier to adjust th races half a centtiry ago than it i now. When the War Between th States ended the whites and black knew and appreciated each other be., ter than the whites and blacks of th present day. Then it was the ques tion of race, now it is the question o race plus the misunderstandings tha have resulted from the dispoition o: both sides to continue the division caused and encouraged by mischief making theorists and greedy politi cians seeking personal profit at th sacrifice of civilization. Of course, the everliving question c social equality was discussed, ant equally, of course, rejected as ihi possible in any circumstances; bu there was general agreement tha there ought to be and must be a re adjustment of the race question alon. economic and political lines. A distinguished schoolmaster wh had come into intimate touch with che question in the discharge of hi official duties protested that bette provision must be made for the edu cation of the negro under improve*., and steadily expanding facilities. II had found the negro men entire!, reasonable in discussion, but hoped t be delivered from the negro women. A college president insisted tha*. in addition to improved educationa facilities, there should be better liv ing and housing provision for the ne groes; that they should not be assign ed to the slums of cities, towns, an; villages;, that the lines should b drawn between the moral and un moral members of the race; that the scolored woman with a tring of i: legitimate children ought not to be re garded with the same favor- as th colored woman lawfully married ant the mother of children born in wed lock; that the colored girl should bt protected from the lustful eyes of th men of both races; that it would bt proper and fair to address marriec colored women as "Mrs." and respec table colored girls as "Miss" and ii this way encourage them to appreciate the value and distinction of belonginj to the respectable class; that the: should be encouraged and promotec in every reasonable and practicabh sense to forget their color in; their cit iaenship in all the rights of whicl they should be protected by thei' white neighbors in the South. Th< same college president was perfectl: frank in confessing that the negro ha.' not been dealt with honestly and in sisting that the time had come wher there ought to be found a new anc" better way of making him a more self-respecting and efficient membei of society in the South, with equa opportunity and equal protection un der the laws. Millions of dollars have been ex pended for negro education in tht South since the war. Schools oi theology are numerous, colleges anc I universities abound, a few technica: i institutions have done good work; and all this has been well enough in its way, but in the public schools in teaching and equipment and suppori the negro has not had a square deal In its discussion of the negro ques tion, the Fortnightly Club, composed of white men to the manner born, ha.* started a movement which ought tc attract the attention of thoughtfu. white men throughout the South. A^ Colonel Patton said: "Two hundred thousand negroes wear the uniform of the United States army * * ' Thousands volunteered. When peace i is declared these negro men will re turn proud of their achievements and conscious of the fact f ? they offer ed themselves in the c<?.Jse of free dom. * * * They will seek for them selves and their children, and rightly so. not social equality but political and educational opportunity. They will demand education and political justice. We have proclaimed the salvation of the oppressed nations of Europe?what shall we do for the ne gro in the South? This is a very se rious question, and one that we must face." No Time for Pikers. "John," exclaimed the nervous wo man, "I believe there is a burglar in the house." "I haven't time to fool with small fry," was the sleepy response. "I've spent the entire day fighting regular profiteers."?Washington Star. ? DAY OF BEJOrGlNO. SUMTER CELEBRATES VICTORY OVER THE HUNS WITH JOY AND THANKSGIVING. Morning \Va9 Given Over to Wild Celebration With Ringing of Bells, Blowing of Whistles, 'Fireworks and All. the Noise That a Hilarious Peo ple Could Make. From The Daily Item, Nov. 11. Today, one of the great days in the history of the world, an outstanding mountain peak in the story of hu manity, a date from which all events that have been and all things that are yet to occur to influence and af fect the destinies of mankind of all races and creeds will be reckoned in the centuries of the dim and distant future, has been a day of rejoicing, wild, hilarious and excited on the part of the emotional, and of prayerful and heartfelt thanksgiving by the se rious and' thoughtful. Throughout America into the remotest parts of which the glad tidings were flashed early this morning business was sus pended and the people gave up the day to celebrating the dawn of peace and the defeat and overthrow of Kaiser Wilhelm and his military autocracy*. The people of Sumter put their whole soul into the spontaneous cele bration that began as soon as the news was received early today. As soon as The Daily Item received the Associated Press bulletin announcing that the German representatives had signed the armistice and that hostili ties would cease at 6 o'clock, Wash ington time, 11 o'clock Paris time, the bell in the City Hall tower rang out the joyful news and the other bells in the city and all the steam whistles took up the glad refrain. Ir a few minutes the streets began tc fill with people and flag bedecked au tomobiles and the celebration was un der way. By common consent busi ness was suspended and the day ha? been given up to one continuous eel ebra.tion, with fireworks, noise and an unceasing parade of automobilei and trucks filled with flag waving anc rejoicing people. The happiness of the people is indescribable, joy ami thankfulness and pride and hope fill ed all hearts and old and young cele brated together the liberation of th world from the dreadful menace o) the Hun and his frightfulness. American Casualty List. Wrashington, Nov. 10.?The follow ing ..casualties are reported by the commanding general of the Ameri can Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action. 45' Died of wounds. 16-. Died of accident and other causes. ' Died of disease. 351 Died of airplane accident.... : ' Wounded severely . 7'. Wounded, degree undetermined 13*. Wounded slightly. 10: Missing in action. 18. Prisoners. ( Total. 1,48: The following names are reporte< from South Carolina: Killed in ac tion: Lieut. Claude S. Garrett, Lau rens, CorpL Walter Johnson, Ker shaw; C. T. Chesney, Converse; die< of wounds, Isiah Hodge, Eastover: Alex Butler, Sumter; died of disease Claudius R. Petty, Gaffney; Claytor. Lyltes, Hartsville; Marion Burr Springfield; Ernest Scurry, Blun Branch; George Dalco Seigler, Round Bobbie L. Williams, Seneca; Henr: Lewis Kitt, Williston; Mack Lenne Parker, Vina; Leland Sweat, Holl> | Hill; wounded, degree undetermined ! Isaac Hayward, Huger; woundec j slightly, Lewis T. Lamar, Liberty Martin Ellison, Beltoh; missing in ac tion, Robert Christopher Adair, Clin ton; Wm. S. Connelly, Branchvile. Total number of casualties to date including those reported above: Killed in action (including 397 at sea).12,12!^ Died of wounds.4.71J Died of diseas/ .4,731 Died of accident and other causes ..,.1,42C Wounded in action.38,76^ Missing\in action (including prisoners).6,67-' Total to date :.68,451 The following casualties are re ported by the commanding genera" of the American Expeditionary Forces for Monday: Killed in action. 331 Died of wounds. 10: Died of accident and other causes. '< Died of airplane accident.... j Died of disease. 12 Wounded severely . 3 Wounded, degree undetermined S< Wounded slightly. 16' Missing in action. 12< Total . 96'C The following names are reported from South Carolina: Died o' wounds: Ruf us S. Neely, Congaree Luther Rainey, Greenville: Woundec slightly, Wilbur Smith, McCormick: Clarence Harrington, Mullins: diet" of disease, Robert Bowen, Honer Path; Walter D. Hall. Andrews; Geo Miller, Cross Hill; Robert R. Pearce' Columbia; Cuet Pope. Aiken; miss ing in action. Ellie G. Brandon. York. A Chance to Get a Good Worker or The Farm. The State Director of the Unite" States Boys' Working Reserve receiv ed today the following letter. It publication may be the means of gt-t ting help for some farmer and at tin same time giving a good boy a desir able position: "I am enclosing application care' for a young man by the name of Mountville, S. C. He is very anxiou to secure work immediately on a goo' farm, and if you can place him pleas let me know as soon ns possible. H-. seems to be a, splendid young ma? from what I have seen of him. H has lived und worked on a farm al his life, but says he is not needed a' home on the farm, and desires to work on a farm elsewhere. Trusting that you can secure bin a position on a good farm, I am, Very truly yours. J. C. Foster. MCST MAKE fc??ftJ Many People are Not Carrying Out Pledges to Buy War Savings Stamps Editor Daily Item. Will not you please give me your assistance in my efforts to urge tl^? people of Sumter county to fulfill the obligation they undertook in giving War Saving pledges? The people of this county so far are very far from carrying out the promise of support that was made to the National gov ernment during the summer. The government asked us to come to the aid of the general cause by promising to buy during 1918 $851, 280.00 worth of war savings stamps. The County responded less than half! way, promising only $370.000. Of this amount $200,000 is yet unpur chased, and the year is almost gone. Our government, our land, our selves are engaged in war, and will; be until the peace terms are signed by every combatant nation, and that will not be for yet many months. Hostilities may cease for the'hour, or for the month, but until the final agreement comes the same prepared- j ness must be maintained, the same support must be given to the fighting arm of the nation. Most excellently has that fighting arm performed, and we must perform, not as wel for we cannot hope to, but as well as can. Armies win battles and nations win wars. We have that now so thor oughly impressed upon us. Our ar mies have done as they should have done, and it seems that their battles are over. Our country has done nob ly, but its efforts are not yet over. As the men at the front have done their duty without hesitating, so must we here continue to do ours. Mr. Editor, Sumter county must buy the stamps i* promised to buy and there is not a day to be lost at doing it To fail to do so, to fail tc k ? i a promise of that 3ort is to pui a . ;and of an odious nature up-;r ourselves. I ask you to show to the people that they must buy as the;, promised to buy. I ask of ever-/ min ister that they show this to thei people; I ask it of every teacher; ask it of every leader, no matter whai kind or what sex, whether it be : leader among his fellow workers h the field, or a leader among his fel low high business men in a city of fice. I ask every man and every wo man who has in his or her hea ?" pride for his county and love for hi? country, to keep foremost among hi' fellow men the fact that what wa* promised to the national treasur: through the channel of war saving stamps, must be sent to the nationa treasury. Stamps must be bought t< the extent of an additional $200,000 before the end of this year, and ever? man who helps his neighbor toward the buying of his quota is contribut ing to saving the country's honor. This aid can be given by having stamps where his neighbor will be re minded of them, by seeing that the: are sold at all public gatherings, b: reminding the people of this work, b: riding to make it a public work to b' carried out by each and all. If al" determine that every one who mad( a pledge must keep that pledge, thr promised amount will be bought The few hundred who promised t< purchase stamps in large quantitie have mostly done so; some have no' I but the majority have. It is th' ' many thousand of small pledgers whr have not bought. Their preachers i their teachers, their leaders thei1 friends should all help to see tha* they do not by violating their pledg< soil the good name of the county. Herbert A. Moses, Chairman of War Savings A Little of Both. Aunt Nancy was visiting an arm} camp and as she approached some rookies were sitting on their heels anu then rising to a standing position it perfect unison. "What are the boys doing now?' she asked. "Why, those are the setting-up ex ercises," explained an obliging ser geant. "Humph," remarked auntie. "Looki to me more like settin' down exer cises."?Indianapolis Star. Catty. Edith?"What makes you think Jack loves me so desperately?" Maud?"Oh, a thousand things! H always looks so pleased, for instance when you sing and play."?Boston Transcript. Big Bill Hohenzollern now realizes more clearly than ever what a mis take he made when he picked on quiet, pe- ^eable Wood Wilson.?Ana conda Standard. IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW. What a Heap of Happiness it Would Bring to Sumter Humes. Hard to do housework with an ach mg back. > Brings you hours uiiset at lei sure or at ork. If women only knew the cause? that Backache pains often come from weak kidneys, 'Twould save much needless woe. Loans' Kidney Pills are for weak Kidneys, Read what a Sumter citizen says: Mrs. H. M. Tisdalc, 4 Hasell St.. says: "I have used Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble, which an noyed me a great deal about ten years ago. I was in bad shape. Final ly I used Doan's Kidney Pills and they cured me of all the trouble. Doans' have also been used in my family and have always done the work." It certainly is great pleasure to recommend them." Price GOc. at all dealers. Don't 'simply ask for a kidney remedy?get i Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that j Mrs. Tisdale had. Foster-Milburn I Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.?Advt. 65 itemeov. Physicians and druggists a$e e~ over the fact that they have- at* found a genuine and remedy for colds, sore thnMft& enza and la grippa.v For have depended chiefly upon style calomel, which Js tine, but unfortunately many would not take it because *tvt?\ , seating and dangerous. quaUtt^^Mg^ Now tha't the pi chemists have perfected a calomel, called "Calotabs** medicinal virtues are vastly ed, the doctors and druggists claiming that Calotabs are the^ remedy to abort a coid over and cut short an attack of sore or la grippe. They are also it most effective as the first - the treatment of pneumonia. One Calotab on the tongue time with a swallow of wat? all. No salts, no natiSea slightest interference withvir?^ ing or your work and pleasure, next morning your cold has and your whole system is purified"'^ refreshed. Calotabs are sold bi original sealed packages: thirty-five cents. Your druggist ommends and guarantees - refunding the price if yo*'1n& delighted.?Advt. THE MASS MEETING. audit United War Work Campaign With Great Meeting in House Sunday Afternoon, The campaign to rafeo.: county's quota of the Unlt&& Work Fund was launched afternoon at a great mass the Opera House. The . was filled to capacity and the est in the great ca~se Was gratifying. g& The meeting was opened With ing which was led by the Song er from Camp Jackson. Thfcjih tion was offered by ;R.ev. J. ^P; rion. Dr. H. N. Snyi?er, the sp' er of the occasion, was introdu Dr. S. H. Edmunds. ?, .' . V Dr. Snyder is a great speak^iV has the gift of eloquence thfet charms, entertains, instructs and cx^ vinees an audience, and on hta^iy previous occasions -he has deiight&i^? Sumter audience, but yesterday aft'ei** noon he surpassed himself. speech combined a mastery of wO^d^ and grace of delivery with the heart and soul that render eloquence.^e noblest gift a man may posses*.' :-v At the conclusion of Dr. Snyder's address Mayor L. D. Jennings wasXln troduced to the audience to direct.the practical object of the meeting. -vHe took up the collection. The amount pledged by those present was nineteen thousand dollars?ndi half of the minimum amount Snmter is pledged to raise and about one-third the total sum it is expected that will .be before the campaign "ehda. The committees were expected put in a busy day today wofc town systematically to secufe tributions from each ahn\ e* for i izen of Sumter who is a^rteh*?Jtf? boys over there and a sup ^ the ideals of democracy that world a fit place for decent women to live in. . . . y The man or woman who is ahls; give to this cause and "does worst sort of slacker_and not fit,1?\H*? in this country which our boys, hits died in France to save. Remem this, you dollar worshipers. - .: ft Wouldn't Tai? a Chance. "Why don't you get out and tie? Hard work never killed body," remarked the phil gentleman to whom Rastus for a little charity. "You're mistaken dar, bessf' $ plied Rastus; "I'se lost fouh;.*tf?ifc .4 way."?People's Home J6sfci& %. * ?a??y? ' DUROC JERSEY?Re? for sale: Boar 3 1-2 pounds; 2 sows, 2 1-2.; pounds and 300 pounds; 2r; L. Tisdale stock, 130 pOUn;< 4 gilts, 100 pounds to 3 boars, 125 pounds each; 10-weeks-old, 25 pounds t^on*5 , ness may prevent exi?bit?^Sil Fair. Dr. A. J. Penhock,;R?&? 3. Phone 5313. FOR SALE?A tract of l?i- a?^^f land in Lee County, two m?Sft^^n Heriott's Cross Roads (^Samow Depot on the Seaboard ??*'-oarS?) on the public road to C?fn?^ formerly known as the &c<&tu*rn place, adjoining on the North and East Mrs. LaRush Heriott**' land and on the South H. E. MeCather>, being in Spring Hill township?^Tftis is good clay land with hrstv class two story residence, barns,-**tc., and a tenant settlement. Addj>?ss for particulars P. O. Bo*; 32?? Sumter, S. C._ _._. ' ???, j 7 PER CENT NEW MEil>-#oy prompt shipment; ;<Ts?> Wo-vL 'l?.gh m .???!? :? tika gt p. sash'. a?di vli<&, ground phos, rock a-.td ground-'tf?e stone. Call or write us for. prices. Souhern Brokerage Co.,, Sumter, S- C. - ? : ? -. ^.'i BEESWAX WANTED?Any quantity large or small Am paying cash price. See me if you 'haf? any. N. G. Osteen.. FOR SALE?F. O. B. cars. Camp Jackson, stable m:miue: very 41tfcl? straw. Oar los.d lots only. ClM&ril' cal and Fertilizer value rtt& 'WitJ high by Clemson college. ?. i. Strauss. Sumter. S. C. . . *? Gea H. Hursfr, UndertaJrsr a&d - ??r;?,-.5? Prompt Attwtlnto ?r ? Night Csrils At J. B. CRAIG Old Stan*,*. ?*n . Phones: