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? Pub?shed Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? ' OSTKEX PUBLISHING COMPAXY SUMTER. S. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$1.00 - t Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates.; ' All communications' which sub- j ' serve, private interests will be charged ' for -as advertisements, I? Obituaries and tributes of respect j will he charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found ?n 1850 and the Tune Southron in ; . 2^66. The Watchman and SouCron j now has the combined circulation and ; . influence of both of the old papers, j and is manifestly the best advert.s.n, i medium in Sumter. ?iMMaX???n in ^wn??????> . :The letters of'State Chairman D. R. : I Coker and County Chairman A. C.; Phelps.of the Council of Defense. ? which are printed today serve to bring: directly to the attention of the farm . ers, business men and bankers of; . .Sumter county the grave situation ; ? * that confronts the cotton States. We n ', have^produced at great cost of mon :. ey. .labor and applied skill an im- j g men?ely valuable commodity that the j H world-needs today in greater quantity, :" than'ever before and of which the, world's supply is shorter, in compar-! . ispn with the actual immediate needs,! i than ever before. -In consequence of! 'war conditions and the inadequate! ? transportation facilities cf the world.1 the market for cotton has been de . moralised, which demoralized condi-' tion has been fostered and accentuat- i ed by financial and manufacturing in- 1 terests inimical to the real interests of j the South. Cotuon goods are selingi ? for higher prices than ever known! ? within the past half century, . the I high prices being due to the limited! supply and the increased demand | . since the war shut down a greater! part of the cotton mills of Europe, j Cotton goods are selling on the basis ; of forty to eighty cents for raw cot- i ton, yet despito the enormous profits the mills are making they are fighting! bitterly against paying the farmer a: fair price for cotton. In this fight | ?, the mills are aided and abetted by j < the financial interests who have al- j ways cut the throar of the cotton j ^ market and robbed the producer of;, his legitimate profit. It is a clean cut j i issue and the South should line up asj1 a unit to force the balance of the!1 woxltj to pay the price that cotton is j ^ worth under present conditions. If j; the" farmers . Vvill stand pat and hold j 1 their cotton for ninety to a . hundred !3 days*_they can and will get the price j . that' they demand. If they surrender I j now.and sell their cotton at the prices]; offered by those who are trying to gel i 1 control so as to grab the lion's share : , of the price that the world will pay;, some one for cotton wherewith to 1 clothe its millions, they will help 10 j * bring back the industrial servitude! in which this section existed for soj many years. If they stand fast the j j prosperity that -we now enjoy wiii: ? continue and increase. What are we J going, to do about it ? . ? j Our Future Governors. (Greenville -News.) They may have to stay.over there! awhile yet, but it may not be many j months until our future governors, j senators, congressmen and presidents I return from Europe, "first in the' hearts of their -ountrymen." Look out for sudden affectionate j demonstrations from neutrals who j have heen waiting to see. which way ? the cat would jump.?Washington1 Post. I It is going to be pretty hard on the I poor, patient German people, with all \ the other things they have to bear,! not to have any more atrocities to J look' forward to.?Columbus Ohio | State journal. ? Christmas This Year. ? | ?- ' M Will m<?an more than ever t6j thoughtful people, but it will not be! a season for extravagance; only j worth-While 'Christmas presents will j be given. For nearly one hundred years The, Youths Companion has been the pop- j ular Christmas present. It always; has been the best present for so lit- \ tie money, because the paper means j so much to the family life and j continues to come every week through out the year. In these serious times The Youth's; Companion is worth more than ever. It'costs just the same?$2.00 for 52 issues. It's the best $2.00 that can be invested in a family, and when giv ing the Companion you give oniy the best/ ?;Don',t nii?s Grace Richmond's great serial. Aline Exeter. 10 chapters, be ginning December 12. 'The following special offer is made to* new subscribers: **1. The Youth's Companion?5J issues of 1919. 2. All the remaining weekly issu< < of 1918. ?3. ? The Companion Home Calen dar for 1919. All the above for only 32.00, or you may include 4. ' McCalTs Magazine?12 fashion numbers... All for only $2.50. The two magazines may be sent to sepa rate addresses if desired. * THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. Commonwealth Ave. & 3t- Paul' St. Boston. Mass. . New subscriptions received at this office. . MANY FINE CHK KEXS. Award of Premiums in Poultry Do partment of Fair Auuouuced: j * j The Poultry Department of the j Fair had a busy day yesterday. Judge I R. L. Simmons Charlotte, N. C. : had considerable trouble in selecting ' the winners, there being so many 'fine chickens to select from. ! The best cock in the show. Avon by Bernard Siddall. Buff Orpington. Best hen in show won by L. L. Legters, Bishopville. Black Langshan. Best cockerel in show, won by L. J. Leonhirth, R. I. Red. " Best pullet in show, won by W. P. Puckett. St. Matthews. S. C., White Orpington. ? Best pen in show won by L?. B. Mc cord. Manning, White Wynadotte. Second best cock in show, won by A. H. Wilder, Barred Rock. Second best hen in show, won by W. P. Puckett, St. Matthews, White Orpington. Second best cockerel in show, won by Bernard Siddall. Buff Orpington: Second best pullet in show, D. B. McCord. Manning, White Wyandotte. Second best pen in show, won by W. P. Puckett, St. Matthews, White Orpingtons. The Comity Fair. From The Daily tern, Nov. 20. The attendance at the Oouny Fair this morning was not up to expecta tions, although there was a large cro wd in town and the streets had an j animated and busy aspect. Thus "far j the attendance at the fair has been ! considerably less than last year, but there are indications that the crowd on the grounds this afternoon will be considerably greater than during the morning. The poultry exhibit is es pecially fine this year, although not as extensive as in previous years. Tlu quality of the birds shown is unusual ly high, evidencing that the fanciers of this section of the State are steadi ly improving their stock as they gain . experience in handling and breeding3 fine poultry. The list of prize win ners is printed elsewhere in this is sue. The agricultural machinery dis play is large and particularly inter-1 esting?one which every progressive farmer-in this section should inspect with careful thoroughness, for it is only by the use of up-to-date labor saving machinery that farming car hereafter be made profitable in this section. The day of cheap and abund ant labor has passed and no longer will the farmer be able- to get his work done by hand cheaper than he ' can by the use of machinery operated I by intelligent workmen. The farmer! who does not familiarize himself with the modern farming implements? tractors, cultivators, etc., will fine himself a' hack number and a loser in the immeditae future. 'Consequents the machinery exhibit and demonstra tions should attract a large crowd of jp-to-date farmers. The live stock department, except hogs, is not as well filled or as good sis it was last year. But the hog ex tiifcit" is both large and extraordin?r ily high" class. Good judges say thai the hog show is as fine as can be found anywhere, for there are num bers of hogs of the very highest type ? nnd the best breeding to be found in the United States on display. The farm crop-display is not ar !argp as last year, but the quality i excellent and the variety extensive? there are just not so many individual exhibitors. The fair is a good show and the people of Sumter should turn out. for without gate receipts the organ ization cannot be maintained?and it is necessary to the fuller develop ment of -the farming interests of the rounty. In Memoriam?Horace Midler. In these days of prospective peace when all the world is rejoicing be- I cause of the cessation of hostilities) and millions of hearts are glad be- ! cause they feel that the boys are safe. I nothing could be sadder than the in- : teliigence of a beloved son's death. Sadder than in the days of actual | warfare; for the mind is then ready ? for it from a long formed habit of \ momentary expectation of tidings of j gloom. But to feel the elation that comes from the belief that the war j i? over, to believe that all danger i.- i pas: and then to have all of this dash- j ed away at one fell swoop is grief in deed. Such was the case with Horace \ Mutier, another boy whose star on the 1 service flag of the Sumter High! School has changed to gold. Horace M?ller was a <juiet. unas suming boy; but underneath that aii of apparent placidity there was a depth of feeling and a determination of purpose. He heard the call of his country and his patriotism responded to the call. He offered everything that he had and Iiis country accepted the sacrifice. The sou; of another heroic patriot has gone to its just re ward. As lone.' as the citizens of Sumter remember the Great World War. so long will they remember that Horace Mullet* gave his life for the cause designed to make the world a ; place lit to live in for ourselves and : for our children's children. He also has achieved his earthly immortality, i To the members of his family our i hearts go out in expressions of un i usually tender sympathy; for they had every reason to believe that one : so (tear to their hearts was safe and that the war was over. The school and everyone in Sumter. I am sure, wish these grievously afflicted ones to know thai in the hours of their deep | est gioora there are many who feel i for them from the bottom of their ' hearts and wish for them surcease from sorrow. Respectfully submitted, s. H. Edmunds, Supt. Keeping the Secret. Stella?"Molly told me you told her thai secret I told you not to tell her." Bella?"it's beastly of her to have told you that! Why, 1 told her not to:" Stella- "Well. I told her I wouldn't tell you she told me. So don't teil her I did."?Tit-Biu. ! "SHIV'ASEF IS DYING ' HARD I That Enormity cf Crude Social Con ditionc. !s St:!I Practiced in Some Places. j _ : That, enormity of crude social condl , lions, iliv' charivari, or, to follow the i : popular pronunciation, "shivaree," | seems to die hard in the dominion, j Some weeks ago a number of young i men of a district near Woodstock, in Ontario, entered the home of a recent- . ly married couple, bound both hand I and foot, and carried them to the barn ? on a wheelbarrow."" There they re- I moved the clothes of the husband and smeared Iiis body with oil and chaff. They had no excuse to offer in court; except that they werfe "shivareeing" 1 the young man and Iiis wife. Small fines were imposed on them, which ac- i lion suggests that at least a little ; progress toward a higher civilization ; is being made in the neck of the woods [ of which they are denizens. Beside j such conduct as that described, the in-1 anities so often practiced at weddings are insignificant, yet they should bei consistently discouraged. Guests at j .these ceremonies ought to keep their j pleasantries from marring the happi- j ness of the bride and groom and their ; families; especially, of course, should] they refrain from practicing such friv- j oiities as place the victims in peril of j positive bodily harm. :- j TOO MANY BACHELOR SEALS: Reserve Increasing at Rate of 4,000. Unnecessary Bui! Seals Every Year. A complete count of the pups born' to the fur seals df the Pribiloff islands j has been made each season since 1912,1 the year after pelagic sealing was sus- \ pended by international treaty.- The j count for 1015 shows a total of 103.- j 527 pups, which means 103,527 moth- j ers. This shows that the herd is being restored to normal growth. But Prof. George Archibald Clark of j Stanford university, California, points j out in an article in Science that there has also been an abnormal increase in the number of young males, what he; calls the "reserve" Increasing at about j 4,000 unnecessary bull seals every i year. Of these there are about 27,000 now. The danger lies in their attacks J upon the massed rookery portions as | the^ desire to set up harems of their; own. This keeps the breeding grounds ! "in a continual state of battle, result- j ing in injury to many mother seals and j the trampling of 'he pups. It also means that when the fishery j is resumed the grounds will be over-' run by hordes of savage fighting bulls, j He Baggedabigone. A few days ago four firemen from! No. 11, East Washington street, Indian apolis; went to Columbus, and then! motored west of there, to hunt. They gave their names as Rossmeyer, Feh-;, renbach, Rudy and Slater. Rudy's fa-j ther lives west of Columbus, and they1 were going to hunt on his land-. The party had just arrived when Slater! started to scout around the barnyard, j Suddenly he came back at a gallop,! much as if he were going to a third; alarm fire. He was sounding his si-j ren, and all the tenants of the barn-: lot got out of the way. "Gimme a gun, quick!" he command ed. "I just saw the biggest rabbit I ever saw in my life." He grabbed the j gun, hurried away, and in a moment or j two the others heard a report. Here; came Slater, lugging an unusually; large animal of some sort. "Gosh a'mighty!" exclaimed Rudy's; father, "if he ain't shot my Belgian; hare, that I wouldn't have taken $100; for!'* And it is said that Slater did not en- j joy a bit of his outing after that.?In- j dianapolis News. - Girls Play Hockey. The fair sex has taken up the gamei of hockey in earnest in New York and | a girls' league has been formed inj the metropolis. A call was sent out: not long ago to those who wished to! play the game and 300 responded. Hockey has long been recognized as, one of the most dangerous of the! strenuous sports and only the hardiest' of men care to- take the risks in volved. There is always the danger' of having your cheek laid open by a | slash from a hockey stick or yourj teeth removed by a swift flying puck! or shins barked, not to mention the j thousand and one different kinds of I falls that are always imminent, when i a sheet of "slippery ice is your only support But the girls do not seem to mind J the dangers involved. Those making! up the different teams Jn the league: i have become quite proficient in the I game and many exciting matches are ? played by them. Now they are ready ! I to meet the best of the girl teams of \ j Canada, where they have been play I ing the game for a long time. - ? I ! Shameless. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood said in a j preparedness argument at a dinner in : New York: "The man who opposes preparedness expects his brother to do his fighting for him. This man is as shameless as the chap who said: " 'Well, I'm going to get married ; next week.' j "'What will you live on?love?' asked a candid friend. "'No,' was the reply. 'We'll live on j love's father.' "?Washington Star, j_ Dogs for the Blind. j Large numbers of dogs are being j trained in Germany to lead men who ? have been blinded in the war.?Euro* I pean edition of the New York Herald, GRIST MILLS OF OLD GONE Hardly Wore Than a Generation Ago They Were to Be Found Within Few Miles of Each Neighborhood. The report, published in a Bridgeport newspaper that the owner cf a grist mill at Sandy llook, Conn., having se cured a few bags of wheat, ground it , up and sold it to his neighbors, to bo mixed with Western flour, the result; being a cheaper material for bread,; brings us back to the days of hardly j more than a generation ago, when Northern farmers produced grain enj their farms and had it ground in the! neighboring grist mill, then an insti-l tution to be found within a few miles of every neighborhood, says the Provi- j dence Journal. There was no indica-j lion in those days that the ground] product of the grain, whether com or wheat, was inferior to any produced i elsewhere. But" new with the advent; of modern machinery our civilization' j seems to demand" a flour from which every particle of nutritious gluten, so far as it tends to discolor the flour, is 1 eliminated. As for home-grown, home ground cornme/il, that is a rarity known only to a few old-time epicures O?d secured by them with considerable difficulty. In the southern Appalachians, how-j ever, the old-time grist mill is still in j use. The farmers there raise their j own com, and the miller grinds it as! they desire it, usually, a bushel at a j grist,' from which the miller reserves | a measure for his toll. In the Pied- ! mont section of North Carolina and j Virginia, where wheat is grown, there: are flour mills for grinding the-farm-; ers' wheat, and the product is every bit as. good as that of our Western j mills, although it may not be quite up j to their staixlard of whiteness. Be fore the Civil war entire cargoes of j Virginia flour were shipped from Rich- j mond to Rio de "Janeiro, Brazil, and! their values returned in shipments of i coffee, but the war ended that trade! and it never has been revived. IRISH WOMEN ASK FOR VOTE; ^????? Would Include Emerald Fsle in Anyj Measure Granting Equal Franchise ] to England and Scotland. _ , At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Irishwomen's Suffrage and Local Government association, the following resolution was passed and forwarded to the lord lieutenant, the chief secretary and the Irish mem bers of parliament: "That this committee would strongly urge upon the government the need to j include^ Ireland in any measure grant-j ing the franchise to the women of England and Scotland." A meeting was held at the Mansion j house, Dublin, under the presidency of! Mrs. Stephen Gwynn, by the following Women's Suffrage'societies: Irishwom-j en's Suffrage federation, including the Irishwomen's Reform league and the j Munster Women's Franchise league;! the Roman Catholic League for Woman Suffrage, the Church League for Worn- j an Suffrage, the Irishwomen's Frau- j chise league, the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise associa tion and the Belfast Suffrage society.. The meeting was well attended, and a; resolution was passed unanimously de-1 manding the inclusion of the enfran- j chisement of Irishwomen in any settle ment of the Irish question, and the ex tension to Ireland of the resolution of j the speaker's electoral reform confer-j ence on women's suffrage. Notable Namas in Service. The Naval Reserve corps lias a long list of notable names, and of the 14 i members of the executive committee of the Naval Training association,, which was active in organizing the ; motorboat coast patrol and in enroll-i ing men for the reserve, .six are al ready in the service. George F. Ba-j ker, Jr., cha irman, is a lieutenant in j the reserve; Paul. L. IJammonci, treas- j urer, ic an .ensign and serving on a! destroyer doing patrol duty; Francis j H. McAdoo, a son of the. secretary of j the treasury, has enlisted as an or dinary seaman ia the regular naval | service; Richard S. Russell of the ex-? ecutive committee is a lieutenant; D.j McKee Morris is a boatswain's mate, j and Junius Spencer Morgan is an en sign. . Early to Bed, Early to Rise. Who wouldn't be a farmer if he j could choose his occupation? In ad-j dition to the assured wealth that awaits the agriculturist because of the i high prices of his products it now ap- j pears, from statistics of the depart-: ment of labor, that he among all call ings attains the highest average age,: fifty-eight years six months. Book-! keepers and office assistants, on the other hand, die very young, at thirty-, six years six months, whin they have! barely begun to live. The moral of] these figures is obvious. Let the hook-! keepers forsake their stools and hiej themselves to a farm. Thereby they! will be greatiy prolonging their own; lives and helping to support their fel-j low beings. In the city they are doomed j to tuberculosis and other diseases.? Philadelphia Record. Carrier Pigeons In Wer. In Germany there are thousands ol, carrier pigeon clubs. The army es pecially has many stations where pig eons are trained. This is not exactly! a secret, but, for reasons, they nr? never mentioned. In the present wai j private owners have placed their birds at the disposal of the military authori ties. Not Germany alone, but France j and Russia have military carrier sta tions and Belgium is the principal j country for training pigeons. ? fRAPFiHG OF MONKEYS EASY Zvrlosity, Creed and imitative Faculty of Ar.imals Furnish Vulnerable Point of Attack. When vre see in the street an or sran-grimlcr with his little red-capped pet monkey, we seldom stop to think of the animal's native home or how it was trapped. As a matter of fact, the i?onkey came from Asia, Africa er South America. The last-mentioned have nostrils widely separated where as the old world monkeys have them close with a narrow nr.sai septum. One might readily imagine that the trapping of monkeys is a difficult op eration. However, nothing could he further from the truth than this hy pothecs. Monkeys are easily caught, not by heavily built traps, bur. by sheer ingenuity and the simplest sort of artifices. A monkey h?s various vul nerable points of attack, so to sneak; and these are cupidity, curiosity, cov etousness or greed, and a truly won derful imitative faculty. A trapper can take a pair of boots into the jungle, drop them down within sight of a monkey and soon have that monkey in a cage. The boots on his feet appear to be the same as the boots he leaves; but here is where the monkey is mistaken. As soon as j the visitor goes away, the monkey de scends from some tree and thrusts his own feet into the boots. The inside is covered with glue, and he sticks fast; also the hoots are weighted with lead and chained together. The trapper may chain a gourd, filled with corn or some other eatable, to a heavy log. Mr. Monkey comes along, tastes the food, relishes it, and wants more. There *is no limit to his greed. He thrusts his hand into the small opening in the gourd and his fingers close around a large supply of the food.. Then he finds himself un able to withdraw his hand. The trap per advances and captures Mr. Mon key, because the animal's thinking cap and his insatiable greed are such that the simple expedient of releasing the food never occurs to him as a means of escape. ONCE BUSY CITY NOW QUIET Wisby Has Littre to Show That It Was at One Time Liveliest Place of Its Size in Europe. To- the eastward of Sweden, in the Inhospitable Baltic, lies the great Island of Gothland, with its capital of j Wisby. Little visited and little known, Wisby is one of the most interesting I cities of northern Europe. It is in the I track of half the Eussian and Scandi navian sea commerce, but few ships j make the land today in which was once the busiest of northern harbors. Land at Wisby and you find a quiet I little city with ivy-covered houses and i gardens of roses, going about Its unim portant affairs in an atmosphere of placid calm. It takes a considerable effort of the imagination to call up a I picture of the times when Wisby was to the Baltic and the North sea what i Venice in the height of her power was j to the Mediterranean. Wisby in those i days was the wealthiest and liveliest' city of its size in Europe. The men of Wisby seem to have been i traders from the beginning. Back in j the ancient Norse chronicles there is; mention made of Wisby galleys that \ went all over the known globe and traded the treasures of the Levant with Norse kings. Today they are still digging about in a desultory fashion on the island in search df historical relics and the shovels bring up coins j of all the ancient nations?coins of old i Britain, of barbarian Russia, of the | numberless German states, of France and Spain and ncrth Africa. Wisby gathered the gold of every land with ' her venturous trading keels, in times j when a little business trip had as much j romance and danger as the forays of a j knight errant fighting over his lady's! eyebrow. ! "Slavery" In South America. Timid, cringing, taking off his hat | respectfully to every white man he meets, the Indian of the west coast j of South America is a pitiable ob- \ ject, says World Outlook. In the cities he shares with the j burro the honor of being everybody's j burden bearer. No June but an Indian will he seen with even the smallest, package and you can engage a descend- j ant of the "children of the sun" to carry home anything from half a pound of tea to a 200-pound trunk. You I pay him what you will, he dares not j chaiter about price with a-white man.. On the great plantations and in the | mines the Indian is a virtual siave. j There is no free agricultural ldbor on the west coast. Four days a week, j the peon must work for the great land- i holders at the munificent wage of ten cents a day. The rest of the time he j may devote to his own acre or two f which must feed and clothe his1 family. j ? Ship and Its Gender. The word "ship" Is masculine inI French, Italian, Spanish and Portu-! guese and possesses no sex in Teutonic and Scandinavian, remarks the Marine Journal. Perhaps it would not be an error to j trace the custom of feminizing ships j hack to the Greeks, who called them by | feminine names, probably out of defer (Mice to Athene, goddess of the sea. But the English-speaking sailor, as-! signs no such reasons. The ship to him is always a lady, even though she j be a man-o'-war. She possesses a waist, j collars. Plays, laces, bonnets, ties, rib-' hens, chains, watches and dozens of j other distinctly feminine attributes, j VICTORY FOR SUMTER. Defeats Columbia High By One Touch Dovni?Game Was Very Fast. Columbia State. Keeping the Columbia High Sichool on the defensive during the greater pan 01* the struggle and playing fast snappy ball, the Sumter High School football team yesterday afternoon de feated the local team by the score of to 7. The grame was played on the Uni versity field under ideal weathei con ditions, ih*- air being just sharp onough to put the boys on their met tle, and it was witnessed by aerowd of rooters, who kept up a lively ex change' of yells along the side lines and in the grandstand. The Sumter team was somewhat heavier than the Columbia aggrega tion, and until the last quarter confin ed their attack almost exclusively to end runs and smashes through the line, scoring their first touchdown af ter ten minutes of play. Columbia was forced time and again to put in order to make the required gain, and early in the contest launched an over head attack which was consistently ; adhered to throughout the struggle. The wisdom of this plan was clearly demonstrated in the second quarter, ! when, with the ball in Sumter's terri tory, a long forward pass was nego tiated by Columbia, Henry receiving ! the ball and dashing over the line for : the only touchdown made by the lo cal team. The goal was kicked easi j iy. and Columbia's scoring for the day : was over. The most sepctacular play of the j game was pulled off in the third ! quarter when Columbia, with the ball i in her territory, punted, the ball fall ; ing into Captain Denniston's arms ! about the center of the field. Den ! niston. who had been touted as one of I the speediest men with Sumter, start ! ed down the open field, darted in apd j out evading all tacklers, speeded up i as the white lines began to pass under ! his feet and crossed the goal line with j the oval safely tuckked away under his arm. The long run, throughthe j open field with no well organized in I terference. met with the applause i that it merited and was easily the (pretties and most unusual play, of the afternoon. ! Soon after the game had started, : it- became evident that the Sumter j lads had adopted as their slogan j "They shall not pass'' so far as the. ! line was concerned, and Columbia re ! sorted to forward passes, pulling them j off time and again successfully and ? outclassing their opponents in that j department of the game. The punting ! of Murdaugh was also of flight class. Sumter's end runs and smashes through the line netted gains steadi ly, and at times it seemed that the Columbia lads would be swept off their feet. In the last quarter Sumter abandoned the line attacks and start ed an offensive overhead, but few of the passes met with success, the locals intercepting them effectively ana many of them failing to reach the Sumter players. Kirven, Denniston, Sholar, De Lorme and Edmunds played excel lent ball for Sumter, while Henry, Beall. Smith, Kohn, Barnes and Mur daugh showed up well for Columbia: All the boys put hteir whole hearts into the game, and it was fast and in teresting from the first kickoff. No injuries of any consequence oc curred during the contest.and all the i players seemed in fine condition. By winning the opening high school game of the season, Sumter is ; in line to contest with other high school teams in the State for the championship, and the result of the game between Darlington and Sumter and Florence and Sumter will be watched with interest. The teams lined up as follows: Sumter (13)?Kirven, R E; Craw ford, RT; Rhame, RG; Phelps, C; Burns, LG; Lewis, LT; Dick, LE; Ed munds. QB; Denniston, Capf) RH; Sholar. LH; DeLorme, FB. Columbia (7)?Henry, RE; Spark man, RT; Richards, RG; Bell, C; Price. LG; Beall, LT; Harmon, LE; Smith. QB: Kohn, RH; Barnes, LH; Murdaugh. FB, Capt.) ? ; Officials: Referee, Osborne; um pire, Brown: headlinesman, Brocking ton: timekeeper. Thompson. Time of quarters, 12, 10; 12. 10. Hie Lyceum Course. The confusion of / routes and dat in gs due to the late epidemic has ne cessitated the postponement of Dr. Hilton Jones' leeture which was to have taken place tomorrow night. This will be announced later. Mean time the committee feels that they will afford the people of Sumter a treat in the bringing to Sumter of Vic tor's Italian Artists who come on No vember 26. Miss Moses will gladly deliver any ticket from her desk at the National Bank of Sumter. The tight is on between the big cot ton gamblers, who are determined to obtain, by hook or crook, the profits that will eome tot he owners of cot ton when trade reopens with Europe, and the farmers of the South. These cotton gamblers cannot bear to see che South receive a profit on its crop and they are turning heaven and earth to get control of the crop before the demand from Europe sends the price bounding up. The South is not bank rupt and is not forced to sacrifice its cotton ami every man who has cot ton should hold it until he gets a fair price. Dog's Wonderful Bite. 'What has become of the greyhound you had?" ? Killed himself." '?Really?" "Yes. tried to catch a fly on the small of his back and miscalculated. Bit himself in two."?Tit-Bits. Iron Crosses Cheap. Paris. Nov. 19.?The iron crosses which the former German emperor so lavishly bestowed during the war now are being sold in Germany for five pfennigs, or about one American cent apiece, a telegram from Amsterdam says.