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Boteiievism Spreading
Plans Made for a General Revo
lution By Radical Labor
Element.
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Christiaxiia, Nov. 19 (Correspond- j
ence of The Associated Press)?The j
Bolshevik faction of the Norwegian'
.Socialist party has, since last spring,.!
exercised a controlling influence over j
the organization. For some months i
this was done more or less secretly i
sind the objects aimed at were not j
made public. But after the revolu-;
tion in Germany concealment was!
abandoned. j
La speeches at public meetings and ]
by articles in socialist organs, labor-j
era were urged to organize revolution- j
ary associations, similar to those in
Russia, provide- themselves with arms,
and be ready for a revolutionary up
rising, to overthrow the government.
They were told that they should em-!
ploy force and terror to whatever ex- i
tent it might be necessary to accom- i
p?sh their purpose and establish what ]
would virtually amount to a minority
dictatorship on Bolshevik lines.
It is admitted by the leaders of the
Bolshevik faction that the latter con
( stitute only a very small portion oil
organized labor but they declare it j
is for that reason they are justified in
having recourse to force because they}
could not attain their aims by parlia-j
mentary, methods and lawful forms of j
agitation.
The president of the labor party is ?
a Bolshevist and in conjunction with j
certain Russian Bolshevists establish- !
ed "a Russian telegraph news agency!
here for the ostensible purpose of!
furnishing the Norwegian press with j
"reliable" news from Petrograd.
Na date has yet been approximate
ly fixed for starting their proposed j
revolution. The leaders declare it de- \
pends on "how things turn out in j
England." One of them openly stat- j
ed. ""If'there is no revolution in Eng
land there will be no use trying- one {
here for England would at once step j
in and suppress it."
Cotton Ginners' Report!
Crop in Sight Up to December!
13th Only Ten and a Quarter j
Million Bales.
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Washington, Dec. 20.?Cotton gin- j
ned prior to December 13th totaled j
10,252,402 running bales, including}
31,0-00 Sea Island.
Gihnings by States was as follows:
Georgia, 1,872,000; Alabama, 72*5.
000;'Florida, 24,000; South Carolina,
1,329,000.
Peoples League Formed ;
Hodge-Podge of German Politi- j
cians Unite for Safety.
laotfdon, Dec. 20.?A - People's
League has been organized in Berlin,
says' a Central News dispatch from
Copenhagen. The league's commit- j
tee included Prince Maximilian, thej
j former chancellor, Hugo Haas, an in- j
\ dependent Socialist, Count von Bern- j
storff, former ambassador to the
United Sttaes and Mathias Erzberger, j
tire centrist leader. . j
Nitrates For Fields
War Department Plans to Help
Farmers.
Washington, Dec. 21.t?In response
to a suggestion- from Senator Smith
of. Georgia for. diversion of army ni
trate stores from munition to agri
cultural fertilizer purposes, Assistant
Secretary of War Crowell has advised
Senator Smith that the war and ag
ricultural departments are working
with that end in view and in a few
days expect to announce plans for
distribution of the nitrates to farm
ers at cost.
American Influence in Turkey.
The natur? and importance of
America's position in Turkey are bet
ter understood by British statesmen
than by many of our own public men.
This. American interest is almost
. wholly educational and altruistic. For
the greater part of a century Amer
icans have been spreading a system
of missions and schools in Turkey
which, before the recent war, had be
come the most promising of all agen
cies for human progress in the Near
East. The defeat of Turkey has now
come about in such a way as to open
before these American influences such
fulness of opportunity as they had
hardly dared to anticipate. English
statesmanship has never failed to ap
preciate the noble and unselfish work
of the Americans in European and
Asiatic Turkey. Our recent ambassa
dors at Constantinople, notably Straus,
Morgenthau and Elkus, have bee n
the firm friends and helpers of all our
schools, hospitals, and similar agen
cies- , Our technical neutrality has en
abled Robert College, on the Bos
phorus, and Constantinople College
(for women) to keep their doors
open and do good work through the
war period. But the American col
leges and schools in Asiatic Turkey
were mostly within zones of military
action and were seized by the Turks,
their Armenian students and teachers;
being massacred or mistreated. AI - \
most at once it will be possible to re- J
open these American colleges, school, j
and medical relief stations. Through
out the war, the American Commit
tee for Armenian and Syrian Relief
(now incorporated by congress as
"The American Committee for lie
lief in the Near East") has been able
to. distribute money and food and to f
carry on a large work in Turkey, i
with the support of the American lied :
Cross and the constant help of our i
State Department.?American Review I
of Reviews.
Judge Moore has refused a p'-w
trial in the case of Eargle vs. The j
Sumter Lighting Company, in which)
a-.verdict was recently rendered for
$30,000 in favor of the plaintiff. The
defendant appealed but since this b >>;
been denied, it is understood that the
case will be carried to the Supreme
Books For Soldiers
Great Call for Reading Matte)
Since Fighting Stopped?
Many Want School
Books.
Paris. Nov. 25 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press)?With more
reading time on their hands than ever
before now that the fighting has
stopped, the American Expeditionary
Force which required a million books
a month, will devour literature at a
much more staggering ligure. The
book shelves of every Y. M. C. A. hut
are polished daily by the constant re
turn of books read and the taking out
of new books, and the difficulty is in
supplying rapidly enough according
to Burton Stevenson, head of - the
American Library Association.
What the soldiers like best in the
way of reading is reported back to
Mr. Stevenson through the Y. M. C. A.,
the Red Cross, and the other organ
izations among which the books of the
American Library Association are dis
tributed, as well as through letters
straight from the soldiers themselves.
His forecast of what they are going
t<j want was cabled back to the United
States the other day, in the following
order for books:
"Need immediately 1,000 each ele
mentary, advanced arithmetics, geo
metries, trigonometries, chemistry
books, physics, agriculture, stock
breeding, forestry, business methods,
accounting, commerce, banking, law.
architecture. Two hundred each book
keeping, poultry raising. Requests
pouring in show tremendous demand
for technical, educational books. Re
organizing warehouses to expedite
distribution."
Fiction continues to be read by the
army, in spite of its more serious
trend of mind, at rate of hundreds
of thousands of volumes a month, Mr.
Stevenson said. Kipling and Service
are still the favorite poets of the
American soldiers. Among the re
quests that come in during the past
week were two for ordinary primers
or A. B. C. books, from American
born men who are finding their first
opportunity to study their own lan
guage in a foreign country. Mr.
Stevenson relieves that the need for
such educational books in the month*
after peace is declared before the men
can go back to their own country,
will be tremendous.
The American Library Association
is so well organized in France that anv
soldier who makes a request for a
particular book from any camp is apt
to find it in his hands almost more
quickly than he would be able to pro
cure it in the United States. The as
sociation beat its own records the
other day, however, when two boxes
of books were delivered by airplane
to aviation camps.
Paul Wierse in Jail
Ordered to Serve Sentence in
the Federal Penitentiary.
Charleston. Dec. 22.?Due to his
actions in aiding in the sinking of
German merchant steamer Lieben -
fels in Charleston harbor in January,
1917. Paul Wierse will pass his
Christmas behind prison doors. He
was taken into the custody of the
[United States yesterday and will be
Iescorted to Atlanta shortly to serve a
(two-year sentence passed on him in
the United States Court at Charles
ton, by Judge Henry A. M. Smith in
October. 1917.
j Every appeal known to Americar
[jurisprudence has been resorted to t(
save Wierse from the penitentiary,
but every plan failed, the last straw
being swept away when Justice J. C
Pritchard, of the United States Cir
cuit Court, affirmed the decision o1
Judge Henry A. M. Smith, of the
court below and ordered the fine ol
$1,000 and the sentence of two year*
at hard labor in the Atlanta peniten
tiary to be enforced.
The mandate from Justice Priteh
lard's office reached Charleston in tht
morning mail yesterday and Wierst
I was taken into custody by the mar
jshal. He has been free on bonds
i since his conviction in the district
court more than a year ago. During
this time attorneys for Wierse. have
appealed to the Circuit Court on al
leged errors of the court below, have
asked the Supreme Court of the
United States to review tht- case and
have sought annulment of the s?in
tence through clemency from th?
President. The appeals to the high
est court and to the President wen
denied. Now Justice Pritchard ends
the case by affirming Judge Smith's
decision in every particular.
The sinking of the German steam
ship Liebenfels in the Cooper river
early in 1917, resulted in arrest and
conviction of Wierse and also of Jo
hann R. Klattenhoff, captain of the
vessel. The German consul at At
lanta who was also indicted on a
similar charge had succeeded in
leaving the United States before h?
[could be arrested. Klattenhoff is
[ serving a sentence in the Atlanta pris
on for his part in the sinking of the
Liebenfels. The steamer was raised
soon after it was sunk in the Cooper
river and was repaired and is now in
service of the United States under
the name of the Houston.
Marriage Licenses.
During the past few days the Coun
ty Clerk of Court has been kept very
busy issuing licenses but most
; of these were obtained by colored
couples. The only license issued to a
j white couple was obtained .by E. C.
j Hart. Sumter, and Lottie G. Woods, of
New Zion.
The following colored couples have
secured licenses: Ezell Williams and
Eliza Howard. Mayesville; Peter Gay
rnon and Sallie Brown..both of Sum
ter: Harry Owens and^Eron Raney.
Sumter; Alfred McDowell. Shiloh, and
Evalina Smith, Olanta,; Robert Felder
and Ella .lane Pringle, Pinewood;
Thomas Mack. Paxville, and Nellie
Wells. Sumter: James Richardson and
Coline Barno. Sumter: Oliver Clark
and Janie Peterson. Sumter; Wesley
Wilson and Diana Davis, Sumter;
Thomas Wilson. Manning, and Annie
Huggins, Sumter; Willie Frazer and
Queenie Colclough, Sumter; .lames
Spann and Ella Benjamin, Mayesville;
Junius Carolina and Janie Ragin.
Mayesville; Grant Shake and Oilio
Randolph. Tindal; Julius Hoplin and
Lucile Eager, Sumter; Robert Ma
honey and Hat tic Jsekson, Provi
dence; Frank Jones and <'<.]i;i Hicks.
?*umter: Charlie Burgess, Winston-Sa
lem, and Alger Thompson, Sumter.
Lever Takes Step
I For Rural Health
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[introduces Bill Providing Fed
j eral Aid for Health Exten
sion Plan as in Ag
agriculture.
Washington, Dec. 21.?As the result
j of careful study of rural health con
ditions, Representtaive Lever has come
to the conclusion that rural health
j work should be conducted on the
j same basis as the Lever extension
plan of promoting agricultural de
J velopment. Pie has therefore intdo
j duced a bill embodying the principle
I of federal aid. and advocates the
j prompt passage of this as a vital
measure of national reconstruction.
Representtaive Lever calls atten
tion to a bulletin just published by
the United States public health ser
vice embodying the results of a sani
tary survey recently made. This, he
said, gives a striking picture not only
of the insanitary conditions prevail
ing in the rural districts, but also
shows what can be accomplished by
intelligent and well directed effort.
In this survey over 50,000 farm
houses were visited in 15 different
counties. Of these less than 2 per
cent, were equipped for the sanitary
disposal of human excreta. Over two
thirds (68 per cent), used a water sup
ply which was obviously exposed to
potentially dangerous contamination
from privy contents or from promis
cuous deposits of human excreta.. In
the majority of these the water was
also exposed to pollution from stable
yards and pig-styes. Only one-third
of the dwellings were effectively
screened during the summer season,
to prevent flies?having freo access
to nearby deposits of human and oth
er filth?from entering dining rooms
and kitchens and contaminating the
j foods for human consumption expos
ed therein.
Mr. Lever also cited the lesson
? taught by the medical examination ot
the men drafted for military service.
These examinations showed clearly
that the percentage of rejections war:
considerably higher among men from
?ural districts than among those from
our cities and towns. Considering tho
inherent healthfuhjess of rural life,
Mr. Lever believes that this admits o!
only one interpretation, namely, that
our rural communities continue tc
maintain insanitary conditions which
lead to physical impairment. Thai
these conditions can readily be cor
rected admits of no doubt.
Taking the prevalence of typhoid
fever as the most reliable single meas
ure of effectiveness of proper health
measures, the bulletin referred tc
shows that wherever a sanitary sur
very and health demonstration wa:
carried on the number of cases of ty
phoid fever promptly fell to one char
ter or even less of what they had beer
during previous years. That this wa*
the logical outcome of well planned
health activities is clearly shown by
the fact that practically the same re
sult was obtained in all the demon
strations, although these demonstra
j lion.- were conducted in widely scat
tered Slates---Maryland, Virginia
North Carolina. South Carolina. Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Georgia. Alabama,
j Mississippi, Towa. Missouri. Nebraska
Oklahoma, Texas and Washington.
According to Representative Lever
it has become more and more cleai
that health conditions throughout the
country are largely dependent or
I health conditions in the rural districts
Health officers throughout the Unitee
States have time and again showr.
that the prevalence of typhoid fever
scarlet fever, diphtheria, tuberculosij
and other communicable diseases car
? not be successfully controlled withoul
i dealing effectively with insanitary
' conditions in the rural districts, tc
; which, in many instances, these dis
eases are directly traceable. Undei
these circumstances it is reasonable
, and proper that any plan for improve
. ing rural sanitary conditions enlisl
the cooperation of federal, State and
? iocal health authorities.
It is conservatively estimated thai
there have been as an annual average
in the last decade in the United
, States, 2,000,000 cases of hookworm,
350,000 cases (and 30,000) deaths
from typhoid fever, 9,000,000 cases
(and 3,000 deaths) from malaria.
These diseases result largely from in
sanitary conditions in our rural dis
tricts. They are preventable diseases.
The economic loss to the nation each
I year from malaria and typhoid fever
! has been estimated at $900,000,000.
{The prevention of typhoid fever, hook
I worm disease and malaria has a pro
{ found influence in the prevention of
many other diseases, including tuber
culosis. Experience has shown that
by carrying out sanitary measures
which effect a. reduction in typhoid
fever, there is a prevention of about
j three deaths from other causes for
j each death from typhoid fever pre
vented.
j The bill as introduced provides an
appropriation of $250.000 for the first
fiscal year, to be allotted on the half
and half plan to the several States,
and an appropriation of an addition
al ?250.000 each fiscal year thereafter
until a continual am "al appropriation
of $1.000,000 is reached.
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I Andrew Bud din. a negro employed
by Mr. J. P. Glenn, has been arrested
and lodged in jail charged with steal
ing a bale of cotton and selling it on
the ioeal market It seems that Bud
din obtained a sample of cotton from
a bale which had. been stored in the
warehouse and sent it to the city in
order to pet a price on it. Tin- sale
I was made. .:>it in the meantime th ?
buyer had been notified that the cotr
ton had been stolen and he bad an of
ficer on hand for the negro when th ?
! latter returned for his money. Th ?
! case is being held for the high? r
j court.
Munich. Dec. ?All Bavarian in
dustries employing more than ten per
i sons have been ordered shut down
' from December to January 2nd
for the purpose of saving coal. Th
! workers will receive,, hin* ty per ceni
! of their usual wages?
Mayence. Sunday. Dec. 22.?The ,
French threw a pontoon bridge across,
i he I thine at fcierstein Friday. It -was
i thousand feet long and was built in
five hours. '
British Welcome Plans
Program Announced for Stay
in England.
London. Doc. 21 (By the Associat
ed Press).?Following; is the official
program in connection with the visit
oi' President Wilson to England:
I The presidential party will arrive at
(Dover at 12.10 p. in. Thursday and
will be received by the Duke of Con
naught, representing the king; John
W. Davis, the American ambassador;
Lord Reading. British -ambassador to
the United States, and Lord Hcrschcll,
lord in waiting to the king, who will
be especially attached to the presi
dent during his visit.
Commander Sir Charles Cust, equer
ry to the king, will meet the presi
dent at Calais and will be especially
attached to him.
The party will arrive at Charing
Cross station in London at 2.30 p. m.
and will be received by the king and
queen and with the sovereigns will
drive to Buckingham Palace. The
streets will be lined by troops, who
will be assisted by contingents from
the royal navy and the air forces.
Clubs and those occupying private
houses along the streets through
which the president will pass, are*
asked to cooperate in making th?1 dec
orations as effective as possible.
On Thursday evening the president
and Mrs. Wilson will dine privately.
Friday .norning and afternoon will be
reserved for the president to meet
the British cabinet ministers. In the
evening- the !iihg will give a. banquet
?it Buckingham Palace.
On Saturday the president will pro
ceed to the city to receive an address
at Guild Hall. On that evening a din
ner will be given by the government
1 at Lancaster House, at which the
British ministers will be present.
; After the dinner the president will
? leave London for Carlisle, his mother's
' birthplace, where he will spend Sun
day. This visit will be without cere
1 monials.
From Carlisle the presidential
? party will proceed to r Manchester,
where the president will be the guest
; of the Lord mayor. Arrangements
1 have been made for the president to
1 receive on Monday the freedom of
' the city of Manchester. Tt is expect
? ed that the president will leave for
; France Tuesday.
! Real Kstatc Transfers.
1 County Auditor . R. E. Wilder has
L recorded the following real estate
' transfers in tlve city of Sumter:
E. W. McCallum to Frank Broom,
1 one lot and house for $1,200.
E. *W. McCallum to Fregrant Ander
1 son, one lot and house for $1,100.
} W. B. Boyle Co., to Sadie B. Wac
tor. one house and lot for $5,000.
; Mutual B. & L. Asociation to Edith
" j R. Schwartz, five acres of land for
' $625.
1 R. C. Blanding to A. A. Kowell, one
? house' and lot for $1,250.
[ H. P. Moses to J. M. Watts, one
house and lo for $2,700.
J. N. Brown to Mary Dell Ducum
house and lot for $3,500.
H. H?rby to R. B. Belser, interesi
" I conveyed in one house and lot for $-,
? ; 000.
' j Mary A. FTughson to Iva Bebe
' Hughson and Mrs. E. II. Scale, one
' in.use. and lot for $250 and other con
siderations.
T. M. Partin to Ja nie W. McCal
'% lum, one house and lot for $5 and oth
er considerations.
1 James W. McColluni to Anthony J.
' Felder, one house and lot for $1,300.
Katie B. O'Donnell to Reid Aid.
1 one house and lot for $4,000.
' C. C. Jacobs to J. P. Garrick, one
51 house and lot for $3,400.
[ Mettie W. Garrick to C. C. Jacobs,
; one lot for $600.
A. Blacker to Perry Krasnoff, two
I lots and two houses for $1,600.
[ A. J. Ard to Nettie A. Stoudemire,
? one house and lot $1,375.
The Sumter Trust Company, trus
' tee, to Kate H. Weinberg, one house
and lot $5,'000.
I The Master to Augusta G. Jennings,
one lot for $185.
Bernard Manning to the Bank of
j Sumter, eight lots for $5.
M. O'H. and J. A. Schwerin to D.
' E. and Geo. R. Calder, one lot and
house for $4,000.
5 J. K. Crosswell to E. D. Cole, one
lot for $1,000 and other aonsMera
tions.
Converse Reid to Kate R. Duncan,
one lot and house for $1,500.
;| B. C. Wallace to H. P. Moses, one
! lot and building for $5 and other con
J siderations.
D. R. and Lucy McCallum, Execu
. tors to Adam A. Team, one house and
lot for $3,000.
Bartow Walsh to L. D. Jennings,
one lot for $5.
Lizzie V. Josey to R. B. Belser, one
house and lot for $5 and other con
j siderations.
Davis i>. Moise to E. Warren Moise.
interest conveyed in three lots for
I $16.000.
I Louis Boone to McCallum Realty
i Co., one acre for $750.
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Corn Thieves Captured.
Rural Policeman Sam Newman ar
rested John and Marion McCoy, col
ored. Saturday nitcht on the charge of
housebreaking and larceny and they
; are in jail awaiting trial at the next
term of court.
They were detected in the act of
i stealing corn from the barn of Mr.
j Hazel Brunsen, of Concord. They
were loa.ling a one-horse wagon with
the corn and were about ready to
! leave when Mr. Branson and Police
man Newman came on tin* scene.
I Both negroes tan for the nearby
j woods and succeeded in making their
i escape lor the time. Messrs. New
man and Brunson pursued them. One
of the negroes fired at them with a
gun and Mr. Brunson returned the
lire, but there were no casualties.
While the thieves were making a get
away through the woods their horse
took charge of the corn on his own
initiative and proceeded to go home
by way of the road. When Policeman
Newman returned from his unsuccess
ful chase of the thieves he followed
the horse and wagon to the McCoy's
home-, but when they arrived the ne
groes* had gotten there first and had
unloaded the corn from the wagon.
They were arrested without difficulty
and the stolen corn was recovered.
Famine in New York
East Side Children Reported toj
Be Starving By Hundreds.
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New York, Dec. 21.?Aroused by re I
ports that, with Christmas approach, j
ing. East Side children are "fainting
in school rooms and dying at home"
because their parents canont pay the
.'prevailing high prices for mi!k and
staple foods, representative citizens
today organized a committee to "feed
them firs; and investigate after
wards."
A plea that something be done for
her pupils, who were "slowly starving
to death" was made recently by a
teacher to Jos. S. Markus, a banker,
who now heads the relief organiza
tion. Mr. Markus himself visited
schools, hospitals and tenants and to
j day issued a statement dealing with
j conditions on the East Side.
On<- settlement, he said, has, the
names of 150 babies, who, recovering
j from influenza, now face death from
pneumonia because their parents can
not buy milk needed to restore them
to health. Every hospital in the dis
trict, he continued, contains hundreds
of underfed children, many of whom
are physically unable to-continue
their studies.
Of his visit to one school he said:
"In one room there were twenty
two children. A rag man would not
have p*aid 5 cents for all the clothing
they wore. Many had no undergar
ments, and those who did could hardly
call them by that name. Many were
without shoos and others had heel
less and soleless ones.
"We .learned that most of them
came there without breakfast. Some
kind people were giving the teacher
a little money every week, and with
j that she purchased some milk and ce
reals, preparing,gruel over a small
stove in the room. She said with the
high cost of milk now she was not
abie to buy much, and that several
of the children haid fainted right
there in the class room. Others were
too weak to leave home and died
j there. Malnutrition was the cause?
: starvation."
Hagood News 11 en is.
Hagood, Dec. 21.?Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Sanders, and daughter. Miss Janet
of New York city. arc spending
Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. T. P.
Sanders.
Misses Mary and Susie Kirk of Con
federate College, Charleston, are at
home for the holidays.
Miss Ida Sanders, of Anderson Col
lege, Corpl. Charles Sanders, Jr., of
Carlisle School; Corpl. H. L?. Sanders
of Camp Jackson are at home with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Sanders.
Lieut. Emmett Emanuel, Sergt.
Dudley Sanders, and Private Draytor
Sanders are at home from Carlisle
School, Bamberg.
J James Sanders. Thomas Ellerbe
and Thomas LeNoir of Bailey M *.i
tary Institute are at home for th(
holidays.
Mr. Jessie Jackson of the Univer
sity of South Carolina, is at home.
Sidney Couturier of Charleston i:
with his mother, Mrs. D. K. Courturiei
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Meade o;
Waynesville. N. C, are spending th(
winter with Mr. and Mrs. Crawforc"
Sanders.
Washington, Dec. 23.?Ambassador
Fletcher advised the State department
today that El Pueblo, the government
organ denied that von Eckhardt, the
German minister to Mexico, had. been
recalled. Other Mexican papers, how
ever, say that his mission to Mexico
has been terminated.
Snow For Christrtms
Weather Bureau Promises Win
ter Weather for Some Parts
of South.
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Washington, Dec. 23.?The possi
bility of snow in parts of the South
! for Christmas Eve was indicated to
day by the weather bureau which
isaid that Tennessee and the northern
! part of Mississippi would have rain or
j snow Tuesday. Colder weather is in
[dicated for the South Atlantic States
j 'onight.
Former Rulers III
Ex-Empress of Germany Not to
Live Long.
i Copenhagen, Dec. 22.?The Frank
? fort Zeitung, a copy of which has
j been received here, says the former
i German empress will hardly live to
i see the new year. Her ailment, heart
j disease, has grown considerably worse
I during the past weeks. Previously fpr
j several months she had suffered from
f the effects of a stroke of apoplexy.
The condition of the former em
press, the newspaper adds, has had
a serious effect on her husband, who
also is seriously ill. It is feared that
his ear trouble will spread to the
brain. Also his nervous condition is
[bad.
j Boys Coming Home
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j Three Thousand More Sailed
From France Thursday.
I Washington, Dec. 23.?It. is an
; nouneed that the transport Rijndam,
j with about three housand officers and
men sailed from France on December
! 19th. ?
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SUMTER "WITNESSES.
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j The Xames of Sumter Persons Fa
miliar to All.
Who are the witnesses?
j They are Sumter people?
Residents of Sumter, who have had
kidney backache, kidney ills, bladder
ills; who have used Doan's Kidney
. Pills. These witnesses endorse
Doan's.
One Sumter resident who speaks is
W. B. Costin, proprietor of grocery,
112 E. Calhoun St. He says: "A
good many years ago I was troubled
with my kidneys and I had all the
symptoms of that complaint, cer
tainly was in bad shape. All the fam
ily had used Doan's Kidney Pills and.
had great faith in them, so I got
Doan's and used some. I never spent
my money better, for, after I had tak
I en three boxes, I was entirely cured
of the trouble. I gained in weight and
felt better in every way, so it is a
great pleasure to recommend such a
fine remedy."
j Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
t .
i simply ask for a kidney remedy?get
I Doan's. Kidney Pills?the same that
I"Mr. Costin had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. T.?Advt (53^
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