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Published Wednesday and Saturday ______ ?BY? OSJ3EEN PUBLISHIXG COMPANY SUMTER, S. C. Terms: / i 91.50 per annam?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$1.0' Every subsequent insertion.5< Contracts for three months, o; longer will be made at reduced rates AU communications which sub serve private interests will be chargei for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respec will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found ? ?_ in 1850 and the True Southron n 1566. The Watchman and Sou tiro now has the combined circulation an influence of both of the oid paper. and is manifestly the best advertise medium in Sumter. Washington, Dec. 21.?Fair Mon day; rain about Tuesday, generally ?air second half of week, with nearly normal temperatures, is predicted for coming week in the Southeastern States. CHRISTMAS. The whole world is a Christmas tree, And stars its many'candles be. Oh sing a carol joyfully, And welcome Merry Christmas! ? At last, after four dreary years wherein a world torn by war laid aside all thought of feast days save by the slightest possible celebration to pre serve their memory, we may truly welcome Christmas and make it a merry one. Christmas always has been essen tially the children's day, because as Dickens says, "The Great Founder of it was a child Himself." One reason why this Christmas seems unusually deserving of celebration is that the worlr is once more safe for children, a place where our little ones may walk unafraid, sure of their heritage of happiness. In a world unsafe for children there can be no joy, and that is one : Of the principal reasons why what 1 should have been the gladdest sea son of the year struck so heavily on < human hearts during the war. Now ] the war is over, and peace is here, the J kind of peace the angels sang about and we have the good hope that it is - here to stay. ? . . The city made sacred by our Sa- < viof's birth is once more in Chris- " tian hands. This, like the Star which shone in the East so long ago, seems t a,.happy omen that we stand on the : threshold of a new day wherein the c horrors of oppression and war shall , have no place. 1 Since the first Christmas there was ] never such a one in all the history ( of that blessed day. It is more than ] eyer right that we should _how our j Joy by observing all the sweet old ] customs, that we should give where * we love^ share where we pity, make * our homes beatuiful as never before, ( and sing the carols with a surety of ] joy unmatched since that first morn- i ing when the angels sang over Judea. 1 SAFE AND SANE BAR ROOMS. | ] _ 1 < . ? t A New York philanthropist who chooses to remain nameless has pro-" vided a fund for turning bar room? into clubs for men and boys. Several saloons which have recently gone out of business have already been reor ganized on the new basis. L-ittle is done to change the rooms. The bar is still in evidence, though anything sold across it is strictly non intoxicant. Pool and billiard tables -.re in full operation, also checkers and other games. Athletic stunts of all sorts, including boxing bouts, pro ceed under the direction of a teacher of athletics. Places formerly the scenes of drunken revelry are now gathering places where from seventy to a hundred happy, interested boys and men can be found nightly, harm ing neither themselves nor anyone else. So successful is the experiment that its founder promises to keep on in definitely in his work of love. The sa loons cannot close too fast for hirn. The community center idea is not a new one, neither is the boys' club, but it is principally the choosing of the former saloon as the scene of op erations which merits attention. Any saloon, be it tho uptown cafe with its lights and elegance of appointment or the river-side dive, dingy and for bidding, was located definitely with reference to its accessibility. One reason why so many saloons flourish is that there are so many saloons righ handy. The individual seeking either the stimulus of liquor or of the society of his kind never has far to go. It is this same element of acces sibility which operates especially to ward the success of these clubs as so cial centers. It has been claimed as a point in its defence more than once {hat the .sa loon is the poor man's club, and here we have the same gathering place for the same old gang, but with its fangs drawn. Sought because it is handy and a familiar haunt, and because vis itors are permitted the pleasures they really enjoy and understand, provid ed they behave themselves, many r. place known for years as a public menace is becoming a center cf clean social life. HASTY SPAIN. Spain is coming on. Prince Ratibor the German ambassador has been ex pelled, and the Spanish ambassador to Germany has been ordered home in disgrace. Both these dignitaries are part and parcel of an organization for Germanizing Spain. It took Spain a long time to come to it. She has been more thoroughly steeped in German propaganda than any other nation except perhaps Hol land, though she was ostensibly quite neutral. When she saw what was really go ing on in the way of ridding the world of unnecessary incubuses like Ger many, Spain decided to do a little de incubusing herself. It is to be hoped, however, that that fierce and easily aroused Castilian temper will not lead Spain to declaring war cn Germany right now and keeping everybody waiting at the peace table until the food gets cold. The world is not only safe now for democracy, but as tue Atlanta Con stitution remarks, it is safe for hos pitals, orphanages, old women's homes, asylums and churches. Letter From Verdun. The following letter from Private EL H. Sanders to his mother, Mrs. C. W. Sanders, Hagoodr under date of November 2Gth, has just been receiv ed. Verdun Sector. Dear Mother: Now that the censorship is a thing Df the past, I will drop you some littie news that I have had to keep quiet heretofore. On July 14th, last I left Camp Meade, Md., went to Philadelphia and boarded the Haverford, a.i English liner, and arrived at Halifax, N. S.. on the 18th. After a three days lay off in the Halifax harbor, we con tinued the voyage and July the 31st ,ve disemarked at Liverpool, Eng and. We had some exciting times off :he Irish coast when we were chased >v two submarines, finally after a cattle royal, a well placed depth bomb "rom the '?Northland," one of the hips in our convoy, we sank a subma ?ine. A few minutes later one of our rubmarine chasers sunk another one. At Liverpool we went in a rest :amp, "Knotty Ash." for three days. Then we went by rail to Bamsey to mother rest camp for a couple o; lays. From Ramsey we hiked to { Jouth Hampton (about 9 miles) and ;ot aboard the St. George and after ibout five hours of an awful rough rip, we ciossed the English chan tel and landed* at La Harte. Camped l day or two 'here, then rode in box :ars for four days and came to Mont tforillion. hiked from there to a lit le French village. St. Leomer, pitched mp tents and had a pleasant littie amp for 5 weeks. From St. Leomer ve came on box cars to Lacourtine. here we went in brick barracks. Af er a couple of days at Lacourtine I eft the company and went to Dour >une and attended an auto school for . month. Was then sent back to my ?ompany at Lacourtine and in a :oup of weeks we were loaded on >ox c.">.rs and sent to the front. Ar rived at Dougris, in three days, un oaded the train at night, in the rain: ;lept in an old house that was all ;hot up and the next day we slung )acks and hiked for about nine miles Stayed there for a couple of days and eft about 5 o'clock one evening, valked. until 5 o'clock next morning, [magine how I felt after such a hike cvith a heavy pack on my back. I saw some awful action in the three days I have been here before the armistice. Frit#was shelling the very hill where cur dugouts were. I was on guard for gas one night, and never in my life shafl I forget that night. Uncle Sam was sending over a barrage for our doughboys to go j over the top: they were to go over at! 5 o'clock the next morning. You could hear the awful roar of machine guns, etc. Our boys put Fritz on the run all right, but believe me, it cost some price. God knows what a dough boy (infantryman) has to go through. I happened to be working on the road right by the first aid hospital, and every few minutes an ambulance would roll by loaded with wounded. 6ome with arms and legs shot off. War is all Sherman said it is. I don't see to save my life how a human be ing can survive even for a month up here, when every where you look you can see enormous shell splinters from high explosives. schrapnel. hand grenades and gas shells and many other things to destroy life. Every thing is quiet and pleasant up here now though. Now and then you can h'-r.r our engineers shooting off a German "dud" (an unexploded shell) The weather has cleared off and it hasn't rained since the firing ceased. The Germans sure had this sector well fortified: tHey had millions of barbed wire entanglements and miles of tunnels and dugouts under the hills. 1 am at present in a pretty goo< shanty with a good stove. Am ex pecting to leave in a day or two but haven't the least, idea when I am go ing, but if rumors are true, will 'oo home before many moons. Have lot-; to tell when T eome. Your devoted son, "TIop." Co F. 3'?4th Am. Train. A. E. F.. France. ' The members of Trinity Junior Ep I worth League will give a Christmas I play, "Two Journeys to Bethlehem" ' on Sunday evening, December 2S. at G i O'clock in the Sunday school room of [Trinity Methodist church. A special : offering will he taken. The public is cordially invited. Columbus. Dec. 21.?An appeal to i Secretary Baker for the release at ? once of a.t least two hundred Ohio : physicians from the army to aid in : combatting the influenza epidemic in ? vcm) sections was made in telegram ; today by the Ohio State Medical As j sociation. Cotton Seed Situation Mr. E. W. Dabbs Makes Report on Results of Price Fixing By War Industries Board. To the Farmers of the State: Col. Claffey ana myself, the farm er members of the Cotton Seed Com mittee of the South Carolina. Fool Administration desire to make the following statement for your infor mation. Beginnina* with the confer ence in May in Charlotte one or both of us have attended every meeting held by the Food Administration to regulate ginning and cotton seed. We have from the first meeting in Char lotte to the last meeting held in Co lumbia yesterday protested against the iniquities of the rules promulgat ed by the Food Administration, and have endeavored to secure absolutely if air rules, or what we urged in the beginning, free trade in cotton seed and its products. But as a war meas ure we cheerfully did all in our pow er to enable the growers to cooper ate in the paramount issue?the win i ning of the war?and submitted as gracefully as we could to rules that we clearly shewed to the Food Ad ministration and the crushers were unjust. In some of our contentions Mr. Elliott and the crushers agreed with us, but the rules were fixed by Mr. Koover and appeals did not dp any good. To ben in with we con tended ".hat if a scale of prices was to be fixed it should be a sliding one, be ginning with say $55.00 cr $60.00 for green seed in August and advancing five or three dollars per ton each month as the seed dried out until a maximum price of $$0.00 was reached in January, and on to the end of the season1, starting at $55.00 for August seed. Cr starting at $60.00 for Aug ust seed and advancing three dollars per month to $72.00 for February, and on to the end of the season. Either one of these scales would have worked no injustice to any one and would have prevented the conges-, tion that has caused all the unrest and more or less losses to both mills and farmers. Losses to mills with green seed at $60 00 and $72.00 and losses to the farmers and dealers who have tried to cooperate by holding back seed to keep from glutting- the mills. We have seen the price twice changed by the Food Administration against the farmers, once in lowering seed $1.00 per ton and then in ad vancing meal two dollars per ton. At i the meeting yesterday we were grati fied to hear the mill representatives state that all of their difficulties were due to shortage of labor?that labor conditions were improving?that they want to, crush our seed and that if we are patient all the seed will be taken. But they warned us that if the government refused to take the short linters they have made exclu sively for munitions, there would be no market for such linters and that would entail a cut of $6.00 per ton on seed. My opinion of this is that such a cut would not be justifiable, for they can now go back to cutting riornral l?nters that yield 90 to 110 pounds per ten of seed and are worth for commercial purposes 7c to 10c per pound or about 1-4 to 1-3 of the price of cotton. So that the mills only stand to lose on the munition linters that the government may not take now in their hands, which would be so small a part of their year's work that it could be absorbed in their profits. And instead of loss would simply show that the mills did not make quite so much profit as they would have other- ' wise made. Eut we do not beliere the gove rnment can in good morals, con science, or equity threaten to close down mills if they do not cut 14." pounds of linters from each ton of seed?thereby causing them to have to add many expensive delinting gins to their outfit?thereby causing then; to manufacture a product that has no commercial value except for pow der making, and refuse to take all they had made up to the time they are notified to make no more. Mr. J. J. Lawton stated that the mills have had a committee :n Wash ington wrestling with this problem for two weeks cr more. That the war industries board made them a proposition to pay them $3.00 per ton for all seed on hand which would have let -:hem out. but would have left the holders of unsold seed to I carry the bag?that crushers from I other States were in favor of accept ing same, but the South Carolina members of the committee turned it down flat because of the grave in justice that it would do to the grow ers who have not sold seed and to the dealers who on the faith of the fixed price by the governmo'nt have been unable to sell because of the congestion. The crushers deserve to be com mended for taking this loyal position in the int? rest of the growers. The pity of the whole matter is that th growers do not take enough interest in their own wonderful crop, cotton |and cotton seed, to keep their repre sentatives on the job of seeing that (justice is clone them. The small help that Col. Claffey and I have been able I to render has been made poss*)ilo by [the.food administration putting us on {the cotton seed committee, and pay ling our expenses to attend these 'four er five meetings this fall. But we have no means to make investiga tions nor to present our side of this greal question to the business world. I nor before the war industries board and other governmental agencies that have so much to do with the suc cessful running of our own business. We secured the modification of the ginning charges that keep the farm er from paying for bagging and ties. I as excess weight. We secured the privilege of farm :<?:?*?? - a i:Kr,? together t-> get car rates on seed, either as gin seed or wagon seed, if they would deliver twenty tons in ten days. Mr. Acree I told me nt Hie meeting thai Darling ton farmers have done th:s. I have heard of no others that hav? d ?no so. [In fact Col. plaffey's strongest indict [ment of the crushers was that they ? have not carried out either the letter or the spirit of their agreement with the farmers through the food admin istration, in that they have discrimin ated against car load seed both as car seed and as twenty ions delivered in ten days at the mills. The mills de-1 jnicd this, and presented figures to j'prvoe their nedial. but my own ob servation, and complaints that have ' been made to mc show that there has been enough of it to create a power ful spirit of resentment against the mills. We further secured for farmers the privilege of hauling seed to the mil's land securing the car rate plus the I freight charges from the nearest s'.a j tion. So far as I have been able to j learn this has never been available because the mills would sj.y: "We. are crowded and can not take your seed now." Of course rhey are crowded because by being the only place seed could be sold cotton for many miles around was ginned at the oil mill ginnery.* And local gins. the very ones the food administration slated it was trying to protect in the interest <>f the farmers, have run half time and had not much to do then. The very ones the food administration was protecting in making a wagon price of seed three dollars per ton less than car rate, it did not protect them because they had to get out of the market when they filled up their seed houses and could not sell seed?Why? Because oil mills were getting more than their daily crush at their own gins. I have contended all along that if a mill cot.ld pay $71.00 or SI2.00 for car seed with an average freight charge of $2.00, and the cost of un loading with occasional demurrage charges that it could pay at h ast the I same pric<- for gin or wagon seed un- i loaded into their storage rooms with- ! out charge That the food adminis- j iration and the crushers have recog- j nized the equity of this without agree ing to it is proved by the allowance j of car rates plus freight under cer tain conditions of distance for wagon J seed when twenty tons would be de- i livered in ten days. The fact that j mills got gin and wagon seed at $5.00 per ton less than car lots together with the fiat price for all the season J has caused all the trouble. Tn conclusion Col. Fitzsimmons. the genial nestor of the cotton seed oil business stated in an eloquent speech in Charlotte that he "thanked God when the food administration took over the business." I called his atten tion to that statement in Columbia yesterday. He said: "I repeat }t. From last December to November 11 I slept better than I have ever done since I have been in the oil business. I knew I had an assured profit, and it made no difference to me what prices were. Mr. Justice who came ?from Washington to have our views on the continuance of seed regulation for the balance of this season said to me at its close:. "I heartily agree with vou that governmental control has not i helped the farmers." The meeting unanimously agreed that it would be disastrous to farmers j .and seed dealers to remove restric tions before the end of this season, j and passed a resolution to that ef fect. But I am sure all the farmers present agreed to my sentiment :"As a war measure we stood it?but nev er more." I do not know that Col. Claffey and I will have anything more to do with the seed situation officially. The j above tells you what we have tried i to do. We have none but the kindest! feelings for the crushers, ginners. and | seed buyers we have met on the com- j mittee. And we found Mr. Elliott the staunch friend of the farmers, cour-1 teous and firm for the right. But in spite of it all the crushers were too strong with the powers that be, and have had the advantage in every deal. Fe patient, stand firm for the prices now fixed. The world needs the oif and all the other by-products. If the ?-.rice of seed changes, it will be to go higher, as it should for those who have Taken care of them until they are needed. Bu were all restrictions removed now the effort to unload by dealers A-ho have bought all they can store would cause a disastrous slump. E. W. Dabbs. Mayesville, Dec. IS. * Since this was written the Sumter oil mill had two days ginning at a time, cotton going there from from 15 to 20 miles away. Farmers Should Cut Out Shingle Roofs. A special bulletin on fire-preven tion and lire-lighting on the farm. Farmers' Bulletin No. 004. issued re cently by the United States, Depart ment of Agriculture, states that "from a fire-protection standpoint it is un fortunate that nearly all farm build ings are covered with shingle roofs. A dry shingle roof is one of the most inflammable things imaginable." James R. Young, State Insurance Commissioner and Fire Marshal of Xorth Carolina, urges farmers when a new building is being constructed or a new roof is being put on an old one. to consider the use of fireproof roof ing. "With the growing scarcity and high price of lumber, fireproof sub stitutes for shingle's are becoming more numerous and available. When shingles are exposed to the weather Cor a short time they take on o. rough, fuzzy appearance, due to the fibers on the surface becoming loosened. The sun from without and the heat from within the building combine to ex tract every trace of moisture from them. If the cinder or spark happens to strike the roof, the roughened sur face tends to hold it there, and it is likely to set the roof on fire before it goes out."?The Progressive Farm er. How They Celebrated in London. Manchester. Nov. IS (Correspond ence)? Describing the celebration of peace in London the Guardian's Lon lon correspondent writes: "Another incident was that a very large plain American officer, with two short plain American officers, march ed up from Trafalgar Square to Lei cester Square kissing every girl they met. the leader shouting. 'Next please.' Before they got to the square they had a following of a dozen un it tesed girls drawing their attention to the fact." The language of the American Red Cross is universal. Red Cross muses soothe the pains of our fighting men. The Next War - A Learned Japanese Official j Thinks the Colored Racial Question More Important Than Wilson's Four teen Points. i i - i Tokio, Nov. 20 (Correspondence of i the Associated Press):?Belief that I the next war will be the outcome of jrace prejudices is expressed by Yukio j Ozaki, formerly Minister of Justice, i and a leading member of the Consti | tutional Party. Mr. Ozaki said that in j his opinion, the colored races which steadily were developing their civili zation would demand finally the same treatment as the white races, and that the result would be an armed col lision. Mr. Ozaki recommended that at the Peace Conference. Japan aeting on behalf of all the Asiatic races should introduce the racial and popu lation questions for consideration, and if possible, secure a solution. In a country like Japan where the population is increasing with alarm ing rapidity, he said it was but nat ural that surplus population should try to obtain an outlet even by resort- ! ing to arms. From Japan's standpoint, said Mr. Okaki, the racial population questions were more important than President Wiison's "Fourteen Points" as laid down for a basis of Germany's surrender. These racial questions, he said, concerned the future of millions of souls in Asia. Mr. Ozaki warned the Japanese not to develop the German system of State organization which in the present war had proved to be a mere machine for destroying civilization ana for trampling under foot the rights of ether nations and peoples. On the question of Japan's occu pation of the German South Sea Is lands, Mr. Ozaki declared that the United States should dismantle her forts in the Philippines and Hawaii, and that this would be more import ant for Japan than the taking over of the South Sea Islands. French mosses and Demobilization. Paris, Dec. 20.?French soldiers to the number of 1,400.000 were killed during the war. according to a state ment by the Socialist Deputy Lucien Verlin in the chamber of deputies this afternoon during the interpella tion of the government on demobili zation., Deputy Verlin asked that the sol diers be returned to the soil and the factories without delay and continued: "I betray no secret when I say that the problem of demobilization pre sents itself thus: We have mobilized 0,000,000 men. We have had about 1,400,000 killed, while SOO.OOO recov ered from wounds. We are goiyg to demobilize 1,200,000 reserves, terri torials and heads of families." Masaryk Enters Prague. Paris. Saturday, Dec. 21 (Havas).? Prof. Thomas G. Masaryk, the presi dent of the newly formed republic of Czeeho Slavonia has made his solemn entry into Prague, according' to ad vices received here today from that city. The Wealth Survey. Every citizen of this city and of the county of Sumter who reads the cor respondence from Washington, pub lished in this issue of this paper entitled "Lever Takes Step for Rural Health." and covering official statistics in connection with his argument in his bill, just introduced, providing .$250.000 for 1010, and that much ad ditional each year until $1,000,000.00 annually are appropriated for rural health work, will be convinced of the necessity of rural sanitary surveys and other rural health work. Students of social and economic problems will find much food for thouht in this article, and especial ly in Mr. Lever's arguments in sup port of his bill. Congressman Lover argues that good health and sanitary surroundings, and modern agricul tural methods go hand in hand. . If Sumter county puts up $3,300 for the county health survey, and Mr. Lever's bill passes both houses of con gress, there is every reason to believe that the United States government will put up $3.300 additional to match our $3,300. The United States and the Stale government now have some thing more than $6,500 up for the county health survey and rural visit ing nurse in this county, if we raise $3.300, and are ready to begin work early in January 1010. We stand a splendid chance, as before said, of getting additional financial aid from the federal government, if we do our part in: nediately in putting up the money already covered, two to one by the State and national govern ments for immediate service. Read th Washington letter in this issue of tuis paper if you want infor mation about the value and necessity for rural sanitary work. The Sumter County Council of De fense meets at H o'elock next Satur day morning. December 2.Sth. at Sum ter Chamber of Commerce. Every member is request) d to attend and to be prompt as there is much business to be transacted of county wide im portance. Railroad and express freight ban- ] dlers have apparently taken a-solemn oath that no illicit liquor ship ments shall pass through then: hands. Trunks and suit cases containing a quart or more of liquor are expertly opened, the liquor removed and noth ing else disturbed, and the owner dis covers his sad loss only when the trunk is unpacked. Xo baggage is >at*e from the booze hounds, for they can smell out a quart of old bourbon even when buried in the midst of lin gerie. But sometimes they make a ' mistake, or. perhaps, it is not a mis take, only an excess of caution in guarding against any liquid ship ment passing uneensored. But be that as it may. one booze-hound was disappointed when he busted open the ease and ripped off the cartons of a shipment of ink in quart bottles. The owner of the ink is thankful that he did not break the bottles and spil' the ink, in his chagrin. A. J. Wingate And His Wife Praise Dreco Prominent Farmer Living on Route Two, Sumter, S. C. and His Wife Have Tried the New Root and Herb Medicine and Recommend It to Their Friends. '"My wife often had choking spells and her heart would beat very fast and made her uneasy," said Mr. A. J. Wingate of Route 2, Sumter, S. C. '"I myself suffered from stomach disorder and indigestion and my sleep was badly broken so that when I got up of mornings I was about as worn out as when I went to bed the night before. "Both of us have tested out the new medicine Dreco and we are glad to say that it has been a great bene fit to us both. My wife never has the heart fiutterings nor ?the choking spells any more and my stomach troubles are all gone. I sleep so well now that I find'it hard to roll out in the morning when the time comes. Dreco is grand medicine and we are both recommending it to our friends and neighbors." Dreco is made from the juices, and extracts of many 'different roots, herbs, barks and berries which act on the vital organs in a most pleasant and positive manner. It relieves con stipation, restores the kidneys to full action, arouses a sluggish liver, in duces sound sleep, quiets the nerves, builds up the whole system and puri fies the blood. Rheumatism, ca tarrh and other diseases have been known to respond quickly to the Dre co treatment. Most all good drug stores now sell Dreco but it is specially recommend ed in Sumter by Sibert's Drug Store.? Advt. A Skin Game Old Country Negro RoBbed By Two Fly-Coons. A very pathetic tale is that of Dave Jones, an old colored man from St (marl es, who was the unfortunate los er this morning of $65, this amount having been taken from him. by two other negroes who seemed skilled in the game. Dave had just reached Sumter and was walking up Harvin Street when he and his companion, who later turned out to be an accom plice, noticed another negro pick up a pocket book. The finder claimed that the pocket book contained a hundred dollar bill and offered to divide it with the two other negroes if they would not mention the fact. The latter agreed and the three proceeded to the outskirts of the city where the divis ion was to take place. Since the large bill evidently had to be changed before his share would be forthcoming, Dave offered his roll, consisting of $65, in order to expedite-; matters. The two negroes who made the haul, left for the house of a friend who lived nearby in order to obtain the amount necessary to make the change. They have been gone ever since. Dave is still hoping for the re covery of his money. In The Police Court. Though things around the police court are usually quiet, quite a num ber of cases came up before Record er Harby this morning. As a result of these cases, several dollars were added to the city's treasury. Jno. Richardson had been caught by Policeman DuRant while he was engaged in an interesting game in the Silver Moon Cafe, an establishment operated on West Liberty street. John plead guilty and had to pay a fine of $5. Lewis McFadden, colored, who was also interested in the game, fail ed to put in his appearance this morning at court and as a conse quence, forfeited his bond of $10. ' Maggie Wilder, charged with petty larceny, forfeited her bond of $5.00, when she failed to be on hand to plead to the charge. Senior Porter augmented the city's finances by $10 by staying away from court when he had been notified to be on hand, having been charged with petty larceny. Mr. C. F. Ketr.er, who is an apple lealer. was charged with doing busi ness without a license. His case was lismissed when he agreed to take out the necessary license immediately. FOll SALE?Registered Duroc Jer seys. 1 male, weight 600 pounds; 1 sow. weight 300 pounds, 2 gilts, weight 135 pounds each. Dr. A. J. P.-nnock. R. F. D. 3._ ( ARM LAND FOR SALE?In Sumter Lee and Clarendon counties. C. P. Osteen. Sumter, S. C. 7 PER CEXT XEW MEAL?For prompt shipment; also blood, high grade tankage, potash, acid phos. ground phos. rock and ground lime stone. Call or write us for prices. Southern Brokerage Co., Sumter, _S. C.__ ?EESWAX WAXTEP?Any quantity large or small Am paying best cash price. Sec me if you have any. X. d. Osteen._ "OR SALE?F. O. B. cars, Camp Jackson, stable manure; very little straw. Car load lots only. Chemi' cal and Fertilizer value rated very high by Clemson college. A. A. Strauss, Sumter, S. C. Qeo. H. Hurst, Undertaker and Emfaalmer Prompt Attentin to Or and Night Calls At j. 0. CRA1G Old Stand, N. Main 1 iiUUCfc. aigjjj 201