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? o Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OSEKEN P?BUSHESTG COMPANY S?SCEEK, s. o. Terms: $1.50 per.annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$1.0? l?Jvery subsequent insertion.. .. .80 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will he charged Xer as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect ?ill be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found O? in I860 and the True Southron in ISf>6. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both'of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. _ LET GERMANY WORK. At . last thjere are some slight signs that Germany is coming to her senses. Says the Taglis he Rundschau of Ber lin: / "What we need is a depot to com pel the nation to work. If we are un able to install him, our enemies will send him." ' That i*-- ihe plain, simple truth. The former-Kaiser has been at work ever since the armistice, say I g nothing and sawing wood?the most ? useful' and profitable undertaking of his j whole life. What the German nation J needs is to do likewise. -To make the Allies some email I measure of recompense for the e\ ' done.them, to restore their own coun ;iry to something of its former pros perity and comfort and to make their own future tolerable and respectable, the "Germans must stop whining, stop talking of revenge, stop their eternal preparations for war, and go to work patiently and constructively. Honest work is in itself a cleansing force. Through honest work and dis creet silence Germany may in time wipe out the memory -?f her evil past and renovate her own soul. And it will "be much better for her to do it of . her own free will, in voluntary penance, than under the . compulsion of the nations she has wronged. 'NOW FOR THE FLU GERM! The influenza is happily waning. But it is just as well not to rejoice un duly. It may come back, with de vastating' effect. G?e~ of the most discouraging things about this-disease is that, unlike most epidemics, it does not confer im munity. Its victims may catch it again within a few months. For all anybody knows, they may get it over and over, until it "gets" them. And like individuals, whole communities and nations are subject to recurrent attacks. It is estimated that this baffling j plague took 400,000 American lives! last fall and winter, and as a result J of. death and disability cost the nation more than $2,000,000,000. We do not want that to happen again next winter or any subsequent winter. There is much force, then, ho^fne appea^pfifcjfr" by'Src'ret^^Lane for a congressional appropriation to pay the cost of finding out exactly what this enemy is, and conquering it. "If there is an insect that can he dormant 17 years," he argues, "it is equally possible that there is a bacil lus that may lie dormant through a certain period, becoming active at stated intervals and producing the pe riodic waves that mark certain die eases. The bacillus of influenza should be isolated and identified, so that we may be able to cope with it in future appearances. "Once the bacillus is found, medical men can~evolve some way to kill it or make it.drunk so it won't work. That has been found to be the most effec tive method of rendering many germs inactive." We made the Huns?the war germs of the human race?inactive, at a huge cost. It is just as necessary to subdue the "flu" germs. And by setting to work the ablest medical scientists in the country, with the best facilities obtainable, it can probably be accomplished for a mere fraction of 1 per* cent of what this enemy has cost us during the past year. .BUSINESS BY AIR. The man going to Vladivostok ar rived in Seattle just too late for his Pacific steamer. He chartered a sea plane at $1 a minute and caught his ship after a flight of 35 minutes. The man in Cleveland couldn't be fitted in the kind of shoe that suited him. The nearest ones were in the Chicago branch store. The man had to have them that day. The salesman wired the Chicago store. The shoes were sent by air and the man got them that afternoon. The man from New York left an important.batch of papers in an of fice in Chicago. He wired from the train to have them forwarded, and when he reached his New York desk the papers lay there awaiting him. These little instances show that in spite of difficulties and delays the air traffic is winning its way into the com mercial life of the country. Acci dents grow fewer month by month. Mail services become stabilized and dependable. The future of air bus iness rapidly becornes the present. It does not do to underestimate the val ue and the effects upon life of the air service. No longer a matter of vague visions, air tralfic has become a real ity. It is here. FOLLOWING A BEE LINE. Not many farms can boast of . 20, 000,000 laborers, but there is a farm in northern Ohio which has this dis tinction. It belongs to a man named Quirin, and his business is raising bees for market. Incidentally Mr. Quirin sells a few thousand pounds of honey every sea son, but that is just a side-line. The bee line is his real profession. Every now and then he sells a queen bee for S300. and plain ordinary queens bring $5. The person who is contemplating going into business might do worse than to study up on the bee question, j For this bee-keeper makes a good liv ing, and says that the outloc't for the future is very bright, since the eco nomic position of the honey bee is meeting more recognition every- day from horticulturists, and the gov ernment is lending its assistance to the keeper of bees far more than in the past. ! Of course, bee-keeping is primarily a business whe^e one is liable to get stung. Still, when it comes to making things hum, no occupation excels it. THE SUPERIOR PEOPLE. The word "common." in the sense of vulgar, beneath the average in some desirable respects, is a familiar one. Just what does it mean? People inj high places often deserve the "com mon" stigma, people in lowly ones are often the real aristocrats. Frank Crane attempts in the Aug ust American -magazine to define tbe difference between commonness and superiority in people. He sets forth ten tests by -wiiich to try a man's or woman's fineness. "Whoever can meet those tests is a superior person. It not, he is common. And Dt. Crane grants that most people are superior or common in streaks. These are the marks by which he says you may know the Superior One: L He is Spiritual?meaning that his joys are more of the mind than the body. II. He likes Simplicity. He uses simple words, has simple habits, eats simple food, finds pleasure in simple forms of play. III. He likes to Serve. IV. He is above his pleasures. H: has pleasures, but none of them ar< bigger than he is. He can put by any or all of them for a principle. V. He is Clean. He may have to get dirty in the course of work or ser vice, but at the first opportunity h: cleans up. His thoughts and action: are clean and wholesome. VI. He is never Bitter. Pessimism is the philosophy of vulgarity. Rising above disaster marks the hero. VII. He does not like to Show Off VIII. He is Gentle. All noise is waste. God is in the still, small voice IX. He is Humble-Minded. Pride learns nothing. Humility is teach able. Pride is a beggar for praise. Humility is royal, walking free of fear 3rd favor. X. The Superior Man is one with whom Familiarity Does Not Breed Contempt. He wears well. Friends do not tire of him. He has the Last ing Quality. These, then, are the ten tests. Art I you superior? Or are you common" [ Or axe you both in streaks? The Nation can get out of the League of Nations in two years if ?l disapproves of the League. The na tion can get one-third of the United States senators out of their jobs iv less than two years if it disapproves of them. ?XFOKTCNATE TROLLEY LINES The trolley lines of the United States, generally speaking, are iu a bad way. A street railway expert says that they need SI.000.000.000 a year to enable them <o meet public demands, two-thirds of i! now capital j and ono-tbird to be used for refund ing outstanding obligations. Needless to say. they have not been getting it. The most obvious thing to do is to raise fares. This is difficult, however, as th<* expert explains, because fare? arf fixed by franchise or municipal regulation, and th?? public is stil Imbued with th*> five-cent-fare idea "though the nickel fare was nevei very profitable, and it would be a dim* today if it had kept pace with cur rent depreciations." Still, the Public is getting used to it. for dozens of cities have 'raised their fare rate in the last few months, varying all the way from five to ten cents. The situation is undeniably bad for most of the trolley companies. But one curious fact oubtrudes itscif into the argument. In the city of Cleve land, which has nearly l,ooo,o>o pea pie and a system oLstreet car lines of large mileage, permitting very iong rides, the public today is getting 11 rides for fifty cents, though paying an extra cent for transfer. The stoek I holders art- paid a guaranteed divi dend of 6 .per cent, which may soon j be raised to 7 per cent. There is a | surplus of about $1,000.00?.? in the! safetv-valve fund which automatical-1 i ly regulates the rate of fare. The i fare has just been lowered from the I j straight five cents that has prevailed j for a year or so. Employees have j been granted a liberal raise, winning J all their demands. The present rafej of fare is said to provide enough money for every legitimate purpose, and there is no prospect of raising it in the near future. Is Cleveland a freak town, able to do what no other city can do? Or j are the trolley experts wrong about j it. and is the little old nickel a just rate of fare after all, when a street car system has the water squeezed out and is managed efficiently under pub lic supervision? THE GRAPE INDUSTRY. .When the prohibition regime was still distant, the grape-growers of California and Ohio were asking in dismay. "What will we do with our grapes?" Now they know. They will make' grape juice and grape jam and j grape jelly and grape sirup of them. | And from the present demand and j present prices, it is evident that theyj will make more profit from these pro- j ducts than they ever made from thei' wine. Producers of grains, hops and near ly idl the other things which former ly entered into the manufacture of alcoholic liquors are having a similar experience. Their product can be used for temperance drinks and for foodstuffs for which the public is clamoring. > This happy discovery serves once more to justify the famous aphorism of Boston Globe: "I am an old man. and have had many troubles, but most of them never happened." CHINA NEEDS TREES. An exchange of tree seeds is to take place between China and the United States. China needs trees. She wants many,of the hardy North Amer ican trees to renew her devastated forests. She offers us seeds of some of her native trees, including ? tew rare species adaptable to conditions in this country. China's own desperate need for trees should point a moral to every other now wooded land. Says Charlys Lathrop Pack, president of the Amer ican Forestry Association, "China is the standing example of what 2 country can suffer from wide-spread and indiscriminate cutting of its for ests." The tremendous floods which j sweep over China at frequent inter vals are the result of the destruction of her forest lands. These, floods do incalculable damage. They destroy whole towns and villages and mil lions of dollars worth of property, be sides endangering the lives of peo ple rwid inflicting great hradship on them. The economic and industrial loss is another evil ohase of the ruined for- j ests which cannot be ignored. Crop; are ruined, people art made home-! iess. JFuel is most difficult to pro cure, j Tch plan now is to develop big for-1 ^sts on the watersheds of the rivers! ;ha.t How through the great northern ind central plains of China. Accord ing to engineers who have carefully studied the problem, that is (lie only solution. It is ;> long and slow pro cess, however, with plenty of time for much further damage before th?: loods ar?? cheeked naturally by prop erly wooded mountain slopes and hill sides. Are the people of this country real ly awake to the need of keeping our forests constantly replenished? Are they doing everything in their power to promote legislation insuring con sistent reforestation and to keep woods on their own private lands in thriving rendition? THE AMERICAN WAR DERI'. There ar*? so many conflicting ver sions of the nation's war debt thru i? ' is jnst ;ts well to get the matte;*! si rai^ht. That debt is not $39.990,000,000. according to a common impression [* is nof anywhere near that much. The government actually expended. f"i ! war purposes, from April >'?. t *? 1 V. un til .inn*- :;<?, i!'t:?. the close of rh-.- last liscal year. :i little more than $30,000, 000.000. It must be remembered, bowevr. that $9,000,009.000 or more consists of loans to the Allies, nearly all of which are perfectly prood. That i $9.000.000,000. therefore. i.s not a lia bility but an asset. That reduces our ictual war expenditure to $21,000, 000,000. Of the lattfer sum. about $9,000,000. 000 is taken care of by current tax ation. As a result, the actual war debt, estimated for the beginning of' COITO? ?ND FERTILIZER MERCHANTS If you have cotton to sell, see us, it will pay you. If you have fertilizer or fertilizer materials to buy it will pay you to see us before you buy, Cash or approved collateral. 9 West Liberty Street the present" month, is only about 000.000.000. The war is not over yet. at least j from the standpoint of expenditure. | It will stiil cost many hundred mil- \ lions to bring the troops home and ; clear up all the odds and cuds of ex pense But. against this continuing j cost may be set the large sum-, de- j rived from the sale of ships and I military supplies. The government j may get enough, or nearly enough.! from these sources, to pay all the j bills coming due from now on until | the war end navy departments are re established on a peace basis. Making due allowance for the pos sibility of keeping troops in Ger many for a longer time than anyone anticipated, thus postponing demob ilization, and also making liberal al- ? lowance for other unforeseen demands it hardly seems likely that the war debt at the close of the present yearj will be more than $15.000.000.000. That *s one of rbe smallest debts' borne today bv any of the big pow-! ers. It is absurdly small when mess-| * l ured"by the resources of the United States/especially when we consider| the proportion of the other powers' debts to their resources. It is prob- i ably 6 per cent of our national wealth. We could pay it off in three years, if we chose, without breaking our necks financially. WOMEN PREACHERS. - A fierce discussion is raging over in England as to whether women shall be admitted to the Episcopal clergy. All the old arguments are being in troduced by both sides, and thus far the matter is in a deadlock. The same controversy hns raged in almost every religious sect since time began. But truly there is no good j reason, scriptural or otherwise, why women should not make just as good ministers as men. Most women are by nature more deeply religious than most men. Many women are good speakers, having a charm and a gift of persuasiveness seldom equaled fey the stronge*" sex. And women are by nature sympathetic and tender. It should be easy for them to deal with questions involving human nature and its sorrows. Breaking with old customs is al ways a slow, hard process, and for' women to take their place among th-j l clergy in the Church of England will be a notable change, but that any menace to morals or fnanners would accompany the change is hard to be lieve. GOOD CUST?3JQEKS. - i The War Savings Committee of one of th? middle-western States has a few things to say about good cus tomers: "When the town is flush with mon ey, almost any customer is i< good cus-1 tomer. But when the wheels stop J business can be done only with tne man who has cash or credit. "The man who has something saved i is the only good customer when times! are dull. If a man d:<i no) save wheivJ times were easy, he cannot be a good credit risk. "The woman who ;s a good custom- j er can be recoghize? the tninufe she! ??.?ones into ;i store. "If. .dir knows bow to buy. rip knows the value of goods, she knows. MILK COWS FOR SALE?Having] sold my farm, I am offering my en-| tire herd of dairy rows for sale, either as a herd or as individuals-! Thi.-; is an unusual opportunity i" get high grade, big producing cows, that have been proven satisfactory'! in every particular. Also dairy! equipment for sale. C. P. Osteen, Smnler. S. C. FOli SALE?Or will trade for dry cattle several Jersey heifers or young cows with young calves. E. J W Dabbs. Mayesville, S. C. R. 1. j WANTED?To haul your tobacco to; Sumter. Any quantity. For rates! Phone 372??f. Parrish Dray Line. I BEEHIVES AND SUPPLIES?T lu ve lately received a few Georgia made hives and fnames?8 and 10 frame; size. Also on hand sections and: foundation for comb honey. N. G. Osteen, M20 W. Hampton \ve. ?EESWAX WANTED?Any quantity large or small. Am paying best j cash price. See me if you have any. N. G. Osteen. the value of credit. Ii she respects what she owns, she respects what she owes. "Business is done for cash or cred it; the other thing is charity. "Credit comes i?> an end when a man can't pay his bills. Cash busi ness stops when a rnun can't oay mon ey." No one with decent pride or self respect wants to !><> the object of charity, yet judged by these stand ards the number of charitable cases in the buying world today is enor mous. Thrift alone will raise the individ ual Crom the charity class to the good customer class and keep him there. Salesladies Wanted. Schwartz Tiros, will require 2 or 3 salesladies^ one for ready-to-v.-ear de partment. Only-experienced need c-.p ply. Apply at once Schwartz Bros.? Advt. Cotton Market JLOCAI*. P. G. BOWMAN. Cotton Buyer. (Corrected Lt??y at 12 o'clock*Wooa). Good Middling 34 3-4. Strict Middling 34 1-4. Middling :::: ?. Strict Low Middling 31 3-4. Low Middling 2:? l-'i. NET7 YORK COTTON ?1$RKFT, Yes'td'y? Open High Low Close CJos6 Oct . . 25.40 :?;;?.SO 55.21 ?5.4.4 Dec . . 35.53 35.28 35.19 35.38 35.'M Mch . . 35.35 ?5.85 55. lo 3-.'.38 vo.fto NEW ORI/EANS. Jan . . 35.00 35.20 I.V*; 5?.1'3 35.2;"> Mch . . 35.40 34.82 35.05 35.22 Oct . . 3 1.00 35i05 34.52 34.71 31.90 Dec . . 35.08 '5.15 :: 1.G2 34.86 ."."..!?'?; The weather today was more fa voraoie. the sentiment as a whole still favors the long side. Labor condi tions and Um English exchange is very unsettled. Frank fl. Barrett. The announcement that Mr. E. H. Moses, for many years the manager of the Sumter Lighting Company will continue in the same capacity when the city takes charge on September 1st is the s'?St assurance that the plant will continue to operate as well as heretofore until the new machin ery can be installed. FOR CONGRESS I hereby announce myself a candi date for Congress to succeed A. F. Lever, resigned; and I pledge my sell to abide the result of thv. Democratic primary. GEORGE BELL TIMMERMAN. Honors for Lloyd George King George Anxious to Bestow Honor on War Premier London. July 24.?King George is eager m bestow an honor on Premier Lloyd George in recognition of his services in/the war and at the peace conference and the form the honor is to take is being discussed in court'cir clcs, says The Mirror. The Aland Islands Paris, July 24.?The Baltic "com mission of the peace conference pre sented a report today, recommending' that the .Viand Islands between Swed en and ^Finland at the mouth of the Gulf of r-<'Lii!;i-: be naturalized under guarantees of the League of Xations. ----- tisim 3U That's faded, gray or bleach ed. Any shade from blonde to black. Our process is absolute ly safe and lasting. Shampooing Does Not Remove the Coloring Perfect Privacy Assured We Positively Cure Bandruif Stop falling hair, and are si?ecialisis in treating the scalp. We carry a full line of the very best switches, curls and trans formations. For Engagement Phone No, 9 MME. M. POST ISO N. Main St. Sumier, S. C. Serviceable Hosiery Every requirement in hosiery can be fulfilled here ?whether the need be for silk, lisle or cotton?for dress \ or for sendee. Our stock is unusually complete with attractive values. ' For Womeis, CMMrei and Men We can offer a wide variety of hosiery for the whole family in a complete scale of weights, sizes and colors. We?have them plain or*with reinforced toes and heels, as preferred?the wear-proof and the most popu lar other advertised brands. Why not lay in a liberal supply now? SHAW k McCOLLUffl MERCANTILE CO.