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mm PuhHshea Wednesday and Saturday ______' " ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. 0. . Terms: fl.50 pnr annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$1.00 iSvery iobseauent insertion.60 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. Ail communications which sub serve private interests will be charged Y>r fed advertisements. Obituaiies and tributes of respect W!h be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found m?< in 1850 and the True Southron m j&66. The Watchman &ud Southron now has i^ie combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is-ma~*t:estly the best advertising medium in Sumter. DENATURED HAIR TONIC. One?6f the first problems taken up ,:Z *>3T the federal prohibition commission ; er. John F. Kramer, is how to take the kieic out of hair tonic. Mos? persons ..may not be aware that vtjiere was any kick in it. Cbn | sumetj?, however, have been iinding it out, :a|id have been taking such ad vantage of their discovery that the authorities are concerned about it, and barbers are worried by the growing scarcity and rising prices. It fs proposed to make bay rum and ether tonics undrinkable bv de naturing them with tartar emetic or some other disagreeable substance. It soonds funny; yet isn't it pretty disgraceful tnat such measures should be found necessary? M '? ? LAW-BREAK IN? AUTHORITIES. -_ There is enough lawlessness in this county today without official guar dian*, of the law playing the role of law-breakers. There have been reports from Pitts burgil recently of striking steel men being- barred from their meeting places, and forbidden to gather else whejse. What is this but a denial of that^right oi assembly" which is one offtae rocks of Anglo-Saxon liberty, guaranteed by the Constitution? Men hav?"no right to break the law when ass*$nb!ed?but they have a right to asse^nble, and that right must never be ^?enied except in emergencies so ^t.- as to justify the replacement :il law by martial law. lere have been many denials, too, right of free speech. It is true the United States has been too tolerant of vocal disloyalty in the past; but now the pendulum is swing ing* the other way, and often a man wup has a perfect right to be heard is ^suppressed by local authorities. Sometimes a man with an objection able record is suppressed merely on thlf; chance that he might say some thing objectionable. &ayor Couzons of Detroit recently taught a needed lesson in this regard. W&sn "Big Bill" Hay wood, the L W. leader, was .announced to speak in the city, and the mayor was urged to parent it, he refused. There was no law. the mayor explained, by which h? could forbid Hay wood to speak. iSbt if Haywood. when he spoke, should utter treason or sedition, then thjs police could, and would arrest him. That is the proper way to deal w4*h such matters. -The police of Cleveland have been systematically arresting men coming other cities to work in the steel in place of strikers, charging newcomers with "suspicion" and tding them out of town. Hun Is of men~~a?? said to have been packed off thus unceremoniously, rhough well behaved and in no sense ^grants or - offensive characters. -'?jany of them were war veterans. A ~2cL "IjSederal court has declared that the l^tty authorities were acting absolute fy without legal right. One of the worst cases of abused j.power is that of Carneyville, Wyo., ?-where federal troops are reported to have arrested coal miners because C^vey would not go to work. For workmen to refuse to go to work may ^i>e morally culpable, but it is not a le 1-gfal offense in Wyoming or anywhere I jplse. It was the soldiers who broke r | the law. The intentions of the authorities in ^piall such cases are good. They err ?^rom excess of zeal. None the less, sir they do a great deal of mischief. This ES*time of social restlessness calls, more J rthan ever, for discretion in high Igplaees. Hi London, Nov. ]6.?England's army jj^ofwdrunkards is disappearing. About r^rjifteen years ago 70.00<? persons were " annually committed to prison for drunkenness and the average for a i few years before the war was about m 00,000. The commissioners of pris ons in their annual report say that son last emales. the numbers committed to pri? s "year were 671 males and 999 f ?f Reports from a'l the prisons testify |s to the beneficent effects of restriction on the sale of intoxicating' liquors. - \ The police arrested a negro on Saturday named W. Jackson. He is [" enlarged with being one of the "pock et book finders" that have been op erating around Sumter for some time. The recorder does not assume juris diction in this case, but binds the ac cused over to a. higher court. SPANISH CABINET DECIDES TO QUIT j - Resignation of Toca and Other Members May Me Handed to King Today Madrid. Dec. 7.?King Alphonso will be handed the resignation of the whole Toca cabinet when he returns from his curtailed hunting trip, prob i ably on Monday. The cabinet held a meeting last night, following the ac- ? tion of General Covaro, minister of war. who resigned after the cabinet i published the decision of the court of honor calling upon 23 officers to ? leave the army. Juaquin Sanchez Toca, the head of; the retiring cabinet, had a long tele phonic conversation today with *hei chief of the household as a result of which the king will return to Madrid ! either tonight or Monday morning: when the council will meet under his; presidency and Senor Toca will ex- j plain the reasons for the cabinet's, resignation. The talk in Madrid today is of a j new conservative cabinet under the j ! new premiership of some neutral, possibly the former minister of ma rine. Admiral Angel Miranda, who ^ad an hour's conference with Former Premier Maura yesterday. The Socialist deputies have an nounced their determination, if a military government replaces the! Toca cabinet, to call a general strike I in Spain. ! COMMERCIAL CON GRESS IN SESSION Programme Provides For Days, of Speech Making - Savannah, Ga., Dec. 7.?Formal j j opening of the Southern Commercial I congress will take place tomorrow I morning at the municipal auditorium. I where, after addresses of welcome by j Gov. Hugh Dorsey and Mayor Murray j Stewart and a response by Governor j CooDer of South Carolina, Gen. J. J. i Pershing. commander in chief of the j American expeditionary forces, will1 deliver an address on "The South's Part in the -World War." The theme of the congress will be j three-fold: The South's part in the j solution of economic problems of the I nation: the South's part in the restor- j ation of the American merchant ma- j rine. and the extension of trade re- j iations with Latin American coun-j tries. The House of Southern governors \ will be in session in Savannah during j the congress. Many distinguished j persons are to be present, and more j than 100 addresses are to be madel by men of -national and international prominence. j General Pershing and his staff will I reach Savannah from Charleston early in the morning and at 8.30 a. m. he will be met at the station and con ducted with a military escorr. to the DeSoto hotel, where breakfast will be j served. The Chatham artillery wfi] fire I a salute of 21 guns. At 1 o'clock Gen-1 eral Pershing and his staff will be en- \ tertained at luncheon at the DeSoto hotel by Joseph Hull of Savannah. In I the afternoon an inspection of the har- i bor and docks will be made and a cruise on the Cypress with Edwin F. j Sweet, acting secretary, as host. In the evening a banquet will be given in honor of General Pershing. Re sponses will be made by Senator I Fletcher of Florida. Secretary Sweet , j and General Pershing. WORLD-WIDE CAM PAIGN SUCCEEDS Episcopalian Drive For Big! Fund Goes Over the Top _ Columbia. Dec. 8.? Reports reach- ! ing headquarters of the Episcopal church nationwide campaign here last night indicate that the drive for $481,605 in South Carolina will be oversubscribed by thousands of dol- ; lars. Many of the churches were can vassing the members until a late hour and figures were not available at head quarters here. Every church reporting either raised or exceeded its quota. Columbia. Spartanburg, Greenville, Florence and Charleston all went over the top in the drive. The South Carolina diocese .accept ed its allotmer . of $4<>",.605 and lead ers said last night thi nount would be reached when reports are received today. Figures announced at head quarters last nis:ht showed the fol lowing figures for churches report ing: Trinity. Columbia $11.600, quota $11,550; St. Timothy's. Columbia $750, j quota $750; St. John's Shandoh, $2. 300.70, quota $2,250; Trinity Mission,! Columbia $251, quota $75; St. George Mission $75, quota $75; Holy Comfort-; er, Sumter $4,060, quota $3.900: Na- j tivity. Union $1.050. quota $975; [ Grace. Ridge Spring $900, quota $300; j Redeemer, Orangeburg $1.800, quota $1.050; Ascension, Seneca $75, quota S75; St. John's. Winnsboro $600. quota I $600; Advent. Spartanburg $13.039.-1 67; Christ. Greenville $1 1.550. quota i $11.550; St. Michael's. Charleston, j ! $13,230, quota $9.000; Epiphany, Lau- , rens. over the top and 25 per cent of| members to !>?? canvassed; Advent.; I Marion. $1,646; Zion, Eastover $339M 'and total incomplete. Columbia! churches raised $14.891.70! The campaign is on a three year; [budget and the money raised yester day was for one year. Renewals for-'! I two more years are expected from all j ; t b?- subscribers! Capable Men Scarce. I London. Nov. 19.- -Sir A Iben Stan j ley. a former President of the Roard of Trade has stated that there were plenty of positions vacant with sala- j rie.s of $25.000 jo $50,000 a year, but j the great difficulty was to find men capable of filling the bill, it was quite easy to find men for positions of $2.500. $4.000 or S5.0GU a year. AUTOMOTIVE DEAL ERS' ASSOCIATION Columbia. Dee. ?Members of the Sumter County .Automotive Dealers' Association, have decided to affiliate with the South Carolina Automotive Trades' Association, says a letter from S. K. Rowland, acting secretary of the association, to Harold C. Booker, secretary of the State association. The Sumter County Automotive Dealers' Association was recently or ganized with a membership of eight een dealers and a good number of as sociation members composed of mem bers of the different dealers' selling force. The association is 100 per cent strong, says the letter from Act ing Secretary Rowland./ "We are delighted toj welcome the Sumter dealers into the State associa tion." said Mr. Booker today. "They are a live punch of dealers who do business on a high plane. They stand for the same principles that the State association stands for. They will help us and we will help them " The Spartanburg County Automo tive Trades Association will be or ganized at a banquet to be given on , Tuesday evening at the Hotel Cleve land in that city. A. Mason Gibbs, president, and Harold C. Booker, sec retary, of the State Association have j been invited to attend this banquet j and will leave Columbia Tuesday af-! ternoon foK the Spartan City. All the dealers of the Spartan City are ex pected to affiliate with the State asso-j ciation. Present members of the State association in Spartanburg are the Piedmont Overland Co.: J. S. Wingo and Son: The Carolina Stutz Sales Co.: The Oldsmobile Company of South Carolina: R. H. Nesbitt Company and Burnett and Garlington. The board of directors of the South j Carolina Automotive Trades' Assoei- j tion has been called to meet Tuesday. December 16 at the Jefferson Hotel, this city, by President Gibbs. Mem-: bers of the board are A. Mason j Gibbs. president; Charles E. Com mander, Florence, first vice president: O. P. -Mills. Greenville, second vice president: Santo Sotille. Charleston; Neils Christensen. Beaufort: J. W. Caritield. Greenwood: John P. Can non. Spartanburg: Paul Hard in. Chester: W. P. Law, Darlington; R. D. Lambert, Columbia.. A number of matters of importance will come up. The dealers of Greenwood County will meet in Greenwood Monday af ternoon at 4 o'clock. E. V. Plane. State treasurer and H. C. Booker, sec retary, will meet with them and assist in the formation of an*organization. Cotton Market (Corrected daily at 12 o'clock by1 Chamber of Commerce.) Good Middling 39 1-2. St riot Middling 38 3-4. Middling 38. Strict Low Middling 36. Low Middling 33. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. i y?*'td'y j Open Hi*h I*ow new* Clos* j Jan . . 20.95 37.55 36.95 37.50 36.60 ' Mach . .34.40 34.9* 34.33 34.08 34.00 May . .32.20 Z'l.'M 32.15 32.95 31.92 \ July . .30.75 31.48 20.75 31.45 20.50 New Orleans. Jan . .37.00 37.90 37.00 37.80 36.90 Mch - .34.90 35.48 34.7% 35.4s 34.42 May . .32.90 23.43 32.SO 33.40 32.35 July . .31.20 31.83 31.15 21.80 20.77 NO REASON FOR IT. When Sumter Citizens Show a Way. There can be no reason why any I reader of this who suffers the tor- j tures of an aching back, the annoy- j ance of urinary "isorders, the pains j and dangers of kidney ills will fail to j heed the words of a neighbor who t has found relief. Read what a Sum ter citizen says: Mrs. A. N. Skinner, 20S W. Oakland j Avenue, says: "I certainly can recommend Loan's Kidney Pills. J j had kidney trouble and I was subject to headaches and dizzy spells. Some times I had to hold on to something for fear I would fall over. Tired spells often came over me and J j would feel languid and sleepy. My ! kidneys acted irregularly and worried j me a great deal. 1 knew I would have to get something, so when I heard of Doan's Kidney Pills, I got some. Two boxes of Doan's cured me of all the trouble and 1 think they are splendid." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that ! Mrs. Skinner had. Foster-Milburn } Co.. Mfgrs.. Buffalo. N. Y.?Advt. 72 \ FOR SALE?S.une of the best regist-j ered Guernsey bulls of various agesi | Join a prize winning family. C. \\. Roykfn. Mayesville. S. <'., n. p, D. No. 3. ' FOR SALE?Lot of nice mules and: horses at pvblic auction at Court House next Saturday. December ' at ten A. M. Box SL2A. Sumter, K. LIVE MAN?With Ford to .lemon-; strait and sell the .J. C. M. Acceie-j rator Liberal proposition. J. i'. Mewsluiw. 17 Stk. Kx, h. Bldg., Ba'-j timore. Md. FOB SATjE?Waving sold my farm on j the White s Mill Road. 1 want to seltt 3 fine mules which can he seen on} the plantation. 1 could not deliver.! these mules until January lsr. Neil! O'Donnell. J. BOND OF JENKINS REMAINS MYSTERY | ._ No Word Indicating; Who Put Up Money Washington. Dec. 7.?There was no; word tonight indicating a solution ofj the mystery which lias developed from : the sudden release of William <?. Jen-j kins. American consular agent, from] tin- Puebla jail, after the deteiTTiino t,' demand of this government apparent-j ly had failed t<> influence Iiis Mexicaru captors. Both the Stale department and Jenkins himself already have \ started invesfig:itions with the objocti of determining what influences were; instrumental in putting up 'he .<~,:i<>. bail bond which the Mexican govern-' ment so readily accept" <!. Admittedly tie- crux of an interna?i tional situation of utmost Intensenessi two days ago. 'lie Jenkins easp has' now become a diplomatic enginia. the solution of which offers interest butj noi dangerous possibilities. A careful investigation of reports) that Mexico h:t<i taken steps lb augr- j ment her aviation forces has failed I??' corroborate the statement that a squadron of 24 modern pursuit planes are available for service. Informa- J tion obtained through reliable sources) considered ' by military and State agencies to be thoroughly dependable i put the total strength of the Mexican air department at less than a dozen obsolete planes. Hot Supper. There will be a barbecue and turkey supper for the benefit of 'Ira ham Graded School at the residence of W. J. Kinney odd Brogdon home on Manning road) Priday night, De cember 12th. Miss Jessie McLean, Principle. Berlin. Nov. 14.?The Duke of Co burg Gotha has sold o> Prince Ar thur of Connaugh; a five-thousand - acre estate, including Samter Palace, located in the area which is to be ceded to the Poles: FLOAT-A-FORD ^^^^^^^^^^u' ^^^^^^^^^^^^ I I WE GOT'EM Practical and Efficient 1 _? I g j i I Let u$ tell you about them j See our large assortment of ' " ? | I AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES | j TRY OUR SERVICE 'I . j I ANCHOR MOTOR COMPANY ^ . Opposite the Library . | AN AD VERTISEMENT PLACED IN THE ADVERTISING COLUMNS OF THE DAILY ITEM WILL BRING RESULTS Slimier, S. C. We are now prepared to book orders for spring shipment on Ammoniated Goods, any analysis you desire. It will pay you to see us at once, as our tonnage this season will be limited. 9 West Liberty Street