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Eatery *a* -3fee -Postoffiee a* Stuater, k C.. as "Secorid-cla^ Matter. PERSONAL. Mr. W. T. Brown, city manager, spent Tfee day in fiartsviHe on busi ness, j&r. iVH. Rhaine has returned from Battle Creek, Mich., where he went lust week to accompany Dr. C. C Bfewh. Messrs; Hubert Lawrence, Dock Boney and Tick Pfcelps attended a dance m Orahgeburg last night. MrVand Mrs. Lane, of Saluda, N. C, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Wild -. i . * Mrs. tJecil H. Wilson and Mrs. Harry "Pitts have gone to Cuba for a moath*s stay. Mrs. D. B. MclAurin, of Wedgefield, is i^ndiBg -lhe week to town. . Miss Ida Parier, of Elloree, S. C, is rrsffhtg *her uncle, Mr. H. W. Cut tlao, on "Church street. On Friday afternoon Mrs. R. J. Burkett, Av T. MUnm A. L. Bradford, and W. D. Baffield motored to Lamar t? . ah ar^rn?oh party given by Mrs. W:* & Mclhhfe. - Miss Edna Pack is visiting Mrs. Warren ' McCoSum. Miss Pack will be sponsor for Camp: Pulliam, of Greenville, during the Reunion. Miss 5?n?iy Jordan, of Greehville, will be lier maid of .honor. SS Mrs. Henryj?bdg*e and little daugh ters have, returned home after a; weeks' stay hi Charleston. 0M - Mrs. Nina feoiomohs attended the meeting of the executive board of the ^tate T^ubcrculosis Association in Co-] lumbia Friday. . Mrs. Willie Boartfield and mother left Sunday -morning for Atlanta and Lexington, Ky., for several weeks' stay.. Mr. R. B. Griffin left Saturday af ternoon for Ge&dsboro, N. C, for sev ^^^"Treefe^staiy. Mrs. J. C. I'au&ner of Mount Airy, -X. ?., and Mrs. W. B. Fort of Great j ^,113 are visiting Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Mr. H. C. Bland will leave, tonight for a ten*.days* business trip to De? jroit ,' Mr: L. C. Mofse, Mrs. L. R. William-j s'oh; Mrs. Davis Moise-and Miss Alice^ Moses' have -? returned from Atlanta where they have been attending ,the grand opera. _ .*3HI . j.' Married. ?-'-?'.?.-?? . Miss. Ruth J. Mitchell and Mr. John J; Team, both of Suinter, were mar ried, Friday at the district parsonage by Presiding Elder Rev. D. W. Mc Leod Miss Nettie Wilbur .Nettles and Mr. ?;John-,^Keith Strange were married on j Thursday evening at 6 o'clock at the *K)nie of the bride's father, Mr. C. B. Settles, Broad street Rev. J. P. Ma 'rion performed the ceremony. A* marriage of much interest wa> , solemnized on Thursday afternoon, when Misa Wilbur Nettles, the daugh tcr of Mr. and Mrs. O. B.. Netties, of this city, became the bride of Mr. John KeithStrange, of this city. Promptly at G o'clock the bride en I tered on the arm of her sister, Mild red Nettles and the' groom with hir'J brother Wilson Strange. Rev. J. P. Marion performed the impressive ring ceremony. The bride was handsomely attirec in a taupe coat suit with accessories .to match, and carried a bouquet oi bride's roses and fern, while her maid of honor wore a gray embroiderec georgette and carried pink carnatiom and fern?. The house was tastefully decorated in cut-flowers and "ferns. Immediately after the ceremony th( guests- were invited into the dining room where a delightful ice courst was i*erved. The out-of-town guests were: Mr.n and Mrs. J. A. Nettles and Miss Rebf Nettles, of Dillon, SC.; Mr. and Mrs Mrs. Heetor, McNeil and Mrs. H. A. i Wells of Florence, S. C, Mr. and Mr:?, j C. L. McElveen, Miss Annie Dickson and Mr. Richard Cain of Manning, S. CU Mr. G. W. Dickson of Johnsonville,: S. C, Miss Rena Leicas Of Leesburg. lF3a.t~ Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mayes and Misses Edna and Kathryn Mayes of] Mayesville, S. C, and Mrs. S. W. Fol sbm of Darlington, S. C. Death. ? telegram, was received Friday .announcing -the death at his home in kingstree of State Senator Hugh Mc Cutclien.; He is survived by his wife and a large family connection in Sum ter, Lee and Wiliamsburg counties He is a brother of Cupt. W. L.Mc Cutchen. of this city. Mr. McCutchc.r was well known throughout the State, especially in agricultural and banVir? rirc^l^ He. was prominently connec ted .with various enterprises in Wil liamsburg county, but gave the great er part of his time to the Wee Nee Bank'of Kihgstree, of which he was president The funeral was held at Kingstree at npon Saturday. . Gin Company Chartered Columbia, May 3?The Co-operative Gin Co.. of Sumter, has "been chart ered, with $10,000 capti?l. M. J. Sanders is president: E., W. Williams is vice president: M. J. Frederick is secretary, and Ely Johnson is treas urer. The Bishopville Ginning and Trad ing Co. of Bishopville. to do a general ginning and cotton seed business, has been chartered, with $25,000 capital. x T). C. Stuckey is president: V. M. Du ) rant is business manager and R. W. / McCutchen is secretary and treasurer. The City Police department took in to custody yesterday, a white man by the. name of R. D. McDonald, who is wanted in Bichmond, Va? for steal ing an aritpmobiTe. McDonald is being hfld here waiting orders ^from Rich mond, LAUGHED AT REAL HEROISM Soldier Inatett Authorities Conferred 0eeoratio*> for Deed That Was Merely Second Kate. He bad come back with the croix de guerre, but he would not talk about how lie "won it Of course his family and friends knew the formal citation, but tfcey wanted him to tell them the details, and "he modestly and persist ently evaded them. ?1 think it's simpTy silly," declared an irate cousin In her teens. "What's j the use of ducking and dodging, and I pretending you're not a hero, when you know perfectly well you arc?" The worm turned. "Yes, of cotfrse I know I am," he assented coolly. "The trouble fa, they didn't give me my cross for the right thing. Do yon ex pect a fellow to talkaabout his heroism when he gets a decoration for doing what lots of othe*. fellows did who weren't lucky enough to be noticed, and then finds the bravest thing he ever did, or ever expects to do, treated lightly or Ignored altogether? At least, I was a hero once.. Before we were ordered abroad, I was invited to lunch eon by my colonel's daughter. Now, yon know I am a country boy from an inland state. It was the first luncheon Td ever attended?and the first time Fd ever been served raw oysters. 1 hate shellfish, and when I saw those *ix, soft, slimy, slithery horrors set be fore me I nearly fainted.' But I didn't know 'Wnether anything much was to follow or; not; and I couldn't decline a main dish under the eye of my hostess. I shuddered with disgust I wasn't "sure they would go down ; 3 feared they might come up. But?1 ate those oysters, all six, and smiled as I ate them! She told me so two years afterward, when I confessed. Now, I call that true heroism. But it wasn't what I got the cross for." "Maybe," said the saucy young thing In her teens, "it's that you're go ing to get the girl for." r \ "No," sighed the unappreciated hero, "she agrees witii the rest of yon and General Mangin. She only laughs at my real claim to glory!"?Youth's Companion. NEW SOURCE OF TURPENTINE Tree in Centra! India to Be Looked To for Supply of Really ' Good Quality. Turpentine oil and rosin are already being produced on a commercial scaie In India by the distillation of pine rosin. A new source of supply which, though comparatively small, may be valuable, especially for Indian use, has now been found in frankincense or ellbanum.. This material is obtained by the natives by making incisions in the stems of Boswellia serrata. a tree widely distributed throughout the dry sone forests of Central India. The resinous substance which exudes from the cuts contains a kind of turpentine, a rosin and a gum. Investigations of the methods of sep arating these constituents in a market able form have been conducted since 1912 by the forest authorities in India In co-operation with the Imperial in stitute, and the results have been pub lished recently In a paper by R. S. Pearsoiu forest economist, and Puran Singh, chemical adviser, at the Forest Research institute, Dehra Dun. The general conclusion reached, based on the results of numerous trials, is that the turpentine oil is equal to good quality Anerican .turpentine oil. Abyssinian Likes American Styles. "I would like to see Abyssinian wom en dress like American women," is a remark credited to Prince Nadoa, the j head of the Abyssinian mission in this ; country. This may be merely a blt'j of oriental flattery or-it may be an Indication of the prince's bravery. It should be remembered, first that the ! sovereign of Abyssinia is a woman, and a d icenda? "f the queen whose ele gance and ^uty of costume dazzled jKfng Solomon's court, and In the next place that in Abyssinia style does not change more than once every thou sand years, and that for that length J of time the life of a man is free from ? all pecuniary worries incident to S changing fashions and new dresses. \ Without any intention of forecasting.! trouble for the prince, it might be | suggested that if this story should j precede him he will have some ex- ! planations to make either to the queen or to the husbands and fathers of j Abyssinia. Faith in Adversity. Joe Fountain of Bootjack, Mich., j was willing to plead guilty in court to the charge of making liquor, having >. a private still in his home. Proseeut- I ing Attorney Lucas told the court that j he tried to get a promise of reTorma- j tion from. Joe, a promise at least that ; he would refrain from drinking for ? the remainder of his life. "Not me," was Joe's answer. "It might get wet again." As Joe's Infraction Included only making a little spirits for his own use he was release on payment of the costs.?Daily Mining Gazette. Rather Ominous. Among the presents given to a rural bride was one from an old lady In the neighborhood with whom the bride and the groom were prime favorites. Some years before the old lady had accumulated a number of cardboard mottoes, which she worked and framed as occasion arose. In cheerful bines and reds, suspend ed by n cord of the same colors, over the tfcbie on which the other presents were gathered, hung this mott#: "Fight On; Fight Ever." SINGAPORE TO HAVE TAXIS I Far Eastern City Will Abandon tho Rickshaw, Long Used as Method of Transportation. According to advices from Consul General Edwin N. Gonzales at Singa pore, that city is to have an internal transportation system of thoroughly modern taxi cabs. Whether American automobile man ufacturers will secure the order for these motors is problematical, but the most significant part of the news is that it marks a further development i of the use of modern methods in the far East For several years in Singapore there has been a most consistent and vigorous agitation against tbe insti tution of the well-known rickshaws. Most of this agitation came from the tongue and pen of the educated Chi nese, who maintain that the system of making a horse out of men iis wrong from the standpoint of the degrading influence which it has on the individ uals as well as the harm it is claimed to work upon the coolies. Distances are great in most far Eastern cities, and while the rickshaw makes transportation reasonably con venient and ctWDQfortable, the dekshaw most certainly is a primitive vehicle and .doomed to early abandonment be cause of the rapid advance now be ing made in the industrial and social life of the far East. Tbe new company to" operate in Singapore Is to be officially known as the Singapore Motor Taxicab and Transport company, Ltd., and mill have capital of $350,000. The initial equipment will be made up of 40 fonifaulet taxicabs, five one-ton trucks and five three-quarter ton trucks. Singapore has a population of 300,000. HIGH PRICES FOR DIAMONDS Value of the Highly Desired Sparklers Has Been Soaring to Unheard of Heights. The economic situation of the world at large is said by jewelers to be more Responsible for the present high prices of diamonds than any shortage of diamonds in the South African mines or any manipulation of the out put by the De Beers Diamond com pany. % The following figures concerning dia mond prices were obtained from Ant werp, the European center of tbe dia mond market An uncut diamond be fore the war cost $23 a cara t and $32 after cutting. Immediately after the declaration of war, the price slumped. In 1915 the Germans bega!.a to get nervous regarding the value of paper money and startea buying all the dia monds they couid find. France, Switzerland, Italy and Eng land followed suit and the price went up rapidly. On the eve of the armis tice, an uncut carat diamond was worth $70. Since the war ended, the diamond market has boomed, owing to the depreciation of European money, the difficulty of exchange and the em bargo on the export of currency from one European nation to another. To day a carat of uncut stone finds a ready market at $150. The Antwerp merchants no longer seek customers. The market is swamp ed with buyers. Credit is no longer given. The sales are for cash. The buyer frequently resells and the new purchaser sells again at fat profits. Thus the price keeps going up. Large stones are snapped up at unheard of prices. The Kaiser's Kitchen. In what is destined to be tbe last stage of its travels, the field Mtchen of William Hohenzollern, whl<2h had followed the former Kaiser in all his wanderings about Europe during the war, is on its way to the United States. As if to give the changing of hands a more significant aspect, Ger man prisoners of war were requisi tioned -to iocjd the field kitchen?with all its. elaborate accessories?aboard the westbound transport at St Na zaire. The portable "kochenhaus" shows no sign of the wear and tear of war. indicating a certain remoteness (o the battle front of all connected with the once imperial suite. The trophy, it is intended, shall be added to a notable collection of war relics at the American capital; whether it is to be utilized in the ways approved by the farmer kaiser is, of course, an other matter. Dreadful Threat. "Late rgain!" cried th? irate mov ing picture director to ine members of his company. "Do you actors think that you can stroll into the studio at half-past ten every morning and get i away with it? This isn't a national I bauk. But, by humphrey, I'll get even ' vcitli you! Tomorrow we start filming ! that Alpine drama with the fog and .cloud efforts. Report, at the old quar ? ry at 4 :P,0 a. m. You are all going i to be shot, at sunrise every morning I for a week." Being shot at sunrise ! is harder hardship for a movie actor ; than it is for a prisoner of war.?Film j bun. j Knew Something About Mothers. Ralph went to visit a neighbor's I little boy. While there another boy I came to play also; but he was some I 'hing of a bully jmd Ralph did not likV I him. When he reached home he told , his mother some of the mean things j the boy had said and done. "He was I so disagreeable I am sure nobody could I iike blj::," iie said. Then alter a mo , meets meditation he looked up into h$r firti and added: "I suppose, though, his mother loves him, no mat 1 ttr how bad he is," Rural School Reclaimers Contset There will be zio Field Day for th< schools of Sumter County this year. The letter which follows gives the de cision of the teachers, and their rea sons for thinking it best not to at tempt what, for nine years, has been a great event with the schools of the county. ! The rural school declaimers' ccn | Lest is expected to be a big event, and J everybody in the county is invited io he present. This event will be in a way a substitution for the Field Day hut will take scarcely any time from the school work. ? The County Board of Education :s pleased wich the idea of this contest and feels that it will do good. Many of the teachers have shown their in terest by sending in the names, of con testants, who will cause the walls cf the opera house to resound with their oratdry. A letter from Mr. Davis D. Moise explains where the money for the prizes and expense -comes. All who have heard of Mr. Moise's gen- i erosity in such a liberal donation commend him for helping the schools, which mean that the children of the 5 jeounty will have an interesting and profitable event. Another donator in this event is Mr..W. I. Whitehead. Mr. Whitehead j offers a talking machine to the de-j claimer who makes the very best rec ord in all the divisions of the contest.; This is to be a school prize, and to be! kept by the school, the/honor resting! up<|n the winner. Everybody should remember the | ] date. May 7th. at the opera, house.' and the time 4 o'clock in the after noon, and 8 at night. Mr. Ilyttcn berg gives the opera house free of charge. This is highly appreciated. Mr. J. Herbert Haynsworth, County Supterindent of Education, City. Dear Sir:? At the last session of the General As sembly the members saw fit to pass a joint resolution providing additional compensation of $100 for each mem ber. I was opposed to this because I considered this contrary to the spiv it and the letter of the Constitution of the State, Section 19, of Article III, j providing that no General Assembly j shall have the power to increase the per diem of its own members. I am n?>w in n.-oeipi of a voucher for the sum. which 1 do not fe i thdi I arn entitled to. However, without in any way attempting to criticize any member. I understand that some of them expect to accept this money, and as a portion of this money is de rived from taxation from the citizen.' jof this county, it occurred to me that Ithe best disposition to make of this j matter would be to put this money ti> j some public uto for the benefit of th? ? people of this county, j I have, therefore, decided ? ?> turn ! this money over to you as County i Superintendent of Education co i?e ! used' at the next Field Day for the ! school children of the county, either ! toward the expense of the occasion, j or for prizes, as may be determined I by the teachers of the schools. ? j I beg to enclose herein my vouche duly endorsed to you for the abcv? purpose, Yours truly, David D; Moise. To The Teachers of Sumter County Greeting:? At the regular meeting of the eouh ly teachers' association, Marirh 27th it was decided not to have the usuai Field Day. This decision was madvj because of loss of time in many of th? schools on account of influenza, mak ing it difficult to arrange for am carry out an attractive prograos nith ??in interfering with the regula school work. F'.r some time we hav3 wanted t? get up a declaimers' contest. As tht teachers' association had decided no"; to have the regular Field Day tht matter of the declaimers contest war eonsider^d and passed upon favorably.' as this contest would, in a measure, take the place of Field Day and take but little time from th-2 ordinary school work. * The teachers arc urged to considei the rules, governing the contest and where possible, to send contestants The following are the rules govern ing the rural school declahners con test, as adopted by the county teach ers' association: 1. Contest to be held at Sumter Friday, May 7th. at opera house, with ; two main divisions, namely: Inter mediate and high school departments 2. In the intermediate contest ?'f? 0 and 7 grades) there shart Ho two di- ? visions, one for &rin and one for toys , The intermedi?re contest will b< fctud at the opera house at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, ywith the girls* divi ; s;oij first. The boVs" diviston will ;m mediately follow that of the gins. 3. In the High Schoo; contest (5 9 and 10. grades) there shall be tw. divisions, one for ^irls and one foi boys. This contest will be held in th< fpera house at S ?ijj'o.'Sk in the eve . .r-ir. with the gvis' division first followed by the boys. 4. Not but one may enter each di vision of the contest from any on< schooi. (Four in all from on< school). . 5. There shall be a first prize g $10 and a second prize of $5 offeree in each of the two divisions for th girls, and the same in each of the tw? divisions for the boys. 1 <;. A talking machine wilT be give to the school, ;is a school prize, whicl makes the highest r-ccri in any on ' of all the contests. (Ir other words the best speaker in the whole contest - 7. Teachers are requested to notif. Mr. C. S. Hutchinson, chairman, of th committee on arrangements, as t< > contests the school expects to enter and give names of contestants as soo; thereafter as possible, so that ade : quatc arrangements may be made. 8. Contestants shall be at place o contest at least 30 minutes before con test begins, in order to register an receive their order numbers. J. H. Haynsworth. Co. Supt. Educatior ' C. S. Hutchinson, '_r jghni. of . Committee., Howard Payne's Gre?t-Softg. The song "Home Sweet #ome* wai vritten by John Howard Payne, a?d >vas Introduced by him'into'the jjtifc ?Clari, the Haid of Milan," which w& ater changed into opera. At the time >f the writing of this lyric, Payne was almost starving in ah attic in Palais? royal, Paris. Most authorities agree that the music of the song is a Sicilian air. adapted by Sir Henry Bowlfcy. Bishop. \_^3 Many Have Felt the Same Way." / Nothing is to. be said in commends ion of the spirit of the man who re cently advertised in a London newspa per : "Loud, second-hand gramophone, wanted for reprisals." Many people, aowever, not only In London but 5n many other towns the world over, ;are ?>nly too familiar with the. clromi >tances which provoked this vengeful md mistaken determination. Such <5r> .?umstances certainly constitute one of he things which will need to be. ^seen o" sooner or later. Crocodile's Record Swim. How far can a crocodile swhs? Pe* . haps it would be more practical te ask how far crocodiles do swim? % Stanley Gardiner claims the record for a crocodile (Orocodilus porosusjp. that recently lantfed in the Fiji ife*7. lands, where he took its photograph. NTo crocodiles of this species h^abit^ the Fiji islands, and the nearest. spot wLere they are known to*-?ve is the .Vew Hebrides, 683 mites distant*: ?Therefore, this CT?cod?e must havt >wam 683 miles In the open sea, _ "' ? ? . \ ''Writer's Cramp." Writer's cramp has been defined &3 a disease of those who do too much writing, especially with the hand two. tightly-cuntracted.' A person withj^is Trouble has not complete control yT-er the muscles of the thumb and mfd^sf and fore fingers, which ai?e brought Into use in writing. The vm'lons*meih* ods of treatment used so. far brv^not proved altogether successful. 4^^|: the methods used are suTglcaJ.opgja* rtons and application of electric^ ?i Woman's Brainiest A^a?,xo'x ? % A woman's brnin reaches fte-.great? est weight about the age of twenty*' five, while in the case of a man.*rnb! does not occur until ten ye?r^'lafferv This explains the assertion tB& vUr woman at the age of twenry-one^S?%} a better position to give a nmtfcre&;. judgment than a man at the same age*.. Light Waves' Pressuro. By the use of. delicate apparatus vhich he invented a Russian scientist ??s demonstrated that light waves ex ?rt a measureable mechanical pres* mre. .... .. - ....^ ?, addition to RSETS will Fair Sil gette and Crepe De Chine PENING THURSDAY, MAY 6th set and Hat 112 South Main Street, Sumter, S. C? 8