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Entered at the Postoffiee at Sumter; ; S.'mC., as'See?i?d^ia^'^tter. ?' PERSONAL. Mrs. A. D. Hare, of Buford, S. C, visiting her brother, Mr. H. W. Cut tino, oh Church street Miss Ida Lee Parier, of Eiloree, is visiting her troclb^air. H. W. Cuttino, on Church street Miss Edith , Evans has returned from Richmond,. Va., after a stay of se-??eral weeks. * Mrs. A. L?. Nash, Miss Bessie Nash, > Miss Marie Nash have gone to Char lotte, N C, to attend .the closing ex ercises of the Training School for Nurses from which Miss Blossom Nash will be graduated. Capt J. Roy Pennell, former State: highway engineer, and now Engi-! Oer forj Richiand County, and r Mr. F.i H. Murray, Acting State Highway En- j gireer were, in the city . Friday on biininess. These gentlemen and Mess rs W. 1l Lfce, R. F. McLellan and yformed.the firm of Lee, feennel- and Murray, civil engineers. Mr. lu B. Woodsoh and Mr.. Hal Cla&e left Friday. for Clinton, j to attend the commencement of Pres-; bytexian College.. They are members I of the -senior class and will receiv^ their diplomas. .Mrs. T. H. Clarke has gone to Clin ton to attend the cohamencement of Presbyterian College. -I Mr. J. M. Blanding, of ' Corsicana, TeisaS, is here visiting his brother Mr. Misses Janet White*' Dorothy Burns, irttta Felder, Eva v Chandler; Mary Blanding, Elizabeth . Osteen, Mary \ Knight, Eleanor Wallace, and Dorita ? Moise returned yesterday from Win throp College. D. M. Blanding.' Mr. Blanding has' made his home, in Texas for more,than forty years and has been a frequent visitor to his boyhood home, his last visit haying been fifteen years ago. i. Miss Marion knight is at Home from Faijsofren College where she was graduated this week. Mrs. Haman, of Vaideh/Miss., is vis?ttfgglrer nephew, Mr. W. B. Up shur. Mr. I^Smith, of Charlotte, N. C, is spending a few days in town.' Mrs.Js. C McKeown and children ;are voting Mrs. R. M. Warren on Oakland Avenue. Mr. knd Mrs. M. R. Jackson of Co lumbia^ S. C, MVs. M. D. Jackson 6% Savannah, Ga.. and Miss Maud Beal of j Charlesion, S. C, are the guests off; Mrs. Hj W. Mitchum of this city. Miss; Eva Keller has returned to j Sumtei: af ter a stay of several months'; at her- former home in Pennsylvania- i Her friends are delighted that she will j again make her home in Sumter. Mrsfs. H. Edmunds is attending th$ j commencement of Presbyterian Col-i lege at Clinton. Mrs* Nina Solomons left Sunday | night for? a visit to her son, Alva, at | Aniapolis. After he leaves for a three i months cruise she; will visit relatives' in [Philadelphia and Greenwich, Conn. Mr.'J^Harby Moses of ?r?ngeburg Ss in the city for several days', stay. Rev^C W.. Brown has returned from Battle Creek, Mich., where he has spent the past month. Fovrer Addresses Large Audience I -? \ Jack Power has every cause to be j proud of the audience that was pre- ; sent at the opera- house Sunday night. to hear him- deliver his address on ^The Slacker in Civil Life," The house was crowded, many being forced to occupy seats, in the gallery; and throughout his disccurse, all pre sent igave him closest attention. Jack's arraignment of Gasoline Aristocrats, and* ^Benzine. Christians ihet^fae hearty approval of the audi ence;;- and when he mentioned. "Ma chined Gunned*' dancing, begging the \ women to "Button Up" and hunt the cover, his hearers did not fail to show theirt;;eTi<iorsemexit-. fie /also took a shot at what he termed the most damnable curse today to the homes ot*H$r land: "'The Joy Riders;" and presented a humorous ?lustratiQn of ? big? hawk carrying a tender young chicken to her destruction, but that the ^chicken'* did-?not care because f&e was a-ridii:'. Power spoke in highly compliment ary Jterms of Sumter. and declared that'.'itjb^p moral conditions here sur passed that of any city of his knowl edge. . ' He; took a shot at venders of lemori extract and other rotten concoctions, and warned his hearers to be cautions ahd Stop stich dirty practices 'ere they got. in the clutches of ye Uncle Sammy, then it will be too late. Power was introduced 'by Dr. Mc Leod, presiding eld?ir, who spoke high ly of Jack and recite ' a humorous in cident when he &nd Jack composed the battery of Wofford College, and were playing a team of deaf mutes. Jack has promised to try and ar range to return later and talk to men only on his hobby. "The Naked Truth, or Vices Peculiar to Men.": Come back Jack. Jack's friends here presented hinV with a handsome walking cahe Sat urday night. The indications are that Sumter Crounty will have a short tobacco crop this year, the acreage being much l>ess ?than last. The corn acreage is also ?materially less than for several years, and unless much late corn is planted there will o<- a shortage of corn for home consumption next year. With jth? certainty of considerable damage from .the boll weevil, reducing the cot iton crop, the outlook for a continu ance of the abounding prosperity of the last two years is not propitious. Now is the time to catch and kill the prospective ancestors of the mil lions of boll weevils that will" destroy several million dollars worth of ?um ter county cotton in July, August and September, if they are given a free hand. The weevils are foiind in the huds of the youmr rtotton at this sea son, Later they will devote all their ?ttofltion to "the squares anu blossoms. MtJSiCJ CLUB MEM* BERS, ATTENTION! Mr. Maurice Bfatteson In Song Recital The Woman's .Iftoivjooa Music Club will hpld their animal open meeting or "guest night" next Thursday eve ning at 8:'J(?-p. n at th? residence rf Mrs. John Lee. Each member ^has the privilege of inviting one guest, and are expect ed to noitfy the hotess if they will be present. A rare treat is in store for Sumter Music lovers, as the*club pre sents Mr. Maurice Matteson in song recital with Miss Chritzberg assisting, and Miss Lofton at the piano. Mr. Matteson possesses-a baritone voice of wide range and power. He was formerly a member of the Chica go Grand Opera Co., but at present has a studio, of music in Columbia [ Where he is a very, successful teacher. The officers of the- Music Cbrb are desirohs of making. this < a notable event by presenting a full membership to our talented guests. ";>?'.> ^The program below contains a well balanced-and interesting list of songs: ? i. (a) Where'er Ten Walk?Han del. (b> Morning Hymn?Henschel. <c) The Cave?Schneider. (d) Saf. saf susa?Sebelius. (e) My Lagan Love?Harty (f) The- Spirit-Flower?Campbell Tipton 2. The ; Prologue?Leconcavallo.. From Pagliacci. 3. (a) Alierseellen; (b) X>er Nacht; :(c) Nichts?Richard Strauss. (d) xL'Heure exquise?3iahn. (e) Two Bergerettes?Arr. by Wec kerlin. . 4. (a) Serenade?Sibella <b) TlmevEnough?Nevin {c) Saeranaent?MaeDersaid, - , (d) D?na?McGill. (e,) Up from Somerset?Sanderson. (d) Little Mother of , Mine?Bur Ieigh. (e) I've Got a Six-pence?Whit ney" ' -- ? ' ' ' % \ FORD TRUCK RUNS AMUCK __________ A Ford truck, belonging to Mr. George Epperson,' evidently thought that a mule was not the only - thing ithaX.could wander around our streets, ?fco this morning it started off across the Court House lawn on a journey all its own. After moving . hither and thither^ its wanderings were brought to a sudden stop when it crashed into the door of one of the offices on Law Range. It was not learned what was the legal advice it was seeking, as it was inanimate, cold, lifeless, when it was reached, but it is thought it was seeking advice as to ; what per cent of alcohol it could take in its radiator and still be within the law. The trouble started when the chauffeur cranked the car while it was in gear. No one was hurt and little 'damage was done except to the door of the office. SOOfER IS HERE And With it Comes Sunday Excursion Fares to Charleston". ' The above announcement will be gratifying to many who annually take advantage many times during the summer of the convenient schedules and Tow excursion fares offered by the Atlantic Coast Line to visit the sea shore on Sundays, This season these excursions begii: on Sunday. June fi. and continue every Snhday until September 5, inclusive. The excursion fare from Sumter will be $2.20 to Charleston and return, and corresponding excursion fares will be made from a large number of other points. The "train will leave here 6:55 a. m. and reach Charleston 10:15 a. m. Re turning it will leave Charleston S:20 p. m. and reach here 11:50 p. m. Cbm prehehsive schedules will appear in the advertising columns of the Watch man and Southron in due course. In the meantime Mr. Player, the ticket agent, will give any further informa tion desired regarding these Sunday schedules and fares; also full particu lars regarding long limit summer ex cursion fares to the seashore, lake and, mountain resorts throughout the coun try^'. ? 1 ? : ; ? . Married. Miss Annie Louise Rich, of Man ning. S. C. and Mr. Robert FIcetwood DuBose, of Sumter, were married at the parsonage of the First Baptist church, by Rev. W. E. Thayer, at 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning. The price of newsprint paper con-! tinucs to advance, paper brokers and mill representatives demanding this week 14 % cents per pound, f. o. b. the' mill for immediate acceptance, for future delivery. Some of the spec ulators who have a supply cornered are demanding 1?; to 17 cents per pound for paper for prompt deliv ery. If these prices continue the news papers will have to double both their subscription and advertising rates if they hope to continue in ubsiness. The average price of newsprint before the war was 2 cents per pound f. o. b. the anilis. and after the mills began to ad vance prices during the war the gov ernment fixed 3 3-4 as a fair price and required them to sell at that price. Ben David, for nearly 50 years a well known figure in Columbia, died at the Baptist hospital in Columbia on Wednesday morning after an illneis of six weeks. Mr. David at o?ie time conducted a restaurant winch was the gathering place of legislators and oth er prominent people He retired some years ago after being associated with j the Palmetto restaurant. Rev. Gypsy Smith. Jr.. the well known evangelist has been conduct ing a series of meetings- in Greenville. The meeting has just closed and has been very successful. Rev. Smith will hold a meeting in Laurens in J une. DRUG OF MARVELOUS POWER Bayard Taylor's Description of Sens*; tlons Under the Influence of Hashish Is a Classic * Hashish may be reckoned .one of the most classic of all intoxicants. Herodotus, the "Father of History" 'speaks of its use among the ancient Scythians, and it was doubtless the drug referred to by Homer as "the assuager of grief ? in the house of j Mene'aus. Bayard Taylor's account of his sensations on first taking it at Damascus Is memorabler--It put him in a state of mental exaltation where in all sensations, as they arose sug gested more or less coherent images In a double form, one physical, the other spiritual, and the latter reveal ing itself in a series of indescribably i brilliant metaphors. A few minutes j after taking the drug he found him- \ self at the foot of the Great Pyramid, j A wish Instantly transported him to ! Its summit*, far above the palm groves and wheat fields of Egypt Then, look ing down, he observed that the pyra mid, was not built of stone, but of gi- j gantic blocks of "plug* tobacco! For j a moment he writhed in a perfect par- j oxysm of laughter at this ludicrous discovery. Then his senses were rav ished with "Selicious perfumes, and , there came to his ears divine melodies and harmonies such as Beethoven might have dreamed. Time and space seemed vastly extended, so that a min ute seemed an" hour and an hour a year, while his friends in the same room with him seemed miles away, as though he were viewing them through a .reversed telescope.. ANIMALS POINT OUT RICHES Innumerable Instances Where Pros pectors Have Been Aided in Search for Earth's Treasures. A very large gold nugget Is said to have been found the other day in a wild bee's nest In Australia. The story seems likely enough, for Australia has yielded all the really monster nuggets to date?the "Welcome" ? weighed 2,195 troy ounces and was valued at $43,500?and one of the biggest was discovered by a prospector who stubbed his toe against a projecting angle of it. " - On the Wind river Indian reserva tion,, in Wyoming prospectors look for | grains of gold-brought to the surface of the ground by ants. And in Ari zona anthills are a common source of excellent garnets which are fetched to the surface by the industri ous insects. During the war. we had grievous j need of antimony to harden shrapne1 bullets. The latter are of lead, but j require the addition of 15 per cent of j antimony to enable tmwn to hold j their shape when the containing shell explodes. Accordingly, the government sent out experts to look for deposits of the. metal, and the most productive antimony mine that *ve now have in this country was located by the help of a badger, earth thrown out of the creature's burrow showing a glint of j the preaous stuff. TNT Wins Contest With Dynamite. A contest was recently staged be tween 40 per cent dynamite and trini trotoluene, and the latter won, says the Scientific American. Two con crete piers had to be blasted-out and this gave an opportunity for a com parative test of the two explosives, with the result that 14.9 cubic feet of concrete were removed per pound of TNT, and only 14.1 per pound of { dynamite. TNT is no doubt destined to be used extensively in engineering work, as It Is less sensitive than dynamite, but greater precautions must be taken to ventilate after a shot, owing to the large* amount of carbon monoxide which 1? one of the prinzipal products of combustion. y More Than Waster of Languages. Wilfred Stevens, one of the chief translators of -the state department at Washington, speaks 33 Iangauges, | although he has never been outside | of the United Slates and has never been to college. One of the lan guages is an invention of his own, which he says is an improvement over Esperanto. Among his list of lan guages are Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Arabian, Bulga rian, Croatian, Russian, German, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian, Yiddish. Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, Ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Polish and Roumanian. He has also mastered three so-called j universal languages?Esperantor Ido j and Ufono, the latter, his own Idea.? i Detroit News. I For Repairing Punctured Hulfa, The cement for repairing apertures j in submerged ships of a Cardiff pat- i entee consists of five parts by weight of crude rubber dissolved in naphtha, i three of rosin, two of white lead, nine j of coal pitch, and one-fourth part of j shellac. The heated mixture Is used ; for cementing metal surfaces and may be applied to cloth to form an adhe sive patch. The material' may be thinned with naphtha, wheu it is suit able for paint Placing Blame Where It Belongs. j "H'm, h'm!" grumbled Farmer Horn- ] beak, gazing down the rows. "So that's the way you planted the corn, oh?; Looks like you were staggering full i of hard cider when you done it!" j "Aw, them rows was straight when I j plants^ Vra," doggedly replied the! hired man. ?The hot sun has warpecl >?; thafi gll."?Kansas City star. I j Pfft BELOVED BY SAINTS I Dr. Douglas Hyde, In Series ?f Lec tures, Deals Interestingly With Medieval Irish Lore. Dr. Douglas Hyde recently delivered i a series of lectures?the Margaret I Stokes lectures?in the Alexandra col ! 'lege, Dublin, dealing with medieval t Irish lore. He told anecdotes about the Irish saints and their love of birds and beasts. He traced the love of ani mals by people in different periods and in different countries. Even the Irish pagans had their pet animals, says Our Dumb Animals. He took the three Irish saints, St. Patrick, St Brigid and St Columcille, and spoke of their affection for their pet animals. St Patrick's kindness to the fawn was well authenticated, and the fawn returned the love to his mas ter. St. Brigid had her pet dog, a most fal'.hful animal. She also loved .birds, and the birds, especially domestic fowls, loved her in a remarkable man ner. The crane was St Columcille's pet although his love for dumb animals surpassed that of the other saints. It was recorded in the life of the saint that dumb animals, too, were in love with him, especially birds, and that some of the latter followed him from Ireland to the island of Iona. There was, in proof of the love of animals for the saint, the story of how the liorse wept on the bosom of the saint the night before he died. Dr. 5yde mentioned a large number of other saints, Irish and Latin, about whom- hftftohL stories, showing:.the?i Iove for animals, making special refer ence to St. Kevin, St Comgall, St. .Molna, St Moling, who had made* friends of wolves, foxes, partridges and herons. MANY KINDS, ?ND ALL GOOD That Would Seem to Be the. Verdict of Humanity en the Great Question of Pies. . They were talking about pies and discussing which was the best, and, what we gathered from the cheerful controversy, all were the best. The person who stood up for the good old apple pie was just as eloquent In his references to the peach or ppmp knr^pie. In fact, -each" person would hurry through the praise of one kind of pie in order to champion another, which convinced us that of all the varieties-of fof>d in this world the pie -'is the blessedest Sometimes you will find a man who doesn't.eat pie, but watch him. Pie is a remedy for many distempers. We one time cured a ferocious sick head ache with a quarter of mince pie, and that, too, on the advice of a physician. One of the party never heard of a mulberry pie, and what a barren life she must have led. We are through with the cherry pie era and with what Joy it has filled the world! We.c^me to the berry era, and first of all there fs the huckleberry pie, which berry has rescued from sunshine and soil all the grace of the earth. If a man- does not like a huckleberry pie, it is be cause the pie or himself has5 not been well made. The black raspberry pie fcrands away up on the snowy peaks of perfection and for picnic purposes it is unparalleled. When we-eat raspberry pie in the woods; we feel that the Dryads are feeding us from their lily white hands. . There are other glorious pies, of course, but we must have room to say that the glory of a pie is in the grace and charm of the cook. The pastry flepends upon her temper, and the pas try is three-fourths of a pie. If we were going to get married again, we would arrange a pastry-making con test, and the damsel that made the best pastry we would marry?if we could.-^Ohio State Journal. UNABLE TO ANALYZE DRUG Intoxicating Principles of Powerful Narcotic, "Cohoba," Remain a Mystery to Chemists. When Columbus arrived at the is land of Haiti he and his followers were interested to observe a curious ?practice of the natives, who were ac customed on ceremonial occasions to make use of a narcotic snuff produc tive of a sort of hypnotic state, with vision supposed to be supernatural. The tribal wizards, or priests, while under the influence of the drug, were a^'ustonied to hold communication with unseen powers, and their mut tering were construed as prophecies and revelations of hidden things. The snuff was called "cohoba." and, in the form of a fine powder, was in haled through a forked wooden tube, the forks being inserted in the nos trils aj.'i the lower end of the tube buried in a little heap ofj the snr.ff, which was held on a tray of carved wood. Sometimes large snail shells | were used for snuff boxes. The mimosa-like tree from which the snuff is obtained is plentiful along the banks of the Orinoco and the Amazon. It grows in Haiti, Porto Rico and other islands of the Antilles. The seeds yielded by its pods are dried, roasted and ground to powder, which is sometimes mixed with lime from calcined snail shell. Only recently has this tree been identified by "Dr. \V. E. Safford of the government plant bureau 5 as the source of the snuff, the origin of which hufi hitherto been u puzzle. The chemical properties of the drug are still Ol known and so its intoxicating prin ciple re-mains a mystery. WOULD REMAIN 'UNOER COVER' Sergeant Had His Reasons for Not Making at That Time a "Full ?r? \ Free Confession." - An American colonel In France was having difficulty with his safe. It was ?the headquarters safe. Its lock had jammed, and none of his staff conld open it. While they were struggling with it a negro sergeant came up to them apologetically. "Cul'hl," he said, "if I ain'telntrud tn* Into dis heah <_imckulty, I believes, sah, dat I might he'p yah." "Yes?" said the colonel. "What do yon suggest?" '^?ul'n'l," said the sergeant, 'T sug gests Co'p'l Hall." ''Corporal Hall? Why ? Corporal Hajl?" "Co'p'l Hall," the sergeant explain ed, under his voice, "was fo' foah years j a bugglah." I They sent for Corporal Hall and! I Corporal Hall opened the safe. "Well, sergeant," the colonel said, ; "I'm glad to know about Corporal HalL ; I wish I'd known it sooner. It would j have saved us a lot of time with that safe. And tell me, sergeant!?in case we may need to call on you some day ?In what direction do your particular | ! talents lie?" "CuFn'l," the sergeant answered,; ! "Ah dban' want to tell no lies. Stand-1 in' as Ah does daily in de presence of j mah Makeh, mos'- doubtless Ah dpan' j want to tell n? lies. But if de time j comes when Ah kin he'p yah, sah, .{ Ah'll make a full an' free confession, \ a full an' free confession, sah."~-_5eii B. Lindsey in the Cosmopolitan Maga zine I DEATH OF A FAMOUS DUCK Peggy of Rouen, N. JH Laid 325 Egg? in a Single Year, and Was Easily World's Champion. The death of Peggy, the famous duck of Rouen, New Jersey, comes as a reminder to us that we would do well to follow the principles which guided the life of this excellent bird. Peggy was celebrated In two hemis? I pheres as the champion egglayer of the I world, the New York Evening Post j states. Peggy, in one year laid as many as 325 eggs. Yet,, celebrated as j she was, noted wherever eggs were laid \ ' or scrambled, head of her gloriocs pro fession, what was her attitude after j I we entered the war? Did she rush into print, airing her opinion as to what; the president ought to do? Not at all.*} Despite numerous tempting offers from j fowl fashions andr other magazines, she refrained from utterance and con tinued contributing her daily drop to national victory. Even when the Ger mans opened their* recent peace drive Peggy did not turn hysterical and de mand that they at once surrender all the Strassburg geese. She, still in. si lence,' went on with her lay. It is re lated of her that on the morning of her ! demise she quietly produced an egg,! and, indicating her satisfaction with a feeble quack, keeled over and ex- j pired. - k Tanks Like a Deck of Cards. . In the open stretch, beyond the last fringe of wood, we struck the field I I where the American tanks attacked the Huns on flank and rear aad fin ished the battle of Argonne . wood, Elizabeth Frazer writes in the Satur day Evening Post Later we saw a complete outfit of these grotesque monsters go walloping across a shell torn field. Their insignia were the characters on a deck of cards, and they always followed suit. Thus an | ace of spades was always followed by the king of spades, the king "by. his spouse; and so on down to the tray. As we passed, the knave of hearts thrust forth a grinning face from his round armored little turret and waved j a grimy paw. Close on his tail wag gishly tangoed the ten spot. It was like some mad sfcene In "Alice in Won | derlan'd." Grim Jest Pathetic. Was Poe's tale "Toe Masque of t>e Red Death" prophetic? His story was that on the stroke of midnight a tall, red-gowned figure revealed itself amid revelers as Death by Plague. A counterpart from real life. Is re ported from Cowestryj Wales. It is the report of a masquerade ball, at which one of the masked celebrators simulated Death, In a black robe and wltH hollow eye-sockets. There were 140 dancers at the ball, j Of rliis number, 122 are now suffering! from influenza. Twelve are already! dead, including the death masker. \ Italy's Exports. Italian motor car exports showed a falling off for the first six months of 1918, compared with the correspond ing period of the two preceding years. From January 1 to June 30, 1918, a total of 2,356 lorries and touring cars were exported,.having a value of ap proximately ?1,400,000, compared with 4,148 vehicles in 1917 and 2,731 in 1936. The number of touring cars exported during the first six months of 191S was 72S. this constituting a i record, for the figures. of. the two pre ceding years were 244 and 569, re spectively. ' It's True in Terre Haute. ~ The other day a primary teacher In , the Terre Haute schools was teaching her youngsters about animals. She ! had told them about domestic animals and then gave examples of the cow and the pig. Then she turned to the children. "Can't some little boy name j some v*".<i animals?" she asked. John could. He rose With alacrity. "Ghosts and Indians !n he shouted. Garner's Ferry-I?^ge:' A^?itp; ??' '?--?'?^HHB Tt.is ^ate/V locally, that", they^' i 'thing t hat...canjw^gfit.', tftfcc tion of the Garner's'Ferry _ ?svranip causeway is the" vef vsaX Richland county o'fficials. to meefr^W^ proposition of the Sumter -^unty^ Board of Commissioners.. If thi3^piSn?^ is carried out Sumter county, will he0 committed to the expenditure of/.^^-.''i 500 for the bridge and $25,000 for'r&a^ causeway, and as much more^??'it|?^ project may ultimately cost, fOrCtho' amounts above named are only i?aft^i preliminary estimates of the engftt^rS;'-; It does not seem that any project-"of' such magnitude sHbrild be und? by the Board of Commissioners, pecially when the Board is divide three to two. as to the wisdom or ^Ip^ essity of-the undertaking at this without giving the citizens of the ty an opportunity to express an ?pin-\ ion on the matter. %he diyersioa^^ sixty to one hundred thousand dbnaw.-;.: of road ?*uuds to the opening of/^avA single link in a'State-wide highWay,^ at.a time when the important, and.to;... the citizens of ""various sections of the' county, absolutely^; essential public roads, not incl?ded^m the proposed^ system of hard snrface highways, 'are .; in urgent need of improvements j%o~. make them passable in all^ weathe'rU?; Besides there are. several hundred icjd ' wooden bridges that should be rep^a* ced ac the earliest possible day. witb^; concrete structures, and the inon^^ that it' is proposed to divert from or dinary road improvement to this ei tirely new project, which as a ma?f of fact, should be built by the highway .Commission, with State Federal funds, and not by the coun ties could'be used for bridge bu^?^^ within the county to the immediate and lasting benefit to the taxpayers^ of the county. The County Board of Commissi? ers may have the ?trictly right'to use county road improveh? and maintenance funds to. biiitd^/ bridge and causeway at Garner's i%i ry, but whether or not they havi right to so use the funds without suiting the people of the' county^\ open to question. At least two of.' five 'commissioners are"on recordj ; being of the opinion that the fuhc could be used to better purpose where. - Ford Car Smashed A Ford car owned- by the " River Cypress Lumber Co., Of Gabife;^1 Clarendon county, was wrecked at.the*".. A. C. L. crossing on E. liberty. St Fir-vi day night by beink struck by the 9:SO. train. The car was driven by a negro employe of the company who aban- ? doned it when i; sot'stalled ort the*, track just ahead of the mcOming train.-i The car was completely wreoked v, and" the engineer stopped the trainvit?^; mediately after the collision and the.^ whole train crew and many of the sengers got off arid searched, the viein-'; ity of the . wreck for the-passengers^. whom they expected to find scattered over the surrounding territory. The accident Was due to a .. flat &ro which caused the car to turn up theK track facing the train instead of lowing the road and getting The driver and his companion did stop to save the car; birt -w^nt' a^afiay [from there with a?. . speed poWfcie*; ! leaving the Ford to finish the' arguV mrtr.t with the locomotive. Bridge Party Mrs. W. R. Phillips was the hostess 4 on Wednesday to tke Afternoon Bridge Club. The rooms -were attract ive with lovely baskets and bewls of Dorothy Perkins roses which shed their fragrance everywhere. After "a number of excitirrg games Mrst jff.^ M. Platt was awarded the prize, a'daSnty fan, ajid Mrs. Wilson Greene drew the consolation, a lovely basket filled with roses. Following the games.' a salad -course, with ice tea was- served Those present were: Ivf i-s. A. J. Eynum, Mrs., Liibe Dorn, Mrs. 3. H. Morse. Mrs. C. B.' Yeadon^' Mrs. H. K. Bull. Mrs'. Warren Moise, Mrs. Wilson Green, Mrs. C. J. Dwyer, Mrs. -Edward Martin. Mrs. Wraneisl i Bultman, Mrs. Fleming, Mrs. Henry Witherspoon^ Mrs. Leon Scott, Mrs. .;H. M. Crwosoh^Mrs. ?.. Hog er, 'Mrs. Warren Moise, Mrs/C^ P . EX> urn, Mrs. Gutbrfc; Mrs. C. L. jStubbs, Mrs. McWillie- Boykih, Mrs. M." M. Platt, Mrsi W. Hi' Harmon and -Misav Theo-Gregg. ' . ?? * , :. " HUNGARY TO Sf?NTREATY Budapest. May 29?Foreign Minister Teleky leaves .tomorrow for Parts to sign the peace treaty. RESULTS TELL. There Can be ---No Doubt About Tie Results in Samt er. * - Results tell the tale. All doubt is removed. The testimony of a Sumter , citizen Can be easily investigated. What better proof can be had? J. R. Wingate, blacksmith, 6 S?m ter St. says: '"S?ine tlns? ago I was troubled with my kidneys:, My* back ached and terrible headaches came on. I thought my head would split, ] the pains were . so had. My nerves were all unstrung and I often couldn't work. Dizzy speils bothered me a g:ood deal and I always felt tired and languid. My kidneys bothered m? at night and I had tfr get up five or sit times to pass the secretions, which were scanty. ' Doan's Kidney Pills : were highly recommended, so T bought some and used them. I tell you. it certainly was great relief :that I secured in a short time and Anally [ was entirely cured." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a, kidney remedy gfet Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mr. Wingate had. Foster-A?iburn Co., Mfsris., P?#alo, ^ Advt n