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Watchman and Southron ?ablished Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Publishing Company, >Suniter, S. C. Terms: $2.00 per annum?hi advance. A Advertisements: One-'Square, first insertion ..$1.00 . l? very subsequent insertion __ .50 CoKtract? for ' three ' months or vipnger ?il! be made at reduced rat*. Alt commuhioations which sub serve private interests will _>e ^charged for advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re s->eeL y'iH be charged for. y The Sunv.e'r Watchman was gourde-: in l^ti) and the True Soiithre^ 'in 1366. The Watchman and Southron now has the com hiriod circulation and influence of hcth of the old papers, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. I . WHAT A BOY IS WORTH. Perhaps boys have not been ful ly appreciated at their economic upvalue. A Chicago man estimates that it costs $5,500 to bring a boy to the age of 12 years. The Rochester (N. T.) Democrat thinks that the av r erage father will not consider this estimate too low. The cost of rear ing a representative American child can hardly be under $500 a year. Parents in ordinarily com fortable circumstances are pretty sure to find, if they do a little figuring, that it costs them more than that. The head of a family of five that does not live at all pretentiously is accustomed to reckon the expense of his three small children ai $1,000 a year apiece. That takes account not merely of the food, clothing and other^ direct and obvious expenses, but of the fact that a larger house is required where^ there are chil dren, with more expenditure for rent, furniture, household help, etc. it is probably true that a childless couple can live for half as much as that same"couple'could with three children, on the same scale of liv uig. .. .. The newspaper quoted is im pressed by the capital represented by any aggregation of boys, at the ] 'valuation given. Thus a class of 10 boys in Sunday school represents a $35,00^ investment. A Eoy Scout troop of 30 stands for an outlay of $1 ?5,000. A schoolroom full of $bys means close to a quarter of a million dollars. And there need be no sex. discrimination about it. Girls cost mo less; and the way things are going, they may play just ?J7 ?hftg^ffttt; a* part as the boys in the economic world of the'future, - apart" from their inestimable work 1 of motherhood. This may be a rather material istic way of looking at childhood, h~iL it helps a materialistic age to ?fct its. perspective straight. Take a lot of b?ys playing ball in the cor ner lot. Think of them not as a noisy,. troublesome crowd of youngsters; hut as a quarter of a million dollars, incarnate and ac tive and promising big dividends if oroperly handled^ and it sort of *>*K.ange^ a busy man's attitude to rorard them. Congress, seems to have an ink iing of the principle involved, in its proposal to'raise the income tax exemption for dependents from ?f|#0 apiece t? S400., A fair valua tion of American childhood would * make to?- exemption still larger. MOB LAW. Tut more a law respecting citizen considers the unrestrained activities of the mob or mobs that have been running loose in and around Columbia and between that city and Augusta and Savannah during the past week or ten days the more he marvels ai the supine, do-nothing policy of the State and County officers who are under con tract with the public to enforce tile law and prevent breaches of the peace. These officers, especial ly the Governor and the Sheriffs of Tilie several counties, are specifical ly required, and have taken a sol emn oath, to uphold the peace and dignity of the State and to appre- j ?ten<2 criminals and law breakers of all degrees. Neither the Govern or of South Carolina nor the Sher- J iffs of the several counties in which the mobs*"'have been rampaging, have made the proper effort to dis perse the mobs or to apprehend the Individuals composing the mobs. lAere Is something radically wrong with public sentiment and with the sworn officers of the law when such lawless manifestations are permit ted to pass unchallenged. The spec tacle of masked mobs parading the j highways, holding up and search- j ing trains with the avowed purpose of seizing and killing prisoners, lawfully in the custody of sworn j o.heers of the law. is disgraceful j and intolerable. If a sheriff has no better conception of his duty and : responsibility that he assumed ; \ i: he sub?<"r,'hod to his oath of j OffiCC than to think that he has Iis- j charged his duty when he spends j his energies dodg.ng mobs and j spiriting prisoners from one place to another to avoid ti*e personal humiliation of surrendering his charges or taking the personal risk of resisting The mob, he ia not fit to hold the office. When a sheriff sits tight in a railroad train *nd watches a mob of masked nw? boldly searching for prisoners that he is supposed to have in his cus tody and blantantly proclaiming that they propose to forcibly take the said prisoners from the sheriff, wherever and whenever found, and kill them, it is time for that sheriff to hunt another job. If he cannot see that it is his duty to make an effort to arrest the members of the mob for conspiracy to commit a murder he is not the man for the office. And the Governor: When the law of the State is brazenly violat ed and mobs traverse the State day after day and night after night, and even invade a neighboring State for the purpose of committing murder, it is time?high time?for him to remember that his oath of office requires him to use the pow er of his office to preserve peace, prevent crime and make the au thority of the State respected. The proceedings that have disgraced the State of South Carolina during the past week are inexcusable. The first outbreak may have been con doned, but when the mob was per mitted to go unmolested day after day by no stretch of the imagina tion* is one able, to frame an ex cuse that would be accepted by a rational man. The mob seemed to have the officials of the State and counties intimidated, and all they could think of doing was to dodge around from place to place and let the mob weav itself out. If the Governor of South Caro lina and the Sheriffs of the counties in which the mobs have operated really want to save their faces, they can even at this late day set the machinery of the law in motion to , apprehend and bring to trial in :he courts some of the known mem bers of the mobs. It is stated on reasonably good authority that quite a number of those in the mobs are known to people in Co lumbia and vicinity ? the mob members made no secret of their identity and only masked them selves when searching trains, and a little zeal and backbone in the per formance of duty would bring re sults. But judging from the supine indifference of the officials while the mob was on the rampage, it is too much to expect that anything at all will be done. The mob spirit seems to be the dominant force in some sections of the State and the officials who should enforce the law and sup press mob rule appear to be buf faloed. o ?m ? - COST OP RHINE TROOPS. A well known editorial writer, calling attention to the govern ment's need of economy to make both ends meet, asks: "Could any economy be simpler, easier, more rational, than bring ing American troops back from Europe? "What good are they doing? Germaffy and France both would like to have them stay, perhaps, but tbat doesn't interest the Amer ican tax-payer. He would like to have them come home and stop spending his money." This particular criticism seems to be a good example of chronic Rhinitis. There may be sound reasons, political or sentimental, fo? bringing those troops home, but economy is hardly one of them. There are now only a few thou sand American soldiers on the Rhine. It was stated on the floor of the senate the other day that they are .costing about $1,000,000 a month. A recent war department statement put it at $15,000,000 a year. That is not much, in itself. But the Important point Is that the United States doesn't pay it?Ger many does. ? Thus the maintenance of those troops on the Rhine costs the Unit ed States nothing, whereas if they were brought home the United States would have to support them. It may be objected that Germany has not paid our government any thing yet for such maintenance. But there needn't be any difficulty about that. All the government has to do is to take it out of the several hundred millions of Ger man property seized here during the war, which is still held pend ing settlement. I NBORN' HEIRS. A curious will is that of Judgei Thomas K. Neville of Omaha. He has left property worth $2,000,000 or more, in real estate and good securities, providing that the whole property shall be kept intact until after th?- death of all living heirs. He has three children and seven grandchildren. His great-grand hildren are to divide up the estate, if they want to. He expresses a hope, however, that they will not want to, and that the income from it by that time will be so great that none of them will feel the need of taking a slice out of the principal; The most curious thing about this plan is the fact that the tes tator is jumping over the heads of his living heirs and leaving his j wealth to J eirs yet unborn. Ac cording to any normal point of I view, that amounts almost to leav- j ing it to total strangers. He could know nothing of those heirs, and they will necessarily be only in small part his own blood. A child of the first generation is half his, of the second one-fourth his, and of the third generation, which is to inherit his fortune, only one eighth his. "It is a wise father that knows his own son." He could have no possible way of knowing what sort of people those heirs will be, and how they will use his money. Nothing could have,ac tuated him but an odd pride in the idea of creating a great family es t?te. The estate may grow big, in the 75 years or more during which it is to be held in trust. Estimates run to $100,000,000 and more. That, however, is extremely uncer tain. Nobody knows what eco nomic changes may come, nor how property may be taxed hereafter. Also?and this is possibly a thing that the testator has not fully con sidered?there are likely to be so many heirs by that time that there will be no more for them apiece I than there would be for the pres ent generation. There are seven grandchildren now, and are likely to be several J more. How many grandchildren I I will those grandchildren have? Enough, no doubt, to make short work of whatever political and business evolution and tax-collec tors and trustees and lawyers have left of " that fortune. Judge Ne ville, in trying to control the future with a dead hand, has attempted the unwise and the impossible. ? ? ? TAX REDUCTIONS. Any federal tax reduction, or any decision against putting through a tax increase, is sure to be greeted with cheers. Several things in the program announced recently by the house ways and means committee meet with gener al approval. It is good news that postage is not to be raised, that a new tax is not to be imposed on automobiles, that the "luxury tax" on clothing and certain other things is to be re pealed, tbd.t the income exemptions of heads of families are to be rais ed to $400 for each dependent. Higher postage would have been no great burden to the average cit izen, but it would have been an noying to everybody and a real hardship to many business con cerns that will pay quite enough federal taxes without it. Auto mobiles are already taxed three times?once by the government, in the manufacturer's hands, once a? j personal property, on the local tax J duplicate, and once more in the j state license fee. In every case the I evrner pays. Most of the so-called luxuries taxed by the present law are not luxuries at all, but neces saries. The proposed income exemption raise is probably the most com mendable of all these proposals. If there is to be any exemption of de pendents?and every sound econ omist believes in the principle?a J mere exemption of $200 apiece is absurd. Tne average expense of bringing up a child or maintaining j an adult dependent is certainly more than $200 a year, in income tax-paying families. But it should be observed that the real allow ance is not even $200, but only what the tax would have been on that sum. The normal income tax rate is 4 per cent, so that the actual benefit or rebate allowed for each dependent at present is $s & year. A jump to $lt> a year helps a lit tle. Tackling the revenue bill, Con gress finds out at last what the public has known for a year? how hard it is to raise, money. ? * ? What this country needs right now is some arrangement by which expenses could be met out of what Europe owes us. A big New York candy man says he thinks a rival who has cut j prices In half is "affected l>y the heat." Well, it has been getting pretty hot for confectioners. * ? *t The new taxation plan proposes to increase the burden on medium sized incomes. Same old story. In trade, the middleman makes tlo most, and In taxation the man in the middle pays the most. ? * ? There are still saloons In ships? and that's no joke. Making the Law a Joko. (New3 and Courier, Aug. IS.) Having brought Fox and Cap pins from Georgia, where following their arrest by the officers of that state they had been safeguarded for nearly a week, the South Caro lina authorities appear to have tak en the position that the demands of the situation have been fully met I as long as these prisoners are safe j behind the walls of the Charleston county jail. As soon as the sheriff of Lexing ton county had turned them over to the sheriff of Charleston county he and his deputies took the train for Columbia and they have not been back. To all intents and purposes the Lexington county sheriff ap pears to have washed his hands of the whole business. Why should these men charged with a murder committed in Lex ington county, be kept in jail in Charleston county, nearly 15U miles away? If the authorities of Lexington county are not able to safeguard them in the jail at Lex ington why are they not taken to the state penitentiary at Columbia I and incarcerated there? The obvious answer is that the state authorities have been intimi dated by the threat of armed men in and about Columbia that if these prisoners are brought back to the state capital they will be lynched. This at all events is the way the average citizen interprets the sit uation and in such circumstances it is out of the question to expect the average citizen to have much re spect for the law and the govern ment. Whether there is any real like lihood of an attempt being made to seize these men from the jail in Charleston and lynch them we do not know. Tfhere have been ru mors of the possibility that this would be undertaken, and as a re sult of these rumors the several ru ral policemen of the county have been called from their regular work since Sunday and held most of the time at the county jail and the members of the two military companies of Charleston have been "subject to call." This means that while no formal orders have been issued the officers and members of these companies have been given to understand un officially that their services may be required. Pride in their organiza tions is enough to cause them to be ready in such circumstances to meet a possible call immediately. It is a poor arrangement and one which it would be hard, we think, to defend. If the state authori ties need the militia companies to help put Fox and Gappins in the state* penitentiary they should say so and call them out for that pur pose. No valid reason for expect ing the guardsmen to be ready in definitely to help safeguard these men in the Charleston jail suggests itself. Surely that is not the char acter of service for which these companies exist. This last is only an incident of the situation, though an important one, we think. The main thing is the disrespect for constituted au thority which the public can net fail to entertain when constituted authority. in the language of the Spartanburg Herald, "hides out' from the mob. If the authorities properly re sponsible for the custody of Fox and Gappins are not "hiding out" from the mob what are these men doing in Charleston? It is a serious situation because of the effect it is bound to have upon the attitude or the people to ward the law. In such a situation the seriousminded people of tin state expect that tue governor of the state shall ta&e the measures that are necessary to vindicate the law and prevent it from becoming a joke. Let him act vigorously and effectively and they will back him to the limit. Hut; Government Abdicated? (Columbia State, Aug. IS.) That a mob or mobs have been going about this state and into Georgia with intent to kill the slayers of young Braze 11 seems to be matter of common knowledge. Men have boarded trains and sought prisoners sometimes when a sheriff has been traveling on the train and everybody apparently ad mits that this Is true. The rumors must be true, in whole or in part. It is nonsense to dispute them. Why have not members of these mobs been arrested? Why are they allowed to make the state of South Carolina ridi culous? Why are they permitted to incite Other mobs by their example? Whose duly and whose business is it to arrest these conspirators who, whether they know it or not, are making war against the gov ernment of South Carolina? Some one somewhere must know some members of these mobs or must have reason to suspect who they are. Surely evidence upon which to make out a prima facie case agaitist them would be aval able. Perhaps the sheriff of Lexington has not the faintest notion who they are. Perhaps the sheriff of Kiel-land can not lix their iden tity, obviously, ir ihey do know I who the conspirators are or have reasonable grounds to uuspect who they are, the duty is upon them,, upon these sheriffs, to net. if the | j sheriffs know nothing and the dep uties know nothing and the police men know nothing, perhaps there are citizens who can tell them something. Are the members of i mobs, dozens and hundreds of men, 1 clothed with "coats of darkness"! like that of "Jack t he < Jiani Kill- ' er." that enable them to board trains and travel the public roads ' in motorcars and remain invisible? ? The sheriff lias the undoubted le- i gal right to arrest any man trying I I to commit a crime. To rescue a criminal is to commit ;t crime. rl'<? lynch a criminal is :i felony. When men gather in n company to lynch they are in conspiracy to commit felony. Four or five days last \v<"-k and this week neu made spurt of South Carolina, of its gov ernment, its sheriffs, its jailers, its solicitors, its judges and above all, its juries. What, was done to stop it? There was racing and chasing from city to city and from town to town, by motorcar and steam train, in the night time and in the day time, in Georgia and in South Carolina, and the officers of the law and their prisoners were the chas ed. Will it be advisabi- ? form com mittees of viligantes to protect sheriffs and other law officers from mobs ? Meanwhile the sheriffs and their deputies should have advice and leadership. The governor of South Carolina should confer with them and let them understand that when they wish to arrest members of a mob they may have 50 or 1,000 deputies to assist. The shei'iffs ami police officers are not afraid. The mobs have no! intimidated them. Seemingly the officers have not known > xactly what to do. They have been on the defensive because no one told them what to do. and how t<> deal with a mob when it is not actually violent, present?; difficulties. Bn1 the government in South Carolina has been made a laughing stock in the last seven days. The two murderers can be brought from Charleston to Colum bia in open day and without con cealment. Perhaps that should !>?? done. If a large number o:' the people of South Carolina wish to form mobs and plunge the com monwealth into civil war on ac count of-this tragedy, a demonstra tion of it would perhaps be worth while. It were better fnat South Caro lina meet and tight the mob and be defeated by it than run away from it. It were better that a sovereign state be dead than that it be ab surd. Must the Law Hide Out? (Spartan burg Herald, Aug. 17.) Must the law hide out? Does lawlessness hold the whip handle? Must officers of the law in the dis charge of their sworn duty to so ciety spend days evading mobs? These ore questions that may well arise from the story running in the newspapers now for days concerning the effort of the sher iffs of Richland and Lexington to land accused murderers in the state penitentiary. It is not an unusual thing for a lawbreaker to be "laying out," as they say along the border of North Carolina, but when the picture changes and the officers of the law find it necessary to hide out from those who would disregard the law, we have come upon a time when thoughtful peo ple may well turn the matter ever in their minds. A murderous crime is responsible for this seeming popular indigna tion, and now crime awakens to avenge crime, which is contrary to the laws that must govern or ganized society. South Carolina must go hack to law and order. Averaging more than a murder a day for recent months, the time has come to call a halt and the thoughtful people of this slate should realize the menace of this record. We have come upon strange days when the law must "lay out" for fear of violence. -? National Fra ternal Cofigress Will Meet in Chicago Augusl Chicago, A11 x. 17.? Kve ry state in the union will be represented at the convention of the National Fraternal Congress of America t<> he held here Angus1 L".t to Septem ber I, ti.e program for which has been announced. President George S. Kirby will preside at the opening session when greetings will be extended from the Canadian fraternal Associa tion and committee reports will he made. Jesse S. Phillips", superintendent of Insurance, New York, will speak on '"Insurance Commissioners and the Fraternal Societies" on August 31. Other addresses include, "The Importance of Health Conservation to the Fraternal Societies" l?y L>r. M. M. Smith: "Women in Frater nalism" by .Mary L. Kocca; "fra ternal Poetry ana Prose" hy .Milton G. Wood of Chicago and "What Fraternal Societies arc Doing t<> aid in the Melting Pot," by Mrs. Fran ces C. .lakaboin. W. E. Futch of Cleveland, sec retary of the National Congress will speak on th<- third day on the sub ject "Some Obstacles in Securing Fraternal Legislation." The otti cers will be elected and installed at the afternoon session. In addition to the national con ference tin-re will also he meetings of the presidents' section and tie law section which will )>>? featured by addresses by representatives <>i various fraternal organizations. The annual meeting Of the Fratel iial Actuarial Association will he held on Monday morning, August "Find Choice [turn in Spurgin's Pank."- Headline. That makes ni^ tliaht all the more mysterious and difficult to explain. ? Itoanoke Times. -? ? ?* From the manner in which he i ; being thump.d. .i hefty number <?:' senators evidently consider Secre tary Ab llon':. financial projects ripe 1 for cutting. -Birmingham .xews.. Columbia Police Officer Shot \ Posse and Bloodhounds Are on i I Murderer's Trail Columbia. Aug. 17.?At two thirty ibis afternoon a posse of more than a hundred men and of ficers have surrounded a swamp n?-ar Blythewood, in the upper part of Rich land county, where a negro is being sought for the killing here early this morning of H. Frank] brown, member of the Columbia] Police force. Bloodhounds are on the negro's trail in the swamp, j with lm-ri on all sides of it await- ; irtg his exit. !!'? will likely he. cap- ! lured this afternoon. Tlie horse I on which he fled from Columbia and which be stole in one of the city's suburbs has been found, on I the edge of the swamp, and his cap, j caught in an overhanging vine, has also been foundx The negro was found loafing in a suburb early this morning, and! ?v. lien the officer asked the negro] j what he was doing he was immed- | iately shot dow n. -? ? ? German Reparation Payments Berlin Bank Building Up j Credit in New York New V?rie. August 10?The Ger Iman Reichsbank, known under the riobenzonern regime as the fmper-j ; ial Bank of GeKniany, has begun to build up fresh credits here in anti cipation of further reparations pay-! meats due England and France. Some 200 cases of bar silver val- i ued at about ?S50,000 have been re ceived here by th" Equitable Trust Company, representing the German government. It is thought that ful ly one-quarter of the August repair-1 ations settlement, w hich may ag- j gregate $20,000,000, will be paid in; silver metal, of which Germany is said to have large supplies. Reports from abroad state that i German brokers find it more ad- < vantageous in the present state of exchange to ship silver to this coun- j try than to hypothecate the metal at home against foreign credits. Some of the gold which Ger many is to pay through this mar ket this month is likely to take the form of bullion melted down from i French and Russian coin. Germany j already has paid to France much of the gold which sin- exacted from that country as part of her indem nity after the Franco-Prussian war and which for many years was part of the Imperial government's "war i chest." -4 Washington, Aug. L6.?-The best! estimates available show that there are five mil!.on. seven hundred and ( thirty-live thousand persons unem ployed iti the United States, Labor j Secretary Davis reported to the senate today. HOME DEMONSTRA TION DEPARTMENT Better Bread Contest. The Better Bread Contest will be held in th<- offb.f. the home dem onstration agent on Wednesday morning. .Most. > "? the girls have been visited durim the past week and urged tu get busy. .Miss Snider, Food Specialist of Winthrop Col lege will be on hand to help judge. Some local women will be present. Every girl is urged to be her*; and try tor the prizes which will be giv en. The county winner of first place will be sent. 10 district meet ing for that contest in September. We hope to finish up this work by noon of Wednesday. What of tlie Bread You Bake? By .Mrs. .M. S. Dodds. .Mis.siss.ippi. Tune: Rug A Jig Jig. As 1 went stroling down the street 1 passed a place where people eat I went inside and took a seat And found tiie bread to be bad. CHORUS: What can you say of the bread Vou make, the bread you make The bread you mafce? What can you say of the bread you mak"? Is it light and v.i'mlesome or bad? What of the family in your own home 1 When they ask fur bread do you give them a stone? Is it flat and sour and soggy and bad, Or light, and wholesome and sweet? j Profit From Weeds It is a matter of interest, primar ily to the farmer, that certain of the well-known ? eeds now either generally of locally infesting the country could be used to furnish the supply of crude drugs obtained wholly or in par' by importation from abroad. Roots, leaves and flowers of several of the species most detrimental in the United States are gathered, prepared, and cured in Europe, and not only form useful comomdities there but sup ply to a considerable extent the de mands of foregn lands. Hence it appears probable that while weeds can hardly be made desirable still in his fight to exterminate them the i farmer may be .able to turn some of the l tc tu count. The prices paid for crude drugs are not great and would rarely tempt anyone to pursue this line of work as a business. "*Yet, if in rid ding the farm of weeds and thus raising the value of the land the farmer can at the same time make these pests the source of a smalt income instead of a dead loss, something is gained. In order to help tho farmer to obtain the best possible prices for such products, instructions for col lecting and preparing crude drugs derived from weeds tire here brief ly given. The collector should ob serve them carefully. Directions for Collecting Leaves. . Leaves should always be collect ed in clear, dry* weather, in the morning, after the dew is off. -They S\ A A A A are at their best when the plant is in bloom and should be collected at this time. Leaves of biennials are most valuable during the second y? ar of their growth. In drying, spread out thinly on a elean floor and stir occasionally until they are Thoroughly dry. Remove all stems from leaves and remember that the leaves which are worth most are those which retain their natural green color. Dampness will turn leaves black, so be careful not to b t them get wet. Directions for Collecting Barks. Darks may^be gathered either in tile fall or spring. All rough barks should be rossed before peeling? that is, the rough outer bark must be scraped or shared off, and the inner bark then peeled. Barks may be dried in the sunlight, ex cept green wild cherry. Poultry Culling. Just at this time last year we were having a series of poultry culling demonstrations. A very large number of the club women attended these demonstrations and are able to do ths work for themselves. Let me remind you that now is the time to begin this work again. We do not want to hold on to that hen that has already stopped work for the winter. Your agent is in position to ship these culls now at a much better price than can be gotten locally and will be very glad to do so. Go over your flock and take out the poor layers. The best layer has a happy disposition, good health, stirs early and late, a short head, broad and deep body giving much abdominal space far foods, thin flexible bones, not too fat, and a late molter. Be gin now and keep up the culling for the next few months if you would have the most paying flock on your farm. Marriage License Record. White: Isadore Jones and Callie Hodge, Alcolu. George Atkinson Sumter, and Rodie Grimh. Pinewood. Colored: Geo. W. Burkett and Mattie Compbell, Horatio. Will Anderson and Mary Mc Cleary, Sumter. Krank B. Pierson and Mary P. Turbin Sumter. Fred Smith and Annie Green, Sumter. ' John Bracy and Mary Green, Wedgefield. CLERKS?(Men, women) over 17, . for Postal Mail Service. $130 month. Examinations Septem ber. Experience unnecessary. For free particulars, write J. Leonard (former Civil Service examiner), *44 Equitable Bldg., Washington. D. C. LOST?Firestone tire, on clincher rim, 30x3 1-2. with rear light and license number A122 attached, between Rembert and Sumter via Dalzetl. Liberal reward if rer turned to J. H. Haynsworth, at ? Court House. Cotton Picking Season The Boll Weevil is going to get his "Pound of Flesh" but there will still be some cotton to pick, and we hope a much larger percentage than some of our friends seem to think, and we are ready for it. Our offerings consist of: New Arrow Ties, New Sugar Bag Cloth. New Jute Bagging, 2 and 3 Lbs. We don't handle second hand Bagging or Ties. We have in stock and in transit: 35,000 pounds of Bacon, ~300 Barrels of Flour, v 300 Sacks of Rice, 50 Barrels of Sugar, 50 Bags of Coffee. And everything else tha* goes to make up a full and com plete stock of Groceries. It might interest our patrons to know that we are among the very few who are buying meat. You get the benefit of it, ] It will pay you to get our prices before stocking your com missary in anticipation of cotton picking as we feel assured we can save you money. BAGGING AND TIES. STAPLE GROCERIES. IN CAR LOTS &