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The Watchman and Southron Published We&i^sday and Satur day by ?Osteen Publishing Company, Sumte?, S. C. ns: $2.00 per annum?in advance. , Advertisements: One Squaref^^st insertion ..$1.00 Every subS?^ftent insertion .50 Contracts*^er; three months or longer wi^^fe'.JTOtde at reduced rates. ? All cordmun^tions which sub I"serve prhf^e^vlnterests will oe ? charged for as^dvertisoments. Obituaries" and- tributes of re !~spect will be .cj^fered fer. The Sumte*|& Watch man was - foanded in ^lf?t> and the True Tt^outhron.in:iSGG. The Watchman ' and Southrtm now has the com bined circulation and influence of both of the. old papers, and is man ifestly the be*st advertising medium ^in Sumter.J * ?5f TB^BOXUS TAX. - It makes;; jpo difference what items may>ibm discovered in the bright lexiCDn?&? the bonus tax? somebody.^pV^P fault' with them. But in the^a&?^ists of taxes pro posed it is i>qss^e to find perhaps ; some sma^-^nK^g^of .iustitication. * Taxes on aj^?nol>?les, on gaso "^line. en oigarg?&and tobacco, on L theater"tickets and or real estate % transfers may fairly be consider taxes upon classes who have a fair degee of purchasing ability or of accumulated funds, although the tax on smoking, materials is per haps justifiable* -from this 7>oint of view. ~V"H It Is to be remembered that how ^ey'er the tax is* levied, those who . cannot afford to'pay it will feel it sooner or later alorig with those who can, because it will be passed along. A tax on "smokes" will bring this home to the soldier him self. He' has been warned before that a bonus wouJd cost him >ome " thing ultimatery. THE FOREIGN LOANS There is a good deal of talk now . adays among American financiers * of lending -iEar^pe vast sums of money. It, is necessary, they say, in order td revWe European busi ness, and desirable from the Ameri can viewpoint, because it would in turn revive American business. Also some of them suggest, this country is overloaded with gold and ought to get rid of some of it. This may be all right. It is hard ..for a layman to wrestle with the mysteries of high 'finance. It is evident .hwoever, that the average intelligent American is highly sus picious of any^uch scheme as this, and for reasan^-which to him are simple and Vohi;incing. . First, he Wttfnfoers why, if gold is such a drug on the market, and there is so vast a basis of credit, aaoney is not lent more freely right here in the United States to fer tilize and revive American indus try and finance new projects for wa^erpower development, transpor tation, etc. That would be a di ? rect way of helping America with American money. Second, if big credits are to be given Europe jpn top of the bil lions already, gingen?and admitted ly it might/tie a*"wis?^ move?this bame average lAitoericar. would like to have the- financiers make sure beforehand that the funds would be used for constructive purposes. Not one additionaf dollar of Amer ican money ought to go into addi tional foreign armament, or into the maintenance of. armies and na vies, or to fhe~p&*xnent of govern mental expenses wttich ought to be met out of current income. THE MATTER 1VITH THE M^yiEjK. ~7f? Observers injure [Angeles, says a dispatch, think'^they know the answer to the vmesiioin. "What's the jnatter with the rnjovies?" That something, is^i^iousfcy the matter with' them no ^.intelligent person doubts any more. The* thinking and respectable people otf Los Ange les;-who ougb^^ kniow something about the subject from first-hand observation,.^f^paid to size the thing up aboik-Jffce this: "The tronbfeSith .'.the motion -picture industry is the.; presence in It of a relativ^ly^smaljl number of people who ,hav& beeri^ unbalanced by sudden "prosperity, and the faet that character ,hns not ix-en de manded by* either producers or ptiblie ns an element to screen suc cess.'' -The revelation^ that have sean dalized the whole eour,try in th<> last few months^ indicate, on one side, a not unnatural ffuccumbing of human weakness t<> unusual temptation. People witli little c ul ture and little /*fnind or character training of any sort, hfave found themselves suddenly in possession of undreamed-of wealth mnd fame. With small resources An them selves. and tfie*-&ieans off gratify ing every material whim, it is little wonder that many of them nave sought diversiofi in the c?tide, fool ish &nd vicious w ays that were the , only ways they know. Foolish adulation, too. has made them feel j above the law. It is an odd speC | tacle of ignorant, silly super-men ' and super-women doing as they please until brought up inevitably j by law or fate. I And perhaps the . ultimate re i sponsibility falls upon the very ; people who are now so busy criti ! eising Hollywood. They are good j ]>eople everywhere who have view- i ? ed the movies uncritically, who j ; have contributed their meed of he- j i ro-worship to people that were not j I heroes at all. and who have not ' ! demanded "character as an element i j to success." I It is rime that film producers j j were made to feel that the public j I demands character, as well as tal j ; ent and beauty ' and "bags of ? tricks." in the movies no less than ? the spoken drama and other forms j of art and life. The film industry, j ? like any other industry, will live up j j to what is demanded and expected j of it. i The best "slogan" w ve seen latc ; ly is a new motto proposed for i France: "Liberty, Equality, Ma j ternity." France can't expect to ! keep the first two without the last. That gritting sound is the irre j concilables sharpening their teeth ito bite holes in the treaties. IFIRE AT GAS PLANT Explosion of Air Pipe. Sets Oil Aflame Damage which is estimated in to tal as being in the neighborhood of $1,500, inclusive of labor for the repairs, was caused by a fire following the explosion of an air blast pipe"at the plant of the Sum ter Gas & Power Company at the extreme end of Hauser street. The j explosion, occurring just a short while after 4 o'clock Sunday after noon, was caused, it is thought, by gas getting" into the air blast pipe line. This pipe, in falling, broke an oil pipe and the oil flowing from this pipe was simultaneous ly ignited from the flame of the ex- j plosion. It is stated that the ex I posion, although not sufficiently se i vere to break any of the window ! panes of the plant or occasion oth I er damage, could be heard for some distance from the plant. The i ? flames from the burning oil creat jed heat sufficient to cause portions j of the overhead galvanized metal j roofing to buckle and also caused ! the melting away of the support.^ j which held the ventilator allowing I the ventilator to topple over upon j the roof. The smoke of the burn | ing oil was heavy and black. The fire department answered j their immediate, summons and by ; the use of a single line of hose i with pump pressure, which was j stretched from the lire plug at the j corner of Hauser and Magnolia ! streets, a distance of 1,500 feet, j soon had the tire under control, j A full force of employees was j kept on duty Sunday afternoon and j night doing the repair work and as sisting the tinners in making re- j pairs, so that the plant might con tinue its operations without incon J venience to any of its customers, j There may be a little low pressure I in the gas today, but full pressure j is to soon be again established. MISSMcCORMICK TO WED A SWISS Comes to America to Get Par ents' Consent Chicago, Feb. 10.?Harold P. McCormick, president of the In ternational Harvester Company, to | night formally announced the en gagement of his daughter, Miss j Mathilde, aged 16. to Mr. Max jOs'-:, 4S-.-ear-old proprietor of a j Berne, Switzerland, riding academy. The announcement, which fol ? lowed a day of family conferences, J was issued through the butler at ! the home of Mrs. Cyrus McCor ? mick. mother of the harvester pres ident, and no intimation was made ? as to when the vedding will be. i Miss Mathilda, who came home \ from Switzerland with her gov j erness a month ago to seek her ! father and mother's consent to the wedding is planning to return to i her home in Zurich, where she has j iiy^ed since she was eight years old, :.in a short time. The formal announcement says: "Mr. Horace F. McCormick an ' nounces the engagement of his daughter, Miss Mathilda, to Mr. Max Oser. of Perne, Switzerland. Tids t ? announcement is hastened a few I weeks by the fact of the recent \ newspaper publicity.** Though all comment wus refus.-d \ at McCormick's home, it was un derstood tiiat tin- engagement has been approved by Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick. who re cently obtained a divorce from Mr. , McCormick, and by Miss Mathilda's I grandfather, John j>. Rockefeller .' Sr. Miss Mathilda is one of the heirs 'to tin- ^rea? fortunes of John J). ; Rockefeller .nid i\iu<< Hull .VoCor miek, inventor of the reaping machine. Her fiance, of whom little is known here, is said to have an income of $10,000 a year. lie is just two years younger than Miss Mathilda's father: who was horn in Chicago fifty years ago. Miss McCormick went to Switzer land eight years ago for medical treatment and has made her home there ever since, spending a great pari of her time out of doors tra mp ove. tin- mountains and riding, often jn company v ith Mr. Oser. whose riding academy she attended. Maybe Will Hays van take his marines to Hollywocd. !BELSER ANSWERS COOPER Cites Figures to Prove Con tentions II. P. Belser, a member of the j ways and means committee of the lower house, whose statement that the funds and appropriations for j the common schools of the state had only been <-ut approximately 3 ! per cent, as compared with a rc I duction of approximately 2." per : cent, in tin- appropriations for the ! purposes of higher education yes-' terday brought forth a table from ; the governor's office to prove the , contrary, today called attention to j certain salient points in his argu- ; ment that the governor had appar ehtly overlooked in the prepara tion cf the tabulated ropJy. "My basic contention," Mr. Bel-i ser stated, "is that in any compari- j soji of the funds appropriated for I common schools and for institu- j tions of higher learning, such as' was made by the governor in his ! special message, must take into con- ! siderution ail funds appropriated! for public schools and not merely j the appropriation for the state de- | partment of education. The gov- I ernor in his message, however, and j in the table prepares by his office Saturday, has confined his consid eration to the direct appropriations for the department of education j ignoring the three mill constitu tional tax. the numerous special I county and school district levies) j and the divers bond issues for ?edu cational purposes. I These last year brought the to \ tal amount of funds appropriated j for school purposes to a mark of ; approximately $11.000,000. The iappropriation bill, as prepared by the ways and mean* committee and passed by the house, carries a re duction of $342,230 for the depart ment of education. This is just a ; little in excess of 3 per cent, of the $11.000,000 devoted to schools last year and if it will be remembered that $130,000 of this reduction was not a genuine cut since this amount was Ridded to the 1021 appropria tion to pay for a deficit from the j preceding year under the seven [months' term guarantee act the net I reduction will be seen to be even I nearer 2 per cent. "The exact conditions of the comparison can be seen from the following tables: "The appropriation for higher in ! stitutions: 1020 1021 1022 L\ S. C.$211,511! $243,35.' $247,403 ! Citadel . 393,583 452,315 161,41<f ! Winthrop . 416.6?S 303.604 3l>?.296 I Medical . 96.067 100.117 .84;955 j Negro . 115,880 03,005 67.650 ? Total .$1.233.661 $1,257,486 $057,723 "In compiling this first table I j have not taken into consideration ? the fact that the actual appropria tion for the running expenses of the j University of'South ^Carolina this [year should be placed at ?192.903, j which is arrived at by the elimina tion of the sum of $54.500 included [in the 1022 appropriation under #the title, 'fixed charges and contrib utions.' Were this taken into cpn ? sideration it would be seen that the I university appropriation is actually educed instead of increased. I have ?also disregarded the Clemson col lege appropriations, since these do [not go to the educational institu tion, but to the public service de partment of the institution; tick jeradication, livestock sanitary work.i 'etc. I have also not included the school for the deaf and blind, which Iis essentially not an 'institution of higher learning,' but one which I re-1 ? gard rather as a charitable institu-j lion. I "It is admitted that the greatest! [reduction in appropriations for jthe.se institutions comes through [the elimination of building appro-1 ipriations, but to the' pocketbookj of the taxpayer it matters little how the money is spent so long; ! as it is spent. I "The appropriations for the de partment of education, which are only a small proportion of the fundsl j actually raised and spent on tne j common and public; schools of the ?etate, follow: 1.020 1021 1922 "No. 1 . $ 931.000 $1.528.930 $1.18G.700! Nu. 3 . 1,081,000 1,378,030 1,186.700 j ! j "It will be noted from line No. I t thai w'niic the appropriations tor the colleges were approximately the Isame for 1920 and 1921, the appro priations for common schools show an increase of 103 1 of nearly $000, 000 over 102c, while the 1022 ap propriation exceeds by $255,000 the 1920 appropriation. In the case of [the Colleges this does not obtain, the 1032 appropriation being re duced below both the 1920 and the [1021 appropriations. The ways and means conjmittee took both the 1920 and 103! appropriations into I consideration. j "Line No. 2 shows the appropria tions for the department wuh the [$150,000 appropriated in I'.'.M for [the deficit of 1920 transferred to : the 103?? appropriation column as : it should l>e for the purpose of a fair comparison. This column 'show-; that the actual net reduc i tion in the department has been $192.230, which compared with the $11.000,000 appropriated from all [sources for education reveals the fact, I think, that my estimate of [a 3 per cent, reduction was, if [anything, too large. The common -schools use approximately Co per [cent, of the money raised in South ? Carolina by the state, counties and sehoo.l districts :ind it is obvious j that no reduction in taxes can Come ! until they hear their share of the [cuts and $192.000 out of $11.000. j 000, I hold, is not more than a fair ! proport ion. j "Like the governor I have no tle isire to enter a newspaper contro [versyj but the inferences Jo be I drawn from the chief executive's special message and from the ap propriation table which, according to newspapers, he had 'his office I prepare' in lieu of a statement, do, ; I believe, place a wrong construc tion upon the action of the ways and means committee and the house, which has indorsed the com mittee by the passage of the bill." BOY SCOUT NEWS Troop No. 2 Bylds Good Meet ing?Plans Made For Cabin Lust Thursday evening we held ;our regular weekly meeting in the ? scout room, with ^19 members pres jent, and assistant Scout Master L. iG. Beaty. Plans wr-re made for our cabin which is to he built at Second Mill, and we expect to begin work with in **the next few weeks. We decided on our meeting I nights as follows: First meeting night in the month, scout test; second for business, third for so cial or entertaining, fourth for busi ness. Our point system begins Febru ary 2.1, the patrol having the great est number of points April 30, I will be given a supper by tin- other i members of the troop. 1 At a meeting of a committee of five from the troop Sammle Harris I was appointed assistant patrol lead- ' ! er of the Wolf patrol, and .lock; jJackson assistant patrol leader for: j the Panther patrol. I At our next meeting we expect j j to have a visitor, and we hope ev ery scout will l>e present in uni-j I form. j Let's go after our chums who; I have not vh become scouts. And while we are about it we might! i remember that the troop will make ia good showing if it has a full en listment. Your brother scouts in' I the neighboring troop have their j ! eyes set on the friend whom you \ j have been trying to recruit; if you! rare not quick they will beat you to jit.'Xovv', let's do this: Shinny up ? the first big boy you meet and shout 'scouting In his ear. Do nol be-; I come exasperated if he is deaf. Use: ja sledge hammer, probably that I will make an impression. Every- ; J thing is set so we can pound away.' A Scout. Must Learn to Eat Corn Bread Samara. Jan. 23.?It will be a new experience for the peasants of I the Volga area to be corn-fed when i the famine supplies from America i arrive there. While Indian corn (has has been generally used for j bread and cassia in the. Ukraine, j which is as much of a corn coun ftry as lr^Jmna or Iowa, the Volga 'area has confined its cultivation chiefly to small grain. It has short seasons and less precipitation than ideal corn country. So the peas ants know little about corn-meal j and the art of making corn bread, I hominy and cornmeal mush. ! When it became known that the j American Relief Administration I would send large quantities of corn j through the Black Sea for the im i mediate relief of the famine. So viet otlieials in the Moscow food ' j administration wired to all officials j along the Volga urging them to be j I prepared lo instruct the peasants in 'he use of the strange grain. L'lans were made to rush it im- j , mediately to Rostofl'-on-Don and : thence to famine relief central sta I lions in the Southern Volga area land into the hands of peasants; ; without any effort at milling. The Volga country is full of j wind-driven mills which can prob- j 1 ably be adjusted'so as to grind the! ? corn. Or in case the peasants ean ' not get it ground in mills, the So-! j viet oihcials say thy Russians are! j so accustomed' to pounding up j , gVain in mortars that they will I manage somehow to crack i? s?ffi- : [ciently so that It can be boiled I into a coarse mush. Kassians are fond of cassia, or! I mush, which is mode of millet,! j buckwheat and other coarse grain.! I - ? m A little crime wave now ami then : sends us new guests for our pen. A grouch is merely a quitter who delights in exposing Iiis sore spots. j Xow that Ireland is free, we may j expect to hear of the rapid rise to i power of Pat Ronage. Once the doughboy gets his bo nus, he can spend his life digging ? Up taxes to help pay for it. - Hays may improve the movies in I Other ways, but' the comedies appear J to have reached the top notch in j bathing beauties. i As a rule, the jury can be trost i ed to decide the case according to tthe lawyer and the evidence. I The reason it is ditfioul! to get : the sense of a treaty clans.- is be cause if is seldom common sense. We judge by the eager light in I the eyes Of the Powers that lire open door in China a dining room door. ; Golf noi only improves your 'general health, but enables you to understand the jokes in the comic weeklies. Von may sink, you may shatter dreadnaughrs it you will; but the darned submarines will stay with us still. t -? ? * If ever you have been dragged down by the current, yon know how to sympathize with the nations be ing dragged down by the currency. ? ? ? In this glorious country there are few to arouse our pity. Put once in a while you see a poor husband trying to buy something in the lin gerie department. Tb-- two influences that teach :i man the vanity and vexation of riches are pure religion and an in come tax blank. When tiie farmer tells you the road ahead is "putty good." he 'v referring ;>> the flavor <>t the road, n<>! it's depth. An orator says not <?n<- man ii *<-n can think On his feet. lb- ma; be right, at that. But why din; in the words "on his feet." AI1 Name ; The marriage of Miss Elsie Hill, chairman of the executive committee of the National Woman's Party, only recently became known. That may have been because she still retains her maiden name. She was married Dec. 24 to Albei t Lefitt, professor of law at University of North Dakota She met him last March when he gave $100 to the suffrage cause "in honor of Woodrow Wilson." The "Invalid" Jumps Hurdles tit MM laey.ro cairnig utile t'eggy * artwrigat tne v/onuer emia oi < foiTtia" row A y< ar ago physi? ians said she could not live. Hev ents. Major and Mrs Conway Carorright. took her to California. 1 she rides, swims, dane< ? and acts for the movies. 'wonder child of Coli Her par Now FOUR POWER SOLDIER BONUS PACIFIC TREATY IS OPPOSED Harding Unable to Furnish Harding Gets Telegrams For Information Asked Foa and Against Legislation New Vo ?*<?!?. 20.? VVTlIio m Washington, 20.?Letters Russell, messenger for the fi-reeh- and telegrams are reaching the wich hnnk was robbed of twenty- W'in'r?- House opposing the enact two thousand dollars by an auto- jment of bonus legislation while the mobile bandit, who boarded the , legislative committee of the Ameri truCk transporting the money downtown bank. ?O ?t*' -a Texas is using airplanes to locate asking that legislation be no long can Legion publishes a telegram :<i it:.- president from Han ford Mc Nider. ihe national commander. stills. The Lift is hi ?o?o? delaved. What won t he farmers r congress ;>?. can a ma ioriJ v'! A ijuack gets your money and ducks. Freedom of Knees ??l Mm School officials at Newark. N. J.. in righteous wrath have ordered high school girls not to roll their own. They said freedom of the kne< i was upsetting discipline. So now the girls don't?in school. But outside ?well, those Newark high school girls posed this picture to shew what the school officials objected to. Miss Frances Birkhead has sued Governor Russell of Mississippi for $100.000 damages. Gov. Russell de nies her charges and alleges the ; suit has a political significance. " BATTLE BETWEEN j ? STUDENTS Police Called Out to Quell Riot at Lynbrook Lynhrook, X. V.. Feb. 20.?The I fire department and police were f called out t<> quell battle between j freshmen ami sophomores of Co lumbia Universty. The lire hose was turned on the participants. Ten \ students were arrested. One of tin- wounded was thrown before an j automobile in the scrimmage. Forty! [ freshmen were found tied hand and foot. GHOSTS OF GREAT WAR - Navigation Imperilled . by Floating Mines and Derelicts j Stockholm, .Jan. 2$.?Ghosts of j I the great war still haunt the Bal-j ti<-, searing veteran skippers, sail- . I ors, fishermen and steamship pas-! , sengers alike. Hardly a week passes without! reports along the Swedish coast of j ?1 rifting oid mines and derelict sub- ! marines, both a serious danger to j jail navigation. The mines are prin-j cipally of Russian and German | J origin, and after breaking loose j I from their moorings they have | I drifted toward Mhe east coast of iSweden. Many of them have been' I washed ashore on Gottland island j which lies almost in tin- center of! 1 the Baltic. The derelict U-boats haunt the I West? rn waters. Ever since the armistice, Baltic j storms have washed mires upon the coast and dwellers' along the: shore have long since become ? ac- ' [eustomed to the terrific detonations! . of exploding mines hurled against [cliffs during heavy gales. Ener-j I gctic efforts have been mad*' to' .SWcep I!]) i'.'.'Se daUgClOUS fOliCS Of i he war. but it w ill probably be years before either tin- North Sea or the Baltic is free of them, i It is not at all uncommon for; fishermen to catch mines in their; ; nets. They are regarded as lucky] catches, although they hav? to be i [handled gingerly, for the govern i ment pays handsomely for the re i moval or destruction of the mines. I if satisfactory proof ot their dis I covery or destruction tan Le fur-' j nished. ; The U-boat derelicts are said to j have been discarded English ves sels lost while being towed/from < English ports to Copenhagen. The [menace to navigation from these I two sources is such that passenger and merchant vessels have to I change their schedules in the Bal ; tic and traverse the danger zones only by daylight. Lately there has been little j property damage and no loss of life as the result of the floating U-boat derelicts and mines. Nevertheless Swedish marine insurance compa i nies have of late beeil threatening to raise their rates on account of this danger to navigation. When ;i man begins to think the j boss can't get along witliou* him. t the boss can't .a<-t along with turn.; -? <? o - As cars come down, the public wonders whether ra.w materiaJs] are cheaper or raw deals harder to ' put o\ er. ?Daily health hint: Relax the | muscles ami use an easy, gentle motion when stepping or ;i; ? .^.is. The boll w. \ it destroy- ? otioi . but what is let; i> turned i:i;<> wool and sil!; by the humbug. A girl is 'going < ross Niagara Falls on a wire; She wants :?> reach Canada worse than we do. ? q>??-? A Chicago man who believed] what ;i btHttb^gger told him is learning i" read with his lingers. A woman wants divorce because her husband tried i<> sell lo r for ? io. Perhaps this was tar below cost and made her feel cheap. OPPRESSION * OF TAXES British Nobleman Forced to Desert Family Residence London, Jan. 30.?High taxation has forced another British noble nan io desert a historic ? family coat and seek residence more in iccord with his postwar pocket book. Hopeton House, Linlith jowshire, a fine Italian mansion set n stately domain of beautiful Ver allles gardens, one of the finest ?ountry estates in Scotland, and he home of the .Marquis of Linlith ?ow, is to ':,<? closed. Seventy em doy< ; will be dismissed or trans ferred lo other work. The estate has been handed from father to son since 17^3. "Local and imperial taxes are^too much for me," the Marquis told an Edinbourgh interviewer. "Like Jack Sprat and spouse they leave nothing. A British noble lord, with no vote in s?< h mutter, is in a ?lass with paupers and lunatics, fimes are changed and we are changed with them," he philoso phized. Thai the position of landed gen try of England and Scotland truly is difficult is evidenced by the fact thai h.-for?- I'j16 the Marquis had disposed of his pack of hounds and his horses except two chargers for military service. Shooting rights on Iiis estate also were sold. Farther redactions an- said to be impossible without failure in the duty of Landlord. Hop. ton House is one of the treasure houses of Scotland. The grounds, dotted with giant trees and intersected by shady avenues command splendid views, taking in the whole sweep of the Firth of Forth and i he Ochil Hills. Waistline Sash The very low sashed gown fc&a had an enormous run and will prob* ably extend quite into the sxnnmst season. But there is a noticeahl* tendency toward the natural waist line. This lovely Claire model?fk graceful combination of/black chl?? fon, Italian lace and organdie? sashed quite at the waist line, *: thing done with an eye admlrahljfr sensitive to line and balance ? ? ? BLACK HAND EXPLOSION Three Houses Wrecked by Explosion But No One Injured New Brunswick, Feb. 20.?A sub frame house in the I.alian quarter was blown up and two others bad ly wrecked by an explosion which the police say was the result of a bomb. No one was injured. Ralph VVoenough, an occupant of the wrecked house was arrested. New York club women are d^e b.-iMriL; whether a dog or a cow is man's best friend. Did you ever see a cow rush out io meet a man coming from work? Time to Plant ana the best v arieties of vegetable and field seeds to plant for each purpose is told in the .% 1922 Catalog of Now ready to be mailed, fr^e on request. Reduced prices are quoted on Seeds, Poultry Supplies, and . Garden Tools and Spray Materials. Write for your copy today. T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, 17 S. 14th St., Richmond, Va.