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BAPTISTS HOLD ?QOB , MEETING c . : ?? .-? ??. * --? -? ? ? Goo3 'Meeting of District Two, Santee Association Held Thursday The meeting, of Distrit Two of the San tee Association was held on' Thursday, March ' 2. with the Providence Bapt^t church. A full attendance- being present. ?A. num ber, of interesting papers were redd. A talk by Miss Hattie White was much enjoyed. Mrs. J. O. Barwick made 'a. most excellent-address on the subject: "The Use of Our Op portunities." ? - A soio by Miss Lillie May "Smith was next on the program,, and fol lowing this a bounteous dinner was . served, by the ladies of the church. During the afternoon -the Sun beam, work was a feature of the program. An interesting paper was read by Mrs. Cooper, and a leaflet by Mrs. Hodge. Among those attending- from Sumter were: Mrs, W. B. Costin, Mrs, J. O. Barwick. Mrs! C. W.Mc Grew, Mrs. Frank WilKams, Miss Hcttic White and Miss Lillie May Smith. . *V> r imDAIBY INDUSTRY -?-MEETINGS Gj^eat r Many Fasnaers Are Interested But .Need Fi nancial Assistance The rain and very cold weather interfered with the attendance at the dairy industry meetings held this past week, but many, repre sentative farmers and their good wives''. were ..at the meetings apd the Bethel school meeting was the largest. It was very, evident that the farmers who did attend were very .much interested and that .they will become boosters an? workers for the "factory 'on every farm," - the dairy cow?if the Sumter "Creamery is organized with suffi - ?Stent capital and properly equipped :%nd managed ? to insure a steady, tand permanent market for butter jT&t. With some encouragement the dairy cow can be made a big feature of Sumter county's agri cultural program. "r At the Shiloh school meeting the Secretary of the . Sumter Chamber Vof Commerce "was requested to T&jd out if it will be possible fcr farmers to borrow money with }which to increase their numbers of 'milk cows, and whether those who j?dw have no money and no cows ?san borrow money to purchase ^bows and give mortgages or bills :<cf sale *.nd additional collateral on some other animals or personal property as security. I This question of finance however is one for the banks of Sumter to settle, and if War Finance Corpor ation money is secured through our banks there is no doubt that many .farmers will borrow money and go ' into the dairy cow business. I The forming of ,live stock asso ciations with capital stocks in or der to borrow money through an .association, from the War Fin ance ; Corporation is going to be slow process of financing the farm ers who have the money to buy stock in such an association. There are many, farmers of good standing who could borrow, mon. ey through the local banks., from the War ^Finance Corporation and give additional collateral to the mortgagee on the cows bought with War Finance Corporation money, if our banks can .see their .way clear to handle War Finance Cor poration funds in this way for sue a purpose. This will require some business like and systematic investigation and will necessitate some leading financier or financiers to take the matter up and see how many farmers want money in this way. 3f the farmers find out tnat means are to be -provided to buy dairy sows they will come to the front and find out how it is to be done. But as before stated the monied Interests will have to start some thing that will start money to starting dairy cows on every farm or on many farms in Sumter coun ty. This is the sort of weather that makes travellers *rfeh the hard surfaced roads .wexeuan. accomplish ed fact. Dr. Clarence Poe. editor of the Progressive Farmer will speak in Sumter. at 11.' a. m.. Saturday. March Uth. There will be no dis appointment this tinie.'?-s I>r. Poe "personally made this appoint ment and writes that he will cer tainly be in Sumter on Ih'j day named, unless providentially pre ?vented by causes beyond his con trol. The success of the campaign.to organize a creamery company with sufficient capital to put the en terprise on a solid foundation is practically assured. The most dif ficult phase of the undertaking has been passed. The idea has been "sold" to a number of. the jnost conservative business men of Sumter and they are now backing the enterprise with their money and tneir influence. All that is pow necessary is for all other bus iness men and progressive farmers to fall in fine. The ladies of the three Baptist churches of the city are uniting in observing this week as a week of ?prayer and are holding meetings each day at four o'clock in the af ternoon at the Snlf-m Baptist church. I great meeting I held thursday t ??: T. B- Young of the South Car olina Potato Association Makes -Talk Thursday j Afternoon t' a meeting was held in the j Chamber of .Commerce haliThurs {day 'afternoon, which was put on j by Young Men's. Business League for the purpose of hearing Mr. T. ib. Ycung, president of the-South Carolina Potato : Association speak on the potato industry. There was an extremely fine audience in at tendance at this, meeting and all present showed'their interest by the asking of various questions from time to time, for which questions Mr. Young always had his ready j answer. Every phase of the sweet j potato industry was taken up clear ly .by Mr. Young, the growing of the potatoes, their storing and marketing. . The South Carolina Potato Association is'this year go ing to "take on the handling of fruits and vegetables.. , Tentative to the organization by the League ef a Truck Association in Samter. a committee was ap pointed to look into this work and to make the necessary plans for its organization. Appointed on this committee are Messrs. Riley Brad-ham, C. L. Cuttino, A. D. Harby, 3. R. White, T. S. DuBose, j Jr., N. Lu-Broxtghtonr and Dr. M. L. j Parier. \ , - t ?. y .? j Pairy'm^eting I Speyers Held Meeting Thurs | day Afternoon in Bethel Section i In spit*? of-the inclement weather ? of Thursday* afternoon a splendid ! gathering of ..farmsrs, business } men and . of ladies was present at ? a very enthusiastic dairy industry 1 meeting which was held in the j Bethel section on Thursday af ternoon. Miss Caro Truluckt coun ! ty home demonstration agent, to igether with Miss Ann Campbell, j of Winthrop College., were just fin {ishing a ladies meeting in that sec I tion/at which a lecture on jellies j was.given by ^iiss CampbeU, and \ so at the conclusion of their mect l ing the ladies attended the . dairyr j rag meeting in a body, j Secretary E. I. Reardon. of the j Chamber of Commerce, made a fine i talk on the subject of cooperation j between the farmers and business j znen of Sumter county. Addresses jjvere then delivered by Mr. C. j Sehmolke, and Afr. Everett Rus ! seH, dairy specialists of note, in ! which every phase of the dairy j ing industry was taken upland coy ; ered ia.detail. Itis stated that the audience were very interested in I this . naeeeti ng.and it is expected i that as a, result of this meeting, i the Bethed section is going to be I solid for establishing this industry* in Sumter county. The meeting was presided over by Mr. J. M. Kolb^ of that, section. j Woman's Afternoon. Music Club. The regular monthly meeting of j the Woman's Afternoon Music j Club will be postponed from .'March i3th.to,March 20th, on ac , count of the convention of the, Nat ? ional Federation of-Women's Mu j-sic clubs to be held . jn Spartan jburg, S. C, March 13th and 14th. 1 The South Carolina State Chairman j club presidents and delegates are i expected to attend. Mrs. Mitchell Levi, Corresponding Secretary. > 9> 9 j American Legion Popularity Con test. j There will be given away to the young ladies of Sumter and Sumter j county three prizes in the popular | ity contest for selling tickets to the : Spring Festival, j First prize, ivory toilet set. Second prize, pearl necklace. ? Third prize, pearl lavalier. j Tickets, and information >can be ' procured from Dr. Sidney Burgess, i L. L. Bradbam, A.. JH. Boykin. ! Headquarters Mitchell's .Drug Store. ? ? ? Attention, Sumter Federated Clubs. j _ Mis. Adam Moss of Orangeburg. ! Vice President at large of the i South Carolina Federation of Wo j men's Clubs, wishes to meet the j members of all the Federated [Clubs in Sumter, Friday afternoon. [March 10th, in the auditorium of j the Girls' High school building at 4:30 p. m. All members of Fed ? crated clubs are urged to attend. Mrs. Mitchell Levi. j Corresponding , Secretary of The I Woman's Afternoon Music Club. The Mothers' Club. The Mothers' club was delight I fully entertained on Thursday af j ternoon. March 2nd, by Mrs. E. M. \ Staley. at .her home on Oakland ; Avenue, there being present j twenty-three members and two I guests. j After the bu^sesa meeting, a \ new, important and interesting j feature of the program was the j "Question Box." in charge of Mrs. j L. J. Marsh. The social conimit ! tee then entertained the club with ! a clothespin-doll contest, and later i served refreshments consisting of I block ice cream and wafers. The "Nursery Club'' met with (Master Norwood. Middleton and was entertained by Misses Bryan and McXally. ? ? ? Americus (Sumter county), f?a.. j farmers are selling hogs by the car ! load to South Carolina butchers. Two carloads were sold at $8.00 a i hundred, on the foot, at Americus. VOLLEY BALL SUPPER - 1 Public Invited to Free Exhibi-; j tion Game on Tuesday Night ! - The members of the volley hall j league are to hold their monthly ! supper at the Y. M. C. A. at Sj j o'clock on Tuesday night. The j ?teams of this league took their ! names from the four major points of the compass, their standings be ing as fellows: i South.?Captain. Pitts; won 20 j games, 370 points. West?Captain .Sholar; won 16 I games, Z20 points. East?Captain Kennedy; won 1G (games, 30G points. Xorth?Captain Shaw; won 8 i games, 272 points. | Prior to their supper on Tues- ! day night, the league7 has arranged j j for a free exhibition game of vol j ley ball to be. played, between two i ] picked volley ball teams. This| i game is to start at G:3.0 o'clock and the public is cordially invited to attend this game, most espf ially the ladies. Comprising the j teams are: Has Bcens, Edwards, Heidt, Hurst, McKnight. Levi and Bry an: Would Be's, Burns,. Chandler, Pitts, Shaw, Sholar and Kennedy. The members of the Sumter High school, basketball squad arc to be the guests of honor at the vol ley .baU, supper. WORK ON ' MAYESVILLE ! ROAD BEGUN! , ? j : Work on. the grading of the; Mayesville road has been begun byj the Slattery. ic. Henry Construction! company of Green viUe, which I company was recently granted the I contract for the hard-surfacing of j the four miles of this road. The mules and equipment that are be ing used on the grade work were j moved to Sumter several days ago i from Kichland- county where this ! company has . just completed a j piece of work. Work on the i Mayesville road has been begun about two miles out of the city -I limits and thc^road. wiD be built back toward Sumter.. ? ? m Civic League Xanaes Officials At its annual meeting held Mon day afternoon, the following ladies were elected to serve as officers I in the Civic League during the en suing year: . . ? Vice presidents, Mrs. John Wil son. Mrs. Perry Moses; secretary, Mrs. Sam Sanders; treasurer,. Mrs. I. A. Byttenborg, Mrs. H. A. Mood who has filled, out the unexpired term of Mrs. L. B. Williamson as president, refused to retain that of fice and after several ballots and no name had received the neces-! sary majority, the election of presi dent was postponed, tp the next meeting. Delegates -to the t federation convention at. Co lumbia will be elected at that .time j also. At this meeting, , on request j i from Mrs. J. R. Dillou, city park \ I superintendent, a half dozen bench- I {es were ordered bought for the j i Sumter Memorial park. The league [ expects to give an Ada Jones con ! cert March 17. The Mortgage Lifter. i Some years ago a youpg Sumter j county farmer bought a farm on i credit. He was a cotton farmer ! and followed the customary prac j tice of farming. For nine years j j he struggled along and barely paid i the interest. He could not get I ahead and make enough profit on j his cotton crop to pay oft ihe.mort i gage on his land. Th en he I changed his methods and went in j for hogs and cattlor?selling milk j and butter and surplus cattle and '? j hogs. In three years he paid off ! i the mortgage Xow he plants no ! j cotton at all, buys little fertilizer, | j for velvet beans and cattle have 1 j made, his land "as rich as a gar ! den," he says. The boll weevil ! worries him not at all and he is ] not iosing sleep over the future j prospects of farming in Sumter j county. This is a true story and names and places can be furnished. '. The cow and the sow and velvet I beans are the foundations for an ! ? era of solid independent agricul I tural prosperity in Sumter county, j -? ? ? j Meeting Fidelis Class Grace Baptist j Churcjir j The Fidelis class, .Grace Baptist 1 ; church met at the attractive home) ; of Mrs. A. D. Rodgers on last Frir j ?I day afternoon, and was formally j organized. Despite the inclement j i weather 20 members reported for ! I enrollment. After an hour of pro jgressive conversation the meeting' j was called to order, and after scrip- j turc reading and prayer, the elec- j ! tion of officers followed, resulting j [in the election of Mrs. Schuyler j IC. Rose, president: Mrs. R. F. Kob- { : inson, vice president and trcasur-! : er, and Mrs. A. D. Rodgers. secrc i tray. Part of the mcmborship of this j class consists of ladies formerly J with the Philathea class. This! [class plans are well founded. I arid i? aspires to great things in : I lite future. Twenty-seven mem-j bers arc most enthusiastic, and we I are hoping to increase the mem-1 I bership every Sunday. We hope i j that every young lady member of i j Grace church will come to aid usj ; in our work, and a cordial invita- I 'tion extended and a warm welcome assured to visitors. The first business meeting will lie' I held tills afternoon at 5:3.0 at the i ! home of Mrs. Schuyler C. Rose. 103 Oakland Ave., and it is hoped every i j member will attend, as matters of i vital importance to each member ' will be brought up for discussion, j We want our plans to be com I plete in the minutest detail, and j the aV>sence <>f any member will 1 make This an impossibility. "Class Reporter." "The bootlegger receives tooj much sympathy." He certainly j does. Sympathy should l>c saved j j for the bereaved family. j Dairying to M'hc South. The following is a copy of an ad dress which was delivered at Clemson College by Mr. B. Harris, of Columbia, of the committee of agriculture of South Carolina. This address was delivered in the year 1903, but all of it is quite adap table to the present time, particu larly in the light of the movement for the establishing of the dairy ing business permanently in our county, which movement is now on foot. . The address follows: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle men: I do not see why Prof. Harper assigned me this duly, when (here arc others who could have handled this subject so much better than I. My subject is. dairying in the South. Xow let us consider the daiiy cow for a moment and see if we can do without her. Milk is the natural food for man and all aninials. The first nourishment the new. born babe takes is milk and it is the same with the new born calf, in fact this is the first food of all animals. Consider for a moment what a very small per cent could be raised if it were not for milk. Then again take for in stance the sick and milk is one of the most nourishing diets that is used in the sick room. As 1 see it, the dairy,cow should occupy one of the first places on the farm. Outside of her import ance which I have already spoken of. let us see if she cannot be made profitable. One of the great beau ties of the dairy cow is she does not run .on a credit system! She settles her accounts every twenty four hours and if properly handled will pay you a nice dividend on the money paid for her. I know of no investment that will pay as hand some a profit as a dairy cow. She will pay for herself and all expenses in twelve months. Let us investigate this and see if it is not true. Tne average grade, Jersey , cow will cost you $40.00. She will give 3,500 pounds of milk in twelve months, which is a low estimate. This is about 440 gallons of milk. This milk at a low esti mate can be sold at twenty .(20) cents per gallon. Xow every one knows this is ten (10). cents below th.c average price paid in our ? towns and cities, but we must make our estimates on a conservative bar sis.. At twenty. (20) cents per gallon, .440 gallons of milk will bring $88.00; the cost of the cow is $40.00; cost of feed $30.00, which makes the total cost for cow and feed $70.00. Now we have the cost of cow. The 440 gallons of milk sells for $88.00, the manure for $12.00, the calf $5.00, total gross income of the cow $105.00. Deduct the cost of cow and feed $70.00, and you will have $35.00 left to her credit. I want to ask you if you can make an Investment of $700.00, (which would be the cost of a herd of ten cows and their feed) and en ter any other business and in 12 months make such a dividend on your investment. The quickest road to a dollar is through a dairy cow. Her cost, as well as her ex penses for twelve months, you will still have a profit of fifty (50) per cent on your investment. One man can milk, feed and take care of ten head. The great beauty in dairy farm ing is that it pays in both ways. Any dairy farmer can double the production of his farm in ten years. This within itself would be a hand some profit. I have tried to show you what a useful and necessary animal the dairy cow is and that she can be made profitable and I can say to you that there Is no place on the globe wljerc d a i ry i n g can be made as profitable as in this southland of ours. Why? Because we have more natural ad vantages than in other countries which I have investigated. 1 have met dairymen from all over these United States and being interested in dairying have discussed the sub ject fully with them, both as to feeds and the price obtained for their product. Why gentlemen, we get twice as much for our milk and cream as the northern and western dairymen get for theirs. There is no. place on the globe that so many varieties of forage crops can be raised in one season, as in the south. We can raise two crops on our land a. year besides we can grow many more varieties of graz ing grasses than the northern ard xvestern sections and it is more nu tritious, as it has a longer season in which to grow and mature. It is not so woody a fibre. The department of agriculture at Washington sees what a great in dustry the south has lying at her door undeveloped and the govern ment has appropriated $20,000.00 to help develop dairying in the south. The department is ready to send men of experience to your farms to help you start the indus try and work it out. so you can make it profitable. What more can you ask for? This appropria tion the soutii should fele under many obligations to Congressman Lever for obtaining. It means great things for the south if our people will take hold of it and develop it. Ah! gentlemen if the farmers of our old state would put just one half of her cotton fields in Bermu da gras? and go into dairy farming, she could make just as many bales of cotton as she is now making and certainly at one-half the ex pense the crop is costing the farm ers today by using the manure from their herds and flocks. Think for one moment how i! would change the looks of this country and make a good impres sion on the stranger as he passes through our southland, to see these old red hill covered with green grass and nice herds of cattle and flock? <>t sheep grazing on them Gentlemen this kind of farming i is the highest type of agriculture. I know there arc men silting in this audience who are ready to say j dairying and stock raising cannot be m;t<le profitable in the south. Thirty years ago was the south :i [cotton manufacturing country? i No. If 3 man had predicted then : that twenty-five years from then j ! would see South Carolina one of the | [leading cotton manufacturing states in the country, there were j j people who would have said that j i man is crazy. Now gentlemen why j is South Carolina one of the leading cotton manulaeturing states? Be-i i cause she has put brains and cap- i j ital into the industry and because; 'she has more natural advantages; : than the New t-higland states. To-' ; day the cotton mills of the south' i are paying the largest dividends j lot* any other state. I hope that l\ j may live to see the day come when j j our people will quit saying that we cannot raise as fine cattle, hogs ! j sheep and horses in South Carolina, j as can be raised in Kentucky or I the northern states, for 1 cell you il is not true, for history tells us ; thai the south has produced as I brilliant men as any country and if j it is true of men, why cannot it be ; the same with producing line ani | mals. The fault is not in the con ditions around you, but in your own J selves. j ? I hope to see our own men ele vated above the cotton patch, a ! mule and a free negro. Gentlemen : this kind of farming I have been [speaking about, a free negro ean ? not do but he can raise cotton and j come in competition with you and i his cotton bale will bring on the i market just as much as yours. In ; fact he has been pricing your cot | ton for the last 30 years. j We hear farmers say there is no J market for dairy products. Why i should a man say that, when there [arc at least $400,000.00 or $50pv ! OOU.00 worth of butter shipped into 1 South Carolina evc?y year and sold I to our people. I tell you every dol j lar's worth of that butter can be j raised by the farmers of South Car I olina. Xow brother farmers, we will {have to change our method of ] farming under the present system i of labor and the sooner we bc jgui, it the better off we will he. , How arc we to do this? By diver : sification and rotation. The farmer ? who rotatoes his crops, improves ' his soil, improves his surroundings, , improves himself and makes it 'easier for the next generation to i travel life's journey. He is a race j benefactor, making as he docs this ! world better and better the longer j he lives in it and continues his good j deeds. The farmer, who rotatoes crops, will feed, clothe and edu ' catc his children better than his one crop neighbor. His children will love him better and he will love them better. The community ?will speak well of him whie he lives and go into true mourning I when he is "gone. -+++-i j SCIENCE SHOWS HOME GARDEN IS BEST ! _ 1 ! Among the profits of the home i gardener is one which is seldom ; counted, but which xvould alone be i sufficient to justify .': e trouble and j expense of growing owSs own veg i etables. j It lies in the huge advantage of j serving things fresh, within a j short time of being picked from the j plants on which they grew. It has j long been known that the exquisite j flavor of freslFpeas and sweet corn to cite notable examples, began to deteriorate if they were not served ; within an hour after they were [gathered. This opinion has now l been fortified by science, through j experiments conducted by "Messrs. Straughn and Church and publish - 1 ed by the bureau of chemistry of {the department of agriculture. } Prof. Charles A. Appleman of the ?Maryland experiment station has j published a full report of chemical ! experiments of the same order. J The experiments establish that , the sugar content of sweet corn will I range in the neighbrohood of rive j per cent. This is in the proportion ! of three spoons or sugar in a cup ; of coffee. In a normal summer ; temperature, even with the husks iStill on, the sugar content will be j gin to fail in an incredibly short ! time, perhaps in the first thirty i minutes after picking. In scientific ' language the cause of this is the .condensation of polysaccarides, chiefly starch. Respiration is. in I directly, also a factor, j In the first twenty-four hours tafter corn lias been picked, thirty per*cent of its sugar will have dis appeared and in the next twenty ; four hours, twenty-five per cent j more. About thirty per cent of (the sugar remains tired in the corn ' but after ninety-six hours nil evi Idcnce of the, delicious corn fia : vor has disappeared. ! Wrapping tin- corn in oiled pa per does no* help. The only tiling I which will iircvetit the loss of sil l-gar is refrigeration. In freezing temperature, only seven per cent I loss occurred in twenty-four hours, j and in a temperature of fifty, about ' fifteen per cent. In general what is true about < sweet corn is true' about all vegc I tables, especially all those which !depend upon their sugar content j for flavor. The experiments ex i plain why vegetables which arc I displayed for sale in the hot sun i hours after they have left the gar jiJen, never possess the flavor of I the home- garden product. They \ teach a leson for both the green igrocer and the housewife. First. ! that if vegetables cannot be served [immediately after picking, they j should be placed in the refrigera tor, and second, that to enjoy veg I etables at their Pest they .should I be picked in the garden not more I than half an hour before they are j placed on the fire for cooking. And pne moral of this is that full 'enjoyment of that great American I dish, "corn on cob," is reserved for the fortuale families "that mow their own." What a Cold Frank,' Docs. Do you want pansies practically winter? Fresh parsley7 Double daisies and forget me nots in March or early April'.' Hyacinths, daffodils, early tulips of primroses a month in advance of the outdoor season? Fse ;\ cold frame. The i ?dd frame is a garden mar vel, even mote remarkable than a hotbed, to one who has never em- j ployed' it before. The protection \ given, by glass, even without arti- j tieial heat, is surprising, and parti- I cularly if the double glass sash is I used. Hybrid tea rose cuttings' rooted in the late summer go1 through winter without losing their leo\es. It is posible to grow the j delieiously fragrant .wallflowers. section O? cold frame showing plants ccovw1mc DuciMG winter months - favorites in English gardens, but little known here ar.d have a beau tiful spring display of their yellow, orange, mahogany and crimson flowers of delicious fragrance. Pens temonj, those gorgeous perenials that must have a long start if they are to be "Town as annuals, are easily available. These may be started in summer, wintered in a cold frame and bedded out as soon as the weather is warm and furnish spikes of their gorgeous trumpets all summer. Foxgloves and Canterbury bells and the so-called hardy garden chrysanthemums, which often are not so hardy in the open ground, come through with their leaves green and thriving and the "mums" will have a start sufficient to en I able them to bloom ahead of the killing frosts which often come be fore they have a chance to flower. Where a supply of horse man ure for a hotbed cannot be secured, the cold frame is the best substi tute. Bank it up with earth or leaves. The ground within it will soon thaw with a few warm days, and seed can be planted from a month to two weeks before the outdoor season. Tender plants such as tomatoes, egg plants, and peppers, of course cannot be plan ted in a cold frame until later, but lettuce, radishes, onions and the like can be started on their way and the nuisance of having many boxes in the windows indoors is done away with. Grow Your Own Vitamines. Have you taken your vitamines today. This is now the pertinent ques tion to be considered at meal time by all those interested in the prop er diet to furnish efficient upkeep for the human machine. A short time back the health obsesslonists were greatly worried about their calories. They measured them out and ate according to calory pre scription. Now the vitamine is the big idea. Just what a vitamine is has not yet been definitely determined but chemists and dieticians know that it is something in food, particular ly vegetables and fruits, that is a cell builder and without which food and nourishment are incom plete. Lack of vitamines leads to scurvy, according to latest discovr cries. Grow your own vitamines?that is, vegetables eaten raw, contain plenty of them?lettuce in particu lar. Dieticians agree that the widespread lettuce habit is one of the best things that ever happened to make for healthier dieting. Cooked vegetables also contain these mysterious subjects if they are not overcooked, too often a fault in vegetable cooking. An other form of vitamine is found in good, real butter and milk Cooking a fresh vegetable not too long and dressing it with real but ter, or in cream, oils the human machine up with vitamines to keep it going at top speed. A vitamine garden is, in effect, a salad garden if one wants to get his needed vitamines the easiest and quickest way. A little garden of lettuce, tomatoes, celery, young pnions, parsley, endive, cress, corn salad, witloof, cucumbers and so on. for crisp fresh salads all the year will fill the bill. Long Prive in Golf. London, Feb. LI.?A drive of 415 yards is credited to Frank Dennis. 20-year-old professional of the Crowe Golf club. The distance is vouched for by two members, ac cording to the Star. The ball was hit from a tee slightly above tile green. 335 yards away. It pitched on the ground, which was frost bound, and ran over the green 80 yards beyond the hole. Den nis' achievement is considered one of tin- greatest recorded. James Braid, a leading English professional. lias driven a ball on frost-bound ground at Walton Heath a distance of 395 yards, and declares that to be his longest drive. II. II. Home; another Brit ish professional, noted for long distance driving, has recorded a distance of 3SS yards at North Ber wick. ? ? ? Queen LITs Estate. Honolulu. T. H.. Jan. 25.?The estate of the late Queen Liliuoka lani, last native ruler of the tor mer Kingdom of Hawaii, still is valued at more than $185,000. ac cording to the annual report filed today by the trustees. '?Queen l.il" died in 1917. 24 years after her rub- was over thrown. The total receipts of the estate during the year were $95,L'4s.:\c, and the total disbursements, most ly for philanthropical reasons <>r dered in the will were $91.2S0.24. The estate's value is $185.059.05, according to the report. The Senate still concedes, haw ever, that the people <"in select a President without its advice ami consent A t:i\ on musical instruments would be all right; hut why not tax the jazz bands as well? MARKETING NEWS j An Optimistic Outlook For Marketing Sumter County I Truck. Buyers Write Hopefully, With Good Advice Replies are beginning to come in ifrom.northern commission houses! j that handle perishable truck in re I sponse to fifty letters wkten by I ! Sumter Chamber of Commerce. Efforts to secure an f. o. b. buy j er from Sumter to pay cash for; j green vegetables have not as yet | ! resulted satisfactorily, but one i i firm writes rather optimistically as | j regards local purchases direct from ! ! the farmers. J A. G. Ballbach and company, \ < wholesale commission merchants j ! of Philadelphia write as follows: j '?The very best plan is for your ' j association of farmers to engage j the services of an experienced, high j class man to conduct a commun ! ity packing house. He will be able I to give directions and manage the j affairs of such a concern so that I the cost of said service will prove I an investment and not an expense, { for by that service you will pro I duce expert packing that is abso t Iutely necessary to be able to reach } to]> prices on the market. Adopt a brand for your goods ' which will become known and a de ! mand created by the standard of grading and packing he produces and you will always deliver the best and recevie a premium price. It will be to your advantage to ap-. point one agent on your market, and let him sell for you your regu lar shipments, for the regularity j of shipping to a market every day t or two will strike the highest av ; erage of prices, and Philadelphia is \ as good as the very best markets j of the country." Louis Hanselman. fruit and pro I duce merchant of Philadelphia also ; writes encouragingly but hands out i some optimistic information re I garding possibilities of f. o. b. buy I ers for Sumter. Mr. Hanselman I says in part: j "There will '. ? no trouble for j you to lind a market if you can pro j duce the goods. The more you I grow the more men you will have I in the fields after them. No doubt ! there would be enough buyers ' there." ! The South Carolina Sweet Po tato Association has an establish ed market for dehydrated or cur ed sweet potatoes of the right j kind. About all that is necessary ; in order to have markets for j sweet potatoes is production of the I right kind, grading, curi:>0. and j shipping through the association, i In every section of this county I there should be potato curing houses located on railroads for convenience of shipping. The sweet i potato can be so handled, by prop er curing as to make it a non-per j ishable product that can be stored I and marketed gradually with pro I lit. That is no longer an experi | ment. It is being done daily all j over this country, in this state, i Communities wanting informa | tion or cooperation should address j the Sumter Chamber of Commerce. ; The Young Men's Business League j is cooperating with the Chamber j of Commerce in these matters and j there is plenty of interest, energy. ! and cooperation in Sumter to co j operate with our farmers of Sum i tor. Lee and Clarendon counties in j agricultural matters. ! Egyptians Boycotting English Mer chants. j Alexandria. Egypt. Jan. 30-?In declaring a boycott against all goods i of English manufacture, the Egyp ! tians have adopted the tactics of j the Nationalists of India. They j have heard that the Indians have ! been successful in their attempt to boycott British goods and are cn ! dcavoring to use the same means to ; bring the Lritish government to: j terms. As yet the extent of the boycott] j is not clear. However, many Egyp- \ tian merchants are now refusing! ; to buy English goods and sales i men calling on Egyptian customers I are promptly told that he wishes ! no quotations on such merchandise. But the great majority of impori | ers and exporters arc foreigners [ who desire to continue to buy and ; sell in the best markets. If the Egyptians are able to hold together on the boycott program and force the importers to no long | er deal in English cotton piece, goods, iron and steel products, the I result may be serious for Eng-! lish factories in Lancashire and: Birmingham. British banks are included in the boycott. It is stated that consider able sums of money have been withdrawn from English banks in j Egypt and placed in other foreign: banks. School boys have boycotted the] schools and the native bar asso ciation voted to suspend all work. It has been proposed also to re strict the cultivation of Egyptian^ cotton, which would be of interest to the cotton growers of the United States. It has even been suggest-j ed that the Egyptians should re fuse to export onions to England which now takes SO per cent of the: Egyptian onion crop. i Certain members of the Effendi class. Egyptians of leisure, have an- j nounced that they would cease to ; drmk English whiskey and refuse j 10 wear short-cropped mustaches] as the English do. Various other! boycotting plans have been pro posed. .-?? - An automobile license gives you a number, but a marriage license only proves that some woman has I got your number. -? m ? Another little trouble with the j times is that normalcy has been' confused in the popular mind with t'ne millennium. John Barleycorn's reign con tinued a loner time, and it is nat ural that the low-down places' should remain wet for a consider able period. WRANGLING OVER TREATY Real Battle Will Start in Sen ate Next Week Washington, March 2?Fire on the four power Pacific treaty was opened in the senate today from both Republican and Democratic quarters when it was called up for debate after ratification yesterday of the Yap treaty. The debate, however, was declared to be only a skirmish with the real fighting scheduled for next week.. Declarations against the four power treaty were delivered today by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Democrat on the foreign relations committee, and Senators Borah cf Idaho and France of j Maryland (Republicans), irrecon | cilables in the Versailles * treaty I fight. Senator Hitchcock, who sup ! ported - the Yap treaty, said he i would vote for the naval limitation : and Chinese treaties also, but would i not support the Pacific pact unless ? it was materially changed. Sena ! tors Borah and France declared ' their uncompromising opposition to \ the Pacific treaty. ? Plans of Republican leaders from proceedings with the four power I treaty apparently surprised the op j position. When it and its supple i ment. the latter bringing the scope j of the territory embraced, were ; laid before the house. Senator j Lodge of Massachusetts, Rcpubh I can leader, p.oposed that their con i sideration be deferred at least until tomorrow unless some senator de } sired to discuss the treaties. Mr. j Lodge said he did not desire to i "force" action and said he would i not open the debate but intended ! to hear first from the opposition. ! Senator Hitchcock, who is to be j absent 'a few days, therefore took the floor and *aunched the at-v ! tack. The Nebraska senator declared that the treaties constituted an ??alliance" and he also criticised vigorously the apparent secrecy surrounding their negotiations. It appeared, he declared, that the principal object" was to aid Great Eritain in getting rid of the Anglo Japanese alliance. A reservation proposed in the foreign relations committee's de liberations by Senator Brandegee (Republican) of Connecticut was advocated by Senator Hitchcock. He proposed insertion either by amend ment or reservation of the word, ! "unprovoked," in the obligation j clause. Without this change, he < said, he could not support the treaty, asserting that the United States should be obligated under the treaty only in case of .unprovok ed aggression against the signatory j powers. Senator Borah said that the al | leged defects could not be cured {either by reservation er am end J ment and Senator France declared ! the treaty would bring America into a "terrible war." Mr. France ' also declared that the Democrats ; would receive "their award at the hands of the American people" if j they stood against ratification. He j added that he would not attempt j concealment of the-hope that this j would result. . ! SWEET POTATO CURING HOUSE - !DalzeH and Providence Town I - i ship For Sweet Potato Cur i .* j ing House. Movement on Foot to Build Same j Two farmers from Providence i township came in Saturday and I conferred with the secretary of the ! Sumter Chamber of Commerce I about organizing for a big sweet } potato curing house to be located j at Dalzell. Several other farmers j of Dalzell and vicinity visited Man i ning a few days ago to look into j the potato curing house at that j place. I The Sumter Chamber of Com ! merce has offered to secure Mr. I George F. Hoffman, extension hbr [ ticulturist of Clemson to visit Dal I zell when Mr. Hoffman comes , to Sumter to go to Rembert to tell the farmers and merchants of that I place about the proposed twenty- . j five thousand bushel capacity cur I ing house for that section of Sum j tcr county. Dalzell. is a splendid ; location for big potatio curing and j marketing house as there are ! ample railroad facilities for ship i ping direct in carload lots, and Dalzell is located, like Rembert is. I convenient to a large agricultural territory peculiarly adapted to I sweet potato production. If Dal zell and Providence township J farmers and other business men ! want government advice and co | operation in the building of potato j curing houses the Chamber of I Commerce is ready to get the ex | ports there for cooperation. ? + m.' j j Brazilian Presidential Election. I . Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 28.?Two ; tickets are in the field for Brazil's j presidential election to be held to ! morrow. March 1. to choose a sue I cessor to Prrcsident JSpitacio Pes | soa. Governor Arthur Bernardes. of Mir.as Geraes. and Governor Ur ban*- Santos, of Maranhao. re spectively are the presidential and vice-presidential candidates by ; representatives of 16 states. Political leaders of the four re j maining states. Bahia, Pexmambuco. Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro, refused to accept the con vention's candidates and selected and opposition ticket with Nilo Pecanha. of Rio de Janeiro state, for president and Governor J. J. Seabra of Bahia for vice-president. Nilo Pecanha was president of the republic from. June. 1909 to November 1910. There is s?nie evidence, how ever, that statesmen who hold the sreering whea. have seen the sign: '"Turn to the right." Gloves are made from kid skins. Perhaps they skin the nefghnor'? kids. _^?mJliia^