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The Watchman and Southron - - ; Published Wednesday and Satur day fey Osteel Publishing Company, Sumter, S. C. Terms: $2.00 per annum?in advance. Advertisements: One Square, first J ^sertion - _ $ 1.0 0 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or %onger wil? be made at reduced rates. ." ? j AB communications which ' sub serve private interests will oe j charged for as advertisements. Obitiii^f- and tributes of re- ; spect wIlMse charged f#r. The Siimter Watchman was' founded in 1S5? and the True I Southron in 1866. The .Watchman aind "Southron how h?a. the com- ; bined circulatronr and influence of i both, of the old papers, and is man- ; ifestly'the best advertising medium I in, Summer._\ Martin L. Dayey. former eon-1 gressman and tree expert, proposes! two unpopular things?an increase j in gbyernmenial powers a:?d an in-*; cirease?;?^ federal taxes. His pro-j p^sals^rnjRverthj-i^8S, are not-to he! condemned off-hand. They are in- j tenfted^tO'-saye lumber and guaran- j tee an adequate supply for the fa- j iure. -i First," Mr. Davey would put all j lumherfng under federal regula- ? tios,. to/insure the srbppage of *"9r?st*?il.r,.method<?. This : sounds drasu^lbiK it is what nearly g very Sur<^fean^coun?y -of importance .j has.SnSS^ons since. Second, he would put a tax of *?1 j per' 1,000.'Jfeet on sJL tamoer cut; from now^on., Before, any p^c- j ducer or. "!ls*his^m? ? starts "honor- ! iisg" at that, let it be observed that j Jfevey wants to put "all of the ! money thus raised mta^feioiesta- j timx, to create a new supply of j timber to cut ancLuse. t There is Tittle likelihood of these \ suggestions being adopted at pros- ! ent^.bUT, if the experience, o? ether j rations- counts for anything we j shall be driven to do- something of j 'vB?rt before many years. Anyway > if Bryaa goes to Wash- \ mgt on as senator from Florida, -the j eocstry... will; know Florida is rep- | assented: irt the senate. 4 . * * France is in a tight plaee finan- ; cially, bat time , will straighten i tSat oat. The French people are i all hari at work. j ? * * ? < It ^begins to. look as tf the real! backbone of the late lamented | Bnaf\-3iooarchy was neither Aus- | tria. npr liungaryv bat a thrid fac- | tor i&T?#? Czecho-Slovakia. * * * ' Congress doesn't seem yet to \ loaye^thought of grinding a bonus; of the plant at Muscle Shoals, j - - L*. ? * * M^ybe Egypt's 2,000 years of po- 1 Itticad rest have fitted it for self government. . And then again, * maybe they haven't. j * * * So^wefreY really back on a gold \ basis again, and" anybody could get I cqod, yeUpw gold at a bank win- ! dow .for a yellow certificate, if he j had:/the yellow certificate. . * ? ? TEnJess we mistake the miscfaiev- j potentialities of the average j 3?ai3?2j?3f?s; we may safely say that; that/Antigonish ghost is, going to j haunt a.gQod many households for j a while. ; ? . . 1NWBOLESOLE FINANCIER- j ? a Two boys, eight and ten years ? ol? respectively, set out on a re-j -znarkable financial career the other' day. The younger child had been j sent I to tire store with 50 cents to i buy ? dozen eggs. He met the ten year^oldr" and between them they decirfedT ~t? do man)' things with the half-dollar. For 47 cents they1 bon^Kl'two one-way. tickets to a neighboring city. With the re-! maiaing *.:aree cents they pur- ? . chas>d penny pencils which they ! sold^for ^ five cents apiece- Re ne wltfg their stock, they continued : their selling, and when picked up ; by the local police had $1.31 and two unsold pencils. They said they - had hoped to have enough money to purchase a pair of shoes j and replace their mother's 50 cents J before starting for home. it ..is- a tale at which many grown-rnps will be inclined to laugh. Some even will think the boys weret "awfully cute" to do such a thing. In a way it was jus a fun ny little? escapade. In a number of | other ways it was rather serious, j and its gravei elements can l>e' blamed ebieny on'the adults with whom those boys had come in conta?. Xo responsible person should ? *;*.. j have?bought pencils from the boys on tie street or anywhere else. Xo responsible person approached as a prospective customer should have overlooked the boys* age or ignor ed" tWfF&k that they were ob- i viously engaged in an unlawful business. Oqce the boys were safely back I I I beneath the parental root, it is ro ! be hoped that they were told sim ply and clearly what they had done in appropriating the-egg money, in 1 running away from home, in sell . ing pencils at 400 per cent profit I and in trading on the pity or j amusement of their customers. ? m' m GOOD SEED. An expert writing in the "Coun ' try Gentleman" emphasizes the ! value of good seed. He offers five suggestions for making sure of the quality: ! "Using real care in selecting and buying seed. "Keeping clear of seed 'bar gains.' 'mixtures' and windy brag ging. "Checking up on the reputation ot the firm you expect to buy from. "Buying no seed at all unless it is iabeled in full so as to cover the following points: percentage of pure seed, percentage of foreign, material, noxious wseds. percen tage of germination and date of test and origin. "In case of doubt, or to make doubly sure, have the seed analyz ed, by the state seed laboratory or, if there isn't one. by the depart ment of agriculture at Washing ton." ? .. * I The planting, cultivation and harvesting of the farmer's or gar dener's crops involve a tremendous amount of labor. The folly, of nulli fying ail that effort by expending it on poor or doubtful: seed should need no emphasis. "German Mark hits Bottom and Rebounds," just as might be expect ed' of anjthing so. inflated. WRAXGERfc TShSSn. The formal annexation of Wrah gell Island to the British Empire is a reminder of how little land remains anywhere in tfee world un appropriated. The big powers have done a pretty complete job in the last half-century, especially Great Britain. It is surely approaching the end of the chapter when that country takes the trouble to raise its flag on a dreary oblong of froz en land in the Arctic Ocean, near the ultimate north. Wrangell Island is not a new dis covery. It has long been on the maps. An Ajruerlcan. placated the Stars and Stripes there in 1SS1, but the government never paid any at tention to the matter. It has usu ally' "been considered a part of Si beria, but the: Kassians have ignor ed it. The only reason that Ste f&nsson was able, on. his last ex ploring trip, to set up a British claim, was that nobody else has ever wanted the place enough to claim it. ? What the "British want with the island is hard to understand. Brit ain is already surfeited . with ter^ rirory, in ev^ery climate. Possibly ;there is coal or iron- or oil there, and some hundreds of years hence it may be made available; or the, earth .may.swing about in a few thousand years, as geologists say it has done more than once before, and bring a remperate or tropical climate .to the Arctic. Englishmen left may then want to move north. The reason given is that Wran gell ^'dominates the Bering strait,' whatever that may mean. It if* more than 200 miles to the north west, with*-the interval of solid most of the year, and is inhabited only by polar bears, Perhaps, that really explains the matter. There is no native popu lation to revolt. WrangeIPs loyalty can never be questioned. Those poiar bears can be depended' on. That must be a great comfort, in the pr^snet ?ate of the British Em pire. ' THE BEST EXPLOSIVE. Dr. Steinmetz, speaking of the difference between lightning energ> and an ordinary electric current, has explained that if is much like the difference between a pound of dynamite and a pint of gasoline. One is used up instantaneously, in a single powerful discharge, where as the other operates continuously for a measurable period of time. It is an illuminating distinction, showing the incomparable super iority of our artificial, controllable electric currents over the lightn ing that appeals so to the imagi nation. But there are many who do not follow ouvt the illustration itself to a realization of the vast j superiority of gasolir* over dyna- | mite as an energy-producer. A Denver newspaper, for example, remarks: "How long will it take men like Steinmetz and Edison and Burton and their kind to bring into sub Section dynamite, or the force be hind it? Burton is coming close to it in his discoveries tri oil refining and gasoline extraction. He is neanng the secret in the atom, j Dynamite or the equivalent of ! dynamite; a repressed explosive, as j it were, will be sending the air- j plane of the future along at a rate we hardly dare dream of just now. The problem may resolve itself j into perfecting a metal to with i stand ihe strain." Dynamite has its nse for certain ;' explosive purposes, such as blast . ing stone; but scientists say there ; is ten times as much explosive i energy in gasoline. A pint of gaso jline, evaporated in a closed house, j then ignited, will wreck the house {more effectually than, several ! pounds of dynamite. In addition. I it. has the great merit, referred ti J above, of being subject to control, j discharging its energy in small, i stead}' volume through a series of practically continuous explosions, instead of letting go all at once. ! Why, then, bother experimenting I with dynamite or anything else?.! j There may be some of the new ex plosives more powerful than gas oline, weight for weight, but they jare expensive, unstable and hard j j to control. In gasoline, as used : I in the gas engine, we actually have i Ithe best explosive known to science, i and should appreciate that fact. A JflLITARY VACATION. ? i?? The War Department figures on : training 30.000 young men at the i "summer Platxsburgs" this year, j three times as many as were j [handled last summer. Preparations: jare now being made. There will] j be a larger number of camps ! 'scattered all over the country to] ? * ' j facilitate transportation. Any j [eligible young man can count on: [finding a suitable, camp in his own j [ section. There ought to be a rush for j enlistment, and very likely there J will be. There is no war scare to \ stimulate interest, and the mind of | the nation is not turned on things j j mliitary at all just now, but for j j that very reason the summer camps | should have an appeal- They! will really mean an enjoyable and profitable summer vacation, at j j Uncle Sam's . expense. And those , benefltting by it may find cause to j wonder why . many of the hoys j who had a few months of the same j j thing during the war, and who i j:got more good out of it than any- j j tiling else they ever did in their j j lives, are now. asking a bonus fori W ? ? ?? ?EBT CANCELLATION. -? ' Otto H. Kahn, head of the bank-1 jfegr house of Kuhn, Loe1 & Co., j j would like to "cancel the allied j ldebts to America, to the extent that.' i*they.are war debts, not as a freei [gift, but in consideration of and ; return for adequate pledges and.' i action by the nations concerned, j ?leading to remedy of the. condi- \ Jtions which keep Europe in turn-i j moil and preventing it from exer- i j.cising its normal functions as con j sumer and- producer.". He thinks collection of the big j debt is impossible, and that if it j were possible, it would injure thia: ?country by disturbing economic j j conditions. So he would make the j } best of a bad thing by a sort ofj trade, giving Europe a. receipt in| full on condition that Europe j should balance its budgets, stop ! j printing depreciated currency, tear [down economic "spite fences" that;1 ?hinder trade, reduce sending t j armies and resume a normal?! j peaceful and sensible state of! mind. It might be a fair bargain at j t that if the conditions suggested ! could be met by our foreign deb-* J ; tors. E?!t getting the conditions } [agreed to and carried out would | j certainly call for statesmanship, j I - ? ? * (PLOW FACTORY PHILOSOPHY, i I -? ? i I The Country Gentleman tells how: fa certain plow factory in the J j south found "the short cut to j I prosperity." The story will bear: ? outlining. ! I Realizing that something must; j be done to bridge the chasm be- j j tween the cost of farm machinery j and the price of farm products, j this concern cut its prices back to \ the lf>14 level. Its business for the next month was the largest for the same month in any year! of its existence. Since raw materials and wages | were still higher than the price j level adopted, it became necessary j to operate the factory with the j highest possiole efficiency, eliminat- j ing all waste. This was done. The output of the men who are work- ' ing has been almost trebled over the days when loose methods were j pursued. The plows are selling like hot cakes, and the manufac turers are making a small but fair! profit. j This is the road which the man! who hopes to make money in L?22 must follow. The sooner every body wakes up to this fact, the better. There are hopeful indica- j tions on etery hand that the alarm j o'clock of .truth is rousing the' drea me rs. We ?>nee saved for a rainy day: now we save for an income tax day. It's hard for a rounder in be To-day's Best Jokes. 'Mir? Stores The modern child learns a I >ts mother's knee to roll its own. After a mar* gets up in the world, j he usually gets: down at S a.m. Fortunately,, however, posterity will have only epitaphs to Judge us by. It is difficult to decide whether Europe needs another Moses or an other Columbus. The worst of men have some good in them, and even the hard-boilod j are white under the shell. At any rate, new knowledge of geography got from conferences! will afford a fresh supply of names i for Pullman cars. Enemies would unseat Lloyd George quickly enough if they knew where to find another like him. ?'Why is a widow so attractive j to men?" asks.a psychologist. Usu-| ally it's the life insurant. . About the only thing to say.in favor of bobbed hair is that ir is obviously fastened at. or.e end. Both a living wage. an?I a fair return on capital are possible after j one learns to make two bite* of a f cherry. Even after the.bonus is granted; there will be other elections, and i what will the candidates do then, ; poor things?' Uncle Sam shouldn't be unreas onable. He should remember that he took his own time to pay his debt to Lafayette: We suspect at .-times that our butcher is descended from some jungle ancesror wftd used to lte in wait to get hfs living: -: With a feeling of,spring in the air, it becomes more and more dif ficult to sympathize' with the aTmy of unemployed. ! As we understand , it, when a country makes trouble enough to overbalance the profit ir no longer needs a pror^ctorate. Virtue is usually triumphant, and you will notice that the man who shoots- in self-defense usually gets his gtin out first. Crime is becoming; more demo cratic, anyway. There are fewer automoble bandit* arid more plain stick-up men* in the headlines. This move to . educate . lawyers is all right, but Itt us cling to the democratic theory that any fool is good enough for a juryman. As ? rule the European who courts an American fortune is rid ing for a fall, but it must be remem bered that Max Oser is a riding master.' When- a man losew his memory and wanders from home;, the family usually deserve less sympathy than the bonding* company. Fresh: "O nly too Is are positive.' Ditto: "Are you sure?" Fresh: "I'm positive."?-College I Days. "Ugh! That apple had a worm in it." "Here's a glass ot water to wash it down." "Wash it down? Not much* Let him walk!"?Bevo Bottler. Shopper: 'T want to get a fashionable skirt." Saleslady: ??Yes-, madam. Will' you have it too tight or too short?" ?Life. "J have decided to call my home ! brew 'frog'," remarked Nutt. -Why?" asked Bolt. "Because it has. plenty of hops, j but not much kick."" replied Nutt. ' ?Milwaukee Sentinel The Beast.: "You used to say there was something about me that you liked.' Beauty: "Yes, but'yo?'ve spent it all now."?Virginia Reel. When mother entered the nursery she found Mttrrel in tears, and in response to her inquiry the child j explained: "We were playing at weddings; j and Paul threw rice all over me." "You shouldn't cry for a small thing like that. It's to bring lack to the bride" "But,"' protested Muriel; still sniffling. "what he used was in the pudding."?Woman's Weekly. She was fond of the works of the poet Browning. Going into the country, xhe forgot to take her copy Of her favorite anthor. She de- j termined to try and get one of the shop. j "Have vou Browning?** she ask- i ed. j. "Xo ma'am." was the reply of j the salesman; "we have blacking, i bluing and whiting, hut no brown- Ji ing.'*?Paefic Drug Review. "Yes." said the young wife proudly, "father always gives some- ; thing expensive when he -make**! present*" "So 1 discovered when he gave j you away." rejoined the young hup- ; 'eund feelingly,?'<'omeb3fk. Deacon: "Do you know any f hing al-nut parts?" Choir Leader (formerly autoino- j hile mechanic^: "Sure. Thp sop-I faru> needs a new valve, and the j bans odght to have hi* exhaust fix- 1 ed."---Judge. \ i ?'Unfair, I say,'' remarked the glove counter gtirl with the red hair. "What is unfair?" "The way chey treated that ship that just Innded from England." -What did they do to it?" **Jt had been only four days crossing the Atlantic; hadn't laid off an hour, had run every minur<~??' "Yes?" ".And still, when it got here, they docked it!"?Sympathy. Dialogue between husband and wife at the breakfast table: "Swinburne, what do y.-.u think: the grocer refused to give us any more credit." "Well, my dear, perhaps we ought to give one of the other gro cers a. chance."?Elements. "John Henry." said his wife, with strong severity. "I saw you coming out of a saloon this afternoon." "Well, madam," replied the ob durate John, "you wouldn't have me stay in there, would you?" Henpecked. Politely Said.?Traffic rules sent by a tire magazine to the United States for guidance of Ameircaw touring in Japan: "At the rise of the hand of the honorable policeman stop with rapidness greatly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him. "When a passenger of foot hove, in sight tootle the horn trumpet to him melodiously at first. If he still, obstacles your passage tootle him with large vigor, and express by word of the mout a warning. 'Hi. hi.' "Beware of the wandering sow thai he shall not. take fright as you pass him. Do not-explode the ex hatist noise box at hirn. Co smooth ly by. ' "Give space to the festive dog that makes play-sport in the road way. Avoid entanglement Of the dog with you wheel spokes. ' "Go smoothly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skiddy d?mon. Press the brake of the foot smooth ly as you roll around the corners and save collapse and tie up. "Thank yon, honorably."?The Campus Democracy: Tyranny by group instead of an individual. Scandal* in low society would be just as interesting as those in high society! bat think of the price if paper. * .Of course the stars get big sal aries, but think what the drug ped dlers make. A publicity agent is invaluable to a star if he can double as a privacy agent. ; > . The first letter in a speeder's 'obituary , is 1er 'er go ! The beer and bonus question has only an academic interest for the doughboy on the Rhine. Naturally enough, it is a reign of 'lawlessness that keeps the coun try wet in spots. ; A scrap of paper came near to ?wrecking civilization: a flood of paper may yet finish the job. After ?'statesmen' have tried ev erything else, they give up in de spa tr arid do the sensible thins:. 'Ail- working at statesmanship and no playing at politics makes Jact a mere private citizen again. Divorce courts remind us that even in the case Of a love match a little friction makes the end hot. One of the most difficult mem ory tests is the effort'of the n -wly rich to remember the names of eld friends. A Case of Sleeping Sickness. An unusual case'is reported from Clarendon county. More than two weeks ago Hehry Thigpen. the 8 year-olcf son of Mr. Sam Thigpen, ? who lives about six miles south of Manning was stricken with sleep ing sickness. For several days prior to his falling into a deep Sleep from which he ooV'i not be aroused, the hoy comph- .vd of pains in the neck and head-. As soon as he was stricken the fam ily physician was called in, and the case was diagnosed as sleeping sickness and the parents were ad vised that nothing could be done as there was no known remedy for this disease. As a last resort Dr. A. D.' Plowden. the Snmrer chiro practor; was called! in and he un dertook to treat the child. After the' first Treatment Saturday the child regained consciousness and remained awake three hours. Sun day he was awake for six hours and his condition is such that his recovery is'now confidently expect ed. m m m Baltimore, March 27?Because of failure of negotiations between the scale committees of the Northern West Virginia Coal Operators Asso ciation and district seventeen Cni teci Mine Workers for a new wage agreement the operators have de cided to close down fifty mines dur ing the- general strike. WANTED?To buy pair Of mules, not over seven years old and weighing about !,20<t pounds. Parties offering mules must have them in city lot in rear of Opera House Saturday. April Srh at 12 o'clock, s. O'Q.uinn. City Manager. WANTED?To buy pure Guernsey: or .Jersey milk <ou. fresh in milk. Nothing under ten quarts con sidered. Write P. K. Patton, care ftem *Olfice. SumteY, s. <'. WANTED?To take orders at my home to make hats, if interest ed, call S7!t?L. Mrs. C W. M> OW'W, corner Magnolia and Vfyr tie streets. COTTON MABKET HEW Y?RK CDTT??. ^ Odbb HI*h Low Close Close Jan. .. ?6.59 ?6.60 16.50 16.56 16.58 May 17.65 17.73 17.50 ?7.64 /.67 July . 17.12 17.16 16.94 17.06 17.1a Oct. 16-77 16.83 16.61 16.7? ?G./9 Dec. ?6.66 ?6.71 ?6.54 ?6.65 ?6.69 sjmn .*> oft, -ir.fth New Orleans Cotton. Y'st'dy's Open Hl?h Low Close Cios? May 16.38 ?6.46 16.23 16.41 16.45 July IG.25 16.34 16.13 16.29 16.33 1 Oft. 15.95 16.00 15.77 ?5.92 15.98 \ Dec . ?5.80 ?5.80 Spots, 23 up. to.7.". LIVERPOOL COTTON. January 9.GO March. 10-26 May. ?0..I2 July .. . 10.03 October . . 9.79 : December .- . - 9.68 i S^j>s. lt/.uou: Receipts. 9.00?: Middling ' 10.60; Good Middling 11.1?. Chscsigo Tribune* on Cirain. Chi?ago, March 27.?Develop ments in the last week suggest that there is enough wheat in tlx* j world for nil requirements between j now and harvesr although the ad j justment is close, and there pos I slbly will be a small carry-over, but ; no surplus like there should be to : make a comfortable situation. There are liberal quantities of wheat on ocean passage, .supplies are ar riving at importing countries pos : sxhly a little too fast for distribu | ters to take off. Financial coii I d it ions are such that both import | ers and exporters are not disposed ! fo stand on their holdings when I ever there is pronounced weakness j in the. market values or lessening I in the demand. There is a read 1 justment of wheat futures to cash prices in all markets, and in this re i spect the market is regarded as in , better shape. The crop season is I at hand, conditions are spotted . particularly in the southwest where ?There has been an abundance of I rain, and with growing weather j crop conditions should show im ; provement. Liquidation of winter; I shelled corn of which there is near ly fifty million bushels in the visi ble supply and lower prices are expected by trade in general. The ' question being asked on all sides, is ; what is to be done with it during j j the growing period which is near i at hand2 Amateur Athletics to Organize Cincinnati, (>.. March 22? Hav j ing set a precedent in the organi zation of an Amateur Commission, j an association of umpires, and a i school of umpires, Cincinnati ama-[ ' tear and semi-pro-baseball players j are now planning for a "broth-! : erhood" or players in the IS year-j . old class and under the now organ- I i ization will he conducted along the J j line of a fraternal association, even \ : to the inclusion of the insurance; ' feature. Another purpose of the j i body will be the establishment of a j i well governed general meeting j place for the rising young stars ; i where the in and out of rh?? game j . may be disc-used in an atmosphere j ! of responsible supervision, i wheree a Silting down doesn/t leave any footprints on the sands of time. : Only reason they'wear cotton is~i .because they a'*e saving the silk' i nes for a rainy day. Columbia Dry Batteries work better and last longer ?for bells and buzzers ?for thermostat* ?for gas engines ?for dry battery lighting in closet, cellar, garret, barn, etc. ? for ignition on the Ford while starting The world's most famous dry battery. Used where group of individual cells is needed. Fahnestock Spring Clip Bind' ing Posts at no extra cftarge How many uses you have for Columbia! For doorbells, buzzers, thermostats, and alarms, use one Columbia "Bell Ringer" or two Columbia "No. 6" Batteries. For ignition on gas engines and tractors, use Columbia "Hot Snot" Ignition Bat tery No. 1461. Full power when you need it most, while starring. For quick starting ignition on Fords, use the same size Columbia "Hot Shor" Ignition Bat tery No. 146:. Saves your back, temper, and time. Fits under the front seat. Sold by electricians, auto supply shop&and garages, hardware and general stores, and implement dealers* Insist upon Columbia. CoimnMa Dry PnnrklPQ UTifi time after thchr Wooming season. A up??t;2> ttllU , The larkspurs are almost as ea>i XiSrkSDlirS i ly lreate<l- bnt Jt the ground is in _ *^ j condition they should be raked ra? m a iV, v -r r i I lightly, being larger and needing Two of the most beautiful and I However, a very large eas?y grown annuals should be.1 ent of them come up mere. sown outdoors as soon as the seeds 1 Jy lhrough. heins ]>eaten }nto the can be procured just as confident- J Th(> spring rains and ^ ly as grass seed. These are P'>P-, anyone who grows them knows, pies, particularly the Shirley va- th(J seU_sow in great quantity. r.eties. and the annual larkspurs, are uvo annuals that do ^ These annuals are so hardy that j ^ w have paniculariy rieh soil the young selt-sown plante fromM f]fourirti and w?l &:ve a beauti" last fall usually survive tne win- j m displav in ^ situation in any ter and come right along giving an I firing onlv plenty of W early crop of bloom. There is no ; ?<>r deveioi)ment. The lar? more gorgeous display than a bed . rs wjn de fairlv w<k? eveft Ut of scarlet poppies of the Shirley j tho shade type, none more delicately beauti-' ^ Newport pink' or lustrous ful than the silky crimped pink, j carinine is one of the finest of the rose and salmon shades m thisj larkspurs being particularly strik eas?y grown plant : when asaociated with the blue Merelv scatter the seed thinly! over the place where it is wanted 1 ? ? ? and let nature do the rest, thinning j the plants so that they will have at j Expecting France to pay is just lea^t eight inche seach way. A foot|as unreasonable as expecting a, would be better, but th\^ smaller! man to pay his' rocery bill while distance will give a mass effect j the jitney needs gasoline, more quickly. Crowding the plant ? ? m* ? lessens the size and number of J In some ways the world is blooms per plant and the side j more efficient, but it is to be re branches do not develop in this ?; membered that the ancients carted condition as they do when the plant j away the indemnity at the time has plenty of room. These pop- j > ? ? *? pies are excellent to sprinkle over ? If a girl hasn't a shape to adorn the tulip *>cds just as the tulips j a bathing suit, she can always get are coming through the ground: or j her picture in the paper by an* even right now. The-' will then | nouncing she will run for office, have attained a start s> rhar th-^y j ? * ? will cover the dying leaves cf. the The hand that rocks.the cradle tulips, which are unsightly for some I doesn't pet the poodle dog. WESTICK: DIVIDED WE ARE ST?CK WE HA VE DECIDED TO STICK. W. A. Alston. R. ?. Atkinson. F. W. Andrews. A. L. Ardis. S. W. Allan. J? ft. Atkinson. R. B. Baiser, N. L. aroughton. R: L. Burkette. H. D. Brunson, R. K. Brown, M. M. Brown, J. H. Burke. A. C- Burrows, ?. S. Boc-ttt, J. D. Slack*-!!. S. my am a Burrows, E. .S. .Brown. R. A. Bradham, Jas. C. cryan, J. P-. BMW Henry Benenttaley, W. F. Baker. T. B. Brunson, Jr. J. R. Sail, W. T. Brogdon. A. M. Brugdun. J. C. Brogdon. H. a. Barktoy. p. K. Bowman, P. E. Brunsen. J. J. Britto n. F. P. Bradford. H. H. Brunsen. B. W. Broftdon. Sr. S. S. Brunson. C. W- Brunsen. J. A. Blackweil. John I. Brogdon. J. B. Britton, Cain Farm, A. B. Cubbage, I. L Coleman. T. H. Glarke, T. M. Croswell. Thos. Collier. J. H. Chandler. S. Cherry. EL B. Cotcfough. E. W. Oabbs. J. C. Dunbar, F. M. ? wight, er. W. Oabbs. Jr.. J. T. Dennis. W. E. Dick. R. A. Dennis. J. R. Doliard. L. C. Durant. J. K. Durant, W. R. DuBose, M. S. Davis. B. W. DesChamps, G. E. DuBose. Joel Davis. R. S. DesChamps, T. E. Edens, H. T. Edens. H. C. Edens. Juhn L. Frierson, J. A. Frierson, J. M. FogJe. S. D. Fraser. S. W. Gardner. S. W. Gillespie. S. P. Gaillard. P. P. Gaillard. W. W. Green. H. T. Goodman. M. Goldberg. J. J: Geddings. G. V. Green. M. D. Gallachat, C. H. Goodman. W. G. Geddings, J. B. Gordon. T. W. Geddings. B. L. Holland. H. W. Harby. E. B. Hodge. Hugh C. Haynswortb, J. H. Hopkins, A. T. Haynswortb, A. P. Hinsoji. A. W. Hearon. J. F. Horton. C. B. Hay. S. A. Harvin. Seymour Howard, J. H. Hammond, Ezra Hodge. R. W. Ingram, ? C. J. Jackson. L. D. Jennings. M. R. Jackson. L. :<. Jackson, T. C. Josey. Geo. D. Jennings. J. M. Jackson. C. P. Josey. jno. E. Joy. P. L. Jones. Rott. M. Jones. R. G. Jone?. Miss Annie Keels. T. J. Keels, J. A. Kolb. H. C. Keels. W. E. Kolb, T. J. Kirven. Jr. J. M. Kolb. J. T. Keels. E. R. Keels. M. S. ICirh. T. 8. K*s*%dy. G. A. Lenuion, G. H. Lenoir, W. J. Lawrence. Sr. W. J. Lawrence. Jr. R. M. Moore. G. W. Maftoney. Thos, R. Moody. J. A% Mims. T. E. Mims. W. H. Miller. S. L. Mims. W. W. Moore. A. P. Mims. j. W. Marshall. F. M. Moise. E. B. Muidrow. H. M. McLaurin, j. H. MeLeod. J. D. McLeod. T. D. McLeod. B. R. McErveen, J. C. McElveen. W. D. McLeod. S. M. McCoy. M. McClam, B. McLaughlin. R. McElveen. T. M. McLeod, R. E. Newman. G. A. Netttts. F. A. Newman. J. D. Newman, L. J. Newman. Sam Newman. B. M. Oliver. J. B. Osteen. F. A. Osteen. M. L. Parier. S. 0. Plowden. R. 0. Purdy. A. C. Photos. S. W. Pringle. C. L. Player. Robert Perry. A. J. Pringle. T. H. Parker. J. R. Prescott, M. V. Plowden. E. E. Rembert. J. A. Reams, W. S. Reams. J. H. Robinson, j. H. Ryan. W. H. Ramsey. Marion Rivers, A. R. Rellins. J. E. Sanders, A. F. Smith, u. L. Smith. Leon Stuckey, H. L. Scarborough, A. K. Sanders, J. W. Stackey, Willie Shaw, W. L. SauBders, W. J. Sanders. B. Singleton. W. S. Thompson. W. 0. Tisdale. S. W. Truluek. W. 0. Truluek, J. R. Terty, E. A. Terry. S. Y. Topper, K. S. Tupw. M. E. Teulack. K M. Tratack, Geo. Tiadal, H. Truitraan, H. D. Tindaf. A. C. Thempsen, S. I. Thames. W. S. Tisdale.* D. L. Tintfal. J. Frank Williams, T. C. Watson. S. I. Wilson. - J. J. Whilden, R. C. Williams, L. L. White* R. W. Westberry. j. T. Wttherspooa. Hugh Witherspeen. S. J. White, S. F. Weeks, S. Weinberg. B. F. Wilder, B. R. White. J. W. Wasbingten, F. M. Weatherly. Ratter White, E. A. Weatberiy, S. W. Young, C. W. Young. j. F. Yarberough. G. ?V ZeigJer. L. D. Welsh. S. U. Welsh. Brother Farmer: Will you stick with us, or will you continue to be stuck? Ahe above contracts are actually in the office. If you have .signed, and your name is not in the above list take the matter up with the County Director, Cham ber of Commerce. ALL CANVASSERS ARE REQUESTED TO SEND IN ALL*CONTRACTS IN THEIR POSSESSION IMMEDIATELY. Over Seventeen Thousand Hales in the Office. We want not less than TWENTY THOUSAND. Who will put us over? THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. THE SUMTER TRUST CO. NATIONAL BANK OF S. C. CITY NATIONAL BANK, im