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Sumter School Contest.

Sulnter.-The committee in charge
Of county school day for 1914 has an
nounced that Saturday, April Is, will
be the day on which the pupils Of the
county schools will meet in Sumter
and contest for the many prizes Of
fered. The subjects are divided under
scholarship, manual training. domestic
science and athletics. Forty-seven
prizes are offered in the scholarship
contest, including one each to boys
and girls for declarations. In the
manual training department there are
eight contests and as many prizes, .orse
being for the best stable fly trap
made according to the government
bulletin. Under domestic scieace
there are Il contests and 10 prizes
offered for sewing and IA for cooking
Under athletics there are three cor-
tests and three prizes each for girla
and boys IN running and for boYf
and there are four for contests U
jumping. ss +,
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lessons PERILS OF THE SEA
Frenchmian Has Come Forward With
Jacket Which Is Light and Alb
~soIuteIy Unsuitable.

1t seems that life buoys, cork jack
cts and all such life saving appa-
ratus are now superseded by the life
saving jackets Of a M. Deruder, which
are lined with a little known sub
stance called "kapok," a sort Of very
fine cotton wood which surrounds the
seeds of certain trees.
The other afternoon, in the pres
ence Of representatives Of the min
istry of marine, the prefecture Of the
French Maritime league, and the Gen.
trail Life Saving society, three men,
clad in kapok lined jackets and waist
coats, flung themselves haphazard
into the Seine, at Paris, near the
Pont Alexandra. A second afterwards
they bobbed up cheerfully and very
much at their ease. One Of them
drew a bottle and a glass from his
pocket and drank to the health Of the
inventor in unwatered cognac. Soon
afterwards they were joined in the
water by a young lady, Mile. Renee
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FRUIT LAXATIVE
FOR SICK CHILD
HCaIifornia Syrup of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels. ].

Every mother realizes, after giving
her children California Syrup OF
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love its pleasant taste
and It thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with
out gripping.
When cross, irritable, feverish or
bxeath Is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! II coated, give .
teaspoonful Of this harmless fruit
laxative" and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out Of the bow
els, and you have a well, playful child.
again. When its little system is full
of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache,
d~iarrhoea, Indigestion, colic-remem.
Der, a good INSIDE cleaning" should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions Of mothers keep California
Syrup Of Figs" handy; they know 9
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 90,
cent bottle Of California Syrup OF
Figs" which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and 'grown:ups
printed on the bottle. ADV.
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QUIT MEAT IF KIDNEYS
BOTHER AND USE SALTS
Take a Glass of Salts Before Break
fast If Your Back 10 Hurting or
Bladder Is irrltated. -

If you must have your meat every
day, eat it, but flush your kidneys with
salts occasionally, says a noted author
ity who tells us that meat forms uric
acid which almost paralyzes the kid
news in their efforts to expel it from
the blood. They become sluggish and
weaken, then you suffer with a dull
misery in the kidney region, sharp
pains in the back or sick headache,
dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue
Is coated and when the weather Is lad
you have rheumatic twinges. The
urine gets cloudy, full Of sediment, the
channels often get sore and ~trrttated.
obliging you to seek relief two or
three times during the night. =.
To neutralize these irritating acids,
to cleanse the kidneys and flush on
the body's urinous waste get four
ounces of Jad Salts from any phar-
macy here; take a tablespoonful IN a
glass of water before breakfast for q
few days and your kidneys will then
act fine. This famous salts Is made
from the acid Of grapes and lemon
Juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to flush and
stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to
n~eutralize the acids in urine, so it no
longer irritates, thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
lure, and makes a delightful eferves.
cent ~lithia.water drink.-Adv.
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Will Have Field Day.

Enthusiastically in the audi.
torirm of the Central graded school
building the February melting Of the
Lancaster County Educational Associ.
alton was held. Notwithstanding mud.
dy roads and extremely cold weather,
the attendance was unusually good
and a highly profitable and interesting
program was enthusiastically carried
out, 1t the conclusion Of which the
teachers entered heartily into a dis.
cussion of plans and suggestions con.
corning the county field day exercises
to be held at this place March 81.
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RAT DESERVES NO MERCY
Has Been Estimated That Its Presence
Costs This Country Sum of $751;
100000 a Year.

According to a bulletin issued by the
Ohio state board of health, there are
more rats in the United States than
there are people. The incorporated
Society FOR the Destruction Of Vermin
estimates that there is at least one
rat for every man, woman and child
in the British Isles. Similar estimates
have been made for Germany, France
and Denmark.
The annual cost Of each rat to the
country has been computed at $3.50 in
Great Britain, S1.20 in Denmark and 81
in France. AS specimens Of the dep
relations of rats, DR.. Lantz, in Pub
lie Health Bulletin Nc. 80, cites the
following:
IAN Iowa farmer, writing to an agri-
cultural journal, reported that rats had
destroyed in one winter about 500
bushels of corn of a total of 1000
bushels stored in cribs. Another farm
er reported that rats had robbed him
of an entire summers Matching Of 300
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WILL ENLARGE FACILITIES
$751; oo, 900 to Be Spent BY, Southern
Railway on Improvements and
New Equipment.

Washington, D. C.-Fairfax Harri-
son, president of the Southern Rail-
way Company, said a few days ago.
Southern Railway Company, be-
lieving in the continued prosperity
and growth of the territory it serves.
and, recognizing the necessity of en-
larging its facilities to keep pace with
that growth, has. pending the i'm
provement of the market for long
t rm securities, sold ten million dol,
lars of FIVE per cent three year notes
secured by the pledge Of development
and general mortgage four per cent
bonds of the company, which for some
time past have been held in the treas.
ury Of the company available for sale.
"This new capital is to be applied
by Southern Railway Company In
carrying through to completion plans
for improvements and betterments to
and upon the property Of Southern
Railway Company which were includ-
ed in the general plan for the futuke
of the railroad made at the time the
development and general mortgage
was created in 1906. The particular
improvements now to be undertaken
are chiefly additional and enlarged
shops, yards and other freight termi-
nails which have been greatly desired,
and have been earnestly recommend
ed for several years past to facilitate
economical, operation and to enlarge
the opportunity of the company for Sc
curing competitive freight traffic as
well as. for taking care Of local bus
mess. These improvements will be
undertaken at once and pushed to
completion as rapidly as possible.
"In addition to the improvements
provided for, as above stated, South.
ern Railway Company has also ar.
ranged to finance, through a ten-year
equipment trust, the acquisition of ad.
ditional modern rolling stock largely OF
steel construction, representing an ag.
gregate cost of more than five million
dollars. Bids for this additional roll.
ing stock are now being received from
manufacturers and the orders for i'm
mediate construction will be placed
promptly"
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moon in Spain she gushed, restored
to a good temper by Broadway's expla-
nation.
"Spain!" 1t was Wallace who ex-
claimed.
Eyes, Spain," said Broadway, too
elated at the thought of finding cash
to pay bills to be worried about any.
thing. I'm going out this afternoon
to buy a sombrero and a tambourine.
Won't you congratulate US, Wallace2"
But Wallace simply could not trust
his ears. Jackson, if you're trying to
fool me-"
There he goes again." cried the
now thoroughly Infatuated bride-elect,
jackson, I'm not going to stay here
and be insulted in such a manner!"
There! There!" Jackson soothed,
following her as she essayed to leave
the room. Don't be worried. Mr..
Wallace only thinks we're fooling
him" "
But why should he think such a
thing?"
Wallace, again contrite. approached
and started to apologize. She waved
him back with a wild hand.
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Nurse Does Great Work.

Sumter.-The people Of Sumter gen.
orally show great interest in the dis.
trict nurse work Of the town, which
is n Of the departments of the Civic
League Of Sumter and is almost en-
tirely supported by popular subscrip-
ton. The league has recently. pub
lished it's sixth annual report Of this
work. The nurse employed is Miss
Antonio Gibson of this city, a gradu-
ate registered nurse and president Of
the Sumter Nurses Association. Miss
Gibson has had many years expert
ence in private and In district nurs-
ing. She has much influence with
her city patients and il popular with
them as we'll as with the people Of the
town.
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MUCH HAPPIER
Than 10 YEARS AGO
Bradyville Lady Tells Why She 81
So Much Happier Now Than
Ten Years Ago. @

Bradyvflle, Tenn.-Mrs. Matte Spry.y
Of this place; makes the following
statement: "Ten years ago, ] was as
great sufferer from womanly troubles,
and was in. bed nearly all the time,
for about two years. / tried many
treatments, but they did not seem to
do me any good.
I read in the Ladies' Birthday Al
a about Cardui, the woman's
tonic, and I quit all other treatmepts
and began taking it. ! took 8 bottles,
and was cured.
That has been ten years ago, and!
since then I have been in better health
and spirits, than for 20 years.
My oldest daughter was very puny
at the age Of 10. ! gave her cardut,
and she was soon all right, and now
enjoys the best of health.
I am so thankful that I know Of g.
true medicine that I can give my girls,
or take myself, and that 7 know what
medicine to send for, when ] need .
tonic.
1 am very much alive now, and GER
tainly enjoy telling my friends, when
they ask me what I found at last to
help me SO much. about Cardui. I can
never praise 1t enough"
You, too, can surely depend on Car
dui helping you. -,
Begin taking it today. *,
D., N. R-Wnss 70. Ladies' Advisory Dept, Chatta.
Nnooga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga, Tenn. fof
Soeeiol Lnsructions, and 64page book. Home Treat
ment for Women" sent IN plain wrapper. On
request. Adv.
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Harper Will Make Purchases.

Clemson College.-Prof. J. H. Har.
per, director of the agricultural de.
partment of Clemson College, has &C.
cepted an invitation to conduct one
of the conference at the 1914 Confer.
ence for Education in the South, to be
held in Louisville, KY, April 7 to 10,
inclusive. Prof. Harper will conduct
the conference dealing with the CO.
operative purchase Of supplies, organ.
izing those who meet with him into
an association for the purchase of
farm requirements, and developing
this idea through the four days.
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( Broadway, himself with nerves un
strung almost to hysteria, began tt
hum a tune and walk about, endeavor
ing to look unconscious. Wallace eyed
him with new hope kindling in his
eyes. Was it, after.all, a jest?
Now see here, Jackson; If you're
| trying to fool me I want to know! L
Mrs. Gerard, who had been upon the
point Of granting him forgiveness
| stiffened in new wrath. There you &C
again." she screamed Historically
Another INSULT" =
Really Mrs. Gerard, I didn't mean
it."
Then what did you mean" The
lady fixed him with a baleful glance.
He was entirely undone. why, L
God knows! 1 DON'T"
WELL" said Jackson, II think I do
You're still in doubt as to whether OF
not we are really going to be married
Isn't that it?".
Put thus lucidly and simply, Wallace
could not definitely deny that that ex
planned his mental state. He had
opened his distressed lips to admit
this when Mrs. Gerard prevented the
expression Of his worries with: {
"Rut why should he imagine such a
thing? I"
Broadway rose to the occasion, near
lily making Wallace faint with the glib
ease with which he used endearing
words when talking to the ancient
dame. Just a moment, sweetheart
dearie-please!" Then he turned to
Wallace. Come on, now; tell me the
truth" -.
well, I. will admit" said his mis-
erably heartsick friend, that at first
1 did think it was a joke. But"
And you're not quite satisfied yet
that it is not?" -,
why, Of course, If you say-why-'
"Tll put you right. It'll all true
We're engaged. We're going to be
married and we expect to be very hap
py. Do you believe it, now?"
why, certainly, II you say 80" His
next question was Of Mrs. Gerard
MAY 1 ask how long you've been en-
gaged?"
I'VE became engaged last night at
dinner"
That's right. 1t was last night at
dinner" her flance corroborated. 1T
was during the ice cream"
1T all happened in a moment" said
the bride-elect. .-t
"Just like this" said Jackson. "See?
Only one question asked: Will you
marry me?' And I said Yes"
"What?" cried his Mortified inamo-
rata. =
II mean she said yes Beatrice said
yes" corrected Jackson. .
Were going to spend our honey,
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or 400 chicks, and still another one at
tributed his loss in grain and poultry
for one season due to rats as sufficient
to pay his taxes for three years."
The upkeep Of a rat in this country
Is about half a cent a day. Estimating
one rat to each person, s167, O00, 900 are
lost annually by the depredations of
this pest.
Rats beginto bear young when three
months old. They will litter about
six times a year and bear from 6 to IL
at a litter. This remarkable fecundity,
together with the fact that they are
nocturnal in their habits and live in
hidden holes, accounts for the large
rat population and emphasizes the diff
.ficulty of destruction on a wholesale
scale.
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Barderes, in an elegantly cut Deruder'
lied garment.
v to Doctors,

"Be cheerful" That is Sir Squire
Bancroft's advice to the doctors. DR..
Stephen Paget, in his "Confessio
Medici"-that most companionable Of
bo~oks-dilates on the same theme.
IF you must stay" he says to the
young practitioner who Is invited to
tea, do not stay long, and keep tho
door on your lips. Talk Of the pa.
tient, Of the weather. Or Of the propo-
sition, which will as surely as the
bread-and-butter be handed to you,
that There is a good deal Of iNness
about Avoid all topics of church and
state, quote neither poetry nor prose,
give neither censure nor approval to
music and the drama, hide your lik-
ing for any art but your own. Leave
behind you, for gossip to lap, a saucer
full of the. milk of human Kindness"
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ce sat looking at him dumb.

lace sat looking at him dumb.
But I've had a wonderful t1me!~
said Broadway finally.
How long have you been broker"
about six months. My credits calr
ried me on. When I first went brokf
I made up my mind I wouldn't run IN
debt, no matter what happened. I put
on an old suit of clothes that morning.
and started out looking for a job"
What kind Of a job?"
ANY kind of ajeb. Messenger boy.
elevator boy-I didn't care! l promised
myself I'd earn my living without be,r
ging, borrowing or stealing"
He told Wallace of his stealthy
search Dor the elusive job which was
to have paid up his debts and started
him again, this time as a millionaire
in process II construction Of new mir
lions.
81 started hooking for a 'boy-wante.r
sign. 1t SOUNDS funny, but it is a fack
My intentions were the best In all the
world. But I got to thinking of some
thing else, after I had walked a block
or two, and where do you suppose
was when 1 woke Mp? In Delmonicolb
eating breakfast! Turned in there OFT
Of force Of habit. r
"I made a dozen attempts to do the
right thing. / cut out automobiles and
rode in street cars for three days; /
went to an opening night at a theater
and sat in the gallery; I bought a pair
Of ready-made shoes; I ate meals at q
forty-cent table d-hote and smoked
five-cent cigars-practicing, just praA
ticing, trying to get used to It.
but I couldn't. That was ALL sfnt
ply couldn't! All my good resolutions
went to smash every time I took \
look at Broadway. I knew my credf
was good; the things I wanted weIs
there; I could have them; so-welt
I took them, that was ALL"
"And now" said Wallace, who has
sat, at first incredulous, and, late:
spellbound, during the recital, "y6A
are fifty thousand dollars in debit"
IT don't know the exact amount, bIi
that's a fairly good guess" -.
you've been pretty quiet about *
It hasn't seemed to worry you much!"
Hasn't worried me?" Broadway'a
voice was bitter. well, I don't mind
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Spartanburq viii Celebrate.

Spartanburg.-The opening Of the
Chapman building, the only business
structure in Spartanburg of the Sky
scraper" type, and the initial opera
ton of a regular schedule of cars be-
tween this city and Greenville over
the line of the interurban will be the
subject of a dual celebration here If
the plans Of the promoters Of the
scehme do not miscarry. The Chap
mar building will probably see its
initial opening between March 10 and
March 16, and the cars of the G., S.
& A., will be running by that time.
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SYNOPSIS

Jackson Jones, nicknamed Broadway,
because of his continual g~lorihcation or
New York's great t~horoughfare. is anx.
ious to get away from his home town OF
Jo~nesvtlie. Abner Jones. his uncle. is
very angry because Broadway refuses TO
settle down and take a place in the gum
factory in which he succeeded to ms
fathers interest. Judge SpotsWood IN
forms Broadway that s25o,O 600 left him by
his father is at his disposal. Broadway
makes record time in heading for ms
favorite street in New York: with MS
New York friend, Robert Wallace, Broad
way creates a sensation by MS Eo, extr rasn
pass and Broadway suddenly discovers
that he is not only broke. but heavily IN
debt. He applies to his uncle for a loan
and receives a package Of gum
with the advice to cfSu- 1t and forget ms
troubles. He quietl! Skis work without
success. Broadway gives what Is In
tended to be a farewell upper to his New
York friends: and before 1t Is e snd a oe-
Gent widow. wealthy and very giddy.
Wallace expostulates with the aged hirt-
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Student Volunteer Association Meets.

Student Volunteer Association Meets.
Newberry..The state convention Of
the Student Volunteer Association met
in Holland hall, on Newberry College
campus recently. The Rev. H. G.
Hester, former student at Furman Uni
versity, now pastor of churches at and
near Taylor Station, is president Of
the association, and Miss Pearl Nc
Crory, general secretar,uvf the Y. ".
C. A. at Winthrop College, is secre-
tary. An address of welcome was made
by DR.. J. Henry Harms, president Of
Newberry College, which was respond.
ed to by President Hester.
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with oil and pomatum; acts also for
falling off of eyelashes' or for people
getting bald all over. 1t Is wonder
full. OF domestic mice burnt, n
part; Of vine rag burnt, one part;
or horses teeth burnt, n part; Of
bear grease, one; Of deer's marrow,
one; of reed bark, one. To be pound
ed when dry and mixed with plenty of
honey till it gets the consistency Of
honey; then the bears grease and
marrow to be mixed (when melted),
the medicine to be put in a brass flask
and the bald spot rubbed till it
sprouts. Quoted in Notes to "Caes-
ar and Cleopatra" from Cleopatra's
book on cosmetic.
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telling you that I have just come OUT
Of the first sound sleep I've had In
weeks. I'll bet I walked to Chicago
and back every night the first month
I was broke"
81 don't understands.
"I mean II you had measured up my
carpet by the mile. I thought so much
and worried so much that l didn't dare
true myself alone. I had the weird.
est ideas; I did the craziest things. Do
you know that I belong to the Saliva
ton Army?"
What"
ION the level. I went to Newark
and joined n night" ,
What was the idea?"
1 thought 1t might help me forget
my troubles. 1 played the bass drum
for two nights and couldn't stand II
any longer. Er-have you eve been
In Newark"
(To BE CONTINUED.)
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Word With Rhymes.

There are many words IN, EngIah
that have no rhyme. AS given in The.
Rhymers' Lexicon" by Andrew Lang,
they are as follows: Aitch. alb, amongst
avenge, bilge, bourn, breadth, brusk.
bulb. Golf, conch, culm, cusp, depth.
doth, eighth, fifth, film, forge, forth.
tugue, gulf, hemp, lounge, mauve,
month, morgue, mourned, ninth, oblige,
Of, pearl, pint, porch, pork, poulp, pres
tige, puss, recumb, sauce, scare, scarf,
sixth, spolit, swoln, sylph, tenth. torsk,
twelfth, unplagued, volt, warmth, wasp
wharves, width, with, wolf, wolves.
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Cleopatra's Cure for Badness.

For bald patches, powder red sui
phuret Of arsenic and take it up with
oak gum as much as it will bear. Put
on a rag and apply, having soaped the
place well first. I have mixed the
above with a foam Of nitre and it
worked well.
The following is the best Of all,
acting for fallen hair when applied
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Goals to Newcastle.

Even though crude oil and gasoline
are being largely substituted for coal
as a source Of power in Seward PENN
sula, Alaska, 14,405 tons Of coal were
imported in 1912. In spite Of Alaska's
great coal resources, not over 200 tons
were mined in the entire territory in
1912. Alaska is sadly in need of a
statute allowing her to mine her own
coal, under adequate terms.-From the
United States Geological Bulletin.
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To Keep Bacon From Curling,

;"But bacon curls UP 80 when It is
sliced very thing" protested a young
cook when the family objected TO-
thick slices Of bacon. The way tos
avoid that annoying curling is to have
the frying pan very hot and turn the
slices before the meat sears on the un-
der side and begins to curl. By con-
slant attention and turning the thin.
nest slices can be broiled brown, crisp
and straight.-Nebraska Farmer.
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Art of Conversation.

your wife must be awful clever!
She talks like a book"
Eyes; | have known her silence to
be eloquent and her frown to speak
volumes!"-Judge.
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Removed ALI Doubts.

Scott dreamed last night that !
died and went to heaven" Mott
That settles it. Dreams 90 by con
traries beyond question"