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FOR SAFE

LEE STREET SAND PIT-In old
Ebert Head Fish Pond. Best BUILDING
sand in Georgia. Short haul, easy to
cad, very accessible, 20 cents for Q
horse load at pit, or So cents delivered,
75c in large quantities. See Harold
Hrothers or i. 6. Council. 21-ti
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given out at the Los Angeles studio
where he is now at work. But now
that it is stretched into four it can
lot possibly do justice to me or stand
as my product 1t is decidedly unfair
to me to release the picture in this
form, besides it is a violation of the
terms of my agreement with Essanay,
as has been set up by my lawyers in
New York"
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Observation-Disclosures

WOMEN WANTED-Full time, sal
airy $1,000, selling guarantee hosiery
TO wearer; 25c an hour spare time;
permanent; experience unnecessary.
International Mills, Ann St., Norris
town, a. P 23-1t
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BUY the Large sizes of JONES'
BALSAM OF BENZOIN when your
horses are troubled with scratches
thrush, CALLED shoulders, swellings and
flesh wounds. Sod on the money-back
plan. Ask your dealer for it. 9-1m
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Want Advertisements

WANTED-Two lady canvassers for
Americas and vicinity. $500 week
salary and expenses. Bestever Mfg
Co., East St. Louis, III. 23-3t
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NASSAU GROCERY COMPANY,
This side Seaboard Depot. Clark Bros.
cid stand. All kinds fancy groceries
and fruits. Phone SIC. 29-1m
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FARM LOANS-at 6 per cent. inter
est. Terms satisfactory. r. l.. May
nard.
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC am
now prepared to grind your corn into
the best and purest unbolted meal;
also have a special mill to grind your
corn in the shuck, cob and all into
stock feed. Grind hay, oats, alfalfa and
anything that grows on land that You
want ground. In grinding your stock
feed you absolutely lose nothing-the
mill grinds it all. Bring your corn to
my mill, and remember | grind it up
into meal or stock feed and guarantee
prompt service and a square deal. I
have the only stock feed mill in this
vicinity. Give me your order and De
pleased. j. w. L. Daniel, College St
on Seaboard Tracks.
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FARM LOANS - Can give goo(
terms on farm loans; money plentl.
full. W. w. Dykes. 15-ti
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A MACHINE FOR WOMEN-Should
be the best obtainable. The Singer
Sewing Machine is acknowledged the
lightest running, most durable and
convenient of any. Look for the red
S. Singer Sewing Machine Company,
No. 4O2 Windsor Block, Jackson
Street. 11-13-16-w
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LOANS made on farms At Six Per.
Cent. Interest. j. J. Hanesley.
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FOR RENT-Eight-room house with
modern improvements, on Lee street,
No. 1871; close in; possession at once.
Il. E. Cato. 13-tf
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THE OUTLOOK FOR
SUMTER'S CROPS
ARE EXCELLENT

Observation of scenes around the
farms of Sumter county show that the
crops have a very bright outlook.
Those who are familiar with condi-
lions in this section say that the crops
OF corn, cotton, oats, wheat and pota-
toes, have never been in better shape.
The cotton crop is looking especially
well.
Since the cold weather the cotton
crop has progressed until now a per-
feet stand is the rule, and by no means
the exception. The crop is just be-
ginning to be chopped and in all in
stances the rows have been barred of
preparatory to chopping A perfect
stand at this time, with any favorable
conditions at all, will result in a good
crop. And as the farmers have learn
ed well how to produce a cheap crop,
the yield will be very profitable The
stand at present for the amount of fer
! tilizers used is wonderful and as the
weather conditions are now perfect
for farming, there is very little likeli-
hood of the crop being injured in the
near future.
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STOLEN-Niger bicycle; blue lock
ed; in good condition; from Ebenezer
church, near Maddox Crossing. Sam
McGarrah, Plains, Ga.
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FOR RENT-House and lot 155 T'ey-
Tor street, now occupied by J. T.
Stukes. See r. e. McNulty. Sd
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FOR RENT

FOR RENTING nice upstairs fur
nished or unfinished, connecting
rooms; close in. Phone 500. J. P. Can
non, 400 Lamar street. 20-tf
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WANYED-To cut and thresh your
grain. Griff Eldridge. 1857
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LOST

LOST-Cross of Honor badge with
my name on it. Return to me at
courthouse. w. T. Weekly. 23-2t
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J. A. GLASGOW tailor making, re-
pairing; display Mason-Hanson sam
pies. 2l5 Lamar Street sim
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SEE US

1t is now spring and house-cleaning
time Why not let US make your Mat
tresses over for you, or make you a
new one. The rule is for every person
to get an average Of eight hours sleep
a day; so if you are going to spend a
third of your life sleeping, why not
sleep comfortably, on a good mattress
Try US at 120.
Pope MATTRESS COMPANY
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Corn in Good Shape.

near future
Corn in Good Shape.
AS to the production of corn, it is
firmly believed by prominent planters
that a larger crop will never be pro
duced than the one now progressing
Generally speaking, the condition of
tie corn crops is very good, and the
ravage Of the cut-worm has done little
to retard the development. This worm
annually plays havoc with the corn
crop all over the country, but this
crop has not been injured to any ex-
tent noticeably.
The outlook is very encouraging to
those who have planted large acreage
in this grain crop. Corn always is
sold at top notch prices, and the mar
ket of Americas and surrounding
country is always anxious to handle
Sumter county grown corn. The crop
this year is most favorable, and if
average prices prevail, financial sue
cess is assured.
Corn in this section has mostly
been raised for home consumption.
but in recent years, there has been a
decided advance in the production IN
til now it forms a source Of pecuniary
cain to the progressive farmer, who
depends upon it to swell their surplus.
I, is matter of great qualification
to those who have the interests of the
farmers at heart, and a matter of con-
ejaculation to the farmers themselves,
that the yield of wheat in Sumter
county will be the largest ever made
by the opponents of hog and hominy ,
forming methods. 1t will be recalled,
that the wheat crop of 1915 wos some
what disappointing, but the farmers
have planted this year much more
wheat than was cultivated last year
ard as they know more about how to
produce a successful crop, the stand is
now almost perfect.
These progressive farmers learned
well their lesson Of preparedness for
any eyentuality and are now prepared
tc weather any war, or any other cal
amity because their fields have wheat
and their smokehouses are filled to
the brim with meat. The crop of this
noney-making grain is the best on the
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-26
Was Cleopatra Uaiyf
From the New York WorId

FROM the New York World.
or undertaking the fllustrfous dead
there Is no end. Now the n~umisnlatists IT
the country who are in convention at
baltimore are seeking to lmpugn the beau
~ OF Cleopatra, and they point I o her por-
trait on her coins az proving that the
queen who ensnared Caesar ard Anton
mad big ears. small eyes and a scrawny
neck. Would the fair autocrat OF Egypt
nave allowed her own coinage to ma!igtf
her charms?
Clearly the numismatfsts are NOT 100 per
cent chivalric. But as against this evil
1ence there Is a silver coin Infr,ted al
Antioch and showing the bust of Cleo
>atra on the diverse and that OF Mark Ar
:ony on the reverse which gives the queen
a neck by no means scrawny. fun ey,m
and a chin suggestive Of that Of our own
GODDESS of liberty, though lacking the
graceful curve. The ears are as fpvfsftle
~ those of a modern New York girl, ana
only the nose invites criticism. VI fs quite
enough to dispruxe PascaI's saying
If 1t had been shorter It would have
hanged the whole face or the worl.I.
The Antioch coin calls the queen "a lat
II goddess" Was the cofner a courier.
and did the official coinage more truly de-
DICT her. in the Cromwell way, with all
The warts on?" 1T is more satisfactory TO
nut the blame on rude workmanship. If
'learatra's charms did not "heF2ar all
.!es< ription," they must have had some pc
tancy to make the slaves they did.
Who VIII he left to us fin tire world
gallery Of the great and bea utiful in bis
:ory n modern detractOrs of the famous
are allowed to have their way?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-26
Arts of Peace In War.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The readiness with which the European
belligeients have turned American indus
trial inventiveness to military account
points a moral which alarrnists in this
country have never been able to apvre-
invasion they see only the comparatively
small number Of our trained troops, and
lose sight of the vast armies of workers
engaged in the manufacture of imDle-
ments which with trifling alterations
could be used for defense purposes.
When the outbreak of war found sew
eral of the participant woefully short of
arms and ammunition it was American
industry that camc to their rescue with
factories into nunition making concerns.
If plowshares were not beaten back into
swords, and pruning hooks turned into
spears, at least typewriter and MANY
other plants were quickly remodeled to
the production Of bullets, shells. rifles and
machine guns.
Our caterpillar tractors" huge motor
driven devices used in the United States
in plowing, digging bitches and other
large numbers and promptly adapted by
the British for trench making. and for
crawling through forests and over snell
craterS in the face Of intense gunfjre.
But that is only one of the many stories
Illustrating the truth that if Europe can
make SUCH uses of our industrial inven-
tiVeness, we should be able to do even
better when that long predicted invader
attempts a landing on our shores.
This is not an against ade.
quate preparedness. but it is a logical ap-
peal for the consideration Of a defense
factor too often omitted from the caIcula.
tons OF the alarmists.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-26
Royce,s Idea Of life After Death.
From the Kansas City Star.

tiUtl lIIt I\6llSktS NIAN h'tii'
ical system of Josiah Royce. the distin-
euished Harvard philosopher Who died
the the Ssnrf DAY @n ann ne b SoHs" , fSt ignored ore,' t tHe
eternal value of the individual. Just
what form the Immortality would take he
did not attemrt to say; BVt in the sec
World anl the Individual" he permitted
his Imagination to suggest q theory that
~harnoniZed With the recognized facts OF
psychology.
What, Royce asked. do We mean by the
present moment? While We speak of
1t, the moment has passed. And just how
q second, CT the millionth part of one9
After an. isn't what we cali "the pres
ent" an arbitrary time unit? Doesn't 1t
depend on cur own makeup Isn't 1t the
length of time which this particular per-
sonality is able to grasp as a unit?
We can conceive Of a race of beings so
constituted that a dynamite sxplos!on
Of a life time. just as we can conceive of
a race of beings so small that a pinhead
might represent their planet. For space.
like time, is a relative thing and depends
on the constitution Of the observer.
So, too, we can conceive of a race to
which the events of a thousand terrestrial
thing in mind when he wrote:
For a thousand years in Thy sight are
but as yesterday. when 1t is past. ard as
a watch In tie night.
Well, then, if our limited vision is due
to the accident OF our human personality,
II we see such a small fragment of the
universe in our little three score years and
10, why is 1t not possible that the effect
of death is to lengthen our time span?
May it not be that when this our earthly
tabernacle is dissolved. we shall be able to
get a more comprehensive view of the uni
verse? To see the significance OF the pro-
cession Of the centuries il a way which
we cannot gee under human limitations?
A being so made as to be able to hear
conception of the harmonies of the great
symphony. So it may be. Royce insisted,
that death msy rid us of limitations that
prevent US from comprehending the real
meaning of life.
We may wonder whether the philoso-
pher, as he ley dying, looked Onward with
zest to the great adventure, believing he
was nearing the solution of some of the
problems to which he had devoted his
life's work.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-26
Community Medical Service.
From the Kansas City Times.

An interesting form Of community medi-
gal service is in operation in the univers-
lty Of California. 1t has proved success
Each of the thousandse of students APP
plying for entrance to the university is
required first to pass a rigid physical ex-
disease he is told what to do to nave 1T
cured and when he is we'll he may apply
again. Often a student needs only d
trcises to get in shape. Thus the student
body is composed of young men and wom-
III in the prime of health to begin with.
Each student pays Sc a year health In
Furance premium, and that entities him
TO physical examinations when he feels
hat he wants them, to medical advice,
treatment, hospital care. nursing, medi-
zines, surgical operations. dental work
and all medical and hospital care he may
need no matter how serious or prolonged
his sickness. And he gets the very best,
100, from a group OF the best specialists in
Internal medicine, surgery, eye, ear, nose,
throat, orthopedics, X-ray examinations,
.pecialist Is paid by the year the student
noes not pay a cent in fees beyond his
e a year. no matter how much care he
must have. The S. a year pays all ex-
senses and leaves enough over to add to
equipment. Last year the receipts from
.his source were s3s,S43 and expenditures
loss. From the surplus thus ccurnu-
S3, 36S in equipment.
In the year just ended. 1916 students re-
:eived treatment or medical advice an av-
erage OF eight times: 677 were sick In bed
IN average Of five days.
In addition. to giving medical treatment.
:he group OF experts gives instruction to
the tudents on how to keeps we'll. how
10 avoid infection and general health edu-
cation. The faculty is now preparing ex-
tension lectures on modern health prob
ems to be given throughout the state.
In reviewing this form OF health insur-
Rnce in a recent issue Of the Survey
Edith Shatto King says:
perhaps some day communities In gen.
nral viii, wake up to the stupidity Of let
ting people become chronic invalids for
tack of preventive medicine, and OF in
vesting heavily in serious illnesses at long
intervals instead of investing a trife year
" for the sake of keeping we'll"
Several months 6 DR.. r. c. Cabot Of
Boston, in the American magazine, urged
community medical service. and the mat
ter has been discussed from time to time
too strong to break through.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-26

PARENzo. AUSTRIA

Observation-Disclosures on the Istrt-
IN coast of Austria, which, according
to the latest dispatches, was shelled by
Italian naval forces. is the subject OF
.oday's war geography bulletin issued
BY the National Geographic society
from Washington:
The ancient basiiica Of Parenzo,
which Austria claims has been dam
aged by Italian shell fire from a fleet
cruising off the west coast Of the Is
!rian peninsula, Is one Of the Oldest
md most famous ecclesiastical struc-
cures in Europe. The campanile, the
!~oofless baptistry and church proper
late from the Sixth century II stand
IN the site of an ever earlier structure,
probably of the Third or Fourth cen
Jury, judging from the mosaic pave
nents and inscriptions which have
been discovered. The cathedral now
Itanding was begun about IL years
,fter the establishment Of the Parenzo
bishopric in 524. Some of the mosaic
work in this building, which Is dedi-
:ated to st. Maurus, is especially brill
liant, n in the apse wallis there is
itch inlay work in marble and mother
If pearl, similar to that in the more
widely known cathedral of Torcello,
sear Venice,
"Parenzo enjoyed a considerable
uade before the outbreak of the war
and the principal occupations of it's
1880 inhabitants, mainly Italians,
we're s%hipbuilding and fishing. The
port is 50 knots by sea south of Trieste
md 35 miles distant by rail. 1t is 10
miles north of the interesting town of
Rovigno, the Rubiginium of the an
GENTS.
The history of Parenzo goes back to
the second century before the Christian
ERA. when it was known as Parentium.
II was elevated to a place of prominence
by Augustus Caesar, who established a
colony here shortly after his over
whelming naval victory at Actium,
where Marc Antony fled, ANONYMOUSLY
surrendering all hope of a world en-
pire in order to seek forgetfulness in
the caresses of the Egyptian siren
Cleopatra.
Under the Roman empire Parentium
became a town of 5000 inhabitants
within the walls, while 10000 people
occupied the suburbs. During the as
%cendancy of the Venetian republic it
acknowledged the supremacy Of the
queen of the Adriatic, and as a result
in 1854 was sacked by a Genoese fleet
commanded by one of the famous Doria
family which figured conspicuously in
the history of the west Italian city
during h Fourteenth century.
In addition to the famous cathedral,
faTeHZo guards the interesting ruins OF
two Roman temples. The peninsula on
which the town is built is supposed to
be subsiding gradually into the Adri-
attic, as the pavements of the Roman
period are three feet below the present
street levels, while the city site today
Is in no place more han five feet above
sea level. Overlooking the port from
an island at the mouth Of the harbor
IL a lighthouse.
"a few miles to the south of Parenzo
are the Brionian islands, whose quar-
ries furnished practically all the stone
for the palaces and bridges Of medi-
eval Venice
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-26
Thin Persons Live Lonaest.
From London Ideas.

FIOiu I<DIIICl l1t.Is.
Recent Investigations show tina the
longest life and best health are not to
be found among those of average build
at any particular age. On the contrary,
it is discovered that in those at the
ounge 6 who are slightly over
weight and at the older ages among
those who are distinctly under weight
the longest life and best health Will be
found.
Overweight is, above 30-odd years, a
definite disadvantage to health. 1t
means stalencss, lack OF elasticity,
c~losged-up tissues and lack of the
power of adaptability to invading
germs.
Men from 20 TO "a can be accented
as healthy and for a long life 80 to 60
pounds above norma. Less excess
weight is permissible between 25 and so
and increasingly less as YOU go up.
There are one-third more deaths among
men between G5 and so who are SO
pounds to 60 pounds fatter thar they
should be for a given height.
At the ages Of "a to As from IS
pounds to AZ pounds heavier weight
tlan a man should be doubles his risk
of death. For anyone above SO who is 80
pounds too obese life Insurance COM
panies hereafter will consider poor
risks or raise their insurance rates.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-26
Tho Quality of Gasoline,
from the Washington Tin,

From the Washington Times.
Inc Retail Merchants association is nm
ecrLaklng a valuable bit of work In lis Of
gasoline. '"e 4"aH's Vi
The man who !snorantly buys low erada
gaSoline not only is failing to get his
money S worth: he is using Il fuel which
in'9res his car. and even placing his life
as Jeopardy. Several deaths, and marrow
tstapes from death In closed garages In
FMS city, were held to be due to fumes
from low grade gasoline. '
me weights and measures branch of the
n,ai.clpal government can care for short
sts a ns safes. But In the absence Of any
stardard of quality, nothing can be done
ABOUT selling a low grade article.
IN taxing up the matter with the DEPART
lilent OF the Retail Merchants
assoGlatlon has paved the way for national
iesislatlon in respect to standard reuuire-
mehts FOR gasoline. Tests now are making
&c determine whether a maximum and
minimum of specific gravity can be fixed.
SO mat gasoline within that range may be
with the rapidly increasing ownership
OF automobiles the entire question Of pure
ton Of the public.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-26
The Passing of Lady Byzantine.

TiOIl Vie SIlCiBO news.
Lady Byzantine, the hen that was sold
about a year ago for a fabulous sum
hat the lay mind canno grasp-the lay
mind in these tight times becoming con-
fused when there are more than three
ciphers-has gone to her reward, what
ever that may be.
Laylnen may dimly comprehend the
value of Lady Byzantine when they con.
slider that her eggs sold for $40 apiece
and hat she laid 315 eggs in one year.
Mex to the famous goose that laid the
golden eggs. she was the worlds great
est oviparous producer of wealth. In
passing it should be remarked that a
iayman is not necessarily the owner Of
IL poultry farm.
Lady Byzantine is dead. Her life is
a lesson in the value of industry and
thrift. Her first owner, who developed
her talents. sold her for a handsome for
tune. Her buyer lost her too soon to
realize upon his investment. Between
the two, however, there is a lesson, or
there ought to be, considering the many
ciphers.
AS for What Lady Byzantine got out OF
1t, that is another story, immaterial.
impertinent and u~ngermaine, as the cor
poration lawyers say. Still, one can not
but picture that excellent creature IN
the minds eye as a rather tough old
hen that died a natural death and was,
therefore, not even good for a chicken
stew.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-26
Eye Strain lncreasino.

From. the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Improper lighting systems used in the
home, school room and office are respon-
sible to a large degree for the increase in
defective vision and diseases of the eye.
according to DIR. c. E. Ferree, professor
of psychology at Bryn Mawr college. DR..
Ferree was one of the speakers at a meet.
ing Of the illuminating Engineering So
ciety. which is holding its convention in
this city. He said:
Defects Of vision are increasing at an
made a large number ofAxperiments for
detecting the comparative tendencies OF
different lighting conditions to cause a
loss in the eyes power to sustain clear
seeing for a period of work. From these
experiments It was clear that the lighting
systems in use In most homes, Offices and
in schools where night work is done are
defective n faulty and really response
BILE to a large degree for eye trouble.
pr: Ferree's experiments dealt with the
effect on the eye of three lighting install
la~tions-;direct. seni-indirect, and indirect
so selected as to give wide differences
in illuminating effects. He declared that
indirect and se~mi-indirect illuminating
systems resulted in little or no strain on
the eye.