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For Xma In French Ivory to Suit Any Purse See Show Window COX STATIONERY CO. LADIES! We want you to feel that you can safely make your Christmas pur chases here and have the posi tive assurance that the recipient will compliment your good judg ment. We have a big assortment of sty lish things that men wear j among them: t Shirts, Neck Ties, Bath Robes, Smoking Jackets, Hosiery, Over coats, Pajamas, Underwear, Col lars, Traveling Bags and Suit Cases, Hats, Handkerchiefs, Etc., Etc. Our showing of pure linen initial handkerchiefs is excep tionally rjood. , , . . ? - ith, Garrett & Barton "Where Quality Reigns' ^^w?* 25c, 50c, $1.00, $125 and $1 SO : SH??f^ Anderson Floral Co. ? y^r.: ? . PHONE Oil m MARSHALL AVE. \ j " Member ot Floi lats Telegraph Delivery BANK OF BS Belton, S. C. Capital and Snrplns ?!30,009.00 Collections Given ?'rompt Attention Ellison A. Smyth, TT. E. Greer, . President, . V, P. and Cashier. IL B. Campbell, Asst,Vastier. Anderson and Sparenburg - l!)l(i tcrw ,b?i0iB Jfanuttry Srd.:. Penmanship, Bookkeeping, . Short hand .and Typewriting are the le?d?ig branches taught. Come and let us prepare you tor an ina<;pendent career. Competent Beekeeper^ and ''fjtcri?srn',hcrij'ure always lb demand. Bay and night eosaione. Enter TaWnne: " " Cecil's Bus?iie?s School Andersen and Spamnburg, S. C. Th? ?ndicationsare'"'that Fertilizer will be ??gher next Sprirtg than it is now. ft'|p& not be any cheaper. Weft?ve some for sale nol and suggest that you come to see us be fore Cjinstmas. Awde^n PK??pl^te & Oil Co. Aa?!?*on, C. iLffifliSrh .ni .? ? ',' 1 11 " * Lil PROPOSED ORDINANCE ?ABLEDJ1 PRESEN PREPARED BY HEALTH BOARD AND PRESENTED TO COUNCIL WILL INVEST?GATE _ Rather Drastic Rules for Inspec tion of Dairies and Milch Cows. An ordinance lias been prepared by tho board of health of Anderson and presented to tho city council with a personal letter to the members of thc council and thc mayor to pass Ohe said ordinance. It !s intended to regulato the inspection of cows, nod the inspec tion and sale cf milk in Anderson. Tue idea of tho ordinance ia certainly good, but tho wooding of it seems a little drastic Just at th,ls time. Following ls tho ordinance as rec ommended by tlie board of health: An Ordinanco to Dsgulats the Inspec tion of Cows,-and the Inspection und sale o? Milk in ike City or Ander son- . 1-No person, firm or corporation shall sell, offer for salo, or give away milk in the city of Anderson, until a license to do so e.:all have been ob tained from the city au'norities. The fees for license shall bo as follows: For the first cow $10.00; for the sec ond cow, $5.00; ad for all cows over and above the e 1 number $1.00 each -the license in . case to exceed thc sum of $25.00. The license shall bc paid at t ie office of the city treas urer. 2;-All cows aro to bo submitted tc tuberculin test, at least once every twelve mouths-this test to be made by a certified veterinarian of tho state of South <Carollna who will make a test that will meet v/ith the re quirements of the board of health the fee for BUOJ test to -bo $2.00 per cow. 3- Stables shall be built and kept under and according to the following requirements: (a)-All floors shall he concreted with drain for drop pings to be so constructed that it can bo flushed; (b)-all stables to be se curely screened against flies;, (c)-in terior of all stables to to white-wash ed twice a year; (d)-no loft for stor age of feedstuff; (o)-feed stalls for the storage stuffs shall be on . the same level as tao other stalls; (f) manure to.?o removed aftev each milk ing; (?g)-each barn shall be provid ed with on adequate water swpply free from contamination from any source whatever; (h)-and all vessels ?used in the handling ot milk must bo thoroughly, gashed and Sterilized be fore iise; (1)-and all porsons coming in contact with or dandling milk shall wash their hands thoroughly be fore touching the. milk and shall wear fresh white suits mado for such pur pose. - . 4- (a)-The milk.house, where the milk is to bo stored, or handled, shall bo separate from the barn or dwell ing, shall be thoroughly screened and have. no cracks in fae celling apd floors and walls must be kopt thor oughly clean; (b)-the milk wagon must he-kept clean, free from files, And tn a sanitary condition; (c)-milk to. be sold in sealed bottles only thcBo bottles to be filled at the milk houso of the dalry; (d)-number of city license shall be stamped, uupon each bootle; (e)-the date and hour of filling shall be stamped on the cap-of each bottle; (f)-the milk in spector shsUhnve .the .right to tako samples of any and all milk, free ot charge; . (g)-r-the- milk inspector shall also have the rlgjt ; to fix ike standard for milk and for cream; (b) rrrtt?e sale of milk from slokv or par turient cows, or-milk containing visi ble dirt sha)l . not bo salable, and shall'. V confiscated and destroyed by the milk iorpector, and (D- tho bac terial count shall be fixed by tho milk inspector from tlmei to timo. 5.-Fenalty for tho first violation of t*.;ose rules shall be Wie withdrawal cf tho permit : or licence to sell. milk; and it' is inrthor proviicd that thu niilk.inspector must certify that the previsions of this ordinance have.been coin plied with, .before any -license shall he issued. For each and every other violation of any of t?e provi sions, hereof, tho offender shall bb punished by "fine or Imprisonment, or both,- In the discretion of the court, not exceeding thirty days Or;che hun dredi dpi lars. The matter.;was. brought before t':? attention of the council by the mayor and it waa unanimously decided to table the bill .until,farther investiga tion could be made and tho council as certain certain-e'xbrMng conditions. . gip' ) v Wont Garden Truck. Panama, Dec. 13.-Owing to tho difficulties of obtaining fresh vegeta* hl?S:"from the . United States-, the c^oal supply department ia negotiating with tho U'uck. gardeners of Costa Rica for ihe shipment of Cesta Rica vegetables frein Port timon tm the refrigerator ships cf tho United .IPruit Steamship line. Every effort'hac heen made to interest the natives of Panama,tn vege table growirfg, but the movement has {?cen unsuccessful: .The. Pah ama. na tives prefer cattle-rais?hg t?.'the inore laborious agiicoltoral pursuits ?tire* B? * Good Ucaith to Chamber HBf?fc loin's Tablets. "I owe my good health to Chamber lain's Tiblsts." writes Mrs. R. G. Ncff, Crookston. Ohio. , wo. years ago 1 was an invalid duo to atomach trouble. ? took three bottles of thee? Tahlfta and haye tinco been in the host of naalth." For sale'by ?1! deai ?rs. . FRENCH LORRA GREAT IFor">> Mousson. France, Die. 13. French Lorraine ls tho greatest cerno tciy lu thc world. Colonies of dead, marked by lines of crudo wooden crosses, Ile everywhere under newly formed sod ot t e edges of woods and thickets and In ravines- Ucrnuinu and French, Tho 3hlftlng of hattie j scenes' may too traced hy following them. They, are thfekes' thors whore was focghfftfche great battle for Nancy that began with t .c retreat of tho Fr.mc.i fr?m Mortasgo and readied It3 climax miring thc battle of the Marne. Tho number has been con tinually swelled since in tho four teen months' Btruggle in .ho Woeuvrc and t:o Vosges. Saint Gcr.avovo, Kssey, tho Aman* i ces, tho Heights of C.:Hte3, Vclaine. Ge.bovillors of tho Grand Couronne Derianoy, Ethin, the Sparge.*, ihe Bois Bruie, the Hois Saint Mausuy, and the Boise Le Protre in the Woovr.o oro JO many cemeteries, nearly all of thom with crosses bearing names al ready illustrious. Lionel Rieux, the poot, lies at Essey. Paul Vial, who received a bullet In his heart, in the Saint Mansuy woods. Among the French bulled at Serboviller is Jean Martin, ono of Uie most promising pu pils of Hie French art school at Rome: he fell with thc heroic handful of chasseurs that held tho Mortagne thero agalnBt 47,000 Gorman3 during tho eleven, hours'. Marcell Brouel is among those who lie at 'J o summit of the Samogneux hill. The dead lie thickest perhaps al tho Loisy Gan. After the Gormans hod captured Nomeny and Pout-a H?us?oh. they sent a regiment to force this passRgo between two Mights, held by a single company of Fronen in fantry. That gap became -.he tomb of tho entire regiment. Tho cemetery of Bt. Genevieve is not so denso hui far mere oxtended thou that of tho Loisy Gap. The Germans, forced by the resistance of tho company of in fan:'jy at Loisy to try to a flank moro ni ont around lue hotea^ of Sainte Genevieve, obtained a success before tho heightB of Cuittos, where French crosses predominate. It was then, thinking ho saw tho route opening up for his troopu, tho emperor cf Ger many issued bis famous order of -S.o day; "Tomorrv v In Nancy." Sainte Genevieve wat still between his ma jesty's troops and the Lorraine caul tal; it is today tho cemetery 01 most cf.thom. The French, too, foll In sucn numbers there-as to -ilsrjalet -.ho ofll eera, who called- tho attention of Com mandant MV'i-f . .to Hie losses. "No mattor," replied tho comman ( dant, "we won't give an inch." It required an order from tho general NO IHTEByEEEXCE France Had Ko Troublo From Mil contents in ^tooilizing. : Pttfls, Doc?' t 13.-"In > tic sixteen months nineo "Franco wem to war it ls declared that thero has beon enly ono caso of an', attempt made by vie lenco to interioro with the concentra tion of the army and tho prosecution ??.tho war. ' Tols fact is being point ed out In justification of tho actio:: which Minister Malvy look in resist lng. suggestions at all: revolutionary leaders, anarchists and persons sus ?peeled of disioyhlty to tho republic ba orrestod on tho eve of tho issuing of tho genoral mobilization order. Tho names, of five thousand of these Suspects, previous to lao war, inscrib ed in what was known as "Note-Book B." It had been tho government's plan, in case of mobilization, to have all v:cse people confined, at least while the mobilization was going on, but Minister Malvy, on whom tho re sponsibility devolved, found hiin3?l? between two fires. -Tho socialist j lenders implored him not to take ac tion, declaring it woul donly inflame turbulent elements. On i.ne ether, hand, the police, and cautious mem bers ot .th*' cabinet, endi-avorcd to im press upon him jae gravity of tho re ; voa-. I Im it y he woulu assume in leav ing at liberty persons who had boast ed that in case bf. war they would pro-, vent the mobilization of rhu army by ; violence. . Jean Jaur?s, the loader of the so* cjalist party, who was to full undor an assassin's hand tho. very nlgl-.t the mobilization order was isr/jed, and Gueluve Herve, 'who had boen one ot j tho most violent anti-militant leadle, . assured M. Ma'.Vy that the socialists and the members of'tho labor federa tion would alicw themselves as loyal a? any other category of French citizens and >i;at it would be a crlmo to issue ojjdors for the',errant bf tho men whose names were inscribed in "Note Book B." Upon their advice Minister Malvy de cided to take the chances,' and it IJ no*v pointed out that'the results'have boen proof enough that, fears wer..' groundless. In the ono case In which an.attempt was made to interfere with tho^cpneentrationi ?of the troops, detail i of which arc lacking, it is point cd-on I that membevs of, the socialist periy themselves detected tho .a*tempt and punished it so brutally Oiat it:ws?i oct repeated. . ; r\:' -':'' WMf^?btt'.SIicul? Use- Chamberlain's ^t^.v-.- Cough .Remedy.. ? Bec?us? lt baa.ah established repu tation won ? by tte goo^worka. : rBecause lt is mo?t ;y esteemed br; those who have used ?'it.v.-f?r.;(-.n?any years, na occssion reauir<>d, abd are host acquainted with its good^^t|||j? Oes. /.Because It loosens and relieves a cold and aids nature in rcstorhi^jpur system to a healthy condition* . ? Because it does not contain opium or any other narcotic. v ' ; Because lt Is within tba reach of all. 'It ohly costa a quarter. Ifor sale by . all . dealer*. Phone A. Gebbetg No. 733 for Hoir? Wreathes. 4INE IS EST CEMETERY uo induce him to tako up a Btrongcr position a ilttle in thc roar. During Hie attackB upon the plateau of Amanee, captured, on tho 7th and retaken hy General Dubai! on the 8th, Emperor William lr, said to have ob served L:.Q acJlon from the edge of the .Morel Woods, behind which were con cealed the 10,000 horsemen of tho Prussian guard-his escort into Nun '.y. Vclaine fell and cnlaiu and Bavarian infantry surged into tho Baggage between two heights Of Amanee. "If we can hold out tte day lt will bo a miracle," said the lirem.-h goncral in command. Thc 3-tatcbers . increased their fire to' iSic maximum I opened J-isl then and mowed those j Lilians and Bavarians down before I they could debouch from t'.c defile ; they lie there today in serried ranks over which a weeiy Bod has formed. Tho 10.000 cavalry of tho guard gal loped ott toward Metz, und a parlia mentarian with a white flog asked j "In tlie nnmo of '.An ninjoiLy" for' an j o .-uiiEiico of 24 hours (o bury tho dead. "In 24 hours," roplied the French general, "when the emperor Khali have given sepulchre to this thousands j of dead, wo shall bo ready for him again." An cBtj.niated proportion of three ? Germans io the Frenchman buried in the battlefields of tho, Grand Cou roiu> do Na dey, extending in n semi clr ' clo from Gerbevlllora to Pont-a-Mous eon on the eastbank of the Moselle, ! naturally takes no account ot lille i thousands of Bavarians dead removed at night by Tail toward Mc.z, after j th? battlo of Sninte Goneviove, which decided the lsjv.ie of tho struggle for Nancy; nor does it comprise the *.. tivy death roll nf the Prenrh in an nexed L.orz*alne, just over fie frontier, J In tho disaster of Marbango. Tho evidonco of -hose who havo visited all the battlefields of Lorraine and those who helped pink un the dead after the battlo of Nancy tends to fc'.c ! belief that taking ??io French dead in i Gorman Lorralue and tho Gorman ie^d j carried from tho field of battle, thorc ! is no exaggeration in tho estimate of j thrco Germans to one Frenchman as tho *tiroportlon of those killed in tbs operations in the attack ar.d de:cn30 of Nancy, j PIOUB bande are caring for theso I cemeteries, even BO close ;to tho battle front that the German heavy artillery often rakes up tuo Sod and sends the ? crosses flying in splinters. .Flowers aro planted on all tho Freno'.i grave* j and tho trl-color floats over many o? j them. Tho g avas of the Gcraiar.i are Sacredly protected hui ?ot decorat ed. DECADENCE OF MINCE FIE An Arraignment of the Latter-Day Specimen of a Noble GonuB. . Prohibitionists, Vegetarians," food faddists and moral upllftero" have i "mighty night mint" that noblest - ot j desserts-and Boston breakfast foods -mince pie. . The pies of that like "that mother used to make" were composed of mincemeat-that is real meat, minced-seasoned with citron and raisins and. spices and other delectable condiments, the whole. deliciously flavored with , venerable.. amber*color? ed apple or peach brandy and a lib eral dash of Jamada rum. Made thus the mince pie is a dish, fit to-: high Olympus. lt ravishes thc nostrils, enchants tho .'palate, enlarges -the heart, makes overflow tho springs of tntT ond oha?ty and love ot erne's neighbor, in-tho ?human soul, and hav ...0 v?.cu u, uto Becomes1 one glad, sweet song. - Bul alas, we havo some upon ovi) days. The mincemeat of modernity is meatless and moral. It is a sweethsu mess of apple butter;,, marmalade, raisins, dydrant water, apple seeds and ; cores, bits of sticks and other such debris; its effects are indiges tion melancholia misanthropy wife beating and suicido. It has Vson said-or at leant it ought to hive been said and ls how and kore j said-that the decadence of a nation may bo measured hy . the deterioration of its food 'and the degeneracy of its cvooking. Can it bo that the denaturlzlng of the once noble and succulent mince pie fore casts the emasculation and final downfall of our fair republic-Balti more Evening-Sun. rm $ $ $ $ To You I: 1 A Daily Dime and quarterly inier? est will create an an meal income. Try It The Savings Depart ment of. '. -:. Gifts For Men From A MntTs Store Bath Robes, Collar .Boxes, Neck wear, Tie Sets, Fancy Vests, Belts, Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Hats, Pajamas, Under wear, Collars, Shirts, Smoking Jackets, etc., etc. Our Sipe of Holiday Neckwear sn Holi - day boxes at 50c can't be beat any where. T. L. Cely Co. {?pen xuve m rigs JL ni yernas Give Use: This Christmas Be Generous Be Practical Let your gift be of an enduring, serviceable nature; a Jewel Range or Heater, Coal Vases, Shot Gun or Rifle, Kitchen Utensils of Aluminum, Coffee Pots, Tea Pots, Serving Dishes, Carving Sets, Cutlery, .Pocket Knives, Scissors, Razors, Fire less Cookers, Steam Cookers, Oil Stoves, Wagons, Veloci pedes, Automobiles, Food Choppers, Flash Lights, Mops and any other one of hundreds of practical gifts usually found in a Harwarc Store. Practical gifts such as these serve to remind the recipient of the giver many months to come. ?'SAFE-TEA FIRST" and Alwayj Awarded Cc!J Medal, bc? ftj.-.u .c, V)\} Ocr?) 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