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WM % m ?Mil mm May Your Christmas Be a Merry One and Your N?u> Year a Happy One And may you live a thousand years, Y' and every time you furnnish a home come to us for the best .furniture and furnishings that your money will buy at the same price. This is the sincere wish of . .-lt . . ' -, r iivv .'?.?-',t- -' ' ' .. 5 . >. The Peoples JNfew Furniture Co. lt's Easyto Pay The People? Way" Sought across the seas his lost youth iii norina's magic fountain. We older folks, behold again argosies freight ed with gilded, golden, georgeous expectations Boating, down the stream of childhood into the port of fulfilled fpio? when.our .kids approach the cold hearth jon Chirstmaa morning. fl tm wm rn Just |is the t?es: of friendship are strength ened a*: this holiday sea son? so may our business association grow in mu tual accord and confia ../ ;. dence. . Accept our sincere ^sh for your continued prosperity. ^ . ANDERSON CASH GROCERY G?. m inn eme GERMANS ENORMOUS Warsaw, Dec. 24.-With their ar riv?t .io.'.Warsaw, tho Germans imind thf^ they not only had to support .L^tur own .hugo armies, but had also to provide food and shelver tor an. enormous number o? Poleo W?o had been driven away from their homes, jand then later luid boen {?eat back to [yiilajjea burned to tho ground,, vil lages : to which tb ero remained no single houBe standing, not one head |of cattle and not one bushel of grato. That the extent ot tho damage might bo correctly estimated; a special de partment to investigate tho destruc tion waa formed at once,-and officers began tours, of tho country districts to see boW great the needs of the ^G. j turning inhaWtants mignt be. Thej reported that the Russians not only had burned up all existing food sup plies; but *mpty barns, that were to house the unharvested crop. Cattle racked into freight traine had be?n destroyed by sending tho trains over de&troyed bridges into the rivera. In individual cases special tracks had been laid,, down which the. cars -were rolled to the water's edge. Bands of Russian soldions, fte In vestigators claim, went systematical ly tiirough each village that was to bo abandoned, squirted petroleum over each house, and then sot the town in flamen. Between 3.0?0 and 4,000 villages were destrrved In this way, their Inhabitants being forced under pen?lty of death- to flee to Cio east. . Bribery played' a not unimportant I part In tho retreat, lt ls claimed. As cc&apicuous examples, 'thero stand, hero and thero throughout Poland, Iono houses &at havo not suffered at Jail. Tho inhabitants maintain <hat I I iheir immunity was purchased with 1 roubles, or that they were left un J molested becauso they were Russian I rather than PolidS. I The Germans up to date havo been I ablo to investigate only a part of the I territory evacuated by the Russians. They. fear, that the estimates' of . many, many hundreds of thousands of I fugitives . who now aro. .homeless will mount into tho millions ''eventually. Tho investigations show that not on ly thtihouBcs along the regular lines of rotreat wero destroyed, :. but also, that villages far removed from tho main cast-west Toads were ravaged also, Tho only excoptiona-aro t'je\ comparatively ? Infrequent colonies of 1 Kaiser Wilhelm ii TO SUPPORT fl W'MBERPOLESW Russians, au differentiated from i Poles. .;' Ia thousands tho inhabitants were] driven eastward, but when the. Gor man pursuit bocamo too ho', tho civi lians-Including old mon and wo men-were.ruthlessly, turned to. cac s?do of the road und then ordered to j go back In the ^opo that they would obstruct Germans. By. tenB of thousands the men and wemen who had been torn from their homes died"; as . they returned. Their graves line miles of the roads In ?Ro land. Ono. German ofllcer counted 927 civilian graves that bordered al einbl? t'horoaghfaro within a space of j 20 l-l kimo ti vs. Eventually, the refugees returned to the places where, for mouths. Gie Germans and tlie Russians had con ducted trench!; warfare: In tho lack 'of houses, . the Poles sought tho trenches and bomb-proof shelters, as homes, and today aro living in them to a great extent. Supplied with th? necessities . pf life by the Germana they are cooking their meals in Vie bottoms of chimneys that still stand, ohd slowly are building themselves new hames. . _ In anticipation of winter the' Ger mans began-cutting lumber from the Russian royal .forests, and delivering lt to the homeless Poles. Tho Po lish architectural society formulated' plans for houses-especially designed to. house Polish, peasant families and with ,a wing In which cattlo could fled sholtor-and bus supplied each homeless' family with f iera. Several h:<adred have overcome then sus picion of tho Germans, partly because tho house clans are promulgated by .Poles,. nod have erected one-story .hemes of wood which are vastly ] moro practical than their old .thatched cottages. The destruction o? the retreating Russians was not confinod to f ie country villages, but included also eyery. Industrial plant in tho kingdom -regardless of whether it might bo turned to.mllitary use? or not. Thus, .for. example, the linen' factory In Zhirard?w. which was valued at $5; 000,0000 m arks- and whjch employed .nome ? 6,000 ^Poles'. Vio' ownership .of .tho^factory was in 'Polish and Ger man' hands and In addition to . tho i hands, in the main. factory, about 30, 000 Polos were em-ployod^ 1" ike branches, which went out of busi ness* with (C?e .destruction of tho par ent concern. ? /*'.' Northern France (nt rigSft.) ?;/ xtsor, taken ia northern Franco, rid ?a mim??, Wedded Like President Mr?. Clarence J, jMfcRfcayy. It . ia just become known that l'.:b oame limo President Wilson and --Mrs. G?ltwere married. I? ' Washington. Ensign Clarence J. .McReavy slipped from tho battleship Connecticut, which ls In dry dock In Philadelphia, and ran off to wed M?SB Phyllis Mun dny, ono of Charles D. Dillinghams chorus girls. Tacro was lovo at tirat sight two weeks ago when tho young woman went aboard tho VCSECI. . Twbnty Severe Quakes. Guatemala Cfjy, Quatemala, Dec. 24.~There havo buen twenty severe 'earthquakes In Guatemala In the last two day?.' No serious damage oas boen reported. EXECUTOR'S SALE Wo will sell at public outcry at tho homo of tho late J. Belton Watson, ipoc. 30, 191G,'.tho. personal. properly, Except household and kitchen-furni ture of said decedent, consisting of nortes? mulcB, cows, bogs, .grass .w?gon, etc. Sale will begin ai 10 v? clock a. m. Terms of salo cash. , . -Mrs. Martha J. Watson, j. wane Watson. \ Exore. J. B. Watson, deceased, 2-?4-lt?w-3w SAVES BA?0HTER AJv?csof Mother no Dou?st Pre? vente Daeg?ler*? U?t?iacly Sad. Ready, Ky.-" I was not abte to do anything for nearly six months," writes Mrs. Laura Bratcher, of this place, "and was down in bed for three months, . I cannot teit you how I suffered with ruy head, and with nervousocss and womanly trophies. Our family doctor told my husband he could not Jo me any good, and he had to riv* it up; We tried another doctor, butiie did not help mc. : At last, my mother advised mc to take Cardin, ihe woman's tonic. I thought it was no use fot I was nearly dead and nothing seemed to do me any good: But I took eleven bottles, and now I am able to do all of my work and my own washing. : I think Caniui is the best medicine ta the world. . My weight has increased, and I look the picture ol health. " If yb? fiuifer from any of i ?s atf neats, peculiar to WQC^U, get a bo?ti o! Csrdul today. Dtiay is dangerous. We knoyv it will help you, for it has helped so many thousands of. other weak wemen to the past 50 years. ; At oll druggists. Write tai, c?tMtar.?c>s?" Wedjdn* Co.. UdlSi' in Additiou io High CIsss Pali??ffieitit? TTlaiMn TODAY The Shaw Company Presents "A FUNNY FARCE COMEDY And Three Selected Reels ?f Splendid Pictures WE OPEN AT ls30 P. M. TODAY BOOU TME?TM TODAY "FROM BEANERY TO BILLIONS" LKO Comedy. "THE GREAT FEAR*' Laemmle Drama. "LOVE AND A SAVAGE" Nestor Comedy. We Open Today ot 10:20 and Do Not Close Till 10;30 P. MONDAY'S PROGRAM "THE TALE OF THE C" Three Reel Victor? Featuring MARY FULLER "WHEN LOVE LAUGHS" Imp Comedy. M. - Mi i \J ;?.-... ; NOT because h is ari honored custom but of the Sincerity of our A. nnr. A:.rn r/"Wri ; x we take this thanh you for the part y ou played in our business prosp^ past ?i????0 months* and we wish you a %oo? ?ld and a HAPPY NEW YEAR Anderson, S. C., B?lton, S. C., Greenville