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A FIGHT AT NIGHT. (Proper Gander) I had gone to bed rather early that .light, and as my head ached and I was tired, I had, as a result, dropped ?>ff into a snug little sleep. In the niddle of the night, (it seemed like She middle of the night to me altho I think, it was about ten o'clock) I t<is awakened from my peaceful dreams by the most peculiar sounds I had ever heard. Half awake1" and half asfeep I tried to imagine what the noise was and finally came to this conclusion? Two men, who were having a rath er heated argument were passing my house at the time they decided to "have it out." So stepping into my back yard, to avoid publicity, they i i nn 1 virrVif i proceeded, wny uiey piwtccutu ?m<fer my window, though was more than I could understand. As I tried j to figure out these problems, my im agination, to my unspeakable horror j was kind enough to paint for me a picture of two men, very bloody and ancouth, glaring at each other like some wild animals. At that moment those queer sounds came again, and I took it for granted that the men, too angry to speak, were just growl ing at each other. For awhile every-1 tiling was quiet and then?Oh! suchj a noise. I nearly jumped out of bed j in fright, but thinking it would be j more appropriate to take refuge un- j <fler the cover, I dived under; and j i&ere I stayed until about two min utes later, i naa to come up iur a i breath of air. As I had to dive up out ( from under the cover very frequent- J ly tn order to get air, my courage ! ?zme back, and slowly climbing out! f bed, I went to the window and | continuously peeped out. I nearly j laughed aloud, when my bloody de-j ions turned out to be nothing more ?han two cats. With a single "scat" ce cat went in one direction and She other in another, and I went back to bed to resume my interrupted ; slumbers. ' ?Deby Owen. t There are more than 22,000,000 widows in India, one-third of wnom are under 15 years of age. For Torpid Liver "Black-Draught \i. in my opinion, the best liver , 'medicine on the market," states Mrs. R. H. White side, of Keota. Okla. She continues: "I had a pain in my chest after eating light, uncomfortable feel ing?and this was very disagreeable, and brought on headache. I was con stipated and knew it was F indigestion and inactive liver. I began the use of Black-Draught, night and morning, and it sure is splendid' and certainly gives relief." I I A A I BLAUIt fRAUGHT For over seventy years this purely vegetable preparation has been found beneficial by thou sands of persons suffer ing from effects of a tor pid, or slow-acting liver. Indigestion, biliousness, colic, coated tongue, diz ziness, constipation, bit ter taste, sleeplessness, lack of energy, pain in back, puffiness under the eyes?any or all of these symptoms often indicate 5 that there is something i the matter with your liver. You can't be too careful about the medi cine you take. Be sure that the name, "Thed ford's Black-Draught," is on the package. At all druggists. Accept Only the Genuine* J. 79 THE OBSERVANCE OF CHRISTMAS : A Resume of the Time Honored and Beautiful Custom?The "Spirit" | is of More Importance Than the Correct Date. (Proper Gander) Long ago the people celebrated : the birth of Christ many times dur ' ing the year, each people having dif-, j ferent dates. These ranged from Jan uary to April and May, the most pop- j j ular of these being January the sixth | We do not know for certain why! December the twenty-fifth was chos- j , but some say that Pope Liberius I named this day in three hundred and j j fifty-four A. D.r Others contend that I i this was the time that many of the j barbarous tribes held feasts to their I cods for the comine of winter. While I others say that it is not the time of j the year likely for this because of the ! big rains coming at this time of the * year, which would prevent the shep herds from watching their flocks. But the date of Christmas does not count so much as the '^Christmas spirit." The different customs observed at this time of the year are of a great number. Probably the best known and the most welcome is a fat old! fellow named Santa Claus. This old man has a home up at the North Pole On Christmas eve night he climbs down the chimney and fills the stock ings of all the good little boys and! girls. Anyone would be doing the world a great favor by discovering what time he comes, as many people have been baffled by him, going to sleep a little too soon. Next in order is the Christmas tree. Nearly every home has one. The girls and school teachers take great j delight in hanging tinsel on them,; while the boys are overjoyed at the | chance to go and cut one down and j haul it home. Besides the trees in the | homes are the community Christmas | trees. At such events a choir is got-j ten up from the churches which sings Christmas songs, school children are made to sing and also to recite. When the singing is finished oranges are thrown up and everybody scram bles for one. Christmas would not be much with out the entertainments furnished by the lower grades. The parents are in vited to these and everybody tries to show off, the girls look pretty while j the boys misbehave. Usually they I turn out all right and the teacher re ceives the compliments. Another thing for which Christ-[ mas is famous is the cannon crackers. I Although they are not sold in Abbe ville they are sold in Hodges, so about two or three days before Christmas you see the Southern fill ed with passengers and the merchants in Hodges taking in the money. The day after Christmas always has its share of burned fingers. The churches too have special ser vices for Christmas. The Roman Catholic priests celebrate three mass es on Christmas, which are the mid night, daylight and morning. It is said that the Puritans established Thanksgiving as a suostuute iui Christmas. Christmas is the time to be happy; so we should catch the spirit and be merry ourselves besides making oth ?r people as merry as possible. ?FRED MINSHALL, X. 12,000,000 FOR COMMON SCHOOL EDUCATION Columbia, Jan. 25.?Two million dollars for common school education in South Carolina is the total of ap propriations urged by the Baptist of South Carolina, in memorials pres ented this week to members of the General Assembly, by a special com-1 mittee appointed by the recent Bap tist State Convention to prepare me morials to this end. The Baptist Me. morials urge that extraordinary at tention to the common schools be made the policy of this and succeed ing legislatures, entering upon a de clared program to bring the State rapidly forward in educational activ ities, "and that 3II the educational : leadership and influence availabL in South Carolina t>e incited to cooper ation and concentration of effort to achieve this great forward move ment of popular intelligence.*' The committee which nrepared the memorial to the legislature is com posed of Drs. John E. White, D. M. Ramsey, E. W. Sikes and Lee Davis, I Lodge, and Prof. Luco Gunter. Chas. J A. Jones, secretary is forwarding co 1 p;es of the memorial to al. members I I of '.!?= legislature. 1 "AND BEHOLD REBECCA CAME FORTH Washington, N. C., Jan. 25.?A certain young and devout church woman of this city, whose given name is Rebecca, never missed di vine services, but often is late. Last Sunday she arrived just as the pastor was reading from the scriptures the story of Rebecca at the well, as told in Genesis, 24th chapter. As the late comer tripped up the aisle, the minister read: "And behold, Rebecca came fourth." Broad smiles played over the faces of the worshippers. Blushes flooded the fair face of Rebecca. Courageously she went on, quicken ing her steps. "And she made haste," continued clergyman, reading quite oblivious to the situation. Snickers from the youngsters, broader smiles from the grown ups and half suppressed gig gles from the half growns were the response. By this time Miss Rebecca had reached her pew. She stumbled .in and sank down as if she hoped the cushion would swallow her. "Let the damsel abide with us," concluded the minister, closing his book and ending the reading much to the relief of Rebecca. Sheriff Blease returned on Friday from Washington, D. C., with Pettus Eigner, colored, who escaped from the county chaingang October 4, 1920. The sheriff had been on th>2 lookout, and learned that the fugi tie was in the national capitol and put the police there onto him. When the cops called Eigner was taking a bath, and therefore could not escape, again ?Newberry Obserer. ! I If No Strings Gold A bsoh COUNTYi McMi = 3 II : = E 1 i 11 ii ii ii 11 2 5 I To Be Opened What we want i original?a name tha a by-word to express ronage of everybody Here is the coup many different suggei I < as the best \ Name Address Parents Nan What kind < in. your hom = rjiHitiudiiuiimiiitiiiuiiuiiiiiiiiniiiniiiMiii INCOME RETURNS IN HUGE FIGURES Washintgon, Jan. 25.?One re ! turn on income of $5,000,000 was | filed in the calendar year 1918, ac j cording to completed statistics of i incomes for that year issued tonight ^ by the bureau of internal revenue. Two returns were filed of income from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000; four of income from $3,000,000 to | $4,000,000; 11 from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 and 33 from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. Corporations, exclusively' of per ! sonal service concerns, reporting during 1918 numbered 317,579 of which 202,061 reported a total net income of $8,361,511,249, which yielded income taxes of $653,198 1483 and war profits and excess j profits taxes of $2,505,565,939, a total tax of $3,158,764,422. Partnerships reporting net in come numbered 91,132 with a to- j tal net income of $939,881,678 ' while there we*e 2,997 personal ser vice corporations with a total net nicome of $51,923,953. j SIXTEEN MfLLION PEOPLE FOR NEW YORK BY 1960 j Washington, Jan. 20.?Greater i New York, expects to have almost I sixteen million inhabitants?15,976 , 000, to be exact?by 1960. Attorney General Charles D. Newton of New York, so informed the supreme court in a brief asserting that the metro polis had prior rights to sewage dis posal facilities of the lower bay. The total number of American soldiers gassed during the World War, excluding marines and sailors, was 70,552, of which 1,221 died. j iintiwHiiiiiiitiiiiimiiiiiiiiNHiiiiHiiiiiMiiiiiuuiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiinmiMMriiiimiiiiiNNNNiiNiiiiiiittiimiiniiMi IIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUlilllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKIIIIIIIIMIM HllllllillliH.ttllltlllllllNIINIINIIIIIIIlMllltlllll AW to This Siateme itely Free to the joho Suggests the nrrays ] I in the Next Few Daj enrolled in any county is eligible WHAT W s a name for our new Victrola s t is short and snappy?a name the best to be found in Victrola in ABBEVILLE COUNTY, on. Fill in either this one or ma stions as you care to make to Mc iiir.r.FST J W V* VVJbll^ name i:or McMurra; ^ictrola Shop le }f musical instrument e, if any? i in mi mi i h ihuui iiiiii him hi i hi uii ii ti iiiiiMimliiiiiiiNiimiMiuKMiiiimiiiiiiiii RUBBER. (Proper Gander) Rubber is found in the Amazon valley in South America. It comes from a tree which grows in a very moist climate. Men have plantations on islands in the Amazon, and when it is time to gather the sap, they send men up to do this and make it i into a crude kind of rubber. It is gathered by cutting holes in J the bark of the tree and putting a I little cup in it to catch the sap. This is all done in the morning because the sap flows better then. When a man collects a quart of sap a day, he thinks that he has done well. He then carries it to a small hu", where ha builds a fire of bamboo and nuts. He then dips a paddle in the sap ami holds it in the smoke until the sap hardens. He repeats this many times until he has a large ball of rubber on the end of his paddle. He then takes! a knife and cuts the rubber off the paddle and carries it down to the wraf, if he drops the large ball, he has to run after it to cai:ch it. It is then carried down to Para where it is sold for about fifty-fivs cents a pound. When in this form it will only erase pencil marks. It is then carried by steamboat to America and Europe where it has to b(? run through a grinding machina and washed, because it has sticks and weeds in it. It is then made into use ful articles like rubber bands, dolls, nipples, balls, football bladders and mostly automobile tires now. William Greene, Grade VII. For having given fictitious ages, more than 500 youths have been dis charged from the United States ar my this year. GIV rAY nt! We will gii ichooL Pupil in A Most Appropriai -s on No-*th Main Stre of the schools c : to win the gold E WANT hop?a name that means some that is easy to pronounce? ai] shops?such a shop as we propc ,ke one on your tablet paper lik i MURRAY'S, ABBEVILLE, S. I iiqvtt 51 cf Pnnfocf nlncAc T suggestions postmarked la counted. Teachers! Help j gestions. If a school wishes the prize we will give $10 of a VICTROLA for the 1 the $5.00 in gold. _The N? TROLA" Must Not Be Ui partial Judges will announ days after the contest clo down the money. Address pons to MoMII muuu DRU( Abbeville, WHEN CORDWOOD WAS LEGAL TENDER I (From The Linotype South.) Those were the good old days. Good, because they were easy. The country subscriber brought you a load of cordwood for a year's subscription. The local merchant expected you to "trade-out" his advertising. The candidate for office thought his announcement was "news." The publisher of the country weekly worked at the case. People referred to him as a printer. Business either came in voluntarilv or it didn't come at all. The list of subscriptions showed names of men who didn't pay?and didn't expect to. The average subscriber thought a year's subscription went with his poll-tax. "Ye Editor," was under the im pression that his work was a "call ing," but nobody ever called him a business man. Often he avoided the -barber shep, thus helping out his temperament? and his pocketbook. He was regarded as the first citi zen of his town, and he was?witk out pay. He knew a lot about the constitu tion and nothing about the cost sys tem. But today the cordwood subscrib er uses a tractor. 1 The merchant delivers his good., _ ?.\_ _ m via me mvver. The lawyer has cut his hair, and requires a retainer. Yet, many a country publisher is watching the procession go by? still stickin' type by hand, throwin' it in by hand. iiiimiMiitiiiiiiimtiii milium iiiHimiiiiiutMitmiimiimim mint mi mm mi tmtimnmmiiitiiim luiiiiimiiiiiitiiiiMHiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiMiiiMUiiitiiiHiiNiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimniiiimiiiiiiiiiuitiuMt' CM Ebl\ oe $5.00 in BBEVILLE = le Name for kyiiv^/ et in Abbeville If )f Abbeville thing?a name that is tame that will become )se (o open for the pat e this one, and mail as [!., not later than Jan reb. 1, 1921 at 8 p. m. No ter than that date will be four pupils with their sug i to compete collectively for toward the purchase price iVinning School instead of ime "VICTOR" or "VIC ed in Your Suggestion. Im ce winner's name in a few ses. Get busy and take all inquiries and mail cou RRAY CO. S. Carolina