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- - . ? - w t-*^^'X7!TT7^ "?l' ? V ?' .-?? . ?*???;'!' :\. ? , ; ' ?- ? . ? - ? We have just received a car Uad of fine HORSES and ' ? -? ; f* . ? MULES and want you to call and see them ? ? ? ? A good tliiio to sea}d one of tlif? Children Jiere lor moata? ! When the phone is out of order and you can't come yoorwl'l YOU ci*n send your children here with the assurance that they will return with as choice a cut of meat as you would purchase yourself. We seek, your contln ued patronage. Campbell Bros. "Worth More Than it Costs" ; Lots bf farmers declare their telephone service, worth more than it costs. J. W. Harris, a well-* writ^n ? e* ^vlnQ near Choccolocco, Ala?i occasion to call our doctor not two nours after my telephone was connected with ?1 ifi exchange. My mother, who is very old, l o.ii 7s? the door steps and broke her arm, and I 7J! t1? doctor. He was at my house before oi.^ L.,ave *olle to his residence, as he has an automobile., ;XC would not be without our telephone for "we than it costs and appreciate the assistance ^Ou rendered us." - :ahr!^Ur b??klet tells how you may have tele tbt ;?C s jmce w-.vour farm at small gosW Write _ "today. A poster will do. ~ 7^ ? ? -w * - ? * > t9 7 . 7/w ? v vi t.i ? '/iT *;.? i FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT PHKiELL TELEPHONE ?T] Tii i. ?' nil ATLANTA, GA, The Point of View. "This section is almost mountain ous," remarked the pedestrian to his companion as they trudged along a country road one summer's day oar rying heavy grips. "Yes, it's a bit hilly," said the farm er a few minutes later as he drove his guest from the station in the big buokboard. "Nice, rolling country, this," ob served the automoblllst to his chauf feur as they whizzed by in a big tour ing car. "Qee, what a flat, uninteresting region," thought the aviator, looking down as he sailed over it in his ma jestic biplane. ? Life. A Fellow Feeling. The hold up man had his victim covered. Suddenly the latter, with hands held up. broke into a violent lit of sneezing. Then the highwayman's face wrin kled and he sneered, too. Incidentally, they sneezed together. "Shake!" gasped the footpad, and put out his hand. "Lay it there," wheezed the victim. One touch of hay fever makes the whole world kin. - A- Timid Tradesman, Clock Drummer ? I've got the finest line of alarm clocks on the market, Mr. Schmidt. Schmidt ? Veil, you can't sell me any alarm clocks dis season. Olock Drummer? Why? Schmidt ? Veil, I tell you. Dls Is a year ven dey elect a bresldent. And effery candidate, mlt all dem cam paigners, vlll run apout de gountry and 'view fait alarmsM"-? Judge. WILLING TO OBLIGE. Horace ? I *ay, old fellow, I wish you would intercede for me with that pretty niece of yours. Harold-'-Sure, I will. Only the oth er day I told her you, had more money than brains. Horace ? What did she say? Harold. ? She wanted to know if you had as much as 30 cents. A Great Number. I How many men go to the baa, . Spend every cent they've ever had And don't come baokl frgg:;. Beau Champion Faster. "Just fancy! There's a fasting man who has beei* living for forty-Hre days on water." "That's nothing. My father lived for twenty years on water." "Go on!" * "Yes; he was a sea captain.* ... Exonerating the Polloe. ""Yeq, sir/' %rerred the Hew York th^ police?" "Now hold on. I don't say thdfco* lice were mixed up in it." ** Back to the Ranch. "Mr. Spooned, isn't this the third time you hate asked me to be your wife?" ? ?rr~l . * "1? I believe. it Ja, -Miss- Jennie^1 ? "Well, you've fanned the air three time."' SYou're put on strikes/' A Lively One. "I hear when you have your chil dren gathered around you, it is quite a picture." "Well, when we all went^o our new house, I can tell you it waBft moving picture." _E*gin?lvs apet "Gilt Crest is considered a healthy place, ye t all the guest* who leave the hotel lodk sick." "Oh, they don't look sick until they get their WW . . . ... A Silly Season Jeat. Owens? Do y#u know, X ffnd it jeas ier to borrow money inhot weather. Bowns ? That's not surprising. Or? dinary friends become warm Meade uhon thi^l" IMg the nlweiiea. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIANO Centuries of (Invention Have Boon Needed to Bring It to Present State of Perfection. 9 Have you ever thought, when play log, Domtt melodious sonata upou your pifno, that tho Instrument, At M Is today. Is the perfection of centuries of Invention? In the beginning It was a harp shaped piece of wood, having two or three strings, From time to time tnore strings were added until the clthara was Invented. This was atk Instrument lu the shape of a capital P. with ten strings stretched aeress the open space. Many centuries after ward musicians conceived the idea Of stretching strings across an open box. About the year 1200 this was done, tho dulcimer madu Its appear anew, and the strings were struck with hammers. For another hundred years or so these hammers were held In tho hands, and then some genius invented a keyboard, which, being struck by the finger?, caused the. hammers to strike the strings. This was called a clavlcytherlum, or keyed olthara, and from time to time It was modified and Improved. During Queen Elizabeth's time It was called a virginal, and then a spin et. because the hammers wore covered with the spines of quills, which struck and caught the strings and produced the sound. During the period between 1700 and 1800 it wae much Improved and en larged, and was given the name of harpsichord. It was In 1710 that Hurtholomeo Cbrlstofoll, an Italian, invented a, keyboard similar to the one we hare now, which causes the hammers to strike the trlreB from above, ant thus developed the piano. ' During the last century the inven tive genius of musicians the world over lias revised and Improved it until' It has reached the present-day per fection. " SUDDEN ENDING OF ROMANCE Task 8et for Reformed Tramp Was Just a Little Mere Than He Could Stand. "Oh, yes, we have romances in our lives." said the tramp. "bu'jt there la always something to spoil 'em. 1 had my last one last fall. I was peg ging along a Rhode Island highway, thinking more of good feed than ro mance, when a couple of wearies ahead Of me turned into s farm house. I turned In as well when 1 came along up, and I walked into the kitchen just as they had locked a girl up in a closet and were about to go through the house. They invited me to take a hand in their game, but I took two In my own. They made it Interesting for me for three or four minutes, but the average Weary is no boxer. He depends upon wild, swings instead of straight punches. I had 'em both down when the farmer came up^from the field, and the girl was released and the fellows sent off to Jail. f_ "Well, currant jam, big red apples and mince pies were .none too good for me for the next week. The daugh ter was a jichooi ma'am, about twenty years of age, and I had won her ro mantic heart ere three days had passed. I think the old man would have sanctioned the match, but he didn't take me right. On the fourth day of my stay he took me out and showed me a ten-acre lot of thei- ston iest ground I^eve^ saw In my life, J and Intimated that I might start in plowing next morning. It was too much. That night I left the house by way of a window, and daylight found me seven miles away. I would have helped gather apples or husked corn, but when it came to plowing among bowlders, as big* as barrels, romance fled, and I followed close at her heels." ?; :: Hindu's Agonising Penance. An extraordinary scene was wit nessed In Calcutta recently when a small trolly, studded with rows of iron spikes, on which a Hindu was lying at full length, was being pulled through the streets. A large crowd was following. Inquiries elicited the information that the man was dojl^g \ penance, and ta-the temple of the Goddess Kail at Kallg hat. The Hindu had been several days on the journey, and was in a terrible condition. Thd spikes, which numbered about 150 were quite sharp, and the man wore only a loin-cloth. He must have been suffering acute pain from the fact that his body was bruised and lacerated all over as a re sult of lying on the sharp nails. Neith er the police nor any passer-by made any attempt to stop the self-imposed torture. ? ? - m ? ? - -r - ^ ^ . . ?;> - *j. & Chinese Oysters. ? A New York Chinese laundry man is helping out hte daily breakfast with native Chinese oysters on the hell shell. The shells he brought along with him from China. The oysters he receives from China 4n the half bar? i rel, dried and smoked As they oome they resemhle some* i what dried -appier or peaches. 'TPjUTi lanndrynhm-phtees a mess oret night, each ..oyster in a shell fall of see ?water, afd the nsact morning they hare the *ptamp and Juiey attractire ness of freshly opened oysters, and if they did not hare so muclrthe lasfcu of oaarated ham one might perhaps deteeCma oyster flavor shoot them: ' The Ch hi a man says the oysters are preserved in this way by first being dried In the sun ad then ssaeked with seaweed whieb. when bmmfesg. has a smell lifce eyster soap. "* Arc becoming more and more the custo dians of the funds of the people of both large and small means. This is due to the wider appreciation of the tfalue of banking service as its usefulness is ex- ' tended and its methods become more and better known. If there is any fea ture of the banking business you do not tinderstand, call and we will gladly ex plain tha same. * The First National Bank OF CAMDEN, S. C. REAL ESTATE ?MM SELL. Do You Want to j ?oan BORROW I May Help You. laureNs t. mills* CAMDEN. S. C. HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW FORD? i ?" ' 1 ' 1 ' FORD CARS and a full line of FORD PARTS always on hand COME AND TAKE A LOOK " ' . - ? ?' ' : - --r ~y[] 1 11 ? ? " " . ' 1 11 1 ? 1 . ' ? ' " . 1 "* D. C. SHAW The ford man SUMTER, S C. Fresh this week: Biscuit, Saratoga "Sunshine" ips, Hams, aeon.