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??UhbV' to KoI1mmS,? > The report that a distinguished American write* was shot! during 1tf ]Ate troubles In Mexico at beet 000111b to be not more than half i ras.** ir anybody does any kicking about ike new yurd-aod-a-half-wlUtt iklrta H won't be the women who woar jf an over-aupply of uuniuseled rtW material running around loose 1? Auy n vi deuce, Dallas ought to of fer a hpl?ndid location for a dog gkln glovo factory. Ifauy a girl consider* her educa te in domestic science OQmptete vkeu she knows how yto open a can if sardines and a charge account, I^jvo la not all hot chocolate and lie c' Hi|i. Th#?y ,are iu?i^ly symp ' ' ; . ? ?" ?" Weeds and objections are easily raJaed and the crop Is always pro Nearly every man has a tender ipot. but it s just as likely to bo #s his toe as In bisheart. Toung men of twcuty^flve long for * fori HIM' to spend, while men or fifty wish they hAd ,iome of the money they squandered whoa twen ty-riv?. All men are horn honest hut noon loat their blrtbrtght. When women enter politics, bet* tin hats on the result of an elec tion will ho an expensive proposl i Ion. Mulolshness l? sometimes mU taken for willpower. The man who can't make up his mind about a tiling ought to know Just what to do when 1?1h wife makes up hers. " : ; ? y ' ?sAJ>MINIHTKATItlX'H NOTICW. All parties ndebted to the entate of F. H. Alexander,. -deceased, are hereby notified to make paymeut to the" undersigned, and all parties having claims agalnut the said es tate will present them duly attest ed within the time prencrlbed by law. ' ? (Mrs.) Belle Alexander, Admlnlstrutrlx Camdeu, 8. C., March 19, 1 9-1 ^ . 47-48-49. -7 . ... ,v . ?? ? ' ???' ?? ', .' Helps With the Lessons . VXJr;v'-;.:-A- - ?? ? ;j.; ?' ." " ' . !' I ? , . . At night when the children gather around the sitting-room table studying their lessons for ^ _ the_next day, the Jefephoiie often rings. A little neighbor a mile down the road wants help from his school-mates. Children as well as grown-ups get pleasure arid profit from the farm telephone. Do you know how little this service costs and how valuable it is ? ? '*?7* "* ? . ' ?< See the nearest Bell Telephone Manager or write for our free booklet. A postal will do. FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY VS. PRYOR STREET ATLANTA, G A. A popular tryHting plitce? We Will Be Pleased To arrange witli you for the best cuts of meat, either by phone or at our counter. This is* a rendezvous for meat, for those who are particular about the kind they eat! (Omr meat market, becauflo so wiftMy | arrange for their meats here! Wholesale and Retail Grain, Corn, Oats, Flour, Molasses , Sugar, Cow Feed and * Poultry Feed SPECIAL BARGAINS IN SEED IRISH POTATOES Agents for Arab Horse Feed and Larro Cow Feed. Congaree Fertilizers are the best? ^full stock on hand of Top Dresser and Nitrate of Soda. - . < ? ? r ~ Dealers in . Buggies, Wagons, Moles and Horses ' rt Full Line . Latest Improved Farm 1. Implements. Springs & Shannon Ilvf I* ? . | w ?? >? .ttllxMl . The world of smoker* ??Ff ranee i#? to judge by loiter* a nil nitrmrraphs In the newspaper, H'-iloU^ly ighuied by a gggEft n touUy luhtty liy the govern MM*nt dopartnuMH v. ulcU supt'rintfcmh* the tobacco monopoly. It hi. a prderod a suppl) of liuvaua Mad Murylaud to baeoo tR-od for plantation* In France; and it openly proclaims Its intention of Milling tobacco raised from this nt?wly imported n????d as genuine Ha vttnn and Maryland It certainly seems j 10 be a proceeding of dubious com- { njercial morality, and the assumption that the peculiar fascination of a ! Havana cigar or a pipeful of Virginia tobacco is due merely to the fact that it Is growt^, from a certain seed, and not to any unique conditions of oil mate or Manufacture, seems equally questionable. l>u t I ho final word hi with thn monopoly. Westminster Ga zette,. How Carelsss! Jlmmle Britt, not the pugilist, but the oirousmau, tells a story illustrat ing how soft-hearted and sympathetic some of the ringmasters are when the acrobats get hurt. The heroine J of 1 the story was a girl who did the four-horse act, the six-horse act, the trapeze and the flying bar, for all of which she received the princely re muneration of |40 a week. One day she fell 40 feet from the trapeze, land ing precipitately and llladvlaedly on her left wrist, broke the. bone near the elbow, -The ringmaster ran up and sympathized as follows, with oer tain profane Remarks, which are here ! excluded: "What In thunder do you mean by falling out of that trapeze T I'm a son of a gun if some of you ginks don't try to put a crimp Into tkta show every time we lift the tent! 'V- popular Magazine. r Alligator Hunting. It is a little more than ten years since alligator skins were first export* ed from Colombia; for five years one concern bad a monopoly o { the puul nesS in alligator skins from catching the animals to selling and exporting the skins and as labor is cheap the exclusive government privilege paid ' well. Now any one cau catch thq beasts, but tirtir privilege is. Hot what it would have been five or six years ago, as there are fewer alligators to catch and the number is decreasing each year, ub there Is a price obtain able for each Bkin caught. Hunting Is conducted jn the dry periods, De cember to March and July and August/ at which times the marshes and flat lands, usually covered with water, are drained and the alligators are captured with comparative ease and in great numbers. ? Pur News. Go-Carts for Papoose*. Blanket Osag6 Indiana whbhave a liking for automobiles and other fea* tures of modern civilization have ,tak< en another step forward. The Osage wcmen are abandoning the ianclent aboriginal custom of carrying their Infant offspring strapped to a board on their baol^s. Recently ? a great many of them have purchased the fanciest go-carts they could buy and now it is no uncommon sight in Tulsa or other towns frequented by the Osages to see an Osage mother, garbed in a gaudy blanket herself, pushing a baby buggy* ~ln~whlClTHFe?~ poses a little papoose, who seems as contented as when strapped to the mother's back, it is said the Poncas, Otoes and other blanket Indians are gradually coming to this custom.? Tulsa correspondence Kansas City Journal. , ? ?< .Women Have Longer' Llvee. The statistics of French insurance companies prove beyond question that women live longer than men; nor is the feminine advantage in longevity a matter of a few monthB, or even years. The difference is one of al most a third. Thus the average ago of death forewomen annuitants on the ? books of one company Is. seventy, and for men a bare fifty. Another com pany has several centenarians, all womeh, on its books. This- company Is now thinking of revising the tariffs and making "one law for the man and mother for the Womafi." To Keep Hands of Motorist Warm. - Another new comfort has been difr covered for the automobile driver. 0 very, motorist knows how uncomfort able his bands are tar biting bliz zard, or even on a still but cold day. To make life more agreeable an in ventive genius has patented a hollow tteering wheel, Into which exhaust gasses from the motor are conducted by means of a small pipe rtmnlng parallel to the steering column. In the case of electrics, the hollow rim Is filled with electric "heaters." Clap cif Doom Figures. If life has got to where there is one oase of canoer to every seven people# then build us a palace of 0eath, as arged by noted old Nobel.' for it seems rs if aH^the promises of mercy are ?b*ms, These one in seven figures are the clap of doom figures given out by in English cancer expert visiting *tbis country. Nobody over here should be silly enongh to swallow sneh stuff, for probably one in forty is an inch or two past the mark. fbi wii - uni tmmmmmmaMx:? ? ~ ? ? Pheasante Become Plague. So numerous have pheasants become In the state of Washington *ln three years Of closed season that "they are becoming troublesome. Electric su burban cars have on numerous occa sion been cofnpeTIed to slacken their; speed to permit the birds to get off the I HIS UNKNOWN Bi ML r " ' ' ' ' # ? ^ - ? ???;, v, 8y LOUIS e. CHARLTON. They were both In the chorus Kvery nt}.h> they S*Bg love b&llad* and non sense rhyme*; flanhed for uu hour or two tn spangled garments behind silt lights, and then wont into <lmk and forget fuinrrn again. They were only of the mob. They might ?$Vo <il?<i any day. either of them or both, and the manager would m<-fly have written a letter, or nodded a word, and hardly a soul In the next night's audience would huve known that there had been a cliango In tho chorus. And yet these two of the chorus were a*t far above the common lot of niumpiers and onlookers alike. > They Were lovers. When the opera demand ed that they sing the chorus of a drinking eong, the eyes of these two met and drank to each other the In toxicHting song of silent love. When their hands met in some stately min uet or mazy peasant dance, the thrilL of shrinking, fearfully sweet pleasure touched them both. The people be jrotid the footlights saw none of these thingn. Every night he waited until she came from the big dressing rooms, he opened the door of the stage en trance to let her pass out, and with a smile and tender adieu, she was gone into a world he knew not- SeVeral times he had tried, when it had been fierce weather, to aeoompany her to her home, to lend her aid, protection, but no, she had always gently declined thene offers, and so they both came nightly out of the unknown, danced awhile in the light of a love that nev er sp<)ke, and went out again into the unknown. But one night he was waiting for her sooner than usual. Bager and trembling he waited for her coming. ~. He held out his hands to her. She hardly knew why. but she took them in her own and looked Into his face wistfully. VWell," she said timidly. "Oh, Fan," he said, "you know what I mean. I love you, that's all. Long ago^ I told you with my deeds, and .you* understood. But that is not enough* Now, Fan, I must know. Will you be my -wife? Strange is it not, that I hardly dared ask before?" Pain crept into her faoe as she list ened ? pain that struggled with Joy. "Yes," Bhe said in low agitated tones, "I knew that you loved me. I knew ? and ? I loved you, too ? dear. I love you now ? but ? I cannot marry you ? I cannot." Her head dropped upon his breast and she sobbed softly. Then she held herself erect and wiped away the tears quickly. "You understand." she said dully, Insistently-^-"! cannot marry you." - An awful thought came to Mm as she spoke. Could lt. be that she was already married ? ?belonging to anoth er? Mow should he have known? Had she not always gone Into the unknown and forbidden him to follow? And there came to his lips that cry of thousands like him, thousands of lov ers In whom a sudden Jealousy creates a frightful monomania of suspiclan. "Ah, tfaen there is ? somebody else!" Why is it that lovers always think -that because they are not chosen some one else must needs be? Is there no such thing as a woman who refuses to love simply from disinclination,' in stead of from a previous exhaustion of the sentiment? But in thitf case the girl nodded her head and said: "Yes, there is somebody .else." "Then why," he retorted, with quick anger evolved from his passive grief, "did you not tell me so before ? with your eyes? Why did they always say 'Yes,', if your lips wejre to Say 'No?1 You are cruel. How is it possible? And he? -Vrho is he? Ah, Well, what does it matter? You have turned my day into night. I will go away into " ' M ' He turned to go, but her n^hd was on his 8ieerarrr.~:' "8top," she ? said. "Come with me. I, will show you the somebody else. And It. is you who are cruel. Do I not say. that Move you? Come." ? ? - ? Thus for the first time he accompa nied her into what *waB to be no more the unknown. They reached the house at last. She opened the door and beckoned him' to follow her. In the dim, shabby rftom, he saw a figure lying oh the bed , a wasted, shrunken figure that breathed heavily. L ' "This," she said, 'is my mother. She is dying inch by inch of a wast ing disease. Every moment that is not spent at the theater I must devote to her. Every thought of mine must be for her and her comfort She, she has so lltle left of life. Would you have me deprive her of the care she needs?" A lump came into the man's ihroat and seemed to wish to stick there for? ever. He choked a little hoarsely, and when he had found his voice, asked: "And is this ? the somebody else?* She nodded, and turned to the bed, but the visitor picked her up in his arms suddenly and covered her fece with kisses. . "You are an angel on the stage and off." he whispered in. a voloe which had a suspicion of tears in It. But why didn't you tell me at first?" ? ^.-.VBeoanse," -ehe said, -"you wouldn't* let me." And now a 'certain member of the chorus is daily trying to postpone hi marriage by bis self-eacriftcing ten derness in nursing the somebody else. " He is doing It to ease Pannle's bur den. But poor somebody else has not long to linger with them, and some day t^ere will be a wedding ih the It is our purpose to handle any and all business entrusted to us. in such fair and liberal manner as to make all pa tron's relations with our Bank satisfac tory and profitable. The First National Bank OF CAMDEN, S. C. The First National Bank 1 OF CAMDEN, S. 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