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TIRE TAXES uoi?'t li?' heavy,, If you lutv?? us do v?Mir ifpair work. \\V liiivc 11 III I rli.1-- ? ?(julpMH'lit 1111(1 urt? to KlVi' you pt'OIUpl Hu?l HHflwftt'' lory fofbnti nolilp iu Bicycle Repairing Unreliable repair.* would rulu our ? haiwv for xueeeHM. \N'?* must Uo ilej**ndublo work to nold our t rn ? It*. I'rltKs itlwuys moderate. H. E. BEARD Wood's Seeds. Crimson Clover the best of soil-improving: and forage crops for fall seed ing. Puts land in splendid condition and increases pro ductiveness to a wonderful extent. Makes one of the best of winter cover crops, furnishes excellent grazing, the earliest green feed, or a good hay crop. Wood's Fall Catalog S 'ves full information about Is valuable crop* and all other Clover and Grass Seeds. Seed Grains, etc., for fall seeding. Catalog mailed on request. Write for it and prices of any seeds desired. T.W.WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Va. RAT CORN I>>at rat ami mlco oxtormlnntnr made. Kills <|iil<'Kl y an<| absolutely wit'10" t odor Mutnmlfl?*.s ? thus proven tin? doeomposl Hon. Batter than nil the traps In tin world. Insist oil l iontilnn RAT CORN. 2ft c. 60c, 91 at dealers ur by mail, iK>st paid. BOTANICAL MFG. CO. 4tk A RacmSta ,, Philadelphia. Pc J. SUMTER MOORE Cotton. Long Staple Exclusively. 1213 Washington Street, Phone 585 Columbia, S. C. Would advise planting a ftnv acres from /select seed. PIANO SACRIFICE I VV.? tukv* fine plana In n homo neiur ftundcn. To i ?*** '*ost of re turning wo oiler trojiioiuhnui discount | a'-'i irosf liberal tt>rma to flint who appllua filmhtW but la perfect condition; (rood uuew. Bl?c ?a\irvic | ar.J ipU'n.li.i uuiUity. Addreaa J. L 1TEWAIT, Boi 1007. ATLANTA. QJL ! COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER PLAIN & HUCER STS. Phone 71 COLUMBIA. S C. J. H. M A Y F I E LD Photographer Studio Over Hank of Camden. All Kinds of photographs made in the >tuciio and at the homes. All Kodak ?t< > sloping done free of charge. Ar tislie flash light home portraiture, etc. Over Bank of Camden. MOMKY TO liOAN ON REAL ESTATE ? EASY TERMS E. C. vonTrmcltow. THE SECRET WORD Our War Department Has About the Best Code In Existence. 1 SIMPLE, FLEXIBLE AND RAPID. I . Tho Navy Haa a Cipbar of Its Own, ! Has Also tha Dapartmant of Stata. One of the Code* U?ad by England For Unimportant Moiaagaa. j The United States government em* j ploy h probably wore different kinds of I vodt'H than any "'her power. The slut? department has one of Its own. Tliu war depart mcnt has one. And I hi* navy uses a separate ami sys tem. Tho code hook or key of the navy cipher la kept alwaya In a canvas hag, which li? lined with rlllO and beav* lly weighted. Tho bftK is In tho per Honal custody of tho commanding olll cor of tho ship, who haw order* never to lot It get away from him, but to throw it overboard In tin? ovent of cap turo hy an enemy. The advent of wlre ii-MH t (-li'^raphy hay made tills jut'v uu tlon doubly necessary, for tho solution of an enemy's cipher In tJmo of war might easily turn tho scales of victory. The only naval co<lo l>ook ever cap tured by an enemy was the one car ried by tho Chesapeake In the war of 1812. Tho commander of the Chesa peake, Captain l.awrencc, was wound ed early in tho battle, aud no one elae knew where the code book was kept. Whon tho frigate surrendered the Brit ish found tho code behind li sliding panel, and the book Is now In the Brit ish museum. The cipher of the war department 1? very simple In Its nature and by virtue of this simplicity, ease of operation, In scrutability and rapidity with which a now key can be substituted Is said to hold tlrst place among the military ci phers of the world. Army officers who have used other codos say that none of them compares to this one. This cipher may In a general way bo described as an Ingenious method of distorting the order of words In a mesunge and further obscuring the meaning by the systematic introduc tion* of irrelevant words and meaning less names. Tho variety of distortions is great, and whenever a copy of the cipher is captured another cipher can be communicated in a Very short time to all tlioso who should have it. A simple and Ingenious naval cipher was invented by Captain Charles Mor ris for the use of the American navy during tho war of 1812 and hps been utilized by tho navy department, with modifications, over since. The princi ple- is applicable alike to Hag ciphers or numerical ciphers transmitted by telegraph or Wireless. Captain Mortis in a hand written sig nal book bound by him in 1811 stated. A circumstance may sometimes render It doslrablo-to chanKe the stgnlllcatlon or the flags or tho uumbors expressed by them. Tho following method should thereforo bo adopted: . , . . lift each day of the week be Inserted In the signal book opposite a number. TO each of thceo days afllx a certain number, which is always to bo communicated oral ly under charge of socrecy. that no enemy or Improper person can bocomo acquaint ed with It. Tho following Ust Is an ex ample f Sunday ....(add) 3 Monday ? Tuesday .7 Wednesday * ? Thursday 6 Friday J Saturday * Refore commencing your communication Insert the number corresponding to the day you wish to use. This will signify to tho person who Is to road the signal that ho Is to add tho number corre?|?ondlng to that day to all signals that may b? made. The person sending tho signal will sub tract tho same number from all signals. Hy this moans an enemy's knowledge of your ordinary signals might really be con verted to his dlHadvantage Instead of tho benefit which h? might promise himself from them. While nobody oouUl tell you today the code used by any power in trans mitting important and vital news and instructions, some of the more ordinary ciphers have been discovered. For in stance, one of the simplest of all offi cial ciphers is that used by the British foreign office for tho transmission of comparatively unimportant messages, the cipher being too well known to risk detection when there is much at stake. Tiio letters or the alphabet are ur runged hi the form of a square; 1 2 3 4 5 a b c tl o 1 f K h 1 J 2 k 1 m n o 3 p q r 8 t 4 u v \v x y 5 Each letter is then represented by two numerals. Thus A would be 11. would be 41. K would ho 154, and so on. The letter /., which has to be omitted from the cipher because of the fact that there are twenty-six letters in the alphabet, Is represented l>y 0, while t lie same symbol is used to sop- i a rale words. Thus in "Hush arms to Zanzibar" i the cipher would be: 3415443201 1 34334 406453001 H304221 11 34. This cipher has the advantage of al most Infinite variety, as by changing j the arrangement of the numerals one ! #(,>t]y bailie a chance recipient of , the m?Nsa ge, while the person for | whom the cipher is intended would, have n?? trouble in rending It.? James I . Hay. Jr., in Kvery Week. Good Reason. dl>bs? Why do you call your waiter Billiard Cue? 1 Mhbs- Because he gives the best satisfaction when he has a good tip.? Boston Transcript. A wide spreading, hopeful disposi tion is your only true umbrella Inthla ?ale of tears.? T. B. Aldrlch. MISS DREW'S SECRETARY By JEANNE KILBY. Carlotta l>rew pushed away the ac- ; count books that littored her dunk and sighed wearily. "Oh, dear, 1 never can make these books balance," she panted* "I wish Miss Smith had not been so stupid or Miss Hart so slovenly. I simply can't get along without a secretary." "You might try one of the secre tarial schools," suggested Mrs, Marsh, bending over her embroidery. "I will ? I must have someone at once" Carlotta picked up the receiver and telephoned her wishes: "Bend along anyone wh*> la fairly Intelligent," she walled at last. "There," she said, looking defiantly , at her aunt, "they are sending up a ( young man." "A young man!" echoed Mrs. j Marsh. "Are you crazy, Carlotta?" ,j "Only desperate, Aunt Anna." "I shall send him away again." "Not uutil he has straightened out i my accounts. I make them say that ! I have spent Just four dollars instead of Ave hundred In the last month, and yet my checkbook shows I have over drawn my account." "What a muddle!" sighed Mrs., Marsh. "You really ought to marry a good business man, my dear, some one who can look after you and your property." "I met a man last summer," she began. Then, biting her lips to keep back a secret she had hot dared con fess to anyone but herself, she added gayly, "I'm going out, Aunt Anna. If the young man comes tell him to straighten out my books. I'll home before he leaveB." It was an hour after Carlotta's de parture when Biggs brought In a card. "Mr. Anthony Lester." "Humph!" sniffed Mrs. Marsh, looking coldly at the tall, self-poa sessed young man who regarded her so affably. "My niece Is out at pres ent. She wants you to wait until she returns. No use wasting ypur time, though. Miss Drew said you might straighten out her books ? there on the desk ? find out what the trouble Is." Lester smiled and sat down at the desk. Presently Mrs. Marsh noted that he was working busily over the offending accounts. u He worked so steadily that Aunt Anna's heart warmed toward him. She would reward him with a little amiable conversation. "Are you married?" she asked abruptly. "Good heavens? no!" he laughed. "I was married for twenty years and I never had oire Bingle regret. My husband has been dead for ten years. Ours was a perfect marriage," sighed Mrs.- Marsh, now on her favorite topic, "and I dislike to hear young people laugh flippantly at matri mony." Lester colored. "I assure you," he said gently, "I had no intention of laughing. It was the idea of your thinking T would be here ? " HIb voice trailed into embarrassed si lence. Aunt Anna Marsh sat up stiffly and regarded him over the tops of her eye glasses. * "Young man," she said sternly, "when you came here this afternoon did you know that my niece, Mias Drew, Is very, very rich Indeed?" LeBter had the grace to blush quite perceptibly. "Yes," he said at last. , "I thought so," she said. Lester got up and paced the floor. Now he was scowling in a most un pleasant manner, but even the black look didn't mar his handsome face. "Can't a man marry a rich girl without being called a fortune hun ter?" he suddenly asked. "No!" exploded Aunt Anna indig nantly. "Does your nieco share your views ?that every man ? no! I won't dottbt her for an instant!" He turned to ward the desk. The door flew open and in came a radiant Carlotta, her blue eyes agleam with the glad light of surprise and her cheeks aglow. "Anthony! Anthony! you dear!'* she cried, aud she went straight into the arms of the "secretary young man," who held her closely. Aunt Anna shut hor eyes upon this horrifying sight. "And there is the poor secretary waiting in the hall," cried Carlotta, releasing herself from Lester's arms. "The secretary! Carlotta Drew, who Is this young man?" demanded Mrs." Marsh in a tragic tone. 'Why it s Anthony Lester, the man I almost told yon about ? it's a secret that we love each other, and I sup pose now our engagement must be an nounced. Who did you think he was, auntie?" she asked curiously. Lester gallantly came to the rescue and Aunt Anna never forgot it. She took him to hor heart even before she discovered that he was considerably richer than Carlotta. "Why, who did you think ho was?" repeated the girl curiously. "Mrs. Marsh asked me to help straighten out your accounts," he in terposed tactfully. "I've brought or der out of chaos, but there's still one more thing 'to settle." A small, dapper-looking youth, with owlish, spectacled eyes, entered the room meekly. "This Is Mr. Mook. the secretary, Aunt Alina," said Carlotta. 'Copyright, 1#1S, hy the McClure News paper Syndicate.) M, At a Girl's College. j "I am going to like you," Bald tho j girl student. "My womanly Intuition tells me thut you are a wine instruc tor " "Thank you," responded the ludy professor, "but I want you to study a J trifle harder. Your womaitfy intuition j isn't going to help you guess the right ! answers to your geometry problems." Following Instructions. The phone bell tintlnnabulated. "Is this the office of the Daily | Squawk?" asked the voice. "Yes? Well then I want you to put in my bus I band's death notice, 'Gone to rest' in i an appropriate place." And next morning it read: "Gone to rest in an appropriate place." Judicial Wisdom. "No," said the gray-haired Judge, "I'm not in favor of women on Juries." "Why not?" queried the young at torney, "Because," answered the venerable legal luminary, "we have too many .disagreements as it is." j Able to Handle It. VMr. Paste Is the only man in our block who doesn't dread election day," "How's that?" "Well, the ballot Is anywhere from six to ten feet long nowadays, but he is a paperhanger, so he isn't afraid to tackle it." ? Judge. Unexpected. "As near as I can make out," said the physician, "your wife seems to have experienced a sudden shock of; some kind." * "I guess that's right, u replied the husband. "I got home before twelve o'clock last night." WILLFUL GIRL. Grace ? Really, mother, you seem cross this morning. Mother (sternly) ? How often have I told you not to let that young man klBB you? Grace ? I don't k$ow, mother, but certainly not as often as he has kissed mo. The Way of It. Moat single men aVo homeless, and L.ess happy than they should be; Moat married men, we understand, Are home less than they should be. The Homo Wrecker. Mrs. Bowen ? You are not yourself at all tonight, Clarence; what are you worrying about? Mr. Bowen (absently) ? May wheat. Mrs. Bowen (Icily) ? Really. I don't believe. I've had the pleasure of meeting the lady! ? Puck. Different Now. "Time alters many things." "What's the matter?" "I lore I have been half an hour try ing to wake up little Willie; and when -he was a baby many a time I'd have given all I had just to get him to sleep." Crushed Hopes. "Do you expect to walk In this house. young innn, and hang up your hat"" "N'o.. sir I can't hang it up be cause you're Bitting on It." Looks That Way. Bill ? I see a gas range has been combined with a writing desk by an In ventlvt* New York artist. m ? ? Jill Be useful when a man wants to indite a warm epistle. Unsportsmanlike Calculation. "Pood Is undoubtedly expensive." "That's true. I used up ten dollars In railroad fare and two dollars' worth of bait catching thirty cents' worth of fish " Dangerous. "Jones owns a madstone." remarked Jinks to Ms wife. "Goodness." exclaimed his wife, "taM It bitten anybody yet?" SCHOOL STATIONERY! Tablets, Blank Book?, Pencil*, Pen?, Inks, Erasers, Pencil Sharpeners, Paste, Muci. lage, Record Books and and many other items in this line at W. ROBIN ZEMP'S DRUG store Phone 30. Camden S. C. TO MY CUSTOMERS 4 I WILL BUY YOUR COTTON AT 10 CENTS. THIS TO GRADE MIDDLING AND BE PUT UP IN GOOD SHAPE. THIS OFFER IS TO ANYONE THAT OWES ME BY NOTE, OPEN ACCOUNT, OR WISHES TO BUY A HORSE, MULE, BUGGY, WAGON OR SET OF HARNESS AT LOWEST COST PRICE TO BE PAID WITH COTTON AT 10 CENTS PER POUND. FARMERS, I AM WITH YOU. THIS WILL EN ABLE YOU TO PAY ME; AND ALSO GET ANY THING IN MY LINE AT A VERY CLOSE CASH PRICE. THIS IS THE BEST SOLUTION I KNOW OF BEING OFFERED. I WILL SELL YOU REG ULAR $85 BUGGIES FOR $75; and $72.50 and $70 WAGONS FOR $60 and $62.50 AND THIS OFFER HOLDS TILL NOV. l?t. PC Camden, S. C WANTED ' JS -ia The farmers of Kershaw County to know that we nave a full stock of Bagging and Ties, Cotton Sheet! and Cotton Pickers Bags. The South is in the saddle and Kershaw county it one of the best counties in this state and making great er strides than any of our neighboring counties. This year will be the greatest harvest year we have ever ex perienced. |Kershaw County has raised 36,000 bales of cotton in one year and this year will make a large Cot ton crop. Grain crop, Hay and Potatoe crop. Hogs will follow corn and there is a tremendous com crop. GET READY FOR THE BIG HARVEST You will want a mower. We are agents for the Emerson Standard Mower... The mower that is lightest on mules and has many advantages over all other mow ers. Come .in and we will demonstrate to you the many features. . CANE MILLS More Sugar Cane and more Syrup. The Chatta nooga mill is the one that has the reputation, we hare the agency for this mill and carry a stock of these mills. We carry a full line of heavy* Groceries and Farm era Supplies. If prices, service and courteous twsj* ment count for anything, make this store your head quarters and we will be pleased to count you as one of our customers. SPRINGS & SHANNON THE STORE THAT CARRIES THE STOCK for S ALE I dnn ho ^'PLANTATION In West Wateree, seven miles from C* ri<| i dfn' 2 from LugoflP, S. C. J ' S\vh?M^ contains 1,378 acres; 800 acres open land, a Rood - ln'J ,s under cultivation and producing well; some good 0lll! room dwelling, 20tcnant houses, several barns P iiouse. This property Is situated in one of the best farmings*^ ?,f f:fr8 aw ??unty; Kood neigh borhood and healthy locality. p,e?r < labor on place; about 800 bales of cotton produced on nuany ; some good pasturing land for stock raising. We tare *" I A?,0 fo* sale at a bargain and the terms are very easy. ^ A so thc following: 75 acres 8 miles Southeast of Camden, wj .nui o'V!8 ?.f J?1 ?oyk,n- West ?nd Burrows. About 40/cr^n?? nltivatlon; the, balance, in wood and timber. Two room dwellia# barn on premises. Price $1,050., cash or terms. ' a Cr?i. ODS,1"g to T- s- Runlap, 8 miles from Camden Antloch section. This is a good tract of land with some nice ?n sdjolning this property have been in dem*D? we have this for sale at a reasonable price. " DuBose & Boy kin J Real Telephone No. 43 Estate tod Fire Insurance Camden* S-C