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C/3 H 2 d x < o o H ? For Your Christmas Dinner WE ARE READY TO DO OUR PART TOWARD THAT BIG CHRISTMAS DIN NER YOU ARE WHETTING YOUR APPETITE FOR. COME RIGHT ALONG AND GET THE GROCERIES. WE HAVE STOCKED UP FOR THE OCCASION AND HAVE SOME SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DELICACIES THAT WILL PLEASE YOU. SPECIALS Fruit Cakes and Pound Cakes, Mince Meat, Olives, Dates, Figs, Cranberries, Fruits and Nuts and Candies of all kinds, Malaga Grapes, Cluster Raisens, Pickles, Cranberry Sauce, Plum Pudding, Crystalized Fruits. For a breaverage we suggest Welch's Grape Juice, Bryan's Special. A fresh shipment of Kingan's Hams. BRUCE'S Food 2 ,.V. ?; v.- . ' s\'!\ ; v. ' ?/ : (WILTY OH NOT (ilULTY? Ih> was a "drummer." Ami was talking, us all traveling *n loon en <lo, more or leas Ho wttH representing an automobile manufacturer whose inn chines a rt' in nearly every city la South Carol Ina. Hut he had wired his house to assign hi in to other territory. What's the matter? Well, he didn't like the South Atlantic. Sectional Idas, no. He was a native of that section of Missouri which wave au army to the South. He didn't like the Southeast for one rcasort because there arc so many hotels charging metro|M>lltiin rates and serving condoled milk and rancid butter, lie didn't like the South be cause -the people seemed too slow. Oh, yes. he liked the jH'ople, but that did n't get him anywhere in u business way. Athuitn Is a dead one and Tampa made him throw IIP his job. Jackson* vllle Is all right. "|he little New York." Columbia? Well, Columbia needs recreation parks, and other kinds of amusement for the j>eople. the working ??lasses and the transients who do not like to be coO|>ed Up 111 hotels. "Play grounds for the |>eoplo Is what you need " Well, that will do for Colum bia. Hut, back to his Indictment of the South as a whole. i It is too true that upon many hotel tables wi> find condensed milk. There t*? rrrmi?--~jnm ? rrnnd^ a^ purc mtttc from a good dairy. This wise man of the world touched the Mire spot of the ee, :n my of the South. "1 have trav elled over the whole of the United States," lie said. "and 1 believe tlve South is as well adapted by nature for dairying as any other part of the country, and yet the South buys con densed milk. l.ven the farmers use it, 1 have been told." The prosecuting attorney then went on to say that if condensed milk Is shipped Into the South, condensed beef must be also. "What about your corn." be* inquired, and enjoyed the state ment thai railroad wheels were made to bring corn to the South, cofti ami meal and Hour and oats and "shippci stuff" upon which to feed the mules 'hat also are shipi>cd in. "Kvervthinz i.-? rat bought away from home," he declared. "That's what's the matter s\ ith your country." The defense stated proudly that in the year tiMT) the South bad made an immense grain crop, and would l>e less of a buyer than heretofore. The people are eating for the tlrst time bread made from home grown wheat The stock Is feeding upon South Caro lina ivats and bay, a new ration on the ' K barn yard bill of faro. The cotton crop was raised at a minimum cost, and the South has her foot upon the Ill's! round, the bottom round, of the ladder that loads to prosperity. "lint," he replied, with an ill con ?en led sneer, "tlu? South can't stand prosj>erlty. You will sooii he going hack to a crop that the lazy negroes ?an make for you. You will soon he again depending upon cotton to buy . your hacon and your corn and your Hour. If the South should have live more years like the last, you would have t.liv greatest country in the wolrd. j lint t lie South will go hack. It requires j too much exertion." i We who love South Carolina do not' approve all that this wise "drummer" has said. \Ye. know that despite her faults. South Carolina is dear to our hearts, and Is Inherently, intrinsically and potentially the greatest State in the Union. We need an outsider to come In occasionally with rough speech to make us see more clearly our faults that we may the better guard our ?jfplvr?? against future error. The South was distressed, impoverished, starved by the war. We have up to now had to work out our own salvation. And this against interference and opposi tion from the outside. Pate, or Providence, gave us a good year in UH5, and we are started upon rtrr> upward way. The secret of the vioccss of this hour is due to but one thing ? diversified agriculture and an ?\hibltlon of life, energy, ambition and common sense on the part of all the I>eople. particularly the men who em ploy the soil. Hut we are told that the South will backslide, that her farming class will disregard all warnings and will go to an all cotton agriculture. This Is a severe indictment against the common sense of our people. We hop<vit is not t rue. What say you. South Carolina, gull !\ or not guilty? ? Columbia Record. San Pranclsco, C-al. ? Thomas Thorn ton. a carpenter, nailed his feet to the io< i- iii church in an effort at self cru Thornton doesn't feel any t'.'t btH-iiii^e. he says, he has the faith. lMiy?lcj:ins say he is a religious fanat ??'. and his diseased brain makes him mmuiic from pain I.ondon, l-.ng ? Lord Charlemont, the dghth viscount of the Irish noble fam i> -?'f lity ?pnic. Is to join the Tln ilater s uiVTon. lie lias l>een working n a munition factory earning from to $17 a week, and, having learned his trade, wants to join the tradesunton. , " "My Christmas De cision" From Battle Crook, Mich., a Christmas message was sent to the nation? a message that may mean Christmas cheer for the starving tenement dwellers, the street waif, the jobless man. the social outcast, for everybody who Is lonely, neglected or friendless. With Ilev. George E. Barnes as sponsor a movement was started to "make this Christmas . Christmas for everybody." The following, called "My Christmas Decision," was sent broadcast: . "Every Christmas season makes your friendship and mine more precious and our love more tender. "This year the thought of that love has been bringing to mefa new consciousness of the needs of the' whole worTd of Christmas cheer and love. "Desolate homes, stricken countries ar.il imperiled live# abroad: slackened industry and Impending suffering at homo ? all are calling. 1 want you to know that my Christmas gift to you will be quite simple, but warm ed with the lire of a now lote? for I am going to give an extra gift to the needs of all those whom I deeply love. "My Joy In this new service will be greater If you Join me In Its spirit, that our Christmas cel ebration may bo kept simple, tilled with good will, winged with sacrifice and devoted to peace." Light Up on Christmas Eve. Some residents of Boston received the following announcement dnintlly printed in old English n few days be fore a recent Christmas: "To All Whom It May Concern? Greeting: We ngnln bespeak your good will and assistance in adding to the cheer of Christmas* eve by placing light ed candles in the windows of your houses Utwoftu-U ttwi lO Ht nlghtr-te the end that the hearts of passersby may be gladdened and that the day of good will and glad tiding* may be At*, tlncly commemorated." The response was more general than was expected. Scarcely a house of those to whom the appeal was address ed but had Its candles arranged long before the hour appointed and prompt ly at fl o'clock lighted up In a flare of Christmas light. The effect of ffoo^ Christmas cheer and of welcome to the coming festival was charming. The custom will be observed hereafter. In Holland but always on Dec 0 IllSload of I ho 2fttb? I ho lit Ho lx>ytt and Klrla put tholr wootlon hIioch In front of the lic;irth>. instead of tying lug up t heir st/?ckln?8, and the Kood old patron of children co in oh and All* them, and thoro i? general tflft ulvlni*. Tho Cruller Lamb#. Our kitchen'* nice foilhd CtirtltRMf tun. ' l < ui'l seu In ih- great bis pot; It'rt where th' crulU-rs th<-> rutn fuin An' whut's Inside in dreflle hut! 1 musn't stand too near th* atove 'Cause "spatters" might Ret on my drew. My mother thinks that things round there ! Would hum her little girl, I kiichs An' so I stay real close to her, When Hhe puts aprons round her waist And rolls th* rings out on a board, Sometimes she lets me have a "taste." An' then, you see, I'm helpln' too, I help her 'member she mus' make j A lot of little cruller lamba? I like that kind of Christmas cake! Th' lamb whea he goes In th' pot He's yellow, an' he looks all flat, Rut whon they lift him out of It, W'y, he's all brown an' round an't fatl I have to wait till he's "cooled off'' 'Fore I can have my lamb to eat; An' mother, she puts "wool" on him Wlf sugar? that's what makes him sweet An' after when my father cornea, I get a lamb for him to see. My mother laughs at how he does; Hhe ways he's "big a child as ma" Hhe don't like lambs in bed, I guess. But father Bays to let me keep Ft squeezed all tight up In my hands? An' that's th' way I went to steep* Mdrtij Louise Tompkins In Harper's WasMr. Whon < ruled England he sued an edict against a|| festivities at Christmas. The festival was altogether abollshod, and tho display of holly and mistletoe and other emblems of the happy time held to be seditious. In 1644 the Long parliament com manded that Christmas day should be observed as a strict fast, when all peo ple should think over and deplore the great sin of which they and their fore fathers had been guilty in making merry at that season. This net so provoked the people that on the following natal day the law was violently resisted In many places. Though these scenes were disgraceful, they served their purpose and put an end to nn uiijust order. Whon (^harirs II. regained the throne the populace ??iK-e more made Christ mas n tfuio of rejoicing; (ireenwood Itogers, serving a life term from Laurens county, and three other convicts escaped from the State Farm in this county last Thursday. Christmas, ELECTRIC CHRISTMAS GIFTS Still New, Enough to Have. Novelty Element Ooar to Americans. MlM'tlic i'lirlHllliUH gifts tttlJI pOSSCH* that element or novelt, y dear U> JtlML American heurt and thus sojve the problem of living Christmas gifts I hut aro "different." Iinaglue how pleased most nu ll would In* I" n-cclvc an ??!? r trie KhaviuK cup or electric cigar llgNfji or instead of neckties. socks and liuuj|>' kerchief* "nw usuul," A teakettle for grn ndmotjSer, a ovar for mother's 5 o'clock teas, M chafing ^lsli for Lbo college girl, u^Ufl stove for tbe bachelor. a (latirou or' qewing machine motor for tbe prac ileal house wife- -all these novel and tiHcf nl gifts will bo appreciated by tbe recipients, " >f ;# tfjj It should uot bo forgotten thtyf tficse electric Christmas gift* aro all useful ;;lfts. Kach of these devices In de signed to do Home one thing better than it can be done auy other way, whether it is to percolate coffee, toast hread or furnish tbe power for run ning a sewing machine. The presence of an electric perco lator on any table adds a (ouch of Motnethlng different and something better. The electric tea samovar is rapidly becoming quite the' thing for the modern tea table. "Wassail 1 Drinksell" The wassail bowl, which is still used in some old European families at Christmas, succeeded the skuii of the Norseman's foe as a drinking vessel. Lu 1 1 ipso old wassail bowls, some speci mens of which are of brown ware and othertfihof massive silver, were placed the alsptbe ginger, the sugar, the nut meg and thg roasted crab apples. Where tbe eld custom still prevails the ale is served spiced and sweetened in the wasseil bowl, but the apples are omitted. Still Bring In the Boards Head, The ancient Christmas ceremony of bringing in the boar's head Is regu* larly performed on Christmas jfte x noon in tbe ball of Queen colledStypx ford. England. TJfle head is borne in on a sliver dlstyV ^boulder high, at the head of a procession formed by the col lege choir augmented for the occasion singing "The Boar's Head Bong." - v-v : -v Camden, S. C. ^ I)cnr Santa : I know It is suowlng at the Nif>rth |>ole. How are yey #uul Mrs. Santa* Clans? T am a litfle girl nine years old. I nm in tlie fourth grade. Santa, this Is nil I will ask you this year: a doll, a piano, and a toaset. and some fruit, and some Are works. And I want you to remember my little brother, too. Your little friend, Jessie May Harris. A Wish For the HoliJ Season Thine own wish wish j pj every place, ; .. ..'iho ( 'In i?tmas joy, tk? the feast, the cheer; , Thine be the light of lovthi face That looks on thee to blow thy, year. My own wish wlbh I thee-what fat i crave? All thy dear hopes be thine, they be. ?A,-. w(eh fulfilled may make the* slave. ? 1 wish .thee wisdom's eyes wh*mrt(B see. I Behold, she stands and waits, th* pM ful year! 1 A breeze of morning breathe* abort] brows; ( /,/:? She holds the storm and ausahiaa, and fear, Blossoms and fruit upon the boughs. 8he brings thee gifts." What bit thou choose? Life's (crown of good In earth or I above? - ? The ono Immortal Joy thou cannnotL la love! Leave all tfie reet and dd thou )ove. I - -Cells Thud ' V Bethone, S. Dear 'Old Santa: I am a little age 0. I want you to bhng &eil and doll carriage, aud a tea setj| 1 want a ring, some halr.-rlbbon, ] a stocking full of fruit Mildred Watenfl ? -T> ^ i(!. \ ? CHRISTMAS GIFTS I FOR MEN, LADIES' AND CHILDREN I i ? 'ii,' ii, ri gc ===== , ;:AJ : "gm THIS SPACE IS TOO SMALL FOR US TO LIST THE MANY SUITABLE PR?1 ENTS YOU COULD FIND IN OUR STOCK AND AT THIS SEASON YOU ARE PR0<| BABLY TOO BUSY TO READ A LONG T.TST SO JTIST COME TO US FIRST AND! YOU WILL PROBABLY BE PLEASED. I ? ___ ii Waterman's Ideal Pens, Fine Cigars, Pipesafld I Cigarette Holders and Cases, Electrical Portables, :;* Irons and Stoves. More T oys Than Ever Before. | . yyj NO WAR PRICES. We have most of the standard toys at the old pnces..-^ have done this at a sacrifice of part of the profit we usually make. An1 a . ^3 add that our stock of drugs and medicines is complete* We are npt out oi not been out of any imported medicines on account of th6 war and we "aY any m ed our wants in buying, consequently our prices are not greatly advanced o tide. - 1 \t DON'T FORGET WE HAVE XMAS CANDIES ? WHITMAN'S and HUXLE**5 1 ' ' A HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL n- i' ' V X.-- >i2a* W. ROBIN ZEMP'S DRUG ST01 . ...... ;- '??? -\ *. ' ?. |.'g PHONE 30 CAMDEN, S. C?