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-V- ? ? \ is the. Thief of Time." Tomorrow, when K is too late, your excuse will avail you nothing. Our disabil ity clause will Bave you if you leave; our Monthly In come Policies will save your dependents if you die, ?; ?? ... . , '* -r. . Southeastern Life Insurance Co., ? GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA L. A. McDowell, Agent Camden, S. C. LOT* COUNTY nkwh I(w?s of iitmtt fiWhewd From Bfcb npvIBe Vtaflfteato r. . , ?? The fj.-nion hold last Tuesday to vote oa a spccinl levy of 4 mills for school purpose carried by a baudsomo major ity of 119 to 20 for the levy. There is no doubt now bow the people stand on the school question. The contractor says kc hopes to have the building completed is ample tirtir for the school to b^M its closing exerciser dn the spacious audi torium. v'/ > Mr. 4\>lejnau Woodham, another one of tbe returned heroes of tho 30th Division, who reached Bishopville last week spent a while at the home of the writer Sunday r renins. Both be S5$ all the other boys who assiKted in breaking the Hlndgnburg line, and eut down every lluii they could, arc looking fine, and are gladly welcomed j kj their many relatives- and friends. Pri* j _ vate Woodharf was shell shocked and bad ^ I to spend quite a While in one of the ho9- , pitals over there. f> Miss Bessie Truesdaie fjot a letter from her brother John who is still in France, ?tatinR he and Lawrence 'Davis are get-; tin* alone line, an they have nothing in particular to do except guard dutjp^ Daa't know when they Will get back to ?rilian life, but are anxious to get back lo old South Carolina. Mr. I). B. O'Kelly/ of Miami, Fla., a former citizen ~ of "'this -section, dropped in to see us this week. Mr. O'Kelly says I it has been twenty years Hi nee he lived j kre and that Bishopville has kept paoe with the progressive times. ! Maj. W. T. I*esene found his car that | was stolen last Tuesday night. The car j -was ieftin A -ditch between Cartersville ??d Lynchburg. Thp. car was not hurt ; and all the books and paper? were left unmolested in the car. Mr. and Mr#. Croskey Kirk laud of Oamden spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. F, J. Boykin. Mr. K. B. Haynes got back from a weeks visit to his orange grove in Flor ida. He says the frost was severe on the gulf coast, a. M the iujury to many of the truck crops ^was serious. The strawberry crop was completely ruined by too much rain. Middle and east F?orida was not burt but little. Mrs. Lois Boykin of the Ionia section received a letter from her husband, J^eo nard C. Boykin, who is in service over seas, stating that bo was well and ex* ported to be' home with her and his five months old ^on, Leonard. Jr., in about tbreo weeks. He st^m.s to be anxious to gflt back. Murderers Ciet New Trial. Columbia, 8. C., April 10. ? Ou the allegation that one of the trial juroi> had expressed a prejudiced view toward one of the defendants, Cooler, after the ( juror had been sworn in, and that, the presiding judge, would not relieve him,t th<? state supreme court, in au opinion j by Associate Justice T. B. Fraxerf and Concurred in by the other members of : the court, ordered a new trial for Aleas ? Copier and- Will Da vis, convicted of the niurder of W. D. Thomas, a forest rider of a hunting club in Jasper county. ? I It All Depends, Of Course. A girl asked the salesman at the silk { counter: "Will you tell me what you' think is the best color for a bride this ' year?" . . . "Well," answered the young man, "tustes vary, of course, miss. As for | myself, I would prefer a white one." i ? . " .p.; <? * : J nU}tfTNUVU^ Vpon n rccrat death in a wwUmj town of u politician, who *t one tims wrved his country in a very high legis lative place, a number of newspaper men were collaborate on an obituary notice. "What shall vte say of the former sonntqr?" asked one. "Oh, just put down that be was al ways faithful to his trust." , "And," queried a tbird, "shall we men tion the name of tbe trust?" ? v. . ? V . - A / . .4 Why Cotton Seed Does Not Sell. The i'o mm 6rcial Appeal calls atten tion to a most extraordinary condition in regard to cotton sefjd, <-otton seed oil and other oils. Wtfen wo becaxne involved in the war tbe Government fixed' the price which gave to the crusher u decent profit. In, the meantime,1 the Japanese and others began to dump into America peanut oil and fi#b oil at a price far below the price of oil crush ed from cotton seed at $70 a ton. Dur* | ing the interval it had been so arranged that (he vegetable lard piWucers could ^selL. their products at a fair margin of profit, even when payiDg for x>'H cruah?; ed from high priced s^ed. Now, some of the lard eompoui^a^tnufacturers are buying cotton seed oil and also buying tho cheap Asiatic oil. The two aVe com pounded. The product is sold at a cer ? tain price, but the profit on the As(?t|i& | oil Is so great that the lard cota pound man now makes more than he ever did. He buys the cottonseed oil in a limited quantity. He suppHes ' the deficiency from the Asiatic oil. The mills cannot i afford to buy the cotton seed and run < / l the risk of not having any market for i the oil at the fixed price on cotton seed. ? Commercial Appeal. 1 i pocmd Hm hmmittm** mmrn r.srzaz.'s 23. P*rfii POT it flush up to Prince Albert to produce more smoke happiness than you ever beforecottected! P.A.'s built to fit your smokeappetite like kids fit yourhandsl It has the jimdandiest flavor and coolness and fragrance you ever ran r against! ? ?- 1 . Just what a whale of joy Prince Albert really is you want to find out the double-quickest thing you do next And. out it down hov^you could smoke P. A. for hours without tongue bite or parching. Our exclusive patented nrnrp? cuts out bite and parch. . Process Realize what it would mean to get set with a jov'ns ifmmv pipe or the papers.*! very once and a while. Ag? Z beat the cards 1 Without a comeback / Why P A is so good you feel like you'd just have to eat that fragrant smoke! R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Win?ton -Salem, N. G ; , . '--VV'.Tv V I M?I jc CKKDIT TO OKBMANV j Had TaurM World to Believe Th*t Nbr j >' \k Was ? KuperaaUoa. L | - 1 1 Ak a prelude to Wr attack on civiliaa. [ tioo, Germauy did two thing*. For forty year* she built up a vast military mu? chiue at home, uud for forty years, thru ' well plauuvd and skillfully executed pro paganda thruout the world( *he taught i the gospel of her superior efficiency, This latter to such aju extent and ao success fully lhat, by 1914, to uae au expressive though slauio' expression, ->ho hud the worltj "buffaloed," Thi.s 1m not to nay Germany was uot efficient, uc^r superlatively organised, for ahe was. Not only waa the theory of efficiency t?lked on every occasion, but it was demonstrated iu her manufactured product* aud the thoroughness of hex im mense exjwrtSrade. If a German wauu faeturer could not compete iu any for' eign (j>ort with any article made where, his government promptly came to his relief with lower ocean freight rates, or some other form of subsidy. The na tural result of all this waa to create aud foster a world-wide couvictiou that CSermany was u supernation, head and shoulders above all others. uild there fore impregnable. To resiat f*?ru,iany when she set o^ut to conque^waa to in vito aud insure disaster. In short* the expectation was lo destroy 1n advance a world morale, and thus reduce success ful conquest to it? simplest term*. This system was not without its in sults and effect. The Ge^an at bomef and with few exceptions abfvad, was ab solutely grounded in the conviction that the fatherland wga invincible. We can each beeall those Germans In this coun try, Including thoae who bad been nat uralised here for many years, and who eveutually took aides with the United States against Germany, who in 1914, /191R, and 1910 were both indignant aud | augry at any suggestion of German fall-. I ure, or of responsibility for starting the ? It is quite true that, iu the early days of the struggle, victory perched 9n Per-, man banners,' and the tide of battle flow ed one way. .This apparently was proof of the claim o^KUperntttion. What with millions of men with years of the most severe military training; guns with un dreamed-of range, throwing shell# of un hoar^l-of sise ; ' explosives of unequal ed power and violence; airships; subma rines; gas shells; liquid fire, and all the othev new-in-civlliacd-warfare weapons, the claim apparently was established. The world seemed voiceless ,to refutfc the assertion. Then- gradual^-? so slowfly at first, there seemed 110 progress whatever ? the allies began where Germany had com menced forty years ago, to gird up their loius. It was slow work ? that of fight ing a defensive battle against vastly un equal odds with one band and building an 1 offensive" wltK the other. The conditions were supremefly hard, tor It is one thing.j to plan and invent and experiment and construct and test out, all under the coq- I ditions of peace, and quife another to J commence at the foundation to do the J same when carrying on a war. I In only a little more than four years, thfe allies had searched out and organised their inventive and scientific minds, their 1 chemists, their buUdsra of guns and sub- 1 marines and alr^Nrft, and had brought I their fighting machinery? with the except | tion of the 76*mile gun ? up to the stand- 1 ard which ^Germany had required forty I years to accomplish, and in soncfe rtspecta-J had gone even better* With the advent! of the United States came a tremendous I impulse of inventive accomplishment I which in scareely more than a year bad conceived, and made in vast quantities, I weapons in comparison with which the | German type was. as a child's toy. [ Many of these things are still a secret 1 in the archives of our War College; theis! details or even their existence -have wt and should not be made public ; but it is I pormissablo to mention one, a gas shell, I the use of ' which will absolutely and a|-| most instantly annihilate any army into] whose ranks it is hurled. I Had the armistice been delayed only J a few days, there* would i^W^lhivC been1! left nlivft n gAl'n"' <n a11 fortifications. A few planes hovering so I far above its guns as to be mere specks I in the sky; a few gas bombs dropped! among the forts, and a few moments J later, not a living soul left to challenge I or^ surrender. And this shell, the result I of only a few months' effort, makes the German preparation of forty years as the l snail is to a bare. " I These words are not written for the puppose of any self-laudation of what I the allies accomplished chiefly in thirty- 1 six months, although deserved. History |i wBl emphasize. this faCTfSar beyond what] the most of us realize today:- The essen- 1 tial thing we should grasp iff not to per-l mit ourselves to accept in future as we have in the past, without question, wtt*t|j is declared to us by Germany, for there! is every reason to bslie^ethat a country which found its riec^tivelSfapaganda so l profitable in years gone'fey ik not going! to abandon Its formula wbftn we once! more settle down to peacn ? conditions. J We may with equal advantage, each one for himself, question the integrity and motive of many atatements which are made with so much assurance, and Which we meekly accept without any other proof and authority than that of the speaker's word. If what we are urged to believe is so, it is capable of proof ; if the evi dence does not support t be statement. we ?ltuply delude uurst,Uv<?. . ;L, . ^ Doe* auyone iuiojflne that, if thv id mi i>v>oj?l?* who were ftllve on that f'atv f ul August daw, 1911, could have known what is know a now. tbej would hare Ifoue into the war? II. II. Windwr, in the May Popular Meebanle?f\\Uf?ti?ln?*. Sidney Draw, CfcmadUn, Dead. New York, April 9. ? Sidney Drew, actor on the NtAf* and for tho "motion picture .Mcjraap, d^ied today at hi* home heiv. Mr. Drew wits appearing with bin wit.- in the play "Keep Her Hmil n*P\ in lVtrolt last week when h? be came ill. Mr. Drew, who waa a native ??jfc .? Jtfew York, wau IV4 yearn old. t iVfttrr Put Wm. lu M village in Iroiuml tbc uurthet of a soldier a?et tlM; v)lfu*<- priefit, wW ash ?*d her if wbr hud had bad new*. "Huw, I bate." nbe field, "I'hI ha? been kuied.' '-^y: .. "Ob, l ?w t*r.? vorny, '^nuid tb? priest. "Uid j?rt? reeeiv*' word from th^ Vfir om? r "No," Hbf said. "I word ffou* bim^lf." Tb?* priewt loobod perplteaed, ?ud Hah* "Hut bow to t but " xfce ttaid, "bnm J? tfto letter : road it for yauraeW." Tbe letter said: "Dear mother ???! an* i now in tb? Holy hand." You'll Pick a ' *W'M Winner When you choose our general stock of hardware, groceries, farmer#' supplies, etc.. to shop from. Make your bill all in one and save by It. Con centrate on bargain shelves and counters. Our groceries are always of standard quality. I*et us promise you quick service and satisfaction and then' give us a chance to keep our promise. rings <k onai The Store Thai Carries The Stock If you want to build a foundation under your dream, start at once putting your money in the Bank, and it will pile up for you ; and as it grows, your dream will find a solid baee. This Bank is here to make your dream come true. '"-J :?* - v.Vi*v*?-&! . We are dealers in "better than ordinary" grocer ies. Our Shelves ^re stocked with the best in the ; market of standard goods. , I ' , Let oa take the responsibility of' what yon- put on the table to tempt the appetities of your family. Groceries are the life of any individual. Let us supply your nourishment in a way that will be cheapest to your purse and most satisfactory to your pallette.