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I L How About That i tl c. 'l IlIliUlKSglVlilg OUll -- -I We shall be glad for you to . I -A ' drop in at any time and I I look over our snappy \ If ' m gi v I samples of lafteifeJWli:' , II MinFjft-HFisiiRE cnnns | They are Classy I We Represent the Famous KAHN piPffi BROS., who guarantee a fit or no I I sale.; Or iif you prefer a suit from I the SCOf GH WOOLEN MILLS, I 1 we have their line also. \ J Try a pair of our Biltrite Shoes at I $4.50, you will* want another I H. C. FOLK ^ I Satisfied With Small Profits MaxvfeW |THe'Wouc?er Car" |, j Quiet Clutch?Runs in Oil ^ i J ^: | ' The clutch of the new Maxwell operates in a = bath of oil. This makes it remarkably smooth i = and velvety in^ engagement, and eliminates 80 | | | per cent, of noise when the gears are shifted. = M Designers of the highest-priced cars agree || that the clutch should run in oil* | | > . The Maxwell dutch and transmission mech- = ani#m "? funy enclosed. ^ g 2'tf: | We are waiting to take you for a 1 g " test ride in the car that has broken p 1 all low "First-Cost" records, and is M - * = 5 breaking all low "After-Cost" records. H r I g 1 XheMmMaknflopfa^f fff^EectricSiarter 1 | | Demountable Epns1 | PgmVisionUfadsIrield M F.o.6 DETROIT j 1 C>fR VA I Telephone SI Bamberg, S. C. == Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly Quinine That Does Not Affact The Head Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXAThe Old Standard general strengthening tonic, TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary GROVE'S TASTELESS chi'l TONIC, drives out Quinine and does not canse nervousness nor Malaria.enrichestheblood.andbuildsupthesys- ringing in head. Remember the full name and tom- A true tonic. For adults and children. 50c j look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c. bfc, ... ... fwUAT YOU EAT I In buying your Groceries there I are two things to consider I mi a i ity a Mil pnme IyunLi i i nnu i itiui? Both are guaranteed by tliis store. We handle only the best?groceries that are tit for any table?and the i price is just as low as good groceries can be sold for. In addition to quality and price, we give you THE BEST SERVICE J. J. BRABHAM, JR. "Thft I ive Wire drorer " I 'Phone 96-L Bamberg, S. C. ! ' S. n. Whitney Co. Cotton Factors AUGUSTA, GA. ESTABLISHED 1868 V . Correspondence Invited v * . \ 1 ' "RI7P0A, .tlere, farmer man! <5OVNT ^our Worses a m0a I; ment! Come in and If inspect our gardening \\ tools r Hoes, rakes, spades, fmil S K\ ]?</ -1/ cutters, tree pruners, pails, bucket^ JS\ a \ Uz? ladders, baskets?whatever yon need \ tC\ \ III/ f?r taking care of yonr products, A nWxx / IL>? Heavy farm machinery and poultry vov l\\iv^ wire too. wS v~ M\\ /vd Whether we know you or whethei / / J"i /mS\| \\ we do not, we want to shake you /pffl hy the hand and show you what \V^M? we have got to interest men in your i|i IfTipM Proper Implements Give |f| ^Tl Your Men No Excuse For Improper Work. GO. SIMMONS The Hardware and Furniture Man Bamberg, S. C i . i i . i \ . . A Card to Owners * of Rural Telephone Lines We are anxious to see that all lines owned bj other parties and connected with us are kept in sucl /*/\n/lifi/\n ae f/\ fiienieli cowi/"?0 Vl/flOfO tfic. wuuJiuv/ii aa iv luiuiau vuiytvui. ova aw* tt aavav ua? owners of rural lines are responsible for their upkeep, we want to co-operate with them. ( All lines require a thorough overeauling occasionally if the best service is to be obtained. We recommend that every line connected with us be j overhauled at least once a year, and'that at least one ! .experienced telephone man assist in this work. The cost of this work when divided among all the patrons of the line, makes the amount paid by each man emoll ortrl ftiic pnct Txri 11 ho mnrp than nffsAt hv tHp ouioaij auu iuxa vv/av nui w uiva v *i * *? - ~ wb-aww ?m? !. improved service. If the owners of rural telephone lines in this section are experiencing trouble with their service, we will appreciate their talking the matter over with our Manager or writing us fully. We will gladly do I what we can toward helping you improve , the condition of your line. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE if ] AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY tejW 1 j BOX 108, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. . ' x i 200,000 DRUG VICTIMS. iThat is Revised Estimate of the Number in This Country. How many drug addicts, popularly known as ' dope fiends," are there i:. the United States? ' Some writer have gone so far as to assert 2 re: cent, of the population of the country, or about 2,000,000 persons art victims of the habit-forming drugs, but experts of t-he United States public health service, who have just completed an inquiry into the matter, reach the conclusion that the number is probably not far from 200,000. just one-tenth the lay estimate. The public health service found the \ question a difficult one to answer, for obvious reasons, and was obliged tov make checking estimates from various points of departure. It' was known, for instance, that the amount of opium and its derivaties legitimately imported in a year is sufficient for 2,500,000 average doses, and that the amount of cocoa leaves and cocaine similiarly brought into the country annually would make 325,000,000 average doses. Sincet the I amount of habit-iorming drugs brought in illegitimately is known to be very small the service took the import records as setting the extreme limits of use by addicts. In Tennessee, where a strict antinarcotic law is in force, and service found the most trustworthy data as !j! to the.number of addicts and the _ amounts of drugs consumed. Just 2,300 users of habit-forming drugs, two-tenths of one per cent, of the population, were registered a year : after the law went into effect'and the ' users of opium and its derivatives ; each consumed an average of 12,000 doses a year. The same ratio ap' plied to the whole country would give 118,000 addicts using 1,416,000 average doses. Cocaine users, the public health service estimates, increase the total of drug victims to ^ 200,000. = Though the new federal anti-narcotic law has been in effect only a few months, the investigators found that such statistics as it has made available so far bear out their statements that previous estimates of the number of "dope fiends" have been \excessive. The government's health experts state, however, that the real conditions are bad enough and that dreadnaughts, poison gas bombs and throwing bombs into the enemies' [ j the amount of opium and cocoa con! Sumed in -Americh is out of all pro i portion to the needs of medical purposes.^?Washington Star. ? ! SLOW SALE FOR SNAKES. i 1 Fewer "Eat-'Em-Alive" Men and ^ Charmers Since War Began. * ^ > * ' It now comes to pass that the European war, which is the regular catalogued alibi for anything and everything during these - tremulous L days, has put a crimp in the world's I output of long and vicious and poisonous snakes. This information is given chiefly * for the benefit of persons who may not be aware that Philadelphia leads the United States in the importation . of snakes, which the blonde ladies in ! the tent shows swing around like so many sawdust dolls. The snake man said that his firm has sold some 8,000 reptiles this season, and that the firm's cash business will hit around the $60,000 mark. * "We have had nothing from Africa J1 or the so-called mysterious Asia sectioiis since the war began," he said, "but we have been doing a whopper business with our domestic and South American varieties. "It can be seen readily that the war has helped to increase the consumption of our home-grown snakes, the same as it has aided home prof duction in other commercial lines. "Some people have an idea that the snake business is dying out, but 5 that's a mistake. T started in the . show business with old Adam Forer paugh in the seventies, and I've been * in this wholesale snake game for the last 28 years. Right here in Philadelphia, too, and the business holds * up every year." i The snake-distributing game is conducted on a purely business basis. Cash in advance is the universal rule. ! The snake man showed a te-t-gram I rrom New York It read* "Send a nice assortment of snakes, about $15 worth, C. 0. D." i A man wrote a letter from up in Maine. The letter read: "Enclosed find draft for $100. for which send me 100 good, health/ pine snakes, as per your recent bargain o/fer." "This game is all straight business," the snake man continued. "There is no romance about it, and money talks." The snake man submitted a mim eograph letter wmcn ne sent broadcast recently to the trade. This letter is phrased like a regular letter, such as might be written by a man who was selling a staple food, ^only that the commodity offered is snakes. The letter reads: "I am offering as a special choice lot of pine or thrtle-head snakes, sizes four, five and six feet, as fol-j t A MODKKX SKA MYSTKKY. What of the Ma owijne; Where Are Ker I'as senders? A few wee' s a ro?about the time . :he Gul of .Vexico was swept by the hurricane which did so much damage along the Texas coast?a United States Fruit company steamer, the \ ^ Marowijne, was lost, or least it has not been heard from since. The ship "V was caught in all the fury of the southern storm and somewhere, some time, somehow, a few of its crew and passengers may have been cast away on an inconspicuous and lonely island. By way of New Orleans the re port comes that the survivors are held for ransom. Where, no one knows. By whom is a deeper mystery. The United Fruit company officially disavows belief in the report, but .nevertheless it feels it . necessary to advertise in the hope that the captors can be reached.- The company is in the business of transporting fruit, not amplyfying sea yarns, but nevertheless it promises to pay whatever ransom may be needed for the release of the castaways. In this commercial day, amid the noisier alarms of the European war, can such a plot be surpassed by the fiction writers? An anonymous letter is responsible for the statement that the survivors of the Marowijne are safe. It may or may not be true?probably not. ; ^ Yet who can tell? The waters of the Gulf and the Caribbean Sea are dotted with little islands, some of which : are close to the track of commerce, while otners are remote, ana possibly there are a few that are unchart- - ijB ed. There are such points of land on the face of the deep, especially in those zones where volcanic disturbances are frequent!. The more the M8 officials of the United Fruit company pondered the matter the more, probably, they feK it necessary to do all . \| that could be done under the circum- Mm ? stances. True or not, the anonymous1 letter offered a ray of hope. Here * ^ ^ is a mystery, a ready-made plot for the "movies," or the skeleton of . some such romance as Stevenson 4 could have written. What matters :'i it, for purposes of fiction or motion : pictures, whether the yarn be true or * false? The sea before this has been made to give up the lost, so why not the survivors of the Marowljne? j From the earliest times the sea , has been the exemplification of mys- . tery. The face of the deep is inscrutable. The ancient mariners, skirting the shores of their country in flimsy canoes, looked out to sea || 1 nri + K i rlrooHfnl flpqirp TllA PhOP- " * TTltii Or Ui VWVH.WA v*vw*?<w? ? _ .' --XHJ? I nicians overcame the fear of theunknown to a degree. The caravels - : I which they sailed out into the west from the.6hores of Spain cut into cherished delusions, yet revealed sources of treasures undreamt of. Ever since the mythical voyage of Jason until these days of steam and . speed-passage, journeys by sea have . retained something of the romance, which enveloped the search for the Golden Fleece. As the generator of mystery and possibility the sea has f no peer.?Indianapolis News, Wanted to Hit Him First. "Now Ethel, Harold says he's sor- . : ry he broke your doll, so I want you : /j|3 to forgive him.*' "I'd feel more like forgiving him, mother, if I could hit him back / / first." Consistency. "Don't you think it is extremely vulgar to dress as Miss Stylish does to attract attention on the street?" ' "Yes, indeed! I wonder who her dressmaker is?" > W v%Jj "I asked her, but she wouldn't tell ' Vital Point. - j Boston Father?Of course, you ' understand that there is no Santa Claus. Little Son?Is this a philosophical discussion or merely a hint that I'm not going to get anything for Christmas? "One dozen snakes, in assorted sizes, $20. ; *?ji "Half dozen snakes, assorted sizes, ^ "These are the best small snakes fnr handling that ran he^ obtained. ; They are perfectly harmless and make a big flash. Excellent for ballyhoo or feature act. "These snakes are the sacred ' \ snakes of India, and are worshipped as such by the natives of India." ; The snake man s catalogue shows also that lie handles cockatoos, cana- _ ries. Japanese waltzing, or spinning mice, and various smaller animals. Any one who is tired of his pres- i ent vocation has an easy chance to embark in the snake business. This catalogue contains what is described as a "Bosco" outfit, containing a large assortment of large and small snakes, which are knocked down at the ridiculously low price of $20. But remember, cash mi:st accompany the order. You remember Bosco, of course. "He eats 'em alive." '