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HIS JINXAT WORI Traveler Felt It When He Sav Those Whiskers. But That Didn't Prevent Him "Fall Infl" for Probably the Oldest "Sucker" Game in Existence, and Then Kickingi "Nice day!" said the stout man as h lowered himself on the seat beside nr in the day car with a parlor-car look " T rpmnrlcpd inst tn hnmn him, although I must say that I alwayi try to avoid a man who wears whisk crs. This man was wearing a No. ! face fungus with ear flaps. I though at first of asking him if he had to tak< - out a license for his face trimmings But, after all, I felt that he had a kirn face?what I could see of it?behin< the shrubbery, as it were. "Are you a commercial traveler?" h< asked, stroking his beard to starboard "No," I replied, "but I once had { fourth cousin who did seven years ii Jail for another offense. That was tin only member of my family who stray ed from the narrow path of virtue." "Lucky for you!H he snapped out pushing his plantation in my face. "It'i a dog's life. Everywhere you go peo pie talk about the peace." "Ah I" I interposed, "there is a peac< on, then? I thought I saw something about it in the press." \ "Are you an American?" he rappee out, getting nasty. "Yes," I said. "Are you? Or do yor lire In Hoboken, N. J." I felt ] would like to hare struck a match and started a bush fire around the wooded portion of his face. "I see you have some cuts on youi face," he remarked. "Yes. My tonsorial artist illustrated me with some funny cuts." "Ah!" he slipped in. "You should shave yourself and you would never have a face like that" I should like to have told him thai his was no oil painting. Especially did I hate his face mats. I detest a man who tries to look venerable by wearing face mats, when underneath he maj have the chin of a criminal. "Do you wear those germ traps od purpose?" I asked curiously. "Them's camouflage," he said. "Just to show what people look like when they don't shave. I travel for Raxro's safety razors, $2.50 each, and seeing you're a nice sort of a boob I can dc you one for $2. Here is the last one I have." I took it If it had been a scythe 1 Should have had a harvest with hia beard. Then I fell to thinking of his whiskers again. They were the . most vile whiskers I had ever seen. They stood ^ out at aH ^angles from his face^ I jf: I - T great \ ? MAKES POSSIBI ? V / 4 3F * ' * It's a simpli makes savings p< 2f It consequen greater the prod % By combinir i % hundreds of othe result that could Because of t largest in the coi tion with the nat: mitted to offer ti that offer real do Our new offe terest. We are r< \ ?Two very attract! cellent WELWORTI one of which we have ?In so manv cities,; WEL WORTH has b favor on the part o: merely mention the nj bols thorough desirab ing satisfaction. ?There's but a limit lotmerit. La Verne f couldn;t inukc up my mind whether I [ should like him better with or- with- I ? out them. But I was quite prepared to get a lawn mower and try. "Seeing you are a good business V man," he went on. "what about a nice pipe lighter? I have a really good line at 25 cents each. Sorry I haven't got { one with me. but I can send it on. Nev- ^ er fails, and always lights a pipe or cigarette. In fact, it is one of the best ' pipe lighters, ever invented. .Just give 1 me 25 cents and your address and I ' will send it along." 1 Of course I fell. I handed him the ' e quarter and got out at the next station. 1 e Some days later a package arrived I at my villa. Here was the pipe lighter. 1 r Breathlessly I opened the package, J s eager to see the contrivance. It was? " Yes, a match. I gulped two inouthfuls 1 * of fresh air and threw ray cigarette in * the porridge. s And that is why. when I meet a man ' with a full set of face mats, I always 1 cay (Oh no. you don't. Not here, * at any rate.?Editor.)?Walter Stuart Marsden in Pennsylvania Grit. 3 | ' 1 Bolsheviks Got Diamonds. 1 Diamonds, rubies, radium and just 1 ordinary gold have been discovered in 5 the Kola peninsula. Russia, it was said * by James Patrick Woods, a sailor, who arrived at New York recently on the * Matrosina. He was booked by the 1 : transport officials as "a destitute sea* j " ' man." Woods says he went to Russia on a * cargo vessel and was left there on ac- ! ' | count of illness. He went prospecting at a place called Kendaloska. In a J ' : creek, he says, he found "pecks and j ! pecks of diamonds." He also found j 1 rubies, and sat down on a rock only to ^ | find the rock was pure gold. He also ' discovered coal veins and radium. "1 ' had my pockets full of diamonds," he 1 said, "but the bolsheviks took them i I away from me. I am going to organize a eompany and go back." UiinUinn U/apU Nrtt Inlnrlrm* I ITiMraiiivn f? vi ??v? .t.jw,. .wv* H Dr. Rhoda H. B. Adamson In an ar- j tide recently published in a London ! periodical undertakes to prove that the : work done by women during the war ' j in the engineering trades has not In1 | Jured their health. Her conclusions I * are drawn after a year and a half j i spent as medical supervisor of several I thousand women working in munition 1 ! factories. The applicants for work were given a thorough physical- exam- i * ination and assigned to work comraen1 surable with their strength. Other ex1 aminations were made from time to ! ' time, which showed no bad resplts i ' from the work the women were doing. ( | i ( j tyorse Punishment. "Do you think the food profiteers 1 should be sent to jail?" I 1 "Well. I don't, know. This morn- j ' ing I thought the profiteer should ; 1 j have been made to eat the egg he sold ; 1 1 me as being strictly fregh."- I f - . !l! est waist pur c in all America J3 AMERICA'S FOREMOST ] I e law of manufacture that qua 3ssibl3. tly follows that the greater the I action, and the greater the savi ig our Blouse buying power wi r good stores throughout the coi not otherwise be possible. his collective buying power, un intrv, together with the most in ion's leading Blouse makers, we lie newest in Blouse Styles and wnright genuine savings. >rings for Fall will be of more t ?ally anxious that you should se( ve models in the very exI make have just arrived; here illustrated. and for so many years, the een meeting with so much ^ t prudent women, that to ime is sufficient, for it svm- Y\ dlity and complete and last- ? ed quantity of this new alr Sale in Bamberg Only . Thomas & ( BAMBERG, S. C. Genuine Ambition Is Key !' to the Treasure Box of Success in Our Life Work "No chance" has ever been the excuse of weaklings, of those who fail, interview the great array of failures, writes O. S. Marden in the New Success, and most of them wiH tell you that they never had an opportunity ike others, that there was no one to help them, no> one to give thera a poost. They will tell you that the good places were all filled, that every occupation or profession was crowded, that :here was no chance for them because til the good opportunities had gone by. ret probably there is not one of them -vho did not have a better opportunity :han did Abraham Lincoln, the backvoods boy, or Booker T. Washington, :he slave boy. I have never known- a fellow who lad winning material in him to complain that he never had a chance. It s difficult to conceive an environment ;o forbidding that it would have kept ;ertain men from becoming successful. There was too much yeast in them. They had too vigorous an ambition to et obstacles stand in the way of their success. Circumstances have no pow?r to keep down a youth who is made >f the right stuff. Energy is always at a premium. Deermination never goes begging for a !hance. There is nothing which comnands such a price in the market as jenuine ambition, an unwavering resoution, a tenacious purpose to achieve something worth while in life. There s no success lever equal to the unlinching resolve to succeed in spite of my and all obstacles or personal landicaps. i 3/Numerous Articles That Are in Common Use Are a: J: I uiven nrusieauiny names Articles in common use that have nlsleading names are responsible for nany mistaken notions, says Pacific Travel. Nothing is more natural than :o assume that India ink comes from india, but it does not, any more than loes India rubber. The former comes ?rom China and should be called Chinese ink, as it is in France, while Inlia rubber comes from Central and South America. Camel hair brushes ire not made from the hair of camels, nut from the tails of Russian and Siberian squirrels. Genuine French nrier root pipes are not made from the oots of brier, but from the root of a vhite heath, which reaches a considerable size, and is cultivated in the ;outh of France. Silkworms are not Forms, but caterpillars; sealing wax ontains no wax; heartburn has nothng to do with the heart and sweet ;pirits of niter contain no niter. Finilly, a centipede hasn't 100 feet. The argest of them has only 30 feet | nng power 1 V BLOUSE VALUES ntity production mying power, the i ngs. th that of many II . untrv, economies | %f 7 II questionably the itimate co-opera! are always per- 11 superior values j ( han ordinary in- < i them. < a Iltt^ nJ I i I ifco 1/ By Company 'l| I BIG SACRI I COMMENCING FRIDi I MY EMTIO IB w 1 kll I II I OF FALL AND WINTER UNI DRESSES, HARDWARE, GLA TIONS, GLOVES, HOSIERY, ETC., TO BE SOLD REGARDL AT C I Extra Special Extra Special B Cotton Stalk Oliver I CuttCrS 1 and 2 horse I Latest Improved Plntire I while they i lvno last Priee $35, this sale Were $20, this sale $30.00 $17.50 COME EARLY ANI If You Wear I F. c. i BAMBERG Ehrhardt Rc LARGEST COUNTRY ST REMEMBER 1 $50.00 in Go! k X Your chance fo: X bargain, also ; 7 I Auction Sale Novel We will sell at Public Auction at the following used cars as x A*rn /-IV TIATirv fTlT5TTrtT7 I UDJEi (ij XUAi; 1AUUA X ONE (1) FORD TOURL k ONE (1) WILLYS-KNII i TWO (2) OVERLAND ] 1 ONE (1) OVERAND 41 ONE (1) BUICK FOUE k ONE (1) AMERICAN S] T ONE (1) BELL TOURI1 X FOUR (4) CHEVROLE1 X ONE (1) OLDSMOBILE X ONE (1) DODGE TOUR X TWO (2) CHEVROLET X TWO (2) CHALMERS ' k ONE (1) OLDSMOBILE k ONE a) OLDSMOBILE ? ONE (1) SAXON SIX Ti ONE (1) HAYNES TOl i* ONE (1) HUDSON TOU f ONE (1) LEXINGTON 1 $ tg We will give away $50.00 in gc > all parties must be in attem f COME ONE?( fw. D. Mi | LEES, SOUTH ? EY, NOVEMBER 28 I ' IE STOCK I JERWEAR, SHOES, HATS, B SS WARE- GROCERIES, NO- B FARMING IMPLEMENTS, i ESS OF PRICE. B OSI I ??a??? ?????^b Extra Special Extra Special B Entire Line of S Percale n., I Dishes B Fast colors. 36 in. ? wide, was 35c yard ^ LESS I this sale THAN **** I FACTUBEB'S 25c COST H _____________* ) GET THE PICK. t?I Hav6 It. ^YER >ad AYER'S STATION I OBE IN THE COUNTY. I. EVEBYTHING MUST BE SOLD. I DON'T MISS THIS SALE. L A A A A V A. A A A. AL A. Aw A Aw Aw Av Aw f^y y^y y^f Id Given Free I r getting a real a cash prize. * i ^ mber 29th, 1919 | Lees, S. C., at 10 o'clock a. m., they are, for cash only: ^ NG CAR. N I SrHT 4-CYLINDER. X 3IG FOUR. A 90. I I CYLINDER ROADSTER. 1 [X TOURING. A JG. A T *-90. < f : EIGHT. ' A ING. EIGHT. > rOURING. ! SIX ROADSTER. ? I SIX TOURING. OURING. rRING. RING. TOURING. >ld. The only restriction is that . Y /? 1 4^4 [lance entire time or saie. 2 V HOME ALL! *{* 4YFIELD! CAROLINA | w. * i