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BRIGHT BUSINESS OUTLOOK. I Beneficial Effect of Less Fertilizer and Reduced Acreage. I Washington, August 15:?A statement issued tonight by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States after a careful investigation by its ] committee on statistics and stand- ( ards takes an optimistic view of the ] business outlook in general and an/ nounces that the former feeling of , apprehension of "something is going , to happen," because of the European < war,has almost entirely disappeared. ] The statement has the following ^ to say regarding the cotton situation j in the Southern States: _ < "The reduction in the cotton acre- "j age as compared with last year is approximately 16 per cent and combined with this is about 40 per cent j decrease in the use of fertilizers, be- 1 cause being confined largely to South Atlantic States. A tentative long distance forecast on so uncertain a matter as the total yield of cotton indicates a production this year of about J 12,000,000 bales,exclusive of linters, which possibly will run up to 600,000 more bales. As a whole the crop has done well and is in generally good condition, although needing rain in j central and southern Texas. Owing , to the wet season in some sections, there are a number of complaints of boll weevil, though it is not possible , yet even to approximate the damage . done. Even with lower priced cotton, ( however, the situation in the South will be radically different from last , year. Enforced economies have ev- j erywhere prevailed in tne agricui- ( tural sections. Old material and implements are being used in cultivat- , ingand the cotton crop this year will be the cheapest raised in the war of production in many years. Consequently the South will be in a much better condition to stand low priced cotton this year than last." - ???^ Loafing by Boys. We wonder why it is so many young men can be seen loafing upon our streets until a late hour of night. Many of them are from our best families. The fathers of these young men, many of them at least, are numbered among our best citizens. If their cow or their horse or even their private dog was away from Hrtmp nfter dark they would-be out on a search, but their own children can roam the town all night with apparently no effort being made to find them. The boy seems to be turned loose at a tender age to wander at will into the path of sin and vice, and then we wonder where all our tramps and worthless specimens of humanity come from. It is a regrettable fact that too many of them come from seed germinated in good homes and then sown in a careless manner upon our streets and back alleys. Is your boy wasting his life on our streets? If so, had you not, at least, better look after him as carefully at nightfall as you would your horse or cow. We do not in- ; timate that this evil exists to a greater extent in this community than in our sister towns, but the evil seems universal and increases in mignitude as the years roll by.?Manning . Times. ' His Biggest Interest. J A man in onntVior Statp WR?t inCP XT. HIOII *** HUUVIIVA _ 1 asked which of his several invest- ' ments paid him the highest rate of < interest, and he promptly replied that it was the dollar he paid on his subscription to the local paper. I "One day I wanted to buy a cow," ' he said, "and was intending: to make 2 a trip of about fifteen miles to get ' one that [ knew was for sale at a certain price. But just before start- j ing I happened to pick up the local j paper and noticed that a nearby j ( neighbor was offering one of the t same breed at a dollar less than the other one. He really sold it to me for $4 less. I saved a long thirty ( mile drive and $4 in cash because I 5 had paid a dollar for the paper. "That was just one instance, but c as a matter of fact I saved both * time and money in many different ways during the year, and .all t through reading the ads in a paper i that had cost me but a dollar a year, c I consider that dollar the best in- f vestment I ever made, and I am in- t vesting as regularly as the year fl rolls round, and always with most a satisfactory results." 1< - Asylum Built lor Them. A few months ago, at a council meeting in a certain small town, a h well-known aldermen astonished the h members by saying: o "Gentlemen, we have been send ing our lunatics to asylum for s< a long time now, and it has cost us d a great deal of money; but I am giad to be able to tell you that we have now built an aoylum for ourselves." k ."The month just closed was the ^ driest July of record, by 0.17 inch," ^ says the monthly summary issued ^ from the weather bureau office at Columbia by Richard H Sullivan, j ?ection director. * JGH! CALOMEL MAKES YOU DEATHLY SICK. Stop Using Dangerous Drag Before It Salivates Yon! It's Horrible! You're bilious, sluggish, consti[)ated and believe you need vile, dangerous calomel to start your liver and clean your bowels. Here's my guarantee! Ask your druggist for a 50 cent bottle of Dod3on's Liver Tone and take a spoonful tonight. If it doesn't start your liver and straighten you right up better than calomel and without griping or making you sick I want you to go back to the store and get your money. Take calomel today and tomorrow you will feel weak and sick and nauseated. Don't lose a day's work. Take a spoonful of harmless, vegetable Dodson's Liver Tone tonight and wake up feeling great. It's perfectly harmless, so give it to your children any time. It can't salivate, so let them eat anything afterwards. Consider the Knocker. One of our exchanges said recently: "Newspaper men have a hard time. If we say nice things in our paper we seldom hear from them, but if we make a mistake, or if 3ome one fails to see what they think we ought to see, the paper is If you will fret a bottle of Charoerlain's Liniment and observe the I irections given therewith faithful\ you will recover in much less ,, me than is usually required. Oblinable everywhere. * Chamberlain's Cough Hemedy 5 Cures Colds, Croup and Whooplag Coa^ t * . _'.v . ..it /.VV - .? proudly.?Young's Magazine. Passing Shots. Keep your eye on this town?get close to it?stay by it?and in time you will recognize a good thing when you see it. Are you doing as much for your home town as the town is doing for you? Think it over, and perhaps in time you may be able to answer "yes." A mud hole in the street is seen t>y everybody, is in the way of everybody, is cussed by everybody, and pet nobody seems to want to renove it. Never tell a man with red blood nhis veins not to get angry. He is iable to construe your advice as an ndication that you have no red jlood of your own. The twentieth century has proluced at least one brainy man belides ourself. He suggests that ;hrifty housewives dry out their old soffee grounds and keep them for he use of borrowing neighbors. We sweat blood for a few minutes he other day when r matron with a narriageable daughter asked our pinion as to who is the most beauti- j ul young lady in town. We arose ( o the occasion and came out with i Ivincr colors, but we are not Duttihsr * ,ny one wise as to the hole in the di- t ;mma. Do your own sweating. c ^ ? c Could Not Comply. J Wife?Henry, you really must c ave the landlord come and see for a imself the damage the rain did to * ur ceiling. * y Hub?I can't without letting him c the damage the children have a one to the rest of the house. J For a Sprained Ankle. criticised." That's too sadly true. It's an old saying "that the doctor buries his mistakes, but the newspaper man can't hide his." Did it ever occur to you, how few mistakes creep into the newspapers,and when one does it is so glaring that it is magnified in its importance. This is not a defense of errors, for there should be none, but it is to point out that others err a3 grievously as the newspapers. Newspaper workers are a proud race of people. They love their work. They are jealous of its good repute. And whenever you hear a sore head or failure, or a cheap job hunter knocking newspapers, don't believe what he says. He might be the biggest and meanest prevaricator in creation. The best way is to read the newspaper and see for yourself what it is. The man who can't use newpapers for his selfish ends abuses them.?Columbia Record. The Remains. "The Girl He Left Behind Him," lo LUC IJCI uiic ui on auuv/uuu. kjj Frances Pritchard, fair dancer in the "Passing Show of 1915." A negro died without medical attendance, and the Coroner went to investigate. "Did Samuel Williams live here?" he asked the weeping woman who answered the door. "Yussah," she replied between 3obs. "May I see the remains," asked the Coroner. "T ic /lo romoina " ahp nnswprpd with Roman instead of Arabic numerals. Therefore when the youth left in charge of the general store in a small country town was approached by a stranger and asked for change for an eleven-dollar bill, he looked curiously at the greenback but acceded courteously to the request. The owner of the store sauntered in some time later. "Well, Sam, any business?" "Nothin' 'cept changin' a 'levendollar bill fer a drummer," the boy answered unconcernedly. The storekeeper started for the cash drawer,looked long and sorrowfully at the old two-dollar bill, then said sadly: "Put up the shutters, Sam. We've J 1 1_ ? J J> done Dusiness enougn iur one uay. ?Collier's Weekly. Recommends Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. "I never hesitate to recommend Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy," writes Sol Williams, merchant, Jesse, Tenn. "I sell more of it than of any other preparations of like character. I have used it myself and found it gave me more relief than anything else I have ever tried for the same purpose." Obtainable everywhere. Send us the news. How true it is that comfort may be extracted from even the most distressing circumstances. Nothing can exceed the discomforts and horrors of war, yet the present tragedy in Europe is teaching millions of people to economize who never would have done it but for the adversities now upon them, In most cases the lesson thus gained will continue to be carried out for all time after the war is over. In this land there are thousands of families that would be hpfter nflF pvprv wnv if mnrp ppnnn wvvvv* ^ my were practiced, and it should be done voluntarily, and not through the compulsion of war. I Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price 76c per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pilla for constipation. Registration Notice. The olflce of the Supervisor of Reg.>f?afiAn mill Kn Anon nn fVia 1 ai lf/m. OtlAUlUli Will UC VU DUO AO* iUVU" lay in each month for the purpose of egistering any person who is qualiled as follows: Who shall have been & resident of he State for two years, and of the :ounty one year, and of the polling preiinot in which the elector offers to 'ote four months before the day of election, and shall have paid, six onths before, any poll tax then due ,nd payable, and who can both read nd write any section of the constituion of 1895 submitted to him by the supervisors of Registration, or who an show that he owns, and has paid 11 taxes collectible on during the resent year, pioperty in this State ssessed at three hundred dollars or lore. H A Meyer, rlerk of Board feUB-ftflY-TISffl Will cure your Rheumatism fcuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, olic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and urns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects :tc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used inirnally and externally. Price 25c. i .-v. . _ y,i,v?&L.itx. . iCJjurcbfj 1 I The public is cordially invited to attend any of the services of the various churches of Kinj?stree. Baptist Church. Rev W E Hurt, Pastor. Services every Sunday morning at 11:00 o'clock and evening at 8:00 o'clock. Sunday-school at 10:00 a. m. Prayer-meeting Wednesdays at 8:00 p. n>. Methodist Church. Rev D A Phillips, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning at 11:00 o'clock and evening at 8:30 o'clock. Sunday-school at 5:00 p. m. Mid-week prayer meeting every Wednesday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock. Presbyterian Church. Rev P S McChesney, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Sunday-school 4:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday, 8:00 p. m. Business Enough lor One Day. The present generation is scarcely aware that at one time our one-dollar and two-dollar bills were marked Continued Gera Best single specimen Best collection Palms, Fern. Best single specimen Best collection Best collection carnations, Best collection pot flowers Best collection cut flowers Lemon tree and fruit Oranere olant and fruit __ U i CHILDREN'S Miss Edna Him Work by Children i Best specimen in quilts Best specimen in netting _ Best specimen in crocheti Best specimen in point la Best specimen in^nitting in zephyr or silk Best specimen Battenburg Best snerimen in Mnnnti Best specimen in linen < braiding Best specimen in drawn \ Best specimen rosin, wa: work Best specimen eyelet embi Best specimen Wallachiar Best specimen shadow en Best specimen Roman cut . : , AUTOMOI P. H. Sto Prizes to be given for be parade, of any make or si First prize Second prize ? _ Third prize Fourth prize BENCt H. T. Burgess i. Owners are charge while on the grounds, ai run loose. An attendant ers may have their dogs for feed. 2. Dogs may be remo the superintendent, after exhibited all three days o ply with this rule will for 3. All dogs must be 1 Williamsburg County. Class On Best setter dog, over one ; Best setter bitch, over one Best setter dog, under one Best setter bitch, under c Best brood bitch, with li under three months ol< Class Tw Best pointer dog, over 01 Best pointer bitch, over c Best pointer dog, under c Best pointer bitch, under < Best brood bitch, with lii under three months ol< Class Thn Best hound dog, over one Best hound bitch, over 01 Best hound dog, under 01 Best hound bitch, under o Best brood bitch, with lit under three months ole Class Four?Coll Best collie or shepherd year old Btst collie or shepherd t year old Best collie or shepherd d year old Best collie or shepherd bi year old Best brood bitch, with lit under three months ole Class F\ Best bull dog, over one y Best bull bitch, over one ] Best bull dog, under one ] Best bull bitch, under one Best brood bitch, with lit under three months old ^ MisceU Best red wheat Best half bushel of corn Best peck of rice with shea Best iron peas Best clay peas Best whipporwill peas Best unknown peas Best crowder peas ? Best collection of varieties Best one-half bushel yam, Best one-half bushel yellow Best one-half bushel any v Best one-half bushel of chu Best one-half bushel of Pir Best bale of Peavine hay pounds Best three stalks of corn, \ Best single stalk of corn w For further particulars s< --../Afa - : 'oidery .25 1 embroidery .25 ibroiderv .25 : work .25 JILE SHOW. 11, Manager. :st decorated automobiles in ize. $2.50 1.50 1.00 -5" I SHOW. ' / , Superintendent, d with the care of all dogs id must not permit any to will be in charge, and owncared for at a nominal cost ved, upon the permission of 5 o'clock p. m. but must be f the fair. Failure to com feit any premium, the property of residents of \e?Setters. ist. 2nd. year old $1.00 $ .50 year old 1.00 .50 : year old 1.00 .50 >ne year old 1.00 .50 tter of nunnies d 1.50 .75 0?Pointers. tie year old $1.00 $ .50 >ne year old 1.00 .50 >ne year old __ 1.00 .50 Dne year old 1.00 ' .50 tter of puppies i 1.50 .75 ?e?Hounds. year old $1.00 $ ^50 tie year old 1.00 .50 tie year old 1.00 .50 ne year old 1.00 .50 tter of puppies 1 T CD 7C ? ? ? -~o~ * J ies and Shepherds. dog, over one $1.00 $ .50 itch, over one ? ? ? __ 1.00 .50 og, under one 1.00 .50 tch, under one 1.00 .50 ter of puppies 1 1.50 .75 Ive?Bull. rear old $1.00 $ .50 ^ear old 1.00 .50 pear old 1.00 .50 year old 1.00 .50 ter of puppies I i-5o -75 'aneoui. " ' "" "?' en T ' %J (white) $ .50 if of same $ ,50 $ .50 .50 $ .50 _ $ .50 $ .50 $ 1.00 potatoes $ .50 or pumpkin yam__$ .50 ariety $ .50 ifas $ .50 iders any variety $ .50 , not less than 75 --$ -75 vith six ears $ 1.00 ith two ears $ .50 ie Fair Catalogue, now in press. SATO SIDE? v I IF NOT, WHY NOT?!/ I Whose fault is it? It is not jfl ours. We offer you the necessary requirements to place you on the safe side, and would be more than delighted to WRITE YOU A POLICY that will protect you from all loss by fires at a yery low rate. We represent the best and most reliable companies on earth. Kingstree Insurance,Real Estate fcLoaiCo. W. H. WELCH. Unix*. LIGHININGRODSrg H. L. WHITLOCI^n I City, S. C? Kecommended and for sale bv I | Mrs. S. P. Britton I I Sailers Depot. - S. C. Undressed LumberI always have on hand a lot of undressed lumber (ooard end framing) at 1 my mill near Kingstree. for sale at the lowest price for good material. See or i. write me for further information, etc. ' F. H. HODGE. v , ? '.V 1? . > : cum iulu line mea.1, cuarse or medium grits. Bring along your corn. I am also prepared to \ grind your wheat into the . very best grade of flour? the home ground kind. Bring us your wheat as soon as it is ready. a EPPS MILLING CO., S. F. EPPS, Proprietor H THE MONITOR J IThe improved Self-Heating Sad Iron saves half the time, half the labor and all the worry on Ironing day. The best and most economical sad iron on the market. Simple and safe. CYPRESS ? I . SASH I Y DOORS I 4 "" / * I >% 1 i MOULDINGS ^ \ J AND -A I MILLWORK I The Meanest Miller in Town is prepared to grind your B Special Sales Agent Representing the largest man* ufacturers of all kinds Improved Copper and Galvanised Section Rods. (Endorsed by the Highest Scientific Authorities and Fire Insurance Companies). Pure Copper Wire Cables, all sizes. Our Full Cost Guarantee given with each job. I sell on close margin of profit, dividing commission with my customers. ft-7-tf WATTS'JEWELRY STORE KINGSTREE, S. Cfl | I keep on hand everything to be found in an ft. up-to-date jewelry house Repairing and engraving done with neatness and , : despatch. :: As a home dealer, guaranteeing m quality and prices, I Solicit Your Patronage. I N?tr th# Railroad Station. <1 !i =il I from 7 nmns. ? -25 --- : -5? s and Begonias -25 - -50 not less than six .50 > .50 .50 .25 .25 DEPARTMENT. Is, Superintendent. aider 14 years of age. - -25 .25 ng in cotton .25 ce handkerchief .25 , netting or crocheting .25 ; ^ork .25 mellick embroidery .25 >r cotton outlining or .25 vork or similar fabrics .25 x, shell, bead or hair