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Dreaded Ai More Thai Tried Fruitola and Traxo and Has Viever Since Been Troubled With Gall-stones. Mrs. Mary E. Franse, whose ad dress In West Point, Nebr., Box 411, has written to the Plnus laboratories a very strong endorsement of Frult ola and Traxo. In her letter, Mrs. Franse says: "About ten years ago I was shom to undergo an operation for gall-stones when I heard of your med icine. Dreading an operation nbove everything I determined to try Fruit ola and Traxo an* have? never been sorry I did so, as I have never been troubled with gall-stones since." Fruitola 1?? a power?ul lubricant for the intestinal organs, and one dose is usually sufficient to give ample evi dence of Its efflracy. It softens the congested masses, disintegrates tho hardened particles that occasion so much suffering, and expels the accum ulated waste to thc intense rollef of the patient. Following a dose of Fruitola, Traxo should bo takon three, of four times a day in order to rebuild ami restore the system that has beer, weakened and run down by constant suffering, lt is a splendid toulc, act ing on, tho liver and stomach most beneflcally, ARTILLERY FIRE E E ? Tho Army and Navy Journal prints tho following extracts from an inter esting article describing experiences "In tho Field with thc Armies of France," In tho September Scribner's by E. Alexander Po.yoll, war corres pondent of the Now York World, London Daily Mail and Scribner's Magazine with Che allies armies: "The gras were of the new 10"?, millimcter model, which arc claimed to be as much superior t5 Lhe famous 75's as tho latter aro to all other field artillery. ... A few minutes' walk along the rldgo brought us to thc battery of 105's, which was tho real object of our visit. Tho guns wero not posted on the summit of the ridge, but a quarter of a milo behind lt, so that the rldgo Itself, a dense forest, and tim river, Aas ne, interven ed between thc battery aad the Ger man posktnn*. four miles away. The guns were sunk in pits so ingenious ly masked- with shrubs and branches that the heencsi.-eyod airman, ?fly ing low overhead, would have Been Laundry ? Work Any thing 'hat you might think that an nptodate laun dry shonld r e-we do? and we do it right. From Collars ?nd Cuffs to DryClcaningand Dyeing. Try ns for your family wash. IVs cleaner, more sanitary, and about as cheap as tho old way. Anderson Steam Laundry PHONE 7. J. rtL VANDIVEn, President. J J. D. HAMMETT, \ice President. C Farmers sad M CAPITA?/i SURPLUS ANDERS* Let us pay you to sav? Deposit $100 with us posit for one year and s we will pay ,you ?105. When you work an working^ou can get on There is more real pl there is in spending you Try it. Come to see us. J. I. BF t Operation n Anything MI?H, MA KY E. '"?SANSE lu tho flies of the Pinus laboratories nt Monticello, Ul., are many letters gratefully acknowledging the satis factory results following tho use of Kruitoln and Traxo. Arrangements have boon made for tho distribution nf those excellent remedies by loading drug stores everywhere. In Anderson fruitola and Traxo can be obtained at iivaus' Pharmacy, three stores. nothing to arouse his suspicions. Fifty feet away one could detect noth ing about that apparently innocent clump of tangled vegetation to suggest that it concealed an amazing quantity of potential death. This battery had been here for many weeks, and the gunners had utilized the time, which hung beaty on their hands, in making themselves comfortable and in bea'.'i fying their surroundings. With mo tasto and ingenuity so characteristic, of the French, they had transformed their battery into a sylvan grotto. The winding paths were lined with woven wicker fences and bordered by strips of white sand, on which ap peared patriotic mottoes in colored pebbles. Scattered about were ingen iously constructed rustic seats and tables. Within ton feet ot one of the great gray guns a bed of hyacinths made tho air heavy with their frag rance. The next gun-pit was banked about with yellow, crocus. Hanging Trom the arbor which shielded anoth er of thc steel monsters were baskets made of moss and bark, La which were growing violets. yDo the Germans know the position sf these guns? I asked tho battery commander. "Not exactly, though they have, of ?.-ourse, a pretty general idea. They know that wc are somewhere at the back of the ridge, so every now and then they attempt to clear us out by means ot progressive fire. That is, they start in at the summit, and by gradually Increasing the elevation ot their guns, systematically sweep the m tire back slope of the ridge, so that ?mc of their shells are also certain o drop in on us. Do you appreciate, lowever, that, t.tough wc have now icen in this some position for nearly ;hree months, though not a day goes t>y that we are not under fire, and hough a number of my mon have boen tilled or wounded, we have nevor seon he target at which wc are firing and uro have never -soen a Gorman sol ller? "A ten-minute walk across the cpsn ablo-land which forms tho summit of .he ridge, then through a dense bit of forest, and we found oureolves at the mtrance to one of those secret obser vations from which the French obser vers keep an unceasing watch on the TLOvemonta of the enemy and, by .nc an s of telephones, direct and con trol the fire of their own batteries with incrediblo accuracy. This par ticular observatoire occupied tho mouth of a cave in tho precipitous Itlllslde above the Aisne, being ren ier cd invisible by a cleverly arranged toreen of bushes. Pinned to the ?arthen walls were contour maps and Nre-control charts; powerful teles copes mounted on tr?pode brought the Herman trenches across the river close , to us; a military telephonist with receivers clamped to his ears lat-at a switchboard and pushed but tons or pulled out pegs. . . Peering % I. BROWNLEE, Cashier. ? W? MeGEE, Asst. Cashier. erchants Bank 8100,000. giiM-ft. }N,S.C. i your money. /f. -.. ' ' . ' . . ; and \et it. say on de tt the end of that time ? id keep your money easy street. ieasure in saving than ir money. lOWNLEE, Cashier. First Photos of Pa m At the Pnllejs to Strengthen Arms C 'Packey McFarland Is taking tho ten round fight with Mike Gibbons, scheduled for the Brighton Brach Motordome, New York, Sept. ll, very seriously. Ho knows he has a fight on his hands, for he is to meet th? elevbrest mai in the game with the possible exception of hlms?lf. Ho was ten pounds over weight Sunday. Aug. 22, he admitted, while at work in a Chicago gyhnaslum, though be would not get jjm the scales to prove lt. cautiously through the opening in the screen of bshes, I found myself look ing down upon thc winding silver ribbon which is the Aisne; to the southwest I could catch a glimpse of tho pottery roofs of Soissons. Tho gea tie slopes which formed the op posite sido of the river valloy were everywhere slashed and scarred by zigzag lines of yellow which I knew to be the German trenches. But,! though I know that those trenches | sheltered an invading army, not a sign of life was to be seen. A soldier ad justed a powerful telescope. The colonel motioned me to look through it, and suddenly the things that had looked like yellow lines become rec ognizable as marvelously constructed earthwonth. "Now, Bald the colonel, 'focus your glass on that trench just above thc ruined farm house, and I will show you what our gunners can do. After consulting a chart-with innumerable radiating blue and scarlet linet; and making some hasty calculations with a pencil, he gave a few curt orders to a junior officer who sat wt a telephone switchboard with receivers clamped to his ears. The young officer spoke some cabalistic figures into the trans mitter and concluded with tho order: "Tlr rapide." "Now, called the colonol, watch the trenches. A moment later, from' somewhere behind the ridge 'at thc back of us, came in rapid succession six splitting,crashes. A fraction ot a second later I saw six puffs of black smoke suddenly appear against one of tho yellow lines on the distant hill side; six fountains of earth shot high Itno tho air. 'Right Into the trenches!' exclaimed'tho colonel. 'Watch once more.' Again six splitting crashes, six distant puff3 of smoke, and. flout ing back to us a moment lute, nix muffled detonations. 'The battery that hos just been firing is six miles from those trenches, remarked the colonel casually. 'Not so bad eh? 'It's marvelous,' ? an-] .wered. but all the time I was won dering how many lives had been snuffed out for my benefit that morn ing ou the distant hillside." This attack drew the German fire ? and the correspondent spent the next balf-hoiir In the nearest bomb-proof ] trench with shrapnel whining over head. He says: "The French artillery! officers tell me that the German am munition bas noticeably deteriorated | In the last few months. Wei. perhaps. Still, I hadn't noticed lt. It was 30 minutes before Gie storm o' shrapnel Blackened and It was safe to start." "It must be borne in mind that the task of the artillery is far easier tn. hilly or mountainous country, such as j 1B found along the Aisne and In Gio Vosges sad Alsace, where the move ments of the enemy can be observed I with comparative facility and where.) both observers ?nd gunners can usual ly find a. certain ' degree of shelter, j than In Artois and (Flanders, where the country is as flat as the top of a ta ble, with nothing even remotely re- ' Bcmbling a bill. In Gie flat country the guns, which ere carefully masked by means of branches from detection by hostile aircraft, take position at I 1 ?atancos varying from 2,000 to 5,000 lyalls from Vie' enemy*? tWcKihbe. Immediately in Gie rear of etsb. gun ls a suuterraaean shelter, so that when a German Taube cornea In sight the gun crew can go to earth an til ckey McFarland Training ?$?... -rv-.- > host, and Back Muscles. The boxers must weigh 147 pounds j fl t 3 o'clock of tne dav of thi= contest, "hat is the Briti&'.i, French and Aus ralian welterweight limit, and thc attie ought to bc considered a con c-st for cac welterweight champion hip, not a middleweight contest at ll. .^^cFarland said bc would cover rom eight to ten milos on the road very day and put -in at least two ?ours of gymnasium work in thc t has passed. An nrtillery subaltern, c :nown in tbe -British service as thc r orward observing ofticer goes up to he infantry trenches and chooses a . os'tlon, sometimes in a tr?e, sonto lmes in a shattered church tower, " ometlmes in a sort of dugout, from f ihich he can. obtai nan unobstructed t lew of his battery's, sone of fire. Ho i to bis battery very much what a [ oach is to a football team, giving E is men directions by telephone. Amid o ll the uproar of battle thc observing c fftCer has to koop ? careful track, f brough his glasses, of every shell I1?3 attery fires, and to Inform his bat- F sry commander by telephone of tho e ffect of his fire. Ho can make no a listakees. for on those portions of tho c tattle line where the trenches are f requently less than a hundred feet j, part the slightest miscalculation in e i vin g the range might land tho shells v mong his own nw:.. The critical " loment is, however, when the cnomy ? takes a sudden rusY and climbing out 0 f their trenches como rolling for- a .ard. Instantly tho.French trenches t rackle and roar into thc full blast a f magazine fire. The air quivers n 9 tho incessant crash of bursting j hapcel. Infantry attack! calls the ,, bservation officer into tho telephone, " dumber one, four and five gun fire!' u nd his batt ry, two or three miles in .'. he rear, begins pouring shrapnel on ( tie advancing Germans. But still the a ray figures como on. 'Drop twonty- a Ive!' he orders. 'Careful with your n use-setting. . . .very close to' our t] reaches.*' The French shrapnel a prays the ground immediately in t? ront of the French trenches as a t] treet cleaner sprays the pavement n ith a hose. The gray lino checks, liters, sways uncertainly before the t] last of steel. Men begin to fall by J( ozena and scores, others turn and ? un for their lives. With a shrill r heer the French infantry sprlm; t] rom'theta- trenches In a counter at- c ?ck. 'Raise twenty-five!. . .. raisn tl ifty,' telephones tho observing of- _ cor as the blue figures of his conn- a -ymer. sweep forward In the charge. n nd so it goes, the guns backing tho k T??nch attacks ejid bravoing tho n erman ones. "It should be Tememher that there q re two types of shell in common use g >day-shrapnel and high explosive- a sod for entirely different purposes. s; hrapnel ls intended only for use p gainst Infantry in the open, or when n gbtly entrenched. At a range of 3,* d< &0 yards, the bullet? of tho r?ritish ei 3-*"*und shrapu.-l, 075 tn number, ii iver a apace of 250 yards long and r< ) yards wide-an area ot more than U >ie and a half acres. Though terri- al ly effective gainst Infantry attacks lj f unprotected batteries, shrapnel are lr holly useless against fortified posi- di ons, strongly built houses, or deep tl nd well planned entrenchments. The (si Igh explosive shell contains no bul- a ito, hut ? cbaTge of high explosive- si i the Frenen scrw'co melinite, ia the w ritlsh usually lyddite, and In the T orman army trinitrotoluene. The si feet ls far more concentrated than tl lav of' shrapnel, covering only one- tl fteenth of the area affected hy the ht itter. Though shrapnel has prac- li call/ no effect on barbed wire en- n mglements or on concrete and very bi ?tis on earthworks, high explosive tl kalla of the same caliber destroy sv- si ryth?i?, in tho vicinity, concrete, wire, /w i tang lem en ts, steal shields, guns, sod, tc for $3 2,500 Fight With? . I Skipping Rope to Gain isiahi Foot ifternoon. In addition to the Bet pro ;ram Packey will box at "".cast eight ounds with his sparring partners. * IcFarland baa eliminated the kid- ^ Ung tastics in vogue whl'e training s or other constcsts. He goes through P ils straining stunts '.n a businesslike jj ort of way and never stops hard /ork until ho has put in two hours ,t the grind. Ho ls bigger all over and from j n< J nt ven the trenches themselves disap tearing. "Tho commanding Importance of he high explosive shell in this war ls lue to the peculiar nature of the con Hot. The struggle has developed In? o what ls, to all intents and pur )oseB, a fortress warfare on the Qost gigantic scale. The eGrmans ro not simply entrenched. The so alled trencheB are in reality concrete orts, with shields of armor plato, irotected by tho most ingenious wiro ntanglements aad other obsrutclons, nd defended by machine guns mount d behind steel plates and capable nf Iring a thousand shots a minute, in he enormous proportion of ono tn vory 50 men. Ia onler to pavo the ray for an infantry attack on a Gor ian 'position of this description near irrae, tho French fired 200,000 rounds f high explosives in a singlo day nd the scouts carno hack to report hat not a barbed wire entanglement, trench, or a living human being re tained. During the same battle tho trtti8h, owing to a shortage of high xploslvc ammunition, were able to recede their attack by only 40 min tos of Bhell Gre. This was wholly nsufflctont to clear away the en onglemcnts and other obtsructions, nd, as a Tesult, the men wore llter Uy mowed down by tho | .Gormans inc h ino guns. To give nome idea of j tie staggering expenso of modern, rtlllcry fire. I might mention that tie Germans, during the crossing of i lie San. tired 700,000 shells in four ours. jo "I have twice been under the fire of [ tie German Beige guns-in Antwerp I ? ist October, and in Dunkird In early [ lay. At Dunkirk a rcom had been|*] eserved for me on the upper floor of ie local hostelry the Hotel Des Ar- e ades. It must have be? a aurait six In ie morning when I was awakened by B splitting crash, then another snd i bother, each louder and therefore |h ear er than the one receding. I' new from previous experience a Ger* 11 ian Taube was raining death upon | ie city. I could see thc machin?le ulta plainly its armor plated body' learning In tho morning sun. The In ntl-aircraft guns mounted on the j hrapnel spleched the sky. A pom om began its infernal trip-hammer- ' ke clatter. An armored car, evl ont ly British from the R. N. paint i on its turret, tore into the square i front of the hotel, the lean bar-1 ?1 of Its 'quick-firing gun sweeping I ie sk*-, and began to send shell after lell .vt the aerial intruder. Sudden-! r above tbs tumult came a new and iconceivably terrifying sound; a low, sep-toned roar rapidly rising Into a I londerous crescendo. As it passed t>ovo our heads lt sounded as though | giant in the sky were tearing mighty trips of linen. Then an explosion ihlch was brother to an earthquake, he housetops seemed to rock at d xray. The hotel shook to Hs fou min ons. The glass in Gie windows rat ed until J though that it would reek. In the direction or the recelv ig hospital and.the railway station a rashroom-shaped cloud ot green rovwn smoke shot soddenly high into j is air. .. .Just aa I was struggling fth my boots there came another htstllng roar and another terrific de- j matson. rlike Gibbons. ort. resent Indications ho may have as mell i rouble getting down to weight B (iibbons Puckey does not seem i uara lost any of his olj time pood and cleverncso, despite tho uperflous avoirdupois, and he ap ears to be hitting harder. It is is intention to devolop his punching awers. Packoy will not venturo, an opinion tr tho result. He realizes Oibhonb ill be an opponent hard tn boat and o also knows it will b- tho hardest ad toughest fight of his career. Their Home is neat Tb quite complete, So comfortable, It can't be beat, And every might It's gay and bright For in thia home There's 'Lectric light Within the next few weeks boo jpens again, and the little ses resume their studies, which i most cases means night work, bis necessitates the ase of the res by artificial light, and as the AZDA Electric light is the .ightest, and nearest approach to ay Light, and far more economi I than any other light on the arket, it's THE light to ase. outhern Public Utilities Company. Phone 223. BURDEN PECAN TREES. Pa offer tram Derernber IS to January If, [>mp!it* 1 inchon to 4 toekm hi*h from bu? 'ol in? Burk'rt P<T?n TIT*?. Henley" variety I tap root ataall <iiinntilim at 7$c. our hundred more at Mr. A lao 4 Inenra to fl Inch?? high io variety, retardad uncut tap root? with tidM Utt*ral root? ?naH qumtUio* at USO, hunrhwd or mo-, at 13.71 each. AH V. O. Oransetxira:, South Carolina. Bruer buy t ri AM Urea mjiul.ie fr- Uiia dhnate from ar rv*intryoian who haa paid dearly tor tryuic other rrwthoil?. Wo Sod that th* "SvJuVy" arila at ? high?* prior than any other va y. Itrfrr you ta> damson OoUrg* cr any it heres PfcCAHWAT PLACE, M. O. IhmtaWr, OwinsaSiirs. a Cl STETSON Hatsfor us-every time, and for you, most likely-for we notice that every man who gives thought to his clothes comes to us sooner or later for his hats. Just now, the timely thing is the Fall Der bies and Soft Hats. Rather more Derbies being i.Torn this year than for some time past -and in Soft Hats, the more formai effects are vogue. T. L. CELY "On the Square: LOOK At She hard earned doliera yon are. throwing away a dime at a tone, soon your earnings are in the hands ol tba other fellow, who is depos iting them in the Bank at Interest. Yo? can do it too! Start today with tho Savings Depart ment of The Bank of Anderson The Strongest Bank in the County. A NICE BIG ROAST of Beet, Pork or Motton ls really one of the best meats. Per lt ls Jost aa good cold aa hot So you can hare several meats with only one cooking. Tell us to send one for Sunday din* ner. Make it a big one, for our meeta are so choice that only a big ono will bara enough left to cat ap old. PHONE SM. The Lily White Market J. N. LINDSAY. PretrkW,