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Ladies and* I READY! EMPO V ????? (The Only Exclusive L Furnishing Sto _ ^ \X/E can say without fear of cor one of the best assorted stocl tn-Wear to be found not only in A1 I We do not claim to carry the lar? We believe that express and freqi ing in larger quantities in order t< It is not so much the price yo your money that counts. We pri< materials and the workmanship. Some of the Many Good' and Pauama Skirts?Black, cream, f I gbeys. This is one of our strong points. II Coat Suits?Linen and linene. White H| and colors. Special orders for any size or kolor wanted. 1| Wash Skirts?Linen and linene. White I and colors. We are showing exclusive novel|| ties in this line. Lingerie Dresses?White, pink, blue and II lilac. Special orders for any size or color. One-Piece Dresses?Taffeta in changeable effects. White and colors in linene9| Ladies and Children's Muslta UnderSg wear?Another strong point. (Pictorial Review Pa The best paper pattern, s June Fashion Sheets e Call and get one. A ( Phone and mail orders promt)' Make our store yc ALGERNONS mm. phone 176 Children's O-WEAR RIUM adies and Children's! '? A UKairSllA j rc in nuuwy iiiv. ^ ' Ltradiction that here you will find is of Ladies and Children's Readybbeville but in towns much larger^est stock, but the best assorted, lent shipments cheaper than buy) save a few dimes. >u pay but the value you get for ie ourselves on the quality of our IF Things tote Found Here Children's Dresses?Through 14 ye;irs, in Lawn, Cambray, Linene. ' Shirt Waists?in Lawn, Linene, Taffeta, Messaline, white aad colors. Plain tailored and lingerie. Klmonas?Crepe and muslin, long and 1 1 A. snort. Umbrellas and Parasols?For ladies and children. Neekwear?Another strong point. Hosiery, Gloves, Laces, Handkerchiefs, Fans, Belts, Combs, Jewelry, &c. tterns o the ladies all say. low Ready -Rn^/q n y huluu. >ur headquarters. i, SIMMONS ABBEVILLE, S. C. AMERICAN ^ I V\1A 'fXti +V iviusi jTiuiiLauio xvi L.JGreater Results P Other Crop t SOIL PERFEC Does Not Materially Other Crops that HISTORY. A cq-t> i* av Ponor On in. . .nincilLrt-ii v-?uiovrii^ V/A x U*<I*A quefoliuui, is a plant closely related to the parsley family, in which family are included the parsnip, carrot and celery. (Ginseng is a Chinese word meaning man-shape ) The root has been used constantly in China for centuries. A report of the high estimation in which j it was held in China for centuries, j Father Jartaux. a missionary in China, ! gave adescriptiou of the plant and sent; samples of the roots, seeds and leaves to j Father Lafitau, who was a missionary among the Iroquois Indians in Canada, and who thereupon began to search for it. He soon found roots answering the description of those sent by his brother j missionary, and after due time it proved! to be a near relative of the Chinese root?Panax Ginseng. This discovery was made near Montteal, Canada, in the year 1716. Soon after its discovery tho French, who then controlled Canada, began to gather it for export to China through their Indian agencies. At first the exportation of the root was looked upon with so little favor that the business was cHvfin to the sailors as an extra in ducement to remain in the service. The value then was only 84 cents per pound, but as it grew abundantly and could be obtained for a song, the export trade was very profitable. In the early days of exportation, the price was very low, being only 52 cents per pound in 1858, and that year 866,005 pounds were exported, since that year the quantity of root exported only 179,573 pounds, the average price paid for same being $4.71. This shows at a glance that the amount exported has decreased more than 50 per cent, and the price has increased over 900 per cent In 1908 there were exported 155,180 pounds, the average price paid for same being $7.21. Until five years ago little cultivated Ginseng had been marketed. It had been fully demonstrated the plant would grow under cultivation successfully, but would the Chinese buy the cultivated root? Occasionally small lots of cultivated roots were sent to China which sold for gsod prices, bringing, in some cases, from 20 to 40 per cent more than the wild forest grown root. The forests have been cut down and cleared away to supply lumbe and make farms, exterminating the Ginseng plant, except in a few isolated mountain forests, where it has been so persistently hunted till it is well nigh extinct. DESCRIPTION?botany. The seeding plant has three simple leaves in a whorl at the top of the stem, they at first look something like newly sprouted beans, rising two inches above ground. The leaves resemble the leaves of the elm, and as it grows wherever poison oak grows, and also is not greatly unlike the latter in appearance, many plants are overlooked by the "Sang Diggers." Duriug the second year the plant grows four to six inches high, separates into two branches at the top, and each branch has five leaves. Cultivated plants, and some wild ones, produce in the second year berries which are about the size of wax beans, containing from one to three seeds each. A straight stem rises two inches high from the fork, on the end of which are very delicate yellowish blossoms. These are followed by a pod of green berries, which, in August and September turn to a beautiful red and look very much like a bunch of cinamon drops. The third year the plant grows eight to twelve inches high, branching at the top into a tripod, each branch having five leaves. The fourth year the plant has four branches at the top of the stalk, each having five leaves. The stalk is aoouc tne size ox a xenu pencil, and of a reddish-green color. The four year old plants grow twelve to twenty inches high, and a bed of fine, uniform cultivated plants, with large pods of rich, red berries, the value of which is 50 cento to $1.50 per' plant, is exceedingly beautiful and interesting. NATURAL HOME OF THE PLANT. Tha natural home of Ginseng is in the wild3 of the forest. Those who commence the cultivation of the mysterious root should always bear this in mind, and make the environment of the garden as near like the primeval forest ao nnaoihiA Tn nth fir words, make the surroundings shady, cool and damp, and the soil rich. In its wild state it thrives best in the rich, moist, but welldrainsd, soil from which the oak, hickory, beech, maple and similar timber thrive, but will not grow in low, wet marshy soil. It is cultivated commercially in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan. Wisconsin, and southward to Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, North! Carolina. A garden that will produce I vegetables will produce Ginseng. SOIL. tt??~ nl-Aood f Via 1nr>Qfinn nf tVifi VlPfl. XJ.&V1U5 tuv iwvwwiv- V* ? the next question, or rather the one that must be considered at the same time as the location question, is the j choiee of soil. Choose almost anyquality or texture, With the exoeption of clay, heavy clay loam, light sand and muck. These are not adapted to the requirements of the plant and its best development. The best soil is a good, * friable loom, light rather than heavy, 1 and well supplied with decaying vegeta- i ble matter. It must be clear of stones, 1 clods, chunks of wood, tree roots and 1 other obstructures, so that the Ginseng ( roots may have free range to develop \ and not be robbed of food or be dis- j turbed. The deeper the soil the better, i and should have a natural drainage as t it will not grow in a swamp or where i water stands, as it requires a soil like 1 that which we use for olu* gardens. 1 f f '' v/ niN^FNn L6 Farmer and Much er Acre Than Any o be G-rown. TLY SUITED Interfer with Raising May be Desired. WHAT THE CHINESE DO "WITH IT. They pulverize the dry root and make tea of it. They consider this tea the best tonic in the world. When a Chinaman falls sick with almost any disease, he makes about a pint of Ginseng tea, the stronger the better, and drinks it, about a gill at a drink every two or three hours. The tea, together with his firm belief in its virtue, usually cures him. The infant is cured py put tiDg the pulverized roots in its food. The rich use it to flavor their food, not only for the flavor, but its heathful properties, claiming it restores youth. The priests use it in their religious ceremonies. In the above, and in dozens of other waps, the Chinese use Ginseng. The Chinese are firm in their convictions and superstitions. They have believed in I he virtues of Ginseng for thousands of years and will continue to do so for thousands of years to come. Hence there need be no fear of overstocking the market. Mr. Quang, President of the Chinese Merchants' Company, of Shanghai, China, said: "The supply is fast diminishing; the demand is growing greater each year. The amount used is only guaged by the supply. We pay a good price for your Ginseng; we would pay more if an increased price would get it. We could use twenty times what we get at present prices. It would be impossible for you Americans to glut the market with Ginseng in the next fifty years. Ginseng is used by every Chinaman, no matter how poor. The Ginseng market is aa staple as the market for tea or coffee, and not subject to change as is every other article of commerce. Unless the Americans cultivate it, there is going to be a great scarcity of Ginseng, and that soon." PROFITS. Ginseng is the most valuable and profitable crop in the world. More money can be made from a few square rods of ground than the average farm, and with one-tenth of the labor. As a safe estimate. 1,000 roots will grow on one square rod of ground, which makes 160,000 to an acre. Some growers claim as many as 200,000, and even more, to the acre. Setting the roots six inches apart each way in rows, making due allowance for walks between the beds, one acre will bo found to contain about 160,000. One square rod of ground produces 1,000 roots set six inches apart each way, allowing walks between the beds. Estimating 10 roots to the pound (at the age of five years) gives 100 pounds; when dried, 83 1-3 pounds At $6.00per pound it makes $200.00. While making the five year's growth, the roots would produce 200,000 seeds, of at present prices, $500,000 worth or seeds. But, leaving the seeds out of the count, for one square rod of Ginseng five years old, we have $200.00, or for an acre we have $32,1)00. This estimate looks unreasonable and most people will not believe it, but it is a conservative I estimate, nevertheless. Those who do ! go into it will reap a rich harvest. NOW IS THE TIME TO GET INTO THE BUSINESS. Enormous profite are to be made in ^ T* J: planting Ginseng now. r rum me ujs- i covery of Ginseng in America to 1875, the price rarely went above $1.00 per pound for dried root. While it will pay to grow Ginseng at $1.00 per pound, there was not sufficient inducements at that Jprice for growers to attempt its cultivation. But from the above date the price gradually increased, and pioneers in the business commenced to try to cultivate it, and today it is bringing from $7 to $12 per pound. There is one thing we wish to impress on every reader that a more profitable investment than starting a Ginseng garden would be hard to find. It is a business opportunity that will mean much in the future. The supply of the wild root is fast diminishing, and in a few years will Hiaannfliir nLitocether. Seventv-five " " wwrrv? o v per cent of the area over which it grows has been stripped of timber which affords it shade, and is now in cultivation. Ginseng is as staple with the Chinese ?s tea, coffee and tobacco is with ns, and is quoted as regularly in the markets of the world; and to replenish the fast diminishing supply of wild root, we are solving the problem by Ginseng culture. A small city lot would be quite a good 'sized Ginseng garden and for tbis reason almost anyone can get started in the business, no matter how limited his capital may be, the only difference being that the person who starts on a larger scale may expect proportionately larger resulte. Start planting at once with a few hundred or thousand roots as your means will permit, with, say from 1,000 to 10,000 seed will grow into business as a side line while you follow your usual occupation, and note which will pay the best for the time and money employed fnr 41 nn tn 41,000 can be added to vour income annually, once you can get a start, you can soon have from a half acre to an acre growing, and an acre of well cultivated American Ginseng is valued from $25,000 to $50,000, depending on management, A GARDEN IN CAEROLLTON. Some two and a half years ago A. O. ' Williams and E. M. Bass, started a i small garden of Ginseng, putting out , lve beds 4 feet by 100 feet as an experi- 1 nent to see whether it would grow and prosper in this soil and climate as it ivould in other places, and with their ( experiences and investigation they ied that every requirement is all that t t takes to grow it successfully. Hav- j ng expended a few hundred dollars on t heir ground, making beds and build- '] ngs their artificial shade of plank, c ising chestnut' post with heart pine t umber for the shade, they have a gar- - ii v., v-v- - .</. . ' ' . < 'xu*r> . ;>. >? ' ' " - ; * . . rP;- - ,?r den that is growing, and is worth from $1,500 to $2,000. They gathered something like $75.00 worth of seed from their plants last year. We understand they are now ready to plant larger quan tities of it and are being nrged to organize a company of $10,000 to begin the cultivation on a larger scale. A. O. Williams, Carroll County Times ' Carrollton, Ga. J. W. Sign, Funeral Direetor and Embalmer In the days of old, when bodies rt four Entire o f for Af K > v v_ i uuiiv/u a iv?y "VUI J unv.1 anyone could be an undertaker^ but today, when remains are preserved for days and shipped hundreds of miles before the inter ment, ,the mortican must be learn- * ed in his art; and understand as much about anatomy as the average physician. One of the best known undertakers in the State of South Carolina is Mr. J. W. Sign, whose business career in Abbeville has reached the inspiring number of forty-five years and who is held in high esteem by all of our people. Mr. Sign's establicVirrxanl Jo nnp r>f tVlA Kpcf ?>nniTV BBHBBI Mr. H. B. Sign * ped of its kind in this section ol the south and a large and complete line of coffins, metalic caskets, metalic and slate grave vaults, etc.* are to be found in stock at all times* Mr. Sign is assisted by his son, Mr- H. R. Sign, who is a graduate of the Southern School of Embalming, class of 1909, and is the only licensed embalmer in Abbeville County. The art of undertaking is one requiring special tact and fitness for things which is beyond the power of the average mortal to assume, and we dare say that all who have had dealings with Mr. H. K. bign will agree us when we state that he is a man , of tact and skill, and is always tasteful and considerate of the feelings of the aggreaved, and has the human sympathy without which an undertaker can never hope to make a success of his work. His funerals pass of with that smoothness which does so much for those left behind. This establishment is equipped with the most up-to-date funeral car that is to be found anywhere. Taggart Hotel This hotel conducted bv Mr&. Mary H. Taggart on Pinkney St is too will known to require any introduction. It is comfortable and home like and tells its own story of excellent management. It is where many of our leading business men dine. The tables are supplied with the best the market affords at all times. Mrs. Taggart is a most estimable lady and has been connected with Abbeville's bbsiness interests for a number of years. She was proprietess of theGlenn?Etnel Hotel which was burned nearley two years ago. It would be impossible to find another who would be her superior in business connections, or better fitted in catering to the traveling public. This hotel is well situated between both the Sea Board and Southern Railway stations andDnly a few minutes work to the Dusiness portion of the town. j'ures Rheumatism to Stay CurefL Khcumaoiili' (liquid or tablets) s he cause and stops the pain quickly. Au ntemai (Uioouj remeu/-, wmcu iui*. l-u^u liousands of bad eases. At all druggists, rial buttle tablets by mail 25c. Seud co'as ?r lc stamps. Booklet free. Adores itt Chemical Company, 816 W. Lombard. ;t., Baltimore, Md. Sold by C. A. iJ iii'?>rdCd