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DOTE WRITES OF JOYS OF COUNTRY LIFE watts, s. c. deer editoral,? soon arter ther linchin i mooved 4 ther kuntrie. that isther reesin , you cood not find me Krismus ter give me mi Krismus presint an why 1 did not git yore letars buot quit ritin. arter ther linchin i dersided i wood moove ter ther Kuntrie arid rite no moar fur a while, so i mooves ter ther kuntrie, that is ther reesin hear you has sumthin a cumin ter 700. it is wun of ther largist places 1 have bin fur so fiew houses an pee pul. 1 did not git yore letars bout quit lcuntrie in genrul tho i loves watts in spots, the reeson i is outdun wiff ther kuntrie is konsurnin my medicin. i has had ther indergestun. fur a good menny yeers an 1 toun nuuun ter doo me no good till i stracks tip .with a medic in made in jacksunvil, flurriday, which is good for ther Btummick. the oanlie trubble wif this medisin is keapin in it. the Sprees Kumpny will let a felar have a shipment of this medisin, knone as Bitturs, oanlie wunst a munth. now i seed i was goner git out so i sines my name to a kard whitch sais send fore dollars and git fore qts. of sed bitturs, ernnff ter doo you for a month, well i sends the fore dolars an a fiew days befoar Kristmua i comes inter toun in ther.rane becos i seed if i did not git the bitturs i was in fur a spell of sickness, well when i gits ter the offis, i finds that insted of sendin ther fore sed ; qts. as stated the doctar had sent oanlie one qt well walkin in all the way to git wun qt whitch wood not kure a man. long was purtie bad, but i sais if that is aul i will taik it | i W " i w*. ' V Sf$ ; ''-v-;; : $ I, a Soiitl Gentlemi am Nami a v Well, way back in in this bright, ha; days, I began to g< have any name. ' Folks were calling one" and "whatdy; it a bit Then >or Chief tdephoning i to meet in his offic Pretty soon they a chaps, short chaps chaps. "Now the Big Chief, "what v My! tow they w SOVEREIGN? for I want you a I am gu v If you your mc the wor Sove FOI M A ?yc \ . out, but the yung man Clutch is reedin the book saiu you is a day soon, and i sais how is this and he sed you is here a day too soon and you must cum back tomorrie. well i nevar wood a got the kount rong if i had bin in toun but in moovin ter the kuntrie i losit the Grears al mernack where i kuaps a recRard of all sitch and i knode he had mee. well i was spectin as mutch, so i had sed ter lizzie if i is not fealin better i may spen the nite in toun and cam hoam tomorrie, an she sais you git hoapi on time, whitch i sed 1 wood nex day as stated, well nex day i seed so menny of my frends in toun an they wus all so glad ter sea me an mi nelth had improoved so mutch by takin the qt. of sed bitturs that i furgot bout goin hoam, thinkin i still lived in toun, till late in her evnin i remembirs that i has mooved ter the kuntrie, an i drawed a long breff when i thinks of what lizzie will say but i takes the mater in han and htes out fur watts, s. c. and reeches hoam boat ten erclock. well i goze in softly and lizzie sais is thet you Dote an i sais ye6, weak like, as if i wus still sick, an she sais as how the cows has bin out evry sints yistiddy evenin arid sed git out an hunt em, whitch i did at wunst. well i wus not quainted wiff the kuntrie roun bout there, but i sais as how the cows is bout huntin sumthin ter eet, an i lites out fur the bottums, and the furst think i knows ' i trips myself up in a bramboo brirepatcn an lites in the bottum of wun of press Cheetums gullies in that visinnity, an when i nits the ^furst thing whitch cums to mee is thati is muddy and lizzie will think i is drunk, well arter climbin up bout half way an slidin doun three or 4 times i finerly gits out the gully , i t * t Kami I1VA AA i in, ? jp j | 1901, after I had been ppy world for . several it worried like. I didn't ; me "it" and "the new i-call-it" I didn't like ie day I heard the Big ill his department heads ?. 11 came filing in. Tall fat chaps and skinny, it he is here," said the pill you name him ?' rancrlpH and wrancried The Folks of the South The Folks of the South \' the best?is none too g s one of my friends, and aranteed by don't like me return >nev back. I have said it Id over for keeping his w< \ reign I THE GENTLER vntfof J, an goes on, when i runs inter a wii fenae. well i still has on my oavei coat an i wus gittin warm froi walkin by this time, but i sees th* the fense must be crost, so i trie to fine a plais whur i cood cross but it is too high, so i said i wi craul thru and i fines a wide pla: *-?% ?-fanoA on/? Knnf lioff flir Ill OUU XUIIOW U11U glW MVUV AtMu WM* and fines that my oavercoat is hun on the top wire an i kennot grit n further, i sais well i will back bacl and try her agin, but when i trie ter back i fines that boath legs c my britches is hung on the hotai wire an there are nuthin doin. we i was in a lital onkunfurtable pei sishun ter stay there so i rared th way an that an struggled fur hot a haff hour but i oanlie got titer.: looked like i was in the saim fix c a sheap in a briar patch and it cunr to mee that i is hung in the fensi jist then a idee cumes to mee and slips out of by oavercoat an g( loose frum ther top and then i slij out of the britches and gits thr arter a hours hardest wurk i has du suits last julie. well arter dressin goes on doun an i heers a bell an it souns fermilyer and i walks ril on an fust thing i knoes i walks ril inter the creek steppin off ther ban and fallin bout foar feet and litin o mi side, but i hit ther sand an di not git mutch wet oanlie scratche my fais pr.rtie bad on a briar white was ernuther sine agmst mee. art< gittin out of the creek i fines thi "it is my cows as stated, but i cuddei fine the ford where they got a cros ; J?? i.i ? il. 1 urives uivrn up iuc v;xcaa iux mile loolcin for a ford and it wi muddy an wet and i was hot an ma you bet, but sed ford cood not t foun, then iturnt them roan ar goze back boat a mile an cams t< a bridge and gits wan oaver, bi and wrangled. Youkno them argue whether I or Johh or Jim before, spoke up and said: "Why not call him 'S( mother was a Virgini aristocrat of the Care from the very best stocl the very sweetest, rip? ginia and Carolina tob; raised right in one of th healthiest homes on eai erner born, a Southernc gentleman?the king o SOVEREIGN.' i KNOW good blood. KNOW good tobacco. ;ood a name." So I w . it means a whole he me to your dealer ? A Southern gentleman i ord, and I have given y( Ciga IAN OF THE 8 (fa \ e that yung heffer of mine seams ter j r- be skeered of a bridge an evrie time I n i goes roan her and tries ter git her I oaver she runs by the bridge, well d i worried wiff that cow till i cum it neer losin all my religin an she are |l not oaver yit, so i sits doun and (g waits till mornin as i seed ther day u cummin, an when it cums i hollers g fur help an a partie cums doun and q helps me drive them hoam. he was j a man whitch i think has had his d oan cows out as he was verrie sympeijthetic. n when i gits the cows in an fed and 11 milked and thort i wood go in an. iv taik a lital nap,' lizzie sais there are is no stove wood cut on theas premit merses an no fire wood, an no nuthin, it and i knode the house was no plais if fur mee, so 1 gits out and fines that is the handal is broak out of the ax, ? i on i Titfld navfir to a nabnrs ter bor Zr? j " ? ? ? i rie a ax an i gits there jist as they >t is sittin doun ter ther taibal to eet ? )g breckfust, so i walks , rite up on ther ] u! pieza an washes mi hands and fais j n i and taiks a seet atthe taibal jest like i i i was invited, an i has a good breck- 1 d, fus. well yousee that 1 had hed je'nuthin ter eet sints dinnar the day ? ibefoar an i was a lital hungrie an i k eets a purtie good breckfus consider- ' n in it was good kuntrie sausaig and 1 id hot koffie and good biskets an i forid got all bout the stove wood an fire :h wood at hoam fur a hour or too >r when me an mi nabur got ter tellin it joaks, but suddently i thort bout it it i lites out fur hoam walkin fast an ' s. told lizzie as how i had ter go all ( aWver ther settermint ter git a ax ! is ter cut ther wood, well she didnt d, say that she bleeved me an i didnt ! >e loose enny time ter ax her if she did, id but i lit inter ther wood an cummenst 1 ir ter cut the hardest wood wiff ther at dullest ax i has ever seed, well, will . / i I ; ' ' ' ! : h " w, you have heard s te'd be called Jack Finally, one fellow )VEREIGN'? His an, his father an ? TT rnnas. ne comes k. He comes from st, mellowest Viracco. He is being e cleanest, whitest, rth. He isaSouth;r bred, a Southern f them all?a real ras named, friend, jap when I sayBuy me.' Mid get s known >u mine. rettes OUTH I WATO' My liiift of high grade watcl children is right up to the n your choice of either open fa ' fitted with any of the Stands I jewels or many?any style cae Also bracelet watches, ch outfits. I'll be glad to show y W. E. JOH Your Jew stop, but i (tells you this, i has heerd ^ s tell of the good ole kantrie time; but * 1 enny of my frends is cummin out ? n the kuntrie to live i ecvises that * they sell there cowa. * yours as evar, V * Dote. Aein: Has you evar spent a rainey No. randay in ther kuntrie, if not watcn No. fur mi next. Dote. No. No. SOME BIBLICAL DAfA. No. : No. ~ - ' '? x- i al, on;i.? S0, DO yOQ desire W nuun uic muic XNO. A.re life's origin, sin, death, satan's gto death traps, divine means of deliv- ? erance, and great final acts in 'the ' World's History comprehending the Second Coming of Christ, the First Resurrection, the Millenium, the Se- du? cond Resurrection, the Judgment, wh the Battle of Armageddon, the Hea-' venly Home, Facts of interest to'you? If so, read the following subjects, S' and, as you would in. reading a book, begin at the first chapter, hear the first sermon. The growth m interest will be steady and normal. To assist . you in understanding these sermons Git fully, announcement is here made that the book, "Life and its counter By currents," written by the pastor, which, chapter by chapter, treats of these sermon-matters, , is now on ha1 sale at Bowden-Simpson's Drug Store Get a book and ,read it through, then t&t read each chapter after each sermon 1?* treating thereon. If you do, you , will get a better idea of the Bible and fife and eternity than in simply ?? hearing sermons f6r ten years.. in 1917. Jan. 8.?What is Life? It's source, sacredness, happiness and destiny. V? Is capital punishment ever right? Jan. 15.?The First Counter Current Entrance of Sin. What is sin?What is hereditary sin? What its _j.( results Arb babies lost because of , it? X 0f Jan. 22.?Frightful results of the ^ First Counter Current The peryer- W{T sion of the senses. ; Why evil is de- ?hf sired. , . Jan. 29.?-Counter-Crrents two, 19' three, and four. Retaliation, excita- Qn tion by strong drink, morphine, etc., tin sensuality. Plain facts, for honest people. (This discussion Dr. Mac- 24 Arthur, D. D. LL. D. of N. Y., says should be pondered by every living soul.) ,Feb. 5.?Counter-Current five, six, seven?the outward appeal to per- verted sense of sight a"nd hearing. * The sin of the dance, modern style, cards, etc. ;. an Feb. 12.?Results of the Counter- ho Currents. What is death? Is it uni- I versal? Is it annihilation? The stra- wi tegic point in redemption. v Vi Feb. 19.?-Divine provisions to be counteract the counter-currents^ The ho Abrahamic covenant, the Mosaic law; in] their relation and fulfillment. (Dr. Lamar?former State see. of Baptist missions of $. S., Says of this discussion that many ministe?B have op never^griasped its vital truth. p . Feb. 26!?Provisions to counteract the counter-currents concluded. Jes- C. us, the Christ His life and its ef- # in fects. Christ a ransom but not to Satan. Umversali8m a fallacy, . ? March 5.?The counter-currants FT conteracted. The world redeemed. Eschatology. Satan bound. Second Coming, first resurrection, Millennium, loosing Satan, gog and magog, judgment, earth destroyed and renewed, the saint's final home. I Be sure and get you a book, (reduced to one dollar) and read through before series begins. Let us this winter learn the Bible! What say you? Why remain ignorant of matchless truths of infinite value to us? Read the book and. then listen to the sermons. * . t MONEY I?0R NATIONAL F FOREST ROADS AND * TRAILS ALLOTTED r ' I Washington, Jan. 15.?Secretary ^ Houston has announced the amount allotted to each State from the mil lion dollars to be spent during the fiscal year 1918 in constructing roads and trails within or partly t within the National Forests. This " money is part of the ten. million dollars appropriated by the Federal Aid Road Act to, assist development of the National Forests, which becomes available at the rate of a million dollars a year for ten yepjrs. The allotments as approved are as follows: Alaska, $46,364; Arizona, $58,604; Arkansas, $9,803; "Calif- ? ornia, $140,988; Colorado, $62,575; H Idaho, $108,730; Montana $70,042; Nevada, $19,296; New Mexico, $42495; Oregon, $128,111; South Dakota, $8,092; Utah, $41,167; Washington, $91,944; Wyoming $40,684. A total of $9,995 has been allotted to Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, > Nebraska, North* Dakota, and Okla- am homa. The group of Eastern States I ?Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire, m North and South Carolina, Tennes- I' see, Virginia, and West Virginia?in which the Government is purchasing lands for National Forests, receives I $21,120. I In making allottments, it is ex- || plained, ten per cent of the amount available for 1918 is withheld as a [' contingent fund. One-half of-the remainder has been apportioned among the States in amounts based on the area of the National Forest i?J- ?-L oi-i. lanus ill caun wiiuc tuc half has been allotted on a basis of the estimated value of the timber and forage resources which the Forests contain. 1ES J . A M M les tor men, women ana linute. I can give yon , - ||9 ce or hunting style case, ;;JSB ird movements or few le yon want. ains, fobs and watch NSON, [M SEABOARD TRAIN''' SCHEDULE. ; Vj| 5, Sooth, doe . 29, Sooth, due 8:69 P. M. 11, South, due 3:04 A. 17, South, due 6:00 A. M. :M 6, North, due 7:46T<Ik^B 12, North, due .... 1:42 A. 80, North, due ??12:54 A. ML.,~.JH 18, North, arrives 10:00 P. 'A Master of Finance who alloWB*^HH ncmber to become in arrears 58 is a monkey wrench in eels of progress," I ATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA; M County of Abbeville. Probate Court ;; , ation for Letter* of Adminktrm- ; fjS J. F. MILLER, Esq., Judge of raj Probate; :M J7HEREAS, Dr. G. E. Calvert , 9 h made suit to me, to grant 'hinfcSM tters of Administration of the e and effects of Henry. Thomas*^m d of Abbeville County, deceased. ' rheae are therefore, to cite and '.M noniflh all and singular the toulr,aH 1 and creditors^ of^he Mid JBtannjH jear before me' in the (Jourt of ,ij Probate, to be held at lAbbferffliai J art House, on uonaay, tne xobqahc 7 of Jan. 1917, after publicatidn* JS eof, at 11 o'clock in the f6re- ' m m, to show cause, if any ,-e, why the said Administration1.$3 >uid not be granted. v'ijS GIVEN under my hand and itflraHH the Court, this 1st day ftf the year or our Lord one thouaaadi/MM le hundred and seventeen/ and 1 M ; year of American Independence*jBM Published in the 8rd day of 'ItuujSKM 17, in The Press and Banner uuifl the Court House door for the~&H ic4uuwi uy ^ J. F. MIL LEE, HOW THIS MOTHB) |fl lot Strength To Do Her Work ,;3| Fair Haven, Vt?'1 was so neiToai;"OH d run down that I could not. do uwwork for my little family 61 threaga^B had doctored for nearly two year* <| thout help. 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