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LETTER FROM COL. PATRICK ROCHE TO HIS SON, GEDD1NGS Col. Roche, the champion set-back player of the Fort Pickens side has handed us the following letter which ASPIRIN FOR HEADACHE Name "Bayer" is on Genuine Aspirin?say Bayer i ? ?*> m.vKi- r Ai insist on "uayer inuicm ui aspum is a "Bayer package," containing proper directions for Headache, Colds, Pain, Neuralgia, Lumbago, and Rheumatism. Name "Bayer" means genuine Aspirin ; prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. Hanay tin boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Aspirin k trade mark ?i Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetio , aeidester of Salicylicacid. LIFT CORNS OR CALLUSES OFF 1 Doesn't hurt! Lift any corn or 1 callus off with fingers Don't suffer! A tiny bottle of Preezone costs but a few cents at any drug store. Apply a few drops on the corns, calluses and "hard akin" on bottom of feet, then lift - cm went uu. When Freezone removes corns from the toes or calluses from the bottom of feet, the ekin beneath is , eft pink and healthy and never sore lender or irritated?Adv. AFI? SICKNESS THY GAVE ! HOI VINOL And She Soon Got Back 1 Her Strength New Castle, Ind.?"The measles < left me run down, no appetite, could not rest at night, and I took a severe cold which settled on my lungs, so I 1 was unable to keep about my house- i work. My doctor advised me to take Vinol, and six bottles restored my health so I do all my housework, including washing. Vinol is the best ] medicine I ever used."?Alice Record, 437 So. xxth St, New Castle, Ind. We guarantee this wonderful cod liver and iron tonic, Vinol, for all weak, run-down, nervous conditions. P. B. SPEED?Druggists Everywhere mBsES \mSk IIYflTili i ON uii\rr> IIIUIO Express TO dtheas MiAc Co. I mm. 6A I i I he has just written to his handsome young son, Geddings, who is now studying overtime at>Belmont Abbey, Belmont, N. C. He wishes it published as a kind of form for other fathers to use in writing to sons who are away at school, suggesting also that if we ever get up a form book on letter writing that he would like for this to go in it. He thinks also that the letter may lend inspiration to other students who happen to be away at school at this time, as it will show the possibilities that await the youth of the land, if they will only get down to hard work. Here is the way the Colonel puts it: Abbeville, S. C., Oct. 5, 1919. Dear Geddings,?I am taking this beautiful Sunday morning to write you a few lines and to lend you some advice, which my great number of years enables me to furnish you without any undue effort. I think of you so much daily, and dream about your possibilities in life so much at night, that I cannot refrain, in the very beginning from imploring you to use every opportunity to improve your mind, and to prepare for the things which come after. Of course every father looks forward to something worth-while which he hopes may happen to his son. I have been thinking since you went away how grand i thing it would be if the short time pou are away at school you might so improve your opportunities as to be ible upon your return to enter the Sreenville Street Setback College, md there pursue your studies under rach eminent teachers as Professors Stark, Kerr, and a few others, so that in after life you would always be prepared to play a first class game in any company where you happened to be, and that you would be taught so well in the rudiments of the game, as well as all the variations, as to know that it pays to bid on an ace, and that it never pays to throw away an ace to bid on the deuce, ten and jack. As bright as I am I did not learn this for some time, but I have about come to the conclusion that it pays to follow all the regular rules of life and setback, especially on Greenville Street. If I might hope that some day you would be as great a player as Professor Kerr thinks he is, I would know that your education was complete from a setback standpoint. So let me urge you to improve your great opportunities, remembering always what awaits you, if you are diligent, and keep your eye on the rail. But I suppose you are interested in what I am doing. I have been very busy picking cotton during the day. Have only stopped one time and that was to go to town to get a half gallon of kerosene to make a light at night so I could try out some setback hands and get ready for a big game I had scheduled out at Bob Hunter's, where I went last Wednesday night. We would have played that night on Greenville street, but that crowd up there has to be prayed for two or three times a week in order to keep straight, and as Prof. Kerr's pastor had been away for a month he was needing it badly, so as stated I scheduled a game out at Bob Hunter's. Well, you will be surprised to know it, but old man Sondley, the old gentleman you will remember to have seen riding around town, who lives on Magazine street, actually won a game. I chose Bob for my| partner, and I thought it would be a walk-over, but when old man Sondley got out in the country from under police protection, he threw the cramp into hich frnYn fVip vonr sfnrf It looked like Mt. Calvary was on fire everytime he drew back to make a pitch. You may think that these Cincinnati and Chicago baseball pitchers know how to pitch but if Cicotte and Reuther and the rest of them could see Mr. Sondley pitch setback in the country they would cry can-rope, "great-Dans- of blue-j mud," and several other quaint but^ true sayings. There is only one trouble with Mr. i Sondley about winning a game of| setback. He wants to tell everybody] i to ^ t tut last o/fcfi" h^^p^sealeo tins only BBffpF" ATWURCOOCEftS r MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE J about it, and them he cannot see, he o sends word to. I would not ibe sur- e prised to find the game we played . the other night posted on the court house door, in fact I looked for it. Bob Hunter is thinking that he will try to have the game recorded in the '' Clerk's office as he says he heard the old man arguing with Col. Thomas tj f. rnomson on tne question 01 whether a setback game was a Mesne h conveyance, and Mr. Thomson finally r agreed that it was. 0 Well, I hear Jack Perrin tooting " his horn out in front of the house, 11 and I guess he wants to go out to P old marf Gilliam's to talk about a c barbecue, so I had better be going. S( Good-bye, and keep studying. n Your Father, s' Patrick Roche. P. S.?Since inditing the above, I 0 had another set-to with old nan ^ Sondley. Col. Wade Cothran, who n was the president of Cochran's a Branch Academy before his eye-sight r went back on him, on account of eld age only, called in to see me han- I u!c the situation, which I did in spite I cf my partner, Bob Hunter. The bost I DOD COU1U UU was l/U X1U1U UVC UUIlip everytime I did the bidding Well, Col. Cothran was so pleased with my pitching that he made a short speech al the end of the game in whicn he *3unrcd me a neat bouquet, as felons : He said that my playing reminded him a great speec.i he had hsard " hen he was courting in Edgofieid. dOr'ered by one of the or???rs that ylaee, and that as a pW?r,. I "ri'se ir. the morning like tin ut.* in the East, flashed across the : o.ndi / tfinwent like the Aurora Boreal"?, r.rd set in the evening like a Grecian archipelago. I guess I must have been pitching some ball. Father. STATE FAIR BRINGS MANY WAR TROPHIES One of the biggest features of the United States government exhibits, to be shown at the State Fair October 27-31, will be made up of trophies and other enemy material cap tured on the battlefields of France by American soldiers. The captured articles, including almost everything from a big trench mortar to a canteen, have just been brought to this country and have never before been on exhibition. With them will be shown military and naval equipment of the American forces, in addition to displays from other departments of the government. The character of the display jf captured material is indicated by the following partial list. Light and heavy machine guns, anti-tank guns, rifles and carbines, small arms ammunition, grenatenwerfers, trench mortars, hand grenades, helmets of variotis 1 kinds, sai t 1 li-A.j 1 uers, uiucers aim ennsiea men s can- { teens, shells and cartridge cases of various sizes, trench periscopes, gas shells, smoke hand grenades, smoke pots, anti-gas alarm devices, field telephones and switchboards, signal lamps, breast reels and trench lanterns. Visitors to the exhibit will have an You will fi terest you in 1 j we have selec proval. This seaso elude an i range of style With living ing, the assui -L M. And* pportunity to compare the German quipment with that used by the ^n:? rican fighters. Among the articles i . of urniched by the war department cf he United States government are the su ollowing: Field gun and mount, trench mor- lft ar, light and heavy machine guns, w< ircraft guns, rifles, trench helmets, lu and and rifle grenades, dummy cartidges and drop bombs, complete set th f infantry equipment, figures wear- es ig different uniforms of the army, ov icluding the winter uniform sup- W lied to troops on duty in Russia, live tfc arrier pigeons, some of which saw Jn ervice on the firing line in France, be ational and regimental colors, in- er ignia and campaign badges, wireless P* ilephone apparatus and various n? ther equipment from the ordnance to epartment, quartermaster corps, sigal corps, engineer corps, air service wi nd medical department of the army, le! 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