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MANY DYES AT OUR SERVICE Cutting Off of European Supply Need Not Cripple the Country, Is the Assertion Made. Now that the supply of coal-tar dyes from Europe has been cut off, the Hardwood Kecord suggests that \ we return to the dyes that were used ! before coal-tar colors were invented. ! These were derived from bark, roots, i wood and the juices of plants. The f Hardwood Itccord gives a list of the j most important native plants that were so used and that are still open to us. The yellow oak supplies a tine yellow dye called quercitron, found in a thin layer under the outer hark. The butternut gives a brown with which the famous Confederate "jeans" were dyed. The outer hulls of the nuts of the blnek walnut furnish a dark brown. The roots, bark and wood of the osage orange produce a fine yellow. Other yellows can lie made from the yellow wood, mcsquit and staghom du mac* The Indians used aider wood for making a reddish dye. By boiling the finely chipped heartwood of the bluewood a black dye i9 produced in the valley of the Rio Grande. The brilliant red with which the Indians tinted their eagle feathers and buckskin garments was made from dogwood. Red gum and locust wood were used also by the pioneers in America, and the vivid yellow of Chinese silks is made from a tree similar to the locust. EQUAL TO IT Sho?Does Brushen Pal let te, your artist friend, have many eommissions? He?Had one last month. Hip father asked him to paiftt his harn. ENLIGHTENING A NEIGHBOR. One warm morning the funny man was discovered on his hack porch doing the tonsorial act with his little safety. "Hello!" called his neighbor. "I see you are shaving on the outside for a change!" "I always shave on the outside, because that's where my whiskers grow," answered the funny man. "and not for a change, but in order to save a little change. See?" A GENTLE HINT. Said He - Can tie a true lover's kuiot. Miss Willing? Said She- -No; but I can give you the address of a clergyman who would be only tin) glad to oblige you, I'm sure. HER IDEA OF IT. TTo?I am joining the Seventyfifth infantry. 1 She?Mv brother Jack is in the Seventy-sixth. So ghul you two boys j will l>e near each other. i IT8 KINO. 'Took, did you put nutmeg in this cake for flavoring?" "Yes, ma'am." "Well, that -in a grate mistake." ( 3IR08 OF A FEATHER. i "Do you know they have started a canary squad at Sing Sing?" i | "A canary squad ? That must be something of a lark." I _____ WET WEATHER NOTE. "The visible supply of silk is said to be nearly exhausted." < "The supplv of visible silk seems i \ fo ho all right." J QUITE 8UITABLE. "This article saya some man has discovered a use for dogfisli." "1 gueas it's to uw thorn as pots on bsrka.'* , j FOLIAGE OF THE SEASONS Magnificent Color Maturity That Conies With the Advance of the Months. The foliage of summer is generally mature, green, sober. There is a certain warmth and gayety about the leaf progress of June and early July, and a vast variety in shades, as well, J so that any body of trees and slirubs , of varying kinds will display any- ' thing from the youngest light yellow j leaves of the Norway maples to the deep, even green of the horse chestnut. Toward the first of August the j leaves are quite or nearly full grown, and they have settled down to their real work of elaborating food for the treos that bear them. My water eolor friend, Little, has j discovered in this color maturity an other confirmation of his theory thai there is a sort of color compensation, a chromatic balance of the seasons, T. Horace McFarland writes in the Countryside Magazine. In spring the air and the ground are cool, though slowly absorbing heat, and the leaves and flowers are warm in hue?there are the really hot colors of the tulips, the yellows of some tree blossoms, and so on. As the season warms, the foliage and flower hues become in general cooler, until in summer we have the deep green of innfnre leaves, (he deep blue of the white dotted sky and the blues and whites of the garden. When cooler nights begin to come the summer foliage is likely to assume hints of brown, the corn takes on the colors of maturity, anil we have the decidedly warm-hued chrysanthemums, purple asters, and the like, to compensate. The sharp weather of winter demands all possible heat from nature's color scheme, and we have it in the browned leaf, following the brilliant and not cool hues of autumn. in the corn shock and the bare tree stem, and even in the shadows on the snow. SURE SIGN v "What kind of a chap is Joncfl?" 01)! he don't know enough to keep his mouth shut." "What makes you think so?" "lie's been married four times." j ONE OF MANY. Mnynte?1 thought you told me young Shallow had very little to say. Edyth?Yes, so 1 did. Mavme?Hut l^ound him quite talkative. K.dvth? ( )ti tliilt'd rt i?T?.ri>nf FORCE OF HABIT. "So that gossipy woman's club is going to learn to shoot, eh?" "I believe so." "Then I'll bet the members will all use repenting rifles." A DISADVANTAGE. "Truth," said the readyinade philosopher, "is stranger than fiction." "Yes," replied the evnic; "but it suffers under the disadvantage of seldom being so well expressed." ITS LOCATION. "Here's a scientist says he ha? found radium in ordinary dew." "Yea, and already automatically stored up in grnssv banks." SNUBBED. ^le?That young widow has very taking ways. She?Yes, I heard she was something of a kleptomaniac. 80 HE COULD. She?Don't von think there is a "hange in the weather? Tie?Yes; ! can even feel the change in my pocket. QUITE OBVIOUS. "Why, captain, arc you making your boat hug the shore?" "because I am embracing an opportunity." 1 CALOMEL WHEN Bll MAKES YOUSICI "Dodson's Liver Tone" Is Harmless To Clean Your Sluggish Liver and Bowels. Uphl Calomel makes you sick. It's horrible! 'i'uko a dose of*the dangerous drug tonight and tomorrow you may loSTe a day's ?"i k. Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the liones. Caiomcl, when a comes into contact with sour Idle crashes into it, breaking it up. 'I his is when you fool that awful nausea and cramping. If you are sluggish and "all knocked out," if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness, eonte?l tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour. pint try a spoonful of luiruil?'KH Dodsnn'a] Liver 'lone tonight ou my yuuriuitee. I U. S. Battleship "1 BIG DGINGJ GH DECLMBlilt 13tli '14ie Southern Commercial Congress will be held at Charleston December 13t.h to 17th, 1915. This is an Association of prominent business men from all over he South and meetiiiKS are held . ach year for the purpose of dis- ( 'ussinft- but h.ess welfare, both of ! die manrfacturer and of the far rer. L st year the Congress Aras held at Oklahoma City ai d J the yeaV before at Mobile, 'liiis , year the meeting is to be held at Charleston and very many men of prominent business, social and , p ib i j life have alrerdy accepted J invitations to be present. At THE LARGES" C I R < To visit this Sec Will Ex] Rock Hill, No vein C^P^BSEEE IM] If | AERIAL ENCLOS Hr ^he original Carl Hag % JOUS? NO! STOP! ( AND SALIVATES Hero's my giiar&ntee?Go to any drug store and get a 50 cent bottle' of Dodson's Liver Tone. Take a spoonful and if it doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous I want you to go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver TVme is destroying the sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or make you sick. I guarantee, that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone will put your sluggish ii\or to work ami clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your svstem and making you feel miserable, f guarantee-that r bottle of LXodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire familv feelin?r fim- fr?i months. (live it to your children. Tt is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like its pleasant taste. South Carolina." ? AT SARLESTOIN i TO 17th," 1915. least four members of the CabiII of A f hn ^ ^ TT-~! .<w v? inv. i icoiucni ui iiic united Suites will be present at the meeting. A squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, Torpedo Boats, Submarines and Torpedo Boat Destroyers, as well as Dreadnaughts, will be in the Charleston harbor for inspection of the pubiic, December 14th and 15th, and visitors at this time will also have the pleasure of seeing a magnificent carnival. Southern Railway is arranging special fare lickets and excursion trains. ???SS5S5SS????????? T AND BEST cus tion of the State hibit at , Monday tber 1. . ' RE and ON E-QU ART UR* m?mm?mmmm-mmmmmmmm?mm?mmmmmm |j=H===]| 3BI = LIFE INSUF , Look at Th( Under present d ule the net second-; are as follows 0 FOR $1,000.00 LIF1 ?AGE ? Lj 21 years 23 44 25 44 _ 28 44 30 44 <. H 35 0 40 44 m xc " 4?; 50 44 ? 60 44 1 ...J P We will be glad to quote yoi shown above. These are Old Line rates in America?The Union Central L Your life is insured from th< [j] delivered to you. These policies may be converl surance written by the Com| without medical examination. No cost to you for medical e: ' M else, except the premium. Bailes & Li <t\ ?=1\ EE3I 3 [=31 ~ i VERY LOW RATE: Panama Pacific SAN FRANCISCO, < Opened February 20th, Closej Panama-Califoi SAN DIEGO, CA1 Opened January 1st, 1915, Clos VIA Southern 1 Premier Carrier oi Tickets on sale daily and limite Good going via one route and rel Stop-overs allowed. From Round Trip Tares Columbia, S. C $82.45_. Charleston, S. C 85.15.. Orangeburg, S. C 82.15.. Sumter, S. C 84.15 Camden, S. C. 84.14 .. Aiken, S. C 79.15. Chester, S. C 82.iM>_ Rock Hill, S. C.. 82.90.. Spartanburg, S. C SI.50. Greenville, S. C 80.00. Green'.v <od, S. C. 79,20. Newb /ry, S, C 81.10.. P portionately low rates from other tr\, rates to Seattle, Wash.; Portland, nr my other western points. IT 111 : ? r - ? * i un uiiwi iimiiuii regarding me varit J \iednle8, etc., gladly furnished. Alf? quest. Let us help you plan your tii Why poy tourist agencies, when our S. H. McLEAN. Division Past. W. H. Tayloe, P. T. M., 11. F. Gary, G. Washington, D,C. Washington BUILD While the buil and the savin If you contemplate the erection barn, or outhouse, or the remode present buildings, DO IT NOW. :r ?i. * I 11 you act atronce, ior you can d( now than you can possibly do it a 30 or 60 days, we verily believe th have passed. Labor will becoiru Building Material market is alreac know say that prices will be back We will supply you at close figure nish you estimates on what your v Take advantage of conditions ar Build I i i Fort Mill h Phone ' -> . f f=r n ir== j tANCE ;se Rates . ividend schedyear premiums + I INSURANCE. t m 5-Yee.r 10-Year 20-Year Term Term Term $ 8.07 $ 8.22 $ 8.63 H 8.22: 8.40 8.89 [f 8 39 8.60 9.17 8.67 8.84 9.70 * 8.82 9.21 10.15 9.60 10.10 11.76 j= 10.87 11.54 14.50 lil 12.46 15.11 19.10 f 15.79 18.66 26.52 31.22 38.64 ? i rate at any age not r= i the best company in jfe of Cincinnati. ; minute your policy is L ]] ted into any form of inaany within five years xamination or anything District Agents lHV, Fort Mill, S. C. L m 3E 1 IE- 1^0 5 ACCOUNT : Exposition, :alifornia. i December 4th, 1915? * *nia Expos'n lifornia. >es December 31st 1915. r Railway, f the South. ^ ;d 90 days for returning, turning via another. Or.e way via PoitLnd, Orrgun $104.24 106.85 104.79 105.55 ? 105.05 102.45 102.32 102.32 101.00 101.00 101.00 102.81 ? points. Also very low roundOn*. ; Vancouver, B. C , and lis routes, points of interest, > inscriptive literature upon !> services are free? Address? A};t., Coil mbia. S. C. ,1\ A., W. E.McGre, A.G.PA ,D.C. Columbia, S. C. NOW ding's good g is great. of a new home* tenement, ling or repairing of your You will be the winner ? a. 1- * ... t me worst cncaper right little later. If you wait le golden opportunity will j higher, the Lumber and ly firmer, and people who to normal in a short while, s and will cheerfully furvork will require, id ^low. r imber Co. 72. ?