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Y<u Will Miss lit jf y? don't give is chance to -juo you prices on iigh-Grade HEVY groceries, corn, OAS, HULLS, FLOUR AND SEP OATS. If you keep a horse get a sack of Arab. If you want more milk and butter try Larro Cow Feed 5RINGS & SHANNON Camden, S. ?7 TO THE. * tmas Trade: CALL AT CAMDEN CANDY KITCHEN AND BUY YOUR Candies, Nuts, Raisins, , Lettuce, Tomatoes and ornia Cranberries. Received Lowney's Xmas Boxes Candy IfeMDEN CANDY KITCHEN We Pay Highest Cash Prices for p* n* E&ft'le your profits away - ship direct to us by express and get your mgheyt day. We pay highest prices for green and dry hides of all kinds B^ewi allow and old Metals, old Rubber and Furs. Try us with a ship-, rnent r Send for Price List. ? CAROLINA HIDE & JUNK CO. CHARLESTON, S. C. - Your Bath Room Complete ? P elain tub does not make a bath room. It thmall devices that gives each member of nily an allotted place for his or her pos *is. We have received and are now show assortment of B \N-O-LA BATH ROOM FIXTURES 'thing that is extraordinary in bath room ?hent. In this line we show many articles to make a bath room complete. In this ?ient you can find anything you need for th room, and all LASTING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS one -Pearce HARDWARE CO. BOWSER'S LUNG. Tries Bicycle Riding as Cure For Consumption. . ?* ? .I. ? * HIS LEGS ARE TOO SHORTJ ? ? ? ? ! t ??' ' ' A 4 Catastrophe Follows Advice of Ur ? , Kane, a "Specialist," Who Arouses , Mri, B.'s Sarcasm ? Her Hufband Sleeps, After Threatening Divorce. Uy M. QUAD. [Copyright, 1913. by Associated I?lterury I'K'M I ? A I? 3 o'clock 1 ho otlu>r afternoon Mrs. Uowkim' happened to look I out of a front, window uud w?? greatly surprised to h?o Idm talking with a man, Ah they talked Mr. Bowser carried his hand to his h'ft breast Ah tln?y talked hoiiio more (ho man lightly thumped Mr. Bowser on the left breast. Then Mr. Bowser nodded. Then the man nodded. Then Mr. Bowser entered the house. "Well, what Is It this time?" asked Mrs. Bowser, as she met him In the bail. "Nothing much." he replied, though ho bud a serious look on ills face. "But you are home three hours ahead of time." "Yes." "And you are looking very solemn." "Yes." "And 1 want to know what it's all about. Who was it out at t lie gate with you?" "That's Dr. Kane, who lives four Mocks below. You must have heard of him/' "I never did. lie can't bo much of n doctor." "He 1h known as the greatest special ist In consumption in the state. Ho WHEN Hi: liECOVEKED CONSOIOCHNJBSS HE WAH IN THE DUST. bus cured more putfents than any live doctors together." "Croat man! Was lie over at the of ? -freer* ?' - "lie happenud to drop in." A Series of Happenings. "Oh; he happened, did he? And when It happened that he was in ho hap pened to discover that yon had con sumption. didn't he?" "He came in 011 other business, but he had scarcely glanced at mo before he asked if I knew that my left lung was affected." "And you told him, of course, that you knew it was?" "I had to tell "what I have known for months." "Known for months, yet never men tioned It to me!" "Mrs. Bowser, there are husbands who do not care to frighten and worry their wives, and I am one of them." "Fudge! There's never a day goes past without some complaint from you! 80 it's incipient consumption In the left lung this time, is it?" "It certainly is." "I don't believe a word of it! Your left, lung in Just tin sound as your right one. and both together are as sound as the lungs of n whale. It wasn't a week ,ugo that you were bragging of how you eon Id expand your chest." 3 1 1*. Bowser sighed like air being pumped into a barrel and made no re- ( Pl.v. ' j "Of course this Dr. Ivine made an ex- ' amlnation?" queried Mrs. Bowser. "Ills name is Kane." "Well?"* "Of course ho examined me." "And charged $5 or $10 for it!" Mr. Bowser gave 110 figures. "And did he find the lung half gone?" 1 "About a quarter gone." "And of course he recommended something? Does ho think you should go to the north pole for a couple of years and sleep outdoors under. a paper flour sack?" "Ho hair-n- remedy- -to stop the decay of my lung where it is. I have not got to leave home." "Just roost on the back fence at night eh?" "Mrs. Bowser, I want nothing more from you in that vein!" he said with great dignity. "If it hadn't been for you I should not now be afflicted. " "But what can I do?" Bicycle Riding Prohibited. "For years I have wanted to ride the bike, but you have prevented me by your ridicule. Biding the wheel would have given me the fresh air my lungs craved." "I said you were too fat and your leg;* too short, and I say It now." I "And I hurl your insult back to your teeth and Inform you that withlu throe bourn I shall in? tid f i rx a bike," "Ob, I hat's bow tho doctor Ih going to cure you. Is It?" "That1* bow." And perhaps bo baN blkoa t < ? rout T" "Ho has." 4 I Very wi ll I iiavd nothing lo hm> Your left lung is ufr?M I ??d n)id iiilJsl !>?? ' III im| " A /lor dinner Mr. Bowiter llxtsl hliu *rlf u|> for riding iih well iu possible I M,1<' M'alkt?d dowb (osoino vacant lots, ! I ?r. Kuiio a waited bliu and a?U f od h in i bow wis .mirage was. j 1 II 4oni|uor (bo hike In tlvo iiiln J utes." was (bo biravo reply. "Hul you run hardly export to ride I III olio evening." | "Why not V Say, doc, I'll be circling j aiotiilt) (his l?htc|{ inside of It'll mill | u tow. Whon I know (hut it's life or j death w 1th |Uo I in Itoiind not (o lose a second I spose i wain to pool right down to shlr( and (rouserg? All rjght. I'otch "er up b**r?- Makes mo hungry Juki having (ho blko about tbo place. Now, i lion, tbo first ( h 1 1 1 a* Is to mount. Isn't It?" ^ oh ^ ou take hold of ibo handles. ho. iiinl you iiui ko h spring into" the Middle. so. and away you go. Think you on n do It ?" Of course 1 oan. The old gal Ih op |m?ho?I to my learning how to rldo bur Bowser Bey in# Lesson, Mr. Bow*er seized (bo hand I on and sprang for the saddle. Whon ho re covered consciousness In? was on tho broad of his back In the dust and the doctor was fanning hlui with an old washboard which ho had found iu the gram. "Has anything happenod?" asked Mr. Bowser iM ho looked around. "h "Nothing in particular. You wore j tired and lay down to rest." "les? I know ? I see.-. I suppose you uwed to do that way. Seen anything of M'h. Bowser?" t "No." Then trot up (he health restorer again. 1 11 put a little more spring Into in y logs this time. lion't they over hitch (he thing to a post or use handspikes to hraoo It up?" Tho doctor hold the blko this time and liolpod Mr. Bowser to mount. He also suggested that ho walk alongside the machine until tho novice had got Ida nerve, hut Air. Ilowser replied; ^ Whon we got around to that corner iou give me a shove down the slope and lot go. I see how she works, and I'll surprise you. After I have made about three circuits you can call Mrs. Bowser up and 1 II show her a scorch. They call It 'scorching' when you bout greased lightning, don't they?" \ es. 1 believe they do Now. then; I'm going to lot ?:o." ?"Bet 'or go? rah- ? whoop!" The F nnl Awakening. When Mr. Bowser woke up (his time lie \\ us in his hod, while Mrs. Bowser sal holding his hand and trying to look very sympathetic. ' "This ? (Wis isn't heaven, is It?" he whispered as ho looked around. "<>ir,- no. dear;" replied Mrs. Bowser as she smoothed hack his hair. "Von are still on earth. How do you feel?" "Who hit me with a house?" "No one. You were learning to ride a hike to strengthen your lung, you -know ? ??? "And what? what"? . \ou got what I believe they call a double wabble, followed by a header. Dr. Kaiie got a neighbor to help bring you down here. Our doctor has been here and gone. lie said your neck wasn't broken, but It would probably bo four weeks before you got outdoors again. I)o you feel that your appetite has Improved?" Mr. Bowser closed his eyes and groaned. "I think I can sec a great change in you already," she said. He groaned some more. "The doctor said If you would only stick to It you would surely live to be n hundred years old." Divorce Threatens Again, Mr. Bowser opened his eyes and sat up and. after glaring around him for half *a minute, he shouted: "Woman, I understand. It is another attempt to assassinate me! Let the lawyers come the tlrst thing in the morning and draw up the necessary pa pers, and by evening all can bo set tled." "There, there, dear, don't talk too much!" she said as she forced him back on the pillow. "I-will bold your hand and hum to you, and do try to go to sleep. Close your eyes, now. and forget all about the double wabble, %vhich has done so much to strengthen your lung. S-s-s-h! S-s-s-h! S-s-s-h!" And as Mr. Bowkor slept his toes cracked and a big tear worked out of his loft eye and down his cheek. He was dreaming that a mob of bicycles was crying for his life! The Rest Cure. IJttle Paul, having db iheyed his mother, wax sent to bed In the mid dle of the day to think over his faults and keep out of further mischief. An hour or so after he was given permis sion to pret up and dress, and soon ho appeared rosy cheeked and happy. "Well, mamma, I feel lots better now I've had such a idee long rest!"? Wo man's Home Companion. Queer, "What Is the bahy crying about?" drop]??d his glngorsnap In his glaAs of water." "Well, that's the first time 1 ever knew any one to cry be enu.Ko he had a soft suap."? Houston I'ost. He Always Laughs Last. "He laughs l?est who taughr last." "Then what a hearty laujih the ICng Hshman who Is listening to the anec d ?te must get."- Kanvin City .journal. w 1 Th? rinding of Omir. *} **? .th? J"l? Mr Quh rftcbii father who published ?14# < bunr." IUl(j# |||M||IIU tljat ,)i(. tii iik didn't sell, ho relegated it Co (bo t\? HUh^UOUt WM-s duo to a fortunate accident. Two Moild* Ot l(o*NClti <1111)11 across Hi,, poem and thought I, worn, reading I?ohh..||| road It and recommended It ? "wliiburiw. What wed Sw|n. burno litis himself told- "Having ,ead It- he writes, " 1 1 < issi'i t | nn,) | Invested upward of sixpence apl.y-o |,OMH, ''WIH'Hco; I would not wish to ox aggeiuto our extravagance |? onpjos ?t tliat not exorbitant price. t\0xt ?v V* wo might K?, HO|m, more for prt?siM.ih amo.m our frio?ds ,M,t tho ?>?? at tli^ stall asked | wo' piM.ro! Kosset t | expostulated with him in term* of wut'it humorously indignant remonstrance a? none Inii ho could over luivo commanded, Wo took a few and let! hint, in a week or two If l am not inuch mistaken, tho remaining copies wore Hold at a guinea. I have s io-o ? ? soon copies offered for Mill 1,1010 prices, I kept my penny worth (the tidiest of u,o lot, and have It still. - London ( 'hhuilcle. Twelfth Century Fgotball. in the twelfth century football In England wax a game for the streets. I lie chronicler of that period toltn how ufter dinner the Hty youths "address- ! ?d thomselvop to foot bill I," and how the scholars of each school and tho 1 apprentices of particular trade* would each have their peculiar hall. There I were spool, .torn, too. in those days enthusiastic spectators. Fathers would I oomo to watch their sons and "become as yout.hful as the youngest, their nat ural heat seeming to bo revived at tho sight of so much ability." In Inter years <*nc recalls a famous biUl guino pluy6d in Hyde park, in then, "there was a hurling of a great ball by fifty Cornish gentlemen on one side and fifty on the other. One party played in red caps, the other in white." And here the historical value of the contest -Cromwell was a spec tutor and applauded the "groat agilltv of body" displayed. Aldine Editions. Tim Introduction of the sloping Ho man letters which are known to every body an Halle* was made bv Vhlus Mnnutlus'of Venice In the latter prrt of the fifteenth century, fjo was the most famous printer of italv and per hups of the world. The l books ho printed, known as Aldine editions, are much sought after b.v collectors Ills fbst volume in the ,,cw type was a Vergil published in I .">(11 at the price of about 'J shillings of our money. Al dus. in fHct, was the pioneer of choat) literature. \ Tho Aldine mark Is a dolphin twined about un anchor with the name Aldys. If any reader, says Mr. .1. A IIIII in the Imprint, finds' a cartload of old books with this mark in his attic or lumber room, lie Is duly ad vised not to uso'them for lighting tho '"re. Tl.yy would probably buy him a good annuity for the solace of his de clining years. How Koreans Advertise. Although the Korean has'stubliornly ..i%(.U^d.Xl.UMkUiUKOHterii Ideas, he has always recognized the value df adver tlsoment. When a Korean opfM.s a now shop or has any particular wares ,s anxious to dispose of or when a nobleman desires to convey a certain Piece of Intelligence to. the people ho seek* tho services of the sandwich men. In the Hermit Kingdom, how ever. these men do not carry boards upon which the desired Information Is made known to all and sundry, but re H??rt to the /ne dium ?,r picturesque nags, upon which the anuoun -enuMit is Inscribed. Anything from one to a dozen tlags may be requisitioned, and these are carried through the streets by boys and mot 1, forming a pictur esque moving advertisement. ? Wide World Magazine. Not His Fault. One of the women belonging to tho Mothers' club at the settlement house came to excuse herself from tho meet ing with her face swollen and highly discolored. She was hiding it with a shawl, and she explained earnestly: "lie wouldn't have done It for any tbing, not for a hundred dollars. But he wasn't himself, and I said some thing that crossed him. Then he done It, but he's sorry. I black awful easy, a n y w n y . " ? E v e r y h od y ' s . Sunstroke. Sunstroke Is caused by invisible vio let rays from the sun and not by heat. Tho Ictnperuture to which stokers 011 Atlantic liners are exposed Is far high er than tlu> heat from tin* sun in the most tropical countries, yet the men are not affected in the same manner. Woman's Two Ages Joax ?Shakespeare told us all alxmt Mie ho veil ages of man. but he didn't Hay anything about tho two ages of woman. IJoax? And what arc tho two ages of woman? Joax? Tho age she nays she is and the age she really Is.? Philadelphia Record". Husband and Wife. Husband moans house bound; wife, weaving one; sun Is the cleaner; daugh ter is the milker; spinster Is tho tin married sister of husband or wife, who is the spinner. Scotland'* Grouse Moors. There are some 3.000 grouse moors in Scotland nlone that are regularly let by tbHr owners at an annual rental of about ?1.000.000. Always to think th<? worst. I havo ever r.*>und to be the mark of a mean spirit and a bns?- soul.?Rollngbroke. From the State of Utah Hy F. A MITCHEL M. I>e ( ? ou i' u ii, v, u citizen of Pari*, waa kittioK iu kil? club reudlntf a u(<wk |ui | )ci' when u youiiK iiuui approached htm and Mti Ul : "Monsieur, pardon uie for lutorrupt> inn your muling, l?ut l have a request lo ihdHo of you. I aiu a citizen of the United Stints Utah la win- it* I hull from ami I have made u fortune In cuttle, mint's, mt'lchiiudiHinn la abort h\ every mentis except selling Ihpior oyer the lair I cuuie hero to avo Ku ^ope At Ili'Hl everything *eoined ? >l?t fllHhloiKMl, llllt III tlllM* I UUl l)Hi'(| to your ways, und now I 1 1 he them Ural late, even to the wuy you commit matrimony De (ioui'uny looked up at the apeiiker as he would at u curloua Kind of mil mill In a menagerie. The American proceeded: "When we on the other side of the hltf Halt lake make up our uiluds to do a I lil iik In any other wuv than our own we never try to mix the two methoda I have a proposition to make, and I'ai tfolnu to make It on the French pluu The other night at the American eia baaxy I met one of your daughter* I have concluded to mukc you a prop, ohltion for her hand." Whatever were lie GouruayV fool Iiikm at thla blunt announcement he did not kIvo way to them. He ate red at the apeakor In a aort of wonder for awhile, theu said with French suavity "And you consider. monMeur, that you have adopted our method of opeu Inn a matrimonial negotiation?" . "1 will admit that there la an Atu?r lean flavor to It? I mean a Rocky mountain aroma." "Decidedly." wild (the Kreuchuittn in won modulated tones, while ho kept >h <\\eH II x cd on his Interviewer, evi dently studying him. .IihK Henderson's face bespoke that 5 uucu|tMF?!d frankness Indigene** to a new country There was no t ? diplomatic feature, not a trace of meaa ohh. in t. DeGou.ruiiy had flveduugh fora and not enough property to Klve in one of them u dowry This brusque proposal was no more to his taste than would hove been jtlio touch the pt Iclcly cactus among. which the Zb\T!: 1,1,11 ,,VOtl Nevertheless be 1 not propose o turn It down until In It <,lscov^ ^hat there was Ho accepted Mr. Henderson's card and gave him permission to submit u , v roforences-~ America lis in Paris who knew nil about him. Hut the rren.luuMu's exterior did ,'",,,,<'sP<"'d wjlh his Interior Kv 'wL;,,M'mT iK sl,l?lM>sed to be * ulli 'Millions; ? ik| ne (Journa.v. us ??* been said, hud ilv,. lmii(I(.l)H t(l ^v"lh' looking with one eve ' , ,s, IUMVsl,,'per he. was watching the Ameilcans retreating figure with the other and later, when he saw Join o the club, he arose from his seat * tu7fe.l?J r?f,M "88U,IUHl ,lldlff?w??co ???* ? h 1 , ?" U Ntf" hunt to ?nd out ,,, y;ui ? about the suitor; Iv IntVr T" l]i- Were ?mii.eut ^rm ?o, ! ,'y'~ er80,, hntl mud? ii tortune. uud his character was ^client. Nothing detriment tut^S P. After ii lot of rod tape, as Hell ed'::; TJ"2 irmttteo t. a look , ?Urmy'" "om? "''<1 "ave n look nt the young Judy ho had au " r?T M"',V E"t0lk' Preflence ef ? I lathei and mother and three of her sisters, ,/nck declared when question e<l ?l.o?t the visit that there was Z rirt 22 e."""C? ,w as I? the git had been set up on the divide and he given. a Job of driving a mule team In the canyon. After II long delay, followed by a nay ,ietweo1* ?e fcour ? ^"ck Henderson and two notnrlos bride [o \JaC#k| KetUod ^000 on hla' i ? ? tho C0?Pio were marrie* at 10 o clock In the morning by a malre t In u church and at 12 sat dow? to a wedding breakfast. brld?kJ?8 .Ve,ry htPPy bcsldo U* bride, whom ho had nfever met sociablv but once when a lackey entered the room and bonded her father a noto ' ^.onrnay paled, aud tho features or hla face otherwise Indicated , T h' .ad received a blow. Aril* ? the table, he left the room, and soon after the mother took tho brldo <jw ay also saw that something bad iron* wrong, but kept his seat till the guests h?, '? tak" 1epartnre.?when tt;? ;,a?rr ""<1 ,Veut out to <?arn ,,a<1 become of his bride a "eft'the Mn' U"" ?''? "ad the house with her mother Tn**b and'walfh r 8kC" f0r fatber-ln-lnw him In tbe library. ' Thlther"^'^ "he EM. "Wbafs ,mv? inquired Jaet. - How did you doro lmposo upon mo Vronll d?"0!" cr,<Ml the angry hrenebnian "But I ?m rlKbUy ,erv ?1. to trust anything tlmt comes from barbarous America. Go awav this house and never come here agalu. As for my daughter, she will spend o rest of her iffe hi a convent; 6o!" Jack had once been fired on by hX ans and stood in the way of a iferd of stampeded cattle at tbo ^ ^ But bo liked it better than this. ease explain, monsieur," he said j I have only since your wedding beea nformed that tho poople of t)tah have .as many wives as they like. My daughter sljail not enter your harem-f It was ndt till evening that Jack* nving explained that he wa a not a Mormon, obtained his bride.