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Telephones on Farms ' ' -V ' " ' ' - ? ' - *?* v' ' .-"T ? i . . . . ' '? ? ' ?? ?' ? ' 50c per Month and Up % If there is no telephone on your farm write for our free booklet telling how you may get service at small cost. Adtlrctt FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY PRVOR STREET ATLANTA, OA. A SPECIALTY IN WHICH WE EXCEL, Is the Dying of Slippers and Hose in Colors to harmonize with Gowns or Customer's Samples. Satin Slippers and Silk Hose give best re sults. We have special facilities also for cleaning and refinishing. FOOTER'S DYE WORKS CUMBERLAND, Md. . America's Greatest, Best and Moat Complete Cleaning and Dying Establishment. TO THE PUBLIC I am still in the Drayage business and solicit your work. All orders for Coal and Wood you will kindly give to The Camden Fuel Co., as 1 have sold that part of my business. J. B. ZEMP <o ITY PROPERTY FOR SALE I have listed with me the well-known Eve prop erty, located in the heart of the business section of Camden, on corner of Broad and DeKalb Streets. This is the most desirable location in Camden for n store or hotel site and can be bought at a reason able figure. _ See Me at Once. L. C. SHAW REAL ESTATE AGENT Q. HOPE LECTURES Mr. Jones Talks to Peachtrec Fclk3 on Suffrage. SHOWS UP THE MALE SEX y * v ? frrlval of Diatinguifhed Spoa'<u Somewhat Sudden, but Provident Spare* Him to Expoee the Frailt'e of Hie Fellow Man, By M. QUAD. (Copyright. 1913. by A??oelat?<1 Literal* IVphb. | MY Friend* of P^pehtree On ut'iH Two hourw ago t lie.' were iinivv doubt a hh i? Whether I could make my m pea ranee before you this evening ? not. I wmm comfortably Heated on Hi buffer of a freight car that was rollln along with othera at the rate of elgh eeu mllea mii hour and wan drinking I tlu* pl<turea<|ue acenery and thwikln' Providence that I waa still alive wb**i a gr?*at big husky hrakeman auddenl appeared before me, and without gl v lug me time to call a taxi Or put u any sort of argument he took me I), the neck and dropped me Into th ro.idwlde ditch. I struck Mil pnrta of the ditch at on<? I bounced. I bounded. 1 cavortni I rolled and toaxed and tumbled. but was neither killed outright nor fata! I, * Injured. Providence apared me thai might Htand before you thia evening. Let me begin my remark* on the suf fragette movement by asking you vvh Five waa. I anawer that from the bes data I have been able to pick up sip waa the tlrat woman to appear In tbb world. After wandering around b* herself for awhile ahe came acros Adam. It aeemed to her that a pull nerahlp would be a good thing, but h waa no aooner made than Adam turn.M upon her and yelled: "Now. you get along to your work nnd don't waate any time about It either!" Beginning of Slavery. My friends, that waa the heglnniiu of the alavery of the female aex. I c atead of picking up a club and ruisln, a bump on Adam'a head. MIsk I?v( curled down and became as humble u m rat She was to blame for all thn. women have had to suffer at the hand." of the tyrant man since that date. Adam couldn't have made that bluf trood with a Mra. Pnnkhurst. but In happened to get hold of n little woinai who didn't want a acnip, and ao she knuckled, The next man followed li s example, and Ills wife also knuckled, and by and by the thing became 11 system and was treated as a matter el course. There hah neveV been a time aihfc the (bf.Vs of Adam that woman, given tin" an me opportunities, would not hate been t he equal of man In everything hut mdscle Mere and there and uoa and then there was a woman that ?ouldn't be bluffed and kept dowii The.v kicked their way to the top. nir'l they stayed there and were heard ol' About a year ago I went into a .junk shop to look for a hoe. and the junk man called my attention to an old tl i I 8TKUCK ALL. ??a::TH OP TIIK DITCH AT ONCK." box full of ancient parchments. I pale! him a dollar for box ami contents, ami 1 surely ^<>t a great prize. Women the Poets. I have learned from those pnrch incuts that way back r>.(HM) years u>r< the women wrote all the poetry. am it was good poetry at that While the men were fooling nroum with politics women Invented the slap Jack While the men were trying to ligur< out where^the sun went to when it dis appears! behind Snyder's hill t he wont en invented breakfast hash. WhPe the men were off to w:ir. kill iiii.* ca? h other for very thin glory. tin women were inventing soft soap am' maUim: the first rag carpets. There wasn't ?n KgvpMan or Persian ruler that didn't have a wife fu'iy a smart as tie was lie sought t ? > hob1 tier down by threats, but she broke on here and there and let history record ii It w :t s an I'iryptia n woman 1'i. t firs broa?hed the idea that the word ffil> Hat. 1 1 er old man boxed her e.-trs f<?> if ?trd tr'nd to steal the paten*, bn hist ?r> h;is placed the credit w here i belongs Old Nenoption discovered that whe the too.. n la\ on her back v\ e w i*re n for a drv time of it for a week or two but while he was hunting around t ti* city hall and asking folks to believe te wan a great man his wife went nt ? *n<l Invented the No ?*>? bti over cMrwl tm cent* worth wheth er the moon lay >n l?**r - back or atom noli. but JuhI C titnk what Hint find hot' ton ho!# meant to mankind! We run do without our poets. and statesmen. hut we can't >ipare u single buttonhole!' A Great Qootl* Hunt?r, Xerxes dls< o\ vihI aitd cabuojfited and gave lo lite world se\eliteeli different kind* of beetle* and winded a UM?UU* inent so bad Unit lie paid ti II the coat of li Was lil* *v|fe asleep while he was beetle hunting V Not much. Hhe Juki went ?t if and invented the coffee mill and benefited mankind a hundred time* more than the beetle hilHllietftf. Vou rM n liuuglbe what would happen If we all had lo gel op In tfte morning and |?onud the breakfast," euffe<e In a rag! You Odd nothing In history about Mrs. Diogenes. The old man and Ids tub and IiIh phlloHopli.v are given lull swing. and she Isn't In It at all. Don't forget. however, that there was a Mr v. Dlog. and that she got off a bit of philosophy (hut beat anything of Ida nil hollow. It WUh. "No meat no eat," and referred to the o|<| man's la/lnes*. And while lie was lolling around lu his tub she kock at It and Invents (lie boot* Jink. which Is worth $."><).< ion per year to the farmers of New Hampshire a lone We know that Mierexlit Horgla pois oned a number of people, most of whom ought to have been hung anyway. Why did she do It V llecauw she wmiiI ?'d to rise and be Homebody, and tlx* world was agin her. I have a I ways .felt a large measure of sympathy for her. Cato a Good 8ort. Oato. according to history, was a mighty good fellow, He^went around elbowing folks off the sidewalk and living a life of bluff [Ie had gab and Cheek and he made the most of them. Did he aroompiNh anything to make tiie world remember him ten years aft er lie had turned up his toes? On the contrary, while lie wan wport lng his bluff his wife brought out the Johnnyeake and the clothespin that straddles the clothesline. Those two Inventions almost built up the world They were old when they landed witt the pilgrim fathers, but they took right hold and helped to make America what she Is today. And who discovered pumpkin pie? Was It Pla to V Was it Romulus? Was It one of the Caesars? Was It Nero? Not on your life! While these bluff ers were making history, or thought they were, a little widow named Smith, who didn't pretend to be any great shakes, goes at it and Invents the pumpkin pie and modestly asks some' one to try the -flavor Kings Jumped for it. Queens cried for it. Emperors offered to take the whole stock at I ft cents a pie. At least one empress committed sui cide because there was no pie In the house for her when she came In from hunting the wild roebuck Pumpkin pie jumped the world a hundred years ahead In a month. It hurled tyrants from their thrones It brought pence to warring nations. It raised th?~iiioral status of the world HO per cent And then, when the old crop of male bluffers had passed in their checks and a new crop was beginning to swagger, came? What? The woman again! This time she came with apple sass. and she knocked the legs from under statesmen and heroes until they fell by the hundreds. Her apple sass called their every bluff. And then came the hasty pudding and the gingerbread, and where was man! Tyrant In Last Ditch, I say to the seven women In this au dience. you have driven the tyrant man to his last ditch, lie is squirm ing and kicking and hollering. lie Is putting up a great bluff-. Stand up to him! Get what yon demand. It has taken your sex thousands of years to reach the |x>int you have, and yon -must not weaken at the last. I notice that the old man with one eye Is very uneasy. If he desires to ask any questions he can do so" "I'd like to ask." said the old man as he arose, "who is goln' to do the housework If the women rote?" "You are a farmer. 1 take It?" " ' ii re "Well, do you have to give up your farm hem use yon go to th& polls once a year for an hour?" "Why. I thought they was going to vote every few minutes! All right -all right. Mv wife has been dead "leven years, and women votln* can't skeer me a durn rent's wuth! In sp^akln* of what women have done you might have mentioned that <Meopatry was the one who diskivnrcd catnip tea. hut helm; you didn't, and heln' it's after I) o'clock, mebhe I'd better ? hop It off aud slide alone t<? the next metropolis!" And Q Hope slid. A Hint From Mother. "TTer father told me that he would rather see his daughter In her cotllu than married to me." "And what does her mother sny?" "She says she never nets anything from him without teasing for It." ? Chicago Record Herald. Sure Sign. ?'My wl fo will know I drank too much at Hrc banquet."" ? Why. you are wjilklne straight ?nouuh "Hut look nt the bum umbrella I picked out."? 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Ask any of the hundreds of people who have tak en stock in the Building and Loan Associations if they have ever had reasons to regret it. c NOW is Your Time to Subscribe for as many shares of stock as you wish. One (1,000) shares will be sold. Six hundred and sixty-six (06G) of these have al ready been taken, and the subscription list is less than a week old. Call at The The First National Bank and subscribe for the stock, Mr. John T. Mackey, Secretary and Treasurer, or subscribe to the list Mr. W. It. Hough has when . he calls upon* you. Camden Steam Bakery * '* MANUFACTURER OF '?'/? better bread - : V" ? !' New Every Morning Fresh Every Evening ' tfe '? *V . Ask Your Grocer or Phone Us for Better Brei*a Camden Steam Bakery A. J. BEATTIE, Proprietor ; TELEPHONE 49 CAMDEN, S. C. Start Your Early Garden Now F resh Seed in stock always ? every month in the year. ? P eas will arrive this week and Seed Potatoes about F ebruary 1 st. 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