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K M. KENNEDY, Jr.. Pre*. H. G. CARRISON, Jr., St. J. J. WORKMAN, Trea* THE LEADING INSURANCE AGENCY OF KERSHAW COUNTY Al.THOUG II THK RECENT INSURANCE LEGISLATION HAS CAUSED THE WITHDRAWAL FROM THE STATE OF THE COMPANIES FORMERLY DOING BUSINESS TIIROyOII OUR AGENCY, WE IMMEDIATELY TOOK STEI'S TO SEE THAT OUR CLIENTS DID NOT SUFFER. AND WERE SUCCESSFUL IN SECUR ING THE AGENCY OF THE MAJORITY OF THE REPUTABLE COMPANIES CONTINUING TO OPERATE WITHIN THE STATE. CONSEQUENTLY WE ARE IN POSITION TO TAKE CARE OF OUR PATRONS. SINCE SHORTLY AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR THIS OLD AGENCY HAS BEEN THE LEADING AGENCY IN THE COUNTY. RENDERING TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS SECTION UNSURPASSED INSURANCE SERVICE. OUR EFFORTS SHALL ALWAYS BE TO CONTINUE. GIVING SUCH SERVICE. CONSULT US ABOUT YOUR INSURANCE, WHETHER FIRE, CASUALTY, LIABILITY, AUTOMOBILE, LIVE STOCK. OR USE AND OCCUPANCY. The Williams Fire Insurance Agency Camden, South Carolina (jiKKMANS MAKK ADVANCE. Hard Fighting Between Tin* Russians And Germans in .Kast. The < ;?>!- I11JI lis to llx1 northwest of \*??ri Inn in tin Infantry attack launched wltli huge effectives have gained ad ditional ground against the French north of Mulancourt and have even j>enot rated the northwest corner <>1* the village. Attempts of (lie Teutons t ? ? ciirn their advance farther, however, w ere Htop|N?d by.J.h.c. French Lire, as also were Jliree counter attacks against the positions In the Avocourt wood. south of Malanconrt. which had previously l>een taken from them by a French Infantry attack. The <icrman otlichil communication says that the advance of the (Jermans north of Malanconrt was over a front of more than a mile. Ihirlng the (icrmnii olTensive on Ma lanconrt the French heavy guns from the Argonne were directing their tire t?n the Malanconrt and Avocourt woods. Aside from the Infantry attacks and counter attacks in this region a heavy bombardment has been in progress Trom A\ocourl iiorllieasl waKI of Belli incoiirt, a distance of live miles. There has also I ?e< * n a continuation of sjmrad ic outbursts of artllery tire to the north and cast of Verdun : while in tile V'^L'c Mollllltill- I 1m* French bat teries ha\e been keeping up their usual homba rdment of (iertnan organizations. In uiiniim operations in the ArpMine, i lie I'reinh hav'e blown up <ierman |?os|> and between 1 lie ( ?Ke and the Aisnc have dispersed (lerntan i-onvoys with their Willis. The (Jernians claim that in a hand grenade encounter thev recaptured from the Rritish a mine crater at .SL Flui. The British dc dare thev have consolidated all the -ground trained i>n March L'T. Although a thaw hn< ?-<?! in on the Russian front and the rivers are flood ed and the lowlands turned into mores ses hard lighting between the Ceriuans and Russians continues from ;'ie Dvinsk region southward. Near Lake Na roc7. the (Jermans lave '.ten driven out of a wooded sector an) their eoun ter-attacks repulsed hy the Russian lire, 'irrrann trenches have been taken by the Russians in the Oglnskl Canal region The Russians have been on the of fensive along the Stripa River region and on the Ressarahian front. In the latter region the Russian artillery Ls very active. The repulse of vicious Italian at tacks on the northern slope of San Mlcheie and near Hj*fl"Mart-lno 6n the Ausl ro-l tiriian lino U chronicled by Yi i>nnji. Austrian airmen have bombed Italian railway lines In Yenetia. The Crook ( Joverninent lias protest ed t<> the Central Powers against the air raid over is a 1 milk 1 last Monday in w hich 'J<> persons were killed. Saloniki sajs tin- Teutons lost four of the seven machines whleh delivered the attack, together with their crews. The Turks turned to the otVensive against the Russians in the coastal isiM-tor of the Caucasus but the Rus sians lionet fhem off with heavy casu -?444e* ? and forced them to retreat. .The Russian War Minister Ceneral PolivauofT, who has held the otllce for the hist nine, months, has resigned, ac cording tn unotlicial reports from Petro grail. AGE OF PREVARICATION. AF tho Iron ago wo often hear ^ Ami tho fablefl ago of Kold, Rut now tho incomo tax brings near An a of weaJth untold. ?Now York Sun. WOMANHOOD. IV12 fear, while old walls break and old bonds Revel", Lost we loso lifo's most precloijs things forever Heart Jewels, valued nil the world above Wo fear tho loss of womanhood? no other; With man's dear temple, home; his Idol, mother: His dream, hop?*. comfort, spur and blessing - love. \\TI'? need not fear. While our life shall * ' endure. Woman with man remalneth, steadfast, su r? . Anil womanhood means mother, homo and love -Charlotte Perkins Oilman. B BREAK, BREAK, I3REAK. HF.AK, break, break. ? >n thy cold, gray stones. O yea I And 1 would thi*t my tor.guo could utter Tho thoughts that arise In me. Oh, well for the fisherman's boy That he shouts with his slater at ?lay! Oh. well for the sailor hid That ho hIhkh In his boat on tho bay! And the stately ship goes on To tho haven under the lilll; But, oh, for the touch of a vanished hand And tho sound of a voice that Is stlU! Break, break, break. At the foot of thy crags, O seat But the tender grace of a day that la daad Will never como back to me. ?Alfred Tennyioa. MR. LIGHTN I N\ ri I, Mr. I.iKhtnin', Alius on do fly Wlsht I had you fer a hoss Tor ride you roun' de sky.: DEY ain't no ride you ow? ma Befo' de hurrah crowd. An' anyhow you'd th'ow me d'*r 'croaa a thundercloud! ?Frank L Stan ton. Plea for Quiet. Anybody who lives In tho vicinity of a noisy railway yard might try writ ing to tho officials of tho road a copy of this letter, sent to officials of a Dal las railroad office, signed "Unfortu nates Who Try to Live and Work and Sleep in the Vicinity:" "Gentlemen? Is It absolutely neces sary, in tho discharge of his duty day and night, that the engineer of your yard engine should make it ding dong and fizz and spit and clang and bang and buzz and hiss and bellow and wail and pant and rant and yowl and? howl and grate and grind and puff and bump and click and clank and chug and moan and hoot and toot and crash and grunt and gasp and groan and whistle and Wheeze and squawk and blow and Jar and perk and rasp and jangle and ring and clatter and yelp and croak and howl and hum and snarl and puff and growl and thump and boom and clash and jolt and Jostle and shake and screech and snort and snarl and scrape and throb and crink and Jangle and quiver and rumble and roar and rattle and yell and smoke and smell, and shriek like ? ?" . . Of course, the officials make reply: "It is." ? Boston Globo. Germs on Pedler's Whistles. Dacteriological investigations mad? on tin horns and whistles taken from pushcart pcdlers in Now York showed tip an average of 99 bacteria colonies a whistle. Among tho germs were the deadly streptococci, known to be the cause of blood poisoning and sore throat. A culture of the germe was made and applied to a group of ten mice. Five of tho mice died within 24 hours after inoculation. I^ater four others died, but the tenth mouse man aged to pull through. What the health department wants to prove is that while the horns and whistles may be sanitary when they come from tho factory, most dealers on tho streets use them to demonstrate their effec tiveness before they pass into the hands of the ultimate consumer. In this way the buyer Is the consumer of a pretty good percentage of germs. Map of the Heavens. A map of the visible universe, upon which the astronomers of the world have been working for 25 years, is al most completo. It will contain overy star which can be found by the most powerful telescope. The number will bo less than 100,000,000. Some of the ' stars which will be represented have ; never been seen by the eye of lhan and probably never will be seen. They are caught and recorded by the photo 1 graphic plato. which 1b more sensitive j to light than the retina of the human ; eye. It will not, of course, appear as | a map in the ordinary aenses, but will ' consist of a volume or several volumes ' of charts. ? ? ' BEAR WANTED HAROLD MAINE MAN DENIES THAT BRUIN WA8 PLAYFUL, Hie Experience Would Seem to Oil prove the Idea That the Monarch of the Wooda Hesitate* to At tack Human Being*. x ?*? ?* Harold Farley ot Bingham, ia will Ing to take oath on a Htack of Biblea" that tho man who bays buara will not attack human being* are nature fakers of tho worm sort Harold wan attacked by a hear one night and had to burn hit* shirt and nearly everything else he had on at tho time to nave himself from the critter's quick-lunch counter. As the hero of this astounding yarn tells it, he was on his way to Preble & Robinson's logging camp No. 4 In the Deadwater region, eight miles above Bingham, where he ia employed aa a chopper, ile had beeu home for a ohange of underwear and had started at dusk for the eight-mile tramp through the woods to camp, carrying a lantern to cheer and light his way. When within half a mllo of camp Farley stumbled into a birch top that had fallen across his path, and as he atumbled in an Immense bear stum bled out a sort of superdreadnaught bear ?which gave ono growl and one swipe, scaring Farley and putting his lantern out. Two more "woof, woof" remarks from the bear and Farley lit out for the nearest tree, up which he went with speed and agility that as tounded both himself and the bear. Now comes the brand-new and rod hot part of tho story ? good for moving pictures. Farley had climbed high, _ but tho bear seemed bound to get him, and there wasn't even time for pray ers. Thoro was time, howover, for Farley's wits, sharpened by peril, to get busy, and he thought of an old hunter's remark that bears can't stand tho smell of burning cloth. So he took ono of the soveral clean handkerchiefs ho had brought from home, touched a match to it and lot it drop on the bear's nose. That helped somo. The bear growled deeper than ever and paused ten seconds In his climb. Thus went Farley's stock of hand kerchiefs, but the bits of flame sorved merely to postpone the dread mo ment .when a bear worth not more than $30. Would be lunching on a woodsman who could earn that much in a month, besides board. Farley decided to sac rifice his shirt ? his outer shirt. That was more effective. It stayed the bear's advance fully one minute. Then a red flannol undershirt. About equal results. Next ? but at this moment tho cumj: crew, who had observed the flickers oi flame in the tree top'and heard Far ley's yells lor help, came along with poles and axes and chased the bear away. "That's a true story ? every gosh darned word of it." says Farley, "and them as don't tako no stock into it can go out there and see what's left o' them shirts ? jest the buttons b'gosh." ? Bangor (Me.) Correspond once New York Herald. T. I'. Ynughun hna been removed to the State Hospital for the Insane. POLITELY MANAGED. **! met a footpad the other night." "Did he demand your money or your life?" l(t> 'wasn't that crude. He said he rogruttod that it would be necessary to put mo to pecuniary iuconvenlence, and poaslbly subjuct me to physical peril, and that the exigencies of the moment wero such that the laws cus tomarily relied on for protection would have to be suspended. Bo I handed him my watch and pockot- I book," Accounted For, j "What is your opinion of Daudett" askod the bookish person. "My friend/' answered the practical i man of affairs, "how can I form au opinion of a person I had never heard about until his name fell so glibly j from your tongue?" "Hut you have his Works in your j library. I saw the books there." "Hum. I dare say that Is true, The fellow I hired to put In a library for me is an expert In his line." Retort Courteous. "What!" exclaimed the spinster who was beginning to carry weight for age, "do you mean to tell me your baby Is ten months old and can't walk yet! Why, 1 could go It alone at the age of six months." "Yes," rejoinod the young mother. Indignantly, "and 1 notice you have been going it alone ever since." PROVERB PUT TO SLEEP. "Do you believe, politics makes Strango bedfellows?" "Not these days. Politics doesn't give a man a chance to sleep at all." * Yea, Verily 1 From the very beginning:, it seems, Woman Insisted on having her way; And something's wrong if she only talks When she has something to say. Two Souls, One Thought. "Do you believe that the thoughts of a husband and wife become iden tical?" asked Rounder. "I do," answered Jaggsby. "For ex ample, my wife is waiting up for me now and she knows just what she is ] going to say to me ? and so do I." Jean Crones, the soup plotter, who poisoned a number of )>eople in Chioajro recently is believed to have stop|>ed in Charleston 011 his way to Florida. JAPANESE TAKE TO THE SKI In the Northwest* m Province* the Strenuous Sport Is Becominy Very Popular. Skiing is only nix years oM In J-. pan, but it has become quite popular, thanks * to the efforts of Lieutenant General Nagaoka, president of the N* tlonal Aero society; Major Oeueral llorluohl and Lieut. Col. Adolph von Lerch of the Austrian army, says tiast and West. In the winter of 1911 when Lieutenant Colonel von Loroli was attached t<ythe Fifty-eighth regj. ment at Takata, Ioblgo, be Jntroduoe* the art to his Japanese oomrades. Ta kata b,elng famous in this country tor its heavy snowfall. Lieutenant (Jen eral Horluchi, then commander of tk? Takata reglmont, with his subaltern*, -were naturally induced to take a keea Interest in sklllng. Those military 0f fleers uot only studied the novel rec reation from the military point ot view, but also endeavored to popular ize It. In consequence there has been created a craze for skiing in- Nllgata prefecture, where some enterprielng postmasters are reported to be pro vidlng ski for their postmen during the snowy season. ' While Lieutenant General Nagaoka remalued lu com mand of the Thirteenth division, th? dull winter life at Takata used to be animated by ski races, sometimes In eluding a Marathon race. Later 01 Lieutenant Commander von Lerch was transferred to the Ashigawa reg iment in Hokkaido, where, too, he waa identified wUh the dissemination of the sport. The sport is most popular in Ichigo and Hokkaido, although It is yearly becoming the sole . outdoor recreation of the students, including girls, in the northwestern province* MAKES AN ARTIFICIAL SILK Recent Invention by a Japanese That Is of Considerable Importance to the World. What appears to be an original method of producing artificial silk It due to the Japanese Inventor, Kishl. The process is based on the use of the commercial substance known u chrysalis oil or essence, and the impor tant point is that this oil shall be re fined by a special method so as to have it in the pure state. The sub- 1 stance thus obtained is mixed with a ] solution of nltro-cellulose, which lit ter comes from mulberry bark or other parts of this tree, and be specially rec ommends the use of mulberry paper. J A solution of cellulose of this origin is obtained by dissolving in a pro, *r j solvent such as alcohol and ether. TVe silk fiber is made from this liquid on - the customary process by forcing It through a very fine hole, and he claimi i that such an artificial silk comes the ; nearest to the original in luster, and \ it has great flexibility. ? Scientific American. ' ? Attorney General I'eeples announced j yesterday that he had api>oluted CIhuiI j N. Napp, of I^aneaster, as assistant at torney general to fill the vacancy caus .1 od by the resignation of Fred II. Doni inlck. The York Hoard of Trade will invito i the State Press Association to hold tho -j 191(5 meeting in York. Try it yourself ? if you want personal and positive infor mation as to t\ow delightful Prince Albert really is, smoked in a jimmy pipe or rolled into the best makin's cigarette you ever set-fire-to ! For, Prince Albert has a wonderful message of pipe-peace and makin's peace for every man. It will revolutionize your smoke ideas and ideals. The patented process fixes that ? and cuts out bite and parch I _ the national joy smoke is so friendly to your tongue and taste that it is mighty easy to get acquainted with. You'll like every pipeful or cigarette better than the last because it is so cool and fragrant and long-burning. 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