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FOR Deep FAT FRYING ?inowdrift make* good thing* ?n?c wore digestible. Vou can ike Snowdrift ho hot, without ridng Mirtt food miata quickly ,d ho grease g?t* luslde. ? Slit?\V<ll*lft 1? the perfect sliorj Li for every cooking purpose ffor frying, for shortening, for taking bread, cake, biscuit and pxtry. I Snowdrift makes good things Li eat. Wo are specialists In KkmI things to eat. TKURI'HONK No, 2: LANG'S I High Grade Grocery I "When* Quality Count*," City Meat Market w I One door north of Smith's Garage* B; j i - ? ? 1= ? J Choice Fresh MEATS Choice Cuts 10c, 12i/2 and 15c per pound. Cash Only. Nothing will be charged. Your orders so licited. Telephone 31. City Meat Market MONEY TO LOAN. On Improved farma. Easy terms Apply to ft ft Clarke. Camden. S C. $0. * f Tombstones & Monuments When in need of Tomb stones and Monuments see me before you place your or der. Representing the Dixie Marble Co., of Canton, Ga. Samples of marble shown. J. D. SINCLAIR, P. O. Box 35. Camden, S. C. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE ? EASY TERMS . E. G. vonTreackow. ? _ ? Dr. E. H. KERRISON Dentist Office in The Mann Ittiitding Phone 185 I ' :"T v ~v ?-? -?* COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO ? MILL WORK ~ SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER " i' PLAIN & HUGER STS. Phone 71 COLUMBIA, S. C. Pr- t. M. Ahniiic ' Dr. ?. t. SlttMM Alexander & Stevenson BEKTtSTS OWw liatlitt C?r?w mmi M>> <*>? CIVIC UCAGU* MATTKKS. IM) of WmucnWan V\rrt U llestlr TIhium-Ui * 111 Keeefttlou to (iuHMjv The UkilltttfH from the Julie inciting of tin* 1-lvlc league were omlltcd .In p IukI weeks t'hronlole due to the ex citement Mini TUvIl Of seeing 1 1*<* Im?\s leave for the front. Tin* ladles of tin* league were the (ll'st to ;bestlr themselves to, give tin* boys m gotol time ami send ??fl' ami guve lliAni n dance ami reception at (lie armory Tuesday night whleh was followed neM evening by Urn mothers sisters who gave an It-** cream festival. Anion# tin* subjects hmugh( up In meet lug llrst was. why t lit* dog law hud been allowed to ?nnv ho slack ami why ko many dogs running on the ftroeta ami could (his' ordinance not lie enforced rigidly. k Mrs. I >av Id son re|>ortcd r?*?clvlhg $7.50 collections for hedges sprayed for the .colored ~ |?ooplc from Mr. Wil Han. A motion was made to ask for Miss Collide Nelson's assistance In (ho league un assistant secretary, and to under take' wha( (y|)owrl((en data was re . quired of the league. Mrs. Leslie Zenip then gave in her report as to conditions of dKches thru out town and stated Mayor Yates lias promised to comply with request- of league to have oil i?oured lit ditches after the tlrst rains set In. j Mrs. Team gaVe In her re|?ort on receiving comnnmicatlons concerning the date to be ap|Kdnted for entertnlu . uient to be given for league sometime In October or November. The very small attendance lit the last few meetings of (he league brought the question l>eforc those present as whether if it he advisable (41 disband the meetings for July ami August and It was moved kinl carried that they should disband until September, when ,lt Is hojK'd they wilt nil return with renewed energy (o take up (heir work again. The Quorry column will still l>e kept up ami It Is lioiHHl will lu tlinc keep (hlugs wblch need a(temling to Itefore (he public eye. Among the querrles this week are: Why arc the streets in Camden's tourist section allowed (o gpow up In weeds and (he ditches never oj>ened up. or anythlug attended to until the tourists return in the fall? A Fine Garden. It sounds queer to sjK'ttk of a fine vegetable garden in Camden as the almost unprecedented dry sj>ell 111 the early spring made Hardens almost a a total failure here. But there Is at least one tine garden In Camden, rtnd that one Is Mr. W. 10. Johnson's in Kirk wood. A rei>orter for The Chroni cle saw Mr. Johnson's garden one af ternoon this weeX and the sight was truly refreshing/ Irish potatoes, can talouiH's, corn, tomatoes, egg plants, beans, etc.. are -growing as luxuriantly ax. though there had not Ween a single day's drouth, and naturally makes one wonder how it all came about. The secret of the matter js Mr. Johnson used water In abundance during the three months we were without rain. The cost of the water, of course, was an item but nothing compared to the luxury of having nice, fresh, home raised vegetables. Mr. Johnson has been having rlixi tomatoes ever since the 5th of June. If you would like to s?*e a tine garden you should make a special effort to see Mr. Johnson's. State Campaign Dates. Laurens. Friday. June MO. Newberry. Saturday. July 1. Columbia. Tuesda; . July -1. Lexington. Wednesday. July 5. Saluda. Thursday, July <1. - Edgefield. Friday. July 7. Aiken, Saturday, July S. I tarn well, Tuesday. July IK. Hampton. Wednesday. July 1ft. Beaufort. Thursday, July 20. Itidgeland, Friday, July 21. Walter boro. Saturday, July 22. Charleston, Tuesday, July 25. St. George, Wednesday, July 2(1. Bamberg. Thursday. July 27. Orangeburg. Friday, July 28. St. Matthews, Saturday. July 2ft. Sumter, Tuesday, August 1. Manning. Wednesday, August 2. Moncks Corner. Thursday. August 3. 4 Georgetown. Friday. August 4. Kingstree. Saturday. 'August xj. Florence, Tuesday. August S. Marion. Wednesday, August ft. Conway, Thursday, August 10. Dillon, Friday. August 11. Darlington. Saturday, August 12. Blshopville. Tuesday. August 13 Bennettsville, Wednesday, August 10. ? Chesterfield, Thursday. August 17. , Camden, Friday, August 18. I Lancaster, Saturday. August 1ft. Union, Tuesday. August 22 ? (iaffney. Wednesday', August 2.'?. York, Thursday, August 24. Chester,. Friday, August 2."i. Wlnnsnoro, Snioiuay, August 2R WINTHROP COLLEGE Scholarship and Entrance Examina tions Friday Juty^Tpr. ? ? The cxmntnalfon fo? t h a-'~ rd of vacant scholarships In "Wlnthrop Col lege and for the admission of new stu dents will l?e held at the County Court .House on Friday. July 7, art 0 a. m. Applicants must ttOl Up leas than six teen yfcars of ag*^ When Scholar ship?. are vacant after July 7 they will he awarded to those making the hlgh vst average at this examination, pro vided they meet the conditions govern ing the award. Applicants tor Schol acslUps should write to President John son before the examination- for Sctioi arsl.ip examination blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and- free tuition. The next session wlfl open' on September 20, 1916. For further Infor mation and catalogue, address Presi dent D.. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. . LODGE DIRECTORY. Anttoob Lodge No. 2fl3. A. F. M., meets on Thursday night, on or before 6ti?fc foil moon. L. H. WMt? W. M. ; W. R. Davis, S. W.; D. C. Trapp, J. W. ; L. A. Shiver, secretary. ~ Jttnior O. tT. A. Richard Kirk WSFttKSS&R 8r moon. J. E. Campbell. O. ; c. W. Shi w, Recording Secretary. " . - " ? " -- - r \ ~ ONCE HOMK Or PfKATKK. . - ? ? I Off Com* <?r Oiine)- Inland* KKHihht ' I^ohI I. Iff With Hampshire. Washington, !?. C.. June 17. Thcj Orkney Islands, the naval Iuim- of j Ureal Britain's grand fleet o|?era<lug in i !?*? North Swi. and off whose shore* I Karl Kitchener and his, staff are re- j lH?r(?M| to have met death. arc dewrllnNl ! In the following war geography hulle tin of tin* National <?e<?graphlc St?cl- j ety, issued from Its Washington head- j quarters. "No other territory lu t lie British empire has a more traglt* slynltleniicc to Hngllshinen Onlay than tin* Orkney Islands, oft whose shores the most ills tlngulshed victim of the World war, Karl KlUhener. lost his life, when (lie (?(iilw'r JlHiUMhlrt* whs sunk hy a tor pedo or a mine. ' These Islands, ninety in nuiuU'r. of which only thirty are Inhabited, are separated from tlie nnilnhiml of Scot land by the Pcntlaud Firth. from six ami a half to eight miles whle. They were selected as Kngla lid's North Sim naval base not only on nceouftt of their proximity to the Held of opera t ions, hnt on aci*ouut of their seml Isolatlon and the advantages of the sii|>erh harbor of Stroinness, In the largest island of the group, romona. which has an area ">f two hundred square miles. "The aggregate area of the Orkney archi|>elago Is a little more than tlve times as large as the District of t\? luuihia, and the population Is In the uelgliborluxHl of 30.000, more than half the people living on Pomona, Kirk wall, the capital litis a population of 4,000. "Willie the original inhabitant* of the islands were Plcts, whose round towers and cluunbered mounds are aulorig the interesting ruins of this region, the Nurse pirates smiriMl a foothold here during the early cen t urles of the Christian era, and car ried on their depredations against all navigators of the North Sea. In the last quarter of the ninth century Har old Haarfagr ('Fair Hair4) put an end to the rule of the pirates, and added both the Orkneys and the Shet land Islands to Norway's domain. In 14(18 the Orkneys came under the sway of the Scottish crowli, Christian I of !>emnnrk, giving theni as security for his daughter's dowry when she became j the bride of James III. As the dowry was never paid the islands have re mained a part of Scotland's domain ever since. ' * '.'The Orkneys, which are the Or- i cades of classic literature, furnished the settLiig for many of the episodes | In Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Pi rate," the Cleveland of that romance! being John Cow. the notorious free* I -hooter born ill Stroinness and captur ed off the islands in 172T>. Another J literary association of the Orkneys and } one of especial .Interest to Americans; centers in Shaplnshay. "the "birthplace j of William Irving, father of Washing ton Irving. The islands were the as- j sembling place In 1050 for the 'final ; disastrous expedition of Montrose, ac- ! claimed by many authorities the great- j est Kngllsh military leader of his day. Cromwell alone excepted. * ''Although in the same latitude us northern Labrador, the Orkney group enjoys a comparatively mild climate* owing to the warm waters of the <Julf Stream. There is little show in win ter and the summers are most pleas ant. beginning the middle of June. Parley, oats, potatoes and turnips are the principal crops. The raising of cattle and sheep and horses of a larger breed than the famous Shet land |M?niex. is a profitable occupa tion. Herring fisheries aft'onl^a--tive IHhkmI for many of -tlie--4tTTTal>itaiits. while a small percentage of the peo ple devote their energies to hunting wild birds ami gathering their eggs. The plcturesquenes* of the rocky coasts and the beauty - of the long twilight evenings attract a considerable num ber of tourists to the islamls during the summer.- On the longest day 'of the year the sun rises at three a. in. and sets' after nine f|i the evening, while on the shortest day If i* visible for scarcely six hours." MAKING A MEXICAN BANDIT. Low Wages Are Reason So Many Take l to Robbery. ~ | The average iilfln of such liilmf as any man among the 14.0<XMMH) nf Mcx i<-<? ean furnish is less than ."<> rents. American currency a day. writes II. II. Dunn, in Cartoons Magazine. Hut any man can steal a horse am) a -machete ami join one of the more than ,1tt0 bandit gangs oiieratliu: through Mexico; Out of his share of the loot of the first village or haciendu In* will get a saddle, all the liquor he ean drink, and tin* unfortunate daughter or wife of some countryman ? for women are the chea|?eHt commodity in Mexico* I'osslhly. tie wiii Kei ? rl"!.- an<f !?n? munition. If not at the first raid, al least at the second, and la* can keep oiif of the fighting until he has arm hlniKelf. yet sharp in the proceed^ 6t his fellow-handfts' looflngr- How much cheaper it Is to get horses, arms, food, drink and clothing merely by shoot lug down j their rightful owners than it is to work for -them, at 50 cents a day! " J The new bandit notes that few of his cooipanlcms~ifi?<e killed in prof?er fion to the loot they get and the /easy life they Uve; that many small gar r I sons of government troops. under* paid and poorly fed, join the high waymen rather than give them battle, and lie begins to sing the Spanish equivalent to' "This !? the life." ? y -'4. ?. . . . ? ? 8hr Roger Casement (iultty. j fxmdon, Jane 20. ? 81 r floger Oa*e ment was. found guilty today of high treason and sentenced to death. The end lug of the historic trial cute short ly before 4 o'clock Ibis afternoon when the jury, which had been out less than an hour, brought In Its verdict against the Irish knight. After Sir Roger had been sentenced, DanM J. ffiafley, a- private soldier, who hid been held as his accomplice, waa placed la the dock. The rttteff justice [dirS&m imrjarr -to retun*-a,~?araiet; f not guilty and Bailey was discharg ed % VirU WMk Ji ww. A. K. Kelly, LugoN A. M. < III I t ma-. C'MUtdcO A. It. !J?ivl?, C*m?l<>n route 4. \V. I<, Itolduson, Cum. Ion 41. 4 V .1 .l*4Wl?Otl . ~ W, N. Ciiy, Korslurw nv, t. riH>fr. Camden J. I.. lllarkwHI. ( "million roilU' - .1 M. 4 if 1 1 > ?. liUfctitt W, K Nettles, iNunden H. A. Bruce, Camden It. C. JiMioi, l.llierty Mill l? A. iNtUl. Ca*(*att 10. II. Willis. I.ongtowii II '/. III'miKlltOII. lWlliUMi* .1, \V, IV I?hvIs, Camden (5 NV. Howell. Kershaw <>. \i. Fort, Camden .1 A. It a tarn, l.n?n?U ,1 C. NVhltaker, l.ugoff havlil l?rawde.v, Camden 'I'. S. Bell. Kershaw I.. It. outturn. Wi*l vlllo U I.. Parker. Cassatt NV. II. ItatclttTo. Hethuue NV. I>. Tranthaui. Cuiudcu 11. F. < irejjory, Kershaw C, It. Smith. Camden route I j. w. w?hmI. niane.% Henry Stroud. Korxltaw M. If. lio,vtt\nu. Camden \Y. A. Hash, l.uuotf F. .11. A r rants, Camden J. C. Cassady, llet hum* .1 M. (\ Jackson, l.upuY II. l>. Nlles, t^midcu Second WtH>k Juror*. NV, IS, Ucndrlx, C?nuh?n J. II. KutelltTe, 4 'mildew imiif 'J ?l. K. Jordan. Ki?rshaw T. W, Hilton. WestvMe II. 10. Kvans. Blaney ? II. 10. Kirk ley, Kershaw Henry May, laijfolt Amos NVest, Beth une I eroy Johnson, Kershaw T. W. Wilson. l.ujjikrt' l>. A. Munn, Camden .!. N. Taylor, Kershaw .1. M. Wood, Blaney ? l>. U C<at?n\ Kershaw I.. NV. Hok?y, Beth une I.. T. Anderson, Cassatt 10 10. H?4Imw1v Camden F. M. Cat<H\ Kershaw T. M. Maddux, Blaney NV. C. Moore, Camden .1. NV. Smith, Camden M. 1>. Max ley, Cmnden NV. A. Anderson. Camden (i. I>. Munn, Oarnden II. It.'Boykln. Blaney J. F. Mom1 ley. Kershaw A. 10. Workman, Kershaw S. M. Young, Kershaw. I>. M. Barnes, Beth une Jesse Nelson, Blaney T. I', Ballard, Weafcvllle J. H.. Burns, (Camden 1>. W. Stover, Kershaw ( \ A. Bo wen, Blaney A. Ca Williamson, Lugoft' Alleging she was wronged hy Cap laln Ij. I. Jennings, a wealthy widow er of Hreenvllle, Miss Beatrice Clnun hli's Is suing him In circuit court for $.">().( MH) damages. Captain Jennings Is a Confederate veteran about 70 years old. Twenty. nine employes of Hie elty of Columbia have asked the removal of the city jailer. M. P. Kramer. ?ju.i juujwjg? Th t VST* Kvmt. AhmM tho wi)h<( plu.v that a South Carolina n?>v\ >|Hi|M<r hu*> mtnlo In IUA l)> yt??ix Is I hut whhlt hat Ju*t Ikhhi pull* oil oft* hy tho l^xluk'ton l>ls|stlt?h. Au Mt'4lcUx was tfrltttiti, II wtHMUH, by tho Mssooliito wlltor t.r llu> papor. wTl.*), WO lako It, f)VdfKil|<HW Ity tUo offort t?? IhhmI tho 1 foi'tutWM of sonio othor oau ? I i? I41 1 *? for ^ovvrnor at tilt* o\|?onso of ' <;?iv ornor Manning ami ?Iki attempted to nphra|?l tiovornor Manning for a ptii?lot) uwuitod t?> a l4'\liitft??ii man. Sunio two wooks ?Uo The lUspateh eatrlotl an urtlelo wlileli was severe In Its eiitlelstn of ?Jo\ernor Mauiilut; for uruntlnc this pardon. Tho arlh-lo was rather iIoiuhuokIo In tout* anil at toniptod to ayotiM' U10 liollKuatlon of thf of l^xiuutoii iMtltltv. This work The l>lspateh earrles a statement from the oftleo of tiovornor MiiuiiIiik, ami tho sahl statement. \v?' understand. shows that the petlltou for a pardon for I ho man was signed hy tin* author of tho urtlelo lu The hlspatoh, anil also, wo understand, hy tho editor of Tho IMspati'h, You oau Imagine what a foolish |toslt|ou this puts tho author of tho ai'tlelo ami his papor In. Tho only eseuso offerotl hy I ho author Is that 111011 sometimes >ljrn pot 1 1 Ions too earelossly. That may ho true, hut wo i|t>|)'l think wo over heard of a now'spa|K*r man signing 11 petition for tho 'pardon of a convict, ami thon writing '<n article severely it|>hrahltug :i governor for pardoning the sahl con vUt. Tlmt whm h i?f*v on dm. and lliluk It tt u??w yiio 1,1 Hit* tuutttlrt of iifwqiipmwii. If i Ho |hi|mth wlio ntil Ik'HtHix Oo! oritur Muuniiitf *o Iktt t??rl.v kwp up nuuH (miIHh h> iluti (Hoy will t-ortululy lift]) liliu ?ui! hum r (Hau thc\ will Hurl Hint*. ? 8|ttirtanHutY HoinhM. ?*?' ? 4, J, IHiimI.v. a fwntior llviuu ihm' flu-raw Wttfi slunk l>v U?Hliilnj: llr 1 1 1 r^-ovrr, RIVAL'S PRINCE XIV IIckInUmv-iI ltcrkslitn* lUml' on nor vltv. Hro<l by l.tHiiwml Tufts. IMitti* hurst, N. (\ I'Yv On farm two suUt>* nm'th W t 'minion. JS?m? L. J. WHITAKER , Camden, S. C. Camden Milling Company MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN Home Ground Meal, Grits, Cow Feed, Cracked Corn, Graham Flour, Etc. Wo soil Hay, Shucks, Pea Hulls, (J round Cobs, otc., and will have In stork the Hist of March a supply of ld#tless Hulls and Fwil Cotton Seed Meal, those Hulls are gotten out hy The Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. These people having put lu machinery which reworks the Hulln, taking off prac tically every particle of lint, leaving nothing but the hull Itself, and as every one knows there can be no food value In the lint, and as there Is 25 per cent, lint taken froiu the Hulls, you can readily see the Having 111 .the feeding of the IJNTLB88 HUM. In preference to the old bull with the lint on them, we usk you give us a call, and any time that you have anything lit the way of Grain, Hay. Shucks or Fodder, tt/ sell, see us, as we buy and sell these products. Several tons of cotton seed fertilizer meal for sale at the right prjees. Itosprotfully, Camden Milling Company Valuable City Property FOR SALE THE HANDSOME 8 ROOM DWELLING OF MRS. VAL. JORDAN ON NORTH BROAD STREET. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT HOUSE WITH ALL CONVENIENCES. ONE TWO ROOM SERVANT HOUSE AND BARN ON PREMISES. SIZE OF LOT 138x570 FEET. ; ... 1. . 4 C. P. DuBose & Company REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE. VARIOUS FORMS OF ~r=rHp tip -4 '-X, ? 1 - t*4j^gy :?-?? ? ; 'fcSl z*. V ' ull ISSUED COVERING OWNERS AGAINST LOSS OR DAMAGE OCCASIONED BY ? : - . .... . . ? '? Automobile Policies AND THEFT ?- v# vW? ALSO COLLISION MEANING DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY THE AUTO M AND LIABILITY FOR DAMAGE TO OTHER PROPERTY CAUSED Bit COL LISION. SPECIAL FORMS OF POLICIES ALSO ISSUED COVERING MANU FACTURERS. DEALERS AND TAXICABS. POLICIES MAY COVER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. t r'-ZJ 53Sj?S^w " ? ? ? -r? ' * : *?-?' CP. fss^m Agents