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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE II. JJ. Nile* and / E. N. IWML T! Published ?very Friday at 1 1 <>n No Broad Htrcet. and entered at the Cam den jamtoltlc? an second clans mall mat ter. Price per annum $100. We are glad to receive coinmnnlca flons of a reasonable length, Imi t an Important condition of their puldlca tlon Is that they hIuiII in all cases tie accompanied by the full name and exact address of the ^Wilder, ohltu- 1 nrh'M, resolutions of respect, and rhnrch notices will not ho charged for. .Mat- , fcrs of purely a |>ersonal nature will he charged for at itie rate of live cent* m line. Whiskey < ?r patent medicine advertisements will not he accepted at any price. Itatcs for display adver tising made known on application. Camden, S. Oct. 18, 1916. Florida Papers ICai.se Prices. .Jacksonville, Kla . <><1. II. ? ' The Flor ida state | nes? association meeting here today to coii^hJer ways and means to tuirt the Increased oust of print pUIHT, voted i ? ? Increase, effective Juutiary I. 1U17, the price of weekly ucwspa|?ers to a yea i It also voted to Increase advertising rates, the amount of In i-reasc in he decided at tomorrow's meeting. which also will take up a pro ixi.sal to tinatice a puper mill In this sect Ion, or make arrangements for net ilng pa|K?r through local means. The association Is coin|M?: ed of hot It ? tally and weekly pa|>ers. hut no action was taken regarding Increase of sub scription prices of the dailies, although the Increase of advertising rates was exacted to apply to dailies as well as weeklies. Autumn. ? The -golden rod Is yellow, the corn stands In the shuck, loads of cotton are continually passing along the road, tlie odor of cooking ctfne juice is in the air; and over all hangs a hrllllanr hlne sky, with low along the horir.ou i soft, mellow haze. I>o you know what these signs say to uie? l>o you know that In a few short weeks <}od will clothe this world ahout us In rich, bright colors, such as only the trees and the flowers of the fields can wear. The most beautiful time of all the year Is at hand. We have come to the third act in the play of Nature The climax Is reached, and all the ac tors must make, the best and most striking appearailce of all the play. When the curtain rises on the fourth and last act you will see them wrap |hm| in wlntr's winding sheet and laid ? liiictly away, as Is the proper thing for all actors after their work is done. At one time in each of our lives ? !od lets each of us make a striking "Ml>i N>a rn in '!?> yoc.jeth.ir.K "? wuilh while. For how could He be so much kinder to the Mowers than to us? I do not believe in nil this hig world that there was ever a person born who did not do some special work for (iod. May I >e you iiiul I did Hot see it. May he no one understood hut all the same the work was done. I >o not he afraid hut do your part accord! in; to the tal ents you have driven you. and leave the rest to Mini who sends the sea -ons, cadi in their own time and each Mower with its own color and | >er fuille >'clc? ted. The News and llerahl has several left over or unpaid political advertis ing hills that we will sell at a discount. Notwithstanding the rule that this ad vertising K t ? ? be paid in advance, or when the matter is handed in. now and then some fellow will get by on credit and it i- our experience that they are never paid after the election. 1 > u t if any. other individual gets |>y with us after this we ;i r? ? going to apply for a guardian. We are going to ell these accounts, however, nt public auction If titiey are not | ?;? id in a reasonable length of time. W inn-horn llerahl ami News. THR POOR MAN'S FKIKNI) (From (Ireenville News, i The politician who panteth after of lice. h>u<lly proclaims that he is "the |M>or man's friend,' and promises, 'If you'll elect me, I'll make the poor man richer.' Of course, that Is a lie. for i lie politician "seeks to serve only him self, and the government never has been, is not. and ne.ver will be. that could declare a dividend to the |?oor man. The man who thinks the govern ment owes him a living and will sooner or later give it to him Is the biggest fool outside the insane asylum. There is hut one method by which a in till may HOC OF ALL KINDS. If you want anything in the Drug Line give us a rail. Our place is headquarters* for the purest Dmgs. liadies will do well to \ i>it our store for Toilet Articles, Perfumes, fttr. Our Sodas are pure, so are our Candies. Once our customer, always our runtomer. CLYBURN DRUG CO. Telephone 73. better Id* lot tuttl pad hi* purse tutd that Is by ludlvtdual effort. The pour UlttU ha* a ? ffloud thai | ?II hfrn to tlnanctal lnilo|ioiidyiM^ and !?'* YnUc'VuT scour 11 y lit lif**. lull lli|K friend Is too little known. This friend will lend I 1m- p?*>r man money with which to buy a home for himself and family or will Invest his money for him at ii far higher rate of Inter est than hr ran get any who to else, Tills frh'iid will provide five a safe phot* for tho |H?or man's savings and without charging 'din a cent for look lug after Ids money, will give him tho benefit of tin* advice and survh-o of some of the ablest busbies* men In t ? rcenx j I ie. This friend will help tho |M><>r man to lay b\ money for the evil days of 111 health or old age and free him from the possibility of falling Into i he hands of the loan shark and tin* usurer. Tills ^friend will help the |MM>r man to heroine a more Intluentlal and more prosj>erouH citizen. Tills Is a rep I friend to the | m >o r man that really can make him rlchcr and really can better Ids condition. This friend Is the building and hmn association. This is not an advertise ment. Imt an indorsement. If yon will; h h >k Into the facts, as we have done, .Vou will reach tlie conclusion that we have not overestimated the value of such mi institution to the i>oor man. A single share of building and loan cost ?jr. cent* per week. At the end of hIx years >pu not only put plhecupluM years \<>u not only have all the money you put in. hut what it has earned at something more than eight ih'I* cent in terest-. Can you heat It? You can't We wane earners haven't the money to hu.v stork in large ror|H?ratlon* or to invest in "war hahies." The only way we can save is hy putting hy a little each week ? just a little that oth erwise we would Hi>end unnecessarily. The girl, the hoy, the man and the. woman who depends upon the pay en velojHJ for existence will never save unless they save a small amount regu larly mid .promptly out of that envel op*. .Most of us promise ourselves that we'll wait until we accumulate a large sum and then begin saving hy putting that jn some form of savings dei>osit or investment, hut somehow * we never manage to arcuinnlatc that sum and hist no on. sending. KjHMiding, until the evil day overtakes us and we are dc|M'iidcnt upon the mercy and charity of others. Safety tlrst ! He prepared. Take out some shares In building and loan, and, week, hy week, you'll f?M?l more and more secure In the world, more and uiore liide|>endenl. more and more self reliant. and along with it you'll have agreeable consciousness of the fact that vou are building up your community and yourself at the same time. Investigate this projH>sitlon for your self. I ?o it now. Preparedness pays. A dime a day will keep the wolf away. Insure yourself against |H?verty and de pendence. Mdvondon Voted for Itlease. ll will ?????*? hiirprisc to a number of |H'opli> to Ion rn that Hew 15. F. McLon don. I lie cva ugelist . voted for Mloaso in the Inst primary. The well known preacher says lie could haw elected j t Mease l>.\ tolling what In- knows, and | why ho votod for him, hut wo are I afraid that ho lias simply made a mis j take in men. or has been hadl.v fooled in mimic way. Having taken this view point of tin- raee, it would have heeti untruo to lii.s character t<> have de nied it, ami wo tind the following let tor from him i<? Key. IMerue ? W: l j admit t Iiiu' liis ai t ion : "A little fellow by the name of Ro gers at Florence has distributed a tel egram that he sent mo and my reply all over the state. I never do anything that is covered up. And I had my per sonal reasons for voting for Cole Mien so. As far as working for any eaudidate. I never opened my mouth. Several of my friends have wondered wh,\ it was I voted for him. If I had told the people why I voted for him before the election he would have been governor of South Carolina today. I am a very busy man. and as several of my friends are insisting, or at least wanting to know why it was that I voted for him. just as' soon as this ' evangclistie campaign K over I am I coming out in an open letter and give ! my reason, i I Peter ."{ : 1 r?. ? Now. Hro. Watson, I never hit any thing with a tack hammer, and when I write this letter I am going to jnr some jM'ople like a sledge hammer had -struck them. At oho time I was the most bitter man in this state against Colo I,. Mlease. I have kept something covered up for about five years that has never been told in this state, hut just ;is soon as I have the time I am going to give out an open letter which will put a different complexion on J lungs." We don't know what .Mclicndon has t?? put a "different complexion on things." but. whatever it is. it ought, to he a lot. We don't know what would put a "different complexion" 011 the whole sale pardon record, and mucII of taint ed acquisition. Kit hey ruined a little girl he had adopted. Fmerson killed an old man trying to protect his daugh ter. and Jones kllbnl his wife to make way for another woman, yet the three. I with hundreds of uiher criminals, walk I the streets today as freely as they ever I did. If Mclxuidon has somehing to j pjit a "different complexion" on these crimes, a i m I their pardons, he ouidn to give it out. We don't know what would put a "different complexion" oil the lineup of whiskey -seekers, race-track uMiuh biers, pa rdon-lawyers, ami other*- who stood with the misguided g<H*l people, who voted to reinstate lawlessness and favoritism in South Carolina^ Ff M> I/oudon has something that can d.> this, wo would like to hear it. lie must tn?t it out : lie musn't go around I -living he has kepi it hidden, claim tug it would have elected 111 en so If he .id told it. but he must tell It. A- f;tr as we know, nobody is afraid i" hear the truth.? Orangeburg Times aid l>emoorat. I "i ki^/lnesses shown and services rendered him in removing his baggage containing vnlunhle papers from Hotel IMeasantou in San Francisco during the earthquake and subsequent Hro ten years ago, Frank M. Unger. a taller, of Anderson. S. aged 31 years, has been remembered in the will of the late Iliram I>??ukIh*. of San Fra lifts no. to the extent of $10,000. ITALIANS KKSI MK OFFKNS1VK British Official Pretia Bureau Auueutt <l?rmyn I.MlUflU ? Tlu? Italian* have again taken tlio offensive against, the Austrian* in i halt' endeavor to reach Trle*t. Aus tria's ?-l? iff port on the , Adriatic, and at several iMiintM south and Kouthcast of Oorlglu have made good progress, and In addition taken nearly tt,(NN) pris oners. South of tiori/.ia tin* Austrian line lias broken between Tohar mir Ver toiha, according to Koine, and on the Caruo front entrenchment?* between Vlpa<-<-o Hiver and 1 Itl I 2<kS wort* rap lured. Here the town of Novavilia and a strong |H>Hitlon around tho northern part of the hill feti into tho hands of tin* at tuckers. Trenches in the Tren tino region also have Wen woii by the Italians hnd JV10 Austrlans untile prls ouers. In TrnusjiVirhia the form of the Teutonic Allies are continuing their drive on the ItuinanlaiiH along almost all of the front. Bavarian troops, which captured the ltothcnthurin pass, j iow have crossed the border into ltu mania. According to Bucharest, which admits the retirement of fho Human! ans around Kronstadt, tl m*e Teutonic attacks were repulsed s?.uth of Her maustadt with heavy casualties to the attackers. Berlin coiycdes the capture by the French of a Herman salient 'i"ar Yermandnvillers, south of the Koinui" Hiver in France, and also l>y tho Brit ish ??f first line trenches near Sail': . north of the Somuie. Viohnt countov attacks hv the Cormaim on the new ly captured positions of tho From h in the (Miaul nos wood have been repulsed. In the Vosges mountains the OdfKians invaded French ? renetietf. but later were driven out. ^ On the Struma river in (Jre?k Mace donia the British have made another advance, occupying the town of Papa lova, which lies on the (ireek-Sorbian iwirder, southwest of Doiran. Fierce fighting Is going on between the Bulgarians aud the Serbty on the front below Monastls, the Bulgarians having received reinforcements. Ber lin says that along the Cerna river and west of the Vardar entente Allies' attacks were repulsed. The British otilclal press bureau an nounces the German losses dur- I Ing the war up to the end of Septem- | her as dead S70.182; prisoners and missing 128. SiM), and wounded 2,257,<x>7. a total of .M.550.01H. The figures arc declared to have been repulse*! from (?ornian otilclal lists. A total of over $0,(MM) hnN been su I ? scribed by South Carolinians to tho Wilson campaign fund. Twenty gallons of whiskey were seized by constables from nn auto mobile near (Jeorgetown. More than <?(H) girls could not be matriculated at Winthrop College thi< yea r. (Governor Manning, according to ilic Charlotte observer has revoked the commission of Kli Chapman, a negro, whom he api>ointed a notary February 1~>, 11)15. Chapman Is a real estate dealer in Spartanburg. The governor gave no reason for his action in revoking the negro's commission. The appointment *of the negro Chap man by Governor Manning was men tioned in Spartanburg county from ev ry stump by former (tovernor Kleiise. o.uing tiie recent campaign. A Yj yea i ' (ftr| <011 of James I'niltt. of InuiaiY. Spartanburg county, shot and k i I lei i his 14-year-old brother oil' Thursday. The boys were playing with a shot unit which they thought was empty. Monaco has the smallest army in the world. It consists of 1100 men. In Sweden you cannot buy some thing to drink without buying some thing to eat lit the same time. The centennial of gas lighting in this country has just taken place. There are U.NOo women working as guards on the railroads of Ccrinany. f Ftmoui A*t?c Runniri. Communication (among the Aztecs) was maintained with tho remotest l>arts of the country by means of cou tiers. Posthouses were established on the great roads, about two leagues dis tant fr6m each other. The courier, bearing his dispatches in the form of a hieroglyph lea I painting, ran with them to the tlrst station, where they wero taken by another messenger and carried forward to the next, and so OA till they reached the capital. These couriers, trained from childhood, trav eled with Incredible swiftness; not four or five leagues an hour, as an old chronicler would make us believe, but "With such speed that dispatches were carried from 100 to 200 miles a day. Fresh fish was frequently served at. Montezuma's table in twenty-four hoars from the time it had been taken In the gulf of Mexico. 20u miles from the capital, ln'this way intelligence of tho movements of the royal armies was rapidly brought to court, and the dress of the courier denoting by Its color that of his tidings, spreading Joy or consternation in the towns through which he passed.? From Prescott's "History of the Conquest of Mevieo." Pioardy Nimci. Whence come the names of the Plcar dy villages, stronge even in France? Among LHfTnnmeS of places are itrny. which is of Celtic origin and signifies a swamp or morass. Fay is from the I.atln "agus," meaning a Ih*c? Ii tree. Hem is a homo or habitation. F.stree is from the Latin ??strata." meaning route. Fins Is from "finis." signifying the limits. Combles means \ales or valleys. The termination "oy" is ap plied to a plantation? Quesnoy. Tllloy. Autnoy, Itosoy. Tho name of "Rois des Trones" is simply "the wood of the thrones " Tho name of the city of Al bert una formerly the f<ame as the namo <>t the stream^ Ancre. It was" changed when the lordship passed to the house of Albert de Lyne of the famflr Albert!, originally of Florence. Peronne. noted because of the captiv ity of King Ix>uls XI. aL-Lhat place. Was for a long flhtt* called La Fnicelle. **the maldon." ? Indianapolis News. w One Day Only-Next Friday, On the Usual Circus z&ca? Trcati Col . Wm. f. C ody Lead i no Big Street ?Made MIULER&ARU ! [genuine 6 IBERIAN COSSA Qc? Don't Miss The Big Millitary and Wild Downtown Ticket Office show day at Drug Store. Prices same as at the r U. S. Army Recruiting Tent on