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T?Xk From An Irishman. rer 1 n>UH" Otlt flatfooted ttutl Mull <,J,H WliV ,UUHt K? 0,1 Wnt^ ^5; tsr~Heiwd #IUfi_JIE8:<|yri?rtii, BJeilliiK in-aii.Itlli, mayor of ftkn \h (Termiitt ell.v ?lwajpip rise# on hind i*** aiul sUi>r,H "BrlUtfher.'* Ufi i?ui iiiis t<? rest <?IT hand. e , .,11 IT bJopil Irish from four uja?ironrs. Hatred of tin- llrltJxh 1,1 wi,h ,u'v ?dlk "failit r took I'M ft In a reladliop in j,nd;'ninl Jl,Ht escaped culture, my [\f dill nut escape Ijwd for yeara A? Cu^llsli prison and was dually my cousin Just got to tills ooim E" iiv 11 wiricie fput | i?iii living In America, In these Fi'dli.il Slides. fh<' Hiv our al 12, ami tlM* I'nltod State* Is nt war lirltb tlio Haii. ai1<l our bodiless Is to jEj ru( iIn' liaiul of - fellowship to( fM. man and nation who will help , tliif work, to all the allies who are will) ?* '? <10lfi? It, and to help |,H| comfort them in every way fbit lio< I" oul' power. War In ik* a gentlo sport, It Is a j'business, whose object Is to kill other man. and you cannot go it It In m spirit of love mid kind-1 or 11"1 other man will kill you, In (Ills nis?> .vour women and children.) | It is <1 matter of suffering 011 both Isides, we "ill have wounds and trou fjje ami misery, before this war la Kjd<Hl. and <?iir street* will see malm-' fpd ami broken men, and our hoya will |jprt* tlielr line forms In the trenches, j L he shot to ragged ribbons in explo' ppuK. Ami we are asked to deal gen I ti) with the people who are going to this. Because we have welcomed ?I111 eureka BARBER SHOP The Prettiest, Most San- , itary and Best Equipped Shop in Town, with Sep srate Shower Bath Room Shave 10 Cents ACROLINE for Ladies Shampooing TELEPHONE No. 211-J I. B. ENGLISH I Proprietor IiIh kindred as guests to our hearth, ho stabs us In the Iwiek lu requital of our trust, rnul gloats over the misery and wretchedness that hi* barbarous rela UVW httWV ttHWOtl UI. it; Am y to be friend* with the Hun, Who Hunk my friend oil the f^uiitinlq? Or who is going'to kill in> other friend at the front? Or who watches for a eh*net' to explode a mine at my front door? Or who would sell thn country of my adoption to a uiberable hIuv ery?v 1 object! Ity every means In my power will 1 it 111 him? In this eouutry who shall Join lu the work, or who will lend a hand to elear the earth Of the i>estlforous Ilohcnxolleru brood who brought this blood and mis ery upon it!?lty Kdwiyrd s. Pilsworth of thoVlgllantcs. X y Proofs 'All Irishman and a Scot were argu ing as to the merits of their res|H?etlve countries. "Ah, weel" said Sandy, "they tore down and auhl castle In Scotland and found many wires under It. which shows that the telegraph was known there hoondreds o' years ago." "Well," said Pat, "they tore down an auld castle in Oirlaud and be I v'orru there was no wires found under It which shows that they knew all [about wireless telegraphy In Olreland hundreds av years ago."?From the Pathfinder. Dr. Alex Nordvall, a special Swede diplomat sent to America to confer With the National Conference on World Food says that unless Sweden gets grain froth America Swedish |>eople will starve. Notice To The Public. I wish to say that 1 am again as sociated with The Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. as their agent for this an^J ad joining counties and to say to those that have so liberally patronized us in, the past that we are using this method of thanking them and also to say that we are asking a contin uance of their confidence and patron age and promise you the same liberal treatment In the future as we have given in the past. And to those that have not as yet found it convenient to do any busi ness with us to give us a trial and we will do our best to make any business transaction with them both pleasant and profitable. Try us one time. We also wish to state that after, the first of September our'Office and scales will- be located at the rear of Kemp A DePass Drug Store, the store room formerly occupied by W. R. Roberts Meat Market. Please note this change. Mv ??rlst and feed mills Will also tie located at this place, along with the Studebaker automobile agency. Any time you have cotton and cot ton seed or corn to offer for sale, or you want to buy or trade for a good automobile we Invite you in to see. us ^iud it - yjpu have, no business to transact call on us aiiyway as we will l>e glad to talk with you, .Respectfully. R. L. Moseley. Agency. We have not deviated from oar find one-chauis-model policy. Bat wo have refined end developed the Maxwell The new compensating under - slung rear springs mean comfort for you and preservation of your car. This is the type of spring ased in the newest models of many of the highest priced cars. \ *4 * * Hie wheel base it sis inches longer the frame has heen strengthened -the windshield sloped, the body lines made more graceful, and the body made roomier. ' But the Maxwell price stands at a figure which still ttH- it "the world's greatest motor car value." Tom** Car $T48 JfamtUtmr $748$ Cmm*4 $19061 MmrUmm $tO$$ / Mm $IO*S ? AU mt?m f.m. i-^TNft MOTOR SALBS COMPANY W. R. DeLoache, Manager Phone 42 Camden, S, C. EDITOR AYKK WKAI) Was Prominent NewMMMf M?? of . IKw portion. '?? Florence, Sept, l.V 'Floivm-o was shocked tonight Wbsn thC? news passed tw? 1hh?h of Hart well Mwr?j Ayer, editor of" the Florence Dally Times, that ho had without a mo ment's warning. Mi*. Ayer had Imkui at liIk all day in connection with his dutlMi as editor ami puWUlwr of The Times and had only reached Uoiuw a few moments prior to being atrlok'en. Hi* attempted to reply tc? a question from Mrs. Ayer and In a half dar.ed manuer^dr<?p|NHl over In the ehalr In which he sal beside the fire and with out being |hie to dpeak coherently passed away. Ilartwvli Moore Ayer was a son of the late den. I^eyfls Ma lone Ayer of old Hamwell County, who was a mem ber of hoth the Cnlt<sl States ami t^on federate States congress. He 'wan horn in January, isus, and -was therefore 40 years of age last January, lie wa* educated In the cominnu schools of iiarnwell County and under the tutor* ship of his learned father. He attend' ed the South Carolina College from which he was graduated \n the class of 1887. He later went into news paper work, and for a time was con nected with the Charleston World, la ter with the Charleston Sun, He was telegraph editor of the Columbia En qulrer-Snn and Savaifuah Morning News. Coming to Florence he pur chased the Florence Times from l)r. C. II. l'rlnce. lie continued the pub lication of this pa|H?r for several years until he organized and became the founder of the Charleston Evening Post. Later lie returned to Florence am) resumed the editorship of the Florence 'nines and the Florence Daily Times. He built The Times Hulldlng on West Evans Street which he. re cently sold tO-J '.M. O'Dowd. He was widely known as an enthusiastic news paper man and loved his work. _ ^ Rather Gruesome. In one of the companies there Is an enlisted man whose name will not be given here. He Is one of the fore most eiiibalmers In tne country' and' perhaps, In the worli. He Is, in addi tion a graduate In sifrgery and chem istry, and knows painting and sculp ture. He studied all these things In order to liecome what lie is?the fore most einhalmer. He is connected with one of the leading undertaking establishments In New York city, and his salary is $10,000 a year. It has happened more than once that a per son hus< been killed by a eel <1 en ^ re sulting in facial disfigurement. This emhalmer had heemahlc to rebuild the disfigured features, with wax and paint, so that ofte not knowing better would never"~dream the features bail been marred. He has done tills re peatedly in New York and other cities, and by those who know him ami bis work lie Is rightfully regarded i?s one of the world's greatest artists. Tft is a rather gniesonte line Of omleilvor, som'e may tliink, b,ut 11 wa s tits own choice and he has gone to the very top in It. - ? ? c Today he Is an enlisted man in the army getting $.'to a month. Yester day lie was in charge of a squad of men who were engaged, in cleaning a company street, and he was giving his undivided attention to the. work and making a good job of It indeed. Some of those who knew him and his history could not help but express the hoper,that there would be no call | for his professional Hkill while he | in the army.?Spartanburg Herald. E. L. fiossett, the music man, who '? recently took a trip into York county. ( says that while he was at MeConnels- ( vllle one day he inquired 'how the of-1 flee res got hold of the names of the j men?who were engaged lu the lynch-1 ing of the negro Simms. That a | traveling man informed him that the j officers Arrested a disreputable look-1 ing. greasy tramp; put handcuffs on him and kicked him into the place where some of those who were charg-| ed with the lynching were confined. jteitiuK tinti he .wa* a desperate crlwt ml. That while ho wan In JhU lie not thv whole story aud It later develop ed that ho >v?s a detect Ivy who hail tn^n pltu-ed thw for the purine of thidlng out wbttl ho could from the accused parties. M1'. C3onaett HiilU tho man K)Miko a* If Ur know what ho wax talking ntiout. ami evidently made the statement in go?*l faith, NVhllo tos tlrnuny obtained lu this way i? uot ul way* to Ih; rolled' ujion. still. if ltn offiMt Is towing tho guilt homo to tlio right persons it might l>o excused^? Oaffnoy i<edger. Morals hi t'amp. As I visited among those oloau. blltln youngsters 1 wondered if wo women were not Just a little hard on our men?If wo don't suspect too imu-h ami trust thom too Uttlo. li Hwmwl hard for nio to be^ve tho fourful things that aiv whispered sometimes about conditions supi>osodly inevitable among Holdlor*. Sohllors. after all, aro Just men Just hoys. Our boya-?somvhody else's ?Just tho same sort we'd mot crowded together at lawn social* or dances. There aiv black sheep among them, of course, Just as there- are hlaok sheep among the (laiieers and lawn soelalers. hut 1 can't- Indleve that tho more donning ??f a soldier's uniform Immediately ohaiiKOs a man Into a lieuKt ami uuikes 1dm a dishonor tn that uniform ami the tlag he's going to fight finder. If lie's hail the right sort of homo training it seems to me \ye should not sort of insult lilin hy so constantly susjiectlng him and sigh ing ami shaking our heads over the wickedness we are euro he Is hound to fall Into. A good hoy Is going to Ik* good and decent no matter wherb lie Is. It Mcenis to inc. and a had one Is goln-| to he had. I don't helleve a hoy Is going to he any more wicked In the army than anywhere else?unless he's! that sort of hoy. 1 helleve there aid | two good reasons f/?r all this stuff i we hear whlsjx>red about. One Is I that what seems like a lot of immor-! Inllt.v Is simply the concent ration of [ an linmorallty that would exist any I how only scattered over a wide area, ; hy the bringing together of so many hundreds of men. The other reason has to do with a hit of Information I I stumbled on accidentally, and which [I think would be well to turn over In our minds. An otthnvr's wife told ma thata. splemlld man she knew, shocked and grieved beyond description by the things he had heard about crimp mdi'iils ?the same sort of fearful tales of sickness and disease among soldiers that t 1m* women of this country have been terrorized with until Immorality j has become a positive obsession with j them?told a French friend Jus! out , of the trenches about it and asked lilm } ahout similar reports of conditions lu I Europe ! To his amazement, the Frenchman s;ild It had not been his experience iat all fl. ftbserve ftny such things that rfftp morals of the averaging flighting ! man was gnnd, Mr stundnrds high, his behavior on the whole entirely do* j cent and that this wbolo thing was only- part of a subtle propaganda to ' frighten tho mothers' of our land so thoroughly that it would interfere in raising a worth-while army. And af ter poisoned court-poster and drink ing water and ground irhiss in Hod Cross handages, I cannot doubt this, either.?Mary Woodson SJhlpney In ?September Southern Woman's Maga zine. The first frost of the season hit Min nesota, Michigan and Wisconsin last" Monday night. The damage was not very heavy except in southern Minne sota. where the frost being three weeks ahead of the season ami the corn be ing three weeks late, there was con siderable loss The price of c^rii went up four cents a bushel on the Oldcago exchange liecause of the damage. A United States submarine sank at its pier at an Atlantic port Friday morning The cause has not oeen de termined There was no loss'of life/ Capi Surpl Undid Due t< Divide Indivh . Bank No. 235. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE . BANK OF BETHUNE Located at Bethune, S. C.v at the Close of Business September, 11th, *1917. ' ? ? , t Resources Tx>ans and Discounts .~ ? v...(..v..^..._. 615,010.05 Overd itof ts ? < 409.0Q Furniture and Fixtures ~ ?,, ...r %?. _ 1,525.00 Banking House . - .*. 1,482.00 Due from Banks and Bankers 13,307.24 Currency I ?..? ' 1,331.00 Gold >. 2B5.oo Silver and Other Minor Coin ? v. 104.84 Checks and Cash Items ...v.. BjQB 1 Total - !: *84,128^ Liabilities Capital Stock Paid In ....? 15,000.00 Surplus Fund ?? 4,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Pain * 3.140.97 Individual Deposits ,8ubject to Check 37,711.00 Time Certificates or Deposit 19.232.00 .,J.IiViUCa*hier's Checks ? : .13.82 SftvinKAmils Payable, including Certificate* t >r Money BorrowM , 5.000.00 fMlls pl 'Total ? - $84,12838 1 WaTE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Kershaw State of v1*0'0?* me came James^B. Oaskey. Cashier of the a bore named bank, who I>e< x? # j! duly sworn, says that the aboye and foregoing statement Is a true condl . , ,i" of said bank, as shown by the books *>f said bank. u hiIdj? dnl^ ^ Jame#, E faskey. Cashier, condition V mi Sworn to and subscribed before mi' this lfcth day of Sept. 1917. Swo^ to'A T Gardner, Notary Public. M w- E &****. Directors. Jas. E. Caskey . ; ; I MM YOUR INCOME The best way to piece out a small income is to reg ulate the outgo. Not that you need to J>e_n miser, but you can be sure that all of your dollars do full service. THIS STORE MAKES YOUR DOLLAR DO ITS DUTY We have a stock of goods that for real bed rock value can't be duplicated, anywhere in this community. The prices are based on the actual worth of the ar ticle, not on what we think we can get. Buying at this store is the surest way of piecing out that narrow income. Springs & Shannon The Store That Carries The Stock. THE UNIVERSAL CAR To get the maximum of service frqm your Ford car, it must have carefvl attention from time to time; a little "tuning up'* to keep it running smoothly always adds to its power^nd endurance. To be assured of the best'mechani-i cal service and the us eof genuine Ford ma terials, bring your car here where you get prac tical Ford experience, and the regular Ford parts. Ford prices, fixed by the company, are the same everywhere. KERSHAW MOTOR CO. Pfione No. 140 OF BANKS our National Bank When you do your banking with us you do It with a Mem lM*r Bank of the Federal Reserve .system of banks. Our hank hid to obou it wan a strong bank before It could become a member. We are one of a vast army of banks,which stand together tor the protection tof our depositors. '? ?. ?-? <? - Our b#nk can take its securities to our Central Reserve Bank 1 at any lime and get money. When your money is.in our bank you can get It when you want H. PUT YOl'R MONEY IN OMR BANK The First National Bank OF CAMDEN, S. C ? 2H fl. -l., . TLJt^ - l,_ r*y-* i-Vv