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The Jewelry Store is the natural place to seek ?gifts of lasting value. ? There are many things here that an; beautiful, useful and that will hold their worth almost indefi nitely Numberless articles in Jewelry, etc., that will give 'much pleasure tb the bride are to be found here. G.L . BLACK WELL If you have farms or city property for sale, write us. We will ^ Pr?Per,y AT AUCT,?N 1 Farm Lands Our Specialty?Territory tfnlim.i^ Wntty-Seven Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty-Eirht acres of Fnrm Land amounting toovcr FIVE MlLLlS^ obtURS^ ' ? 1918. Write for booklet of endorsements and infor rriation about -our auction methods. ATLANTIC COAST REALTY COMPANY **THB NAME THAT JUSTIFIES YOUR CONFIDENCE" Offices: PETERSBURG, VA. and GREENVILLE, N. C. Reference: Any bank In Petersburg, Va, or Greenville, W. C. To Those Who Have Orders in for Hupmobiles and Chevrolets We are in position to make deliveries soon GEO. T. LITTLE Quaker State Oils, Hartford Shock Absorbers, and Goodrich Tires. Wanted At Once I have several applica tions for small Farms. Write me at onc^ what you have to offer - - L. A. McDowell V- , JU. . . ? CAMDEN, S. C. BRAVE DEATH TO ?SERVE ARMENIANS American Nursci Jgnore Perils ? of Massacre to Care for Sufferers. CHILDREN ARE t)YING DAILY 8?arvlng Refugees Eat Qraea and Al falfa ? American Commiesion for Relief Ic Doing Great Work in the Near Eaat. Constantinople, Turkey. ? Two American muses, Miss Margaret Mack of Htilburn. n. y.. una Miss Ruth Stuart of New York olty, working for' the American commission tot* relief In Hhe near East, declined to abandon the sick and wouhfled at Hhusha, Armenia, after having themselves survived a massacre by Tartars of 700 of the J Christian inhabitants of the town, ac cording to a letter Just received hero by Ma J. Uuvld G. Arnold of Provl-'l 'deuce, R, I., director of tho commis sion. "Our doctor and nurses were In tl v midst of the light, but wor? unharm- jr ed,r' says the letter. "On advice from Ueneral Bealii I recalled the twoj nurses. They cathe reluctantly as" there was nn urgent need for them among the survivors. The spirit Mils Mack and Miss Sturant have shown has been splendid and I felt that they should t be allowed 'to return If they went as volunteers. They signed pa pers to the effect that they knew the danger and that they were returning to their work at their own request." Mending Magnetos With Thread. A humorous touch to an otherwise tragic situation is related by a relief worker at Oulou Kishla, who writes: "The men working out from Oulou Kishla are coveting u large territory and obtaining large experience. ..Their chief outdoor sport Is dodging camel trains and leaping culverts. Coaxlqg the missing sptuk plug from its lildliiM place vies with mending magnetos with thread as the chief form of recreation, It is u rule that after the explosion of the twelfth v tire each day the liivvei knocks off and Its riders camp for the night, sharing their pillows with any roving dromedary in the vicinity, and giving a treat to' the predatory mos quitoes. There is if warm box car Id Oulou Kishla, and a cook loaned t<! the commission by Mr. Oscar of th( Waldorf.. No one Is to have his name or address because the world is full ol guile." * _ The. commission has lost three mem bers by death, Paul D. Pelter of S?Tew York city, the Rev. It. S. M. Knterlcls and Miss Edith M. Winchester of Phil adelphia, who was among the first to volunteer for work in the typhus rid den Caucasus. Starving Children Die Daily. Just before her death Miss Winches ter, In a letter from Tlflls wrote: VTh? sights about us are hear\rendtng. A refuge two blocks from our office yes terday fed 1,800 starving children. We are feeding them once a day. And once a day the cart goes around to collect the eight or ten little corpses that have accumulated. Befugees are eating grass and alfalfa. The alfalfa they eat ? raw ; one can always see children nlbbllug It." ? From Batoum comes word that "there are 150,000 Greek refugees back of the city who are gradually being pushed out by the Russians. Thousands are fed at an American soup kitchen. Adana has 12,000 refu gees and 18,000- more are in nearlby villages." LAUGH AND GROW FAT There Is no definite information as to how much Miss Hilda Flack (the young ludy in the above photo) laughs, hut there is undlsputable visual evi dence of her stoutness. The young lady is a resident of Essex, England, and caused an uproar in the local school when her absence one day was explained by the fact that she couldn't secure a pair of ghoeq large enough to fit her little feet. Our photo show* the diminutive Miss ? Flack, who la thirteen years old endeavoring to get a very lurge-slxe ladtea* shoe on her foot, said endeavor Lbeing quite unMao ceesful, as you can IH. BELGIAN GIRL IS HEROINE Mile. Marie Louise Gombler, a twen ty-ono-year-old Belgian girl, who ar rived In New York from France en route to Los Angeles to make her home. In 1914 Mile. Gombler was liv ing in a convent at Bresges, Belgium. When the Germans arrived the girl es caped and made her way to her fa ther's homo near Brussels. With the fall of the Belgian capital tlje Ger mans occupied the Gombler home and installed a wireless plant. Mile. Marie tried to destroy the plant, was caught find, sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to Imprisonment. After Ave weeks in prison the girl es caped and made her way to the Cana dian lines near Ypres. Here she served ^s a nurse, winning the Croix de Guerre with two palms for bravery. Mile. Gombler will make her home In Los Angeles with Mrs. L. I>owdy, an American Red Cross nurse she met la France. ? < IIST JAIL 14 MONTHS, INNOCENT Italian, Confused in Trial, Was Con victed of Perjury ? Pardon Recommended. New York. ? Gov. Smith has grant- | ed a commutation of sentence to j Frank Rossamongo, a Sing Sing prls- > oner who flgurfcd In a famous case.! Prosecuting authorities In the Bronx j who convicted Rossamongo recom mended that he be pardoned, after j newly discovered evidence cleared him of wrongdoing. " 1 Rossamongo has been Imprhjonec^ | fourteen months. Nathan Lubin, i "King of Pickpockets," was tried in ' the Bronx, charged with robbing Rossamongo. *,On the stand Rossa mongo made contradictory state ments. Lubin was given ten to twenty years. Rossamongo was tried and con victed of perjury In June, 1918. He always stoutly maintained he was In nocent. He got 'his story to the attention of the governor. District Attorney Francis Martin ordered an investiga tion. It developed that while Rossa mongo on . the witness stand seemed to have veered around from prosecuting Lubin to defending him, he was in reajlty only confused. VIRTUE IS REWARDED HERE Nine-Doftar Errand Boy Returns $575r ?000 Lost Bonds? Receives $15 as a Reward. New York. ? That he found $575,000 in Liberty bonds and received a reward of $15 for turning them Into their own ers was the story told by Isadore Gel ler, a sixteen-year-old errand boy who Is employed at $9 a week by Unz & Co., of 26 Broadway. He lives at 420 Junius street, Brooklyn. Gcller said that ho found a package In front of the subtrcasury building that proved to contain more than half a million dollars In bonds. He took it to the ofllces of Salomon Bros. & Hutzler," brokers of 27 Pine street, whoso name was on the wrapper. Members of that firm declined to dis cuss the story. BODILY TOIL GERMAN SLOGAN Form New Kind of Union In Which Everybody Must Do Physi cal Labor. . Berlin. ? A new kind of labor union has been formed In Helmstadt, a vil lage near Magdeburg, which holds that every German should engage In some occupation involving bodily labor, when the general welfare demands It. Unemployed clerks and bookeepers and some students are to enter the coal and potash mines or become farm hands. A number of tbenri have al ready left Madgeburg, tinder tho guid ance of a trained officer, for labor in the mines near there. School Time A#ain. began avii\^ and putting jim the Bank. THK BEST HOOK YOUR HOY CAN HAVE 18 A BANK BOOK, THERE'S LOTS 0*< KNOWLEDGE TyO BE GAINED BY CHE POSSESSION OF MONKY. . _ - rV ? Vy >\ TT""r''' ?' ? r XT^^^V'TT. 7^'.': -,-4a. * ? ? ??-?' - 'i YOU SHOULD TEACH YOUR BOY THK BEST LESSON HE WILL EVEB LEARN? "THAT HIS MONEY IS HIS BEST FRIEND" AND TEACH HIM TO 1*UT IT SAFE IN THE BANK. SOME DAY THE BANKER CAN ADVISE HIM HOW TO IN. VEST IT AND HE WILL BE A RICH MAN. YOU WILL RECEIVE 4 VER CENT INJER^ST. The First National Bank OF CAMDEN, S. C NEWSPAPERS and MAGAZINES . Subscriptions Received Here For any Periodical ask. for our. Club Offer, also single subscriptions. W. Robin Zemp's Drug Store ? t ** Telephone 30, Want all the farmers to know that we have as our agents in Cam den and surrounding , territory t J Baruch-Nettles Co. who will be glad to have you give them a call and a chance at your seed, whether in wagon load lots or car lot. We will al ways pay the highest m^r- - ket price. ' ? ' *" S. c, " Scales and Warehouse in Rear of Their Store