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nut CORONUL r > j b?re*>J iwwouuce us h u?n<tl IjU** for iwleotUm to the ufffce of Our ^.r of KwhIww <'<nu?ty, Aubjtvt to thu uk* of th?* IVuu.K'i'utlc prluuiry. I a, I* IUXON, JR. bOOPTO rmiArr aw SCALCD TINS ONLY ATYOUft OPOCtRS MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE Dr. L. H. Snider A VETERINARIAN (Fomcrly of Camden) HEARON'S STABLESI Bishopville, S. C. DR. WADE HAMPTON Osteopathic Physician In Camden at Commercial every Sunday fro? 7:^0 A. M. to 11 P. M. Leave Calls at Commercial Hotl! Dr. C. F, Sowell DENTIST (Office Over Brace's Store) CAMDEN, S. C. Collins Brothers Undertakers for Colored People Mt;ksnt 41 214 W. DeKalb St. HAVE YOUR EYES EXAMINED ?AT? ? ?? ?' pt? <? - M. H. HEYMAN & CO. Jewelers and Opticians 1026 Broad St.. Old Folk's Best Friend That's what many vcall , it, fur it puts vim and vigor into old stomachs; rich, red blood Into ? old veins; sound flesh on old bones. Drink a glass of this delicious diges tant with each meal. Shivar Ale PURt DIGESTIVE AMMATt& *W SHIVAR MINERAL WATER AND 6IH6ER < ^our grocer or druggist will refund >"ur money on first dozen if "r>t pleased with revolt#. Shivar Ale retails at 15c per'bd t!r. or $1.75 per dozen. If your W? i uW dealer cannot supply you, tele i plionr < amden Wholesale Grocery OMribnUn far APOLOGIES TO BR'ER HAJOIT Fl?ld M jum. Not Sunny, ft Anathem* tiiod Girdlor of T root, According . to KuUm Cxport. Oftlclal of the State. (Ub aud KMUIO commission Inform* ut that we are un just to the rabbit ti? ascribing to him all the girdling <|f fmlt tree* which ha* wn golng'on In these parts lately. Our Informant saya, observes a writer In the Ohio State Journul. that the Held mouse In responsible for more than 80 per cent of this damage ami we hasten to tender our sincere apologies to |he rabbit. whose feelings we would not hurt for the world, and are quick to give the guilty field mouse hl| Junl ?bare of Censure. Field mice. It seems have the Inde fensible habit of burrowing among the. roota of small fruit trees In the fall, hollowing out a warm place, as Held nalc$ estimate warmth, and spending the winter there. Wlteu they get hun gry and nothing else is available, rtoey ?bin up a little way and eat the bark of the tree cunningly making tootb^ marks almost exactly like rabbits' and thus throwing editors and other ex perts off the scent. The rabbits are not wholly. without* sin, but a 49 par cent sinner average* up fairly well with the rest of us. Moreover, the rabbit may easily bb lolled In bis lapses from grace by placlug a piece of tar paper about two feet lu height* or a piece of wire uettlng around the base of each young fruit .ttee. Perhaps this expedient, like other prohibitory meas ures, does uot build character In the rabbit, but It does In the orcbardlst. Nothing, we understand, can be done about the field mice uuless one stays at the foot of the tree and patches them. They are lost In sin. DIED. TO ESCAPE SUFFERING Crew of Crippled Hun Submarine Took the BasleattiWay Out of a Hope less Situation. Admiral Sims In the World's Work tells of the efficiency of the subchaser listening devices. Once when a subma rine had beeu injured uud was lying on the bottom In shallow water a grew .some thing was heafd. They Msteiifid, Itor hours,^without hearing a sound; put about G o'clock In the afternoon a sharp piercing noise came ringing over the wires. It was a sound, that piade the listeners' blood run ?old. Only one thing In the world could pake a sound-like that. It was the crack of a revolver. The first report had hardly stilled when andther shot was heard; and then there were more In rapid succession.# The listeners on two different chasers heard these pis tol cracks and counted them; the re ports which these men Independently made agreed In every detail. In all 25 shots came from the bottom of the sea. As there Were from 25 to 30 men Ja the submarine crew the meaning was all too evident. The larger part of the officers and men, finding them selves shut tightly In their coffin of steel,' had resorted to that escape which was not uncommonly availed of by German submarine crews In Oils hideous war. Nearly all of them bad committed suicide. Gen. Benjamin Butler's Wit. General Butler was the lender of the house In 18T5 and Samuel J. Ran dall leader of the Democratic side. As *the Forty-third congress was about to close I was with Randall* when Butler came lip, and Randall asked him to hold a Sunday session. Butler said no, he would not consent to It; he never wonjd do nny woirk on Sun day that was not necessary. Randall turned and chafflogly said: "Oh, that Is your New England Purl tanlsm, I suppose. Thatseeves you to good> purpose, and I expect to meet yon some day, Butler, In another and better world." Butler replied In a flash: "Oh, no Sam; 79rwm M there, as yoiT fiRu here, a member of the lower house." ?Mel vllle E. Stone, In Collier's Weekly. Forest Airmen's Record*. Forest fire patrol performed by the" air service of the war department, wjih jts personnel and equipment, and aOhe expense of that organization In three months unlnterruptel service ma<te.t45 flights, covering 92,005 miles, says-the American Forestry Mags sine of Washington. Many flres were dls . covered, located, and reported. Six patrol routes, covering national for est areas of high value were followed. , and twice each day six airplanes cov ered the better part of 9,000,000 acres of rough, mountainous, heavily tim bered cofintry. The average nonstop run was 160 miles; the average round trip, 320 miles. Taft's Unique Walking Stick. . Former resident Taft owns a ;valk ? Ing stick that Is 250,000 years - old. When Prof. W. S. Foster of Spokane ^was Investigating the'geological his tory of southern Alberta a few years cago he discovered a stump In a peat bed amid glacial,drift In the valley of j Old Man rlvftr. The age of the stump was estimated by geologists at a quar ter of a million years. Professor Fostet -took . the . stamp ' home to Seattle with other souvenirs of the glacial epoch and when the Spokane people on oae of Mr. Taft's Visits wanted to give him a unique present they had a cane fashioned from the wood. - Naturally. "I suppose accidents vary r?u?h on this ?C7 hill, do they not?" - "Yea, there la tMr*-flxed number. 'The? mw* nn a ?<AU " .* - HAS FINE TRAITS Animal Trainer Reveals faott About Elephant. Bay* th# Brute Is Both Tandsr and Af fectionate, Though H? Will Hold Grudge Against One Who H?I Abused Him. An elephant tlWll t<* a great age and ??oines to maturity slowly. Mid Is *ot lull-grown until from thirty-live io forty viu ?. ui<j. it |a ? uptake 10 lltlnk an elephant Is clumsy because lie looks so. In proportion to Its slxe i? i?? 11h,i 111 (s intu'h lighter on Its feet than a horse, and can outrun most horses for a short distance, ^nd there Is no one of an SlepbftBt't four feat (hut he cannot Htrlke or kick quickly sud accurately with. An elephant can stand considerable cold If he Is kept moving, I have tsken elephants in Bridgeport, fitted bags over their ears snd talis and wgrked them up to their bellies In the snow pushing cars without Its doing them any harm. On the other hand. I lost a fine elephant onc? us u result of ex posure to the cold* writes Goorge Conk lln In the Saturday lOvening Post. The elephant Is the most affection ate of animals and will watch over and protect a favorite keeper, and he will also hold a grudge against one for some time, watching for an opportunity to get even with him. But I do not believe those popular stories of ele phants that have remembered fcejng cheated by strangers and squirting water over thoni when they had an opportunity after the lapse of years. An\angry elephant, however, Is a dangerous thing, and an elephant keeper who Is rough is always running a rlslc. A cross- elf pliant Is usually male so by t^e keeper. Some men are na^rally cruel and are willing to do (ilng to satisfy their desire to show This Is apt to'be a fault of new ?around>elephants. I knew of the of a fellow called ^ayou Bill, who was with the Jerry Mabie show. An elephant put her truuk round hisshoul ders,. pulled him offhlS'horse and be fore anyone could prevent she put one of her feet on his legs, pulled him in two and threw the pieces over her back. I have also known many in stances of men being squeezed to death between'a wall and an elephant's head or under Its foot. But from .a keeper or trainer who treats theti properly an elephant will accept punishment, and when It has given In the man can do almost anything with It. and the ani mal will not lay it up against him. In spite of Its great size the ele phant Is quite timid. A strange animal or an unfamiliar noise will start him In a panic. Once Tody Hamilton, the Barnum & Bailey press agent,Jinil me demonstrate to a^group of New iork reporters how easy It was to frighten ai> elephant. It was at the winter quarters iu Bridgeport. We had at the time some two or three dozen ele phants, and I let a pig loose among them. There was a commotion at once. They snorted and squealed and kicked ?and, by the way, they can use their hind legs UVegatiing guns. I also put ik>me rats in among them, and they were Just as afraid of them. If they had not been well chained the whole bunch -would have run away. Elephants^are driven from the ndJTr, or left, side, like oxen. The drlVfer tells them to shy when he wants them to go'to jthe right and says "come In" to bring them toward him. "Mile" means to go fast; "mule up" to trot, and when lie wants them to stop the driver calls out "tut." # Misinterpreting His Motive. At about three o'clock on? morning ?according to Toby, M. P.?Mr. T. P. O'Connor was orating In tlie house of commons to 12 or 15 members lying; about in rarlotts stages^ of drowsi ness. , "r, 1 Sir Patrick O'Brien was amongst them, and, now and then rescuing him self with a start from falling asleep, audibly engaged in conversation. "I protest against this disorderly conduct!'* exclaimed Mr. O'Connor, at length. "The honorable baronet Is. constantly Interrupting me." - ?Slr," replied Sir Patrick, with aj graceful how, "the honorable gentle | man misinterprets my motive. I In r terrupted, It Is true; but It was with j - the Intention waking the honorable j gentleman's audience." ? Pearson's Weekly. * i Introductions. , . "I want to have a bill introduced la congress?" began the emphatic clti-l sen. "All right," replied Senator Sorghum. "But I can tell you In advance that Introducing a bill in congress is like; ahy other kind of an Introduction. It I will result in n f<?\r minutes of pleas ant courtesy, but It doesn't necessarl ly lead to any substantial acquaint ance." Tasmania Mutton. Tasmania ft ti far outpost of the British empire, and Is not yet great In Industry and trade, but none the less It has nearly i000.000 sheep and Is about to begin the busdness of. Ex porting frozen meat. It Is estimated thpt with Its present flocks it can send out yearly about 100,000 carcasses of Iamb and mutton. By*&eflre?s. Hub?My de*f,~ Isn't that dress a trifle extreme? Wife?This dro?*. darting? >Vhy. I p?t .>n merely that yon, may be come secustmwd to the one I am hav ing made.?Boston Transcript. <>iu? xthw uioital ami rttevtMi Iw&ixo uhhIuLs wojv awaixksl U> botx*M Satur <lay bjr tho Cuniotiio Horo Fund ivnu mission. In PK**mltton of nourworthy nets by mon uiut woiqcii who Nought to holp otImrs at tJn'h* OVA |?erll. Mw of llwun <IUxl, \vQilU? two were> (UsuUUhI To. t h?>so taut tlx* oomuilNAioik math* mom'iaiy $4,000 and $80 a mouth in <uu* ^?as*?< anul $1,000 In thn otluvr. Tho t\mui>l*<lon itksO $5,1)00 for other worthy .'utws Sam l>a\K workfiiK at tht? AUtui man oaiup noar FIoivikv, shot Isaiah llurftt*** through tlu? twad, klllUis Mill instantly. Tlimxto)' ufiUiriwuM, i*? oIimi'IkI. IMvIn marie his ivhvi|m> am) lutx not yet t*vu rtpprolumdori. TJ14 trouble arot*> ov*?r a n\vh|> ill \vivOi\ Mve testimony at the ooranw'j* iiuimvri slum-iii* tlrnt Clu? two yum had truths 1 wive4 utul that Ikavia became dl?s?t i^fU^I "tkfter tlu> trade. 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