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Children Cry for Fletcher's The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over thirty years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. -- - Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants arfd Children?Experience against Experiment. Never attempt to relieve your baby with h ; remedy that you wbuld use for yourself* What is CASTOR I A Castoria is a harmless substitute tor Castor Oil, Paregoric, Props and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Comfort? The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of _ ' ? In Use For Over 30 Years ^The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR company, nkw yowk citv. THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE Printing- The Strong Arm of Business; Place your order now SINCE 1889 Big Sale Now On We are offering our entire stock of Dry Goods, Shoes, Shirts and Ready-to-Wear At Greatly Reduced Prices We do not intend to carry over any of our goods to another season if low prices will move them. Watch For The Big Sign on The Corner SNYDER'S STORE WV have a high powtr, fast cutting outfit, forced feed; ?' |?h" te power plant in itself for sawing logs to any hues the work of six to ten men . Lever control i.'ntrul starts and -tops saw of blade while engine is run ning. Ilave good assortment lof Gasoline Engines. All equipped with Bosch Magneto and offered at factory prices. COLUMBIA SUPPLY CO, 823 West Gervais St., Columbia, S. C. TRADE AT HOME ASK YOUR GROCER FOR GROCERIES Made for Southern Merchants Io Sell Southern hoiks And Please Southern Tastes AH Varieties of Groceries and all the Year Round Service can be Had at Bruce s Pure Food Store PHONE 66 Member of Chamber of Commerce SOI'TIILANI) STOKIKS. Larry (?anlt (ilvtN Some I lit ?'(??>%( in^ Iteeollections. (Written for The Chronicle by T.. Larry (hi ntt. I When Oliver Hohlsmlth wrote "Honor noil fame from no condition rise." ho stated a truth that has horn demonstrated times without number. If Is nirclv a cave where brains or eminent public service ?r. Inherent In :i family, for the sops a 'nil descend ants of great men appear content ?t* live Upon ancestral funic. I. ike unto llie pi l.il M the best part in under ground. , . < <n t In* <?tlier hand, the intellect, em inence ami leadership every country must uo <ait among the plain people in the more obscure walks of life, and in the < ?ld World, often Its peasantry Tra *e all of Hie ureal leaders in I'mopc. for hoth good or evil, fro at .Martin Luther to l.enine and Trotsky, and you will find tlient belonging to what is known as the "lower class," bill in our Kepublic as the 'plain peo ple." William the Conqueror was the illegitimate son of a washerwoman; Catherine, who. after l'oter the (Jreat. created the Kn^-sinn 1-anpire. was (he lewd da lighter of an 1 t m > 1 1 1 1 Tarter pennant, und XjTpoleon ? Iionaparte, , a Corsh-an adventurer, Whose hoast was, "I a in my own ancestor !" Then consider our own country! Daniel Webster was the soil of a I poor New Knglaml farmer, who did not even hoast a descent from the Pilgrim Fathers; Henry Clay was known as the '".Mill Hoy of the Slashes;" Patrick Henry, horn on a small Virginia farm and when an oil s' ure young lawyer, reaped fame, and honors in a day hy his ??(live me lib erty or give mic death!" John C. Cal houft descended from a family of poor Irish emigrants; the father of Jefftft son Davis was a small bankrupt farm er of Wilkes county. Ceorgia, who moved' his family in a wagon to Ken tucky a couple of weeks before the President of the Southern Confeder a<\\ was horn; Alexander li. Steph ens belonged lo a poor hut highly ro spected family, his father and moth er's^ family tiirieri heing small farm ers; Nnncy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, was born and raised near the Chimney Hoek section of Rutherford county. North Carolina and Nancy was a house servant for a family named Knslow, and on account of the jealousy of her employer's wife she wns sent to some kinspeople in Kentucky when- she met and married Lincoln. Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Re nins" journalist and author, whose book has been translated into many languages and whose name is revered hy both old and young throughout the reading world ? a plain Southern Dem ocrat. whom a Republican President invited as his honored and especial guest ?<? the white Hoiisc-? was a poor Hcorgia boy, born on a small, rocky farm in Jasper county. I do nof sup po,se any boy ever started life under more trying or discouraging cireum-" stances. lie had only the rmlimental smattering of an education obtained at a small ami anthpiatcd country school, and so he had to educate him self while earning a living. An obi man who made hats out <>r rabbit skins printed a small paper on his farm ? *:i 1 1 1 tie- "? 'oiiii! r y ma n." He hired Joe Harris as f, printer's devil, and lie also learned the lit *?(?-* and how t?< stick 'type. in due time the "Countryman" suspended and .Joe Harris found work .?n other weeklies in that section, and starjed i i ^et up while at the rase pa ra L'rn |dis for the paper; ami they were >o pointed and bright that he was encouraged by the editor to continue the work. Harris' squibs began to attract attention from the daily papers and were extensively co-pied. They became the iKadin;^ fca lure in every paper with which llarri was connected. It \sa< ilnrin^ the l-'raneo Prussia r? war 1 was a yoiin?f fellow Working < ? n t lie Savannah Morning \ews, taking lily iniiiiil training in daily journalism. Tile editor of I lie \e\V-> Was Cd). \V. 'J' nnlli?r a lniitHtf'xt"' ? ?f that day nrtHK-1 ".Major .Imps' ( *mi r fslii p " J IJ F.-ri"! was proprle for. i ine itiKlti ahoiit J_' <>V|?M*k Mr. Ksiill eain?* into the off iff piloting one of I he most iinprfpov<e^?ing specimens of humanity my eyfs ever rental irjxtn. Were I nil artist I eould paint that picture today from memory. "Mr. Harris" have j?a??ed for nn3' a?C from I S to :id J I < ? wn- a chunky-built . red -headed. freckled fared vouritf man, apparently woi^hinsr around IfW) pounds and had he started to travel <->11 look* would nnvnr havp g.?t heyoiid his front jrafr*. Hnt rftr most notice able tiling about "Mr Harris" u.n?? hi" < hwtlu's mimI their fit. or rather their misfit. They wore of hofnefcpun j?-nns the wool cpuit just a- ahedred from a hi arte -greyish *heep I ahfiuld judge from their fit that the tailor spread out tUo cloth on the floor, laid liar rl* on it and then proceeded to cut out the garment* with a dull knffe. The panta emW Junt above the At oe ayU ii Is !ipl'(1Uvss to utlvl that I lie i lirt'xsiitu oiub was an unknown inxti tut ion whftv tin' grut Ionian oamo from. Ami lot nn? Just lmro rt?M that tiff or Hani* lictfUU t<? w?*ar "stor** et*?tlio?H thoy always looked a* if they woro thrown on hint wltli a pitehfork. I m?v?T know n man further ivmoveil , from ii Uiulo or a ijeau llruuiihe) than , Joe Harris. ' Afii'V >liakntf iiamls ai?miul and Mr. i i'si III hail e.svr.orteil Harris downstair*, j 1 ntwttvl t*? <V?h?m*l Thompson and iMv ! vxU : "W'Uai of erittrr witv that j WE SELL 'EM CAROLINA MOTOR CO., Inc. Mr. I^UII brought nil?" "N'hy. ( Jivult \vu*>- the reply. "that's our new ni'ws editor ami his name' is Harris." Tlit' ih'M flight , when Harris" ropy 'en inc. up, 1 knew that Our paper had a rare genius in its paragrapher. l.'yery lino was bristling with humor mid ;i s punted as n neodto. Harris wrote a liatnl almost 1 i U o te. pninMnatcd and every i dotted and i crossed. Harris and 1 worked together for some seven yours on the Savannah News and our friendship wars 'unbroken to Ids death. Joe Harris was tire iiio^t mutvsunt ing, yea, modest Mian 1 ever knew. This characteristic made him appear un social to strangers. but with congen ial friends he would unlimher himself and it was indeed 'a rare treat to spend ait. 'evening in liis company. Harris was never mueli of a talker, prefer liny to sit back amLJeave it to the others ; but occasionally he would put in a word of witticism, and whatever he said was always germain to the point or brimful of humor. And Joe Harris never penned a line or spoke a word but it was worth reading or bearing. He was loyalty 'itself to his friends and they were "bound to him with links of steel. No famous mau ever eared so little f<m. ltublio applause as Joel Chandler Harris. He-would hide from admirers hunting him up and Harris never made a public speech ia his life. We have been together at public gatherings and banquets when I he room would be ringing with calls for "Harris! Harris f Harris!" Hut Joe would .snfile and shake his head and if the calls wer* too persistent he would slip away and disappear. While in Savannah lie met and mar Cords Fabrics Reduction in Fisk - prices does not mean a lowered quality. Every Fisk Tire, lar^e or small, is a standard Fisk Tire. Present low prices i.re on tires which have made the name Fisk famous for quality and -mileage. There is 110 better tire value in tli^Nvorld tinui a Fisk Tire at the -prceent price." , Sold only by Dealers ried ii Canadian lady, daughter of a >?-n capTuin, and hit! family life was as beautiful as Ills social lift'. A ten deter or more devoted husband and f.u her could not be. As i lit* yea is rolled by (Jrady em ployed Harris as editorial writer on the Atlanta Constitution and 1 be came owner of the Athens Daily Han ner. It was at' this1 time that Harris be^an to win fume ^s a literary writer. I do not think .loo Harris realized his talent until the world began to ap plaud for his productions and .clamored for more. When Harris started on his "I'ncle Hem lis" stories he wrote me enclosing ' copies oT several he had prepared, and, , knowing my family had always been I sla vo-owners. asked tlmt I refresh my I memory and send him nil the old ne ? srro folk lore stories that, I could call j to mind. My old black nurse Tilda j was pregnant with superstition and. bring of -pure Afrlean dosceu t , . load ; e?f? my you lie mind with? such narra tive* us recited l?y TJiiele Itomus, and which we both firmly 'believed. 1 seat Harris several pages of these stories which ho rewrote and published. It wiji th uk thut Harris collected mate rial for Ids "I'lH.'le Itomus," and but ] foi his work, one of the most interest' ' ing recollections of shivery days in j t lie < >ld South would have pol ished with eina lu'ipii tion. And, furthermore, these I'licle Itomus s-torh-s truly depict tin* kindly relation** existing between j the Southern slave owner ami his: loy :fci and dependent blacks. When Joe Harrio died there passed I away a pure minded, golden-hearted | j:eiit leinau. whose mission in life was to brighten ami cheer fne world. Pence I to his a -lies. I .M ss .Margaret V. Landinuuu gave ?l? school teaching to operate a farm at Cranbury, N.i J. You'll get somewhere with a pipe and P. A.! Print a Albert i'? told in toppy red bafl. tidy red tin*, handtome pound and half pound tin humidors and in the pound cryttat gl an humidor with tpongt moist ? n*r top. Ceeyriglrt INI ky I. J. R*n?M? T4km t? Start fresh all over again at the beginning! Get a pipe! ? and forget every smoke experience you ever had that spilled the beans! For a jimmy pipe, packed brimful with Prince Albert, will trim any degree of smokejoy you ever registered! It's a revelation! Put a pin in here! Prince Albert can't bite your tongue or parch your throat. Both are cut out by our exclusive patented process. So, just pass up any old idea you may have stored away that you can't smoke a pipe! We tell you that you can ? and just have the time of your life on every fire-up ? if you play Prince Albert for packing! What P. A. hands you in a pipe it will duplicate in a home-made cigarette! Gee ? but you'll have a lot of fun rolling 'em with Prince Albert; and, it's a cinch because P. A. is crimp cut and stays put! Fringe Albert thm national jay *wmokm