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COUPE F. O. B. Detroit Completely Equipped The world has never known an enclosed car of this type ? at a lower price. No car at any price has ever offered a greater value. Place your order now to in sure early delivery. Terms if desired. KERSHA W MOTOR CO., Camden , S. C. N. Polk Lenoir Dend. Sumter S. C., March 13. ? N. Polk Lenoir, a native of Sumter county, who has spent much of his life in Sumter, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Burrows, in 'he Dalzell section of the county this morning at 7 o'clock, after *a long dlness, aged 72 years. He is surviv ed \>y two daughters, Mrs. William Burrows, of Oalzell, and Mrs. Sallie Mallard, of Columbia, and one son John Lenoir, of Sumter. Warning Him. "She married him for better or for worse." "Well." "Immediately after the ceremony she served notice on him that if he ever showed any signs of getting worse there would be something do ing." ? Detroit Free Press. The cost of living in Germany sky rocketed 100 per cent for February as compared with January. A Satisfactory Mattress At a Reasonable Price COTTON DOWN MATTRESS Price $15 and up Smooth ? Comfortable ? Sanitary Our Exclusive Interwoven Process Look for the Silk Label Made and guaranteed by GHOLSTIN SPRING & MATTRESS CO. MANUFACTURERS ATLANTA, GEORGIA For Sale By ' CAMDEN FURNITURE COMPANY Camden, South Carolina We are carrying in stock full lines of the follow ing goods: NITRATE OF SODA. MIXED GOODS, 8-4-4, 8-3-3, 8-21-21. 16 PER CENT ACID PHOS PHATE. 12 PER CENT GERMAN KAINIT. 7 PER CENT COTTON SEED MEAL. We can furnish any kind of mixture that is required to make a crop of Cotton, Com, Peanuts, Potatoes, also special Tobacco fertilizers, and our prices are as low as the lowest. Don't fail to see us before you buy, as we can sell you one bag or a thousand tons, and will appre ciate your business. v ? ? i * R. L Moteley Brokerage Agency George W. Car mack Started Stampede Into the Klondike. WhiU Men Had Mmcd There before Him, but Credit for tho Croat "Discovery" Is Hi&. Gold it us I Worth llHA.tklO.GU) has been. iaket* from the cropk* of the Klondike. Although twenty li\i \rars have elapsed since the first discovery* evenl is ree;iiletl l,y nit' .dent h reeently qf UPorffO W t 'arii-ne.;, who panned the first hlgh-ghi'do gravel from Bonanza creek. The deUdls of the discovery are related by a writer in the Engineering and Mining Jour nal-Press of New York. Curmack was a fisherman, with an Indian squaw, and maintained a small trading post on the Youkon twenty miles above the Crossing, ile was not the flrnt to find gold In the valleys of the Klondike, for Hubert Henderson preceded hltu, hut . he started t|>e stampede that led to the development of the Yukon terri tory. At that time Carmaek was Ash ing for salmon at the mouth of the Klondike, Where It Joins the Yukon and where Hawson now stands. Two miles up the valley the Klondike Is Jolued by Bonanza creek. Carmaek happened to bo short of fresh meat so he went with three Indians, one of them a brother-in-law, on a hunting expedition. At that time Bonanza creek was known as a likely place for i moose, therefore lie went thither. He knew that Henderson and three other white men were mining on "Gold Bot tom, on the other side of the water shed. so he crossed the divide with his Indlnn companions to see what the ot hers were doing and to sell them some of the fresh meat that be and the Indians had obtained. Henderson and his partners were not getting much gold and Carmaek soon returned to the camp on Bonan za crfck. Having seen the mining done by the four men on Gold Bottom he iv'as prompted to* do a little pros pecting himself, and '-almost at the first try found gold on the rim of the bedrock projecting above the water of Bonanza creek. This rich spot, recog nized as "the discovery," proved later to be only a patch twenty feet square. Carmaek recorded his claim and the three claims located ,ln the names of his friends, Skookum Jim, Tndinn Pete and Tagish Charlie. A quiet "rush" began. David Mackay, Daniel Sic Gilllvray and Harry Waugh were the first to start. Each 'of them made a fortune. The Information did not reach the "outside," meaning the states, until the best ground had been staked ; those who came to Dawson with the stampede at the end of 1SS)7 and in the spring of 1898 found that tjiey were too late. They had to buy claims or work for wages. On July 14, 1S97, the steamer Excelsior reached San Francisco with the tid ings of n new Eldorado; in proof thereof she brought half a million dol lars In gold. This was the first of many treasure ships to enter the GoH den gate like Spanish galleons of the olden days. Woman Found Treasure Trove. Burled treasure has been found In France by n New York woman. She Is said to be the first person to discover important burled treasure In '*unee since the war. When spading in the region of tbe'devastnled town of Hat ton Chattel, which she Is rebuild! ng, slie turned tip a pot containing 400 rare coins. Many of the coins In the pot dated before the discovery of America, most of them be' "om the Fourteenth and Fifteen!' ? turles. Some of them bear the ? wf the duke of Lorraine, who defen.i >1 north ern France before the Swedish inva sion in the Fourteenth century. All buried treasure betongs to the. govern ment, but the finder in this case will be given 10 per cent of Its value, which it is understood she will donate to the Metropolitan museum of New York. The discovery Is the most valu able find of its kind recorded In France. ' More Light With Less Current. The old subject of keeping electric lamps and retlectors clean is again brought to our attention by Ward Har rison and J. It. Colvllle, in a recent .Issue of Electrical Review and In dustrial Engineer. Among the items discussed by these authorities are the extent and causes of lighting deprecia tion. value of light wasted, and sys tematic maintenance. Experience has shown that In many factories more than 30 per cent of the light paid for Is allowed to go to waste. One-half to two-thirds is being thrown away through lack of attention to simple maintenance requirements. In a plant where the entire time of one man Is required the cost of cleaning open re flectors should not exceed 3 cents ench. Facts and the Rainmaker. M. An got, director of the French meteorological office, has demonstrated that even In the extreme rase of two equal masses q{ saturated air, one at 0 degrees C. and the otheT 20 degrees C., In order to produce a ,04-inch full of rain It would be necessary for the two masses to mix rapidly and thoroughly throughout an atmospheric layer of fotir miles In thickness; that dust par ticles and Ions (the nu<lel of raln , drops) are not sufficient of themselves I to c?a** precipitation without an ac companying reduction of temperatora. The chance of man-made explosion* oattftlitv mla/all la thna tm*n to be ex 'trewrty small, ? ItcftaatSJh America*. I a . .,crtii: world co i jjeAoTss ?vij:,cP9 Gnmo Within ? C'Jvatt OpuwO *0# Cotit, oiiiruj the iiH'.i Lntir# Kuo\V? Earth. ?' The S ii iK en>, who in, -a- fo siu h ,)Oi\ir durdlg I ill' .Middle w.-.e *< umu li> only, a t.iUo.ol watYdvrih# viUi.x w tu? came i the Syi'o Aiu U^Ui defect and halvs-ed the Komau ii 1 1 - 1 1 e's liwiai'i.. i ? 1 1 ? > uoiv > .1 1 ied >.?ra?vni b| 1 1 n- J ?' i ? i ; ; . 1 1 1 s and Um*N> l.aler on the name ol Su rrtceiis was jvi'W to all Moors, .v?nb* ami Turks n tact, Iu all. Mohammedans, or *'in ?;cls" u> ti.e.v were. called. 1 ?r. Joh.ii Draper, lu Ins book, "The > outlet 1 ?s?.l \\ i*oti iloligiou and bc<-?. ? .H e"-- w hci e he ,va.r a loU:-i account ?.?? till- ,.N.u\uvil8- ;nd. UV Uv^CP.lbUig ?iiv cpnipie.us lho\ -taativ niter the lieu I h ui MaUon.ot ; "-Never .lu- ins toi\\ i)f l la' World had there been so vapid and <4 endive a prnjM,<,itloa of .iU.v religion as Mu2;a..-.iuedunisu?. U was now dominating ,.,i una the center 'ii' Asl( to' t la1 WO?lvrtl verge of Afi'Vtf " At one time dr another toe Saracens .conquered IJg.vpt, 1 '% rani, Syria,' North Afrleo and l,aUs.lnt\ thej I'UslirJ their conquest* Into Spain under Tut'ik in III, uud utter annotipciug their intention ot conquer ing Italy, advanced Into Franco as iar as the 4tan!<N of the Loire. Charlcu .wartol (about ONS-'Mi ), the Frtinklsh or French ruler, In a >;ivat butllq which look place near -Tours, defeated the Invaders, and 3t'H>,ikK) Sarucens are bald to have l>een killed, while the re mainder retreated to Spain. In saving his own country Charles Martel tuned the rest of Kurope from being 'overrun hy the Moslem hordes. Gibbon, lu speaking of these historical events, made the. following statement: "A victorious line of march' hnd been pro longed above a thousand miles from the rock ??f Gibraltar to [he banks of the l.olre ? a repetition of- an equal spuce would have carried the Saracens to the .confines of I'oland and the Highlands of Scotland." Civilization and Climate. I'rof. 101ls\\i> ,a llnntinglbn of Vale unlvei siiy marked on a mail of the worhl the areas where climate was most favorable to human effort. lie called these ureas /.ones of climatic t ne?'.gt\ . Then he delved into history and plotted it map of civilization. lie found that the two maps coincided. Ills conclusion was that ?"climate has a great influence on health, and^its ac tion on civilization in this way prob is greater than its direct ellect or t!:an the indirect results arising tin J i agriculiim- ?>r food." i'rnfvssor Huntington took tta* ivc or !?? ?>f pieceworker^ iu l'ittsburgh fac-' torics and students at West 1'oint and Annapolis and found that both phys ical and mental work varied in har hu?ny with the weather, accta'ding to the i'etroit News. Me found that the death rate also fluctuated seasonally according to the weather. He there fore concluded that no high civiliza tion is possible in tropical regions, or where weather conditions are adverse. No high accomplishment was held pos sible where temperature and humidity are unfavorable. Not Talking to Husband. There is no testimony in court that Is as vehement and pointed as that of a militant housewife who seeks a divorce from hor husband. This fact, it upbears, is true especially when tlio wife's easy is uncontested and the hus band is not at tlje hear!***,'. During nuch a case in one of the county ccitrts, the wife became very loud and vociferous in her descrip tions anu denunciations of the brulal manner if; which, she said, her spouse had treated her. ller testimony was as jrapld as loud. In fact her words became jumbled and were lost in the noisy din of her own wails. '"Now look here a minute?" t lie judge interrupted. Nobody can get heads or ''ails ol' what you are saying as long ns you go on that way. Now turn here and talk to me and tell me the story. .lust tell me so 1 can under stand It, but remember you ure not talking to your husband." Idol Shattered. Bobbin had always been Intrigued by the w&x lignum in the windows, but had never asked any questions con cerning thent. Several weeks ago he and his mother emerged from the ele vator o.'i the second Moor of one of the department stores. Immediately In front of a wax lady clad In a gorgeous pink satin breakfast Jacket. Bobbie rushed up to the figure and touched lief faco and nock, then turned and said in a horrified tone. "Mother! She's wax !" Mother Miuiled tolerantly and re plied, "Ye>. son, did you think s 1 1 was real?" "Sure, 1 thought she was real ? atuft'ed." Henhoune Raided by Flying Rat. Sam Cherowlski. a Russian farmer living a mile below Packer. <'or.n.. says (lying rats arc carrying off eggs nnd young chicks. Sam declares they are not hats, nor ftving squirrels, hut big rats with wings like n bird. All rnf holes to his hennery were plugged arid still the e>?gs and chickens disappeared. Tlie farmer hid and watched for the ma rauder. Soon, \ he said, through a broken window up near -the roof a flying mf mine in. Backsliding. , "Felice seems Interested in that hook ?he'* reading." "She's careful to keep the title hfrt rtet?. Maybe It's * naughty book." "ft may be Dickens, *?r something of riiat sort. Kteo a flapper hat? to too rf41cnle<1 t?y other yotmc women fa fl? wme way of llh" (ircenWoui) Shoemaker Held In Jail. Greenwood, M arch U. - W, T. Sax on, 66 yearn old, was lodged in. the county jail thin, morning charged with attacking an II year (jld girl in his shoe shop in a local mill vil la^e yesterday. . The warrant for his arrest was sworn out by the girl's father, who uccordinif to officers, said that his daughter confessed to him that thy alleged attack yester day was one of several during Ithe past few weeks, claiming that others were not reported because Saxpn hfui threatened her. - Saxon figaRul in u .sensational rob bery here ou the night of February H>21, when he was shot and se riously wounded by hold-up men. While lying critically ill in a hospi tal he accused John 'Burnett, young white man, with the act, but, upon re covering, retracted this statement. Hurnett was tried and convicted of the attempted robbery and is now tervipjj seven years lu the State peib Jtcntinry. > The body of Tampton Poole, farm er, aged Hi, was found in a field near Mauldin, Tuesday afternoon. lit* usually plowed with the lines over hix i nock. It is supposed that while plowing his mule made a sudden lunjfc and threw him against the plow handles, breaking His nock, o i ? \i ( > i m SION A I <, N ( >T ICK, Colored Attorney Opens' '.Law Office in ('Hindcn. Attorney Herbert F. McGivt takes pleasure in announcing? to the public ihu.t he has ojienod his law office, niut is located at t>'27 Main Street, up stairs, and that lu* is prepared servo, the public in air mat ters roJa- . tivo to ileal Kstato, -Insurance, Wills, ' Negotiation ot l/oans, Collection and J Settlement of (Maims and Accounts, Notorial Service, and General Legal Practice. Yours for service, UEKRERT F. McGIUT. MAKE EVERY ACRE > DO ITS BEST ? : ? ? -t* .. . . . ? ' \ -;?? '? % \ Under Boll Weevil Conditions the best is none too good. ? ? ij? 300 Pounds of 12-4-4 gives you the same plant food as 400 Pounds of and you save about (>5e an acre be sides time hauling, applying, etc. You can only afford to use the best ? insist on getting Use Armour's Hi# Crop 12-4-4 this season and at picking time you surely will be pleased. ARMOUR'S BIG CROP FERTILIZE ft on the bag means Quality in the bag. See me ? I will be glad to figure out the saving for you through using high analysis fertilizers. W. It. HOUGH, Local Agent, Camden, S . C. Mules! Mules! Mules! I " * ? ? . ? . Another car of fine, fat, sleek young' mules just came in yesterday. We i have the quality in this shipment as v/ell as the last. You would be sur prised how cheap we can sell you these mules; after you see the QUALITY. Come in and see them. It will be a pleasure to us to show them to you. Mules! Mules! Mules! Springs & Shannon See us before you buy Lime, Cement and Wall Plaster. 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