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Old Folks' Ailments "I began taking Black* Draught over fifty year* age and my experience with It stretches ever a good long time/' says Mr. Joe A. Blake more. a CWI1 War veteran ?ad former Virginian, who is new a prominent citisen of Floyd. Texas. "It is the best laxative I know of for old people. . . A geoa many years ago, .in Vir^niVTuaed to get bilious and I found that Thedford's BLACK-DRAUGHT was the best and quickest re lief I could fet. Since I came to Texae 1 Here these bilious attacks every now and then ? a man will got bilious any where, you know ? and I find that a little Black-Draught soon straightens me out. After a few doses, in little or no time I'm all right again." Thedford's Black-Draught is a purely vegetable liver medicine, used in America for over eighty years. It acts on the stomach, liver and bowels in a gentle, natural way, as sisting digestion and reliev ing constipation. Sold every-. LENINGRAD. A Dying City Name<h-~for a Dead Man. In changing the name of Petrograd to I Leningrad the Soviet government has named a dying cily ?rter a ueau j man. Moscow, like Vienna, Riga, i and Trieste, after passing under the, shadow of poverty thrown by war] devastation, is once mdre on the path to prosperity, but the city of the tsars, despite its glorious past, ap pears to be drifting toward oblivion. "Qld St. Petersburg by any name will always bo - known as a city, which, like Tell-el-Amarna, the cita del of Tutankhamen's father-in-law, was dedicated to a great ideal," a bul letin from the National Geographic society says. "St. Petersburg was the lever used by Peter the Great to lift Russia out of her stodgy Asiatic habits into' the light of European cul ture and commerce. "Russia's window to Europe" was the significant designation of St. Pe tersburg before the war and revolu tion. Riga and Warsaw now are both the doors and windows of Rus sia, when she chooses to use them, and with the transfer of government to the more centrally located city of Moscow, Leningrad has lost its chief reason for being much more than a railway junction. Before the war it had a population of 2,000,000. Now it has fewer than one-third that number. "Except for the main avenues^ Leningrad's streets are deserted; grass grows between the cobble stones, street cars are running half empty when they do run, most of the shop's and gay restaurants are closed. The harbor holds no fleets trven when the ice is out in April. Leningrad of fers a melancholy sight to the tourist. Stately mansions of royalty are turn - ling in. Many were built on piles like houses in Venice or Amsterdam and the foundations are collapsing. Base ments are filled with the Neva's over flow and roofs and window frames have been torn out long ago to sup ply fuel for a desperate citizenry. Famous parks are wildernesses. Gaunt factories are empty and still. Long streets of laborer's homes dilap idated, echo to sound. "How different when the brilliant Catherine ruled 100 years ago! Some called her Catherine the Great; many called her Catherine^the Bad. Good or bad, with an empire as large as the Roman Empire from which to exact wealth, she set a pace for extrava gance, contempt for human life, and loose living which Nero himself might be pushed to equal. She built palaces in rapid succession for her favorites One of them, Orloflf, returned the fa vor by strangling her husband, that Catherine might satisfy her ambition to be sovereign of all Russia from t e Atlantic to the Pacific. For Potemkin she built the Taurida palace at a cost of millions, estimated in dollars, and hundreds of lives. The Taurida pal ace became the meeting place of the Duma and in turn the birthplace of the Soviet government. "Potemkin, in his gratitude, gave an entertainment typical of lavish royal St. Petersburg. For illumina tion $60,000 fvas spent. On one even ing 140,000 lamps and 20,000 wax randies were burning. Between U* palace and the river, the whole "P**? was occupied by booths, swings and shops, where clothes, boota, caps an iroe-gaws wsra distribtttad gratis to tto pap to. Tta# tbowwd were invited and all attended in cos tume. White dressea of members of the special ballet were decorated with diamonds. Invisible music i. boxes played selections of nuted composers. When they were silent 300 musicians and fingw? played and sang for the merry-makers. Potemkin, himself, had a crown for the occasion so heavy with jewels he was compelled to give it to his adjutunt to carry 1 "This for men capital of Russia has always had tho reputation of being disease ridden. Within the last year the death rate has fallen lower than the usual figure, which hovers about 00 per thousand. The reason offered, however, is that the weak have all died off and only the strong remain. Ihis is what comes of a tsar's whim, for Peter the Great' insisted that his window to Europe' rise on the swamp where the Neva enters a shal low bay of tho Gulf of Finland. There it stands, now girded 'r?und about with gray granite quays, but the Nova still gets out of hand when a stiff southwest wind backs up water in the bay. Royalty suffered along with serf. 1 eter died from fever caused by his /escut1 of a peasant woman and child I who had fallen through the ice. The average reign of seven monarchs in he first '10 years after tho founding -5f the city was less than six years. I.ctcr the Great had a 'marine omplex. Russ.ans traditionally avoid he ocean. lJut not Peter. He loved he sea from boyhood when he satis iied his longing by making boais, 'lis great desire was that Russia should become a seafaring nation and that his, capital would one day out shine Venice or Amsterdam. So pro found was his veneration of the Dutch that he called his city Sankt Petersboorgh. This became St. Peters ? bui1^ whieh gave way at tho opening of the World war to Potrograd, be cause the older name was too German. Leningrad. lik? V#?n nnH Amofn>* dam, has numerous canals, but unlike these two cities, it can never be a great port. The river and bay, for one thing, are frozen solid six months of tho year. The hinterland on which Leningrad draws is a forest district. Riga is the logical western port for the great producing sections of Russia. "Leningrad ia- like* New York in its utilization of islands at the river mouth, but the main part of town is on the south bank, corresponding to Brooklyn, Leningrad is similar to Washington. Like the capital of the United States, it has broad avenues radiating from the main government buildings on the river bank. These avenues are called prospects. The chief of these is the Nevski prospect, 115 feet wide, running nearly three miles from the Admiralty buildings to tho Alexandra Nevskava monast ery. It is lined with great bazaara, rich homes, hotels, and government buildings. In the old days shouting sleigh-taxi drivers, perilously perched on the thill, would race down this snow-paved avenue, their splendid black horses . three or four abreast galloping like steeds of an ancient chariot race. Leningrad's sleigh bells now jingle faintly in a commun ist state where the romance and ex travagance of royalty give way to realism." Wanted New Trial.? Joseph Schultz, the well known New York lawyer, tells a story of a famous lawyer who was induced to take a case which had practically no chance of being decided in favor of his client. He put up a good fight however, and the judge reserved decision, which meant that he had taken the case un der advisement and would announce his verdict in a few days. In the meantime, the client, who really did not oxpetrt to win, had to leave town. In the course of a few days tho judge announced his decision, which, to the great surprise of the famous lawyer, was in favor of his client. Jubilantly he telegraphed tho client: "Justice has triumphed." A couple of hours later ho received a telegram from his client: '"Appeal at once!" Rub the back of a knife quite hard over ripe tomatoes and see how easy it is to remove the skins. DOG TAX. I wish to call special attention to the dog license tax, which can be paid from October 15th, 1923, to February 1st, 1924. (February 1st, 1924, is the last day for the payment of this tax.) The license tax on each dog is $1.25, and I now have the license tags te supply c/wners of dogs when paying their license tax. A dog is liable to this tax if six months old or older on January 1st. (A dog born June 80th, rl9ft*Ha ttaMrtO the tax January 1st, 1924.) This is in lieu of all other taxes or licenses on dogs, either county, mu nicipal or otherwise Dog license tax issued by the Treasurer should bear the inscription "Dog License 1924," alao show the serial number and county. This la not charyetf on the Auditor's Duplicate, nor carried on the odinary tax re ceipt. Stunt# receipt nwowury, D. M. MeCASKlLL, County Treasurer. . Ju8t Wautrd To Know. Mr. Howland was not only the load ing hardware merchant in the town, but an active church worker. It used to be his delight to inspect the Sun day School of his church while it was *h session, to offer advice and especial ly. to be calU-'d upon to sp^tk to the "little ones." This Sunday the. lesson had been about the Hood. Mr. Howland, called upon to spfcak, told the children that tho lesson had not been clear enough; he would explain. Ho went on in great detail to tell how the ark was built, how the animals came aboard, how land was Anally sighted. Then he added: "Nqw if there is anything you do not understand just ask questions ? ask mo any question." '?Mr. , Howland!" A little boy pop-" pea up. "Yes, my little man, go ahead. Don't be bashful. Ask me any ques tion." "How much is them air rifles in your store window?" Old bread or biscuit can bo mado fresh by moistening and placing in an oven until heated through. Petijl Jurors. - K. 13. Catoej Kershaw. T. 1). Branham, Lugoflf. F. R. Truesdale, Westville. L. I). Jordan, Westville. I). O. Houser, Camden. C*, W. Htiggins, /Camden. Shaylor Crow, Kershaw. Lewis Barfield, Kershaw. H. M. Rogers, Casshtt. K. T. Rosborough, Lugoflf. Zellie Catoe, Kershaw. C. P. Lorick, Camden. S. W. West, Camden. W. P. Sowell, Jefferson. NT CrArneUt, Camden. J. J. Campbell, Camden. J. L. King, Bethnne. L. S. Myers, Camden. J. T. Sinclair, Camden. Henry Stroud, Kershaw. J. N. McLeod, Camden. R. W. Coleman, Camden. R. E. McCaskill, Bethune. E. L. Fields, Bethune. L. S. Brown, Kershaw. W. J. Stokes, Luckno^y. H. N. Barnes, Camden. L. E. Rabon, LugofF. H. K. Hallett, Camden. M. B. Wooten, Camden. L. J. Faulkenberry, Kershaw. W. W. Player, Bethune. C. R. Cassady, Bethune. ,F. J. Tidwell, Cassatt. s W. R. Hougff, Camden. B. W. Best, Bethune. Second Week Jurors. Bryant Brannon, Camden. David Jackson, Lugoflf. L. T. Stewart, Camden. W. C. Nicholson, Camden. Baron Lee, Bethune. J. T. Ross, Blaney. E. W. Yarborough, Bethune. W. F, Mattox, Camdon. J. K. Uranium, Cassatt. S. M. Carnes, Kershaw. FJ. T. Arnold, Bethyne. 1>. (i. Joy, Camden. Burwell Barfield, Camdon. W. K. Phillips, Kershaw. 1). F. Hilton, Bethuno, M. 1*. Johnson, Kershaw. T. H. Richardson, English, 11. J. Catoe, Kershaw. K. C. Bennett, Kershaw. B. W, (Jettys, LukoIT. K. T. Anderson, Cassatt. S. B. Stokes, Camden. W. A. Marshall, Camdon. S. K. Broughton, Kershaw W. C. Young, Kershaw. Dove Haley, Betjnme, I). L. Melton, Camden. J, Q. Godwin, Camden. S. W. Hornsby, Camden. S, W. Itarttald, Kershaw. J. W. Smith, Uethuno. J. I). Sinclair, Camden. J. L. Hranham, Hlaney. G. R Munn, Weatviile. .1. K. Vincent, Kershaw. I). K. Hough, Kershaw. FirNt Week Civil Court Juror*. J. W. llornsby, Camden. 11. I). Gardner, Kershaw, \V. J. Newman, Hethune. K. A. McDowell, Camden. J. W. Youiik, Kershaw. F. 11. Arrants, Camden. H. C. Kreppa, Camden. K. T. Jonea, Kershaw. , C. L Young1, Weatville. B. O. Boykin, Camden. 1>. L. McLaughlin, Caasatt. H. A. Bruce, Camden. J. W. Z. llearon, Weatville, J. S. Munn, Hethune. Yunoy Montgomery, Camden. k A. J. Lollis, Camden.. J. R, Brannon, ImgofY, Adolphus Hobo, Blaney. Dork Hunter, Itethune. \V. A. Waters, Camden. t Harrison H. Hall, Luck now. ?John Cordor, Rnglisn. 10. N. Me Howell, ('iinulrii. C. L. Poison, Camden. A. S. Broom, Kershaw. A. v). Smith, liethune. Jus. A. MiCaskill, liethune. It. ft. Chcwning, Camden. K. W. Habon, LugoiT. W. A. Rush, Camden. L. M. Outlaw, Hethune. ? Henry 1). Hoykin, Hoykin. ?J. P. Hasty, Canidin. J. li. Hornsby, Camden. ?J. C. Hunter, Kershaw. W. L. Kinard, Lugotf. Last year 350,000 buyers waited for delivery. Insure yourself against delay this spring by placing your order for a Ford Car now. See the Nearest Authorized Ford Dealer EVERYTHING FOR THE FARM The year 1924 will be one of intensive cultivation to make two seeds grow where only one has grown. The farmers in Kershaw County during- the past year have been blessed with good crops and good prices for their products, that in turn have made better busi ness for us. The farmer is the main dependence in this county, as we are an agricultural community. We want to bring a few facts before our farmer friends. We have been in this game for about 40 years supplying the wants of farmers and we take great pride in the fact that we have been successful through these many periods of depres sion and our friends have made it possible for our success. Being prepared and continually and persistently keeping at the post, is the secret, in a measure, of success. We are Headquarters for FARMERS' SUPPLIES. Before making your pur chases, come in and inspect our stock. We carry a full line of FIELD FENCING, GARDEN WIRE, NAILS, CORRUGATED ROOFING Car Composition Shingles in Transit. STOVES, HARDWARE, CHATTANOOGA AND OLIVER PLOWS COTTON PLANTERS, HAMES, TRACES, GUANO DISTRIBUTORS Agents for Coheres Pedigreed Seeds.? See us before planting and we can supply you with improved seed. See the greatest device for the distribution of Nitrate of Soda. We have one of the Soda Distributors on display in our window, and it will pay any Farmer who has two to five tons of Nitrate of Soda to distribute The majority of the better farmers are using Calcium Arsenate. It has demon strated that it is the only insurance against the Boll Weevil. We handle molas ses and arsenate in large quantities. We are agents for the Larrowe Milling Company. The best Cow Feed that money can get. Try one sack and if not. pleased with results your money back. The largest'dairies in the country say it's the best by test. If you feed one Milk Cow or a herd it will pay you to get ac quainted with Larro. Yours respectfully, SPRINGS & SHANNON, Inc. ... J ** * r