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Mrs. Laura Bennett 299 East Bay Street, Charleston. ?A?? ?i? I had awful pains across mv (back j.tid i!) my limbs from uric acid and fia u.iuitisni and could hardly get about to (io my house work, t>ay? \| Bennett, "After eating even vu lightest things 1 would have sour - iianach and terrible gas pains, and 111 v kidneys had gotten in such a bad t-million 1 would have to get up all through the rtlght. ".My liver did not uCt properly and 1 was bilious and constipated and nearly always had a bad taste in my mouth, especially when getting up in the morning. I didn't have a bit of appetite, and had become so weak and run down I was almost a nervous \vv<4k. "The druggist gave me a sample hot tie of Masteral, and it helped me so much 1 kept up the treatment, and two bottles relieved mv troubles." MASTBRAL, the new herb medicine, contains no alcohol or harmful drugs. It may be had at DeKALB PHARMACY.?adv. 1 FREE SAMPLES GIVEN IIamj Davidson, 50, of Albany, N. Y., ield in prison at Rome, Italy, on a narge of swindling a British colonel c>ut of $35,000, committed suicide Monday by hangnig himself wtih a tope made from a twisted union suit. Although JMiss Mary L. Pacheco, pmplove of a machine company at Mew Bedford. Mass.. has just I'd $38 ,.'103.66 in a ibank as her wintings in a Canadian sweepstakes torse race a month ago, she holds; ight on to her job and keeps workng Congressman James B. AsweM. senior member of the Louisiana delegation in the-national house of rep-1 -e<entatives, died MonduV from heart disease. ' Gen. Pickett's Widow Died in Baltimore Washington, March 33.?'"Mother" Pickett of the snow-white hair and charming accent no more will tell of "Confederate charge jij. Gettysburg or draw word pictures of interesting characters and incidents. In u private hospital here yeater, day Mrs. I^a Salle Corbell Pickett, called "mother" even by presidents, died of hardening of the arteries in her eighty-third year. 'With her passed the tingling tale she told of how Con federates stormed up Cemetery ridge at Gettytfburtf on July 3, 186,'i, only to be repulsed when they found the Union forces had not exhausted their ammunition. She had reason to know that story Well. She was lf> when she married the officer who led the Southern forces?Ceneral George Edward Pickett. Before his death in 1875 she became known as "the child bride of the Confederacy," praised for her vivacity and ;beauty. iShe was a native of Virginia. A favorite in society, she knew every president beginning with Lincoln, and met authors, actors and diplomats. One of her most colorful manuscripts entitled, "My "Memory Chain," was left unfinished by her I death. She was an honorary president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. New York police have another mysterious case on their hands. This one is that of Georgia Gray, 25, dancer and a witness against members of the police vice squad, who died in a hospital (Saturday n'i^ht supposedly from pneumonia. Circumstances of her death were so suspicious that the authorities ordered an autopsy and j search for poison in her vital organs. | The strangling of Vivian Gordon, another vice squad witness, a few weeks ago, has not been solved and it is believed that, the of the two women are linked in some way or other. A movement to seek repeal of Arkansas' new 90-day divorce law was launched Wednesday (by the Little Rock Ministerial alliance. The ."ministers called a state-wide mass meeting to Joe held in Little Rock on March 29th, when stops twilV (he t^ken to initiate repeal of the act. * Li I IMW? J LI- 1 1 Murder and Suicide Occurs at Gaffney . Gaffney, March 23,?When Mary Phillips, 22, refused to give him a "date," George Self, 30, and married, entered her bedroom late last night, shot her and then turned the gun on himself. Both died almost instantly. Douglas Phillips and his wife, at ' whose home the tragedy occurred, I told a coroner's jury today that Self insisted the girl should accompany him to Gaffney at a late hour. When [ she refused, he started firing, one 'bullet stinking her in the forehead. I Their testimony was supported by ! Ethel Phillips ami Mux Biddix, also ; eye witnesses. '"Murder and suicide," ' was the verdict. All said Self, who leaves a \sido\s ! and four children, had gone to see Miss Phillips frequently. The dead I girl was not a relative of the Doug; las Phillips family. Itoddey Home Destroyed Early Friday morning the residence Jof E. B. Itoddey was completely destroyed by fire and the family ; narrowly escaped serious injuries in | the burning building as the flames which broke out in the roof had made ! great headway before they were discovered. It was about 3:15 a. m. that Mr. Roddey awoke to find the roof on fire and the flames spreading rapidly. He immediately awakened members of the family and called the fire department. He then attempted to get some of the articles of value | out of the burning home but the fire i had spread all through the house and [ he was unable to get but a few personal belongings that were behind a door. The origin of the fire is unknown. Mr. Roddey said that he could not account for the cause of the fire.? Lancaster News. Four of the five officers who were I - l-aii. nr:i vii^a^cu iii a -&uii uctcbic iie*w ttumington, N. C., Sunday night of last week, in which the driver of a mail truck and an officer was killed, are to be given a hearing tomorrow by a New Hanover county grand jury. The officers were looking for liquor runners, and it is thought that the mail truck dri ve r_.be 1 reved that bandits were trying to hold him up when he fired on the officers. <921 I 9221923 Htt4 1915 192* <927 IW <929 IMP 1921 1922 1929 I9W1918 192* 1927 1928 <929 |?0 . 452*. 70 ? | [ 415 ^ 54 . J 757vw. Assessments of ate asscsjmentj of Cotton Mills V An Interesting Tax Study While Total Assessments of the State Decline? Assessments of Cotton Mills Increase Rapidly. The two charts above, based on figures from the S. C. Tax Commission, covering a period ten years, sfhow very convincingly the steady rate i of decline of general tax assessments of the state as a whole; and the even more steady increase of the assessments of the cotton mill?. When i you consider that the total assessments of the state, in slpdte of their steady decrease, actually include the assessments'of cotton mill*, on which there has 'been an increase, it is easy to see that cotton mills are each year carrying an increasing tax load, taken off of the shoulders of someone else. The figures upon which the above charts were based are as follows: Total Assessments of State 1921 $452,490,600 1922 435,999,839 1923 424,015,714 1924 428,601,274 1925 430,082,366 1926 424,863,722 1927 422,169,895 1928 425,543,764 1929 426,359,133 1930 415,000,000 O0I Decrease O |0 In 10 Years In total Assessments of State Assessments Cot.tnn Mill* - ? $54,722,435 55,424,250 56,004,345 60,768,155 63,819,950 64,861,370 65,861,400 66,619,885 69,387,430 70,915,815 > * OA I Increase |0 'Tn" 10 Years In Assessments of Cotton Mills [Of course a portion of the increase is represented by new cotton mills, new spindle* added to the state. The spindle increase, however, has only been fpom 5,034,861 to 5,689,642?an increase of 13 per cent. During the past nine years the increase in taxes paid by the mills has been 90 per cent, and the increase in taxes paid per spindle has been 40 tper-cent. - With such an alarming rate of tax increase in the t state for cotton mills, it is not likely0that the next , 10 years will show much increase in spindles. *'* south ^ ^arolinaJ 'Am InJimtry IVot? 3m Promymr Thm Ptoyk' t&h&'-ZjM'-"Jj- w^-?J SINKS IN COLLETON COl'NTY Sorte Have <"old Running Water and May Be llsed an Refrigerator* In the upper part \ft Colleton county, alMiut eight miles from the county line on the ol<l Augusta road, situnted in a beautiful high strip of forest and partly in the farm lands, there is a line of holes commonly called iby the negroes "sink holes," writes Kdna Bteland, of.Oottageville, in the Waltei1>oro Press and Stand-1 ard. Few of these holt's h'ive been there us far ibaelf as the oldest inhabitants of the community can remember, while most of them ktlnk during the earthquake of 188a. , The most interesting of these holes is the "Crescent" or "Half Moon." deriving its name from its shape. Down | in this hole the water tinkles as it runs over rocks, and is very cool, clear and pure. My great-greatgrandfather used this as a refrigerator during the summer time. Next, in a part of the sa.me choiring, is the "Roaring Hole." A ditch worn deej) by t me empties into this holy in high water, "the water rushing into the hole and making a roaring noise which can be heard a half mile from its location, hence the name' "Roaring Hole." This Sink hole dur- r ing high water, is a small Niagara , Falls. The water flows into and out of this | hole. On one occasion a negro j drpwned three little puppies in ii;j two days later he found the puppies in the Bdisto river, which proves that there 'must be an underground stream in this section. West of this hole is a strip of woodland, where we find 25 or 30 more sink holes; one is called the "Milk Hole" 'because the water has a milky look, this is about 20 feet deep. Just a little farther on comes the "Well Hole," which is a large cavity in the ground and just in the center of this cavity is a well-shaped opening, sup-1 posed to be bottomless. An effort was once made by a nearby resident to reach the bottom, using a ball of twine with a weight tied to the end; all the twine was unwound and still the Ibottom had not been peached. Farther west in a line for a distance of about two miles we find the "Black Hole," because the water is so dark. The most?attractive of these, sink holes is the "Clinking Hole," it is very deep and its water falls and drips with a clinking noise. 'Many of these holes are still unnamed. Some of them are dry and the soil is beautiful, white sand. It is Said that this line of holes extends through sections of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and trie supposition is that they are caused by an underground channel. ? The Baby Opossum.^ | Carl G. Hartman, in Nature Maga| zine. In some respects the opossum is the most remarkable animal in America. Lt is the only marsupial or pouch*uL ani'ntcwl ^^ Kangaroo and other near relatives all live in Australia. The pouoh of the female is a fold of skin stretched around 11 to 15 milk glands on the lower abdomen in a region corresponding to the cow's udder. The pouch may be closed by ring muscles much as a tobacco sack may be closed by pulling the string; in this way the tiny babies may be guarded against cold and other dangers. Shelter, warmth, and food the opossum babies find in this admirable contrivance of Nature- deaignod for the eare- of her children that are born younger and in most respects less developed than any other mammal babies in the world. From the egg an opossum ready for birth develops in 12 1-2 days. So small are the babies at birth that a litter of 18 may rest in a teaspoon. Such a whole litter weighs one-fifteenth of an ounce?270 opossums, living, breathing, digesting animab would weigh one ounce. They are less developed than mouse babies, which themselves, as every boy knows, ara blind, helpless bits of pink flesh. They do not have their eyes open for the seven or eight weeks that they are in the pouch attached to the teats. How does so poorly developed a I baby reach the pouch and find the teat, for this it must do or die? It was formerly supposed that the mother every skilfully and delicately caught, the young in her lips and placed them in the pouch and on the nipples. That's the story one fipds in many Nature books still. The facts are that when the baby oposeum is born it crawls into the pouch by itself and it is for the first journey that it has well developed front feet. At two months the young scamper about on the old one, holding on to the mother's rich fur. In another month they hunt food for themeehres, bat dilk #or some thpe, like to have their mother flfcout for protection. Ym, hJ .,. ? *-? ? - * -4* ? ikf>I Y I ft r .> ? ; o. Girl Jumped Into Congaree River Columbia, March 21.?Gaynell Dunlap, 16, pupil at the New Brookland school across the river from Columbia, wns recovering today from nervousness following her atterhipt at suicide yesterday afternoon iby drowning. The girl, uptoet because she had failed to make as high mark as aha . expected in a mathematics examination, jumped 55 feet from the highway bridge to the shallow waters of the Congaree river. She had picked one of the few spots not covered with large boulders and was uninjured. She told her father, George Dunlap, that she was worried and nervous and did ltot remember anything about it until she hit the water. "Everything came back to me then," she said, ''and I waded to a shallow or place and called for help." Governor Fuller of ^Massachusetts, on Stuurday issued a warning against continued extravagant spending and said that rigid economy in governmental finance, ribt increased spending, is the need in the face of business depression. He said that "Towns cities, states and the Union are traveling at a rate, which if kept up, will bring us into national bankAptcy." He pointed that the appropriations of the last congress would mean a tax of $81 on every inhabitant or $40& per family of the United States. Three national scientific societies of ^he United States, under the lead of H. E. Anthony, will soon begin explorations of an area of 40,000 square miles in southern Venejjjiela. Planes will be used in the explorations and special attention will be given to the geologic and physiographic data of the area. ^ F O II II SAFETY / Triplrx nhattvr-proof gins* windnhivid ' has Harvd many tirrn in rollisionn , > EVERY now Ford 18 equipped with u Triplex shatterproof windshield. This is inude so that the gluHH will not fly or Hplinter under the hardest impact. It Iiuh saved many lives and prevented injuries in many automobile collisions. This shatter-proof gluss windshield is just one of muny features that make the new Ford a value far uhove the price. Others are the silent, fully enclosed fourwheel brakes, sturdy steel body construction, four Houdaillc doubletacting hydraulic shock absorbers, more than twenty ball and roller hearings, extensive use of fine steel forgings, aluminum pistons, chrome silicon alloy valves, torque-tube drive, three-quarter floating rear axle, Rustless Steel, and unusual accuracy in manufacturing. In addition, you save many dollars because of low first cost of the new Ford, low cost of operation and lip-keep, and low yearly depreciation. < The New Ford }' De Luxe Coupe < i - f LOW PRICES OF FORD CARS $430 to $630 ; > F. O. B. Detroit, plut freight and delivery. Bumper m and tpare tire antra at tmall eoit. You can purchate a Ford on economical termt through the Authorleed Ford Finance Plane of the Vnlvertal Credit Company. INSURANCE I I have associated with me Miss Lai K. Blakeney in the writing of-all forms I of Insurance. Located in Camden Build- j ing & Loan office, Broad street entrance ' to?firocker Building. Willi# pieasedtft^ ; handle a share of your insurance. John S. Lindsay i I I V