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POISON in Your bowels! Poisons <|t?HOrt>e<l into the ^yslcm-from joining waste in the bowel*, cause thnl . headachy, slavish, bilious condition: coat the tongue; foul Ihe breath; sep energy, strength ami ncrvcTorcu. A little of Dr. CaldwcU's Syrup Pepsin wiil dear tij> trouble like that, gently, harmlessly,^] In n hurry. Tho diUuruucc it will "uykc in your feelings over night v. TT proyi its im-rit to you. ?-~Dr. Galdwcll studied Constipation for forty-seven years. This Icing experience j enabled him to inuko his prcscriptiolW just what men, women, old people ami children need to make their bowels help themselves. Its natural, mild, thorough action and its pleasant taste commend it to people of all ages. That's why "l)r. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin," as it is called, is the most popular laxative drugstores sell, Dr. W. B. Caldwell's SYRUP PEPSIN *A Doctor's Family Laxative * Pork Production Contest To Be Held "Fill the Smokehouse in 11)32," is a concrete purt of the diversification program of many farmers in this section, according: to Khame Brothers,' local Purina dealers^ who with other Purina dealers in this section is spun-, serinfc a pork production content this year in an effort to help this section of the 'South 'io.Jive at home. Three prizes totaling: $150 will be offered to the winner^ of the contest. Litters entered in the contest will be judged on the following basis': Low -cost of gain, 40 |>er cent; heaviest litter, 31) per cent; heaviest average weight of hogs in litter, 30 per cent. "We hope in sponsoring such a contest that we will help to fill a lot of smokehouses in this section with some good pork," Khamo Brothers say. "The average farm family of ' five will consume $200 worth of pork and pork products during the year. With cotton selling at rock bottom? say 5c per pound?it would take eight bales to buy the meat for the family. The meat bill, after all, is quite an item and if it can be raised at home with little cost it is certainly worth doing." This contest will not keep farmers who wish to enter the regular sfato pork production contest from doing so. Farmers entering a litter in one eonte?t may enter the same litter in the other. Farmers whb care to cntcxr this perk production contest, in which already much 'interest is being shown, should see Khame Brothers for com-, 1 iiVe details. John F. Archbold,' former head of the Prairie Oil Company, who died January .">, 1930, left an estate of $ 117 ?,T??1, according to a Now York tax appraisal. Aspirin BEWARE OF IMITATIONS mznma Look f-.r the name Bayer and the Wv?rd genuine on the package as pictured al*>ve when you buy Aspirin. Then you'll know that \ou are getting the grnuxnr Bayer product that thousands of physicians prescribe. Bayer Aspirin is SAFE, as millions of users have proved. It does not depress the heart. No harmful after-effects follow its use. Bayer Aspirin is the universal antidote for pains of all kinds. Headaches Neuritis Colds Neuralgia Sore Throat ' Lumbago Rheumatism Toothache Genuine Bayer Aspirin is sold at all druggists in Ijoxes of 12 and in bottles of 24 and 100. ? Aspirin is the trade-mark of Bayer manufacture of monoaceticacidester of snhcybcacid. * Writes on Cranks Met in Europe ~~7Sy Dr. H. H. Bennett, Pre?UUuA| of Lander College, Greenwood.) Travel is valuable only as a mall keeps Kit eyea ? *? opcn ?i hit mind at work. Many a J?ra?": has been all over the world and knows very little about it. ? *>,?? of the best books of description have been written by those .who have never seen" the -oountriee of which they tell, it will surprise you to see how little interest some travelers about you take in scenes and incidents that thrill you to yout heart's center. Men and women will wander through Westminster Abbey, where the lines of history ami al noble callings meet, and gaze upon a ,Tennyson's, a Livingston's or an Llixaboth's tomb. Amid the most glorious scenery 1 the Alps, nature's wildest and loveliest dreams, aft 1 revelled in glories I never expect to see surpassed this side of heaven, I met men and women bundles to their eyes in wraps, and with windows closed shutting out the tonic air as fresh as that in Eden s first creation morning, and barring I from ' their view scenes than whio ' *carely Paradise perchance had any more sublime,. Why they:.wero going through this fuir land except to say they had done so, it were hard to 8ee. Sometimes in the Scottish Highlands they will be **en fast asleep or reading as they are whirled through nature's picture gallery and history s holy ground. ' Bayard Taylor tells of meeting a t carriage amid the grandest scones on the .Rhine, with English gentleman and lady, both asleep, while onTOm seat behind sat an artist sketching nway as for his life. When asked the reason for his industry, the artist answered, "O, my lord wishes to see every night what he has passed during the day, and so I sketch as we go along. Then there is the man who sees too much and believe? everything. He it was who in Arcadian days peopled every forest with the elves and placed a nymph in every spring. He must have a legend for every hollow and a memory for every moor. No pile of stones he sees but it must perchance become a ruin rich in history and tradition. If to the former man the Colosseum is but a heap of unmeaning stones, to the latter every cairn of rock is transformed into a Colosseum. You may know this man by his evident effort to place in some alcove in memory's desk every statement he hears or reads, without regard to its probability. He walks through the lovely grounds of Heidelberg Castle with his finger in his guide book, studying the printed page instead of forming his own. He swallows every canard invented by so many guides and cabmen to make their presence agreeable to the totfrist and financially profitable to themselves even such startling announcements'as one given by a colored cabby of Richmond,V irginia, to credulous travelers who\oar from Sambo the remarkable statement that an old brick stable a.t lihth and Grace streets (evidently standing there a hundred or more years) was "General Jackson's headquarters, sah, at de battle ob Bull Run?" Close akin to the credulous craryc. I you will meet in Europe, as in Amerlira, the superstitious crank. What j a life he leads. Unable to give one reason for his many rules of lucky or unlucky happenings, he accepts ail tokens and signs as gospel. An eclipse of the sun fills him with horror, and he has boon known to faint away with dread at the sight of it. Comets to him are omens of war. earthquake, famine, pestilence. The aurora borealis son<ta a shiver through his being, and in it his disordered fancy w.Il discern horsemen, chariots and armies. The wi'd-o-thew.sp. that luminous gas seen by night ouimpy places, is to him a veritable jack-,.'-lantern and a pressa.-e "f ok '.1.. * The ticking noise of a l.ttle .n-eot he calls the death watch. The - reee'r. owi at the window, the wkhiwM-.r-...; ..iv r?ef. the dog howling in the night, the curling of the melted tallow in the candle and , ,\rn the overturning of the salt I vellar at the table, fill his soul with] a vague alarm. He would as soon transplant a ceslar tree, or begin anything' on Friday, or sit in a room or at a table with thirteen persons, or turn back after starting somewhere without making a cross mark in the j road and spitting in it, as he would I dare to pass a burying ground At j night without having in his pocket I the left hind foot of n graveyard rabbit, cauirht on the dark of the moon. G. Dewey Oxner, recently elected a circuit judge, will not resign from the legislature for several weeks, in order to continue working on the appropriation hill as chairman of the judiciary I committee. 9 llpfi ^. .... ? Diary Shows Washington as Successful Hunter Many people ure under the linpres slon that George Wsahlnglpu's hunting experiences were confined to foXf* In the vicinity of his home In \ Irglnln. Such Is not the coae. In the autumn of 1770 he hunted buffalo while ?>n hie trip to the Ohio with hl?? friend. Doctor (Talk, according to the division of Information and publication of the George Washington bicentennial cotnmlaa'lbn. In his diary of November 2 of that year is f miM his IniereMtiiig Item on buffalo hunting; "We proceeded up the ,river '(Kanawha) with the canoe about four miles more, and them Incamped and went a hunting; killed Ave buffaloes and Wounded Home others, three deer, etc. This country abounds In buffalo and wild game Of' all kinds as also In all kinds of wild fowl, there being In the bottoms a great many small grassy ponds or lakes which are full of swans, geese and ducks of different kinds." It will be observed that Washington ih.mI.-mIv refrains from stating how piauy of the five buffaloes fell from bullets from his rideOn New Year's duy, 1772, some frlertds culled on Washington at Mount Vernon. Several days later he entertained them with.a little hunting trip In the nearby forests which he tells ubout In Ids diary In this brief way: "Went a-hunting with the above gen tlemen. Found both u bear and a fox, but got neither." Explorers Too Ready to "Pass Up" Australia The continent of Australia was not discovered until Just before the American Revolution. I.ouls de Torres, sailing from Peru In 1000 thought the northern Queensland coast was another of tjiose Island groups? the Marquesas, Soloman. New Hebrides? through which he had passed. The Dutch proceeding from Java several times met the west and north of Australia, hut reported a barren wild country Inhabited by tytrbnrolw^ cruel, black people. Abel Tusman. In 1012 found Van I demons Land. Tasmania, and left In disgust.'^ In 1088 William Dumpier, an English'buccaneer, landed In West Australia, and the following year mapped the coast. In bis report to King William be described the land f\s "sandy and waterless." with stunted trees. - Inhabited by "the miserablest people In the world." A hundred years later the English scientific expedition under Captain Cook revealed the presence of wide belts of fertile land, and his landing at Botany bay. Sydney. April .28. 1770, resulted In another continent Tor the British crown. Charms of Mexico City All visitors to Mexico, of course, desire to see the nation's capital. . Here Is a city of almost a million population, nestling high In a mountain valley. Its climate Is said to be unexcelled any place on earth, .with the warmest days of summer never reaching 70 degrees. < In Mexico City one may see n most cosmopolitan city with brilliant cnfe.s and theaters, a sublime 'architecture, elegant stores?to say nothing of such picturesque staples ns the flower market and the thieves market. Close at hand is Xochimilco. the "floating gardens," and the pyramids at San Juan do Teotihuncan. In nnother direction Is Cuerhevnca. a re-sort even in the*days of the Emperor Maximilian and now/"contn><-t?-.| with Mexico City hy a paved highway. And over all brood the twin volcanoes?Popocatepetl nnl Ixtaccihuatl. Insects as Tailors While many Insects and spiders nre content to go about In the Clothes that nature gave them, others construct robes of their own. The oak tortrix, for example, is an accomplished tailor, and builds Its overcoat out of a leaf. Cslug one that Is slightly curled at the edge, he runs a silken thread from this edge to a point on the opposite edge, drawing the line taut. Then he constructs numerous parallel threads. By weighing down one or more of these cross threads, he causes the remaining ones to hang slack. These he tightens, then takes up the slack In the ones with the weight. The leaf, as a consequence. Is rolled up a little. This operation is repeated until the leaf has been curled Into a portable shelter In whteh the insect can hide.?Popular Science. Cotton In HUtory Cotton has heen used for clothing hy some of this world's inhabitants from a very early time. iiuL .t woj i first Introduced to Europe from India, an-l the Arab traders who werp the middle men in the transaction passed along their own name for It?qutun or qntn. This Arab word, in various forms, has entered Into most of the: European languages. Thus there have heen derived not only the English "cot ton." but the French "cAtton."'German "kattun." Italian "cotone." Portu guese "cotao." and so on. The orlg Inal word was probably a name applied to a people who employed cotton or to a place where Jt was grown. Had It Coming The little niece of a friend of mine, aged seven, whs going to have a new dress for a very special occasion When her mother showed her the ma terlal she look?^,dlsappoInted. then said; "Well, mother. I'v put up with you sewing all these years. This time think you might have bought me i.j dress."-MJhlcago Tribune, . Good BlacWunith, but Not "^ong" on Spelling A few day. ago a frleud aud I were talking about It war too that in of iSt men well -killed to the old haud trades were dUav>|?ear^ll rural communities. The fr efW l o* of a local shoe cobbler whose rade had been handed down two or three generations, ami who could make shoe, that would outwear uny chine-made shoe that could be pur* chased. Another trade that is Ian**rty gone Is the old fashioned blacksmith. Some one from Connecticut wrote me recently of a Yankee blacksmith, long on horseshoeing but short on boon learning. This blacksmith had a sign posted up abotU which our frU nU writes as follows: oj wanted a copy of that sign very much so I tW?k a child's sled us mi excuse and went to the blacksmith Shop. While the filed Kft? ''dog repaired. I asked the blacksmith, with some misgiving.*If 1 might copy his sign. 'Why, sure.' he said, 'go ahead and copy. I cannot see why. but folks huve been coming here to copy . front all over, ever since 1 hung It up. And here Is what the sign said Work did hear with lltnln spead ^ Satlsfackshun garantead Horsholn two l? In my line nt That will stand the ware and tare or time. _ , . ?American Agriculturist. \ . . P Explaining Origin of American Dollar Sign [ In I'Anlmateur des Temps Nouveaux. Charles Prince explains for French readers the origin of the American i dollar sign. He relates that Spain, in the Fifteenth century, when practically all the world's gold was carried to the Iberian peninsula fWm the mines of South America, designed a i coin of eight reals' value which bore on one of Its faces a representation of two columns (the columns of Hercules) Intertwined by a riband In the form of a letter S bearing the Inscription. "Plus Cltra." Englishmen called these coins "pillar dollars." taking the word dollar from the German coin known'as a "thaler." When the United States congress In 1787 decided to strike a coin known as a dollar, with the same value as the Spanish "pillar dollar." accountants naturally used as the sign for this now cointhe old device of pillars Intertwined with a garland which Is so well known today in the form of nn S with a i double brfr.?Exchange. I ? Ancient British Clock One'of the oldest clucks In England was recently salvaged and placed In the north transept of Salisbury cathedral. It dates back to 1386. and was originally In a hell tower In the close, built around 1258. This ancient timepiece, made of hapdwrought Iron without a dial, proclaimed only the hours. In 1790 the clock was removed to the central tower of the cathedral, where it lay hidden, neglected and forgotten, Its days of usefulness apparently at an end. In 1884 a new clock took Its place. The recent discovery of the old clock and its reconstruction, however, has given it a proud place opce more. ? Helping the Farmer The Department of Agriculture had Its origin In 1836. when the commissioner of patents began the distribution of selected seeds. In 1854 an entomologist was employed. The next year a chemist t*nnd a botanist were added to the st iff and a propagating garden begun. This work was taken from the patent office by President Lincoln in "ISiVJ ami placed under the direction of Isaac Newton of Pennsylvania as the first commissioner of agriculture. During Cleveland's administration In 1889 Norman .1. Cnlman, the last commissioner, became the first secretary of agriculture and a member of the President's cabinet. "Take Your Time" Little Johnny had Just got to the age when he could cliftib upon chairs, tables and high furniture, giving his mother near heart failure. One day she discovered him clinging to the top shelf of the kitchen cabinet, examining Its contents. Utterly exasperated, Mrs. S? snapped him down and stood him on the floor with such speed that It nearly took his breath nwny. Looking calmly up at his mother tills three-year-old remarked: "Take your time, mamma."?Rutland Herald. Rin g-Ti me It was ShukespiNire who first Informed ns that SpfTTigflme is rlngtlme, nod it Is still true today that more rings nre purchased in spring and early summer than at any other senson. A well-known I.ondon Jeweler, in describing the beauty side of selecting rings, says that "long, tapering fingers demand a ring with a large stone It) a square or oval setting. This tends to make the fingers look even more slim. Women with short fingers should wear heavy, wide rings.* On RHin* Steamer A trip on one of the Rhine steamers, whether on the long picturesque Jour ney from Main* to Uolonge or on the short trip from Duuseldorf to Konigswlnter. Is always memorable. Over the rail we watch the shores castle crowned, sometimes shadowed hy dark memories, often stirred by thoughts of the great who have known these pass ing towns. Beethoven at Bonn, also Schumann: llelne at iMissHdort. Byron at the Drachenfels. Gutenberg at Mains. "> ScUntitta BaffMJw Sound of Singing S*ndi There ?re lM>1"1" ,n 'j0".", ,ry and abroad where the aanda of t e ' J, V?? ?w to tnahe a aound and this I. attributed to the the part Idea by the wind, but th? ?W lug munis of the Arabian desert Isi a pbettoinettoti l?t. tentlon for a thousand years and with out uuy really satisfactory explanation Here there la no disturbance by the wind and yet t?"'r0 ,a plttl,Bly, noise at times which la Vftrlously ^ scribed. It la a cross between a low moan nud the rov liberations of a deeptoned bell after the hammejrs blow. The natives rcirard it as supernatural. Dunes 1,1 tcls of the world have become known^ less for the legend* connected with them than for the peculiarly characteristic sounds. Sonorous dunes at the e treme end of lower California have been responsible for a Mexican legend of -a monastery burled undor the shift Ing sands. Daily at Angelus time the natives listen for'the faint resonance of Its bells. Ih South Africa there are laughing sands, and near the end of ! the last century, a mining eng neer d ss covered rumbling sands In Chile, South ArtWHca. Moaning sands have bepn found In the western Sahara, between Tlmbuctoo and Morocco, and musical dunes in the Libyan desert of Africa. Kauai, one of the group of the Hawaiian islands, is famed for Its barking sands. - Seems to Be No Limit to English Vocabulary Shakespeare hud the greatest vocabulary In history. It was remarkably rich and exhibited most of the language resources of his time. 1>r0^; Albert Cook In his "Study of English, says that Shakespeare employed about 21,000 words; others say 15,000 or 24,000. But the number of wdrds In the rapidly expanding vocabulary of modern times greatly exceeds that of Shakespeare's day. Dr. Joseph Jacobs in the New York Times "Saturday Re-. view of Books," for November 1GJ 1913. states "that the average well-educated American or Englishman today can control from 30,000 >to 35,000 words. No estimate has been made of the number of words used by Huxley. His was a scientific mind, while Shakespeare's was entirely literary, llux- j ley luid an unusually large fund of words at bis disposal, and of neces slty, bad the wide and varied vocabulary of the natural and technical ' sciences at his command. From these j sources he had a fund of words math greater and more varied than thut In the. possession of moat wrjters. HJ?j writings abound With, evidence of the enormous wealth of verbal material ready for Ideas be wished to set forth. Keeping Business Accounts * Business records of souae form or other were probably employed in the earliest times in the history of trade and credit. Practically nothing is known, however, of the .earliest forms of bookkeeping. From the works of Leonardo of Pisa it appears certain that the merchants of Italy, France and Spain practiced systematic bookkeeping for some time prior to the Thirteenth century. We owe the present system of bookkeeping, however, to the Italian trailers of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries, particularly the merchants of Genoa, Florence and ! Venice. In 1194 Lucu Pacioli, or Luea di Burgo, a Tuscan friar, published a work which contains n treatise on double-entry bookkeeping. From Italy the syst&n spread to the , Netherlands, thence to England and from there to all parts of the World. Tree Straddles Creek A tree with a stream running almost directly under its base and another with a spring bubbling up from the center of Its roots are two of the freaks which v have developed In the sequoia groves in Yosemlte National park. A recent survey was carried on by the National park service to measure the huge giants which grow in these groves. The tallest Is 300 feet high and towers toward the clouds In Mariposa grove. Tliis tree, known as the Grizzly Giant, Is reported to he the third largest tree in the world. It Is 93 feet In circumference. The Clothespin, in Merced grove, is 293 feet high. The tree that bridges the stream is also in Merced grove, and probably started centuries ago as a seedling along the edge ef Moss creek, which now flows under its base. Memory Cultivation ,rM>. Bams" Is an English entertain er who answers any (ptestinn put to blm. Fie has been on the stage doing this stunt 'with great success for many years. He is flfty-slx now, hut lie hasn't forgotten much. "Anyone can remember anything he likes," he said, "only most people are too lazy. Once when I was going to Australia 1 read 200 pages of Whitaker'a almanac every day for six weeks. That's the way to learn facts." He can recite 20.000 dates, knows all sorts of reference books by heart, and can tell you the winners of all the horse races for the ' last 50 years. Vitamins and Taath Science has shown that the teeth oi barbarous and savage peoples were su perlor to those of modems because of ths vitamins contained In tbe unrefined food. Add all the vitamins to the diet. | and especially the dental vitamin D. found In milk. If you would havt healthy and beautiful teeth, says Dr Don C. Lyons In Hygela Magazine. * in -South Carolina 343 persons ^ from automobile accidents in lfigj and 215 in 1930, with 225 seriously ij jured last year -and 398 the your be fore. (Pedestrian victims-of automc bfles were 49 in 1981" and 60 in 199 The accidents due to hootch were ]? last year than the previous year, 1< to 191, and careless driving ta speeding* were classified as. oauain fewer accidents last year than tl previous year, while reckless drhin caused more, 197 to 1;80. There we fewer collisions <with other cariihyt fixed objects last year, and 116 pW estrians were bit m 1931, with 121hi in 1930. kasrt year 1,100 accldwl happened on straight roads, 389 ? curves, amd 144 -at -road crossing Daytime saw 348 of the aecideab and 63JT occurred after dark. Former Queen Sophie of Greece, 61 sister of the forriier Kaiser Wilheh of Germany, died in a hospital i Frantofort-on->Main, Germany, WW nesday night. v She had been a mi dent of Florence, Italy, since tb death of her husband, King Constat tine, in exile in 1923. v- V VERY NERVOUS AND DEPRESSED *A t9+ yean ago. T wkfl |? . ery nervous condition," writ* Mm. P. tf Reynolds, 327 W. Mala ? 8t, Spartanburg, 8. C. "I ^ terribly depressed. I felt every day just like something awful wu going'to happen. I did not ultu well at night. I had awful crying pells and did not know what in the world I was crying about. My mother told me to try Cardi^. After iny ftr* bottle, I was bettor. X took several bottles and It did m? a world of good. I quit having the nervous blue feeling, and was soon ul! ilghtf baye taken It since. Just as a tonic." SrjTRTTTTl Ask your grocer for Sander' Creek water ground meal, freslyfott and clean.?adv. j. ? j NOTICE OF SALE J I Notice is hereby given that iindc i and by virtue of the Decree of ft Court of Common Pleas for Kersfen County, State of South Carolina, fli] ed the 18th day of December, m in the cause of The Federal la Bank of Columbia, against Joan Mackey, et aT., defendants^ I wilr ra to the highest bidder or bidder* M fore the Court Houso door in tt Town of Camden, State of South Ou olina, during the legal hours of a* on the first Monday in Febrnil 1932, the same feeing the 1st daM said month, the following deacrtw Pr?Alf that piece, parcel or tract J land situated in the County of a# shaw, State of South Carolina, aboa eight (8) miles North ofJhe Chty< Camden, situated on LockhartJWM Highway, and containing seven JMJ dred and fifty-six (T56) a.^"fh^ or less, spid tract of l*n? M bounded on the north b> lands, o Jordan; East by lands of G#W* South, by la h*..formerty knotw "Witte Lands," now lands of John Mackey; west by lands of N. B.WWJ man. For a fuller descuptjon.^ erence is had to plat of ^ lin. Surveyor, of tote NovemW 2R| 189-7, and being part of the iamw "j veyed to N. B. Workman and JoWj Mackey by deed of date December' 1^06,-recorded m the of the Clerk of Court for Kersn. County in BookRRR pJ^Lei or fell "Also all thai piece, parcel or w of land situated in the Kershaw, State of South UW?| about eight (8) miles North 0 City of Camden, situated on WjJ hart Public Hignway, ^'-^ fourteen hundred and ?J^Lj W acres, more ,or lea*, ^Ilwheast \ by lands of Gardner, N. I kmfe of TicVwel>, Lanto of(N| Workman; South by lsmoj. Smith and lands of pf lands of Smith and Miller. deed^ of toto 5th ofDecernher^ recorded in the office* +y jn 0^ Court for Kershaw Coun y A. G., page 599, the one-hail in said property havius? ^ b. Wo* ed by John T. Mackey ^ 0j [ man by deed of date 13th-A 7^ eember, 4910, ^ Clerk of Court for Kersha ^ in Book A. SMipa8rw fifth (1^ Terms of Sale: One-fin" ^ ^ the accepted bid to be p ^^3 and the balance on crediL J n;ne equal arynu^lA " ^fate of 9?1#J interest thereon from-da ! soveff"""per'"centum p T gucceig I Master will require th ^ W bidder to deposit at one ^1 the sum of $500.00, either in^ J by certified check, the there 1*3 plied on the hi<^me' butJ^l complinnce with the a? tbtfj there be a 'atlure to Dlainti^ i shall be forfeited to tj? W] the premiaee resold on 0*1 the next'convenienteai^J^ after upon the J* 46 I such bidder's DeFAfl&ftj Criek *?Ut "?*1* and dxi ide?" " 6 6 6 J ?!??? >nd rffectfr. Cold.- Pri*e? I $8,000 ii? C*?b V Ask T?s Dnf(M l* I * a I , |