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I WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING "At ii time when the Administration at Washington and the busluesa Interests of the country, whatever , their political predilections; are en* guged In a common effort to combat 'the depression and restore economic stability, It cornea with poor jfrace for Jtopublican campaign orators to represent that the election of Mr. Roosevelt would be a blow, from i which the country could hardly ox* poet to recover."?Hurtford, Conn. Coi^rant (Hep). Mayor John F. Dore, of Seattle. In Introducing Governor Roosevelt to a hugo Democratic meeting there, termed himself a Progressive Re- j publican and said that ho was "sick and tired" of the present Republican party leadership. Ho evoked cheers when ho predicted that Clovornor Roosevelt would carry the state of Washington t in November by more than 100,000. * ? "In vlow of this campaign of the Republicans, the reception which is being won by (lovoruor Hoosovelt in his present tour Is of exceptional Interest. The governor Is taking the poople Into his confidence In a way that is refreshing. IIo has dared to ' bo forthright and open upon controversial Issues. He has had/the courage to toll the farmers, to their faces, that thero Is no magle. formula ?> restore agricultural well j , being. He outlined to them a ftay In which farm prosperity could be restorod hnd we u man in the White House who was sympathetic 'o farm problems. And ho has been putspoken upon that difficult problem ? the railroads." ? Providence, R. I. News Tribune (D.) Two American artist#, busted and unable to meet their obligations, committed suicide in Paris Friday by slashing their wrists. Fall Time to Fight The Peach Tree Horer Olemson College, Sopt. 24.?Peach tree borers, which annually cause the loss of great numbers of peach trees, can be controlled effectively by the use of pure paradichlorobenzine with I no injury to trees four years old and older, says Alfred Lutken, extension entomologist, who advises that in the Piedmont area the paradichlorobeny.inc crystals should be applied from October 1 to 5 ami in the southern ! part of the state from October 15 j to 20, , Trees four and five years old should I 1h? treated with three-fourths of an ounce per tree, while older trees should receive one ounce, Mr. Lutken suggests. Until a safe method of treating young trees is perfected, it will be necessary to remove the worms by hand from trees under four years old. The hand work can be done during November. ' The trees are prepared for treatment by removing the trush and grass for about a foot around the trunk and leveling the soil even with the topmost borer gallery. The crystals are applied in a circle around the trunk I about one inch from the bark, and about six shovelfuls of dirt placed in a mound around the trunk and packed down firmly, with care that the crystals are not thrown against the bark when the dirt is applied. After four weeks of exposure, the j mounds are removed from trees four and fixe years old, and after six! weeks from older trees, and fresh, soil returned to the original level to avoid winter injury. Telegraph Business increasing New York, Sept. 24.?Telegraph business was reported increasing in volume. The Western Union said its business "made a decided advance" during the past week. Mineral Compound Proves Sensation Scores of Local People Report Amazing Results from New Scientific Food Vitalizer; Druggists Astounded at Tremendous Sales. Probably never before In all the history of this county h&a any product been given auch whole-hearted praise aa tho new, acientific formula lchown Aa LEE'S MINERAL COMPOUND. Men and womfen in all walka of life have put thia remnrkable Food Vitalizer to the test and proven its Amazing powers. Literally thousands of jn-ople have made the now famous 10 day test and have proven that Nature's way is the right way to health, j So swift and sweeping has been' I IIP success Ol ! this new compound that in a few short weeks, it has become the tnlk of the country. Those who have used it tell nstouunding stories of what it has done for \ them, and, were / the facts not i | known and veri- j fied, it would be J hard to believe that any single treatment could prove so effect- / ive in so many rJ different cases. It merely goea to prove tne aa-W sertion of fam-V| o u s Scientists bl that the one sure V way to maintain V health is to supply the body with a balanced proportion of the essential Mineral elements and necsarv \ itaruins. The one and Vitaliser, feeding the system those I vital elements that we fail to get j in modern refined foods. It stimulates the organs of digestion and assimilation, creates a keen, hearty appetite, clears the system of dangerous impurities and waste material, soothes "ragged" nerves, enables one to sleep soundly, awake refreshed and filled with new vigor for the daily battles of life. No wonder that those who have ! tried so many other treatments, with little or no benefit, have been quirk ??????? to turn to this natural method T>f restoring j health. No Wonder the sales of "patent" medicines, harsh laxatives ami dang e r o u s "painkillers" have fallen to the lowest mark in years People today arc more intelligent than they used to be and are | quick to tAk? I advantage of the j new and proven scientific discovi erica. That accounts for the , tremendous demand for this ! amazing compound that b u i 1 <1 s new health, strength and vigor in Natures own way. If you have tried many medicines and treatments that gave \..ij lit tie or no 91 % OF ALL DISEASE r ORIGINATES IN THE STOMACH, IS CAUSED ?Y ACIDITY AWO RESULTS FROM A LACK OF MINERALS AMD VITAMINS r- . . ' if, J." ! !i: S f. <! ) Il"t 'f I"- I I Mi.M.ilAL ' LOii'J: .v l?. > ?arc 10 * > I \ ; '! : t I.! -? ! ! \T ' M I \ 1 I: M. ? I 'M r, ! v ? I- *1 ! V \ \ ? .< % i \ u . ,:t \ : r \\ .! 1.1 l. ! * I> : >' : " . II. ' a !- It S .. .. l ; ir ! ;i ' I i | LEE'S COr/JPC"Js'vD ! ?R _/// \ 'i! rim ins? Eliminates Excessive Acids in the Stomach Drives Out Dangerous Toxins, Clears The System of Impurities Builds Rich, Red Blood?Feeds Nerves, Bone and Muscle ? Restores Strength. Makes You Feel Like Yourself Again MAKE THIS 10 DAY TEST Convince Yourself! Slop Hosing yourself with "patent medicines," harsh purgatives, oils and cathartics for just 10 days. Go to your nearest Druggist and secure a bottle of LEF/S MINERAL COMPOUND. Take it regularly, and watch the results You'll be amased at the feeling of renewed strength and vigor that soon appears. No narcotic* or alcohol to "boost you up" but a natural method of restoring health and energy. For Sale by DeKALB PHARMACY, Camden, S. C. And other good dealers everywhere, or send $1.25 to Loe'a laboratories, Inc., 364 Peachtree Arcade Bldg., Atlanta, Ga., for large bottle, poatafe paid. Wild Pigeons Once Clouded the Skies That morning 1 had been wandering aimlessly about over our lawn? wo called it a lawn, but it was anything else. It was an oak forest, with the ground hidden by a thick growth of chinquipen bushes and bj^ckberry vines. It must have been in the late fall, as it was the first time I had been allowed to weur my now red boots >vith shiney copper over the toes. It was a bright, U-autiPlil djty without a cloud in sight and the only sound was the harsh voice of a blue jay quarreling with his wife. Whenever tho silence begins to grow oppressive, there is always'/" couple of jay birds on hand to break it, and put things on a normal basis. Then, I noticed that the sun seemed to be going out, and the next instant a sinister shadow .came swooping down from above, and rapidly spread over tho landscape. The phenomenon was accompanied by a curious moaning sound, that was different from any thunder I had ever heard, and it was getting nearer and nearer. The whole thing was so unreal, so unnatural, that I became rattled and made a break for the house, feeling that I must get under something, to protect me from the crazy dofngs up in thf sky. The next instant the thing happened and big, pigeon-like birds seemed to have taken the place of what the second, before was common ground, carpeted with autumn leaves. But now it was a solid mass of beautiful slate-colored birds. They didn't pay any more attention to me than if I had been a stump and continued to alight all around me, seeming not to care whether I stepped on them or not. I never realized that there were so many birds in nil the world as were dropping down on the >11 -acre piece of woods that we called a lawn. Glancing up I saw what looked like an endless, bankless gray river rushing across the heavens at an incredible rate of speed. Slowly it began to dawn on me that I was seeing the wild pigeon, that 1 had heard so much about, at close quarters. I had often seen them passing high overhead, out of gun-shot range, when the whole heavens looked as if they had been sprinkled with black pepper from giant shaker, by some giant who had an endless supply of tho well known appetizer, these were too distant, and indistinct to have made much of an impression on me. But when "all the bird3 in the world" alighted right around one, and went pattering about on their pink stockinged feet as they hunter! for acorns, that was something to remember and talk about. Probably startled by some sudden noise the feeding birds left the ground, and with the roar of many wings, and came to rest in the nearby trees. They waited for no usher to seat them, but crowded as close together as they could get until some of the branches gave way under their weight and ' fell crashing to the ground. It was not until then that I remembered that I had a loaded shotgun in tho house, hut what could one puny little gun do against these teeming millions? I was so dazed that I made no attempt to get it, but just stood there, opening my mouth wider TAX NOTICE Books for collection of School, County and State taxes year 1032 will open October 15, and.stay open until December 31, 1932, inclusive, without any penalty. Any information concerning this office will be given by mail. When inquiring about taxes please state School District in which you live or own property. Following is a list of total levies for each School District, for Schpol, ! County and State taxes: DeKalb Township Mills | District No. 1 48% j District No. 2 45 1 >i-t r:ct No. ? 48% ' District No. 0 48 ! M -T-ic; No. 25 31 N : 31 Buffalo Township : V.. 46% : ' ' N . 28% > N ?. 7 37% 1 - N . 28% t N 28% No. -- 47%, D;-t:-.r: N . 28% !?:-t:\v- \ 27 41% D:-N.,. 28 28%. Die net No. 31 36% D:-1r:i t No. i<> 48% I : -1 r: t No. 12 28%' Flat Ri>ek Township Di-trsc: No. 8 41% I District No. 'J 41%! District No. 10 32% District No. 13 28% j I >i?trict N<>. l'J 41 % I District No. 30 28% ' District No. 33 41% j District No. 37 41 % ! District No. 41 41% District No. 46 35% District No. 47 28% W'ateree Township District No. 11 35% District No. 12 46% DistYict No. 16 32 District No. 29 34% District No. .38 28% District No. 39 33% Yours respectfully, S. W\ HOGUE, Treasurer Kershaw County, S. C. and wider, with probably the most idiotic expression that the human face ever wore. - -y All this whilo that strange gray river continued to flow overhead, without a break or pause. It was uncanny?where did they come from, and would the ceaseless flow never silacken ? I might have hesitated about mentioning the incredible number's of the passenger pigeon, as it existed in this country, up to the latter part of the eighteenth century, had I not been backed up by the written statements of such famous naturalists as Audubon and Wilson. Audubon tells us that in 1813, in Kentucky, he "watched passenger pigeons pass in one continuous flock for three days. The flock was so dense that the sun was darkened, and the sound of their wings was like thunder." Wilson also observed a flock in Kentucky, which he estimated contained more ' than two and a quarter billion birds. To the human mind, which is unable to take in such numbers, millions and? billions^ carry mighty little meaning. I In a way, I can keep the run of numbers up to a thousand, but anything above that makes me dizzy and everything seems to run together.. That is one reason why I have wanted to be a millionaire. The usual flights of wild pigeous in their migration generally took about three days. This is what observers in different parts of the land tell us. After these regular flights, isolated flocks were seen for several days after. Alexander Wilson, the father of American ornithology, tells of a breeding place near Shelbyville, that was more than seven miles wide and forty in extent. And that one hundred nests were counted in a single tree. The ground was covered with broken limbs, egg shells and dead squabs. And upon the latter, the razor-back hogs greedily feeding. He estimated that the flock he saw here was two hundred and forty miles long and a mile wide, probably much wider. They were traveling above gunshot, several strata deep, and very close together. On the supposition that each bird would consume only a half pint of nuts and acorns daily, he figured that this column of birds would eat seventeen million four hundred and twenty-four bushels each day. If you care to prove this, you might run over the calculation?it wouldn't take but a minute. Audu bon made another calculation that looks reasonable. He estimated that the number of pigeons passing in ft flock a mile wide, for three hours, at the rate a mile a minute, allowing two pigeons to the Square yard, as one billion, one hundred and fifteen thousand. You can, Readily see what a vast amount of acorrt and nut bearing forest would, fc>e required to feed this hungry horde. And think of the miles they have to yet their dinner. Hut when they can da?h through space at the rate of a mile a minute, distance shrinks to nothing, and a little jaunt of two hundred miles to supper, and back again, just serves to whet their appetite. Pigeons, unlike other birds, do not raise their heads when swallowing or drinking, and unlike we humans, when they mate, it is for life?there is no such word as Reno in their vocabulary. Another peculiar feature about them is whe^i they feed the babies they eat the food first, and when it becomes partly digested, the mother brings it up by regurgitation and the young run their bills down in -the maternal crop and take it at their leisure, with no fear of its disagreeing witl\ them. As soon as hatched the father pigeon takes complete charge of the small daughter, and the mother does the same thing for the son. I learned this when I usod to spend fche long summer afternoons in the loft over the smokehouse with my pigeons. The book name for the wild pigeon was passenger pigeon, and rightly named it was, as they always seemed to be in the greatest hurry, either] going somewhere or just coming back. But they differed from the passenger we are accustomed to as they, had no hip pickets, and did not carry "grips." Notwithstanding the millions and the billions that were here less than fifty years ago, there is not a single one on earth today?the last living specimen having died in a zoo in 1914. Much has been written about the mystery of the wiping out of the billions and billions of the wild pigeon, in a few short years, and many theories have been advanced to account for their rather sudden disappearance. But I can see no mystery about it?they were just slaughtered?and when you kill a thing it is no longer there. The birds had their regular roosting places where they gathered every evening about sundown, flying low and as close together as possible. And it was customary for the male population of that section to be on hand to welcome them home, with every old pistol, shotgun and rifle that could be raked up. - And the ones who could not rustle up something that would shoot armed themselves with long poles with which j they frailed the air?-bringing them '.down by the dozens, wounded and fluttering. Men who called themselves "pigeoners" followed the flocks i from place to place and made a good livitfg at their nefarious calling. | The farmers raked up the dead birds, loaded them in wagons, hauled them out and scattered them over I the fields for fertilizer. The markets of the citites became so glutted that the pigeons did not bring enough to pay the freight. This 4s no mythical story of some faraway country , whose name you can't pronounce, to say nothing of spelling, but it all took place right here where we are now living?in Greenville, South Carolina. I am sorry to have to admit tint I, myself, killed the last two wild pigeons I ever saw. I had come home to dirnper and discovered the pair perched in the top of a dead tree. I got my gun, took dead aim and pulled the trigger, but nothing happened?the cap was faulty. iSo I went jn the house and got a fresh box. The foolish pigeons had n<jt moved and the next shot brought them both down. I have been regretting it ever since! To think that I should have killed the last two that I should ever see! | see!?Charles A. David in Greenville News. Should Cure Him. Council Bluflfis, la., Sept. 22.?It may be a little hard on the culprit, but Justice Jack Dewitt has a sure way <to break juvenile traffic offend-_ ers from breaking the law. Herbert Rosenthal, 16, was brought before him for driving 45 miles an hour. He sentenced the youth to write "Delivery boys drive dangerously" times. The Grand Army of the Republic at its convention at Springfield, 111., g*** its approval to a plan to erect a $26Or 000 memorial to Abraham Lincok near his tomb. | BECAUSE CAMDEN has no gas plant, is no reason why you cannot have a modern gas srange I' : r"77 777 1 or water heater in Southern States Supply Co., ^flJT . c Columbia, s. c. y our home. ,AW rite tor Please mail booklet giving full in- J, ... . 1 ' formation about gas for use beyond j^y||j details and prices ZT """" on "GAS for Homes 1 beyond the Gas Mains" I USE COUPON FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Southern States Supply Co. COLUMBIA, S. C. i " T DEMONSTRATE HOOVER PROSPERITY * Hoover prosperity has affected ways of travel Juat as it has everything else. The once popular automobU* / has in many cases been stored under the shed or required to rattle on with one or two cylinders functioning. When the mechanical parts failed to perform hundreds have been converted into what is popularly known as "Hoover Buggies.** It is a common scene to observe these conveyances on the city streets and highways. The picture here was caught a few days ago on one of the city's parking reserves. The people have ..ccepied ; this means of Hooverizing as is seen from the wording painted on one of the buggies shown here, *Away WW*. Hoover Prosperity?Vote for Roosevelt.** o t I