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We shall be glad for you to
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drop in at any time and
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| They are Classy
I We Represent the Famous KAHN
piPffi BROS., who guarantee a fit or no
I I sale.; Or iif you prefer a suit from
I the SCOf GH WOOLEN MILLS,
I 1 we have their line also.
\ J Try a pair of our Biltrite Shoes at
I $4.50, you will* want another
I H. C. FOLK
^ I Satisfied With Small Profits
MaxvfeW
|THe'Wouc?er Car" |,
j Quiet Clutch?Runs in Oil ^ i
J ^: | ' The clutch of the new Maxwell operates in a =
bath of oil. This makes it remarkably smooth i
= and velvety in^ engagement, and eliminates 80 |
| | per cent, of noise when the gears are shifted. =
M Designers of the highest-priced cars agree ||
that the clutch should run in oil* |
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2'tf: | We are waiting to take you for a 1
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Telephone SI Bamberg, S. C. ==
Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly Quinine That Does Not Affact The Head
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXAThe
Old Standard general strengthening tonic, TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary
GROVE'S TASTELESS chi'l TONIC, drives out Quinine and does not canse nervousness nor
Malaria.enrichestheblood.andbuildsupthesys- ringing in head. Remember the full name and
tom- A true tonic. For adults and children. 50c j look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c.
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fwUAT YOU EAT
I In buying your Groceries there
I are two things to consider
I mi a i ity a Mil pnme
IyunLi i i nnu i itiui?
Both are guaranteed by tliis store.
We handle only the best?groceries
that are tit for any table?and the
i price is just as low as good groceries
can be sold for. In addition to quality
and price, we give you
THE BEST SERVICE
J. J. BRABHAM, JR.
"Thft I ive Wire drorer "
I 'Phone 96-L Bamberg, S. C.
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S. n. Whitney Co.
Cotton Factors
AUGUSTA, GA.
ESTABLISHED 1868
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Correspondence Invited
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' "RI7P0A, .tlere, farmer man!
<5OVNT ^our Worses a m0a
I; ment! Come in and
If inspect our gardening
\\ tools r Hoes, rakes, spades, fmil
S K\ ]?</ -1/ cutters, tree pruners, pails, bucket^
JS\ a \ Uz? ladders, baskets?whatever yon need
\ tC\ \ III/ f?r taking care of yonr products,
A nWxx / IL>? Heavy farm machinery and poultry
vov l\\iv^ wire too.
wS v~ M\\ /vd Whether we know you or whethei
/ / J"i /mS\| \\ we do not, we want to shake you
/pffl hy the hand and show you what
\V^M? we have got to interest men in your
i|i IfTipM Proper Implements Give
|f| ^Tl Your Men No Excuse
For Improper Work.
GO. SIMMONS
The Hardware and Furniture Man Bamberg, S. C
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A Card to Owners
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of Rural Telephone Lines
We are anxious to see that all lines owned bj
other parties and connected with us are kept in sucl
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wuuJiuv/ii aa iv luiuiau vuiytvui. ova aw* tt aavav ua?
owners of rural lines are responsible for their upkeep,
we want to co-operate with them. (
All lines require a thorough overeauling occasionally
if the best service is to be obtained. We
recommend that every line connected with us be
j overhauled at least once a year, and'that at least one
! .experienced telephone man assist in this work. The
cost of this work when divided among all the patrons
of the line, makes the amount paid by each man
emoll ortrl ftiic pnct Txri 11 ho mnrp than nffsAt hv tHp
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!. improved service.
If the owners of rural telephone lines in this section
are experiencing trouble with their service, we
will appreciate their talking the matter over with our
Manager or writing us fully. We will gladly do
I what we can toward helping you improve , the condition
of your line.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE if ]
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY tejW
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BOX 108, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.
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i 200,000 DRUG VICTIMS.
iThat is Revised Estimate of the Number
in This Country.
How many drug addicts, popularly
known as ' dope fiends," are there i:.
the United States? ' Some writer
have gone so far as to assert 2 re:
cent, of the population of the country,
or about 2,000,000 persons art
victims of the habit-forming drugs,
but experts of t-he United States public
health service, who have just completed
an inquiry into the matter,
reach the conclusion that the number
is probably not far from 200,000.
just one-tenth the lay estimate.
The public health service found the
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question a difficult one to answer, for
obvious reasons, and was obliged tov
make checking estimates from various
points of departure. It' was
known, for instance, that the amount
of opium and its derivaties legitimately
imported in a year is sufficient
for 2,500,000 average doses, and that
the amount of cocoa leaves and cocaine
similiarly brought into the
country annually would make 325,000,000
average doses. Sincet the
I amount of habit-iorming drugs
brought in illegitimately is known to
be very small the service took the
import records as setting the extreme
limits of use by addicts.
In Tennessee, where a strict antinarcotic
law is in force, and service
found the most trustworthy data as
!j! to the.number of addicts and the
_ amounts of drugs consumed. Just
2,300 users of habit-forming drugs,
two-tenths of one per cent, of the
population, were registered a year
: after the law went into effect'and the
' users of opium and its derivatives
; each consumed an average of 12,000
doses a year. The same ratio ap'
plied to the whole country would
give 118,000 addicts using 1,416,000
average doses. Cocaine users, the
public health service estimates, increase
the total of drug victims to
^ 200,000.
= Though the new federal anti-narcotic
law has been in effect only a
few months, the investigators found
that such statistics as it has made
available so far bear out their statements
that previous estimates of the
number of "dope fiends" have been
\excessive. The government's health
experts state, however, that the real
conditions are bad enough and that
dreadnaughts, poison gas bombs and
throwing bombs into the enemies'
[ j the amount of opium and cocoa con!
Sumed in -Americh is out of all pro
i portion to the needs of medical purposes.^?Washington
Star.
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! SLOW SALE FOR SNAKES.
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1 Fewer "Eat-'Em-Alive" Men and
^ Charmers Since War Began.
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' It now comes to pass that the European
war, which is the regular
catalogued alibi for anything and
everything during these - tremulous
L days, has put a crimp in the world's
I output of long and vicious and poisonous
snakes.
This information is given chiefly
* for the benefit of persons who may
not be aware that Philadelphia leads
the United States in the importation
. of snakes, which the blonde ladies in
! the tent shows swing around like so
many sawdust dolls.
The snake man said that his firm
has sold some 8,000 reptiles this season,
and that the firm's cash business
will hit around the $60,000 mark.
* "We have had nothing from Africa
J1 or the so-called mysterious Asia sectioiis
since the war began," he said,
"but we have been doing a whopper
business with our domestic and South
American varieties.
"It can be seen readily that the
war has helped to increase the consumption
of our home-grown snakes,
the same as it has aided home prof
duction in other commercial lines.
"Some people have an idea that
the snake business is dying out, but
5 that's a mistake. T started in the
. show business with old Adam Forer
paugh in the seventies, and I've been
* in this wholesale snake game for the
last 28 years. Right here in Philadelphia,
too, and the business holds
* up every year."
i The snake-distributing game is
conducted on a purely business basis.
Cash in advance is the universal rule.
! The snake man showed a te-t-gram
I rrom New York It read* "Send a
nice assortment of snakes, about $15
worth, C. 0. D."
i A man wrote a letter from up in
Maine. The letter read: "Enclosed
find draft for $100. for which send
me 100 good, health/ pine snakes,
as per your recent bargain o/fer."
"This game is all straight business,"
the snake man continued.
"There is no romance about it, and
money talks."
The snake man submitted a mim
eograph letter wmcn ne sent
broadcast recently to the trade. This
letter is phrased like a regular letter,
such as might be written by a
man who was selling a staple food,
^only that the commodity offered is
snakes. The letter reads:
"I am offering as a special choice
lot of pine or thrtle-head snakes,
sizes four, five and six feet, as fol-j
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A MODKKX SKA MYSTKKY.
What of the Ma owijne; Where Are
Ker I'as senders?
A few wee' s a ro?about the time .
:he Gul of .Vexico was swept by the
hurricane which did so much damage
along the Texas coast?a United
States Fruit company steamer, the \ ^
Marowijne, was lost, or least it has
not been heard from since. The ship "V
was caught in all the fury of the
southern storm and somewhere, some
time, somehow, a few of its crew and
passengers may have been cast away
on an inconspicuous and lonely island.
By way of New Orleans the re
port comes that the survivors are
held for ransom. Where, no one
knows. By whom is a deeper mystery.
The United Fruit company officially
disavows belief in the report,
but .nevertheless it feels it . necessary
to advertise in the hope that the captors
can be reached.- The company is
in the business of transporting fruit,
not amplyfying sea yarns, but nevertheless
it promises to pay whatever
ransom may be needed for the release
of the castaways. In this commercial
day, amid the noisier alarms
of the European war, can such a plot
be surpassed by the fiction writers?
An anonymous letter is responsible
for the statement that the survivors
of the Marowijne are safe. It may
or may not be true?probably not. ; ^
Yet who can tell? The waters of the
Gulf and the Caribbean Sea are dotted
with little islands, some of which :
are close to the track of commerce,
while otners are remote, ana possibly
there are a few that are unchart- - ijB
ed. There are such points of land
on the face of the deep, especially in
those zones where volcanic disturbances
are frequent!. The more the M8
officials of the United Fruit company
pondered the matter the more, probably,
they feK it necessary to do all . \|
that could be done under the circum- Mm ?
stances. True or not, the anonymous1
letter offered a ray of hope. Here * ^ ^
is a mystery, a ready-made plot for
the "movies," or the skeleton of .
some such romance as Stevenson 4
could have written. What matters :'i
it, for purposes of fiction or motion :
pictures, whether the yarn be true or *
false? The sea before this has been
made to give up the lost, so why not
the survivors of the Marowljne? j
From the earliest times the sea ,
has been the exemplification of mys- .
tery. The face of the deep is inscrutable.
The ancient mariners,
skirting the shores of their country
in flimsy canoes, looked out to sea || 1
nri + K i rlrooHfnl flpqirp TllA PhOP- "
* TTltii Or Ui VWVH.WA v*vw*?<w? ? _ .' --XHJ?
I nicians overcame the fear of theunknown
to a degree. The caravels - : I
which they sailed out into the west
from the.6hores of Spain cut into
cherished delusions, yet revealed
sources of treasures undreamt of.
Ever since the mythical voyage of
Jason until these days of steam and .
speed-passage, journeys by sea have .
retained something of the romance,
which enveloped the search for the
Golden Fleece. As the generator of
mystery and possibility the sea has f
no peer.?Indianapolis News,
Wanted to Hit Him First.
"Now Ethel, Harold says he's sor- . :
ry he broke your doll, so I want you : /j|3
to forgive him.*'
"I'd feel more like forgiving him,
mother, if I could hit him back / /
first."
Consistency.
"Don't you think it is extremely
vulgar to dress as Miss Stylish does
to attract attention on the street?" '
"Yes, indeed! I wonder who her
dressmaker is?" > W v%Jj
"I asked her, but she wouldn't tell '
Vital Point. - j
Boston Father?Of course, you '
understand that there is no Santa
Claus.
Little Son?Is this a philosophical
discussion or merely a hint that I'm
not going to get anything for Christmas?
"One dozen snakes, in assorted
sizes, $20. ; *?ji
"Half dozen snakes, assorted sizes, ^
"These are the best small snakes
fnr handling that ran he^ obtained. ;
They are perfectly harmless and
make a big flash. Excellent for ballyhoo
or feature act.
"These snakes are the sacred ' \
snakes of India, and are worshipped
as such by the natives of India." ;
The snake man s catalogue shows
also that lie handles cockatoos, cana- _
ries. Japanese waltzing, or spinning
mice, and various smaller animals.
Any one who is tired of his pres- i
ent vocation has an easy chance to
embark in the snake business. This
catalogue contains what is described
as a "Bosco" outfit, containing a
large assortment of large and small
snakes, which are knocked down at
the ridiculously low price of $20.
But remember, cash mi:st accompany
the order.
You remember Bosco, of course.
"He eats 'em alive."
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