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TWO USEFUL BIRDS ARE RAPIDLY DECREASING Due to Carelessness, Ignorance and Greed of Mankind in Some Respects. Our useful birds, without the aid of which it would be impossible to grow crops successfully, are rapidly decreasing in numbers. Man in his various is the main cause of this decrease. These facts and many others just as startling are strikingly brought out in a bulletin entitled, "Decrease of Birds of South Carolina," issued recently by the State University. This very valuable report which should be widely read and discusses is a result of an inquiry into the subject made by the State Audubon Script v. Thn oviflpnrn vv'ninVi fnrnto it* basis was furnished by competent, unprejudiced observers in every part of the State. It is the opinion of many of these observers that the alarming decrease in our valuable wild bird life is due in a large measure to the careless-1 ness, ignorance and greed of man. It is stated that he has tvrned loose on birds such destructive natural I enemies as the English Sparrow, dogs and cats; and that he has brought to his aid in his direct destruction improved fire-arms, smokeless powder, automobiles, etc. A great many other causes are cited. In addition to a statement of the causes of decrease and a discussion of each, many suggestions are given for the better "protection of birds. Most of the observers reporting from those counties which have the resident hunting license law, are enthu siastic in its support. Many express themselves as anxious to see the law made state-wide with no exemptions. Many of the suggestions given are of vital importance and deserve most serious consideration on the part of the public. Dogs roaming at large during the birds' breeding season ore considered a great curse to all ground-nesting birds. Many consider dove-baiting unsportsmanlike and suggest that it should be prohibited by law. South Carolina is advised to follow the good example set by Georgia in this respect. Education comes in for a large share of attention. The deplorable fact is stressed that the public is wofully ignorant . of the value of birds, and the reasons why they should be protected. One observer suggests: "Educate the public as to the value of birds. They will then demand right laws and their enforcement. In the opinion of many bird study should be made compulsory in the schools. Every person interested in the material welfare of the State should read this report. Single copies may be had free, by writing to either the Audubon Society, or the Extension Department of the State University, both at Columbia. ( o NOTICE OF SALE ? 1 Under and by virtue of the decree and judgment of the Court made by his Honor Mendel L. Smith, Presiding Judge, in the case of Mrs. Fannie Bear, Plaintiff vs. J. D. Haselden, I. Blum, and Mrs. Maggie E. McCall, Defendants, and dated the 27th day of September A. D., 1916, I, the undersigned W. L. Bryan, Clerk of Court of Horry County, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder before the Court House door at Conwry, in Horry County, and State of South Carolina, during legal hours of sale, on salesday in November next, jt being the 6th day of said month, all and singular those certain lands situate in Horry County, and described as follows, to wit: All and singular that certain tract of land situate in Green Sea Township, County of Horry, State of South Carolina, on West side of Todd's Ferry Public Road, on South East of and in Michael Swamp, known as the Franklin B. Graham tract, containing five hundred and eighteen acres, founded Northwardly hy said Todd's 'erry Road, East by land formerly] cwr.cd by E. P. Graham, Southwardly] and Westwardly by Michael or Lnk? Swamp, ard by land now or formerly belonging to B. W. Watson. TERMS of Sale Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. Conway, S. C., September 27th, 1910. W. L. BRYAN, Clerk of the Court for Horry County M. C. WOODS, PI - i"tiff's Attorney. The Creole situation apparently has again entered critical phases. |STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE Bach man Doar of Georgetown diad at a hospital in Sumter where he was brought about ten days ago for an operation and where he had since been undergoing treatment. The secretary of state has issued o commission to the Home Building and Loan Association of Union. Secretary Houston has denied that tht department of agriculture has discovered a means ot exterminating the cotton boll weevil, a report which caused scores of planters and ccottor brokers to make inquiries of the department recently. Gov. Manning went to St. Lork last week to attend the Episcpal church convention. The New South Fire Insurnaee company of Bamberg has been licensed to do a fire insurancce business by the insurance commissioner. Cotton soared to record breok'ng prices on South Carolina markets last week. The high water markreported to The State Was 18 1-2 cents at unester. The talk of a political bdt in S^uth Carolina just now will net down. Cole L. Bleasp. who was defeated for the Democratic nomination fcr Governor. has never conceded Ids defeat. Work on the erection of Columbia's now nostoffiop, authorized by act of Congress, will begin about January 1. An amendment to the elrct'on laws of the State, which was passed by the Legislature in 1914, will be in operation in the coming election, November 7. The new law rdouces the number of ballots to three; anil will thus, it is thought, make the voting much easier and simpler. The printing of the ballot will also be less expensive. Another advantage is that election officials will not be bothered by so many boxes. o Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System Tbe Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria,enriches the blood.and builds up the system. A true tonic. Por adults and children. SOc. CALOMEL DYNAMI1 MAKES YOUJIC "Dodsoi's Liter Tone" Starts Your Urn Bitter Thai Calomel and You Don't Loso a Day's Work Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel fine and cheerful; make your work a pleasure; be vigorous and full of ambition. But take no nasty, dangerous calomel because it makes you sick and you may lose a day's work. Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel crashes into sour bile like dynamite, breaking it up. That's when you.feel that awful nausea and cramping. Listen to me! If you want to enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced just take a spoonful of harmless Hudson's Liver NO HIGh Will mean a saving of mone if you trade at Toddville. It River six miles from Conway, Steamers making this point Clyde Line at Georgetown. WATER R/ Water freight rates are low own property stands for not us and we will give you the be A hint to the wise is suffici I DUSENBU Toddville, THE HORSY E | WHAT OTHER S ! Which Is It? ( It is very interesting to hear . ..onio women compliment each other. ; That is the time you wish to know when a compliment is really a compliment or a remark.?Times & L Democrat. Hut Nothing Doing. The report is being circulated that ; Ambassador Gerard, who is return; ing from Berlin on a brief vacation, ; is bringing a request to President i vYilson from the Kaiser that this i government intercede for peace.? . Georgetown Times. Never Will. Whatever may develop, one may [ feci confident that water will never cau >e as much agitation in Charlesten as whiskey.? Evening Post. '! . j Has a Scheme. A Washington man has solved the crowded car problem. He suggests having a phonograph in each car dur ' nig v rush hours playing "The Star ! O.. I...1 13... >> 'TM I 1 .. I mi Diiiiut'i. i iicii cver,vuuu.\ Will have to stand up.?Macon (Ga.) News. The Old Gag. j Now matter how decisely Mr. I Hughes may be defeated, he will alj ways be able to reflect that more than or.e State was considered doubtful right up to the time of the election.?The State. Is Useless. 'U U ?-? rl % % 4-/-\ l*? o f a o /I ^ i rv VA f i c nc t ilf UCOil C IU ItulC Cilivt UJJiiv IS lib useless in the days of law and order as our appendix.?Mystic Worker (Mt. Morris, 111.) Isn't Looking at You. One of the most amusing sights is the person of naturally light, airy manner trying to appear dignified.? I ' One Reason. i The scarcity of labor has been noted in many lines of industry. It is one of the causes of high price of things that we need and our Inability to get them. The explanation is that so much skilled labor has gone back to Europe for the war that every industry is suffering.?Florence Times. FES YOUR LIVER! KJND SALIVATES j Tone tonight. Your druggist or dealer Bella you a 50 cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone under my personal moneyhack guarantee that each spoonful will clean your sluggish liver better than a doec of nasty calomel and that it won't make you sick. Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You'll know it next morning tiecause you will wake up feeling tine, your liver will he working; headache and dizziness gone; stomach will be sweet and bowels regular. Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely vegetable, therefore harmless and can not salivate. Give it to your children. Millions of people are using Dodson's Liver Tone instead of dangerous calomel now. Your druggist will tell you that the sale of Calomel is almost stopped entirely here* I RENTS y to you in the prices you pay \ c Irtrint am 4Ua \ A / ^ - - to iuuuiuu Ul I IIIU VVctUUctlflclW on the line of the Waccamaw in close touch with the big <\TES LOW , and our store situated on our ligh rent charges. Trade with nefit of the difference, ent. RY & CO. s. c. [EEALD, CONWAY, 8. 0. PERS ARE SAYIN6 | What He Wants. ! Roosevelt is down on the mollycoddles but Roosevelt wants them to vote for Hughes.?Morning Star. Always "If." If we had 100 hams we could exchange them for a certain new model 1 automobile. Who will lend us the ! hams.?Morning Star. A Warning. The Federal Farm Loan Board expects the Federal iand banks to be ready for work in January. The board also warns farmers to be careful about subscribing for stock in any privately promoted rural credit company. A letter addressed to the Federal Farm Loan Board, Washington, D. C., will bring any reader full and free information about any feature of the rural credits law.?Progressive Farmer. Distinguished Recruit. Dr. Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, a life long Republican, is not only an earnest supporter of President Wil!son, but he writes to the Atlantic I Monthly that "In four years the Dem I erratic party has done more for the 'country than the Republicans accomi plished in five times as many years." This testimony should outweigh all . tl\e shrieking partisans from Hughes to Slemp, who are thinking far more of self advancement than of the good of the country.?Norfolk Virginian-Pi lot. Such Liars. A British airman is telling about a drop of 3.000 feet and how he felt ; while coming down on the houses of . London. It's a pity war makes such ' liars out of us all.?Times & Democrat. Only Reason. I It would seem that the only reason a farmer could give for not making use of the warehouse this fall is because he has not the cotton.?Evening Post. STOP THE FIRST COLD. A cold does not get well of itself. The process of wearing out a cold wears you out, and your cough becomes serious if neglected. Hacking coughs drain the energy and nap tli vitality. For 47 years the happy com bination of soothing antiseptic balsams in Dr. King's New Discovery has healed coughs and relieved congestion. Young and old can testify co Hie effectiveness nf T ?* u'i?rr?o V-. AVillg *3 New Discovery for coughs and coKts Ruy a bottle today at your Druggist, 50c.?adv. GOLDS & LaGRIPPE 5 or 6 doses 660 will break any case of Chills & Fever, Colds & LaGrippe; it acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not uripe or 6icken. Price 25c. o i ColibTf k/v should be "nipped in the Y\ fU bud", for if allowed to run 1/ i |fy unchecked, serious results Tj ' JtU I may follow. Numerous Aii " V cases of consumption, pneu- II I monia, and other fatal dis- II I eases, can be traced back to I I a cold. At ths first sign of a I i V cold, protect yourself by I I thoroughly cleansing your I H system with a few doses of I I THEDFORD'S | I BIACKDRAUGHT | I the old reliable, vegetable II I liver powder. II I Mr. Chas. A. Ragland, o? II I Madison Heights, Va.t says: || I "I have been using Thed- II ! ford's Black-Draught for mi ilil stomac^ troubles. indiges-fiV !,on and col(J:> and ft t?|A# | aAS be the very best medicine InAj f/Ajevcr used. It makes an oldr\T KTl man feel like a young one." ftr IUN Insist on Thedford's, theKJ ftrM original and genuine. E-67IW No. 666 Thie la c prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. I Five or tlx doaea will break any case, and if taken then at a tonic the Fever will not return. It acta on the liver better than Calomel and doea not gripe or sicken. 25c I K0KK1GN ITEMS \ GATHERED AND CONDENSED FOR E>SY READING Teutonic troops are heavily counter attacking the Russian lines in the region southeast of Lemberg. With the occupation of Athens and Piroeus by marines from the warships of the entente powers, a tense situation has arisen in Athens. Official authorization for the train ing in military science of students in 1(1 of the countries' leading universities and colleges, including the University of Alabama, University of Tennessee and Clemson college has been given by the war department to executive officers of the institutions at a conference between them and ranking department officials. The British government will not make any official reoresentation to the United States concerning hte Ger man submarine U-53. Three hundred workmen in Ghent factory who refused to work in German munition factories in Belgium have been arrested and sent to Germany. The latest despatches from Bucharest show that fighting of an extremely bitter character is going on \ in all Transylvania passes. President Wilson annuonced that his efforts to bring about an agreement between belligerent nations to allow relief supplies to be sent to Poland has failed. 0 ' Take your local editor a bushel of apples and tell him the news of your; neighborhood. I Hens can't rid themselves of lice. They need help. Don't let your hens waste their energies fighting lice, picking and pulling feathers.1 Destroy the lice. ; ? o SALE UNDER EXECUTION By virtue of an execution issued by the Court of Common Pleas in the case of Southern Wood Products Co., plaintiff vs. Walter S. Taylor, dated October 2nd, A. D., 1916; I have levied upon and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House door, Conway, S. C., during legal hours of sale, on salesday in November next, it being the 6th day of said month, the certain real estate described as follows viz: All that certain tract or parcel of land containing ten (10) acres, more or less, bounded North by the Waccamaw River, East and South by lands of Burroughs & Collins Co.. and West by Old River, and property of Little Lumber Co., as papers on record will more fully show. Purchaser to pay for papers. ! J. A. LEWIS, Sheriff of Horry County. R. B. SCARBOROUGH, * j Plaintiff's Attorney. j Life Insurance, ... i Fire Insurance, " J Health & Accident Insurance, Guardian Bonds. Writes Deeds, Mortgage W. Percy K FERTILIZER, CO TOM ! w p n P. S. 1 AM IN POSITION T ANCE IN STRONG OLD LINE ATE YOUF TYPEW1 I have the following Second I 1 L. C. Smith (used very littleY 1 No. 5 Oliver 1 NO. 10 Remington Visible 1 No. 5 Royal 1 Blind Fox 1 Blind Smith Premier All of these machines have I and arc guaranteed to be in fir: Will sell on monthly payments, < for cash. Write me your needs. R. G. SCARl SUMTER, SOU Deal L. C. Smith & Bros, i A WORD FOR MOTHERS It is a grave mistake for mothers to neg* lect their aches and pains and sutler ta silence?this only leads to chronic sick* ness and often shortens life. If your work is tiring; if your nerves are excitable; if you feel languid, weary or depressed, you "should know that Scott's Emulsion overcomes just such conditions. It possesses in concentrated form the very elements to invigorate the blood, i i strengthen the tissues, nourish the nerves and build strength. Scott'a is strengthening thousands of mothers?and will help you. No alcohol. Scott Bl Bowoe, Bloomfleld. N. I. o ' Wait for the great serial story which the Herald will publih after j Gloria's Romance has been finished. | We will try to get the very best for oui readers. o That Never Happen. So far as a mere neutral is able to judge, this war is made up of forth- j coming "big drives" and "repulses." ?Georgetown Times. o Lax-Fos, A Mild, Effective Laxative t Liver Toole Does Not Gripe nor Disturb the Stomach. la addition to other properties, Lax-Fos Contains Cascara in acceptable form, a 1 stimulating Laxative andTonic. Lax-Foe acts effectively and does not gripe nor disturb stomach. At the same time, it aid9 I digestion, arouses the 1 iver and secretions i and restores the healthy functions. 50c. | e I, CHEAP FLOUR |( 450 Bbls. Flour (bought before advance) i I 1000 Bu. Red Seed Oats 700 Bu. Fulgum Oats 200 8u. Abruzzi Rye ! 338 Bags Rice Can save you big money on flour, cotton seed meal, acid, hulls, etc. Get our prices. ? ? ? ? Pa^lmetto Grocery Co. COOPER ... MULLINS Capital and Surplus $80,000 . \ i Dr. Lycurgus A. I WOODRUFF, --O. P. T. D.?OFFICE DAY: Every Sat- \ \ urday, HORRY DRUG CO Live Stock Oar Lots, Cattle, Hogs, ' Sheep and Goats. 5s, and Other Documents. lardwiclte TTON AND COTSEED ' 0 WRITE YOUR FIRE INSURCOMPANIES, WILL APPRECIt BUSINESS. LITERS. land Typewriters for sale: $55.00 ; on AA ou.vv 35.00 35.00 10.00 12.50 )een thoroughly overhauled ;t class working condition, or, give five per cent discount 30R0UGH, TH CAROLINA. er in and Royal Typewriters Ji