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There is no prob lem of increased cost of food if you eat more Quaker Oats An ideal food; delicious; appetizing; strengthening. Compared with other foods Quaker Oats costs almost nothing and yet it builds the best. Pnclced (n regular sire pnekaccs. ifnd in her uictic.illy sealed tins lor hot climates. o2 ?*>*-?? ? % * . *?* -i ?; ?* -K4-? *4 ; * ? *** ? WOMAN AND MULE. ? By W. I). S. ? )M!ft1.ff|t*? )MriMi# ***?*>?*< * Two of the hardest worked and the most abused being on this earth are .w?tiicn and mules. It is a true saying fjiat man works from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done. She toils day and night. The lirst thing in the morning, she rises and makes a fire to get breakfast, washes the dishes, milkes the cow and carries her to the pasture; slops the pigs and foods the chickens; churns the milk, Cuts stove-wood to cook the next meal and often cuts and Illings in her fire wood: washes and irons the clothes for the family, cleans house, nurses the babies, helps her husband hoe and pick -he cotton. She plants and works the garden, If they have any: she bears her husband's children and has the 'are of them night and clay and When sick she nurses them: her lord ol :rention is too tired at night to g< : p and give the baby a drink of Water, or make a lire for her to warm be:self and sick child. And top of all, if she complains, Bite is treated to a big talk by the man who has sworn to guard and protect her. This pic ture is too true la our sunny South land. Did you ever sec a white of black man pet a mule? lie is treated to blows and kicks instead of caresses lie :s a patient animal, and works s. v n days in the week. Often halt fed. with sore back and shoulders, he pulls the plow and the wagon. What W< i l the South do without the mule and negro He turns the soil to make the crops, ii?' goes to the mill, hauls the lire wood, entries the cotton to town, brings back the guano and corn and Hour and pulls the buggy to church on Sunday. He builds our railroads, our public roads and grades our streets:, in fact is an Important factor in all public works. What would WO do without the mule? The old Church Choir. I seem to hear the voices And the songs they used to sing, The sweet reverberation "Jesus All to Thee 1 Bring." I see the old choir in its place Just as it used to be. And softly through the years comes back "Nearer, My God, to Thee." I And the voice. O, the voices Of that happy long ago. To my listening soul are singing All the songs I used to know. Comes an echo far and faintly Of the world that is to be. Like a benediction, saintly "Rock of Ages Cleft for Me." Friends of other days, I see them Gathered in that holy place; They are singing of my Saviour "When 1 meet Him Face to Face." Still the melody is ringing. Swelling to that old church dome, Sweetest peace to me is bringing "When We'll Be Gathered Home." And my life though lone and friend less. Sorrow's billows round me roll. Vet they speak of joy that's endless "Jesus, Lover of My Soul." Far across the gloom and shadows Gleams a beacon fair and bright. Pilot of my soul forever, "Lead Thou .Me, O Kindly Light.' Lead, and witli Thy beams to guide me I at last shall reach the goal, storms of life no more betide me. "When the Surges Cease to Roll." ? Alfred 13towl Gilbert in Houston Heights. Kept the hing at Home. "For the past year we have kept the King of all laxatives?Dr. King's New i Fife Pills?in our home and they have proved a blessing to till our family." writes Faul Mathulka. of Buffalo, N. j v. Easy, imi sure remedy for all stomach, liver and kidney troubles, i Only _'.",<? at Lanrens Drug Co., and Palmetto Drug Co. What I did not See. The writer has just returned from a tour of several hundred miles of farm ing country in Illinois and Wisconsin nmong some of the richest and most progressive fanners in the world. 1 ;ini going to tell what 1 saw that ex plains the almost Uliparnlled prosperi ty of these farmers, but perhaps a better exphanatlon may be found in what I did not see. For example take this list: No mules. No cabins. No Kill I ics. No old Heids. No forest tires. No big plantations. No one-horse plows. No loafers at depots. No sheep-killing dogs. No small work horses. No stumps in the Held. No commercial fertilizers. No factory-slave children. No farm homes unpainted. No one-room sehoolhouses. No farms without live stock. No anaemic-looking children. No land without Cover crops. No cows or mules with rihs showing. No burning of vegetable matter. No parasite store at every cross roads. No farms cut up into piddling patch., cs. No surface-scratching miscalled plowing. No farm home without sanitary con veniences. No fanner "bossing" hands without working himself. And it might he said in conclusion, that there were no negroes and con sequently no while men and women either waiting for negroes to do work they might do themselves, or abstain ing from what their hands found to do from any absurd idea that it was "beneath them." -Clarence Poe in: Raleigh (N. t'.i Progressive Farmer and Oox.Ctte. Marvelous Diseovci ies. mark the wonderful progress of the nge. Air flights on heavy machines, telegrams without wires, terrible war inventions to kill men. ami that won der of wonders Dr. King's New Dis covery- to sa e life when threatened by coughs, colds, Ingrippc, asthma, croup, bronchitis, hemorrhages, hay lover and whooping cough or lung trouble. For all bronchial affections it has no equal. It relieves instant ly. Its the surest cure. .lames M. Ulack of Asheville, N. C, It. It. No. I. writes it cured him of an obstinate cough after all other remedies fail ed. ftOc and $1.00. A trial bottle free. Guaranteed by l.aurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. COPELAND'S Big Mid - Summer Clearance Sale Is Now in Full Blast 1 Big Reductions throughout our entire line of High and LowCut Shoes, Hats, Underwear. Neck wear, Collars, Cuffs, etc. p Do not fail to take advantage of these greatly | reduced prices in laying in a supply of Seasonable f Merchandise. Come all this week Come any day this week The One Price Store Customers Shoes Shined Free Don't make a mistake by not coming to our store this week and see the many Bargains that awaits you. Everything: in Millinery to be closed out regardless of cost as we do not carry over anything in this department. We will not quote prices, but ask that you come and see the many Bargains that our store is crowded with. Switzer Next door to Enterprise Bank Learn the Way Laurens, South Carolina