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PRECAUTIONARY HINTS. 4H BOUT this time papa remarks A Irrelevantly eyes cast down), "I haven't see a tie I like In any shop in this whole town." About this time the minister Drops in to call op. mother dear /. nd hints that he well supplied With slippers, gifts of yesteryear. About this timo big Brother.Jaok Declares: "Cigars no more I smoke! A pipe whiff now and then perhaps! No, mother,. this is not a joke!" About this time poor mother, dear Perplexed is and inclined to sigh, "How strange that each should show distaste - For just the gifts I meant to buyI" -Ella A. Fanning. - CHRISTMAS IN MANILA. C RIsnMAS for the majority of the 225,000 inhabitants of Manila that is, the Filipinos-hegins on Christ mas eve. There are no stockings ling. however, for stockings are not popular, eveli with the most aristocratic senori tts, who usually go hare tnkled.. Mid night mass is the occasion which brings thousnnds to the churches. These fine edifces are thrown open and blaze with myriads of candles and electric lights. Manila at midnight on Christmas eve is probably gayer than at any oth er time of the year. The streets are thronged with carriages and people in their best attire. Many Anericns turn out on Christmas eve also to see the displays and the people and make church to church Inspection tours in parties. Fine trained choirs and string ed orchestras render excellent music. The weather during the holiday sea son is just cool enough to dispel the chronic laziness which pervades Ma nila during most of the year and put a little spice itto the blood. At noon the thermometer will probably not go over 84 or 85 degrees. At night, how ever. a blanket on the bed is not too much. The Seven Sets of Presents. L.L the world's a Christnmas tree, And all the men anil women merely 'children. They have their presents and remem brances, And one man in his time gets many gifts. Ills lot being seven series. At first the infant. With his feeding spoons and rattles; Then the trumpet and tin soldiers, skates and sleigh And fireman's helmet, and then the lover, Sighing like a furnace witn a gaudy neck tie Knit by his lady's fingers. Then a hubby, Showered by his friends with socks and gloves And pipes that will not draw, ink wells of brass And fountain pens that leak, or else some painted China that hi wife can use as well. And then The middle aged of fair round belly-a little cal) To hide his shining pate The sixth set sinks Into the carpet slipper game or bad ci gars A silver cutter, ince his teeth are bad. Last gift of all that ends this strange E-ventful history is failing sight. 'T'hen they bring a nagnifying glass For grandpa. -Detroit Free Press Santy and the Stork. "But, daddy. is there really, truly Santy?" "WVell. I just guess yes-a regular corker hte Is too." "Is lie nilce?" "Is he? W~ell. I should say so! Isn't he, Ma ry ?" "Humphi~la Very nice, as saitas go. but not very modest." "Isalie hianomie, daddny?2" "Oh. as handsome as n pictutre spar'klinag eyes, fluae forehmead, beautiful compliexion-ver'y handsonie, isn't lie. Mary?" "Henry, it's perfectly direadfuil the way you deceive that child. You ought to be ashamned of youarself. Yotu're set ting himii a terrIble example." "Blut, daddcy, whlere does he lIve away ol'f somnewhaereV" "Oh. yes: very, very far." "Away off whlere the stork lives?" "Tile stork! Who's becen telling you about tile stork?" "Mammay."--Chicago TrIbune. MIstletoe. It Is high timne thant something was (lone about ouar mistletoe literatuare that crops up so regularly-during the holi (lay seasoni. it systematizes about as follows: The joke about thme girl who wears * sprig of mistletoe on her head. Trhe joke about the mistletoe that didn't comne in time. andi the girl asks (always coyly) whether they cannot get along without it. The church trimming mistletoe joke. The sprig of mistletoe that the long lost lover on his dramatic return on Christmas eve always draws out of his pocket at the end of the story. The fact Is that the mistletoe has~ now degenerated into a chestnut. It no longer serves any useful literary purpose. it should be0 worn only by mothers-in-law.-H~arper's Weekly. The Best Known Christmas Poem. "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" -those delightfui verses that wlil charm both tihe old and young as long as there are stockings to be hung-was written ninety-one years ago, just be' fore tile holiday season, by Clement Clark Moore. then professor of orien tal languages In the New York Theo logieal seminary. It has become itn Aiperican classic, andi no Christmas day is complete wIthout a reading of this "'harming little lyric that has lived and glad~ldened the Christmastldo for nearly 100 yvan'. THE CHRIST CHILD'S MANGER. Pretty but Obsolescent Feature of the Latin Christmas. All through the Italian and Hunga rian quarters in, Now York city may be found traces of the manger 'at Christ mas time. ' The Italians call it the "presepio." which 'means manger; the Hungarians the "Bethlehem." The manger is an ex'eedingly old and interestihig devotion in the Catholic countries of south Europe. St. Francis of Assisi, who .was born in 1182, in troduced it iqto Italy. and it is still the sign of Chrisfrans in south Italy, as much as holly in the windows is the sign of It in New York. It is not many years since a carpenter could not be had for weeks before Christmas in Na ples or Rs62e. They were all busy put ting up mongers in the houses of the quality, while thp poorer folk were busy fabricating their own. This quaint, old devotion Is fading out of the cities of the miainland, but in conservative Sicily It remains in full force. Every family there still erects its preseplo some time from the 1st to the 15th of December. It is not a manger alone, but a whole mountain side, made of the rough, flexible bark of the cork tree. Peaks and crags and precipices abound, with winding trails, houses and castles of polored cardboards. for ests of evergreen twigs and sometimes thiy pipes to furnish brooks and lakes. In the center Is the grotto, with the holy fatmily within. surrounded- by the cattle. A sky of blue paper is stretch ed above, with the star of Bethlehem upon it. Over the hills come shepherds bearing gifts to the infant, and, though they are in Sleilian ecstute and carry good Sicilian cheese and wine upon their donkeys. they -ate all the more interesting for that. Sometimes the preseplo fills only a corner, sometimes the whole side of it room, according to the means of the family. It is kept year after year un til worn out, but it needs to be fresh ened up each year. always a welcome task to the mother and daughters of the house. ++01 1 4++++++4q44++++++++ FIRST CHRISTMAS FEAST.1 ''he first feast to be celebrated on Dec. 25 was established by Commodus, emperor of Itome, who reigned about 185 years after the birth of Christ. After that there are many references in history to meetings of the new sect called Christians, who gathered on this day to celebrate the birth of the God ian. It .is not until a century after the time of Cominodus that we find a particular reference to the persecutions that the Christians underwent at the hands of the pagan emperors, culminat ing in a Christmas day natssacre. When Rome was no longer a pagan state the feast began to be celebrated in Christian style, nnd those who ob served the birth of Christ in those days (lid so in widely selmarated "oiutries and.freluently at widely diifferent pe riods of tihne anid necording to no set prlog'i nm. The n111(ents agreed o11 011 tilng. however-that the festival coil mlelorating the birhIi of Christ shouhi le the most. iagnilI lent of the year. In some c'ses It was kept up for days. Origin of the Yule Log The Yule log in Eiiugland Is ia relic of druidism. Its name is lie!!evedl to be a corrupltioni of the wheel log, a -vhieef in druIdienl symbolism ty lifyinig the march or the sun The Iighutinug of thle Y'ule fire is reminis('enlt of the sacred fires kIndled by the druida~ at mildwin ter in the rounud towers wlhlih yet re mai in many parts of Great lirlinin. Ireland. France and Spain. HO0W TO TlAKE 04)D1' CARE OF YOURI 1HAI1 Nothing spoils your goodl looks so much as homely hiair-striigy, (lull colored, harsh. Nothinug addls to goodl looks so much as beatutiful hair-soft, silky, wavy and( glossy. No matter how beautiful youru hair is now, you can improve its good looks bmy using Iliarmtony I lair Beau-ti'fier. if your hair is homely and ugly naow, Hamrmnony HlaIr Beautifier will make it softer, sillier, glossier, mor'e beautiful In ev ery way. -It also makes it easier to put u p and1( helps it to "'stay put."' Its rich rose odor -hides tihe lluleaant, oily smell of the hair. I larinony Iliair ileautifier isi rightly named; it beau tItles the hair. Very easy to apply-simp lly spinkle a litt-le onI your m halir each time be fore brushIng It. it conitains 1no oil, and( will inot change tile color of the hair, nor duarken gray hut'tr., T1o keep yotur'-hair pasd scalp dan drluff-free and~ el .n / use Hiarmony Shampoo. This - ur, ' iid shuampoo gives an instan tabus ih lathler that I mmedilately n1'metates to every -part of hair and scalp), inaui'ing a quick and thiorough eleansin~g. Washed off just as qiuickly, the entire opera tIon Lakes only a few moments. Con tains nothing that can harm the hair; 'leaves no0 harshniess or stickiness just a sweet-smnelling cleanliness. Botht -preparations come in odd shiap~ed, ver'y ou'namientatl bottles, wit~h apirigler tolps. Hlarmnony Hair beau tifler, $1.00. Har'mony Shtampoo, 50c. Both guaranteed to satisfy you in ev ery way, or your money back. Sold in thlis comamunity only at out' store Th'le Roxall Store-one of tihe more than 7,000 leading drug stores of the United States, Canada and Great Britain, which own the big Harmony laboratorIes in Boston. Wh pro tihe many. celebirated Harmony Perfumes and Toilet Pr'eparatlonls are made. Laurons D)ruug Co., 103 \V. Main street, Todd biuilding, Laturions,. S. C. Por Weakness and Loss of Appetite 'The Old Standard genernl strengthening tonic, OROVE'S TASTEL~1,US chill TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the systenm. A true toni, nnd ureAnnetizcr. Foradiultandchnldren. 50e HAVE YOU A Broken Watch? We Guarantee to Have Your Watch Back to You Within One Week or we do Not Charge You One Cent for Repairing It. OUR SUIPERIN'TENIDENT O WORK ROOM I1AS , IAl) 18 YEARS' EXPERI ENCE IN RIEPAIRING WATCIES. IE 11HAM WORKEI) POR TiE WAIJTIIAM WA T('I CO., POlt THls I' / WARl TC('O., AND) NUbM EROIT O'l'II1ERM IN 1EARNING 1IIS TR.Al )E. ALL W O\)RK IS TI'IIOR lOll[LY 1 INISPECI'YA) 111.1[, 1R, FORE IT GU)ES OUT. SIOULD ANY \VORK 'I'URNEI) O'T OP O'R S11O1, IROVE l'NSATISIACTORY. \VE \WILL CIlEERI1'LLY 1)O TIIE WORK OVER., PAYINO 'TRA NSIT CIIGES IA MIOTI WAYS, A NI) I P WE ('AN"' I SATIShFY YOU IN 'I'IIA'T WAY W E WILL R EI'URN RE n PA IR CIA R ES10 . WE 1)0 NOT') R EI'AI R IN0 IRS#OI?, \\'A'I'('ll ES. \ I \ILL NOT RE I EMI'ONSIILE FOR 1W ATCII ES, WillCH HAVE NOT REEN ItEGISTEREI) 'TIIO'GII TH'MAIL. f'- YOU HAVE A \ATCII TIAT YOU WISI I'S TO x R EAlit: WRITI l'S AND WE WIL SEND BON TO n PACK IN AND INS'ITC'IONS 10W TO PACK, SO AS 'O RE SURE AS 'P DEIAVERY. VWE PAY CII ARGES BOTHI WAYS ANi) O'R REPAIIt CIIARGES AR E AM LITTLE. IP NOT 1,ESS 1 TIAN TH1E AVERAGE LOCAL REP'AIRER. AS SOON AS WE RECEIlVE YOIR WATPCII. WE MAIL YOU A CARD, T11"laINI YOU WIIA'' TIEI E \ATI' 'ER IS ANI) WIIA'T ''HE CIIAROEM WIl L i BE. ' ALL WORK IS SPOT CASH x Ii1 illCER NC7T l PEOPI,E BANK. FPliflROOI. Bi Il'll,il>N(. IR EENW\OOD, S. C. If YO' \VAN'I' YOl'It W\A'TCII INED. AND /INE!) N/Gl/T. AND SENT RACK TO YOU IN ONE WEEK MEIND) I'T'TO) US. WE I)() \\OiK ON NOTIIINO lil''I' \VA'I'CII ES. The Reliable Watch Repairing Co. 208 Main Street. Greenwood, S. C. summoomosoonmonoenmnomonoonomm: ; mm kmething saper Prii rs of Business in Live Stock, I hat it is better for the buyer an i basis, and we have decided fi r strictly cash. As we have I ping extra good, there is a volu t to show to the people that this iwner its full value. Therefor< >ver this and adjoining count rices and if, after said inspe prices, you are convinced that Public Benefactors, then v :arry out this plan which we thi the seller. mary with, our M 11 and Spring Open a 'Ipen, m an.I rsons interested to c which time we expet iorses and mules to ye meptioned terms. Stock Country and had the ::k Business, we feel that we a Lowest Prices. During this yur customers mules for which id0o $270, and the mules that for $212.50, thus making a sa, FINAL SEiTTLEMENT Take nioticee that on the 15th day of .Jan., 1011.1, I willI ren der a filnaI accountl pof my acts and dloings as Executog of the estate of I1. 11. Austin, deceased, in the ofice of the .Iudge of Probate -- of Laurens ebunty, at. 11 o'clock, a. mn., and on the same (lay will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Executor.* Any persons indlebtedl to said estate are notified and requiredl to mnake pay ment on that dante; and all persons Shaving claims against said estate will present them on or before said (late, (luly proven, or be forever barred. ..S. D. AUSTIN, Execumtor. [y n~ecember 10, 191. -1 mo. B. R. TODD Engineering and Contracting Land Surveys a' Specialty tic 'ucrete Work Skillfiilly done or In. "spectd. ter Dlrawings andl estimaites or all Kind, TelephoneN.34 Laurens, S. C. -rI10,000 Xmas Cards an:l Booklets at Je. eniton's oo Sntoe. NOTICE OF Ti '1 County Treasurer The Books of the County Treasurer will be opened for the collection of State, County and Ccminutation Road Taxes for fiscal yoL.r, 1913, at the Treasurer's 0111ce from October 15th. to December 31st, 1912. After Decem ber 31st, one per cent will be added. After January 31st, two per cent will he added, and after February 28th, seven per cent. will be added till the 15th day of March, 1914, when the books will be closed. All persons owning property in more than one Township are requested to call for receipts in each of the several Townships in which t.hp property is located. This is inpor-anit, as addition. al cost and penalty may be attached. All able-bodied male citizens he tween the ages of 21 and 60 years of age are liaie to paty e. poi Ix of $1.0o except old soldiers, who are exempt .it 50 years of age. ('ominitation Road Tax $1.50 in lieu of road duty. The Tax levy is as follows: For State pu1'pos('s .. .. ..5% mI l :C4 For Constitutional Sehool Tax 3 mills For Ordinary County purposes 3 iI' For interest oil- 1ailroad Bonds 1 17i11 For (toad and Bridgel Bonds 3 mills For Court Ilouse Bonds .. ..1 %! mills For Special School 'lax .. ..I mill Total .. .......... ..17%1 mills Special Schools-- ---Laurens Township. La1rens No. 11 ..........7 inills Trinity Ridge No. 1 .. .. ..8% mills Maddens No. 2 .. .. .. .. ..4 mills Narnie No. 3 ..........5 mills Baileys No. 4 .. .. .. ..' .. ..2 mills Mills No. 5 ... .. .. .. ....2 mills Oak Grove No. 6 ..........2 mills Ora No. 12 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..4.1 mills Special Schools-Yoings Township. Youngs No..................2 mills Youngs No. 2 -.. .. .. .. ..4 mills Youngs No. 4. .. .. ..4 mills rYoungs No. 5 ... .. .. ....4 mills Fountain Inn No. 313 .. .. ..11 ndill Ljanford No. 10 .. .. .. .. ..6% mills Ora No. 12 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..4 mills Youngs No. 1 .. .. .. .. .. ..3 mills Central No. 6 .. .. .. .. .. ..2 mills Special Schools-Diils Township. ireen I'ond No. 1 .. .. .. .. ..4i milIs ials No. 2 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..3 mills Shiloh No. 3 .. -.. ......4 mills Gray Cou rt-Owings Nc. 6 .. ..4 mills nlarksdale No. . .. .. .. ..b . mills -Dials Church No. 7 .. .. .. ..2 milli 'Fountain Inn No. 311 .. .. .. 11 mills ,Merna No. 8 .. .. .. .. .. ..2 mills IDials No. 4 .. .. .. .. .. ..4 mills Special Sohools-Sullivan Township. Mt. Bethel No. 2 -........:3 mills Princeton No. 1 . . .. .. .. .4 mills Poplar Springs No. 3 .. .. ..4 mills Rabun No. 4 .. -.. .. ..8%{ mills Hendersonville No. 5 .. ....8%/ mills Friendship No. 6 .. .. .. .. ..7 mills Hrewerton No. 7 .. .. ... ....3 mills Sullivan Township H. I:. Ponds 4 mills Alerna No. 8 .. .. .. .. .. ..2 mills Special Schools---Waterloo 'Township. Waterloo No. 1I .. .. .. .. ..4 mills Alt. Gallagher No. I .. .. .. ..3 mills Jetleehem No. 2 .. .. .. .. ..2 mills 'koiun No. . .. .. ..... .... mills ('Centerp(,int No. 4 .... .. ....2 mills Oakville No. S .. .. .. .. . .3 mills Mlt. Pleasant No. .. .. .. ..2l mills Mt. Olive No. 7.... .. .. ..:.. mills Reedy Grove No. 8 .. .. ..2 mlls Special Schools-Cross Ifill Townsh ip Cross 11111 No. 13.. .. .. ..6 mills (Cross 11i1l No. I .. . . ....2 mills Cross Ilill No. 2... .......2 mills Cross 11111 No. 4 .............2mills Cr'oss 11111 No. 5 ...... .....4 mills Cross i1.111 No. 6... .. .. .. ..2..mills Cross l11ll No. 3 ...... .....2 mills Special Schools-Il unter Township. Miountville No. 16 .... .. ..9 mills Hunter No. 2 .............4 mills Hunter No. 3 ...... .......2 mIlls Clinton No. 5 --..........6mills Hlunter No. 8 .............3 mills Wadsworth No. 4.1. . . .. ....2 mills Ilunter No. 1 .................2.mulls Special Sc.hool-Jaels Township. Odells No. 6 .............3 mills llurricano No. 15 .. .........3 .nuil;s Shady Grove No. 2 .. .. .. .. mills Jacks No. 3.-.-.............5 mil1ls ( pecial Schools-Seuillietown Townshi p I2angston Church No. :i.. .. ... mills Seui1leto wn No. 1 . .. ....2 mills Lanford( No. 10 .. .. ......6%~ mills Ora No. 12 .............4 mills Scuilletown No. 2 .. .......4 mills Scullictown No. 4 ........4 mills Prompt attenition wvill be given those vho)W wih to pay their Taxes th rough the mall by check, moneoy order, et.. Persons sending in lIt ts of niamles to b e taken off are requefsted1 to send them early; and give the Township of each, as the Treasurer is veriy busy dulring the month of Desember. ROSE 1). YOUNG, County Treasurer. FINAL SETTL2EMENT. Take notice that. on the 19th day ot' December, I will render a final ac count of my acts and dloings as Ad ministr'ator of the estate of W. 1F. Lawson, dleccased,. in thue 01lice of the Judlge of Probate of La1urens counity~ at 11 o'clock, a. mn., and on the same (lay will apply for a final discharge from my trusts as Adminatrator. Any persons indlebted to said estate are notified and requlred1 to make pay Iment on that' (late; andl all persons having claims agains-t said estate will present thenm on or before said date. dlly proven, or lbe forever barred. J. M. DeSiIIELDS, November 19, 1913.-i mo.ins rt Uring the children to see the bean Siful line oif 1)oll; that. we aire showing. We have t hem from 3 inchtes high up. to 24 igehtes, pr'lees from Sc up. S. M. & E. 11. Wilka & C. I *. 'i' ' r am ne 11 a: THE IMPORTANCE OF THRIFT. Men of the South-Save. You must learn this lesson that economy which so stiffens the North and inspires aj stimulates its industry, will overwhelm you.-Henry Clay THE -BANKS9- 'LU"N WHENEVER YOU NEED A GENERAL TONIC - TAKE GROVE' The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is Equal Valuable as a General Tonic because it Acts ou the Liver Drives Out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System, For Grown People and Children, You know what you are taking when you take Gr-ve's 'T'asteless chill To, as the formula is printed on every label showing that it contains the well kno tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It is as strong as the strongest bit tonic and is in Tasteless Fort. It leas no equal for Malaria, Chills and Fev Weakness, general debility and loss of appetite. Gives life and %ig.or to Nursi Alothers and Pale, $ikly Children. Removes Biliousness without purgi Relieves nervous depression and low spirits. Arouss the liver to action r purifies the blood. A True Tonic and Sur- Apnet her. A Comnplete Strengpthe No family should be without it. Gunrantee.i by your Druggist We zncau it. 5