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Our price is abo? half that agents cl rge. Nichols' Studio IDD016E I3ROThER B3USINE55 CA1 Its establish e~ nomy makes Dodge rothers Business Car a profit able investment. The haulage cost is un-. usually low. Palmetto Auto & Accessory Co. 112 West Main St. Phone 200 HAS 2 INDEPENDENCE DAYS Republic of Ecuador Celebrates August Tenth and October Ninth as National Holidays. The Republic of Ecuador celebrates two national holidays, and both are "independence days," according to the Pan-Amerlean Union. The liberty-loving patriots had to shoot two bolti at Spanish domination before they succeeded in gaining per mnanent independence. The first time they had a quiet but determined revo lution in Quito, the present capital of the republic, the patriots assembling at the house of Manuela Canizares, a brave and beautiful woman, on August 5. 1809, when they prepared their declaration of independence and chose the officials who were to compose the provisional government. That night the conspirators gathered their forces in different parts of the city and Cap tain Salinas, who commanded the two companries of regular troops that guard ed the city, went to their barracks, read to them the declaration and won them over to the cause of the patriots. They overpowered the belyguard of Ituiz de Castilla, the Spanish governor, early on the morning of August 10 and thus established the first republic without shedding a drop of blood. It lasted only about a year, when Castil la succeeded in overthrowing the pa triotle government and again brought the country under Spanish dominion. The fires of liberty had been kin dled, however, and the Ecuadoreans kept up their herole struggle, notwith standing many reverses, until in 1820 the people of Guayaquil', the leading seaport of the country, succeeded in rebelling on the ninth of October. With the aid of Gen. Simon Bolivar, the great Venezuelan emancipator, and of his compatriot, Gen. Antonio Jose Sucre, the Ecuadoreans, after many bloody battles, succeeded in coin pletely annihilating the Spanish forces and established freedom in Ecuador forever. Therefore it is that the Ecua doreans celebrate two "independence days," the tenth of August and the ninth of October. Housecleaning Hedgehogs. It is said that when in camp during the winter the woodsmen of Maine en tertain many strange guests-blue jays, chickadees, wood mice and hedge hogs among them. One woodsman on leaving the camp on a Saturday aft ernoon used to neglect purposely to close the door of his shack in order that the hedgehogs might enter and clean his floor. Inasmuch as the principal constitu ents of the camp menu are pork and beans, bacon and other dishes rich in fat, grease Is spilled upon the floor in a week and a hedgehog will risk his neck for a bit of fat. Just as soon, therefore, as this par ticular camp was deserted by its oc cupants the spiny gluttons would has ten in and begin to plane off the sur face of the floor with their chisellike teeth, eating away all the wood that held a trace of grease. On his return to camp the owner could sweep up and enjoy the comforts of a clean house for another week. The only se rious objection to this method of housecleaning lay in the fact that it was necessary to lay a new camp floor frequently. Reindeder Meat. The former United States commis sioner at Saint Michael, Alaska, WVII llam B. Stephenson, writes in his new book about Alaska, "The Land of To morrow," that "the reindeer reaches of the far North are destined to solve the meat questIon for the United States." "Reindeer breeding is fast becom ing an Important factor, and here agaIn one must revert to the land. Reindeer need space, for they are the beef of Alaska and must have pas turage. This pasturage is always to be had. Reindeer steaks are and have been for a long time regularly quoted on the Seattle markets. That they will one day figure conspicuously in our meat supply cannot be questioned. Already the b~ig packing concerns have sent their representatives to look over the ground. There is one drawback to this industry, however, which will have to he adjusted andl regulated he fore it can become profitable. The cost of shipping Is now prohibitive. Alaska now has 100,000 reindeer. With in the next ten years she wvill have 3,000,000." The Lerot and the Snake. Every one has heard of the remark able combats of the Indilan mongoose with venomous snakes, in which little rikkitikkl-tavvl comes off victor. The fact, that thle mongoose inava riably sur vive's has led to the suggestion that it is immune to snake poison. Oilher animals salid to lbe immune are the'pig and the hedgehog. The exp~eriments of a British natura list show that an ainin al of the dormouse family must he add~ed to the list of the immune. Tihis anaimmal is k nowni as the ler'ot and is saidl to fight tlercely with vipers. Large doses of viper's poison were in jected into one lerot, from which in jectio lou ) ill effTeels followed. On one occasion a ierot was hadly bitten In the' eye' by a vi ier' andl no signs of poi soning followed. Amen. li wa' nu fuill~ w!ul. In forct, he w~as wildily wild. "I tell you ''nce4 a nd for all."' he roared at hi i' lern offspr ig, "'If you marry GrIa(ce i'I' ' off withiout a penny, and you w' t have s'' o much ats a piece of bieef t' blil in 'Ihe pot." " 4l. I - "' lino 11s he went In n -'i- 'lmee before meat."- L I' USE PLAIN WORDS Up-to-Date Young People Do Not Apply Soft Pedal. Ancient Fashion of Vague Allusion to Things Is Passe and All Say What They Mean About Things. Americans used to come in for a good deal of tensing'and "Joshing" by Englishmen because of their tendency to show an exaggerated delicacy in their choice of words. Especially was this squeamishness apparent among American women 40 or 50 years ago, when so far fromi ever speaking of their own legs they actually called the uprights of a square piano limbs and would have blushed with mortification if you had mentioned the chair legs. In England they said that an Aneri can woman would never refer to the breast of a chicken, but referred to that portion of the bird as the bosom. Some who laughed at this over niceness made the comment that peo ple who condemned so many harmless words must have evil minds or they would see no harm in them. But really it did not indicate evil-mnindedness. It was just a natural phase of the gen eral oversquenmisliness of the time. No wonder that the young wotan who was cautioned never to show more than the tip of her toe beneath her voluninous hoopskirts and who couldn't to save her life have taken a deep breath-no wonder she was overfastidious in the choice of her words. It was part of the fashion of the time. It really was bad form as manners were then framed to speak with even moderate frankness. But now the pendulum has swung far in the other direction, and it is the well-bred thing to avoid those circum locutions used once to soften words of too great realism. It is considered a little old-fashioned or countrified now to say that you are going to retire when you might say simply that you are going to bed. Likewise we speak of bedrooms, whereas our careful grandmothers would never have used so frank a word. They spoke.of chan bers or sleeping apartments. Sometime ago It was considered the well-bred thing to use circumlocutions when speaking of death. To a certain extent this is still done, but in general the progressive young American avoids such euphemisms as "pass beyond" and "pass away." People more frequently used to say "if anything should hap pen to me" or "in case I should be called beyond" when they meant sim ply "if I should die," which means exactly the same thing just as vividly and has the advantage *f being straight Anglo-Saxon. Old-fashioned folk used to use sof tened words to indicate poverty. They spoke about being "in reduced circum stances." They would have consid ered it rude to say a friend was poor, though they might have said that he was a "person of moderate means." If a woman found herself in a posi tion where she had to earn her own living they said that "she had joined the army of toilers," never that she had "gone to work." People spoke of salaries, remunera tions, compensations and honorariums, seldom of wages or pay. They spoke of positions and posts. Nowadays the thoroughly up- to-dlat e young person speaks of her job.-Philadelphia In quirer. Humbugs In Animal Kingdom. In military stables horses are known to have pretendled to be lame in ordler to avoid goinig to a military exercise. A chImpatnzee had been fed on cake when Hick. After his rec-overy he often feigned coughing In order to procure dainties. The cuckoo, as is wvell kniown, lays its eggs in another bird's nest, and, to make the (deception s-urer, it takes away one of the other bird's eggs. Ani mals are conscious of their deceit, as is shown by the fact that they try to act secretly and noiselessly; they show a sense of guilt if dletected ; they take precautions in advance to avoid discovery ; in some cases they mani fest regret arid repentance, an ex change says. Thus, bees which steal hesitate often before and after their exploits, as if they feared punishment. A nittutralist d('5'rlhe4s how his monkey coimmit ted theft. While he pretended to sleep the anuimnal regalrd ed hulim with hiesitatiotn, and stoipped ev-er-y time his maust er moved or seemled on the poinut of awakening. Fast Growers. ('ustomer--I should like to knost why the rota toes at the bottom of the .sn('k you sold me last week are so much smuallet- than those at the top. (Greenu (Jrocer--WellI, mum, pota toes Is growin' that fast now itat by the tli)m sne'kful is dug the last ones is abhout twice the size of the first.-Lon don Tdeas. Two of A Kind. "A s(eientist, ehli?" "Yes." "Whatt's ils speeli'f y?'' "lie's t rying to find n substittute for gasol Inet." "I havt~e an e(eeentric fr-lead he ought to tueet." "Whatt is your friend wormkinmg on?" "'ihiriietuailn mttion."' Wool Growers Use Press. Woorsl rant t pt roprmi etors areI ma k ing "se of a small pre-iss to Putt the wool (ilo ,. <inltnet hale. which cuts down ' ir handlIng and ttransportatl0. 'ste vnry mnanrinnie. United States Tires are Good Tires *'Roia Card' Most Economical Wear-life---service- mile- values means greater econow age-safety-comfort. These my-less cost of maintenance are the things that count in -less repairs and depreciation. a tire. Car o their These are exactly what you own thi refer United get in United States Tires,- States Tires. Their merit is general all-round tire satis- recognized everywhere. faction. a We have them-a type and This greater total of tire size for every car. We know United States Tires are good tires. That's why we sell them EUREKA DRUG COMPANY, Laurens, S. C. A. J. LAMB, Enoree, S. C. BELL, WORKMAN & COMPANY, Goldville, S. C. A Post-War Maxwell Gets Many a Longing Look p ASSERS-BY, upon seeing a Post-War Maxwell parked at the curb, 'often stop and look it over. They are struck by the "atmosphere" of the car, its clean, polished, refined look, its rare symmetry of line, More Miles per gallon and the evident sincerity in its construction. More Miles on Tire' Thousands who have the rare fortune of possessing a Post-War Maxwell have been gratified time and again by the silent approval of the man on the curb. But they have a double satisfaction; they know they drive not only a good looking car but a remarkably good acting car. For there have been a score or more of rather revolu tionary improvements in the Maxwell. They can tell a volume about that easy castering ef fect in stecering~ which a new type front axle gives, or that perfectly happy and secure feeling that is experienced when the emergency brake is applied (it's on the trans mission shaft) or how the car hugs the road as a result of that masterly new rear axle. When one stops to realize the great virtues of the 300,000 Max wells that precede this, notes the new im provements, estimates their cost, and observes that the price is only $995 f. o. b, Detroit, he gets a pleasant sur prise---but not one bit more than when he takea his first r'ide behind the wheel. 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