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^ _-f" " ~ I # Tooth We sell Tooth Brushes th ' Every brush bearing our to shed its bristles. The b 1 A UJ l? oest quality; securely hacu conform to the natural conl Cleaning the teeth becorr you use one of our good bn ^ to scratch the enamel or enough to remove all foreij We import all brushes be most reliable foreign brust hind the goods. J Kingstree ? rj Go | 1 T I I " A / WHEN YCU"NEE?1 A record of more th hind him. With a bur on hand, he is always Also Feed a ^ J. L. Stuckey, VtHHuMMMaaaraMnauMHKiM ' [the wood everlastii k | SASH, DOOR 9' ( Lengthen the Lit If ASK YOl I L. Wether I LARGEST MFRS. SOUTH, i pKers x Mr. Farmer X Come in and g< v and stop buying Q McCormick, the 1 x ifilr thnsA who h f v**v W V V V Ml v mick and they wi j\ O our statement is I V YOURS A O Williamsburg Li Q Thos. McCutchen, Mgr. Instead of Woo BB I besides they are inexpensive an B ^ WlHiamsbarg Hardware Brushes j iat give greatest use. name is strictly guaranteed not ristles in our brushes are of the in place and trimmed so that they ?ur of the teeth. tes an anticipated pleasure when ishes. They are not hard enough hurt the gums, but just pliable rn substances from the teeth. j|, aring our name from one of the i makers, whose guarantee is be)rug Company, I South Carolina Stuckey Li 1NYTHIII6 IN HORSEFLESH an twenty years stands belch of nice horses and mules ready for a sale or a swap. net .Livery fctaoies. ;i Lake City, S. C. !| t-CYPRESS ) S AND BLINDS I e of Your Buildings. I JK UtALX.K Ul\ _ horn & Son, I CHARLESTON, S. C. { >ocoooooooooocx7j and Rakes| 3t a Mower and Rake 9 hay. We handle the 0 best on the market. 5 ave used the McCor- X ill convince you that v correct. O TO PLEASE, V ive Stock Company, O KINGSTREE, S. C. Q xxxxxaooooooooS dShingles orj/ate \WSTRIGHT Metal Shingles \ 'tfij The roofing that lasts as long as VI the building and never needs f repairs. They won't bum, crack, curl or rot like wood shingles, nor have they the eat weight or brittleness of stone slate; id look better than either. ilUmmkmrnn C f bU., niugou Cut 0. u. ; Heat Is Quick t< Aff< Weil-Known Fact that Extreme Beat Conduces to Chronic Constipation. So many people are in the habit of easing cold food in hot weather that constipation is very common during summer. It is best to vary the food and have some hot things, as, for example, soups and hot fish and meats, if that is to be the diet. Iced water should be drunk sparingly. In spite of all care people will become constipated, and if you find yourself in that condition you can get immediate relief by the use of Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. There is no k time of the? year when you should be i more careful of constipation than in t tMe summer, for many of the serious i illnesses as well as the fatalities re- t suit from a cloggingupof thebowels. t You also need general good health to i withstand the heat, and hence Syrup i Pepsin is best to take because itcon- < tains tonic ingredients that help to t build up the entire system. c Numerous users throughout the i land will verify these facts, among i them Mr George C Allen, 408 N Main St, Reading, Mass, who recov- ] ered his health completely after us- i ing only two bottles; and Miss Anna ^ ?to insure completi J along a case of 0 M The satisfying I cr ^orest'at ^ fpwsf ^s i,ure an^w ^^^ 1 temptingly goo j||^B| Delicious? Thirst-Q Demand the (Sen' Refuse <olrftitu Scud foi Hrer Boc THE COCA-COLA COMP A GASOLINE Let us figure with you when you handle the Associated Manufacture and will be pleased to show them 1 our garage. HAMER-THOMSON CO., CYPRESS SASH, ] Largest manufacturing i Special sizes on short notice A- H. FISCI CHARLEST 12-5-26t ? > jet the Bowels. 5choff, 249 S Washington St. Baltinore, Md, who uses it for constipa;ion and now has her mother and friends also using it. They now ivoid drastic remedies like cathartics, ablets, purgatives^ salt waters, pills ind such things. Ur uaidweirs syrlp Pepsin is mild and pleasant, and ihildren like it. You can obtain it of my druggist at fifty cents and one lollar a large bottle. Each bottle nust do what is claimed or your noney will be refunded. Families wishing to try a free sam)le bottle dan obtain it, postpaid, by iddressing Dr W B Caldwell, 418 Washington St, Monticello, 111. adv j?*' M ' rhat ? Picnic ' V* e success take i sr. / *M0 ] jeveragt?in field )me or in town. 3 . hole so me as it ii V* Refreshing M ucnching Ac F'. r.uir: >uet. VCVV~ lNY, ATLANTA, G/L Engines I want a gasoline engine. We jrs' celebrated line of Engines 1 jo those who are interested at i Kingstree, S. G.: DOORS s BLINDS / MJ stock house in the South.. i HER CO-. ON, S. C ? * k LETTEB FKOM "P00I C0NRAD."| Editor County Record:? This will inform the readers of your valuable and ever welcome paper that the writer is now located on the bank of the old,historic (Wee Nee) Black river, where his dreams of more than half a century are realized at last, and I mention this as I believe it will interest my friends, many o.f whom I have never seen from boyhood days up to the present time. I have been rambling up and down this old swamp,sometimes wading the murky waters, a string of fish in one hand and fishing-rod in the other; sometimes on the way back would be creeping through the darkest recesses after wild turkey or duck; sometimes drifting down on the bosom of the river on a raft to Georgetown; sometimes flatboating rosin and turpentine, poling up the river with three faithful colored konrla fVirnnrvh koot pnM nr roi n ? old ante-bellum slave time workers, only one of them left around here now. I will mention his name?Antrum Reardon. He still meets me with his familiar laugh and handshake and still calls me "Mas' Conrad", though I was not his master. As I have mentioned that I am located quite near the river, will tell the readers of The County Record that Mr W S Dennis has erected a nice building over his saw-mill, with an upstairs apartment with comfort * l i.1 able rooms lor nimseir, one Drouier, an uncle and myself. He has given me the most desirable room,fronting on the river, where I can sit, look, gaze up and down the stream, wonder,and, as Bill Arp used to say, ru? minate on the way back,and of time in its flight. As I notice the driftwood, trash and bubbles as they come floating down and soon pass out of sight, I am reminded of many things and scenes of our lives. We notice more closely the large pieces of trees and drift and make some remark of a round saw-log that is of value still passing down the -stream,'like the# big people of our land,and often the small rubbish and trash, like the writer, are scarcely seen at all, but, Mr Editor,I think it is good for some of us to be obscure as well as poor. We shall have our day here, rich or poor, high or low. Like the driftwood, we are passing down, sometimes sailing along quite smoothly and again whirling fast or slowly in some eddy or in a rapid against a snag, not knowing what will happen next. We are quite comfortably fixed up in our upstairs apartments. Mr Dennis has placed a nice cook stove with kitchen furniture outfit, and with some I had of my own,it makes housekeeping arrangements complete. We do our own cooking, hav * ? - i ing plenty of the nest stove wooa and an excellent well of water at our hands. As I am an early riser I usually cook breakfast and when nearly ready give a vigorous rap and the other sleepers are soon on hand, each with his spoon and plate, helping himself right from from the hominy pot and frying pan. Whenever I do the cooking I have the kettles with hot water and let some one else wash the dishes, and if water is not poured into the hominy pot to make it easy to clean, or if dirty water is left in the wash-pan after washing face and hands, they have a short, snappy sermon from me. I suppose some reader perhaps would like to know what I do for a living. Well, a good deal of logging for saw-mills has been done in Black river above this point. Thousands of logs that did not float well sank and are lying on the bottom of the river. I have built several small flatboats, or lighters as they are commonly called, and with windlass and grab hooks I raise those logs and fasten them until I get all the boats with logs swung up to them, let them loose to float down, turn up and wheel around in the stream, just as I have described the drift-wood and trash. Because I mentioned the hominy pot and frying pan, the reader must not conclude that we have nothing but hominy and fried bacon. Mr Dennis' father and mother, who live about three miles south of here,send us plenty of nice cabbages and Irish ? KCeS t ZlJ?_ i ki , potatoes. Besides, I go out on a foraging expedition myself late of evenings and come back with a bag on my back well filled with vegetables but I do not get them as I used to do in the Civil war, only seldom. Then Mrs H 0 Britton gave us the privilege of her garden, and, as Davy - . ... Crockett said about a chosen rnena he had who would turn his back to you after setting the decanter so as not to see how big a drink you would take,Mrs Britton gave me liberty to help myself and then went to the house. Mrs Britton, like many others, is a Daughter of the Confederacy, a woman of the South. Mr Editor, when I commenced this letter I intended to mention a few more old men, but as I have said so much about myself I will leave them for another time. I have wanted for several years to attend the reunion of the Blue and th^Graj at the memorial of the greatest battle of the war between the North and the South, but each time something pre- * vented me from attending, and as ** ? a riA-i.. - 6 Ti 1 tne governor ana aiace 01 reuuqrivania have given us such a friendly invitation to go and join with them, and to wear Confederate uniforms if we wish to do so and to bring our battle-flags, I have decided to go. Let us take the outstretched hand of friendship and meet them like brothers on the ground that was wet with some of the best blood of the sons . of South Carolina and the Southern soldier. Pennsylvania has given us a cordial invitation and a promise to care for us while there. What more could we ask? Let us go. Some of us may not be here next year, we may have to answer the last roll-call Dei ore men. uur country is at peace with all the world. I think the United States of . America is farther from war and a ^ better feeling exists towards all oth- < er nations than any other country in the whole world, so we have enough to be thankful for. Our Union! our Union! The h<?me of the free. The birth-spot of Washington, The land of liberty. Yes, my friends, I intend to visit the battlefield of Gettysburg,if nothing prevents me,and try to place my foot where I stood on the second and third of July fifty years ago. Tha seems a good while to live after go U.mirtV. oiinl, q ofrifa fnr fnnr IU? WIJIUU^II OUVII u UW4 tAV *WA long years. The Southern soldier! I am proud to bear the name of a Confederate, although I have nothing else. I have written to two of my . old company members, Messrs C 0 Wheeler and William Moultrie Reid, whom I am to meet at Florence. I ' will also write to^W D McFaddin, ^ who, I learn, is going to meet us at Florence on the 28th. That is a great day in South Carolina, when the battle of Fort Moultrie was fought in Charleston harbor between the fort commanded .by Col William Moultrie and the British fleet under Sir Peter Parker. Every school-boy is familiar with its history and the gallant act of Sergeant Jasper leaping from the walls of the fort after the flag was shot down. Some one wrofe a few verses on the ibattle which I used to Sing to the tune of "Yankee Doodle" when I was a boy, only one verse of which I remember now: The fourth of June the British fleet * ?- ? ~ J /"'Urt Uo AJjpeureu 111 \juaiiiDwn iiuuvi, The 28th attacked the fort And wounded John the Barber. Sir Peter Parker, the foolish man, That was himself the danger, Tore his breeches off his back And thought himself a stranger. I have mentioned a part of my occupation while living here near the river. I forgot to say anything f about my boat, of which I am also proud. She is a safe ana seaworthy craft capable of carrying thirty-five grown persons up or down the river. She affords me many moments of pleasure and pastime; is marked "The Wanderer". I built her myself at Kingstree. Sometimes I have quite a number of lady passengers, many of them the beauties of Williamsburg. When I have nothing pressing to do I take a trip by myself. No more at present, but remain as ever, P C. _ n Arru 014 lorn, Otkir Itnidlts Wio't Cars The worst cases, no matter of how long standing, ? are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves Pain and Heels at the same time. 2tc, 60c, fUMl The County Record SI a year, I