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f f** J , i Professional CardsTI Jobn de Saussure Gilland Attorneyat^Law Second Floor Masonic Temple Florence, S. C 180G 1914 A. M. SNIDER. SURGEON DENTIST. Orer Gamble & Jacobs' Drug Store. > ? ? ?. mm ft ?*? ? tDK. K. U- McCAlSIV Dental Surgeon. Office in Hrrsch building, over Kingstree Drug Cp'jj. . S-28-tf DR. R. J, M^CABE, Dentist KTNGSTTOE,,Ti v S. C Office in Mcfeabe Building, next to J4 Court Hoase. ' W. Leland Taylor, DENTIST. 0?ce over Pr W V Brocklogtoa' e store, KING9TREC, - SC. 5-21-tf/>\\ ' M.D. Nesmith DENTIST. LAKE: CITY. - - - S. C Benj. MclNNES, M. R. C. V. S. B. Kater MclNNES. M. D.. V. M. D VETERINARIANS. One of us will be at Kingstree the I first Monday in each month, at Hel- I ler's Stables. 9-28-tf I 1 I L06E! " ~ Listen! k I Something New | Kingstree < P ^T.J. Pendergrass , r~ has just opened up a new ? I 5c and lOc f DEPARTMENT STORE Don't fail to call and see them when you come to i town. We have the neatest u values at- 5c and 10c that 1 ever struck Kingstree. \ NET CASH our only terms in this department. > Pendergrass Bros. Co. " Kingstree, - S. C. ( 'Phone 14. "Why Scratch? \ jfejf "Hunt's Cure"isguary anteed, to stop and permanently cure that 4 W terrible itching. It is J compounded for that <B PurP0:ie and y?ur money Jim l/JBkI vvi:1 be Promptly refunded II y/4P WITHOUT QUESTION I I Y l>\Mk if Hunt's Core fails to cure VmKm 'tc&? Eczema, Tetter, Ring WBLMBMi Worm cr any other Skin Disea-e. 50c at your druggist's, or by mail J direct 'ffcc fcvan't it. Manufactured only by k B iCimiirgSiSgt CP., .ShemmTero I Undressed LumberI I always have on hand a lot of unr dressed lumber (board and framing) at my mill near Kingstree. for sale at the k. jowest price for good material. See or k write me for further information, etc. ,1 F. H. HODGE. = w i li W' ? 1! I b Have You Visited the t: White Barber l Shop? ; I If Not, Why? KI Polite and prompt attenWI tion by competent artists f I The SanitarylBarber Shop I 9-24-3m Kingttree, S. C. &UB-NIY-TISM Will cure your Rheumatism Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Jo lie. Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and # lovns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects I Pic. Antiseptic Anodyne,used in y ernally and externally. Price 25c ? i Chamberlain's Cough Remedy j Cures Colds. Ci oup and Whooping Coi .gh. COTTON! I I Insure your Cotton with ; us this fall Wecanpro- i ted you in the largest and best Companies in America. i j W. H. WELCH, Manager I Kihstru Irs,, (leaf Estate & Lou *? ? Kiigstw, S.C. |? .j 'I W M J All meats bought and sold for cash. Don't ask for credit. ' ijt w I , *9 narnei r? ?" I A KINGSTREE Lodge, Ko. 46 A. F.M. ieets Thursday before full moon each lonth. Visiting brethren are cordially ivited. R W Fulton, W M. M B Thomas, Sec. 2-27-ly IMnUI iially invited^to cor e R W Fulton, V ) D' oOli __ 1 LI6HrNIN6 RODS. H. L. WHITLOCK, Lak*cit,r' c,? ^^7%. Special Sales Agent t .. Representing the largest mati^^* 7-'-* ufacturert of all kinds ImP* proved Copper and Galvanized ~ Section Rods. Endorsed by me niK'irgi raniuuv thonties and Fire Insurance rafWnPB^, Companies). Pure Copper Wire Cables, all size*. Our Full Cost _ Guarantee w-'ven with eac>> job. rasa ?1 1 sell on ck>?? n-argin of profit, ^ dividing commission with inv customers. :i-7?tf yatts'jewTlrystore 5 KINGSTREE. S. C. I keep on tiand everything to be found in an up-to-date jewelry house Repairing and engraving done with neatness and despatch. :: As a home dealer, guaranteeing quality and prices. I Solicit Your Patronage. Nssr ths Railroad Station. f You Want a Car for Service " uyaFord. For Williamsburg counf see J. S. BROCKINTON, KINGSTREE, S. C. D. C. SHAW, Ford Agent, hone No. 553 SUMTER, S. C. 5-21-tf CHICHESTER S PILLS Wj,?v THE DIAM0ND BRAND. a L?dlral Aik jrnr t* A\ vtttESl Chl^he*>ter l>l*B>oa4ItraBd//V\ MaI^XmPEn Eliu in Had And Uald ?wt.illic\\/v v boxes, sealed with "Blue Ril-bon. \/ <n I4M Take no other. Buy ef yoar * I (T >'ninht. Ask for CIIl-t'liEH-TKB 8 L- Jf DIAMOND BRAND PILlA.f r *i "0? B years known as Best. Safest, A! ways Rclis'lo ^-r S91D BY DRUGGISTS EVERHVHERE . A Nervous Wreck No lrxSta^^T' began ualng Peruna a few months vo when my health and _? u- -11 nn>< and T WM sirens ui fcic cui nothing but a nervous wreck. Could , r;ot sleep., cat or r$at j>toj>erly. and felt* no desire to llv?, -?,?] "Three ^bottles of Peruna made :ne look at life In a different light, as I began to regain my loat strength. While my recovery toolc nearly four months, at the end of that time I was better than I ever had been before. I had a splendid color and never weighed more In my *fc . *1 certainly think Peruna Is without a rival as a tonic and strength builder, and It has my endorsement" Mr. Charles Brown, R R 4, pox 79, Rogersvllle, Tenn? writes: "I have tried many different remedies, but have found that Peruna Is the greatest tonic on oarth. and a perfect system builder." Another Daring Robbery. Tlioro moo annthor Hnrincr roHhprv committed by yeggmen in the Pee Dee section last night and from all accounts it must have been by 9ome of the same gang that broke in the bank of Nichols. This time it was the postoftiee at Haraer. Authorities passed through the city this morning from the penitentiary with blood hounds en route to the scene. Full particulars of the Hamer affair are lacking,but it is thought that the building was broken into and the safe * blown open.? Columbia Record, December 5. They who have sunny dispositions are al ways on the sunny side of every 3treet. 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This is so you can see for yourself that for Latest Styles, Newest Fancywork, Fascinating Stories, Best Recipes, Household Laborand Money Savers, Recreation and Good Cheer, Today's is superior to any magazine you ever saw. Send 5 cents now. I KILLS BIRD HE ONCE MAIMED Rancher Who Accidentally Amputated Pheaaant's Leg Shoot* It a Year Later. I The story of Lord Franklin, who j liberated a number of marked bird9 from hid pheasantrv in Devonshire, and two years later took one of the birds while on a hunting trip in the north of France, has a counterpart in a story which cornea from Cathca-rt, Snohomieh county, vouched for by Robert D. Jones of that place. While mowing hay last June Abe i Bruger, a Cathcart rancher, surrt Tti AtLftF nliAOciiTtf on (1 Lor iocu a uiubiici piaaoan i auu iivi brood in the tail grass. One of the flock was overtaken by the mower, which amputated both of its legs. It escaped to an alder thicket. ? While hunting recently Bruger winged a pheasant. When lie recovered the bird both of its legs were missing, a fact which recalled the accident of the early summer. The bird had become^full grown, was in perfect condition, plump, and in fact larger than the average of this year's birds taken in the locality. The wonnds had completely healed and nature, in the process of healing, had developed a substitute for claws in the form of hard scales at the extremities.?Seattle PostT n tol 1 i iron ner GLASS EYES TO BE SCARCE European War Hat Prevented Importation of Requisite Materials Into This Country. Glass eyes are getting scarcer and higher in price, wholesale dealers say, with no prospect of an increased supply while the war continues. The authorities in the trade-'say that more than three hundred thousand people in this country wear glsss eyes and keep on buying them from time to time, as the eyes usually wear out within a year or two. Xew York is the center of the trade in this country. The wholesalers here say that all of their imported eyes are from Germany. The importers also manufacture eyes in Voir Ynrlr hilt fill of flip llltfti'lial used in making the eyes comes i'roin Germany. This material includes special qualities of clear and colored glass which are combined in the process of manufacture in order to imitate as closely as possible the appearance of natural eyes. No shipment of eyes or material for eyes has been received since the war began. The present supply of manufactured eyes, the wholesalers say. will last only a few months. EXPLAINED.' "I must say," said the man who makes sapient observations, "that the Chinese are mighty quick about catching on to the ways of our higher civilization. They're good sports, too. I saw one with fingernails an inch_long." "Do you think that indicated sympathy with owr civilized customs?" "When a Chinaman makes a freak election bet, not having any whiskers worth mentioning, he has to agree not to cut his fingernails till his party coines in'o power." WOLVES TAKE PART IN WAR. The heavy fighting in Galicia has brought out all the beasts and birds of the Polish forests in wild alarm. Scenting the lakes of blood that (Over the battlefields, wolves are out in great packs, and even pursue the victors, whose boots and clothes aFe crusted with blood after fighting, right to their camps. Often at night a volley has to be fired into 1 - 1 *!- Xl_ . i. J I nic pacxs io disperse xue iui ruuers. DISCREPANCY. "I hope jour son is giving a good account of himself at college." "Oh, yes. He gives a very good account of himsejf, but unfortunately it does not agree with private advices which I have received from the president." DISTURBING FACTOR. t I "Doctor, is that beautiful creature who was in here just now going to give me the anesthetic?" "Why, yes." "Theft, as a personal favor to ine, get a homely nurse to do the job, so I won't mind going to sleep." Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove'* The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON." It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malariaj. Enriches the Blood and i Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. ' I??HUH IUIIIIIHJ? . ii 11 euMTifii ************************** I SAVED BY EARTHQUAKE > . -*? td'jb* fc By NELLE SCOTT BARBOUR. (Copyright, 1914, by W. O. Chapman.) A brilliant flash shot across a stretch of greenery where a valley cut the contour of a flowery isle, set like a glowing gem in the midst of an emerald sea. Instantly a responding flash criss-crossed the other. There was more rapid heliograph signaling. Then within the hour two young men met on the shelving beach. Each carried netted knapsack across the shoulders. From it protruded the signal mirror, and through the meshes could be seen various scientific instruments, such as compasses, theodolites and measuring and surveying devices. Besides this outfit, a package now produced held a goodly array of compact but nourishing edibles. They seated themselves on the grassland began to discuss them. "Well, Harper," spoke the one who had waited for the other, "I came out here on this geographical survey tor health,and adventure. The first phase of the situation has come out all right, for I am eating like a .horse and sleeping like a top. The other end is rather tame, though. The natives on theoA inlands iMm mild as mush. I've seen no stir since we left Borneo." "If yoo will cast yonr eye due west towards that distant speck, Elliott," and Harper pointed, "you will view a spot scarcely as quiescent as when, a week ago, we spent a pleasant three days there with that rich exporter and his daughter." "You mean Hedza?" asked Bruce Elliott, his face instantly manifesting quickened interest "Just that" assented Harper. "On the other side of the island here this morning I ran across a native pearl diver. He informed me that the Britl, Saw Coming Rapidly a Group of Warriors. who live on that nearest island to the ooa* hart ma He. a silHHpr. onslaught on Hedza, looted the tdmple and carried away half a dozen native women, and among them this Miss Dewar." "Why, this is simply terrible!" exclaimed Elliott, greatly concerned. He had a most pleasing memory of the young lady named. All his heroic and chivalrous instincts were immediately aroused. He recalled the generous hospitality extended towards himself and was not ungrateful. "Now, don't get excited, Elliott," spoke Harper. "We can do positively nothing in this affair except to get cut up or roasted alive if we venture outside of our province and intrude on those close neighbors of ours, the Brlti. If you are very anxious, as our work here is done, we can take each our canoe and make for Hedza, and if our services would be any good in a rescue party, why, then the adventures you so crave may come thick and fast" Harper was of an easy-going, phlegmatic nature, and soon threw the incident of the moment off his mind. Not so Bruce Elliott. He had not forgotten Eleanor Dewar. Now that she was in deadly peril, he could not rest. When they stretched out for a night's sleep he rolled and tossed. Harper ^vas snoping In dense slumber as Elliott arose shortly after midnight He directed a brief note.to his companion, telling him that be was determined to reconnoiter Britl Island and would return that morning. He took his traps with him, so as to impress any stray natives he might meet with the Idea that he was simply on duty and business bound. Then he got into his canoe ana paaaiea m me direction of the little spot on the water a few mil^s distant to the northeast. , Elliott had heard at Hedza that those nativeu isolated from the main islands resented the invasion of civilization. Colonel Dewar had encouraged commercial activities, and a brisk export trade in the spices, dye woods and metals of the archipelago had resulted. The inhabitants of Briti had shown their enmity toward the new system from the beginning. Now they had been guilty of an overt act of defiance and viciogsness. As Elliott realized that some of the tribes werpstill given to cannabalistic orgies ana human sacrifices, he shuddered a* * thought of the possible fate c: _ Mifri'ffai J" gentle, refined young lady who had so attracted him at Hedza. Elliott beached hie canoe and set out equipped with his usual surveying outit He skirted the ahore for soma hours without discovering any signs of the natives. As, however, just after sunrise, he mounted & steep declivity to take a general survey of the Island, he saw coming rapidly in the same direction a group of warriors armed with spears. "They have caught sight of me," ruminated Elliott, correctly, and at tha apex of the hill he unstrapped bis out? fit and made a play of being busy at ma usual scienunc observations, tie counted on tbe natives accepting thl? invasion as peaceful, still beoeuld not reckon on this^ absolutely. The sun was just right for heliographic signal* lng. He began to flash a message across tbe water, hoping Harper would catch it Elliott stated bis. liituatloft telling of the approaching savages and directing if he did not soon rejoin his friend that Harper should hasten to Hedza and urge forward a rescue party. If Elliott had not used the hello* graph his reception at the h%ndp of the natives might have been friendly. The flashes, however, excited their suspicions. He was,, rudely seised. The menacing actions of his captors were shortly emphasized by the ar> rival of a plumed muUwUaosed chief, who gave some grufT orders. Elliott was bound hand and foot, placed on n litter and borne along In ominous st lence until a spot was reached wheq? a great high post was set in tho ground about two hundred feet up steep declivity running sheer down to the sea. "Horrors!" gasped Bruce Elliott, a* neai ing this giant stake he saw a h?r man form tied to it ..audi recognized Eleanor Dewar. ? Qreat heaps of dried brush and dead tree wood were massed up some twenty feet away. From what he had 'learned of the hideous customs of these people, Elliott at once surmised that this fair captive was about to bo offered up as a living sacrifice to tho deities of the superstitious tribe. Her lips whitened, a new despair came into her anguished eyes as Elliott was led to the great stake_and secured to it with stout withies directly at her side. Both comprehended the fiery doom that hovered. "I hoped for better fortune in seeking to be of aid to you," he said. "Then Tarn the cause of this fate? yours as well as my own!" breathed Eleanor, distractedly. He tried to comfort her, to arouse her courage. All hope died out as ho saw a procession from the near vll lage approach them, a gaudily bedecked priest at their head. A number of the ;nacives bore bundles of sticks, evidently meant to feed the sacrifice fire soon to surround the stake. t > Suddenly there was a rumble, and joined with it frightenfd yells from the natives. The ground rocked, the scurrying throngs seemed to flatten out and vanish, the earth yawned! "An earthquake!" voiced the appalled Elliott, as the great stake was torn up and they, bound to it, shot down the steep incline and into the sea. One of those giant convulsions of nature common to the island group had intervened to save those two imperiled souls. The rough progress of the stake loosened one of the withes holding Elliott captive. "Courage!" he spoke as they were submerged, but Eleanor had fainted. a a ho frooS himfl&lf and then his help lees charge, It was to hold to the timber, safer afloat than on land The natives were too concerned for their own security to note or car# what had become of their captives. In two hours they < reached the island, where Elliott had left his partner. > Before the day was over they were able tOvhail a boat from Hedza, and the following day Elliott restored h-'n precious charge to her anxious father. There could be but one natural outcome to so impressive a situation. It was "Eleanor" and "Bruce" before a .reek had passed by, and then. In rapid sequence, an engagement and a wedding. f robTenwor invemurs. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of choice nut oil are being lost every year in British Honduras because no practical means has been found for its recovery. The nut, toward which attention is turning, is the.cohune, and is rich in an excellent oil, used locally for cooking and lighting purposes. The cohune palm bears nuts in bunches or clusters of eight hundred to a thousand. Three patents have recently been granted for machines to crush the shell without injuring the kernel, but none of them has proved entirely successful. If tve extraction of the kernel without injury by crushing or breaking is ever accomplished, the average yield of a quart of oil from a hundred nuts should make the industry profitable, and the countless millions of conune nuts now going to waste will become revenue producing. , Important Additions. "Clothes do not make the man," said the ready-made philosopher. "And yet," replied Miss Cayenne, "human beings are a great deal like salads. So much depends on the dressing." The New Distinction. "Was Mrs. De Swelle ever operated ( ;? for appendicitis?" "No, but when sfce was trying to F.r.t. heme from Europe she was arrecre?I as a German spy." - . $ m.